Does anyone have any idea how far back the records go for this funeral home? Delores ----- Original Message ----- > > Charles Thomas is owner of the Holly Springs Funeral Home in Holly > Springs, Ms., Marshall County You could most likely reach him through > there

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/2063.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for the information. I will see what I can find on that family. I have no information on the Manning connection, other than a line that is Reuben Manning, Reuben Manning, Sr. back to John Manning, IV, died 1758 in Norfolk Cty., VA.

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/2063.1 Message Board Post: Have not looked up anything, but your John G. may the one of the 19 children of William Wilkins Wallace (b. 1818 TN) and one of his four wives. His first wife was Mary Barry, married in 1836 in Davidson Co. TN. Her parents were John G. and Mary Z. BARRY of Holly Springs. Do you know who Col Van Manning was?

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/1935.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Charles Thomas is owner of the Holly Springs Funeral Home in Holly Springs, Ms., Marshall County You could most likely reach him through there

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/2063 Message Board Post: Shown as a butcher in Holly Springs in 1880 census. Born in 1837, but I do not know where. Married to Sarah Ann Whitney Manning. Does anyone know about him and his family?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Potts, Flournoy Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HKB.2ACI/2062.1.1.1 Message Board Post: No, I'm not related. I just recall seeing some there when researching my FLOURNOY family.

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/2062.1.1 Message Board Post: Bob thanks for that information. Are you a descendant??

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Potts Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HKB.2ACI/2062.1 Message Board Post: Maggie, I can't say for sure, but there were POTTS in Giles Co., TN at the time that Marshall Co., MS was settled. Some may have gone with the many others from Giles Co. that moved to Marshall Co.

In 1973 Mrs. Dora Warren copied the names of 16 people who had tombstones at the Old Mississippi State Hospital Cemetery. At the time she reported that there were grave sites over an area of approximately 5 acres, but only 16 had markers that could be located. She stated that the graves were for patients who died in the hospital and whose bodies were unclaimed, or for some other reason, buried there. At that time, 1973, she said the property was overgrown with trees and was being used as a dump. The names of the 16 were W. T. Singletary, Eliza Jane Harrison, Charles H. Musick, Timothy O'Reardon, Mary Ann Perkin, Robbie W. Jones, Elizabeth M. Cook, Mary G. Nichols, Frank Sweatman, Thomas Littleton, Martha G. Guyton, Capt. A. Reynolds, Martha Coleman, Martin L. Jones, Esabella I. McDonald, and Wm. L. Andrews. Altho it was state property, it may have been developed by now, with the cemetery paved over, I do not know. Bobby Mitchell Holly springs, MS theshadow <theshadow@glade.net> wrote: This is very interesting and something we might want to keep in our files. Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: LANDINMC@aol.com To: MSHINDS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 10:03 PM Subject: MS State Asylum Hospital records This message is for everybody who has asked over the years about names at the state hospital that used to be in Hinds County. Physically, it was located on what is now Lakeland Drive between University Medical Center and St. Dominics Hospital, and there is a large cemetery of unmarked graves there because patients died and were buried on the grounds in paupers graves. I was going through the 1930 Federal Census tonight looking for some records, and realized that from page 7 through page 55 of the Hinds County 1930 records are all the names of patients at the asylum. Hundreds of them. They are recorded by name, age, race, sex, where they were born, and where their parents were born, and listed as patients with no occupation. Olivia Ferguson was the census taker. They were in the 13th census district of Hinds County, Ward 7. The several lists are divided by sex and by race, which is probably the way they were housed at the facilities. So if you have somebody missing that you know was in that hospital at that point in time, check out the 1930 census. This is the first time I've seen patient information available for that hospital, ever. I thought all the records had been thrown away, because Archives didn't have them and neither does Whitfield, the current hospital in Rankin County. I need to go back now and check to see if all the children at the Baptist and Methodist orphanages were also censused. They were living at what was then the village of Liberty Grove, and what is now where the Jackson Zoo is located, next to Cedar Lawn Cemetery on West Capitol Street. Feel free to past this information on to other groups and lists, because it has been lost information for a long time. Mary Collins Landin Utica, Hinds County, MS ______________________________ ==== MSMARSHA Mailing List ==== If you have any of these records to share, please send them to marshallcoms@earthlink.net: birth, marriage, death, obits, civil war, wills, church, cemetery listings, newspaper articles, photos, and/or historical info. ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Potts, Barker, McBrayer,Witt Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HKB.2ACI/1777.2 Message Board Post: I too am a Potts descendant of the Erasmus Potts family. I am interested in sharing information on the Potts Family. Cinthia Potts I believe was the sister of Erasmsu Potts she is buried in the same cemetery with her brother and two of her three daughters. Cinthia married a John D. Barker. Both John D. Barker and E.F.Potts served from their counties in the Mississippi Legislature as representatives of their districts Marshall and I think Benton counties respectively. Please contact mwitter@houston.rr.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Potts, Barker, McBrayer, Witt Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HKB.2ACI/2062 Message Board Post: Seeking Information on the Erasmus Potts Family and one Cynthia Potts believed to be sister to Erasmus. She married John D. Barker. All,except John D. are buried in the Potts Family Cemetery. I am interested particularly in how the POtts family got to Mississippi and where they came from. Any information appreciated.

In a message dated 1/9/2005 10:49:08 AM Eastern Standard Time, theshadow@glade.net writes: They were living at what was then the village of Liberty Grove, and what is now where the Jackson Zoo They sure should have been, but I know parts of many census from the South are missing, and considering the heat and humidity in many Court Houses <G> we ought to be giving thank that we have any of them <VBG> The trouble with census for Institutions is you either have to go page by page of be looking for someone in it <G> but with faster connections it is easier <G> Eliz

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Creacy, Ives Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HKB.2ACI/1957.3 Message Board Post: Thanks for the Creacy book, it got me to look again at Creacy tree. Found John T. Creacy b. 1807,VA , Marshall Co. MS, his wife and 10 children. Three boys, John b. 1835. Al, William b. 1837 Al, Joseph b. 1846 MS. Seems likely that one of them will be father of our William T. Will go to Clayton Library here in Houston and check 1880 census to try to confirm.

This is not at all unusual. In every census, residents of institutions of any kind (hospital, penitentiary, orphanage, etc.) were supposed to be enumerated, just like everyone else. For example, the instructions to the enumerators of the 1900 Census stated, in part: "86. Name of institution.-Wherever an institution, such as a prison, jail, almshouse, hospital, asylum, college, convent, or other establishment containing a resident population, is to be enumerated, the full name and title of the institution should be written on the line provided therefor at the head of the sheet, and all persons having their usual places of abode in such institution, whether officers , attendants, inmates, or persons in confinement, should then be entered consecutively on the schedules." See http://www.ipums.umn.edu/usa/voliii/tEnumInstr.html for more information. I've found family members in orphanages, a TB sanitarium, the Texas penitentiary, and an asylum in North Carolina. Cheryl Chasin yelton@cox.net > -----Original Message----- > From: theshadow [mailto:theshadow@glade.net] > Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 10:48 AM > To: MSMARSHA-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [MSMARSHA-L] Fw: MS State Asylum Hospital records > > > This is very interesting and something we might want to keep > in our files. Jean > ----- Original Message ----- > From: LANDINMC@aol.com > To: MSHINDS-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 10:03 PM > Subject: MS State Asylum Hospital records > > > This message is for everybody who has asked over the years > about names at the > state hospital that used to be in Hinds County. Physically, > it was located > on what is now Lakeland Drive between University Medical > Center and St. > Dominics Hospital, and there is a large cemetery of unmarked > graves there because > patients died and were buried on the grounds in paupers > graves. I was going > through the 1930 Federal Census tonight looking for some > records, and realized > that from page 7 through page 55 of the Hinds County 1930 > records are all the > names of patients at the asylum. Hundreds of them. They are >

It is also on the 1900 Census which gives birthdates. A fellow CC is transcribing that one now but it is very slow going as the census is not very clear. Ann Allen Geoghegan MSGenWeb Archives Director CC Jefferson & Claiborne Counties ----- Original Message ----- From: theshadow To: MSMARSHA-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 9:47 AM Subject: [MSMARSHA-L] Fw: MS State Asylum Hospital records This is very interesting and something we might want to keep in our files. Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: LANDINMC@aol.com To: MSHINDS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 10:03 PM Subject: MS State Asylum Hospital records This message is for everybody who has asked over the years about names at the state hospital that used to be in Hinds County. Physically, it was located on what is now Lakeland Drive between University Medical Center and St. Dominics Hospital, and there is a large cemetery of unmarked graves there because patients died and were buried on the grounds in paupers graves. I was going through the 1930 Federal Census tonight looking for some records, and realized that from page 7 through page 55 of the Hinds County 1930 records are all the names of patients at the asylum. Hundreds of them. They are recorded by name, age, race, sex, where they were born, and where their parents were born, and listed as patients with no occupation. Olivia Ferguson was the census taker. They were in the 13th census district of Hinds County, Ward 7. The several lists are divided by sex and by race, which is probably the way they were housed at the facilities. So if you have somebody missing that you know was in that hospital at that point in time, check out the 1930 census. This is the first time I've seen patient information available for that hospital, ever. I thought all the records had been thrown away, because Archives didn't have them and neither does Whitfield, the current hospital in Rankin County. I need to go back now and check to see if all the children at the Baptist and Methodist orphanages were also censused. They were living at what was then the village of Liberty Grove, and what is now where the Jackson Zoo is located, next to Cedar Lawn Cemetery on West Capitol Street. Feel free to past this information on to other groups and lists, because it has been lost information for a long time. Mary Collins Landin Utica, Hinds County, MS ______________________________ ==== MSMARSHA Mailing List ==== If you have any of these records to share, please send them to marshallcoms@earthlink.net: birth, marriage, death, obits, civil war, wills, church, cemetery listings, newspaper articles, photos, and/or historical info. ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

This is very interesting and something we might want to keep in our files. Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: LANDINMC@aol.com To: MSHINDS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 10:03 PM Subject: MS State Asylum Hospital records This message is for everybody who has asked over the years about names at the state hospital that used to be in Hinds County. Physically, it was located on what is now Lakeland Drive between University Medical Center and St. Dominics Hospital, and there is a large cemetery of unmarked graves there because patients died and were buried on the grounds in paupers graves. I was going through the 1930 Federal Census tonight looking for some records, and realized that from page 7 through page 55 of the Hinds County 1930 records are all the names of patients at the asylum. Hundreds of them. They are recorded by name, age, race, sex, where they were born, and where their parents were born, and listed as patients with no occupation. Olivia Ferguson was the census taker. They were in the 13th census district of Hinds County, Ward 7. The several lists are divided by sex and by race, which is probably the way they were housed at the facilities. So if you have somebody missing that you know was in that hospital at that point in time, check out the 1930 census. This is the first time I've seen patient information available for that hospital, ever. I thought all the records had been thrown away, because Archives didn't have them and neither does Whitfield, the current hospital in Rankin County. I need to go back now and check to see if all the children at the Baptist and Methodist orphanages were also censused. They were living at what was then the village of Liberty Grove, and what is now where the Jackson Zoo is located, next to Cedar Lawn Cemetery on West Capitol Street. Feel free to past this information on to other groups and lists, because it has been lost information for a long time. Mary Collins Landin Utica, Hinds County, 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/an/HKB.2ACI/1957.2 Message Board Post: I found a John T. Creacy,b.1807, VA, wife Nancy and ten children on the 1850 Northern Section, Marshall Co. MS. on-line. They had 10 children, 3 boys and seven girls born between 1831 and 1848. Could not find the 1880 census on-line but will check it out at he library and get back to you. One of the three boys must surely be the father of Wm. Thos.and his siblings. Also found an Elizabeth Creacy Head of family on the 1810 Amherst, VA. census with six males under 26. Probably John T."s mother will also check this out and get back to you and Jestine.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: harshaw Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HKB.2ACI/1588.1 Message Board Post: Terry, do you have the Harshaw Bible? Daniel was my ggrandfather and I have a few questions to ask. Thanks. Marylou

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HKB.2ACI/146.2 Message Board Post: Have census information on the Daniel Harshaw/Mary Dowdle family if you are still interested. I have done extensive research on the Dowdle family and their descendants from York County, South Carolina should you be interested. Boyd Nielsen

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Potts, Barker, McBrayer, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HKB.2ACI/2030.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I have some knowledge of the Potts family: I am not sure of the connection between Cynthia Potts who married John D. Barker in Laurens. SC and moved to Potts Camp area after trouble in S.C. sometime after 1835. Cynthia Potts and her husband John D. Barker had four daughters one of which is my ggggrandmother. They show up in several early census records from the Marshall/Tippah county area. At some point John D. Barker disappears and Cynthia Barker ends up with E.F. Potts and his family. Because of the nearness of their birthdays I have assumed that Erasmus and Cynthia were brother and sister. They are all buried in Potts Camp Cemetery. I am sure you all have the listing from the Cemetery Records. Cynthia Potts Barker and two of her daughters Belle or Isabell Barker and Susan Teresa Barker McBrayer are buried there along with some of their children. I also have a good deal of documentation on Erasmus F. Potts. He is listed many times in records of the era before and up to! the Civil War. Apparently he was known for his hospitatlity; his name is mentioned many times by people who stopped by his place for a meal or place to stay on their way to the better traveled routes west from or through Memphis. Please contact to share more. mwitter@houston.rr.com