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MAIN RESEARCH AREAS: Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania

"Oh what tangled webs we weave, when with our cousins we conceive." Bob Zingo, 1997

DIGGING UP OLD BONES

Okay, first of all, I'm new at this, and I'm one of those poor computer-illiterates who fears that if I press the wrong button, the entire machine will blow up. So, this page is a scary thing for me. I haven't yet learned the fine art of translating to HTML, so this page will likely drive you nutz until I can get my links going!

Addictions! Can we talk?

I am Lainie Hendrix, and this is the place where I must confess to my addictions. I am a Genealogy Addict. Yes, it's true. I don't eat, I don't sleep, and I don't read today's paper. My husband never sees my face, although he ALWAYS knows where I am and what I'm doing.

My addiction confines me to:

*staring at fuzzy microfilm records;

*deciphering illegible old-time script;

*digging through old photographs;

*bugging the daylights out of my relatives for anything...ANYTHING AT ALL...that they can remember about Great-Grandma So-And-So;

*hunting through libraries, searching for books no one remembers reading as bedtime stories;

*spending countless hours on the Internet reading the scores of wonderful materials put together by other genealogy addicts;

*reading obituaries about people I've never met in my life, and getting EXCITED about the information contained therein. Oh, that is so sick!

*filing old records into manila folders, and then stacking all those folders in piles on the guest bed, the floor, in the closet, etc., just so I can get to them fast. This is called "organization?"

*dreaming nightly about that one great BINGO!

MY QUESTION: is there such thing as Genealogists Anonymous?

This is a brief outline of my known surnames. This is a temporary piece of information, and as with all information contained herein, I strongly recommend taking all of this with a grain of salt. Please email me if you have corrections, additions, links, comments, deletions, etc.

MATERNAL LINES:

ATKINSON, VA > WV.......This line is rather sparse. I am unable to get beyond my great-grandfather, John S. ATKINSON, b. 17 Oct 1845, prob. Greenbrier Co., (W)VA; d. 02 Mar 1915, Fayette Co., WV.

DEAN, VA > WV.....Elizabeth DEAN, b. August 1929, VA. Again, this is a sparse line. Elizabeth DEAN married Joseph MCGARY ca. 1849, probably in Greenbrier Co., (W)VA. We are uncertain about Elizabeth's parents...we don't know her mother at all, and only suspect that she was a daughter of Jeremiah DEAN/DEEN of Greenbrier Co., (W)VA.

MCGARY, VA > WV.....Joseph MCGARY, b. ca. 1806, VA. MCGARY might have been spelled any number of ways...MCGRAW, MCGREW, MCGARRAH, etc. Who know? We just can't find him anywhere.

LILLY, VA > WV......I'm so related to myself I could be my own first cousin! I descend from Edmund LILLY (md. Edith MEADOR, dau/o Josiah MEADOR) through two of his sons, Robert "Randall Bob" LILLY and Washington "Kinney" LILLY.

MANN, VA......Mary Polly MANN, b. 1815 in Giles Co., VA? She was wife of Kinney LILLY.

CADLE & HOLT, NC > VA........Mary Margaret CADLE, b. ca. 1806, VA. She was the dau/o Thomas & Nancy (Holt) CADLE of NC. She was wife of Randall Bob LILLY.

WOOD, VA > WV....Patrick Alexander WOOD, son of Richard "Dickie" WOOD and Rachel COCKRAM. "Alex" WOOD was b. 1803, Franklin or Floyd Co., VA.

BRAMMER, VA > WV....Bethany BRAMMER, b. 1806, Patrick Co., VA. She married "Alex" WOOD. She was a dau/o John BRAMMER & Sarah LEE. John BRAMMER was b. ca. 1771, Patrick Co., VA.

LEE, VA....Sarah LEE, b. 1877 in either Pittsylvania or Patrick Co., VA. Thought to be dau/o John LEE & Sarah BRAZILL. She married John BRAMMER of Patrick Co., VA.

COCKRAM, VA.....Rachel COCKRAM, b. ca. 1775, prob. Franklin Co., VA. She married Richard "Dickie" WOOD. She was m1; he married 4 times. Rachel was a dau/o Edward & Mary Polly (Edwards) COCKRAM.

EDWARDS, VA....Mary Polly EDWARDS, b. ca. 1755, prob. VA. Thought to be dau/o Isham & Peggy EDWARDS.

MEADOR/MEADOWS, VA > WV.....Josiah MEADOR, b. ca. 1736 in Caroline Co., VA? Anthony MEADOWS, b. ca. 1804, Monroe Co., (W)VA.

SHUMATE, VA.....Mary Polly SHUMATE, b. 1806, Monroe Co., (W)VA. She married Anthony MEADOWS.

BURDETTE, VA....Elizabeth BURDETTE, b. 1780, Greenbrier Co., (W)VA. She married Tollison SHUMATE.

CORNWELL, VA.....mother of Elizabeth BURDETTE was Sarah CORNWELL, died 1817 in Monroe Co., (W)VA.

CALLISON, VA.....Millicent CALLISON, b. 1758, poss. Rich Creek, Giles Co., VA. Millicent married Daniel SHUMATE. They were the parents of Tollison SHUMATE.

CARR, VA.....Elizabeth CARR, b. ca. 1690, poss. Westmoreland Co., VA (mother of Judith BAILEY).

ESKRIDGE, VA....Sarah ESKRIDGE, b. ca. 1656, poss. Westmoreland Co., VA. She married Elizabeth CARR's father, William CARR.

BAILEY, VA......Judith BAILEY, b. ca. 1708, poss. Westmoreland Co., VA. Judith's father was John BAILEY.

PATERNAL LINES:

POTTS, PA....Robert Earl POTTS, b. 1867, PA. We suspect he was born in Beaver County, PA. He is buried in Chester, Hancock Co., WV.

BENNETT, PA? OH? WV?.....Charlotte Victoria BENNETT, b. ca. 1874; she married Robert Earl POTTS. She is buried next to him.

PRITCHARD (Miller), OH.....William Thomas (Miller) PRITCHARD, b. 1871 in Washington Co., OH. He was a son of Matilda ADAMSON. He married Sarah HANLON. Supposedly, his father was a MILLER (unknown) and he was raised by Matilda's third husband (???) PRITCHARD.

HANLON, OH.....Sarah Elizabeth HANLON, b. 1873, Washington Co., OH. She was a daughter of Felix HANLON and Nancy E. JONES of OH.

JONES, OH....Nancy E. JONES, b. ca. 1844 in OH, dau/o Enos JONES and Emily (Spencer). They were in 1850 Census, Washington Co., OH. SPENCER might not have been Emily's maiden name.

ADAMSON, OH & PA....Matilda ADAMSON, b. ca. 1846 in Monroe Co., OH. She married three times, they say...(1) MILLER (father of William Thomas); (2) NOLAND; (3) PRITCHARD.(raised William Thomas Miller). Her ADAMSON family came from Greene Co., PA.

SMITH, OH....Nancy SMITH, b. 1824, Belmont Co., OH. She married John ADAMSON, father of Matilda. Nancy SMITH was a dau/o Samuel & Mary (Cunning) SMITH.

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