DEEP SOUTH GENEALOGICAL QUARTERLY VOLUME 53 - NUMBER 1 FEBRUARY 2016 Published by MOBILE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC. Mobile, Alabama CONTENTS PAGE ARTICLE PAGE ARTICLE 2 ������� Submissions policy 22 ������ Death Notices 1890 A-J from ����������� The Mobile Daily Register 3 ������� Letter from the Editor- “Think” ����������� Transcribed by Kathy Richardson ����������� By Kathy Richardson 29 ������ Genealogical Abstracts from 5 ������� Membership application; ����������� Fairhope Courier, 1894 ����������� MGS research guidelines ����������� Abstracted by Kathy Richardson 6 ������� Genealogical Abstracts from 30 ������ The History of Monterey Street ����������� The Weekly Register, July 19, 1879 ����������� By Jay Higginbotham ����������� Abstracted by Kathy Richardson 41 ������ Genealogical Abstracts from 7 ������� Eleven Generations and 313 Years ����������� Mobile Advertiser and Register, 1864 ����������� in Mobile (Part 4 of 4) ����������� Transcribed by Michelle Woodham ����������� By Llewellyn M. Toulmin, Ph.D., F.R.G.S. 44 ������ Genealogical Abstracts from 16������� Genealogical Abstracts from ����������� Mobile Daily Register, 1916 ����������� The Mobile Register, 1916 ����������� Transcribed by Kathy Richardson ����������� Abstracted by Kathy Richardson 46 ������ MGS publications available for purchase 17 ������� Destruction by the Hurricane of 1916 51 ������� Index 19������� Genealogical Abstracts from ����������� The Mobile Register, 1916 56 ������ MGS publications order form ����������� Abstracted by Kathy Richardson Photo, above: 2016. North Monterey Street, original gas lamps from 1910. DEEP SOUTH GENEALOGICAL QUARTERLY I VOLUME 53, NUMBER 1, FEBRUARY 2016 1 DEEP SOUTH GENEALOGICAL QUARTERLY SUBMISSIONS POLICY We accept submissions for publication in the Deep South Editor Kathy L. Richardson Genealogical Quarterly. You should send your submissions to: Editorial Committee Gordon Cook Rubye Dreading Yvonne Edeker Mobile Genealogical Society, Inc. Margaret Gordon Attention: DSGQ Editor Gray Zimlich P. O. Box 6224, Mobile, AL 36660-6224 MGS NEWSLETTER The MOBILE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY functions as a non- Editor Ann T. Summersell profit, tax-exempt organization, with a commitment to the Editorial Committee Gordon Cook advancement of knowledge, skills and an appreciation of the field of Rubye Dreading genealogy� In the pursuit of that objective, MGS actively researches, Margaret Gordon preserves and disseminates information from relevant sources� Gray Zimlich The Mobile Genealogical Society cannot, and does not, accept responsibility for the accuracy of materials supplied by our MGS OFFICERS contributors� The Editor reserves the right to edit all materials; President Marta Pierce nothing of a controversial nature will be printed� Original 1st VP / Programs Cheryl McLarty manuscripts should include full documentation, citing sources, 2nd VP / Membership Charlie Thomas primary or secondary, for genealogical and/or historical facts� Recording Officer Kathy Richardson We respect the privacy of living persons and do not publish Corresponding Officer Dot Thompson personal data during a person’s lifetime� The Society does not Treasurer Don Culberson authorize contributors to present themselves as agents of MGS Publications Officer Michelle Woodham while doing research� Name and address of contributors are Librarian Judy Culp required on each submission for proper credit� Auditor A. C. Leggett Directors Gordon Cook Rubye Dreading SUBSCRIPTIONS As part of a membership with the Mobile Genealogical Society, Margaret Gordon the quarterly-published and the monthly-distributed Gray Zimlich DSGQ MGS newsletter are emailed to our members� Mailed copies of either publication can be provided at an additional charge� The Society MGS COMMITTEES presents informative, monthly learning programs� Visitors are Abstracting Michelle Woodham welcome at these meetings and to our library� Programs are held at Cemetery Open 10:30 a�m�, the third Saturday of each month, in the Vitale Room, Facilities Open located immediately behind Holy Family Catholic Church, 1400 Grant Writing Open Joyce Road, Mobile, Alabama 36618� Historian Sylvia Morris Hospitality Judy Culp For membership information Legal Advisor Gregory L. Leatherbury and how to order back issues, see the Lineage Consultant Faye Cook Parliamentarian Open MGS Publications section in this publication. Research David Ditto To ensure that you receive every Facebook Michelle Woodham CHANGE OF ADDRESS: issue of the DSGQ and as a courtesy to us, when you change your Webmaster Frank Fanucci address, please notify us, via mail or e-mail, at least six weeks prior to the change� Publications returned by the Postal BUDGET PLANNING COMMITTEE: Service will not be re-mailed unless address correction is Don Culberson, Treasurer; Marta Pierce, President; provided, along with a $2.00 postage fee. Kathy Richardson, Gordon Cook (251) 414-1995 • [email protected] © 2016� All Rights Reserved� No part of this publication may be www.MobileRoots.org copied or reproduced without written permission from the Mobile Genealogical Society, Inc� www.facebook.com/MobileGenealogy The Mobile Genealogical Society is a 501(c)(3) Charitable Organization. Donations to MGS are tax deductible; receipt will be provided upon request� Please consider making a donation to MGS as a memorial. A letter recognizing the donation will be sent to the family of the deceased, and a receipt will be provided to the donor� 2 DEEP SOUTH GENEALOGICAL QUARTERLY I VOLUME 53, NUMBER 1, FEBRUARY 2016 Letter from the Editor “THINK” There was a small, one-word sign posted gives us that mental elbow room to review on the bulletin board in my workplace way the notes we took months ago, scribble down back in the 20th century – “THIMK.” The new ideas, remember the names of those deliberate misspelling was to encourage people we wanted to call, and even create employees to pay attention to what they were lists and systems to help us go forward, to doing. It came to mind recently, probably help us focus, prioritize and start the process while I was proofreading an article I had called planning. Do we need to go in another written for the Deep South Genealogical direction or drill deeper where we are right Quarterly, scouting for misplaced commas, now? In a way, we are all editors. We collect, misspellings and a host of other errors compile, use now, set aside for later... that lay in wait for all of our diligent and and think. dedicated group of editors. Like a bright red stop sign that shouts to us, “Stop. Look. SERENDIPITY Listen.” this one-word admonition tells us, “Pay attention to what you are doing!” Thinking and planning do help us save a “Don’t Be Sloppy.” Make sure to dot your ton of otherwise wasted time, but sometimes “i’s” and cross your “t’s.” It sure is easy to we definitely need to have unplanned, get involved in a project and inadvertently unstructured time to enjoy the discoveries misspell a name, leave something out or file and the serendipity that genealogists something where it does not belong. So, it often experience. We will be celebrating is very important to THINK in the sense of serendipity in future issues of the Deep South “pay attention.” Genealogical Quarterly, and I hope you will contact us with your interesting story. I have But, then there is the other kind of heard a couple of good ones lately to get the thinking, that is a little harder to do. With ball rolling. Maybe you have a story, too. I so many things pulling at our time, it look forward to hearing from you by phone sometimes seems impossible to find the or email with how you found some key “luxury of time.” Having enough time to information following a surprise occurrence. just sit and think for an hour, or even longer, Continued on next page DEEP SOUTH GENEALOGICAL QUARTERLY I VOLUME 53, NUMBER 1, FEBRUARY 2016 3 Letter from the Editor Continued from previous page APPRECIATION FOR THE who rely on primary sources and first-hand RECORD KEEPERS information owe a debt of gratitude to all the record keepers through the years. For our As MGS Publications Director Michelle part, we need to be mindful that the very Woodham was transcribing newspaper existence of public records is under attack, accounts from the upcoming publication in the present day, in the name of privacy The Mobile Mayor’s Court Reports: 1864 and national security, and appreciate the she found, and sent along to me, three efforts by many dedicated genealogists to items about a fire that destroyed the Mobile keep public records open and available for County Courthouse that year. We learned research where the records were held and what efforts were made to save them from damage by SURNAMES, SURNAMES, those who were devoted to preserving them. SURNAMES Genealogists and historical researchers Our compilation of surnames our members are searching for was not quite ready for publication in this edition, with Brick Walls? Queries? some up-dating still to be done. It will be If you have brick walls, or just queries, these are coming up in our next edition. Thank you printed free, in the DSGQ, to members of MGS and will be accepted from non-members for your patience. for a small charge of $5�00 per query� The right to edit is reserved� __________ Ever strive, MEMBERS submit your queries by email to: [email protected] or by mail to: Kathy Richard son Editor DSGQ Editor, P. O. Box 6224, Mobile, AL 36660-6224 __________ NON-MEMBERS submit your query and a check for $5, to: DSGQ Editor, P. O. Box 6224, Mobile, AL