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Dianne,
I don't like to connect my research experience to a Halloween Ghost Story,
but I had quite an experience in
locating the gravesite of Rev. Handen C. Cheshire in Hamilton County, FL.
He and his wife, I found were buried in Pool Pond Cemetery in Hamilton
County SE of
Jasper, FL.
One day I set out to find this cemetery. It had been raining for days, like
the current hurricane season. I
inquired in Jasper and they directed me to the phospate mining area of the
Oxidental Compay. They warned me
I would have to travel on some treacherous dikes caused by the stirp-mining
in this phosphate rich area and that I
might slide off one of them due to the rain.
When I got there, sure enough here are these dikes with
roadways built on the top. The drop off on each side was some 50-75 feet
deep on each side with slimey green water at the bottom, a real habitat for
snakes and
alligators. I still could not resist the temptation to find the
old Pool Pond Cemetery since I had driven about 100
miles already to reach this point. So down this two-rutted dirt road on top
of the levee. I could see the large
Oxidental Plant several miles in the distance with the huge
earth-moving Euclids running back and forth to the plant.
I weighed the situation, if I should meet one of these huge
machines on the road. Could I pull over or would I have to back up the
miles I had already come? I finally reached a fork in the road.....and as
Yogi Berri once said
"when you come to the fork in the road, take it!" Which one, so I go left
and found the cemetery about a miles on
down from the fork.
The cemetery was left by the mining company as an island. It was well kept
cemetery with a chain-link fence
surrounding it. Off course, here I am alone in the wilderness. Mission
accomplished. I found Rev. Cheshire's gravesite and his wife. I took my
usual pictures, recorded the information off these grave markers and some
others that I felt were related. Then to get out of there and back to
civilization. The only "Spooky" thing about it was the of being there alone
and the risk of making the destination. It was worth it. Now, we have
gravestone rubbings of all my
ancestral grandparents and those of my wife's, including the Pilgrim
forefathers that came to Plymouth Colony, Allerton and Cushman. I have them
all laminated with a copy of their family sheets on their reverse sides.
Rev. Handen C. Cheshire was Jeanette's Great-Great Grandfather who came from
North Carolina to settle in Hamilton County, Florida. Need help on these
lines? Write me. Will be happy to share and exchange data.
S. Maurice McAllister
smcallister2360(a)charter.net
www.clanmcalister.org
or
2360 Len Circle NW
Hartselle, AL 35640-7769
256/773-7823
----- Original Message -----
From: "Diane Sowden" <diane(a)sowden8945.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <CHESHIRE-SURNAME-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 3:02 AM
Subject: [cheshire-surname] Halloween
> In the spirit of Halloween, from now through Oct. 31 please feel free to
> post
> any spooky tales related to your family research. Found a grave with the
> help
> of that ancestor? Tell us about it. Share a family tradition with us. What
> did your ancestor's do for a holiday? A special family recipe? Get your
> creative
> juices flowing and share with us today!
>
> It works every October and is fun for many list members who may have been
> afraid to post before. It tends to get them talking anyway!
>
> I set the time limit for this topic so that after Oct.31 we can get down
to
> some really good researching...
>
> Diane (List mum)
>
>
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In the spirit of Halloween, from now through Oct. 31 please feel free to
post
any spooky tales related to your family research. Found a grave with the
help
of that ancestor? Tell us about it. Share a family tradition with us. What
did your ancestor's do for a holiday? A special family recipe? Get your
creative
juices flowing and share with us today!
It works every October and is fun for many list members who may have been
afraid to post before. It tends to get them talking anyway!
I set the time limit for this topic so that after Oct.31 we can get down to
some really good researching...
Diane (List mum)
Hiya list,
List mum here with a website that I was told about.
Diane
FYI --
To those of you with England-based lists, I just ran across a resource
which your lists might like to know about if they don't already.
Harvard Law School has a collection of English deeds in their library,
and these deeds are described on their website, including all names and
locations contained therein:
<http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/collections/special/collections/manuscri
pts/deeds/>
There is a small search box on the left-hand side at the bottom. If
"HLS website" is clicked, then entering a search term in that box and
clicking on "Go" will search those deeds for you (and probably any other
pages on their site as well).
Some of these deeds mention land in America, but most of them are for
land in England. They go back as early as the 1300's and go through at
least the latter 1700's.
It doesn't appear to be possible to search on just the deeds, so a
search on a common name like Lewis will get way too many hits. Adding
the term "deed" to your search will help, but there may still be
irrelevant results. The deed descriptions are also browseable in the
event that the name search isn't fruitful.
Please feel free to forward this message in whole or in part to your
list(s) if desired.
-- Mary Taffet
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