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Yep, Becky and I have Jean Farrar b. 1750 d. after 1831 in Person co, NC married Abraham Moore.

Jean was dau of John Farrar married Elizabeth LYON.

John Farrar is son of John Farrar of Henrico Co, Va.

Elizabeth is dau of John and Jean Lyon of Rich Cove Ck, Amherst Co, Va.

btw…… Abraham Moore’s father was William Moore married Susannah MARTIN.

The Moores and Farrars were also marrying Tapp, Gooch, Allen, Rogers, Evans, Beasley, Satterfield, Lunsford, Lea, Cothran, Bowling, Newton, Meadows, Jones

Bill, I remember a Gooch but no details.

Here is the only Person Co Gooch cemetery that we are aware of. This Gooch family came from Nottaway co, Va. His siblings dispersed from Va to other points.

Location: Dick Holeman Road (SR 1123) near Tom Oakley Road (SR 1120)

Directions: From Roxboro, 501S to right on Dick Holeman Road, in woods on right before Tom Oakley Road. Across from 205 Dick Holeman Road

Access: 20 ft from road, easily accessable

Survey: Nov 2004 by Ken Dalton and Becky Farlow

GPS: 36 16 49.2 N 078 57 31.8 W

This cemetery was included in the WPA Cemetery Survey in 1938. The cemetery was identified as the “Gooch Family Cemetery” and is listed as #89 on this web site. The first three graves below are listed in the WPA survey, the fourth is not.

Graves

GOOCH (family stone)

1. James Radford / Oct 6, 1845 / Aug 9, 1918 /

2. Georgianna / his wife / Mar 24, 1857 / Jun 21, 1925 /

3. GOOCH / James Bright Gooch / Aug 26, 1889 / Apr 13, 1929 / (fs) JBG /

4. SG / (this grave is marked by a child-sized base and footstone)

Saj, the Howard’s married into the Gists in Maryland. Some Howards also appear in Lower Russell County, Va.

Please bare with me here. One of those Melton’s married married Doublehead’s sister I think it said (maybe you recall the relationship better than I do). Another of his sister’s had a son by those Gists — Sequoyah. There was an early day fort in SW Va called “Gist’s Fort” and I read about it on “early day forts” section of Russell or Scott County’s (Va) web site. It said tho that noone really knew the origin of that fort, nor whom it was named after.

Remember I showed yall where David Melton and “Captain Dutch” signed that treaty with the Comanche, Wichita and Kiowa in what is now Greer County, Oklahoma (SW Ok) in the 1830s?? — Tahchee (aka Captain Dutch) is known by all to have beed Sequoyah’s brother. Point is, these families seem to have been related and neighbors in Virginia and were related and neighbors in the Cherokee Nation East (Al, NC, SC, Ga, & Tn), and were related and neighbors in Oklahoma, also. They are found near one another in all those places.

Some of this evidence is just circumstantial but some of it is a known fact. Don’t know where it leads but it is interesting.

As for Allen’s, my grandpa was named Noah Allen Hawkins. His dad was named Joshua Allen Hawkins, but we know nothing about Joshua’s parents. Census says b. Alabama. There are a lot of Chickasaw Allen’s, and Noah married my grandma (Loney Richey) in the Chickasaw Nation. Then 2 of Doublehead’s daughters married Chickasaw chief George Colbert, whose line can also be traced to James Logan who was also a Virginian and was located near those 3 islands — Saponi, Occoneechi and Tutelo Islands, near where Linda lives today.

Now this is completely circumstantial and proves nothing, but it is interesting . . .

I believe in have read the mixed-blood Saponi or other mixedblood’s east of the Appalachians might have been early day Indian Traders, and that might explain all these surnames with the Chickasaw and Cherokee.

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Thanks Saj,

I have thought that Joshua’s mother’s maiden name might have been Allen — but I looked and never found an Allen/Hawkins marriage in Alabama before Joshua’s birth.

Many of my relatives have looked for Joshua’s parents for many years now, and none of us have ever figured it out.

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