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.

Fifth Great-Grand father:

George William Byrd [46062]
B: abt 1755 in Richmond, Virginia
D: abt 1825 in Jacks Creek, Yancey County, North Carolina
Married: Margaret Annie Hudson/Hutson
B: abt 1760 in New York or England
D:
bef 1870 in Yancey (now Mitchell) County, North Carolina

Children:
1) Annie Byrd – Married: John Griffith
2) William Kinsey Byrd – Married Elizabeth Williams
3) (Christopher) Samuel Dempsey Byrd – Married: Mary “Polly” Briggs
4) George Washington Byrd
- – - – - -
Possible connection through “J. H. Honeycutt” (one of several possible John Henry Honeycutt’s as a direct ancestor – Virgie Ann Honeycutt‘s father).
Will be looking into this further…

NOTE

: Virgie Ann Honeycutt married Ivey Lee Abernathy - they were my PATERNAL grandparents.

– Cathy

# ID: I08083

# Name: James W. Bailey

# Sex: M

# Birth: 1822 in Buncombe Co., NC

# Death: 27 NOV 1882 in Yancey Co., NC

# Burial: James W. Bailey Cem., Jacks Creek, Yancey Co., NC

Father: Charles N. Bailey b: ABT. 1789 in Burke Co., NC

Mother: Margaret Riddle b: ABT. 1795 in Buncombe Co., NC

Marriage 1 Susannah “Sookie” Byrd b: 15 OCT 1831 in Jack’s Creek, Buncombe Co., NC

* Married: 12 APR 1849 in Yancey Co., NC

Children

1. Has No Children Melissa Jane Bailey b: 10 JAN 1853 in Yancey Co., NC

Marriage 2 Susannah Luseba Hampton b: 9 NOV 1838 in Jack’s Creek, Yancey Co., NC

* Married: AFT. 1856 in Yancey Co., NC

Children

1. Has No Children Mary A. Bailey b: 3 MAR 1861 in Jack’s Creek, Yancey Co., NC

2. Has Children Josephine Bailey b: 12 FEB 1862 in Jack’s Creek, Yancey Co., NC

3. Has Children Margaret Ann Bailey b: 26 JUL 1866 in Jack’s Creek, Yancey Co., NC

4. Has Children Wade Augustus Bailey b: 1 APR 1868 in Jacks Creek, Yancey Co, NC

5. Has Children Charles Horace Bailey b: 13 JUL 1872 in Yancey Co., NC

via RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: The Toe River Valley, NC.

# ID: I07554

# Name: George Washington Byrd

# Sex: M

# ALIA: Broke Leg /Byrd/

# Birth: 7 MAR 1813 in Burke Co, NC

# Death: UNKNOWN in Red Hill, NC

# Burial: AFT 1880 Red Hill Cemetery Red Hill, Mitchell Co, NC

Father: William Kimsey Byrd b: 21 MAY 1778 in VA

Mother: Elizabeth Williams b: 4 OCT 1784 in Sweetwater, Monroe Co, TN

Marriage 1 Elizabeth Honeycutt b: 1828 in , Yancey, NC

Children

1. Has No Children Mary Lucretia Byrd b: 11 NOV 1861 in Yancey Co, NC

Marriage 2 Betsy Jane Phillips b: ABT 1814 in Burnsville, NC

* Married: 16 JAN 1834

* Married: 16 JAN 1834 in Red Hill, NC

Children

1. Has No Children Betty Byrd

2. Has No Children Lula Byrd

3. Has No Children William Byrd b: 1835 in Yancey Co, NC

4. Has No Children Lazarus Byrd b: 1837 in Yancey Co, NC

5. Has No Children Charles Byrd b: 1838 in Yancey Co, NC

6. Has No Children Samuel Carson Byrd b: 3 MAY 1842 in Yancey Co, NC

7. Has Children Mitchell T Byrd b: 1843 in Yancey Co, NC

8. Has No Children George Byrd b: 1845 in Yancey Co, NC

9. Has No Children Elizabeth Jane Byrd b: 1849 in Yancey Co, NC

10. Has Children Hutson Byrd b: 1851 in Clarktown, NC

11. Has No Children Blake Byrd b: 20 JUL 1853 in Mitchell Co, NC

12. Has No Children James Byrd b: 1855 in Mitchell Co, NC

Marriage 3 Mary Ann Clark

* Married: 7 SEP 1875 in Yancey Co, NC

Children

1. Has No Children Mary Elizabeth Byrd b: 29 JUL 1861 in Wautauga Co, NC

2. Has No Children Robert Vance Byrd b: 3 NOV 1863 in Yancey Co, TN

3. Has Children Jinsey Byrd b: 20 DEC 1865

4. Has Children Minnie Esther Byrd b: 11 MAR 1879 in Bakersville, NC

via RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Ostergard Family History WC.

# ID: I5678

# Name: Ardavero HONEYCUTT

# Sex: M

# Birth: 1879 in Jacks Creek area, Yancey Co., North Carolina

# Death: 1935 in Jacks Creek area, Yancey Co., North Carolina

# Burial: 1935 Honeycutt Cemetery, Jacks Creek, Yancey Co., North Carolina

Father: Ephraim Moore HONEYCUTT b: 9 JUL 1842 in Jacks Creek area, Yancey Co., North Carolina

Mother: Aldacene “Aldecky” M. HAMPTON b: 20 APR 1845 in Yancey Co., [Mitchell Co. area] North Carolina

Marriage 1 Margaret BYRD b: 1889 in Yancey Co., [Mitchell Co. area] North Carolina

via RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: BRADFORD-HENSLEY-FOSTER-WHITE-HARRIS-NAILLON-WOODY and related families of Eastern TN and Western NC.

# ID: I08043

# Name: Samuel Honeycutt

# Sex: M

# Birth: 12 MAY 1814 in Buncombe Co., NC

# Death: 29 JAN 1895 in NC

# Burial: Pigeon Roost, Mitchell Co., NC

Father: Jacob Honeycutt b: 1789 in NC

Mother: Susannah Byrd b: ABT. 1794 in NC

Marriage 1 Bridget Hampton b: 29 NOV 1816 in NC

Children

1. Has Children Achsah Moriah Honeycutt b: ABT. 1837 in Yancey Co., NC

2. Has Children Sarah Honeycutt b: ABT. 1846

3. Has Children Margaret Honeycutt b: 10 NOV 1850 in Yancey Co., NC

4. Has No Children John Henry Honeycutt b: 31 MAR 1854 in Yancey Co., NC

5. Has No Children Tomanda Honeycutt b: ABT. 1856 in Yancey Co. NC

via RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: The Toe River Valley, NC.