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From: T Hutchins <>
Subject: [NCSTOKES] Re: NCSTOKES-D Digest V00 #88
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:13:51 -0400


I don't have who her parents were, but have info on William Green Brown b. 4-4-1820 in
Guilford County, NC and died 7-3-1901. I also have their 10 children.
Will exchange info, if you would like.

wrote:

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> NCSTOKES-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 88
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> Today's Topics:
> #1 [NCSTOKES] John Henry Kiser [Judie Kiser El-Khalafawi <judie@is]
> #2 [NCSTOKES] John Henry Kiser [Barbara Nelson Cheek <]
> #3 [NCSTOKES] Eldridge in Stokes Co.N [Ann <>]
> #4 [NCSTOKES] John Lawson [Linda Lawson Donley <bensonave5@ao]
> #5 [NCSTOKES] Ernest Kiser - Emblem o [Judie Kiser El-Khalafawi <judie@is]
> #6 [NCSTOKES] HIER or HIRE family [ (Elizabeth Ha]
> #7 [NCSTOKES] Thanks to Faye and Eliz []
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> Subject: [NCSTOKES] John Henry Kiser
> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:28:56 -0700
> From: Judie Kiser El-Khalafawi <>
> To:
>
> Posted on: Stokes Co. NC Query Forum
> Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NC/Stokes?read=984
>
> Surname: Kiser
> -------------------------
>
> John Henry Kiser, b.Jan 18,1806, d. Nov. 18, 1885, m.Elizabeth "Betty"
> Ripple in Stokes Co. Feb. 22, 1825.
>
> John Henry/John Jr./John S. from Germany to PA to Stokes Co. by 1790.
>
> Researching my g.g.g. grandfather, recently visited NC from Canada and
> visited the Stokes Co. Danbury Library's genealogy room (wonderful place!)
> Photocopied many pages of material and bought 2 volumes of Stokes Co. History.
> In reading over my "collection" I find a photocopied section from what
> appears to be a plastic spiral bound book, pp.131-134 entitled "Kiser Keiser
> Keyser Family". Unfortunately did not write down the source of this info.
>
> As this article quotes a Rev. Solomon H. Helsabeck, a Methodist Circuit
> Preacher for Forsyth Co. NC. as writing in his diary that John Henry shot
> himself in the head, I'm anxious to find where this came from.
>
> Could someone out there possibly know about this article?
>
> Many thanks,
> Judie
>
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> Subject: [NCSTOKES] John Henry Kiser
> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:25:27 -0700
> From: Barbara Nelson Cheek <>
> To:
>
> Posted on: Stokes Co. NC Query Forum
> Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NC/Stokes?read=986
>
> Surname:
> -------------------------
>
> This seemed like something that would be in "Death Notices from the People's
> Press (Salem, North Carolina) 1851-1892", so I checked and found this notation:
>
> KISER, JOHN, who lived about five miles from Winston, found dead in a creek,
> n.d. It is supposed he shot himself, but whether accidentally or intentionally
> is unknown. (11-19-1872)
>
> This book was published in 1997 by the Winston-Salem Forsyth County Genealogy
> Society. The People's Press was an early newspaper published by Salem,
> NC, before it was joined with Winston to become one city.
>
> Barbara Nelson Cheek
>
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> Subject: [NCSTOKES] Eldridge in Stokes Co.NC
> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 11:31:51 -0700
> From: Ann <>
> To:
>
> Posted on: Stokes Co. NC Query Forum
> Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NC/Stokes?read=987
>
> Surname: ELDRIDGE
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>
> Searching for the parents of Priscilla Ann Eldridge (b. 1819) who married
> in Stokes County, NC 1842 to William Green Brown. Please
>
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> Subject: [NCSTOKES] John Lawson
> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 12:07:06 -0700
> From: Linda Lawson Donley <>
> To:
>
> Posted on: Stokes Co. NC Query Forum
> Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NC/Stokes?read=991
>
> Surname: Lawson, Hooker
> -------------------------
>
> I am searching for info on JOHN LAWSON born in Stokes County, NC about
> 1800. He married MARTHA PATSEY HOOKER 6-12-1824 in Stokes County. Does
> anyone know who his parents were and whether he had any siblings? Thanks
> for your help.
>
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> Subject: [NCSTOKES] Ernest Kiser - Emblem on Tombstone
> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 11:42:15 -0700
> From: Judie Kiser El-Khalafawi <>
> To:
>
> Posted on: Stokes Co. NC Query Forum
> Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NC/Stokes?read=989
>
> Surname: Kiser
> -------------------------
>
> My grandfather, Ernest L. Kiser(b.Sept.10, 1887, d.Mar. 5, 1921), is buried
> at Haw Pond Church of Christ. He has an emblem carved into his tombstone
> that I would like to identify. It has the same compass and angle of the
> Masons, the difference being that one leg of the compass is in front of
> the angle. Instead of the "G" of the Masons, it has a very muscular arm
> and hand holding a heavy hammer. Arched above the symbol is the following:
> Jr. O. U.A.M.
>
> I found this same emblem at Mountain View Baptist Church Cemetery on the
> headstones of:
> Joseph L. Slate b.Nov.12,1878, d. Aug.27,1934
> Virgil T. Hartgrove, b.July 29,1860, d. March 3,1933
>
> and at Quaker Gap Baptist Church Cemetery on the stone of:
> W. J. Overby b.May 19,1867, d.Dec. 29, 1922
>
> If anyone can shed light on this symbol, I would be most appreciative.
>
> Judie
>
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> Subject: [NCSTOKES] HIER or HIRE family
> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 08:30:12 +0100
> From: (Elizabeth Harris)
> To:
>
> I'm trying to update some of the web pages on the site that Faye Moran and
> I do, and have run into some snags with the family of Rudolph HIER (various
> spellings). Can anyone help me with the following questions?
>
> ----
>
> Rudolph Hier was born ca. 1778, probably in what is now West Virginia, and
> died in 1822 in Stokes Co. NC, son of Hans Rudolph Hier b. 1729 in Benken,
> Switzerland, and wife "Nancy". Rudolph's wife was named Lydia.
>
> What was Lydia's maiden name?
>
> Does anyone have a copy of Rudolph's will or estate settlement papers?
>
> Can anyone give me a definitive list of their children?
>
> ----
>
> Hier etc. men who married in Stokes County:
>
> David HIER and Susy VEST 5 Jan 1817
> John HYER and Mary FISHER 7 Dec 1823
> Samuel HYER and Catharine WEAVER 23 Mar 1825
> Solomon HIER and Abelina (Evalina?) KETNER 7 Nov 1840
> Wesley HYER and Elvira KETNER 22 Dec 1842
>
> David (born 1790-1800) and John (born 1800-1810) both appear as heads of
> household in 1840, and neither appears in 1850 in Forsyth County (formed
> from Stokes in 1849). Solomon and Wesley are heads of household in 1850
> (see below). Samuel doesn't appear in Stokes or Forsyth in 1840 or 1850 so
> far as I can tell.
>
> How are these people related to Rudolph b. 1778? I suspect that David is
> Rudolph's brother, John and Samuel are Rudolph's sons, and Solomon and
> Wesley are David's sons, but I would like documentation to substantiate
> this.
>
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>
> 1850 Forsyth Co. census:
>
> page 210B, household 171
> Mary Hier 52
> Rudolph 23
> Elizabeth 20
> Jonas 18
> Julian A. 16 (female)
> Enoch 14
> Lydia 12
>
> I suspect that this is Mary FISHER Hier, widow of John.
>
> ---
>
> p. 245, household 667
> Wesley Higher 32
> Elvira 24
> Caleb 6
> Misouria 5
> Enock 2
> Ruda 10/12, male
> Anna Ketner 61
>
> p. 245, household 668
> Solomon Higher 30
> Eveline 29
> John 8
> Lewis 6
> Jonathan 4
> Levi 3
> Leonard 1
> J... Williams 62, labourer [first name obscured by tape or something on
> the page]
>
> p. 245B, household 669
> Sarah Higher 46
> Salathiel 18
> Abby or Alby 13, female
> Sarah A. 10
> Anderson Lewis 17 laborer
>
> Who is Sarah? Could she be the same as "Susy" VEST? If this age is
> accurate, she's just a bit young to be the mother of Solomon and Wesley, or
> to have married in 1817. Could Sarah be a second wife instead, mother of
> Salathiel and the two younger daughters?
>
> -----
>
> Forsyth County marriages
>
> Kelvin D. SNIDER and Elizabeth HIRE 3 Dec 1851
> Christian ROBERTSON and Julian HYER 15 May 1857
> Salathiel HIRE and Louisa BOYER 7 Oct 1857
> A.S. CONRAD and S.A. [Sarah Ann] HIRE 22 Dec 1862
> Wm. LASHMIT and Lydia HIER 21 Dec 1866
>
> Elizabeth Harris
>
> NCGenWeb project: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgenweb/
> Winston-Salem NC area genealogy: http://users.erols.com/fmoran/
>
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> Subject: [NCSTOKES] Thanks to Faye and Elizabeth
> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 10:51:25 EDT
> From:
> To:
>
> I want to take this time to thank Faye and Elizabeth for the wonderful work
> that they do and their wonderful gift of sharing what the know with all of us.
>
> Thank You! Thank you! Thank you!
>
> Happy Digging
> Catherine Leinbac

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