Dear Tonya,
I would be enterested in seeing if my Carneys fit in anywhere with yours. My grandfather
was Lester Franklin Carney. A similar name might mean a common link somewhere in the
past. His father was James Isaiah Carney, son of Thomas Luther Carney, son of Iveson
Carney. They were all from the Tidewater area of Virginia, Matthews and Lancaster
Counties.
Lester Carney III
D & T ARCHEY wrote:
You all are so amazing!! Kymm you and I are definitely cousins.
Lester Carney was my great uncle. I knew him well. Your g-grandfather is my missing
"Uncle Jim". My dad is 64 and he is one of the few Carney's still alive.
Our Carney's have a heart condition that has claimed most of our line early in life.
The only thing that my dad could remember about Uncle Jim was that he was a night watchman
at a lumberyard in Nashville and that he had lived on the Murfreesboro Rd. I have
pictures of Lester and his brothers. You are welcome to what I have. Lester and William
were both guides at Mammoth Cave. Lester still has one son alive, Ralph Carney, of Cave
City. Ralph has tons of old family pictures he doesn't know who they are. I have
traced this family back to Matthew Carney, but can't get beyond him. Thank you all
so much. Please keep in touch. You have given me more in two days than I could come up
with in over a year. Sincerely, Tonya Carney Archey