This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: webb, hohnson,evansMeiserand mant others. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zhB.2ACI/133.378.509.1 Message Board Post: Jan, I to descend from mmeredith b. on my husbands side of family. i have been researchinf meredith b. webb family for 16 years. our direct line as follows my husband his mother bessie webb her father-walker webb walker father- meredith burton webb jr. MB. webb jr father-meredith b. sr MB webb sr father - Jeremiah webb jeremiah sr webb father????? - still looking for that info. Sue

Please change my e-mail to ammaw1234@yahoo.com. Thanks, Julie Hollaway(Cummings in Johnson Co. Tx.)

Please change my e-mail to ammaw1234@yahoo.com. Thanks, Julie Hollaway (Cummings in Johnson Co. Texas)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zhB.2ACI/1173 Message Board Post: Hello! Just uploaded 18 wills, some obits, family group sheets, a great article about a soldiers reunion (CW), all of this information graciously transcribed and donated by Dana Hill and Dick Wood....... Thank You.... The next month or so will be kind of hairy for me, so I will do the best I can to get stuff up....looks like my upload days will be Mondays and Wednesdays for now...........So if you want something to go up let me have it! If you like the new family pages with the group sheets and pictures, I am more than willing to do that for you too. Just let me know. Thank you to all of our friendly helpers here.....you make my life easier! Paulette

I will be away until 11/6/04 so there will be a delay in responding to requests. It will be very helpful when requesting look ups to state which book and also first and last name. If you have requested a look up and have not received a response, please email me again at bliberty1@netzero.com. I am on quite a few county mailing lists and it may have been deleted in error. Bettye

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kennedy Endsley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zhB.2ACI/1172 Message Board Post: Thomas H. Kennedy, 29, (AL) & wife, Nancy E. L., 26 and daughter, Martha S., age 5 are shown in the 1880 Census of Marshall County, TN [NA T9-1269, page 366C]. Civil District 5. Because they are enumerated next to Isaac Newton Endsley, Nancy's (sometimes "Nannie") father, I'm pretty sure their marriage would have taken place in Marshall County. On March 1, 1883, Nancy Kennedy deeded 50 acres she had obtained from her father, Isaac Newton Endsley, to her first cousin, James B. Endsley [Marshall Co. Deed Book C2, page 10]. The wording ot the deed confirms that Nancy was the daughter of Isaac Newton Endsley. Does anyone know anything further about this family?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zhB.2ACI/1167.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I have to ask my uncle Eugene where Major Col Williams Ballou was from but most of what I find myself is in KY . Thank you

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zhB.2ACI/1167.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Anna, Is your earlier years connected to Marshall County Tennessee? If they are, there are people here who would help with Marshall County research. If they are from KY, have you posted to their county board? Paulette

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: collins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zhB.2ACI/1171 Message Board Post: I have received info from a cousin that there is a statue of some sort in the square in Lewisburg of a Henry or John Collins. Can anyone who lives in Lewisburg tell me what the statue is and of who it is??? I would love to have a picture of it if anyone can tell me where to find one? Thanks! Julie

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zhB.2ACI/1167.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: My people ( dad side ) are from KY. My uncle says we come from the line of COL. Williams Ballou . The Family that I can trace back to is a Meredith Ballou his Grandson. Whitley Co Ky . is where Luke and Jacob grew up . Thank you Anna

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zhB.2ACI/1167.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Anna, No, this is not my family, but I thought you were refering to putting family information on the tngenweb for Marshall County. Would you like some of us to take a look for something for you? Marriages, census, cemetery records? Let us know. Paulette

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zhB.2ACI/1167.1.1 Message Board Post: Jacob Ballou ( great grandfather ) had a 10 sibs. Luke M. ( moore ? ) Ballou b. 5-24-1852 is this the same family ? and do you have infor mation too ?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: helton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zhB.2ACI/1170 Message Board Post: I was wondering if you could see if there were any marriages listed for Elisabeth Helton. (Elizabeth) she was born 1840. She was listed as a widow in the 1880 census-but also listed in 1860 as a spinster.. thanks for any help!! rhonda

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Helton, Mount Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zhB.2ACI/1169 Message Board Post: I was looking for a will to Elisabeth Helton (Elizabeth Helton) also (her sister was Addie Helton- she might have been willed something too) I think the last name was "Mount". The will probably would have been 1840-1865 Thanks for any info!!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Meadows, Alexander, Swiney, Davis, Gambil Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zhB.2ACI/1168 Message Board Post: I'm looking for information on John Amos Meadows from Cornersville, Marshall Co., TN. He was married to Sarah A. Alexander (a.k.a "Sally") who died in Davidson Co., TN in 1914. Together, they had at least 2 children: John Bright Meadows (b. June 21, 1880) and Bruce Claiborne Meadows (b. July 13, 1875). John Bright was married to Ivor Swiney, and Bruce Claibore was married to Martha Gambil. Family information passed down says that our family farm in Cornersville was from a Land Grant for service during the Revolutionary war, but I don't have any information on John Amos's Ancestors. One source suspects that John Amos was the son of Archibald Meadows and Sarah Ann Davis, so information about that line.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zhB.2ACI/1163.6.1 Message Board Post: Directions from Book - "It is located four miles northeast of Lewisburg and one and one-half mile west of Farmington, large rock enclosure adjoining the Temple Cemetery."

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zhB.2ACI/1167.1 Message Board Post: If he is from Marshall county of course we would! Send me his picture and a family group sheet and I will put you on the world wide web!~ Paulette

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zhB.2ACI/1166.1 Message Board Post: It is unfortunate that that story is common. So many forgotten cemeteries that are left to rot or be destroyed. Here is a similar story from my neck of the woods that has a positive ending, as I can report that even today this cemetery is still in good shape. From www.interment.net: Restoration of the Faught Cemetery, Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, California by Susan Faught, October 10, 1999 Susan describes her gallant effort to restore a demolished and desecrated cemetery, despite action from county officials to prevent her from doing so. I come from a very close-knit family. While going to college, my interests were always history, archeology, and anthropology. My summers were spent helping out at a local dig which is now Olampali State Park. Than I was married soon after, and devoted my time to raising the four children my husband and I had. History and the curiosity was lost most of those years but when my marriage ended in divorce five years ago, I went back to college. I studied art this time and that in some ways brought back my natural curiosity for the past. Grave stones of Armstrong and Isabel Faught. Click to enlarge. Last year while driving in the country I decided to stop by our private family cemetery that dates back to 1859. I got lost many times trying to locate it because I hadn't been there in over 15 years. When I did find it I was outraged. There was hardly a headstone that was left intact. Pieces and remnants lay strewn across the oak wooded hillside, I saw signs of recent digging, and the beer bottles and cans gave me evidence that this hallowed spot was used over the years as a hangout for parties. I started by spending my weekends cleaning up and hauling away the trash, which did no good at all for on my next visit, I'd have to start all over again. I felt I was fighting a battle I couldn't control. I would turn away equestrians telling them they were on, for one, private property and that this was a cemetery; they couldn't ride their thousand pound animals through here any longer. Some would listen with understanding and respect and others would fight me saying that they hav! e always ridden through the cemetery and would continue to do so. I felt I had to do something drastic in order to preserve what was left of my families cemetery for the future. Lemay area of cemetery. Grave stones knocked over from their places. Click to enlarge. The property is basically divided into two separate areas - a beautiful field with hundred year old oaks, and a treed hillside of the cemetery. I moved a motorhome onto the field, installed power and phone and moved in. I felt that the only way I could protect and preserve this property was by having a 24 hour presence on the property. I started, once again by cleaning the property, and at the same time located a county map that was filed by my family in 1902 when the property was deeded a cemetery. It had been divided up into parcels for each branch of the family and also life-long good neighbors and friends of the Faughts. With this I had at least an idea where the headstones belonged. The parcels were also listed and filed in the county record department, but during the time period were talking about, most were written in pencil and in large books that you literally had to turn each page, scan it for any names you recognized, copy down that information and bring it up in ! microfiche. It was a long, arduous task that meant spending many days searching through many years to, sometimes, find one name. As I was doing the cleanup of the property I would happen on stakes that were partly rotted away and after measuring carefully, I found that these were the actually corners to each parcel. Jabez Faught headstone that Susan brought back up the hill. Click to enlarge. The next step was to try and piece the fragments together and eventually place them in their parcels. I struggled for six months trying out different methods, and finally used a comalong and trees to bring the pieces to where I would cement them back together. Some were smaller and I could carry them with a little effort up the hillside, but others took many weeks. I would work them up the hillside, yard by yard, go home exhausted and give it a try another day. I have them all up the hill where they belong right now except one stubborn spire-shaped piece that is intact and weighs in the hundreds. It had been wedged in the creek bed beneath silt, which required careful removal of the gravel and silt around it, and them covering with an old blanket, wrapping ropes around it and hauling it up a %15 grade. It was after I removed it from the creek bed and brought it over the bank that I discovered that I had no trees around me to use. So here it will sit till I figure out my next! move. Its been frustrating and often times I've wanted to give up, challenging but I was determined, and elated when my plan actually worked. I had, at first tried to locate members of the family that would lend a hand but found that their work schedule or their age did not permit this. I was left with the only option of doing the work myself. I was given a genealogy chart by my ex husband about a month into the work to help decipher who was who and how they were related. This was a great help but it was done from memory. I spent the next (endless) months in the Sonoma County Historic Library sifting through their many volumes of the history for this area. I knew that the three original brother who migrated by wagon train to this area in 1854 must be in some records one way or another as I had seen articles in the local paper about their exploits. I happened on a gold mine, as I like to say. Not only did these volumes hold family members and their biographies, it also held the other neighbors or friends bios that were in this cemetery. Along with these was a listing of offspring and birth and death records. As anyone doing searches on genealogy can say, its a long hard process into the past that often times were lost or hidden. I have come to love and cherish this place; I had no idea last year how involved I would be in the restoration, history, genealogy, or every facet of these people and their kin - I only knew that this was a worthwhile project for not only my family but for Sonoma County as a community. It had brought out my natural instincts as an archeologist, anthropologist, and historian. I assumed that other people felt the same way. I was wrong. Last month, I was notified by Sonoma County, the Department of Resource Management to be exact, that I was in violation. I was told I could no longer "camp" here (their words), my power was to be turned off, and I was ordered to vacate the property. I went in, like every law abiding citizen to try to state my case, reason with them, assure them that what I was attempting was by no means conventional but effective for the time being. I showed them the documents that made this private cemetery a historic landmark for Sonoma County and needed to be protected as such. I asked for ways to protect this property from further destruction if I was forced, by law, to leave. I was told that Sonoma County has hundreds of family cemeteries in just this state of ruin and that was not their concern. This angered me. I made an appointment with my district supervisor thinking that he was my representative in this community - with the same result. His secretary passed on the message that I no! w had 14 days left for power. The original letter posted to me said that I would be imposed with criminal and civil penalties should I chose to stay. I had no other choice - my options were leave and tolerate the destruction that ensued - or stay, be fined and perhaps jailed in defiance. I called the local papers. They responded by doing a story on the plight of this local cemetery. It ran on the Wednesday edition, September 6, 1999. The morning the article came out I was overwhelmed with the response from members of my community. The local paper was receiving more mail in my support. I was contacted by channel 7 of the San Francisco bay area TV station to do a feature. The best part of this story is that I was also contacted by a member of the family I had lost touch with twenty years ago. As she related to me over the phone that night, she and her aged brother were having coffee that morning while reading the paper. She yelled at him to get dressed and to start up the car, thrust the paper at him in explanation, gave a whoop, and they drove over to the cemetery at a break neck pace. Sadly I was at work when they arrived, but when I got home that night to find their note on the motorhome, I was doing my own whooping too. For I had not only recognized the name but also the handwriting. When she and her brother, both around 78 years old, arrived at the property, he sped off without her and yelled down for her to keep up - he wanted to see the cemetery. She said they both cried with joy when they read the article. They had stopped coming here because it had been too heartbreaking for them both. They had raised kids, grandkids, but could find no one interested in preserving this history. When they read the article saying that some member of the family was going to stay in defiance of the county laws and continue with the restoration, they were overjoyed. This fight is by far not over. I know and feel that common sense will prevail. I have a lawyer that is fighting with me now. I have the support of the community with me. I know the county thinks that this is only "one in hundreds of cemeteries" in this county that have been destroyed by vandals so what is the big deal. The big deal is that this is our heritage, it is our roots in society. It is our duty, both yours and mine, to do our utmost to protect and preserve these cemeteries for the future. I'm going to continue to fight for the protection of this cemetery. I will be charged with criminal and civil penalties if it goes that far but I cannot back down now. I'm not fighting for only the right to preserve this cemetery - it could be your county next that has this blase attitude. - Susan Faught [RdDrgan@aol.com]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zhB.2ACI/1167 Message Board Post: Have Pictures of Luke Ballou and his Family would you like to see them ?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zhB.2ACI/1166 Message Board Post: Hi folks...... I was sent this article, and it broke my heart.....I wanted to share with you all in case you have family there....it is in NC, but our lines usually reach there somehow...... I for one, will be having a serious conversation with my children on the sanctity of a cemetery....... Paulette. Wilmington Star-News Wilmington North Carolina October 11, 2004 By Cheryl Welch Staff Writer cheryl.welch@starnewsonline.com Stark white, jagged pieces of granite and marble littered the tree- lined lanes. Decapitated angel statues rested in azalea bushes. Two dozen Ice House beer cans lay crumpled on the grass. It was this scene that met Oakdale Cemetery Superintendent Eric Kozen as he arrived Sunday morning at the cemetery's ornate iron gates. "It was very, very, very heartbreaking for me today," Mr. Kozen said later in the afternoon. "This is just devastating ...." Described as the worst vandalism in Wilmington's Oakdale Cemetery history, he estimated 75 to 100 headstones were toppled or smashed sometime in the wee hours of Sunday morning. The gates were closed and locked at 5 p.m. Saturday, he said, but the vandals must have scaled the fence. The damage was scattered throughout the cemetery, with the heaviest toll in the oldest section. "It's like leaving bread crumbs," Mr. Kozen said, describing the path taken by the vandals - a group he estimated was five to 10 people strong. "They leave a trail of damage going through the cemetery." The majority of the desecrated graves were those who were buried in the mid- to late-1800s and are among the earliest residents of the peaceful city of the dead called Oakdale Cemetery. Garden-like lanes lace through the cemetery's 165 acres, home to more than 26,000 people since its first burial in 1855. Considered a historic landmark by locals, Oakdale Cemetery has been the final resting place for many of Wilmington's distinguished citizens including Edward B. Dudley, the first elected governor of North Carolina, and Henry Bacon Jr., architect of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The graves desecrated include those of: Civil War Col. Champ T.N. Davis who fought and died in the Battle of Seven Pines, Va. in 1862; MaryAnne Murphy who lived through epidemics and the turmoil of Civil War occupation to die at the age of 77 in 1889; and little Henrietta "Etta" Murphy who died in 1858 at the age of one year and two months. Names, dates and scripture etched on the front of graves tell the story of those who reside in the cool soil beneath dozens of toppled monuments. Some of the gravestones hit in the rash of overnight vandalism can't be read due to more than a century of braving the elements. "Oakdale Cemetery is truly an outdoor living museum of Wilmington history," Mr. Kozen said. "They destroyed a good part of history." Wilmington police are investigating the incident and ask anyone with information to come forward. "It looks like a bunch of kids or somebody went out there and had a party and got carried away tearing up tombstones," Lt. B.L. Maultsby said. "It seems to get a little worse this time of year." He said the culprits face felony charges. Mr. Kozen said security at the cemetery will be increased significantly to prevent this from happening again. Margaret McCall, 89, said she believes whoever is responsible for the damage should be horsewhipped. "I'm horrified," she said while visiting the unharmed graves of family members dating back four generations. "Lord have mercy. This is a sacred place." Her daughter, Marion Danforth, said it was family tradition to spend days at the cemetery, picnicking beneath the towering oaks and tending the graves of friends and family. "It's painful," she said, her gaze sweeping across the toppled monuments. "It's such a disrespectful act. It's not something you can quite restore." Due to the age of most of the stones affected, Mr. Kozen doubts he'll be able to locate family members to repair their elders' monuments. In May, 18 gravesites in the older section of the cemetery were vandalized in a similar fashion and he could locate only two of the families. "It really falls upon the family," he said. "The stones are not part of our responsibility but we do take it upon ourselves to do what we need to do." Police estimate the damage at $50,000 but Mr. Kozen said it's hard to put a price on irreplaceable statues and monuments purchased in memory of loved ones. He is asking the community to pull together and give the non-profit cemetery a helping hand to repair what has been destroyed. Cheryl Welch: (910) 343-2315 cheryl.welch@starnewsonline.com Contributions may be mailed to the Oakdale Cemetery Company at 520 North 15th Street, Wilmington NC 28401. For further details, please contact cemetery superintendent Eric Kozen at (910) 762-5682.