Earthquake in Haiti - Donations

If anyone is looking for a LEGITIMATE organization to which to donate for Haiti Earthquake Relief - Please see this page set up by the CREATE foundation of Tupelo.

http://www.ci.tupelo.ms.us/administrative/Tupelo-Haiti%20Relief%20Project.pdf

Thank you!

Surname Exchange

Following is a list of Researchers, Contact information and Surnames submitted to our Surname Exchange. I will attempt to modify the formatting, but wanted to allow everyone a look at the information in advance. If there are changes or additions, please let me know!

Melissa

Researcher's Name	Contact Information	Names/Surnames researching
Bill Lyle	662-767-9512 lyleb@att.net	Barber Hopkins Polk Shelby Hendrick
Don Curtiss	662-767-2517 PO Box 162 Marrietta, MS 38856	Wood James Curtiss Moses
Charles Scruggs	662-842-9273	Beasley Scruggs Webb Vaughan (Vaughn)
J. David Baker	333 N. Green Street Tupelo, MS 38804	Baker, Scott Indiana Terr. 1880 Fields, 1806 Kentucky Young, Chester and Fairfield, S.C. Bordens, N.C. And Virginia Cooke Daniel (Virginia 1706) Lowe (Maryland and S.C. 1790)
Randoll and Joyce Reagan	Bedford, TX 817-919-0520	Campbell Reagan Woods
Bill T. Lowrance	210-844-4999 billtom@ktc.com	Chickasaw and Fletcher family Lowrance Hodges Haynes
Amelita Lowrance	litalow@ktc.com	Parsons Hyatt Hightower Pamplin Ligon Hall
S.E. Murdoch	803-285-8551 jmrdh@hotmail.com	Bryson Murdock/Murcoch
Joy Lucius Joy Lucius (continued)	662-231-8092 luciusx5@yahoo.com 662-231-8092 luciusx5@yahoo.com	Daniel Foster Wilson Katie Arlene Cox Wilson Tommy Louis T.L. Farr Tommie Lou Farr W.W. Lucius
Susie Dent	susiedent@aol.com 113 Bolivar Trail Saltillo, MS 38866	Pontotoc, Union and Lee Counties: Dillard Reid Bryant/Briant Tolleson Caldwell Martin Tishomingo, Itawamba and Lee Counties: Martin Turner Brooks
Sandra Knight	402 N. Ione Street Tupelo, MS 38801 sandralknight@hotmail.com	Franks Bates Payne Berryhill Phillips Brazeal Chaffin Buchanan Marcy
Jennell Murphy	103 Christy Way Saltillo, MS 38866 662-869-7132	Payne Marcy Murphy
Vivian Draper	PO Box 2827 Tupelo, MS 38803 662-255-0310 vdraperdds@hotmail.com	Draper Clay
Brenda Elliot	PO Box 29 Saltillo, MS 38866 bjelliott@frontiernet.net	Cox Coker Bowling Harris
John Palmer	103 16th Street NE Bradenton, FL 34208 charon13.5@gmail.com	Union/Lee Counties: Palmer
Harvey Anglin Harvey Anglin (continued)	2727 Oakview Dr. Tupelo, MS 38804 2727 Oakview Dr. Tupelo, MS 38804	Anglin Cleveland Wilson Flippen Minyard Griffin
Rafaela Young	3052 Haven Acres Dr. 27 Tupelo, MS 38801 luvmygrnd@yahoo.com 662-231-7498	Young/ S.C. Payne Tounkins Ferguson Crayton Tines

Oral History Workshop

We are trying to get together an Oral History Workshop scheduled for Saturday, February 27, 2010 at the Lee County Library in the Helen Foster Auditorium. If anyone wants to volunteer to help or present a portion of the program, please let me hear from you. Susie Dent, nems.hgs@gmail.com

Holiday Meeting on Dec. 10, 2009

We won't have a November meeting because of Thanksgiving but will meet on Thursday, December 10 at 6 p.m. in the Lee County Library. "Aunt Patsy" will provide some homespun humour while we celebrate the holiday season. Please bring a festive appetizer or finger food to share with the group. Drinks will be provided. Email Susie Dent at nems.hgs@gmail.com for more information.

October Meeting of the Society

Just a friendly reminder that our October meeting is at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009 at the Lee County Library, Tupelo, MS. Please bring some family history to share. IF you have a family "ghost" story to share, we would love to hear all about it. We won't have a November meeting because of Thanksgiving but will meet on Thursday, December 10 at 6 p.m. in the Lee County Library. "Aunt Patsy" will provide some homespun humour while we celebrate the holiday season.

NEMS Daily Journal -- Spain House

TUPELO –

Historic preservationists this week won their battle to save the century-old Spain House; now they must determine what to do with it.

After a few congratulatory words among themselves, members of the city’s Historic Preservation Commission on Thursday plotted their next step.

It was the commission that had nominated the three-story house for local historic designation, which the City Council on Tuesday approved.

And it did so against the wishes of Calvary Baptist Church, which owns it.

The church said it wants the house gone and will pursue plans to either demolish it or find someone to move it to another location.

The designation will make that task harder, but not impossible, said church member Greg Pirkle.

“The church cannot use the house,” he told the Daily Journal.

Either the building will continue to deteriorate, the commission will find someone to take it or the church will look for a legal way to have it demolished, he said.

Commission members, though, want to see the house renovated at its existing location on the corner of West Main and Madison streets.

“I feel bad for the church, but we just really had to take a stand,” said Ward 4 Councilwoman Nettie Davis, who voted for the designation and also attended the commission’s meeting at City Hall.

“The Historic Preservation Commission needs to do something now,” she said.

“If we’re going to establish these designations then we need to do something to help support the owners.”

Suggestions included helping the church get the house on the National Register of Historic Places to be eligible for tax credits, which the church could then sell to make money and restore the house.

Or the commission could help the church get federal grant money through the Save America’s Treasure program, said Brad Prewitt, a resident who also is renovating a historic downtown house.

According to the National Park Service Web site, nearly 20 Mississippi structures have won nearly $5 million from the grant in the past nine years.

Prewitt urged the commission to seek the grant and make constant progress toward renovating the house.

Estimates to restore the house – which over the years has served as a family dwelling, funeral home and office space – range from $300,000 to $500,000.

“People are going to make a judgment based on how this process works and whether the house is restored,” Prewitt told the group at its meeting Thursday.

“You don’t want to hang the house around the neck of the church.”

Commission Chairman Michael Jones said it will take time to form an appropriate plan.

He also stressed that the group must continue to work with the church to find a win-win solution, if at all possible.

Contact Emily Le Coz at (662) 678-1588 or emily.lecoz@djournal.com.

MS Department of Archives and History

MDAH Taking Popular Program to Corinth!

http://mdah.state.ms.us/admin/news/corinth_roadshow.html

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is taking one of its most popular programs to Corinth in October. Personal Treasures, like the PBS program Antiques Roadshow, gives the public a chance to bring items for identification and evaluation by specialists.

Experts will offer tips on the conservation and care of the items, and although they cannot offer monetary values of objects, a list of appraisers will be available. Personal Treasures is being held in conjunction with the MDAH Board of Trustees meeting on Friday, October 16, in Corinth. Personal Treasures will be held Thursday, October 15, from noon to 5 p.m. and Friday, October 16, from 8 a.m. to noon at the Corinth Public Library. There is no charge to participate.

Categories are household items, books, maps, photographs, textiles, architectural elements, and military items (excluding weapons). An expert on genealogical research will also be available for consultation. MDAH staff will be on hand to exhibit resources from the state archives relating to Corinth, Alcorn County, and northeast Mississippi.

The MDAH board meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. at the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center and is open to the public. A public reception will be held at 6 p.m. on Thursday, October 15, at the Coliseum Civic Center. Kane Ditto, president of the board of trustees, will present resolutions of commendation to local organizations and citizens for contributions to the preservation and interpretation of Mississippi history. Board members and MDAH staff will also tour sites associated with the Siege and Battle of Corinth and other preservation highlights in the area, such as the Civil War Contraband Camp Memorial and the Verandah Curlee House.

Members of the board of trustees of the Department of Archives and History are president Kane Ditto, Jackson; vice president Rosemary Taylor Williams, Corinth; Reuben V. Anderson, Jackson; Lynn Crosby Gammill, Hattiesburg; E. Jackson Garner, Jackson; Duncan M. Morgan, Natchez; Hilda Cope Povall, Cleveland; Martis D. Ramage, Jr., Belden; and Roland Weeks, Biloxi.

Personal Treasures is funded in part by the Corinth Area Convention and Visitors Bureau.