There is an Echols family history, written by Milner Echols about 1850, in which he tells about Vardre McBee whose wife was an Echols. Vardre had 2 sons, Silas and Vardre, and Milner describes one of them as 'a large man'. If anyone wants this Echols story, I can paste it into a message and send it. It is long, but worth reading for a laugh if not genealogy. Incidentally, parts of it that have been checked out are correct. Lila ----- Original Message ----- From: Valorie Zimmerman <valoriez@zimres.net> To: <MCBEE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 9:06 PM Subject: [McBEE] Fwd: Re: Elizabeth CARRICK, dau. of Joseph & Sarah, m. ? McBEE > Subject: Re: Elizabeth CARRICK, dau. of Joseph & Sarah, m. ? McBEE > Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 05:20:34 -0600 > From: Dean Hughson <dean@primenet.com> > > Gatewayed Message Board Post, Classification: Query > Surnames: Carrick, Toomay, McBee - Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HNz.2ACEB/509.1 > > Message Board Post ### Please CLICK THE LINK to Respond ### : > > I once met when I was young (1958-59) my grandmother's uncle Jesse > Carrick,who was a cab driver in Kansas City and originally from Wakenda > Creek area (near Carrollton Missouri)..he was related to us through the > Toomay family and it seems that one of the Carricks married a Toomay. I > am related to the McBees through my fathers family (my ggrandmother was > Carrie McBee,daughter of JW McBee who lived near the McBee Chapel in > rural Braymer Mo). I remember my grandmother telling me that all of the > Carricks were big people,which made sense since Jesse weighed 400 lbs. > He gave us a crippled dog as a present at the time.ha ha....Dean > > http://www.deanhughson.com > > > > ==== MCBEE Mailing List ==== > List Information: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/McBee-L.htm > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

LNiemannG@navix.net wrote: > There is an Echols family history, written by Milner Echols about 1850, in > which he tells about Vardre McBee whose wife was an Echols. Vardre had 2 > sons, Silas and Vardre, and Milner describes one of them as 'a large man'. > If anyone wants this Echols story, I can paste it into a message and send > it. It is long, but worth reading for a laugh if not genealogy. > Incidentally, parts of it that have been checked out are correct. Lila Sounds fascinating, Lila. If you are willing to type it out, I'm sure we would all love to see it. Many of us come through the Vardry-Echols line, or Vardry's siblings. You may want to post it to the board as a Biography, for wider readership. http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/board/rw/surnames.mcbee Valorie