FYI; Table Rock Dam was completed in 1958; the lake was filled by 1960. -----Original Message----- From: Joy <beatsme@netins.net> To: MOSTONE-L@rootsweb.com <MOSTONE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 7:00 AM Subject: Re: [MOSTONE-L] Reading Land Patents/Twp stuff >Cheri - >I don't know about the area cemeteries, but it appears you are reading the map >right. >find the appropriate span for the Ranges & Townships, there will be 36 sections >in each - and if you have found your # 8 in the cross hairs of R & T, you gotta >presume the cemetery was covered by the Lake in the 1950s. I don't think they >found them all & moved them. > >Kinklector@aol.com wrote: > >> I had an ancestor who bought a Land Patent and lived here: >> SESE 8 22-N 22-W No 5th PM >> >> The headings are as follows: >> >> Aliquot Part: SESE >> Section: 8 >> Township: 22-N >> Range: 22-W >> Fractional Section: No >> Meridian Name: 5th PM (PM=Principal Meridian) >> >> I grew up (and still live) in a city, so this Township and Range stuff is a >> little confusing. Someone tell me if I have this right. >> >> I am looking at a map that is a copy of the same one that is in the back of >> the "History of Stone County, Volume 1." >> >> I see in the Southeast Southeast corner (I was a Girl Scout, so I know a >> little something), I see T 22 N. Then at the bottom I see R22W. So if I >> follow the R22W line up to where it says T22N, I'm in an area that is covered >> by Table Rock Lake. I can see an 8 squeezed in at one section where the lake >> makes a V. There looks like a road that is shaped like scissor handles. >> (Does my description make any sense? I don't have a scanner :( >> >> Since my ancestor didn't own the land long before he died, he must have been >> buried near there (in 1873 or 1875). If so, then the nearest cemetary is >> Goodall. Or really, it is probably one of the graves that is now in >> Philabert. >> >> Am I reading the map right? Is my cemetery assumption correct? >> >> Cheri Mello >> Torrance, CA >> >> ==== MOSTONE Mailing List ==== > > > > >==== MOSTONE Mailing List ==== > >