>Dear Friends, > >Just back from a visit to Transylvania County (where Mom lives - I'm about 6 >hours away). Spent a wonderful day hosted by none other than Cousin Linda >"Related To At Least Half the County - At Least Once" Raxter on Friday. No >luck on the old Lance Cemetery, even after a second look on Saturday. But >what a visit to Old Toxaway Cemetery! Magnificient! > >Did visit Toxaway Baptist Church Cemetery, also on Saturday. Gigi, thought >of you at the graves of Wm. Alfred and Cora Galloway Foster. Wrote lots of >stuff down to check against my database and came away from there with more >questions than answers. I know I'll get all my answers here! :~) Here goes >(and yes, Linda, I have more questions for you, too).... > >Found (YEA!): Elijah D. Reid and wife Annie A. --. Elijah 1858-1945, Annie >1868-1948. Buried nearby, possibly a son? of the above: Edgar A. Reid, b. >1/27/1887, d. 9/29/1972, and his wife Sue G. (Galloway?), b. 5/7/1878, d. >11/11/1955. Anyone recognize Edgar and Sue? > >Other Reids: >N. Wesley Reid, b. 3/22/1894, d. ?, wife Minnie L. --, b. 10/8/1880, d. >7/17/1966. Beside them: Dewey Owen, b. 1907, d. 1927. Who was Wesley's >father and what was his wife's maiden name? Who is this Dewey buried there? > >Owen folks: >Bunyon Owen, buried with Posey B. Owen and Elizabeth J. --. Bunyon, b. >8/22/1894, d. 9/30/1979. Son of Posey? Next to Bunyon is a stone with June >O. O'Shields, b. 6/15/1931, no death date. Sister of Bunyon? And finally in >the same group of graves is Lethie J. Owen, b. 3/4/1882, d. 3/6/1963, >another sister of Bunyon's? > >Another group of Owen graves (I have none of these in my database): >Jimmie and Johnnie Owen, twin sons of Fred and Nellie Owen, b. 1846, d. 1947. >Ethel Owen, dau of J. Coleman Owen, b. 10/25/1908, d. 4/29/1923 >Lelia Mae Owen, b. 9/10/1884, d. 1/5/1978 >J. Coleman Owen, b. 4/18/1879, d. 3/25/1950 >Blanche O. Huggins, b. 4/7/1925, d. 9/13/1978 >Lewis Carr Owen, b/ 5/10/1916, d. 1/16/1991 >Leo Banther (Owen?), b. 11/20/1918, d. 11/14/1988 > >Fred and Nellie show up elsewhere in the cemetery: >Fred Owen, b. 1/13/1906, d. 4/6/1969 S2 UNNR World War II >Nellie Wilde, b. 10/21/1917, d. 12/3/1989 > >Well that's enough for tonight. More later! > >Regards, > >Philip Sheppard >Beaufort, South Carolina >Listowner: NCMACON, NCTRANSY