Lynn, The given name, Lorenzo Dow, is so uncommon I find it rather strange that my GGGrandfather, Lorenzo Dow Daves (1822-1920) is from that same area of North Carolina, McDowell Co. Your Lorenzo Dow Wesson, 1853-1894, is just one generation later than mine. I cannot find any connection in my data. Do you know of any. There were four known children of Lorenzo and Millie Taylor: Decatur Landrum, Columbus Mills, Martha, and Benjamine Taylor. Thank you for any information of a possible connection since this is my brick wall on the Daves Line. Dean Crocker At 08:00 PM 9/27/02 -0600, you wrote: >______________________________X-Message: #2 >Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 17:13:23 -0400 >From: "Lynn E.Wesson" <Lynn@fastcode.com> >To: NCRUTHER-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [NCRUTHER-L] Reunion: Lorenzo Dow Wesson-Sarah Willis Wesson >descendants > >The descendants of Lorenzo Dow Wesson (b 1853 Lincoln Co.,NC; d 1894 >Cleveland Co., NC) and wife Sarah Elizabeth Willis Wesson (b 1848 >Cleveland Co.,NC; d 1920 Rutherford Co., NC) will have a reunion on >October 12, 2002, in Kings Mountain, NC. If you are a descendant of one >of their children and would like to attend, please email me and I will get >details to you as soon as I have the final meeting time and agenda. >L.D. and Sarah's children were: >John A. Wesson >Joseph Reynolds Wesson >William David Wesson >Dolphus Lee Wesson >Clarence Oscar Wesson >Susan May Wesson Green >Margaret L. Wesson Canipe >Charles Edward Wesson >Ellen Jane Wesson Hester Price. > >Thanks, >Lynn Wesson >Lynn@fastcode.com

Hi Dean, This answer falls into the "for what it is worth" category. I would look in the records for the area for a Lorenzo DOW. My g-grandfather was a Hodge Rayburn YELTON. It always sounded like Hodge Rayburn was a name in its own right and sure enough with enough digging - There was a Hodge Rayburn who was a popular county sheriff before my g-gfather was born. That was in Mitchell Co. I believe, but the same sort of thing could hold true about anywhere. Interestingly, I also have a John "Landrum" YELTON and a "Columbus Mills" YELTON. I suspect that there was some prominent people with those names in the Rutherford Co. area. And, that our ancestors were named for them. So, for what it's worth, that is "my" theory. I hope this helps, Iris Iris F. Reily e-mail list YELTON-L@rootsweb.com Cheryl's web site http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yelton/ ~Y E L T O N~anywhere~anytime~

> >The given name, Lorenzo Dow, is so uncommon I find it rather strange >that my GGGrandfather, Lorenzo Dow Daves (1822-1920) is from that >same area of North Carolina, McDowell Co. <snip> Actually, the given names "Lorenzo Dow" are not at all uncommon. Lorenzo Dow was an itinerant Methodist preacher of the late 1700's and early 1800's. Many, many little boys were named after him--just as many little boys were named after Abraham Lincoln, Winfield Scott, William Henry Harrison, Francis Marion, Benjamin Franklin...the list goes on and on and I'll bet you have at least a few of those in your family background somewhere. I have them all! Though no Lorenzo Dows, as it happens. I do have a Louis Kossuth--and I had to do some digging to find out who he was! Here is a site for those of you with a Lorenzo Dow in the family tree: http://www.ourlittlecircle.com/lorenzo_dow_namesake.html Hope that helps clear up this mystery, so you can move on to the next one! *CERIDWEN* --