Hello everyone! I hope everyone is well. I am considering come again but
this time for two nights and three days to do research in Pike County. I
was hoping people could make four suggestions for me:
1. Where is a nearby affordable hotel or Bed and Breakfast to stay at?
2. Is there a researcher there that someone suggests to help me look at
information from the Plat Books and Transfer Books to help me determine
exactly where my Patrick McNabbs farm would currently be located? I
attempted to look through the books myself last time, actually I did and I
found entries for Patrick and Sarah E. McNabb. The only problem is I
couldn't understand how to read the marks and notations and therefore figure
out where my Patrick's farm was.
3. I have asked before, please forgive me - it says in Patrick's obituary
that his service was held at the M.E. Church in Algiers. Someone had
suggested I contact the Free Methodist Church in Petersburg - I wrote them
and never got a response. Does anyone else have any suggestions on this
M.E. Church in Algiers?
4. I am also looking for any older Freemason members in Petersburg or
Winslow that had access to some of the older files - I wish to ask if they
remember anything at all about Patrick they saw before the Lodge burnt down,
and also if any of them remember the picture donated by Lucile Viehe Failing
(a distant relative of mine who is now deceased) of him - because he was one
of the founding members of the Petersburg lodge. Supposedly it was on
display - I want to know what he looked like - but I can understand if no
one remembers. We have not one surviving picture of Patrick, even though he
died in 1912. I know this one is a stretch, but sometimes I've yielded
results on stretches before. I have already mailed Michael Murray of the
Petersburg Lodge about 6 months ago and got no response. He belonged to the
Winslow lodge before he transferred to the Petersburg Lodge. I'd also like
to know if anyone remembers if the Lodge paid for a new gravestone at the
McClure cemetery, as both Patrick and Sarah (his wife) had newer gravestones
with a Mason symbol on them when I visited. I do have the "eulogy" written
by someone in the Lodge for his funeral that is at the Barrett Memorial
Library there in Petersburg.
And just in case any new people joined since I wrote last - my surnames are:
Miley, Brenton, McNabb, Thomas, Church, and Griffith. I want to thank
everyone for their time and consideration!
LeeAnn McNabb