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/Sc.2ADI/1062 Message Board Post: In reply to the following: >> At some stage I read an account about a Farmer who left the Central Georgia area and migrated to Texas pre 1865 (see below). Can someone refresh my memory on which family this was? The daughter nursed her parents and most of the slaves and other travellers and barely survived the disease herself. Her brothers in Texas came and returned her to Georgia and her brother there. I can still get quite emotional when I think about this story, but can't remember the name of the family. I think it may have been in a book about Peach County or Crawford County - can anyone identify the family for me? The irony was the farmer was leaving his beautiful Georgia home, because he wanted his children to have farms around him. Thank you Gaila << There may be other stories similar to this, but there was a book written in the 1950s (I think) that dealt with a similar story. I believe it was written by a "Matthews" of Ft. Valley, and the Luce family also was related to those who ventured West. A few years back, I was given 2 or 3 new copies (it had been reprinted in the 1980s) of this book, by descendants of this family, but would have to do some serious digging to find them.

Clayton, I have been out of circulation for a while, but I might be able to help you in the next couple of weeks, okay? Scott On Sunday, May 16, 2004, at 01:13PM, Clayton Buchanan <SuClay@alltel.net> wrote: >Dear list > >Is anyone available to do look-ups in the Perry paper? We have discovered that we had a cousin who drowned in Houston Lake 5/11/1949 at 17 and were hoping that there might be somthing in the paper concerning it. > >George Alfred Davis son of Marjorie Day and George A Davis was living in Perry for the last six years so I assume he might have pics in the school yearbook as well. Any help is appreciated. > >Clayton Buchanan > > >==== GAHOUSTO Mailing List ==== >All list messages are archived at Rootsweb. Search at >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >Enter GAHOUSTO-L; at the next prompt, type in your keyword(s) > > > Scott Howard Please do not send email attachments. I will not open them. You shouldn't either.

> Source: ALCOFFEE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Al-Coffee Co. Bios (Mixson) > > > > Coffee County AlArchives Biographies.....Mixson, William C. September 2 1834 - living in 1893 > ************************************************ > Copyright. All rights reserved. > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm > ************************************************ > > File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: > Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 16, 2004, 3:34 am > > Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) > WILLIAM C. MIXSON, a prominent farmer of Beat No. 12, was born in Monroe > county, Ga., September 2, 1834. He is a son of William and Julia (Harris) > Mixson, natives of North Carolina, in which state they were reared and where > they married. They removed to Georgia about 1832, and in 1853 removed to Coffee > county, Ala., settling on an improvement where Mr. Mixson died in October 9, > 1830. His widow is still living, at the age of about eighty years. Both were > Methodists from their youth up. Mr. Mixson was a farmer, a wagon maker, a > blacksmith, etc. He was a hard-working, industrious and prosperous man. His > father, Elijah Mixson, died when the former was a child, was of English descent > and was probably a native of North Carolina. Grandfather Harris died in North > Carolina. William C. Mixson was the third of five sons and seven daughters. Four > of the sons were in the late war, viz.: William C.; Barzilli H., who served from > 1862 in the western army, in the Fifty-third Alabama; Henry J., who was a > sergeant in the Fifty-fourth infantry and in the Western army from 1861 to the > close of the war. He was captured at Island No. 10, was imprisoned at Camp > Douglas until the fall of 1862, and rejoined his company when exchanged; John. > E., was in the Fifty-third Alabama mounted infantry all through the war. William > C. Mixson was elected justice of the peace in 1858, was re-elected in 1862, and > resigned in January, 1863, to join company G, Fifty-seventh Alabama infantry as > lieutenant, but commanded his company most of the time, spending his first part > of his service on the coast, at Mobile, Pensacola, Pollard, etc. He then joined > the western army at Demopolis and fought at Resaca, on to the Atlanta and > Jonesboro, back toward Nashville, but in northern Alabama he was taken sick and > sent to the hospital at Montgomery, and rejoined his regiment at Corinth after > the retreat from Nashville. He then went to North Carolina and fought at > Kingston and Bentonville and surrendered with Johnston. He was neither wounded > nor captured daring the war. After the war he resumed farming and has ever since > lived on his present farm, eight miles northeast of Clintonville, where he has a > fine farm of four hundred and eighty acres, all acquired by his own efforts, > upon which he raises his own supplies, corn, cotton, etc. He is considered one > of the best farmers in the county. While his early education was somewhat > limited, yet by his contact with the world he has acquired a great deat of > practical experience and is a man of rare common sense and sound judgment. While > not an active politician he is yet active in the support of his party, He is a > member of Clintonville lodge, No. 188, F. & A. M., and is lecturer of Pea River > farmers' alliance. He and his wife have been Methodists from their youth up. In > 1891 he was instrumental in establishing Tabernacle post-office at his house and > he is the postmaster. Mr. Mixson was married January 19, 1860, to Miss Martha E. > Law, daughter of Capt. Isaiah T. Law. Mrs. Mixson was born September 18, 1846, > and has twelve children living. Captain Isaiah T. Law, is one of the pioneer > farmers and one of the most esteemed citizens of Coffee county. He was born in > Sumter district, S. C., in 1820; he is a son of Isaiah and Margaret (Washburn) > Law, the former a native of Sumter district, born in 1784, the latter born in > Rutherford county, N. C., in 1786. Mrs. Law died in South Carolina when Captain > Law was eight years old. Isaiah Law married again, and in 1832 moved to Houston > county, Ga., and afterward to Macon county, where he died in 1840. He was a man > of more than ordinary ability and was for some years associate justice of the > inferior court of Macon county. His father, George Law, was a native of Ireland. > Gabriel Washburn was propably a native of England and died in Rutherford county, > N. C., at an advanced age. Mrs. Law was born in Williamsburg district, S. C., in > 1821, is the mother of ten children and is still living. In 1849 Captain Law > came to Coffee county and a few years afterward settled on his present farm six > miles north of Clintonville, where he owns 775 acres of land in two tracts. He > was a justice of the peace nine years from 1850; was tax assessor and collector > during 1852 and 1853, and was county commissioner three years, 1872-73-74. No > case tried before him was ever appealed to the circuit court. He performed > faithful service during the war of the rebellion, first as lieutenant, of > company F. Fortieth Tennessee, and as captain after the regiment was > re-organized. He was taken prisoner first at Island No. 10, and served a time on > Johnson's Island, and he was afterward captured when Vicksburg surrendered to > General Grant. He was paroled and exchanged and rejoined his company. Before > Atlanta he was again taken prisoner and was again taken to Johnson's Island, > where he was kept until June 16, 1865, and reached home June 27. He has been a > Mason since 1854 and is now a member of Clintonville lodge, No. 188. Both he and > his wife have been members of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, for many > years, and stand deservedly high in the estimation of their neighbors and > friends. On the first day of August, 1892, Mr. Mixson was elected to represent > Coffee county in the state legislature of Alabama. > > > > Additional Comments: > from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 676-677 > > This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ > > File size: 5.9 Kb > >

A pml file > File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: > Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 16, 2004, 1:08 am > > Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) > REDIN HOLLOWAY, planter of Beat No. 9, Coffee county, Ala., was born in > Houston county, Ga., in 1833. He is the son of Charles and Mary J. (Sanderson) > Holloway, the former a native of Georgia, the latter a native of North Carolina. > Mrs. Holloway came to Georgia with her parents, where she and Mr. Holloway > received a common school education. They married there, and in 1840 removed to > Coffee county; Ala., settling in the woods near Elba, and there Mr. Holloway > spent the rest of his life, dying in 1862. Mrs. Holloway is still living at the > age of seventy-five years. Mr. Holloway was a well-to-do farmer, and a > hard-working and industrious man. He was one of twelve children born to Jeremiah > Holloway, an Englishman, who came to Coffee county in 1841, and both he and wife > died there before the war. Both were members of the Primitive Baptist church. > One son, Griffin Holloway, was killed at Harper's Ferry, in Virginia. Dr. John > Anderson, the maternal grandfather of Redin Holloway, was probably a South > Carolinian by birth, whence he removed to Georgia, and in 1842 to Coffee county, > where he and his wife both died. He was a physician and surgeon for many years, > and raised three sons and three daughters, two of the sons serving in the late > war. Shepherd and Benjamin F. Redin Holloway is the eldest of ten sons and one > daughter, viz.: Redin, John, who served in the Virginia army all through the > war, now deceased; Thomas, who served in the western army from the first until > in 1862, when he was discharged on account of disability, and died at home; > William, who served in an Alabama regiment all through the war in Virginia, and > who was captured at Gettysburg, but who was not imprisoned, now deceased; > Benjamin, deceased; David, who was in the western army all through the war, was > wounded in his last fight in North Carolina, now living in Texas; Charles, of > Texas; Jeremiah, of Texas; Joseph and Solomon, twins, both deceased; Abigail, > died when young. Redin Holloway began life on the farm, with a good English > education. At the age of twenty one he began life on his own account as a hand > in the logging business in Florida, worked thus a short time. and then returned > to Coffee county and engaged in farming and teaming, hauling from Montgomery, > Eufaula, Columbia, Milton, Fla., etc., to Elba for several years. In 1859 he was > married, in Covington county, to Amanda, daughter of William and Mahala Jones, > natives of Georgia, whence they removed to Coffee county, Ala., where they both > died. He was a prosperous farmer, raised a large family, and had four sons in > the late war, all of whom survive. Mrs. Holloway was born in Georgia, and is the > mother of seven children, three of whom are living. Those who are living are a > follows: Mary E., wife of Alfred Seay; Nina Texarkana, wife of Augustus Wise, > and Ida, wife of James Killcrease. Those who are deceased were: Charles F., > Abigail and William, died in Morgan county, Ala., and Louler, died in > Mississippi, all dying when young. In March, 1862, Mr. Holloway joined company > A, Thirty-third Alabama infantry, fighting first in Perryville, Ky. He then > fought at Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, and all > the way down to Atlanta, and was captured July 22, 1864, and was imprisoned at > Camp Chase from August 2, 1864, to March 4, 1865, during which time he was ward > master of the sick and fared well. He reached home April 2, and has followed > farming ever since. From 1865 to 1877 he lived in Morgan county, Ala., and then > in Tate county, Miss., four years. He then traveled in Florida for one year, > when he returned to Coffee county, six miles east of Elba, where he has 400 > acres of land, all of which he has acquired by his own efforts since the war. He > has been a Mason many years, and is a member of the Central alliance. Both he > and wife are members of the Missionary Baptist church. > > > > Additional Comments: > from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 669-670 > > > This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ > > File size: 4.4 Kb > >

Dear list Is anyone available to do look-ups in the Perry paper? We have discovered that we had a cousin who drowned in Houston Lake 5/11/1949 at 17 and were hoping that there might be somthing in the paper concerning it. George Alfred Davis son of Marjorie Day and George A Davis was living in Perry for the last six years so I assume he might have pics in the school yearbook as well. Any help is appreciated. Clayton Buchanan

Cater is the Houston County Surname - this is from a PML search. ===================================================================== > Source: ALCHAMBE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Al-Chambers Co. Bios (Oliver) > > > > Chambers County AlArchives Biographies.....Oliver, James M. May 12 1831 - living in 1893 > ************************************************ > Copyright. All rights reserved. > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm > ************************************************ > > File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: > Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 15, 2004, 5:19 pm > > Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) > JAMES M. OLIVER, a prominent lawyer of La Fayette, Ala., is a son of > Florence M. and Hannah K. (Banks) Oliver. The former was a farmer, born, reared > and married in Elbert county, Ga. In 1838, the family moved to Chambers county, > Ga., settling ten miles west of La Fayette, and living there until the death of > Mr. Oliver, which occurred in 1854. Mrs. Oliver had died in Elbert county, Ga., > when James M. was two years old. Mr. Oliver was a quiet, energetic and thrifty > farmer, a whig in politics and a Methodist in religion. The Oliver family are of > English origin, came to this country and settled in Virginia about 1700. > Dionysius Oliver was the first representative of his family in this country. The > Olivers were prominent people in government affairs, and a great grandfather of > James Oliver served in the Revolutionary war. Grandfather McCarty Oliver was a > boy at that time. He married a Miss Clark of a prominent Virginia family. > Dionysius Oliver was one of the early settlers in Elbert county, Ga., was an > extensive planter, and assisted to survey the counties of the state. Mrs. Hannah > K. Oliver was born and reared in Elbert county, Ga., and her family was a very > prominent one in the state. The first annual conference of the Methodist > Episcopal church met at the house of Ralph Banks, the grandfather of Mrs. > Oliver. Florence M. and Mrs. Oliver were married about 1829, in Elbert county, > Ga., and reared a family of two sons, Samuel C., and James M. After the death of > the mother of these children, Mr. Oliver married a Miss Glenn, by whom he had > five children. Mrs. Glenn belongs to the family after whom Glennville, Russell > county was named. James M. Oliver was born May 12, 1831, in Elbert county, Ga. > His parents removed to Chambers county when he was but a small boy. He received > but a common school education, and read law, in 1855 and 1856, under the > direction of Pascal M. Allison, of La Fayette, and was admitted to the bar by > Judge John G. Shorter in March, 1856. He settled down for the practice of the > law at Dadeville, Ala., in January, 1857, and remained there until the war. He > was commissioned colonel in April, 1862, raised the Forty-seventh Alabama > infantry, and led it to the field, joining Stonewall Jackson's command in > Virginia. On account of ill health he resigned his commission after a few > months' service, and returned to the practice of the law at Dadeville. He has > been actively engaged in the practice of his profession ever since, removing, > however, from Dadeville to La Fayette in 1887. While he has always been active > in politics, yet he has never sought office. He was for many years chairman of > the executive committee of Tallapoosa county, and has frequently been a delegate > to state conventions. He was married in Chambers county in 1850, when but > nineteen years old, to Matilda Allen, by whom he has had six children, viz: > Aurelia, wife of Dr. John M. Watkins, of Camp Hill, Tallapoosa county; Florence, > wife of Col. Henry A. Garrett, Dadeville, a prominent lawyer of that place; > Olivia, wife of James S. Herren of Atlanta, Ga.; Woodson, deceased; James M., > Jr., merchant of Dadeville, and Samuel J., merchant of Dadeville. The mother of > these children died in 1882, and Mr. Oliver married in February, 1884, Catherine > V. Cater, of Perry, Houston county, Ga., by whom he has had no children. She was > at the time of her marriage corresponding secretary of the Woman's Board of > missions of the South Georgia Methodist conference, and she is now > superintendent of the juvenile department of the Woman's Board of missions of > the North Alabama Methodist conference. Mr. Oliver is himself a member of the > Methodist Episcopal church, and in politics he is a democrat. He is now a > council Mason, and has been worshipful master of the Blue lodge. He is also a > member of the Knights of Honor. He is one of the leading lawyers in Chambers > county, and a man of great value as a citizen. For his worth of character he is > very highly esteemed and his influence is always exerted for good. > > > > Additional Comments: > from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 630-632 > > This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ > > File size: 4.6 Kb >

No Wheaton, Nathan or Thomas Jones listed in First 110 Years of Houston County, 1822-1932. W. A., W.C., W. H., W. L., and W. R. Jones are listed. There is a T. E. Jones No Purdy and no Martha/Catherine Braxton. ----- Original Message ----- From: <clyde.stickney@dartmouth.edu> To: <GAHOUSTO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 4:26 PM Subject: [GAHOUSTO] Wheaton Jones, Sr. - son of Nathan Jones & Philadelphia Pines > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Sc.2ADI/133.134.143.144.1.1 > > Message Board Post: > > I am researching the line of Wheaton Jones, Sr. who was the son of Nathan Jones and Philadelphia Pines. Nathan Jones was the son of Thomas Jones and Martha/Catherine (Braxton) Purdy. I am insterested in getting in touch with others researching this Jones line. > > > ==== GAHOUSTO Mailing List ==== > Visit Houston Co., GAGenWeb, the parent site for > this list at http://www.rootsweb.com/~gahousto/ > and check out the offerings > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Sc.2ADI/133.134.143.144.1.1 Message Board Post: I am researching the line of Wheaton Jones, Sr. who was the son of Nathan Jones and Philadelphia Pines. Nathan Jones was the son of Thomas Jones and Martha/Catherine (Braxton) Purdy. I am insterested in getting in touch with others researching this Jones line.

Hello researchers, At some stage I read an account about a Farmer who left the Central Georgia area and migrated to Texas pre 1865 (see below). Can someone refresh my memory on which family this was? The daughter nursed her parents and most of the slaves and other travellers and barely survived the disease herself. Her brothers in Texas came and returned her to Georgia and her brother there. I can still get quite emotional when I think about this story, but can't remember the name of the family. I think it may have been in a book about Peach County or Crawford County - can anyone identify the family for me? The irony was the farmer was leaving his beautiful Georgia home, because he wanted his children to have farms around him. Thank you Gaila "Gaila & James Merrington" <gaila@merrington.net> wrote: > >I have read the story of a family from Crawford County, Ga or nearby- a prosperous > >farmer moving to Texas with his family and others including many slaves. > >Only one son and his family stayed in Georgia and two other sons had > >preceded them into Texas. > > > >On the journey, the slaves came across some discarded clothes and blankets and took > >them. After they fell ill, they realised the clothes belonged to people with small pox or > >some other dread disease and the whole family was struck down. Only a few > >survived, including only one daughter from the original family. > > > >Conditions could be shocking. The migration trails were probably taken from > >old Indian trails.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Sc.2ADI/1060 Message Board Post: I am looking for information about Mary Amanda Smith, who was born in Houston or Macon County on May 15, 1844. She later moved to Arkansas and married James Robert Kinnaird. I believe that she had a brother George, who moved to Arkansas with her. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Hello This came to me because of my search on Houston County, Ga ===================================================================== > Source: ALDATA-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Al-Baldwin Co. Bios (Hunt) > > > > Baldwin County AlArchives Biographies.....Henry J. Hunt November 27 1827 - ? > ************************************************ > Copyright. All rights reserved. > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm > ************************************************ > > File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: > Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 11, 2004, 9:05 pm > > Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) > HENRY J. HUNT, planter and lumberman, of Tensaw, Baldwin county, Ala., was > born in Georgia, November 27, 1827, and came to Alabama with his parents, who, > in 1836, settled in Russell county, where the son grew to manhood. From Russell > county the family moved to Chambers county, and thence to Randolph county, Ga., > where Henry J. was married to Miss Mary A. Morris, daughter of James Morris, a > planter. Mrs. Hunt was a native of Randolph county, was married in her sixteenth > year, and became the mother of three children, viz.: Jane D., William H. and > Mary A., all now deceased. Mrs. Hunt died in 1856, an earnest member of the > Primitive Baptist church, and in 1857, Mr. Hunt married Miss Emma Ramie, > daughter of Capt. Bryant Ramie, a planter of Stewart county, Ga., where the lady > was born in 1841. To this union have been born eight children, as follows: Jane, > wife of L. F. Warren, and mother of five children; Joe, who is with his parents; > Lula A., married to Daniel O'Rourke, a business man, of Wallace, Ala.; Gussie, > Emma, Fannie, Claude and May. Mr. Hunt reached Alabama with his family December > J. 24, 1861, and for some years his attention was occupied with the affairs of > war. He enlisted in the Alabama cavalry service under the command of Capt. > English, and was chiefly employed in home guard duty until the close of > hostilities. In 1865, he bought a tract of land containing 160 acres, put up a > saw-mill, and began his career as a millman; in 1875, he bought the well > improved Silver's place, and has been constantly employed at lumbering and > farming to the present date. The parents of Henry J. Hunt were Daniel and Jane > (Goldsmith) Hunt, who were the father and mother of ten children, Henry J. being > the fifth in order of birth. Daniel Hunt was born in Butts county, Ga., in 1800, > was a farmer, and was married in his native county. On coming to Alabama, he was > elected sheriff of Russell county, later was elected tax collector and assessor > and then appointed deputy sheriff. He passed the latter his part of life in the > state of his nativity and died in 1866. His wife was born in Houston county, > Ga., was married at the age of sixteen, and became the mother of ten children, > of whom eight reached maturity and five are still living. Mrs. Jane Hunt passed > away in 1863, an exemplary member of the Missionary Baptist church. Of her ten > children, three sons came to Alabama with Henry J., all of whom are now > deceased, the last of the three dying in 1892. Henry J. Hunt still owns his > original tract of 160 acres, to which he has added 3,000 more, mostly fine > bottom land. He has a tasteful residence site near the Tensaw post-office, with > fruits of all kinds in abundance, and is surrounded with everything tending to > make life enjoy-able. He is a member of Tensaw lodge, No. 221, I. O. O. F., and, > with his family, of the Missionary Baptist church, and is an honest and useful > citizen. > > > > Additional Comments: > from "Memorial Record of Alabama" > > > This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ > > File size: 3.5 Kb > >

Bibb-Houston County GaArchives Obituaries.....Fannie Edwards November 20 1917 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles historycam@wmconnect.com May 12, 2004, 3:03 pm The Butler Herald, November 22, 1917 The Butler Herald Thursday, November 22, 1917 Page Two Reynolds Local Paragraphs Reynolds, Ga., Nov. 21, 1917 Mrs. Fannie Edwards, mother of Mrs. Fred McDaniel, died at Macon Tuesday and will be buried at Fort Valley today (Wednesday). Sincerest sympathy of Reynolds and community friends is extended to Mrs. McDaniel. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 0.9 Kb

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: curry Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sc.2ADI/1056.1 Message Board Post: I did not find them in 1860 Houston Co Ga. email me and I will try to help find them for you gld4jsus@wmconnect.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Watson, Lewis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sc.2ADI/1059.1.1 Message Board Post: Ralph, Thank you so much. I know there are still Watson's living in Warner Robins and Perry that are kin, but I am at a lost with finding them. I appreceate any and all information I can get. Thanks again, Kay Alexander effie4453@bellsouth.net

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: TILL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sc.2ADI/52.146 Message Board Post: I AM A TILL ... I AM FROM WISCONSIN .. IN MY QUEST TO FIND OTHER TILLS OF RELATION TO ME I HAVE FOUND SEVERAL TILLS IN TEXAS WHOS FIRST NAMES MATH THOSE IN MY FAMILY BUT I CANNOT FIND ANY PROOF OF RELATION ....MAYBE THERE IS SOME CONECTION AND WE CAN HELP EACHOTHER?

http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/histcountymaps/houston1864map.htm This is a great map to show the closeness of Crawford County and Bibb County and some of the communities. Gaila

http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/histcountymaps/bibb1865map.htm Map showing Busbayville, Georgia circa 1865 near Macon

Public School Graduates, Dunbar School near Centerville The pupils whose names appear below have completed the seventh grade in the public schools and have received the State School Commissioners' Certificate. In order to be granted the certificate the pupils were required to make a general average of not less than 80 per cent. Cosby Aultman Julius Borum Samie Burnam Gillam Dorsey Joseph Davis Bertha Frederick Oliver Hardison Edna Heard (my grandmother) Sam Lowe Runa Mathews Oda Rushing Ingram Ragan Hubert Smith Lois Smith Perry Wimberly Ethel Avera Elma Bryant Marie Dunbar Maggie Dorsey Elsie DuPree Ethel Green Jasper Hardison Mary Johnson Willis Murray Frank Mathews Viola Riley Maude Sasser Ruth Smith Ruby Smith Erma Scarboroa Miss Marie Dunbar of the Dunbar School has won the five dollar gold piece offered for the best essay on the subject " The main events of 1861, their importance and incluence."

Newton-Houston County GaArchives Obituaries.....Mrs. M. F. Thompson August 1917 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Phyllis Thompson mandpthompson@bellsouth.net May 9, 2004, 12:32 pm The Covington News, Aug. 23, 1917 MRS. M. F. THOMPSON HEARS DEATH'S CALL Excellent and Aged Woman of Oxford Passed Away Friday night. Burial at Perry. Mrs. M. F. Thompson died at the home of her daughter, Miss Mollie Thompson, in Oxford, Friday night at 12 o'clock. Mrs. Thompson was a woman of the highest type of Christian womanhood. She lived to a good old age a life of good works and usefulness to her day and generation. She made many friends who now mourn and miss her. The remains were shipped Sunday morning to Perry for interment. Mrs. Thompson leaves two daughters, Miss Mollie Thompson of Oxford and Mrs. R. E. Dean, of Alexander City, Ala., and a number of grand-children. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb

Hello Yes, the message boards are gatewayed to the mailing list. The person who is not on the list will not see a reply to the list. If someone is responding to a board query, then they can answer it on the board. The answer will then come to the list. I think the boards are great for displaying information and data and for the occassional visitor, who just has one query for the list and doesn't want to be on a list full time. Now we can add photos to the Message Board, which is really great for those lists, counties, surname projects that don't have web pages. If you want to answer a query to a board message, then just follow the link back to the board and answer. regards, Gaila snip > I am trying to get it straight. Do messages posted to the maling list ONLY > stay on the maling list and not the message board but messages posted on the > board go to the board and the mailing list. Or how does it work exactly?