If you would type it up in text format would appreciate it - including the later generations. We will post on one and link to the other county. THere are also Westbrooks in Jones Co connected to the Stanley family. As I recall the Westbrooks lived right on the Greene/Lenoir Border. Seems like there is one tombstone on one of the cemetery records posted but don't remember which county - it was right on the line. Thanks. Martha >Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 12:56:51 -0600 >From: "Jack D. Elliott, Jr." <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; U) >To: Martha Marble <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [NCGREENE] correction: re Westbrooks > >Martha Marble wrote: >> >> Jack, >> >> Been pulling DAR Bibles this morning from a list sent by Roger. Am I >> correct in understanding the list of Westbrook births are members of the >> family born in Greene County? > > Actually they may have been more from Lenoir County with some (such as >perhaps Henry) perhaps living in Greene. The Bible record itself has no >geographical allusions, as one might suspect. However, in Nell Coleman >Ropp's well-researched Westbrook family article (pp. 785-786 in CLAY >COUNTY HISTORY, Curtis Media Corp., Dallas, TX, 1988), she alludes to >Charles and Winifred Westbrook (the central figures in the Bible record) >as having been born in Lenoir County. She further mentions that their >children were born in Lenoir and that Sydney Ann Carr who married their >son Moses was born in Greene. So I presume that most of the early >generations were probably born in Lenoir although the Henry who was >listed as having been born in 1782 MIGHT well have been the "Captain >Henry Westbrook" after whom the tax district was named in 1816 in Greene >County. The later generations in the Bible record are for generations >born in Mississippi. > >Incidentally, Nell Ropp, a Westbrook descendant, has done an enormous >amount of research on the Westbrooks. In comparison, I have done >virtually nothing. She is still living, in her 80s and resides in >Columbus, MS. If you should ever need to call her, her phone number is >662-328-7737. > > >If so, do you have that Bible record typed up >> in toto and will you submit it to Guy for posting? > >I don't have it typed up, but would be glad to do so if you're >interested. It shouldn't take too long. > >Jack >