Sorry I have no roger I would like to find more info --- donalitt@sbcglobal.net wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to > this mailing list. > > Surnames: WELLS, GAINEY, CHAVIS > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SCWBAIB/4439 > > Message Board Post: > > Have been searching past several years for > Caroline/Carolyn GAINEY and descedants. Just learned > she md Roger WELLS prior to 1948, possibly in NC > and they had at least 3 children. Would love to > connect and share info with "cousins" . > Thanks in advance. > donna > donalitt@sbcglobal.net > > > ==== WELLS Mailing List ==== > Please Support > Rootsweb > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

I have a William Wells and Sarah but I don't have any Christopher. Sorry --- sandesue@yahoo.com wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to > this mailing list. > > Surnames: Wells > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SCWBAIB/4322.1.1.2 > > Message Board Post: > > I am looking for information on Christopher C Wells. > I believe his father is William Wells and mother is > Sarah but have no proof as of now. Christopher > married Nancy Melvina Howe and had my great > grandmother Bessie Leone Wells. Does any of this > information sound familiar to you? > > Sandra > > > ==== WELLS Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list > send the command "unsubscribe" > to WELLS-L-request@rootsweb.com for list mode > or WELLS-D-request@rootsweb.com for digest mode > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wells Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SCWBAIB/4322.1.1.2 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on Christopher C Wells. I believe his father is William Wells and mother is Sarah but have no proof as of now. Christopher married Nancy Melvina Howe and had my great grandmother Bessie Leone Wells. Does any of this information sound familiar to you? Sandra

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WELLS, GAINEY, CHAVIS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SCWBAIB/4439 Message Board Post: Have been searching past several years for Caroline/Carolyn GAINEY and descedants. Just learned she md Roger WELLS prior to 1948, possibly in NC and they had at least 3 children. Would love to connect and share info with "cousins" . Thanks in advance. donna donalitt@sbcglobal.net

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WELLS, MEYERS Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SCWBAIB/4438 Message Board Post: 70, United States Army (Retired), Vietnam Veteran. Husband of Augusta; father of Samuel (Debbie) Wells, Ruth (Jeff) Meyers; brother of Chuck (Becky) Wells, Debbie & Cheryl. Also survived by 6 grandchildren, & 4 great grandchildren. Visitation Tuesday 4-8 PM, Funeral Wednesday 10:00 AM both at Advantage Aurora Chase Mortuary, Interment, 12 Noon, Fort Logan National Cemetery, Staging Area "B". Advantage Funeral & Cremation Services; www.advantagefunerals.com. Source is The Denver Post newspaper; edition of Sunday, March 12, 2006; page 7C.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SCWBAIB/4437.1.1 Message Board Post: John Wells b. 1798 NC d. 1857 TN Nancy Smith b. 1801 VA d. unk children Elizabeth Francis, Harriet, Jane, George, William, James, Nancy, John B.,Sarah L, Malinda What do you have on Sarah Wells? Do you know anthing about her marriage to Isaac McBee. Were there children? Thanks

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WELLS, WESTMORELAND Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SCWBAIB/4437.1 Message Board Post: I don't have any knowledge of James Blanset, but I would be much interested in learning the parents of Sarah Wells if you have that information. Robert

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Blanset, Blansett, Blancet, Blancett, Blanchet, Blanchett, McBee, Wells, Harris, Lewis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SCWBAIB/4437 Message Board Post: I am looking for the exact death date for James BLANSET listed in the roster as Pvt G Co 34th Infantry TN. He died between 1863 and 1865. The only way he could have died earlier was to not be the father of a child born in 1864. The reason it could have been as late as as 1865 is because his widow Sarah Wells Blanset married Isaac McBee in 1865. James and Sarah were the parents of Lourina and Mary Catherine BLANSET. Mary married Abraham HARRIS in TN. Thanks

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wells/Ball, Bustle,Hargis, Stewart, Jones & Farmer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SCWBAIB/4434.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Jeff, I live in Los Angeles, CA. , but I was born in Corbin Kentucky and raised in Tampa Florida. Can you send your info in pdf format instead, I might still be able to open it if you can't, you know, I'm one of "those" Mac users that has to use a translator program to open any window docs. It'll be fun finding our first common ancestor. Use my email address gczcw@aol.com to send it and if we're on the right track I'll send you the info that I have. I'm not certain what part of Utah your in, but I've spent a lot of time in Provo and Park City working and playing. Take care.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SCWBAIB/4434.2.1 Message Board Post: I agree.......maybe many of us just popped up through spontaneous generation! I can send you my family tree as a PAF file....would that help? Thanks, Jeff PS...where do you live? I live in Alpine, Utah.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wells, Almon, Jones, Power, Finnell, Roberts, Cox, Adams, Eaton, Vandiver, Elkins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SCWBAIB/4435.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: With regard to your Jeremiah Wells I don't know how much help I can be. The fact that the DNA of your line does not match any other suggests to me the possibility of an adoption, a name change, or a late date for immigration. I am thinking that if you ran your DNA results through one of the online data bases that provide a matching service you might be able to find out if you match another family of a different surname. I know there are such sites. As to the Almon surname -- I have traced my line back only to Louisa Co VA ca 1770. There is, however, a SC and Georgia connection I have run across. Here is a comment I received from someone connected to the Sansum-Echols family that married into a branch of the Almon family at Louisa Co VA. This is a small world after all, interestingly enough, there once was a gentleman by the name of Mr. Milner Echols who married none other than a Miss Susannah Sansom, Daughter of Elijah and Elizabeth Sansom. Their Granddaughter married a Mr. Zachariah Phillip Almon, son of Jonathan Holston and Delaney (Taylor) of Edgefield District, South Carolina, and moved in the 1820's to Georgia. Though there isn't any blood relationship between Thomas Almon and Hezekiah Almon of Edgefield District, South Carolina, Father of Jonathan Holston Almon. However, based on information from a Mr. William Almon, in the 1880 Census stated his father was from Virginia. Hmmm...Maybe there may be a blood relationship... Zachariah Phillip Almon is my Great-Grand Uncle. I don't know how helpful this may be, but it is all I have. My connection to the Almon family is through a g-g-grandmother b 1838 in Indiana.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wells/Ball, Bustle,Hargis, Stewart, Jones & Farmer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SCWBAIB/4434.2 Message Board Post: Hi Jeff, my DNA also tracks back to Henry Wells. Email me at GCZCW@aol.com and tell me who your parents, greatgrandparents and anything else you have. The Wells family seems to appear and disappear all over the place so if you have any info as to where they were born and lived that would also be helpful. Perhaps we are long-lost cousins. Georgia Wells-West

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Burkett, Wells, Carpenter, Rodgers, Gibson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SCWBAIB/4382.1 Message Board Post: Do you have anything on your Joseph Wells? I think that possibly he may be related to my Thomas H. Wells, but can't prove it.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Burkett, Wells, Carpenter, Rodgers, Gibson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SCWBAIB/4400.1 Message Board Post: Do you know who the parents and siblings of Jacob Wells are? I believe but can't prove that possibly Jacob had a brother Thomas H. Wells and named his son after him. Like wise that brother, Thomas, named a son Jacob Wells after his brother, Jacob. What I don't know is who my Thomas H. Wells parents and siblings are. Therefore I can't prove that your Jacob is my Thomas' brother.

Just a note about the 1870 census that Mary Beth mentioned. For anyone who is researching in Pittsylvania Co., VA, the whole Callands District is missing from the 1870 census. I have a number of ancestors that would have been in that district. I have been through the microfilms of that census three times and the Callands District is just not there. I am not sure if it is missing from the actual census or just from the microfilm. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Mbmjlm22@aol.com> To: <WELLS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 7:43 PM Subject: Re: [WELLS-L] Re: WELLS-D Digest V06 #47 > I have a tip about how to find people in the census when you know they sh > ould be there. This does not work all the time because as Orrin says, sometimes > they were just missed. The 1870 census seems to be the worst for that. > However, one way is to use the given name and the state of birth. If the > indexers have messed up the surname, sometimes it will show up using the given name > and the birthstate. I used that to find my gg grandmother two months ago. > I had been looking for her for 6 years. She lived in Louisiana in 1850 and I > plugged in Mary and her birth state of Pennsylvania. Lo and behold, there > she was. In fact, the census taker was the one who messed it up. The surname > was Insall, but the census taker spelled in Ancell. Even using soundex that > name did not show up. So try things like that. When all else fails, do try > what Orrin suggested, go page by page. It takes time but I have found > people that way as well. Mary Beth > > > ==== WELLS Mailing List ==== > To contact Listowner, > Send email to: > dwells@zekes.com >

I have a tip about how to find people in the census when you know they sh ould be there. This does not work all the time because as Orrin says, sometimes they were just missed. The 1870 census seems to be the worst for that. However, one way is to use the given name and the state of birth. If the indexers have messed up the surname, sometimes it will show up using the given name and the birthstate. I used that to find my gg grandmother two months ago. I had been looking for her for 6 years. She lived in Louisiana in 1850 and I plugged in Mary and her birth state of Pennsylvania. Lo and behold, there she was. In fact, the census taker was the one who messed it up. The surname was Insall, but the census taker spelled in Ancell. Even using soundex that name did not show up. So try things like that. When all else fails, do try what Orrin suggested, go page by page. It takes time but I have found people that way as well. Mary Beth

I see part of your problem. It appears they are not easy to find in the census records. In the 1920 census they are in Harris Co., Texas in Precinct 84/Justice Precinct 7 at Dwelling 98 on East Montgomery Road. This is page 9 at Ancestry.com but the index shows them on page 11. So the indexers were not perfect which is a foot note for those using the indexes. They are not only not always accurate but they corrupt the names and totally miss people sometimes. So if you don't find what you are looking for but are sure the people should be there, you may have to resort to looking page by page in the area of interest. In 1920 the following record appears: James K. Freeman 63 b: NY parents born NY and Canada - carpenter working for a house builder Margaret Freeman 51 b: Florida parents born Florida James K. Freeman, Jr. 19 b: TX Esther Freeman 15 b: TX E. Ruth Freeman 12 b: TX in 1900 they were in "Houston City", Harris Co., TX at 1610 Chesnut Street Jas K. Freeman b: Dec 1866 "Eng Canada" parents born NY and Canada Maggie A. Freeman b: Feb 1869 Florida - parents born Ireland and North Carolina Margaret E. Freeman b: June 1899 Texas (notice the inconsistency for birth places between the two census records. Not all that unusual unfortunately) I can not easily find them in the 1910 census. Now I have a question. Your great-grandmother is shown by you as Margaret Ann Wells Long. What was her maiden name - Wells or Long? I am suspecting that she might have actually been married before James Freeman. Is that correct? If so I see no evidence of children by the previous marriage in 1900. So far I have not found her in the 1870 or 1880 census. There is one Maggie Wells born Cir 1870 in the 1880 census in Jacksonville, Duval Co., Florida but s At 06:47 PM 3/6/2006, JRAWLEY@tampabay.rr.com wrote: >My great-grandmother was Margaret Ann Wells Long and she and my great- >grandfather, James Kent Freeman, were married in Navasota, Tx., which, >I understand, is Grimes County. I have not been able to find any >information on her beyond the wedding announcement I have, dated >August, 1898. I called the Clerk of the Circuit Court to confirm the >marriage, and they could not find a record of it and I cannot read the >name of the clergy that married them. I am at a dead-end with her. >Would the name happen to sound familiar? Maybe she had family in the >area? She was born in Jackson Co, FL. They later moved to Houston, >where she lived until her death in 1925. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: WELLS-D-request@rootsweb.com >Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 5:35 pm >Subject: WELLS-D Digest V06 #47 >To: WELLS-D@rootsweb.com > > > WELLS-D Digest Volume 06 : Issue 47 > > > > Today's Topics: > > #1 Re: [WELLS-L] Wells in Grimes Co. [Joy Boutwell McNally > > <joym43@yahoo] #2 Re: [WELLS-L] Wells in Grimes Co. ["Charles > > Darby" <cedarby@cox.net>] > > #3 Re: [WELLS-L] Wells in Grimes Co. [Joy Boutwell McNally > > <joym43@yahoo] #4 Wells, Grimes Co., TX ["Charles > > Darby" <cedarby@cox.net>] > > #5 WELLS BROTHERS AND SISTER BRANCH C [Shellyhilgert@yahoo.com] > > #6 Thomas Wells JP ["Linda Rutherford" > > <lindar04@earth] > > Administrivia: > > To unsubscribe from WELLS-D, send a message to > > > > WELLS-D-request@rootsweb.com > > > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > > > unsubscribe > > > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > > > ______________________________ > > >==== WELLS Mailing List ==== > Don't Forget > The Wells Family Research Association > http://www.rootsweb.com/~wellsfam/wfrahome.html Orin R. Wells Wells Family Research Association P. O. Box 5427 Kent, Washington 98064-5427 <OrinWells@wells.org> http://www.wells.org Subscribe to the "Wells-L" list on RootsWeb

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SCWBAIB/4435.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Margaret, I forgot to mention that Jeremiah Wells' census listings always state he was born in Georgia. His 1880 census listing says his parents were born in SC. However, a family member, probably one of his children, told a newspaper reporter in about 1910 that Jeremiah was a "native" of Virginia. I am inclined to interpret all this as meaning that the line was from Virginia but moved to SC then into Georgia, and perhaps moved back and forth. My guess is that the Wellses came from the counties along the NC/VA border, but it's just a guess.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wells Almand Dyer Dyar Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SCWBAIB/4435.1.1.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Margaret, your response to Jeff caught my attention for two reasons. First, I have other lines in the Old Tryon Co, area along the NC/SC border and often encounter these Wellses in my research. I can't help but wonder whether they somehow connect to my Wellses. The Hambrights are involved. Second, my great great grandfather, Andrew Jackson Wells, married Amanda Evaline Almand (your post surnames mention Almon). The couple was known as Andy and Mandy. Mandy's father, Green V. Almand, was a business partner of Andy's father, Jeremiah Wells b. 1801 in Georgia. Both Green V. Almand and Jeremiah Wells are brick walls for me (ironically, they were in the brick business together in Atlanta). Two of my cousins participated in the DNA project (we are family W338) and they matched each other but no one else. Any ideas?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wells, Almon, Jones, Power, Finnell, Roberts, Cox, Adams, Eaton, Vandiver, Elkins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SCWBAIB/4435.1.1.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: While not familiar with your brick wall ancestor, the fact that he came from North Carolina and that the names Joseph, John, and Isaac run in this family suggest to me that your lineage may be through John Wells and Britter Holloway. Descendants of this couple also attach to the Henry Wells family of PA. My best guess is that John Wells b ca 1741 is a grandson of John Wells, who died in 1749 at New Brittain in Pennsylvania. John Wells b 1692 was the third son of Henry Wells. Little is known of him except that he had at four children, including sons John and Isaac, born before 1721 in Pennsylvania who disappeared from PA records soon after the death of their father. John Wells of Pennsylvania had an association with the Pennington family, later found in Lancaster Co PA and still later identified as among the earliest residents of Rowan Co NC [on the first tax list]. Also in Rowan Co at that time was at least one Whisenhunt-surname individual [married into John Wells-Britter Holloway line]. This Wells line also married into the Hambright family, a name found early on in Lancaster Co. Of Henry Wells's children, only three have descent lines that have not been rather thoroughly explored. John is one of these ... because he died early and without a will and because his children appear to have left Pennsylvania. The other two possibilities (Henry b ca 1707, Samuel b ca 1709) do not appear as likely. Samuel was at Doylestown PA as late as 1730, but disappears thereafter (although he may be the man of that name at Loudoun Co VA in the 1760s with sons Joseph, Daniel, and Abraham). Henry has proven to be equally elusive. Finally, Henry Wells appears to have had a brother Joseph who can be found in some early PA records. (He also had a son Joseph whose line is rather well known, but who is too young to be the earlier Joseph Wells found in PA records.) This Joseph Wells had some association with the Burson family who migrated into Virginia at an early date, but nothing definitive is found on this man after about 1722. If you go to the Wells PA list at rootsweb and browse through the archived messages you will find a great deal of information on the lineage of Henry Wells as well as some contacts there.