DEAR ED: > I'm a Stembridge descendant, my mother Lillian Stembridge being born and raised in GA. I have BREEDLOVE relatives, but not my direct line; however, I am very interested in making contacting with any BREEDLOVEs who may be related. So far, I have not found any on this list who are, but will ask you if you may know where mine might fit in to any in your book --- or (posting this also on the BREEDLOVE LIST), if anyone else finds the below names familiar, I would love to hear from you. > My connection is: >FRANK BREEDLOVE of Coffee Co.GA I believe m. ANNIE VERNELIA STEMBRIDGE (she is sister to my BENJAMIN 'FRANK'LIN STEMBRIDGE, my grandfather). >Frank Breedlove & wife Annie res. in BIBB CO. (MACON) GA on the 1900 Census. >They had a daughter Laura I believe. >(I have this Stembridge line back to 1600s from England). > If anyone knows what BREEDLOVE line the above FRANK BREEDLOVE may descend from, I'd love to hear from you. > Ed, just wondering if Frank Breedlove might be in your book?? > RE: BROADDUS: ED, did you know of ALICE BUSSEY BROADDUS of TX, who was an avid genealogist until her death 18 months ago??? I'm sure she would have been very interested in your book. She had said for years she was going to put all her info into a book someday, but unfortunately she died unexpectedly without ever doing so, as far as I am aware. Believe she left her massive research at the Clayton Library in Houston, TX, if anyone is interested in it. I know it contained alot of MY BUSSEY INFO, which was also her line; but I imagine she would have done alot of BROADDUS research as well (assuming that wd be her husband's line). > Look forward to hearing from you......thank you. > *TINA/CA* tina@tcsn.net

DEAR ED: I'm a Stembridge descendant, my mother Lillian Stembridge being born and raised in GA. I have BREEDLOVE relatives, but not my direct line; however, I am very interested in making contacting with any BREEDLOVEs who may be related. So far, I have not found any on this list who are, but will ask you if you may know where mine might fit in to any in your book --- or (posting this also on the BREEDLOVE LIST), if anyone else finds the below names familiar, I would love to hear from you. My connection is: FRANK BREEDLOVE of Coffee Co.GA I believe m. ANNIE VERNELIA STEMBRIDGE (she is sister to my BENJAMIN 'FRANK'LIN STEMBRIDGE, my grandfather). Frank Breedlove & wife Annie res. in BIBB CO. (MACON) GA on the 1900 Census. They had a daughter Laura I believe. (I have this Stembridge line back to 1600s from England). If anyone knows what BREEDLOVE line the above FRANK BREEDLOVE may descend from, I'd love to hear from you. Ed, just wondering if Frank Breedlove might be in your book?? RE: BROADDUS: ED, did you know of ALICE BUSSEY BROADDUS of TX, who was an avid genealogist until her death 18 months ago??? I'm sure she would have been very interested in your book. She had said for years she was going to put all her info into a book someday, but unfortunately she died unexpectedly without ever doing so, as far as I am aware. Believe she left her massive research at the Clayton Library in Houston, TX, if anyone is interested in it. I know it contained alot of MY BUSSEY INFO, which was also her line; but I imagine she would have done alot of BROADDUS research as well (assuming that wd be her husband's line). Look forward to hearing from you......thank you. *TINA/CA* tina@tcsn.net

A note from another Tom. --[ FORWARDED PRIVATE MESSAGE ]-------- To: VSVE92A From: TBreedlove@aol.com Subject: THOMAS MONROE BREEDLOVE Date: 06/23/99 10:24 PM Hello, Does anyone have a connection here? Thomas Monroe Breedlove born January 1832 in Jackson County, Indiana. Died October 6, 1901 in Brown County, Indiana. He was a Civil War veteran and served in the Company "I" of the 120th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was married on October 8, 1856 to Elizabeth Graham. Elizabeth was the daughter of Green Graham and Margaret Petro. Elizabeth was born May 8, 1842 and died February 18, 1922. Both Thomas and Elizabeth are buried in Greenlawn Cemetary in Nashville, Indiana. This marriage produced thirteen children: 1) John William Breedlove (1858-1928) married (1) Mary E. Boruff (2) Laura Jane Stormont. 2) Felix Preston Breedlove (1860-1951) married Malinda Kent. 3) Thomas Monroe Breedlove II (1862-1936) married Mary America Stidd. 4) Charles Francis Breedlove (1864-1924) married Sarah E. Hatchett. 5) Jacob Sherman Breedlove (1867-1931) married Nancy E. Beach. 6) Ulysses Grant Breedlove (1869-1919) married Elizabeth Campbell. 7) Susan Ann (or Alice) Breedlove (1871-1946) married a man named "Daller". 8) Albert Elbert Breedlove (1873-1936) never married. 9) Lewis Edward Breedlove (1875-1892) never married. 10) Mary Zella (or Etta) Breedlove (1877-1901) married Virgil Curtis Clark. 11) Oliver Ervin Breedlove (1878-1931) married Lula (Petro) Couch. 12) Ida May Breedlove (1876 or 1879-1940) married Basil Glenn Wampler. 13) Columbia B. Breedlove (1879-1883) married Walter Alvin Rariden. If anyone has a connection out of this line or any leads for Thomas Monroe Senior's parents please let me know. Thanks, Tom Breedlove (TBreedlove@aol.com)

Tom-thanks for sending the message re the Broadus book. Ed would probably have sent an announcement but I did appreciate it. My $25 check is already in the mail. I sold most of my genealogy books--but I still buy and save family name books. Will look foward to it. Ellen, dande@mail.tds.net

MR THOMAS S JONES wrote: > Ed wrote a book! > I promised to let you know when I completed my book on descendants of > Edward Broaddus (grandfather of Sarah Broaddus, who married Thomas Breedlove). > It contains more than 11,500 names, including 7712 direct descendants of Edward. The others are spouses of descendants or parents of these spouses. The book has 368 pages, including 314 of text and 50 index pages (this is a full name index). There are 1106 persons with the Broaddus/Broadus name and 317 Breedloves. He must have left out quite a few of Thomas & Sarah Broaddus Breedlove's descendants. I show 3630 diect descendants for them, 1000 plus bearing the Breedlove surname. Tom King

Ed wrote a book! Tom --[ FORWARDED PRIVATE MESSAGE ]-------- To: VSVE92A From: "Edwin Broadus" <ebroadus@freenet.npiec.on.ca> Subject: BROADDUS/BROADUS GENEALOGY Date: 06/21/99 09:48 PM Tom, I promised to let you know when I completed my book on descendants of Edward Broaddus (grandfather of Sarah Broaddus, who married Thomas Breedlove). Well, I've now completed it and have copies available to interested persons. It contains more than 11,500 names, including 7712 direct descendants of Edward. The others are spouses of descendants or parents of these spouses. The book has 368 pages, including 314 of text and 50 index pages (this is a full name index). There are 1106 persons with the Broaddus/Broadus name and 317 Breedloves. The book is in a soft cover. The price is $25.00, including postage and handling. Personal checks or money orders are acceptable. My address is Ed Broadus, 303-4209 Hixon Street, Beamsville, Ontario, Canada L0R 1B7.

Thanks for the identifications, Tom - I strongly suspected you would be able to tell us who they were!! I don't know if the actual digital documents have more about the individual or not but if someone is looking for one of those people, I would suggest they check the web site out. I tried to download the images but couldn't. Thanks again, Linda

Linda Banwarth wrote: > The list of Breedlove names found in the index of this section are: > William Watkins Breedlove, farmer, b Danville 1823, d Clover, Halifax Co 7 Mar 1901 This one is the son of Nathaniel Breedlove and Polly Watkins. The 1900 census gives his birth as Feb 1810. He married Louisa Hamner. > Maj. Napolean B. Breedlove Son of James Waller Breedlove and Maria Eliza Winchester, married Emily Walker Wilson. 11 Aug 1825 - 9 Nov 1911. > Dr. J. W. Breedlove Napolean's brother James Winchester, surgeon in 20th LA Inf, general practitioner in Ft. Smith, AR. 27 Jul 1827 - 16 Aug 1906. > Charles R. Breedlove, b Danville April 3, 1833 Charles Richard, son of Pleasant Ellis Breedlove and Hannah Crump, married Mary Ann Eddins. He died 9 Jan 1900 in Colorado City, TX. Tombstone has birth of 3 Apr 1831. Tom

Fellows Breedlovers, I found the following names on the VA State Library digital collection website. For some reason, when I tried to acquire the digital images, however, I could not get them (I usually do not have a problem). Perhaps some of you would be more successful. Tom King may well be able to identify these Breedloves. All of these names are in the S. Bassett French Biographical Sketches in the Genealogy section of the digital collection, which can be found at: http://image.vtls.com/ The list of Breedlove names found in the index of this section are: William Watkins Breedlove, farmer, b Danville 1823, d Clover, Halifax Co 7 Mar 1901 Maj. Napolean B. Breedlove Dr. J. W. Breedlove Charles R. Breedlove, b Danville April 3, 1833 Best to all, Linda

Hello Gang, This is a brief note to catch you up on recent developments at RootsWeb as they pertain to our surname: RootsWeb has created what they call a "resource cluster" for the Breedlove surname which is a central website which contains links to GenConnect boards, search engines, plus an e-mail gateway to the subscription address for this mailing list (well, since you're already subscribed, you don't need to worry about that one!). I asked for the GenConnect Breedlove query board to be created several months ago and act as the coordinator for that page (I'll tell you where to find it in a minute!). This month, to inaugurate their new resource clusters, RootsWeb created an additional slate of GenConnect Breedlove boards in the following categories: Bible Records, Biographies, Deeds, Obituaries, Pensions, and Wills. Additionally on the resource page is a guestbook (!), a calendar (presumably to schedule reunions and such?), and a place for links to personal Breedlove pages on RootsWeb. This is all pretty dizzying and the possibilities for information exchange are endless! I've put in a request to RootsWeb to "adopt" the resource cluster page. Visit the page at http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/b/r/BREEDLOVE/ and try not to get lost. There seems to be several search engines and databases to choose from. Keep in mind that all of the GenConnect boards operate using different rules. Some, such as the query board, are wide open for posts to be made, but posts to others can only be made through an intermediary, such as me. I'm still learning about all this, too. Also, my personal Breedlove page contains several links to resources elsewhere on the internet plus links personal web pages of other Breedlove researchers. This one is at http://pages.prodigy.com/VSVE92A/breemail.html OK that note wasn't so brief.... Your Humble Servant, Tom

Linda, I was not looking for Loyalists in this country. I was looking for soldiers who lived in the Yorkshire/Lincolnshire area of England and fought for their country in our Revolution. It still might be interesting to see if any Breedloves are on the list you were talking about. Martha

Martha wrote: > Someone > told me there were Breedloves who fought for England in the Revolutionary > War. I just have to find out how to get the names of the British soldiers in > that war. > Martha - I will see what I can dig up at Godfrey next week when I am in - I think we have several books on Loyalists that fought for England. In my home library I have DeMond's THE LOYALISTS IN NC DURING THE REVOLUTION - the appendices are not indexed and most of them are lists of regiments, etc. I did not see any Breedloves mentioned in that work but I may have missed them. If I find anything at Godfrey, will let everyone know. Someone else on the list asked about ship passenger lists - I have searched through thousands of names on those lists and have never run across the name Breedlove in any of the years prior to 1750. Not one. Odd. Linda

Hello Merle and Everyone I decided to put my entire SCOGGINS Family Tree online. I have added the Descendents fo William McLaren (McLaurin) to the Tree. I also have featured a link to Clan McLaurin. There are other SURNAMES in the tree some of you will be interested in BREEDLOVE/BARTLETT/DOWDEN/HARPER/HAMPTON/MCLAREN/SANDLIN/SANDLAND/SUDDARTH/W EATHERRED. So I decided to post my web page URL to the SANDLIN-L mailing list. My SCOGGINS Genealogy Web Page is http://www.quarked.com/genealogy/genealogy.htm The Steve Scoggins Home Web Page is http://www.quarked.com which was created using Microsoft FrontPage2000. I exported my Family Tree to a GEDCOM file then used GED2HTML to convert it to web pages. GED2HTML Web Page http://www.gendex.com/ged2html Steve Scoggins

Hi All: Does anyone know how I can get in contact with Martha Kahn via the internet? I have mosplaced her E-mail address. Thanks in advance Dottie Avery

Marc, It is my belief at this point that the Breedloves came from the Yorkshire area of England. This is not the usual place of origin for people emigrating to Virginia, but Captain John Smith came from this area. There is a family named Broadlove with the same given names used be the early Breedloves in Lincolnshire in 1730. I have ordered some parish records from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. I want to search these records for further clues, but I do believe these are the ancestors of Charles. Someone told me there were Breedloves who fought for England in the Revolutionary War. I just have to find out how to get the names of the British soldiers in that war. Martha Breedlove Kahn (Los Altos Hills, CA)

By way of legend......Does anyone know the features of Charles Breedlove? Such as hair, eye color or even skin tones. Suzie

Dear Cousin, Suzie just posted the message below. I don't recall when she posted it the first time, but perhaps what people questioned was the "grandfather" bit. Since Charles Breedlove [apparently the "father" of the American Breedloves], was an adult when he appeared in the Essex records in 1708, so born before 1687, your Civil War soldier would have been at least his 3rd great grandson. I think many of the Breedlove families thought the name might be Welch. We may never figure out for sure, where the name came from. Marilyn [from Suzie] This was from something I found on J. Wesley Breedlove, in Arkansas, in the rootsweb archives, it says: >>>snip<<.............During the late war he enlisted under Gen. Price in the Confederate service, but owing to being accidentally wounded in the hand in 1863, he was compelled to give up soldiering for a time. His grandfather came from Wales and settled in Virginia, where the father of Clay B. was born.......... >snip<

SususuzeeQ@aol.com wrote: > Now the above was amazing to me - when I posted a finding a few months back, that I had found, and received mail to me and to the list in general denying that it could be a possibility, and someone even said that the information was incorrect. > I did not supply the information, it came from an article written for the Benton County Arkansas Biograhies. This was from something I found on J. Wesley Breedlove, in Arkansas, ........... His grandfather came > from Wales and settled in Virginia, where the father of Clay B. was born.......... I say again that the information given in Goodspeed's is WRONG! John Wesley Breedlove was the son of Clay Breedlove and Amelia Reid. Clay was the son of Henry Breedlove and Martha Rimmer. That means John Wesley's grandfather was Henry Breedlove who was born about 1806 in Virgina, from the 1850-1870 censuses. The grandfather of John Wesley and the father of Clay are the same person, i.e. Henry Breedlove. Henry could not have come from Wales and be born in Virginia at the same time, therefore this line in the article is wrong. Tom King

Dear Cousins, I copied these entries from our Breedlove site, last year. Marilyn The Historical Research Center FAMILY NAME HISTORY BREEDLOVE The English surname Breedlove is classified as being a habitation name. Habitation names are those family names which are derived from either the location of the place of residence of the initial bearer or from the name of the town or willage from whence he hailed. In some instances, a habitation names refers to a residence which was distinguished by a sign or engraving usually displayed over the door. In this instance, the surname Breedlove originally referred to a person who lived by a large hill. The etymology of this name lies in the combination of the old English terms, "brad" and "hlaw" meaning broad hill. This surname may also be derived from one of the two place names called Brodley, located in Lancashire and Essex. Variants of the surname Breedlove include Broadlove and Broadley. One of the earliest references to this name or to a variant is a record of one Samuel Breedlove, son of James Breedlove and his wife, Ann, who was baptized on the 25th of July, 1731 in Scopwick (Lincoln). However research is of course ongoing and this name may have been documented even earlier than the date indicated above. The modern spelling of most English surnames is comparatively recent and is usually a phonetic rendering of the name which is found in parish registers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However, it should be noted that the name itself, in its various orthographic forms, may have been borne by the same family for a previous three or four hundred years. Notable bearers of this surname include John Breedlove of the Virginia Line, who fought in the American Revolutionary War. A military record also mentions his brother, Martin Breedlove, who was aged 62 in 1833. BLAZON OF ARMS: Argent, on a chevron gules, a two eagle's heads erased in chief of the last and an anchor in base azure, three bezants all within a bordure of the third. CREST: A stag's head erased proper. MOTTO: Non immemor beneficii/ ORIGIN: England Resent-Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 09:09:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 12:05:18 -0400 From: Thomas Jones <JonesT@dhmh.state.md.us> Old-To: BREEDLOVE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: origins Encoding: 15 Text Resent-Message-ID: <"zDcEz.A.jKG.a8lm1"@fp-1.rootsweb.com> To: BREEDLOVE-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: BREEDLOVE-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <BREEDLOVE-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/481 X-Loop: BREEDLOVE-L@rootsweb.com Resent-Sender: BREEDLOVE-L-request@rootsweb.com Marilyn, - I had an old correspondent (I think it was either David Rudge or Erich Mehnert) tell me once that he thought Breedlove was a variation of "Breedlaugh" which is a surname found in the Lake District of England. - Olive Breedlove Smith (I think) said in her writings that she couldn't find a country of origin for the surname. I think there's been a short discussion on the mailing list, but I don't think anything conclusive is known about it's origin. Tom - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Jones (410) 767-6996 Director, DNR-PPRP Radioecology Laboratory Rm 6C7, 201 West Preston, Baltimore MD 21201 Resent-Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 12:50:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 15:49:39 -0400 From: TOM JONES <JONESTOM@VERSAR.COM> Old-To: breedlove-l@rootsweb.com Subject: Breedlove root Old-Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Resent-Message-ID: <"9HW3YC.A.avC.xFUm1"@fp-1.rootsweb.com> To: BREEDLOVE-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: BREEDLOVE-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <BREEDLOVE-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/475 X-Loop: BREEDLOVE-L@rootsweb.com Resent-Sender: BREEDLOVE-L-request@rootsweb.com I yanked this off the Broken Arrow Publishing website: ---------------- BREEDLOVE may be a combination of the Old English "brad" = broad, wide + AngloNormanFrench "louve" = she-wolf. The term "louve" was widely used as a flattering nickname for a brave man or warrior, in the context of the fierceness of the she-wolf in protecting her young. Breedlove in that sense would be an English nickname describing the warrior of broad stature. --------------- Tom

DADE DADE wrote: > This "Persecution" seems to be a problem with most of the Breedlove lines. Only the lines I haven't connected, yet. In the 12,000 I have connected, there were a lot of illiterate folks, but most were hard working farmers, with many soldiers, a few sheriffs, justice of the peace, doctors, judges and even an ambassador. I haven't found any that gave lawyer or attorney as their occupation on a census. Regarding my previous message about persecution, my own research of those times has centered on the Huguenots. Since one derivation of the BREEDLOVE name is from France, meaning a trapper of wolves, I tried looking at possible emigrants from France who came to England to avoid persecution and then later came to Virgina. There are some possibilities in those names but my ability to read French is much worse than my German, so I haven't made much progress. It is an area that needs further research. Tom King