Philip Sheppard wrote: > > > >William Lance, born abt 1851 married 19 May 1872 in Transylvania > >County, Josephine Dryman, born abt 1856. Their children are: > >John B., b. abt 1874; Eddie W., b. abt 1877 and Thomas, b. Jan 1880. > >All three children were born in South Carolina - most likely Pickens > >County. > > The only William Lance I have is William H. but he doesn't fit the criteria > below. My William H. was the son of Henry and Margaret Galloway Lance and he > doesn't have a brother named Leonard in my records. Must be a different > William. Henry was the son of Valentine Lance. > Peter Lance (father of William & Leonard) was also a son of Valentine, brother to your William H. > >Leonard's sister Martha married Christopher Whitmire (whose first wife > >was Jane Galloway) on 2 Dec 1871 in Transylvania County NC. > > My William H. did have a sister named Martha, but no further infomation. In > my records, there are a Christopher Whitmire and a Jane Galloway, parents of > Margaret (m. William Pettit), Andrew Simpson (m. Rebecca Trotter), Sarah > Matilda (m. James Trotter), Thomas Richard (m. Julie Ann Gillespie), and > John Christopher (m. Margaret Siniard). Their mother Jane was born abt > 1806. If my Chris was born about the same time, he would be a little old for > remarrying in 1871, not impossible, just a little old. I didn't have that he > had remarried. > I have a date of 1 Nov 1794 for Christopher Whitmire and that Martha Ann Dryman was born about 1829, so she would have been a good bit younger than he was. I guess maybe he needed someone to take care of him in his old age. I have a death date of about 1880 for him, is this right? Sherry in Georgia osburn@bellsouth.net