To all the Wilkinson Co., Wynne/Wynn researchers; I have seen the reference to a marriage of William Wynn and Elizabeth Echols in several genealogies but have never seen proof of that marriage. Could anyone point me in the direction of that proof? Jack Wynn Happy Hunting! Jack Wynn jwynn@mindspring.com

NAME: Ann Toler >EMAIL: atoler@earthlink.net >SURNAMES: Toler, Lord, Tarpley, Walters, Thompson, VanLandingham, Underwood >DATE: Apr 17 1999 >QRYTEXT: An aunt who has J. Howell Toler's family bible just sent me copies of pages with the following information: > >Joseph Howell Toler - b. 9/23/1826, d. 2/14/1914 >Married Caroline Wilson - 3/14/1848 (She's quite adamant her grandmother's maiden name was Wilson, not Wilkes) >Caroline Wilson - b. 3/30/1825, d. 10/12/1899 > >They had 13 children, 10 girls and 3 boys: >Martha Ann Ginette Toler - b. 2/5/1849 >Mary Ann Malinda Toler - b. 5/13/1850, d. 8/1858 >Francis Ann ?? Toler - b. 2/17/1852 >John ?? Franklin L.?? Toler - b. 10/24/1853 >Ruthy Ann Elizabeth Toler - b. 8/7/1855 >Caroline Mahalia Toler - b. 2/26/1857 >Mary Toler - b. 12/14/1858 (I think this would be Mary Frances) >Ellen L. Toler - b. 8/13/1860 >Mary Jane Toler - b. 11/24/1862 >Georgia Ann ?? Toler - b. 9/19/1866 >Josephine Rebecca Toler - b. 3/15/1868, d. 6/5/1870 >William Henry Howell Toler - b. 3/19/1870 (My grandfather) >Nathaniel Toler - b. 4/28/1872.. *NOTE FROM TINA: ANN, if you havent already, you will want to check out BOB KINGERY'S WILKINSON CO. SURNAME WEBSITE. There are definitely 3 TOLER names there, and many LORD's, etc. *TINA/CA* List Mgr.*

*HI ALL: We now have our 57th subscriber! Kris Olsen! Glad to have you!! Please be sure to post your WILKINSON CO. SURNAMES, and as much info as you'd like abt them, so we can all see who you are from, and hopefully someone will connect with yours and you can share info! There are other good Wlknsn Co. sites you may want to check out. You may also want to go back and check the archives for posts you have missed. (Hmmmm...I'm not exactly sure how to do that myself, so I will go check on it and post it soon.) Welcome Kris, and be sure to post, and everyone else who hasn't recently also!! *TINA/CA* List Mgr.

NAME: Michele Hart Holmes >EMAIL: tholmes@jazz.cybermedia.net >SURNAMES: HART >DATE: Apr 17 1999 >QRYTEXT: Hardy Hart b. abt 1750 moved from Northampton Co, NC to Burke Co., GA in 1805, and then was in Wilkinson Co., GA by 1810. I believe he died between 1810 and 1820. Does anyone know about him or have access to death records or wills from Wilkinson Co for that time?. *NOTE FROM TINA: This person might want to check Jeff's WILKINSON CO. website for Wills; also check the LDS FHC, look at their FHLC (FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY CATALOG) cd, and look under "Locality", then under GA/Wilkinson; then under that, look at all the listings for what is available thru the FHL(ibrary) in SLC on the county that may contain Wills, etc. -- I am hoping to get a list together of the SLC FHL holdings for WILKINSON CO. and post here - someday (soon??)<G> And, do not forget, to check all names on the LDS FHC IGI and ANCESTRAL FILE (which, partially, is now online at : www.familysearch.org) It is not totally complete online yet, but is at your local FHC. *TINA/CA* List Mgr.

*HI ALL: With so many new subscribers, wanted to post this info again. Be sure to go over to the web and check out my distant Kingery cousin, Bob's, WONDERFUL Wlknsn Co. website. It's called "Kingery" website, but there are zillions of other Wlknsn Co. names as he (and I) are related to MOST of the people from WLKNSN CO., one way or another!! I just went and looked at it again, and I saw 3 TOLER names, and some LORD's, etc. So many of YOUR NAMES are going to be found over there, with possibly names of children, spouses, dates, etc. -- I think Bob's on this list ... aren't you Bob??? I know he's on my WATKINSREV onelist.com list (which is specifically for descendants of 3 Watkins brothers who were in the Rev War, all born in Duplin/Edgec.Co.NC: (my) MITCHELL WATKINS, SR., LEVIN WATKINS, PETER WATKINS. There may be others of course..but these are brothers we know of for sure.) So, go check out Bob's website. You won't be sorry. www.duesouth.net/~bkingery/page6.html (by going to page 6, it takes you directly to the surname area, but leave off the page6 and it will take you to front page of his site, which is also very interesting and informative!) Have fun! Keep up the postings on your SURNAMES! This is the way to reach others with common lines! I KNOW everyone hasn't posted yet! *TINA/CA* List Mgr.

*HI ALL: Info below, which was posted on a GA list, may be of interest to some, as it is to me. TINA/CA POSTED BY JOHN RIGDON: I am working on a project to abstract and publish the Daily Chronicle and >Sentinel Newspaper of Augusta Georgia. The WPA did the years 1837 - 1879 >with the exception of 1862 and I am working on 1862 now. As I do these >abstracts, I'm finding a lot of records that are of interest outside the >Augsuta, GA area. Listed below is a topical index of some of the records >done so far. The abstracts are being published on my Richmond County >(USGenWeb Project) site: http://www.researchonline.net/richmond > > If you're interested in these, you can also subscribe to my TalkAugusta > mailing list which will include a daily (or so) dose of these records as I do > them. > > AL, Cherokee County ~2 >AL, Tallahatchie bridge ~2 >Bloody Tenth ~ 61-1 >Business conditions ~ 2 >European intervention ~ 2 >GA, Augusta ~2 >GA 1st Infantry Regiment (Ramsey's) - Company I ~ 61-1 >GA 5th Infantry Regiment ~2 >GA 7th Cavalry Regiment - Company A ~ 61-1 >GA 10th Infantry Regiment - Company D ~ 61-2 >GA 21st Cavalry Battalion - Company A ~ 61-2 >GA, Holly Springs ~ 2 >GA, Lagrange ~ 2 >GA, Milledgeville ~2 >Independent Blues ~ >KY, Louisville ~2 >Postal rates ~ 2 >Richmond, Battle of (Seven Days Battles)~ 2 >TN, Memphis ~ 2 >VA, Trevillian Station ~ 61-1 >VA, Young's Mill ~ 61-1 >Walker Light Infantry ~ 61-1 > >John Rigdon email: GaLinaHist@aol.com >Richmond County, GA Coordinator >The USGenWeb Project >

My surnames from Wilkinson county are: My grandmother born in McIntyre about 1880--Gertrude Farmer My great grandfather born about 1838--buried in Wilkinson Co about 1891--James Lawrence Humphries His wife my great grandmother--born about 1844--Martha Elizabeth Williams--she was said to be born in Floyd Co --Rome Ga. I have no records for them in Wilkinson Co. other than family info passed on by word of mouth!! Randy Humphries 611 Mt gap Dr Huntsville Al

*JACK & ALL: I will try to obtain this info for you and post on the list.... not quite sure what my source was, for thinking they were the parents of Wm. Wynn who m. Susan Henson, but will check into it and get back to you.... *TINA/CA* List Mgr. At 09:20 AM 4/17/99 -0400, you wrote: >To all the Wilkinson Co., Wynne/Wynn researchers; > >I have seen the reference to a marriage of William Wynn and Elizabeth >Echols in several genealogies but have never seen proof of that marriage. >Could anyone point me in the direction of that proof? > >Jack Wynn > >Happy Hunting! > >Jack Wynn >jwynn@mindspring.com > > > >

My family lines in Wilkinson County are Thompson and Wynne. Elizabeth Bina "Lizzie" Thompson married William David Jordan Sumner. They are my great-grandparents. She is the daughter of James Russell Thompson and Martha Patricia "Patsy" Wynn and the granddaughter of Solomon Thompson and Rachael Mitchell and William "Bill" Wynn and Susannah "Susan" Hinson. The following is the preface that I use when I print my genealogy: Dad was always interested in the origins of his family, but he didn’t have time to do any serious research until he was able to retire in 1982. After he retired, he started visiting libraries and courthouses and corresponding with others doing research. He would talk about what he had learned about our family’s ancestors, where they had lived, and what had happened to them. I enjoyed listening to him, but I have to admit that I wasn’t interested enough to want to get involved. When Dad died in 1985, part of the work that I did to help settle his affairs was to go through his genealogy files. I scanned the family folders and the pedigree charts and saw some of the family names and locations that he had talked about. I still wasn’t interested in continuing the research, so I put it all away. Then, in June 1988, my son, Jay (Joshua Wren Harris III), applied for his first appointment as a Methodist Minister. He was assigned a circuit of three small churches in middle Georgia. Two of these churches were in the towns of Irwinton and Toomsboro in Wilkinson County, Georgia. The third church, named Salem, was also in Wilkinson County but was located out in the county. We visited the churches in the towns first and then went to find Salem. We found it on a dirt road and saw that it was a small wooden church, painted white, well cared for, with an old cemetery beside it. We walked among the graves, reading the inscriptions. The names Wynn and Thompson on several of the tombstones seemed faintly familiar to me, but I couldn’t really place them. We wrote down as many of the names and dates as we could make out on the old, worn stones. When we got home, I pulled out Dad’s old pedigree charts and found that among the people buried there were my great-great-great-grandparents, James Russell Thompson and his wife, the former Martha Patricia Wynn. Several members of their families were also buried at that cemetery. They were all early members of Salem Methodist Church – the very same church where my son was to begin his ministry. I started looking for information about these families. Who were they? Where did they live? Where did they come from? What was it like when they were alive? While trying to find answers to these questions, I realized that I had become hooked on this thing called genealogy. I’m still hooked. I discovered that genealogy is a jigsaw puzzle that you can never finish because you keep finding more pieces. It’s a never-ending story full of brave and wonderful people (and a few scoundrels) who lived, worked, and raised families in circumstances that we can only try to imagine. It’s history that grabs you because it was members of your very own family who were involved when the history was happening. And, hopefully, it’s a legacy that you leave for people not yet born. J. Wren Harris, Jr. Researching my families: Calvert, Clifton, Cowart, Duke, Epps, Flanders, Garnto, Harris, Hollingsworth, Kelly, McLain, McLean, Monk, Parrish, Register, Riser, Schenk, Skinner, Sumner, Thompson, Wren, Wynn, and others.

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HI WREN: I think you should definitely join the EPES list....I prev. gave you the address for it..... someone there may have more info for you on your Frances Fannie Epps! *TINA/CA* List Mgr. >Hi Tina, > >Frances "Fannie" Epps is an ancestor of mine. The only Epps, so far, that I >can claim. > >I understand that she was born 19 Nov 1818, in NC; married Michael Anthony >Schenk, circa 1841, New Bern, NC(?); died 16 Dec 1897; and was buried at >Mountain Creek Baptist Church near Troy, Greenwood Co, SC. > >She and Michael had seven children. One was Martha Frances "Mattie", who >married Joshua Wren Harris (my namesake). Mattie was born May 1850, in SC; >lived most of her life in Edgefield Co, SC and Telfair Co, GA; died 23 Dec >1912, in Americus, Sumter Co, GA; and was buried in Telfair Co, GA. >Good to hear from you! Wren

*HI ALL: > Here are just a few Wilkinson Co. related websites you must check out. > > Bob Kingery, a distant cousin of mine in SC, has a GREAT website that >includes MANY Wilkinson Co. families, including his and mine! (Bob and his >wife found out they are cousins through one of these lines!). ANYONE having Wilkinson county names MUST look at this site (look up your surnames quickly alphabetically.... His site is at: www.duesouth.net/~bkingery/ > > David Watkins has a good WATKINS website (my Watkins line is in >Wilkinson and Wash.Co.GA, so I'm putting this website in here as it may >contain some of our lines): > www.inet.au/~davwat/wfhs/index.html > > And of course JEFF great WILKINSON CO. website .... this is a must! > http://hometown.aol.com/johnstien/Wilkinso/gawilkin.html >(if it doesn't go thru with this long url, delete back to just show the >"johnstien" at the end.) This site of Jeff's is "THE" WILKINSON CO.GA site! Many good links to other Wilkinson Co. sites and wonderful GA info and sites. Lookin' good Jeff!!! Thanks for all your work & help!! *PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU KNOW OF OTHER GOOD WILKINSON CO. SITES, > or sites that contain info on some WILKINSON CO. ANCESTORS! * > *TINA/CA* List Mgr. >

HI ALL: > Here are my Wilkinson Co. surnames (be sure to get in touch if >you have common lines that we should compare, if we haven't already done so): > GIBSON, HOOKS, HOLLIMAN, HOGAN, KEEN(E), KINGERY > SMITH, SCOTT, SUMMERFORD, SPIVEY, SANDERS, > WATKINS, WYNN, WILKINSON, WALLACE > >ALLIED LINES (related to): CHERRY, SHEPPARD, BRANNAN, USSERY, MACKEY > LODGE, STEVENS, THIGPEN (among others) >(MAY have John Keen, R.S. of Sampson Co.NC m. Eliz.Curlee, they also res. >in Laurens Co.GA.) > *TINA/CA* List Mgr. > > >

* FHC CONSULTANTS LIST * *HI ALL: This is an invitation to all FHC CONSULTANTS worldwide who are interested in subscribing to our FHC CONSULTANTS mailing list. Please go to the onelist.com site and read the description and see if you are interested in joining us. Only prerequisite is that you must be an FHC Consultant (do not have to be LDS, but do need to be an FHC Consultant!). We are small (11 subscribers), but our numbers are growing! We have Consultants from coast to coast (and 2 from Canada) on the list who are very knowledgeable and welcome all who are interested. to subscribe: www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/LDSFHCConsultants *TINA/CA* List Mgr.

*HI ALL: Just a reminder..... don't forget, if you are currently receiving the 'REGULAR' version of the WILKINSON CO. LIST (where you are sent each and every email posted to the List as a separate email), but would rather have it delivered in DIGEST FORMAT (where it saves up till it gets several all together, then sends them in just ONE email to you, with several sent at one time), simply change it by doing the following....(I'm posting this as I noticed that MOST subscribers are on the REGULAR version, and I myself never use REGULAR, always DIGEST because I hate getting just one email at a time.....by getting it in the DIGEST VERSION, I still receive the list emails at least once or twice a day, sometimes more, so it's not like you'd be waiting days and days to get the posted emails)...... If you are now on the regular version, simply send an email and DELETE yourself from that one, by emailing: GA-WILKIN-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM (In the msg. area, just type in "UNSUBSCRIBE"). Then, as soon as you have done that, send another email to: GA-WILKIN-D-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM (and type in the msg. area "SUBSCRIBE") So you will UNSUB yourself from the Regular, and then immediately SUB yourself to the DIGEST VERSION! It's simple! (I HATE getting lists via the Regular version, that's why I'm posting this, so all of you who may want to switch can do so....) *TINA/CA* List Mgr. *PS We now have 56 Subscribers!! Note: I keep getting one bounced back to me, but I dont see her being Subscribed.... if you know or are JacquieSim@aol.com, PLEASE let me know your current email address. This one is no longer working. Thanks. TP

*Hi WREN & ALL: HI COUSIN!! I knew there was a good reason I asked everyone to post their Wilkinson Co. names! You and I are cousins!!! I too descend from WILLIAM WYNN and wife SUSAN HENSON! I descend thru their dtr, CELIA WYNN who m. FRANCIS M. WATKINS. I have this Watkins line back to MITCHELL WATKINS, SR. b. ca 1740s Duplin or Edgec.Co.NC (I also manage a WATKINSREV List over on onelist.com... it's strictly for Watkins descendants who descend from my MITCHELL WATKINS, SR., and his 2 brothers, LEVIN AND PETER, and any of their descendants (and any other siblings or parents of these brothers that we find!!) I would love to talk to you more abt our common WYNN and related lines, and will share with you what little more I have. Will later post my descendancy from Wm. and Susan Henson Wynn. I have suspected for some time that Williams' parents are WILLIAM WYNNe and ELIZABETH ECHOLS who res. Burke Co. GA 1790 , the year William was born. Would love to work on verifying this with you, if interested..... EPPES: I also have an Eppes line from VA! I am on an Eppes mailing list, and you are welcome to join! To Subscribe: email to: EPESGENEALOGY-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM (I think that's what it is) it's a great list and Connie and Bekki, the list managers, are great. My Eppes/Epes line is following: JOHN HARDYMAN/HARDEMAN (I also manage a HARDEMAN list!) m. MARIE/MARY EPES JOSEPH HARDEMAN THOMAS HARDEMAN (R.S.) m. Elizabeth WINNIE HARDEMAN b. Effingham Co.GA m. JOHN MOORE SR. SPENCER MOORE b. 1800 Pitt Co.NC m. ELIZABETH MATTOX b. 1805 Tattnall Co.GA (d/o John Mattox and Sarah Overstreet (I'm also on an Overstreet List, but I do NOT manage that one!!!) .... SARAH MOORE m. LNG STRICKLAND, then m/2 my JETHRO J. JONES of Charlton Co.GA 1850s C.I. JONES b. 1869 Charlton Co. m. MINNIE E. GUNN (d/o John Gunn and Martha Bussey) ONIE JONES m. FRANK STEMBRIDGE LILLIAN A. STEMBRIDGE m. EMORY KEENE (these are my parents, now both deceased). I better quiet or everyone will soon be asleep!!!!! Pls. let me know what your EPPES/EPES line is, and if you have anything new or diff. on the WYNN line .... let's do keep in touch on these, ok???? I think there are alot of WYNN descendants from this couple...if so, PLEASE LET US KNOW so we can all get together on it!! (William is said to have had 21 children!!!) *TINA/CA* List Mgr. >My family lines in Wilkinson County are Thompson and Wynne. > >Elizabeth Bina "Lizzie" Thompson married William David Jordan Sumner. They >are my great-grandparents. > >She is the daughter of James Russell Thompson and Martha Patricia "Patsy" >Wynn and the granddaughter of Solomon Thompson and Rachael Mitchell and >William "Bill" Wynn and Susannah "Susan" Hinson. > > >The following is the preface that I use when I print my genealogy: > >Dad was always interested in the origins of his family, but he didn’t have >time to do any serious research until he was able to retire in 1982. After >he retired, he started visiting libraries and courthouses and corresponding >with others doing research. He would talk about what he had learned about >our family’s ancestors, where they had lived, and what had happened to them. >I enjoyed listening to him, but I have to admit that I wasn’t interested >enough to want to get involved. > >When Dad died in 1985, part of the work that I did to help settle his >affairs was to go through his genealogy files. I scanned the family folders >and the pedigree charts and saw some of the family names and locations that >he had talked about. I still wasn’t interested in continuing the research, >so I put it all away. > >Then, in June 1988, my son, Jay (Joshua Wren Harris III), applied for his >first appointment as a Methodist Minister. He was assigned a circuit of >three small churches in middle Georgia. Two of these churches were in the >towns of Irwinton and Toomsboro in Wilkinson County, Georgia. The third >church, named Salem, was also in Wilkinson County but was located out in the >county. We visited the churches in the towns first and then went to find >Salem. We found it on a dirt road and saw that it was a small wooden >church, painted white, well cared for, with an old cemetery beside it. We >walked among the graves, reading the inscriptions. The names Wynn and >Thompson on several of the tombstones seemed faintly familiar to me, but I >couldn’t really place them. We wrote down as many of the names and dates as >we could make out on the old, worn stones. When we got home, I pulled out >Dad’s old pedigree charts and found that among the people buried there were >my great-great-great-grandparents, James Russell Thompson and his wife, the >former Martha Patricia Wynn. Several members of their families were also >buried at that cemetery. They were all early members of Salem Methodist >Church – the very same church where my son was to begin his ministry. > >I started looking for information about these families. Who were they? >Where did they live? Where did they come from? What was it like when they >were alive? While trying to find answers to these questions, I realized >that I had become hooked on this thing called genealogy. I’m still hooked. >I discovered that genealogy is a jigsaw puzzle that you can never finish >because you keep finding more pieces. It’s a never-ending story full of >brave and wonderful people (and a few scoundrels) who lived, worked, and >raised families in circumstances that we can only try to imagine. It’s >history that grabs you because it was members of your very own family who >were involved when the history was happening. And, hopefully, it’s a legacy >that you leave for people not yet born. > > > J. Wren Harris, Jr. > >Researching my families: Calvert, Clifton, Cowart, Duke, Epps, Flanders, >Garnto, Harris, Hollingsworth, Kelly, McLain, McLean, Monk, Parrish, >Register, Riser, Schenk, Skinner, Sumner, Thompson, Wren, Wynn, and others. > > > > >

NAME: Ann Toler >EMAIL: atoler@earthlink.net >SURNAMES: Toler, Lord, Walters, Tarpley, Thompson, VanLandingham, Underwood >DATE: Apr 16 1999 >QRYTEXT: A relative who has Joseph Howell Toler's Family Bible just sent me copies of pages with the following information: >Joseph Howell Toler - b. 9/23/1826, d. 2/14/1914 >Married Caroline Wilson - 3/14/1848 >Caroline Wilson - b. 3/30/1825, d. 10/12/1899 > >They had 13 children, 10 girls and 3 boys: >Martha Ann Ginette Toler - b. 2/5/1849 >Mary Ann Malinda Toler - b. 5/13/1850, d. Aug. 1858 >Francis Ann ?? Toler - b. 2/17/1852 >John ?? Franklin L.?? Toler - b. 10/24/1853 >Ruthy Ann Elizabeth Toler - b. 8/7/1855 >Caroline Mahalia Toler - b. 2/26/1857 >Mary Toler - b. 12/14/1858 >Ellen L. Toler - b. 8/13/1860 >Mary Jane Toler - b. 11/24/1862 >Georgia Ann ?? Toler - b. 9/19/1866 >Josephine Rebecca Toler - b. 3/15/1868, d. 6/5/1870 >William Henry Howell Toler - b. 3/19/1870 >Nathaniel Toler - b. 4/28/1872

TIMOTHY: I wonder if this Balls Bridge was named after John Ball....he was some famous GA guy.....he was in Berrien Co. , along with my John Benton GUNN in mid 1800s. Good luck with your query! *TINA/CA* List Mgr.

*HI ALL: I haven't yet seen this site, but a good genealogy friend of mine (also an FHC Consultant as I am) sent this to me and said it's a good site if you have ever needed to know abt township and land records..... so I'll pass it along. http://www.outfitters.com/genealogy/land/twprangemap.html Tina/CA

Okey dokey, folks. Here are my Wilkinson county surnames HOOKER RAMAGE BRACK/BROCK COLEMAN I would also like to know where the bridge is at Balls Ferry that was built in the late 1930s,and if it is in Washington CO GA, or Wilkinson CO GA. Jennifer Sherwood Braswell ----- Original Message ----- From: TINA PEDDIE <tina@tcsn.net> To: <GAWILKIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 11:35 PM Subject: [GAWILKIN-L] YOUR SURNAMES????