I am currently researching the history of Eastman, Gardiner & Co., one of the largest lumber companies in the state, and hope to finish up a book on the company soon. Their main logging camp was located at Cohay (in three locations) from 1915 until the mid-1930's. I am having no luck finding anybody that is still living that may have lived in the camp to interview. I have some great sources of info, such as the thesis on the Cohay camps by David Higgs, newspapers, census records, WWI draft cards, some company records, etc., but I still have many questions about operations and the layout of the camps. I am also looking for anyone with photos of the camps, sawmills, logging operations, and logging railroads. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hello My Name is Dena Graham I compiled a bokk in 2000 about the Cohay camps. Please feel free to Call me 601-319-9574. I will help you the best I can. I would also love a copy of your book.

I have several photos of logging camps, but don't know the names or locations of them. My family was from the Jones Co. area though. If any one would recognize them, I would gladly post the ones I have.
MaryAllen Valentine Murphy

I am doing research on the Albertsons who owned a boarding house in Albertson Community, which was close to Moselle, in Jones county in the 1900's. I think this community was a stop for the railroad and am trying to do research on logging in that area to see what information I can find about the community. Albertson Community is listed as extinct. Hiram Albertson was a blacksmith and Lavinia ran the boarding house. They were my ggg-granparents. Also searching for Osborn, Kimbrell in Jones county. I would appreciate any information you could supply.
thank you

Hello: I am sorry, I don't have any information on any of the names you mention in your message.
MaryAllen

I would love to see these pictures. Any chance of one being from the Soso / Service area??

My great great grandpa had a store and post office in Service, MS and served as the post master for a few years. I would appreciate your posting or sending to me direct via my email address of judydrice at yahoo dot com.

Many, many Thanks.

Thanks for the reply. I am more interested in finding out about the Albertson Community and what railroad it was on than the names in my post. I think it was the Northeastern and New Orleans R.R. I can't find Albertson Community any where on a map, so I have started trying to find information on the logging companies in the area. Amy information you could supply on logging around Moselle or the area would be appreciated. I am just trying to get a feel for what the area was like in the 1900's and who lived there.

Hello, your book sounds VERY intresting. Have you ran across any info on any Jones or Floyd families??? My grandmother told me stories as a child about her family living in different logging camps.....most outstanding to me a child was being about their homes being moved on the railroad from site to site, her & others getting typhoid/tiefoid fever from a unclean water source and me playing with some round wooden tokens they used at what was called the company store(???).

I would love to see the pictures of the logging camps. My grandfather-in-law worked for the lumber company mentioned in the original post. He was killed by a falling tree in 1924, Cohay, Mississippi, name L.C. Harrison.

Any information/pictures on the lumber company, the area, or the family would be appreciated.

I have just read your message. I am quite interested in Cohay Camp (particularly CC III), because I grew up in Mize, MS and my brother and I still own property a couple of miles south of the site of Cohay Camp III.

A comprehensive article concerning Cohay Camp, several photos, was run in the Smith County Reformer weekly newspaper for the May 9, 2001 issue. Also, an interview of a former resident of Cohay Camp, Mr. Bobby McDaniel of Taylorsville, MS was run in the November 5, 2008 issue of the Reformer.