This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Whitley, Edwards, Kirby, Curlin. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TgB.2ACE/178.51.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi, Leona, Glad to see some more of the family show up. Cousin Jan Frey forwarded your response to me. We (Jan) and I, are descended from the same Edwards family as yourself. We come down from Charlotte (Lottie) Edwards who married Lemuel Prince Curlin in Wilson County TN. about 1822 I think it was. They were early day settlers in Obion County. Both, and several more family members are buried out at Shady Grove Cem (not far from the grave of Hugh) a couple miles out of Union City. Other family members are buried in Union City at what is called the Confederate Cem. The oldest picture which I know of, and it woulden't be your direct line, is my great great grandmother Mary Ann Charlotte Hubbs Whitley Riley. She was the daughter of Charlotte (Lottie) and Lemuel Prince Curlin. She had married first to a Mr. Hubbs whom died in a wagon accident, then she married my great great grandfather James Riley Whitley. He was the son of Marcus Whitley. Anyway the picture is a family scene with 12 to ! 15 individuals present and all identified. They had been in NC prior to TN and had come into NC from VA. I am not sure when they arrived in VA. but were in Mecklenberg County at the starting of the American Rev. I would imagine they were in New York prior to that as they are supposed to be the same family as the famous Robert Edwards land grant dispute is about. Nice to hear from you Leona. Cousin Rudy.