The message repeated below was gatewayed to the Aiken County, South Carolina, e-mail list at rootsweb.com. I am posting my response back to what I hope is the original sender and the Aiken, Barnwell, and Edgefield, South Carolina, and Richmond County, Georgia, e-mail lists all to which I subscribe because the query mentions all of these areas. Owens is definitely an old Barnwell District(names changed from districts to counties after 1865)South Carolina, surname. The Owens along with a lot of other families lived in that area of Barnwell County that was taken over by the Atomic Energy Commission and its successors in the early 1950's for the Savannah River Project. On old maps this is the Upper Three Runs area. There are a number of people on these lists who are researching families from this area. I am finding more and more, after 38 years of research, that there was a lot of migration about and within these areas and over to Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, and into other surrounding counties. Cousins and neighbors married each other back and forth like "crazy." Several people of one family would marry several people from another family making lots od double cousins down the line, etc. I have a double Toole line in the Barnwell SRP area and some of the Tooles married Owens. Keziah(various spellings Kisanna/h etc.)Toole b. 1832 married George McDonald (G.M.)Owen/s b.c. 1833 sometime prior to 1863 when George McDonald Owen/s was the administrator on the estate of her father, Stephen Toole, Sr. You can find this family on the 1870 and 1800 Barnwell Census. She was a whole sister to my double ancestor, Richard I. Manning A Toole who married Mary D. Green shortly after 1850 census. The Greens are still a "stonewall." My double ancestor was called "Manning" and referred to in records as R.I.M. Toole. Richard I. Manning was an early S. C. Governor I later found out. The initial "I" threw me for years because it often looked like or was written like a "J." I have some children for George McDonald Owens and Keziah Toole entered into my genealogy computer program, but nothing else on him. I probably have other information buried in my paper files which might take me days and weeks to find. You can find G. M. and Keziah Toole Owens on the 1870 and 1800 Barnwell census. Please let me know if you or anyone reading this on the lists finds proof of any other Tooles/Owen mariages or any Toole connections that I might not have found. I get the impression from reading the original posting that the researcher is relatively new to research in this area and noter very far back on her lines in this area. I am suggesting some good research sources for you to check for information on these area families, of course, other thatn the standard courthouse searches. One is the Manning Papers at the U. of S. C. in Columbia, The Caroliniana (sp?) Library. The other is the published cemetery surveys of Aiken County and the moved cemeteries that were published by the archeaology (sp?) teams for the SRP. You can buy the Aiken County Cem. Books from the Aiken-Barnwell Gen Soc. For more information about the SRP cemetery books, I suggest you contact Tonya Taylor at the Old Edgefield Gen Soc. Archives Building in Edgefield, Edgefield County, South Carolina. She was Tonya Browder when she worked on these cemetery books and two other books published by SRP. Either as a graduate student or paid employee I am not sure. SRP books were free at the time I got mine. The addresses I had are probably out of date or they are out of print. I traded a Georgia church minute book I had done to a worker at the Barnwell County/City Library for a copy of the SRP New Ellenton Book that happened to be left over from a workshop that Tonya or one of her co-workers had done there. That was about five years ago. I have had the other SRP books much longer than that. Hope this information helps. This response is my random act of genealogical kindness for the day. Vivian Toole Cates, Alto, Texas -----Original Message----- From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com [mailto:gc-gateway@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of msmartins@myfamily.com Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 7:20 PM To: SCAIKEN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SCAIKEN] Page, McLemore, Youngbllood, and Gordon families This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mclemore, Page, Youngblood, Bailey, Gordon, Dennis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZcB.2ACE/367 Message Board Post: Looking for any information on the following families: David S Page (b. ca 1826) family. He is said to have married in Barnwell County (or mentioned in Barnwell County papers) wife was Georgiana Owens. The family was first listed in Edgefield County. I am wondering how or if there is a connection to Abraham Page family of Barnwell (White Pond) McLemore families: Howell W McLemore (b. ca 1835, Barnwell) m1. Martha Dennis. Poss. married her sister Epsey later. They were living in Millbrook in 1900. He served in the 36th MS Regiment and in 1919 BM McLemore of White Pond applied for pension on HW McLemore's behalf. Amos Youngblood and Rebecca Elvira McLemore probably married in Barnwell and spent time in Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia before settling in Schultz, Aiken County. Per 1900 census, Rebecca had 6 children of which 4 were still living. I do have 4 sons, but most likely one of those had died since a widowed daughter-in-law was living with them at the time. Daniel J Gordon and Elizabeth Ann McLemore spent time in Augusta Georgia before moving to Windsor, Aiken County. They had four known children. Annie McLemore Gordon died prior to the 1900 census. These are children of Willis McLemore. He had sons John O (who died 1864), Matthew Preston (who died in Augusta ca 1884), and Nathaniel (possibly Joel) who probably died prior to his father's death in 1872. Willis is the son of Matthew McLemore and Ann Bailey who married in Augusta but settled in Barnwell. A Matthew McLemore is mentioned in a plat in Edgefield. Did parts of Barnwell and/or Edgefield become Aiken? Windsor and White Pond were mentioned in Barnwell but also in Aiken. If anyone has any information on the above families or any McLemores in the area, I would appreciate it greatly. ==== SCAIKEN Mailing List ==== If you wish to unsubscribe from the Aiken Co., SC list, send only the word UNSUBSCRIBE to SCAIKEN-l-request@rootsweb.com or if you are on the Digest List to SCAIKEN-d-request@rootsweb.com