Dear Carrie, I'm researching Gilmores in Bullock Co. see below. Any connection? - ------------------------------------------------- You wrote: >If there is someone who could do a death look-up for me I would greatly >appreciate it. I am looking for a James and Mary THOMAS in Perot, >Pike/Bullock, AL between 1860 and 1880. I do not find him with any of >his children once they moved on to AR, where they appear on the 1880 >census. Children of James and Mary also living in Perot ,neighboring >them(according to census) are: > >John F. THOMAS m. Martha Jane Gilmore >William THOMAS m. Sarah(Hearn)COPE >James D. THOMAS m. Catherine (?) >Wade Hampton THOMAS m. Mary F. BOSWELL (ROSWELL). > >It is believed, from looking at census records (Pike Cty.) that James >arrived ca. 1830 (there is a James THOMAS on this census-but not sure if >this is him) The microfilm available to me was almost too dark to read >the name much less the rest of the details. > >Thank you in advance for your assistance. Anyone who has connections >with this THOMAS line I would love to hear from you...especially >surnames: MORRISON, GILMORE > >Carrie THOMAS-DOMINGUEZ >Transcribing 1880 Sebastian Cty, AR >Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (Kansas)- ><http:raogk@rootsweb.com> > - ------------------------------------------------- William GILMORE b. about 1805 in GA m. Matilda ? b. about1808 SC William and Matilda show up in the 1840 Pike Co. AL Census and the 1850 and 1870 Bullock Co. AL censuses. William and Matilda had 9 children: William, Mary (my gg grandmother), Elizabeth, Eliza, James, Sarah, Joseph, Frances, and Jasper. An elderly woman, estimated to be born about 1776 making her about 74 years old, named Martha PASEY is living in the GILMORE household in the 1850 Bullock Co. AL census. Both Martha and Matilda show their birth state as SC. Martha is most likely to be Matilda's mother, making her Matilda PASEY. A William PASEY, age 26, is living not too far away in the same county in this census. A William PASEY and an Allen PASEY also hold Alabama Land Grants in the Tuscaloosa Land Office in 1852 (just two years later), the baseline of their adjoining properties (about 40 acres each) is Huntsville. In all the searches I have done, the name PASEY seems extremely rare, so I will also go so far as to assume that William PASEY and possibly Allen PASEY are somehow related to these women. I have tried looking at them as POSEY but it just never seems to fit. Besides they are always very clearly spelled as PASEY with an A. If anyone is searching the name PASEY in AL, GA or SC and GILMORE in AL and GA who might think these people are connected to them, I would very much like to hear from you. Sincerely, Cynthia SIMS Kirkland