Hello Cousins, I have concentrated my research on Absalom Autrey, b. 1802 in N.C., lived and married Elizabeth Norris in Ala., and moved his family to Dubach, Lincoln Parish, La. in 1848. I have been researching and searching this huge family since 1982. I need your help. Lincoln Parish still has many of his descendants living in the area, I'd like to find them. Please forgive the length of this message, but posting it as a group will show all the families I'm trying to find and how they are related. I will post individual information on the individual groups at a later date. I knew his son, Robert Martin Autrey moved to near Maud in Bowie County, Texas in 1877 after selling his portion of his inheritance to his youngest brother, Charles Henry Autrey. However, Robert Martin had land in Lincoln Parish, La. and he sold it in 1870 before moving to Coryell Co. Texas and purchasing land there. He sold this land in 1874, and moved back to Dubach, Lincoln Parish, La. After the family estate was settled in about 1877, he left for Texas again, stopping in Bowie County, Texas for the birth of his sixth child, Calvin Abraham Autrey, who did not survive. He remained in Bowie County, Texas the rest of his life. Perhaps he was on his way to Gatesville, Coryell Co., where his brother was still living. Robert Martin Autrey is the great grandfather of my husband, Joe Autrey. This is what I have pieced together. Please correct me if I am wrong, or if you can add information to this. Albert H. Neighbors was born in Ky. 1820, but was in Perry Co. Ala. where he married Sarah E. Autrey in 1844. They moved to Lincoln Parish, La. in 1849 (her father and the rest of the family had already moved there in 1848), and by 1870, he and Sarah were in Bowie Co. Texas. However, their last three children were born in Bowie Co. Texas,James Neighbors in 1862; Adella W.,1865; Missie B.E., 1867. Perhaps they were just visiting Robert Martin and his family when these children were born, but decided later to move to Bowie County as well. ??? John Mabe and Dianancy A. (Wallace) Autrey were married in Union Parish, La., and this is where his eleven children were born. However, many of his children and grandchildren moved to Texas, to the Robertson County area. His grandson, John Mabe Autrey, was born 1880 in Robertson Co. Texas.. Many members of this family stayed in the Union/Lincoln Parishes of La. while some moved to Decatur, Texas, Crocket, Texas, Texarkana, Texas, and many other countes in Texas, as well as California, Arizona and Ark. My information indicates there is no known death or burial location of John Autrey, while his wife, Dicy Autrey died in Waco, Texas. Cornelius Autrey was born in Perry Co. Ala., m. Arminda Penelope Brown about 1868. He sold his land as well as his inheritance in 1871 in Union Parish and Lincoln Parish, La., and moved with Arminda to Gatesville, Coryell Co., Tx. in 1871. He had his family here, and died in 1894 and is buried in Coryell Co. Texas in the Friendship Cemetery in Gatesville. Martha Ann Autrey married Abraham Reed in 1873 in Lincoln Parish, La. Abraham Reed's father, Jonas Reed, had served under General Sam Houston at the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. Abraham Reed and his first wife were already living in Texas when he and his first wife, Celia, had a son in 1869 in Bowie Co. Texas. He must have returned to Lincoln Parish to marry Martha Ann, and then returned to Bowie Co., Texas where he died in 1906. Martha died in Bowie Co. in 1923. Their six children were born in Bowie Co. Texas, their last, Ruby L. Reed, was born in 1918. Bird Griffin Autrey m. first Georgia Moncrief in Union Parish, La.in 1868. In 1871 he purchased land in Lincoln Parish, La. near his father, Absalom Autrey. By 1891, Bird's son, Absalom W. Autrey, had moved to Texas and had three children born there, I have record of only two. Some of his other children and grandchildren moved to either Waco or Gatesville, Texas. Bird Griffin married the second time to Mary Olevia Hughes, and they moved to Gatesville, Coryell Co., Texas in 1891.She died in Gatesville, Texas in 1924, and Bird Griffin Autrey died in Waco, Texas at the home of his son, Jery M. Autrey, but was buried in Gatesville. Coryell Co. Texas. Lucinda Autrey married John Brown L. Mitchell in 1847 in Perry Co. Ala., and moved to La. with the rest of the Autrey clan in 1848. They lived in the Lincoln/Union Parish and died there. Most of this family remained in this area. Harriett Autrey first married Joseph Wiley in Perry Co. Ala. They also moved with the Autrey clan to the Lincoln Parish area in 1848. He was the first person to be buried in the Autrey family cemetery plot behind the Autrey homeplace in Dubach. They had three children: Elizabeth Jane, Sarah Ann, and William , who did not survive his first year. She later married William Jackson Field. They had no children, but moved around area a lot, having land in Claiborne, Lincoln and Union Parishes. Elizabeth Jane Autrey married Silas Marion Fuller in Ala. but moved to the Union Parish in 1850, Elizabeth's father Absalom and her siblings had already moved into the area in 1848. They later moved to Lincoln Parish, as Silas died in 1912, Elizabeth in 1915, and both are buried in Lincoln Parish in the Henry Cemetery in Hico, La. They had 14 children and many of these children had many children. William Norris Autrey was born in Ala. but married Rebecca HENRY in Union Parish, La. when he moved to La. in 1849. According to his Confederate Pension Application of 1906, Rebecca had already died. He lived in the Union and Lincoln Parishes, farmed until 1903 and died while living with one of his sons in 1918. They had six children, all living in or near the Lincoln/Union Parish areas. Syria S. Autrey died during the Civil War,in 1864, from a hand wound Celia J. Autrey m. William Jackson Field in 1859, they had six children. They lived in Claiborne Parish, Bienville Parish, Lincoln Parish, and died in Claiborne Parish, La. James Jackson Autey was born in ala., lived in Lincoln Parish and never married. He died in the Civil War in Va. as a result of war injuries in 1863 in Mt. Jackson, Va. Sorry for the long message, but trying to find my Texas and Louisiana Autrey kin. If you are connected to any of these Autrey families, even the ones who remained in La. or travelled to other states, please contact me as I would love to have more information on your families. There are many othe familis from Lincoln Parish married into this Autrey family including: MITCHELL,FIELDS,HUFFMAN,HARRIS,YOUNG,COLVIN,BROWN, TUBB(S), HEARD, and many others. If your family information was included in the Absalom and Elizabeth Autrey and Their Descendants with A Section on Thomas Norris book, I'd love to have your information updated as the book was originally published in 1994. It was revised somewhat and re-released again last year. It is still available, if you are interested in more information, please contact me privately. If you have a personal, genealogical web site, please contact me privately as well. Please do not assume I have all of your family information, I have many gaps I would like to fill with correct information. Thanks everyone, Jo Autrey jmautrey@email.msn.com Dallas, Texas 972-557-0052 (listed under J.E. Autrey) Jo's Front Porch http://www.members.tripod.com/~JoMAutrey Click on Genealogy, and then look at Absalom and Elizabeth Autrey section for documents. See surnames for genealogy. Also, look for a court case, Matilda, which includes Lincoln Parish and surrounding areas. Not all information has been uploaded. I'm in the process of adding and revising the site again, so please visit again and "refresh" or "reload" your browser often in the coming weeks. A new section, The French Connection, will be added to the site soon, watch for it! Thanks, everyone, for your patience. sit again and "refresh" or "reload" your browser often in the coming = weeks. A new section, The French Connection, will be added to the site = soon, watch for it! Thanks, everyone, for your patience.

In a message dated 7/25/99 11:28:09 AM Central Daylight Time, jmautrey@email.msn.com writes: << Thank you for including the Autrey message on your roots web. My sister married into the Staples/Ivey family and they descended from Absolum Autrey. Can you tell us how. Recently, her former sister-in-law and one of the Ivey cousins contacted her about genealogy on him. My nephews know very little about the Staples-Ivey-Autrey family as their father was killed in a boating accident in June, 1968. I would like to help them discover their roots. Is the lady doing the book going to sell it and if so how do we put our name on the list? I do not want to put the private info. on the living descendants on the net but is it okay to have her contact me at Gritzbaugh@aol.com or write to me at: Sherry Gritzbaugh 4507 Verone St. Bellaire, texas 77401 Thank you very much. I hope I have not violated your rules by including my address. Please forgive me if I have. Thank you so much. I really like your web site and would hate to be excluded. Sherry >>

The following files have been added to the Lincoln Parish Archives: Love letter #11 of Maudie Belle Woodard & Lee Dewitt Christian, plus epilogue written & submitted by Kelly Christian Priestly (Miscellaneous Page) Obits: Billy A. Hinton & Lavena Chandler Lann, both submitted by Dorothy Rinehart Taylor. Peggy http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/lincoln.htm

The newest addition to the Lincoln Parish Archives are 10 love letters of Maudie Belle Woodard and Lee Dewitt Christian (on the Miscellaneous page). Maudie Belle and Lee married 14 Dec 1931 in Sibley, LA and these letters were submitted by their granddaughter, Kelly Christian Priestly of Simsboro. Some folks may not find much of genealogical value in a love letter, but read these and then imagine yourself finding something like that on one of YOUR ancestors! What a priceless treasure for future descendants. Kelly is working on a short epilogue to the letters and I will add it as soon as she finishes. Enjoy! Peggy Beaubouef Lincoln Parish USGW Archive Coordinator LALINCOL list manager http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/lincoln.htm

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------F32E1B895A5D3C5399F9263B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For the man who asked me how to find a cemetery yesterday ...... and all the rest of us!!! This sounds like a great deal for the money. I'm going to Walmart and see if I can find this CD. Peggy --------------F32E1B895A5D3C5399F9263B Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <LAGENWEB-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com ([204.212.38.27]) by mail1.iamworld.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.2 release 221 ID# 0-55689U25100L25100S0V35) with ESMTP id net; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 02:46:44 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA29599; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 23:42:33 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 23:42:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19990706064213.47942.qmail@hotmail.com> X-Originating-IP: [209.240.198.239] From: Bobby Edwards <edwardsrc@hotmail.com> Old-To: lagenweb-l@rootsweb.com Old-Cc: kygen-l@rootsweb.com Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 23:42:12 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Subject: [LAGENWEB-L] Fwd: [BLANTON-L] A New Computer Program for All Family Researchers - $9.95 Resent-Message-ID: <8-MjzC.A.MOH.YVag3@bl-11.rootsweb.com> To: LAGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: LAGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: LAGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <LAGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/587 X-Loop: LAGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: LAGENWEB-L-request@rootsweb.com X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 The below was on my surname list... bob Greenup CC ----Original Message Follows---- From: LMoore806@aol.com To: BLANTON-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BLANTON-L] A New Computer Program for All Family Researchers -$9.95 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 00:09:45 EDT To all my fellow researchers. My brother is a truck driver. He gave me a program today that just blew my mind. It is a travel program that he purchased at Walmart for $9.95. It is called Travel Maps USA by Cosmi. It shows all the cemeteries in the United States. All the County Roads. And all the main roads. You can search by Address, City, State, County, Zip Code, Airport, and Other Places. In Other Places you can put the name of the Cemetery that you are trying to find and it will show you exactly where it is. You can zoom in on the cemetery and it will show you the layout of the cemetery. When you first find the cemetery it shows 2 crosses side by side. Click on them and the cemetery layout will appear. No more asking anyone how to get to that cemetery. You can put in your address and the address of the cemetery and it will give you turn by turn directions to it. Let me tell you it is a must for all of us researchersand the price is right and you can get it at your nearby walmart. When you look for it it will be in a cd case on a rack. It is not in a box. There are no instructions with the program. The program has a built in help file. Take my word for it, it is a must for all of us researchers. Please email me if you have any questions. I will be glad to answer them. Linda ==== BLANTON Mailing List ==== Help keep genealogy free on the internet. Become a Rootsweb member, sponsor, or donor today!! http://www.rootsweb.com/ _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ==== LAGENWEB Mailing List ==== LAGenWeb's website is located at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~lagenweb/ --------------F32E1B895A5D3C5399F9263B--

I failed to mention in my request for information on the half brothers and sisters of John E. Thomas once lived in Lincoln Parish, La. I have been told that R.W. Welch may have died there. Thanks, Sherry Gritzbaugh

The following obits were submitted by Debra Dame of Doyline, LA and have been added to the archives: Emmett J. Causey, 1936 Mrs. Susan Mitchell, 1938 Ira Hamilton Posey, 1948 Miss Marcella Posey, 1941 Thanks for sharing with us, Debra! Peggy http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/lincoln.htm

Carol, Please send me your snail mail address ( privately ), and I will get this obit mailed to you in the morning. Deb Dame ddame@juno.com On Mon, 5 Jul 1999 14:57:44 EDT Bunnie4059@aol.com writes: >Could you mail me Della Youngblood's obit? > >Thank you, >Carol Crowell Hurley > > >==== LALINCOL Mailing List ==== >David A. Lewis, Lincoln Parish USGenWeb County Coordinator >http://www.av.qnet.com/~lewis/ > ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.

Seeking information on R. W. Welch and his descendants. In the 1880 census, R. W. was lvg. in the household of John E. Thomas and was listed as a brother. Actually, R. W. was a half bro. There were also two sisters, Anna Welch who md. Dr.__Smith and lived around Hope, Ark. and Madeline Welch who md. Ben Wall, a photographer, and they may have lived in Minden, Webster Parish, La. Any info. appreciated. Would appreciate name of the mother and father. Thanks Sherry Gritzbaugh Gritzbaugh@aol.com

Hi Bill, I can't help you because I'm not from Lincoln Parish, nor do I live there now. I am, however, sending this to the Lincoln parish list. Maybe someone on there will be able to give you better directions. Can anyone tell Bill how to find this cemetery??? Thanks, Peggy FrankLRite@aol.com wrote: > > Peggy - > > I am wondering if you can give me a more precise location for the Sealy > Cemetery in Lincoln Parish. According to the Lincoln Parish web site, it is > 2 miles north of Vienna on Hwy. 167, then a 1/4 mile hike into the woods. Is > there a marker along the highway? On which side of the road (east or west) > can I find the cemetery? My son is visiting La. Tech this week, and I would > like to for him to see the resting place of his ancestors. > > Bill Sealy / Pensacola, FL

Hi list, I have a copy of the obituaries from Sunday, 4 July, 1999, from the Shreveport newspaper, "The Times". Can mail a copy if anyone needs it. (NOT ALPHABETIZED!) DAY, Clydia T. YOUNGBLOOD, Della BELCHER, Robert A. PARNELL, Infant Madeline Ann JAMES, Madeline J. BRACKMAN, Sarah Strickland SIRMONS, Marvin M. WILSON, Jack

Could you mail me Della Youngblood's obit? Thank you, Carol Crowell Hurley

Deb Did you find the obit for Chris's aunt. If so save me a copy. Linda

Peggy: Have you ever thought of subscribing to Cemetery-Photos-L-Request@Rootsweb.com I'll bet you would be a valuable addition to the Volunteer Web Site. Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html

Hi everyone, Hope you've had a happy & safe 4th of July. The Antioch Cemetery, submitted by Mr. Calvin Jones, and the Pine Grove Cemetery, submitted by Mr. Ray Skinner, have been added to the Lincoln Parish Archives today. We sincerely thank these two gentlemen for these latest additions!! Peggy Beaubouef http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/lincoln.htm

I am seeking info, ancestors of Samuel T. JORDAN and wife Elizabeth. He was born c1840 in NC. Worked for railroad, probably Missouri Pacific in AL and Farmerville, Union Parish, LA. Died 1878 in Lincoln Parish, LA. Daughters: Arizona, born 3 Apr 1870 in AL, died 29 Dec 1901 in LA, married William Addison RICHARDSON; Effie married John HOWARD; Eldorado married Matthew ALBRITTON; Minnie married Herb HAM 1880 in Lincoln Parish. Please contact by e-mail: BGeoT@aol.com George Turnipseed

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------4FE76B13B70B1E360A7B6105 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello list, Can anyone help this lady? She sent this to the Request addy so I'm forwarding it to the list for her. She's not on the list so you'll need to reply to her directly. Thanks, Peggy --------------4FE76B13B70B1E360A7B6105 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <LALINCOL-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com ([204.212.38.30]) by mail1.iamworld.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.2 release 221 ID# 0-55689U25100L25100S0V35) with ESMTP id net for <pbeaubou@iamerica.net>; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 18:49:01 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA16436 for owner-LALINCOL@lists.rootsweb.com; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:45:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:45:03 -0700 (PDT) X-From_: Hsmith@hbuhsd.k12.ca.us Thu Jul 1 15:45:03 1999 Received: from bl-3.rootsweb.com (bl-3.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.19]) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA16387 for <LALINCOL-L-request@bl-14.rootsweb.com>; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:45:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.hbuhsd.k12.ca.us (ns1.hbuhsd.k12.ca.us [209.232.149.35]) by bl-3.rootsweb.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA15358 for <LALINCOL-L-request@rootsweb.com>; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:44:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hbuhsd.k12.ca.us ([10.74.80.18]) by ns1.hbuhsd.k12.ca.us (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA13582 for <LALINCOL-L-request@rootsweb.com>; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:50:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <377BEF40.B7A7CF19@hbuhsd.k12.ca.us> Old-Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 15:44:17 -0700 From: Harriet Smith <Hsmith@hbuhsd.k12.ca.us> Reply-To: Hsmith@hbuhsd.k12.ca.us Organization: hbuhsd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LALINCOL-L-request@rootsweb.com Subject: Burial location Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Diagnostic: Unprocessed X-Envelope-To: LALINCOL-L-request X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 I am looking for the burial location of my gg aunt, Inez Green Farley. She lived in Dubach and died there in 1960. She was married to Phelan Farley. Thanks for any info. --------------4FE76B13B70B1E360A7B6105--

Al, do you have any information on the Mattie Frances DAVIS? Thanks, Judy -----Original Message----- From: S051156@aol.com <S051156@aol.com> To: LALINCOL-L@rootsweb.com <LALINCOL-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 12:50 AM Subject: [LALINCOL-L] GASKINS FAMILY >Hi List, >I'm researching the Gaskin's from Vienna, Lincoln Parish Louisiana. >John F. Gaskins born 01/07/1814 in Georga moved to Lincoln Parish. Married >Civility Green George born 07/04/1816. >CHILDREN >William A. born 1836, Mary Ann born 1841, George Luther born 11/10/1844 and >Missouri Gaskins born 1848. >George is my line. > >George married Mattie Frances Davis in Lincoln Parish. They had several >children. >May Gaskins b. unk d. unk. My line. J. Frances, J. M., Sadie, John Luther >and William D. > >George died in 1887 while in the Louisiana Senate. He was a Confederate >Solder and a Judge. Mattie moved and died in Oklahoma in 1912. George in >buried in Vienna Louisiana. > >I would like more information about Mattie Frances Davis and May Gaskins. >Any information would be helpful. I have other information that I can share >about this line. > >Al Cofer >Livermore, CA > > > >==== LALINCOL Mailing List ==== >Check out the Lincoln Parish Archives at: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/lincoln.htm > >

I have no information about Mattie Frances Davis. I do know she passed away in Eufula Oklahoma 07/30/1912. Nothing else. If you learn anything please pass it along. Thank you Al Cofer Livermore, CA

Hi, I forwarded your e-mail to my cousin John Gaskins, they are not from my side. Al Cofer