This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Broady/Calliver/Brown/Lockett Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GBC.2ACE/1540.1 Message Board Post: Dear Molly: I think you are referring to Esther/Ester/Hester Colliver/Calliver: WCV: JOSEPH SAMUEL (?) LOCKETT, COLORED MALE, MARRIED TO MARY LOCKETT, B. 27 NOV 1876, D. 20 DEC 1926, 50Y 24D, B. WCV, S/O WALTER LOCKETT, WCV & HESTER CALVER, WCV (GLADE SPRING) Hester's parents are given in the following death record which I copied from records in Richmond, VA, Lib. of VA: WCV: HESTER LOCKETT, BLACK FEMALE, WIDOW, B. 17 NOV 1852, MEADOWVIEW, VA, D. 07 APR 1920, 77Y 4M 21D, D/O JOSEPH CALLIVIR (COLLIVER –JH), VA & AMANDA BROWN, VA (SALTVILLE) Referring to their relation to the Broady/Broddy (Brodie) family, one of Hester & Walter's children married into this family which, since the late 1700's has been a well known mixed-race family in the area, descending from "Old John Broady", 1/2 brother of Gen. Wm. Campbell and child of Charles Campbell: WCV, Saltville: Persiller J. LOCKETT BROADY, Meadowview, VA, colored female, wid. of John BROADY, b. 17 Sep 1872, WCV, 60/8/4; d. 21 May 1933, d/o Walter LOCKETT, WCV & Hester CALLOWAY, WCV; George LOCKETT, Meadowview, VA, inf.; bur. Meadowview (1880c, WCV, Saltville, HH374/386: LOCKETT, Walter, 28; Ester, 26, Jane, 15…) I did find some Locketts in Tazewell Co. VA (TCV) who married Brownloes in Abingdon: TCV, Clear Fork: Tone (Tony?) LOCKETT, col m, wid, no DOB, b Meadowview, VA, 64y, d 23 Aug 1925, s/o Ed LOCKETT, Abington (sic), VA & Margie BROWNLOE, Abington, VA I have many Broady death records, white and colo(u)red (Af. Amer.): SCV, Rich Valley, Saltville: Gay Francis BROADY, colored female, single, b. 09 May 1910; d. 12 Feb 1928, 17y 9m 3d, b. Saltville, WCV; s/o Rush BROADY, SCV & Maggie PHIPPS, SCV; Mrs. Geo. BROADY, Saltville, VA, inf.; bur. Clark Grave Yard Colored TCV, Pocahontas: Jennie BROADY, colored female, wid. of Alexander BROADY, no DOB, 80y; d. 27 May 1929, parents UNK, bur. Saltville WCV, Abingdon: Susan A. ANDERSON, colored female, wid. of Leslie ANDERSON, b. 18 Dec 1864, 65y 5m 26d; d. 13 Jun 1929, b. Abingdon, WCV, d/o Thomas ANDERSON, NC & Adeline BROADY, Saltville, WCV; bur. colored cem. If I recall correctly in some other death records, the paternity of some in this family was from KING (white): SCV: JNO. BROADY, COLORED MALE, WIDOWED, B. 127 FEB 1831, D. 16 JAN 1917, 85Y 11M 29D, S/O DON’T KNOW & SALLIE BROADY, VA (RICH VALLEY) White Broady Family, NE WCV: WCV: ANFEALOW LEE COLLINS, WHITE FEMALE, B. 31 MAR 1925, D. 31 MAR 1925, D/O JOHN FRANKLIN COLLINS, SALTVILLE, VA & ALARIDA KANSAS BROADY, WCV, MS. L. D. BROADY, SALTVILLE, VA, INFORMANT. (NEXT ENTRY IS FOR WALTER LEE COLLINS, SAME INFO. FOLLOWS) Af. Amer. (Actually, mixed-race Broadys): SCV: ALEX T. BROADY, COLORED MALE, MARRIED, B. 01 OCT 1837, D. 24 JUN 1925, 88Y 8M 24D, B. SMYTH CO. VA, S/O JOE BROADY, SCV & SALLY BROADY, SCV (SALTVILLE) REEL 62 WCV: SAMUEL BROADY, NEGRO MALE, SINGLE, B. 14 SEP 1847, VA, D. 14 JAN 1918, S/O JACK BROADY, VA & ANN (NOT GIVEN), VA SCV: JNO. BROADY, COLORED MALE, WIDOWED, B. 127 FEB 1831, D. 16 JAN 1917, 85Y 11M 29D, S/O DON’T KNOW & SALLIE BROADY, VA (RICH VALLEY) (SCV = Smyth Co. VA) Aggie Broady married Freel Bunch; in 1880c, she is listed as "Indian"; here is a record of the birth of one of her children: July 1854: Sallie BUNCH, free colored, d/o Friel & Agnes (Broddy; Broady) Another White Broady, descendant of John Broady & Ann (prob. Ann CAWOOD) - see 1850 Census Wash. Co. VA (WCV) - a grandson... WCV: JOHN BROADY, WHITE MALE, MARRIED TO ELLEN BROADY, B. 28 NOV 1845, WCV, D. 21 JUN 1931, 86Y 7M 23D, S/O ELEN BROADY, VA & NOT KNOWN, MRS. ELLIS JACKSON, MEADOWVIEW, INFORMANT (SALTVILLE)