Look for my message below... -----Original Message----- From: Kyle VanLandingham <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 8:21 PM Subject: [HOOKER] Lassiter family >Rose (and anyone else who is interested), > >I want to discuss the Lassiter connection[s] with the Hooker family. > >It appears that there are 3 possible connections: > >1) William Hooker, Jr.'s (d. 1756-57), wife may have been a Lassiter. He >had a daughter Sarah who later married a Nicholas Askew. Do you believe >that William, Jr.'s wife was a Sarah and do you believe she was a Lassiter? This is a new Name in the Hooker family (No Sarah in William I) and so is possible. I have not seen any "evidence" of it though. I do know the Lassiter's and Hookers appear to be relatives or close friends as they came to Dobbs/Greene about the same time and lived close. Some Lassiters are in GA also although I do not know if they are connected. >2) William Hooker, Jr., had a daughter named Ann who reportedly married a >Jacob Lassiter. I believe you stated that you had read that Ann and Jacob >were 1st cousins. Is there any documentation for this? I thought the item below which I copied and pasted here contained that info but apparently not (at least not here) It was also in some information from Ima Mewborn which was passed on to me by Martha Mewborn Marble, but again I have not seen "documentation" just the rumor of it. These notes below are from Elizabeth Louise Brown Richardson and contact with other Uzzell descendants and found by me on the genforum.genealogy.com/Uzzell/ on 31 Dec. 1999. Stephen Lassiter was born in 1763 in Bertie and moved by his father when only 5 to Greene Co. NC. He learned the tailor's trade which he followed until about 50 years old in connection with his mercantile business at Spring Hill, where he died Sept. 7 1820. His son Jesse continued with the mercantile business. The account books of Stephen and Jesse, owned by Mrs. Lidie Lassiter Lipscomb of Richmond, VA are full of local historical interest. The names of many old families are shown therein, and the items very interesting, such as charges against some of the Whitfields of ten cents for postage on letters to their sons at Chapel Hill. The cost of Nancy's coffin and charges against her for "spirits" brought up from New Bern are shown. The items of most local interest, however, are references to Joseph Elliott, a Yale man, who taught a "Latin School" in Spring Hill Academy and prepared boys for college. Spring Hill store and school seem to have been the center of the community. Nancy was said to have inherited the Uzzell size and pugnacity, it being related that she thrashed some of her boys after they were grown. Susannah Uzzell was a twin sister to Nancy. They were born at Natures Beauty on December 30, 1768. She married Burrell (Burwell) Westbrook, lived in Greene Co. and died there in1853, age 85 years. One son Geary (Gray) is known and living near Jackson TN in 1862 aged about 73 years. Her daughter Zilpha named after her half sister, married Isom Lassiter, her first cousin. (Gray's grandson's Bible says he died 14 March 1861 as well as giving 19 May 1767 as Susanna's birth date and also gives her death date as March 1847) end of Mrs. Richardson's notes..... >3) Hymerick Hooker, son of William Hooker, III, married first Elizabeth >Phillips and according to some sources then married a Sallie Lassiter. Was >this 2nd wife a daughter of Jacob and Ann (Hooker) Lassiter above? Did >Hymerick and Sallie have any children? The Percy Hooker Chart, without any >documentation, says that Hymerick's daughter Mary, was by Sallie Lassiter. >Is that incorrect? Yes, Sallie is supposedly a daughter of Jacob Lassiter and Ann Hooker born about 1765. This is according to LDS entry with the lady citing Bible Records sent to her by Brainard Hooker as source. The John Phillips estate settlement in 1807 list Mary also as an heir of Elizabeth Phillips Hooker and it is said that in Edgecombe Co. Records where she married , it says that she is daughter of Hymerick and she married in 1814 or 1816, so she must be daughter of Elizabeth, as Elizabeth is still living in 1807, although it is not known when she died. So really all the "PROOF" I have is that apparently all the children belong to Hymerick and Elizabeth and the rest is hear say and undocumented. Elizabeth Brown Richardson was said to have graduated from UT Austin in 1915 and that she gave her collection of material toTexas State Archives but so far as I can tell she did not. They have no record of a collection of genealogical material from her, nor any on Uzzell family except for a book which I have seen. She did have what appeared to be a Bible record of Stephen Lassiter and Nancy uzzell's children which seemed to have come from this journal/ledger. I will look for other documentation. Rose ....................... Kyle > > > >