I was reading a genealogy book and I came across an article which contains so many intersections for me I had to post them. This is a conglomeration of the [[GREER/ROBERSON]] and the [[SWAFFORD families in Bledsoe Tennessee around 1865]] questions. Both of these areas of research I have always thought were separate. Now, for some reason, they seem to come together here. Could be a coincidence, but very interesting.
It is from a book
SWAFFORDS OF SEQUATCHIE
VALLEY, TENNESSEE
THIRD EDITION
VOLUME 2
on page 1114 there is a photocopy of a newspaper (PAGE 10 - THE BLEDSONIAN BANNER. PIKEVILLE, TENNESSEE 37367 - THURSDAY, JANUARY 29,1987)
Roberson builds "Belleview" around 1820
The old Roberson brick borne, built by James
Roberson around 1820. was located about six
miles south of Pikeville near the Sequatchie
River, on the farm now owned by Clay Greer. The
family pictured is the Samuel H. L. Swafford
family before they moved to west Texas in the
late 1890s. Sam Swafford was s grandson of
James Roberson.
James Roberson a veteran of the War of
1812, was a large landowner and slave owner. The
home, known as "Belleview," stood until around
1930. Margaret Roberson, the fifth daughter of
James and Margaret Worthington Roberson, was
born and reared at the Roberson borne. She was
the great-great-grandmother of US. Congressman
Jim Cooper from the Fourth District of
Tennessee.
The photograph was submitted by the
Bledsoe County Histories] Society. It is owned
by Elizabeth Robnett, county historian.
Need to research the children of this famly:
Roberson-1119
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Saturday, June 25, 2016
An interesting article with a confluence of coincidence (or is it).
I was reading a genealogy book and I came across an article which contains so many intersections for me I had to post them. This is a conglomeration of the [[GREER/ROBERSON]] and the [[SWAFFORD families in Bledsoe Tennessee around 1865]] questions. Both of these areas of research I have always thought were separate. Now, for some reason, they seem to come together here. Could be a coincidence, but very interesting.
It is from a book
SWAFFORDS OF SEQUATCHIE
VALLEY, TENNESSEE
THIRD EDITION
VOLUME 2
on page 1114 there is a photocopy of a newspaper (PAGE 10 - THE BLEDSONIAN BANNER. PIKEVILLE, TENNESSEE 37367 - THURSDAY, JANUARY 29,1987)
Roberson builds "Belleview" around 1820
The old Roberson brick borne, built by James
Roberson around 1820. was located about six
miles south of Pikeville near the Sequatchie
River, on the farm now owned by Clay Greer. The
family pictured is the Samuel H. L. Swafford
family before they moved to west Texas in the
late 1890s. Sam Swafford was s grandson of
James Roberson.
James Roberson a veteran of the War of
1812, was a large landowner and slave owner. The
home, known as "Belleview," stood until around
1930. Margaret Roberson, the fifth daughter of
James and Margaret Worthington Roberson, was
born and reared at the Roberson borne. She was
the great-great-grandmother of US. Congressman
Jim Cooper from the Fourth District of
Tennessee.
The photograph was submitted by the
Bledsoe County Histories] Society. It is owned
by Elizabeth Robnett, county historian.
Need to research the children of this famly:
Roberson-1119
It is from a book
SWAFFORDS OF SEQUATCHIE
VALLEY, TENNESSEE
THIRD EDITION
VOLUME 2
on page 1114 there is a photocopy of a newspaper (PAGE 10 - THE BLEDSONIAN BANNER. PIKEVILLE, TENNESSEE 37367 - THURSDAY, JANUARY 29,1987)
Roberson builds "Belleview" around 1820
The old Roberson brick borne, built by James
Roberson around 1820. was located about six
miles south of Pikeville near the Sequatchie
River, on the farm now owned by Clay Greer. The
family pictured is the Samuel H. L. Swafford
family before they moved to west Texas in the
late 1890s. Sam Swafford was s grandson of
James Roberson.
James Roberson a veteran of the War of
1812, was a large landowner and slave owner. The
home, known as "Belleview," stood until around
1930. Margaret Roberson, the fifth daughter of
James and Margaret Worthington Roberson, was
born and reared at the Roberson borne. She was
the great-great-grandmother of US. Congressman
Jim Cooper from the Fourth District of
Tennessee.
The photograph was submitted by the
Bledsoe County Histories] Society. It is owned
by Elizabeth Robnett, county historian.
Need to research the children of this famly:
Roberson-1119
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Bradley County Swaffords / Lee's
So I am going through all my matches again.
This time I notice another LEE family in Bradley County. This time the same city as the Millers. It wouldn't even need to be a travelling minister.
I wonder where the big breakthrough is going to come?
Anyway, this Lee family is also descended of the Swafford Lee family. This guy's name is Burrell Lee as well, though on this census record it is spelled Lea.
And my Miller family
It makes me wonder if some of the researchers at Ancestry might have linked the wrong Burrell Lee to their tree....
This time I notice another LEE family in Bradley County. This time the same city as the Millers. It wouldn't even need to be a travelling minister.
I wonder where the big breakthrough is going to come?
Anyway, this Lee family is also descended of the Swafford Lee family. This guy's name is Burrell Lee as well, though on this census record it is spelled Lea.
| Name: | Burrell Lee | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age: | 38 | ||||||||||||||||
| Birth Year: | abt 1822 | ||||||||||||||||
| Gender: | Male | ||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Tennessee | ||||||||||||||||
| Home in 1860: | District 10, Bradley, Tennessee | ||||||||||||||||
| Post Office: | Cleveland | ||||||||||||||||
| Family Number: | 984 | ||||||||||||||||
| Value of real estate: | View image | ||||||||||||||||
| Household Members: |
|
And my Miller family
| Name: | Mary A McMiller [Mary A Miller] |
||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age: | 25 | ||||||||||||||
| Birth Year: | abt 1835 | ||||||||||||||
| Gender: | Female | ||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Tennessee | ||||||||||||||
| Home in 1860: | District 10, Bradley, Tennessee | ||||||||||||||
| Post Office: | Cleveland | ||||||||||||||
| Family Number: | 938 | ||||||||||||||
| Value of real estate: | View image | ||||||||||||||
| Household Members: |
|
It makes me wonder if some of the researchers at Ancestry might have linked the wrong Burrell Lee to their tree....
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
A confusing DNA story
AncestryDNA has a new feature that links your DNA results to family that are not included in your tree.
This is all well and good for finding your way through brickwalls, but when it affects a portion of your tree you thought you had all mapped out, it is quite upsetting.
This happened to me in the case of Burrell Russell Lee (1804-1877) and Louhaney Paralee Swafford (1800-1863). AncestryDNA states there is a very good chance I am related to this couple.
First I thought I had a great breakthrough for one of my brick walls. Mary Matilda Robertson (1845-1901) or James Jesse Guider (1849-1909), both of which I have not been able to trace back to their parents. However, this was quickly dashed when I realized two things. The birth dates did not make sense and the location was off.
My first task was to find out about the Lee family. I saw that they lived in Tennessee where my Miller family was. As I looked closer I saw that they did not have any unaccounted for kids, with birth dates that would link up. I looked at my Miller family and saw that Sherman Andrew Miller was born in 1865.
Digging a little deeper I noticed that the Lee family was not living in Tennessee for the period when Sherman would have been conceived, except for one son, Anderson Lee (1837-1905). He was actually living in Tennessee, and was a traveling preacher. There is a story posted about him online, going from community to community staying at people's homes. Hmm. Was John Manson Miller away at war during 1864? I know that he was a G.A.R. solider from the same article regarding his 90th birthday. Perhaps Anderson Lee did a visit to my great grandmother Malissa Ann Stiles (1832-1885).
This seems to make a lot of sense on the surface. Especially considering that Anderson Lee was also know as "Andrew Lee", Andrew being Sherman's middle name.
OK. So that was all a pretty good bit of detective work I thought until I did one more search. I went page by page through the 1860 Census of Bradley County to see if my family was living there at the time. I have never been able to find them on the census before, and it was suggested to me I might find them there. So indeed, there they were, classified as McMiller. OK Case made.
But then in cleaning up everything I thought I would go to familysearch.org and make sure that I linked the McMiller census record to my family. As I was doing that, I noticed the oldest son, William had already been linked to someone else, that, get this, had married a Swafford and had a child named Olena Miller (1879-1967). Olena Miller married Henry S. Randolph.
What could this mean? Well to save the name of Malissa Stiles, it could mean her son, William got a girl pregnant when he was 13 years old and had Sherman Miller in addition to later marrying the Swafford and having Olena. If it is the Swafford previously mentioned, no first name was given, but a birth year of 1856 or 1857 was reported, it would make her about 9 or 10.
Then, Malissa and John would have raised Sherman as their own. This would indeed make the 90th birthday story accurate in the number of children John and Malissa had.
All of this is curious. I hope to find out the answer to it someday. I am hoping to find some of Olena's descendants.
This is all well and good for finding your way through brickwalls, but when it affects a portion of your tree you thought you had all mapped out, it is quite upsetting.
This happened to me in the case of Burrell Russell Lee (1804-1877) and Louhaney Paralee Swafford (1800-1863). AncestryDNA states there is a very good chance I am related to this couple.
First I thought I had a great breakthrough for one of my brick walls. Mary Matilda Robertson (1845-1901) or James Jesse Guider (1849-1909), both of which I have not been able to trace back to their parents. However, this was quickly dashed when I realized two things. The birth dates did not make sense and the location was off.
My first task was to find out about the Lee family. I saw that they lived in Tennessee where my Miller family was. As I looked closer I saw that they did not have any unaccounted for kids, with birth dates that would link up. I looked at my Miller family and saw that Sherman Andrew Miller was born in 1865.
Digging a little deeper I noticed that the Lee family was not living in Tennessee for the period when Sherman would have been conceived, except for one son, Anderson Lee (1837-1905). He was actually living in Tennessee, and was a traveling preacher. There is a story posted about him online, going from community to community staying at people's homes. Hmm. Was John Manson Miller away at war during 1864? I know that he was a G.A.R. solider from the same article regarding his 90th birthday. Perhaps Anderson Lee did a visit to my great grandmother Malissa Ann Stiles (1832-1885).
This seems to make a lot of sense on the surface. Especially considering that Anderson Lee was also know as "Andrew Lee", Andrew being Sherman's middle name.
OK. So that was all a pretty good bit of detective work I thought until I did one more search. I went page by page through the 1860 Census of Bradley County to see if my family was living there at the time. I have never been able to find them on the census before, and it was suggested to me I might find them there. So indeed, there they were, classified as McMiller. OK Case made.
But then in cleaning up everything I thought I would go to familysearch.org and make sure that I linked the McMiller census record to my family. As I was doing that, I noticed the oldest son, William had already been linked to someone else, that, get this, had married a Swafford and had a child named Olena Miller (1879-1967). Olena Miller married Henry S. Randolph.
What could this mean? Well to save the name of Malissa Stiles, it could mean her son, William got a girl pregnant when he was 13 years old and had Sherman Miller in addition to later marrying the Swafford and having Olena. If it is the Swafford previously mentioned, no first name was given, but a birth year of 1856 or 1857 was reported, it would make her about 9 or 10.
Then, Malissa and John would have raised Sherman as their own. This would indeed make the 90th birthday story accurate in the number of children John and Malissa had.
All of this is curious. I hope to find out the answer to it someday. I am hoping to find some of Olena's descendants.
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