Every family should have one of him - and I think one would suffice. What was his name? There is nothing listed on your Formyduval in The Huguenots of South Carolina. Dee For details on sources used, refer to this link: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbladen/lookups.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: <Bulletetal@aol.com> To: <NCBLADEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 7:48 PM Subject: Re: [NCBLADEN-L] Huguenots How about the Formyduvals of Columbus county. One story has them hiding out in the Green Swamp for years until they got some kind of all clear message. My relative was Doctor Jean Prosper Formyduval who I'm told is the immigrant. Anything eye opening on them. I'm still looking for a real exciting relative on my side. Even the womanizing and boozing on my side were not colorful. They were just drunks and adulters. Now my husbands side is full of fun. I'm following one who was a civil war hero. He came home and moved his aunts house slave in and had 5 children. He made big bucks so that in the 1930's The Bank of Monroeville (Alabama that is) asked him to buy them out . He did. His children were all well educated. He seemed to function well in the black and white communities between 1860 and 1935(when he died.) Why did the KKK not come after him? His house was a standard appearing farmhouse of the day but behind it was a covered breezeway to another house called the bedroom house. It had 6 bedrooms nothing else. I got this from talking with his grandaughter who was 25 when he died and in the room with him. The stories go on and on on him. He had a Lincoln car which he liked but he disliked President Lincoln so he had his car painted confederate grey. He left 6 siblings 75000 dollars (that is almost a million today) in 1935 when he died. He left his black wife 1000 acres and the new Buick car. The neat thing about this is that all the tales I've heard about him turn out to be true. Now that is a fun ancestor and connections to him come right out of the middle of Colly Swamp. Kay