See my ARLEDGE FAMILY HISTORY PROJECT at http://www.geocities.com/heartland/prairie/8208
On my father's side, I am researching the WILSON and CHANDLER families of Person County, NC and Pittsylvania County, VA. I have reached a dead-end with his grandparents John W. WILSON, born c1812, his wife Mary Eliza WESTWOOD of Person Co, NC, and John PUGH and Mary GILLIS of Pittsylvania Co, VA. On the CHANDLER side, I am told that I descend from colonial immigrant to VA John Chandler through several generations to Joel and then Henderson Chandler of Person Co, NC. My g-grandmother was descended from John DAY and Bethlehem BOWLING (BOLLING) who married in Stafford CO, VA in 1748. I'd like more information on any of these families.
I've been able to trace my mother's roots (ARLEDGE and NASH families) back much further. On one side, she's descended from the NASH, BABB, HORNER, MAHAFFEY, HOPKINS and KELLETT families of Laurens Co, SC. The Babb family has deep roots that go back through Frederick Co, VA, New Castle, DE to Isle of Shoals, NH to England. They married with the HUSSEY and BATCHELDER (BACHILER) families of Hampton, NH. The Hussey line goes back to Surrey and Kent, England, marrying with Perkins, Wise, Pigot, Gater, Grey, Berkeley, Herbert, Percy, Holland, Mortimer, Plantagenet, Neville, and other families of Anglo-Norman nobility.
My maternal great-grandmother was a MORRIS, descendent of Churchwell, George and John Morris (see below) of Rutherford and Tryon Cos, NC, and of the Scotch-Irish GRAY, DICKEY, McCLURE, McCLUNG and McKEY (McKY, MACKEY) families who came to NC through the Shenandoah Valley, especially Augusta and Rockbridge Cos, VA.
My maternal grandfather's line is tied to the ARLEDGE and WALDROP and HOLBERT families of Polk and Rutherford Counties of Western NC. ARLEDGE is my main research focus. I have the Arledge family traced back through Fairfield Co, SC to the Clement Aldridge/Arledge family of Northumberland CO, VA in the 1600s, descended (perhaps) from the Rev. Henry Aldred in Worstead, Norfolk, England in the 1500s. The WALDROP family is documented back to Luke Waldrop of Hanover Co, VA, son of Michael Wardrope of Edinburgh, Scotland. On this side I also have connections to the WEAVER family of RI (one of them settled in Spartanburg Co, SC), originally from Glastonbury, Somerset, England, and one of their maternal spurs, the Welsh ADAMS family (originally Ap Adam), descended from the GOURNAY, De Gournay, de Gournai and DE WARENNE (WARREN) families that came from Normandy to England with William the Conqueror in 1066.
PLEASE NOTE: I'd love more information on any of these people and their families. IF YOU HAVE ANYONE NAMED *ARLEDGE* IN YOUR TREE, PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH ME--I AM TRYING TO DOCUMENT THE ARLEDGE FAMILY IN AMERICA. See my Arledge Family History Project web site (link above), and join the Arledge/Aldridge research and discussion list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Arledge/.
The other tree on my web page includes the ancestors of my son, Nolan Timothy Wilson Smith, whose SMITH and LAWLER families come from western Tennessee (Henderson and Decatur counties).
Mystery ancestors whose origins I especially need help with:
*Peyton or Payton S. HUNTER of Spartanburg Co, SC, died 1864 in Polk CO, NC. Born in VA, but where? He was killed in an incident involving the Home Guard from Henderson County in the week following Christmas 1864--his son Sam Hunter and Sam's wife's father Francis A. "Frank" Weaver were also killed in cold blood, all of them my ancestors, as well as a few other men including a Young Hampton. I am seeking to reconstruct the events of that week, which involved a Home Guard unit under the command of a James W. Jones of Henderson County and also involved the prominent Polk County physician Columbus Mills.
*George WILLIAMS (1770-1869) born possibly in England, died in Polk Co, NC, where he owned much land; and his wife Abigail BRADEN (1786-1855), daught
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