From: "Michael P. Ivester" <<A HREF="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IvesterG/post?protectID=029154020084056233050038109248121125067038025008186043152255057171142176173079001">[email protected]</A> Date: Mon Aug 23, 1999 10:20pm Subject: Re: have tried to send this theories deal 3 times... To All:Hello again...I was just looking through my records again on my Jacob...andhe listed on one of his pension papers that he was born March 28, 1839 inRadford County, N.C. Is anyone familiar with that county?Jacobs' mothers name was Cary or Corra depending upon which MO. census youread...1850 or 1860.What's even more confusing is that almost everyone of his children havelisted on their death certificates (obviously filled out by spouses orchildren) as to Jacobs' birthplace as Georgia. We obviously know that itwas N.C., but there appears to be some reason for the Georgia influence.Since Francis is so great at theories...here's one of my own for my Jacob.He first shows up in MO. at 8-10 yrs.old with his mother and sisters livingin the Wm. C. Eddington household...how & why? Why did they move to MO?Suppose his father (John) either died in NC or on route to MO. She eithermet this Eddington man on the way or in MO?...I seem to have read somewherethat there were several Eddingtons' in TN...maybe they met on the way to MO.in TN? Anyway the big question is what happened to John?..did he die inNC,SC,GA,TN or somewhere else on the way? We may never know...somethingelse to ponder!Mike