Kathy, Thank you for the clarifications, corrections, and comments on Solomon C. and Drury A. Nevill, Barbara Hester Nevill Farrier, and Granderson Nevill. I have seen Barbara's family in the Mont. Co., TN census many times, right there with the Whitfields and Killebrews who were related to the other bunch of Nevills, the George Nevill group, in that county. I have never seen a connection between the Killebrews and Nevills over in the Edgecombe/Granville/Halifax Co./Orange Co., NC area, yet that is the area from which the Killebrews came, not the western NC/SC border area where George's group lived before coming to TN. I wonder if some lost Neville/Killebrew link in Edgecombe, etc. Co. is what drew John, son of George, and your Solomon together in Mont. Co., TN, rather than a Neville link? Do you happen to know if John Sims Nevill, father of Albert Galllatino Nevill, lived in Orange Co.? Also, have you found evidence that John's middle name was Sims? Jim Robertson's chart is the only place I have seen a middle name for John. Have you ever corresponded with Jim? (Sorry to be asking so many questions when you are sick. I am in no hurry for a reply <g>.) As for the Dallas Co., AR Nevill/Nevels group, it looks to me like some of the Orange Co. & Halifax Co., NC group made their way to AR. Linda Smith's group in Dallas Co., AR, Elijah Hillman Green & Malissa Eunice Nevils (married in Halifax Co., NC), had sons Sterling Dudley Green and George Willis Green who were born in TN, according to Linda. The Hillman name was also used by one of the Nevills from Halifax Co., NC, who went to AL (Lois Boesh's ancestor), and Willis and Sterling are names also found in the Halifax/Orange Co. Neville chart of Jim Robertson. In addition, Linda stated that her husband's grandfather had a brother Elijah Nevil Green b. 12 Aug 1874 -- it looks like some of the Nevill-Green clan from Halifax Co., NC were trading that Elijah name back and forth. I have a strong hunch that Elijah and Elihu Nevill who are in land records of AR are part of the Halifax group, too, because the Greens who intermarried with the Nevilles in Halifax Co., NC, had a fondness for the Elisha, Elijah, Elihu names. Last year, Charles Graham noted the following on Elihu Nevill: he was given a land grant in Jackson Co., Alabama in 1830; a Geoge W. Nevill was given a land grant immediately next to Elihu's. Elihu moved from Alabama to White county, Arkansas in 1844, one of the original settlers of that county. According to Arkansas Census records in 1850, Elihu was born in Kentucky (he would have been born in 1805). I am wondering which one of those Nevills in Halifax or Orange Co. might have come to KY where they had children, or at least the child Elihu Nevill. Since we know for sure some of the Halifax Co., NC group was in AL, that could explain why Elihu Nevill went there before going to AR. Do you happen to know which Solomon Nevill is on p. 233, 1840 Franklin Co., AL census? I couldn't find him in the Bureau of Land Mgmt. index for AL and no other Nevill is listed on the census in Franklin Co. for 1840 so I couldn't place him with one of the Halifax Co., or more likely Orange Co., NC groups. (BTW, I guess everyone else has already figured out that the BLM records available on line are a great supplement to census records. I just realized the other day that if I put the BLM state indexes of specific surnames with my census files and tax lists, I have an even better picture of where some of my people were at specific times.) Jan At 10:42 PM 3/2/99 -0600, you wrote: >Jan: > >You lured me out of the woodwork!! Not fair, I'm sick. > >Couple of comments from me. First, I'm not convinced that >Solomon Nevill Sr. was named Solomon CORBIN Nevill. I have >never seen his name this way in a primary source. I have >not even seen a middle initial C. for him that I remember. >I think the assumption has been made that he was Sr. and >Solomon Corbin Nevill was Jr. I'm thinking that 1777 was too >early for the common usage of middle names. Can any one shed >any light on that? Jeanne Barton, what do you think? I think >the Corbin name was added with Jr.'s generation. > >My gut feeling is that Drury A. Neville was a Drury Allen Neville. >That's a favorite name among the early Allens. If he is a son >of John Sims Neville, then I'd look for John's mystery wife to >have an Allen connection since I do not know of any up the >Neville-Walton-Sims line. > >Also Barbara "Heston" Neville's name was most likely Barbara >Hester Neville, named after her maternal grandmother Barbara >(Hester) Walton. That Heston clue led me astray since 1984. She >married Needham B. Farrier. > >I have Annette Travis as Granderson (Grandison) Neville's THIRD >wife. His first was Minerva Peterson who married as her second >husband Meredith Howard. They had a long marriage and many children! > >Kathy > > >==== NEVILLE Mailing List ==== >Have you tried Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet? >http://www.oz.net/~cyndihow/sites.htm > >