Be sure to look for the names of your Jewish ancestors in the list, even though it is of Charleston. Some of these were later found in Georgia, and some of these came from Georgia. Excerpts From: This Happy Land: The Jews of Colonial and Antebellum Charleston, Book by James William Hagy; University of Alabama Press, 1993 COLONIAL AND ANTEBELLUM JEWS OF CHARLESTON, LISTED BY PLACE OF BIRTH (EXCLUDING SOUTH CAROLINA) AND DATE OF FIRST RECORD IN SOUTH CAROLINA Only persons to whom a fixed date can be assigned are included in this list. Algiers David, Leonie, 1858 At sea Moses, Rebecca (Phillips), 1807 Barbary States Barrett, Starr, 1788 Bohemia DeLieben, Israel, 1790 Lewith, Henry, 1859 Lewith, Magdalena, 1852 Weiskopf, Leopold, 1851 Weiskopf, Rose, 1860 Bohemia, Polnau Pool, Isaac, 1800 California Hart, Daniel, 1860 Connecticut, Norwalk Isaacks, Sampson Mears, 1804 Connecticut, Wilton Moses, Esther (Isaacks), 1800 Curaçao Hertz, Esther (Peixotto), 1839 Motta, Jacob Ares, 1801 Myers, Rachel (Peixotto), 1839 Peixotto, Joshua, 1829 Peixotto, Rachael de David de Isaac (Suares), 1826 Suares, David, 1799; Suares, Jacob, 1799 Denmark Canter, Jacob, 1785

Interesting websites regarding early Jewish settlers of Savannah : http://www.mickveisrael.org/history.html http://www.jewish-history.com/Occident/volume1/aug1843/savannah.html http://www.jewish-history.com/Occident/volume1/nov1843/savannah2.html written by Mordecai Sheftall http://www.jewish-history.com/Occident/volume1/july1843/subscrib.htm http://www.jewish-history.com/Occident/volume1/july1843/subscrib.htm http://www.jewish-history.com/Occident/volume1/jan1844/index.html Be sure to browse around all the links on the pages. Also be sure to research the Jews in South Carolina...some went there from Savannah. Include notices from the Charleston Gazette, the Charleston Courier, and the Jewish Marriage Notices from the Newspaper Press of Charleston. http://www.mish-mash.ca/usa-sc-misc.html Additionally, some books: The following information on books about Savannah Jews comes from: The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner, Book by Eli N. Evans; University Press of Mississippi, 1993 in which were comments about the following books and authors: Third to None: The Saga of Savannah Jewry 1773-1983 by Rabbi Saul Jacob Rubin fills an important void in southern history by giving us at last the story of the first Jewish community in the South and the third in North America. B. H. Levy Savannah's Old Jewish Community Cemeteries is a valuable document of source material from the gravestones and community records of the 1733 burial plot granted the Jews of Savannah by General James Oglethorpe. There are short biographies--all that is known--of each person buried there. Historians, novelists, and scholars from all disciplines will be able to draw on this book for years. Third to None is a long-overdue history of the third American community--Savannah, Georgia--to have Jewish settlers. The Savannah Jewish colony, in Jacob Marcus's foreword, "A band of Jewish argonauts--financed by London's Sephardic notables--debarked on the site of Georgia's first settlement." This group of forty-two Portuguese and German Jews, the largest Jewish migration during the colonial period, arrived in 1733, a year or two after the first North American synagogue was dedicated in New York and the second in Newport, Rhode Island. Rabbi Saul Jacob Rubin, of the historic Mickve Israel Congregation, has written a careful book, with forty-five pages of more than eighteen hundred footnotes, twenty pages of photographs, and a thorough index. This effort, sponsored and financed by the Jewish community, could be an important model for other communities. Covering 250 years of history, the book provides many interesting details. Two of the original settlers, Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Nunes Ribeiro, were the forebearers of Uriah Phillips Levy, who saved and then restored Monticello. Jacob Nunez Cardozo was a prolific writer and editor of newspapers in Charleston, Atlanta, and Mobile. His great-grandnephew was Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo. Drawing the attention of national leaders, the Savannah Jewish community received letters from three American presidents--Washington, Jefferson, and Madison--on the subject of religious liberty. Rubin writes about Jewish attitudes in the North toward the Savannah Jews during the Civil War. In 1865, during Pesach, in the midst of the hardships and hatreds of the war, Jews in New York and Philadelphia shipped five thousand pounds of Passover food to the Jewish community in Savannah. These symbolic acts of support reflected a sense of national community. Third to None, in pulling together research from many sources to tell its story, belongs with Reznikoff and Engelman Jews of Charleston, Ezekiel and Lichtenstein History of the Jews of Richmond, and Bertram Korn Jews of Early New Orleans as an important volume that future scholars must read if they are to write informed southern Jewish history. B. H. Levy, a lawyer in Savannah who was fascinated with old cemeteries, undertook one of those painstaking four-year efforts that can only be termed a "magnificent obsession." After sifting through records and copying information from the gravestones of the town's early settlers, he wrote Savannah's Old Jewish Community Cemeteries, a jewel of a book which serves as a companion to the Rubin history. Graveyards cry out with their own tragedies, such as the deaths of infants and small children and the toll taken by "warm fever" and other forms of pestilence that shortened life expectancy in that era. But Levy also looked at wills and other writings, building brick by brick a house of details populated by a parade of characters and stories behind the worn gravestones and forgotten inscriptions. Both Rubin and Levy acknowledged their great debts to the superb writers on southern colonial history, Jacob Marcus and Malcolm Stern

I too wish for more Jewish Genealogy! I would also like to find a stocking full of Roundtree/Rountree info to break throguh that brick wall! But for the evening I would settle for a little-bitty piece of info. Today's Savannah obits mentions the Founder of the Port Wentworth Pentecostal Holiness Church. Can anyone tell me if this is an Afro-American church or otherwise. It also mentioned the Golden Gems-Senior Group at First Assembly of God. I am trying to idenify Woodrow Lester Gable's ancestry or origin. I have been working on a research project for several years that pertains to the surname Gable. My own German Gable line was out of South Carolina and on down into Georgia. I have also found more Gables that I imagined, including some Afro-Americans, one located in a church in Effingham County and on over in Thomas County. Thus my original intent of this project has left the main theme originally intended . I just can resist idenifing them all!!! There were also some buried in Laural Grove Cemetery wuth Jewish inscriptions on their markers. The point of this entire project is to find the original location of my own line, out of Germany/Holland. Anyway would appreciate any help available on this obit. Merry Christmas Everyone! I will certainly miss spending Christmas Day on Taylor Street this year! Judy V. Mason

Lois Lavina Waters Merendino passed away Monday, December 16, 2002, at 7:30 p.m. at the Beaches Baptist Hospital, Jacksonville Beach, FL. The funeral services will be Thursday, December 19, 2002, 10:00 a.m., at Hewell and Sons Funeral Home on University Boulevard, Jacksonville, FL. There will also be a graveside service the same day, Thursday, December 19, 2002, 2:30 p.m. at the Meeks Cemetery in Nicholls, Coffee County, GA. She will be buried beside her husband, the late Cass C. Merendino. Lois Lavina Waters Merendino, born August 1, 1913, is the daughter of the late William Monroe (Roe) Waters and Amanda Johnson Waters; and the grand daughter of the late Washington Wayne (Major) Waters and Lavina Dora Ann Waldron Waters.

Don't give up on churches. One church I wrote to in Savannah answered my letter over a year later with lots of information. Frank J. -----Original Message----- From: lotswife [mailto:lotswife@whidbey.net] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 7:39 PM To: GACHATHA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GACHATHAM] Tis the Season God Bless You, Tiny Tim! I'd like some voter registration lists 1800-1900. A list of rail road employees for the same period. Newspaper articles ... everything. Surnames for the "vertical files" for every Georgia Library. Jewish Genealogy for Savannah (such a rich history!) Church records (they don't even answer my SASE letters, and they don't do research, so maybe they will allow genealogists to transcribe their records). Lists of surnames by occupations and year ... physicians, teachers, preachers, etc. Photographs on line: I would love to have volunteers answer requests, for old street address and houses, grave sites of specific surnames, wedding photos, etc. Fortunately, I have been very good this year, so know you will fill my genealogy stocking! Thank you and God Bless! Caroline Byng Whidbey Island, WA -----Original Message----- From: Tim Stowell <tstowell@chattanooga.net> To: GACHATHA-L@rootsweb.com <GACHATHA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, December 14, 2002 6:46 PM Subject: [GACHATHAM] Tis the Season >Dear listmembers - > >I don't know how many folks are here, so I'm not sure how big an audience >I'm speaking to here but: > >Now as to whether you've been naughty or nice, I'll leave to your decision. > >However, in thinking of the coming season and next year - what sorts of items >would be in your wish list for the Chatham County website? > >I do have a couple of items in mind for next year, but I'd like to hear your >'wish list' as well. > >Tim Stowell >Chatham County, GAGenWeb site host >http://www.rootsweb.com/~gachatha/ > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Tim, My wish list for online information includes records of: cemeteries, club memberships, railroad (streetcar) employees, obituaries, marriages, churches Shirley

i,d like to see a list of which familys were living there in 1800.

God Bless You, Tiny Tim! I'd like some voter registration lists 1800-1900. A list of rail road employees for the same period. Newspaper articles ... everything. Surnames for the "vertical files" for every Georgia Library. Jewish Genealogy for Savannah (such a rich history!) Church records (they don't even answer my SASE letters, and they don't do research, so maybe they will allow genealogists to transcribe their records). Lists of surnames by occupations and year ... physicians, teachers, preachers, etc. Photographs on line: I would love to have volunteers answer requests, for old street address and houses, grave sites of specific surnames, wedding photos, etc. Fortunately, I have been very good this year, so know you will fill my genealogy stocking! Thank you and God Bless! Caroline Byng Whidbey Island, WA -----Original Message----- From: Tim Stowell <tstowell@chattanooga.net> To: GACHATHA-L@rootsweb.com <GACHATHA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, December 14, 2002 6:46 PM Subject: [GACHATHAM] Tis the Season >Dear listmembers - > >I don't know how many folks are here, so I'm not sure how big an audience >I'm speaking to here but: > >Now as to whether you've been naughty or nice, I'll leave to your decision. > >However, in thinking of the coming season and next year - what sorts of items >would be in your wish list for the Chatham County website? > >I do have a couple of items in mind for next year, but I'd like to hear your >'wish list' as well. > >Tim Stowell >Chatham County, GAGenWeb site host >http://www.rootsweb.com/~gachatha/ > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

To get to the link below, be sure to include the "h_census.asp" at the end. For some reason, when you cut and paste an address into an E-mail file and it wraps to the next line, sometimes the wrapped portion of the link does not get attached. :-) Bob Carter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Carter" <gravehunter@triad.rr.com> To: <GACHATHA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 8:09 PM Subject: Re: [GACHATHAM] 1880 Census > http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/searc > h_census.asp > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <JNELSON241@aol.com> > To: <GACHATHA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 5:45 PM > Subject: Re: [GACHATHAM] My grandparents' wedding announcement > > > > Bob, > > > > Could you please give me the web addresses for the 1880 census again. > Thanks > > > > Jeanne Nelson > > > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/searc h_census.asp ----- Original Message ----- From: <JNELSON241@aol.com> To: <GACHATHA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 5:45 PM Subject: Re: [GACHATHAM] My grandparents' wedding announcement > Bob, > > Could you please give me the web addresses for the 1880 census again. Thanks > > Jeanne Nelson > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Bob, Could you please give me the web addresses for the 1880 census again. Thanks Jeanne Nelson

NOVEMBER 30, 2002 THESE ARE OUR WATERS JOHN W. WATERS b. 1720, Beaufort, NC; d. 1775 ...Came to GA in 1760's. Received land in Screven County, on the Savannah River. ISAAC WATERS b. 1770, Beaufort, NC., d. 1828 Bulloch Co., GA married ARACY???? JOHN BARBER WATERS, b. 1808, Screven County, GA; d. 1887, Bacon County, GA married MARTHA LANIER WASHINGTON WAYNE (MAJOR) WATERS, b. 6-24-1844, Screven County, GA; d. 2-1-1917, Ware County, GA, buried in Bagley Cemetery, Bickley, GA married LAVINA DORA ANN WALDRON WILLIAM MONROE (ROE) WATERS, b. 10-23-1870, d. 1-24-1929, Nicholls, Coffee County, GA, buried in Meeks Cemetery, Nicholls, GA married AMANDA JOHNSON b. 1-9-1872, d. 4-11-1916, Nicholls, Coffee County, GA, buried in Meeks Cemetery, Nicholls, GA WILLIAM MONROE WATERS and AMANDA JOHNSON were married June 20, 1889, in Appling County, GA. ETHEL BEATRICE WATERS b. 11-01-1910, Nicholls, Coffee County, GA; d. 07-08-1974, Blackshear, Pierce County, GA., buried Meeks Cemetery, Nicholls GA; married 10-25-1925, Alma, Bacon County, GA; SIMON PETER HOWARD, b. 02-10-1896, Charlton County, GA., d. 11-08-1951, Nicholls, Coffee County, GA, buried Meeks Cemetery, Nicholls, Coffee County, GA. Me...ELEANOR HOWARD RICHARDSON References: Years of Research Websites of Cousins and other Family Members Family Members Folks Huxford 's Books Records of Latter Day Saints Rootsweb.com Ancestry.com Familysearch.com Family Tree Maker Family and Friends who are researchers, also. Years of comparing notes and information by many different sources. ELEANOR HOWARD RICHARDSON Rich1735@bellsouth.net ellor@cheerful.com pinkpetunia@teacher.com

Thanks Nancy, I hope you and yours also have a good Thanksgiving! George W. / Fla. Searching WATSON / TIPTON

> THANK YOU SO MUCH. YOUR NOTE WAS SO NICE. I TOO WISH YOU A HAPPY DAY WITH LOVED ONES AND FRIENDS. WE HAVE A LOT TO BE THANKFUL FOR THIS YEAR. BETTY BEST > From: Nancy Parr <nancparr@bellsouth.net> > Date: 2002/11/28 Thu AM 12:36:56 EST > To: GACHATHA-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [GACHATHAM] Holiday Wish > > Good Morning :-) > Hope all of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving .....may your plates be > filled with lots of great food and your hearts filled with love for one > another. Have a safe and wonderful holiday :-) > Warm Regards, > Nancy E Parr---Hostess > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Good Morning :-) Hope all of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving .....may your plates be filled with lots of great food and your hearts filled with love for one another. Have a safe and wonderful holiday :-) Warm Regards, Nancy E Parr---Hostess

This is from the Atlanta Constitution, dated April 24, 1910. It was in the Savannah section of the paper. The marriage of Miss Winifred Turner Miller to Mr. Thomas Alfred Marshall took place Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock at Trinity church. Miss Elizabeth Miller was her sister’s maid of honor and Mr. Marshall’s best man was Mr C.H. Richardson. The ushers were Francis H. Marshall, Jr., Henry R. Miller, Harry (M or N) Ward and Ralph Metzger. He bride entered with her father, Mr. Clayton Pierce Miller. Who were Henry R. Miller, Harry Ward and Ralph Metzger? Susan Marshall

This is the information about my great grandfather, WASHINGTON WAYNE (MAJOR) WATERS. B. 1844. ( This information was taken from the same source as my grandfather SIMON PETER HOWARD B. 1834.) WASHINGTON W. WATERS Regiment Name - 50 Georgia Infantry Company A Soldier's Rank in - Private Soldier's Rank out - Private Film Number M226 roll 63 50th Regiment, Georgia Infantry (Satilla Rangers) 50th Infantry Regiment was organized at Savannah, Georgia, during the spring of 1862. Its members were recruited in the counties of Ware, Coffee, Lowndes, Thomas, De Kalk, Clinch, Colquitt, Berrien and Brooks. After serving int he District of Georgia, the 50th moved to Virginia and was assigned to General Drayton's, Semmes', Bryan's, and Simms' Brigade. It participated in the capaings of the Army of Northern Virginia from SECON MANASSAS to GETTYSBURG, then was ordered back to Georgia. However, the unit did not arrive in time to share in the Battle of Chicamauga. It was involved in the Knoxville operations and later the conflicts at THE WILDERNESS, SPOTSYLVANIA, and COLD HARBOR. The regiment fought with Early in the Shenadoah Valley and ended the war at APPOMATTOS. There were 29 killed and 97 wounded at SHARPSBURG and 17 killed and 153 wounded at CHANCELLORSVILLE. It lost thirty percent of the 302 engaged at Gettysburg, had many disabled at SAYLER'S CREEK, and surrendered with 1 captain, 2 lieutenants, 2 surgeons, and 25 men. The field officers were Colonels William R. Manning and Peter McGlashan; Lieutenant Colonels William O. Fleming, Francis Kearse, and Pliny Sheffield; and Majors Duncan Curry, P.C. Pendleton,a dn John M. Spence. When one goes to the link to read this, the capitalized names of Battles can be clicked on and one can find out more about each of the battles. I hope this helps someone else. Eleanor Howard Richardson

Subject: Re: [GAWARE] Civil War --Regiment 26th Georgia Infantry--SIMON P. HOWARD B. 1834 Shadri, With your help and others who posted the links to check out, I was able to find all sorts of interesting information on two of my ancestors. I will post them separately, because they are quite lengthly. The first one: SIMON P. HOWARD B. 1834 (SIMON PETER HOWARD) is my grandfather. Regiment Name 26 Georgia Infantry Company E Soldier's Rank In: Private Soldier's Rank Out: 4th Sergeant (also checked other resource) Film Number M226 roll 30 CONFEDERATE GEORGIA TROOPS 26th Regiment, Geogia Infantry (Wiregrass Minuetemen) "26th Infantry Regiment ( also called 13th Regiment) completed its orgnization in October, 1861, at Brunswick, Georgia. Its companies were recruited in the counties of Charlton, Berrien, Glynn, Twiggs, Clinch, Ware, Coffee, and Wayne. After serving in the Department of Georgia at St. Simons Island and Savannah, the unit moved to Virginia where it was brigaded under Generals Lawton, John B. Gordon, and C.A. Evans. The 26th participated in the campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia from the Seven Days' Battles to COLD HARBOR, fought with Early in the Shenandoah Valley, and ended the war at APPOMATTOX. This regiment came to Virginia with 1,100 officers and men, lost 37 killed and 87 wounded at SECOND MANASSAS, and reported 6 killed, 49 wounded, and 6 missing at SHARPSBURG. It had 53 casualties at FREDERICKSBURG and 12 at SECOND WINCHESTER. The unit was detached from its brigade to support the artillery at GETTEYSBURG and lost few casualties. On April 9, 1865, it surrendered 85 men, of which 4 officers and 34 men were armed. The field officers were Colonels Edmund N. Atkinson and Carey W. Styles; Lieutenant Colonels James S. Blain, Eli S. Griffin, William A. Lane, snad William A. McDonald; and Jajors Thomas N. Gardner and B. F. Grace." I tried to send links to the list, but I guess they were too long or not in the correct format and they were returned. Eleanor Howard Richardson

Here is something that a TX friend of mine sent to me and I thought the list might enjoy it. Bob Carter Greensboro, NC ----------------------------- The War of the Rebellion records FYI. At last, the 'Official Records' of the Civil War - "War of the Rebellion; Records of the Union and Confederate Armies" (US Govt., 1909 etc.) - are now free and on line, much thanks to Cornell Univ. A truly superb set for your CW searches. http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/browse.monographs/waro.html Notice too that the complete 1880 census is now on LDS, and it too is free, NO thanks to any of the genealogy for cash sites !!! Just click on census and fill in the blanks. It too is great. Here is that site: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/search_census.asp

Hi Pam, I don't know who the artist was but if you find out, I'd like to know. I have a pastel of a baby holding an orange. It is called "Uncle Edward". I have no idea who the artist was or who Uncle Edward was. It was from Savannah at about the same time. Susan In a message dated 11/18/02 8:55:14 PM, Rkivem0m@msn.com writes: >Hi listers! > >I have a charcoal drawing of my great grandmother, Marguerite Murch Farris. > This protrait is done in great detail but unsigned. It was drawn around >1892 presumably in Savannah, GA, since that is where she lived at the time. > > > >Does anyone know of any artist in Savannah around 1892??? > >