>Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 06:57:47 -0700 >From: Rod or Leslie <aeriehollow@ellijay.com> >Subject: {not a subscriber} John McDaniel Thomas descendants >To: GAUNION-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 >Importance: Normal >Old-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 08:57:22 -0500 >X-From_: aeriehollow@ellijay.com Thu Nov 20 06:57:46 2003 >X-Diagnostic: Not on the accept list >X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine >Original-recipient: rfc822;varcsix@hot.rr.com > >I wrote a letter to the Mount Olivet Baptist Church in Union County >Georgia a few weeks ago, hoping to connect with descendants of John >McDaniel Thomas. He was born 9-5-1843 near Micaville Yancey County, >N.C. to William Hunsucker (1810) and Nancy Willis Thomas. They migrated >to Union County about 1850 (evidence puts them there on and off from >about 1830). John who was known as "Mac" was married three times that >we know of and two of the three wives are buried next to him in the Mt. >Olivet Bapt. Church cemetery. I have most all the sibling information - >our line actually is through Joseph Monroe and Naomi Adeline Hayes >Thomas - and I have the ancestral lines back to Joseph Thomas born about >1755. Was hoping to connect with others of the family to see if they >know who Nancy Willis born 1812 was. have not been able to track down >her parents to date. She was said to have been born in what is now >Mitchell County next door to Yancey County. would have been Buncombe >County at the time in North Carolina. Have filled in the gaps in most >all the descendancy but hers. Leslie Thomas > > >"Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, >and I'll understand.-" Native American Proverb > Virginia Crilley