Looking for info re the children of Milburn and Matilda "Polly" Hale Williamson; married 8 Jul 1829. He was son of Milburn b 1767.They were married 8 July 1829 in Bedford Co., VA and had 6 children I need names of spouses for the following girls: Mary b 1838 Almira (Manda) b 1842 Also death dates for following children: Jonah b c 1829 Mary b: 1838 Almira "Manda" b 1842 Slaughter b c 1844 Would be happy to share any info I have if anyone has connections or has info about this family - thanks. Oscar and Jan Williamson VJyizit@aol.com

I was in Bedford County this past Monday. I wasn't able to find what I was researching for. Can any one help. I need the parents of William Jacob Harris who married Polley Oldacre in 1792. I found the marriage license but it did not list his parents. Also, I would like to thank the lady at the museum next door to the courthouse for giving me directions to the Oldacre homeplace. She was most helpful and thanks a bunch. Just wished the people at the courthouse were as helpful as the ones at the museum. Thanks again. Dot Harris Burford ----- Original Message ----- From: <VABEDFOR-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: <VABEDFOR-D@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 1999 1:20 AM Subject: VABEDFOR-D Digest V99 #32

I need help in trying to find my family's cemetery, I am the GGGrandson of Jesse E. Markham, and would like to visit the family cemetery. I know from a posting on the Markham Mail List on the interactive list on Genealogy.com that Josiah N D Markham was buried in the early 1900, at the Markham Family Cemetery, Jennings Creek, Munford Area, Botetourt County Virginia. He is the oldest son of Jesse E. Markham. In the past years I have tried to locate the Old Markham Family Homestead at Arcadian, without success. Can anyone from Bedford County that knows this area help me with directions? Any help will be gratefully accepted. Thank You, Tommy Markham

Hi Betty, I am searching for the Scott surname in Virginia, also. Do you have any information on a Malinda E. SCOTT born Abt. 1822 and died 4 Jul1885? Her father was: John SCOTT born abt 1796. and her mother was: Lucy BONDURANT. Malinda married Obediah Davis HOGAN, 6 Dec. 1842. We think his father was Charles HOGAN, born abt 1795. Thanks, Marian eepedersen@msn.com

Hello Rockbridge County, Presently, members of the HENRY surname list are building a web site that contains an index of their HENRYs. When completed, it should be helpful to many HENRY family historians. I have been asked to conduct a search for links to HENRY online resources like personal web pages, and county and local genealogy association resource pages. If you have substantial HENRY information on your web page or know of HENRY information on your county or other local web site, please send the links to Judy Henry at jchenry@flash.net , so that they might be included in the new HENRY site. If you have some HENRY data that is not on a website, you may wish to subscribe to the list by sending an email to: HENRY-L-request@rootsweb.com containing as the only text the word "subscribe" (no quotes) in the body of the message. After you get a message confirming your subscription, post your information by email to HENRY-L@rootsweb.com . Thank you. Doug Garber, dmgarber@ac.net Researching GARBER/GERBER (SWITZ>PA>OH) HOPKINS (ENG>MA>CT>VT>NY>OH), HENRY (SCOT>VA>PA>OH), MCCOLLUM (NJ>OH>KY>OH) http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/g/a/r/Douglas-M-Garber/

Does anyone on the list know a good source for Bedford CO, VA Marriages after 1850? Thanks! Donna Minke dminke1@airmail.net

Dear Jeri, Historical Diary of Bedford, Virginia, USA by Peter Viemeister, available from the Bedford City/County Museum, stated at page 74 that 21 Bedford County soldiers of Company A, 116th Regiment, died on D- Day and 2 others died with other companies. Page 75 has a list of Bedford men who died in World War II. I count 153 men. Bob Grant

My grandmother was Mary Edna Motley. Her grandfather, John Henry Motley, was the original owner of the Motley Farm of Moneta, Virginia. Motley lands covered a large area. Some was cleared and used for farming. The majority of the land was wooded. There was a working grinding mill on a stream leading into the Staunton (Roanoke) river; corn and wheat were ground there. The former mill and its land is now under water due to the forming of Lake Smith. The farm had corn, wheat, vegetables; horses, mules, cows, chickens. Before the Civil War, the slaves did most of the work, which included caring for the children. Directions: Go south on route 22 out of the city of Bedford thru Moneta. Make a right onto route 655. Go about two miles on route 655 and then make a right onto route 749. The farm site is the land to your left beginning at route 655 and going up route 749 about 3/4 mile. The farm stayed in the family (John Henry Motley ----> James Daniel Motley ----> John Henry "Brud" Motley) until November 10, 1964. The last Motley family owner of the farm was my grandmother's brother Brud. She and her sisters sold their share of the land to him. The land was then sold at auction for $14,700 to D. C. Meador and P. F. Meador. This land is now part of Smith Mountain Lake Resort. The following was taken from The Progress-Index, Petersburg, Virginia, Saturday, August 15, 1998: Agnes Turner remembers the summer evenings, decades ago, when men would come sit on her front porch and talk about "the lake" that was coming to their community. "They'd chew tobacco, spit and talk," said the 88-year-old widow who still lives on her family's farm near Smith Mountain Lake. "They were so upset about it." And there was cause for concern by some -- their farm land was about to be covered in water. It's been over 30 years since Appalachian Power started filling the low section around the Roanoke River with water from the new Smith Mountain Dam. With the creation of Smith Mountain Lake -- covering 22,000 acres with 500 miles of shoreline -- came major changes to the rural farming communities in Bedford, Franklin and Pittsylvania counties. Many farmers sold their property and left the area. Others have died. Retirees and tourists flocked to the lake. Developers built subdivisions, golf courses, shopping centers and restaurants. Ms. Turner says there's so many "lake people" at her church now, she "might as well be at a church somewhere else." Scruggs, Wirtz, Hardy and Moneta were simply farming communities untio the 1960's. People grew tobacco, wheat, corn and other crops. They raised dairy cows and lived a quiet, rural life. James Dinwiddie remembers when Virginia 122 wasn't paved and was full of potholes. His family has lived in the area for more than 100 years. "It's so affluent now," the 73-year-old said. It was the kind of place where everybody knew everybody else, where bootleggers made whiskey, and where barn raisings and corn shuckings were big entertainment. Ron Willard remembers corn shcukings where a farmer would put a jug of liquor at the end of a corn row for incentive. "They'd shcuk fast to get to the liquor," said the man who has made millions as the developer for posh areas at the lake, including Water's Edge and the Waterfront. The 52-year-old grew up in Scruggs and his father, Walter, still lives on the family farm. Herman DeLong doesn't remember when people started talking about a lake coming into the community -- he's 64 and thinks it was probably when he was a baby in the 1930's. His family owned a store at the Hales Ford bridge for about 50 years, and they've seen the bridge change three times. The first was a covered bridge, the second was a little higher and the third is the one that's there now. In the late 1920s, Appalachian Power Co. began buying land and planning a hydroelectric dam at the Smith Mountain gorge on the Roanoke River. Before the waters came, the old buildings were torn down or burned. Tobacco barns, livestock pens, small outdoor buildings and residences -- all met the ax or match. About 55 families were displaced. The 2 dams were completed in 1963 and Smith Mountain Lake reached its normal water level in 1966. C. W. Toney's family lost 170 acres of farm land when the lake was filled. "My father had worked hard his whole life," the 71-year-old Toney said. "It was hard on him." But the Toney's kept their remaining land and kept on farming. They didn't know it at the time, but that farmland was going to be valuable some day. Wanda in Virginia

Hi all, This past weekend I had the privledge to go to Normandy, France. It was for the Cubscouts and Boy Scouts of America ( The 55th Anniversary of DDay). We cleaned up Omaha Beach, where many of our boys had landed on D-Day. The Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts had a Memorial Service and Wreath laying ceremony at the American Cemertery, at Omaha Beach. The area is beautiful!! Anyway in the speach given by an US Army Officer, he was from 7th Corp. HQ in Heidleberg, GE., He mentioned Bedford Co.... He said that "this little town of Bedford Virginia lost eleven of its boys that day". I know I had a Great Uncle that was there. Two of the names I know of are brothers: Bedford T HOBACK PVT in 116 INF 29 DIV Normany and Raymond S. HOBACK SSgt in 116 Inf 29 Div Normandy. Bedford is in area G row 10 grave 28, and Raymond is on the Wall of the Missing. I would like to find out who the others were from Bedford who died there. I plan to go back there and lay flowers at each grave for the families who couldn't. Had I of known I would have asked earlier. I live in Brussels Belgium and plan to go there next year. This trip was a very humbling experience for all of us. I would like to find out who from Bedford Co. Virginia fought also, but were able to come home. Thanks for any help, Jeri Gallus

Dear Listers, This is my first post and I may not have enough information to make a request, but I would like to try. EDGAR MELVIN HENSON was born in Waugh, Bedford Co., Va. on either Aug 2, 1926 or Dec 31, 1927. I have been told that he lied to enter the military, so I am unsure which is the correct date. His father was WALTER MASSIE HENSON and his mother was ANNE LILLIAN BOTH. When Edgar applied for his Social Security card on 7/27/43, he was living in Phoebus, Va. That appears to have been incorporated into the city of Hampton in 1952. At the time that he applied for his social security card, he lists his employer as the Post Exchange at Langley Field, Va. After mustering out, he was briefly married to MADELINE GERTRUDE GREEN, about 1948-1950. He lived very briefly in Jordan, NY. He returned to Virginia early 1950's and has not been heard from since. I recently discovered that he died in 1964. I have been unable to determine anything about this family except Edgar's death. Any information or help would be greatly appreciated as this is the sum of all of the information on this branch of the family. His name appears on my birth certificate, so it is more than a genealogy quest. Thank you so much for any tips at all. Brenda (Henson) Ball

I would like to hear from anyone following the line of Benjamin Meador, Leroy Meador or Hezekiah Meador. The following are Meadors from Virginia listed in the DAR Patriot Index. Ambrose, b. 1745, d 9--28--1795 VA, m. Franky _____ Benjamin, b. 8-18-1763 VA, d 5-9--1840 VA, m. Mary ___ Isham, b. 3-20-1762 VA, d 3-2-1840 TN Jesse, b. 1750 VA, d a 9-28--1812 VA, m Martha _______ Joel, b. 3--8-1760 VA, d 4-7--1834 TN, m. Sally Moore John, b. 7-14-1734 VA, d p 7-6-1824 VA, m. Jane Holloway Jonas, b. 2-3-1758 VA, d a 1839 TN, m. Clarissa (Clare) William, b. 1745 VA, d 1813 VA, m. Mary Ann _____

Queries posted this past week to this VAGenWeb site mentioned the following surnames: BEARD, BRAMBLETT, BRAMLETT, FREEMAN, GOWER, JAYS, LANE, MITCHELL For those of you wanting to read these new queries, they are located at URL: <a href="http://people.delphi.com/fspradlin/bedf-qry.htm"> http://people.delphi.com/fspradlin/bedf-qry.htm </a> Regards, Freddie S. fspradlin@delphi.com 3448 W. 170th St., Torrance, CA 90504-2402

Bedford Co. Deed Book 4(1771-1773) p.4555-56 Taken from Abstracts and Accounts of Bedford Co. Wills and Inventories and Accounts 1754-1778, Taylor Pub.Co. Edited by Joida Whitten Alce Beard and Henry Brown. Marriage: Feb 20 1757 m. by Parson of Bedford Co. Lettice Brown-oldest da. b. 3 Dec 1757 Henry Brown b. 10 Aug 1760 Elizabeth Brown b. 20 July 1762 Alce Brown b. 9 Sept 1764 Samuel Brown b. 10 Nov 1766 Daniel Brown b. 18 Dec 1770 Court held for Bedford Co. 25 June 1773 "This instrument of writing was proven by oath of Adam brown and ordered recorded" Submitted Katherine Who is Mary A. or C. Brown m. Abner Snow 1836 surety Daniel H. Brown guardian Richard Snow

Nicholas Williams m. Nancy Lockett 26 Sept 1810 Bedford Co. Is he brother of William B. Williams who m. Eliza J. Lockett, Mecklenburg Co. in 1831. Wm B. Williams b. Franklin Co. NC 1809. Are Nicholas and William B. brothers? Gail - NC

Patti: I finally received your message and just sent a response......did you get it. (sorry for putting this on the list - just want to make sure we're communcating). Amber

Henry Brown , Sr. b. abt. 1712 in N.J. died 11/14/1798 in Bedford Co.,Va. he married Alice Beard on 2/20/1757 in Bedford co.,Va. They had a son William Daniel Brown, Sr. b. 12/181/1770 in Bedford Co.,Va. or William Brown or Daniel Brown. Does anyone have info on this William Daniel Brown. I have William, Daniel and William Daniel Brown in my database and trying to straighten them out, who belongs to who??? ANY help would be appreciated. Thank YOU, Donna Brown Wilkes

I am searching for info on Permelia Hutts. Thank you, Donna

Daniel Brown b. in Bedford Co.,Va. died in 1834 in Bedford Co. he married Martha Joyce Snider on 2/12/1802: Who are their parents? and siblings? Daniel and Joyce Brown had the following children: 1. Nancy Brown 2. William Brown married Jane Saunders on 12/31/1848 inBedford Co.,Va. (Does anyone have info on this family???) 3. Lucy Brown m. JOhn H. Ferguson 12/4/1822 in Bedford Co.,Va. (does anyone have info on this family) 4.Garrett Brown m. Irena Plymale 1838 in Bedford Co.,Va. (does anyone have info on this family???) 5.Amelia Brown m. Green Mitchell (Does anyone have info on this family???) 6.Dorcas Tabitha Brown m. Tyree Arthur, in 1835 in Bedford Co.,Va. (Does anyone have info on this family???) 7.Sarah Brown m. Daniel Green Saunders, Sr. in 1844 in Bedford co.,vA. (Does anyone have info on this family???) 8.Docter Landon Brown m. Landonia English on 12/15/1851 in Bedford Co.,Va. (I have some info on this family, I am happy to share ) 9. Wyatt Brown m. Jemina Hatcher on 10/28/1835 in Franklin Co.,Va. (I am some data on this line, I am happy to share, I also need data on the Hatcher family) Thank you, Donna

Beverly Robert Bobbitt b. 9/6/1869 in Pittsylvania Co.,Va. died in Bedford Co.,Va. he married Lucy Fannie Pagans in 1895 in Franklin Co.,Va. They had 16 children: I am searching for info on these 16 children. Thank you, Donna