In a message dated 1/19/2003 10:01:01 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > Descendants of Purnell C. Shockley > Generation No. 1 > 1. PURNELL C.1 SHOCKLEY was born June 22, 1850, and died August 16, 1923. > He married ROSA M HANCOCK. She was born 1852, and died 1933. To [email protected] - The abbreviated Subject line for Message #2 on my Mail list showed just Descendents of PURNELL. Would like to know if you or any of the Purnell followers might connect with my John BENNETT He doesn't seem to be in the much-referenced BENNETT book. Margaret Hastings Hendrix DE & MD ca.1750 - does anyone ever see an Obadiah HASTINGS (d.1820-30), or John BENNETT, same area & era . Obadiah Hastings' son James m. John Bennett's dau Alafare/Allifair. also DE & MD ca. 1750 - who were the parents of either Nancy WALSTON and of husb. Solomon COLLINS in 1824 Worc. Co., MD; dau Mary E. m. Wateman/Waitman HASTINGS, b. 1819, son of James.