'James Vinson's will, a copy of which is in the possession of Lisa Vinson Arvanitis, a great great granddaughter, stated that if she remarried she would lose everything he left her.'
Apparently, this will was sufficient incentive for Rhoda to not marry Stephen Marcum, in spite of the fact that she bore him 4 children, all of whom bore the Vinson surname (3 of them - Rachel, Samuel and Lafayette - are with her in the 1850 census in Wayne, Virginia).
