Melba, your post is very interesting even without my ancestral names included. Culpepper was a meeting place for wagon trains moving west. It is said that people left messages for following families on a BB board on the front of a local store. A full story of that meeting place in Culpepper would be very interesting. Smith County, TN is where my Owen family lived and I'm trying to push their travels to the west backward to see where they came from. Family story is Virginia for both Owen and Rutledge. They may have all came down the Cumberland trail. Don Kelly ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eldon Wilkins" <MelEl512@att.net> To: <TNSMITH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 2:09 PM Subject: [TNSMITH] Green family of Culpepper, Va. > TO PERSONS OF INTEREST > > In 1976 while in the Arizona State Library and > Archives I found a very large pedigree chart on the Green families of > Culpepper, Va. Unable to > check this out I paid them to copy it for me. > > When computers came into being my husband > did a surname (name sorted list of 50 pgs) list of this chart as well as a > descendancy chart. These begin with William Green and Eleanor Duff abt > 1675. > Some of these lines are known to have come into Tennessee. > > I am also in possession of a handwritten letter > of 8 Sept 1952 to my father, Marvin Green(e) > from F. G. Percival of Knoxville who states > his ggggrfather is Lewis Green 1751 of Russell County, Va.. He writes some > family came into > what is now Harlan Co., Ky and some into > Nashville, Tn. "Zarhariah, with the Paynes > moved to the Cumberland settlement (now > Nashville)...In route Lewis Sr died...Later > Lewis' widow (Sara) md Mathew Payne - the > father of their daughter Sara's husband, Josiah > Payne." > > This letter is 3 1/2 pages long 8 x 10. His > family and those on the pedigree chart connect. > > I am putting this information on the site in case > anyone is interested and has connections. > > Melba Greene Wilkins > > > ==== TNSMITH Mailing List ==== > Submit Your Family Pictures, Biographies, Histories > Wills, Fokelore, To The Smith Co Web Project > http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnsmith/ >