Everything but the kitchen sink.

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

Sephardic Jews have lived in the state for more than 300 years,(*) (*) (*) especially in and around Charleston (*). Until about 1830, South Carolina had the largest population of Jews in North America. Many of South Carolina’s Jews have assimilated into Christian society, shrinking Judaism down to less than 1% of the total religious makeup. In addition, Roman Catholicism is growing in South Carolina due to immigration from the North.

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via South Carolina: Facts, Discussion Forum, and Encyclopedia Article.

# ID: I31030
# Name: Mary Ada “Mae” Abernathy
# Sex: F
# ALIA: /Mae/

# Birth: 28 SEP 1857 in Giles Co, TN
# Death: 28 SEP 1892 in bur. Leagueville Cem., Henderson Co, TX

Father: John Jennings Abernathy b: 30 JUL 1820 in VA
Mother: Rosanna Adelaide Cardin b: 3 JUN 1824 in Giles Co, TN

Marriage 1 Edward Isaac Brownlow b: 28 DEC 1854 in Giles Co, TN

* Married: 15 DEC 1872 in Pulaski, Giles Co, TN

via RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Linking Mowry+Tomerlin+Norwood to Fanning&Bunn+Meeks.

# ID: I544

# Name: Howell HOUSLEY

# Sex: M

# Birth: 1808 in Sullivan County, Tennessee

# Death: 6 Nov 1872 in Hawkins County, Tennessee

# Burial: City Cemetery, Surgoinsville, Hawkins County, Tennessee

# Note:

Howell Housley appears to have been a grandson of Robert Housley and his wife, Lydia Ann. Howell was listed as the Bondsman at the marriage of Thomas Housley and Eliza Hodges in Jefferson County, Tennessee. Thomas Housley was a son of Robert and Lydia Ann. Howell was living in Carter County, Tennesse in 1830, 1840 and 1850, Greene County, Tennessee in 1860 and Hawkins County, Tennesse in 1870. Carter County borders Sullivan County where Robert Housley is known to have lived from 1796 until at least 1821.

….(click link for MORE)

via RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: My Family Database.

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Another “Owsley” cousin by marriage — let’s see how close this one is, shall we??

– CAA

16. Peter Stephanous PICKARD. He was the son of 32. William PICKARD and 33. Elizabeth JUSTICE.

17. Elizabeth SANDERS.

Child of Elizabeth SANDERS and Peter Stephanous PICKARD is:

8. i. William Elias Green PICKARD was born 09 AUG 1805 in Chathaqua, Chatham Co, NC, and died 30 SEP 1854 in Huntsville, AL.. He married Mary “Polly” CHAMBLISS. She was born 15 MAR 1809 in Tar River, Chatham, NCNorth Carolina, and died 24 OCT 1876 in Humphreys, TN.

20. Richard PARHAM died aft. 1850 in Hickman Co., Tenn..

21. Rhoda THOMPSON Thomason.

Child of Rhoda THOMPSON Thomason and Richard PARHAM is:

10. i. Thomas PARHAM was born 1794` in Granville Co., North Carolina, and died 1883 in Benton Co., Arkansas. He married Sarah BAXTER, daughter of James BAXTER and Mary HAGINS. She was born 1796 in York County, South Carolina, and died aft 1860 in Tennessee?. He married Sarah BAXTER. He married Sarah BAXTER.

22. James BAXTER was born 1765 in Lancaster Co., Penn., and died in York Co., South Carolina.

23. Mary HAGINS.

Child of Mary HAGINS and James BAXTER is:

11. i. Sarah BAXTER was born 1796 in York County, South Carolina, and died aft 1860 in Tennessee?. She married Thomas PARHAM, son of Richard PARHAM and Rhoda THOMPSON Thomason. He was born 1794` in Granville Co., North Carolina, and died 1883 in Benton Co., Arkansas.

via RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Pickard.

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Item to follow up on.

– Cathy

GMIndexECreek.

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A growing site, full of helpful Native America genelaogy resources…

<a href=”http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH6&CISOPTR=57976″>Cansler Family In America – http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH6&CISOPTR=57976</a><BR>

The original meaning of the word “Melungeon” is obscure (see Etymology below). From about the mid-19th to the late 20th centuries, it referred exclusively to one tri-racial isolate group, the descendants of the multiracial Collins, Gibson, and a few other related families of Newman’s Ridge, Vardy Valley, and other settlements in and around Hancock County, Tennessee. Some researchers limited application of the term further to the descendants of two early 19th century settlers of that area, Vardy Collins and his brother-in-law Shepherd Gibson. Recently, however, some researchers have begun to use Melungeon to mean almost all traditionally recognized tri-racial isolate groups of the Eastern United States.

[edit] Origins

[edit] A complex question

A common belief about the Melungeons of east Tennessee is that they are an indigenous people of Appalachia, existing there before the arrival of the first white settlers. But genealogists working in the late 20th century have documented, through a range of tax, court, census and other colonial, late 18th and early 19th century records, that the ancestors of the Melungeons migrated into the region from Virginia and Kentucky as did their English, Scots-Irish, Irish, Welsh, and German neighbors.[5]

The likely background to the mixed-race families later to be called “Melungeons” was the emergence in the Chesapeake Bay region in the 17th century of what historian Ira Berlin (1998) calls “Atlantic Creoles.” These were freed slaves and indentured servants of European, West African, and Native American ancestry (and not just North American, but also Caribbean, Central and South American Indian: see Forbes (1993)). Some of these “Atlantic Creoles” were culturally what today might be called “Hispanic” or “Latino”, bearing names such as “Chavez,” “Rodriguez,” and “Francisco.” Many of them intermarried with their English neighbors, adopted English surnames, and even owned slaves. Early Colonial America was very much a “melting pot” of peoples, but not all of these early multiracial families were necessarily ancestral to the later Melungeons.

via Melungeon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia….

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Excerpt from Wikipedia…

– Cathy Abernathy

A collection of records and links for those researching their Creek – Muskogee Indian ancestors.

via Creek Indian Researcher – records and links.

Southeastern United States Indians, Traders, Commissioners, Agents, Interpreters, and Others Involved in Indian Affairs

-A Bibliography-

via IndianTradeBiblio.