Re: Easter Cowart/ Cherokee heritage
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Re: Easter Cowart/ Cherokee heritage
James Newell 9/15/09
Jim,
Are you also aware of the Cherokee legends in your Coward/t lines?What, if anything, about that was passed along in your family?
I am so excited that you responded as your ancestor, a son of Needham and Phoebe, going by his birth date, was just younger than my ancestor, his sister, Nancy Cowart Lee, b. 25 NOV. 1788 in N.Carolina.She married Samuel Lee, the son of Solomon Lee, Sr. of New Hanover Co., N.Carolina.
Samuel and Nancy traveled south into S. Carolina, Barnwell Co., then on into Ga., Early Co. for one, but weren't there long before moving into Hancock Co.,MS on the coast, and soon thereafter, their sons and they moved up into what was then Lawrence Co., and from there, a couple of sons moved on into Texas.They had one daughter who stayed in Hancock Co., and had descendants there.
The only son who stayed in Ga., apparently didn't live much longer after his family left.He may have had one descendant, a son, possibly with descendants who stayed in Ga. I'm not sure that any of the family has been able to track down that line to his living descendants. Someone has recently located a son in a census in another county in Texas from whom we've not made contact with descendants.Another son, Wilson Lee, moved into the north part of Harris County, and we've been in contact with them for some time, reuniting a part of the family that had been separated for 150 yrs!That's how long it had been since that branch made it into Texas.Turns out, I grew up not all that far from them, as my dad came to Houston in 1940.
Apparently, Samuel and Nancy Cowart Lee didn't move to MS until after their children did when they were a little older, but I have actually visited the graves of Nancy Cowart Lee and her husband, Samuel in what was then, Lawrence Co., now Jefferson Davis Co., adjacent to what is now Lawrence Co.
Incidentally, I have been told by other genealogists that the Coward/ts traveled together from N.Carolina, and I know that a no. of them live in various parts of Texas now.
Mr. Kaiser Cowart Ptomey of Houston, Tx. lives not very far from here, so I hope to be able to have someone pick up one of his books soon.I actually hope he'll want to have a visit soon, just for fun.I believe his line is different, but the ancestors would be the same, as in your case.Somewhere I read that there are many family stories inside the book, which is one of my interests -- learning about those.I have found it interesting seeing how far back the stories go, and how similar they are.
I believe what you said in your post makes our nearest common ancestors Needham and E. Phoebe Blount Cowart.
Needham Coward/t would've been our Revolutionary War soldier on the Coward/t side of the family, then.
I know and have become good friends with a couple of Samuel and Nancy Cowart Lee's descendants (nearest common ancestors), but do not know anyone for whom I have to go all the way back to a Revolutionary War figure to have a common ancestor.That must make you and I something like 5th cousins.
However, my first Lee cousin does know one, a gentlemen living not too far from them, who descended from the brother of Solomon Lee, Sr., so that makes me his 6th cousin -- I have the information to make this accurate, whereas I don't for your line.
We now actually have fairly large continguencies of MS and TX lines of Samuel and Nancy's descendants visiting back and forth to each other's reunions and these two lines really feel like family -- great friendships.
I would love to know how to get more information about the Coward/t families who are related to us.
I will pass along the information about their still being a possibility for involvement of the Cherokees.I should always have a map and time line handy when studying these things.I hadn't realized where Johnston Co. was located, and all the dates involved, but I had known about Tom Blunt/Blount's half of his tribe staying friends with the settlers and staying in N.C., Bertie Co., I believe, so that made it confusing at that time.
I would like to know how many of our common lines have already published genealogy books or if there is any other material available to tell me about the Coward/Cowart families.
Thank you so much for your informative response.
Nancy
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Re: Easter Cowart/ Cherokee heritage
James Newell 9/15/09
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Re: Easter Cowart/ Cherokee heritage