I have Hannah Williams connection and there is no Tempe in her line. I will double check wills etc. that I have from SC and see if there is a Tempe mentioned anywhere, but it is an unusual name. I think I would have noticed it. Paula "Margaret H. Dillard" <mhdillard@direcway.com> wrote: I cannot help with Tempa but I can tell you the 3 Davis men were sons of Alfred Warren and Hannah Riddles Williams Davis. I do not know why they were in Fair Forest. I find no mention of Tempe in anything I have but she could be a sister of Hannah Williams Davis-just thinking. Peggy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rebecca Bannister" To: Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 3:27 PM Subject: [SCUNION] Davis Family > Good afternoon - I'm seeking help with a mystery that has stumped > researchers of the Neville Lawson family for years - his wife Tempa/Tempe's > family. I have found two possible matches in a Tempe Duke, daughter of > Shadrack Duke and a Tempe Pridmore daughter of John Pridmore. I have not > been able to turn up any wills or records concerning these men and have kept > looking. > > > > I have been looking at the 1860 census again (for the umpteenth time!). > Tempa Lawson lived in dwelling house #936, family #841, located in the Fair > Forest post office district. In her household were three young men named > Davis - William Davis, age 24, Carson Davis age 23 and Jefferson Davis age > 21. I assume they are brothers. No relationship between Tempa and these > three men is given. Their profession is listed as carpenters. Tempa was a > widow by this time. It would seem strange to me that three unrelated men > would be living in her household, especially with her listed as the head. > Could these three Davis brothers be nephews or other close kin to Tempa? > Who were the parents of these Davis brothers? This could be a clue to Tempa > / Tempe's parents. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Rebecca Bannister > > rbannister@comcast.net > > Union County surnames: Lawson, Smith, Duke, Bailey, Drury > > > > ==== SCUNION Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe for awhile send email to: > SCUNION-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode, or) > SCUNION-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode) > Include ONLY "unsubscribe" (w/o quotes) in the body, > and turn off automatic signature. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > ==== SCUNION Mailing List ==== The messages on this list are archived and can be searched at: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 Paula McMeans Scales Nashville, TN --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears