My husband and I were copying stones one day and had one we could not read. There had been a rain and there was wet fine sand all around. Mayo gently sprinkled and tossed sand onto the stone. It made the letters and numbers visible enough to get a very good picture of the stone. No damage. Whew! Bertie Dancer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janice Switcher" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 11:51 PM Subject: [MSTISHOM-L] Head Stones > Thank you both so much for the info.We will definantly not do any thing to damage the stones. We like > both ideas. > Thanks, > Janice & Helah > > > ==== MSTISHOM Mailing List ==== > =========================================================== > If you need to, you can contact the list owner at; > [email protected]
Thank you both so much for the info.We will definantly not do any thing to damage the stones. We like both ideas. Thanks, Janice & Helah
I would like to know what funeral homes were in business in 1910-15 that would have served the Burnsville Area and what is their business name today. Since the newspapers for that period were destroyed, perhaps the undertaker would have an obituary or some information. Anybody know the answers? Thanks, Tom Hulse
Janice, The best thing I have found is a non-chemical white foam and a squeegee. Spray the foam on and around the lettering, and then use the squeegee to wipe away the excess. This will usually leave enough white foam in the letters to be able to read them. For foam you may have to use a very mild shaving lather. Carry water to rinse away any leavings. It is important to NOT clean the stone in most cases, because of the possibility of damage. Before cleaning, you should get an expert opinion. By-the-way, damage you do may not be apparent next year or the next, but can accelerate the normal aging process. Jack Hurst ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janice Switcher" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 8:32 PM Subject: [MSTISHOM-L] Head Stones > Can any one tell me what to use to be able to see very old head stones.I knew once but have forgotten. > Thanks,Janice > > > ==== MSTISHOM Mailing List ==== > (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( > " DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS TO THE MAILING LIST " > >
Take a large piece of paper and tape over letters. Then using a pencil or crayon make a rubbing. You can read what is on the head stone and have a record of it at the same time. Ruth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janice Switcher" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 7:32 PM Subject: [MSTISHOM-L] Head Stones > Can any one tell me what to use to be able to see very old head stones.I knew once but have forgotten. > Thanks,Janice > > > ==== MSTISHOM Mailing List ==== > (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( > " DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS TO THE MAILING LIST " > >
Can any one tell me what to use to be able to see very old head stones.I knew once but have forgotten. Thanks,Janice
Who was the Mrs. R R Leedy who furnished information to the McPeters Funeral Home in 1921 on Annie Eliza Whitehurst when she passed away? Was this a daughter or sister? Could this name be Reedy? I need to correspond with one of Mrs. Leedy or Reedy's kin. Or descendants. dale johnson huntsville,al.
I have a death certificate for Theodore Roosevelt Pace (my grandmother's brother). It says he died 3-1-1926 as the result of "severe burns of both legs" and "neglect for months". It seems to indicate he was burned 5 months 19 days prior --- about mid-September, 1925. Does anyone have access to old copies of the Corinth newspaper for that period of time where there might be some article about the fire or whatever might have caused the burns? He was a laborer in a sawmill at the time and only 17 years old. I would really like to know the story. Thank you for any help. Dianne
Brenda, Ellen's Parents were Enoch Wesley "Bud" Morris b. 1846; d. 1932 and Hester Tennessee Moore. They were married 9/28/1867 in Tishomingo Co. Their other children were Ed, Jim, Mattie, John William(Willie), Roxie - I have seen pictures of her, She had a club foot and had to wear her shoe sideways, Dollie and Elmer. Ellen was the baby. Ellen was married to Lon Nichols before she married my grandfather. If this is the family you are looking for, I have more on them and further generations. Hope this helps!! Sandy ---- Sorry it took so long to answer, for some reason, this message got sent to junk mail! > >Sandy, Tell me more about the Morris family. Who was Ellen's parents? >Brenda _________________________________________________________________ Find things fast with the new MSN Toolbar includes FREE pop-up blocking! http://clk.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200414ave/direct/01/
Sandy, Tell me more about the Morris family. Who was Ellen's parents? Brenda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandy Stolze" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 5:56 PM Subject: [MSTISHOM-L] Hindman Family > HELP! I have hit a brick wall. My dad was born near Iuka. Actually, > there is a road named after my grandfather, Willie Hindman in Coleman Park. > That > is the old homestead. I am having trouble finding any information for > Willie's > parents. He was born 9/3/1885, d. 11/17/1951. He married Ellen Morris abt > 1911. > I have a lot of information about the Morris side of the family, but an > stuck on > the Hindmans. There is some census evidence that suggests his name may have > actually been John William, but I can't confirm that this is the correct > family > - the dates do seem to match up. The family lived around Iuka and around the > Counce, Childers Hill, Shiloh Park,... area in TN. I would love to share > information with anyone else looking for or having information on thius > family. > > Thanks! > > Sandy > > _________________________________________________________________ > Store more e-mails with MSN Hotmail Extra Storage - 4 plans to choose from! > http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200362ave/direct/01/ > > > ==== MSTISHOM Mailing List ==== > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > " DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS TO THE MAILING LIST " > > >
HELP! I have hit a brick wall. My dad was born near Iuka. Actually, there is a road named after my grandfather, Willie Hindman in Coleman Park. That is the old homestead. I am having trouble finding any information for Willie's parents. He was born 9/3/1885, d. 11/17/1951. He married Ellen Morris abt 1911. I have a lot of information about the Morris side of the family, but an stuck on the Hindmans. There is some census evidence that suggests his name may have actually been John William, but I can't confirm that this is the correct family - the dates do seem to match up. The family lived around Iuka and around the Counce, Childers Hill, Shiloh Park,... area in TN. I would love to share information with anyone else looking for or having information on thius family. Thanks! Sandy _________________________________________________________________ Store more e-mails with MSN Hotmail Extra Storage 4 plans to choose from! http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200362ave/direct/01/
I'll check your web, (suppose it has details of Moreland's and Ike Stone's remarkable war story) meantime, if I get to the office today, I'll see what notes I made from the trip to the UM library. It had some patchy, incomplete rosters of some of the unts, but not my G/gf's. I failed to mention, my G/gf was Samuel Alexander Vaughan, s/o George Washington Vaughan. He was only 15 (guess he got in because he had a horse )when he joined the Moreland Reg having served prior with the Honey Springs Home Guard at Iuka and did a couple of battles in MS and W-AL. RRH
I may be able to help a little on this. My G/gf (and i'm old enough to have known him when I was a yyoungster) was in Moreland's Reg. He received his pension from the State of TX but had several endorsers with MS connections. I recall the Grisham name in some docs I've seen on the area since it is so popular these days. Some of my info was taken from the "Battle of Iuka" and "History of Tish CO" found in the research area of the UM Library. Have notes at the office and will followup if you think might be of help? RRamsy Hefton
Oh yes! I would greatly appreciate any help on these folks I can get! If I could actually find Nancy's pension file, it may give us the date she died. Samuel Grisham supposedly died in Missouri in 1867 and then Nancy came back and lived with one her daughters who married a McDougal, but I cannot find her on the 1870 census, nor in 1900. She claimed she was living with Jasper Streetman, her son-in-law, when she applied for the Widow's Pension. I think she was also getting some sort of state pension too, but I don't know what that would have been. thanks! Will ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 11:16 AM Subject: Re: [MSTISHOM-L] Nancy E. Davis Grisham > I may be able to help a little on this. My G/gf (and i'm old enough to have > known him when I was a yyoungster) was in Moreland's Reg. He received his > pension from the State of TX but had several endorsers with MS connections. I > recall the Grisham name in some docs I've seen on the area since it is so popular > these days. Some of my info was taken from the "Battle of Iuka" and "History of > Tish CO" found in the research area of the UM Library. Have notes at the > office and will followup if you think might be of help? > RRamsy Hefton > > > ==== MSTISHOM Mailing List ==== > ======================================================== > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Please keep Chat mail private. Only post to the list what you wish > everyone to Recieve. >
I want you to know that I have found more information regarding my Alcorn and Tishomingo families in those records than anywhere else I had searched. Through the next of kin and other information they contain, the McPeter's records have pointed me to many of my grandmother's family that I don't know how I would have found -- or even known about. Thank you and please keep up the great work. Dianne.
This is what makes mine and Helah`s day.To know that we have helped people fine their families,and makes us work even harder to present more.Thank You Dianne. Janice Switcher & Helah Wilson ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 10:55 AM Subject: Re: [MSTISHOM-L] Seeking information > I found that the McPeter's Funeral Home records at the Alcorn County Website > have been the greatest tool for finding death information on my family. You > should give that a try. > Dianne > > > ==== MSTISHOM Mailing List ==== > > >
Hi, Vicki -- I just tried to access the Tishomingo County web site and instead got MPInet.com at this URL: http://www.mpinet.com/ When I tried to access the Alcorn County web site, instead I only got a "Page Not Found" message at http://www.nadata.net/genealogy/alcorn/index.html MPInet.com comes up instead of the rest of the links (Tippah County; Prentiss Co, MS; McNairy Co, TN; Lauderdale Co, AL; and the Tippah County Confederate Pages). After clicking on the these links, I first see in my browser window "http://www.corinth.org" and then it goes to the MPInet site. On some, it goes straight to the MPInet address shown above without showing the Corinth.org address in the browser window. When the Corinth.org address is shown in the browser window, it's only there very briefly and the Corinth site does not load; it just switches to MPInet. What's happening? Becky Smith
What was her husband's name. There is not a Grisham entry for applied Civil War pensions in Tishomingo County. Brenda ----- Original Message ----- From: "wolfman" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 8:51 PM Subject: [MSTISHOM-L] Nancy E. Davis Grisham > Who was Nancy Davis Grisham staying with in 1870? I have heard she was staying with one of the McDougals, but I cannot find her. Hope someone can help me. Also looking for her in 1900 and 1910. She supposedly applied for a Confederate Widow's Pension in Tishomingo in 1910, for her husband's CS service in Moreland's AL Cavalry Battalion, Co D. > > Thanks, > > Wolfman > ============================= > W. D. "Wolfman" Smith's Genealogy and Civil War Page: > http://web.infoave.net/~wolfman > "Hood's Generals - the Confederate Army of TN 1864" > http://web.infoave.net/~wolfman/csagenerals.htm > > > > ==== MSTISHOM Mailing List ==== > =========================================================== > If you need to, you can contact the list owner at; > [email protected] > > >
We maybe having server problems.........But I can go to the sites .........Please try the URL's below. Bobbie Brewer Wilson Tishomingo County MS http://www.freedom2000net.com/genealogy/tishom/index.html Alcorn County MS http://www.freedom2000net.com/userpages/genealogy/Alcorn/index.html Prentiss County, Mississippi http://www.rootsweb.com/~msprenti/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandra Cox" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 7:30 PM Subject: Re: [MSTISHOM-L] Web site trouble > I cannot reach Alcorn Co. site either. > > Sandra > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 6:11 PM > Subject: Re: [MSTISHOM-L] Web site trouble > > > > Yes, cannot reach Alcorn Co site today. > > Dianne > > > > > > ==== MSTISHOM Mailing List ==== > > ======================================================== > > Please remember to include your SURNAMES in the SUBJECT Line. > > > > > > > > ==== MSTISHOM Mailing List ==== > > > > <--------------------------------------------------------------------------- -> > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by NA DataNet using Declude Antivirus] > > <----------------------------------------------------------------------------> [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by NA DataNet using Declude Antivirus]
I was but i took out my shortcut icon and redid it and now it works. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vicki Roach" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 5:32 PM Subject: [MSTISHOM-L] Web site trouble > Is anyone else having trouble accessing the Alcorn and/or Tish. Co. websites? > Vicki > Alcorn Co. Genealogical Society > http://www.avsia.com/acgs > My Home page > http://www.genealogy.com/users/r/o/a/Vicki-B-Roach/ > > > ==== MSTISHOM Mailing List ==== > **************************************************************************** ******* > " DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS TO THE MAILING LIST " > > >