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My maternal great-grandmother was born Maude Alice Rabun on Sep. 6, 1886 in Seminole County FL, although, at that time, it was still part of Orange County. She married Charles Powell in 1903, was widowed fairly young and left with 6 children, and later married a German immigrant, Carl Schoenemann, with whom she had 2 more children. She died on Aug. 4, 1966, and is buried with Grandpa Schoenemann and their two children, who both died in their 20s, in the Lakeview Cemetery in Sanford FL; their son Walter was killed in WWII when his ship was attacked by a kamikaze. (By the way, if you have these folks in your Rabon/Rabun family line, I do have old family photos of all of them, if you're interested. Let me know, and I can send you scans of them.)
I have Maude's father listed as David Henry Clay Rabun, born March 31, 1856 in Jones Co. GA, died Sept. 1, 1936 in Sanford. His wife was Mary Eliza Ball, Aug. 8, 1856 - June 30, 1940. David's father was Richard Rufus Rabun who was married to Mary Caroline George. He was born in Hanover, Brunswick Co. NC on Aug. 8, 1829, according to the info I've found, and died in Findlay, Dooly Co. GA on 1/24/1880. I have down that Richard Rufus was the child of Richard who was born in NC and married to Annie Potter, who was perhaps born in 1808 and died in 1837 in Brunswick Co. NC.
Could my Richard Rufus be the Rufus mentioned in the thread that began with this post (quoted in part): "Thomas Rabon was born 5-1-1835 in North Carolina. His father was Richard Rabon who was married to Annie Potter. Their children, including Richard, are Eliza, Emily, William, Rufus, Westley, Thurman. The family moved to Georgia"? I know there _could_ have been another Annie Potter married to a Richard Rabun in that area during the same period who later moved to GA, but it does seem unlikely, doesn't it? I found some great information about that family on that thread, but I'd love to clear the confusion about the names before I add that branch onto my tree. The thread I'm referring to can be found here at http://genforum.genealogy.com/rabon/messages/36.html.
If anyone has a pretty definitive answer, please reply here or drop me an email. As you can tell, my info so far about Richard/Rufus and his father is pretty skimpy, and I have nothing farther back than that yet, except that Richard's father was David Rabon, with an "o"; I've found a "D. Rabon" on the 1810 Brunswick Co. census that I believe may be him. If this info is about "my" Richard Rufus, it will go a long way in helping build my tree. Thanks! I suspect some of you will prove to be very, very distant cousins of mine. :D
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