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/SSB.2ACE/822.1 Message Board Post: Thomas Hall Raney ust have been a popular name. My maternal grandmother's great grandmother was Elizabeth Raney dau of Thomas Hall Raney and Elizabeth Gray, per my grandmother. Allegedly Elizabeth wanted to mayyr William D. Rigaan when she was 16 in Halifax Co., NC, and was held on the third floor of the house to prevent such. However, somehow they manaagaed to elope and fled by horseback doen the frozen river. Their daughter, Martha Ann Elizabeth Riggan, was mother of my grandmother. Jim W.