If you ever get the Brammers straightened out, I'll personally buy the champaigne! At 10:20 AM 10/7/98 -0700, you wrote: >At 02:36 AM 10/7/98 -0400, you wrote: >> >>Barb, >>Is Nelson MORAN, father of Mary MORAN who married Edward WOOD, same as Nelson >>MORAN husband of Nancy BRAMMER? The MORANs confuse the daylights out of me! >>Ha! > >> >>Barb, many thanks for all that you do and share with the rest of us!!! >> >>Another question...who was Fannie BRAMMER, second wife of Richard "Dickey" >>WOOD? >>"History of Floyd County," p. 263. Richard "Dickey" WOOD was born in 1769 >and >>died at the top of Woods Gap in Patrick County, Virginia in 1859, aged 90 >>years. He married, first, Rachel COCKRAM, daughter of Edward COCKRAM, Sr.; >>secondly, Fannie BRAMMER, no children; thirdly, Betsey DEHART, four children; >>fourthly, Lucy VIA, six children." >> >>Edward WOOD, husband of Mary MORAN, was a son of Dickey WOOD and his first >>wife, Rachel COCKRAM/COCHRAN. Rachel and Dickey were the parents of "Alex" >>(Patrick Alexander) WOOD...he married Bethany BRAMMER...my direct line. >> >>Just trying to fill in the gaps. It's so convoluted! Ha!!! >> >>Many thanks! >>Lainie Hendrix >>El Paso, TX >> ===================================== >NELSON MORAN DID MARRY NANCY BRAMMER >SEPT. 11, 1839 IN PATRICK CO. (SOURCE: "MARRIAGES OF PATRICK CO., VA.") >BUT I DON'T HAVE ANY CHILDREN LISTED FOR THEM. THIS WAS THE 2ND MARRIAGE >FOR NANCY. > >IN THIS SAME BOOK NANCY'S FIRST MARRIAGE IS LISTED AS: > >SEPT. 8, 1823 - >RICHARD WOOD & NANCY (FANNIE) BRAMMER. SUR. JOHN >BRAMMER. MINISTER STEPHEN HUBBARD. >MARRIAGE RECORDED SEPT. 9, 1823 > >THIS IS GETTING REALLY COMPLICATED AND I NEED TO >GET IT ALL TOGETHER!! IF HER 1ST HUSBAND, RICHARD WOOD, >DIDN'T DIE UNTIL 1859 THEN SHE DIDN'T MARRY NELSON MORAN >IN 1839. I'LL HAVE TO TRY TO FIGURE THIS OUT AND GET BACK TO YOU. I >REALLY NEED TO SEE THE MARRIAGE BONDS FOR MYSELF! IF YOU COME UP WITH >ANYTHING PLEASE LET ME KNOW. > >Barb S. > > > Shelby Hubbard Puckett spuckett@bgsm.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your relatives." ;^> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------