Thank you for the info Beth, I will look some more. On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:00 AM, <cherokeegene-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. ADAIR (Beth Golden) > 2. Turkey Foot, Somerset, PA (Beth Golden) > 3. Re: Turkey Foot, Somerset, PA (Alli :)) > 4. Re: ADAIR (Susan Reynolds) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 05:03:45 -0500 > From: Beth Golden <gramssearch4family@gmail.com> > Subject: [CherokeeGene] ADAIR > To: CHEROKEEGENE@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > < > CA+9EUF9gu3fP7sPsTPFSkUXcwTvVTjO7Qe8FX+Z5eW90HY1sew@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > I have 2 sets of ADAIRs: one from County Down, NI who settled in Oakland, > Garrett, MD and married into the MARTIN family (Mary Adair m. Joseph Martin > (my 3ggf) in 1836 and Ellen Adair Graham m. Thomas Martin (son of Joseph > and Joseph's first wife) in 1870. > > the other group is in SC, living in Old 96th District in 1779. Mary Adair > m. William Bourland 1750 (my 5th ggparents) > > thought I'd toss this into the conversation to possibly connect with > cousins. > > Thanks! > Beth > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 05:11:28 -0500 > From: Beth Golden <gramssearch4family@gmail.com> > Subject: [CherokeeGene] Turkey Foot, Somerset, PA > To: cherokeegene@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <CA+9EUF8bcP=pj5meL24UM9GhfB9ELKKoNY= > Mm2UtJW4jGPKHTg@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > I too have ancestors who lived in Turkey Foot and nearby: Augustine, Bird > (Burd), Bowser, Thomas, and Turney. > > You may find this interesting and helpful. > > http://www.pagenweb.org/~somerset/addison/ad_history.htm > > all the best, > > Beth > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 08:57:42 -0700 > From: "Alli :\)" <iamcheroke@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [CherokeeGene] Turkey Foot, Somerset, PA > To: <cherokeegene@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <006301d03592$fee285e0$fca791a0$@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Thank you Beth, I will check it out > > -----Original Message----- > From: cherokeegene-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:cherokeegene-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Beth Golden via > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 3:11 AM > To: cherokeegene@rootsweb.com > Subject: [CherokeeGene] Turkey Foot, Somerset, PA > > I too have ancestors who lived in Turkey Foot and nearby: Augustine, Bird > (Burd), Bowser, Thomas, and Turney. > > You may find this interesting and helpful. > > http://www.pagenweb.org/~somerset/addison/ad_history.htm > > all the best, > > Beth > =====*NOTICE THIS*===== > Cherokee genealogy; certain conversation is allowed to do genealogy; and > sort fact from (fiction). > List archive > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cherokeegene > please take non genealogy to Cherokee@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CHEROKEEGENE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 23:05:34 -0600 > From: Susan Reynolds <s3js9938@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [CherokeeGene] ADAIR > To: CherokeeGene <cherokeegene@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: > < > CANjdRWtm7ZsckqK_oTJc4+W8a3BmaiiWPi78DCxKPEVcvAz3sQ@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Beth, did any of your SC folks pop over the state line in Franklin County, > GA? > > I've been working on a project with a shirt-tail cousin who actually > connects with several lines of both my maternal and paternal lines as well > as my husband's people in Franklin County, Spartanburg County and Old 96. > There are several Martins on the tax rolls in Franklin in the early 1800s > associated with the Bryan Ward most people cite as Nancy Ward's husband, > although I haven't proved that for myself. Other names associated with > this group are my husband's Dosses out of Pittsylvania County, VA to SC > along with associated Webb, Nix, and Gibson families. Across the line in > on the 1790 census in Spartanburg County SC are trader Alexander Dromgoole, > Ellis Harlin, Ezekiel Buffington, a number of Lowreys, some Vanns, Vann > Walker, Thorntons, Fields, my mother-in-law's several 3rd great grandfather > and great uncles Christopher Vandergrift and his sons and brothers plus > more Dosses. Other names connected to the Cherokee appear such as Jolly, > Whitmire, Mayfiled, Gunter, Ellege, Rider, Shelton, Blithe, Thompson (close > to Rider which would make sense since David Thompson married Austin Rider's > daughter), and Guest/Guess. A number of names connected to the Choctaw and > Chickasaw also appear - Logan, Bohannon, Gentry (adopted Chickasaws who > also married into the Cherokee), Little. > > It was an absolute unexpected bonus to find my more direct lines - Webb, > Doss, Nix, especially Austin Webb, my 6th great grandfather who should not > have been in Franklin County, but owned land there - and Christopher > Vandergrift and co. Those are lines I've been working on to prove out to > begin with (Vandergrifts go back to New Amsterdam in the mid-1600s and > Cynthia Vandergrift, my mother-in-law's great grandmother married Samuel > Houston Byram, who was a Mayflower descendant through John Alden and > Priscilla Mullins, two very old colonial lineages!) and the stories of > Cherokee blood in those lines are common. This places them in the midst of > names who associated intimately with the Cherokee, so there may be a small > grain of truth for at least friendship or business associations and > possibly marriage connections. Somewhere in there I seem to remember some > Bourlands who are also associated with the Chickasaws. But my tired brain > just won't pull that info up! > > ?Happy time travels, > Susan? > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the CHEROKEEGENE list administrator, send an email to > CHEROKEEGENE-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the CHEROKEEGENE mailing list, send an email to > CHEROKEEGENE@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CHEROKEEGENE-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of CHEROKEEGENE Digest, Vol 10, Issue 6 > ******************************************* >