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/1379.1392.1406.1 Message Board Post: I know that William Beavers Sr. left a will in 1822 but I failed to write down where the Will was probated. I did put down that Nancy Mc Daniel Beavers probably died in Causwell Co., NC. Several of the children of William and Ann Mc Daniel went down to Caswell Co., NC to live along with some cousins. This is a collateral line of mine and I have not taken time to look up the will. I would search the will books of Causwell Co. or if you can't go there personally you could write or call the courthouse in Causwell Co, Nc and see if they would do it for you. Good luck in your search. Charles

Hello, Charles According to Maud Carter Clement's History of Pittsylvania Co VA, the will of Major William BEAVERS was probated in 1822 in Pittsylvania Co VA. This will names the testator's sons as William BEAVERS, Edwin R. BEAVERS and John Fontaine BEAVERS, and it names the testator's daughter as Mary GATEWOOD. The will also names the testator's wife's mother as Mrs. Elizabeth FONTAINE. I do not know where Nancy MCDANIEL BEAVERS, wife of this testator, died. However, I do know that she predeceased her husband. Her parents, William MCDANIEL and Ann SMITH, lived in Pittsylvania Co VA, but very near to the Virginia-North Carolina state line, and within a stone's throw of Caswell Co NC. (They also owned much land in Halifax Co VA, which borders both Pittsylvania Co VA and Caswell Co NC.) Nancy MCDANIEL married the testator Major William BEAVERS under a Pittsylvania Co VA Marriage Bond dated 8 February 1790; the bondsman for this marriage was named as Daniel PRICE, and the mother of the bride was named as Ann MCDANIEL. The only one of the testator's children that I'm sure was Nancy's child is son William BEAVERS, who was born in about 1792. Nancy MCDANIEL BEAVERS may also have been the mother of Edwin R. BEAVERS and Mary BEAVERS GATEWOOD, but "Edwin" is not a forename we see in the MCDANIEL family, so it's hard to tell. The testator's son John Fontaine BEAVERS was a child of the testator's last wife, Elizabeth FONTAINE, whom he had married under a Pittsylvania Co VA marriage bond dated 1 March 1802. Elizabeth FONTAINE was a daughter of Moses FONTAINE and Elizabeth BALLARD; Elizabeth BALLARD FONTAINE is named in the will of the testator, Major William BEAVERS. If you want to see that 1822 will, you can approach the Courthouse of Pittsylvania Co VA, or you can order a microfilm of the will book through your local LDS Family History Centre and read the will yourself. It would be helpful for me to tell you which will book it is in, but I do not know this myself; I took this second-hand from Clement's book. If this were my own ancestor, however, I would never leave it at that; I'd make sure that I saw the original will, because secondary sources do not always abstract wills accurately. I do not have in my files a William BEAVERS born within a decade either way of 1807, but this is a collateral line for me, too, so that does not mean that this William BEAVERS does not attach here in some way. William MCDANIEL and Ann SMITH are my direct ancestors, but through their daughter Chloe T. MCDANIEL, who married William COLEMAN. I was unaware that any of the children of William MCDANIEL and Ann SMITH had lived in North Carolina, although I suppose it is possible. I've been told that some of their children moved to Tennessee and that at least one died in Mississippi. Some, such as my line, remained in Virginia. In the next generation, some of the grandchildren of William MCDANIEL and Ann SMITH did live in Caswell Co NC, I believe. Cheers Lin At 09:43 01/08/2002 -0600, mcdanickm@gvltec.edu wrote: >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/1379.1392.1406.1 >Message Board Post: >I know that William Beavers Sr. left a will in 1822 but I failed to write >down where the Will was probated. I did put down that Nancy Mc Daniel >Beavers probably died in Causwell Co., NC. Several of the children of >William and Ann Mc Daniel went down to Caswell Co., NC to live along with >some cousins. This is a collateral line of mine and I have not taken time >to look up the will. I would search the will books of Causwell Co. or if >you can't go there personally you could write or call the courthouse in >Causwell Co, Nc and see if they would do it for you. Good luck in your >search. Charles