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From: "Johnita P. Malone" <>
Subject: [RHEA-L] Re: [JAMES-L] JAMES Rollcall
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 22:31:29 -0800


Three is a Daniel Wray amongst this data.

Johnita

Elizabeth Rains-Johnson wrote:
>
> Here are my James, dead end for the parentage of James James.
> James James born ca. 1745-1760 in either Fauquer Co. VA or Cumberland
> SC. The only Rev. War records on a James James show him born in SC, but
> the remainder is unreadable, so I am not sure it is him.
>
> James married Mary Cole Speakman ca. 1787
> Their first child was:
> Betsey James born ca. 1788 who married Daniel Wray.
> Further children didn't come until later:
> John James (my ancestor) born 18 Jan. 1790 in KY, mar. 1812 to Rachel
> Bray. John died 31 May 1887 in Moniteau Co. MO
>
> Abraham James, born 1792 in KY? (he listed himself as born in PA on a
> census record...) mar. 1st. 1816, Elizabeth Hall Scott.
>
> Lettie James born Ky or VA married Caleb Kelly
>
> James James born 18 Apr. 1795 in Monroe Co. KY, married Sarah Bray on 4
> Feb. 1817 and was on the 1820 Monroe Co. KY census.
>
> Mary Ann Jaes born in KY and married ?? Grider.
>
> James James died ca. 1803 as his will was probated that year. He had
> been granted 100 acres on the east Fork of the Big Barren River in 1799
> in what was then Green Co, later became Barren Co. and then Monroe Co.
> in 1820.
>
> His wife Mary lost custody of her children around 1806 for reasons unk.
> It is unk whether she married James as a Cole or a Speakman or married
> after his death and obtained those names then. She regained custody of
> her children in 1809 and she died ca. 1820 probably in KY. Her youngest
> children migrated to Moniteau Co. MO around 1822.
>
> Hope someone out there connects!
> Elizabeth Rains Johnson
>
>
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