Hi Charley, Thank you for your responce. You are correct on both accounts. I mistyped what I have on my family group sheets. Joe was the son of Rosa (Roscoe) Sellers not Joe's wife Juanita. Kola (Rivers) Roscoe did die April 20 th rather then the 21st. This is in agreement with what James Pigg shows in his Chesterfield County Cemetery survey, Volume 1, page 299. I am sorry but I do not know who the parents of Juanita Rivers were. I have a question for you. Did you ever here of a Catherine Parker, alias Catherine Purvis who was born 15 December 1874 reportedly in North Caolina, died March 14 1950 in Coffee County Alabama? She married William Joseph Rascoe in Chesterfield County South Carolina 24 April 1887. Records in Alabama as well as her descendants list her maiden sur-name as Purvis, but Chesterfield County Court Records list her as "Catherine Parker, alias Catherine Purvis". Chesterfield County Court records dated May 3rd 1887; 19th August 1887; and 5th September 1887 shows that William Joseph Rascoe and Catherine were indited on the charges of Intermarriage of races. The court papers do not say what races. Descendants of William Joseph Rascoe claim that he was part Cherokee but census records in South Carolina show he was classified as Mullato. Apparently Catherine was considerred White. William Joseph Rascoe was a son of Rebecca Rascoe (Roscoe) and an unknown father. He was born 1 October 1868 in Chesterfield County S.C. and died 3 June 1930 in Coffee County Alabama. His mother, Rebecca, was never legally married as far as I can tell. Rebecca was born 8th February 1841 in Chesterfield County and died 8th February 1923 and is buried at the Bethesda Methodist Cemetery. Rebecca had at least four illigitimate children: Margaret "Maggie" Roscoe born 1856; Josphine Roscoe born 1857; William Joseph Rascoe; and Virginia Jane Roscoe born 28 October 1874, died 12 July 1956. According to what I have been told, Rebecca Rascoe (Roscoe) was a sister of Joseph Frankline Roscoe born 1843 in Chesterfield County to a Jane Roscoe. Joseph F. Roscoe died 24 March 1917 and is buried in the Cassidy-Roscoe Cemetery between Ruby and Patrick S.C. He was married 28 Feb. 1868 to Ruey Jane Cassidy, daughter of Warren Cassidy. Traditions in that line of the family states that Rebecca and Joseph Roscoe father was an Indian names Joe Johnson who lived in a place near Ruby known as Johnson's Cave. I have found no proof of this however. I believe that their mother, Jane Roscoe, a sister of Oliver Roscoe, was married to a man named Minder. Jane Minder and her children, including Rebecca and Joseph are listed on the 1850 census of Chesterfield County, page 114, very near where Riley Roscoe, another brother was living at the time. In 1850 Jane Minder was either a widow or her husband had left her. By 1860 she had returned to using her maiden name of Rascoe. The Rascoe families in South Carolina were originally in the Marlboro section of the Cheraw District. By 1810 some had drifted over into Chesterfield County. Oliver and Riley showed up in the 1850 census of Chesterfield County. The spelling of the sur-name amoung some of the descending families began to be spelled as Roscoe following the War Between the States and has become the prominant spelling in that part of the country today. Descendants who moved from the Marlboro/Chesterfield area to other parts of the country such as Georgia, Alabame, Texas, and Kentucky, between 1820 and 1870 continue to use the spelling Rascoe or Rasco. The Rascoe came into Marlboro County just prior to the 1790 census. They had came down from Bertie County North Carolina via Wayne County N.C. The Rascoes were in the Bertie and Hyde County N.C. Areas from about 1748 and prior to that they were in Northampton County Virginia from the late 1680's. My own line of the family left Bertie County N.C. in 1794 and migrated to Sumner County Tennessee. By the late 1790's they were in that part of Christian County Kentucky which became Trigg County. About 1822-23, my line moved down to Dallas County Alabama. After the War they moved to Cullman County Alabama and in 1892 they moved to Comanche County Texas. I have been researching all branches of the Rascoe family for over 40 years and my line is thoughtly researched and documented. I began helping a lady in Mississippi, who's husband was a descendant of the South Carolina branch of the Roscoe family, some twenty five years ago. That lady has since died. There are three other families in Alabama and Texas who also descend from these Rascos (Roscoes) but can only prove back to the time period 1808-1820. I have been trying to help them identify which of the Rascoe that were there at that time was their next step back. In my younger days, working on my on family lines, I travel to all the states and counties that my family had lived in and researched the primary records. I spent lots of vacations at the National Archives in D.C., the National DAR Library in D.C., the States Archives and Libraries in Virgina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, and California. and hundreds of County Courthouses across the country. I have wore out several pair of boots walking and recording in cemeteries. Thousand of letters written and received from other researcher. As I said, my branch of the family has been thoroghly researched and documented back to the late 1600's. Three books have been published. I have now grown old and not able to travel or research as I once did. I live on a small, fixed retirement. During my 40 years of research on my line of the family I have lot of help and cooperation from almost everyone. Trying to obtain information on the South Carolina branch of the family as been difficult to say the least. Very little coorperation from family members. Destroyed records. South Carolina poorly kept or required records especially in the Rural Counties. People who rather hinder someone then help them. Despite all these roadblock I have managed to collect quite a bit of data on this not very prominent family and their connections and I will continue to dig, search, and ask until I can't. My postings have upset some folk who do not know me. That their problem not mine. Thanks once again for your reply and time. I would like to hear from you again. If I can help you let me know. I live in the New Orleans area. James R. Rasco