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/183.178 Message Board Post: It was called Sand Ridge Baptist Church in the early 1800's. By 1865 the church was given to the ex-slaves, moved further down the road from what was it's original location to its present day location in Kathleen Ga. It is called SandBed Baptist Church today. I have information on the church history / minutes but don't recall seeing Aldridge - will double check if you are still interested. Gail

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/392.415.526.1 Message Board Post: I am one of Hepzibah Loftin's great-great grandsons. Hepsy was married to Calvin Leary and relocted with him to N. Louisiana prior to the Civil War. Her daughter Frances Jane Leary Colbert was my great-grandmother. My mother keeps a substantial amount of information about the Leary family and might be able to answer questions you might have.

Houston County GaArchives Photo person.....Cromwell Cleveland Howard (Crum), son of Wade Hampton Howard 1910 ************************************************ 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: Lenita White-Palmer lmwhitpal@msn.com September 28, 2003, 10:35 pm Source: Unavailable Photo can be seen at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/houston/photos/ph276cromwell.jpg Image file size: 205.0 Kb Crum is sitting on the left, his oldest son Tom is standing behind Crum, daughter Ellie V. is standing between Crum and Wife Fannie, who is also sitting, in her lap is infant Ira, a hound dog is also there behind Fannie, this is taken on Crum's homestead in Houston Co This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 0.9 Kb

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/1016.2.1 Message Board Post: Thanks, Jon, I really appreciate the map.

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/1016.3 Message Board Post: Look at this site. Jon http://gagen.i-found-it.net/hfemalecollege.html

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sc.2ADI/1016.2 Message Board Post: The name of the school was Houston Female College here is a map to find it. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/MapServer?f_name=Houston+Female+College+(historical)&f_state=GA&f_latlong=322729N0834344W&server=TIGER Jon

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: King Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sc.2ADI/1012.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I'm certain this cemetery is inside the fence, and on base property, on a little hill across from the runway area. I will look into it, and see if we have any info on it, but I don't think much has been done with it. I'm not even sure if any markers are still standing. It is in a restricted area, where someone has to have a special permit to drive on the airfield or be with someone who has one. It may take a while for me to find these things out, since I don't even have one of these permits, but we do have a very brief description of it in an archaeological report. I'll see what I can find out.

The Houston Female College was constituted in 1853 and was called the Perry Baptist Female Seminary until 1854 when it was named Houston Female College. In the late 1880s it was merged with the school for boys. The exact closing date of the school is not known but in 1896 the building was sold to the city of Perry and became Perry High School. NOTE: The above information can be found at Mercer University in Macon, GA in the Special Collections (Archives) Department. All of the records of Tift College are also housed there. Joyce R. Harrsion

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/1016.1.1.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you so much I will try there

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/1016.1.1.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: You are on the wrong track. Tift College in Forsyth, Ga and the Female College in Perry, Ga. have no connection, except that they were both administered by the Baptists. If there are any records remaining of the Female College, they will probably be in the Perry Public Library.

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/1016.1.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Lucy, Thank you so much you have given me a couple of good hints and I will work on it. Notice you said you lived in Florida, that was my home. I lived in Miami, Tampa and Jacksonville. We moved to Louisiana about 45 years ago but I will always love the sand. Joyce

The listing for 1854 does not include any of your surname. Listed are the members of the Senior, Junior, Sophomore, Freshmen, Preparatory, Primary (?) and Music class students. There was a total of 85 students (parent or guardian is listed also) with 28 at music. Students boarding with local residents are also mentioned so you might want to check the census if you are looking for a time frame that it would have been taken in and see if there are any young ladies in the Perry area listed as part of a H/H but as a boarder. In reading, there was an Act approved Feb. 18, 1854 to change the name of the Perry Baptist Female Seminary located in Perry, Houston County, Georgia to Houston Female College. There was a Board of Directors named. Since the Baptist is mentioned, it might well be worth you while to check with the Jack Tarver Library Special Collections at Mercer University in Macon to see if there may be other records deposited there for the earliest years. It is also stated that the building stood where the present Board of Education office is located in Perry and that the main building was moved (across the street) and that it was converted to a residence. It was uncertain when it ceased to function as a school. I think that this building was located where the present fellowship hall for the First Baptist Church is now. When I was growing up it was there and I remember that the Misses Ryals (teachers, Miss Willie taught music and her sister taught regular elementary classes) lived in a portion of it so it must have been converted into either apartments or as a boarding type facility by that time, 1960s, 1970s. When the Baptist Church built their current buildings, it disappeared, torn down or moved, I do not remember. Another old building lost to progress.

On Saturday, September 13, 2003, at 07:03 PM, Helen Hudson wrote: > check. PLEASE IDA WATSON other WATSONS PUGH Thank you very much. Lora

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LANE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sc.2ADI/763.2.1 Message Board Post: I have since found that my Wiley Lane is not related to the Lane families of Houston Co., GA. I believe my Wiley had a brother name Franklin. Janice janb111@aol.com

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/763.2 Message Board Post: I am trying to trace the Lane family from Houston County, GA. They moved to Northern Louisiana in the 1860's. My Grandfather William David Lane was Born in Minden, Louisiana. He married Margaret Rae McDow in 1897 in Minden, LA. Any information would be great. Thanks

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/1017 Message Board Post: I am trying to trace my Indian blood line. I know that a family of Tharpe's and the family of John C. Lane settled in an area just south of Minden, Louisiana in 1863. It was named Lanesville until the turn of the century when it was changed to Sibley, LA. I have not been able to trace my direct linage beyond my Grandfather William David Lane and his wife Margaret Rae McDow other than I know his parents came from Houston County, GA. Any help would be appreciated.

It is mentioned in "A Land So Dedicated" compiled by Bobbie Hicks Nelson as being located on the south east corner of Main and Evergreen Streets (dated 1873). A photo appears on page 139. According to further information it was build in the early 1850s. It goes on to state that it was later the home of Joel Mann. "The First Hundred and Ten Years of Houston County, Georgia (1822-1932)" also has information on the school, 12 pages. Included are some of the members of the classes and names of some of the teachers. What names are you looking for and I will be glad to check.

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/1016.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Joyce, Had dinner this evening with a lady from Macon, GA. She said Mercer sold Tift to the state for some kind of training school. She is not sure where records will be. Lucy

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/1016.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Lucy, thank you so much, that is really a help. Her father was a Baptist minister so the Baptist school sound right. She became ill there and later died but I thought maybe some of her sisters might have attended. Joyce

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/1016.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Joyce, The name of the college was Bessie Tift or Tift and was a Baptist school. Mercer University of Macon, GA bought it but to the regret of the people (I understand as I live in FL) they soon closed it. So try Mercer for records. They have a good library for old records. Lucy