Hi, again, Let me run my ideas about the King family of the Carolinas by you, and I hope you will tell me if they make any sense or not. I have been trying and trying over decades to track down the origins of my paternal grandparents, Joseph Bowden Neely, Sr. and Nettie King Neely Riley. My Kings are an especially incredible mystery from the North Carolina/South Carolina border area. By 1920 my grandparents were living in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia where all their children and grandchildren were later born. Joe had his own business selling Indian motorcycles. When the couple left the Carolinas, they cut all family ties and resisted efforts by family to reestablish contact, even when Joe died, and Nettie was left to raise her 5-year-old son and infant son alone during the Depression. My grandparents seem to have intentionally distorted some aspects of their history. For example, my grandparents said they were from Wilmington, New Hanover County, NC when I have found out that Joe was from Bayboro, Horry County, SC. My grandmother told my father she was of French descent. She mentioned her brother Lonnie O. King and an unnamed sister who took her in when her mother died. Otherwise, she refused to answer any questions about herself or her huband's family. My uncle tells me that into the 1950s my grandmother received letters from a woman relative in Baltimore, Maryland but that my grandmother destroyed the letters and never wrote back. From my father's baby book, I know his grandparents were Joseph E. Neely and Sharlotte [Lee] Neely and Eddie and Margarett King. I have suspected that Eddie is George Edward King and that Margarett is Margaret Elizabeth Turnage King, both of Chesterfield County, SC. The names are right, as are the dates and locations. (Could Edward and Margaret's child, "Lanlee"/"Lawlee," be another name for "Lonnie"?) Plus, Margaret Elizabeth Turnage King died about the same time my grandmother spoke of her mother dying. One of Edward and Margaret's children was Pauline, a name my grandmother's brother, Lonnie King, also gave to one of his children. Edward King's remarriage after his first wife's death is the kind of thing that would have caused my grandmother to cut all ties with him. So here's what I know: (1) Eddie King (born around 1850-1870 probably in the Carolinas-death date unknown) married Margarett (maybe Marguerite) (maiden name unknown) (born around 1850-1870 probably in the Carolinas-death date unknown). One or both of them supposedly had French ancestry. They had at least three children: a son Lonnie O. King and two daughters, one named Nettie King Neely Riley, and another possibly named Pauline King (married name may have been Bailey). (2) With his first wife (Lizzie Huggins King) Lonnie O. King (1890-1931) had at least two children, Pauline King (married name unknown) and Rembert Lonzo King (1909-1969). By his second wife, Mary Margaret Chappell King (1896-1977), he had a daughter, Helen Chappell King Greene (born 1928), who married Jesse Lewis Greene (1923-2000). Rembert Lonzo King, who lived in the Marion and Dillon County, SC area, married Nina Lee Bristow, and they had at least two children, Ramona King (married name unknown) and Marion Douglas King (1928-1998). Marion Douglas King married Mina S. (maiden name unknown), and they had at least three children. Lonnie King lived in Saint Paul's, Robeson County, NC when he died in 1931 and is buried near Raeford, Hoke County, NC (2) Meanwhile, Lonnie O. King's sister, Nettie King (1896-1958), married Joseph Bowden Neely, Sr. (1888-1928), and they moved to Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia. They had two sons who survived infancy, Joseph Bowden Neely, Jr. (1923-1974), my father, and James Robert Neely, Sr. (born 1927), my uncle. Joseph Bowden Neely, Jr. married Kathleen Bell Neely (born 1922), and they had one daughter, me. James Robert Neely, Sr. married Betty Douglas Neely (born 1927), and they had two sons. I have spent years tracking down just this little information. Any help or ideas would be appreciated. I see that among the children of George Edward King and Margaret Elizabeth Turnage King there is a daughter named Pauline but no children named Lonnie or Nettie. Could "Lonnie" and "Nettie" be nicknames for some other names? Could some of the children (like Lonnie and Nettie) be missing from records? Thank you for any ideas or information. Sharlotte Neely Donnelly donnelly@one.net http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/o/n/Sharlotte--N-Donnelly Frank Melton wrote: > Sharlotte > I think this attachment is the info. you are looking for. > > E. Frank Melton > ODDC Web Manager > www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/7212 > > On Sun, 09 Dec 2001 14:12:58 -0500 Tom Donnelly and Sharlotte Neely > <donnelly@one.net> writes: > > Hi, > > I am looking (1) for the parents of George Edward King (born in > > 1869, > > probably in Chesterfield County, SC) of the Carolinas. He was > > married > > to Margaret Elizabeth Turnage and after her death to Alma Cauthin > > Kelly. (2) I would also love a list of all his children, by each > > wife, > > and (3) to know his burial place. I hope someone can help me. > > Thanks, > > Sharlotte Neely Donnelly > > http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/o/n/Sharlotte--N-Donnelly > > > > > > ==== SCCHESTERFIELD Mailing List ==== > > A 'roll call' by any other name is still just a list of surnames. > > Please, no roll calls on this list! > > > > ============================== > > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > > > > > > E. 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