>From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [KORNEGAY-L] Need help - Red Hill Plantation {Cemetry] location >Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:46:58 EST > >Hi Ruth, or anyone else that knows, I'm trying to 'polish up' some on this >family's records and get a better understanding of locations, etc., and I >need help with discernment. > >Re: Ruth's 2-27-01 msg. - County, NC Heritate Series Reprinted - More About >The Kornegay Family 'Our Heritage' by Claude Moore August 3, 1984 "Last >week >I wrote an article about the obliteration of "Red Hill" an old plantation >house belonging originally to the Kornegay family, about four miles east of >Mount Olive. There were a few errors in the article and as a historian & >writer, I felt I should correct them according to research done by others. >The house of which I wrote was the second house at Red Hill & was the home >of >Basil Kornegay [d: circa 1821], a surveyor & planter, the last family >member >to live there. The original home "Red Hill" was build during the colonial >period on the east side of Holmes' Gardens & Lake & north of NC highway 55 >& >was probably built by George Kornegay, Sr. [died 1773] for his son George >Kornegay, II who lived there. This old house burned in 1905. the Kornegay >family cemetery is nearby & those buried there are: >George Kornegay II & his wife, Margaret Kornegay, Basil & names others. > >Re: George Sr. "his place of burial is not certain however, he was probably >buried at the 'Kornegay Old Burial Ground' on his land at Kornegay's Bridge >on the Northeast Cape Fear River in Duplin County. His memorial stone is >now at Red Hill in Wayne County, a few miles up the river from Kornegay's >Bridge [Per John Baxter Flowers 'George Kornegay Family' article 651, pg >317, 318 [Someone gave me copies of pages without the name of the book >this >was copied from. I think it may be from "The Heritage Of Wayne Co NC book, >published by Wayne Co Historical Asst. and Dobbs Co Genealogy Soc. Can >someone tell me for sure?]. > >Question: Is Red Hill a community or town ? I've been thinking all along >that was the name of their [George Jr and son Basil's} plantation? In >Duplin >Co? > >1. George Sr. Memorial Stone at Red Hill in Wayne Co > >2. George, Jr's Red Hill: located east side of Holmes' Gardens & Lake & >north >of NC Hwy 55, build by Geo. Sr, for son Geo. Jr who lived there - burned >1905. >Re: George Jr inherited [from father George, Sr]: >150 acres in the fork of Beaverdam on the North East Branch, Duplin Co > 50 acres over Spring Branch, Duplin Co {What does 'over' Spring Branch >mean?]. >350 acres on the Horse Pen Branch. >Questions: > [1] Is Holmes' Gardens & Lake located north of NC Hwy.55 a name of a >historical > site or a name of a community, town, etc.? > [2] Is Holmes' Garden & Lake located on one of the inherited land sites? >If so > which one? > >2. Second Red Hill: Where Basil lived - about four miles east of Mount >Olive >- tore down abt 1984. > >Question: Does anyone know what part, if any, of the land that Geo. Jr. >inherited from father that his 'Red Hill' plantation house was built on? >Question: Did the two different people just give different discriptions of >the same location, thence, the first and second Red Hill Plantation house >was >build in the same location? And this is where George II, wife Margaret, >son >Basil are all buried and George Sr.'s Memorial stone is in the same place. >Would this be a correct entry to make in describing where they are buried >-- >"Family Cemetery on Red Hill Plantation land near Mount Olive, Duplin Co, >NC." > >Or was the first and second Red Hill plantation house built on different >land >locations? In other words is the Holmes' Gardens & Lake, north of NC >Highway 55, a different location than 4 miles east of Mount Olive. If this >be the case then which one has George Sr's memorial stone? > >Of course I find Mt. Olive, Hwy 55 and see that they are on the Duplin & >Craven line and can get a grip on that easy enough, and understand Holmes' >Garden & Lake area [which I can't find on map] but the discription of where >it is is in the same general area, but is it the exact same area?. > >Thanks for any help. >Kathlynn > >Kathlynn, The only help I can give is, according to "The North Carolina >Gazetteer" by William S. Powell, "Red Hill, community in Duplin County" on >page 406 > > > > > > >==== KORNEGAY Mailing List ==== >To search mailing list archives go to: >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >To view Kornegay Family Pages go to >http://www.jbquinn.net/Family_History/index.htm > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Will let you know - as soon as I can find the info. Thanks Ruth At 12:48 PM 3/28/01 -0500, you wrote: >>From: [email protected] >>Reply-To: [email protected] >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: [KORNEGAY-L] Need help - Red Hill Plantation {Cemetry] location >>Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:46:58 EST >> >>Hi Ruth, or anyone else that knows, I'm trying to 'polish up' some on this >>family's records and get a better understanding of locations, etc., and I >>need help with discernment. >> >>Re: Ruth's 2-27-01 msg. - County, NC Heritate Series Reprinted - More About >>The Kornegay Family 'Our Heritage' by Claude Moore August 3, 1984 "Last week >>I wrote an article about the obliteration of "Red Hill" an old plantation >>house belonging originally to the Kornegay family, about four miles east of >>Mount Olive. There were a few errors in the article and as a historian & >>writer, I felt I should correct them according to research done by others. >>The house of which I wrote was the second house at Red Hill & was the home of >>Basil Kornegay [d: circa 1821], a surveyor & planter, the last family member >>to live there. The original home "Red Hill" was build during the colonial >>period on the east side of Holmes' Gardens & Lake & north of NC highway 55 & >>was probably built by George Kornegay, Sr. [died 1773] for his son George >>Kornegay, II who lived there. This old house burned in 1905. the Kornegay >>family cemetery is nearby & those buried there are: >>George Kornegay II & his wife, Margaret Kornegay, Basil & names others. >> >>Re: George Sr. "his place of burial is not certain however, he was probably >>buried at the 'Kornegay Old Burial Ground' on his land at Kornegay's Bridge >>on the Northeast Cape Fear River in Duplin County. His memorial stone is >>now at Red Hill in Wayne County, a few miles up the river from Kornegay's >>Bridge [Per John Baxter Flowers 'George Kornegay Family' article 651, pg >>317, 318 [Someone gave me copies of pages without the name of the book >>this >>was copied from. I think it may be from "The Heritage Of Wayne Co NC book, >>published by Wayne Co Historical Asst. and Dobbs Co Genealogy Soc. Can >>someone tell me for sure?]. >> >>Question: Is Red Hill a community or town ? I've been thinking all along >>that was the name of their [George Jr and son Basil's} plantation? In Duplin >>Co? >> >>1. George Sr. Memorial Stone at Red Hill in Wayne Co >> >>2. George, Jr's Red Hill: located east side of Holmes' Gardens & Lake & north >>of NC Hwy 55, build by Geo. Sr, for son Geo. Jr who lived there - burned >>1905. >>Re: George Jr inherited [from father George, Sr]: >>150 acres in the fork of Beaverdam on the North East Branch, Duplin Co >> 50 acres over Spring Branch, Duplin Co {What does 'over' Spring Branch >>mean?]. >>350 acres on the Horse Pen Branch. >>Questions: >> [1] Is Holmes' Gardens & Lake located north of NC Hwy.55 a name of a >>historical >> site or a name of a community, town, etc.? >> [2] Is Holmes' Garden & Lake located on one of the inherited land sites? >>If so >> which one? >> >>2. Second Red Hill: Where Basil lived - about four miles east of Mount Olive >>- tore down abt 1984. >> >>Question: Does anyone know what part, if any, of the land that Geo. Jr. >>inherited from father that his 'Red Hill' plantation house was built on? >>Question: Did the two different people just give different discriptions of >>the same location, thence, the first and second Red Hill Plantation house was >>build in the same location? And this is where George II, wife Margaret, son >>Basil are all buried and George Sr.'s Memorial stone is in the same place. >>Would this be a correct entry to make in describing where they are buried -- >>"Family Cemetery on Red Hill Plantation land near Mount Olive, Duplin Co, >>NC." >> >>Or was the first and second Red Hill plantation house built on different land >>locations? In other words is the Holmes' Gardens & Lake, north of NC >>Highway 55, a different location than 4 miles east of Mount Olive. If this >>be the case then which one has George Sr's memorial stone? >> >>Of course I find Mt. Olive, Hwy 55 and see that they are on the Duplin & >>Craven line and can get a grip on that easy enough, and understand Holmes' >>Garden & Lake area [which I can't find on map] but the discription of where >>it is is in the same general area, but is it the exact same area?. >> >>Thanks for any help. >>Kathlynn >> >>Kathlynn, The only help I can give is, according to "The North Carolina >>Gazetteer" by William S. Powell, "Red Hill, community in Duplin County" >>on page 406 >> >> >> >> >> >> >>==== KORNEGAY Mailing List ==== >>To search mailing list archives go to: >>http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >>To view Kornegay Family Pages go to >>http://www.jbquinn.net/Family_History/index.htm > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > >==== KORNEGAY Mailing List ==== >To post messages to this list send To: [email protected]; >To subscribe or unsubscribe from this listsend to >[email protected] >