Just to see if there might be a kinship connection — I found information on “Chuck” Norris’s ancestors…Guess what?
Via his father’s line he is 7th cousin to my brother, Byron, and me.
Our common ancestors are John Norris and Mary Winifred Patrick.
I will add more details at a later date.
T’was doing other things when I saw a ‘lead’ mentioned in a random email message.
Just FYI.
Isn’t genealogy detective work worth the effort, at times?
– Cathy
Category Archives: Native American Connections
Genealogy Tidbit
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
Alabama Band of Cherokee provided by Bravenet.com
Welcome to the Alabama Band of Cherokee web site.
We are a Traditional Keetoowah Society of Cherokees banded together for the purpose of maintaining our Cherokee heritage here in Alabama.
We are not State or Federally recognized. We have no i.d. cards or roll
numbers and very few rules other than all members do their best to learn
and observe our true and rich Cherokee heritage.
If this sounds right to you and you are of Cherokee Ancestory , please
feel free to come to our gatherings and fellowship with us.
If you are who you say you are this may be where you belong.
via Alabama Band of Cherokee provided by Bravenet.com.
RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Susan’s Ancestors – as of 10/15/08
# ID: I10236
# Name: Gi-Yo-Sti-Ko-Yo-He 1 [of the Cherokee]
# Sex: F
# Birth: ABT 1736 in Cherokee Nation, North Carolina
# Event: Cherokee – Bird Clan Tribe
# Death: BET 1770 AND 1780
Father: Atagulkalu b: 1695 in Sevier, Tennessee, USA
Mother: Nionne Ollie b: 1710
Marriage 1 John WATTS b: ABT 1725 in Bowling Green, Caroline, Virginia, USA
Children
1. + Barsheba WATTS b: 1746 in Edgecombe, North Carolina, USA
2. + John Watts Jr. b: 1750 in Cherokee Territory, Chicamauga Area, Little Tennessee River
3. – Malachi Watts b: 1751
4. – Nancy Watts b: 1752
5. – White-Man-Killer Bird Clan Watts b: 1754
6. – Garrett Zachariah Watts b: 08 JAN 1756 in Bowling Green, Caroline, Virginia, USA
7. – Henry Watts b: 1760
8. – Benjamin Watts b: 1763
9. – Elizabeth Watts b: 1770
10. – Thomas Watts b: ABT 1763 in Bedford, Virginia, USA
via RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Susan’s Ancestors – as of 10/15/08.
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NOTE:
- = No Children
+ = Has Children
Following up on Faulkner-Gulledge family leads in Alabama, Georgia, Tennesse, and North Carolina
– CAA
Encyclopedia of Alabama: Chilton County
In 1902, Jefferson Manly Faulkner, a Montgomery lawyer and Confederate veteran, donated 80 acres of his own land in southeastern Chilton County as the site for the Alabama Confederate Soldiers Home. The retirement community consisted of a 22-building complex that included a 25-bed hospital. At its peak, the home housed more than 100 people. The area now serves as Confederate Memorial Park. In post-World War II years Chilton County emerged as the principle peach growing area in the state, a status it continues to hold. After a particularly large crop, the town of Thornsby held the first Peach Festival in 1947. The festival moved to Clanton in 1952, where it continues to be celebrated.
via Encyclopedia of Alabama: Chilton County.
Native Americans of Northeast Alabama
The Times-Journal Published January 01, 2004 7. Fascinating Finds: After months of digging, examining and logging, scientists finished their work at “Dead Man’s Curve,” and an ancient burial site was uncovered. A study was ordered before work on widening Highway 11 could begin.
What was discovered was truly amazing. More than 100 sets of human remains were unearthed near Wills Creek, some dating back as far as 7,000 B.C., and some as recent as 700 A.D.
Cassandra Hill, a forensic osteologist who has worked similar finds throughout the Southeast and Northeast, called the dig one of the most significant she had seen.
via Native Americans of Northeast Alabama.
“We Shall Remain” – Online, PBS.org
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/
First Episode is NOW available for view online.
– Cathy A.
Micco Ladiga – purchase of Creek land by J.S.U.
CREEK-SOUTHEAST post/query – dated 13 April 2009
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Hey Tim,
There are quite a few Creek Reserves in Alabama and Georgia. They were
granted to “Friendly Creeks”. In most cases, the legal owners were driven off
their lands only a short time after the reserves were granted. I don’t
know the legal particulars of the two tracts you read about, however.
Jacksonville University advertises on its web site that the original land
for the college was purchased from a Creek mikko named Ladiga.
Richard T.
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This make m e wonder if Anniston Councel Member Ben Little actually has found something that give The creek Nation claims to a good portion of what is now jacksonville; if not part of McClellan…
– Cathy Ann Abernathy
RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Jernegan-Carroll-Goldsmith-Latham-Hollingsworth-Brownrigg-Andersen-Festus-Martin-Taylor – Some Descendants
# ID: I9552
# Name: Narcissa Clark Chisholm
# Given Name: Narcissa Clark
# Surname: Chisholm 1 2 3 4
# Sex: F
# Birth: 3 Oct 1831 in Cherokee Nation, AR 5 6 4
# Death: 12 Jul 1911 7 4
# Burial: Spring Hill Cem., Lynchburg, Campbell Co., VA 7 4
# Note:
As the Memoirs portray it, Narcissa Owen had an eventful life. Born in the Arkansas Indian Territory shortly before the Trail of Tears (54), she attended several good schools (52-3, 56-8), became a teacher herself (59-60), then married a railway construction engineer–Robert Owen, with deep family roots in Lynchburg, Virginia (60-3). Moving to Lynchburg, where her husband became president of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, Narcissa Owen–despite her Cherokee heritage–became a community leader during the Civil War; and, by {8} her own account, she foiled a Union attack on Lynchburg by providing false information to enemy spies (71-82). Robert Owen died in 1873, leaving the family destitute; however, by working as a music teacher and obtaining scholarships, Narcissa Owen managed to secure a college education for both of her sons–one became a surgeon, the other, a lawyer
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
