Who were Samuel Light's brothers? You may want to check death record in the counties where they lived (Virginia began keeping them in 1853), there is no gurantee their deaths were recorded, but if they were possible their parent's names and place of birth were included. At 10:52 AM 12/27/98 -0500, you wrote: >Thanks to everyone who replied to my question about the Light family >and the location of Poor House Creek. I do have information about the >descendants of Samuel J. Light, it's just Samuel himself that's being >very elusive. All of his children list their birthplace as Patrick Co. >but there is very little information about Samuel in Patrick Co >records, so I'm having to piece things together. Samuel J. Light >appears on Patrick tax records once, in 1816. I have found no deeds in >his name, but there is one reference to his property in a deed recorded >by his son, James Andrew Light. Now, I have found an obscure reference >to his home on Poor House Creek written on the back of an old photo. > I do not have birth or death information for Samuel, but he was >most probably born in the 1790s and died 1830s or later. There is some >information about him in records in Washington Co, he had two brothers >who lived in Montgomery (which later became Floyd) Co. > So, if anyone finds any references to this early Samuel J. >Light, please let me know. Thanks for your help. > Peggy Light (in Pennsylvania) > >

Thanks to everyone who replied to my question about the Light family and the location of Poor House Creek. I do have information about the descendants of Samuel J. Light, it's just Samuel himself that's being very elusive. All of his children list their birthplace as Patrick Co. but there is very little information about Samuel in Patrick Co records, so I'm having to piece things together. Samuel J. Light appears on Patrick tax records once, in 1816. I have found no deeds in his name, but there is one reference to his property in a deed recorded by his son, James Andrew Light. Now, I have found an obscure reference to his home on Poor House Creek written on the back of an old photo. I do not have birth or death information for Samuel, but he was most probably born in the 1790s and died 1830s or later. There is some information about him in records in Washington Co, he had two brothers who lived in Montgomery (which later became Floyd) Co. So, if anyone finds any references to this early Samuel J. Light, please let me know. Thanks for your help. Peggy Light (in Pennsylvania)

Sarah Midkiff Agnew, has submited to the Patrick Co., Va. Archives, John Midkiff's Application For Veteran's Benefits. Application Statement This document can be viewed at this url. ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/patrick/military/midkiff.txt Mary Hudson mahud@rollanet.org USGenWeb cc Hickory Co. MO. http://www.rootsweb.com/~mohickor/hickory.htm USGenWeb cc Mississippi Co. MO http://www.rootsweb.com/~momissis/ USGenWeb cc Van Buren TN http://www.tngenweb.org/vanburen/ USGenWeb cc Patrick Co. VA. http://www.rootsweb.com/~vapatric/ USGenWeb cc Colbert Co. AL. http://www.rootsweb.com/~alcolber/colbert.htm Personal Home pages http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/3597 http://www.rollanet.org/~mahud/index.html

The Boyd Family has posted their upcoming Family reunions on the Patrick County Home Page, All reunions in Patrick County are invited to post here. http://www.rootsweb.com/~vapatric/ Mary Hudson mahud@rollanet.org USGenWeb cc Patrick Co. VA. http://www.rootsweb.com/~vapatric/ Personal Home pages http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/3597 http://www.rollanet.org/~mahud/index.html

Looking for info on the following Hendricks family members: Richard D Hendricks b. abt 1839, d. 1927 m. Mary Victoria Deatherage. Lilburn Hendricks Wallace Hendricks Myrtle Hendricks Abraham Russell Hendricks Mary Elizabeth Hendricks William Nettis Hendricks Sampson Octavious Hendricks Ella Hendricks Thanks, Joyce I am a NC reunited adoptee. http://members.aol.com/joyrn60000/nurse.html http://members.aol.com/joyrn60000/gene.html (GENEALOGY)

If you do not have this book, let me know and I will send you all that is in it on Lights. write me at rosejoy@mindspring.com --Joyce At 07:59 PM 12/26/98 -0600, you wrote: >Joseph T Light, b. 8 Feb 1858, d. 23 Nov 1929 >Julina Light (wife) b. 18 may 1864, d. 10 May 1937. >Patrick Co...(Pilson's book of Cemeteries of Patrick Co. > >Joyce > >I am a NC reunited adoptee. >http://members.aol.com/joyrn60000/nurse.html >http://members.aol.com/joyrn60000/gene.html (GENEALOGY) > > > I am a NC reunited adoptee. http://members.aol.com/joyrn60000/nurse.html http://members.aol.com/joyrn60000/gene.html (GENEALOGY)

Joseph T Light, b. 8 Feb 1858, d. 23 Nov 1929 Julina Light (wife) b. 18 may 1864, d. 10 May 1937. Patrick Co...(Pilson's book of Cemeteries of Patrick Co. Joyce I am a NC reunited adoptee. http://members.aol.com/joyrn60000/nurse.html http://members.aol.com/joyrn60000/gene.html (GENEALOGY)

P. Light wrote: > > As I posted earlier, I am searching for information concerning my > g-g-g-grandfather, Samuel Jackson Light, who lived in Patrick County in > the early 1800s. He has been very difficult to pin down, but I just > received some information that leads me to believe that his home may > have been on Poor House Creek. Does anyone know where this is or have > any information about Light families who may have lived in that area? > Thanks for your help. > Peggy Light > > ==== VAPATRIC Mailing List ==== > Patrick County, Virginia Home Page > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vapatric/ Peggy, According to the map that I have, Poor House Creek runs just East of Stuart, between North Mayo and Brushey Fork. The beginning of it could be around Poor Mtn. on Rt. 58 out from the Meadows of Dan. I can scan a copy of the map if you wish. Let me know. I have no info on the Lights. Sorry. Jack

>From Patrick Co Death records James Light W/M age 83 d 7-30-1896 s/o Samuel & Sally Light informant Lucinda Light ---------- From: P. Light <plight@fsi.net> To: VAPATRIC-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Poor House Creek Date: Saturday, December 26, 1998 7:31 PM As I posted earlier, I am searching for information concerning my g-g-g-grandfather, Samuel Jackson Light, who lived in Patrick County in the early 1800s. He has been very difficult to pin down, but I just received some information that leads me to believe that his home may have been on Poor House Creek. Does anyone know where this is or have any information about Light families who may have lived in that area? Thanks for your help. Peggy Light ==== VAPATRIC Mailing List ==== Patrick County, Virginia Home Page http://www.rootsweb.com/~vapatric/

As I posted earlier, I am searching for information concerning my g-g-g-grandfather, Samuel Jackson Light, who lived in Patrick County in the early 1800s. He has been very difficult to pin down, but I just received some information that leads me to believe that his home may have been on Poor House Creek. Does anyone know where this is or have any information about Light families who may have lived in that area? Thanks for your help. Peggy Light

Barb, Thank you for the Christmas wish and I hope you have a wonderful New Year. Cindy ---------- > From: Barb Stanley <bobnroa@pipeline.com> > To: VAPATRIC-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Merry Christmas! > Date: Thursday, December 24, 1998 5:00 PM > > > > A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU!!! > > Barb S.

Patrick County List Subscribers - In response to my post a few days ago about Rootsweb's financial "crisis" and Rootsweb's value to us there have been many inquiries about how to "connect" with Rootsweb. Rather than trying to continue to reply personally and individually to these inquiries here's the site to obtain this Rootsweb "subscription/contribution" information: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html For AOL subscribers here's a clickable direct link: <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html"> Rootsweb Subscription</A> For us "into genealogy" the ancestor who, what, when and where is the core and bottom line of our task. Judging from the tone of responses to my post it appears many Rootsweb list subscribers have no idea of the Rootsweb who, what, when and where. It might be helpful and appropriate if our list owner/ moderat/facilitator could provide us a Rootsweb "resume/vita" (supplied by Rootsweb) with this information. Only with this information can we fully appreciate Rootsweb's immeasurable value to us "list subscribers." Thanks for your time and my best to all. John Tallman Lookout Mountain, TN Rootsweb Donor

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU!!! Barb S.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND LOOK FORWARD TO FINDING ALL THOSE RECORDS IN 1999 Mary Hudson mahud@rollanet.org http://www.tngenweb.org/vanburen/ USGenWeb cc Patrick Co. VA.

Hi Folks - I subscribe to about twenty other Rootsweb genealogical discussion lists and have at times subscribed to as many as thirty. The services provided by Rootsweb at no cost to its subscribers invaluable. If something happened to Rootsweb what would happen to us? Where would we be? What would we do? I was there with Maiser at Indiana University when the lists were killed and was there when Rootsweb saved the lists with resurrection. I've learned through a couple of other lists to which I subscribe that the financial situation with Rootsweb is precarious. Rootsweb is not a "corporate America" operation but a real "mom and pop living above the store" outfit. Mom and Pop support us in our genealogical search, research and networking. Isn't it time we supported Mom and Pop! I wonder how many users of Rootsweb services really understand and fully appreciate what's being done for us at no charge. Although there's no charge that certainly doesn't mean there's no cost. Who pays this cost? It seems no more than 2-4% of the users of Rootsweb services contribute to its operation. I don't see how Karen (Mom) and Brian (Pop) are able to do it. I understand they have just personally borrowed some $25,000.00 to keep Rootsweb operation going for us. It seems we have thousands and thousands dancing but few paying the fiddler. Folks, that's just not right! I have no connection with Rootsweb other than that of a very grateful user of its services who strongly and sincerely believes "if I want to dance you should pay the fiddler." I'd certainly appreciate an update from our listowner as to the situation at Rootsweb. John Tallman Lookout Mountain, Tennessee Rootsweb Donor

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_914191225_boundary Content-ID: <0_914191225@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII In a message dated 12/20/98 9:30:54 AM Central Standard Time, bobert@panacom.com writes: > > --part0_914191225_boundary Content-ID: <0_914191225@inet_out.mail.panacom.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <VAROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from relay07.mx.aol.com (relay07.mail.aol.com [172.31.109.7]) by air10.mail.aol.com (v53.29) with SMTP; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 10:30:54 -0500 Received: from bl-30.rootsweb.com (bl-30.rootsweb.com [207.113.245.30]) by relay07.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id KAA05982; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 10:28:20 -0500 (EST) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-30.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA06999; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 07:26:28 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 07:26:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <016801be2bfa$c95100e0$1efb8dcf@oemcomputer> From: "bobert" <bobert@panacom.com> Old-To: "VAROOTS" <VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 09:12:40 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Subject: [VAROOTS-L] "NEW" VIRGINIA DATA DONATED Resent-Message-ID: <"W48JDC.A.NtB.jcRf2"@bl-30.rootsweb.com> To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/814 X-Loop: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: VAROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Dear Seekers in/of Virginia data, You may be interested in this msg. - forwarding it from another list. Happ= y Holidays! Shirley: bobert@panacom.com Posted on a newsgroup: ******* There was an interesting story in today's Washington Post written by Sylvi= a Moreno, Washington Post Staff Writer, entitled, "Historic Land Records Deeded to Fairfax, Documents Found in Alexandria Include Transactions Dating to 17th Century". The article is too long to type out, but here are the highlights: An Alexandria lawyer has donated thousands of old Fairfax County land records to the county government, which will make them available to the public. The 23,000 files were moved this week from the law office of Bernard Corbett to the Fairfax County courthouse. The collection includes about 20,000 files on individual properties and 3,000 files on subdivisions. These files will be catalogued by the Fairfax County court clerk's office, and those of historical significance will be set aside in a special collection at the courthouse. Corbett said he plans to donate to the City of Alexandria another 18,000 files covering property transfers in the Old Town area. That donation will occur in another year or two, after city officials have come up with the space to store and display the documents. -------- If any of you belong to a Virginia genealogical list, please forward this to them. I am not doing any Virginia research and do not belong to such a list. Margaret demarco@ix.netcom.com ----------------------------------------------- =3D=3D=3D=3D VAROOTS Mailing List =3D=3D=3D=3D VAROOTS-L ARCHIVES: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl To POST MESSAGES: VAROO= TS- L@rootsweb.com To UNSUBSCRIBE: VAROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com or VAROOTS-D= - request@rootsweb.com --part0_914191225_boundary--

In a message dated 98-12-17 02:13:49 EST, you write: << #2 Scott Williams Webmaster,Sterling Price Camp, No. 145Civil War >> I can also wholeheartedly recommend Scott Williams site above. It's just wonderful, especially the poem written by A.W. Slayback. Here's the link to the webpage: <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/~sterlingprice/">Sterling Price Camp, No. 145 SCV</A> Deanna

Hi Cuzins, Exciting news from Bedford County! The following is part of an email I received from our Cuzin Richard Burnett in Bedford, Virginia. If you don't know how Williamson Burnett fits into our family tree, please email me. I'm more than happy to send you the information. If anyone has thoughts on attending PLEASE let me know. I'll get you any/all information you need on motels, etc. Sounds like a perfect time for us Burnett researchers to have ourselves a reunion of sorts. Lots of Burnett cuzins in this area and I think I can easily convince one of them to take us to all the grave sites, etc. *Grin* Let me know what yall think. Cuzin Waddie http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3348/ ---------------------------------------- Did I tell you the ceremony for Williamson Burnett has been approved by The DAR? It is scheduled for April 22,1999 at 11:00 A.M. on the grounds of Staunton Baptist Church near Smith Mountain State park. Mark the date on your calendar, I know you will want to attend.

#1 Captives of Indians #2 Scott Williams Webmaster,Sterling Price Camp, No. 145Civil War #3 Search for a Town USGenWeb cc Patrick Co. VA. http://www.rootsweb.com/~vapatric/ Mary Hudson mahud@rollanet.org USGenWeb cc Hickory Co. MO. http://www.rootsweb.com/~mohickor/hickory.htm USGenWeb cc Mississippi Co. MO http://www.rootsweb.com/~momissis/ USGenWeb cc Van Buren TN http://www.tngenweb.org/vanburen/ USGenWeb cc Patrick Co. VA. http://www.rootsweb.com/~vapatric/ USGenWeb cc Colbert Co. AL. http://www.rootsweb.com/~alcolber/colbert.htm Personal Home pages http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/3597 http://www.rollanet.org/~mahud/index.html

At 12:38 AM 12/16/98 -0500, you wrote: >Hello, > >Where is your HOLLINGSWORTH family and what appoximate time period?  Mine >are basically from North Carolina. > >Diane Diane: After five years of research, I cannot find where our Moore line originated.  I can only go back to John Moore b. abt 1815 d. between 1850 and 1854.  He m. Mary Barnhouse Sept. 10, 1835 in Randolph Co. (W) VA. As far as I know our Moore's are not related to the Hollandsworths.  Our Hollandsworth line starts with Valentine Hollingsworth who came over from Ireland in 1682.  Some of them migrated to NC and SC and into VA and then into OH and IN.  Our Thomas Hollandsworth lived in Patrick Co., VA but we believe he had land in SC because we found a land deed in which he gives land to his brothers that he has inherited from his father, Joseph Hollingsworth who was married to Martha Houghton.  Thomas was b. abt 1730 or 1735.  He d. bef 1835 in Patrick Co. VA.  He m. Susannah MAYSE dau/o Henry MAYSE.  If you have further questions, do not hesitate to ask.  Ann MOore >cassidymarie@juno.com >On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 15:36:49 -0600 amoore@networksplus.net (Ann Moore) >writes: >>I am not really new to this list but I might run through my surnames >>again >>just in case some new people don't know them:  >>HOLLINGSWORTH/HOLLANDSWORTH, >>SMALLMAN, HARRIS, STOW,MAYSE/MAYS,PURDY >> >>Ann Moore >>5209 SW 32nd Ter. >>Topeka, KS  66614-4014 >>amoore@networksplus.net >> >> > >___________________________________________________________________ >You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. >Get completely free e-mail from Juno at <http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html>http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html >or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] > Ann Moore 5209 SW 32nd Ter. Topeka, KS 66614-4014 amoore@networksplus.net