----- Original Message ----- From: "courtney" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 8:12 AM Subject: Yates, Sandifer, Brodie, Hope > My ggrandmother, Mary Anne, was born in 1857,in the Blue Ridge area, to > John W. and Rena or Reba Yates. She married John Sandifer. She had one > son, Henry Clay, and two daughters, Mary Drucilla and Irene Ellanora > when she was widowed and took her children back home to her parents in > Blue Ridge. While there, she gave birth to my grandmother, Minnie Leah > Brodie, in Marlin 1881. There is no evidence she had ever married Martin > Luther Brodie and he went on to another life. He was teaching school in > Falls County at the time. I do not know anything about Henry but I have > Mary Drucilla from birth to death and Irene Ellanora married Robert > Hope.I have no more on her than that. I am still searching Falls County > for any burials and births of this family . I don't know if or when any > of them left Falls County except Drucilla.Any info would be greatly > appreciated. I so much want to know where my ggrandmother is buried. > Thank you and everyone who writes to your list. I read every one. > Connie. [email protected] >