This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Godsey, Graybeal, Jones, Tompkins, Wilborn Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EBB.2ACE/2585 Message Board Post: An Overview of Current Research on the Lines of Eli Tompkins, Elizabeth Wilborn, and Mary Jane Godsey of Laurel County Kentucky Dear Laurel county mailing list, There has been much discussion regarding the ancestry and descendants of Eli Tompkins, his two known wives, Elizabeth Wilborn and Mary Jane Godsey, and whether or not there may have been another spouse after Elizabeth, named Martha Beatty, or even an additional spouse before Elizabeth, named Sarah. This overview is meant to be a step towards clarifying what has become a very tangled web. I am a descendant of Mary Jane Godsey and Eli via their two sons Reece Tompkins and Daniel Huseton Tompkins. If you have stories, documents, additions, corrections, questions, I encourage you to post them here, so all may benefit by pooling our knowledge. If you think you may have answers to some of the questions posed by the article, then let us know! This article consists of 3 parts: Part 1: http://home.earthlink.net/~arran6/cgen/t1.htm An overview of the current research, including my own and the research of Gail and Mel Tompkins and Lynn Krowczyk, which has been very helpful in writing this article. Part 1 is in 3 sections: * Eli’s parents * Martha Beatty, Elizabeth Wilborn, and Sarah * Mary Jane Godsey Part 2: http://home.earthlink.net/~arran6/cgen/t2.htm A genealogy report generated by Family Tree Makers software, showing 2 generations of descendants of Eli, Mary Jane, and Elizabeth. Whenever I refer in Part 1 to “the data notes below,” these are always to be found in Part 2, the data portion of the article. Part 3: http://home.earthlink.net/~arran6/cgen/t3.htm A transcription of the article “Traces of Laurel: Tompkins of Laurel Co.” from the Sentinel Echo Sept. 1987. It was prepared by Geneva Pope of the Laurel County Historical Society for a descendant of Eli, Doris Robertson of Indiana. Footnotes have now been added to the original article to answer some of the questions the article poses and expand on some of its details.

I saw your post on the Laurel County site and wanted to know if you have a Nancy Greybeal ,born 15 Feb. 1842 who married David W. Reams ,22 Jan 1869 in Laurel County in your files.I would appreciate any information you could share. Richard Reams At 07:05 PM 1/22/2005 -0700, you wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Surnames: Godsey, Graybeal, Jones, Tompkins, Wilborn >Classification: Biography > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EBB.2ACE/2585 > >Message Board Post: > >An Overview of Current Research on the Lines of Eli Tompkins, Elizabeth >Wilborn, and Mary Jane Godsey of Laurel County Kentucky > >Dear Laurel county mailing list, >There has been much discussion regarding the ancestry and descendants of >Eli Tompkins, his two known wives, Elizabeth Wilborn and Mary Jane Godsey, >and whether or not there may have been another spouse after Elizabeth, >named Martha Beatty, or even an additional spouse before Elizabeth, named >Sarah. > >This overview is meant to be a step towards clarifying what has become a >very tangled web. I am a descendant of Mary Jane Godsey and Eli via their >two sons Reece Tompkins and Daniel Huseton Tompkins. > >If you have stories, documents, additions, corrections, questions, I >encourage you to post them here, so all may benefit by pooling our >knowledge. If you think you may have answers to some of the questions >posed by the article, then let us know! > >This article consists of 3 parts: > >Part 1: http://home.earthlink.net/~arran6/cgen/t1.htm >An overview of the current research, including my own and the research of >Gail and Mel Tompkins and Lynn Krowczyk, which has been very helpful in >writing this article. >Part 1 is in 3 sections: >* Eli’s parents >* Martha Beatty, Elizabeth Wilborn, and Sarah >* Mary Jane Godsey > >Part 2: http://home.earthlink.net/~arran6/cgen/t2.htm >A genealogy report generated by Family Tree Makers software, showing 2 >generations of descendants of Eli, Mary Jane, and Elizabeth. Whenever I >refer in Part 1 to “the data notes below,” these are always to be >found in Part 2, the data portion of the article. > >Part 3: http://home.earthlink.net/~arran6/cgen/t3.htm >A transcription of the article “Traces of Laurel: Tompkins of Laurel >Co.” from the Sentinel Echo Sept. 1987. It was prepared by Geneva Pope >of the Laurel County Historical Society for a descendant of Eli, Doris >Robertson of Indiana. Footnotes have now been added to the original >article to answer some of the questions the article poses and expand on >some of its details. > > > > >==== KYLAUREL Mailing List ==== > To subscribe or unsubscribe to this list send an email to: > KYLAUREL-L-request@rootsweb.com >In the MESSAGE type the one word .... SUBSCRIBE (or UNSUBSCRIBE)