From: Glenn and Katy
To: darrellwarner@@primary.net
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 3:10 PM
Subject: thanks
Hi Darrell,
I do have that info. In fact, thanks to you, I have corresponded with a Webb cousin who's brother is now living in my gt.grandfather's (Robert Hale) old homestead in Olive Hill. He sent photos of it and also put me in touch with the grand daughter of Thomas Haile Jr.
She has sent photos of the graves of Thomas Sr. and Francis Oliver. (I have her Oliver ancestry) and a photo of Robert and Thomas Jr. cr. 1861. They enlisted together on the same day to fight in the Ky. Infantry. My mother told me that Thomas Jr. was wounded in battle and that Robert carried him home on his back. It took him three days to get home.
My one brick wall is finding the name of Thomas Sr's mother! I have a photo copy of his death notice from Carter Co. naming his parents and their places of birth, however, it is somewhat illegible. The father is Wheeler Haile of Essex, Co. Va. and you can tell that the mother's name starts with an "A" (Alce or Alse) and she is also from Essex. Thomas Sr. had a brother John, who bought Thomas' property when he left Va. (for Ky.) and a sister Seryicin (?) I found them all listed on the settlement of Wheeler's estate.
The only "Alce" I have found during that time frame b. 1763 in King & Queen County is Alcey Walden. Her brother Lewis is listed as living next door to Wheeler in 1797 and Wheeler is known to have been a carpenter and made the casket of Henry Kidd, grandfather of Alcey Walden. Henry Kidd was a signer of the LWT of John Haile and Richard Thomas Haile, Wheeler's father. I know that Alcey died by 1800 because Wheeler is shown married to Mary Croxton.
I just can find no documented proof of who Thomas Sr.'s mother is... it's driving me crazy!
Anyway, thanks for the quick response and listining. If you would like a photo of Robert & Thomas Jr. I can email it to you.
Katy
