Dear Julie and other descendants of THOMAS SASSER Sr. JWHART22@aol.com wrote: > > I was looking at your note about the lady that wrote the incomplete book...I > have a note that Thomas Sasser was at one time or another in Dobbs Co. > NC....Do you have any record of that? > > Also, none of my three other contacts knows his wife's last name....do you > know it yet? > Thanks for all the work you do! > julie I wish I COULD learn who she was. To date, I have not found a single document telling what the maiden name of CLARISSA ("Claracy", "Clarcy", "Claricy" "Clara" and various other spellings of her name and nickname). And I have been searching for MANY years! I am convinced they married in old Dobbs County. Unfortunately, the old Dobbs records were destroyed in courthouse fires. My Daddy's family was from there too. Double darn it!! And then my Sasser branch had to go and settle in what was then Baker County, Georgia. The problem there wasn't fires--but floods, MANY of them. No records before about 1875 or so. There are "branches" of our family all over Georgia, Florida, Alabama and from those states to every part of the nation today who are descended from this couple. They are undoubtedly one of the most prolific branches of our family. You just can't top more than 200 grandkids!!! (unless you are an Arab prince) I haven't given up and don't plan to. I admire Clarissa for her sheer fortitude in raising so many younguns! Robert Earl