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/5d.2ADE/221 Message Board Post: Nancy Parks, widow living in Twiggs Co. (Chamberlains District) was a Fortunate Drawer in the Land Lottery of Georgia 1827: Troup Co. land. I am searching for the name of Nancy's deceased husband; also, I am curious as to whether this Nancy Parks may have been the daughter of William S. Edwards of Twiggs Co.

Please try this.....let me know if it works, Thanks. (P.S. I just tried it again and it works by clicking launch in the little box. Yesterday Jan counldn't get into her site also. She had almost seven hundred hits and this may be the reason some people can't enter.)               <A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/georgia/">http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/georgia/</A> Click on this then a little box will pop  up..then go to the end and click on launch. I tried it , just now, and it worked for me.  Let me know if this does it. Let me know please. The site is not only past History but also for people working in Genealogy to see where their ancestors lived. Also find ancestors they didn't even know that was in Georgia. While investigating some of Jan's stories, I found my Waldrops in Harris, Troupe, Talbot and Cowetta ,Clayton, Twiggs,Gwennette Counties, now Jonesboro, Ga., when I thought they were only in Mississippi and Alabama. Sandra

IThis one works brings in the site perfectly. Some of the didn't work, so I sent them this address. > Please try this for Gone and Almost Forgotten Georgia. > > I copied the address from the top of the web site. I must have done > something > wrong. > Please try this and let me know. If not, I will see what my problem is. > > Thanks > > > <A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/georgia/">http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/georgia/</A> > > If clicking doesn't work or cutting and pasting it. If not then let me > know. > > > Thanks, > > Sandra > > > >

Here is my daughter's web page "Gone and almost forgotten Georgia." She is branching out to surrounding Counties. If you know of any history or whatever is interesting about your County or any County in Georgia she will post the story and pictures or she and I will try our best to go to that County and take pictures. That is how we ended up in Jonesboro. She has posted some beautiful pictures of Jonesboro and the Cemetery, you might want to see. Jan started out with Muscogee County and has gone into Harris, Troup, Talbot, Cowetta, and others, along with going across the river into Phenix City, Al, Russell and Lee Counties. She has pictures and stories of things that have gone and almost forgotten. She brings back a lot of memories for people who are researching their past. No matter how small the story, it may be just what someone is looking for. Less that several months, she has received over six thousand visitors. She would love to cover as many counties in Georgia as possible. My hearts desire was to find a picture of an "Out House". to show my grandchildren was a Out House looked like. I found the most beautiful Out House sitting in the back yard of the Stately Oak Home. You wouldn't think of a Out House as being beautiful, check out Jan's site. I am sending her today a copy of the beautiful Out House in the beautiful surroundings of the Home in Jonesboro. She investigates, Civil War, Old Homes, Churches, Railroad Stations, Murders, hangings, old signs, Cemeteries and many other stories. If you can think of anything that is all most forgotten like my beautiful "Out House". Jan will be glad to come to your house and take a picture of your story. Let Jan know how you feel about her site and if you have anything to share. Her email address is on the Web Site. I hope you all will enjoy the site as much as I have reliving my past in all that Jan has brought back alive in pictures. Jan has heard from all over the United States from people who lived or has ancestors in Georgia. They too, have added to her site. <A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/georgia/">http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/georgia/</A>

Hello, I just wanted to pass along my web site URL incase someone else on this list has connections to the MCKemie/McKamey family who spent some time in Twiggs County. I have numerous source documents (wills, deeds, etc) as well as listings of marriages and military records and descendant charts. If you find a connection, please let me know!! McK site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mckemie/ Thanks, Jen McKemie jmckemie@mindspring.com

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/5d.2ADE/220 Message Board Post: I am seeking information about William S. Edwards, b. 6 May, 1752; married Nanna HAMMOND, 11 Mar. 1778. Among their several children was Nancy Jane Edwards, b. Jan. 6, 1784 in Twiggs Co., Ga. What was William's occupation, and did Nancy Jane ever marry? Thanks for any information. Dorothy Clark Baker Chicago

Hello Pat, Could you send me a copy of your gedcom? I am interested in the Lyles. Please send it to Rfishingman@aol.com Thanks, Ann ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

Dyler, and Lyles are not my main lines, and I haven't even looked at them in a while. I would be happy to send you a copy of my gedcom. let me know pat

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/5d.2ADE/136.2.4 Message Board Post: This is very interesting. I think your Lucinda and my grandfather james liles were brother and sister OR he was her nephew still working on that. Your William isnt the only Dryer connection that i have found. Langston liles married I think Mary Dryer. We think (not proven) but by ages that Langston is possibly Thomas Liles brother. Thomas liles,LYLEs and Sabra(sarah) bostick had a daughter named Lucinda. thanks terry

THIS IS FROM AN INTERNET SITE: A second act of 25 February 1784 created new counties and designated some of the area as bounty lands for Georgia veterans who had served in the Continental Line or Navy. Most of the area that later became Greene County was reserved for bounty-land grants. The Georgia Department of Archives and History and the FHL have microfilm copies of original land grants. Only Georgia has the distinction of distributing lands by lottery. Lands given to Georgia citizens by lotteries from 1805 to 1833 are in the present western and northern three-quarters of Georgia. Lotteries took place in 1805, 1807, 1820, 1821, 1827, and two in 1832. All Georgia citizens were eligible to qualify for a lottery, although the 1820, 1827, and 1832 lotteries also gave special consideration to war veterans. Published lottery books are excellent sources for pinpointing where a Georgia family lived when a lottery was held. Where Georgians sold lots won in the lotteries, researchers will find that deeds may be valuable sources of genealogical information. Those deeds should have been recorded in the counties where the land was located, but in some cases references may be found in the counties where the owner resided. Land transactions between private individuals are recorded with the clerk of superior court in the appropriate county. Most surviving pre-1900 county land records, including deeds and land court minutes, are on microfilm at the Georgia Department of Archives and History and the FHL. Many of the mortgage and county plat books are not included in the FHL's microfilm collection." Max I have long been mystified with the Land Lottery information unclear on what it all means. Can someone help interpret the 1820 Land Lottery info? My suspected ancestor, John Allen, appears in the Twiggs County 1820 Land Lottery as a fortunate drawer. Entry is as follows: Grantee: John Allen Militia District: Griffin Land Lot #: 372 Section: 16 County: Early My questions are: 1. Were the fortunate drawers all living in Twiggs County at the time of the lottery? 2. Militia District, what does that mean? Is that a district in Twiggs or Early County? 3. Was there a claim process? i.e. What happened to the property if the fortunate drawer never went to claim the property? 4. How and where did the deeds for that property originate, in Twiggs or Early? If the property was sold, where would the transaction be recorded, in Early County? Can anyone help clarify these questions for me? Thanks, Cary Allen

The Land Lotteries were for the purpose of getting settlers into the Indian Lands that had been purchased by the State of Georgia. Usually a 'drawer' was not living in the new county when he drew in the lottery. The new counties were divided into Militia Districts and each district had an officer of the Georgia Militia who was 'the law' in that district, responsible for law and order and for collecting taxes, etc. The claims were often NOT lived on by the person who drew it. He was still liable for the taxes on the property unless he sold it to someone else. There were cases where the claimant didn't pay the taxes and was listed on the tax rolls as "delinquent". I don't know for sure, but I suspect that after a certain length of time if the claimant continued to be delinquent, the property was claimed by the state and sold. The deeds originated in the county where the claim was located and if the property was sold the deeds would be transferred to the new owner in the county where the claim was located. ----- Original Message ----- From: The Allen's <allensofmarietta@earthlink.net> To: <GATWIGGS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 8:15 AM Subject: [GATWIGGS] 1820 Land Lottery Questions > I have long been mystified with the Land Lottery information unclear on what > it all means. Can someone help interpret the 1820 Land Lottery info? My > suspected ancestor, John Allen, appears in the Twiggs County 1820 Land > Lottery as a fortunate drawer. Entry is as follows: > > Grantee: John Allen > Militia District: Griffin > Land Lot #: 372 > Section: 16 > County: Early > > My questions are: > 1. Were the fortunate drawers all living in Twiggs County at the time of the > lottery? > 2. Militia District, what does that mean? Is that a district in Twiggs or > Early County? > 3. Was there a claim process? i.e. What happened to the property if the > fortunate drawer never went to claim the property? > 4. How and where did the deeds for that property originate, in Twiggs or > Early? If the property was sold, where would the transaction be recorded, > in Early County? > > Can anyone help clarify these questions for me? > > Thanks, > Cary Allen > > > > ==== GATWIGGS Mailing List ==== > Post your Bible Records for Twiggs County > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/TwiggsBibl > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

I have long been mystified with the Land Lottery information unclear on what it all means. Can someone help interpret the 1820 Land Lottery info? My suspected ancestor, John Allen, appears in the Twiggs County 1820 Land Lottery as a fortunate drawer. Entry is as follows: Grantee: John Allen Militia District: Griffin Land Lot #: 372 Section: 16 County: Early My questions are: 1. Were the fortunate drawers all living in Twiggs County at the time of the lottery? 2. Militia District, what does that mean? Is that a district in Twiggs or Early County? 3. Was there a claim process? i.e. What happened to the property if the fortunate drawer never went to claim the property? 4. How and where did the deeds for that property originate, in Twiggs or Early? If the property was sold, where would the transaction be recorded, in Early County? Can anyone help clarify these questions for me? Thanks, Cary Allen

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CARTER, BARRON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADE/219 Message Board Post: Hi, Looking for info about THOMAS CARTER (b. about 1778) and/or EUNICE BARRON, who according to a family Bible married in TWIGGS CO. about 1819 and had a son THOMAS in 1820. They then moved to FLORIDA and had two more sons (HENRY, ABNER) before moving to Texas in the 1830s. I found a Thomas Carter who fought in the WAR OF 1812 listed in PUTNAM Co. (1813; 1820) but don't know if it's the same one. I don't know where Thomas or Eunice were born, or who their parents were. THANKS. Julie Carter juliemom@houston.rr.com

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/5d.2ADE/178.1 Message Board Post: About censi, white black mulatto. Darned if I know. I've been helping research for a niece, looking for OLIVER and SASSER in mostly Screven County. I think it was 1870 census there for Sasser - half were each black and white, right after the civil war. I found an Eleanor Sasser there on 1850 *about* the right age b abt 1824-6 but that one married, raised a family and died right there so cannot be the right one. I think some, or one, of Thomas Sasser's sons moved at some time to Twiggs County. The one I can't much account for was John. Haven't found a clue yet who are parents to Fern Napoleon Bonaparte Oliver b. 18-teens. I've worked over the Screven county bunch from John > John > McDaniel Oliver, some of whose sons seem to have gone to Twiggs Co. Does anyone recognize this household? 1850 U.S. Census • Georgia • Screven • District 74 Martha OLIVER 45 farmer all b GA B N? 23 farmer, Virgil G 17 doctor, Joseph H 15 (other Oliver households same pages Elijah 34, McDaniel 35, WW 29) I took my cue hunting at Screven County because Fern and Eleanor's 3rd child Clara Margaret Oliver was born 1858 Screven. Their eldest was son John - could be named for the father of either or both. Besides McDaniel's bunch, there's a George OLIVER I can't connect on the 1850 census, 2nd door down from a Henry FERN. On to mixed parentage and the 1870 census being all mixed - I sometimes find a white in a black household &c, yep. Recall that early censuses show which families have how many slaves. Niece's family oral history says Eleanor Sasser was indian. Now, history tells me that 1813-1840 Creek Wars make that somewhat equally likely than some other possibilities. And then I went in frustration to see who're the Bonapartes, since that's a possible clue. On the 1870 forward in the south they're pretty much all black or mulatto with SC roots, but didn't seem to exist before the war. And that Napoleon as a given name was not uncommon. I think there's a lot to unscramble from back 1800-1870s.

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/5d.2ADE/218 Message Board Post: I am the ggggrandson of Matthew Mims by his first wife Czarina Eunice Robinson by their son Ellis B. (b) 1837. Matthew was born 10-8-1813 in the Tensaw District of Georgia (now Alabama) following the Ft. Mims Massacre. He died 11-18-1896 in Starkville, Mississippi having out lived both his wives and his son Ellis B. Mims. I am interested in Matthew's parents who may have been David Mims of Ft. Mims and a Creek wife. Czarina Eunice Robinson was the daughter of John Robinson and Mary ?. I am also interested in Susan Dearing Carr (b) 6-12-1830 (m) 2-26-1849 to Matthew Mims (2nd wife) and (d 5-30-1894). Who were her parents?

For Nancy Gay Crawford: Please contact me re your 1850 Twiggs co census. Your old email address does not responde to my query. thanks, betty bivins Nancy Gay Crawford <MeMeC@planters.net>

I am also looking for Richardsons in Alabama and Georgia. Nat (Nathan) son Harvey Richardson Daughter Pearl Richardson Moore Stella Moana Victoria married Henry Ledbetter Hazel David Richardson Son William Richardson lived in Auburn,Alabama Marry Belle Richardson married Lucas , lived in Locapaoka, Alabama Samuel Richardson: sons: Elwood: Elwood's daughter Eula Richardson Lee Jim Richardson Oliver Lee Richardson Nathan Cullen Richardson Thump Barker Richardson-Married Samuel Richardson Jane Richardson, married Huey sons........Elwood, Cullen, Cobb daughters Ida, Trudie, Hixie Susan Richardson married John Warren Poyner one son, Leonard Warren Poyner daughters: Lizzie Poyner married Cricket Hatchett Zula Poyner married Dan Stewart Nannie Poyner married Bob Harper Millie married Dave Thomas My grandparents: Nathan Cullen and Katherine McKenzie Richardson. They married in Griffin , Georgia, Spalding County in 1904. Children: Myra Elnora Richardson Waldrop Matilda "Tillie" Richardson Werner Sara Britt Richardson Varsek Nettie Sylvia Richardson Barrentine Samuel Alexander Richardson William Cullin Richardson Nathan Cyrus Richardson

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/5d.2ADE/217 Message Board Post: Does anyone out there have any connection to Dr. Steven L. Richardson found in the 1850 Census of Twiggs County, GA? He was my great, great grandfather. I am at a dead end in my research. There are a lot of Georgia Richardsons, but I have been unable to connect him to any of them.

Anyone related to Mathias Liverman who died in 1828 in Twiggs, County Georgia. Mathias Liverman was related to Rueben and Sarah Liverman Aldridge. Grand son Mathias Aldridge born in 1835. Thanks for any help. Sandra maiden name Waldrop Georgia-Muscogee County Rueben and Sarah Liverman Aldridge's Line

Hi; My GGGGrandmother was Penniah Barnes b. Dec 1799 and lived in Twigg Co, Ga in the early 1800's Her father was William Barnes and her mother was Rebecca Lyn ? I have about 30 Barnes family members who lived in this area with other information that I can send you if it will help . Some of the names are John J Barnes, Benjamin Barnes, Mary Barnes, Sarah Barnes, James Barnes Sam ----- Original Message ----- From: <ed4748@netscape.net> To: <GATWIGGS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 8:58 PM Subject: [GATWIGGS] Barnes & Hammock Families - Twiggs County, Georgia > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Martin, Hammock, Thompson, Chance, Evans, Maxwell, Reynolds, Clance, Cranford, Birdsong, Stokes, Leslie, Bloodworth, etc. > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADE/216 > > Message Board Post: > > Seeking information on Barnes family in Twiggs County in 1800's. Some names were William, James, Sarah E., Mary E., Benjamin, Susana and John. Two Hammock children are shown on census records in Barnes household and are shown as grandchildren. Can anyone help with this connection? > > > ==== GATWIGGS Mailing List ==== > Visit the Twiggs County GAGenWeb Page > http://www.rootsweb.com/~gatwiggs > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >