*Hi WREN & ALL: HI COUSIN!! I knew there was a good reason I asked everyone to post their Wilkinson Co. names! You and I are cousins!!! I too descend from WILLIAM WYNN and wife SUSAN HENSON! I descend thru their dtr, CELIA WYNN who m. FRANCIS M. WATKINS. I have this Watkins line back to MITCHELL WATKINS, SR. b. ca 1740s Duplin or Edgec.Co.NC (I also manage a WATKINSREV List over on onelist.com... it's strictly for Watkins descendants who descend from my MITCHELL WATKINS, SR., and his 2 brothers, LEVIN AND PETER, and any of their descendants (and any other siblings or parents of these brothers that we find!!) I would love to talk to you more abt our common WYNN and related lines, and will share with you what little more I have. Will later post my descendancy from Wm. and Susan Henson Wynn. I have suspected for some time that Williams' parents are WILLIAM WYNNe and ELIZABETH ECHOLS who res. Burke Co. GA 1790 , the year William was born. Would love to work on verifying this with you, if interested..... EPPES: I also have an Eppes line from VA! I am on an Eppes mailing list, and you are welcome to join! To Subscribe: email to: EPESGENEALOGY-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM (I think that's what it is) it's a great list and Connie and Bekki, the list managers, are great. My Eppes/Epes line is following: JOHN HARDYMAN/HARDEMAN (I also manage a HARDEMAN list!) m. MARIE/MARY EPES JOSEPH HARDEMAN THOMAS HARDEMAN (R.S.) m. Elizabeth WINNIE HARDEMAN b. Effingham Co.GA m. JOHN MOORE SR. SPENCER MOORE b. 1800 Pitt Co.NC m. ELIZABETH MATTOX b. 1805 Tattnall Co.GA (d/o John Mattox and Sarah Overstreet (I'm also on an Overstreet List, but I do NOT manage that one!!!) .... SARAH MOORE m. LNG STRICKLAND, then m/2 my JETHRO J. JONES of Charlton Co.GA 1850s C.I. JONES b. 1869 Charlton Co. m. MINNIE E. GUNN (d/o John Gunn and Martha Bussey) ONIE JONES m. FRANK STEMBRIDGE LILLIAN A. STEMBRIDGE m. EMORY KEENE (these are my parents, now both deceased). I better quiet or everyone will soon be asleep!!!!! Pls. let me know what your EPPES/EPES line is, and if you have anything new or diff. on the WYNN line .... let's do keep in touch on these, ok???? I think there are alot of WYNN descendants from this couple...if so, PLEASE LET US KNOW so we can all get together on it!! (William is said to have had 21 children!!!) *TINA/CA* List Mgr. >My family lines in Wilkinson County are Thompson and Wynne. > >Elizabeth Bina "Lizzie" Thompson married William David Jordan Sumner. They >are my great-grandparents. > >She is the daughter of James Russell Thompson and Martha Patricia "Patsy" >Wynn and the granddaughter of Solomon Thompson and Rachael Mitchell and >William "Bill" Wynn and Susannah "Susan" Hinson. > > >The following is the preface that I use when I print my genealogy: > >Dad was always interested in the origins of his family, but he didn’t have >time to do any serious research until he was able to retire in 1982. After >he retired, he started visiting libraries and courthouses and corresponding >with others doing research. He would talk about what he had learned about >our family’s ancestors, where they had lived, and what had happened to them. >I enjoyed listening to him, but I have to admit that I wasn’t interested >enough to want to get involved. > >When Dad died in 1985, part of the work that I did to help settle his >affairs was to go through his genealogy files. I scanned the family folders >and the pedigree charts and saw some of the family names and locations that >he had talked about. I still wasn’t interested in continuing the research, >so I put it all away. > >Then, in June 1988, my son, Jay (Joshua Wren Harris III), applied for his >first appointment as a Methodist Minister. He was assigned a circuit of >three small churches in middle Georgia. Two of these churches were in the >towns of Irwinton and Toomsboro in Wilkinson County, Georgia. The third >church, named Salem, was also in Wilkinson County but was located out in the >county. We visited the churches in the towns first and then went to find >Salem. We found it on a dirt road and saw that it was a small wooden >church, painted white, well cared for, with an old cemetery beside it. We >walked among the graves, reading the inscriptions. The names Wynn and >Thompson on several of the tombstones seemed faintly familiar to me, but I >couldn’t really place them. We wrote down as many of the names and dates as >we could make out on the old, worn stones. When we got home, I pulled out >Dad’s old pedigree charts and found that among the people buried there were >my great-great-great-grandparents, James Russell Thompson and his wife, the >former Martha Patricia Wynn. Several members of their families were also >buried at that cemetery. They were all early members of Salem Methodist >Church – the very same church where my son was to begin his ministry. > >I started looking for information about these families. Who were they? >Where did they live? Where did they come from? What was it like when they >were alive? While trying to find answers to these questions, I realized >that I had become hooked on this thing called genealogy. I’m still hooked. >I discovered that genealogy is a jigsaw puzzle that you can never finish >because you keep finding more pieces. It’s a never-ending story full of >brave and wonderful people (and a few scoundrels) who lived, worked, and >raised families in circumstances that we can only try to imagine. It’s >history that grabs you because it was members of your very own family who >were involved when the history was happening. And, hopefully, it’s a legacy >that you leave for people not yet born. > > > J. Wren Harris, Jr. > >Researching my families: Calvert, Clifton, Cowart, Duke, Epps, Flanders, >Garnto, Harris, Hollingsworth, Kelly, McLain, McLean, Monk, Parrish, >Register, Riser, Schenk, Skinner, Sumner, Thompson, Wren, Wynn, and others. > > > > >