OOOPs..I forgot to ask!! Is Price Summers who m Martha Stone from your line???? Did any of your Edwards marry into the Stone family Line??? I have Taylors, Edwards, Summers in my family!!! :} Mindvoice@msn.com -----Original Message----- From: REdwards <msre@home.com> To: MOSTONE-L@rootsweb.com <MOSTONE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, April 29, 2000 8:33 PM Subject: Re: [MOSTONE-L] Surnames - HOBBS, ROBERTS, RIDER, VANDERPOOL >Hi Joy, > >I too descend from the Leonard's. David Leonard is the common >ancestor. His wife was Mary Sanders, sister to Peter Sanders. The two >families migrated to Stone Co about 1848 (while still Taney of course) from >Jackson Co Al. My Edwards also came from there, as well as the John >Taylors and the Summers. > >4 sons of David and Mary joined the 1st Ark Cav and died within a week of >each other of pneumonia in Fayetteville about 1863. Can you imagine the >shock to the parents!!! 2 of the brothers, William Henry (my ancestor) >and George Redmond Leonard had small children when the brothers died. >Another brother , Aaron Andrew Jackson Leonard, joined late in the war >,survived, and was the administrator for David when he died in 1880. Those >records are in Barry Co. Aaron AJ moved to Tx and later to Idaho, had a >large number of descendants, one of whom seems to have had the family bible >based on the list of David and Mary's children I have. > >The Hobbs, Riders, Leonards, and Hendrickson's are in Mildred Roden's 'Our >Bilyeu Family' since the Bilyeu's married into several of those >families. These names are associated with the McCullough community and >lived from Viola to Nauvoo in Williams township. > >So cousin, what is your connection to the Leonard's? >Rich Edwards >Asheville NC > >At 04:21 PM 04/29/2000 -0500, you wrote: >>Hi All, >> >>I just recently joined this list - & thought I'd throw out my >>primary Stone County Surnames, as well as LEONARD & HENDRICKSON. >> >>I am trying to find a map that shows the Township boundaries in >>relation to the >>census'. Does anyone have a link for one? >> >>Based on your recent emails, it appears you are a fairly active >>message group & certainly try to help each other. That's great >>news! >> >> >>Joy >