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Hi List: FYI
Photo of First Lady, Sarah (Childress) and husband, President James K.
Polk -
http://www.jameskpolk.com/JKPSCP2.GIF
MaryJean Childress Voegtlin
Found this in Boodspeeds history of Arkansas, Independence County.
Jim
Robert A. Childress, a prosperous farmer of Independence County, was born
in Franklin County, Va., in 1813. He is a son of John W. and
Sarah(Ferguson)
Childress, both native of Virginia. The Childress family are of English
origin, but the family has lived in the State of Virginia for several
generations. The grandparents, Robert and Rachel Childress, both lived
and
died in that State. John W. remained in his birth place until
the year 1817, when he moved to Missouri, and in 1819 again changed his
location, settling in Randolph County, Ark. In 1829 he came to
Independence
county, and was one of the earliest settlers of that section, where he
made his
residence until old age began to creep upon his shoulders, when he went
to
live with a son in Galveston, Tex., where he died. His wife resided in
Independence [p.651] County up o the time of her death, in 1840.
Robert A. was the oldest child of this couple, and in his youth received
a
somewhat limited education in Independence County, on account of the very
meager facilities for learning offered in that State.
But after reaching his majority he returned to Virginia, where the
educational advantages were greater, and attended some of the higher
schools of that State until he had procured a satisfactory education. In
1841 he was married to Miss Martha A. Waugh, who was born in Virginia in
1823, and died in 1860. This marriage gave them nine children, of whom
four are yet living: Thomas B., Julia C. (wife of Joseph B. Pritchett),
Lewis W. and John W. In 1862 Mr. Childress married again, his second wife
being Mrs. Josephine Sullivan, an amiable and pleasant widow lady, raised
in Mississippi, and a daughter of Dr. Samuel Halliburton, who has also
passed away. This union gave them four children, of whom two lived to
maturity, and those yet living are Samuel K. and Sarah J., wife of J.
E. Moore. His third wife was Mrs. Lucilla J. Cross, a widow, youngest
daughter of Col. John Miller, an influential and prominent citizen of
Independence County. Mr. Childress has resided at his present home
since 1840, excepting five years spent at Batesville, where he was
engaged
in business. He owns 642 acres of land, and has about 325 acres under
cultivation, all of it comprising some of the richest land in the State.
He has held the office of justice of the peace for a number of years, and
has proven himself to be an efficient officer, and a valuable man for the
position. He is held in high esteem by the entire community, and enjoys
that distinction which an old settler is entitled to. He was a member of
the Masonic fraternity until the war, but since then has not been
identified with any secret society. He has been a member of the
Presbyterian Church since 1833, and an elder for over forty years. His
wife is a member of the Baptist Church, and the children, excepting two,
belong to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. In politics Mr. Childress =
is a stanch Democrat.
Hi List -
FYI -
"The Childers-Childress Civil War Research Center" - Confererate and Union
records Go to - http://www.geocities.com/injackcw/index.html
I found this website to be excellent. My 2nd great grandfather, Thomas
Childress and also his brother, James Childress appear on the KY Confederate
index list and their company as well. My 2nd great grandfather, Thomas
Childress married Zelphia Ezell 1842 Caldwell Co, KY and died in Robertson
County, TN about 1871 from injuries suffered in the Civil War. Thomas
Childress, his father William Childress and all of his ancestors on both
sides were from VA, Thomas was born in Mecklenburg Co, VA. between 1816-19c.
Hope you find your ancestor on the above website -
MaryJean Childress Voegtlin
Hi List, FYI
Another list member called my attention to the following information
and I thought to send it to the list purely for the similarity of the
name Childer/Childress. Any feed back to the list would be
appreciated. The information in this article is "FOOD FOR THOUGHT' for
those who are tracing the origin of the names associated with the
Childers/Childress, and all the variations thereof. After all, all
information is pertinent to the ongoing quest for the origin of the name
Childers/Childress. I present this article as is and I do not guarantee
the information. Please verify any information that you use. What I do
know is there indeed was such a person living at that time period and
there are those who have the opinion that this CHILDERIC at least be
considered as the fore father of the Childress/Childers present today.
There has been no documented evidence how OR IF the CHILDERIC name and
the CHILDRESS/ CHILDERS name may tie in. Discussion pro or con via the
list is most welcome and be sure to present evidence for or against the
CHILDERIC name, IF AND YOU RESPOND, being the origin of the
CHILDRESS/CHILDERS NAME.
KAY............SEE THE ARTICLE BELOW....................
Chifflet in Anast.
Childer
Chapter 2 of Sir Thomas Browne's Hydriotaphia, Or Urne Buriall, (1658)
Beyond the content of Urnes, in the Monument of Childerick the
first,20 and fourth King from Pharamond, casually discovered three
years past at Tournay, restoring unto the world much gold richly
adorning his Sword, two hundred Rubies, many hundred Imperial Coyns,
three hundred golden Bees, the bones and horseshoe of his horse
enterred with him, according to the barbarous magnificence of those days
in their sepulchral Obsequies.
A Note on Childeric's Bees
On May 27,1653 a mason Adrien Quinquin,working on the
reconstruction of the church of Saint-Brice in Tournai, discovered a
Merovingian tomb containing various articles,including a leather purse
containing gold coins,a gold bracelet, some pieces of iron, and numerous
pieces of gold cloisonn�ed with garnets, among these the 300 bees. One
of the pieces was a ring with the inscription CHILDERIC
REGIS,identifying the tomb as that of Childeric I, father of Clovis. The
discovery excited great interest in Tournai and Brussels. Archduke
Leopold William, Spanish governor of the Netherlands, put his personal
physician, Jean-Jacques Chifflet, in charge of studying and publishing
the finds. In 1655 he published his work,Anastasis Childerici I
Francorum regis, sive thesaurus sepulchralis Tornaci Neviorum effossus
et commentario illustratus.
Leopold William took the treasure to Vienna when he left the
Netherlands in 1656. On his death,the treasure became the property of
the Emperor of Austria, Leopold I. In 1665 the treasure was given to
Louis XIV as a gift in recognition of the help of the French against the
Turks and against a revolt of his own subjects in Hungary.
The French monarch had considerably less interest in the treasure than
had the Austrians. The relics were placed first in the royal collections
of the Louvre, then transferred to the Biblioth�que royale, (later the
Biblioth�que national), where they were apparently little regarded and
somewhat difficult of access. They were stolen in the night of November
5-6, 1831. The records of the police search and the trial that followed
were unfortunately destroyed during the Commune, but it is clear that
the thieves melted the larger gold pieces and hid the smaller,less
easily melted pieces (like cloisonn�) in the Seine,from which they were
retrieved in August of 1832. While about 75 of about 80 kg of stolen
artifacts were recovered, the missing pieces included much of the
treasure of Childeric. It seems that only two of the bees were
recovered. Fortunately, the work of Chifflet was extremely thorough, so
that we have very good descriptions and engravings of the missing
pieces. In addition, copies were made by Emperor Leopold before the
originals were given to Louis XIV; some of
these have been recovered in Innsbruck.