Hello Karen, We have corresponded before over a year ago about Isaac Kinney and Martha Garst. Just wanted you to know that I have done much, much more work on the Kinney family. We held our first reunion here in NC for the descendants of Isaac's grandfather, William. We plan to hold another reunion in Carroll County this summer. Anyway, I am terribly interested in any and all information on any family connected to the Kinneys and any descendants of same. These families, as I know them now are Haynes, McDowell, Ward, Owens, Palmer, Turner, Garst, McAllister, McWhorter, Scott, Bishop, and Hulsey. I would love to know if Daniel McDowell who was last seen on census 1840, but shows up as late as 1854 mentioned in land deals, died with a will. Is there a book where things of this nature may be looked up? Thanks and good hunting, Cathy Moore Casper Sanford, NC ----- Original Message ----- From: <KDale60909@aol.com> To: <GACARROL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 1:58 AM Subject: [GACARROL] The Carroll Co. Story Told by the People--Sand Hill > Sometime ago we were discussing this book. I don't have it but do have a > printout of the Sand Hill section. I thought it might be helpful--and fun--to > print out some of the names here. Maybe some of you familiar with the names > and places here can chime in--and we might build a picture of the > community--or add the names of your families that were in Sand Hill early on > but aren't mentioned here. Maybe those who own the whole book can do other > communities. My personal comments are in [brackets]. > > Karen Dale > - ---------------------------- > > Sand Hill--located about 7 1/2 miles northeast of Carrollton on Highway > 61--this was known as the Bankhead Highway during WWII. [It was the route > many a military convoy took from Birmingham to Atlanta.] The area is also > called Five Points [in fact, I think I slipped and called it that not long > ago in a post to this list] because five roads come together here: roads to > Hulett, Villa Rica, Carrollton, Temple and Cross Plains. > > According to Radford Hamrick in the 1968 Carroll Co Quarterly, the Old Brush > Arbvor Courthouse was situated in the Sand Hill area. One Superior court was > held there with Judge Walter T. COLQUITT presiding before the court was > removed to Carrollton, 1830. > > In the late 1830s, a cotton gin on the Hulett Road was run by Lent EMBRY and > Bob BENEFIELD. [note: I wonder if Lent Embry was really one of the HEMBREES > who can be found in early census records and were there as late as the 1950s?] > > South of the gin there was a blacksmith shop operated by Seb and Eif HARPER. > Ben CARROLL stated that his father, John Workman CARROLL and grandfather, > James Moses CARROLL had a shop in the Sand Hill area where they made hats for > soldiers in the Civil War. > > Macedonia Baptist Church, about 1/4 mile from Sand Hill, was established July > 15, 1847. Charter members: Leroy MCWHORTER, Johnson H. MCWHORTER, Isaac > KINNEY [second wife Martha Garst, my 3rd great aunt], Elizabeth JORDAN, > Margaret MCCRAE, William JORDON, William NEELEY, Rebecca NEELEY, Mary > MCWHORTER, Tabitha PAULSTON. Rev. Leroy MCWHORTER was first pastor and > William F. JORDON the first ordained deacon. [I'll bet Jordon was pronounced > Jerdon! There were still "Jerdons" in the area in the 1950s.] > > Temperance Methodist Church is about 1/4 mile south of Sand Hill on Highway > 61. Allen EADY gave land (June 25, 1853) Trustees then were W.F.S. POWELL, > W.F. BROWN, J.K. BROWNING, James N. [sic] GARST and A.J. ADERHOLT. > > [James Marion GARST was born Carroll Co. 1833; the 1860 census lists his > occupations as Phrenologist--they read bumps on the head--like reading palms! > He served in the CSA and died in the veterans home in Atlanta, 1916. This in > an interesting entry because the Carroll Co. Garsts were all Baptists--four > generations of them are buried at Macedonia and the patriarch, Christopher > Garst was pastor there.] > > That's about all of the early material from the book. >