The other day I wrote my thoughts on right brain and left brain genealogy. The left brain prefers linear step by step thinking and order. The right brain likes to see the larger picture first and get an intuitional sense of things as it works. Right brain people have their genealogy spread out in front of them and all over the floor and left brain people have meticulous cards, notes, index and footnotes on an organized desk. That is, of course, over simplification and we are all mostly mixtures of the two. Anyway tonight I was being very right brain intuitive and working on some Missouri Vestals that I think I am related to and I came across a Millie Gipson and decided to add her kin and found that the Gipson family had moved from Orange & Randolph Co., NC to Burke Co, NC to Clay Co., KY and then to Wayne Co., KY then to Randolph and Macon Co. MO. They were traveling with Vestals. Lo and behold I found several Sabrina's and Sabras in the daughters names for several generations. As you may know I have a mysterious Sibby, wife of a John Vestel, both of whom were of the ca 1760 generation. I think through the process of elimination that this John has to be the son of James Vestal Sr. ca 1730 who married first Mary [Jay?]. This Gipson search has led me to Stephen Gibson ca 1733 and Mollie Stillwell of Randolph Co., NC. It is possible that my Sibby fits into their family. They had granddaughters named Sabrina who were born in Wayne Co., KY and Macon county, MO. I know that Sibby and John were in Wayne Co., KY with their children, several of whom married there. I do not yet have any proof that Sibby is Sabrina Gipson, but it seems a very good lead and gives me a whole new area to search. So this is an example of intuitional searches. I could be dead wrong, but if I wait forever for a marriage record to give me Sibby's last name I may wait forever. Sabrina is an unusal name yet the Gipson family which intermarries with the Vestals uses the name. Duh? So now I have emails out to the Gipson's, etc. It is real good circumstantial possibility when you have Sabrina Gipsons traveling the same route of migration with the Vestals to Missouri. Anyway, say a Novena and light a candle or whatever you do when you want a breakthrough. I sure need one. Tom Rea

Interesting one has to remember that most people living in the middle of the country say, Ky ,Ark , Mo ,Texas ,Ind., all had there start in Va . Then following a usual migration path went down into NC then beginning about 1820 begin to spread out all over ,my family split about half with half to Morgan Co Ind .half to Tx. Others filtered into mo ,ark etc. the point being they did not travel alone they must have actually had wagon trains, and often many members of a community left together ,some times these folks were kin , or perhaps of the same faith , but I also believe that if the young unmarried folks traveling with the group did not have a wife from a neighboring family already they developed a relationship on the way I wonder how many married on route ?since their were so few to select from they often married into the same family I have heard off three brothers marrying three sisters Not there own of course and first cousins marring was not uncommon, or a brother marrying another brothers widow .People did not stay single long either as many were widowed young and had children to raise and times were hard . Makes me wonder how many marriages of convienience there wereback then I find that many of the people living in Morgan co Ind. about 1834 were of the same families that were in NC in 1800 the Vestals the Poes the Rains, Caviness these people married into each others families in NC and continued to marry into each others families in Ind.perhaps some even married along the way, all one has to do is look at the census and see how many were born in N.C, Pat [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Rea <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 7:25 AM Subject: [VESTAL-L] Vestal, John and Sibby > The other day I wrote my thoughts on right brain and left brain > genealogy. The left brain prefers linear step by step thinking and > order. The right brain likes to see the larger picture first and get > an intuitional sense of things as it works. Right brain people have > their genealogy spread out in front of them and all over the floor > and left brain people have meticulous cards, notes, index and > footnotes on an organized desk. > > That is, of course, over simplification and we are all mostly > mixtures of the two. Anyway tonight I was being very right brain > intuitive and working on some Missouri Vestals that I think I am > related to and I came across a Millie Gipson and decided to add her > kin and found that the Gipson family had moved from Orange & Randolph > Co., NC to Burke Co, NC to Clay Co., KY and then to Wayne Co., KY > then to Randolph and Macon Co. MO. They were traveling with Vestals. > Lo and behold I found several Sabrina's and Sabras in the daughters > names for several generations. As you may know I have a mysterious > Sibby, wife of a John Vestel, both of whom were of the ca 1760 > generation. I think through the process of elimination that this > John has to be the son of James Vestal Sr. ca 1730 who married first > Mary [Jay?]. > > This Gipson search has led me to Stephen Gibson ca 1733 and Mollie > Stillwell of Randolph Co., NC. It is possible that my Sibby fits > into their family. They had granddaughters named Sabrina who were > born in Wayne Co., KY and Macon county, MO. I know that Sibby and > John were in Wayne Co., KY with their children, several of whom > married there. I do not yet have any proof that Sibby is Sabrina > Gipson, but it seems a very good lead and gives me a whole new area > to search. So this is an example of intuitional searches. I could > be dead wrong, but if I wait forever for a marriage record to give me > Sibby's last name I may wait forever. Sabrina is an unusal name yet > the Gipson family which intermarries with the Vestals uses the name. > Duh? So now I have emails out to the Gipson's, etc. It is real good > circumstantial possibility when you have Sabrina Gipsons traveling > the same route of migration with the Vestals to Missouri. Anyway, > say a Novena and light a candle or whatever you do when you want a > breakthrough. I sure need one. > > Tom Rea > > > ==== VESTAL Mailing List ==== > Please Help Support Rootsweb! By becoming a member, your donation will continue to have this great surname e-mail list, and the new surname boards on a website at Rootsweb! Your donations are the only thing that keep them going! Just go to: http://www.rootsweb.com/ > >