Descendants of John Vestal 1 John VESTAL .. +Margaretta Mary 2 John VESTAL Jr b: March 16, 1827 in Oh ... +Lucinda HERSHBERGER b: March 26, 1831 in Montgomery, In m: September 02, 1851 in Warren, Il . 3 Ann VESTAL b: August 13, 1852 in Warren, Il ..... +Benjamin Franklin CROSBY m: December 31, 1871 in Warren, Il ... 4 Guy CROSBY ... 4 Effie CROSBY ....... +ANDERSON SOURCE: The Peffley Families in America, 1938, May MILLER FROST and Earl Clarence FROST.

Glad to see Pat is Back. I hope things are improving there. Jeff

Hi, Pat! Thank you for your quick response to my inquiry. I appreciate the information, and we (my husband Bob, the Vestal member, and I, the more active genealogist) have followed virtually all the suggestions you give. I appaarently didn't ask my question clearly. What concerns me is the lists that sometimes appear on VESTAL-L. They often list Vestals or descendants that we've never heard of. While we appreciate all the information we can get, we wonder where the information came from. Particularly the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries have differing family members in different lists. I was concerned about asking those who sent in lists about their sources. I don't want to appear critical or too doubting, but research certainly is an important part of genealogy. That is why I asked about protocol. As for our place on the Vestal family tree, I'll list Bob's direct ancestors that we have traced--and descendants. (I'll be glad to send information about or copies of specific sources about both direct and collateral ancesters listed.) Thomas Vestal and Elizabeth Davis William Vestal and Mary Wheeler Thomas Vestal and unk. Brower William Vestal (1792 -1863) and Sarah Moore Samuel Vestal (1817-1891) and Tillitha Brinton (1819-1904) William B. Vestal (1843-1914) and Isis East(1849-) Samuel Curtis Vestal (1873-1962)& Olive Sophie Miller (1879-) Mildred Vestal (1900-1962) & Edward Clarence Seeds(1892-1950) Robert Vestal Seeds (1922- ) & Harice Goodman (1923- ) Judith Elaine Seeds (1959- ) & Gary Jay Miller (1944- ) Jonathan Abraham Miller (1992- ) Samuel Paul Miller (1995- ) Harice

Is there a regular protocol for asking for or giving sources of information, particularly the early family members? Harice

In reply, Could you post your web site so we can visit it. Thank you. Judith Vestal Walter jwalter@umsl.edu >Boy, go out of town for a couple of weeks and look at the activity on the >list! Just got back from Winchester, WV and Richmond, VA and Charles Town >VA and Martinsburg VA and places in between. Stuck my foot in the waters >of the Shenandoah before William Vestal Jr's property and asked for help >from the ancestors in solving a few puzzles for us. Got copies of all >original records for anything Vestal in Orange Co., old Frederick Co., >Berkeley Co., Jefferson Co., and Loudoun Co. Will be putting it all up on >my web site this week. Keep up the search! .... ginny > > >==== VESTAL Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe, put unsubscribe in 1st line of body & subject, turn >automatic signatures off, & sent to: VESTAL-L-request@rootsweb.com for >reg. mail, and to VESTAL-D-request@rootsweb.com for digest mode.

Hi everybody!!! It has been some time since I have written you. My mother has had a heart by-pass, and needs care. I have been helping where I can, so this is the reason you haven't heard from me. I don't know how long this will still take. I have a lot of email, and it will take me some time to read all of this. So please be patient with me, I will try to slowly go thru them. I have stopped counting, as I think it must be in the thousands now!!! Also, many of you have heard of the rains which caused floods in Texas. I'm okay, but my aunt and uncle who live between Wallis and East Bernard in Ft. Bend County, had gotten about 5 ft. of water into their home. We are all concerned for them, as they didn't have flood insurance, and live on Social Security. They were to meet with some type of disaster relief this morning. This was all so unexpected, and they like other folks in that area, never thought that they would get flooded. My mother was lucky, but just a short distance to her west, a few homes got flooded. We were suppose to go there on Sunday, but couldn't because several roads were flooded. We had about 8 inches here, and the folks in Sealy, Wallis, etc. had about 16 inches. I think San Antonio had more. It was from central Texas, that the excess water flowed down to where my aunt and mother lives. My brother and nephew who are volunteer firemen were busy Sunday evening, helping folks evacuate who lived near the Brazos River. I'm not sure if that river has crested yet. We had drought conditions, and now, we're out of it! It was still raining here, but lightly. Not sure of other places, though. Anyway, folks, and to our newer members, please do post your ancestor's lines on the appropriate list, Boswell or Vestal. This is the only way that you can make new connections and find that elusive ancestor!! Sorry, folks we don't go off subject like this, but several folks had asked how I was doing, and whether the floods affected us. So this was the easiest way for me to answer your concerns. Take care to all, Pat Bagwell Listowner of Boswell & Vestal (also Bagwell, Jay)

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_908915668_boundary Content-ID: <0_908915668@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII --part0_908915668_boundary Content-ID: <0_908915668@inet_out.mail.netease.net.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <owlshadegardens@netease.net> Received: from rly-zc05.mx.aol.com (rly-zc05.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.5]) by air-zc05.mail.aol.com (v50.22) with SMTP; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 10:23:48 -0400 Received: from mail.netease.net (mail.netease.net [208.10.167.6]) by rly-zc05.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with SMTP id KAA22229 for <HELMSTMK@aol.com>; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 10:23:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from PC_owlshadegardens.netease.net (unverified [208.24.92.48]) by mail.netease.net (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id <B0000707280@mail.netease.net>; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:21:59 -0500 Message-ID: <MAPI.Id.0016.00776c73686164653030304630303046@MAPI.to.RFC822> Priority: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 To: "Tony M Helms" <HELMSTMK@aol.com> From: "Mitzi W. Thornell" <owlshadegardens@netease.net> Subject: Tilghman R. Vestal article Date: Tue, 20 Oct 98 08:04:46 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Wonderful to be able to fit Tilghman into place. A.M.'s 1860 census had listed a Libman that I had noted might me Tilghman. The copy of this censu= s is notorious for the incorrect translation.(Even if a friend of mine did it). When I looked in my files for Messer Amos, I find that I have a number of notations on Vestals that heretofore did not fit into "my" Vestals. With = the use of your chart, perhaps I can now tie up these loose ends. Will send anything that I come up with that is not previously on your listing. It would surely be helpful if more of my families had a page such as yours= .I'm well aware and most appreciative of the work you have invested in such= a project. Mitzi attachment: Tilghman R. Vestal article -------------------- The late Jill Garrett, Maury County, Tennessee Historian, and compiler of numerous books and periodicals gave me a copy of the following article in 1978. As the copy states, this article was not included in her book, and = she had not been able to ascertain where Tilgham R. Vestal fit into the Vestal family and hoped that I would someday locate his descendants and make sure they were aware of this most interesting article. From the appearance of = my copy, the article appears to have been included in another of her publications, but I do not know which one. MWT 215 CHAPTER XVII CIVIL WAR SKETCHES (Note: These Civil War sketches were located after the book "The Civil War= in Maury County, Tennessee," was compiled.) TRUE TO PRINCIPLES - - Nashville Republican Banner, 2 Sept. 1873 "Correct Version of the Story of the Tennessee Quaker Who Refused to Take = Up Arms in the Late War." - - The following interesting account of a young Quaker who could not be induced to fight in the late war, though conscript= ed, is from the pen of a prominent citizen of this State - - a leading member = of the bar of an adjacent county, and an ex-Judge Advocate and officer of the Confederate States army in the late war. It is a faithful narration of on= e of the most interesting and curious events of the late war: To the Editor of the Banner- -I have just read in the BANNER of the 16th inst., a fragment of Gov. Foote's reminiscences headed, "How a Quaker refu= sed to fight." As I am familiar with the facts and circumstances alluded to, = and as the cause greatly interested me at the time, I have thought it might be= of some interest to your readers to go into details more than is done in Gove= rnor Foote's brief allusion to the case. The young Quaker alluded to is Tilgham R. Vestal, who lived near Columbia, Tennessee. When General Bragg's army was at Shelbyville, Tennessee, young Vestal was conscripted and sent to that place, he was asssigned to duty in= the 4th Tennessee regiment, commanded by Colonel McMurray, of Nashville. He reported to the regiment as required to do, but utterly refused to perform military duty of any character or description. Neither by threats or persuasion could he be induced to alter his determination. The officers o= f the regiment were as humane as they were true and gallant, and, after ever= y effort had failed to induce Vestal to perform the duties of a soldier, the= y gave the matter up in despair, and told him to leave and go home, which he did. But shortly thereafter another conscript officer came along and Vest= al was again duly enrolled as a conscript, and ordered to report to Bragg's headquarters. Not being ready just then to leave his home, he asked and obtained the time of two weeks within which to report, some citizens of Columbia, Chancellor Fleming, as I now remember, going his security that h= e would report at the end of the time. Before the two weeks had expired, General Bragg had fallen back to Chattanooga. All alone and on foot, Vest= al went to Chattanooga, and reported to Bragg's headquarters. By a most sing= ular coincidence, he was again assigned to the 4th Tennessee. Col. McMurry, fr= om his Shelbyville experience, knew he had a tough customer to deal with. He concluded he would try the force of moral persuasion, so one day he sent f= or Vestal to come to his quarters, and undertook to convince him from the Scriptures that he was wholly wrong in his ideas and position. But the yo= ung Quaker was rather too much for the gallant Colonel in the Scripture argume= nt and the Colonel sent for his Chaplain to talk to Vestal and convince him t= hat he was altogether wrong in his refusal to fight, or to perform military du= ty. The chaplain came and opened the argument after this wise: "I wouldn't gi= ve a cent for a religion that is opposed to my country." Said Vestal, "I would= n't give a cent for a country that is opposed to my religion." The argument lasted for some time, but left the young Quaker unconvinced and determined= to do no military duty of any description. He refused to police the camp or = do the least thing that could be tortured or construed into military duty. A= t last Col. McMurray, wholly unable to do anything with Vestal, sent him to brigade headquarters. Here he was reasoned with, and every effort made to induce him to go and perform the duties of a soldier, but he was as firm a= nd inflexible as the everlasting hills. He was told that if he persisted in = his course he would be subjected to severe punishment, and finally would be sh= ot for disobedience of orders. He replied that they had the power to kill hi= m, but neither the Federal nor Confederate army possessed the power to force = him to abandon his principles or prove false to his religion. I remember 216 endeavoring to persuade him one day to pay the five hundred dollars, which= the law provided a Quaker might pay, and be exempt from military duty, and ask= ed him if he couldn't raise that amount and pay it, and thus get rid of the troubles that I plainly saw ahead of him if he persisted in his course. H= e said he could raise the money without difficulty, but said he, "Suppose I = pay the Confederate Government five hundred dollars, that will enable them to employ some one else to fight, and it will be equivalent to my hiring anot= her man to do what I think is wrong to do myself. I can't do that." I then said to him, "Suppose I could get you the position of nurse in a hospital, to care for the sick, wouldn't you be willing to do that?" He s= aid, "I regard it my duty to do all I can for the sick and afflicted of either army, but if I were to take the position of nurse in a hospital, I would thereby occupy the place of some other man, who would go out and fight." = and so declined to do that. Learning from him that he knew how to make potter= y or earthenware, I told him there was a manufactory of that sort in Georgia. = "Now suppose you could be detailed to work there, would you not be willing to g= o?" He replied, "If it's a private establishment, I will go, but if it is a Government establishment, and run in the interest of war, I can't go." Everything that could be construed, directly or indirectly, into military duty, he refused most emphatically to engage in. He was only about 18 yea= rs of age. I soon became satisfied that he acted from principle, and would g= o to the stake or meet death in any shape it could assume, rather than swerve o= ne particle from what he conceived to be his duty. It was the sublimest exhibition of moral courage I had ever witnessed, and it was the more remarkable from being found in a boy of only 18, away from his family and friends. I asked him one day if he had no sympathies in the contest- - if= he had no preference as to which side should be successful. "O yes", he said= , "I would prefer to see the South victorious, as I live in the South and among Southern people." I heard a gentleman say to him- - "Vestal, did you ever exhibit any emotio= n about anything in your life- - did you ever cry in your life?" "O yes," h= e said, "I have cried in my life." "Well," said the gentleman, "I would lik= e to know what were the circumstances that caused you to cry." "Well, sir," he said, "when I left home to come here, my mother cried when she told me goo= d bye, and I cried then." "Yes," said the gentleman, "and if your mother we= re here now, and could see how you are situated she would tell you to take yo= ur gun and go out and do your duty as a soldier." "No, sir," he quickly repl= ied, "the last thing my mother said to me was to be true to my religion, and I = mean to do it." It was during his stay at Gen. Maney's headquarters that Vesta= l had his interview with Gov. Foote. Gov. Foote was at that time a member o= f the Confederate Congress, representing the Nashville district, and was a candidate for re-election, being opposed as I now remember, by Col. Savage= .The soldiers from Tennessee in the army were allowed to vote and the Gover= nor was out electioneering among the soldiers. While at General Maney's headquarters some one pointed out Vestal to Gov. Foote, or introduced Vest= al to him, as a Quaker that wouldn't fight when the following conversation occurred between them: Foote: What, young man, won't you fight- - you are a stout, good-looking y= oung man- -is it true that you refuse to fight? Vestal: Yes, sir. Foote: Why, you are all wrong about that. Suppose you were to marry a beautiful and accomplished young lady, and some ruffian were to come into = your house and grossly insult her, wouldn't you kill him? Vestal: No, sir. Foote: (Jumping from his seat in a very excited manner.) Why, G-d d--n h= im, I'd kill him in a minute. 217 Resuming his seat after a minute, the Governor surveyed Vestal, and again commenced a conversation with him. Foote: Young man, you are all wrong about this matter, even from a Script= ural standpoint. When Christ was upon earth he directed his disciples to pay tribute to Caesar. The money thus paid went into the Roman treasury and w= as sued in carrying on the wars of the Roman people. Vestal: No, sir, you are mistaken about that; the Temple of Janus was clo= sed at that time, and there were no wars going on. Foote: By G-d, I believe he knows more about it than I do. I don't know whether the Temple of Janus was closed then or not. Such was substantially the interview between this remarkable boy and this remarkable man. Perhaps two more opposite characters in many particulars never came in contact. Governor Foote, as before stated, was at that time a member of the Confede= rate Congress. Whether he voted for the conscript law, the officers appointed under which he denominates the "blood-hounds of the Davis despotism," I kn= ow not. It was passed during the time he was a member of the Confederate Congress, whether with his sanction or not I have no means of ascertaining= .One thing is certain, he used all his powers of persuasion to induce Vesta= l to bear arms on the side of the "Davis despotism," and was seeking the votes = of the soldiers who were bearing arms on that side, and obtained the votes of hundreds of them with the understanding- -implied at least- -that he was i= n full accord with the South in her struggle. On no other ground could he h= ave received a vote. But to return to the young Quaker. His case was such an extraordinary one that General Polk wrote the facts to the War Department at Richmond, but n= ever received an answer so far as I am advised Vestal was ordered to Knoxville,= and from that place he found his way to the Virginia army and was assigned to = the 14th or 7th Tennessee regiment, I do not now remember which. Here he was ordered to do military duty, but firmly refused, as he had done before. T= he Brigadier in command, knowing nothing of his history or antecedents, order= ed jim to be bayoneted for disobedience of orders, and the bayonet was applie= d to him repeatedly. He bore it with the spirit of a martyr, and the soldiers, seeing that he would die willingly in preference to sacrificing his principles, refused further to punish him. No punishment, no threats coul= d shake the settled purpose of his soul for a moment. He was under arrest a= ll the while. Frequently on retreats, his guard would lose sight of him, but= in a day or two Vestal would march up alone into camp. He made such an impression on me, that after the war was over, I inquired = of all those rebs I supposed would know, what became of him, and whether he h= ad survived the war, but none of them could tell me. In the year 1871 I was sitting in my office one evening, when a young man walked in and spoke to me, and asked me if my name was not so and so. I t= old him yes, and asked jim to take a seat, that I would talk to him in a few moments, as I was engaged just then. He remarked that he didn't believe I knew him. I looked at him more closely, and told him I did not. He asked= me if I remembered a Quaker at Chattanooga that refused to fight. I at once recognized Vestal, and was really glad to meet him, and made him give me a history of his ups and downs in the army after I parted with him at Chattanooga. He told me he was in Castle Thunder for a while at Richmond,= but was finally permitted by the Secretary of War, to go down to North Carolin= a to school, and was there at the time the war closed. Feeling that his educat= ion was not sufficient at the close of the war, he went to Rhode Island, and t= here continued his studies and taught school a portion of the time. He informe= d me that it was seven years, from the time he left his father's house to repor= t to Bragg at Chattanooga, before he returned to his paternal roof. He had invented a mode of taking off and putting on wagon bodies, for which he ha= d obtained a patent, and was selling the right when I met him. I suppose he= is still living in the neighborhood of Columbia, Tennessee." --part0_908915668_boundary--

Hi Ginny, I would like to see what you have found on the Vestals in Virginia and are posting to your web site, where will I find your web site? Vestal's are my line also, Jemima Vestal married Joseph Doan. Jemima was the Daughter of Thomas Vestal and Elizabeth Davis and grand daughter of William Vestal and Elizabeth Mercer. I will be happy to share info. Patricia Curran ---------- Just got back from Winchester, WV and Richmond, VA and Charles Town > VA and Martinsburg VA and places in between. Stuck my foot in the waters > of the Shenandoah before William Vestal Jr's property and asked for help > from the ancestors in solving a few puzzles for us. Got copies of all > original records for anything Vestal in Orange Co., old Frederick Co.,

To follow are some old records from Putnam County, Missouri (mostly marriage) which I'm sure someone could find interesting: Marriage Records Emsley Vestal m. Saer (or Sarah) A. Summers Nov 10, 1861 John Vestal m. Delilah Holmon Aug 5, 1865 John H. Vestal m. Milla Sparks Dec 10, 1865 son of William S. Vestal John W. Vestal m. Mary B. Gilstrap Jul 4, 1870 Joseph Vestal m. Amy Mullenix Dec 14, 1873 John A. Vestal m. Nerva McFarlin Sep 27, 1874 John Vestal m. Sarah E. Sishtiten Feb 28, 1875 Margaret Vestal m. Miles Mullenix Dec 15, 1863 Susan F. Vestal m. Peter Sparks Nov 16, 1865 dau of William S. Vestal Elizabeth C. Vestal m. James F. Green Jan 4, 1866 Mary Elizabeth Vestal m. Albert Robbins Jul 5, 1868 Sarah F. Vestal m. William Parton Feb 16, 1869 Rebeca C. Vestal m. William H. Hess Dec 4, 1871 Rebecca Vestal m. Melvin Wheatherly Mar 11, 1874 dau of William S. Vestal Emily J. Vestal m. Daniel Sparks Oct 18, 1874 Charlotte F. Vestal m. R. W. Moore Dec 25, 1881 dau of John H. Vestal Elijah Vestal m. Eva Estell Haynes Dec 4, 1881 son of William S. Vestal Joseph Vestal (20) m. Alice Beck (18) Oct. 8, 1901 son of John Aaron Vestal Rob Vestal (19) m. Ettie Cowan Aug. 17, 1904 son of Lige Vestal, Ettie is daughter of S. F. Cowan Mary E. Vestal m. John Bozwell Aug 15, 1875 Nancy J. Vestal m. Daniel West Jun 24, 1877 Mary R. Vestal m. Daniel Sparks West Dec 19, 1880 at residence of John Vestal Milly Ellen Vestal m. John Vinson Apr 17, 1881 Armilda Vestal m. Darvis Baugh Jun 20, 1882 Eva Vestal m. John W. Cupp Nov 15, 1882 Libbie E. Vestal m. Philander Boyd Green Mary 13, 1883 Emsley Evans Vestal m. Elizabeth Stivers Nov 10, 1878 (my great great grandparents) John W. Vestal m. Nancy P. West Jan 12, 1879 Joseph Vestal m. Manda E. Richmond Dec 25, 1878 son of William S. Vestal William I. Vestal m. Martha J. Cain Sep 5, 1880 John W. Vestal m. Nancy M. Sizemore Sept 12, 1885 son of Claiborne Vestal James S. Vestal m. Delila Admire Nov 29, 1885 son of Jacob Vestal, Delilia dau of Silas Admire C. A. Vestal m. John L. Morrison May 27, 1883 dau of Melinda Vestal Mrs. Melinda Vestal (age 53/63) m. David G. Teter (67) Nov 18, 1883 Mr. Teter of Cloud, Kansas Sarah F. Vestal m. Joseph G. Green Nov 22, 1883 Permelia Vestal m. Albert Newman Sep 26, 1886 dau of William S. Vestal Matilda "Tillie" Vestal (16) m. Lemuel W. Haynes Oct 9, 1887 dau of William S. Vestal Mary M. Vestal m. Stockton Summers Jan 3, 1888 Mr. Summers son of Richard Summers Mattie Vestal m. Allen May Mar 6, 1889 Noah Vestal (23) m. Mary Ellen McFarland Mar 16, 1890 son of William S. Vestal David C. Vestal (22) m. Minnie Downs (21) Jun 8, 1890 Emily B. Vestal (17) m. John L. Collins Mar 10, 1892 dau of John W. Vestal Mary L. Vestal (20) m. John A. Workman (28) Dec 19, 1892 Myrtle Vestal (17) m. James Hill (22) Jul 9, 1893 dau of John Aaron Vestal John Aaron Vestal (37) m. Mary Beck (33) Jul 1893 Peter Vestal (19) m. Virty McFarland Mar 11, 1894 son of William S. Vestal Sarah Vestal (13) m. John Boston (24) Apr 24, 1895 dau of B. F. Vestal Eliza Vestal (65) m. John M. Johnson (56) Jun 14, 1897 (my great great great grandmother and her second husband) Zepha G. Vestal (16) m. Francis M. Davis (18) Aug 30, 1898 dau of J. W. Vestal Edward Vestal (20) m. Hattie Morgan (17) Oct 7, 1899 son of John Aaron Vestal Bessie J. Vestal (17) m. John F. Buster (22) Aug 12, 1900 dau of Eliza(h) Vestal living in Elm Twp (my great great grandaunt) James B. Vestal (19) m. Effie Hill (18) Dec 22, 1900 son of John Aaron Vestal married in Pantagraph Office, Unionville William Benjamin Vestal (20) m. Gertie Davolt (18) Sep 14, 1901 (my great grandparents) Property Records Farmers in Elm Township... Eliza Vestal (my ggg gr mthr), property at Worthington, Sec 25-36 123 acres. E. E. Vestal (my gg gr fthr), property at Stahl, Sec 6, 72 acres Fred Vestal, Sec 36, living (renter) of Eliza Vestal Noah Vestal, Worthington, Sec 24, 140 acres Robert Vestal, Worthington, Sec 20, 71 acres Richland... John Vestal and son, Unionville, Sec 10, 120 acres Lincoln... G. A. Vestal, Mendota MO, Sec 27, renter above taken from old Platte Book. Cemetery Records William Labe Vestal, b. Feb 18, 1896, d. Oct 11, 1923 Noah Vestal, b. Dec 6, 1866, d. Feb 12, 1960 Mary Ellen His Wife, Nee McFarland, b. Sep 9, 1873, d. Nov 1946 Frank Vestal, d. Jan 25, 1901, age 2m 15d son of N & M Sarah Minerva Vestal, d. Aug 2, 1892, age 33y, 2m, 17d wife of John Laura Bell Vestal d. Apr 18, 1877, age 2y 3m dau of Johnson & Eliza (my ancestors) John Henry Vestal, CO I 185th Mo Inf Vol, b. Nov 17, 1845, d. Dec 15, 1938 Milley D. His Wife Nee Sparks, b. Mar 17, 1848, d. Mar 23, 1914 Inf Dau, d. Dec 10, 1870, Age 2d Everett Vestal, d. Nov 14, 1891, a 19y 9 m 15d son of J. W. & N. P. Stella Vestal, d. Oct 29, 1891 age 11y 9m 15d dau of J. W. & N. P. William Vestal, d. Nov 17, 1903, age 79y 4d Charlotte his Wife, nee Branscomb, d. Feb 16, 1880, age 48y, 7m 8d Elder Emisly Evin Vestal b. Dec 1, 1860 d. Dec 26, 1942 Elizabeth his wife, b. Mar 15, 1863 d. Sep 1947 (my great great grandparents) Pervie Day Vestal, b. Jul 9, 1905, d. 1942 (child of EE & Eliz Vestal) Benjamin Vestal, d. Sep 25, 1880, age 27y 7m 25d (brother of EE Vestal) Emsley Vestal, b. Nov 18, 1832, d. Dec 1875 Dr. J. W. Vestal, d. May 4, 1901 age 54y 11m 10d Nancy his wife nee West, d. Sep 24, 1933, age 74y 9m 10d #2 hus: Mr. Pittman, #3 hus: Mr. Noon John Vestal, b. Oct 22, 1859, d. Jan 20, 1935 son of Johnson and Eliza Vestal (my ggg gr par)

Boy, go out of town for a couple of weeks and look at the activity on the list! Just got back from Winchester, WV and Richmond, VA and Charles Town VA and Martinsburg VA and places in between. Stuck my foot in the waters of the Shenandoah before William Vestal Jr's property and asked for help from the ancestors in solving a few puzzles for us. Got copies of all original records for anything Vestal in Orange Co., old Frederick Co., Berkeley Co., Jefferson Co., and Loudoun Co. Will be putting it all up on my web site this week. Keep up the search! .... ginny

If the address will not work,try www.familytreemaker.com When the screen comes up,click on homepages at the top of the screen. Then follow the on screen directions. The homepage is listed under Helms,Tony M Homepages are sorted by last name.

Hello Tony I found your website and was a little disapointed that not all of william and Elizabeth Mercer Vestals children were listed did I perhaps not look far enough . Patricia Perkins at caviness@abts.net ---------- > From: HELMSTMK@aol.com > To: VESTAL-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [VESTAL-L] Vestal Tree > Date: Tuesday, October 06, 1998 11:15 PM > > Had an error in my website address.Sorry > > http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/e/l/Tony--M-Helms/index.html > > > ==== VESTAL Mailing List ==== > Thank you for not sending any virus warnings, FCC, spams, or any other > non-genealogy articles to the rootsweb lists. This helps to keep the > rootsweb's equipment running smoothly, and not ruin their equipment.

http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/e/l/Tony--M-Helms/index.html Try to double click on Tony's address..... It has 2 "--" between Tony--M >> Just posted my latest Vestal family tree update on Familytree Maker. >> ( http:www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/e/l/Tony--M-Helms/index.html ) >> >>Hi, I'd love to check your site, but I can't get there. Could you send me >that >>address again? Thanks. Texas@morgan.net

I cannot access either.....Please send me a copy of your Vestal tree... Thank You ellied@presys.com

Had an error in my website address.Sorry http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/e/l/Tony--M-Helms/index.html

Don't forget to put (//) after the http: I found the site after inserting the slashes.

http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/e/l/Tony-M-Helms/index.html -----Original Message----- From: Lil' Sister <texas@morgan.net> To: VESTAL-L@rootsweb.com <VESTAL-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, October 06, 1998 9:09 AM Subject: RE: [VESTAL-L] Vestal Tree >Hi, I'd love to check your site, but I can't get there. Could you send me that >address again? Thanks. Texas@morgan.net > >-----Original Message----- >From: HELMSTMK@aol.com [SMTP:HELMSTMK@aol.com] >Sent: Monday, October 05, 1998 9:03 PM >To: VESTAL-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [VESTAL-L] Vestal Tree > >Just posted my latest Vestal family tree update on Familytree Maker. >http:www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/e/l/Tony-M-Helms/index.html >New list contains 4951 decendants of John Vestall (b.1573) of which 994 have >the last name of Vestal. >If anyone wants a copy, I will be glad to e-mail you one. >E-mail address HELMS T MK@aol.com >If anyone has a Vestal that ties into the list that I have posted I would like >to have the information if I can.The more that we can get on one searchable >database, the easier that it will be to place unknown links of the Vestal >family where they belong in the family tree. >Tony >http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/e/l/Tony-M-Helms/index.html > > > >

I cannot seem to access your list either, could you sent me a copy please. Judie Vestal Walter jwalter@umsl.edu > Just posted my latest Vestal family tree update on Familytree Maker. >( http:www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/e/l/Tony--M-Helms/index.html ) > >New list contains 4951 decendants of John Vestall (b.1573) of which >994 have the last name of Vestal. > >If anyone wants a copy, I will be glad to e-mail you one. >E-mail address HELMS T MK@aol.com > > If anyone has a Vestal that ties into the list that I have posted I would >like to have the information if I can.The more that we can get on one >searchable database, the easier that it will be to place unknown links of the >Vestal family where they belong in the family tree. > >Tony

Hi, I'd love to check your site, but I can't get there. Could you send me that address again? Thanks. Texas@morgan.net -----Original Message----- From: HELMSTMK@aol.com [SMTP:HELMSTMK@aol.com] Sent: Monday, October 05, 1998 9:03 PM To: VESTAL-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [VESTAL-L] Vestal Tree Just posted my latest Vestal family tree update on Familytree Maker. http:www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/e/l/Tony-M-Helms/index.html New list contains 4951 decendants of John Vestall (b.1573) of which 994 have the last name of Vestal. If anyone wants a copy, I will be glad to e-mail you one. E-mail address HELMS T MK@aol.com If anyone has a Vestal that ties into the list that I have posted I would like to have the information if I can.The more that we can get on one searchable database, the easier that it will be to place unknown links of the Vestal family where they belong in the family tree. Tony http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/e/l/Tony-M-Helms/index.html

The will of William III came from Sue Ashby.She is the volunteer host for Chathan co.North Carolina on the US Genweb Project.She may have many more Vestal wills,I did not ask her about others as I working on William at the time.She has the microfilms for them in her personal collection. E-mail address ( canova@tstar.net ) The info on John Vestal and Hannah Ann Potts came from Linda Dudicks site on ancestory.com as well as Quaker records that were accessed through ancestry.com. Tony