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

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Anniston council members meet with Creek Indians

Three Anniston City Councilmen met Monday with Creek Indian officials from Oklahoma, but the Creeks didn’t offer much new information about their claim to the former Fort McClellan.

Tiger Hobia, the Kialegee Tribal Town’s town king, and Henry Harjo, who spoke for Hobia throughout most of the meeting, said they couldn’t disclose exactly what the group wants at McClellan or what they would do with the land.

“We can’t say exactly what we want because we’re still doing our due diligence and speaking with everyone we need to talk to about this,” Harjo said.

He said Monday’s visit was mainly to introduce the council to Hobia.

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via Anniston Star – Anniston City Council meeting with Oklahoma Creek Indian group.

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.

The Times-Journal Published January 01, 2004 7. Fascinating Finds: After months of digging, examining and logging, scientists finished their work at “Dead Man’s Curve,” and an ancient burial site was uncovered. A study was ordered before work on widening Highway 11 could begin.

What was discovered was truly amazing. More than 100 sets of human remains were unearthed near Wills Creek, some dating back as far as 7,000 B.C., and some as recent as 700 A.D.

Cassandra Hill, a forensic osteologist who has worked similar finds throughout the Southeast and Northeast, called the dig one of the most significant she had seen.

via Native Americans of Northeast Alabama.

CREEK-SOUTHEAST post/query – dated 13 April 2009

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Hey Tim,

There are quite a few Creek Reserves in Alabama and Georgia. They were
granted to “Friendly Creeks”. In most cases, the legal owners were driven off
their lands only a short time after the reserves were granted. I don’t
know the legal particulars of the two tracts you read about, however.

Jacksonville University advertises on its web site that the original land
for the college was purchased from a Creek mikko named Ladiga.

Richard T.
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Notes on the Creek Indians http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creeknotes/index.htm

Early Creek History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek/early-history/

Migration Legend of the Creek Indians ref=”">http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek/migration/

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This make m e wonder if Anniston Council Member Ben Little actually has found something that give The creek Nation claims to a good portion of what is now Jacksonville, Alabama; if not part of McClellan…

NOTE: Links were made made ‘active’ by me.

– Cathy Ann Abernathy

Anniston Councilman Ben Little is warning local banks and real estate companies that old documents show the Creek Indian tribe may have claim to McClellan property, but his own claim may not hold up.
The mapping department in the Calhoun County Revenue Commissioner’s Office says the documents don’t support Little’s assertions.
In fact, the documents don’t even refer to land at McClellan. The land described in the documents is in Jacksonville and includes much of the Jacksonville State University campus.
Little said Monday he’d been distributing the material to local real estate firms and banks to discourage them from investing in projects at the former military post.
“The intent is to inform them, the bankers, the lending institutions,” Little said. “… I would not move forward in spending another dime until this thing is cleared up.”
Little’s actions are his latest attempt to call into question the control of McClellan. He, along with Councilman Herbert Palmore and former Councilman Stan Bennett, have worked against state legislation that would recognize the McClellan Development Authority.
McClellan officials say they are not worried about Little’s claims. Little, for his part, said he is not worried about the contradictory information from the mapping office, saying he believes the tribe does have claim to some McClellan property. He offered no proof of this, however, when asked for it Monday.
Little obtained the records he is circulating from the Calhoun County Probate Office. They include a document filed by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management in 2003. The document contains a 1912 federal law relinquishing the government’s claims to lands in Alabama reserved earlier for the Creek tribe and its members. Little also included another document filed in the probate office in 2004. That document, dated 1836, refers to property that mapping department officials say is in Jacksonville.
Probate officials did not know why the documents were filed in recent years.
The second document references 29 sections of property, apparently part of a grant of land made to the tribe and to individual members in an 1832 treaty.
A section is equal to 640 acres. The one section described specifically in the document encompasses the northwest quarter of the city of Jacksonville. The mapping department said the document makes no reference to any land at McClellan….

via Little claims Creeks have claim to McClellan | AnnistonStar.com.
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Strange twist in the Anniston-McClellan reuse struggle…

– Cathy

Ancestors of April (Wharton) Makerney and Connected Families

Entries: 44318 Updated: 2009-02-19 13:59:12 UTC (Thu) Contact: April

If there is no source or census info then I am in the process of researching the information. Also I am researching a lot of Choctaw Indian names, ie: Oakes, Everidge, Ervin, Cole, Belvin, McCurtain and several others. Please contact me with any questions, additions or corrections.

# ID: I17192

# Name: Alice Valerie SPRUIELL 1

# Sex: F

Father: William Robert SPRUIELL b: 8 DEC 1843 in Coweta Co., Newman, Georgia

Mother: Hester Ann Taylor SPEER b: 14 SEP 1848 in Fayette County, Georgia

Sources:

1. Title: Kinsey gedcom by Mills.FTW

Repository:

Media: Other

Text: Date of Import: 17 Nov 2005

via RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Ancestors of April (Wharton) Makerney and Connected Families.

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Tracking possible cousins via Rootsweb

Alice V. Sprueill was my maternal great-grandmother.

– Cathy

“I have been made aware, today, that Governor Riley allegedly has written an email letter to some of the 72 papers that publish my syndicated column “Inside the Statehouse.”

If indeed Gov. Riley is the author of the letter which takes issue with my column of Feb 25, 2009, then this letter shall serve as defense of my column.

I stand totally behind the entire column. It is totally true to the best of my knowledge and I do not retract any of it.

Please review the column to refresh the details of the discussion. (…. CLICK LINK for FULL details)

via Cleburne News – Flowers response to letters.

Editor’s Note: The Feb. 26 issue of The Cleburne News carried a column by Steve Flowers in which he stated that out-of-state gambling interests have assisted Gov. Riley during election campaigns. Both Gov. Riley and the Poarch Band of Creek Indians responded with letters reprinted here to give their version of the facts.

Governor’s Response

“Your newspaper may have recently published a column written by Steve Flowers that is totally false in what it says about me. Not just a few mistakes, but every line in it about me is not true. (… CLICK LINK for more details)

via Cleburne News – Flowers column stirs controversy.

# ID: I46

# Name: Eechje “Eva” Claessen VAN DER VOLGEN

# Sex: F

# Birth: ABT 1682 in Schenectady, Albany, NY

# Death: 1767 in Canajoharie, Albany, NY

Father: Claes Lourense VAN DER VOLGEN b: 1650 in Purmerend, Holland

Mother: Maritje “Marytje” Teunisse SWART b: ABT 1663 in Schenectady, Albany, NY

Marriage 1 Bartholomew PICKARD b: 1676 in Willoughby, Leicestershire, England c: 18 SEP 1676 in St. Martin’s, Leicester, England

* Married: 12 NOV 1698 in Albany, Albany, NY

Children

1. Has No Children Bartholomew PICKARD b: 9 JAN 1700 in Schenectady, Albany, NY

2. Has Children Nicholas PICKARD b: 23 FEB 1701 in Schoharie, Albany, NY c: 23 FEB 1701 in Schenectady, Albany, NY

3. Has Children Dorothy PICKARD b: 28 JUL 1703 in Schnectady, Albany, NY

4. Has Children Rachel PICKARD b: 29 JAN 1707 in Albany, Albany, NY

5. Has No Children Gertrude PICKARD b: 2 JAN 1710 in Albany, Albany, NY

via RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Bloss, LaLone and Related Families of Northern NY.