In a message dated 11/21/01 5:53:49 PM Central Standard Time, VanetteHobbs writes: I have a Sarah Anglen m. to Joseph Spencer, Jr. I don't have locations; have his birth date as 1778, but his father Joseph Charles was b. 1738 in VA and died > in Poor Valley, Lee Co., in 1837. Could she be one of yours, and do you > have any better information than I do? > > Vanette Hobbs Hamilton ===================================== Vanette and Lee Co. Listers, Late last night, I pulled out my JOHN ANGLIN file folder and looked through it. What little I found raises more questions than it answers! In "The Tennessee Civil War Veterans Questionnaires Vol. II Confederate Soldiers" (Caldwell - Fuston), I found a form returned by a William Henry BLACKBURN, Burns, Dickson Co., TN. I have no idea who he was, but under question # "43. Maiden name in full of your mother:" he wrote Sarah Anglin, and "(nothing more)." Under (42) father's name, he gave, "Thomas C. Blackburn; (born) near Lebanon, Wilson Co., Tenn. ... (He lived at Cross Roads)" As I apparently failed to copy the entire list of questions (in a separate place in the book, apart from the veterans' answers) -- and this was some years ago -- some of his answers now are somewhat confusing! But he apparently stated that, "Mother owned 7 (slaves) for about 3 or 4 months before the war broke out." (These slaves apparently were an inheritance.) I have photocopies of John ANGLIN's will (dated 1814) and of (John's son?) Abner ANGLIN's will, date uncertain, possibly 1814, also, and of a couple of indentures. In one, dated 1808, Richard HYDEN "appointed John Anglin of said county (Lee Co., VA) my lawful attorney to act & do the same as I myself could in respect to a certain tract of Land on Wallens Creek," etc. The other, dated in April, 1820, is "between John Anglin (Jr.?) of the one part and Samuel Daugherty of the other both of the county of Lee and state of Virginia, " etc. (and also names "Polly his wife"). Naomi Hopperstad (naomihopperstad@aol.com)