http://members.aol.com/mcbeenews/ is a good URL, I just used it, have had that bookmark since the first day I found Jean's email address. [email protected] wrote: > n a message dated 06/10/1999 1:49:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > Thank you so much for providing that information, Jean. For those of you > > who do NOT know, Jean is the premier McBee researcher on the Net. The > > Great McBee Hunt is one reason we know as much about the various McBee > > lines as we do. > > Valorie, > Thanks for the compliment but, Karen Groce knows more in general about all > the various lines of McBees. I'm just the one that was encouraged enough by > others to co-ordinate some sort of clearing house for everyone's info. The > result of that encouragement is the emailed newsletter. The web page was > actually my husband Bill's idea and creation. > http://members.aol.com/McBeeNews/index.html > > Jean > > ==== MCBEE Mailing List ==== > Need help writing *excellent* queries? > Check out <http://www.firstct.com/fv/query.html>

Ron, Thanks for posting this, I have it and have copied it for our files, but didn't think about doing it for the List. This is our GGGrandfather William H McBee, there is also a school named for him in Van Zandt Co., and he was one of the First County Commissioners of Kaufman Co.,TX; but lost the position when he made his home in Van Zandt Co, as his Land Grant was evenly divided by the County Line when it was drawn. The Grist Mill mentioned in the article was reported to have been the first in the County. Elnora Frances Cook-Wyrick Ron McCandless wrote: > > This is from the Texas handbook > http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/MM/rbm37.html > > MCBEE CREEK. McBee (McBee's) Creek rises (at 32°45' N, > 96°05' W) in northwestern Van Zandt County five miles northwest of > Wills Point and runs northeast for fourteen miles to its mouth (at > 32°47' N, 95°53' W) on the Sabine River, two miles southwest of > Lake Tawakoni. The creek was probably named for William H. > McBee, who in 1850 secured a league and a labor of land on the > creek west of what is now Wills Point. On his land he built a > treadmill-powered mill for grinding corn. The Texas and Pacific > Railway later dammed the creek to form a reservoir two miles > northeast of Wills Point. The reservoir, with a capacity of 511 > acre-feet, was used primarily for irrigation. The area terrain is flat > with local shallow depressions and is surfaced by clay and sandy > loams that support water-tolerant hardwoods, conifers, and grasses. > > BIBLIOGRAPHY: William Samuel Mills, History of Van Zandt > County (Canton, Texas, 1950). > > ==== MCBEE Mailing List ==== > We have this list and GenConnect courtesy of Rootsweb Genealogical Co-op. > Do your part! <http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html>

This is from the Texas handbook http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/MM/rbm37.html MCBEE CREEK. McBee (McBee's) Creek rises (at 32°45' N, 96°05' W) in northwestern Van Zandt County five miles northwest of Wills Point and runs northeast for fourteen miles to its mouth (at 32°47' N, 95°53' W) on the Sabine River, two miles southwest of Lake Tawakoni. The creek was probably named for William H. McBee, who in 1850 secured a league and a labor of land on the creek west of what is now Wills Point. On his land he built a treadmill-powered mill for grinding corn. The Texas and Pacific Railway later dammed the creek to form a reservoir two miles northeast of Wills Point. The reservoir, with a capacity of 511 acre-feet, was used primarily for irrigation. The area terrain is flat with local shallow depressions and is surfaced by clay and sandy loams that support water-tolerant hardwoods, conifers, and grasses. BIBLIOGRAPHY: William Samuel Mills, History of Van Zandt County (Canton, Texas, 1950).

n a message dated 06/10/1999 1:49:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Thank you so much for providing that information, Jean. For those of you > who do NOT know, Jean is the premier McBee researcher on the Net. The > Great McBee Hunt is one reason we know as much about the various McBee > lines as we do. Valorie, Thanks for the compliment but, Karen Groce knows more in general about all the various lines of McBees. I'm just the one that was encouraged enough by others to co-ordinate some sort of clearing house for everyone's info. The result of that encouragement is the emailed newsletter. The web page was actually my husband Bill's idea and creation. http://members.aol.com/McBeeNews/index.html Jean

Jean, The URL seems to work only for AOL Members, is there one for others? Elnora Frances Cook-Wyrick [email protected] wrote: > > Ron, > You'll find a list at Http://members.aol.com/mcbeenews/index.htnl > of Confederate McBee Soldiers Extracted from: > "Roster of Confederate Soldiers 1861 -65 Volume X" > Pages 314 and 315 > Edited by James B. Hewett > Broadfoot Publishing Company > Wilmongton, NC > Copyright 1996 > ISBN Number 1-5683-306-6 > > Jean > > ==== MCBEE Mailing List ==== > Please don't post private information about living people without > permission. All posts are archived. To search Rootsweb list archives: > <http://archiver.rootsweb.com/archives/search.html>. Go directly to our > archives: <http://archiver.rootsweb.com/MCBEE-L>.

[email protected] wrote: > > Ron, > You'll find a list at Http://members.aol.com/mcbeenews/index.htnl > of Confederate McBee Soldiers Extracted from: > "Roster of Confederate Soldiers 1861 -65 Volume X" > Pages 314 and 315 > Edited by James B. Hewett > Broadfoot Publishing Company > Wilmongton, NC > Copyright 1996 > ISBN Number 1-5683-306-6 Thank you so much for providing that information, Jean. For those of you who do NOT know, Jean is the premier McBee researcher on the Net. The Great McBee Hunt is one reason we know as much about the various McBee lines as we do. If you have not visited Jean and Bill's site, and downloaded the past issues of their excellent newsletter, you haven't done your McBee research on the web yet! <http://members.aol.com/McBeeNews/index.html> All the best, Valorie

Ron, You'll find a list at Http://members.aol.com/mcbeenews/index.htnl of Confederate McBee Soldiers Extracted from: "Roster of Confederate Soldiers 1861 -65 Volume X" Pages 314 and 315 Edited by James B. Hewett Broadfoot Publishing Company Wilmongton, NC Copyright 1996 ISBN Number 1-5683-306-6 Jean

A smile for today.....Any of you run across this on microfilm? Weird Words: Cacography Bad handwriting or bad spelling. We should use this word more; it's too useful and relevant to let it fade away. It derives from the Greek 'graphos', "writing", prefixed with 'kakos', "bad". We're more familiar with this as the beginning of 'cacophony', "bad noises"; despite the association of ideas, it has nothing to do with our 'cack-handed', which derives from Old English 'cack', "excrement". When 'cacography' began to appear in English at the end of the sixteenth century it did so with the sense of "bad spelling". It was beginning to be thought that the old way of spelling words by personal preference ought to give way to a standardised system; the introduction of printing had a lot to do with this. So 'cacography' was seen as the opposite of 'orthography', "correct spelling". In the following century it was also used to mean bad handwriting, as the opposite of yet a third Greek word, 'calligraphy', "fine writing". The word is marked as archaic in my dictionaries, though it still turns up from time to time. A typical usage was that by the horror writer H P Lovecraft, who described the manuscript of his novel _Quebeck_ as "136 pages of crabbed cacography" (in reference presumably to the handwriting rather than the spelling). Someone who exhibits either failing is a 'cacographer'. ----------------------- To subscribe to World Wide Words, e-mail the list server at <[email protected]> from the e-mail address which is to receive mailings with the message text SUBSCRIBE WORLDWIDEWORDS First_name Last_name

Anyone looking for Civil War prison sites? Forwarded from the Arkansas GS list. Valorie -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AGS-L] Two Civil War Sites Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 23:46:55 EDT From: [email protected] To: [email protected] <A HREF="http://www.altonweb.com/history/civilwar/confed/index.html">Alton, Illinois - Civil War Era - Confederate Prison </A> <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~nychemun/prison.htm">Elmira Prison Camp (Civil War) History </A> Here are two sites I thought might interest some of you. At Elmira the search is at the very bottom of first page.

>From the latest Rootsweb Review: SEARCH THE ROOTSWEB SURNAME LIST (RSL) BY E-MAIL. Want to search the RSL's more than 600,000 surnames submitted by more than 100,000 researchers, but you don't have Web access and so you can not go to <http://rsl.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/rslsql.cgi>? Now you do not need Web access. Just write an e-mail with the surnames you are researching in the body of the message, one surname per line, and send it to <[email protected]>.

Jeri Helms Fultz and Edward Gerdes have some amazing information on the Arkansas troops of the Confederacy at http://www.insolwwb.net/~egerdes/ My ancestor, Jessee McBee/MagBee was in Johnson Co in 1860 and his new son-in-law, Alex McCanlis, enlisted in the 16th AR Inf. but I know very little about the rest of the family's service in the war. If anyone has any other McBee/MagBee in Arkansas in the Civil War, I'd like to know. The following rosters are taken from the July 12, 1862, payroll report of the 10th Regiment Arkansas Militia, covering the February/March muster. Company E—Captain C. Smith McBee, W—Second Corporal. Company K—Captain Lynas Armstrong McBee, J—Private. Ron McCandless

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [GENCONNECT-HELP-L] Helping others find your query through proper use of the Surnames Box Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 02:07:03 EDT From: [email protected] I spent some time today going over my query boards and fixing some errors I came across. One problem I encountered frequently was improper use of the surname box. We have dicussed before on this list which surnames should be included in the surname box but we haven't discussed the proper method of typing in the surnames as I recall. First of all a surname is just that--a surname. John Schultz is NOT a surname. Schultz of Roanoke is NOT a surname. A surname is Schultz and nothing more. The entries you show in the surnames box, and whether or not you show them properly, are the most important aspects of helping others find your query through a search. Surnames that are improperly shown in the surnames box (or surnames that are omitted all together) will not allow the search engines (Global Search and Surname Helper) to properly list your surnames so that others will find them in a search. In some cases the poster is not showing surnames in the surnames box at all. In others he is omitting any surnames he included in the subject line (i.e. the main surname). Only the surnames shown in the surname box will be indexed by the search engines. Therefore, including a surname in the subject line, while helping current board users to find you, will not accomplish the same thing in the future from a search. Also, the instructions on the page say to list ONE surname per line--type the surname and then hit the enter key and type the next surname. Repeat that process for each surname you are recording. Hitting the enter key is what triggers the comma to be automatically added that separates the surname from the next one to be listed. You don't type in the comma or punctuation since hitting the enter key after typing each surname accomplishes this although you don't see if until the query is displayed on the board. Joan ==== GENCONNECT-HELP Mailing List ==== GenConnect HINTS can be found at: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/HINTS/index.html ------- Valorie's note: [email protected] can be subscribed to, just like any other Rootsweb list. Email [email protected] with only the single word "subscribe" with no quotes or sig files, in the message body. It is a rather low-traffic list.

>From a NY researcher friend of mine. Valorie -------- Original Message -------- To: [email protected] MAC_BEE, Francis 90 M b. Ireland d. May 1850 of old age from the 1850 NY Federal Census of Utica, Oneida County

Here is some original Land Records I have collected from the Internet, have left the (*Key*) only on the top entry to give details of what abreviations stand for. Elnora Frances Cook-Wyrick LEON County Texas Survey - Person or Concern bearing the land certificate at time survey filed. Block - Block number. Grantee - Person or Concern to whom the land was actually awarded. Leag - League Flag. L = 4,428 acres, B = League + Labor. Labor = 177 acres. Section - Section Number Abs - Number of the Abstract on file at county courthouse and at the Texas General land Office in Austin. Survey Blk Grantee Leag Section Abs SB MCBEE S. MCBEE 1035 KINNEY County Texas Survey Blk Grantee Leag Section Abs FM MCBEE F.M. MCBEE 76 969 WILLIAM MCBEE W. MCBEE 84 972 KAUFMAN County Texas Survey Blk Grantee Leag Section Abs WILLIAM H MCBEE W. MCBEE 106 314 WILLIAM N MCBEE W. MCBEE 412 337 HAMILTON County Texas Survey Blk Grantee Leag Section Abs WJ MCBEE W. MCBEE 632 LIVE OAK County Texas Survey Blk Grantee Leag Section Abs JM MCBEE J. MCBEE 47 MCCULLOCH County Texas Survey Blk Grantee Leag Section Abs H&TC RR CO J. MCBEE 96.5 2343 JA MCBEE J. MCBEE 915 1950 JACK County Texas Survey Blk Grantee Leag Section Abs JOHN G MCBEE J. MCBEE 1633 ZAVALA County Texas Survey Blk Grantee Leag Section Abs FM MCBEE F. MCBEE 5.5 1059 SAN SABA County Texas Survey Blk Grantee Leag Section Abs H&TC RR CO J.A. MCBEE 96.5 2061 HUTCHINSON County Texas Survey Blk Grantee Leag Section Abs WILLIAM H MCBEE W. MCBEE 164 VAL VERDE County Texas Survey Blk Grantee Leag Section Abs MRS H LAWSON S10 F. MCBEE 3 1922 TJ MILLER S10 F. MCBEE 2 1921 JAMES M WHITSON V8 S. MCBEE 28 2258 JH WAKEFIELD V8 S. MCBEE 34 2262 TM RR CO TM S. MCBEE 38 2259 TM RR CO TM D. MCBEE 10 3085 TM RR CO TM D. MCBEE 20 3086 I SHIELDS V8 S. MCBEE 20 2261 GC&SF RR CO YYY W. MCBEE 8 2669 CARL MILLER YYY W. MCBEE 9 2968 MH OWENS W. MCBEE 1 2967

This information was taken off the net and from my own records, Hope it helps someone. Elnora Frances Cook-Wyrick MCBEE BURIALS IN TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA: CEMETERY RECORDS OF COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS MCBEE, Mary C. b. 1873 d.1962 MCBEE, H.B. b. 1870 d. 9147 MCBEE, LORA b. 26 Dec 1900 d. 22 May 1902 (daughter of R.E. and Corrie) MCBEE, Robert E.b. 1876 d. 1940 Fairview Cemetery Part 5, Grayson County, TX Kendall thru Mills McBEE CAROLINE CAREY JUL 13,1853 MAY 23,1928 BORN SALEM OHIO McBEE JAMES E 1864 1947 McBEE JAMES PAUL 1927 ---------- *S/W- YVONNE [BONNIE] McBEE McBEE NELLIE B 1880 1947 McBEE W H 1872 1934 McBEE YVONNE [BONNIE] 1931 1988 *S/W- JAMES PAUL McBEE HALL CEMETERY, HOWE, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS LOCATED ON HALL CEMETERY ROAD Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by Michael Cross [email protected] NAME BIRTH DATE DEATH DATE COMMENTS McBEE AUDRA JAN 13,1916 NOV 9,1993 *S/W- CARL McBEE , WED MAY 23,1938 MccBEE CARL FEB 20,1916 MAR 18,1996 *S/W- AUDRA McBEE, WED MAY 23,1938 McBEE LENA 1905 1906 INFANT KENDALL CHAPEL CEMETERY, Grayson County Texas >From Sherman take US HWY 82 west to Old Southmayd Road turn south. Census was taken in 1997 by Michael Cross --- [email protected] Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by Michael Cross [email protected] *DS=MEANS SINGLE STONE TWO NAMES PERSONS NAME BIRTH DATE DEATH DATE REMARKS McBEE ALICE P. FEB 25, 1884 MAY 11, 1961 McBEE ANGIE M. NOV 27, 1882 MAR 30, 1902 D/O J. K. & MARTHA S. McBEE JAMES L. APR 15, 1842 FEB 9, 1917 *DS MARTHA S. McBEE MARTHA S. JUL 3, 1851 FEB 13, 1917 *DS JAMES K. McBEE MILLER AUG 22, 1884 JUN 4, 1940 McBEE RUBY LOIS ----------- 1925 Boerne Cemetery, Kendall County, Texas The Boerne Cemetery is located on School Street at the end of W. Frederick Street in Boerne, Texas. Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by Catharine Scwharz -- ([email protected]) McBee, John C 1961 1961 McBee, Rena Josephine 1897 1972 McBee, Bradley K. 1886 1956 McBee, S. Elizabeth 1852 1940 ROSE HILL CEMETERY, Ardmore, Carter County Oklahoma Compiled by Bill Hamm ([email protected]) GLADYS MCBEE 1896 1921 44 Johnston Co OK -- Wapanucka Cemetery K-O Submitted By Mike Brantley [email protected] McBee, Essie 1894 1973 Wapanucka Cemetery McBee, Lee 1871 1958 Wapanucka Cemetery McBee, Millie 1856 1925 Wapanucka Cemetery

Hi McBee Listers; Here is some more of the McBee Census I did not include in the original MCBEE CENSUS POST; These are from the Great, Tulare Co., CA. Page. This page has so much good information, take a look. http://www.compuology.com/cagenweb/tularcty.htm Hope this helps someone out there. Elnora Frances Cook-Wyrick 1870 Tulare Co., CA. McBEE, Eliza J 24 F house keeper Ark McBEE, John 35 M farmer MO McBEE, Henry O 4 M son CA McBEE, Martha E 7 F daughter CA 1880 Tulare Co., CA McBee, Henry, WM 14 laborer, CA-AR-IL 2-26-24 (Stella gr-d 9; Gr-chn/ George Stephens) Ref: E/269-H/4792-Y McCabe, John WM 34 keeping bar, IRELAND. 2-26-32 Eliza wf 24, IRELAND; Annie dt 4; John son b. Dec. 5/12. Ref: H/4722-0-Natr: 1875 Lyon Co. KS. Luce, Eugene A. WM 34, tinsmith NEW YORK. m. in yr. 3-46-198 Maggie wf. 31, AR-TN-TN; Frank KNOBLE sts 14; Elsie KNOBLE std 12; Martha McBEE, 17 boarder. Ref: F/33-H/3854-J/171-X/43-Y-Visalia CemeterY-Z4(71-16). McBee, Martha WF 17, CA-IL-AR. Boarder /Eugene A. Luce. Alford, Charles H. WM 35, farmer MO-VA-NC. 5-72-290 Lousiany wf 32, IA-TN-(blank); Charles H., son 13; Mary L., dt 5; Clayborn McBEE f-i-1, 61 TN-(blank) Minnie McBEE dt 3. Ref: X/35?-Charles Aloh? 1880 Tulare Co., CA Great Register: McBee, John Griffith 54 44 IL McCabe, John D. 62 40 TN

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With the permission of the poster, I am forwarding this to the list. Contact Deborah -- click <mailto:[email protected]> if Sarah McBee is in one of your lines. Valorie -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AGS-L] edwards search Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 19:05:41 -0500 From: [email protected] (DEBORAH TODD) To: [email protected] hello. i have been searching for info on my edwards family of monroe county, ar. jessie john w. edwards i have searched many web pages, the libraries around here have no census records for monroe co., i've asked for lookups, have posted messages to several mailing lists, there is no info in the monroe co. argenweb site...nothing in rootsweb either...........here's what i have: he was born around 1820's? in tenn. moved to holly springs, monroe co. ark. wives names.... 1. martha c.? she was also called "matt" their children: coran (male) born abt. 1865...luke matthew (my grgrandfather) b. 02-18-1867...james henry b. 1869.... 2. sarah mcbee b. abt.1846. their children: joe b. 1877..john b. 1879..jessie b. 1885.. i was told the children were born in holly grove.. i haven't found this family on any records. have also called the monroe county court clerk office in clarendon. she said there are no records from that far back. i would appreciate any info. thank you, deborah edwards todd

John & Elnora Wyrick wrote: > > Clare, Valorie and Listers, > If you noticed in the Census and Marriage Records,I sent, > I did list the variant spelling, McBey, Magby, Mcabee and always look > for > any variation when I am looking for my Family, all of the above have > been > used for their name. > I also thought it was understood that we would have > all variations posted to the List, is this the case, Valorie? > Elnora Frances Cook-Wyrick Absolutely. Rootsweb's emerging new system of Clusters for each surname should help brand new researchers to find us, even if their surname NOW is spelled differently from the list name. There are also lists on Rootsweb for Bean and McVey, both of which also can be variants, but also function as separate surnames. The wonderful thing about GenConnect, is that someone searching for you WILL find you, no matter where you post! There are many McBee queries and records on various county boards......check 'em out! I wrote to many of those people (some of you listers), and suggested linking those posts back to our boards. Haven't gotten much response on that, yet. Even so, those posts show up on a GenConnect general search. The new cluster board makes it so SIMPLE to make all the different surname searches Rootsweb has to offer! Please visit our new Cluster site and check out our new tools and toys! <http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/m/c/MCBEE/> All the best to all my relations, Valorie

Clare, Valorie and Listers, If you noticed in the Census and Marriage Records,I sent, I did list the variant spelling, McBey, Magby, Mcabee and always look for any variation when I am looking for my Family, all of the above have been used for their name. I also thought it was understood that we would have all variations posted to the List, is this the case, Valorie? Elnora Frances Cook-Wyrick Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > > [email protected] wrote: > > > > MCBee's please remember there are some of us out there that do spell McBee-- > > Magbee and Magby. thanks Clare > > Clare, we may eventually get 'variant spelling' GenConnect boards for > these spellings. I suggest that for now, you post your information and > queries here, or on the boards. Posts to the boards are automatically > sent to me, and I forward them on to the list. My own family 'says' some > people spelled it Magby.....but I haven't found them. > > Valorie >