I am looking for information on a Mike Lane Georgel who may have had a restaurant in Roanoke Rapids, NC around 1920. We believed he was Greek because of family rumors and because his son's birth certificate indicates that is father, Mike Lane Georgel, was born in Gries. Another Georgel found that Gries is a place in Alsace Loraine, France so we're curious to know what this all means. We have been told by older members of our family that Georgel was shortened from Georgelous. Mike may have married Emma Eatrice Blick Edwards (from Greensville Co., VA, buried in Petersburg, VA) around 1922. Emma is the widow of Charles Maxie Edwards who is buried in Ebony, Brunswick County, VA. Emma and Charles had 2 children, Newton Maxie and Mildred Lucille. Emma and Mike had 1 child, Mary Ruth. They were all given the Georgel surname but Mary Ruth spells her last name Georgell. They seem to have floated between Brunswick Co, Dinwiddie and Roanoke Rapids, NC. Mike at one point may have owned a restaurant in Roanoke Rapids and was friends with a man named 'Pipenchello' or something that sounds like that that ran the Navigator's Den in Hopewell, VA. Thank you, Elizabeth