Tim, Do you by any chance find any Hooker families buried in that book? They were from the Back Creek area. Thank you, Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Walls" <twwalls@prodigy.net> To: "Randolph County NC List" <ncrandol@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 8:52 AM Subject: [NCRANDOL] Thomas REAVES death date! > Great news, sort of.....This pertains to my post of > yesterday regarding Pennina REEVES. > > I have Thomas REAVES in Randolph County Cemetery > Records, Volume III, North Central Section (covers > Randleman, Level Cross, and Back Creek) page 192: > > The County paid to board needy persons with Randolph > County families; these persons were possibly buried in > family burying grounds or in some church cemeteries. > > 12. 8th of 5th mo 1832 (note the Quaker style) WALL, > Elizabeth [Wm. WALL, Sr.] > 13. 1835 REAVES, Thomas [Pd. Sam CLARK/Absalom DENNIS > funeral expenses. Pd. PETHRO for coffin] > 14. 30th of 9th mo 1835 DOUGAN, George [Pd. for > burying] > > So the evidence shows that Thomas died in 1835, > sometime in the first nine months of the year. > > Pennina may have left, but not divorced, Thomas for > him to be living alone, probably with Sam Clark or > Absalom Dennis, in such circumstances....her bastardy > bond said that she was a single woman, and they > summoned so many people including first of all Wiley > WALL who I think was Pennina Reeves's brother. It must > have been a scandal then. Maybe she had an affair with > William MCGEE, then when she was found to be pregnant > in 1834 a whole bunch of people got involved! > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCRANDOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >