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More will be added soon.

Message Boards – William Frell Ayers [Link]

William Frell Ayers Jr

Source: Message Boards

May 7, 2011

Last week, and this one have not been an easy time for many folks in southern states.

Killer tornadoes/storms stomped locations in central, and north east Alabama, and areas in Georgia.

Dave and I were in our ‘safe place’ (the Q-Hut at the farm)…we lost power overnight, but have not seen any real damage at the farm. We were extremely lucky!

Mom and Byron lost water; Mom was terrified during the event; but it passed them by without any damage at Calcis.

Probably thousands of people are still without power; and many are without employment, homes, and may have lost loved-ones to the storm/tornadoes.

The day after the disaster — Dave, Brent, and I were in Piedmont at the usual store opening time (Mark showed up later) — the whole downtown area was without power.

As they (Dave, Brent and Mark) moved the meats from the freezers to one a trailer; a couple stopped by asking, “are ya’ll open for business?” Dave and Brent hesitated a moment, then said “cash or check only”…so started a day of running th store with the use of paper, pencil, and a calculator on Dave’s cell phone.

Most folks who came in (shopping by flashlight) were buying food items that did not need to be heated; they had heard the power might be off for 10 days up to two weeks — seems that a major transmission line was hit, and rebuilding it was going to take quite some time.

It’s been just over a week.

I like many people — have caught myself thinking it was Thursday, when it was actually Friday; and then realizing that I had known what day it was, when I started out from the house that morning.

Stress can do strange things…I still hope that everyone who needs help will get it.

— Cathy

Snow Days and Family Trees?

It has been a snow/ice day in Alabama today.
How does that related to family trees?
Well, since I am indoors from the weather, and have the flu-bug to boot, it means when I have had the brief burst(s) of energy — I have added a bit more to several ancestral branches.
No huge breakthroughs, but have made several connection I did not expect.
Last couple I stopped at was William N. Collins and Permelia Mary “Melia” Smith — don’t ask how I ended up with this couple.
They were somehow connect to the various families that I was tracing, from the Yancey County (Bald Mountain region) of North Carolina.
No family tree is SIMPLE…anyone who tells you that, has not done much research.
Somehow, the folks I have added to my main family tree file most likely are related to my Aunt Betty Jean Davis (Abernathy).
Her ancestral line is where I began today’s research project…
Okay, I am not getting much more done on this blog or the research…guess I need to get something to drink and get back to doing ‘something’ while the dryer is get the clothes done.
Another update will be in the works as soon as I find something news-worthy.
– CATHY

Hot Day

7 July 2010
One very hot day.
Dave and I delivered groceries to Mom; then headed back home.
Stopped at a few thrift/antique stores along the way.
Since getting in the AC, and starting to cool off, have been reading messages, and adding/correcting more items on my websites (someone set in havoc by my previous computer dying); as well as blogs, and misc. stuff.
Need to get things sorted out with this new laptop, get it behaving the way I want it; so I will be able to create a backup set of RECOVERY disks — then get Dave to set it for dual-boot (Windows 7 and Linux).
My head is pounding, so I won’t do much more for now.
How has your week been?
Would love to hear from my readers.
— Cathy

Death of a computer…

(Take two…)
Attempted this post just but a few minutes ago — stepped away from the keyboard — came back the automatic Windows 7 update had re-started my computer. [growl!]
I lost all the text I had written (now have settings a bit different, to prevent this problem from occurring again) — I hate having to re-write things when software/OS updates cause me to lose them.
——————–­——
Now, where was I?
Ahhh, heck — I think I’ll do something else and come back to this post. There are things needing to be added, set-up; and yet to be test-driven on this computer.
I promise to return – soon.
“And to continue…”
— Cathy

Alabama Governor – Joseph Forney Johnston

National Governors Association

Alabama Governor Joseph Forney Johnston
Born: March 23, 1843
Died: August 8, 1913
Birth State: North Carolina
Party: Democrat
Family: Married Theresa Virginia Hooper; three children

Periods in Office: From: December 1, 1896
To: December 1, 1900

State Web Site

Higher Office(s) Served: Senator

War(s) Served: Civil War

JOSEPH FORNEY JOHNSTON, Alabama’s 30th governor, was born in Lincoln County, North Carolina, on March 23, 1843, to Dr. William and Nancy Johnston. He was educated in public schools, and moved in 1860 to Talladega, Alabama, where he attended high school. In 1861, Johnston enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private, served as captain of the 12th North Carolina Infantry, and was wounded in four battles.

J & P Coats Six-Strand Embroidery Floss – How Many Different Colors?

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DMC Six-Strand Embroidery Floss – Number of different colors?

DMC Six-Strand Embroidery Floss

“Cross Stitch Design Stitched With DMC Floss”

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Photo and Design © Connie G. Barwick, licensed to About.com, Inc.
Type of Floss:
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DMC is the abbreviation of Dollfus-Mieg & Compagnie, an early name for the company.
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Pell City Chamber gearing up for Block Party, other festivities

stclairtimes – Pell City Chamber gearing up for Block Party other festivities

PELL CITY — A weekend of fun free family events with one goal in mind: bringing local folks back to their hometown.

“Last year, notice went out all over the state for towns to join the Year of Alabama Small Towns & Downtowns,” Mayor Bill Hereford said. “We already had the key ingredient in place, the annual Block Party, and that weekend was perfect.”

Hereford said Pell City is one of 215 towns participating in the Great Alabama Homecoming, a part of the Year of Alabama Small Towns & Downtowns. Pell City’s Great Alabama Homecoming weekend is June 4-6.

“We want folks to come home for the weekend, and spend time with family attending many of our great free family events,” he said.

Martha S. Owens, Rainsville — Obituary

Shelby County Reporter | Obituary: Martha S. Owens, Rainsville

Martha S. Owens, Rainsville

Funeral service for Martha Owens, age 71, of Rainsville, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 6, 2010, at Broadway Baptist Church. Burial will follow in Kirk Memorial Cemetery. Visitation will be from 12-2 p.m. Saturday, March 6, 2010, at Broadway Baptist Church. Mrs. Owens will also have a visitation from 6-7 p.m. Friday, March 5, 2010, at First Baptist Church of Columbiana with a service to follow at 7 p.m.
Mrs. Owens was a wonderful business teacher who taught for over 37 years. Nothing gave her greater joy than to see her students succeed. She is survived by one daughter, Angela Gilbreath Treadaway (DeWayne) of Columbiana and two step children, Carol Owens of Myrtle Beach N.C. and Brian Owens of Fyffe. She is also survived by a brother, Vercie Gravitt and sister-in-law, Irma Gravitt of Crossville and her father,William Gravitt who is 99 years of age in a Nursing Home in Crossville. She is also survived by one grandson, Zachary Treadaway.
She loved her church and being in the choir at Broadway Baptist Church in Rainsville. She also loved First Baptist Church Columbiana where she attended while visiting her daughter in Columbiana. She passed away after a year-long battle with cancer.
Please sign online condolences at http://www.boltonfuneralhome.com.

Mr. Clarence F. “Sugar” Pate III — Anniston Star, March17, 2010

Clarence Pate Obituary: Clarence Pate’s Obituary by the The Anniston Star.

Mr. Clarence F. “Sugar” Pate III
Memorial service for Mr. Clarence “Sugar” F. Pate III, 52, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 18, 2010, at Chapel Hill Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Tony Thrower officiating. Mr. Pate is survived by his daughter, Melissa A. Schlerf and husband, David, of Weaver; parents, Clarence F. Pate Jr. and Patricia Meyer Pate, of Weaver; sisters, Denise M. Sparks and husband, Jim, of Lineville, Tina M. Wood, of Weaver, Julie A. Winfrey, of Oxford; grandchildren, Dillon M. Schlerf and Joshua D. Schlerf. Mr. Pate was a native of Pennsylvania and resident of Alabama for the past 17 years. He was a graduate of Weaver High School where he was the drum major of the Marching Matadors for 4 years. He was also an avid bowler at Anniston Bowling Center. He was a musician who loved to play the bass guitar. He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Clarence “Chief” and Cora Etta Pate, of Anniston and Ammon and Marceline Meyer, of Fredericksburg, Pa. Chapel Hill Funeral Home will be servicing the Pate family 256-820-5151 http://www.chapelhillfh.com
Published in The Anniston Star on March 17, 2010

Mayor says mound will be demolished, hill developed

Anniston Star – Mayor says mound will be demolished hill developed

Oxford may be planning to remove a controversial pile of stones from a hill behind the Oxford Exchange shopping center, according to a story in a national newspaper.

A story that appeared on the Web site of The New York Times on Friday said Mayor Leon Smith plans to demolish the stone pile, which may have been built a thousand years ago by American Indians, and make it the site of a hotel, restaurant or health clinic.

When Scholarship and Tribal Heritage Face Off Against Commerce

Oxford Journal – When Scholarship and Tribal Heritage Face Off Against Commerce – NYTimes.com

OXFORD, Ala. — Overlooking the Interstate and an outdoor shopping mall here stands a sad little hill, bald but for four bare trees and a scattering of stones.
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Bob Farley for The New York Times

Harry O. Holstein, the archaeology professor who tried to protect the stone mound.

That the stones are there is beyond argument. But everything else about them — whether somebody put them there, how long they have been there and what should be done with them — became a matter of fierce debate last summer and has continued to yield surprising twists into recent weeks.

The latest episode in the very long history of the Oxford stones began last June, when an excavator showed up on the hill. The city was planning for the construction of a Sam’s Club nearby and intended to use dirt from the hill for the area where the store would sit.

Then a local archaeology professor began making phone calls.

The professor, Harry O. Holstein of nearby Jacksonville State University, had concluded that a stone mound at the top of the hill was constructed by American Indians more than a thousand years ago, and in 2003 he recorded it in a state archaeological registry. The possibility of its being destroyed, Dr. Holstein said, made him sick.

“I’m not against development,” he said. “But some things should just be saved.”

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What A Week!

Monday = Holiday.

Tuesday = My laptop computer would not ‘wake up.’

Thursday = Delivery groceries to Mom

Friday = Start prepping the room at P.D.M. (more details soon).

Ended up going to bed around 10:00pm — t’was not feeling too good, ear troubles, again.

Saturday = Spent much of the day at PDM prepping the rooms, and watching people who came in to buy discount foods.

Went by WallyWorld after leaving Piedmont, found shelving for Mom’s living room at reasonable cost.

Plans for SUNDAY?

Deliver/assemble the shelving for Mom.

What else…I do not know at present.

Twas hoping to get a few thing done on Bonanzle tonight; but the computer seems to have other ideas about that.

SO — I took to the strings upstairs, until Dave crawled under the covers; I brought myself down to the computer, and attempted to do stuff — again.

This has been nearly a wasted week due to various computer troubles; and me simply being frustrated by those computer problems; as well as the sinus/ear pain I’ve had for the past several days.

OH! We did sell a smock-scrub top that we mailed out Saturday…Twas not much, but it was more than we would gotten for it at a yard sale.

Two browsers open one diond an upload (hopefully). This one in use for my posting.

I need to contact Rob again…have not heard from him about the flyers for March 13th.

Uh, I seem to really getting fuzzy about this post’s purpose. Guess it matches the week: muddled, consfused, some really good things done; other things needed to do going unfinished for now; and to boot, we are moving sales items/shelves to Piedmont.

Well, it’s nearly midnight (am I turning into a pumpkin?). Guess I’d be wrap things up and take my glass back to the kitchen.

Maybe the next post will be more sensible — it as been a crazy week!

— Cathy Ann Abernathy

weavercat@gmail.com

EBSCO, White Rock speak to Vincent council

Shelby County Reporter | EBSCO, White Rock speak to Vincent council

VINCENT — The Vincent Town Council had EBSCO Industries and White Rock Mining, two foes on opposite sides of the town’s heated quarry debate, come before the council Feb. 16 to present their arguments.

The meeting was held at the Vincent Fire Department to allow more room for onlookers, and the Vincent planning commission was there to listen, along with a capacity, standing-room only crowd.

EBSCO President F. Dixon Brooke Jr. stood first to explain why his company became involved with the quarry debate in the first place. EBSCO’s Vulcan Information Plant stands within a half-mile of the proposed quarry location.
Geologist Robert Wood presents White Rock’s side of the quarry debate with the help of visual aids.

Photo by Amy Jones

Geologist Robert Wood presents White Rock’s side of the quarry debate with the help of visual aids.

“The quarry poses a dilemma to Vincent and to our VIP operation,” Brooke said. “We have been part of the Vincent community for over 41 years. We wanted to understand what the potential issues might be, so we went to work.”

Brooke introduced Uday Bhate of Bhate Geosciences Corporation, who spoke about the danger of sinkholes in the Vincent area and how the proposed quarry would increase that danger.

Bill to protect American Indian burial sites passes Senate (updated)

Anniston Star – Local News, Business, Sports, Events, Blogs, Videos, Podcasts – Anniston, Ala.

State Sen. Wendell Mitchell, D-Luverne, says a pair of bills he sponsored to offer greater protection to American Indian sites in Alabama have passed the state Senate.

If one of the bills becomes law, it would close a loophole in state law that currently allows for the removal of ancient Indian burial sites under certain circumstances. Under current Alabama law, anybody who desecrates graves and mutilates corpses is guilty of a Class C felony, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. However, the law sets a different standard for American Indian burial sites.

The current law states that any person who maliciously desecrates an American Indian place of burial or funerary objects on property not owned by the person shall be guilty of a Class C felony. It’s the “not owned” part of the law that has given property owners the final say on what happens to many Indian burial sites.

Wendell said another bill that passed the Senate today would require people removing grave sites to get permission from a local governing body. If it’s in Oxford, for example, permission would have to come from the Oxford City Council, he said.

Mitchell said neither bill has a House sponsor and did not know if anyone in the local legislative delegation was interested in taking up the cause.

James Crow, Senior: from “COMPTON’S PLACE OF GEORGIA CONNECTIONS AND MUCH MORE”

RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: COMPTON’S PLACE OF GEORGIA CONNECTIONS AND MUCH MORE

# ID: I188186
# Name: James [Sr] Crow
# Sex: M
# Birth: 14 APR 1740
# Death: 19 DEC 1833 in Prob GA
# Note:

Database: gilead
Individual: I007199
Link: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=gilead&id=I007199
Name: Phillip Crow
Email: crowslanding@netscape.net
URL:
URL title:
Note:
Greetings Bill and others.

Levi Crow born 25 March 1782 was probably never in Whitfield Co., GA and probaby died in North East GA on 26 October 1850, as evidenced by his Family Bible pages. His widow, Nancy MNU, did likely die in Whitfield Co., GA after the 7 July 1870 Census, where she was enumerated next dwelling from her son, Wiley and wife Sarah Jane Hickey. Levi born 1782 was not the son, or related to the James Crow you have him attached to here. He was the son of James Crow Sr., born 14 April 1740, unknown where, and died, 19 December 1833, probably in GA. These birth and death dates for James Crow Sr. came directly from his son, Levi Crow’s, Bible pages.

It has now been proven by The Crow(e) DNA Study, that James Crow Sr. born 14 April 1740 is indeed related to Randolph C. Crow Sr. and my GGG Samuel Crow, both born in the 1770’s. Whether James Crow was an Uncle, or father to them, is unkown at this time. It is my opinion, the James Crow Sr.’s son, James Crow Jr., is very likely the James Crow that married Hannah Black in Elbert/Franklin Co. GA, and they left GA for Gibson Co., IN about 1800. I am working hard trying to find a couple of male Crow’s from the James Crow Jr. and Hannah Black Crow line to participate in our Crow(e) DNA Study to prove this connection to our Crows as well.

Kind regards,
Phil Crow, Crow(e) DNA Group Administrator,

Visit the Crow DNA pages at;
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/The%20Crow%28e%29%20DNA%20Study%20Project/
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~crow2000/crowdna.htm
Database: gilead
Individual: I007199
Name: Phillip Crow
Email: crowslanding@netscape.net
URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~crow2000/dnagroupchart.htm
URL title: Crow(e) DNA Group Charts
Note:
Greetings Bill, and others.

Levi Crow born 25 March 1782 was probably never in Whitfield Co., GA and probaby died in North East GA on 26 October 1850, as evidenced by his Family Bible pages. His widow, Nancy MNU, did likely die in Whitfield Co., GA after the 7 July 1870 Census, where she was enumerated next dwelling from her son, Wiley and wife Sarah Jane Hickey. Levi Crow born 1782 was the son of James Crow Sr., born 14 April 1740, unknown where, and died, 19 December 1833, probably in GA. These birth and death dates for James Crow Sr. came directly from his son, Levi Crow’s, Bible pages.

It has now been proven by The Crow(e) DNA Study, that James Crow Sr., born 14 April 1740, was indeed related to yet another Levi Crow, Levi S. Crow, who married Sarah “Sally” Busey and migrated from SC>AL>KY>TN, Randolph C. Crow Sr. and my GGG Samuel Crow, all three born in the 1770’s.

Whether James Crow Sr., born in 1740, was an uncle, cousin, or father, to Randolph & Samuel, is unkown at this time.

Kind regards,
Phil Crow, Crow(e) DNA Group Administrator,

Visit the Crow DNA pages at;
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/The%20Crow%28e%29%20DNA%20Study%20Project/
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~crow2000/crowdna.htm

Marriage 1 Spouse Unknown

Children

1. Has Children Levi Crow b: 25 MAR 1782 in SC