Individuals marked with a red dot are direct ancestors of Mary Jane Thomas
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Taylor, Beatrice Abigail "Beady" {I0041} (b. 10 JUL 1842, d. 15 AUG 1916)

Source: (Name)
Title: Federal Census 1850 Fayette County

Source: (Birth)
Title: Pine Springs Cemetery Listings http://www.fayette.net/carruth/pinespringscem.htm

Source: (Individual)
Title: Vicki Turman Whaley

Event: Type: Pension granted (Class 3)
Date: 2 DEC 1915
Place: Applied for widow's pension. States she is 73 and born near Moscow, Lamar County, AL and that she is 73 years old.

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Listed as wife of Charles on Marion County census.

Note: Written on pension application: "the widow is feeble and does not know the exact date of her birth, but her appearance would indicate that she is more than 73 years old. Her husband was drawing under number 16515."

Death: 15 AUG 1916 Sulligent, Lamar County, AL

Burial: Pine Springs Cemetery

Source: (Death)
Title: Pine Springs Cemetery Listings http://www.fayette.net/carruth/pinespringscem.htm

Death: 1934

Burial: Pine Springs Cemetery, Lamar County, AL

Source: (Birth)
Title: Pine Springs Cemetery Listings http://www.fayette.net/carruth/pinespringscem.htm

Death: 20 DEC 1962

Burial: Pine Springs Cemetery, Lamar County, AL

Source: (Death)
Title: Verbal Family History

Source: (Burial)
Title: Pine Springs Cemetery Listings http://www.fayette.net/carruth/pinespringscem.htm

Note: This is the story my grandfather Will Norton and Miss Ruby told me about Uncle Elmer's death. I've changed the name of the Calhouns but the other deatils remain the same.

"Tell me about Uncle Elmer."
The man's blue eyes suddenly looked young again. "Elmer? Now there's a story. It weren't like it looked and we knew that even then."
Ruby interrupted, voice surprisingly strong even from across the room. "Elmer was a good-lookin' man. He used to come up to De-troit when I was married to Mr. McKenzie and sell us syrup at the store." She twisted her hands in her lap and veins ran like snakes down her paper-thin skin. "He used to sell a right smart to the colored. I wondered why it was they bought so great an amount until Mr. McKenzie told me."
Her voice lowered to a stage whisper. "It weren't syrup in those big jugs he sold 'em, 't was liquor. I'd have figured it out eventually, even if Mr. McKenzie hadn't told me."
Will shot a look at his wife, annoyed at being interrupted in the middle of his favorite story. "Elmer wasn't a bad man. 'Did run shine, though it never seemed much of a problem to him. Being a deputy sheriff, he didn't worry none about getting' caught."
"His wife and kids," she interrupted again, "now they was always the best dressed of any of us. Came to church in the latest fashions, big pretty hats, clean too, their clothes was always just so."
Wrinkles formed on his brow and he shot her another unnoticed look. "Elmer was a good man. Yes, he ran the liquor and that put him in with a bad crowd. There were a few of 'em, and we knew who they were, used to gamble up 't the crossroads. One night in '41-no '42, Elmer'd won big and John Calhoun took exception with it. Accused him of cheatin' or the like. Elmer whupped him good and when John got up and could talk again, he told him, 'Elmer, you got me this time but you'd better watch your back.'"
"Wasn't two weeks -," she tried, but the old man was too fast.
"We all knew what had happened but Bill Calhoun came up here years later, after all the old ones had died. He sat right out there on my front porch with me, sippin' tea and told me what happened."
"Weren't a train." She shifted in her chair, pleased that she'd gotten out the most important line of the tale.
He sighed, eyes darkening a shade. "Took a lot of gumption to come up here and tell the truth but I think he reckoned I was an old man, even then, and couldn't do much to hurt him. Elmer was coming along the road one night--my guess is he'd just made a run--and they came up on him, a group of them. They took him in Calhoun's house and beat him with a bat. They beat him and beat him. Then, they wrapped him up and drug him through the field like so much wood. They laid him on the tracks for the train to cover their meanness and the next day they plowed that field 'cause his body'd bled into the dirt and broken a path. And they replaced the carpet in that house. 'Thought no one ever knew but we did. We had always known it weren't the train that killed him, no matter what the report said."
"It weren't the train that killed him. 't was that syrup." She nodded, pleased with herself for getting in the final word.

Death: 1942 Killed on RR Track

Burial: Pine Springs Cemetery, Lamar County, AL

Burial: --Not Shown--

Source: (Birth)
Title: Pine Springs Cemetery Listings http://www.fayette.net/carruth/pinespringscem.htm

Source: (Death)
Title: Verbal Family History

Death: 16 DEC 1958 Texas. He was visiting relatives.

Burial: Pine Springs Cemetery, Lamar County, AL

Death: --Not Shown--

Burial: --Not Shown--

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Listed in his mother's household in Lamar County as age 16.

Death: MAY 1853 Monroe County, GA

Burial: Monroe County, GA perhaps in garden of old farm

Source: (Death)
Title: Letter by Charles Berry Norton written shortly after Olive's death.

Source: (Individual)
Title: Bureau of Land Management Site. Http://www.glorecords.blm.gov

Property: Date: 1 DEC 1859
Place: Issued 199.48 acres in Marion County, AL. Huntsville Meredian, Section 36, Township 11-S, Range 15-W. Aliquot parts: NWSW, E1/2SW, NWSE, SWNE.

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Listed as "Ollive Norton", age 35, farmer with land valued at $200, personal property worth $150. Sons Charles B, Nazareth, and William G.

Note: (Great) Grandma May (Olive Duke) told Aunt Ruby about looking through the cracks of her log cabin into a side room and seeing a man stealing her meat. They had just killed a hog and he stole all her meat.

**As told to Wynette Mixon in 1983.

Charles Berry Norton's Letter:

There is an old saying that, "Every sweet has its bitter," and this is true all through human life. Life, when properly lived is sweet, and it is made so largely by the sweet associations of friends and loved ones. Children who have a good mother, have, if they could only realize it at the time, the sweetest of the sweet human associations. It is only a few days back that the children and close friends of Mrs. Olive May were made to feel the pang of sorrow when the chilly hand of death claimed her as its own. Their long and sweet associations with her was brought to a close, and from a human point of view this did seem to be the corresponding bitter of their sweet.
Sister May was born in Monroe County Ga., September 16, 1824. In 1843 she married William Norton, with whom she lived a happy life till the month of May, 1853, when death took him from her. She bravely met the difficulties peculiar to a woman of her day who was left with the care of small children, till Jan. of 1862, when she married Washington Barton to whom she was faithful, and with whom she was happy till June 1864, when he too, was called from his earthly abode. She was again forced to fight the battles of widow-hood. She was married again in Oct. of 1872, to Aaron May. Mr. May was a minister of the gospel in M. E. Church South, who later became a Congregationalist, and was the founder of the New Prospect Congregational Church of Sulligent Alabama. Sister Olive May, with her great heart of love and sympathy stood faithfully by this minister of God as his help-mate and companion till the summer of 1888, when the dear Lord called him home. In this last state of widowhood sister May remained till her death.
Sister May claimed forgiveness of sins and a hope in Christ, and joined herself to the church at 20 years old. This first church with which she connected herself was the original Primitive Baptist Church. In this she proved to be faithful to her covenant obligations till 1872, when she joined her last husband in the M. E. church South, and after two years of faithful service in the Methodist Church, she and Mr. May changed their church relationship to the Congregational denomination where her Christian character, and service was very increasingly helpful. After the death of Mr. May in 1888, she went back to the Primitive Baptist church, because with them she was to be associated more than with others. In all her life of service in those different denominations she never once showed the least prejudice toward those who didn't have membership in her branch of the Christian Church, but she demonstrated beyond all question that one could live a Christian life in any Christian denomination.
After ten days of severe suffering, Mrs. May passed to her reward, leaving behind her three boys while two girls had gone before with one boy. Mrs. May leaves also eighteen grand-children and eighteen great-grand-children, and a host of other relatives and dear friends scattered over the States of Georgia, Alabama and Texas.
There are many of those who knew her, who testify that she was the instrument in the hand of God in bringing about their salvation. Even her last words before departing have brought men nearer to God. Some of the things she said are as follows: "I see my savior", "Glory", "Hallelujah". She was constantly clapping her hands for Glory.
Her funeral was conducted by Rev. J. W. Graham General Missionary to the Congregational Church of Alabama, who was present holding services for the New Prospect Church. Mrs. May before she passed away selected the funeral text, 2 Cor. 5 : 1, "For we know that if this earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal, and in the heavens." The minister brought together with this, a large number of connecting passages, giving a brief exposition of each.
A large congregation of relatives and friends were present to pay a last respect, and take a last look into her sweet face, and gently lay her body to rest in the N. Prospect burial ground by the side of her last husband, Mr. May.
May the dear Lord take out of the tears of sorrowing friends all the bitter, and help them to feel that the dear one has only passed over the line where age is converted into youth, and sorrow turned to joy. Where the sweet flowers of gladness are blooming all the time.
We shall meet beyond the river, in the sweet by and by.
Where parting will be never, and our souls shall never die.


C. B. Norton

Death: 11 JUN 1905 Lamar County, AL

Burial: New Prospect Cemetery, Lamar County, AL

Source: (Death)
Title: Confederate Pension Records, TX State Archives

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Listed in his mother's household in Lamar County as age 13.

Event: Type: Moved to TX
Date: 1879

Death: 6 SEP 1907 Tyler, TX

Burial: Mt. Pisgah, Tyler County, TX.

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Listed in his mother's household in Lamar County as age 9.

Death: 14 FEB 1940

Burial: 15 FEB 1940 Rose Hill Cemetery, Texarkana, TX

Death: JUN 1864 Lamar County, AL

Source: (Death)
Title: A. E. Franke by e-mail.

Death: 20 NOV 1897 Texas

Burial: Oak Branch Cemetery, Ellis County, TX

Source: (Birth)
Title: Confederate Grave Marker

Death: 2 NOV 1888

Burial: Duke Family Cemetery, Marion County, AL

Death: MAR 1849 Coosa County, AL

Education: Place: Virginia Tech

Education: Place: Virginia Tech

Source: (Birth Field)
Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2, Ed. 7, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Jun 6, 2000, Internal Ref. #1.112.7.125148.169

Source: (Birth Field)
Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2, Ed. 7, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Jun 8, 2000, Internal Ref. #1.112.7.125148.169

Note: Social Security #: 418-16-2014

Note: Issued in: Alabama

Note: Last residence ZIP: 35077

Note: Residence code: Alabama

Source: (Burial)
Title: Ann Hicks

Note: [Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2 L-Z, Ed. 7, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Jun 8, 2000, Internal Ref. #1.112.7.125148.169]

Individual: Trimble, Leroy
Social Security #: 418-16-2014
Issued in: Alabama

Birth date: Oct 3, 1915
Death date: May 1984


Residence code: Alabama

ZIP Code of last known residence: 35077
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:

Hanceville, Alabama

Death: 29 MAY 1984 Mont Clair Hospital, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

Burial: 30 MAY 1984 Good Hope Cemetery, Cullman County, AL

Source: (Name)
Title: Hallmark Family History Homepage http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/1820/
Media: Electronic

Note: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/1820

Note: In the court records of the Crown Court Papers, February 9, 1766, Shrewsbury, County of Shropshire, Oxford Circuit, George is charged with steal a linen hankerchief containing money. He pleaded "not guilty". The summer 1764 to Lent 1767 court records show that "George Candiland*, alias Hallmark" was indicted "for felony stealing of one linen hankerchief value 2d, half a sovereign in gold and eleven shillings in monies of Andrew Mansell the Younger. He was found guilty and was sentenced to be transported for seven years at the Assizes of Shrewsbury held 22 day March, sixth year of Lord Sovereign George III King of Britain. It is assumed that George served his time as an indentured servant in the colony of Virginia.

Source: Hallmark Family Home Page http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/1820/


*George's father is thought to possibly be a Candiland.

Baptism: 23 JUN 1742 Listed in the church records of St. Oswald's (Anglican) Church, Malpas, England as the "illegitimate son of Mary Hallmark".

Death: AFT. 1809 Northern Alabama

Source: (Birth Field)
Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1, Ed. 7, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Jun 6, 2000, Internal Ref. #1.111.7.121312.180

Source: (Birth Field)
Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1, Ed. 7, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Jun 8, 2000, Internal Ref. #1.111.7.121312.180

Event: Type: Fact1
Place: Last residence ZIP: 30204, Barnesville, GA

Note: Social Security #: 253-05-9620 issued in Georgia.

Note: [Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1 A-K, Ed. 7, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Jun 8, 2000, Internal Ref. #1.111.7.121312.180]

Individual: Hicks, Samuel
Social Security #: 253-05-9620
Issued in: Georgia

Birth date: Oct 19, 1898
Death date: Sep 1982


Residence code: Georgia

ZIP Code of last known residence: 30204
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:

Barnesville, Georgia


ZIP Code of address where death benefit payment was sent: 35179
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:

Vinemont, Alabama

Death: SEP 1982 Barnesville, Georgia