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1. ✅ Scantlen William Beakley (bef.1791-1849), Carolyn's 4th great-grandfather, died in 1849 in Hickman County, Tennessee. Several of his children contested his Will. His probate file spanned 401 images. (Homer Thiel)
2. ✅ Scantlen Carolyn's first cousin twice removed, Jennings M Scantlen (1896-1985), murdered the man who had attempted to assault his younger sister in 1913. The jury deadlocked and he was apparently never convicted. (Homer Thiel)
3. ✅ Scantlen One of her first great-grandfathers was John Lafayette Scantlen (1858-1936). In 1906 travelling correspondents used horse and buggy to gather the news of the region. W. O. Smith reported in The Mangum Star that J. L. Scantlen was among the successful farmers interested in a new cotton gin company being organized by the farmers of the area. The company hoped to raise $5,000 to put in a cotton gin with four stands in time for the 1906 season. (Karen Lowe)
4. ✅ Scantlen John Lafayette Scantlen's brother, James Albert M. Scantlen, lost a barn full of feed to fire in the winter of 1905-1906. He decided to sell a variety of livestock. He also offered land to rent, lease, or sell on easy payments. Breeding stallions were Prince Colwood the Kentucky saddle-horse ($25 on insurance) and Captain Lowe the four-year-old Kentucky jack ($10 by insurance). The insurance must have been to insure that a foal was produced. (Karen Lowe)
5. ✅ Scantlen The same great-granduncle James Scantlen and his wife in 1907 named a son Haskell Scantlen after Charles Haskell, the editor of the New-State Tribune who was elected first state governor (after several territorial governors) of Oklahoma in November 1907. Haskell received a thankful birth announcement in the newspaper. (Karen Lowe)
6. ✅ Scantlen Carolyn's 3rd great grandfather Dr. Wright Berry Beakley (1816-1908) was married three times. After his first wife died, he married his son’s wife’s sister America Scantlen (1832-1916). After over 25 years of marriage, he divorced her to marry a much younger woman. America or one of her children got some revenge by noting on her tombstone that she was his wife and that “As she bore her cross, she wears her crown.”
7. ✅ Foley Henry Clay Vick (1844-1924), CJ's first cousin, four times removed, Was a POW Prisoner of War at Black River Bridge from 15 Jun 1863 to 17 May 1863. He fought on the side of the Confederates. (Tabatha (Jaeger) Steele)
8. ✅ Foley Henry Clay Vick's daughters Georgia Ann (Vick) Dollar Vick-1455 and Hattie Mae (Vick) Dollar Vick-1459 married brothers Madison Lafayette Dollar Dollar-1083 and Fred Thomas Dollar Dollar-1084. (Tabatha (Jaeger) Steele)
9. ✓ Foley Georgia Scantlen's brother William Edgar Scantlen left home at age 16 on 1 October 1906 while his mother was away. She posted a notice in the newspaper on 1 November 1906 asking anyone who knew of him to write to her. By mid-November the notice was running in many newspapers around the state. (Karen Lowe)
10. ✅ Foley CJ's 3rd Great Grand-uncle William Henry Chambers (1842-1879) fought for both sides in the US Civil War. He initially joined the Confederacy, but after he was taken prisoner by the Union, he agreed to join the 3rd US Volunteer Infantry in return for his release. He served the Union for about a year before being released from duty. (Anne Guglik)
11. ✅ Foley Joseph Callaway Redmond, son of Jason Monroe Redmond and Mary Vick, was run over and killed by a driver who fell asleep at the wheel. He was sleeping at the side of the road with his wife and 10 children. The family was enroute to California to see the sea. The common Ancestor is Samuel Vick. Carolyn and Joseph are first cousins three times removed. (Heather Jenkinson)
12. ✓ Foley Robert Franklin Vick (1865-1954) had twin girls in 1913. He named them Oral Ruby and Opal Ruth. Robert was Carolyn's second great-grand-uncle. (Heather Jenkinson)
13. ✓ Vandeventer Carolyn's 5th Great-grandfather, Isack (van Deventer) Vandeventer (bef.1697-1775), had a twin brother Abraham. These twins were baptized twice, once in 1697 and again in 1704. It seems that the record of the first baptism was thought to be lost, so they were baptized later to ensure that they would have a record. (Ellen Smith)
14. ✅ Vandeventer Grandfather's first cousin, Edward Vandeventer (1867-1903) was killed while "dynamiting fish." (Donna (Tucker) Baumann)
15. ✅ Vandeventer Carolyn's great grandfather William Tolbert Vandeventer and his wife Missouri were dazed by a lightning strike that killed their two cows. (Homer Thiel)
16. ✅ Vandeventer Carolyn's great grandfather's brother Archibald Tennessee Vandeventer (1853-1929) was a "retired farmer and had been traveling for the past 10 years with his wife. They visited every state in the nation and appeared in news reels several times because he wore a suit of clothes made of 400 different kinds of cloth." Another article claimed the suit was made from 2,887 pieces of cloth. (Heather Jenkinson)
17. ✅ Duff Carolyn's 2nd great-grandfather,Thomas Duff (1795-aft.1870), had two sons that were out plowing the field in 1868. They decided to take a break and swim in the creek. It was later discovered that both had drowned. (Homer Thiel)

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1. Disconnected: Carolyn's 4th great grandfather, Robert Cherry (abt.1725-1798), and 3rd great grandfather, John Cherry Sr. (1773-1832), were both wool hat makers (probably top hats).
2. Disconnected: Carolyn's 3rd great grandfather's brother Gregory Cherry (1787-1873) had his barn set on fire by an arsonist trying to steal baled cotton in 1871.

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