In a message dated 4/24/98 5:33:35 AM, you wrote: <<Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 19:48:28 -0400 From: jrclineb@earthlink.net To: VABOTETO-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980423194828.0069ea9c@earthlink.net> Subject: Carper/Sovain Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello, This is my first post to this list. At least two of my ancestors married in Botetourt County. Give me a holler if these people are in your lines. :) Isaac Carper 20 May 1797 Botetourt Co., VA to Susannah Sovain -----signature----- Joe Clinebell Knightdale, NC >> Joe, I had this family in my file and I am posting it both to you and to the list for all to see. Hope this helps. Karen Kessler Cottrill West Virginia Kessler/Kesler Family Historian Husband: Isaac CARPER Birth: 1777 Place: MD Death: 31 Aug 1838 Burial: Place: Methodist Cem., Fincastle, VA Father: Jacob CARPER (-1826) Mother: Mary PECK (1755-1825) Marriage: 25 May 1797 Place: Botetourt Co., VA Wife: Susannah SOVAIN Birth: 1774 Death: 13 Aug 1844 Father: Abraham SOVAIN (-1805) Mother: Lydia UNKNOWN Children... 1. F Child: Lydia CARPER Birth: 31 Mar 1798 Death: 6 Aug 1876 Burial: Place: Summers Co., WV Spouse: Uriah GARTEN Marriage: 21 Nov 1816 Place: Monroe Co., VA 2. M Child: Jacob CARPER Birth: 10 Nov 1799 Death: 8 Sep 1863 Burial: Place: Pisgah Church, Tunnel Hill, Talcott, WV Spouse: Rachel PINKNEY Marriage: 6 May 1819 Place: Monroe Co., VA-- No Issue 3. M Child: Joseph W. CARPER Birth: 27 Dec 1802 Place: Botetourt Co., VA Death: 9 Feb 1880 Burial: Place: Grandview, Raleigh Co., WV Occupation: Farmer, Tanner, Gunsmith, Monroe & Raleigh Co., VA Spouse: Virginia Jane SHUMATE Marriage: 6 Sep 1824 Place: Monroe Co., VA 4. F Child: Mary CARPER Birth: 19 Apr 1804 Nickname: Polly Spouse: Elijah GARTEN Marriage: 4 Aug 1823 Place: Monroe Co., VA 5. F Child: Hester CARPER Birth: 17 Nov 1806 Death: 1810 6. F Child: Linnie CARPER Birth: 12 Dec 1809 Death: 12 Dec 1809 7. M Child: William Mendenhall CARPER Birth: 26 Aug 1810 Death: 2 Dec 1861/1866 Burial: Place: Methodist Church Cem., Botetourt Co., VA Spouse: Jane SNYDER Marriage: 10 Oct 1832 Place: Botetourt Co., VA 8. F Child: Nancy A. CARPER Birth: 12 May 1813 Spouse: John S. BURGH Marriage: 24 Aug 1831 Place: Monroe Co., VA 9. M Child: Isaac CARPER Jr. Birth: 1 May 1815 Death: 4 Aug 1887 Burial: Place: Newbern, VA Spouse: Charlotte SNYDER Marriage: 30 Oct 1833 Place: Botetourt Co., VA Spouse: Elizabeth HANEY Marriage: 7 Jul 1838 Place: Botetourt Co., VA 10. M Child: John CARPER Birth: 30 Sep 1819 11. M Child: Patterson Hanna CARPER Birth: 22 Oct 1821 Death: 1888/1889 Spouse: Letha Ann WOODS Marriage: 9 Feb 1847 Place: Monroe Co., VA Husbands Notes... Notes: They resided many years in Monroe Co., VA and finally returned to Botetourt Co. VA. Research: >From Peck Pioneers, Feb 1995 Vol XIII pg. 93. Taken from Genealogy of Joseph Peck and some Related Families, including the Bordens, the Carpers, the McClures, the Fowles, the Clays, the Meeks, the Winters, the Chapmans, the Molletts, the Grovers, the Staffords, the Osbornes, by George Braden Roberts, Washington, DC, 1955. >From the Peck Family, Descendants of Jacob and Lydia (Borden) Peck, published by Jesse William Peck Sr. Clifton Forge, VA in 1958 pg 10 Birthdates for the first eight children of this family taken from the old Carper family Bible by O.H. Carper. Bible, at the time, was in the possession of Mrs. Florence Carper Mullen of Roanoke, VA. Wifes Notes... Notes: She was German. Research: Some information on this family from the "Smith-Riffe Collection of the New River Genealogy and History. A monumental work began in the mid 1930's by Aubrey O. Smith and Judge Winton A. Riffe and was a collection that delt with 207 families who do or have resided in the counties bordering the New River in WV and western VA, and several others, including Wyoming and Boone Co., WV. The collection was transfered to 16 reels of 35mm microfilm by the Genealogical Socitey of Utah in 1979 and is available in numerous libraries and archives, such as the Raleigh Co. Library, Beckley, WV; WV Archives and History Library, Charleston, WV; Library of VA, Richmond, VA; Roanoke Public Library, Roanoke, VA; DAR Library, Washington, DC.---portions of this collection was repeated in the "News Notes", the newsletter of the Fayette & Raleigh Co., WV Genealogical Society Winter 1996 Vol.13 No.4 pg 28 Please report corrections or additions to... Karen Kessler Cottrill 458 Delaware Ave. Egg Harbor Township, N.J. 08234-5906 fax 609-927-5108, kesslerwv@aol.com