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The WikiTree Challenge 2022 Challenge 7

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Date: 31 Mar 2022 to 7 Apr 2022
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WikiTree Challenge Week 7

Guest Star: Elizabeth (Ward) Gracen

Notes From Guest

  • From what she knows, Wallace was a name change when the migrated - either from Haggerman or Hagermeier.
  • [Do you have a tree?] No. I had a relative that had done some research, but she has passed. No, I don’t really know a lot.
  • My grandfather, Tom Murphy, he was adopted by the Picketts/Pickens in the Batesville, Arkansas area.
  • Tom and Grace Murphy (those are my mother’s parents). And my father’s parents were Frank and Mary Ward. They’re all from Arkansas. Someone had looked into my mother’s side. Bonnie Grace Wallace was my grandmother’s name.
  • I don’t think my adopted grandfather ever found out who his biological parents were.
  • [Who is the oldest living ancestor you knew in person?] My grandmother Ward? Oh, I’m not close to that side, but there may be a great-aunt alive still. She will be in her 90s. My grandmother lived to her eighties.
  • I believe [my ethnicity is] English, Irish, and maybe some German.
  • Like a lot of people in Arkansas, we believed … especially since I had long, black, straight hair when I was younger, we believed that we may have had Cherokee. But, when Helen looked there was no sign of that. I’ve heard that a lot of people there believed they had Native American ancestors. No, I haven’t done DNA testing. I don’t think anyone in my family has.

Photographs

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FHL Look-up Requests

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Resources

Ireland

  • Tip: The census records are a good start, and you should be able to find images of all the birth records for each child on irishgenealogy. They have exact birth date, places, fathers Occupation, and mother’s maiden names. Once you get that, you can search for the marriage of the parents, and that gives their fathers names. The civil records are great, but only go back to 1864 for births, a bit earlier for marriages.

United States

United States - Arkansas

United States - Connecticut

United States - North Carolina

Tell Us What You Found!!

Interesting Finds

List interesting finds to share with the guest at the end of the week
  1. Four Strain sisters (sisters of Elizabeth's great grandmother), including Kate Strain (1864-1940) worked as dress makers. None of the sisters married.
  2. Three brothers of Elizabeth's great-great grandmother Eveline (Williams) Strain served during the Civil War. On the Confederate side, Thomas W. Williams served in Company K of the 34th Arkansas Infantry and William Williams served in Company D of the 1st Arkansas Cavalry. Their younger brother Andrew Jackson Williams served on the Union side in Company A of the 1st Arkansas Infantry.
  3. The home of David Rankin David Rankin (circa 1745-circa 1802) in Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]
  4. David Benton 5x great grandfather of Elizabeth is the namesake of Benton County, Tennessee, United States where the family lived for several generations.
  5. Elizabeth's great grandfather Sidney Pickens coached the Batesville, Arkansas basketball team. In April 1927 they were runner-up at the National Championship Game, held in Chicago, losing to a team from Cicero, with Elizabeth's grandfather Tom Murphy as the star player (he played back guard).
  6. Elizabeth's second cousin twice removed James Kenneth Hoover (1919-1943) was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. He was the co-pilot of a B-24 bomber which was shot down by German fighter planes on 13 November 1943 over the North Sea. His body was later recovered and is buried in the Little Rock National Cemetery.
  7. Aaron Lee Ward (1896-1961), Elizabeth's first cousin 2x removed, began his Major League Baseball career with the New York Yankees in 1917. His career lasted to 1928, with the last two years playing for the Chicago White Sox and The Cleveland Indians respectively. During the course of his career, he led The Yankees in triples in 1921,1923, and 1924.
  8. Elizabeth's second cousin, 6 times removed, Israel Pickens (1780-1827) served as the third Governor of the State of Alabama, then served as a US Senator for Alabama as well. He was in Cuba for treatment of consumption (tuberculosis) at the time of his death, and his remains were interred there before being moved to their final resting place in Alabama.
  9. Elizabeth's great grandfather's brother Phillip Ward was murdered by his brother-in-law George Hampton in October 1902. Hampton was convicted of second degree murder and died shortly thereafter in prison. (Chip Grimshaw found this one).
  10. James Wells Young first cousins three times removed of Grace common ancestors are Ephriam and Virginia Young. Dr. Young began his practice in Roscoe in 1907 when a sudden rainstorm left him stranded there. He had just graduated from Texas University Medical College in Galveston and was en route to Snyder to begin the practice of medicine when a rainstorm made the road to Snyder impassable. He remained overnight and by morning, he had decided to cast his lot in Roscoe. He made house calls either on horseback or Horse and buggy. Founder of Young Medical Center in Nolan County, Texas with his two sons (Another Doctor and Dentist). His Grandson was a professional Guitarist and Keyboard Player (Cactus Rose Project).
  • Elizabeth's 1st cousin once removed William Robert Wallace (1918-1944) was a Pharmacist's Mate First Class aboard the USS Hoel, a US Navy Destroyer. He lost his life when the ship was sunk by the Japanese during the Battle of Samar on 25 October 1944.

Free Space Pages

List of Free Space Pages created for or linked to members of this family.

Military Profiles

Did any of the guests' family serve in the military or military conflicts?
FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS
  • Elizabeth's 5th great grandfather Jonathan Boardman (1726-1798) served in as a Sergeant in the 7th Company (under Col. Elihu Chauncey) of the 4th Connecticut Regiment
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
  • 5th Great Grandfather, Joel Bird Hembree (abt.1755-1825) performed a patriotic service qualifying him as a Patriot for the American Revolutionary War for DAR and SAR.
  • 5th Great Grandfather, Joseph Tankersley Sr (1766-1822), served in the Revolutionary War, but was denied a pension due to lack of proof at the time.
  • 5th Great Grandfather David Rankin (circa 1745-circa 1802) served in the 8th Battalion of the Pennsylvania Militia (Chester County) during the Revolutionary War.
  • 5th & 6th Great Grandfathers, Robert Latimer (1760-1812) & Jonathan Latimer Jr (1724-1806) both served in the Revolutionary War.
  • Elizabeth's 5th great grandfather Andrew Pickens (1753-1844) served from South Carolina during the Revolutionary War, receiving a pension for his service in 1835.
  • Elizabeth's 6th great grandfather David Benton served in the Revolutionary War. He swore in 15 Jun 1776 under the command of Captain John Nelson in the 4th North Carolina continental regiment. Received pension for a brief period Starting in 1812 and received lands.
  • Elizabeth's 6th great grandfather twice Zachariah Melton is listed on the SAR patriot index.
  • Elizabeth's 6th great grandfather Charles Churchill (1723-1802) was a Captain of the Tenth Company in the Sixth Connecticut Regiment, a division of the Colonial Continental Army. In 1776 he served in the Fourth company of the Second Regiment.
  • Elizabeth 5th great grandfather Samuel Churchill (1757-1834) He fought in the American Revolution with his father Charles, and brother, Levi. He served in the Tenth Company in the Sixth Connecticut Regiment, a division of the Colonial Continental Army.
WAR OF 1812
  • Elizabeth's 3rd great grandfather David Wilson Williams (1794-1869) served in the 2nd Regiment (LIllard's) East Tennessee Volunteers during the War of 1812.
  • Elizabeth's 4th great grandfather Robert Strain (1770-1841) served as an Ensign in the 2nd Regiment of the East Tennessee Volunteers under Lilliard during the War of 1812.
  • 5th great grandfather David Benton served in the 1st North Carolina Militia and received lands for his service.
Creek War
  • 5th great grandfather David Benton served in the 3rd regiment of Tennessee Militia in the Creek War.
CIVIL WAR
  • 2nd Great Grandfather Phillip M Ward (1835-1899) served for the Confederacy in the Civil War
  • 2nd Great Grandfather William Jackson Strain (1836-1922) served in the Confederate Army in Company C of the 2nd Arkansas Infantry and Company C of the 34th Arkansas Infantry.
  • 3rd Great Grandfather, Lafayette Winburne, served in the Civil War, Confederate TX 1st Battalion Sharpshooters Company C, and 33rd Arkansas Infantry Company K.
  • 2nd Great Grandfather William G. Wilson served in the Confederate military in Company I of the Arkansas Cavalry during the Civil War.
  • 3rd Great Grandfather Andrew Jackson Monroe Pennington (1824-1863) served for the confederacy and died at an army hospital while in service.
  • 3x great grandfather David Y Vester enlisted 1 Feb 1862 in the 55th Tennessee Confederate Infantry, Company B.
WORLD WAR I
  • Great Grand Uncle J. Alvin Pickens was a corporal in the Postal Express Service during the Great War (WWI).


Ancestors

Brick Walls

Brick wall ancestors were added mid-week by Mindy and Donna. Please don’t add profiles to this list. Thank you!

Paternal Brick Walls

  1. Mahala Ann (Scarlett) Hamilton (abt.1816-abt.1857)
  2. Benagah Pennington (1770-1855)
  3. George Washington Green (1812-1870)
  4. Ephriam A Young (1808-1872)

Maternal Brick Walls

  1. Laban McDonald (1818-1889)
  2. Avis (Baird) Woods (-1840)
  3. Mary Jack Wilson (1767-1856)
  4. John Williams (1766-1815)

Needs Work

Please add a note next to the one you are working on and then remove the entry when the profile is improved!

  1. Agnes (McGill) Benton (abt.1745-abt.1791) – no sources or bio
  2. Francis Albrighton Jones (1715-1788) – bio and sources
  3. Mary Elizabeth Betsy (Ridley) Jones (1706-1784) – This needs more than a cursory cleaning. The age gap between her and her children is far too small, and her marriage date doesn't fit with her age.
  4. Matthew Jones (abt.1640-1715) – bio & sources
  5. Elizabeth (Albrighton) Jones (1645-1728) – bio & sources
  6. Nathaniel Ridley (abt.1675-abt.1719) – slave owner – will transcription – many of that name in that area – probably a big project


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