----- Original Message ----- From: "Wilma C. Hillman" <hillman@one.net> To: <YOUNGER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 8:41 AM Subject: Re: [YOUNGER] more questions > > In the settlement > Halifax County VA Minute Book 11:47, 48, 48B > August Court 1842 > We learn that Thomas and Mary were sister and brother of the "half blood". That is how > we know that Thomas had married more than once. By this time Mary Fretwell had remarried > and was now Mary Scudder. Had Marcus been even a child of the "half blood" he would have > been named to get his pittance. Wilma, could you elaborate on this a little more? Linda in KC