Hello Cousins, I don't normally reply to the list, but in this case, I feel I should make an exception considering that the "Mormon Breedloves" referred to are my line and the Charles Breedlove that related the information regarding the early religious beliefs of my line is my father. I'm not so sure about the "out of wedlock" part, Mr. King's explanation of dates makes sense, but my grandfather, Charles Ernest Breedlove, had always said that our early ancestors were of the Mormon faith and that they only "converted" in the late 1800's and early 1900's, usually taking the faith of the spouse. Also, so as not to confuse him with the LA Jordon Breedlove, my greatgrandfather's name was spelled JURDON. He was Jurdon "Jerd" Pinkerton Breedlove b. 12 May 1881, d. 8 Feb 1959 (bur. @ Glen Alice Cemetery in Rockwood, TN), mar. 5 Apr 1903 to Clara "Clare" Sills b. 15 Nov 1889, d. 25 Apr, 1939. "Jerd"'s father was Jasper Breedlove b. 15 Apr 1856 in TN, d. 28 Apr 1902 in Dade Co. GA, mar. 22 Sep 1877 in Dade Co., GA, to Sarah Elizabeth Avans b. 25 Apr 1859 in TN, d. 12 Aug 1923 in Hamilton Co., TN. There is still some questions as to who was actually Jerd's father, but we're working on it. My grandfather also said that our line of Breedloves had originally come from Portugal (which will probably really put a snag in some of the theories I have read regarding the SC Breedloves). To me, it makes sense, considering that the Spanish and Portugese were making their presence known in the area around SC at about the same time the English were making their settlements further north. I have not had time to do the research to prove the "family tale", but would love to hear from anyone who may have leads to prove any part of the story is true. We all know that there is some truth in every tale, you just have to know where to look and who to ask. I think this may be a good place to start, with as many Breedloves as I've seen listed in this group. Good luck to all in their searches. Cindy Breedlove Dicken JACKYLSALOONGAL@webtv.net (DADE DADE) on 11/29/98 09:58:04 PM To: BREEDLOVE-L@rootsweb.com cc: (bcc: Cynthia Dicken/AMS/AMSINC) Subject: [BREEDLOVE-L] Re: Mormon Breedloves --WebTV-Mail-1288389547-2152 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit They come from South Carolina. Just passing down info., Thats what its all about, I don't think they would have any reason to lie about religion. As far as I know my Jordon Breedlove was never in LA. Nor was he in the west, Our Breedlove's lived in TN and GA. Suzie Breedlove --WebTV-Mail-1288389547-2152 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from mailsorter-102.bryant.webtv.net (207.79.35.92) by postoffice-132.iap.bryant.webtv.net; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 19:48:49 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: <tomking@freewwweb.com> Received: from mx2.freewwweb.com (mx2.freewwweb.com [205.181.80.249]) by mailsorter-102.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8/ms.graham.14Aug97) with ESMTP id TAA11656; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 19:48:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from freewwweb.com (ppp-29.max-1.hou.smartworld.net [12.14.108.77]) by mx2.freewwweb.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA40545721 for <JACKYLSALOONGAL@webtv.net>; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 22:50:48 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <366215A4.238472E7@freewwweb.com> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 21:48:52 -0600 From: tomking <tomking@freewwweb.com> Reply-To: tomking@freewwweb.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: DADE DADE <JACKYLSALOONGAL@webtv.net> Subject: Mormon Breedloves References: <20118-3661FD81-224@mailtod-132.iap.bryant.webtv.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit DADE DADE wrote: > My uncle ,Charles Breedlove told me on Thanksgiving day , his Granfather Jordon (jerd) > Pinkerton Breedlove b.May, 1882 , said thier > Breedlove ancestors were of the Mormon faith. > Would this explain the children born out of wed-lock? Not at all. Even if you have definite proof of a marriage date that falls after the date of birth of a child that only means the parents solemnized their vows officially later. It could be that they were travelling and were married by some itinerant minister who never recorded the marriages anywhere, or it could be an informal marriage where there were no preachers available and they decided to be married in the eyes of themselves and their travelling companions or neighbors. We had a full page story in todays newspaper about a woman whose 1st husband went off to fight in the Texas revolution and never came back so she took up with another soldier, bore him children and lived as his wife for seven years before he died. There was a long court battle over his property as they were never officially married. This became the basis for the Common Law Marriage statutes here in Texas. This is this first time I have heard of Breedlove's that were Mormon. I would rather doubt it as Louisiana never had any Mormon settlements or gatherings there. Perhaps these Breedlove's moved out West and became Mormon out there. Tom --WebTV-Mail-1288389547-2152--