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From: Dan Fairfax <>
Subject: Re: Ruth Fairfax
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 06:40:44 -0500

TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!...sometimes ya have to "rest" before the proverbial
"Brick Wall" until somebody else comes along from afar off when a new
view that "Hey, this wall ends right over there!"...let's go on around
this end and see whut else is behind it....{:)...shor enugh....there's
some more of our family researchers coming up to the rear of the wall
with a "map" of where they have been....{:)

Puh-lease keep me in your loop!!!!....{:)

Do you have a GEDCOM file or a web page?

Looking forward to hearing from ya,

Cousin Dan Fairfax
2629 Somerset Drive
Nashville, Tennessee 37217

work email:

WHUT A HOOT!!!!...{:)
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Buster Harvey wrote:
>
> Hi Dan -
>
> Thanks so much for sending this - I hadn't ever seen this reply! I had seen
> Needham's name in census records over the years (NC 1850 w/John Fairfax) and
> had wondered who he was, but concentrated on proving/eliminating connections
> to the two "documented" Ffx clans. Guess I have a new lead to follow! I'll
> let you know if anything turns up.
>
> The only lead on Ruth at all is a possible lead on who her first husband
> was - Calvin Montgomery (based on the fact that her son was Micajah Victor
> Montgomery - see
> http://www.gendex.com/users/monty/cmsi/cmsi/data/d19/I0000135.HTM#i135 for
> more info - I know for a fact that if it was one of the cousins in this
> immediate family). Maybe some day this will bear fruit in locating a
> descendant of Calvin/Micajah who knows his or her lineage ... one can dream
> ... Micajah was himself an avid genealogist, and I think I might know where
> his notes are located but the woman who has them is swamped - I've held off
> for a few years while she goes through all of the material that she's
> obtained, but should call her again to check. Anyway ...
>
> Thanks again for passing this on - it has motivated me to get back on the
> horse, so to speak. I'll be in touch!
>
> Buster Harvey (soon-to-be resident of Fairfax County, VA)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dan Fairfax <>
> To: <>; <>
> Cc: <>; <>; <>;
> <>; <>; Vicky L. Hammond
> <>; <>; Anita B
> <>; Becky Maples <>; Christina Hunt
> <>; gil strickland <>; 'KandJ'
> <>; Liston Hinson <>; Marion B. McGee
> <>; 'ramsey' <>; sandra stevens
> <>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 9:29 PM
> Subject: Re: Ruth Fairfax
>
> >
> > Thank you for this information.....Hopefully Buster is still on the
> > internet....{:)
> >
> > Hello Buster,
> >
> > Have you found anything out about Ruth Fairfax and who her parents may
> > be?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Dan Fairfax
> > Nashville, Tennessee 37217
> >
> > work email:
> >
> > -----------------------
> >
> >
> > Desperately searching for Ruth Fairfax.
> > She was born somewhere between 1810-1830, probably in Virginia but
> > possibly in North
> > Carolina. I have no idea who her parents were, and I cannot connect her
> > up with the VA
> > Fairfaxes or the MD Fairfaxes. As of 1850, she was married to a
> > Montgomery (possibly Abner,
> > son of Sarah Hiatt and Erwin Montgomery) and possibly living in
> > Hillsboro, NC. Had son
> > Micajah Victor Montgomery ca 1851. She then apparently married Thomas
> > Bogue Henley of
> > Asheboro, NC, and bears children Lindley Hoag Henley (1857) and Louisa
> > F(airfax?) Henley
> > (1859). As of 1860 census, she is living in Hillsboro VA with the
> > children and former
> > mother-in-law Sarah Hiatt Montgomery while Thomas Henley mines copper
> > nearby. The family
> > then moves to NC (possibly Winston-Salem?) in 1860, and she apparently
> > dies on March 4,
> > 1864.
> >
> > I have a few other clues that resound with red herrings - a really weird
> > letter by her son Lindley
> > stating that she was descended from a Robert Fairfax, "illegitimate son
> > of Geo. Washington and
> > Sally Fairfax" (wholly discredited, but interesting nonetheless), naming
> > patterns in her daughter
> > Louisa's family that are consistent with naming patterns in Fernando
> > Fairfax's family, evidence that
> > Ruth was killed, possibly in a fire, etc. However, nothing that really
> > connects her to a Fairfax line.
> >
> > If you have even a theory about this woman, I'd love to hear from you.
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Buster Harvey
> > Descendent of Lindley Hoag Henley,
> > son of Ruth Fairfax Henley
> >
> > Followups:
> >
> > Re: Ruth Fairfax - ~1820 - 1864 VA/NC Allen Fairfax 12/27/98 (0)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > todd distler wrote:
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> > > Subject: Re: Ruth Fairfax - ~1820 - 1864 VA/NC
> > > Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 14:04:23 -0700
> > > From: todd distler <>
> > > To:
> > >
> > > Hi Dan,
> > > you might of already seen this on the genforum site............but
> > > just
> > > in case you hadn't, I thought i would send it to you. If you click on
> > > the "In Reply To" there is more. Hope it helps.
> > > suzie
> > > http://genforum.familytreemaker.com/fairfax/messages/47.html
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> > > Re: Ruth Fairfax - ~1820 - 1864 VA/NC
> > > Posted by: Allen Fairfax Date: December 27, 1998 at
> > > 14:53:48
> > > In Reply to: Ruth Fairfax - ~1820 - 1864
> > > VA/NC by Buster Harvey of 76
> > >
> > > RE: Micajah Fairfax
> > > Saw where Ruth Fairfax had a son named Micajah, and I know there is a
> > > Micajah Fairfax listed in the 1800 NC Bladen County census record.
> > > Micajah may be an ancestor of mine, but I only know for sure back to
> > > Elias Fairfax in Columbus County (which used to be part of Bladen
> > > County) b. 1820. His father may have been Needham Fairfax (who was
> > > perhaps the son of Micajah). There is also a Walter Fairfax in the
> > > 1800 Caswell Co. census. Maybe Micajah was a common name then, but it
> > > seems like there might be a connection to Ruth Fairfax (naming her son
> > > after her father? grandfather?)...and the years of Ruth's birth make
> > > the connection somewhat possible. Hope this helps....
> > >
> > > Allen Fairfax
> > >
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