Kay, were you'all able to go inside and retrieve the museum artifacts that were on display? What about the old newspapers that were stored upstairs? I took some photo's of the inside of the jail when my cousin and I visited in November 2000. My ggreat-grandfather Thomas P Moore spent some time in that jail in 1891 as he was accused of being an accomplice in the murder of Thomas J. Phipps - Thomas P. Moore was acquitted. We were able to find the court records of the trial at the courthouse but we found the accounting of the entire trial printed in the Cedar County Republican April 1891 - and made copies. I can just imagine my ggreat-granfather scratching his name on the concrete. The jail would have been fairly new at that time. I am so sad the city tore it down. I do greatly appreciate all that you and the historical society did to try to save it. Cindy and Allen Atha My ancestors from Cedar and St. Clair County: Jonathan Moore & Levisa Turpin, John Wesley Moore & Martha Crockett, Thomas P Moore & Harriett Belle Harper, Virginia "Jennie" Lee Moore and John Leslie Allen. ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.

Cindy, you don't want to get me started but I will try to be brief. The "city" would not let anyone go inside the building, the city crew moved the artifacts out without giving notice that they doing that, on two different occasions, they rented a storage and put some things there, others are stored at the old fire station. The second time someone called me and I went down along with a couple more HS members. I got in the building without anyone stopping me and looked around, I saw nothing that made me scared but had to leave when I was ordered out. Of course the crew went in and out, no hard hats.........I never was convinced the building would fall and it did not. Is seems that is all we heard was about how unsafe it was, of course when it was taken down, not one rock fell on its own, the last wall stood intact until the machine took it down. One of the churches let us store some things in their basement and as I said other things are in a storage building and old fire house, some at a members home in the garage. I have some of the papers and old account books that we salvaged from the pile of rubble, I took pictures of everything, there was more writing on the wall that I couldn't get to and couldn't get a good shot of but tried before I was told to move as the wall would fall on me! I was shaking!! No money to save this historic building but we sure do want more hangers at the airport!!!!!! kay > -----Original Message----- > From: mocedar-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:mocedar-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of CAATHA@aol.com > Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 10:02 PM > To: mocedar@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [MOCEDAR] MOCEDAR Digest, Vol 2, Issue 27 > > Kay, were you'all able to go inside and retrieve the museum > artifacts that were on display? What about the old > newspapers that were stored upstairs? I took some photo's of > the inside of the jail when my cousin and I visited in > November 2000. > > My ggreat-grandfather Thomas P Moore spent some time in that > jail in 1891 as he was accused of being an accomplice in the > murder of Thomas J. Phipps - Thomas P. Moore was acquitted. > We were able to find the court records of the trial at the > courthouse but we found the accounting of the entire trial printed in > the Cedar County Republican April 1891 - and made copies. I > can just > imagine my ggreat-granfather scratching his name on the > concrete. The jail would have been fairly new at that time. > I am so sad the city tore it down. I do greatly appreciate > all that you and the historical society did to try to save it. > > > Cindy and Allen Atha > My ancestors from Cedar and St. Clair County: Jonathan Moore > & Levisa Turpin, John Wesley Moore & Martha Crockett, Thomas > P Moore & Harriett Belle Harper, Virginia "Jennie" Lee Moore > and John Leslie Allen. > > > > ************************************** AOL now offers free > email to everyone. > Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MOCEDAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >