Thanks, TK! I did not know in which cemetery to start "digging up bones". I'll keep you posted on what I find out. davie -----Original Message----- From: twheeler@telemedtoday.com <twheeler@telemedtoday.com> To: ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com <ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 9:09 AM Subject: [ARDREW-L] CLOYD, LEWIS - EUREKA! >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 > > >