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From: Dow Graham <>
Subject: [SCHORRY-L] RE3: GRAHAM CLUES
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 17:54:13 -0500


Deb, it all makes sense to me. People sure liked certain names didn't
they. What you've done for me, and I thank you profusely, is added more
sticky notes to my glass table. Haha And what it has also done is made
me think more and more about another trip to Conway this spring.

Thanks again
Dow

>I think that this is all as clear as mud <grin> ! OK, this is the way
that
>I see it: (had to sit down again today and figure it all out!) There
>are(at least) 2 generations of John and Joseph's in the Graham family.
>
>Joseph Graham (married to Margaret) is the son of John1 Graham b. about

>1720.
>
>Joseph Graham married to Clare, is the son of John2 Graham b. 1769 (who
is
>son of John1 Graham). In other words, Joseph Graham married to Margaret
is
>the uncle of Joseph Graham b. 1794 married to Clare. (And as I look
now at
>Graham info, there are several more Joseph's listed. Looks like one in

>almost every generation.)
>
>In my Graham info (which came from Cousin Linda McNish who received it
from
>Jim Farmer and also from a book (which I have tried unsuccessfully to
>locate) called "The Horry County Grahams" by Robert Dale Graham, I have
the
>following info on Clare. "May have been a Lewis. In 1850 census of
Horry
>County, Richard Lewis 25 M, Farmer, lived with her and her family.
Clare
>was 65 at the time and her son Alpha (my gggfather) carried the Lewis
name
>into his children. Richard Lewis may also have been a cousin or a
>sharecropper who lived with them." Then my info shows children of
Joseph
>and Clare as: Isabel b. 1818, Joseph Isaiah, and Alpha A. b. 1826.
>
>Whew ! Can you make heads or tails of all of this ? Just let me
know and
>I will try to clear <g> things up !!
>
>Deb Thompkins Lowry
>Charlotte, NC

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