Yes, Jean, I think there is the possibility of error; note her listed birthdate and the birthdate of the twins which is also the noted time of arrival on the White River of Lewis Partee in the excerpt that you posted! Thanks, Margaret Quoting Jean Cuevas <jeanmayfield@comcast.net>: > You are very welcome! Always glad to know that something I share is > helpful. Thanks for filling in details of your husband's family. > > I notice from the birth date for Lewis Partee, and Mary, that Mary Ramsey > appears to be about 22 years older. Is there a possibility that her birth > date is a mistake, since it would have made her 22 years older? > > Thanks. > > Jean > > > > At 10:53 PM 1/26/2014, you wrote: > >Jean, > >I really appreciate the post. My husband Norman's Partee line, > >according to research from other sources is: James Purtee, b. 1730 > >near Versailles, France; married Deborah Hall in Queen Anne's County, > >MD. in 1756. He served in the Monongahela County Militia under Lt. > >William Cross and was stationed at Fort Pitt in October 1777. The > >family is found in Bourbon County, KY in 1790. > > > >Lewis Partee, son of James and Deborah, was born about 1763 in > >Maryland. Lewis married Mary Ramsey in 1787 in Cecil County, MD. > >Mary's birthdate is listed as circa 1741. The family is on the tax > >rolls of Livingston County, KY by 1800 where Lewis served in Hall's > >Regiment Cavalry of Kentucky Volunteers. > > > >James Partee (twin to George) born Nov.25, 1811 in Kentucky. James > >married Elmina (?) about 1831. Of their ten children, a daughter, > >Eliza (Louisa) b. Jan. 14, 1849, married Thomas George Mason, b. Aug > >25,1842, son of Samuel Jefferson Mason. > > > >Richard Alexander Mason, b. Aug 21,1873, son of T. G. and Eliza Mason, > >married Fanny Jane Speak. > > > >Marvin Thurman Mason, b. Sept 5, 1909, son of R.A. and Janie, married > >Ruth Rozella Smithson b. Aug. 10, 1912. > > > >Son Norman is my husband. This information comes from The Baxter and > >Izard County Family History Books and the Baxter Bulletin Newspaper > >along with this wonderful List.. I know many of you have this > >information and much more on this family. If so, send it my way. > >Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > >Quoting Jean Cuevas <jeanmayfield@comcast.net>: > >> For some of you, this is a repeat, but I shared this with this list > >> very early > >> on, and am repeating it for the sake of those whose surnames are > listed here: > >> > >> > >> This is a quote from a booklet called, Early Settlement of the Valley > >> of White > >> River Together with a History of Izard County. > >> > >> Page 4: > >> > >> "About the year 1811, the Trimble brothers--Wat, Bob, Bill, Jo, > John and Jim > >> Trimble--Lewis Partee, Tom and John Ramsey and Andy and > >> Thompson..(came to the > >> White River Valley).." > >> > >> Page 40, 41: > >> > >> "You will see this first period found the valley of white river with > >> quite a run > >> of imigrants without the restriction of law or the fear of God > before their > >> eyes, and every man was his own law. It must be observed, however that a > >> predominance of sterling intellect prevailed amongst this class of > pioneers, > >> accompanied in many instances with education. Of the prominent families > >> composing the mass, we will mention the Yocums, the Friends, the > Bryants, The > >> Trimbles, The Hawthornes, the Ramseys, the Partees, the Irons, the > >> Laferties and > >> the Carters. > >> > >> The Yocums and Friends were perhaps North Carolinians, the Cokers > and Sneeds > >> East Tennesseans, Ben Bryant a Portugee, the Trimbles, Hawthornes, > >> Ramseys and > >> Partees were Kentuckians. Partee being of French blood, the Irons North > >> Carolinians, Lafferty, East Tennessean and Falenash a Frenchman" > >> > >> Page 49, 50: > >> > >> A circumstance occurred about the year 1827 or 1828 which claims > >> notice in these > >> sketches, which was the killing of Jeff Jones and young Jim > Trimble, who was > >> perhaps the son of Old Bob. Both young men still were in their > twenties and > >> between whom there seems to have been a grudge. They left the mouth > >> ofn North > >> Fork on horseback going down the south side of the river. Some days > >> after, Jim > >> Trimble came to Partees at the Hunt place, stayed several days, made some > >> careless inquiries about Jeff's sons, whom he said had left him. > He got some > >> washing done, the girls afterward told, in confidence that they had > >> washed Jeff > >> Jones bloody clothes. Jeff Jones waws never heard of any more. He > >> had friedns > >> and perhaps relatives who were greatly aroused. Jim Trimble was > arrested and > >> carried to Liberty Court and strongly guarded in a log house. One > night Jim > >> Trimble had lain down, and there being a crack near him he took a > >> stool or bench > >> and laid it on its edge between him and the cra! > >> ck. The officer and guard all roused up, stood on their feet around > >> the fire. Soon after a gun was fired in at the crack next to Jim > >> Trimble; the ball passed > >> through the bench and through Jim Trimbles body. He sprang to his > >> feet and fell > >> on the hearth dead. This was the close of the career of Jeff > Jones and young > >> Jim Trimble." > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> ARIZARD-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 > ARIZARD-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 > ARIZARD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in > the subject and the body of the message >