This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: waroper Surnames: Roper, Fulbright, Cannon, Lawson Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.roper/1698.3.1.2.1.1.1.3.1.2.4.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Frank: You may recall that I urged you to consider the possibility that Charles Jackson ROPER and/or Philip Lawson ROPER might be closely related to David ROPER in a series of posts a little more than a year ago. Although I believe that I posted some information abstracted from the book "Past and Present of Greene County, Missouri, Vol. I" by Jonathan FAIRBANKS and Clyde Edwin TUCK (Indianapolis, IN: A. W. Bowen & Company, 1915), I am unsure whether I noticed and included some of the genealogical details noted within the sketch of William Henry FULBRIGHT (b 15 Aug 1837 - Greene, MO), David ROPER's grandson. The sketch appears online at the Archive.org site, so I am NOT going to attempt to transcribe the entire thing here, but will excerpt below what I think are the significant genealogical details: "He is the son of John Lawson and Elizabeth O. (Roper) Fulbright. He is the scion of two old American families of colonial stock. His grandfather, David Roper was a soldier in the war of 1812, and fought at the battle of Horse Shoe under Gen. Andrew Jackson. The great-grandfather on his mother's side was a soldier in the Revolutionary war." Later, we are told: "John L. Fulbright, father of the immediate subject of this sketch, was born on October 11, 1816, and was therefore thirteen years of age when he came with his parents to Greene county and here he grew to manhood and engaged in farming. ... The death of John L. Fulbright occurred on October 31, 1882, on the old farm in Campbell township. His wife, who was born in Tennessee in 1816, died on the homestead here June 21, 1885." * * * Admittedly, this is a secondary rather than primary source, but it was written vastly closer in time to the events during the memory of grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and focused on that particular place. Other details mostly check out. While I wouldn't totally rely upon all assertions, I would consider any assertion within the book to be worthy of investigation! Although the sketch does NOT specify the identity of the great-grandfather who served in the Revolutionary war, it is specified that this is a great-grandfather on William Henry FULBRIGHT's mother's side (Elizabeth ROPER), indicating that either David ROPER's father fought in the revolution OR that David ROPER's wife's father was a Revolutionary War soldier. This David ROPER was known to be married to Rebecca CANNON. We are also given specific dates for Elizabeth ROPER's (b 1816 - TN, d 21 Jun 1885 - Greene, MO) birth and death. In Greene County, we find again the concurrence of the names ROPER and LAWSON. Greene County is WALKING distance from Arkansas where Charles Jackson ROPER is later found. The family of David ROPER always seemed to me to be a central clue to identifying the origins of Charles Jackson ROPER and Philip Lawson ROPER and I continue to be baffled at the effort you seem to put in to connect your lines to various ROPER ancestors for whom there is still minimal evidence of a direct connection. I would encourage you to further elaborate the genealogy of this interesting Missouri ROPER family, which may very well have migrated together with the LAWSON family, and suspect that you are going to discover that this David ROPER is a brother, uncle, first, or second cousin. Identification of the Revolutionary ancestor of William Henry FULBRIGHT (b 15 Aug 1837 - Greene, MO) may be as simple as looking him up in a DAR lineage book. The ancestor is going to be a ROPER or a CANNON. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>