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Surname: CATLEDGE
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I A A DECENDENT OF ALSON CATLEDGE AND MY FAMILY IS FROM WINSTON COUNTY,
AND OLD CHOCTAW COUNTY. ANCESTORS WERE IN NEW PROSPECT GREYS FOR CIVIL
WAR AND MOVED ON TO PHILADELPHIA, MERIDIAN, ETC LATER. YOU ARE RIGHT ON
ABOUT ALSON LEAVING S.C. AT 12 AND SETTLING WITH PARENTS IN ALA. I HAVE
NO PROOF OF ALSON'S FATHER, BUT SUSPECT WAS ELIJAH WITH WIFE SUZANNA WHO
PURCHASED LAND IN TUSCALOOSA IN 1826 AND SOLD IT TO WYATT POE IN 1829 TO
MOVE INTO MS. NO DOUBT THERE WERE OTHER BROTHERS, SISTERS, ETC. BUT MY
GG GRANDFATHER WAS GEORGE BERRY CATLEDGE, WHOSE BROTHERS WERE ELIJAH NEWTON,
JAMES WATSON, AND OTHERS AS WELL AS SISTERS LISTED IN THE 1880 CENSUS OF
WINSTON/CHOCTAW COUNTIES. NAME PROBALBY CHANGED SPELLING IN EARLY 1800S.
J.CATLEDGE