This is being forwarded from the Lauderdale County, AL message boards. If you can help, please reply to ccddpetz@seark.net , http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HS.2ADE/628 and, of course, the list. Thanks, Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: <ccddpetz@seark.net> To: <ALLAUDER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 4:38 PM Subject: Samuel Wallis/Wallace, b.abt 1814, NC, moved to Ala and Ms > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Wallace/Wallis/Posting/Parting/Postin/Poston/Clemmons > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HS.2ADE/628 > > Message Board Post: > > Hi, I have a Samuel Wallis/Wallace,b.abt 1814, NC who marr. a Nancy > MNU,b.abt 1814, poss. Tn. Acc. to the ages,etc.. of their children, I > believe that they probably marr. abt 1830/1831, Ala. By 1850, they were > living in Oktibbeha Co., Ms. and by 1860, they were back in Ala, living in > Pickens Co., Ala. > > I found a transcribed marr. record for a Samuel Wallis and a Nancy > Parting, 31 Aug 1831, Lauderdale Co., Ala. Since the first names fit, I > thought there was a good possibility of this being the right couple, so > I'm looking into it. > > My Samuel and Nancy had 5 children by 1840, John,b.abt 1832 and 4 girls, > Lucy,b.abt 1835; Louisa, abt 1837; Mary, abt 1839; and Sarah,b.April 1840. > There is a Samuel Wallis and family living in Lauderdale Co., Ala in 1840. > He and his wife fit the age range to be mine, as well as the children's > sex and ages. > By 1850, there were 4 more children and my Samuel and family was living in > Ms. By 1860, they had moved back and added 2 more children, for a total of > 11, that I know of. At this time, they were living in Pickens Co., Ala and > this is where one of their dau's, Nancy,b.either 1848 or 1849, met and > marr. a Woodson Clemmons in abt 1869, Pickens Co, Ala. He was twice as old > as Nancy, a widower with 4 children, ages 9 to 20. Woodson and Nancy had a > total of 7 children. They eventually moved to Chickasaw Co., Ms. in about > 1890. > > I know that Samuel and Nancy Wallis were still alive in 1870, but I lose > them after that. > > I would like to try and find out if the Samuel Wallis and Nancy Parting > who marr. in 1831 Lauderdale Co. and the Samuel Wallis and family who was > in the 1840 Laud.Co. census might have possibly been my mine. I know that > in 1850, there was a Wallace/Wallis family who had children by the names > of Samuel and Nancy. Coincidence? Or were they named after their aunt and > uncle or some other family member. > > I also found a transcript of the marr. record on another message board > that showed that Nancy's maiden name might have been Posting.These records > were done by the WPA and it is warned that the names might not be correct. > I have searched quite extensively and haven't been able to find any one > with either of these names in the Lauderdale area. I have also looked at > the name Postin/Poston, etc..., but so far I haven't found anything. Acc. > to Samuel and Nancy, she was born in Tn and I did find some Postin's (var. > sp) in the TN counties right above Laud., but nothing to help me confirm > or deny. > > > If anyone has any info, I'd like to hear from you. You can also email me > directly at ccddpetz@seark.net > > Thanks, Dawn > > > >