Ruby, I knew you would jump in with the correct information. I hang my head in shame that I am decidedly rusty on my Whaley and Pepper research but that message just didn't ring true. I did remember you saying that no RW service records for our William had been found. Knowing how strongly you felt and how hard you had resarched that subject, I had to speak up. As for the Pepper information, it differs in places from what I have but I haven't done any current research. My information was based a lot on those estate papers listing the distributees after Hester died sometime after 1860. I need to (or someone needs to) go to the courthouse in Monroe in Walton County and look up those estate records --- the entire estate settlement including inventory, sales, accounting, distribution, who posted bond, annual returns, etc. A lot of answers probably can be found there. I'm sure all of us are curious as to the nature of the mulatto children in the census --- are they related or were they slaves who were very well taken care of? If they are relatives, whose children are they? Nobody seems to be able to figure that one out. I am calling Hester's name "Hester" based on the fact that the name carried down in the Fowler family for two more generations. Elizabeth Pepper Fowler had a daughter named Hester and Zephaniah Fowler (son of Elizabeth) and his wife, Lucy Ann Norris, had a daughter named Hester. The fact that the census taker wrote "Hessa" or "Hessey" just means that's what he heard. I don't believe the Pepper family was literate. No big deal. It wasn't important back then. Of the Pepper children given by Mr. Frakes, I do not have Sunsberry, William or Henry as children of John and Hester, although I believe Carolyn Kemp and her husband did ascertain that Sunsberry was a son. They had a letter in which the reference to Sunsberry would make him a son (he was somebody's uncle or something which put him in the right slot). Carolyn, if you're on this list and can clarify that, please do. Also I do not have a second marriage for Parker Pepper, son of John and Hester. Not that I'm right, I just don't have that information. Also, I am VERY curious as to how Mr. Frakes is descended from three of the Whaley girls. Related I can understand, but descended? Wow! That really takes some intermarrying. I hope he will explain that to us. If I find any more information, I will post it to the list, but I just wanted Ruby to know I heard her loud and clear. Hope her medication is working. :-) Judy K in Newnan, GA

At 09:30 PM 12/20/06 EST, you wrote: > >If I find any more information, I will post it to the list, but I just wanted >Ruby to know I heard her loud and clear. Hope her medication is working. :-) I must have missed it, but I didn't see what the medication is for apoplexy. Ah - I see from the definition (lack of oxygen to the brain) that I often suffer from such although I'm not sure in my case if it is lack of oxygen or something else. >Judy K in Newnan, GA What in the world are you doing in my home town?! Tim Chattanooga, TN