I have heard the name "Julia" in connection with Rachel, but I have never heard a father's name of Bessie or Rachel. Everyplace that Bessie lists her parents, she only lists Rachel. I don't know if this was because her father had died or what. Bessie later married Ranzy McGlothlin and Rachel later married William Harvey Perkins. I was told that Bessie and her brother and sister ran away from the reservation, but I don't know if this is true. If it is, I don't know which reservation. Thanks for your help. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of SGaborik Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 7:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [VARUSSEL] "What part of Va?" RE: Thoughts on SW Va, coal mining and Bluegrass music. Linda was Rachel Haywood a daughter of Judith (Julia?) and Joseph Haywood? If so, I may be able to help you. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Housh" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 11:05 PM Subject: Re: [VARUSSEL] "What part of Va?" RE: Thoughts on SW Va,coal mining and Bluegrass music. > Hi, I'm new to this site and just happened to notice the name GROSS. I am > researching my paternal line of GROSS that is mostly from the Honaker and > Russell County area. If anyone has any info on the GROSS family, please > contact me. Thanks. > > Willie Groce, Charles Harvey Gross and Bessie (Elizabeth) A. Haywood Gross > (her mother was Rachel Haywood), Henry Harvey Gross and Lila Vance Gross, > Alben Gross and Elizabeth ??? Bessie and her mom were supposed to be > Seminole. Bessie had a brother James and a sister Mindy. I am so new and > have hit a dead end, I don't know where to go from here. Any help is > appreciated. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Betty Lyle > Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 5:26 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [VARUSSEL] "What part of Va?" RE: Thoughts on SW Va, coal > mining and Bluegrass music. > > I live in Dickenson Co. but was born and reared in Buchanan Co. Have > family > ties in Russell Co. Redoing an old family farm on Little River in Honaker. > > Betty Combs Lyle > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Randy Crouse McNew" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 8:03 PM > Subject: [VARUSSEL] "What part of Va?" RE: Thoughts on SW Va,coal mining > and > > Bluegrass music. > > >> To answer Betty Lyle..."What part of Va?" >> >> My Dad's parents lived in Amonate when he was born. This is a coal camp >> on >> the Va/WVa state line (Tazewell Co., Va/McDowell Co., WVa.) My >> Grandfather, >> Claude McNew worked underground, and his father, Lee Grant McNew ran the >> tipple. My Grandmother was born at Carbo. She was d/o of Lowney Patton >> Childress and Eulabelle Brooks. The Brooks family lived on Hazel >> Mountain. >> >> Later my grandparents lived at Wilder and my great grandmother, Eulabelle >> Brooks Childress, and her family are pictured on p. 120 of Kathy >> Shearer's >> "Wilder Days". Some of my dad's Russell County people were Brooks, >> Childress, Kiser, Counts, Jesse, Stiltner, and Boyd. They came from >> around >> where Russell, Dickenson, and Buchanan County meet. >> >> After WWII, most of my Childress and Brooks families moved to Tazewell >> Co. >> and most of the men went in the mines at Bishop or Boissevain. A lot of >> them >> also went north to Ohio and Michigan to get jobs and stayed. >> >> I lived in Baptist Valley (Tazewell County between Richlands and >> Tazewell) >> near the schoolhouse and my Grandparents, Great Aunt and Uncle, and >> great-grandparents lived on Lick Branch just up the road. >> >> I married Debbie Reynolds d/o Charlie Reynolds, Jr. Debbie's parents >> were >> both from the Kent's Ridge/Sword's Creek area of the New Garden section >> of >> NE Russell County near the Tazewell County line. Debbie's daddy and one >> brother worked at the Seaboard No. 2 mines at Big Creek near Richlands. >> Some >> of Debbie's parents' Russell County families are Reynolds, Rose, Vance, >> Slate, Taylor, Jackson, Robbins, Dennison, Jones, and Gross. >> >> Debbie and I both attended Richlands High School, that's where we met >> over >> 30 years ago. >> >> Before college, I worked for S&S Corporation as a blueprint clerk and >> later >> as a draftsman. S&S manufactured coal mining equipment like scoops, and >> feeder crushers, and man-trips. >> >> I went to college and now I work for the Missile Defense Agency in >> Huntsville, Alabama. >> >> Randy Crouse McNew >> Huntsville, AL >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG. >> Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.2/1387 - Release Date: >> 4/19/2008 > >> 11:31 AM >> >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message