May the God of all grace strengthen you and your families at this time. Life isn't always the way we would like it to be, but God has given to us more life through the crucified and risen Christ. Allen Betty & Allen Johannes abelj@htcomp.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "B White" <white_nc_sc@yahoo.com> To: <ncrobeso@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 12:58 PM Subject: [NCROBESO] musselwhite reunion > Hi, Sam; > I am sorry that I haven't been in touch. Our daughter, age 22, died in > September, then my husband's aunt and uncle were celebrating their 50th > anniversary at a restaurant, she choked on some food and died, and her > husband died in January of a broken heart.Both Tim and I have had > surgeries... Then Tim's dad died and we had to go up to Wisconsin in the > midst of the blizzard this month... > One day at a time really is true, eh? > > I know the family reunion is coming up. > Do you have any details? > Thanks, Sam. > I am gathering info on my end of the family. > I sure wish I could come down for a week and do research. > > God bless you, > Billie > > "sam.west" <sam.west@ncmail.net> wrote: Hi, > > As to records after 1900, I don't think that they are missing. In my > research in Bladen some of the books starts either in 1892/3. > > Deeds are intact after 1800 with minimum loss. Reconstruction of early > deeds was done in the 1700s by people bringing their deeds back to be > rerecorded. > > Wills I don't know, but I do know that there was major loss in the 1800s. > > Estates/Intestates were lost. > > Marriages before 1892/3 are all lost. > > -----Original Message----- > From: ncrobeso-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:ncrobeso-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Steve E. > Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 5:26 PM > To: ncrobeso@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NCROBESO] Bladen County Courthouse Fires > > > According to statements in the Cumberland County court minutes of 1804 > that I myself read, the Bladen County courthouse burned in the 1760s. It > burned again in 1800 and then in 1893. A prominent man I met in > Wilmington recently who is originally from Bladen County said that > records dated after 1900 are also missing and he was told there was yet > another fire early in the 1900s that claimed some records. > > In the early days, court clerks would work by candlelight. As you can > well imagine, it wouldn't take much of an accident to get a fire > started. Interior stoves and fireplaces, forest fires, lightening, > tobacco pipes, etc all had their opportunities to start a blaze. > > After such fires, people would bring their original deeds and wills etc > back to the newly built courthouse to have them re-recorded. But later > fires consumed the re-recorded deeds as well, and in the ensuing period > between fires such original records in the hands of the people would be > lost through house fires and civil war, etc, or the family would throw > them away. I believe the court clerk Maturin Colville, for whatever > strange reason, took some records in the 1770s and refused to give them > up. I don't know the entire story of this event, though. > > All sorts of things were at play to tempt fate into eliminating the > Bladen records. > > > > Terrell Johnson wrote: > >>Just read a post about three separate Bladen County Courthouse fires which > I find odd that any people should let their Courthouse Records be > destroyed > by fire 3 times. Didn't they take care of the peoples property? >> >>Anyway, this could be why I'm having so much difficulty researching one of > my ancestors born in Bladen in the very Late 1700 or early 1800's. >> >>How long did it take to rebuild them after each fire and what years are > reasonably safe to check records for or must all records be physically > searched at the NC Archives in Raleigh and why would anything be there if > the records all burned. >> >>Lot's of questions I know. But 3 fires seems to indicate a lack of care by > the Bladen County residents. I'm sorry. >> >>Terrell Johnson >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCROBESO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCROBESO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCROBESO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > --------------------------------- > 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time > with theYahoo! 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