Interesting that Virginia has somehow managed to pull it out of us, that our ancestors, as a rule, did not tend to just take off for the blue, leaving family friends and connections behind. They went with !! or, close behind. Georgians had been emigrating into Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri in small trickles, before the Civil War. Those trickles drastically increased as times became harder. By about 1868, my maternal lines, Jordan Wilcher & wife, Virginia (Hammock) had left Taylor Co, gone into first Woods Co, & then settled into Bell Co Texas, along with Virginia's cousin, Mansel McBryde & his wife, Jane (Gore), from Talbot Co. In the 1870 Bell Co Census, I also found my paternal line, John Snellings, his wife Martha (Mayo) & 3 of John's brothers & their families, all from Talbot Co. Taylor & Talbot Co's had to have been thriving, up until the Civil War. By the time that was over, a huge percentage of their young men had been killed, wounded or maimed, or, had vanished.I don't know if those "damn yankees" destroyed businesses, crops, homes in Taylor, (good question, did they?) but they surely did in Talbot. What were left were widows, orphans, the elderly. And what Reconstruction didn't finish off, the boll weevil did. Times were hard. The young people flocked to the larger cities & towns, to work in factories. Rampant outbreaks of typhoid fever & smallpox were still un-checked. (Per one newspaper report, some 800 plus had died in Columbus, Muscogee Co in one month alone.) At the same time, there was cheap, rich land to be had in Texas, where, if a man were enterprising enough, a more than decent living could be made for his family, his sons & their families. James Burnham's family went into Falls Co, as did my Benjamin F. Elliston, his wife Catherine (Hammock) & their 12 children, settling around Durango Falls & Lott bt ca 1892. Carol Johnson Petaluma, Calif 94954 (707) 763-7956 Talbot Co http://www.rootsweb.com/~gatalbot/gatalbot.htm Subscribe to Talbot Co Ga Mailing List GATALBOT-L-request@rootsweb.com

I need someone to check the m/f for 1870 US Census for Taylor Co., GA: ADAMS, Anthony age c. 90 b. SC In the book: Essie Jones (Mrs. Bussey Jones) Childs, ��I�They Tarried in Taylor County (A Georgia County) 1860, 1870, 1880, & 1900 Census Records, County Records, Church Records, & Family Records� (Post Office Box 2024, Warner Robins, GA 31099-2024: Central Georgia Genealogical Society, Inc, 1992)p. 142 states on the 1870 US Census Anthony ADAMS 90 SC was enumerated in the household of Simon COX (454 B) on p.152. However: On p. 142: COX, Simon 60 NC (blacksmith) Lucy 55 SC (d/o Anthony Adams) SMITH, Anthony 90 SC <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< HOBBS, Amanda 35 GA (d/o Simon & Lucy Cox; wd/o James Sterling Bartlett; 2nd Charlie Hobbs) Charlie 10 GA Frank 7 All info in ( ) is from the above book. Mary 41 SC is listed as James BARTLETT's wife in 1860. If the above Amanda HOBBS was the same person as Amanda she would have been c. 51 years in 1870 NOT 35!! See below: p. 100 In 1860 Anthony ADAMS was listed as residing in the household of: BARTLETT James S. 43 GA (farmer); Mary 41 SC; Whitfield W. 21 (teacher); [Is his last name BARTLETT?] Jesse E. 19; ADAMS, Anthony 73 SC (wheelchair maker) James BARTLETT is *not* listed in the above mentioned book for the 1870 US Census. 1. Is this name of SMITH a recording error? a) Recording error in the book? b) Recording error on the census? Nadine

I really appreciated James Burnham's story about his family. This brought another question to my mind. I have always wondered how many Taylor County residents actually came to TEXAS at about the same time....and even who was the FIRST. I think it will be interesting to see who went to what part of Texas. So let's add the area of Texas when possible. Ellis County is about 40 miles south of Dallas. Alma hardly exists any more. Falls County is very near where I live in Waco....Marlin is the county seat. This is about 100 miles south of Dallas....in Central Texas. Marlin was known for its mineral baths for health around the 1930's. My grandmother living in Navarro County used to go there for treatment a couple of times a year. They are trying to do some historical renovations there now. Falls and Ellis Counties are far enough away from each other that these folks probably had very little contact once they came to Texas. Anyway, please share your story. We may even find some common links on leaving Taylor!! Virginia Crilley 4500 Kenny Lane Waco TX 76710 (254)772-5390 Subscribe to RUFFIN mailing list: Ruffin-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Subscribe to CRILLEY mailing list: Crilley-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Homepages: http://www.eramp.net/~crilley Ruffin homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6276 Taylor Co USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~gataylor/gataylor.htm

> Crilley wrote: > > > My interest stems in that I made one very, very brief visit through > Taylor > > County several years ago. My grandparents left there with their family > in > > 1886 for Texas. My father was their last child and born in Alma, Texas. > > > > > I was looking for hints as to how my grandparents would have thought of > > Texas when they arrived. > > > > The first thing that struck me about Taylor County was its red, clay soil > > and its tall pines. > > > > Alma, Texas is in the Blackland Prairie, and at the time they arrived was > > very good for cotton production. The main trees were scrub mequite > > trees.....trees just don't grow that tall period in Texas! > > > > I've often wondered if my grandmother might have brought along a peach > > tree....or a rose bush cutting. By the time I was interested in > genealogy, > > there just weren't any people around to ask these questions to! At any > > rate, I'll bet she missed the tall pines. We did have a peach tree in > the > > back yard when I was a little girl...don't remember them ever being very > > good though....probably too cold. > > > > That's why I keep asking if the Peach trees are native or just when they > > started growing them in Taylor County. > > > > I think our Mailing List group is probably made up of three categories: > > 1) People who were born and raised in Taylor County and who still live > there > > 2) People raised in Taylor but now only getting there for a visit > > 3) People who only had ancestors from there and know very little about it I am category # 3. I used to attend family reunions in Taylor County as a child but am just now beginning to re-aquaint myself with the family I still have there. One half of my Taylor County ancestors also went to Texas in 1883. The 1882 typhoid epidemic had struck the Mathews family of Taylor County hard, taking the lives of one son, their son-in-law and a baby grand-daughter. My Great-great grandfather, William Washington Mathews had it. Another son survived but was brain damaged by the fever. Will loaded his family into a wagon and moved to Falls County, Texas (Rosebud) in 1883. He left behind his oldest daughter, Lula Jane Mathews Jarrell, who had been widowed by the epidemic and her one surviving twin daughter (the other having been taken by the fever. The young widow now had a house,the farm and farm equipment that had belonged to her and her late husband as well as the farm and posessions left behind by her father. I would think a young widow with two farms and other possessions wold attract numerius suitors. In December 1884 she married a young preacher, Monroe Tony Gualtney. They had eight more children and raised their family in Taylor County. What significant factors led to this western migratuin in the 1880's? What can you tell me about Falls County, Texas? James Harrell Burnham

Posted by Brian R. Holt <gsi00253@gsaix2.cc.gasou.edu> on Mon, 30 Mar 1998 Taylor County, Ga. - I am looking for any information anyone has about the Butler (Ga.) Candy Company. My great-great-great uncle Robert J. PATE from Chattahoochee County bought the company and moved it to Moultrie, Georgia. Incorporation dates of the company, business licenses, sales, etc. would be much appreciated. Sincerely, Brian R. Holt Virginia Crilley 4500 Kenny Lane Waco TX 76710 (254)772-5390 Subscribe to RUFFIN mailing list: Ruffin-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Subscribe to CRILLEY mailing list: Crilley-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Homepages: http://www.eramp.net/~crilley Ruffin homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6276 Taylor Co USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~gataylor/gataylor.htm

By the way, I love getting these responses about Taylor County things. Since I'm sure that everyone is equally interested, whenever you think appropriat......: CC: to the LIST so that everyone will be able to enjoy them. It's interesting to learn about the Peaches themselves. My interest stems in that I made one very, very brief visit through Taylor County several years ago. My grandparents left there with their family in 1886 for Texas. My father was their last child and born in Alma, Texas. I was looking for hints as to how my grandparents would have thought of Texas when they arrived. The first thing that struck me about Taylor County was its red, clay soil and its tall pines. Alma, Texas is in the Blackland Prairie, and at the time they arrived was very good for cotton production. The main trees were scrub mequite trees.....trees just don't grow that tall period in Texas! I've often wondered if my grandmother might have brought along a peach tree....or a rose bush cutting. By the time I was interested in genealogy, there just weren't any people around to ask these questions to! At any rate, I'll bet she missed the tall pines. We did have a peach tree in the back yard when I was a little girl...don't remember them ever being very good though....probably too cold. That's why I keep asking if the Peach trees are native or just when they started growing them in Taylor County. I think our Mailing List group is probably made up of three categories: 1) People who were born and raised in Taylor County and who still live there 2) People raised in Taylor but now only getting there for a visit 3) People who only had ancestors from there and know very little about it It would be interesting to hear some stories of your connections with Taylor County. And I always welcome your ideas about how to add to the page. Just found out to my chagrin that the Howard and Charing links weren't working. So I now have them corrected. Virginia Crilley 4500 Kenny Lane Waco TX 76710 (254)772-5390 Subscribe to RUFFIN mailing list: Ruffin-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Subscribe to CRILLEY mailing list: Crilley-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Homepages: http://www.eramp.net/~crilley Ruffin homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6276 Taylor Co USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~gataylor/gataylor.htm

Charing Community Charing is located in the 12th District (southwest part of Taylor County). It was "incorporated" as a town in 1912 but long before that it had been known as "Flem". It was named for the son of one of the early settlers, Will Garrett. Will's sister, Laura, sent in a list of names for the new town to the postal authorities, including the name of her nephew, Flem Garrett. Flem was chosen by the state and established a post office. The first postmaster was Issac W. Garrett. Flem was built around a pond. On the southeast side of the pond a cotton gin was built around 1890 by Bill Garrett and Tom Cochran. The pond was the town's main source of power and most families built around it. Mrs. Bessie Davis was the postmaster when the post office was the first to move (Sept 12, 1906) the 3 miles west to the Atlantic, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad tracks. The Railroad called this Charing Crossing (taken from the English name) The name of the post office was officially changed to Charing on Nov 4, 1908. Postmasters included: Hubert H. Rogers - June 6, 1909 Jessie I Jinks - Dec 5, 1913 Simms Garrett - Oct 26, 1916 Benny Leon Waller - Jan 26, 1941 Harmon O. Montgomery - Feb 14, 1942 (declined) Benny Leon Waller - May 1, 1942 Mrs. Johnnie Pittman Waller - June 30, 1943 Benny Leon Waller - May 31, 1946 Effie L. Garrett - Dec 13, 1957 Mrs. Johnnie Pittman Waller - Mar 2, 1970 until closed in 1974. In 1910 Charing experienced growth and the Rogers brothers had a large brick store built with three compartments. The contractor was S.S. Kent of Americus. The Rogers brothers each had a house built around that time too. In 1912 when the town was incorporated, J.A. Hollis was Representative, and C.E. Marshall Senator in the General Assembly. On Sept 21, 1912 the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Charing was chartered and began business on Nov 6, 1912 with R.L. Bell as the cashier. The bank was owned by John D. Walker and later by J.T. Garrett and Simms Garrett. This bank was one of the ones in Taylor County that did not fail during the Depression of 1929. Mt. Nebo Primitive Baptist Church and Charing United Methodist Church were an important part of the early life here. The charter was removed in 1915, the bank was closed, the town doctore moved away and World War II came with so many young men going into the service and young women going to work in the war industries. Today, Charing is a small community for those who love it enough to drive 50 miles to jobs elsewhere. Slightly northeast of the town about 1/2 mile are the remains was an Indian village...probably the Creeks. In 1905 the Indian mounds there were still about 8 ft high. One especially high one (12 ft) was said to be that of an Indian chief buried on his horse. Cut into the hillside around this were "seats and steps". Although they have washed away, arrowheads and Indian relics are still found. Virginia Crilley 4500 Kenny Lane Waco TX 76710 (254)772-5390 Subscribe to RUFFIN mailing list: Ruffin-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Subscribe to CRILLEY mailing list: Crilley-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Homepages: http://www.eramp.net/~crilley Ruffin homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6276 Taylor Co USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~gataylor/gataylor.htm

>Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:47:51 -0500 >From: "Bill O'Neal" <billoneal@earthlink.net> >Reply-To: billoneal@earthlink.net >To: Crilley <crilley@eramp.net> >Subject: School's Out! > >My mother was born near Ideal, Ga. She attended school at a "Batten" >school between Oglethorpe and Ideal which was in Macon County. On the >first of April all the students played a joke on the teacher, Mrs. >Mattie Martin, by running away into the woods. After staying away quite >some time, they returned and to their surprise a note to them was >written on the blackboard. It said "I've gone home-April Fool!" She also >attended a church called Gum Springs school near Hicks Mill in the Busby >community. The teacher was a Mrs. Hobbs. Mother could not remember the >peach packing community of Bonito, but did remember seeing where one had >burned down in that location, with only the foundation remaining. She >was born in Macon County Aug. 9, 1913 and remained there and later in >Butler until 1943 when we moved to Columbus. Emily O'Neal > > Virginia Crilley 4500 Kenny Lane Waco TX 76710 (254)772-5390 Subscribe to RUFFIN mailing list: Ruffin-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Subscribe to CRILLEY mailing list: Crilley-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Homepages: http://www.eramp.net/~crilley Ruffin homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6276 Taylor Co USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~gataylor/gataylor.htm

Thanks for this wonderful tidbit on school life....I'll be compiling these and adding them to a permanent place on our page! >Reply-To: <@oconee.com> >From: "BETTIE J. HAMILTON" <wham@oconee.com> >To: "VIRGINIA CRILLEY" <crilley@eramp.net> >Subject: Howard School >Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:51:35 -0500 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > >HI VIRGINIA, >My Dad, W.T. Hamilton started to Howard school abt. 1910. His first teacher >was a Miss Sealy. After she married and left, Miss Mattie Julia Van >Landingham became his teacher, until he moved away in 1917. Miss Mattie >Julia married Hugh Perkins. >My Dad had a classmate named Brown Parker, son of Lige Parker. One day Dad >bet Brown he couldn't get his head in the shelf under the desk. Brown did >get his head in, but they had to get help to get his head out.My Dad will >be 93 on May 16, and enjoys going back to Howard , we sit out by the >cemetery and listen to the stories he tells, about the people buried there. >William F. Hamilton wham@oconee.com > > Virginia Crilley 4500 Kenny Lane Waco TX 76710 (254)772-5390 Subscribe to RUFFIN mailing list: Ruffin-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Subscribe to CRILLEY mailing list: Crilley-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Homepages: http://www.eramp.net/~crilley Ruffin homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6276 Taylor Co USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~gataylor/gataylor.htm

Thanks, Jim for this description. This is just the kind of info that I needed. Although it probably seems so ordinary to those who have heard of it or even lived with it.....it is exciting news for others!. Everybody....keep on digging up remembrances of things you've heard! ======================= My mother went to school in Dodge County. She said the kids who did not have "store-bought" lunch boxes had metal syrup buckets they used for lunch pails like her and her siblings. They carried biscuit with ham, fat back (mostly) or occaisionally beef, a baked sweet potato and occaisionally a piece of cake. This was in the 1920's and early 30's though. She said some of the kids who "had more" caried sandwiches made from sliced bread. My Dad began to drive the bus when he was 12 and continued to do so after he graduated until his early 20's. James Harrell Burnham Virginia Crilley 4500 Kenny Lane Waco TX 76710 (254)772-5390 Subscribe to RUFFIN mailing list: Ruffin-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Subscribe to CRILLEY mailing list: Crilley-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Homepages: http://www.eramp.net/~crilley Ruffin homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6276 Taylor Co USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~gataylor/gataylor.htm

I have set up on the Taylor County a Obituary Forum. This is also connected to the National USGenWeb Query Search. You'll see it linked on the front page of the Taylor County page. Whenever someone reads your obit and posted a message regarding it, you will automatically be notified via your e-mail. Besides giving us all the opportunity to post obituaries, it also will enable more people to contact you! Virginia Crilley 4500 Kenny Lane Waco TX 76710 (254)772-5390 Subscribe to RUFFIN mailing list: Ruffin-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Subscribe to CRILLEY mailing list: Crilley-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Homepages: http://www.eramp.net/~crilley Ruffin homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6276 Taylor Co USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~gataylor/gataylor.htm

Hi Virginia, I lived in Reynolds for 12 years and never heard of Bonita. I traveled from Reynolds to Butler daily to high school and never saw any signs of this settlement, but it may have been off the beaten path. It was probably near the railroad on what we called the "flats" (what Sallie-Mander called the "highest tableland") between Reynolds and Butler. I'll be in Taylor County on April 11th and will try to look for signs of old Bonita. I'll also ask my Uncle J.W. (b. 1910, still living in Reynolds). Randy > Does anyone know anything or anybody who lived in Bonita. It sounded so > promising! Was there ever a school built there? > > Those peaches sounded so wonderful too. I'd love to know more about the > peaches in Taylor County. Can we assume that most of our early ancestors > had a peach tree in their back yard? > > I'm going to add a section on our page for "towns that no longer exist". I > assume that this is true of Bonita, since I don't see it on the map. Can > some of you natives help me out??? > ============== > > (Taken from the Butler Herald, Tuesday, May 26, 1908) > Dear "Herald": > I here and now make my bow to the readers of the Herald and hope to be > welcomed into the ranks of correspondence of your worthy sheet. > > Bonita, meaning pretty in Spanish, is the name given to the new station on > the Central railroad three and a half miles west of Reynolds and five and a > half miles east of Butler at the crossing of the Central R.R. by the dirt > road between the two towns. > > We are splendidly situated on the highest tableland between Macon and > Columbus surrounded by forty thousand splendid peach trees, twent thousand > full of beautiful Carmen and Elbert peaches. We have just finished a large > packing house and put in the best side track on the road. We expect to ship > fifteen or twenty cars of luscious peaches this season, giving work to a > great number of people. We have arrangements to care for a large crowd. > Also will put in a cannery to care for all fruit too ripe to ship and we > would be glad to have all the help possible to handle the crop. > > Mr. Howard Eubanks, the manager is up to his ears in business, but always > takes time to say a pleasant work or give any information about Bonito. > > Bonito is contemplating the erection of a large free school building to be > known as the Bonito Male and Female Academy. > > We would be glad if some merchant would open a general store at Bonito to > accomodate the large trade at this point. Free house rent will be given to > the right party. > > A blacksmith would do well at Bonito as it is surrounded by large and > prosperous farmers. > > Messrs. A.B. POSEY, JUD WILSON, P.B. HORTON, ASA PARKS, and ARTHUR WILSON > were busy last week completing the now packing house; GUS WILSON acting as > overseer. > > Mr. DAVID STEWART, of Baltimore, was in our midst last Friday looking after > the interest of his house, the Stewart Fruit Co. > > For the next few months our payroll will not be as heavy as Andrew Carnegie's. > > We extend a cordial invitation to all the churches to make Bonito the picnic > center. We have three splendid springs, three wells with the finest, coolest > most sparkling, health giving water to be found in Georgia. Grand old shade > trees, a large roomy packing house that can be used for protection against > rain or storms, for table spreads; etc. and above all the warm welcome. > > We are anxious to secure a good gin and will aid any party wishing to erect one. > "Sallie-Mander" > > > Virginia Crilley 4500 Kenny Lane Waco TX 76710 (254)772-5390 > Subscribe to RUFFIN mailing list: Ruffin-L-Request@Rootsweb.com > Subscribe to CRILLEY mailing list: Crilley-L-Request@Rootsweb.com > Homepages: http://www.eramp.net/~crilley > Ruffin homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6276 > Taylor Co USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~gataylor/gataylor.htm > ___________________________________________________________________________ Randy Carpenter http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~randy Georgia Institute of Technology randy@cc.gatech.edu College of Computing (404) 894-9046

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In a recent Taylor Tracer, Mr. Adams mentioned that Gloria Harbuck and her mother, Ruth Pike is working on a history of Mauk. They evidently had some pictures furnished by Gaynell Pittman of Mauk. I don't believe that Gloria has e-mail, but maybe someone on this list could find out how it is going. She lives in Warner Robins, 101 Winship Drive. I'm pretty sure that the JINKS family lived in that general area... We need a brief history for our page anyway. Does anyone on this List know anything about Mauk to share as starters? Virginia Virginia Crilley 4500 Kenny Lane Waco TX 76710 (254)772-5390 Subscribe to RUFFIN mailing list: Ruffin-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Subscribe to CRILLEY mailing list: Crilley-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Homepages: http://www.eramp.net/~crilley Ruffin homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6276 Taylor Co USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~gataylor/gataylor.htm

Cathy, did you get an answer about the Gordon-Carson Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy? Was that the Reynolds one? I noticed that Mr. Adams mentioned in the Nov. Taylor Tracer that the Wallace Edwards Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy has an on going project to mark all those who served from Taylor County and other places who are buried in Taylor County. It would be nice to get in correspondence with both of these chapters. Can anyone help us out on this? Virginia

This is a list for 1912 schools that were in Taylor County!! I have placed it on our School Page where we have tried to collect a little information about several schools. THIS list contains LOTS that I never heard of. We need your help on this one.....what do you know about any of these??? Were they "one room schoolhouses"? With only one teacher listed, I'm guess that was what they were. Wouldn't it be nice to know what a typical day was like? What they took in their lunch pail? What the school room looked like? I wonder if any report cards still exist from those days! Let's see what we can find out. (Butler Herald, Thursday, Oct 3, 1912) Schools will begin on the fourth Monday in October. County Superintendent, Prof. A.S. WALLACE provided the following list: Howard - Miss Mattie Julia Vanlandingham Wesley, Miss Garnet Smith Five Points - Miss Irene Perkins Midway - Miss Bessie Cox Crowell - R.L. Bodiford Clayton - Miss Susie Scandrett Turner's Chapel - H.B. McCants; Coopers - ? Potterville - Miss Forence Yates Bethlehem - Miss Bessie Adams; Harmony - ? Peacock - W.T. Rustin Rhodes - Miss Vera Bartlett Southland - Mrs. Eva Sutton Rupert - Miss Ida Childs Charing - Miss Mary Lizzie Blackmon Walker - Mrs. Sallie Wilcher Mauk - Miss Lizzie Murrah Cobb's - Miss Mellie Shumate Pine Grove - Miss Bretha Perkins Perkins - Miss Bertha Fuller Pine Knot - C.C. Ingram Daviston - Miss Susie Fowler By 1956 all the smaller "country" elementary school like Crossroads, Central, Mauk, Wesley, Turner's Chapel, Crowell, Taylor Mill, Rupert -- had been consolidated into either Butler or Reynolds High School. Virginia Crilley 4500 Kenny Lane Waco TX 76710 (254)772-5390 Subscribe to RUFFIN mailing list: Ruffin-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Subscribe to CRILLEY mailing list: Crilley-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Homepages: http://www.eramp.net/~crilley Ruffin homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6276 Taylor Co USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~gataylor/gataylor.htm

Does anyone know anything or anybody who lived in Bonita. It sounded so promising! Was there ever a school built there? Those peaches sounded so wonderful too. I'd love to know more about the peaches in Taylor County. Can we assume that most of our early ancestors had a peach tree in their back yard? I'm going to add a section on our page for "towns that no longer exist". I assume that this is true of Bonita, since I don't see it on the map. Can some of you natives help me out??? ============== (Taken from the Butler Herald, Tuesday, May 26, 1908) Dear "Herald": I here and now make my bow to the readers of the Herald and hope to be welcomed into the ranks of correspondence of your worthy sheet. Bonita, meaning pretty in Spanish, is the name given to the new station on the Central railroad three and a half miles west of Reynolds and five and a half miles east of Butler at the crossing of the Central R.R. by the dirt road between the two towns. We are splendidly situated on the highest tableland between Macon and Columbus surrounded by forty thousand splendid peach trees, twent thousand full of beautiful Carmen and Elbert peaches. We have just finished a large packing house and put in the best side track on the road. We expect to ship fifteen or twenty cars of luscious peaches this season, giving work to a great number of people. We have arrangements to care for a large crowd. Also will put in a cannery to care for all fruit too ripe to ship and we would be glad to have all the help possible to handle the crop. Mr. Howard Eubanks, the manager is up to his ears in business, but always takes time to say a pleasant work or give any information about Bonito. Bonito is contemplating the erection of a large free school building to be known as the Bonito Male and Female Academy. We would be glad if some merchant would open a general store at Bonito to accomodate the large trade at this point. Free house rent will be given to the right party. A blacksmith would do well at Bonito as it is surrounded by large and prosperous farmers. Messrs. A.B. POSEY, JUD WILSON, P.B. HORTON, ASA PARKS, and ARTHUR WILSON were busy last week completing the now packing house; GUS WILSON acting as overseer. Mr. DAVID STEWART, of Baltimore, was in our midst last Friday looking after the interest of his house, the Stewart Fruit Co. For the next few months our payroll will not be as heavy as Andrew Carnegie's. We extend a cordial invitation to all the churches to make Bonito the picnic center. We have three splendid springs, three wells with the finest, coolest most sparkling, health giving water to be found in Georgia. Grand old shade trees, a large roomy packing house that can be used for protection against rain or storms, for table spreads; etc. and above all the warm welcome. We are anxious to secure a good gin and will aid any party wishing to erect one. "Sallie-Mander" Virginia Crilley 4500 Kenny Lane Waco TX 76710 (254)772-5390 Subscribe to RUFFIN mailing list: Ruffin-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Subscribe to CRILLEY mailing list: Crilley-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Homepages: http://www.eramp.net/~crilley Ruffin homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6276 Taylor Co USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~gataylor/gataylor.htm

http://www.rootsweb.com/~gagenweb/gaindex.htm Go to the State GA page and there is now an automated, searchable place for Surnames in GA. You'll want to add your names! I just added mine there, and also found someone searching for the same JINKS name, that I had not been in contact with before. If someone doesn't know the county their family is in, they will go to this page. Virginia Crilley 4500 Kenny Lane Waco TX 76710 (254)772-5390 Subscribe to RUFFIN mailing list: Ruffin-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Subscribe to CRILLEY mailing list: Crilley-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Homepages: http://www.eramp.net/~crilley Ruffin homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6276 Taylor Co USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~gataylor/gataylor.htm

I just put Taylor County on the Automated Query System. The reason for this, is to make sure that all the queries submitted will be in the SEARCH ENGINE. Those queries that I have fed in by hand, will remain where they are....but those will not be in the National Search Engine. Just like anything new, the system takes a little getting used to....but give it a try, and hopefully visit it often! One of the pluses is that you can now correspond with someone about a surname and query and if you RESPOND to the MESSAGE right on line then your material will also be saved. This is a real advantage when people join in with our research at a later date! (I'm behind and some of the last queries and surnames that you submitted are not on-line yet....but I'm working on it!) A SURNAME list is one of the next things that probably will be added to this system. I really did like the SURNAME system that I had used, but because queries would not be able to be found in the SEARCH Engine, I decided I'd better make this conversion at this time! OBIT FORUM At the same time, I signed Taylor County up for the OBIT Forum. This means that you can go in and post at any time your personal obituaries. Then they will also be available for SEARCH Engine searches. I have added J.J. Ruffin just to try it out. TAYLOR COUNTY LIST Now let's get this List moving! We still have so much to share, and now we can all share with one another. You never know when something that you are interested in may be of very great interest for everyone else! LOCATED DESCENDANT OF GREAT-AUNT I've been so delighted to locate descendants of a long-lost great aunt. Her descendant discovered the will that I had posted in the GA Archives, and sent me an e-mail. Of course, I was just amazed. Shows that the ARCHIVES really help get your name out there too! Virginia Crilley 4500 Kenny Lane Waco TX 76710 (254)772-5390 Subscribe to RUFFIN mailing list: Ruffin-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Subscribe to CRILLEY mailing list: Crilley-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Homepages: http://www.eramp.net/~crilley Ruffin homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6276 Taylor Co USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~gataylor/gataylor.htm

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