Tag: Lynch

• Jones African American DNA mystery

  I was asked by a descendant of Missouri Jones to help her identify which Jones line in Mecklenburg, VA was her family’s line.  I thought Jane Thomas who married Edward Carroll Jones died young, but I found out this was not true after all. My search to discover Missouri’s parents led to totally unexpected results.…

  Julie Cabitto

  February 16, 2020

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  African-American, Bennett, Brooks, Burton, Clary, DNA, Ellis, Hall, Harper, Hawkins, Jones, Joyce, Kidd, Lynch, Marks, Mayo, Moseley, Newman, Pearson, Temple, Thomas, Wright

• John Gray: his family, his land

  My ancestor John Gray was born in Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland about 1810. It took me at least ten years to figure out where he lived in Mecklenburg. Now I know that he raised his family and farmed on Hall Rd, near Rehoboth Church, near a curve in the road. John’s birth year fluctuates as…

  Julie Cabitto

  January 20, 2020

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  chancery, Clary, Danville, Dortch, Edenbeck, Floyd, Gray, Irish, Jones, Joyce, Kidd, Land tracing, Lynch, Mayo, Moseley, Purdy, Rehoboth-Church, Thomas, Tudor