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From: "Dana Turner" <>
Subject: Re: [GEN-AFRICAN] WHAT SURNAMES ARE YOU RESEARCHING?
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:22:37 -0400


dear jmffort:

well, i'm presuming you refer to Surry Co, No. Carolina.

having grown up in California i'm not familiar with southern locales, but, i thought of your research area when coming across this article from Rootsweb with names from Surry [your spelling] County North Carolina. maybe some information in the article pasted below will be useful to you.

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Finding Rosie
By Robin Butler Daviet

In March 2001, I placed the following query on the Ferrier RootsWeb
Message Board:

"Rosannah 'Rosie' Ferrier married Frances 'Andy' Poindexter in 1820 in
Surry County, North Carolina.

"We are seeking her parents and siblings if any. 'Andy' and 'Rosie'
moved to Tennessee to raise their family, near some of his family
members (hers too?). He served in the War of 1812 in the New Orleans
area. Could he have met Rosannah there?

"Any help, suggestions, thoughts, ideas, or information would be
gratefully appreciated. We have been hunting for Rosie's parents for
almost forty years now. Maybe the Internet can finally help speed up
this process and make a seemingly futile search come to a happy
conclusion. Thank you to all who read this and try to help."

In December 2005, I was contacted by a gentleman who was working with
a Ferrier Family Association. Like the Poindexter Descendants
Association, of which I am currently president, their members follow
up on all Ferrier names, documents, notations, gravesites, etc. they
locate while researching their own lines.

During some research in 1976, one of their members had found a Letter
of Administration for the estate of a William Ferrier filed on 39
[sic] January 1799 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. His widow and
the Administrix of his estate was Elizabeth Ferrier. While other
researchers were trying to discover how this William Ferrier connected
to the rest of their family, they located a second document written in
December 1799. It read as follows:

"By the Court

"Come into Court Elizabeth McMahan Mother and next (friend?) of
Rosanna Farrier a minor under the age of fourteen years Orphan
daughter of William Farrier deceased and prayed the Court to appoint
Robert Porter Guardian over the person and Estate of the said Rosanna.
The Court upon consideration appoints the said Robert Porter Guardian
over the person and Estate of the said Rosanna Farrier minor orphan
daughter of the said William Farrier deceased during her minority or
until another Guardian be appointed in his room."

The gentleman who contacted me about my post then sent me photocopies
of these original documents. He also said the Ferrier Family
Association had found documentation of Elizabeth McMahan, along with
her new husband and children, living in North Carolina.

Now I have places and names. The Rosannah "Rosie" Ferrier who appeared
to pop up full grown in North Carolina without any family is no longer
an unattached child. Now our search continues as we work with the
Ferrier Family Association to try and locate William Ferrier's
origins.

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have a blessed day,
dana

Dana DeAndra Turner


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A wonderful time--the War:
when money rolled in
and blood rolled out.

But blood
was far away
from here--

Money was near.

- Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
poet, novelist and philosopher




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