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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
Benjamin Duvall married Sophia Giriffith – RootsWeb’s Database Source
# ID: I4536
# Name: Benjamin Duvall
# Surname: Duvall
# Given Name: Benjamin
# Sex: M
# Birth: ABT. 1690 in Middle Plantation, Anne Arundel, MD 1
# Death: 1774 1
# _UID: C9176E45DD0D984480493A624A32B1E0CBF2
# Note: Mareen Duvall of Middle Plantation by Harry Wright Newman, pgs470-484+:Benjamin DUVALL, you ngest son of Mareen the Emigrant, was bornin MiddlePlantation, All Hallows Parish, Anne Aru ndel County. Hisinheritance by hisparent’s will was “Howerton’s Range”, then in CalvertCou nty. A rent roll ofLord Baltimore shows that “Howerton Range” of 400acres, lying in Patuxen tHundred, was surveyed May 17, 1670, for JohnHowerton on “ye west side of abranch of the P atuxent River at yenorthernmost bounds of land of GabrlParrott”.
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
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
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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
