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Subject: [IASCOTT] Re: town of Rockingham
Date: 2 Dec 2003 18:48:46 -0700

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Surnames: dyer, noble, cooper, rodgers
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My grandmother told me that her grandmother was going down river on a boat and the people developed an illness. She had and husband and small child who both caught the disease (maybe typhus) and the off loaded at the town of Rocking ham where the husband and child died.

Second heresay.
My grandfather Hugh Dyer was the son of Steven Dyer who was the son of Lewis Dyer. Lewis Dyer lived on the hills above West Davenport in a small village which was called Jamestown..."Jemstown" in the vanacular. He had a small coal mine and also cut wood and took them down to the river for the riverboat to fuel them. Lewis's wife Cordelia nee Noble decided that her children would not mine coal and left the log cabin (which was still there in recent times) bought a large tent and took her children and pitched tent to Rockingham and refused to return. They later lived in Davenport. There is an old church yard for Asbury Church UP the hill near Jamestown, which contain the bones of my ancesters but I cannot find the records for the church. the town is long gone. After Asbury Church most were buried in Fairmount cemetary. You know all I kn ow of the town of Rockingham. Let me know if you can add to my story.

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