In case you missed it before. . . kemis
Epidemics in America 1628-1918
In case you ever wondered why a large number of your ancestors disappeared
during a certain period in history, this might help. Epidemics have always had a
great influence on people - and thus influencing, as well, the genealogists
trying to trace them. Many cases of people disappearing from records can be
traced to dying during an epidemic or moving away from the affected area. Some
of the major epidemics in the United States are listed below:
Years Area Epidemic
1628-1631 New England Small Pox
1638 New England Small Pox & Spotted Fever
1648-1649 Massachusetts Bay Colony Small Pox
1657-1658 Boston Measles
1659 Massachusetts Bay Colony Throat Distemper
1677-1678 Charlestown & Boston Small Pox
1679-1680 Virginia Small Pox
1687 Boston Measles
1689-1690 New England Small Pox
1690 New York Yellow Fever
1693 Boston, MA Yellow Fever
1696 Jamestown, VA Small Pox
1699 Charleston & Philadelphia Yellow Fever
Mar 1699 South Carolina Small Pox
1702 New York Yellow Fever
1702-1703 Boston, MA Small Pox
1706 Charleston Yellow Fever
1711-1712 South Carolina Small Pox
1713 Boston Measles
1715-1725 Most of the Colonies Small Pox
1721 Boston, MA Small Pox
1723-1730 Boston, NY,Philadelphia Small Pox
1729 Boston Measles
1732 Charleston & New York Yellow Fever
1732-3 Worldwide Influenza
1735-1740 New England Small Pox, Scarlet Fever & Diphtheria
1734 Virginia Yellow Fever
1738 South Carolina Smallpox
1739-40 Boston Measles
1741 Virginia Yellow Fever
1747 CT,NY,PA,SC Measles
1752 Boston, MA Small Pox
1759 N. Amer Measles
1760-1761 CT, RI, Mass.,Charleston Small Pox
1761 N. Amer and West Indies Influenza
1762 Philadelphia Yellow Fever
1763 Philadelphia Throat Distemper
1764 Boston, MA Small Pox
1769 New York Throat Distemper
1772 N. America Measles
1772-1774 New England Small Pox
1775 N.Amer[especially NE] Epidemic Unknown
1775-6 Worldwide [severe epidemics] Influenza
1776 Boston, MA Small Pox
1778 Boston, MA Small Pox
1783 Dover, DE ["extremely fatal"] Bilious Disorder
1788 Philadelphia and New York Measles
1792 Boston, MA Small Pox
1793 Vermont[a "putrid" fever] Influenza
1793 VA [killed 500 in 5 co.'s in 4 wks] Influenza
1793 Philadelphia [severe epidemics] Yellow Fever
1793 Harrisburg, PA [many unexplained deaths] Cause Unknown
1793 Middletown, PA [many mysterious deaths] Cause Unknown
1794 Philadelphia, PA Yellow Fever
1796-7 Philadelphia, PA Yellow Fever
1798 Philadelphia, PA [severe] Yellow Fever
1803 New York Yellow Fever
1820-3 Nationwide [starts-Schuylkill River and spreads] "Fever"
1831-2 Nationwide [brought by English emigrants] Asiatic Cholera
1832 NY City and other major cities Cholera
1833 Columbus, OH Cholera
1834 New York City Cholera
1837 Philadelphia Typhus
1841 Nationwide [severe in the south] Yellow Fever
1847 New Orleans Yellow Fever
1847-8 Worldwide Influenza
1848-9 North America Cholera
1849 New York Cholera
1850 Nationwide Yellow Fever
1850-1 North America Influenza
1851 Coles Co., IL, The Great Plains, and Missouri - Cholera
1852 Nationwide [New Orleans-8,000 die in summer] - Yellow Fever
1855 Nationwide [many parts] Yellow Fever
1857-9 Worldwide [devasating epidemics] Influenza
1860-1 Pennsylvania Smallpox
1865-73 Philadelphia, NY, Boston, New Orleans - Smallpox
Baltimore, Memphis, Washington DC - Cholera
A series of recurring epidemics of: Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever, Yellow
Fever
1873-5 N. America and Europe Influenza
1878 New Orleans [last great epidemic] Yellow Fever
1885 Plymouth, PA Typhoid
1886 Jacksonville, FL Yellow Fever
1918 Worldwide[high point yr] more people were hospitalized in WWI from this
epidemic than wounds. US Army training camps became death camps, with 80% death
rate in some camps of Influenza.
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from another list. . . kemis
Hello All,
Ancestry has completed indexing and digitizing nearly 24 million World
War One Draft Registration Cards (1917-1918). To celebrate they are
offering free access to this database with registration (your name and
email address) from November 12-25, 2005. To take advantage of this
offer you must go to the webpage below and click on the WWI Draft Cards
link near the top...
Online World War One Indexes & Records
http://www.militaryindexes.com/worldwarone/
Feel free to share this post with other genealogy mailing lists you are
subscribed to.
Good luck with your searches.
Regards,
Joe
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This was on a genealogy freebie site. . . the advertisement said "A new and
growing resource containing hundreds of Bible transcriptions. The families
found in these Bibles which have been sold on Ebay, have to belong to
somebody.!" Remember any info you gather document where and use it as a clue
until you can validate the info.
http://www.ancestorhunt.com/family_bibles_index.htm
kemis
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Montgomery Alabama is setting up a cradle of confederacy museum.
www.csacradle.org We are looking for officers and directors from each
state of the confederacy to represent the state on the board. Please
join the list to give your input on the museum.
Michael Chappell-curator
334-264-4702
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A copy of the original deed, which I have abstracted below, was
among papers provided by Ailene (Mrs. Murray W.) CRAIG to Mrs. Mary
L. SANDS (both of Columbus, GA) in 1988:
Deed: State of Georgia, Muscogee County, 18 JAN 1884. C. R.
McCRARY, C. S. McCRARY, C. G. DAVIDSON, W. G. McCRARY, Alice?
McCRARY, Sarah L. McCRARY, all of Muscogee Co, GA, Fletcher D.
CUMMINS of Harris County, Lucy O. McCRARY of State of Alabama, C. R.
McCRARY as Guardian, B. F. McCRARY of Ala. and J. J.? McCRARY of
Texas (all heirs at law or legatees of T. G. McCRARY, late of
Muscogee Co, GA) of the one part and A. G. McCRARY of Muscogee Co,
GA, of the other part: Party of the first part conveys to party of
the second part all their interest in that tract or parcel of land
lying in the 8th District of Muscogee County in said State, known
in plan of said District by No. 202 containing two hundred and six
(206) acres more or less, with a reserve of 9 acres in northwest
corner of said lot to run south 2 acres deep and east 4 and a half
acres deep, also 3 acres and 6 and a half rods attached to said lot
202 a part of lot No. 227 in 8th District Muscogee County, bounded
as follows: beginning at a lightwood stob on the line between lots,
thence west on line dividing lot No 227 from lot No. 202, seventy
four rods to a chestnut stob, thence to east of south 12 rods and 12
and a half feet to a lightwood stob, the line to run between the two
last named stobs so as no part to be below high water mark, thence
to north of east a direct line to the beginning, 70 rods. Signed:
C. S. McCRARY, C. R. McCRARY, T. J. CUMMINGS, W. G. McCRARY, B. F.
McCRARY, C. G. DAVIDSON, C. S. McCRARY, Lucy O. McCRARY, Sarah L
McCRARY.
Witnessed by: A. O. BLACKMAR, notary public, as agent to C. S.
McCRARY; Chas. H. HARRISON; W. H. BRANNON; J. S. ALEXANDER; J. V.
ALEXANDER; G. R. RAMSAY; J. G. PEARSON; H. H. BREDEROFF? Notary
Public, Muscogee Co, GA. [extreme bottom of document cut off in this
copy]
Fletcher Davis McCRARY m. 28 OCT 1879 in Harris Co, GA, to Thomas
Jefferson CUMMINGS.
I would like to know the identity of C. G. DAVIDSON above.
Also, I am interested to know if the household listed as "S. G.
McCRARY" in line 18 page 300A of the 1840 federal census of Muscogee
Co, GA, is actually Timothy G. McCRARY. This household was in the
vicinity of Clapp's Factory. The household of my gggg-grandfather
Alexander MACKEY is listed in line 29. On p. 303A, M. M. McCRARY
(line 26) and G. L. McCRARY (line 27) appear. Two doors away is
William POOL and four doors away is Moses LAND - these are my
kinsmen. On the preceding page (302), appear Laban C. POOL, M. H.
POOL, and Mathew ROGERS. On 22 DEC 1835, M. H. POOL attested before
Laban C. POOL, Justice of the Peace for Muscogee Co., that he and W.
W. POOL had witnessed a deed conveying lot No. 201 (on the waters of
Standing Boy Creek, bounding BISHOP among others) in Muscogee from
Eli STROUD to Timothy G. McCRARY. I have a photocopy of this deed
and can more fully abstract if anyone cares to have it.
Hope this is of some help -
John in Frisco, TX
John,
This was very interesting. There is a couple of names in here that caught
my eye. The first name was Mrs. Murray Craig. I knew her, and what a very
sweet and kind woman she was. Her Husband, Murray Craig, Sr., was one of my
relatives (distantly). His grandmother was Sarah Layfield Craig. Sarah was the
sister to my third great-grandfather Christopher Columbus Layfield. I do recall
writing you once back in the past about a Layfield that married a Land. I
just recently found a picture of her by the way!
The second name was Eli Stroud. There is a Eli Stroud cemetery over in
Alabama just outside of Phenix City. He, along with other family members are
interred there. I figured he had come from around the Columbus area because his
son fought in a Columbus (C/W) regiment during the war. There are a couple of
other soldiers in there also for whom were in Columbus regiments also. I
think they were married into his family, because several of their names are
still prominent in the Columbus area. Just thought that you would like to know
this information.
Jimbo
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From the CC of GAWILKIN-L@...
kemis
For Genealogists
Unknown
'Twas the night before Christmas
when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even my spouse.
The dining room table with clutter was spread
With pedigree charts and with letters which said:
"Too bad about the data for which you wrote.
It sank in a storm on an ill-fated boat."
Stacks of old copies of wills and of such
Were proof that my work had become much too much.
Our children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugarplums danced in their heads.
And I at my table was ready to drop
From work on my album with photos to crop.
Christmas was here, and of such was my lot
That presents and goodies and toys I'd forgot.
Had I not been so busy with grandparents' wills,
I'd not have forgotten to shop for such thrills.
While others had bought gifts that would bring Christmas cheer,
I'd spent time researching those birthdates and years.
While I was thus musing about my sad plight,
A strange noise on the lawn gave me such a fright.
Away to the window I flew in a flash,
Tore open the drapes and I yanked up the sash.
When what to my nearsighted eyes should appear,
But an overstuffed sleigh and eight small reindeer.
Up to the housetop the reindeer they flew
With a sleigh full of toys, and ol' Santa Claus, too.
And then in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of thirty-two hoofs.
The TV antenna was no match for their horns,
And look at my roof, with hoof-prints adorned!
As I drew in my head, and bumped it on the sash,
Down the cold chimney fell Santa - KEE-RASH!
Dear Santa had come from the roof in a wreck
And tracked soot on the carpet! I could just wring his neck!
Spotting my face, good old Santa could see
I had no Christmas spirit, you'd have to agree.
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work
And filled all the stockings. (I felt like a jerk).
Here was Santa who'd brought us such gladness and joy;
When I'd been too busy for even one toy.
He spied my research on the table all spread.
"A genealogist!", he cried (My face was all red).
"Tonight I've met many like you", Santa grinned,
As he pulled from his sack a large book he had penned.
I gazed with amazement - the cover, it read:
"Genealogy Lines For Which You Have Plead".
"I know what it's like as a genealogy bug",
He said as he gave me a great Santa hug.
"While the elves make the sleighful of toys I now carry,
I do some research in the North Pole Library!"
"A special treat I am thus able to bring
To genealogy folks who can't find a thing."
"Now off you go to your bed for a rest -
I'll clean up the house of this genealogy mess".
As I climbed up the stairs full of gladness and glee,
I looked back at Santa who'd brought much to me.
While settling in bed, I heard Santa's clear whistle
To his team, which then rose like the down of a thistle.
And I heard him exclaim as he flew out of sight,
"Family history is fun! Merry Christmas! Good night!"
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Dan,
Hope you and your wife are doing well. I've been staying busy - I was
not able to go to Georgia at all this year. I have not given up hope
for a plan to save the Clapp's Factory Cemetery, but it has to stay on
the back burner for the time being. I am going to try to make some
time for it in the coming year.
I'm curious to know if you have had any contact with Georgia Power
regarding the cemetery or project? We in the group greatly appreciate
the work your firm has already done for us, and I still intend to
proceed with a full-scale survey when we are able to do so.
I hope you enjoy the holidays!
John
From another list . . .
DEAR ANCESTOR
Your tombstone stands among the rest, neglected and alone
The name and date are chiseled out of polished, marbled stone
It reaches out to all who care, it is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist, you died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you, in flesh and blood and bone,
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled one hundred years ago
Spreads out amoung the ones you left who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved, I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot and come to visit you.
--Author unknown
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From another list. . . this is free until May 31st!
A great new finding aid!
http://archivegrid.org/web/jsp/index.jsp
This web site allows you to search for the location of historical documents,
personal papers, and family histories held in various archives. It will only
be available to the public until May 31 and then it will be available on a
subscription basis only.
Try searches for place names, surnames, etc.
When your results page comes up, click on "read more" to print out the
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Everyone,
The following has directions to a map that shows how some of the
buildings at the Clapp's Factory site were laid out back in 1885 -
very interesting! When you get to p. 8, the image is in the lower
left-hand corner. - jml
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Subject: "old Clapps factory" or Columbus Manufacturing Company
Date: 7 May 2006 14:22:39 -0000
From: "Jesse Williams" <jessewms@...>
To: retrofit@...
Mr. Land,
I have run across references on the internet you have made concerning
the "old Clapp's factory" or Columbus Manufacturing Company. I have
come across something I think you would be very interested in. On the
old 1885 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map for Columbus Ga.I have seen the
drawing for the Columbus Manufacturing Company complex. I may be a
day late and a dollar short with this information and if I am then
just ignore this.
Go to.
http://www.galileo.usg.edu/
Sign in as guest.
Go to Databases, A-Z.
Go down to
Sanborn® Fire Insurance Maps for Georgia Towns and Cities, 1884-1922
Open
Go to Cites: Columbus Ga.
1885 Map Sheet 8
Jesse Williams
3316 Columbus, Ga. 31904
706- 323-8625
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The subject line looks like an oxy-moron - and I bet y'all are wondering what it
has to do with genealogy. This weekend I watched Modern Marvels do a piece on
Cotton. This show did the history of cotton in the US and how it impacts us
today. For those of us who have roots in mill towns, we know the impact it had.
Remember sometime in order to know our ancestors, we need to know how they
lived.
For me an interesting part was when they interviewed a man by the name of David
CLAPP who works as upper management in a mill in NC. The 2nd mill in GA was
built in Muscogee County and run by Julius CLAPP in the early 1800's.
If you get the opportunity to see the program check it out - could explain why
your ancestor moved to another county or state.
Happy Family Hunting,
kemis massey
sobbygenealogy@...
Researching:
for hubbie: MASSEY, BROOKS, FOUNTAIN, SMITH
for me: SONGER, CAMP, EVANS, ROSAMOND
Sobby Genealogy
http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~sobbygenealogy/
for preservation: CLAPP Cemetery, Community, Factory, and Families -
Muscogee County
for GAGen Web Project: any info (county, family, history, industry) on:
Chattahoochee County, GA http://www.rootsweb.com/~gachatta/index.htm
Clayton County, GA http://www.rootsweb.com/~gaclayt2/index.htm
Muscogee County, GA http://www.rootsweb.com/~gamuscog/
for AHPG Project: any info (county, family, history, industry) on:
Clayton County, GA http://www.rootsweb.com/~gaclayto/
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From: Mary Ellis
To: CLAPP-L@...
Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 8:20 PM
Subject: [Clapp] Re: clapp reunion
Clapp Family Reunion August 11-13, 2006
August 11, 2006 Dedication of a Clapp Family Library at 7:15
Come to 3452 Harris Road, Burlington, NC to celebrate the gathering of
Clapp family research of Lee Albright, former genealogist at the State
Library of NC, and of Grace A. Thompson, archiver and researcher for
more than25 years. The speaker will be Pam Toms, current genealogist at
the State Library of NC who worked with both Albright and Thompson
through the years.
August 12, 2006.. Genealogy Exchange from 9:30am-Noon+
Join the genealogy exchange and shake your family tree. A light snack
and beverages will be available.
Afternoon Tours at 2:00 PM
Clapp's Mill on Lake Mackintosh, the Alamance Battleground, the site of
Pyle's Defeat, and Lindley Mill will be available for those who are
interested.
Saturday Dinner at 6:00 PM
Gather at Brick Church for a home-cooked buffet. For reservations mail a
check for $10.00 to Linda Pattersonat 703 Heather Road, Burlington, NC
27215 or call Donna Bonds at 336/993-5782 or Bruce Clapp 336/449-6103 wk
or 336/449-7633 home.
Clapp Family "Show and Tell" 7:30.
Following the meal, members of the group are asked to participate in a
Clapp Family "Show and Tell". Yes! You are the program. Bring one or
two items, i.e., a photo, recipe, story, hand made item or other relic
precious to your family to share with the group. Hear stories about
barrel making, Clapp Farm Road farms, the Clapp Bible and more..
August 13, 2006 11:00AM Worship at Brick Church
Worship with your Clapp Family at "Der Klappe Kirche".
12:20 PM Lunch at a local restaurant
abbey sc wrote:
> Hi Mary,
>
> Will there be a Clapp reunion this year? When will we hear about it?
>
> Frances West abbeysc@...
>
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County Coordinator Alamance NCGenWeb
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I knew there was a reason we have such a hard time finding our ancestors, we
didn't know about the commandments . . . enjoy.
kemis
Genealogy Commandments
1 Thou shalt name your male children: James, John, Joseph, Josiah,
Abel, Richard, Thomas, Stephen, William.
2 Thou shalt name your female children: Elizabeth, Mary, Martha,
Sarah, Phoebe.
3 Thou shalt leave no trace of your female children.
4 Thou shalt, after naming your children from the above lists, call
them by strange nicknames such as: Ike, Eli, Polly, Dolly, Sukey,
Lizzie, thereby making them difficult to trace.
5 Thou shalt not use any middle names on any legal documents or
census reports and only where necessary, may you use [ONLY] initials
on legal documents.
6 Thou shalt learn to sign all legal documents illegibly so that your
surname can be spelled. or misspelled, in various ways: Keech,
Keach,Keechee, Ketch, etc.
7 Thou shalt, after no more than three Generations, make sure that
all family records are lost, misplaced, burned in a court house fire,
or buried so that NO future trace of them can be found.
8 Thou shalt propagate misleading legends, rumors, vague innuendo
regarding your place of origination: England, Scotland, Wales or
Netherlands. Descended from one of the three brothers that came
from...
9 Thou shalt leave no cemetery records or headstones with legible
names.
10 Thou shalt leave no family Bible with records of births, marriages
or deaths.
11 Thou shalt ALWAYS flip thy name around. If born "James Albert"
thou must make all the rest of your records in the names of Albert,
AJ, JA, AL, Bert, Bart, or Alfred.
12 Thou shalt also flip thy parents names when making reference to
them, although 'UNKNOWN" or a blank is an acceptable alternative.
13 Thou shalt name at least five Generations of males, and dozens of
their cousins, with identical names in order to totally confuse
researchers!
!
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Greetings, All -
Has anyone been to the Clapp's Factory Cemetery site lately? I'm
wondering if the condition of the property has changed? I know Rose
Bird has in the past been in the habit of visiting regularly to police
for trash, and perhaps some of you other Georgia locals get by there
every once in a while? Did Georgia Power ever remove the bulk trash
that was grouped at the southwest corner of the site?
I am planning to be in the Atlanta area in October for a family
reunion and would like to organize a meeting of the Clapp's Factory
Cemetery Preservation League. The tentative date for the reunion is
Saturday, October 14, so perhaps we could plan to meet on Sunday, Oct.
15. I will try to get confirmation on the date this week.
I am interested to know what everyone has been up to. I have been
quite busy myself, but would like to talk with folks about ideas for
getting the project moving forward again.
Thanks! John in TX
I have just been informed the the family reunion I plan to attend will
be at noon on October 7 in Columbus (rather than Oct. 14 in the
Atlanta area). I would like to know, among those who would be
interested in attending a meeting of CFCPL, what the best time to meet
would be. We could meet the afternoon of Sunday, Oct. 8 or - if I can
be in Georgia for that long - perhaps we could meet on Saturday Sep.
30 or Sat. Oct. 14. Everyone please let me know what works best for
you or if you have a conflict that would prevent you from making one
of these dates. Thanks!
jml
We would love to meet with you and everyone else and any of those days will work
for us. Just let us know ahead of time.
Michael, Laura, Sara, Katelin, & Willow Osburn
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Everyone,
We on the Board of the Clapp's Factory Cemetery Preservation League
(Kemis Massey, Cynthia Nason, and I) are conferring to get the
organization back on track with our Master Plan. We will be meeting
in Columbus the weekend of Saturday, August 5, to discuss changes to
the group and consider how best to pursue the group's goals. All are
welcome to attend this Board meeting – I will post the time and place
as soon as we have decided on it. I also anticipate meeting at the
cemetery for a walking tour, some time during Saturday, August 5, in
case anyone wants to meet us. We will be deciding on a date for the
general membership meeting in Columbus this fall – probably in
September or October – and hope to begin having regular meetings of
the general membership then (probably either once a quarter or once
every four months).
Activities with CFCPL Are Resuming – Please Join!
The new year for CFCPL begins on September 1, and we are honoring all
past memberships in the group for the coming year. Publication of our
newsletter, The Clapp's Factory Chronicle, will resume with Volume II,
Number 1 for Fall 2006. Copies of Vol. I (four issues) are available
for anyone who wants them – please send me your snailmail address if
you would like to receive them. Those of you who are already
subscribed will be receiving these within the next couple of weeks.
Subscription to the new issues (Vol. II forward) will be a benefit of
membership in CFCPL. I encourage everyone who supports our mission to
rescue the Clapp's Factory Cemetery to join the group. Your dues and
donations will help us publicize the project and implement our Master
Plan. Membership dues are $15.00 for an individual and $25.00 for a
household annually. The year starts September 1, but if you join now,
your membership will be effective immediately and run through August
of 2007. Checks should be made payable to CFCPL and directed to:
CFCPL
c/o John Mallory Land
8182 Whitewing Dr.
Frisco, TX 75034-4522
We will be issuing receipts for past donations and current memberships
within the next few weeks. All new donations and membership dues will
receive a prompt receipt.
There are many opportunities for volunteer service with the group. We
anticipate expanding the number of seats on the Board of Directors and
will be forming committees to manage such areas as Membership,
Publicity, Fund Raising, and Research. We also hope to assemble a
team in the local area to monitor the state of the cemetery site and
help police it for litter and dumping. If anyone in the Yahoo! group
is available and interested in serving in some capacity, however great
or small, please contact one of us on the Board (our email addresses
are at the tail of this message).
Improvements Are in the Works for the Group and the Cemetery!
This year, my primary objective as President will be to make changes
to improve the structure of the organization so that it will become
self-sustaining and self-perpetuating.
Our short-term goals include more actively publicizing our project,
increasing membership involvement, and building up our general
operating fund.
Our medium-term goal is to raise funds to pay for a formal
archaeological survey during the winter of 2007-08. This survey
should make it possible to have a property survey conducted to
determine the legal boundaries of the cemetery, which needs to be
carried out before we can erect a fence or take other measures to
protect the site. We will need a fence before we can move on to other
improvements, such as any monuments, historical markers, benches,
lighting, etc., so that they will be less vulnerable to vandalism.
Our long-term goals include establishing an endowment fund to provide
for the perpetual maintenance and protection of the cemetery.
Historical research into the Clapp's Factory mill operations,
community, and cemetery is ongoing. I have currently engaged a
volunteer researcher to look up the service and pension files of
Georgia Confederate soldiers connected with Clapp's Factory. She has
recently researched some CSA men on another side of my family for me
and is only charging us for copies, postage, parking and other
incidental expenses. She is starting with some of my kin who were at
Clapp's Factory (including NEWSOMES), and I am paying the expenses out
of my pocket at present. She will be moving on to other men who
served in the Home Guard unit at Clapp's Factory and other Confederate
soldiers and veterans buried at the cemetery, and some of her expenses
will be paid out of the CFCPL general fund. If anyone is interested
in helping with archival or other research, please let us know!
We appreciate your continued support for the Clapp's Factory Cemetery
project. Please feel free to email us with any questions or concerns
you may have. Thanks again!
John Mallory Land, President
retrofit@...
Cynthia Nason, Vice President
cinason@...
Kemis Massey, Secretary and Treasurer
sobby@...
Everyone,
We will be holding our meeting of the Executive Board of CFCPL in the
Genealogy Room of the Columbus Public Library, 3000 Macon Rd. in
Columbus at 2:30 pm tomorrow, Satruday, August 5. All are welcome to
attend - however, be aware that this is a business meeting, rather
than a general membership meeting with a program. We will be
discussing and deciding on the mundane, every-day matters of operating
the organization, as well as the grander issues of what we see in the
future for the group.
The library closes at 6 pm, and we expect to be done well before that
time. We will adjourn to the Cracker Barrel Restaurant at 1500
Bradley Park Dr. (between the J.R. Allen Bypass and the Whitesville
Rd.) in Columbus for dinner.
Prior to the meeting, I will be at the Clapp's Factory Cemetery site
from 8 am to 10 am on Saturday, then will be attending the NEWSOME
family reunion in Phenix City.
I will also be at the cemetery on Sunday from 8 am until lunch time
(we'll be looking for evidence of the mill building foundations and
other structures). We will meet for lunch about noon at Country's
Barbecue at 6298 Veterans Parkway, just south of Whittelsey Rd., then
will doing research for a few hours at the Columbus Public Library,
beginning at 1:30 pm.
If anyone can join us for any of these events, please do. I look
forward to seeing you!
John in TX
Hey everyone just wanted to let you know our new email address is
marriedfairy2005@... We had problems with the
mikeandlauraosburn@... some of our friends were not getting
their emails from us and all. So we are switching over to this one.
Sorry we missed the meet. Hope you got our email John, we lost
everything in our account. Please let me know how the meet went and
if you got our email about doing the work that you asked about. We
are also still looking for that photo and I will post on here when I
find it. Hope to hear from everyone soon.
Michael and Laura Osburn
Ok John We looked for that photo and I found a few that I think might
be it, but to be sure we are going to go to the site tomorrow and look
around and match up our photos and take some new photos. I will let
you know more tomorrow.
Michael and Laura Osburn
Mike and Laura,
John is on his way back to Texas. Don't know if he'll check his email when he
gets home or if he'll rest first. We talked about missing y'all at the meeting.
There were several that met yesterday morning at the cemetery and visited last
evening. Plus John was meeting a guy this am. We now have a matching washer
and dryer at the cemetery. I'll be visiting parks and recreation about the use
of the River Walk as a road. Also, I'm contacting our city councilors and GA
Power about the same problem.
We've got to get the public aware so someone will start reporting the dumping
problem.
kemis
Hey everyone just wanted to let you know our new email address is
marriedfairy2005@... We had problems with the
mikeandlauraosburn@... some of our friends were not getting
their emails from us and all. So we are switching over to this one.
Sorry we missed the meet. Hope you got our email John, we lost
everything in our account. Please let me know how the meet went and
if you got our email about doing the work that you asked about. We
are also still looking for that photo and I will post on here when I
find it. Hope to hear from everyone soon.
Michael and Laura Osburn
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Wow. We hate that we missed ya'll and him. Do ya'll ever have
anymore meetings or is this the only one for right now? Also do you
know if he will be coming back in October or was those dates wrong?
We totally agree about getting everyone to notice the problem. I
will be going to the cemetery tomorrow afternoon.
Michael and Laura
--- In ClappCemetery@yahoogroups.com, "Kemis Massey"
<sobbygenealogy@...> wrote:
>
> Mike and Laura,
>
> John is on his way back to Texas. Don't know if he'll check his
email when he gets home or if he'll rest first. We talked about
missing y'all at the meeting. There were several that met yesterday
morning at the cemetery and visited last evening. Plus John was
meeting a guy this am. We now have a matching washer and dryer at
the cemetery. I'll be visiting parks and recreation about the use
of the River Walk as a road. Also, I'm contacting our city
councilors and GA Power about the same problem.
>
> We've got to get the public aware so someone will start reporting
the dumping problem.
>
> kemis
>
>
> Hey everyone just wanted to let you know our new email address
is
> marriedfairy2005@... We had problems with the
> mikeandlauraosburn@... some of our friends were not getting
> their emails from us and all. So we are switching over to this
one.
> Sorry we missed the meet. Hope you got our email John, we lost
> everything in our account. Please let me know how the meet went
and
> if you got our email about doing the work that you asked about.
We
> are also still looking for that photo and I will post on here
when I
> find it. Hope to hear from everyone soon.
>
> Michael and Laura Osburn
>
>
>
>
>
>
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A copy of this was also sent to GA Power
kemis
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From: Kemis Massey
To: nsuber@... ; glenndavis@... ; jhunter@... ;
epugh@... ; jrodgers@... ; gallen@... ;
mwoodson@... ; rmcdaniel@... ; wanthony@... ;
skiphenderson@...
Cc: tadams@...
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 10:16 PM
Subject: River Walk at Oliver
Kemis Massey
1708 Preston Drive
Columbus, GA 31906
sobbygenealogy@...
Councilors and Park & Recreation Department;
As a member of the Clapp Factory Cemetery Preservation League, Inc., I would
like to bring to the Councils attention a continuing problem that we have with
the River Walk at Oliver. A little history to understand the current problem.
In 1832 a mill was started in the area of what is today Oliver Dam. Many
prominent early settlers of Muscogee County had much to do with the 2nd mill in
Georgia being built on the banks of the Chattahoochee River. Over the years the
area was referred to as Clapp Factory for Julius R. Clapp one of the original
owners. Since the mill was located outside the city and mill workers weren't
"wealthy", the factory provided a cemetery close to the mill and village. The
1st mill was burned by Union soldiers at the end of the Civil War. The 2nd mill
burned in 1910.
Fast forward to modern times and the River walk at Oliver. The cemetery is now
located north of the 8th light pole at the River Walk. Descendants of the
persons buried at the cemetery have organized a group to preserve what is left
of the cemetery. This weekend a group of those descendants paid a visit to the
cemetery. What they discovered was matching washer and dryers that have been
added among other trash. The problem is we've had a clean up day and removed
this type of rubbish with the help of Georgia Power. This tells the group that
someone is using the River Walk as a road to illegally dump their trash.
While we do not expect the City of Columbus to help remove the trash, we do
expect that they help protect the tax dollars spent developing the River Walk.
It was designed to be used as a walk not a driveway to an illegal dumping site.
While the preservation league had to submit a written request with details of
our plans for the clean up day (working with Georgia Power as the cemetery is on
their property) we it seems that criminals don't. I will need to submit in
writing another request to get permission to drive on the Riverwalk to remove
the matching washer and dryer from the cemetery. Then the preservation league
will have to pay the legal dump to get rid of the trash. All the other visits
we make each member parks in the designated areas and carry all the trash that
we can find out. Somehow this doesn't seem completely fair. Once upon a time,
before the consolidated government Muscogee County took care to this cemetery.
Now the descendants of the factory workers struggle to do the right thing and
fight the wrong thing.
Information on Clapp Factory can be found out
http://www.rootsweb.com/~gamuscog/clappfac.htm.
Thank you for your time,
Kemis Massey
Secretary/Treasurer - Clapp Factory Preservation League, Inc.
Webmaster / List Administrator for GAGen Web Project Muscogee County and others
Researching:
for preservation: CLAPP Cemetery, Community, Factory, and Families - Muscogee
County
for GAGen Web Project: any info (county, family, history, industry) on:
Chattahoochee County, GA http://www.rootsweb.com/~gachatta/index.htm
Clayton County, GA http://www.rootsweb.com/~gaclayt2/index.htm
Muscogee County, GA http://www.rootsweb.com/~gamuscog/
for AHPG Project: any info (county, family, history, industry) on:
Clayton County, GA http://www.rootsweb.com/~gaclayto/
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He has plans to return the weekend of Oct 8th - complete plans to be announced
later. We are planning a meeting on that Sunday. We are attempting to have
more meeting - all of that as soon as John and I complete the minutes for
Saturday's meeting.
We had a productive meeting. We then adjourned to Cracker Barrel for dinner.
John and a few others visited the cemetery. John, Cynthia and I had a wonderful
visit with Ann Walk, who lived on Bridge Island and played in the cemetery as a
child. If you subscribe to the Ledger, keep an eye out for a Bibb City School
reunion - it's held in the fall and open to anyone who attended school there.
Could hold a valuable resource for historical information about the cemetery and
surrounding area.
kemis
From: marriedfairy2005
Wow. We hate that we missed ya'll and him. Do ya'll ever have
anymore meetings or is this the only one for right now? Also do you
know if he will be coming back in October or was those dates wrong?
We totally agree about getting everyone to notice the problem. I
will be going to the cemetery tomorrow afternoon.
Michael and Laura
--- In ClappCemetery@yahoogroups.com, "Kemis Massey"
<sobbygenealogy@...> wrote:
>
> Mike and Laura,
>
> John is on his way back to Texas. Don't know if he'll check his
email when he gets home or if he'll rest first. We talked about
missing y'all at the meeting. There were several that met yesterday
morning at the cemetery and visited last evening. Plus John was
meeting a guy this am. We now have a matching washer and dryer at
the cemetery. I'll be visiting parks and recreation about the use
of the River Walk as a road. Also, I'm contacting our city
councilors and GA Power about the same problem.
>
> We've got to get the public aware so someone will start reporting
the dumping problem.
>
> kemis
>
>
> Hey everyone just wanted to let you know our new email address
is
> marriedfairy2005@... We had problems with the
> mikeandlauraosburn@... some of our friends were not getting
> their emails from us and all. So we are switching over to this
one.
> Sorry we missed the meet. Hope you got our email John, we lost
> everything in our account. Please let me know how the meet went
and
> if you got our email about doing the work that you asked about.
We
> are also still looking for that photo and I will post on here
when I
> find it. Hope to hear from everyone soon.
>
> Michael and Laura Osburn
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Ok everyone, we have some good news and some bad. The bad news is
that we could not find the grave "Dewy" that we found a year ago, but
we will keep trying. The good news is that I took some photos and
some videos. I took photos but sometimes when you look at a photo you
might not know what you are looking at or even what you are looking
for. So I took some video so you could see and hear what I am trying
to point out. I am uploading the videos on youtube.com right now, I
have 14 of them so it is taking some time. Also I will let ya'll
knowwhen I get the photos ready. Here is the link to where the videos
will be at. Oh and just to let everyone know, we had our kids with us
and so we were playing and having fun to. So dont laugh to hard at
us. LOL
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=marriedfairy2005
Let me know what you think.
Michael and Laura
So far I have 6 out of 14 videos loaded onto youtube.com. I will try
to get all of them loaded tonight but if not I will finish up tomorrow
morning while I am at my doctors appt. Also I am going to make a
folder in my yahoo profile to add the photos so they dont take up to
much room on this site. Here is the link to them.
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/marriedfairy2005/album?.dir=2608re2
Michael and Laura
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