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.

[...much MORE]

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

By Katherine Poythress

06-21-2009

They named themselves the Childersburg Termites because they go through a lot of wood quickly, most of it ending up in piles of shavings and scraps.

But what these senior citizen woodworkers labor to create is in high demand among friends, family and community members, too.

The Termites began in 1989 at Central Alabama Community College as an offshoot of a cabinetry class, said member Garland Justice. The class was discontinued in 2000, and five years later the college closed the wood shop as well, citing a need for the building.

It was nearly a year before the Termites were up and running again, thanks to the Talladega County Board of Education, which acquired the tools in the wood shop and proceeded to lease them to the city of Childersburg for $1 a year. The city in turn allows the Termites to use the tools, and subsidizes the building and utilities costs for the group.

Now the Termites meet in the old Childersburg High School band room, where air conditioning is no more than a daydream. A giant box fan blows across the room dusted nearly monochromatic with the by product of wood run through saws and then battered into submission with chisels, drills, hammers, nail guns and planes.

Tom Ingram is nearly finished constructing a toy box almost large enough to serve as a playhouse. It’s for his grandbabies, he said.

“I was in an auto accident in 1998, and the doctor told me I had to retire,” Ingram said. “So I decided I needed a hobby.”

His father was a carpenter and helped build the barracks at Fort Benning in Georgia, later working on homes in Anniston.

“I guess I took it from him, but I didn’t learn it from him,” Ingram said.

Garland Justice, one of the original Termites members and a former carpentry instructor at CACC, said he has been working with wood since he was “a little bitty boy.”

via Daily Home – The Childersburg Termits.

/Gustaf (GUSTAFSSON) b: ABT 1600

/Johan GUSTAFSSON b: ABT 1618 d: ABT 1682

/Hance JUSTIS b: 1662 d: AFT 1710

| | /Anders (ANDERSSON) b: ABT 1570

| | /Måns ANDERSSON b: ABT 1600 d: AFT 4 DEC 1679

| Brita MÅNSDOTTER b: ABT 1635 d: AUG 1724

| ? (ANDERSSON) b: ABT 1605 d: BEF 1646

/Paul JUSTICE b: 1687 d: AUG 1759

| | /Olle RAWSON b: ABT 1640

| Maria RAWSON b: ABT 1665

| Brita ANDERSDOTTER b: ABT 1645

Richard JUSTICE b: ABT 1732

Sarah (JUSTICE) b: ABT 1690

via RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Blevens/Holzhey Family.

The first Justice families into eastern Kentucky were all related and were descendants of John Justice and Mary Moore, who were married 1 August 1728 in Scituate , Plymouth County, Mass. Church records in Scituate state that Mary More/Moor/Moore was from Ireland and that John Justice was from Hanover, Plymouth County, Mass. John and Mary Justice made their home in the town of Halifax, Plymouth County, Mass. Halifax is near Hanover.

via Justice Family Update.

# ID: I993

# Name: Johann Gustafsson

# Given Name: Johann

# Surname: Gustafsson

# Name: Justen, Eusta

# Given Name: Justen, Eusta

# Sex: M

# _UID: 52D0F76E65F7554198F33CF93CF1994C4B47

# Change Date: 5 Nov 2006

# Birth: ABT 1620 in Kinnekulle, Skaraborg, Sweden

# Death: ABT 1682 in Kingsessing, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

# Occupation: gunner AFT 1643 FortTrinity, New Castle County, DE

# Occupation: ABT 1643 Fort Elfsborg (today Salem, NJ) known as Fort Mosquito

# PROP: Kingsessing/West of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania or Delaware? 1669 Kingsessing/West Philadelphia, PA, as John Eustas

# PROP: BET 13 FEB 1655 AND 156 Jan Justen plantation on the Christina Kill

Marriage 1 Brita MOUNSDATTER

* Married: ABT 1654 in Fort Trinity, New Castle County, DE

Children

1. Has Children Gustaf Justa Gustafsson b: 1655 in , Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

2. Has Children Mounce Gustafsson b: ABT 1658 in , Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

3. Has Children Charles Gustafsson b: 1660 in , Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

4. Has Children Hance Gustafsson b: 1662 in , Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

5. Has No Children John Gustafsson b: ABT 1666 in , Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

6. Has Children Annika Anna Gustafsson b: ABT 1670 in , Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

7. Has Children Peter Gustafsson b: 1670

8. Has No Children Elizabeth Gustafsson b: 1675

9. Has Children Sven (Swan) Gustafsson b: ABT 1677 in , Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

10. Has Children Andrew Anders Gustafsson b: ABT 1681

via RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Justus Morebeck Family Tree.

# ID: I24807

# Name: John Justice 1

# Sex: M

# Birth: ABT. 1760 in ,Halifax, Virginia 1

# Death: 30 JAN 1831 in ,Floyd, Kentucky 1

# Note:

[Sizemore.FTW]

!1810 Census Floyd Co, KY

FamilySearch IGI v4.01

FamilySearch Ancestral File v4.19

family records of Thomas H. JUSTICE

www.rootsweb.com/~kyfloyd/familyfiles/justice_history_update.htm

!The famous fifer of American Revolution;

served in Army 1777-1780 Ft Rutledge, Cherokee Indian Territory, SC

depicted in the famous paintings -

“The Spirit of ’76″ by Archibald M. WILLARD ; a version of the painting is at

http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/w/willard1.jpg

!Ft Rutledge was located where present day Clemson University stands

in Clemson, Pickens Co, SC

Marriage 1 Amy Neal b: 17 APR 1759 in ,Ninety Six, South Carolina

* Married: 26 JUL 1781 in ,Ninety Six, South Carolina 1

* Sealing Spouse: 18 NOV 1976 in ALBER 1

Children

1. Has No Children Temperance Justice b: ABT. 1801 in ,Greene, Georgia

Sources:

1. Title: Sizemore.FTW

Repository:

Media: Other

Text: Date of Import: May 11, 2005

via RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Cooper, Yates, Choctaw, Cherokee and Sephardic in Ga.-Tenn.-Ala. (from DNAconsultants.com).

# ID: I24774

# Name: Richard (Dick) Justice

# Sex: M

# ALIA: Chief Holy Warrior Buffalo /Horns/, Dik-ke

# Birth: ABT. 1750

# Event: Migration 1818 West to Arkansas

# Note:

From Chief Rolling Thunder Justice: One of Lookout Mountain Town’s conjurors and a powerful chief was Dick Justice. In 1788, he fought with Dragging Canoe against the forces of Gen. Joseph Martin in the Battle of Lookout Mountain in Tennessee. Justice, like many of the Chickamaugan leaders, made peace with the settlers after Dragging Canoe’s death in 1792 and became a respected businessman. In 1802, he operated the Justice Ferry near the mouth of Lookout Creek, which he sold in order to voluntarily relocate to Arkansas with his people. On May 28, 1818, at the age of 65, with 10 family members, he moved to Arkansas. The new owner of Justice’s Ferry was Thomas Fox Baldridge, also a Cherokee. He operated it until 1838 when he was forced to move. There are family stories of Chief Dick Justice having at least three wives and 24 children.

Dick Justice was associated with the Coopers, Troxells, Black Fox, and The Glass. He signed the 1805 and 1819 treaties.

According to “Old Frontiers” by John P. Brown, he was Uwenahi Tsus’ti, “he who has wealth.” The word “Justice” was a corruption of Che Cherokee “Tsusti” or vice versa. According to “Romantic Arkansas” by Fred W. Allsopp, Vol.II, “Cherokee Chiefs who were considered priests, included High Priest Dik-Keh, the Just…lived to be over 100 years old”, “….had white hair”.

Here is the Washington treaty of 1819:

Treaty With The Cherokee, 1819

Released 17 March 2004

Treaties, Acts and Agreements

via RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Cooper, Yates, Choctaw, Cherokee and Sephardic in Ga.-Tenn.-Ala. (from DNAconsultants.com).