Excerpted from Lila's fascinating post, which unfortunately was MUCH too long to post to the list. I have posted the entire text to the Echols board, http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=surnames.echols&m=357 I hope this is an acceptable solution, Lila? -v HISTORY OF ECHOLS FAMILY by MILNER ECHOLS 1850 [portion] Old William Echols daughters married William Wynne, Vardre McBee and Daniel Williams and Richard Anderson. Of Wynne's family I know nothing as they moved to Tennessee in an early date. Old Vardre McBee moved from Virginia to South Carolina before the Revolutionary War and was a Capt. In that army and was said to have done as much damage to the British and Torries in that part of the country as any Capt. In that country. He had two sons, to wit, Silas and Vardre. Silas was a very large man, went to Mississippi and died there. I know nothing of his family. Vardre still lives in South Carolina, Greenville District. He has six children, only one married, that a daughter, married a Mr. Carson. He has one daughter Malinda single, one son Luther, the rest I don't know their names. He is said to be the richest man in that part of the state. His property is estimated at one million dollars. Old Vardre has several daughters. I don't know their names. One married a man by name of Ross. How many children she had I know not. I only know one of her sons who is by name of Rice F. Ross. One married a man by name of Asher. They have one son in Dade County, Georgia, by name of William Asher, a very smart man. That is all I know of that family.

Yes - that's great! Lila ----- Original Message ----- From: Valorie Zimmerman <valoriez@zimres.net> To: <MCBEE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 12:56 AM Subject: [McBEE] Echols - Vardre McBEE from old Echols family history > Excerpted from Lila's fascinating post, which unfortunately was MUCH too > long to post to the list. I have posted the entire text to the Echols > board, > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=surnames.echols&m=357 > > I hope this is an acceptable solution, Lila? -v > > HISTORY OF ECHOLS FAMILY by MILNER ECHOLS 1850 [portion] > > Old William Echols daughters married William Wynne, Vardre McBee and > Daniel Williams and Richard Anderson. Of Wynne's family I know nothing > as they moved to Tennessee in an early date. > > Old Vardre McBee moved from Virginia to South Carolina before the > Revolutionary War and was a Capt. In that army and was said to have done > as much damage to the British and Torries in that part of the country as > any Capt. In that country. He had two sons, to wit, Silas and Vardre. > Silas was a very large man, went to Mississippi and died there. I know > nothing of his family. Vardre still lives in South Carolina, Greenville > District. He has six children, only one married, that a daughter, > married a Mr. Carson. He has one daughter Malinda single, one son > Luther, the rest I don't know their names. He is said to be the richest > man in that part of the state. His property is estimated at one million > dollars. Old Vardre has several daughters. I don't know their names. One > married a man by name of Ross. How many children she had I know not. I > only know one of her sons who is by name of Rice F. Ross. One married a > man by name of Asher. They have one son in Dade County, Georgia, by name > of William Asher, a very smart man. That is all I know of that family. > > > ==== MCBEE Mailing List ==== > RootsWeb forbids posting of copyrighted material without > permission of the author. Read RootsWeb's Acceptable Use Policy > at http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/aup.html > > ============================== > 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 > >