Re: Clan of John Paul Jones/Smith Paul???
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Re: Clan of John Paul Jones/Smith Paul???
Suzy Bennett 1/02/02
Suzy,
Hopefully you are still around as this is an old posting....
I also am hopeful that your John Paul and mine will be one and the same.
My grandmother was the daughter of William Tipton Paul who was the son of John Paul and Harriet Jennings. This John Paul has both Louisiana and Bavaria, Germany as his places of birth on different documents so we are not sure which if either is correct. But he states on all documents that his parents were born in North Carolina. I think once when he was living with a son it has South Carolina but that could be just the son not knowing which....
Anyway.........our John Paul was born in 1835 wherever he was born and he has stated on military records that his parents were "JOHN PAUL & MARY TOLBERT".
We have looked high and low and cannot locate these people but possibly we just haven't found the right location yet.
I am hoping you know of these people........and since your ancestor just happens to be a JOHN PAUL who would fit the time frame of mine......I was hoping that it might be one and the same. Miracles do happen!!!
About the only real connection we can make to Louisiana for sure is that my great grandfather did in fact enlist in the Army in Louisiana. He then came west to Indian Territory (what became Oklahoma) and went on to Utah to fight in the Indian Wars. He was released in 1860 and came back to Oklahoma Territory and worked at Ft. Sill for a while. He died in 1923 while living in a Confederate Soldiers Home in Ardmore, Oklahoma. He married several times once to a half-breed Indian woman who bore one child with him. Not sure if either of them bothered to divorce. He left it up to her and she in turn died so he never got any paper showing a divorce. That did not stop him from marrying several more times though.....
He got on the Indian Roll because he was married to this Indian woman......not because he himself was Indian. My family has extensive paper coverage of his acceptance onto this Indian Roll.....every word was taken down like a court reporter would do.....very interesting to say the least.
It was like a window into the past to be able to read this large document.
That being said it still does not point us to the location of HIS ancestry. In fact it just wets our appetite for more.
It was like a tease........gave us just enough but not quite there.
I have combed the 1850 census records to try to locate someone but to no avail.......and that is the only one that can really be of any help at this moment. He left to go to Indian Territory in 1855 so will not be on ANY census record anywhere until 1900.......so to find him with his family it will have to be 1850. Either that or a will or some other documentation.
As you can see I am definitely hitting a huge brick wall.........hopefully you have the answer to tearing this wall down.
Thanks in advance. Karen
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Re: Clan of John Paul Jones/Smith Paul???
Belinda McNew 6/14/11
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Re: Clan of John Paul Jones/Smith Paul???
Suzy Bennett 6/11/11