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>I'm researching my Nunnelly line and the name Forney keeps coming up.
Ah, yes. I remember now.
>The info I have for this William H Forney was from a site about the Aderholdt Mill.
William Henry Forney was the 3rd son of Jacob and Sabina Swope (Hoke) Forney. A lawyer, soldier, businessman, and distinguished statesman, b. 1823 in Lincoln Co, NC. Excerpt from the Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser: "He was a prominent figure in every stirring event in the history of the State from the time he was twenty-one years of age until the day of his death." University of Alabama (A.B. 1844, M.A. 1853) and a Trustee of the University from 1852-1863. Studied law with T. A. Walker and his eldest brother. Admitted to the bar in 1848, went into partnership with James B. Martin of Jacksonville. Alabama Legislature: Representative 1859-1860, Senator 1865-1866. United States Congress 1875-1893. Business and planting interests in Calhoun, Talladega and Marengo Counties, AL. Military service, Mexican War: Coffey's 1st Alabama Volunteers, Seize of Vera Cruze March 9-28th, 1847 (1st Lt then Captain). Entered the Confederate Army as Captain of G Company, 10th Alabama Infantry, saw fighting at Drainsville, Yorktown, Williamsburg, Salem Church, Gettysburg, Fredricksburg, Chancellorsville, Hatcher's Run, High Bridge, and Farmville. Wounded 13 times, taken prisoner but exchanged three times; ended the War as Brigadier-General, surrendering his Brigade at Appomattox. A few days after his death on 16 Jan 1894, his funeral was held at St Luke's Episcopal Church and he was buried with military honors in the Jacksonville Cemetery, Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Alabama.
The D. P. Forney you mentioned was his eldest brother, Daniel Peter Forney (1819-1880). William's other brothers were Joseph Bartlett Forney (1821-1885, Major, CSA), John Horace Forney (1829-1902, Major General CSA), and George Hoke Forney (1835-1864, Lt. Colonel CSA, fatally wounded, Battle of the Wilderness). Daniel and George were unmarried and sans progeny, but Joseph, John and William married and had issue, as did all 4 sisters.
William's aunt was my gr-gr-gr-grandmother, but I am unable to identify the Captain T. D. Forney you cite and totally unable at present to account for the Kathleen Forney whom you have as associated with the Granville children. Jacob's elder brother (Daniel Morgan Forney) and his sons were all dead well prior to the War Between the States, younger brother Joseph died as a teen in 1812, Moses never married, and the youngest, James, remained in North Carolina when the rest of the family moved to Alabama following the death of their parents, Gen'l Peter and Nancy (Abernathy) Forney. The male issue of Jacob's two uncles (Abraham/Abram Forney of Lincoln Co NC and Jacob Forney of Burke Co NC) valiantly served the Confederacy in various North Carolina units, not Alabama ones.
> Miss Jessie Forney and John H Forney President of the Brotherhood of Saint Andrew
John Horace Forney, brother of William Henry Forney. But again, I am unable at present to identify Miss Jessie Forney for you.
> I believe the children listed in that record may actually be hers instead of Granvilles,
I do not believe that very likely, Lisa.
I'm afraid you really need one of the direct descendants of this branch, not a mere collateral cousin, no matter how long I've been researching Mother's tangled family tree or attempting to decipher Cousin Lee's data of her branch of the family. What a pity she didn't have the kind of computer genealogy programs 40 yrs ago that we have today!
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