We have 83 members to the Sasser list now. Several have joined in the last week. Perhaps a re-post of a query to the list might provide some clues......... To post to the list send email to: SASSER-l@rootsweb.com Good Luck, Don Sasser

To: The Sasser List From: Glenn E. Perry Those of you who were members of the list several months ago may remember that I reported having been told by my grandmother that Henry Sasser had been a teacher in North Carolina and that Nancy Kirby was once one of his pupils. Subsequently some members of this list have shared a great deal of documentary research, particularly the articles by Doug Sherman and Edith Asher Grey, and I have seen no specific confirmation of the tradition I am referring to. On the other hand, such documentary material makes it seem that Henry was the sort of person who MIGHT very well have been a teacher (either for much of his life or for just a short period). I recently picked up some other interesting traditions from Lisle Hale. I gather that she too previously was familiar with the story of Henry's having been a teacher. But she also has heard that he was a lawyer and preacher as well. If I remember correctly, she says that she has copies of some papers that confirm his having been a lawyer. It will be interesting to see these papers some time. My understanding (and someone may want to correct me on this) is that there was no clearcut distinction between a lawyer and a non-lawyer in those days. It may very well be that since Henry was very likely the best educated person around Blackwater he wore a lawyer's hat at times even if he was not a full-fledged lawyer. As for the tradition of his being a preacher, Lisle related a more specific story to back it up. She says that she always heard that in his old age Henry's little grandson Wallace (son of Jesse) went around with him and carried his Bible and a pillow. The dates of the patriarch's death (1859) and Wallace's birth (1852) make the story somewhat plausible. A strong six- or seven-year-old boy might have carried even that big Bible. This assumes that Henry was active until shortly before his death. In any case, I thought I should share this new addition--at least for me--to the legend of Henry Sasser. . ***************************************** Glenn E. Perry Department of Political Science Indiana State University Terre Haute, IN 47809 USA E-Mail: psperrg@scifac.indstate.edu (812)237-2505 (office) (812)234-5661 (home) ****************************************

I have finally talked my brother into getting "on-line". He is now a subscriber to the Saser list. It took me more than a year. Don p.s. His daughters have been online for some time and are members of the list..... :-) This is his descendants .................. 1 Sasser, Jimmy Francis b: July 31, 1933 in Geary, Blaine Co., Oklahoma +Serviere, Genene Elizabeth b: July 26, 1934 in McAllen Hidalgo Co. Tx. 2 Sasser, Cathy Genene b: September 06, 1954 in Edinburg, Texas d: October 27, 1983 in Hidalgo Co. buried Valley Memorial Gardens Cemetery +Davis, William Jesse, Jr b: January 06, 1951 m: July 28, 1973 in Edinburg Texas 2 Sasser, Carole Cay b: April 13, 1958 in Edinburg Texas +Sherrod, Andrew Byers b: June 06, 1959 in Midland Texas m: August 08, 1981 in Edinburg Texas 3 Sherrod, Daniel Alphon b: June 27, 1984 3 Sherrod, Rebecca Madeline b: November 19, 1985 3 Sherrod, Sarah Mae b: December 04, 1988 3 Sherrod, Anna Lovell b: July 12, 1990 3 Sherrod, Michael Andrew b: November 14, 1991 2 Sasser, Corine Lee b: August 06, 1960 in Edinburg Texas +Van, Ricky Lee b: July 01, 1960 m: August 10, 1983 in Edinburg Texas 3 Van, Mark Lee b: September 18, 1987 3 Van, Lindsey Corine b: December 13, 1988 3 Van, Catherine Elizabeth b: March 17, 1989

To: The Sasser list From: Glenn E. Perry I visited Pilgrims Rest Cemetery for the first time when I was down there in November. It would be located on the right side of Highway 1803 if you were coming from the direction of Highway 80. It is on Blackwater Creek, but much farther down than the other cemeteries (Taylor, Sasser-Dixon, Sasser-Glass) that I have recently mentioned. According to Lisle Hale, this originally was a Hale graveyard. It is large and quite beautiful. The name Sasser is on many of the stones, and of course even more of the people buried there are of Sasser descent. I copied the information from a few stones, but that would be redundant for anyone with the book on Laurel County Cemeteries. ***************************************** Glenn E. Perry Department of Political Science Indiana State University Terre Haute, IN 47809 USA E-Mail: psperrg@scifac.indstate.edu (812)237-2505 (office) (812)234-5661 (home) ****************************************

-----Original Message----- From: Dixie Ricker <DIXIE@locktrack.com> To: Sasser Discussion Group (E-mail) <SASSER-L-request@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, January 09, 1998 12:33 PM Subject: Pilgrims Rest Cemetery >Can anyone tell me where Pilgrims Rest Cemetery is located in Kentucky? > > >Dixie Ricker > >Evans & Ricker, Inc >7405 SW Tech Center Drive >Portland, OR 97223 > >Phone: 503-639-9296 >Fax: 503-684-1411 > >e-mail: dixie@locktrack.com >website: www.locktrack.com >

I thought I would pass this on to all members of our list.. The more the merrier -----Original Message----- From: Dixie Ricker <DIXIE@locktrack.com> To: Michael Sasser (E-mail) <MikelSas@aol.com>; Don Lee Sasser (E-mail) <dlsasser@msn.com>; Phyllis Rogers (E-mail) <progers@io.com>; Vietta Keith (E-mail) <VKeith3711@aol.com> Date: Monday, January 05, 1998 8:14 PM Subject: FW: William Henry Sasser & Mary Catherine Jones >Don Please forward this to Pat Wadle since I do not seem to have her >e-mail address within easy access. > >Thanks! > >Dixie Ricker > >Evans & Ricker, Inc >7405 SW Tech Center Drive >Portland, OR 97223 > >Phone: 503-639-9296 >Fax: 503-684-1411 > >e-mail: dixie@locktrack.com >website: www.locktrack.com > >-----Original Message----- >From: THEDUCKI [SMTP:THEDUCKI@aol.com] >Sent: Saturday, January 03, 1998 4:19 PM >To: Dixie Ricker >Subject: Re: William Henry Sasser & Mary Catherine Jones > >Dixie, >I just found a descendant of this pair in Genweb. Mary Catherine >descended from Darling and Rachel Stanfield Jones!!! I have written to >him right away. If you want to go to Genweb to look at it, it is >spelled Darlen Jones-so you should be able to find it. >I think this may get you another step further, as well. I have sent him >Hiram's obit, and the descendants of Robert and Catherine Jones, and >just can't wait to hear from him. I believe this James Jones is the one >that Tilford referred to in the letter from Mitchell, Crook Co., OR, >that I THINK I sent to you. At any rate, there were a ton of our >cousins there at the same time. >Please forward this to Don Sasser and Pat Waddle, and anybody else >you're connected to. If we work together, we can make things happen >that other generations refused to, because they kept their own little >pieces of the puzzle! >Have the best New Year, and I'm sure we'll be talking again soon. By >the way, I got lots of new (to me) information on the Norvell and >Trosper families-married to the children of Robert Jones) Let me know >what you would like. >Your cuz, >Shirley >

My Dad discovered a Fannie Sasser b. July 30, 1882 in a cemetary in Visalia, CA. He doesn't remember the death date. Does anyone have any information on this person? Maureen (monrene@pacbell.net)

To: The Sasser List From: Glenn E. Perry One of the stories I often have heard in my immediate family--and which my mother repeated in my presence at least once during the past year--pertains to an event that occured at the wedding of Jesse and Nancy Gilbert Sasser's daughter Susan to Isaac Taylor (that is, of my great grandparents). It was on that occasion that Wallace Gilbert (son of the one born in ca. 1802) asked for the hand of Mary Jane "Pop" Taylor (sister of Isaac and daughter of Claiborn Taylor [ b. 1823]). It is said that people had considered such a proposal long overdue and that they thought the younger Wallace--who apparently was determined to be in a proper financial situation before taking on such responsibilities--never would get around to putting the question to his future wife's father. Such a little flash of memory over so many generations differs from the hard data one finds in censuses and court house records. It is easy for a story to get mangled each time it is told. But the recorded dates of the two weddings--that of my great grandparents on April 2, 1874 and that of Aunt Pop and Uncle Wallace on May 8 of the same year--mesh very well with the tradition. Admittedly, there may be nothing intrinsically important about the story. It is essentially the way that it has been remembered so long that makes it and others like it interesting to me. The first wedding presumably occurred at the place on Blackwater where the pear tree so recently continued to bear (or possibly at the bride's grandfather, the elder Wallace Gilbert's, home?). The second ceremony almost surely took place at the house where Claiborn lived and where I was born. The latter place is where Susan and Isaac's infare dinner--the term I used to hear from members of the generation born at about that time--must later have been held. And there presumably was a big infare dinner at the Wallace Gilbert place when the son brought his bride home. I wonder whether the slave woman Hans, whose baking people have raved about over the generations and who stayed on with the Gilbert family for a while following emancipation,, was still around to supply her much demanded cakes and pies. Unless I hear that members of the list are tired of the legends I keep relating, the stories of "Old Hans" and all that eventually will follow. . ***************************************** Glenn E. Perry Department of Political Science Indiana State University Terre Haute, IN 47809 USA E-Mail: psperrg@scifac.indstate.edu (812)237-2505 (office) (812)234-5661 (home) ****************************************

Gertrude Melissa Sasser b. January 6, 1897 near Bruno Marion Co. AR. She, with the rest of her family moved to Christian Co. Missouri in 1898. She attended Dudd School in Higlandville Christain Co. MO In February 1912, Gertrude and her family moved to Luther, Oklahoma, County Oklahoma. They traveled by train. This was the first train any of them had ever seen. Gertrude attended Sunnyside School; which soon consolidated with Luther. Gertrude was on the first girls basketball team in 1916 -1917. Gertrude attended Central State University when it was Central State Norman School. Gertrude taught school at Soldier Creek, 4 miles north of Arcadia Oklahoma for ten years. Gertrude married Floyd Crabb at the Oklahoma City Court House August 24, 1918. Floyd passed away October 20, 1980. Gertrude was the postmaster at Arcadia OK from September 25, 1939 to December 30, 1966. When se retired, she had accumulated 260 hours of sick leave. Next Tuesday, January 6, 1998 Gertrude will be celebrating her 101st birthday. We plan to have a small get together for her. Gertrude is now in Bryant Nursing Center in Edmond Oklahoma.

To: The Sasser List From: Glenn E. Perry Someone recently asked about the reasons so many of Henry Sasser's descendants migrated to places such as Oklahoma. In the case of my great grandparents, Susan Sasser Taylor (daughter of Jesse) and Isaac Taylor, the destination was Nebraska--in 1911. It may seem odd that they left home at their age--when he was about 61 years old and she was about 54. Three of their children were already grown up, although one of them--Nan and her husband, John Hale--at some point also moved to Nebraska. Their youngest child--Rebecca, who, as I once heard, rode behind her mother on the horse as they left Blackwater to board the train at London--went with them in 1911. As for the reasons for this move, I have heard that they had "friends" who already had gone to Nebraska. Presumably the availability of land there had attracted such people, thus confirming the economic explanation which one member of our list has said is the reason for migration. But the story of Isaac and Susan shows how people with diverse, non-economic reasons for leaving followed in the footsteps of the others. Maybe I shouldn't be so compulsive about telling the truth in such a case as this, but the story has been handed down to me that my great granfather left to avoid being arrested and prosecuted. He had testified in a court case involving--what else for a Taylor?--land. I understand that his son, my grandfather (Claiborn), was a party to the dispute. I suppose there are court records that would further elucidate the story. Anyway, my great grandfather was accused of going beyond the truth in some of his testimony, which I guess means he was about to be charged with perjury. (Lest anyone take this as a basis for questioning the veracity of any of the traditions from earlier generations that I have related, I hasten to point out that all of them came via my great grandmother, not the person who was so accused--if only in this one instance--of stretching the truth, and in any case no claims to land depend of the acceptance of stories that I pass on.) My understanding is that Isaac left to avoid having the warrant served and came back for the family after the situation had cooled down a bit. Eventually he and Susan came back home for extended visits, even once spending a couple of years with their son Claiborn. But both died in Nebraska--he in the 1930s and she living until 1954. A special irony is that this man for whom--like others in his family--land was such an obsession was reduced to renting a farm in Nebraska. I hear nevertheless the two were able to save $10,000. Before leaving Blackwater, Isaac and Susan lived across the bottom--close to the foot of the other hill--from Henry Sasser's.grave Their house later burned down, my mother tells me. Now a nice, partly log house (or possibly several separate buildings?) is located at that spot. Does anybody know who lives there? I suspect that this is the very spot where Henry Sasser's house was located and even that Isaac and Susan lived in Henry's house(?). This is hardly more than a stone's throw from where my grandparents lived and where my mother was born, and that in turn is almost as close to the spot where Jesse and Nancy lived further up the road. Only recently have I realized that it was the Sasser--not the Taylor--connection that pulled my grandparents to that place. The Taylor connection at Blackwater was further down the road, near the place the Taylor Graveyard is located, and in any case Isaac--like me much later--grew up across the hill on Big Richland Creek, in Knox County. Isaac obviously remained in spirit where he lived as a child. There is an oft-repeated story about him as he was feverish and lay dying. In this delirous condition, he believed that he was on Bull Creek (the tributary of Goose Creek that lies just across another hill from Big Richland--and across two hills from Blackwater). "We'll just go across that hill, Susan," he insisted, "and we'll be in Pap's [Claiborn Taylor, b. 1823] old chip yard." That, I guess, was the same chip yard where I played and sometimes tried to chop a little firewood when I was a little boy. ***************************************** Glenn E. Perry Department of Political Science Indiana State University Terre Haute, IN 47809 USA E-Mail: psperrg@scifac.indstate.edu (812)237-2505 (office) (812)234-5661 (home) ****************************************

We have two new members....... well, one new member and one who has rejoined us.. Subject: WILLIAM SASSER > > >Don, > > > >My William Sasser is from NC , but b: s unknown to me. My line is from > >his son Joseph b:abt 1750 d:16 Dec 1806 Anson Co, NC; married: abt 1770 > >Mary (Sally) Bryan Hart b:abt 1755 d:aft 1825. > > > >Could Joseph be a sibling of your Henry? If we connect, I'll be happy > >to share data. > > > >Good Hunting! > > > >Larry Alexander > > **************************************************************************** *************** Our other member is Joyce Widemire........ Thanks, Don

WIDOW OF KFC FOUNDER DIES * * * * * CLAUDIA SANDERS HELPED THE COLONEL BUILD KFC INTO AN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LOUISVILLE, Ky. (January 1, 1997) -- Claudia Ledington Sanders of Shelbyville, Ky., who helped her husband Colonel Harland D. Sanders build the world-famous Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant chain, died yesterday at the age of 94. Funeral arrangements are being handled by Hall-Taylor Funeral Home, 1185 W. Main in Shelbyville, Ky. Visitation is scheduled at the funeral home from 3:00-9:00 p.m. Friday, Jan. 3. The funeral will be held Saturday, Jan. 4 at 2:00 p.m. at the First Christian Church, 400 Main St. in Shelbyville, with interment at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, next to her late husband. The family has requested that expressions of sympathy be in the form of donations to the First Christian Church of Shelbyville or to charity. Claudia Sanders, a longtime Shelbyville resident, married Harland Sanders in 1948 and worked closely with him until his death at in 1980 to establish and promote what is today the world�s most popular chicken restaurant chain. Although Colonel Sanders developed his recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1939, it was four years after his marriage to Claudia that the Colonel enlisted his first Kentucky Fried Chicken franchisee in 1952. Mrs. Sanders worked with her husband as he built KFC from two restaurants in 1952 to more than 600 in 1964, when they sold the company. Today there are more than 9,800 KFC restaurants in 73 countries. �We�re deeply saddened by the loss of Claudia Sanders,� said David Novak, group president and CEO of KFC and Pizza Hut. �We could not have been the company we are now without Claudia�s contributions. Claudia�s commitment to Kentucky Fried Chicken and her work as goodwill ambassador inspired our franchisees and employees alike. We shall miss her.� When Colonel Sanders began franchising his successful Original Recipe� chicken and cooking processes, he took to the road to persuade restaurant owners to sell his chicken. Mrs. Sanders often travelled with him and acted as hostess, wearing an antebellum gown, while the Colonel cooked chicken in the restaurant kitchen. Later they would circulate among the diners asking how they enjoyed the chicken. Colonel Sanders once compared the way he and Mrs. Sanders prepared his special blend of 11 herbs and spices to the complex company procedures used today: �It boggles the mind just to think of all the procedures and precautions the company takes to protect my recipe, especially when I think how Claudia and I used to operate. She was my packing girl, my warehouse supervisor, my delivery person � you name it. Our garage was the warehouse.� When Colonel Sanders was on the road, Mrs. Sanders would fill orders for the seasoning mix. She would prepare the day�s orders, package them for shipment and put them on a midnight train to franchisees. The Colonel would often speak of �still seeing Claudia in my mind�s eye, going down to that dark railroad depot to put the spices on the midnight freight.� Mrs. Sanders was born Claudia Ellen Ledington Sept. 7, 1902 in Knox County, Ky. She married Harland Sanders on Nov. 18, 1948. Both had children from previous marriages. Mrs. Sanders was preceded in death by her daughter Billie Jean Johnson and her granddaughter Deborah Lynn Johnson. She is survived by a son, Elvis Ray Price, of London, Ky., and by four sisters and two brothers. They are: Joyce Hunt, Shelbyville, Ky.; Rose Brown and Mary Holt, both of Corbin, Ky.; Thelma Hetkowski, Detroit, Mich.; Robert Ledington and B. F. Ledington, both of Corbin, Ky. Mrs. Sanders was a member of the First Christian Church of Shelbyville, the Business and Professional Women�s Club, and Daughters of the Nile, Opelika Temple in Lexington. She served on the board of directors of Union College, Barbourville, Ky., and Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken, Ltd. of Canada. She was also an honorary chairwoman of the National March of Dimes. Kentucky Fried Chicken Corp. (KFC), based in Louisville, Ky., is the world�s most popular chicken restaurant chain. Since its founding by Colonel Harland Sanders in 1952, KFC has been �America�s Leading Kitchen For Convenient Meals,� serving delicious, already-prepared complete family meals at affordable prices to nearly seven million customers each day. KFC is a subsidiary of PepsiCo, Inc., Purchase, N.Y. (PEP). -----Original Message----- From: William R. Sasser <wsasser@ccsinc.com> To: Don L. Sasser <dlsasser@email.msn.com> Date: Friday, January 02, 1998 9:49 AM Subject: Re: Harland Sanders >Don L. Sasser wrote: >> >> Direct Descendants of Jesse Sasser >> >> 1 Sasser, Jesse b: January 30, 1828 in Laurel Co. KY. d: February >> 14, 1863 in Trisine, TN Fact 1: March 28, 1863 Volinteered as a >> recruit 1st East Tenn Calvery >> +Gilbert, Nancy b: 1829 m: 1851 in Knox Co. Kentucky d: June 01, >> 1884 >> 2 Sasser, Rhoda Elizabeth b: 1859 in Laurel Co.,KY d: Aft. >> 1900 >> +Glass, Hiram m: 1879 >> 3 Glass, Nancy Elizabeth >> +Ledington, Jeremiah Moses,Jr. b: 1832 m: March >> 06, 1899 d: 1918 >> 4 Ledington, Claudia b: September 07, 1902 >> in Knox, Co., KY. d: December 31, 1996 in >> Louisville KY. >> +Sanders, Harland b: September 09, 1890 >> m: November 18, 1948 d: 1980 >> 5 Price, Elvis Ray b: in Laurel >> Co., KY. >> >Is Harland Sanders the Ky Chicken person?

To: The Sasser List From: Glenn E. Perry Among the various stories I heard from Lisle Hale during my visit to Blackwater in November, one of the most memorable relates to my great great grandfather, Jesse Sasser. As for the chain by which the account was transmitted, Lisle explained that, "Grandmother Sasser [I will have to ask who this was] told Mom, and Mom told me." The story was that when Jesse was in the Union army and expected to come through his home area he sent word to his family designating a spot in the woods for them to wait. He was to give a particular kind of whistle (bird call?) as he passed by so the baby, Frances Evelyn "Eb" (who later married George Glass), could be held out for him to see. The family did as Jesse suggested, and so Aunt Eb would later be able to say that her father had seen her although she never saw him. While to some this may sound more like a fairy tale than oral history, it could very well be true. The Wilderness Road, along which the two rival armies alternately advanced and retreated, was only about two miles away from Jesse's home, and one can imagine that Union sympathizers in particular went over to Mt. Olivet or Robinson to greet their troops as they marched by. To the extent that the story is credible, it may give us some indication of the date Jesse enlisted, that is, before Aunt Eb was born (March 9, 1862). ***************************************** Glenn E. Perry Department of Political Science Indiana State University Terre Haute, IN 47809 USA E-Mail: psperrg@scifac.indstate.edu (812)237-2505 (office) (812)234-5661 (home) ****************************************

Direct Descendants of Jesse Sasser 1 Sasser, Jesse b: January 30, 1828 in Laurel Co. KY. d: February 14, 1863 in Trisine, TN Fact 1: March 28, 1863 Volinteered as a recruit 1st East Tenn Calvery +Gilbert, Nancy b: 1829 m: 1851 in Knox Co. Kentucky d: June 01, 1884 2 Sasser, Rhoda Elizabeth b: 1859 in Laurel Co.,KY d: Aft. 1900 +Glass, Hiram m: 1879 3 Glass, Nancy Elizabeth +Ledington, Jeremiah Moses,Jr. b: 1832 m: March 06, 1899 d: 1918 4 Ledington, Claudia b: September 07, 1902 in Knox, Co., KY. d: December 31, 1996 in Louisville KY. +Sanders, Harland b: September 09, 1890 m: November 18, 1948 d: 1980 5 Price, Elvis Ray b: in Laurel Co., KY.

SPECIALIST 5th CLASS CLARENCE EUGENE SASSER 60th U.S. Infantry Clarence Eugene Sasser was born on September 12, 1947, at Chenango, Texas. Sasser wanted to become a doctor and was attending the University of Houston when he was drafted into the Army on June 15, 1967, at Houston, Texas. By 1968, Specialist 5th Class Sasser had been transferred to Viet Nam as part of the Headquarters Company, 3d Battalion, 60th Infantry, 9th Infantry Division. During his military career Specialist 5th Class Sasser earned the Medal of Honor; Purple Heart; Combat Medical Badge; National Service Medal; and Viet Nam Campaign medal (Vietnamese). Specialist Five Sasser earned the Medal of Honor on January 10, 1968, at Ding Tuong Province, Republic of Vietnam. His citation reads as follows: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Specialist Fifth Class Sasser distinguished himself while assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Battalion. He was serving as a medical aidman with Company A, 3d Battalion, on a reconnaissance in force operation. His company was making an air assault when suddenly it was taken under heavy small arms, recoilless rifle, machine-gun and rocket fire from well fortified enemy positions on three sides of the landing zone. During the first few minutes, over 30 casualties were sustained. Without hesitation, Specialist Fifth Class Sasser ran across an open rice paddy through a hail of fire to assist the wounded. After helping one man to safety, was painfully wounded in the left shoulder by fragments of an exploding rocket. Refusing medical attention, he ran through a barrage of rocket and automatic weapons fire to aid casualties of the initial attack and, after giving them urgently needed treatment, continued to search for other wounded. Despite two additional wounds immobilizing his legs, he dragged himself through the mud toward another soldier 100 meters away. Although in agonizing pain and faint from loss of blood, Specialist Fifth Class Sasser reached the man, treated him, and proceeded on to encourage another group of soldiers to crawl 200 meters to relative safety. There he attended their wounds for 5 hours until they were evacuated. Specialist Fifth Class Sasser's extraordinary heroism is in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflects great credit upon himself, his unit, and the U.S. Army. For his extraordinary courage, President Richard M. Nixon awarded Specialist Fifth Class Sasser the Medal of Honor on March 7, 1969, at a special ceremony at the White House. After the his discharge, Clarence Sasser attended Texas A&M University, where he had been offered a scholarship, he then worked for six years for a chemical company and now works for the Veterans Administration. In 1971, Sasser married his wife, Ethel and he has two sons.

Jack Nelson is our newest member. He is a descendent of George Washington Hounchell. Who married first (in 1851) Mary Magdalene SCHOOLCRAFT known as "Poppy". She died 19 Sept 1867. George Washington Hounchell was also married to Catherine Jones dau of Malinda ( Lindy) Sasser and Millington "Milton" Blalock Jones. He may be reached initially through the list. He will be glad (?) to know he has so many cousins......... Thanks, Don Sasser

Several years ago, a friend gave to my parents as a gift a book of family information (ancestry, copies of wills, deeds, etc.) that he'd researched. On my father's side he was only able to find information back to my great-great grandfather --- Joseph Sasser b.1848 d.?/1912 and m. Ellephair Nichols b.2/22/1858, d.4/29/1924 on 10/19/1874 in NC. He found (possibly??) that Lewis Sasser who married Polly Jernigan were Joseph's parents. (???) Any and all information would be greatly appreciated. -- Allen W. Sasser awsasser@esn.net Meadow Lane Elementary http://www.asd.com/cgi-bin/asd/SchoolHomePage?asd_number=168692 "...my never-failing friends are [you]," ---Robert Southey. 1774-1843

Can anyone tell me if Catherine Jones married George Washington Hounchell on March 26, 1868? Catherine Jones was a daughter of Millington "Milton" Blalock Jones and Malinda ( Lindy) Sasser. Also I have received an outline with George Washington Hounchell m. Mary Madalene Schoolcraft. with 15 children. But some of the names are the same names as Catherine Jones Hounchell's. The outline I have also indicates the spelling of the name went from Hounchell to Honchell... Any help will be appreciated. Don

Dear Robert: I'm trying to identify the parents of my great-great-grandfather, John Sasser, b. 11-21-1784 in N.C., d. 8-24-1875 in Hardeman County, TN. Your message to Tom Hudson refers to John Sasser Sr., the son of Thomas Sasser. Do you have a birthdate for John Sr.? Bob Sasser

Tom Hudson, Dear Tom, Glad to have you aboard and to learn about another cousin. You said your great grandfather, GEORGE WASHINGTON SASSER died in 1936. Actually, he died 3 Dec., 1934 in Hazelhurst, Ga. and is buried there. He was the son of JOHN SASSER Junior and his wife Nancy. JOHN Junior was the son of JOHN Senior. JOHN Senior was the son of THOMAS SASSER Sr. and his wife CLARISSA of North Carolina and Screven County, Ga. Hope this helps a little. Your cuz, Robert Earl Woodham