This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kkB.2ACE/921.1 Message Board Post: Benjamin Vining, b. ca 1780 Johnston County, North Carolina; d. 1862 Cherokee County, Texas; son of Shadrack and Phereby Ratcliff Vining; married Polly King, January 1802; Headright #175 Sabine County, emigrated 18 December 1839. 1840 Tax List. Silversmith. Cosby Vining (M.D.), b. ca 1802, died ca 1848 Cherokee County; married Martha Hudson ca 1832 Georgia; son of Benjamin and Polly King Vining. Tax Lists 1840, 1845. 1846 Poll List Cherokee County. Justice of Inferior Court in Harris County GA. 1828-1829; First Sheriff of Cherokee County 1846. Soldier in Creek War of 1836. Lewis Milton Vining, born ca 1815, died 1853 Cherokee County; son of Benjamin and Polly King Vining; married Hester L. Trimble 28 September 1837 Floyd County, Georgia. Headright #461, Old Certificate #17 issued 19 December 1839 in Sabine County. Tax Lists 1840, 1845. 1846 Poll List Cherokee County. Source: NACOGDOCHES COUNTY --GATEWAY TO TEXAS, Volume I, A Biographical Directory 1773-1849, by Carolyn Reeves Ericson.