----- Original Message ----- From: "suzieq" <suzieq@wnclink.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 8:10 PM ========================== > Source: PACKARD-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [PACKARD] Re: ruby b. keim packard born oct. 22 1892-nov 21 1976 > > > Have you got much info on the Packards, such as when they came to America and things like that. The reason I am asking, is because according to my mother. Mom is a Pack > She said that when the Packards first came to America that they landed in South Carolina, She said that King George III had a son named Packard, and when this son landed in SC, King George gave him some land on which to settle. At that time it was know as Packsville, or Packardsville, I have not been able to find either of these places on the SC map. I don't know if they had changed the name or what. Mom doesn't know what the Packards man's name was, but on down the line some of the Packards dropped part of the name and just became Pack's. Mom's Family line came from SC. Alex took his children and moved from Polk Co. NC, to Madison County NC in the part of Madison that they called Foster Creek this was in 1867. But the earliest that we know about is in 1867 Alex (Alexander) Pack DOB about 1835 DOD about 1910 at age 75 he married a Waldrop/Waltrop, We think that her first name may have been Sophronia, she died in the winter of abt. 1866 but not sure about that. Alex Pack had ! > four children, named Lisa DOB abt. 1854, Andy ( could have been shortened for Andrew) DOB abt. 1856, the Sara DOB about 1858 and Martin VanBuren Pack DOB about 1862. Martin is my great grandfather. Martin marred Mary Jane Lewis ( the daughter of Jim Lewis and Polly Shelton, Shelton could have been her married name because she was a widow and had three children, Jim adopted Polly's children and then they had four of their own. > Mary Jane Lewis DOB abt. 1866 in Madison Co. NC the only other siblings that I know of were a sister named Sarah and a sister named Harriet. Harriet married a Bradley. > Martin and Mary Jane Lewis Pack's children were, Walter Grey DOB June 9, 1886 DOD Dec. 16, 1955 ( my grandfather), Henry, Carl, Frank, Charlie ( could have been Charles), Bill (?William) Oscar, Mollie, Fronie (?Sophronia), Hassie, and Cora. They had some half brothers and a sister, Glen, Alex (Alexander) Wayne, and Roxie Pack, Roxie is still living but she doesn't know much about the Pack Family, except her brothers and sisters, Roxie said that when her mom married Martin that their last names were Hardin/Harding but that they went by the name Pack after the marriage. Mary Jane's sister Harriet married a Bradley and in the mid 1950's, John Parris, the writer of Mountain Lore that was publised in the Asheville Citizen Times, interview Harriett about the big earthquake that hit Charleston, SC on August 31, 1886. Harriet was last known living in the community called Beach, located at the head of Reems Creek in North Eastern Buncombe County, in NC. > Walter Grey Pack, they called him Grey, until he went into the army then they either called him Walt, or Walter. Walter married Jemima Lovenia Fender, daughter of Levi Vernon Pack and I think her name was Eliza Jane Blakenship, I am not sure about that I can't find it in my notes. Anyway Walter Pack and Jemima Fender ( everyone called here Aunt Mime) were married in October of 1919. Walter Moved his new wife to a place in Tenn, where he was working, called Mascot. After a while they moved back to Marshall, NC. Later moved to McDowell County, NC in the Nebo area. Their children included, not in any specific order, Carl, Fred, Leonard, Floyd (who is now deceased), Selma, Nora, Zora Jane, Ethel and my mom Florence Pack Hensley. Mom married Rev. Ophard David Hensley, in April 1953. All of mom's brothers and sisters are still living except for Floyd, he was the baby of the family and the first one to die, with heart failure. > > Any way I was just wondering if you had heard anything about some of the Packard's dropping part of their name to Pack. If any of the above is any help to you I will be glad. If not maybe the tale that mom always heard might be wrong. I don't have any proof that that is what happened, just hear say. And you know how hear say goes. > > Please contact me and let me know anything about this or is it just an old wives tale" > > Susan Hensley Yelton Qualls > suzieq@wnclink.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Penjean@aol.com > To: PACKARD-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 2:48 PM > Subject: [PACKARD] Re: ruby b. keim packard born oct. 22 1892-nov 21 1976 > > > > Brandie!! > > Ruby Bell Keim was my great Aunt. You're the first person I have ever found looking into our family. I'm so excited, I nearly fell off my chair. E-mail me privately at penjean@aol.com > Penny > > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog >