Rebecca, Yes, we have corresponded briefly in the past on the Bannister line. They married into the Dooley/Dooly family in Forsyth Co. GA. Augustus Williams was a son of Jonathan Middleton Williams from Rutherford County, NC. Augustus and wife, Sarah Whitesides Ledbetter, moved with her family, Johnson Ledbetter, to Lumpkin County, GA about 1838. I have some, but very little, information on your connection, the Lawson family. I knew they connected, but I do not have much, other than knowing their was a connection. If your Williams from SC are connected to the family of Augustus Williams it would be a very distant cousin, and so far I have not found any connection between the NC and SC Williams families. Not that there is not a connection... just that I have not found it. Sorry I can't help there. I understand about all those county lines being so close and what county every thing is located in that corner of those adjoining counties is very confusing. I have been there, but that was years ago, and on our tour of cemeteries I never knew what road we were on, or what county we were in, because they are all so close to each other. Isn't Shiloh cemetery located in that small area where the counties join and not far from the Forsyth/Dawson county line, but over in Cherokee County? Do you know the road it is located on? Looking forward to hearing from you, Flora ----- Original Message ----- From: <rbannister@comcast.net> To: <GACHEROK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 1:35 PM Subject: Re: [GACHEROK-L] Shiloh Methodist Cemetery -WILLIAMS, LEDBETTER & DOOLY > Flora, if I'm not mistaken, we have corresponded on the Dooley line. Elizabeth Dooley Banister, daughter of James Dooley and Ruth Giley Anderson is my 3rd great-grandmother. > > First -- I am positive the cemetery you are seeking is Shiloh Methodist. This area of Cherokee County has confused many a researcher, I assure you. I was raised there and I have to think twice sometimes. To completely research families there you have to cover four census districts -- Conns Creek in Cherokee County, Yellow Creek in Dawson, Dug Road in Pickens and Hightower in Forsyth. The church cemeteries are even more confusing -- in a five mile radius there are at least half a dozen possibilities -- Shiloh, Ophir, Mount Vernon, Lebanon, Yellow Creek, Mica, Conns Creek -- and I'm probably forgetting some. > > I have a (barely) working knowledge of many of the families in the area since they were either my family or collateral lines in some way. Amanda Myra Williams, daughter of Augustus married my 3rd great uncle, Sion Jacob Lawson. I have tried for years to determine the origin of that Williams family. I have a Williams line in the Pendleton District of South Carolina who moved to Cherokee County but I haven't found any connection between these two Williams families. I'm not at my personal computer to look up the census, but I think Augustus was living in the Conns Creek district in 1850. > > Can I give your email address to a Ledbetter researcher? If I'm remembering correctly, he's a descendant of Sarah Whiteside Ledbetter's brother. > > Rebecca Bannister > rbannister@comcast.net > Researching: Bannister, Fletcher, White, Baldwin, Roper, Adams, Hester, Lawson, Pruitt, Satterfield, Hogan, Scruggs, Brady, Jefferson, Hembree, Smith, Dooley, Early, Edens, Burdine, Pendley, Ridings, Pearson, Evans, Tanner, Williams, Foster, Jarvis, Powers, Duke > > > ==== GACHEROK Mailing List ==== > GACHEROK-L mailing list archives. Search by name, etc. > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=GACHEROK > RootsWeb Threaded Mailing List Archives. > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/archives/ > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >