Debbie, yes Benjamin Posey b. abt. 1780 was born in North Carolina, and I understand some Poseys before him were born in West VA. I don't have documentation. Sarah

Debbie, I have a lot of Posey's, who was Marsha's parents. I might be able to help with her line. Sarah

Looking for any information on Marsha Posey Family. MARSHA POSEY was born December 16, 1861, and died January 18, 1939 in Lewis County, W.Va.. She married GEORGE WASHINGTON PENNINGTON September 17, 1882 in Lewis County, W.Va., son of ARCHIBALD PENNINGTON and MALINDA JOHNSON. Children of MARSHA POSEY and GEORGE PENNINGTON are: i. WILLIAM VINSON PENNINGTON, b. July 19, 1883; d. June 23, 1893. 2. ii. ARTIE MONTANA PENNINGTON, b. October 03, 1885, Crawford County, WV; d. April 27, 1955, Newark, OH. iii. CORDELIA IVA PENNINGTON, b. March 30, 1888; d. July 16, 1956, Columbus, OH; m. EMORY CUSTER. iv. MINNIE BESSIE PENNINGTON, b. February 27, 1890; d. December 17, 1933. v. BEVERLY CLINTON PENNINGTON, b. January 13, 1892; m. BERTHA. vi. VIOLA ETTA ESTLINE PENNINGTON, b. December 16, 1895. vii. JUNNIE FRANCIS PENNINGTON, b. December 17, 1899. viii. ARDEN THEODORE PENNINGTON, b. September 20, 1901. ix. CYRUS VADEN PENNINGTON, b. June 22, 1904; d. October 27, 1968. x. OPAL MARY PENNINGTON, b. August 12, 1907. Generation No. 2 2. ARTIE MONTANA PENNINGTON was born October 03, 1885 in Crawford County, WV, and died April 27, 1955 in Newark, OH. She married IRA FLEMING WHITE March 27, 1908. Children of ARTIE PENNINGTON and IRA WHITE are: i. CORRY ELMER WHITE, b. November 24, 1908. ii. CLINE EDWIN WHITE, b. December 15, 1910. iii. MADELINE BESSIE WHITE, b. December 01, 1912; m. ROBERT LIVINGSTON. iv. IRA FLEMING WHITE, JR., b. May 03, 1917, Burnsville, WV; d. January 03, 1987, Newark, OH; m. FRANCES ILENE MEADOWS. v. MARY ELIZABETH WHITE, b. September 29, 1922; m. MASON SWICK. vi. MARJORIE ADALINE WHITE, b. February 24, 1924; m. (1) HARRY MORAN; m. (2) WILLIAM MARTIN; m. (3) HAROLD CALSON. vii. MARTHA EVELYN "EBBIE" WHITE, b. November 29, 1928; m. (1) JACK MAISENBACHER; m. (2) EARL LEAR. Any help with this family will be appreciated. Thanks Debbie

Posted on: Posey Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Posey?read=130 Surname: Severson, Syverson, Posey ------------------------- The Elizabeth Posey I have married Suit Severson or spelled Syverson. She was b. 1836 Fairfield, IL, Suit in 1820 in Norway. Elizabeth d. Bet. 1885 - 1912 (I believe in WI. But I have no proof). Suit d. March 3, 1885 in Eastman, Crawford County, WI. They were married January 25, 1847 in JoDaviess Co. IL. They had 9 children, Margaret, Jane, William, Amanda, Loren, Dennis, Daniel, Martha and David. If this sounds like the right Elizabeth please Email me.

Posted on: Posey Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Posey?read=129 Surname: Posey, Farris, Chadwick, Oakes ------------------------- Looking for Poseys that moved from TN to IL to WI, Crawford County. Along with them came the Farris & Syverson families. They settled in a area of Crawford County that is now known as the Posey Valley and Steuben, WI. Marrietta Twp. I would like to know about James and Jerusha's children and the family of Isaac Posey and Irena Chadwick.

Posted on: Posey Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Posey?read=127 Surname: Hubbard ------------------------- I am researching my Hubbard line and have recieved the following info: >From Administrations and Wills of Randolph Coounty, Missouri 1836-1858: Moses Hubbard is listed twice in the will of Humphrey Posey witnessed 29 July 1839 and probated 19 Aug 1839. He is listed as a beneficiary and a witness to the will. I have been unable to locate Humphrey Posey in the censuses for Randolph County although there is a Posey Family living in the county. Any help would be appreciated!

Posted on: Posey Queries Board URL: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Posey?read=125 Surname: Posey ------------------------- Seeking information on parents of Humphrey Posey, born Feb 25, 1841, possibly in Georgia; died Jan 28, 1915 in Gasconade Co., Mo. His father's name was John; mother named Nancy.

Has anyone ever examined this record? http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/speccol/catalog/000300/html/sc323.html Rick Saunders

I remember the first time I saw the Poseys in America book - thanks to Winnie - and I was naive enough then to think it was pretty good. Since then, I just keep asking myself, "What if J.W. Emison and Lloyd and Betty Posey had had computers?" Now , I also wonder why there weren't more sources listed and why they didn't consult a lot of obvious records.(if they had, I guess I wouldn't have had so much fun looking for all that missing information these past few years!) And I ask if someone somewhere knows where our ancestor Francis - who may or may not be French or English - is buried? And since my ancestors in more recent years had such fondness for middle names and all - What was Francis Posey's middle name? Does anyone know how he died? Maybe there's an obituary somewhere that I've missed. And so on..... Sharon Posey Smith

This is a no, no, but well worth reading. Ever get one of these types of letters after an inquirey? This would be enough to push any sane family historian over the edge. Dear Cousin, In response to your letter, I am sorry to inform you that grandpa "Fred" died some time back and the stuff you asked about is not available. The personal property the family did not want was sold at an estate sale. All those boxes of junk did not interest a single buyer. We were able to salvage several binders for the kids homework after we sent all the paper to the incinerator. The kids really complained about havingto lug all that paper and pictures of those ugly old folks to the dumpster. An old family Bible from the 1840's did bring $ 5.00. The one from the 1870's did not sell. There also was a bunch of floppy disks that we were able to reformat and download some games for the kids to play on their new playstation. At least SOMEBODY got some good from the three generations work. I saw the fellow at a flea market a couple of weeks ago and he said he threw the Bible in the trash after nobody was interested in it. He said he got an offer for fifty cents for it, but would rather burn it than give it away. He seemed to be having a lot of success with some very nice Elvis paintings at his booth. The two aunts you asked about are also dead. They were such a delight and could talk all day long about the things papa had written about. I remember them saying something about some records that were copied from two courthouses that later burned. Neither ever wrote down a single thing. The letter you referred to was one he typed up and sent to lots of folks who wrote him. He laughed about them never getting any of his hard work as well as his Fathers and Grandfather who was in the Civil War . He guarded all the information carefully to the bitter end. I wish I could remember some of the things to help you, but I was bored to tears listening to them talk about the family members who were in the civil war and those silly pieces of paper he showed so proudly. I vaguely remember they had some beeswax seals and something to do with the land grants that were destroyed in the courthouse fires. I wish I could remember the story about his grandfathers evening with Jefferson Davis when he was on the run. There are also some very juicy stories that were handed down, but I don't remember them very well. Another thing I remember after he got sick was some fellow calling him and he agreed to let him come down and copy all his material. He told him he would call him back when he felt better. Papa mentioned something about letting the society the man was from have all his work since nobody in the family cared anything about a bunch of people who had been dead for 200 years. Papa died the next week. I am so sorry papa and the two generations wasted so much of their life on such worthless hobbies and hope your family will follow something more interesting. We enjoy Bingo and bowling very much here in Pleasantville. I really enjoyed hearing from a long lost cousin and would like to hearback if you find anything important. The kids need the computer for their games and I need to watch the "Millionaire" show. Thank you, Cuz, Tammy Jean

The Famous Terry Rangers (Part 2) The next general engagement was Murphresboro--another hard fight, one I'll never forget. The Yankee army moved down on us on Christmas day. We were doing picket duty 25 miles west of Murpresboro, and we fought them all the way from Tryune to the main battle ground, which was fought on Jan. 1st, 2nd and 3rd, and you may know there was many a man gave up his life here. I think there must have been 10,000 killed, wounded and mussing from our side, and many more on the Yankee side--perhaps 5,000 more than we lost. Both armies were whipped. Buell, who was commanding the U.S. Army, and Bragg, who was commanding us, were both retreating--Buell to Nashville and Bragg to Chattanooga, where we rested for awhile. We (I mean the Rangers) were in a skirmish sometimes as many as half a dozen a day, but that was not called fighting, although a great many men were killed. The next big fight was Chickamauga. Here we fought three or four days and dead men could be seen six weeks after the battle with just a little dirt thrown on them with a spade. You could see the end of a man's nose sticking out through the ground or his hands lying out. It was a horrible sight to look at. During the fight the woods were set on fire and a great many men, who were wounded and could not walk, were burned up. I say cows, sheep, hogs, dogs and chickens that were killed in this fight. After the fight was over my command was sent to Knoxville with Gen. Longstreet and we spent a miserable cold winter and did a lot of unnecessary fighting and work trying to take Knoxville and Burnside's army, but we failed. Mr. A.D. Rhea of Groesbeck was shut up in this garrison, so he tells me, and said he was very glad when Longstreet took a notion to leave. It was a very cold wither--sleet and snow on the ground nearly all the time. The meanest people I ever had anything to do with live in East Tennessee. When we went back to the Tennessee Army we found them at Dalton, and from there we fought all the way to Atlanta. The principal fights were Resacca, Newhope Church, Kennesaw Mountain, and I could not recall half of the small engagements, for we were in it nearly all the time until we reached Peach Tree Creek. Here our army stopped and gave them battle, but they had so many more men than we did that they flanked us. While they were fighting near Atlanta they sent 15,000 men to Jonesboro, 12 or 14 miles below Atlanta, and Gen. Cleburne with about 6,000 men and Wheeler with 3,000 men were sent to drive them back, and did so after some very hard fighting. Wheeler was sent after Gen. McCook, who, with 8,000 or 10,000 men, was on a raid through the state, but was driven out through Alabama and made his escape by swimming the Tallapoosa river, but threw their guns and pistols in the River. When General Hood moved out to Tennessee, Capt. A.M. Shannon was left with a scout of 15 picked men to watch the Yankees around Atlanta and keep him posted, but Sherman left but a short time after Hood, so this gave us all the work we could do for quite a while. I was one of the scouts who followed Sherman to the sea. We killed and captured 175 men and captured about 100 horses and mules and 250 head of beef cattle, which we gave to the people who had been robbed of everything they owned, even to their clothing and false teeth, if they were on a gold plate. We caught several Yankees who had taken false teeth out of ladies' mouths. We recovered a fine lot of silver spoons and forks and other valuables, such as watches, mugs, goblets, etc. They would take feather beds, quilts, blankets, chickens, hogs, turkeys, preserves--anything that they could get their hands on that would do to eat or wear. After they took Savannah, Sherman started up through South Carolina. He took Charleston and still traveled north through North Carolina. There was a good deal of fighting in this state. Joe Johnston was in command at this time and was trying to concentrate his troops so that he could give battle, but we heard that Lee had surrendered. Then I began to make preparation to leave there, having heard that Johnston was going to surrender in a few days. I went to General Wheeler and asked him if these reports were true, but he would not say whether it was so or not. I had seen some of Lee's men the day before and they said we were gone up and I told Gen. Wheeler that we were going to leave for home. He said he could not keep us from it, but would rather we would stay and surrender with the army. We didn't like the idea and the boys in my crowd started home. We had not gone but a few miles before we rode up on an ambulance with our Brigadier-General, Tom Harrison, who went out with us from Waco. He was a gallant old man, but was some times mean to his men in camp. He was our Major for a long time, and then Colonel, and then Brig-Gen. So you might say we made him from private to general, and he is not the only one, for Wharton, Wheeler and several others were promoted by commanding the Rangers. I fought under Morgan around Nashville, but did not stay with him long. I also fought under Forrest, Wheeler and Hampton at different times. I can't now remember how many different men I was commanded by. It has been a long time ago and I can not recall all that happened, but I stopped in Georgia, not a great way from Atlanta, and spent about 2 months with my father's people--right where he was raised, and met lots of people who knew him, and some of his old school mates, and I was always glad to meet those old school mates for they told me some funny thins that occurred in those days. I had not been there but a short while until the place was guarded by a company of U.S. troops and I either had to surrender or leave, so I went up the court house and was paroled, and didn't belong to the army any more. Well, Lucy, I have given you a very incomplete history of my experience in the army. Of course, I cannot think of all that happened. I have named the principal engagements, but as to the skirmishes, I could never think of all of them for they would come off every hour, and sometimes we would skirmish all day and night, especially on retreats or advances. There was a great deal of difference in cavalry and infantry fighting. As a general thing when infantry fought it was called a battle, or general engagement, but cavalry did not do much of that kind of fighting. Ours was generally called skirmishes, and the cavalry did nearly all the picketing for the whole army. Gen. Sidney Johnson said the Texas Rangers were the eyes and ears of his army; that he always slept soundly when they were in front. Well, I could sit and write about army times always, but I will quit after giving you my experience, or as much as I could think of at the time. I could write five times as much on the same subject. Now, I think of something I left out all along, but it is too late to insert it now. So if this little history will do you any good, you are more that welcome to it, and I am glad you took so much interest in my life as to inquire into it. Hoping you will be pleased, I am your own pa, Tom Burney Groesbeck, Texas. These are the names of the boys who left Springfield with me September 8, 1861: G.W. Archer J.M. Rodgers Tom Burney John E. Thornton W.R. Brooks Walter Wood G.B. Kennedy Sol K. Scruggs P.L. Kendall Terry Wiley Cyrus Love Felix G. Kennedy Joe M. Lynch W.L. Moore W.H. Owens Wm. A. Lynch Bulger Peeples N.W. Grant George Posey M. McGuyre Wm. Slaughter Nathan Holt Uriah Posey T.J. Oliver

The Famous Terry Rangers Mr. Tom Burney Writes an Interesting Letter of His Four Years Experience with This Noted Texas Regiment Mr. Tom Burney has written a letter to his daughter reciting some of his experiences as a confederate soldier and of the exploits of the Rangers, and the part that famous regiment played in the Civil War. We obtained permission to print the letter for it gives some incidents that history does not record, and besides, of the number who left Springfield to join this regiment in Houston, Mr. Burney is the only survivor who lives in the County; in fact, there are but two more besides himself who are still with the living, namely, T.J. Oliver, of Dallas, and Mr. Wm. Owens of Elgin. The letter follows: My Dear Lucy:- You asked me in your last letter to write you a short history of my army experience, and I am going to do my best to tell you but it will be a very meager history, for it has been a long time ago and I have forgotten more than I can recollect so I will commence by telling you that we started from Old Springfield on the 8th of Sept. 1861 and landed in Houston a few days after, just in time to join the famous Terry's Rangers. We were fortunate enough to strike a company from Gonzales County which was not as full as they wished and we joined it, which was Company C, commanded by M.L. Evans, Capt., A.D. Shannon, 1st, John Baylor, 2nd, and Jim Dunn, 3rd Lieutenants. I believe, as well as I can remember, there were 27 men in my squad, whose names I have kept, and will give them to you before I finish this sketch. After we joined it, it made quite a good Company, numbering about 100 men. Well, we were sworn in for three years or during the war, and we were tied to stay whether we wanted to or not. When we joined, our destination was Richmond, Va., but General Sidney Johnston asked the war department for us and we were sent to him at Bowling Green, Ky., where we spent a very hard winter, not being used to such a cold climate, it caused a great many to be sick and a good deal of fatal sickness among our Regiment a good many were discharged and others got furloughs and come home to regain their health. The Regiment left was sent to Green River to do picket duty for the army and were stationed about six miles east of the Mammoth Cave (I think it was east). It was here that the boys had their first fight, and it was a bad one, too. Our Col. was killed and five or six others, several were badly wounded. I was down with the measles at that time and was sent to the hospital in Nashville, but I ran away and left the car at Franklin, Ky. I had some friends living there whom I stopped with until I was able to go and went back to my regiment but relapsed and came near dying so I went back to my friends in Franklin and was there when the army came along on its retreat to Corinth, and one of the boys brought me a horse and I again joined my company on the way to Shiloh. I believe we got to Corinth in January or February. I can't remember the dates but we stayed here until April 13th and marched out to meet Gens. Grant and Halleck and the fight opened up April 6th, 1862, on Sunday morning before daylight and continued about 3 days. I was on picket until 10 o'clock Sunday. I felt like I could whip four or five Yankees without any trouble, but soon found out better. I was on Owl Creek road and as we crossed the creek we began to see signs of the fight. There were all kinds of canned goods strewn along the road, lots of whiskey and some champagne, and thought I could walk on candy for half a mile, we were not allowed to dismount for anything, hardly let you fall if you were shot. It was about 12 or 1 o'clock before we were carried into the fight, and then I wanted to get out as bad as I wanted to get in, but was ashamed to run. The first ones to get into the real sport was when a call for a man from each company to volunteer to charge a battery. Uriah Posey was the man from our company. They took the battery without firing a gun. Gen. Hardee had ordered Wirt Adams' Regiment, of Mississippi cavalry, to charge this battery and they refused and he told them that he could pick 10 men from the Rangers and that they would take it and they did. I can remember that we had some hot fighting that evening, such as I don't care to do any more. We captured and I helped to capture about four thousand Yankees in less that one hour. I think it was Gen. Prentiss's brigade that we captured. We charged them in front and while we entertained them, there was a lot of infantry doubled quicked to the rear. So when we got enough and retired, all they had to do was to get on the other side of the logs they were lying behind and face that infantry. It seemed to paralyze them, and they hoisted a white flag quickly. We did not fight much more that evening on that part of the line but I could see it going on about any direction from us. We fought them back until we could see the whole of Grant's army in the bend of the river. Could see the gun-boats and transports. The seemed to be getting aboard, and shells that seemed a big as barrels were coming our way thick and fast, but not doing any very serious damage only by scaring people nearly as bad as they hurt them. About 4 o'clock or little later Gen. Johnston was killed which threw everything out of gear. Gen. Beauregard, being next in command, of course, took charge of the army and there was not much more fighting done that night, but next morning, it began again. It rained all night as we were a wet as water could make us, and shells were falling all around us and they were as big as a large pumpkin. I heard that one shell killed 60 horses, but can't vouch for the truth of it. On Monday we began to wend our way back to Corinth very slowly on account of bad roads caused from the terrible rain the night before; had to cut new roads for nearly every wagon train, horses would bog almost anywhere in the woods, so that our travels were very slow indeed, besides we would have to stop and fight the enemy back to keep them from getting the wagons and artillery, they didn't seem to be near so hostile as the were on Sunday. When we got nearly to Corinth they let us go in peace. So this is my experience at Shiloh. I stayed in Camps near Corinth a few days and we were sent to Tenn. under one Gen. Adams but we didn't stay long. We crossed the mountains and went to Chattanooga, and camped a few days and were sent back to Tenn. under Forrest. Then we did some fighting, destroyed a good many U.S. stores up and down the L. & N. R. R. We stayed in Tennessee until Mr. Bragg came along going to Kentucky and joined him at Sparta, and right here I got my hat, the one I gave you in the case. I wore it the balance of the unpleasantness and two years after and laid it away as a keep-sake. Now I have given you a very incomplete history of my army experience up to Sept., 1862 and I shall only name the most noted engagements that I was in after that, because I find that I am not a good historian. Bragg fought at Mumfordville on Green River and captured four thousand prisoners. I was there and took part in the fight. Perryville was next and was a hot and furious one while it lasted. I saw more dead men there than any fight I was ever in. You could almost step from one dead man to another for half a mile. We left there that night and from the way the Yankees yelled when they found that we were gone, I know they were glad. We left Kentucky by crossing the Cumberland mountains through the Cumberland Gap and camped at Knoxville a few days. From there we went to Murfreesboro, Tenn. I forgot, too, were in some kind of a fight every day after we left Perryville until we passed through the Gap. (Published in the Groesbeck Journal, Thursday, November 25, 1909)

Does anyone know of Sam Posey who was a G-man? Would like info and how to contact his family that did a book.

In a message dated 6/17/00 12:16:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, swarren2@prodigy.net writes: << http://historic.shcsc.k12.in.us/tourtown/tp.htm >> This controversy has gone on for some time. Thomas Posey's father, Cpt. John Posey, has gone down in the history books as "improvident", "reckless", 'unreliable" and lots of other things. George Washington is always painted as a hero. Even though not much talked about, Thomas Posey's (actual?) father, was also a soldier and politician of some note before he fell into disgrace. He almost won against George Washington and other notables of the time in an election for the House of Burgesses. Cpt. John Posey conducted himself honorably in the French and Indian Wars with George and others. It was only as he got into heavier and heavier land speculation that he got into trouble. He was an important vestryman, soldier and politician, along with the rest of them until that. As a result of the money he owed Washington, a judgement against him meant that Washington could get all of his land in "Dogue Run" (now southern portion of Mount Vernon property) for next to nothing. I think that this action is suspect, especially since Washington, much to the amazement of others, continued to lend him money long after others had stopped. There may have been a "method" in old George's madness. The history books always paint George as a "good hearted friend" to Cpt. John Posey, that he (George) just couldn't say "No" to his old friend Posey. George Washington ended up either the richest, or close to the richest, man in the country. It was all about land, land, land. Washington owned land all over the eastern seaboard and all over the western frontier when he died. I found interesting stuff on the web a few days ago. Some of the Maryland cousins and the Virginia folks did anything they could to distance themselves from Cpt John Posey as he, and his son, John Price Posey, died in infamy. John Price was hanged I believe. Some of this rumour and myth about Thomas Posey may be that people have to rationalize that General Thomas Posey must have been Washington's son (and conversely, not Cpt. Posey's son) because he was "such a good guy", such a hero, accomplished so much in his life, he couldn't possibly been spawned by the reprobate Cpt. John Posey. Many folks in Pre-Colonial and Colonial times, pre and post Revolution got into trouble with land and money. The economic depressions and the failures of the economy and of crop failures etc. that followed the Revolution, were devastating. Cpt. John Posey got into more trouble because he had a lot to lose. I and others think it possible that Cpt. John Posey has been demonized more than he should be, and George Washington, lionized more than he should be. The answer is somewhere in the middle.

Paula, I have heard the same thing. I would be interested in working with you to prove this story. Cynthia Posey Behel

Sources for John Thornton Posey's book. http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?st=sl&ac=sl&qi=XkodF,O8f.Kjwn7rdU6xVg1Xkoc pWM6x:12:33

http://www.indianahistory.com/m0228.htm

I know nothing about the writer of this article. http://historic.shcsc.k12.in.us/tourtown/tp.htm

Dear Shirley, Boy, you can tell I am one of the older generation too, just because I am "pushing 60" doesn't mean I feel old, but sometimes the references just aren't there. I am dimmly aware of "Parker Posey". I think I knew she was an actress ( you aren't supposed to say actress anymore either, just actor) but promptly forgot it and thought you were talking about someone we had met "on line". Anyway, is she one of "our" Posey's? If from Mississippi then that is interesting. Best, Charlotte R-N

In a message dated 6/15/00 11:14:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, swarren2@prodigy.net writes: << http://www.nyx.net/~damorgan/rodgers.html >> Shirley, I got a Page Not There message when I tried this...what gives? Charlotte