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/