> > Subject: [ALDALLAS-L] Rees, Pentecost, Gayle > Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:36:11 -0500 > From: Ralph & Debbie McNabb <fmc-remdam@worldnet.att.net> > To: ALDALLAS-L@rootsweb.com > > I am new to the list and am researching the following surnames. > Rees > Pentecost > Gayle > > They all came from Va.>S.C.>Ala. > > John Rees married Mary Pentecost abt. 1750-1760. Their daughter Mary > Pentecost Rees married Matthew Gayle. They all moved from Va. to S.C. > Then they moved to Ala. and finally settled in Dallas Co. > > Thanks, > Debbie > Debbie, I believe we've exchanged messages on SCSumter(?). I'm not a Gayle descendant but connect w/ the Gov. John & Sarah (Haynsworth) Gayles through the Haynsworths, and w/ his uncle's family (another)John and Nancy (Whitehead) Gayle through the Whiteheads. Nancy (Whitehead) Gayle's sister Mary married John Greening, Sumter,SC @1797. The Greenings came to AL w/ some/all of the Gayles in 1815. John Greening died in 1817. I'd thought until recently that Mary (Whitehead) Greening died in AL @1824, but she turns up in tutorship (guardian) records of some of her grandsons in DeSoto Parish, LA in 1854 - her name given as Mary GAYLE. Apparently she married one of the Gayles after John Greening died. Letters of guardianship on the Greening children who were still minors in 1824 were issued to Matthew Gayle (possibly the son of John & Nancy Whitehead Gayle). I'm trying to establish which of the Gayles was the second husband of Mary (Whitehead)Greening, and whether or not there were any children of that second marriage. Her last Greening child was Beatnah (Greening) Cater, b.1815. Mary was born @1775 (age given as 75 for Mary Gayle listed on 1850 DeSoto Parish LA census, included in household of son-in-law William G. Cater). There may not have been any chn. of second marriage, but she wasn't quite old enough to preclude the possibility. Any information appreciated. I have considerable info on the Gayles to exchange if you're interested, including journals & contemporaneous narratives. Rgds., Judy Baugh <procyon@prodigy.net> Austin, TX