The Parentage of Johnson Riley Cannon

This is a subject which has plagued family researchers for years, and it is one that frankly has also bewildered me. However, knowing that the Cannons originated in North Carolina and eventually ended up in Lincoln County, Tennessee supplies us with enough information to make an intelligent guess at who his father was. In both the 1820 and 1830 Census of Lincoln County, Tennessee, it appears that William Cannon was the only Cannon with a household which included a young male corresponding to the appropriate age of Johnson Riley Cannon. Moreover, in the 1850 Census of Lincoln County, Tennessee, we find a "William Cannon" age 70 living with "Laura" 19, and "Christianna" 16 (This age corresponds to the person of the same name in the 1820/1830 Censuses. He was also living in close proximity to someone named "Elsworth Cannon" age 37. Our Riley was also living with his wife and children in Lincoln County in the 1850 Census.

This also corresponds to information from four different family genealogies posted at the FamilySearch website. One of the entries identified Laura and Christianna as children of this William. Another of the entries identified Johnson R. as his son, and the same one identified a Charles Cannon (1800) as an older brother of his. This would make sense of the naming of our Riley and Nancy Carter Cannon's sons: Charles (after his big brother), William (after his father), Eli (after Nancy's father), and John (after Johnson himself). Three of these genealogies list a Martin/Marton/Martina BARTON as his wife, while the remaining entry lists Nancy Little as his wife. Finally, we do find a William Cannon in the 1800 Census of Salisbury, Guilford County, North Carolina who corresponds to the age of our William. Hence, I believe it is safe to conclude that this carries our Cannon ancestry back one more generation to the 18th Century.

Ancestral Places of Worship: Aachen Cathedral

The Royal Chapel of my ancestor, the Emperor Charlemagne, now part of Aachen Cathedral in Germany.
 

Ancestral Places of Worship: Bath Cathedral (Abbey)

 

My ancestor, Edgar of Wessex, was crowned King of the English here in 973 CE.

Ancestral Places of Worship: Westminster Abbey

 

Built by the last monarch from the House of Wessex, and the place where William the Conqueror was crowned King of England in 1066.

Ancestral Homes: Thomaston Castle

 

Built by my McElwain Ancestors in Scotland.

Ancestral Homes: The Tower

 

Built by my ancestor, William of Normandy, in the 11th Century.

Ancestral Homes: Windsor Castle

 

Built by my ancestor, William the Conqueror in the 11th Century.

Famous Kin of Nicholas Knapp

Our ancestor, Nicholas Knapp, came to the American colonies as part of the Puritan Migration. We share him with a number of other descendants (some of them famous):

Juliette Gordon Low, Founder of the Girl Scouts, 6th great-granddaughter

Howard Hughes, American Business Tycoon, 8th great-grandson

Endicott Peabody, 62nd Governor of Massachusetts, 8th great-grandson

Glenn Close, Movie, Television, and Stage Actress, 9th great-granddaughter

Taylor Swift, Singer and Songwriter, 9th great-granddaughter

Mike Huckabee, 44th Governor of Arkansas, 9th great-grandson

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, 47th and current Governor of Arkansas, 10th great-grandaughter

Bill Belichick, NFL Head Coach, 10th great-grandson

Jason Kelce, NFL Center, 10th great-grandson

Travis Kelce, NFL Tight End, 10th great-grandson

Famous Kin of Nicholas Knapp

Famous Kin of William Tuttle (1607-1673)

Our immigrant ancestor (through the Westlake family) had a number of famous descendants (our cousins):

Aaron Burr, Killed Alexander Hamilton, 3rd great-grandson

Edith (Carow) Roosevelt, First Lady of President Theodore Roosevelt, 6th great-granddaughter

Charles Warren Fairbanks, 26th U.S. Vice-President, 7th great-grandson

Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 8th great-grandson

Ernest Hemingway, Author of The Sun Also Rises, 8th great-grandson

Cecil B. DeMille, American Film Director, 8th great-grandson

Thurman Munson, MLB Catcher - NY Yankees, 8th great-grandson

Felicity Huffman, TV & Movie Actress, 9th great-granddaughter

Burt Reynolds, Movie Actor, 9th great-grandson

Ted Danson, TV Actor - “Cheers”, “CSI”, 10th great-grandson

Chevy Chase, Comedian, Actor and Writer, 10th great-grandson

Billie Eilish, Singer and Songwriter, 10th great-granddaughter

Famous Kin of William Tuttle

Ancestral Places of Worship: Bruton Parish Church

 

Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg

The bell was donated by James Tarpley, my ancestor.

Ancestral Places of Worship: Old Swedes Church - Delaware

 

Old Swedes Historic Site

Ancestral Homes: Tarpley Store

Colonial Williamsburg: Tarpley Store

 Merchant James Tarpley built this store about 1759. He advertised a wide array of imported goods, including textiles, hats, china, cutlery, and jewelry.

Historical Marker Database: Tarpley Store

 

Ancestral Homes: Sir Robert Cann's House (Stoke House)

 

The house is now part of Trinity College, Bristol, England. There is a dark side to the story of Trinity. The college’s main building, Stoke House, was completed in 1669 for Sir Robert Cann, who was a prominent merchant and was, at various times, mayor of Bristol and a Member of Parliament.

Research into the history of Stoke House carried out in 2020 by our Director of Postgraduate Research, Dr Jamie Davies, revealed links between the Cann family and the transatlantic trade in enslaved peoples. It is, he concluded, “beyond reasonable doubt” that Stoke House exists because of profits from this trade. The Cann family, he discovered, was not only passively complicit in this trade, but was itself actively involved through the kidnapping, purchase, and sale of slaves, and was involved in promoting and defending the practice of transatlantic slavery from its inception.

Trinity College History

Ancestral Homes: The Dickey-Sherer House

The Dickey-Sherer log cabin was built ca. 1771 for John Dickey on his 170 acres. In 1844, Richard Sherer bought the house and 76 acres from the descendants of Martha McNeely Dickey.  In 1988, the cabin was moved from its original location to the Kings Mountain State Park where you can step inside the building, which now serves as the park office.

Location: Kings Mountain State Park, Clover, South Carolina

Explore South Carolina: Dickey-Sherer House 

Remember When

This is a slide presentation of family photos that I posted years ago on YouTube:

Remember When

Mt. Zion on Sugar Creek

Several years ago, a Country duo named "The Civil Wars" filmed a music video for their hit "Barton Hollow" at the place where many of my McMasters ancestors are buried. The Mt. Zion Church and Cemetery, on the banks of Sugar Creek, along with the old swinging bridge that is suspended over the creek appear prominently in the video. My fourth Great Grandfather William David McMasters dropped dead in that Church in 1894! Anyway, I'm posting a link to the video - enjoy!

YouTube - Barton Hollow 

100 Years: Edna Miller Hendrix Jones

She was born May 17, 1925, to John Clifford Miller and Mittie Camilla Favors McMullen Miller near Brown's Ferry, Limestone County, Alabama. Her parents, siblings, nieces and nephews, and husband called her "Doodle Bug" or simply "Doodle." I knew her as "Nanny," the grandmother who raised me and my brother (the children of her only son, Wayne).

Now, the descriptor "larger than life" belonged to Nanny/Doodle for every day that she drew breath on this earth. Her care and concern for those whom she loved was fierce, and it was not a good idea for anyone to attempt to hurt or interfere with her family (she could be just as fierce in defending them). She had true grit, or what Rooster Cogburn called "sand." Nanny/Doodle endured two miscarriages, and the early onset of Rheumatoid Arthritis (which twisted her hands and fingers and caused her much pain).

She drove a big, black Cadillac and smoked like a chimney (Philip Morris cigarettes). She liked her mink stole and diamonds and wore a nightgown around the house. Nanny/Doodle loved filet mignon and drank at least one can of beer every day. When younger, she could out-jitterbug her contemporaries without breaking a sweat. Nanny/Doodle loved country music (her favorite was Loretta Lynn), and she loved watching a good movie (her favorite was Gone with the Wind). She could cuss like a sailor, but she NEVER took God's name in vain or used the F-word or the N-word (and she wouldn't tolerate their use in her presence).

She was an unparalleled storyteller. Nanny/Doodle had a memory like an elephant, and she could hold an audience spellbound with her ability to paint a verbal picture of some past event. Indeed, she had that rare ability to be both a romantic and a realist when recalling the past and had an absolute passion for the truth (even if it was not always flattering). In short, she could conjure the ghosts of the past at will and parade them before you as if they were still alive. To be sure, she was the source of my own interest in family lore, and the larger story of my family.

In August of 1985, I sat down with Nanny/Doodle in the living room of our house overlooking the Elk River in Rogersville, Alabama. I asked her to tell some of the stories that I had heard out of her own mouth over the years and recorded them on a cassette tape. What follows is a brief example of her storytelling abilities.

I prissed around into the backyard and fell into the well. Momma had to come and put her feet in the steps on each side of the well, get down into the water and wait till I came up. Then she got me and held me above the water and screamed until one of my aunts came to the rescue and got somebody to help her get out with me. I remember that very, very plainly!

Another time, it might have been the same day (if you could crowd all of that into one day), I was going across the pasture; and Daddy had a bull corralled into that pasture that was pretty ferocious. He had warned us not to go near the pasture. Anyway, I was the only one that ever went across the pasture.

I went across it, and the bull got after me. I hid behind a big oak tree. Daddy just seemed to appear out of thin air and had a big stick (like a 2x4 or 2x6). He hit that bull across the nose, and the bull's legs just crumpled, and he fell. Daddy grabbed me up on his shoulders and ran and jumped a fence with me. I thought he was just the biggest, bravest, strongest person in the world.

She went on to recount her experiences of the Great Depression and World War II - the great defining events of her generation. Nanny's/Doodle's stories give us a window into her life, and the lives of her parents, grandparents, siblings, and cousins that we otherwise wouldn't have an opportunity to know about.

At any rate, Happy Birthday Nanny - it happened one hundred years ago today!

 

Some Notes on the Parentage of Lillian Mae Barker Reynolds

Barker Genealogy

"United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6KS1-2HV7 : Tue Feb 25 10:22:16 UTC 2025), Entry for Lillie Mae Barker and Frank Barker.

Lillie Mae Barker Reynolds

Born: 9 Apr 1876, Owensboro, Daviess, Kentucky

Parents: Frank Barker, Elizabeth McLay

"United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCCG-CXH : Mon Jan 13 12:30:54 UTC 2025), Entry for Francis Barker and Elizabeth Barker, 1880.

Francis Barker 30

Elizabeth 31

Alice 9

Lulu 5

Alfred 3

Baby 0

"United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6K3M-PMDW : Tue Feb 25 10:31:10 UTC 2025), Entry for Mae Barker and Marion F Barker.

Name Mae Reynolds

Alias Mae Barker

Sex Female

Birth Date 9 Apr 1876

Birthplace Owensburg Da*, Kentucky, United States

Social Program Application Date Apr 1948

Race White

Father's Name Marion F Barker

Father's Sex Male

Mother's Name Elizabeth Malay

Mother's Sex Female

Event Type Social Program Correspondence

"United States, Census, 1870", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX7B-4DB : Thu Jan 16 08:26:19 UTC 2025), Entry for Elias Barker and Martha A Barker, 1870.

Elias Barker 45

Martha A 40

Francis M 21

Martha A 14

James R 11

Hiram J 8

Susan M 3

"United States, Census, 1900", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9W1-74J : Sat Jan 18 18:06:39 UTC 2025), Entry for Francis M Barker and Emma Barker, 1900.

Francis M 51 (Jun 1849)

Emma 32

Alfred 23

Martha 12

Mary 13

"United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M65M-JVF : Mon Jan 13 03:05:51 UTC 2025), Entry for Elias Barker and Martha Barker, 1850.

Elias 25

Martha 20

Francis M 1

Lucinda 12

"Kentucky, Births and Christenings, 1839-1960", , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWNR-KM9 : 4 March 2021), James R. Barker, 1859.

Name James R. Barker

Sex Male

Father's Name Elias Barker

Father's Sex Male

Mother's Name Martha A. Lambert

Mother's Sex Female

Event Type Birth

Event Date 21 May 1859

Event Place Daviess, Kentucky, United States

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31063308/james-r-barker

James R. Barker

Birth

24 May 1859

Death

25 Jun 1889 (aged 30)

Burial

Lamar Cemetery

Hancock County, Kentucky, USA

Memorial ID

31063308 · View Source

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90196426/elias-c-barker

Elias C. Barker Veteran

Birth

1826

Death

unknown

Burial

Union Baptist Church Cemetery

Hancock County, Kentucky, USA

Memorial ID

90196426 · View Source

Company E 12 KY Cavalry

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90196643/martha_a-barker

Martha A Barker

Birth

9 Jun 1830

Death

13 Mar 1891 (aged 60)

Burial

Union Baptist Church Cemetery

Hancock County, Kentucky, USA

Memorial ID

90196643 · View Source

"United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCCG-CX9 : Sun Jan 05 15:23:49 UTC 2025), Entry for Elias Barker and Martha A. Barker, 1880.

Name Elias Barker

Sex Male

Age 55 years

Birth Year (Estimated) 1825

Birthplace Indiana, United States

Marital Status Married

Race White

Relationship to Head of Household

Self

Father's Birthplace Kentucky, United States

Mother's Birthplace Kentucky, United States

Event Type Census

Event Date 1880

Event Place Pellville, Hancock, Kentucky, United States

Event Place (Original) Pellville, ED 119, Hancock, KY, United States

Elias Barker's Spouses and Children

Open All

Susan M. Barker

Daughter

F

13 years

Kentucky, United States

Martha A. Barker

Wife

F

49 years

Kentucky, United States

James R. Barker

Son

M

21 years

Kentucky, United States

Jessie Barker

Son

M

9 years

Kentucky, United States

Famous Descendants of William Swift

The following people share our ancestor William Swift (About 1593-1643) and are consequently our distant cousins:

William Rufus Day, U.S. Secretary of State

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. President

Willis Carrier, air conditioning

Ruth Gordon, actress

Richard M. Nixon, U.S. President

Taylor Swift, singer/songwriter

Mitt Romney, Governor of Massachusetts and Utah Senator

Johnny Carson, Tonight Show host

Dr. Jill Biden, Former U.S. First Lady

Jon Meacham, historian and author

William Swift Famous Kin

Famous Descendants of Henry Howland (1565-1635)

The following famous people share our ancestor with us:

John Howland (Mayflower passenger)

Nathaniel Gorham (Signer of the U.S. Constitution)

U.S. Vice President Hannibal Hamlin

Governor Jonathan Worth of North Carolina

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (poet)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (poet)

Governor Henry Crapo of Michigan

U.S. Vice President Levi P. Morton

Governor James Y. Smith of Rhode Island

Horace Gray (U.S. Supreme Court Justice)

Henry H. Rogers (oil tycoon)

Mark Hopkins Jr. (Central Pacific Railroad)

Governor Adelbert Ames of Mississippi

Governor Henry H. Sibley of Minnesota

U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

O. Henry (author)

Governor Chase Clark of Idaho

Alonzo Clark (Smithsonian)

U.S. President Richard M. Nixon

Humphrey Bogart (actor)

U.S. First Lady Edith Roosevelt

Bing Crosby (singer/actor)

William Durant (General Motors and Frigidaire)

U.S. Vice President James Sherman

Governor Samuel Goddard of Arizona

Governor Eugene Foss of Massachusetts

Governor Owen Brewster of Maine

Governor Curtis Guild of Massachusetts

Sir Winston Churchill (UK Prime Minister)

Marilyn Monroe (actress)

John Steinbeck (author)

Johnny Carson (television host)

Meryl Streep (actress)

Cecil B. DeMille (film director)

Governor Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts

U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan

Ezra Pound (poet/critic)

Governor George H. Earle of Pennsylvania

Governor Thomas Kean of New Jersey

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins

U.S. President Gerald R. Ford

John Carradine (actor)

Norman Rockwell (artist)

Chevy Chase (comedian)

John Lithgow (actor)

Harry Chapin (singer/songwriter)

Governor Bill Weld of Massachusetts

John Paul Stevens (U.S. Supreme Court Justice)

Governor Gary Herbert of Utah

Geena Davis (actress)

U.S. Senator Henry J. Heinz of Pennsylvania

Hal Holbrook (actor)

Richard Chamberlain (actor)

Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr. of New Hampshire

U.S. C.I.A. Director Porter Goss

Glenn Close (actress)

Alec Baldwin (actor)

David Carradine (actor)

Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska

Thomas J. Watson (IBM)

James Taylor (singer/songwriter)

Matt Bomer (actor)

U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois

U.S. First Lady Jill Biden

Penn Jillette (magician)

Jon Meacham (historian)

Governor Jim Douglas of Vermont

U.S. President George H. W. Bush

U.S. President George W. Bush

John Stamos (actor)

Timothy Hutton (actor)

Ben Jealous (NAACP)

Taylor Lautner (actor)

Bill Gates (Microsoft)

Governor Jeb Bush of Florida

Governor Kate Brown of Oregon

Source: Famous Kin of Henry Howland

Famous Kin of Lonnie Wayne Hendrix

The following people are kin to me through my father's line:

Sir Robert Cann, Bristol Merchant and MP

Rev John Cann, Protestant English Minister

Opechancanough, Native American Chief

James Tarpley, Williamsburg Store Owner/Bruton Parish Church contributor

James Vann, Native American Chief

John Marshall, U.S. Chief Justice Supreme Court

William Tecumseh Sherman, Union General American Civil War

George C. Marshall, U.S. General WWII and Secretary of State

Walt Whitman, poet

Joseph Smith, Founder of the Mormon Church

John McCain, U.S. Senator and Vietnam POW

Barak Obama, U.S. President

John Lithgow, Actor

Glenn Close, Actress

Kevin Bacon, Actor

Ethan Hawke, Actor

David McCullough, historian/author

Mary Chapin Carpenter, country singer/songwriter

Warren Buffett, Chair/CEO Berkshire Hathaway

Brenda Lee, singer

Famous Descendants of Sir Henry Greene, Chief Justice of King's Bench 1361-1365

We share our ancestor with the following distant cousins:

Robert Catesby, Gunpowder Plot

Abigail Smith Adams, wife of Pres. John Adams

John Quincy Adams, U.S. President

Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. President

Horace Gray, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

T.S. Eliot, poet/playwright

Sir Winston Churchill, U.K. Prime Minister

Guy Ritchie, British filmmaker

Hugh Grant, actor

Ted Danson, actor

Story Musgrave, astronaut

Angela Davis, civil rights leader

FamousKin.com/Henry Greene

Famous Descendants of Sir Warin Trussell 1310-1365

Through our shared ancestor, Warin Trussell, we are distant cousins of the following:

Meriwether Lewis, explorer

James Madison, U.S. President

Zachary Taylor, U.S. President

Julia Ward Howe, Battle Hymn of the Republic

Alice Lee Roosevelt, first wife of Teddy Roosevelt

General Douglas MacArthur, U.S. WWII Pacific

Marilyn Monroe, actress

Jack London, Call of the Wild

Barbara Bush, wife of George H.W. Bush

Richard M. Nixon, U.S. President

Jimmy Carter, U.S. President

Sir Winston Churchill, U.K. Prime Minister

Mitt Romney, Governor of Mass. and U.S. Senator

Warren G. Harding, U.S. President

Robert Frost, poet

Randolph Scott, actor

John Kerry, U.S. Senator and Secretary of State

George W. Bush, U.S. President

Queen Elizabeth II, monarch of U.K.

King Charles III, monarch of U.K.

General George S. Patton, U.S. WWII, Europe

Camilla Parker Bowles, Queen Consort U.K.

Raquel Welch, actress

Kyra Sedgwick, actress

General George C. Marshall, U.S. WWII

George H.W. Bush, U.S. President

Princess Diana of Wales, mother of heir to U.K. throne

Warren Buffett, Chair/CEO Berkshire Hathaway

Alec Baldwin, actor

Sally Ride, astronaut

Kit Harrington, actor

James Taylor, singer/songwriter

Geena Davis, actress

Hal Holbrook, actor

Glenn Close, actress

Billie Eilish, singer/songwriter

Tammy Duckworth, U.S. Senator

Source: FamousKin.com/Warin Trussell

Reverend William Dickey (1774-1857)

 

My great grand uncle who worked tirelessly on the Underground Railroad - facilitating the northward movement of slaves.

Albert and Frances Favors (1866-1950 and 1870-1944)

Albert and Frances Favors in old age, parents of Mittie C. Favors McMullen Miller

 

Henry and Providence Westlake (1839-1904 and 1844-1925)

Henry and Providence Westlake of Marysville, Ohio

 

Josiah Westlake (1800-1886)

Josiah Westlake, early settler of Union County, Ohio and innkeeper.

 

James Thompson Harney (1790-1874)

 

My ancestor, James T. Harney, brother of the General, friend of Andrew Jackson.

General William Selby Harney (1800-1889)

 

General William S. Harney, great grand uncle.

Mexican-American War, Indian fighter, slave-owner.

James Rumsey (1743-1792)

 

My Ancestor and the inventor of the steamboat.

My Mother's European Royal Ancestors

ENGLAND

Alfred, the Great

Edward, the Elder

William, the Conqueror

Henry I

Henry II

John

SCOTLAND

Fergus MacErc

Kenneth MacAlpin

Malcolm Canmore

IRELAND

Dermot MacMurrough

Brian Boru

FRANCE

Charles Martel

Pepin, the Short

Charlemagne

Louis I

Charles III

Louis IV d'Outremer

Hugh Capet

Robert II

Henry I and Anna of Kiev

GERMANY

Henry, the Fowler

Henry Howland Famous Descendants

In addition to being my mother's ancestor, Henry Howland (1565-1635) was also the forefather of the following people of note (making them distant cousins of ours and each other):

John Howland (Mayflower Passenger)

Nathaniel Gorham (Signer U.S. Constitution)

Hannibal Hamlin (U.S. Vice-President)

Joseph Wharton (Wharton School of Business)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Poet)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (Poet)

Joseph Smith (Founder of Mormons)

Franklin D. Roosevelt (U.S. President)

O. Henry (Author)

Richard M. Nixon (U.S. President)

Humphrey Bogart (Actor)

Bing Crosby (Actor/Singer)

Sir Winston Churchill (U.K. Prime Minister)

Marilyn Monroe (Actress)

John Steinbeck (Author)

Christopher Lloyd (Actor)

Johnny Carson (Comedian, TV Host)

Meryl Streep (Actress)

Cecil B. DeMille (Director)

William Jennings Bryan (Sec. of State, Politician)

Gerald R. Ford (U.S. President)

Norman Rockwell (Artist)

Dr. Benjamin Spock (Child Care)

Chevy Chase (Comedian, Actor)

John Ritter (Actor)

John Lithgow (Actor)

John Paul Stevens (U.S. Justice)

Geena Davis (Actress)

Hal Holbrook (Actor)

Richard Chamberlain (Actor)

Glenn Close (Actress)

Alec Baldwin (Actor)

Mary Chapin Carpenter (Singer/Songwriter)

James Taylor (Singer/Songwriter)

Dr. Jill Biden (First Lady)

Jon Meacham (Historian)

George H.W. Bush (U.S. President)

George W. Bush (U.S. President)

Kate Upton (Model)

Timothy Hutton (Actor)

Taylor Lautner (Actor)

Bill Gates (Microsoft and Philanthropist)

Source: Henry Howland Famous Kin

A Famous Cousin: Brenda Lee

                                            James Tarpley=Mary Anne Camp

Nancy Tarpley=Thomas Camp                                        Thomas Tarpley

            Burrell Camp                                                         Hosea Tarpley

             Louis Camp                                                            Joel Tarpley

 Wm Hendrix=Mary Camp                                             William H Tarpley

            Virgil Hendrix                                                           Joel Tarpley

          Samuel Hendrix                                                     Richard A Tarpley

           Buford Hendrix                                                      Ruben L Tarpley

           Wayne Hendrix                                            Brenda Tarpley aka Brenda Lee

                                            Seventh Cousins

Seventh Cousins, Once Removed

                             John Beals = Sarah Bowater

          |-------------------------------|------------------------|

John Beals = Margaret Hunt Prudence Beals = Richard Williams

         |-------|                                                             |-------------|

John Beals = Susannah Johnson Silas Williams = Mary Hunt

                    |---------|                                                 |----------|

John Carter = Sarah Beals Rebecca Williams = Garland Wade

      |----------|                                                            |----------------|

Eli Carter = Emily Arrington Delila Wade = Thomas Miller

                  |                                                                          |

Nancy Jane Carter = Riley Cannon Margaret Miller = Caleb Haines

             |-------------|                                                               |---------|

Mary F Cannon = William Preston Miller Josephine Haines = Clarence Westlake

             |----------|                                                                          |

John “Clip” Miller = Mittie Favors Caleb Otto Westlake = Eunice Reynolds

          |----------------|                                                                            |

          |                                                                                                 |

Edna Miller = Lonnie Buford Hendrix                                                  |

                         |                                                                                  |

       Lonnie Wayne Hendrix ====================== Linda Louise Westlake

The Paternal Ancestry of Nancy Jane Carter Cannon of Lincoln County Tennessee -2

 

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The Paternal Ancestry of Nancy Jane Carter Cannon of Lincoln County Tennessee -1

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The Maternal Ancestry of Nancy Jane Carter Cannon of Lincoln County Tennessee -2

 

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The Maternal Ancestry of Nancy Jane Carter Cannon of Lincoln County Tennessee -1

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An Early Photo of One of Our Vann Matriarchs?

The above picture was downloaded from FamilySearch.com and was attached to the person Anne Hare Vann, the wife of Thomas B. Vann of Madison County, Alabama.

Now, while my own research and DNA testing makes this connection to my branch of the Hendrix Family Tree, I doubt that this is a picture of Anne. Why? Because our Anne died in 1831 (before the age of photography began in the United States). There are a few pictures extant of important individuals from the 1840s, but I doubt a Native American woman from Alabama would have elicited much interest from photographers even during that decade. Nevertheless, it is plausible that this could be a very early family photograph from our group of the Vann Family. Could it be a daughter, granddaughter, or daughter-in-law of Anne's? This is entirely plausible. Maybe a picture of Dempsey's wife, Ruth Reed (the daughter of a Native American Chieftan)?