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LOOKING FOR ANY INFORMATION ON MY GRANDFATHER . MARSHALL WASHINGTON COWAN . HE WAS BORN ? IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY , ON JUNE 4, 1882 ? BELIEVE HE MAY HAVE LIVED IN BRODGEN, FOR A SHORT TIME . MAY HAVE WORKED FOR THE RAILROAD THERE ? PLEASE CONTACT , ED COWAN NASCARED2001@YAHOO.COM THANKS.
i am searching for ndn connections in my family names of va and nc…archer, perdue, turner, gosnell, creek. ward, mat(t)hews.and
wood to start with…if anyone has info on these names please reply…i have dates and places for most?? sgi’
lghnhawk
Edmund, I have a G-Grandmother, Arselphya Cowan. Her parents were John Cowan and Elizabeth Gross, but I have no other information for her.
She was born in Clay County, KY about 1861 and married into my Ball line.
Sorry I didn’t see this post earlier. This is what I can find on the list I have of SE Indian family surnames.
Archer, (Meherrin, Nottoway), Turner (Nottoway, Saponi, Meherrin) Matthews (Saponi), Woods (Creek)
Hawk,
I am a descendant of the Turners and have some Mathews in there too. If you wish, e-mail me and we’ll compare notes. 😉
Ighnhawk,
If you are looking for Indian WARDs :
Go to http://www.genforum.com
then go to the WARD family forum.
in the field on the left, just above the msg index, in “search this forum for” (or something like that), type MARTIN or CHILES.
Or on the Martin forum, type CHILES.
Beloved Woman Ward m’d Gen. Joseph Martin in the 1780-90s. He was a son of Susannah Chiles who was from Halifax, Va, and family line going back to Louisa & Spots Co., Va., and earlier Jamestown.
Bill
Bill; Can I ask you about your Childs surname? I have seen derivations of this; Chiles, Childs, Childers, Childress. I am sure there are more. The name goes in and out of my family as is the case of Gardner Green of Cumberland cty. Ky. War of 1812 veteran and I believe son of George Green who appears on the Cumberland Compact and the 1810 census for Cumberland cty. Ky. He married a Childers.
My fourth great grandfather James Green from Henry cty. Ky. had a brother John Green Sr. who’s daughter Catherine Green married James Childs. John Green Sr. is listed as serving in the War of 1812 from Henry cty. Ky. with Richard, James, and his father Benjamin Green. The Childs emigrated to Boone County Mo. also.
Do the Childs carry an oral tradition of being Native American and either Powhaton or Cherokee?
Dan Akin.
Bill; James and catherine Green Childs had a son James H. Childs, born 1853 Boone County Mo., who married Sarah “Sallie” Martin dau. of Greenberry Martin.
Dan Akin.
Dan,
My Grandmother (Razor) Childs said she was told they were of Cherokee descent. Other direct lines that intermarried with Chiles/Childs, were various Native derivations including Powhatan, Huron, E.Sioux Saponi and a Shawnee.
There are several James’s in my line but I have a dead end at my 3rd Grt-grandfather John Chiles, b.1815, Ky. In 1840, he lived a few houses away from a James Chiles, a carpenter, b.abt. 1822 in Ind., in the Middletown, Jefferson Co., Ky area. This James was related (a son?) to Thomas Frost Chiles from Tenn, who lived a few years in Morgan Co., Ind before moving to Missouri. I haven’t been able to link John & James together but I’m planning a trip to Louisville and Frankfort, Ky, in the near term so maybe I’ll find something on these guys.
My Grt-Grandmother Eva Jane Lee’s family is directly related to the Henry Co. Green’s several times over – a Lee third cousin has two Grandmothers who were Green’s who identified themselves as Cherokee.
Bill
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