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Jacob Jarrell (1833-1891);NC

WileyAlston_Jarrell — 2013-05-22 15:30:03Z

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source note 1: obit - Jacob Jarrell, 29 May 1891**
source note 2: obit - Nancy Rivenbark Jarrell, 22 Aug 1928**
source note 3: obit - Robert A. Jarrell, 12 Mar 1934
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** included at the bottom of this query

I'm looking for additional data (middle names, dates, places, spouses,
significant and insignificant others, children and cemeteries) on the
following:

FAMILY EDGE PLUS EXTENDED FAMILY REPORT
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HUSBAND: Pvt Jacob JARRELL
BORN: 1833 Pender Co NC
MARR: before 1878
DIED: 29 May 1891 Wilmington, New Hanover Co NC
BURIED: Bellevue Cem, Wilmington, New Hanover Co NC
OCC: Served with CSA during The War For Southern Independence
FATHER:
MOTHER:
SOURCES: Other...source note 1
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WIFE: Nancy RIVENBARK
BORN: 27 Aug 1842 Wallace, Duplin Co NC
DIED: 22 Aug 1928 New Hanover Co NC
BURIED: Bellevue Cem, Wilmington, New Hanover Co NC
FATHER: Charles H. RIVENBARK b:____.
MOTHER: Susan BLANTON b:____; living 27 Aug 1842, Wallace, Duplin
Co NC.
SOURCES: Birth...source note 2
BPlace..source note 2
Death...source note 2
DPlace..source note 2
Father..source note 2
Mother..source note 2
Other...source note 1
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1 | NAME: Robert A. JARRELL
M | BORN: 4 Nov 1878 Wilmington, New Hanover Co NC
| MARR:
| DIED: 12 Mar 1934 Wilmington, New Hanover Co NC
| BUR: Bellevue Cem, Wilmington, New Hanover Co NC
| WIFE: Josephine KENT
| BORN: 13 May 1878 DIED: 1 Mar 1935
| SRCE: Birth...source note 3
| BPlace..source note 3
| Death...source note 3
| DPlace..source note 3
| Other...source note 1
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| Grandchild by Josephine KENT
1 | NAME: ??? JARRELL
M | BORN:
| MARR:
| DIED:
| NOTE: unknown - added for descendancy chart purposes
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If you can add subtract, delete, change and of the above data please
advise. If you have any questions about this data feel free to ask!

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Pvt Jacob Jarrell
Birth: 1833 Pender County, North Carolina, USA
Death: May 29, 1891 Wilmington, New Hanover County,
North Carolina, USA

Enlisted in New Hanover County, NC September 16, 1861 for twelve
months in 1st Company A 2nd Regiment NC Artillery.

Wounded at Kinston December 14, 1862. Absent wounded when transferred
to 2nd Company I, First Regiment NC Artillery in November 1863.
Present or Accounted for in this unit through October 1864.

Paroled at Greensboro May 1, 1865.

Family links:
Spouse:
Nancy Rivenbark Jarrell (1842 - 1928)*

Children:
Robert A Jarrell (1878 - 1934)*

Burial: Bellevue Cemetery
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, USA
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Nancy Rivenbark Jarrell
Birth: Aug. 27, 1842 Wallace, Duplin County, North Carolina, USA
Death: Jun. 22, 1928 New Hanover County, North Carolina, USA

Jacob's tombstone (Nancy's Husband) has last name spelled Garrell
Nancy is the Daughter of Charles H Rivenbark and Susan Blanton

Family links:
Spouse:
Jacob Jarrell (1833 - 1891)

Children:
Robert A Jarrell (1878 - 1934)*

Burial: Bellevue Cemetery
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, USA
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Robert A Jarrell
Birth: Nov. 4, 1878 Wilmington, New Hanover County,
North Carolina, USA
Death: Mar. 12, 1934 Wilmington, New Hanover County,
North Carolina, USA

Family links:
Parents:
Jacob Jarrell (1833 - 1891)
Nancy Rivenbark Jarrell (1842 - 1928)

Spouse:
Josephine Kent Jarrell (1878 - 1935)

Burial: Bellevue Cemetery
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, USA
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Wiley Alston Jarrell
15610 Edenvale
Friendswood Tx, 77546
wajarrell@earthlink.net
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Re: Burton Family Cemetery

sgmburtonusarmy — 2013-04-29 15:42:19Z

Hi, My name is Charles Burton and Walter D. Burton was my Dad. What can you send me on the Burton Family. Minnie and Walter Jr. were my brother and Sister.

Charles

Re: Burton Family Cemetery

KenBurton32 — 2013-04-02 22:02:50Z

Hi Ray
My grandfather was James Brown Burton, Walter brother,I have been working on the Burton family tree for about twenty years,
an had never ran across Walter other family. I keep a file on each family so I want to know about all your brother and sister.
My wife and I were in Rocky Point last year and clean the back part of the cemetery and marked the graves with wood pegs. I have about 12 more name that are unmarked.

If you will send me your Email address, I can sent you my
N.C, Burton Family Tree that will answer most of your question.

Ken Burton
Palmetto, Fla.

Re: Burton Family Cemetery

rtburton48 — 2013-04-01 18:43:28Z

Ken
My father was the Walter Dally Burton from the 1974 obituary. I was trying to find more information about the Burton Family
My name is Ray Burton the youngest of seven. I was in the US Marines when my father passed and was unable to attend his funeral, Did not know of the Burton Family Cemetery until my sister told me about it when one of my brothers Walter Dally Burton Jr. passed some years ago. Just started looking for the Cemetery and found it this weekend. Take Exit 408 from I40 south and take a left onto Hwy 210 east. Following 210 east past over northeast Cape Fear River Bridge, Keep following 210 and it will curve to the right. At the next curve 210 curves right again there is a mobile home on the right side of the road a few 100 yards past that on the right I found the woods, where I found the Cemetery if you get to next drive way on the right you have gone too far. There is a white post at the base of the woods with a path leading to the Cemetery. Like you indicated the Cemetery is in the woods. It hasn't been taking care of. (Graves not marked.)
There are a few headstones, one that reads for Susie Ray little dau of J.B. & NANNIE BURTON Born July 20, 1912, Died July 3, 1914. Not sure who this is or what the relation

Thanks for any help!
-Ray

Re: Need a volunteer to check some marriages in Pender County, NC

BESHENOUR — 2013-02-05 00:13:45Z

Gwen..would like to hear if you found anything new in New Hanover County when you were there last Fall. BESHENOUR@COMCAST.NET

Pender Chronicle

bethnichols1 — 2013-01-10 13:48:42Z

Does anyone know how to search or where to search the Pender Chronicle for obituaries from 1918?

Re: Need a volunteer to check some marriages in Pender County, NC

GwenKBrown — 2012-12-16 05:22:02Z

You can check Pender County records at http://pender-live.inttek.net/

If you have any problems let me know. I am already registered.

Need a volunteer to check some marriages in Pender County, NC

BESHENOUR — 2012-12-15 19:27:13Z

I am looking for a volunteer to look up some marriages of one family over a 10-12 yr. period in Pender County, NC. If you are able to do this, please contact me at BESHENOUR@COMCAST.NET

Re: New Hanover-Pender County

JoeBryant8402 — 2012-12-15 16:01:23Z

I am interested in the African American Corbett side of this name. I realize that it may contain the plantation type information. I am trying to fill in the African American Corbett names form New Hanover, Atkinson, and Burgaw areas. A name that sticks out right now is General (first name) Tatsey Corbett and General (first name) Jackson Corbett.

Re: New Hanover-Pender County

BESHENOUR — 2012-12-12 01:09:50Z

You can reach Joseph Sheppard at New Hanover Public Library, 201 Chestnut Street, Wilmington, NC 28401 He is Research Librarian in the NC Room..They have a vast genealogical and history library there on the 2nd. floor. Phone#910-798-6305.

If you need copies of any vital records or deeds, the office that takes care of that is right next door, and NH county Courthouse is only a few blocks away(long blocks though). Copies are only 25 cents unless they have increased that cost. You'll be able to spend all day in the NC Room or several days as their collection of materials is very vast. The NC room is very well organized and volunteers are very helpful and knowledgable.

Re: New Hanover-Pender County

BESHENOUR — 2012-12-12 00:17:38Z

Bladen, Pender, Columbus are all next to each other. Look at a map that shows the counties of NC. Google and you'll find it. I needed one for California and I used google to find a map showing all the counties in that state. I'm sure NC has one too. I used to have one in my research books but don't know which one..

Re: New Hanover-Pender County

BESHENOUR — 2012-12-12 00:10:37Z

New Hanover County, NC vital records can be view at www.onhgs.org, click on links, then click on New Hanover vital records. You will be able to view births, marriages and deaths and some real estate dealings.

Corbett is a prominent surname in Wilmington..you might want to check with Beverly Tetterton or Joseph Shepherd at the N.C. Room in the Wilmington Public Library. Beverly has written several wonderful books on Wilmington. I own one of her books..what Corbett name are you looking for? There was a Corbett Basket Co. in Wrightsboro area and I think the Corbett family has something to do with the famous Airlie Gardens, near Wrightsville Beach. Toss some names at me and maybe it might be listed in Beverly's book. I also have some cemetery books from Wilmington here. There are also Corbett families over in Brunswick county which is in next county from New Hanover.

Re: English Family Cemetery, Willard

1_jamie_davis — 2012-11-13 14:49:11Z

Yep. Been there. I've found the English family cemetery buried under brush in the middle of a soybean field in Willard. I have to wait until the leaves all fall before I can go back and look through it.

Re: English Family Cemetery, Willard

goodlittlewitch9 — 2012-11-13 06:11:30Z

There are alot of English's at the Peniel Church Cemetery in Willard. Have you checked there?

Re: Seeking Family Info for Pearl Woodcock b. abt. 1881 married a Rooks

robertpcarter1934 — 2012-10-29 07:23:33Z

Robert Elmer (Buck) Woodcock, spouse Theresa
Dorothy Jane Woodcock, spouse Kirby Ardell Daughtry
Margaret Woodcock, spouse James Buchanan Malpass

They share the same ancesters William Woodcock, spouse Rhoda Henesey
with
Pearl Linwood Woodcock, spouse William "Willie" Jones Rooks
Hope this helps,
Bob Carter

Re: Seeking Family Info for Pearl Woodcock b. abt. 1881 married a Rooks

robertpcarter1934 — 2012-10-29 07:23:04Z

Re: Seeking Family Info for Pearl Woodcock b. abt. 1881 married a Rooks

robertpcarter1934 — 2012-10-29 07:20:09Z

Re: Amos Wheeler, born abt. 1880 Pender Co., NC

wcauld — 2012-10-26 00:10:43Z

I appreciate your response - glad to share any information that I have as well. The Amos Wheeler I'm researching was actually born around 1825 (not sure why I had 1880 in the post) - was married twice - first to Susan E. Beasley (if I'm remembering correctly) and then around 1880 to Margaret Pagget, daughter of Reason Pagget. The later wife is my gr gr grandmother.

I've had a lot of trouble tracking this Amos over the years - appears to be another Amos (New Hanover Co area) who was a contemporary but I'm told they were "definitely" not related ...

I believe these Wheelers were eventually from around Watha.

Any thoughts you have would be welcomed!

Bill

Re: Amos Wheeler, born abt. 1880 Pender Co., NC

brogers227 — 2012-10-25 19:33:34Z

I have some information on Amos Wheeler from Pender County. I'm related to the Wheeler Family.

Re: New Hanover-Pender County

JoeBryant8402 — 2012-10-09 02:55:09Z

When and if you get this type of information, I would like to see it, also. My mother's roots are in Pender and New Hanover counties. She is a decendent of the Corbett family.

Thanks

Re: Corbett,Larkins,Devane

JoeBryant8402 — 2012-10-09 02:50:26Z

I have Corbetts in my family. Let me know your requirements.

English Family Cemetery, Willard

1_jamie_davis — 2012-09-26 20:33:18Z

I'm looking for any information the whereabouts of the English Family Cemetery in or around the Willard/Watha area south and east of Wallace. I have seen the English Cemetery on findagrave.com and either it's not the same cemetery or not fully transcribed. Not a single one of my family members who are buried in the English Family Cemetery (as referenced by their death certificates) are buried in the one on Findagrave. Does anyone from the Willard or Watha area know where this family cemetery might be?

Ellis Adkins Matthews

pjd6853 — 2012-08-07 01:48:08Z

Looking for any information on Ellis Adkins Matthews, born in Burgaw, Pender County, North Carolina about 1893. Married Helen Morgan in 1921. Thank you

Re: gravestone of Morris Nichols d. 1796

cisrael17 — 2012-07-05 14:52:10Z

do you want a photo?

Re: gravestone of Morris Nichols d. 1796

cisrael17 — 2012-07-05 14:41:50Z

I saw this grave site last night. There is a graveyard in my subdivision that was heavily wooded and not discovered until they started clearing lots. Morris Nichols 1796 was amoung them and was the oldest there. The neighborhood is Vineyard Plantation and it is New Hanover County. my email is cisrael@rfsemail.com

Re: Pender Chronicle

DelorisWilliams87 — 2012-04-23 19:24:14Z

There is a listing of Pender County Newspapers which are on microfilm, which also includes links to where you may find them available.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/titles/places/north_caroli...

Deloris Williams

Re: Atkinson Cemetery in Sloop Point

NativeNCarolinian — 2012-02-21 17:33:25Z

That's kind of you to offer. Sometime when I'm in the area, I may take you up on your offer. Thanks.

Nicole

Re: Atkinson Cemetery in Sloop Point

atkinsonch — 2012-02-21 16:13:01Z

Nicole, I may have responded to this before, but I can take you to this cemetary as I was there only a few weeks ago. My great grandfathers on both sides are buried there.

Charles Atkinson

Corbett,Larkins,Devane

huricanesu135 — 2012-02-18 16:52:53Z

I am looking information on all of these family starting with Thomas Corbett & thomas Devane around Pender Co and blackCreek. Any info will be great.
Susan

Re: "Sidbury Cemetery" Harrison Creek or Island Creek

saintdts — 2012-02-04 02:17:56Z

Suzanne, thank you for your reply. I actually found the cemetery this past summer. It is back in the woods off of Harrison Creek Road. I photographed the markers and posted them on Find-a-grave. Here is the link: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GSfn=po...;

Tom

Re: "Sidbury Cemetery" Harrison Creek or Island Creek

suzanneBlanchard20 — 2012-02-03 14:08:48Z

Tom,
There is an "Island Creek" neighborhood on Sidbury Road in Pender County. I live only a few miles from there, so I will ride through there and see if I see any indication of a cemetery.
Suzanne

NCGenWeb Address

DelorisWilliams87 — 2012-01-05 20:59:43Z

For those who don't know, the NCGenWeb Pender County website is still online and still a part of the NCGenWeb Project.
Our website is located at:

http://www.ncgenweb.us/pender/

Thanks,

Deloris Williams

Re: Reverend James Tate

mtategraham — 2011-11-14 01:42:00Z

Just found your thoughtful email. Yes would love to have a copy. Thank you. Reverend Tate must have been a dedicated minister to ride through that swampy land on horseback! I understand there is information at Montreat Presbyterian Center & have wanted to get up there. My cousin Bob Tate in Southern Pines has compiled a wonderful history of the Tates. This will be a welcome addition.
Mary Tate Graham
mtategraham@embarqmail.com
336-824-4116

Re: Tate family

mtategraham — 2011-11-14 01:37:20Z

Thanks so much for the information. Sorry am just now replying, but had not checked back and just found this. I did not know my great grandmother Elizabeth's maiden name. This is exciting. Would love to have a copy of the will and/or any information. Mary Tate Graham, 713 Brady St Ext, Ramseur, NC 27316 mtategraham@embarqmail.com

New Hanover-Pender County

cdelloyd — 2011-02-07 15:20:00Z

Anyone have information on the slaves from the Salter Lloyd Plantation, who settled in Pender, Blader and Columbus Counties after Emancipation?

Re: Carroll Family

Marsha10245 — 2010-11-12 06:54:05Z

Margie,
I am from this area and know a lot of the Carrolls that you have mentioned here.
My Great Aunt Lydia married Stuart Carroll. I knew Leo and Corbett. One of Leo's daughters married a Thomas Carroll son of Suzanna ?? Carroll. I knew this family well. Thomas and Sarah Lee's children were Ruby Geraldine, Thomas Earl, David Anson?, Royce Gale & Hubert Dare.
You can reach me at nannipetty@yahoo.com
Marsha Mintz Williams

Garrison-Africian American, around Topsail, Pender, NC

KcookieBG9508 — 2010-09-01 03:28:51Z

Looking for family of Quaker (other spellings Quaraker, Quasker and was possibly known as Pony) Garrison and his wife Rhoda (most likely Nixon, father Richard Nixon Mother Annie Jane). They lived in Topsail in 1900/1920 per census. His birth on 1900 Census is May 1836. Rhoda/Rhodie said to be buried in Topsail Cemetery. Rhoda and Quaker's Father/Mother both listed as born in NC. Quaker's Father's name maybe Jack and he may have had a brother named Amanuel/Emanuel. On Grant Township, New Hanover, NC on 1870 Census there is Pony Garrison and wife listed as Ritta. Other children in 1870 seem to match later census info. when listed as Quaker. Trying to determine if Pony from 1870 is Quaker Garrison. There are Nixon families in same area. Also, there is a common family name of Richard Caldwell Garrison that as passed to my husband, his father, and his grandfather, who we believe is a son of Quaker/Pony Garrison.
Will be visiting NC in Oct 2010 so any suggestions will be appreciated.

"Sidbury Cemetery" Harrison Creek or Island Creek

saintdts — 2010-08-21 02:43:25Z

Can someone give me an address for a "Sidbury Cemetery" in Harrison Creek or Island Creek in Pender County. A couple of burials there include Fred Sidbury and Gracie Fisher. Also, if this cemetery is known by another name, I would appreciate that, too.

Thank you.

Re: Helen Alice Rooks

saintdts — 2010-06-11 01:38:58Z

I'm curious about the connection to Mary James and Hinton James. Hinton had a sister, Mary, noted in the will of John James ~1799. Is this the same Mary that was mother of Helen Alice James?

Unknown Mormon Girl Buried in Hampstead NC Grave

momadkins3228 — 2010-05-25 15:51:51Z

Looking for answers about a
Mormon girl buried in a N.C. grave

Story By Jake Hancock Mormon Times Tuesday, May. 25, 2010

HAMPSTEAD, N.C. -- The father had helplessly watched his little girl deteriorate from sickness to death a few days earlier. And now he stands 2,500 miles from home with a borrowed shovel in his hand.

Besides the company of a 9-year-old local boy who happened upon the scene, the solemn father, a Mormon traveling from Utah, was alone as he buried his child in an unfamiliar North Carolina cemetery just off the Atlantic shoreline. There were no pallbearers or relatives to help carry the actual and emotional weight of it all. There were no flowers. And there were no prayers -- at least none uttered aloud.

It was just a father in a grassless, windswept cemetery toiling to tear open a fresh wound in the earth as precisely wide as the size of the hole left in his heart.

That was in 1925. And while the father's pain of burying his toddler might have waned over the years until his own death sometime later, the feeling of that ominous afternoon in Hampstead, N.C., only worsened for the dirty redheaded Mormon boy who momentarily paused work in his family's nearby garden to aid the desperate father in the Mormon church-owned cemetery.

Today, that once-youthful boy, Marion Barnhill, is now a frail 93-year-old man desperate for answers to a mystery he's only held a handful of clues to for the past 85 years. He said that before he dies, he wishes someone somewhere will recognize the following story from their relatively recent family history. He hopes they'll come forth with the identity of the unidentified girl, who may have siblings still alive today.

An 85-year rewind

At his mother's request that spring morning in 1925, Barnhill went to work in the family garden, which shared a property line with the graveyard.

"That's when I saw them drive up the dirt road into the cemetery," Barnhill said. "I don't 'member the color, but I know it was a four-door (car)."

The father stepped out of his vehicle, approached the boy and asked for a shovel. While young Barnhill hustled to the barn and back, the man unloaded a smallish, "about 36-inch-long" casket from the backseat of his car.

The man worked in mostly silence, but a few details from their spotty conversation burned into Barnhill's memory.

The father said he and his wife were traveling from Utah eastward through the South when their daughter fell ill and died before they could get medical attention. He said he purchased the child's casket from a morgue 15 miles away in the city of Wilmington and that someone at the morgue -- probably after discovering the couple was Mormon -- gave the father directions to the Hampstead LDS Cemetery, a small, once-privately owned graveyard close to the coastline that had been donated to the church for its members' use.

Perhaps too stricken with grief, or too upset for having to bury her baby so far from home, the man's wife, the little girl's mother, stayed in the car and watched the unsophisticated interment from a distance.

"She never got out," Barnhill remembered. "Not once."

Was she sick, perhaps too weak to get out after catching her child's contagious disease while caring so intimately for her?

Planting a memory

Although the out-of-town strangers appear to have acted rashly -- they didn't get permission for, or officially record, the burial plot; they didn't buy a headstone or a common granite grave marker -- the couple acted with apparent tenderness and conceivably with all the sentiment they could afford.

The Hampstead LDS Cemetery in North Carolina. The cedar tree was planted in 1925 by a father to mark the grave of his 3-year-old girl who died suddenly while on a trip from Utah to the East Coast.

After tolerating the earth swallowing his defeated angel, and while still wearing his suit and tie, the father carefully hand-packed the last of the sandy soil on the unmarked grave and started digging another hole. In that little grave, however, he buried new life: a five-foot-high cedar sapling.

He took a coin from his pocket and turned to the boy.

"He told me he'd pay me a quarter if I agreed to pour a bucket of water on the tree every day for seven days," Barnhill said. "That was a lot of money back then, especially to a kid."

Barnhill walked the half mile from his home to the cemetery every day for a week and fulfilled his agreement by drawing water from a nearby pond.

He never watered it again.

Growing up

While the cedar survived 80-or-so years worth of windstorms and droughts, Barnhill endured his own battles during that time.

After joining the military, German troops shot Barnhill's bomber plane out of the air while he was flying his eighth mission in World War II, killing his co-pilot. Enemies stormed the downed plane, grabbed still-alive Barnhill and detained him in Stalag Luft III, a German prison camp, for 18 months. Gen. George Patton's 3rd Army charged into the camp with blazing firepower in 1945 and released the prisoners.

He returned home, married in 1947 and raised a large family in the gospel. And later, he served as stake president and patriarch in the Hampstead area.

But no matter what he did or where he served, that once-small and -vulnerable grave marker, which eventually grew into one of the largest, most majestic trees in the cemetery, was ever present, always reminding him of the nameless darling at its roots.

Years later, Barnhill briefly mentioned the experience in his book, "History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Hampstead, N.C." Over the years, the story of the little girl has become a sort of local legend, one that sparked fresh interest in 2008 among Hampstead Latter-day Saints.

"I had a burning desire to have the child's grave marked, as it broke my heart to think of how her parents, so far from their home in Utah, must have felt leaving their little daughter behind," said Laura McLeod, the Hampstead Ward activity days leader.

McLeod's passion stirred others to help, like Michael Cole, owner of nearby Hanover Monument Works, who stepped up and donated a stone monument engraved with a six-sentence synopsis of the story.

A trace of evidence

It was during that same time, when the ward was buzzing about the girl, when Ruth Shingleton, a longtime ward member, raised her hand during Relief Society. She spoke up and corrected a sister who expressed regret that the little girl's family "just forgot about her," Shingleton remembered.

"I said, 'No, they didn't forget her. Her family came looking for her a few years ago,'" she said. "Twelve to 15 years ago," a couple from back west traveled through Hampstead looking for local Latter-day Saints who might be able to help them find "the unmarked grave of a little girl buried in a Mormon cemetery," Shingleton said.

Locals directed the couple to Shingleton and her late husband, both prominent Mormons in the community who lived in a distinguishable home along a main highway.

Shingleton answered the door and briefly spoke to the couple. She regrets not asking more questions. Today, she can't recall their names but described them as white and between 30 and 40 years old.

"They said (the story) was in their family records," she said. "They seemed to be close to her, at least close enough they wanted to place a (grave) marker."

She sent the searching couple to Henry Maples, president of the volunteer-run Hampstead LDS Cemetery Association and also longtime ward member.

And that's where the story, or rather its clues, dead end. Completely. The couple never placed a marker and, to anyone's knowledge, never returned.

Henry Maples died not too long after the couple visited, taking the family's identity with him. Henry Maples didn't appear to have left any notes on the grave plat or other records about the visit behind, according to his son Duane Maples, the new association president who lives in his late father's home next to the cemetery.

Duane Maples peered out his window during a recent phone interview. He looked over the neighboring cemetery, over his "quiet neighbors." He glanced at the towering cedar tree. "There it is," he said. "Miracles happen, I guess. It's always possible someone reads the story and comes forward. But I just don't know. ... It's a long shot."

But it's exactly the kind of long-shot miracle Barnhill still wishes for, even expects from the help of other church members inspired by the promised help of the biblical spirit of Elijah.

"Someone out there knows," Barnhill said. He started to cry. Then, with a kind of emotional, high-pitched tone that often accompanies tears, he asked to be excused. "I'm sorry. Please understand. This is close to my heart."

Re: Pender County site

Flight64 — 2010-04-03 19:36:44Z

I fully agree. I sent the woman a note and received a really rude, condescending nasty note back from her and she the blocked my email so I couldn't respond. None of us need to be dealing with people like her and those who condone her. I'll not ever send one more item to them.

Pender County site

joansdunn — 2010-04-02 18:54:11Z

What a disgrace to all of genealogy researchers everywhere! I just found that the Pender county ncgenweb site has copied all of Diane & Matt's information from their Pender County site! Isn't that just horrible! I guess ncgenweb doesn't know how to come up with thier own information so they copy all of the information Diane and Matt have instead. It really turns my stomach. No wonder Diane and so many others are leaving and moving their sites if those people just copy others hard work without asking. If you ask me, I will continue to use Diane & Matt's site and I won't ever go back to using those ncgenweb sites again. How much other information on their sites have they copied as well? Hey guys, Diane's sites are here: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nctttp/ I emailed her to find where she had moved them to. I think I will stick with the originals and not the imitators or the copiers and thieves. What a disgrace! I never thought that the genweb community would stoop to being theives and stealing and copying others work! Shame shame shame on them!

I will be sending a lot of new info to Matt to add to his Pender site and ncgenweb better NOT copy it and add to their site! I hope everyone else will join me in boycotting those that copy others work instead of creating their own instead. Let's stick with Diane and help her and Matt create awesome sites instead of people that had rather steal the information than to come by it honestly!
Joan

Re: Patrick Montague

TWalker1023 — 2010-03-18 17:56:03Z

Hello,

I am the Great-Great-Great Granddaughter of a Patrick Montague who was married to Rachel Montague. Is this the same Patrick Montague that you are searching for?

Re: 1910 Census Request

Flight64 — 2010-03-01 08:16:07Z

Batson, John E head mw 26 m2.2yrs NC NC NC Farmer
Batson, Lola J wife fw 25 m1.2yrs NC NC NC 0 children
Batson, Ethel dau fw 6 s NC NC NC

Need anything else? Glad to help.
Margie

Re: 1910 Census Request

jaredsoutherland — 2010-03-01 08:07:08Z

Thank you, that's exactly the family I was looking for.

I assume the neighbor was John Edward Batson, Florence's brother. He was married twice, but I only knew of two sons.

Does it give the names of his wife and daughter?
(should be either Mary Victoria Herring or Lola Jane Clemmons)

Re: 1910 Census Request

Flight64 — 2010-03-01 00:10:26Z

1910 census taken 9 May 1910, Topsail Twp, New Hanover Co, NC,line2 38-40, #281/281, on Wilmington-New Bern Road:
Batson, Andrew J head mw 64 wd m.42yrs NC NC NC merchant, retail groceries
Southerland, Lafayette son-in-law mw 41 m2.0yrs NC NC NC no occupation
Southerland, Florence dau fw 35 m2.0yrs NC NC NC no occupation

Next door is listed John E Batson (presumably a son), his wife and dau.

Lafayette Southerland is also listed on the 1900 and 1920 censuses, as well as his death certificate. Please advise if you need those.

Best of luck,
Margie

1910 Census Request

jaredsoutherland — 2010-02-27 14:09:48Z

Could someone please look in the 1910 census for me? The household that I need information for is of Lafayette Southerland, born 1867. He may be listed with his wife, Florence Batson, born 1874, whom he married in April of 1910.

I need to know whatever is listed... location, members of the household, ages, etc.

Thank you!

Re: Browns of Pender County

bethnichols1 — 2010-01-03 17:14:51Z

John Taylor Brown, Sheriff in Pender County was my great grandfather. What did you need to know?

Re: Browns of Pender County

jkaiser27 — 2009-12-19 03:02:37Z

Do you know anything about a J.T. Brown who was Sheriff in Pender in the early 1930s? Is he part of this same family?

I would also love to see some info on where the Brown family cemetery is located.

Rogers (or Rodgers)- African American

jkaiser27 — 2009-12-19 03:00:20Z

I am looking for information on Dock Rogers or his family (I believe his wife was named Mayfield). They lived in or around either Union Township or Watha in Pender County. Dock Rogers died in 1933.