From Carol Henkel, 214 Four Knot Lane, Osprey, FL 34229

Memoranda in the "Family Records" section of the Bible of CARROLL CRARY RAWLINGS, a great grandson of AARON and Hettie T. RAWLINGS.

1891 - Statement made to CCR by Rev. Robert Russell Booth, Pastor of the West End Presbyterian Church, NY City. "In the summer of 1891 I visited a church of Dives on the coast of Normandy, whence William the Conqueror sailed for Britain. Back of the chancel are names carved in the stone wall (of) officers who accompanied William. Among them appears the name RAWLINS."

Dives is along the coast of the Baie de la Seine, south of the English Channel, approximately 18 statute miles southwest of LeHavre, France (as the crow flies) and 14 miles northwest of Caen.

From Jesse D. Thompson, P.O.Box 248, Clarksville, ARK, 72830

My great-grandfather, JESSE M. ROLING, was born July 2, 1821 in Kentucky. According to family tradition, his mother died very soon after his birth and the doctor took the baby to raise. In later years, JESSE said that his mother had been "a belle of old Kentucky" and was supposed to have been one of the prettiest girls in that state. There is no evidence of any connection between JESSE and his father thereafter, but it is known he married again and had another family. I do not know the name of JESSE's father or that second family, nor the name of the doctor who raised my great-grandfather.

The earliest documentary mention of JESSE is in the will of Stephen Cole of Lincoln Co., Tennessee, which JESSE witnessed in 1838. It should be noted here, that there was a Stephen Cole in Barren Co., KY, from before 1800 up to around 1820, so perhaps JESSE knew him from there. July 18, 1843, was the marriage date for JESSE and Mary Cole at the home of her parents, Eli and Hester Cole of Lincoln Co., Tennessee. Their first 4 children were born in Tennessee: HESTER ANN, March 8, 1845; MARTHA JANE, Dec. 13, 1848; ELI, Nov. 18, 1850; MARY ELIZABETH Jan. 14, 1853. The family then moved to Texas along with other members of the Cole family. There 2 more children were born: my grandfather,. JESSE MONROE, Dec. 28, 1856; and JAMES WILLIAM, Dec. 1, 1858. My great-grandmother died May 15, 1859, at the age of 34.

My great-grandfather kept some of the instruments his foster father had used in his medical practice, and he appeared to have considerable knowledge of medical practices. He also kept and used a stock of drugs and chemicals used in the preparation of the more common medicines of the time. A story is told that he developed an effective anti-acid, which formula was stolen and used in a widely sold patent medicine of the time called Smith's Bile Beans.

JESSE M. and his family settled in or near the "Kentucky Town" community - about halfway between Whitewright and Tom Bean in Grayson County.

CORRECTION

Carol Henkel writes to correct the introductory paragraph on P.53 of the December 1992 Newsletter. Please note that LEROY RAWLINGS was a son of ELEAZER RAWLINGS, and ELEAZER (not Leroy) was the son of AARON & Hettie RAWLINGS. She apologizes.

F.Y.I.

For those of you researching in Marion Co., Missouri, Corbyn Jacobs has access to old Marion County news­papers back to 1830 for obituaries; marriage and land transaction records at the courthouse; and other info. Write him at:

901 Sloan, Palmyra, MO 63461