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Subject: Re: FOOTE, KAY, Descendants of Pilgrims and others from England
Date: 7 Jun 2005 01:25:35 -0600

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Surnames: FOOTE, KAY, ALLERTON, BREWSTER, WYATT, MADISON, NEWTON
Classification: Query

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Thank you for writing. I found Leo's daughter, Christie today and visited with her on the phone. We had a wonderful visit and while talking, the older cousin, Mr. Foote came by after having gotten my message that I'd found her. He was terribly excited about it and began to remember some of the things he'd put out of his mind. I also got a letter this evening from another local, Cummins, telling me a little about the service station and the family. Christie was very excited to have been found. After I thought about it I began to realize that Christie would also be my husband's cousin. My husband's great-grandfather was Charles Newton "Newt" KAY and Mr. Foote's great-grandmother (also Frank's grandmother) was Amanda Louise KAY.. sister and brother. They are both buried in our local cemetery here in Spavinaw, OK. The KAY family had come from Anderson Co, SC to Iuka, Tishomingo Co, MS before the Civil war as the father James Harrison KAY was a minister. About that time w!
as when Amanda KAY and Henry FOOTE were married. They had a girl and boy and then Henry was killed in the war. After that, the Kay family came to Benton Co AR. Amanda and her children stayed with her folks until they passed away. At some time after 1900 probably, the Kay and Foote kids, etc., had come over into Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, just across the Arkansas-Oklahoma border and eventually both Amanda Foote and Newt Kay came, too. They both died here. Their ancestry goes back to England with the WYATT and KAY line and also to England through the Pilgrims, Isaac ALLERTON and William BREWSTER families. My husband is first-cousin 19 generations removed from King Richard the 3rd and his brother King Edward the 4th (as I think the numbers were) through them having the same grandparents. I got a lot of the ancestry through LDS records. Back into Virginia where these families were, they link to lots of families including the LEE family.
Thank you so much to take the time to write. And, I did forget to ask Christie about if her dad worked there at the farm.

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