Been busy working a 70 hour week so I couldn't answer this in a more timely manner. I have to comment about the Monroe Journal Centennial Edition (of which I have a copy). Some of the information in that article has since been proven incorrect from other records. The article was from family memory and we all do make mistakes. I am a descendent of Silas Garrett, SUPPOSED brother of Joseph and Caswell Garrett who were in Lowndes and Monroe Counties. As to brothers John and James, there doesn't seem to be substantiating evidence for this. In Lowndes County was James Garrett who married Zilpha Cheek. This James was a son of Edward Garrett, Jr. and Eleanor Higgins. If anything, this James could be a cousin of Caswell, Joseph and Silas. I have lots on this family, with substantiating evidence. The biggest problem is that we truly do NOT know where our Garretts came from originally. There are DAR papers that Alva Garrett Current-Garcia submitted in the 1960s that have us connected to James Garrett of Laurens County, SC. Problem is there are no substantiating papers to prove this. This particular James was a son of Edward Garrett, Sr. and his wife, Ann West Ousley/Owsley and brother of Edward, Jr.. Both Edward Sr., and Ann left estates in Laurens County. Edward did name his son, James, but none of James's heirs. Edward was not happy with James and told him to straighten up or loose out. Ann's estate named James's children, NONE of which were Caswell, Joseph, or Silas. It is certainly possible that this James had more than one wife and children with both, but NONE of these older children (Caswell, etc) were named in Ann's estate. Caswell was born in SC as was Joseph, per the 1850 Census. Silas was born in Georgia from the same census. Caswell married in Jones County, Georgia. Now, we have NO documentation to say where James, son of Edward, was. Did he go to Georgia??? Alva Current-Garcia's DAR papers rely on a speech given in about 1949 that James was part of a massacre that occurred at Fort Dale when Silas was about 9 (or in about 1814). Family lore says that Caswell, Joseph and Silas's father was killed in this time and that their mother was scalped about two years later. We have nothing to substantiate this. To try to make a long story short, we really don't know who Caswell, Joseph and Silas's father was nor were they came from in SC or in Georgia. As to the Robinson-Garrett connection, my grandfather, Ephraim Spencer Garrett, I, married Francis Kathleen Robinson. There is one connection. Another is that Martha Jane Garrett (daughter of Joseph Garrett & Nancy (Joliph) Jolliffe) married William H. Robinson, son of Joseph Robinson and Nancy Duet. This Joseph Robinson was born in SC per the 1850 Census in Lowndes County and we have not been able to connect him to the other Robinsons in Lowndes at the time. William Robinson and his brother, Cornelius, had migrated from Anson County, North Carolina with their father, Tod Robinson, to Autauga County in about 1818 or there abouts. The brothers both settled and lived their lives in Lowndes County and are buried there. So, the Joseph Robinson from SC is not likely related to William and Cornelius. It seems a coincidence that these two Robinson families married Garretts. Anna Jean's ancestors are correct. Her grandmother and my grandmother worked on family history together, from some letters I have. Ardis, along with Fanny (my grandmother) and another cousin worked on the family history in the 1930s. I can't off the top of my head remember the other cousin's name, but I do have letters she wrote on this. At any rate,. Anna Jean does have her ancestry correct, except for the brothers and where they came from. We don't really know for sure what part of SC Caswell and Joseph were in. I am more than willing to share what I have and the sources. Carolyn Golowka ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gladys Dieckmann" <gladysdeek@cccomm.net> To: <almonroe@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 11:45 AM Subject: Re: [ALMONROE] GARRETTs > Check the Monroe Journal-entennial edition printed 1969 It has two pages of > Garrett and pictures. And yes Joe is a brother of Casewell. My ancestor > was NANCY ELIZABETH GARRETT WAS THE DAUGHTER OF CASEWELL jr AND ELIZ BLAKE. > She was b. 1854 Uriah Mon. Co Al 1854/55 Married John Daniel Mason, d. 10 > Nov 1925. My father, Justus J. Mason remembers her. > > gladys mason dieckmann gladysdeek@gladysdeek@cccomm.net > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Freda Noble" <tnoble@mcn.org> > To: <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com>; <almonroe@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 6:00 PM > Subject: Re: [ALMONROE] GARRETTs > > > > Anna Jean, thank you for posting the info about your Garrett family. > > Since my Roberson/Robinson/Robertson family followed the same route > > as your Garretts, moving from Laurens Co., S.C. into Georgia, into > > Alabama, in the early 1800s, I suspect they may be connected to your > > Garretts in some way. I have tried to connect William H. Robinson, > > who married Martha Jane Garrett, to my Rob family. According to > > another researcher, William is buried in the Middleton Cemetery, Old > > Texas, Monroe Co., Al. Martha and William married in Lowndes on Jan. > > 30, 1850. Freda Roberson Noble > > > > Researching my USA Southern families: Rober(t)son, Blakely, Wright, > > Solomon, Godbold, Sills, Thornton, Regan, Sims, Jones, Riley, Boles > > > > On Jan 17, 2007, at 1:52 PM, gc-gateway@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > >> This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >> > >> Surnames: Garretts of Monroe County Alabama > >> Classification: queries > >> > >> Message Board URL: > >> > >> http://boards.rootsweb.com/ > >> localities.northam.usa.states.alabama.counties.monroe/246.1/mb.ashx > >> > >> Message Board Post: > >> > >> My Garretts Came from Laurens Co S C into Ga and then into Alabama > >> in The mid 1840's. Brothers by the names of Caswell Silas James > >> John and Joe and others we are not sure of. Joe or Joseph Garrett > >> was my ggggrand father. Married First to a Nancy Tolliff Or Joliph > >> Not sure of the spelling. Had 8 children by her. My GGgrand father > >> was one of these 8 children named Caswell Garrett. He married > >> Elizabeth Blake. They had several Children one being my Great > >> grandfather Silas Green Garrett. He married Margeret Susan > >> Harrington Grimes and Had my grand father William Walter Garrett. > >> William Walter Garrett married Lily Ardis Lancaster and had my > >> Father which was an only child of this marriage Walter Eugene > >> Garrett. THis is some history of the Monroe County Garretts . I > >> have lots more info on these garretts but was just going to give u > >> a brief history. If u would like any more email at > >> annai@frontiernet.net. > >> Thanks Anna JEan Garrett Ikner > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALMONROE- > >> request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > >> in the subject and the body of the message > >> > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > ALMONROE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALMONROE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message