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Subject: Re: William L. Bain vs James R. Bain et al lawsuit
Date: 24 Feb 2005 16:30:31 -0700


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Surnames: Clay, Bain, Fincher, Hughes, Ponder, Smith, Hall, Griffin, Grubbs
Classification: Query

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http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oBC.2ACEB/823.1.1.1.2.1.1

Message Board Post:

The lawsuit did involve the settlement of the estate. However, it was adversarial -- not an amicable agreement. My knowledge of it is minimal. I originally found the law suit on an old index at the circuit court, but the clerk was unable to locate the file for me. I posted the query on the message board and no one responded with personal knowledge of it. I then spoke to some cousins about it. One of them remembered the story that he had always been told regarding the lawsuit.

I have only recently done any research on the Bain side of my family. I could document back to Charles Lee Bain just by visiting our Bain Family Cemetery. I knew where he was born just by the inscription on the tombstone. I can send you a digitized photo by e-mail if you like. The inscription is:

Charles Lee Bain
Born
in Cabarrus Co. N.C.
May 14, 1819
Died
Aug 2, 1900

My mother always told me that her Bain family was Scotch-Irish (I know many folks take issue with this term and insist that the correct term is Scots-Irish). She did have many stories about the family, but sadly I wasn't interested -- I just wanted to go outside and play baseball or something. Only since I retired have I become interested and have begun to do research. Through census records I have traced the family from North Carolina, to Tennessee, then to the Choccolocco Valley in Benton County, Alabama.

There is a lot of information on the net listing the ancestors of Robert Sr. I will use that as a guide in my research, but I have not documented anything earlier than Robert Sr. There is also a lot of misinformation on the net. A tree gets posted with an erroneous connection in it, and, within months, there will be a hundred trees with that same bad connection. If one sees the same information so many times it seems to be gospel.

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