Hey All I grew up just down the road from Barttahatchee (between Barttahatchee and Lackey) Wolfe road runs through that area all the way into Caledonia and then into Columbus. I lived in this area until about six years ago and traveled Wolfe Road fairly frequently. I don't recall seeing a monument like this at all anywhere in this area. I also use to work in Gattman for many years and drove up and down 278 into Amory a great deal and don't recall and monument there either. As for a town of Sanford, there isn't one in Monroe County in the last 38 years. Now you know sometimes towns change names...so....I suppose there could have been one way back in the day (1830's as you say)...but don't recall anyone of the elderly people speaking of it either. There is a Smithville, however. If the monument is not very old, as in the last six years, that would explain why I don't remember it. Greg do you live in Monroe county now? Tootles Sharon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara Carruth" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 8:18 AM Subject: Re: [MSMONROE] Sanford, Monroe Co.,MS - perhaps a now-extinct Mormon community, 1830-1846 ??? > If I remember correctly, the monument is near the Barttahatchee community? > > Barb > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 7:11 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MSMONROE] Sanford, Monroe Co.,MS - perhaps a now-extinct > Mormon community, 1830-1846 ??? > > I suppose it is south of 278. If memory serves it is severl miles beyond the > cemetery. It would be in a turn on the left side of the road. The monumnet > is not very old and it looks like a his and her tombstone. It seems like it > sets off the road a little. There was a history of the Mississippi Mormons > on the LDS website. It is interesting. BTW - One group of Pickles and sveral > Lowery families made it to Salt Lake City. > > Greg > > > > > > From: "Anne S. O'Neal" <[email protected]> > > Date: 2006/12/15 Fri PM 08:56:06 EST > > To: <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [MSMONROE] Sanford, Monroe Co., > > MS - perhaps a now-extinct Mormon community, 1830-1846 ??? > > > > Greg, > > > > I was born in Gattman, a long time ago... I never heard my grandparents > > mention this monument. Of course, I didn't always pay attention. Which > > direction is the Blair Cemetery from Hwy 278? > > > > Anne Stockton O'Neal > > [email protected] > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 2:22 PM > > Subject: Re: [MSMONROE] Sanford, Monroe Co.,MS - perhaps a now-extinct > > Mormon community, 1830-1846 ??? > > > > > > > There is a monument to Mississippi Mormon down the road from the Blair > > > cemetery just outside of Gattman. I think the name of the road is Wolfe > > > Road -- not sure. > > > > > > Greg > > >> > > >> From: [email protected] > > >> Date: 2006/12/15 Fri PM 01:57:46 EST > > >> To: [email protected] > > >> Subject: [MSMONROE] Sanford, Monroe Co., > > >> MS - perhaps a now-extinct Mormon community, 1830-1846 ??? > > >> > > >> Is there/was there a town called Sanford in Monroe County? It was > > >> probably a Mormon community, now since extinct. > > >> > > >> Family records show that our William Mathews & Elizabeth Henderson > > >> Mathews had 9 of their 11 children born in Sanford between 7/1830 and > > >> 4/1846. > > >> > > >> We know there is a Sanford in Covington Co., but cannot find one in > > >> Monroe Co. > > >> > > >> We also know that William's brother, Benjamin Franklin Mathews was > > >> licensed on 03 Mar 1845 as an LDS preacher in Monroe Co. to "preach and > > > >> solemize marriages". > > >> > > >> Thank you. > > >> r/Steven Mitchell - Naperville, IL > > >> > > >> ------------------------------- > > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >> > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message