Since there were Brame family members in Southside Virginia and also in Granville Co., NC (according to my reading of records of those areas), I thought this info from Ballard Co. website might be of interest. This is the message which I am sending. E.W.Wallace My friends - Today we are returning to the Jackson Purchase Vignettes series. Our subject today is Samuel Brame of Ballard County [Kentucky]. ...... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Samuel Brame was born in Mecklenburg County, Va., March 13, 1820. He is the eldest of seven children born to Henry and Sally (Hooton) Brame, natives of Virginia and of English descent. The grandparents, Samuel Brame and Samuel Hooton, were natives of Virginia. The father of our subject was a soldier in the war of 1812. Samuel was reared on a farm; he received a common school education and lived with his parents till he was twenty-two years old, when he engaged in farming for himself. He moved with his parents to Kentucky in a very early day, and settled in Christian County. In 1851 he moved to McCracken County and located five miles west of Paducah. In 1871 he located where he now resides[Ballard Co.] on 150 acres of land, which he has accumulated by his own industry. Mr. Brame was married September 24, 1843 to Myra J. Wyatt, of Christian County, Ky., a daughter of Richard N. And Mary (Harrison) Wyatt. They had born to them by this marriage eleven children: Martha A., William T., Mary (Mrs. Thompson), Zachariah, Callie (now Frazier), George, Kate E., Elizabeth (now Hall), Louella, Edward B. and Andrew J. Mr. Brame and wife are Baptists. He is a Mason and votes the Democratic ticket." -History of Kentucky Illustrated, Edition I Battle/Perrin/Kniffen Louisville: F.A.Battey Publishing Co., 1885 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ==== KYBALLAR Mailing List ==== "Show me the manner in which a nation cares for its dead, and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender mercies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals." - William Gladstone