Hi Traci and fellow listers, Word of warning on the 1880 census from LDS - I purchased my own copy of the CD set, and tried to look up a family I had already located, as a test of the index. It took some doing to find them on the CD. I had to resort to searching for a given name in the family that was unusual, without the surname, which was so badly misread I never would have found it in their index. This happened in varying degrees with a few surnames I searched for. So, if you don't locate your family immediately on the CD's, be very, very creative with your search of the index. Bonnie

Hi Traci :) I understand that we should be careful about our sources, but for me, being an afro-american genealogist, all info is precious. I have the opinion that even historical "hoaxes" are worth something...if not accurate details. The fact that these people were even mentioned in the book gave me something to go on...at least so it seems. The book was allegedly authored by a few senior ladies of Edgecombe county. What exactly is it about this book that is a lie? (1) the author: was it someone claiming to be a group of elder-women from edgcombe? (2) the actual info in the text: is it inaccurate? (3) the source: is it actually stuff extracted from other already published records? If 1 and 3 are the case, then I would definitely say that the book is junk. But if it was info provided by local oral history, then I would say that it is not complete junk. I have some pretty questionable tales passed down to me from family, but they were very useful in id-ing names and places. Please, explain what you mean by "garbage". I do not ask that to question your eductaed opinion in any way. You have been very helpful to me so far. I am just curious about the nature of this "hoax". ---Karmella __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/

Tracy: I'm almost afraid to ask. Is there an Edgecomge County HERITAGE BOOK (with family genealogies, histories and photos)? If so, what is your opinion about it? Are there additional copies for sale? Hesitantly, C Heath ----- Original Message ----- From: Traci Thompson <tracithompson@hotmail.com> To: <NCEDGECO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 6:43 PM Subject: [NCEDGECO] Re: Edgecombe Families Book (bleh!) > Karmella, > > This book is at best extremely incorrect and at worst a hoax. I only know > one copy that existed and it doesn't exist now (the owner supposedly threw > it away, if you can imagine any genealogist doing that.) Ancestry.com owns a > few photocopied pages from it, and they made me copies of the copies to > examine. Believe me, it is garbage. I asked Ancestry some time ago to > please remove that database and they refused, but they put a disclaimer on > it to basically use it at your own risk. > Go with whatever townships people were living in on the 1880 census. OH, and > by the way, our library has bought the LDS 1880 census on CD, searchable, > every name, it's great. I can do lookups on it for anyone who wants me to. > > Traci the Librarian > > "Local history is not just local history but human history, world history. > The information that you write down, the letters and maps you keep, these > are the drippings of the human spirit and distillings of a man doing his > job." --Paul Green > > Greetings list, > > Does anyone have access to the book Early Families of > Edgecombe Co. (1881)? I would like to know what > townships some people are residing in. I did a search > for "negro" Knights at ancestry.com (using the > database there that extracts info from the book) and > came up with 26 listings, but no townships. I can send > all the names along if someone can do this look-up. > > If no specific townships are given for the families, > what does anyone know what townships are covered by > the book in general? > > ---Karmella > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > >

Karmella, This book is at best extremely incorrect and at worst a hoax. I only know one copy that existed and it doesn't exist now (the owner supposedly threw it away, if you can imagine any genealogist doing that.) Ancestry.com owns a few photocopied pages from it, and they made me copies of the copies to examine. Believe me, it is garbage. I asked Ancestry some time ago to please remove that database and they refused, but they put a disclaimer on it to basically use it at your own risk. Go with whatever townships people were living in on the 1880 census. OH, and by the way, our library has bought the LDS 1880 census on CD, searchable, every name, it's great. I can do lookups on it for anyone who wants me to. Traci the Librarian "Local history is not just local history but human history, world history. The information that you write down, the letters and maps you keep, these are the drippings of the human spirit and distillings of a man doing his job." --Paul Green Greetings list, Does anyone have access to the book Early Families of Edgecombe Co. (1881)? I would like to know what townships some people are residing in. I did a search for "negro" Knights at ancestry.com (using the database there that extracts info from the book) and came up with 26 listings, but no townships. I can send all the names along if someone can do this look-up. If no specific townships are given for the families, what does anyone know what townships are covered by the book in general? ---Karmella _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

Gayle wrote: "I don't know anything about the slaves, but I would be interested in the children of Kitchen Mayo and Nancy Knight. Who was Nancy Knight's mother? I have all the children of Micajah Mayo but I only have a few of his childrens descendents. Thanks Gayle" ---If you do not know anything about the slaves right off hand, you may have records tha say something about the slaves that you are not aware of. I would appreciate if we could share some information. Slaves were often mentioned in record books, estate records, wills, newspaper articles, family bibles, etc. If you have any such records, I would be grateful if you could scan them for any mention of slaves. Thanks ---Karmella Haynes __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/

I don't know anything about the slaves, but I would be interested in the children of Kitchen Mayo and Nancy Knight. Who was Nancy Knight's mother? I have all the children of Micajah Mayo but I only have a few of his childrens descendents. Thanks Gayle

Greetings list, Does anyone have access to the book Early Families of Edgecombe Co. (1881)? I would like to know what townships some people are residing in. I did a search for "negro" Knights at ancestry.com (using the database there that extracts info from the book) and came up with 26 listings, but no townships. I can send all the names along if someone can do this look-up. If no specific townships are given for the families, what does anyone know what townships are covered by the book in general? ---Karmella __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/

Greetings list, Does anyone have access to the book Early Families of Edgecombe Co. (1881)? I would like to know what townships some people are residing in. I did a search for "negro" Knights at ancestry.com (using the database there that extracts info from the book) and came up with 26 listings, but no townships. I can send all the names along if someone can do this look-up. If no specific townships are given for the families, what does anyone know what townships are covered by the book in general? ---Karmella __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/

Greetings list, I am interested in locating "deeds of gift" for Willis Knight, 1846. I am researching some slaves we willed to his wife and children. He willed some slaves to his daughter Nancy Knight Mayo (husband Kinchen Mayo) who was living in Tallahatchie Co. MS at the time. I am particularly interested in what happened to these slaves. I can't find much in Tallahatchie, so I am focusing back on Edgecombe, NC to see what I can find. Thanks, ---Karmella Haynes __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/

Two sites you may need to "bookmark": To find a link or site for ANY of the 50 state archives, there is this site, provided on the Georgia Archives site: http://www.sos.state.ga.us/archives/rs/arrl.htm For Alabama counties there is this one, sent to me by a friend in Pensacola: http://frontpage.home.com/trackingyourroots/

While in Martin Co. several years ago, I found a book at the Martin Co. Community College, Manning Genealogy Room ... book was "Cherry Branches, North Carolina Cherry Families." On pages 38 -- 39 is considerable information concerning Samuel Cherry and Clary Council. It named Samuel to be the son of Lemuel Cherry and Gatsey Llewellyn, who was born in Beaufort Co. NC and was a twin of Lemuel. It also stated that Samuel married Mary Moore in 1756, in Onslow Co., daughter of Samuel Moore and Mary Nixon, b. 18 Aug. 1739, d. 20 Aug. 1800 in Pitt Co. It goes on with additional information which must be confused with a different Samuel as the dates of births/ marriages are not reasonable. "Samuel married second, Clary ___, by 29 March 1816 and they lived in Pitt Co. near Bethel for a few years." By 1810 they had moved to Edgecombe Co. Samuel was a lieutenant in the North Carolina Militia. He may have lived in Pitt Co. NC on 11 Jan. 1773, on that date a Samuel Cherry of Pitt Co. bought a 200 acres tract in Halifax Co. from Samuel and Elizabeth Edwards. This was witnessed by Nathan Mayo, Solomon Cherry and Mary Edwards. Samuel wrote his will on 2 Oct. 1805 and died in Edgecombe Co. by Feb. 1815. His son, Roderick was named as his executor. After Samuel died in 1815, Clary married Benjamin Whitfield in 1817. Ben was administrator of Samuel;s estate. Samuel and Mary had eight or more children, and with Clary he had two more. The children were: John, b. c1757; Elizabeth, b. 1758-1800; Sarah, b. 1758-1800; Nancy, b. 1758-1800; Mary, b. 1758-1800; Luke, b. c1775; Roderick, b. 11 April 1780 --my line; William, b.1775-1784; Charles, b. 1800s; Thomas B., b. 1800s. Clary and Benjamin Whitfield had three children: Joel, Benjamin, and Arcena. While the above is undoubtedly garbled, hope this is of some help....might be some leads but I wouldn't take it as gospel. If you have any information about Roderick, I would appreciate it ... his daughter, Elizabeth, married (first) Thomas Howell,--they moved to Hardeman Co. TN in abt. 1841. Howell died Nov. 1844 just prior to the birth of his son, Thomas Polk Howell -- my gr. grand father. A year or so later, Elizabeth then married their neighbor from both Hardeman and Martin Co. NC -- Thomas C. Harrell. Thomas Sr. was the son of Whitney Howell of Martin Co. .. have tried in vain to pin down who his father was.... think it was James, son of Jethro. Thanks, Margaret Dallas, TX

I have a death certificate from Tarboro, Edgecombe Co. that my husband had copied by mistake on one of our visits to the courthouse. I can't place this Robert Mayo Davis in my family. I would like to send it to the correct Davis family. Please contact me at norrisv@erols.com with your mailing address. There will be no charge. Robert Mayo Davis Born: October 3, 1868 Edgecombe Died: Sept. 23, 1914 Occup: Teacher Father: J. A. Davis b. Pitt Co., NC Mother: Jennie E. Worsley b. Edgecombe Co.

I believe that Lucretia Cherry was the sister of Solomon and Samuel Cherry. Lucretia Cherry married Joseph Knight and their daughter Lucretia Cherry Knight married Joseph Pippen. I am interested in the Cherry family as well. Both Solomon & Samuel Cherry married Clara (Clary) Council. Elizabeth Council (sister of Clara) married Daniel Buntin, their son Daniel Buntin married Lydia Mayo. Solomon & Samuel Cherry and Daniel Buntin were somehow involved in the Llewellyn Conspiracy. Contact me, I would love to exchange information. Gayle NCEDGECO-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Subject: > > NCEDGECO-D Digest Volume 01 : Issue 78 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Re: [NCEDGECO] Etheldred Worsley [Ernitern46@aol.com] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from NCEDGECO-D, send a message to > > NCEDGECO-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Re: [NCEDGECO] Etheldred Worsley > Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 20:18:30 EDT > From: Ernitern46@aol.com > To: NCEDGECO-L@rootsweb.com > > Is your Lucretia Cherry Pippin any relation to a Solomon Cherry from > Edgecombe? > My GGGGrandmother was his daughter.

Is your Lucretia Cherry Pippin any relation to a Solomon Cherry from Edgecombe? My GGGGrandmother was his daughter.

Etheldred Worsley married Brittania Spelling 15 Oct 1828 Frederick Mayo bondsman in Edgecombe. Brittania Spelling was the daughter of Britain Spelling and Lavinia Pippin. Lavinia Pippen was the daughter of Joseph Pippin and Lucretia Cherry Knight. Does anyone have any any information on Ethedred Worsley? Frederick Mayo was my ancestor. Thanks, Gayle

Hi y'all, The 1850 Nash County census image files have been uploaded to the USGenWeb Archives: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/nash/census/1850 The image files are virtual microfilm, snapshots of the original census returns. Cheers, Victoria

Hey list, Any info on any Mayo slaves/ plantation records available? I may have a connection with a Knight/Mayo couple that moved to MS from Edgecombe NC. ---Karmella __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

Any Mayo family connections with HUNTER family ???? Roy <>< rghunter3@juno.com ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Just a hint here, I know the MAYO family is in Isle of Wight County, Virginia in the early 1700's..... Elaine Y

Gayle and other interested in this thread .... I have seen the Mayo name connected with a number of the Howell and Manning legal documents in the early/mid 1800s .... if you figure out just where they were living, please let me know ... I believed that they must have been very near the point where the several counties butt together as there is considerable intermingling of legal activity among those counties within the same time frame. I would be happy to share what I have. Take care, Margaret Dallas, TX