Researching a surname like Graves, particularly in North Carolina in the
early days, is fraught with danger--because there are so many of them.
I have been led to believe, based on correspondence, and some preliminary
personal research, that the Graves family of Granville Co., NC and that Graves
family of Caswell Co., NC are not related. Perhaps they had a common ancestor
in Virginia, but I think that will be difficult to prove.
William Graves of Granville Co., NC - will written 24 Apr 1786 and pro
May want to check out this cite:
http://aolsvc.news.arrangeonline.aol.com/Obituary/
Their source is the Social Security Administration. It actually isn't
obituaries, but kind of another form of the Social Security Death Index,
without the SSN. You may find someone listed here that you couldn't
find thru the SSDI. You never know unless you try. Good luck!
Diane Pollard Keiser
In the Baltimore Sun newspaper, last week, there was an article
regarding the following website (I haven't had a chance to get into it
to do any searching):
http://www.cem.va.gov/
(A short version of what the article said): This is a website post by
the Dept of Veteran Affairs. They have put on the www. 3.2 million
records for veterans buried at 120 national cemeteries since the Civil
War. It is suppose to include the VA's
gravesite navigator, which includes names, DOB, DOD, military service
dates, se
As students of the history of Henderson Co., KY know, many of its early
residents were of North Carolina, especially Granville Co., NC and Caswell Co., NC.
I learned a great deal about Henderson Co. and its history from Edmund Lyne
Starling's hefty (800 pages) History of Henderson Co., and in it, he explains
the linkage of Henderson Co. with North Carolina -- shall I call them
speculators? Henderson and its county, of course, are named in honor of Col. Richard
Henderson of Granville Co., NC.
Researc
To do it yourself research for Revolutionary War pension files:
If you are near a large genealogical library or a University library, first
try to determine whether they have a set of books edited by Virgil D. White.
The name of the set of books is something like this: Genealogical Abstracts of
Revolutionary War Pensions..... There are four hefty volumes, with the last
volume being the all-name index to the first three volumes. This essentially
is an index to all of the names occuring in the films