Gloria Fay Dixon should still be alive. She married Howard E. Day 8 March 1990 in Harlan County, KY. You could probably look them up in www.whitepages.com if you wanted to call them. Barbara On Dec 27, 2007 6:12 PM, Bev <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Sharon, > I had not seen anyone on this list researching the Dixon line. Do you have > an Elmer Dixon who married a Gerldine Adams? They have one daughter, I think > her name is Faye but not real sure of any of the spellings on the first > names. Gerldine and Elmer would be 70- 80 years old if they were still alive > but I don't think they are. If you have these folks in your files please > contact me. > Thanks > > Sharon Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Abner Lewis and Eleanor Dixon are two of my GGGG-grandparents. Even > though I knew there had to be more children, all I had to this point > was my own direct line beginning with their daughter Leah Lewis. > > Leah Lewis married William Conrad Coldiron on 20 Feb 1830; they had 15 > children, with one son named Hiram. As with all our Harlan families, > each generation reused the same names, over and over, naming their kids > for themselves, their parents, their uncles and aunts, their siblings, > etc. Maddening, isn't it? > > One little hint: our families are so entwined that you can sometimes > track an elusive ancestor by examining the families they married into. > For example, one of my favorite family histories is Otto Coldiron's > wonderful work on the Coldiron family; there is lots of sound > information on other family lines in this book. Of course this book > made it easy for me; my Lewis line turned into a Coldiron line, and so > loads of information was available. > > I always have to confess that when I first began to do family research > I did not have enough sense to keep track of sources. Early on, a > researcher gave me a copy of a photo that is supposed to be of Abner > Lewis Coldiron (son of Leah Lewis and Wm. Conrad Coldiron) and Lucy Ann > Ball. But I do not know where they obtained the photo. > > Good luck on your research. > > Sharon > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > --------------------------------- > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >