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In researching my family, I have often sensed helping hands reachiing out, showing me the way to go. . .I believe that is how I arrived at the Saponitown Forum. I keep checking in to see if anyone has responded to my post, I am so wanting connections to be made . . .
I am going to start digging through my files, throwing pieces out. Feels kinda like fishing I guess.
I have looked around Arkansas a lot as that is the place that my line of the Bunch’s was definitely planted before going down into TX when Jesse H. Bunch purchased property from James W. Cox in 1886. Wm. F. Graves purchased property from this Cox in 1874. James Cox received his land from Pleasant C. Cox who was the son of Solomon Cox and Elizabeth Johnston Cox. Does anyone connect with any of this?
It looks as if Pleasant was married to a Martha Bybee who was born in KY. Some of their children were born in Missouri. I believe my Bunch’s were in Missouri somewhere before they settled in Arkansas.
Jesse was married approximately 6 times. The wife I descend from was named Amanda Woods, according to death records. There is a record of Jesse marrying a SA Cates in Clark Arkansas in 1865. I believe SA Cates was Sarah Amanda Woods, who was married to Jeremiah Cates, next farm over, who died in the civil war. A Fanny Woods was in the Clark County census for 1840, but I do not see Woods in this county in the land records. Jesse H Bunch shows up in the 1850 census, along with lots of other families. It just seems like people show up in this farming section over years and years of time whose roots go back to TN, Virginia. . . Does anything ring a bell?
The 1850 census for Clark, Ark. has the following names of interest to me . . .Bass, Cates, Cox, Crow, Easly, Gibbins, Wilson, Williams, Keys. . .and others. Years ago I suspected these families of knowing each other from other places, but now it appears these names, people, histories are quite intricately involved with one another, many reaching back into Virginia, NC, TN mainly. I was interested to see that in 1882, after my Jesse Bunch has gone into TX, a William Goins shows up in Clark, ARk, in this same section. This is a well-known Melungeon name, so I figure this can’t be chance. I feel circumstantial evidence is strong.
Under the Bass name, I have seen the Bunch name intertwined in NC. Somewhere I took a note on the name of Irvin Bass NC, and I took down the date of 1818 when an Andrew Irvin Bass was born. The names intertwined were Bass, Helm, Ingram. I was interested because my Jesse Bunch was b. 1819, and he later had a son named John “Irvin” Bunch. Interesting.
I see these names on the Saponitown forum, so hopefully we can make some connections. More to follow . . .
AnnieCameron
Annie,
Sorry for the late reply. There are two David Bunches from that area of Tenn and at least one of them went to Clark Co., Arkansas. The older one b.abt.1740s has to be a generation earlier than the one found in 1850 Clark Co., Ar.
Give me some time to work on it.
Bill
Welcome Annie. I am tardy in replying also (though my help will be small compared to Bill’s 😉
These families that you mention had/have intertwining lines in Person Co, NC….. whether your lines connect or whether the connection is in Va even earlier remains to be seen but I can confirm that the surname “grouping” also exists in north central NC.
btw…… Becky and I are quite interested in your (I assume) husband’s surname, since we have recently discovered a slave cemetery and water mill ruins almost literally in our back yard woods that belonged to Duncan Cameron. We live on land that we have proved was part of the Cameron person co plantation. Also, the ancestors of all the Mississippi and Alabama Cameron slave descendents will be here since they were taken south from this plantation.
anniecameron;17677 wrote: In researching my family, I have often sensed helping hands reachiing out, showing me the way to go. . .I believe that is how I arrived at the Saponitown Forum. I keep checking in to see if anyone has responded to my post, I am so wanting connections to be made . . .
I am going to start digging through my files, throwing pieces out. Feels kinda like fishing I guess.
I have looked around Arkansas a lot as that is the place that my line of the Bunch’s was definitely planted before going down into TX when Jesse H. Bunch purchased property from James W. Cox in 1886. Wm. F. Graves purchased property from this Cox in 1874. James Cox received his land from Pleasant C. Cox who was the son of Solomon Cox and Elizabeth Johnston Cox. Does anyone connect with any of this?
It looks as if Pleasant was married to a Martha Bybee who was born in KY. Some of their children were born in Missouri. I believe my Bunch’s were in Missouri somewhere before they settled in Arkansas.
Jesse was married approximately 6 times. The wife I descend from was named Amanda Woods, according to death records. There is a record of Jesse marrying a SA Cates in Clark Arkansas in 1865. I believe SA Cates was Sarah Amanda Woods, who was married to Jeremiah Cates, next farm over, who died in the civil war. A Fanny Woods was in the Clark County census for 1840, but I do not see Woods in this county in the land records. Jesse H Bunch shows up in the 1850 census, along with lots of other families. It just seems like people show up in this farming section over years and years of time whose roots go back to TN, Virginia. . . Does anything ring a bell?
The 1850 census for Clark, Ark. has the following names of interest to me . . .Bass, Cates, Cox, Crow, Easly, Gibbins, Wilson, Williams, Keys. . .and others. Years ago I suspected these families of knowing each other from other places, but now it appears these names, people, histories are quite intricately involved with one another, many reaching back into Virginia, NC, TN mainly. I was interested to see that in 1882, after my Jesse Bunch has gone into TX, a William Goins shows up in Clark, ARk, in this same section. This is a well-known Melungeon name, so I figure this can’t be chance. I feel circumstantial evidence is strong.
Under the Bass name, I have seen the Bunch name intertwined in NC. Somewhere I took a note on the name of Irvin Bass NC, and I took down the date of 1818 when an Andrew Irvin Bass was born. The names intertwined were Bass, Helm, Ingram. I was interested because my Jesse Bunch was b. 1819, and he later had a son named John “Irvin” Bunch. Interesting.
I see these names on the Saponitown forum, so hopefully we can make some connections. More to follow . . .
AnnieCameron
I see I may be years too late in posting, sadly I wish I had known more sooner. I too am a descendant of a Jesse Bunch Holder born 1750 in Bertie County NC. died 1802 Laurens, South Carolina
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