Re: Frances Asbury Clifton NC
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Re: Frances Asbury Clifton NC
10/22/00
Sounds like your mother was Elizabeth Thornley Richey who was Grand daughter of Marion Webster Clifton who was brother of Francis Asbury Clifton who was my Grandfather.Those two brothers Served in the civil war and I believe were somewhere close to each other during the war.The papers You speak of at Duke University are in the Perkins Library and are called the John Lavender Clifton Papers.As you say, he was a preacher; and so there is a lot of history there about a good many family marriages etc. in both Sampson County as well as adjoining Duplin county, NC where Faison is.I believe your post is several years ago but hope you read this and that you will keep in touch with your ancestors better than I have.I am starting to do better about that.