In a message dated 1/6/2003 6:01:18 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: (#5 > > Am still hoping someone can help me find the death date of my > grandfather--John W. Gordy. The time frame would be 1895-1905. He was a > farmer in Sussex Co. in the Laurel-Seaford area - > > Lots of Gordys in early 1800s same area. Margaret Hastings Hendrix DE & MD ca.1750 - Obadiah HASTINGS (d.1820-30) and 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 Nancy WALSTON who m. Solomon COLLINS in 1824 Worc. Co., MD; Dau Mary E. m. Wateman/Waitman HASTINGS. and my husband's and kids' family - (W)VA, IL, MO - John CAMPBELL - m1. Cynthia FUQUA ca. 1822 - 5 ch; m2. Emily FORD - 7 ch. Ch b.(W)VA, IL, & MO. Oldest of the 12, Edward CARRINGTON CAMPBELL, was fa of Mary Minnette Campbell TOMLINSON of Hannibal, MO. ********* Is CARRINGTON A FAMILY NAME IN THEIR ANCESTRY? ********** (John was NOT a bro. of Alexander Campbell, founder of Disciples. of Chr. Ch. - that seems to be a figment of orphaned Minnette's imagination. (I spent years researching Disciples of Christ Church Campbells, to no avail.)