---------- > From: peg <mrschreiber@dmv.com> > To: Donald Soward <dddmp@earthlink.net> > Subject: Re: Being Stupit > Date: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 3:51 PM > > Patti, > > You were not being stupid. The first one I got, I also wrote letters. > My daughter straightined me out in short order. My problem is that I > just deleted about 20 pages of the same warning from the > net-phone-charge letter that hit every list that I receive. > > You will find that the chain letters are equally bad. They make you > feel bad to delete them, but do it anyway. They help no one--you can't > get a new kidney by sending mail to every one you know. The list goes > on and on---------- > > Sorry I made you feel bad. Buck up, we all have to make mistakes once > in a while > > Peg > > ------ > > From: Donald Soward <dddmp@earthlink.net> > > To: VABEDFOR-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Being Stupit > > Date: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 10:25 AM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> SORRY > > >> > > >> DIDN'T MEAN TO UPSET ANYONE THE MESSAGE CAME TO ME . > > >> > > >> I WAS JUST TRYING TO HELP EVERYONE OUT. > > >> > > >> SOME OF US ARE NOT AS SMART AS THE REST. > > >> > > >> PATTI > > > > > > > > > > > > SORRY > > > > > > DIDN'T MEAN TO UPSET ANYONE THE MESSAGE CAME TO ME . > > > > > > I WAS JUST TRYING TO HELP EVERYONE OUT. > > > > > > SOME OF US ARE NOT AS SMART AS THE REST. > > > > > > PATTI > > > > > > > > > > ==== VABEDFOR Mailing List ==== > > PLEASE do not send MIME/Base 64 "encoded" attachments to the list. > >

PLEASE don't pass these virus alerts along, on the list. They're mostly bogus ... ;) Regards, Freddie S. listowner fspradlin@delphi.com 3448 W. 170th St., Torrance, CA 90504-2402

> Just passing this infor along in case no one had heard > Patti > > dlang4d@juno.com wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:41:02 PST > > > > WARNING Message from IBM > > > > If you receive an e-mail titiled..JOIN THE CREW/for PENPALS ----------Snip---------- This is one of the older hoaxes still active on the 'net. PLEASE, never pass these messages along until you have personally checked them at one of the many hoax sites (a few are below) and NEVER post any type of chain letter to an email list. tia, trapper http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html http://www.kumite.com/myths/ http://www.europe.datafellows.com/news/hoax.htm http://www.datafellows.fi/news/hoax.htm http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/ http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/imsu/antiv/hoax.html

Before these warning are sent to the L lists, perhaps they should be checked on the many reliable hoax lists. This latest has been around since I went on the net a year ago. We just finished the telephone-net scare, which had been listed in the hoax lists. For some reason some sicky gets a charge out of us netters sending mail to every one we know . Short change him by checking first. This also goes for al those chain letters we keep getting. Peg

Kim, Did you make a typo? If not, Mary Polly Mann was over 120 years old. Edith <still working on this line of Mann from Bedford Va. Searching for the line of Mary Polly Mann who married John Cape Jr. Mary was b.1770 in Bedford and died 1891 in Washington MO.Thanks for any help on this line...kim>

> > > >> SORRY >> >> DIDN'T MEAN TO UPSET ANYONE THE MESSAGE CAME TO ME . >> >> I WAS JUST TRYING TO HELP EVERYONE OUT. >> >> SOME OF US ARE NOT AS SMART AS THE REST. >> >> PATTI > > > > SORRY > > DIDN'T MEAN TO UPSET ANYONE THE MESSAGE CAME TO ME . > > I WAS JUST TRYING TO HELP EVERYONE OUT. > > SOME OF US ARE NOT AS SMART AS THE REST. > > PATTI

Just passing this infor along in case no one had heard Patti dlang4d@juno.com wrote: > Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:41:02 PST > > WARNING Message from IBM > > If you receive an e-mail titiled..JOIN THE CREW/for PENPALS > DO NOT open it! It will erase EVERYTHING on your hard drive! > Send this letter out to as many people as you can. This is a new virus > and > not many people know about it! This information was received this morning > by IBM. > Please share it with anyone that might access the internet!! > > PENPAL appears to be a friendly letter asking you if you are > interested in a penpal, but by the time you read this letter it is TOO > late. > > The Trojan horse virus will have already infected the boot sector of your > hard drive, destroying all the data present. It is a self-replicating > virus, and once the message is read it will AUTOMATICALLY forward itself > to > anyone who's e-mail address is present in your box! > This virus will destroy your hard drive and holds the potential to > DESTROY > the hard drive of anyone whose mail is in your box and whose mail is in > their box and so on and on! > > So delete any message titled PENPAL or JOIN THE CREW. This virus can do > major DAMAGE to worldwide networks! > > PLEASE PASS THIS ALONG TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND PEOPLE IN YOUR MAILBOXES. > AOL HAS SAID THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS VIRUS AND THERE IS > NO REMEDY FOR THIS. > FORWARD IT TO ALL YOUR ON-LINE FRIENDS A.S.A.P.! > > >Wyoming State Governor's Office > > ___________________________________________________________________ > You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. > Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html > or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > GENEALOGY list for Latter-day Saint Genealogists > Please be good to each other. No copyrighted material, please. For help, > visit our website first, at http://www.ldscn.com/, then email help@ldscn.com.

I am searching for bells cast by the HEDDERLY family and hung in various churches and courthouses around the NC/VA line. The bells in Hillsboro' and Raleigh NC were hung around 1805. Thomas HEDDERLY married Ann HUDDLESTON ca. 1834, probably from Bedford Co. and they settled first in Mecklenburg Co. and later in Halifax Co. Any reference to this name and/or bells of this period gratefully received. John Hedderly hedderly@jrc.nl Petten, The Netherlands

Donna, Yes....This is the line I am also researching. My wife is related to Henry(?) Wilkes (we think that is his name), brother of Samuel, sons of John Wilkes, Sr. b., abt. 1736, d. Aft. 1795 in Oglethorpe Co. Georgia, m. to Elizabeth Mead. Lots of info on the Meads. Quite a bit on Wilkes. Sorry about the previous e-mail....read it and replied before reading your next one. John

Donna, Thanks for the reply but my Wilkes came to VA via Pennsylvania via England. John

Searching for these surnames in Bedford Co. Am willing to share information. Carol

John WARD appears on the Bedford Co., Va. tax list for the years of 1782-1788. Does anyone have the names of his children? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Carol

Are you talking about: Samuel Wilkes b. abt. 1764 in Loudon Co.,Va d. 1837 in Bedford Co.,V. married Elizabeth Newman on July 9, 1783 in Bedford Co.,Va. Children: Benjamin Wilkes b. abt. 1787 in Lauderdale Co., AL. died 1843 in AL, married Polly Foster in Bedford Co.,Va. Elizabath W. Sally W. John Wilkes m. Susanna Rider on 1/18/1815 in Bedford Co.,V. Israel W. Henry Wilkes m. Judiah Dowdy on May 24, 1824 in Bedford Co.,Va. Franci W. Thomas Wilkes m. Betsy Morris on 1/5/1811 in Bedford Co.,VA. Samuel Newman Wilkes I am searching this line, my h usband is of the Benjamin and Polly Foster line. Thanks, Donna

Any information on the PHELPS surname, especially John Phelps who died in Bedford County, Virginia, in 1747 and Thomas Phelps who was born in Bedford County around 1690, would be greatly appreciated. Doris M. Phelps

I am looking for the parents and the wife of Edward ARMES who was born about 1750. He lived for many years in Bedford Co. and had 10 children, many of whom moved on to TN and KY. Ferol

I am seeking information on a Whittington family who lived in Bedford County in the mid-1700s. A Thomas Whittington was born in 1740 in London, England and died in 1831 in Bedford County. He married a Martha (no last name known) in 1760 in Bedford County, VA The descendents of this particular Whittington family migrated to what is now Putnam County WV in the early 1800s. CJ Livesay Clarence J.(C.J.) Livesay Director, Engineering Career Services University of Virginia (804) 982-2132 phone (804) 924-7913 fax http://www.virginia.edu/~oecs

1/5/99 6 a.m. PST Dear Fellow Wright Researchers: My first and second efforts to send this email on January 3 seem to have failed and so I am trying again. If you receive multiple copies of this message, my apologies. Hopefully, this will go through. Bob Grant << Start of Forwarded message via Prodigy Mail >> From: (RNGrant) BOB GRANT Subject: Wright Land Records, Bedford Co., VA Date: 01/03 Time: 08:29 PM To Fellow Wright Researchers: My first email seems to have disappeared into cyberspace and so I am writing again. And since this is going to the Wright, Bedford, Franklin, Roanoke, and Montgomery mailing lists, you may receive multiple copies. Wright Family Land Records, Bedford County, Virginia, is now available from Heritage Books. This work (by me) lists all surveys, patent deeds, land grants, and grant deeds for Bedford County that name a Wright for the period from formation of the county until 1900. The listings are in chronological order and include the book and page number, date, parties, and type of instrument. There is also an identification column which lists the known Wright ancestors of the person named in the document. Almost all of the documents have at least one ancestor listed. The arrangement is similar to the Wright Birth and Marriage records previously published by Heritage. Heritage Books can be reached at: www.HeritageBooks.com Heritage Books, Inc. 1540-E Pointer Ridge Place Bowie, Maryland 20716 Phone: 1-800-398-7709 Fax: 1-800-276-1760 Best wishes, Robert N. Grant 15 Campo Bello Court Menlo Park, CA 94025 <Internet Distribution List> TO: GoT1124@aol.com TO: aasberry@aol.com TO: briley@wku.campus.mci.net TO: rbonner@rex.re.uokhsc.edu TO: nodwar@inconnect.com TO: vabedfor-l@rootsweb.com TO: bhorton@cyberback.com TO: bdudek@flash.net TO: bcgp@webtv.net TO: Ravenholt@aol.com TO: brivers@ktis.net TO: BillBrink@aol.com TO: WTClark@concentric.net TO: joybill@norfolk.infi.net TO: bill@lanfri.com TO: rfdavid@aol.com TO: RLeit71361@aol.com TO: boverstreet@ci.everett.wa.us TO: wstaffor@swva.net TO: cbenskin@ktis.net TO: Caroljef@aol.com TO: CRaeSchutt@aol.com TO: ericsonbooks@inu.net TO: pmitchell@ala.net TO: irkiddin@aol.com TO: I2luvlucy@aol.com TO: clenard@email.msn.com TO: etc@tidalwave.net TO: dhwright@dnvr.uswest.net TO: doubleugly@SkyBest.com TO: davidrob@earthlink.net TO: reader@kc.net TO: dw150641@omail.eee.org TO: DeeSmith@pacbell.com TO: djdavis@psnw.com TO: n8de@thepoint.net TO: DRowe85608@aol.com TO: Foxhunt@colum.mindspring.com TO: emoyhbo@glenmar.com TO: eabassett@aol.com TO: fslaven1@juno.com TO: vafrankl-l@rootsweb.com TO: wwfred@future.atlcom.net TO: fspradlin@delphi.com TO: shelby@accinternet.com TO: greg@network-it.com TO: Howie1@whitemtns.com TO: hprice8965@aol.com TO: hkhart@evansville.net TO: tmassey@cswnet.com TO: VJyizit@aol.com TO: jbwright@twcny.rr.com TO: ejeco@worldnet.att.net TO: jjordan2@ix.netcom.com TO: JR007089@aol.com TO: jhs1964@gte.net TO: rebel2@erols.com TO: jbass@digital.net TO: ktanner@worldnet.att.net TO: jdmm@roanoke.infi.net TO: kbullard@bullardintl.com TO: KSue847@worldnet.att.net TO: FredRikko@aol.com TO: dutches216@aol.com TO: hmeans@cmc.net TO: kminnix@shelby.net TO: lhazmateer@aol.com TO: lpeters@cen.com TO: Libbie@prodigy.net TO: rcunning@mail.neocomm.net TO: ljohns@isgroup.net TO: shorb@oct-country.com TO: lisamcbrid@aol.com TO: MaddyRich@aol.com TO: sysite@hal-pc.org TO: malcolm.basham@chrysalis.org TO: ronquil2@email.msn.com TO: medmunds@mounet.com TO: m.myers@juno.com TO: MChaney514@aol.com TO: marycelinescott@worldnet.att.net TO: cyclops@mail.doitnow.com TO: milfordKKirby@compuserve.com TO: vamontgo-l@rootsweb.com TO: lk4rts@aros.net TO: NanSicotte@aol.com TO: olgenny@ramlink.net TO: BuchfinckN@aol.com TO: ndeane@aol.com TO: NL_Payne@msn.com TO: pamstone@digital.net TO: paune@aol.com TO: patelder@preferred.com TO: pinkone@cyberconch.com TO: varoanok-l@rootsweb.com TO: rthomas@intermediatn.net TO: zadok@concentric.net TO: ssantient@aol.com TO: dewey_nolan@msn.com TO: sdwatts@infoave.net TO: boernebabe@aol.com TO: VA-Southside-L@rootsweb.com TO: czar@freedomnet.com TO: suzieEMT@aol.com TO: swright@barney.iocc.com TO: ttharpe@netunlimited.net TO: t_dallas@wesnet.com TO: princef@monmouth.com TO: tashrout@aol.com TO: tbuck@pacbell.net TO: mosbcg@alltel.net TO: vhull@aol.com TO: jwholzba@richmond.infi.net TO: Wright_Wayne@BAH.com TO: Wright-L@rootsweb.com <Distribution List> (GENU13A), KATHI ABENDROTH (GKJH08B), MARLENE COLEMAN (RNGRANT), BOB GRANT << End of Forwarded message >> <Prodigy Distribution List> TO: RNGRANT

Hello Doris and Bedford Co. VA researchers. I'm a desc. of: John Phelps I (m. Margaret), will dated Feb 14 1747 & proved March 1747 Goochland Co. VA, who are prob. the John & Margaret Phelps (Felps) on record earlier in Henrico Co. VA with land patents 1725/1731 -- through their son: Col. John Phelps II, Gentleman (m. Mary), member House of Burgesses, Capt., later Col. in Fr.-Ind. War, tax collector/road commisioner, Justice of Courts for Lunenburg/Bedford Co.'s VA; through their son: Lieut. John Phelps III, Rev. War (m. 1. Jemima Turner (my ancestor, her parents unkn.); m. 2. Susannah Younger, dau. John Younger & Ann Moss); through their son: John Phelps IV (was prob. in Franklin Co. VA military unit, may have d. War of 1812, but unproved), d. intestate c. 1815, estate 1815-1818 Franklin Co.; (m. 1. unkn. who was my ancestor "mystery lady"; m. 2. Mary "Polly" Ferguson, sister of my ancestor Moses Ferguson b.1794 m. Sophia Phelps, dau. John Phelps IV. Mary "Polly" Ferguson & Moses Ferguson were 2 of 11 children of John Ferguson Jr. d. 1828/29 intestate Franklin Co. (owned plantations in both Bedford/Franklin Co.'s; his Bedford Co. plantation was adjacent to Haynes and Young families). Wife of John Ferguson Jr. unkn. (she was also my ancestor "mystery lady", mother of 11 children, but no mention of her anywhere in death records of children). Children of John Phelps IV (plantation on south side of Staunton River, on Franklin Co. side): (by 1st unkn. wife): Mary "Polly" Phelps m. John K. Ferguson, to Monroe Co. KY (son of John Ferguson Jr. d. 1828/29); Susannah Phelps m. Christopher "Kit" Board, to Hart Co. KY; Nancy Phelps m. James Hooper Burnett, of Bedford Co. VA; and Sophia "Sophie" Sophronia Phelps b. 1793, m. 1815 Moses Ferguson (see above) who were my ggg-grandparents of Franklin Co. VA and Monroe Co. KY. Children of John Phelps IV & 2nd wife Mary "Polly" Ferguson: Richard T. Phelps m. Bethany Ellis Thurman, to Phelps Plantation, Lawson's Bottom, Cumberland Co. KY; Evaline Phelps m. Samuel Arrington of Franklin Co. VA; and Permelia "Milly" Phelps m. William G. Heptinstall. Let me know if I can further confuse anyone! Christie Ferguson Cirone ChristieFC@aol.com

Lois, I have a Judah Dowdy b. abt. 1790-1800 m. Henry Wilkes in Bedford Co., VA on May 24, 1824. This is all I know of her. John -----Original Message----- From: LSmith5071@aol.com <LSmith5071@aol.com> To: VABEDFOR-L@rootsweb.com <VABEDFOR-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, January 02, 1999 7:16 PM Subject: Dowdy surname >Hi All, > >I'm trying to tie my Cumberland/Buckingham Co., Va. surname (my maiden name) >Dowdy to the Dowdys of Bedford Co., Va. I've collected alot of Bedford Dowdys >and several times I believed I had a connection; but turned out to be wrong. >Has anyone made such a connection? Would appreciate comparing notes. > >Thanks, >Lois Smith > > >==== VABEDFOR Mailing List ==== >There is no way to temporarily suspend receiving messages from this >list. You must follow the instructions to unsubscribe, then to >resume, send the subscribe message. > >

Sharon, I don't have anymore info than what I sent before. My wife's line is in the Wilkes, so I haven't spent much time looking at the Newmans. If anyone else can help, it would be appreciated. Looking for Wilkes Mead John -----Original Message----- From: Sharon Fakkema <sis@was.net> To: John Engdahl <jengdahl@ethergate.com> Date: Saturday, January 02, 1999 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Our Surnames Again >John, > >Is your Elizabeth Newman by any chance from same family as Dorothy >Newman? Mh ggg-grandfather married a Dorothy Newman in 1770. > >Sharon >