Good Afternoon. I have been researching my family on and off for the past ten years, but I keep hitting brick walls (ELDER FAMILY MEMBERS). I would like to prepare a book for my upcoming family reunion in 2009 with the names of my ancestors NELSON ENGLISH and MORIAH/MARIAH/MARIA MCFADDEN ENGLISH and their descendants. They are originally from the SUMTER, SC area and they had fifteen children. There names was
MARY m WILLIAM/WILLIE DAVIS
HANNAH m ASBERRY TOMLIN
ELLA m WASH/WALSH OSCAR or ALTON
EMMA m JOE SCOTT
MASRENIA m EUGENE ROBINSON this surname enters the family tree twice with a niece marrying EUGENE's younger brother LAWRENCE.
LEMON m GEORGE BLACKWELL
NELSON JR m MAGGIE
SAMUEL ENGLISH m DAISEY
KING LOUIS ENGLISH m KATE
BENNIE ENGLISH
SHARPER ENGLISH m EVELENA
RICHARD ENGLISH m ROXENIA
NERO ENGLISH m JANNIE
LUNNON/LOUDON ENGLISH
WILLIE ENGLISH

NELSON ENGLISH SR had two known siblings a brother named CASEY and a sister named LENA/LENO.

MARIAH MCFADDEN-ENGLISH parents was named ABRAM and CAROLINE MCFADDEN. MARIAH was the eldest child according to the either the 1870 or 1880 census. I also beleive I have the names of MARIAH's paternal grandparents ABRAM and PENNIE. Mariah's siblings was
MARGARET
ELLEN/LOU ELLEN
ASHBER
CASNY
ISHMEAL
JEFFERSON
ROBERT
LUCIUS

Please contact me if you have any information pertaining to this family. I know this is long stretch trying to get names, but so far I have a tree that contains almost a thousand names with the branching of various families. Thank you in advance.