--WebTV-Mail-23020-646 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Sue, Could you please give the web address for the "Chattanooga/Hamilton County Bicentennial Library" one more time. Thanks, Paul --WebTV-Mail-23020-646 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from smtpin-102-6.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.43) by storefull-614.iap.bryant.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 08:32:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by smtpin-102-6.bryant.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix+sws) id 683E9225; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 08:33:00 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from lists2.rootsweb.com (lists2.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.32]) by smtpin-102-6.bryant.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix+sws) with ESMTP id D2B3B1F5; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 08:32:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from [email protected]) by lists2.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id f58FSi301370; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 09:28:44 -0600 Resent-Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 09:28:44 -0600 X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Fri Jun 8 08:28:44 2001 Message-ID: <[email protected]> From: "Beverly Forrester" <[email protected]> Old-To: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [GAWALKER] Tennessee/Georgia Memorial Gardens Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 11:56:49 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/616 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] It always pays to double check records... My dad is buried at TN/GA along with other relatives and friends (both on my side and my husband's). A little tibit about the cemetery... it was originally owned by a Mrs. McCormick (I may have that name mis-spelled). She was one of my customer where I worked at the time and I will never forget her saying to me one day that she land enough to last 100 years and she was going to live to sell every lot. She died several years ago. I don't remember if she sold the cemetery before she died or if it was sold after her death. However, it is now owned by a corporation. I have checked on many records in the office there, including some burials that have no tombstones at the grave site, and have not had any problems. Not long ago, I checked on one for a friend whose grandfather was buried in the 1940's and the obituary from a Chattanooga paper was attached to the office records. We were glad to find that. I'm sorry that you missed out on establishing your family's history due to their error but am glad you now have it corrected. Sue PS... Since we are so close to Chattanooga, TN, most of the obituaries are carried in the CHATTANOOGA TIMES and/or CHATTANOOGA FREE PRESS. These go back to 1897 and the index is on-line through the Chattanooga/Hamilton County Becentennial Library. www.lib.chattanooga.lib click on community icon click on obituary icon go to the bottom of the page and click on data base. in the search window, type in last name first. click on the widow just below the name and hi-lit "browse author or name". If you enter a name and it wasn't entered exactly as it was put in the data base, it will come back "no match". However, if you hi-lited the "browse", it will take you to that surname data base and you can then search through each one to see if you can find the person for whom you are searching. Many times a person's name was in the paper as a nickname or second name. How ever it was in the paper is how it is entered in the data base. ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Gilreath <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 10:56 AM Subject: Re: [GAWALKER] Tennessee/Georgia Memorial Gardens > At 10:20 AM 6/8/01 -0400, you wrote: > >Joe, > > > >The office at Tennessee-Georgia Memorial Park have kept very good records > >and the staff, I have found, always willing to help. > > > Always willing to help, but be careful about the records part. At least in my > case. > > A few years back we hit a dead end with my great grandfather Carl Gilreath. > > Finally about 6 months after posting on a web site I got an email from > Charlotte in Rossville that read, I think my grandfather was your > great grandfathers brother. > > Away we went searching and finally came up with documentation to prove it. > > we finally discovered that Carl was buried in the same cemetery as his > brother. (tenn/geo memorial) > > But nothing matched the records. But with Charlotte living right there, > she went to the cemetery and found the stones. > > All the information on the stone was correct, the info in the office was > wrong (date of death, name spelled wrong etc). We have since had them > correct it. > > we live in the upper peninsula of Michigan and last summer took our vacation > to North Georgia where we met with Charlotte's side of the Gilreath family > tree and were able to connect into previous research of the main Gilreath > tree. That one piece of erroneous information kept us off the main tree. > we toured the cemetery (beautiful place) and took photo's of the old stones. > > To make a long story short, don't give up and if you find errors, work to > have them corrected. > > our roots in Walker county and Chattooga county are now established and > it was fun to tour the area last summer. > > I recently purchased the book on the history of Chattooga county and > discovered my great great great great grandfather James H Gilreath was one > of the first to settle in the new county. > > > I'm still seeking information on the Ivey side. Carl married Bertha Ivey > in 1913 in walker county and her father was a Frank Ivey. any info on > this line would be great. > > thanks for all the help and info you people provide! > > Bob > > > >The telephone number is 706-866-5533. > > > >The address is 724 Hogan Rd., Rossville, GA 30741. > > > Bob Gilreath > Telcom Engineer > IT Telcom > Michigan Tech University > 906-487-3697 > [email protected] > > > ==== 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 ==== 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 --WebTV-Mail-23020-646--