I note that you have used the letters from Sophronia and other family records for sources.They are "treasures" to have but lack correct information after checking records....which I have spent years doing.I have been putting it together for the family but until recently I have not had a computer and am really a "newbie."

 

I have been corresponding with Dennis Yancey for years and together we have been able to verify several things on our family and he has put it on the Yancey web page for me.He was most excited when I sent him the baptismal record for Phillip Henry (LDS) wherein he named his father as Alfred M Yancey and his mother as Lucy Yancey (as her maiden name). Dennis had some information from the family records of a sister to Phillip Henry that states Lucy was a Yancey and a cousin to Alfred. She is believed to have been a daughter of Phillip. Dennis and I are currently trying to find that obscure court record to prove it .

 

I do have news on the Banks marriage for Betty (Elizabeth). She married Ephraim L. Banks in St Clair County, Alabama...her father Jordan gave permission...this was in 1823.They were divorced by 1828 when Ephraim remarries.Betty is listed with Hetty in the 1830 census with a child. the child listed had puzzled us as we didn't think Hetty had another child we didn't know about..Betty later remarries to James Kilpatrick and has other children..Don't know why Sophronia said she just married a Banks... she didn't let the family know that she and Phillip were separated either and in the 1900 census she lists herself as a widow...I'm sure you know by now that her brother was John Berry Carden not Perry as Grandmother Yancey submitted for temple work.Vardy did not die when Sophronia said he did either.He lived another 20 years ..I correspond with  a direct descendant of his.

 

I am also working on the Hamilton line. I note you submitted Sarah Hamilton as the dau. of Joshua Abraham and have her as marrying an Easley as another spouse. Joshua is a brother to Abraham and he married a Rhea...he had a daughter born in 1793 also and she is the one that married the Easley.Our Sarah married Stephen Tunnel at age 17..they moved to Ky for a short time as their first child states in a census she was born in Ky.They then move to Alabama and Mississippi. Stephen dies there  and if you follow the censuses  and tax records  for her she is always listed as Tunnell.

I correspond with a direct descendant of Joshua's  named Dorothy Ross who has done a lot of work on her line...she tells me that it is written in the family record that Abraham went "west" and they never heard from him again.I have a record that states he sold the last of his property in 1805 so assume he left before 1812 as he is not on the tax list which is the only one available after the 1797 list ( he is listed on that one) Since some of the Tunnells left Greene County Tn and moved to Kentucky I have hoped to pick up on Abraham with them but so far haven't found anything.We do know that Sarah had a brother that lived in Page County,Iowa but we don't know his given name...I have quite a list of Hamilton's in Iowa but haven't found the wanted link yet.I did find the marriage record for Abraham ..or rather the notice he paid taxes to North Carolina for his license (Sullivan county was considered in NC then ) His wife is not named but Dorothy says she is Martha and I had already surmised that since Martha Kezia was one of her daughters.You will remember that Kezia Money was the mother of Stephen.

 

I have submitted corrections to the Ancestral File and additions so  one of these days they will be  added on an update.

 

I am also in hot pursuit of Willaim Orten and Frances Hage ...evidence seems to point that she was German and from Rowan County..Davidson was formed from Rowan in 1822 and Davie about 5 or 6 years later.