Bettye, Thanks I want to have the most correct information I can get. I usually tend to believe the descendents of a person if there is not any proof that they are incorrect. As you stated the will does make it sound different. But alas on my other side of the family I have a gggrandfather that died and left a will in it he named his known children by his first wife, his children by his wife at time of his death and then says,"I leave to my son Carroll so in so." Now we don't have any idea who that son was nor who his mother was. So this proves that wills sometimes muddy the water too. Paula ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bettye Heinrich" <bettyejps@netzero.net> To: <WALDROP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 2:46 PM Subject: Re: [WALDROP] BENJAMIN > Paula, Several researchers have 'muddied the waters' on my Ezekiel > Waldrop. It has been a difficult thing to try and convince others abt him > > > For along time, several researchers had my Ezekiel as a son of John and his > 1st wife, Millicent. They also had him listed as being born c 1748. > The censuses support him being borned bwt 1755 - 1777. I always had that > his mother was Tabitha. > > In John Waldrop's will (1794 Newberry Co SC Ezekiel, Hezekiah (it was > Izakiah in will ), William, Isaac and John 'were to have my stock of horses > after the widow or death of their mother, Tabe Waldop. In another > sentence, he bequest his land to be divided among his 7 sons after the > death of his wife, Tabe Waldrop. That list contained the names of his > sons including Stephen and David. > > John Waldrop's will has a peculiar sentence abt a Robert in connection > with my Ezekiel. Although many believe that Robert was a son of Ezekiel, > I do not. My line has had a list passed down through several > generations that named Ezekiel's children including infant Charles that > died. Had Ezekiel had other children then I believe they would have been > included. > > Ezekiel's heirs sold his land in Henderson Co NC in 1828. The heirs were: > Nancy and husband Thomas Price, Tabitha and husband Thomas Adams, Mary > and husband Dorcus Young, > Samuel Waldrop, Permilia Short, and Rebecca and her husband Joseph Hardin > Kuykendall. Had there been other children they would have been included > on the papers related to the sale of the land. Those names are the same > ones that have been passed down through my Waldrop relatives plus the infant > Charles. > > Bettye > > " I do not mind being old. There are others who will never reach this designation." > > > ==== WALDROP Mailing List ==== > To use Waldrop Message Board: > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/wal/Waldrop > To Review Archived messages: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/WALDROP-L > >