Promises, promises - may take me a while, but I like to keep 'em. Several months ago, Jan Craven sent me an Index she created for the scrapbook her two ggaunts kept while living in Marshall, and I finally got it uploaded today. If you have ancestors who either married or died some time between 1870 and 1901, you'll want to see this new addition to the Harrison Co. TXGenWeb site. I'd love to have been able to copy all the clippings, but I did include one so you can see what a treasure this scrapbook is. Check it out at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txharris/scrapbook.htm Thank you, Jan! Gail

Hey, Rusty, We need some rain AND cool down here in south Louisiana too. It' hot enough to pop corn on the cob in the fields! Jan At 08:56 PM 6/17/1998 -0400, you wrote: > > >On Wednesday, June 17, 1998 7:48 PM, Gail Brown [SMTP:rexbrown@prysm.net] wrote: >> Hi all, >> >-------------- clip---------------------- > >> Have a great week - hope wherever you are, it's cooler than Texas! Pray >> for rain - please!!! > >Gail - Tell you what, I'll swap you some of our rain for some of your heat!!!!!!! > >Rusty, in record setting rainy NH (and cool to go with that) <g>! > > >==== TXHARRISON Mailing List ==== >Even though all members of this list are completely trustworthy, it's not >a good idea to post your travel plans to the list. > > >

On Wednesday, June 17, 1998 7:48 PM, Gail Brown [SMTP:rexbrown@prysm.net] wrote: > Hi all, > -------------- clip---------------------- > Have a great week - hope wherever you are, it's cooler than Texas! Pray > for rain - please!!! Gail - Tell you what, I'll swap you some of our rain for some of your heat!!!!!!! Rusty, in record setting rainy NH (and cool to go with that) <g>!

Hi all, The June 1998 issue of the Harrison County Genealogical Society Newsletter is now online! Go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~txharris/hcgs3.htm to see what's happening. My article on cemetery listings is there, plus a wonderful piece Darlene Hofer wrote on finding her half-brother. If you saw last month's issue, you'll remember the first installment. There's other valuable information, too, just like every issue. Check it out - but, better yet, join the society and receive your own copy 4 times a year. Dues are only $10 a year - What a bargain! - and are due now. (Hate to sound like a broken record, but it really is a good thing.) If at all possible, I try to join societies - either historical or genealogical at my major counties of research. If you have any ideas for inclusion in the newsletter - or if you want to write a short piece, let me know, and I'll pass it on to the editor. The next issue in September will be a longer one. Have a great week - hope wherever you are, it's cooler than Texas! Pray for rain - please!!!

Dear Fellow Harrison County Researchers, Need your help. We are traveling from California to do some research in Harrison County. Trying to locate where the following people are buried: #1 - George THOMAS b. 1826 and wife Cynthis (Syntha) RICHARDSON b.1824 They came to Harrison County around 1839. #2 - Their daughter: Mary Judith (Judah)THOMAS and her husband William M. RICHARDSON. Married in Harrison County 1849. #3 - William THOMAS (died before 1860) and wife Lucy CANNON. George THOMAS's brother who came to Harrison County in the 1830-1840s. Found a number of their descendants (RICHARDSONs & HICKEYs) buried at Noonday Cemetery in Hallsville. But have been unable to find out where the THOMAS's are buried. Thank you for any help or information you can provide. Jacqueline BUSBY Cochran Researching: BUSBY/RICHARDSON/THOMAS/HICKEY/LOVELACE/GRIFFIN/COGBURN

Pat - I did a quick check on the cemetery records database we are building up and found some of your names in the Harrison Co cemeteries we already have posted. Try: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txharris/harrison.htm and you will find some matches. At this point, you will have to go through each of the cemeteries. It will be some time before we post the 'all names' index. And keep checking the site from time to time as we are posting new cemetery listings every few days.... as long as the volunteers keep up the great work they have been doing. Bruce C. Cook AKA "Rusty" Garrison Graphics - Scanning, binding and printing for genealogists bccook@nh.ultranet.com On Thursday, June 11, 1998 6:45 PM, PAT TALLEY [SMTP:ptalley@gte.net] wrote: > Searching for the following surnames, CANNON, BRASSELL, THOMAS, SMITHSON, > CLARK, AND GARRETT. Time frame would be 1850-1870. > tahnks in advance. > Pat > > > ==== TXHARRISON Mailing List ==== > When you return from vacation, you may resubscribe by sending a message > to TXHARRISON-L-request@rootsweb.com with just the word > subscribe >

Searching for the following surnames, CANNON, BRASSELL, THOMAS, SMITHSON, CLARK, AND GARRETT. Time frame would be 1850-1870. tahnks in advance. Pat

Hi! I'm still trying to find out any little tidbit of information on W.W.O. STANFIELD (William Wall Oliver Stanfield), his wife, Mary Ann RAMSDALE, or her parents FRANCIS AND ANN RAMSDALE. Please let me know if you run across anything about them or their son, THOMAS LIDDLE STANFIELD. Thanks in advance, and keep up the good work! rjdeshong@aol.com

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Oh, Kimberly!! Last year my hub. won a sales award trip to Hawaii and *I* took pictures of cemeteries while everyone else took pictures of volcano's LOL, Jan At 11:20 AM 6/10/1998 -0500, you wrote: >Trip, > To be so lucky.... I envy ya'll!!! Would love to roam cemeteries in >SC,GA,AL especially. > I found a record of Darling Jones buried in Longtown Baptist Cm, Fairfield >Co., SC b.1/19/1759 d. 11/5/1828. Think this might be father of my Wm. >Elias Jones of Harrison Co. > A cousin at our recent reunion said I was in desparate need of a "Life".. >every time I get a chance, I go to cemeteries.. Glad to hear I'm not alone!! > >Kimberly > > This >>past weekend my wife and I went to Charleston, Buford, and James Island, >>South Carolina looking in graveyards that date back to the 1700s with folks >>that were born in the 1600s. > > >==== TXHARRISON Mailing List ==== >Be sure to visit Harrison County TXGenWeb at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txharris/harrison.htm > > >

Glad to know I'm not the only "necrologist" running around the internet [Look it up in the dictionary before you jump all over me <BG>. Not the same as a "necrophiliac"..... ] Rusty On Wednesday, June 10, 1998 12:20 PM, Kimberly [SMTP:dudette@e-tex.com] wrote: > Trip, > To be so lucky.... I envy ya'll!!! Would love to roam cemeteries in > SC,GA,AL especially. > I found a record of Darling Jones buried in Longtown Baptist Cm, Fairfield > Co., SC b.1/19/1759 d. 11/5/1828. Think this might be father of my Wm. > Elias Jones of Harrison Co. > A cousin at our recent reunion said I was in desparate need of a "Life".. > every time I get a chance, I go to cemeteries.. Glad to hear I'm not alone!! > > Kimberly > > This > >past weekend my wife and I went to Charleston, Buford, and James Island, > >South Carolina looking in graveyards that date back to the 1700s with folks > >that were born in the 1600s. > > > ==== TXHARRISON Mailing List ==== > Be sure to visit Harrison County TXGenWeb at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txharris/harrison.htm >

Trip, To be so lucky.... I envy ya'll!!! Would love to roam cemeteries in SC,GA,AL especially. I found a record of Darling Jones buried in Longtown Baptist Cm, Fairfield Co., SC b.1/19/1759 d. 11/5/1828. Think this might be father of my Wm. Elias Jones of Harrison Co. A cousin at our recent reunion said I was in desparate need of a "Life".. every time I get a chance, I go to cemeteries.. Glad to hear I'm not alone!! Kimberly This >past weekend my wife and I went to Charleston, Buford, and James Island, >South Carolina looking in graveyards that date back to the 1700s with folks >that were born in the 1600s.

To Gail, all the leg work bunch, and typists - I for one want to tell you how much I appreciate all of the hard work. I really do wish I were there in good ole' Texas, especially Harrison County and Panola so I could be helping. I spend every available minute I have in some graveyard. This past weekend my wife and I went to Charleston, Buford, and James Island, South Carolina looking in graveyards that date back to the 1700s with folks that were born in the 1600s. Now that's exciting. I found a few of my distant cousins on my mother's side. (my dad is the Harrison connection). Here is an entry I have in my Hill family files from Mrs. Inez Hughes, our former great Historical Librarian in Marshall. OLD BORDER CHURCH and CEMETERY - Harrison County, Texas (Information from Historical Museum Library, Marshall) "Now a large, not well kept cemetery. Could find only one white grave with marker. There may be others under the piled-up brush. The white cemetery is in the middle of the Negro cemetery. The old church was moved to the site of the present Concord Cemetery. Mr. Sidney Coleman of Waskom tells me several of the white graves and stones were moved from old Border to Concord. The one marked "white grave" has a bronze plaque set in a cement block and reads as follows: Mary Catherine James Steel 1789-1840 wife of Reverend William Steel established Old Border Episcopal Church in 1839 HILL CEMETERY NEAR WASKOM Harrison County, Texas Old cemetery in a field near the Ark-La Gasoline Plant about 1 mile off F.M. Road 9. (the Waskom burying Ground). Heavily grown with brush and no longer kept up. There are a number of graves marked only by fieldstones and several built up with brick with no markers. Some of the Rudds were formerly buried here but have been moved to Restland Cemetery in Waskom." I once jumped the fence to this old cemetery and it was getting too late for me to do any good. I have been told that however bought this land many years ago just bulldozed right over the biggest part of the cemetery and piled up the stones. There was a few noticeable stones still standing and some of the older Waskom graves behind their own gated fence. The oldest Hill descendent that I can trace back to is William Spalding Hill and his wife Catherine Ingram Hill who I believe were buried here in the early 1850s. If anyone is able to check out this location and really give the place a good going over to see is there are any stacked stones, please let me know. Yours in spirit, from South Carolina. Trip Wilson 201 S. Franklin Drive Florence, South Carolina 29501 acwilson@southtech.net -----Original Message----- From: Jan Craven <jcraven@iamerica.net> To: TXHARRISON-L@rootsweb.com <TXHARRISON-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 5:34 AM Subject: Re: Smyrna Cemetery >TOO FUNNY! >I have an ancestor buried under a rock in Harrison Co! But I don't know which >rock! Old Peter Whetstone is under a rock. (Pun unintended!VBG) >Sure wish I knew which rock! >Jan >At 10:13 PM 6/8/1998 -0500, you wrote: >>Jean and all, >> >>I heard a genealogy talk last year from someone who wanted to prove >>where her ancestors were buried in Tennessee - something about inserting >>a tube through the earth where she thought they were and testing the >>D.N.A. :) >> >>OK now, everybody with an ancestor hiding under a rock, say Amen! (And >>a deafening roar was heard...) >> >>Gail >> >>JCope8007@aol.com wrote: >>> >>> I know Austin Copeland is buried at Smyrna Cemetery but there is no marker, >>> just a rock and I would like to be able to prove which rock he is under. >Like >>> most of my ancestors they all have hidden under rocks. >>> >>> Jean >> >> >>==== TXHARRISON Mailing List ==== >>Unsubscribe from the mail list by sending a message to >mailto:TXHARRISON-L-request@rootsweb.com >> that contains the word unsubscribe in the body of the message. >> >> >> >> > > >==== TXHARRISON Mailing List ==== >Unsubscribe from the mail digest by sending a message to >mailto:TXHARRISON-D-request@rootsweb.com >that contains the word unsubscribe in the body of the message. >

Trip. This Hill Cemetery you are speaking of was my Hill family. Thomas Chappell Hill is buried there along with his wife, Amie Wallace Davenport Hill. Several of their children who died in childhood and infancy were buried there too. Gail, These are the parents of the ladies who kept the scrapbook. I went there with my Mother in the early 70's and the cem was still pretty much intact. I copied the graves that were still there. The Rudds HAD been moved into Wascom. One of their daughters married Jonothan Davenport Rudd. All these folks came to Harrison co in the mid 1850s from Newberry Co., SC. Year before last, when I was visiting in Marshall, Bill Randolph took me back to the cemetery. There were only three graves left. Thomas, Amie and Ion Lillian Hill, one of their daughters who died in 1867 at the age of 10. There were two marked baby graves there in the 70's that were not there anymore. I remember other graves there, but didn't write them down. If someone wants to check this out, Bill can tell you where the cem is. Now it is in someone's front yard! But at one time it was part of the Hill/Rudd farms. As far as I know, your William Spalding Hill was not kin to Thomas. That is not to say that he wasn't <BG> Jan

On Tuesday, June 09, 1998 12:44 PM, Kimberly [SMTP:dudette@e-tex.com] wrote: > Rusty, > I can see, from your description.. you and Gail are NOT getting the > "praise" you deserve!!!! Lots of steps involved there... but results is > great!!! and VERY much Appreciated. The over-all index is going to be > outstanding... Thank you <g>, but actually, it is pretty easy. Sounds like a lot, but getting easier every time I do it. Still in the learning curve at this point. With Office-97, creating the html file is virtually automatic. How about checking Access and see if it will output a file in "dbf.IV" format. If so, and if you wouldn't mind, I would like to have you send me a copy on diskette, and then I could reformat the two cemeteries [Eagle Creek and Forrest Hills] so they matched the others I have done. Problem with them as they are now on the webpage [and it is a small problem] is that they run off the righthand side when viewed with Internet Explorer. You can scroll across and get all the information, but, if you want to print out all or a portion, the right side is cut off. Let me know what your feelings on this are. > I used ACCESS database for Forest Hill and Eagle Creek and exported to txt > file for Gail. Didn't know what she needed.. Creating a webpage is beyond > me. I have EXCELL with MS Office 97 and LOTUS SmartSuite.. so maybe can > type future "intentions" in the program you need to save you some work. Does your Lotus SmartSuite include Approach? I bought one of the reduced price packages of Office-97, which does not include Access. So, depending on the available outputs from Access, if it won't do a dbf.IV format, I would prefer stuff in Lotus Approach. > In fact, could have e-mailed you the ACCESS database and exported from > ACCESS to EXCELL.. Have you determined a structure in EXCELL to fit on the > screen? Column width etc.?? I will share my EXCELL program with anyone > willing to help with typing if it will eliminate some of your work. From > what I remember, Greenwood, City, Algoma and Colonial Park are gonna > involve a lot of typing.. Each time with Excel it is a little different. When I dump the file from the database program to Excel, I start with the Surnam column and scroll down, adjusting to get the longest name to just fit in the column. Then do the same thing for each of the following columns. Then, when I have that right, I save it. Then open a Word document and import the Excel file. Then have to adjust the columns again so that they fit on the page [Inscription and Comments columns are usually the problem ones.] As fo Algoma and Colonia Park, don't think we are going to mess with them. Just too BIG! And, I think people can write them and get the info, as I understand they are commercial cemeteries. > Hope those doing "leg work" know they are appreciated.. especially in this > near 100 heat, sun, wind and fire ants!!! and the ticks in the unkept > ones!!! Don't want to scare off any future volunteer so won't mention the > snakes.<g> Don't tell Sue Ware about the snakes <VBG>! Rusty

When you are searching the South Carolina Cemeteries, I would like for you to be on the look out for Copeland names. I know Austin Copeland was born 1805 in South Carolina and died in Harrison County, Texas, but would sure like to know who his parents were. Jean

Rusty, I can see, from your description.. you and Gail are NOT getting the "praise" you deserve!!!! Lots of steps involved there... but results is great!!! and VERY much Appreciated. The over-all index is going to be outstanding... I used ACCESS database for Forest Hill and Eagle Creek and exported to txt file for Gail. Didn't know what she needed.. Creating a webpage is beyond me. I have EXCELL with MS Office 97 and LOTUS SmartSuite.. so maybe can type future "intentions" in the program you need to save you some work. In fact, could have e-mailed you the ACCESS database and exported from ACCESS to EXCELL.. Have you determined a structure in EXCELL to fit on the screen? Column width etc.?? I will share my EXCELL program with anyone willing to help with typing if it will eliminate some of your work. From what I remember, Greenwood, City, Algoma and Colonial Park are gonna involve a lot of typing.. Hope those doing "leg work" know they are appreciated.. especially in this near 100 heat, sun, wind and fire ants!!! and the ticks in the unkept ones!!! Don't want to scare off any future volunteer so won't mention the snakes.<g> Kimberly >I'm using Lotus Approach, just because that is the one I had. It uses the >'dbf.iv' format, but can work with databases in quite a few other formats >as well. > >I input the information into the database. Then I export the data for the >cemetery in question to Exel, do some column adjustments there. Finally, I >export it into an Office-97 Word document, readjust the column width, and >save it as an html file. [Office-97 will automatically create an html file >for you <g>]. Finally, I edit the html file to try and make sure that all >the columns will show on the page when viewed on the internet so that >people can print it out and get all the info. > >I have input your Forrest Hill and Eagle Creek cemeteries into my database >already, just so that I would have them when I produce an 'all-names' index >later in the project - when we get quite a few more of the cemeteries on >line. Not doing it yet as it would just require changing/updating it too >often, every time we added another cemetery. > >What program did you use for Forrest Hill and Eagle Creek?

Kimberly - I'm using Lotus Approach, just because that is the one I had. It uses the 'dbf.iv' format, but can work with databases in quite a few other formats as well. I input the information into the database. Then I export the data for the cemetery in question to Exel, do some column adjustments there. Finally, I export it into an Office-97 Word document, readjust the column width, and save it as an html file. [Office-97 will automatically create an html file for you <g>]. Finally, I edit the html file to try and make sure that all the columns will show on the page when viewed on the internet so that people can print it out and get all the info. I have input your Forrest Hill and Eagle Creek cemeteries into my database already, just so that I would have them when I produce an 'all-names' index later in the project - when we get quite a few more of the cemeteries on line. Not doing it yet as it would just require changing/updating it too often, every time we added another cemetery. What program did you use for Forrest Hill and Eagle Creek? All the best, Rusty On Monday, June 08, 1998 6:47 PM, Kimberly [SMTP:dudette@e-tex.com] wrote: > Rusty/Jean > I attended the Historical Marker dedication for Smyrna last year. I > beleive they had an updated list for it. Will make some phone calls tonight > and let you know.. > Was told yesterday the State now requires a platt of the cemeteries so > those without, may be making them. It may save us time (and work) if we > contact the person in charge of the cemetery first. > Which database are you using??? Format was a big question when I did > Forrest Hill and Eagle Creek... Sue's lists looks great!! > Kimberly > > At 11:52 AM 6/8/98 -0400, you wrote: > >Jean - > > > >There sure is <g>! I will check with the museum and get a copy of whatever > >listing they have for Symrna Cemetery. As soon as I get that, I will put it > >in a 'standard' format and get that to you so that you can take it to the > >cemetery, check and correct any errors in the existing list, and update it > >with any new burials. > > > >I'll let you know as soon as I get the listing. Thank you very much for > >volunteering! > > > >Rusty Cook > > > >On Sunday, June 07, 1998 9:28 PM, JCope8007@aol.com > >[SMTP:JCope8007@aol.com] wrote: > >> I am interested in seeing the Smyrna Cemetery in Harrison County > >

TOO FUNNY! I have an ancestor buried under a rock in Harrison Co! But I don't know which rock! Old Peter Whetstone is under a rock. (Pun unintended!VBG) Sure wish I knew which rock! Jan At 10:13 PM 6/8/1998 -0500, you wrote: >Jean and all, > >I heard a genealogy talk last year from someone who wanted to prove >where her ancestors were buried in Tennessee - something about inserting >a tube through the earth where she thought they were and testing the >D.N.A. :) > >OK now, everybody with an ancestor hiding under a rock, say Amen! (And >a deafening roar was heard...) > >Gail > >JCope8007@aol.com wrote: >> >> I know Austin Copeland is buried at Smyrna Cemetery but there is no marker, >> just a rock and I would like to be able to prove which rock he is under. Like >> most of my ancestors they all have hidden under rocks. >> >> Jean > > >==== TXHARRISON Mailing List ==== >Unsubscribe from the mail list by sending a message to mailto:TXHARRISON-L-request@rootsweb.com > that contains the word unsubscribe in the body of the message. > > > >