This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Founds, Baker, Barton, Heiney, Farrell, Adams, Spawn, Warnock Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DFC.2ACI/1006.1475.3.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I have quite a few Bennett's in my research, but none with a direct correlation with Benett Barton. I have no idea where he got his name. You might be interested to know that in some records he is listed as Robert Benett Barton. Sorry this hasn't been much help, but if I run across anything else I will post it. Theresa

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DFC.2ACI/1006.1475.3.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi, Thanks for replying. I don't know if there is a connection. I saw the Sheet's surname attached to Barton and wonder myself. I guess my first question would be do you have any Bennet/Benett surnames in your research? Do you know how your Bennet Barton came by his first name? Lisa

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DFC.2ACI/2274 Message Board Post: I will do look ups for Wood County, West Virginia.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Founds, Barton, Baker, Heiney, Adams, Spawn, Ferrell, Warnock Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DFC.2ACI/1006.1475.3.1.1.1 Message Board Post: My Benett Barton, my ggg grandfather, was born in 1804 in Virginia to Robert Carver Barton and Rachel M. Lowers. He married Mary Ann Sheets, daughter of John William Sheets and Susan Elizabeth Congrove, on Jan. 21, 1830. Mary Ann was born in 1815 in Wood Co., VA. Her parents were both from Pennsylvania. Her grandfather, John Sheets, was born c. 1753 in Lancaster Co., PA. If these are the people you are talking about, and you truly suspect a connection, I have more information I can share.

Tensis Lovadia Jenkins married Harvey Joy 27 Mar 1916 in Wood Co. WV. Is anyone working on this family? Would like to communicate with you. Danny Jenkins ======================================================= Clarksburg WV <A HREF="mailto:dmjenkins@iolinc.net">dmjenkins110@wmconnect.com</A> ---------------------- God Bless America - Bless God America <A HREF="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jenkinsconnections/">http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jenkinsconnections/</A>

stepping up and speaking out..............I agree with Mike, I belong to several genealogical list's and I receive your CBS e-mail more than once. Sondra On Mon, 12 May 2003 12:47:47 -0700 "Robert M Brady" <rmbrady@earthlink.net> writes: > No problem, Mike. And your right. The Message Boards are for research > purposes only. > This is the last posting I will make regarding the CBS issue. > > Please accept my apologies for stepping up and speaking > out.............. > > Robert > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mike Benson > To: WVHAMPSH-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 12:12 PM > Subject: Re: [WVHAMPSH-L] CBS announcement of August 2002 - New > Show Plans > > > Would you please stop posting this to the genealogy boards. It is > wasting > bandwidth and storage space. Thank you. > > Regards, Mike Benson > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > > I have just located the email address of the Head Cheese at CBS, > Leslie Monves > > You can send him your comments (and please do so) at: > leslie.moonves@tvc.cbs.com > > You can also send email to CBS Audience Services at : > audsvcs@cbs.com > > Also, I did a search and found these other related links > concerning this issue. I know we probably have better things to do > and some would accuse me of not having a life, but stepping up is > what it's about. > > > http://miller.senate.gov/speeches/022503-CBS-Hillbilly.html > > http://www.ruralstrategies.org/index.html > > http://www.geeklife.com/article.aspx?articleid=536&CommentCount=45 > > http://www.tvguidelive.com/newsgossip-archives/02-aug/08-29-02.html > http://after-words.org/mr/mtarchives/2002/08/Aug281152.shtml > http://leadershipforchange.org/program/press/docs/OpEd-Roll.php > http://www.conservativemonitor.com/opinion03/33.shtml > http://entertainment.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=116650 > http://www.recorder.ca/cp/Entertainment/030306/e030603A.html > http://www.wpni.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A9235-2002Aug28 > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2801179.stm > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.463 / Virus Database: 262 - Release Date: 3/17/2003 > > > ==== WVWOOD Mailing List ==== > Rhonda Smith list manager > wvwood-admin@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: THORNTON, DULIN, PIERCE, WIBLIN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DFC.2ACI/2272.1 Message Board Post: John Stokely was clerk of the Court for Wood County in 1800. His signature appears on several court documents related to the estate of my 3rd Great grandfather, Robert Thornton. Robert sold the land where Parkersburg now stands to Alexander Parker, whose daughter donated the land for the Wood County Courthouse. I have no other information about Stokely.

No problem, Mike. And your right. The Message Boards are for research purposes only. This is the last posting I will make regarding the CBS issue. Please accept my apologies for stepping up and speaking out.............. Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Benson To: WVHAMPSH-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 12:12 PM Subject: Re: [WVHAMPSH-L] CBS announcement of August 2002 - New Show Plans Would you please stop posting this to the genealogy boards. It is wasting bandwidth and storage space. Thank you. Regards, Mike Benson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I have just located the email address of the Head Cheese at CBS, Leslie Monves You can send him your comments (and please do so) at: leslie.moonves@tvc.cbs.com You can also send email to CBS Audience Services at : audsvcs@cbs.com Also, I did a search and found these other related links concerning this issue. I know we probably have better things to do and some would accuse me of not having a life, but stepping up is what it's about. http://miller.senate.gov/speeches/022503-CBS-Hillbilly.html http://www.ruralstrategies.org/index.html http://www.geeklife.com/article.aspx?articleid=536&CommentCount=45 http://www.tvguidelive.com/newsgossip-archives/02-aug/08-29-02.html http://after-words.org/mr/mtarchives/2002/08/Aug281152.shtml http://leadershipforchange.org/program/press/docs/OpEd-Roll.php http://www.conservativemonitor.com/opinion03/33.shtml http://entertainment.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=116650 http://www.recorder.ca/cp/Entertainment/030306/e030603A.html http://www.wpni.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A9235-2002Aug28 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2801179.stm --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.463 / Virus Database: 262 - Release Date: 3/17/2003

Read the announcement posted by CBS back in August 2002 http://tv.zap2it.com/news/tvnewsdaily.html?27826 There was also another article written by Duncan Campbell, Investigative Jouranlist and TV Producer for The Guardian, a UK based outfit. This story is at http://media.guardian.co.uk/realitytv/story/0,7521,893924,00.html I think I opened up a can of worms. Thanks for the support everyone. I am going to run with this until I hear that CBS has squashed any and all ideas of such a spectacle. Robert M Brady Palmdale, CA --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.463 / Virus Database: 262 - Release Date: 3/17/2003

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DFC.2ACI/2273 Message Board Post: Hello, I am looking for a possible land transaction that would have been in Wood county. It is an agreement between my ancestor ISAAC BENNET/BENNETT and RICHARD NICHOLS around 1801. I have also found that this Richard Nichols surnamed is also spellend NICHOLSON in Pennsylvania records. The land described is lying "On the Hughes River" Can anyone give me a hand? Thank you, Lisa

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DFC.2ACI/1006.1475.3.1.1 Message Board Post: I am interested in the Bennett Barton name. I have an ancestor ISAAC BENNET/BENNETT who I have found in Somerset Co., PA as early as 1792. He had a daughter Hannah who married a Mr. Barton around 1800, this Mr. Barton (no first name found) died by 1809, Hannah remarried in 1809.. They had 3 daughter's. Reading through the Wood County messages I see that this Bennett Barton had a connection to a woman by the surname of SHEETS. There is a David Bennett in Somerset County, PA (possibly Bedford county, due to the timeframe of the county formation) who married a girl by the surname of SHEETS. And I also find a DILLMAN SHEETS in the area between 1788-1793. I am wondering of all these names have some sort of connection. Isaac Bennett made an agreement in 1801 with RICHARD NICHOLS (also found him under NICHOLSON) in which Isaac wants to "swap" 2500 acres of land in Somerset county, PA with Richard who owned land in Wood county, VA (of course this would be WV now) Does anyone have any thoughts on this? I do have more information on this land swap, as far as locality goes. Thank you in advance, Lisa

To All Appalachians (past & present), Please accept my apologies for using the List as a soapbox for bringing the "CBS Reality TV" issue to you in this method. I know the List was not intended for exercising our Freedom of Speech Rights, but I felt this was the quickest way to inform others that cared about the stereotyping of our ancestors, past and present. And thanks to all of you who responded. I received over a hundred emails yesterday regarding this issue and 99.9% of you felt exactly the same disgust at CBS's outrageous plans. (The other .01% just complained about my complaining) BTW - Does anyone have any THRASH / THRUSH connections to the Hampshire / Mineral County areas? My dad and I are extensively researching this lineage and are trying to establish with certainty the parentage of John Thrash / Thrush (b. abt 1768 in PA) who married Margaret Miller (from Philadelphia) then migrated to WV (in 1807) thru VA (Rockingham County?). We have raised some issues concerning the timeline of some reported lineages located at other sources and websites. For more info, go to: http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~bradytrilogy/download/Thrash-Origins.htm Again, please accept my apologies (I promise I won't do it again!) Robert M Brady rmbrady@earthlink.net Palmdale, CA Proud Grandson of a 'Born n Bred' "WV Hillbilly Country Preacher" --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.463 / Virus Database: 262 - Release Date: 3/17/2003

I am not researching these lines. Courtesy post only. Linda M. "From: WVA-L@rootsweb.com. I am just passing this on. I do not know the people listed. Linda M. respond to: RTRYALL11@aol.com "Date: Sun, May 11, 2003, 8:01am To: WVA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WVA] Fwd: [OHMEIGS] mothers day wish HELP!please !" PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE ON YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. DAVID LEON ( GELLESPIE) BORN MAY 8, 1963 AT MCV IN RICHMOND , VA, is looking for his birth mother. her maiden name was HATTIE ELLA TESTERMAN BORN 1946- she would be about 57 yrs. old. the adoption took place in TAZEWELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA, the name of the social worker that handled the case was MRS. SUGARS (deceased) on MOTHERS DAY somewhere, there is a mother that doesn't know where her son is, and a son who doesn't know where his mother is please help by forwarding this message or doing any look-ups that may help. thank you, bonnie "

To Whom It May Concern: from WVA-L negdag@az.uia.net (Nancy Giles) Date: Thu, May 8, 2003, 7:49pm (EDT-3) To: WVA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WVA] JACKSON, N. A. 50th Wedding Anniversary While doing volunteer data entry at our local library in Ontario, California, I came across this announcement which might be of some interest to someone on this list. This does not relate to any line that I am researching personally. Nancy                   Fifty years of marriage were celebrated this weekend by Mr and Mrs. N. A. Jackson of 1849 W. Arrow Highway, Upland. Residents of this area since 1927, the Jacksons have five daughters, Mrs. Ed Eimers, of Upland; Mrs. Ray Davidson, of Upland; Mrs. Paul Clewett, of upland; Mrs. Jim Post, of El Monte, and Mrs. John Glazer, of Sierra Madre. They were married in Moundsville, W. Va., on June 25, 1904. [there is a photo with the article, but it didn't zerox well.] The Daily Report, Ontario, California June 29, 1954 ==============================

Thanks everyone, for your feedback on this issue and I have graciously forwarded of your responses to the CBS staff. I have also copied the article to my website if you didn't have a chance to read it. http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~bradytrilogy/reality-tv.htm In case some didn't get a chance to use the CBS Feedback form, here is the link again. http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/feedback/fb_news_form.shtml Below are the comments I received after posting the NY Times article "Tall Tales of the Appalachias" by John O'Brien. To the CBS Programming Staff, An article in today's NY Times "Tall Tales of the Appalachias" have alerted us that you are perhaps pursuing a "Beverly Hillbilly-like" Reality TV Show by taking a "poor family" and transplanting them into a Beverly Hills mansion, then exploiting them by broadcasting their reactions in this "zoo-like" environment. What a waste! An hour ago I forwarded the article to mailing lists that are targeted to that area of the country (i.e., WV, VA, Ohio, etc.). Here are some of the responses I have received concerning this issue, from people all over the United States. And I have no doubt there will be further responses. **As a descendent of pioneer farmers from the mountains of Virginia and West Virginia, I agree with you and have sent an email of complaint to CBS. Thank you for alerting us to this stereotyping. J. Denis Glover **Good for John O'Brien!!!! He wrote a wonderful article, Tales of Appalachia, in the New York Times which should have a wider audience. **My ancestors have been here since before 1650 on several sides. Some came through New Amsterdam, others through New England and others through North Carolina and the Virginias and the rest through Pennsylvania and Ohio and I have been chasing these families for almost 50 years. I have not only been searching people but their life styles and this topic really hit home. I just wrote a very long discourse to the station about their insensitivity to a group of people who have a long and proud ancestry. I find the area beautiful and believe me living in that area would be better than the city rat race as far as I am concerned. People in that area are of good strong stock and I believe that a lot of us have to stand up for our ancestors who came here to give us a good life. Instead we are being bombarded by people in the media whose ancestry usually doesn't run as deep as so many of us and they can't understand or don't want to understand what our ancestors went through so we could have freedom. I thank God every day for the freedoms we have in the country and despair of those who are trying to create a world that our ancestors gave up for to give their children and descendants a better life. Let's take back our country. Jerilyn **Wow, what an eye opener! Thanks for sharing......Nancy **Wow. Thanks for the article. I will forward that info to LOTS of family, near and far. I grew up in Bridgeport, WV, (Harrison Co.), which is about as unhillbilly as it gets. I'm proud of my mountain heritage and have learned that the shame and embarrassment I felt at being from WV once I left is completely unjustified. There is a world of difference between being poorly educated or "unsophisticated" and being willfully ignorant. I have experienced more attitudes of tolerance, compassion and allowing diversity among the West Virginians I have encountered on visits "back home" over the years than I have in many other places in the country. WVians seem to embody a more "live and let live" philosophy than a lot of Americans. In addition, I am very proud of all the WVians who have contributed to the arts, humanities, science, etc. and who have "done us proud", most of whom are not regarded as hillbillies. I live in Western Massachusetts and work in New York City, splitting my week between the two. It never fails to amaze me what misperceptions people generally have about WV. Ironically, my yoga teacher in Mass. grew up in WV. I can find 'em everywhere! I had heard that the so-called reality show about Appalachians was a possibility, but I had hoped CBS would wise up to the offensiveness of such a show. (As if reality programs aren't enough of an insult to intelligence already!) Thanks again for sending the article. All the best (and thanks for letting me vent!) Lindel Gum --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.463 / Virus Database: 262 - Release Date: 3/17/2003

Here is the URL to the CBS Feedback page http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/feedback/fb_news_form.shtml -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NY TIMES May 10, 2003 Tall Tales of Appalachiaa By JOHN O'BRIEN GREEN BANK, W.Va. CBS is developing a reality TV series modeled after "The Beverly Hillbillies," the 60's sitcom. A poor family from a remote corner of southern Appalachia will be transported to a California mansion, the ensuing comic antics shown to America. Well, as a West Virginia farmer might say, that's a load of fertilizer. Having spent virtually my entire life in West Virginia, I can say with some authority that the strange, woebegone place called Appalachia and the hillbillies who inhabit it are a myth - one devised a century ago to justify outsiders' condescension and exploitation. In the 1870's, there was no "Appalachia." At that time, this mountainous stretch of the country from West Virginia to northern Georgia was one of the most prosperous agricultural areas in America. The people here drew upon their English, German and Scotch-Irish roots to create a variety of vibrant, peaceful cultures. But in the 1880's that started to change. Outsiders came, ones who didn't care about the thriving farms. They wanted raw materials for their factories, and the mountains had them. Our mountains were covered with the largest and oldest hardwood forest that people had ever seen. The coal deposits were the richest in the world. Industrialization came here like a cyclone roaring through the mountains. People like my ancestors were bullied, threatened and cheated out of their land. By 1920, timber companies had cut the entire forest. Most of the profits left the state along with the timber and coal. As the mountains were denuded, the industrialists portrayed the families they were robbing as "backward people" and themselves as the prophets of progress. The missionaries who often accepted large donations from the industrialists exaggerated the "otherness" of these strange people. "Local color" writers made brief visits to the mountains, then wrote fanciful books about the queer, violent mountain folk. As realistic as Harlequin romances, local-color books like Mary Murfree's "In the `Stranger People's' Country" were read and reviewed as journalistic accounts. College professors began to use them as textbooks in sociology classes. The news media took its part with the infamous Hatfield-McCoy feud in the 1880's and 1890's - a conflict that as Altina L. Waller wrote in her book "Feud," was not really a family feud, but a war between coal mining interests and local interests. Corrupt politicians took isolated incidents and described them as a hillbilly feud. Reporters from the big cities wrote about "white savages" and "West Virginia barbarians." (The New York Times, for example, said of people in eastern Kentucky: "They are remarkably good shots and effective assassins," adding that they "are so accustomed to murder that they do not look upon it with the horror with which it is regarded in civilized communities.") Then, in 1897, the president of Berea College in Kentucky, William Goodell Frost, desperately trying to raise money for his failing institution, created a fund-raising campaign based on the idea of saving the people in the Appalachians from themselves. In an Atlantic Monthly article, Frost described the southern Appalachians as our "contemporary ancestors" waking up from a Rip van Winkle-type sleep and in need of help in joining modern America. Frost's article made mythic Appalachia and its backward hillbillies a permanent fixture in America's imaginary landscape. Many in the southern Appalachians are certainly poor, but the poverty grew out of the vagaries of the coal market and outsiders' control of resources. Industrialists and others, however, blamed the people for their own poverty, and this myth continues because it is entertaining to the Americans beyond the mountains. Some of the region's middle-class writers continue to churn out Gothic hillbilly tales, the descendants of local-color stories. This mythology has even been accepted by the people living here. Not long ago, one of the student counselors at West Virginia University told me that the most persistent problem she encounters is a lack of self-esteem. Bright, capable, young men and women do not think they belong in college because they are hillbillies. I have taught at a small private college in West Virginia. Ninety percent of the students were from out of state. The few West Virginians on campus huddled together in their own corner of the student union. They had become marginal people in their own state. My own father spent his life backing up, apologizing for the space he took up in the world. He took the hillbilly stereotype to heart and all of his life believed that he was backward and inferior - a despair I, too, have been trying to escape all of my life. The reality show that CBS is considering not only exploits my part of the world, it also separates struggling Appalachians from the rest of the American poor. If a television network proposed a "real life" show treating poor African-Americans, Latinos, American Indians, Asians or Jews as curiosities, they, and all Americans of good will, would be justifiably outraged. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.463 / Virus Database: 262 - Release Date: 3/17/2003

I do not know anything about John Stokely, except that He bought 50 acres of land from Edward Gambrel/Gambriel in November 1810. I am assuming that is when the Gambrels left Wood County and moved to Hamilton County OH. They appear in Hamilton County records in 1812. The land was part of Hannaway Tract which Edward Gambrel, William Woodyard, and Lewis Gregory bought from Joseph Spencer in April 1806. I am curious if any of these migrated into Wood County together? Some think that the Woodyards and the Gregorys came from Maryland. Verbal tradition from my family indicates the Gambrels came from North Carolina. However, Edward Gambrel was born in VA in 1779 according to the 1850 Census. He had brothers born also in VA in 1784, 1789 and 1795. I am trying to find anything prior to Wood County in 1805/6, when Edward first appears.

sorry her e-mail is whitrose@frognet.net and the location of the cemetery is on Pond Creek Rd close to Jerrys Run rd If you go in from Rockport you pass Jerry's Run Rd and you will see the sign for the church It sets up on a big hill and the graveyard is next to the church

You need to contact Janice Pierce at whitrose on this man she has information on this family

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stokeley/Stokely/Stockley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DFC.2ACI/2272 Message Board Post: Does anyone anywhere know anything about the John Stokeley (Stokely, Stockly) who donated land for the courthouse circa 1799? I am trying to find the names of his wife and children.