Brick Walls of My Ancestry. Can You Help?
I have some brick walls in my ancestry - ancestors
for whom I have little information about: no parents' names, no
sibling names, little or no census information, OR, a family
relation that I have a DNA connection to but don't know how.
I am on ancestry.com, but I'm not sure it can help
me anymore regarding these brick walls, So I'm hoping that, by
posting this information on a public web page, I might be able
to find someone who has the info I'm looking for - I'm hoping
that when people search for certain names on Google or Bing or
Duck Duck Go or whatever, this page might come up.
A summary of what I'm interested in finding out
about:
Mansfield
(white) and Shaw (black) families of Hale and Perry
Counties in Alabama, and surrounding areas, 1820 - 1930 (more
details at the link).
Beasley, family
from Georgia, USA, 1810 - 1900 and Missouri (or Morouel or
Miouri Cauthen (more details
at the link)
Smith or Schimdt and Wells,
Georgia, USA, 1830 - 1900 (see below).
Smith or Schmidt Info I am looking
for:
Emma Smith
My 2rd great-grandmother
Birth: June 1854
(according to the 1900 Census)
Father: born in Germany
(according to the 1900 Census)
Mother: born in South Carolina
(according to the 1900 Census)
Home in 1900 (according
to that year's census): Reed, Henderson, Kentucky
Home in 1910 (according to that year's census): Reed,
Henderson, Kentucky
Death: 1918
Brothers or sisters: William, born in 1850 in Indiana,
others unknown
The 1900 census says that her
father was from Germany. So that means her maiden name was
probably Schmidt, not Smith. And I believe his name
was William, which makes him William Schmidt in
Germany and William Smith in the USA.
We have a death certificate for Emma that says her mother was
Polly Wells. Family lore says Polly was born around
1830 in South Carolina and that she died in Georgia, we guess
around 1880. I am skeptical that that was her name.
According to a 1900 census, Emma
Beasley was living with her brother, not her husband, probably
because her husband,
Morris, died in 1893. The brother
that she was living with was
William
Smith, born Feb. 1850 in Indiana. William, her
brother, died on August 31, 1906, at the age of 56. According
to an interview with Emma Cravens, my grandmother and his
great-grand niece and grand-daughter of Emma Beasley,
William
(Bill) died because he "fell into a fire."
I am searching for the exact place Emma Smith was born, any
other siblings' names (if any) and her parents full names and
where they were born.
I am at a complete stand still
and have been for years regarding this branch of the family -
and it's frustrating because this branch of the family is why
I joined ancestry.com - and don't get me wrong, the service
has been a tremendous help for other branches, and for finding
descendants of Ambrose and Missouri, and for solving
oh-so-many family mysteries in other branches.
Have info that could help me? If you have information, please
contact me at
jcravens42 "at"
yahoo "dot" com
