----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kitty Manscill" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 8:30 PM
Subject: Brickwall - James W. Mears


> My brick wall is James W. Mears, born 1824.
>
> In the 1870 Census he is listed in Nansemond County, at Chuckatuck,  with 
> his wife, Martha Jane Norsworthy Hines, and children Robert and Rintha.
> They were married in 1868.
> I never knew what his first wife's name was.  Those children were by his 
> first wife.
>
> In 1880 he is listed in Norfolk County, on Western Branch, and my 
> grandmother Eugenia had been born and was 9 years old.
>
> According to Ancestry, no one by this name is in any Virginia County in 
> 1860.
>
> In 1850 a James W. Mears of the same age is listed with wife Caroline in 
> Northampton Co.
>
> According to DAR records my grandmother's father was born on the Eastern 
> Shore.
> I wonder if this could be the same person.
> 



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