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From: "Connie Epps Bond" <>
Subject: Re: [GABARTOW] GA names in TX
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:05:46 -0500
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can you give us some Texas web sites for genealogy that would have old
photos.

Some of the Epps ended up there.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Millie Rempel" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: [GABARTOW] GA names in TX


>I first got interested in the family history because of an old photo, it
> turned out to be a gg uncle that went west. Not to Texas, though. This
> one went to the Chickasaw Nation, in what was to become Oklahoma. He
> did have a brother that also went west - to Texas.
>
> In case anyone is looking, the names involved in these two families are
> Guyton, Chapman, and Smith.
>
> Rex Kirby wrote:
>> Diane,
>> Your note regarding your Puckett family, Bartow Co, GA, family coming to
>> Texas in the late 1800s and your looking for reasons why prompted me to
>> look
>> at some of my data on my Kennedy line. My grgdfa James Marion Kennedy
>> was
>> born near Cartersville in 1856 but married in Smith Co in 1878. His
>> parents, John Kennedy, Jr [br 1828 SC] and Elizabeth Catherine Johnson
>> Kennedy lived near Cartersville where all six of their children were
>> born.
>> They all moved to Texas at the same time -I think. However, John Kennedy
>> Jr's parents John Kennedy Sr [br 1801, Ireland] and Barbara Kirkpatrick
>> Kennedy [br 1798, Ireland] died near Cartersville in 1865 and 1869. They
>> are buried in the Puckett Cemetery near Cartersville which I am sure you
>> are
>> familiar with. That cemetery used to be called Friendship Presbyterian
>> Church Cemetery. At the moment I don't recall what happened to the
>> Church
>> and why or when the name was changed to Puckett. I do know there are a
>> number of Puckett family members buried there.
>>
>> Sometime ago Laurel Baty very generously sent me several articles
>> published
>> in the Cartersville Free Press and/or Cartersville Semi-Weekly Express
>> newspapers back in 1869 and 1880 pertaining to the Administration of the
>> Estate of John Kennedy, Sr and the sale of his 750 acre farm "within two
>> miles of Cartersville". I am told by another Kennedy researcher [but
>> can't
>> find my notes] that the Kennedy farm was near the Puckett Cemetery. The
>> land
>> sale notice published Oct 18, 1870 mentioned a "Tan Yard with good
>> Currying
>> House and Dwelling and out houses". Unfortunately I did not have those
>> articles when I visited Cartersville and the Puckett Cemetery in July 05.
>>
>> Although John Kennedy Jr died in Smith Co in 1880 there was an obit
>> published in the Cartersville Free Press on Nov 4, 1880 which mentioned
>> that
>> John came to Cass [Bartow] Co in 1837 and lived there until 1870 when he
>> moved to Smith Co. Texas. The obit mentioned that John was brother to
>> James
>> Kennedy, Bartow Co Sheriff. James's obit [Feb 1880] made reference to
>> his
>> living on the "old family homestead". I can't help but believe that the
>> Pucketts and Kennedys were probably neighbors and somewhere along the way
>> may have been kin. [More research needed here]
>>
>> Many of the Kennedys stayed in Bartow Co but I can't help but wonder if
>> Sherman and Johnson's civil war battle in 1864 at Kennesaw Mountain which
>> was pretty close to where they lived might have had a devastating effect
>> on
>> all the families there which prompted them to hang the wooden sign "GTT"
>> on
>> their front doors. GTT stands for Gone To Texas and I saw one of those
>> old
>> signs when I was in Cartersville.
>>
>> The 1870 census for Bartow Co has John Kennedy, Jr and other family
>> members
>> still there but I think the census was taken in June 1870. So I guess
>> they
>> loaded up their wagons and headed for Texas in the fall of 1870 [if the
>> year
>> in his obit is correct] The "why" is what has puzzled me for many years.
>> They were farmers there; they were farmers here. They owned 750 acres
>> -described in the paper as one of the most beautiful places in Bartow
>> Co-.
>> Here they owned nothing and lived for several years in what might be
>> described as a share-croppers house. Of course, John Jr's parents had
>> just
>> recently passed away there in Cartersville and almost before the flowers
>> had
>> wilted on their graves at the Puckett Cemetery, two of the younger boys
>> took
>> out an Administration and apparently sold the farm through Court
>> proceedings
>> sometime between 1869 and 1880. I don't have copies of the deeds so not
>> sure
>> of date. I suppose if the "old family homestead" was being sold John Jr
>> and
>> family had to find somewhere else to move to. But why Texas? Why Smith
>> Co?
>> I'm glad they did but can't help but wonder why. To my knowledge they
>> had
>> no other relatives here at the time.
>>
>> Incidentally you mentioned your Pucketts being in Wood Co. That is not
>> very
>> far from where the Kennedys first settled in Smith Co. Surely several of
>> these families made the trip together from GA. I can't imagine a single
>> family with small children traveling that distance by themselves.
>>
>> I will keep your inquiry in mind as I go tromping through the forests of
>> yesteryear looking for answers and ancestors.
>>
>> Rex Kirby
>>
>> PS. Forgive my rambling. I have been told more than once that I don't
>> know
>> when to shut up.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:
>> [mailto:]
>> On Behalf Of Diane Ethridge
>> Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 8:14 PM
>> To:
>> Subject: [GABARTOW] GA names in TX
>>
>> I'm researching PUCKETT, ROBERTS & DEWEESE in Bartow GA & Coweta Co. GA
>> (as
>> well as other GA counties where my families lived) & I live in Conroe,
>> TX.
>> Some of my Pucketts left GA went to Cass, Upshur & Wood Counties, TX in
>> the late 1800s. I'm not sure of the reason why but would love to find
>> more
>> info on them. Corresponding names, that I know of in E. TX, are
>> Cornett,
>> Nipper & Fuller.
>>
>>
>>
>> I have old photos & more info to share with anyone researching the above.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Diane Puckett Ethridge
>>
>>
>>
>>
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