Pat - I promised some time ago to look up my documentation on the children of Robert Kornegay. The children that I have listed are Jane O. Kornegay Lane, David Smith Kornegay, Thomas Kornegay, Mary S. Kornegay and Alexander Hambleton Kornegay. I only have circumstantial evidence that these are his children. These names come from three different records where Durant Hatch Jr. acting as administrator of Robert Kornegay's estate was selling various piece of property. In all three records these people are listed as heirs of Robert Kornegay, not children of Robert Kornegay. Jane was married to Levin B. Lane and it would appear that the remaining children are probably juveniles at the time of death. For your records one of the sales transactions is on page 714 of the Z.H. Gwynn book, item 442. I have not located a will for Robert Kornegay. I believe he was born in 1782 and died in 1825 when he was 43. Dying at that young age I do not believe that he had a will. Robert died when David Smith was 15. David Smith came to Texas in 1830 when he was 20 years old. According to family legend passed down through descendents of David Smith to me, David Smith came to Texas because of a dispute about his father Robert's estate. From reading various property sales transactions it is evident that Robert's wife Latitia was still alive in 1830 when David Smith moved to Texas. I am not quite sure why Durant Hatch Jr. was the administrator of the estate instead of Latitia. He made many transactions on behalf of the estate including buying some of the estate properties himself. I always suspected that David Smith believed that Durant Hatch Jr. was not acting in the best interests of the estate and that is why he moved to Texas. I also have a copy of the original will of David Kornegay, Robert's father, that I obtained from the Jones County courthouse in the 1970s. In the will David's wife is listed as Lettice so that is the spelling I have been using in my records. Benny

Where did Robert die? I think there was a family of Robert Kornegay's in the Mount Olive area (Could be Wayne or Duplin Co) many years ago. If my memory serves me right - there was a family in Mt Olive area of Hatch and there was a someone by the name Durant in that family. I'm sure much younger generation than you are speaking of - but could be related. the Durant Hatch that you are speaking of could have been a son in law. Often times the men would give property to a son in law instead of the daughter. Good luck Ruth At 07:28 PM 3/2/01 -0600, you wrote: >Pat - > >I promised some time ago to look up my documentation on the children of >Robert Kornegay. The children that I have listed are Jane O. Kornegay >Lane, David Smith Kornegay, Thomas Kornegay, Mary S. Kornegay and >Alexander Hambleton Kornegay. I only have circumstantial evidence that >these are his children. These names come from three different records >where Durant Hatch Jr. acting as administrator of Robert Kornegay's estate >was selling various piece of property. In all three records these people >are listed as heirs of Robert Kornegay, not children of Robert Kornegay. >Jane was married to Levin B. Lane and it would appear that the remaining >children are probably juveniles at the time of death. For your records one >of the sales transactions is on page 714 of the Z.H. Gwynn book, item 442. > >I have not located a will for Robert Kornegay. I believe he was born in >1782 and died in 1825 when he was 43. Dying at that young age I do not >believe that he had a will. Robert died when David Smith was 15. David >Smith came to Texas in 1830 when he was 20 years old. According to family >legend passed down through descendents of David Smith to me, David Smith >came to Texas because of a dispute about his father Robert's estate. From >reading various property sales transactions it is evident that Robert's >wife Latitia was still alive in 1830 when David Smith moved to Texas. I am >not quite sure why Durant Hatch Jr. was the administrator of the estate >instead of Latitia. He made many transactions on behalf of the estate >including buying some of the estate properties himself. I always suspected >that David Smith believed that Durant Hatch Jr. was not acting in the best >interests of the estate and that is why he moved to Texas. > >I also have a copy of the original will of David Kornegay, Robert's >father, that I obtained from the Jones County courthouse in the 1970s. In >the will David's wife is listed as Lettice so that is the spelling I have >been using in my records. > >Benny > > >==== KORNEGAY Mailing List ==== >To post messages to this list send To: [email protected]; >To subscribe or unsubscribe send to [email protected]