Dear List: I, as one of the McHenry Family researchers, would like to thank Tammy BURCH for her rereading and posting of the BURCH Cemetery. While I really appreciate all the work that Mrs. BRIGGS did reading all the cemeteries in Marshall County (and what a task and "undertaking" that must have been), I have always been perplexed with some of the entries she had listed for this cemetery. It really appears that Tammy BURCH of Mocksville, NC has done a very thorough job of reading this cemetery, apparantly in a much better condition now than when Mrs. Briggs had to deal with a "terribly overgrown" cemetery. I am very pleased that additional stones were dug out, turned over, or were now able to be read. Linda Fluharty, our WONDERFUL and TIRELESS worker bee coordinator has asked some of the McHENRY researchers to comment on the new posting. That I am happy to do for the list, as a lot of these "readings" now make much more sense to me. Let me start with Tammy's posting of the McHENRY graves she found. Probably the MOST SIGNIFICANT discovery are the graves of "Malvina, wife of O. G. MASON, daughter of G. W. and A. McHENRY" and that of "Joseph" of the exact same parentage. The interesting discovery here is that we now know the middle initial of George McHENRY who married Anne McHENRY, which to my knowledge, has been unknown until this time. It is well documented that Malvina, the wife of Oliver G. MASON, was definitely the daughter of George McHENRY and Anne (McHENRY) McHENRY (yes Anne was a McHENRY in her own right.) I do have a question for Tammy though--please check your notes as you say that Malvina died June 19, 1871 and was 34 years 12 months and 12 days old. That is impossible. I think it should be 1 month as I have her birthdate as May 7, 1837. This also now gives us a definite birth date for Joseph McHENRY since he died on April 19, 1855 and was 15 years 11 months and 22 days old. Also significant is the finding of the graves of "Margaret J., daughter of J. & A. McHENRY, December 14, 1856" and her brother "Franklin, son of J. & A. McHENRY Mar. 25, 1857". These HAVE TO BE the children of James McHENRY (son of James McHENRY and Rebecca (WHITE) McHENRY and his FIRST WIFE Anna BERKLEY. Until this time, we have had NO children listed for James and Anna, and now we have two. Also interesting is that James McHENRY himself is buried there having died on July 27, 1884 at 69 years. And now one of the MOST INTERESTING items of all, is the posting of the grave of "Benjamine, son of J & M. J. McHENRY died December 11, 1860--8 years 4 months 14 days." Why is this so important---because Mrs. Briggs had read this stone as "Benjamin son of J. D. McHENRY 11 Dec. 1860 - 8/11/11. 1. This is obviously the son of James McHENRY and his SECOND WIFE Mary Jane (MOORE) McHENRY. (We have him listed in the records as Benjamin F. McHENRY born August 1, 1854 and died December 11, 1862, the dates of which are obviously incorrect. He is listed in the 1860 Marshall County Census Record with James and Mary J. and sh shown as age 7--so the 1860 death date is most probably correct.) 2. This James McHENRY is carried throughout the genealogy records of most of the family researchers as James (D.?) {evidentally based on Mrs. Brigg's cemetery reading} McHENRY, and we now clearly see that is not correct, and he has to go bact to just being another in the LONG STRING of "James McHENRY" people we have to deal with. Still very puzzleing to me are the three brothers "Amstard, Hiram, and Anaslow McHENRY", who all appear to be sons of J. and S. A. McHENRY. Very interesting is the fact that Hiram is listed in the research records as a son of George and Anne McHENRY, discussed above. (Mrs. Briggs has Hiram's stone reading "son of C. & A. McHenry, Aug 7, 1865--11 years old."). There are no listings in the 1860 Census for any of these boys. I have NO "J. McHENRY" who is married to anyone with the initials of "S. A.". So I have no idea Amstard, Hiram, or Ansalow belong to. Does anyone else have an idea? I do have some comments on the BURCH postings and the Lowery postings, but I will wait and do them in another e-mail. Please, everyone, jump on the band wagon and tell me what you think. Carlisle Bowling e-mail [email protected] P. O. Box 1177 Flagler Beach, FL 32136-1177