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 > > > > >