James thanks if you stumble on any Poe records at cane creek especially as they pertain to Bray I would be obliged Patricia Caviness Perkins ----- Original Message ----- From: "james e. wall" <jewall@students.wisc.edu> To: <BRAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 6:18 PM Subject: [BRAY-L] Monthly Meeting Records > > The HINSHAW book of Quaker genealogy is about 2 miles from my apartment at > the Wis His Soc. I can go an look up anyone whose records are in doubt if > you identify the MM, the state and location, and the BRAY and allied family > names to look for. I have most of Cane Creek MM copied I believe > already. And a few stray pages here and there. > > And to answer Pat's open question: To the best of my knowledge Mahala > BRAY BROWNs letter might be the genesis of calling Henry BRAY's wife Marie > WILSON. But my record digging has not focused too explicitly on Henry & > Marie and others would know more about this particular couple than I would > claim to. I think Jerry BRYAN's observation that there were two distinct > Henry BRAYs being melded into one makes sense. Just because I was > reluctant to dismiss the age 113 claim, doesn't mean I was enamored of it > either. My GEDCOM agreed with Jerry BRYANs with the exception that I > deleted the generations prior to Edward BRAY the father of Henry m. Marie > WILSON & Edward m. Sarah MAYNARD because I couldn't make sense of what I > had. And I had deleted all dates for Henry as well. It was on my needs > verification to do list (longest list known to mankind). And after reading > Pat's report on William LEAKEY I have downgraded him to a footnote noting > the claim, and noting the lack of verification for it. I was not aware he > was suspect until I read Pat's posting here. Thanx Pat! > > james wall > > > ==== BRAY Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >