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From: "bjfalls" <>
Subject: Re: [GADDIS] Letter From Luman Gaddis
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 14:36:53 -0600
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I am trying to find out any information on my Gaddis line. My G-Grandfather
was Soloman Fuller Gaddis. He was born in Fayette Co., AL Jan. 1, 1855. His
father was Linden J. Gaddis, born in N.Car. abt. 1820. Linden married Emiee
Dickerson in Cherokee Co., GA on Mar. 5, 1845. They had 8 children: Arminta
E. b. GA abt. 1847; John B. b. GA abt. 1848; James R. b. GA abt. 1849;
Archibald W. B. GA abt. 1852; Soloman Fuller b. AL Jan 1, 1855; Margaret Ann
b. AL July 18, 1858; L. Jeffrey b. AL May 11, 1863 and Andrew J. b. AL 1866
Linden then married Elizabeth Byrd Matthews Sept. 21, 1871 in Fayette Co.,
AL. They had 2 children: William b. AL 1872 & Artie Messa b. AL 1875.
I don't know Linden's parents but on one census he listed them as being born
in VA.
I have Linden's siblings listed as : Iredell b. abt 1805; John Lindsey b.
abt. 1807; Thomas G. b. abt. 1818; James b. July 11, 1824; William Lewis Sr.
b. abt. 1824.
Does anyone have any information as to where this family fits in with the
other Gaddis families, and who Linden's parents might be?
Thanks, Joyce Gaddis Falls
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Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 1:23 PM
Subject: [GADDIS] Letter From Luman Gaddis


> I don't know if I've ever posted this before (sorry, can't remember) and
> don't know if it will help anyone. This is from a letter I received from
> Luman L. Gaddis way back in May of 1976 (yes, I've been at this a LONG
> time!) It's a good idea to go back through your research every once in a
> while because things that didn't seem to connect then, might now! I
don't
> have Luman's book. Does anyone know if it's still available someplace??
>
> Janet, Gaddis Group #12
>
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> Luman Gaddis' letter (quoted)
>
> I am researching the Gaddis line. It is interesting to note that you have
> the same William Gaddis in Randolph County NC that we have. However, I
note
> some differences in the way that you apparently read the 1850 census than
we
> did. [I'll go back and look at this again...after 26 years]
>
> We have William and Lucinda (you said Selinda with a question mark) living
> in adjacent houses--922 and 923 respectively. The children are the same,
> however. We also have a difference in William's age. We have him as 40.
> This does bring his age a little more into line with that of Lucinda (I am
> willing to concede that they are husband and wife.)
>
> The answer to your question "Do we have any common ancestors?" is that we
> undoubtedly do, if you are related to this branch of the Gaddis's. The
key
> here is that they had a child named Archibald. In all of our research on
> the Gaddis, Gaddes and Gattis and all of the other minor variations there
is
> one common thread that distinguishes my line and that is that each
> generation had a child named Archibald. I do not find this thread in any
of
> the other branches. There was an Archibald in the Rowan-Randolph-Orange
> area of North Carolina beginning before 1790. He moved to Georgia between
> 1818 and 1830. There are three Archibald Gaddis's in Habersham County,
GA.
> This part of Habersham County became White County in 1857. One of these
> Archibald's in my 3rd great-grandfather. He moved to Cherokee County, GA
> between 1830 and 1840 and then to Cherokee County, Alabama, in 1851-This
> later became Etowah County. He is buried in Hokes Bluff Cemetery, just
east
> of Gadsden (another variation of our name.)
>
> I have been unable to date to determine whether the Archibald in NC is or
> was the progenitor of all of these Archibalds or not. It would not be
> uncommon for this to be the case. Just where the William Gaddis that we
> both found in Randolph County NC fits in I do not know at this time. That
> is the whole trouble with the information on the Gaddis line from 1830 on
> back, "How does it all tie together." Several times I have though that I
> have the answer, but so far, my theories have not proved out.
>
> I do have one "tidbit" that I turned up on my latest trip to Georgia.
Your
> reference to a Robert Gaddis of Lawrence, Kansas, reminded me. In the
> courthouse of Union County GA, I found a deed whereby John F. and Josie
> Gaddis of Rush County, KS, sold land (in GA) to J. G. Balcom of Russell
> County, KS on the 12th of January 1889. Gaddis's were early settlers of
> Union County, GA.
>
> Regards, Luman L. Gaddis
>
>
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