Hi Joyce, My Aunt Marjorie Johnson taught at that school. I remember going there in the 50's, I think I was two or three and because my Grandmother was ill, I was sent to school with A Marjorie. I went to Hattie Baptist Church too, when I was little. In the mid 1820's, Busbyville was just west of where Centerville currently stands. Busbayville is still on the map of the Shoo Fly, circa 1882. Centerville was half way between Byron and Wellston and halfway between Macon and Perry and that is how it got its name. About 1900 the citizens asked for a post office and had to change the name to Hattie, as their was already a Centerville, Ga, so it was changed to Hattie. When the post office was returned to Byron, it reverted to Hattie again. This information is in A Land So Dedicated by Bobbe Hickson. This is a wonderful book for photos and information about the area that our ancestors lived in and even some of us. Gaila Subject: Re: [GAHOUSTO] Busbyville Does anyone know when Centerville was called Busbyville? I have always heard that just before the community was named Centerville it was called Hattie. I got married in 1950 in the Hattie Baptist Church which was the mother church of the now called First Baptist Church (the one across the street from the old Centerville Cemetery which also used to be called the Hattie Cemetery. I went to grammar school in the Centerville Grammar School which sat directly in from of the cemetery. There was a "pig path" between the cemetery fence and the back of the school and students had run back and forth over this path so many times that it resembled a trench because those running feet had worn down the dirt over the years. Our "bathrooms" were outhouses in my day. The boys bathroom was outside the fence along the left side of the cemetery; the girls' was on the opposite side of the cemetery outside the fence. It was a long trek to the "necessary" in the cold or rainy weather. Buried in the old cemetery are my gr.grandparents, Peter Henry Rape and Laura Frances Scarborough, and their seven sons and four of their five daughters and many grand and great-grandchildren. Laura Frances Scarborough's father was Silas D. P. Scarborough. I very recently found his grave in an abandonded cemetery not too far from Centerville. Joyce Rape Harrison ----- Original Message ----- From: Sandra and Wayne Riner <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 10:07 PM Subject: Re: [GAHOUSTO] Busbyville > Addie`s book has the listings for the cemeteries in Houston Co which include > Centerville {Busbyville} In A Land so Dedicated it talks of Busbyville, have > you seen that? Does anyone else have any other information on Busbyville I > would be very interested also since I was kin to the Busby`s that lived > there and the Johnson`s. > Sandra > > > > >Do you have any information on BUSBYVILLE, what is now called Centerville? > >Do you have any cemetery listings for BUSBYVILLE? > >kathy kendrick > > > > > >==== GAHOUSTO Mailing List ==== > >Post queries / surname interests to the > >Houston Co., GAGenWeb GenConnect board at > >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Houston > > > ==== GAHOUSTO Mailing List ==== > To unsub / sub from the digest mode, send a message > with only the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the > message area to: [email protected] > ==== GAHOUSTO Mailing List ==== Post queries / surname interests to the Houston Co., GAGenWeb GenConnect board at http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/Houston