> Does anyone have any information, pictures or maps of the Alabama or Old > Alabama Road? > > I am looking for information about the Alabama Road that was active during > the 1827 Georgia Lottery. > > I aso would like to ask if anyone knows where the Alabama Road leads to once > it leaves Ellersie, Harris County, Georgia. Does in come down to Coumbus or > does it cross over the River to Alabama? > > > I have driven on the Alabama Road, and it twists and turns. I am looking for > a turn in the road where a Cemetery would be east to Alabama Road.. The > Cemetery is 12 miles from Columbus, near Midland, Georgia. (If I can find where > the Alabama Road was near Midland, Georgia, then I would know in what area the > Cemetery would be. > > Also, where would the Alabama Road enter Russell or Lee County,Alabama, > after if left Georgia? > > I am looking right now at Bethel Baptist Church , Flat Rock Road in > Columbus, Muscogee County. > But they do not *Knowingly* have a Cemetery. Only Cemetery they know of are > four graves near the Church. Before Bethel Baptist Church, built 1853. There > was Bethel Meeting House in 1825 built on the road behind Flat Rock Road. > Land was left to the Church for a Cemetery, but no one knows of it. > There might be a Cemetery near the Bethel Baptist Meeting House, built > between the Meeting House and the present day Bethel Baptist Church on Flat Rock > Road. I thought someone might have Church records or know of the Alabama Road > or the Cemetery 12 miles from Columbus, Georgia and east of the Alabama Road > > In 1825-1840 Bethel Baptist Church was located in Midland, Georgia, now the > Church is in Muscogee County. My gr gr grandpapa Rev. Green Berry Waldrop was > Minister of Bethel Baptist Church from 1832 until 1840. We thought his son > Gilbert Franklin Waldrop might be buried near his Church at that time. > Also, at the time of Gilbert's death he was living in the Family's Home in > Shiloh, Harris County , Georgia. > > Gilbert Franklin Waldrop was buried in a Cemetery 12 miles from Columbus, > East of the Alabama Road. (taken from Gilbert's Obit in 1834) > > > > Thanks for any help. > > Sandra > maiden name Waldrop > Muscogee County, Georgia