Can anyone help on this line? >Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 15:26:03 -0400 (EDT) >X-Sender: jahno@pop.pipeline.com >Mime-Version: 1.0 >To: wcr@netunlimited.net >From: john culley <jahno@pipeline.com> >Subject: Cosby > >Checking to see if your newsletter might help gather information on the >Cosby family that lived in and near Louisa Co., VA in the 1700's. Part of >the family later moved to Wilkes Co., GA about 1790. > >I am especially interested in one Hickerson Cosby (Hickinson, Higgerson, >etc.) who may have been the son of Ann Cosby and Griffeth Dickinson. Oral >tradition has it that his full name was Hickerson Cosby Dickinson but >shortly after he was born, his mother died and he was taken by his uncle, >John Cosby, to raise. He became known by his first two names and supposedly >joined the army and married using the shortened name. No one knows if this >is true. > >This surname traces back to Francis Cosby of Stradbally, Ireland. > >Does the newsletter consider this particular Cosby line? > >Thanks, > >john Culley > >jahno@pipeline.com > Wanda Rabb (researching Rabb (NC/SC), (Gantt (NC), Nix, Robertson, Wilson, Conner (Rutherford Co.NC), Laws(Yancey,Rutherford Co., NC), Edwards (Yancey Co, NC), Causby and Patton (Burke/McDowell Co., NC) Paxton (Union Co, NC > Lancaster, SC), Farris and Morris (York Co., SC) Lovelace, Hamrick, Green and McSwain (Cleveland Co NC) Listowner for CAUSBY, RABB, PAXTON and FARRIS Family Mailing LIsts Homepage: http://www.netunlimited.net/~wcr