Isabella’s mother Nancy Lea was a daughter of James “ Jimmy Shoo-Boot” Lea and Frances “Frankey” Rucker. James “Shoo-Boot” Lea was a grandson of James “Country Line Lea” a pioneer settler in Caswell County as was James “Kilgore’s Branch” Lea (father of Gabriel Lea). In those days there so many James, William and John Leas that they needed another distinction to be able to tell them apart, thus the use of “Shoo-Boot”, “Country Line”, “ Kilgore’s Branch” etc. One of the most trying tasks for researchers of the Lea family is sorting out which James Lea you are related to. Luckily in my case I am related to both “Country Line” and “Kilgore’s Branch” James Leas.