I just discovered the Roe connection. Actually, I had the information for over a year--something I acquired while at the Maryland State Archives. However, I became involved with a thousand different things and forgot it, until I rediscovered the name while filing research materials in my huge notebook collection. After a trip to the Denver Public Library, I was able to make the connection. The name is spelled two different ways. The "Roe" spelling pertains to the English branch of the family. One branch of "Roes" went to Scotland and then to Ireland, and they spell the name "Rowe". The Roes settled in Jamestown, York County, and from there went to the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The Rowes eventually left Ireland and settled in Westmoreland, VA (along with the Roes, Monroes, Spences, Spencers, etc.). The Roes intermarried with my Spence line in Virginia before heading for the Eastern Shore. One branch went to Talbot County, Maryland, thence to Cecil County, and then moved down to Virginia and NC. Wherever I have found my Inmans, Spences and Spencers, I am now finding the Roes. Several branches of the Spence family moved to Texas along with a branch or two of the Inmans. That could explain your Roe connection. Two additional families weave in and out of all these lines: Bunch and Lee or Lea. There was an enormous Lea family in Caswell, Anson, Rowan, etc. counties of Western NC--they are turning out to be cousins of all of these people. I also discovered that the ancestors of my 3rd great uncle (James H. Bunch)--the Confederate guerilla fighter who married into my Missouri Spence line, were Spencers!!!! Big Jim was a direct descendant of Thomas Spencer of Badby and Isobel Lincoln!!!! The Bunches were in Louisa County, Virginia with my Spencers. A Bunch Roe appears of record in Westmoreland, Virginia. So this whole thing is beginning to travel around in one big circle. I notice that you spell your name "Inmon". I have found that spelling in North Carolina and in South Carolina. A number of these families fled to Texas after the Civil War because of their loyalties to the South. Some of them remained in Texas; some of them relocated to Arkansas. And some of them headed West. Just yesterday I was reading about a number of them who resettled in what is today Conejos County, Colorado. (This is interesting: I live in Denver, but have done little research in this state. It appears that I will now start researching "in my back yard!!!" -----Original Message----- From: Bill Inmon <binmon@erols.com> To: Barbara Beall <bibeall@email.msn.com> Date: Friday, August 06, 1999 8:17 PM Subject: Re: From the Listowner: In Forward Gear >HI Barbara: > >I've never noticed your posting anything about the Roe family until now... >my grandmother's sister (Myrtle Tyler) married a George Washington Roe, >about 1910... George was born about 1886, not sure where... they lived in >San Antonio, TX, and died there in 1976 or 77... as far as I know they had >two children, Iva Roe and "T.J.". > >Does any of this line sound familiar??? > >Bill Inmon >