Dear Sheila and other Oldham researchers, particularly of VA, NC and KY On 12/2/02 you wrote to the Oldham List, addressed your salutation to Linda, and giving some names of Jesse Oldham, Jr. and Maria Duncan, presumably of Madison Co., KY (or surrounding areas). I have not researched this younger family sufficiently to make any amendments to the list of children you provided. However, I do wish to make this correction: Richard Ready-Money Oldham is the son of Jesse Oldham, Sr. (not Jesse, Jr.) and his wife Elizabeth Simpson. He is my ancestor. His Rev War pension indicates he was born 4 May 1763, probably in North Carolina [however not stated]. He died ca 17 June 1836. He was married first to Ursley Duke Williams [the widow of Reuben Peoples] of Caswell Co., NC. After Ursley's death, he married Patsy Reid, daughter of Alexander Reid. He filed for a Rev War pension, got at least one payment, and Patsy got a widow's pension. Later, Patsy and most of her children (as far as I know) moved to Missouri, she to Platte Co., MO. This is according to the Rev War pension. R/M also got a bounty-land warrant, but I do not have any information except the number of that warrant, which appears on the cover sheet of the pension. If your favorite genealogical library has some hefty books by Virgil D. White called [loosely] Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionar War Pensions, take a look at the Oldhams. There will be an abstract of R/M's pension. Question: Did Jesse Oldham, Jr. remain in Madison Co., KY? If so, I will try to be on the lookout for him. I have enough trouble keeping up with R/M's first children, only one of whom was a son. For example, R/M's daughter Nancy Oldham m. in 1810 or so to Overton Harris, son of the elder Christopher Harris. Overton wrote his will in 1827, restricting Nancy's use of the property in the event that she remarried after his death. About ten years later, in 1837 or so, Nancy decided to remarry to Anderson Chenault, now a widower, and she had a pre-nuptial agreement drawn up, which was not recorded until she and Anderson had been married for a year. It is recorded in Madison Co. deed book, and should be of interest to all feminists (and legal students). Subsequent deeds in which Nancy Chenault is a party are carefully worded. Thanks for your interest in the Oldhams of Madison Co., KY and previously of Caswell Co., NC and probably previously of Northern Neck Virginia--where there are tons of Oldhams, few of them who can be linked to one another. E.W.Wallace (female)