I would be interested in any Jeter info that you have available. Also, the small town near Callaway Gardens was Chipley ,GA until sometime after about1960s when the town name was changed to its present name. As far as I know, before that it was always Chipley. Thanks for any info. Gus Hipp AJRFH3@AOL.COM

Hi Gus, you have been added to my list for look-ups. Debbie >So far, this is my look-up list >for Gerald Lord, GHLord@prodigy.net William Thomas Lord, SR 1830's >for Suzzanne Coker, thecokers@juno.com, John Powell Porter in White >Sulphur Springs, 1870's >for Dave Hall, davehalll@erols.com, George Washington Hall, & son, George >Frank Hall- >had mill near present day Callaway Gardens. It may have been Shipley or >Chipley then. > >Williams family-father, James Newton d 1901, may have had sons still >there? >James David O'Neal minister of Enon Primitive Baptist Chruch >Thrash family-Maltire Anthony Thrash d 1898, maybe children still >owned some land? > >for Laura J. Swilley, LJSwilley@Juno.com Francis Jeter or any Jeters > for Gus Hipp, AJRFH3@AOL.COM surname..Jeter. >If I missed anyone, please resend your requests. >I should go sometime this week. >Sorry I can't just photocopy the index, but the courthouse charges 5.00/page >and I can't afford that. >Sincerely, >Debbie Fowler >listowner >

Hi Everyone who wrote to request map look-ups. I did try to find your relatives on the map. Was unsuccessful. But I will go to the courthouse and look for your ancestors in the deed index. If I find any information, I'll email you again. So far, this is my look-up list for Gerald Lord, GHLord@prodigy.net William Thomas Lord, SR 1830's for Suzzanne Coker, thecokers@juno.com, John Powell Porter in White Sulphur Springs, 1870's for Dave Hall, davehalll@erols.com, George Washington Hall, & son, George Frank Hall- had mill near present day Callaway Gardens. It may have been Shipley or Chipley then. Williams family-father, James Newton d 1901, may have had sons still there? James David O'Neal minister of Enon Primitive Baptist Chruch Thrash family-Maltire Anthony Thrash d 1898, maybe children still owned some land? for Laura J. Swilley, LJSwilley@Juno.com Francis Jeter or any Jeters If I missed anyone, please resend your requests. I should go sometime this week. Sorry I can't just photocopy the index, but the courthouse charges 5.00/page and I can't afford that. Sincerely, Debbie Fowler listowner

Hi all, I should have added my two cents worth to this too. Names are leads, that might be good ones, but there is not a hard and fast rule that was followed. Use the surnames as a "tip" when you have reached a dead end. Sorry to have mislead you. Just wanted to remind everyone that even if they do not find a particular ancestor in a will or deed, to look at the witness signatures too. Debbie Fowler -----Original Message----- From: Debbie Fowler <micajah@mindspring.com> To: SCUNION-L@rootsweb.com <SCUNION-L@rootsweb.com>; GAMERIWE-L <GAMERIWE-L@rootsweb.com>; NCBURKE-L <NcBurke-L@rootsweb.com>; NCRUTHER-L <NCRUTHER-L@rootsweb.com>; NCLINCOL-L <NCLINCOL-L@rootsweb.com>; NCHAYWOO-L <NCHAYWOO-L@rootsweb.com>; missingmacs <missingmacs@listbot.com> Date: Friday, March 19, 1999 8:59 AM Subject: Re: [SCUNION-L] John George >missingmacs - http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~micajah/ > >Got this from another List and thought It would be very useful to pass along >to all you folks. > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Tips on finding maiden names from the 1992 Jackson County, Michigan >> > Genealogical Society: >> > >> > Nothing will give greater clues to maiden names than the witnesses to >old >> > wills. In the lower left hand corner of most deeds, you will find >signatures >> > of two to four witnesses. The first is always from the husband's side. >The >> > next is almost always from the wife's side and that is to protect her >> > one-third dower right under law. >> > >> > Mortgages: In the 1800s and before, it was traditional when the daughter >> > married, as part of her dowry, for the father to either >> > cover their mortgage or carry a note for his son-in-law. If you can find >to >> > whom their mortgage payments were made, 70% of the time it will be the >> > bride's father. >> > > >Happy Hunting! >Edith Ward - List Host >Monroe county, TN. Mailing List >TNMONROE-L@rootsweb.com >To UNsubscribe: >TNMONROE-L-request@rootsweb.com >Type: unsubscribe in body of message. > > >______________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, write to missingmacs-unsubscribe@listbot.com >Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/

Got this from another List and thought It would be very useful to pass along to all you folks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tips on finding maiden names from the 1992 Jackson County, Michigan > > Genealogical Society: > > > > Nothing will give greater clues to maiden names than the witnesses to old > > wills. In the lower left hand corner of most deeds, you will find signatures > > of two to four witnesses. The first is always from the husband's side. The > > next is almost always from the wife's side and that is to protect her > > one-third dower right under law. > > > > Mortgages: In the 1800s and before, it was traditional when the daughter > > married, as part of her dowry, for the father to either > > cover their mortgage or carry a note for his son-in-law. If you can find to > > whom their mortgage payments were made, 70% of the time it will be the > > bride's father. > > Happy Hunting! Edith Ward - List Host Monroe county, TN. Mailing List TNMONROE-L@rootsweb.com To UNsubscribe: TNMONROE-L-request@rootsweb.com Type: unsubscribe in body of message.

Hello, This is my first (but not last!) post to this list. I am having difficulties in searching for Joseph O'Neal and his family. They are in the 1870 Merriweather Co. Census: O'Neal, Joseph b. 1840 AL Nancy b. 1840 GA Charles b. 1869 GA Other children: Sulmer b. 1871 GA Margie Ophelia b. 1872 GA Mary Fannie b. 1876 GA I was told there were other O'Neal's in the 1870 Merriweather Co. census. Does anyone have this census or access to it that could check those other names for me? If anyone can give ANY info. about this family I would really appreciate your help! Thank You, Stacey

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Is there anyone searching for the Mills family of Meriweather County during the years of 1825- 1840s. I have William Mills (born ca. 1792) whose children were born there about this time period. I would also be interested in finding the marriage record of William Mills and Nancy ??? TYIA, Jeanette

Seeing information on the families of Robert Walter GRANGER, b. 1834 in Meriwether GA and wife Anna Julia JAMES, b. 1837. They were married 1856 in Meriwether GA. Julia was also knwn as Juley. This was sent to me by a cousin..... 1850 census GA County, Meriwether Name age born Nancy JAMES 49 SC Calvin 16 SC Juley 13 SC William J GOTHARD 23 SC Sarah 20 SC Hampton JAMES 30 SC Emaline 26 SC Infant, female 1 GA Slaves 2 BARTLEY's Female -24 Female - 10 Nancy is also known as Mary "Nancy". Any clues appreciated. Thanks, Virginia warren@alaweb.com

Hi, All, I'm looking for info re my great-great-grandparents: JOHN POWELL PORTER, b. January 16, 1828, Gwinnett Co., GA d. November 27, 1900, BELIEVE Meriwether Co., GA m. 1853, Troup Co., GA to MARTHA TRAYLOR b. 1832, Troup Co., d. 1862, BELIEVE Meriwether Co., GA Listed on 1870 Meriwether census as being in WHITE SULPHER [sic] SPRINGS They had three children and perhaps a fourth: 1. MARTHA J. "Mattie" b. abt. 1855 m. Thomas J. DUKE In Roopville, Carroll Co., GA in late 1920's, as have letter from her. 2. MARY "Mollie" b.? m. Mr. TOLAND 3. SARAH JANE "Sallie" b. August 15, 1858, probably Meriwether Co., GA d. March 04, 1948, Fayette Co., GA m. 1878, Walter Brannon Carnes of Jonesboro, Clayton Co., GA Sarah Porter is my great-grandmother. **4. J. P. PORTER--gentleman whom oldtimers I've interviewed said was the brother of SARAH JANE CARNES (# 3 above) and visited her often in Fayette Co. following the early death of her husband. My questions: Does anyone there have information on any of these family members? Any Porters lurking about in Meriwether? Any one have access to the cemetery records for Meriwether? Are John Powell Porter and wife, Martha, buried in Meriwether? Any church records you have where they might appear? Martha Traylor Porter died shortly after John entered the Civil War. He enlisted in White Sulphur Springs. He was captured and in prison for the duration of the war. Who cared for these children while he was in prison? I would truly appreciate any help or suggestions anyone would give me. Regards. Suzanne Coker <thecokers@juno.com> ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

Hi everyone, I would like to find my ggg. grandfather. He was married to Jensy Bowles and had a son, Samuel. Jensy was born about 1805 and had Samuel in 1825. I am looking for his siblings as well as his father. Any help would be appreciated. They lived in Meriwether Cty, in the 1800's. Thank you. Imani Bowles

Hi All, I'm back online, the computer is in it's temporary home until we locate a house to buy. I'll be going to NC this morning, [Mom is keeping the dogs for us], but will be back late tomorrow. By Tues or Wed, things should be stable enough here to take a deep breath and relax. This move was harder to do, guess it is because I am getting older <g> See you all later, Debbie CC and Listowner for Burke, Lincoln, Rutherford Listowner for NCHaywood, GAMeriwether

Just received this message from Pam Carey at genconnect, the query system in use for our counties... "GenConnect will be down for possibly a few days while it is worked on." Debbie

the only name i have currently is sarah t. davis born 1828 ga., maybe meriwether. thanks.

Hi Ima, I should have said I have information on some deed transfers for the surname Davis. Last week, I went to the courthouse to investigate the prior owners of a home and land we are thinking of purchasing. The family who have owned this property is the DAVIS family of Meriwether Co. I was in the process of photocopying the grantor / grantee index for DAVIS, [to save time] when I learned it was five dollars a page! So I quit at 1 1/2 pages. No one there could give me a good reason for the expense on this index, becasue everything else is .25 a copy <g>. Anyway, I don't think it shows the wifes names, only the names of the buyer or seller. If you are looking for something along that line, I can help with the first page and a half of the deed index for DAVIS. Regards, Debbie At 08:12 AM 2/21/99 -0600, you wrote: >Good Morning, > >Do you by chance have any information on Elizabeth Davis who married Morrel >Baker on November 15, 1848? >They are listed in the 1850 Merriwether Co., Ga census with one daughter >Missouri C. and she is listed as Mariah E. age 21 in Alabama. > >Haven't been able to locate this family past the 1850 census. > >Any information appreciated. > >Ima White >white@seark.net > >>From: KENGENEWOODALL@webtv.net (Ken woodall) >>Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:25:37 -0800 (PST) > >> >>looking for any 1840-1850's SLOAN or DAVIS. >> >>Can you give first names, esp on the Davis? I have a little on Davis, but >>need the first names. >>Thanks >>Debbie >> >>> >>> >> >> >>==== GAMERIWE Mailing List ==== >>Visit GAGenWeb at http://www.rootsweb.com/~gagenweb/ >> >> > >

Good Morning, Do you by chance have any information on Elizabeth Davis who married Morrel Baker on November 15, 1848? They are listed in the 1850 Merriwether Co., Ga census with one daughter Missouri C. and she is listed as Mariah E. age 21 in Alabama. Haven't been able to locate this family past the 1850 census. Any information appreciated. Ima White white@seark.net >From: KENGENEWOODALL@webtv.net (Ken woodall) >Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:25:37 -0800 (PST) > >looking for any 1840-1850's SLOAN or DAVIS. > >Can you give first names, esp on the Davis? I have a little on Davis, but >need the first names. >Thanks >Debbie > >> >> > > >==== GAMERIWE Mailing List ==== >Visit GAGenWeb at http://www.rootsweb.com/~gagenweb/ > >

Return-Path: <GAMERIWE-L-request@rootsweb.com> Resent-Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:24:00 -0800 (PST) X-WebTV-Signature: 1 ETAsAhQRHoSVGZSgDM/AXEXRQiKcBQ0IaQIUGvaXC0FYDHoriBQMzTX0crnUb1g= From: KENGENEWOODALL@webtv.net (Ken woodall) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:25:37 -0800 (PST) Old-To: gameriwe-l@rootsweb.com Content-Disposition: Inline Subject: [GAMERIWE-L] SLOAN Resent-Message-ID: <"y5rJQD.A.ZsG.8Rez2"@bl-30.rootsweb.com> Resent-From: GAMERIWE-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: GAMERIWE-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <GAMERIWE-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/19 X-Loop: GAMERIWE-L@rootsweb.com To: GAMERIWE-L@rootsweb.com Errors-To: GAMERIWE-L-request@rootsweb.com Resent-Sender: GAMERIWE-L-request@rootsweb.com looking for any 1840-1850's SLOAN or DAVIS. Can you give first names, esp on the Davis? I have a little on Davis, but need the first names. Thanks Debbie > >

looking for any 1840-1850's SLOAN or DAVIS.

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_919390927_boundary Content-ID: <0_919390927@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII This message was received on the SCOGIN-L list and is my first encounter with a SCOGIN(S) in Meriwether. My Brileys lived there before they moved to Rusk County, TX c. 1876. I believe they probably knew the Scogin family in GA because they later intermarried twice in my line. I would be interested to know if anyone has any further information on either of these families or the Garris line, which also married Brileys. Thanks, Ron Massey --part0_919390927_boundary Content-ID: <0_919390927@inet_out.mail.tyler.net.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <SCOGIN-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-ya01.mx.aol.com (rly-ya01.mail.aol.com [172.18.144.193]) by air-ya02.mx.aol.com (v56.26) with SMTP; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 19:28:58 -0500 Received: from bl-30.rootsweb.com (bl-30.rootsweb.com [207.113.245.30]) by rly-ya01.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id TAA20291; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 19:28:50 -0500 (EST) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-30.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA19744; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:26:53 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:26:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36CCB130.5AFE@tyler.net> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 18:32:48 -0600 From: Dave Holiday <holiday@tyler.net> Reply-To: holiday@tyler.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) Old-To: SCOGIN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SCOGIN-L] J. J. Scogin of GA-Meriwether 1875 + Nall info Resent-Message-ID: <"qdu62.A.-yE.K_Kz2"@bl-30.rootsweb.com> Resent-From: SCOGIN-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <SCOGIN-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/488 X-Loop: SCOGIN-L@rootsweb.com To: SCOGIN-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Errors-To: SCOGIN-L-request@rootsweb.com Resent-Sender: SCOGIN-L-request@rootsweb.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hello again, In my search to confirm that James J. Scogin s/o Millington s/o Alexander was the father of my Harris H. Scogin, I have found the following information: >From a local history of GA-Meriwether: Luthersville is 13 miles north of Greenville near GA-Coweta line, and is the largest town in northern GA-Meriwether (400 in 1970). In middle 1800s it was known as Keith Crossroad and was incorporated in 1872. In 1875, when the Old Holly Springs Church was moved to Moreland, a number of the members brought their letters and formed the Luthersville Baptist Church. Among these original members were Mr. & Mrs. George COLLEY, Mr. and Mrs. F. N. T. DARDEN, Mrs. John MOORE, and Mr. and Mrs. J. J. SCOGIN. Three ministers ordained in this church were John D. NORRIS, Solon B. COUSINS, and Earnest E. FRYE... I do not know if this was the James J. Scogin who m Cynthia/Sintha HARRIS. There are several known JJs to consider, but if it is the one I am trying to find, one of them will probably appear in the 1880 census there. In the same reference, there is a picture of a feed crib dating back to 1850s on the place owned by T. T. NALL. It was stated that it was moved from another pioneer Nall place southwest of Lone Oak near the Sanford Pickett Place. Margaret NALL, d/o Thomas J. NALL and Catherine A. WALLACE, married Harris H. SCOGIN in 1850 GA-Meriwether or GA-Coweta (record not found yet in CD archives). In the same reference, there is a picture of the J. H. CHAMBLESS home on the Luthersville-Rocky Mt. Road. It is on the site of the original house built by Jim SCOGGINS (born 1830), which burned. Also it was stated that later generations (early 1900s) were represented by the homes of Wesley Willingham, Will Upshaw, Lou Allen, Bob Dunlap, Jim Chambless, G. L. Colley, Professor NALL (a highly respected preacher in the county), and the the Powledge, SCOGGIN, Sibley, McKoon, Wortham, and Darden families. In the same reference, the first settlers were listed as Frank FOY, James SEWELL, Alexander SHACKLEFORD, John JORDAN, Elias PROCTOR, Jed PHILLIPS, Mordecai JOHNSON, Thornton HOLMAN, __ ROLAND, John GARNER, __ JARRELL, Marshall KEITH, Joseph STEVENS, Ki MEACHAN, Joel WOOTEN, J. M. POWLEDGE, Harvey COCHRAN, John TURNER, Middleton NALL, Mrs. Rebecca PHILLIPS, G. W. CULPEPPER, Reuben TURNER, Nathan WALL (sic, should be NALL?), James ACKER, Abner ACRE, Joseph HOOD, John WHITE, Wiley HUTCHENS, Dr. James PHILLIPS, Mose TRIMBLE, John PHILLIPS, Davey COLEMAN, John T. CARTER, William A. L. PHILLIPS, Bynum HOOD, William BLACK, Jonathan ALBRIGHT, Lovic SEWELL, Baker JOHNSON, Hiram WALSTON. Dave Holiday holiday@tyler.net ==== SCOGIN Mailing List ==== The SCOGIN-SCOGGIN-SCROGGIN-SCOGGINS-SCROGGINS-SCOGEN-SCOGGEN LIST Send comments/suggestions to Bob Brooke, rdb18@csufresno.edu --part0_919390927_boundary--

Hi, If all goes well with the sell on my house, I am moving next week, 25, 26, 27, 28 and will not be able to access the mail for about ?? 2 weeks. If you are in need of contacting me please use jeanne@jeannechambers.com. Jeanne can find me for any emergency. For the Meriwether co folks, I did get to look at Uncle Ben's map and will email you with results later. For the Lincoln co folks, I have updated the database page with a new link to our new searchable database for NC marriages. It can be found at http://tn-1.rootsweb.com/~marce/ncarolina/index.html Anyone with a North Carolina marriage record for their ancestors can add to this database. I would still like to have your marriage records for Burke, Lincoln and Rutherford counties to place on the county pages in addition to this database. Wish I had more updates to the county pages. Look around your records, see if you have any you can send me, after I am back online in a few weeks. I haven't received a whole lot of information to add since Christmas <sigh>. If you post any information to our lists, it would be much appreciated if you say in your post, that I can use it on the county site too. Of couse, you will be given credit as submitter. Sincerely, Debbie Fowler CC for Burke, Lincoln, Rutherford NC CC for Chester SC listowner, GAMERIWE-L, NCBURKE-L, NCRUTHER-L, SCCHEST2-L, NCHAYWOO-L, NCLINCOL-L and SOON TO BE HOMELESS IN GA!