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Alabama Chat--Part III

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August 20, 2001

<huntsvilleADM> 

Cyber--I keep thinking you're a girl......until you mention your wife! LOL

<MizB> 

Charlie, we were at the Potter Reunion in Scottsboro last weekend.

<Charlie> 

ADM, you'll have to find out what years for me

<CyberLemon> 

LOL... my name is Craig and my wife is Malene

<Travis> 

ADM, didn't we have this conversation last week???

<Charlie> 

was it good MizB

<CyberLemon> 

... and the name is derived from U2's Lemon in the Zooropa cd, to answer that question

<huntsvilleADM> 

Charlie--the Marriage books cover 1851-1856; 1859-1871; 1871-1876; 1876-1881.

<CyberLemon> 

anyway, I have Cowart kin to England 1518

<MizB> 

pretty good first time I have gone and met the kin that I had met online at Potter's Grove

<Charlie> 

that Jackson ADM?

* huntsvilleADM 

MOTIONS/playful.gif Yes, Travis--but it surprises me EVERY time!

<Charlie> 

I've heard of the cemetery

<Granny> 

CyberLemon, my Padgett line I have tracked to England 1515, so we are about the same time frame!

<huntsvilleADM> 

Yes, Charlie--Jackson Co. Marriages...

<Charlie> 

I got to make a couple of days out of my trip

<CyberLemon> 

I end up meeting new kin every time I road trip back to Bama

<Charlie> 

wonder what happened to the records before 1851?

<Charlie> 

court house burn?

<CyberLemon> 

cool Granny

* huntsvilleADM 

MOTIONS/happy.gif oops......that last date is 1876......not 876!

<Granny> 

CyberLemon, did you say on one of the chats that you were originally from Tampa?

<CyberLemon> 

hi coveman

<Monal> 

What counties ADM on Marriage books ADM

<huntsvilleADM> 

I covewoman!

<Travis> 

Hi Cove.

<CyberLemon> 

yes I did Granny

<Granny> 

Hi covewoman...welcome!

<huntsvilleADM> 

Monal--JACKSON COUNTY Marriages.......

<CyberLemon> 

lived there from 1966 to 1997

<Granny> 

CyberLemon...I live in Clearwater.

<covewoman> 

hi

<huntsvilleADM> 

is this your first time here, covewoman?

<huntsvilleADM> 

And what coves???? LOL

<MizB> 

Hi covewoman

<CyberLemon> 

I sure know Clearwater Granny, that's neat

<covewoman> 

hi miz

<CyberLemon> 

KING, GATEWOOD, EHLERT/ELLIOTT, SWINNEY, COWARD/COWART, Benjamin Franklin JOHNSON in CONECUH, BUTLER, COVINGTON, ESCAMBIA, PIKE, DALE and COFFEE Counties

<huntsvilleADM> 

Please share the SURNAMES you are researching and the counties, covewoman!

<covewoman> 

first time here and I live in a cove

<MizB> 

POTTER, Johnathan--PACE,William--COWART, Elihu--MORGAN, John Benton--NICHOLSON, Mary Ann---CAVER, Joel---HOLDRIDGE. John H.---COLEY, Edith. Jackson Co.

<CyberLemon> 

welcome covewoman

<Granny> 

PADGETT, MORGAN, WEBB, HORTON, SNODGRASS, NICHOLSON, McCORD in Jackson, DeKalb and Cherokee counties.

<MizB> 

Where is the Cove located covewoman

<covewoman> 

Manning, Latham, Jackson co

<kayyield> 

YIELDING, RABURN, HULSEY, GANN--Marion, Blount, Colbert

<covewoman> 

at the foot of skyline mt, miz

<Charlie> 

MCCUTCHEN, MCCUTCHEON, HUNTER, HIGGINS, HASTINGS, LARKIN, HANSBROUGH, GRAY, DELANEY, COTTON, Jackson, Morgan, Marshall Counties

<huntsvilleADM> 

I know some people researching LATHAM in Jackson Co........

<MizB> 

OK Covewoman there are lots of Manning's in my family who are yours?

<covewoman> 

Noah shelton manning grandfather ,miz

<CyberLemon> 

Monal, on your census search, he will probably be listed as Benjamin F Johnson

<MizB> 

In fact last week I visited with Eva Potter Manning's daughter in Section, Al.

<CyberLemon> 

and in the McKenzie precinct

<Monal> 

OK Craig

* CyberLemon 

MOTIONS/happy.gif thanks

<Monal> 

Johnson is better than Smith.......right?

<covewoman> 

it will take me awhile to get the hang of this chatting, im new miz

<Monal> 

Hi Cove

<CyberLemon> 

LOL... after 11 years on this Johnson I long for Smith

<covewoman> 

hi monal

* Granny 

MOTIONS/happy.gif You're doing fine, covewoman! This is a friendly and helpful group!

<Monal> 

I long for some CHAPMAN relief in LIMESTONE CO

<CyberLemon> 

the legend of BF Johnson at the reunions got me started

<MizB> 

I have Noah Shelton Manning in Casey's book so we probably connect somehow

* covewoman 

MOTIONS/happy.gif

<Granny> 

wb, Travis!

<huntsvilleADM> 

what's the legend of BF Johnson, Cyber?

<CyberLemon> 

you get punted Travis?

<huntsvilleADM> 

wb, Travis......LOL

<covewoman> 

I also have that book miz

<Monal> 

TELL US

<Travis> 

Hi, Gang, I'm back already!!!

<Monal> 

good Travis

<CyberLemon> 

the legend was that he was adopted or showed up on a doorstep

<CyberLemon> 

he was born Christmas Day 1841 or thereabouts

<CyberLemon> 

and he was very quiet

<Travis> 

I think a lot of my ancestors just showed up on someone's doorstep!

<huntsvilleADM> 

My Isaiah DILL was born on Christmas Day in 1806!

<Granny> 

wb, Charlie!

<CyberLemon> 

if he was adopted, why no papers or anything to corroborate it

<Charlie> 

hey, long time no see

<Monal> 

Travis do they come at meal time

<Charlie> 

hey, in advance, I'm trying this out it might not work

<huntsvilleADM> 

wb, Charlie......I appreciate your tenacity!

<Charlie> 

all names in my db

<Charlie> 

Ables Adams Aday Ahl Ainsworth Aldridge Alexander Allen Allred Alsfough Alvarado Anderson Armstrong Arnold Aron Ashworth Augustine Austin Baker Balcom Barber Barker Barrett Barrton Basham Bason Bassham Bates Beaird Beal Beavers Becraft Bedell Beene Beerwinkle Bell Benedict Benson Bentley Benton Berry Bice Bishop Black Blake Blakely Bla [msg continues in 20 secs]

<Charlie> 

hey it might work

 

<CyberLemon> 

and when he died, he left to show he was there

<huntsvilleADM> 

oooooooooooo, Charlie......

<Charlie> 

kemore Blakeney Blasier Blevins Blingsopp Boarman Bodine Boggess Bogle Bond Border Boshart Boucher Bowen Bowers Bowling Bowyer Bozarth Braden Brancheau Brandon Brannan Branum Brasher Brazeal Brazzil Breeding Brest Brewer Bridges Britton Brockway Brooks Brown Brumley Bryant Buchanan Buchkhannon Bunch Burbank Burgess Burns Bush Butler Buttram [msg continues in 20 secs]

<huntsvilleADM> 

How did you do that, Charlie???

<CyberLemon> 

and the Cowarts lost contact with his wife after the marriage

<Charlie> 

I just copied all my surnames

<Charlie> 

copy n' paste

<CyberLemon> 

wb hailvester

<Charlie> 

Butts Buxbaum Byler Bynum Cahoon Cain Calton Calvert Campbell Canada Cannon Carlson Carothers Carpenter Carr Case Cauble Chambers Chandler Cherry Childers Childress Chorn Chunn Church Cissell Clark Clayton Clem Clemens Clemmons Cline Coffey Coffman Coker Cole Coleman Coley Collins Combs Compton Conley Cook Cooper Copeland Corbet Cot [msg continues in 20 secs]

<huntsvilleADM> 

hey, hailvester!

<Granny> 

Welcome back, Hailvester!

<MizB> 

covewoman, my family is on page 445 William Arthur Potter was my Grandfather

<Charlie> 

ton Couey Cowart Cox Coyle Crabb Creel Crow Cryer Curry Curtis Custer Dameron Daniel Daniels Darnell Darrow Daulong Davidson Davis DeVoll Dean Dedman Dees Delaney (Dulaney) Demond Derek Derossitt Derry Dickerson Dickinson Dillard Dooley Dorris Dorsey Dowdy Drake Draper Drury Dryer Dukes Dunaway Duncan Durham Eaton Echols Edelman Edw [msg continues in 20 secs]

<Charlie> 

I'm sorry it I made a mess

<Monal> 

cyber, could he have been a child that was born in the family without the rites of marriage?

<Charlie> 

ards Ekelund Elder Elders Elkins Eller Ellsworth Ely Embry Eubanks Evans Ewing Ezell Farriss Fawbush Faye Fenel Ferguson Fields Finney Flack Fletcher Flynn Forrester Foshee Foster Fowler Fox Francis Franks Free Freeman French Frick Galloway Gardner Garner Garrison Gastineau Gentle Gentry George Gersman Gibbs Gibson Gilley Givins Gle [msg continues in 20 secs]

<CyberLemon> 

possibly, but we are clueless to his parents

<huntsvilleADM> 

That's ok, Charlie--are these ALL Alabama ancestors???

<covewoman> 

my grandmother martha ann reed had potters in her line miz b

<Charlie> 

75%%

<Charlie> 

nn Gloede Goins Golden Goode Goodel Goodwin Goss Gough Goyack Graham Grantland Greathouse Gregs Gresham Grey Griffin Griggs Grissam Gross Guare Guess Guest Guilion Gunault Gunem Guthrie Hagan Halbrooks Halcombe Haling Hall Hallmark Halvacheck Hambrick Hamilton Hammond Hancock Handley Hannah Haraway Harbison Hardeman Harden Hardin Hardy [msg continues in 20 secs]

<Charlie> 

almost all jackson, morgan, marshall

<CyberLemon> 

looking for an 8 year old BF Johnson child in the 1850 Bama census is a mess

<Charlie> 

Hargrove Harkins Harless Harper Harrell Harris Harrison Harrsion Hart Hartman Harvey Hastings Hawes Hawkins Hayden Hayes Hayley Hays Hazel Hearndon Heatherly Heggie Henderson Hendrix Herdon Hester Hewson Higdon Higgins Hill Hindman Hines Hinkle Hodo Hogan Hogue Holden Holder Holloway Holmes Holmgren Holsey Hood Hooper Hopper Horell Hor [msg continues in 20 secs]

<Granny> 

Charlie, where are your Hardys from? My maiden name was Hardy.

<huntsvilleADM> 

Charlie--who are your HALL's???

<Charlie> 

most just married into family lines

<CyberLemon> 

and we don't even know for sure he was from Bama

<Charlie> 

nbuckle Horner Hornor Horrell Hough Hovator Howard Hubbard Hudlow Huff Hugh Hullett Hunt Hunter Hurley Hutchinson Hyatt Igou Irvin Irvine Isbell Isler Jackson James Jeffords Jeffries Jenkins Jewett Johnson Jones Joplin Joyner Kalmar Kearney Keeton Keller Kelley Kelly Kennamer Kennedy Kennon Kent Kettle Kidd Kiker Kimmer King Kirchm [msg continues in 20 secs]

<Charlie> 

some of these I might have only 1 of

<Monal> 

I can understand that cyber

<Charlie> 

I'll send the link to the gedcom

<Granny> 

welcome back again, hailvester! Having trouble tonight?

<Charlie> 

an Kirk Knight Knoblock Koehler Koopman Kough Krater Kuhlmann Kunze Kurtz Lain Lamascus Lang Lanier Larkin Larmore Law Layton LeCroy Lee Leeman Leist Lemons Lennox Lewis Lhote Ligon Lilly Lindsay Liner Lipscomb Lispcomb Locke Lockhart Loggins Lohman Lomenick Long Lowery Lowrey Luker Lunyou Luther Lyle LynnWalker Lynus Maben Maddin [msg continues in 20 secs]

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