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Alabama Chat--Part I

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October 1, 2001

<huntsvilleADM> 

We'll start the ROLL CALL--list your SURNAMES (all caps, please--easier to read) and the Alabama counties you are researching. Please repeat as new people enter the room.

<Jackie> 

Is this the Alabama Chat?

<marfaTX> 

I have a great uncle that had a daughter that married a Logan. I do know that they lived in Florida at the time of death.

<huntsvilleADM> 

yes, Jackie!

<Jackie> 

Great.

<huntsvilleADM> 

DILL, DREGER, SPRAGUE, EVANS, McGILL--Madison Co.

<CyberLemon> 

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

<huntsvilleADM> 

HALL, SANDERS, COX, EVANS, LINDSEY--Jackson Co.

<DonaldLogan> 

MarfaTx....there are Logan's of my line (or cousins) who went to Florida from Bibb Co. AL

<lamby> 

FINLEY/BERRY -- JACKSON COUNTY

<Jackie> 

BRYAN(T) in Jackson Co. and DeKalb Co.

<Lucky> 

HAYNIE,CUNNINGHAM,COLLINS, in DeKalb county

<DonaldLogan> 

LOGAN, MOSELEY, HUNT, CLARK, BIBB CO., AL

<CyberLemon> 

hi Travis

<huntsvilleADM> 

hey, Travis!

<lamby> 

CyberLemon, I have Cowart's in my line, but they are from Lawrence Co. MS

<Travis> 

Hi Gang.

<Lucky> 

Hello everyone!

<marfaTX> 

RICHARDSON, TURMAN, CARPENTER, LOGAN, HALEY Greene, Pickens, Lamar and Jefferson co.

<huntsvilleADM> 

lamby--tell me about your FINLEY--I think I have someone with a similar spelling in Jackson Co.

<CyberLemon> 

lamby you are probably a distant relation

<Travis> 

We're in the middle of a cold front - Only 97 today.

<Travis> 

Hi MizB

<huntsvilleADM> 

hi, MizB!

<CyberLemon> 

Cowarts came from England, then moved to NC, Bama, and Miss

<CyberLemon> 

hi MizB

<Travis> 

WINCHESTER, PREWITT in Tuscaloosa County.

<MizB> 

Hi everyone

<lamby> 

Well, I have little. He was John Finley / married Mary Berry of Jackson CO. I don't know where he came from, but that is what is interesting

<CyberLemon> 

lamby, who is your Cowart ancestor in Miss, what is his name?

<Travis> 

TRAVIS, ROBERTSON, JOHNSTON, NARAMORE in Jefferson County.

<huntsvilleADM> 

Please post any genealogy resources you have to share for lookups.......

<Lucky> 

Descendants of William Henry HAYNIE 1 [1] William Henry HAYNIE b: May 02, 1851 Collinsville, DeKalb, Alabama d: Abt. 1927 Frederick, Tillman, OK . +Martha Ellen CUNNINGHAM b: November 03, 1852 Rawlingsville, DeKalb, Alabama d: May 17, 1896 DeKalb Co. Alabama *2nd Wife of [1] William Henry HAYNIE: . +Mary Katherine ""Kate"" COLLINS b: October 06, 1878 Atlanta, Fulton Co., Georgia d: January 13, 1937 Oklahoma

<huntsvilleADM> 

I have the Marriages of Jackson Co.

<Travis> 

WILSON, BARRON, BROTHERS, BLEVINS, CALVERT in Winston, & Walker Counties.

<huntsvilleADM> 

I also have Maple Hill Cemetery...for Madison Co.

<MizB> 

POTTER, COWART, MORGAN, HOLDRIDGE, PACE, in Jackson Co.

<CyberLemon> 

I have my Bama Historical Atlases listing cemeteries and towns

<lamby> 

William Cowart born June 1, 1834

<MizB> 

I have Robt Casey's book ""Shelton, Wininger and Pace Families""

<Lucky> 

Are there any volunteers for DeKalb county in the room? for Marriage record

<CyberLemon> 

let me check lamby

<Travis> 

Hi Granny.

<huntsvilleADM> 

Hi, Granny.......welcome!

<MizB> 

Hi Granny

<lamby> 

I have Virginia Ellen (?) married Henry Pryor Berry -- Sept 23, 1910 in Garth AL.

<marfaTX> 

Hi Granny

<Sallygirl> 

Johnathan RICHARDSON, son Jonathan, Obidiah, John, Elizah, daughters, Jane BARNES, Margaret Blasingame, Phoebi Tucker, Susy Carteel(sp) Sary(Sara?) Prince, Rinty Barnes, Jane Barnes, Avaline Eddleman and Un-wed Nelly,and an un deciphered name all listed in the elder Johnathan's will 1843

<huntsvilleADM> 

Remember to address people by name when asking or answering a specific question......to avoid confusion.

<Granny> 

Hi everyone! All kinds of funny notes when signing on...like huntsville you have joined too many channels.

<CyberLemon> 

I have a William cowart born 1836

<Granny> 

Hi Lamby...welcome! :-)

<huntsvilleADM> 

Glad you made it anyway, granny!

<Granny> 

Hi MizB...it's in the mail!

<CyberLemon> 

child of Wesley and Susannah

<lamby> 

Hello Granny! I made it!!!

<CyberLemon> 

hi granny

<MizB> 

Great, I am almost finished with this quilt

<Granny> 

Glad you're here, lamby!

<Granny> 

Hi, CyberLemon. Any job luck?

<CyberLemon> 

does that ring a bell lamby?

<huntsvilleADM> 

Don't worry if the chat goes to fast, you can read the transcripts later at http://huntsville.about.com/library/blalchat.htm

<CyberLemon> 

nope granny, getting rough here in the valley

<CyberLemon> 

keep those prayers coming

<Sallygirl> 

Anyone researching Richardson's?

<CyberLemon> 

lamby, do you know any siblings of William Cowart?

<Granny> 

CyberLemon...that's what I've heard...heard that you can pick up real estate really cheap there now that things are so bad. The prayers are still with you!

<lamby> 

CyberLemon mine died Dec 18, 1898

<marfaTX> 

Sally, I am searching Richardson's

<CyberLemon> 

I have no death date for William

<Granny> 

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

<Sallygirl> 

Hi Marfa....Long time since I was here, I thought it was you.....Me too.......

<CyberLemon> 

hi marfa

<Granny> 

Hi marfa, Travis...how are you guys tonight?

<CyberLemon> 

lamby, tell me more about this Cowart line... I bet we are connected somehow

<lamby> 

CyberLemon, he is the only one I have listed from the union of Hannah Byrne and Newit Cowart

<Sallygirl> 

Marfa, we did send a few messages back and forth....on Richardson's

<CyberLemon> 

thanks lamby, that gives me something to go on

<marfaTX> 

Sally, probably. It has been sometime ago.

<huntsvilleADM> 

Let's do another ROLL CALL......

* Granny 

MOTIONS/playful.gif MizB...I'm going to send you Hunter's quilt to finish!!!

<MizB> 

POTTER, Johnathan----PACE, William (father of Eliza) ----COWARD/T, Elihu (father of Erasmus)-----MORGAN, John B. (father of James Adkins)----NICHOLSON/NICKOLSON, Mary Ann----HOLDRIDGE, John H. (father of John Henry)-----JACKSON, Martha Adlade----COLEY, John S. (father of Edith)-----CAVER, Joel (father of Harriett Ann E.) from Jackson , Randolph, DeKalb and Talladega Counties

<Travis> 

WINCHESTER, PREWITT in Tuscaloosa County.

<CyberLemon> 

Granny, real estate may have gone down, but it doesn't help when both are unemployed

<Travis> 

TRAVIS, ROBERTSON, JOHNSTON, NARAMORE in Jefferson County.

<CyberLemon> 

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

<Travis> 

WILSON, BARRON, BROTHERS, BLEVINS, CALVERT in Winston, & Walker Counties.

<Sallygirl> 

I'm still sitting where I was back then....I did send for a land record that I thought was my Obidiah,(son of old Johnathan

<Granny> 

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

<huntsvilleADM> 

hey, annaelycm--welcome back!

<Granny> 

Hi annaelycm! Glad you're here!

<Lucky> 

Descendants of William Henry HAYNIE 1 [1] William Henry HAYNIE b: May 02, 1851 Collinsville, DeKalb, Alabama d: Abt. 1927 Frederick, Tillman, OK . +Martha Ellen CUNNINGHAM b: November 03, 1852 Rawlingsville, DeKalb, Alabama d: May 17, 1896 DeKalb Co. Alabama *2nd Wife of [1] William Henry HAYNIE: . +Mary Katherine ""Kate"" COLLINS b: October 06, 1878 Atlanta, Fulton Co., Georgia d: January 13, 1937 OklahomaDescenda [msg continues in 20 secs]

<lamby> 

CyberLemon, these Cowarts lived in Byrnes' Hills in Lawrence County. I have Elinor and Edward Cowart there in 1873

<MizB> 

It will have to get in line, I have several more ahead of it :-)

<marfaTX> 

Sally, have you ever heard of a James Kelly Richardson, born in Greene Co., married a Mamie Hall. They had about 10 children.

<huntsvilleADM> 

anna--jump right in with your surnames.

<Lucky> 

nts of William Henry HAYNIE 1 [1] William Henry HAYNIE b: May 02, 1851 Collinsville, DeKalb, Alabama d: Abt. 1927 Frederick, Tillman, OK . +Martha Ellen CUNNINGHAM b: November 03, 1852 Rawlingsville, DeKalb, Alabama d: May 17, 1896 DeKalb Co. Alabama *2nd Wife of [1] William Henry HAYNIE: . +Mary Katherine ""Kate"" COLLINS b: October 06, 1878 Atlanta, Fulton Co., Georgia d: January 13, 1937 Oklahoma [msg complete]

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