Hello listers, I was on the EVANS list and wasn't making too much progress, then somebody suggested I get on the GADADE list, and then I got on the GAWALKER list, and now I believe I am related to everybody in Dade and Walker Cty. My dad was born on Durham Road, his family were coal miners at the Durham Coal and Mine Co, I visited Durham Rd a few years back, was totally overwhelmed to actually find it, then I met a man who had actually worked with one of my grandfathers brothers, Lack Evans - Mr. Harmon showed me around and I took pieces of coal that still lay on the ground and I listened to the earth to see if I could hear the long ago voices of my ancestors tell me how they survived and to maybe learn how I could survive in the present. On the 1910 census my dad was listed as being born Gordon Tom Evans, I always knew him as Thomas Gordon, my ancestors were Avans, somehow the spelling got changed thru the years, I know all in the library thought I was nuts when I saw my dad listed as being 1 year old on the film - to walk on Durham Road and to know that my feet were touching the same ground as my people from many, many years ago was an awesome and humbling experience, I know I felt their spirits in the wind on Durham Road and I knew in that moment I would never be alone, they would always be with me. Some things I have learned have not been "present time pretty" and it makes me sad to think some things could happen to a generation who suffered so much and knew the agony of pain and poverty. My dads sister, the firstborn, was born in TN., don't know when nor why they came to Durham Road, except that work=food=life. Would love to hear from any of you, if you have anything that you want to share I would love to hear from you. If you want a copy of my line as I have it so far, I can download it to you off-list, don't think the list takes attachments. delilah evans/avans Thomas Gordon Evans - my dad Thomas Watson Evans - my grandfather married Bennie Tinker Thomas Jefferson Avans - my ggrandfather - married Sarah Page Nunahi Duna Dio Hilu I

Wa Do Linda Sue, do you have your registration, with that info, you should. I have seen a lot of "Delilah" name on the rolls, makes me wonder why I was named that, where is McMinn County, TN., I have seen mention of a Monroe Cty, Tn but cannot find it in TN now, have I missed it? Wish I knew more Cherokee, my daddy wrote poems and things and I always thought he had a melody to his voice and now I know why - My ancestors were Avans, then it gradually got changed in the spelling to Evans - I am going to change mine back to Avans, my dad told me to when I took back my maiden name of Evans, he said to spell it Avans. delilah evans/avans At 08:21 3/16/01 EST, you wrote: >Osiy'o Delilah. > >I love the name Delilah! >I have been searching for more information on my Wilkerson family that was in >Walker and Dade Counties. I found my Great Grandmother and her brothers and >one sister and one aunt on those Guion Miller Rolls you spoke of. She was >listed as Iley A. Hollingsworth and they listed as Jeffery(Jefferson) and >William Wilkinson (sic) The aunt was Mary Jane Kell Hensley and the sister >Lucinda Oliver. I have a lot of information on the Kell family but nothing on >the Wilkerson family who was also Cherokee. I did find them in 1883 census >for McMinn County, TN but nothing else. >I would love to find someone else on this list that is also looking for this >family. >Linda Sue > > >==== GAWALKER Mailing List ==== >If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Walker Co., GA list, use >[email protected] or [email protected] if >you are on the Digest list. >To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > >

If you are looking for free site hosting check out Webjump.com. They are similar to what geocities does but not exactly and they are smaller but to the best of my knowledge not using any funny shortcut url's Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: Barbara Ribling To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 5:46 PM Subject: Re: [GAWALKER] Walker County Page I have a site at GeoCities and it has the same annoying problem. The "shortcut" address does not work and seldom (if ever) has but GC continues to use this despite my trying to get it changed. Many search engines and genealogy lists have my WEB pages linked with the unusable shortcut. I have repeatedly tried to get FTM's search engine to change my links but they will not and therefore, people who find my pages through FTM seldom can reach my site. I expect it is the same for other search engines. Although I have submitted my URLs to several search engines, including FTM, Yahoo and others, and I used the full GeoCities address, their crawlers apparently check out the pages and record the shortcut URLs instead. I am now searching for a new home for my WEB pages. If you have trouble connecting to any GeoCities or Yahoo site using a "shortcut" URL, please try to visit the site again using it's full address! Barbara Ribling [email protected] Grandma Hudson's Scrapbook http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/5456/ BAYLESS, BENNETT, HUDSON, etc. - American Southeast At 09:33 PM 3/14/01 -0500, you wrote: >Beverly, >The problem Kim referred to is there and is real it is not on all links >just the ones that are of the general form >http://www.geocities.com/~osburn/someotherurl if they are of the form >http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/6370/someotherurl they are fine >and indeed if you replace the ~osburn with the full path above they work. >I think Geocities changed some stuff and Sherry hasn't had time to update >it. Either that or she fixed it and they subsequently restored from an old >backup of her server. I have looked for some things and had the problem >Kim had. ==== GAWALKER Mailing List ==== If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Walker Co., GA list, use [email protected] or [email protected] if you are on the Digest list. To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett

Osiy'o Delilah. I love the name Delilah! I have been searching for more information on my Wilkerson family that was in Walker and Dade Counties. I found my Great Grandmother and her brothers and one sister and one aunt on those Guion Miller Rolls you spoke of. She was listed as Iley A. Hollingsworth and they listed as Jeffery(Jefferson) and William Wilkinson (sic) The aunt was Mary Jane Kell Hensley and the sister Lucinda Oliver. I have a lot of information on the Kell family but nothing on the Wilkerson family who was also Cherokee. I did find them in 1883 census for McMinn County, TN but nothing else. I would love to find someone else on this list that is also looking for this family. Linda Sue

> > I have been able to get into Walker Co. this way . A friend sent this URL to me > It is worth a try. It is not Sherry's page but works > > <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/walker.htm">Click here: > GAGenWeb Archives</A> > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/walker.htm > > wla

Thank you, Linda Sue. I understand and appreciate you. Sue ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 11:20 PM Subject: Re: [GAWALKER] Re: Durham Mines Book > Hey I am here........just have had a crazy day at work! > > I forwarded your email to Jeannette and I know she will get us some copies of > the book. > I will get back in the groove this weekend after a Friday at work I am sure > will not be easy > > Linda Sue > > > ==== GAWALKER Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political > announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, > etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. > Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett [email protected] > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett >

Duke, I talked to Betty Johnson today in the LaFayette Library and no, they do not have a copy of this book by Earnest Hollingsworth either. They would like a copy. Linda Sue hasn't answered about where it can be found yet. If anyone knows, I wish they would let me know. Sue ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 10:31 AM Subject: [GAWALKER] Re: Durham Mines Book > I was just reminded of a book I had gotten many years ago. I had read it then, and still have it but had forgotten about it. The book was written in 1977 and is 'The Old Miner and His Guardian Angel' by Earnest Hollingsworth (of Walker County). I just this year found out that we are related. But so is everybody in the county. The book contains a good insight into early county life and particularly the Durham mines where he worked for a while. It even has one picture of the area around the mine. According to the Dade Co. Message Board, the Dade library doesn't have a copy of it. Does anybody know if there is a copy in the Walker Co. library? > I would recommend getting and reading it. > > > ==== GAWALKER Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political > announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, > etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. > Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett [email protected] > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett >

Hey I am here........just have had a crazy day at work! I forwarded your email to Jeannette and I know she will get us some copies of the book. I will get back in the groove this weekend after a Friday at work I am sure will not be easy Linda Sue

Would someone be so kind as to look up Carey W. and Patsy Jackson? I know they lived in Walker Co. but I'm sorry I have no idea what cemetery they might be in. Thank you so much for any help you might be able to give. Carolyn in Arkansas

Hi Beverly, Are you a descendent of Nancy Williamson & William A. Foster? Sheila S

IN RESPONSE TO CHEROKEE BY BLOOD Thank you, very much. Please, trace the Cherokee name Moon. They came out of Alabama and settled on the Ellis land in Walker County, Ga. and took the Ellis name, I believe to avoid the trail of tears. Thank you. Beverly Foster

One of my aunts has copies from this collection, filings by my great-grandmother. She was never able to prove her case, but the information was great. Sheila

CHEROKEE BY BLOOD Records of Eastern Cherokee Ancestry in the U.S. Court of Claims 1906-1910 This is a set of 9 books (I have the first 2). "In 1904 the Eastern Cherokee won a million-dollar judgement against the U.S. because of its violation of the treaties of 1835-36 and 1845. The payments were to go to all living persons who had been members of the Eastern Cherokee tribe at the time of the treaties, or to their descendants if they were deceased. Over 46,000 people filed claims. This series of volumns presents detailed abstracts of those applications, including numerous verbatim transcriptions of affidavits by the applicants, their families and friends. Since most of the applicants were descendants, rather than original tribe members, and had to prove their descent, the quantity of genealogical data in these volumns is staggering. About 9/10 of the applicants lived west of the Mississippi (probably because of The Trail of Tears [my comment]) in the early 1900's when they made their applications, with the balance living predominantly in the southeast. Although the applicants had to had Indian ancestry, the majority were normally white, and a significant number of blacks are also included." I hope to eventually get all 9 volumns and if you want a name researched, let me know, if you are interested in purchasing these books, go to www.heritagebooks.com - the cost is about 40. per book. delilah evans/avans Nunahi Duna Dio Hilu I We Must Never Forget the "Trail of Tears". Wa Do

I have many of my URLS book marked and never had any trouble with any of them. When rootsweb did there revamping several weeks ago. I have had trouble with many that I had book marked, so whatever changes they made during that time did affect many of my bookmarks. Some still come up with the explanation that was posted by rootsweb at the weekend of revaming.. Don't know if this is of help to anyone. I was passing Walker Co on to friends not knowing it had been affected. I have passed on several others from TN and Al and received notices again telling me they weren't working. Going in and then checking my bookmarks after your postings , I found quite a few not working. Wla

I have a site at GeoCities and it has the same annoying problem. The "shortcut" address does not work and seldom (if ever) has but GC continues to use this despite my trying to get it changed. Many search engines and genealogy lists have my WEB pages linked with the unusable shortcut. I have repeatedly tried to get FTM's search engine to change my links but they will not and therefore, people who find my pages through FTM seldom can reach my site. I expect it is the same for other search engines. Although I have submitted my URLs to several search engines, including FTM, Yahoo and others, and I used the full GeoCities address, their crawlers apparently check out the pages and record the shortcut URLs instead. I am now searching for a new home for my WEB pages. If you have trouble connecting to any GeoCities or Yahoo site using a "shortcut" URL, please try to visit the site again using it's full address! Barbara Ribling [email protected] Grandma Hudson's Scrapbook http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/5456/ BAYLESS, BENNETT, HUDSON, etc. - American Southeast At 09:33 PM 3/14/01 -0500, you wrote: >Beverly, >The problem Kim referred to is there and is real it is not on all links >just the ones that are of the general form >http://www.geocities.com/~osburn/someotherurl if they are of the form >http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/6370/someotherurl they are fine >and indeed if you replace the ~osburn with the full path above they work. >I think Geocities changed some stuff and Sherry hasn't had time to update >it. Either that or she fixed it and they subsequently restored from an old >backup of her server. I have looked for some things and had the problem >Kim had.

John W Williams was my great-uncle, the son of Sampson Williams and Mahala Parrish (or Parish). Sampson/Malala are my GGF/M. They had six kids. Hattie was, of course John W's daughter. I don't know who Martha was. Maybe she is related to Marvin. I am at work now, but when I get home tonight I will check it. I have also found several spellings of John w's wife, Lusendie, or Lucinda, or Cinda Hollingsworth. I don't know which is correct. I would like to correspond with you more about filling in some of John W's family tree, from John W down to present. My wifes family name is Adams who moved to Walker Co. from Dade Co. in the 1950's; and originally from Bridgeport AL. Are they the same group as yours? Duke Williams

Sue, I see that you have now met Linda Sue. Hope she can help you with the book. Can you please post something on the GADADE message board about it? Linda Sue, I clean forgot that you were Hollingsworth kin. I guess the mind must be going. Hope you can get the book to Sue for the Library. I really enjoyed reading it. I will copy Delilah on the GADADE message board about the book also. She was interested in it. Delilah, check out the GAWALKER message board for Linda Sues's email address. If you have problems, email me. Linda Sue wrote 'Hey that means your kin to me..........boy are you in trouble hehehe. My cousin Jeannette Hollingsworth is his Granddaughter and yes we can still get copies. My Dad was his Great Nephew and his name sake Ernest Hollingsworth. Anything you need on this line I have so let me know Linda Sue'

Linda Sue, I saw your reference to Hollingsworth family and thought you were the person to ask. I recently returned from a visit home and got new information about our Hixon family. My husband's g-grandmother was Hattie Viola Williams (b. 1894, d. 1982) married to Grover Cleveland Hixon (b. 1886, d. 1952). According to his grandmother Adams, Hattie's father was John W. Williams, but we have heard several different versions of Hattie's mother's name over time. Do you have any Hollingsworth women named Lucinda, Mahala, or Martha who may have been married/related to Marvin Hollingsworth? Grandma Hixon Adams is getting a little confused in her senior years and we need some help to sort these folks out. TIA, Cindy & Wilbur Strickland (Of Catoosa Co., GA; now living in England)

Linda Sue, What are Jeannette's sister's names? And I would love a copy of that book... how do I go about getting one. Well, maybe two as I would like one for the Dade Co Library also. Thanks for your help. Sue Forrester ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 9:34 PM Subject: Re: [GAWALKER] Re: Durham Mines Book > Hey that means your kin to me..........boy are you in trouble hehehe. > My cousin Jeannette Hollingsworth is his Granddaughter and yes we can still > get copies. > My Dad was his Great Nephew and his name sake Ernest Hollingsworth. > Anything you need on this line I have so let me know > > Linda Sue > > > ==== GAWALKER Mailing List ==== > Checkout the other lists being watched over by your List Mom; > http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett >

Bill and Kim, I guess I'm lazy as I can never remember the address and forget to book mark it. This is how I get to the Walker County page (the lonnnng way around). www.usgenweb.com state page (GA), state page again (GA), county page (Walker). Sue ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Clody <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 9:33 PM Subject: Re: [GAWALKER] Walker County Page > Beverly, > The problem Kim referred to is there and is real it is not on all links just the ones that are of the general form http://www.geocities.com/~osburn/someotherurl if they are of the form http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/6370/someotherurl they are fine and indeed if you replace the ~osburn with the full path above they work. I think Geocities changed some stuff and Sherry hasn't had time to update it. Either that or she fixed it and they subsequently restored from an old backup of her server. I have looked for some things and had the problem Kim had. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Beverly Forrester > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 9:30 PM > Subject: Re: [GAWALKER] Walker County Page > > > Kim, She was having some problems last year and I've tried to contact her > also. The messenges didn't come back but they were never answered and that > isn't like her. > > I didn't have any problems opening the Walker County page Monday. I did > check to see when it was last updated and it was sometime last October I > think. > > Sue > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 7:55 PM > Subject: [GAWALKER] Walker County Page > > > > Hello everyone.. For the past couple of days I have been trying to get > things > > pulled up on the Walker County Page, and I can't seem to get things to > work. > > I have also tried to send Sherry email and it comes back to me. Is she > okay? > > Sorry if this question has been answered already. I was offline for a > while, > > getting my new computer up and running.. Thanks So Much!! > > > > Kim > > Email: [email protected] > > > > > > ==== GAWALKER Mailing List ==== > > Checkout the other lists being watched over by your List Mom; > > http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html > > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > > > > > ==== GAWALKER Mailing List ==== > If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Walker Co., GA list, use > [email protected] or [email protected] if > you are on the Digest list. > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > > > > ==== GAWALKER Mailing List ==== > If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Walker Co., GA list, use > [email protected] or [email protected] if > you are on the Digest list. > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett >