But it gets much much more confusing: It seems that those two Mauldin sisters who married Chris Sr. had a sister. Her name was Kizziah. She married John Galloway. Judy Ballard sent me this tidbit just before I got the list up. I've been trying to sort out how that makes everyone related, considering I have so many Galloway and Whitmire connections in my DNA. It just makes my head hurt everytime I get into it. Needless to say, the relationship calculator that came with my genealogy software is useless at this point. If we can ever figure out if and how William and John are related we will really have a mess. Shawna Hall wrote: > I may have found the answer to my question. This is from a small > article on the history of the Whitmire family in the Transylvania Co. > Heritage Book > Christopher Columbus Whitmire, Sr. (1774-1842) married Betty Mauldin > and had 2 children. Then married her widowed sister Mouldin Lyon, they > had 10 children. Third wife was Elizabeth Galloway who had 9 children. > He had 21 children! (guess he couldn't read <G>) > Christopher Columbus, Jr. First wife, Jane Galloway, 6 children. 2nd > wife, Martha Ann Driman, no children. > > Does anyone have anything different or does this sound right? > > ==== GALLOWAY Mailing List ==== > Need mailing list help? > lraxter@citcom.net -- Linda Hoxit Raxter lraxter@citcom.net See Indexed Western North Carolina Cemetery Surveys http://www.geocities.com/~alextreehouse related to at least half the county - at least once ; )