Martha Marble wrote: > > Now the Greene list has several new members and we don't know who you are > or what families you are researching. Guy is new on both lists. > > A special welcome to cousin Jack - I know who he is and he is on both > lists. He has numerous Greene and Lenoir families Thanks Martha (who is apparently related to me along multiple lines) Briefly, I live in Clay County, MS (located in the NE part of the state, county seat West Point), which was organized in 1872 from components taken from Chickasaw, Lowndes, Monroe, and Oktibbeha Counties. My family on both sides, including multiple lines has resided here since the 1830s and '40s, when the area was first opened to settlement. Several of my lines that settled here about this time came from the Greene and Lenoir County areas. They appear to have been rather intermarried before they came to Mississippi and continued to intermarry after they arrived. Although I've been able to establish their interconnectedness fairly well after they arrive in MS, yet the connectedness before they arrive is not always so clear. It's somewhat like seeing the branches of the top of a tree, knowing that they connect beneath, yet being unable to see below where they converge at the trunk. I will provide a brief summary of these families in the hopes that someone came help illuminate the early pre-Mississippi connections. The names concerned here are primarily Carr, Exum, Hardy, Jordan, and Westbrook. I might note that the Hardys are much better researched than the others (at least to the degree that they relate to my direct lines). Benjamin H. EXUM (1811-1892) b. in NC, probably Greene County the son of Jesse Exum and Amy JORDAN Exum. It was apparently this Amy Exum, who being widowed was listed in the 1817 tax roll of Greene County in Henry Westbrook's district. Benjamin Exum married Sara Ann "Sallie" WESTBROOK (ca. 1815-1890), who might have been the daughter of Henry Westbrook. Among the children of Benjamin and Sarah Exum were: (1) TITUS CARR Exum (ca. 1842 - 1905) whose name suggests a relationship to the Carrs of Greene County, Titus Carr being a very commonly used name in those descended from that family. (2) Priscilla Exum, my g-g-grandmother, who married in 1871 in MS to William HARDY, a grandson of Sutton Hardy of the part of Dobbs County NC that became Greene County There were also a number of Westbrooks and Jordans that settled in the Clay County area around West Point (this portion of Clay was originally Lowndes County). This included a very large groups of Westbrooks, including Charles Westbrook of Lenoir County NC who died in 1843 in Lowndes County, MS. near West Point. Among his several children was apparently a Henry who might have been the Henry listed above in the 1816 Greene County tax roll. Among Charles's children that came to the West Point area were: (1) Lemuel (2) Julia, married Moses Charles Westbrook, presumably a cousin (3) Moses, married Sidney Ann CARR, one of their sons was named TITUS CARR WESTBROOK. After Moses died in 1854, his widow Sidney Ann who was a Carr by birth, remarried to Lewis Whitfield Carr (4) Eliza, married in 1843 to Moses JORDAN, bringing in yet another interconnectedness, between Jordans and Westbrooks. Moses Jordan perhaps more than anyone can be considered to be the founder of West Point by virtue of having his land subdivided into the blocks and streets that formed the original nucleus of the town. Moses Jordan was one of three brothers who settled in the West Point, MS area. The others are William and Charles R. William married Priscilla Carr, a daughter of Titus Carr of Greene County, NC. Her first marriage was to a Holliday. (In reference to this see the addition to the Greene County website under "deeds.") William and Priscilla Carr had several children among whom was Elizabeth "Bettie" Jordan who initially married Charles Y. Westbrook, the son of Lemuel Westbrook. After Charles's death in 1861, she married Titus Carr Exum (see above) who was probably her cousin through both the Jordan and Carr lines. One of their sons, Clarence Exum, married his multiply related cousin Miss Claude Jordan, the daughter of his mother's first cousin William J. Jordan who was the son of Charles R. Jordan. Jack Elliott