--------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hildred A Carlson <ra-n-hacar@juno.com> To: TXFREEST-L@roorsweb.com,TXLEON-L@rootsweb.com,YERBY-L@rootsweb.com Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 21:08:43 -0500 Subject: YERBY FAMILY in Leon and Freestone Counties in TX Message-ID: <20030718.210844.1760.1.ra-n-hacar@juno.com> To Any Yerby Family Descendants, Doyle Jones, a Jones family researcher, with relastives who married into the Yerby family in TX told me that a lady (whom I assume was a Yerby family descendant) in Teague, TX or in that area, told him that she had a Bible Record of the marriage of Amon and Rachel Yerby. They married about 1816 in NC or SC. The lady told Doyle that Rachel's surname was CHESTER. His computer crashed and he lost all his info and cannot find his notes with the lady's name. Josephine Yerby Ford, d/o John Randolph Yerby, s/o Amon and Rachel, also gave her Grandmother Rachel's surname as CHESTER in Yerby family records that she passed on to a neice before she died. There has been a conflict about Rachel's surname. Was it DODSON, McMILLIAN or CHESTER? Anyone know anything about that Bible record? I have an idea that the Bible belongs to someone who descended from James Franklin Yerby, s/o Amon and Rachel Yerby, who settled in Buffalo, Leon Co., TX about 1870. Related families include descendants of John S. and Nancy (Dodson) Jones who married into the James Franklin Yerby family, Benjamin F and Martha Eveline (Yerby) Pounds family, George R. and Frances (Yerby) Martin family, John Wm. and Mary Katherine (Taggart) Yerby family, Franklin Monroe and Nancy Ann (Simmons) Yerby family, and Thomas Lee and Lucy Ann (Yarbrough) Yerby family. All of us descendants of Amon and Rachel Yerby would like to find proof of Rachel's surname. If you can supply this info, PLEASE, contact me. I have been shaking the YERBY/YEARBY/IRBY Family Tree twenty- plus years searching for those who walked this way before me. All help appreciated. Hildred Carlson