Me thinks y'all are at least opening the door a crack. I'm rootin' for WW to come out of that closet pretty soon. He is sure working hard at gettin' out. lab From: nelhatch <nelhatch@hills.net> >Date: 2008/07/01 Tue PM 11:27:16 CDT >To: hatcher@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [HATCHER] An interesting GA mystery......... > >HATCHER website: http://hatcherfamilyassn.com >HALL DNA project: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/hall/HDNAtest.htm >"If you can't stand the skeletons, stay out of the closet" - Val D Greenwood > >W W (and all), > >First, if you are giving her the name of JANE Elizabeth based on this record... > >Georgia Cherokee Land Lottery, 1832 >Number - 240, District - SEVENTH DISTRICT, FIRST SECTION, CHEROKEE. Jane Hatcher, Residence - (Whipple's) Wilkinson Co. widow. > >Note the 1832 date. This is Jane Hatcher, WIDOW of James Hatcher who died 1832. Elizabeth Tharp was not widowed until 1834. > >The most important problem with Maj John is that there is not a single record in the hundreds we've accumulated that ever ties John to any parents or directly to any other Hatcher in all of GA. > >SO! I think this is the hottest stick of dynamite I've stumbled on in a long time! > >And will list a few details for your consideration..... > >Proven > >1) Tom/Wilmoth were md in a time frame making it possible to have Maj John in 1757. > >2) Tom/Wilmoth were in SC by 1770. > >3) Maj John first shows up in 1779 (age 22) in a military record. It does not ID his state of residence. > >4) Maj John in WilkesCo in 1792. > >5) Liz Hatcher Tharp is born 1793, state unknown. > >6) Maj John in WarrenCo, GA in 1794. > >7) Dempsey is bn 1797 in Edgefield, SC, s/o Tom Jr/Martha. > >8) Liz md John Tharp, WarrenCo, GA 1809. > >9) Maj John moves from Warren to Wilkinson in 1810. > >* According to W W's notes, Liz and John moved to Twiggs (or BibbCo) by 1811. > >10) Dempsey is in BibbCo before 1826. > >I have uploaded the 5 John Davis estate recs to Demp's page at http://hatcherfamilyassn.com/getperson.php?personID=I5459&tree=WmtheIm > >Cross check those many names on those pages and compare them to the names mentioned in W W's notes, particularly the Davis family. A Tharp dau md a James Davis, likely connected to John Davis of the estate sale. > >I think being able to place Demp directly in the middle of the Tharp/Davis families is way more than a coincidence, particularly considering we have been unable to connect Maj John to anyone else until now. > >We do know there's no evidence of a Demp as a son in John's family. > >While it's not possible (so far) to determine the relationship, I would have to say Demp, Liz, and Maj John are very closely related, not as John's kids but his nephew and niece. > >I think this could be a real YA-HOO situation :-) > >Now we really need to firmly prove it with more records or stronger circumstantial evidence. > >Nel > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HATCHER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message