Benjamin did have a grandson with the same name as his and they moved to
Arkansas or Alabama...can't recall and my book is packed. Maybe that is how
you tie in with the family. ??
From: chazf(a)juno.com
Reply-To: CASWELL-L(a)rootsweb.com
To: CASWELL-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [CASWELL list] Re: cc
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 23:21:28 -0400
Hello Silas, Thur, June 28, 2001,
Hope you are having a good day, ( MOVING,) Man I feel for you, Moving
is a hard thing for people over 40 to do. I think if I ever move again,
I will just
leave everything, and start over.......................
Silas, Do not think that anyone can ever change any of the real facts
on
your family history, And do not think that any one would try.
Your family is your family,, and thats a fact..........
Research requires a lot of digging and stirring, and if one sees
anything
that leaves a little room for doubt, or room for a question, it has to be
looked at................
Silas, almost all of the info that I had, untill I got the, "Caswell
CD" was
sent to me by you and your wife..and I thank you folks a bunch..you have
been a big help. ( I have recieved info from other people too.)
I am not the only person that has some doubts about lots of the info
on
our Ben F Caswell's history, One of the long E-Mails that you Forward
to
me was about many of those same doubts..(I do not know who the
originator was.)
Silas when I First sent an E-Mail, stating some of my doubts, and
questions
about Bens history,, YOU, Silas, were the first person to respond,
directly to
my E-Mail and tell me that you had doubts also, and you said that
things were missing In Bens history....and you suspected errors in the
materials....
REMEMBER........
Silas when you look at a book, on ancestry, almost all of them have a
"disclaimer" printed in lots of places.....This means that they
wrote down what they thought someone MIGHT have said,
and when they proofread it, they changed part of that and made
it sound better, and then they rewrite it again and add all kinds of
things in it to make the book sell.......to make it sell, not to deliver
..... 100% true facts.......(we are warned it is not reliable info...)
A "Disclaimer" means that it is not reliable Info, that there may
be no TRUTH in it at all, or there may be a little bit........
......(Most Family Info had been rewritten over and over, and sometimes
family info is not perfect also)...
Other folks sent me e-mail and stated that they had doubts also,
and I was told that I should continue......
Remember, if there are doubts,,,, someone is looking for answers...
sometimes we may not totally agree with the results that the other
person finds , but that is ok too....
I have not challenged the fact that everyone on the list, of Ben
Caswells,
family, was a member of that family.......
Rest assured that I believe that all the people , starting with Benjamin
N,
born abt 1852, were in Bens family, ( reared by Ben and Charity.)
and that all of the family history relating to the names of his
offspring are probally correct......
Silas I probally have read all of the material (that you sent) more
than
twenty times, I really understand,.....But I still have Questions......
and I will call on you for help from time to time...........
Everything that I have found, may be checked out. and even though you
may not agree, to what it means, it is still a matter of public
record..........
On The point that I made on Ben Being listed as a farmer...I found
this is
in about four places, One is on one of the E-Mails you sent to me, and
another is in the material on Steves Original Web site, and at least two
other
places, and all of these were where Ben and Charity were both listed....
Also, Remember the story, He FARMED , for mr Jackson, Charity's father.
He was a farmer.....(If you farmed, you are a farmer.)
Silas my Daddy was a Farmer, he was a Carpenter, he was a Mechanic,
and he was a Textile worker, and he was a pipefitter,,,so depending on
what he was doing, when you ask him, that answer would be
different.......
So if Ben was a Carpenter, or not, it does not mean that he was not
a Farmer,, or a blacksmith, or a sea man,, or whatever.....
Untill we understand that a Census Worker, would not ask you what you
used to do as a job, or what you plan to do as a job.....they ask folks
what
their (primary) job was.....They wrote down a one word answer......
Silas on another thing,,,I had asked if maybe Charity was in
Meriweather
County Ga, before going to Heard County, .......
The Census does place her parents in Merriweather County Ga....
Before they went to Heard County....(Also on Steves Web Site)..
Silas remember, looking for the details will not change things, but
it will
clear up a lot of the missing stuff.....and a lot is missing........
..................
Question, when you are looking at the old record, and prior to that
record, there is no more info, to go back,, you have a brick wall,,, how
do you
separate the Stepchildren,, from the children of the husband?? or of the
Wife??
When looking into the old records, and too,
how do you separate the Children that may have been taken in due to
the death of a Brother or Sister, or whoever???
REMEMBER ...The death rate was very high, (if you got sick, you
died),
back before the Civil War, and most families would raise other children
as
their very own, and most of the time, they took the name of the man of
the house..
I am not saying that this happened in our Ben F Caswells' house, but
we really do not know what happened in Ben and Charitys' house....
The only reason that a census record would be set up in both names,
with different children on it, would possibly be that the two adults in
the house wanted the census worker to do it that way, to show there was a
difference....Why do you think that
they did it???
Chas Caswell , in Georgia.
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