My great grandfather was Dempsey Lassiter from Nansemond County, VA. He married Elizabeth Jane Hosier. They had William, James, Dempsey, mary Ophelia who married Konrad Eberwine, Sarah Elizabeth who married George Morsom and moved to PA, John Thomas, Julius McGruder (my grandfather), and Jackson. Are any of these names familiar? No one seems to get back farther than Dempsey.
Kitty