I have this, and a couple of other items about JCP Looney. Including some info from Randolph County & Carroll County, Arkansas, and some census info that appears to show Andrew J Looney (son of JCP Looney) eventually wound up in California. My line is from Robert (1), Absalom (2), Michael (3), William (4) ... Regards, ///Steve Looney/// ============================================= Passages from the Walker Co, GA Heritage Book ============================================= #767 Perry LOONEY John Commadore Perry LOONEY was in Walker Co in 1845 when he married Mary Ann JESTER, daughter of Nathan and Anny JESTER. Anny Jester was an Indian maiden born in that part of the Cherokee Nation later to become Gwinnett County. Perry was a descendant of Robert LOONEY who was born on the Isle of Man, England circa 1695. Robert and wife Elizabeth, with seven sons and two daughters, immigrated to the Colonies circa 1733 and in 1742 obtained a land patent in Augusta County, Virginia. They added six more sons to their family, four of whom fought in the Revolutionary War attaining ranks of Colonel and Major. Many of Robert's descendants became lawmen, sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, Judges, and attorneys. Perry and Polly Looney included in their household Perry's mother, Margaret Looney, Polly's brother Samuel Jester and, later, the widowed Anny Jester and her two spinster daughters, Nancy E. and Susannah. Perry and his mother joined the Shiloh Baptist Church by letter one Sunday in August, 1851. During the Civil War Perry, a blacksmith, was shoeing a horse belonging to the occupying Federal army when one of the soldiers made a disparaging remark about Perry's Indian wife. Ten-year-old Samuel promptly hit the soldier in the head with a hammer. Unfortunately, the soldier died and Perry spend the remaining months of the War in the army prison. Descendants of Samuel still have the ill-fated hammer. After the War Perry's neighbors did not take kindly to his Indian wife and called him "squaw man." Finally, to escape the harrassment, Perry moved his family to Carroll County, Arkansas, in 1773. ///note: this date should be 1873???-csl/// Descendants of Perry and Mary Ann may still be found in Arkansas, Washington, and Texas. Children of Perry and Mary Ann Looney were: 1) Elizabeth, 2) John L. married Martha Brock, 3) Francis married Elizabeth Kesterson, 4) Samuel Leander married Avis Boggs, 5) Nancy A. married Bail, 6) Susannah, (married William Wiley Neal in Carroll Co AR) 7) Frances Young 8) Andrew J. unmarried, 9) Robert L. unmarried 10) James unmarried. ---credit to Dr. Norma Tompkins ============================================= #141 John BROCK (exerpt) ...To John and Lucinda (BROCK) were born five children, 1) Roland Thomas 2) Rebecca Clenda Jane ... 3) John W 4) Mary A. Clementine ... 5) Martha Elenda, born on April 12, 1850,married JOHN LOONEY. Their children were Mary Lucinda Paralee, Susannah Caldonia, Rosetta J. ---credit to Viola Smith ============================================= #142 Lucinda BROCK (exerpt) ... As a young bride, Lucinda came to Walker County in 1836 with her husband John BROCK. They traveled from Habersham with her parents, Roland KINSEY and Margaret Piethill KINSEY, the Kinsey children, and several young Brock males, brothers and cousins of John. This band of travelers settled first in log cabins built and left by the recently departed Cherokee, near a knoll that had been an Indian burial ground (in Armuchee Valley). ... John died in 1855 leaving four teenagers and the five-year-old Martha. ... During the War years, after sons Roland Thomas and John W. had been conscripted into the Confederate Army, Lucinda and her two young daughters, Mary and Martha, made a crop of corn only to have it harvested by the Federal Army. Sixteen-year-old Martha pleaded with General Sherman's men to spare the crop, later saying, "I worked in the field that year and helped make that corn. I hoed every bit of it. We were left without anything on earth to eat. I worked hard to make it." ...Lucinda spent the last nine months of War at Tunnel Hill where her daughter, Mary Clementine, married a Federal Soldier. After the surrender, Lucinda and family returned to Villanow to live near daughter Rebecca Cannamore/Kennemere and widowed daughter-in-law Hannah CATES BROCK (wife of Roland Thomas). ...Martha married John L. LOONEY but after three short years, John "hitched up the wagon to go to town and never came back." Mary's husband, Asa Smith, left about the same time. ... Lucinda spent the remaining years of her life with Martha Elenda Looney and her three daughters, Paralee, Caladonia and Rosetta. Together the four widows--Lucinda, Hannah, Mary and Martha-- managed to keep their families together during the reconstruction period by living on the lad that Roland KINSEY had won in the land lottery. Lucinda died in 1882 and was buried on the tree- shaded knoll overlooking the Indian village which had been her first home as a young bride. ---credit to Dr. Norma Tompkins ============================================= > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Re: [LOONEY-L] Occupations/social class for Absalom Looney and son > benjamin > From: > "Larry W Johnson" <johnsonl@flash.net> > Date: > Thu, 5 May 2005 22:12:47 -0500 > To: > LOONEY-L@rootsweb.com > > To: > LOONEY-L@rootsweb.com > > > Kathy, > > Another link you may find useful is the links on my web site to the > Looney family manuscripts of Leroy Tilton. These were originally > written back in the early 1960s after many years of research. Check > out the part for Absalom Looney. It has a name index that you may > find useful. > http://home.flash.net/~johnsonl/index1.htm > > There are several other web sites out there that specialize in Looney > family history. They are listed at the bottom of this message and > should show up in your email as html links. Check them out, I think > you will find more of what you are looking for. > > Also, something that Miss Elizabeth Looney of Washington, D.C. told me > several years ago, "The Looney family on the early frontiers > apparently didn't have much to do except go to church, read the bible > and have children. They had lots of children and they gave them all > bible names." > > > Good luck with writing your paper. > > Larry > Grapevine, TX > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy" <3littleangels@comcast.net> > To: <LOONEY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 10:58 PM > Subject: RE: [LOONEY-L] Occupations/social class for Absalom Looney > and son benjamin > > >> Thank you Karen! I really appreciate the link and the time you took to >> search for it. >> >> Kathy >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Karen Ray [mailto:karenray@1starnet.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 9:13 AM >> To: LOONEY-L@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [LOONEY-L] Occupations/social class for Absalom Looney and >> son benjamin >> >> >> Kathy: >> >> I ran across a rundown on the family. . .great info on Absalom, the >> name, >> his father, Ab's Valley, etc. Here is the link: >> >> http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/lochist/periodicals/ozarkswat >> ch/ow504l.htm >> >> >> At 12:24 AM 5/4/2005 -0400, you wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am researching the Looney/Luney family tree for a college class. I >> >> was >> >>> wondering if any of the researchers had run into personal information >> >> on >> >>> any of the following >>> >>> Absalom Looney, his son Benjamin Looney, his daughter Margaret Looney >>> and her son, John Commodore Perry Looney >>> >>> Personal information can include name origins, changes and patterns, >>> social class and occupation, religious preferences, education patterns >>> and educational patterns. I am a descendent of John Perry Looney. >>> >>> Thank you for any information >>> >>> Kathy >>> >>> >>> ==== LOONEY Mailing List ==== >>> This list is dedicated to the search for ancestors of LOONEY, LUNNEY, >>> LUNA (Scotch-Irish), LEENEY and variations, all of which originated in >>> County Cork, Ireland. Please refer other researchers to our list. >> >> >> >> >> >> ==== LOONEY Mailing List ==== >> See our HomePages at >> http://Members.AOL.Com/jsully7 (Descendants of Robert Lunney) or >> http://www.Flash.Net/~johnsonl (Includes Leroy W. Tilton's work) or >> http://Welcome.to/TheLooneyFamily (Elsie Stroud's Works) or >> http://www.mindspring.com/~mozark (William(4) and NE AR & SE MO >> Looneys) >> >> >> ==== LOONEY Mailing List ==== >> If you find a web page somewhere listing Manx, Irish or Scotch surnames >> and they don't include LOONEY/LUNA/etc., send them a note to let them >> know we're around. The more advertising we have, the more help we get. >> >>