-----Original Message----- From: mizzldnsc@bellsouth.net [mailto:mizzldnsc@bellsouth.net] Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 8:22 AM To: sc-old-pendleton-dist-l-request@rootsweb.com Subject: love child Have ecently discovered my uncle, Clayton Richard McAbee, who died in wwII in Normandy, France, left behind a son the family never knew about. No one is completely sure of who the mother was. If anyone has any information on this the family would very much like to welcome this new cousin we never knew we had. We do know mother was from Central, SC. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.4/299 - Release Date: 3/31/06

FYI, as appeared in our local paper: Dear Mr. Myers: While researching my ancestry, I found a reference that a distant relative of mine once owned a "zygocephalum" of land in the late 1700's. I have looked for a definition of this term in my dictionary, but can't find one. Can you help? ANSWER: In America's early days, settlers and farmers in many parts of the country had no surefire way to determine where their property ended and a neighbor's began, because a standard method to measure real estate hadn't yet been adopted. So, they resorted to a measuring system that had been used for centuries in the countryside of Merry Olde England - - the "zygocephalum," defined as the area of land a yoke of oxen could plow in one day." This wasn't exactly the most accurate way to establish property rights, perhaps because some oxen moved faster than others (and some farmers worked harder than their neighbors). So, the zygocephalum eventually gave way to our current system of "metes and bounds," which uses a property's physical features to determine its boundaries.