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| "Genealogies of Virginia Families - from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography", Vol, I: indexed by Robert Barnes. Published by the Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. of Baltimore, 1981 |
| Page 56: "Rachel Jackson F., dau. of A. F., b. 1824, married Thomas D. Wilson, Caddo Parrish and d. in 1857, leaving 7 children, Laura W., m. Thomas Bell, Bryan, Texas, left one daughter, Mary, who m. Ed Gleason, Dallas, Texas, and has 2 children; Ruth Wilson, m. B. H. Davis, left 3 girls, of whom one is dead. Family at El Paso Texas." |
| Page 68: ". . .By2d marriage, Robert Watkins Flournoy left Mary Louisa, b. Sept. 24th, 1859, m. James W. Bell, Pontotoc, Miss., 1876, and 4 children: Robert Flournoy, b. April 27th, 189, Lillian Tennille, b. Aug. 20th, 1882; Mary Cobb, b. Jan'y 17th, 1885, and Rosa Wilson, b. March 21st, 1887." |
| Page 71: Re: The Henry family- ". . .Robert William Henry m. (2), in 1854, Fannie S. Bell, of Christian county, Ky." and ". . ."Seventh child of Colonel William Henry and Cornelia V. Gano was Mathhews Winston Henry, born March 3d, 1839; May 2d, 1860, he married 1st Mary A. Bell, daughter of Dr. John F. Bell, of Christian County; she died August 3d, 1876. 2d Mollie Garnett Major, November 15th 882. Children of 1st wife: Eliza Belle Henry, William H., who married, April 28th, 1880, Thomas U. Smith, Todd County, Ky, and they have son Mack Jay Smith; Cornelia H. and Mary Clarke H. . . ." |
| Page 173: Re the Gay family - "(1) Captain Samuel Gay was the grantee in 1739, William Beverley, grantor of 323 acres on the branches of the Shanando (Shenandoah) River (Orange Deeds 3:232), and of an adjoining parcel of 567 acres, also in Beverly Manor, by grant of Thomas Chew, July 26, 1745. (Chalkley, II, 41). These parcels were on the South Rover Shenando, not very near to the Pastures, and the bounds used in the various conveyances above mentioned are not Pasture names or places, being Finley, George Home, Robert Turk, George Robinson, Beverly Manor line, and back line of the Beverly patent. The 323 acre parcel was conveyed by Samuel to Israel Christian October 5, 1747 (Augusta Deeds I:458),and the 567 acres to William Bell and David Bell, February 16, 1747-8 (id., I:474). See Chalkley, II, 41, 269, III, 259." |