Warren, I am looking for a living desendant of Martha Foster and John Henderson from Adams County, MS/ St. Landry Parish, LA. Martha Foster Henderson is buried in a Foster/Ferguson Cemetery in Adams County. A descendant with whom I had contact in 1966, Lois Hines in Fairfield, CT, supplied the following: William Henderson md in SC, 1st Biddie Lea, 2nd Dorothea (?), had son John Henderson who married Martha Foster. Her records show Martha Foster was born 26 June 1781/ died 29 June 1836. the tombstone in our cemetery reads: "In Memory of My Mother, Martha Henderson, d. 29 June 1836, aged 61 yrs 8 mos. John Henderson received a grant for a tract of land that adjoins points of Thomas Foster's land on which this Cemetery is located, although we cannot prove the Thomas Foster connections. Bottom line, we are in a legal battle for ingress/egress and right to maintain this old cemetery which is probably about 60 ft from the public paved road at the edge of the present owner's run down, overgrown property. The cemetery and half acre around it was reserved with right of ingress/egress "for posterity" in an agreement between Ambrose Foster and Joseph Ferguson in 1850. It is assumed that Martha was Ambrose's sister. Any information? Nan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Warren Henderson" <ancanqm@knology.net> To: <mswilkin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 2:01 PM Subject: Re: [MSWILKIN] Ft. Adams, MS. Mile High Hill: Littleberry Thompson > Hi Honey, > I don't know if you remember me or not, but we met in the Wilkinson County > Courthouse. I was looking for more information on Joseph Adkins Henderson, > and you had some pictures you shared with me. I was wondering if you had > found out any more on him, other than what was in the courthouse? > > Clan Henderson has a DNA project, which I participated in. I asked for a > 25 > point match, and so far have had only 6 people that have the same markers > I > do. We have not established a common ancestor yet, but are hoping someone > else from our group will come in with one. > > Please keep in touch, and as soon as I get any more information from the > DNA > I will let you know. > > Your Cousin, > Warren Henderson > > > Message boards: > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.mississippi.counties.wilkinson/mb.ashx > > Webpage: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mswilkin > > archives: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > threaded archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > > collection of Family Histories in LDS Salt Lake City Family History > Library > http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MSWILKIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
Isn't there a law on the books in Mississippi that any 'recorded' cemetery that is in good repair with no one to maintain the cemetery that the county board of supervisors is required to do the maintenance? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nan" <nschuchs@dishmail.net> To: <mswilkin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 12:29 AM Subject: Re: [MSWILKIN] Ft. Adams, MS. Mile High Hill: Littleberry Thompson > Warren, I am looking for a living desendant of Martha Foster and John > Henderson from Adams County, MS/ St. Landry Parish, LA. Martha Foster > Henderson is buried in a Foster/Ferguson Cemetery in Adams County. A > descendant with whom I had contact in 1966, Lois Hines in Fairfield, CT, > supplied the following: > William Henderson md in SC, 1st Biddie Lea, 2nd Dorothea (?), had son > John > Henderson who married Martha Foster. Her records show Martha Foster was > born 26 June 1781/ died 29 June 1836. the tombstone in our cemetery > reads: > "In Memory of My Mother, Martha Henderson, d. 29 June 1836, aged 61 yrs 8 > mos. John Henderson received a grant for a tract of land that adjoins > points of Thomas Foster's land on which this Cemetery is located, although > we cannot prove the Thomas Foster connections. Bottom line, we are in a > legal battle for ingress/egress and right to maintain this old cemetery > which is probably about 60 ft from the public paved road at the edge of > the > present owner's run down, overgrown property. The cemetery and half acre > around it was reserved with right of ingress/egress "for posterity" in an > agreement between Ambrose Foster and Joseph Ferguson in 1850. It is > assumed > that Martha was Ambrose's sister. Any information? > Nan > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Warren Henderson" <ancanqm@knology.net> > To: <mswilkin@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 2:01 PM > Subject: Re: [MSWILKIN] Ft. Adams, MS. Mile High Hill: Littleberry > Thompson > > >> Hi Honey, >> I don't know if you remember me or not, but we met in the Wilkinson >> County >> Courthouse. I was looking for more information on Joseph Adkins >> Henderson, >> and you had some pictures you shared with me. I was wondering if you had >> found out any more on him, other than what was in the courthouse? >> >> Clan Henderson has a DNA project, which I participated in. I asked for a >> 25 >> point match, and so far have had only 6 people that have the same markers >> I >> do. We have not established a common ancestor yet, but are hoping someone >> else from our group will come in with one. >> >> Please keep in touch, and as soon as I get any more information from the >> DNA >> I will let you know. >> >> Your Cousin, >> Warren Henderson >> >> >> Message boards: >> http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.mississippi.counties.wilkinson/mb.ashx >> >> Webpage: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mswilkin >> >> archives: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >> >> threaded archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ >> >> collection of Family Histories in LDS Salt Lake City Family History >> Library >> http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/ >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MSWILKIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > Message boards: > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.mississippi.counties.wilkinson/mb.ashx > > Webpage: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mswilkin > > archives: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > threaded archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > > collection of Family Histories in LDS Salt Lake City Family History > Library > http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MSWILKIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
Where exactly in Adams County is this cemetery? Nick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nan" <nschuchs@dishmail.net> To: <mswilkin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 11:29 PM Subject: Re: [MSWILKIN] Ft. Adams, MS. Mile High Hill: Littleberry Thompson > Warren, I am looking for a living desendant of Martha Foster and John > Henderson from Adams County, MS/ St. Landry Parish, LA. Martha Foster > Henderson is buried in a Foster/Ferguson Cemetery in Adams County. A > descendant with whom I had contact in 1966, Lois Hines in Fairfield, CT, > supplied the following: > William Henderson md in SC, 1st Biddie Lea, 2nd Dorothea (?), had son > John > Henderson who married Martha Foster. Her records show Martha Foster was > born 26 June 1781/ died 29 June 1836. the tombstone in our cemetery > reads: > "In Memory of My Mother, Martha Henderson, d. 29 June 1836, aged 61 yrs 8 > mos. John Henderson received a grant for a tract of land that adjoins > points of Thomas Foster's land on which this Cemetery is located, although > we cannot prove the Thomas Foster connections. Bottom line, we are in a > legal battle for ingress/egress and right to maintain this old cemetery > which is probably about 60 ft from the public paved road at the edge of > the > present owner's run down, overgrown property. The cemetery and half acre > around it was reserved with right of ingress/egress "for posterity" in an > agreement between Ambrose Foster and Joseph Ferguson in 1850. It is > assumed > that Martha was Ambrose's sister. Any information? > Nan > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Warren Henderson" <ancanqm@knology.net> > To: <mswilkin@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 2:01 PM > Subject: Re: [MSWILKIN] Ft. Adams, MS. Mile High Hill: Littleberry > Thompson > > >> Hi Honey, >> I don't know if you remember me or not, but we met in the Wilkinson >> County >> Courthouse. I was looking for more information on Joseph Adkins >> Henderson, >> and you had some pictures you shared with me. I was wondering if you had >> found out any more on him, other than what was in the courthouse? >> >> Clan Henderson has a DNA project, which I participated in. I asked for a >> 25 >> point match, and so far have had only 6 people that have the same markers >> I >> do. We have not established a common ancestor yet, but are hoping someone >> else from our group will come in with one. >> >> Please keep in touch, and as soon as I get any more information from the >> DNA >> I will let you know. >> >> Your Cousin, >> Warren Henderson >> >> >> Message boards: >> http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.mississippi.counties.wilkinson/mb.ashx >> >> Webpage: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mswilkin >> >> archives: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >> >> threaded archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ >> >> collection of Family Histories in LDS Salt Lake City Family History >> Library >> http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/ >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MSWILKIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > Message boards: > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.mississippi.counties.wilkinson/mb.ashx > > Webpage: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mswilkin > > archives: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > threaded archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > > collection of Family Histories in LDS Salt Lake City Family History > Library > http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MSWILKIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.12.0/959 - Release Date: 8/17/2007 > 5:43 PM >
----- Original Message ----- From: "cmusik" <cmusik@bellsouth.net> To: <mswilkin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 9:43 AM Subject: Re: [MSWILKIN] Ft. Adams, MS. Mile High Hill: Littleberry Thompson The Foster/Ferguson Cemetery is on Morgantown Rd., N. of Natchez. James, Thomas, William, and John Foster (the latter of Wilkinson Co. and Texas) had a brother whose name we have not been able to discover, left daughter Nancy. William reared Nancy's orphaned children when she and spouse William Lum died. We firmly believe the Ambrose Foster in this cemetery is Nancy's brother, and Martha most likely another sister. The owner has forbidden us to clean the cemetery, although we have done so periodically through the years. It has been the victim of vandalizm (probably by her sons in their growing up years) in that a beautiful wrought iron fence and brick wall have been destroyed and at least one oblisk toppled over. We last cleaned it in April 2005. I even dug plants from my yard and took them to the lady, as she vowed years ago someone had sprayed and killed her garden. (Not true). she is just a crank. When I returned with an out of town visitor to show her the cemetery, the lady's son met me at the road and said I was not to come on their property. all reasoning and cajoling failed, so now an attorney is working on it. Nan > Where exactly in Adams County is this cemetery? > Nick > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nan" <nschuchs@dishmail.net> > To: <mswilkin@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 11:29 PM > Subject: Re: [MSWILKIN] > >> Warren, I am looking for a living desendant of Martha Foster and John >> Henderson from Adams County, MS/ St. Landry Parish, LA. Martha Foster >> Henderson is buried in a Foster/Ferguson Cemetery in Adams County. A >> descendant with whom I had contact in 1966, Lois Hines in Fairfield, CT, >> supplied the following: >> William Henderson md in SC, 1st Biddie Lea, 2nd Dorothea (?), had son >> John >> Henderson who married Martha Foster. Her records show Martha Foster was >> born 26 June 1781/ died 29 June 1836. the tombstone in our cemetery >> reads: >> "In Memory of My Mother, Martha Henderson, d. 29 June 1836, aged 61 yrs 8 >> mos. John Henderson received a grant for a tract of land that adjoins >> points of Thomas Foster's land on which this Cemetery is located, >> although >> we cannot prove the Thomas Foster connections. Bottom line, we are in a >> legal battle for ingress/egress and right to maintain this old cemetery >> which is probably about 60 ft from the public paved road at the edge of >> the >> present owner's run down, overgrown property. The cemetery and half acre >> around it was reserved with right of ingress/egress "for posterity" in >> an >> agreement between Ambrose Foster and Joseph Ferguson in 1850. It is >> assumed >> that Martha was Ambrose's sister. Any information? >> Nan >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Warren Henderson" <ancanqm@knology.net> >> To: <mswilkin@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 2:01 PM >> Subject: Re: [MSWILKIN] Ft. Adams, MS. Mile High Hill: Littleberry >> Thompson >> >> >>>. I was looking for more information on Joseph Adkins >>> Henderson, >>> and you had some pictures you shared with me. I was wondering if you had >>> found out any more on him, other than what was in the courthouse? >>> >>> Clan Henderson has a DNA project, which I participated in. I asked for a >>> 25 >>> point match, and so far have had only 6 people that have the same >>> markers >>> I >>> do. We have not established a common ancestor yet, but are hoping >>> someone >>> else from our group will come in with one. >>> >>> Please keep in touch, and as soon as I get any more information from the >>> DNA >>> I will let you know. >>> >>> Your Cousin, >>> Warren Henderson >>> >>>