I saw these items in Beth's recent posting: <Davie, this is really coincidental. I was trying to find a cemetery east of Somerville that was listed in a FAyette Co., TN cemetery book, and we wound up at a cemetery called Rehobeth. In it was a name I had not remembered seeing before....it was Cloyd.> <I'm a firm believer that the root is going to be the well-known and famous Lewis family of NC & before that VA.......too many w/Lewis names.......In my gggrandmother's Lewis Howell Daniel family, the name was repeated over and over.....> My genealogical ears perked up when I saw these names. My father's middle name is Cloyd (Terry Cloyd Rodgers, son of Richard Champin Rodgers and Frances Eleanor Milam Rodgers, both of Drew County). I asked him about his middle name when I spoke to him the other night, since I know that middle names often connect to other family lines. I am particularly interested because I'm not having much luck with the Rodgers line. He said he had no idea where the name came from. Seeing this posting about the name has made me even more convinced that there's something to be learned here. Any ideas, anyone? Next, on the Lewis family. As far as I know, I have no Drew County Lewis connection, but I do have a Yell County Lewis connection. My mother was born Mary Kathryn Maxey. She is the daughter of EM Maxey and Lillie Mae Lewis Maxey, b. 1885 in Yell County. Lillie Mae's father was Joseph Warren Lewis, born around 1849 in Jones County, MS. His father was Ellie (or Elly) Lewis, born around 1825 in Jones County, MS. Ellie's parents were Howell Lewis, born around 1782 in Granville County, NC; and Nancy Copeland Lewis, born around 1791 probably also in NC. Howell and Nancy married around 1808 in Sumter District, SC. They are on the 1810 census for Claremont County (Old Sumter District), SC. They were in Covington County, MS by 1820 and then in Jones County, MS by 1830. I can trace Nancy Copeland's line back to 1590 in Northumberland, England, but I am completely stuck on who Howell Lewis' parents were. As was pointed out in the posting, this is a very common name. But if anyone has any leads, I'd sure love to have them. Thanks. Terry Kathryn (Rodgers) Wheeler twheeler@telemedtoday.com