This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Glisson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5R.2ADI/918.1.3.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Hi: I read your message and see you have got your ancestry traced back all the way to Obediah Glisson while I still have a hole in our family tree--are you all still in Putnam, Alachua Counties, etc. now? I think the story of the people who came to Florida just before the Civil War just after the Indian Wars, who settled on the boundary line between Seminole land and U.S. land would be neat to learn. On the Glasson/Glisson side, I go back to my great great grandmother, Anne Glasson/Glossen/Glisson whose father was Hugh Glasson/Glisson and whose mother a "Mary." That is as far as I get for sure. I've been through all the Glisson lines on line, and also checked out Glasson (I found one John Glasson, located near the Georgia County where my great great grandmother Anne was married, but his Will listed all his children and Anne was not in the list; besides, we list her father as Hugh--so I assume that she might have been a more distant relative of John). Anne's listed apparently in the 1880 census as "Annie Whitehead" and as a "widow keeping house." (She married Richard Malone Whitehead, whom I can't trace back either; all we know is his mother was Sarah something; this is the line I'm getting more sure about though and I think his mother may have been Sarah Bodie making his father Nathan Whitehead, I guess, but Miss Bodie had apparently at least one other husband but not named Whitehead; there was also a John Malone in the area at the right time, but as his last name was not Whitehead, he should not have been the father--maybe a Godfather, but I think they were all Baptists). I tried the on-line search and found a bunch of Henry Glisson's but only one Hugh, with no list of Hugh's children, though he's at about the right date. So until I get more birth and marriage records and applications, that's as far as I can go! I assume we probably go back to Obediah, as I can find no records of any other Glisson or Glasson to immigrate to the U.S. Our own great great grandmother's name went through so many changes, because my father knew it as Glossen, but his relatives posted it as Glasson, and so on. Well, that's my confusing story. It would be great to get these mothers' names straightened, and also all this mixing up of second and third husbands and wives straightened. I can tell you that some people used both their first and second husbands' names together, and some people used maiden and married names together. Naming may have been a little freeer in some areas back in the old days of the country. The Glisson line is one worth researching, I think because they don't get researched; you can find out all about the great families, the ones with 100+ acre tract and 50-60 slaves, but nothing about folks with maybe 10 acres, a mule, and the Glasson I found in Georgia had eight slaves (I counted that number in the Will--this bothered me, but unless you were an absolute nothing, if you were a free man living in the South, I suppose you would try to have a few slaves or servants). There's also the odd and changing first names--like Marion in one of the early bunches--who is sometimes Meranora or Meranom. As far as American Indian names go, I do know that maybe some Glissons and Glassons shortened their names to Glass, and you can find this name enmasse among Black and White Indian tribe members. Plus you can find a few Glissons/Glassons among the Cherokee at least. Well, if you have an idea as to how to trace Hugh, wife Mary, daughter Anne/Ann/Annie back further, let me know.