Vicki's Close Cousins, Long Lost Cousins, Kissing Cousins, Distant Cousins, Great-Great and more Great Grandparents, In-laws, Out-laws, and Allied Lines. That's a cameo of great great Grandpa Simon Prince to the left, born in 1850.
April 25th, 2010 at 2:00 p.m.
Robert Lindley, Professor of History at Gadsden State , will present a program entitled "Calhoun County during the Civil War" at the Janney Furnace Confederate and Native American Museum located in Ohatchee. Learn why the War Between the States would not have lasted as long as it did if it had not been for the role Calhoun County played.
Northeast Alabama Genealogical Society and the City of Gadsden Parks
and Recreation Department invite you to join us for Ancestor Swap Meet
2010.
From: Mary Lu Johnson
Volunteers, mostly comprised of Bham Gen Society and AL Gen Society members, have been involved for 10-11 years indexing Shelby Co and Jefferson Co, AL court records. Shelby Co records are indexed/filmed, and we're near completing the JeffCo records which were stored at the main court house.
I wasn't in on Shelby Co when they started with 31 people, but have been one of only 11 remaining volunteers who are finishing up the downtown Bham courthouse JeffCo records.
We are seriously considering tackling the Bessemer cut-off records. They're piled haphazardly one on top of the other in the basement of the old Bessemer Court House, and it's estimated it will take about five years to get them organized, cleaned, de-stapled, prepared for filming, and indexed. We MUST get commitments of 2 or 3 hours+ a week from 15 or 20 people, or we can't consider it. There's also the matter of funding, as they must be stored in expensive acid-free folders.
Would you please spread the word that we are in dire need of warm bodies and funding? Mostly because of lack of parking in Bessemer, the records will be transported by the county to the Jefferson Co Operations Center off AL Hwy 79 (Tallapoosa St exit) in the Tarrant area.
We are contacting the Bessemer Ch of Commerce, Hueytown Hist Soc, and others. If you can think of anyone who might be interested, we need all the help we can get!
To volunteer, contact:
Oak Hill
Cemetery Tour
1120
19thStreet North,
Birmingham , AL
35234
Saturday,
October 31, 2009
10
am –2 pm
Family-Friendly Event!!!! Admission Price:$5.00
Children 3 and under are FREE
You will have the chance to meet some of the interesting people buried
there and learn how they were part of the history of the
Magic City !
Parking: Tickets and entrance of the tour will be
located on 18thStreet and 11th Avenue North (look for signs)
Thanks to Robert Davis at Wallace State for passing this along.
The annual Vaughn/ Prince reunion is held at Palasades Park near Oneonta, Alabama on the second Saturday of September.
The Alabenton Genealogical Society in Anniston, Alabama will have an all day workshop on August 8.
If you have been researching your family history for many years or if you are just getting started, you probably have often wondered how to organize and share this information with your children, your cousins and others. Robert "Bob" Davis, Head of the Genealogical Department at Wallace State Community College, can show us just how to get organized and published. Come join us for an informative and congenial meeting with Bob Davis and our members. TVGS meetings are open to the general public, bring a friend.
Our meeting will be held on Thursday, January 22, at 7:00 PM in the auditorium of the Huntsville Public Library. Look forward to seeing and sharing with you.
Bob Mixon, President of TVGS
Henry Clay Vaughan, Vaughan, Emma
Cassity, Jefferson, Lt, 7th Ala, her father Levi Cassity died 1849,
Florence, AL, married 25 May 1862, Tuscaloosa, husband died 28th Jan
1904 Birmingham. Came back to Birmingham 1886, husband enlisted 1862
with cadets from Univ of Ala, was 1st Lieut, Capt Stores also a cadet,
not wounded or captued or imprisoned. Co F, 7th Ala cavaly
Pension Application
County: Cherokee
Pvt, Co. C, 6th Regt of GA
May 20, 1899
Affidavit
of Witnesses, state of AL, I Geo. W. Bogan do solemnly swear that I am
personally acquainted with Hartwell Vaughan whose name is signed to the
foregoing application, and that I know of my own knowledge that the
said Hartwell Vaughn did serve as set forth in the application, and
that he did not desert the service, but was captured. Signed G. W.
Bogan.
Daniel T. Vaughan of Blount Co, enlisted
private 5th Ala Apr 1861, Taladega Co, wounded at battle of Fishers
Hill, VA, can't make living because of said wound, rheumatism, old age,
age 74, PO Oneonta, May 6, 1911. Witness - R. J. Vaughan, 15 May 1911
and J. L. McLeray 21 Jun 1911
