Richard,

I checked my Jackson Co. Books and found 3 Whitfield marriages.  Also some
other books that I have on Jackson Co., AL.  Possibly this Whitfield
information will help to identify or eliminate Whitfield families for the
researcher.

BK A 1859-1871
License 139
W.C. Whitfield to Mary E. Dicus (see p. 346-license 468)
License issued 7/2/1864    Solemnized   no return

BK A, 1859-1871
License 468
W. C. Whitfield to Mary E. Dicus (see p. 235-License 139
License issued 7/2/1865 Solemnized 7/2/1865 by Wm. Bellomy, MG

BK B 1871-1876, p. 181
Wiley Whitfield to Talitha Snodgrass
License issued 1/15/1873  Soleminized   1/19/1873
At Scottsboro by Thos. J. Wood, MG
Bondsmen:  Solomon Robinson

BK B  1871-1876, p. 560
Richard Warren to Dona Whitfield
License issued. 1/15/1876  Solemnized 1/15/1876
At Scottsboro by Wm. Moore, Minister
Bondsmen:  W. B. Bridges

There is a Civil War Damage Claim filed with The Southern Claims Commission
1871-1880
for a John Whitfield  #5845 from Jackson Co., AL.

A John Whitfield donated sizable land to the County.  (To finance the
courthouse in Scottsboro, I believe.)  Deed Bk 3, p. 563 and p. 566.

Confederate Soldiers
Co. K., Fourth Regiment
Pvt.G. Booker Whitfield Killed 7/2/1863, farmer

Wiley Whitfield was a prominent black businessman in Scottsboro and operated
a sawmill, was a carpenter and brick mason.  He d. in 1931.  Wiley once owned
property in downtown Scottsboro. Wiley Whitfield had a white father and a
black slave mother.

1866 Special AL Census
Township 4,  Range 5 E.
John Whitfield - 1 male over 20, 1 female over 20 and 1 male under 10

Township 4, Range 6 E.
W. C. Whitfield 1 male over 20, 1 female over 20 and 1 female under 10, 1
female 10-20

Shirley Perry

> From: "piercedc" <piercedc@...>
>
> Richard,
> I appreciate your work on this new site.   in reference to this woman's
> query, has anyone found her any info?  If not, i will try to find the 1870
> census records for her, shouldn't be many Whitfields around here.
> David
.............................

Thanks David,

I don't know of any information that has been found for her yet. I'm sure
any help would be greatly appreciated. All list members are invited to
contribute as they can.

I think this mail list can benefit many Jackson County genealogy
researchers. it's success will be dependent on the use it is given.

Richard

Richard,
I appreciate your work on this new site.   in reference to this woman's
query, has anyone found her any info?  If not, i will try to find the 1870
census records for her, shouldn't be many Whitfields around here.
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Matthews <prm@...>
To: jacksongenealogy@onelist.com <jacksongenealogy@onelist.com>
Date: Saturday, May 01, 1999 7:33 PM
Subject: [jacksongenealogy] Can anyone help this lady?


>From: "Richard Matthews" <prm@...>
>
>Can any list member help this lady?
>
>MY GRANDFATHER WAS BORN IN SCOTTSBORO MARCH12 1867 . HIS NAME WAS JOHN
>BOOKER WHITFIELD. I HAVE NO OTHER INFO EXCEPT HE MARRIED LUESETTA RIGSBY.
>CAN YOU HELP ME PLEASE? THANK YOU JUDY VANZANT
>
>arras@...
>
>
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Thanks for the address to the pictures of the tunnel Mr. Woodall. That tunnel is
closely connected to Jackson County history and there is little doubt that many
Jackson county men worked on the digging of the tunnel.

I assume that the limestone plants on both sides of the mountain resulted from
the digging of all that limestone rock out of the mountain.

Mrs. Woodall of Stevenson, in her book wrote (speaking from my memory) that
prior to the completion of the railroad that hog drovers from Kentucky drove
their herds overland down through the Cowan area across the mountain, through
Jackson county and on down to the port at Charleston. What a Godsend the
railroad was for the farmers.

I would suppose that the same route across Cumberland mountain was used by our
early Jackson County pioneers to start populating that area of North Jackson.
There are strong family ties across that part of the border between Alabama and
Tennessee.

The study of area history links hand in hand with the study of area genealogy.

Richard

You can view the tunnel at
http://nostalgiaville.com/hills/franklin/31c.htm

By backing up through the address you can find other interesting sites.

While I was in the area this weekend I also visited the Gonce area and up
to the Cumberland cemetery. If you want to see a beautiful, well kept part
of Jackson County, make a trip into that area. You can tell by one
drive-through that those folks have a lot of pride in where they live.

At the Cumberland cemetery, I visited the graves of James Matthws, his wife
Elizabeth Hardy Matthews and their son James. James and Elizabeth were
early settlers of our county in the Crow Creek area. They are all three
buried under the old style cut limestone pyramid stacks of cut rocks.
Cumberland is a fair sized cemetery and very well kept.

On a side note, maybe some of you involved in local historic buildings
preservation program will know, how in the world did the folks down at
Paint Rock allow that beautiful old church down there be torn down?  To
make it even worse, somebody has put a double wide trailer where it stood
just a few weeks ago.

Richard

At 12:57 PM 5/3/99 -0400, you wrote:
>From: "Raymond A. Shirley, Sr." <rshirley@...>
>
>
>Elizabeth Shirley states in her application for reimbursement to the
>Southern Claims Commission that her husband, Houston Shirley, worked to
>help maintain that section of railroad between state line and Stevenson
>for the Federals during the War Between the States.  I have copies of
>the Southern Claims Commission applications of Jordan Peacock, Elizabeth
>Shirley, and James M. Cloud taken from National Archives records.  I
>would be glad to post abstracts of those claims, except I still haven't
>found a way to get access to the posting web page.  I'll keep trying.
>Ray Shirley
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------

Ray, if can't work it out so you can upload directly, I will be glad to
upload documents for you. Just email them to me directly.

Richard

Richard Matthews wrote:
>
> From: "Richard Matthews" <prm@...>
>
> Subject: [jacksongenealogy] Cumberland tunnel
>
> Make a correction in my last post. The tunnel was started in 1849 and
> finished in1854.
>
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Elizabeth Shirley states in her application for reimbursement to the
Southern Claims Commission that her husband, Houston Shirley, worked to
help maintain that section of railroad between state line and Stevenson
for the Federals during the War Between the States.  I have copies of
the Southern Claims Commission applications of Jordan Peacock, Elizabeth
Shirley, and James M. Cloud taken from National Archives records.  I
would be glad to post abstracts of those claims, except I still haven't
found a way to get access to the posting web page.  I'll keep trying.
Ray Shirley

Subject: [jacksongenealogy] Cumberland tunnel


Make a correction in my last post. The tunnel was started in 1849 and
finished in1854.

A little known fact about the railroad that links Nashviile to Stevenson,
Alabama is that for the railroad to be completed, a half mile long tunnel
was dug under Cumberland mountain from Cowan, Tn to Sherwood, Tn. The
railroad then travels through the valley by Crow creek to Stevenson. The
tunnel was completed in 1862 and allowed easy rail access to a staging area
in Jackson County for the union to prepare for battles around Chattanooga
and to supply Sherman for his march to the sea. But even with the tunnel,
pusher engines are needed to get trains up the steep grade to the tunnel.

Rebels tried without success to block the tunnel by thowing rocks and
timbers down onto the tracks in the tunnel through air shafts that opened
above.

The tunnel is still in use after almost 140 years of use. At the time of the
tunnels completion, it was the longest tunnel in the world.

There is a railroad museum in Cowan that tells the story of the tunnel.

They are from the Daily Sentinel

Mr. Abercrombie passed May 1

Mrs. Blow April 30

Mrs. Brown April 30

Mr. Hollis April 30

Mr. Woods April 29


----- Original Message -----
From: <CLSwagler@...>
To: <jacksongenealogy@onelist.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 1999 7:47 AM
Subject: [jacksongenealogy] Re: today's obituaries


> From: CLSwagler@...
>
> Richard - Are these obits from the Daily Sentinel?
>
> Is it possible for you to include a death date?
>
> Cindy
>
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Richard - Are these obits from the Daily Sentinel?

Is it possible for you to include a death date?

Cindy

Recent Jackson County deaths

John J. Abercrombie Sr.  84 Scottsboro owner of Abercrombie tire store

Eva Anderson Blow 73 Huntsville

Stella Brown 87 mother of Brooks and Jerry Brown long time member of
Mudcreek Primative Baptist church

Lee Roy Hollis 59 former Hollywood major and Scottsboro policeman

Randall Darin Woods 31 Pisgah

Can any list member help this lady?

MY GRANDFATHER WAS BORN IN SCOTTSBORO MARCH12 1867 . HIS NAME WAS JOHN
BOOKER WHITFIELD. I HAVE NO OTHER INFO EXCEPT HE MARRIED LUESETTA RIGSBY.
CAN YOU HELP ME PLEASE? THANK YOU JUDY VANZANT

arras@...

> From: "Raymond A. Shirley, Sr." <rshirley@...>
>
> Hi,
>
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> and got the message that my browser wouldn't accept their cookie.  I've
> never had that problem before.  I check my Preferences setup and it is
> configured to accept cookies.  Any suggestions?
...................

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.

Just added a link to War between the states information about Bridgeport
and Stevenson at http://fly.hiwaay.net/~prm/jcalgenweb.html

Welcome new list members, feel free to post to the list. Send your email
post to jacksongenealogy@www.onelist.com

Richard

Hi,

I'm one of the new members.  I tried to get into the Shared File area
and got the message that my browser wouldn't accept their cookie.  I've
never had that problem before.  I check my Preferences setup and it is
configured to accept cookies.  Any suggestions?

As a member of the Jackson county genealogy list you have the priviledge of
uploading files to share with other list members. We have five megabytes of
storage space set aside for our use. You can upload small pictures or text
files that can be viewed and downloaded by other list members. If and when
the space fills, I will need to remove some of the older, larger files to
provide future space.

There are operation instructions at the file site at
http://www.onelist.com/shareddir/jacksongenealogy/

After uploading files please let the rest of the list know by posting to
jacksongenealogy@www.onelist.com

Also remember as the list grows, all posts will be archived in the archive
area for your later reference.

Please feel free to post to the list as often as you desire. All of our
members will be glad to read anything concerning Jackson county, Alabama
genealogy and history.

As of this morning the list membership is at ten and growing steadily.

Please enjoy and use our new list. At this time we have no strict user
rules, just post messages that are of interest to those looking for their
roots in Jackson county. Let's keep it friendly and fun.

Richard

Just added to the Jackson County AlGenWeb site

http://fly.hiwaay.net/~prm/jcalgenweb.html

1895 map of Jackson County.

Who knows any thing about the Berry Store, shown between Hollywood and
Fackler?

Richard

At 06:50 AM 4/30/99 -0500, you wrote:
>From: Richard Matthews <prm@...>
>
>
>There are some wonderful pictures of the Skyline farms development on
>Cumberland mountain in Jackson County at:
>
>
>http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@FILREQ(@field(SUBJ+@band
>(Alabama--Jackson+County--Skyline+Farms.+))+@FIELD(COLLID+fsa))
>
to reach the site you will have to enter the two lines above, copy and
paste, clicking will not work on this overly long address

There are some wonderful pictures of the Skyline farms development on
Cumberland mountain in Jackson County at:


http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@FILREQ(@field(SUBJ+@band
(Alabama--Jackson+County--Skyline+Farms.+))+@FIELD(COLLID+fsa))

Richard

Welcome again to those of you have signed up to our new list. there will be
an archive kept and available of all messages.

As the word gets around this could become a busy list

Richard

Leroy Pope Walker, who became Secretary of war for the Confederacy,
practiced law at Bellefonte, Alabama in Jackson County before the war.

Our list is only a few hours old and we already have five members . . . . .
tell your friends about the Jackson County genealogy list

Richard

> From: "Tom Arnold" <tom961@...>
.  Ralph Arnold of 1787 is
> thought to be connectd to the Moses Arnold line that was also in Lincoln
Col
> TN in 1810 or so...they came from GA and both lines are thought to connect
> back to William Arnold 1700 in Goochland Co. Va.  Looking for proof.
> Tom
..................

Here is a list of early Arnold land purchasers in the county.

ARNOLD, JAMES J 05/01/1861
ARNOLD, JAMES J 05/01/1861
ARNOLD, JAMES J 05/23/1889
ARNOLD, JAMES  06/01/1831
ARNOLD, JAMES  10/04/1831
ARNOLD, JEREMIAH  12/01/1859
ARNOLD, JOEL  04/02/1857
ARNOLD, JOEL  12/01/1860
ARNOLD, JOHN M 07/15/1899
ARNOLD, JOHN W 10/26/1892
ARNOLD, JOHN  08/01/1839
ARNOLD, JOHN  10/10/1840
ARNOLD, JOHN  03/01/1860
ARNOLD, LEETHEY  11/23/1891
ARNOLD, RICHARD  08/01/1831
ARNOLD, ROBERT R 12/15/1892
ARNOLD, SARAH  06/01/1831
ARNOLD, SARAH  07/30/1833
ARNOLD, WILLIAM L 08/14/1894

Some of your ancestors may be here.

There is a high percentage of Arnolds still in Jackson County. It is a very
common name here

Richard

Ralph Arnold b. 1787 VA, died 1858 Jackson Co. Ala.  Wife Jane Reid/Reed b.
1787 NC. died in Jackson County after 1860.  They lived in Lincoln Co. TN
from around 1810-to 1830 coming to Jackson Co before 1840. Children:
Elizabeth, Cynthia, Mary, Nancy, Martha, John, Frances, William, Ralph C.,
Jane.  Married into the family were the : McCollums, Clarks, Knuckles,
Duboise, Greens, Calloways and Duncans.  Last known relative in Jackson
County for sure was Jack or Jackson Arnold son of Felix M. (Richard) Arnold,
son of John Arnold, the son of Ralph Arnold. Jack was alive on 1920 census
in Hollywood area with two sons Levi and Albert.  Ralph Arnold of 1787 is
thought to be connectd to the Moses Arnold line that was also in Lincoln Col
TN in 1810 or so...they came from GA and both lines are thought to connect
back to William Arnold 1700 in Goochland Co. Va.  Looking for proof.
Tom

Welcome to the list Tom. Tell us a little about yourself if you like. The
list has just started today, so we have only a few member at present.

I feel like the list will grow quickly.

Make yourself at home and post as you feel the need.

Richard

I just had a request for information about union soldier burials at
Stevenson during the civil war. Are there any remaining union graves there?

Richard

Ann,

Thanks for joining the list. please tell others that might be interested
about it's existence.

There is a link at the top of the Jackson County AlGenWeb main page to allow
interested parties to easily sign up to participate in the list.

Richard

Here is the first post to the list to get the ball rolling

Richard