Marla, Bird/Byrd family distant kin to me, and the Byrd's Mill family of Glade Hill, Franklin Co., are buried in my cousins front yard....RSVP. Peter Ramsey

Does anyone know the present name of this stream or river? It appears frequently on the tax lists. Many thanks. Marilyn Symonds

Searching the family of Robert Hamlett and wife Elizabeth, with at least one child ..... named Bedford, Buford, Bluford. Don't know of any other kids, but presume there are some. Since Bedford is born somewhere around 1835ish, he may not appear with his parents. Need all the details which are availble on this family on the census. ( Index shows a Hamlett on page 93) Also need a lookup on the Harris family, William is HOH, Jane is wife and children are probably Hiley, Asa, Joseph and Isham. There may be more kids, but I lost the family for about 15 years, so I can't be sure. (Census index indicates a family of Harris's on page 141-142) (Now that I'm looking at that site again. .. Franklin Co. Archives.....I'm not sure if that is the page number or if that is household number. The columns are not captioned at the top.) Any assistance will be greatly appreciated Dusty Smith

Queries posted the past week to this VAGenWeb QueryPage mentioned the following surname(s): AUSTIN, OGLE, PRUITT, ROBBINS For those of you wanting to read these new queries, they are located at URL: <a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafrankl/fran-qry.htm"> http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafrankl/fran-qry.htm </a> Regards, Freddie S. Fspradlin@earthlink.net 3448 W. 170th St, Torrance, CA 90504-2402

Franklin County Historicial Society is pleased to announce we now have a web page. Please go and visit. http://fcheritage.hypermart.net/

Hi Listers A family reunion is being planned in early summer for members of the CARTER family that descends from Isaac CARTER, Lydia NEWSTEAD and Sally REDMAN from Fauquier County, Virginia. Anyone directly related to this line or descending branches, please contact me privately via e-mail at jcart54@aol.com for more information on the upcoming festivities. If you know anyone that might be interested/related that doesn't have access to this list, please e-mail me so that I may contact them. We are looking forward to meeting you all. Happy Searching! Jan Carter Surnames: Carter's , Redman's , Utterback's , Ford's , Kendall ., Bennetts, Coles,

Is anyone aware if a census index for the 1870 Census for Franklin County is available somewhere on-line? Chris Straight Fairchild, WI

Many moons ago, Jon 22, 1997, I made the following post in the Franklin Co. queries. To that post I have had no replies. So, what the heck? I thought I'd give this a try. "Searching for information on Frances FERGUSON b 1810, found living in Franklin Co., VA (1850 census) with her son Joseph FERGUSON who married Elizabeth GRIFFITH, and her daughter Minerva who married John MERRELL. Who is the husband of Frances? What is her maiden name? Is she the same Frances KINNETT who married Jeremiah FERGUSON? Is she the daughter of Zechariah KINNETT? Is she the same Frances FERGUSON found living in Mercer Co. in the 1870 census. " Since this posting, I have hired a professional genealogist to research a few avenues and she cleaned up a couple of misconceptions. I now believe my Frances Ferguson is no way connected to the the Kennetts/Kinnetts. She may be the Frances living in Mercer Co. during the 1870 census, I do not know. I do know that she received money from the Gov. in 1863. In that document, she declared herself a widow. In the 1840 census of Franklin Co. there was only one Ferguson who had the right combination of children's ages to be the father of Joseph, Emily and Minerva and the husband of Frances. He was William Ferguson. In 1863, her son, Joseph, was fighting for the South while his family was living in Tazewell Co.. Her daughter, Emily was married to Daniel Sink and living ??? Minerva married an older widower (20 years her senor) named John Merrell/Morrell and disappeared. I have the marriage records of Joseph, Emily and Minerva. The two girls both list their only parent as Frances Ferguson. Emily was married in 1846 so her father was dead by that time. I believe Elizabeth Griffith, the wife of Joseph was the oldest daughter of John C. Griffith and Martha Griffith the daughter of Daniel Griffith and Alley Sheridan. I can't prove it yet but am working on it. My evidence is that all the known female children still leaves the oldest one unaccounted for, according to the 1840 census. I believe that girl to be my Elizabeth Griffith. (my gg grandmother) My family has been working on this problem since 1943 and still have no answers. I've been wrong on some of my assumption before and I'm sure I'll be wrong again. If anyone has information on this family please contact me at rickw@goodnet.com

Any one intrested in the above mentioned families of Franklin Co that came to Berrien Co.Michigan in the 1830's?????? I need help there in Franklin Co...Need help here in Berrien Co Michigan????? oooO ( ) \ ( Daundra \_ ) budblossum@aol.com

I would be interested in talking to anyone trying to "untangle" the Birds of Franklin County, VA about the year of 1800. Thank you, Marla

Queries posted the past week to this VAGenWeb QueryPage mentioned the following surname(s): BOURNS, BURNS, CRAWFORD, CUTHBERSON, MORROW, RADFORD, WRIGHT For those of you wanting to read these new queries, they are located at URL: <a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafrankl/fran-qry.htm"> http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafrankl/fran-qry.htm </a> Regards, Freddie S. Fspradlin@earthlink.net 3448 W. 170th St, Torrance, CA 90504-2402

Hello list, I would like very much to have some information on the Germantown Brick Church of the Brethren in Rocky Mount, VA., on Route 697. I tried to find the church in Rocky Mount on Rt. 697 in the listing of Brethren Churches, but it was not there. There is also a stone marker in front of the church that bears a plaque with the words: "In Memory of Jacob Miller and William Smith, Founders of The Brethren Faith in Southern Virginia about 1775." Across Rt. 697 is the Brick Church of the Brethren cemetery where many of my relatives are buried. The pastor lives in a house beside the cemetery. I would appreciate it very much if anyone could let me know of any history regarding this church and/or how I might contact the pastor there. Betty Naff Mitchell ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rootsweb Contributor List Owner: NAFF-L@rootsweb.com & NAFF-D@rootsweb.com http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/surnames/ Visit "Our Family" Newsletter Dedicated to MITCHELL Surnames Worldwide http://hometown.aol.com/bjm737/

Can anyone help with more info on the couple here? The info came from FTM CD #403 but I didn't get any further data on location, etc. I don't have the CD myself. Thanks. I would love to find parents or siblings for this John and perhaps connect him to another family I have in my database. Thanks again. 1 John Canterbury b: Bef. 1710 . +Sarah Gurney m: 1718

--part1_4d.23dbb81.26083155_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_4d.23dbb81.26083155_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: Ednamcpher@aol.com From: Ednamcpher@aol.com Full-name: Ednamcpher Message-ID: <ea.321e280.26083016@aol.com> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:53:26 EST Subject: Fwd: Greenwood To: VAFRANKL=L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="part2_4d.23dbb81.26083016_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 61 --part2_4d.23dbb81.26083016_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part2_4d.23dbb81.26083016_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: Ednamcpher@aol.com From: Ednamcpher@aol.com Full-name: Ednamcpher Message-ID: <7d.278b7fe.26082f2d@aol.com> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:49:33 EST Subject: Greenwood To: VAFRANKL-D-request@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 61 My g-g-grandfather Decatur Greenwood was born in Franklin County, VA 1/5/1821. I think his father's name was William. Does anyone have access to an 1830 census that would check to see if there is a Greenwood family listed? Is anyone else researching Greenwoods? Edna --part2_4d.23dbb81.26083016_boundary-- --part1_4d.23dbb81.26083155_boundary--

Attached prior posting to others in effort to learn more about the captioned, and the added query as to Millard Wilburn, and family who lived in Franklin Co., VA., as of 1910 Census. Any information on any or all, would be appreciated. Thank you. Tim Am interested in captioned who may have been daughter of Robert Wilburn, b. abt 1846 Carter Co., Ky. m. to Mary Jane Gollihue 11-29-1868. Children: Willis Willburn, b. abt1873 in Ky. Alice Wilburn b. 05-1875, in Ky. Hermit Wilburn, b. abt 1878 Va. Belle (Jennie B. )Wilburn, b. 07-1880 in OH. (Believed to have been Elizabeth Twnshp, Lawrence Co., OH - however, to-date, no record.) Alice Wilburn, married George Barney and resided next door to James Shaler Gilley m. to Va. Belle Wilburn in Letcher Co., Ky., the latter married in 1899 in WV. Need confirmation as to Va. Belle being sibling as noted, and any other info known about family and her in particular as to birth place, marriage, death and burial would be appreciated. Thank you. Tim Also, do you know anything about Millard L. Wilburn, b. in KY., m. to Emma V. b. in Va., Had one Child - Robert, b. in VA. 1908-09. They lived in Franklin Co., Va., according to 1910 Census, at which time Millard's mother - Mary, age64, b. in KY., was living with them. Also, a James L. Gillie (Gilley/Gilly) was age 5, and a nephew of Millard's living with the. James L. was my father. Did not know of his living with them, following Dad's Mother's death in Feb. 1909 who was Virginia Belle Wilburn, sister to Alice Wilburn, sister of Millard (Hermit). Again, thanks for your assist. Tim

Greetings! I am new to this list, so thought I would briefly introduce my purpose. I am researching my McCormick and Cooper lines which hail from Franklin County. Currently, my primary focus is on my McCormick line. I am searching for more information on the family of William and Elizabeth McCormick. I have no vitals for William and Elizabeth, just records for their sons Charles Berry (born April 1872) and Ballard Preston (born June 1875); both being born in Franklin County. I believe they have a brother Samuel, born in Franklin County in April 1866. Family rumor has it that an illness struck the family, most of the family perished, the house was condemned & burned, and Elizabeth took the remaining children to West Virginia (Putnam County). Any leads are appreciated. Chris Straight Fairchild, WI

Queries posted the past week to this VAGenWeb QueryPage mentioned the following surname(s): AARON, BOWMAN, BOYD, BRIM, BURNHAM, CAPPS, COUCH, CREWS, DAVIDSON, GRAHAM, GUNN, HENSLEY, HOLLOWAY, HOOD, McCARREN, McINTOSH, RULE For those of you wanting to read these new queries, they are located at URL: <a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafrankl/fran-qry.htm"> http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafrankl/fran-qry.htm </a> Regards, Freddie S. Fspradlin@earthlink.net 3448 W. 170th St, Torrance, CA 90504-2402

When the Smith Mountain Dam was built around 1968, there were 44 LEFTWICH graves moved by the Appalachian Power Co. Does anyone have a list of these graves? The Bedford Museum 9 books, but the LEFTWICH list is missing. Does anyone know where they were moved? to which cemetery? I would appreciate any information on this. Thanks, Donna

I would like to know as well because I suspect that there were some Hails in that move as well. Any help would be appreciated. Jean lonnie wrote: > When the Smith Mountain Dam was built around 1968, there were 44 > LEFTWICH graves moved by the Appalachian Power Co. Does anyone have a > list of these graves? The Bedford Museum 9 books, but the LEFTWICH list > is missing. Does anyone know where they were moved? to which cemetery? > > I would appreciate any information on this. > Thanks, Donna

1860 Franklin County, VA. Census S.W. District HH 646 Jno A. Dearing 58 male farmer 2000. 2500. Evelina 58 female Henry 25 male Elizabeth 21 female Laura A. 19 female Julia P. 16 female