This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: sarahshaw197 Surnames: Wallen, Shepherd Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.floyd/1824.1918.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Sherman Shepherd and Frances Wallen were my grandparents as well. So we are cousins- their son Randy is my father. I do have some information regarding their heritage. What would you like to know? We also have a (distant) cousin who has information stretching to the 1700's regarding Frances' family, I can provide you with his web page. Happy hunting! Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

CEMETERY INDEX John Mack/MacKenna Born: 1750 Ireland Died: circa 1819-1820 Was thought Pike County in twp Pikeville but found Pike county not formed until 1821-22. Would like to obtain a photo Jpeg or sketch or chalk etching of stone for my records if possible. thanks so much for your help with my elusive ancestor.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: kmartinfamily Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.floyd/9816/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am looking for any information related to Chester Lee Martin b: 1918 in Cleburne, Texas (grandfather). On birth certificate fathers full name added by relative as Melvin W. Martin, however my grandpa can not remember if his dads 1st name was Melvin or Williams. Reguardless he was married to Beulah Reynolds per grandpa's birth certificate. I have information going back 8 or 9 generations, but i need to confirm this who my great grandpa is....anyone with info please post or if you are related to this Martin line then maybe we can exchange info. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: kmartinfamily Surnames: Martin Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.floyd/1249.1267.1.1.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am looking on information on Melvin W. Martin or William M Martin from Floyd County County. I know he was married to Beulah Reynolds and they had three sons. William,Chester,Marion. If you have any information please email me thanks. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: BruceSmith20 Surnames: Erwin, Frazier, Marsh, Smith Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.floyd/9629.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Have you had any luck with this line? I am related through the Erwin (Irwin) side and have about three pages of Ananias Castle and Jane Erwin's descendents, if you need it. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: KofJeffersonCo Surnames: Marshall Noland Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.floyd/9504.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I'm sorry, I know nothing about the Nolands. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: mjandgary Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.floyd/9504.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Did you get an answer to your question? Am looking for names of his inlaws- the Nolands.My email is [email protected] Thanks Mary Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: wtbulldogw Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.floyd/4.26.163.178.190.2.1.1.2.1.1.2.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: What is your email address? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: chickenhawk1192004 Surnames: jones/ray/ robertson/and allied family's Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.floyd/4.26.163.178.190.2.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Mitch: In looking at the times we are talking about primer tobacco ground and what later after words plantation row, where the washington's byrds, lewis's jefferson's madison's and just about anybody who had a bunch of money built there mansions in va, it had been indian land for years till the rich whites wanted it....jim Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: chickenhawk1192004 Surnames: jones/ray/ robertson/and allied family's Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.floyd/4.26.163.178.190.2.1.1.2.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Mitch: In the census you'll notice nathaniel teller jones and nancy ray are marked as FPC in early floyd co ky,...now just at a glance most people think they are black, ....well just so happens that is far from the truth...not so...in old colonial va if you were mixed what ever white/indian as the vast majority of people in the buffalo ridge are of amherst co va, they tagged you as that, most didn't object because it ment you didn't have to pay taxes and the reason many of us can't go back and find where they lived at was because they didn't own the land they squatted on there were some like my family and some of the jones family who got there early enought to claim grants before it became popular for plantations people like the lewis'a, randolph's thomas jefferson and those rich land owners to come and buy everything up, my family sold out to the cabell's and their historian says they bought their property from the indians, after finding what I know, about my family, I do ! believe that was the case, you should read about the buffalo ridge cherokee, which where at lest 3 different surnames of my family come from in amherst co va, the jones, ray, and robertsons, then tell you what you think and what I've found all 3 trace to within 5mil. of each other, if that....jim Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: chickenhawk1192004 Surnames: ray/jones/hall/and other allied familys Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.floyd/4.26.163.178.190.2.1.1.2.1.1.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Mitch: yes you got it, love to have your input and get to know you, my email is [email protected] I'd give you ron's but I don't have his permission, I'm sure he wouldn't mind but you also know there is more than us looking at this so if you email me you got it, he's your blood you don't have to tell me if you want to talk to kin, but I do need to protect his privecy like I would yours, I learned the hard way with about 10 spam things one day, and is their any way you need me to help in what you want to know, anytime hollar....jim Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: eamitchco Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.floyd/4.26.163.178.190.2.1.1.2.1.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Please count me in on these Jones discussions offline or on. I'm descended from both Ambrose Jones and wife Martha Baldwin and his brother James Jones and Pricey McCown Blankenship. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: eamitchco Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.floyd/4.26.163.178.190.2.1.1.2.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I've been hearing about the Native American and/or Cherokee link to our Jones and other families for years. What kind of proof do you have? I've yet to see anything concrete, but I'm always looking. Thanks, Mitch Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: chickenhawk1192004 Surnames: jones Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.floyd/4.26.163.178.190.2.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thea: You got me to looking at ambrose jones, besides john ray jones and sataria stanly's son there was another one in floyd co who claimed a pension for the rev. war, who was mush older than john and sataria's son, I haven't looked back at that pension app. in floyd co but in alexander brown's list of early settlers of albemarle and amherst co va I found 2 ambrose jones, one was born in 1752 and served in the rev. war that may be the one in floyd co, but have nothing else on him yet there was another one in brown's notes marked b. 1781, I don't know if that means born in 1781 or what but I know our 1st nathaniel jones was by census estimates of age statements to have been born about 1771, but no definate record to show that for a fact, that ambrose may be a brother or some other relative, but again no proof.....jim Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: chickenhawk1192004 Surnames: jones/ray/hall/ McCowan/and allied familys Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.floyd/4.26.163.178.190.2.1.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thea: No problem, be glad to exchange off line with you or any other jones decendant, that's what it is all about everbody helping and getting everbody on the same page, ron jones the jones decendant that we have been working togeather, is squrill hunting for the weekend but he;s expressed be would love to get in touch with other decendants of his family, he decends from claibourn john ray jones 3rd son same as you, he's a great person you'll like him, I'm a ray but I connect through the second nathaniel and Mary ann McCowan, I've been tracing my family since 2003 and am familliar with some of the ground we are tracing and we have somethings you and others may want to know one of them is tracing our native american heritage, and yes it is real and there is proof, do not believe that their were no cherokee in amherst co va, that is wrong, and was supressed by the powers that were in charge, look up buffalo ridge cherokee, a grand nation divided, read it and then you'll under! stand those co records a lot clearer, several cross connected marriage through the ray , jones, robinson, McCowan, hall, and other familys allied to them, origionate from the same area of buffalo ridge, migrate togeather and end up in the same places along the way and finally in pike co and floyd co's ky, their are early ky land grants to show many of them living side by side and connected by marriages ect...my email is in the other post please get in touch, we've got documents to share and would appreciate your take on them, you may know things we don't and vise versa, it all about sharing, and working togeather, our ancestors did why not us.....jim Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: wtbulldogw Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.floyd/4.26.163.178.190.2.1.1.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Sorry. I didn't check my notes cause I was in a hurry when I posted last time. My Clayburn Clinton Jones is the son of John Ray Jones and brother to John C and Ambrose Jones. Sorry about that. Would love to correspond with descendants. [email protected] Thea Gilliam Cleburne, TX Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: wtbulldogw Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.floyd/4.26.163.178.190.2.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Sorry. I was on lunch hour and didn't check my notes. My Clayburn Clinton Jones is the son of John Ray Jones and brother of Ambrose. He was not the famous feudist. I have pictures, census and bible records for this family. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Jlittle7701 Surnames: Little Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.floyd/9815/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Would someone please lookup an obit for me? I am looking for Delpha (Little) McCoy who I understand died in Floyd County in 1924. I can't find a death certificate on her. She is in the 1910 census with children but no husband. She married John P. Caudle-McCoy 8 Dec 1898 in Pike County, KY, and she was born around 1882 so she slides by those census records. I understand she had 9 children but only four in the 1910 census. Did she remary? When did her husband John pass away? Thank you for your kindness. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: jhflann Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.floyd/9814/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I was born in the Town of Martin in 1933. Does anyone known how the "Martin Redevelopment Plan" is progressing. The most recent photos at the plan's web site is from Jun 2008. Did the project run out of money? John Halsey Flannery Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: chickenhawk1192004 Surnames: jones/ray/hall Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.floyd/4.26.163.178.190.2.1.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thea: I believe you, and there are more claibourn jones than we know about, I know of at lest 4 ambrose jones and 3 nathaniel jones, 6 william jones and about7 john jones, the claibourn jones I know of in floyd co is not the feudist either, sorry I should have thought before I answered, I once found a militia roster dated 1813 for nansemond co va with a nathaniel and ambrose jones on it, while at the same time my nathaniel and ambrose jones were in russell co va, I can't say for a fact but I have a hunch the nathaniel jones in my family had a brother named ambrose, but like I said untill we find that nathaniel's parents I don't know for sure......jim Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.