Hello again, To you all, especially descendants of William and Hannah of GA. I ask you all to copy this and peruse it and comment and if you have ANY documents to prove it wrong, let me know and Weeden and I will change our records. I survived Xmas and a bout with the flu, but have not yet recovered from the material I received Dec. 18 pertaining to William and Hannah. As I read this material I suspect it is from a web. One must be very careful with the data on those webs, as the creator of the web can make any statements he or she wishes, without proof. I have worked with Jackie Weeden, Whaley genealogist since 1989 or so and have been taught that sources must be provided for statements made and the sources should not be twisted and inserts made to them to make them agree with what the researcher wants to say. In this case, I suspect that wanting to descend from an illustrious family has colored the thinking of a researcher. The ROUND theory is a familiar one. In the 1990s Jackie and I corresponded with a researcher who descends from William and Hannah. I will refer to this researcher as "X" for reasons of privacy. X and Jackie and I exchanged materials and things went well for a while until X discovered a will by James Round wherein James mentioned a teen- aged daughter HANNAH. So X stated, "Aha, that is who married William Whaley." X gave a marriage place and date, even though there are no records. We stated that a document "Information of Family Heads 1805 GA" by Joseph T. Maddox stated "Jackson Co, Hannah Whaley, widow of William was nee Brewton." X replied that the statement meant that Hannah Round married a Brewton before she married Whaley. NO. Nee means married name, so Hannah was born a Brewton. (There are various spellings of Brewton.) We stated that Samuel Betts Jones, grandson of William and Hannah stated in his Journal that Hannah's maiden name was Brawton. X replied that the Journal was written several years after William and Hannah's deaths and therefore, Samuel would not know his grandmother's maiden name, as most grandchildren don't. We disagreed with that statement, also. I spent a lot of time and $s in Salt Lake City trying to find info regarding Hannah Round. There was NO record--the church where the mythical marriage of Hannah Round to William Whaley took place was the Buckingham Presbyterian Church of Berlin, MD, according to X. There is no record of marriages, there. According to WHALEYVILLE by Arthur B. Cozzens the church in that location there was Methodist. The Whaleys who came to GA were mostly Baptists. The Queen of England presented the Buckingham church with a silver service. Would the Whaleys associate themselves with a Royalty backed church after the first Whaleys fled to America to escape the wrath of the King of England??? I have Family Group Sheets prepared by X mentioned above and the above statements giving the ROUND theory are there. The material I received in Dec. 2006 says William was born about 1750 in Sinepuxent, Worcester Co , MD. There is NO record available that shows his birth date or place. His parents are unknown. There were so many Williams and Nathaniels and Edwards it seems impossible to determine parentage. The material states that THIS William served in the Rev. War from VA. In 1934 William T. Whaley of Sparta, GA wrote to the War. Dept. trying to find if his great great grandfather William Whaley, who died 1795 in GA had served in the Rev. War. The answer to him indicated that it was NOT his ancestor who had served from VA. The VA William Whaley had enlisted from Loudoun Co, VA, had served in various companies, applied for a pension on Sept. 11, 1818 at the age of 64 years and had died Aug. 14, 1824 in KY. His identification # was s.37632. The William Whaley in GA died in 1795!!! In 1940 Lula Reed Boss of Maysville KY also wrote to the War Dept requesting info on the VA William Whaley. She was sent the same info as in the paragraph above. A book, written by Rosenberg, p. 591 listed below: 'Descendants of James Burden 1740-1806, James Whaley 1684-1759 Henry Talbott 1745-1819' by Karl Rosenberg, 1982, gives info on the VA William Whaley. It indicated the names of his parents and grandparents and states that he did not marry. Is this enough proof? Maybe someone should contact the War. Dept. to see what THEY come up with. If there is any proof THIS GA WILLIAM WHALEY served in the Rev. War, let me know. I have had difficulty getting up enough nerve to write the above reply, but I know it MUST be done. Weeden and I have tried before and have had some success changing some people's minds. We have been called names but she has the records--I relay them to others. I will write another article re these problems in which I will try to give some corrections and further info, especially re Hannah Brewton, the gutsy lady who deserves to be written in history the correct way. If you wish to see Weeden's material, we still publish the GA Whaley book. Let me know. Ruby L. Nelson rlnsd@aol.com