This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: AVERA RHODES RHOADES Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gVB.2ACI/2826 Message Board Post: Trying to find a lead on Elizabeth Avera, whose marriage bond to Jonathan Rhodes was recorded in Wake County 12/22/1841. These Rhodes lived in Panther Branch, Wake, in the southeast corner, very close to Johnston County. I know Johnston was the seedbed of the Averas, so I suspect that she was from there. There were several Averas in Wake in 1840, but none of them were in Panther Branch Township. Jonathan Rhodes and Elizabeth Avera had children Andrew Jackson, Edgar Gaston, Lynn (male), Frances Mary, and Sarah Elizabeth. Jonathan was still in Panther Branch in 1880, with the two daughters.