From: "Karen" 
To: "James W. Green III" 
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:10:07 -0400
Subject: Re: Sampson Carver line of Karen Leggett?

Here is how I'm related to Sampson:

Son, Jesse; then his son James; then his son Vincent who went by the last name of Ricketson. He was conceived prior to their marriage and although he was entitled to go by the Carver name, for whatever reason he choose to go by his mother's maiden name. Some of his ten children choose to use Carver while others kept Ricketson - very confusing!! His daughter - Eliza Ricketson - was my great grandmother and married John Darling Jowers. Their daughter - Mattie Jowers - is my grandmother.

Check out my home page at:
http://familytreemaker.com/users/l/e/g/Karen-D-Leggett/index.html

Oh - be careful of the Huxford info - I ran into a TON of problems with her information. There is a lot of info but some of it is word of mouth only and not verified, and other parts of it were put together by authors deduction only. Just make sure you verify everything you find in it with census records, birth and death certificates, land deeds and any other hard copy info you can find. In my search for my Sumner family, there were a lot of very similar names that cousins shared and the family was so large it's easy to get onto the wrong track - Huxford had them coming from a completely different county and upon looking them up in that county found no trace of them. Finally after looking in civil war rosters managaged to trace them back to the correct county - also info on who one Sumner married was completely incorrect, thus creating another huge ancestor problem. Just be careful and verify!!

Here is another Carver cousin: Kim Gilliard - gilliard@alltel.net

I haven't checked out your links yet - was eager to respond to your e-mail first! I'm going to go check them out now - I look forward to hearing from you again!

Karen :)