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: Cherokee
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
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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
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
