Marilyn, I think the local Historical Society has indicated that some of their members will do some work for minimal fees. I do not know the particulars but I would suggest them for a start. They have a very active group of dedicated people. No doubt, you should get a response from the post. Nola

I also would be interested in any recommendations you might have. Rae Jean in Tennessee raejean1@earthlink.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Symonds" <wbsysite@swbell.net> To: <NCCASWEL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 1:18 PM Subject: Caswell County researcher needed : Can anyone recommend a knowledgeable researcher? : : Marilyn Symonds : : : ============================== : To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: : http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 :

Can anyone recommend a knowledgeable researcher? Marilyn Symonds

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RSB.2ACE/291.519.1.2.1.1.3 Message Board Post: Hi Essie, We have communicated before regarding the Gabriels...had a couple of questions that I thought I would toss your way. You have birthdates for both Jr. & Sr.; have seen different ones for Jr. 1766, 1768 and 1756. How did you determine which date was correct? The Overwharton parish christening record disagrees with son John's pension record info. Have also seen another wife for Jr., which makes sense, but haven't ever found any record of that. Have you? And in regard to Sr., where did you find the birth date 1735? Haven't been able to find much on him or his wife, other than she might have been a "Mary". Are the Gabriel and John Murpheys mentioned in the Prince William Co. poll for the house of Burgess in 1742 our crew? What about the undertaker Gabriel Murphey at the church in Quantico in 1752? Just wondered if you have been able to sort out any of this...feel like I have hit the brick wall when it comes to Gabriel Sr. Although--have you seen the rootsweb listing where Gabriel & Archibald Murphy are listed as brothers? Both sons of Alexander of Ireland? I haven't seen evidence of that, other than they both were in Caswell which might make them distant cousins maybe... It seems to me that our Murphy bunch is from the Prince William, Culpepper VA area while the Archibald/Alexander bunch is from Penn. Although I guess their ancestors may have originated in the same location. Seems puzzling... Would like to know your thoughts on these Gabriel issues... Thanks for your time

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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Williams, Wells, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RSB.2ACE/1681 Message Board Post: I am attempting to locate information on the Williams family from whom came Sarah Williams who married Stephen Well 15 September 1802, as his second wife. The marriage bond was issued in Orange County, which may have been the home county of the bride. Stephen was a resident of Caswell County, son of Miles and Frusanna Wells of the same. I know that some Williams were residents of Caswell County, and just want to be sure of the true home residence of Sarah. Best regards, John Fox Winston Salem, NC

Selena, Regarding your request for Hosea TAPLEY will look-up, Reference CASWELL COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA WILL BOOKS 1777-1814... Abstracts by Katharine Kerr Kendall, Index by Mary Frances Kerr Donaldson, 1979; reprinted, Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc Baltimore, Maryland, 1997 p. 7, Will Book A, Page 139, June Court 1781, Hosea TAPLEY - Will - w. 24 Oct 1780. Wife Sarah; son-in-law John Short; Exec: wife and John Short, Wit: William Rankin, Ambrose Arnold, Proved on oath of David Mitchell. I believe I purchased the reprint from Genealogical Publishing Co. in November 1998. 1001 N. Calvert Street, Baltimore, Maryland, 21202 (also 200 East Eager Street, Balt. MD) I do not find Marriage Bonds for any REDMAN's in Caswell County 1778-1868 Reference CASWELL COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA DEED BOOKS 1777-1817... Abstracts by Katharine Kerr Kendall, 1989; Southern Historical Press, Inc. c/o The Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr. P.O. Box 738 Easley, South Carolina 29641-0738 p. 1, Deed Book A, Page 5, Hosea TAPLEY of Orange Co. to John Pryor Tapley and Hosea Tapley Jun. his grandsons, 639 A on N side Flat River. 6 Nov 1775 Ronnie Weiss, in Virginia -----Original Message----- From: Dennis & Selena Goodin [mailto:srg@conninc.com] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 7:20 AM To: NCCASWEL-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Hosea Tapley Will Lookup I have been searching for the Caswell County, NC Will Books and find that they are out of print. Could someone please help me locate the Will of Hosea Tapley? It is supposedly dated 1781, page 139, Caswell County, NC, Will Book A dated 1777-1783. His daughter, Mary Elizabeth, married Thomas Erastus Redman. I am trying to located siblings of Mary Elizabeth and siblings/parents of Thomas Erastus.They were in Lunenburg County in 1777 when Thomas Erastus was in the Revolutionary War. Any help appreciated. Selena Goodin srg@conninc.com ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

I have been searching for the Caswell County, NC Will Books and find that they are out of print. Could someone please help me locate the Will of Hosea Tapley? It is supposedly dated 1781, page 139, Caswell County, NC, Will Book A dated 1777-1783. His daughter, Mary Elizabeth, married Thomas Erastus Redman. I am trying to located siblings of Mary Elizabeth and siblings/parents of Thomas Erastus.They were in Lunenburg County in 1777 when Thomas Erastus was in the Revolutionary War. Any help appreciated. Selena Goodin srg@conninc.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RSB.2ACE/954.1 Message Board Post: My family name is Hightower/Jackson I live in Pa i have very little info but if you have any more names maybe i can help my fathers name is Barry his fathers name was reginald

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HARRIS, HARGIS, CLAYTON, GRANT, MORTON, EPPERSON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RSB.2ACE/1680.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: John, my gg gf is James Oliver Hargis that married Mary N. Harris, James is the son of Orville Hargis that married Susan Bradsher, Orville Hargis is the son of Richard Hargis, Jr. that married Nancy Pearce, and I believe that Richard, Jr. is the son of Richard Nalley Hargis. On the Holsomback's, William T. is an older brother to my g gf George Washington Holsomback, both are children of Henry and Nancy Grant Holsomback. I knew that William married Nancy Royster, but I wasn't sure who her parents were. I did notice in the 1850 Person Co. Census that Mary Ann Holsomback, William's grandmother, is on the same page as William H. Royster with a daughter Nancey and a son Solomon. Is Wm. H. the father of Nancy? Family records had indicated that William T. Holsomback had moved to Texas after the Civil War, but I haven't been able to prove this; I did find Wm. T. and Nancy in the 1870 and 1880 Person Co. Census, but not the 1900. Do you know if any pictures exist of Wm. T. and Nancy, or any other relatives that may have any? Later I would like to check to see if you have a Royster-Harris connection . On the Coleman name, there is a story as told to me by my grandmother. I am not related to the Coleman's that I know of. My grandfather, Frank P. Riggs, had a disease as a young called black leg, I don't know anything about the disease, but the local doctor in Caswell Co. wanted to amputate his leg, but my g gf, Preston D. Riggs, didn't want this to happen, so he took my gf to Hurdle Mills to see a doctor named Dr. Joseph Ira Coleman. My grandfather Riggs told the Dr. that if he could cure his leg that he would name his first male child after him, hence, my father's name is Frank Coleman Riggs, and my parents passed the name down to me.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hargis, Hudgins, Holsomback, Royster, Satterfield, Coleman, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RSB.2ACE/1680.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello Larry, I am a descendant of Shadrack Hargis, through his daughter Nancy who married my ancestor, Thomas Hudgins. What's your connection? Are you familiar with a William T. Holsomback? He was married to an ancestral aunt, Nancy Royster, sister of my ancestor, Solomon Royster. Solomon was married to Sarah Jay Satterfield, whose family lived on Highway 49 on the way to Roxboro. And your middle name is very familiar to me. I grew up with a lot of Colemans in Alamance County who had connections to the Colemans who lived on Higway 49 from Alamance County to Person. I was born in Person County, but grew up in Alamance County. John

From the Saline co Mo page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mosaline/history.htm SETTLEMENT OF EDMONDSON'S BOTTOM - The first settler in this locality was he for whom it was afterward named -- Richard Edmondson .. Like the other bottoms, Edmonson's contained plenty of rush and peavine pasturage, and afforded fine range for stock, both summer and winter. Cattle and hogs 'boarded themselves' during the winter, and came out looking fat and thrifty in the spring. The soil was exceptionally productive, and furnished corn, beans, potatoes, etc., in abundance, and of good quality. At quite an early day, flat-boats and keel-boats took cargoes of produce, as well as other commodities, from the settlement -- bacon, corn, potatoes, furs, peltries, etc., -- down the river to St. Charles, St. Louis, Herculaneum, and other points on the Mississippi below. year of arrival if mentioned) pp156-158 Henry Brown 1818 James Brown 1818 James Burlison 1818 Richard Cummings 1817 (from TN) Uriah Davis 1818 (from KY) Rice Downey 1818 Samuel Duckworth 1820 Richard Edmondson prior to 1816 (native of Madison Co. KY) Abel Garrett 1816 (Loudon County, VA) Jonathan Harris 1819 (with sons Timothy & Wm. from KY) Adam Hopper 1817 (from VA) William Hopper 1817 (from VA) Isaiah Huff 1818 William Ish 1820 James Kuykendall 1820 William McDaniel 1818 (from TN) Thomas Rogers 1817 (from TN) Mr. Rucker 1817 Daniel Stout 1817 Daniel Tillman 1817 (from VA) Thomas Tillman 1817 (from VA) James Wells 1818 Mrs. Wheeler 1819 (widow of Thomas with sons Samuel, William and Alfred from KY) James Wilkinson 1818 William J. Wolfskill 1818 (from Madison Co KY) John Young 1817 (from VA) George Yount 1817 Chuck > Yes, quite a few North Carolinians migrated to Kentucky. One cannot always > determine these migrations unless you study some of those with common names > (Williams, Harris, Simpson, even Oldham) as a group. > > In Madison Co. (near Clark Co., KY) Boonesborough, named for Daniel Boone > of western North Carolina, was founded [some may quarrel with that word] by > Col. Richard Henderson of Granville Co. and a group of his associates, who > were mostly from Granville Co. and Caswell Co., NC, with perhaps some from > Orange Co. and that area. > > Some of these families were greatly intermarried, and that is why one has > to study them as a group. > > There were many disputes about land claims in Kentucky, and a Kentucky > court of appeals was set up. A couple of genealogists, Michael L. Cook and > his wife [now widow] Bettie Cummings Cooke of Indiana, have transcribed and > published some of the early court records of Kentucky, and one can find > depositions of some early settlers, telling with whom they associated, etc. > Access the LDS online catalog at <A > HREF="www.familysearch.org">www.familysearch.org</A> to find the exact > titles of these books. Perhaps you can interlibrary loan some of them > through your public library, but probably NOT from the Family History > Library in Salt Lake City. Films can generally be borrowed through a > nearby LDS center, but not books. > > Also, in Caswell Co. deeds, I find sometimes that people who have already > migrated elsewhere (say, to Tennessee or Kentucky), are selling their > property in Caswell Co., and the deed may begin thusly: > > *Nathan Williams of Montgomery Co., TN..... * or *Joseph Williams of > Madison Co., KY....* (This is how I discovered migrations of several sons > of Henry Williams, deceased ca 1786 in Caswell Co.) > > Other Kentucky counties were also targets of migration--Henderson Co., KY > was a magnet for many North Carolinians. In fact, the deed books describe > some of the property "Henderson & Co. grant." > > I hope this helps you understand that our ancestors had wanderlust. > Tobacco, I am told, wears out the soil, and people are on the move to find > newer land. Our red-skinned brethren had to move on or cede [it is said] > the land. > > Hope this helps. History goes hand-in-hand with genealogy. > > E.W.Wallace > > PS for Chuck: Suggest you subscribe to both Madison Co. KY rootsweb as > well as Harris-Hunters. Ask me for addresses if you don't have them. > > I suspect John Harris, reported father of Elizabeth, MAY be the son of > Christopher Harris the elder of Madison Co., formerly of Albemarle Co., VA. > If so, then he is a half-brother of my Overton Harris (d. 1827 in Madison > Co.). I have some info about John Harris but not about his children. I > can follow these families only so far. John did have a sister named > Elizabeth. From the info you give, I cannot determine whether Elizabeth is > his sister or his daughter. EWW

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RIGGS, SMITH, RUDD, HOLSOMBACK, PHILLIPS, STEPHENS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RSB.2ACE/1680.1.1.1 Message Board Post: John, I've only been in Alabama for about 15 years and grew up around that area of NC, my grandparents Frank P. and Mary Riggs lived in Prospect Hill and ran a Service Station right below the old Prospect Hill High School on Hwy 86. My parents now live close to Elon College. I have received numerous inquires of people buried in the cemetery, so I'll put a summary here. The 1957 list I have for Lynches Creek PB Church list the following family last names: Alexander - 1 Baynes - 1 Cates - 1 Compton - 6 Cooper - 1 Corbett - 2 Corn - 1 Hawkins - 1 Harrelson - 1 Malone - 8 Murphy - 16 Norris - 3 Riggs - 4 Stainback - 1 Warren - 3 I don't know how this list compares to other list of cemeteries by the state or the CCC. Like I stated before there are a number of headstones in the woods outside the fenced in area. John, you and I may be related thru the Hargis of Person County. Thanks. Larry Coleman Riggs

I am also looking for Rainey family graves, particularly those Virgil M. Rainey and wife Sarah Thomas Rainey, and would like to ask Larry if the Blaylock records contain those names. As always thank you for the favor. I would be happy to share information about this Rainey family. Marilyn Symonds Houston

Do you by any chance know if there are any Walters or Morris buried at the church. Thank you so much. Gayle

The Caswell County Historical Association's Richmond-Miles Museum has a map of the county's old cemeteries and a volume of cemetery inventories that was compiled by Register of Deeds Burch Blalock in the 1950's. The Museum is open Tuesday-Friday from 12:00-4:00 PM. Just ask the volunteer on duty to show you the Blalock Cemetery Inventory and the Cemetery Map. These records are not a complete inventory or record for the county, but was a major start in preserving these records. We welcome contributions of information about any additional cemeteries that you folks out there know about. Please give us accurate directions to the cemetery and as accurate and complete a list of the graves as you can collect. Lib McPherson, President Caswell County Historical Assn. ----- Original Message ----- From: <bebenjohn@aol.com> To: <NCCASWEL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 9:29 AM Subject: Lynche's Creek Primitive Baptist Church and Rainey family > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Wells, Malone, Rainey, Staples, Warren, Moore > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RSB.2ACE/1680 > > Message Board Post: > > I am attempting to locate Lynch's Creek Primitive Baptist Church. I recently drove all over the eastern portion of Caswell County, asking all of the "old-timers" that I could find about it's location. No one was able to provide any help. A Wells cousin, Jim Wells, found the following on the internet about some Caswell cemeterys: "I came across a notation of a Malone Family Cemetery with directions to it down Corbett-hard surfaced road and close to Lynches Creek Primitive Baptist Church and near Willie Warren and Will Moore's farm about 3 miles from NC Highway #86 near Hyco and Lynches Creek----I believe these directions were notated to have been written in the late 50's or early 60's" > > Can anyone provide futher information about this location? Is this perchance, under the Hyco lake? > > I will greatly appreciate any help on this. Our ancestor, Miles Wells, is supposed to have been instrumental in establishing this church. His son, William "Willis" Wells joined the Lynches Creek Church in 1814, became a deacon in 1821, ordained as a minister in 1840 and was chosen as paster in 1849. > > Two of Miles Wells' sons intermarried with decendants of Daniel Malone and his wife, Elizabeth Staples. Miles Wells, Jr. married Perthenia Malone, as his first wife;another son, Thomas Lee Wells married Mary Robards Rainey, daughter of Isaac Rainey and Sarah Malone. Sarah was a daughter of Daniel. I would also appreciate information on the Rainey family, earlier and later. > > Best regards, > > John Fox > Winston Salem, NC > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RSB.2ACE/1680.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello Larry, Thank you for your most prompt response to my query. Wouldn't you know that someone who lives closer to the site would find someone from Alabama to give him directions!!;-) Your directions seem very clear, and I will use them, without reservation to locate the site. I am sorry that the building no longer exists. There is a Primitive Baptist Archive center in the town of Elon College, NC, and I had planned to go there to see what kinds of documents, photos and such that they might have. If I put out the word that I am looking for photos in the neighborhood, there is that possibility that someone might have a old snapshot around. I will keep your address around so that I can contact you if my luck continues in this search. I am hoping that some of those tombstones outside the fence will prove to be some of the Wells. My gggg grandfather was Miles Wells who is supposed to have been instrumental in the establishing the church as an offshoot of Wheelers Church, because of the long distance travel required to attend services at Wheelers from where they lived. Miles died in 1828, and we suppose that he was buried there. His son, Willis Wells joined the Lynches Creek Church in 1814, became a deacon in 1821, ordained as a minister in 1840 and was chosen as paster in 1849. So the Church is important to our family history. Kindest regards, John Fox Winston Salem, NC

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RSB.2ACE/1680.1 Message Board Post: John, my gg gf John R. Riggs is buried in Lynches Creek PB Church Cemetery. It is hard to find. It is on Corbett Ridge Road off Hwy 86 on the left going toward Corbett. There is nothing around it except trees and fields. You have to look on the left for a chainlink fenced area about 50 feet off the road. The first time I looked for it about 3 years ago, I passed it, and did not find it until I drove back toward Hwy 86. In looking at the county map that I have, it is about 2.6 miles from from Hwy 86 to State Road 1771 and right before Hwy 1771, my map shows 2 crosses for cemeteries on the left. I have a list from John Burch Blaylock's Records supplied to me by his cousin Ernest Blalock that list the person's buried there as Sept. 1957, and there are no Wells in the fenced in area. I will tell you that you can see numerous headstones outside the fence in the trees and overgrown weeds, I have not ventured there. My gg gf/gm are on the back of the fenced in area with tall slim monuments. I would like to learn more about the church and find out if a picture of the church exist. I hope this helps, if not let me know and I will give you contacts that can help you find it. Larry Coleman Riggs Huntsville, AL

Powell's book "When the Past Refused to Die" lists the names of the people who signed subject petition. I am interested in looking at signatures on this petition if there are copies of the original document available to the public. Does anyone on the list know the location of the original or where copies of the original could be obtained? Thanks! Gene Morrow Pasadena, TX genem@cityscope.net

Hi Gene, I haven't seen the book's petition, but I presume the original petition would be held at the NC Archives. I had obtained a copy of a similar early Guilford Co. petition through a request to the Archives; however, be sure to specify that you want a copy of the original signature pages. I had 2 "published" versions of transcripts of the Guilford petition, and can attest they were no substitute for the real thing! Francie