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