This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HELTON, FOLEY, PARTIN/PARTON, GRAINGER CO TN, KNOX CO KY, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/IMi.2ACEB/824.844.1 Message Board Post: Hey cousin Dollie, you are for sure ' ONE OF MY OWN' O:-), please email me directly, willows@enid.com if you'd like, and we'll talk Knox Co family, we have a bunch of 'our own' still back there, who all are you in touch with in your area,? i have OUR HELTONS back to the 1500s, and the name on back to the 900s, JOSEPH (JOAB/ BLACK JOE) HELTON IS MY GREAT GRANPA, AND THERE WAS NOTHING 'BLACK---EVIL---WRONG, with him nor our uncle NATHANIEL, they lived the life they were dealt, loving ,working,and raising their families, and those that feel otherwise are only 'bone-pickers' so don't let it hurt or bother you, a close cousin has a website that i have an album on,and in it i have just posted JOSEPH (JOAB) and my gramma DORA and his other children on it, i'll gladly share it with you, and all the others i have on our family, as i'm sure our other close cousins will, so let me hear (directly) from you, and tell me which sibling you stem from, lovingly in kinship, cousin Deborah