My ggg grandmother, Eva or Ava Nancy GIBSON, was born btwn 1790 -1795 in Tennessee. Her father may have been named George and she also may have had a brother named George. She married Samuel MARION (Jr.) Their children were Elizabeth Marion, b btwn 1810 and 1814, VA; Eleanor Marion, b 24 July 1814, VA; Rebecca Marion, b 1815, Lee County, VA; Betsa Lavica Marion, b 27 June 1818, VA; Clayborne Marion, b 1819 or 1820, VA or TN; Annis Marion, b 1820 or 21, TN; Tipton Marion (my gg grandfather), b 26 April 1824, Hawkins Co., TN; William C. Marion, b 26 Jan 1826, VA; Catherine M. Marion, b 15 Sept 1826, TN; Sarah Marion, b 1828, IL; Roseanna J. Marion, b 1831, Coles Co., IL; Martha A. Marion, b abt 1831 or '32, Coles Co., IL; Tabitha Ann Marion, b 9 Feb 1837?, Charleston, Coles Co., IL. Rebecca was the only one who stayed in the area, she married Fleming Thorp, and died 20 Oct 1857, in Lee Co., VA. My ggg grandmother Eva/Ava Nancy Gibson died in 1866, in Fairfield, Jefferson Co., Iowa. Would love to hear from anyone connected with this family. Sheila >______________________________ >X-Message: #7 >Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 12:34:46 -0500 >From: "Sarah Ann Roepke" <sar@bright.net> >To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com >Message-Id: <199903111731.MAA05175@sparticus.bright.net> >Subject: MARION & GIBSON >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hi Sheila, > >I would like for you to post what you have on >your Gibsons. I have Gibsons of VA, TN ? >and Perry, Knott & Floyd Co. KY. > >Thanks, >Sarah Ann > >______________________________ >X-Message: #8 >Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:51:36 EST >From: NMorri3924@aol.com >To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <e3baee06.36e810b8@aol.com> >Subject: Re:1918 FLU >Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >My grandmother was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and my mother has been >diagnosed with Supranuclear Palsy. The doctor blames the 1918 flu for these >problems. Both my grandmother and mother had the flu, but survived. > >Also why am I receiving this list in all italics? >Nancy S > >______________________________ >X-Message: #9 >Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:55:58 -0800 >From: "Robert Crabtree" <crabtree@speedlink.com> >To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <000001be6bf9$2e598500$d4298ed1@crabtree.crabtree> >Subject: RE: 1918 Flu Epidemic >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >My grandfather Harold H. Crabtree, died of flu October 23, 1918 in Bluefield, >VA. He left his wife Mary Margaret and three boys, 8, 10, and 12 years of age. >His nephew, George Washington Crabtree died of the flu October 26, 1918 leaving >his wife Virginia and seven children ages ranging from 6 months to 12 years of >age. Both families moved in with the Howard and William Harris families in >nearby Bramwell, WV. Virginia, William and Howard Harris were the children of >Mary Margaret and her first husband John Leander Harris. Needless to say, >this >was a close family by marriage and association. They always looked after one >another. Their origins were all of Smyth, Russell and Washington Counties. >The >Harris and Crabtree families were neighbors as listed in the 1860 Smyth County >Census. The family closeness of these families still remain today. >Robert Crabtree (formerly of Tazewell County, VA) > >______________________________ >X-Message: #10 >Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 15:43:29 -0500 >From: "S. Henrichsen" <henricsf@casmail.muohio.edu> >To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com >Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990311154329.007b82f0@casmail.muohio.edu> >Subject: "The Spanish Lady Flu" >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >I ran across a book that referred to the flu epidemic of 1918 as "The >Spanish Lady Flu." The book is called: > >"Talk about trouble : a New Deal portrait of Virginians in the Great >Depression" (edited by Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Charles L. Perdue, Jr., >Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1996.) > >It's great reading and includes bibliographical references. It discusses >Virginia -- social life, customs, and conditions, the Depression and New >Deal. Lots of interviews from people all over Virginia. Most of it is >made up of WPA interviews from the late 20's, early 30's. I was very >surprised to find some relatives. It gives you a great idea of what life >was all about in Virginia during the first part of the 20th century. (Not >unlike what is discussed on this list.) I would imagine that the book is >in a lot of Virginia libraries, due to it's content. > >S. Henrichsen > >A legend may not be a record of fact, but the existence of a legend is >itself a fact, and requires an explanation. >......attributed to G. Ash > > > > > > > > > > > >______________________________X-Message: #7 >Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 21:53:05 -0500 >From: "Edgar A. Howard" <swvaroot@swva.net> >To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com >Message-Id: <199903110253.VAA11944@ctc.swva.net> >Subject: 1918 Flu Epidemic >Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > > Does anyone know stories of deaths in the familes of SW VA >from the flu of 1918?? Nearly one million Americans died and 18 >million worldwide. I wondered if SW VA suffered any more or less. > >-eddie >