Brenda, You did a fine job listing all your names,etc. Have you contacted Afrigenesis mailing list? I am not sure I spelled that correctly. Also, did you post on NC ROOTS? Carol At 02:32 PM 01/03/1999 EST, you wrote: >Halifax --> Bertie --> Nash/Edgecombe Counties, NC > >My grandmother's grandfather Iicson (Isom) Gray married Lucinda ? and is from >the >Washinton/Bertie/Beauford County (NC) area. Iicson is a Native American, I >think >Cherokee or Tuscarora Indian. My Granny says he�s Cherokee. Their children are >Stephen, Henry, Harriiet Lucinda and William Gray. His son is William Gray, >which >William later moved to Halifax, Edgecombe and Nash Counties where he married >George >Anna Whitley. George Anna is the daughter of Tempie Devereaux (Halifax/Bertie >Co.) >and Wright (Right) Whitley (related to the Whitleys' in Nashville, Spring >Hope, Black >Creek (Wilson Co), NC . Wright's mother was a Whitley and his father was a >Vick. >George Anna used to live in Black Creek just across the railroad tracks. >Tempie's (Tempe) >parents are Hopey and Alston. Tempie, her parents, brothers and sisters ( >Cato, Cloe, >Alfred, Nancy, Mary & Mariah) were slaves of John & Thomas Devereaux >(Halifax/Bertie >Co.). I was told Tempie had a boarding house in Nashville, NC that was were >William and >George Anna met and married. William worked for the Atlantic Coastlie >Railroad. William >and George Anna's children are Benjamin (Bud), Eva, Stephen, Tempy Ann and >Lena >Gray. Lena (my grandmother) married James "ST" Robinson (Wayne/Wilson Co.). >James >is also known as "Buddy", his parents are Louise Barnes and Anderson (Andrew) >Robinson. After Anderson's death, Louise married Milton Sanders. Surnames from >this >union are Roundtree (Rountree), Sanders. Coley, Jones and Jenkins. > >Please contact me if you have any info whether big or small. Feel free to pass >this >information on to someone you think will be able to help me. If you have >assess to listed >surname mailing list please feel free to forward this query to them also. I >know that >someone must have heard of at least one of these people. > >Thanks, >Brenda >[email protected] > > Carol Pridgen Martoccia 903 East Fifth St. Greenville, NC 27858 PRIDGEN Homepage : http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6297 PRIDGEN Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl List manager for the Pridgen Family and for Wilson County, NC (NCWilson)