This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3c.2ADE/1516.1.1.2.1.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Oh, I wish I were able to go, but please let me know if you find out anything.. there should be baptismal records and marriages as well as a list of buriels.. I would think.. the new church is quite large and I'm not sure when it was built . but it would have been in the last twenty-five years if my memory serves me right. the old one was still used the last we had a reunion there..it might have been more of a sunday school then . but it had not been made into a daycare at that time.. shirley

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: free waldroup Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3c.2ADE/1516.1.1.2.1.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Although my family has been involved in the Bethlehem Baptist Church since that church's founding, can you believe that I have never seen the Minutes of the Church and it is my understanding that the Minutes have never been transcriobed and I have been unable to see or read them since I have been researching the Lewis Free Family for almost 10 years now. I don't believe they will even allow someone to go sit in the church and read them!! I am going to write a letter right now and see what they can tell me about the minutes. Liz

Marc, I would try the Jack Tarver Library at Mercer University in Macon, GA. The link is http://tarver.mercer.edu/archives/sc.html They do have records listed from 1825-1868 - http://tarver.mercer.edu/archives/Holdings/church_records.php#P Hope this helps. Linda Blum-Barton CC, Habersham County GAGenWeb -----Original Message----- From: Sheltontree2000@aol.com [mailto:Sheltontree2000@aol.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 1:24 PM To: GAHABERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [GAHABERS] Providence Baptist Church minutes Can anyone out there post the source as to where I might find a copy of the minutes to the Providence Baptist Church for the 1800's. Marc E. Shelton sheltontree2000@aol.com ==== GAHABERS Mailing List ==== If you are ever looking for ALL the messages http//archiver.rootsweb.com/ Type in gahabers to see them listed by months and can browse. ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.7 - Release Date: 5/9/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.7 - Release Date: 5/9/2005

Can anyone out there post the source as to where I might find a copy of the minutes to the Providence Baptist Church for the 1800's. Marc E. Shelton sheltontree2000@aol.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Free- Waldroup- Harris Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3c.2ADE/1516.1.1.2.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Yes, the Power of Attorney was given on May 1, 1882 to Judge Norman (under seal), Judge of the Probate Court of Surry County, North Carolina and Clerk of the Superior Court. This Power of Attorney was recorded on June 4, 1883 . According to my notes, I do not find any rercord that he ever moved his church membership from Providence Baptist Church to Bethlehem Baptist or to Hazel Creek. Members of my immediate family were charter members of both Bethlehem Baptist (founded first) and Providence Baptist Church (formed second). In the 1868 Minutes of Providence Baptist Church, both Louis and Minerva Anne Free were listed as members. Jessee Lewis Waldroup was the last of Minerva's children and he was born on Feb.25, 1972 in Habersham County, Batesville District. In the 1870 Census Minerv's grandfather, John L. Harris was living in the household with Louis Lee and Minerva Waldroup. Although the date that Minerva Anne and her brothers and sisters sold their interest in their father's (Simeon Free") esate (remainder of Irena Sutton Free's Dower (Reversionary Interest), this date of 1882 relates only to the date the Power of Attorney was given by Minerva Anne Free transferring her (Minerva's) interest to her children, it does not have to coincide with the year of her death although Minerva absolutely HAD TO BE ALIVE when that power of attorney was given. I guess what will be necessary is that I will either have to go Surry County, N.C. or find someone up there who will make a copy of the original docxument Minerva had to sign to give the authority. Liz

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3c.2ADE/1516.1.1.2.1.2 Message Board Post: Hi Liz. a question? do you know who got the power of atty. in 1882? the records I have show L.L. as pastor of Bethelem Baptist Churchfrom 1874-1881. he served with Young's Batt, Co. C from May 10-1864 , Cleveland,White county. discharged April 1865 in Augusta, Ga. Her death is listed as between 1872-1878 her birthdate is listed as about 1836.in Georgia,. she was listed on the salt list of Habersham in "Wife of Confederate Soldier in Service" on the 1862 salt list he went into service in 1862-1864 she also showed in the 1870 census age 34,

WHAT: Dills Reunion WHEN: May 15, 2005 - 1:00 - 5:00 WHERE: Home of Jimmy & Judy Dills. DIRECTIONS: Take HWY 60 into Murrayville; At Parks' Pharmacy, turn onto Hubert Stephens Road. Go through TWO 4-way stops. Continue for approximately 1 mile or less, turn right onto Lawson Road. Go approximately 1/2 mile. Jimmy & Judy's house is on right - 5338 is on mailbox. FOR MORE INFO: Estelle Dills Gilstrap (706) 867-7118 or estelle@ngcsu.edu Bring your chairs - Bring covered dishes IN CASE OF RAIN: May 22, 2005 Thanks, Estelle Dills Gilstrap estelle@ngcsu.edu or egilstrap@ngcsu.edu North Georgia College & State University Department of Fine Arts Dahlonega, GA 30597 http://www.ngcsu.edu/Academic/Arts_Let/FA/info.html

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3c.2ADE/1516.1.1.2.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Liz, I don't have near as much info and would love to have what you could possibly share, how can I send you my address. I have tried many times to find the old homeplaces when I could get someone to take me and except for remembering the Stonepile Rd area as where a Great grandmother lived, I can't find it, I do know where my dad was born and the house on the Soque river that was built by my granddaddy just below where the water goes over the road.. it now belongs to the Lovells who have sold to Ted Turner. the orchards were below the house. daddy was orphaned when he was just turning to a teen. not having grandparents to visit has left a void of infomation ,as to where we had kin.. the family reunions were as close to gathering remembrances of our family as we were able to get , we lived in Atlanta and it wasn't easy to get to the area often due to transportation..in the forties and fifties..after I married we moved with the Navy for quite a few years and only got back t! o Ga. in the late sixties.so lots of lost time.. my dad passed in the early seventies and not many of his siblings were left .I started gathering as much as I could just from what they remembered and could tell me. I live in N.E. Ga. close to S.C. about an hour and a half from Clarksville.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3c.2ADE/1516.1.1.2.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: thanks, Liz... I will try to check those out.. do you live close to Clarksville. have you checked the Church records at Bethlehem Baptist Church?, the original church building is the one used for day care now at the cemetery.. I will look for this person, you mentioned, ...Shirley

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: free-waldroup Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3c.2ADE/1516.1.1.2.1.1.2 Message Board Post: I have done much of my research in the Clarkesville Library and the rest of my research has been done in the Maud Burrus Library in DeKalb County (Decatur) Ga. If you have not already done so, lplease contact Mary Howard Free (( don't have her e-mail number handy) who is probably the most notable researcher of the Lewis Free Family and if you keep checking the Habersham County message boards, you will find Mary. She is the expert!!! Liz

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: free-waldroup Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3c.2ADE/1516.1.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I was born in Habersham County, Ga. and grew up in the very house that my grandfather, John Bailey Free and Sarah Ann Banks lived in . This house was on about 85 acres in the Hazel Creek Community (Mt. Airy Ga.) and on that property now is the Central Heights Baptist Church and Central Heights Christian School. Minerva Free, her sister Selena Free, her brothers Lewis LaFayette Free (a Baptist Minister) and John Bailey Free were the children of Simeon Free and Judy Harris Free and lived in Batesville very near John LaPrade's estate. Martin Free and one of Martin's brothers, Simeon Free (my great grandfather) lived close by their PARENTS LEWIS AND KEZZIAH FREE. This Lewis Free was born in S.C. about 1775 and in the year 1850 was living in Batesville with his son, Martin Free who was born in 1816 and was listed in the 1850 census as an "inmate" and 75 years of age. Somewhere in my notes I have a family history on the Waldroup family but it's too long to send by e-mail. See if you have it and if you do not, let me know how I can photocopy it and mail it to you and I will send it that way. Liz

My ggg-grandfather Hiram KELLY moved to Habersham County between 1820 & 1830. I am searching to determine if he is related to Thomas KELLY or Thomas or William O Kelly listed in the 1830 census. Hiram's father-in-law Patrick S McGEE and brother-in-law James P. McGEE were also in Habersham County in 1830. I have not locate the McGees after 1830. Hiram KELLY had purchased land in Habersham County, but was residing in Cherokee County in 1840, and Forsyth County in 1850. Any leads for locating these individuals will be helpful. Thank You. Jonelle ELLIS Russell email: ljrussell@earthlink.net

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3c.2ADE/1516.1.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi . I'm a great grand daughter of Lewis Lee Waldroup /Waldrep, Minerva was his first wife and I'm from his second family. but I'm also interested in half cousins .. he was a circuit riding preacher from what my dad told me about him . if I can get access to the bible he carried on horse back . it might help , he was also pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church as well as others in the area of Habersham County, Ga. i would also like to know where the homeplace is. I know where my dads homeplace is, but most of the older generation is gone that could help with it. I'm homebound and unable to go to the courthouse. but my grandfather had an apple orchard and I believe it may all be a family thing.. it might help find Minerva.. Have you been to the courthouse?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: free-waldroup- harris-bramblett Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3c.2ADE/1516.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Am interested in corresponding with ANY descendant ot Minerva Free Waldroup---I continue to check the cemetary transcriptions at least once a week in both Georgia and North Carolina where I believe she died. She was my dad's aunt and my grandfather's sister...She was still listed as a member of Providence Bapltist Church in 1870 and it was not until the 1882 power of attorney given in N.C. that I got real serious about tracing for her last days and place of burial. Help me if you can----lizfree@bellsouth.net.

For information about Minerva Anne Free Waldroup, view the Hamily History Center film number 03282565. It is available for viewing by ordering in from a Family History Center in your area. Lloyd Waldrep On 1 May 2005 16:16:04 -0600 lizfree@bellsouth.net writes: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3c.2ADE/1516.1.1.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Your great grandmother, Minerva Free Waldroup was > my father's Aunt and the sister of John Bailey Free who > was my grandfather. I have quite a lot of information about > Minerva Free Waldroup but am at a loss to find out the date > of her death and place of burial. Most of the histories I have > read show only that she died before a certain date which I > do not believe is accurate due to the birth dates of at > least one of the children born to Lewis' second wife, > Elizabeth Bramblett. Minerva recorded a deed in 1882 or 1883 in > N.C.leaving her 1//5th interest in her father's (Simeon Free's) > property to her children and one of Mineerva's sons > George L. Waldroup was not on the list of heirs which > indicates (to me) that her death had to occur AFTER his > death which was quite a few years AFTER the date that > some writings show that she probably died. Let me know > if you have any data regaarding the date and place of burial > for Minerva Waldroup. George L. Waldroup would have had to be > listed as an heir along with Minerva's other living > children if he had been living when the deed was written. > > Liz > > > ==== GAHABERS Mailing List ==== > http//www.rootsweb.com/~gahabers/ > AHGP page - by Kim Gordon (lots of information) > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > > >

Minerva Free was my 2xgreat-grandmother. I have never been able to find anything definitive as to what happened to her. I know that Louis Lee m. 2nd Elizabeth Bramlett but there have been some rumors that Minerva and Louis were divorced. Louis is buried next to Elizabeth Bramlett but no grave (as far as I know) has been located for Minerva nor any record of her death. One other fact - Minerva's grandfather, John Lord Harris, is shown on the 1870 or 1880 census as living in the household of Louis and Minerva. John Harris was the father of Judy Harris who married Simeon Free - parents of Minerva. I am descended through Louis and Minerva's daughter, Sarah Waldrop, who married John Perry Peace of Anderson, South Carolina. My grandmother, Louise Peace, d/o Sarah and John married Virgil Lamar Ivester. Fran

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Free, Waldroup Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3c.2ADE/1516.1.1.2 Message Board Post: No, I'm a cousin to another descendant of Minerva's. Keep checking the cemetery listings on here and the vital records too. There are a lot more being added every day.

Linda, I don't know if this will help you much but I have some census records for these folks and a bit of other information. Here is what I have: Lewis Lee Waldroup - s/o Joseph Waldroup and Tabitha McIntyre b. 26 July 1833 Habersham Co. - d. 1 Oct 1890 Habersham Co md 27 Aug 1854 in Habersham to Minerva Anne Free - b. abt 1836 Ga children: Sarah - abt 1857 - md John Peace Judah Dorcas - abt 1861 - md Sanford Lee Erwin Julia E. - abt 1863 George L. - abt 1865 1860 - Census - Habersham Co. Lewis Waldroup - 26 - farmer - Ga Minerva - 2? - house keeper - Ga Sarah - 3 - Ga Lewis L. Free - 20 - day laborer - Ga John B. - 12 - Ga 1870 - Habersham Co. Waldrope, Lewis L. - 37 - farmer - Ga Minerva - 34 - keeping house - Ga Sarah S. - 12 - Ga Judah D. - 9 - Ga Geo L. - 5 - Ga Joseph 12 - farm hand - Ga Harris, John L. - 77 - Ga. The Joseph, age 12 is possibly the son of Perrin Waldroup, Lewis' brother. Hope this helps a bit. There are a couple of folks descended from this line. I think they are on this list but not for sure. Take care - Emma In a message dated 5/1/2005 3:28:16 PM Central Standard Time, Txsvalley@aol.com writes: I'm also interested in Minerva Free Waldroup...she was my 1st cousin 4x times removed (her father, Simeon Free, and my ggggrandfather, Elisha Free, were brothers). Linda Avery

I'm also interested in Minerva Free Waldroup...she was my 1st cousin 4x times removed (her father, Simeon Free, and my ggggrandfather, Elisha Free, were brothers). Linda Avery

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3c.2ADE/1516.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Your great grandmother, Minerva Free Waldroup was my father's Aunt and the sister of John Bailey Free who was my grandfather. I have quite a lot of information about Minerva Free Waldroup but am at a loss to find out the date of her death and place of burial. Most of the histories I have read show only that she died before a certain date which I do not believe is accurate due to the birth dates of at least one of the children born to Lewis' second wife, Elizabeth Bramblett. Minerva recorded a deed in 1882 or 1883 in N.C.leaving her 1//5th interest in her father's (Simeon Free's) property to her children and one of Mineerva's sons George L. Waldroup was not on the list of heirs which indicates (to me) that her death had to occur AFTER his death which was quite a few years AFTER the date that some writings show that she probably died. Let me know if you have any data regaarding the date and place of burial for Minerva Waldroup. George L. Waldroup would have had to be listed as an heir along with Minerva's other living children if he had been living when the deed was written. Liz