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Where we came from update 2-21-2001

JohnStevenElliott  (View posts) Posted: 21 Feb 2001 12:00PM GMT
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BARBOUR COUNTY, ALABAMA:
--Espy.
--Hales, Jonathan to Halesburg (1870)
--Stevenson, Council and Andrew
--Zorn, Capt. Dennis Harrison and wife, Nancy Caroline Zorn (first cousins) to Zornville (1883)
Zorn, Nancy Caroline Zorn and her husband, Capt. Dennis Harrison Zorn (first cousins) (1883)
--Matt Griffin post-War Between the States to Camp Springs

BARNWELL COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA
--Parker from Barnwell District, SOUTH CAROLINA
--Zorn from Barnwell District, SOUTH CAROLINA to Lodi, Henry County and area was later in BARBOUR COUNTY, Alabama after
the latter's creation. After the WBTS, On branch to South Henry County, one to Geneva County, Alabama and the rest
remained at Lodi (Zornville), Alabama in BARBOUR COUNTY.
--James & Winefred Givens. James is found in Barnwell District, SC in 1830 and Macon Co., GA in 1840.

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
--Thomas Griffin and wife, Nancy Stewart, moved to Henry County from CUMBERLAND COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA abt. 1838. Their children Bryant, Duncan, Margaret, Alexander, James and Dempsey were born in NORTH CAROLINA and were young children when Thomas and Nancy moved. --Thomas GRIFFIN and wife Nancy Stewart moved to Henry Co.AL about 1838. Their farm was located in north Henry Co. (very close to the Barbour Co. line). They settled near Lawrenceville. Thomas died in July of 1863, Nancy followed 2 years later on 2 Feb 1865, their burial place is unknown. Their children were:
--Bryant m: Elizabeth McLEANDON, 14 Nov 1854
--Duncan m: Mary Suzannah Wilson COOK/COOKE, 22 Nov 1849 (moved to LA, c: 1856-58, re-married)
--Margaret m: William WARD, 10 May 1854
--Alexander m: Ansley HOLMES, 2 Nov 1859 (died 1862, Richmond VA)
--James m: ? (died 1863, from wounds in the Civil War, leg amputation, blood poising)
--Dempsey m: Eliza Jane CLENNY 28 April 1859
--Thomas C. Jr. m: Mary Jane PHILLIPS, 25 Dec 1860
--Daniel m: Martha Ann WRIGHT 5 Jan 1872
--John m: Margaret SINGLETARY 27 Aug 1879
--Catherine m: Samuel TOLBIRD, 16 Dec 1879 (W. Monroe LA)
--Nancy m: Allen WALTERS, (W. Monroe LA)
--Sarah m: W.J. BROWN
--Mary m: George L. LEWIS, 12 Dec 1869
--Daniel G. Monroe and wife Sophia came to Henry County in the early 1830's from CUMBERLAND COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.
--Michael DeVane King via Baker Co., Georgia m. Arrenia Wall (ca. 1835) In Baker County by 1830.
--Joseph King (ca. 1830) married Rebecca Harvey in Henry County April, 1830. Joseph died soon after this marriage and Rebecca married Howell Chitty in January 1836. Harvey's in original politics in Henry County, Benjamin Harvey first member of the Alabama House of Representatives 1822-died in office cira 1824. Howell Chitty was a planter whose plantation house was one of the "grand ladies" of the South and stripped by the carpetbaggers during Reconstruction Era for taxes. Plantation was adjacent to Laymon's Store, the first post office in Henry County on the Franklin to Columbia Road or River Road. Ruins of Citty Plantation House stood until the 1970s near the old Hayes Store. He was a neighbor to the wealthy planter James Bennett.
--Sarah King McGriff (ca. 1834), wife of Richard McGriff of Columbia November 1834, an innkeeper in that port city. Columbia was known as the "Gem City of the Chattahoochee, Fort Gaines-Queen City." The couple became one of if not the most wealthy and influential couple and family in Old Columbia-offspring the Oakley Family that literally owened Columbia in the late 19th Century/early 20th Century.
--Elizabeth Ann King Cawthon (ca. 1835) married Andrew J. Cawthorn. Cawthorn and Dick Knight, believed to be the first settler of Columbia, grazed cattle from south of Eufaula to the Gulf of Mexico with the Choctawhatchee and Chattahoochee Rivers. He first settled one mile north of Dothan giving that place its first name: "Cawthorn's Cowpen's", later Popular Head, then Dothen and in 1885 Dothan.
--Mary Ann King married William Armstrong and moved to Henry County about 1832-33. The first child to be born in Alabama was Andrew Jackson Armstrong, a Captain in Company I, 46th Alabama Infantry during the War for Southern Independence (1861-1865).
--Ezakial Moore King married Mary Ann Bucuchanan; Barbara King married Malcom James Buie in NORTH CAROLINA and remaind there. Henry James King married Francis Caroline Bryan in NORTH CAROLINA and then moved to SOUTH CAROLINA.

DEEP STEP, GEORGIA
--Hall, William Reuben (1845)

EARLY COUNTY, GEORGIA
--Brown Emma, wife of Seabron Jackson Elliott-moved to Bascom, Smith County Texas
--Richard C. Spann after an active political and civic life in Early County moved to Franklin, Henry County, Alabama.
--Enoch William & Mary Johnson Godfrey (ca. 1855) via Marlboro County, SOUTH CAROLINA
--Hannah Jane Godfrey married John W. Whitehead in Henry County February 4, 1858
--James H. Godfrey (ca. 1855) via Marlboro County, SOUTH CAROLINA
--Enoch Andrew Godfrey married Alice King in Henry County February 2, 1891
--Peter Johnson Godfrey married Caroline M. King in Henry County August 27, 1865
--John Burl Godfrey married Ella J. Thompson in Henry County September 23, 1874
--Anne Elizabeth Godfrey (ca. 1855 via Marlboro County, SOUTH CAROLINA

EDGEFIELD DISTRICT, SOUTH CAROLINA:
--Kirkland, Hugh and wife Mary Ann Circa 1835
--Spann

GADSDEN COUNTY, FLORIDA
--The Barber family and Lynn family came from Gadsden County, FLORIDA and moved back and forth between Henry County, Alabama, Gadsden County, FLORIDA and Decatur County, GEORGIA.
--John William & Mary McKenzie Buie (ca.1855)
--James Alexander Buie
--Caroline Buie King
--William Wallis Buie
--Malcom Royal Buie later moved to Smith County, Texas
--Mary Francis Buie Day
--Daniel Calvin Buie
--Archibald & Ephema (Effie) Wiggins Buie

GEORGIA
--J. Otho Appling and wife Amanda Teague

HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA
The DARLING Johnson family moved into Henry County, Alabama in late 1840.

JOHNSON COUNTY, GEORGIA
--Barnes, Clyde Rebecca, widow of John or Johsua Dukes (1879)
--Barnes, Joshua Franklin, Sr. and wife Pernellia "Penny" Penuel (1879)
--Barnes, Kate, Aunt Katie, sister to J. F. Barnes, Sr. (1879)
--Penuel, Penny, wife of Jousua Franklin Barnes (1879)

KERSHAW COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA
--Tiller, William, Jr. (son of William Tiller and Chasity Kirkland) with wife, Ann Alexander (sister of James Alexander) moved
from Tillerville/Tiller's, SOUTH CAROLINA settled in Center Community, Henry County. Descendants in Hartford, Alabama and
Washington County, FLORIDA

MACON COUNTY, GEORGIA
--James & Winefred Givens. James is found in Barnwell District, SC in 1830 and Macon Co., GA in 1840.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, FLORIDA
--Levi Whitehurst who lived in Henry County, Alabama and died 1853 in BARBOUR COUNTY, Alabama:came from Jackson County, FLORIDA and before that from Montgomery County, GEORGIA

NORTH CAROLINA
--Thomas C. Griffin and wife Nancy Stewart (13 children)

RANDOLPH/CLAY COUNTY, GEORGIA:
--Beard, Francis B. (Franklin) Beard married Mary Ann --Strongman 1860-Stewart County
--Carter
--Davis, Albert Simon, and wife, Elizabeth Hobbs (Circa 1855)
--Davis, Permelia, daughter of Toliver Davis (circa 1855)
--Davis, Sarah Melvinia Daughter Toliver Davis (Circa 1855)
--Davis, Thomas Henry, son of Toliver Davis (Circa 1855)
--Davis, Toliver and wife, Elizabeth Hobbs (Circa 1855)
--Day, Henry and Bethany (Circa 1855)
--Christopher Dyess
--Elliott, Elbert and wife Elizabeth Stanford and family-1855
--Elliott, Ira and wife Nancy and family--1855
--Elliott, James and wife, Mahala Coker and family -1855
--Elliott, Davis Andrew Jackson and wife Mary Ann Jones and family--1859
--Glover, John Pinkston
--Brockman W. Henderson, Justice of the Peace
--Hobbs, Elizabeth, wife of A. S. Davis and daughter of (Circa 1855)
--William Jones
--Jones, Mary Ann, wife of Davis Andrew Jackson Elliott (1859)
--Pearce, Theopolious, Minister of the Gospel, returned to Stewart County, Ga.
--Zachariah Renfroe
--Stanton, Elizabeth, wife of Elbert Elliott (circa 1855)
--Watson
--The Hasty family worked their way down to Henry County like this:
Scotland, Virginia, SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA and into Henry County, Alabama

ROBERTSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
--Sion Alford and wife, Clarkly McTyer

SAMPSON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA
--John D. Faircloth and wife Catherine Hair (Hare) moved with 6 children from Sampson Count, NORTH CAROLINA through Sumpter County, SOUTH CAROLINA to Henry County, Alabama between 1816-1820.

Stewart County, GEORGIA
--Lomineck from Stewart County, GEORGIA (originally from Dutch Fork area of SC)
--Worrell from Stewart County, GEORGIA
--Lee Reeves Miller and wife Martha Smith came from Washington County, GEORGIA by way of Stewart County, GEORGIA
--Thomas Jefferson Miller and wife Patience E. Smith came from Washington County, GEORGIA
--James Elliott married Mahala Coker in Stewart County, GEORGIA in 1823, lived in Randolph County, GEORGIA before moving to Camp Springs Community, Henry County, Alabama

SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA
--James Alexanderand wife Elizabeth Jane Stokes, daughter of Henry Stokes and Elizabeth Tiller
--John D. Faircloth and wife Catherine Hair (Hare) moved with 6 children from Sampson Count, NORTH CAROLINA through Sumpter County, SOUTH CAROLINA to Henry County, Alabama between 1816-1820.
--Henry E. Stokes settled in Pleasant Grove Community
--Allen Tiller settled in Pleasant Grove Community

TATNALL COUNTY, GEORGIA
--Colson Adams and wife, Rachel Cason (my G. grandparents) left Tatnall County, Ga. and moved to Henry County, Al. in1819. It was the part of Henry County that was to become part of Pike County in 1821. Information furnished by Robin Adams.

THOMAS COUNTY, GEORGIA
--Harmon Adams, 6-5-1812---6-6-1885. He married Martha Everett 1-8-183

Re: Where we came from update 2-21-2001

nanmisenheimer03  (View posts) Posted: 30 Oct 2009 7:10PM GMT
Classification: Query
I noticed you had information on the Spanns of Edgefield co. S.C. Can you tell me how the Spanns and Parkers of Barnwell co. S.C. were related?

Re: Where we came from update 2-21-2001

Winnette Stinson  (View posts) Posted: 31 Oct 2009 2:25PM GMT
Classification: Query

Nancy,

I am sorry, but, Steve passed away last year after a long illness.

Winnette

Re: Where we came from update 2-21-2001

nanmisenheimer03  (View posts) Posted: 31 Oct 2009 4:51PM GMT
Classification: Query
I am so sorry to hear that. He sure left a great heritage to others with these records.

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