Matt, I am originally from Wayne/Duplin County, NC...My cousin's line of Lewis WARD and his wife Susan MOZINGO migrated from the county to Quitman, GA so it is possible they first went to GA then to TN...Does your WARD line tie in With Luke WARD, SR or JR and if so do have the complete siblings for Luke WARD, SR and Bridgett Draughon? Gayle W. Licari MattWard@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 6/9/98 8:24:37 AM Central Daylight Time, > iscre@titan.cc.emory.edu writes: > > << A lot of the descendents ended up in Wilson and Smithh Counties, > TN. Here are some abstracts I copied. I had done this out of > interest in the name Bryan Ward. One of my ancestors was a > "white" son of Bryan Ward who married Nancy Ward. > > Bob Erwin >> > > I, too, did a lot of research in an effort to connect Bryan Ward, the husband > of the Cherokee Gighau Nancy Ward, to my line of Bryan (aka Bryant) Ward > descendants. I have concluded that the Bryant Ward (son of John and Rockalena > Ward) is definitely not the same person. However, I continue to search for a > connection. I do know that my Bryant was apparently born in Georgia because > this is what he stated to a census taker in Smith Co. in the 1850 census. All > we know about John and Rockalena in this era is that they married in Duplin > Co. NC in 1782 and showed up in Smith Co. TN around 1798. There is no > information on whether they migrated directly from Duplin or possibly went > first to Georgia, where Bryant was born, then to Tennessee, but this would > explain how their son, Bryant came to be born in Georgia. The presumed fact > that Bryant was born in Georgia as the census states lends more support to the > possibility that our Bryant and his father, John, were kin to the other Bryant > that married Nancy because Georgia is where that Bryant was living at the time > (near the banks of the Tugalo river) and this fact might have drawn our John > Ward down there. > > Matt Ward