Oh Sally, I am so sorry to hear about your father's granddad passing away like that! How horrible for your dad, and the Major to have gone through that. This is a good reminder to everyone to take the information from these books with a grain or two of salt as these are not holy grails. They are however "about the only dance in town" sometimes, and it is easy to get caught up in the notion that the information must be true because it's in a book. It is amazing to me how these people correlated the genealogy and historical data and wrote these books so long ago. Little wonder that there are inaccuracies - proving once again that we have to do our own research :o) .... darn it! Thanks for writing to everyone about this Sally. :o) Marianne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sally Koestler" <skoestler@cox-internet.com> To: "Marianne Ordway" <mordway@adelphia.net>; <NCBERTIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 11:09 AM Subject: Re: [NCBERTIE] Another B.B. Winborne book .... > Marianne -- just wanted to tell you that Winborne has lots of stuff in his > book[s] that just is NOT the way it was especially when he starts going back > in time ---- > Case in point the Rev. soldier he brags on was an uncle [who never married > by the way] rather than the father. The Winborne who married Sarah Hare was > dead long before the revolution and she had by then remarried both James > Rasco and then John Freeman I believe -- see John Freeman's will. [see my > page] > He has mixed up the Sam Harrell's which has confused folks for fair. > Abner Harrell 's father was not the one living over in Gates County -- he > died about 1791 in Hertford County. and had an entirely different bunch of > children. > Then there is the Perry mess --- I am still trying to unscramble that. > But he overlooked or left out John Perry who died in Bertie in 1760 > entirely. [He was the father of the Josiah Perry of Bertie County.] and > those Perries over in Perquimanns were NOT all Quakers. I think the other > Perries in Hertford are descendants of one of the Benjamins. > I was alerted early on that he had scrambled my Jones family in that he > listed James Jones's son in law as his son. . . > discovered down in the court house in Green County AL in the estate file of > James Sidney Jones III that the other son was named Thomas W Jones and it > was his death in AL that prompted James's migration to AL. There is this > hugh file were all the siblings spelled out and who was surviving years > later when his brother Dr. William Jones finall settled the estate [or was > it his executives?] > I can go on with many many more examples but I will stop here . . . > Is it any wonder that my great grandfather John W Moore literally had an > heart attack and died as he sat on our front porch reveiwing for the first > time Winbornes's new history of Hertford County? > Daddy told us "the Major" just got madder and madder the more he looked at > the book. "the Major" > sent my father on an errand and when he returned the old man had expired > with the book open on his lab. > So use Winborne with a jaundiced eye. There's a lot of good information > there -- but lots of its info is scrambled so it is also a source of much > misinformation. > Sally Koestler > Sally's Family Place > http://www.sallysfamilyplace.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marianne Ordway" <mordway@adelphia.net> > To: <NCBERTIE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 9:06 AM > Subject: [NCBERTIE] Another B.B. Winborne book .... > > > > Just received this information from Skip Warren and thought that you all > > might find it interesting too: > > > > Thought I'd offer something to you that I came upon by chance. Looking > > through Northampton Co. resources at the Dallas Library I found a early > > version of B.B. Winborne's history of Hertford Co. that contained several > > items that did not appear in the more recognized published version. This > was > > printed in a series of articles in volumes of Northampton County Cousins > > entitled " The Winborne Family". Editor of the volumes was Mrs. Tany > Brazeal > > of Fairhope, Alabama. Volumes involved are ; Fall, 1967 Vol. II; Winter, > > 1967 Vol. II; Summer, 1968, Vol. II; Fall, 1968 Vol. III; Winter, 1968 > Vol. > > III. A lot more insight into my Warren family & my wife's Hare family, > > showing their direct lineage to the Winborne family. Many interesting > > stories not included in the more famous volume covering many other > Hertford > > families. > > > > > > ==== NCBERTIE Mailing List ==== > > Bertie County Archives page > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/bertie.htm > > Cemeteries, deeds, military rosters, wills, Bible Records and more. We > need your info! > > Send to me, Virginia Crilley, varcsix@hot.rr.com > > > > ============================== > > 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 > > > > > >