From: "Debra Rookard" 
drookard@carolina.rr.com
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:14:46 -0500

Thomas FERGUSON, Sr. b 1751 Scotland & Edith FOSTER b 1764 Wilkes Co, NC
m 8 Mar 1785 Wilkes Co, NC - present in census from 1790 to 1840 - Thomas d
1842.
Anyone know how the FERGUSONs came from Scotland to Wilkes County?
 
Charity FERGUSON b 1791 & William HOLMAN, Sr. b 1784 Wilkes Co, NC
m  4 Aug 1806 Wilkes Co, NC - 1810c Wilkes (1819 & 1820 selling land in
Bledsoe Co, TN). 
1820c Overton Co, TN - back in Wilkes for the 1840c
 
William HOLMAN, Jr. b 1816 & Catherine Elizabeth ELLER b 1828 Wilkes Co, NC
m 14 Nov 1844 Campbell Co, TN - back in Iredell Co, NC by the 1850c - 
then to Carter Co, TN 1860c - 1870c Jefferson Co, TN
 
John Eller HOLMAN b 1850 & Delilah Jane MASSENGILL b 1850 Campbell Co, TN
John b Iredell Co, NC m 1877 Campbell Co, TN both d Campbell Co, TN
 
Catherine Elizabeth Louisa HOLMAN b 1879 & William Franklin ROOKARD b 1869
Campbell Co, TN
Both b Campbell Co, TN m 18 Mar 1895 Campbell Co, TN - William was killed in
the Jellico coal mines 1 Nov 1905 - Catherine d 5 Nov 1942 in NC, but I do
not know where.
 
Henry Martin ROOKARD, Sr. b 1897 & Mamie Martha JUSTICE b 1908 McDowell Co,
WV
These are my grandparents - Henry Sr. b Campbell Co m Mamie 3 Nov 1923
McDowell Co, WV d 8 Jul 1975 Cecil Co, MD at my parent's home. Mamie d 18
Oct 1935 McDowell Co, WV. He never remarried.
 
Always wanting to know more about my Fergusons,
Debra ROOKARD


From: "Debra Rookard" 
drookard@carolina.rr.com
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:40:09 -0500

Oh, I almost forgot - I live in beautiful historic downtown Salisbury, Rowan
Co, NC
http://www.historicsalisbury.org/