In a message dated 11/14/97 2:57:58 AM, Tommy_E._Graham@oui.com wrote: <<Does anybody have any information on tlhe family of this William Grayham? I am searching for parents and kin to my ancestor, Elijah Graham(Grayham), b. 1760/70 in NC, married to Sarah unknown also born in NC in the 1760/70 time slot. Several of Eijah and Sarah's descendents ended up in NW AR, where they were all active in the Primitive Baptist Church. In several of the AR and later in TX Census records, the name was spelled "Grayham"? >> Dear Tommy, The William Grayham of Caswell County left a will, which is available throught the Archives in Raleigh. If I had a copy I would send it to you, but I did not find him to relate to my group of Grahams and did not make one. There are also Grahams who settled in and around the Mecklinburg County are of North Carolina. I have seen a published lineage of those Graham which is available at the Rowan County Library Genealogical Room in Salisbury, North Carolina. They do have volunteers there who are quite helpful in copying data and passing it along for the cost of copying and mailing. Copies at 15 cents per page. The State Archives also has a published lineage of Governor William Graham's family which had ties to the southeastern coastal part of the State, and are rather extensive for its day; post "UnCivil Waugh". There was correspondance between some of my colateral ancestors in the 1800's with members of that family who felt that my Graham lines and theirs interconnected. I have found no evidence of that. There are also many Grahams who settled in the Western North Carolina mountains, from whom Billy Graham is a descendant. There have been several genealogies published about his family lineage - cannot recall any specific authorship at this time. John Fox Winston-Salem, NC ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange USGenWeb Orange Co, NC Archives site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/orangnc.htm