Pat, Thank you for your library etc history research. Sounds like S C did not have any Newspaper Obits, Library census records or other genealogy records, Books, court house records to document the tales of the Hamrick grandmothers who counted back on their crooked fingers 9 months to tell when the marriage date had been. It must have taken great perseverance and diplomacy to take the genealogy tales of 50 or more grandmothers and merge them into the HAMRICK GENERATIONS AND OTHER FAIRY TALES as I have previously called them. How dumb of me!! I didn't realize that North Carolina didn't have libraries until after 1910. And stupid, stupid me - no newspapers in North Carolina between 1870 and 1910 either!! I never realized. And I was totally unaware that there were no courthouses in North Carolina that had marriage records or deeds or wills or probate records. And even though the University of North Carolina claims to be the oldest state university, founded in 1795, heaven help me for ever implying that research could have been done there!! How dare I question the marvelous works of Mr. Jones!!! Of course all the people he interviewed gave him 100% correct information - and knew all about all their ancestors, never mixing up any families, getting all the children's names and spouses correct (something I'm positive now, after reading about how great a man he was, Mr. Jones verified carefully, using every resource available to him...ah, but I temporarily forgot, poor Mr. Jones didn't have any resources available to him). It was so terribly rude of me to imply that Mr. Jones' book misled me - had me looking for people who didn't exist and for records that never existed. That was so apparently my own problem and no fault of anyone else. Let us all get together and rewrite S C Jones book. The HAMRICK GENERATIONS, REVISED & DOCUMENTED and dedicate it to a fine man who started to record the Hamrick genealogy with pen, ink, and shoe leather before such things as source documents were invented. J R