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Author: edcannon2
Surnames: Allen, Bennett, Chism/Chisholm, Dailey, Devore, Greer, Johnson, Neafus, Sewell, Shumate, Singleton, Thompson, Tibbs, Youtsler
Classification: queries
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Charlie -- I'm very surprised that you actually received notice of my message! So many people have changed their e-mail addresses through the years. Having a stable e-mail address for a long time is very good for genealogy, because of just this type of thing. (I wonder if you saw replies that a couple of folks wrote to your message to a Crecelius list.)
I just got going on genealogy in earnest last summer. My first instinct was to search for my ancestors, so I don't know much about my distant cousins. (I have found out that I'm a fourth cousin to First Lady Barbara Bush.) My closest Thompson relative is my great-great-grandmother Catherine "Kitty" Ann Thompson (born about 1839) who first married John Henry Chisholm (b. 1833) and then about 25 years later married Charles Baysinger. The other Thompsons that I've come up with have been other later ones who married Chisms. Since I don't know who Catherine Thompson's parents were, I don't know which Thompsons are my cousins via her and her parents. So, to reach a point, I'm not familiar with Samuel and his family that you mentioned. But that story of him and his kids sounds like a very good human-interest story as well as genealogy. I've seen in a census at least one Chism man who gave his father's birthplace as "Unknown"; his father died the year he was born, and someho!
w he seems not even to have learned that he was from the same county as his father.
My great-great-grandfather Gideon Cannon was born in Missouri in 1830. There were Cannons in Meade Co., Ky, but I don't know what relation they are to me, if any. Gideon's people moved from South Carolina to Missouri via a very brief sojourn in Tennessee.
I went after the Meade County Chisms because my mother was born and raised there, and her people had lived there for 100 years before she was born. And at some point I realized that because her mother, my Grandmother Evalina Chism, was the daughter of a Chism and a Chisholm, I was probably related to just about every Chis...m in the county.
Millard F. isn't among my direct ancestors, so I don't have anything on him other than what I've found online (and put into the Chisms database). But in fact I don't have much even on my direct ancestors beyond great-grandparents -- especially the Chisholm Thompson line, which is a double brick wall so far.
Being fairly new at this, I can't say that I've made a lot of progress on how to present things to family. (Of course most folks, it seems, aren't very interested in genealogy, but I do have a couple of maternal first cousins who are and who were working on ours quite a while before I began.) But one reason I decided to use Worldconnect is because of the various reports that it does. The format called a "registry" seems like a pretty good write-up of a line - and it's computer-generated. I also like its descendancy and text-pedigree formats for the most basic data. (The other reason is because it's available to the public for free and with no registration required. I want to share my work.)
Just a couple of nights ago I discovered that the Worldconnect database is mirrored on ancestry.com; I can't think at the moment exactly where.
BTW, if I added the surnames on my dad's side, it would double the length of the list! But Chism and Meade County are my mom's side, not my dad's.
My e-mail address is edcannonsat (circle-at) yahoo.com.
Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA
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Author: charliemurphy89
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Ed Cannon...Thanks very much for your msge; as it's been some seven years since I posted my Chism/Meade Co, KY query it was a surprise to hear from you. Noting your surname list, wondered if you had more about the "Samuel Thompson" who had mar Mollie Murphy ca 1893 & their two children, Charlie & Albert? I'd found an amazing older newspaper article from Meade Co discussing how those children had contact with their "missing" father many years later. Be glad to send you copy if I can dig it out. Your compilation of Chisms, #ering 710 folks, indicates lots of hard work; good for you. As a real long shot, I've learned of a Cannon-Hyatt connection in my tree from circa 1800 in New Castle Co, Delaware.....any potential connection?
It's been some time since I've focused on my Meade Co, Ky branch.....wondered if you have anything further on Millard F Chism's family?
FYI I'm a 74 year old retired attorney; really have enjoyed researching my elusive Murphy tree, but found writing things up a real challenge. What do you do with your research findings? How do you share it with your family? Again, many thanks for your kind reply to my query. Charlie Murphy near Seattle.
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Author: edcannon2
Surnames: Allen, Bennett, Chism/Chisholm, Dailey, Devore, Greer, Johnson, Neafus, Sewell, Shumate, Singleton, Thompson, Tibbs, Youtsler
Classification: queries
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The parents of Millard F. were Abraham Chism (12 Feb 1836 - 9 July 1910) and Jane Smith (4 March 1836 - 25 April 1908), and I'm pretty sure that the parents of Effie J. were were John Chism (about 1857 - 28 Jan 1830) and Martha J. Johnson (about 1854 - 24 April 1866).
Millard F. Chism was an enumerator for one of the censuses, so his name is on the original census pages.
I've compiled over 710 individuals in a Rootsweb Worldconnect database, "Chisms and Allied Families of Meade County, Kentucky":
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=ed_cannon
I don't claim perfection and it's not completed yet, but I've tried to use reliable sources (mainly censuses and marriage records and the scattered birth records).
Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA
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Author: edcannon2
Surnames: Allen, Bennett, Chism/Chisholm, Dailey, Devore, Greer, Johnson, Neafus, Sewell, Shumate, Singleton, Thompson, Tibbs, Youtsler
Classification: queries
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Found the message so many years later. Sophia Ann Chism (born about 1843), wife of James Thompson (born about 1834) was the daughter of John Chisholm (born in Kentucky about 1807/1808) and Elizabeth Johnson (born in Indiana about 1813). (The "Chisholm" spelling was officially lost to "Chism" in Meade County, but in my family we were told that my great-grandmother's maiden name was spelled "Chisholm", and she was a granddaughter of the above John and Elizabeth.)
Sophia Ann's siblings were:
Martha Jane, b. 5 Jan 1831
John Henry, b. about 1833 - my great-great-grandfather
Archibald D., b. about 1835
James W., b. about 1837
David W., b. 24 March 1840
Sophia here
Silas S., b. about 1845
Isaac Newton, b. about 1849
Elizabeth Ellen, b. 29 March 1855
John and Elizabeth and some of their children and families moved to Coles County, Illinois, in the late 1800s.
I have some more information on them, but not a lot.
I have not yet heard of any solid identification of the parents of either John Chisholm or Elizabeth Johnson.
Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA
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Author: edcannon2
Surnames: Allen, Bennett, Chism/Chisholm, Dailey, Devore, Greer, Johnson, Neafus, Sewell, Shumate, Singleton, Thompson, Tibbs, Youtsler
Classification: queries
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Found the message so many years later. Sophia Ann Chism (born about 1843), wife of James Thompson (born about 1834) was the daughter of John Chisholm (born in Kentucky about 1807/1808) and Elizabeth Johnson (born in Indiana about 1813). (The "Chisholm" spelling was officially lost to "Chism" in Meade County, but in my family we were told that my great-grandmother's maiden name was spelled "Chisholm", and she was a granddaughter of the above John and Elizabeth.)
Sophia Ann's siblings were:
Martha Jane, b. 5 Jan 1831
John Henry, b. about 1833 - my great-great-grandfather
Archibald D., b. about 1835
James W., b. about 1837
David W., b. 24 March 1840
Sophia here
Silas S., b. about 1845
Isaac Newton, b. about 1849
Elizabeth Ellen, b. 29 March 1855
John and Elizabeth and some of their children and families moved to Coles County, Illinois, in the late 1800s.
I have some more information on them, but not a lot.
I have not yet heard of any solid identification of the parents of either John Chisholm or Elizabeth Johnson.
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