If you have a subscription to Ancestry, how about spending some time 
perusing the 1850 and 1860 census images for the area of Ft. Gaines, 
Georgia? Look for neighbors near the people mentioned in the Bible entries. 
Carefully study the names.

Cecelia

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From: "nelhatch" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 1:07 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Need help with an off the wall question........

> HATCHER website: http://hatcherfamilyassn.com
> HALL DNA project: 
> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/hall/HDNAtest.htm
> When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by 
> reducing it to the question,  "How would the Lone Ranger have handled 
> this?" - Unknown
>
> Well.......I LIED!
>
> I told you that the H in the S J Hatcher entry was unique and found 
> nowhere else, including Washington's bible. WRONG!
>
> I just uploaded Wash's bible and if you look at the first bible page at 
> http://hatcherfamilyassn.com/getperson.php?personID=I37705&tree=WmTheIm 
> and check out the first witness - wah-lah! Same H!
>
> But, while I see the H J, I have no idea what the last name is beyond 
> starting with E. Is there anyone who can make suggestions as to what this 
> name might be? I definitely want to track this guy down.
>
> And it's also time to give a BIG THANK YOU to so many of you who, 
> unbeknownst to you, made simple suggestions that had previously escaped my 
> feeble brain. YES! I can timeline many of these entries and I no longer 
> believe John F owned the bible and made the entries on page 1 - I KNOW he 
> made them. He never entered his last born kids because he had moved to LA 
> before 1860. And it's obvious he turned that bible over to another family 
> member
>
> I still have no clue why the very odd entry uses the words - the writer - 
> and I may never know. But I do believe this was also an entry by a 3rd 
> party..
>
> It's also registering with me that I have 2 styles of entries - those that 
> record "Jane" MY WIFE and those that record "Jane" HIS WIFE.  It's 
> becoming clearer that there were 3rd party people making several of these 
> entries.
>
> So I now have a new path to pursue, a witness to find and 3 more pages to 
> decipher. Should keep me out of trouble for a while :-)
>
> Nel
>
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