Robert Carter - Apr 2, 2011
Hi Carol.. thank you for the invite... I find it interesting that Sally Carter sister, Elizabeth married a Llewellyn named Green Berry Llewellyn... One of Sally's son's name in Berry Lafayette Carter.... If our DNA is linked.. do you have a family tree available?
Carol Redd - Apr 3, 2011
Robert
So glad you've joined our discussion. Are you also robc@us.ibm.com? I don't want to inundate you with duplicate emails. With as many an email we've been generating this last week, it's enough to get a fellow reprimanded for using work email. That actually happened in another group I'm in. So, please let me know. And, do you also go by Todd?
Angie told me:
The descendant of Sally's brother is named Todd Carter. At my fathers Genetic 37 marker he is a genetic marker of -1. He may not have done additional testing to the 67 marker level. I will ask him about that and if he sees a Llewelyn in his matches.
We're having quite a fun time with all the new news about this Carter/Llewellyn connection.
As I understand things, your descended from Berry Lafayette Carter. Would you mind to post your lineage w/ dates/places of birth, marriage and death as you know them to be?
My story which you may have seen already if you've had time to read thru some of the sites old posts is this:
My gr. gr. grandfather, John Preston Sexton, was left by his mother when he was an infant w/ Fielding Sexton. The family story handed down was that she was a Lewallen. DNA proved his father was a Lewallen. Now whether or not she was also, we can't say - no way to prove that w/ dna.
The Roane Co, TN historian, Robert Bailey, descends from both the Sexton line and the Stewarts of Morgan Co, TN. He believes that Mary Ann Stewart, who married Fielding Sexton about 1862, was John Preston Sexton's biological mother. In the 1860 Morgan Co, TN census, she was living next door to John Lewallen (1836 Morgan Co, TN) who had just married Mira Shannon in Dec, 1859. He would have been a single fellow at the time my John Preston Sexton was conceived around Dec 1858 since he was born Sept 1859. For this reason, and the fact that she named the baby John, I suspect John Lewallen is the father.
His family is shown in 1850 Morgan Co, TN as follows:
1850 Subdiv 19, Morgan Co, TN (pg 48 of 80 per Ancestry)
William Lewallen 41 (1809) TN This was census taker error - 1880 census shows his sons listing NC as birthplace of their father
Nancy Lewallen 40 (1810) TN
Anderson Lewallen 16 (1834) TN
John Lewallen 14 (1836) TN
Rebecca Lewallen 12 (1838) TN
Charles Lewallen 5 (1845) TN Why such a large gap between these children?
Wm R Lewallen 3 (1847) TN
Smith Lewallen 1 (1849) TN
Please note the names of Charles and Smith. These are names we need to be paying attention to since Angie tells us that Charles Lewellyn (1792? VA) was married to her Sally Carter's sister and his father was also Charles Lewellyn (1750? VA). It's entirely possible that Wm Lewallen (1809 TN or NC) may have been a descendant of the older Charles.
Smith is of interest to me because our matches also show a match with a surname of Smith. I contacted him once already, but must have dropped the ball on making any connection. Below is the info he sent to me:
TER2LIN@CASSCOMM.COM
Alfred Max Smith 1819--Aft. 05 September 1884
John Franklin Smith 18 June 1843--2 March 1892
Alfred McLain Smith 05 December 1873--1 January 1934
John Alfred Smith John Alfred Smith-- 4 February 1973
I also have a response from Scott Williams: "Scott Williams" <psinormal@yahoo.com
Here's the link to a brief tree I posted on southernsmiths.org at least as far as parental lines go:
http://www.southernsmiths.org/gedtree/61756/gtp0.htm#head3
Here's another page on the results:
http://www.southernsmiths.org/mbbs22/forums/thread-view.asp?
tid=245&mid=262#M262
Unfortunately that's about all the I have. I don't think I have any Lewellen or Sexton matches in my tree that I can see.
Looks like we all have our work cut out for us.