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Dear M.A. Siler,
The Mary Childress you seek is Mary Louise Childress, born 15 Nov 1842, in Wells Springs Community, Campbell Co., TN who married Evan Lambdin 13 Dec 1860 [see, Helen H. Stephens, "Peter Carter Childress Family Records, TN.", Pellissippi Genealogical Society, Issue 2, p. 86 (Apr 1982), transcription of Bible records]. Mary Louise Childress is reported by one of her descendants to have died in 1925 in Whitley Co., Kentucky. She is one of the East Tennessee Childresses.
Mary Louise Childress descends from a branch that includes my 5th cousin Joseph "Jay" Howard Childress of Knoxville, TN. Her father, Peter Carter Childress, and my ancestor, James M. Childress, were brothers. I shall email you Jay's internet address. I am confident that Jay can help fill you in on the siblings, parents and heritage of Mary Louise Childress.
I see from your posting that someone has misinformed you about Mary Louise Childress's heritage. To set the record straight, Mary Louise Childress was not a Cherokee and there is no Cherokee in her background. Mary Louise Childress's father, Peter Carter Childress, descended from immigrants who traced their roots to 17th Century Scotland. Mary Louise's mother, Elizabeth (Meadows) Childress, was one of three sisters of Joel Meadows of Anderson Co., TN; Mary's grandmother, Kesiah (Carter) Childress descended from the English-rooted Carters and Sandidges of Virginia; and Mary's great-grandmother, Elizabeth (Lindsey) Childress was born and raised in Amherst Co., Virgina (far to the East of, and beyond, the Cherokee nation).
Mary Louise Childress's surname is properly spelled Childress. Our family has never spelled it as Childers (notwithstanding the erroneous spellings assigned by court clerks, census takers and others unfamiliar with the family). Besides oral history of eyewitness accounts of the family Bibles of colonial era ancestors in which the name was always "Childress," both Mary Louise Childress's great-grandfather and his uncle, who were taught to spell their surname in the 1760s, and who have left authentic original signatures on their pension applications for service in the Revolutionary War, spelled it Childress, although in the colonial fashion of Childrefs. The spelling and pronunciation of the surname predates the family's emigration from Scotland to Virginia.
Just a note, here: Mary Louise Childress's grandparents were Robert Lindsey Childress & Kesiah (Carter) Childress (married 4 Jan 1812, in Amherst Co., VA). [Bailey Fulton Davis, "Marriage Bonds and Returns of Amherst Co., Virginia, 1801-1854, in Official Office Register," Section "C," p. C-11 (Bailey Fulton Davis, 1965)] Kesiah Carter's parents were Peter Carter & wife Elizabeth (Sandidge) Carter (married 3 Sep 1787). [Genealogies of Virginia Families, Vol. 3, p. 254 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1981)] Consequently, Mary Louise Childress's father - Peter Carter Childress - was named after his mother's father - Peter Carter of Amherst Co., VA.
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