Re: FULLEN SUTHERLAND/RUSSELL CO.VA
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In reply to:
Re: FULLEN SUTHERLAND/RUSSELL CO.VA
Jim S 12/16/01
"In my records, I have Fullen Sutherland (b. 1852) married Martha J. Duty, daughter of John Smith and June Rasnake Duty. The only children I have for Fullen and Martha are Phoebe, Laura, Callie, Malissa and Ransom."
They also had George (m. Martha ?) and Johnny. I don't know anything else about my Grandmother's sibs -- just their names. I show her parents as James/John Smith Duty & Juliana "June" Rasnake.
My brother says Fullen & Martha split up, but the story I heard from Phoebe's daughter was that Martha killed Fullen in a jealous rage 'cause he was a womanizer. Martha then fled the state and later married John Breeding or Breeden.
John had a son, Arthur, and he and Martha had a son, Frank. This is what my brother said: "Frank Breeding raised in a family in West VA, but tuberculosis ran in the Breeding family, and probably because of his own TB, he committed suicide while in his fifties, in 1956." John & Martha also had a daughter named Phoebe, and two other sons. One they called "Siddie."