Mary - on the Kemp family - I have a box of letters I found in the home I own in Lakeland more than 30 years ago that are written from a Willaim Kemp to his wife when they were engaged - pics, too. Any idea how to locate the family? If you are interested and can tell me the wife's name as a security measure, if you don't mind, I will forward the contents to whomever - I hate to have the family lose this stuff. a fellow genealogist - Susan Roberts You can check me out at www.jud10.org if you like -----Original Message----- >From: mary kemp <marykemp@comcast.net> >Sent: Jun 6, 2007 7:39 PM >To: Tony & Julie Howell <tjhowell1@bellsouth.net>, flduval@rootsweb.com >Cc: flduval@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [FLDUVAL] St. Joseph's Cemetery - Re: Julie Thames Howell > >What doesn't make sense to me is why the church balked at putting names on >line. >Is this a very large cemetery? It could be possible that they may not allow >you >to use church records and that would probably be legal but what if you just >did a survey on your own? In 1999 and 2000 my husband and I went to NC >and took over 400 digital pictures of the various cemeteries hoping to find >many >of my own genealogy researched ancestors. Rather than waste the photos we >donated them to the USGENWEBarchives archives of NC.. After I tweaked the >pictures I wrote the text formatted as instructed by the manager. It worked >out >wonderfully. Could it be possible that you could do the same for St. >Joseph's Cemetery? >I have the site somewhere on my data base regarding Florida Law in regards >to cemeteries. >If you would like for me to locate the site I would be more than happy to >look for it. >I know they had a big to-do in NC because some homes were placed on land >sites of very >old cemeteries and the land owners were not allowing researchers to come on >the property. >They looked up NC cemetery laws and found that they could legally do so. >They are still >working on the legality of it now. Good luck with your research. I guess I >am a >trooper in my golden years.. If it were me I would take my camera, go to >the cemetery >with pad and pencil in hand and have at it. <smile,grin> Mary > > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Edgar Taylor" <ertjr1@earthlink.net> >To: "Tony & Julie Howell" <tjhowell1@bellsouth.net> >Cc: <flduval@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 2:10 PM >Subject: [FLDUVAL] St. Joseph's Cemetery - Re: Julie Thames Howell > > >> Hi Julie - Are you are referring to the St. Joseph's Cemetery across >> the alley north of the Old City Cemetery in Jacksonville? Perhaps not. >> It has been many years since I went there but when I did it was not in >> very good shape, "stone wise". The discouraging thing was that many of >> the grave stones were piled up against the fence, some broken and >> probably some missing. Hopefully the church has straightened out the >> problems. >> >> But I was fortunate in that the grave stone of my great great >> grandmother Catherine (Joaneda aka Floyd) Taylor was at ground level as >> were her daughter Carol Taylor (Hedrick) Ochus and her granddaughter >> and the granddaughter's husband. In a back corner also at ground level >> was Carol's son Augustus Ochus and his wife, Minnie. I hope the stones >> are still there and still in good shape, but I would not be surprised >> if they are not there. That cemetery was not in a very safe area. >> >> But maybe you are referring to the cemetery near Mandarin. >> Ed T of PGH >> ------------ >> On May 29, 2007, at 9:24 AM, tjhowell1 wrote: >> >>> Hi Ann - I'm here. New email address is: tjhowell1@bellsouth.net. >>> Sorry you had trouble getting ahold of me. >>> >>> Unfortunately I do not have an actual survey for St. Joseph's >>> Cemetery. When I contacted the church about allowing us to put their >>> cemetery records on-line, some of the members of the church balked at >>> the idea. What they agreed to was to let me put my name on the >>> on-line cemetery name as a contact person and I would then, in turn, >>> give an inquirer the names and phone numbers of the persons at St. >>> Joseph's to contact. Rather like going around your elbow to get to >>> your nose, but there it is. I have not contacted these people in >>> quite a while so do not know if these gentlemen are still there; >>> should you find the info has changed I'd appreciate your letting me >>> know so i can update my records. >>> >>> >>> Steve Connley - (904)828-7820 >>> >>> Peter Dobrie (who is on the Cemetery Commission) - (904)260-2657 >>> >>> St. Joseph's Church - (904)268-5422 (in case Steve or Peter's numbers >>> have changed or you can't get ahold of them for some reason.) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Julie Thames Howell >>> >>> Jacksonville, Florida >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: Ann Parkinson >>> To: flduval@rootsweb.com >>> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 3:47 PM >>> Subject: [FLDUVAL] Julie Thames Howell >>> >>> >>> Julie, are you out there? Your e-mail addy on the >>> Cemetery transcription page is incorrect and I need a >>> look-up for St Joseph's. >>> >>> Anyone know if Julie is OK and what her new addy is? >>> >>> Many thanks! >>> >>> Ann Parkinson >>> Family Historian >>> >>> Researching: Blitch, Bruce, Burgsteiner, Gibson, Haupt, Lanier, Nance, >>> Parker, Parkinson, Parrish, Sanders/Saunders, Starkweather, Winberg, >>> Wolfe and allied families. >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> FLDUVAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> FLDUVAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FLDUVAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message