Does anyone have any information for Bill? If so let me know so that I may send it to him. Thanks, Don Saser ---------- From: Bill Sasser Sent: Thursday, April 10, 1997 12:11 PM To: Don Sasser Subject: RE: Sasser Family tree Don -- I finally got my father to write out a family tree for me, as best he knows, but it doesn't go back very far: starting with his father --> Malcolm Sasser (lived near Patetown, in Wayne County, NC) was married to Lelia Kirby and was the son of --> Jake Sasser and Fannie Elmore, --> Jake Sasser worked the Elmore farm in Patetown, he was the son of --> William Sasser, who was married to Rachael (or Sohpia?) Strickland. My dad believes that he was born in Johnston County. That's as far back as he knows. On my grandmother's side, the Kirby lines goes --> Lelia Kirby was the daughter of Barney Kirby and Lecky Musgrave --> Lecky Musgrave was the daughter of William Musgrave and Roxy Boyette He doesn't know of any family bible or other source that could trace the Sasser name back further than William. Do you know if birth records from the early 1800s still exist at Smithfield courthouse in Johnston County, or at the state archives in Raleigh? Bill Sasser