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William Edward Desmond b. 1870s, VA
Posted by: Robert Sexton Date: March 10, 1999 at 10:16:02
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I am looking for any information on my great-grandfather, William Edward Desmond, born in the 1870's in Southwestern VA (Marion). He married Pricie L. Thompson on March 23, 1900. (Pricie subsequently died on Feb. 20, 1904. They had two children, William, and Elfride(my grandmother). He later remarried a woman named Carolyn and they had 4 children: Joseph, Harold, Julia and Sarah.

My grandmother thinks that his surname was originally "D'Esmonde" (French) and was anglicized to Desmond generations before him, well before the Civil War. I cannot verify this, however.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

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