Thanks, Everette. Will look forward to getting my back-log. Thanks also for your hard work. Mozelle On Saturday, July 31, 2004, at 06:42 PM, Everette Carr wrote: > The following is an update from rootsweb.com will regards to the > problem with the mail server: > > Mail Lists: > 2004-07-31 > All list servers operational > The remaining list server has been brought back on-line and we are > currently putting mail through all lists servers. There is a backlog > of mail to put through the server that has been out of action, and > this will take the best part of a day. > Please note that the mail will not be in chronological order as that > will then take the better part of a week to get it distributed. > Est. downtime: 1 day(s) > > Hopefully this will solve the problem that some of you have been > experiencing with the mail. > > Everette Carr > > List Administrator > > Attala County > > > ==== MSATTALA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected]@rootsweb.com with > the word unsubscribe in the body of the message. For 'Digest Mode' > send the unsubscribe message to [email protected] >

MSATTALA-L list subscribers: The attached E-mail message was received from a non-subscriber. If anyone has any information as to the burial location of John Calvin Kelley, Gail would appreciate hearing from you. Everette Carr List Administrator ----- Original Message ----- From: Gail V Ferguson To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 10:28 PM Subject: Kelley My husband and I just returned from Kosciusko where we went to the James Kelley & Samuel Kelley Cemetaries. He is a descendent of Abner Kelley, John Kelley, Thomas Evans Kelley, John Whitfield Kelley. Post our email so we can locate John Calvin Kelley's grave. Thank You Gail Ferguson

My Woods grandparents and several Sims great-uncles are buried as Doty Springs, as well as a host of cousins of their generation. My g-great grandfather Rev. Jonathan Sims and / or his father Rev. David Sims were said to have been pastors at Doty Springs. Two of Jonathan Sims sons who died relatively young are buried there. That one or both men had been pastors therer was unknown to me as a child growing up in the 1950's. A precious memory of Doty Springs was the Homecoming, I recall it as the 3rd Sunday in May, in which the day was spent eating and avoiding the hugs from my Mom and Dad's kin. I recall my Dad pointing out an older grave, that of a Jennings man. (He had a granddaughter married to one of the sons of La Velle Sanders.) It seems that the old man claimed a burial plot near the gate so he would be the first out on resurrection day. Dad says that they buried him as he wished and then moved the fence and gate back quite a way. Does the chuch still celebrate a homecoming? James Sims, b. Kosy 1948, raised in Pascagoula

Doug: This is great news. I've been told that my gggggrandfather, Uriah Barnett and his family, founded several churches in the central MS area. And.. I've been "looking" for this info for the past four years. Let me know when you are going to MS College and I might meet you there.... This is truly noteworthy...I found some info.on some of my other family in the Philadelphia library re: a Baptist church they attended in Neshoba County. They appeared to be devout and dedicated to the church until... they, and another family, were "excommunicated" because a teen-age member of both families "traded a horse on Sunday".. Those were evidenty the pformative days of the Primitive Baptists--where all the men wore beards and mostly dressed in black and the women sat together on the opposite side of the church from the men... I have an old photo of my ggggrandfather just like that... And, in some of his writings I have, he refers to "you" as "thou" and so on.... God Bless. Pat Barnett Clayton ----- Original Message ----- From: "cumyns4211" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 3:57 PM Subject: [MSATTALA] Mississippi College Special Collections Librarian > Below is the response I just received from Kristi Robinson at MS College in reference to Attala County's Baptist Church(s) archives. If time permits, I will visit MS College in mid August. All findings will be submitted to this site. > > Doug > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------- > > We would be glad for you to come and do this research. We have a file/on each Baptist Church in the state that contains various materials that someone has given us on them. The associational minutes will be the most helpful. They contain statistical information and pastor and other church officers names. For Attala County, we have the associational minutes beginning around the late 1850s or 1860s. > > Our hours are Monday-Friday, 8am - 4:30pm (closed from 12 noon to 1pm for lunch). Also, until the fall semester at Mississippi College begins (August 23rd), we close at lunch on Fridays. > > We look forward to your visit. > > --Kristi Robinson > > Kristi Robinson > Mississippi College Special Collections Librarian > Mississippi Baptist Historical Commission > Box 4204 > Clinton, MS 39058 > [email protected] > > > Commission Hours: > Monday through Friday, > 8 am -12 noon, 1-4:30 pm > except for college holidays > 601-925-3434 > > > ==== MSATTALA Mailing List ==== > Were you aware that a portion of the Diary of Judge Jason Niles is available online at the Attala County American Local History Network site? Just click on the link http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ms/county/attala/jasonniles.htm/ > > >

Thank you for posting this message. When I was at the library, the use of their copy machine was avaliable for a minimal cost per copy. Jimmy ----- Original Message ----- From: "cumyns4211" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 2:57 PM Subject: [MSATTALA] Mississippi College Special Collections Librarian > Below is the response I just received from Kristi Robinson at MS College in reference to Attala County's Baptist Church(s) archives. If time permits, I will visit MS College in mid August. All findings will be submitted to this site. > > Doug > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------- > > We would be glad for you to come and do this research. We have a file/on each Baptist Church in the state that contains various materials that someone has given us on them. The associational minutes will be the most helpful. They contain statistical information and pastor and other church officers names. For Attala County, we have the associational minutes beginning around the late 1850s or 1860s. > > Our hours are Monday-Friday, 8am - 4:30pm (closed from 12 noon to 1pm for lunch). Also, until the fall semester at Mississippi College begins (August 23rd), we close at lunch on Fridays. > > We look forward to your visit. > > --Kristi Robinson > > Kristi Robinson > Mississippi College Special Collections Librarian > Mississippi Baptist Historical Commission > Box 4204 > Clinton, MS 39058 > [email protected] > > > Commission Hours: > Monday through Friday, > 8 am -12 noon, 1-4:30 pm > except for college holidays > 601-925-3434 > > > ==== MSATTALA Mailing List ==== > Were you aware that a portion of the Diary of Judge Jason Niles is available online at the Attala County American Local History Network site? Just click on the link http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ms/county/attala/jasonniles.htm/ > >

Below is the response I just received from Kristi Robinson at MS College in reference to Attala County's Baptist Church(s) archives. If time permits, I will visit MS College in mid August. All findings will be submitted to this site. Doug ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We would be glad for you to come and do this research. We have a file/on each Baptist Church in the state that contains various materials that someone has given us on them. The associational minutes will be the most helpful. They contain statistical information and pastor and other church officers names. For Attala County, we have the associational minutes beginning around the late 1850s or 1860s. Our hours are Monday-Friday, 8am - 4:30pm (closed from 12 noon to 1pm for lunch). Also, until the fall semester at Mississippi College begins (August 23rd), we close at lunch on Fridays. We look forward to your visit. --Kristi Robinson Kristi Robinson Mississippi College Special Collections Librarian Mississippi Baptist Historical Commission Box 4204 Clinton, MS 39058 [email protected] Commission Hours: Monday through Friday, 8 am -12 noon, 1-4:30 pm except for college holidays 601-925-3434

The following was received from a non-subscriber that wishes to add their comments to the ongoing discussion about the availability of Baptist Church records. Everette Carr List Administrator ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 1:22 PM Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: Baptist Church Member List You might try The Mississippi Babtist Historical Commission in Clinton, MS. They have microfilm of the old church records. I was able to get copies of the records from the old Saron Baptist Church from them. Mississippi Baptist Historical Commission Phone: 601.925.3434 P.O. Box 4024 Clinton, MS 39058 E-mail: [email protected]

I would like to express my sincere appreciation to everyone that responed to my question about Attala County's Baptist Church's minutes. Respectfully, Doug Cummins Pensacola, FL

Dear Friends, I so much appreciate every comment, suggestion and every bit of help you sent to me in my search for my g-g-grandfather Drury Hodges. This has been an exciting time for me, and the fun is just beginning. I am sending this to the Lists in Attala, Choctaw and Webster because the family I am searching lived Choctaw which later became Webster 1850 until 1880, and in Attala in 1880 until--. I went back to the 1840 Choctaw Census (No TWP Listed) to attempt to search for the father of Drury, and there is a possibility I found him. Actually I found two more Hodges men (as you know the 1840 lists only the heads of families) with the family members listed only by sex and approximate ages. Not much help but it's all we have. This is what I found: Hodges, Turner D. 1 male under 5 1 male 20-30 1 male 40-50 1 female under 5 1 female 20-30 If we accept most of the later censuses which show that Drury was born 1824, then in 1840, he would be about 16 years old, and there is not a male in the household of Turner D. Hodges who is in that age bracket. There is however both a male as well as a female whose ages are 20-30, and I believe that this is Turner D. and his wife, whoever she is. Anyone know? I also believe that the male who is between 40 and 50 in age is the father of either Turner or his wife. Of course, the two children, one male and one female are their children. So it looks like this Turner Hodges could be a brother to "my" Drury. I also found the following: Hodges, James 1 male under 5 1 male 10-15 1 male 15-20 1 male 20-30 1 male 40-50 1 female under 5 1 female 10-15 2 females 15-20 1 female 40-50 This James Hodges could well be the father of both Drury and Turner D. If there is both a male and a female whose ages are 40-50, they could easily be the parents of someone whose ages aare 20-30. Now look at the 1 male whose age was 15-20, and he could well be Drury, my g-g-grandfather, with one younger brother and one older brother, plus four sisters still at home. with Turner D. being the oldest son, and married. I would like to know if anyone out is researching either Turner D. or James Hodges. If so, please write to me and let's compare notes. I would really enjoy hearing from any and all of you. I have enjoyed the many e-mails from you. Mozelle

This reply is to M. Willis and other seeking Baptist Church info for Mississippi and not just Attala County. The Mississippi Baptist Historical Center located on the second floor of the Leland Speed Library in Clinton, Mississippi. That serves Mississippi College, a Baptist institution. The Historical Center is a preserver, not a generator, of records pertaining to Baptist work in Mississippi and contains records of State and County Associations for Mississippi. It also contains records of the Mississippi Baptist newspaper under it's various name through the years. It has other records of MS Baptist work, too. These records have no membership list of individual churches, but there are many names of Mississippi Baptist scattered thought out these records. Some Church donated their past years minutes to the Historical Commission. The Commission through the years has many of those old minutes on microfilm. It's a hit and miss situation to look to the Historical Commission to find info on a particular church. The best place (and first) place to start is with the churches themselves. Some churches, not exclusive to Baptist churches, since their beginning have kept excellent church minutes that includes list of member and their coming and leaving. Other churches have generated and kept little or nothing in the way of prior records. In my case Good Hope Baptist Church, the church of my g-grandfather, located in the northeastern part of Madison County, Mississippi kept good records and has kept minute records since its founding in 1851. In 1951 three of those Minute Books were given to the Historical Commission for save keeping. Years ago I bought a copy of the microfilm of those minute books. In those three Minute Books contain info on the lives on many of my ancestors. Then the church of my grandfather in Sunflower County, Mississippi, Linn Baptist Church, has kept or generated no records of its prior years of existence. Records of my ancestors attending this church are none due to poor attention to keeping records. Some people just don't understand the need of keeping records-legally or historically. Prosperity suffers from such thinking. Poor record keeping is not just a problem in the past. Today I belong to a Baptist Church that has kept no records of its past and has few for today. This church doesn't know who its prior members were. Record keeping is immaterial, or low priority, to many churches. The Mississippi Baptist Historical can't produce records that were never generated in the first place as I said earlier it only preserves records passed on to it. Too, the Commission doesn't keep membership list of Baptist churches in MS. One will only find such membership list in individual churches themselves or possibly in any records donated to the Commission for safe keeping. Yes, too as mention perviously the Commission is only staffed by one individual and can offer only limited help. So as suggested phoning in advance is best for anyone traveling a great distance. Then allow yourself plenty of time. Research in a hurry only generates frustration. The Commission is the Archive of Baptist work in MS, so visit if you can you could strike a gold mine, then you could strike out. Others on this List may have other thoughts on the subject of locating Baptist Church membership list, not necessarily just Baptist churches. Curtis McDaniel

Hi All, All MSATTALA message replies are set to default to MSATTALA. For a message to be sent to the originator requires that the sender override the "To:" section of the E-mail message. This has been known to occasionally misfire, however. There is an ongoing problem with all of the rootsweb.com mail lists. Rootsweb had a server go down earlier in the month and this server was scheduled to be replaced on 7/22/04. However, the server continued to be problematic as of 7/25/04 which is the last report from rootsweb. Rootsweb has issued an alert that assures that no mail will be lost but may be delayed until the problematic server is replaced. This problem could effect some of you some of the time, but not at other times. We are at the mercy of rootsweb.com to resolve the problem. In the meantime, you can periodically check the MSATTALA archives which will list all messages sent. You can find the archives by clicking on the link below: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MSATTALA or a link is also available on the main page of the Attala County web site, which can be found here: http://www.rootsweb.com/~msattala/index.html I will keep the list posted on rootsweb's efforts to resolve the problem. Everette Carr List Administrator - MSATTALA

Mozelle, Look at this 1850 census again... I get a different last name here... and after much looking I get 23 years old for Drewry but his age seems to change on each census so which is correct. I know that I should say that I am sorry for the missunderstanding that I had with you a few year's ago for I know that we do have lot's of Data that we can compare... O. D. McElroy ================================================= 1850 Census Choctaw County, Mississippi. Subdivision-23. 1 October 1850. Image-19 of Ancestry.Com. 140/140 HODGES, Drewry(23)MS. [M]. Jennetty(26)MS. [F]. John(04)MS. [M]. James(01)MS. [M]. David(18)MS. [M]. I think that the above David(18) is a brother of Drewry??? ================================================= ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mozelle Chason" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 8:32 PM Subject: [MSATTALA] Hodges Going back ten more years to the 1850 Choctaw County (Western Division) I found the following: Hodges, Drury, age 25, farmer, b. MS (an error since he was b. SC) Hodges, Jenetty, age 26, b. MS (looks as though the census taker ASSUMED their places of birth) Hodges, John, age 4, b. MS Hodges, James, age 1, b. MS Cairo (no surname) farm laborer

Just a note, I "did not" receive the last Hodge posting at either of my two e-mail addresses. Neither address had any sort of a block enabled Stumped, doug

I added a couple of Hotmail addresses just to see if it received all of [email protected] msgs, and it's a hit and miss with them also. The Hot mail addresses I used were with MSN and Yahoo, which don't normally don't have e-mail receiving failures unless there's trouble with the receiver's address. I ensured that my E-mail and Spy Blocks were disabled at the time. May be there is a computer duty expert in our mist that can enlightened this novice also. I usually monitor Attala County, Mississippi - MSGenWeb, Genealogy msg archives during the slack periods to ensure that I haven't missed a posting or a followup reply. Doug

I got your email today but none of the others included in your post Mozelle. I thought the list was just slow. It's strange that posts would come through today and not earlier this month. Especially considering there is a new virus that played havac today with parts of Yahoo and Google search engines. Jackie Mozelle Chason wrote: > Thanks, Robert. I know that sometimes happens, but these e-mails on > this page you are reading now are all addressed to the List. Maybe > Everett can explain it to me so I can understand it. > > Mozelle > County Co-ordinator Ripley Co. MO GenWeb <http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Emoripley/index.htm> site and Email list Moderator and owner HarringtonGen <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/harringtongen/> at Yahoo Owner/Breeder Tanimara Great Pyrenees <http://www.geocities.com/tanimara_2000/index.html> "A people without a history is like wind on the buffalo grass" Crazy Horse - Oglala Sioux

This is my first post and I don't know what I am doing. I just hit the reply button. I wanted to comment on the MS College Baptist archives post but I couldn't see where to reply to it. When I was last in MS, I went to MS College and I skimmed over some convention minutes but I didn't see anything that might help locate ancestors, just the items discussed at each convention. I went there hoping to find my ancestors in church membership lists. I found brief files on churches in Attala County but not membership lists. Not a whole lot there, but then again I was pressed for time and new to research.Can anyone tell me where I might find lists of members from 1890's-1900's? Or which churches are still in existence? I am guessing Springdale Baptist is likely the church my family attended, or New Salem, West Station, or Mt Vernon Baptist churches. I'm looking for James Willis. BTW, I have the Ray family from Kilmichael, MS's history, going back to Virginia, my grandmother's fam! ily. Thank you. M.Willis __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Thanks Bob for your advice, it's well appreciated. Doug

Sometimes people will only reply to the person they are sending to without sending to the list group. Others try to include the list group address to insure that all receive the message (we try our best but slip some times). There may be other reasons, but this is the most common one I have found in the different list groups I am in and try when noticed, I try to resend the messages I receive back to the group for all to share. Never know who you may find by doing so. Hope this helps. The moderator of this group may have another answer as well. Robert -----Original Message----- From: Mozelle Chason [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 4:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MSATTALA] Look up volunteers Will someone please explain to me why I am not receiving ALL of the e-mails posted to the list? I received not one of those posted in this e-mail until now and they date back to July 5. This is not the first time this has happened. It does appear that if I received this one, I should have received them earlier. I don't understand it. Can someone tell me? Mozelle P. Chason On Monday, July 26, 2004, at 02:46 PM, Robert Steed wrote: > Thank you Pat. This is great information. I too am trying to get to > Doty > Springs early fall to make visual (pictures) of the cemetery as best as > possible. I am interested in anything on the Ray side as it is hard to > follow (for me at the moment) as I am learning of this side of my > family. > > Thanks and hope to talk/email you soon. > > Robert > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pat Clayton [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 10:03 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MSATTALA] Look up volunteers > > Robert: On our Barnett line, we have Russell Ray, b. 1848; and Cassa > Louise > Barnett, b. 1853, d. 8-28-1925. They were married 4-9-1866 in Winston > Co., > MS. . They first lived in Winston Co. on property owned by her parents, > Calvin and Amanda Barnett. They are listed on the Winston Co, > Louisville, MS > 1870 census. She is buried at Doty Springs cemetery in Attala Co. I do > not > know where he is buried--bu most likely at Doty Springs, also. The > children > I have listed for The Rays are: > Olley Ann Ray -- b. 7-30-1869, d. 2-14-1957--buried at Doty > Springs. > C. Taylor Ray -- b. 1872, d. 12-19-1935--buried at Doty > Springs. > Sallie Ray -- b. 1871, d. 1952 > Richard G. Ray -- B. 1874 > Viola Ray -- b. 1877 > Willa G. Ray -- b. 1880 > Mollie Ray -- b. 1885, d. 10-11-1917, buried at Doty > Springs. > It appears that the entire family was buried at Doty Springs. In a few > weeks, I plan to go to MS and I'm going to Doty Springs cemetery to > have a > "look-see". Also, Russell and Cassa had property in Leake Co. that her > parents gave to her "for love and affection". This was the last > property her > parents owned before their deaths. I have the location of this > property if > you're interested. Note: Russell Ray was a member of the 4th MS > Infantry > Co. "K", > CSA. > > Best wishes. > Pat Barnett Clayton > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Robert Steed > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 11:04 PM > Subject: RE: [MSATTALA] Look up volunteers > > > If I may get into this conversation, how far back does your info of > Ray's > go? (I am providing an excerpt from my file of family shown to be > in the > Attala County area.) I have a couple in my line that were married to > Steed's as follows: > > Thank you for any help you can give in this endeavor. I have been > stuck > on > this line for some time now. > > Robert Steed > Tallahassee, LEON, FL > > Descendants of Newton M Steed > > > Generation No. 1 > > 1. NEWTON M1 STEED was born 16 April 1840, and died 04 January > 1913. He > married MARY H RAY. She was born 14 January 1847, and died 04 > January > 1917. > > More About NEWTON M STEED: > Military service: Co. D 5 Reg Miss, Inf, C.S.A. > > Child of NEWTON STEED and MARY RAY is: > 2. i. LAFAYETTE M2 STEED, b. 07 July 1866, MS; d. 06 March 1931, > MS. > > > Generation No. 2 > > 2. LAFAYETTE M2 STEED (NEWTON M1) was born 07 July 1866 in MS, and > died > 06 > March 1931 in MS. He married OLLIE ANN RAY 1885. She was born 30 > July > 1869 > in MS1,2, and died 14 February 1957 in Doty Springs, Attala, MS. > > Notes for LAFAYETTE M STEED: > [steed1.ged] > > Info downloaded from: Kelly Green &lt;[email protected]&gt; > > More About LAFAYETTE M STEED: > Burial: Doty Springs Cemetery, (Attala), MS > Occupation: 1910, Farmer/General Farm > > More About OLLIE ANN RAY: > Census: 1900/1910AttalaMS3,4 > Education: can r/w (1900)5,6 > Record Change: 03 December 20027,8 > > Children of LAFAYETTE STEED and OLLIE RAY are: > i. MONROE L3 STEED, b. 30 August 1889, (Attala), Mississippi; > d. 16 June 1974; m. MOLLIE VIRGINIA REYNOLDS, 13 November 1910, > (Attala), > Mississippi9; b. 03 July 1895, (Yalobusha), MS; d. 18 January 1968, > Doty > Springs, (Attala), MS. > > More About MONROE L STEED: > Cemetery: 16 June 1974, Doty Springs Cemetery > Census: 1900/1910AttalaMS10,11 > Education: can r (1900)12,13 > Occupation: 1910, Farm Labor/Home Farm > Record Change: 03 December 200213 > > More About MOLLIE VIRGINIA REYNOLDS: > Burial: 20 January 1968, Doty Springs, (Attala), MS > Record Change: 16 September 200214 > > Marriage Notes for MONROE STEED and MOLLIE REYNOLDS: > [steed1.ged] > > p98 > > ii. WILLIE V. STEED, b. Abt. 1893. > iii. NEWTON B. STEED, b. Abt. 1895. > > More About NEWTON B. STEED: > Occupation: 1910, Farm Labor/Home Farm > > iv. LIDDIE D. STEED, b. Abt. 1898. > v. CALVIN D. STEED, b. Abt. 1901. > > More About CALVIN D. STEED: > Occupation: 1910, Farm Labor/Home Farm > > vi. GEORGE C. STEED, b. Abt. 1902. > vii. LESTER TAYLOR STEED, b. Abt. 1904, AttalaCoMS; d. Aft. 1974. > > More About LESTER TAYLOR STEED: > Census: 1910AttalaMS14,15 > Occupation: Barber > Record Change: 24 July 200216,17 > > viii. DAVID N. STEED, b. Abt. 1907. > ix. JOHN B. STEED, b. Abt. February 1910. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pat Clayton [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 10:16 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MSATTALA] Look up volunteers > > Derwood: I have info. on the Ray family in Attala County. Please > get in > touch with me so we can share. > > Best wishes. > Pat Barnett Clayton > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 8:52 PM > Subject: Re: [MSATTALA] Look up volunteers > > > everete do you live in attata we are in attatla looking for > information > on > > the ray family. > > > ==== MSATTALA Mailing List ==== > Searching for your Attala County ancestors? Visit the Attala > County > Genealogy (MSGenWeb) web site at http://www.rootsweb.com/~msattala/ > > > > ==== MSATTALA Mailing List ==== > Were you aware that a portion of the Diary of Judge Jason Niles is > available > online at the Attala County American Local History Network site? > Just > click > on the link > http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ms/county/attala/jasonniles.htm/ > > > > > ==== MSATTALA Mailing List ==== > The American Local History Network, Attala County web site can be > found at > http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ms/county/attala/. Its well worth a visit. > > > > ==== MSATTALA Mailing List ==== > The American Local History Network, Attala County web site can be > found at > http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ms/county/attala/. Its well worth a visit. > > > > > ==== MSATTALA Mailing List ==== > The American Local History Network, Attala County web site can be > found at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ms/county/attala/. Its well > worth a visit. > ==== MSATTALA Mailing List ==== If you have genealogical information pertaining to Attala County which you would like to have on the Attala County (MSGenWeb), website, please notify [email protected] Please no GEDCOMS.

Thanks, Robert. I know that sometimes happens, but these e-mails on this page you are reading now are all addressed to the List. Maybe Everett can explain it to me so I can understand it. Mozelle On Monday, July 26, 2004, at 08:34 PM, Robert Steed wrote: > Sometimes people will only reply to the person they are sending to > without > sending to the list group. Others try to include the list group > address to > insure that all receive the message (we try our best but slip some > times). > There may be other reasons, but this is the most common one I have > found in > the different list groups I am in and try when noticed, I try to > resend the > messages I receive back to the group for all to share. Never know who > you > may find by doing so. > > Hope this helps. The moderator of this group may have another answer > as > well. > > Robert > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mozelle Chason [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 4:32 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MSATTALA] Look up volunteers > > Will someone please explain to me why I am not receiving ALL of the > e-mails posted to the list? I received not one of those posted in this > e-mail until now and they date back to July 5. This is not the first > time this has happened. It does appear that if I received this one, I > should have received them earlier. I don't understand it. Can someone > tell me? > > Mozelle P. Chason > > On Monday, July 26, 2004, at 02:46 PM, Robert Steed wrote: > >> Thank you Pat. This is great information. I too am trying to get to >> Doty >> Springs early fall to make visual (pictures) of the cemetery as best >> as >> possible. I am interested in anything on the Ray side as it is hard >> to >> follow (for me at the moment) as I am learning of this side of my >> family. >> >> Thanks and hope to talk/email you soon. >> >> Robert >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Pat Clayton [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 10:03 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [MSATTALA] Look up volunteers >> >> Robert: On our Barnett line, we have Russell Ray, b. 1848; and Cassa >> Louise >> Barnett, b. 1853, d. 8-28-1925. They were married 4-9-1866 in Winston >> Co., >> MS. . They first lived in Winston Co. on property owned by her >> parents, >> Calvin and Amanda Barnett. They are listed on the Winston Co, >> Louisville, MS >> 1870 census. She is buried at Doty Springs cemetery in Attala Co. I do >> not >> know where he is buried--bu most likely at Doty Springs, also. The >> children >> I have listed for The Rays are: >> Olley Ann Ray -- b. 7-30-1869, d. 2-14-1957--buried at Doty >> Springs. >> C. Taylor Ray -- b. 1872, d. 12-19-1935--buried at Doty >> Springs. >> Sallie Ray -- b. 1871, d. 1952 >> Richard G. Ray -- B. 1874 >> Viola Ray -- b. 1877 >> Willa G. Ray -- b. 1880 >> Mollie Ray -- b. 1885, d. 10-11-1917, buried at Doty >> Springs. >> It appears that the entire family was buried at Doty Springs. In a few >> weeks, I plan to go to MS and I'm going to Doty Springs cemetery to >> have a >> "look-see". Also, Russell and Cassa had property in Leake Co. that her >> parents gave to her "for love and affection". This was the last >> property her >> parents owned before their deaths. I have the location of this >> property if >> you're interested. Note: Russell Ray was a member of the 4th MS >> Infantry >> Co. "K", >> CSA. >> >> Best wishes. >> Pat Barnett Clayton >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Robert Steed >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 11:04 PM >> Subject: RE: [MSATTALA] Look up volunteers >> >> >> If I may get into this conversation, how far back does your info of >> Ray's >> go? (I am providing an excerpt from my file of family shown to be >> in the >> Attala County area.) I have a couple in my line that were married >> to >> Steed's as follows: >> >> Thank you for any help you can give in this endeavor. I have been >> stuck >> on >> this line for some time now. >> >> Robert Steed >> Tallahassee, LEON, FL >> >> Descendants of Newton M Steed >> >> >> Generation No. 1 >> >> 1. NEWTON M1 STEED was born 16 April 1840, and died 04 January >> 1913. He >> married MARY H RAY. She was born 14 January 1847, and died 04 >> January >> 1917. >> >> More About NEWTON M STEED: >> Military service: Co. D 5 Reg Miss, Inf, C.S.A. >> >> Child of NEWTON STEED and MARY RAY is: >> 2. i. LAFAYETTE M2 STEED, b. 07 July 1866, MS; d. 06 March 1931, >> MS. >> >> >> Generation No. 2 >> >> 2. LAFAYETTE M2 STEED (NEWTON M1) was born 07 July 1866 in MS, and >> died >> 06 >> March 1931 in MS. He married OLLIE ANN RAY 1885. She was born 30 >> July >> 1869 >> in MS1,2, and died 14 February 1957 in Doty Springs, Attala, MS. >> >> Notes for LAFAYETTE M STEED: >> [steed1.ged] >> >> Info downloaded from: Kelly Green &lt;[email protected]&gt; >> >> More About LAFAYETTE M STEED: >> Burial: Doty Springs Cemetery, (Attala), MS >> Occupation: 1910, Farmer/General Farm >> >> More About OLLIE ANN RAY: >> Census: 1900/1910AttalaMS3,4 >> Education: can r/w (1900)5,6 >> Record Change: 03 December 20027,8 >> >> Children of LAFAYETTE STEED and OLLIE RAY are: >> i. MONROE L3 STEED, b. 30 August 1889, (Attala), Mississippi; >> d. 16 June 1974; m. MOLLIE VIRGINIA REYNOLDS, 13 November 1910, >> (Attala), >> Mississippi9; b. 03 July 1895, (Yalobusha), MS; d. 18 January 1968, >> Doty >> Springs, (Attala), MS. >> >> More About MONROE L STEED: >> Cemetery: 16 June 1974, Doty Springs Cemetery >> Census: 1900/1910AttalaMS10,11 >> Education: can r (1900)12,13 >> Occupation: 1910, Farm Labor/Home Farm >> Record Change: 03 December 200213 >> >> More About MOLLIE VIRGINIA REYNOLDS: >> Burial: 20 January 1968, Doty Springs, (Attala), MS >> Record Change: 16 September 200214 >> >> Marriage Notes for MONROE STEED and MOLLIE REYNOLDS: >> [steed1.ged] >> >> p98 >> >> ii. WILLIE V. STEED, b. Abt. 1893. >> iii. NEWTON B. STEED, b. Abt. 1895. >> >> More About NEWTON B. STEED: >> Occupation: 1910, Farm Labor/Home Farm >> >> iv. LIDDIE D. STEED, b. Abt. 1898. >> v. CALVIN D. STEED, b. Abt. 1901. >> >> More About CALVIN D. STEED: >> Occupation: 1910, Farm Labor/Home Farm >> >> vi. GEORGE C. STEED, b. Abt. 1902. >> vii. LESTER TAYLOR STEED, b. Abt. 1904, AttalaCoMS; d. Aft. 1974. >> >> More About LESTER TAYLOR STEED: >> Census: 1910AttalaMS14,15 >> Occupation: Barber >> Record Change: 24 July 200216,17 >> >> viii. DAVID N. STEED, b. Abt. 1907. >> ix. JOHN B. STEED, b. Abt. February 1910. >> >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Pat Clayton [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 10:16 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [MSATTALA] Look up volunteers >> >> Derwood: I have info. on the Ray family in Attala County. Please >> get in >> touch with me so we can share. >> >> Best wishes. >> Pat Barnett Clayton >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 8:52 PM >> Subject: Re: [MSATTALA] Look up volunteers >> >> >> everete do you live in attata we are in attatla looking for >> information >> on >> >> the ray family. >> >> >> ==== MSATTALA Mailing List ==== >> Searching for your Attala County ancestors? 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I know there are those researching the Hodges line, a line I have been working on for twenty five years plus. Until recently I could not get any further back than my great grandfather Charles H. Hodges who was born in 1856-7, and there was a reason. Very early in my research I had been told that his father's name was Isora Hodges, (no name given for his wife) and I have spent al these years looking for Isora. HAS ANYONE EVER FOUND ISORA HODGES? I had the names of most of Charles H. Hodges's siblings but was not sure of the order of birth, except for the two youngest. A year or so ago, I found in one of my boxes of notes a half sheet of paper, now yellow with age, on which I had written some info I had gleaned from the 1880 Attala County (Mitchell's Mill) Census, and it read: Hodges, Jenette, age 56, b. 1824 in SC, Father b. SC, Mother b. TN Hodges, Nancy J. age 19, b. 1861, Father b. SC, Mother b. SC Hodges, Thomas G., age 15, b. 1865, Father b. SC, Mother b. SC I had no idea who this Jenette was, but I did know who Nancy and Thomas were. They were two of the siblings of my great grandfather, Charles H. Hodges. I knew also who they later married and the names of many of their ancestors. I figured that if these two children were living in one household with someone named Jenette, she was their mother!! And this was the first time I ever had a hint of the first name of my g-g-grandmother! Though I had had this scrap of paper for several years, I never could find anywhere to put them. Now if her name was Jenette, she must have married the one I had always thought was named "Isora." I had checked EVERYWHERE for him and came up empty every time! So I decided to try another name, but where do I start? I went to the 1870 Choctaw County (Montevista) Census to look for something for someone else on one of the Lists, and the Hodges family literally jumped off the page at me. My Hodges family! There she was with ALL her children in the correct order of birth. (See how it helps to help someone else??) This is what I found: Hodge(s) Jenetta, age 46 b. KY Hodges, John J., age 23, b. MS Hodges, James M(adison), age 20 b. MS Hodges, William D., age 17 b. MS Hodges, Charles H(enry), b. age 14, b. MS Hodges, Nancy J., age 9, b. MS Hodges, Thomas G., age 5, b. MS I knew there was one discrepancy - Jennette's place of birth, but I wasn't through. The remainder of the information I had was a good match, but I wasn't finished yet because I did not have the father's name. I knew that if Thomas G. Hodges was born in 1865, his father - whoever he was - had to be living with the family at least part of 1865. I went to the 1860 Choctaw County (Belfontaine) Census to look for the father of these children. I was really getting excited by now! This is what I found: Hodges, Drury, age 36, farmer, b. SC Hodges, Jennalia, age 37 b. Ky (there is the Ky birthplace again.) Hodges, John J., age 13, b. MS Hodges, James M., age 10, b. MS Hodges, William D., age 8, b. MS Hodges, Charles H., age 4, b. MS Hodges, Ira Z, age 1, b. MS (Note that Ira Z. is not in the 1870 nor 1880 census. He most likely died as an infant, since their methods of health were so poor in those days.) Going back ten more years to the 1850 Choctaw County (Western Division) I found the following: Hodges, Drury, age 25, farmer, b. MS (an error since he was b. SC) Hodges, Jenetty, age 26, b. MS (looks as though the census taker ASSUMED their places of birth) Hodges, John, age 4, b. MS Hodges, James, age 1, b. MS Cairo (no surname) farm laborer So, it looks like the name of my great-great-grandfather was a very well-used name in the Hodges family, that of DRURY, and not Isora, unless of course Isora was his middle name. Since he is shown in the 1850 and the 1860 censuses, and he was around to father his last child in 1865, he must have died around the end of the Civil War. Could he have been in the War and did not survive it? Do any of you know? If any of you are researching this family, or one which connects to it, please write to me and we will compare notes. Thank you so much. Mozelle P. Chason