Email From Adrian Hopkins kee46@email.msn.com to Fran Tabkatz@aol.com
Email Dated 3/8/1998

Fran,

     I work with George Wilby who does the Moore Co. NC web page on my
HUNSUCKER"S.  He needed some research done here in GA and I needed HUNSUCKER
help.

     He has sent me everything he has on the HUNSUCKER family.

     I have a similar problem with my ancestor, Sarah Hunsucker Oldham.  I can't
find the first husband of Sarah.  She shows up in the Moore Co. Census in
1850 married to Ephraim Oldham with two Hunsucker children.  Now, my mother
proved that Sarah was the daughter of William Jr. Hunsucker because in a
census of 1910, Sarah is living with her sister, Elizabeth Hunsucker Horn.
That is our proof.

     Now we have Catherine in the same situation.  We can't find a marriage of
our Sarah either.  Her father was William Jr. while Catherine's was George
Sr.'s.  George Sr. and Sarah are living at household #1051 in the Moore Co.
Census in 1850, not far from Catherine Wood.  These Hunsucker's stuck
together back then.  They were very religious people.  My mother feels that
because the town was so rural that perhaps a minister didn't come by to
perform the legal ceremony.  Who knows. It is hard to think or believe that
two young ladies from a very religious family could have children out of
wedlock.  I think there has to be another explanation.  I have the NC
Bastardy Bonds but our Hunsucker's are not listed.

     Now, I will tell you where the confusion on the birthdate is coming from in
my opinion.  I have a Mary A. Hunsucker born 1834 in Moore Co. NC in the
family with my Sarah A.   Her father was William Hunsucker and mother was
Ceila Unknown.  To me this just further proves your Mary A. and my Mary A.
were cousins because George Sr. and William Sr. were brothers.  Catherine
Wood's age would put her being born abt. 1804 and she would definitely fit
into George Sr.'s family with that age.  As you know, they named the same
names in each family over and over and that also makes is confusing to find
who goes where.

     Questions to solve:

     1.) Have you traced Catherine Wood to her death?
     2.) Where is she buried?
          My mother has a cemetery book of Moore Co, so she can look in it for you.
     3.) Church records, have you looked there?
     4.) Who was Catherine's husband or father to these children?
     5.) Mary Ann Wood had to have George as a grandfather, not a father.  I
          believe Catherine b. abt. 1804 was possibly a daughter of George Hunsucker
          and she married a Wood and that is the Hunsucker tie.  If you have marriage
          records with Mary Ann Wood marrying and Catherine Wood being present then
          the tie has to be from Catherine to the Hunsucker father.

    You said, "I don't believe that Catherine was a wife because of the fact she
is a Wood in the records when her daughter is married in Randolph County. My
theory might be off the mark, but I wondered if she was known as a daughter
of George Hunsucker, but when she died in 1917, Frank tried to "legitimize"
her by listing her birth name as Mary Ann Hunsucker."

    Because Catherine Wood lost her husband bef. the 1840 census and lived among
Hunsucker's would lead me to believe that she was formally a Hunsucker.  Her
children would naturally be raised around Hunsucker's hence the reference as
Mary being George's daughter when I think she is a granddaughter.

    6.) Ask George Wilby at the Moore Co. web site to look for a marriage record
in Moore Co. for Catherine Hunsucker & unknown Wood abt. 1824-25 because
Winifred was born in 1826.  Tell him you are in contact with me because he
will just tell you to contact me if you don't.  :-)

    I am very excited about this information.  Please do send me your line.  I
want to post it to the web page.  Have you been to the Hunsucker web page?
You need to join the Hunsucker email list also.

    The web page site URL:
http://members.tripod.com/~ahopkins/hunsucker/index.htm

    I look forward to hearing back from you and getting your family line plugged
in.

Adrian

-----Original Message-----
From: Tabkatz <Tabkatz@aol.com>
To: kee46@email.msn.com <kee46@email.msn.com>
Date: Sunday, March 08, 1998 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: HUNSUCKERS of NC

Dear Adrian,

     Thank you for the quick response.

     In a letter dated February 6, my cousin Marie Richardson Auman said that my
great-great-grandmother's name was Mary Ann Hunsucker( this part was also
told to me by another cousin), and her parents were George Hunsucker and
Catherine Wood of Moore County.From her death certificate, her birthdate was
listed as March 10, 1834 and death date listed as September 25, 1917, but
her age is listed as 73 yrs. 6 mths. and 15 days on this same document.
According to the death certificate, her age would have been 83 years, and
she would have been 17 years older than my grandfather, James Alfred
Richardson (1851-1922). Their son, Frank Richardson, provided the
information for the death certificate.

     When I was about 12 years old, and we were in the middle of the "Roots"
craze, I asked my grandfather about his family, and I wrote down what he
said: his grandmother was Mary Ann Wood. I didn't start my research for over
20 years, but I kept that paper! Then when I interviewed my relatives, they
all said she was a Hunsucker! I had never even heard that name until then.My
grandfahter knew his grandmother when he was a child because he was born in
1902.

     I wrote to the Randolph County Genealogical Society, and I asked for a
search on Mary Ann Hunsucker Luther,and it was Juanita Jackson Kesler who
found Mary Ann Wood in the marriage bonds with her mother listed as
Catherine Wood in both her marriage to Riley Luther in 1859 and to my James
Alfred Richardson in 1867. Juanita could, find no Catherine married to a
Wood in the records in that county when I requested this information in
November. I didn't realize then that the Wood family was from Moore.

     I don't believe that Catherine was a wife because of the fact she is a Wood
in the records when her daughter is married in Randolph County. My theory
might be off the mark, but I wondered if she was known as a daughter of
George Hunsucker, but when she died in 1917, Frank tried to "legitimize" her
by listng her birth name as Mary Ann Hunsucker.

    Does Moore County have any bastardy bonds from that period? I am also
wondering if there is a record of when Catherine Wood's husband died (if
there was a husband)? From what you sent, she is in the 1840 also, and this
is before my mary Ann was born.

     Tell me where to look next (the new Moore County board does lookups) and
what you think.

    Thank you for the help.

Sincerely,


Fran Richardson

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