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Janie
Found you file. Will try to look into it further in a day or two.
Jack Mc
Janie
Finally got here. I don't see any information that you have posted as yet. It will be interesting to see how this all works out. My push for cooperative research has not been met by a crowd of persons and those that did respond have seldom do much of anything. Maybe this isn't the wave of the future?
Jack Mc
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Hi Janie,
Excited to know that you were already on WeRelate. I believe that the talk page is for talk so we can talk here or by email. I did not know one thing about Wikis when I started on WeRelate and still have a lot to learn. I just jumped in and asked many questions on the Watercooler. One will be able to download a gedcom from WeRelate eventually so I plan to use WeRelate as my main database, web page and most everything. I will have to maintain the "living" in a database in one of my genie programs.
If you keep coming back you are probably going to get hooked on this just like I did. <g>
--Beth 01:20, 24 January 2008 (EST)
Hi Janie, Your link does not seem to work for me. Maybe it is my browser, but you try. --Beth 22:05, 29 March 2008 (EDT)
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Hi Janie, Thank you for contacting me about Mary Jackson's information. I would gladly accept any help that you may be with her line. I don't believe that I have actually researched her line very much, if any. If you'd like, you can either edit the information or you can email where I can find the information and I can do the research.
I only recently discovered WeRelate a few days ago and have not had much time on it as I was pursuing other genealogy networking sites simultaneously. I sort of wanted to see what the other sites are like and what they entail. I have been trying to dedicate time to my research but am busy preparing for a little one. My wife is due to give birth at the end of July and there is so much to do!
I'm glad you contact me and I hope to hear from you soon.--Kim Ostermyer 18:53, 4 June 2008 (EDT)
Hi Janie, I have an Eleanor Shotwell who married Noah Coker in my database; have not had time to enter that line on WeRelate yet. The Shotwell family was in Jackson County, Georgia and Laurens County, South Carolina. --Beth 00:34, 5 June 2008 (EDT)
I think that there might be a rather quick way of looking at this situation. I think by simple deduction, we can narrow the probability of when they married.
Your information is that:
1. Mary Jackson was born 22 Jan 1727/1728
2. She married Abraham Shotwell 28 12m (Feb) 1750/1751
That puts her age at the time of marriage at 23 years.
Placing my date of marriage of 1841 into this information seems rather unlikely as that would put the age of Mary at the time of marriage at 13 or 14 years. I believe that Quakers had an age of majority which was 18 for women and 21 for men. I can't find anything definitive, but teenage brides tend to be an anomally in most Christian faiths. This, again, is pure speculation on my behalf.--Kim Ostermyer 11:37, 5 June 2008 (EDT)
Hi Janie, Sorry but I don't have the time to enter this data by category so will type it here and let you parse it out. --Beth 20:39, 24 June 2008 (EDT)
Source: Death And Marriage Notices From Autauga County, Alabama Newspapers 1853-1889 by Larry E. Caver, Jr. [Janie there is already a source for this one under Caver, Larry E.) Notes about the source, dates of the newspaper are given. The page numbers that I am posting are from the book.
Death Notices from The Autauga Citizen.
page 12 - 01 Mar 1860: It becomes our melancholy duty to announce to our readers the death of our distinguished fellow citizen, General C. M. Jackson, who died at his residence in this county on Sunday last, the 26th inst. (ult.). . . He frequently represented Autauga County in the State Legislature, and two years ago, was unanimously elected Speaker of the House . . . His remains were attended to the grave by the neighboring Masonic & Odd Fellows Lodge . . . (lengthy article)
page 33 - 29 Jun 1876: Died at is home in Elmore County on the night of the 23rd, Nick Jackson, colored, aged about 60 years. The deceased was the old body servant of the late C. M. Jackson . . .
page 43
18 July 1878 Seaborn Jackson of Coosa County, committed suicide the 25th ultimate.
25 July 1878
We learned that Dr. Bolling Jackson, a former resident of our city, was killed last week on the Mississippi River near Old Point Chicot, Arkansas.
Death Notices from Prattville Progress.
page 137 - 06 Sep 1889- The funeral services over the remains of Mrs. Julia Jackson Christian, daughter of Stonewall Jackson, who died in Lexington, Virginia, on Friday, took place Sunday morning at the Presbyterian Church at Lexington. The body was interred beside her father, General Thomas J. Jackson.
Marriage Notices from The Autauga Citizen.
page 148 - 09 Mar 1865: Married at the residence of William C. Howell in Prattville, on Tuesday evening, the 7th inst., Mr. William B. Jackson and Miss Eva M. Harber, all of this county.
Marriage Notices: The Southern Signal
page 177 - 05 Jan 1883: Married at the residence of the bride's father in Mulberry, [Autauga County - Beth Gay inserted this] on the 21st of December, Mr. T. M. Jackson and Miss Miream M. Cory. The groom is the cashier at the Pratt Mines and the bride, one of Autauga's loveliest daughters.
Larry has the dates in present day, such as January, 5, 1883. If their are any spelling errors they are probably mine. Most if not all of the newspapers are microfilmed and available at the Alabama Archives & History through interlibrary loan. He also used the superscripts for 10th etc. --Beth 20:39, 24 June 2008 (EDT)
New book: {Source: Death And Marriage Notices From Jefferson County, Alabama Newspapers Volume I (1854-1881), by Larry E. Caver, Jr.; 2002; Pioneer Publishing Co., P. O. Box 408, Carrollton, MS 38917.
Page numbers are from the book and dates from the newspaper edition; I also have entered the dates differently; by the usual genealogy entry method.
Death Notices from The Birmingham Observer:
page 29 - 23 Sep 1881: Died Wednesday evening, in this place, Mr. Bunk Jackson, a well-known engineer on the South & North road. He died of typhoid fever.
Death Notices from The Birmingham Iron Age
page 40 - 11 Jun 1874 - John Lewis and Hardy Jackson, colored [colored is intalics in the book, Beth], living in Montgomery County, had a quarrel about some land, and John closed the argument by shooting Hardy dead with his little musket. He was arrested and committed to jail without bail.
page 108 - 20 Aug 1879 - The following unpleasant intelligence appears in a special dispatch to the Nashville American [in italics in the book of Friday, from Florence: The sad intelligence has just reached the town that Hon. James Jackson, Probate Judge of this county, was killed late this evening, about ten miles east of Florence. With a party of ladies and gentlemen he and his only daughter were returning from a picnic on Muscle Shoals canal. A pair of frightened horses in the rear ran against his buggy with such force that he was thrown and killed instantly. Miss Jackson fortunately escaped with slight injuries. The deceased wass in the Confederate Service, in which he commanded the 29th Alabama Regiment with distinction.
Marriage Notices From The Birmingham Iron Age
page 177 - 25 Aug 1881 - Died, in Summerfield, the 5th, Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson, aged 74 years.
page 212 - 26 Nov 1874 - Married, at the residence of the bride's father, in this county, by Reverend William Barton, Mr. David Jackson and Miss Mary Linn.
page 240 - 26 Jan 1881 - Married at Trussville, the 10th instant, by G. W. Cross, J. P., T. A. M. Jackson and Alice Murphy.
page 241 - 26 Jan 181 - Married in Hale County, the 6th, W. H. Jackson and Ida Burford.
page 245 - 09 Feb 1881 - Married, near Troy [Pike County, Alabama, from Beth], the 25th ultimo, John Jackson and Margaret Patterson. . .
page 248 - 09 Feb 1881 - . . . Married in Limestone County, recently, G. A. Jackson and Mary E. McCravy.
page 277 - 18 Aug 1881 - Married in Franklin County, W. M. Jackson to Francis M. Grissom.
--Beth 22:16, 24 June 2008 (EDT)
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Hi Janiejac...
There are a couple of versions of the map on the site, but the most useful version is the basic image at
Image:Thompsons Creek Boundry Map.jpg I say "most useful" because the annotations, such as they are, can be brought up from this version (There's a limitation in th WeRelate implementation of WikiMedia that's on Dallan's todo list, but its a while off I suspect before it gets fixed. Eventually the annotations should appear when then image is displayed in an article.
Settlers of Thompsons Creek, Washington County, VA is also helpful because it includes the names of more of the settlers, though not the annotations.
There's a start for Carlock Family in Southwest Virginia, though it hasn't been carried too far. There are several Carlocks in the area during this period.
Brothers Hanchrist and Conrad Carlock being the most prominent in the surviving records. Eventually there will be articles for both, but currently only Hanschrist has a stub beng worked on.
Q 08:00, 14 August 2008 (EDT)
