Michael Hill's Genealogy Forums

This post is a work in progress—I'll be editing and adding to it. Right now, it's just a rough draft. I believe that Mary Ann Branam, wife of Joseph William "William" Swearingin, was the daughter of Beveridge Branam (1782-1861) and Elizabeth Napier (1803-1885). I'll present circumstantial...

The following page has a transcript of Zephaniah Harvey's 1832 will as well as a direct link to the will on familysearch.org.

http://hillnetwork.com/gen/harvey/zephharveywill/

Note how the will treats Thomas compared with Zephaniah's other children.

Michael

Quite a while ago, I turned off user registration because I couldn't keep up with the spambots. I just changed forum software, which should make a big difference. So user registration is now turned on again. Please let me know if anybody has trouble with the new forum software.

I ordered the 1878 pension application filed by Cynthia Harvey. I'll scan and upload it when I receive it. The National Archives sent me the 57-page pension application file, which I scanned and uploaded. Here's the link: www.hillnetwork.com/gen/harvey/files/Harvey_Pension_Application_File_from_NAR...

Rena Young sent me "A Little Bit of History", written in 1950 by Viola Hughes Martin (1879-1962, daughter of Alice Wade Cameron and D.W. Hughes) and Belle Gordon Southward (1864-1957, daughter of Mary Elizabeth Cameron and G.W. Gordon). A scanned copy is attached to this message. "A L...

The 1840 census shows "Allen Camron" listed directly above "Archibald W. Camron" (husband of Lucy Harvey) in Choctaw County, Mississippi: Choctaw Co., Mississippi, page 10, 1840 Allen Camron; 2 M<5, 1 M5-10, 1 M50-60, 2 F<5, 1 F5-10, 1 F30-40 Archibald W. Camron; 1 M20-30, 2 F<5,...

This write-up starts with what I know about my GGGG grandmother, Lucy Harvey. I then explore the circumstantial evidence that she may have been the daughter of Thomas Harvey and Cynthia Malone, a possibility that has already been suggested by others (Kelly O'Donnell, Rena Young, Judy Ray, and probab...

I know there are several people who are researching this Harvey family. I set up this forum as a tool to help us collaborate on our research. As of the date this forum was created, my primary goal is to prove who Lucy Harvey's parents were. My motivation for working on this is the recent Y-DNA data ...

Thanks for sharing your recollections, information, and pictures, Andra. I'll take a look at that census page you mentioned and either correct or annotate the web page.

Thank you. So this is the same cemetery that Micajah Sr. and his wife is burried in is what I am assuming. I think it's the same as the burial place you mentioned in your message. The spot on the map is where "Aunt Nicey", daughter of Micajah Sr., is said to have been buried (per J.D. Smi...

I am beginning to think that the person who typed the above meant to say "burried in a little indian cemetery" since I saw the post on your website by Jody where she says her great uncle took her to a cemetery... Is there any way I can contact her? I don't have her current e-mail address,...

Hi, Sunny. Please feel free to attach pictures here. Let me know if you need any help with attachments. (There are some size and format restrictions, but I can change those if necessary.)

-Michael

John Martin's Revolutionary War pension file indicates that he died 5 Apr 1823. This date is contained in both testimony and the family bible. However, two court documents in the estate records (FHL film 2208543) state that he died in 1822. One, John M. Cloud vs. Joseph Martin and Johnson Clement, s...

A question. Do you have data on the children of Bartlett Smith? I'm particularly interested in resolving the question as to who the parents of James Smith, who married Sarah Willis, were? Sorry, Con. I only know of his son George and that is from the Smith book mentioned earlier and from a deed tha...

This thread began with a suggestion that James Martin and Hannah Carter might have been the parents of our John "Jackson" Martin. The subsequent messages documented our effort to prove or disprove this hypothesis. Although we haven't yet found the piece of evidence that definitively settle...

In an earlier message I wrote: Bobbi recalls John Martin's estate papers being over 100 pages long and there were many suits between family members. The quote she included was from the Stokes County probate records. I wanted to follow up with some additional information about why there were so many ...

I've been assuming that the James P. Martin living with John and Elitha in the 1850 census, who would have been alive in 1830, was probably John's brother. John Ford, William Martin, and Alecia Tipton have all suggested that the "James P. Martin" on the 1850 census was actually James G. M...

Second, I would like to make one small correction to your chart of 8 Apr 2006 which involves this family. Elizabeth P. Smith, sister of Elitha Fulchs Smith, is listed as married to Green Ayers. While I'm not sure what record you used to determine the spelling of Green's last name, but based on the ...

Some recently uncovered information about the Carter/Martin connection: 1. A.H. Carter was appointed guardian for Ann, Ruth, and John Martin in the Patrick County December Court of 1842. Evidence of this appointment was submitted to the Stokes County Court of Pleas and Quarter Session and registered...

The following passage (scanned image attached) is from the same 24 Nov 1843 Stokes County court document that Bobbi previously quoted: The petition of Samuel Martin, George Martin, Thomas Martin, Hampton Bynum and his wife Polly, John Harris [ink smear] William Haynes and his wife Susan of full age,...

Y-DNA test results recently became available for a descendant of John Hill (b. 1782 in Guilford Co.--later Rockingham County, North Carolina, m. 1800 to Margaret Covington). Bill Corn has been researching this family for many years and has strongly suspected that this John Hill was the son of John H...

John Ford sent me copies of genealogy reports authored by George W. Clower and by Dr. O. Norris Smith, which he received from Barbara Baughan at the Patrick County Historical Society. John noted that the reports show that the Hardin H. Hanby who was the surety for the 1848 John Martin/Elitha Smith m...

Michael Hill wrote:Here are sections of William Carter's will...

I just posted the entire transcript and scanned images of William Carter's will on www.hillnetwork.com/gen/martin

I found William Carter's will on microfilm at the Oakland Family History Center (film 33330: wills, inventories & accounts, Vols. 1-3 1791-1847, Patrick County, Virginia). It's dated 23 Feb 1843... Here are sections of William Carter's will that would have affected his grandson John Martin afte...

I found William Carter's will on microfilm at the Oakland Family History Center (film 33330: wills, inventories & accounts, Vols. 1-3 1791-1847, Patrick County, Virginia). It's dated 23 Feb 1843 and contains the following quote: I give to my grand children Susan Martin Anne Martin Ruth Martin an...