Thought this was well worth passing along. Hope it helps, John >From: [email protected] >Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 09:31:08 EST >To: [email protected] > >I received this nice reference of websites on one of my other rootsweb mailing >list and wanted to share with the WATTS group. Susan Steveson > >This is an email you'll definitely want to make a copy of for your genealogy >research. In case you lose it simply put five stars in as your search word >***** ) and look in the archives for the year 1999. This message will then >appear. Simply remember this is a five star ***** message! > >ROOTSWEB SEARCH ENGINE - ANY SURNAME OR LISTING >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >http://lists.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/findlist.pl >Trying to find a Rootsweb surname list? Don't know which of 8,000 possible >variant spellings >it might be listed under? This tool finds sound-alike matches for a given >surname >from among RootsWeb's thousands of surname lists. Give it a try! >http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ (Find any Rootsweb genealogy mailing >list) > > >FAVORITE SEARCH ENGINES: >http://www.aj.com/ (Ask Jeeves) >http://www.altavista.digital.com/ (Alta Vista) >http://www.aol.com/netfind/ (AOL Searcher) >http://www.excite.com/ (Excite) >http://galaxy.tradewave.com/galaxy.html (Galaxy) >http://www.hotbot.com/ (Hot Bot) >http://www.infoseek.com/ (Info Seek) >http://lycospro.lycos.com/ (Lycos) > >SEARCH FOR PEOPLE - SEARCH ENGINES: >http://www.anywho.com/resq.html >http://www.555-1212.com/whte_us.htm >http://www.four11.com/ >http://in-114.infospace.com/_1_196816106__yp.ch/reverse.htm >(reverse finder) >http://www.switchboard.com/ >http://www.whowhere.com/ >http://www.icq.com/emaildir.html (Search the ICQ email directory - Millions >of users) > >REAL-TIME COMPUTER TRANSLATIONS > (All European languages) >http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate > >GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: >http://www.calle.com/world/index.html (Global Gazatteer - Foreign) >http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html >(United State Geological Service - finds exact location of place names, >cemeteries, churches, streams, etc. Excellent !!) >http://www.indo.com/distance/ (Distance between two locations. Enter >geographic coordinates or placenames) >http://www.mit.edu/geo/ (finds county for known place and state) >http://www.ahip.getty.edu/tgn_browser/ (geographic thesaurus) >http://www1.proximus.com/lycos/ (Lycos road map) >http://www.mapquest.com/ (Mapquest) >http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html (geographic name locator) >http://www.expediamaps.com/PlaceFinder.asp (Microsoft worldwide info) >http://members.aol.com/oldmapsne/ (Historical Ink; old maps, NY&NE) >http://www.outfitters.com/genealogy/land/twprange.html (township and range >system) >http://www.multimap.com/ (United Kingdom) >http://www.livgenmi.com/1895.htm (US Atlas, 1895) >http://www.peabody.yale.edu/other/gnis/ (Yale geographic name locator) >http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/terra_findaspot_coordinate.htm > >(One meter resolution aerial and satellite photography of the USA and select >foreign locations. Enter geographic coordinates only) >http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/terra_findaspot.htm >(One meter resolution aerial and satellite photography of the USA and select >foreign locations. Select location from a map or enter a place name) >-------------------- > >GENERAL REFERENCE SITE - ALL IN ONE >http://www.refdesk.com/facts.html > · Atlas & Maps > · Beginner's Guides > · Bios & Who's Who > · Databases > · Dictionaries > · Electronic Texts > · Encyclopedias > · Genealogy > · Government > · Grammar & Style > · History > · Internet Resources > · Law > · Libraries > · Miscellaneous > · Phone Book > · Population > · Postal > · Science > · Thesaurus > · Time & Date > · Weights & Measures > · World Religions > · WWW Virtual Library > -------------------- >VITAL RECORDS: >http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/howto/w2w/w2welcom.htm (center for health stats) >http://www.medaccess.com/address/vital_toc.htm (where to write) >http://www.inlink.com/~nomi/vitalrec/ (Naomi's list) >http://www.census-online.com/links/index.html#top (online census materials) >http://www.doitnow.com/~moravia/census.html (alternate, census online) >http://members.tripod.com/~rosters/ (searchable south) > >CHECK AND CLEAN VIRUSES FROM YOU COMPUTER - free ! >http://housecall.antivirus.com/explorer.html (Trend Microsystems) >Excellent - highly recommended on-line service - no charge) > >GIANT GENEALOGY SITES: >http://www.hamrick.com/names/ (U.S. Surname Distribution from the U.S. census >during various period in history) >http://cpcug.org/user/jlacombe/mark.html (barrell of links) >http://www.CyndisList.com (Cyndi's List) >http://www.wwnet.com/~krugman1/fgc/ (Ford Genealogy Club) >http://www.genforum.com/ (genealogy discussions) >http://www.polaris.net/~legend/genalogy.htm (genealogy gateway) >http://posom.com/hl/ (genealogy helplist) >http://www.citynet.net/mostwanted/ (genealogy's most wanted) >http://emcee.com/ (genealogy online) >http://genealogy.tbox.com/ (genealogy tool box) >http://www.gensource.com/ifoundit/ (genealogy search engine) >http://www.genhomepage.com/societies.html (genealogical societies) >http://www.lds.org/Family_Hostory/How_Do_I_Begin.html (Mormon FHCs) >http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/ (National Genealogical Society) >http://www.nehgs.org/ (New England Historic Genealogical Society) >http://www.rand.org/personal/Genea/ (Rand genealogy club) >http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/searches/ (Roots Web Searches) >http://www.bc1.com/users/sgl/html/usa.htm (searchable genealogy links) >http://genealogy.travellor.com/genealogy/ (Travellor southern families) >http://www.ukans.edu/heritage/research/dbd.html (UofKS sourcelist) >http://www.usgenweb.com/ (US Genealogy web) >http://www.usigs.org/index.htm (US Internet Genealogical Society) >ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/roots-l/genealog/genealog.vital-mo >(genealogical and historical societies of Missouri; to change states, delete >"mo" and substitute the postal abbreviation of the state of our choice) >------------------- >CHURCH HISTORY: >http://www.ncccusa.org/ (National Council of Churches) >http://www.ats.edu/members/denom.htm (theological seminaries) >http://www.rrlc.org/guide/arc02.shtml (American Baptist) >http://www.cob-net.org/ (Church of the Brethren) >http://www.catholic.net/ (Roman Catholic Church) >http://www.cin.org/ (Catholic information network) >http://www.catholic.org/colweb/direct.html (Catholis web directory) >http://www.disciples.org/historc.htm (Disciples of Christ) >http://www.ecusa.anglican.org/ (Episcopal Church, USA) >http://www.elca.org/ (Evangelical Lutheran) >http://www.fum.org/ (Friends United/Quaker) >http://www.rootsweb.com/~quakers/index.htm (Quaker genealogy) >http://www.mercer.edu/mainlib/SpColl.html (Georgia Baptist) >http://www.depauw.edu/lib/services/Desc/dept.htm#archives (Indiana UMC) >http://www.lcms.org/ (Lutheran, Missouri Synod) >http://www.jewell.edu/academia/currylibrary/partee/partee.html (MO Baptist) >http://cmc2.cmc.edu/arc.html (Missouri United Methodist) >http://cc.owu.edu/~librweb/spuma.htm (Ohio United Methodist) >http://www.libertynet.org/~pacscl/phs/index.html (Presbyterian) >http://www.rca.org/ (Reformed Church in America) >http://carolus.furman.edu/library/welcome/specpage.htm (SC Baptist) >http://www.ucc.org/ (United Church of Christ) >http://www.gcah.org/center.htm (United Methodist archives) >http://www.gcah.org/Conference/umcdirectory.htm (UMC state archives) > >ETHNIC RESEARCH: >http://www.islandnet.com/~jveinot/cghl/searchable.html (searchable Canada) >http://www.genealogy.com/gene/www/emig/emigr.html (emigration from Germany) >http://genealogy.org/~palam/#iareg (Palatines to America) >http://www.nh.ultranet.com/~tbrass/AMST/Amst.html (Dutch in New Amsterdam) >http://www.familyworkings.com/genealogy1.htm (German Genealogy) >http://www.kst.dit.ie/nat-arch/index.html (Irelands national archives) >http://www.rootsweb.com/~irish/index.html (Irish Genealogical Society) >http://gentreegenealogy.com (Irish Genealogy) >http://www.anywhere.co.uk/news.html (Scots birth, death, marriage indices) >http://www.scotclans.com/ (Scot Clans) >http://www.tartans.com/genalogy.htm (Scots genealogy) >http://www.origins.net/GRO/ (Scotland General Register Office) >http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/story/story.htm (tartans & clans) >http://www.tartans.com/ (tartans) >http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/ (UK genealogy) >------------------- > >ARCHIVES FOR MILITARY HISTORY & WARS: >http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/milhist/ (Canada war timeline) >http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~hoemann/unit1.html (Civil War fighting units) >http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm (CW Dakota State) >http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/ (Civil War, U of KY) >http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/civlink.htm (Civil War, LSU) >http://www.usgenweb.com/military/index.htm (military history for genealogy) >http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/ (Military History Institute) >http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/millib/index.html (military libraries) >http://www.toast.net/~beau/gs1812.htm (Society of the War of 1812) > >SOURCES FOR BOOKS: >http://www.clark.net/pub/rmharris/netdlrs.html (antiquarian books) >http://www.appletons.com/homepage.html (Appleton's) >http://www.glbco.com/ (Blair's) >http://www.esva.net/ghotes/biblio/bkdealer.htm#dealer (dealers and >publishers) >http://www.hearthstonebooks.com/ (Hearthstone) >http://www.higginsonbooks.com/genbooks.htm (Higginson genealogy) >http://www.hopefarm.com/genealog.htm (Hope Farm, NY books) >http://www.midcoast.com/~picton/ (Picton Press) >http://server.mediasoft.net/Scott/C/ (Willow Bend) >http://www.yogs.com/ (Ye Olde Gen Shop, Indianapolis) > >LOOKUP SERVICES: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~bwo/#States (books we own) >http://www.mindspring.com/~wcrews/BooksPlus.html (mostly southern Books) >http://www.longstreet.net/census.html (census lookups) >http://www.cswnet.com/~mgoad/dar.html (DAR patriot index) >http://www.concentric.net/~Mikerice/hl/usa/index.shtml (genealogy helplist) >http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/2154/springin.htm (surname springboard) > >GENEALOGY MAILING LISTS - "HOW TO GUIDES": >http://members.aol.com/johnf14246/gen_mail.html >http://members.aol.com/gresinet/gen_mail.html >http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ >http://php.indiana.edu/~stephen/ownlists.htm >http://www.eskimo.com/~chance/lists.html >----------------- > >STATE & REGIONAL GENEALOGY SOCIETIES: >http://skyways.lib.ks.us/kansas/genweb/mhgs/index.html (midwest gen society) >http://www.asc.edu/archives/genealog.html (Alabama genealogy) >http://wwwcogensoc.org/cgs/cgs-home.htm (Colorado gen society) >http://www.cslnet.ctstateu.edu/ (Connecticut library) >http://www.rootsweb.com/~flsgs/ (Florida gen society) >http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/9829/Ga.html (Georgia helplist) >http://www.sos.state.il.us/ (Illinois Secretary of State) >http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/ (Indiana library) >http://www.uiowa.edu/~shsi/index.htm (Iowa historical society) >http://home.att.net/~ladylake10/ipl/ipl_main.htm (Iowa pioneers) >http://www.kumc.edu/kansas/KSL/Ref/ksl_ref.html (Kansas library) >http://www.kdla.state.ky.us/kdlaindx/kdlaindx.htm (Kentucky library and >archives) >http://mlin.lib.ma.us/ (Massachusettes Library and Information Network) >http://www.mnhs.org/ (Minnesota historical society) >http://mosl.sos.state.mo (Missouri archives) >http://www.system.missouri.edu/shs/ (Missouri historical society) >http://www.nehgs.org/ (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston) >http://www.state.nj.us/statelibrary/libgene.htm (New Jersey library) >http://www.sara.nysed.gov/ (New York archives) >http://unix2.nysed.gov/ (New York library) >http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/consumer/vr.htm (New York vital records) >http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/archives/ (North Carolina archives) >http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/NCSLHOMEHTM#information (NC library) >http://www.ohiohistory.org/ (Ohio historical society) >http://www.ok-history.mus.ok.us/ (Oklahoma museum of history) >http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/ (Oregon archives) >http://www.state.pa.us/PA_Exec/Historical_Museum/DAM/overview.htm >(Pennsylvania archives) >http://www.cas.psu.edu/docs/pde/LIDSTATE.HTML (Penn. Commonwealth library) >http://www.state.sc.us/scdah/respol.htm (South Carolina archives) >http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/escn_database_reports/ (old SC >papers) >http://www.historic.com/schs/ (South Carolina historical society) >http://www.sc.edu/library/socar/mnscrpts/index.html (USC's South Carolina >library) >http://www.state.tn.us/sos/statelib/tslahome.htm (Tennessee library & >archives) >http://www.vsla.edu/index.html (Virginia Library) >http://www.westvirginia.org/ (West Virginia online) >http://www.wisc.edu/shs-archives/ (Wisconsin historical society) >http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/www/wis_lib.html (online Wisconsin libraries) >-------------------- >SURNAMES: >http://www.one-name.org/top.htm (Guild of One Name Studies) >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/surhelp/srchall.html (suname helper) >http://www.eskimo.com/~chance/lists.html (surname mailing lists) >http://www.gendex.com:8080/display?page=surnames& (surname search engine) >http://surnameweb.org/registry/ (surname web's registry) > >SEARCH FOR LAND TITLES AND LAND PATENTS: >http://www.avana.net/~lhaasdav/Patentlocations.html (all states) >http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ (BLM eastern states land records) >http://www.innernet.net/hively/newpage29.htm (PA lands, with links) >http://image.vtls.com/collections/LO.html (Virginia land office records) > >NEWSPAPERS: >http://www.dds.nl/~kidon/medie-link/uspapers.shtml (Kidon US Dailies) >(I haven't tried this, but if it doesn't work, note that the next two say >Media-link and try that) >http://www.dds.nl/~media-link/usweek.shtml (Kidon US Weeklies) >http://www.dds.nl/~kidon/media-link/capapers.shtml (Kidon Canada) >http://caroline.eastlib.ufl.edu/flnews/projects.html (state newspaper >projects) >http://www.lib.virginia.edu/cataloging/vnp/contacts.html (state projects >list) >http://www.naa.org/hotlinks/index.asp (state associations, dailies by state) > >CEMETERY RECORDS: >http://users.deltanet.com/~steven/cemetery.html (cemetery listings) >http://www.funeral.com/cemeterystates/ (cemetery listings) >http://www.funeralnet.com/cgi-local/notfound.pl?/ (funeral home listings) >http://www.dreamscape.com/goldlinks/cemetery.htm >http://www.Islandnet.com/ocfa/ (Ontario cemetery listings) >http://we.got.net/docent/cem/uscem.htm (US cemeteries) >http://www.inwd.com/death/usa.htm (US cemeteries) > >OTHER RELATED GENEALOGY SITES: >http://www.firstct.com/fv/stone.html (breaking down the wall) >http://www.ala.org/alonline/ (American Library Association) >http://www.genealogy.org/~bcg/ (Board for Certification of Genealogists) >http://www.firstct.com/fv/oldhand.html (deciphering old handwriting) >http://www.nara.gov/regionals/stlouis.html (fed personnel records) >http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/3207/ (low CountryHuguenots) >http://OfficialCitySites.com (index of local government sites) >http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/moa_search.html (UMich literature search) >http://www.vanished.com/pages/database.html (misc. online databases) >http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us (Mid-Continent Public Library) >http://www.libraryspot.com/librariesonline.htm (libraries everywhere) >http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/8080/philly.html (Philadelphia) >http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/ (Zip Codes) > > ----------- John K. Brown, Jr. [email protected] Researching: Burt, Brown, Abney, Watts

>John, thank you for the posting about the Gibson family. Last September I >had posted to the list the following: I understand that Jonathan Adams (Rev. War soldier) of Marlboro had a daughter named Divinity. Does any one know who she married? I admit that I wondered if she had married James Gibson since I thought his wife was named Divinity. Low and behold, your articles states, referring to James Gibson: "James married Divinity Adams". Thanks! Larry Jones I am passing this on to the Marlboro Co. lists because of the local family >information. Hope it helps. > >John > >>From: "diane k" <[email protected]> >>Old-To: <[email protected]> >>Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 21:59:26 -0500 >> >>This message ought to be a goldmine for some Gibson researchers. >>diane >> >>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>EXtract from speech delivered by Col. J. Preston Gibson at a reunion of >>the gibson Family in 1905. >>On the side it says: This is a history of the branch of the Gibson Family >>at Gibson,NC and SC. >> >>If you lose this mail or want to send this to another reseacher, you can >>find the same data at: >>http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6598/gibson.htm >> >>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> >>"Had our family preserved and recorded events and facts, dates and >>transactions connected therewith, it would be comparatively easy to collect >>facts and intelligently present a historical family sketch on this >>occasion. I have been handicapped in the Preparation of this paper, simply >>because there is no record of the early history of my distinct family. For >>years I have endeavored to investigate and ascertain something definite and >>reliable concerning the origin of our family. That they in Colonial days >>left their homes in Scotland and settled in Va., there is no question, for >>there is abundance of evidence to substantiate the many assertions of their >>early patriotic struggles, and heroic achievements, but previous to their >>advent in this country, I have been unable to trace their history far back >>into European history. the gibson family in England, Scotland and Ireland >>are to be found in almost every section of those countries, and for the >>past several hundred years the gibsons have in various ways ?(proven) >>themselves >>famous and honorable. Both in England and Scotland, at more than one >>epoch, have the Gibsons prominently and conspicuously figured in the >>political >>area. Sir Thomas gibson, of England, in the 17th century astounded >>Parliament?? all of Great Britain to talking , on account of his profound >>learning: logical, wise and judicious reasoning. While there are many >>families of Gibsons in the old country, yet I believe many of them are >>related, and while there are three or four separate and district gibson >>families in Virginia, yet I know that our ancestors came form Scotland not >>a great while before the Revolutionary War. All the Gibsons in this country >>are related, all having descended from the same ancestors. I have met >>Gibsons in the United States from New York to the extreme West, and all of >>the possess the same striking family features and constitutional >>characteristics. >> >>There is a piece of unwritten history connected with our family that I am >>not prepared to verify or controvert. It has been said that our real >>surname was not Gibson, but McGregor. That our ancestry in his zeal for >>liberty and political freedom in attempting to eliminate autocratic >>restraint, overstepped the proprieties of a subject and a soldier, for >>which he was charged with insubordination, was hunted by his government but >>was >>never captured. Being a member of the patriotic McGregor family, he and >>many influential friends who secretly conveyed him on board a ship where he >>concealed himself until at sea when he came from his place of concealment, >>but after landing in this country assumed his mother's name, which was not >>Gibson. Whether this be true or not, I am unable to say, but the statement >>has been made on both sides of the Atlantic. >> >>Just prior to the Revolutionary War a widow lady with her two sons and one >>daughter, Nelson and Thomas gibson, emigrated from Va to Richmond county, >>NC., and settled ten miles east of Rockingham, in what was then a splendid >>cattle range. All the evidence secured by me supports the belief that >>these boys were born in Scotland, coming to Va. with their father, whose >>name was >>Ziba, and who died in Va soon after arriving in this country. These two >>boys, Nelson and Thomas, both enlisted in the Revolutionary War, having >>recently fled from Europe, they were fired with a desire for freedom and >>bravely fought under Gen. Marion and other patriotic chieftains for >>Colonial Independence. In more instances than one are these two Gibson boys >>mentioned and complimented for their brazenness and heroism. This same >>Thomas Gibson was Mr. Eli" Gibson's grandfather, he and his brother Nelson >>both married sisters whose maiden names were William's. >> >>The unmarried daughter of this widow, who came with her mother and two >>brothers from Scotland to Va. and later to Richmond County, NC, married old >>man " Wild Cat Billy Smith" the Grandfather of Major Wm. E. Smith, and >>great grandfather of Mrs. Henry D. Gibson and myself on my mother's side. >> >>I have never believed the story told concerning the change of name from >>McGregor to that of Gibson, for there are several facts which substantiate >>the belief that the ancestors of our family, viz: Thomas and Nelson Gibson, >>were nearly grown when they came from Scotland to America. They spoke >>fluently and perfectly the pure Scotch dialect and the mere fact that their >>mother, a widow lady, had she been surrounded with relatives in Virginia, >>would not have abruptly broken away from them amid those turbulent and >>unsettled times and emigrated to a country amid strangers, leaving kindred >>and loved ones behind.. >> >>I am expected on this occasion to tell something of our family during and >>since the Revolutionary War and what became of the original members of the >>gibson family. >> >>This may be tedious and uninteresting to some of you, but should be of the >>utmost importance and freighted with deepest concern to the younger members >>of the gibson family, for our history has been very imperfectly recorded and >>preserved, and I have undergone no little trouble and expended much time in >>my research and investigation in order to collect accurate and reliable >>information concerning this now large and influential family. >> >>Thomas Gibson, the grandfather of Mr. Eli Gibson, being the direct >>progenitory of the gibson's of this section, I will therefore speak mostly >>of his descendants. there is but little known of Nelson's family, as he >>had but few children, the most of whom went West soon after the >>Revolutionary War. >> >>Thomas was married but once and was the father of thirteen children, all of >>whom lived to be grown and married. He, like many of his descendants, was >>blessed with a large family. The Gibson family has been most prolific and >>has multiplied most rapidly. The names of Thomas children were: James, >>Stafford, Thomas, John, Nathaniel, Elijah, Elisha, Nelson, Nannie, Sallie, >>Agnes, Mary and Fannie. Whom they married: James married Divinity Adams >>and had no children living; he was the father of Shockley Gibson who lived >>in Georgia, and was the grandfather of Shockley and Nathan Gibson, of gum >>Swamp, Richmond County, NC. Stafford married Nancy Somerlin, had four >>children; died in Richmond county and his widow and children moved to >>Mississippi, (her son Thomas returned to Richmond county on a visit in the >>year 1827)> Thomas married Pollie Morrman, had ten daughters and one son: >>he lived and died in Chesterfield county, SC., and subsequently the widow >>and children moved to Indiana. John married Nancy Pearce and was the father >>of twenty-one children, the last two being twins. Nathaniel married twice >>to daughters of Stephen Mendenhall, a Quarker of Guilford county, NC; his >>first wife was named Rachel and second Elizabeth. Elijah married Nancy >>Gibson, his first cousin, Nelson's daughter; parents of Aggie Gibson, who >>married Rev. Thos. Gibson, who lived and died near St. John's Church, >>Richmond county, N.C. Elisah married the widow of his brother Elijah. >>Nelson married Bedie Roberson, he died and his widow moved to Mississippi; >>had six children; his oldest daughter Agnes was the mother of Joel Bullard >>who lived and died two miles north of Gibson, NC. Nannie married Jacob >>Mangum of Chesterfield County, SC. Sallie and Agnes married brothers by the >>name of Sumerlin. Mary married John Strong of Chesterfield co.,SC., father >>of Henry Strong, who moved to Mississippi, but since the war between the >>states he moved to Brazil, South America. Fannie married John Watson. >> >>The above is a correct history of Thomas Gibson's family. About the year >>1800, John and Nathaniel, his sons moved down and settled in lower Richmond >>county, between the Green Pond and what is now the town of Gibson. As >>stated before John had twenty-one children, and their descendants are >>scattered in many States. Nathaniel settled where his youngest son, Eli, >>now lives in his old age, one mile north of gibson, on the old Rockingham >>road. Ads before stated, Nathaniel married twice, sisters by the name of >>Mendenhall, true, noble women, cultured for that day and deeply pious. He >>sleeps by the side of his two wives in the Gibson cemetery near the old >>Gibson homestead. Nathaniel lived to be quite old, but for many years >>before he died he was an invalid from the effects of paralysis. During his >>life there were no railroads in this county and all transportation was >>carried on with wagons, and hundreds of North Carolina covered wagons, from >>the central and western counties, came south with their produce, and >>Nathaniel Gibson's was headquarters for them. He would sometimes get in his >>cups >>and often when in that condition would say that his "name was McGregor", and >>was always proud of his Scotch ancestry. There were six children by his >>first marriage, viz: Nathan, thomas, John, Elizabeth, Ziba and Rachel. >>There were eight children by his second marriage, viz: James M, Mary, Noah, >>William, Betsy, Nelson M, Ann and Eli. Whom they married: Nathan married >>Eliza Gibson, his first cousin, and had two children, James and John M., the >>latter lived and died at the Rev. Thomas Gibson's old homestead near St. >>John's Church in Richmond County, NC. Nathan's wife died and while a widower >>he moved to Indiana. Before leaving here he went to the legislature. He >>was a school teacher and married Susan Brown; purchased good property, lived >>in comfort for several years, but the title to the property was not good and >>he lost it. He died near Hollinsburg, Dork County, Indiana, several years >>ago. Thomas, the Methodist preacher, married Agnes Gibson, the daughter of >>Elijah, on the 29th of December, 1827. They had no children. Thomas was >>converted in 1827 at old Zion camp meeting, near Rockingham, was licensed to >>preach soon after his conversion, and lived a pure, consistent Christian >>life until his death, which occured in July 1872. He was furneralized by >>Dr. W.S. Black, at that time a member of the South Carolina conference, but >>who a few years ago died a member of the North Carolina conference. John >>married Nannie gibson, Daughter of Elijah Gibson, had only one son who died >>when about grown. John died in Texas. Elizabeth died when she was child. >>Ziba married Lisza Adams, daughter of Johathan and Polly Adams, of Marlboro >>County, SC, and they had six children three of who are now living. Rachel >>married Stafford Gibson, her first cousin, had seven children, and lived on >>the stage road near St. John's Church. He kept public stables that fed the >>stage and express horse. The next child was James Mendenhall, the first of >>the second set of children, who in the year 1843 married Hannah Smith, >>daughter of Wm. Smith and sister of major Wm. E. Smith, who lived some seven >>miles north of Rockingham, NC. They had seven children, the first being >>Ebenezer, who was captured at Fort Fisher during the War between the States >>and on March 9th, 1865, died in Elmira, NY. in a Federal prison. the others >>are well known to the citizens of this community. >> >>James M., after marriage settled near Boykin church, Marlboro County, SC; >>died October 16th, 1880. >> >>Mary, a full sister of James M. lived to be grown but died married. >> >>Noah Gibson married Julia Fletcher, daughter of Joshua and nancy Fletcher >>(Nancy's maiden name was Smith), he settled where his son Edmond now lives, >>and in early life engaged in the mercantile business. All this section of >>country was then one dense forest, but little of the land being cleared. He >>had ten children, the oldest John F. was killed during the civil War by >>sharpshooters at Petersburg, Va., August 24, 1864. The rest of the family >>are well know. Noah gibson accumulated quite a snug fortune and no man >>enjoyed to a larger degree the confidence of the entire people. >> >>William Gibson married three times. first Catherine McNeill. they had four >>children, the first duncan, who was killed in Confederate service. His >>second wife was Kitty Pipkin, who had no children. His third wife, Sallie >>McLaurin, was the mother of fourt children. >> >>Bettie married Raiford Fletcher, who had nine children and settled near Pine >>Grove, Marlboro County, SC. He reared a noble family. >> >>Nelson M. Gibson married Caroline Pipkin and settled near McColl, SC. and >>raised a large family of nine children. Isaac Pipkin, thomas, Benton, Wm. >>Nelson being the sons. >> >>Ann married John S. Fletcher, who is still living, in her 83 year, near Pine >>Grove, Marlboro County, SC. They had eight children. Eli Gibson, the >>youngest member of Nathaniel's family, is still living, and this occasion is >>the celebration of his 80th birthday. He married Lizzie Davis, daughter of >>Wm. Davis. They had eleven children, all reared at the old original gibson >>homestead where Eli now lives, and where he has resided his entire life. He >>never bought a bushel of corn or a pount of meat for his own consumption in >>his life, but has sold much of both to his neighbors. This old time honored >>Gibson home has been in the family, uninterruptedly, for more than a >>century. It changed hands quite a number of times, from the king's grant >>until Nathaniel Gibson became the owner, but since the time the papers have >>only transferred the property from one generation to another in the Gibson >>Family. >> >>This completes the family of Nathaniel gibson, but his brother John who >>lived just one mile north of him was the father of twenty-one children, >>whose descendants are scattered throughout this entire county, many of them >>our best citizens. The cildren of Nathaniel Gibson all prospered, >>accumulated property and made honorable and highly respected citizens. Much >>of which is attributed to his two pious Quaker wives, Rachel and Elizabeth >>Mendenhall. >> >>..................The Gibsons while not as a rule demonstrative, have always >>responded to their country's call in times of peace as well as war. Furing >>the war between the North and South old Richmond County had 37 Gibsons in >>the confederate service, some mere boys......." >> >> >> >>diane K. mason >> >> >> >----------- >John K. Brown, Jr. >[email protected] > >Researching: Burt, Brown, Abney, Watts

I am passing this on to the Marlboro Co. lists because of the local family information. Hope it helps. John >From: "diane k" <[email protected]> >Old-To: <[email protected]> >Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 21:59:26 -0500 > >This message ought to be a goldmine for some Gibson researchers. >diane > >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >EXtract from speech delivered by Col. J. Preston Gibson at a reunion of >the gibson Family in 1905. >On the side it says: This is a history of the branch of the Gibson Family >at Gibson,NC and SC. > >If you lose this mail or want to send this to another reseacher, you can >find the same data at: >http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6598/gibson.htm > >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >"Had our family preserved and recorded events and facts, dates and >transactions connected therewith, it would be comparatively easy to collect >facts and intelligently present a historical family sketch on this >occasion. I have been handicapped in the Preparation of this paper, simply >because there is no record of the early history of my distinct family. For >years I have endeavored to investigate and ascertain something definite and >reliable concerning the origin of our family. That they in Colonial days >left their homes in Scotland and settled in Va., there is no question, for >there is abundance of evidence to substantiate the many assertions of their >early patriotic struggles, and heroic achievements, but previous to their >advent in this country, I have been unable to trace their history far back >into European history. the gibson family in England, Scotland and Ireland >are to be found in almost every section of those countries, and for the >past several hundred years the gibsons have in various ways ?(proven) >themselves >famous and honorable. Both in England and Scotland, at more than one >epoch, have the Gibsons prominently and conspicuously figured in the >political >area. Sir Thomas gibson, of England, in the 17th century astounded >Parliament?? all of Great Britain to talking , on account of his profound >learning: logical, wise and judicious reasoning. While there are many >families of Gibsons in the old country, yet I believe many of them are >related, and while there are three or four separate and district gibson >families in Virginia, yet I know that our ancestors came form Scotland not >a great while before the Revolutionary War. All the Gibsons in this country >are related, all having descended from the same ancestors. I have met >Gibsons in the United States from New York to the extreme West, and all of >the possess the same striking family features and constitutional >characteristics. > >There is a piece of unwritten history connected with our family that I am >not prepared to verify or controvert. It has been said that our real >surname was not Gibson, but McGregor. That our ancestry in his zeal for >liberty and political freedom in attempting to eliminate autocratic >restraint, overstepped the proprieties of a subject and a soldier, for >which he was charged with insubordination, was hunted by his government but >was >never captured. Being a member of the patriotic McGregor family, he and >many influential friends who secretly conveyed him on board a ship where he >concealed himself until at sea when he came from his place of concealment, >but after landing in this country assumed his mother's name, which was not >Gibson. Whether this be true or not, I am unable to say, but the statement >has been made on both sides of the Atlantic. > >Just prior to the Revolutionary War a widow lady with her two sons and one >daughter, Nelson and Thomas gibson, emigrated from Va to Richmond county, >NC., and settled ten miles east of Rockingham, in what was then a splendid >cattle range. All the evidence secured by me supports the belief that >these boys were born in Scotland, coming to Va. with their father, whose >name was >Ziba, and who died in Va soon after arriving in this country. These two >boys, Nelson and Thomas, both enlisted in the Revolutionary War, having >recently fled from Europe, they were fired with a desire for freedom and >bravely fought under Gen. Marion and other patriotic chieftains for >Colonial Independence. In more instances than one are these two Gibson boys >mentioned and complimented for their brazenness and heroism. This same >Thomas Gibson was Mr. Eli" Gibson's grandfather, he and his brother Nelson >both married sisters whose maiden names were William's. > >The unmarried daughter of this widow, who came with her mother and two >brothers from Scotland to Va. and later to Richmond County, NC, married old >man " Wild Cat Billy Smith" the Grandfather of Major Wm. E. Smith, and >great grandfather of Mrs. Henry D. Gibson and myself on my mother's side. > >I have never believed the story told concerning the change of name from >McGregor to that of Gibson, for there are several facts which substantiate >the belief that the ancestors of our family, viz: Thomas and Nelson Gibson, >were nearly grown when they came from Scotland to America. They spoke >fluently and perfectly the pure Scotch dialect and the mere fact that their >mother, a widow lady, had she been surrounded with relatives in Virginia, >would not have abruptly broken away from them amid those turbulent and >unsettled times and emigrated to a country amid strangers, leaving kindred >and loved ones behind.. > >I am expected on this occasion to tell something of our family during and >since the Revolutionary War and what became of the original members of the >gibson family. > >This may be tedious and uninteresting to some of you, but should be of the >utmost importance and freighted with deepest concern to the younger members >of the gibson family, for our history has been very imperfectly recorded and >preserved, and I have undergone no little trouble and expended much time in >my research and investigation in order to collect accurate and reliable >information concerning this now large and influential family. > >Thomas Gibson, the grandfather of Mr. Eli Gibson, being the direct >progenitory of the gibson's of this section, I will therefore speak mostly >of his descendants. there is but little known of Nelson's family, as he >had but few children, the most of whom went West soon after the >Revolutionary War. > >Thomas was married but once and was the father of thirteen children, all of >whom lived to be grown and married. He, like many of his descendants, was >blessed with a large family. The Gibson family has been most prolific and >has multiplied most rapidly. The names of Thomas children were: James, >Stafford, Thomas, John, Nathaniel, Elijah, Elisha, Nelson, Nannie, Sallie, >Agnes, Mary and Fannie. Whom they married: James married Divinity Adams >and had no children living; he was the father of Shockley Gibson who lived >in Georgia, and was the grandfather of Shockley and Nathan Gibson, of gum >Swamp, Richmond County, NC. Stafford married Nancy Somerlin, had four >children; died in Richmond county and his widow and children moved to >Mississippi, (her son Thomas returned to Richmond county on a visit in the >year 1827)> Thomas married Pollie Morrman, had ten daughters and one son: >he lived and died in Chesterfield county, SC., and subsequently the widow >and children moved to Indiana. John married Nancy Pearce and was the father >of twenty-one children, the last two being twins. Nathaniel married twice >to daughters of Stephen Mendenhall, a Quarker of Guilford county, NC; his >first wife was named Rachel and second Elizabeth. Elijah married Nancy >Gibson, his first cousin, Nelson's daughter; parents of Aggie Gibson, who >married Rev. Thos. Gibson, who lived and died near St. John's Church, >Richmond county, N.C. Elisah married the widow of his brother Elijah. >Nelson married Bedie Roberson, he died and his widow moved to Mississippi; >had six children; his oldest daughter Agnes was the mother of Joel Bullard >who lived and died two miles north of Gibson, NC. Nannie married Jacob >Mangum of Chesterfield County, SC. Sallie and Agnes married brothers by the >name of Sumerlin. Mary married John Strong of Chesterfield co.,SC., father >of Henry Strong, who moved to Mississippi, but since the war between the >states he moved to Brazil, South America. Fannie married John Watson. > >The above is a correct history of Thomas Gibson's family. About the year >1800, John and Nathaniel, his sons moved down and settled in lower Richmond >county, between the Green Pond and what is now the town of Gibson. As >stated before John had twenty-one children, and their descendants are >scattered in many States. Nathaniel settled where his youngest son, Eli, >now lives in his old age, one mile north of gibson, on the old Rockingham >road. Ads before stated, Nathaniel married twice, sisters by the name of >Mendenhall, true, noble women, cultured for that day and deeply pious. He >sleeps by the side of his two wives in the Gibson cemetery near the old >Gibson homestead. Nathaniel lived to be quite old, but for many years >before he died he was an invalid from the effects of paralysis. During his >life there were no railroads in this county and all transportation was >carried on with wagons, and hundreds of North Carolina covered wagons, from >the central and western counties, came south with their produce, and >Nathaniel Gibson's was headquarters for them. He would sometimes get in his >cups >and often when in that condition would say that his "name was McGregor", and >was always proud of his Scotch ancestry. There were six children by his >first marriage, viz: Nathan, thomas, John, Elizabeth, Ziba and Rachel. >There were eight children by his second marriage, viz: James M, Mary, Noah, >William, Betsy, Nelson M, Ann and Eli. Whom they married: Nathan married >Eliza Gibson, his first cousin, and had two children, James and John M., the >latter lived and died at the Rev. Thomas Gibson's old homestead near St. >John's Church in Richmond County, NC. Nathan's wife died and while a widower >he moved to Indiana. Before leaving here he went to the legislature. He >was a school teacher and married Susan Brown; purchased good property, lived >in comfort for several years, but the title to the property was not good and >he lost it. He died near Hollinsburg, Dork County, Indiana, several years >ago. Thomas, the Methodist preacher, married Agnes Gibson, the daughter of >Elijah, on the 29th of December, 1827. They had no children. Thomas was >converted in 1827 at old Zion camp meeting, near Rockingham, was licensed to >preach soon after his conversion, and lived a pure, consistent Christian >life until his death, which occured in July 1872. He was furneralized by >Dr. W.S. Black, at that time a member of the South Carolina conference, but >who a few years ago died a member of the North Carolina conference. John >married Nannie gibson, Daughter of Elijah Gibson, had only one son who died >when about grown. John died in Texas. Elizabeth died when she was child. >Ziba married Lisza Adams, daughter of Johathan and Polly Adams, of Marlboro >County, SC, and they had six children three of who are now living. Rachel >married Stafford Gibson, her first cousin, had seven children, and lived on >the stage road near St. John's Church. He kept public stables that fed the >stage and express horse. The next child was James Mendenhall, the first of >the second set of children, who in the year 1843 married Hannah Smith, >daughter of Wm. Smith and sister of major Wm. E. Smith, who lived some seven >miles north of Rockingham, NC. They had seven children, the first being >Ebenezer, who was captured at Fort Fisher during the War between the States >and on March 9th, 1865, died in Elmira, NY. in a Federal prison. the others >are well known to the citizens of this community. > >James M., after marriage settled near Boykin church, Marlboro County, SC; >died October 16th, 1880. > >Mary, a full sister of James M. lived to be grown but died married. > >Noah Gibson married Julia Fletcher, daughter of Joshua and nancy Fletcher >(Nancy's maiden name was Smith), he settled where his son Edmond now lives, >and in early life engaged in the mercantile business. All this section of >country was then one dense forest, but little of the land being cleared. He >had ten children, the oldest John F. was killed during the civil War by >sharpshooters at Petersburg, Va., August 24, 1864. The rest of the family >are well know. Noah gibson accumulated quite a snug fortune and no man >enjoyed to a larger degree the confidence of the entire people. > >William Gibson married three times. first Catherine McNeill. they had four >children, the first duncan, who was killed in Confederate service. His >second wife was Kitty Pipkin, who had no children. His third wife, Sallie >McLaurin, was the mother of fourt children. > >Bettie married Raiford Fletcher, who had nine children and settled near Pine >Grove, Marlboro County, SC. He reared a noble family. > >Nelson M. Gibson married Caroline Pipkin and settled near McColl, SC. and >raised a large family of nine children. Isaac Pipkin, thomas, Benton, Wm. >Nelson being the sons. > >Ann married John S. Fletcher, who is still living, in her 83 year, near Pine >Grove, Marlboro County, SC. They had eight children. Eli Gibson, the >youngest member of Nathaniel's family, is still living, and this occasion is >the celebration of his 80th birthday. He married Lizzie Davis, daughter of >Wm. Davis. They had eleven children, all reared at the old original gibson >homestead where Eli now lives, and where he has resided his entire life. He >never bought a bushel of corn or a pount of meat for his own consumption in >his life, but has sold much of both to his neighbors. This old time honored >Gibson home has been in the family, uninterruptedly, for more than a >century. It changed hands quite a number of times, from the king's grant >until Nathaniel Gibson became the owner, but since the time the papers have >only transferred the property from one generation to another in the Gibson >Family. > >This completes the family of Nathaniel gibson, but his brother John who >lived just one mile north of him was the father of twenty-one children, >whose descendants are scattered throughout this entire county, many of them >our best citizens. The cildren of Nathaniel Gibson all prospered, >accumulated property and made honorable and highly respected citizens. Much >of which is attributed to his two pious Quaker wives, Rachel and Elizabeth >Mendenhall. > >..................The Gibsons while not as a rule demonstrative, have always >responded to their country's call in times of peace as well as war. Furing >the war between the North and South old Richmond County had 37 Gibsons in >the confederate service, some mere boys......." > > > >diane K. mason > > > ----------- John K. Brown, Jr. [email protected] Researching: Burt, Brown, Abney, Watts

Hi y'all, Just received an email from one of our subscribers which was intended to be sent to all the lists but since it included HTML, I was (I believe) the only one to receive it. I'm sending this to all "my" lists since I cannot tell which lists were intended to receive the message. PLEASE check your PC for a file called "happy99.exe". DO NOT click on it if it shows as an attachment to an email. It is a nuisance virus, a "worm virus", which once activated attaches itself to all outgoing email. I use Eudora and have a separate directory for ALL attachments which I've labeled "Suspect". I found "happy99.exe" in this directory and I deleted it but this means some/all of you received it too. If you clicked on this attachment, you saw a fireworks display which may have appeared to be a "nifty" email graphic. I sincerely hope none of you would ever, ever click on a file attachment with a .EXE file extension but if you did, check your Windows System directory (or your entire PC hard drive(s)) for ska.exe and ska.dll. If those files are present, you have this virus. Do NOT send email until you clean it off your PC. What concerns me is that I have an anti-virus program which is pretty darn good and it did NOT alert me to this file. It's only because I routinely check my "Suspect" directory to weed out those irritating .VCF files that I even saw it. If you have an anti-virus program (like McAfee, Norton, Dr. Solomon's, etc.), please go grab the "innoculation" file for this. If you did NOT click on the attachment graphic and see the fireworks, not to worry. I truly hate to pass this on but it is not a hoax, it is very real and although it will not (as I understand it) harm your PC, you will continue passing it along, IF you activated it, through email. It's one of those replicate, replicate, replicate things which can bring down a network if enough people pass it on. If you need help/directions for checking your PC, please email me privately: [email protected] If I get too many emails, I may bother the lists with a set of instructions. For now, just use Windows Explorer to "Find a file or folder" and put "happy99.exe" in the file name box. Cheers, Victoria

Claude, I found your letter interesting because our family has recently had reunions with a half-sister and a neice - one we never knew existed - like your situation and one who was given up for adoption. You indicated that you have listed in numerous places, however, have you attempted to find his Service Records from the U.S. Army? I found my husband's grandfather with just his name and the basic time he was in the service - sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't but I would think being stationed in a foreign base would make it easier. I did check the cemetery records of Marlboro County, SC, and there are no "Richard Gray" listings so you can at least cross that off your list. Barb

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_918255756_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII --part0_918255756_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.wanadoo.fr.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-yc03.mx.aol.com (rly-yc03.mail.aol.com [172.18.149.35]) by air-yc04.mail.aol.com (v56.24) with SMTP; Fri, 05 Feb 1999 17:07:27 -0500 Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by rly-yc03.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id RAA07839; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 17:06:37 -0500 (EST) Received: (from [email protected]) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA15182; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 13:50:25 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 13:50:25 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <[email protected]> Reply-To: <[email protected]> From: "vincent-paez" <[email protected]> Old-To: <[email protected]> Subject: I search for my father Richard GRAY. Could you help me ? Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 23:00:13 +0100 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1160 Resent-Message-ID: <"sbOqg.A.rsD.de2u2"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/2628 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable I am french. I have recently learned that I am Franco-American. My name is Claude Richard and I live in the southern part of France. The circumstances surrounding my birth were concealed from me until recently. My father is Richard Gray and this is what I know about him: =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 1. He was in Oran, Algeria, during few months until en= d November, 1943 . =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 2. He may well have been in the US Army. His provision= al camp was not near the harbor or the airport. =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 3. He was almost 6 feet, with light brown hair, and bl= ue eyes. =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 4. His military base was situated southeast of Oran, b= etween the Choupot area and the Cuvelier area (near Cite Petit). A road separated the base from a big Algerian market hall. =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 5. His dress uniform was a khaki jacket made of silky = cloth. He had a cap and wore high shoes and gaiters. 6. My father was an "MP" (military police). =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 7. His friends called him Dick and he had a friend cal= led Mike. =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 8. He apparently came back to the States, it seems bef= ore the end of the war. 9. He was in Oran until around 15 November - beginning December 1943. He came back in Oran : he had a few days'leave at the end of December 1943. Last day I saw my uncle (my mother's brother) and he has remembered that, in Oran at that time, rolling stock (jeep, truck, motor-driven, etc..excep= t tank or plane) were unloaded in Oran (Oran harbor or Mers El Kebir harbor= ) then conveyed to the camp where was my father in Oran. This rolling stock were conveyed (by boat) from US in separate pieces. In this camp, there wa= s a very large shed (named Les Halles) where american soldiers and french men re-assembled rolling stock. In my uncle's opinion, they were around 4.000 - 5.000 soldiers in this camp. My father was MP in this camp. I have tried to find my father without success. The results of my research are condensed below. In the fall of 1943, an American soldier named Richard Gray, between 19 and 23, was based at Oran in Algeria. There he met a young woman, my mother Lucienne Martin, 17 years old. They became very fond of each other and planned to be married. Richard received wedding dress photos from his sister who lived in the U.S. At the end of 1943 (end november or beginning december) Richard Gray was transfered to another, unknown to me, place to continue the war. He should have been informed by mail of my birth, probably in September, 1944. This story might be common place, but some troubling, complicating events intervened in this love story. Richard wrote often to my mother during the war and after he returned to the US. He said that he wanted to marry her; he expressed it in his letters. Unfortunately, my grandmother intercepted and destroyed all of his letters. She did not want this marriage to take place - it would mean that her daughter and grandson would move to the USA. I recently learned in March, 1998, from my mother the circumstances surrounding my birth. During this 54 year period, my mother thought she had been deserted, in a cowardly manner, by her fiance . To be deserted pregnant at a tender age was very difficult. I made several inquiries in my family in 1998 and I began to learn severa= l things from an aunt. Before her death in 1977, my grandmother confided to my aunt that she had destroyed all correspondence between them as well as a few papers belonging to my mother. While she never knew Richard Gray, the account of my aunt was a good one and all of her explanations were later verified. In September, 1998 I finally learned the truth to my mother (the destroying of letters). The burdening facts that she was a deserted woman and an unmarried mother were out and, at that time, she told me my father's name. The passing years and the efforts to forget have resulted in fading memories. I have created this site, attempting to look for my father. Here I have placed a photo of my mother at that time. I have written lot of emails to Gray Families who have adress email on th= e web. I continue to use all the opportunities of the internet in my search. The surname Gray is a very common one in the US. If Richard Gray can be located, if he wishes, he will be able to contact me. I only want to know if he is alive, any details of my American family= , and if he has been informed of my search. It's VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW the name of his Army. Is there a veteran who was in Oran during the WWW II and would answer me = ? Please excuse me for any improprieties. I would like very much to find him still living If you have no knowledge of my father, if you could forward this request to veterans , and ask them to do the same, Thank you very much for all your help. Yours sincerely, Mr. Claude Richard PAEZ Allee du Vent d'Est - Les Vautes N=B0 7 83320 - Carqueiranne - FRANCE phone : +33 4 94 58 75 09 My Story site : http://aa-ienet.com/RICHARD.htm e-mail : [email protected] ******************************************************* Thank you your help. =09WHAT I HAVE MADE I subscribe to lot of veterans web site, missing persons, forums, genealogics sites, all sites Army, news, shows, etc .. I or lot of people have inserted my letter to all sites. Without my father birth date, it's difficult to write from the all families who have an Richard Gray dead. I don't have more informations about my father. =09COULD YOU HELP ME ? =09 Only : I ask you to forward my letter to people you know, and ask them t= o do the same, it is possible that this message will eventually reach some one with knowledge of my father I have tried all the solutions, it is the last attempt to find my father or my Gray family *************************************************************** --part0_918255756_boundary--

At 09:53 AM 1/26/99 -0500, you wrote: >Godeon James.b1765 sc.cheraw,area. >marlboro, co. Any imformation on this family; I will be so >greatful. He's my ggggranfather. Thank All; Bill James > >Luvv Ya, James Gang!!!! > > Bill, I can't help with your search for your ancestor. Wish I could. But I am glad to locate a Marlboro County JAMES researcher. Selah/Celia Brown, daughter of Edmund and Nancy Anderson Brown, married an unknown James. This would have been c1800. Selah James is listed in Edmund's will in 1821, but in Nancy's probate records of 1824 a share is paid to the "heirs of Selah James". I am concluding that she, and probably her husband too, had died between 1821 and 1824, leaving children. Can you or anyone else help me identify her husband? Edmund Brown's family lived on Panther Creek, near the SC/NC line. John ----------- John K. Brown, Jr. [email protected] Researching: Burt, Brown, Abney, Watts

On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:47:36 -0500 (EST) [email protected] writes: >PLease remove my name from this list, I do not want any mnore email >for >the second time!!!!! >Kim Miller > > Ig I wanted off the list that bad, I would do it the RIGHT way and send a message to unsubscribe to [email protected] Don Geary

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Godeon James.b1765 sc.cheraw,area. marlboro, co. Any imformation on this family; I will be so greatful. He's my ggggranfather. Thank All; Bill James Luvv Ya, James Gang!!!!

Hello, Looking for info on the Shadrack Fuller family of Marlboro Co., SC. Especially Simeon Fuller b. 1772, son of Shadrack. Thank You Stephanie

looking for imformation on my ggggGranfather.. Gideon James: b.1765 Marlboro,S.C. Cheraw dist.. sc>nc>ky.union co. May have been married while in sc. m.#2 Kathrine Baker.b.Bertie nc.>ky they m.17,june 1806..Livingston co,ky. He d.1836 =she d.1856 uniou co.ky. Any imfo. on Gideon will be ao helpful.. Best Wishes, Bill James. Luvv Ya, James Gang!!!!

Thanks to Sierra Home, you can do a free search this month for surnames and regiments in the War of 1812: <http://sierrahome.com/familytree/records/> ----------- John K. Brown, Jr. [email protected] Researching: Burt, Brown, Abney, Watts

Hi Everyone, I am researching the family of Edmund BROWN, b. abt. 1743, d. 1821 Marlboro Co., SC. I first find him about 1760 in Bladen Co., NC near the South Carolina line. (This area is now Robeson Co., NC). He moved to Marlboro Co., SC about 1775. His land was situated on the SC/NC state line and he owned property in Richmond Co., NC as well as Marlboro Co. He married Nancy ANDERSON, date unknown. Children: 1. Jesse Anderson BROWN, b. 8 Aug 1769 d. 3 May 1833 Bibb Co., AL m. Obedience LEGGETT, dau. of William LEGGETT 2. Sarah "Sally" BROWN, b. c1776, Marlboro Co., SC d. BEF 1850 Bibb Co., AL m. John PARKER 3. Selah BROWN, b. c1788 Marlboro Co., SC d. BEF 1826 m. Adam? JAMES 4. Nancy "Polly" BROWN, b. c1789 Marlboro Co., SC m. Elias PATE of Richmond Co., NC, moved to Shelby Co., AL 5. Charlotte BROWN, b. 3 Mar 1790 Marlboro Co., SC d. AFT 1850 Cherokee Co., AL m. John GRAHAM, Jr. of Richmond Co., NC. He died Calhoun Co., AL in 1842. 6. Edmund BROWN, Jr. b. c1790 Marlboro Co., SC d. Alabama m. Nancy _____ 7. Henry BROWN, b. Bef 1790 Marlboro Co., SC d. 1821-1824 Tennessee? 8. James BROWN, b. Bef 1790 Marlboro Co., SC d. 1821-1824 Tennessee? Most of the children moved to Humphreys and Stewart counties in Tennessee in early 1800s. Then then moved to Bibb county, AL by 1830. Need parents of Edmund and Nancy Brown. Also, any information on their children. Thanks, John ----------- John K. Brown, Jr. [email protected] Researching: Burt, Brown, Abney, Watts

Hello All, I have a little bit of time so I thought I would type in more records. Maybe some of this will be useful to someone. State of South Carolina, county of Marlboro. Matthew Quick to Irving R. Quick Title to Real Estate Filed this 4th day of December AD, 1918, and recorded in Book 27 of Deeds Page 97. The State of South Carolina, County of Marlboro. KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT I, Matthew Quick, of the County of Marlboro, in the State aforesaid for and five hundred dollars, to me in hand paid at and before the sealing of these presents by Irving R. Quick, of the County of Marlboro, in the State aforesaid the receipt thereof is hereby acknowledged, have granted, bargained, sold and released, and these Presents do grant, bargain, sell and release unto the said Irving R. Quick, his heirs and assigns forever: All my one-half interest in and to all that certain tract of land containing Forty Six Acres, more or less; bounded by the Rockingham Public Road, by the Cheraw and Brightsville Public Road, by lands now or formerly of Peter Brigman and by lands now or formerly owned by Ellen Quick, this being the same tract of land conveyed to Sarah Ann Quick by Aaron Quick by deed recorded in Book I, page 133, and the same conveyed by the said conveyed by this said Sarah Ann Quick to me, the said Matthew Quick and I.R. Quick, by deed recorded in Book 14, page 60 of the Records of Mesne Conveyances of Marlboro County and dated March 20, 1908, my name being erroneously stated in the record of said deed as Martha Quick. My interest in said land being one-half and is free of all encumbrance. TOGETHER with all and singular, the Rights, Members, Hereditaments, and Appurtenances to the said Premises belonging, or in anywise incident or appertaining. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, all singular, the said Premises before mentioned unto the said I.R. QUICK, his------ Heirs and Assigns forever. AND I do hereby bind myself, my heirs, and Executors and Administrators, to warrant and forever defend all and singular the said Premises unto the said Heirs and Assigns, against me and my Heirs, and all other persons whomsoever lawfully claiming, or to claim the same, or any part thereof. WITNESS my Hand and Seal this 25th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and Eighteen in the one hundred and Forty-third year of Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, MARLBORO COUNTY, PERSONALLY appeared before me D. D. McCall and made oath that he saw the within named Matthew Quick, sign, seal, and as his Act and Deed, deliver the within written Deed; and that he with Kate F. Newton witnessed the execution thereof. SWORN to before me, this 25th day of November, AD 1918. THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, MARLBORO COUNTY, I Franklin Quick, Magistrate in and for the State of South Carolina, do hereby certify unto all whom it may concern, that Mrs. ? Quick the wife of the within named Matthew Quick did this day appear before me, and upon being privately and separately examined by me, did declare that she does freely, voluntarily, and without any compulsion, dread or fear of any person or persons whomsoever, renounce, release and forever relinquish unto the within named I.R. Quick, his Heirs and Assigns, all her interest and estate, and also all her right and claim of dower, of, in or to all and singular the premises within mentioned and released. Given under my Hand and Seal, this 25th day of November, Anno Domini 1918.

I sent this to the [email protected], and I thought that it might be of use to someone at this site as well. Jean Since I am unable to scan this document in I will do my best to type it as I try to read the writing. It has a number of Quick names in the document. The State of South Carolina County of Marlborough Court of Probate. Colin M. Weatherly as Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, and ex-offices as administrator ? now of the personal estate of Aaron Quick deceased as an estate ??and Eleanor Quick. -against- Petitioners Jeremiah Grant, as administrator of the Personal Estate of Abel Quick deceased, Mahaley Brigman, Virgil Quick, Nancy McPhadden, Aaron T. Quick, Fletcher Quick, Ellen Quick, Malachi Quick, Franklin Quick, Loranzo Don Quick and Randolph Quick, as the Heirs of ? of Aaron Quick and Sarah Quick deceased. _________________ Defendants. To the defendants, Jeremiah Grant as administrator for Mahaley Brigman, Virgil Quick, Nancy McPhadden, Aaron T. Quick, Fletcher Quick, Ellen Quick, Malachi Quick, Franklin Quick, Loranzo Don Quick, and Randolph Quick. You are hereby Summoned and required to answer the Petition in this action or proceeding, which is filed in the Office of the Judge of Probate, for the said County of Bennetsville S.C., and to same a copy of your answers to the said Petitioners on the ? at this office in Bennetsville S.C. within seventy days after this session hereof, exclusion of the day of such ?; and if you fail to answer the petition within the time aforesaid, the Petitioners in the action or proceeding will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Petition having for its object among other things the settlement of the personal estate of Aaron Quick deceased. Dated 24th May, AD. 1878. Knox Livingston Judge of Probate. I have tried to read this as best as I can. The paper is old and the writing is some what smeared. Jean

Hello All, I just subscribed and am hoping to find someone who has information on my CROUCH ancestors from the Richmond-Anson County NC area in the time frame 1800-1860. Here goes: John Crouch, b. about 1760 m. Nancy Phillips John Crouch b. about 1785 m. Jane? Samuel Crouch b. about 1785 m. Sarah? children: sons daughters(married name) JAMES M. JULIA CAPEL NANCY SKINNER JOSEPH M. LAVENIA PANKEY SARAH J. WEBB THOMAS SUSAN SLAUGHTER SAMUEL C. M. FRANCES ANN MORGAN MARY CHAPPELL ELIZABETH BALLARD DELIA CAPEL OLIVE CHANCE I am also looking for info on SOLOMON CROUCH, JEREMIAH(JERRY) CROUCH. JOHN CROUCH married MARTHA ANN JACKSON in 1863. She was from Marlboro District. John died in 1869 and left everything to her in his will. If anyone can help me with this line, please contact me. I really need some help! Thanks!! Marsha Crouch Hulsey [email protected]

Still looking for Floyd Williams born about 1911 or 1912 in McCall, SC. moved to Bladen county in his 30's ,married a woman from there. Had 2 sons that died as infants. Was told he spent some time in prison and might have died while in prison.Was around the late 1940s early 1950s they divorced and don't know where he went from there. Birth certificates for the babies said he work in the cotton mill and was a shipyard worker. Was told he was a drunk and abused his wife at this time. Need to know when, where he died, and his marriage date to the Bladen County woman. Thanks, Terri

Looking for FLOYD WILLIAMS b abt 1911-1912 in McCall, SC. Moved to NC and live most his life. Have been told he might have died in prison. Thanks, Terri