Virginia, do you have any more information on S.B. Ashley (I only have his initials.) who married Fredonia E. McNeil, daughter of Daniel and Edna White McNeil, Jr. (or II)? I don't have much on their son, Ransom?/Ranson? Ashley, who married Emma Seale, though I have 8 children's names. All I have on them came from Rev. Martin Luther White's 1925 family tree for Robin White and Mary Hux and John Lewis Coon and Mary Fannon, which has very few dates. Kathy Schultz kathysschultz@earthlink.net >Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 >From: "Virgina Ewing" <vewing65@ctesc.net> >Subject: [MSWILKIN] Ashley DNA results >To: <MSWILKIN-L@rootsweb.com> > >For our Wilkinson Co. MS Ashley family, I had my male cousin do a DNA >sample. His sample matched with another descendant of John D. Ashley [no >surprise] and James Thomas Ashley, b. 1876 Coahoma Co., MS. >I have not been able to trace this line but still have hopes of doing so. >The lady working this line thinks they connect to the Robert Ashley of >Claiborne Co., MS but we haven't been able to prove it, at this time. >One thing we do know is, Robert Ashley of Claiborne co. had a brother >named Thomas and when Thomas died, his brother, John Ashley, did the >probate in Adams Co. MS. 1804. >We have not proved this John Ashley was our John D. Ashley whose daughter >md. in Amite Co. MS, 1809. Still working on it. > >We have new connections that show we have a common ancestor, about 14 >generations away, to the descendant of Cary Ashley b. sometimes in the >1800s in Jefferson County, Tenn. or Wilkes co. NC. > I was sent material that showed this Cary Ashley as the descendant of >William Ashley b. 1782 Surry co. NC >[I was told by the lady who understands the DNA codes [which I don't] >that this line would connect somewhere back in England.] > >Our other connections was a line of Ashleys in Somerset England, the >first of the known line being Edward Ashley, b. c1652 Somerset England. > >Virginia