Here is another bit of correspondence I sent to Nancy Guest regarding the Ballinger/Bond/Wade connections. Glenn Gohr ggohr01@mail.orion.org ---------- From: Glenn Gohr <ggohr01@mail.orion.org> To: jguest <jguest@alltel.net> Subject: Re: Ballenger/Ballinger Connections Date: Wednesday, October 07, 1998 6:56 AM Nancy, I'm glad you got in touch with Imogene Bennett. She lives right here in Springfield, MO where I do. Her husband has a double Wade connection & the Wade name continued down to his mother. Imogene is a great researcher & will only accept FACTS as proof--not hearsay. She believes with me that Elizabeth Bond was a Ballenger before marriage & she has seen all the family intermarriages of the Wades, Ballengers, Boatwrights, Bonds, and others. These families all seemed to have moved in groups from VA to Georgia & elsewhere. Imogene even showed me a map where Little Byrd Creek is and where all these people lived. They did live close. Another hint is a book called: GONE TO GEORGIA: JACKSON AND GWINNETT COUNTIES AND THEIR NEIGHBORS IN THE WESTERN MIGRATION, compiled by William C. Stewart. Washington, D.C.: National Genealogical Society, 1965. Have you seen this book? It covers various people in the GA Census records from these counties and then tries to document their place of origin and family relations. Most references go back into their Virginia roots. Page 256 has a listing for BALLINGER and mentions Joseph and Richard Ballinger living in Amherst Co., VA. Also mentions Joseph Ballinger, widower, marrying Tabitha Ballow/Ballew on April 3, 1782 in Amherst Co. Much more info. is given on other related Ballingers. There is also a listing for the Cash family and for the Bond family. There is much mention of Nathan and Richard Bond and their Rev. War service. It says that Richard Bond "was in the 1783 Amherst tax list, in the same militia company as the Ballingers, Charles Lavender and Bartlett Cash, families later represented in northeast Georgia." If you don't have the book, I can photocopy and send the info. regarding Ballinger, Bond, etc. William C. Stewart also has a similar book on Pendleton District, S.C. which gives similar family biographies, etc. I think our local library has that book also. I'll have to check & see if it has any Ballingers & related families. I also have Dodsons in my family and have a large 2-vol. book on the Dodson family that was done by Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr. who was the head of Southern Historical Press before he died. There are quite a few Dodsons who intermarried with Ballingers in that book. It is well-documented. I can also photocopy from that if you need the information. Let me know your mailing address, and I'll photocopy and mail whatever materials I have that may be helpful. Sincerely, Glenn Gohr ggohr01@mail.orion.org