Jan, I looked in my database on James, son of Thomas, and I don't show any sources. I must have gotten the info from local relatives here in the Dallas area. The James Madison that Milton and I were originally discussing is actually the son of Reuben Nevil (Sr). It gets very confusion with all these James Nevil's :-). Daris Jan & David Faulkner wrote: > Milton and Daris, > > The James Nevil, b. 1796, who is in the family tree Thomas and Elizabeth > Tiller Nevil, which Daris shared, shows him married to Sally Schrader 22 May > 1818. I have a microfilm copy of the Amherst Co., VA Marriage records which > show the marriage as follows: 1818 May 22 James Nevils, husband; Sally > Shrader, wife; George Shrader, security & witness. > > There is one problem with James Nevil who m. Sally Shrader. He seems to be > listed in two different families. In Ivan B. Nevill, Sr.'s book, Genealogy > of the Nevill Family, he is also shown as James Nevil (no birth or death > date), the son of Col. James Nevil who was born 1728 and died 12-20-1784 in > Amherst Co., VA. Col. James Nevil does name a son James in his will, which > is in the Nevill book. Ivan Nevill shows the source for the will as Amherst > Co. Will Book 2, 1780-1786; he also shows the will was presented to court > Feb. 7, 1785. I am trying to learn what happened to the James named in the > will of 1784 and the James who was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Tiller > Nevil, who also lived in Amherst Co.. It looks like two James Nevils could > have been in Amherst Co. about the same time. How did you learn that Thomas > had a son James? > > Jan > > > == > Husband: James NEVIL > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------- > Birth: 1796 > Death: > Burial: > Marriage: 22 May 1818 > Father: Thomas C. NEVIL (b 1764) > Mother: Elizabeth TILLER > ============================================================ > ============== > Wife: Sally SHRADER > > At 01:44 AM 2/22/99 -0800, you wrote: > >Not all of Thomas line left TN and went to TX. James and family stayed. > >These burials are in the Old Baker Cemetery, now the Bradford Cemetery, in > >Bradford right down the road from Skullbone. > > > >NEVIL Suzanne wife of James 3-27-1834 5-4-1854 > >NEVIL M.A. wife of J.M. 1-6-1849 2-4-1892 > >NEVIL James Madison 12-16-1838 11-28-1912 > > > >There are several more all descendants of James. > > > >Milton > > > > > >==== NEVILLE Mailing List ==== > >You may contact the Neville list manager at: > >mailto:[email protected] > > > > > > ==== NEVILLE Mailing List ==== > Have you tried GenConnect? > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/index.html