Picture needed. Does anyone have a picture of Clarissa Bronson, wife of Holder Sisson? Thanks, Jan Riess At 02:00 PM 11/8/2003 -0700, you wrote: >SISSON-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 185 > >Today's Topics: > #1 [SISSON-L] Sisson historic store n ["Laura Thompson" > <[email protected]] > #2 [SISSON-L] Mary Sisson Time frame ["Glitz" <[email protected]>] > #3 [SISSON-L] Mary Sisson again updat ["Glitz" <[email protected]>] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from SISSON-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no word or punctuation. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >______________________________X-Message: #1 >Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 19:58:58 -0600 >From: "Laura Thompson" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: [SISSON-L] Sisson historic store near Fredericksburg >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hello, > While vacationing last week in Virginia, I stopped at the Fredericksburg >Battlefield. After giving my last name to the attendant, he excitedly gave >me information regarding SISSON's STORE, constructed in 1854. In the 1860 >census, it shows it was owned by David Sisson, age 45, along with Sarah >Sisson, age 38 and Landon Sisson, age 11. They were born in Virginia. > Sisson's Store was a prominent landmark on the path of the Union attacks >on Marye's Heights during the Dec. 1862 and May 1863 Battles of >Fredericksburg. > If anyone is interested in a more detailed description of the event, let >me know. I was given pp.172-173 from Noel Harrison's Fredericksburg >Battlefield site, H.E. Howard, publisher. > >Laura Sisson-Thompson, WI., of the Robert Sisson line, Fairfax, Va. > >______________________________X-Message: #2 >Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 07:52:56 -0600 >From: "Glitz" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: [SISSON-L] Mary Sisson Time frame early 1500's real sketchy info here >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >All I really have is her name. Mary Sisson b sometime in 1500's presumably >in England. She married 5 X's her husbands name are: Nathaniel Pope (my >line), William Bridges, Lewis Nicholas, David Whitliffe/Wickliffe, and John >Rosier. > >She only had children by Pope and Whitliffe. > >Her child by Nathaniel Pope was Nathaniel also and he m 1) Jane (Brooks) >Brown 2) Elizabeth Pierce. > >Any help with this line would be very appreciated. TIA Glitz > >______________________________X-Message: #3 >Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 09:26:23 -0600 >From: "Glitz" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: [SISSON-L] Mary Sisson again update she was b 1638 St Mary Maryland >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Ok---did some more searching on the web---found this: > >Mary Sisson was b 1638 St Mary Maryland no date of death. But she m >Nathaniel Pope 1668 Westmoreland Co Va and they had one child Nathaniel Pope >who m Jane (Brookes) Brown and Elizabeth Pierce. > >I also saw where Mary might be the daughter of Thomas Sisson from England or >George Sisson m to Sarah Lawton (anyone know for certain???) > >Any help on her would be ~greatly~ appricated--- I had not worked with this >line in a very long time. TIA Glitz Mrs. Jan Riess Program Advisor Mechanical Engineering 118 Randolph Hall Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0238