son, Oscar Sloan Melvin, born 22 May 1858, Bladen County,
     N.C., died 8 Aug. 1904. Married Lucy A. Jones 9 Feb.
     1882. Children:
     dau. Lula Melvin, died as a young girl in a typhoid epi-
          demic.
     dau. Irene Melvin, married John Devane.
     son, Lawrence Melvin, married Annie Devane.
     dau. Betty Melvin, married Ed Holder.
son, Walter FitzRandolph Melvin, born 26 Feb. 1862 in Blad-
     en County, N.C., died in Bladen 21 July 1904. Married,
     first, Flora Ann Cain, born 7 March 1859, dau. of John
     Cain, who was a brother of Peter. Flora Ann died 24 Jan.
     1898 after marrying 25 Feb. 1886. Then in July of the
     same year, WALTER F. MELVIN married Harriet Elizabeth
     (Lizzie) Cain. Children of WALTER FITZRANDOLPH MELVIN
     and Flora Ann Cain:
     dau. Hettie Clyde Melvin, born 27 May 1887, died 9 Apr.
          1973 in Roseboro, N.C., just short of her 87th
          birthday. She was still active when I visited her
          shortly before she died. Married JAMES GILBERT MEL-
          VIN, born 28 Dec. 1878, died 21 May 1946 and was
          buried at Sharon Baptist Church Cemetery in Cumber-
          land County, N.C.
     dau. Ila Melvin, born 2 Dec. 1888. Still living in 1977.
     son, Ottis W. Melvin, born 9 Aug. 1890, died May 1969,
          married Elsie Gurtin.
     son, Arthur Wade Melvin, Jr., born 8 March 1892, acci-
          dentally shot by his brother and killed 25 Nov.
          1900.
     son, GEORGE FRANKLIN MELVIN, born 24 Jan. 1898 (his
          mother did not survive childbirth), died 6 Nov.
          1963, buried at Windsor Church in Ammon Community
          in Bladen County, N.C. Married Lenora Tatum of
          Ammon, born 3 Jan. 1901, died 18 Oct. 1952, buried
          at Windsor Church, daughter of Benjamin Franklin
          Tatum and Molly Melvin who was a daughter of Fen-
          nel Melvin, granddaughter of ARTHUR MELVIN and
          Charlotte Averitte. "G. F.", as he was called, was
          a farmer and for several years served as a deputy
          sheriff of Bladen County. On his headstone at Wind-
          sor Church Cemetery he is erroneously given as a
          son of his Uncle Edgar Lee Melvin and Aunt Francis
          Eunice Shaw who reared him.
son, Edgar Lee Melvin, born at the old DANIEL MELVIN place
     in Bladen County, N.C., on the Old Stage Coach Road
     that was designated as Melvin's Road on McDuffie's 1881
     map of Cumberland County connecting Fayetteville with
     Wilmington. His date of birth was given as 27 Oct. 1863
     and his marriage was on 29 Oct. 1884 to Francis Unice
     Shaw, dau. of John Shaw and sister to Montgomery and
     John Shaw, Jr., who was the first husband of Estelle
     Sykes. Edgar Lee and Fanny had no children of their
     own.
 
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Information on the Kemp-Young-FitzRandolph Families may be found
on pages 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, and 328.  However there is no
separate heading: Kemp-Young-FitzRandolph Families.

There are no separate head-of-family pages for either
WALTER FITZRANDOLPH MELVIN or GEORGE FRANKLIN MELVIN.  However,
there is another reference to GEORGE FRANKLIN MELVIN on page 312.

The spelling of Averitt or Averitte is inconsistent in several
pages.  Perhaps Averitte is correct.

The spelling of Eunice or Unice is inconsistent.

In the line reading:
"son, Edgar Lee Melvin, born at the old DANIEL MELVIN place",
the HTML Editor has assumed the place of DANIEL MELVIN, II.

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Benjamin FitzRandolph (Kemp), Jr., Benjamin FitzRandolph, Jr.
Benjamin Kemp, Jr.
Sarah Young, Sarah Young FitzRandolph, Sarah FitzRandolph
Arthur Wade Melvin, Arthur Melvin
Anastasia FitzRandolph, Anastasia FitzRandolph Melvin
Anastasia Melvin
Oscar Sloan Melvin, Oscar Melvin
Lucy A. Jones, Lucy A. Jones Melvin, Lucy A. Melvin
Lucy Jones, Lucy Jones Melvin, Lucy Melvin
Irene Melvin, Irene Melvin Devane, Irene Devane
Annie Devane, Annie Devane Melvin, Annie Melvin
Betty Melvin, Betty Melvin Holder, Betty Holder
Walter FitzRandolph Melvin, Walter F. Melvin, Walter Melvin
Flora Ann Cain, Flora Ann Cain Melvin, Flora Ann Melvin
Flora Cain, Flora Cain Melvin, Flora Melvin
John Cain, Peter Cain
Harriet Elizabeth Cain, Harriet Elizabeth Cain Melvin
Harriet Elizabeth Melvin
Harriet Cain, Harriet Cain Melvin, Harriet Melvin
Lizzie Cain, Lizzie Cain Melvin, Lizzie Melvin
Hettie Clyde Melvin, Hettie Melvin
Cumberland County, N.C.
Ottis W. Melvin, Ottis Melvin
Elsie Gurtin, Elsie Gurtin Melvin, Elsie Melvin
Arthur Wade Melvin, Jr., Arthur Melvin, Jr.
George Franklin Melvin, George Melvin, G.F. Melvin
Lenora Tatum, Lenora Tatum Melvin, Lenora Melvin
Benjamin Franklin Tatum, Benjamin Tatum
Molly Melvin, Molly Melvin Tatum, Molly Tatum
Fennel Melvin
Windsor Church Cemetery
Edgar Lee Melvin, Edgar Melvin
Daniel Melvin, Daniel Melvin, II
Francis Eunice Shaw, Francis Shaw, Francis Unice Shaw
Francis Eunice Melvin, Francis Melvin, Francis Unice Melvin
Fanny Shaw, Fanny Melvin
Montgomery Shaw
Estelle Sykes