Forwarded from the message boards - if you can help, please respond back to the boards - through the link listed below. *** Please don't just hit reply - your message will come back to me, and not the person looking for the information*** RESPONSE to previous post: ----- Original Message ----- From: <quip59@comcast.net> To: <pabeaver-l@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 6:32 PM Subject: Re: Frankfort Springs, Hanover Twp., WITHERSPOON > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Witherspoon > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EdB.2ACI/1180.1 > > Message Board Post: > > If you type this address in your websight address bar at the top type > http://www.bchistory.org > When the page opens up at the top just click on communities then click on > Frankfort Springs and u will see a brief history of that area and the name > Stevens is mentioned as the owner of the hotel there, I wonder if this is > what you were calling the tavern and if the tavern was in the hotel, take > a look at it you'll see what im talking about, when I went thru ancestry, > i saw that name John Witherspoon from 1860 on backwards bu when you get to > 1820 there were only two a John and a William and Im betting William was > John's dad as he was next door in the 1850 and in that 1820 1830 and 1840 > William is always the oldest of the two unless they were brothers, John > did have a daughter named Mary, one of these two I forget which now but I > think it was John was actually born in Ireland, when I looked at 1810 and > 1800 theres no William, and theres a John but not in that area, in the one > census John is in Robinson washington Cnty and the other John is on the > other side of the state so de! > pending on which witherspoon was born in Ireland if not both they probably > came here between1810 and 1820