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Subject: [ALHENRY] Re: COBIA, BARNES, CULPEPPER, GRAY, PELLUM, CHANCE, MILLER
Date: 18 Jun 2002 11:15:09 -0600
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Surnames: Cobia, Barnes
Classification: Query
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Message Board Post:
Jackie,
Another fantastic, wonderful, interesting and fact filled missive! It amazes me that the connection with you and Sara Carter has brought the Cobia family full circle in such about a week. I will forever be in your debt and look forward to imputing your information on my FTM, with your permission, of course!
Jackie, I checked my Historical Atlas of Alabama and found no Barnett's Corner listed in Dale, Houston or Geneva. I will look at other counties very near to Newton, an area that was reassigned to different counties until George S. Houston County was formed in 1903, Alabama's youngest and last county. Gov. George S. Houston was the first Democratic Party Governor of the "Solid Democratic South" after repulsing the Republicans in 1874-76 by any means necessary. The Democrats of this period referred to themselves as the Bourbon Democrats. Bourbon in French is "redeemer." They redeemed the South from the clutches of the crooked carpetbagger and scalawag Republicans who overran the destitute states of Dixie after the Second American Revolution (1861-1865).
Do I have he place name correct in "Barnett's Corner"?
Also, in the antebellum South, since the Cobia's were in the Episcopal Church, Southern Historian, the late Dr. Ray Mathis said, the planters of the South would say, "There are many ways to enter heaven, my good man, but a gentleman will always prefer the Episcopalian way!" With this in mind, when I scope out old towns with a "planter's background" I look for an Episcopal Church. In Henry County, Columbia, the cultural, educational, spiritual, and entertainment center for the Chattahoochee River Planters still has an Episcopal Church. Abbeville, grown in the piney woods, has only Methodist and Baptist Churches along with splits of these denominations. Many of the wealthiest men in Henry County and politically powerful men in the antebellum County of Henry were members of our family's ancestral church at "Yatta Abbey" or Adoniram Missionary Baptist Church west of the Abbie Creek in Hardwicksburg and then Mount Zion Primitive Baptist on the east side of the Abbie Creek in !
Hardwicksburg several miles southeast of Shorterville and west of Barnes Community.
You are amazing! I look forward to each and every one of your posts. I appreciate your free exchange of information, not hoarding historical data that can help others.
Sincerely,
Steve Elliott
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