Trish, Sorry about the delay in answering. However, I received your message at home over a long weekend where I do not have my sources. Had to wait to get back to the office to have sources before me, so that I could answer intelligently. It appears, as you will see below, that your Sallie Westbrook Darden, was indeed a sister of Charles Westbrook (1774-1843) and a daughter of a Moses Westbrook who married apparently a Percis Simons/Simmons. I answer your questions below: > Are you saying that Charles had a son named Henry and also a brother named > Henry? Charles apparently did not have a son named Henry. He very likely did have a brother named Henry if we can infer that the long line of sequential births, which included Charles and Henry, (referring here to the Charles Westbrook Bible) were all siblings. > > > > > This speculation is based on what is usually referred to as the James W. > > Prowell bible which identifies a number of Westbrook births .... > > > > James 30 Dec. 1772 > > Charles 22 Dec. 1774 > > Simon 14 Dec. 1776 > > John 17 Dec. 1779 > > Sarah 22 Sept. 1781 > > Henry 10 May 1782 > > Elizabeth 7 Feb. 1783 > > Mary 25 Dec. 1786 > > Moses 9 May 1788 > > Fanster 10 Feb. 1790 > > > > Do you think all the above are children of Moses Westbrook? I PRESUME that they are but don't know. First, as noted above they appear to be siblings by virtue of the proximity and sequence in time of their births. Second, Nell Coleman Ropp's history of the Charles Westbrook family which appeared on pages 785-786 of the Clay County MS history book identifies Charles's parents as being Moses Westbrook and an unnamed daughter of Abram Bassett Simons of Jones County, NC. If these two contentions are correct then the above are all children of Moses Westbrook. > > I am sending the following information which I had in my data on Moses and > Persis Westbrook, from Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina. > > They are listed as parents of Sally Westbrook who married Abraham Darden. > Her birthdate is the same as the Sarah you listed from the Prowell (or is it > Powell?) bible. It's "Prowell" with an "r", however, I prefer to call it the "Charles Westbrook Bible" because the entries have nothing to do with the Prowells. The Bible apparently passed down to Westbrook descendants by the name of Prowell. Yes, Sarah/Sally's birthdate is the same. Bet it's the same lady. > > I wonder if Persis was a Prowell/Powell?? No. As noted Prowell was a later name to come in. However, as you probably noted, Nell Ropp had the maiden name of Moses's wife "Simons" (could it also be "Simmons"?) but not her given name. You have her given name but not her maiden name. Putting two and two together looks like her name was Percis Simons/Simmons. > > (1) 1 Moses WESTBROOK 1 > > Spouse: Persis __________ 1 > > Children: > Sally (1781-1830) > > (2) 1.1 Sally WESTBROOK 1,2 > Birth: 22 Sep 1781 1 > Death: 1830-1840 1 > Marr: 8 Sep 1803 1 > > Spouse: Abraham DARDEN 1,2 > > > Trish Worthington Cobb > PO Box 486, Winterville, NC 28590 > turniproots@coastalnet.com >