Posted on: Pittsylvania Co. Va Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/Pittsylvania?read=115 Surname: ATKINSON, MADDING ------------------------- BMAY, YOU MIGHT CHECK RACHEAL MADDING (DAUGHTER OF JOHN MADDING JR.) AND JESSE ATKINSON AS PARENTS TO THE JESSE ATKINSON YOU ARE LOOKING FOR. ACCORDING TO WHAT I HAVE READ RACHEAL MADDING B ABT. 1785 , VA. M 4/15/1805 TO JESSE ATKINSON. THEIR CHILDREN ARE SCARLET ATKINSON (ALL THE SCARLET MADDING PEOPLE WERE MALE), JESSE ATKINSON B 1819 VA. AND (?) ATKINSON B. 1825 VA. (1850 PITTSYLVANIA CENSUS) I HAVE BEEN RESEARCHING ABSOLOM MADDING WHO DIED IN 1837 IN HEMPSTEAD CO. ARK. HE WAS A BROTHER TO RACHEAL MADDING ATKINSON. THE COURT RECORDS DIVIDING HIS ESTATE LIST JESSE ATKINSON AND RACHEAL AS SOME OF HIS HEIRS ALONG WITH ALL THE OTHER MADDING BROTHERS AND SISTERS. I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ANOTHER BROTHER, LARKIN MADDING, WHO WAS THE HUSBAND OF JANE SHELTON, DAUGHTER OF THOMAS SHELTON. LARKIN DIED APPARENTLY WITHOUT A WILL IN HARDIN CO. KENTUCKY ABT. 1820. LEAVING HIS WIFE JANE AND AT LEAST THREE SONS THAT I WANT MORE DOCUMENTATION ON. JEROME BONEPARTE MADING OF BOSSIER PARISH LA.(MY GGGRANDFATHER); GEORGE W. MADING (MADDEN ) HART CO. KY;AND SCARLETT W. MADDING OF PLATTE CO. MO. SUE