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.