Shelia, have you ever heard of a Amanda Elizabeth Beavers early 1800 late 1700's Smyth county or Tazewell County Patti [email protected] The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor. ----- Original Message ----- From: Don and Sheila <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 8:22 PM Subject: Re: [VATAZEWE] Re:Beavers, Claypool, Hankins families > David, > Those names are certainly familiar to me. I am descended from Jeremiah Claypool and his first wife, Mary Brown. Their > daughter, Rebecca married Henry Cecil. Their daughter, Mary Brown Cecil married William P. Linkous. > My Beavers line goes back to Robert "Robin" Beavers who married Catherine Harmon. Their son, Alexander married > Elizabeth Hankins. Their son, William married Rebecca Harrison. Their daughter, Rachel, married Charles Godbey. I > am also related to Rachel through Robin and Catherine's son William who married Nancy Harrison. Their daughter, > Catherine Beavers, married John Thomas Barrett. And so it goes. Eventually, my Crickmer Mom married my Conley Dad > and here I am! My entire family was born in Tazewell or surrounding counties. Doubt there are very many there that I > am not related to! I was born in Squire in McDowell Co. WV. I now live in CA and have recently started trying to > put the family tree together. I find that I am related to three Skaggs sisters --one married Richard Whitt, another > married Mathias Harman and the third married John Hankins, SR. > Think that takes me pretty far back --perhaps to the beginnings of Tazewell Co. My Conley line goes back to James > Conley who married Rachel Stobough in 1806 in Tazewell Co. They lived in Burkes Garden. So, David, guess that makes us > cousins! > Always great to find another family member! :-) Sheila > > Sheila's SURNAMES: Barrett, Beavers, Boling (Bowling), Brown, Claypool, Conley, Crickmer, Godbey, Hankins, Linkous, > Skaggs, Sparks, Whitt > Don's SURNAMES: Allen, Dawson, Goodwin, Hein >