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Subject: [ALHENRY] Re: Howards at Camp Springs Cemetery + Marriages + Hasty Deeds
Date: 1 Mar 2002 05:34:06 -0700

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Surnames: HOWARD/HASTY/POWELL
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In Reply to: Camp Springs Cemetery and Jason Cleveland Hasty by: Steve Elliott
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Jack:
Here is a listing of most/all of the Howards at Camp Springs THAT ARE MARKED. I found over 30 unmarked graves using devining rods this past Friday. Some are even buried in the back fence that was possibly placed there in the 1940s. The members of Post Oak Baptist Church, then Camp Spring Baptist Church in 1854, were buried in a crescent around the original log church which possibly stood in the middle of today's cemetery for there are no indication of graves there. The old white church which you so graciously sent the information on sat further east and closer to the Columbia-Abbeville Road. The graves in the very back could very well be slaves of our ancestors in that area. I hope to mark the unmarked graves and encourage you to join me in finding funds to place simple markers where we are finding graves and even identifying some if possible.

Camp Springs Cemetery 2000:
HOWARD, Thomas R. 02/16/1874-no date
HOWARD, Annie Laura 06/14/1869-01/10/1937
HOWARD, William Henry 12/22/1897-04/18/1954
HOWARD, Lonie F. 03/15/1887-10/17/1968
HOWARD, Charlie W. 11/17/1880-03/12/1949
HOWARD, Cora A. 10/01/1885-12/30/1911
HOWARD, I. B. 11/18/1886-04/09/1904
HOWARD, Missouri 02/07/1849-09/10/1890
HOWARD, W. H. 12/16/1853-11/13/1920
HOWARD, Missouri 12/29/1867-11/07/1953
(I believe one of the Missouris to marry W. H. Howard was a Hudspeth and the other a Gibson--*affirmed below)
HOWARD, Lennie V. 12/08/1896-08/03/1978 (Piano player for the Camp Springs church for many years!)
HOWARD, Mary Ruth 02/23/1927-04/01/1928 (daughter of Lum Howard and Claudia Ann Elliott)
HOWARD, Elvis 03/11/1910-09/02/1910 (son of Lum and Claudia Elliott Howard. Lum and Claudia are buried in Dothan.)
HOWARD, Hosea Lee 02/12/1895-01/17/1970 (Hosea ["Ho-z"]) was a big fox hunter and hunted much with Britt Elliott, Ben Whatley and others.)
HOWARD, Vergie P. 06/22/1900-02/26/1976 (May have been a Penuel for she is buried beside them.)
HOWARD, Oscar D. 08/04/1892-03/25/1966
HOWARD, Clyde Radney 11/09/1895-02/18/1997 (Mr. Oscar & "Miss" Clyde were to have their 50th wedding anniversary on March 26, 1966 on a Sunday afternoon and Mr. Oscar died the day before! We instead funeralized and returned gifts later. Sad time for the community. I remember he and "Miss" Clyde so well.)
HOWARD, William Austin 09/03/1920-02/22/1972 (Austin made one attempt at suicide and survived. He tried again Feb. 22, 1972 and was succesful. May God rest his soul. My eldest Uncle Harnage Elliott, the same age as Austin, always said he wished his wife loved him as much as Austin did after a few drinks! Some of the the Oscar and Clyde Howard children included Roy, Foy, and Elton Howard.)


Marriages 1821-1901 as per mrs. Helon Cutler's book, Henry County Records--Marriages:

GROOMS:

HOWARD, T. R. married Laura Hasty December 27, 1896


BRIDES:
HOWARD, S. A. married J. C. J. Hastie June 17, 1879
(Don't get mad Brother Robin Adams, this is how the probate clerk spelled Hasty instead of its 1700 spelling.)

>From a book entitled "Old Sparta and Elba Land Office Records and Milirary Warrants 1822-1860" by Marlyn Davis Hahn we find:

HASTY, Absalom, a resident of Henry County purchased land in Township 7, Range 27 on March 3, 1852. This is near Abbeville.

HASTY, James, a resident of Henry County purchased land in Township 4, Range 28 in Henry County on February 6, 1854. The same day William W. Majors and Chruchwell Penuel purchased their land in Township 5, Range 29 in which Haleburg/Camp Springs is its center. The James Hasty land was sort of southeast of Tumbleton, Henry County.
We know that Abslom and James finally settled in the Camp Springs area, were civic minded men, church goers, and are buried at Camp Springs Cemetery.

If I can help further, please call upon me.

I'm curious about your HOWARD and HASTY marriage connections, since I have both in my data base and I've not been able to learn where my HOWARD children were born in Georgia.
John and Catherine HOWARD were both born in SC. One researcher has them marrying in Alabama, but their children were born in Georgia.

Descendants of John Howard

1 John Howardb: Abt. 1789 in SCd: Bet. 1850 - 1860 in AL
.+Catherineb: Abt. 1795 in SCd: Aft. 1860m: Bef. 1825 in poss. GA
........2 John S. Howardb: Abt. 1826 in GAd: July 16, 1906 in De Leon, Comanche Co., TX
............+Sarah M. Fieldb: Abt. 1829 in Campbell Co., GAd: Aft. 1913 in De Leon, Comanche Co., TXm: February 16, 1847 in Russell Co., ALFather: Thomas M. Field
........2 James Howardb: Abt. 1830 in GA
........2 Polly Howardb: Abt. 1832 in GA
............+William B. Tarvinm: September 15, 1868 in Lee Co., AL
........2 Adelina Howardb: Abt. 1835 in GA
........2 Laura Ann Howardb: July 1836 in GAd: Aft. 1910 in Logan/Yell Co., AR
............+James Monroe Hastyb: 1832 in Heard Co., GAd: December 25, 1896 in Bryer Creek, Logan Co., AR.m: October 17, 1852 in Chambers Co., ALFather: Thomas P. HastyMother: Elizabeth Ann Holmes Powell

I know the story of the Hastys and their sterness about their church at Camp Springs. They were brothers to my Thomas P. Hasty who was in Harris County prior to his marriage to Elizabeth Ann Holmes Powell and in Chambers Co., AL ca 1850, the first census he was found in AL.
This is, however, the first indication that perhaps the Howards were also at Camp Springs and may have known my Hasty family prior to James Monroe Hasty's marriage to Laura Ann Howard in 1852, Chambers Co. John and Catherine with some of their children were on the 1850 Chambers Co. census and that was the only indication I had (other than later censuses for the Howard/Hasty marriage) for their birthplaces.

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