Sounds like Lenoir Co families. At least one Oxley moved to Lenoir Co with the Parrott family - an intermarriage. Efforts by some to sort the Oxley family in Lenoir has not been successful. I have one David Phillips bc 1805 md to a Martha -surname unknown - and then Mary Jane Cox of Pitt Co. The father of this David was Peter Phillips and his known wife, Martha Sumrell; however, I am of the opinion that Peter had a first wife who may have been an Oxley. Some of the Oxley family lived next to Peter and Peter's oldest son was Thomas O. Phillips. Thomas was born prior to the proven marriage of Peter and Martha. Looks like these are all the same people with a slight difference in the names of the Cox woman - but then the surname of the first wife is not known. The Phillips and this Oxley family lived on Eagle Swamp just west of Grifton. Martha At 04:32 PM 04/11/2005, you wrote: >Bill, > >As ever, thank you for sharing your research so freely. I'm adding a few >notes to the Oxley bunch. > >Betsy > > > > PLEASE NOTE: I am placing Elbert H. Oxlley and Wilkes B. Oxley as > children of > > James Oxley at this time for record purposes only. This has not been > > documented. Elbert H., Wilkes B. and Augustus W. are all buried in the > Oxley > > Cemetery near Grifton. > >The marriage index for Elbert's marriage to Martha Cox gives Elbert's father >as James O. Oxley. Their is no entry for his mother (she apparently d. >before the 1850 census). > >I had also listed Caroline, McKinley, and Christopher C. as children of >James Oxley. [1850 census] > >The marriage index shows C. C. marrying Sarah Phelps, but other records show >she was Sarah Phillips-- I favor the Phillips spelling. > >Mary Oxley was given as the mother of Isabella Phillips when Isabella md. >Calvin Stokes in 1885. Mary Oxley (Mrs. Wilkes Oxley) was Mary Cox and she >was first married to David Phillips. Another dau. of David and Mary Cox >Phillips was Susan Ella who md. Jesse C. Wilson in 1879. [Pitt Co. Marriage >Index, 1867-1924]. > > >==== NC-PCFR Mailing List ==== >Post to this mail list at: [email protected] >Visit the PCFR website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpcfr >Browse our rich collection of old family photographs, private documents, >and public records. > >============================== >Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. >New content added every business day. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx