CURRENTLY RESEARCHING THE FOLLOWING ANCESTORS:
1. THOMAS JEFFERSON HUGHES:
TJH died in Vernon Parish, LA 1910. Records showing his place of birth are contradictory. He may have been born in Mississippi or South Carolina, 1820-1833. One record indicates he was born in COPIAH County, MS.in 1820. A "ton" of research in Copiah Co. failed to confirm that. In any case he enlisted in the Confederate Army in Little Rock AR in Aug. 1861. Reported to have been farming in St. Francis Co. AR prior to then. St Francis Co. AR is a burned records county and no record of TJ having been there has been found. According to the 1880 census for Rapides Parish, LA, it appears that TJ had a daughter, Lucy, born in Louisiana, in 1862 from a possible FIRST marriage.
SECOND MARRIAGEwas to my great grandmother Rachel Foster Baily in South Central LA in 1867. They had 8 children in Rapides and Vernon Parish. Children by this marriage were:
Frances m. Jesse Musselwhite; William Preston m. Mary Ella Sirman; Thomas E. married Sophronia Odom; Dr. Arthur Monroe; James Russell m. Lucretia Belvin and Maggie m. Mid Farris.
2. DAVID PARKER, born circa 1801 Anderson Co. SC The 1850 De Kalb Co. GA census listed David's family as follows:
David Parker 49 M SC
Elizabeth 48 F SC
Alexander 28 M SC
Rosa A./Rosannah 22 F SC
James 21 M SC
William A.S. 17 M GA
LEONIDAS 13 M GA
Elizabeth 8 F GA
Mary A. 4 F GA
David's first wife was reported to have been been Mary Ann Stephenson, who died when Leonidas was an infant.
3. JONATHAN SIRMAN: Born in NC circa 1760. Several SIRMAN/SIRMONS families lived in Beaufort, Hyde, Pitt and Dobbs Counties NC.in the 1700's. Jonathan witnessed a deed in Pitt Co in 1782; He migrated to Barnwell District SC, thence to MS where he died after 1830. We thought for years that Jonathan was the son of Edward SIRMAN b. NC circa 1740. However, recent DNA tests do not substantiate this theory.
I am interested in all data relative to Jonathan Sirman, shown on the Winton Co. SC 1790 census as Jonathan Surman.
Is there a connection with Edward Sermon who was in the MD/VA area Circa 1650-1676, and married Ann Frowin? From whom did these NC SIRMON/SIRMAN families descend?
NOTE: DNA tests now question Edward Sermon b. NC circa 1740 being the father of Jonathan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please check links below for HUGHES and SIRMAN/SIRMON/SERMON/SURMAN DNA Test results.
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