Does anyone know anything about the Rev. JESSE RANKIN's school in 1827-28? What denomination was Reverend Rankin? It will perhaps give me some clue as to the religion of my Pool and Lemly family connection See the obit below. The most recent issue of the Rowan Co. Genealogical Society Journal (Vol. 16, #3, 2002) contains the obituary from the Carolina Watchman on April 15, 1886 of a Mr. REMUS J. WEST (aged about 73 years). In the obituary the school of Mr. West is mentioned: "He was a pupil in the school of the late a Rev. JESSE RANKIN, in 1827-28, some of his fellow pupils being Dr. ALBERT T. POWE; the late HENRY and TOBIAS LEMLY; the late DAVID and JOS. POOL; the late OBADIAH WOODSON, and others." I think these pupils were all from somewhat wealthy families. I am certain that the David and Joseph Pool are the sons of John Pool (d.1832). David Pool studied silvermaking in Philadelphia PA around 1830-32, returning home to Salisbury upon the death of his father in 1832. There was a family tie to the Lemlys. Tobias L. Lemly married the sister of David and Joseph Pool, Mariah/Maria Pool in Rowan Co.NC in 1840. His father was Samuel Lemly, and her father was John Pool. Shortly after this marriage,the entire family moved south, probably first to SC and then on to MS, where Mariah/Maria Pool Lemly died. In 1849 in Jackson MS, General Tobias L. Lemly of Mississippi City, MS, married Mrs. Lucinda Hall (widow) of Jackson MS. His first wife (Maria Pool) had died in late 1847. In March of 1848, measles took the life of two young children of Tobias Lemly: Laura Lemly(youngest daughter) and Albert Gallatin Lemly (youngest son). From this phrasing in the obit, it appears there were older children. I don't know where the title "General" came from, perhaps the Mexican War. His father was Col. Samuel Lemly and his mother was Elizabeth Furr, d/o Tobias Furr, all originally from Rowan Co. NC. Betty Pace