Deborah Cooper wrote:
For a neighbor without internet access......Her maternal grandfather
was
Lehman Carlisle Carawan about whom she knows next to nothing. He would
have been born 1890's to 1900 and he died in the 1960's. He was a
minister of the Christian Church and had a brother who lived in
California with possible Hollywood contacts. She knows nothing about
the Carawan name itself except what I have found on the internet. It is
her impression that the family had Arabic ancestry but I have found more
Irish/Scottish? She has found some gorgeous Middle Eastern antique
items in her mother's old home while she was cleaning it out. Anybody
know anything? He and they lived in Alabama and Georgia.
Thanks so much.....anything is appreciated. Deb Cooper
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Ms. Cooper,
The delayed birth certificate for Lehman Carlyle Carawan was filed in
Pamlico Co., NC June 15, 1960, Book 5, p. 40. According to the certificate
he was born April 30, 1889 in Mesic, Pamlico Co., NC. His parents were Henry
Spencer Carawan, born Mesic, NC and Frances M. Messick, born Mesic, NC.
Supporting evidence was an affidavit of personal knowledge of Mrs. J. W.
Mesic, aunt, age 83, resided at Newport News, Va--May 25, 1960; Family Bible
in possession of Mrs. Rosa Carawan Hill,(relationship not stated but his
sister married James Stanley Hill, Jr.), 68 Cherry Ave., Hampton, VA; and
birth certificate of child, issued to Julius Cox Carawan, Montgomery,
Ala.,--Oct. 5, 1916. There is a book, Messick Ancestral File, by Carrie
Messick Jennings, located in the State Archives in Raleigh, NC which gives
just a little information about the family. I'm sure it would be interesting
to all the Carawan researchers to know just where your neighbor fits into
our "tree".
Another Carawan researcher,
Kitty B. Humphries
kittyb(a)gloryroad.net