Family Tree Progess

Okay, let’s do a quick wrap-up here…[updated and corrected]

The PARK family has descendency ties to Robert E. Lee and his wife [Mary Ann Randolph Custis].

Her ancestor was George Washington‘s wife Martha Dandridge CUSTIS (maiden name DANDRIDGE). Martha’s first husband was 20 years her senior — he was Daniel PARKE CUSTIS (son of John CUSTIS, and grandson of  John Parke); her father was John Dandridge — her mother was Agnes Wilder.

*** Robert E. Lee was also a distant cousin to his wife. [added: 28Dec2010)

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PARK/PARKE/PARKS descendants are connected to the Burchfields — the Burchfields via the Park line (somewhere) are kin to the Gustafsson/Justice family originally from Sweden; and how did I get here (this time)?

Tracing the Davis-Smathers connection of Aunt Betty Davis (married – Jack Abernathy) — trying to learn about her father’s family.

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The other point of interest is Aunt Betty Davis Abernathy‘s ancestral ties to a Cherokee Chief Oowahooskie (various spellings found).

His ‘wife’ had been captured from a white settlement/group when she was about six years old. They had three sons; she and the sons were later released — they lived as white men, and were land-holders. This made for Cherokee heritage claims with US courts unsuccessful — but the Indian connection seems valid from research/sources found online, now.

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There is also a connection between the PARK family and a CHANDLER line in Georgia…will follow this up later.

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Another connection exist between the DAVIS line and the CARPENTER (ZIMMERMAN) families from North Carolina — this warrants further research, since my mother and my father’s ancestral line include connection to the CARPENTER (ZIMMERMAN) lines from the Carolinas.

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NO direct Patey/PATE/PATTY connections — but have found AYERS/AYRES, PAYNE, and McClellan connections in the Carolina regions (where my husband’s family were from)…

The PAYNE connection may link up with the TEAGUE, SPEER, PERRY, OWEN or other related families who later migrated to NE Alabama (near Ft. Payne).

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With the research from the past three days — “We are all kin” has more meaning then is previously did, for me.

Each friend I have helped with their family tree research, I have also found something that fit with prior research for my own complicated ancestral lines.

Are your ancestors included in this tangle of kinfolks?

Contact me with a bit of your grandparents vital statics (dates, location, family members) — I will see what I can find.

– Cathy Ann Abernathy

weavercat@gmail.com

 

RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Descendants of Rev. William Speer (1652-?)

Descendants of Rev. William Speer (1652-?)

Entries: 6801 Updated: Sat Aug 25 11:53:37 2001 Contact: Wade (Edward) Speer

     /Henry Crawford TEAGUE b: 1882 d: 1939
Henry Boughton TEAGUE d: 1999
|                                       /John (William?) SPEER b: 1723 d: 1771 =>
|                               /John SPEER b: 1748 d: 1842
|                               |       Elinor CARLTON d: 22 JUL 1833
|                       /William SPEER b: 3 SEP 1800 d: ABT. 1849
|                       |       Mercy HARRIS b: ABT. 1770 d: 6 MAY 1834
|               /John Wesley SPEER b: 27 JUN 1820 d: 3 JUL 1916
|               |       Nancy COCHRAN b: 1806 d: 13 NOV 1863
|       /James Wesley Downs SPEER b: 12 SEP 1851 d: 5 OCT 1927
|       |       Talitha A. PERRY b: ABT. 1834 d: 6 FEB 1922
Mary Martha Elizabeth Talitha Cumie SPEER b: 1887 d: 1973
        \Martha Ann Permelia Jane PIPER

via RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Descendants of Re. William Speer (1652-?).

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Some of Randy Owen‘s maternal ancestors.

The Speer family are also some of my maternal ancestors.

[Kinship between us? 5th cousin once removed]

Interesting discovery…

- Cathy