CARROLL l COUNTY GENEALOGICAL HARALSON CO, Jan.26. 1856 DOUGLAS CO. Oct. 17 o= HEARD CO. Oec. 22 1830 TROU SPRING 2OO1 THE CARROLL COUNTY GENEALOGICAL QUARTERLY BY THE CARROLL COUNry GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY P. O. BOX 576 CARROLLTON. GEORGIA 301 17 Web Page Address - http://members.aol.com/carrollgen/ VOLUME XXII SPRING 2OO1 NUIUBER ONE TABLE OF CONTENTS President's Letter..... 2 Officers... ... 3 Announcements 3 Carrollcounty Heritage Book........ ... 3 Death of Ray Kytle... 3 The Texas Revolution ......... ............................. 4 National List of Available Newspaper Microfilm . 5 Family of Alberta Missouri Shadinger & Jefferson Franklin Denney ........... 6 The Bryce/Brice Family. ...... 12 Descendants of Miles Solomon Holaway & Jane M. Will Cash '15 Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church l\,Iinutes, '1898-1903 25 Items of Genealogical lnterest, Carroll County Times, 1883 27 Focus of Research 30 Queries............. ..... 32 CCGS N/iembers 32 1ndex........ - . 34 The Carroll County Genealogical Society, Carroll County, Georgia, membership dues are $20.00 per person or family, on a calendar basis (January through December). Life memberships are not available. This publication is included at no extG cost in the membership dues, with one copy per family. Former issues of the Quarterly are available at the prices shown on the back page of this issue. These are ordered from the Carroll County Genealogical Socieiy, P. O. Box 576, Carrollton, GA 30117. Queries are published free for members of the Societyi charges for queries for non- members are $5.00 for Lrp to 100 words. This Society does not assume responsibility for errors in fact or opinlon which may appear in articles furnished by its members. We will gladly conect any errors brought to our attention. CoPYright 2000 lssN-0734-5682 Spring 2001 Dear Members. Enclosed you have a flier about our Spring Workshop and an article about the County Heritage book, which is being prepared. The article gives you information so that you can write about your family who lived in Carroll County. if you have family members, particularly those with descendants who are no longer in the County, please submit an article for the book. The flier is related to our Spring Workshop in April. The Board decided to concentrate on the migration to Georgia and have workshops related to the main states covered by the migration pattern. South Carolina will be the focus for this yeads Workshop. Wade Dorsey is a local young man who is associated with the South Carolina Archives. We, therefore, are particularly pleased that he will present our Workshop and have asked him to give us pertinent information to search that location and other South Carolina sources. Also, we hope to clarify some of the disinctive legal terms specific to the state to help in understanding your research. lf your research is in South Carolina, we hope that you can join us in April The cost of the Workshop has increased to $35 because we include lunch in the price and the lunch cost has gone up. Even with the cost increase we feel that it is still a reasonable price. Because of diminishing particlpation at our summer meetings wewill nothave speakers for those three and will have working meetings in the Speciai Collections Room at the Neva Lomason Library to make that area more valuable for researching. We had an especially informative meeting in January. Sam Pyle explained the new County Cemetery Project which is to supp,ement the Cemetery Book already a valuable resource, with family cemeteries not included in the book. lt will update the location information lf you know a family burial ground not included or readily located by the information in the Cemetery Book, please write to the Society and we will give the information to the Committee. This is a project which will help the County to protect these sites. Our February speaker will bring information about the State Marriage Recording Project. This data will be initially located at the Archives and hopefully online at a later date. Even though Carroll County has a marriage book, this Project will be an update and correction to information in the marriage books. lf you are locally based and could help with this computer poject, please let us know because access to county records is necessary. ln [.,larch, Judge Roberl J. James, a Society member and a Superior Court Judge in Douglas County, will talk about legal terms found in our research and how to understand them This should be an enlightening meeting and, if you live locally . we hope you will join us. There should be a reminder in the local paper. By the time you receive this Quarterly, the reprint of the centennial copy of the "Villa Rica Book", with an added index, should be available. lf you do not have a copy or want this newer edition with the index, the cost is $35. With regards Betty R. devane, President -3- ; / CARROLL COUNry GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY 2OO1 OFFICERS President ..... Betty devane Vice-President.... Wanda l\4addox Recording Secretary . Betty Jo Parsons Conesponding Secretary .. Mary Florence Word Asst. Corresponding Secretary .. .. Betty Jo Parsons Treasurer............. Lee Wash Ass[ Treasurer....... Earline Boyd Quarterly Editor....... Shirley Gardner Web Master............. David Word Proqram Coordinator Wanda Maddox Library Coordrnator Sandra Allen ANNOUNCEMMENTS The Historl of Vila Rica by l\rary Talley Anderson, published in 1976, has been reprinted by the Genealogical Society. An all-name index has been added. Copies will be available through the Society, through the Villa Rica Library, and from Carrollton book stores. The volume will sell for $35.00. Georgia residents pay 7% saies tax. We have received a comment from Bonnie J. Sell which is too nice to pass up: "Enclosed please find my check in the amount of S20.00 to renew my membership for the year 2001. I enjoy your publication a lot, it is well worth the cost." CARROLL COUNTY HERITAGE BOOK A Canoll County Heritage book is in the planning stages A Local committee has been chosen and family and topical histories are being accepted. This will be a part of the Georgia County Hertiage Series. The book will be I x 12, with at least 300 pages. lt will be hardbound on non-glare acid-free paper. Family histories of both modern and pioneer families are being requested. A 500-word family history with one picture will be placed in the book at no charge. Topical histories should be about 250-words. More information will be found in the next issue of the Quarterly or at www.countyheritagebooks.com or by e-mail to [email protected] or [email protected] or write Canoll County Heritage Book, PO Box 1224, Carrollton, GA30117. Books will sell for $49.95. Profit from the sales will go to the Neva Lomason Library to be used in the Special Collelctions Room DEATH OF RAY KYTLE Rayford Perdue Kytle Jr., 85 , of Richmond, VA, until recently a resident of Carroliton, died suddenly Friday, Jan 5, 2001. He was born May 10, 1915, in Carrollton, son of the late Rayford Perdue and Julia Sox Kytle He received a BS in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1936, aod was the author of numerous papers.He was well known in the civic circles of Virginia, Carrollton and other places. He is survived by his wife, Jean Harter Kytle, a former President of the CCGS, two sons, Rayford P. Kytle lll of Bethesda, MD, and James W. Kytle of St. Simons' GA. and six grandchildren. A memorial serv ce was held Jan. 9, in VA. Burial was in Florence, AL. THE TEXAS REVOLUTION Georgia Citizens Died at Goliad, Texas by Linda Austin Rl4, Box 272, Gilmer, TX 75644 ln 1836 Texas declared its independence from l\,lexico. On lrarch 6, 1836, the Alamo fell and General Santa Anna, a Mexican politician who had overthrown the constitutional govemment of l\rexico and made himself the dictator, ordered more than 342 prisoners, who had taken part in the rebellion, shot to death at Goliad, Texas. About 120 of the men were from Georgia. Others came from Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi. On Nov. 12, 1835, a Pro-Texas rally was held at the Bibb County Court House in l\,Iacon, Georgia. ln the process of raising funds, a company of volunteers was organized by Lt. Hugh lvlcleod and William Ward. This company became the nucleus of the Georgia Battalion. There were three more companies: The Columbus Company under W. A. O. Wadsworth, the Georgia Riflemen of Macon and Milledgeville under James C. Winn, and a third company under lsaac Ticknor. These companies soon went to Texas and joined Colonel James Fannin at Refugo. For their service, they were Promised land in Texas. They had no uniforms and borowed weapons from the State of Georgia Most of ihe men were young and were trying to get land for their families. By the time of the execution, many of the prisoners had no clothes or shoes and were hungry. Santa Anna was very cruel, and had made the prisoners stand at all times, even while sleeping. The men believed that they were going home, but on l\rarch 27, 1836, they were marched out, surrounded, and shot to death. Their clothes were stripped off, their bodies piled up and burned. Then Santa Anna walked away. Their remains were not buried. This past March, I had the honor to be invited to a Memorial held each year rn Goliad, Texas, for these men. While there I saw a reenactment of the events which led up to the death march out of the La Bahia, about one half mile, and the cruel way they were treated until then.