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From: "Amom45" <>
Subject: Re: [BIRD-L] Loranzo Burton Bird, born 1824 TN
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 23:10:17 -0500
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I am interested in the 1824 birth date for LB Bird. I have a Sarah Ann
{Sally}Bird /Byrd b. 1826 TN she is my great great grandmother. IN
Shelbyville, Bedford CO TN is a marriage certificate dated 1840 stating she
married J. C. Coleman b. 1823 TN. Sallie Bird Coleman d. 1850 after the 1850
census. Also there is a history of alot of families from TN going to AR , to
get away from the heated talks about slaves. My great great grandparents had
4 children and the oldest son Henry John served in the Civil War but did not
come home, Joshua Riggs b. 1844 died before 1870 typhoid fever Eliza b, 1846
died from 'a spider bite' William b. 1848 married Sarah Ann {Sallie} Boone
b. 1855 Madison CO AR. Her aunt Jane Floyd Bearden b. 1818 married J. C.
Coleman before the end of the same year. With his, hers and their children
they had 15 children and many of the children died before becoming an adult.
I will keep up my search and letters until my cousins & I find her family.
In over 150 years we still don't know the family of Sarah Ann Byrd Coleman
or where she and her children were buried.

AMason
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Subject: Re: [BIRD-L] Loranzo Burton Bird, born 1824 TN


> The Conway County Arkansas Bird connection is interesting. My Great
Great
> Uncle, George Thomas Bird moved his family from Marion County
Alabama/Monroe
> County, Mississippi to Conway County, Ark around 1860 or so at the
beginning of
> the Civil War. They settled in a place called Mayflower at the time. The
same
> place is called Birdtown in Conway County today after his family name. I
drove
> through there three weeks ago and talked to some of the descendants.
George
> joined the 1st Arkansas Federal Calvary and was killed by Confederates in
1862
> in Arkansas. He was the only Bird that I can find of the Marion County,
> Alabama Birds/Byrds to move away to Arkansas. Most of his brothers and
sisters
> lines today spell the name as Byrd. These Birds/Byrds were from a large
number of
> the same family that were from Tennessee before migrating to Miss/Ala. The
> line originaly migrated to Tenn from Virginia in the late 1700's. There is
> Cherokee blood in the lines although I have not pin pointed exactly which
marriage
> or marriages that it came from. I often have wondered what drew George
away
> from the group to Arkansas. Possibly there were Bird relatives already in
the
> area. Would be interested to learn more about LB Bird and what part of
Tennessee
> that he migrated from.
>
> Danny Byrd
>
> In a message dated 6/21/03 7:45:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
> > Subj:[BIRD-L] Loranzo Burton Bird, born 1824 TN
> >
> > I have just discovered my gg grandfather is Loranzo Burton Bird, at
least I
> > think he is a Bird.
> > The 1880 census of Hardin TWP, Faulkner County AR had him as Boyd, but I
> > discovered his marriage record in Conway Co AR, where in 1858 he married
to
> > Minerva C(Caroline) Campbell and he is LB BIRD on that record.
> > If he is a BIRD, this would explain the great difficulty I have had in
> > finding him as I have spent several years looking for the Boyd
connection,
> > which apparently didn't exist.
> > My hope is that someone in this group may connect to him. He may have
been
> > Native American, as his offspring married into old Cherokee families.
> > Thank you,
> > Biscuit
> >
> >
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