Billy you`re a doll I didn`t know this!! Thank You so much Sandra >Houston County Researchers: > >Are you getting tired of only finding names and dates in your >genealogical research? Well, do something about it. Go down to the >farm! Actually, I'm referring to viewing the Agricultural Schedules of >the Federal Census years of 1850, 1860, 1870 & 1880. > >The following types of Federal Census Schedules were taken in various >years: > >1. Population Schedules: Residents in an area. > >2. Mortality Schedules: Those who died during the 12 months prior to the >Census. > >3. Veterans Schedules: Veterans and their widows. > >4. Slave Schedules: Slave owners and the number of slaves they owned. > >5. Agricultural Schedules: Data on farms and the names of the farmers. > >6. Manufacturing or Industrial Schudules: Data on businesses and >industries. > >The 1860 Agricultural Schedule contained the following data: > >1. Name. >2. Acres of improved land. >3. Acres of unimproved land. >4. Cash value of farm. >5. Value of farming machinery & implements. >6. Horses. >7. Asses & mules. >8. Milch cows. >9. Working oxen. >10. Other cattle. >11. Sheep. >12. Swine. >13. Value of livestock. >14. Bushels of wheat. >15. Bushels of rye. >16. Bushels of Indian corn. >17. Bushels of oats. >18. Lbs. of rice. >19. Lbs. of tobacco. >20. Ginned cotton / bales of 400 lbs. each. >21. Lbs. of wool. >22. Bushels of peas & beans. >23. Bushels of Irish potatoes. >24. Bushels of sweet potatoes. >25. Bushels of barley. >26. Bushels of buck wheat. >27. Value of orchard products. >28. Gallons of wine. >29. Value of market gardens produce. >30. Lbs. of butter. >31. Lbs. of cheese. >32. Tons of hay. >33. Bushels of clover seed. >34. Bushels of other grasses seed. >35. Lbs. of hops. >36. Tons of rotted dew. >37. Tons of rotted water. >38. Other prepared hemp. >39. Bushels of flax seed. >40. Lbs. of silk cocoons. >41. Lbs. of maple sugar. >42. Lbs. of cane sugar @ 1000 lbs. >43. Gallons of molasses. >44. From what made (molasses). >45. Value of homemade manufacturing. >46. Lbs. of honey. > >The 1850 Agricultural Schedule was the same as the 1860 one, except for >the following columns: > >38. Lbs. of flax. >44. Lbs. of beeswax & honey. >46. Value of animals slaughtered. > >The 1870 Agricultural Schedule contained 52 columns, and the 1880 one >contained 24. > >Very few researchers take the time and effort to peruse & transcribe the >data from these extensive Agricultural Schedules. But, I highly >recommend that you consider doing so, if you are wanting to add some >*real meat* to the "bare bones" of your pedigree charts. > >The last that I heard, the Agricultural Schedules were housed at Duke >University; Durham, NC. Microfilm copies are available at most major >genealogy libraries. They are also available via LDS Microfilm rental at >your local LDS Family History Center. > >The following LDS Microfilms are available for the 1850 to 1880 Houston >Co., Georgia Agricultural Schedules: > >1850: # 1602478 >1860: # 1602481 >1870: # 1602483 >1880: # 1602491 > >Take care & happy hunting! > >William A. Mills >Perry, GA >[email protected] > >________________________________________________________________ >YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! >Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! >Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: >http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Howard Family Michael Howard was born in SC, city unknown. He lived in Pike County,Ga by 1830 and in Houston,Co Ga til his death. Busbee Family Our earliest known Busbee born in Maryland by 1730-1760 they were in Orangeburgh Co, SC, in 1815 they were in Edgefield Co, SC and moved possibly through Twiggs Co, Ga and into Bibb County Ga by 1824. They actually purchased land in Houston Co, that shifted to Bibb and Crawford County. Some descendants of this family moved west and some that we know of settled in Texas. Schofield family According to family tradition the Schofields came from England in 1735 to SC. They bought land in Fairfield and Kershaw Counties. Phillip Schofield came from Fairfield Co, SC to Crawford County, GA in the early 1820's and his family remained there since. Some branches of the families have gone west. Gaila

>From the research done by many Heard family researchers has been compiled, I believe I have my Heard family migration done -wish I had this much information on all my families. Heard:circa 1645 they were in England and were rewarded with land in Ireland near County Tyrone (perhaps near Aiglish); by 1719 they moved to Pennsylvania. (Instead of being Scotch-Irish they were Anglo-Irish). There may have been religious differences that caused them to come to the US and I believe they were Presbyterian at the time they came to America. My line came straight to South Carolina, they didn't seem to spend time in Virginia, although some of the Heards did come via Virginia (Gov Stephen Heard's line did come via Virginia). My Heards were in the 96 district and later in Barnwell, SC. From Barnwell,James Heard and family came to Bibb/Houston County c 1840, one branch of the family stayed in Bibb County and my line went to Dooley Co, GA. Isaac Foreman Heard died in 1859 and his wife removed to her father's land in Bibb County, GA. Some of her sons went to Louisianna and points west. My direct line Bailey Armstrong Heard, Jr lived in Houston Co and my Mother was born there. My cousin, Sandra and some of her children were born in Houston Co.

Houston County Researchers: Are you getting tired of only finding names and dates in your genealogical research? Well, do something about it. Go down to the farm! Actually, I'm referring to viewing the Agricultural Schedules of the Federal Census years of 1850, 1860, 1870 & 1880. The following types of Federal Census Schedules were taken in various years: 1. Population Schedules: Residents in an area. 2. Mortality Schedules: Those who died during the 12 months prior to the Census. 3. Veterans Schedules: Veterans and their widows. 4. Slave Schedules: Slave owners and the number of slaves they owned. 5. Agricultural Schedules: Data on farms and the names of the farmers. 6. Manufacturing or Industrial Schudules: Data on businesses and industries. The 1860 Agricultural Schedule contained the following data: 1. Name. 2. Acres of improved land. 3. Acres of unimproved land. 4. Cash value of farm. 5. Value of farming machinery & implements. 6. Horses. 7. Asses & mules. 8. Milch cows. 9. Working oxen. 10. Other cattle. 11. Sheep. 12. Swine. 13. Value of livestock. 14. Bushels of wheat. 15. Bushels of rye. 16. Bushels of Indian corn. 17. Bushels of oats. 18. Lbs. of rice. 19. Lbs. of tobacco. 20. Ginned cotton / bales of 400 lbs. each. 21. Lbs. of wool. 22. Bushels of peas & beans. 23. Bushels of Irish potatoes. 24. Bushels of sweet potatoes. 25. Bushels of barley. 26. Bushels of buck wheat. 27. Value of orchard products. 28. Gallons of wine. 29. Value of market gardens produce. 30. Lbs. of butter. 31. Lbs. of cheese. 32. Tons of hay. 33. Bushels of clover seed. 34. Bushels of other grasses seed. 35. Lbs. of hops. 36. Tons of rotted dew. 37. Tons of rotted water. 38. Other prepared hemp. 39. Bushels of flax seed. 40. Lbs. of silk cocoons. 41. Lbs. of maple sugar. 42. Lbs. of cane sugar @ 1000 lbs. 43. Gallons of molasses. 44. From what made (molasses). 45. Value of homemade manufacturing. 46. Lbs. of honey. The 1850 Agricultural Schedule was the same as the 1860 one, except for the following columns: 38. Lbs. of flax. 44. Lbs. of beeswax & honey. 46. Value of animals slaughtered. The 1870 Agricultural Schedule contained 52 columns, and the 1880 one contained 24. Very few researchers take the time and effort to peruse & transcribe the data from these extensive Agricultural Schedules. But, I highly recommend that you consider doing so, if you are wanting to add some *real meat* to the "bare bones" of your pedigree charts. The last that I heard, the Agricultural Schedules were housed at Duke University; Durham, NC. Microfilm copies are available at most major genealogy libraries. They are also available via LDS Microfilm rental at your local LDS Family History Center. The following LDS Microfilms are available for the 1850 to 1880 Houston Co., Georgia Agricultural Schedules: 1850: # 1602478 1860: # 1602481 1870: # 1602483 1880: # 1602491 Take care & happy hunting! William A. Mills Perry, GA [email protected] ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

I`m sure that they were all the same person, your information was excellent thank you very much. Please let me know how you like this book. Sandra >Sandra, > >>> John Johnson has on one cencus that he was born in Ky then another Tn >then on the 1880 he put NC << > >The first thing that comes to my mind, is that you may be dealing with 3 >different John Johnson men. John and Johnson are very popular names. >There could very well have been more than one man named that in your >particular area of research. If you have ascertained that you have the >correct man, please continue below. > >>> my question is, do you think he might have traveled this route and >that is why the different states, the other thought is that NC changed to >Tn later? << > >Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina could have all been part of his >heritage. As the boundary lines changed, a person's mindset didn't >always change with it. As far as where he was born; he only knew what he >was told. If that location later became part of another state or county, >this probably didn't affect what he had remembered of his birthplace. >Also, a lot of times, if a couple had just moved to a particular area, >the wife would often go back home to her parents to have the baby. > >It is difficult to figure out for certain where anyone was born prior to >birth certificates. A person growing up in the late 1700s or early >1800s, would probably have heard stories of where their family had >resided in the early years, and might have confused this location with >where they were actually born. > >After 1850, and more info was available on the Federal Census records, it >was easier to guess where they were born. Especially if both parents' >families lived in the same county. > >I recently purchased a first edition copy of THE SOUND OF CHARIOTS: By >Helen Topping Miller, 1947. This book gives great details of the way of >life in TN, KY, GA & the Carolinas during the late 1700s and early 1800s. > The book revolves around the State of Franklin. From 1784 to 1788, much >of the TN area was known as The State of Franklin. I don't believe I've >ever seen that state mentioned on a Federal Census as a birthplace. But, >you can be certain that hundreds of people were born in the State of >Franklin. > >William A. Mills > >==========>>> > >On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 12:44:01 -0700 "Sandra and Wayne Riner" ><[email protected]> writes: > >Billy this is excellent please keep going with it I`m sure if you were >standing in front of us you would get a big applause!! >I have a question and I know this is pure speculation on yours or anyone >else that would like to share there opinion. My ggg-grandfather John >Johnson has on one cencus that he was born in Ky then another Tn then on >the 1880 he put NC where I think he was born but my question is do you >think he >might have traveled this route and that is why the different states, the >other thought is that NC changed to Tn later I live in Hawkins Co Tn now >and I know at one time it was NC. any ideas??. >Sandra > >--------------original message------------- > >Houston County Researchers: > >About 8 years ago, when I was compiling my MILLS family history, I >utilized the Migration Trails to try to figure out where my ancestors >came from, and where they were heading. > >In Central GA, Perry is known as the "Crossroads of Georgia". This isn't >just because of the contemporary criss-crossing of Highways 41 & 341. >Prior to Houston County's formation in 1821, this area of the state of >Georgia was occupied by Indians. And, these Indians utilized major >trails to travel between their settlements and hunting camps ... <snip> > >________________________________________________________________ >YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! >Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! >Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: >http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Billy this is excellent please keep going with it I`m sure if you were standing in front of us you would get a big applause!! I have a question and I know this is pure speculation on yours or anyone else that would like to share there opinion. My ggg-grandfather John Johnson has on one cencus that he was born in Ky then another Tn then on the 1880 he put NC where I think he was born but my question is do you think he might have traveled this route and that is why the different states, the other thought is that NC changed to Tn later I live in Hawkins Co Tn now and I know at one time it was NC. any ideas??. Sandra >Houston County Researchers: > >About 8 years ago, when I was compiling my MILLS family history, I >utilized the Migration Trails to try to figure out where my ancestors >came from, and where they were heading. > >In Central GA, Perry is known as the "Crossroads of Georgia". This isn't >just because of the contemporary criss-crossing of Highways 41 & 341. >Prior to Houston County's formation in 1821, this area of the state of >Georgia was occupied by Indians. And, these Indians utilized major >trails to travel between their settlements and hunting camps. > >The primary 3 trails which crossed Houston Co., GA were: > >1. THE PECATONICA TRAIL: It passed through the states of South Carolina, >Georgia and Florida. It commenced at a connection of THE LOWER CHEROKEE >TRADER'S PATH, about halfway between Spartanburg, SC and Atlanta, GA. >>From Atlanta, it proceeded South, just West of Macon, thru Perry, and >then Americus, GA. It continued due South, and then crossed THE OLD >TRADING PATH OF THE SOUTH about 75 miles south of Americus, and then >proceeded to the East of Tallahassee, FL and directly to the Gulf of >Mexico. > >2. THE LOWER CREEK TRADING PATH: It passed through the states of >Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina, passing through >Birmingham, Macon, & Augusta, with important connections which went to >Savannah and St. Augustine, Florida. > >In Georgia, it took an almost straight line from Augusta to Macon, and >then proceeded Northwest and West into Alabama past Anniston and thru >Birmingham. From there, it went into Mississippi. > >3. THE MACON & MONTGOMERY TRAIL: This trail commenced at Macon, GA at a >connection with THE LOWER CREEK TRADING PATH, then proceeded thru Perry >and Columbus, GA into Montgomery, AL where it connected THE ALABAMA & >MOBILE TRAIL and THE ALABAMA, CHOCTAW & NATCHEZ TRAIL. > >These Migration Trails followed the lines of least resistance which was >always a valuable feature in transportation or travel. They also avoided >rough, stony ground and dense undergrowth. Several of the current >Interstate Highways substantially follow these exact Migration Trails. > >If there is enough interest, I may go into further detail of the various >places in Georgia where these Migration Trails traversed. Because of the >boundary changes of the Georgia counties, and the non-existence of many >of the early towns, it would be best for me to refer to current cities >and towns whereby these trails passed. > >If you know the places your ancestors came from prior to residing in >Houston Co., GA, and then where they may have went after leaving here, >you can bet that they utilized these Migration Trails, especially if it >was prior to the railroads being built. > >It would be interesting for you to post to the Houston-L list, a brief >outline of your ancestors' migration routes. For example, it may be >something similar to: > >NC > SC> Warren > Hancock > Twiggs > Houston > Muscogee Co., GA, and then >into Alabama and Texas. > >I'll bet if you did this, you would collectively recognize a lot of >patterns which would indicate other counties that you may need to >research your ancestors in. Let's give it a try! > >William A. Mills >Perry, GA >[email protected] > >________________________________________________________________ >YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! >Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! >Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: >http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Steve, >> Would you care to recommend any books or maps which show in detail these various pre-railroad trails? << The only pre-railroad Southern map that I am aware of which gives the locations of some of the Indian trails, was done in the early 1930s. However, it is a large map of the entire Eastern U.S. None of the counties, and only a few of the cities are shown on the map. If some of you are aware of other maps of the South which show the major Indian trails, I would be glad to know where they can be located. For now, it will entail transposing the Georgia portion of the 1930s map to the same scale map as one which shows more detail, to be able to ascertain the proximity of the trails to the towns and cities. As time allows, I may draw a map of Georgia which shows intricate details of where the Indian trails were. This will take considerable research of each of the trails, as there were a lot of them in Georgia. These were the primary ones: 1. The Augusta & St. Augustine Trail. 2. The Savannah & Jacksonville Trail. 3. The Pecatonica Trail. 4. The Lower Creek Trading Path. 5. The Macon & Montgomery Trail. 6. The Augusta & Cherokee Trail. 7. The Cisca & St. Augustine Trail. 8. The Augusta & Savannah Trail. 9. The Unicoi Turnpike. 10. The Old Trading Path of the South. William A. Mills ======>>> On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 12:53:01 -0400 STEVE M TANNER <[email protected]> writes: Hi William, Thank you for the very enlighting information about the migration trails. Would you care to recommend any books or maps which show in detail these various pre-railroad trails? I follow that GA HOUSTON List as I had some TURNER folks living there very early on. Regards, Steve On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 11:09:27 EDT "William A. Mills" <[email protected]> writes: Houston County Researchers: "Migration Trails into Houston Co., GA."

Sandra, >> John Johnson has on one cencus that he was born in Ky then another Tn then on the 1880 he put NC << The first thing that comes to my mind, is that you may be dealing with 3 different John Johnson men. John and Johnson are very popular names. There could very well have been more than one man named that in your particular area of research. If you have ascertained that you have the correct man, please continue below. >> my question is, do you think he might have traveled this route and that is why the different states, the other thought is that NC changed to Tn later? << Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina could have all been part of his heritage. As the boundary lines changed, a person's mindset didn't always change with it. As far as where he was born; he only knew what he was told. If that location later became part of another state or county, this probably didn't affect what he had remembered of his birthplace. Also, a lot of times, if a couple had just moved to a particular area, the wife would often go back home to her parents to have the baby. It is difficult to figure out for certain where anyone was born prior to birth certificates. A person growing up in the late 1700s or early 1800s, would probably have heard stories of where their family had resided in the early years, and might have confused this location with where they were actually born. After 1850, and more info was available on the Federal Census records, it was easier to guess where they were born. Especially if both parents' families lived in the same county. I recently purchased a first edition copy of THE SOUND OF CHARIOTS: By Helen Topping Miller, 1947. This book gives great details of the way of life in TN, KY, GA & the Carolinas during the late 1700s and early 1800s. The book revolves around the State of Franklin. From 1784 to 1788, much of the TN area was known as The State of Franklin. I don't believe I've ever seen that state mentioned on a Federal Census as a birthplace. But, you can be certain that hundreds of people were born in the State of Franklin. William A. Mills ==========>>> On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 12:44:01 -0700 "Sandra and Wayne Riner" <[email protected]> writes: Billy this is excellent please keep going with it I`m sure if you were standing in front of us you would get a big applause!! I have a question and I know this is pure speculation on yours or anyone else that would like to share there opinion. My ggg-grandfather John Johnson has on one cencus that he was born in Ky then another Tn then on the 1880 he put NC where I think he was born but my question is do you think he might have traveled this route and that is why the different states, the other thought is that NC changed to Tn later I live in Hawkins Co Tn now and I know at one time it was NC. any ideas??. Sandra --------------original message------------- Houston County Researchers: About 8 years ago, when I was compiling my MILLS family history, I utilized the Migration Trails to try to figure out where my ancestors came from, and where they were heading. In Central GA, Perry is known as the "Crossroads of Georgia". This isn't just because of the contemporary criss-crossing of Highways 41 & 341. Prior to Houston County's formation in 1821, this area of the state of Georgia was occupied by Indians. And, these Indians utilized major trails to travel between their settlements and hunting camps ... <snip> ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

William: YES !! I was the one looking for information about my Johnsons who came from NC to Houston County. Thank you so much for the info. I will begin searching for this book. I really appreciate your help. Alice

William, a capital idea! You described the travel of my Davis line exactly. They came from SC to GA, down to Houston County, then on to Florida, east of Tallahassee, stopping in Jefferson County, which borders Tallahassee's Leon County. Earl Davis [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: William A. Mills <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 10:09 AM Subject: [GAHOUSTO] Migration Trails into Houston Co., GA. > Houston County Researchers: > > About 8 years ago, when I was compiling my MILLS family history, I > utilized the Migration Trails to try to figure out where my ancestors > came from, and where they were heading. > > In Central GA, Perry is known as the "Crossroads of Georgia". This isn't > just because of the contemporary criss-crossing of Highways 41 & 341. > Prior to Houston County's formation in 1821, this area of the state of > Georgia was occupied by Indians. And, these Indians utilized major > trails to travel between their settlements and hunting camps. > > The primary 3 trails which crossed Houston Co., GA were: > > 1. THE PECATONICA TRAIL: It passed through the states of South Carolina, > Georgia and Florida. It commenced at a connection of THE LOWER CHEROKEE > TRADER'S PATH, about halfway between Spartanburg, SC and Atlanta, GA. > >From Atlanta, it proceeded South, just West of Macon, thru Perry, and > then Americus, GA. It continued due South, and then crossed THE OLD > TRADING PATH OF THE SOUTH about 75 miles south of Americus, and then > proceeded to the East of Tallahassee, FL and directly to the Gulf of > Mexico. > > 2. THE LOWER CREEK TRADING PATH: It passed through the states of > Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina, passing through > Birmingham, Macon, & Augusta, with important connections which went to > Savannah and St. Augustine, Florida. > > In Georgia, it took an almost straight line from Augusta to Macon, and > then proceeded Northwest and West into Alabama past Anniston and thru > Birmingham. From there, it went into Mississippi. > > 3. THE MACON & MONTGOMERY TRAIL: This trail commenced at Macon, GA at a > connection with THE LOWER CREEK TRADING PATH, then proceeded thru Perry > and Columbus, GA into Montgomery, AL where it connected THE ALABAMA & > MOBILE TRAIL and THE ALABAMA, CHOCTAW & NATCHEZ TRAIL. > > These Migration Trails followed the lines of least resistance which was > always a valuable feature in transportation or travel. They also avoided > rough, stony ground and dense undergrowth. Several of the current > Interstate Highways substantially follow these exact Migration Trails. > > If there is enough interest, I may go into further detail of the various > places in Georgia where these Migration Trails traversed. Because of the > boundary changes of the Georgia counties, and the non-existence of many > of the early towns, it would be best for me to refer to current cities > and towns whereby these trails passed. > > If you know the places your ancestors came from prior to residing in > Houston Co., GA, and then where they may have went after leaving here, > you can bet that they utilized these Migration Trails, especially if it > was prior to the railroads being built. > > It would be interesting for you to post to the Houston-L list, a brief > outline of your ancestors' migration routes. For example, it may be > something similar to: > > NC > SC> Warren > Hancock > Twiggs > Houston > Muscogee Co., GA, and then > into Alabama and Texas. > > I'll bet if you did this, you would collectively recognize a lot of > patterns which would indicate other counties that you may need to > research your ancestors in. Let's give it a try! > > William A. Mills > Perry, GA > [email protected] > > ________________________________________________________________ > YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! > Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! > Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > >

Got this off the Emanuel list and thought it might help someone. Sandra > >A listing of Baptist Church records at Mercer University can be found at ><http://mainlib.mercer.edu/mainlib/special_collections/Holdings/church_reco rds.htm> > >Also from another site I found the following commentary: > >"One subscriber mentioned Mercer University at Macon as a depository of >Baptist >Church records. Others depositories having such records: Furman University >in SC, and at Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem, NC. > >Georgia Dept. of Archives & History, Atlanta, has microfilm copies of the >records of most of the Baptist Churches in Georgia. One must remember that >allBaptists were the same denomination until about 1835, when the split >createdthe dominant Missionary Baptists, leaving the rest to be called >Primitive >Baptists. The card catalog for these records is divided into Baptist >[Missionary] and Primitive Baptist. These records typically have minutes of >meetings at which members were tried for various infractions of the rules, >including associating with the Methodists, public swearing, drinking on >Sundays, etc., for which they were often excommunicated. At least one >churchwould not allow members to participate in one of the Land Lotteries. >Most >churches would not allow Masons to be members, causing the number of Female >members to far outnumber the Males in areas where the Masons were active. > >For genealogical purposes, the most valuable records are the list of >members,and the acceptance of new members by either "Received by Experience >[Baptism]"or by or "Received by Letters" from some other church. The >departures >were >usually recorded by a member requesting "Letters of Dismission" to present >toa new church on the migration trail westward. Unfortunately, only a few >records name the church to which the member wanted to move his membership. > >Examples of excellent records from the Minutes of Powelton Baptist >Church, >Hancock County, GA, organized in 1786 while still in Greene County: > "5 March 1791 Aaron Parker and Charity his wife received by letter >from >Fishing Creek Church, North Carolina". > "30 Jun 1792 Letters of dismission for Brother Daniel Bankston and >SisterBankston, and for Aaron Parker and Charity his wife were granted". >And from Minutes of The Church of Horeb, formerly Fulsom Creek Church, >HancockCounty, constituted 28 Jun 1792: > "__ Aug 1792 Brother Daniel Bankston received by letter and chosen >Elder. >Brother Aaron Parker and Sister Parker received by letter into fellowship >ofchurch. Brother Aaron Parker apointed to receive all monies." >"__ Dec 1801 Brother and Sister Parker granted letter of Dismission." >And from Minutes of Mars Hill Baptist Church, Jackson County, later Clarke >County, and now Oconee County: > "12 Jun 1802 Aaron Parker and Charity his wife received by letter." > >Comment: The records of this Aaron Parker could never have been separated >fromthe records of three other Aaron Parkers in this area at the same time >without>these church records. >To my knowledge, none of these records are online, but many have been >published in book form." > > >Hope this will help all who are looking for other avenues of research in >areas where the public record is minimal. Delores Thompson >

A short while ago, someone was asking about their JOHNSON family which had migrated from the Wake Co., NC area, into Central GA. I mentioned that I had portions of a family history of a JOHNSON family of that area, but couldn't find it at that time. Well, now I have found it: CONCERNING OUR ANCESTORS: THE JOHNSONS & THEIR KIN: Copyright 1980 by Ruth Bethea Johnson. Published by Harold E. Parker & Sons, Printers. Distributed by Standard Homes Plan Service, Inc.; Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526. If you are not able to locate either a copy of this book at a major genealogy library or via LDS microfilm, you may find someone on the NCWAKE-L rootsweb email list who could help you. Take care! William A. Mills ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Houston County Researchers: About 8 years ago, when I was compiling my MILLS family history, I utilized the Migration Trails to try to figure out where my ancestors came from, and where they were heading. In Central GA, Perry is known as the "Crossroads of Georgia". This isn't just because of the contemporary criss-crossing of Highways 41 & 341. Prior to Houston County's formation in 1821, this area of the state of Georgia was occupied by Indians. And, these Indians utilized major trails to travel between their settlements and hunting camps. The primary 3 trails which crossed Houston Co., GA were: 1. THE PECATONICA TRAIL: It passed through the states of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. It commenced at a connection of THE LOWER CHEROKEE TRADER'S PATH, about halfway between Spartanburg, SC and Atlanta, GA. >From Atlanta, it proceeded South, just West of Macon, thru Perry, and then Americus, GA. It continued due South, and then crossed THE OLD TRADING PATH OF THE SOUTH about 75 miles south of Americus, and then proceeded to the East of Tallahassee, FL and directly to the Gulf of Mexico. 2. THE LOWER CREEK TRADING PATH: It passed through the states of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina, passing through Birmingham, Macon, & Augusta, with important connections which went to Savannah and St. Augustine, Florida. In Georgia, it took an almost straight line from Augusta to Macon, and then proceeded Northwest and West into Alabama past Anniston and thru Birmingham. From there, it went into Mississippi. 3. THE MACON & MONTGOMERY TRAIL: This trail commenced at Macon, GA at a connection with THE LOWER CREEK TRADING PATH, then proceeded thru Perry and Columbus, GA into Montgomery, AL where it connected THE ALABAMA & MOBILE TRAIL and THE ALABAMA, CHOCTAW & NATCHEZ TRAIL. These Migration Trails followed the lines of least resistance which was always a valuable feature in transportation or travel. They also avoided rough, stony ground and dense undergrowth. Several of the current Interstate Highways substantially follow these exact Migration Trails. If there is enough interest, I may go into further detail of the various places in Georgia where these Migration Trails traversed. Because of the boundary changes of the Georgia counties, and the non-existence of many of the early towns, it would be best for me to refer to current cities and towns whereby these trails passed. If you know the places your ancestors came from prior to residing in Houston Co., GA, and then where they may have went after leaving here, you can bet that they utilized these Migration Trails, especially if it was prior to the railroads being built. It would be interesting for you to post to the Houston-L list, a brief outline of your ancestors' migration routes. For example, it may be something similar to: NC > SC> Warren > Hancock > Twiggs > Houston > Muscogee Co., GA, and then into Alabama and Texas. I'll bet if you did this, you would collectively recognize a lot of patterns which would indicate other counties that you may need to research your ancestors in. Let's give it a try! William A. Mills Perry, GA [email protected] ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Houston County Researchers: Next week, Confederate Memorial Day will be celebrated in many cities and towns throughout the South. Below, I have posted an article which I sent to various Rootsweb email lists last Summer. Some of you have already seen this article, but I'm sure that many of you haven't. I also submitted it to be published in the most recent CGGS Quarterly. William A. Mills Perry, GA [email protected] =======>>> In 1992, while doing genealogical research via microfilm of old 1870s local newspapers, I came across an extensive newspaper article in the 16 May 1874 Houston Home Journal written by L. M. Park, a 15 year old guard who was stationed at Andersonville almost from the first establishment of the prison. I have transcribed it below. This article is entitled: THE REBEL PRISON PEN AT ANDERSONVILLE, GEORGIA. -------------------BEGIN------------------->>> It is the duty of every lover of justice, when he sees a gross and injurious calumny put into circulation which he is able to refute from direct knowledge, to challenge it at once, and more especially if it is aimed at his own people, and meant to be used to their injury. It is true that in those regions for which calumnies are prepared, they are too generally prepared to the truth, even when the truth is offered; but the duty of affirming the truth is no less stringent on those who are able to affirm it. It is with this view that the following paper is written to correct certain statements which recently appeared in Appleton's Journal, professing to relate facts gleaned during a trip to Andersonville, GA, concerning the Confederate military prison there and the treatment of Federal prisoners. Instead of reviewing the article in detail, I will merely take up, one by one, the principal false statements. THE WATER THE PRISONERS DRANK: It was my fortune to be stationed at Andersonville almost from the first establishment of the prison until the removal to Millen, GA, or Camp Lawton, and I unhesitatingly pronounce the statement that "the prisoners had to drink the water that conveyed the offal of three camps and two large bakeries off before it reached them" utterly false. The guards drank of the same water that quenched the prisoners' thirst, cooked their food with the same water, the same large stream or creek flowing through the encampment of guards and stockade, or "prison pen" as the Northern writers sneeringly call it. The camps of the guards all faced the stream, while their sinks were far off in the rear, and orders were most strict not to muddy the stream, much less defile it in any way. As to the offal of the bakeries, these being presided over by prisoners on parole, and who did the cooking for the entire prison, I do not believe they would pollute the water their brother prisoners had to drink. As rapidly as they could, the prisoners dug wells; in all some two hundred were dug, and purer, sweeter, cold water I never drank. Being on the staff of Captain Wirz, I had free access to the prison at all times day or night, and whenever I wished to quench my thirst, I went inside the prison and drank from one of these wells. THAT PROVIDENTIAL SPRING SO-CALLED: That "Providential Spring" is an impious myth. I have been in the prison a thousand times and never before heard it so called, except on reading the Herald's account of the anniversary of the Fulton Street Prayer Meeting, when some pharisaically pious old brother recited a long rigmarole about this same "Providential Spring", and said it was planted there in direct answer to prayer. The gist of this spring tale is that when prisoners' sickness and suffering from thirst was at its greatest, all at once this spring burst forth in direct answer to prayer. Was there ever such blasphemy? If such was the case, why does the spring still exist after it has answered its purpose? Do those rocks of Horeb struck by Moses to slake the children of Israel's thirst still exist, and at this late day the water rush forth? It is all a cock-and-bull story, and unlike Sternes, one of the poorest I ever heard. TWO FEDERAL AND THREE REBEL PROVIDENTIAL SPRINGS: If my recollection serves me right, there was yet another of these same "Providential Springs" inside the stockade, and that Providence who sends the rain alike on the just and the unjust gave unto the wicked and ungodly Rebels three of these "Providential Springs" and I am sure he did not plant ours in answer to prayer, for we had just as leave drank the branch water. WHY THERE WERE NO BARRACKS: The Confederate Government has always been harshly assailed for its want of humanity in not having barracks to house the prisoners from the sun and rains. A more senseless hue and cry was never heard. How was it possible to saw timber into planks without saw-mills? There were two water-power mills distant three and six miles respectively, but such rude primitive affairs undeserving the name. The nearest steam saw-mill was twenty-three miles distant (near Smithville), the next at Reynolds, about fifty miles distant; but the great bulk of lumber used, fully two-thirds, was brought from Gordon, a distance of eighty miles. Even if these mills had had the capacity to supply the necessary amount of lumber, it would still have been impossible to have provided barracks for the prisoners, as all the available engines of all the railroads in the Confederacy were taxed to their utmost capacity in transporting supplies for the army in the field and to the prisons. But few even of the officers of the guard had shanties, these few were built of slabs and sheeting, which every one knows is the refuse of the mills. And even though there was no lack of lumber, when we remember that there was but one solitary manufactory of cut nails in the limits of the Confederacy, certainly no blame could be attached to the authorities for not furnishing more comfortable quarters for them. Nearly every building in the encampment was built of rough logs and covered with clap-boards split from the tree and held to their places by poles. The force of these statements is readily appreciated by every intelligent and unprejudiced mind. Besides, is it customary for any nation in time of war to treat their prisoners in a more humane manner than their own soldiers in the field? The inquiry becomes pertinent when we reflect that during the last two years of the war, there was not a tent of any description to be found in any of the armies of the Confederacy save such as were captured from the Federals. HOW THE STOCKADE WAS BUILT: The stockade was built by the negroes belonging to the neighboring farms, either hired or pressed into sevice by the Confederate authorities to cut down the immense pine trees growing on the ground intended for the stockade; and these same trees were then cut into proper lengths and hewn on the spot, then planted in a ditch dug four feet deep to receive them. In this manner was the stockade made. Before it was completed the prisoners were forwarded in great numbers, and it being impossible to keep them in the cars, we had to put them in the completed end of the stockade and double the guard, our whole force kept ever ready day and night for the slightest alarm; for at first we only had the shattered remnants of two regiments, the 26th of Alabama and the 55th of Georgia, numbering in all, some three hundred and fifty men. This constituted the guard. In about ten days thereafter my regiment, 1st Georgia Reserves, composed of young boys and old men, (I was not sixteen) just organized, were sent to take the place of the 26th Alabama and 55th Georgia, so they could be sent to the front for duty. In a few days after our arrival the 2d, 3d and 4th Georgia Reserves, all composed of lads and hoary-headed men, for we were reduced to the strait of "robbing the cradle and the grave for men to make soldiers", joined us rapidly as they could be organized. The author of "Jaunt in the South" says: "When the stockade was occupied in 1864, there was not a tree nor a blade of grass within it. Its reddish sand was entirely barren, and not the smallest particle of green showed itself. But now the surface is covered completely with underbrush; a rich growth of bushes, trees and plants has covered the entire area, and where before there was a dreary desert, there is now a wild and luxurious garden." I have before said the ground was covered with a pine forest, and the trees were utilized to build the stockade. Any one who has traveled south of Macon, GA, knows the pine is abundant, and in fact, almost the only tree. In these forests the ground is covered with wire grass and other grass peculiar to them. WHY ANDERSONVILLE WAS SELECTED: The main reasons for locating the prison at Andersonville after its first being thought the most secure place in the Confederacy from the Yankee cavalry raids, was the abundance of water and timber, wherewith to construct the prison rapidly, and its being the very heart of the grain growing section of the South, which would make it less inconvenient to supply with provisions such a vast multitude. MALICIOUS EXHIBITION IN OHIO STATE CAPITOL: In the summer of 1867 I set out for New York, being resolved to live no longer in the South where negroes were being placed over us by Yankee bayonets, and in their vernacular, "de bottom rail was agittin' on de top er de fence." I travelled very leisurely and stopped in every city of any note on my route, and kept eyes and ears wide open to drink in everything. I visited the Ohio State Capitol at Columbus, and in the museum of curiosities were some small paper boxes carefully preserved in a glass case, containing what purported to be the exact quality and quatity of ration issued per diem at Andersonville. In one box was about a pint of coarse unbolted meal, and in another about one table-spoonful of rice, and still another box with about two table-spoons of black peas; and in a tiny little box was about one-eighth of a tea-spoonful of salt. Underneath it is all explained, and says among other things: "When rice was given the peas were withheld, but when they had no rice this kind of peas were given instead." It is needless to say how my blood boiled at this atrocious, malicious and damnably false exhibition. No wonder the hatred of the North is kept alive, and the bloody chasm continually widened by such wicked and uncharitable displays as this in one of the largest and most enlightened States in the Union. RATIONS TO GUARDS AND PRISONERS THE SAME: I was for three months a clerk in the commissary department at Andersonville, and it was my business to weigh out rations to the guards and prisoners alike, and I solemnly assert that the prisoners got ounce for ounce and pound for pound of just the same quantity and quality of food as did the guards. The State authorities of Ohio ought to blush at thus traducing and slandering a fallen foe, and never in the first instance to have placed on exhibition for preservation as truth this fabrication of partisan hate. No Andersonville prisoner, unless he were lost to all sense of honor and shame, could make such a statement as that the rations were no more than the specimens shown. WHY THE PRISONERS WERE FED ON CORN BREAD: It has been charged as a crying shame upon the Confederacy by ignorant humanitarians that the South might at least have given the prisoners wheat bread occasionally; that they rarely ate corn bread in their own land, and that the bread we issued was made of meal so coarse and unsifted that it caused dysentery, thereby largely increasing the mortality. It is well known now that the South depends very largely, and with shame I confess it, on the West for her bread and bacon, and the cotton belt proper makes but little pretensions of raising wheat, for the climate is said is unsuited; so that the region round about Andersonville, being in the very heart of the cotton-growing section of Georgia, such a thing as feeding prisoners on flour was impossible, and the little flour that was obtained as tithes (one-tenth of all the crops raised was required by our Government) was devoted entirely to the use of the hospital. Not only was this true of the territory immediately surrounding Andersonville, but of the whole South. Our armies were unsupplied with flour, and perhaps not one family in fifty throughout the whole land enjoyed that luxury. The guards ate the same bread, or rather meal; the bread eaten by the prisoners being baked by the regular bakers (prisoners detailed for that purpose), while the guards did their own cooking. The meal, however, was the same, and both were unsifted and in truth very coarse. I ate the unsifted meal always. THE DEAD LINE: Another cry of holy horror is raised every time the "Dead Line" is mentioned, as if this dead-line was prima facie evidence that the Southerners were as barbarous and cruel a race as ever blotted the face of the earth. The civilized North, however, had the same barbarous dead-line in their prisons, and in fact originated the device. It was a necessity with us, for we never had at one time more than 1200 to 1500 guards in the four regiments fit for duty, and we had the keeping at one time of nearly 40,000 prisoners. By a concerted plan of onslaught, they could at any time have scaled the walls, captured the guards, and with the weapons of their keepers overrun the entire country, which, all south of Dalton, GA, (100 miles north of Atlanta), was left wholly unprotected save by gray-haired old men and young boys; and the women, children and negroes, who were the only hope for the making of crops for our armies, would have been helplessly at their mercy. This dead line was clearly defined and consisted of stakes driven into the ground twenty feet from the walls of the stockade, and on these stakes was a three-inch strip of plant nailed all around the inside of the prison. They were all notified that a step beyond this line was not prudent, and they were not so unwise as to venture beyond that limit. BURIAL OF DEAD PRISONERS: Speaking of the number and burial of the dead, the writer of the aforesaid "Jaunt" says: "The authorities at the stockade who had charge of the interment of the Federal dead, did their work rudely, digging pits and burying them in", then he goes on: "It is hard to comprehend the true value of the number 14,000; its magnitude eludes you. Fourteen thousand men form a great mob, or a great army, or a great town. Here you have 14,000 men lying silently in a few acres. Within these bounds men have suffered as greatly as have any since the world began." In reply to this I would merely say, the burial was the work of prisoners paroled especially for the purpose, both the hauling of the bodies to the ground, the digging of the graves and even the records of the names were all done by paroled prisoners. Books and a tent were provided soley for the latter purpose. Owing to the weakness of the guard, paroled prisoners were employed for this duty, as we could spare no men for the purpose; and if the work was rudely or carelessly done, the blame rests with them. As compensation they were given double rations and almost entire freedom. As to the number of dead we admit that it is great, but statistics show that more Southern soldiers died in Northern prisons than Northern soldiers in Southern prisons. In vain have Northern writers tried to disprove this fact. MORTALITY NO GREATER AMONG PRISONERS THAN GUARD: Great as was the mortality among the prisoners, it was no greater in proportion to the number than that of the guards, which is fully attested by the reports of the surgeon in charge. Besides, it is well-known to every soul that can or does read, that the Confederacy, through their agent, Judge Ould, made frequent and tireless efforts to get the United States Government, through their agent, General Butler, to exchange. But no, the Federal authorities would not hear to it; but acting on the avowed and promulgated idea that the South, being blockaded, could not recruit her armies from foreign lands, while to the North the whole of Europe was opened, they cruelly determined not to exchange, so as to detain our soldiers from again fighting them, well knowing even then we had made our last conscription (17 to 50 years) and when those we had were killed up or in prison, we could of course be overpowered. This was their cold-blooded, brutal policy; and closely did they stick to it even till were almost literally wiped out, while the men they had fighting us were in the most part hired substitutes, drafted men and foreign hirelings. PRINCIPAL CAUSE OF MORTALITY: Farther, as to the mortality among the prisoners, let it be remembered that a majority of the deaths caused in our prisons was want of proper medicines, which we did not have and could not get, except by blockade-running. Had the Federal Government any of the milk of human kindness in its composition, it would have acceded to our earnest request to take cotton in exchange for drugs to administer their own dying soldiers. Their immense manufactories were lying idle for the want of cotton, while we had it but could not use it. But as these self-same drugs and medicines would also be applied to the relief of our own sick soldiers, they determined it would be to their advantage to let all die alike, knowing that the South could get no more men to supply the places of the sick and dying, and these they had imprisoned, and so refused all overtures. After using every effort and exhausting every argument to get an exchange, we proposed as we had no medicines and could get none, except what we accidentally ran in through the blockade from Europe, (they being declared contraband and always confiscated whenever captured by the blockade fleet) we proposed to turn over to them all their sick, without requiring man for man, but giving them absolutely up, if the United States would only send vessels for transporting them. This was done at Camp Lawton (Millen, GA), after the prison was removed from Andersonville for greater security. EXTRACTS FROM AN OFFICER'S DIARY: >From the private journal of a Confederate officer high in command, both at Andersonville and other Southern prisons, glean the annexed facts, the first bearing directly upon the foregoing: "At one time an order came to Camp Lawton to prepare 2000 men for exchange. The order from Richmond was to select first the wounded, next the oldest prisoners and sickly, filling up with healthy men according to date. This partly went first to Savannah, as arranged, but by some mistake the ships were at Charleston, and the poor wretches had to be taken there; and every one who knew the Southern railroads in those days, and the difficulty or rather impossibility to procure food for such a crowd along the road, will know what those poor fellows suffered. At Charleston they were refused, the commissioner declaring that he was not going to exchange able-bodied men for such specimens of humanity. (The term used was more brutal.) Finding him obdurate, Colonel Ord requested him to take them without exchange. This he refused with a sneering laugh, and the crowd was ordered back. Never did the writer of this witness such woe-begone countenances, in which misery and hopelessness were more strongly painted, than shown by these poor fellows on their return. And the curses leveled against the rulers who thus treated the defenders of their country were fearful, although certainly well deserved. As the stockade gate closed upon them the surgeon in charge said to the writer: "Poor fellows! the world has closed upon more than half of them; their disappointment will be their death-knell." His words proved true. Who murdered these men? Let history answer the question. CLOTHING FOR PRISONERS: Again I extract from the aforesaid journal: The Northerners talk much of the cruelty of the South to Federal prisoners. At one time the unfortunate prisoners were almost without clothing, indeed some hardly had as much as common decency required. The South could not provide them, not being able to clothe their own men. An application was made to Seward. The reply was that "the Federal Government did not supply clothing to prisoners of war." Luckily for the poor fellows, a society in New York took the matter in hand, and several bales of clothing and cases of shoes were forwarded to Richmond, and divided in proportion to numbers, among the prisoners. CRUELY TO PRISONERS: A great deal has been said of the cruelty to the prisoners inside the stockade. This so-called cruelty was inflicted by their own men. In every prison a police and a chief, all from the prisoners, was appointed to keep order, see to the enforcement of the regulations, and inquire into all offenses, reporting through their chief to the Commandant. The punishment, such as were used in the Federal army, were ordered inflicted by these men, and some were of such a barbarous nature that they were prohibited with disgust by Confederate officers, who substituted milder and more humane ones; and yet the former were in common practice in the Federal armies, as testified by all the prisoners. BLOOD-HOUNDS: Among the numerous lies invented by Northerners, and actually still believed by some parties to this day, was the story that the Confederates used to hunt and worry prisoners with bloodhounds. Now it is well-known that the breed of bloodhounds is nearly extinct in the South, and the large packs of those dogs alluded to by writers on the subject existed only in their imaginations, the prolific brains of penny-a-liners, whose vile and lying compositions now abound in any so-called respectable New York papers; no public man is safe from their ferocious attacks. Among the various specimens of this dog alluded to by the above named gentry, was the famous bloodhound of the Libby Prison. The writer has often seen this formidable animal, which certainly in his youth must have been as fine a specimen of the kind as could be met anywhere, but unfortunately for the thrilling portion of the accounts of his doings at the time of the war, the poor beast, worn out with old age with hardly a tooth in his head, wandered about a harmless, inoffensive creature. He was the property of the Commandant of Libby, who kept him because he was a pet dog of his father's, and there the brute lived a pensioner in his old age. As to his worrying men, he could not, had he even tried, have worried a child. The other prisons had none, not even as pensioners. Among the records history gives us of using those dogs to hunt men, it is stated that during the Florida war a number of bloodhounds were imported by the Federal Government from Cuba to hunt the Indians out of the Everglades, and that numbers of the natives were worried to death by the ferocious beasts. The writer does not deny that when a prisoner got out of the stockade trying to escape, if no clue could be obtained of his whereabouts, a few mongrel or half-breed fox hounds were used to track him, but the worrying was all done in the correspondent's own brain. However, it suited the times and made the article sell. The only complaint made is that this vile and malicious lie is still, if not believed, repeated by some who use it for party purposes, and thus help to keep up the bad feeling between the North and the South. RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE GREAT MORTALITY: So never shake your gory locks or point your guilty finger at the South for the dead who died in Southern prisons. History, with impartial pen will place the guilt and censure of the damning deed at the door of the insulter of defenseless women, the plunder of New Orleans, and the murder of Mrs. Surratt, or as he is admiringly called by his worshippers, "the great Secretary", Edwin M. Stanton and their backers, the members of the United States Congress. History will also declare Captain Wirz to have been as foully and wilfully murdered ers as Mrs. Surratt. Though a rude pro ers fane man, he was never guilty of heartless cruelty while I was under him, a period of over three months, until the prisoners removal to Camp Lawton. The day will come when his memory will be fully vindicated; now the attemp is vain. I will add that this article has not been written either for fame or money. It has been prepared amid the pressure of business engagements and at necessarily detached intervals, and is prompted soley by a sense of duty to vindicate the cause of truth and the claims of an outraged people. L. M. PARK - --------------------------THE END---------------------->>> ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! 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> Hello > A few requests have been made to change the email addresses on the Surname > page. It is a good idea for us to keep these updated. I am not sure that I am on the surname page... Mathis, Wood, Anderson [email protected]

Doh I realise what I did wrong, I have updated the names. If you would like to add your names or change your email address, let me know. How about some of our new joiners, Ms Dixon and Ann Hester Williams? Would you like to add your email address to the surname registry? Any other new names? Gaila Subject: [GAHOUSTO] Houston County Surname Pages Hello A few requests have been made to change the email addresses on the Surname page. It is a good idea for us to keep these updated. I had the first attempt at doing this the other day and I haven't got it to work yet. Please be patient and I will try again. In the meantime, if anyone else needs to make a change, please send an email. Thanks Gaila

Hello A few requests have been made to change the email addresses on the Surname page. It is a good idea for us to keep these updated. I had the first attempt at doing this the other day and I haven't got it to work yet. Please be patient and I will try again. In the meantime, if anyone else needs to make a change, please send an email. Thanks Gaila

Actually, he lived in Floyd County, GA and the newspaper article said they had taken his body back there for burial. I just came from there where I did some research in the library in Rome and couldn't find where he was buried anywhere in that county. I guess I need to look in other counties in GA. Thanks! Sandra --- Gaila & Jim Merrington <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Sandra, > I had a look in Addie's "Cemeteries and Obituaries > of Houston Co, Georgia" > and I didn't see a Smalley or Witherspoon. The Bibb > County list might have > more information as Macon is in Bibb County. Where > did he live prior to the > Masonic Home? > Good luck, > Gaila > > > I am trying to find information on my great great > grandfather, James C. Smalley, who died in the > Masonic > Home in Macon, GA. I was told that the information > might be obtained on this list. He died in June, of > 1906. He was buried in Rome, GA, though, where he > had > previously lived, I believe. Actually, what I am > trying to find is an obituary or something that > might > mention the name of his parents. I have the names > of > his wife and children and some of his other > descendents. (I know he was born in NC in 1822. He > was married to Nancy Elizabeth Witherspoon b. GA). > I would appreciate any information anyone can give > me. > Sandra Smalley Holik > [email protected] > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com > > --0-846930886-955502294=:7708-- > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com

Yvette, >> I've still got to dig into wills, estate records and such... Does the Washington Memorial Library in Macon have Houston County estate records on microfilm? << If you get to Macon, it would be to your advantage to drive about 30 miles further south down I-75 and spend the day at the Houston Co., GA courthouse in Perry. You could probably get past many of your brickwalls in your research. Otherwise, you could pursue your research via microfilm at an LDS Family History Center near you. I would suggest that you check out the listings of the Houston Co., GA LDS Microfilms, which are on the bottom portion of the Houston County Website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~gahousto Take care! William A. Mills Perry, GA ================>>> On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 11:23:38 EDT [email protected] writes: Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! I am still not positive that this is the family I am descended from. The family story is that my great-grandmother's mother was a MORRIS and she was disinherited when she married Joseph W. Brady. But after finding the marriage record in Houston County showing her last name was Bryan, it confused me. I immediately went to the Houston County section of the State Archives and looked through the books there ... particularly your books of the guardian bonds. They are certainly well done and were a great reference to me. I am just in the earliest stages of my research. I've still got to dig into wills, estate records and such. Watching the family mystery unfold is really fun....just the type of thing that keeps us all going I suppose. Does the Washington Memorial Library in Macon have Houston County estate records on microfilm? I've only been there twice researching other lines. Thanks again for sharing the Bryan homestead and family information, I am sure it will help. Yvette Taylor Stewart Stockbridge, GA ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

I just read this again, and I wanted to clear this up before I forgot she wasn`t killed it was said she was shot in the arm and lived, then raised a large family with only one arm. Sanra >Sandra: > >How exciting to find someone who knows about my JOHNSONS. > >I have not heard about Millicent being killed by Indians. You must give me >that info. >Also, I do not have Hardy's service records. I would be delighted to repay >your expenses if you could copy and send them to me. > >Thanks you so much, Alice >