Jim wrote: "Would it be possible to divide up the indexing..." I was just about to suggest the same thing, so I think it's a great idea, Jim. Perhaps the VALEE list members could do this with 2 aims: -- to post it on the proposed corrections & addenda website and --as a gift to the Lee County Historical Society, that they could print and sell for researchers who don't go the computer route. I've done research with both volumes, & know that there are a LOT of names per square inch. But I'd still volunteer to do a fixed amount of pages. It would make the books an even more valuable resource-- once you start making connections, you can keep going! Pat H.
BTW, Aremnta Wells as daughter of John Sturgill and Jemima Wells is doubtful. born ca. 1857/58 Marsil in the land of Aliens, UFO's and Weather balloons. We love Aliens. They taste just like chicken.
John Sturgill-born 1779 in Grayson,Va. died;1867-Allegheny; N. C.Buried in Big Stone Gap,Va. Marriage 1799; Grayson, Va. Jemina wells; born 1782 N.C. died-march 15,1856, in Letcher Co. Ky. 1-Dau Sturgill-1799 2-David Sturgill-1800 my family line 3-Abigail;Sturgill- Nov.30,1801 4-DauSturgill-; 1805 5-Solomon Sturgill-1805 6-Francis Sturgill-1808 7-Andrew Sturgill-July 2,1810 8-Sarah Sturgill-1812 9-Rachel Sturgill-1816 10-Nancy Sturgill-1818 11-Elizabeth Sturgill-March 5,1823 12-Agnes Sturgill-April 8, 1825 13-Mary Ann Sturgill-1827 This is what I have on John Sturgill and Jemina Wells
One of my members of Creech Country had this list of children for Jemima Wells and John Sturgill; John was shown as the son of Frances Sturgill and Rebecca Hash Child 1: David #13368 Child 9: Joseph #13374 Child 2: Abagail #13369 Child 10: Elizabeth #13375 Child 3: daughter #13370 Child 11: AGnes #13376 Child 4: Frances #154 Child 12: Armenta #13377 Child 5: Andrew #13288 Child 6: Sarah #13371 Child 7: Rachel #13372 Child 8: Nancy #13373 Frances (#154) is shown married to Ruth Gilley;their daughter Clarinda was married to Felix Gilbert Creech 17 Mar 1853/ If you are interested, I have the children of Clarinda and Felix Gilbert Creech. Marsil in NM Marsil in the land of Aliens, UFO's and Weather balloons. We love Aliens. They taste just like chicken.
That is also a good ideal. If a web page would be the best route than web page it should be. I know another county has done a lot like we are talking about and I think they have freepages at rootsweb I am willing to help but it would have to be from my home. I have to care for my mother who is 83. But there must be something I can help with. Shirley Sutton Bragg
Hi Judy, Well, I had Mortimer married to Nancy Wells and he was not. He was married to Elizabeth Wells Shepherd. Marsil in NM ----- Original Message ----- From: <JMSSHHILLS@aol.com> To: <VALEE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 4:13 AM Subject: Re: [VALEE] oops > In what way is this wrong? > Judy > > > ==== VALEE Mailing List ==== > Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email at <ladyaudris@earthlink.net>. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >
Sunn Jammers wrote: Me too, Sheryl. I also have Youngs and Barnes married into my lines......I'm so excited......can't wait.....Wanda Brewer Shepherd
Wanda E mail me if you don't care I can't find your addy and I think I put it in my book. Shirley Sutton Bragg Shirley B
Allright, Carol. I'll be in line too!! That's great news.....Wanda Braydic@aol.com wrote: > Hi All, > Just a quick note. I have been trying off and on for several years to > get the families who own the copyrights to the 2 vols of "Early Settlers Of > Lee County Virginia" to allow them to be reprinted. They always replyed with > a no. The families own the copyright for 75 years from the death of the > authors and do not have to allow them to be reprinted. I am very pleased to > hear that the Lee County Genealogical Society has finally gotten permission > to have these wonderful books reprinted. >
Marian, That is a real good ideal, I am sure that when others hear about it they would be glad to order. I have heard about this book for a long time and I don't want to be dead before it hits the market. Our Cousin wrote one just plain genealogy and grouped the families and the orders paid for the printing for this family was a very big one. Shirley Sutton Bragg
That is a wonderful offer folks, I am excited about the books being reprinted as my family was early settlers of VA. I want the books with are without the corrections. Has anyone worked out the details of the cost and how many to reprint? Sometimes Local Universities will print for nothing but the money from the book for as long as the debt stands they will take and then the rest goes to Whoever, I assume the Historical Society. If there are enough copies spoken for to pay the debt of reprinting of the book than where does the rest go? There is a lot of things to be worked out concerning the reprint and everyone should be thinking about this, also it will not be an over night thing. I think you might be looking at a year or longer. Shirley Sutton Bragg
I will donate my time and money to pay for a dedicated web site for corrections to the Early Settlers of Lee County, Va. books. Let's have the books reprinted as is and appreciate the books for what they are and why they were originally written. Again, I am offering to pay for a dedicated web site including the fees for the domain name for five years for all corrections that need to be added to the books. I will donate my time to code and upload the information. I am like a child on the outside of the new candy store in town on opening day. Waiting for the doors to fling open so I can purchase the most wonderful and wanted item in the neighborhood. Let the corrections be sent to the Lee County Historical Society and let them forward the information so that the senders address can be kept private. We have a few months to work out the details on how the corrections will be listed. For all that are this list, please know that my offer stands as good as my name. Anyone else willing to take on the job of coding and uploading the information? Sheryl Young Barnes Newark, Ohio sunnjammers@alltel.net (you may have to retype sunnjammers@alltel.net in the "TO" box)
There's been a lot of traffic on this subject and I'm adding my two cents worth. Would it be possible to divide up the indexing among several individuals with one individual having overall responsibility for collating? Jim
Perhaps when the Society can get a good figure on the reprinting of these books they could set a pre-publication price and start taking orders. This way they would be guaranteed the money to pay for the expense of the reprint. From the interest on this board it sounds to me like they will have a good market for them. Marian
Hi All, Just a quick note. I have been trying off and on for several years to get the families who own the copyrights to the 2 vols of "Early Settlers Of Lee County Virginia" to allow them to be reprinted. They always replyed with a no. The families own the copyright for 75 years from the death of the authors and do not have to allow them to be reprinted. I am very pleased to hear that the Lee County Genealogical Society has finally gotten permission to have these wonderful books reprinted. I realize there are a number of errors in them, but as one person said "an Early Settlers book with errors is better than NO book." For those who have never seen these books, like many genealogy books they were compiled from information that was sent to the authors and were done long before computers, and word processing programs (which make editing so much easier) were around. There are over 1,300 pages. Can you imagine trying to verify all that info without a computer? A monumental task in the least. The reason I am writing this is I have been reading many complaints being voiced over and over wanting the reprints to be corrected. First off, when a book is reprinted, you can not alter the ORIGINAL WORK. It belongs to the authors. Even their descendants can not alter the books. The only way a corrected copy could be done is to write totally NEW books. The suggestion that someone set up a site where corrected information could be submitted is an excellent idea, though an extremly large task to undertake. Maybe if that was done someone could have an addenum printed in the future. An index would be nice, but who's going to go through 1,300 pages and put one together? Even it would have to be printed separated from the original books. Well, enough of my ramblings. I know I will be in line to get a reprinted copy when they are released. Carol Brown Braydic@aol.com "I Think That I Shall Never See, A Finished Genealogy"
Since this information is Genealogical in nature I feel we could get a free web space at RootsWeb. The correction written by Frances Lockwood referes to the original page and then lists the correction information. I think the least expensive way to get these correction out to the world is a web page dedicated to them. These corrections should contain sources as to why the original data is incorrect and to prove the new information. It sounds to me that there many corrections. I am lucky enought to have obtained a copy of this set of books last years and can help identify pages which the new correct apply. >From: "Sunn Jammers" <sunnjammers@alltel.net> >Reply-To: VALEE-L@rootsweb.com >To: VALEE-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [VALEE] web site for corrections to the Early Settlers Book >Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 23:00:14 -0400 > >I will donate my time and money to pay for a dedicated web site for >corrections to the Early Settlers of Lee County, Va. books. Let's have the >books reprinted as is and appreciate the books for what they are and why >they were originally written. Again, I am offering to pay for a dedicated >web site including the fees for the domain name for five years for all >corrections that need to be added to the books. I will donate my time to >code and upload the information. > >I am like a child on the outside of the new candy store in town on opening >day. Waiting for the doors to fling open so I can purchase the most >wonderful and wanted item in the neighborhood. > >Let the corrections be sent to the Lee County Historical Society and let >them forward the information so that the senders address can be kept >private. We have a few months to work out the details on how the >corrections will be listed. > >For all that are this list, please know that my offer stands as good as my >name. Anyone else willing to take on the job of coding and uploading the >information? > >Sheryl Young Barnes >Newark, Ohio >sunnjammers@alltel.net >(you may have to retype sunnjammers@alltel.net in the "TO" box) > > > > >==== VALEE Mailing List ==== >Please avoid flaming (attacking) any single person or the group. This >infraction will earn you immediate removal from the list. > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > Char Anne charanne3red@hotmail.com Personal Web Page (contains Ancestors, Descendants Pictures and other special links) http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~redfield/index.html _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
Does anyone know anything about the Blackwater Salt Works? Apparently, the area had been owned by one person originally. In 1819 Elisha Rogers is deed 12 2/3a on Blackwaters salt works. In 1820 I noticed that Jesse G. Rainey owned 24 3/4a on Blackwaters salt works. There must be others who own the other sections. This salt works is in Lee Co. and is not to be confused with Saltville, VA and the saltworks near Marion. Is there any mention in deeds other than these or in books? Thanks. Eleanor
Hi Robert, If you don't care, could you list the children of Jemima and John Sturgill. I would appreciate it. Thanks! Sheila ----- Original Message ----- From: gordon justice <rjust78@bellsouth.net> To: <VALEE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 2:08 AM Subject: Re: [VALEE] Shepard/Wells > HI MELVA > > I READING THE EMAIL ON VALLEE;L AND NOTICE THAT YOU ALL > WAS TALKING ABOUT ZACHARIAH AND ABIGAIL OSBORNE. I HAVE TWELVE CHILDREN > LISTED FOR ZACHARIAH AND ABIGAIL, > MY LINE IS THROUGH JEMINA WELLS, WHO MARRIED JOHN STURGILL. MY LINE IS > THROUGH THE STURGILLS. AND ALSO HAVE BOGGS LISTED IN MY FAMILY TREE. > ROBERT GORDON JUSTICE > ROGERSVILLE,TN. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Melva Pearce" <candlemaker@kih.net> > To: <VALEE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 9:32 AM > Subject: Re: [VALEE] Shepard/Wells > > > > I show 4 more children for Zachariah and Abigail Osborne Wells: > > > > Margaret "Peggy" Wells m. John Creech II > > John P. Wells > > Joseph Wells > > Sarah Wells m. William C. Shepherd > > > > Thomas Wells and Rebecca Blevins are my 4th g grandparents and my 5th g > > uncle/aunt. > > > > Melva Boggs-Pearce > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <JMSSHHILLS@aol.com> > > To: <VALEE-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 12:35 PM > > Subject: [VALEE] Shepard/Wells > > > > > > > Sheila, > > > This is the Wells family I am referring to. The Zachariah you referred > to > > > who married Rebecca Shepard would have been my William Wells' uncle. > The > > > Zachariahs and Williams get really tricky in this family. > > > > > > My descendants are: > > > 1-Zachariah Wells m. Abigail Osborne > > > 2-William Wells m-Susan Ward > > > 3-William S. Wells m. Mary (Mary Ann) Shepard. The only > > parent > > > listed on > > > the marr lic is Nancy Shepard. > > > > > > According to my records, Zachariah and Abigail Osborne Wells had the > > > following Children: > > > 1-William Wells m. Susan Ward > > > 2-Thomas Wells m. Rebecca Blevins > > > 3-Jeremiah Wells m. Elizabeth Culbertson > > > 4-Robert Wells m. Elizabeth Shepard, dau of James Shepard > > > 5-Zachariah Wells m. Rebecca Shepard > > > 6-Elizabeth Wells m. Thomas Landers > > > 7-Nancy Wells m. John O. Boggs > > > 8-Jemima Wells m. John Sturgill > > > 9-Abigail m. William Landers > > > 10-Jacob Wells m. Johanna Shepard > > > > > > Of Zachariah and Abigail Osbornes children, my records indicate that > > William, > > > Thomas, Jeremiah and Robert all had sons named William. Also, William, > > > Thomas and Zachariah all had sons names Zachariah. As you can see, it > > gets > > > really tricky trying to sort these people out. Also, the Shepard and > > Wells > > > families intermarried a number of times. Therefore, I would have to > > assume > > > the Mary Shepard who married William S. Wells was likely related to some > > of > > > these other Shepards in some way. > > > Judy > > > > > > > > > ==== VALEE Mailing List ==== > > > Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email at > > <ladyaudris@earthlink.net>. > > > > > > ============================== > > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, > > go to: > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > > ==== VALEE Mailing List ==== > > To post messages to the Lee County, VA discussion list, send them to > VALEE-L@rootsweb.com > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ==== VALEE Mailing List ==== > Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email at <ladyaudris@earthlink.net>. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >
In what way is this wrong? Judy
Wanda, Do you know for sure, who Abigail Osborn's parents were? There has been some speculation on that issue on another list I belong to. Judy