At 10:52 AM 6/6/98 -0500, Sallie Cannon wrote: >I have just learned that my g-grandmother, > >SARAH MOORES WHITAKER HAYWOOD, >b. Dec 10, 1847, >d. Dec 12, Oct 25, 1922 in Beaumont, TX, >mar. Dec 12, 1866 in Cedar Grove Plantation, Cass Co., TX to ROBERT >JONES HAYWOOD I, > >was the daughter of > >WILLIS WHITAKER, b. Sep. 23, 1798 in Kershaw District, SC, >d. Mar 19, 1867 in Cedar Grove Plantation, Cass Co., TX, >mar. Jul 27, 1844 in Mooresville, Bowie Co., TX, [snip] > I would appreciate learning more about the WHITAKER, MOORES, & HAYWOOD >ancestors. If you would be so kind as to point the way, to a related >web page, other internet sites, and/or contact with descendants, the >information would be most welcomed. The Kershaw County Whitakers you're looking for were descendants of two brothers who migrated to what is now Camden from North Carolina in the 1770s. (I am descended from a nephew or a cousin who went to western SC about 30 years later.) There were at least two Willis Whitakers, plus yours: there was one in the Revolution. There were two or three major groups of Whitakers in pre-1800 North Carolina: the two brothers were descendants of a family group that left southeastern VA for northeastern NC earlier in the 1700s. Quite a few were early Methodists -- the first three generations of my family in South Carolina were Methodist clergy -- but the two brothers who went to Camden apparently moved up the social scale. (In the early days, Methodists were *not* respectable.<g>) I'd suggest that you contact the Camden Archives (1314 Broad Street/Camden, SC 29020). They're the ones with the Camden Whitaker material. (They do charge a small fee. Specifying that you just want photocopies of their Whitaker material up to whenever Willis left South Carolina should save you some money.) I live in Kershaw County, but I'm preparing to move for the second time this year. (I've found a new job, which necessitates a relocation this summer, to Clarendon County, South Carolina.) Elizabeth Whitaker [email protected]