Calhoun Obituaries

I met the nicest guy recently (on-line) he lives in Adairsville, GA which is right up the road from Calhoun, GA. Calhoun GA has a great library where you can go and look up obits of your relatives. We do go to Calhoun but it seems like we are never there when the library is open. Anyway, I emailed him and asked if he would be willing to do some look-ups for me. He kindly went to the library and had success with most of the names I sent him. Moses Foster is the most interesting to me simply because it confirms what I have been trying to prove since I started this, that Moses was a confederate solider. The obit also mentions heart trouble which is the first I have heard of that. He died suddenly. He "was only sick a day or two". He was 45 years old. He had six children at the time of his death. He owned one of the finest farms on the river. At an early age he volunteered to serve his country and at the close of the conflict he was paroled an honored confederate soldier being then not quite twenty years old.
I have Judge Thomas Allison Foster family's obit's. His wife, daughters and son.
Malissa Foster, Moses wife, my great- grandfather's, Samuel Robert Foster, and his brother "Dud". Have Kate Foster & Julia Foster.
From the Neal Line I have Flonnie Neal Bentley, and Elias and Millie Green Neal's obituaries.

Lou Allen Green

Lou Allen Green - Sergeant in the 1st GA Cavalry during the Civil War, oops I mean during the War between the States, as our ancestors would have said, " There was nothing Civil about it! "

Stripling Cemetery, Lou Allen Green's Grave & Jerusalem Baptist Church

Pictures of Jerusalem Church in Pickens County GA. We have several relatives buried here. Beautiful area.

Elias Devers Neal and Millie Frances Green Neal

Thought I would tell this story. I am always on the hunt for cemeteries I have not searched and new locations our ancestors frequented. I found two cemeteries that I had not been to, in a book and on-line, so I figured on our last trip to Gordon County we would venture off and try and find these cemeteries. No such luck. But it was truly an adventure trying to find them. The Findley, Franklin, Striplin Cemetery is in Fairmount, GA. The directions were landmarks, not roads. We spent about two hours trying to find the "log cabin" and the barn, which the cemetery is behind, with no luck. We asked a few people to no avail. So we set off the find Lou Allen Green's grave. He is one of our Confederate Soldiers and is buried on land that the Paper Company now owns, somewhere near, Ryo Church. We looked down two logging roads and never found him. I have since been in touch with another family researcher, not from our line, but lives in Adairsville. I asked him for some tips and I will try a new area next time I am up there. I am determined and will eventually find him!
We did find Jerusalem, GA. Not really a town, just a church. I have some great photos of that cemetery that I will post later. Some of the Neal's are buried there. Such a beautiful area up there, I understand why our ancestors were drawn to this area.

First Post!!!

O.K. I am new to this but I figured this would be a great way to keep track of all of my research that I do on our family lines. I am constantly finding new cousins and new information so this way anyone who is interested will be able to keep up with the new finds!! I guess I will start with my most recent find.
The STRIPLIN line has been one of my most challenging lines. I started researching in October of 2006 and I had very limited information on my G,G,G Grandmother. I knew of course that she had married into the Neal line but that was it. Mary Ann Striplin married Joseph Devers Neal December 4th, 1845. They are both buried in Jerusalem, Georgia.
Then I came in contact with our cousin from Michigan, Darin. He is Mable Neal Pettit's great-grandson. He emailed a handwritten document where someone had written down Mary Ann Striplin Neal's brothers and sisters. I thought that would crack the Striplin line wide open, but it did not. You see, there was a lot of confusion because Mary Ann had half siblings too. Then there was the duplication of names and that's always hard to sort out. I took a break on this line and settled back in with the "familiar" lines once again. Until.........I got in contact with another Striplin researcher, her name is Debbie King. She did not have any info on my Mary Ann Striplin but she provided me with info on Mary Ann Striplin's brothers and sisters. Debbie is from the Rial B. Striplin line. That is Mary Ann's brother. Debbie tried to put me in contact with Ann Davis, who knows a lot about the Striplin line, but the email came back to me. So I waited some more. One day while I was searching on-line I came across Ann's new email address and contacted her. By this time I knew Mary Ann Striplin was connected to this particular Striplin line because of the document I came across on-line. Chad Williams had posted it. (We will talk about him in a second.) It was the pension packet of William Stripling (Mary Ann Striplin's father) War of 1812!!! Wow! What a wealth of information. I will post a link to it soon, once I figure out how. William Stripling married Mary Taylor first. That is where the half siblings come in. She passed away and William married Sarah Findley. This opens up a whole new line! Sherry Osburn has done a lot of research on the Findley line.
When I finally contacted our cousin, Chad Williams, I found out for sure that this was Mary Ann's correct line. She was in the Striplin/Stripling/Striblin family bible. Chad has done a ton of research on this line, he emailed me his report and it is 189 pages!! I am still reading through it. He has some interesting Neal info also.
Well, now that this is started, I will try and keep up with my new findings and post them!
Happy Searching!!!!