Jody: This is the beauty of the County Heritage book series. Hundreds of people from all over the Country submit material on their ancestors. If you place your name and address at the bottom of the article, you will hear from many other relatives who can shed light on your family line. If you need more info. on the Carroll Co. Heritage Book, please email: MFWord@aol.com Thanks, Don Mills ----- Original Message ----- From: <JodieK444@aol.com> To: <GACARROL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 10:56 AM Subject: [GACARROL] Rev. Leroy McWhorter/Carroll Co > To all you helpful folks out there: > A few weeks ago, I put a query here, asking for information and help on > finding the siblings and ancestry of Rev. Leroy McWhorter, Baptist minister > and farmer, who moved from Greenville, SC to Carroll County, GA in the 1840s. > One of the reasons was because I didn't have the information and had no idea > where to begin, and another was that having that information would help me > figure out the McWhorter-to-McWhorter marriages that occurred within my line. > Leroy was my GGGgrandfather. > > "Thank you" does not come close to the gratitude I feel for all the responses > I received. A few are still trickling in. However, the answers I received > were as varied as the persons who sent them, and I have a few more questions > since Rev. Leroy's ancestry seems to be a very controversial issue. And, the > names of Leroy's siblings depend on which person you "choose" as Leroy's > father. > > I know you "old timers" have been through this dozens of times, but we > newcomers need to know, so please bear with me. I think it's important that > we all have the same information so as to avoid confusion, at least as much > as possible. While I have done a mere fraction of the research most of you > have done, I have read a few things and really need to know the reasons why > people have come to their conclusions. Please, please, correct me if I am > wrong in any of the information that appears below. > > First: Has there been further research since Davis McWhorter, Ura McWhorter > Byars, Minnie Bowman and Max L. McWhorter did their work on this line? They > do not agree on Leroy's parentage either. Some responses I received say > Leroy's father was Moses, some say Landon, some say John. The files and web > pages online disagree also. Obviously, Leroy can only have one father. Is it > possible that we can come to some agreement on this? > > In the information I received from you, without exception, ALL people who are > descended from Rev. Leroy, and a few who weren't, said his father was Moses. > > Without exception, ALL people who gave Landon and John as their choices were > NOT descended from Rev. Leroy, but were from related branches back in the > family tree. > > At this point, I tend to go with the Moses believers. Since there seems to be > lack of hard proof, the fact that Leroy named his first son "Moses Allen" --- > not one child named John, not one child named Landon --- certainly would tend > to make one lean in that direction. > > I understand that the Bible records of John did not give Leroy as a son. > Wouldn't that tend to eliminate John as Leroy's father? I also understand > that there are no records of Landon as an adult and no conclusive proof that > he is Leroy's father. > > Second: Has there been further research on the two wives of Moses McWhorter > who died in Edgefield Dist., SC, in 1797 (said to be Leroy's grandfather) and > left a will naming his wife, Elizabeth and "her"children and "my" sons? Here > again, the answers differ -- some saying Moses only had one wife, Elizabeth > Puckett, some saying he was married to Ruth Barnett, some saying he was > married to Sarah Barnett, some saying he was married to Unknown Barnett. A > Sarah Barnett is said to have been married to Jeremiah, and one person > indicated that Sarah was married to both Moses and Jeremiah. Comments, > anyone? (Can you understand why I, and many others, are totally confused?) > > Third: In Mrs. Byars book, there appear to be several misprints which have > been propagated and passed on. (And this I am sure of.) The family that Polly > Ann McWhorter (daughter of Moses McWhorter and Sarah Kinney and one of the > McWhorter triplets) married into was named NOLES. It appears in Mrs. Byars' > book and in two of the family files I received as NELES. If you look for the > "Neles" family in Carroll County, you will not find one. Census records, > marriage records, and Carroll County history books give this name plainly as > NOLES. It was interchangeable with KNOWLES, also. (I have corresponded with > Noles/Knowles descendants and heard my own mother speak of her "Noles" > cousins.) > > Sarah Kinney, wife of Moses Allen McWhorter, was born in HABERSHAM County, > Georgia ... not MABERSHAM as it appears in the book and in the same two files > I received. > > Leroy Alexander McWhorter, son of Newton Alexander McWhorter, married H.E. > MUSE (I have her name as Harriett Eugenie), not MUME, as it appears in the > book and in the same two files I received. Once again, you will not find a > MUME family in Carroll County and the marriage record plainly states "MUSE." > > If you think these are piddly errors and don't matter, try doing a search on > the net for a misspelled name. NELES could even be interpreted as a spelling > for NEALS ... way off the track. > > So, with all that said, does anyone have comments? Maybe if we air the > differences where everybody can see the responses, we can at least put this > thing to rest. Whew! > > Thank you ALL again for all your help. And special thanks to Kathryn > McWhorter Martinson, Kathy Gregory, Laura Harker and Tricia Pettit for all > their time and trouble. I'm sending this to both the McWhorter list and the > Carroll County list in hopes that it will bring some response. > > Judy > > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > >