I received this in another discussion group and thought I would pass it along..... our worst fears . Cindy An item from The New York Times, Sunday, November 2, 1997, page 33, "Metropolitan Diary" By Ron Alexander: "Dear Diary: An older friend, recently returned from her home town in North Carolina, says they've spruced up the churchyard cemetery since her last visit several years back. "Lots of new greenery," she said. "And families are together now." "Together?" I asked, puzzled. "Well, years ago they never much worried where they buried someone because everyone was a neighbor anyhow. They'd just dig a grave wherever it seemed to balance things. But they've redone it so people are with their children and grandchildren, instead of scattered." "You mean they exhumed all those people and buried them?" "Oh no," she said. "They just shifted the headstones. Everyone agrees it looks ever so much nicer."

I got the following today. In case anyone attempted to send any messages through the FLJACKSO- L@rootsweb.com list, there may be a delay (as you can see). If the message does not appear in reasonable amount of time (a day or so), please resend. I've been subscribing to various lists at rootsweb for some time now and this is the first time this has happened to me. O well.... a small sacrifice for technology. Cindy re: <snip> Our main list server, lists.rootsweb.com, has been down since this morning. We are hard at work installing a new disk and preparing to reinstall the operating system. Once that's done, we will reinstall the mailing list software and run some tests to make sure that everything is operating smoothly. As long as the system is not working, we're also going to try to take advantage of this down time by preparing a new, faster server for that machine, which is woefully underpowered for the amount of mail that passes through it. We expect to have the server running again by midnight (U.S. East Coast time) and hope to have the backlogged mail cleared out by Sunday morning. Thankfully, we don't believe that any mail has been lost (only delayed), and all of the archives appear to be intact. <snip>

I am seeking information on my great-great grandfather WILLIAM W. WHITFIELD b: abt 1837 in FL. He married LEANNA MAE BRUNER. They had children: WILLIAM ELVIN WHITFIELD, (my g-grandfather) b: Jan 28, 1859, WILLIAM (possibly William Ratliff) b: abt. 1862, and ROBERT (possibly Robert Jackson) b: abt. 1864. Another son, SEABORN, age six months, shows up on the 1860 census. He does not appear again. It is possible that WILLIAM W. WHITFIELD died during the Civil War. He does not appear on the 1870 census, but his wife and sons are listed. If anyone recognizes this family and has any information on them or other WHITFIELD families who might be related in Jackson County, I would love to hear from you. I'm always glad to share information. Patsy Kemp Powell Sulphur Springs, TX ppowell@neto.com

http://genealogy.miningco.com/msub02.htm This is the address to genealogy forms that can be used on MS-Word. These look good to me. Cindy

Mary Jane........ I have a printed copy of the 1870 Census page with Ida Worthington for you. If you will send your snail mail address (via private email) I'll gladly send it to you. The library I used gives a large page printout (11x17) which is nice and shows all. I have a copy of an older cemetery survey done about 1958 in Washington County that covers 40 cemeteries. (I'll create a web page that lists the cemeteries within this survey) It has a listing of all names surveyed with the corresponding cemetery name. Unfortunately I do not have directions to the cemeteries. I have done my best to plot as many cemeteries in Washington County (via USGeological Survey Map, Plat Maps, prior surveys-WPA, etc.) Hopefully I can get them all located. There were no McDermit listings in this cemetery survey. There were the following Worthington listings....all were located at Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Worthington, Angus; b 30 Jan 1883, d 2 Feb 1953 Worthington, Fleter; b 25 Oct 1885, d 28 May 1896 Worthington, Green Wood; b 13 Apr 1821, d 30 Apr 1893 - wife Josephine Worthington, John White; d 11 Jun 1949 -- Age 72 yrs 4 mos. 3 days Worthington, Josephine; b 9 Nov 1852, d 5 Mar 1939 - husband Greenwood Worthington, Menta Rebecca; b 28 Aug 1914, d 4 Oct 1914 - dau of Angus Take a look at the cemetery section of the <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/seagee69/washington">Washington County FLGenWeb</A> site and you should see the information I have on Pleasant Grove cemetery. Hope this helps for now. I do plan to go to a large genealogy library tomorrow. For you (and others on this list), please send me a brief "wish list" of things I can look up for you. This library has the rolls of microfilm for Civil War units in Florida, and also Indian Wars in Florida. These are arranged in unit order, then alphabetically by person's name within the unit. The information for each person varies, most do have muster cards. Anyway.... please let me know ASAP and I will print and take some things with me. Cindy

Hi all: I have some new information. My McDERMOTT great grandparents have been located in the 1870 Washington County Census. They are listed as: McDERMIT, Bryant and Julia with Ida WORTHINGTON (age 9) living in the household. Ida is found again in the 1885 census of Washington. She is listed as an employee in the house of D.N. HORN. As I stated previously, Ida WORTHINGTON is my half great aunt. She and her two McDERMOTT/McDERMIT siblings were orphaned by 1880. The 1870 census lists another child by the name of Luy Nancy (age 15). I am presuming that she is a child of Bryant McDERMIT's first marriage. Are there any cemetery surveys available for look-up, purchase, or interlibrary loan from Washington County? My guess is that my great grandparents ( and possibly Luy Nancy) died beween 1874 (when my grandfather was born) and 1880 and are probably buried somewhere in Washington County. Any help, clues, etc. would be much appreciated! Thanks. Mary Jane Pattillo marpat@ctaz.com

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Oh, so you're that Cindy. I should have made the connection. I just had a newly found cousin, Julie Sills Daffin, mail me information on the Davis line and mention Cindy connected with the Jackson Co website. As I said, I've just started with these lines. I'm not even sure of the Bruner connection, as the bride of my apparent ancestor, Iverson Davis, is listed as Sarah "Bruns." And I can't be sure that his child, Maggie, listed in the 1880 census, is the Maggie Davis who married my gg-gfather, W.O. Sills. Still, it seems a good place to start. The Granger connection is much more definite, running back to Furney Granger, once of Horry Co, SC. He was in Jefferson Co, FL by 1840. This information is due largely to the efforts of another newly found cousin on the Granger side. Small world getting smaller. Ron

To Ron Hall: I would be interested to know if Martha Majors had a sister name Maud Majors and married Henry Land?? Where did the Majors come from? Peggy Riley

Hello, my name is Peggy Riley, and I live in Anchorage, AK. Imagine doing research from the North Pole - but I have fairly good luck, thanks to the internet, and a National Archives located here. I am working of the RILEY lines, naturally. To be more specific WILLIAM RILEY and his wife, ELIZABETH LAND. They had HARRIET, WILLIAM LAWRENCE, ESTER LAURA, ELISHA A., AND OWEN LAND RILEY. Harriet married Isaac Jesse TURNER, (then an Owen Land, then a Thomas J. CREAMER; William Lawrence married Mary Alice CORBIN, Ester married DAVID CULBRETH, Elisha married Martha Cureton, and Owen married Ammer Nitus HICKS (in MS). Other family lines I am researching - BROCK, CORBIN, GLOVER, JACKSON, LAND, TAYLOR, and TURNIPSEED. I look forward to chatting with folks about people and events in Washington and Jackson Co. FL.

Thanks Cindy for starting this list. Researching in Jackson County: Malcomb HALL - wife was Martha MAJORS; their son: Daniel HALL - wives were Mary BROWN (not much luck in researching Mary thus far) and Frances JOHNSON. Jones M. PITTMAN - wife was Elizabeth JONES; their son: Josiah (Joseph) PITTMAN - wife was Susanna COHRON. Levi HART - wife was Margaret SINGLETARY; their daughter: Amelia HART - husband was James A. SILLS; their son: William Oscar SILLS - his wives were Maggie DAVIS, Alice Andrews, and Tulya(?) Hart. William SILLS (James' father) - his wives were Mary WATSON and Frances Jenkins. Just getting started with DAVIS and BRUNS (BRUNER?) line. Across the state line in Henry County, are other lines of John G. PRIDGEON m. Bethany CARITY, John Willis GRANGER m. Elizabeth Pridgeon (John G.'s daughter Nicholas COHRON (father of the Susanna above) m. Amanda Jones (daugher of Bethel JONES and one of my brick walls at this point). Have a fair amount of information which I would enjoy sharing and I'm always looking to learn more. Thanks, Ron Hall

Hi all: I am searching for my great grandparents. This is what I know: My great Aunt, Ida Lee WORTHINGTON, was born in Florida, probably Washington County, in 1865. I would presume her father died shortly after her birth. Ida's mother must have married a McDERMOTT. Two children were born to the second marriage. These were my great aunt, Mary A. McDERMOTT, and my grandfather, Johnnie or John McDERMOTT. Both Johnnie and Mary state that they were born in Washington Co., Florida. Mary was born in 1872 and Johnnie in 1874. I would presume that both of my McDERMOTT great grandparents died by 1880 and left all three children orphans. Mary A. McDERMOTT is listed as a ward of the James McLEAN and Catherine GILLIS McLEAN household in the 1880 census of Walton Co., Florida. Johnnie McDERMOTT is listed as adopted in the household of Christian GILLIS CAMPBELL (widow of John CAMPBELL) in the 1900 census of Walton Co., Florida. Catherine GILLIS McLEAN and Christian GILLIS CAMPBELL were sisters. The GILLIS, McLEAN, and CAMPBELL families all imigrated from the Isle of Skye, Scotland and were Presbyterian. Both Johnnie and Mary A. McDERMOTT stated that they were Scotch-Irish, their father being born in Ireland and their mother in Florida. Ida stated that both her mother and father were born in Florida. Johnnie and Mary were raised as Presbyterian. Ida married a Methodist minister. I have first found Ida Lee WORTHINGTON in the 1900 Census of Ponce De Leon District, Holmes Co., Florida. She is listed as a servant in the household of Alonzo Flowers. Ida married Reverend David Crockett STANDLEY in 1903 in Holmes Co.(She was his second wife.) She is found as the wife of David C. STANDLEY in the Ponce De Leon district in the 1910 census of Holmes Co. She died in 1944 in Holmes County. Mary A. McDERMOTT married James Marion COPPEDGE in Walton County in 1891. (She was his second wife. His first wife, Catherine, is buried in the Euchee Valley of Walton Co.) She is found in the Westville district as the wife of James COPPEDGE in the 1910 census of Holmes Co. She died in Bay County in 1941. Johnnie McDERMOTT married Sarah Ellen LAIRD in Walton County in 1901. He died in 1930 and is buried in the Euchee Valley of Walton Co. David Crockett STANDLEY was married first to Sarah Elizabeth YOHN. In the land records listed on the genweb page of Washington Co. is a David H. STANDLEY (David C's father????) Also in the same land records is a Elizabeth YON (Sarah Elizabeth Yohn??????) In the same land records, there are Marvin WORTHINGTON who claimed land in 1906 and Greenwood WORTHINGTON who claimed land in 1891. Both of these dates are too current to have been Ida's father but could have been relatives. Any one out there have any clues for me?? I would love to hear from you. Mary Jane Pattillo marpat@ctaz.com

Ok, here goes. My name is Cindy GAY Sloan. My ancestors settled in Jackson and WAshington Counties (before 1825). Thomas GAY, my paternal gggg-grandfather (whew, a lotta greats there!) is a proven Florida Pioneer. I believe we have just proven him as a Jackson County Pioneer (before 1821!) Anyway, most of my ancestors settled around Jackson and Washington counties. I am researching: BENEFIELD, BURKE, CHRISTMAS, CHRISTY/IE, DANIEL(S), GAY, KEEL, PILCHER, and SWEARINGEN. I've been pretty busy with the Cemetery Project (in Jackson County--and now in at the State level) and the Washington County Florida GenWeb Project site. Please, I'm looking forward to everyone to post their questions, idea, comments, etc. to the list. Also, send some of your genealogy challenges, perhaps one of us might just connect. Cindy SLoan listowner FLJACKSO-L@rootsweb.com

This is a test email to be sure this is working. Also, welcome to all who have subscribed.... Let me know what you think. Cindy Washington County Florida GenWeb Project Coordinator http://members.aol.com/seagee69/washington