Maybe I do have some information that would be of interest to you -- and I thought I knew nothing about my Suttons. You know, you wrote her midle name as "Lewis," which triggered something. I looked again at her son's death certificate and on the line for his mother's name, her name is written Lewis Sutton. Hmmm. And, as I look at some notes my mother wrote years ago, she has her name as Annie Louis Sutton. (Basically hte same name, really.) Anyway. Her mother is where she got the name for her second son -- Page Pendleton Rodgers!! It sounded like a family name, but we had no idea from where. Now I know!! This is the son from whose birth she did not recover. He was born in Nov. of 1853 and she died March 1, 1854 -- at least according to our information. She died in what is now Tate County, Mississippi, but was then DeSoto County, Mississippi, and is buried in a small family (Rodgers family) cemetery in a pasture out in the middle of nowhere. (I have been there, though, and have seen her marker. It is a large obelisk and says she was the wife of A.L. Rodgers.) Oh, actually I'm looking at something I got from a Google search that has Annie L. Sutton as being born 2/21/1830 and dying on 3/1/1854. (It's cemetery information that lists her in the Rodgers Cemetery here in Tate County and as wife of Abner L. Rodgers. Don't know the source for that info, though.) I think Ann married Abner Leroy Rodgers in Tennessee, possibly Lauderdale County, in 1850 or 1851. (The dates are according to some of my mother's notes.) Ann's husband was born in Alabama about 1818 and she was apparently born in Virginia. Perhaps both families went to Tennessee and they met there? Their first son, Preston Walker Rodgers, was born in Tennessee. (He was my great grandfather.) But now I'm realizing that the ancestry.com note you (or someone) sent me has her marrying Abner in 1855. Could that date be wrong? All the info that you provided in the e-mail I'm responding to here works for a marriage in 1850 or 1851 and the names work to be my ancestors. Since I know nothing further back than Ann herself, you can probably tell better than I if this is my Ann. The birth year is about right and a couple of siblings are correct. We probably just weren't aware of all of her siblings since she died when my great grandfather was a boy and he apparently knew nothing about her other than that she was born in Virginia. The name of the mother of your Ann Sutton just really makes me think this is my Ann Sutton, too. What do you think? Thanks!!!! This is getting good. jm (Janie) ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 5:39 PM Subject: Re: [SUTTON] Fw: Ancestors of Annie L. Sutton, b. 1830 > > JM, > I do not know anything abt descendants of Ann Lewis Sutton. Ann was > born 1832 in VA. She was 18 on the 1850 census, that is where I deducted the > birth yr of 1832. We all know tho' that the dates on the census are not always > correct.......She was the dau of John Carter Sutton and his second wife, > Elizabeth Page Pendleton. > I have no idea when she died or where...... > Do you know where your Anna L. Sutton married? Who did she marry? and > where? It could be the same Ann but I'm not sure......you said that she > died young, how young? Where? > The earliest Sutton in this Ann Lewis Sutton's family is John Sutton > born 1688 in VA. > Do you think this could be your Ann? > Marsha > > > > Thank you so much for responding to my query. Genealogy folks are just so > much fun -- and so nice to share information!! > > The below could be Anna's parents, except that Anna was born 1830 and it > looks like this Norborne Sutton was born 1822 -- unless I'm reading this > incorrectly, which is entirely possible. Maybe Ann was Ann Elizabeth and > they called her Betty as a nickname? > > We always were told Anna was born in Virginia. Do you know any other > information about them -- like their profession, etc.? Who was the first > Sutton in Anna's direct anecestry to come to America? Are there any > published (self-published or otherwise) books, booklets on this family line > that I could acquire? > > Yeah, I'm full of questions and want to know more, more, more about this > line of my family. It is pretty much a blank for us. My other family lines > are all traced back to the "home" country and I'd love to do that with the > Sutton line. > > I'm just sorry that Anna died so young so that our Sutton acquaintance was > brief. (I think my grandmother said that her father said he never knew any > of his mother's people.) I really would like to find out about her > siblings' descendants. Do you have that info? I'm glad that we know where > she is buried because she is so far (for that time period) from her family. > > If I go to Lauderale Co., would I be able to find much information about > the Suttons there? If so, would that be at the library, a museum, or maybe > a genealogy room? What other counties or towns or communities are important > to this Sutton history? You just don't know how excited I am about this > information! > > Again, thank you so much, Marsha. If you still live around the area, I'd > love to meet you and visit with you. Last month, I had three cousins I had > never met in my Peacock line as houseguests so we could do genealogy and go > through old pictures. We spent three days going back into the woods to > churches, old family cemeteries, house sites, etc. It was great!! > > I don't want to bother you too much with this and all my questions, but I > truly, truly appreciate your help. Thank you again and I hope that we keep > in touch. > > jm > > > > > > > > ==== SUTTON Mailing List ==== > ONLY USE THE BELOW ADDRESS TO POST > queries to the SUTTON List > [email protected] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----