Sources
77. Middle name of “McKee” from email message dated 27 Aug 1999 from William “Bill” Stewart, <wstewart1@in-touch.net>, titled “correction”. Bill is her great-grandson.
79. Email message dated 5 Feb 2002 from Larry Wayne Gregory <Nicholsbranch@aol.com>, third husband of Mary Jewell Jennings.
80. Email correspondence with Shirley McDaniel Butler in Jan 2000, filed in my Rowan County email folder.
82. Email dated 26 March 2000 from Bobbie Lynch <blynch@kcnet.com>, a great-granddaughter of Thomas Stephens & Juelda Gregory.
83. Joe Payne, “Lineage of Gov. John Sevier,” http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/4200/sevier.htm.
86. Morgan County birth, death and marriage records on LDS microfilm #0126,835. (Note for anyone cross-checking: the 1855 birth records are misbound, which since the binding runs between the mother’s given name and maiden surname, can give the impression of the wrong mother’s name if it is not noticed. They are bound in the following order, where L indicates the left-hand side of the page and R the right-hand side: 1L+9R, 8L+2R, 3L+7R, 6L+5R, 4LR, 5L+6R, 7L+3R, 2L+8R, 9L+1R, 10LR.) page 4, line 23.
87. Resa Rivers, “Mauzy Family Genealogy,” http://www.omnipages.com/resa/mauzy.htm, 21 May 1999.
92. Email message dated 5 Jan 1998 from R. David “Dave” Goldey <goldey@mindspring.com> with a brief family group for the William H. James family (no marriage dates and most event locations are blank.) Dave is a great-grandson of Allie Herbert Pelfrey and Ida James.
93. Morgan County birth, death and marriage records on LDS microfilm #0126,835. (Note for anyone cross-checking: the 1855 birth records are misbound, which since the binding runs between the mother’s given name and maiden surname, can give the impression of the wrong mother’s name if it is not noticed. They are bound in the following order, where L indicates the left-hand side of the page and R the right-hand side: 1L+9R, 8L+2R, 3L+7R, 6L+5R, 4LR, 5L+6R, 7L+3R, 2L+8R, 9L+1R, 10LR.) page 6.
95. Email message dated 25 Nov 1999 from Charles Wright, <charleswright@usa.net>, son of Amos Wright & Nannie Gregory.
96. During most of the 19th century, the Scaggs/Skaggs name, like many other surnames, was variously spelled whichever way the person writing down the name (clerk, census taker, etc.) liked at the moment. Name spellings did not begin to settle down to the preference of the person actually holding the name until around the 1890’s, with the advent of systematic indexing of public records.
When that happened, most families in Lawrence Co., Morgan Co., and Rowan Co. settled on the Scaggs spelliing, and most families in Carter Co. and Elliott Co. settled on the Skaggs spelling. (As can be observed by doing a statewide search in the 1920 and 1930 censues.)
When that happened, most families in Lawrence Co., Morgan Co., and Rowan Co. settled on the Scaggs spelliing, and most families in Carter Co. and Elliott Co. settled on the Skaggs spelling. (As can be observed by doing a statewide search in the 1920 and 1930 censues.)
97. Marriage to Mary McVey is from email correspondence dated 15 Feb 2002 from Christy Davis <deadheads@earthlink.net>. She did not have a date, place, or sources. Since the 1860 census shows William’s wife as Nancy, with a seven-year gap between the births of Obediah age 12 and Nancy age 5, I am assuming for the present that Mary died sometime after the birth of Obediah.
99. Mike Goad, “Goad Genealogy,” http://www.rootsweb.com/~mikegoad/treedex.htm, 1999-2000.
