My two names to contribute are: Shepherd and Ligon/Ligins/Liggans. Bird Shepherd b1796 Mecklenburg County, VA, m. Mavel Stewart in 1815. They lived in Halifax County, VA from ~1820-1840 and belonged to the Bethel Hill Baptist Church in Person County, NC from 1835-1841. Moved to Caswell County, NC ~1850, then Guilford County, NC ~1860-1870, and Bird died in Guilford in 1872. Bird and Mavels children: Aaron Shepherd b.c1820, m. Martha Ligon, 1846 > to Person Cty, NC Mary Shepherd b.c1825, m. ? , > Guilford Cty, NC Delilah Shepherd b.c1826, m. Ellis Liggins, 1847 > to Alamance Cty, NC Lucy Shepherd b.c1829, married or died after 1860. Thomas Shepherd b.c1830, m. Tabitha Epps, 1850 > to Hawkins Cty, TN David M. Shepherd b.c1831, m. Martha A. ? , 1855 > to Hawkins Cty, TN Francis Smith Shepherd b.c1832, m. Ann Epps, 1853 > to Person Cty, NC Alexander Shepherd b.c1834, m. Sarah Stewart, 1855 > to Person Cty, NC Anyone with clues in any of the places, please contact me. John M. Shepherd ----- Original Message ---- From: Mary Ellis <mwellis@triad.rr.com> To: ncorange@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 1:02:14 PM Subject: [NCORANGE] New Members We have had some members leave and new ones come on board. How about if we tell the new ones who we are researching and see if we can help each other, and you new people, let us know who you are researching also. I have these names, among others. Murray, Holt, Webster, Albright, Wrenn, Sykes, Sharp, Most all of my mother and fathers ancestor were in Orange which later became Alamance. -- Mary Ellis County Coordinator Alamance NCGenWeb http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mwellis/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncacgs/ http://ncgenweb.us/alamance/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCORANGE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message