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    1. Re: [BRANSON] Re: Rebekah Millar (Miller) of Lost River, WV
    2. anne b
    3. Lionel 2 is listed below Amos..of course, no explanation if Lionel 2 and Amos are brothers or father and son. According to the book...it looks like Sally would be the child of Lionel 2 and Rebecca 2...I looked up Branson McKay and he is now deceased but was born in 1935..wonder if some generations are missing in there or if like my family there are some age gaps and late marriages so there are less generations in a time span. My great great grandfather was born in 1790..great grandfather in 1832..grandfather in 1888..mother in 1917... > Anne, > > In Lionel's line below, is Lionel who m. Rebekah MILLAR the son of Amos? > Lionel Sr. was b. 1708 and his son Lionel (who m. Rebekah MILLAR) was b. > 1753. Amos was b. 1755. And the children below Lionel & Rebekah MILLAR > are the line of the last child Sarah "Sally"? > > At 11:00 PM -0600 5/6/05, BRANSON-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: >>X-Message: #1 >>Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 11:42:46 -0500 >>From: "anne b" <abeecee@netins.net> >>To: BRANSON-L@rootsweb.com >>Message-ID: <001601c5525a$a1e46000$f0da33d8@Bagby1> >>Subject: Fw: [BRANSON] RE: Rebekah Millar (Miller) of Lost River, WV >>Content-Type: text/plain; >> format=flowed; >> reply-type=original >>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >> >>I don't know but it would make sense that the Millar family would be in >>the same area that Lionel Branson was. >> >> >>Are we positive that the will we have seen for Lionel Branson is the elder >>Lionel and not the younger Lionel? Both had wives named Rebecca and >>supposedly both men died around the same time. >> >>The Branson book done by Wandlings lists Lionel's line as: >> >>Lionel married Rebecca Rogers >>Amos Branson >>Lionel married Rebekah Millar >>Sarah Branson married Eli Lehew >>Ann Elizabeth Lehew married Thomas Buck McKay >>Charles McKay married Etta Sowers >>Hunter McKay married Miriam Lake >>Branson McKay of Belmont, Mass. >> >>I don't have a clue how old the information is... >> >>anne >> >>>Is this the Miller (Millar) family of Rebakah Millar who married one of >>>the >>>(?) Lionel Bransons in the Lost River area? >>> >>>_http://www.wvculture.org/history/agrext/lostrivr.html_ >>>(http://www.wvculture.org/history/agrext/lostrivr.html) >>> >>>The Wardens who settled on the farm now owned by Wm. H. Warden were >>>Presbyterians; the Millers and Bakers (the latter family being the first >>>permanent >>>settlers at Baker) were Baptists. Anthony Miller, a Baptist, deeded one >>>acre of >>>land, probably about 1835, jointly to the Baptists and Presbyterians as >>>a >>>site for the first church in the Lost River Valley. The people of the >>>community >>>built the log church which is still standing and is now used by the >>>Union >>>Tanning Company for a store room. > > > -- > Yvonne Bowers (Looking for Liner BRANSON b. 1790 KY) > BRANSON Mailing List > BRANSON Most Wanted http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/branson.html > Thomas L. BRANSON/Elizabeth DAY Family File: > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/branson/WC_TOC.HTM > > > ==== BRANSON Mailing List ==== > The Ancestry BRANSON Message Board is located here: > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=surnames.BRANSON > >

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