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From: "Barry Wetherington" <>
Subject: Sepulga Conecuh Co AL Wm Witherington, Jr & Sr
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 13:30:48 -0500
References: <00f301c50884$8006c600$c0450a43@D5X69B31>


Very interesting Bill,

Still, this suggests / states that: " The Witherington family (Sr
& Jr?) likely lived on these lands beginning about 1820, but just got
around to recording them in 1833 . . . The Witherington land was a bit west
of the Sepulga Post Office location, at Fork Sepulga . . . at the
convergence of the East and West branches of the Sepulga River."

That causes something of a problem, in that Wm Wton Sr supposedly died
1819, ie before the 1820 date activities mentioned above. Is it your
contention that Sr lived on a separate tract? It would make some sense. How
can we determine the eventual resolution of that tract. Are the real estate
transcation records still avail for that time period in the county records?
Have those already been reviewed? I'm probably missing something, but wanted
to address this issue.

Sounds like we need another reunion just so we can get together to
research this issue. It way be too early (or maybe not) to schedule
something this summer, but at least summer 2006. I look fwd to the 'dusty'
real estate records in the dusty basement. Sherry, do you have any notion
where/ how the records can be accessed? If someone owns that tract, or any
portion of it, they might actually have the records. The local experts would
be the local researchers for the title research insurers. They do this on a
regular basis.

Sherry, have you got some suggestions? Call or write/ email

Barry

Barry Wetherington
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Birmingham Mich 48012
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Barry Wetherington
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill King" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 12:36 PM
Subject: [Witherington] Sepulga, Conecuh County, AL <William Witherington,
Jr.>


Sepulga Post Office
Sepulga Baptist Church
Sepulga Community in early Conecuh County.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joyce" <>
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: [ALCONECU] Sepulga Community or Sepulga Post Office

The following is thought to have been copied from the book,
"People and Places of Conecuh County, Alabama".

On Sep 21, 1821 the post office was already operating in Sepulga with a
Mr. Everatt serving as postmaster. The Legal description of the post
office in Sepulga Conecuh Co., AL. was on the Northwest one quarter of the
Southeast one quarter of Sec 27, Township 8 North, Range 11 East. It is
not known how early this settlement evolved, but it was located on the stage
coach road, and nearby the Old Federal Road that brought these settlers to
south Alabama through Georgia and the Carolinas.
Early settlers were Thompson Hamilton Coker, and Epsey Ann Grace. The
Grace family was the earliest known settlers in northern Conecuh Co.,
having arrived from Georgia in 1812. Duncan McCall received his land grant
at Sepulga for his service in the Creek Indian War, and Nathan Stucky was
paying taxes on 62 acres in 1819. Other families were the Skinners,
Johnson, Cook, and Etheridge. They located on the banks of their water
source, Sepulga Creek. The land was low and swampy and flooded during
rainy seasons. This lead to fever outbreaks over the years, but the
residents stayed for over 60 years.
The last record of a post office in Sepulga was on Sep 30 1859 with Waddy
T. Means serving as its postmaster. In 1854 the Sepulga Baptist Church was
a member of the Bethlehem Baptist Association with J. T. Thomas minister
and J. Jones serving as elder. The church had 33 members. In the early
1880's Typhoid fever occurred taking many inhabitants. The survivors then
moved for safer higher grounds not prone to flood.

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Below was copied from Bureau of Lands, Government Land Office on-line
records.
Earliest land recordings for William Witherington, Jr.
Cahaba Land Office: Wm Witherington Land at Section 10, T-7, R-11 in
Conecuh County, AL.
In all, there were 3 - 80 acre parcels, for a total of 240 acres. The
Witherington land
was a bit west of the Sepulga Post Office location, at Fork Sepulga . . .
at the convergence
of the East and West branches of the Sepulga River. The Witherington
family likely lived
on these lands beginning about 1820, but just got around to recording them
in 1833.

The three Witherington parcels were all located in:
Section 10, T-7, R-11 in Conecuh County, AL
1) W half of the NW Quarter 80 acres
2) E half of the NW Quarter 80 acres
3) W half of the NE Quarter 80 acres

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