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One of my surname mailing list subscribers shared with the others a
story/history of their family's origination. That is a great idea for
the county mailing lists, as well as surname mailing lists. They would
also be useful for county webpages.
Many people have handed-down stories. Hers, told by her grandmother many
times, started out:
<snip>
Our family was made up of Irish Weavers who came from London, bringing a
loom which they had invented, when they came to America. They lived for
a
while in North Carolina, and moved to Kentucky.
<snip>
Linda
No new uploads to the VA directory of the USGenWeb Archives to report
today.
VA is still in the top ten of the state rankings for total bytes of text
data, but has slipped over the last year from #4 to #9.
Leading the pack:
LA, SD, AR, KY, TX, PA, IN, FL, VA, CA
Linda
Please share with your county coordinators.
Congratulations to Tina Vickery, Valerie Crook and Stacey Orchard on the
great beginnings of the USGenWeb Archives Pension Project.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pensions/
This project will focus on transcriptions of Pension related materials
for all American/U.S. wars prior to 1900. More volunteers are needed to
coordinate states for each war. Please contact Tina at
mailto:TVick65536@aol.com if you are interested.
Thanks,
Linda
Hi everyone,
This query was placed on the Chesterfield County page, and in light of the
nature of the email, I felt it deserved greater attention than it would
receive only there. If anyone descends from the Howletts or Spains of
Chesterfield county, and these are your family members, please contact James
at the email address listed below. What he and his scouting troop are
offering to do is commendable, and I'd hate to see them not be able to do it
because they couldn't find any family members.
Tracy
NAME: James Crumpler
EMAIL: raincrow(a)erols.com
SURNAMES:
DATE: Feb 28 1999
QRYTEXT:
I am a Scoutmaster with a local troop and have did some work with the
Chesterfield Co. Historical Society in research on cemeteries. I am looking
for any family of James Howlett, born 1772 and died in 1838 or Thomas Augustus
Howlett, born Aug 1801, died July 1858 or James Chappell Howlett, born 1810.
The elder James may have been born in Amelia Co. These Howletts are buried in
a family cemetery off Cattail Road in Chesterfield Co. The cemetery needs
cleaning up and the Scout troop is willing but would like okay from family
first.
I am also looking for family members of James Richard Spain, born Nov 1852 and
died Dec 1922. Also Martha J. Spain, born Dec 1860 and died Oct 1934. This
family cemetery is off Graves road in Chesterfield Co. and is on Graves
property. The Scout troop is also willing to clean this family cemetery but
the Graves asked us to see if we could find family to okay the cleaning job.
Thank you James Crumpler..
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