Jefferson Co. Ga. Wills THOMAS DRAKE of Warren Co., 3/1/1794:4/30/1808, p. 69 300 acres on Rocky Comfort and one tract on Ohoopee to be disposed of by my exrs to pay for education of my 4 children. Sons: Francis, Early Drake, Lemuel. Dau: Theney. Exrs: Friends, Tandy Clark Key and Daniel Evans and wife, Sarah Drake. Wits: James Bibison, John Fore, Priscilla Fore. _____________________ ISHAM EVANS 2/9/1842:1/14/1850, p. 317-318 Wife: Elizabeth. Sons: John, Ladson (when 21). Youngest ch not named. Wits: David Roberson, Francis B. Mountain, J. W. M. Berrien. _____________ ALEXANDER JOHNSTON, 3/12/1805:7/17/1805, p. 67 Wife: Leannah, extrx w/Zachariah Spires, Wm Evans. Sons: Samuel, James. All my ch. Wits: Cornelius Johnston, Sarah Webb. ____________________

Dawn, This is one of the deeds, wills and names you have to watch. This KEY is not from the family of the same name from Fluvanna County, VA or Edgefield County, SC, according to KEY researchers, but KEA. This family confused me too for a while and I guess they confused everybody else, because they seem to have changed their name to KEY at the earliest opportunity. <grin> Warren KEA, Jr.(1813-1862) married Eliza Ann DRAKE and Frances Delilah FLANDERS, d/o John R. FLANDERS, Sr. and Nancy SUMNER. Warren, Jr. was the son of Rev. Warren KEA, Sr. (1783-1843) and Mary Ann Nancy BEASLEY, d/o James BEASLEY and Ann TAYLOR. Ann was the daughter of a Travis PATE and an Annie. I am not going to touch that one. <grin> Warren, Sr., as they say, was a son of James KEA of Ireland, latter Orangeburg, SC and an Elizabeth BARNES, d/o James. The BEASLEYS were from Warren County, NC and before that, Chowan. These KEYS were around my DANIEL bunch and they married into many of the same families as the DANIELS. There is a Bryan BEASLEY, floating around these BEASLEYS, that I would love to know something more about. However, there are a couple of given names in this KEA/KEY family that make me question some of this KEA information. One is the Tandy given name, another is a Burrell given names and another is the Warren given name, plus their connection to the BARNES and FLANDERS family. I really do not see an Orangeburg, SC return address for this family because these given names tell me,eastern NC, because the BARNES were from the Edgecombe area, the FLANDERS were from Northampton County, NC and just about every family in this area of GA came from eastern North Carolina. These eastern central Georgia families may have been VA folks at one time but most of the direct VA to GA families settled a little further north than Burke, Jefferson, Washington and Emanuel County, GA. Most of these VA folks moved into the Washington, Oglethorpe and Greene County, GA areas John R. Clarke Thomasville, GA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dawn Williams" <dawnwilliams@bellsouth.net> To: <GAJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 8:49 PM Subject: [GAJEFFER] Evans > Jefferson Co. Ga. Wills > > THOMAS DRAKE of Warren Co., 3/1/1794:4/30/1808, p. 69 > > 300 acres on Rocky Comfort and one tract on Ohoopee to be disposed of by > my exrs to pay for > > education of my 4 children. Sons: Francis, Early Drake, Lemuel. Dau: > Theney. Exrs: Friends, > > Tandy Clark Key and Daniel Evans and wife, Sarah Drake. Wits: James > Bibison, John Fore, > > Priscilla Fore. > > _____________________ > > ISHAM EVANS 2/9/1842:1/14/1850, p. 317-318 > > Wife: Elizabeth. Sons: John, Ladson (when 21). Youngest ch not named. > Wits: David Roberson, > > Francis B. Mountain, J. W. M. Berrien. > > _____________ > > ALEXANDER JOHNSTON, 3/12/1805:7/17/1805, p. 67 > > Wife: Leannah, extrx w/Zachariah Spires, Wm Evans. Sons: Samuel, James. > All my ch. Wits: > > Cornelius Johnston, Sarah Webb. > > ____________________ > > > > > ==== GAJEFFER Mailing List ==== > If you wish to unsubscribe from the GAJEFFER mailing list, use > GAJEFFER-l-request@rootsweb.com or GAJEFFER-d-request@rootsweb.com if you > are on the Digest list. > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >