Sharon does your Drivers tie in with the Pitts. I have Charles Driver who married Prudence Pitt. Giles Driver married Olive Hardy. Barb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Olivia Mullis" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 2:37 PM Subject: Re: [GAWARE] Re: Gail : BYRD, WHITE etc > Sharon, > > Check out Pierce Cty for Byrd's. > > Olivia > > > shadri wrote: > >>Gail, >> >>I wish I knew more about my BYRDs to be able to share. According to the >>various census from North Florida, A Seaborn J. Byrd shows up in Holmes >>County, FL 1850, then next census he is in Walton Co, FL, then next one he >>is in Holmes again. On each of these it says he was born in Alabama. I >>don't know WHERE in Alabama! A cousin told me at a funeral once that our >>Byrds were from Southeast Alabama, he didn't know exactly where either. On >>the 1880 Census there is an S.J. Byrd in Madison County, FL....then by the >>next one, his widow is found in Jackson County, FL. >> >>I have some WHITEs also. One of my DRIVERs that went to Alabama married a >>Letty Ann White. I looked in my files and I have a Mary A. White born >>Coosa County, AL abt 1851 died Ovalo, Texas abt 1920. Don't know who she >>married. I got this information a long time ago from a WHITE researcher >>who said these WHITEs came from the Cherokee Nation East. I sure wish I'd >>kept better records back then! I don't even know if I made a record of his >>"then" email address. The oldest in this family of WHITEs is Thomas WHITE >>and wife Missouri BUFFINGTON >> >>I believe you may be on the right track in thinking that BYRD was >>somewhere a surname connected to your family. Many families did this. >> >>Glad your hubby Tony is okay. I've heard some real horror stories about >>those spiders. >> >>COTHRAN and various spellings is a name seen around this North Florida >>area too! >> >>Sharon >> >> >> >>1. SEABORN J.1 BYRD was born Abt. 1830 in Alabama, and died 04 April 1899 >>in Jackson County, Florida. He married (1) ELIZABETH Abt. 1850. She was >>born Abt. 1830 in Georgia. He married (2) MARY JOHANNA SUTTON 10 December >>1890 in Marianna, Jackson County, Florida. She was born November 1867 in >>Jackson County, Florida, and died 20 November 1901 in Jackson County, >>Florida. >> >> >>Children of SEABORN BYRD and ELIZABETH are: >> >>i. JOHN E.2 BYRD, b. 18 November 1861; d. 22 August 1941. >> >>ii. SEABORN WARREN BYRD, b. 30 March 1868; d. 30 August 1927; m. NORA >>WINIFRED NEWLEN, 18 November 1907, Suwannee County, Florida; b. 29 June >>1889; d. 21 October 1934, Suwannee County, Florida. >> >>iii. WILLIAM FRANK BYRD, b. 07 September 1870, Georgia; d. 08 July 1949, >>Lafayette County, Florida; m. ALTHEA "ALLIE" SESSIONS, 06 February 1895, >>Lafayette County, Florida; b. 31 May 1875; d. 18 March 1927, Lafayette >>County, Florida. >> >> >>Children of SEABORN BYRD and MARY SUTTON are: >> >>iv. JOHN SHIRAM2 BYRD, b. December 1891. >> >>v. HARRISON SEABORN BYRD, b. 11 October 1894, Jackson County, Florida; d. >>21 January 1976, Jackson County, Florida; m. RUBY RENTHIA RILEY, Abt. >>1917; b. 28 October 1896, Houston County, Alabama; d. 02 March 1979, >>Marianna, Jackson County, Florida. >> >>vi. JAMES ARTHUR BYRD, b. 08 January 1896; d. Abt. 1908. >> >>vii. FRANCES CHARLOTTE BYRD, b. 28 December 1897, Jackson County, Florida; >>d. 04 October 1975, Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida; m. GEORGE IVEY >>JOHNSON, 05 May 1912, Chipley, Washington County, Florida; b. 20 June >>1894, Decatur County, Georgia; d. 14 November 1980, Jacksonville, Duval >>County, Florida. >> >> >><snipped> >> >>>Help guys what Byrd family..................... >>> >>He visited back and forth from AL to Hamburg, AR to the county of Ashley. >>He went to visit his children there! >> >>They were both born in GA but I have no clue as to where???? >> >>He met and married Miss Mary Ann WHITE in old Benton Co. now Calhoun Co., >>AL >>Sept. 25, 1851Next I find William B. Cothran buried in the Anitosh >>Cemetery there in >>Ashley Co. AR and in the upper right hand corner is the name BYRD Gail< >> >>==== GAWARE Mailing List ==== >>GAWARE Archives: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/GA/ware.html >>GAWARE GenWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~gaware/ >> >>============================== >>Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >>last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >>http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >> >> >> >> > > > ==== GAWARE Mailing List ==== > GAWARE Archives: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/GA/ware.html > GAWARE GenWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~gaware/ > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >