This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------15B7060BAEA79346784D3E23 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Marie, As I've said before -- don't give up. Every time I come across David I check his date of birth (if possible) to see if it could be your David. Haven't forgotten you you see. I think it's good that you remind us of your search now and then so we can all keep an eye out for your David. Glad you did now. I just wish I could tell you I've found him but so far I haven't. I am looking though. Good luck and hang in there. di Marie and Bill Bailey wrote: > I want to add a little to this discussion, although it won't necessarily add > any fact to add to Linda's information. The earliest Starr my family has > been able to trace is David Starr who said he was born in Ohio in 1816. He > married Emmeline (we think Sneed/Snead) and their first children were born > in Missouri. We don't know which county in Missouri or whether they married > there. Emmeline says on the census she was born in Kentucky. > Their oldest son was named John. My Starr family moved into Arkansas > shortly before the 1850 census. David Starr's son married a Yandell who's > mother's maiden name was Adair. That was James Amos Starr. His brother > married her sister. The Yandells were from North Carolina. I have puzzled > off and on whether the Starrs and Yandells met each other in Arkansas or if > the families had traveled in the same areas over the years. > We have thought there was some Indian blood in the family line but have > only been able to positively identify it as it comes in through the > Yandell/Adair union. My mother and I thought, without facts to prove it, > that our line came originally from Pa. I have also wondered if it didn't > come from Moravian beginnings. > So far, I have been unable to definitely link my David to any of the > established lines. I guess ours are some of the "lost lines of Starrs". > There were several Starr families in Arkansas who did not seem to be > related. There were also Starr families in Ohio that we can't seem to link > to. I'm sure it's possible that some of these Starrs were connected in some > way and that THEY knew the connection over the years without thinking it was > important enough to stress. It would be a little like some of us knowing who > some of our cousins married but didn't see them enough for our children to > remember them. > And, one more thing, I read in the last several months of a Starr line > that left the colonial area and came to the Georgia area. They left here and > went to the Ar, Mo, In. area. > Like I said, I wanted to join the discussion-just didn't necessarily have > any facts to be helpful, just background. > Marie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Starr81 <starr81@ix.netcom.com> > To: <STARR-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 12:18 PM > Subject: Re: Cherokee Starrs > > > >been among them. Thus, Caleb may not have been the only progenitor of > the > > >Cherokee Starrs. However he and his sons, being treaty signers, are the > > best > > >known. > > > > This is a very good point brought up by Adrian; in fact, I plan to > > provide documentation (when things settle down and I relocate it) for > > Caleb's birthyear in 1764 rather than the usual estimated 1758 which > proves > > beyond > > a doubt, the 'Indian trader' attributed as Caleb Starr in Ramsay's History > > of Tennessee or Summer's Annals of SW VA can't be the one who married > Nancy > > Harlan. > > I have several sources which say "an Indian trader" / "an Indian trader > named > > STARR" and finally "Caleb Starr" harangued the Indian chiefs to not attack > > the whites. This was during the RW. I've often wondered who this "Indian > > trader Starr" is? Or could he be only attributed to Caleb, so wasn't a > > STARR. But > > certainly there are enough southern STARRs without lineage out there to > NOT > > rule out any possibility along the lines of another Indian connection. > > Linda > > > > --------------15B7060BAEA79346784D3E23 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="razzberri.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Diana Starr Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="razzberri.vcf" begin:vcard n:Cloutier;Diana Starr x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:razzberri@earthlink.net x-mozilla-cpt:;1 fn:Diana Starr Cloutier end:vcard --------------15B7060BAEA79346784D3E23--