Please note that this is a forwarded message and respond to: ccole@powerlink.net (Carol Cole) In a message dated 4/13/00 8:50:45 PM Central Daylight Time, ccole@powerlink.net writes: > Subj: Markhams > Date: 4/13/00 8:50:45 PM Central Daylight Time > From: ccole@powerlink.net (Carol Cole) > To: BMarble@aol.com > > Dear Brenda, > I saw you referred to on genforum somewhere as "the owner of the Markham > list." I don't know what that means, but it prompts me to write and ask > whether you have anything on Leila Belle Markham of Durham, NC, b. 7 Sep 1880 > at Durham. Her parents were John Leslie and Eleanor Blackwell Markham. John > Leslie or his father I think was founder of the Bull Durham Tobacco Company > in Durham. My mother thinks JLM or his father may have come from Virginia, I > believe. > Leila Belle was my maternal grandmother. I never knew her. One of my sisters > has Markham for a middle name, and so does one of my sons. I would really > like to know more of John Leslie's line, hope you can help. > Thanks in advance.