This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HARMON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lIB.2ACE/450.2 Message Board Post: Hi, My husband is a HARMON from Texas. His families line came from Tennessee. Not sure of the county, however, many HARMON slaves were moved from the South to Texas to avoid their being freed. Check the Census indexes and I'm sure you'll find many. Especially try the 1870 African American Census from Heritage Quest. It's quick to use. My husband's ggrandfather was Jourdin HARMON. Take care, Denise

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Crofton, Emmons Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lIB.2ACE/472.1 Message Board Post: Hi, How can I find your site on Rootsweb? Thanks, Denise

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lIB.2ACE/387.1 Message Board Post: I am researching the WHITEHEADS AND DUNBARS OF LOUISIANA AND NATCHEZ

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: bonslater or watson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lIB.2ACE/515 Message Board Post: my mother was adopted at age 9 by her grandfather who was a bonslater. her mother was name carrie may watson whose last place of residence was route #2,box23 clarksdale,mississippi. i am trying find out any information i possiblity can on her.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lIB.2ACE/514 Message Board Post: I am looking for info on the above surmanes, and allied families of: Douglass, Semmes or Sims, Love, Whiting, Dickerson, & Jones in Madison Co., MS. See my querys on the Madison Co. message board for more info.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lIB.2ACE/419.1.2.2 Message Board Post: have a William G. McLeod with an Otis McLeod. Would like to share information on the families. Carole

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lIB.2ACE/513.1 Message Board Post: There is a Crystal Spring Mississippi

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DABNEY, DABNER, FOSTON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lIB.2ACE/513 Message Board Post: In 1860 Thomas Smith Gregory DABNEY had 154 slaves in Hinds County, Mississippi. His brother, Philip Augustine Lee DABNEY, also of Hinds County, had 8. Captain (Civil War rank) Frederick Yeamans DABNEY, a son of PAL DABNEY, became a civil engineer specializing in railroad construction. Captain DABNEY was born in Virginia in 1834 and was moved to Mississippi within the year. After the war he settled his family in Crystal Springs, Copiah County. In 1887-88 Captain DABNEY, as Chief Engineer for the Columbus & Western RR, was in charge of the construction of that line between Goodwater, Alabama, and Birmingham. At Dunnavant, just south of Leeds and 15 miles east of Birmingham, RR tunnels were dug through Oak and Coosa Mountains. Several reports, one claiming to be an eye-witness account, tell how Captain DABNEY arranged a steel-driving contest between his best driver, John Henry DABNEY, and a steam-powered mechanical drill. A "steel driver" pounds a steel drill into rock with a sledgehammer while his "shaker" holds and turns the drill. Once drilled, a set of holes is packed with explosives, the detonation of which blasts away some of the rock. John Henry is said to have been brought to the job from Holly Springs, Mississippi. I believe "Holly Springs" to be an error for "Crystal Springs." The contest was held just outside the east portal of Oak Mountain Tunnel. John Henry beat the steam drill, perhaps on Tuesday, September 20, 1887, then collapsed. When he came to, he said that he was blind and dying, and he called for his wife. She came and cradled his head in her lap. He did die, possibly of ventricular rupture. If this account is correct, then John Henry DABNEY was the legendary John Henry, the steel-driving man. This goes against established conventional wisdom, which places John Henry and the steam drill at Big Bend Tunnel, on the Chesapeake & Ohio RR, in 1870-72. I am confident that the conventional wisdom is wrong. The 1870 census lists a black Henry DABNEY, 20, farmer, in Copiah County. He had recently (late 1869) married Margaret. Marriage records show her as Margaret FOSTON. They are also present, as DABNER, in the 1880 census. PAL DABNEY family memors mention a slave, Henry, who was a teenager during the Civil War. I seek any information pertaining to these families and the story of John Henry.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lIB.2ACE/103.105.1 Message Board Post: Do you know if any of your jenkins moved to Midland PA or Ohio?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lIB.2ACE/497.1 Message Board Post: I don't know wheter this will help you or not. My great grandmothers name was Lillie Gregory. Her mothers name was Rachel Boyd and fathers name was Jim Gregory. My great grandmother was born in Senatobia , Ms. November 15,

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lIB.2ACE/58.1.1 Message Board Post: I know I had a great Aunt named Mollie Townsend. I also rember hearing my great grandmother speak of a ned and mollie Townsednd. My grandmothers name was Lillie G. Townsend. She married Thomas or Tommy Townsend. They had two children Millie and James. If you think there are connections please e-mail me.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rankin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lIB.2ACE/512 Message Board Post: Looking for any information on Freeland Rankin, who was born in Mississippi in about 1901. Married to Rosie and moved to Jeffersonville, Indiana. We think perhaps he was raised in Rankin County. Any leads would be much appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lIB.2ACE/303.2.2.1 Message Board Post: Monica, thanks so much for those ideas. I will certainly look into them. I am determined to find out more about Julius Bennett and finally give my boyfriend some sort sense of where he came from. It brings to mind that old saying, "If you don't know where you came from, you can't know where you are going." Thanks again for taking the time to email your useful ideas. warmly, Heather

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lIB.2ACE/511 Message Board Post: Hi Everyone, It's Toni Carrier, the Founding Director of The USF Africana Heritage Project. Our website is now live on www.africanaheritage.com. Our searchable database will be added over the next three weeks, so please check back often! We have more than 4,000 submitted records to share on our website. Once our record uploads begin, we will be adding hundreds of records per day. We hope that you enjoy the website, and please let us hear from YOU! Joy! Toni

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: anderson, bennett, sideboard, haynes/haines Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lIB.2ACE/303.2.2 Message Board Post: Hi again, As I thought about it more, some suggestions surfaced. If Julius was a Vet, he had to have gone to school somewhere...perhaps try the Vet schools in MS or nearby Universities offering veterinary degrees. Vets need to be licensed...perhaps a licensing board could be of assistance, or a local search for professional organizations dealing with Vets. If you know what city, maybe even a call to the SPCA could provide you with an old list of Drs. from around the time you're searching. Also, there should be some sort of periodical available with the names of AA doctors or professionals in the medical or veterinary fields...perhaps a trip to a local college library would help? These are merely suggestions of places to start. Good luck in your search. Peace, M

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Anderson, Bennett, Sideboard, Haynes/Haines Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lIB.2ACE/303.2.1 Message Board Post: Hi there. Unfortunately research on my Bennett line ends around 1945, I don't have any records on Bennetts that are as current as you need. I wish I could be more help. If anything turns up though, I'll post back to you again. Peace, M

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hampton, Williams, Bennett Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lIB.2ACE/510 Message Board Post: I am dire need of assistance researching the Bennett family of Mississippi. I only have the name of one gentleman, named Julius Bennett who died in 1986-87 of an apparent heart attack. He was a veternarian and had attended Jackson State University at one point. Any advice about how to proceed with such little information would be greatly appreciated or if anyone has this Julius Bennett in their tree, I would love to correspond. Thanks in advance, H. Wright

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Williams, Hampton, Bennett Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lIB.2ACE/303.2 Message Board Post: Monica, I have just begun research on the Bennetts of Mississippi. Can you tell me if at any point you have a Julius Bennett in your tree who would have died around 1986-87? He was a veternarian and died of an early heart attack. I am now doing research for my boyfriend on his family line and have very little to go on, as Julius didn't marry his mother and left my b,friend at early age. Thanks in advance, H. Wright

Hello list members, I am searching for parents/siblings of Whit M. McGill, Sr. Also Whit was the slave of A. D. McGill in 1860. Whit M. McGill, Sr., b. Jul 1859 Panola CO.,MS;d.1926-Grady,Lincoln,AR) SP: Aller WOODRUFF (b. Jun 1858-Panola CO.,MS;m.1879;d.Abt 1910-Grady,Lincoln,AR) SP: Sophia MITCHELL (b. Mar 1881-Jefferson CO.,AR;m.1896) 11-JULY-1860 SLAVES CENSUS: slaves of PANOLA CO., MS, SLAVE OWNER: A.D. McGill, female slaves: slave age-45 B. 1814, 25 B. 1835, 4 B. 1856, male slaves: age-35 B. 1825, 11 B. 1849, 1 B. 1858, this 1 year old slave is WHIT McGill, the other slaves may be his blood links. Names are unknown at this time. Will check for slave holder`s records 10-JUNE-1870 census: FHL film # 552246, DIST-4, SHEET-53A, PANOLA CITY, LINE-2, PANOLA CO. MS, this was the slave owner: A. D. McGill age-50 R/R AGENT b. in NC, WIFE: I. A.-40 b. in SC, children: ANNA-16, WILLIAM-12, SAVANNAH-10, ADRA-8, SAM-4, JAMES 3/12 1870 CENSUS: As of 22-MAY-1998: Checking all the black McGill`S FAMILY on the 1870 census, in Panola County, MS, Whit would be about 10/11 years old, his status from 1870-1879 is unk Info from Georgia Barber (WEBB), she is the grand daughter, Whit`s mother was named Eliza?, WHIT`S father is unk. She also said that Whit had a half brother name FRANK GLEYTON, they had the same mother. Thank you for any info from 1860-1879......Andy

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lIB.2ACE/509 Message Board Post: William H. Owens b. 1-22-34 in Houlka Miss. d. 3-19-98 in Racine Wiscousin. Parents - Fred & Myrtlee Owens. His chidlren was Rachel, Cynthia, Deborah, Dorothy, William Larry Jr. Michael, Cortez & Anthony. Sisters- Delores, Mildred, Frances & Ann Brothers-Willie & Lee Owens. If you have any additional information please get in contact with me