Index to Articles in the Coweta County Genealogical Society Quarterly Newsletter - Part 4, final installment Spring 1999-Spring 2000 - ------------------------------ Vol. 18, Issue 3, Spring 1999 Relating to Research, 1752 Calendar Change; Old Time Southern Home Remedies, Chicken Pox, Thrush, Rheumatism; Coweta Members of the Royal Arcanum cont. (The Royal Arcanum was a large fraternal and beneficiary society founded in Boston in 1877. Provision for insurance for its members was its chief objective. Council No. 758 was the chapter for Coweta County. The records published here list the insured and beneficiaries plus various remarks. During the years there were 110 local members. The earliest year found was 1888 and the last was 1929.); Mr. N.C. Bridges-Miss Maud Huen wedding, Jan 24, 1889 (from the Herald & Advertiser); Resolution on the death of Mr. W.J. Smith, 10-18-1937 (married to Emma Rainey), taken from the Newnan Herald, April 8, 1938; Winkles-Pitts Family Notes; Thomas G. King Family Group sheet (b. 3 May 1798, m. Mariah Doster (?) 8 Nov 1818); Shoemaker Family Bible Records (miscellaneous loose pages, John B. Shoemaker b. 1814); Meriwether County, Ga. Deed, Ware-Middlebrooks, 1859; Letter from reader re: Colley Family Information; Golden Wedding Anniversary of Patrick (b. 1819) and Mary Carmichal from the Herald & Advertiser, April 5, 1889; Queries from readers; Campbell County's Confederate Monument (from talk given by OCCHS president, March 1999); Confederate Infantry from Campbell County, Ga., taken from Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, Vols. 2 & 3; Looking Back to 1899, Abstracts from the Jan. 6 Issue of the Herald & Advertiser: News from Grantville, Sargent, Moreland, Turin. Vol. 18, No. 4, Summer 1999 Looking Back (from the Newnan Herald): 1865-DeLacy-McCombs wedding, Ingles-Brewster wedding; 1866-Results of Jan. 6 election; 1867-Orr-Sims wedding; Young family News from White Oak, 1890 (from Herald & Advertiser); Coweta's Fading Facts (from the Herald & Advertiser 1889-1890) - Franklin Sewell obit, 1890, Nora Page announcement, 1889; Pedigree Chart of Olga Sims Pinson b. 1877, Coweta Co., GA; In the Mail, Questions & pictures from Laura Holt; Letters in Newnan P.O. in 1833; Ancestor chart of Mildred Ann Hughen Candy, b. 1930, Dallas, TX; Confederate Infantry from Campbell County cont.: Roster of Confederate Soldiers from GA from Vols 2 & 3; Coweta Court Docket Book "D", Application Docket 1881-1888 cont.; Thomas Morgan King Family Group sheet, cont.; Towns of GA in 1888, location and population from 1880 census if available; Odum Family Reunion announcement; Surname Index, Vol. 18, Issues 1-4. Vol. 19, No. 1, Fall 1999 Queries from readers; Coweta's Fading Facts; Thomas E. Zellars Day Celebration, b. 1898; Looking back: Loyd Millians obit, 1931; Fannie Gordon obit, 1931; Marriage and Death Notices from the Southern Christian Advocate, 1837-1860: Obits for Sallie Ann Overby, Martha V. & Burwell S. Overby, Aug., 1857; Obit for Infant Earnest Welcome Smith, son of Stephen D. and Martha A. S mith, Aug, 1857; Broyles-Taliaferro marriage 28 July 1857; Heirs of Zachariah Phillips, Sr., history, children; Pedigree Chart of Minnie M. Henry, b. 1919, TX; Coweta's Fading Facts: Guardianship of Roberts orphans (Absalem, Elizabeth, Lurana, Delila); Charles C. DuPree residence change from Coweta to Meriwether 1854; Macedonia Academy Trustees, 1856; Journal of Thomas Jefferson Marshall, b. 1834 (Civil War and miscellaneous info); Letters from Readers; Ancestors of Basil Lamar Smith, b., 1911, various surnames; Old Campbell County Confederate Infantry, cont. Vol. 19, No. 2, Winter 1999 Cook Family Bible Records (Rev. John Cook, b. 1765 & Mary Heard, b. 1771); Queries from readers; Newnan Fire Dept. pictures, early 1900s; Amounts of Confederate Pensions for maimed and infirmed soldiers from Ga. Acts of 1887, 1888, 1889, 1892; Ancestors of Basil Lamar Smith cont., various surnames; Revolutionary War Veterans who Drew land in the 1827 Coweta Land Lottery; Old Campbell County: Some Confederate Veterans & Widows of Confederate Veterans Who Received Pensions in Campbell County - Adams thru Barge. Vol. 19, No. 3, Spring 2000 (Summer 2000 will be out soon) List of Members of 1915 Coweta County Board of Education; Coweta's Fading Facts: Carrie Durham guardianship application for May Lee White, May 5, 1915; Little Known Wars Fought Mostly on North American Soil; 1888/1889 Deaths not in Coweta Cemetery Book (taken from Herald & Advertiser): Edgar C. Stallings, Velma Swint, Mrs. Walker Johnson (nee Hamrick), W.C. Carnes, Archibald Benton; Dictionary for genealogists; Coweta Community News in 1915, abstracted from the Newnan Herald, surnames mentioned: Shell, Martin, Bailey, Hunicutt, Beavers, Cook, Cavendar, Wortham, Hembree, Williams., Spratling, Baum, Bailey, Allen; Queries from readers; Coweta's Fading Facts: Banks in Coweta County in 1915; Abstracts of Legal Notices in the Georgia Banner, June 18, 1852 (11 pages total covering Coweta, Heard & Carroll counties); Campbell County News: Marriage and Death Notices January-March 1913 (almost 4 pages); Newnan City Council's recommended salaries in 1915 for various public offices. - --------------------------------------------------------------------- This completes the index for all the newsletters to date. Please direct requests for copies to the Coweta County Genealogical Society. Address below. Back issues, if available, are $4 plus .75 postage and handling. Out-of-print issues can be copied for $5 plus .75 postage and handling. Most issues are 24 pages long. Exception is the Spring 1983 which is the Commemorative Edition, 75 pages, $8.50 plus $1.50 postage and handling. Coweta Gen, Soc. dues per year are $18, single (one newsletter sent per household); $21, family (2 members per household receive 1 newsletter); Associate membership (Civic groups, businesses, other societies), $23. The facility at the Old Train Depot in Grantville is open Mon.-Thurs- 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. For information and to join: Coweta County Genealogical Society, Inc. P.O. Box 1014 Newnan, GA 30264-1014