Re: Gemes in Missouri or Arkansas.
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Gemes in Missouri or Arkansas.
Jack Dotson 10/22/03
Jack,
I am excited to find another researcher searching for LP Gemes.I am his 2G Granddaughter.I have spent quite a bit of time trying to answer your question.
I started with all of the same background information that you have.I've found out some really important details.First, L.P. Gemes (or Lewis Patton Gemes) mother's real name is Amanda Patton.The Ann Gray name actually came from LP's wife's mother's name which was Sarah Jane Gray.
Second, Amanda Patton's father's name was L.A. Patton.The L stands for Lathan or Laban.The Patton family is from South Carolina, by way of Tennessee, which is where Amanda was born.
In 1850, when L.P. Gemes was a year old, he was living with his grandfather L.A. Patton in Ozark County, Missouri.He is listed in the census as Lewis Cap Patton.I beleive that his middle name was actually Cap, but he later took his mother's maiden name as his middle name to go by L.P.
I have had a hard time finding L.P.'s real father, and I have a hunch that he was illegitimate, which would explain why he and his mother are both living with L.A. Patton in 1850, and going by Patton and not Gemes, which would probably have been the case had she have ever married the Gemes man.I would even go so far as to suggest that L.P.'s father may have been one the James' men who were living near the Patton family.From what I've heard, L.P. even suggested that his father's name may have been James.Gemes is a name that just kind of appears out of nowhere.So, it is possible that he was a drifter.In any case, he was probably never married to Amanda.
Unfortunately, the courthouse that had the records for L.P.'s birth, and marriage have both burned.I don't know if it is possible to ever prove who his real father was.
I know this is a long response.I just get really excited to see that someone else is hunting my same line.I can give this information to you in a gedcom file if you'd like.How are you related to him?
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Re: Gemes in Missouri or Arkansas.
Jack Dotson 12/15/03