Possibilites listed below... Question...in Edgecombe County .... around the Tyancokey Swamp...Has anyone run across the Real reason behind the Cohoon-Calhoun-Calhoon / Thomas name switching on the land transactions yet? Other than oral family history .... from another e-mail of a cousin that I haven't met - the grandson or great grandson of (she's my Great Grand Aunt) a sister to my great-grandfather Robert Thomas - she claimed to her grandson, while laughing, they were really Cohoons and not Thomas' ... this is a big revelation... as my great Aunt Alice Thomas who would have been the niece to this woman...my Aunt Alice told us on the Forehand side...that David Forehand raised his daughter as his own & she even said...that Elizabeth Betsey Forehands mother worked on The Forehand farm ... so, this is the only illegite story I've heard...and unless she was confused...which I don't think so as this is regarding someone of the totally opposite sex & a different line in the family....she did laugh too...but never did I ever hear her say that she was really a Cohoon and not a Thomas? ... My mom never heard anything about this ...but she said she does know of the name Cohoon ... where's the proof... did people just pick a name & use it differently on court documents at will? NO WAY... I've always heard that the Thomas' were Baptist Ministers... it's weird...any documents showing they were in church preaching? Tar River Primitive Baptist Church Records??? How can 3 of Wilson's sons also be listed on land transactions with their first names, then middle initial T. for Thomas and last name of Cohoon & then they switch over to Thomas... what's the benefit of the name change? Is someone illegitimate or adopted? Possibly...? Jacob Thomas --- was he married or partnered with a female that had been married 1st to a Cohoon ... with 1 son Wilson... his wife died & he adopted the boy... is that why he is Wilson T. Cohoon aka Wilson Thomas inheriting and reselling as two names ? seems like it would be the other way around... he would be Wilson Cohoon-Thomas.... Was Jacob Thomas the 2nd husband of Mrs. Cohoon & she died and then Jacob Thomas raised Wilson T.Cohoon as his son? Was Wilson Thomas' biological father a Cohoon and not really Jacob Thomas? Who is Wilson Thomas Cohoons biological mother. What's her 1st name? Anybody know? Was Wilson Thomas adopted from the neighbors house??? LOL They found him in the cabbage patch and didn't know what else to do with him. I've also heard there were horse theives in the family... maybe that's why Darby Forehand was locked up in PA? He was in trouble for some reason... is he closely related to David... Was Jacob Thomas not legally bound in marriage with a marriage bond to a biological Cohoon female & therefore Wilson & his 3 eldest sons couldn't decide what his rightful name should be & he took his mothers name of Cohoon? And then decided he'd take his father's name after all??? No... I doubt that... More importantly...is there a will or Is there a court document in existance mentioning a minor orphan named Wilson Cohoon ... there are Cohoons on the border of the property with the Thomas family... and Proctors ... I wish I could see a map with the exact lines and distances for each family's property lines. Wilson Thomas / Nancy Proctor * aka * Wilson T. Cohoon / Nancy Cohoon property where the Railroad is... Have any of the Thomas males or Calhoun/Cohoon males had their DNA checked like the Ruffins yet? read all about it on the Ruffin Family DNA site... it's expensive but interesting. ----------------------- Jacob Thomas - wife? (Cohoon/Calhoon?) Wilson Thomas - Nancy Proctor Elisha Thomas - Martha Ann Susan Ruffin - (this is the sister to S.H.Ruffin below) Robert Thomas - Frances Ann Cornelia Ruffin<her dad is (Samuel Henry Ruffin) Charity Thomas - Christopher Henry Eveland my mom- my dad me -------------------------- Is someone considered illegitimate because of no marriage bond.... or is someone a bastard minor child because of some hanky panky like in a previous court post I just read where a 69 year old married farmer was the father of a minor child. Papa was rollin' stone in that one. --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.