Dave’s Bohemian, Canadian, and Southern Kin

Below: IS AN Excerpt of a pedigree tree — showing one line of Chief “Red Bird” Brock’s descendants.
I have been following leads from the Bald Mountain, North Carolina region, trying to trace several family lines that I have somewhat of a connection with through the Davis-Hensley (couple) folks. These are collateral lines; but may link up with other family lines I have been seeking more information on…I will try to keep you posted. — CATHY

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     |                       |               / Brock (Tsalagi’ Ugywiyuhi Totsu’hwa Red b: Abt 1735 d: Abt 1820

     |                       |       /Jesse James Brock b: 8 Dec 1751 d: 13 Oct 1843

     |                       |       |       \Susannah Caroline Davis b: Abt 1725

     |                       \Barthena Brock b: 1776 d: 1872

     |                               |       /Samuel Howard =>

     |                               \Rebecca Howard b: 15 Mar 1756 d: 1841

     |                                       \Frances Dryden

Malinda Lucy Caldwell b: 8 Jan 1862 d: 20 Dec 1905

     |                               / Brock (Tsalagi’ Ugywiyuhi Totsu’hwa Red b: Abt 1735 d: Abt 1820

     |                       /Jesse James Brock b: 8 Dec 1751 d: 13 Oct 1843

     |                       |       \Susannah Caroline Davis b: Abt 1725

Family Tree Progress

Okay, let’s do a quick wrap-up here…

The PARK family has descendency ties to Robert E. Lee; his ancestor who was George Washington’s wife (maiden name CUSTIS); PARK/PARKE/PARKS descendants are connected to the Burchfields — the Burchfields via the Park line (somewhere) are kin to the Gustafsson/Justice family originally from Sweden; and how did I get here (this time)?

Tracing the Davis-Smathers connection of Aunt Betty Davis (married – Jack Abernathy) — trying to learn about her father’s family.

The other point of interest is the ties to a Cherokee Chief Oowahooskie (various spellings found). His ‘wife’ had been captured from a white settlement/group when she was about six years old. They had three sons; she and the sons were later released — they lived as white men, and were land-holders. This made for Cherokee heritage claims with US courts unsuccessful — but the Indian connection seems valid from research/sources found online, now.

There is also a connection between the PARK family and a CHANDLER line in Georgia…will follow this up later.

Another connection exist between the DAVIS line and the CARPENTER (ZIMMERMAN) families from North Carolina — this warrants further research, since my mother and my father’s ancestral line include connection to the CARPENTER (ZIMMERMAN) lines from the Carolinas.

NO direct Patey/PATE/PATTY connections — but have found AYERS/AYRES, PAYNE, and McClellan connections in the Carolina regions (where my husbands family were from)…The PAYNE connection may link up with the TEAGUE, SPEER, PERRY, OWEN or other related families who later migrated to NE Alabama (near Ft. Payne).

With the research from the past three days — “We are all kin” has more meaning then is previously did, for me.

Each friend I have helped with their family tree research, I have also found something that fit with prior research for my own complicated ancestral lines.

Are your ancestors included in this tangle of kinfolks?

Contact me with a bit of your grandparents vital statics (dates, location, family members) — I will see what I can find.

– Cathy Ann Abernathy

weavercat@gmail.com

Hot Day

7 July 2010
One very hot day.
Dave and I delivered groceries to Mom; then headed back home.
Stopped at a few thrift/antique stores along the way.
Since getting in the AC, and starting to cool off, have been reading messages, and adding/correcting more items on my websites (somewhat set in havoc by my previous computer dying); as well as blogs, and misc. stuff.
Need to get things sorted out with this new laptop, get it behaving the way I want it; so I will be able to create a backup set of RECOVERY disks — then get Dave to set it for dual-boot (Windows 7 and Linux).
My head is pounding, so I won’t do much more for now.
How has your week been?
Would love to hear from my readers.
– Cathy

Death of a computer…a new beginning

(Take two…)
Attempted this post just but a few minutes ago — stepped away from the keyboard — came back the automatic Windows 7 update had re-started my computer. [growl!]
I lost all the text I had written (now have settings a bit different, to prevent this problem from occurring again) — I hate having to re-write things when software/OS updates cause me to lose them.
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Now, where was I?
Ahhh, heck — I think I’ll do something else and come back to this post. There are things needing to be added, set-up; and yet to be test-driven on this computer.
I promise to return – soon.
“And to continue…”
– Cathy

Cherokees unveil plan for ‘shopping district’

Cherokees unveil plan for ‘shopping district’ | GadsdenTimes.com

A development at River Trace Golf Course will not just be a shopping development but will be a “shopping district,” according to officials with the Cherokees of Alabama.

Key Documents:

* Artist’s rendering of project (JPG – 281kb)

The group on Tuesday laid out plans for the 103-acre property that it said would produce 3,000 jobs.

Cherokees of Alabama buy Gadsden golf property, say they plan major tourist attraction

Cherokees of Alabama buy Gadsden golf property, say they plan major tourist attraction | Breaking News from The Birmingham News – al.com

GADSDEN — The new owners of a golf course in East Gadsden, Alabama say they paid $13.1 million and have plans to make it one of the biggest tourist attraction in the state.

Joe Huddleston of Vintage Properties, which handled the sale for the Cherokees of Alabama, said Thursday an announcement will be made in three or four weeks with more details on plans for the 103-acre site.

Mayor says mound will be demolished, hill developed

Anniston Star – Mayor says mound will be demolished hill developed

Oxford may be planning to remove a controversial pile of stones from a hill behind the Oxford Exchange shopping center, according to a story in a national newspaper.

A story that appeared on the Web site of The New York Times on Friday said Mayor Leon Smith plans to demolish the stone pile, which may have been built a thousand years ago by American Indians, and make it the site of a hotel, restaurant or health clinic.

When Scholarship and Tribal Heritage Face Off Against Commerce

Oxford Journal – When Scholarship and Tribal Heritage Face Off Against Commerce – NYTimes.com

OXFORD, Ala. — Overlooking the Interstate and an outdoor shopping mall here stands a sad little hill, bald but for four bare trees and a scattering of stones.
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Bob Farley for The New York Times

Harry O. Holstein, the archaeology professor who tried to protect the stone mound.

That the stones are there is beyond argument. But everything else about them — whether somebody put them there, how long they have been there and what should be done with them — became a matter of fierce debate last summer and has continued to yield surprising twists into recent weeks.

The latest episode in the very long history of the Oxford stones began last June, when an excavator showed up on the hill. The city was planning for the construction of a Sam’s Club nearby and intended to use dirt from the hill for the area where the store would sit.

Then a local archaeology professor began making phone calls.

The professor, Harry O. Holstein of nearby Jacksonville State University, had concluded that a stone mound at the top of the hill was constructed by American Indians more than a thousand years ago, and in 2003 he recorded it in a state archaeological registry. The possibility of its being destroyed, Dr. Holstein said, made him sick.

“I’m not against development,” he said. “But some things should just be saved.”

Hand Woven – Native American Sash

Antiques and the Arts Online – Fenimore Museum Receives Gifts, Collection Of Native American Art

Iroquois beaded finger woven sash, late Eighteenth Century, 46 by 3½ inches, with fringe 71 inches. Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, N.Y., gift of Charlotte Conable.(…)

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