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For librarian, it’s all relative : Local : Times Record News
CHILLICOTHE — ver wondered if you might be related to a famous historical figure or the family down the street who has the same last name? You just might be able to find that information in a cozy little shop in Chillicothe.
What began as an effort to help her son win a scholarship has become a life-long passion for Doris Cozart.
Cozart said her love for genealogy began some 40 years ago when her son Robert Carl was an Eagle Scout. He was offered a chance to apply for a Sons of American Revolution scholarship.
One of the scholarship requirements was to prove four generations on all sides of his family. “This was when I really got serious about family research,” she said.
“I was a Parker, and my mother always said that Quanah Parker was her first cousin,” Cozart said. After extensive research, she discovered she shared six generations of ancestors with the famous Comanche chief, but there was no direct blood relation. “My mother was very upset with me when she found out she was not directly related to the famous Indian,” Cozart said.
Cozart recently opened a genealogical research library on U.S. Hwy 287 at the intersection of Ave. I South in Chillicothe.
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Religion and the Founding Fathers
From Mackey’s Revised Encyclopedia of Freemasonry:
Washington was initiated, in 1752, in the Lodge at Fredericksburg, Virginia, and the records of that lodge, still in existence, present the following entries on the subject. The first entry is thus: “Nov. 4th. 1752. This evening Mr. George Washington was initiated as an Entered Apprentice.” …On March 3 in the following year, “Mr. George Washington” is recorded as having been passed a Fellow Craft; and on August 4, same year, 1753, the record of the transactions of the evening states that “Mr. George Washington” and others whose names are mentioned, have been raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason.
RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Persons of Interest
Irish Roots And Lots of Others
# ID: I13212
# Name: James E Pratt 1
# Sex: M
# Title: Captain
# Name: James E Pratt 2 3 4
# Birth: 11 DEC 1830 in , Abbeville, SC 2
# Death: 31 AUG 1911 in prob , Abbeville, SC 2
# Occupation: 1870 Farmer 3
# Reference Number: 13327
# Note:
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He was the eldest son of Mary Kay and John Pratt, and was a great grandfather of President Jimmy Carter. General Robert E Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, serving under Stonewall Jackson and later Ambrose P Hill. He was born December 11, 1830 in the northern part of Abbeville District, SC, near the confluence of Hogskin Creek and Little River. The Pratt’s were among the early white settlers on Little River, but where they came from has never been determined.
Captain Pratt’s great grandfather, William Pratt, had operated a gristmill at “Pratt Shoals” on Little River, and by family tradition the mill had been burned by Tories and Indians during the Revolution. It is evident from his Revolutionary War claim that William Pratt had been involved in the battle at Pratt’s Mill, having lost his horse and saddle during the fight with the infamous Tory, “Bloody Bill” Cunningham…
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James E. Pratt was my maternal second cousin 3 times removed (common ancestor: Francis Clinkscales); and third cousin 3 times removed (common ancestors: William B. Franklin who married Elizabeth Brawner).
– Cathy
