Not sure there is any relationship but Amanda Caroline Ellison, born in Monroe Co. Nov. 29, 1864, d/o Alex and Va. Hutchinson Ellison, married John Marion Arritt in Monroe Co. Louise

Put in a query as to cost of a copy of a marriage certificate. I called them and have made arrangements to get a copy. By the way if ordered by mail it is $3.50 Betty in Idaho

To all RAMSEY researchers. I can use your help, if you would be so kind, in learning a couple of birth dates. Richard Ramsey married Martha C. Pine/Pyne. Do you have her birth date? Joseph Wiseman Ramsey married Julie Ann Pine/Pyne. Do you have her birthdate? Any help with these two will be greatly appreciated. Larry Pine ljpine@apu.edu

I would like to order a copy of the marriage information found in a Marriage Index for Monroe Co 1849. I have the address of the County Courthouse. Can someone tell me what the charge is for a copy from them? Betty in Idaho

Thanks. However, Polly Humphreys may have been a Vance, I just don't know. Does anyone have the documentation on this? kinchaser@juno.com wrote: > > I have not been able to track down just where the surnames of Vance and > Jarvis originated > > Don't worry about it Ed. It came from subsequent posts. Folks responded > to the Humphreys, adding additional surnames (I think Humphreys marrying > Vance etc.) and folks like me, with a stray 'Vance" surname jumped in > hoping to find links. > No one wants to miss an opportunity to find family (grin). > Crystal > > Crystal > Crystal A. Bingham, MSOT, OTR > Manhattan, KS > Vizslas: Denali Gold & Peaches 'n Cream; Cats Bojangles & Nuisance Kitty > To understand the living one must commune with the dead.

> I have not been able to track down just where the surnames of Vance and Jarvis originated Don't worry about it Ed. It came from subsequent posts. Folks responded to the Humphreys, adding additional surnames (I think Humphreys marrying Vance etc.) and folks like me, with a stray 'Vance" surname jumped in hoping to find links. No one wants to miss an opportunity to find family (grin). Crystal Crystal Crystal A. Bingham, MSOT, OTR Manhattan, KS Vizslas: Denali Gold & Peaches 'n Cream; Cats Bojangles & Nuisance Kitty To understand the living one must commune with the dead.

Hi all, Just a word to say that there is some bad data going around the internet about the Humphreys of Greenbrier/Monroe County, VA/WV -- and I'm responsible for some of it I admit. Samuel Humphreys, (Sr.) (1741-1821) immigrated from Ireland to PA to Grenbrier County, VA sometime in the 1770's. His son, Samuel Humphreys, (Jr.) (c1776-1855) was married to a woman named Polly (according to the 1850 census). Samuel, (Sr.) had a first wife whose name is not known -- she is the mother of Samuel, (Jr.). Samuel, (Sr.) remarried to Grizilla Donaldson Cavet in c1787. She was the mother of Robert Humphreys of Greenbrier (1788-1849) who married Jean Wylie on 3 Feb 1807 in Greenbrier. Samuel Humohreys, (Sr.) had eight children and no one is sure which wife was the mother of some of them. Possibly, Robert is the only child by his second wife, Grizilla (also called Grizzel, and/or Griselda). About Polly, wife of Samuel, (Jr.). She is said to have been Polly Vance, but also Mary "Polly" Jarvis. I have not been able to track down just where the surnames of Vance and Jarvis originated, but I admit to passing this information along. Samuel had two, possibly three brothers who came to the Greenbrier. Certainly, Robert (c1735-1809) was on of these. He married Elizabeth (surname unknown). They lived on Second Creek which became Monroe County in 1799. The had eight children also. John Humphreys (1748-c1808) also lived on Second Creek and he married Catherine (some say Dixon/Dickson). He fought at Point Pleasant and received land grants for his service. His daughter, Isabella, is said to have married Richard Dickson (1734-1818). They lived on Muddy Creek (present day Aderson, WV area). Some researchers suggest that Richard Dixon/Dickinson might be the sister of Catherine who married John Humphreys, but that would make the marriage of Richard to Isabella pretty odd. I suspect that Isabella might have been a sister of these Humphreys boys -- no proof. As to Samuel Humphreys, (Jr.), he moved to Indian Creek (present Monroe County) around 1800. His neighbor was brother-in-law Rev. Jacob Cook who married Samuel's sister Isabella. My Humphreys database is full of Johns, Samuels, James, and Roberts -- you have to be real sure which one you are talking about Finally, as I said, there may have been a fourth immigrant brother. In the 1780's, Samuel, (sr.) received a land grant on Anthonies Creek (present Greenbrier). His neighbor (according to the grant document) was James Humphreys. This James died in the 1790's. Ed

Bonnie and others- I have no information about the Vances, in fact, I've found in my notes that Samuel Humphreys' wife is also listed as Grizelda Donaldson Cavet (born after 1740 - Lancaster,Pa.) Sorry I can't help, but you seem to have gotten some good replies. Does anyone know anything about James Harvey Dixon ,born about 1808 in Rockbridge Co,Va, died after 1880 in Monroe Co, WV. He was married before 1856 to Lucinda Styles (1837 to after 1880) They had 10 children , most of whom stayed in the Monroe Co, area ? Children of James Harvey Dixon and Lucinda Style Mary C. Dixon-b.1857 William J. Dixon 1859 to ?1920 (near Alderson)married Leota? Humphreys Sarah Agnes(Sally)-1861-1948?- married Charles Burdette George D. Dixon- 1863- married Margaret Bowyer John C. Dixon - 1866 Andrew J. Dixon- 1868-married Laura Bowyer-Margaret's sister Martha Jane Dixon - 1876 (never married) Amanda Susan Dixon - 1873-30 July 1966- married Rennick Humphreys Margaret Dixon- 1876- married Emmett BRown Sophia B. Dixon-1879 to 1886- died young Any help would be appreciated, Barbara

Hi: I am new to the list so I will hang around a while and then start looking for my West Virginia people. Thanks for having me. Bill Covey Author of Watson Is Where It Wuz http://home.att.net/~billcovey/index.html

> > I have a John Vance who married Margaret Fox daughter of Mathias & > Peggy Rowh/Roush Fox. the Fox family was in Augusta Co to around 1840, > then Greenbrier and were in Doddridge Co. by 1860. > > Could he have been married Twice? when was he born > Thanks for writing. No real idea. Mathias and Peggy married 1799 in Augusta Co. Staunton area maybe. Kids born thru at least the 1820s. No idea on Margaret's birth either, so no help there. Chasing needles, huh? Crystal Crystal A. Bingham, MSOT, OTR Manhattan, KS Vizslas: Denali Gold & Peaches 'n Cream; Cats Bojangles & Nuisance Kitty To understand the living one must commune with the dead.

> There are connection by marriage of other family members to Foxes, > what do you know of John? Who are your Foxes? All I have for John is his name. Crystal Crystal A. Bingham, MSOT, OTR Manhattan, KS Vizslas: Denali Gold & Peaches 'n Cream; Cats Bojangles & Nuisance Kitty To understand the living one must commune with the dead.

--WebTV-Mail-7994-3085 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit I know Rosey was born in Va. from the 1870 census, it says she was. Don't know brothers, sisters, parents, where in VA. Have general idea when she was born and that she married in 1822(know month and date, just cannot recall at moment), probably in Greenbrier. There are connection by marriage of other family members to Foxes, what do you know of John? --WebTV-Mail-7994-3085 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from mailsorter-101-9.iap.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.43) by storefull-263.iap.bryant.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 13:23:58 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <WVMONROE-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from lists6.rootsweb.com (lists6.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.125]) by mailsorter-101-9.iap.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8-wtv-f/ms.dwm.v7+dul2) with ESMTP id NAA08527 for <grannybonnie50@webtv.net>; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 13:23:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists6.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e7LKKY820791; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 13:20:34 -0700 Resent-Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 13:20:34 -0700 X-Original-Sender: kinchaser@juno.com Mon Aug 21 13:20:34 2000 Old-To: WVMONROE-L@rootsweb.com Old-Cc: WVMONROE-L@rootsweb.com Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 15:20:58 -0500 Subject: Re: [WVMONROE] Samuel Humphreys , Griezelda Vance Message-ID: <20000821.152413.-952241.6.kinchaser@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-1,6-12 X-Juno-Att: 0 X-Juno-RefParts: 0 From: kinchaser@juno.com Resent-Message-ID: <WxTnP.A.pEF.S8Yo5@lists6.rootsweb.com> To: WVMONROE-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: WVMONROE-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: WVMONROE-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <WVMONROE-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/3503 X-Loop: WVMONROE-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: WVMONROE-L-request@rootsweb.com Bonnie, Any of your Vances go back to Augusta Co? I have a John Vance who married Margaret Fox daughter of Mathias & Peggy Rowh/Roush Fox. the Fox family was in Augusta Co to around 1840, then Greenbrier and were in Doddridge Co. by 1860. I have not idea where/when the marriage occurred or what happened to them. They may have remained in Greenbrier Co. Crystal Crystal A. Bingham, MSOT, OTR Manhattan, KS Vizslas: Denali Gold & Peaches 'n Cream; Cats Bojangles & Nuisance Kitty To understand the living one must commune with the dead. --WebTV-Mail-7994-3085--

Bonnie, Any of your Vances go back to Augusta Co? I have a John Vance who married Margaret Fox daughter of Mathias & Peggy Rowh/Roush Fox. the Fox family was in Augusta Co to around 1840, then Greenbrier and were in Doddridge Co. by 1860. I have not idea where/when the marriage occurred or what happened to them. They may have remained in Greenbrier Co. Crystal Crystal A. Bingham, MSOT, OTR Manhattan, KS Vizslas: Denali Gold & Peaches 'n Cream; Cats Bojangles & Nuisance Kitty To understand the living one must commune with the dead.

In a message dated 8/21/00 4:23:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, kinchaser@juno.com writes: > I have a John Vance who married Margaret Fox daughter of Mathias & Peggy > Rowh/Roush Fox. the Fox family was in Augusta Co to around 1840, then > Greenbrier and were in Doddridge Co. by 1860. Could he have been married Twice? when was he born Thanks for writing. Sandy in Florida [Sandra Sommerville Wells Griffith] <A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/fl2/sandrag/index.html">All My Mama's</A> Maybe I will catch up with my mail when I retire, in 2010, <grin>

--WebTV-Mail-10837-2736 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Barbara, Do you now anything about Griezelda Vance that you mentioned in the post about Samuel Humpreys. I am looking for family for Rosanna (Rosey) Vance that married John Willis in 1822 in the Monroe Co/ Greenbrier Co area. Excuse me for intruding in this thread, but I could not resist asking about Griezelda Vance. I know nothing about Rosey's premarriage family. Bonnie Williams --WebTV-Mail-10837-2736 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from mailsorter-101-7.iap.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.41) by storefull-268.iap.bryant.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 19:25:25 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <WVMONROE-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from lists6.rootsweb.com (lists6.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.125]) by mailsorter-101-7.iap.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8-wtv-f/ms.dwm.v7+dul2) with ESMTP id TAA25711 for <grannybonnie50@webtv.net>; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 19:25:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists6.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e7L2NxN24364; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 19:23:59 -0700 Resent-Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 19:23:59 -0700 X-Original-Sender: rocky4@erols.com Sun Aug 20 19:23:58 2000 Message-ID: <39A091DB.13B9C71B@erols.com> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 22:20:11 -0400 From: Barbara Scott Jacobs <rocky4@erols.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-RR010799 (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Old-To: WV-monroe Co-list <WVMONROE-L@rootsweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [WVMONROE] Samuel Humphreys Resent-Message-ID: <2ZuNUD.A.f8F._KJo5@lists6.rootsweb.com> To: WVMONROE-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: WVMONROE-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: WVMONROE-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <WVMONROE-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/3501 X-Loop: WVMONROE-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: WVMONROE-L-request@rootsweb.com Margie, Glad to meet you cousin! We share a ggg-grandfather Samuel H. Humphreys who was married to Grizelda Vance. My mother was Mary Susan Humphreys daughter of Robert Garland Humphreys and Ruth Compton. They lived outside of Union on the Knobb until the mid sixties. I don't have my Humphreys data in order just now but some of the information is on line at the Early Va/WV Genealogy-RainesResearch site Go to: www.sonic.net/~melvaw/raines.htm This will get you to the surname list, scroll down to Humphreys, then pick Thomas and you've got it right there back to the first Samuel . I'll get back in touch with you once I've got the files in order. Email me and let me know if this is your line-. Barbara Scott Jacobs --WebTV-Mail-10837-2736--

Margie, Glad to meet you cousin! We share a ggg-grandfather Samuel H. Humphreys who was married to Grizelda Vance. My mother was Mary Susan Humphreys daughter of Robert Garland Humphreys and Ruth Compton. They lived outside of Union on the Knobb until the mid sixties. I don't have my Humphreys data in order just now but some of the information is on line at the Early Va/WV Genealogy-RainesResearch site Go to: www.sonic.net/~melvaw/raines.htm This will get you to the surname list, scroll down to Humphreys, then pick Thomas and you've got it right there back to the first Samuel . I'll get back in touch with you once I've got the files in order. Email me and let me know if this is your line-. Barbara Scott Jacobs

In a message dated 08/15/2000 8:01:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, WVMONROE-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << I did know that an Emmett Shanks married my great aunt Jeanie Hudson. > Your Mattie Virginia must be the same one. She did have a sister named > Chessie. >> Hi, Yes, Emmett L Shanks was my great grandmother's son. He married Jennie Hudson. Jennie (Virginia) had a sister, Chessie. As a matter of fact, Chessie had a son, Johnny Clara, that Uncle Emmett and Aunt Jennie adopted, since they had no children of their own. They are all buried at New Hope Methodist Church cemetery. Aunt Jenny married at least twice after Emmett died around 1950 of black lung disease. I have been to the church and have seen their records on the cemetery. If you have access to the Summers County or Monroe County Cemetery books, they have given all the info to them. Their older records were destroyed in a flood in the church basement many years ago. I do not have a lot of info on the Hudson family. But, of course, am familiar with them as they married into my family. I will get back with you when I find more info Phyllis

I just wanted to take this time to apologize to everyone for how far behind I have fallen with the Archives. This has been one heck of a summer :) But it's been fun, just extremely busy. I have updated the WV counties with files recieved during July, so those are already online for you to see. I am now working on the Virginia Counties. The first update I do will be for files rcvd in July, so if you've sent a file in August, it won't be on this update. I need to finish one month before I begin on another. My youngest just started kindergarten and I haven't started back to work yet, so next week I plan to spend getting everything all caught up. Assuming nothing goes wrong, I should have time to get it all done. Thank you all for your patience with me :) Also, I have inherited three new counties in Virginia and will begin working on those web pages after I have finished my work on the counties I have pending files for. Those counties are Goochland, Henrico, and Hanover. So be thinking of anything that you'd like to submit for those counties and soon I'll be posting new files there as well. Thanks again for all of you who have supported me and the archives. I hope to be more prompt in the future :) Jeannie ************* Now Available: "The Descendants of John Thomas Clay, Jamestown Immigrant and son of Sir John Clay of Wales" Also available: "The Descendants of James Bailey & Lucy Simms" For more info: http://www.trellis.net/users/madamx

MY FAMILY ARE FROM MONROE COUNTY WEST VA. MY FATHER NAME IS SAMUEL P. HUMPHREYS BORN 1-17 -1895 GREENVILLE WVA MONROE CO HIS FATHER WAS THOMAS B HUMPHREYS OF GREENVILLE DIED 1935MY GRAND MOTHER NAME MARGARET RICE HUMPHREYS SHE DIED WHEN MY DAD WAS SMALL BOY MY DAD WAS NAME AFTER ALONG LINE OF SAMUEL THERE WAS AND OLD RIFEL HANDED DOWN THAT HAD THE NAME OF SAMUEL HUMPHREYS MY BROTHER GOT THE OLD RIFEL WHEN DAD DIED ONE OF BROTHERS SON S WAS NAME SAMUEL HE WAS GIVEN THE RIFEL HE DIED 2 MONTHS LATER WERE WAITING FOR A NOTHER SAMUL HUMPHREYS TO BE BORN THERE WAS CABOT HUMPHREYS I THINK HE A GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER I WOULD LIKE TO TRACE MY FAMILY HISTORY IF YOU CAN HELP ME MARGIE HUMPHREYS COOK

Dear Emma, My gg-grandfather, John Hudson, according to 1880 Census for Summers Cty, WV, had a daughter listed as T. K. in 1867 not a Sarah Catherine. Sorry, Skoney On Mon, 14 Aug 2000 07:51:20 -0400 "ermaadkins" <ermaadkins@mediaone.net> writes: > Hi! My name is Erma Adkins and I don't know if I wrote you before, if > I have > forgive me but I have been trying to get info on my family for > around 6 yrs, > and when I saw your notes it seems like I may have found them. The > John > Hudson of mine had a daughter named Sarah Catherine born in 1867 > and I > wonder if the dates would be right for them? also someone said they > had a > picture of John & Isabelle Hudson if they are the ones I would like > to see > the picture please. Thanks for any help you can give. Erma Adkins > > ermaadkins@mediaone.net >