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Does anyone know any history of Pickens South Carolina?
I have a 3rd great grandfather William Jaynes/Janes b. 1820’s in Pickens S.C. His father was Burrell Janes/Jaynes and his father was Phillip Jeans. It seems we have a situation were the last name changes Jeans changes to Janes and then Jaynes within three generations. Also wondering if there is any link to Keowee?
Hi Collins check out this website it has over 375, 000 names
http://oldpendleton.homestead.com/index.html
This is where I found my husbands family at. His are the Kelleys and Davis. It includes Pickens and Oconee Counties.
Thanks for the link to South Carolina.
I wanted to ask you Carroll about your Lewis family. I have Lewis family too. My Lewis family comes from Shanandoah County Virginia and tie in with Robinson/Robertson and Chrisman families.
Hi Collins,
I haven’t really done any in depth research on My Lewis family trying to figure out my lost Carroll family. But I do know my Lewis family is from Brunswick County. Joseph D. Lewis b. 1875 d.?1923 or there abouts. He was my ggrandfather.
His father was Joseph Fenton Lewis b. 1845 d.3/27/1923 He married Mary Jane Vaughn AKA Jennie Married 8/16/1871.
Joseph Fenton parents were John Lewis b. abt 1803 and d. ? he married Susan b. abt 1820.
John and Susan children
Joseph Fenton Lewis b. 1845 d. 3/27/1923 m. Mary Jane Vaughn 8/16/1871.
Ronald F. b. 1839
Louisiana b. 1844 m. William P. Slate
James C. b. 1846 d. bef. 1860
Willis R. b. 1850
Benjamin H. b. 1852
Susan A. b. 1855 m. 12/28/1898 to Peter Blanks
George W. b. 1857 m. 12/31/1896 to India Daniel
James William b. 1860 m. Nancy Aramintha Griffith
Children of Joseph F. and Mary
James W. b. 6/3/1872
Joseph David b. 9/1875 M. Bessie Lee Callis 12/20/1916?
Susan Jane b. 11/3/1877 m. Smeely Write 12/22/1901
George R. b. 9/16/1879
Odessa Lee b. 1882 M. Joseph H. Daniel 11/12/1905
Let me know if you reconize any of these names.
P. S.
In my dads family bible my ggrandparents are written down as Joseph D Lewis and Mary Vaughn but and there is always a but out beside these names are Horse Lewis and Virginia Barns. I was wandering if you might reconize these two names also.
Carroll
Hey Collins,
I got to looking through my file that I have saved through the couple of years and I found a John H. Lewis m. to Rowena T. Robinson in 1836. they had three kids.
Nicholas H. b. ? d. 8/10/1855
Laura E.
Martha Eleanor b. 1844
Noborne Clack
This is all I have on them but if you can get to brunswick county and look up newspaper articles titled, Brunswick County Civil war soldiers by William Pritchett. Thats where I got that info. from.
My Aunt saved two Articles from the 1970’s and it has those names plus my ggrandfathers name. There are suppose to be quite a few articles. William also wrote a book with this info in it and its at the Brunswick County Library also. I can also be purchaced through his sons website at http://www.virginians.com
My Carroll that I’m looking for Married a Langford from NC would you or anyone know anything about the Langfords.
Thanks,
Carroll
I am like you on the Lewis lines I have so many lines of family that it has been a challenge to try and research them all in a timely manner. I am only just now after 15 or so years getting to looking at the Lewis family. That side holds a special and sacred place in many of my mom’s side of the familys heart. My Great Grandmother Myrtle Irene McCulley Millican was a very special lady to us. She was considered a holy woman by many and family legend has it that this holiness came from Nancy Lewis her Grandmother and that side.
Nancy “Fat” Lewis born 16 Feb. 1835 Paint Rock Alabama
parents where:
George Washington Lewis b.1807 Jefferson County, TN
and
Luticia Keel b.1816 Keel Mountain, Alabama
George Washington Lewis
his parents:
Amos Lewis b. 1779 Shenandoah County, VA
and
Susana Robinson/Robertson b.?
Amos and Susana had the following children:
Abraham Lewis b. 1805
George Washington Lewis b. 1807
Aaron Lewis b. 1810
Malinda Lewis b.1811
Rachael Lewis b. 1812
John Robertson Lewis b. 1820
Susan Lewis b. 1822
Joseph Lewis b. 1826
Mahalie Lewis b. 1828
Amos Lewis b. 1779
his parents:
George Lewis b. 26 Aug. 1744 Shenandoah Co., VA
and
Anna Rachel Chrisman b.cir. 1755 VA
This information is from Sarah Lewis at sjrlewis@msn.com
This is all I have on the Lewis family so far and I have yet to fully trace their migrations.
Hey Collins,
It don’t look like we have Lewis’s in common. Not that I see anyway as of yet.
I’m still looking for my Carroll family and it seems the more I look the more confusing it gets. I am all but about to give up looking for them I have no info on him (Andrew Jackson Carroll) I’m not even sure that his birthday is correct.
Today I thought I would have a pitty party.
Thanks for looking and take care.
Carroll
I found this e-mail I was sending to a relative. I completly forgot about this info.
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I have been going through my research papers and have found some notations there.
Catherine Talulla Thompson b. 1820’s S.C. married William Jaynes 1800’s Oakway, Oconee County S.C. (and died 1876 Westminister,S.C.) they married 1825 S.C. The Davis last name was from a previous marriage.
I have Burrell Jaynes b. 1765-1770 VA or N.C. and died after 1850. He married Nancy League/Leguese b. 1775 Tugaloo, S.C. I have them as being the parents of William Jaynes.
I just recieved information on my Jaynes/Janes/Jeans lines.
It is in fact looking as if they are Saponi with Jeffries ties.
I will post more on this find in the next day or so.
Very exciting!
Our family now has a certificate stating that our paternal line is Native from South America. He took a DNA test first through Howard University, and then had an expanded test through Family Tree DNA. We believed that our paternal Grandfather, who was born in South Carolina, was part Native, and part African. The DNA test went back over 50,000 years ago, to what is now Iran, when our male ancestor left and traversed to Columbia South America.
It appears that there at least one Native Tribe in South Carolina came from South America. My grandfather was born in Saint Matthews (Orangeburg County), South Carolina. He and his siblings were orphans and raised by another family. So there is not a lot to go on here. I did find several surnames of Baxter on the Dawes Rolls, and one of the names William Baxter is a family name.
If anyone has advice or direction to go on, please let me know.
alani
Our family now has a certificate stating that our paternal line is Native from South America. My brother took a DNA test first through Howard University, and then had an expanded test through Family Tree DNA. We believed that our paternal Grandfather, who was born in South Carolina, was part Native, and part African. The DNA test went back over 50,000 years ago, to what is now Iran, when our male ancestor left and traversed to Columbia South America.
It appears that there at least one Native Tribe in South Carolina came from South America. My grandfather was born in Saint Matthews (Orangeburg County), South Carolina. He and his siblings were orphans and raised by another family. So there is not a lot to go on here. I did find several surnames of Baxter on the Dawes Rolls, and one of the names William Baxter is a family name.
If anyone has advice or direction to go on, please let me know.
alani
Did you have the findings double checked through another company to make sure they got the same results?
Back in the fall I was a little excited about DNA testing. Since then I have been looking at results from a few family members tests. (different families unconnected by blood)
Most of them are through the same company. I find them to be slightly suspect since no one is double checking the findings though further testing and different companies.
We all can not be Persian, Pakistani, or Asian. I think they must have a generic statement or results that they throw out there at unsuspecting customers. I’m just a little skeptical at this piont about the whole idea of DNA testing proving a race considering that it only takes one ancestor to throw off the results.
Not only did we double check the results, several of our cousins took the test and received the same results. I took a maternal line DNA test in 2003, and my brother took a full panel test last year. His first test was through Howard University (which was straight male line), and they told him that our paternal line came from South America.
Then my brother brought his results to Family Tree DNA, where I took my maternal line DNA. He took a full panel (Male & Female), and his name showed up as a match for me. We wanted to make sure that the test was accurate, and were pleased when his name showed up (but of course we knew we were brother and sister). We also sent our information to the Genographic project at National Geographic. Family Tree DNA gave the same paternal line results that was given to my brother by Howard University, and went back even further. They took it back through Micronesia, South East Asia, and into Iran. I know there are folks out there who are disappointed by their results, but it may be the tester, or some of the information that has been passed down is incorrect.
My question is not about the results, but whether anyone has historical information about the tribes in South Carolina.
I wrote a book about how I researched and documented my history and how the maternal line DNA just confirmed what I already knew (and gave me a little more details).
alani
That is the type of DNA testing that I would trust in. That is wonderful that you guys were able to double check the tests.
My scepticism about DNA testing has to do with others out there not double checking before they take one single test at face value.
You and your family are certainly the example for how testing should be conducted.
Originally posted by alani2
Our family now has a certificate stating that our paternal line is Native from South America. He took a DNA test first through Howard University, and then had an expanded test through Family Tree DNA. We believed that our paternal Grandfather, who was born in South Carolina, was part Native, and part African. The DNA test went back over 50,000 years ago, to what is now Iran, when our male ancestor left and traversed to Columbia South America.
Doesn’t the test actually mean that your DNA matches a group of people in Iran who have had their DNA tested and who reside there at the moment? They may have not lived in Iran long ago. Maybe the Iranians who had their DNA tested paternally go back to the Mongol Hordes…
It could be that a common ancestor lived in a certain location (say Mongolia for example) and his descendants spread about, yours through South America and on to South Carolina while another group simply migrated to Iran (and their descendants got DNA tested too). This group of people that have had their DNA tested might be found in Iran today, but that doesn’t mean your paternal line goes back to Iran necessarily. It means that a number of Iranians who have had their DNA tested share your paternal ancestor.
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