see if this address still works
Patricia Caviness Perkins
I recently purchased a subscription to Ancestry and I am enjoying it at the
moment the one downside is all the wrong data found on the ged coms
submitted by many of you regarding the Caviness genealogy .Some of it is
very good others have not even made the effort to see if it is even
possible ,apparently getting your data on Ancestory is more important than
seeing that it all adds up ,wonder how many of you have ever looked for
factual data , and how many just copy others work ,never bothering to check
on its accuracy , perhaps not caring that your descendants are continuing
to read and pass on the wrong information, until it is believed by all to be
fact .many have stopped the search for their ancestors believing they have
found their ancestor because t hey saw it in print . I have posted this
stuff until I am blue in the face and I suppose with you all getting
irritating as all get out , but will continue to until you are all at least
start looking for facts and right now it seems most are lackluster in their
research or perhaps resting on there laurels .I will mention once again the
Caviness/Carr genealogy that is bugging me the most 1 William Caviness (
that married Mary Vestal ) could not be the son of William , Caviness and a
Sarah Carr ,Polly Caviness (Mary) mother of Kirby was not the daughter of
William Caviness and Sarah Carr ,Sarah Caveniss that died in 1803 leaving
only four children all named and mentioned in her estate records Benjamin
,Susanna, Elizabeth and the younges Mary was only 9,she did not serve as
co-executor with her uncle William Carr ,aRolly Spinks was co executor with
his brother in law William Carr, last Sarah Carr sister of William Carr
reported to have married William Caviness the son o f Matthew Sr. did not
marry Sarah Carr either the Autobiography of Col.David Fanning states he
married the 16 year old Sarah Carr sister of one of his men William Carr ,
the Carrs had been in the Randolph Co area for decades before the arrival of
the Caviness family in 1800 there would have been no opportunity for Sarah
Carr and William Caviness to meet ,or marry so for all you who believed they
were the descendants of William Caviness and a Sarah Carr .you really need
to look further into this genealogy and remember Richard Caviness I believe
as Tradition states he was the father of William Caviness 1781,he also had
and older girl named Mary (Polly ) she was Kirby's mother,not the Sarah
Cavaniss that died in 1803.and just who was the Sarah Cavaniss that died in
1803 leaving only four named orphans .She wasnt apparently even a Carr.....
Patricia Caviness Perkins