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I am a descendant of Pleasant Childers. When I first began my genealogy studies, I was dumbfounded by the number of descendants he has named John Wesley. Now folks, that name didn't spring out of the blue. Somewhere back there, someone else was named that! Let's start counting them. Flemon's son, my great-grandfather was John Wesley Childers. Daughter Elizabeth married first George Belcher, and named their son John Wesley, then married Alexander Clevenger and their son Levi, named a son John Wesley. Daughter Lucy who married Joe Elswick had at least one grandchild (or g-grandchild?) named John Wesley. I've seen more of the name, but can't remember them all, and didn't print every one when I first began genealogical studies because I was going to find all of my ancestors on the straight lines without looking sideways....HAHA! I might be convinced these were all named for Elizabeth's John Wesley considering family traditions if he had been a full brother to Elizabeth's other children, but they simply didn't name one in every family/generation for half brothers did they? Let's take a count on the total number of John Wesleys and see if we also have one older than Pleasant..... possibly his grandfather if not his father.
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