Sarah's Mortgage

Among the surprises in my family land records, I came across this surprising document, wherein Sarah Kennedy mortgages a piece of land, as well as a woman and three children, to my ancestor, EW Davis, for $1.00.  This may not seem that unusual seeing that the year was 1856, and prior to the Civil War. What makes it so eye-catching is knowing who Sarah Kennedy was. There is a sum of $150.00 mentioned in the document involving Josiah Hatley. It is going to take some interpretation to decipher what the purpose of the deed was, as a great deal of property was mortgaged for a mere dollar. It may have had something to do with the rights (or lack of) women in those days, and E. W. Davis, being the gentleman that he was, taking possession, temporarily, of her property, in order to protect it from take over of not so congenial gentlemen.

This is a link to a post where I had blogged about Sarah Kennedy and her unusual situation.

Mystery Monday: Sarah Kennedy

 It had appeared that Sarah died leaving 4 young children orphaned, who were bound out to neighbors and local farmers to 'learn the art' of farming. This happened often, especially with children who were illegitimate. One of her sons, Robert, would marry the younger half-sister of my great-great grandmother Julina Aldridge Davis.

The woman that Sarah Kennedy mortgages out, is an 18 year old girl she calls "Sall". As young as she is, Sall is the mother of two little girls, Mariah and Harriett. The year is 1856.  Sall's daughters must have been mere babies. I had pegged Sarah Kennedy, daughter of John C and Mercy Daniel Kennedy, as the mother of Robert Kennedy/Canady and his siblings. Then the name "Harriett" rang a bell.

me:	Sarah Kennedy
Age in 1870:	31
Birth Year:	abt 1839
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1870:	Big Lick, Stanly, North Carolina
Race:	White
Gender:	Female
Post Office:	Albemarle
Value of real estate:	View image
Household Members:	Name Age Sarah Kennedy 31 Harriet Kennedy 13 Robert Kennedy 5 Alexander Kennedy 1

The 1870 census of Stanly County has Sarah and her children labeled as white.
I located the document where Robert and his brother James, who was just a 2 year old toddler at the time, was bound out to a local farmer, Michael Dry, to learn the art of farming about 1877. In the 1880 census, Robert and James are enumerated in the household of Michael Dry.

Name:	Robert Canady
Age:	16
Birth Year:	abt 1864
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1880:	Furrs, Stanly, North Carolina
Race:	Mulatto
Gender:	Male
Marital Status:	Single
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Neighbors:	View others on page
Occupation:	Servant Works On Farm
Cannot read/write: Blind: Deaf and dumb: Otherwise disabled: Idiotic or insane:	View image
Household Members:	Name Age Michael Dry 57 Catharine Dry 58 Safrona A. Dry 14 Robert Canady 16 James Canady 9

They are also called "Mulatto", meaning of mixed heritage.

In 1884, Robert marries Matilda Aldridge, who is also labeled mulatto on the marriage license, but her mother was considered white, although of Native American and Scottish heritage.

Then, I was in Cabarrus County, doing research on the Kiser family, and I came across a document that caught my eye, Thomas Canday's marriage to Jemima Means. I am a descendant of a Harriet Means Lemmonds, and have not researched into that line as of yet, beyond straight up the trunk of the tree. So I thought I'd take a glimpse to see if Jemima was perhaps a sister of Harriett Means. If you notice in the census record above, the name Kennedy was interchangeable with Canaday or Canady in those days. In fact, Canaday become the permanent spelling for Bob and Matilda's descendants.

While researching the descendants of my great-great aunt Matilda, I came across Bob's death certificate. On it, his mother was listed as Sarah Canady and his father as Jordan Kennedy. I thought, this has to be an error, Jordan was his uncle, the brother of Sarah Kennedy. I had assumed that Sarah was white, and the father of Bob and his siblings was black.

But now, I've found Thomas Canaday.

Thomas Canaday, a resident of Stanly County, in 1881 marries Jemima Means. He is the son of Jordan Canaday, living, and Sarah Canaday, deceased. Somehow, Thomas did not show up in the 1870 census with his siblings. Not that I have found yet.

Then, I thought about this document. Sall is short for Sally, is a nickname for Sarah. Could there have been 2 Sarah Kennedy's? One born a slave and the other her owner? Harriett was definitely one of Robert's sisters and Sarah's daughters. I found a record in Cabarrus County of someone whose mother's maiden name was Mariah Canady. Could Thomas and Mariah, the older children, have left Stanly as children and went to live in Cabarrus County?

Thomas and Jemima had a close connection to a Boger family. Both are living with a Boger family in 1880. While Bob moved his family first to Rowan and then on to Davie County, Thomas and his wife ended up in Philadelphia. Further research may find out more about them.

Thomas first shows up at 20 years old in the 1880 census, that I can find:

Thomas Canady
Age:	20
Birth Year:	abt 1860
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1880:	Bethel Church, Cabarrus, North Carolina
Race:	Black
Gender:	Male
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Neighbors:	View others on page
Occupation:	Laborer
Cannot read/write: Blind: Deaf and dumb: Otherwise disabled: Idiotic or insane:	View image
Household Members:	Name Age James Boger 27 Milisa Boger 25 George Boger 6 Amanda Boger 5   Boger 5m Marshal C. Boger 19 Thomas Canady 20 Jemima Means 24

Living with the Bogers and here he meets his wife and they marry the next years. His marriage license pronounced him from Stanly County.

Twenty years later, he and his wife are still in Cabarrus County and a member of the Boger family is living with them. If they had any children between 1880 and 1900, they did not show up.

Name:	Thomas Canady
Age:	45
Birth Date:	abt 1855
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1900:	Johns River, Cabarrus, North Carolina [Cabarrus]
Race:	Black
Gender:	Male
Relation to Head of House:	Head
Marital Status:	Married
Spouse's Name:	Jemima Canady
Marriage Year:	1882
Years Married:	18
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Occupation:	View on Image
Neighbors:	View others on page
Household Members:	Name Age Thomas Canady 45 Jemima Canady 38 Minnie Boger 20

Name:	Thomas Kennedy
Age:	63
Birth Year:	abt 1857
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1920:	Philadelphia Ward 7, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Race:	Black
Gender:	Male
Relation to Head of House:	Head
Marital Status:	Married
Spouse's Name:	Jemina Kennedy
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home owned:	Rent
Able to read:	Yes
Able to Write:	Yes
Neighbors:	View others on page
Household Members:	Name Age Thomas Kennedy 63 Jemina Kennedy 65

By 1920, the couple have moved to Philly, where they probably spent their last days.

Jordan Kennedy of Davidson and Stanly County was known to leave a trail of illegitimate children. He was brought up on bastardy bonds in the early courts of Stanly County on more than one occasion.

So were there more than one Sarah Kennedy/Canaday? Was Jordan the father of all of her children? How many did they have in total? Was the 'Sall' mentioned in the above document, who was mortgaged to my ancestor EW Davis, Sarah, mother of Thomas and Robert? If so, the list of children would be Mariah, Harriett, Thomas, Robert, Alexander and James.

I know that Alexander also ended up in Cabarrus County, living with a Bost family. They may have been of some relation.

Alaxander Canady [Alexander Canady]
Age:	30
Birth Date:	May 1870
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1900:	Kings Creek, Cabarrus, North Carolina [Cabarrus]
Race:	Black
Relation to Head of House:	Boarder
Marital Status:	Single
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Occupation:	View on Image
Neighbors:	View others on page
Household Members:	Name Age Leah Bost 63 Victora Bost 26 Gene Bost 21 Clarance Bost 18 Lon Bost 18 Perlie Bost 8 Edger C Bost 3 Alaxander Canady 30

Alex may have been this Alexander Canady who moved to Winston-Salem and married a Sallie. The name Alexander is often shown as Aleck or even Ellick.

Name:	Alick Canady
Age:	46
Birth Year:	abt 1874
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1920:	Winston-Salem Ward 3, Forsyth, North Carolina
Race:	Black
Gender:	Male
Relation to Head of House:	Head
Marital Status:	Married
Spouse's Name:	Sallie Canady
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home owned:	Rent
Able to read:	No
Able to Write:	No
Neighbors:	View others on page
Household Members:	Name Age Alick Canady 46 Sallie Canady 46

A trip to the Forsyth R.O.D. is in order.

One Families Migration: The Kisers

Sylvester, Fisher County, Texas is today defined as a ghost town. However, it is a place that a family from the Cabarrus and Stanly county areas of North Carolina migrated to during the early years of the last century. 

It all began with one document.

Most of the land records in Cabarrus County, North Carolina involving F. F. Starnes also involved family. In the beginning, there were his and his fathers' acquisitions, but as Finch's children grew up, he parted off land for them, and he also took care of the Measmer's, children of his sister Jincy, who passed away. But as he was preparing to move to Charlotte, he also sold some lots to other people, who I was curious to see if they were relatives, or not, and how connected.

Jonah and Sarah Jane Kiser were one of these families.

The Kisers were a family of German descendants. Jonah was the son of a Civil War vet, who in turn was the Great-grandson of a German immigrant, Peter Kizer, who had settled in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.  In May of 1886, Jonah and his wife Sarah Jane, had paid off a mortgage to Frederick Fincher Starnes and now owned their property out-right.

Jonah was a young man of 26 in 1886. He had married his bride, Sarah Jane Howell, daughter of David Sides Howell and Margaret Gray Howell in 1880. Both were born in 1860. By 1886, the third of their 8 sons would be born.

Jona K. Kiser
Age:	20
Birth Year:	abt 1860
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1880:	Bethel Church, Cabarrus, North Carolina
Race:	White
Gender:	Male
Relation to Head of House:	Self (Head)
Marital Status:	Married
Spouse's Name:	Sarah J. Kiser
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Neighbors:	View others on page
Cannot read/write: Blind: Deaf and dumb: Otherwise disabled: Idiotic or insane:	View image
Household Members:	Name Age Jona K. Kiser 20 Sarah J. Kiser 22 Jacob Kiser 55

 In the 1880 census, the newlyweds are living in the Bethel Church section of southern Cabarrus County. Bethel is a very old church that still has the Arbor for tent services. Jacob Kiser is not a relative, but an employee.

Jonah K Kiser [Jonah Kiser]
Age:	40
Birth Date:	abt 1860
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1900:	Bethel Church, Cabarrus, North Carolina [Cabarrus]
Race:	White
Gender:	Male
Relation to Head of House:	Head
Marital Status:	Married
Spouse's Name:	Sarah J Kiser
Marriage Year:	1880
Years Married:	20
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Occupation:	View on Image
Neighbors:	View others on page
Household Members:	Name Age Jonah K Kiser 40 Sarah J Kiser 42 Lewis B Kiser 17 William Kiser 16 Eugene Kiser 14 Collie Kiser 12 John C Kiser 9 Ernest Kiser 6 Gustavus Kiser 4 Not Named Kiser 1/12

By the 1900 census, the last of their 8 sons, Odis, was born.



Some time between 1900 and 1903, the Kiser family decided to pull up roots and move to the tiny town of Sylvester, Fisher County, Texas. I wondered why they would relocate from a fertile, growing and prosperous area, to a desolate, flat, dry place like Fisher County, Texas.


Young son Collie, must have died on the journey. He is buried near the town of  Monticello, Texas. Monticello is 359 miles east of Sylvester, by way of Dallas.  The family put up a monument for the teenager.

I wonder if he died of disease or in an accident. In August of 1904, when he passed away, he was 15 years old. Just after the turn of the century, the family could well have still been traveling west by wagon, and not by train. There were as yet no death certificates to solve this mystery. As the younger siblings made it, I don't think young Collie, who was nearly 16, died of disease. It seems someone else in the family, someone weaker, would have caught it as well. There must have been some hazard of the journey or accident that took the life of young Collie. Maybe he was bitten by a snake, or thrown from a horse, or drowned while trying to help get the wagon unstuck from a stream. I don't know if the answer is out there.

Monticello was not much of a place then, and is not much of a place now. Here is what the Texas State Historical Association has to say about Monticello.

MONTICELLO, TEXAS. Monticello is on Farm Road 127 just south of Lake Monticello eight miles southwest of Mount Pleasant in southwestern Titus County. It began in the 1850s and received a post office in 1857 with Cicero J. Corder as postmaster. A steam mill operated by Theodore Stewig was the largest business. The settlement remained small and in 1890 had an estimated population of thirty. By 1892 it had two stores, two mills, two gins, a brick factory, and a school. By 1896 only a store remained. From that point the population seems to have remained fairly constant until the late 1960s. It reached 149 by 1974, and the town was incorporated shortly thereafter. At the time of the 1980 census the population of Monticello was forty-three. It was forty-eight in 1990. In 2000 the population was twenty.

Cecil Harper, Jr

Route from Monticello to Sylvester

As the small town of Monticello, where Collie was buried, is very close to the very large lake of the same name, Collie's death may have very well had something to do with the lake, or trying to cross the water somewhere. Somehow, I feel his death was during the journey west, and 1904 was the year of travel.


Accounts say that Sylvester was a town promoted by its founders, the Compere Brothers, and by 1909, had it's largest population of 600 people.

Here is what Wikipedia had to say about Sylvester:

The Compere brothers of Abilene are credited with the founding of the community in 1903. They bought part of the AJ Ranch in anticipation of the arrival of the Kansas, Mexico and Orient Railway and named it in honor of W.W. Sylvester, the railroad's promotion manager.^[2] The rails reached Sylvester in 1905 and businesses followed. By 1909, the community had an estimated population of 600. Sylvester incorporated in 1927 and the 1930 reported 382 residents.^[1] That figure rose to 405 in 1940. Competition from nearby towns caused Sylvester to decline. It had reverted to unincorporated status by 1950 and by the 1980s, fewer than 100 people remained in the community.

Although Sylvester is unincorporated, it continues to have a post office in operation with the zip code of 79560.

Courtesy of Wikipedia

Naming a town for someone with the railroad was a sure way to get the railroad, businesses and population to your town. The prosperity did not last. 

Jonah K Kiser
Age in 1910:	49 [41]
Birth Year:	abt 1869 [1861]
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1910:	Justice Precinct 5, Fisher, Texas
Race:	White
Gender:	Male
Relation to Head of House:	Head
Marital Status:	Married
Spouse's Name:	Sarah J Kiser
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Neighbors:	View others on page
Household Members:	Name Age Jonah K Kiser 49 [41]  Sarah J Kiser 51 Lewis Kiser 27 John C Kiser 18 Ernes Kiser 15 Gussie Kiser 13 Odis Kiser 10

By 1910, one of the Kiser boys had married and had a child of his own.
 Jonah is listed as a farmer and his sons helping him farm. 

William Milton Kiser, known as Milton, married Mattie Parker, a girl from Mississippi and had became a father to his first child, daughter Sylvania. He was living in the household right next to his father. 

William Kiser [Willian Kiser]
Age in 1910:	26
Birth Year:	1884
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1910:	Justice Precinct 5, Fisher, Texas
Race:	White
Gender:	Male
Relation to Head of House:	Head
Marital Status:	Married
Spouse's Name:	Mattie M Kiser
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Neighbors:	View others on page
Household Members:	Name Age William Kiser 26 Mattie M Kiser 17 Sylvmie Kiser 0

The landscape of Fisher County, Texas

Fisher County remains a sparsely populated area. As of 2010, the population of the entire county was still under 4000, or 5 people per square mile. An interesting fact was that in 1886, the town of Roby was declared the county seat over Fisher. It was later discovered that the deciding vote was cast by a Mr. Bill Purp. But Bill Purp turned out to be the dog of one of Roby's citizens.

Jonah Kiser had grown cotton in Cabarrus County. He may have moved to Fisher County, Texas to grow cotton there. Before the 1930's, when a boll weevil infestation destroyed most crops, cotton was a profitable crop in Fisher county.

"In 1900 Fisher County farmers produced 113,640 bushels of corn, 41,290 bushels of oats, 7,320 bushels of wheat, and 1,280 bales of cotton. After 1910 wheat and cotton increasingly took center stage, and by 1920 the county was among the state's leaders in wheat production. High prices for cotton, however, persuaded many farmers to dedicate ever-increasing acreage to cotton culture in the 1920s. " 

"BIBLIOGRAPHY: R. C. Crane, "Early Days in Fisher County," West Texas Historical Association Year Book 6 (1930). Fisher County Historical Commission, History of Fisher County, Texas (Rotan, Texas: Shelton, 1983). E. L. Yeats and E. H. Shelton, History of Fisher County, (n.p.: Feather, 1971).
Hooper Shelton"

Abandoned church in Sylvester

By 1913, the Kiser's lost another teenaged son. The youngest, Odis, only 13, died on December 2 of this year. He is buried in the Sylvester community cemetery. 

The Kiser's seemed to be one the main family in Sylvester after a while. The Kiser son's populated the community with children.

The Family of Jonah Keiler Kiser and his wife Sarah Jane Howell Kiser in total were 8 sons:
Lewis B Kiser 1882-1983
William Milton Kiser 1884 -1972
Eugene Cunningham Kiser 1886-1967
Collie Kiser 1888-1904
John Cletus Kiser 1891-1945
Odis Kiser 1892-1913
James Earnest Kiser 1896- 1977
Charles Gustavious Kiser 1899-2000




The third-born son Eugene Cunningham Kiser is missing from the 1910 census. This is because he had traveled back to Cabarrus County, North Carolina to get married. And this is the connection to my family tree in two directions. Lotha Mae Lambert was the daughter of Martin L Lambert and Rose Etta Starnes.
Martin L Lambert was the son of my 3rd great-grandfather, William "Buck" Lambert and half-brother to my Great, great-grandfather, Rufus A Lambert. Rose Etta or Rosetta or 'Etty' Starnes was the daughter of Allen Mack Daniel Starnes, a cousin of Frederick Fincher Starnes. AMD Starnes was the younger brother of Nathan Monroe Starnes and John C Starnes, whom F. F. Starnes was buried alongside. Their father, Nathan T Starnes and his father Frederick Starnes, Jr., were brothers, but the cousins were more like brothers in their transactions and associations.

Martin L Lambert died in 1892 and his widow remarried Columbus Monroe Kiser. C. M. Kiser was the son of Jonah K. Kiser's brother, Rufus Caldwell Kiser. Lotha was his step-daughter. There are several mysteries currently surrounding this family, but that is another post.

Eventually, Lotha's half-brother, Floyd Lindsay Kiser would also relocate to Texas, but at a later date. He is in Cabarrus County, NC in 1920, but in Fisher County, Texas by 1930. He married Neda Cornelius Gray White, who had a young son, Frederick A White.

Jonah and Sarah probably did not migrate alone, as in the 1910 cenus, the Cyrus Gray family is living next to them, and they also originated in the Bethel Church area of Cabarrus County. I don't know at this time if Neda is connected to them.

The Fourth son, John Cletus Kiser, would marry a Texas girl named Audy Mae. They would live in Comanche County, Texas and have 4 children.

The next to the youngest son, James Earnest Kiser, would also marry a Texas girl named Nova Ann and they would remain in Sylvester.

The youngest son, Charles Gustavious "Gus" Kiser, would marry a Texas girl named Buna Ethel and they would relocate eventually to Comanche County, Texas near J. Cletus Kiser.

The oldest son, Louis B Kiser, remained with his parents the longest, eventually moving to Parker, Texas and marrying Corrine Miller, from Texas, daughter of James T and Clara Miller. After Corrine's death in 1957, he would return to Fisher County, to the county seat of Roby.

http://www.cemeteries-of-tx.com/Wtx/Fisher/cemetery/sylvester.htm






Most of the ancestors who came to this little part of Carolina, came from the North, down the Great Wagon Road. A few others came up from the South, from the coastal towns of Charleston and Savannah and the Welsh Neck of South Carolina. Even fewer still were the Scotch-Irish that drifted in from the Sandhills in the East.

In the same way, a few of each large family would migrate South and West, some to Tennessee, others to Alabama and Georgia, but most to Arkansas and Texas. Some men even abandoned their families to never return.

There was an old diddy that went around these parts in the late nineteenth century, "Maw, Maw, where is Paw? He ran off to Arkansas."

Thirty chains to the Persimmon Tree

Looking through land records of ancestors can get tedious, and that is what I've been delving through recently. But they can tell us things that we might not know otherwise.
For instance, some of the interesting things I picked up from land records recently were:

1) That Sarah Kennedy, the unusual lady of her times, took out a mortgage with my Davis family.

2) That James Robert Thompson, who disappeared from Stanly County with his wife and two young sons after the 1880 census, was listed as "of Marlboro County, South Carolina" in a sale of his share of his father, W.C. Thompson's property, after his father's estate was settled.


3) That E.W Davis and his wife Rebecca, maintained a house and property in Albemarle, as well as their farm property along the Rocky River, in the southern part of the county. That is likely why their son Thomas Ashley Davis moved to Albemarle, as the property had been left to him after his mother's death. They may have 'wintered' in town and summered on the farm.

4) I had found other documents suggesting this, but the land records show that George and Mary Coley had signed over their entire estate to Edmund Murray before their deaths, and that Edmund Murray promised to care for them in their old age. This corroborates my theory that Edmund, who is shown as a Murray in some records, and a Coley in others, was the grandson of George and Mary. He was also obviously the son of Benjamin Murray and also inherited the land of Ben's widow, Martha "Patsy" Murray after her death. She was far too young to be his mother, only 8 years his senior, and with the ambiguity of his name, shows he was not a legitimate son. His mother had been a Coley, in all probability and near to certainty, a daughter of George and Mary Coley, who may have passed away after his birth. Edmund must have been a very good man as both the Coley's and his stepmother, Patsy Murray, seemed most fond of him.



5) That Henry Davis had dealing in the Stanly County Gold Mine.


6) That Thomas Deberry Greene sold property to Cottonville Baptist Church.

7) That Frederick Lafayette "Fate" Starnes sold land to the Gibson Mill in Concord to build their factory.


8) That his father, Frederick Fincher Starnes sold land to Rocky River Presbyterian Church to extend their cemetery.

9) That Henry Davis bought and sold land on Cloverfork Creek, which lay north of the then Albemarle and is now encompassed by it.

10) That the "L" in Mary L Byrum Starnes stood for "Louise".


There is a great deal that can be learned in land records. They can provide proof of relationship, as in the division of land among a person's heirs. They can show where some of these heirs migrated to, if they did indeed relocate and not just pass away before the next census. It can also lend us surviving local landmarks, such as churchs, creeks and rivers, to tell us where exactly our ancestors lived in the area, and not just that long gone persimmon tree that marked the corner.

Family Resemblance

Here is a lesson learned.

Always write names and dates on photographs and portraits, and include labels in your electronic ones, so 100 years from now, when one of your descendants are looking through them, they will know who is who and when, what and where.

This family may or may not be Honeycutts or Whitleys, or have ties to a Honeycutt or Whitley. They most likely lived in or around the Western end of Stanly County. Oakboro, Big Lick or Saint Martin area. The older gentleman on the left looks like the possible patriarch of the family. The woman next to him could be his wife, but upon close examination, there is a strong family resemblance between the two and she could be his sister. Sometimes when a wife died, a maiden aunt would join the household to supervise the children.

Not only do these two stand alike, they have the same brow ridge and deep-set eyes, shape of face and identical noses. Another possibility is that they are first cousins, hence the resemblance, and also spouses, which was not uncommon in those days.

The couple to the left of the older couple, with the man holding the baby are likely also a married couple, as is the couple with the two babies to their left. One of the young girls in the back is the spitting image of the woman in the first couple with the one baby. The smaller girls to the side of her may be her sisters, but the taller girl to her left looks nothing like her and may be the daughter of the woman she stands behind.

If anyone recognizes these faces from the Victorian era in old photos of theirs and can put a name to any one of them, left me know. Again, they may be from Stanly County, or just have relatives in Stanly County.