This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0d.2ADE/188.191.276.357.1 Message Board Post: My email is swilson18@nc.rr.com. My gggrandfather, Seaborn Cowart, had 4 sons and a daughter named Cora, whom he left with his sister in GA when he and the boys went to Texas. Cora would have been born sometime between 1857-1863. Do you think this is your Cora? Dorothea

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0d.2ADE/1356.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for the link to the maps. My mother's family (Linton) were from Dawson, TyTy, Boston, Thomasville, as well as Monticello & Tallahassee, Fla.There were Fosters, Nicholsons, Johnsons

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ADAMS, PYLES, MCCULLAR, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0d.2ADE/786.788.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Theophilus was married to Mary Adams. She was the sister to my GGrandfather Archie Adams. He is also buried at Bold Springs.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0d.2ADE/1356.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: If you would like to see Where Grooverville is/was relative to Thomasville in snapshots of history from 1839, check out the great website for history maps. http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/thomascopn.htm

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0d.2ADE/1356.1.2 Message Board Post: Grooverville United Methodist Church Boston, GA did exist according to this site: www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/1611/humorouschurchnames1.html USGS National Mapping Information: http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnisprod?f_name=&variant=N&f_state=Georgia&f_cnty=Brooks&f_ty=cemetery African Methodist Episcopal Cemetery GA Brooks cemetery Latitude 304322N Longtitude 0834326W Grooverville Grooverville Cemetery GA Brooks cemetery Latitude 304258N Longtitude 0834409W Grooverville Simmons Hill Cemetery GA Brooks cemetery Latitude 304001N Longtitude 0833757W Grooverville

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Linton, Lanier, Foster, Johnson, Nicholson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0d.2ADE/1356.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I guess I did muddle things a bit. The Linton family migrated from MD down the coast, had a plantation (Mt PLeasant) in Abbeville, SC. From there Moses Linton & his wife, Lucy Lanier, moved to primeval forest with nothing but Indians in SW Ga. He had over 100 slaves that he eventually freed. They built the Methodist church near Grooversville , some where in time. After the Civil & Indian wars, they retired to Thomasville. Represented Thomas Co. Ga in secession convention that carried Ga into Southern Confederacy. They are a fairly well documented family.He is buried at Laurel Hill. I had no idea if that is Methodist or not, or how close Thomasville is that close to Grooversville.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0d.2ADE/1356.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Grooverville, Georgia, United States [Place] is in Thomas County; location is 30°43'15"N 83°43'37"W; elevation is 202 feet [SourceGSP] That's from: http://www.placesnamed.com/t/h/thomas.asp But the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the U of GA ( http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/workingg.htm ) says: Grooverville Thomas, Brooks 1839 - Thomas, 1855 - Thomas, 1863 - Thomas, 1864 - Thomas, 1864b - Thomas, 1865 - Thomas, 1874 - Thomas, 1885 - Brooks, 1970a - Brooks, 1970b - Brooks, 2001 - Brooks, 2001b - Brooks on current Brooks County map This may be because Grooverville is more of an area than an exact place....? I'm not saying that is the case... I'm just speculating that. Or it may be because the older maps did not seem to take extreme accuracy as a watchword. For example, if you believed the maps, Cairo wasn't always in Thomas County till Grady County was created... but so far as I know it was. It was also close to the county line... Here's what the U GA site says about Cairo: Cairo Decatur, Thomas, Grady 1839 - Decatur, 1846 - Decatur, 1855 - Decatur, 1863 - Decatur, 1864 - Decatur, 1865 - Decatur, 1874 - Thomas, 1883 - Thomas, 1885b - Thomas, 1895 - Thomas, 1899 - Thomas, 1904 - Thomas, 1910 - (and thereafter) - Grady, 1915, 1952, 1955, 1970a, 1970b current county seat of Grady County But back to the original post... the only old cemetery that I know of at Boston... isn't that at the PRESBYTRIAN Church? And Boston isn't Grooverville... So... I hate to say this, but it looks to me like several different things have been confounded and the whole subject needs to be researched and thought through again. This is something that I am familiar with... having done this sort of muddling things up myself more than once... And the thing with map inaccuracy is enough to drive a saner person than me completely nuts... Richard White Tallahassee, FL

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Linton, Foster, Johnson, Roundtree Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0d.2ADE/1356.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for the information. I knew my relatives are mostly buried in and around Thomasville. But I didn't know where Grooversville was in relation to there.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0d.2ADE/1356.1.1 Message Board Post: Laurel Hill Cemetery is located within the City Limits of Thomasville, Georgia. It is owned and operated by the City of Thomasville and has no religious origins. During the time frame you have given, 1807-1885, Grooverville was in Brooks County, Georgia

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Linton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0d.2ADE/1356.1 Message Board Post: My 3rd great grandfather, Moses Waddell Linton & his slaves built the Methodist Church at Grooversville, near Boston, Ga. (1807-1885) He is buried in Laurel Hill Cemetary. I don't know if that is the Methodist cemetary he built or not.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Davis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0d.2ADE/1118.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Joan, sorry for the delay in answering, I suspect that Lydia and Daniel were related, since they were apparently living close to one another...my Davis family has been a real challenge! I don't have a whole lot on Daniel before he moved to Louisiana ca 1840-1850. If I luck up on anything that seems to connect Daniel and Lydia I'll let you know. Good luck!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: COPELAND, PYLES Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0d.2ADE/786.788.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Theophilis is the brother to my GGgrandmother Azleen Copeland Cox. Is James their father? Thanks, Winnette Generation No. 1 1. THEOPHILIS S.3 COPELAND (JAMES??, UNKNOWN1) was born May 14, 1859 in Georgia, and died February 11, 1925 in Grady Co. GA.. He married (1) MARY UNKNOWN COPELAND. She was born August 18, 1864, and died June 22, 1897. He married (2) TEXAS C. PARAMORE November 17, 1897 in Thomas Co. Ga.. She was born November 24, 1872, and died September 02, 1924 in Grady Co. GA.. More About THEOPHILIS S. COPELAND: Burial: Bold Springs Methodist Church Cemetery, Grady County, Georgia 1900 Census of Georgia, Thomas Co., Cairo District June 8, 1900 by Thomas S. Chastain 135 139 Copeland, Theophilis Head W M May 1859 41 M 3 GA GA Tease P. Wife W F Nov 1872 27 M 3 0 0 GA GA Ommie Dau W F May 1892 8 GA GA Orie Dau W F Aug 1895 4 GA GA More About TEXAS C. PARAMORE: Burial: Bold Springs Methodist Church Cemetery, Grady County, Georgia More About THEOPHILIS COPELAND and TEXAS PARAMORE: Marriage Source: Thomas Co., Ga. Marriage Bk M Page 435 Children of THEOPHILIS COPELAND and MARY COPELAND are: i. INFANT4 COPELAND, b. March 24, 1884, Thomas Co. Ga.; d. March 24, 1884, Thomas Co. Ga.. More About INFANT COPELAND: Burial: Bold Springs Methodist Church Cemetery, Grady County, Georgia ii. INFANT COPELAND, b. May 1886, Thomas Co. Ga.; d. May 1886, Thomas Co. Ga.. More About INFANT COPELAND: Burial: Bold Springs Methodist Church Cemetery, Grady County, Georgia iii. NAOMI " OMMIE" COPELAND, b. May 1892; m. WILLIAM T. PYLES. More About NAOMI " OMMIE" COPELAND: Census: 1900, Thomas Co. GA. 135 139 Copeland, Theophilis Head W M May 1859 41 M 3 GA GA with Texas, Orie, Ommie iv. ORIE COPELAND, b. August 1895. More About ORIE COPELAND: Census: 1900, Thomas Co. GA. 135 139 Copeland, Theophilis Head W M May 1859 41 M 3 GA GA with Texas, Orie, Ommie Children of THEOPHILIS COPELAND and TEXAS PARAMORE are: v. THEOPHILIS S.4 COPELAND, JR., b. July 04, 1915, Grady Co. GA.; d. April 07, 1916, Grady Co. GA.. More About THEOPHILIS S. COPELAND, JR.: Burial: Bold Springs Methodist Church Cemetery, Grady County, Georgia vi. WILLIAM LOYD COPELAND, b. November 25, 1900, Thomas Co. GA.; d. February 02, 1901, Thomas Co. GA.. More About WILLIAM LOYD COPELAND: Burial: Bold Springs Methodist Church Cemetery, Grady County, Georgia vii. INFANT COPELAND, b. 1901, Thomas Co. Ga.; d. 1901, Thomas Co. Ga.. More About INFANT COPELAND: Burial: Bold Springs Methodist Church Cemetery, Grady County, Georgia viii. BERNICE COPELAND, b. May 19, 1902, Thomas Co. GA.; d. November 14, 1902, Thomas Co. GA.. More About BERNICE COPELAND: Burial: Bold Springs Methodist Church Cemetery, Grady County, Georgia

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0d.2ADE/786.788.1.1.1 Message Board Post: SORRY IT HAS TAKEN SO LONG TO REPLY. I WOULD LIKE BASIC INFO. THEOPHILIS COPELAND WAS THE BROTHER TO MY GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDMOTHER, MARY COPELAND MCCRAY. THANKS KYLE

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Thomas/Butler Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0d.2ADE/1364 Message Board Post: Looking for info on G Grandfather & Grandfather from Mason, Pike & Tazwell counties IL. Thomas was born in Ohio 1826, married Emmaline Lucinda Griffin lived in Mason City, IL. thru 1880 census. Butler born in Pike County married Nancy E Thomas abt 1914 (Seely,Grey,Bodish & Wendell) lived in Pekin,Tazwell,Illinios and in Mason county also. Any help would be greatly appreicated. Thank you from Arizona

I would also guess that this road is now SR 93 from Hwy 319 to Cairo. I am a Duncanville registered voter. The Duncanville "courthouse" where we used to vote is on this road on the south side just before you get to the Meridian Road. The "courthouse" is about the size of a large walkin closet and we had one voting machine. I loved to brag to friends in town about where I voted. We now vote in the Duncanville Fire House about a mile closer to Cairo. Patsy Poppell > [Original Message] > From: <GATHOMAS-D-request@rootsweb.com> > To: <GATHOMAS-D@rootsweb.com> > Date: 1/29/2004 2:00:12 PM > Subject: GATHOMAS-D Digest V04 #20 >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0d.2ADE/1362.1 Message Board Post: I think it might have been Ga-93 that runs between Cairo south to Beachton (in Grady County near the Florida state line), but I cannot say with certainty. Beachton is now said to be the sight of Duncanville which no longer appears on the maps. It was on the maps at least until 1900. Merridian Road runs east and west through Beachton. See the web sites listed below. Some of the information came from the Grady County Genweb site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~gagrady/postmasters.txt , and from Maps: http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/thomascopn.htm Allen Singletary

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0d.2ADE/1362 Message Board Post: I'm looking for anyone who could tell me where Duncanville Rd was during the 1880's. My g-grandparents lived near there. Thanks

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hall, Burnaman/Burnum/Burnam, Williams Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0d.2ADE/1359.1.1 Message Board Post: A kind soul e-mailed me this, so I thought I would quote some of the email & plug Grady Co. Historical Society's cookbook/history book mentioned: "In 1900, Cairo was in Thomas Co., (in 1906, Grady Co. was formed, this included Cairo and all the towns of the stills to follow in story.) I just helped publish a cookbook for Grady County Historical Society and we included more than recipes - remembrances of early times in the county, photos of homes that would have been constructed in early 1900's and other - outhouse, barns, farm equipment, grist mill and various cooking related items (all sketched for the book). We also included a short story on turpentine stills and a tree with cups attached. "Turpentine was made by collecting gum from pine trees and distilling it. ... "There were, at least five "stills" in the county: Harrell's Still (north of Whigham), Peebles' Still (northwest of Cairo), Prince's Still (Spence Community), the still at Pumphrey (northeast of Reno) and Kemp's Still in Cairo (on 1st Ave. S W near the railroad where Campbell Soup was later located, then moved about 2 miles further west but still adjoining the railroad.)" "... [re Prince's Still in Spence]: there is also the commissary [where] the workers would purchase their goods and groceries which is still standing and this building and the home of the Princes is in the cookbook." If I find the woods rider I mentioned is indeed my great-grandfather, I'll certainly get a copy of the book. Thought I'd plug it for anyone following this thread who also had relatives in the turpentine industry. Thanks for the enlightening replies! Liz

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0d.2ADE/1359.1 Message Board Post: My Father was a Woods rider when I arrived in this world, in 1932. In the turpentine world, his job was to check on the chippers and pullers, who worked the trees to keep the gum flowing. This industry was all over the South. In fact I worked as a dipper as a kid, but the industry died in the late 40's. JWW

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0d.2ADE/1360 Message Board Post: Current and former residents of Grooverville, as well as friends of Liberty Baptist Church, are invited to a covered dish dinner/meeting at Liberty Baptist Church in Grooverville on Saturday, 17 April,2004, at 6 PM. The main item of business will be a discussion of the possibility of preserving the beautiful old Liberty Church building as it is no longer an active church. All former residents and all those who are interested in Liberty Church are invited.All items except food will be provided BUT please bring a covered dish with food for your group plus two others. It is expected that many of the old families will be represented and it is hoped that all those interested in or whose lives have been touched by Liberty Baptist Church will attend. If you have questions please contact me and I will attempt to provide answers. Edwin King