For information on this June Querry File please contact Jean Belew at jbelew@bellsouth.net
In November and December 1841 Acts of the General Assembly State of Georgia and passed at Milledgeville at an Annual Session. John W LEWIS, authorized to construct a mill dam over the Etowah river in Cass Co.
On the next page of the Index to the laws, appears The following Names Changed and legitimatized. Gatsey Rowell to Gatsey Starling, Bytha Rowell to Bytha Starling, Thomas Rowell to Thomas Starling, Elender Rowell to Elender Starling, Jno. Alexander Thomas to Jno. Alexander Huie. Shrwood H. Robinson to Sherwood H. Gay. Edna Louis Temple to Edna Louis Alford, Toliver Carver to Toliver Smith, Jno. Edenfield, to Jno C. Tapley, Pascal V. Holland to Paschal V. Wells, Tabitha Galey to Tabitha Hix, Nancy Galey to Nancy Hix, Elizabeth Galey to Elizabeth Hix, Huldah Galey to Huldah Hix, Julian Galey to Julian Hix, Rhoda Galey to Rhoda Hix, Teretha Galey to Teretha Hix, Martha Galey to Martha Hix, Jincey Galey to Jincey Hix., Gaines Galey to Gaines Hix, David Arthur Gray to David Arthur Carroll, Palma Deen to Arminda Dester, Joseph Mercer to Joseph Jernigan, Mary ann turner to Mary ann McLeroy, Charles Grandison Flewellen to Charles Grandison Napler, Opila Lake to Opila McCullers, Jno. Holton to Jno Gay, Sterling Johns to Sterling Attoway, Martha Johns to Martha Attoway, Mary Margaret Whitlock to Mary Margaret Chastain, Henry W Craft to Henry W Blassit, Wm. Wilkinson to William South Carolina Rogers, Superior Courts authorized to change names, Wm. L. A. H. Reeves, name given, Name of Neville Neyle changed to Gilbert Neville Nayle. This may help some of you with a missing link.
GaryBritt@aol.com Gary Britt seeks info on his great grandparents William Henry CARTER, and Henrietta KEYS. They are buried in Emerson next to the School. Children were Walter Carl Carter his grandfather, William Price Carter, Jack Carter, Ellen Carter, Raqlph Leland Carter, and Lillian Carter.
labus@erols.com Cyndi Labus writing for Carrloo Lee Lewis, These two seek info on James Richard LEWIS, and Eliz. ROGERS, born 1770 and 1775 respectively.
jeanneterryholland@prodigy.net Terry writes that her Chesley HOLLAND and Martha LINDSEY first appeared in Cass Co. in 1850 on the census. They lived on the Etowah River on Old River Road. Their children were Nancy, James, Ambrose, Sarah, Moses William, Daniel Webster, H.A., and John, they were also on the 1860 and 1870 census with their children, need Chesley and Martha's parents, would like to research old Baptist Church records.
COMITOLA@aol.com Linda Comito is looking for information on John ADAIR his wife and children, his daughter. Married a Marion Jefferson Lee McGinnis her great great grandmother.
donaldm819@aol.com Don McLain would like info on LOCKRIDGE/LOCHRIDGE family of Cass Co. ca 1800's
rexnewman@mindspring.com Rex Newman is interested in research on the NEWMAN and GILSTRAP families in Bartow County, He said he is please to know that there is a fmily research library in our county.
pcarl@tenet.edu Carolyn Hillis is looking for Callier SHAW B. 1825 MARRIED Susan BARNETT, Aug 11, 1843 in Cass Co. They are on the 1850 Cass Co. Census
Bamamum@aol.com Shirley McDonald Keeling, is researching the Archibald McDONALD and Benjamin STROUP, brother to Moses Stroup.
RC82711@aol.com Cindy Hannah, is looking for information on WILLIAMS, H.A and Nancy, buried at Bethel Crossroads Cemetery in Taylorsville,
Hope82253@aol.com Hope is researching Eason WELLS,
Louise Curry, P.O. Box 40 Snow Ok 74567-0040, seeks help on the families of JACKSON, HARGIS, DAVIS, MARTINDALE, CURRY, AND KELSO. Mark Jackson b ca 1772 lived in Cass co 1840-1850 and married Barsheba Hargis, William Jackson born 1800 lived at Stilesboro in 1840=1850 He married Susan Martindale and they had 12 children.
rosa50@gateway.net Bessie Burton is looking for information of the family of William SPENCER and Dora KEYS WALRAVEN .
Urbudrose@aol.com Rose asks about her Alvin PARSONS family He worked at Young Brothers Pharmacy at the fountain. His father James Parsons had a grocery store in downtown Cartersville. He contributed to a fireworks fund for the 4th of July.
tcefilml@aol.com Robert Burge family ties are Adolphus Green BURGE, b 10/5/1823 in Rutherford Co., NC on 11/22/1849 he married Hulda ann Dykes in Cass Co. GA. He died 5/22/1854 and is buried in East Baptist Church Cem. Bartow Co. GA.His grandfather Adolphus Burge married Hattie Randolph Sibley. His father was Marion Augustus Burge who died when he was an infant.
jandham@mindspring.com Joyce Anderson-Hammond seeks a marriage for Silas S DOBBS and Nancy S FOUNTAIN.
MLFarrer@ij.net Lynn Farrer, William John Farrer & Bettie Payne Keter married in Bartow Co. 31 Jul 1894. I have copy of License. The license issued 31 Jul 1893, married 31 Jul 1894 and recorded 2 Feb 1895.? The oldest child was Minnie Mae Farrer b 21 May 1894 at Halls' Station, Was Minnie the child of a previous marriage? PAYNE.
suefeild@jps.net Sue Feild searching for Data on the BOATFIELD FAMILY, George Boatfield b ca 1821 PA, is on the 1870 Bartow Co., GA , census, Samuel Boatfield, Georges' brother is on the 1880 census of Bartow Co. need help on these families.
RJBossMann@aol.com R & J Mann searching for the ROWLAND family. Frances Rowland had a grandson that was named in her will, Samuel B. BROWN, This is our grandfather. Need to find any ROWLAND , LEWIS, OR BROWN FAMILIES STILL IN Bartow County.
DebraWothe@aol.com Debra Wothe is searching for John CHERROW or John CHERRAM. That married America Ann RIGDON.
Happy Independence Day to all of you, I hope you enjoy this day that so many of our ancestors fought to give us the independence we enjoy each and every day.
rhodfreeman@usa.net William FREEMAN & wife Frances (?) had a son..Jonathan Littleberry Freeman, b. Aug. 1842 in Cass Co., GA. Had other children approx. 10 in all. Rodney Freeman seeks this family samplestar@altel.net Dirk Emmett is researching his great great grandfather Henry Gault Wise, born in Cass Co. 1845. He thinks his father was William. And that he may be buried here, Henry enlisted in Marietta in Philips Legion GA Cavarly.
Terry J. Lee, P O Box 345, Princeton, IN 47670-0345, seeks information on the QUARLES, SHAW, DAVIS, BRAWNER, PENDLEY, LANHAM, TAYLOR, JONES, CHESTNUT, GIDEON, MORRIS, ELROD families David Quarles born in Tenn. 1812 married Catherine Shaw born 1818 in Tn. Married in 1839 in Cass Co. GA.
tonych@bellsouth.net Tony CHEATHAM: is researching and compiling a family tree/history of his father's family, he was born and raised in the Burnt Hickory Ridge area. This family property of 900 acres straddled the Paulding/Bartow County line near Dabbs Bridge. His mothers side of the family was the LACKEY family, his grandfather was William Lackey the son of Jane Roland, who was the daughter. Of John ROLAND. The Roland home was on a bluff overlooking what is now Hwy 61 near the airport. His Dad's maternal grandmother was Ada J. Dowis from the Adairsville area. She died shortly after childbirth in 1900.
dwash@lcc.net Delores Washburn: She had recently discovered her great grandfather Daniel Bartow Abernathy was born 1861 in Bartow Co., and raised in the Old Macedonia area. He left when he was 14 and married Epthpasey Eugenia Garland in 1889. In Blount Co. Al., His parents were Daniel N b 1821 d 1904 and Sarah Elizabeth Coley,
mobleydj@yahoo.com Debbie Mobley writes that she just visited the Bartow County Georgia Web Page and says Thanks this is a great Web Page!!!! She found her great grandfather born in Bartow Co., and found one of his children.
mhmills@ucdavis.edu Michele H Millis writes, that our correspondence of some time past that I could not find her KINGSBERRY family in the Cemetery Book, that she had found them after spending 2 hours in Oak Hill Cemetery climbing up and down the hills her ancestors. Michele thanks for letting us know. Her greatgrandmother and great great grandmother is buried on the Godfrey plot, on the first road to the left from the entrance, about 4 plots to the west.
JLeach1090@aol.com Joyce Leach, seeks info on Thaddeus CLEMMONS, a Civil War soldier, his parents and his siblings and in which unit he served and his brother's served. (I think Bob Crowe can help with this)
tponder@dss.state.la.us Thomas Ponder: Mrs. Belew I need info on Silas and Jasper Floyd PONDER. Silas b. 1812, died Cullman Co. AL. Jasper b. 1842 in Cartersville, moved to Talladega Co. AL:. Enlisted in Rebel army in april, 1862. Died in Cullman, she needs info on their lives in Cass.
JSwope4723@aol.com Jim request help on his SWOPE family
tonijean@bellsouth.net Toni Farmer seeks help on WILLIAM WESLEY STRICKLAND, and his siblings: Lem, Josey, Mattie, Kate, listed in the family bible of her great grandmother.
ramseywc@usit.net Craig Ramsey visited the family research library and has found some of his ancestors. He is searching for Edward Houston RAMSEY, born ca 1800 Savannah and came to Cass Co. his son Isaac was b. 1822. Family was in the Euharlee area, found by a volunteer at the library, It was thought they had lived in Adairsville.
edby3@netease.net Edgar seeks any and all information on the WALRAVEN families, he tells of a case in Gordon Co. where the son of a Revolutionary Soldier died in 1852 and the final settlement did not come through until 1995. Genealogist run into lots of live entertainment.
MLFARRER@IJ.NET Lynn Farrer seeks info on Jacob G MAUNEY wife Margaret, John DAWSON, and wife Mary. Years ago she found J M Adams great grandfather, and Lucy Dawson married on 17 Dec 1874 in Bartow Co. GA . So she started looking for a Dawson with child named Lucy. And could never find her, until she checked on the Internet The Bartow County Web Page and the Will Book. Listed were John with daughter. Lucy in Bartow Co. She then indexed his wife Mary and found her father Jacob G Mauney. She reports she is so excited to find these people and now wants to find more.
MASTCAMA@aol.com Steve Cox. Researching his great great grandfather, Isaac B COX Married to Vostice Roe in Cass Co. 27 April 1843.
Xchangemom@aol.com Linda Fisher researching James HORN, and wife Polly LEDFORD, and sons Peat b 1837 and Lute b. 1851.
LightLadyO@aol.com Paula, asks is Lou Ann Bailey the mother of Joe Bailey? She is really stuck and would like to find Joe's mother.
Ronetty@aol.com Betty is looking for info on Grannie Rowland from Rowland Springs. In 1960/61 she was featured in the Atlanta Journal/Constitution. She was smoking a corn cob pipe.
kmj2@gte.net Karen is looking for info. On Samuel H Higginbotham and Mary Dolly Ball.
blankenstein@prodigy.net Dianne seeks Isaac BAKER family, first wife died and he married Liddia Rich in Cass Co April 10, 1850, he had 8 children by first wife, was his father James Baker?
Morganbama@aol.com Kevin is seeking I.T. MORGAN and Tilda BRUGHTON and their children, Andrew Jackson, Green, George, Henry, Isaac, Matthew (Killed in Civil War), and Polly.
We invite you to visit the Family Research Library at 425 West Main, behind the Cartersville/Bartow County Public Library, hours: Monday through Friday 9:30 am 4:00 pm. We WILL BE CLOSED FOR INDEPENDENCE DAY ON SUNDAY JULY 4TH AND MONDAY JULY 5TH. Have a happy and safe 4th, and remember what the day is all about.