Also, John b. 1797 shows up in Pontotoc Co. a couple of doors down from one of Georges sons. And John's granddaughter married one of George's grandsons, my gr grandfather. I talk to Darrell regularly. I still think that the answer lies with the Patrick Co. bunch. Joyce In a message dated 11/24/2007 4:47:28 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, adellaholly@yahoo.com writes: Wanted to tell you that it seems as if those Stokes Co., NC and Patrick Co., VA Hookers are all intertwined. The name "Esom" (from Charlotte's line) crops up on both side of the state border their in fmailies. I relally think this is our line also as the name George is big in the Patrick Co.,VA line - one George left Va and went into the Knox/Clay Co., KY area early on where Charlotte's line is later, and this George was there when her Esom (b c 1796 in VA) arrived there around 1850. Could be her Esom heard from this older relative who went there early on and decided to go to KY after his probable brother, John (b c 1797 in VA) left Washington Co.,TN for AL (and Esom went back to VA for a while then on to KY c 1850). It might be the reason that 3 of our Hooker brothers went to Ky from TN early on as well - hearing about Ky from relatives who went there or vice versa?? I also recently got some info on VA records and Patrick Co., appears not to have been a county whose records were destroyed. We were always told that many Va records were lost/destroyed, but the counties around Patrick were not listed as counties that lost/did not have early records????? In other word there are records for those counties in the VA archives and in the county courthouses. I guess we need soemone in VA to request these as there is an extra fee for out of state queries from the VA archives. Celeste PS Have you heard from Darrell lately? test'; "> ______________________________________________________________________________ ______ Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how. http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HOOKER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001)

Yes, that is how we know there is a definite tie betweeen John (b c 1797 in VA) and our line - George's line has always said that that John and George's son and g-saon were cousins - from family oral hist. The other names such as George and Samuel are used a lot in those lines - in John's Samuel was ued a lot and in ours Samuel and George (George being a Patrick Co.,VA name as welll as Samuel). And not used as much in the other "southern" lines. Darrell has mentioned the Stokes Co., NC Hookers who now we know appear to be definitely linked to the Patrick Co.,VA ones through the name Esom and by the back and forth movement over that border over many yrs. We need someone who can look into those records and the church record as well. But there should be some civil records since those in Patrick Co.,VA are not listed as destroyed. Celeste --- Jmw1431@aol.com wrote: > > Also, John b. 1797 shows up in Pontotoc Co. a couple > of doors down from one > of Georges sons. And John's granddaughter married > one of George's grandsons, > my gr grandfather. I talk to Darrell regularly. I > still think that the > answer lies with the Patrick Co. bunch. > > Joyce > > In a message dated 11/24/2007 4:47:28 P.M. Eastern > Standard Time, > adellaholly@yahoo.com writes: > > > Wanted to tell you that it seems as if those Stokes > Co., NC and Patrick Co., VA Hookers are all > intertwined. The name "Esom" (from Charlotte's > line) > crops up on both side of the state border their in > fmailies. I relally think this is our line also as > the name George is big in the Patrick Co.,VA line - > one George left Va and went into the Knox/Clay Co., > KY > area early on where Charlotte's line is later, and > this George was there when her Esom (b c 1796 in VA) > arrived there around 1850. Could be her Esom heard > from this older relative who went there early on > and > decided to go to KY after his probable brother, > John > (b c 1797 in VA) left Washington Co.,TN for AL (and > Esom went back to VA for a while then on to KY c > 1850). > > It might be the reason that 3 of our Hooker > brothers > went to Ky from TN early on as well - hearing about > > Ky from relatives who went there or vice versa?? > > I also recently got some info on VA records and > Patrick Co., appears not to have been a county > whose > records were destroyed. We were always told that > many > Va records were lost/destroyed, but the counties > around Patrick were not listed as counties that > lost/did not have early records????? > > In other word there are records for those counties > in > the VA archives and in the county courthouses. I > guess we need soemone in VA to request these as > there > is an extra fee for out of state queries from the > VA > archives. > > Celeste > PS Have you heard from Darrell lately? > > > > test'; "> > > > ______________________________________________________________________________ > ______ > Be a better pen pal. > Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See > how. > http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to > HOOKER-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the > body of the message > > > > > > > > **************************************Check out > AOL's list of 2007's hottest > products. > (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to HOOKER-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > test'; "> ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs