If we are talking about the same John Belcher he was married three times. Wife #1: Rhoda Cooper m. July 9, 1815 Wife #2: Nancy Higginbotham Wife #3: Susan A. Hodges m. January 14, 1856 Laura On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 11:24:07 +0000 "Herman D. Belcher, Sr." <Hbelcher@prodigy.net> writes: > This is a letter I received months ago from a fellow Belcher > researcher.. > > From: Nancy DeVore Williams <williams@internettport.net> > To: "Herman D. Belcher Sr." <hbelcher@prodigy.net> > > Hi Herman, > You mention your John and Sullivan Belcher in Franklin Co, AL and > ask if they > help and quite frankly, I just don't know. > > MY John Belcher first appears in Jefferson County, AL with his first > land > purcahse abt 1822 (top of my head, but I think it's right!). He was > married > in 1815, but to my knowledge no one has figured our where yet. His > exact > marriage date and many birth and death dates come from a ledger that > you used > in astore that he owned. In it he recorded many of the dates of his > family. > > I have seen claims that he was married in Alabama in 1815, but I've > yet to see > any proof. Ive also seen claims that his eldest son was born in > 1817 > inTennessess, still no proof. > > A TON has been done on his descendants. Many of them spread (early) > to > Arkansas and then on to Texas. A few of them stayed in Jefferson > Co. (in and > around Birmingham) and were very prolific. What more can I say? > Please let > me know if I've left out something..... > > Sounds like she knows more about these Belchers than I do...and I am > from > there..hehe > Herman > > > Jane Belcher wrote: > > > Hi. I have a Nathaniel Belcher from the 1820 census in Ft. Gaines, > Ga. It > > was Early Co. then. What part of Alabama are you talking about. > Ft. Gaines > > is on the Chattahoochee River. Jane > > > > ---------- > > > From: Herman D. Belcher, Sr. <Hbelcher@prodigy.net> > > > To: BELCHER-L@rootsweb.com > > > Subject: Re: [BELCHER] Nathaniel C. Belcher > > > Date: Friday, November 12, 1999 12:13 AM > > > > > > Hiya Lea...I have it as Beverly Belcher and Francis ?? > .Children are > > Thomas > > > W...Alfred Buford ..John and William..no proof ,,,just a > hunch..due to > > location > > > and dates..How close is this to what you have?? > > > Herman > > > > > > > > > > > > GGBelcher@aol.com wrote: > > > > > > > Herman > > > > > > > > I have the DAR records of John Belcher b Dec 1 1822, his > father was > > > > Beverly Belcher also the father of my husbands Thomas Belcher. > Carol > > Belcher > > > > got all these records, it goes back to 1615 for sure > > > > > > > > Lea Belcher > > > > > > > > ==== BELCHER Mailing List ==== > > > > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > > > .........................BELCHER MAILING > LIST.......................... > > > > OUR ROOTSWEB SUPPORTER AND OUR BELCHER MAILING LIST OWNER AND > MODERATOR > > > > Glenn Belcher of Princeton, Mercer County, > WV.....commander@inetone.net > > > > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > > > > > > > > ==== BELCHER Mailing List ==== > > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > > ......................Belcher Mailing List..................... > > > The Belcher List is sponsored by the Rootsweb Genealogical Data > > > Cooperative. Rootsweb is funded entirely by you, the genealogy > > > community. To find out how you can help support internet gen- > > > ealogy through RootsWeb, go ahead and visit the following page: > > > .....http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html.... > > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > > > > > > ==== BELCHER Mailing List ==== > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > .......................Belcher Mailing List..................... > > Should multiple error messages or a message that your mailbox is > > full be returned to me; I will be prepared to unsub your address > > ..It is your duty to unsub if your mailbox is going to be full.. > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > > ==== BELCHER Mailing List ==== > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > .........................BELCHER MAILING > LIST.......................... > PLEASE DO NOT SEND ATTACHED FILES TO OUR LIST. MANY OLDER SYSTEMS > WILL > NOT PROCESS THEM. YOU'RE ENCOURAGED TO PRIVATELY EXCHANGE THEM OFF > LIST > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.