Joan I have some of the information on some of these lines. I will look & see can you tell me which leg of the Anthony Sharp line you came from? I am working on the Bennetts & Anglins lots of confusion on these lines. I have a lot of Bates info. some Wilkinson, Capps, & the Wilsons well that is another story. I do have Wilson info but there were several Wilson families in Limestone Co. & I have not found a connection between them but that does not mean they were not related before they made it to Limestone Co. TX. I remember Miss Stella but she did not teach me she taught my parents. Pat Oates in TX. At 03:12 PM 4/1/2001 -0400, you wrote: >I subscribe to the digest, and I was ready this morning to find out how to >re-subscribe, thinking I had been dumped, when No. 11 came through with a >whole bunch of messages. Glad to see the list come alive again. > >Now, Pat. what do you have on the SHARP line? Two brothers (Anthony and >Spencer) and maybe a third (James) came to Limestone in the 1850's. They had >quite a few descendants among them, although the line suffered a lot in the >civil War -- at least six to seven sons killed or died in prison camp. >Early members married into the ANGLIN, BENNETT, BATES and other families. >Later descendants married into the WILKINSON, BROKAW, CAPPS, BURTON, WILSON >and other families. (My mother grew up in the Big Hill community where many >of theWilkinsons are buried today. More Sharps are buried in Faulkenberry >and Fort Parker cemeteries. Many who grew up in Limestone will remember my >Aunt Stella Wilkinson who taught school in Groesbeck (30's, 40's and 50's)