Dear Dawn: I have taken liberty to forward your message to Kim Powers of Greenville, MS...<[email protected]> Kim is related to Martha Dikes(Dykes) wife of Benjamin Dikes (Dykes). She is buried in the woods in an abandoned Cemetery off Highway 49 just south of Collins in Covington County...Martha is the mother-in- law of Zachariah Gieger and his parents are also buried in that Cemetery <ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ms/covington/cemeteries/gieger.txt> Zachariah and his wife, the former Eleanor Jane Dykes (Dikes) are buried in Bethel Methodist Cemetery in Covington County...along with most of their children... I am sure that Kim would be most glad to hear from you... I also re-posted this message to the Geiger-List on Rootsweb. Maybe we can get your answer. >From: Dawn Dykes Petz <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: [MSCOVING-L] DYKES >Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 15:42:59 -0800 >Received: from [63.92.80.123] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id >MHotMailBC4499F20088D820F3D43F5C507B12F10; Fri Feb 02 16:21:07 2001 >Received: (from [email protected])by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id >f130KUx14124;Fri, 2 Feb 2001 16:20:30 -0800 >From [email protected] Fri Feb 02 16:21:15 2001 >Resent-Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 16:20:30 -0800 >X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Fri Feb 2 16:20:27 2001 >Message-Id: <[email protected]> >X-Authentication-Warning: cgi.rootsweb.com: nobody set sender to >[email protected] using -f >Old-To: [email protected] >Sender: [email protected] >Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Resent-From: [email protected] >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/443 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Precedence: list >Resent-Sender: [email protected] > >Posted on: Covington Co. Ms Queries Forum >Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ms/Covington/926 > >Surname: DYKES >------------------------- > >Am trying to locate William B. Dykes,b.abt 1840 in Covington Co.,Ms.His >parents were James and Mary Ann(Polly)Rutland Dykes.Mary Ann's parents >were Asa and Catherine Pendaris Rutland,but I don't know who James'were.I >would like to know who William married,any children and b&d dates for >all.Thanks,Dawn > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com