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The Franklin's of Covington County, Alabama will hold their 2010 family reunion at the Pell City Civic Center Banquet Room, 2801 Stemley Bridge Rd, Pell City, AL 35128-7505, on Saturday, 12 June 2010 beginning at 10am. Lunch will be served at 1pm. Bring a covered side dish and make plans to join us. We are presently updating our mailing list, so family members please email us at trackingyourroots@gmail.com to verify that we have a correct current address for you. This year we are expanding our reunion to include all Franklins from the Franklin DNA Project's FY2 group, which are proven Franklin relatives, so please get us your email and snail mail contact information so we can keep everyone informed as plans are set. If you have facebook please let me know as we have a family group and a reunion event set at facebook. For more information on the reunion contact me, Lisa, at trackingyourroots@gmail.com
For information on the DNA project connections see this link (FY2 group of our relatives is in lavendar and starts with Isaac Bradley Franklin's data at this page):
http://www.roperld.com/franklingenetics.htm#project
If you think you may be part of this family, but are not certain, email for more information.
I look forward to seeing everyone there! Sincerely, Lisa

 

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Looking for volunteers to help with the clean up of a small abandoned cemetery in Laurel Hill, Florida. Scheduled cleanup will be on Saturday, November 28, 2009 starting @ 9am. This is the cemetery, along with a map and coordinates of its location. ALL HELP GREATLY APPRECIATED! For more info contact Peggy at pchesteen@centurtytel.net. Childrens Home Cemetery
--Lisa--

The Good Hope Baptist Church is located five miles northwest of Dozier, Alabama, just inside Covington County. The church was first constituted in 1828. The doors have been closed and locked and services have been discontinued due to the need of restoration. For those of you interested in seeing this historical church brought back to life again, please join in raising money to make this possible. It is a gorgeous sanctuary that makes you want to sing “gimmie that ole time religion, it’s good enough for me.” So lets all put this song in our hearts and make it our theme song as we work toward restoring this beautiful historical building. The outside dinner-on-the-ground table still stands, but deteriorating fast. At the edge of the woods is a historical concrete pool about 3 or 4 feet deep and 6 or 8 feet square where baptism took place. There are hundreds of graves in the well kept cemetery across the road, some dating back to the 1800s. A group of carpenters called “Carpenters for Christ” have offered to do the labor at no charge. Now it’s up to all of us to raise enough money to supply the materials needed in this restoration. A fund has been set up at the First National Bank of Dozier, in Dozier, Alabama, to help with this project. If you would like to make a donation please mail it to The First National Bank of Dozier, 7825 South Main Street, PO 68, Dozier, Alabama, 36028 . All checks are made payable to Good Hope Primitive Baptist Church. From all of us who have relatives buried there, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your donation. God bless each of you. --Fran Davidson--

 

My roots are in Alabama sod,
I'm southern by the Grace of God,
Bear Bryant taught me the meaning of pride,
and my pledge of allegiance is ROLL TIDE!!

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