>From: Cari75@aol.com >Reply-To: GAMERIWE-L@rootsweb.com >To: GAMERIWE-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [GAMERIWE] Red Oak Creek, Red Oak Church Cemetery >Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 09:34:24 EST > >Does anyone know anything about this church or cemetery? In about 1980 my >then already 86 year old grandmother told my sister that our g-g-granfather >M. M. ARGROVES, (Mathias ARGROVES) was buried there. He was killed in the >Civil War and his brother Allen is supposed to have brought him home to be >buried. I don't know if this part is true. My mother who grew up in >Meriwether Co. said that she thought this was an African-American Church >and >cemetery. We are not African-American. I hope no one takes offense to this. >It is by no means meant in a racial way. I am just trying to narrow down my >search for my Civil War Soldier's grave. > >Any one who knows anything about this cemetery please email me. > >Thanks a million, >Cari ============================================================Hiya Cari: -- Been "lurking" at this ListServe for a while now; and an Thoroughly Impressed by Your Willingness to Help Out those of us who must do their Meriwether Co., GA family research by "remote-control". -- Thanks Again from out here on the West Coast! -- Now a request for help spured on by the above listed quiry. -- My maternal grandmotherlost between 4 to 6 young children in a house fire (in the White Sulfer Springs Dist.)in early 1910. The only survivor of that tradgedy was 1/2 of a set of twin boys,...who has just recently made his 90th. Birthday in the B'ham.,AL metroplex -- . None of my other remaining/surviving maternal aunts & uncles can remember any details of the conflagration,...since it happened BEFORE they were born -- and they received few & inconsistently related details from their mother (my grandmother, who died before I was born). -- The young victims belong to the Milus Heard REESE (Father) family. Mother: Ella Daisy STINSON REESE. -- Besides my uncle's twin brother, my grandmother was supposed to have lost another entire set of twins in that catastrophe. -- Have any clues where I might be able to find out the name of the Afro-American Cemetery (&/or even the name of the lost young children themselves from any existent Meriwether Co. official records. -- When the US Census enumerator listed the surviving family in July of 1910, only my grandfather/mother & "Junior" (Milous Reese, DC) were posted. -- TIA for Any & All Advice, Suggestions & Directions You May Be Able to Provide This Currently Stumped Family History Researcher: M.J. Ivory/SF,CA - __elfinbein@hotmail.com__ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com