Sharon, Old Benton Co now known as Calhoun Co. AL is in SE AL.! Hummmmmmmmmmm perhaps I should go back to ancestry and check Jacksonville P.O. Benton Co. AL. 1850 and search for the surname Byrd instead of White and Cothran and see what I come up with. Gail ----- Original Message ----- From: "shadri" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 2:02 PM Subject: [GAWARE] Re: Gail : BYRD, WHITE etc > > 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 > >