This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.virginia.counties.culpeper/2900.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: There is one (and only one) post on the Internet about a Henry Brown and his wife Elizabeth who were supposedly the parents of four Brown sons in Middlesex Co., VA in the real early 1700s. One of those four men is shown in that post as "Gaffield" Brown (born 1707), but some have questioned if that was actually "Garfield" Brown. As I recall, one or two other records that I found on the Internet show that this Henry Brown was supposedly married to an Elizabeth Coleman, but we KNOW that a different man named Daniel Brown (from Essex Co., VA) was married to an Elizabeth Coleman. As such, it is unclear if the above Henry Brown was REALLY married to an Elizabeth Coleman, and it also unclear if this Brown family in Middlesex was "blood related" to the "Essex Co., VA Brown family" (which also had several men in it named Henry Brown). The above-mentioned Daniel and Elizabeth (Coleman) Brown from Essex Co., VA moved to the Spotsylvania/Orange Co., VA area that became Culpepper Co.! , VA, so some connection to your Garfield Brown is at least possible, it would seem. Do you have any idea if the above "Gaffield" Brown in Middlesex was actually the same man as your "Garfield" Brown? Is there a living Brown male in Garfield's line who would/could join the Brown DNA testing project (we finally have a known representative from the "Essex Browns" currently in that testing project to whom such a man's results could be compared). Thanks!

I have no information on Garfield Brown prior to 1742. He is mentioned in Louisa county several times in the 1742 - 1746 time frame. I find him next in Culpeper county and dying there in 1796. In the past I checked with the Library of Virginia regarding Gaffield possibly being Garfield. They stated the name on the revolutionary records were clearly for Gaffield. I did find that the records for Carfield Brown were clearly for Garfield. As far as a "living" male descendant goes, I am a direct descendant of Garfield. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 8:08 AM Subject: Re: [VACULPEP] Information on Armstead or Armistead Brown > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.virginia.counties.culpeper/2900.2.1.1/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > There is one (and only one) post on the Internet about a Henry Brown and > his wife Elizabeth who were supposedly the parents of four Brown sons in > Middlesex Co., VA in the real early 1700s. One of those four men is shown > in that post as "Gaffield" Brown (born 1707), but some have questioned if > that was actually "Garfield" Brown. As I recall, one or two other records > that I found on the Internet show that this Henry Brown was supposedly > married to an Elizabeth Coleman, but we KNOW that a different man named > Daniel Brown (from Essex Co., VA) was married to an Elizabeth Coleman. As > such, it is unclear if the above Henry Brown was REALLY married to an > Elizabeth Coleman, and it also unclear if this Brown family in Middlesex > was "blood related" to the "Essex Co., VA Brown family" (which also had > several men in it named Henry Brown). The above-mentioned Daniel and > Elizabeth (Coleman) Brown from Essex Co., VA moved to the > Spotsylvania/Orange Co., VA area that became Culpepper Co.! > , VA, so some connection to your Garfield Brown is at least possible, it > would seem. > > Do you have any idea if the above "Gaffield" Brown in Middlesex was > actually the same man as your "Garfield" Brown? Is there a living Brown > male in Garfield's line who would/could join the Brown DNA testing project > (we finally have a known representative from the "Essex Browns" currently > in that testing project to whom such a man's results could be compared). > Thanks! > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Found this site for Rev War Pension applications. Noted that a Charles Allen of Culpeper is listed. Lee Hash http://southerncampaign.org/pen

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Davis Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.virginia.counties.culpeper/2332.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My son-in-law is of this family. contact me [email protected]

If you are interested in the Alexandria Library - Obit Index to the Alexandria [VA] Gazette 1916 - 1946 go to: _http://www.alexandria.lib.va.us/lhsc_genealogy_resources/obits/obits.html_ (http://www.alexandria.lib.va.us/lhsc_genealogy_resources/obits/obits.html)

I see this: ROY L RICHARDSON 11 Oct 1949 03 Oct 2000 (V) 22737 (Rixeyville, Culpeper, VA) (none specified) 146-38-3045 New Jersey I suspect he is the son of Roy Lambert RICHARDSON born 1908-1909 in England, but who lived in New Jersey, and who was the first husband of my mother. They were divorced within the year of their marriage (1943). The obit likely would tell me more. Can you obtain it, or do you know of this fellow? Thanks! Vince Summers Nelson County, Virginia

Hello Bob, I only got to see the last 15 minutes of the show, but during that time, they did identify the owner of her ancestors, and provided a photo of the man. A local fellow led the researchers to a black cemetery where he thought they might find some evidence of a Black Winfrey buried there, and they did. Without locating the specific grave of Oprah's direct ancestor, they could suppose that her family would have been buried in that grave site. I did not write down the name of the Winfrey fellow who supposedly owned Oprah's ancestor, so I cannot provide that. I imagine that the information will be available on the internet by now. Best regards. John Fox Winston Salem, NC Bebe and John Fox Researching Virginia and North Carolina Families -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 9:19 AM Subject: Re: [VACULPEP] Oprah is not Zulu Is there any information on Oprah's ancestors' Winfrey owners? I have a few odd Winfreys in my tree. They married into my Payne and Woodson lines. Bob Juch http://www.Juch.org ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more.

On the show, I believe they identified the owner as Absolem Winfrey who died in about 1903. They had a photo of him and his family just before he died. Apparently, Absolem supported Constantine, Oprah's ancestor, in his bid for freedom and land-ownership.

Is there any information on Oprah's ancestors' Winfrey owners? I have a few odd Winfreys in my tree. They married into my Payne and Woodson lines. Bob Juch http://www.Juch.org

Henry Louis Gates and Oprah Winfrey continue their quest to discover the full history of her ancestors' struggles and accomplishments. The quest showcases Winfrey's family legacy and showed how census and slave holder's property records can help locate ancestors PBS two-part series "African American Lives” (airing 9 to 11 p.m. Feb. 1 and 8) is stored on your TiVo as a permanent reference guide, as host Dr. Henry Louis Gates meticulously explains the process of tracing one's family heritage back to its roots in Africa using as examples eight prominent black Americans, including Oprah Winfrey and Bishop T.D. Jakes. "There’s been a great dispute in Africa over which tribe I belong to," Jakes told a group of journalists at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour held in Pasadena, CA earlier this month. "So this dispels any myths. And it is impacting on a very deep way to fill in those blanks." Jakes - who has done extensive philanthropic work in Africa and confirmed through Gates that his people come from the Ebo tribe - joins Winfrey and fellow subjects Whoopi Goldberg, former NASA astronaut Mae Jemison, composer Quincy Jones, neurosurgeon Ben Carson, author Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot and Chris Tucker as the lucky few assisted by Gates in tracing their roots "We know that there were only 500,000 Africans from the United States," Gates told the critics. "We know where they came from and we know the ports that they came from and we know that 50 percent - if you do a DNA test for the black people in this room, half of you are from an ethnic group between Senegal and Sierra Leone. That's called the Windward Coast. Sixteen percent are from the Biafra, the name of the independent republic of Eboland, and 26 percent are from Angola. Two percent are from Mozambique. It's very fascinating." You won't find a more moving moment on television next month than Oprah Winfrey collapsing in tears after being handed a deed between a white Mississippi landowner named Watson, and one of her ancestors, a freed slave named Constantine Winfrey. Gates somehow got hold of the deed, signed by Oprah's second- or third-great-grandfather, in which he is granted so many acres of land in exchange for picking what amounted to 5,000 pounds of cotton in a given period of time. "If I got anonymous people, you all would've watched. My students would have watched, but the core group that would watch Quincy Jones or watch T.D. Jakes or watch Oprah only, they wouldn’t watch," Gates told the critics, explaining his reasons for selecting only well-known blacks for the series. "So I wanted a scientist, Dr. Jameson. Ben Carson was my classmate at Yale. He's the chief of pediatric neurosurgery down at John's Hopkins. He was the first surgeon successfully to separate Siamese twins joined at the brain." Gates said the celebrities were used to seduce young black kids into the pursuit of their own genealogies. "It’s one thing to hear a lecture about the double helix and Watson and Crick. It's another thing learning that if you swab yourself 20 times on each cheek, in three weeks, somebody will send you back a card saying, Your ancestor came from Nigeria, and more specifically from the Ebo people, says Gates of a new program offering buyers of a DNA kit a chance to mail in their swabs and pinpoint their origin. "Who wants dusty old research in dusty old archives? If you could produce your lineage back to slavery, back to the American Revolution, wouldn't that be more compelling? I think that that's what we've been able to achieve.”" Chris Tucker, whose roots were traced back to a tribe of Africans in Angola, was the only one of Gates’ eight to actually travel to the birthplace of his ancestors. "I thought what a hoot to take Chris to Angola, and I'd never been to Angola," Gates said. On the African American side, Tucker’s great-grandfather owned a lot of property in Georgia and a community called Flat Rock. Noting that the blacks in Flat Rock mysteriously stayed put during the great migration north, Gates discovered through property records that Tucker's great-grandfather was selling off acreage in Flat Rock at 80 and 100 acres a pop to area blacks Gates said he found more about Oprah's ancestors in slavery than any of the other seven subjects, and less about her African ancestry because her genetic signature is very common in West Africa, "so we couldn't pinpoint the tribe or ethnic group,”"adds Gates. He does know enough about Oprah's African lineage to declare that the talk show host, despite her previous announcement on one of her shows, is not Zulu. "None of us are Zulu," Gates affirmed. "There are no African Americans who come from the Zulu people.”" He says Winfrey's family was traced back five generations in the South by finding the wills of the white people who owned her family, as well as property tax information and estate division records. “We found Adam," Winfrey's fourth great-grandfather who was ten years old in 1852. Her second or third great grandfather, Constantine Winfrey, was a former slave listed in the 1870 census as "illiterate," but in 1880, he is classified as "literate.”" "So he mastered literacy," notes Gates. "In 1876, Constantine Winfrey goes to this man (Watson) and says, If I pick 80 bales of cotton in a certain period of time for you, you will give me 80 acres of land," and the man does. We give Oprah the deed that Constantine Winfrey gets in 1881 from this man, presenting him with 80 acres of land. I mean it's astonishing.”" Gates also handed Whoopi Goldberg a petition filed by her family in Florida under the Southern Homestead Act, which got them 104 acres of land in Florida. "Never again will '40 acres and a mule, the Southern Homestead Act, the complexity of black people in Alabama and Mississippi - never again will I approach those subjects and not think of these individual cases," says Gates. "You could read black history books from here to Timbuktu and you won't find a story like that."

Don, You may want to take a look at this. Maxine

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When AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES premiered on PBS in February 2006, audiences and critics nationwide were especially drawn to the powerfully moving discussions between renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., series host and executive producer, and TV pioneer/philanthropist Oprah Winfrey. In OPRAH S ROOTS, Professor Gates and Ms. Winfrey continue their quest to discover the full history of her ancestors struggles and accomplishments. The program builds on previously unseen portions of their original interview and will present the dramatic results of Ms. Winfrey s genetic analysis. This fascinating quest of OPRAH S ROOTS will not only showcase Ms. Winfrey s family legacy, but also show viewers how census and slave holder s property records can help locate their own ancestors. Tonight at 8:00 Pm on PBS TV

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jett Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.virginia.counties.culpeper/2008.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Do you have any info on a Jesse or Jessee Jett in your records. I have read where he had a "beloved brother" named James. My g-grandfather Jesse or Jessee was born around 1776 in Va and died in Spotsylvania in 1863 or so. I find him on the Westmoreland County tax records and the Spotsylvania Co court records. But I have also seen a "Jesse Jett" on will records in regards to a William Jett. Have been told he may have brothers named Taliaferro and Weedon. Just asking because of the James Jett reference here. Thanks.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.virginia.counties.culpeper/4476/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Searching for info on Melvin Barbour Hansbrough born ca. 1851 in Culpeper Co. VA. Melvin was living with his mother Sarah in the 1870 census. He was living with his sister Sarah Lyle and her family in the 1880 Culpeper, Virginia census and is listed as Town Sgt Elect. I would also like to know the name and addresses of the newspapers in Culpeper and Catalpa Virginia. Please contact me at [email protected] Thank you, Cathy S. Phillips

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.virginia.counties.culpeper/4475/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am trying to locate information on Melvin Barbour Hansbrough born ca. 1851 in Culpeper VA. He was the Town Sgt Elect on the 1880 Culpeper Va census. I would also like to know if anyone has the name and address of the Culpeper, Va or Catalpa, Va newspapers. Please contact me at [email protected] Thank you, Cathy S. Phillips

Is there anyone out there who goes regularly to the Culpeper County Courthouse? Please contact me privately. Thanks Nancy

Looking for information on John Hoffman (1741 - 1790) I think he was married to Margaret J. He was in the Rev War. Any idea where he moved to? When? Thank you, Joyce Hoffman (Lyons) Heigel

June: Thanks very much for the information. Otha H "Skeet" Vaughan Jr On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:50:51 EST, [email protected] wrote : > > Charlotte County is located in south-central Virginia. The Roanoke/Staunton > River and Buggs Island Lake form the county's southwestern boundary. The area > is known for its strong agricultural heritage and its rich forest resources. > The county is located 90 miles southwest of Richmond, the state capital; 192 > miles southwest of Washington, D.C.; and 98 miles northeast of Raleigh, N.C. > June > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VACULPEP- [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >

Lee: Thanks very much for the information. My man Griffin moved to SC sometime after he married and they had a son Branch born around 1812 I believe in Va. Is there a Griffin Vaughan and family in the Va 1820 census? Otha H "Sket" Vaughan Jr On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:27:17 EST, [email protected] wrote : > > find Griffin Vaughn married to Elizabeth Mathews 8/2/1809. In Charlotte > Co, Va. ALSO a Griffin Mathews married Sally Lee 2/16/1823 in Granr Ky AND > a > Griffin Mathews married Hulda Jane McCullock 12/16/1847 in Grant Co. Ky > Lee Hash > Culpeper, Va. > > > > > > > I checked my 1850 Kentucky census for Grant Co. adding to the above sent by > Lee Hash. There is a Griffin Vaughn and Griffin Vaughn Jr. and Jonathan > Vaughn all heads of household. They spell on the census Vaughn not Vaughan. Good > Luck... > June > > Household 563 > Griffin Vaughn age 53 born in Virginia > Sarah " 53 Virginia [this must > be Sally Lee, aka for Sarah] > Sarah " 22 KY > Nancy 20 KY > Elizabeth 18 KY > Polly 15 KY > Cornelius 12 KY > > Household # 564 > Johathan Vaughn 26 > Averella " 20 wife > > Household # 566 Everyone in household born in KY > Griffin Vaughan Jr. 24 > Hulda " 20 wife > ____ Taylor Vaughn 1 male maybe Zacheria hard to read > Leesley P. Prunell 7 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VACULPEP- [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >