Donna, I'm glad you found out about Cozie; sorry I couldn't get any specific info for you on her whereabouts. How did you learn of her death? Anyone else interested in the Taylors and Wisemans - Cozie wrote a booklet and it is onine at http://www.mindspring.com/~ltward/cozie. It is a bunch of .gif files that are scans of the pages of her booklet. It's about 23 pages long. Leslie > -----Original Message----- > From: Donna Conner [mailto:wdconner@newwave.net] > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 1:04 PM > To: NCAVERY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NCAVERY] 2nd Annual Avery County Heritage Fest > > > Hello: > My name is Donna Conner. I am sorry to but in; but I am looking for a > contact in the Avery County area. Due to a family member getting > married; I > did not get to go to the Avery Festival. > I did visit Avery County last week and that people did not want > to talk. I > don't know if it was me or the the surname TAYLOR. I was in so > much hope to > meet and talk with Ms. Cozie Taylor. Cozie would have been a 3 cousin(I > think); but she passed away in the middle of May. > I am in search of family history & genealogy. Cozie's grandfather and my > gg-grandfather were brothers. Her Taylor family is through James > Taylor and > my Taylor family is through Hugh Taylor. They were brothers that came to > North Carolina from Jefferson, SC. Hugh settled in Upper Creek, Burke > County, North Carolina. James went to Buck Hill. I am wanting to learn > about my Taylor relatives. > My Taylor lines goes like this: Hugh Taylor, gg-grandfather; Hugh son; > William is my great-grandfather; William's son, Zebulon Lee Taylor was my > grandfather; Zebulon's daughter, Lois is my mother. > William was a very "colorful" man. He was convicted of murder and served > time in prison. He was married 3 or 4 times. He had children by his wife > and by his two stepdaughters. This is one of the reason I feel that my > grandfather, Zeb Taylor, left Burke County. Plus, times were > very hard back > then. Once you were established; esepcially if it was a long > distance from > home, it was hard to get the money up to travel that distances. > Especially > when you have 10 children to feed and clothe. > My grandfather, Zebulon, died in Oct. 1954 due to an accident > with a hunting > gun. My grandmother, Ella Amanda Toliver Taylor, died Jan 1952. > I was born > Jan 1954. > With all these factors, I fill kinda of left out. I would love > to know more > about my heritage. > Any help would be grately appreicated, > Donna C. (WV) > -----Original Message----- > From: Graig S Blevins <csblev@hci.net> > To: NCAVERY-L@rootsweb.com <NCAVERY-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 5:26 PM > Subject: Re: [NCAVERY] 2nd Annual Avery County Heritage Fest > > > >Hi Audrey, > >If Hannah Lusk is from Avery County, then yes. I am just start > working on > >my family tree. My father is William Kane Lusk and my mother is Irene > >Hughes Lusk both are from Avery County. > >Brenda > > > > >