Hi Everyone I am looking for information on James Henry Lee and Sarah Mozelle? who are the parents of William Sheppard Lee who married Olivia ( Ollie) Belle Stewart. Both of them are buried in Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, GA. Would like to know the names of the children of James & Sarah also, DOB, DOD and all other information that you have available. I am willing to exchange what information I have. I also have a picture of William Sheppard Lee that is also available with the information. My name is William C. Reeves, 504 Eagles Nest Rd, Dudley NC 28333-6170, 919-736-3974. E-mail is mailto:wreeves@sparkhost.com Any help will be greatly appreciated by me. May god bless all of you. Bill Reeves

Rebecca Hunter m.Theophilus Williams,Sr Jan 21, 1822 in Screven County, Ga. -----Original Message----- From: Robert E Salter <RES456@clds.net> To: GASCREVE-L@rootsweb.com <GASCREVE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, June 10, 2000 8:35 PM Subject: [GASCREVE] mailing list > >Leaudrey Hunter Salter-Around 1700 the Hunter family moved from Virginia to >North Carolina. They moved into Georgia around 1760. There were three >seperate families. One group, Ephriam Hunter, settled in Screven county. >Another group supposedly settled aroun Milledgeville/Sandersville area. The >third group around Savannah. I am a descendant of Ephriam Hunter and have >information on his line. I am searching to find information on the other >two families. Don't know their names or if they were brothers to Ephriam. >Any information would be helpful. > >RES456@clds.net > > >============================== >Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. >RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi >

Hi! My name is Jill Hunter Powell and I am researching the CANTY,HUNTER & SHEHANE surnames. The farthest I can go with the HUNTER's is back to my great-great grandfather HENRY HUNTER who married OLIVE GARRISON. They were from somewhere near Charlotte, NC. All of their children moved to Columbia,SC where I find a lot of info., but nothing on the ones in NC. Any info. would be appreciated. Jill jilly0820@aol.com

Leaudrey Hunter Salter-Around 1700 the Hunter family moved from Virginia to North Carolina. They moved into Georgia around 1760. There were three seperate families. One group, Ephriam Hunter, settled in Screven county. Another group supposedly settled aroun Milledgeville/Sandersville area. The third group around Savannah. I am a descendant of Ephriam Hunter and have information on his line. I am searching to find information on the other two families. Don't know their names or if they were brothers to Ephriam. Any information would be helpful. RES456@clds.net

John, is your family cemetery in P.G. county MARYLAND by any chance?? Barb ID472@aol.com

Deborah: Mr. Tarter's helpful comments on burned counties are both useful and appreciated. Thanks for posting them. However, just for the sake of leaving no nit unpicked..."loss" should not be his operative word; "destruction by Federal mongrels invading the South" (who also saw fit to push over and destroy headstones to cook on in my family cemetery in PG county) would seem more honestly descriptive. Thanks, John M. Poythress

After I sent off my first email, Dot, I got to thinking--what gave you the clue as to the fact that Isaac ROOKS may have had a daughter named Nancy? Let's compare notes and maybe we can knock down our stone walls. Incidentally, there was another Isaac ROOKS living about the same time in, I believe, Worth County, GA. He married Eliza SUMNER. There is probably a relationship between the two Isaacs, perhaps first cousins, but I have yet to prove that. Agnes

Hello, Dot, I am descended from Isaac ROOKS of Screven County, GA, and believe the 90 year old living with Mr. Taylor to be my ancestor. I also believe he was married to Abigail KEMP MERCER, daughter of Solomon KEMP and his wife, Margaret. Do not know if they had any children, but possibly at least a son, Isaac ROOKS, because in 1843 in Screven County, GA, an Isaac ROOKS marries Sarah FISHER, and they had three children, Susan, Mildred and Isaac DeKalb ROOKS. In one census, however, we find the older Isaac living with Sarah, Susan, Mildred and Isaac DeKalb ROOKS and no younger Isaac in the household who might be the father of the children. I am descended from Isaac DeKalb ROOKS. Wish I could be of more help. Agnes Donnelly

Another interesting discussion of the 1600's in Virginia Deborah Byrd ----- Original Message ----- From: Deborah Byrd <dwbyrd@usa.net> To: <dbyrd@lightcom.net> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 8:35 AM Subject: Re: [Burned Record Counties: Some Implications] > "kukla" <kukla@lynchburg.net> wrote: > > The loss of records from all but one of Virginia's oldest counties has, I have > long contended (citations below), contributed to the mistaken belief that > early Virginia was a place of chaos. I strongly challenged this view in a 1985 > article (1) and have been pleased that a lot of more recent scholarship -- > historical and archaeological -- is confirming what some regarded, 15 years > ago, as a lonely and contentious point of view. > The work of the late Darrett and Anita Rutman on Middlesex and the late James > Russell Perry on the Eastern Shore were two of the first that supported my > argument. Here's the direct point regarding the burnt-records counties and > destruction of the general court records in 1865 (quoting from my essay about > Perry's book for the convenience of those who may not have back issues of > Reviews in American History at their fingertips): > "On the Virginia mainland, similar networks {[i.e. comparable to the society > Perry explicated on the early Eastern Shore} for the oldest settled areas > along the James and York rivers might have been reconstructed from records > sent to Richmond for safe-keeping during the Civil War. There, along with many > volumes of colonial deed, will, probate, and order books, most of the local > records from counties such as Charles City, Elizabeth City, Gloucester, James > City, New Kent, and Warwick burned when the Confederates evacuated Richmond in > April 1865. York County achieved a stable society between 1634 and 1660, but > the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation started its York County Project with the > 1660s and worked toward the nineteenth century because documents did not > survive in sufficient quantity for demographic reconstruction of the earliest > population. Time will tell {the review essay concluded}, but perhaps James > Russell Perry's conclusions about the Eastern Shore only seem atypical b! > ecause he escaped the snare of {W. J. Cash's myth {explained earlier in the > essay*}. The scarcity of evidence for other Virginia localities suggests that > we pay attention to what he {Perry} painstakingly learned from the only extant > series of continuous local records from the first half century of English > settlement in the Chesapeake." {Reviews in Am Hist vol 20 (1992) p. 301.} > > *The Perry essay makes a parallel asserting that patterns of genealogical > interest and publication created the impression of a demographic gap in the > second quarter of the 17th century that, in turn, bolstered the chaotic > interpretation of early Virginia one associates with the influential 1957 > essay by Bernard Bailyn and its parallels to W. J. Cash's Mind of the South. > In this respect, the Perry essay amplifies the argument of the AHR essay. -jk > > Regarding the records lost in the General Court fire, 170 years ago, Conway > Robinson, a founder of the Virginia Historical Society (one of several centers > for Virginia history), compiled a lengthy memorandum of the records then held > by the court. I edited and published that Memorandum as an appendix to a new > edition of H.R. McIlwaine's Minutes of the Council and General Court (citation > below). Library of Virginia may still sell copies of the 2d edition. There are > three good reasons for serious libraries or scholars to have the 2d edition > even if they are fortunate enough to own the 1st edition: The 2d edition has > several appendices of supplementary material, the 2d edition is printed on > acid-free paper whereas the 1st edition copies are brittle and shreading, and > I printed the 2d edition slightly small than the 1st and it is actually easier > to read. These three considerations also apply to the Library's reprint of > McIlwaine's Legislative Journals of the Council. The only dr! > awback with these volumes is that one must get past my prefaces to them. > > > Citations: > 1. "Order and Chaos in Early America: Political and Social Stability in > Pre-Restoration Virginia," American Historical Review 90 (1985): 297-298. > 2. "Perry on the Eastern Shore," Reviews in American History 20 (1992): > 297-302. A review essay about James Russell Perry, The Formation of a Society > on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1615-1655 (Chapel Hill and London, 1990). > 3. Winterthur Portfolio 20 (1985): 292-295: . A review essay about Darrett B. > Rutman and Anita H. Rutman, A Place in Time: Middlesex County, Virginia, > 1650-1750 (New York, 1984) and Stephen Saunders Webb, 1676: The End of > American Independence (New York, 1984). > 4. "Memorandum of the Records in the General Court Office [in 1829]" and > "Copies of the rules of Court from 1691 to 1775," in Henry Read McIlwaine, > ed., Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia, (2d ed., > Richmond, 1979), 537-544, 601-607. > In general # 1 above and Political Institutions in Virginia, 1619-1660 in John > Murrin, ed., Outstanding Studies in Early American History (New York, 1989) > and "The Chesapeake Colonies," in Jacob Ernest Cooke et al., eds., > Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies (New York: Charles Scribner's > Sons, 1993), 1: 188-201. > > > > -- > Jon Kukla....................... Executive Vice-President and CEO > 1250 Red Hill Road ........... Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation > Brookneal, Virginia 24528 .. www.redhill.org .... 804 376-2044 > 804 376-4172 > -- > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.amexmail.com/?A=1 >

Got this off of the Va list. Thought it would prove helpful. ----- Original Message ----- From: Deborah Byrd <dwbyrd@usa.net> To: <dbyrd@lightcom.net> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 8:47 AM Subject: Re: [Va-Notes. Burned Record Counties] > Brent Tarter <BTarter@lva.lib.va.us> wrote: > VA-NOTES > BURNED RECORD COUNTIES > Several Virginia counties, most of them in the eastern part of the > state, have suffered tremendous loss of their early records during the > intense military activity that occurred during the Civil War, and others > lost records in fires. At some point, almost everyone conducting > genealogical or historical research will face the problem of finding > information from a so-called "Burned Record county." > Burned record counties might be grouped into three basic categories: > Hopeless, Almost Hopeless, and Difficult. Included in the Hopeless category > are James City, New Kent, Buckingham, Nansemond, Dinwiddie (before 1782), > Appomattox, Buchanan, King and Queen, Warwick, and Henrico (before 1677). > Almost Hopeless are Hanover, Prince George, Elizabeth City, and Gloucester. > Difficult counties are Caroline, Charles City, King William, Mathews, Prince > William, Stafford, Rockingham, and Nottoway. > If you are working with a county that has suffered a loss of court > records, you must devote all your genealogical energy and historical > knowledge to the project. First, survey any extant records as well as all > existing indexes; second, read every surviving record page by page; third, > consult the records of the surrounding counties; finally, seek out other > types of records, such as church, business, private, and government > documents. > Within the colonial period, the major source available are the > patents that were recorded in the Secretary's Office between 1623 and 1774. > Determine also if any church records are extant for the county of your > interest. > A few more resources are available during the statehood period. > Title to virgin land issued from the governor in a record now called a > grant; petitions to the legislature date from 1775 into the 1850s; tax > records, both land and personal, date from 1782 into the twentieth century; > militia fines date from 1795 to 1860. Researchers should also consult the > federal census schedules that were taken every ten years and for Virginia > survive from 1810 onward, excepting 1890, which was almost entirely burned. > Realize, however, that most of these records are simply lists and do > not give family information. The record can locate a particular name within > a specific county. > With the exception of the patent and grant books, the records > referenced are not available on-line; further, most are manuscripts and must > be consulted in person at the holding depository. > As always, when researching county court records, first consult the > on-line list of what is available at the Library of Virginia. It may be > found at the Library's wet site at http://www.lva.lib.va.us > > The Burned Record Counties. > > Appomattox: created in 1845, county court records were destroyed by > fire in 1892. > Buchanan: created in 1858, county court records were destroyed by > fire in 1885; records created after that date suffered extreme damage in a > flood in 1977. A few re-recorded deeds exist. > Buckingham: created in 1761, county court records were destroyed by > fire in 1869. One plat book survived and some wills and deeds were later > re-recorded. > Dinwiddie: created in 1752, county court records prior to 1833 were > destroyed in 1865. One plat book, one order book, and one judgment book > survive. > Elizabeth City: created in 1634 as an original shire, records were > damaged and/or destroyed during the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and the > Civil War. A few early deeds, wills, orders, and guardian's accounts > survive. > Gloucester: created in 1651, all county court records were > destroyed by an 1821 fire, and records created after that date were > destroyed in Richmond on 3 April 1865. Six minute books from the nineteenth > century and two surveyor's record books survive. > Hanover: created in 1721, most county court records were destroyed > by fire in Richmond on 3 April 1865. A few isolated record books that were > not sent to Richmond and various scraps of loose papers survive. > Henrico: created in 1634 as an original shire, all county court > records prior to 1655 and almost all prior to 1677 are missing; > additionally, many isolated records were destroyed during the Revolutionary > War, and almost all Circuit Court records were destroyed by fire in Richmond > on 3 April 1865. > James City: created in 1634 as an original shire, all county court > records were lost in 1865. > King and Queen: created in 1691, county court records were lost in > fires in 1828 and 1865. One plat book and three mid-nineteenth century > Superior Court record books survive. > Nansemond: created in 1652, county court records were destroyed in > three separate fires, the earliest of which consumed the house of the court > clerk in April 1734 (where the records were kept at that time), and the last > on 7 February 1866. A few fee books have been found in the records of Sussex > County. > New Kent: created in 1654, county court records were destroyed when > John Posey burned the courthouse on 15 July 1787, and records created after > that date were lost to fire in 1865. > Prince George: created in 1703, most county court records were > burned during the Civil War. A few record books survived and, proving that > there is always hope, the volume in which deeds and wills were recorded > between 1710 and 1713 was found within the last decade. Warwick: created in > 1643, county court records were destroyed at several times with most > destruction occurring during the Civil War. A seventeenth century livestock > registry, one order book, and one minute book from the eighteenth century > survive. > > Twenty-five other Virginia counties have suffered some loss of county court > records, some to a greater degree than others: > > Albemarle: created in 1744, all order books except the first and > all loose papers were destroyed in Tarleton's raid on Charlottesville in > 1781. > Bland: created in 1861, all but a few record books and some > chancery papers were destroyed by fire in 1888. > Brunswick: created in 1732, the first pages of a number of early > record books damaged by time. > Caroline: created in 1728, most records prior to 1836 were > destroyed during the Civil War. Some deeds and wills are recorded in extant > Chancery Papers, and a considerable number of order books and loose papers > survive. > Charles City: created in 1634 as an original shire, records have > been destroyed at various times. The most damage occurred during the Civil > War when the records were strewn through woods in a rainstorm. Many > fragments of records exist, so many, in fact, that there is something for > almost every year. > Chesterfield: created in 1749, lost one marriage register and some > loose court papers during the Civil War. > Clarke: created in 1836, had pages cut from several record books > during the Civil War. > Craig: created in 1851, lost the first deed book and most of the > loose papers during the Civil War. > Fairfax: created in 1742, original wills and deeds as well as many > other loose papers were destroyed during the Civil War; deed books for > twenty-six of the fifty-six years between 1763 and 1819 are missing. > Greene: created in 1838, lost the first deed book during the Civil > War when it was removed from the courthouse; no records were lost, but some > suffered extreme water damage in efforts to put out a fire in the 1970s. > King George: created in 1721, had one will book, an early marriage > register, and an order book "carried away during the Civil War." A few years > ago the will book was deposited in the Virginia Historical Society. > King William: created in 1702, all county court records prior to > 1885 (except for seventeen will books) were destroyed in a fire in that > year. > Lee: created in 1793, lost the oldest marriage register in an 1863 > fire. > Louisa: created in 1742, lost one order book in Richmond in 1865. > Mathews: created in 1791, all county court records were burned in > Richmond on 3 April 1865. At least two bond books, one plat book, and a > number of fee books survive. > Northumberland: created in 1645, suffered some loss in a fire in > the clerk's office on 25 October 1710. > Nottoway: created in 1789, many county court records were destroyed > or heavily mutilated in 1865. > Prince William: created in 1731, many county court records have > been lost, destroyed, or stolen at various times. Scattered years of deeds, > wills, and orders, as well as various bond books and a plat book, survive. > Richmond: created in 1692, has some record books damaged and > mutilated due to unknown causes; additionally, the will books prior to 1699 > were missing as early as 1793, and order books for the period 1794-1816 are > also missing. > Rockingham: created in 1778, most pre-Civil War wills were lost > when the courthouse was burned in June 1864; in an effort to save records, > they were loaded onto a wagon which was set afire along the road. Some few > were saved and administrators, executors, and guardian bonds survive. > Russell: created in 1786, the first marriage register and all loose > files were lost in a fire in the clerk's office in 1872. > Stafford: created in 1664, many pre-Civil War county court records > were lost to vandalism during the war. Scattered years of deeds, wills, and > orders have survived as has an old General Index. > Surry: created in 1652, has lost deeds for 1835-1838 and order > books for 1718-1741 and various other early record books are fragmentary. > Court house fires in 1906 and 1922 did not result in loss of records which > were then housed in a separate clerk's office. > Washington: created in 1777, lost a minute book for the period > 1787-1819 and many loose papers in a fire in the clerk's office on 15 > December 1864. > Westmoreland: created in 1653, lost an order book for the period > 1764-1776 to theft, and many loose papers were damaged during both the > Revolutionary War and the Civil War. > > > An online series on Research in Virginia Documents. > Prepared by the Division of Publications and Education Services. > Copyright by The Library of Virginia; this note may be reproduced in full if > proper credit is given and no changes are made. > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.amexmail.com/?A=1 >

Hello Can anyone shed some light on the Isaac Rooks 90 (years old living with) John Taylor, Sr 76 Farmer N.C. listed in the 1860 census of Screven Co.? I do appreciate any thing you may have on him concerning sibilings or children. I think he may have had a daughter Nancy Thanks All Dot Smith

John Robert Pierce(b1876) was Chief of Police for 25 years in Sylvania Screven Co., GA. His parents were John R. Pierce and Nancy Elizabeth BOLTON Pierce. I would like to know, "who were Nancy Elizabeth Bolton parents?" I have a Nancy Bolton as Richard Bolton's daughter, but I have not been able to find a Nancy Elizabeth Bolton, can someone help me with this? I do appreciate any help. Thank you, Dot Smith

Scottie, Thanks for the info. Where is Burke County? Do you know any other info. on Philip Jasper Newton? I have been desperately trying to find a connection to my Jasper Newton Canty. Thanks! Jill

The marriage of John Hurst and Martha A. Bragg(b. 1828) is recorded in the Screven county marriage records as being 1/3/1846. In the 1850 census of same county this couple is recorded as household with 3 children present. John, Jr., Jasper and Stephen. Stephen is listed last as a child of 20 years old. b. about 1830. This would have placed Stephen's birth before his mother's!!! Who is this Stephen? to whom did he really belong? Was John married prior to this? Can someone help me out here? Was he perhaps a younger brother of John Sr.? John Sr, shown to have been of age 26 in this census and Martha was 22. Thanks, Judy Rountree Mason

Agnes, As for Greene Washington Oglesbee's burial site in Staunton, I really don't know. When I was stationed at Langley AFB near Hampton, Virginia, I attempted to locate it, and even drove to Staunton, but couldn't even find the Confederate Cemetery. Of course, I didn't have a lot of time, either. I would definitely be interested in he was buried in Thornrose. If you run across it, please let me know. Thanks for your help. Happy hunting! Scottie

Jill, There was a Philip Jasper Newton in Burke County, and a lot of men were named for him in the mid-to-late 1800s. Evidently, he was either a prosperous man or perhaps a man of the cloth. Hope that this helps. Happy hunting. Scottie

I was wondering if your Jasper Newton could be related to my Jasper Newton Canty? He is my missing link. Born in GA. in 1851. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Jill Powell (Jilly0820@aol.com)

Agnes, Thank you very much, I would really appreciate that. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you! Happy hunting. Scottie

Oh, and one other thing, Scotti, what cemetery in Staunton, VA? If it is Thornrose, I go there occasionally and again offer to photo the stone, if you wish. Agnes

Scotti, I live close to Mount Jackson, VA and in case you find you can't make that scheduled trip, let me know and I will be glad to see if I can find the tombstone and take a photo of it for you. Agnes Donnelly Researching ROOKS, KEMP in Screven County, GA