Is there a list for Oak Grove Cemetery in Paducah? Dick

Bill, Please send me the above files. As always your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. Ann Wallace

Here is the second item from Richard's latest posting: -B ============================================================ Graham Family Cemetery 5755 Metropolis Lake Road (KY-996) West Paducah, Kentucky 42086 Directions: >From Exit 3 on I-24, turn west onto KY-305 (also known as Old Cairo Road) and drive approximately 3 - 4 miles to the "Y" junction of KY-305 and KY-358 (also known as Ogden Landing Road). Bear right at the "Y" junction onto KY-358 and drive approximately 8 - 10 miles to the 3-way stop intersection of KY-358 and KY-996 (also known as Metropolis Lake Road) in the town of Grahamville, Kentucky. Turn right at the intersection of KY-358 and KY-996 and drive approximately 0.1 miles to the Grahamville Lodge #707 F. & A. M. located on the left side of KY-996. The cemetery is located on the north side of the lodge, or right side if you are facing the building. Turn left into the drive beside of the lodge and drive around behind it where there is ample parking space. Famous people buried in the Graham Family Cemetery: Zelotes Clinton Graham, founder of Grahamville, Kentucky, and first member received into Grahamville Lodge #707 F. & A. M. History: The Graham Family Cemetery is located on the property of Grahamville Lodge #707 F. & A. M., with the property being donated by the Graham family. CRAWFORD, Charles E. b. Oct. 9, 1869 d. Aug. 26, 1907 CRAWFORD, Paul L. b. Jan. 14, 1898 d. July 9, 1899 CRAWFORD, Robert A. b. Aug. 13, 1902 d. May 20, 1907 FLANIKIN, Chas. E. b. 1885 d. 1923 GRAHAM, Birttie b. Feb. 7, 1883 d. Nov. 5, 1890 GRAHAM, Charles E. "Daddy" b. Feb. 4, 1872 d. Aug. 16, 1928 GRAHAM, Clyde b. Oct. 10?, 1891 d. Nov. 24, 1894 GRAHAM, Infant of b. Oct. 29, 1897 d. Oct. 29, 1897 GRAHAM, Lester b. Jan. 27, 1898 d. July 10, 1898 GRAHAM, Margrett A. b. Aug. 16, 1827 d. Apr. 8, 1903 GRAHAM, Trixie A. b. Dec. 18, 1885 d. Aug. 19, 1901 GRAHAM, Z. C., jr. b. July 21, 1888 d. Aug. 9, 1916 GRAHAM, Zelotes Clinton b. Feb. 6, 1847 d. Dec. 22, 1921 JOHNSON, Edward Sury b. Feb. 26, 1890 d. Apr. 25, 1919 JOHNSON, Gennie b. May 1, 1867 d. Jan. 28, 1905 JOHNSON, Infant son b. Feb. 9, 1901 d. Feb. 9, 1901 JOHNSON, Margaret Alice b. Aug. 6, 1865 d. Apr. 20, 1918 JOHNSON, Mary A. b. Apr. 21, 1897 d. Feb 2, 1898 JOHNSON, Willie (E.?) b. Sept. 20, 1895 d. June 23, 1897 LENTES, Caumilla b. 1903 d. 1931 LENTES, Edward b. 1911 d. 1931 LENTES, Ethlene b. 1897 d. 1925 LENTES, Infant of b. Feb. 2, 1900 d. Feb. 6, 1900 LENTES, Nannie P. b. 1875 d. 1972 LENTES, William R. b. 1877 d. 1957 NEEL, Court M. b. Jan. 7, 1888 d. July 23, 1976 NEEL, Elwood b. Aug. 29, 1853 d. Sept. 14, 1935 NEEL, Martha b. Oct. 16, 1921 d. July 27, 1938 NEEL, Nannie Moore b. July 28, 1860 d. Dec. 12, 1946 NEEL, Stella b. Apr. 9, 1888 d. Jan. 4, 1935 RATCLIFFE, Rachel Elizabeth b. Apr. 18, 1852 d. Oct. 13, 1918 **************************************************************************** Richard B. Davis

My friends - Our good friend, Richard Davis, has supplied some additional cemetery records for McCracken County. I will be bringing these to you over the next day or two. Richard has very kindly agreed to let me post the JP items which he puts together fromt ime to time. -B ============================================================ Here is an incomplete burial transcription list for a remote, unknown, and very neglected, cemetery that I found in far western McCracken County. I believe that many more graves are there due to the sunk in places around, but there are no markers on them so that is why it is incomplete. I gave it the name "Boldry Cemetery" since the oldest marked grave that I could find had a last name of "Boldry" inscribed on it. If it does have a name, then I will correct it, however, I believe that all cemeteries need a name. Richard B. Davis *************************************************************************** Boldry Cemetery McCracken County, Kentucky Location: >From Exit 3 on I-24, turn west onto KY-305 (also known as Old Cairo Road) and drive approximately 3 miles to the "Y" junction of KY-305 and KY-358 (also known as Ogden Landing Road). Bear right at the "Y" junction and drive approximately 5 miles to the the 3-way stop intersection of KY-358 and KY-996 (also known as Metropolis Lake Road) that is located in Grahamville, Kentucky. Drive 0.2 miles to the intersection of KY-996 and KY-358 that continues west. Turn left onto KY-358 and travel 0.9 miles to an entrance on the left hand side of KY-358. This cemetery is in a remote part of a wooded section and is very dangerous to get in and out of. Entrance is not paved and does not have any spread gravel which makes it difficult to visit during late fall or early spring due to rain making the ground very soft. Also, snakes, insects, and other wildlife are in abundance year round so visitors should be very careful as to where they step and bring insect spray. History: The history of this tiny cemetery is unknown. The name "Boldry Cemetery" was given to it by myself as that is the oldest marked grave in the cemetery and no other name for it seems to exist. I believe that other people are buried here as there are several places the size of a grave that are sunk in appear to be in rows. However, no other headstones or markers are visible. There is one illegible headstone in the cemetery and the number "28", as in 1828, is legible and in near the right edge. BENSON, Elder E. W. b. Oct. 5, 1823 d. Oct. 17, 1882 BENSON, Gillie b. Jan. 8, 1828 d. July 28, 1888 BENSON, Lua G. b. Sept. 21, 1847 d. Oct. 16, 1863 BOLDRY, Jane b. Apr. 2, 1809 d. Aug. 16, 1872 BOLDRY, Lua A. b. Jan. 14, 1848 d. Oct. 19, 1861 BOLDRY, Elder W. S. b. Mar. 24, 1804 d. Feb. 5, 1883 DENNY, Georgia b. Aug. 4, 1866 d. Jan. 23, 1870 HUGES, Rebecca Ann b. July 26, 1853 d. May 29, 1879 LONG, Kitty Susan Boldry b. Oct. 17, 1842 d. July 28, 1921 LONG, Thomas Stubblefield b. Oct. 17, 1839 d. June 22, 1916 LONG, Mattie L. b. Apr. 18, 1875 d. Aug. 4, 1882 MARTIN, Sallie A. Martin b. Nov. 18, 1861 d. Aug. 29, 1885 MATLOCK, Margaret A. O. b. Dec. 28, 1845 d. Aug. 25, 1882

Please send me information on "Gatlin, Granville J. McGriger[McGregor], Rebecca Caroline My great-great uncle spelled her last name - McGrigor? Thanks Mike

My Great-Great Grandmother was Eliabeth Jane Smith born 1825 in TN and married to Joseph Jonathan Landon, born NC. They lived near Backusburg. Maybe some of my smith's will match? Thamks Mike Landon At 06:10 PM 9/12/99 -0500, you wrote: >I am looking for my Smith ancestors in this area. Would you be so kind >as to forward the cemetery file. >Thanks, >Donna Petkus > > >==== KYJacksonPurchase Mailing List ==== >Interested in learning more about US Land & Property Research? Go to: > http://users.arn.net/~billco/uslpr.htm to see the free on-line course in this subject >authored by the KYJP Listowner. > > >

Hello Bill, Please send me a copy of the Graves County Bethel Cemetery Files. Thank you very much, Claudine

Bill: Please send the Bethel Cemetery records, Graves Co. KY. TIA Jess

Bill, would appreciate receiving a copy of the Graves County Bethel Cemetery file as a straight email file. Thanks Faye Craig fcraig@home.com

The Collins' Reunion is set for Saturday, October 30, 1999 at 10:00am at the New Community Center on North College Street in Fulton, Kentucky. Sylvia Travelspead is in charge. She lives in Ledbetter, Kentucky. Her phone number is 270-898-4363. Sylvia's grandfather was James Pinkney Collins. All descendants of Francis Collins born March 11, 1791 in South Carolina are invited. This family migrated to Stewart County, Tennessee, then to Benton County, Tennessee, then to Harris Station, Tennessee, then all over. Dick

My friends - I have today completed converting another cemetery file that was on one of those several hundred floppies that I had filled over the years with JP data. This file contains the Bethel Cemetery in Graves County, located somewhat east of Pryorsburg. It contains 123 known burials, but it is a very old cemetery, with known burials there as early as 1830, with the earliest readable birth year showing 1784. There are almost certainly other burials in this old cemetery for which the markers have not survived, and there are a number of markers that are unreadable. The known surnames in this cemetery are: Blalock, Edds, Tripp, Wilson, Byrn, Rhodes, Pryor, Hendon, Lancaster, Hedge, Jones, Williams, Boyd, McClure, Waddy, Pate, Bryand, Love, Burton, Board, Riddell, Holifield, Boghard, Smith, Clusterman, Price, Minton, Wingo, Herndon, Clark, Wilson, Bradley, Holmes, Alexander, Moore, Janes, Gibson, Brown, Casey, Tucker, Calhoun, Coke, Danner, Johnson, Tyler, Jikes, Odell and Schofield. If you would like a copy of this file, just let me know and I will get it off to you. I will send it as a plain text attachment to an e-mail message, unless you specify that you must have it as a *straight e-mail* message. You will receive the complete file - time constraints will not permit me to go into the file and extract individual surnames. I am working on a Fulton County cemetery, which I may have ready by the end of the day. If so, I'll be back with that offering later. -B ============================================================

Searching for "any and all" information on the Meredith Edwards Family. According to unconfirmed sources, Meredith MAY have been the son of John Edwards and grandson of William Edwards & Polly Cramer. If so, Meredith's siblings MAY have been Hugh, Henry, Oliver, Charles, John, William E., Allen and Annie Edwards. Meredith's children MAY have been King M., Jackson B., Hugh H. (my gg-grandfather), Elijah, James, Milford, Allen B., Martha and Meridith Edwards. Meredith is found in the 1822 & 1823 Hickman County Tax Lists, 1825 Calloway County Tax List. 1829 Graves County Tax List. 1830 Graves County Federal Census. 1830 & 1833 Graves County Tax List. 1840 McCracken County Federal Census. 1850 Pulaski County (IL) Federal Census. My GG-Grandfather Hugh H. Edwards was born 05 November 1824 Calloway County, KY. A copy of this event's record would be appreciated if one of the Jackson Purchase Listers is researching at the Courthouse in Calloway County. The name, address and telephone number of a reliable and reasonable professional Jackson Purchase Researcher would also be appreciated. Thanks in advance for any assistance in sorting out my Edwards line. Regards, Rebel L. Kreklow

Please forward Marshall Co. marriage of Isaac Thompson and Susan K. Rodden. Thanks!

My friends - We will round out this week's data postings with a continuation of our look at some of the lesser known records held in Record Group 94 in the National Archives which can be useful to us in our family research. In prior posts, we have been looking at some specific holdings within RG94. Today, we are going to look at some of the medical records which are contained within that record group. These medical records span the period from 1814 to 1919. As you may recall, RG94 is collectively called the Records of the Adjutant General's Office, but the collection contains records from many different early organizations. In the case of the medical records, some were originally created by the AG's office, while others came from the Surgeon General's office. These latter records had gone to the Pension Office, and then on to the AG's organization. Here are some of the medical records in RG94 that we, as genealogists, would find useful: Field Records of Hospitals - 1821-1912. This is a huge collection of 11,000 volumes, which contain registers of the sick and wounded, order and account books, clothing and other descriptive books. The greater portion of these cover the Civil War period. Records on individuals include name, age, rank, organization and complaint, date admitted, date returned to duty, whether discharged, furloughed, transferred to another hospital or died and remarks. These records cover post, general, prison, base, field, regimental, brigade and division hospitals. There are lists for this entire series, arranged in a single numerical series, and there is a finding list. Mexican War Hospital Records - 1846-1848. This contains much of the same sort of information as the general records above, except pertaining directly to the War With Mexico. This series also includes registers of nurses and matrons and bread and laundry accounts. Contract Books - 1839 - 1849 & 1861 - 1865. This series contains contracts entered into with physicians, with dates and names and terms of each contract. Reports of Sick & Wounded - 1820 - 1860 - These are monthly and quarterly reports showing diseases and, for each month, the numbers suffering from those diseases that were admitted into a hospital and the number of deaths. The names of the deceased are shown Registers of the Physical Examination of Recruits - 1864 - 1912 - This series was kept by medical officers at recruiting stations, showing the location of the station, date, name of recruit, where born, age, occupation, marital status, personal description and whether admitted or rejected. There is also a smaller series available which has information on this same subject area for the years 1884-1912. As we get a little further along in this series, I will be addressing the question which several of you have asked me, and that is how to obtain copies of records in the various subgroups in RG94. In most cases, it can be done by mail, and I will get into detail on that process in the near future. As usual, there will be no data posts per se over the weekend, but I hope to have another cemetery file ready for offering, if all goes well time-wise. -B ============================================================

I am looking for information on ancestors of Sarah and Cordella Garrison. They may have been born in Evansville, IN. Sarah born ca. 1840's; married May 9, 1859, Rudolph Anton Glaser from Baden, Germany. Sarah died of the Yellow Fever Oct 10, 1872. Buried in Hickman, KY cemetery, Yellow Fever section. Cordealla married Laurence Muse from Germany on July 8, 1856. Cordella is buried in the Hickman, KY cemetery near the old gate. Thanks, Charles Glaser ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Bill, Please send the New Concord Cemetery in Calloway County file. Thank you, Andrea Padula

Hi - I updated the Calloway and Graves county COOK family pages - if you are researching that surname in those counties - please make sure that I have your name listed as a researcher. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/4375/cookgraves.html http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/4375/cookcalloway.html Pat Ray Scheele http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/4375/cookmain.html http://www.co.saunders.ne.us/mead.htm Come surf with us!

My parents and Great grandparents, at least, were married at the Old Chestnut Tree, Henry County Tenn. The site is located on the Old Murray and Paris Road at the Tennessee State Line. Of course there is no longer a "Chestnut tree" since the Chestnut blight killed all of them. To get to the location, go east from Hazel on the State Line Road. At the first stop sign out of Hazel (about 2 miles) turn right on the Old Murray and Paris Road. The state line, and the location of the "Old Chestnut Tree" is a few hundred yards south, on the east side of the road. My parents were married there. It was raining and the preacher drove from Paris and met them. Mom and Dad sat in their car, the preacher in his, and performed the Wedding. Just like a drive in wedding chapel. I don't know why the Chestnut tree was such a popular marring spot, but I had always assumed there was on "waiting period" in Tennessee for a license. Jim Thompson

My friends - As I mentioned in yesterday's data post, I am going to be occupied in another venue this evening, over with the AOL folks. As a result, there will be no data post tonight. We'll close the week out tomorrow with another in the Tips series. Until then....... -B ============================================================

Please send a copy of this file to me Straight Email. New Concord Cemetery in Calloway Co. Thank You in advance, Jeannette in Florida