Posted By: Larry White
Date Posted: Apr 11, 2009
Description: Son of Anderson "Cashup" Lewellen
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Place Taken: Texas
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Billie Harris - May 11, 2009
This photo is showing up on Ancestry as Anderson Grant Lewallen 1764-1829. Of course it isn't Anderson because it's obvious this is a more recent photo that one of pre 1829.
Dorothy Campbell - May 12, 2009
I don't have a lot of faith in Ancestry.com, most of the things there are just copied from rgular individuals like us errors and all.
Billie Harris - May 12, 2009
I've e-mailed the person who posted it and informed him that the picture is of Grant Lewallen, son of Anderson who died 1912 in Bell County.
I agree about Ancestry. The best thing about Ancestry is census records, however, you have to check the actual records because sometimes the names are transcribed as one thing and in close examination of the actual record, they're something else. Or, even the state of birth may be different than what's transcribed. I always pulll up the actual census record when I'm checking it.
Resa Miller - May 12, 2009
Speaking of ancestry, it there a way to just look up the records for the county and the year? For instance, Scott Co. Tn. 1850. That way you could see everyone that lived there and if the spelled the names wrong it would be easier to find them. I don't like the way you have to search on ancesty. I don't think there search works real well, or maybe I just don't know how to use it.
Also, do you know how to save images to your hard drive? It tells me saving but then I can't find them.
Billie Harris - May 12, 2009
Resa, I've recently signed up for Ancestry and sometimes even if I want a soundex spelling, it still won't pull up anything with the variation of the spelling of Lewallen, but I did find some information for Scott County 1850 which is on the Tennessee - Chronology posting in the History section. Click on the following and then scroll down to Scott County and you'll see what there is.
[NOTE: broken link]
Debora Leisenring - May 18, 2014
Dorothy, I also read above that there was a Anderson Lewallen that died in 1912 in Bell County. My Anderson died in 1909 in Lebanon, Boone County, Indiana. I do not have a DC but I have an interment record from the cemetery and it is on Find a Grave. I need to go back and look at your tree and see how we are connected.
Mary Harris Johnson - May 18, 2014
That Anderson (1912) was Anderson (Cash Up) Lewellen. He was my great Grandfather, son of John Lewellen
Dorothy Campbell - May 12, 2009
Even with the real census records errors were made. A lot of times the parents would be in the fields when the census workers came to gather info and a child would answer the questions as best they could, that had been left behind to watch the younger children. I think sometimes that is why we just get nicknames with the census a lot of the time.
They tried and did the best they could. So we all just have to do the best we can gathering our info. Nothing is 100% correct.
Family bibles are pretty good, but sometimes even there were cover ups for babies that might have arrived too early.
A lot of Mother's had changed the son's date of births to keep them from going to war as well.
Even with all the flaws we keep plugging away with our research. It is in our blood and genes, we can't help our selves.
Mary Hubbell - May 14, 2009
They didn't have to even ask a member of the family. If no one was home, they could ask the neighbor about the family.