Dear list members: (Pioneers, Webster, Hamrick, Gregory) I think this exchange is precious enough to relay. I plan to do Hamrick-Gregory of WV next, though I may try to avoid Hamrick-Dodrill for personal reasons: >From: "carol stacy" <lillmc@ipa.net> >To: HAMRICK-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [HAMRICK-L] Hamrick@ North Carolina Marriage Bonds >Date: Tue, Aug 1, 2000, 8:19 PM > >In my search today on Ancestry.com, I found 55 Hamrick's and 6 couples to >whom the bride and the groom were both Hamrick's. Is this very common ? >Has anyone else run into this ? Do you think they were intermarrying, >cousins, or maybe sister in laws marrying their brother in law after a >husband died ? >Give me some feed back.. > ---------- >From: "Dan Hamrick" <dhamrick@neo.rr.com> >To: carol stacy <lillmc@ipa.net> , Hamrick Family list <HAMRICK-L@rootsweb.com> >Subject: Re: [HAMRICK-L] Hamrick@ North Carolina Marriage Bonds >Date: Tue, Aug 1, 2000, 10:04 PM > >Dear list members: > Should we tell Carol Stacy about our family now or wait awhile and let >her find out for herself? It's so refreshing to see someone come into this >so innocent. > Let me put it this way: I once addressed a family reunion and apologized >for marrying out of the family. > No one there seemed to have any problem recognizing the joke. > > Hamricks marrying Hamricks? There are probably scores of them in West >Virginia. > Then there were Hamricks who married Gregories and their kids married >Dodrills and Hamricks. > And Dodrills who married Hamricks and their kids marrying Gregories and >Hamricks. > We have an aunt marrying a nephew. And we have a lot of first cousins >marrying, though these were more uncommon than common, and they were frowned >on by some families. > For example, Anna Dodrill, a genealogist in Monterville, WV, had >granparents married to one another named Moore and Susan Hamrick. She says >her mother was in love with my great-uncle Walter Hamrick. But her parents >were opposed to the marriage on the relationship grounds. So Walter married >a Dodrill. And Louetta, Anna's mother, married a Hogan ‹ one of the few >Hogans not descended from Tabitha Hamrick Hogan. > We are told it was similar in North Carolina. One of our list members, >Ted Smith, said he has five separate Hamrick lines. That just about tells it >all. > > >dhamrick@neo.rr.com >Dan Hamrick >402 23rd Street NW >Canton OH 44709 >Phone: 330-454-2376 > >---------- >>From: Ted_Smith@lotus.com >>To: HAMRICK-L@rootsweb.com >>Subject: [HAMRICK-L] Re: Hamrick@ North Carolina Marriage Bonds >>Date: Wed, Aug 2, 2000, 12:00 AM >> > >>Of the 55 entries for Hamricks in the North Carolina Marriage Bonds, more >>than 14 are Hamrick descendants who married other Hamrick descendants: >> >> Drucinda Bridges Asa Hamrick 2nd cousins >> Elizabeth Green Jehu Hamrick 1st cousin >> Atemessa Hamrick Washington Bridges 1st cousin once >>removed >> Catherine M Hamrick Berryman Hamrick 1st cousin >> Elizebeth Hamrick Jonathan M Hamrick 1st cousin >> Hannah Hamrick Elijah Hamrick 1st cousin >> Jane Hamrick William B Hamrick 1st cousin once removed >> Katharine Hardin James Y Hamrick 1st cousin once removed >> Rebekah Hamrick George Hamrick 1st cousin >> Sarah Hamrick David Jur Hamrick 1st cousin >> Sarah M Hamrick J L Green 3rd cousin >> Sarah Harden Drury D Hamrick 3rd cousin >> Sarah Hamrick Aaron Bridges, Jr I don't have parents for >>Sarah, but Aaron is a Hamrick descendant >> Susannah McSwain Allen Hamrick 2nd cousin >> >>Ted >> >> >From: "Dan Hamrick" <dhamrick@neo.rr.com> >To: Hamrick Family list <HAMRICK-L@rootsweb.com> >Subject: Hamricks marrying Hamricks >Date: Wed, Aug 2, 2000, 2:10 PM > >I just think it is awful the number of those Hamricks marrying other >Hamricks in North Carolina. >Well, I can count only 40 Hamricks marrying Hamricks in West Virginia. But >then I don't have everybody either. >This may forever get me labeled as a chauvinist and sexist but I was looking >at photos from the 1800s one time and was astonished at the number of >incredibly beautiful women compared with some of the stark, gothic figures in some 1800s photos. I commented jokingly, "No wonder these men were >marrying their relatives." >The first one in this list, Margaret Ellen Hamrick, is a classic example. >She was an extraordinary beauty. And she is the mother of three beautiful >women: Mayme, Portia and Viola, none of whom ever married. There is a >theory, just speculation, that the marriage of their parents is one of the >reasons they never married. >I haven't tried descendants or cousins or Hamricks marrying Gregorys or >Hamricks marrying Dodrills. No one's attention span is that great these >days. >Two more beauties here are Mertie Hamrick, who married her first cousin, Pat >"Curley" Hamrick and her sister, Rosa who married a Hamrick. They are the >daughters of my grandfather's half-brother, Lee A. Hamrick. The parents >opposed the marriage of Mertie, to no avail: They ran away together. Merie, >by the way, had a twin sister, Gertie, who had the audacity not to marry a >Hamrick. My documentation for the beauty of these women is that I have photos of them. I will send them out by email on request. > > >Name Family ID # of Children # of Multimedia Files > >Adam Dolliver Hamrick & Margaret Ellen Hamrick 221 7 0 >Adam G. Hamrick & Lucinda Hamrick 119 5 0 >Adam G. "Squire Adam" Hamrick & Elizabeth Hamrick 149 11 0 >Adam Hinkle Hamrick & Luverna Hamrick 400 4 0 >Benjamin Franklin Hamrick & Martha Jane Hamrick 560 7 0 >Daniel Webster Hamrick & Mazil Gross Hamrick 3434 0 0 >Dayton Hamrick & Nona Pearl Hamrick 3004 1 0 >Elick Hamrick & Minnie Wilson Hamrick 1325 11 0 >Elmer Hamrick & Aline Hamrick 2508 0 1 >Emmett Cromer Hamrick & Lessie Mae Hamrick 1374 5 1 >Emory Hamrick & Iva Josephine Hamrick 2543 0 4 >Emory Hamrick & Retha Hamrick 2562 2 0 >Escar Bryan Hamrick & Ruhama "Ruie" Jane Hamrick 2383 2 0 >George Hamrick & Sarah Caroline Hamrick 316 0 0 >Hanson Hamrick & Daisy Belle Hamrick 2495 5 0 >Harmon Hamrick & Serena "Rena" Hamrick 100 0 0 >Henry David Hamrick & Diana Hamrick 278 9 0 >Jacob Hamrick & Phoebe Ann Hamrick 117 3 0 >John J Hamrick & Arminda J Hamrick 2682 0 0 >John Ovil Hamrick & Elsie Jane Hamrick 2386 0 0 >Jonathan Griffin Hamrick & Rebecca Jane Hamrick 507 11 0 >Maurice Jackson Hamrick & Alice Marie Hamrick 3642 0 0 >Moore Hamrick & Susan Hamrick 147 5 0 >Morris W (Mance) Hamrick & Ignebo Alzina Elizabeth Hamrick 2920 1 0 >Nathan Hamrick & Elizabeth Jane Hamrick 394 6 0 >Norvil Mack Hamrick & Hellen (Maggie) Hamrick 3393 4 0 >Paris McLaughlin Hamrick & Pearl Hamrick 5047 0 0 >Patrick "Pat Curley" Hamrick & Mertie Hamrick 366 5 0 >Ray Luther Hamrick & Rosa Hamrick 1130 0 0 >Robert Hampton Hamrick & Martha Grace Hamrick 1642 1 0 >Sanford Hamrick & Phoebe Hamrick 371 0 0 >Spencer Hamrick & Delilah Hamrick 1283 0 0 >Spencer Hamrick & Melvina Hamrick 4523 0 0 >Talbott Hamrick & Arletta Viola Hamrick 2497 0 0 >William "Billy G." Gregory Hamrick & Elizabeth Ham dhamrick@neo.rr.com Dan Hamrick 402 23rd Street NW Canton OH 44709 Phone: 330-454-2376