Ruby, You truly are a GEM! Thanks SO much!! Sheri ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 12:34 AM Subject: Re: [VABUCKIN] Toney/Dunkum/Newton families of Buckingham Co, VA > In a message dated 12/11/01 11:27:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > > Edmund Toney & wife Mary ?....who were Edmund's parents? > > Did they have any other children besides Pleasant F. Toney b. Abt. 1810 > > d.12/5/1890 married Sarah B. Harvey > > Pleasant F. TONEY had a sister named Martha Ann TONEY who married Woodson R. > NEWTON as his first wife. His 2nd wife was Jane W. DUNEVANT who he married 3 > Oct 1863. Woodson R. NEWTON was the s/o Charles NEWTON & Nancy WOODSON. > > > > > Willis Wade Newton & wife Nancy Catherine Guthrie...who were Willis' > > parents? > > > Willis Wade NEWTON's parents were Edwin NEWTON & Mary Anna DUNCAN > > > John Asa Dunkum line....would like to know more going further back...have > > his father as Benjamin Dunkum b. 1772, and Benjamin's father as John Dunkum, > > Sr.b. 12/28/1748, and John's father as Benjamin Duncomb...where did the > > Duncomb come from? (In most cases, when the spelling of the name changed it > > was when they came to America from elsewhere..would like to know where > > family comes from) > > > > This family has been traced back to Thomas DUNCOMB b abt 1663. He married > Joyce PICKETT who died and left a will in Stafford Co, VA. The name is found > spelled various ways DUNCOMBE, DUNCOMB, etc. The first one who spelled it as > DUNKUM was John DUNKUM who was born in Stafford Co, VA 28 Dec 1748 and moved > to Cumberland Co, VA where he died. We know he chose to spell it as DUNKUM > because a letter that he wrote has survived. I have an idea as to why he > decided to change the spelling but it is just my guess. It was deliberate > and not a case of the clerk at a courthouse or a census taker misspelling the > name. > > Ruby Talley Smith > > > > > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=702&sourceid=1237 >