Folks, This query comes from a Berry researcher, Kathy Berry Parks. You can see her query and reply directly to her at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/HYDEQUE5.HTM Thanks, Kay Lynn

Folks, I have just added two new queries to the queries page. One from Olivier Pasteur of France. I believe this is our first overseas query so if anyone has any information for him regarding his Pasteur family please drop him a line. The other query is from Clarence and Sallie Gargis regarding the Brinn and Swindell family of Hyde County. The query page can be accessed at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/HYDEQUE5.HTM Kay Lynn

I just joined the list and decided to dive right in. I'm primarily researching the RUSSELL family in the early 1700s. I'm also looking for information on Lodowick MARTIN, John INGOES, William WINLYE, and William DAWES. All were found on a land deed dated 1725 along with William RUSSELL. Joel jsruss@mindspring.com Cary, NC Carteret County, NCGenWeb CC

I need the address for the Soule UMC Church across from the High School. - --------------------------------------------------- Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/freevideo/

Folks, I've just added a new family page to the web site. This is a nicely done page by Bill Smith on his African-American heritage and includes photos, marriage licenses, and family group sheets of the following families: SMITH/ GIBBS/ BALLANCE/ MIDYETT or MIDGETT/ MOORE/ GREEN/JENNETTE/ O'NEAL/ CLARK/ CREDLE/ McCOTTER/ WARNER/ SLADE/ JONES in Hyde, Beaufort and Craven counties. Reply directly to Bill with any questions or added information. Thanks Bill! This page can be accessed at: http://www.geocities.com/poppabear/ or through our What's New page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/WHATSNEW.HTM Kay Lynn

Folks, I have just posted a new query from Jim Spencer regarding the Watson, Spencer and Benson families. You can access this query and reply to Jim at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/HYDEQUE5.HTM Hope you all are having a good Monday. Kay Lynn

Hi Shelby! As far as I know, my surname has been spelled Criddle, or Cridle. However, I don't know much about the family prior to my great grandfather, who was James William Criddle. He was stationed in SC at some point during the Civil War. He met a little lady in Reevesville, SC and they were married when the war ended. I have been trying to trace a James Criddle (middle initial of R. or B.) who probably was from Va. originally. Seems he moved to NC and then to SC. Married a SC lady by the name of Martha ___(?). In 1880 they are listed on the Marion Co., SC census list, his age listed as 63 and hers as 50. He is reported from Va. and his wife from SC. They had a 30 year old daughter named Mary Ann and a 22 year old daughter named Carrie, and a 3 year old grand daughter named Monetta J. Criddle. I think it possible that he also had an older son, my James William Criddle, who had left home prior to the 1880 census and therefore, was not included in that family group. James and Martha may have moved from SC back to NC or back to Va. I haven't been able to find them in SC after the 1880 census. If anyone out there has any information on this group of Criddles, I would be so very happy to hear from you. I will happily supply you with information on my family after they arrived in SC (from 1865 forward). My purpose for joining the Hyde County list was in hopes of learning about the Criddle family. Thank you for inquiring about my surname in you e-mail. Who knows but what the name may have been Credle or Creedle once upon a time. I am at my wits end trying to trace the name back prior to l865. Jan Criddle

Hi Kay! I'm new to your NC Hyde County list and tried to access your surname page by using http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/HYDENAM5.HTM, as suggested in your posting of 3/19/2000. I must be doing something wrong because I can't reach the desired surname pages. Can you please help? Thanks! Jan Criddle

Folks, I have just added the following surnames to the surnames page all submitted by Louis Wilkinson Martin, Jr. If you can help him on any of these surnames, please reply straight to him. FOSTER MARTIN SKITTLETHORPE WILKINSON This page can be accessed at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/HYDENAM5.HTM Kay Lynn (in very, very wet Tennessee)

Folks, I have just posted two new queries. One Watson query from Harold I. Watson and an O'Neal/Bullock query from Kari Bullock. This page can be accessed at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/HYDEQUE5.HTM Kay Lynn

Folks, I hope there are some Jennett/Jennette researchers out there that's going to like the newest item posted to the web page. I've been doing some more spring cleaning and came upon 2 land grants for John Jennett--one made in 1773 and the other in 1775. There are 5 images on this page so it will take a little patience on your part until the whole document is loaded but I think it will be worth the wait. You can access this page several different ways at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/JJENNLG.HTM http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/WHATSNEW.HTM Kay Lynn in rainy Tennessee

Folks, I received this personal e-mail today from Rita Bowen (bowenr@mindspring.com) and thought it might benefit someone on the mailing list. ------------- While looking through some old records I found an ANN Sparrow named in the will of John Jennett, Hyde Co. 20 Feb. 1774. She was Jennett's daughter. Don't know who she was married to but, in case any one has an Ann Sparrow without a maiden name, this is one. Paul Sparrow's land is also mentioned in the will. (Researching Sirmon & English surnames) -------------- Also if Lillian Masch is on this mailing list could you please contact me as your e-mail address on your recent HARRIS/WATSON query is not working and there have been several folks wanting to contact you. Hope you all have had a very pleasant Monday. Kay Lynn genie12@bellsouth.net

Folks, I have just posted a new query from Lillian Masch about the Harris and Watson families. Also a new obituary for Charles Stafford Williams, Sr. These can be found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/HYDEQUE5.HTM http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/OBITSW.HTM These two items are also listed on the Whats New page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/WHATSNEW.HTM Hope all of you have a very pleasant week-end. It's supposed to SNOW here in middle Tennessee tomorrow. :( Kay Lynn

Folks, Four new announcements have been posted on the announcements page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/ANNOUNCE.HTM These pertain to upcoming events of the Hyde County Historical & Genealogical Society, "High Tides" Spring 2000 preview, and a conference on North Carolina Special Collections. Also one new obituary has been posted for Erma Gertrude Farrow. You can access this page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/OBITSF.HTM Kay Midgett Sheppard

Folks, Here is another Hyde document for your research. Hope you enjoy it. It can be found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/SGWATSON.HTM Kay Lynn

Folks, I have just added a new document to the Hyde County web page. It's William Watson Boomer's diary which I've had tucked away in my filing cabinet and didn't discover until 2 days ago while doing a little spring cleaning. For those of you that have Watson, Gibbs, Benson and Boomer lines--you're going to love this! I think I'll do a little more spring cleaning and see what I can come you with. You can access this new document at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/WWBOOMER.HTM Hope you all have a blessed Sunday afternoon. Kay Lynn

Folks, This letter was sent to me from a friend who found it on a Virginia mailing list this morning and I thought it would be appropriate to post here...for this is surely the way all of us really feel that are searching for our long-lost ancestors. Kay Lynn ----------------- WHY WE DO IT Today I want to describe for you what finding our ancestors in terms of being one of the major reasons why I do what I do these days on the Internet, for myself, for my children and grandchildren and for others....and I have an idea, that similar circumstances are the reason many researchers are involved as well. I think more than a few of you will identify with my thoughts and motivations here... I loved that old homeplace dearly, as many of you loved a similar place that now exists only in your minds and hearts. I frequently "walk" through it, escaping todays to yesterdays and memories, willing myself to remember the touch of fabric, the coolness of hardwood floors on my barefeet, the weight of a fat white china cup in my hands, the way the afternoon sun slanted and cast shadows on the floor of a long front porch. Those memories are a comfort to me, because beyond the "things" I have that were there, they are all I have left of the place I knew. I know that many of you feel the same, and have another place you "walk" for comfort at times. But those memories I have, and you have, will be gone all too soon, leaving this world at the same time that we do...just as the memories of our grandfathers and great-grandmothers left with them, and unless they are given and passed on, it is as if those things had never been other than what "facts" are left behind on scraps of paper. This came to me in a very real way recently when the daughter of my first cousin (who is now gone to the next world) contacted me. A young mother, the family's heritage is beginning to be of importance to her. And she asked for my memories, the memories her mother died before she could pass on...and so I have begun to write them for her and to give her what I cannot leave in any tangible form other than description. I have walked her through the family homeplace willing her to see through my eyes, and I have introduced her to the great-grandfather she never knew, trying to give her a balanced picture of him, the good and the bad, making him human and of breathing living flesh for her. For the same reason, documenting the family line in that country is also important. I want to know who the grandparents of my grandfather were, because I have no memories of him telling me about them. I know he must have treasured memories of those who lived in his time, and I know he must have treasured the stories that he heard of those who did not. Because it was important to him, and knowing him, I know it is important to me. My grandfather was of another world and time, as many of yours were. And in that day and time, the passing on of roots came through the oral tradition. They little understood that the coming ways of this world would leave little inclination or time for oral passing of roots...and that unless a generation following them had the wisdom to record it, all was lost. I rue that I was young when he sat so long talking his long tales of "who beget who" and of things that had happened, where they happened, and those who peopled those stories. I am frustrated that I, as did his children, "tuned" much of this out. It is not just a matter of "proving" a lineage...much, much more, it is a matter of salvaging that which was important to one I loved...and giving it to those like my cousin's children and my own children.... passing on the things that were of importance in an endless chain of loving memories. I cannot turn back the clock, and I cannot make my grandfather be here again with me at a time in which I am ready and mature enough now to listen to his endless stories that wound on hour after hour....but I still draw breath, and I can piece together what I can find, add to that what I do remember...and give the next generation something far more precious than the money. We no longer have our Murphy or Howard or Dodd or Greathouse homes in Alabama, and even some of the family burial grounds where my great grandfather, great great grandfather and possibly before that are buried, have been taken from us. All we have is our history....and so you see why it is important beyond description that we preserve our history. It is all we have left of our roots. And I suspect that many of you, if for whatever reason your ancestral lands and homeplace are gone, feel the same. Please remember this when others contact you. Their reasons may have nothing to do with wanting to join an elite organization, may have nothing to do with idle curiosity, may have nothing to do with simple scholarship and an abiding love of research....more often, I am finding, it is a situation in which family history is an anchor to hold to in this fast-paced and all too impersonal world. It is a situation in which all the heritage or "home" a family has left is its history. It is a situation in which a person regrets not finding important those things elders talked of at the time they talked of them, and with maturity wants to salvage what they can of the memories of elders who went on before them. Your words and help are often far more important than you can possibly realize, and will cause a heart to leap, bring tears to an eye in gratitude. In other words, it is often a matter of the "heart" and any small tidbit or fact, any direction you can find time to give, is more meaningful than gold to that person who longs so desperately to find his or her humble link in a long chain...and pass it on, giving the generation to come roots and a sense of belonging in a world that is uncertain. "...and departing leave behind us, footprints in the sands of time." Pat Dodd Greathouse

I am searching for any information about the ancestors of Marvel Wilkinson/Wilkerson, believed to have been born in either Hyde Co, or Beaufort County, ca 1810. I have been searching two years and have found nothing. Thanks for any help Mike Weber -- http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/5143

Searching: Edward COOPER, born Abt. 1810, probably in Martin County, North Carolina. He was living in Jamesville during the 1860 Census. Sometime between 1860 and 1870 he moved to Hyde County. He died in Hyde County between 1874 and 1878. One of Edward COOPER's wives was Levina Caroline SAWYER, other given names for other possible wives are Fanny and Elizabeth. His children were: James COOPER, b. Abt 1842, probably in Martin County, NC Francis COOPER, b. Abt 1852, probably in Martin County, NC Sylvanus COOPER, b. April 1855 in Jamesville, Martin County, NC Sylvanus' wives were Sally L. ROSE and Rebecca ROSE, b. Abt 1861, both daughters of Samuel W. ROSE and Caroline Amanda SMITH. There is some confusion about Sampson W. ROSE and Samuel W. ROSE. Joseph COOPER, b. Abt 1858 in Jamesville, Martin County, NC Married to Naomi COX, b. Oct. 1861 George Edward COOPER, b. Abt 1860, either Martin or Hyde Co. NC George's wife was Mary Ellen LIVERMAN, b. September 1861, daughter of William LIVERMAN and Eleanor GALLAGHER. Martha COOPER, b. Abt. 1865, either in Martin or Hyde Co. NC Jesse COOPER, b. Abt 1869, either in Martin or Hyde Co. NC Thanks Folks, Ruffin Cooper

My Grandparents: Picture of Joseph Redden Mason and Ina Bennett on their wedding day. Both born 1880. He was from Hyde County and she was from Richmond Co. NC http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6598/J-an-IMasonsm.JPG diane mason http://www.geocities.com/heartland/plains/6598/index.html My Family Page