This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HINDS-COLBURN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EKj.2ACIB/338 Message Board Post: Hi: Melissa Green just sent her HINDS family line to the Hinds-L mail list which will go into the Hinds-L archives. I recommend that all of us on this list do the same. I am posting mine below. Some of our Hinds researchers may make a connection years from now by searching our Hinds-L archives. I have found only two other researchers on this John Hinds descendancy that I am posting below. Any others? David had another son named Edward who had male descendants. I would love to touch bases with some Hinds on that line. The last I heard they were in Mendocino Co. CA. I am posting this on the Hinds message board because I just learned that google.com will find it and will NOT find messages in the Rootsweb mail list archives. One has to go straight to the Hinds-L archives to search them. Google is not allowed in rootsweb archives. That means one has to go to the archives of each mail list and search them individually. Messages to the Hinds message board also go into the Hinds-L archives but not vice versa. Regards Nan Wolf, Administrator Hinds-L mail list at Rootsweb 71532.734@compuserve.com ======================================== Nan (Colburn) Wolf's HINDS family line: Descendant of John Hinds (1775-77 prob KY-c. 1838, Crawford Co. AR) and Esther b 1777/78 TN( lost after the 1850 census) through their son, David Hinds (b. 3 Feb 1803, d 5 Dec 1843 Crawford Co. AR) m. 22 Feb 1827 in Lawrence Co. AR to Margaret Ann Mattix (b 30 Oct 1808, d 1861, Cook Co?. TX) through their son, Archibald Yell Hinds ( b 8 Nov 1837 Crawford Co. AR,d May 1911,Tulare Co. CA);, m. 4 Jul 1866, Tulare Co. CA to Sarah Buckman (b 6 Apr 1850, Union Co. KY,d 1929, Tulare Co. CA) through their son, Clement Emery (Pete) Hinds (b 18 Jul 1869, Tulare Co. CA, d 2 Nov. 1953, Atwater, Merced Co. CA) m. 22 Dec 1898 St. Mary's Church, Visalia, Tulare Co. CA to Anna Clark(e) (b 18 Mar 1873 San Jose, CA, d 15 Sep 1938, Atwater, Merced, CA through their daughter, Marie Hinds (b 10 May 1905, Visalia, Tulare, CA, d 31 May 1995, Plymouth, Amador Co. CA) m. 2 Sep 1930, Ashland, Jackson Co. OR to Harold Earl Colburn,Sr.( b 2 May 1907, Poland Center, Chautauqua Co. NY, d 13 Jan 1988, Placerville, El Dorado Co. CA) parents of Nan (Colburn) Wolf ( 71532.734@compuserve.com., 3401 Stanley Ave. Turlock, CA 95382) Some people have the above John Hinds (1775-77- 1838) as the son of Levi Hinds, who is son of Joseph HInds, Sr. whose will was probated Aug 1777 in Rowan Co. NC. I still have to prove the connection. I do know that a John Hinds and wife Esther sold land in Wayne Co. KY in 1805 which is where his supposed father Levi died and where his sister married. He is next found in 1810 & 1811 signing petitions to Congress from Louisiana Territory & MO Territory from what is later Lawrence Co. AR where his son David married Margaret Mattix in 1827. Don't let the marriage place of Harold & Marie throw you off. Harold and Marie (Hinds) Colburn went to OR to marry and to honeymoon. He was raised in Turlock and she in Atwater, CA. They first settled in Mariposa, CA before spending the rest of their life in Plymouth, CA. They were married in a double marriage ceremony with her sister Aileen Hinds to John Colburn, no relation to Harold. Both men were Protestants and since they could not get married in the Catholic church (at that time) they traveled to OR to marry and to honeymoon. They sent a coded telegram to the brides' parents letting them know when the marriages took place. The town telegrapher figured out the code and spread the word before the family even rec'd the telegram. Nothing is secret or sacred in a little town.