I missed this message, we were headed for Belize when it came in. Charles A. Wyly wrote: >Hi, Charles, > >I just noticed that not all were always moving west. Seems my Ancestor >John Copeland was born in Ireland in 1748 and wife Margaret Blakely was >born in Ireland in 1788. John died in Duncan Creek Presbyterian Cemetery, >South Carolina in 1826, but Margaret's mom, Rachael Orr Blakely, >daughter of William John Blakley was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Marian >Alabama. Did Margaret ever live in Alabama then move East to Clinton, >S.C. or both with roots in Mecklenburg County , N.C. and the older >parents going west after John and Margaret were married and had moved to >Duncan Creek. ? > > > I'm showing Margaret's mother, Rachael Orr Blakely, being married to John (NMN) Blakely, and that both are buried at Clinton, Laurens Co. SC. >I have a Copeland Family History for the 1930's Copeland Reunion in >Clinton , S.C. which lists down to Grandmother Nancy Hipp Carey , >daughter of Charles Madison Hipp and Sarah Copeland of Huricane Baptist >Church, S.C.It had all of Grandmother Carey's grandchildren born before >that listed in the records printed in South Carolina. > > > Does your referenced Copeland Family History list Margaret's parents? It should show them as Rachel Orr and John Blakely. >Also, Do you have the connection to the Carleton's Store in Stephenville >or the Community of Carleton or the Carleton or Blakley lady who taught >our daughter in Walnut Springs first Grade? She lived between the Hwy and >the at Park and was retired from Malakoff Schools. She lived next door to >Retired Merchant Marine Capt. Mitchell Massey and a block from us. > > No connection known, unless you might be talking about Mattie Laura "Top" Blakely, who was married to James Carradine Farmer. She was a long time sales lady at Cox's Department Store in Stephenville. I don't know who the Blakley lady was who taught your daughter in Walnut Springs. My mother, Vinita Blakley, taught in some rural schools in the area in 1918-1922 time period, and later she was a substitute teacher, but I think that was at Iredell. We didn't live at Walnut, and I don't know who that might have been.