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Family Tree Progress
Okay, let’s do a quick wrap-up here…
The PARK family has descendency ties to Robert E. Lee; his ancestor who was George Washington’s wife (maiden name CUSTIS); 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.
The other point of interest is the 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.
There is also a connection between the PARK family and a CHANDLER line in Georgia…will follow this up later.
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.
NO direct Patey/PATE/PATTY connections — but have found AYERS/AYRES, PAYNE, and McClellan connections in the Carolina regions (where my husbands 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).
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
Re: George Silvers,MD. NC.b late 1700
Re: George Silvers,MD. NC.b late 1700
Posted by: Cindy Ray Peters Date: February 28, 1999 at 11:57:35
In Reply to: Re: George Silvers,MD. NC.b late 1700 by Phil Rutledge of 352
Hi Phil,
I am sorry ,I was incorrect about My Rachel being Charlies sister. She was his fathers Jacob sister.There were 12 of them, I have there names if you want them.
According to the Toe River Valley Heritage Vol 1 &2.
Your Jacob was a brother of my grandmother Rachel m Edward Wilson. There father was George J. Silvers Jr. b 10-28-1753 Fredrick Co. Md. m Nancy Ann Griffith b 1766, they had 12 kids.
George Jr. father was George Silver Sr. (Jurg Silbers) b 2-1731 Germany m Sissy Market (Elizabeth Schmieden)Germany.
Jacob married Elizabeth Wilson they had 1 child Charles 10-3-1812 Elizabeth died during child birth. Jacob married Nancy Reed and they had 12 children.
I have a good story.
Jacob was a farmer and a Babtist min. in the Kona area for 50 years. Because he couldn’t read or write. His wife Nancy Reed would read the bible to him and he would memorize the scripture he used in his sermon.
He married Nancy on 10-6-1814 in Buncombe Co. Nc. She was the daughter of Samuel Reed.
They are buried at Silver Family Cem. in Kona, Nc.
Hope this helps!
Cindy Ray Peters
Explanation for this insanity?
Okay, so here’s where I try to make brief sense of the jumble of posts up until now.
Quite simply I am searching for answers to questions — the majority of them, these days, are about Native American heritage/genealogy and where my ancestors actually “came from”.
One page of hand-written notes from the past few days include the following locations:
In NORTH CAROLINA:
1- Dimsal, NC
2- Weaverville, NC
3- Buncombe County
4- Big Lick, Stanley County
5- Orange County
6- Swain County
7- Hickory, NC
8- Hollow Poplar
9) Montgomery County
10) Catawba County
11) Honeycutts, NC
12) Sampson County
Other locations:
1- Scott County, Virginia
2- Ellijay, Georgia
3- Roane County, Tennessee
4- Carter County, Tennessee
Surnames I am hoping to find further information on in these areas include:
Bailey, Briggs, Byrd, Griffith/Griffin, Garland, Honeycutt, Hampton, Letterman/Leatherman, Radford, Silvers, Wright…
NOTE: Names in bold are most like ancestors (if not noted as KIN, by an ITALICS).
And so, this is where I am at with finding my answers — somewhere in the “Toe River Valley” of North Carolina — with an interwoven genealogy of a community of people who MOST likely have Native American heritage; but have hidden it for so long, that finding solid proof is not easily done.
I will keep searching.
As time, energy and new leads permit me.
– Cathy Ann Abernathy
weavercat@gmail.com
Creek Indian Researcher – records and links
A collection of records and links for those researching their Creek – Muskogee Indian ancestors.
IndianTradeBiblio
Southeastern United States Indians, Traders, Commissioners, Agents, Interpreters, and Others Involved in Indian Affairs
-A Bibliography-
via IndianTradeBiblio.
