In a message dated 6/2/01 9:43:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time, shakerag@mtnhome.com writes: > # 353-354 Buchanan Godfrey 25 farmer GA NC NC. > Elvira 24 wife AR NC TN. [Elvira B Magness b 1856 d/o Joseph & Rachel (Rea) > Magness.] > Marion T 9/12 son AR GA AR. > Rachel Magness 58 mother-in-law widow TN VA TN. > Mysty I'm confused!!!! You did send some info on a couple of children of Joseph and Rachel (Rea) that had married into the Smothers family. Do you have a list of Joseph and Rachel and children? as in Census, perhaps? Also, I have some other Magness' that I'm trying to connect to the ones you've mentioned. Is anyone else working on this line??

Here's some info for you. As usual, there's always someone working on the Magness family. It's quite large, married into a myriad of different families, settled in several places in the area. Best thing to do is be in contact with ARMARION-L and to dig thru the Marion Co web page http://www.rootsweb.com/~armarion to find folks working on the Magness (or any other) family. I can't guarantee the accuracy of all dates and relationships. The Marion Co courthouse was burned twice during the Civil War and again in Aug 1887 when *ALL* county records were destroyed. For example, Joseph Magness (h/o Rachel Rea d/o Capt John C Ray) b 1822 d 1859 bu Patton Cemetery indicates to me that the Mary E Magness that married William Marion Smothers probably is not the daughter of Joseph and Rachel. Or William Marion Smothers didn't marry a Magness at all. FYI - I'm not researching the Magness family. I'm a researcher for Marion Co and all the folks that have lived here. I help compile the genealogies of MCAR families for books for the Historic Genealogical Society of MCAR in an effort to have the families as accurate as possible so I'm juggling around 800-1000 families at once <groan>. Hope some of this is helpful. Marion Co AR 1860 census - Blythe Township. # 386 Rachel Magness 40 TN [widow of Joseph Magness] James H 14 MO. Martha 13 MO. Joseph M 11 MO. Wilkshire [sic] 9 AR. John H 6 AR. Elvira B 3 AR. Mary E 1 AR. Jane Spruce 19 TN. James R Brown 14 TN. Marion Co AR 1870 census - Barren Creek Township. # 38 Austin L Smothers 42 TN. Mary E 38 TN. Berry P/T 18 TN. Elisha McEwing 16 AR Martha A 14 AR. Francis Miles 12 AR. William M 8 AR. Josephine 7 AR. Sarah E 5 MO. Nancy J 3 MO. Unpublished "Genealogies of Marion Co Families 1811-1900, A Supplement." JAMES H. MAGNESS (son of Joseph & Rachel [Rea] Magness) b MO 1846 m MARTHA M. SMOTHERS (daughter of Austin L. & Mary E. [Henry] Smothers) b MCAR 22 Nov 1855. MARTHA E. MAGNESS (daughter of Joseph & Rachel [Rea] Magness) b MO 1847 m ELISHA McEWING SMOTHERS (son of Austin L. & Mary E. [Henry] Smothers) b MCAR ca 1854. MARY E. MAGNESS (daughter of Joseph & Rachel [Rea] Magness) b MCAR 8 Feb 1862 d MCAR 12 May 1895 bu Patton Cemetery m MCAR ca 1880 WILLIAM MARION SMOTHERS (son of Austin L. & Mary E. [Henry] Smothers) b MCAR 20 Aug 1862 d Pindall, Searcy Co. AR 7 Oct 1942. SOURCE: Cross-referencing Mysty shakerag@mtnhome.com ************************************************ ----- Original Message ----- From: <Katheo2@aol.com> To: <ARMARION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 12:18 AM Subject: Re: Magness > In a message dated 6/2/01 9:43:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > shakerag@mtnhome.com writes: > > > > # 353-354 Buchanan Godfrey 25 farmer GA NC NC. > > Elvira 24 wife AR NC TN. [Elvira B Magness b 1856 d/o Joseph & Rachel (Rea) > > Magness.] > > Marion T 9/12 son AR GA AR. > > Rachel Magness 58 mother-in-law widow TN VA TN. > > > Mysty > I'm confused!!!! You did send some info on a couple of children of Joseph and > Rachel (Rea) that had married into the Smothers family. Do you have a list > of Joseph and Rachel and children? as in Census, perhaps? Also, I have some > other Magness' that I'm trying to connect to the ones you've mentioned. Is > anyone else working on this line??