This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/4BC.2ACI/1678.1.1 Message Board Post: Is your Sally Icenhower the daughter of John W? Did she have brothers and sisters Ann, George, John Thomas, Rebecca A., Samuel Harvey, Martha Ellen, Hariet Ann, Mary E., Sarah C, Jessy H., and Henry M? I decend from John Thomas who Marrie Julia Ann Hayes. John W was married to Mary James. Let me know if we connect. Thanks

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Icenhower Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/4BC.2ACI/2030.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Is your Icenhower any relatation to John W who was born about 1818 and married Mary James? They had a son, John Thomas who married Julia Ann Hayes. They are my gg parents. They lived in the Charleston West VIrginia area. Looking for info on John W (Wesley?) Thanks for any help you can provide

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Haws, Browder,Belcher, Regedanz Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4BC.2ACI/847.1047.1058.1060.1.2 Message Board Post: I am the great grandaughter of Ben and Della! I have been trying to find info on them. Please contact me at [email protected] Thanks.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wyatt, Strayer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4BC.2ACI/712.724.1 Message Board Post: As I mentioned in a post to Ruth K. Clarl just now, I am interested to see whether there was a Rebecca born in this family around 1817? I'm trying to find the maiden name of Rebecca F. Wyatt Strayer, born according to her tombstone near the Natural Bridge, Va., either 1814 or 1817 (inscription eroded). She evidently married Thomas J. Wyatt around 1835 in Madison County, Indiana; he died in Miami County 4 years later; she remarried (to Simon Strayer), and died there in 1863. The records of Thomas' estate in Miami County indicated that a Thomas Miller was involved with the family somehow.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4BC.2ACI/712.1053 Message Board Post: Any chance of a Rebecca born in this family around 1817? I'm trying to find the maiden name of Rebecca F. Wyatt Strayer, born according to her tombstone near the Natural Bridge, Va., either 1814 or 1817 (inscription eroded). She evidently married Thomas J. Wyatt around 1835 in Madison County, Indiana; he died in Miami County 4 years later; she remarried (to Simon Strayer), and died there in 1863.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cleek,Willhoit,O'Brien Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/4BC.2ACI/294.2 Message Board Post: I am a descendant of Boldas Cleek -- thru John Cleek and Elizabeth Jacobs Cleek's son John Jacobs Cleek. Boldas would be my great (5 x) grandfather. You are welcome to any info that I have.

The special collections section of the Leyburn Library is in the basement and is open week days from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, they have several collections and are open to the public. You can call ahead to 540) 458-8640 and ask for special collection to determine if they have what you are looking for. Truman Adkins Fieldale, Henry County, Virginia At 09:23 AM 4/11/04, you wrote: >I read in a book that there is a special collections of letters in the >Leyburn Library in Lexington -is this open to the public? > >Thanks >Pat > > >==== VAROCKBR Mailing List ==== >Visit the Rockbridge County Archives! >http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/va/rockbrid.htm >Do you have deeds, wills, marriage or other infomation. >We have a Large amount of information here, thank's to many great Volunteers. >you would like to share?

I read in a book that there is a special collections of letters in the Leyburn Library in Lexington -is this open to the public? Thanks Pat

The Moore info was sent to me by William R. Moore [email protected] Thank you William for all your work. Rena Worthen [email protected] http://www.geocities.com/floydmontgomeryheritage/index.htm http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/3798

Thomas Moore, Sr. - Crack in a Brick Wall? Part III of III (Because this posting is lengthy, it is being posted in three parts. See also Parts I and II.) Using the marriage of Thomas' son John and Kitty Siders in Frederick County, VA in early 1808 as a clue, I researched and analysed all of the Personal Property Tax Lists (PPTLs) for all tax districts of Frederick County, VA from the beginning of the tax lists in 1782 through 1812, and came upon the startling fact that Thomas Moore first appears on the 1787 list and appears on the lists every year, except for two, from 1787 through 1807, and always in the same tax district of Frederick County. (By order of the legislature, no taxes were collected in Virginia in 1808 and no PPTLs were made for that year.) No Thomas Moore appears on the Frederick County PPTLs in 1809 or in any subsequent year I examined. During this entire period (1787-1812), only one Thomas Moore appears on the Frederick County PPTLs except for the year 1794 when two appear. There had just been a change of tax commissioners for the district and I believe this was a duplication resulting from the unfamiliarity of the new commissioner with his district. (The years for which no "Thomas Moore" is found on the tax lists were 1792 and 1801. For 1792 there was no list on the microfilm I examined for the tax district in which Thomas Moore resided.) Other interesting results appear from my research in Frederick County. One has to do with Solomon Siders, Sr. Solomon Siders, Sr. first appears in Rockbridge County about 1809, and resides there until his death on April 22, 1838. But he is also found on the Frederick County PPTLs in many years (1794, 1795, 1797, 1803, 1804, 1806 and 1807) and was found in each of these years within the same tax district of Frederick County in which Thomas Moore appears. Solomon's son Conrad Siders also shows up on the Frederick County PPTLs for the first time in 1804, and is found again in 1806 and in 1807. Solomon, Sr. shows up for the first time on the Rockbridge PPTL in 1809 (under the spelling "Cyder"), and both Solomon, Sr. and Conrad appear on the 1810 Rockbridge lists (under the spelling "Siders"), as well as other members of the Siders family, some of whom had started appearing on the Rockbridge lists even earlier in the decade. Conrad Siders was a surety on the marriage bond for John Moore and Kitty Siders on January 13, 1808 in Frederick County. My wife and I made a personal visit to Frederick County for some of this research in October 2002. At the last minute as we were about to conclude our visit, we came upon another interesting fact in the unpublished "Journal of Dr. Alexander Balmain," Rector for Frederick Parish, Winchester, Frederick County, VA for some 30 years. The journal is held in the vault of the Handlery Library in Winchester, VA. His journal records that he officiated at the marriage of one "Thomas More" and Esther Duncan on November 15, 1784. As stated above, the name of the spouse of Thomas Moore, Sr. of Rockbridge County has never been identified nor has any record of her death been found. However, while Esther was a common name at the time, it is notable that all three of the sons of Thomas Moore, Sr. had daughters named "Esther." This fact makes it an interesting to consider whether their mother was Esther Duncan, who had been married to "Thomas More" by Dr. Balmain in 1784 in Frederick County. On the basis of this research I am convinced that Thomas Moore, Sr. of Rockbridge is the same Thomas Moore found in the Frederick County PPTLs from 1787 through 1807. Though less certain, I also think there is a strong likelihood that Thomas, Sr.'s wife was Esther Duncan. End of this posting in three parts. William R. Moore

Thomas Moore, Sr. - Crack in a Brick Wall? Part II of III (Because this posting is lengthy, it is being posted in three parts. See also Parts I and III.) During the period Thomas Moore, Sr. is found on the PPTLs for the SW tax district of Rockbridge County (1810-1828), he did not appear on any of the Rockbridge land tax records, and thus apparently never owned any real property in that county. However, a mortgage of crops by Thomas Moore Sr. is recorded in Rockbridge County about 1822, from which fact a fair inference can be drawn that he was a tenant farmer. Thomas Moore, Sr.'s known children roughly in the order of their birth were John (b. ca. 1787), Thomas Jr. (b. ca. 1790), Nancy (b. ca.. 1792), Samuel (b. ca. 1795), Lucy (b. ca. 1798) and Margaret (b. before 1800). Two persons attributed to be children of Thomas Sr., namely, James Madison Moore (born 1812) and Hannah Moore (born between 1810-1820) were not the children of Thomas, Sr. at all, but rather were two of his grandchildren, children of his son Thomas Moore, Jr. The fact that James Madison and Hannah were children of Thomas Jr. is fully disclosed in the probate record for Thomas Moore, Jr. in Franklin County, Indiana, where he died intestate March 27, 1855. Four of Thomas Sr.'s six known children were married in Rockbridge County, namely, Thomas Jr. to Mary Crouse on August 16, 1810; Nancy to Henry Armentrout on October 28, 1819; Samuel to Ann Hayslett on August 31, 1820; and Margaret to James Black on March 3, 1818. His daughter Lucy apparently never married, as she died in the Rockbridge County Poor House on June 1, 1856 under the name "Lucy Moore." The marriage of Thomas Sr.'s eldest son, John, was a different story. He married Catherine "Kitty" Siders, daughter of Solomon Siders, Sr. on January 14, 1808, not in Rockbridge but in Frederick County, VA. This fact certainly raises the question, how and why was it that son John and Kitty Siders happen to be in Frederick County to be married there in January 1808? The most obvious answer to this simple question was a significant clue to the riddle of where Thomas Moore, Sr. had come from before coming to Rockbridge about 1809-1810: Just maybe son John and Kitty Siders were married in Frederick County because that is where they lived! Not a startling conclusion but one which I have not seen previously explored in published or posted materials. Go to part III for the continuation of this posting in three parts. William R. Moore

Thomas Moore, Sr. - Crack in a Brick Wall? Part I of III (Because this posting is lengthy, it is being posted in three parts. See also Parts II and III.) Thomas Moore, Sr. of Rockbridge County, Virginia, one of my ancestors, has been a "brick wall" for a number of people, including me, for many years. Little has been known about him or his wife, and not a lot has been known about most of his children. And some of the published information stating who his children were has been incorrect. I have done considerable research on Thomas Moore, Sr. and his family and background and the fates of his children, and believe I have developed some new information. The source of much of my research was the personal property tax lists (PPTLs) and land tax lists for Virginia which commenced in 1782 (and continued to the mid-1800s). First, a review of what has been known and said about Thomas. It has been said he appeared in Rockbridge about 1810. He appears in the 1810 federal census with a household consisting of males, 1 under age 10, 1 age bracket 10-16, 2 age bracket 16-26 and 1 age over age 45; and females, 3 under age 10, 2 age bracket 10-16, 2 age bracket 16-26 and 1 over age 45. It has also been said that his wife has never been identified and that he had at least eight children, namely, John, Thomas, Nancy, Samuel, Margaret, Lucy, James Madison and Hannah. His death is said to have been about 1827. No place of burial for either him or his wife has been identified. I have examined and analysed all of the PPTLs for the SW tax district of Rockbridge (the Collierstown - Kerrs Creek - House Mountain area) from 1800 through at least 1838, and most of them before 1800 and after 1838. No "Thomas Moore" appeared on any Rockbridge PPTL in the period 1800-1809. One Thomas Moore appears in 1810 under date of March 20, 1810. Every year from 1811 through 1828, with the sole exception of 1814, two persons bearing the name "Thomas Moore" appear on the PPTLs for that district, in most years designated by the tax commissioner as "Thomas Moore, Sr". and "Thomas Moore, Jr." Also during this period, at no time were more than two persons listed with the name "Thomas." The men listed each year were clearly father and son. Thomas Moore, Jr., born about 1790, had married Mary Crouse August 16, 1810, and properly started appearing on the tax rolls in 1811. For 1828, Thomas Moore, Sr. was listed under date of May 12, 1828. In 1829, only one Thomas Moore appeared on the PPTL under the date of February 2. Both Thomas's appear in the 1820 federal census for Rockbridge, but only one appears in the 1830 census, and judged by the composition of his household in 1830, it seems clear that this was "Thomas Moore, Jr." (although by this time the designation "Jr." had been dropped for most purposes. See note below.) These facts strongly suggest that the death of Thomas Moore, Sr. occurred sometime between February 12, 1828 and early 1829. ( The PPTL for the SW district of Rockbridge for 1829 was compiled from about February 1 through about May 15.) (For completeness, let me note this anomaly: The "Thomas Moore" listed in the 1830 PPTL was designated by the tax commissioner as "Thomas Moore, Senr." Since no "Thomas Moore" was listed in the 1830 federal census in the age bracket of the person previously listed as "Thomas, Sr.," and one Thomas Moore is listed with a household profile consistent with that of Thomas Moore, Jr. (4 males ages from under 5 to 20, 1 male age 40-50, 7 females ages from under 5 to 30 and 1 female age 30-40), it is fair to suspect that the tax commissioner's designation of "Thomas Moore, Senr." referred to the person previously called "Thomas Moore, Jr.", since, with the death of his father, might appropriately have been referred to in 1830 as "Thomas, Sr.", and that it was he who was taxed in 1830. In all later years through 1834 only one "Thomas Moore" appears in the PPTLs of the SW district of Rockbridge, and he is designated simply as "Thomas Moore 'C.T'." C.T. was the tax commissioner's designation meaning "Collierstown." Go to Part II for continuation of this posting in three parts. William R. Moore

Thanks to Joyce for sharing the fabulous American Journerys site. Am especially delighted with the listing of the early explorers with the original documents...Most exciting find! Patriicia Minton Bettis

From another list -- it is a neat site. It's mostly about Wisconsin, but I did find a surname reference for Wilmer so if you're looking for relatives gone west...~ Ann Wilmer ----- Original Message ----- Subject: American Journeys http://www.americanjourneys.org Every once in a while even a jaded researcher like myself can locate a site that is of the type that can actually allow researchers access to factual historical information. The above is one of those few sites. Joyce Gaston Reece

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Harlow, Kirby, Markham, Leighton, Sorells, Austin, Tolley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/4BC.2ACI/2127.1 Message Board Post: There is a SPROUSE web page. I had the link until last night and deleted it. go to Google and search for "SPROUSE" (in quotes) Sorry about that, Charlie

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