You all are so amazing!! Kymm you and I are definitely cousins. Lester Carney was my great uncle. I knew him well. Your g-grandfather is my missing "Uncle Jim". My dad is 64 and he is one of the few Carney's still alive. Our Carney's have a heart condition that has claimed most of our line early in life. The only thing that my dad could remember about Uncle Jim was that he was a night watchman at a lumberyard in Nashville and that he had lived on the Murfreesboro Rd. I have pictures of Lester and his brothers. You are welcome to what I have. Lester and William were both guides at Mammoth Cave. Lester still has one son alive, Ralph Carney, of Cave City. Ralph has tons of old family pictures he doesn't know who they are. I have traced this family back to Matthew Carney, but can't get beyond him. Thank you all so much. Please keep in touch. You have given me more in two days than I could come up with in over a year. Sincerely, Tonya Carney Archey
Dear Tonya, I would be enterested in seeing if my Carneys fit in anywhere with yours. My grandfather was Lester Franklin Carney. A similar name might mean a common link somewhere in the past. His father was James Isaiah Carney, son of Thomas Luther Carney, son of Iveson Carney. They were all from the Tidewater area of Virginia, Matthews and Lancaster Counties. Lester Carney III D & T ARCHEY wrote: > You all are so amazing!! Kymm you and I are definitely cousins. Lester Carney was my great uncle. I knew him well. Your g-grandfather is my missing "Uncle Jim". My dad is 64 and he is one of the few Carney's still alive. Our Carney's have a heart condition that has claimed most of our line early in life. The only thing that my dad could remember about Uncle Jim was that he was a night watchman at a lumberyard in Nashville and that he had lived on the Murfreesboro Rd. I have pictures of Lester and his brothers. You are welcome to what I have. Lester and William were both guides at Mammoth Cave. Lester still has one son alive, Ralph Carney, of Cave City. Ralph has tons of old family pictures he doesn't know who they are. I have traced this family back to Matthew Carney, but can't get beyond him. Thank you all so much. Please keep in touch. You have given me more in two days than I could come up with in over a year. Sincerely, Tonya Carney Archey