Jean, Here's the problem with the Pierces and particularly Martha Angeline........ There are 2 main Pierce lines the area....between Henry and Benton Counties..just like there are 3 main Dortch lines that run in the area and up into Kentucky.......the Pierce lines are obviously related, but back in N.Carolina and Kentucky.... Haven't been able to determine whether the lines are brothers or cousins.....one is the John Pierce-Rachael Ross line and the other is your Stephen Pierce-Lavinia Geers line..........there also were a couple other lines that moved in and out of the area. Dallas....can you help her here ???? You and I discussed this Pierce line before and I can't find my records....Martha Angeline is part of Kiziahs' line down the road.....and I can't find the connection right now.....but I've stumbled with Martha a number of times.......she's involved with the Coopers and McDaniels....just don't remember where or when (old age I guess).... Any of you 'old time' Pierce researchers able to help......???? Dave ------------------------------------------------- At 10:05 PM 1/21/02 -0500, GJCloke1@cs.com wrote: >Dave, > >Thanks anyway on the BETHANY--BEATON/BETHUNE thing. Gotta check any >possibility. > >I don't have a whole lot on Martha Angelina/Angeline PIERCE, who was my >gr-gr-grandmother. But here is what I have. According to my own estimate >from Census records, etc., she was born ABT 1839 in Henry Co., TN. Her >father was Augustus PIERCE son of Stephen PIERCE & Lavinia GEERS, but I have >not been able to find anything on her mother. I have seven siblings for >Martha...... Elizabeth Caroline, Lavinia Catherine, William B., Pinckney >Stephen, George W., Mary Jane, & Sarah R. Augustus is buried in Barbee >Cemetery in Henry Co., TN. > >She married Charles Homer BETHANY July 8, 1861 in Henry Co., TN, and moved to >Benton Co. where he lived. C.H. already had seven children of his own and a >step-son. This was his third marriage. Martha & C.H. had at least 12 >children, the second being my gr-grandmother, Martha Jane. > >Sometime toward the end of the Civil war they moved to Texas Co., MO and >remained there until about 1873 when they moved to Newton Co., AR. After >C.H. died in Dec. 1900, she kept the property for a while, but then began >moving around living with her children for several months to a year or so at >a time. She died in August 1915 near Earlsboro, Pottawatomie Co., OK while >living with one of her daughters, and is buried in an unmarked grave in the >Earlsboro Cemetery. My grandmother showed me where the grave was years ago, >so at least we know where it is. I hope to get a stone on it this year. > >There are a couple of discrepancies in the information I have accumulated >that disagree with the above info. One is that some other BETHANY >researchers have her middle name as Lucretia instead of Angelina. The second >is a family story that Martha Angeline PIERCE was abandoned as an infant on >the doorstep of the home of a minister, Augustus PIERCE. Martha was at >least part Indian and may have been full-blood. The PIERCE family took her >in and raised her as one of their own. It has been speculated that she was >abandoned during the removal of the Cherokee's to Indian Territory since two >of the trails used went through the area of Henry Co., TN where the PIERCE >family lived. One theory is that her mother had died and she was left there >so she would be taken care of. > >This is about all I have on her, other than a couple of pictures other >researchers have sent me. I can send those directly to you, if you like. > >Do you have some additional info on Martha or C.H.? > >Thanks and have a good day, >Jean > > >==== DanvilleCrossing Mailing List ==== >Hi Ho! Hi Ho! Now where did my ancestors go ?? >

Jean and Dave. I have a Martha Pierce b. Feb 23,1822 the eldest daughter of John Pierce b.1799, d. 1862 and Rachel Ross they had 10 children: Martha, Wm Riley, Louisa, Keziah, Mary Caroline, John Wm, Rachel, Harvey R., Evaline, Edward A., the youngest. I also have some of their spouses, don't have a spouse for Martha. Dave this is what we discussed, most of it is your information. DAL> David L Snow wrote: > Jean, > > Here's the problem with the Pierces and particularly Martha Angeline........ > > There are 2 main Pierce lines the area....between Henry and Benton > Counties..just like there are 3 main Dortch lines that run in the area and > up into Kentucky.......the Pierce lines are obviously related, but back in > N.Carolina and Kentucky.... > > Haven't been able to determine whether the lines are brothers or > cousins.....one is the John Pierce-Rachael Ross line and the other is your > Stephen Pierce-Lavinia Geers line..........there also were a couple other > lines that moved in and out of the area. > > Dallas....can you help her here ???? You and I discussed this Pierce line > before and I can't find my records....Martha Angeline is part of Kiziahs' > line down the road.....and I can't find the connection right now.....but > I've stumbled with Martha a number of times.......she's involved with the > Coopers and McDaniels....just don't remember where or when (old age I > guess).... > > Any of you 'old time' Pierce researchers able to help......???? > > Dave > ------------------------------------------------- > At 10:05 PM 1/21/02 -0500, GJCloke1@cs.com wrote: > >Dave, > > > >Thanks anyway on the BETHANY--BEATON/BETHUNE thing. Gotta check any > >possibility. > > > >I don't have a whole lot on Martha Angelina/Angeline PIERCE, who was my > >gr-gr-grandmother. But here is what I have. According to my own estimate > >from Census records, etc., she was born ABT 1839 in Henry Co., TN. Her > >father was Augustus PIERCE son of Stephen PIERCE & Lavinia GEERS, but I have > >not been able to find anything on her mother. I have seven siblings for > >Martha...... Elizabeth Caroline, Lavinia Catherine, William B., Pinckney > >Stephen, George W., Mary Jane, & Sarah R. Augustus is buried in Barbee > >Cemetery in Henry Co., TN. > > > >She married Charles Homer BETHANY July 8, 1861 in Henry Co., TN, and moved > to > >Benton Co. where he lived. C.H. already had seven children of his own and a > >step-son. This was his third marriage. Martha & C.H. had at least 12 > >children, the second being my gr-grandmother, Martha Jane. > > > >Sometime toward the end of the Civil war they moved to Texas Co., MO and > >remained there until about 1873 when they moved to Newton Co., AR. After > >C.H. died in Dec. 1900, she kept the property for a while, but then began > >moving around living with her children for several months to a year or so at > >a time. She died in August 1915 near Earlsboro, Pottawatomie Co., OK while > >living with one of her daughters, and is buried in an unmarked grave in the > >Earlsboro Cemetery. My grandmother showed me where the grave was years ago, > >so at least we know where it is. I hope to get a stone on it this year. > > > >There are a couple of discrepancies in the information I have accumulated > >that disagree with the above info. One is that some other BETHANY > >researchers have her middle name as Lucretia instead of Angelina. The > second > >is a family story that Martha Angeline PIERCE was abandoned as an infant on > >the doorstep of the home of a minister, Augustus PIERCE. Martha was at > >least part Indian and may have been full-blood. The PIERCE family took her > >in and raised her as one of their own. It has been speculated that she was > >abandoned during the removal of the Cherokee's to Indian Territory since two > >of the trails used went through the area of Henry Co., TN where the PIERCE > >family lived. One theory is that her mother had died and she was left > there > >so she would be taken care of. > > > >This is about all I have on her, other than a couple of pictures other > >researchers have sent me. I can send those directly to you, if you like. > > > >Do you have some additional info on Martha or C.H.? > > > >Thanks and have a good day, > >Jean > > > > > >==== DanvilleCrossing Mailing List ==== > >Hi Ho! Hi Ho! Now where did my ancestors go ?? > > > > ==== DanvilleCrossing Mailing List ==== > My genealogy software won't accept "spaceship" > as a "Place of Birth"..... Now What ????