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/HKB.2ACI/51.1 Message Board Post: Mike, I found my J.W. BAKER in Marshall CO in the 1860 census. Previously, the family was in Boston, MA in the 1850 census. He had sons Wm. Henry and Charles Hubbard. All worked for the railroad.

I just joined the list today. I am hoping someone might be able to help me with information on Harrison Jones Sr, Revolutionary War Soldier who died in Marshall County 12 Jan 1841. He married Ann Ligon 5 Oct 1781 in Amelia Co, VA. Moved to Morgan Co, GA then onto Marshall Co. Where is he buried? Issues of Harrison and Ann Ligon Jones: 1. Thomas Ligon Jones (my line) 2. Elizabeth 3. John Peyton Jones 4. Richard 5. Harrison Jr 6. Daniel 7. Weldon 8. William S. 9. Daniella Thank you Christy

I found the following: August 12, 1870 Marshall County, MS, National Archives filmT593-740, page 636, Range 3, Holly Springs P. O. Dwelling 743, family 739 J. S. E. Coxe 42 M W Farming Value of real estate$1200 Value of personal estate $340 b.GA Male citizen Mary E. 39 F W keeping house b. NC Minerva 14 F W b. MS cannot read Fannie 10 F W b. MS cannot read George J. 7 M W b. MS cannot read Joseph A. 2/12 M W b. MS Census Place: MountPleasant, Marshall, Mississippi Source: FHL Film1254657 National Archives Film T9-0657 Page 473D Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace Joseph E. COX Self M M W 52 GA Occ: Farmer Fa: SC Mo: SC Mary A. COX WifeF M W 49 NC Occ: Keeping House Fa: NC Mo: NC Alen COX SonM S W 10 MS Occ: At Home Fa: GA Mo: NC Albert COX SonM S W 8 MS Occ: At Home Fa: GA Mo: NC Willie COX SonM S W 6 MS Occ: At Home Fa: GA Mo: NC Maggie HOWARD SdauF S W 19 MS Fa: NC Mo: NC Thomas HOWARD SsonM S W 17 MS Hopes this helps

Does anyone have access to a list of plantations in Marshall County (southern district) where slaves worked from 1845 until 1859? I'm researching enslaved blacks who were owned by John F. WOODFIN during that time. Thanks.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stacks Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HKB.2ACI/1608.1.1.1 Message Board Post: My father often spoke of Doyle Stacks but Daddy passed away in May 2001.He was 83 years old and knew many of the families in and around Potts Camp.I believe the two John Stacks may have been cousins but am not sure.Sometimes when you are looking through the 1900 census around the Cornerville-Potts Camp area and you run across the name Bertie Moody please let me know.Bertie will not be listed in the household of a Moody.He was an orphan and my grandfather.He arrived in Potts Camp via a train around 1895.In 1900,he would have been about nine or ten years old.When the weather gets warmer,I will be out and about more if I run across any information I will pass it on to you and Jimmy. God bless and take care.

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/HKB.2ACI/1608.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello, Mary, Thank you for writing back to my query. I appreciate the info. I have recently been in contact with Jimmy Stacks who has almost the same info. I am at a point where I am almost 100% sure that Gertrude and Glenna are sisters of my wife's Gfather, Dallas, and all are children of a John M. Stacks (per the 1910 census), and about 50% sure this John M. Stacks links to other people's databses. But, according to Jimmy, there is more than one John Stacks in the area during that time, and I am not yet comfortable linking to the know data as yet until I get some other kind of proof doc. If the John Stacks in the census were to proof out, I would then be able to link my wife's family back to the Thomas Stacks (b. 1788), whose record appears in numerous databases. If you can shed additional light, please feel free to write back. Thanks, again...Barry Bundy

Does anyone have information on a 19th century photographer named Mitchell & _ickels, as to where they were located? I have an unidentified carte de viste taken about 1863-64 that is stamped on the back with that name, but no city or town is given. It would possibly help me identify the people in the photo if I knew the area that Mitchell & _ickels traveled. Thanks, Sylvia Akin

Any TERRY information? I could not find any information on Terry. Deb Vieau Haines Marshall County MS Coordinator Grundy County IL Coordinator -----Original Message----- From: Hazel Stigger [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 8:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Information on Ancestory My name is Hazel Stigger, and I am looking for some history on my acestor's. I was wondering could you be on any assist's. I am having a family reunion in July, and would like to share that information with my family. I am looking for George Terry who's birthday may be Feb. 10, 1893 and died march of 1963 he was born in Benton County to Henry & Mary Francis Terry. His grandparents raised him they were Archie & Ester Simmons. His brothers & sisters were Mary Carrie Terry, Cliff Terry, John Henry Wiseman. I think they were born in Lamar,MS. That is all the information that I have on him. If you can assist me an any way please e-mail back at [email protected] Thanks in Advance, Hazel Stigger _____ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

Does anyone have any Cox Cox information to share with Richard? Please read his message below. Thanks!! Happy New Year!! Deb Vieau Haines Marshall County MS Coordinator Grundy County IL Coordinator -----Original Message----- From: Richard Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 3:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MSMARSHA-L] Cox, Gilbert Hi, I'm looking for the ancestors of William Joseph Cox who was born at Pleasant Hill, MS in about 1872 and married Claudia Gilbert, also of Pleasant Hill, MS. His father is supposed to have been Joseph Stanford Earles Cox who was one of triplets and his mother is said to have been Mary Angeline Thomas who came from South Carolina. William Joseph Cox worked at Blue's Plantation before he came to Texas. He came to Texas in about 1900 because his wife Claudia had TB. She died in a sanatarium at Boerne, Texas but he took her back to Pleasant Hill, Mississippi around 1905 and buried her there. He then married my grandmother, Katharine Estelle Teague, and lived in Brenham, Texas. I would like to know more about his ancestors. Thanks for any help, Richard Ferguson [email protected] ==== MSMARSHA Mailing List ==== If you have any of these records to share, please send them to [email protected]: birth, marriage, death, obits, civil war, wills, church, cemetery listings, newspaper articles, photos, and/or historical info. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stacks Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HKB.2ACI/1608.1 Message Board Post: There is a Glenna Stacks Hightower (1919-1970) buried at Amaziah.She is next to a Gertrude Stacks Rodgers (1897-1917).As you can see by the dates,Gertrude is 10 years and Stacks is used as a middle name in her case.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Moffatt Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HKB.2ACI/618.1 Message Board Post: I have an Elizabeth Permilia Moffatt born about 1844 in Alabama, daughter of Samuel Moffatt and Eleanor Jane Hubbarrd. That's about all the info I have

Thank you so much. This is more than I have ever known. His father was born in Georgia and his mother was born in North Carolina. I know the names of his brothers and sisters too. Richard

Hi, I'm looking for the ancestors of William Joseph Cox who was born at Pleasant Hill, MS in about 1872 and married Claudia Gilbert, also of Pleasant Hill, MS. His father is supposed to have been Joseph Stanford Earles Cox who was one of triplets and his mother is said to have been Mary Angeline Thomas who came from South Carolina. William Joseph Cox worked at Blue's Plantation before he came to Texas. He came to Texas in about 1900 because his wife Claudia had TB. She died in a sanatarium at Boerne, Texas but he took her back to Pleasant Hill, Mississippi around 1905 and buried her there. He then married my grandmother, Katharine Estelle Teague, and lived in Brenham, Texas. I would like to know more about his ancestors. Thanks for any help, Richard Ferguson [email protected]

I think that the point here is that we should not go around condemming and being ashamed of our ancestors because our standards today did not exist in our ancestor's time and place. I have Vikings in my ancestry, but I will not condem them for how they lived. My wife has slave owners in her ancestry, and I will not condem them either. They all lived their lives within the norms that prevailed in their times and places. Who knows what kind of standards (Politically Correct or otherwise) that might exist a few generations from now? What if your great-great-great grandchildren condemmed you, and were ashamed of you, when they found out that you included oranges and apples in your diet? Or if they found out that a small amount of the electricity you used came from nuclear power plants? To be ashamed of your ancestors and to condem them is foolish, since a part of what you are came from them. Be proud of them instead. Don Erickson, Colorado Springs CO [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.pcisys.net/~don_erickson ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 7:49 AM Subject: [MSMARSHA-L] Re: MSMARSHA-D Digest V02 #3 > What a sad commentary from this person. He obviously does not acknowledge > the fatal beatings, the rape of enslaved women, and the unjustifiable racism > of slave owners -- to suggest that a life like this is "better than Africa" > is a slap in the face to descendants of slaves. > > In a message dated 1/3/02 8:05:33 AM Central Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > Why would any one say "sad but undeniable" my family was slave owners. It > > is > > sad, that you do not understand that owning slaves was the modern > > equivalvent > > of saying "my family owned a mechanical cotton picker, a gas oven, a weed > > eater, a dish washer, an automated milking machine", etc. Slaves, at that > > time were implements! It just so happened they were people. Politicians > > and Clergy made valiant attempts to justify slavery, so your ancestors > > would not feel bad about it. All in all, many of the slaves were saved > > from a worse life back in Africa. > > While I do not justify the ownership of slaves, black, yellow, brown or > > white, to be sorry about it is to say "I'm sorry my ancestors were > > successful." > >

What a sad commentary from this person. He obviously does not acknowledge the fatal beatings, the rape of enslaved women, and the unjustifiable racism of slave owners -- to suggest that a life like this is "better than Africa" is a slap in the face to descendants of slaves. In a message dated 1/3/02 8:05:33 AM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > Why would any one say "sad but undeniable" my family was slave owners. It > is > sad, that you do not understand that owning slaves was the modern > equivalvent > of saying "my family owned a mechanical cotton picker, a gas oven, a weed > eater, a dish washer, an automated milking machine", etc. Slaves, at that > time were implements! It just so happened they were people. Politicians > and Clergy made valiant attempts to justify slavery, so your ancestors > would not feel bad about it. All in all, many of the slaves were saved > from a worse life back in Africa. > While I do not justify the ownership of slaves, black, yellow, brown or > white, to be sorry about it is to say "I'm sorry my ancestors were > successful." >

Why would any one say "sad but undeniable" my family was slave owners. It is sad, that you do not understand that owning slaves was the modern equivalvent of saying "my family owned a mechanical cotton picker, a gas oven, a weed eater, a dish washer, an automated milking machine", etc. Slaves, at that time were implements! It just so happened they were people. Politicians and Clergy made valiant attempts to justify slavery, so your ancestors would not feel bad about it. All in all, many of the slaves were saved from a worse life back in Africa. While I do not justify the ownership of slaves, black, yellow, brown or white, to be sorry about it is to say "I'm sorry my ancestors were successful." Ron Hughes

I, too am researching African American Pryor's in Marshall county. I have the following family. I also have a Pryor line connected to   Burton line. Descendants of John Pryor 1   John Pryor .. +Clara "Clary" Pryor ...... 2   Leroy Pryor, Sr. b: Unknown in Unknown d: Unknown in Unknown .......... +Mary Palm Pryor b: February 12, 1932 in Kosciusko, Attala County, Mississippi ...... 2   Willie Pryor ...... 2   Jessie Pryor ...... 2   Ethel Pryor-Jeffries ...... 2   Corrine Pryor James b: November 06, 1934 d: February 12, 2001 in Aurora, Illinois .......... +Lester James, Sr. ---- Begin Original Message ---- From: [email protected] Sent: 1 Jan 2002 13:35:05 -0700 To: [email protected] Subject: [MSMARSHA-L] Re: Alexanders in Chulahoma, MS?? 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/HKB.2ACI/1603.3.3.2.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Ellen Although there are a lot of similaraties, but the Alexanders and Pryors I am researching are African Americans.                                      Hank ==== MSMARSHA Mailing List ==== If you have any of these records to share, please send them to [email protected]:  birth, marriage, death, obits, civil war, wills, church, cemetery listings, newspaper articles, photos, and/or historical info. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 ---- End Original Message ---- Get your Free E-mail at http://dusablemuseum.zzn.com ____________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE Web and POP E-mail Service in 14 languages at http://www.zzn.com.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hood Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HKB.2ACI/1615.1 Message Board Post: Cornersville Cemetery (Southeast corner of Marshall Co.,MS Rosa Ella Hood Born: Feb. 3, 1876 Died: May 22, 1922 Wife of H.A. Hood This cemetery is close to the Union Co, MS line. I have heard of Hoods that live in Union Co. Good luck. Martha Fant, Secretary Marshall County Genealogical Society

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/HKB.2ACI/1616 Message Board Post: My Grandfather John (Jack) Netherland, past Marshall of Holly Springs, Ms. around 1920,s. Would like to know if he is buried in Hillcrest Cem. and date. Can anyone help me? Thanks for any help. Richard Netherland Cook

Hello List, I'm new to posting on this list. I'm researching the Smiiths and the Hamiltons and would like to know if there is anyone on the list that does courthouse look-ups. I am looking for information pertaining to probate records. Joseph Guyton Smiths wife (Elvira) appears on the 1860 Marshall County census in the Logan household with her daughter Mary E. Smith. LeRoy Hamilton Longview, Texas