unsubscribe NASH-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Subject: > > NASH-D Digest Volume 97 : Issue 41 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Nash, Sylvester, married to Lilly ["Kimberly and Brian" <knbnash@ix.n] > #2 Walker Nash, Anson Spring area nor ["Kimberly and Brian" <knbnash@ix.n] > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Nash, Sylvester, married to Lilly Beers in NY > Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 17:59:48 -0700 > From: "Kimberly and Brian" <knbnash@ix.netcom.com> > To: <Nash-l@rootsweb.com> > > Hello, I am looking for a Sylvester Nash who married my grandmother's aunt > Lillian Beers. Sylvester was Jewish and his son Sylvester Jr. married a > catholic and changed to be catholic. There was also a dau. named Angela > Nash. The children would of been born about 1910 or so. My grandmother > thought they were about 10 years older then herself and she was born in > 1922. The family lived lin Glen Cove, Long Island, NY I am not sure if > that is also where Sylvester Nash and his family lived. > > I would love to get in touch with a member of this family since I have now > married a Nash and think it would be neat to see if the families were > related. Also I have tapped out my grandma's memory on the Beers family > and would love to know if Sylvester Jr. is still alive and might know more > about the family and poss. remember some of the people in the pictures that > I have that my grandmother does not remember. > > I have located one Sylvester Nash in the Who's who thing on the internet > and he lives in Ark. so I am going to write to him to see if it is someone > from the family. > > I have alot of info on the Nash's from NC and some in Ar. if anyone is > interested. > > Please help me find the long lost Nash's who married the Beers family. > > Thanks, Kimberly Nash > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Walker Nash, Anson Spring area north of Marshville, NC > Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 07:56:26 -0700 > From: "Kimberly and Brian" <knbnash@ix.netcom.com> > To: <Nash-L@rootsweb.com> > > Hello, > I have been doing alot of research on my husband's Nash family and I ran > across an old article talking about a Murder. From the area that the paper > talks about I have to guess that this family is connected with mine and > that the older relatives have cut this family out of any records. > > The paper mentions a Walker Nash having a son named Tom Nash who killed a > lady he was seeing who also happened to be the mother of his child and had > one on the way. There is also an Edith Nash and a Lovey Nash also > mentioned in the story. This all happened in 1844. > > Here is a little of the interesting story. > Patsy Beasly was murdered about 12 miles north of Marshville in a little > finger of Anson a few hundred yards from the Union Co. line. > > According to the old people Tom and Patsy were "carrying on an affair" > which resulted in the young women expecting another child. This was August > of 1844, and Patsy had carried her small son, whose name has long been > forgotten to a spring near the now abandoned Jesse Parker Store. She went > to do the family wash. > > There is conflict about how long Patsy was missing before her body was > found. The most of the old people in Union and Anson and Stanly say Patsy > was missing for three days before her body was found in the woods near the > spring. > > According to this version, her body was rotting in the summer heat and her > infant son was found crawling around on the ground near the body of his > mother. > > The abandoment of the little boy certainly seemed a factor in the public > opinion which largely believed that "hanging was too good for the man who > killed Patsy Beasly". > > Patsy had been shot, stoned and "stomped". Neighbors came in and built a > rail fence around her body to protect it from the hogs that roamed freely > in the country side because there was then no stock law. > > Legend says that the little boy was taken by a well-to-do family, was > reared and became a very useful citizen. > > (this is neat) The Primitive Baptist minister was preaching his Sunday > sermon at Jerusalem Church and he took the Patsy Beasly murder for his > topic. Before opening the Bible for his text, he laid a rather large flint > rock on the pulpit. As he unfolded the foul murder of Patsy Beasly, he > suddenly seized the rock and said: "The man who killed Patsy Beasly is in > this church house and I am going to smash his head with this rock" He > picked up the stone and drew back his arm as if to hurl it. It was August > and the windows were open. Young Tom Nash jumped through an open window > and ran like a jackrabbit. > > Of course he was caught and found guilty of the murder, and he was > sentanced to be hung in Troy on Friday, the 8th of Oct. 1847. > > The article came for Messenger and Intelligencer Wadesboro, NC 9-8-1971 > some of it is missing incase someone could get me the rest of the article > it might have more clues on who Thomas and Walker were related to. > > Hope I did not upset anyone by posting this but as you all know there is > good and bad in every family. > > As a church sign I saw in Va this summer said. There is some sap in every > family tree. > > Thanks, Kimberly Nash