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From: Millie Rempel <>
Subject: Re: [GABARTOW] GA names in TX
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:25:55 -0600
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I don't recall any sites with old photos, I'll look through my stuff tonight
and if I come across some, I'll send links.
By the way, in studying my husband's family history, I came across some Epps
connections. Hubby is descended from some Russian/German lines. I have a
photo from his grandfather's high school graduation in 1924 in Nebraska - a
young man with the last name Epps.
Connie Epps Bond wrote:

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" [1]<>
To: [2]<>
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: [3]
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On Behalf Of Diane Ethridge
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 8:14 PM
To: [5]
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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