Phil Who are your parents and grandparents? What is your e-mail address? Dixie@locktrack.com >-----Original Message----- >From: Don Sasser [SMTP:DLSASSER@msn.com] >Sent: Thursday, May 15, 1997 4:55 PM >To: SASSER-L >Subject: Phil Sasser query....... > > > >---------- >From: G. Philip Sasser >Sent: Thursday, May 15, 1997 8:48 AM >To: Don Sasser >Subject: Re: Surnames buried in KY cemeteries > >Hello Sassers, > >This is my first time on a newsgroup, so if I don't have the protocol >right, please let me know. > >In response to Vicky Bair: > >My name is Phil Sasser (George Philip Sasser). I was born in London, Ky >in 1948. I grew up in Ohio and now live in Cary, NC. > >Many of the names that you mentioned from the cemetaries are my >ancestors. Henry Sasser was born in Johnston or Wayne County NC in the >late 1700's. He married Nancy Kirby (b. June 25, 1792, daughter of >Jesse Kirby) in Johnston Co. on March 12, 1812. About 1827, their >family moved west to Tennesee and then settled in Laurel County, KY. >They had 14 children: > > 1. Keziah Sasser (b. 1-31-1813 in NC) who married Peter Tuttle from >Kentucky. > > 2. Dixon Sasser (b 1-1-1814 in NC)who married Sallie Ann Tuttle in >1864. > > 3. Malida Sasser (b 5-5-1815 in NC) who married Mildton B. Jones in >Laurel County, Ky in 1841. > > 4. Adin Sasser (b 6-3-1816 in NC) who married Wlizabeth Waggoner. >Aden servedin Company H, 24th Ky. Infantry, U.S. Army during the Civil >War and died as a result of injuries in 1869. > > 5. Arthur Sasser (b 3-22-1818 in NC) married Levian Waver in Laurel >County in 1840. > > 6. Barton Sasser (b 10-25-1819 in NC) married Phoebe Jones in Clay >County, KY in 1847 > > 7. Piety Sasser (b 6-20-1821 in NC) married William Humfleet in >Laurel County on 9-18-1837) > > 8. Martha Patsy Sasser (b 1-30-1823 in NC) married Joseph Betkins in >1839 in Laurel County KY > > 9. William Henry Crawford Sasser (b 3-29-1824 in NC) Married Rhoda >Gilbert in Know County on 4-15-1852. (These are my great, great, grand >father and mother. > > 10. James Henderson Sasser (b. 10-8-1825 in NC) Married Martha Hubbard >on 11-8-1852 in Knox County, KY > > 11. Jesse Sasser (b 1-29-1828 in Kentucky) married Nancy Gilbert in >Knox County, KY. He died 2-14-1863 at Trisine, Tenn. while serving in >U.S. Army. Co. A 1st Tenn. Cavalry. > > 12. Nancy Sasser (b 7-26-1830 in KY) married to William Williams in >Laurel County, KY. > > 13. Patience Sasser (b 1834 in KY) married to Joseph Tuttle in Laurel >County, KY in 1852. > > 14. Barbara Sasser (b about 1836 in KY) and died in infancy. > >You all may already have this information. I have more about the >Kentucky Sassers if anyone is interested. > >I am interested in finding out more about Henry Sasser and Nancy Kirby >if anyone knows anything please respond. Especially their families in >North Carolina. > >Also, my great, grandfather, remarried and move to OK, Kansas, and then >on to California and Washington. His name was James Buchanan Sasser. > >To Vicky Bair.....The Sassers settled in east and northeast Laurel >County which accounts for the cemetaries being in Knox County. Some of >the names you mentioned are my relatives. > >Sincerely, >Phil Sasser > ------------------------------