Pat, I worked with John Dwiggins quite a long time ago. He's a nice guy. Incidentally, the parents of Thomas CREWS, husb. to Mary____was determined to be Joseph CREWS and Massie JOHNS(T)ON. Hazel On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, MRS PATRICIA A RAY wrote: > Found this on the Worldwife Genealogical Message Board Archive, Ancestry > , Inc. It was posted 30 Nov 1995 by John Dwiggins <72713. > 2027#compuserve.com> and sent to Roots-L Genealogy List. I'm just > posting part of it. If anyone want all the post, let me know. > > "My line of descent, all in Davie County, NC is: > > John DWIGGINS (to the best my research indicates at this time) died 1815 > in Rowan Co, NC (the area that became Davie Co. > Daniel DWIGGINS (1779-1856) m. Ursula CREWS (1785-1867) > Ashley DWIGGINS (1805-1889) m. Mary HOLMAN (1802- ) > Daniel Holman DWIGGINS (1835-1916) m. Louisa E. VOSS (1837-1931) > John Henry DWIGGINS (1858-1943) m. Mattie SMOOT (1861-1910) > Rufus DWIGGINS (1900-1991) m. Pearl HENDREN (1910-1994) > John Charles DWIGGINS Sr. (1935-1994) m. Jerleen BASINGER (1937- ) > John Charles DWIGGINS Jr. (me) (1955- ) > > "There were apparently two Dwiggins families in North Carolina in the > late 1700s and early 1800s. One was John Dwiggins descendents that were > in Rowan/Davie/Forsyth counties and the other was Robert Dwiggins > descendents in Guilford County. Most of the Guilford set moved on to Tn > , Ind, OH and Ill in the early 1800's. The only male member of the > Davie set that I know of that left the state in the 1800s was John > Dwiggins>Robert > Dwiggins>Robert Dwiggins moved to Tennessee." > > Ursula (or Usley) CREWS was d/o Thomas & Mary CREWS of Stokes Co, NC. > The cemetery list that Bob posted yesterday seems to be of the Robert > DWIGGINS line mentioned about which is so intriguing because there are > also so many CREWS buried there. I'll list her family again: > > children of Thomas (b. c1753) & Mary CREWS (I have no parents for him) > 1. Ashley b. 1779 m. Catherine ___? > 2. Mary b. 1781 m. Solomon WARREN > 3. Ursula b. 1783 m. Daniel DWIGGINS > 4. Saley b. 1785 m. George JORDAN - Any relation, Bob? > 5. Constant b. 1787 m. Benj. WICKER > 6. Patsey b. 1789 m. ____ DWIGGINS - Who was he? > 7. Elizabeth b. 1 Jan 1790 m. Archelous DEAN > 8. Mildred b. 1791 m. Jesse FRY > 9. Thomas b. c1795 m. Sarah BAXTER > 10. Masey b. c1797 m. Jesse FRY > > I have a feeling that those two lines were related to each other. > Notice in Bobs' list that there is a Milly FRY d. 1821. That's Mildred > CREWS listed above. Looks like she was only 30 when she died, then > Jesse married her sister, Masey. Other family names JORDAN. Was that > George JORDAN listed above? Was another name Saley, or Sarah JORDAN. > Oh, he also listed a Martha DWIGGINS wife of Robert. That must be #6 > above, Patsey and she married Robert DWIGGINS? NOW WE KNOW! > This is fun! But I don't see any more links. Anyone else see anything? > Most of those listed are later generations, but it would be wonderful to > know how they tie in. > .................................. > I have a suggestion for all those doing postings here. As I've been > going back over older postings I find that those that capitalize the > last names are ever so much easier to read. I've decided to go back to > doing that myself and I'd like to urge the rest of you to do the same. > .................................. > from Tom Miller <[email protected]> > Parents of Madison BURDETTE who m. Indiana Limmer CREWS (15009) are: > Isham BURDETTE and Nancy SHUMATE > .................................. > > More later, Pat > >