Trish, Any clue as to why it is thought she was a daughter of Robert Witherington? Martha >Resent-Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 18:05:07 -0700 >X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Fri Feb 22 18:05:07 2002 >User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 >Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 20:04:56 -0500 >Subject: Re: [NCGREENE] Re: [NC-PCFR] Darden/Witherington >From: Trish Worthington Cobb <[email protected]> >Old-To: <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Resent-From: [email protected] >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/1917 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Resent-Sender: [email protected] >Resent-Bcc: > >I have nothing on them other than that which has been discussed. > >I have never been able to figure out which Robert Witherington may have been >the father of this third wife of William Darden. > >There were a few other Worthingtons in that same area that we have not been >able to figure out. > >Trish > >on 2/22/02 8:28 AM, Martha Marble at [email protected] wrote: > >> Jean, >> >> This William was the first one in our area and is said to be a son of >> Elijah Darden of Hertford Co. Are there marriage Bonds for this marriage? >> In Cliff Darden's history, he only says that "sometime after 1790, William >> apparently took a third wife, possibly a daughter of Robert Witherington". >> Neither the marriage nor the three children born of this union are in the >> Bibles. Darden gives their names as Nancy, Susannah and Rebecca. The name >> of this third wife is not proven. In the estate sale papers - which I have >> not seen - there is a Francis Darden making purchases and it is thought she >> was the widow. Darden says the widow died between 1801 and ???. Her two >> daughters Susannah and Rebecca had their lands divided in 1819 and the >> daughter Nancy married John H. Dixon. >> >> Trish, do you have a copy of the estate sale of William? >> >> Martha >> > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >