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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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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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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.”

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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