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From: Carolyn Beachy <>
Subject: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V02 #157
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 12:23:51 -0400
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I would really have like to read that article but I can't seem to find it. I had no idea there was such a thing.
Carolyn

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> LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest Volume 02 : Issue 157
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> Today's Topics:
> #1 [LDR] Scots on the Chesapeake, 160 ["Lisa Grimes" <>]
> #2 [LDR] MD Cemeteries Chronicaled []
> #3 [LDR] VA Gen. Society Seminar June []
> #4 [LDR] VA Census Online []
> #5 Re: [LDR] VA Census Online []
> #6 [LDR] Orphan Trains []
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> Subject: [LDR] Scots on the Chesapeake, 1607-1830
> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:05:23 -0700
> From: "Lisa Grimes" <>
> To:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm new to this list..... but I was wondering if anyone might know
> where I can access a particular published work.
>
> The name of the publication is:
>
> "Scots on the Chesapeake, 1607-1830"
>
> Does anyone have an idea as to where I can find it???
>
> I am told that on page 23, there's information that includes the
> following:
>
> CAMPBELL, Charles - Merchant, previous residence Argyll Scotland
>
> "Settled in VA prior to 1752.......
> having left Argyll one step ahead of the Magistrate"
>
> "Migrated from VA to Oglethorpe Co. GA....... to grow tobacco"
>
> Source: Scottish Record Office Edinburgh
> Doc. #: SRO.CS16.1.99
>
> Besides locating the book... I'm most in need of a copy of that data
> that's supposedly on page 23. Photocopy would be wonderful!!
>
> Would this book possibly be on microfilm with the LDS recordings??
>
> I have found him, with lots of evidence in Oglethorpe Co. GA... and
> information on all of his descendants, which my Levi CAMPBELL is one,
> but I'm having trouble tracing this family between 1750-1752 and 1785.
>
> The information that I do have is:
>
> ...a wife: Elizabeth BELINDEN [or BELLENDEN, or BALINDINE, etc.]
> ... reportedly mother of at least, Levi CAMPBELL m. Sarah WATKINS
> d. before June 1800, whereabouts of burial unknown
> .... no other info on her
>
> ...last wife: m. June 1800, Mrs. Richard [Millie HORN] BAILEY, widow
> in Oglethorpe Co. GA
> ... no known children from this last union
>
> Charles CAMPBELL Sr, and Elizabeth BELINDEN were the parents of;
> Levi CAMPBELL, b. in VA or NC
> m. Sarah WATKINS, b. 1763, Johnston Co. NC
>
> Reportedly also these, per a letter written by Laurany CAMPBELL:
> Laurany CAMPBELL, b. VA or NC
> m. 1. Benjamin WATKINS, widowed
> m. 2. Sherwood DAVIS in 1797, Oglethorpe Co. GA
> Charles CAMPBELL jr, b. in VA or NC
> d. 1832, Madison Co. GA
> Possible parents of:
> Kiziah CAMPBELL m. Moses WATKINS
>
> All of the WATKINS were children of:
>
> Reace [Reech, Reese, Rise, Rhys] WATKINS, b. abt 1730 Chester Co. PA
> d. 1809, Oglethorpe Co. GA
> s/o Robert WATKINS m. Margaret [___] of Chester Co. PA
> gr-s/o Cadawalader WATKINS, who migrated from Wales w/son Robert
> m.
>
> Sarah "Sally" BARBER, b. Augusta Co. VA
> d/o George BARBER m. Elizabeth [?-Moore-?]
> [widow'd Elizabeth later remarried to a Matthew PATTON]
>
> Assistance in regards to locating this well hidden book,
> "Scots on the Chesapeake, 1607-1830"
> ... would be wonderful, and very gratefully accepted..
>
> Thanking all in advance,
>
> Lisa Grimes
>
>
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> Subject: [LDR] MD Cemeteries Chronicaled
> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 21:44:29 EDT
> From:
> To:
>
> <A HREF="http://www.sunspot.net/bal-ho.cemetery30may30.story">Click here: sunspot.net - maryland's online community</A>
>
> Final accounting for eternal rest
> Cemeteries: An Ellicott City couple lead an attempt to catalog the final
> resting places of early county residents. By Laura Cadiz
> Baltimore Sun Staff, Originally published May 30, 2002
>
> Traffic on Route 175 zooms by the cemetery, a tiny unkempt patch of grass
> containing three small tombstones off a slope near the Columbia Restaurant
> Park.
>
> Two of the tombstones are broken. Only one has a readable inscription - the
> initials SCL - which Charles and Carolyn Denton lifted from the stone using
> rubbing paper.
>
> "This was probably a quiet, peaceful country place when they were buried
> here," Carolyn Denton said, against the roar of a steady stream of passing
> vehicles.
>
> The Dentons, of <A HREF="http://www.sunspot.net/entertainment/visitor/bal-guide-ellicottcity.htmlstory">Ellicott City</A>, don't know who was buried here, but they
> speculate the site was a family plot. When they first recorded the location
> in 1996 as a project for the Howard County Genealogical Society, there were
> four grave markers, and they wonder what has happened to the missing stone.
>
> For the past four years, the Dentons have been heading the genealogical
> society's effort to record and publish inscriptions on the county's older
> tombstones, trudging through overgrown weeds, brush and sometimes poison ivy
> to uncover the sites.
>
> With the publication of a ninth volume of cemetery records last year, the
> genealogical society has compiled a record of what it believes to be nearly
> all of the accessible tombstones erected before 1920, located in more than
> 180 small cemeteries.
>
> The research has helped preserve the last resting places of an army of Howard
> dead - an estimated 17,000 individual gravesites - by recording the locations
> (and names when available) in society records.
>
> The project began more than 25 years ago, when the rural county was beginning
> to become suburban and the genealogical society feared old burial grounds
> would be destroyed through development, Charles Denton said.
>
> Members researched county records and worked with churches and the Howard
> County Historical Society to try to find gravesites. When they came across a
> stone they couldn't read, they used rubbing paper in an attempt to lift the
> details.
>
> "It's kind of a bit of detective work," Charles Denton said.
>
> The information from the tombstones recorded by hand was typed up and bound
> into books.
>
> In 1979, the genealogical society published its first volume of cemeteries,
> containing 33 burial sites. The ninth volume has 32 sites listed with a map
> marking each location.
>
> "We tried to identify the information that we knew was legible, we didn't try
> to interpret anything," Charles Denton said. "If we couldn't read it, that
> information was left blank in the text of the book."
>
> The society provided copies to the <A HREF="http://entertainment.sunspot.net/top/1,1419,p-artslife-art-X!PlaceDetail-3048,00.html">Maryland Historical Society</A>, the Library
> of Congress, the Howard County library and the Church of Jesus Christ of
> Latter-day Saints, both locally and in Salt Lake City.
>
> There isn't necessarily an order to the cemetery books, so the genealogical
> society is working on a name index to make it easier to find a person buried
> in the county.
>
> Despite the group's attention to detail, it found that information on the
> tombstones was not always accurate. Death dates were sometimes not provided
> (Charles Denton guessed the family possibly couldn't afford that detail), and
> names were sometimes misspelled.
>
> "Several years ago when people were farmers, education wasn't a priority,"
> Charles Denton said. 'The main thrust was on surviving and the family, and
> education was kind of secondary."
>
> Charles Denton said the genealogical society wanted to record gravesites in
> the early 1900s because after 1920 cemeteries became more organized, with
> large gravesites maintained by churches or professional cemeteries that had
> records. The trend of burying a family in a field behind a farm had faded.
>
> The Dentons have found gravesites in wooded areas, state parks and often on
> private property, where they would have to persuade the current owners to
> allow them on the land. Small family plots can range from one grave to more
> than 10.
>
> Some of the family cemeteries have been maintained by the community or
> churches, but others have been neglected and overgrown with weeds, probably
> because the surviving family members have moved away, Carolyn Denton said.
>
> "Places like this, nobody even knows they are here," she said, referring to
> the site by Route 175.
>
> The genealogical society's project has made important contributions to the
> Howard County Grave Sites Inventory, which was created in 1993 to document
> the locations of all known cemeteries in the county as a way to protect them,
> said George Beisser, a Department of Planning and Zoning official who
> oversees the inventory. State law prohibits disruption of graves.
>
> "It's important to preserve the cemeteries and not act like they're stones
> that are in the way of a house," said Duane Smith, the genealogical society's
> vice president. "We consider them historic structures - they're as important
> as the home and the church because they're monuments."
>
> The genealogical society's efforts have also helped residents expand their
> family tree research.
>
> Michael Walczak, Howard County Historical Society's executive director, said
> the genealogical society's volumes are one of the first records he refers
> people to if they know their relatives were buried in the county,
> acknowledging that the records are not complete but they're "the best thing
> that Howard County has."
>
> "The scary part is if they say they were buried in the back part of the
> farm," Walczak said. "Over time a lot of those plots have been lost - the
> further back you go in history, the harder it gets."
>
> In one volume of grave records, the genealogical society has also compiled
> Bible records, where families often wrote dates of births, deaths and
> marriages. The records were photographed after families brought them to the
> society in the early 1980s.
>
> Manumission records are compiled in another volume, recorded primarily from
> county documents that provided information about slaves who were freed before
> the Civil War.
>
> However, the recording of the gravestones became the genealogical society's
> primary task, leaving the Bible and manumission records incomplete, Charles
> Denton said.
>
> The Dentons expect that more pre-1920 gravesites will be discovered. The
> genealogical society will print those records in its newsletter and publish
> another volume once a number of cemeteries are recorded.
>
> "We enjoy having the proof that the people really did live here and raise
> their families," Smith said. "And when they passed away, this is a way of
> remembering what they did."
> Copyright © 2002, <A HREF="http://www.sunspot.net/">The Baltimore Sun</A>
>
>
>
>
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> Subject: [LDR] VA Gen. Society Seminar June 9-13, 2002
> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 21:48:25 EDT
> From:
> To:
>
> The Virginia Genealogical Society will sponsor the 2002 running of the
> Virginia Institute of Genealogical Research, 9-13 June 2002 in Richmond. The
> four-day, four-night institute for Virginia researchers will be held in
> Richmond. For full details, contact the Virginia Genealogical Society at:
>
>
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>
> Subject: [LDR] VA Census Online
> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 22:04:03 EDT
> From:
> To:
>
> Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
> A Weekly Summary of Events and Topics of Interest to Online Genealogists
> Vol. 7 No. 9 - March 4, 2002
> Copyright (C) 2002 by Richard W. Eastman. All rights reserved.
>
> - 1790 and 1800 County Tax Lists of Virginia Online
>
> Steve and Bunny Binns have a massive online project underway that
> should benefit many genealogists researching ancestors in Virginia
> in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Quoting from their Web site:
>
> Everyone knows that the Federal Census Schedules are an
> excellent source of genealogical information. Unfortunately
> the Virginia Censuses for 1790 and 1800 were destroyed by fire
> and can never be replaced. But the early tax records of the
> Virginian counties still survive and list all individuals
> charged with a tax. They also contain names of young men who
> were tithable, or taxable, much like a male dependent of a
> household, and names of recently deceased individuals whose
> property was still in estate. There are many clues in tax
> lists that suggest family relationships that cannot be found
> in the early censuses. Therefore these tax lists can be used
> as an alternative census for the burned Federal Censuses of
> Virginia for 1790 and 1800.
>
> Here you will find FREE online image files and indexes of the
> Land Tax lists and Personal Property Tax lists for each of the
> individual counties and cities where indicated in the table
> below. The years of "1790" and "1800" are considered an
> approximate year. In some cases the actual year 1790 or 1800
> tax list was very hard to read on the microfilm so we went up
> or down a couple of years to find better quality images. Each
> list will be indexed as time permits. We are constantly
> gathering tax lists and will post updates as needed. If you do
> not find your particular tax list today it may be here
> tomorrow.
>
> Steve and Bunny photocopy each tax list and scan it into their
> computer. They resize these images to minimize the file size and
> upload these images to a Web site. Then they index each list with
> every name they can decipher. The results are available to you
> today at no charge.
>
> This is a "work in progress" as Steve and Bunny are still
> producing the images. Here is what they have online at this time:
>
> * 32 counties
> * 133 tax lists
> * 131 tax lists are indexed
> * 1,139 tax list pages as jpeg images for "1790"
> * 1,263 tax list pages as jpeg images for "1800"
> * 32,515 names in our "1790" census Master Index
> * 37,064 names in our "1800" census Master Index
>
> They are currently working on Caroline County and King William
> County and hope to add at least 3 more counties next month.
>
> This is a great resource produced by two dedicated genealogists.
> You can view the 1790 and 1800 County Tax Lists of Virginia at:
> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~ysbinns/vataxlists/index.htm
>
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> Subject: Re: [LDR] VA Census Online
> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 22:12:23 EDT
> From:
> To:
>
> In a message dated 6/4/2002 10:05:10 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> writes:
>
> > This is a great resource produced by two dedicated genealogists.
> > You can view the 1790 and 1800 County Tax Lists of Virginia at:
> > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~ysbinns/vataxlists/index.htm
> >
> >
> >
>
> FYI, Accomac and Northampton are there. And for the curious like myself,
> Steve and Bunny live in Michigan or some similar place far from Virginia, and
> rent microfilms and then shoot the images with a digital camera. Their
> indexes are priceless, as there are both statewide indexes so you can look
> for all the families for a given surname they have so far in the whole state,
> as well as within counties.
>
> Thanks for posting it again.
>
> Janet Hunter
>
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> Subject: [LDR] Orphan Trains
> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 22:40:44 EDT
> From:
> To:
>
> There has been discussion in the past about orphan trains.
>
> The Springfield (MO) NewsLeader's lead story today is "Remembering the orphan
> trains" "From 1854 to 1929, thousands of homeless children were sent west..."
> The story also includes the history, interviews of orphans who ended up in
> the Ozarks and a map that gives the number of children from different states
> and numbers that each state took in.
> For the article, see <http://www.OzarksNow.com/>;
>
> Jan in MO

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