Terry, tell us more about the organ and the fund raiser. Barb On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:39 PM, William T. "Terry" Thornton < [email protected]> wrote: > Anne, On April 14, 2009, I did a photographic inventory of Crenshaw > Cemetery. The head stone for William Lewis (no dates) is available at my > Flickr account at http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/3446322408/ > > Wm Lewis is not on the inventory of Lann Cemetery which I completed > November > 13, 2002 nor is his name among the burials inventoried in 2009 at Riggan > Chapel Cemetery --- not at Thompson/Stanford Cemetery either. There are > two > small cemeteries not yet inventoried in the area --- but I doubt that that > a > marker for him will be found there. > > The closest (to Splunge) Lewis burials I've found so far are two in the > Bethlehem Cemetery (almost due north of Splunge) --- two children of W.T. > and L. Lewis who died 1904 and 1905. The W.T. Lewis father is unknown to > me --- is this possibly your William Lewis who died 1914? > > LEWIS, Carrie Bell, May 29 1903, October 8 1904, on marker with Clara May > Lewis, children of W.T. and L. Lewis > > LEWIS, Clara May, May 1 1902, September 21 1905, on marker with Carrie Bell > Lewis, children on W.T. and L. Lewis > > > > On a completely unrelated matter but perhaps of interest to you since we > have earlier discussed the Stockton Portable Folding Organ from Monroe > County --- I am scheduled to play that 125-year-old portable reed organ > publically October 18th for the first time in decades at a fund-raiser for > Preserving Itawaba County's Heritage's efforts to obtain, relocate and > restore the historic Cates-Gaither House on Main Street Fulton MS. > > > > Terry Thornton > > Fulton, Mississippi > > email: [email protected] > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Barb Carruth" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: "William Thornton" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 3:02 PM > Subject: Re: [MSMONROE] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: Cemeteries in Splunge > > > > Check with Terry Thornton, he may can help you > > [email protected] > > > >> > >> Do you know of anyone who has an inventory of these cemeteries? I > looked > >> at > >> the web site you sent and noted that these two were not on the internet. > >> > >> I plan to make a trip to Amory in a month or so and I do not know where > >> these cemeteries are located. > >> > >> Thanks for your help. > >> > >> Anne > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Theresa Whitaker" <[email protected]> > >> To: <[email protected]> > >> Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 1:17 PM > >> Subject: [Bulk] Re: [MSMONROE] [Bulk] Re: Cemeteries in Splunge > >> > >> > >> Other cemeteries in the Splunge community would be Lann Cemetery which > is > >> a > >> huge cemetery and Riggans Chapel Cemetery. > >> > >> Theresa > >> > >> --- On Fri, 10/2/09, [email protected] <[email protected] > > > >> wrote: > >> > >> > >> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > >> Subject: Re: [MSMONROE] [Bulk] Re: Cemeteries in Splunge > >> To: [email protected] > >> Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 11:24 AM > >> > >> > >> Theresa, > >> > >> Thanks for your reply. > >> > >> I have visited the Crenshaw Cemetery. Would Crenshaw be considered in > >> Splunge? The death certificate states that burial was in Splunge and > >> another family researcher says William Lewis is not buried in Crenshaw > >> where > >> the Civil War tombstone is located. Yet they didn't know where. > >> > >> Do you know of cemeteries in Splunge? The only cemetery in Splunge I > have > >> seen listed is Splunge School Cemetery and it has only one grave. > >> > >> I guess I could just accept that he is buried in Crenshaw where the > Civil > >> War tombstone is located. > >> > >> Anne Stockton O'Neal > >> > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Theresa Whitaker" <[email protected]> > >> To: <[email protected]> > >> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 9:28 PM > >> Subject: [Bulk] Re: [MSMONROE] Cemeteries in Splunge > >> > >> > >> http://www.fayette.net/carruth/crenshawcemetery.htm > >> > >> http://www.usgwtombstones.org/mississippi/ms-monroe.htm > >> > >> Here is a link to Crenshaw cemetery, as well as other Monroe county > >> cemeteries. I pass this cemetery frequently and will be glad to stop > >> there > >> and look for you, if you like. > >> > >> Theresa Whitaker > >> > >> > >> > >> --- On Thu, 10/1/09, [email protected] <[email protected] > > > >> wrote: > >> > >> > >> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > >> Subject: [MSMONROE] Cemeteries in Splunge > >> To: [email protected] > >> Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 9:02 PM > >> > >> > >> I would like to know if an index is available for cemeteries in Splunge. > >> > >> I have a death certificate on William Lewis who died 14 Nov 1914 which > >> states place of burial as Splunge. He has a Civil War marker in the > >> Crenshaw > >> Cemetery, but an earlier family researcher says he is buried elsewhere. > >> Is > >> Crenshaw Cemetery considered to be in Splunge or Greenwood Springs? > >> > >> Anne Stockton O'Neal > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> 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 > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > My email is now [email protected] , the hughes.net is no longer > good. > > Barbara Woolbright Carruth > > > > ------------------------------- > > 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 > -- My email is now [email protected] , the hughes.net is no longer good. 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Hi Barbara, The small portable reed organ is commonly called a "God Box" because the chaplain services of the military have used them to provide music for worship the world over since about 1900. The one I have came from the Monroe County Mississippi Stockton Estate (in Anne Stockton O'Neal's line) --- it was bought circa 1880-1890 for a circuit-riding Methodist song evangelist, a Mr. Stockton, by his siblings as a present. He complained that many of the rural churches and brush arbors meetings he helped with had no musical instrument --- so his brothers and sisters bought him one made by the Carpenter Company of Brattleboro, VT. It is a small-trunk sized organ and is very portable --- the legs fold down, metal rods connect the bellows with the pedals on the base; the lid opens forming a music rack and exposes the keyboard --- and the air is provided by pumping the pedals. My late father, Garfus Thornton, bought the organ for me at an estate sale at the Stockton farm house on Weaver's Creek near Parham, Monroe County, Mississippi, in the early 1950s for $12.50. I will be playing a short set on the reed organ for a fundraiser, Mississippi Hill Country Heritage Day, 211 Main Street, Fulton, Mississippi. Sponsored by Preserving Itawamba County's Heritage, all proceeds from the event will benefit the relocation and preservation of Fulton's second oldest surviving residence, The Cedars (Cates-Gaither House). The event is Sunday afternoon 2 - 5 PM, October 18, 2009, at The Cedars. Tours, history, games, music, and a tasting session of period foods --- cost $15 per adult; $10 per student; little guys get in free. I don't know at this time when I will be playing the Stockton Folding Organ inside The Cedars ---- the music schedule is still being set --- but sometime between 2 and 5 PM. Come join us for a celebration of Hill Country Heritage --- and help save The Cedars. You can read more about Preserving Itawamba County's Heritage by visiting the blog at http://itawambaheritage.blogspot.com/ Terry Thornton Fulton, Mississippi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barb Carruth" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [MSMONROE] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: Cemeteries in Splunge > Terry, tell us more about the organ and the fund raiser. > Barb > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:39 PM, William T. "Terry" Thornton < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Anne, On April 14, 2009, I did a photographic inventory of Crenshaw >> Cemetery. The head stone for William Lewis (no dates) is available at my >> Flickr account at http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/3446322408/ >> >> Wm Lewis is not on the inventory of Lann Cemetery which I completed >> November >> 13, 2002 nor is his name among the burials inventoried in 2009 at Riggan >> Chapel Cemetery --- not at Thompson/Stanford Cemetery either. There are >> two >> small cemeteries not yet inventoried in the area --- but I doubt that >> that >> a >> marker for him will be found there. >> >> The closest (to Splunge) Lewis burials I've found so far are two in the >> Bethlehem Cemetery (almost due north of Splunge) --- two children of W.T. >> and L. Lewis who died 1904 and 1905. The W.T. Lewis father is unknown to >> me --- is this possibly your William Lewis who died 1914? >> >> LEWIS, Carrie Bell, May 29 1903, October 8 1904, on marker with Clara May >> Lewis, children of W.T. and L. Lewis >> >> LEWIS, Clara May, May 1 1902, September 21 1905, on marker with Carrie >> Bell >> Lewis, children on W.T. and L. Lewis >> >> >> >> On a completely unrelated matter but perhaps of interest to you since we >> have earlier discussed the Stockton Portable Folding Organ from Monroe >> County --- I am scheduled to play that 125-year-old portable reed organ >> publically October 18th for the first time in decades at a fund-raiser >> for >> Preserving Itawaba County's Heritage's efforts to obtain, relocate and >> restore the historic Cates-Gaither House on Main Street Fulton MS. >> >> >> >> Terry Thornton >> >> Fulton, Mississippi >> >> email: [email protected] >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Barb Carruth" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Cc: "William Thornton" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 3:02 PM >> Subject: Re: [MSMONROE] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: Cemeteries in Splunge >> >> >> > Check with Terry Thornton, he may can help you >> > [email protected] >> > >> >> >> >> Do you know of anyone who has an inventory of these cemeteries? I >> looked >> >> at >> >> the web site you sent and noted that these two were not on the >> >> internet. >> >> >> >> I plan to make a trip to Amory in a month or so and I do not know >> >> where >> >> these cemeteries are located. >> >> >> >> Thanks for your help. >> >> >> >> Anne >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> From: "Theresa Whitaker" <[email protected]> >> >> To: <[email protected]> >> >> Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 1:17 PM >> >> Subject: [Bulk] Re: [MSMONROE] [Bulk] Re: Cemeteries in Splunge >> >> >> >> >> >> Other cemeteries in the Splunge community would be Lann Cemetery which >> is >> >> a >> >> huge cemetery and Riggans Chapel Cemetery. >> >> >> >> Theresa >> >> >> >> --- On Fri, 10/2/09, [email protected] >> >> <[email protected] >> > >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> >> >> Subject: Re: [MSMONROE] [Bulk] Re: Cemeteries in Splunge >> >> To: [email protected] >> >> Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 11:24 AM >> >> >> >> >> >> Theresa, >> >> >> >> Thanks for your reply. >> >> >> >> I have visited the Crenshaw Cemetery. Would Crenshaw be considered in >> >> Splunge? The death certificate states that burial was in Splunge and >> >> another family researcher says William Lewis is not buried in Crenshaw >> >> where >> >> the Civil War tombstone is located. Yet they didn't know where. >> >> >> >> Do you know of cemeteries in Splunge? The only cemetery in Splunge I >> have >> >> seen listed is Splunge School Cemetery and it has only one grave. >> >> >> >> I guess I could just accept that he is buried in Crenshaw where the >> Civil >> >> War tombstone is located. >> >> >> >> Anne Stockton O'Neal >> >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> From: "Theresa Whitaker" <[email protected]> >> >> To: <[email protected]> >> >> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 9:28 PM >> >> Subject: [Bulk] Re: [MSMONROE] Cemeteries in Splunge >> >> >> >> >> >> http://www.fayette.net/carruth/crenshawcemetery.htm >> >> >> >> http://www.usgwtombstones.org/mississippi/ms-monroe.htm >> >> >> >> Here is a link to Crenshaw cemetery, as well as other Monroe county >> >> cemeteries. I pass this cemetery frequently and will be glad to stop >> >> there >> >> and look for you, if you like. >> >> >> >> Theresa Whitaker >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> --- On Thu, 10/1/09, [email protected] >> >> <[email protected] >> > >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> >> >> Subject: [MSMONROE] Cemeteries in Splunge >> >> To: [email protected] >> >> Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 9:02 PM >> >> >> >> >> >> I would like to know if an index is available for cemeteries in >> >> Splunge. >> >> >> >> I have a death certificate on William Lewis who died 14 Nov 1914 which >> >> states place of burial as Splunge. He has a Civil War marker in the >> >> Crenshaw >> >> Cemetery, but an earlier family researcher says he is buried >> >> elsewhere. >> >> Is >> >> Crenshaw Cemetery considered to be in Splunge or Greenwood Springs? >> >> >> >> Anne Stockton O'Neal >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> >> 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 >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > My email is now [email protected] , the hughes.net is no longer >> good. >> > Barbara Woolbright Carruth >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > 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 >> > > > > -- > My email is now [email protected] , the hughes.net is no longer good. > Barbara Woolbright Carruth > > ------------------------------- > 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