Susan, when my son was getting married in Bellingham, Washington, I inquired and they said as long as you were authorized by your organization, nothing else was necessary... Maybe it has changed...?? >From: Susan Goodin <sgoodin@earthlink.net> >Reply-To: GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >To: GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [GA-Roots] Preacher >Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 21:08:55 -0700 > >Gerald, > >Sue Goodin here again. I'm not referring to the "marriage license," the >people getting married must acquire. I am talking about a license to >officiate at marriages that I must have in order to do the officiating. >When I was ordained, I had to file and >receive verification that such a license had been recorded before I could >agree to "marry" anyone. Other states also require such documentation. I >know. I have investigated in the process of performing out-of-state >ceremonies. It is registered in a county, >but is for an entire state. I don't know about Texas or Oklahoma, but I >know it's so here in the Northwest. > >Gerald Gieger wrote: > > > I did not mean to imply that a Marriage License was not required, and >that > > it had to be signed and recorded/filed by the person who solemnizes the > > Marriage...but as for the Preacher/Clergyman having to be registered > > him/herself, I only know of one State (Oklahoma) that requires >registration > > with the County...In Texas, it doesn't matter, Washington either...We >are > > the UNITED STATES where Governemnt is not supposed to organize or >interfere > > with religion, and Marriage is/was a religious institution in bygone >eras. > > > > >From: Susan Goodin <sgoodin@earthlink.net> > > >Reply-To: GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > > >To: GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > > >Subject: Re: [GA-Roots] Preacher > > >Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 23:22:25 -0700 > > > > >As a "preacher," I know most contemporary clergy (or whoever will do >the > > >marrying) must get a license to marry folks. Usually the license is >only > > >good > > >for the state in which it's issued, although some states will let you >cross > > >state lines for one time only situations (like family etc.) > > > > > >I don't for sure about early 20th century, but my guess is it wasn't >too > > >different. Sue > > > > > >Gerald Gieger wrote: > > > > > > > In most states, a preacher only has to be recognized by his >denomination > > >in > > > > order to be able to perform marriages...there is no state/county > > > > registration required...except with his own organization, i.e. >Baptist, > > > > Methodist, etc. In the Church of Christ, any ordained Elder can >perform > > > > Marriages... > > > > > > > > >From: Chris Strickland <nstrickland@ez-inter.net> > > > > >Reply-To: GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > > > > >To: GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > > > > >Subject: Re: [GA-Roots] Preacher > > > > >Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 11:41:59 -0400 > > > > >MIME-Version: 1.0 > > > > >Received: from [209.85.6.30] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id > > > > >MHotMailBAF938150043D82197E9D155061E04150; Sat May 27 08:43:18 2000 > > > > >Received: (from slist@localhost)by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) >id > > > > >IAA00969;Sat, 27 May 2000 08:41:21 -0700 (PDT) > > > > >From GA-ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com Sat May 27 08:44:34 2000 > > > > >Resent-Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 08:41:21 -0700 (PDT) > > > > >X-Original-Sender: nstrickland@ez-inter.net Sat May 27 08:41:20 >2000 > > > > >Message-ID: <392FECC7.6EC44287@ez-inter.net> > > > > >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) > > > > >X-Accept-Language: en > > > > >Old-To: GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > > > > >References: <75.4b13492.2661222e@aol.com> > > > > >Resent-Message-ID: <247NVC.A.9O.hy-L5@bl-14.rootsweb.com> > > > > >Resent-From: GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > > > > >X-Mailing-List: <GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/2270 > > > > >X-Loop: GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > > > > >Precedence: list > > > > >Resent-Sender: GA-ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com > > > > > > > > > >Lisa, > > > > >I do know that people who were "Justice of Peace" could marry >people > > >also. > > > > >You > > > > >might > > > > >try that list as they should have been registered. > > > > >Chris > > > > > > > > > >BIGGAFIVE@aol.com wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > If my great grandfather was able to marry people, shouldn't he >have > > >to > > > > >be > > > > > > register with the state? This was around 1925 to about 1934. How > > >could I > > > > >find > > > > > > out if he was register? 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I must put in my two cents worth here. Leeching means to let water drain through another substance. The salt in the dirt of the smoke houses was probably put into a fine woven cloth and the water poured over it to get the salt from the dirt..then it was probably drained again..to get any particles of sand out of it. Then distilled to get the salt. There is also a way to get lye from oak ashes to make lye soap and that too is called leeching.. This is a very old fashioned term and practice. There is a difference between Leeching and Leaching.. Skydancer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty E. More" <bemore1@cerco.net> To: <GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 2:31 PM Subject: Re: [GA-Roots] Salt List, Muscogee Co, GA-Pope's | In "Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary", Barnes & Noble Books, | New York, copyright 1986 by | Crown Publishers, Inc., it states : Definition 1 - "any bloodsucking or | carnivorous aquatic or terrestrial worm of the class Hirudinea, certain | fresh-water species of which were formerly much used in medicine for | bloodletting" - these I know because I was raised on the Gulf Coast and my | husband is a Marine Biologist. AND | Definition 2 - "an instrument used for drawing blood". Then there were four | other definitions that don't deal with this subject. | I didn't know the definition of leaching because I had not heard of that | before and in the letter, he used the word "leech" - not "leach". However, | granted that could have been bad spelling on his part. Anyway, I do | appreciate knowing there was another method of extracting salt. You live | and learn everyday. | Betty | ----- Original Message ----- | From: <RCSPAIN@aol.com> | To: <GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> | Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 12:29 PM | Subject: Re: [GA-Roots] Salt List, Muscogee Co, GA-Pope's | | | > Betty, | > Leeches are small worms closeley related to earthworms. They | generally | > live in water and attach themselves to mammals and attach themselves and | > drink their blood. Medicinal leeches are still used in some places. | Years | > ago they were used to "bleed" people. This was to help cure certain | diseases | > according to that which was believed. Doctors also cut patients and bled | > them. It is believed that George Washington died as a result of being | bled | > too many times while he was ill. Leeches in this day and time are still | used | > to draw blood from areas that would otherwise cause bad bruises such as | black | > eyes. I saw medicinal leeches for sale in a pharmacy in Munich, Germany. | > Leech and leach are entirely two different and distinct things. | Leaching | > refers to a liquid such as water washing the minerals out of substances. | An | > exact example of this is: Many farms still use manure for fertilizer. I | t | > is piled near the farming area until used. If it stays in a pile wthout | > being used for too long a period of time, rain will wash the mineral | content | > from the manure and its effectiveness as a fertilizer is diminished. If | > ashes are leached in this manner, potash is washed out. Mixed with water, | > the potash will produce a weak solution of potassium hydroxide, or potash | > lye. The stronger form of lye is sodium hydroxide. This is not produced | in | > this manner. | > This material may seem obnoxious but it is used to process certain foods | but | > not to eat as you would salt. | > | > | > | > | |

Mary, Screven County, GA, was right across the Savannah River from Aiken. In Screven County, Georgia Records, Deed Book A, 1794-1805, 1801-1810, I found an abstract of the following: [would be from Deed Book A, page 13, dated 2 Jan, 1792,] JAMES COPLIN of Effingham Co to ZACHARIAH COWARD for 10 pounds specie, 200 acres of the s. side of the Ogeechee River, the n. side of Skull Creek. Wit: JAMES COWARD, WILLIAM LATMEN. Rec: 20 Oct. 1794. There are no other listings. The Ogeechee River runs partially parallel to the Savannah River and is not that far by horseback. Maybe this might help? Carole Drexel gdrexel1@airmail.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Mary Greer <mgreer@hcol.net> To: <GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 10:27 PM Subject: [GA-Roots] Jacksons > Flora, > > I am looking for Harriett Jackson born 1802, married James Coward in Aiken > SC, know only of one son, Thomas Washington Coward, born 1832 in Aiken. > There are probably other siblings. Have found her buried near Thomas in > Millbrook Baptist Cemetery, Aiken, with the last name Buckhalter, died 1898. > Any help with this brick wall will be greatly appreciated. > > Mary > > mgreer@hcol.net > > ______________________________

To: <GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: [GA-Roots] GA ARCHIVES FOR HENDERSON > Hi Dee, > Need help with Rev War record/land grant/pension from the Ga Archives for - >Michael Henderson, William Michael or George Henderson or any combination of these names. Last landed in Burke Co, GA, and believe to be perhaps earlier in Effingham or Wilkes Co or Jefferson Co, Ga. They married into the Young, McCall and Greene families from the Pee Dee River area and Beach Island, SC area, and lived in early 1800's in Screven County, GA. > > You have done such a wonderful job helping so many people. I thank you so much for any help. Carole Farr Drexel gdrexel1@airmail.net > > ______________________________

Surname: HENDERSON Subject: [GA-Roots] Re: North and South Carolina Marriages > Would you please check your references for North and South Carolina Marriages to > see if there are listings for any MICHAEL, WILLIAM, GEORGE, (or any combination of the three names) HENDERSON? If you find > more than one marriage for these elusive Hendersons, please give me the list. Early 1800's they are found in Tattnall, Screven and Bulloch Counties, GA. > Thank you so much for all of your trouble. > Carole Farr Drexel gdrexel1@airmail.net > - ---------------------------------------------------

Hi everyone, I am sending this message for a friend who is not online. She is searching for the death date and place for Ranson "Rance" Oliver Kelley, b. ca 1867 in Carnesville, Franklin Co., GA. He married Mary Elizabeth Holcomb on Aug. 16, 1885, place of marriage unknown. Rance was the son of Owen Kelley of Franklin Co. The family may have moved to Atlanta, but another story is that he went to AL and was killed at a sawmill there. If anyone has any information on this family, please contact me and I will pass it along to my friend. Thank you, Bunnie Gilmer

Hi. I have just recently started researching my husband's side of the family, and am not familiar with Georgia records at all. Can somebody please point me in the right direction? I am looking for 2 things for a Harold Clyde STEVENS - a marriage record and death record or obit. My source on these items is questionable, but this is all I have to go on. The marriage took place in January 1960 - presumably in Atlanta. His death occurred in Atlanta in 1988 (month is unknown). I have checked the SSDI, but he is not listed. Are there any indexes that might help me in NC? Any other suggestions? Thank you for any insight you can provide in this matter. Pam Stevens

Does anyone have or does there exist a copy of the 1860 census for Morgan Co., GA? If so, could I please request a lookup for Allen Williams supposedly found in Town District on page 918? Sure would appreciate it and my utmost thanks to whoever can help me. Betty E. More

>> Leeches are small worms closeley related to earthworms. They >generally >> live in water and attach themselves to mammals and attach themselves and >> drink their blood. We live in SC near the Catawba River...When my oldest son was about 15 he and his friends went "gravelling" sp? (anybody done that?) for fish in the river at the Landsford Canal area. After he had been home for awhile one of his friends called and told him to take his tennis shoes off...he did and there were several leeches attached to areas between his toes. He had "one more fit"...I really don't believe he ever did that again...my 2 cents worth... Mary in SC

In "Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary", Barnes & Noble Books, New York, copyright 1986 by Crown Publishers, Inc., it states : Definition 1 - "any bloodsucking or carnivorous aquatic or terrestrial worm of the class Hirudinea, certain fresh-water species of which were formerly much used in medicine for bloodletting" - these I know because I was raised on the Gulf Coast and my husband is a Marine Biologist. AND Definition 2 - "an instrument used for drawing blood". Then there were four other definitions that don't deal with this subject. I didn't know the definition of leaching because I had not heard of that before and in the letter, he used the word "leech" - not "leach". However, granted that could have been bad spelling on his part. Anyway, I do appreciate knowing there was another method of extracting salt. You live and learn everyday. Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: <RCSPAIN@aol.com> To: <GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 12:29 PM Subject: Re: [GA-Roots] Salt List, Muscogee Co, GA-Pope's > Betty, > Leeches are small worms closeley related to earthworms. They generally > live in water and attach themselves to mammals and attach themselves and > drink their blood. Medicinal leeches are still used in some places. Years > ago they were used to "bleed" people. This was to help cure certain diseases > according to that which was believed. Doctors also cut patients and bled > them. It is believed that George Washington died as a result of being bled > too many times while he was ill. Leeches in this day and time are still used > to draw blood from areas that would otherwise cause bad bruises such as black > eyes. I saw medicinal leeches for sale in a pharmacy in Munich, Germany. > Leech and leach are entirely two different and distinct things. Leaching > refers to a liquid such as water washing the minerals out of substances. An > exact example of this is: Many farms still use manure for fertilizer. I t > is piled near the farming area until used. If it stays in a pile wthout > being used for too long a period of time, rain will wash the mineral content > from the manure and its effectiveness as a fertilizer is diminished. If > ashes are leached in this manner, potash is washed out. Mixed with water, > the potash will produce a weak solution of potassium hydroxide, or potash > lye. The stronger form of lye is sodium hydroxide. This is not produced in > this manner. > This material may seem obnoxious but it is used to process certain foods but > not to eat as you would salt. > > > >

Would anyone perhaps be researching the following Medlock family? Hope Coslett Pees Seguin, Texas jouett@axs4u.net (1) 1 Franklin Hawkins MEDLOCK ---------------------------------------- Birth Date: January 28, 1861 Birth Place: Norcross, Gwinnett County, Georgia Death Date: August 1938, age: 77 Death Place: Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Burial Place: Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carol Father: Robert MEDLOCK (1832-1919) Mother: Adeline Elizabeth SMITH (1833-1903) Spouse: Mary Lauraleila "Lollie" SAMMON Birth Date: May 15, 1864 Birth Place: Newton County, Georgia Death Date: December 25, 1909, age: 45 Death Place: Norcross, Gwinnett County, Georgia Burial Place: Mount Carmel Methodist Church Cemetery, Norcross, Georgia Father: Robert W. SAMMON (1837-1864) Mother: Susan Elizabeth THRASHER (1838-1905) Marr Date: 1882 Children: Robert Walker (1883-1884) Ruby Lee (1885-1970) Hughey Elizabeth (1887-) Jessie May (1889-) Lauralia "Lollie" Sammon (0189-) Frank Harold (1893-1980) Adeline Cloud (1895-) Wilyjon (1897-) Marion (1903-1993) David Thrasher (1908-1908) (2) 1.1 Robert Walker MEDLOCK ---------------------------------------- Birth Date: December 5, 1883 Birth Place: Norcross, Gwinnett County, Georgia Death Date: June 1884 (2) 1.2 Ruby Lee MEDLOCK ---------------------------------------- Birth Date: January 14, 1885 Birth Place: Norcross, Gwinnett County, Georgia Death Date: 1970, age: 84 Death Place: Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina (2) 1.3 Hughey Elizabeth MEDLOCK ---------------------------------------- Birth Date: November 1887 Birth Place: Norcross, Gwinnett County, Georgia Spouse: John TIPTON Children: Mary (2) 1.4 Jessie May MEDLOCK ---------------------------------------- Birth Date: January 19, 1889 Spouse: Jesse M. OLIVER Dr. Children: Madeline (2) 1.5 Lauralia "Lollie" Sammon MEDLOCK ---------------------------------------- Birth Date: September 1, 0189 Birth Place: Norcross, Gwinnett County, Georgia Spouse: John ASHE Dr. Children: Mary Ann (2) 1.6 Frank Harold MEDLOCK ---------------------------------------- Birth Date: August 2, 1893 Birth Place: Norcross, Gwinnett County, Georgia Death Date: April 29, 1980, age: 86 Death Place: Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Burial Place: Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Charlotte, North Carolina Spouse: Annie Lou SIMMONS Birth Date: October 24, 1899 Death Date: April 3, 1984, age: 84 Death Place: Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Burial Place: Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Charlotte, North Carolina Marr Date: July 24, 1920 Marr Place: Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia Children: Sarah Lollie (1921-) Barbara Ann (1924-) Frances Elizabeth (1926-) Frank Harold (1939-) (2) 1.7 Adeline Cloud MEDLOCK ---------------------------------------- Birth Date: August 19, 1895 Birth Place: Norcross, Gwinnett County, Georgia Spouse: Herman Von BIBERSTEIN Marr Place: Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Children: Sarah Jane (-1993) Betty (2) 1.8 Wilyjon MEDLOCK ---------------------------------------- Birth Date: September 7, 1897 Spouse: Richard Barnes KENNAN Dr. Marr Place: New York City, New York Children: Richard B. Dana E. M. (2) 1.9 Marion MEDLOCK ---------------------------------------- Birth Date: August 13, 1903 Birth Place: Norcross, Gwinnett County, Georgia Death Date: April 2, 1993, age: 89 Death Place: Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Burial Place: Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte, North Carolina Spouse: Everett H. Carlyle BIERMAN Chr Place: 1965 Children: Marcia (2) 1.10 David Thrasher MEDLOCK ---------------------------------------- Birth Date: May 27, 1908 Birth Place: Norcross, Gwinnett County, Georgia Death Date: May 29, 1908 Death Place: Norcross, Gwinnett County, Georgia Burial Place: Mount Carmel Methodist. Church Cemetery, Gwinnett County, Georgia

Betty, Leeches are small worms closeley related to earthworms. They generally live in water and attach themselves to mammals and attach themselves and drink their blood. Medicinal leeches are still used in some places. Years ago they were used to "bleed" people. This was to help cure certain diseases according to that which was believed. Doctors also cut patients and bled them. It is believed that George Washington died as a result of being bled too many times while he was ill. Leeches in this day and time are still used to draw blood from areas that would otherwise cause bad bruises such as black eyes. I saw medicinal leeches for sale in a pharmacy in Munich, Germany. Leech and leach are entirely two different and distinct things. Leaching refers to a liquid such as water washing the minerals out of substances. An exact example of this is: Many farms still use manure for fertilizer. It is piled near the farming area until used. If it stays in a pile wthout being used for too long a period of time, rain will wash the mineral content from the manure and its effectiveness as a fertilizer is diminished. If ashes are leached in this manner, potash is washed out. Mixed with water, the potash will produce a weak solution of potassium hydroxide, or potash lye. The stronger form of lye is sodium hydroxide. This is not produced in this manner. This material may seem obnoxious but it is used to process certain foods but not to eat as you would salt.

Joyce McMurray wrote: > > Compiled by > Elizabeth Evans Kilbourne > Premission given by > Tad Evans > 1506 Stillwood Drive > Savannah,GA 31419 > > 9 Feb. 1842 > Notice; > Stewart Co. > Jane Bailey..applied for admr'..estate of John Bailey... > > 21 July 1842 > > Died > 10 July 1842....Peterson Thweatt Sr. age 63 (Columbus) > > Died > 12 July 1842...at the home of M.R.Evans,near Columbus...Mrs. Martha > Howard,wf of Augustus Howard..age 27.... > > Harris Co. Thomas A.Hightower admr' to estate of William J.Hightower. > > Talbot Co. James Hough admr' of William Hough,applied for dismission of > said estate... > > Sumter,Co...Moses B. Dobbins,applied for letter of admr' estate of John > M.Dobbins... > > 27 July 1842 > > Married..26 July 1842.. In this city... by Rev. Paine..William E.DuBose > of Enon,Al. to Miss Elizabeth T.Alston... > > Married..Troup Co. Home of Samuel Reid .. 22 July 1842...by Rev. Caleb > W. Key..Samuel H.Likens,esq...of La Grange..to Miss Martha M. Reid... > > Talbot Co....Matthew McCrary,tolls before me...H.J.Hamock JP..one > mule... appraise by Cyrus Robinson,Philip Steed,Philip..Henry Jones, > Ordinary... > > Talbot Co...Thomas Smith tolls,,,George Buchanan,JP...one > mule...appraised by Rufus West,William H.Buckanan.... > > 3 Aug. 1842 > Died .In Darien (Columbus ?) Eben S. Rees,esq...late cashier of the > Bank of Darien... > > Died..Marion Co. 16 July 1842 Major James M.Godley age 66.. > > Sheriff Sale... > Stewart Co. > two horses...property of James Jones...in favor of Thomas R. Lamar and > Abner McGehee,endorsers...vs. said Jones.,charles W.Snow,makers..Obadiah > P. Cheatham,Eli McKeithen,Benjamin May, Allen W.Hill,Henry > W.Jernigan,Michael J.Laurence,endorsers.. > > Troup Co. > Lot # 274,238,237,275/5 dist...property of Benjamin P.Robinson..in favor > of Thomas Robins and William Wagner vs said Robinson,dec'd..and Jane > Worthey,dec'd...Joseph H.Stinson,Jonathan Nix and said > Robinson,security.. > > Coweta Co. Town of Newnan...property of Ann Davis...in favor of Allen > Levingston vs S.J.McCourb and Ann Davis, endorser.. > > Lot # 162/1dist...property of Jesse Hunter..in favor of Brewster and > North... > > Lot # 145 dist... property of George W.Ray..in favor of Howell > Elder,Robert M.Word vs Ray... > > Lots # 143,146,145/6 dist...lot # 129/7 dist...property of Elizabeth > Elder,formerly Carroll,...in favor of James Arnold vs..John Carrol and > Elizabeth.. > signed..Peter B.Terrell.Dep.Sheriff.. > > Muscogee Co. Allen C.Ramsey,applied for letters of admr' ..estate of > James Ramsey....signed N.McLester..Ordinary > > 10 Aug. 1842 > > Harris Co...Simeon Smith tolls before me,G.B.Ellis,JP one > pony...appraised by Pleasant Massey,William S.Poer..William > Johnson,Ordinary.. > > Talbot Co...Nathan P.Short tolls...John McMichael JP...one > pony...appraised by Robert M.Carter..Robert Carson..Henry > Jones..Ordinary.. > > Stewart Co....Stephen Goss tolls before me John D.Stapleton JP...one > horse...appraised by James Griffin and Culluer Roberts... > > 17 Aug. 1842 > > Married...Hinds co. Miss. 2 Aug.1842...by Rev. Lewis B. > Holliway..William D.Terry to Miss Sarah Burnett... > > 24 Aug.1842 > > Died > Harris Co. 3 miles west of Whitesville...Nathaniel Hutchinson..age 59 > > Died..Dekalb co...Mrs Nancy Furlow Montgomery,wf of Col. > J.M.C.Montgomery.. age 62...Left large family...2 of her sons were > minister's of the gospel..One who died 2 years ago... > > Randolph Co.GA. > Libel for Divorce > Lorinda Scoggins vs Wright Scoggins > signed..O.H.Griffith,Clerk > ......................... > to be cont'

I think we are all a bit confused here. Lye was used with fat and boiled to make soap. In the Civil War Era and afterward, women took the dirt from the smokehouses where the salt had dripped from hams, etc . They leached it with water to obtain the dissolved salt. ( the salt dissolved into the water, the dirt didn't ) Then they boiled the water off and had pure salt, which they used for cooking and preserving meat, if they were lucky enough to have any. Leeches, as used medically, are worm like creatures which live in water and attach themselves to the skin of animals and humans and suck out blood. They were used medically to remove hematomas (blood filled bruises) and in the days of "bleeding " patients to supposedly remove diseased blood. Emma In NM

Hi Diane, My branch of the Mosley family came to Wilkes County, Ga in the 1775 time period. Benjamin Mosley and his wife Winnie and Mother Elizabeth Mosley came from Bute Co, N.C. He was the son of William Mosley that died in Bute in 1770. The entire family except son John Mosley came to wilkes Co. Children of William and Elizabeth Mosley are as follows. Benjamin Mosley b 1732-37 William Mosley JR b 1730-40 Robert Mosley b 1730-40 Thomas Mosley b 1730-40 John Mosley b Elizabeth Mosley b 1730-40 Thomas Mosley born 1730-40 married Mary Brantley. Brantley Mosley born 1755 the son of Thomas Mosley and Mary Brantley was a revolutionary soldier from Wilkes co, GA. He later removed to Montgomery Co, GA where he died between 1850-60. I would appreciate any info you run across on this Mosley family. The son Benjamin and William went to what is present day Lincoln Co. BO Mosley Macon, Georgia

I am glad to know there is another method of leeching. I compiled a book - before I had the internet to rely on - on all the old letters (about 110 of them) and the history around them , and one of the terms I searched for in libraries, through contacts, in books, was leeching. A doctor told me the other definition - that the instruments they used to draw blood were called leeches. I wish I knew which one they were using to extract the salt. I would almost hate to think I was using something with lye in it more than blood. Both would be bad. Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: <RCSPAIN@aol.com> To: <GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 7:35 AM Subject: Re: [GA-Roots] Salt List, Muscogee Co, GA-Pope's > I agree with Emma. Leaching was done by taking a wooden barrel or keg, > boring holes in the bottom and lining it with straw. Then ashes would be > placed over the straw and rainwater would be strained through this. The > strange thing is that this is exactly the way lye was made. "Grandma's lye > soap" was made by taking the water that was used in the leaching and boiling > it with fat. The result would nearly take your skin off if you washed with > it because of the lye. This would certainly not make the salt that was used > in food. > Richard > > > ==== GA-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > Faye Dyess fdy.gate.net Listmanager > VOLUNTEER TO TRANSCRIBE CENSUS FOR THE USGENWEB PROJECT > http://www.usgenweb.org/census > Thou shalt read thine own message thrice before thou sendest it. > >

One of my father's brothers had Askew as a middle name. Sylvester Askew Medlock. I always wondered if he was named after a family friend, relative, or ??? I still don't know. Any Medlocks (mostly AL & FL, originally from SC) in your lines ? Emma in NM

I agree with Emma. Leaching was done by taking a wooden barrel or keg, boring holes in the bottom and lining it with straw. Then ashes would be placed over the straw and rainwater would be strained through this. The strange thing is that this is exactly the way lye was made. "Grandma's lye soap" was made by taking the water that was used in the leaching and boiling it with fat. The result would nearly take your skin off if you washed with it because of the lye. This would certainly not make the salt that was used in food. Richard

Hi Diane and List Members, I am searching for any information on ASKEW in Wilkes County. According to a gg-uncle, his ASKEW grandfather came to Wilkes County, GA from VA in 1814. He said that Wilkes County was made up almost "exclusively of Virginians." This ASKEW was said to have become "a county officer in Wilkes and died in 1822." His son, Henry James Askew, was born a year earlier, in 1821. No Askew is listed on the 1820 census in Wilkes County, and I haven't been able to document the above information which came from GA Men of Mark. Thanks for your kind look-up offer. Mitzi

I really doubt they used leeches, probably some sort of leaching device to dissolve the salt out of the soil into water, then boiled that down for the salt. Emma in NM