From ???@??? Sun Mar 02 02:11:01 1997 Received: from genealogy.emcee.com (genealogy.org [207.167.87.50]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id CAA00401 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 02:06:46 -0600 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 531); 2 Mar 1997 01:06:17 -0700 Resent-Date: 2 Mar 1997 01:06:16 -0700 Resent-Cc: recipient.list.not.shown:; Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 02:05:49 -0600 Message-Id: <199703020805.CAA00348@vigil.pbmo.net> X-Sender: braswell@pbmo.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Braswell-L@genealogy.org From: braswell@pbmo.net (Keith Braswell) Subject: Some things to consider... Resent-Message-ID: <"c-RQr3.0.Xp1.tJJ6p"@genealogy> Resent-From: braswell-l@genealogy.org Reply-To: braswell-l@genealogy.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/399 X-Loop: braswell-l@genealogy.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: braswell-l-request@genealogy.org Dear Braswell List Member, The Braswell List was created, and is maintained, for the purpose of friends and family of the Braswell surname to meet in an open forum and discuss BRASWELL Genealogy and BRASWELL Family History. I want to thank James Green for starting this list originally, and I would like to say how pleased I am to have each one of you as a part of this open discussion currently. As of today we have 71 subscribers to the List. Over the past year I have seen many come and go but I don't think that we have ever had such a fine group as we have right now. Thank you for your contributions this far and I look forward to more in the future. As with any group of people, we will sometimes have our differences in opinion. To have a "difference" is not a bad thing but there is something that could be said about the way we go about having our "differences". So, in an effort to maintain a quality level of discussion I would ask that everyone try to follow these simple rules. 1. Be patient with people who don't do things "your way". We all have different programs and different formats. If you wish to give someone guidence on how to send information most efficiently please do it privately. Send them the message directly rather than through the list. This will cut down on messages that are not related to the subject and any offense that might be taken publicly. 2. When you disagree with someones research don't use personal terms to refute their work. State your differences in a "clinical" way. Use references and explain yourself clearly and kindly. The typed word is so much different than the spoken word. When you type a sentence, it could be taken much differently than you typed it if the person you are typing it to doesn't know you. If your statement could be interpreted wrong be sure to use expressions to show that you are not being rude. A ( or or ) can sometimes help you show emotion (expression) that doen't show when you type. Some use the ("Laugh Out Loud"), the ("Rolling on floor Laughing") or some will use the sideways face to show a smile : ) or frown : ( 3. Don't assume that everyone knows who you are. Be sure to always sign your name at the bottom of your message. It is really helpful if you use your signature line in your email program if it supports it. This way your name gets signed to the bottom of your message in case you forget. Many women use their husbands email addresses to send email and it really gets confusing if they don't ever sign their name to the bottom of the message. As I receive about 20 messages a day I even like to see people put where they are from after their name. It gives me another thing to try to remember them by. 4. Refrain from using all CAPS if you possibly can. I would rather see someone type their messages in all lower case than in all caps. Beginners often use all caps because they are not familiar with the keyboard. However, many receive this as SHOUTING and it can be very annoying. When a person types in all caps it takes away from their being able to make a point or bring attention to something VERY IMPORTANT. If you feel you MUST type in all caps, we will receive your messages just as gladly. But, we will hold our ears while we read them! 5. Just remember the Golden Rule! "Do unto others as you would have them do unto YOU!" Thank you! Keith Braswell David (Keith) Braswell Phone: (573) 778-3853 2192 Penny Street http://www.pbmo.net/suburb/braswell/ Poplar Bluff, MO 63901 E-Mail: braswell@pbmo.net From ???@??? Sun Mar 02 02:11:11 1997 Received: from genealogy.emcee.com (genealogy.org [207.167.87.50]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id CAA00418 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 02:07:01 -0600 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 531); 2 Mar 1997 01:06:23 -0700 Resent-Date: 2 Mar 1997 01:06:23 -0700 Resent-Cc: recipient.list.not.shown:; Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 02:05:48 -0600 Message-Id: <199703020805.CAA00344@vigil.pbmo.net> X-Sender: braswell@pbmo.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Joyce From: braswell@pbmo.net (Keith Braswell) Subject: Your message to the Braswell-List. Cc: braswell-L@genealogy.org Resent-Message-ID: <"UKaBo2.0.4q1.-JJ6p"@genealogy> Resent-From: braswell-l@genealogy.org Reply-To: braswell-l@genealogy.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/400 X-Loop: braswell-l@genealogy.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: braswell-l-request@genealogy.org Joyce, I enjoyed your message that you posted to the List! Thanks for your compliments on the site and I am glad you found the archives of use. I am going to be posting a new file soon that has some really interesting "stuff" in it. Thanks for your family information and I hope that you find more information that is helpful to you. I am pleased to have your experience in genealogy as a part of the list and hope to see you involved in the discussions. Yours for genealogy, Keith Braswell David (Keith) Braswell Phone: (573) 778-3853 2192 Penny Street http://www.pbmo.net/suburb/braswell/ Poplar Bluff, MO 63901 E-Mail: braswell@pbmo.net From ???@??? Sun Mar 02 08:40:10 1997 Received: from genealogy.emcee.com (genealogy.org [207.167.87.50]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id FAA06926 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 05:25:00 -0600 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 531); 2 Mar 1997 04:24:49 -0700 Resent-Date: 2 Mar 1997 04:24:49 -0700 Resent-Cc: recipient.list.not.shown:; Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 06:24:35 -0500 (EST) From: FoyBrasw@aol.com Message-ID: <970302062432_-1004595375@emout04.mail.aol.com> To: Braswell-L@genealogy.org Subject: Some Things to Remember Resent-Message-ID: <"UMC_A2.0.o54.1EM6p"@genealogy> Resent-From: braswell-l@genealogy.org Reply-To: braswell-l@genealogy.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/401 X-Loop: braswell-l@genealogy.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: braswell-l-request@genealogy.org Thanks Keith for putting it so well. Newcomers are going to say things that old-timers perceive as incorrect. However if the newcomers perceive they are being chastised, they will fear to participate and that would be bad for them and us. I remarked to my friends and family that everyone I had met in my new hobby of genealogy was a friendly group. I have been in libraries, etc. where complete strangers would take a lot of time to help me in the mechanics of my search. The same goes for the net. Where else could you meet a first cousin, four times removed? Foy Braswell FoyBras@aol.com From ???@??? Sun Mar 02 08:40:11 1997 Received: from emout20.mail.aol.com (emout20.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.46]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id HAA09900 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 07:31:59 -0600 From: CBracewell@aol.com Received: (from root@localhost) by emout20.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id IAA06816; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 08:30:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 08:30:23 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <970302083022_-904131206@emout20.mail.aol.com> To: braswell@pbmo.net cc: rof@backporch.com, gayleell@cdsnet.net, MORGAN-HAWK@msn.com Subject: Re: My Braswell lines Dear Cousin Keith, Thanks for the update on your busy life. Yes, I'm quite confident about the imminent solution to your Braswell pedigree problem; With JAMES, Sr. you are back to the grandsons of RICHARD, s/o the Immigrant. Only one generation to identify, and they are near Isle of Wight, away from that Gordian Knot of tangled pedigrees in Edcombe-Nash! CAREY From ???@??? Sun Mar 02 08:40:13 1997 Received: from emout18.mail.aol.com (emout18.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.44]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA12442 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 08:34:07 -0600 From: CBracewell@aol.com Received: (from root@localhost) by emout18.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id JAA20882; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 09:31:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 09:31:42 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <970302093142_-1004584805@emout18.mail.aol.com> To: gayleell@cdsnet.net cc: PATTIBILL@aol.com, linda@iggy.salsa.net, rio@netime.com, braswell@pbmo.net, rof@backporch.com, growler@prodigy.net, MORGAN-HAWK@msn.com Subject: Re: Nona's Williams Family Dear Gayle, The map showing VALENTINE BRACEWELL with WILLIAMS' was one I drew of the Virginia/North Carolina boundary (Isle of Wight County, Va & Bertie Precinct, NC) as surveyed by Governor Byrd in 1703. VAL was seated within yards of the provincial boundary in a sort of colonial "no man's land". Socially he was already in a kind of no man's land by having lately married Quakeress JANE POPE even though he was the grandson of a famous local Anglican priest! (I have lately found out that these Quakers like HENRY POPE had been driven south into the "turpentine forest" community by an intolerant Virginia Anglican government.) VAL was the quintessential con artist and "user", evidently. He used his charm and FFV (First Families of Virginia) connections to get loans from rich widows and others--which he never repaid. And his stalking of that Miss WILSON in Bertie (who finally had to put a peace bond on this MARRIED man) is a matter of public record. Evidently VAL lived by his wits all his life, never working TOO hard at anything except being likeable. He obviously learned the ferryboat business early on--on this map, we see he lived on the road to Cheshire's Ferry on the Meherrin River and was himself seated on a branch of Indian Towne Creek. Later, in Orange, he opened "Braswells' Ordinary" and ferryboat operation at the head of the Cape Fear River, where the Deep and Haw converge near present Moncure, N.C. In between time he lived off his Braswell-Williams relatives in the Tar Valley of Edgecombe until he decided to pioneer the Piedmont (easy land speculation) about 1745. I like to think of VALENTINE as the one ancestor who keeps his descendants (like me) from being too smug about our spiritual ancestry! LOL As you know, most of us with the "Z' sound in the first syllable are his far-flung offspring. I know it could be worse; it could have been one of SUSANNAH BURGESS' TOWLE bastards posing as a "Braswell" or one of ANN CARVER's "Braswell" woods colts!!! LOL CAREY From ???@??? Sun Mar 02 22:59:22 1997 Received: from emout17.mail.aol.com (emout17.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.43]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA02413 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 11:41:14 -0600 From: CBracewell@aol.com Received: (from root@localhost) by emout17.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id MAA03116; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 12:40:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 12:40:10 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <970302124009_787321682@emout17.mail.aol.com> To: MORGAN-HAWK@msn.com cc: braswell@pbmo.net, rof@backporch.com Subject: Braswell-Butler marriages Dear Cousin Joyce, The Braswell-Butler match I referred to Friday was the documented marriage (family Bible record) that occured c. 1775 in Anson County, NC, between ELIZABETH BRACEWELL, d/o RICHARD & OBEDIENCE, to JAMES BUTLER. She was born c. 1757 in Orange Co., NC. The couple--and their Baptist extended family--rode out the Revolution in the Wilkes Co area, then afterwards removed to Greenville District, SC. At century's turn, they migrated with the rest to present Anderson Co., Tennessee. I saw the interesting coincidence in names in your Georgia connection and thought I'd offer this interesting bit of obfuscating trivia! LOL CAREY From ???@??? Sun Mar 02 22:59:32 1997 Received: from emout12.mail.aol.com (emout12.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.38]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id WAA27315 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 22:00:18 -0600 From: CBracewell@aol.com Received: (from root@localhost) by emout12.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id WAA07651; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 22:58:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 22:58:06 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <970302225805_-803396393@emout12.mail.aol.com> To: MORGAN_HAWK@msn.com cc: braswell@pbmo.net, rof@backporch.com, gayleell@cdsnet.net, growler@prodigy.net Subject: Re: RICHARD BRACEWELL Dear Cuz, First of all, I'm a Newbie too & having trouble with your address. I try MORGAN_HAWK@msn.com and it brings down the Daemons on me! :) You're going to be glad you met me, Joyce! Flanigan's "History of Gwunnett Co., Georgia" , GS 975.822 H2f Vol.1 pp.323-326 is a sketch of your JAMES BRACEWELL given by W.B. Bracewell "his oldest son" sometime in the late nineteeth century {sorry, no pub date noted} Correction, I found it: published in 1879. Let me have your mailing address and I'll send you a copy right away. Its much too long to copy here. W.B.'s account of his family's origins are muddled, to say the least. But I know he gives enough information that we can readily establish your Bracewell lineage back to the Immigrant. And his data on the Georgia family is apparently accurate and certainly colorful! Can't wait to share this with you, Joyce! W.B. said that "Richard, the father of James, in the year 1793 married Charity Scarborough and their first child, James, was born June 5, 1794, in Allen's Fort, for the people then had to live in forts to protect themselves from the Indians.Richard had three other sons, Wiley, Richard and William. His wife died in 1804. After many years he married a Miss Carlisle by whom he had two sons, Kindred and Allen. He died in the year 1816, of consumption at about the age of fifty years, leaving his son, James, as executor of his estate...." He {James}" married Elizabeth Butler, the daughter of Jesse and Mary Butler, on May 10, 1820, in Morgan County....." The provenance of JAMES is less clear, but shouldn't be too great a stretch for this intrepid hunter of my 85% Ulster ancestors who scattered over the Mississippi Valley like frightened quail, especially with your expert help! My problem, as you know, is a 20-year hiatus in this research......nevertheless... This is what W.B. had to pass down as his version of the "Bracewell Creation Story" {complete with my insightful commentary} : "James Bracewell, who was one of the first settlers of Gwinnett County, descended from a long line of ancestors who immigrated to this country from Ireland {Oh, no! Not that blarneystone again!} in the early part of the eighteenth century {which is where the earliest, foggyist part of this jumble begins}. The name of the immigrant father is unknown {to W.B.}. He settled on Tar River, near Tarsbrough,N.C. {sic}, and reared only two children, both sons, Richard and Robert. {the Immigrant had sons ROBERT & RICHARD. The Tar Valley was the primary origin of North Carolina Braswells, grandsons of the Immigrant through 2nd son, Richard, b.c.1652} "Richard was the great grandfather of James. He reared eight children, all sons, one of whom was Richard, the grandfather of James. This Richard had two wives. By the first he had one child, a son, Robert, who served through the Revolutionary War, during which he made a powder horn upon which he carved his initials and that horn is still in the family." {This bit of physical evidence would seem to establish Robert as James' g-gf, the part about the Richard with two wives, I believe, will prove to be the RICHARD BRASWELL(, s/o ROBERT, s/o RICHARD, s/o ROBERT-who else?-The Immigrant. The Richard in question, great-grandson of the Immigrant, was b. ca.1712, d. 1747 in Edgecombe leaving his legitimate heirs (yours?) to fight it out over his estate with the illegitimate children he had by ANN CARVER, his common-law wife. This was in the late 1750's and is the best documented lineage of all North Carolina Braswells! Lucky you if this connects to your James! } W.B. goes on to say that Richard, James' dad, married Agnes Proctor "in the year 1764 or 1765 "{Sorry, couldn't locate this in my NC Index} and reared a large family, all boys except one daughter, and her name was Elizabeth. She is said to be the last daughter born in the Bracewell family in this country. His family was nearly all born and reared to be nearly grown in North Carolina. {Obviously what he was trying to say was that ELIZABETH was the last daughter born in North Carolina before they moved to Georgia} "Soon after the {Revolutionary} war he sold out and moved to Georgia and settled oon Briar Creek in Burke County....He then moved to Washington County, now Laurens, and settled on the Oconee River when it was the dividing line between the whites and the Indians. In a few years all his children died but three, Richard, Sampson, and Elizabeth. {And Richard was the father of James--got all that? LOL I checked my files for Burke, Washington, and of course, Gwinnett, and I think we've got enough to piece this one together. The situation is complicated by the fact that these were "bounty land counties" and Bracewell/Breazeale vets came pouring in from everywhere! W.R. says, truthfully no doubt, that "The removal of the grandfather from North Carolina gave the family a shock from which it never recovered." { Can I relate? My family went from "big dogs" in Saline County, Arkansas--co-founders of Benton, 1st Sheriff, State Rep, etc.--to near-busted Reconstruction refugees to Texas,!} CAREY From ???@??? Mon Mar 03 10:16:20 1997 Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id DAA19333 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 03:09:12 -0600 Received: from mail.cdsnet.net ([204.118.246.102]) by mail.cdsnet.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA09707 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 01:09:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 01:09:20 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199703030909.BAA09707@mail.cdsnet.net> X-Sender: gayleell@mail.cdsnet.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: braswell@pbmo.net From: gayleell@cdsnet.net (Gayle Ellison) Subject: Braswells I hope this is Keith's address: I am new to figuring out how this whole thing works. I reviewed all the messages tonight (took me 1-1/2 hours). I don't know how to download anything, or if I can. If I hd been a subscriber sooner, I assume I would have received most of those messages in broadcast form? Would it be possible for you to e-mail me the chart of Richard Bracewell, b. 1729 in Bertie? I think that is the line I will fit into. Thank you. Gayle Braswell Ellison From ???@??? Mon Mar 03 16:01:18 1997 Received: from ico.com (psycho2.iconetworks.net [204.94.129.66]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA05550 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 15:44:28 -0600 Received: from Pbackporch (rof.backporch.com [204.94.137.76]) by ico.com (8.8.5/8.8.2/103196) with ESMTP id NAA15970; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 13:42:36 -0800 Message-Id: <199703032142.NAA15970@ico.com> From: "Nona Williams" To: Cc: , , Subject: Re: My Braswell lines Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 01:43:13 -0800 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Carey, You asked: > By the way, did you recognize all those WILLIAMs that lived near VALENTINE > BRACEWELL near the Virginia/North Carolina boundary? (Byrd's report in back) I've seen those names before and I suspect that they are related to my line and my direct ancestor may be one of those men. My Williams folks were very involved with the Braswells and I suspect that the George Williams/Gwillam (the Welsh version of Williams) who was named by Rev. Robert Braswell as a guardian for a son, was one of mine, but unfortunately the Williams family is even more challenging to research that the Braswells because there was probably at least one John Williams and one William Williams in every county and often there were multiple people of those names who weren't even related to one another. Here's what I can prove about my Williams line: William Williams (husband of Lucreasy Braswell and father-in-law of two Braswells) was probably born about 1750 prob. in Edgecombe Co., NC. He died in 1822 in Smith Co., Tennessee and he and Lucreasy Braswell probably married by 1768. They were certainly married by 1778 when her father, William Braswell died in Nash Co., Tennessee and William Williams was mentioned. The parents of William Williams may have led one of those alternative lifestyles that the Braswells were so fond of. William Williams' mother was Mary Griffin who married John Williams prob. by 1750. John Williams only appears in a few records but Mary Williams shows up all over the place, buying and selling land in her own name. When neighbors bought and sold land nearby, they referred to her property as "Mary Williams' land" but they never called her "the widow" which would satisfy me that her husband had died. If she had still been married I assume they would have called it John Williams' land. She was even assigned to a jury to work on a road. I can't discover the parents of John Williams and it appears that Mary Williams never remarried and never had any children other than William Williams. William obtained land from his mother, but there is no record of his father dying, leaving land to his son, or a guardian being appointed for William Williams as a minor child. The court records of Edgecombe Co., NC are missing during part of the 1750s so maybe that's why we can't find any answers. Strangely, Mary Williams nee Griffin's father disappeared around the same time John Williams disappeared. Mary's father was John Griffin who gave property to his daughter after she's married John Williams. I think that Mary had two brothers: John Griffin who married Mary Hardy or Hardin and James Griffin. And she was probably related to Archibald Griffin who was appointed guardian to the minor children of Samuel Braswell who died about 1795 in Nash Co., NC. Id like to discover the ancestry and family connections of Archibald. It appears that as a young woman, Mary Griffin married John Williams, had one son and then lived the remainder of her long life alone with her son (and the slaves who no doubt kept the plantation profitable). She was on the Nash Co., NC tax list in 1782 and was still alive in 1790. She and her son, William, lived on Pig Basket Creek near their Braswell neighbors. My guesses about John Williams are that he was probably born by 1730; prob. married by 1750 and prob. died between 1754-57. The only thing I'm sure of is that he married Mary Griffin and a son was born named William Williams. William Williams probably didn't know his father and he didn't even name a son John. The children of William and Lucreasy were called: Elizabeth, Chloe, Milly, Priscilla, William, Mary, Samuel, Gilbert, Lucretia and Nancy. >From Nona in Santa Cruz, CA From ???@??? Tue Mar 04 00:17:20 1997 Received: from genealogy.emcee.com (genealogy.org [207.167.87.50]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA29084 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 23:11:29 -0600 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 531); 3 Mar 1997 19:34:01 -0700 Resent-Date: 3 Mar 1997 19:34:01 -0700 Resent-Cc: recipient.list.not.shown:; Message-Id: <199703040233.UAA17677@legend.txdirect.net> From: "Guy Braswell" To: Subject: Courtney L. BRASWELL Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 20:30:54 -0600 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"88fkK1.0._I4.Neu6p"@genealogy> Resent-From: braswell-l@genealogy.org Reply-To: braswell-l@genealogy.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/403 X-Loop: braswell-l@genealogy.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: braswell-l-request@genealogy.org We are looking for any information on Courtney L BRASWELL, born to Elijah Thomas and Julia Chrischany LAY. He was born 25 April 1902, died 20 Jan. 1963. He was married to Dorothy ? He was born in Paucah, KY and lived his adult years around the St. Louis, Mo area. We have lost track of him. Also I am looking for a nice Braswell book for a gift to my Mother in law. I know I read a lot of talk about books in the archives but can't seem to find them quickly. I would like a book on the Early Braswell's in the USA or in England. It can be mostly history, this will probably not be used for serious research. Thank you. Karen From ???@??? Tue Mar 04 08:16:14 1997 Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id DAA16548 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 03:49:25 -0600 Received: from gp-pm3-02.dip.cdsnet.net (gp-pm2-26.dip.cdsnet.net [204.118.246.98]) by mail.cdsnet.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA09705 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 01:49:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 01:49:47 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199703040949.BAA09705@mail.cdsnet.net> X-Sender: gayleell@mail.cdsnet.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: braswell@pbmo.net From: gayleell@cdsnet.net (Gayle Ellison) Subject: Broadcast letter Could you send this out as a broadcast query? Does anyone have any information where this William L. Braswell in Georgia came from? 1794 Washington Co. Fifth REgiment Dragoons (American Militia in the Frontier Wars, 1790-1796 by Murtie June Clark, GPC 1990. 1794-95 Washington Co. legal ads & notices Universal Gazette, Augusta Chronicle 9/4/1809 Jackson County. William L. Braziel, deceased. Wife may be Sarah Brazeal (with 5 children who then married John Lambert from Rowan County). George Headen was issued Letters of Administration (Ordinary & Minutes, Georgia Testate REcords). Gayle Braswell Ellison gayleell@cdsnet.net From ???@??? Tue Mar 04 08:16:16 1997 Received: from genealogy.emcee.com (genealogy.org [207.167.87.50]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA21667 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 08:09:21 -0600 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 531); 4 Mar 1997 07:09:03 -0700 Resent-Date: 4 Mar 1997 07:09:03 -0700 Resent-Cc: recipient.list.not.shown:; Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 07:57:01 -0500 (EST) From: CBracewell@aol.com Message-ID: <970304075700_1182396826@emout19.mail.aol.com> To: braswell-l@genealogy.org cc: rof@backporch.com, gayleell@cdsnet.net Subject: Re: Courtney L. BRASWELL Resent-Message-ID: <"uZr-H.0.Vi7.zp27p"@genealogy> Resent-From: braswell-l@genealogy.org Reply-To: braswell-l@genealogy.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/404 X-Loop: braswell-l@genealogy.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: braswell-l-request@genealogy.org Dear Karen, There is nothing authentic in print on the Braswell family in early England or America. Anything claiming to be such--as those bogus "family history" things you get in your mail--should be classified under Fiction. Should anyone be interested in tracing their Braswell ancestry, I'm sure our Web Meister, Keith Braswell, will bid them welcome. In order to get immediate help with it, one must trace his lineage back beyond the Civil War, preferably at least to the time of the Census of 1790--usually a fairly straightforward task if one avails themselves of published resources. Sorry, but genealogy, especially on this family, is one of those things that rarely satisfies our American expectations of "instant gratification"! CAREY BRACEWELL From ???@??? Tue Mar 04 17:08:08 1997 Received: from genealogy.emcee.com (genealogy.org [207.167.87.50]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA03412 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 14:15:40 -0600 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 531); 4 Mar 1997 12:54:59 -0700 Resent-Date: 4 Mar 1997 12:54:59 -0700 Resent-Cc: recipient.list.not.shown:; Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 14:54:41 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <2.2.16.19970304145604.2b37b7b8@pop.fas.harvard.edu> X-Sender: lbarron@pop.fas.harvard.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: braswell-l@genealogy.org From: Lucy Barron Subject: Re: Courtney L. BRASWELL Resent-Message-ID: <"CPfOn1.0.W-1.Iu77p"@genealogy> Resent-From: braswell-l@genealogy.org Reply-To: braswell-l@genealogy.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/405 X-Loop: braswell-l@genealogy.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: braswell-l-request@genealogy.org Assuming s/he (?) is still alive, here is what shows up on the URL for Switchboard: BRASWELL, Courtney 9950 Lockland Rd. Cincinnati, OH 45215-1753 (513) 563-2751 Of course, it may not be who you are looking for. If the person is deceased, you should be able to verify this from the Social Security Death Indexes (usu. available at your local Family History (LDS) Library). Lucy Barron Lexington, MA At 08:30 PM 3/3/97 -0600, you wrote: >We are looking for any information on Courtney L BRASWELL, born to Elijah >Thomas and Julia Chrischany LAY. He was born 25 April 1902, died 20 Jan. >1963. He was married to Dorothy ? He was born in Paucah, KY and lived his >adult years around the St. Louis, Mo area. We have lost track of him. > >Also I am looking for a nice Braswell book for a gift to my Mother in law. >I know I read a lot of talk about books in the archives but can't seem to >find them quickly. I would like a book on the Early Braswell's in the USA >or in England. It can be mostly history, this will probably not be used >for serious research. Thank you. Karen > > From ???@??? Tue Mar 04 21:19:31 1997 Received: from genealogy.emcee.com (genealogy.org [207.167.87.50]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA13142 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 17:58:34 -0600 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 531); 4 Mar 1997 16:33:28 -0700 Resent-Date: 4 Mar 1997 16:33:28 -0700 Resent-Cc: recipient.list.not.shown:; Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 18:33:08 -0500 (EST) From: FoyBrasw@aol.com Message-ID: <970304183153_380165647@emout11.mail.aol.com> To: Braswell-L@genealogy.org Subject: SSDI Resent-Message-ID: <"Mm549.0.nx1.85B7p"@genealogy> Resent-From: braswell-l@genealogy.org Reply-To: braswell-l@genealogy.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/406 X-Loop: braswell-l@genealogy.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: braswell-l-request@genealogy.org There is a Social Security Death Index site on the web at - http://206.27.137.18/ssdi/ You can do a "Simple" or "Advanced" search. Foy Braswell From ???@??? Tue Mar 04 23:07:14 1997 Received: from genealogy.emcee.com (genealogy.org [207.167.87.50]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA10822 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 23:03:18 -0600 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 531); 4 Mar 1997 21:49:25 -0700 Resent-Date: 4 Mar 1997 21:49:25 -0700 Resent-Cc: recipient.list.not.shown:; Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 22:48:58 -0600 Message-Id: <199703050448.WAA08968@vigil.pbmo.net> X-Sender: braswell@pbmo.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Braswell-L@genealogy.org From: braswell@pbmo.net (Keith Braswell) Subject: Re: HELP! Resent-Message-ID: <"dmSN2.0.Ne6.LjF7p"@genealogy> Resent-From: braswell-l@genealogy.org Reply-To: braswell-l@genealogy.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/407 X-Loop: braswell-l@genealogy.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: braswell-l-request@genealogy.org Carey, Ask and you shall receive! Morgan_Hawk@msn.com (Joyce Hetrick) LBarron@fas.harvard.edu (Lucy Barron) FoyBrasw@aol.com (Foy Braswell) Here is a hint.... Use your mouse to select the address when you add it to your address book. While you are viewing this message take your mouse and put the cursor on the M on Morgan and push the left mouse button and hold it down as you drag it across the address. When you have it to the m on .com let go. You should have selected Morgan_Hawk@msn.com and it will be a reverse color of what you normally see. Then, with your left hand hold down the Ctrl key (bottom right of keyboard on most) and then tap the C key while the Ctrl is held down. This copies the selected text to your clipboard (memory) Then when you go to your address book and make and entry. Where it asks for the email address click your mouse on that field. (I am not sure how your address book works...) Anyway, when ever you get to the place where you would normally type in the address hold the Ctrl (control) key with your left hand again and tap the V key to paste what you formally copied with the Control C sequence. This keeps you from making any mistakes in the addresses when you type them in. As you get familiar with it you will find yourself using it all the time. I use it for everything. If I see a URL in a message that I want to view in my browser I copy and paste it. If you already know how to do all this please ignore my message. Maybe someone else on the List can make use of the information. Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Oops! I got carried away with the control v there! Keith At 10:44 PM 3/4/97 -0500, CBracewell@aol.com wrote: >Dear Cousins, > > Would SOMEONE P-L-E-A-S-E give me the E-mail address for Joyce Hetrek, >Lucy, & Foy Braswell! I'm besieged by Daemons and missed communications! >:D :) :) > >CAREY BRACEWELL CBracewell@aol.com > > David (Keith) Braswell Phone: (573) 778-3853 2192 Penny Street http://www.pbmo.net/suburb/braswell/ Poplar Bluff, MO 63901 E-Mail: braswell@pbmo.net From ???@??? Wed Mar 05 00:32:02 1997 Received: from emout20.mail.aol.com (emout20.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.46]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id XAA14406 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 23:43:25 -0600 From: BettyMaeS@aol.com Received: (from root@localhost) by emout20.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id AAA16633 for braswell@pbmo.net; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 00:42:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 00:42:53 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <970305004252_-870269623@emout20.mail.aol.com> To: braswell@pbmo.net Subject: Braswell - Toole MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="PART.BOUNDARY.0.29972.emout20.mail.aol.com.857540572" Content-ID: <0_29972_857540572@emout20.mail.aol.com.82171> Content-type: text/plain Here is a file attahed i think you will like...BettyMaeS@aol.com file name is Toole99.txt....Betty Content-ID: <0_29972_857540572@emout20.mail.aol.com.82172> Content-type: application/octet-stream; name="TOOLE99.TXT" Attachment Converted: C:\INTERNET\KBMAIL\TOOLE99.TXT From ???@??? Thu Mar 06 00:03:10 1997 Received: from emout09.mail.aol.com (emout09.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.24]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id UAA23042 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 20:56:42 -0600 From: CBracewell@aol.com Received: (from root@localhost) by emout09.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id VAA03643 for braswell@pbmo.net; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 21:55:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 21:55:56 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <970305212146_207994772@emout09.mail.aol.com> To: braswell@pbmo.net Subject: Fwd: My Braswell lines --------------------- Forwarded message: Subj: Re: My Braswell lines Date: 97-03-05 19:58:16 EST From: CBracewell To: rof@backporch.com CC: gayleell@cdsnet.net,Foy Brasw Dear Cousin Nona, I've just finished d/l the wonderful Williams and Braswell material you so graciously copied me! And guess what? You have one I didn't, the 1720 "Roanoke" NC Tax List items for VAL & JACOB BRASSEL. Were they together or widely separate on the list? We already knew VAL was in the Roanoke valley, starting in the summer of 1715. The earliest record I had of JACOB was three years later in 1723 when he patented land on Morattock River next to his brother RICHARD. This obviously helps refine further our understanding of these important brothers perigrinations! So nice to catch up on findings since the 70's! By the way, what is the reference citation on that Roanoke tax list? (Just a little information for our files.... LOL) You're right about George Gwilliam being a Williams; subsequent records prove it, as if it were needed. Yes, the Williams-Braswell connection is an enigma, so beautifully embodied by you, Cuz! :D And it looks like it was imported from mother England! I'm still going to find out which Samuel Williams helped my gang pioneer Saline County, Arkansas! Did you know Williams is the third most common surname in America? Most people wouldn't think of that till they started researching it, right? Can you name the top five in order? SMITH, JOHNSON, WILLIAMS, JONES, BROWN. The next 5? Glad you asked: MILLER, DAVIS, ANDERSON, WILSON, & THOMPSON. (top 216 list, which Braswell didn't make, LOL) Some time when your really needing a boost, I'll share the sad story of bastard badboy, NOEL WILLIAMS-BRASWELL who fell into bad company in pre-Revolutionary Orange County. He was hanged eight days after his conviction. I will reread your VERY interesting Williams account. It all seems so FAMILIAR,if You ya know what I mean. I wonder if there are "twin flame" families? You could prove it by you, too! LOL As soon as my replacement colonial maps get here, I'll dive headlong into your double pedigree (but I may take scuba gear and lighting--sure gets murky along Pig Basket Creek and the Tar Valley! :D)...... CAREY BRACEWELL From ???@??? Fri Mar 07 08:00:21 1997 Received: from emout19.mail.aol.com (emout19.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.45]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA04380 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 21:42:40 -0600 From: CBracewell@aol.com Received: (from root@localhost) by emout19.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id WAA07897; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 22:41:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 22:41:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <970306223928_107475168@emout19.mail.aol.com> To: braswell@pbmo.net cc: rof@backporch.com, FoyBrasw@aol.com Subject: Ancestry of Marmaduke Braswell Dear Cousin Keith, To the task of reexamining all Halifax records before 1800, I would add to your research list the records of Bute County, whose records will be found under Bute or Warren. Bute only existed 15 years--1764-1779. It was named for an unpopular English politician and abolished in 1779 after the Revolution was underway. Franklin & Warren counties were created from it, and the records, for the most part, went to Warren. The value of the two records I found under Bute will be immediately obvious: Bute Will Book 2, page 178: In the probate proceedings held in Bute November Court, 1777, the estate of JACOB POWELL, deceased, mentions a WILLIAM BRACEWELL/BRASWELL as a purchaser of estate goods. Also mentioned were HARDY STRICKLAND, RICHARD POPE, SAMPSON POWELL, RICHARD SMITH, & REUBEN WILLIAMS. We need the full text of this document, and this one too: Warren Deed Book 3, page 209: JACOB BRASSELL sold JACOB POWELL 180 acres on both sides of Tar River. This appears to be the same land JACOB patented in 1750 on Cypress Creek near WILLIAM BRASWELL's old plantation. Two other deeds in the Bertie-Edgecombe files showed WILLIAM STRICKLAND & another having land dealings with heirs of said WILLIAM BRASWELL (c,1676-1721). My VALENTINE also patented land on Cypress Creek, but he was pioneering Orange County by 1746. We know your JAMES didn't belong to VAL; WILLIAM may prove to be your link with the Immigrant. The answer should tell itself when all the data is in. CAREY From ???@??? Fri Mar 07 21:51:13 1997 To: CBracewell@aol.com From: braswell@pbmo.net (Keith Braswell) Subject: Re: Ancestry of Marmaduke Braswell Cc: rof@backporch.com, FoyBrasw@aol.com Bcc: X-Attachments: Dear Carey, Being the greenhorn that I am I don't remember this Bute County. Thanks for bringing it into the picture. I am saving all of your messages and the next time I get to the library I am going to take printed copies of them. I wish I had a notebook computer. That would make it too easy though huh? Do you use a computer program to enter your data? I use Family Tree for windows. Saving myself looking it up and being lazy that I am sitting here reading your message, what does patented refer to when concerning property? I went to our community College the other day and printed out copies of the LDS records on Braswell's in NC. I haven't had time to look at them but maybe there is something there that will stick out. Do you have copies of this will book or are you refering to notes of when you looked at it before? Have you traveled around documenting these things for yourself or have you been able to find them in books? It seems that you have a library in your house or something the way you come up with this information! Maybe you just have a Pentium 500Mhz brain... I have been working on my web pages these past few days. They will be ready to publish in a couple of more days. Be looking for your page to be one of them... Keith From ???@??? Fri Mar 07 18:51:14 1997 Received: from emout07.mail.aol.com (emout07.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.22]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA15094 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 14:19:38 -0600 From: CBracewell@aol.com Received: (from root@localhost) by emout07.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id PAA15412; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 15:18:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 15:18:32 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <970307151830_-1573373914@emout07.mail.aol.com> To: braswell@pbmo.net cc: rof@backporch.com, FoyBrasw@aol.com Subject: Re: Lineage of Marmaduke Braswell Dear Cousin Keith, Yes, I believe my forwarding problems are solved, thanks. Another thought occured to me today concerning your Halifax connection: Except for JOHN BRACEWELL, who stayed behind in Isle of Wight, all of RICHARD's sons went to North Carolina. Of these, all first settled in the vicinity of present Rich Square in Northampton County after the Tuscarora War (1713-1714.) In the 1720's they all migrated to the vicinity of Tarboro in Edgecombe, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF WILLIAM, who died in 1721. It would stand to reason that his kids wouldn't feel the same urge to move to Tar Valley/Pig Basket Creek with their cousins whose families were still intact. Coupled with the STRICKLAND connections with known members of WILLIAM's family, the evidence pointing to this first "Bill Braswell" is mounting..... From ???@??? Fri Mar 07 18:51:16 1997 Received: from emout14.mail.aol.com (emout14.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.40]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA25495 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 17:55:19 -0600 From: CBracewell@aol.com Received: (from root@localhost) by emout14.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id SAA14660; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 18:54:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 18:54:03 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <970307185402_-1908287808@emout14.mail.aol.com> To: rof@backporch.com cc: braswell@pbmo.net, gayleell@cdsnet.net Subject: "Those WILLIAMS'!" Dear Cousin Nona, First of all, I hope you don't mind my addressing you "Cousin".....years of habit & I think it helps remind us of all we share...... I would love to have your Williams' files--and in time, I trust I will--but right now my head is spinning with Bracewells. You see you've got me so pumped now that I went ahead and plowed into North Carolina anyway. Wow! I impressed myself with the collection--primarily aimed, of course, at establishing my own lineage which ultimately led to the ever-elusive VALENTINE (c.1692-1766) and his "shadow son", RICHARD (c.1723-1800). The most efficient approach to partially untangling the Braswells & Williams' (notice I said "partially"! LOL), it seems to me, would be to identify the Williams' by their associations with the Braswells. This was your suggestion, I believe, and a good one. Unfortunately, I do not have a North Carolina index for families other than Braswells. That's another helpful piece of work for someone with better eyesight than mine {I have had to s. buckle operations on my eyes. Retina detachment was introduced into our DNA by a wealthy great-grandmother. The disease skipped two generations to hit me, adding confirmation to what I already knew about our souls' connection} The payoff for whoever does it is, of course, a complete set of my North Carolina files. I have to budget my reading time now. I ran across the sad NOEL WILLIAMS alias BRASSWELL case. It was more terse than I remembered, but chilling all the same. The citation: WILMINGTON DISTRICT SUPERIOR COURT, MINUTES, OCT. 1760-NOV. 1783 (D.C.R. 12.001), State Archives, Raleigh. page 133 (June 1, 1768) The court consisted of "The Honble. Harton Howard Esquire Chief Justice" and associate justices "The Honble Manrow Moore Esq." and "The Honble Richd Henderson, Esq," and a jury of 12. On this day RICHARD SEYMORE and then" NOEL WILLIAMS alias NOEL BRASSWELL" were tried on an unspecified felony and both found guilty. Prosecution witnesses, the "Evidences sworn", were JAMES & SUSANNAH KENNEDY, and JOSEPH KIRKLAND, who had brought these boys back from South Carolina to where they had fled. The Seamores were neighbors of the Bracewells in Orange County.. The jury contained 12 men from the Wilmington area with no apparent connection with the defendants. After this bit of work, "Then the Court adjourned till 10 oClock tomorrow morning." On Thursday, June 2, "The court met accord'g to adjournmt" and proceeded then to try "NOEL WILLIAMS alias NOEL BRASWELL, THOMAS SEAMORE & RICHARD SEAMORE'' on charges of "Horse stealing". Defendants of course pled not guilty, but anyway the "Jury fined the Defendt Guilty & that he had no land &c" in each case. The defense lawyer played his last card when "Wm HOOPER Council for the deft. moved for an Arrest of Judgment. Motion overruled--" page 136 "The Prisoner NOEL WILLIAMS being arraign'd pleaded not guilty whereupon a Jury was impanneld & Sworn who upon their oath say that the said Prisoner NOEL WILLIAMS otherwise called NOEL BRACEWELL is guilty of the Felony whereof he stands charged in the Indictment and that the said Prisoner had no Lands or tenements Goods or Chattels at the time of the Commiting the Felony or at any time since to their Knowledge upon which the Prisoner being again brought to the bar the Court Proceeded to pass Sentence upon the Prisoner in manner following. To Wit that he shall be taken from the Bar to the place from whence he came & from thence to the place of Execution there to be hanged by the Neck until he should be dead and that the Sherriff should do Execution of the said Sentence on Friday the Tenth day of this Instant June between the hours of Eleven and Two" (Likewise, immediately following the above and in exactly the same words--the death sentence was passed on the SEAMOREs. I havn't a clue which Braswell got which Williams with poor Noel--the name meant "cause of sorrow'', usually given to bastards. Be careful what you name 'em, right? LOL Most of the Orange -Chatham records refer to the family of HENRY BRACEWELL, son of VALENTINE (c.1692). His family resisted going Baptist (Cf. their participation in the Regulator Riots that just preceeded these trials) and kept the records colorful for some time. HENRY's branch also supplied the most Georgia immigrants. My RICHARD (c.1723-1800) was poorer & quieter than his more flamboyant brother, HENRY, and their tribe, further evidence along with their espousal of the radical new Baptist faith that RICHARD's "Obedience" was indeed a Quaker.) CAREY From ???@??? Sat Mar 08 09:45:55 1997 Received: from legend.txdirect.net (root@legend.txdirect.net [204.57.120.1]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA01687 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 08:58:04 -0600 Received: from birch295 (dtp01-09.txdirect.net [204.57.92.233]) by legend.txdirect.net (8.8.5/8.8.3) with ESMTP id IAA25298 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 08:58:01 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199703081458.IAA25298@legend.txdirect.net> From: "Guy Braswell" To: Subject: Page update Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 08:55:14 -0600 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Keith, You should be getting a few things snail mail from me. I just checked out the new page update, looks great. I was looking for the archives, did I miss them? They are really great for the newcomers to read to get some history. We would never have known about our relationship if we had not seen the descendent list you had posted on there. I'd like to see more lists and charts of others as well. If you don't receive any snail mail from me, drop me a line. Karen Braswell From ???@??? Sat Mar 08 19:06:48 1997 Received: from genealogy.emcee.com (genealogy.org [207.167.87.50]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA23786 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 17:59:27 -0600 From: braswell-l-request@genealogy.org Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 531); 8 Mar 1997 16:59:12 -0700 Date: 8 Mar 1997 16:59:11 -0700 Message-ID: <19970308165911.29580.qmail@genealogy.emcee.com> Subject: braswell-l Digest V97 #1 X-Loop: braswell-l@genealogy.org X-Mailing-List: archive/volume97/1 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: braswell-l@genealogy.org Content-Type: text/plain braswell-l Digest Volume 97 : Issue 1 Today's Topics: Re: HELP! The World Book of Bracewells?? US Gen Web Broadcast letter RE: RICHARD BRACEWELL & CHARITY SCARBOROUGH RE: Your message to the Braswell-List. Carey Bracewell Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 09:00:48 -0800 From: "Nona Williams" To: Subject: Re: HELP! Message-Id: <199703051700.JAA31768@ico.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Keith, I was on AOL for a while and their mailer didn't work very well which might be why Carey is having problems. I'm posting this to the list because it might be helpful for other AOL users too. Apparently AOL won't let you send a message to more than a single Internet address per message although you can send one message to multiple AOL addresses. Also you cannot send a message to both an AOL member and to an Internet address. It won't work to try and put one of the addresses in the CC: box either. To make it worse, AOL doesn't tell you about this so when your messages bounce you don't have a clue why. This is just one reason, I left AOL and am now using a direct Internet connection. -Nona ---------- > From: Keith Braswell > To: Braswell-L@genealogy.org > Subject: Re: HELP! > Date: Tuesday, March 04, 1997 8:48 PM > > Carey, > > Ask and you shall receive! > > Morgan_Hawk@msn.com (Joyce Hetrick) > LBarron@fas.harvard.edu (Lucy Barron) > FoyBrasw@aol.com (Foy Braswell) > > Here is a hint.... Use your mouse to select the address when you add it to > your address book. While you are viewing this message take your mouse and > put the cursor on the M on Morgan and push the left mouse button and hold it > down as you drag it across the address. When you have it to the m on .com > let go. You should have selected Morgan_Hawk@msn.com and it will be a > reverse color of what you normally see. Then, with your left hand hold down > the Ctrl key (bottom right of keyboard on most) and then tap the C key while > the Ctrl is held down. This copies the selected text to your clipboard > (memory) Then when you go to your address book and make and entry. Where > it asks for the email address click your mouse on that field. (I am not > sure how your address book works...) Anyway, when ever you get to the place > where you would normally type in the address hold the Ctrl (control) key > with your left hand again and tap the V key to paste what you formally > copied with the Control C sequence. This keeps you from making any mistakes > in the addresses when you type them in. As you get familiar with it you > will find yourself using it all the time. I use it for everything. If I > see a URL in a message that I want to view in my browser I copy and paste > it. If you already know how to do all this please ignore my message. Maybe > someone else on the List can make use of the information. > > Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and > pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy > copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! > Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and > pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy > copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! > Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and > pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy > copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! > Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! Many happy copy and > pastes! Many happy copy and pastes! > > Oops! I got carried away with the control v there! > > Keith > > At 10:44 PM 3/4/97 -0500, CBracewell@aol.com wrote: > >Dear Cousins, > > > > Would SOMEONE P-L-E-A-S-E give me the E-mail address for Joyce Hetrek, > >Lucy, & Foy Braswell! I'm besieged by Daemons and missed communications! > >:D :) :) > > > >CAREY BRACEWELL CBracewell@aol.com > > > > > > David (Keith) Braswell Phone: (573) 778-3853 > 2192 Penny Street http://www.pbmo.net/suburb/braswell/ > Poplar Bluff, MO 63901 E-Mail: braswell@pbmo.net Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 15:14:33 -0800 From: "Randy Bracewell" To: "Braswell Genealogy" Subject: The World Book of Bracewells?? Message-Id: <199703062315.RAA14804@dfw-ix3.ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I received a letter from some people in Bath, Ohio that claim they have a Heirloom Edition Bracewell Directory "virtually handmade to order" for $34.50 . Does anyone know if this is a scam or something? I remember a few months ago that you were all saying bad things about something similar to this, but I don't remember all the details of that discussion. If anyone has an input I would appreciate it. The only company name in all the papers was "Publisher: Halbert's, Bath, OH 44210". Thanks. Randy Bracewell Bremerton, WA, USA For those of you who haven't found it yet, the US Genealogy Web is a great research tool. It's URL is - http://www.usgenweb.com/ >From there, you can click on the state you want and check out the goodies. From the state, you can go to the individual county you are interested in. Each one of these has a sponsor and you can e-mail queries, read queries, register as a research, etc. One of the best is the Isle of Wight Co, VA which has an excellent history of the county (first settlers on 27 June 1619). I have have only looked in VA-NC-TN. When I came across Braswell researchers, I have e-mailed them and told them about the Braswell net. This has drawn several new-comers to the net. I have also met 2 new cousins this way. Keith - I would suggest that you register the Braswell net with states/counties concerned. Usually, you can register on multiple counties from the state page. Several of our members are already registered as individuals. If this is too much trouble for you, authorize us to do it as we come across a state or county where we aren't registered. Foy Braswell Foy Brasw@aol.com Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 12:18:45 -0600 From: braswell@pbmo.net (Keith Braswell) To: Braswell-L@Genealogy.Org (Braswell List) Subject: Broadcast letter Message-Id: <199703071818.MAA01410@vigil.pbmo.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Forwarding this for Gayle... ---------- Original Message Starts Here. ---------- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 01:49:47 -0800 (PST) To: braswell@pbmo.net From: gayleell@cdsnet.net (Gayle Ellison) Subject: Broadcast letter Could you send this out as a broadcast query? Does anyone have any information where this William L. Braswell in Georgia came from? 1794 Washington Co. Fifth REgiment Dragoons (American Militia in the Frontier Wars, 1790-1796 by Murtie June Clark, GPC 1990. 1794-95 Washington Co. legal ads & notices Universal Gazette, Augusta Chronicle 9/4/1809 Jackson County. William L. Braziel, deceased. Wife may be Sarah Brazeal (with 5 children who then married John Lambert from Rowan County). George Headen was issued Letters of Administration (Ordinary & Minutes, Georgia Testate REcords). Gayle Braswell Ellison gayleell@cdsnet.net ---------- Original Message Ends Here. ---------- David (Keith) Braswell Phone: (573) 778-3853 2192 Penny Street http://www.pbmo.net/suburb/braswell/ Poplar Bluff, MO 63901 E-Mail: braswell@pbmo.net Dear Theresa, Just wanted to update you on the latest. I got a copy of an article about the Bracewells written in 1879 by WB BRACEWELL abot the family. It clearly states that MY Richard was Sampson's brother. It also states that my James was son of Richard and when and where he was born and mini biography. Carey Bracewell sent me the copy of thea rticle fromFlanigan's History of Gwinnett Co., GA Vol 1 pg 323-6, GS 075.322 H2f Anyway, I just wanted to say how much I appreciated the help you gave me, and will add your data to the article's and have a pretty complete picture of my Bracewells. Gosh, this has been almost "too easy" I can't believe I got so lucky! Haven't had a major find in months (years?) Thanks for helping me out! I really really REALLY appreciate it! e u later Joyce ---------- From: Theresa M. Reynolds Sent: Sunday, March 02, 1997 3:05 AM To: braswell-l@genealogy.org Subject: Re: RICHARD BRACEWELL & CHARITY SCARBOROUGH MORGAN HETRICK wrote: > > My ancestor is RICHARD BRACEWELL, born probably before 1774, married Charity > Scarborough and their son, JAMES born 5 June 1794 at Allen's Fort,Warren > County, GA was my ancestor. I do not know the names of any other children of > RICHARD and Charity. > JAMES was in Morgan Co., GA by 1820 when he married Elizabeth Butler, and he > died 12 Dec 1875 in Gwinnett Co. Ga. > The children of JAMES & ELIZABETH WERE: > WILLIAM BUTLER BRACEWELL b. 1822 Lawrenceville, Gwinnett Co GA (married > Martha Martin, dtr of Absolom) [My ancestors] > James R. Bracewell, Julia, Richard W. (b 1831) Sarah Amanda, Frances E., > Nancy Jane, Samuel T. Henry H., Lucinda Caroline and Epsey (Essie?) (female), > and Caroline. > I have recently discovered your site and am thrilled that there are others > out there tracing the same line(s). > I am an experienced genealogist (been at it over 30 years) I don't accept > anyone else's research without checking it out--no offense, just that I have > made enough mistakes of my own without adding someone elses' to mine. Group > research is the best I think, because a group is critical of the research not > the researcher. Helps us find our errors and gives us new insight into a > problem. Great way to do things and I will be glad to share references with > any and all. > I was intrigued when I was reading the guest book and came across the > reference to another Bracewell/Scarborough marriage and wondered if possibly > that my Richard had a brother that married a sister or cousin of my Charity? > You all have a wonderful group, I have been reading your "mail" on the > archive and you all sound like great and nice people. > Tell you a little about myself. I am Joyce Hetrick, husband is Morgan > (that's his email I use) and he (semi-retired engineer/test pilot) and me, > still working Registered Nurse Practitioner (cuts into my research time!) live > out in the boonies of Arkansas (snail mail: 288 Heifer Creek Rd. Springfield, > AR 72157 phone 501-354-5025). We raise a few Scots Highland cattle and I do as > much genealogy as you can do when you work 24/7 at one "job" or another! > Spend all my "disposable" income on sending off to archives for copies of > various records. My best friend is a professional genealogist named Desmond > Walls Allen. SHE writes/compiles index books and publishes them, lectures and > writes a newspaper article weekly for our statewide newspaper on genealogy and > keeps me in ideas when I am "up the family tree and can't get down." See her > web page at Arkansas Research. > Keep up the good work and hope I can be of assistance to the group and vice > versa! E U later! Joyce HetrickHello Joyce, Your Richard is probably the brother of my Sampson Bracewell of Laurens County Georgia who married Elizabeth Scarborough, daughter of William Scarborough. I based this on the will of William who names Sampson as an heir. And on land records that give Sampson's wife name as Elizabeth. According to fellow Bracewell researchers, Ray Tarpley and Ron Bracewell, Richard and Charity Scarborough Bracewell had 4 children: James who married Elizabeth Butler, Richard who married first Lucinda Spears and second Ms. Allen, Wiley who married Aggie Doorman, and William who married Elizabeth Stephens. Richard had a second wife, Winnifred Carlisle, and they had 2 sons: Kindred and Allen. My Sampson married Elizabeth Scarborough and they had 5 children: Mary who married Jethro Judson Weaver, Elizabeth who married Reason Spell, William Sampson who married Ridley Hilliard, Eliza who married David McDaniel, and Seabron Asbury who married Roxann A. Wolfe ( my 3 great grandparents ). It is believed, because of age differences in the census, that Sampson married a second time and had several more children. Ray and Ron give Sampson Bracewell and Miss Moore of North Carolina as the parents of my Sampson and your Richard Bracewell. Looking forward to shareing ideas with you, Theresa Dear Keith, just to update you that today I got in the mail a copy of Flanigan's "History of Gwinnett Co., GA Vol 1 pg 323-26, an article written in " 1879 by a Bracewell descendant that details his family history back to "the immigrant" whose name he did not remember, but he remembered that "the immigrant" had two sons Robert and Richard and where he (the immigrant) and " they lived, etc. It clearly takes my line back to The Reverend Robert Bracewell. Since much of this data has been independently confirmed by several other researchers from original documents, I think this is a FIND!!!!! Thanks a million for your list and all the nice people that have been so great to help me with this line! You guys are great! Joyce ---------- From: Keith Braswell Sent: Sunday, March 02, 1997 2:05 AM To: MORGAN HETRICK Cc: braswell-L@genealogy.org Subject: Your message to the Braswell-List. Joyce, I enjoyed your message that you posted to the List! Thanks for your compliments on the site and I am glad you found the archives of use. I am going to be posting a new file soon that has some really interesting "stuff" in it. Thanks for your family information and I hope that you find more information that is helpful to you. I am pleased to have your experience in genealogy as a part of the list and hope to see you involved in the discussions. Yours for genealogy, Keith Braswell David (Keith) Braswell Phone: (573) 778-3853 2192 Penny Street http://www.pbmo.net/suburb/braswell/ Poplar Bluff, MO 63901 E-Mail: braswell@pbmo.net Dear Braswell Cousins, Hi! My interest in our family's history began in 1958 when I was a freshman History major at the University of Texas, Austin. By chance that year I came across an old family Bible which belonged to one RICHARD BRAZIL, who, according to his inscription in the faded flyleaf, "...was borne in the yeare of our lord l759" and went on to say that JEMIMA BRAZIL, "his wife was borne --Dec. 25--in the yeare of our lord 1764" and went on to give their wedding day as May 15, 17__ {probably 1780} None of my kin knew who this guy was...and some even tittered at "Jemima". But my curiosity was aroused, and what began as a hobby seems to have turned into "the never-ending quest", for even now I'm still adding to my collection of Braswelliana. A word about my research methodology: basically scientific, on-site research whenever possible. I followed the suggestions of Doane and other authorities, and still do. My research--except for some odds & ends here in the Southwest--was essentially complete by 1973, the year I had my family's name changed to its original form, BRACEWELL; the year of my little "Braswell Quarterly", and the year my personal & business life took me away from my life's hobby. Since then, I've done little research except answer a few letters. My files are still intact and I am willing to share within certain parameters: (a) that you've done all your "homework" and gathered EVERYTHING on your lineage as far back as you can extend it, and (b) remember that my time and eyesight are both limited. Usually, I can help most if you have your lineage back at least to the first Federal Census of 1790 and the East Coast. Here is my Braswell lineage. Obviously, the later your line diverges from mine, the more I have to offer: CAREY H. BRACEWELL (1936- ) b. Texas Rev. ETHERIDGE C. BRAZIL (1896- ) b. Texas Yes, 100+ & still sharp! Rev. JESSE CALVIN BRAZIL (1865-1951) b. Texas Deacon JESSE BRAZIL (1827-1888) b. Fulton Co., Illinois MOSES BRAZIL (1803-1872) b. Anderson Co., Tennessee RICHARD BRAZIL (1759-1842) b. Orange Co., North Carolina RICHARD BRAZWELL (c.1723-1800) b. Bertie Precinct, North Carolina VALENTINE BRAZWELL (c.1692-c.1766) b. Isle of Wight Co., Virginia RICHARD BRACEWELL (c.1652-c.1725) b. I of W Rev. ROBERT BRACEWELL (1611-1668), b. London, England I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the help of generations of other Braswell genealogists in assembling my modest collection. Among East Coast pundits, Cousin Bill Fields of "The Meadows" was my favorite mentor and contributor of many rare, original North Carolinian Braswelliana items. The LDS researchers' contributions could not be exaggerated, especially the tireless help of Jessie Wadley and Eunice Young. Pal Spencer in Sioux Falls, an Illinois Brazil descendant, was a good pal and contributed much data and insight. My work is as much a group consensus as anything else! As I said, most of my work was done onsite whereever possible: at the courthouse, in the old cemetery, state archives'...whereever. Then printed sources were used, such as Bodie's history of "Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County". Some of my work has appeared in print since 1970, not all of it correctly quoted! Yours for fun research, CAREY From ???@??? Sun Mar 09 08:39:44 1997 Received: from genealogy.emcee.com (genealogy.org [207.167.87.50]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA03639 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 00:21:25 -0600 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 531); 8 Mar 1997 23:21:17 -0700 Resent-Date: 8 Mar 1997 23:21:17 -0700 Resent-Cc: recipient.list.not.shown:; Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 00:20:37 -0600 Message-Id: <199703090620.AAA03525@vigil.pbmo.net> X-Sender: braswell@pbmo.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Braswell-L@genealogy.org (Braswell List) From: braswell@pbmo.net (Keith Braswell) Subject: What's going on... Resent-Message-ID: <"bkqy51.0.5z6.SRb8p"@genealogy> Resent-From: braswell-l@genealogy.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/408 X-Loop: braswell-l@genealogy.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: braswell-l-request@genealogy.org Dear List members, I had heard some good things about the Digest feature of the List and I had enabled it. However, I don't like how it comes in run together. So, I am switching back. I would rather receive the messages separate and deal with them individually. I hope that you will agree. I hope the switch back doesn't upset the flow of things. If you haven't checked out the changes I have done to The Braswell Family on the www please do so. I think you will like the new additions. http://www.pbmo.net/suburb/braswell/ Yours truly, Keith David (Keith) Braswell Phone: (573) 778-3853 2192 Penny Street http://www.pbmo.net/suburb/braswell/ Poplar Bluff, MO 63901 E-Mail: braswell@pbmo.net From ???@??? Sun Mar 09 08:39:46 1997 Received: from emout14.mail.aol.com (emout14.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.40]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id HAA24631 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 07:50:09 -0600 From: CBracewell@aol.com Received: (from root@localhost) by emout14.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id IAA08122; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 08:49:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 08:49:03 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <970309084901_1283663193@emout14.mail.aol.com> To: braswell@pbmo.net cc: rof@backporch.com Subject: "Braswell Quarterly" Dear Cousin Keith, I read over the data listed under "Braswell Quarterly" on the webpage and found only minor errors. The typos any intelligent reader can figure out; a couple of errors in fact, which has since (1973) been corrected are: 1. The Julian calendar began on March 21, not 25. 2. The exact date of RICHARD BRAZIL's death is not known, only "c.1842". The November 5th date was the death date of another ancestor, REUBEN GAGE, who died in Saline County on that date (11/5/1842). 3. The daughter listed on the 1790 Census of Greenville District, SC for VALENTINE BRASWELL had to have been MARY ANN ("Polly") who later married ANDRE ST. JEAN, the French furtrapper, in St. Clair County, Illinois Territory, in 1805. 4. The explanation of the 1810 Census of Clear Creek, Randolph Co., Illinois Territory, has GEORGE born in "1872" which was obviously c.1782. 5. The middle name "LIGHT" given to my ggf, JESSE BRAZIL, is bogus, based on accepting the wrong Confederate service record of another, different JESSE BRAZIL who served in the 19th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (our JESSE served in the 2nd Texas Partisan Rangers (cavalry)...... Evidently this summary of my lineage's primary records was one I have Cousin Klute Braswell of Berryville, Arkansas, for use in his book, about 1973. It reflects the state of my research to that point, and is a good introduction to other Braswell researchers to this cousin (CAREY). Thanks for sharing it with the membership! A final note, you asked about "patenting" land: that was the final process of free land aquisition in colonial times. The first step was to get a "warrant" or script for "x" number of acres from the granting authority. Next came the survey (with the names of the "chainbearers" often of family significance). Finally, with all the paperwork and fees in, the land was formerly deeded--or "patented" to the applicant. As often as not these patents represented land speculation rather than actual settlement on the land. After Independence, the Federal Land Office got around speculators somewhat by requiring certain improvements be made on the property before title was granted. CAREY From ???@??? Sun Mar 09 16:37:13 1997 Received: from emout16.mail.aol.com (emout16.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.42]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA27539 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 15:49:01 -0600 From: CBracewell@aol.com Received: (from root@localhost) by emout16.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id QAA00286; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 16:48:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 16:48:28 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <970309164827_585844277@emout16.mail.aol.com> To: FoyBrasw@aol.com cc: rof@backporch.com, braswell@pbmo.net Subject: The lineage of William Jackson Braswell Dear Cousin (& fellow Texan!)Foy, If you can establish your descent from Jonas & Rion Braswell, I think we're in business: many if not all the Braswell/Brazles in the Wilkes area of northwest North Carolina owe their origin to a "diaspora" of a Baptist sect from Montgomery-Anson county at the outset of the Revolutionary War.I believe your Rion & Jonas are a part of that group. Here is the story: By 1769 a Baptist sect group that included Richard & Obedience Braswell had tired of the Regulator Troubles in Orange County and had moved, as an intact congregation, further west into the wild Piedmont and settled along "the Baptist Fork of Clark's Creek", a tributary to the Little River, in what was then Anson, later Montgomery County. When the Revolutionary War broke out, Richard's elder son, GEORGE (b.c.1750; m. POLLY MORGAN c.1770, Anson) headed back east & rode it out in Moore County. Most, if not all, the rest, including their Baptist allied families, headed northwest to Wilkes County. Some of those of draft age (such as my ggg-gf, RICHARD, 1759-1842) even went into the Wautauga Settlement in "Washington Co., NC/Tennessee" to stay out of the fighting. They were not cowards; many, such as OBEDIENCE {probably of Quaker birth} were conscientious objectors, the dogma of these first, radical Southern Baptists! That they were patriots is proved by the peaceable marriage of RICHARD's daughter, OBEDIENCE ("Jr") to DAVID HALL, a Revolutionary War veteran, on January 20, 1784, in Wilkes County {all this from HALLs Rev pension application} Complicating the research is the distinct possibility that some of HENRY BRAZWELL's brood in Orange-Chatham might have contributed to this Baptist survival commune which was centered on their Meeting House on Reddies River, which is just west of North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.By this time RICHARD & OBEDIENCE had marriageable age children, & some went their separate ways: GEORGE to Moore Co., as mentioned; FREDERICK m. ELIZABETH______& headed for Jackson Co., Georgia, where he expired in 1828.But most of the rest of the kids moved with RICHARD & OBEDIENCE to Greenville District, South Carolina, in 1787 or thereabouts. No doubt there may have been other older sons--JONAS?--who stayed behind in the Wilkes area, too. One BOARDVINE BRAZLE was born c.1799 in nearby Surry County of unknown provenance but almost certainly connected to this Baptist bunch by place and time alone! Not many people had the skills or the stomach for what it took to survive & prosper on that frontier! Here is all I have on Burke County: 1819 1-26 BRAZEL, RION married ANN BEARD. JAMES DAVIS, Bondsman. 1821 5-20 BRAZEL, WILEY married BEADY {"Obedience?"} BARBER. RION BRAZEL, Bondsman. 1835 By this year, WILLIAM JONAS BRASWELL, a "Revolutionary War hero in the North Carolina militia, had died. He had lived in Burke County on Lower Creek, and was buried in Burke, near Crossnore, N.C. He had relatives in Yancey County, N.C." {This was from some "History of Wautauga County", evidently based on JONAS' pension application, and relayed to me by Eunice Young. Sorry I didn't press her for citation on book, but there can't be that many on the subject. I had established my line to Greenville District and was only marginally curious about JONAS. I assume you have all this, right? Alllied families to be treated as "markers" for determining a possible connection with RICHARD & OBEDIENCE's bunch must start with SHEPHERD, whose association with the Baptists and the Bracewells went back to Orange County days. Others from the Anson-Montgomery/Wilkes period included HALL, BUTLER, WHITE, LUCAS,USSERY, possibly STONECIPHER. CAREY From ???@??? Tue Mar 11 00:03:54 1997 Received: from emout01.mail.aol.com (emout01.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.92]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA18104 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 21:59:11 -0600 From: CBracewell@aol.com Received: (from root@localhost) by emout01.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id WAA22967; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 22:58:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 22:58:35 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <970310225833_-1405763376@emout01.mail.aol.com> To: MORGAN_HAWK@msn.com cc: braswell@pbmo.net Subject: Lineage of JAMES BRACEWELL of Gwinnet Co., Georgia Dear Cousin Joyce, Now we can get down to business on this lineage! I've no doubt that the connection with RICHARD BRACEWELL, Jr. (c. 1672-c.1742) will be proved in time. I reread my NC & Ga files looking for easy answers, but of course found none, only tantalizing clues! I will reread certain old correspondence for more information, but suffice to say I'm confident the connection will be established. For one thing, the use of the name "RICHARD'" was found primarily in only two lines, that of this RICHARD and that of his baby brother, VALENTINE (c. 1692-c.1766), which happens to be my line. Following the Gwinnet county history leads, I checked on Burke Co., Ga., for which I have only the land grants, 1768-1803. None were to a RICHARD, but a ROBERT BRASWELL received a State grant of 60 acres in Burke in1789. (SSS-597) I have a few more records for Washington County, including a grant of 287.5 acres to Revolutionary War veteran SAMPSON BRAZILL dated 11/20/1784. A year later, we find an Edgecombe Co., NC deed (Edge DB8-548) in which SAMPSON BRACEWELL of Washington Co., Ga., sold ABNER BRACEWELL of Edgecombe land that was "left to the said SAMPSON BRACEWELL by his father RICHARD BRACEWELL by his last will and testament." Then in 1798 the delinquent tax list for Washington Co. features one RICHARD BRASWELL. I should think a thorough examination of Burke/Washinton/Gwinnet records would be the next order of business..... Its probably more than coincidence that your JAMES had close kinsman named SAMPSON. We can & will untagle this mess, Cuz! Meanwhile, thanks for the interesting letters. I do appreciate your calling my hand about that powderhorn marked "RB"; while it is PROBABLY ancestral, even with the pretty legend to go with it, it isn't PROOF that its ancestral! Part of group dynamics is keeping each other honest, right? LOL CAREY From ???@??? Tue Mar 11 07:32:57 1997 Received: from genealogy.emcee.com (genealogy.org [207.167.87.50]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id CAA07786 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 02:34:01 -0600 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 531); 11 Mar 1997 01:34:29 -0700 Resent-Date: 11 Mar 1997 01:34:29 -0700 Resent-Cc: recipient.list.not.shown:; To: braswell-l@genealogy.org Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 02:59:15 PST Subject: Carey & Wm. C. Fields Message-ID: <19970311.033203.11070.0.jameswgreen@juno.com> References: <19970308165911.29580.qmail@genealogy.emcee.com> X-Mailer: Juno 1.00 X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-22 From: jameswgreen@juno.com (James W. Green III) Resent-Message-ID: <"xKibG3.0.TW5.KaH9p"@genealogy> Resent-From: braswell-l@genealogy.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/412 X-Loop: braswell-l@genealogy.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: braswell-l-request@genealogy.org >Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 18:27:39 -0500 (EST) >From: CBracewell@aol.com >To: Braswell-L@genealogy.org >Subject: Carey Bracewell > >Dear Braswell Cousins, > ... >I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the help of generations of >other Braswell genealogists in assembling my modest collection. Among >East Coast pundits, Cousin Bill Fields of "The Meadows" was my >favorite mentor and contributor of many rare, original North >Carolinian Braswelliana items. ... My info on my Carver & Braswell line in NC & VA came from correspondence with Wm. Fields & one visit to his home in Fayetteville, NC in the early 1970s. Is he still alive. He was a portrait artist. >Yours for fun research, CAREY -- James W. Green III / Rt.5, Box 720 / Winnsboro SC 29180 CSA home:803-635-9236 http://emcee.com/~green http://www.GeoCities.Com/Heartland/9389 From ???@??? Tue Mar 11 08:36:49 1997 Received: from genealogy.emcee.com (genealogy.org [207.167.87.50]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id HAA13906 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 07:39:58 -0600 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 531); 11 Mar 1997 06:35:47 -0700 Resent-Date: 11 Mar 1997 06:35:47 -0700 Resent-Cc: recipient.list.not.shown:; Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 08:35:43 -0500 (EST) From: FoyBrasw@aol.com Message-ID: <970311083542_1216924201@emout08.mail.aol.com> To: Braswell-L@genealogy.org Subject: The Hanging Resent-Message-ID: <"8WSMu.0.-z.o-L9p"@genealogy> Resent-From: braswell-l@genealogy.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/413 X-Loop: braswell-l@genealogy.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: braswell-l-request@genealogy.org I have been corresponding with Alice Douberley (Jonesborough, TN Genealogical Society) about the Allisons of Johnson Co, TN. My great-grandmother was Louisa Allison who married William Jackson Braswell. She passed the info below along to me. The murderers were Braswells and the victims were Allisons. --------------------------------------------------------- Subj: Re: Allisons Date: 97-03-10 18:16:36 EST From: 105170.2530@compuserve.com (ALICE H. DOUBERLEY) To: FoyBrasw@aol.com (INTERNET:FoyBrasw@aol.com) Foy, from "The Brassell Hanging of Putnam County, Tennessee" by Donald E. Spurlock, I gleaned the following information. Joseph Lewis (Joe) Brassell (also Braswell & Brazel) and his brother George A. (Teek) Brassell murdered John J. & Russell Allison on November 1875 in Putnam Co., Tenn. Joe & Teek were the sons of Edbert, b. ca. 1816 in N.C. (Edbert was accused of raping his daughter, Tennessee, but the charges were dropped) and Mary P. Brassell, b. ca. 1829 in Tenn. They had children: Tennessee, F, b. ca. 1848 Tenn. William, b. ca. 1844, Tenn. Reuben J. (James/Jim), b. ca. 1845, Tenn.; m. Harriet Z. Zachariah T., b. ca. 1851, Ky. Luiza, b. ca. 1853, Ky. (These 2 may have) Joseph, b. ca. 1853, Ky. ( been twins ) George A. (Teek), b. ca. 1855, Ky. Amanda, b. ca. 1857, Tenn. (This was from the 1860 census of Dixon Springs, Smith Co., Tenn.) Samuel (Buck), b. ca. 1862, Tenn. (From the 1870 census of 7th Civil Dist. (Gentry Community, Baxter), Putnam Co., Tenn.) It would seem that Joe, Teek, prob. Jim, and another decided to rob a man carrying a lot of money who was suppose to spend the night at Russell Allison's step-mother's house. The man didn't get there that night, but Joe, et. al., came, demanded to be let in and fed. Russell went to the door, let them in, and was shot. He died the next day claiming who shot him. His brother, John, went with the posse to capture the killers, and was himself shot and died 25 hours after Russell. There was some question about whether Teek really did either of the shootings. He & Joe were hanged in 1878 - the only public hanging in Putnam County. Joe admitted to the killing, but Teek died claiming his innocence. It has been speculated that he took the "rap" for his sister Amanda, who was at the hanging. Their brother Jim claimed he did the killing when he was dying. Russell & John were the sons of Joseph Allison, and brothers of William & Joseph Allison. Joseph, Sr., had married 2nd Angeline ?, and they had a house with a dog trot separating the two sections. The section not used by the family was often used by travelers. After Joseph died, Angeline m. James Isbell. His son, W.J. Isbell, was the Tax Collector for Putnam County and was the man who was carrying so much money, and who the Brassells had intended to kill. I thought this was pretty interesting. I'm afraid, though, I still wasn't able to identify any of the Allisons that you listed. Are these Brassells related? Alice From ???@??? Tue Mar 11 17:51:00 1997 Received: from emout04.mail.aol.com (emout04.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.95]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA03744 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:46:04 -0600 From: FoyBrasw@aol.com Received: (from root@localhost) by emout04.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id QAA02049; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 16:40:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 16:40:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <970311164024_1183250471@emout04.mail.aol.com> To: Braswell@pbmo.net cc: Braswell-L@genealogy.org Subject: US Gen Web Project I have selected the following states for inclusion of the Braswell Family homepage: AL-AR-FL-GA-LA-MO-MIS-NC-OK-SC-TN-TX-VA. There is very little uniformity. Some states do not have "Surname Registers" so I am emailing a "HELP" message to them. Anyway, I'll keep on it and keep everyone posted. The current status is: Submitted: AL - GA - MO - TX - VA Kicked Back: AR - TN No Register: FL - LA - MS - NC - SC Out of Order: OK As they say on the TV ads - "But wait, that's not all. You also get the genealogy of President Bill Clinton on the Arkansas Gen Web Page." Foy Braswell FoyBrasw@aol.com From ???@??? Thu Mar 13 21:28:27 1997 Received: from genealogy.emcee.com (genealogy.org [207.167.87.50]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id FAA17446 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 05:38:08 -0600 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 531); 11 Mar 1997 20:19:07 -0700 Resent-Date: 11 Mar 1997 20:19:07 -0700 Resent-Cc: recipient.list.not.shown:; Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 20:43:56 -0500 (EST) From: CBracewell@aol.com Message-ID: <970311204037_-1606474570@emout08.mail.aol.com> To: braswell-l@genealogy.org Subject: Re: Carey & Wm. C. Fields Resent-Message-ID: <"YZvDb1.0.Xb3.g2Y9p"@genealogy> Resent-From: braswell-l@genealogy.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/415 X-Loop: braswell-l@genealogy.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: braswell-l-request@genealogy.org Dear Cousin James, Yes, indeed Bill Fields is still alive and kicking at his home "The Meadows" near Fayetteville. I had not talked with him in some time--in fact I got his # off Switchboard: William C. Fields Route 23 Fayetteville, NC 28301-9809 Bill is ANCIENT now--he was my mentor in Southern colonial research & I was 60 last November--but he's still very active: has four portraits on the easel now & is helping compile & publish early Cumberland deeds. W From ???@??? Thu Mar 13 21:28:29 1997 Received: from emout16.mail.aol.com (emout16.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.42]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA22134 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 08:27:46 -0600 From: CBracewell@aol.com Received: (from root@localhost) by emout16.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id JAA17767; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 09:27:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 09:27:14 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <970312092712_-1137408114@emout16.mail.aol.com> To: MORGAN_HAWK@msn.com cc: braswell@pbmo.net Subject: James Bracewell of Gwinnet Co., Georgia Dear Cousin Joyce, I talked to my old friend & mentor, Bill Fields of Fayetteville at length last night and he was of the opinion that your JAMES may connect through RICHARD BRACEWELL "III", the legitimate son RICHARD "II" had by wife, ELINOR. This 3rd-in-a-row RICHARD made his will in Edgecombe 12/7/1767 naming sons SAMPSON, SOLOMON, RICHARD, JAMES, & WILLIAM;wife ELIZABETH, & daughters SARAH, MARY, & ELIZABETH. THOMAS BRYANT, a witness to the will,is thought to be a kinsman to the widow ELIZABETH, who was probably a BRYANT (not ELINOR, RICHARD II's lawful wife and presumed mother to this RICHARD). RICHARD "IV" and some of his brothers--including SAMPSON--ventured further west into Johnston County, then some into Anson. From there, following the Piedmont down into Georgia would be a natural progression. I think your Bracewell pedigree may prove to be: Rev. ROBERT (1611-1668) RICHARD (c.1652-1725) RICHARD (c.1672-c.1742) RICHARD (c.1705-c.1767) RICHARD (c.1735-18__) died in Georgia; brother to SAMPSON JAMES Is that enough RICHARDs BRACEWELL for you? :) I'll put together what I have on this line and mail it to you. As you saw from yesterday's mail, I'm trying to get James Green in on this. He is another descendant of RICHARD II by ANN CARVER and may be able to help. Bill Fields is too old to bother about this. Some of his other friends are trying to prevail upon him to publish what he knows about the Braswells, which would be a blessing to us all! You mentioned SUSANNAH BRACEWELL's receipt of 400 pounds of tobacco "commodity money" for looking after the wife of JOHN COLLINS, Sr. in Isle of Wight in October, 1694 (DB 1, Orders, 1693-1795, p. 51). Yes, I am very familiar with this. COLLINS' wife, MARY, was SUSANNAH's mother whom COLLINS evidently beat severely. Not to take sides, but mother & daughters' contentious natures (as shown elsewhere by cutting people out of their wills, etc.) may well explain why ROBERT, Jr. skidaddled over to Nansemond (a burned out county) where he evidently died w/o issue, coming back to I of W only to give "wife" SUSANNAH power of attorney to settle any old debts. He may have returned to England--who knows? All this will be fully documented when Keith shares my "Braswell Quarterly" with the membership. CAREY From ???@??? Thu Mar 13 21:28:31 1997 Received: from genealogy.emcee.com (genealogy.org [207.167.87.50]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA05615 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 10:42:52 -0600 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 531); 12 Mar 1997 00:07:28 -0700 Resent-Date: 12 Mar 1997 00:07:28 -0700 Resent-Cc: recipient.list.not.shown:; Message-ID: <33263806.1333@ix.netcom.com> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 20:58:46 -0800 From: Randy Bracewell Reply-To: wbracewe@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: braswell-l@genealogy.org Subject: The World Book of Bracewells Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"b_N7g2.0.d52.lOb9p"@genealogy> Resent-From: braswell-l@genealogy.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/416 X-Loop: braswell-l@genealogy.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: braswell-l-request@genealogy.org Hello Again Braswell List, I decided to re-post my inquiry on the World Book of Bracewells, because I don't think it got delivered correctly: I got a letter in the mail from Bath, Ohio trying to sell me a "valuable and extensive international directory of Bracewells". What's the scoop? I remember you folks talking bad about something similar to this a while back. Is this worth $34.50 plus $4.88 postage and handling? Any feedback would be appreciated. Randy Bracewell -- "Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives." - Will A. Foster Randy Bracewell Bremerton, Washington From ???@??? Thu Mar 13 21:28:32 1997 Received: from emout10.mail.aol.com (emout10.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.25]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA26821 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 14:04:36 -0600 From: CBracewell@aol.com Received: (from root@localhost) by emout10.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id PAA03684; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 15:02:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 15:02:53 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <970312150234_1425797337@emout10.mail.aol.com> To: braswell@pbmo.net cc: FoyBrasw@aol.com, rof@backporch.com Subject: Re: The Hanging Dear Cousin Foy, Thank you for the interesting murder scandal from Putnam Co., Tennessee, November, 1875. Although spiritual leadership is a theme in many branches, not all our honored ancestors were candidates for sainthood, were they? Its interesting what all we've gotten involved in since 1649, isn't it? A Bracewell killed Pat Garrett, the sheriff who killed Billy the Kid. And in that same state (NM), it was on a Bracewell's ranch near Roswell where that flying saucer allegedly crashed in 1947. Weird enough for you, Cuz? LOL From ???@??? Thu Mar 13 21:28:33 1997 Received: from emout08.mail.aol.com (emout08.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.23]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA29477 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 14:27:08 -0600 From: CBracewell@aol.com Received: (from root@localhost) by emout08.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id PAA02131; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 15:26:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 15:26:30 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <970312152531_-1137383377@emout08.mail.aol.com> To: MORGAN_HAWK@msn.com cc: braswell@pbmo.net Subject: The ancestry of JAMES BRACEWELL of Gwinnet Co., Georgia Dear Cousin Joyce, I've assembled a 65-page packet of documents and informed comentary on your RICHARDs BRACEWELL to go in the morning mail. No doubt your understanding of this probable connection with the Immigrant will be much better after having studied same. You will appreciate the great debt we all owe Bill Fields (WCF) of Fayetteville after you see how many documents were lovingly copied and analyzed by him. This was, of course, his line of descent--as far as Richard II anyway. My own line--and primary interest in Edgecombe--deflects west after 1746 when my VALENTINE, RICHARD I's "baby brother" (b.c.1692) lit out for some Granville speculating in Orange County. N.B. that the VALENTINE whose real estate dealings are mentioned in the Johnston County section of my materials belongs with this Orange County bunch. CAREY From ???@??? Thu Mar 13 21:28:34 1997 Received: from ico.com (psycho2.iconetworks.net [204.94.129.66]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA18421 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 16:29:03 -0600 Received: from Pbackporch (rof.backporch.com [204.94.137.76]) by ico.com (8.8.5/8.8.2/103196) with ESMTP id OAA16261; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 14:28:09 -0800 Message-Id: <199703122228.OAA16261@ico.com> From: "Nona Williams" To: , Cc: Subject: Re: The Hanging Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 14:28:04 -0800 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have another item to add to the list of Braswell scandals although this one occurred in the Williams family in DeKalb Co., Tennessee (remember that these Williams men married Braswell women). Anyhow there was a murder on Williams property and the person convicted was a slave belonging to William Williams. This case set a precedent for murder convictions using circumstantial evidence. Keith Hayes who has posted to this list a couple of times got a copy of the case as cited in law books some time ago from an attorney friend of his. -Nona ---------- > From: CBracewell@aol.com > To: braswell@pbmo.net > Cc: FoyBrasw@aol.com; rof@backporch.com > Subject: Re: The Hanging > Date: Wednesday, March 12, 1997 12:02 PM > > Dear Cousin Foy, > Thank you for the interesting murder scandal from Putnam Co., Tennessee, > November, 1875. Although spiritual leadership is a theme in many branches, > not all our honored ancestors were candidates for sainthood, were they? > > Its interesting what all we've gotten involved in since 1649, isn't it? A > Bracewell killed Pat Garrett, the sheriff who killed Billy the Kid. And in > that same state (NM), it was on a Bracewell's ranch near Roswell where that > flying saucer allegedly crashed in 1947. Weird enough for you, Cuz? LOL From ???@??? Thu Mar 13 21:28:42 1997 Received: from genealogy.emcee.com (genealogy.org [207.167.87.50]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id CAA26679 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 02:04:27 -0600 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 531); 12 Mar 1997 15:31:10 -0700 Resent-Date: 12 Mar 1997 15:31:10 -0700 Resent-Cc: recipient.list.not.shown:; Message-Id: <199703122230.OAA16676@ico.com> From: "Nona Williams" To: , Cc: Subject: Re: US Gen Web Project Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 14:30:44 -0800 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"ecdz51.0.VO6.jwo9p"@genealogy> Resent-From: braswell-l@genealogy.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/419 X-Loop: braswell-l@genealogy.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: braswell-l-request@genealogy.org There was also a story in the news a couple of years ago about a young man named Braswell (in a southern state) who appeared as a defendant in a case, but was evicted from the courthouse because he was wearing a T-shirt with a slogan that offended the judge. I wish I could remember more of the details but that's all I can recall. -Nona ---------- > From: CBracewell@aol.com > To: braswell-l@genealogy.org > Cc: MORGAN_HAWK@msn.com; rof@backporch.com > Subject: Re: US Gen Web Project > Date: Wednesday, March 12, 1997 12:08 PM > > Dear Cousin Foy, > Kudos on the US GenWeb project! Can't wait to see Clinton's pedigree > chart. He was right next door to Saline County which was settled by (still) > politically -active Bracewells (Brazils), and a connection wouldn't surprise > me a bit. You did know LBJ is a Bracewell descendant, didn't you? I can > supply his lineage from REBECCA BRACEWELL WEST if anybody wants it..... Also, > I think I heard somewhere that Jimmy Carter also descends from REBECCA, but > that one needs checking out, > LBJ is confirmed. > > CAREY BRACEWELL > From ???@??? Thu Mar 13 21:28:43 1997 Received: from genealogy.emcee.com (genealogy.org [207.167.87.50]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id EAA03535 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 04:10:06 -0600 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 531); 12 Mar 1997 13:29:59 -0700 Resent-Date: 12 Mar 1997 13:29:59 -0700 Resent-Cc: recipient.list.not.shown:; Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 15:08:54 -0500 (EST) From: CBracewell@aol.com Message-ID: <970312150811_-1639430943@emout09.mail.aol.com> To: braswell-l@genealogy.org cc: MORGAN_HAWK@msn.com, rof@backporch.com Subject: Re: US Gen Web Project Resent-Message-ID: <"XSts82.0.IH3.59n9p"@genealogy> Resent-From: braswell-l@genealogy.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/418 X-Loop: braswell-l@genealogy.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: braswell-l-request@genealogy.org Dear Cousin Foy, Kudos on the US GenWeb project! Can't wait to see Clinton's pedigree chart. He was right next door to Saline County which was settled by (still) politically -active Bracewells (Brazils), and a connection wouldn't surprise me a bit. You did know LBJ is a Bracewell descendant, didn't you? I can supply his lineage from REBECCA BRACEWELL WEST if anybody wants it..... Also, I think I heard somewhere that Jimmy Carter also descends from REBECCA, but that one needs checking out, LBJ is confirmed. CAREY BRACEWELL From ???@??? Thu Mar 13 21:28:46 1997 Received: from genealogy.emcee.com (genealogy.org [207.167.87.50]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA23440 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 10:02:49 -0600 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 531); 13 Mar 1997 09:02:04 -0700 Resent-Date: 13 Mar 1997 09:02:04 -0700 Resent-Cc: recipient.list.not.shown:; To: CBracewell@aol.com Cc: braswell-l@genealogy.org, MORGAN_HAWK@msn.com, rof@backporch.com Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 10:13:05 PST Subject: Re: US Gen Web Project Message-ID: <19970313.105842.11126.7.jameswgreen@juno.com> References: <970312150811_-1639430943@emout09.mail.aol.com> X-Mailer: Juno 1.00 X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-18 From: jameswgreen@juno.com (James W. Green III) Resent-Message-ID: <"GdzcY2.0.0G7.xJ2Ap"@genealogy> Resent-From: braswell-l@genealogy.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/421 X-Loop: braswell-l@genealogy.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: braswell-l-request@genealogy.org On Wed, 12 Mar 1997 15:08:54 -0500 (EST) CBracewell@aol.com writes: >Dear Cousin Foy, > Kudos on the US GenWeb project! Can't wait to see Clinton's >pedigree chart. He was right next door to Saline County which was >settled by (still) politically -active Bracewells (Brazils), and >a connection wouldn't surprise me a bit. You did know LBJ is a >Bracewell descendant, didn't you? I can supply his lineage from >REBECCA BRACEWELL WEST if anybody wants >it..... Also, I think I heard somewhere that Jimmy Carter also >descends from REBECCA, but that one needs checking out, >LBJ is confirmed. > >CAREY BRACEWELL Carey & Keith, can you all put those lineages on our web pages? -- James W. Green III / Rt.5, Box 720 / Winnsboro SC 29180 CSA home:803-635-9236 http://emcee.com/~green http://www.GeoCities.Com/Heartland/9389 From ???@??? Thu Mar 13 21:28:50 1997 Received: from emout15.mail.aol.com (emout15.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.41]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA19878 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 16:13:07 -0600 From: CBracewell@aol.com Received: (from root@localhost) by emout15.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id QAA26793; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 16:52:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 16:52:47 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <970313165238_-869309136@emout15.mail.aol.com> To: braswell@pbmo.net, FoyBrasw@aol.com cc: rof@backporch.com, MORGAN_HAWK@msn.com Subject: LBJ & Bill Fields Dear Keith, Cousin Foy asked to share LBJ's Bracewell lineage with the membership. It goes: Rev. Robert Bracewell (1611-1668) Jane Bracewell (c.1646-c.1711) m. Robert Eley. Jr. Eli Eley m. Anne Lawrence Robert Eley III m. Martha Doughtie Samuel Eley m. Mary Hillsman Ann Eley (1763-1815) m. John Johnson (1764-1828) Jesse Johnson (1795-1856) m. Lucy Webb Barnett (1798-1857) Samuel Eley Johnson (1838-1915) m. Elizabeth Bunton (1849-1917) Samuel Eley Johnson, Jr. (1877-1937) m. Rebecca Baines (1881-1958) Lyndon Baines Johnson, President of the United States This lineage was worked out by Cousin James MacLamroch of North Carolina, the one who also had the brass plaque honoring our immigrant ancestor installed on the rood screen at St. Luke's, Isle of Wight County. A research project that would pay tremendous dividends to both present and future Braswell researchers would be an interview with Braswell expert (and my old friend and mentor) Mr Bill Fields of Fayetteville, NC. Bill is getting along in years now--he'll be 80 September 27th--and doesn't type or drive up to Raleigh anymore. But he has a wealth of Braswell information gleaned from years of in-state research that needs to be captured on tape and shared. If someone would be kind enough to volunteer to interview him--and perhaps take this fine old gentleman out to dinner, too--I'd be pleased to help format the interview. Bill's expertise is the family of RICHARD BRACEWELL ("II"), husband of ELINOR, consort of ANN CARVER of Edgecombe County, from whom Bill is a double descendant. But he knows more about colonial North Carolina Braswells than any other living person. I BEG EVERYONE not to bother Bill with calls or letters; he is still the premier portrait artist for North Carolina gentry (governors, etc.) and has 4 portraits on his easel right now he needs to finish. He is also co-author of a work in progress on the records of Cumberland County. The last thing he needs to be bothered with well-meaning Braswell cousins who havn't worked out their pedigrees to at least the eighteenth century period. CAREY BRACEWELL From ???@??? Fri Mar 14 08:45:17 1997 Received: from genealogy.emcee.com (genealogy.org [207.167.87.50]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id HAA00888 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 07:50:31 -0600 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 531); 14 Mar 1997 06:47:38 -0700 Resent-Date: 14 Mar 1997 06:47:37 -0700 Resent-Cc: recipient.list.not.shown:; Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 08:47:24 -0500 (EST) From: FoyBrasw@aol.com Message-ID: <970314084723_-1438910211@emout13.mail.aol.com> To: braswell-l@genealogy.org Subject: Re: US Gen Web Project Resent-Message-ID: <"lT2Bd2.0.fS7.vRLAp"@genealogy> Resent-From: braswell-l@genealogy.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/425 X-Loop: braswell-l@genealogy.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: braswell-l-request@genealogy.org Wouldn't you know it, the only state that I'm having real problems getting through to on the Gen Web Project is Arkansas! I am a Western Outlaw History buff and am remiss at not knowning who shot Pat Garrett. Indeed, it was Jesse Wayne Brazel. I have an excellent article in one of my books about the incident. We can publish it to the net later and nominate him for "Braswell Rascal of the Month." Cousin Foy From ???@??? Fri Mar 14 09:20:22 1997 Received: from genealogy.emcee.com (genealogy.org [207.167.87.50]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA08499 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 09:15:53 -0600 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 531); 14 Mar 1997 08:07:25 -0700 Resent-Date: 14 Mar 1997 08:07:25 -0700 Resent-Cc: recipient.list.not.shown:; To: braswell-l@genealogy.org Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 09:59:15 PST Subject: Jesse Wayne Brazel kills Pat Garrett Message-ID: <19970314.100412.14238.0.jameswgreen@juno.com> References: <970314084723_-1438910211@emout13.mail.aol.com> X-Mailer: Juno 1.00 X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-1,3,5-16 From: jameswgreen@juno.com (James W. Green III) Resent-Message-ID: <"d3crY2.0.X-2.icMAp"@genealogy> Resent-From: braswell-l@genealogy.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/426 X-Loop: braswell-l@genealogy.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: braswell-l-request@genealogy.org On Fri, 14 Mar 1997 08:47:24 -0500 (EST) FoyBrasw@aol.com writes: >I am a Western Outlaw History buff and am remiss at not knowning who >shot Pat Garrett. Indeed, it was Jesse Wayne Brazel. I have an excellent >article in one of my books about the incident. We can publish it to the >net later and nominate him for "Braswell Rascal of the Month." >Cousin Foy Sounds interesting. After you post it to the list, maybe Keith will put it on the web if you own the copyright. I have heard the name Pat Garrett, but do not remember who he was but think I vaguely remember a western movie or series I saw with that character? -- James W. Green III / Rt.5, Box 720 / Winnsboro SC 29180 CSA home:803-635-9236 http://emcee.com/~green http://www.GeoCities.Com/Heartland/9389 From ???@??? Fri Mar 14 15:32:28 1997 Received: from emout13.mail.aol.com (emout13.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.39]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA29253 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 15:26:48 -0600 From: CBracewell@aol.com Received: (from root@localhost) by emout13.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id QAA06184 for braswell@pbmo.net; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 16:26:12 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 16:26:12 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <970314162533_1681349595@emout13.mail.aol.com> To: braswell@pbmo.net Subject: Re: The Braswell Page Dear Cousin Keith, Yes, I would like to talk with Joe. I think among the three of us, we could make short work of linking up Marmaduke with the Immigrant. I have always assumed that Elijah was M's dad, and James his g-gf. To me the research problem centers on Elijah's & James' parentage, with William (d.c.1721) a strong candidate for the latter. CAREY From ???@??? Fri Mar 14 15:53:12 1997 Received: from genealogy.emcee.com (genealogy.org [207.167.87.50]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA02855 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 15:47:35 -0600 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 531); 14 Mar 1997 12:48:13 -0700 Resent-Date: 14 Mar 1997 12:48:12 -0700 Resent-Cc: recipient.list.not.shown:; Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 13:47:25 -0600 Message-Id: <199703141947.NAA12453@vigil.pbmo.net> X-Sender: braswell@pbmo.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Braswell-L@genealogy.org From: braswell@pbmo.net (Keith Braswell) Subject: Braswell List Suggestion Resent-Message-ID: <"a8ULH3.0.cz3.xjQAp"@genealogy> Resent-From: braswell-l@genealogy.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/430 X-Loop: braswell-l@genealogy.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: braswell-l-request@genealogy.org Foy, Thanks for your work on the US Genweb project! We are getting the Braswell Family Linked together all across the country. I really appreciate your work on this project. As we go forward with it please title your subject line "Braswell's On USGEN Web" so people can identify what it's pertaining to. I had a couple peope who were confused and thought they were subscribed to a USGenweb list group instead of The BRASWELL-L. Everyone else, Please use this as a general rule going forward. Please try to use the surname Braswell somewhere in the subject line when possible. Some people subscribe to many different lists and when the mail get's heavy, things get confusing. Or when they get behind in their mail they may delete an important Braswell message! Try to be as descriptive as possible. Some good examples of Braswell List Subject lines would be: Subject: Elijah Fredrick BRASWELL query Subject: A Braswell Hanging Story. Subject: Braswell, "Those Williams" Subject: Braswell - Toole Subject: The will of Valentine Braswell Some bad examples of subject lines would be: Subject: Something to consider Subject: Help! Subject: Elijah Fredrick This is not a demand, only a suggestion. Thanks again! Yours for Genealogy, Keith David (Keith) Braswell Phone: (573) 778-3853 2192 Penny Street http://www.pbmo.net/suburb/braswell/ Poplar Bluff, MO 63901 E-Mail: braswell@pbmo.net From ???@??? Sat Mar 15 00:03:24 1997 Received: from emout14.mail.aol.com (emout14.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.40]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA08537 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 18:35:23 -0600 From: CBracewell@aol.com Received: (from root@localhost) by emout14.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id TAA01067; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 19:33:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 19:33:48 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <970314193347_-1204206260@emout14.mail.aol.com> To: braswell@pbmo.net, rof@backporch.com cc: gayleell@cdsnet.net, FoyBrasw@aol.com Subject: The James Smith Bible Dear Keith & Nona, Please d/l the following document and share it with everyone interested. It is as close to a family Bible for RICHARD (c.1723-1800) & OBEDIENCE SNOW(?) BRACEWELL as we"re apt to get. Many of your readership descend from this couple and therefore should welcome this documentation, such as it is. BACKGROUND: The Bible belonged to JAMES SMITH (b. Aug. 25, 1829, Gipson Co., Tenn.), s/o DIANAH BRASWELL SMITH, who was d/o JOHN BRASWELL, the accepted youngest son of the above RICHARD & OBEDIENCE BRACEWELL. JOHN was b.c. 1770, Anson Co., N.C. & m. REBECCA PRUITT in Greenville District, S.C. c.1790. (Cf. 1790 Census). The information in the Bible is in the form of a dairy, written sometime after April 8, 1884 (printing date) when Smith was 55 or older. Smith shared what he knew about his family from memory, the bulk of which was naturally about the SMITHs. It was probably written in Provo, Utah. Smith probably learned most of what he knew from his mother (who had been dead 10 years at the writing, she (Dianah Smith) having expired in Herber City, Utah, on March 8, 1875. He may have consulted other members of his family for some of the information, inasmuchas several names were added after he made the original listing. It is noteworthy also that he used nicknames in place of Christian names in the cases of ROBERT, VALENTINE, & OBEDIENCE--as a family member would. Smith's credibility and reliability are enhanced by the fact that he undertook this dairy as a sacred {Mormon} religious obligation, which he obviously took very seriously! He made fewer than a half-dozen errors in reference to the BRASWELL & PRUITT families, out of a wealth of precise information (names & dates, relationships, etc.)he shared. From the tone of the whole document, one gets the clear impression that Smith was a sincere man of integrity. On the other hand, his spelling showed he was an honest Mormon farmer--not an English professor, and he did show a charming innocence by his naive acceptance of the myth that he descended from Pocohontas and Captain John Smith! The dairy is in the loving hands of a Smith descendant in Provo. A microfilmed copy is in the LDS Archives in Salt Lake City. Cite "GRE Smith Bible". - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - -- - - - - - - - -- - - - - p. 76 "The name of Richard Smiths wife father {the word "father" crossed out}Dianah Smith grandfather {sic} was Richard Braswell John Braswell was a son of Richard Braswell Borned in the state of South Carolina Grinvill Co. about the year 1752 Richard Brasuell brother to John Brasuell George Brasuell married Polley Morgan. James Brasuell married Nancy Maxfield Robin Brasuell Vaul Brasuell Serah Brasuell Elizabeth Brasuell married James Butler Nancy Brasuell not married Birdence Brasuell married David Hall RIchard Brasuell son of John Brasuell Borne 1792 South Carolina Dianah Brasuell borned South Carolina October. 9.1797 and married Richard Smith December.11.1817. . . . " - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ANALYSIS While Smith's Bible is an invaluable resource, it does contain some apparent errors. Smith's assertion that John Braswell & Rebecca Pruitt were both born "about 1752"in South Carolina cannot be true on both "facts". John was actually born c.1770, as presumably was his Rebecca. (Cf. 1790 Census of Greenville District where JOHN is evidently a "newliwed"--just him and his female!)And John was almost certainly born in Anson (Montgomery) County, North Carolina, where his family lived at that time. It is interesting that John was living next to my RICHARD BRASWELL (1759-1842) & family in the 1790 census..... Another error in the Smith account is the identity of JAMES' wife, which should almost have certainly read MAXWELL, not MAXFIELD. The Braswells were neighbors and land-swappers with the MAXWELLs....no MAXFIELDs around. Also, another known son of RICHARD & OBEDIENCE, WILLIAM (c.1766-185_) was left off the list entirely as was FREDERICK (c.1752-1828.d. Jackson Co., Ga.). Two other probable sons, JOHN & SAMPSON, weren't mentioned either. Smith's information did not extend much beyond the South Carolina period, and the last three named never lived in that state. WILLIAM was evidently a quieter guy than his more flamboyant brothers! It only remains to be pointed out that "Robin" was ROBERT, "Vaul" was VALENTINE, and "Birdence" was OBEDIENCE. "Nancy" evidently remained a spinster. It also remains to acknowledge the tireless devotion of LDS Braswell descendant and expert researcher, Eunice Young, who uncovered this genealogical gem, among so many others! Eunice is retired to Salt Lake City now and works only occasionally on other lines. But her invaluable contributions to Braswell research will always be remembered. CAREY BRACEWELL From ???@??? Sat Mar 15 00:04:04 1997 Received: from genealogy.emcee.com (genealogy.org [207.167.87.50]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA27069 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 22:04:17 -0600 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 531); 14 Mar 1997 19:50:02 -0700 Resent-Date: 14 Mar 1997 19:50:02 -0700 Resent-Cc: recipient.list.not.shown:; Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 21:49:41 -0500 (EST) From: FoyBrasw@aol.com Message-ID: <970314214938_1915308009@emout03.mail.aol.com> To: Braswell-L@genealogy.org Subject: Rascal of the Month Resent-Message-ID: <"4740R3.0.nC3.QvWAp"@genealogy> Resent-From: braswell-l@genealogy.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/433 X-Loop: braswell-l@genealogy.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: braswell-l-request@genealogy.org PATRICK FLOYD GARRETT (1850-1908) Pat Garrett, a frontier sheriff and rancher, was best known for capturing and later killing the outlaw "Billy the Kid" in July 1881. After retirement, Garrett became a cattle rancher near Organ, NM. On March 1, 1908, Garrett was riding to Las Cruces with Carl Adamson who was a partner in a cattle operation with "Deacon Jim" Miller, a noted gunslinger. Adamson was negotiating with Garrett over a deal to fatten up Mexican cattle on Garrett's grassl. Also present was JESSE WAYNE BRAZEL, a local cowboy who was raising goats on land rented from Garrett. About four miles from La Cruces, the men had stopped by the side of the road to relieve themselves, when, according to Adamson, Brazel suddenly drew his gun and shot Garrett. Brazel, who later confessed to the crime, claimed he shot in self defense. Brazel stated that he and Garrent had been arguing and the old lawman was threatening to shoot him. The case went to trial and Brazel was acquitted. Some say the trial was highly suspicious. For one thing, Adamson, the only witness, was never called to testify. For another, the evidence suggested that Garrett was shot in the back of the head, and that at the time he was shot he was in the act of urinating. There has been much speculation over the years that others were involved. One suspect was a local rancher and long-time enemy of Garrett's named W.W. Cox. Another was a partner of Brazel's named Print Rhode, and of course "Deacon Jim" Miller. Also, some believe Adamson was the murderer. Most votes, seem to be for Miller, as part of a grand collusion of all parties involved. The best evidence however, still points to Brazel who likely did get into an argument with Garrett over Pat's insistence that he sell his goats so Garrett could lease the land to Miller and Adamson. From ???@??? Sat Mar 15 10:07:43 1997 Received: from emout02.mail.aol.com (emout02.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.93]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id EAA24861 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 1997 04:22:23 -0600 X-UIDL: 858441773.001 From: CBracewell@aol.com Received: (from root@localhost) by emout02.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id FAA13759 for braswell@pbmo.net; Sat, 15 Mar 1997 05:21:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 05:21:52 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <970315052151_1915334119@emout02.mail.aol.com> To: braswell@pbmo.net Subject: Re: The Braswell Page Status: U Dear Cousin Keith, My address is: 9322 Lightwood Loop Austin, Texas 78748 (512) 280-6736 I'm ready to talk to any cousin anytime about our heritage. CAREY BRACEWELL From ???@??? Sat Mar 15 14:25:11 1997 Received: from genealogy.emcee.com (genealogy.org [207.167.87.50]) by vigil.pbmo.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA25960 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 1997 14:22:43 -0600 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 531); 15 Mar 1997 13:22:20 -0700 Resent-Date: 15 Mar 1997 13:22:20 -0700 Resent-Cc: recipient.list.not.shown:; Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970315142346.00696c60@pbmo.net> X-Sender: braswell@pbmo.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 14:23:46 -0600 To: Braswell-L@genealogy.org (Braswell List) From: Keith Braswell Subject: The latest Braswell Guestbook entries Cc: gkp2456@dukepower.com, LAIDBACK@INTREPID.NET, jbarron933@aol.com, CBracewell@aol.com, MintJulep@coastalnet.com, dbraswel@atsd.com, renee@mcn.net, BettyMaeS@aol.com, kgid@mail.pernet.net, dabrit@thevision.net, gayleell@cdsnet.net, jasrks@midrivers.com, JRH20@aol.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Resent-Message-ID: <"ZzBAI3.0.9Z.wJmAp"@genealogy> Resent-From: braswell-l@genealogy.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/434 X-Loop: braswell-l@genealogy.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: braswell-l-request@genealogy.org Dear Members of the Braswell EMailing List and to those who have Recently signed the Guestbook, Below are the The Braswell Family Guestbook Entries from 03/01/97 - 03/11/97! A special thanks to those who took the time to sign! It was brought to my attention by Foy (a current member of the Braswell List) that others may not have time to check on the latest entries. As we have done tim times past we are going to post them to the Braswell List also. For those of you signed the guestbook recently who may not know what the Braswell List is you may get more information by checking out the following URL: http://www.pbmo.net/suburb/braswell/blist.html It's basically a way to send a message to over 70 people who are interested in the Braswell Surname at the same time. Yours for Genealogy, Keith Braswell Guestbook entries: 03/11/97 George Kevin Price mailto:gkp2456@dukepower.com Cornelius, NC 28031 Just looking to see if I could find any info on Braswells in my area. My mother is a Braswell from Gastonia, NC. Her parents were Thelma & Malley Braswell. Lots of Braswell relatives in the Brown Mountain, NC area. 03/10/97 JOSEPH MICHAEL BRASWELL mailto:LAIDBACK@INTREPID.NET HEDGESVILLE, WV 25427 We hail from Henderson, NC, in the north central part of the state. Grand father was born in south central Virginia near Lawrenceville. I assume we are connected to the Isle of Wight Virginia folks who seem to be the place of the early Braswells. The textile mills of Henderson and Roanoke Rapids, NC provided the employment for many in my family. We are always interested in learning more about the family but don't have much time to devote to a search. We have 10 year old triplets, so we are establishing the next generation of Braswells. Thank you for providing this place to exchange information. 03/08/97 John C. Barron mailto:jbarron933@aol.com Austin, TX 78753 My wife's maiden name was Braswell. My daughter works on the genealogy. The line is from Smith Co., TN, and earlier from Edgecombe Co., NC. 03/08/97 Carey Hamilton Bracewell mailto:CBracewell@aol.com Austin, Texas 78748 03/06/97 Patricia K. Brown mailto:MintJulep@coastalnet.com Rocky Mount, N.C. 27801 I'm delighted to find this Braswell website. My maternal grandfather was a Braswell who lived in Edgecombe County near Rocky Mount, N.C. Very little is known about his family background. You may have provided me a starting point! Thanks....I'll be back! 03/05/97 David Wayne Braswell mailto:dbraswel@atsd.com University City, MO 63130 03/04/97 Renee Barnett mailto:renee@mcn.net Billings, MT. 59101 My Grandfather's name was Foy Mallory Braswell...He past away in January of 1990..age 84 or there about..He had a sister that was older...Modena was her name...My mother has a family bible with information in it..I'm not sure which side of the family it is right now..Will have to contact her about that tomorrow...And my Aunt has been in contact with this site..she told me about it... I have often wondered if there were other Braswell's around somewhere...He didn't talk too much about his family...I only know he was from the south and figured it to be around La., Mo., and Ka. It would be real fun to gather information... Thank you Renee' There is a family of Braswell's that live in the same town as my family but they are not related... 03/04/97 Betty Mae James Smith mailto:BettyMaeS@aol.com Plant City, FL 33567 I research Braswell family as it is related to my Miles and Toole family lines in southeastern AL Mary Miles m John Toole and their dau Margaret Toole m R L Braswell 03/03/97 Karen Guidry mailto:kgid@mail.pernet.net Groves, Texas 77619 I have a BRASUELL line though my grandmother Nancy Elizabeth Brasuell. Her parents were Robert B. Brasuell and Ellen Dunnigan. I really need help in knowing for sure if his parents were Charles Brasuell b.1819 and Elizabeth Tabor b.1827. I really need some proof! Any help would be appreciated. 03/03/97 Denise Lynn Britton mailto:dabrit@thevision.net Hughson, CA 95326 Hi! I am very excited to find this web page. My Grandfather is Jerome H. Braswell-Walton. Born April 22, 1886 died August 14, 1924. He married Eva P. Sonne August 14, 1924. Jerome was born in Johnson City, Tenn. Died in Bakersfield, CA. If any of this sounds familar please E-Mail me at dabrit@theviaion.net CYA Denise Britton 03/02/97 Lela Gayle Braswell Ellison mailto:gayleell@cdsnet.net Applegate, OR 97530 I see that I have not stated where I am searching: My ancester is Boardvine R. Braswell, supposedly born 1799 Surry County, NC. He moved to Clinton County, KY, by 1830. Would like to correspond with anyone in these two counties. Also Rowan County, NC. 03/02/97 Jacqueline Braswell Schlicht mailto:jasrks@midrivers.com Lindsay, MT 59339 Researching: Great Grandfather Blake W. Braswell, born 1840; married, possibly in Lincoln Parish, LA to Rush Behethlon Grigsby, born 1844. Place of birth for both unknown. Grandfather Llewellyn G. Braswell, born 1867, Simsboro, Lincoln Parish, LA; married at Bonney, Brazoria County, TX to Lillie Belle Mallory, born 1870, Ruston, Lincoln Parish, LA. 03/01/97 J. Richard Hall mailto:JRH20@aol.com Tu