At 08:00 PM 12/9/00 -0800, you wrote: >KYHARDIN-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 125 >>At least now I know why Banner is Banner Friend. I thought it was a >>strange name at first. Banner was the maiden name of his mother! >> >>Phillip Phillps, the Kirkpatricks and the Friends came from Beford >>county PA. [snip] >I was looking for Jesse Friend and caught a note somewhere about family >being in PA. I found Friends all over the place, but had a hard time >connecting. > >Then when I saw the article about Phillip's Fort I remembered seeing a >marriage n Somerset or Bedofrd co PA. > >I'm going back to the library tomorrow PM and will try to get the name >of the book for you. Thank you. >If you can get a hold of the "History of Bedford and Somerset Counties" >at your library it tells about Andrew and his brother coming from VA and >about he founding of Friend's Cove. It's worth the reading. >Have you been on the Friends-L mail list?? No; but, I may check it out. >JoAnn >I was messing with some papers and found a typed copy of Banner's Last >Will and Testament, dared 1793. >Are you related?? I don't know - I don't think so; but, while trying to beat a hole in my ALEXANDER brick wall, I have needed to study the 'cluster' which included FRIENDs, PHILLIPs, LaRUE, ALEXANDER, BOZARTH etc. who settled in Nelson/Hardin, later that part which became LaRue County. Information I have states there were (as I recall off the top of my head) 7 beautiful FRIEND sisters, one married to Phillip PHILLIPS, and when she came to the fort, many of her siblings came along with their families. My problem is not knowing about Andrew ALEXANDERs parents. I think I have his dad identified by a preponderance of evidence; but, by the time that man was in Hardin Co., no wife was mentioned until he married the widow of Joseph BOZARTH. More than you ever wanted to know......... Thanks for the information about the book and FRIEND list. JoAnn JoAnn L. Gemmrig KA7SUZ@att.net ka7suz@eudoramail.com ka7suz@juno.com ICQ 400112