I completed the transcriptions of the Fitzgerald Enterprise up to end of Dec. 1900. In fact I have been working on the index so hard copies can be printed out and sent to the library in Fitzgerald. Those copies will have an everyname index in each of them. Also I have started on the transcriptions for the years 1901 through Dec. 1903. Later this week I will get the remainder of the 200 pages loaded to the website. When pages were counted there was 200 that I have done to date of the 1897 to 1901. This film reel is only half done, lots more to go. And I thought I could do this all in one month...ha, ha, big HAH! No way, not unless I just get the obits, marriages, births and leave everything thing else, and I just can't ignore, who moved to town, moved away, took a new job, graduated from college, the joys and the tragedies that occured through those years and the new buildings that went up, businesses that opened and all of the day to day happenings that tells the stories of our ancestors lives and how they interacted with their family and neighbors. Hope you all will approve that we to know those things that are sometimes ignored. Kind Regards to all, Gloria "What good is knowledge if not shared?" --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today!

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/Tc.2ADI/789.2 Message Board Post: thank you all for the information....more would be great :-)...i have contstant dreams about the place...there is something there that i need to see, but i dont know what it may be....well, anyway, thank you all again. peace and happiness

Sorry at typo. W. C. Coker and wife Carrie Coker are buried in Irwin Co. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tracy Daniel" <tracy113@bellsouth.net> To: <GAIRWIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 1:10 AM Subject: Re: [GAIRWIN] Re: Merritt > Is this right? W. C. Coke and Carrie B. Coker? I'm asking becouse of the > last names. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <confed@att.net> > To: <GAIRWIN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 5:35 PM > Subject: [GAIRWIN] Re: Merritt > > > > 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/Tc.2ADI/357.359.363.1.1 > > > > Message Board Post: > > > > Deborah > > > > I have not researched this family but have found some information from my > reference books at home. > > > > Probably the census would identify family members. > > > > W. C. Coke and Carrie B. Coker are buried in Irwin Co and > > Lois Coker Paulk is buried in Coffee Co, GA. > > > > Lois Coker was the second wife of Oliver (Ollie) Paulk who was married > three times. > > > > > > ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== > > Thank you all Irwin County Volunteers and Contributors for your help > throughout the years....1996-2004 Gloria Holback > > > > ============================== > > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== > A Gathering Place For Irwin County Family Members and Friends To Discuss Our Family Histories. A Place To Share Stories About The History Of Irwin County. If New To This List Please Introduce Yourself And Tell Us What Surnames That Your Researching. And A Big Welcome From Each Of US. > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

Is this right? W. C. Coke and Carrie B. Coker? I'm asking becouse of the last names. ----- Original Message ----- From: <confed@att.net> To: <GAIRWIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 5:35 PM Subject: [GAIRWIN] Re: Merritt > 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/Tc.2ADI/357.359.363.1.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Deborah > > I have not researched this family but have found some information from my reference books at home. > > Probably the census would identify family members. > > W. C. Coke and Carrie B. Coker are buried in Irwin Co and > Lois Coker Paulk is buried in Coffee Co, GA. > > Lois Coker was the second wife of Oliver (Ollie) Paulk who was married three times. > > > ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== > Thank you all Irwin County Volunteers and Contributors for your help throughout the years....1996-2004 Gloria Holback > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: gulledge Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Tc.2ADI/71.114.17.1 Message Board Post: pronce gulledge sr. was my great grandfathers brother,his dad jerry gulledge is buried in etawah county if i am not mistaken,i will have to look back at my records.he was mygreat great grandfather.pronce was my granddaddy lloyd gulledge's uncle.i do not know for sure if jerry's wife was elizabeth but my family said it was either her first or middle,but she was a full blooded cherokee indian.i do know thaT pronce sr. died may 9,1958 in jefferson county,certificate number11701.if you have any info.please share.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/Tc.2ADI/789.1 Message Board Post: Crystal Lake was owned by a Mr. Bone. In the spring of 1865, he murdered Mr. Jack Walker, who was a justice of the peace. Mr. Walker was searching for a runaway slave and Mr. Bone was allowing the slave to hide out on his property. The story of the event is in the Irwin County History Book as well as in the Tifton Gazette in 1930.

When I was a child the pavillion was still standing, in the early to mid 1940s. The beach/shoreline was clear of anything other than the beautiful white sand a crystal clear water. Time changes everything. Sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. Many generations of children and young adults have spent joyous hours of sun and play at Crystal Lake. The other popular places was Eli Vickers, Lake Beatrice "Lake Bea" and Bowen's Mill. Each had swimming pools for adults and children, dancing to the juke box, Lake Bea had duck pin bowling, skating at one time it seems in my memory, a snack bar, and people fished on the lake. Gloria Thomas Vickers <vick_ammo@hotmail.com> wrote: John, When i was younger I lived in Irwinville. My father had a garage there and the man who owned the lake let him have a key, that would have been about 1954+-. We used to go there and picnic and swim on weekends. The lake was pretty clear when you got away from the slime that covered the first 5-10 feet near most of the shore. Crystal Lake is where I learned to swim. There was an old tower just off from where the shore was then and we would jump off it. My father and mother had gone there years before. There was the shell of an old pavilion there even then. They said that when they went the lake came up near the steps of the pavilion. I think they said there was also skating there then. One day when the owner came in, the lake had receded to where it is today. No one knows where the pure white sand for the lake comes from, as far as I know, but it is very beautiful. Also the lake was so clear that you could see fish near the bottom almost all the way across. There is an old story that there used to be skiing on the lake. One day a boy fell and yelled to hurry up because he fell in barb-wire. When they pulled him out, he had several small moccosins hanging from him. They cleaned the lake up and it was still popular. Also, the end of the lake farthest from the pavilion was said to be very deep. Some Navy divers supposedly went down and found several holes (caves) off the sink home on that end. In the late 70's I went back there. It had a waterpark beside the lake with waterslides, etc. Haven't even thought about it for a long time. Hope this helps some In Christ Gene Vickers _________________________________________________________________ Check out Election 2004 for up-to-date election news, plus voter tools and more! http://special.msn.com/msn/election2004.armx ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== Thank you all Irwin County Volunteers and Contributors for your help throughout the years....1996-2004 Gloria Holback ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 "What good is knowledge if not shared?" --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today!

It is privately owned by the Adcock family that owns Adcock Pecan Co. in Tifton. -----Original Message----- From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com [mailto:gc-gateway@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of johnshaun702@earthlink.net Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 7:55 PM To: GAIRWIN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [GAIRWIN] cystal lake/crystal beach waterpark 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/Tc.2ADI/789 Message Board Post: does anyone have any past or current information about crystal lake/beaches and waterpark in irwinville, ga. I just find this place very interesting. I know it's closed down now. Hadnt been there since i was a kid. Any information is helpful....thanks ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== A Gathering Place For Irwin County Family Members and Friends To Discuss Our Family Histories. A Place To Share Stories About The History Of Irwin County. If New To This List Please Introduce Yourself And Tell Us What Surnames That Your Researching. And A Big Welcome From Each Of US. ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

John, When i was younger I lived in Irwinville. My father had a garage there and the man who owned the lake let him have a key, that would have been about 1954+-. We used to go there and picnic and swim on weekends. The lake was pretty clear when you got away from the slime that covered the first 5-10 feet near most of the shore. Crystal Lake is where I learned to swim. There was an old tower just off from where the shore was then and we would jump off it. My father and mother had gone there years before. There was the shell of an old pavilion there even then. They said that when they went the lake came up near the steps of the pavilion. I think they said there was also skating there then. One day when the owner came in, the lake had receded to where it is today. No one knows where the pure white sand for the lake comes from, as far as I know, but it is very beautiful. Also the lake was so clear that you could see fish near the bottom almost all the way across. There is an old story that there used to be skiing on the lake. One day a boy fell and yelled to hurry up because he fell in barb-wire. When they pulled him out, he had several small moccosins hanging from him. They cleaned the lake up and it was still popular. Also, the end of the lake farthest from the pavilion was said to be very deep. Some Navy divers supposedly went down and found several holes (caves) off the sink home on that end. In the late 70's I went back there. It had a waterpark beside the lake with waterslides, etc. Haven't even thought about it for a long time. Hope this helps some In Christ Gene Vickers _________________________________________________________________ Check out Election 2004 for up-to-date election news, plus voter tools and more! http://special.msn.com/msn/election2004.armx

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/Tc.2ADI/789 Message Board Post: does anyone have any past or current information about crystal lake/beaches and waterpark in irwinville, ga. I just find this place very interesting. I know it's closed down now. Hadnt been there since i was a kid. Any information is helpful....thanks

Hi, There is a very interesting article in the newspaper for June or July 1900 about the Federal Census and lots of great information about the enumerators job, how it was all done. Down side is some enumerators were not honest and were taking names from tombstones, obituaries and other sources to add to the census. Why? Well I will soon be transcribing that section of the Fitzgerald Enterprise and will put the entire articles (there were several) online. Each enumerator in Irwin County and some other GA counties had about 2000 residences to visit. Maps, and other helpful aides were provided to the enumerators. I found it interesting that the enumerators did lie and falsify records, so we all need to keep that in mind in the event we find something that we know "can't" be, such as a dead relative showing up two years later on a census schedule. Hopefully, that was something that did not happen often and I personally have never ran into that problem in about twenty years of research. Some missing, but never there when they shouldn't be. By using the census, newspapers and the histories written about a county one can now trace their ancestors movements even during the 1880s to 1900 during that period when the 1890 would have helped. Be sure to check the Georgia newspapers for all counties as they all clipped articles from other papers and published some of them in their local papers. You will find articles about Ben Hill and Irwin County residents in the Coffee, Dooly, Colquitt, Dodge, Telfair, Wilcox and other neighboring counties papers. So don't ignore that great source of information. When it was a murder trial or an accidental death it sometimes made the Atlanta papers as well as local papers. Sometimes you will find a lot of information about Georgians in the Alabama and Florida newspapers too. Just some helpful hints to where you might find that one bit of information that will help you with your brick walls. Be sure to take a look at the latest newspaper uploads for March 1900 through April, May, June http://home.comcast.net/~gholback/1897__1903.htm http://home.comcast.net/~gholback/1900_jan_march.htm http://home.comcast.net/~gholback/1900_april_july.htm new Jeff Davis Park, Jefferson Davis page http://home.comcast.net/~gholback/hist_jdp.htm have a great evening. Gloria "What good is knowledge if not shared?" --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages!

Hi, tonight I will get the latest transcriptions loaded to the Ben Hill County site. These transcriptions are from 1900 and Fitzgerald was part of Irwin County at the time. Ben Hill County was not created until 1906 so these papers pertain to not only residents in Fitzgerald but to Irwin, Coffee, Colquitt, Berrien, Dooly, Wilcox, and a few other counties. With over 100 pages of transcriptions I am barely into this film. There is still over 3/4 roll left to transcribe. I am trying not to leave anything that is helpful in providing clues to where your ancestors may have came from, went to, worked, attended schools, married, when they were born, died, played an instrument, fell out of a buggy, and sometimes were murdered or murdered someone else. These transcriptions have a bit of everything mentioned above and more. Let me know if you find one of your own ancestors among those mentioned in these transcriptions as it feels good to know that someone has benefitted by the material. The rivaly between the editor of Fitzgerald's newspaper and the editor of the Ocilla newspaper continues. Mr. Mercer in Fitzgerald and Mr. Hanlon in Ocilla continue their sparring with words. Hope you enjoy the latest transcriptions. Gloria "What good is knowledge if not shared?" --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today!

Cathi, thanks so much for the blessings offered for our Floridian cousins. The state is still a wonderful place to live and guess I would never want to leave even with the hurricanes. Gloria Quit7it@aol.com wrote:Hi, Just wanted to drop a line to say, "Blessings to you"! I was born in Florida and moved away while very young; have always longed to move back there, even with the hurricanes! I may be wrong about that, though. I will say prayers for you and all of those affected by the storms. I hope you are able to recover. Never let anything steal your true "joy". Cathi Tucker Thomas Cordova, TN _quit7it@aol.com_ (mailto:quit7it@aol.com) ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== Thank you all Irwin County Volunteers and Contributors for your help throughout the years....1996-2004 Gloria Holback ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 "What good is knowledge if not shared?" --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Free. Download now.

Cathy, my heart goes out to you and your family for the great loss of family members and the damage and the agrivation that they were subjected to by the hurricanes. I will keep you all in my prayers. Gloria Catherine Fussell Wells <roncathy@mchsi.com> wrote:Gloria, so glad to hear you are alright. My folks over in Polk County got the full force again. My sister was trying to get her roof back on but I don't think it happened before Jeanne got there. Her whole house is ruined and they will are starting with the roof down. My uncle died on Thursday night and a cousin died on Friday and both their funerals had to be postponed until today. It's sad enough dealing with death but 4 hurricanes and one causing a postponement of a funeral really takes it's toll. Here in Valdosta, we got lots of wind and lots of rain - some houses sustained tree damage and some people are still without power but our side of town was spared. Only pine limbs down. Hang in there! Hurricane season will soon be over although when we were living in Brandon, one came through in November! Just what you wanted to hear :) Cathy ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== Thank you all Irwin County Volunteers and Contributors for your help throughout the years....1996-2004 Gloria Holback ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 "What good is knowledge if not shared?" --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers!

Gloria, glad that you made it through yet another one. Let's pray that next year we don't have weather conditions like this year. Enough, is enough. God bless you and yours, Gloria GlBueschel@aol.com wrote:Gloria-- glad to hear you are ok we are right there with you in this as we are over in West palm Beach. Lucky for us the eye moved north and we only had some more trees down. it's shocking to see the pictures of the damage in the hard hit areas. i really feel bad for these people, i guess you too who have had a more or less direct hit 2 or maybe 3 times in a row. i'm hoping we will get a nice long breather before the next one pops up. keep up the good work Gloria Bueschel West Palm Beach ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== Thank you all Irwin County Volunteers and Contributors for your help throughout the years....1996-2004 Gloria Holback ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 "What good is knowledge if not shared?" --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone.

Gloria-- glad to hear you are ok we are right there with you in this as we are over in West palm Beach. Lucky for us the eye moved north and we only had some more trees down. it's shocking to see the pictures of the damage in the hard hit areas. i really feel bad for these people, i guess you too who have had a more or less direct hit 2 or maybe 3 times in a row. i'm hoping we will get a nice long breather before the next one pops up. keep up the good work Gloria Bueschel West Palm Beach

Gloria, so glad to hear you are alright. My folks over in Polk County got the full force again. My sister was trying to get her roof back on but I don't think it happened before Jeanne got there. Her whole house is ruined and they will are starting with the roof down. My uncle died on Thursday night and a cousin died on Friday and both their funerals had to be postponed until today. It's sad enough dealing with death but 4 hurricanes and one causing a postponement of a funeral really takes it's toll. Here in Valdosta, we got lots of wind and lots of rain - some houses sustained tree damage and some people are still without power but our side of town was spared. Only pine limbs down. Hang in there! Hurricane season will soon be over although when we were living in Brandon, one came through in November! Just what you wanted to hear :) Cathy

Hi, Just wanted to drop a line to say, "Blessings to you"! I was born in Florida and moved away while very young; have always longed to move back there, even with the hurricanes! I may be wrong about that, though. I will say prayers for you and all of those affected by the storms. I hope you are able to recover. Never let anything steal your true "joy". Cathi Tucker Thomas Cordova, TN _quit7it@aol.com_ (mailto:quit7it@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/Tc.2ADI/357.359.363.1.1 Message Board Post: Deborah I have not researched this family but have found some information from my reference books at home. Probably the census would identify family members. W. C. Coke and Carrie B. Coker are buried in Irwin Co and Lois Coker Paulk is buried in Coffee Co, GA. Lois Coker was the second wife of Oliver (Ollie) Paulk who was married three times.

We were lucky again! Thanks to last minute re boarding all of the windows and parking cars in front of the garabe door to break some of the wind damage. Now I and most of the people living in Florida are suffering from hurricane fatigue. We board the windows, then remove the boards. Thinking that Jeanne would go up the coast we waited till about 1:00 to put some of the boards we had removed from windows and doors back up. But it didn't miss us and came across the state as you all know. Some folks lost their roofs and had lots of water damage, flooding are now without power in many areas. It is like camping out in your own home. So sorry for those who got the brunt again from a hurricane. Sorry for you folks up in AL, LA, MS, NC,SC, and GA and all areas too who have suffered this year from these unwelcome visitors to our states. Pardon any of us who are delayed in getting back to anyone asking for lookups. It will take us a few days to get back to genealogy mode from hurricane mode. John and I in Sarasota Florida which is along the coastline (Gulf of Mexico), and Florida is not a very wide state and again this hurricane crossed the state and came right down on top of our county as well as those north of us with winds up to (maybe above) 75 miles per hour (for what seemed like hours). We lost a tree in our back yard, lots of limbs down and debri all over the yard from neighbors trees. My mother has been without power for going on three days (her entire neigborhood without power). We only lost power for a few hours during that first night as our power lines are buried under ground and no power lines above ground in our neighborhood which I think does help during these hurricane seasons. The tree that we lost went right in between our neigbors screened pool enclosure and ours missing both. All night we heard loud "thuds" hitting and bouncing across the our roof. Limbs, avacados (neighbors trees) and other air borne debri pelting the neigborhood. Some of our friends came and stayed over night as their home lost part of it's roof during the last hurricane and isn't yet repaired. Lots of folks again lost everything they owned. One couple in Western Hillsborough county burned their home during the hurricane by placing a cardboard box on the stove and the box accidently brushed against the power switch and caught the kitchen on fire, they lost their family dog in the fire. Again some auto accidents claimed lives with people out driving in the high winds. Be sure to check out Zaroga Goff's Turner County site as she has added some more newspaper transcriptions to her site. Within a day or two I will feel like transcribing again. For now I am just getting the house back in order. Everything on the porch comes in and everything outside is moved to the garages during these hurricanes. So now got to get it out of the house and garage and back where it all goes. By the way I received my DNA test kit last weekend and will be doing the test which tells me what geographical area all of my ancestors came from. Now I will find the real truth of my ancestors through their DNA trail...back to where they came from. It is a very simple test and just includes two swabs to swab inside the mouth on the right and left inner cheeks. Send it off and learn who you descend from. Gloria "What good is knowledge if not shared?" --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages!