I don't remember any Jeffries off the top of my head. And for the life of me I can't remember Tuggle's first name although I can remember his cohort, LL Wyatt. I do remember both as being very tall and everybody thought they were very good sheriffs. Lanelle > > From: "Anne Brown" <[email protected]> > Date: 2006/10/25 Wed PM 02:01:56 EDT > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [GEORGIA] Counties and surnames > > Lanelle, > The surnames from the Greene Co area are, Tuggle and Jeffries. > I am descended from Capt. Lodowick Tuggle, and his wife, Dorothy Lee. > Lodowick was in the American Revolution in VA and moved to the Greene, > Oglethorpe and Wilkes County area abt 1791. His will is in Oglethorpe. > I think most of the Tuggles from that area are descended from Lodowick, so > your sheriff in the 50's was probably a relative that I don't know. > Dorothy Lee's sister, Esther Lee, married William Jeffries. They also moved > from VA to Greene / Wilkes Counties. > Some of the children from the sisters married each other. Robert Tuggle > married Elizabeth Jeffries and Nancy Tuggle married William Jeffries, Jr. > They all moved to Jasper Co, GA. Then my line continues with Rebecca Tuggle, > dau of Robert and Elizabeth who married her double first cousin, Bolin S. > Jeffries, son of William and Nancy. My tree doesn't branch off much for a > few generations. =0) > Anyway, Bolin and his family later moved to Russell Co, AL and Muscogee Co, > GA. > Anne > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:11 AM > Subject: Re: [GEORGIA] Counties and surnames > > > >I am from Greene County, Ga. also. Which of the surnames listed were from > >there? I didn't recogonize any except Tuggle. Back in the '50's our > >sheriff was named Tuggle. Any relation? > > > > Lanelle > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >