We have Kindred and Tempy (Reaves) Strickland that must have come with these from Wake County, N. C. to Green County, Al. about 1827. If you run across a connection to the Stricklands or Reaves/Reeves, please let me know. Thanks much, Lavonne Lavonne Sanders Walker, 19505 13th Street, Shawnee, Ok. 74801 Phone 405-273-5345 or 273-3326 Email:[email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: Sybil Phillips <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 9:44 PM Subject: ELLIS/BAGWELL/COOPER > Another tidbit to add to Stephen Ellis and Elizabeth Bagwell who were married in 1804 in Wake County and showed up in Greene County, Alabama probably in the 1820's. > > A friend told me that she had been told about a lady coming to Greene County with the Ellis family and she never married. She is buried with the Ellis family members in a Baptist Church cemetery and her name was Rebecca Cooper, died Oct. 22, 1849, age 56 years, four months and 12 days. I calculated her birth date and she was born June 10, 1793. > > I have a history of Wake County and Daniel Bagwell, father of Elizabeth, purchased 500 acres of land on the north side of Little River and paid David Cooper 260 pounds for it. > > Does the Cooper name ring a bell for anyone? I have a copy of the marriage bond for Stephen and Elizabeth and have found a legal document in our courthouse where Elizabeth more or less sued to get or dower/or her part of the estate after Stephen died. He had left everything to his son to take care of his wife but the son died before he did. Things must have been kind of messy. I do not know where he or Elizabeth are buried nor when she died. He did die prior to Rebecca Cooper. > > Sybil Phillips, Greene County, Alabama > > > >