Barb, I am not sure if I corresponded with you before. Moses Meares's sister, Mary Ann, was my gg-grandmother. She married James Wesley Grimes in Bladen County. My Mother was a Grimes. I was on a genealogy search in Elizabethtown, Whiteville, and Lumberton, NC about two weeks ago. At the libraries in Whiteville and Lumberton, there is a book entitled "The Meares Family". It ties our Bladen, Columbus, and Robeson Counties Meares to those in old Accomack County, VA through Mark Meares of old Dobbs County, NC. However, I visited Accomac County, VA this Spring and they have only one Mark Mear(e)s listed and show he died there. Maybe there were two Mark Mear(e)s in old Accomack County, VA. See my web page at http://jimcooke.tripod.com Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "CBN" <maushaus@ametro.net> To: <NCBLADEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 3:20 PM Subject: [NCBLADEN-L] Meares/Mears of Bladen > Allen, > I am also a Meares descendant and I am searching for burial places of my > ancestors in Bladen. In particular I am searching for Jesse Meares and his > wife. He was in the 1800 Census, but not the 1810. His son Moses was born > circa 1805 (in the 1850 Robeson Census he gives his age as 45. I feel that > Jesse and wife died in Bladen between 1805-1810. Other than that one census > entry for Jesse I can find no other proof that he existed. Could you please > check your Bladen cemetery book for the Meares/Mears? Thanks so much! > Barb