In a message dated 1/28/2005 1:40:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, MaxLaw@aol.com writes: No info on what you need, but a descendant of Pleasant Fortune was my paternal grandmother Johnnie Fortune, who married Manning Brooks MAHAFFEE. The MAHAFFEE family moved to Rutherford County, NC in the late 1890s, it appears. Info on the FORTUNE family would be great, if you would like to share. Max G. Mahaffee Max, we have corresponded before been a couple or 3 years.. I am not home where my info is on my old computer. Your Johnnie Fortune I believe was sister to my D B Doc Fortune, as their parents were Pleasant Fortune and Martha Elizabeth Suttle. Did I ever send the article where Martha baked a pie and had a tool in it to free D B Doc Fortune from jail? It was written in The Forest City Courier, don't know what year, but I believe it was much earlier in the 1920's or so by a Lucy Fortune. It was sent to me by a Grover Haynes relative. Haven't heard from him in a long time and if he is out there and sees this please get in touch with me. I will send whatever I have on my Fortune's when I get home. I hope to get to NC sometime this spring as my husband has promised to take me so I can go cemetary hopping and try to find some answers I have been, unable to find on my 4xgreatgrandparents Jacob Wolf and Mary Polly Deadman. I have many many relatives both deceased and alive in the Cleveland and Rutherford County area. Please remind me in about 3 weeks to send you the info on the Fortune's I have. I also have a pic of D B Doc Fortune and Serena Catherine Williams, greatgrandparents with some other relatives in it, such as Leander Holland, Summey, Condrey, can't remember names right off hand. Also have pics of my grandparents Raleigh Washington Fortune, Minnie "Ethel" Grigg, Greatgrandpparents Nancy Ellen Wolfe and Doc Franklin Grigg they are buriied at Rehobeth Methodist Church in Shelby, NC. Melanie