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I am a descendant of John Champness Austin Sr. There is a wedding date and place on a genealogy site I was reading,to Hannah honor Love, but I was just fascinated and did not mark its place, So I need to go back and find it. His Son John Champness Austin Jr is the next in line. His son, Isaiah Austin, his son Bledsoe Lewis Austin, his son William Calvin Austin, His son Wiliam Stephan Austin, His daughter Leota Ester Austin (Hungerford), My mother Joan Lee Hungerford (Fredenburg) and me
The marriage is listed on Ancestry.com trees…
From Luther/Blake/Gilmore/Fair/St.John/Roy-King/Foster/Coon/Govone Family Tree:
John C Austin 1700-1760 marries Hannah Honor Love 1702-1778 in Pittsylvania Co, VA 1725.
In this tree the Austin name continues for five generations until Julia Amanda Austin 1836-1923 marries Abraham Yates Smith 1830-1873 in Harrison WV. Similar to my tree; also in Harrison WV, a Smith showing up around 1800 listing birthplace as VA and no other info, marrying into a known mixed line.
When someone comes from Independence VA or elk creek VA with no parents that you can find, do you suppose they are native american?
Creed Knucolls Vaughan, ( Oct 10,1844- D 1920) Indepencance, gratin Co VA, or Vaughn, has a father Meredeth Vaughn,(1816-1900) and Polly Shupe (May 15 1815- D- before 1880) , Nothing after Meredith Vaughn. Cant find parents for Meredith.
Creed knuckles Vaughn— Married- Peggie Jennings (b june 30 1854) (D March 1 1809) married Feb 11, 1872 they produced Susan Charity Vaughan(Vaughn)(b 6 june 1875 Grayson co. VA) (d 26 Nov 1927 Sodus Michigan) who married on( April 8 1895)William Stephan Austin(b 06,april 1869, d 03 March 1953). Susan Charity was their oldest daughter.
Austinlynn;38529 wrote: When someone comes from Independence VA or elk creek VA with no parents that you can find, do you suppose they are native american?
Creed Knucolls Vaughan, ( Oct 10,1844- D 1920) Indepencance, gratin Co VA, or Vaughn, has a father Meredeth Vaughn,(1816-1900) and Polly Shupe (May 15 1815- D- before 1880) , Nothing after Meredith Vaughn. Cant find parents for Meredith.
Creed knuckles Vaughn— Married- Peggie Jennings (b june 30 1854) (D March 1 1809) married Feb 11, 1872 they produced Susan Charity Vaughan(Vaughn)(b 6 june 1875 Grayson co. VA) (d 26 Nov 1927 Sodus Michigan) who married on( April 8 1895)William Stephan Austin(b 06,april 1869, d 03 March 1953). Susan Charity was their oldest daughter.
I’d say it fits a pattern I see over and over again in the trees of DNA cousins, who suspect those lines are Native American. Many times these lines are named Smith or Jones. When these Smith/Jones from VA appear and marry into a line that has more known history it is always a line with documented or strong circumstantial evidence of being Native American.
The Indiana Jones-Smith line I have researched heavily in our family is certainly the case. Our Francis Smith is a brick wall. Although his wife Massa Jones, who has been difficult to track, has many connections to surnames on Haithcock’s Catawba surname list. The brother of my Massa Jones – John Jones had children who married into Simmons, Poff, and Burton – all on the list.
Other times when I see the pattern of an unknown Smith showing up in other trees, they are marrying into other names on that list, like Sizemore, Riddle, Bolling, Findley/Findly, Brown. Austin/Austen is another name on this list.
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