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>>It may be all the same. Any copies of historical >>records that show the same dates for the children with >>the names spelled different >>ELIJAH (GROOM) (GROOMS) (CROOM) and CATHERINE HERRING >>ELIJAH was born in 1757, Virginia. He married >>CATHERINE HERRING August 04, 1777 in Duplin Co., NC., >>daughter of STEPHEN HERRING and SARAH BRIGHT. She was >>born in North Carolina. >>Children >>Charles 1787 >>Stephen Herring b: ABT 1792 in Washington Co., GA >>Zelphia Ann b: 1800 >>Council b: BET 1783 AND 1786 in NC >>Wright b: 1802 >>Bright Marshall b: 12 DEC 1790 in Washington Co., GA >>Priscilla b: 1782 >>Betsy b: ABT 1778 >>Mary b: 1780 in Duplin Co., NC > >Re:Variations of the surname Groom. > > I have documents from the 1800's that spell it with >and without "s". My Grandfather, Edwin Houston Groom, >son of William Council Groom, Grandson of Francis >Council Groom, told me that there were several >spellings of the name, including Croom. He also said >that he doubted that the Croom s would claim the Groom >s as kin, even though there are some buried in the >same cemetery near my home. (Leon and Jefferson >Counties, Florida.)According to him, the Crooms came >to Florida early from the Carolinas and had the >resources to acquire the best lands. (i.e. the Redhill >areas of North Florida.) By the time the Groom s >arrived here (after statehood in 1845) all that was >left was the "flatwoods" i.e. coastal plains areas. >They had to resort to tending the feral cattle and >hogs left by the Spanish in he "flatwoods".

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