Children of LEWIS VENCILL and CHRISTINA HEMRICH are: i. HENRY VENCILL. ii. LORENZO DOW VENCILL. iii. ELIZABETH VENCILL. iv. MARY VENCILL. v. ADAM VENCILL. vi. PEGGY VENCILL. vii. ANNA VENCILL. viii. LEWIS VENCILL. ix. DAVIS VENCILL. 8. x. JOHN VENCILL, b. Abt. 1792, Loudoun co Va. 9. xi. WILLIAM V. VENCILL, b. September 20, 1803, Tazewell Co Va; d. April 15, 1878, Russell Co Va. "Religion is the opium of the masses." - Marx * * * "Spending someone else's money is the opium of the elite." -howard

This doesn't have anything to do with this particular family but does anyone know the origin of the name "Lorenzo Dow"? I see it in an awfully lot of SW Virginia families, families with no close connections of which I am aware. Was there someone famous named "Lorenzo Dow"? Arley Edgar A. Howard wrote: > Children of LEWIS VENCILL and CHRISTINA HEMRICH are: > > i. HENRY VENCILL. > ii. LORENZO DOW VENCILL. > iii. ELIZABETH VENCILL. > iv. MARY VENCILL. > v. ADAM VENCILL. > vi. PEGGY VENCILL. > vii. ANNA VENCILL. > viii. LEWIS VENCILL. > ix. DAVIS VENCILL. > 8. x. JOHN VENCILL, b. Abt. 1792, Loudoun co Va. > 9. xi. WILLIAM V. VENCILL, b. September 20, 1803, > Tazewell Co Va; d. April 15, 1878, Russell Co Va. > > "Religion is the opium of the masses." - Marx > * * * > "Spending someone else's money is the opium of the elite." -howard > > ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== > #4 Chain letters, gossip, non-genealogical notes, commercial ads, pleas for help, etc. are > PROHIBITED on this List. -sysop