----- Original Message ----- From: <JSAMACGL@aol.com> To: <GACRAWFO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 1:11 PM Subject: Re: [GACRAWFO] Fw: New Crawford Co. Ga Query Forum Post > Dear Sharon, > > How exciting it is to find a "posting" from someone with the same ancestors! > I too am descended from David McGee and Elvira Hammock However, I am not > going to be of any help with your query re: The Hammock family. Since > locating this set of ancestors last year, there has been a lot of illness and > even a death (my mother) in the family and my research time has been rather > limited. But I too, would like to find out more about this "side " of our > family. > > My gggrandfather was Jeremiah (Jerry) McGee, b July 25th, 1841, Crawford Co. > GA; d August 07.1912; m Sara Jane "JANIE" Long July 25.1860 in Crawford > Co..After JANIE died in 1878, Jerry m Lenora Flewellen Bazemore, ( about 1879 > ). > > I have quite a bit of info on David and Elvira's children but nothing about > either of their parents. From which of the children are you descended? > Looking forward to hearing from you. Maybe we can combine our efforts and > locate Envira's parents! > > Your "cuz", > Jacki Stewart McGlamory > 2755 Rolling Pines Rd > Chipley, FL 32428 > > > ==== GACRAWFO Mailing List ==== > Deo Vindice= God our Vindicator. Appears on The Great Seal of The Confederacy, UDC medals of Honor and UDC iron grave markers, just to > mention a few. American by birth Southern by the Grace of God. > >

Dear Sharon, How exciting it is to find a "posting" from someone with the same ancestors! I too am descended from David McGee and Elvira Hammock However, I am not going to be of any help with your query re: The Hammock family. Since locating this set of ancestors last year, there has been a lot of illness and even a death (my mother) in the family and my research time has been rather limited. But I too, would like to find out more about this "side " of our family. My gggrandfather was Jeremiah (Jerry) McGee, b July 25th, 1841, Crawford Co. GA; d August 07.1912; m Sara Jane "JANIE" Long July 25.1860 in Crawford Co..After JANIE died in 1878, Jerry m Lenora Flewellen Bazemore, ( about 1879 ). I have quite a bit of info on David and Elvira's children but nothing about either of their parents. From which of the children are you descended? Looking forward to hearing from you. Maybe we can combine our efforts and locate Envira's parents! Your "cuz", Jacki Stewart McGlamory 2755 Rolling Pines Rd Chipley, FL 32428

----- Original Message ----- From: "Margie Daniels" <margie@majorinternet.net> To: <GACRAWFO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 4:03 PM Subject: [GACRAWFO] Confederate Veteran July 1894 William Jones > > OPPOSED TO THE NAME REBELLION. > > Rev. J. William Jones, University of Virginia, July 18: Let me add my > earnest and hearty protest against calling our war the " Rebellion. " It was > not a rebellion, and we were not rebels or traitors. George Washington was a > rebel because he fought against properly constituted and legal authority, > and if he had failed he would probably have been tried as a rebel, and > executed as a traitor. But Jefferson Davis was no rebel when he led the > great struggle to maintain proper authority, to uphold law and constitution, > and when the Federal Government held him as a prisoner they never dared to > bring him to trial, because they knew, under the advice of Chief Justice > Chase and the ablest lawyers at the North, that they could, never convict > him of treason under the Constitution and laws of the United States. > > I remember that one day down at Beauvoir, several years before his death, > the grand old chief of the Confederacy said to me alluding to this question: > "Rebellion indeed! How can a sovereign State rebel? You might as well pay > that Germany rebelled against France, or that France, who was overwhelmed in > the conflict, rebelled against Germany, as to say that the sovereign States > of the Confederacy rebelled against the North or the government. O that they > had dared give me the trial I so much coveted, and for which I so earnestly > begged, in order that I might have opportunity to vindicate my people and > their cause before the world and at the bar of history! They knew that I > would have been triumphantly acquitted, and our people purged of all taint > of treason, and they never dared to bring my case to trial." > Is it not time, then, for those people to cease talking about treason and > rebellion, and to stop their insults in calling us rebels? If there were any > rebels in that great contest) they were north of the Potomac and the Ohio > the men who trampled under foot the Constitution of our country and the > liberties bequeathed us by our fathers. > > Gen. Lee always spoke of the war as the "great struggle for Constitutional > freedom," and that is a truthful and distinctive title which I prefer. " The > War Between the States" was the title given by A. H. Stephens, and is a good > one. "Confederate War" would do, but that implies that we made the war. > which, of course, we did not, our policy being peace. The " War of > Coercion," or the "War against State Sovereignty" would express it, but the > "Rebellion," never > > > > > ==== GACRAWFO Mailing List ==== > Check the Macon County Georgia Web site for old newspaper articles http://www.rootsweb.com/~gamacon/index.html > >

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----- Original Message ----- From: <genconnect@genconnect.rootsweb.com> To: <millie1@accucomm.net> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 11:10 AM Subject: New Crawford Co. Ga Query Forum Post > Crawford Co. Ga Query Forum > A new message, "Elvira (Reliance) Hammock," was posted by Sharon Marzonie > on Tue, 20 Feb 2001 > > Surname: Hammock > > > > --- > NAME: Sharon Marzonie > EMAIL: naturalbait@yahoo.com > DATE: Feb 20 2001 > URL: http:// > QRYTEXT: I am requesting someone please share information about the Hammock family. My GGGG-grandmother was Elvira (Reliance) Hammock (B: 1806?). She was married to David McGee (1804-1870). This is all I have on this family line, and would like to go back further. Thanks in advance! > > Sharon Marzonie > Prescott, Az. > > > This is an automatically-generated notice. > > <http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Crawford?admin> > >

----- Original Message ----- From: <genconnect@genconnect.rootsweb.com> To: <millie1@accucomm.net> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 1:00 PM Subject: New Crawford Co. Ga Wills Forum Post > Crawford Co. Ga Wills Forum > A new message, "John J. Britt's Will," was posted by Rozine on Mon, 19 > Feb 2001 > > Surname: Britt > > > > --- > NAME: Rozine > EMAIL: DonaRoze@aol.com > DATE: Feb 19 2001 > QRYTEXT: Georgia, Crawford County > WILL BOOK "C" pp. 74, 75 > > In the name of God, I John J. Britt of said County being of sound and disposing mind said memory do make send declare this to be my last will and Testament hereby revoking all other wills heretofore made by me. > > ITEM 1: I desire after my decease decent burial at Providence Cemetery, where the old Church so sacred to my memorary stood before its removal to Roberta, said there4hence of said burial to be in accordance with my circumstances at time of my death. > > ITEM 2: I desire all my just debts to be paid out of any money I may leave at time of my death and if there be no money to pay my debts, I desire a sufficiency of the personal property I may leave to be sold by my executors herein after named at public outcry to pay such debts. > > ITEM 3: I desire that one hundred acres of lot of land number twenty five in the 7th district of said County also thirty five acres more or less of lot no. (21) twenty one, the lines of said thirty five acres commencing at a rock now placed west of a certain walnut stump near public road running due east to Hartley lines thence northward to line of W.M. Britt thence west to the line at stock watering place. Thence south to said rock the original starting point. The lines to the aforesaid lands and now understood to exist in hereby made the lines to the lands being given to my beloved wife, Fannie Britt for natural life to have use and control as she may wish and at her death the said lands to be divided between my body heirs share and share alike, except to my son, W. M. Britt having already provided for him. I desire that my said son, W.M. Britt, shall have my gold spectacles and ten dollars in money . The said land to be sold by my executors and the money divided as above ! > stated. > > ITEM 4: I give to my daughter Mollie Britt fifteen acres more of less of land lot (#21) twenty one same being the west portion of fifty acres and now on same being the west of the thirty five acres heretofore mentioned in this will. The said Mollie Britt to have the south from the said fifteen acres of land for and during his natural life and at her death then said fifteen acres is to be sold as before stated by my executor and money distributed among my bodily heirs as stated in Item 3 of this my last will. The lines of said fifteen are now understood and are to be the lines of the division of my said lands. > > ITEM 5: I desire that my wife Fannie Britt keep and use all my personal property of whatever nature and kind and may now at the time of my death except such as may be sold to pay my debts. She to exercise her best judgement in selling trading and disposing of said personal property whenever her interest may demand and to sunarst whatever funds or other property she may acquire by such sales or circumstances for and during his natural life and if any of such property should be left after paying his physicians bill and burial expenses and all other just and lawful debts, then if there should be any of said property or the proceeds thereof then the same is to be sold and distributed or directed in Item 3rd of this will. > > Item 6: I nonimate my son Josiah Britt and son in law W.H. Thames as executors of this my last will and testament and they to be required to give bond for the faithful discharge of their duties as such executors. The said executors to rent out said fifteen acres of land here given to my daughter Mollie collect said rents and pay same over to said Mollie, taking his receipt for the same and that they be not required to make any returns of their action and doings to the ordinary or anyone else as the amounts will be too small to include any expence. > > Signed declared and published by John J. Britt as his last will and testament in the presence of us the subscribing witness who subscribed hereto in the presence of testator at his instances and request and of each other be signing in our presence we signing in his presence presences and in distributions made before signing executed in the presence of us the 27th day of April 1907. > ------------Signed by : J.J.Britt > > WITNESSES: > J.D. Stephens > H. Danielly > A.J. Danielly > > . > > > This is an automatically-generated notice. > > <http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/CrawfordWill?admin> > >

OPPOSED TO THE NAME REBELLION. Rev. J. William Jones, University of Virginia, July 18: Let me add my earnest and hearty protest against calling our war the " Rebellion. " It was not a rebellion, and we were not rebels or traitors. George Washington was a rebel because he fought against properly constituted and legal authority, and if he had failed he would probably have been tried as a rebel, and executed as a traitor. But Jefferson Davis was no rebel when he led the great struggle to maintain proper authority, to uphold law and constitution, and when the Federal Government held him as a prisoner they never dared to bring him to trial, because they knew, under the advice of Chief Justice Chase and the ablest lawyers at the North, that they could, never convict him of treason under the Constitution and laws of the United States. I remember that one day down at Beauvoir, several years before his death, the grand old chief of the Confederacy said to me alluding to this question: "Rebellion indeed! How can a sovereign State rebel? You might as well pay that Germany rebelled against France, or that France, who was overwhelmed in the conflict, rebelled against Germany, as to say that the sovereign States of the Confederacy rebelled against the North or the government. O that they had dared give me the trial I so much coveted, and for which I so earnestly begged, in order that I might have opportunity to vindicate my people and their cause before the world and at the bar of history! They knew that I would have been triumphantly acquitted, and our people purged of all taint of treason, and they never dared to bring my case to trial." Is it not time, then, for those people to cease talking about treason and rebellion, and to stop their insults in calling us rebels? If there were any rebels in that great contest) they were north of the Potomac and the Ohio the men who trampled under foot the Constitution of our country and the liberties bequeathed us by our fathers. Gen. Lee always spoke of the war as the "great struggle for Constitutional freedom," and that is a truthful and distinctive title which I prefer. " The War Between the States" was the title given by A. H. Stephens, and is a good one. "Confederate War" would do, but that implies that we made the war. which, of course, we did not, our policy being peace. The " War of Coercion," or the "War against State Sovereignty" would express it, but the "Rebellion," never

----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Austin" <Austinbl@bellsouth.net> To: <GACRAWFO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 5:38 PM Subject: [GACRAWFO] Medical Schools in GA 1820 to 1870 > Dr. Allen Jefferson AUSTIN and Dr. Laban Turk AUSTIN, Sr. > would have most likely attended medical school in GA between > 1820 and 1870. Does anyone know what medical schools were > in existence in GA during those years? > Thanks for your help. > Bob > > > ==== GACRAWFO Mailing List ==== > "Not for fame or reward, not for place or rank, not lured by ambition or goaded by necessity; but in simple obedience to duty as they understood it; these men suffered all, sacrificed all, dared all, - and died." > --Rev. Dr. Randolph McKim (inscription on Confederate soldiers monument, Arlington National Cemetery) > >

My gr-grandfather, John Wesley Vinson, CW veteran from Crawford County, Ga., attended medical school in Philadelphia, PA (Jefferson College), after the war. Bob Austin wrote: > > Dr. Allen Jefferson AUSTIN and Dr. Laban Turk AUSTIN, Sr. > would have most likely attended medical school in GA between > 1820 and 1870. Does anyone know what medical schools were > in existence in GA during those years? > Thanks for your help. > Bob > > ==== GACRAWFO Mailing List ==== > "Not for fame or reward, not for place or rank, not lured by ambition or goaded by necessity; but in simple obedience to duty as they understood it; these men suffered all, sacrificed all, dared all, - and died." > --Rev. Dr. Randolph McKim (inscription on Confederate soldiers monument, Arlington National Cemetery) -- James P. "Jim" Lynch jplynch@crosslink.net

Dr. Allen Jefferson AUSTIN and Dr. Laban Turk AUSTIN, Sr. would have most likely attended medical school in GA between 1820 and 1870. Does anyone know what medical schools were in existence in GA during those years? Thanks for your help. Bob

----- Original Message ----- From: <genconnect@genconnect.rootsweb.com> To: <millie1@accucomm.net> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 7:32 AM Subject: New Crawford Co. Ga Query Forum Post > Crawford Co. Ga Query Forum > A new message, "Looking for Charles Wilson or someone who served with in > Germany 1965 at Ferris Barracks,Erlangen," was posted by Ralf on Wed, 14 > Feb 2001 > > Surname: > > > > --- > NAME: Ralf > EMAIL: mail@ralf-distler.de > DATE: Feb 14 2001 > URL: http:// > QRYTEXT: I am trying to find my father (or someone who served with)who was with the U.S. Army stationed in Germany between 1963 and 1965. > > Pfc Charles P. Wilson, was stationed in Germany, Bavaria, Erlangen at the Ferris Barracks as a cook, came from Virginia the Transportation School Fort Eustis, his age today must be 60 +/-1 , his army service number is > RA 14822220 Class-55-R-6154 or 6754. > > If you know the unit also, please contct me > > E-Mail: mail@ralf-distler.de > > Regards > Ralf. > > > This is an automatically-generated notice. > > <http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Ga/Crawford?admin> > >

----- Original Message ----- From: "Margie Daniels" <margie@majorinternet.net> To: <GACRAWFO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 4:57 PM Subject: [GACRAWFO] Abstracts for Taylor Co. > Hello everyone, > > Guelda Hay and Millie Stewart sent me some Taylor County abstracts. I have > transcribed them and put them on the Crawford County site. Many of these > names cross the Taylor and Crawford line. > > You may find them here: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~gacrawfo/abstracts/abstract1.htm > > They are not indexed. To search the page use your edit button on the top of > your browser and then click find on this page you will then be able to > search the page without reading it all. > > Margie > > > ==== GACRAWFO Mailing List ==== > 750,000 men from the South faced 2 million men from the North . 2 million men could not defeat 750,000 Southern troops what did defeat them was disease, hunger, lack of money and supplies. > >

----- Original Message ----- From: <genconnect@genconnect.rootsweb.com> To: <millie1@accucomm.net> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 5:10 PM Subject: New Crawford Co. Ga Query Forum Post > Crawford Co. Ga Query Forum > A new message, "Tracing my family to Crawford & Houston Counties," was > posted by Lee Hunt on Sun, 11 Feb 2001 It is a response to "Bateman," > posted by Valena on Sun, 11 Feb 2001 > > Surname: Hunt, Bateman, Vinson > > > > --- > NAME: Lee Hunt > EMAIL: hunt@digitalexp.com > DATE: Feb 11 2001 > QRYTEXT: Here you are. If you need it, I have this one all the way back to Jonathan Bateman b 1649 in Ireland. > > Bryant BATEMAN (Sr.) > http://www.mindspring.com/~ebateman/g0000010.html#I2441 > > [2884] > > 5 Jul 1787 - 11 May 1845 > > TITLE: Sr. > > OCCUPATION: Minister > > BIRTH: 5 Jul 1787 [2881] > > DEATH: 11 May 1845, Houston Co., GA [2882] > > BURIAL: Bryon (Peach Co.), GA [2883] > > Father: Claiborne BATEMAN > Mother: Ester or Hester *UNKNOWN > > Family 1 : Charity MCCRARY > > MARRIAGE: 21 Jan 1808, Baldwin Co., GA [5641] > > 1.+Theophilus BATEMAN > > 2. William M. BATEMAN > > 3.+Seaborn M. BATEMAN > > 4.+Claiborne BATEMAN > > 5.+Marthina BATEMAN > > 6. Mary BATEMAN > > 7. Charity BATEMAN > > 8. Bartley McCrary BATEMAN > > 9. Bryant BATEMAN > 10. John BATEMAN > > INDEX > > [2884] Ordained preacher Darien Baptist Church, 25 June 1825. State Representative, > Houston Co., GA in 1839. > > [2881] [SOURCE] Cotton to Kaolin, A History of Washington County, Georgia 1784-1989,p. > 375-376 > > [2882] [SOURCE] Cotton to Kaolin, A History of Washington County, Georgia 1784-1989,p. > 375-376 > > [2883] [SOURCE] The Sandersville Progress, 6 June 1963, article by Elizabeth P. Newsome > > [5641] [SOURCE] E-mail: Jerry Hunt (jerryh@sowega.net) > . > > > This is an automatically-generated notice. > > <http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Ga/Crawford?admin> > >

I think we do have your address problem cleared up. We cannot however clean up the archived material and the Gen Connect Boards. Here is a tip. If you and Davine want to instead of putting in your email address use the one for the mail list. That way the question will come to the list and you will always be subbed to it. Just a thought. The pages are fine. All your links were changed months ago. Margie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Millie C. Stewart" <millie1@accucomm.net> To: <GACRAWFO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 4:02 PM Subject: [GACRAWFO] Please excuse my French > I apologize for having sent my last message through the Page. I don't usually use that kind of language, but I have gotten a little "miffed" with getting my address changed on all of our web sites. > > We thought we had it all cleared up, but alas, it's happened again. > > Millie Stewart > Administrator > > > ==== GACRAWFO Mailing List ==== > Deo Vindice= God our Vindicator. Appears on The Great Seal of The Confederacy, UDC medals of Honor and UDC iron grave markers, just to > mention a few. American by birth Southern by the Grace of God. > >

I apologize for having sent my last message through the Page. I don't usually use that kind of language, but I have gotten a little "miffed" with getting my address changed on all of our web sites. We thought we had it all cleared up, but alas, it's happened again. Millie Stewart Administrator

----- Original Message ----- From: <JSAMACGL@aol.com> To: <GACRAWFO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 11:39 AM Subject: Re: Fw: [GACRAWFO] STEMBRIDGE/PATTERSON/BRIMBERRY > Hi, > My PATTERSONS came from Rutherford Co., NC. I cannot locate my NC map so I do > not know if that is in close proximity to VA or not. > Earliest proven PATTERSON ancestor was DAVID (English descent) . His dau > Elizabeth, m Samuel darling Morris of Jonesboro, Ga. > Jacki Stewart McGlamory > > Other lines are: Morris, Stroud, McNeil, Peebles, George, Spain, Dennis > > > ==== GACRAWFO Mailing List ==== > ".... people will forget what you said ... .... people will forget what > you did ... .... but people will never forget how you made them feel > ..." > >

----- Original Message ----- From: <genconnect@genconnect.rootsweb.com> To: <millie1@accucomm.net> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 4:34 PM Subject: New Crawford Co. Ga Query Forum Post > Crawford Co. Ga Query Forum > A new message, "Bateman," was posted by Valena on Sun, 11 Feb 2001 It > is a response to "Tracing My Family to Crawford & Houston Counties," posted > by Lee Hunt on Sun, 11 Feb 2001 > > Surname: > > > > --- > NAME: Valena > EMAIL: jme@mbo.net > DATE: Feb 11 2001 > URL: http:// > QRYTEXT: Do you know who the parents of your Mary Bateman was? Did she have any siblings?. > > > This is an automatically-generated notice. > > <http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Ga/Crawford?admin> > >

----- Original Message ----- From: "Margie Daniels" <margie@majorinternet.net> To: <GACRAWFO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 7:56 PM Subject: [GACRAWFO] Point Look Out > I am sending along a series of information I am compiling while transcribing > the Confederate Veteran magazine. > > Many do not look at the POW records. I was one of those. My > GGreatgrandfather dropped from site and I could not find him. Only by > making a trip to Washington DC did I finally find him. He was listed among > the dead at "Hellmira" NY > > If you want more about Point Look out this is an excellent site. > > http://www.clements.umich.edu/Webguides/Schoff/NP/Point.html > > > Point Lookout, Md., Prison Camp > Records, 1863 January 2-1864 June > 1.5 lin. feet > > Hints for web users > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > ---- > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > ---- > > > > Background note: > > > A prison camp for Confederate prisoners of war was built at Point Lookout, > Md., on the tip of the peninsula where the Potomac River joins Chesapeake > Bay. In the two years during which the camp was in operation, August, 1863, > to June, 1865, Point Lookout overflowed with inmates, surpassing its > intended capacity of 10,000 to a population numbering between 12,500 and > 20,000. In all, over 50,000 men, both military and civilian, were held > prisoner there. > G.W. Jones, a private of Co. H, 24th Virginia Cavalry, described his ominous > entrance into the prison amidst "a pile of coffins for dead rebels," hearing > the lid close shut on his own soon thereafter when he learned that the > system of prisoner exchanges had been suspended for the duration of the war. > Jones described the camp as laid out into a series of streets and trenches, > intended to aid in drainage, and surrounded by a fourteen foot parapet wall. > Prisoners, who lived sixteen or more to a tent, were subjected to habitually > short rations and limited fire wood in winter, and when the coffee ration > was suspended for federal prisoners at Andersonville, the Point Lookout > prisoner lost theirs as well. > > The worst the prisoners suffered, however, may have been inflicted by the > physical conditions. The flat topography, sandy soil, and an elevation > barely above high tide led to poor drainage, and the area was subjected to > every imaginable extreme of weather, from blazing heat to bone-chilling > cold. Polluted water exacerbated the problems of inadequate food, clothing, > fuel, housing, and medical care, and as a result, approximately 4,000 > prisoners died there over 22 months. > > > > > > > > Scope and contents: > > > The Point Lookout Prison Camp Records include official correspondence, > receipts and other documents relating to Confederate prisoners of war held > at the Point Lookout Military Prison, Md., between the summer, 1863, and > summer, 1864. The collection is comprised of 43 official letters pertaining > largely to the disposition of prisoners; 124 letters written by prisoners of > war, mostly requests to take the loyalty oath in order to be released into > the federal military or to be assigned duty as a non-combatant; and > approximately 700 letters written by private individuals on behalf of > prisoners, mostly seeking information on prisoners' well-being, requests > that goods or money be forwarded, or relaying other information. > Among the prisoners' correspondence are several letters discussing family > hardships, bewilderment at arrest (for civilian prisoners), or simple > expressions of exhaustion and a desire to find a way out of the war. The > sample, of course, is biased, in that the letters in the Point Lookout > Collection were all addressed to federal authorities -- mostly commandant, > John N. Patterson. While some prisoners expressed an abiding loyalty to the > southern cause, others complained of having been drafted into the service > against their will and principles, or claimed to have been so wrapped up in > the emotions of the moment that they did not carefully consider their > actions when enlisting. In a few cases, soldiers appeared to be genuinely > disillusioned with the Confederacy. Indeed, several of those who requested > the loyalty oath can later be found serving with federal forces. The > prisoners' letters and letters from camp officials provide only very brief > glimpses into the conditions of prison life, with very sporadic mention made > of illness or crimes committed in camp. > > Letters from third parties display a range of attitudes that are broadly > similar to those expressed by the prisoners, with an understandable, rather > heavier, emphasis on family hardship. Included in this series are numerous > letters written by the wives, sisters or mothers of prisoners, but also some > from women who may be inferred to have been members of relief organizations > for Confederate soldiers. > > The largest series of materials in the collection consists of approximately > 2,200 receipts and sutlers' accounts for goods sold to prisoners. > > The collection is arranged in several series, with all but the Miscellaneous > Materials at the end indexed for prisoners' names: > > > > > ==== GACRAWFO Mailing List ==== > I am a Southern Woman with revolutionary blood in my veins. Freedom of speech and of thought are my birthright. Rose O'Neal Greenhow Heroine of the Confederacy > >

----- Original Message ----- From: <genconnect@genconnect.rootsweb.com> To: <millie1@accucomm.net> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 11:32 AM Subject: New Crawford Co. Ga Query Forum Post > Crawford Co. Ga Query Forum > A new message, "Tracing My Family to Crawford & Houston Counties," was > posted by Lee Hunt on Sun, 11 Feb 2001 > > Surname: Hunt, Bateman, Vinson > > > > --- > NAME: Lee Hunt > EMAIL: hunt@digitalexp.com > DATE: Feb 11 2001 > QRYTEXT: My GG GP, William L Hunt, was Clerk of the Inferior Court in Both Crawford and Houston Counties. I believe the dual status was related to the changing county boundaries, which occured as Georgia was settled after the 1821 Land Lottery. I have traced my Hunt and Bateman lines to Crawford, Houston and Peach Counties. I have circumstantial evidence that my Hunt lines cross with the Vinson line. I posted the following Vinson information on the Houston board, but it equally applies to Crawford since the primary area in question was Ft Valley, which was in the limbo zone between the original Crawford & Houston. > > I have obtained the following outline by consolidating information from many different sources. If anyone can fill the blanks, please do so. The 1820/30 Washington > County Census lists some Vincent families, which I believe may have been the same ones using the name Vinson in 1840 Houston and Twiggs County Census..... > Thanks, Lee: > > 1f-----Benjamin Vinson > -------( ? - ? ) > 1m-----Esther Hearne > ---2f-----George Vinson > ----------(1745-1791) > ---2m-----Mary Wailes > --------3f-----George Vinson > ---------------(1770-1849) > --------3m-----Deborah ? > ---------------(1770- ? ) > > Their children were: > > ----------Elizabeth Vinson > ----------( ? - ? ) > ----------? Brooks > > ----------Nancy Vinson > ----------( ? - ? ) > ----------? Hunt > > ----------Elinor Vinson > ----------( ? - ? ) > ----------? Brookin > > ----------Mary Vinson > ----------( ? - ? ) > ----------? Renfro > > ----------Martha Vinson > ----------( ? - ? ) > ----------? Peavy > > ----------Josiah Vinson > ----------(1797-1873) > ----------Milley Vinson > ----------(1797-1842) > > ----------James Vinson > ----------( ? - 1851) > ----------Frances ? > > ----------Benjamin Vinson > ----------(1802-1882) > ----------Mary Renfroe > ----------(1812-1877) > > ----------Geo W Vinson > ----------( ? - ? ) > ----------Mary Bateman(1sp) Bateman > > (1822-1851) (M 1838) > > ----------Gwin Vinson > ----------( ? - ? ) > ----------? ? > > ----------??? 11th ???. > > > This is an automatically-generated notice. > > <http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Crawford?admin> > >