At 10:02 PM 4/28/2004 -0400, DonaRitchi@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 4/27/04 11:03:47 AM, Crashedone@aol.com writes: > ><< 1. CHLOE9 BRASHEAR (ROBERT S.8, JAMES N.7, SAMUEL6, ROBERT C.5, SAMUEL4, >ROBERT3, BENOIN (BENJAMIN)2, ROBERT1 BRASSEUR) was born 07 August 1875 in >Perry >Co. Kentucky, and died 29 October 1930 in Perry Co. Kentucky. She married >JOHN PRATT CAUDILL Unknown in Unknown. He was born Unknown in Unknown. >> > >Should the name of the 2nd generation in the line of descent be BENONI ? This >name is not actually the same as Benjamin. It means something like "son of my >sorrow" and is often given to sons born posthumously (to their fathers). I >come from a line of four Connecticut men called Benoni Plum (after the >first who >was appropriately named, the others were named after their fathers). > >Is there a particularly good source for the Brashears of Virginia & Eastern >Kentucky that anyone could refer me to? > >Thanks, >Dona Ritchie Dona, Charles Brashear has several books he has done on the First 200 Years of Brashear(s) in America. On page 23 of Vol. 1, he writes: "Benois (Benoit, Bennet, Benjamin) Brasseur (Brassieur Brashieur, Brashears, Brashear) the man with so many different spllings to his name was born c1620 in France and was transported (apparently as a teenager) to Va. Benois is first mentioned in the records of Virginia, 12 April 1653, when he appears as a headright on Robert Brasseur's 1200 acre land grant. If born in 1620, he was about 33 years old." Norma from - Middletown Ohio Family Page - http://www. angelfire.com/oh/myfamilygenes