Martha,Why isn't there a link on Lenoir Co. or Greene for the BMD Project[births,marriages and death's]??I lost the address and had a hard time finding it!!For those that do not know about the site the address is http://bmdproject.rootsweb.com Christine

In case you have not noticed, there is a NC Marriage base that is searchable on each County. Guy would like to start a project to add to the Greene and Lenoir database by culling the various files on the archives starting with the Bible records. This is an opportunity for some of you to contribute to our records just by sitting in front of your pc for a few hours spread over time. If you would be willing to work on this project, please contact Guy at GPOTTS1@nc.rr.com There are a small number of people on the two lists who contribute a great deal to the benefit of all. This is an opportunity for some of the rest of you to make a contribution. It is called pay back time. How about some assistance on this project. Just taking 10 Bible records and culling might help someone else and this is what it is all about - helping each other. Martha and Guy

Patty left this morning for a week. She said if you had anything to post on Dobbers or the archives sites she manages go ahead and send them and she will post upon her return. Think she got caught up on a lot of posting this past week. She is also working on changing the format of Old Dobbers which has gotten a little confusing due to its success. She has her first GEDCOM and is working on a format from her softwear. Martha

In the event you may have tried to contact me for surnames in counties or otherwise, I am now able to receive messages... my mailbox was not full. I am so happy to carry on a two sided conversation now, and not just me talking. Rose Parks Researching in Dobbs County: BRIGHT, CURLEE, HERRING, HOOKER, LASSITER, UZZELL, WIGGINS AND ALLIED FAMILIES. RParks102@msn.com

Posted on: Lenoir Co. NC Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NC/Lenoir/10671 Surname: PATTERSON, ROWLAND, FLEMING, PUCKETT ------------------------- My g-g-grandfather was named John H. Patterson (I don't know his middle name). He was born 1819 in and died September 22, 1893. He married Susan Rowland (daughter of Pleasant Rowland) on April 16, 1845. He was a farmer in the Ragland District of Granville Co., NC and served in the Confederate Army. I recently learned that a John Patterson was born in 1819 in Lenoir, NC. Could this be my John?!??!? John & Susan's Children: Mary b. 1846 James Pleasant b. 1849 - d. 1924 (my g-grandfather) Susan b. 1850 Edwin b. 1852 George b. 1854 John b. 1857 His son James Pleasant Patterson (b. January 23, 1849) was my g-grandfather and md. Amanda F. Fleming. I would be very appreciative if you would please check your research to see if you have anything on this family. John may have had a brother named George Harris Patterson, but I'm not positive. Thank you for your efforts on my behalf. Patterson is my birth name and I am heartsick that after six years of research, I can't push this line out past 1819. Hoping to hear some good news soon! Marsha Patterson Raymond - IMZADIMPR@aol.com

PLEASE NOTE THIS PERSON IS NOT A MEMBER OF THE LIST SO PLEASE REPLY PRIVATELY >Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 07:50:40 -0700 >X-From_: MJHAncestry@aol.com Wed Apr 4 07:50:39 2001 >From: MJHAncestry@aol.com >Old-Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 10:50:22 EDT >To: NCLENOIR-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10513 >X-Diagnostic: Not on the accept list >Subject: {not a subscriber} Surnames: BROCK & LOFTIN & PURYEAR >X-Envelope-To: NCLENOIR-L > >ANY information about the early history of Kinston / Lenior County and >immediate area would be appreciated.  >Birth, death, marriage records.  Cemeteries!!!  I have found that I MAY have >the following relatives from Duplin County, Wolfscape, Mt. Olive, that may >have moved to the Kinston / Dover area, or anyplace.  Many of my relatives >moved to Jacksonville, Florida.  I do not know if the information below is >correct or not.  Is there a book about the above.  >Thanks again for any help! ! ! ! !  or suggestions. >John R Brock (1823) & Ann E ? (children:  John C, Elizabeth,   Civil, Elias, >WINIFRED, ANN). >Winifred Brock (1863) & William A. Puryear >Anne Brock (1866) & Walter D. Loftin (1855) >Magnus Harvey Loftin (1852) >William Waightstill Avery Loftin (1827) >Jessie Loftin (1902) >Jarvist Brock (??) >Henry Cecil Loftin (1887) >Harvey Morgan Loftin (1890) > > > > > > > > >

Perhaps he was living under an assumed name. Was there a reason he would have been hiding? Heather __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

I received some e-mails on Sunday but a very few and now today, not having been on line since Sunday, I have no mail. Called Tech Support... didn't like the answer I received but they say they are updating servers and somehow my capacity to receive e-mail has been interrupted?? and it will be a few more days before it is restored. I hope this will not be long and I do not miss anything important. If you have something for me or a question, please wait until end of this week and perhaps I'll be able to receive by then. I'll sure miss all of you... Rose Parks

Martha, Having your hard drive crash causes severe stress!!! You have my sympathy for what you have been through and I'm glad you are back in action. Jackie

Dan, Every "Micajah" I have run across in my research has been a male's first name. I find an entry in Albert E. Sims' book, Who's Who in the Bible (New York, 1960): "MICAHIAH (also spelt MICAIAH) --1. Daughter of Uriah (II Chron. xiii. 2). 2. A prophet, the son of Imlah in the days of Ahab (I Kings xxii. 8-28). The other five persons bearing this name are of minor importance. The references are: II Chron. xvii. 7; II Kings xxii. 12; Jer. xxxvi. 11; Neh. xii. 35; Neh. xii. 41." My guess is that either the author of the notice misread the primary source or that a micajah is something or someone with the same purpose, function, or characteristic as one of the seven individuals in the Bible (one women, six men). If "Micajah" isn't followed by a last name, he may have been a slave. Perhaps the source was informally written. He could have been serving in the place of someone named Micajah during Micajah's absence.

I think I have answered my own question???!!! Possibly the "Lived with Sarah Bright as a Micajah" is an error of transcription - "Lived with Sarah Byrd as a minor"! See "Josiah M. Brown entry" and "Josiah M. Willner entry". ...{:) { "minor" mispelled as "Micajah" ...{:) } What a piece of work???!!! ...{:) You'all have a good day!!! Dan Fairfax Nashville, Tennessee 37217 Data entries are compliments of Ancestry.com and sub-credits for non-profit use only! Dan ================= =================================================================== Name: Brown, Needham D. Birth Date: Apr 9, 1917 Death Date: Jun 27, 1917 Spouse: None Father: Josiah M. Brown Children: None Birth Place: Bertie co., NC Death Place: Coleraine, Bertie co., NC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Name: Brown, Needham D. Birth Date: Bef 1885 Spouse: Sarah Louisa (Mar 6, 1883-Jan 30, 1910) Father: Josiah M. Brown Mother: Melinda Children: Julius, others Birth Place: Bertie co., NC Marriage Place: Bertie co., NC Death Place: Coleraine, Bertie co., NC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Name: Brown, Josiah M. Birth Date: Aug 12, 1849 Death Date: Aft 1920 Spouse: Melinda (Oct 25, 1849-Sep 18, 1912) Father: Isaac Brown Mother: Nancy Byrd Children: Drewery, Tully, Needham, others Other: Lived with Sarah Byrd as a minor Birth Place: Coleraine, Bertie co., NC Marriage Place: Coleraine, Bertie co., NC Death Place: Coleraine, Bertie co., NC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Name: Brown, Julius S. Birth Date: Jul 18, 1905 Death Date: Dec 17, 1908 Spouse: None Father: Needham H. Brown Mother: Sarah L Children: None Birth Place: Bertie co., NC Death Place: Coleraine, Bertie co., NC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Name: Bryant, Needham Birth Date: Bef 1736 Death Date: Aft 1757 Birth Place: Bertie co., NC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Name: Buckner, Needham Birth Date: Bef 1736 Death Date: After 1757 Birth Place: North Carolina ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Name: Cummings, Needham Death Date: After 1773 Spouse: Elizabeth Birth Place: North Carolina ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Name: Jernigan, Needham Death Date: Aft 1773 Spouse: Elizabeth ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Name: Willner, Josiah M. Birth Date: Aug 12, 1849 Death Date: After 1920 Spouse: Melinda (Oct 25, 1849-Jul 18, 1912) Father: Isaac Willner Mother: Nancy Bright Children: Frank, Tully, Needham, others Other: Lived with Sarah Bright as a Micajah Birth Place: North Carolina Marriage Place: Coleraine, Bertie co., NC Place of Death: Coleraine, Bertie co., NC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Name: Willner, Julius S. Birth Date: Jul 18, 1905 Death Date: 17-May-08 Spouse: None Father: Needham H. Willner Mother: Sarah L Children: None Birth Place: North Carolina Place of Death: Coleraine, Bertie co., NC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- ==================================================================== ============================================================ Name: Jernigan, Needham Death Date: Aft 1773 Spouse: Elizabeth ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Name: Willner, Josiah M. Birth Date: Aug 12, 1849 Death Date: After 1920 Spouse: Melinda (Oct 25, 1849-Jul 18, 1912) Father: Isaac Willner Mother: Nancy Bright Children: Frank, Tully, Needham, others Other: Lived with Sarah Bright as a Micajah Birth Place: North Carolina Marriage Place: Coleraine, Bertie co., NC Place of Death: Coleraine, Bertie co., NC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Name: Willner, Julius S. Birth Date: Jul 18, 1905 Death Date: 17-May-08 Spouse: None Father: Needham H. Willner Mother: Sarah L Children: None Birth Place: North Carolina Place of Death: Coleraine, Bertie co., NC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- ======================================================================= -----Original Message----- From: Dee Leviner [mailto:jleviner@InfoAve.Net] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 10:58 AM To: Fairfax Dan Subject: Re: [NC-SC] MICAJAH - North Carolina Hi yall, I have no idea what Micajah means. I found it when I was searching for "Quick" . Has any one seen this term used any where else? By the Way I wish Fairfax Dan had some relatives in common with me. He has been so helpful with his comments. Thank you Dan, Dee Leviner in SC Fairfax Dan wrote: > NEW TERMINOLOGY!!! > > Below is a listing, compliments of Ancestry.com of John R. Aaronson ... > NOTICE: "Lived with Noah Ring, as a MICAJAH." Does anybody know what it > means??? ["Lived ... as a MICAJAH"]!!!!???? > > THANKS!!! > > Dan Fairfax > Nashville, Tennessee > > dfairfax@nespower.com > > Dan > > ================================== > Name: Aaronson, John R. > Birth Date: 1840 > Death Date: After 1882 > Spouse: Joanna Lawless > Children: William, others > Marriage Date: Jan 22, 1858 > Other: After being wounded at Willitsburg, VA, deserted and joined Union > Army. 4th Reg NC Troopers and First Reg NC Union Volunteer . Lived with Noah > Ring, Sr. as a Micajah. > Birth Place: North Carolina > > ======================================================= > -----Original Message----- > From: Allen Fairfax [mailto:fairfaxa@hotmail.com] > Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 10:34 PM > To: DFairfax@nespower.com > Subject: Bertie county > > Hello Dan, > > Have you seen this? type in Jernigan and see what you get ... also type in > > George Elias .... > > http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/5515.htm > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > ----------------------------------------------- > To contact the list owner, use stephenL@indiana.edu > > Please don't send ATTACHED FILES to the list!

It definitely has the Biblical Old Testament flavor to it ... such as Elias, Hezekiah, Zechariah, Levi, etc. ... it appears that the "Protestant" folks shortly after the revolutionary War of 1776 in the 13 "States" were brought back to a religious/spiritual "Sense of being delivered from bondage - [England's rule] " that they provided biblical names a lot ... typically "Farmers" ...{:) BUT! ... this new reference "Lived as a MICAJAH" in another person's home in Bertie County, NC in the late 1700's - early 1800's is a new term to me and I do believe it may have a biblical sense ... but I don't know what??? THANKS FOR RESPONDING!!! ...{:) Anybody else? Dan Fairfax Nashville, Tennessee dfairfax@nespower.com <mailto:dfairfax@nespower.com> =================== -----Original Message----- From: DALE9to4@aol.com [mailto:DALE9to4@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 9:58 AM To: DFairfax@nespower.com Subject: Re: [NC-SC] MICAJAH - North Carolina I also have a Micajah Fitzpatrick so I was checking out the dictionary... the name Micah which seems short for the Hebrew word Mikhayah which was a Hebrew prophet of the 8th Century BC. Do you think it could mean prophet?

NEW TERMINOLOGY!!! Below is a listing, compliments of Ancestry.com of John R. Aaronson ... NOTICE: "Lived with Noah Ring, as a MICAJAH." Does anybody know what it means??? ["Lived ... as a MICAJAH"]!!!!???? THANKS!!! Dan Fairfax Nashville, Tennessee dfairfax@nespower.com Dan ================================== Name: Aaronson, John R. Birth Date: 1840 Death Date: After 1882 Spouse: Joanna Lawless Children: William, others Marriage Date: Jan 22, 1858 Other: After being wounded at Willitsburg, VA, deserted and joined Union Army. 4th Reg NC Troopers and First Reg NC Union Volunteer . Lived with Noah Ring, Sr. as a Micajah. Birth Place: North Carolina ======================================================= -----Original Message----- From: Allen Fairfax [mailto:fairfaxa@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 10:34 PM To: DFairfax@nespower.com Subject: Bertie county Hello Dan, Have you seen this? type in Jernigan and see what you get ... also type in George Elias .... http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/5515.htm Also, Hope and her mother are going to London and southern England for a week this summer ... so, hopefully she can get a picture of the church where Peter Fairfax was married .... I'm looking for a cheap ticket to head over there at the end of their mother-daughter bonding time ... :) Allen _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

SInce I had to make phone calls to track Jewell and Tracy down to try and limit my incoming email, thought it might be helpful to tell you how to get hold of me if you have such an emergency and need to come off the list. Not about to publish my phone number, but I live in Washington, DC, the only Marble on Independence Ave. We have two numbers published and it is not M. V - that will only get you a busy signal. Should you have an emergency and can't send an email, call and will unsub you until you are back up. Martha

Mike has sent Guy a new search engine for the individual archives files. He is working on Wayne then will go to Greene and Lenoir. Has done the Bibles for Lenoir just to show me how it works. It is great. It helps narrow a search down. We did finish tweaking Lenoir but not Greene mostly because of my little problem. Sometime in the next two weeks we will tweak the Greene archives site. Many thanks to Guy and Mike. Also to Sloan for helping tweak the Lenoir site with IE. Appears Netscape is not forgiving on some things according to Mike and as a rule I use Netscape. Also, Rose has posted the latest files for St. Mary's and we want to thank her for undertaking this task. These records do have some folks from Greene, Pitt and Craven as well as Lenoir. Hugs to Rose who is bouncing today. Martha

Martha, You have been missed. Welcome back. Jane Phillips

THe world will not end with fire or flood but when all the world's computers that run our everyday lives fail. Except for installing Netscape and my URL bookmarks, am back up. For those of you who do not have a zip drive to do your backups - highly suggest you buy one. It worked like a charm but Betsy did say the disks can go bad. Had some problems with TMG and after two days finally got it back a short time ago - I think. Just lost whatever I had done the previous 4 days in both word and TMG. Will backup for often from now on. For those of you who have not had the wonderful experience of a crashed pc - may you never have one but don't hold your breath. This is my 2nd time but the last time, I had warning. This hard drive (the 2nd one they installed after the crash) is making funny little noises so who knows how long this one will last. Expect to get a good night's sleep tonight after two weeks of tossing and turning. Martha

>Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:21:40 -0700 >X-From_: maryanne@berrett.org Tue Mar 20 09:21:40 2001 >X-Envelope-To: NCLENOIR-L@rootsweb.com >X-Authentication-Warning: berrett.org: Host slc-pm11-c2-2.sisna.com [216.190.11.130] claimed to be [216.190.11.130] >User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 >Old-Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:28:13 -0700 >From: Maryanne Berrett <maryanne@berrett.org> >To: Clair Hadley <clairhadley@erols.com>, <NCLENOIR-L@rootsweb.com>, > <monument@esn.net> >X-Diagnostic: Not on the accept list >Subject: {not a subscriber} Mary Margaret >X-Envelope-To: NCLENOIR-L > >Forgot to include that when Mary Margaret Gatlin Knox died her age was given >as almost 78, which makes her born in 1812 which is consistant with all the >census records. > >Maryanne > > > > >

>Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:38:47 -0700 >X-From_: maryanne@berrett.org Tue Mar 20 08:38:46 2001 >X-Envelope-To: NCLENOIR-L@rootsweb.com >User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 >Old-Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:44:26 -0700 >From: Maryanne Berrett <maryanne@berrett.org> >To: <monument@esn.net>, <clairhadley@erols.com> >X-Diagnostic: Not on the accept list >Subject: {not a subscriber} Gatlins >X-Envelope-To: NCLENOIR-L > >I recieved your address from Clair Hadley and would like to give you >information one of the daughters of John and Susannah Caswell Gatlin, Mary >Margaret Gatlin. She is my ancestor. She was married to Franklin Knox of >Blandford, Mass, his parents are Raynor and Sophia Fowler Knox. They were >married in Kinston on 30 May 1837 and then went to St. Louis and had at >least three children there. In 1856 they went to California and settled in >Crescent City, CA where Mary Margaret died on March 12, 1890. He was still >living but I haven't found when he died, he was still living in 1894. Their >children were Sarah Gatlin Knox born 7 Dec 1838 in St. Louis who married >Stephen P Wright on 24 Aug 1865 in Del Norte county, CA who was an attnorney >and state representive in Del Norte county, CA. They had two sons, Franklin >Knox Wright, and Stephen P Wright. Sarah (Sallie) died in Fremont, Alameda >county, CA on 12 July 1926. She is buried in Colma, San Meteo county, CA. >The second know child is Annie Knox born about 1845, I have only found her >in the 1850 census of St. Louis so assume she died before 1860 when they are >in California. Their third known child is Richard Gatlin Knox, born 2 Feb >1851 in St. Louis. He married Anna Spaulding Kimball in Leeds, Washington >county, UT on 16 Jan 1878. They had three children, Eva Knox, born 2 Feb >1870 in Provo, Utah county, UT and married Dr. Robert Starr Northrup and >settled in Napa, Napa county, CA. They had five children. Second Franklin >Chase Knox, born 6 June 1882 in Crescent City, Del Norte county, CA. He >married Margaret Deane Halfacre on 27 Dec 1911 in Muzuma, Humbolt county, >NV. They had three children, one of whom was my mom, Mary Margaret Knox. >He died 5 Aug 1928 in Lisbon Valley, San Juan county, UT. The third child, >John Gatlin Knox was born 11 Feb 1885 in Crescent City, Del Norte county, CA >and was married twice, no children and died in Los Angles, CA in 1973. >Richard Gatlin Knox died in San Francisco, CA on 16 Aug 1914 and is buried >by his sister in Colma, San Mateo county, CA. >According to the Knox Genealogy (book) Raynor, Franklin's father had a >brother Reuben Knox, born 10 Aug 1801, who in the book married an Olivia and >second Eliza Washington Grist. So that would be how they fit together. >I have a copy of Mary Margaret Gatlin girl seminary certificate from >Raleigh, NC graduating in 18 which states she is from Lenior county, NC. >Since the only Gatlin family in Lenior county at that time period was John >and Susannah and the continuation of the family names in future generations, >I am fairly sure that she is the daughter of John and Susannah. According >to census records they had a daughter in that age bracket, besides her >sister Sarah. > >Maryanne Berrett >maryanne@berrett > >

Looking for information on Everett Jones and wife Mary (maybe Howard?). They are the parents of my 3rd great-grandmother, Sarah Catherine Jones born 8-3-1864 in Jones county, N.C. Any information would be appreciated. Pam