Darrell, This is really good Parson information. I can't find an e-mail address for Warren so I'm posting this to the Bladen List in hopes that he might see it. Thank you for your willingness to share. Dee For details on sources used, refer to this link: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbladen/lookups.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Darrell Dunlop <darrelldunlop@home.com> To: Dee Thompson <d7777@worldnet.att.net> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 7:12 PM Subject: Re: PML Search Result matching "VINCENT PARSONS" Dear Dee: I don't know whether my Parsons info will be any help or not. You mentioned Anson Co., NC wills of Charlotte Parsons and Vincent Parsons. Charlotte DeBerry Kirby, widow of James Martin, married Vincent Parsons (Sr.) in 1841. She died in Tennesse in 1844 while returning from Texas where she went to visit her son, Edmund DeBerry Martin. I suspect that her will was not probated until Vincent Sr. died; I have no idea why. Vincent Parsons, Sr. was born circa 1783 in Maryland and went to Anson Co., NC around 1804. He settled near Old Morven and purchased several tracts of land. He first married Mary (or Nancy) Covington and they had 5 children. Their son, Vincent Parsons, Jr. was born 11 Oct 1822 in Anson Co., NC and died 12 June 1888. There were several Parsons families in Anson Co., NC. At this time, I know of no connections between the Francis Parsons family and the Robert H. Parsons family with my Vincent Parsons families. There is at least one connection to the family of Hilliard Crawford Parsons, a Methodist minister in Wadesboro, NC, who died in 1866. One interesting tidbit is that one family historian said that Vincent Sr. had a daughter named Sarah who married a Mr. Helms and moved to Mississippi. I have no documentation on this. Subject: PML Search Result matching "VINCENT PARSONS" > Source: NCBLADEN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NCBLADEN-L] MARRIAGES > > > Warren, > You're asking all the right questions we just haven't found the > answers yet. > > From # 11 paraphrased > Charlotte Parsons (1858), Francis Parsons (1801), Hilliard Parsons > (1866), Robert H. Parsons (1845), and Vincent Parsons (1889) all have > Wills on file in Anson County, NC. > > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbladen/lookups.htm > Dee, > > about 1813/15 for Amite County, Mississippi, with their families and > the > Francis Parsons family of Anson County, NC. When Francis died in NC, > some of > his children then migrated to MS with their own and the Parker > families. > In 1820, Elizabeth > Parker > was listed as head of household in the census, and there is extensive > documentation on her and her family after that. > > My brick wall is connecting Elizabeth (maiden name unknown) to her > husband, > ?? Parker. I can find no marriage records from NC that connect any > Elizabeth > to any Parker in the right time frame to make sense. Nor have I been > able to > find records of who the Parkers were that migrated along with the > Parsons > family to MS. Elizabeth maintained connections to the Parsons family > until > her death, and had two Parsons women living with her during several > census > periods. So she may have been a Parsons herself, but no records prove > this. >