In a message dated 2/11/2002 6:50:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > Subj:Duke Family > Date:2/11/2002 6:50:54 PM Eastern Standard Time > From:<A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A> > To:<A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A> > > Hi there, Maynard -- > It's been a little while since we've talked. I'm still down here slowly > plodding away with my families. Now what -- I've been told that I have > a GG Grandfather Robert Taylor Duke, b. 1 Jul 1820 in Morgan Co., GA, d. > 22 Feb 1906 in Burke Co., GA. Seems he "is buried in a small cemetery, > just west of the own of Gough, Burke Co, Ga. His grave is well > monumented with dates and inscription." How long ago the little > gravesite was seen, who knows. I think these notes came from a Weakley > Family history book published back in 1963. > > Now my question -- I recall that only a week or so ago you mentioned a > county map you had -- was it Burke -- or Screvian (sp.??) County? I > really don't believe now that I'm thinking about it that it was Burke, > but then you might just have one of that county too. > > I'd certainly like to try to find this place -- at least the name -- do > you have anything showing a small cemetery just west of the little town > of Gough? I thought I'd even perhaps right to the local post office > and/or Methodist Church and see what kind of response I'd perhaps get. > Do you have any ideas?? > I still enjoy all the Poythress "talk" ya'll do with one another -- hope > you and your wife are doing well these days & enjoying that new place. > Just me down here in Gadsden Co., FL > > Linda Clark Smith Hi Linda, great to hear from you again. Thought you had dropped off the radar. Sorry but the map I have is of Screven. And I have never heard of Gough, GA but that doesn't mean anything, someone is always pulling out one of those little towns in that part of the state that I have never heard of. The Duke name came up in early Virginia as a Poythress had a land transaction with an Elizabeth Duke but since the Duke name is all not all that rare and the time frame is so removed I wouldn't try to make anything of it. Just a fragment out of my memory-bone so forget it. However, there is a dandy of a book that will likely have what you want: "Grave Markers in Burke County, Georgia" written in 1974, by Powell, Odom & Hillhouse, published by Chalker Pub. Co. in Waynesboro, Georgia. I go through Waynesboro each year on the way to Sylvania and I doubt seriously if the Chalker Publishing Co. (or much of anything else) is still standing in Waynesboro. It is my impression that Dr. Hillhouse is the reigning expert on Burke County. He collaborated with Dorothy Odom (some linkage there to Poythresses) and Lillian Powell on this book. Dr. Hillhouse also wrote "A History of Burke County, Georgia, 1777-1950." There is no Duke in the index but I wouldn't let that discourage me as the book ( I have a copy and it is easily available) is highly anecdotal.. The "Grave Markers" book shouldn't be too hard to locate either as I see it quoted frequently. Unfortunately, I only have a couple of pages photocopied and they pertain to John Carter Poythress (d. 1862). A real plus is that the authors don't just give you just dry bones copied off tombstones but a whole bunch of peripheral information. For example, after John Carter P's name and dates on the tombstone, there is at least a half page on father George, John's wife and children, etc. etc. And, if Duke was buried in 1906 it is very likely he was buried in a church graveyard and if it's Methodist, that's not a bad place to start. The repository for all the Methodist historical records is over on St. Simons Island. I wrote them about Francis Poythress the KY circuit rider we are interested in and they sent me a couple of dozen xeroxed pages. I don't have the address but I'm sure information or even a search engine would turn it up for you. And, since Duke lived to be 86 years old, he should be all over the Burke censuses. Just about everything else in Burke was burned in one of their 3 courthouse fires but the censuses were kept in.....Washington, I suppose....and those records are still available. Hope this helps. Maybe someone on the wire will have more. Best, Maynard By the way, I'm finding your John Dolan (?) Poythress (almost certainly son of James P. Poythress, the migrant from Screven) listed as a private in some Louisianna regmt. Wonder why? And after "de wahr" he apparently returns to Gadsden County, Florida to start (or continue) his family. Is that any surpirse to you? > >