Evening, Weblink to the US Board of Geographic Names _http://geonames.usgs.gov/_ (http://geonames.usgs.gov/) take care, Barron **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms and advice on AOL Money & Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolcmp00300000002850)
Good Evening Liz Nash, I work for the US Geological Survey (USGS) headquarters office in Reston, Virginia and have family from Elbert and surrounding counties...way back. I suggest contacting the USGS and the Board of Geographic Names regarding Cornerville, Georgia. The USGS also has a historic map archive that may aid in determining if there was a Cornerville in Lincoln county in the late 1890's. Visit _www.usgs.gov_ (http://www.usgs.gov) or have Ms. Brunner contact me and I would be happy to assist. Best regards, Barron Bradford **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms and advice on AOL Money & Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolcmp00300000002850)
Has anyone on the list heard of Comerville, Lincoln County, GA? Liz Nash _____ From: S. Brunner [mailto:sbrunner@cut.net] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 10:13 AM To: 'Liz Nash' Subject: RE: Lincoln County GenWeb Page You may post _____ From: Liz Nash [mailto:lznash@bellsouth.net] Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 3:15 PM To: 'S. Brunner' Subject: RE: Lincoln County GenWeb Page Shirley, I have not heard of a Cornerville. With your permission, I will post this to the Lincoln County mailing list and see if anyone there has. Liz _____ From: S. Brunner [mailto:sbrunner@cut.net] Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 12:36 AM To: lznash@bellsouth.net Subject: Lincoln County GenWeb Page I have an ancestor, Safford Lee Freeman, born Dec 13, 1892 - the document I have is of poor quality, but it lists the birthplace as Cornerville, Georgia. I can not find such a town. I found an advertisement for a Massage Therapist in Cornerville, Lincoln County, Georgia. Is there or has there ever been a Cornerville in Lincoln County? Thank You, Shirley Brunner ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned by Cut.Net Managed Email Content Service, using Skeptic(tm) technology powered by MessageLabs. For more information on Cut.Nets Content Service, visit http://www.cut.net ______________________________________________________________________
New Hope Baptist Church is at 5350 Highway 220 East, Lincolnton, GA. I don't have any information on a Maddox Family Cemetery. Liz Nash -----Original Message----- From: galincol-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:galincol-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Betty Bivins Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 9:11 PM To: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com; galincol@rootsweb.com Subject: [GALINCOL] Need pictures of headstones Where is New Hope Baptist Cemetery and the Maddox Family Cemetery located? betty in ga ----- Original Message ----- From: <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> To: <GALINCOL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:15 PM Subject: [GALINCOL] Need pictures of headstones > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: nannie39 > Surnames: Conner,Cliatt,Johnson > Classification: cemetery > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.georgia.counties.li ncoln/1207/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > I need pictures of 2 headstones in New Hope Baptist Cemetery and 2 in the > Maddox Family Cemetery. If you are able to make these, please contact me > at rspenn@aol.com. Thank you. A. Penn, McDonough, Ga. > > Important Note: > The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you > would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link > above and respond on the board. > > > > If this is a Message Board gatewayed to the list, please reply to the > Message Board. The poster may not be a member of this list. > > Please remember that this is a FREE genealogy mailing list and postings of > any commercial nature are NOT permitted by RootsWeb Rules. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GALINCOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > If this is a Message Board gatewayed to the list, please reply to the Message Board. The poster may not be a member of this list. Please remember that this is a FREE genealogy mailing list and postings of any commercial nature are NOT permitted by RootsWeb Rules. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GALINCOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Where is New Hope Baptist Cemetery and the Maddox Family Cemetery located? betty in ga ----- Original Message ----- From: <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> To: <GALINCOL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:15 PM Subject: [GALINCOL] Need pictures of headstones > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: nannie39 > Surnames: Conner,Cliatt,Johnson > Classification: cemetery > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.georgia.counties.lincoln/1207/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > I need pictures of 2 headstones in New Hope Baptist Cemetery and 2 in the > Maddox Family Cemetery. If you are able to make these, please contact me > at rspenn@aol.com. Thank you. A. Penn, McDonough, Ga. > > Important Note: > The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you > would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link > above and respond on the board. > > > > If this is a Message Board gatewayed to the list, please reply to the > Message Board. The poster may not be a member of this list. > > Please remember that this is a FREE genealogy mailing list and postings of > any commercial nature are NOT permitted by RootsWeb Rules. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GALINCOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: nannie39 Surnames: Conner,Cliatt,Johnson Classification: cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.georgia.counties.lincoln/1207/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I need pictures of 2 headstones in New Hope Baptist Cemetery and 2 in the Maddox Family Cemetery. If you are able to make these, please contact me at rspenn@aol.com. Thank you. A. Penn, McDonough, Ga. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: MerkelW Surnames: Walters 15th Inf Regt Georgia Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.georgia.counties.lincoln/349.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello, rkgiddeon; Mar 14 2008 My name is Merkel Walters. My ancestor Franklin Walters was with CO H, 15th Ga Inf Regt at Gettysburg, where he was captured on July 3rd 1863, and sent to 1-FtMcHenry Baltimore MD and then on to Ft, Delaware on Peas Patch Island till the War ended, trhen Paroled home. I see your ancestor had a simular experience. I thought we could help each other. IHANKS! E-Mail me at: mertiger2@comcast.net Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: wlwilhelm45 Surnames: Sewell, Sewall Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.georgia.counties.lincoln/1206/mb.ashx Message Board Post: REUNION: Descendents of Samuel Sewell of MD>Rowan County, NC and his 13 children: Samuel Jr, Christopher, Thomas, Joshua Levi, Henry, Joseph, William, James, Nicholas, Comfort (f), John N, Moses Terrel, Greenberry, Sarah "Sallie" (f). We are planning the GREAT SEWELL REUNION 2008 now, that will take place in August 2008 in GA (date and time will be forwarded later). All descendents welcome. For more information contact Wanda Wilhelm at sewell08_reunion@live.com. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: louisdink1 Surnames: Conner, Shehee, Johnson Lincoln Co GA Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.georgia.counties.lincoln/8.54.66.73.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Anyone still intrested in this post? I'm great grandson of James Conner and Belle Johnson. louisdink@bellsouth.net Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Littlebugbandy Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.georgia.counties.lincoln/765.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Watauga County Beaverdam Creek (portion from confluence of Beaverdam Creek and Little Beaverdam Creek to the mouth of an unamed tributary adjacent to the intersection of SR1201 and SR 1203) Now open to public fishing and classified as Hatchery Supported Trout Waters. Info came out of the NC Trout Fishing Map Update 1 July 2005 Here is the link I hope it might help you find it. http://www.ncwildlife.org/pg03_Fishing/TroutMapUpdate05.pdf Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: backtolynn1 Surnames: Sibert/Sybert,Brown,Koch/Cook,Lightfoote,Tennison,Overall,Brazzwell,Jones Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.georgia.counties.lincoln/287.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have David R Sibert son of Jasper Sybert/Sibert and Rebecca Brown. states these people lived in include SC,Tenn, Ala,Ark. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.
Dougherty-Lincoln-Lowndes County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hiers, Jr, Charles A. "Charlie" December 6, 2002 ************************************************ 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: Ann Yeager annmarkvii@yahoo.com and Freddy Page December 20, 2007, 6:27 am The Albany Herald - Obituaries Charles A. Hiers Jr. LINCOLNTON Charles A. "Charlie" Hiers Jr., 80, of Partridgetown Road died Friday, December 6, 2002, at Doctors Hospital in Augusta. Funeral services were held Monday, December 9, 2002, at 2 p.m. at New Hope Baptist Church with the Revs. Gerald Hollis and Terry Joyner officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Mr. Hiers was born in Lake Park, GA, on November 13, 1922, the son of the late John A. Hiers Sr. and Lena Corbett Hiers. He had served in the Navy during WW II in the Pacific Theatre. He retired after many years as an instructor at Albany Technical College. Mr. Hiers moved from Lake Seminole to Lincolnton about two years ago. He was an active member of Spring Creek Baptist Church. Mr. Hiers son, Charles A. Hiers III preceded him in death. Survivors include his wife, Mary Cox Hiers; daughter, Patricia H. Partridge of Lincolnton; sisters, Lena Maude Harrell of Valdosta and Anna Grace Tucker of Monticello; three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Beggs Funeral Home Lincolnton 706/359-4117 File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/dougherty/obits/h/hiersjr11007ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: kycady Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.georgia.counties.lincoln/1205/mb.ashx Message Board Post: We are engaged in an on-going genealogical and historical research project focused on the Civil War Unionists of Alabama. Two volumes are completed, a third is soon to be released, and nine more volumes are planned. Family Indexes to the first two volumes can be searched at http://www.civilwarunionistsofalabama.com/. Our research has shown that many of the Alabama Unionists migrated through Georgia prior to the Civil War. If you have genealogical data, local history, photographs, etc, related to the subject, we would like to hear from you at jsmbooks@comcast.net or reply to this message board. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: sandramorton1 Surnames: Faircloth and ??? Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.georgia.counties.lincoln/1204/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I'm searching for my husband's uncle.I came across the birth certiicate while working on my husband's family tree 'Faircloth Family Tree'.The family had no idea they had another brother by the same parents."Baby boy" was born May 8, 1955 in Greensboro,Guilford County,North Carolina at Moses Cone Hospital and delivered by Dr. Francis X Berry.He was not given a name on the b/c so I'm not sure if he goes by the Faircloth name or not. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.
Thank you Mr. Cullars, I really did not know if the article would be of interest. I am sifting through a lot of old papers, photo's, and the like that my grandmother left to me and came across the newspaper article. I am currently researching my great grandmother Mamie J. Matthews Norman. Since the newspaper article was in my grandmother's papers, I think there may be a link. However, at this point I can only assume that The Matthews House and Mamie J. Matthews Norman are linked. My mother's folks primarily come from Wilkes, Hart, and Elbert counties. Regards, Barron Bradford -----Original Message----- From: wcullars <wcullars@bellsouth.net> To: GAGenWeb Archives <archives@poppet.org>; galincol@rootsweb.com Sent: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 4:10 pm Subject: Re: [GALINCOL] Ga-Lincoln Co. News (Chennault - Matt) Fascinating !!! I'm related to the Albea, Gullibeau, and Praters. Thanks, Walter L. Cullars GAGenWeb Archives wrote: Lincoln County GaArchives News.....Chennault - Matthew Historic Homes 1976 ************************************************ 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: Barron Bradford barronrb@aol.com October 22, 2007, 10:50 am Augusta Chronicle-Herald September 5, 1976 1976 4F Sunday Chronicle-Herald Augusta, Ga., Sunday Morning, September 5, 1976 Legends surround old homes named to national register By Vinnie Williams THOMSON, Ga. – The gold of the Confederacy was lost in Lincoln County, near he confluence of the Broad and Savannah Rivers. “The Chennaults, father and son tortured by the Federal troops so they would reveal where the Confederate soldiers had hidden the treasury, lived In the Chennault house near the Old Petersburg Road, Georgia 44,” says Mrs. Fred rater. Mrs. Prater’s mother, Mrs. T.W. Cullers, bought the Greek revival house, irca 1850, from the Chennault family in 1943. She gave it to Mrs. Prater in 1961. Mrs. Prater has given it to her son, Paul. Recently the Chennault house, along with three others nearby, was named to he National Register of Historic Sites. The others are the Matthews house, also in Lincoln County; the Anderson and Willis-Sale-Stennett homes, both in Wilkes County. They were all described by the sites historian as “historically and architecturally distinctive.” Washington-Wilkes, of course, is filled with historic sites and bronze arkers, but the Chennault and Matthews homes are Lincoln County’s first entries on the National Register. The county, of course, has four bronzes markers: Tory Pond, the Old etersburg Road, the Lincoln County courthouse and Graves Mountain. Mrs. Prater did the bulk of the research which got the four homes on the register. She was aided by Mrs. Iris Sale, a former clerk of the Lincoln ounty superior court; and Mrs. Sara Spratlin, a retired schoolteacher. THE LADIES MAKE a fine team and easy company, especially around the big table n Mrs. Spratlin’s dining room, iced tea at their elbows, old books and records scattered around. They complement each other. Mrs. Prater is lively and energetic, Mrs. Sale meticulous, and Mrs. Spratlin filled with imagination: “I go off on tangents,” she admits. All are steeped in Lincoln County lore and legend. The Confederate gold at the old Chennault house, for instance. Mrs. Prater tells the story: “In April, 1865, a train of wagons moved out of Washington, Ga. on the Abbeville Road. That night, having come only about 12 miles, they pulled up before the home of Dionysius Chennault and asked to camp. He let them use a large horse lot nearby. Across the way, in the woods, were the campfires of a group of Tennesseeans who apparently had heard of the wagon train and planned n robbing it. Union soldiers roamed the area, for by this time Georgia was nder Yankee domination. “The wagons contained gold and silver coin and bullion belonging to Virginia banks. The treasury had been concealed in Washington for weeks, according to the old story. Its guardians had obtained an order for its safe conduct back o Richmond. “But the wagon was attacked during the night by the Tennessee marauders. hey seized the treasury. Much of it was dropped or lost as the robbers fled. ome was recovered, and area families, such as the Houses and the Mosses, became unwitting custodians for portions of it. “Mrs. Mary Lane, who was a House and lived near the Chennaults, recounted in ‘Reminiscences of Wilkes County, Georgia,’ when she was 80 how she and her sister, Mrs. Moss, then young girls, made money belts for a couple of ennessee soldiers who had part of the treasure. “SHORTLY AFTER THIS stories began circulating concerning the fabulous sums f money concealed on the Chennault plantation. These tales came to the ears of Gen. Wilde, and a detail of Northern soldiers came to the Chennault plantation for purposes of search. “They strung Mr. Chennault and his son, Fran, then 18, up by the thumbs. hey also harassed Mrs. Chennault and the youngest Chennault girl. It was no use. They did not have the treasure. “What happened to it? We, it is my opinion that there were two arms of the treasury train. The one that stopped in the Chennault horse lot – part of his money was recovered by Gen. E.P. Alexander, more was found secreted among the servants, and the raiders got away with a lot of it.” “People still believe that part of the treasure remains hidden near the Chennault plantation,” says Mrs. Spratlin. “People turn up with Geiger counters from time to time and search for it, ut all they ever turn up is an occasional mini-ball,” she says. Jefferson Davis fleeing from northern troops, met Mrs. Davis at the hennault house. She had awaited him there five days. Although the legend of the lost Confederate gold and the presence of efferson Davis lends glamour to the house and would qualify it for the National egister alone, the house stands on its own merits. It is a distinctive example of a builder’s art, as are the other three omes, all located within a six-mile radius. “THE NATIONAL REGISTER told us that they would form a historic district xcept for the intervention of other and less historic houses,” according to Mrs. ale. One of the unusual features of the houses is that they were all designed and built by a single master builder. “The major architectural significance of the Chennault house resides in its relationship to three other houses, the Willis-Sale-Stennett house in Wilkes County, the Matthews house in Lincoln County, and the Anderson house in Wilkes County, Georgia,” says the National Register report. “As a group, they form a stylistic development which is most probably attributable to the influence of single master builder in the years just before and after the Civil War.” Documentary evidence indicates that the Willis-Sale-Stennett house was completed in 1857, the Matthews house about 1861. The Chennault house appears to have been begun between 1857 – 1858, and the Anderson house between 1864 – 870. All are built in the late Greek revival style, but the Anderson house ortico is evidence of the increasing influence of the Victorian on Greek revival fter the Civil War, according to Mrs. Prater. “THE FIRST THREE houses were apparently build by a John Cunningham who was n his early twenties when he began the Willis-Sale-Stennett house, about 30 when he completed the Chennault house. He learned and refined as he went along. Then in 1861 he vanishes from the tax records. He was earlier recorded as living in the Goshen district of Lincoln County. The Anderson house was ither completed by someone who worked with him or was influenced by him,” according o Mrs. Prater. One Danburg tradition states that a black carpenter directed the building of the Anderson house. Ten black carpenters or brick masons appear in the 1870 Wilkes and Lincoln County census records. The six-mile circle occupied by the four houses is on of the oldest and most historic areas in Lincoln County. It is not far from the vanished town of Petersburg, across the Broad and Savannah River crossings, a major trade enter. “All settlement in Lincoln County, as elsewhere, followed the river, the ajor trade route,” says Mrs. Sale. Although Lincoln County now has two certified National Register homes and an claim the legend of the lost Confederate gold as its own, Lincoln County sually is thought of as the home of Elijah Clark Park. Clark, of course, was the Revolutionary War general who broke the Tory hold over upper Georgia when he beat a larger force of British at the Battle of Kettle Creek at War Hill, eight miles west of Washington, in 1779. Elijah Clark Park and museum commemorate this leader who is the subject of a pageant written by Mrs. Spratlin and Mrs. Alice Albea. It was presented twice last year and again this year, commemorating the bicentennial, at the museum. Mrs. Spratlin says that to her Elijah Clark personifies the history of incoln County. “It is all wrapped up in his life,” she says. Mrs. Sale protests, “That may be true, Sara, but I’d like to see you and lice write a pageant about Lincoln County. We have some much more here than just Elijah Clark.” “LINCOLN COUNTY WAS the 24th county created in Georgia. It was cut from ilkes County in 1796 and named for Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, a Revolutionary War hero ho received Lord Cornwallis’ sword at the surrender of Yorktown. Recently the Pine Needle Garden Club presented the county with an oil ortrait of Benjamin Lincoln. It hangs in the Lincoln County courthouse. Lincoln County received various nicknames over the years: The Hornets’ Nest, from its habit of sending out swarms of men who “stung” the Tories; and “The Dark Corner of Georgia,” from the alleged uncouth habits of its country boys ho could run moonshine or stomp an enemy with equal aplomb. No one has ever denied that Lincoln County has its share of men and women ith brains. It seems to export the best. The county points to three leading McDuffie County citizens as “Lincoln born”: District Attorney Kenneth Goolsby f the Toombs Judicial Circuit; William Leverett, president of the First National Bank of Thomason and a former mayor of Thomson for 10 years; and attorney uddy Dallas. One of the keenest minds in Lincoln County, past or present, was a member of the Lamar family, Peter Lamar, who dammed up Spring Branch in the center of Lincolnton and so got the county seat established there. “The committee picking the county seat was looking for a good flow of water, o he provided it,” says Mrs. Sale. The Lamars gave the land for the Community Church (c. 1823) in Lincolnton, a nearby school which has vanished, and promoted the county far and wide. Their works remain, but the Lamars have vanished. The old Lamar cemetery is in the center of town; a descendent of the family comes from Albany once a year and cleans it. THIS YEAR THE Lincoln County Garden club placed a brick and iron fence round the Community Church land given by the Lamars. Clinton Perryman, an attorney, wrote, “The History of Lincoln County” in 933. In his later years, after he became judge of the Toombs superior court, he lso moved to McDuffie County. His sister, Mrs. Clara Sims, 99, still lives in Lincolnton. His history remains the definitive story of Lincoln County, Mrs. Prater feels. “Still we need someone to update it,” she adds. “After all, we lost ne-third of our land to Clark Hill Dam and many landmarks like the Old Guillebeau Inn have vanished.” Mrs. Sale says that there are about 25 new subdivisions from Little River to Broad River and the Savannah. Mrs. Spratlin mentions that the oldest building in Lincolnton is the red, hite and blue store on Peachtree Street. It was built in 1894 as a general merchandise store by Mr. Cooksey Groves who had a sign painted on its front: “Everything.” File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/lincoln/newspapers/chennaul2434gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 11.3 Kb If this is a Message Board gatewayed to the list, please reply to the Message oard. The poster may not be a member of this list. Please remember that this is a FREE genealogy mailing list and postings of any ommercial nature are NOT permitted by RootsWeb Rules. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GALINCOL-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message --- Antivirus: Inbound message clean. 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Fascinating !!! I'm related to the Albea, Gullibeau, and Praters. Thanks, Walter L. Cullars GAGenWeb Archives wrote: > Lincoln County GaArchives News.....Chennault - Matthew Historic Homes 1976 > ************************************************ > 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: > Barron Bradford barronrb@aol.com October 22, 2007, 10:50 am > > Augusta Chronicle-Herald September 5, 1976 1976 > 4F Sunday Chronicle-Herald > Augusta, Ga., Sunday Morning, September 5, 1976 > > Legends surround old homes named to national register > By Vinnie Williams > > THOMSON, Ga. – The gold of the Confederacy was lost in Lincoln County, near the > confluence of the Broad and Savannah Rivers. > > “The Chennaults, father and son tortured by the Federal troops so they would > reveal where the Confederate soldiers had hidden the treasury, lived In the > Chennault house near the Old Petersburg Road, Georgia 44,” says Mrs. Fred Prater. > > Mrs. Prater’s mother, Mrs. T.W. Cullers, bought the Greek revival house, circa > 1850, from the Chennault family in 1943. She gave it to Mrs. Prater in 1961. > Mrs. Prater has given it to her son, Paul. > > Recently the Chennault house, along with three others nearby, was named to the > National Register of Historic Sites. > > The others are the Matthews house, also in Lincoln County; the Anderson and > Willis-Sale-Stennett homes, both in Wilkes County. They were all described by > the sites historian as “historically and architecturally distinctive.” > > Washington-Wilkes, of course, is filled with historic sites and bronze markers, > but the Chennault and Matthews homes are Lincoln County’s first entries on the > National Register. > > The county, of course, has four bronzes markers: Tory Pond, the Old Petersburg > Road, the Lincoln County courthouse and Graves Mountain. > > Mrs. Prater did the bulk of the research which got the four homes on the > register. She was aided by Mrs. Iris Sale, a former clerk of the Lincoln County > superior court; and Mrs. Sara Spratlin, a retired schoolteacher. > > THE LADIES MAKE a fine team and easy company, especially around the big table in > Mrs. Spratlin’s dining room, iced tea at their elbows, old books and records > scattered around. > > They complement each other. Mrs. Prater is lively and energetic, Mrs. Sale > meticulous, and Mrs. Spratlin filled with imagination: “I go off on tangents,” > she admits. > > All are steeped in Lincoln County lore and legend. > > The Confederate gold at the old Chennault house, for instance. > > Mrs. Prater tells the story: > > “In April, 1865, a train of wagons moved out of Washington, Ga. on the > Abbeville Road. That night, having come only about 12 miles, they pulled up > before the home of Dionysius Chennault and asked to camp. He let them use a > large horse lot nearby. Across the way, in the woods, were the campfires of a > group of Tennesseeans who apparently had heard of the wagon train and planned on > robbing it. Union soldiers roamed the area, for by this time Georgia was under > Yankee domination. > > “The wagons contained gold and silver coin and bullion belonging to Virginia > banks. The treasury had been concealed in Washington for weeks, according to > the old story. Its guardians had obtained an order for its safe conduct back to > Richmond. > > “But the wagon was attacked during the night by the Tennessee marauders. They > seized the treasury. Much of it was dropped or lost as the robbers fled. Some > was recovered, and area families, such as the Houses and the Mosses, became > unwitting custodians for portions of it. > > “Mrs. Mary Lane, who was a House and lived near the Chennaults, recounted in > ‘Reminiscences of Wilkes County, Georgia,’ when she was 80 how she and her > sister, Mrs. Moss, then young girls, made money belts for a couple of Tennessee > soldiers who had part of the treasure. > > “SHORTLY AFTER THIS stories began circulating concerning the fabulous sums of > money concealed on the Chennault plantation. These tales came to the ears of a > Gen. Wilde, and a detail of Northern soldiers came to the Chennault plantation > for purposes of search. > > “They strung Mr. Chennault and his son, Fran, then 18, up by the thumbs. They > also harassed Mrs. Chennault and the youngest Chennault girl. It was no use. > They did not have the treasure. > > “What happened to it? We, it is my opinion that there were two arms of the > treasury train. The one that stopped in the Chennault horse lot – part of this > money was recovered by Gen. E.P. Alexander, more was found secreted among the > servants, and the raiders got away with a lot of it.” > > “People still believe that part of the treasure remains hidden near the > Chennault plantation,” says Mrs. Spratlin. > > “People turn up with Geiger counters from time to time and search for it, but > all they ever turn up is an occasional mini-ball,” she says. > > Jefferson Davis fleeing from northern troops, met Mrs. Davis at the Chennault > house. She had awaited him there five days. > > Although the legend of the lost Confederate gold and the presence of Jefferson > Davis lends glamour to the house and would qualify it for the National Register > alone, the house stands on its own merits. > > It is a distinctive example of a builder’s art, as are the other three homes, > all located within a six-mile radius. > > “THE NATIONAL REGISTER told us that they would form a historic district except > for the intervention of other and less historic houses,” according to Mrs. Sale. > > One of the unusual features of the houses is that they were all designed and > built by a single master builder. > > “The major architectural significance of the Chennault house resides in its > relationship to three other houses, the Willis-Sale-Stennett house in Wilkes > County, the Matthews house in Lincoln County, and the Anderson house in Wilkes > County, Georgia,” says the National Register report. “As a group, they form a > stylistic development which is most probably attributable to the influence of a > single master builder in the years just before and after the Civil War.” > > Documentary evidence indicates that the Willis-Sale-Stennett house was > completed in 1857, the Matthews house about 1861. The Chennault house appears > to have been begun between 1857 – 1858, and the Anderson house between 1864 – 1870. > > All are built in the late Greek revival style, but the Anderson house portico > is evidence of the increasing influence of the Victorian on Greek revival after > the Civil War, according to Mrs. Prater. > > “THE FIRST THREE houses were apparently build by a John Cunningham who was in > his early twenties when he began the Willis-Sale-Stennett house, about 30 when > he completed the Chennault house. He learned and refined as he went along. > Then in 1861 he vanishes from the tax records. He was earlier recorded as > living in the Goshen district of Lincoln County. The Anderson house was either > completed by someone who worked with him or was influenced by him,” according to > Mrs. Prater. > > One Danburg tradition states that a black carpenter directed the building of > the Anderson house. Ten black carpenters or brick masons appear in the 1870 > Wilkes and Lincoln County census records. > > The six-mile circle occupied by the four houses is on of the oldest and most > historic areas in Lincoln County. It is not far from the vanished town of > Petersburg, across the Broad and Savannah River crossings, a major trade center. > > “All settlement in Lincoln County, as elsewhere, followed the river, the major > trade route,” says Mrs. Sale. > > Although Lincoln County now has two certified National Register homes and can > claim the legend of the lost Confederate gold as its own, Lincoln County usually > is thought of as the home of Elijah Clark Park. > > Clark, of course, was the Revolutionary War general who broke the Tory hold > over upper Georgia when he beat a larger force of British at the Battle of > Kettle Creek at War Hill, eight miles west of Washington, in 1779. > > Elijah Clark Park and museum commemorate this leader who is the subject of a > pageant written by Mrs. Spratlin and Mrs. Alice Albea. It was presented twice > last year and again this year, commemorating the bicentennial, at the museum. > > Mrs. Spratlin says that to her Elijah Clark personifies the history of Lincoln > County. > > “It is all wrapped up in his life,” she says. > > Mrs. Sale protests, “That may be true, Sara, but I’d like to see you and Alice > write a pageant about Lincoln County. We have some much more here than just > Elijah Clark.” > > “LINCOLN COUNTY WAS the 24th county created in Georgia. It was cut from Wilkes > County in 1796 and named for Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, a Revolutionary War hero who > received Lord Cornwallis’ sword at the surrender of Yorktown. > > Recently the Pine Needle Garden Club presented the county with an oil portrait > of Benjamin Lincoln. It hangs in the Lincoln County courthouse. > > Lincoln County received various nicknames over the years: The Hornets’ Nest, > from its habit of sending out swarms of men who “stung” the Tories; and “The > Dark Corner of Georgia,” from the alleged uncouth habits of its country boys who > could run moonshine or stomp an enemy with equal aplomb. > > No one has ever denied that Lincoln County has its share of men and women with > brains. It seems to export the best. The county points to three leading > McDuffie County citizens as “Lincoln born”: District Attorney Kenneth Goolsby of > the Toombs Judicial Circuit; William Leverett, president of the First National > Bank of Thomason and a former mayor of Thomson for 10 years; and attorney Buddy > Dallas. > > One of the keenest minds in Lincoln County, past or present, was a member of > the Lamar family, Peter Lamar, who dammed up Spring Branch in the center of > Lincolnton and so got the county seat established there. > > “The committee picking the county seat was looking for a good flow of water, so > he provided it,” says Mrs. Sale. > > The Lamars gave the land for the Community Church (c. 1823) in Lincolnton, a > nearby school which has vanished, and promoted the county far and wide. Their > works remain, but the Lamars have vanished. The old Lamar cemetery is in the > center of town; a descendent of the family comes from Albany once a year and > cleans it. > > THIS YEAR THE Lincoln County Garden club placed a brick and iron fence around > the Community Church land given by the Lamars. > > Clinton Perryman, an attorney, wrote, “The History of Lincoln County” in 1933. > In his later years, after he became judge of the Toombs superior court, he also > moved to McDuffie County. His sister, Mrs. Clara Sims, 99, still lives in > Lincolnton. His history remains the definitive story of Lincoln County, Mrs. > Prater feels. > > “Still we need someone to update it,” she adds. “After all, we lost one-third > of our land to Clark Hill Dam and many landmarks like the Old Guillebeau Inn > have vanished.” > > Mrs. Sale says that there are about 25 new subdivisions from Little River to > Broad River and the Savannah. > > Mrs. Spratlin mentions that the oldest building in Lincolnton is the red, white > and blue store on Peachtree Street. It was built in 1894 as a general > merchandise store by Mr. Cooksey Groves who had a sign painted on its front: > “Everything.” > > > > > File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/lincoln/newspapers/chennaul2434gnw.txt > > This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ > > File size: 11.3 Kb > > > If this is a Message Board gatewayed to the list, please reply to the Message Board. 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Lincoln County GaArchives News.....Chennault - Matthew Historic Homes 1976 ************************************************ 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: Barron Bradford barronrb@aol.com October 22, 2007, 10:50 am Augusta Chronicle-Herald September 5, 1976 1976 4F Sunday Chronicle-Herald Augusta, Ga., Sunday Morning, September 5, 1976 Legends surround old homes named to national register By Vinnie Williams THOMSON, Ga. The gold of the Confederacy was lost in Lincoln County, near the confluence of the Broad and Savannah Rivers. The Chennaults, father and son tortured by the Federal troops so they would reveal where the Confederate soldiers had hidden the treasury, lived In the Chennault house near the Old Petersburg Road, Georgia 44, says Mrs. Fred Prater. Mrs. Praters mother, Mrs. T.W. Cullers, bought the Greek revival house, circa 1850, from the Chennault family in 1943. She gave it to Mrs. Prater in 1961. Mrs. Prater has given it to her son, Paul. Recently the Chennault house, along with three others nearby, was named to the National Register of Historic Sites. The others are the Matthews house, also in Lincoln County; the Anderson and Willis-Sale-Stennett homes, both in Wilkes County. They were all described by the sites historian as historically and architecturally distinctive. Washington-Wilkes, of course, is filled with historic sites and bronze markers, but the Chennault and Matthews homes are Lincoln Countys first entries on the National Register. The county, of course, has four bronzes markers: Tory Pond, the Old Petersburg Road, the Lincoln County courthouse and Graves Mountain. Mrs. Prater did the bulk of the research which got the four homes on the register. She was aided by Mrs. Iris Sale, a former clerk of the Lincoln County superior court; and Mrs. Sara Spratlin, a retired schoolteacher. THE LADIES MAKE a fine team and easy company, especially around the big table in Mrs. Spratlins dining room, iced tea at their elbows, old books and records scattered around. They complement each other. Mrs. Prater is lively and energetic, Mrs. Sale meticulous, and Mrs. Spratlin filled with imagination: I go off on tangents, she admits. All are steeped in Lincoln County lore and legend. The Confederate gold at the old Chennault house, for instance. Mrs. Prater tells the story: In April, 1865, a train of wagons moved out of Washington, Ga. on the Abbeville Road. That night, having come only about 12 miles, they pulled up before the home of Dionysius Chennault and asked to camp. He let them use a large horse lot nearby. Across the way, in the woods, were the campfires of a group of Tennesseeans who apparently had heard of the wagon train and planned on robbing it. Union soldiers roamed the area, for by this time Georgia was under Yankee domination. The wagons contained gold and silver coin and bullion belonging to Virginia banks. The treasury had been concealed in Washington for weeks, according to the old story. Its guardians had obtained an order for its safe conduct back to Richmond. But the wagon was attacked during the night by the Tennessee marauders. They seized the treasury. Much of it was dropped or lost as the robbers fled. Some was recovered, and area families, such as the Houses and the Mosses, became unwitting custodians for portions of it. Mrs. Mary Lane, who was a House and lived near the Chennaults, recounted in Reminiscences of Wilkes County, Georgia, when she was 80 how she and her sister, Mrs. Moss, then young girls, made money belts for a couple of Tennessee soldiers who had part of the treasure. SHORTLY AFTER THIS stories began circulating concerning the fabulous sums of money concealed on the Chennault plantation. These tales came to the ears of a Gen. Wilde, and a detail of Northern soldiers came to the Chennault plantation for purposes of search. They strung Mr. Chennault and his son, Fran, then 18, up by the thumbs. They also harassed Mrs. Chennault and the youngest Chennault girl. It was no use. They did not have the treasure. What happened to it? We, it is my opinion that there were two arms of the treasury train. The one that stopped in the Chennault horse lot part of this money was recovered by Gen. E.P. Alexander, more was found secreted among the servants, and the raiders got away with a lot of it. People still believe that part of the treasure remains hidden near the Chennault plantation, says Mrs. Spratlin. People turn up with Geiger counters from time to time and search for it, but all they ever turn up is an occasional mini-ball, she says. Jefferson Davis fleeing from northern troops, met Mrs. Davis at the Chennault house. She had awaited him there five days. Although the legend of the lost Confederate gold and the presence of Jefferson Davis lends glamour to the house and would qualify it for the National Register alone, the house stands on its own merits. It is a distinctive example of a builders art, as are the other three homes, all located within a six-mile radius. THE NATIONAL REGISTER told us that they would form a historic district except for the intervention of other and less historic houses, according to Mrs. Sale. One of the unusual features of the houses is that they were all designed and built by a single master builder. The major architectural significance of the Chennault house resides in its relationship to three other houses, the Willis-Sale-Stennett house in Wilkes County, the Matthews house in Lincoln County, and the Anderson house in Wilkes County, Georgia, says the National Register report. As a group, they form a stylistic development which is most probably attributable to the influence of a single master builder in the years just before and after the Civil War. Documentary evidence indicates that the Willis-Sale-Stennett house was completed in 1857, the Matthews house about 1861. The Chennault house appears to have been begun between 1857 1858, and the Anderson house between 1864 1870. All are built in the late Greek revival style, but the Anderson house portico is evidence of the increasing influence of the Victorian on Greek revival after the Civil War, according to Mrs. Prater. THE FIRST THREE houses were apparently build by a John Cunningham who was in his early twenties when he began the Willis-Sale-Stennett house, about 30 when he completed the Chennault house. He learned and refined as he went along. Then in 1861 he vanishes from the tax records. He was earlier recorded as living in the Goshen district of Lincoln County. The Anderson house was either completed by someone who worked with him or was influenced by him, according to Mrs. Prater. One Danburg tradition states that a black carpenter directed the building of the Anderson house. Ten black carpenters or brick masons appear in the 1870 Wilkes and Lincoln County census records. The six-mile circle occupied by the four houses is on of the oldest and most historic areas in Lincoln County. It is not far from the vanished town of Petersburg, across the Broad and Savannah River crossings, a major trade center. All settlement in Lincoln County, as elsewhere, followed the river, the major trade route, says Mrs. Sale. Although Lincoln County now has two certified National Register homes and can claim the legend of the lost Confederate gold as its own, Lincoln County usually is thought of as the home of Elijah Clark Park. Clark, of course, was the Revolutionary War general who broke the Tory hold over upper Georgia when he beat a larger force of British at the Battle of Kettle Creek at War Hill, eight miles west of Washington, in 1779. Elijah Clark Park and museum commemorate this leader who is the subject of a pageant written by Mrs. Spratlin and Mrs. Alice Albea. It was presented twice last year and again this year, commemorating the bicentennial, at the museum. Mrs. Spratlin says that to her Elijah Clark personifies the history of Lincoln County. It is all wrapped up in his life, she says. Mrs. Sale protests, That may be true, Sara, but Id like to see you and Alice write a pageant about Lincoln County. We have some much more here than just Elijah Clark. LINCOLN COUNTY WAS the 24th county created in Georgia. It was cut from Wilkes County in 1796 and named for Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, a Revolutionary War hero who received Lord Cornwallis sword at the surrender of Yorktown. Recently the Pine Needle Garden Club presented the county with an oil portrait of Benjamin Lincoln. It hangs in the Lincoln County courthouse. Lincoln County received various nicknames over the years: The Hornets Nest, from its habit of sending out swarms of men who stung the Tories; and The Dark Corner of Georgia, from the alleged uncouth habits of its country boys who could run moonshine or stomp an enemy with equal aplomb. No one has ever denied that Lincoln County has its share of men and women with brains. It seems to export the best. The county points to three leading McDuffie County citizens as Lincoln born: District Attorney Kenneth Goolsby of the Toombs Judicial Circuit; William Leverett, president of the First National Bank of Thomason and a former mayor of Thomson for 10 years; and attorney Buddy Dallas. One of the keenest minds in Lincoln County, past or present, was a member of the Lamar family, Peter Lamar, who dammed up Spring Branch in the center of Lincolnton and so got the county seat established there. The committee picking the county seat was looking for a good flow of water, so he provided it, says Mrs. Sale. The Lamars gave the land for the Community Church (c. 1823) in Lincolnton, a nearby school which has vanished, and promoted the county far and wide. Their works remain, but the Lamars have vanished. The old Lamar cemetery is in the center of town; a descendent of the family comes from Albany once a year and cleans it. THIS YEAR THE Lincoln County Garden club placed a brick and iron fence around the Community Church land given by the Lamars. Clinton Perryman, an attorney, wrote, The History of Lincoln County in 1933. In his later years, after he became judge of the Toombs superior court, he also moved to McDuffie County. His sister, Mrs. Clara Sims, 99, still lives in Lincolnton. His history remains the definitive story of Lincoln County, Mrs. Prater feels. Still we need someone to update it, she adds. After all, we lost one-third of our land to Clark Hill Dam and many landmarks like the Old Guillebeau Inn have vanished. Mrs. Sale says that there are about 25 new subdivisions from Little River to Broad River and the Savannah. Mrs. Spratlin mentions that the oldest building in Lincolnton is the red, white and blue store on Peachtree Street. It was built in 1894 as a general merchandise store by Mr. Cooksey Groves who had a sign painted on its front: Everything. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/lincoln/newspapers/chennaul2434gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 11.3 Kb
Lincoln County GaArchives Biographies.....Norman, George Pierce 1857 - 1914 ************************************************ 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: Barron Bradford barronrb@aol.com October 22, 2007, 10:42 am Author: Barron Bradford On December 22, 1889, George Pierce Norman (March 2, 1857 - May 26, 1914), son of Jeptha Washington Norman and Sara Ann Norman, grandson of Elijah Benson Norman (May 24, 1794 -February 11, 1869) and Jane Satterwhite Higginbotham (July 28, 1797 - July 7, 1884), and great grandson of Revolutionary War veteran John Norman and Nancy Austin, apparently traveled from Hart County to Lincoln County to marry Mamie J. Matthews (March 7, 1867 - March 12, 1925). Of additional interest, Jane Satterwhite Higginbotham is the grand daughter of Revolutionary War veteran Samuel Higginbotham (Knight's Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers). Source: Augusta Chronicle-Herald September 5, 1976 In the Census records prior to Mamie J. Matthews' birth, a John Mathews, age 31, is listed in the 1860 Census for Lincoln County in the family of Joseph Mathews, age 65, (it must be noted here that census records indicate two spellings in different census years for Mathews and Matthews) and Letty Matthews, age 54. Of most interest in the 1860 Census of Lincoln County, Georgia is that Benjamin Sayre, age 65, occupation painter, and John Cunningham, age 30, occupation carpenter, are listed at the dwelling and family of Joseph Mathews. Perhaps this is the same John Cunningham listed in the newspaper article attached. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/lincoln/bios/norman937gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb
Liz, thank you very much for passing along this information. Best regards, Zack Florence zzzz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Liz Nash" <lznash@bellsouth.net> To: <galincol@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 4:39 PM Subject: [GALINCOL] Georgia Death Certificates Online >I found about the Georgia Virtual Vault that actually has online for FREE > images of death certificates in Georgia from 1919 to 1927. > > > > The link to the site is: http://content.sos.state.ga.us/cdm4/gadeaths.php > > > > I have found several for my relatives. > > > > Liz Nash > > > > > > If this is a Message Board gatewayed to the list, please reply to the Message Board. The poster may not be a member of this list. > > Please remember that this is a FREE genealogy mailing list and postings of any commercial nature are NOT permitted by RootsWeb Rules. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GALINCOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >