Does anyone have any idea which cemetery in which Hugh Bain McRae is buried? He died 26 Mar 1853 in Cedartown. His wife was Nancy McDuffie of South Carolina. I taught at Benedict Elementary in the early 1970s but had no idea I had any relatives in Cedartown/Polk County until recently. Thanks, Joan Keith Bonnett ----- Original Message ----- From: "June Parsons" <Junebug1950@cox.net> To: <GAPOLK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 3:30 PM Subject: RE: [GAPOLK] Cedartown > Mary, > I have transcribed Hills Creek Baptist Church in Rockmart. > June Parsons > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: M.H. [mailto:mjnfl@yahoo.com] > Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 10:42 AM > To: GAPOLK-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [GAPOLK] Cedartown > > Hi, > Does anyone on this list have access to obituaries or cemetary records > for Cedartown or surrounding communities? I don't want to ask anyone to > do alot of research, was hoping this info. might be published in a book. > > Thanks a bunch....Mary > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.0/27 - Release Date: 6/23/2005 > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.0/27 - Release Date: 6/23/2005 > > > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >
Mary, I have transcribed Hills Creek Baptist Church in Rockmart. June Parsons -----Original Message----- From: M.H. [mailto:mjnfl@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 10:42 AM To: GAPOLK-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [GAPOLK] Cedartown Hi, Does anyone on this list have access to obituaries or cemetary records for Cedartown or surrounding communities? I don't want to ask anyone to do alot of research, was hoping this info. might be published in a book. Thanks a bunch....Mary __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.0/27 - Release Date: 6/23/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.0/27 - Release Date: 6/23/2005
Hi, Does anyone on this list have access to obituaries or cemetary records for Cedartown or surrounding communities? I don't want to ask anyone to do alot of research, was hoping this info. might be published in a book. Thanks a bunch....Mary __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Bibb-Polk County GaArchives Obituaries.....Davis, Minnie May 1918 ************************************************ 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: Carla Miles http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00010.html#0002476 June 22, 2005, 4:33 pm The Butler Herald, May 16, 1918 The Butler Herald Thursday, May 16, 1918 Page One Three Die in Macon Hospital One Night Two Victims of Automobile Accidents and Third Ended Own Life Macon, Ga., May 12th Two victims of motorcycle accidents and one victim of a bullet wound the latter inflicted with suicidal intent, died at the Macon hospital. The victims were: Mrs. Minnie Davis, wife of James Davis, a soldier at Camp Wheeler, who came here from Cedartown, who sustained a fractured skull in a collision between two motorcycles on the Houston road. Beulah May Jones, an 18-year-old Negro girl, who was run over by a motorcycle ridden by John George, delivery boy for a local drug store. Marshall Gentry, son of G.F. Gentry, of Sipperton, this county, who shot himself in the head during a fit of despondency brought about by ill health. Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Maud Smith were both injured Friday night when they were riding on the rear of motorcycles with men friends. The machine occupied by Mrs. Davis and her friend ran into a post and the other machine, with Mrs. Smith and her friend, coming along behind, ran into the wreck of the first machine. Mrs. Davis was fatally injured, but Mrs. Smith was only severely bruised. The two men were not injured and their identity has not been learned. Mrs. Davis was a bride of last February. She married Davis, who is from near Montgomery, Ala., and came to Macon to be near him while he is at Camp Wheeler. Beulah May Jones, the Negro girl who was run over on Vineville avenue while playing in the street with some other Negro children. John George, who was running the machine, is now under arrest and will probably race a charge of involuntary manslaughter. Marshall Gentry, the suicide victim, had recently returned to Macon from Florida, where he had gone in the hope of benefiting his health. He shot himself through the head, the bullet penetrating the brain. He lingered for several hours, but it was realized from the first he could not recover. He was well known in the Skipperton neighborhood and his act proved a shock to his friends and family. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/bibb/obits/d/davis7251ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb
The Polk County, GA AHGP web site at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/county/polk/ has been updated with several new things. We now have a Military Page and have listed the Rosters for Company D 20th Regiment and Company D 21st Regiment of the CSA. The Brickwall, Events, Marriages, Obituaries, and Newspaper pages have all been updated. We only have one Family Reunion listed, so don't forget to send in your announcment about your reunion. A search engine has been added to help you locate family information faster and it is updated every week. Edna and Wendell Stephens have sent in many interseting articles. One was a Newspaper article that apeared in 1902 that listed the men that served in Company D, 21 Regiment as remembered by Squire J. H. Jordan. In the article one of my relatives is listed by a name that we had never heard before, so we now have one more piece of the puzzle to our brickwall relative. There might be something to help you also. While visiting the Polk County site, be sure to click on the Polk County Cemetery Preservation update. We have surveyed 66 cemeteries with 9 more assigned. They still have about 30 cemeteries to be surveyed and most of these cemeteries need to be verified. Anyone that would like to help can e-mail pccpc@earthlink.net They are hoping to have a new Polk County, GA Cemetery ready to sell by Spring 2006, but will need help with the remaining cemetery surveys and with verifying the cemeteries already surveyed. Don't forget that we welcome submissions from researchers and will get them posted as soon as possible. Doris Robbins Polk County, GA host for AHGP
Polk County GaArchives Photo Group.....Fox Hunting Of Polk County ************************************************ 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: Robert Williams wa4dyk@bellsouth.net May 25, 2005, 7:51 am Source: Unavailable Photo can be seen at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/polk/photos/foxhunti2741gph.jpg Image file size: 170.9 Kb This photo of the Polk County Fox Hunting Club list all the names of the men in the picture. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/polk/photos/foxhunti2741gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 0.8 Kb
Polk County GaArchives News.....Polk County July 10, 1924 ************************************************ 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: W. Stephens wend901@charter.net May 21, 2005, 11:55 am The Standard, Cedartown, GA July 10, 1924 The Standard, Cedartown, GA July 10, 1924 Polk County By Rev. Wm. J. DeBardeleben, of Atlanta Polk County, one of the richest and most beautiful sections of North Georgia, was formerly a part of Paulding with headquarters at Van Wert. Its birth dates back to April 1, 1852, at which time Cedartown was made the county site, with Stephen A. Borders as first Ordinary. The population of this county, now given at 20,050, is in no danger of suffering a decrease from the simple fact that this section boasts the lowest death rate in the state. High altitude, abundance of substantial food and pure water are some of the reasons given for longevity of the inhabitants. As an evidence of this, Cedartown, 900 feet above the sea level, has a water supply from a natural spring that furnishes a volume of 8,000,000 gallons every 24 hours. The soil of Polk county is specially adapted to apples, peaches, plums and other fruit. Besides favorable conditions for the growing of cotton, corn, potatoes and other farm products, it is especially suited to dairying, stock raising and poultry. An additional advantage is the fact that no farm in the county is over six miles from the railroad. Ten thousand bales of cotton are marketed annually through the county seat. Morgan Valley, which is noted for its beautiful scenery, is one of the most fertile spots in the State of Georgia. The mines of Cedartown produce 4,100 tons per month. Its industries have over 1,000 employes, with an annual pay roll of approximately $1,000,000. There is located here a branch of the United State Finishing Company, a New England plant, valued at $6,000,000. The management of this concern is so well pleased with its success in this locality that it is now doubling its capacity, and will soon be turning out a million yards of cloth each month. The parent plant of this branch last year dyed and finished enough yard-wide cloth to go six times around the earth. In addition to the numerous mines and manufacturing enterprises of Cedartown, there are several others in different parts of the county. The most important of these are the Aragon Cotton Mills, the Southern States Portland Cement Company, Georgia. Stone & Cement Company, and the Rockmart Brick & Slate Company. More than 1,200 men are given employment by these organizations, the pay roll amounting to more than $1,000,000 per annum. The brick manufactured in Rockmart, make of crushed shale, are used especially for paving and high-class building projects. The plant has 11 large kilns with a capacity of 30,000 paving bricks or 45,000 building brick per day. This concern has advance orders for more than twelve months ahead. An evidence of the farsightedness and efficiency of Polk county captains of industry is furnished by the manner in which they are blasting these mountains of rock and making of them the greatest commodity in the world for the building of highways and skyscrapers. The output of one of the cement plants is approximately 400,000 barrels of cement yearly; 50,000 tons of coal and 160,000 tons of raw material are required in making cement. A trip through one of these cement plants, witnessing the process from the time the rock is blasted out of the mountain till it is sacked and ready for shipment, is a most thrilling experience. Its manufacture is described by one of the officials in the following manner: Portland cement, a name given it by an Englishman on account of its resemblance to stone quarried on the Island of Portland, England, is made of lime, silica and alumina. These ingredients are secured from different combinations of materials, such as limestone, clay, shale, marl and blast furnace slag. From quarry to pit these materials are transported to the mill, where they are reduced to fine powder with much heavy grinding machinery. In the process they must be correctly proportioned and thoroughly mixed so that the mixture is chemically exact. The powdered raw material then goes to the kilns for burning. These kilns are huge steel cylinders lined with fire brick. Coming from the kilns in the shape of white-hot clinkers consisting of glass-hard balls ranging in size from a small marble to a walnut, this material is sent to coolers and storage piles. Later it is ground with a small amount of gypsum, added to regulate the rate hardening. In this final grinding the hard clinker is reduced t a powder finer than flour. Standard specifications demand that it be fine enough to shake through a sieve having 40,000 holes to a square inch, a sieve finer than silk. There are 39 Schools in the county, 13 of which are colored. Over 5,000 children have been enrolled, while preparations are now being made to accommodate more. Besides the high schools of Cedartown, which are valued at more than $200,000, there is one near the city limits known as the Benedict School. This plant is valued at $6,000. There is also a $4,000 school at Aragon, which is doing a wonderful work in the interest of the employes of the cotton mills. This, in addition to the splendid plant at Rockmart and other sections, is prophetic of the great intellectual advantages that are promised to the future citizens of the county. An item worthy of mention, and which should be of interest to every citizen and school board in the state, is the fact that William Janes, the Superintendent of Education, has a complete alphabetical roll of every scholar, white and colored, in his jurisdiction. In this manner he is enabled to keep tabs both on the individual and also the work of the various institutions throughout the bounds of the county. More valuable to the citizens of Georgia and of the South than all the various industries of Polk county are her institutions of learning. Among these, none have contributed more effectively than old Piedmont Institute. Of this institution, Col. R. W. Everett, formerly Representative from the Seventh District of Georgia in the United States Congress, said: In 1890 there was erected, principally by the citizens of Rockmart and adjacent country, but under the auspices of the M. E. Church, South, an imposing and substantial school building, known as Piedmont Institute, that has done more for the moral, social, intellectual uplift of Rockmart than all other influence combined-- the churches not excepted, for Piedmont has been both church and school. From this school have gone some of Georgias useful citizens. Among these are to be found such men as Judge Fred Branson, of Oklahoma; Col. W. W. Mundy, of Cedartown, one of our State Senators; Prof. Walter Jones, of Macon, and Dr. C. E. Waits, one of Atlantas leading specialists. Among the ministers of the North Georgia Conference that have gone from Piedmont Institute are Revs. Lee Allgood and Irby Henderson, pastors of prominent Atlanta churches; Rev. Thos. A. Branson of Washington, and Rev. G. G. Venable of Monroe, the latter having at one time served as president. These and hundreds of others are products of this institution, who are carrying out the injunction of the Master in their ministry of preaching, teaching and healing. Old Van Wert, the original county site, contains many points of historic interest. It is said to have received its name from one of the three men who captured Benedict Arnold. Mr. E.C. Kingsbery, a citizen of Rockmart, has in his possession the original plat and map of the town of Van Wert. He has also a paper showing the advertisement of the sale of town lots, which took place Sept. 5 and 6, 1837. There were 91 original lots, ranging in price from $2,12 to $299. The first lot was sold to John A. Jones for $80. Van Wert has the credit of establishing waterworks long before the people of Atlanta had ceased to draw from wells or visit the nearby springs. It is also of interest to know that these works were installed without the use of a single iron pipe. Huge logs, bored out in the center, fastened together on the outside, and coupled to smaller ones for installation in the houses, furnished the necessary conduits. It was here that the illustrious Sam P. Jones first served as pastor. The house in which his children were born is still standing. The parsonage he built, which served as the house for the Methodist preacher of Rockmart has since been replaced by a more modern and commodious dwelling near the Methodist church. The old Van Wert church, in which this spiritual giant first began his labors, stands as a silent sentinel for those who sleep in the adjoining cemetery, where so many sacred memories thrill the soul no one can enter without removing his hat and feeding that he is treading on holy ground. Such sanctuaries, scattered throughout Georgia, call the tourist to check his roaring automobile and pause for an hour, while recollections fill the mind with the heroic lives and deeds of our forefathers--the pioneers who at tremendous sacrifice made Georgia the imperial commonwealth which all her true citizens love with a fervent patriotism also akin to piety. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/polk/newspapers/polkcoun666gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 9.7 Kb
Polk County GaArchives News.....THREE OFFICERS, From Polk Are Commissioned at Ft. Oglethorpe November 29, 1917 ************************************************ 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: W. Stephens wend901@charter.net May 21, 2005, 11:49 am The Cedartown Standard, Cedartown, GA November 29, 1917 THREE OFFICERS From Polk Are Cimmissioned at Ft. Oglethorpe Two more of Cedartown's excellent young men have received commissions in the United States Army. Messrs, U. S. Cornelius and B. G. Stowe, who have been in the officers' training camp at Ft. Oglethorpe, have both made high grades. Both are commissioned as 1st Lieutenants, and the former is assigned to duty at Chickamauga Park and the latter at Camp Greene. Mr. Jos. G. Brewster, a popular young man of Esom Hill, has been commissioned as 2d Lieutenant, and is assigned to Camp Greene. Their many friends congratulate them on their success. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/polk/newspapers/threeoff665gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb
Polk County GaArchives News.....Stills Stilled, Legal Whiskey Making Stopped Saturday Night September 13, 1917 ************************************************ 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: W. Stephens wend901@charter.net May 21, 2005, 11:24 am The Cedartown Standard, Cedartown, GA September 13, 1917 STILLS STILLED Legal Whiskey Making Stopped Saturday Night---Throughout the United States to save grain for Food Purposes Saturday night at 11 o'clock whishey manufacture ceased in the United States under the provisions of the food control law, and the millions of bushels of grain heretofore used in making that form of drink will be diverted to food. Importation of whiskey was also stopped. Experts say about 100,000,000 bushels of grain are used by the distilleries each year, of which about 40,000,000 bushels are used in whisky manufacture. Distillers may continue manufacturing alcohol for commercial purposed, and many of them have arranged for this work, others turning their distilleries into manufacturing plants for yeast, vinegar and by-products. Stocks of whiskey in the country undoubtedly are larger than they ever have been, because of active preparation by distillers and dealers in anticipation of the law. Distillers have been working at utmost capacity and imports have been larger than ever. Officials estimate the quantity of whiskey in bond in warehouses to be about 190,000,000 gallons. Stocks not in bond will bring the quantity on hand in the country up to almost 230,000,000 gallons. The annual production of whiskey has been about 116,000,000 gallons. The stoppage of manufacture will continue throughout the war, and a strong effort will be made by the temperance forces in Congress to see that it is never resumed again. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/polk/newspapers/stillsst664gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb
Polk County GaArchives Obituaries.....Smith, William Anderson August 16, 1908 ************************************************ 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: Wendell Stephens wend901@charter.net April 29, 2005, 11:55 am Coosa River News, Centre, AL, Vol 31, #24 Coosa River News, Centre, Alabama, Friday August 21, 1908: Volume 31, #24 GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF THE DEATH OF W. A. SMITH Rome Tribune Borden Springs, Alabama, August 17: After tying the horses on the station platform here, the body of William A. Smith slain by the hand of Will Chandler, has been removed to his home for burial. His slayer who emptied Smiths own pistol into his body, after his brother, Dave Chandler had knocked Smith senseless with a rock fled, was captured and jailed in Heflin, Ala. The killing took place near the little church where there had been an all day singing and was witnesses by scores of people. Chandler, the slayer has a wife and several children. He lived in the same community as Smith and bore a good reputation. Accounts as to how the quarrel arose differ. The most reliable seems to be that a quarrel and fight arose between two boys over a shoe trade. A fight followed and Will Chandler rebuked the larger of the two boys for cuffing the smaller. Then Smith took a hand and it is said drew his pistol, forced chandler to his knees, and told him to pray as he had but a moment to live. At this moment, while Smith was pecking Will Chandler in the face with his revolver, Dave Chandler the brother, seized a rock, and felled Smith to the ground, with a well-directed blow. As he fell his pistol dropped from his hand, and Will Chandler, scrambling from his knees, seized the weapon, and fired three shots into Smiths body, one of which took affect and proved fatal. _____________________ The above dispatch and the news which it brings will prove of great interest in Rome, marking as it does the passing of a character well known to many residents of this city, and telling of the stormy close of a career in which good and evil were strangely mingied. BELL-TREE SMITH Bill Smith, the dead man, was a unique character and was known throughout all of this section as Bell-Tree Smith. Standing alone in the annals of illicit liquer-selling, was his scheme for disposing of mountain dew. His home was just on the State line, where Cherokee county, Alabama, joins Polk county, Georgia. A water oak stood by a little branch, and marked the geographical division. Nailed to the little oak was a common soap box, about three and a half feet from the ground. A pad of paper was nailed to the tree, and misspelled words directed the observer to Rite your order and leve the muney. Shere were no specification as to what the commodity was, but the fame of the tree was such that no one ever order Sunday School literature or sandwiches. Above the writing pad was another sign also misspelled, warning the purchaser not to remain there after ringing the cowbell which hung on the tree on penalty of being shot. Directions were given to go down the road and wait, you can tell the place when you get to it. The place was fifty yards down the road around a bend and here seats were provided. The purchaser could wait in comfort until still following directions, he heard the bell ring again. He was then to walk slowly back to the bell tree. There he would find any brand of whiskey, beer, wine or other liquor, that he might have ordered, left upon deposit of the regular price charged in any market. Should the establishment be out of the particular liquid ordered a note would so state, and ask tersely What else? A BIG TRADE There were many summer visitors to Bluff, Borden-Wheeler and other nearby resorts, who learned of the Belltrees famous product, and the probation bench was rarely without an occupant during the summer days. But of all the people who patronized the tree, and there are some in Rome who admit it, none knew the manner in which the mysterious liquor appeared. And no one could swear that Will Smith was the man behind the scheme. He carried a United States liquor license, and was never molested by revenue officers, but has been under indictments scores of times, by county officials of both Georgia and Alabama. But he was never convicted, and finally the officers grew weary of fruitless arrests. Last March the operation of bell tree was suddenly stopped, and thirsty visitors might wake the echoes with their clamor, and wait for hours on the bench and no liquor appeared. WAS WEALTHY MAN Smith was a man of great wealth not all of it coming from the bell-tree. He inherited some money from his father, and purchased hundreds of acres of land, upon much of which mineral was found. He made lucky sales and was one of the few men in the County who had money when the Bluffton boom broke. This but served to increase his holdings and he was continually buying more land. At the time of his death he was said to pay taxes on $185,000 worth of property. He owned practically all of Signal Mountain, and had every inch of his farm under cultivation. He raised stock and supplied many Alabama hotels with meat during the resort season. WAS OF GENEROUS HEART The dead man was a frequent visitor to Rome, and was well known to many people here, who welcome him to their homes. He was a man of general disposition, except when crossed. He was of great physical strength, weighing more than 200 pounds and standing six feet two. He had a wife and seven children, and was very good to them, meeting their every wish. His generosity was not confined to his home, where he lived the life of a feudal lord, but extended to others. He paid the entire salary of the pastor of the church near Bluffton, and his home was the center for relief operations during the recent cyclone. THE DARKER SIDE But there was a darker side to this character. He is described by those who feared him, as domineering and insolent. Certain it is that Marse Bill had his own way, and that what he said went, or there was trouble, usually for the other man. More than one person had yielded up their life before the pistol that he always carried. At one time he killed two men on the porch of the old Etna Furnace near Bluffton, and at different times he slow two negroes, making four to his private cemetery. For all of these killings he was acquitted on the grounds of self defense. Smith also shot a white man, his brother-in-law, for beating his wife. His house was well provided with weapons, and he, in former years always carried a pistol. Such are a few of the interesting points in the career of a man who might well furnish the outlines for a drama of romance. Esteemed by some as a benefactor, a friend, a gentleman by nature, condemned by others as a bully, blackguard, desperado, and blind tiger keeper, unable to read a line, or write his name, yet of keen intellect and business acumen, this section well not again see his likes. Additional Comments: Son of George Melton and Catherine Elizabeth Peek Smith. 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Polk-Floyd-Haralson County GaArchives News.....An Interesting Record February 13, 1902 ************************************************ 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: Wendell Stephens wend901@charter.net April 29, 2005, 11:48 am The Cedartown Standard, Cedartown, GA., February 13, 1902 The Cedartown Standard, Cedartown, GA., Thursday Morning, February 13, 1902. An Interesting Record Through the kindness of Squire J. H. Jordan, of Lake Creek, The Standard is this week enabled to give its readers the following record of the muster roll of the officers and men of Co. D, 21st Ga. Vol.. One of the Confederacys best fighting aggregations: Capt S. A. Borders, resigned Nov. 1861. H. T. Battle, made captain Nov. 1861. 1st Lieut T. J. Verdery, killed in battle 1862. 2nd Lieut B A Atwood, resigned and went to 1st Ga Cav. 3rd Lieut L Branch, resigned and went to 1st Ga Cav. 1st Sergt W D Wright, promoted to 2nd Lieut and wounded once. 2nd Sergt J R West, discharged. 3rd Sergt Ed Branch, discharged. 4th Sergt E R Dunaway, discharged. 1st Corp Myer Johns, promoted to 2nd Sergt; died from wound in 1864. 2nd Corp Jackson Cambron, killed in battle 1862 3rd Corp James Crutchfield, died in hospital 1861. 4th Corp S J Crabb, discharged on account of age 1864. Privates B A Adderson, wounded once. George Adderson, wounded once. L T Atwood, made 4th Sergt, killed in battle1862. A O Alexander, killed in battle 1862. Ben Adkins, killed in battle in 1863. Wm Beck, wounded once. John Brown, died in 1862 from wound. J H Bales, made 1st Sergt in 1863; wounded once. Van Bobo, killed in battle 1864. Jesse Battle, died in hospital 1862. Wm Bridges, wounded twice. John Bridges, killed in battle 1862. James Bridges Nelson Bridges, died in hospital 1962. I V Chesser, wounded once. Alex Crutchfield. Wm Cooper. J R Cooper. J W Crabb, discharged. J B Crabb, wounded at Fredericksburg, Va, Dec 13, 1862. Richard Collins. John Copelin, killed in battle 1963. Jesse Copelin Jack Cambron. H. H. Cambron. E B Cambron. E D Carter, discharged. L R Davis, made 4th Sergt in 1864; wounded 3 times. L B Dilender. T R Daniel. W A Darden, killed in battle at Manassas 1862. Geo Darden, transferred to artillery 1864. Nick Dudley, discharged. James A Davis, killed in battle 1862. Thomas Darough. W. J. Dukes, promoted to Sergt-Maj of Regt. John Dukes, wounded once. Richard Daniel, died in hospital 1862. Robt Early, killed in battle at Manassa 1862. Marian Early. George Fennel. W D Fennel, wounded once. Wm Frix, discharged. Ben Frix, died in hospital 1861. James Gravely, died in hospital 1862. W A Gresham, promoted to 3rd Sergt; wounded once. Emanuel Gantz. John Goggins, killed in battle at Manassas 1862. Wm. Goggins, killed in battle Summits Point 1864. Frank Gilpin, wounded once. W S Green. Gus Garrison. Jas Garner, died in hospital 1862. T M Hightower, promoted to 1st Lieut 1862. J F Hightower, died in hospital 1863. R B Hayes, discharged. James Holcomb. John F. Hackney, died in hospital 1862. Thos Hackney, wounded once at Cross Keys, VA Joseph Hackney. Dock Hackney. John T Hackney. John W Hackney. James Isbell, made Sergt in 1863 wounded once. James T. Johnston. J N Jordan, made Corp in 1862. J H Jordan, wounded twice. Wm Jarrell, killed in battle at Richmond, Va. 1862. Gus Jarrell, killed in battle at Richmond, Va. 1862. Lump Jarrell, died in hospital 1862. Marshal Johns, discharged, was killed in 1st Ga Cav 1864. Chas Knighton, killed in battle 1863. Wm Logan, killed in battle at Manassas 1862. James Logan. E K Logan. John Mann, discharged. W D McDaniel. James Maxey, transferred to shoe factory 1861. John Mobley, died in hospital 1861. Rance Mobley, killed in battle at Manassas 1862. Henry Motes, promoted to 3rd Sergt in 1861; wounded once. E R Mabry, discharged. W L McCormick, promoted to 3rd Lieut in 1862 wounded once. Joseph McCormick, discharged, was killed in battle in 1st Ga. Cav 1864. J K Morton. John Maddox. Sanders Maddox. John W. Powell. G. L Powell. John Phillips. James Price. M A Poole. John B Richardson, died in hospital 1862. M B Richards, wounded once, (Color Corp.) Joseph Roper, made 5th Sergt. And killed in battle 1864. W D Spalding. James Tate, killed in battle 1864, Summits Point, Va. Bose Thompson, killed in battle 1864. Chris Thurman. B Taddy. Jeff Wright, died in hospital 1862. Jack Wright, killed in battle 1862. Spencer Wright, killed in battle 1862. E. T. Witcher. Thomas Wiggins. Wm Wiggins. John Witzel, made Orderly Sergt in 1862; wounded once. Marian White, died in hospital 1861. George Williams, discharged. T H Wade, wounded once. Wm Wood. Jack Witcher, Killed in battle Richmond, 1862. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/polk/newspapers/anintere2118nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 5.0 Kb
Polk County GaArchives Photo Person.....Williams, Robert H. & Victory Agnes White ************************************************ 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: Robert Williams Wa4dyk@bellsouth.net April 22, 2005, 6:15 pm Source: Unavailable Name: Robert H. & Victory Agnes White Williams Photo can be seen at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/polk/photos/williams5403ph.jpg Image file size: 239.7 Kb This is Robert H. Williams & Agnes White Williams. The Photo was taken on the Cedartown Hwy. just outside of Rockmart, Ga. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/polk/photos/williams5403ph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 0.9 Kb
Last week I got a e-mail from someone who does book binding I am in need of a book binder if you are on this list please contact me I have lost your e-mail address Pat Mills Patricia Mills Mills Mobile Notary Service 5 Doyle Place Stafford Virginia 22554 Office 540-720-5633 Fax 540-720-5633 Cell 540-408-2548
Beth, Van Wert Cemetery is probably the oldest cemetery in Polk County, but did not see any MOBLEYs listed in the survey. Jackson Chapel United Methodist Church was established in 1856 and there are a lot of MOBLEYs buried in that cemetery. My mother was a MOBLEY. Her parents and grandfather are buried there along with many other relatives. I have information on the MOBLEYs going back to Isaac MOBLEY father of Alexander MOBLEY, father of Pleasant Green MOBLEY, father of Pleasant William MOBLEY, father of Flonnie MOBLEY ESTES, who was my mother. Would be glad to exchange family information. The last couple of days have been nice and the volunteers have been out in the cemeteries working. We have three more cemeteries surveyed and hopefully by the end of the day will have at least one more finished. Will update the web site tomorrow with the latest information on the cemeteries. Doris > [Original Message] > From: Wyndell Taylor <gagenie@bellsouth.net> > To: <GAPOLK-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 3/25/05 7:59:36 AM > Subject: [GAPOLK] Fwd: {not a subscriber} Cemetaries > > From either a subscriber using an address other than the one subscribed > under, or a non-subscriber. If anyone answers do it to both the list and > the personal email, to be sure the person gets the message > > Wyndell Taylor > List Manager > > > >Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 03:20:44 -0700 > >X-From_: winged_foot@att.net Fri Mar 25 03:20:43 2005 > >From: "Winged Foot" <winged_foot@att.net> > >To: <GAPOLK-L@rootsweb.com> > >Old-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 05:18:14 -0500 > >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 > >X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.38 > >X-Diagnostic: Not on the accept list > >Subject: {not a subscriber} Cemetaries > >X-Envelope-To: GAPOLK-L > > > > This is so exciting! Is there anything I can do to assist from OH? Do I > >remember a post that mentioned the oldest cemetary in Polk in relationship > >to either the Mobley or Bell family? Please direct me to that posting, as I > >can't find it on my puter. > > Thanks and blessings > > Beth > > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx
From either a subscriber using an address other than the one subscribed under, or a non-subscriber. If anyone answers do it to both the list and the personal email, to be sure the person gets the message Wyndell Taylor List Manager >Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 03:20:44 -0700 >X-From_: winged_foot@att.net Fri Mar 25 03:20:43 2005 >From: "Winged Foot" <winged_foot@att.net> >To: <GAPOLK-L@rootsweb.com> >Old-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 05:18:14 -0500 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 >X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.38 >X-Diagnostic: Not on the accept list >Subject: {not a subscriber} Cemetaries >X-Envelope-To: GAPOLK-L > > This is so exciting! Is there anything I can do to assist from OH? Do I >remember a post that mentioned the oldest cemetary in Polk in relationship >to either the Mobley or Bell family? Please direct me to that posting, as I >can't find it on my puter. > Thanks and blessings > Beth
The Polk County Cemetery Preservation Committee is compiling a new cemetery book. So far they have surveyed 57 of the 100 plus cemeteries in Polk County, GA. Plus they have seven more cemeteries assigned. To see a list of the cemeteries, please go to http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/county/polk/Cemeteries.html They still need volunteers to help with the remaining surveys, typing and verifying the surveys. They also need help with compiling information about the cemeteries - date established, who gave land for cemetery, etc. So far, more than a dozen cemeteries have been located that were NOT in any previous cemetery book of Polk County, GA. If you know of a remote cemetery that is not on their list or can help with the project, please e-mail them at pccpc@earthlink.net Once all the cemeteries have been surveyed and verified, they plan to publish a cemetery book. The profit from the book will be used to help clean up the "forgotten" cemeteries in Polk County. Doris
Polk County GaArchives Photo Place.....Bethlehem Baptist Church March 19, 2005 ************************************************ 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: sharlyn shaw shaw208@comcast.net March 19, 2005, 7:28 pm Source: Bethlehem Baptist Church, Fish Creek, Polk County, Georgia Photo can be seen at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/polk/photos/bethlehe4819ph.jpg Image file size: 16.8 Kb Bethlehem Baptist Church Fish Creek Community Polk County, Georgia Additional Comments: Photo by Sharlyn B. Shaw File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/polk/photos/bethlehe4819ph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 0.9 Kb
From a person who is not subscribed to the list, or sending the message from another address.... You can answer to both the list and to the person's address. Wyndell Taylor List Manager >Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:22:21 -0700 >X-From_: LToney43@aol.com Thu Feb 24 00:22:19 2005 >From: LToney43@aol.com >Old-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 02:22:26 EST >Subject: Alton Dillard Hawk > >Need info on this family, Alton Dillard Hawk bn 1894 Tn.maybe in Grundy >Co.Tn. m. Katie ???, moved to Coffee Co. Tn. , 1930 he was in Cedartown >,Polk >Co.GA. > > >Thanks for any info, >Linda Rich Toney
The Northeast Alabama Genealogical will be having their annual Ancestry Swap Meet this year April 23, 2005. It will be in Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama. If you would like to receive an application for it with all the details please send me your name and address. We will be doing our mail-outs this week so I need your name and address quickly. Just email it to me. Gail Brown, President Northeast Alabama Genealogical Society gbrown@hiwaay.net http://www.rootsweb.com/~alneags/index.html
Butts-Polk County GaArchives News.....An Aged Negress Woman March 1 1882 ************************************************ 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: Don Bankston digitaldog1@juno.com January 3, 2005, 12:37 am Jackson News Week of March 1,1882 An old negress, aged seventy years, who has a broken arm, fractured thigh, blind in both eyes, dumb, deaf, full of scrofulous sores, with no wool on the top of her head, nor place for the wool to grow, knock kneed, spavined, box- ankled, slab sided, and otherwise afflicted, was recently convicted in Polk Superior court for the murder of her grand child, sentenced to penitentiary for life. The jury that convicted her should be tried for lunacy. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/butts/newspapers/gnw450anagedne.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb