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It’s been awhile since I was here. I moved to a new state (Colorado), got a new job. Then, my Mom moved in with me temporarily a month ago.
I’ve been too busy this summer to even think lol. Hope everyone is doing well.
MarcSnelling;38952 wrote: Hi Wanda,
Mecou, welcome back. Guessing we may be cousins through Beeler lines.
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-Marc
Thank you!
We may be.. I haven’t quite put my Rebecca in the correct family but I know that her family all lived in TN and she relocated to Arkansas with her husband 🙂
The Beeler’s and the Drybread’s were closely associated families in Indiana on my grandfather’s side. They came from the east, other lines went thru TN and KY to parts west.
My direct Beeler’s are on my grandmother’s Potter side. Some of these Beeler ancestors are in Collins and other Saponi lines. Samuel Washington Beeler 1743-1824 who married Amelia Hurst 1753-1824. Both born in Frederick Co VA and passed in Butler Co OH. (5th g-grandparents to me). Amelia (Emily) Beeler 1811 Butler OH – 1887 Darke OH is the wife of our Thomas Potter 1800 PA? -1872 Darke OH who is a brick wall.
The were named Bühler in Germany/Switzerland. There is a “Johannes Pealer” who arrived in PA in 1727 (Lists of Palatines arriving between 1718 and 1742). Think this is Johann Michael Bühler 1680 Germany – 1753 Lancaster PA. These lines tie into multiple Saponi genealogies and many brick walls.
The oldest pic I have on this line is JC Potter 1837 Darke Co OH-1893 Delaware Co IN. Son of Amelia Beeler.
My Rebecca Beeler (my 3rd great grandmother) was born 1799 in Sullivan Tennessee. She married Stephen Berry Cawood and they moved to Greene, Arkansas. I “think” she belonged to Jacob Beeler (1760) and Catherine Ims (1758). Rebecca named 2 of her children Jacob Beeler Cawood and John Ims Cawood.
Jacob was born in Frederick, VA and moved to Tennessee where he married Catherine. Her father was John Ims (about 1740 ) from TN. I never got past him.
Jacob Beeler was the son of John Michael Valentine and Mary Ann Turney Beeler. They also moved to TN.
John Michael Valentine Beeler belonged to Ulrich Buhler, the son of Johann Michael Buhler, of Switzerland/Pennsylvania.
That’s all that I have 🙂
Think our Johann Michael Bühler’s are one in the same cuz!
Will have to take a closer look at your Beeler’s to see if I can see a connection in Frederick VA. If the genealogy I have is right Johann’s descendant five generations down (Hurst) marries a Beeler cousin ~ around 1800. So multiple Beeler connections are likely for me.
Also there are Austin and Vann lines associated with my ancestors lines.
Has anyone in your family tested DNA?
I am actually not sure of Catherin’s last name lol… Jacob’s wife. I do know it isn’t Petrie lol. Catherine Petrie married Jacob’s brother.
I don’t think anyone in my direct line has done DNA. I seem to be the one doing all the genealogy and most of them don’t seem to care 🙂
I know the Vanns are Shawnee/Cherokee and the Austin’s are Saponi for sure.
Yeah the two challenges of genealogy – 1) doing it 2) finding anyone who cares 🙂
Austin comes up a lot in DNA cousins genealogy. There are so many brick walls we could be direct Austin descendants. We have a number of Austin cousins at the least.
This is a thread I started re: Vann. Waters from Newberry SC – Vann Cherokee Cabin We are Waters descendants but not through his Cherokee wife.
This is interesting. I’ll have to compare notes to what I have, which is quite a bit already. Hmm… are you my long lost brother I never knew about? lol We keep finding common relatives 🙂
Long lost cousins for sure. Even if you are not my blood sister you could still be a soul sister. 🙂
The way us Saponi descendants find each other is a great mystery to me. Sometimes it seems like the ancestors set up our paths to cross. One cousin I met through Saponi United on Facebook a year before I realized her and her uncle were there all along in my DNA results – on the line with all the Blackfoot (Catawba/Tutelo/Saponi) oral history.
Family sources are tight-lipped, but I believe I have a half-sister somewhere. I figure if she’s out there, and I’m meant to meet her, the universe will make it happen. My close friend Rio and I are like brother and sister. She had a brother named Mark who passed unexpectedly in young adulthood. So maybe on a soul/spirit level I’m carrying something on for him?
Seneca Drybread is what I go by on Facebook. It is a spirit name I adopted two winters ago. Drybread is my mother’s maiden name and Seneca is what she wanted to name me (I didn’t learn that until I was 40 years old). Seneca Drybread was my 2x-g-grandfather. He drowned swimming the Wabash River 110 years ago tomorrow.
Taking this name was a way for me to feel like I’m continuing on his spirit. Soon after I put myself out there I was contacted by a historian in Illinois who wanted to write about Seneca and his drowning as part of a book to be published later this year. There are concrete ways you can see these connections working – even for those who don’t put any stock in the spiritual nature of the universe.
Soul sister 🙂 I like that. I am sure we are related somewhere 🙂
I’ll look for you on FB.
My name was given by my Chief, a guy we all adore. He chose Guiding Wolf because I seem to help “guide” I guess lol. Who knows?
I have met so may relatives I never knew I had, and some have become more like close family than hmm.. some in my own family. They are precious to me and I love spending time with them when I can. Nothing like a fire pit and good friends/family.
I love your name, and your story. I have a poem somewhere that’s titled “the storytellers”. I think that’s what we are.
We’re chosen to tell the stories of our ancestors, so they will never be forgotten.
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