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From: "Wilmer L. Kerns" <>
Subject: RE: [VAAMHERS] Wood-Mays-McFarland-Jones-Hunter
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:28:17 -0500
In-Reply-To: <004301c64e1c$0d5a4b70$ecd8410c@CPQ12237256251>


Helen,

I recently published a 495-page book that covers the Jones (extensively) and
Hunter families. It also tells the story from newspaper accounts of the
murder of John Franklin Wood by pistol shot in April 1825 by his
father-in-law, Major Thomas Jones. John's widow, Martha Jane Jones
(1801-1869) married second Patterson Jennings on April 17, 1826. They were a
Campbell County (VA) family. The title of my book is Waltons of Old Virginia
and Sketches of Families in Central Virginia. There are chapters on Booker,
Christian, Coleman, Davis, Fields, Guthrie, Harris, Harrison, Harvey,
Hunter, Jones, Shepherd, Stratton, Vawter, Walker, Walton, Williamson and
Word. More than 600 different surnames are in the index. You may order
directly from me. For further information on ordering, please contact me
privately.

Wilmer L. Kerns


-----Original Message-----
From: Carley Wiggins [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 8:50 PM
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Subject: [VAAMHERS] Wood-Mays-McFarland-Jones-Hunter

John F. Wood m Martha Jane Jones - no dates
William Franklin Wood 1815-1880 m Rachel McFarland
Edward Hunter Wood 1847-1923 m Mary Elizabeth Hunter
Thomas Augustus Wood 1879-1940 m Delilah (Lilah) Payne Mays 1886-1936

I live in SC and plan to visit Nelson and Amherst Counties Va. where the
above families lived and would love advice on where to find more research on
my Wood, Williams, Hunter, McFarland, Mays, Bowles, Davenport, Moorehouse,
Clark-Newcomb-Donley-Bassett families.

Would like to find family books on the above families, I just purchased
"Fondest Memories" a well written book by Velma Mays White for $35. I will
use for reference as time goes by. Haven't found a kin in it yet but who
knows what tomorrow will bring?

Many thanks in advance.

Helen Lane Wiggins in Dillon County, SC



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