This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/mYSBAEB/170.3 Message Board Post: I am just reviewing your posting. In my database I have many men named BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TREADWAY/TREDAWAY/TREDWAY/TREDAWAY (the surname spelling varies from record to record). This particular Benjamin Franklin Treadaway (b c 1854 Arkansas), and his brother, William J. Tredaway (b c 1857 Arkansas), appear to be the children of JOHN W. TREADAWAY (b c 1837 GA) and MARY E. [last not known]. See the 1850 Arkansas census record, Concord, Green County. By the 1860 Big Creek, Green County, Arkansas census these two boys (ages 14 and 11, respectively), are shown as orphans, and are living in the home of their paternal grandparents: John C. and Rebecca Treadaway. John C. Treadaway (b c 1812 SC) is the son of Richard Treadway and Nancy Smith of SC. John grew to manhood in SC -- then travelled to Tennessee, where he lived for nearly 10 years -- he then went into Georgia, and from there migrated to Arkansas. Richard Treadway (et. al.) of SC, father of John C., is descended from the Cumberland Co NC Treadway clan which belongs to Richard Treadway (b 1706 MD/d 1777 NC, will), who migrated to Virginia before settling in Cumberland Co NC circa 1752. Richard Treadway (1706/1777) is the son of Richard Treadway (b c 1677 unk/d 1720 MD) and Mary Jane Parker Smith. [Richard Treadway (1677/1720) lineage unproved -- may be the son of Josiah Treadway of MA & Sarah Sweetman; Josiah of MA a son of Nathaniel Treadway (b c 1605 England/d MA) and Sufferany HOWE, a daughter of the church elder, Edward Howe (Eng/MA).] *This Benjamin Franklin Treadway (Treadaway) (b 1820 VA) married Nancy Elizabeth Allen [daughter of John Allen & Esther Neel] is the son of the unwed, Nancy Elizabeth Treadway. This Benjamin was born in, and lived in, Scott Co VA. His only sibling was Nancy Elizabeth Treadway (b 1825 VA/d 1853 VA), married Hiram S. Cocke, and had one son, Benjamin Franklin Cocke (b 1853 VA/d 1853 VA). Following her death, Hiram remarried and migrated to Kentucky. This Benjamin Franklin Treadway, also, migrated to Kentucky in his later years. [Nancy Elizabeth Treadway, Benjamin's mother, died of cancer in Scott Co VA in 1855 -- see that counties' death records.] ** Benjamin Franklin Treadway (b c 1824, Sullivan Co TN/d c 1910 Carter Co TN -- TN death records, Carter Co TN obit), was a farmer. This Benjamin Franklin was the son of John A. Treadway (b c 1785, then NC, now Sullivan Co TN), a son of Robert Treadway (b 1762 MD/1835 Sullivan Co TN) &, Quaker, Nancy Lynch (b c 1762, now Bedford Co VA/d 1845 Carter Co TN) and Onijah Holt (b c 1795 TN/1881 Carter Co TN), daughter of Henry Holt. This Benjamin Franklin married M. Evalina Shawley, daughter of James Shawley & Rebecca Head. [See court and census records of Sullivan, Carter & Washington counties in Tennessee.] [Onijah -- Benjamin Franklin's mother, was a widow by the 1850 TN census -- sometimes she is listed as the head of household, but in some census records she will be listed under other household heads: ie, her son, Robert Treadway.] Hope some of this unravels the confusion of the Benjamin's.