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

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RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Meadows-Medders of Alabama

Meadows-Medders of Alabama

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Ongoing research on my Meadows/Medders Ancestor

Descendant Register, Generation No. 1

1. William Henry PICKARD (Nicholas PICKARD13, Bartholomew PICKARD – Pickert12, Bartholomew (1st) PICKARD11, Robert PICKARD10, John PICKARD9, Robert PICKARD8, John PICKARD7, Allene – Allen PICKARD6, John PICKARD5, John (of Askwith PEKARD) PICKARD4, Henry [1415] PICKARD3, Noel PICKARD2, John James PICKARD1) was born 1725 in Chatam, NC, and died 1790 in , Chatam, North Carolina, U. S. A.. He married Elizabeth Smothers (Pickard). She was born 1732, and died 1812.

Children of William Henry PICKARD and Elizabeth Smothers (Pickard) are:

+ 2 i. (John) Henry – [1753] Pickard was born BET 1740 AND 1750 in Chatam Co., NC, and died 1840.

+ 3 ii. William M. [1755] PICKARD was born ABT 1755 in Orange County, NC, and died 1826 in Chatam Co., NC.

4 iii. Thomas [1759] PICKARD was born MAY 1759 in Hancock, GA. He married Nancy Honey. She was born 1762.

5 iv. Mary [1760] PICKARD was born 1760 in Hancock, Georgia, and died 1810. She married Robert Clark BEF 16 JUL 1790. He was born 1755, and died 1810.

6 v. Christian PICKARD was born ABT 1761 in <, Hancock, Georgia, U. S. A.>. She married James Watly.

+ 7 vi. Sarah [1763] PICKARD was born 1763 in <, Hancock, Georgia, U. S. A.>, and died 1810.

8 vii. Elizabeth [1768] PICKARD was born ABT 1763. She married Benjamin Philemon Lacy – Lacey, son of Philemon Lacy – Lacey and Anne Durham. He was born 1752 in Kent County, VA.

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Abraham Lincoln’s Parents

THOMAS LINCOLN, Abraham Lincoln’s father, was born January 6, 1778, to Bathsheba and Abraham Lincoln. Thomas, who was born in Rockingham County, Virginia, was the fourth of five children born to the couple. His older siblings were Mordecai, Josiah, and Mary. Thomas had a younger sister named Nancy. During the early 1780′s the family moved to Jefferson County in Kentucky. Native Americans killed Thomas’ father, Abraham, in an attack in May 1786. In 1795 Thomas was listed by name in the Washington County tax lists as a white male between the ages of 16 and 21. In c. 1797 Thomas spent a year working as a hired hand for his Uncle Isaac on the Watauga River in Tennessee.

Thomas moved to Hardin County, Kentucky, in 1802, and he purchased a 238-acre farm the next year. In 1806 he married Nancy Hanks. The couple had three children: Sarah, Abraham, and Thomas (who died in infancy).

Thomas was a farmer and a carpenter and was a responsible citizen living on the frontier. He was at times a jury member, a petitioner for a road, and a guard for county prisoners. In terms of education he lacked ambition, and he never fully understood Abraham’s desire to read and learn. He was a good storyteller and was popular with his neighbors. Thomas and Nancy were members of the Little Mount Separate Baptist Church which had broken from the regular church over the issue of slavery.

Thomas stood approximately 5-9 or 5-10 and weighed about 190 pounds. His face was well rounded. He had dark hazel eyes and course black hair. Thomas was compactly built and very strong physically. He was temperate in his drinking habits and generally had an inoffensive personality.

Late in 1816 Thomas moved his family to southern Indiana. A homesite was chosen 16 miles north of the Ohio River about a mile from Little Pigeon Creek. By February 1817 Thomas had built a new log cabin 18 feet square with a packed dirt floor and a stone fireplace used for both cooking and heating. Although Abraham was only eight, he was handed an ax and put to work helping to clear fields, chop wood, and split rails for fences. Sadly, in 1818 Nancy Hanks Lincoln passed away from milk sickness at the age of 34.

The next year Thomas went back to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and proposed to Sarah Bush Johnston, a widow whom he had known for many years. On December 2, 1819, the two were married. Soon the couple traveled back to the cabin in Indiana along with Sarah’s three children by a previous marriage: Elizabeth (13), Matilda (10), and John D. (9). In 1823 Thomas joined the Little Pigeon Baptist Church.

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Abraham Lincoln’s Parents

NANCY HANKS LINCOLN, birth mother of Abraham Lincoln, was born on February 5, 1784, in Hampshire County, (West) Virginia. The birth occurred in a cabin along Mike’s Run at the foot of New Creek Mountain in what is now Mineral County, West Virginia. Nancy’s mother was Lucy Hanks, but nothing is really known for certain about Nancy’s father. According to Abraham Lincoln’s law partner, William Herndon, Abraham once said that his maternal grandfather was “a well-bred Virginia farmer or planter.” During the same conversation, Abraham said of his mother, “God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.”

Little is known of Nancy’s early life. As a child Nancy was taken by her mother along the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. In Kentucky Lucy Hanks married Henry Sparrow. Young Nancy went to live with Henry’s brother, Thomas Sparrow, and Elizabeth Hanks Sparrow, a sister of Lucy. Soon Nancy began being called Nancy Sparrow. Elizabeth Hanks Sparrow became almost a mother to Nancy.

As Nancy grew up, she became skilled in the art of needlework, and she became an excellent seamstress. She was hired to sew anything from wedding gowns to funeral attire. Nancy became known for her work ethic, neatness, cheerfulness, and intelligence. She was deeply religious. Her cousin, John Hanks, described Nancy as having dark hair, hazel eyes, 5-7 in height, a delicate frame, weighing 120 pounds, and “was loved and revered by all who knew her.” No photographs of Nancy exist.

Nancy sometimes lived briefly with families she was sewing for; her services were in demand in Hardin, Mercer, and Washington counties. During the time Nancy was working as a seamstress she met Thomas Lincoln, a carpenter from Elizabethtown. A romance developed, and the two decided to be married.

On June 12, 1806, Nancy Hanks and Thomas Lincoln were married; presiding over the ceremony was the Reverend Jesse Head. The couple moved to a cabin in Elizabethtown where Thomas worked as a carpenter making cabinets, door frames, even coffins. The Lincolns joined the Little Mount Separate Baptist Church. A daughter, Sarah, was born to the couple on February 10, 1807.

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FAMILY GROUP SHEET

John Hardy

Born: Isle of Wight, Virginia

Died: Alabama