Everyone: Wow! A succinct query from Phil, and Linda responds with a detailed answer including descendants, inter-relationships, geographic details and - at no extra charge - the tale of a double murder. I'm already impressed beyond words (and jealous to boot) when I realize that she has topped it off by demonstrating the scholarly instinct to point out the one or two areas where her research leads to an ambiguity or where her knowledge is less than comprehensive. As we say here in California, I'm totally blown away! Linda, your humor adds wonderful zest to these e-mails, but what you've got packed away between your ears is absolutely priceless. As one of the ancestor-challenged (not enough great great grandparents to go around), I agree that being related from two or three directions is sufficient; but, just as Phil is "not allowed" to be related to the rest of us from a fourth or fifth direction, you are hereby required to live forever. Either that, or we'll have to arrange to have your brain hooked up to a computer so that we can continue to access your data. Thoughts/queries: * I'm getting used to situations like having relatives named Obed where it turns out that there was no discernible intent to refer to Obediah of the Bible, but since our common ancestors grew up within a few miles of Mt Pisgah (you know, Moses being allowed a glimpse of the promised land from atop the mountain even though he wasn't allowed to enter), what do you - any of you - figure are the odds that Ninive refers to the Ninevah where Jonah was sent? ** BTW, tracing it backwards, 11th edition Britannica speculates that Ninevah, capital of the Assyrian empire, may itself have been named after a district of the earlier Babylonian city of Lagash. * Another spelling problem: one of Sherry's sites has an old narrative indicating that certain Galloways were members of the "ceceder" church. Any ideas here? Had they seceded (withdrawn) from some previous affiliation? * A bit tangential, but who else could I ask?: I'm up to speed on "laurel" = rhododendron and "ivy" = mountain laurel, but what are "he-balsam" and "she-balsam"? * Any sources (electronic or otherwise) on the rugged individualist whom the Plott Balsams (mountains) and Plott hounds are named after? Responses on any of the above would be appreciated (even from non-cousins or those I'm only related to once or twice). As non-genealogical, any responses on the last two should probably be direct rather than through the list. Thanks to all, Gordon Owen Linda Raxter wrote: > > Dearest Cousin Phil, > You are not allowed to be descended from these folks - you and I are already so > related you're at the top of my list if I ever need a kidney transplant - right > next to Judy & Shawna. > > Rachel is the dtr of Thomas Bracken(1800-1880) & Elizabeth Kitchen (1808-?). > Her folks are buried at Bracken Cemetery. Rachel was born 27SEP1834 and died > 13JUN1910, is buried at Wood cemetery in Gloucester and her cemetery record in > Montieth's book is wrong (imagine that), so use mine. > > John was born in 1848 and I have yet to figure out which Woods he came out of. > Family Bible records show that he was murdered with his son 19FEB1900. Had to > do a little door knocking to find the specifics. There are several different > versions of the story but basically, John & son "Mess" went to Tennessee > (Either to escape person looking to kill son or to find work). Someone came to > the house and killed "Mess". John was caught in the crossfire and received a > bullet in the knee and died from the resulting infection soon after. Both are > buried in Tennessee. Some rumors suggest Mess had irritated someone over a > Civil War issue. But, the murderer was a previously convicted murderer who was > fresh out of prison for killing the last guy. J.B. McCall actually went to > Tennessee to get the specifics and found the grave, name of murderer, court > records etc. > > Daughter Mary Loucinda married Baxter Owen in Ninive - They are buried at Mtn > View Bapt Church in Gloucester. Their dtr Margaret married James Estes Hoxit > (Starting to sound familiar). Margaret & Estes are my great grandparents and > are buried at holly Spring Baptist Church in Henderson County. > > Son Thomas married "Bell" Hoxit. Thomas was a hugh man known to appreciate his > liquor a bit much. He had one of the first pick-up trucks in the area. > Grandpa got a ride with him once and says the bed of the truck was about the > size of a wheelbarrow. Thomas & Bell are buried up at Wood cemetery, too. > > BTW - Do you know where Ninive is? Didn't think so. It took me three months > of roaming Gloucester to find someone old enough to remember. Keitha Reid, > postmistress and general matriarch of Balsam Grove couldn't even tell me, > though she did mention that someone else had once asked about it. Emmett > Moore, the oldest man in the community at age 88 was able to tell me. He also > remembered Baxter Owen, as Baxter was "the first dead person I ever saw". > Ninive was a small community on Tannassee Gap Road almost to the Jackson County > line. > > Philip Sheppard wrote: > > > Evening Rooters, > > > > I need the stats (birth/death/places/cemetery) on John B. Wood and his wife > > Rachel Bracken, parents of Mary Lucinda Wood (b. 1863) and Thomas J. Wood > > (b. 1872). > > > > Thanks, > > > > Philip Sheppard > > Beaufort, South Carolina > > -- > > Linda Hoxit Raxter > lraxter@citcom.net > See Indexed Western North Carolina Cemetery Surveys > http://www.geocities.com/~alextreehouse > > related to at least half the county - at least once ; )