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From: "crystalwoman" <>
Subject: Re: SUMMERS
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 17:58:02 -0700


Hi-just thought I would let you know that on my husband's direct line ABLES
ancestors on the 1850 Cherokee Co TX census under ABLES, J.S and his family
and household is listed living with them a: Summers, Wm. 25 M Farmer b. TN,
and I had figured he was a farmhand for the family. Thought you might want
to know this. Happy Trails, J
Also, visit my personal home page on spirituality and genealogy:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/3718/
-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Austin <>
To: <>
Date: Sunday, January 31, 1999 5:43 PM
Subject: SUMMERS

>Is anyone on the list researching the SUMMERS family in Cherokee Co.
>TX? I need some help. My4th great-grandmother was a SUMMERS before she
>married. I know very little at all about her family. I do know that
>some of her SUMMERS relatives also moved to Cherokee Co. I am in hopes
>someone on the lists knows more about this family and can help me. Here
>is the little info I have:
>
>Celia (or Sela/Sheila) SUMMERS was born on 27 December 1800 in NC. She
>died after 1880 in TX as I found her listed as a widow on the 1880
>Cherokee Co. TX census. In about 1822, she had married Charles Finley
>(or Fendley) LOWE, Jr. who was born on 29 November 1798 in VA. He died
>in 1874 in Cherokee Co. TX. They married in Tennessee, probably
>Rutherford Co. as thats where they lived after their marriage.
>
>Celia (Sela/Sheila) was the daughter of a William SUMMERS and his wife,
>Ellender or Eleanor. On the LDS Ancestral File I found some information
>that indicated there was at least one other daughter and her name was
>Rebecca, born abt 1814.
>
>Thanks to some info sent to me earlier today by another list member, I
>see that on the 1870 Cherokee Co. census, three persons named SUMMERS
>were living in the household with Charles Finley LOWE and his wife,
>Celia (listed as Sealy on that census). A Melton SUMMERS, age 30,
>white, male, a farmer born in TN; Eliza SUMMERS, a 29 year old female,
>white, housekeeper born in Alabama; and Rufus SUMMERS, a 27 year old
>farm worker, white, male, born in TN.
>
>Can anyone help me with this family? I don't have much info to go on so
>I really need some help. Thank you.
>
>Kim
>

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