Trying to track the maternal line of a family is pretty difficult (unless you are royalty, in which case you probably aren’t making your family tree since it’s been recorded throughout the years anyway). Pretty much women weren’t as important to keep up with back in the day. Really, up until 1850 when everyone in the household was required to be listed by name on the census records, the only place you could find a woman’s name was in a family Bible, marriage and divorce records and/or possibly wills. So, in an effort to keep the maternal lines of my parents fresh in your mind, I decided to list them along with the information I have (and the information I don’t have yet). Enjoy!
My direct maternal line (beginning with my grandmother):
Ruth May Craft
b. August 9, 1925 Gibson County, Tennessee
d. January 14, 2007 Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee
Katie Clady Cathey
b. December 18, 1897 Indian Bayou, Lonoke County, Arkansas
d. November 25, 1935 Trenton, Gibson County, Tennessee
Margaret Elizabeth “Lizzie” Summers
b. March 15, 1870 Tennessee
d. October 20, 1952 Martin, Weakley County, Tennessee
Amanda Summers
b. abt 1852 Tennessee
d. abt 1889 Tennessee
Emily Jane Duffel
b. abt 1822 Tennessee
d. aft 1880 Tennessee
Susan McCarroll
b. abt 1800 North Carolina
d. aft 1860 Tennessee
Susan Currey
b. abt 1770 Rockingham County, North Carolina
d. aft 1830 Williamson County, Tennessee
Elizabeth Brownlee
b. ?
d. aft 1790 Rockingham County, North Carolina
(note: I have spelled Currey as Currie in other posts and on the sidebar. It has come to light that it may actually be Currey. Also, Elizabeth Brownlee’s last name might have actually been Brownlees. I am awaiting confirmation before I change them, though. Another important note to add concerns Emily Jane Duffel. Though she seems to be listed everywhere on the internet as Susan McCarroll’s daughter, I haven’t actually seen any confirmation on it. I mean, I pretty much assumed since the census records for Susan’s husband, Allen Duffel, list an extra female-older than the rest of the children-that the Houston County, Tennessee: History and Families (Turner Publishing Company, 1995) failed to list (which isn’t surprising, considering the book is trying to tell me that Emily Jane Duffel and Basil Pinkney Summers married in 1830, which would mean Emily was about 8 years old…in reality they married about 1839). Also, there wasn’t another Duffel family in the area that I have found.)
My father, Roger Dale Ray (Robert Jewell Vincent)’s, direct maternal line, beginning with his mother, my grandmother:
Louise Rose
b. March 20, 1923 Muhlenberg County, Kentucky
d. January 9, 2004 Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky
Nellie Lillian Claxton
b. abt 1893 Kentucky
d. abt 1962 Indiana
Willie Melton
b. abt 1873 Kentucky
d. aft 1920 Kentucky?
Hepseba Powell
b. abt 1848 Indiana
d. ? Kentucky?
Alice Bean
b. abt 1824 Virginia
d. aft 1880 Indiana?
(note: as you can see, I don’t have much information on this line at all. I haven’t found the death records of Lilly Claxton or Willie Melton yet, mainly because I haven’t figured out what mix of first, middle and married names might be on the records. I haven’t found Hepsy on a census after 1880 yet.)
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