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Dear Kaye, I am interested if you might have uncovered information that might help me piece together information about a missing link in my geneology. I am the direct descendant of a M.L. (from the 1860 census) who had married a Bloodworth sometime before 1850. It is possible that she had married a Hardy Bloodworth around 1848 in Fayette County Tennessee and would have been Martha J.L. Shaw if that was the case before her marriage. I am not sure why she would have kept the L. and not an S. for her middle name in the 1860 census however. Something happened to M's Bloodworth husband in the 1850's because she was living as wife of R.S. McGee in Wyatt, Mississippi in Marshall County by the 1860 census. Marriage records from Lafayette Co, Miss indicate that R. G. McGee married Martha Bloodworth in 1854. In 1860, the census lists her age as 27, and she had with her two children by her former marriage: Martin B? Bloodworth, age 11, and Sarah F. Bloodworth, age 9, and 7 McGee children - some of whom were obviously not hers. She and the two Bloodworth children show their origin as Tennessee whereas all the McGees are from mississippi. At this same point (1850) the McGee family is living quite close to E. W. Bloodworth's family in Chulahoma, Mississippias well as Wm.B. and Frances Bloodworth Bloodworth. Wm. B. at this point was 82 years old and shows his origin as NC. Marion Bloodworth (age 26)has a family in Tyro, also near by, as well as Tucker (Chulahoma) and Deloach )Byhalia) families and Denton Odell (Chulahoma). Out of a family bible I then have record of W. M. Bloodworth who was born Jan 30, 1848 marrying a Mary Ellar (Ellen) Bratton on Nov 11, 18?. On the same page I have my grandfather's birth listed. His name was listed in that bible as Walter Marten (Martin?) Bloodworth and his birth as Jan 20, 1877. His siblings were Girtie Clide Bloodworth and Edward Hardy Bloodworth (Feb 8, 188?). On the same page is a Robbart (Robbert?) Marten born on M.18, 1879. Near by page jas Frank McGee dying Dec 10, 1887. This Bible suggests that perhaps Walter Marten was the direct descendant of the W. Bloodworth in the McGee household of 1860. I have some conflicting information that my grandfather was born in Texas and moved to Memphis and then into Mississippi, but his siblings appear to be from Miss so I am not sure. The Sarah Bloodworth in the McGee family probably is the S.F.Bloodworth who marries W. H. Abbott April 10, 1872 in Lafayette Co, Mississippi. Well, my grandfather Walter Marten (Martin?)Bloodworth marries Emma Cooper Bloodworth on Jan 8, 1903 and had four children: Mable Jamie Bloodworth (b 7 April 1904), Russell Edward Bloodworth (b 3 Jan 1910) who is my father, Walter Martin Bloodworth (b 10 Nov 1911) and Nan Cooper Bloodowrth (b 6 Feb 1919). From looking at other geneology material I suspect that the M. or Martha Bloodworth in the McGee household had probably been married to a Bloodworth who came from the line of Bloodworths that came out of Edgecomb, NC in the late 1700s and move through tennessee in the early 1800's and who appear to have split then into Miss and Texas. In any event, the link to the edgecombe NC Bllodworths falls apart since I don't know who the father of the Hardy Bloodworth is who married the Martha J. L. Shaw. If you have any insight on this, I would great appreciate it. I'm sorry I don't have all of this in some kind of better format, but I have been more focused on getting pieces of data and not charting so far. Thanks for any help you might give. I hope the data I've included might be help to you as well. Russell Bloodworth, jr.
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