--part1_38.d6e9099.273641ee_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi researchers, This is from Pat's family tree. She is having trouble finding a connection to the main branch of the tree (Back to Ralph and Martha). Can anyone help her and keep her from swing off the little branch? Sue B. Altice --part1_38.d6e9099.273641ee_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <BLANKENSHIP-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-yc05.mx.aol.com (rly-yc05.mail.aol.com [172.18.149.37]) by air-yc04.mail.aol.com (v76_r1.23) with ESMTP; Sat, 04 Nov 2000 22:23:45 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.123]) by rly-yc05.mx.aol.com (v76_r1.19) with ESMTP; Sat, 04 Nov 2000 22:23:10 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id eA53LvO13179; Sat, 4 Nov 2000 19:21:57 -0800 Resent-Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 19:21:57 -0800 X-Original-Sender: editor-patter@juno.com Sat Nov 4 19:21:57 2000 Old-To: BLANKENSHIP-L@rootsweb.com Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 21:15:41 +0000 Subject: Re: [BLANKENSHIP] Cherokee Chief John Ross Message-ID: <20001104.211544.-92851.0.Editor-Patter@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-1,5-6,14-15,20-21,25-26,28-31,33-39,41-48,50-53,55-56,58-59,61-66,76-77,80-83 X-Juno-Att: 0 X-Juno-RefParts: 0 From: Patricia A Torrance <editor-patter@juno.com> Resent-Message-ID: <ZgRZBC.A.vND.VJNB6@lists5.rootsweb.com> To: BLANKENSHIP-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: BLANKENSHIP-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: BLANKENSHIP-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <BLANKENSHIP-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/4614 X-Loop: BLANKENSHIP-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: BLANKENSHIP-L-request@rootsweb.com Dear Sue, You might be sorry you asked for this! I hope it isn't too confusing. I would be so happy if someone could give me some ideas about where to go next. Here is what I have. I really can't call it a tree because I'm hanging out here on a limb that doesn't connect to anything. The Blankenship and Chambers families turned up in Jefferson County, IN in about 1809. Clark, Jennings, and Jefferson Counties developed one from the other, so all three counties figure in the research. They came from Rutherford and/or Burke Counties in North Carolina, seemed to spend a few years in Kentucky before they came to Indiana. Various Chambers married Blankenships over and over. Generation after generation. There were lots of double cousins. They also married people named Chitwood, Whittsett/Whitesides, Monroe, Woodword, Webb among others. I have not been able to figure out which Blankenship children belong to which parent. The men were named Isham, Lewis, William, Peter, Josiah, John and James. There were females named Mary/Polly, Rhoda, Catherine, Elizabeth. The above named people could be of the same generation. They could have been siblings or cousins. James Blankenship's tombstone says he was born Dec. 7. 1773. He died in Indiana. One researcher learned that the name Lodowick is a form of Ludwig or Lewis. There are land records for Lodowick and Isham in North Carolina, but those records do not give the name of a wife. The following is a possible construction. It is all speculation. Some dates are best guesses, some are from records. SOUTHEAST INDIANA BLANKENSHIPS -- SIBLINGS OR COUSINS 1. James Blankenship (Reverend) b. Dec. 1773, d. 23 Apr 1848 IN m. (1) Mary (2) Alice Chitwood dau. Mary (m. Green) b. 1803 KY dau. Sarah (m. Wm Chambers) dau. Rhoda (m. Avery Chambers) 2. Josiah (Lieut in Jeff. Co. Militia in 1811) 3. Peter J. b. 1781, d. 1857 Jefferson Co., IN m. Mary______b. Feb 1779 ,d. May 1860, Memphis TN. dau. Mrs. Wm. McKlean dau. Mrs. Wm. H. Fitch (data from obituary) 4 William (Reverend), m. Betty Chambers 24 Jan 1811, Jefferson Co. IN. dau. Sally m. Samuel Purcell 24 Jun 1832, Vermilion Co. IN 5. Lewis d about 1830 m. (1) ? (2) Hannah Thomas 6. Isham/Isaiah b. 1777 d. 1822, m. Polly Chambers 1799 Rutherford Co. NC dau. Sarah m. John Hilton 1822, Jennings Co., IN 7. Mary/Polly b. ? 1795 m. James Chambers dau. Elizabeth Chambers b. 1810 (census) (m. Moses Brandon 11 Nov 1825 Jennings IN) dau. Jemima Chambers b. 1811(m. Simion Branham) dau. Malinda Chambers b. 1814 (m. Hugh McCaslin, 11 /Apr 1833 Jeff, IN, (2) Abraham Hilderbrand 5 May 1838 at Ft. Gibson, Cherokee, OK. (MY GR GR GR GRANDMOTHER) son Alexander b. 1817 Jeff. Co. IN, m. Malinda Jane Ingram, 29 Jan 1838, Jeff. IN dau Mary b. ? 1818, Jennings, IN. dau. Jane b. 1821 (m. Coleman Cash 1840, IN) 8. Isom b. about 1795, m. 29 May 1817 Jeff. Co. IN to Elizabeth Chitwood Since my gr gr gr grandmother went out to Oklahoma in 1838 and was widowed there, she met my gr gr grandfather who was a soldier stationed at Ft. Gibson where the Trail of Tears ended. It seems that she would not have traveled out there at the same time unless she had relatives there -- and they were probably Cherokees. The records pertain to people who stayed and settled on Indian land in Oklahoma. She had an uncle on the Chambers side who was one of the "Old Settlers". When she married Hilderbrand, he was still in the army and they went to Florida together where he mustered out in 1842 and came back to Indiana and bought property from her brother. She never filed any claims. If any of my cousins who are working with me on these lines, see something wrong -- please let me know. I slip now and then and mis state a fact -- and I need to correct it if I did. Thanks, Pat T. ==== BLANKENSHIP Mailing List ==== http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/p/i/c/Elva-M-Picklesimer/ Here you can find descendants of Rachel BLANKENSHIP. --part1_38.d6e9099.273641ee_boundary--