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