--part1_29.88b864e.26c0cc3c_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_29.88b864e.26c0cc3c_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <BETWIL@aol.com> From: BETWIL@aol.com Full-name: BETWIL Message-ID: <bf.5cd54e6.26c0c0cb@aol.com> Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 21:47:55 EDT Subject: Walker Co. Gen. Soc. Aug 2000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Language: en To: undisclosed-recipients:; X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 114 WALKER COUNTY=20 GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY FOUNDED IN JUNE 1965=20 THE WALKER COUNTY TEXAS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY P O BOX 1295 HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS 77342 VOLUME FOUR #6 AUGUST 2000=20 REGULAR MEETINGS: Third Saturday of each month except December, June, July,=20 and August at 9:30=20 A. M. Beginning in September 2000, we will meet at the Forrest Masonic Lodge= =20 #19 at 1030 Twelfth Street in Huntsville. EVENT THIS MONTH: Friday, August 18, 2000. Lock-in at the Huntsville Public= =20 Library 5:00 P.M. to 11 P.M.. Need more time in the library for your=20 research? Start any time Friday and know you can stay and work in the library until 11= =20 P.M.. Help will be available for anyone who needs it. Ya=E2=80=99ll come o= ut for=20 this event! GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY BOARD MEETING AT THE HUNTSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ON=20 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9 AT 5:30 P.M. ATTENTION, ALL MEMBERS! MARK YOUR CALENDARS!=20 FRIDAY, AUGUST 11 IS A SPECIAL WORKDAY FOR ALL GENEALOGY SOCIETY MEMBERS IN=20 PREPARATION FOR THE LOCK-IN. COME AND HELP US READ THE SHELVES, GET THE BOOKS IN CORRECT ORDER, AND GET=20 READY FOR OUR EXTENDED RESEARCH PERIOD.=20 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: DUE TO TREMENDOUS INTEREST, THE DEADLINE FOR WALKER=20 COUNTY PIONEER CERTIFICATES AND WALKER COUNTY FIRST FAMILY CERTIFICATES HAS=20 BEEN EXTENDED. APPLICATIONS MAY BE PICKED UP AT THE HUNTSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY, OR YOU MAY=20 REQUEST A FORM BY WRITING TO PIONEER REGISTRY AT P O BOX 1295, HUNTSVILLE,=20 TX, 77342. TOTAL NUMBER OF CERTIFICATES ISSUED BY THE ANNUAL MEETING IN MA= Y=20 WAS 610! LIBRARY EXPANSION Plans for expansion of the Huntsville Public Library continue on track. Watch for more news! IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE A MEMBER OF OUR GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, DUES ARE $10=20 PER INDIVIDUAL AND $15 PER COUPLE. ANNUAL DUES ARE PAYABLE IN MAY. Please send your dues to: Linda Parish, Treasurer 31 F.S. Road 214 New Waverley, TX 77358 936 295-9570 MAKE A CONTRIBUTION TO THE WALKER COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY - MONEY OR BOOKS, SOUNDEX, MICROFILM, YOU NAME IT. Your contributions make it possible for us to purchase additional=20 genealogical materials which may help you to research some of your ancestors= =20 in the local library. Please be generous! HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR ADDRESS? Please call Beth Williamson at 409 295-3170 if your address changes. We lik= e=20 to keep our mailing list up to date. Don=E2=80=99t let us lose you! Send e-= mail=20 addresses to: betwil@aol.com <mailto:betwil@aol.com> PROGRAMS FOR 2000 September 16: =E2=80=9CUp Against a Brick Wall=E2=80=9Dpresented by Emily Croom, author/publisher of Unpuzzling Your Past: a Basic Guide to Genealogy, and The Genealogist=E2=80=99s Compani= on &=20 Source Book. October 21: =E2=80=9CLouisiana Research=E2=80=9D presented by Barbara Franz, Librarian, Montgomery Co. November 18: Our annual Question and Answer Session. Be thinking about the questions you would like answered. OUR OFFICERS FOR 1999-2001 PRESIDENT- JOHNNIE JO DICKENSON 936 295-5551 jdickenson@myriad.net <mailto:jdickenson@myriad.net> FIRST VICE PRESIDENT- JANET GARDENER SECOND VICE PRESIDENT- JOYCE HILLIARD SECRETARY- CLARA MALAK CORRESPONDING SECRETARY- VERNA BANES TREASURER- LINDA PARRISH REGISTRAR- MARY EDWENA VICK LIBRARIANS- GORDIE REAVES, ELLIE WOOD DONATIONS TO THE GENEALOGY COLLECTION Mary Edwena Vick, in memory of Pearl Hood Sulzer, gave us Mississippi Newspaper Obituaries 1876- 1885, Betty C. Wiltshire, editor. Emma Hill donated the Index to the 1820 U. S. Census of Georgia, Marriage Notices in the=20 South Carolina Gazette 1732-1801, Cemetery Records of Washington Co., Texas=20 by Winfield, and History of Brenham and Washington Co. by Penningrton. Gladys May, in memory of Gladys Weatherford and Alfred Lee Chatham, donated=20 We Had the White Rooster for Dinner by Clifford and Gladys May. W. B. Hill donated Abstract of the Wills of the State of South Carolina=20 1670-1740, Abstract of the Wills of the State of South Carolina 1740-1760;=20 Caroline Moore, editor, a contribution for binding, The Supplement=20 [1773-1867] to the Wilkes Co. [GA] Papers by Robert Scott Davis, Abstract of= =20 Wills of the State of South Carolina 1760-1784, Abstract of the Wills of the= =20 State of South Carolina 1783-1800; Caroline Moore, editor, and the Abstract=20 of Records of the Province of South Carolina 1692-1721; Caroline Moore,=20 editor. Laverne and Bill Dixon, in memory of Johnnie Jo Parker, donated Ships=E2=80= =99=20 Passenger Lists 1846-1871 Port of Galveston, Galveston Co. Genealogical Society publication. Virginia Chastain donated Ancestry of Virginia Doudney Chastain. Sandra E. Rogers contributed History of Robert Chaffin and Descendants by=20 William L. Chaffin. Frances Goforth gave us Soundex rolls 163 and 226 of the 1900 Texas Soundex. Mr. & Mrs. J. I. Wood donated rolls 131, 132, and 133 of the 1900 Texas Soundex. Verna Banes gave us the Combined Membership List of the American Math Society 1981-1982, Early Homes of Waco, Wythe County (West Virginia) Chapters by James=20 Presgraves, and Items from the Ft. Bragg Advocate-News, Mendicino Co.=20 California. W. B. Hill contributed Brazos County Marriage Records, Books A & B, C & D,=20 E&F, and G & H. published by the Texas Research Ramblers, and the following titles all written by Michal Martin Farmer: Elbert County=20 Georgia Deed Books A-J, 1791-1806 published 1997; Elbert County Georgia Deed= =20 Books K-R, 1806-1819 published 1997; Elbert County Georgia Deed Books S-W,=20 1820-1835 published 1998; Oglethorpe County Georgia Deed Books, A-E,=20 1794-1809 published 1999, and Oglethorpe County Georgia Deed Books F-J=20 1809-1820 published in 2000. Dawn Fendley donated 11 volumes of a periodical, =E2=80=9CStepping Back in Time; a History of Eastern Catawba Co. North Carol= ina=20 Life=E2=80=9D by Elizabeth Bray Sherrill, RG - 1987-1997; 11 volumes of a pe= riodical,=20 =E2=80=9CCatawba County Documents=E2=80=9D by=20 Elizabeth Bray Sherrill, CGRS. 1989; 1 volume periodical =E2=80=9CThe Beatt= y=20 Clearing House=E2=80=9D by Elizabeth Bray Sherrill, CGRS. 1991; Catawba Coun= ty=20 Cemeteries, Vol. I & II, compiles and published by the Catawba County=20 Genealogical Society, Hickory, North Carolina; Catawba County, North Carolin= a=20 Court of Pleas and Quarters, March court 1843- January Court 1850, compiled=20 and published by the Catawba County Genealogical Society, Hickory, North=20 Carolina. 1987; and Catawba County North Carolina Marriages, 1842(50)-1880=20 Vol. I compiled by Elizabeth Bray Sherrill, RG, published by Heritage Books,= =20 Inc. 1993. Donated by the Captain John Utie Chapter, Daughters of the American=20 Colonists, Juanita Lynch, Regent, is A Burnett Family of the South by France= s=20 Gass. Thanks to Kameron K. Searle, who when he applied for his First Family=20 certificate, included three volumes of family history which have been=20 cataloged and should be on the shelf for your perusal by the time of the=20 lock-in. One of them concerns the family of Jacob H. Shepperd. Mr. Searle=20 has recently learned more about the parents, siblings, uncle and grandfather= =20 of Jacob which he would be happy to share. =20 [complete through June 30, 2000] If any donation you have made has not been mentioned in this section of the=20 newsletter, please let Beth know. [936 295-3170] WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT GENEALOGY? The Department of Continuing Education at Sam Houston State University will=20 again be offering a course in Basic Genealogy taught by Johnnie Jo Dickenson. It will be held every Thursday beginning on October 5 and ending on November 9 from 6 to 9 PM. For registration information, call 294-3701. FAMILY REUNIONS - DID YOU ATTEND ONE THIS SUMMER? My Moore family reunion was held in the genealogy meeting room at the=20 Hamilton County Genealogical Society building in Hamilton, Hamilton County,=20 Texas. Most attendees came from Texas, Louisiana, or California. =20 I made a little speech about what I had learned about our common=20 ancestor, Hugh Moore, a Civil War veteran who began his service for the Confederacy when he and his cousin Hartwell=20 Moore became members of Company I of the 18th Texas Cavalry on March 1, 1862. The names of all the members of the company=20 are available online! Hugh got a horse worth $130, a rifle worth $20, and a pistol worth $60=20 dollars and Hartwell was similarly equipped. The two men were captured by Federal troops in their first major battle whic= h=20 took place in Arkansas and were prisoners at Camp Douglas, Illinois. More=20 than 4,000 men died while prisoners at Camp Douglas. Paroled, they rejoined the Confederacy with the Army of Tennessee. At the Battle of Chicamauga, there were 62,000 Federal=20 troops on the battlefield, and 65,000 Confederate troops. There were 16,000= =20 Federal casualties and 18,450 Confederate casualties. The Civil War=20 Battlefield Guide says, =E2=80=9CBoth armies suffered heavily for little tangible gain.=E2=80=9D=20 Two Beaman cousins of Hugh and Hartwell were marching enroute to battle when a sniper killed both of them with a=20 single shot. Some of my young cousins did not seem terribly interested in this story=20 of long ago and far away, so I closed by saying that if Hugh had been killed= =20 in any one of a thousand dangerous moments of that war then none of us would= =20 have been around=20 for the family reunion. That brought a laugh and I hope they will remember something about their ancestor.=20 BOOK REVIEW: Polk=E2=80=99s Folly; an American Family History by William R.=20= Polk. I started reading this book because it included information about=20 President James K. Polk, but the author, a kinsman of the Polk who was president, hooked me by=20 telling the whole history of the U. S. in terms of the experiences of members of his family, one that=20 includes, in addition to a president, governors of Missouri, Delaware, and=20 Maryland, and Martin Luther King=E2=80=99s attorney. =20 Sam Houston wrote to a Polk cousin, =E2=80=9CThere are five things on ea= rth which=20 I love, a fine woman, a fine horse - a fine Dog. A Game Cock and fine arms.= =E2=80=9D One of the Polks, Leonidas, was a graduate of West Point, an Episcopalian=20 bishop and a Confederate general.=20 The writer=E2=80=99s Polk grandfather shot the sheriff in Laredo and bec= ame a=20 Texas cattle baron. The writer, William R. Polk, taught history at Harvard and at the=20 University of Chicago and was a member of the Policy Planning Council in the= =20 Kennedy and Johnson administrations. This is history that reads like a novel. I recommend it highly. --part1_29.88b864e.26c0cc3c_boundary--