Hi all, This is my inagural question on the Pittsy list. My gggf, George J(efferson?) Shelton is listed in Civil War records as 'died January 6, 1916, and buried in the family cemetery in Pittsylvania.' He enlisted at Callands. Does anyone know where the "Shelton Family Cemetery" referred to might be found? His wife, Edney Elizabeth Yeatts, died May 7, 1911; one would presume she was also buried there? His brother, James Eaton Shelton, died in 1861 during the early days of the Civil War, and was brought home for burial. Perhaps also the same place? I would be very interested in knowing if this cemetery, wherever it is, has been indexed. Thank you. Glen Shelton River Ridge LA

Hello Everyone! My name is Michael D. Kendrick, I am looking for information on The Family of William Cuttler Clark (aug 11, 1873-sep 23, 1944) he was married to Mattie Fountain Hensley (dec 1, 1878-Apr 13, 1951) Great Grandpa Clark was a Christian Minister for many years, and was in the Virginia House of Delegates at the time of his death on his second term. I am looking for information on his brothers, sisters, etc. Grandpa Clark was born in Henry County, but later moved to Pittsylvania County. I have tons of information on his children, grand children, great grand children etc. At present I have a new updated version of my GED.COM files which contains the names of 4,413 individuals and 1,502 marriages. I will be happy to share this information with anyone connected in my lines that seam to include almost every family from Pittsylvania County, Virginia. As well as the names listed above, I have lines that go into the Blair, McNealy, Conner, Moore, Hundley, Owens, Philpot, and other families. The main part of my search is the Reynolds, Kendrick, Adkins, Clark lines. Through this wonderful service I have located several cousins that I did not know even existed, So I hope with this new posting, maybe I might be able to find a few more!!! Yours truly, Michael D. Kendrick 10424 Genito Rd. Chesterfield, Virginia 23832 mike58-98@mindspring.com

Get in touch with <vancsoc@juno.com> Someone there can put you in touch with the author about copying from Lineages and sources. MaryLeigh Sheltontree2000@aol.com wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone out there have a copy of the Piedmont Lineages Magazine for > August which published several pages of a transcript from the descendants of > Sarah B. Shelton LaPrade? I was wondering if at all possible If I can get a > copy of the entire transcript along with a complete bibliography to note for > my own sources.? > > I'll be glade to pay for all copies and s&h. > > Please let me know. > MARC E. SHELTON > > ==== VAPITTSY Mailing List ==== > Have spare time? The USGenWeb Census Project needs you! To volunteer or view transcribed censuses, visit http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/census/

Hello, Does anyone out there have a copy of the Piedmont Lineages Magazine for August which published several pages of a transcript from the descendants of Sarah B. Shelton LaPrade? I was wondering if at all possible If I can get a copy of the entire transcript along with a complete bibliography to note for my own sources.? I'll be glade to pay for all copies and s&h. Please let me know. MARC E. SHELTON

Is anyone searching the Worsham family name? I am a descendant of Joshua Worsham b abt 1719 Henrico Co., VA s/o John Worsham & Mary Wynne. Joshua wrote his will 20 Apr 1771 in Pittsylvania Co I descend through his son, Robert b abt 1748 & wife, Ruth Wynne. Robert & Ruth went to Washington Co., VA where he died in 1807 & she died in 1808. I have records of other Worshams of Pittsylvania Co., VA . Dorothy

Virginia, please list the names mentioned in the processioning. Some of my ancestors lived in the area of Bear Creek and Banister River and I would be interested to know if they are listed. Thanks. Bettie

Birth records in VA do not begin until 1853-1896 and then pick up again in 1912. SOME church of England Registers are Extant, but very few. Unfortunately, Camden Parish Register did not survive. At the Rev War outbreak, the Parish vestry ran the minister off as a Tory, and he probably took the Register with him, as it was a record of rites performed by him rather than a church record like Vestry minutes. If you can find a copy of April Miller's Shelton County, you may can find him in this. Not knowing where queries are coming from makes it hard to respond as to what the libraries in the questioners' localities might have in their collections. Bannika@aol.com wrote: > Am looking to verify the birth of Thomas Shelton on July 25, 1802 in Camden > Parish. Parents may be Bennett and Mary Ann Ausling Shelton. Thanks. > > ==== VAPITTSY Mailing List ==== > Only a genealogist regards a step backwards as progress.

There have been questions to the list recently about land processioning. I have transcribed the processioner's report of Frederick Oberthier and Moses Hubbard which was done in Pittsylvania County between the last day of Sept. and the last day of March, 1833/1834. If anyone is interested in a copy I will be glad to send you one. However, it runs 12 pages in a Word doc and is a bit much to paste into an email. I can attach the file to an email for those of you who can receive attachments. It is about 134 KB. It really isn't very exciting reading unless your relatives are there. There are more trees involved than there are people and after a while your eyes begin to cross and roll back in your head. So, if you would like to know whether or not you have relatives involved in the process before you ask for the file, I can paste lists of the people to an email and send them to you. There are the people whose land is actually processioned, people who were not necessarily the land owners but accompanied the processioners, and people who are mentioned within the descriptions of the land because they had property in the area. In all there are about 190 names. It's possible some of them are duplicates because if the land belonged to "William Cox" and "Wm. H. Cox" was present at the processioning I didn't assume they were the same one. I have left the abbreviations and spelling of the words as they were for the most part. And of course the transcription is always subject to my misinterpretations and mistakes. I would like to try to plot the location of my relatives, but so far haven't gotten around to doing that. I don't know where a lot of the landmarks are and can't find them on the maps I have. So once you get the description you are on your own. I can tell you that the area is west of Chatham, around Bearskin Creek and the Banister River, over to the Henry County line. It was the bounds of Frederick Oberthier's Company of Militia. Virginia Baxter jbaxter@myriad.net

If anyone can confirm the birth of Thomas Shelton, I would like to know if they have any information on George Washington Shelton, brother of Thomas Shelton. Thanks in advance for you help. Kathy Shelton Dexter kenshel@ecsis.net ---------- > From: Bannika@aol.com > To: VAPITTSY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [VAPITTSY-L] Camden Parish > Date: Monday, March 06, 2000 5:37 AM > > Am looking to verify the birth of Thomas Shelton on July 25, 1802 in Camden > Parish. Parents may be Bennett and Mary Ann Ausling Shelton. Thanks. > > > ==== VAPITTSY Mailing List ==== > Only a genealogist regards a step backwards as progress.

Dear Dennis, I am happy to share the Terry connections I have. In the 1824 time period in Todd Co, KY Robert Jefferson Terry married Rebecca Keesee. Robert was born 1800 the son of a former resident of Halifax Co, VA. Nathaniel Terry and his wife Ann Thompson Terry. In 1852 Nathaniel Terry a widower returned to Pittsy Co, from Smith Co., TN and married Mary Ann Keesee. In 1870 in Pittsy Co., Sally G. Terry married Peyton Keesee. Sally was the dau/ of the above named Nathaniel and Sarah Bennett Terry of Smith Co, Tn........ In the 1880 census of Halifax Co, Nathaniel (a Beekeeper) is living with Peyton and Sally Terry Keesee. Nathaniel had 3 dau and a son by Sarah Bennett, I do not know of any children of the second marriage. His son William G. Terry may have stayed in TN. The Bennett family in Smith Co, TN, came from Southside Virginia. The dau (because of their age) probaly returned with their father and married in Pittsy or Hfx. If anyone is interested and comes off of these lines, I can continue the Terry lines further back. Would be interested in decendants out of the above lines. regards, Margie Brown

Am looking to verify the birth of Thomas Shelton on July 25, 1802 in Camden Parish. Parents may be Bennett and Mary Ann Ausling Shelton. Thanks.

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------1E1CE00F9FC992055044F8FE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tom is right on his definition of processioners. A representative of the land on both sides of the lines had to accompany the processioners appointed by the vestry as they physically remarked "the cherry tree in the corner." etc. If there was a disagreement about the line during the "procession," it was arbitrated. Lines going undisputed for a period of years (I believe it was three processionings) were considered to be "set." This is why in the Vestry books, the processioners reports include the names of the people who accompanied them along the line. In King William Co, arson destroyed most of the courthouse and its records in 1885, so the court ordered a "processioning" of the land to reestablish land ownership in the records with the deed books gone. This was how I learned my gr-grandfather had died between 1880 (census) and 1885 processioning of Henry Viar's "estate." Processioning provided a better view of the neighborhood because we don't know how the census wandered around, but we do know from processioners, whose land is next to whose. MaryLeigh --------------1E1CE00F9FC992055044F8FE Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <VAPITTSY-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [209.85.6.30]) by fox.gamewood.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA25966; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 20:20:10 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA23278; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 17:19:41 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 17:19:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <005101bf870a$1ada4c80$ac7296d1@oemcomputer> From: "Tom Jones" <tomjones@toad.net> Old-To: <vapittsy-l@rootsweb.com> References: <002b01bf8707$af588c80$03163018@mbowen.stu.adelphia.net> Subject: Re: [VAPITTSY-L] Meaning of the word "Processioners" Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 20:19:59 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Resent-Message-ID: <YdrVFC.A.erF.seww4@bl-14.rootsweb.com> To: VAPITTSY-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: VAPITTSY-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <VAPITTSY-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/660 X-Loop: VAPITTSY-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: VAPITTSY-L-request@rootsweb.com X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Lilian, Probably Mary Leigh would have the best answer for this :-) Processioning is the act of physically walking the boundaries of landowners' properties to be sure that what was recorded in the courthouse was accurate. The correct boundaries were needed in order to levy land taxes. Tom ==== VAPITTSY Mailing List ==== Pittsylvania County Files online! Visit the Pittsylvania County Archives at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/va/pittsylv.htm --------------1E1CE00F9FC992055044F8FE--

The following files were uploaded to the Pittsylvania Co. Archives in February. You may view these files at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/va/pittsylv.htm Bible of John Lewis, 1794-1822 (lewis1.txt), file size 1.2 kb, submitted February 2000 by Sallie Lewis Hurt Reynolds–Martin Cemetery (reynolds.txt), file size 1.0 kb, submitted February 2000 by Glenna G. Garner Reynolds Cemetery (reynolds2.txt), file size 1.5 kb, submitted February 2000 by Glenna G. Garner Rigney Cemetery (rigney.txt), file size 1.4 kb, submitted February 2000 by Glenna G. Garner 1850 Federal Census, see listed files, submitted February 2000 by Pat C. Johns Selected Marriage Bonds, 1775-1778 (marr10.txt), file size 3.0 kb, submitted February 2000 by Joy Fisher Minister's Bonds, 1785-1843 (bonds1.txt), file size 3.9 kb, submitted February 2000 by Joy Fisher Marriage Bonds, abstracted, 1767-1774 (bonds2.txt), file size 3.0 kb, submitted February 2000 by Joy Fisher 1855 Death Register (1855.txt), file size 141.1 kb, submitted February 2000 by Gayle Austin Will of Lazarus Dodson, part 1, 1795 (dodson1.jpg), file size 133 kb, submitted February 2000 by Eddie Vaden Will of Lazarus Dodson, part 2, 1795 (dodson2.jpg), file size 138 kb, submitted February 2000 by Eddie Vaden Will of Thomas Linthicum, 1796 (lnthcm1.jpg), file size 235 kb, submitted February 2000 by Eddie Vaden Many thanks to our submitters! Won't you consider preserving & sharing your treasured documents by submitting a transcription of your own? What a wonderful way to show pride in your heritage while insuring these resources will still be around for future generations! Thank you, Jeannie Watts, archivist. ************* Jeannie Watts Now Available: "The Descendants of John Thomas Clay, Jamestown Immigrant and son of Sir John Clay of Wales" Also available: "The Descendants of James Bailey & Lucy Simms" For more info: http://www.trellis.net/users/madamx

Lilian, Probably Mary Leigh would have the best answer for this :-) Processioning is the act of physically walking the boundaries of landowners' properties to be sure that what was recorded in the courthouse was accurate. The correct boundaries were needed in order to levy land taxes. Tom

Hi Listers, I was sent a paragraph from the "History of Pittsylvania County, VA" containing a word I am not familiar with: "Processioners". I did look in my dictionary but the closest I came to that word was "Processing Tax": a tax levied by the government at an intermediate stage in the production of goods. If this explanation is in deed connected it would lead me to the conclusion that the people who did the levying would be called "Processioners": am I correct? This is how the paragraph was worded: "From the Vestry Book of Camden Parish 1767-1820...P. 13..Pursuant to an order of the worshipful court of Pittsylvania County, bearing date of the 27 day of August last past (1771) for the vestry to appoint Processioners according to law - Ordered that Jesse Abston, . . . procession all the patent land between Ready Creek and the old Woman's Creek . . ." Your comments or verification would be greatly appreciated. Lilian

Hi, Lillian and list, Here is my version of "processioning:" In colonial VA, immigrants moved in by the thousands. The men already there had several sons; to Will his farm to all of them would have left each with too small a portion to make economic sense. Most of the excess, immigrants and sons,moved west, looking for farmable land of their own; some sons were bound out to learn a trade. These people moved from eastern VA to central VA, to the western VA mountains, and beyond. Everywhere there were enough people, both civic and church burocracies were created, new large counties were erected, and other counties created later from them. The burocracies needed control of the land and the people; civic-wise, the county governmaent had to control land deeds, claims, and many other things. The Anglican Church, via its Parish Vestry had to control people, their ministers and churches their morals, their poor and indigent people, and collect tithes, the only form of taxation which existed until much later. To control all these things, and with more people moving into previously-unocc upied areas of the parish every year, the Vestry would appoint certain people living in certain areas, to "Procession" parts of the parish. I think this was done on a yearly basis. The state government authorized erection of new counties, from existing counties, based on the recommendations and petitions of people in the new areas. With such an authorization, a new county was erected, and its boundaries specified. At the same time, the Anglican Church established a parish in those same boundaries, and appointed men to be Vestry members. The Vestry was a church body, made up of prominent, trustworthy, and very influential members of the parish. Many of them were also commissioners of the new County Court. Civic authority was needed for civic matters. The Vestry made its church recommendations to the county court, which issued civic ORDERS, rubber-stamping those recommendations. The Vestry recommended who was to Procession what part of the parish, and the court issued orders to this effect. A man appointed by the court to Procession a certain area of the parish, knew the boundaries of the farms already there, and the boundary markers to view, replace as necessary, and confirm the names and ages of the people (including slaves) who lived on that farm. (Almost a CENSUS). He went to each farm, and physically walked its boundaries. Occasionaly, he made an entry: "No inhabitant found." He also recorded new settlers and their farm boundaries. Court records contain the appointing orders. The Vestry supervised the processioning, and saw to collecting the tithes, but again, through court orders. The above is a generalization of it all, and there were variations. Maybe I've bent your ear too far. Gordon Adams: GorAdams@aol.com

Does VAPITTSY have a Digest mode? If so how do I transfer to Digest instead of the stream of email I now receive? Thanks, Edward

Bill, George W. Mills to Lucy Ann Ferguson, surety Bluford Parker, married by Rev. Wm. H. Plunkett, Dec 7, 1839 Pittsylvania Co. That's it! Tom/Baltimore

Barbara, would you mind telling me about your TERRY - KESEE line. I research all Southside Virginia Terrys, and I know a couple of times that these two lines cross, wondered which one yours are. Thank you, I'm happy to share TERRY research......regards, Margie Brown

Hi, I am Michael Gann and I live in Franklin, Simpson County, Kentucky. I was looking for information on Benjamin Sadler. Any Help would be appreciated. Michael Gann