Do you know of any POTTER connections to your BROWN line from DeKalb Co. AL? Patti

Was Mary Adaline WEBB related to Brittain Rice WEBB (secretary of State of MS) who was in Pontotoc Co. by 1848. Patti

Ann, I am sorry; I checked my FTW and have several Martha Pearsons, but none that seem to match. My husband's family came from County Cumberland, England, to Perquiman's County, NC, in the early 1700's. They were Quakers and crossed The Big Pond to escape religious persecution. After several generations they began to "marry out of faith" and left the Society of Friends, moving to Wilkinson County, Georgia. From there they moved to Winston County, Alabama. My husband's grandfather then moved his family to Lee County, MS. Some of the family have lived for a time in Pontotoc County as well. I wish that I could be of assistance and I wish you the best in your search. Linda

Ludean, Do you happen to have a ELIZABETH RODGERS, with a son named Willi R.? I have Elizabeth (Rodgers, I think) b. about 1821 in SC. She is in the 1880 census of Walker Co, AL. Eastern Div. - 39 yrs.old married to John Austin, with 9 children. At the end of the list is Wili R. Rodgers 22 yrs. old. I'm guessing that she was married to a Rodgers before marrying John Austin and brought one child (Willi) with her. The first 2 Austin children were born in MS. and the family moved back to MS. when she died. Any connections with your male Rodgers? Pat patwhalon@aol.com

Ludean, The Hugh M. RO(D)GERS mentioned below......would that be Hugh McGary RO(D)GERS who married Serena HARTGROVE, who was a politician in the state of AL, migrated to Itawamba Co., MS ca. 1850? Nadine Grubbs Smith Researching: Ball, Bunch, Burton, Calber / Calder, Daniel(s), Darling, Dunn, Fowler, Gibson, Grubbs, Hackney, Hartgrove, Henson, Herring, Hill, Key, Luke, Maples, Martin, Pannell, Parnell, Power(s), Ro(d)gers, Smith, Styles, Tippler, Thacker, Toliver, Yewell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ludean Kidd" <ludean@steward-net.com> To: <MSPONTOT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 4:40 PM Subject: Re: [MSPONTOT] To Ludean - RODGERS > Pat, I do have an Elizabeth Rodgers, but that is her married name. I was > told that she was Elizabeth Sanders who married John W. Rodgers, but > unknown where. John was said to be from South Carolina. He was born in > 1803, don't know when Elizabeth was born. They married in 1824. They had > a son, William J. Rodgers, which is my line. They also had other children > named Alfred A., Mary Jane, Saphronie, Hugh M., Sarah A. They are a hard > line for me to find, but I did find out some info in Pontotoc County > earlier this month. Just can't go back as far as to know about John and > Elizabeth. Sorry. Ludean > > > At 05:08 PM 4/28/2002 -0400, you wrote: > >Ludean, > >Do you happen to have a ELIZABETH RODGERS, with a son named Willi R.? > >I have Elizabeth (Rodgers, I think) b. about 1821 in SC. > >She is in the 1880 census of Walker Co, AL. Eastern Div. - 39 yrs.old > >married to John Austin, with 9 children. At the end of the list is Wili R. > >Rodgers 22 yrs. old. > > > >I'm guessing that she was married to a Rodgers before marrying John Austin > >and brought one child (Willi) with her. The first 2 Austin children were > >born in MS. and the family moved back to MS. when she died. Any connections > >with your male Rodgers? > > > >Pat patwhalon@aol.com > > > > > >==== MSPONTOT Mailing List ==== > >Please avoid flaming (attacking) any single person or the group. This > >infraction will earn you immediate removal from the list. > > > >============================== > >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 > > > > > ==== MSPONTOT Mailing List ==== > Please avoid flaming (attacking) any single person or the group. This infraction will earn you immediate removal from the list. > > ============================== > 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 > >

Pat, I do have an Elizabeth Rodgers, but that is her married name. I was told that she was Elizabeth Sanders who married John W. Rodgers, but unknown where. John was said to be from South Carolina. He was born in 1803, don't know when Elizabeth was born. They married in 1824. They had a son, William J. Rodgers, which is my line. They also had other children named Alfred A., Mary Jane, Saphronie, Hugh M., Sarah A. They are a hard line for me to find, but I did find out some info in Pontotoc County earlier this month. Just can't go back as far as to know about John and Elizabeth. Sorry. Ludean At 05:08 PM 4/28/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Ludean, >Do you happen to have a ELIZABETH RODGERS, with a son named Willi R.? >I have Elizabeth (Rodgers, I think) b. about 1821 in SC. >She is in the 1880 census of Walker Co, AL. Eastern Div. - 39 yrs.old >married to John Austin, with 9 children. At the end of the list is Wili R. >Rodgers 22 yrs. old. > >I'm guessing that she was married to a Rodgers before marrying John Austin >and brought one child (Willi) with her. The first 2 Austin children were >born in MS. and the family moved back to MS. when she died. Any connections >with your male Rodgers? > >Pat patwhalon@aol.com > > >==== MSPONTOT Mailing List ==== >Please avoid flaming (attacking) any single person or the group. This >infraction will earn you immediate removal from the list. > >============================== >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

Putting out the word I would like to purchase a copy of this book. Anyone out there have one they want to sell? Ann

My husband and I were in Pontotoc County earlier in the month of April and we searched in the court houses of Pontotoc County and Calhoun County and they were very friendly. We then went to the Pontotoc County Library and that was very interesting. We were there on Thursday and Friday. Wish I had longer to search in the library. I understood that the census could be viewed on film, but didn't have time to do all that I wished to do. Did find out some info, tho. I look forward to going back someday. My family line is Rodgers and Sanders. In the library, be sure to check out the volumes of Early Pioneers of Pontotoc County. That may not be the exact name, but something like that. I am sure others could tell us more, but that is my enjoyable experience. Ludean p.s. My husband's family that I know of are in the southern part of Arkansas. I think they came from Oklahoma to Arkansas. At 01:49 AM 4/29/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Hi, > >I am new to the list. > >I am near Pontotoc County and while in the area would like to do >some researching on some of my collateral families. > >Can I research at the courthouse? Does anyone know what is >available at the Pontotoc courthouse? >Available genealogy at the Pontotoc public library? (I have the >address and hours per the MSGenWeb county site). > >I would be researching some migratory people from Robertson Co TN. >Thomas and Susan Adcock Kidd were in Pontotoc County by maybe a >little before 1840 to about 1852. Then went to Henderson Co TX (we >have one deed for them) > >John Henry Adcock and Louisa Allen (possible first wife Minerva >Fryer) (in Pontotoc about 1840 to before 1860) - looking for traces >of Minerva if she was his first wife. John Henry and Louisa >migrated to Henderson Co TX > >Beverly or Anderson Adcock - he is mentioned on that deed. > >Isaac and Joannah Adcock Basey (spelling) between 1840 and about >1852 in Pontotoc. Believe he died somewhere and she may have been >killed in a massacre going to IL about 1852. > >Also searching for a trace of Zachariah Warren born about 1762 in >Franklin or Henry Co VA. Was in Robertson Co TN 1821. Lost after that. > >Susan Adcock Kidd, Joannah Adcock Basey, John Henry Adcock and >Beverly/Anderson Adcock were brothers and sisters and had lived in >Robertson Co TN. > >Thanks for any help on how to research in Pontotoc MS county seat. > >Gloria Frazier > > > > > >==== MSPONTOT Mailing List ==== >Please avoid flaming (attacking) any single person or the group. This >infraction will earn you immediate removal from the list. > >============================== >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

Kathryn, Thank you for getting in touch. I have no proof but wonder if John Fields who is in Pontotoc County Mississippi with wife Matilda isn't the son of our Old Isaac Fields of Jefferson County Alabama. A daughter of Old Isaac did move to Pontotoc County and there is a Deed there for land from an Isaac Fields to son John 'for love and affection and upkeep for remainder of his life'. Does this sound familiar to you, or do you have an opinion on who the parents of John Fields is? I would be interested to see what you have on John and Matilda. I don't have a whole lot of information on them but will be glad to share what I do have. Thanks again, Rebecca

Is there any information in it about the Looney Family? David Reasons Looney in particular? THANK YOU. Ginny Ayers Spann <>< VASPANN@aol.com RESEARCHING: Ayers, Bennett, Byrom, Fowler, Green, Gross, Hammontree, Kyle, Ladd, Looney, Seabolt & Stone

Document Type: Obit A TRIBUTE published in the pages of The Daily Journal Tupelo, Miss. Feb. > 26, 1970 Entered Into Eternal Rest Wednesday, Feb. 25, 1970 John Reece Rites Today 3 > P.M. At West Heights Baptist PONTOTOC -John Russell Reece, 85, died Wednesday morning at the Pontotoc > Community Hospital. He was a retired farmer and member of the West Heights > Baptist Church. Funeral services will be at 3 P.M. today at the West Heights Baptist Church with > the Rev. Gerald Buckley officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery > with Baldwin Funeral Home in charge. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Georgia Anne Reece; three daughters, Miss > Thelma Reece of Milford, Conn., Mrs. Pearl Critelli of Bridgeport, Conn., > Mrs. Georgia Smith of Bridgeport, Conn.; six sons, Walter of Pontotoc, > Russell of Bridgeport, Aubrey of Memphis, James of Weir, Jimmy D. Reece > with the U.S. Air Force in Turkey, John Raymond Reece of Alabama; 33 > grandchildren; nine great grandchildren.

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Linda, I am interested in your Pearsons. My 4great-grandmother was Martha Ann Pearson who married a James Rush in South Carolina, about 1823. This couple migrated to Greene Co,AL about 1832. Their only son, William Henry, b.c 1825 in SC, married in Pontotoc Co,MS Sophronia Singleton. They were my 3grtgrands. Martha Ann (Pearson) Rush was a daughter of John Pearson, of Fairfield Co.,SC and I believe some of his other Pearson descendants wound up in MS, as well. Any of this mesh with any of yours? Ann

Received an email this morning and they said Maxey was located in Union County as that part had been Pontotoc at one time. Thanks to everyone who was so concerned about the location. I appreciate it so very much. Maybe I can help someone, another time. Georgia

Thank you for your reply. I have been to so many of the cemeteries including Chesterville, is where Thomas Shelton, Jr., lived in 1837 - Just knew he was there and the first row of stones on the right of entrance, were so black I could not read. The next row his son and dau-in-law were buried. Long ago, Cesterville was on the East side of the county. After the Civil War, and they named Lee Co. after Gen. Robert E. Lee, Chesterville, is now on the county line. When going from Lee to Pontotoc Court House - we turned north on the County line Rd., and would have never found it. About to leave we saw a Utility truck & stopped to ask. We had to go to the end of that road -- make a sharp U turn behind the shrubs and down a little hill to the entrance. I just decided they were buried on that first row and let it go (but not forgotten) Asked a cousin in Canada - they thought perhaps the stones were thrown over the fence. Chesterville Cemetery is listed in the Lee Co. MS list of 130. This cemetery was very clean and not even limbs were thrown over the fence. Since their daughter was buried in Euclatubba Cemetery in Saltillo, and since her mother lived with them until her death, I just knew they were buried there. No. We visited the Archives in Jackson, MS - found Thomas & Mary Shelton were buried in Maxey Cemetery, but no address. Thanks, Georgia Hornbuckle Dallas, TX Surnames - all lines form England: WADE, SHELTON, PUTMAN, CROWE, KNOWLES, HARDIN

I am wondering if anyone interested in the Maxey name is aware of CHESTER MAXEY who was president of Whitman College in Walla Walla Washington until sometime after 1958 when I graduated. He was a lovely man, and he had published. I'm sure the college has biographical information on him, and it may be helpful to some of you. His daughter lived in WW for some time. Don't know where she is now. Cheers Jane Land in London

Are you related to the Stephen Pilcher line? Jane ----- Original Message ----- From: <LindaLpearson@aol.com> To: <MSPONTOT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 5:49 PM Subject: Re: [MSPONTOT] Roll Call > Hi, > > I have been lurking and have seen several possible connections, so I decided > to post my Pontotoc County names. As some of you probably know, before the > Civil War Pontotoc County covered a much larger area than the present day > county does. So, some of my lines originated in Pontotoc County and after > the war can be found in Union County and in Lee County. > > Montgomery > McCraw > Bryant > Pilcher > Ledbetter > Pearson > > I am also interested in any collateral lines. > > Linda > > > ==== MSPONTOT Mailing List ==== > Please do not send messages with attachments, HTML, MIME, or any other enhanced text to the list. RootsWeb does not allow messages with those settings through their servers and will only return them to you. > > ============================== > 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 > >

The surnames I am researching in the Pontotoc/Lee/Union county areas are: Caldwell Carter Duke Phillips Bruce Griffin Morgan Pritchard Allen Dickson Christine Caldwell In Illinois _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

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Every scrap of information is appreciated. Please share this Coffee with your genealogy friends and relatives and invite them to join us, as well. To subscribe to this newsletter all they need to do is send a blank email to <SundayCoffee-subscribe@topica.com>. IT'S ALL IN THE NAME OF PROGRESS 1722 He surveyed the results of his day's labor. He'd spent 16 hours hand-plowing nearly two acres of land today ~ just another 38 or so left to go. An additional 20 acres would be left for another year. A digging stick and a stone sickle was all he had those first few months of farming and he wondered then if he'd grow enough food for that first winter. Then he'd learned to use himself to pull a wooden plowshare through the dirt while his wife steered it. Twice the amount of land was cultivated and the family was, for the most part, kept from total starvation. They'd lost two children last year to disease resulting from their poor diet. He wasn't a farmer when they'd left the old country two years ago and he'd struggled to learn this new way of life. Two years ago he was a bookkeeper; but America didn't need bookkeepers. Farming was the anticipated way of life an immigrant could expect. He was glad he'd gotten a start on the cabin last year that his family was still living in. At least he didn't have to worry about another dwelling right away. Still, his wife was pregnant with their 5th child... 1772 The noon sun beat down on him and his oxen, causing sweat to bead up on both. They took a moment's breath, and all were beginning to feel the weariness caused from the last five hours of plowing. He took his weather-beaten hat off and using his forearm, wiped the water from his forehead. But he wasn't one to complain. His Dad's farm was doing well. Dad had passed on 10 years ago after a backbreaking life of working the land for 40 years and as oldest son, he'd inherited it. Had Dad still been living he would have found working the modern, wrought-iron plowshare pulled by an ox to be a joy. Forty five acres of land were being tilled now. Life was easier now; it was good. The tiny, dirt-floor cabin he was born and grew up in gave way to a newer and larger one about 25 years ago. It sat off to the side of the yard and was now used as a barn and storage area. The larger, earthen-floored cabin where he, his wife and the three youngest of their twelve children were living in today could use some fixing up before winter set in. Perhaps their oldest son would come over and help him fix the roof next month. Then again, his son's wife was due to deliver their seventh child then... 1822 He was tired, so tired. He knew it wouldn't be many more years before he'd pass the farm along to his eldest son. Looking back on the old days when Granddad first started the farm, it was hard to believe the operations of an 80-acre farm could be accomplished without a plow. In 1797 the old days were left behind when Charles Newbold invented the cast-iron plow, though he remembers his dad swearing that it would poison the soil and help weeds to grow. It took some time, but gradually Dad and other farmers learned that these beliefs were false. In sixteen hours a day of plowing now he could get done six times the work of his grandfather. The family didn't live in either cabin anymore. A new location up on the hill behind the original, 1719-structure had been cleared and now reflected a two-story farmhouse, though both the log cabins were still in the field near the stream. If they were still alive, both Mother and Grandmother would have been surprised at the handpump that provided running water in the kitchen. And Grandma would be very impressed with this new-fangled wood-burning stove to cook on. No more cooking in pots over an open flame in the fireplace; imagine that! 1952 Seven generations of men in his family had owned this farm and now, he was struggling to keep it. He wondered if his forefathers had gone through times as tough as right now. Seventy-five acres of wheat, corn and other foodstuffs were lying in the mid-summer field, thrusting themselves upward, seeking relief from the overhead clouds. So was he. It had been two weeks since the last rain and if the clouds didn't release a good downpour soon, he knew his harvest would fall far short this year for him to make a profit and keep the farm going. It wasn't supposed to be like this. He'd grown up in farming, knew what had to be done to get the crops to grow; but the weather seemed to be taking advantage of his tough times. He still owed on that used tractor he'd bought last year and the house... after the past winter's blizzards, well, that roof on the house wasn't going to hold up for another bad winter. He was worried, and so was his wife. They needed that rain to fall. It didn't. 2002 BOOM!... BOOM! The sounds resonated throughout the valley. The family and their friends were appalled that the construction company was tearing through what used to be their corn and wheat fields. The house on the hill was already demolished and a grader was leveling the land to lay in a road. Down below sat two delapidated log cabins. The smaller of the two was barely standing. A look inside produced an old stick with clumps of long-ago dried dirt still matted along one end, making it appear that it had been used for digging. Next to it sat a... what in the world was it? A stone in the shape of a sickle? Heaved into a truck meant to haul away rocks and soil, the two, nearly 300-year-old implements meet their final demise. And nearby, an equally old family cemetery lay overgrown with weeds. Will it escape the sights of the surveyor's equipment? I hope so. And, like so many things we see these days, we leave behind those items and memories in the name of progress, then later wonder "what it was like to live back then." Family ... it's what we're all about. Thank you for allowing me to spend this time with you. I hope your week is filled with health, productivity, fun, and above all, filled with love and inner peace. ) ( ) _.-~~-. (@\'--'/. Colleen ('``.__.'`) `..____.'