FINDING RELATIVES
My grandfather came from a very large family and some of them did not stay very still (in one place for very long). Particularly difficult though was the fact that his mother Sarah Jane Lewis was orphaned young. She was placed in Oxford Orphanage in 1881 here in North Carolina and adopted out of the orphanage in 1883. The couple she ended up with did not treat her very well. She married my great grandfather George Gilliam Parrish in 1887. FINDING INFORMATION But it was her mother's family that was an enigma. Over the years I found bits and pieces of information and slowly started building this side of the family tree. Her mother was called Westduck Lewis and her father was Henry Boss King. Her parents were not married to each other as far as I can tell. Westduck's parents were named Norfleet and Julia Lewis. They lived in Halifax County, North Carolina. They had several other children besides Westduck. One of these siblings of Westduck, I have chased behind...