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Evidence shows that all of our ancestors, both paternal and maternal lines, have lived in North America for over 200 years. And, no matter which line we trace, all leads point south...
On our father's side of the family we are researching the following direct lines: Ditmore, Durham, Perry, Caldwell, Mannery, Donnelly, Atwood, Parish, Alsup, Mandrell, Hickman, Akers, Upshaw, Hendrickson, Schreikard, Faulkner, Lawson, Clayton, Grant, Porter, Turner, Bradley, Hunt, Forrest and Waring.
On our mother's side of the family we are researching the following direct lines: Mills, Kizzia/Kizziar, Smith, Power, Whitehead, Bishop, Burkett, Thompson, Bryant, Moore, Conatser (Knortzer), Gould, Campbell, Cotterel, Belue, Cooper, Ob, Meyer, and Zwick.
To contact, email: mowglidit@aol.com
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- James E. Mills Family (69 KB)
Our knowledge of the Mills Family history has thus far been very limited. James Mills, our earliest identified ancestor to date, was born in 1822 in Tennessee. He married around 1840 in Glen Allen, Fayette County, Alabama. James and his wife Nancy Whitehead had six children (that we know of). It is through his son William Henderson Mills that we trace our heritage. Henderson had two families – his first wife died after giving birth to their fifth child. Henderson then married Icie Elizabeth Smith and they had seven children.
In 1913 the family left Glen Allen, Alabama and moved to McClain County, Oklahoma, south of Oklahoma City. Henderson and Icie would live out the rest of their lives in this area. Most of Henderson’s children, even those from the first marriage who had already started families of their own also moved to Oklahoma, with the exception of Henderson’s third child, a daughter, Ella.
- William Bond Gould Family (88 KB)
Our first traceable Gould ancestor was William Bond Gould who was born in 1816, probably in New York. We have not determined who his parents were. While still a young man he left New York and moved to Arkansas, where he married Sarah Sophronia Campbell, daughter of David Richardson Campbell. William and Sarah had nine children and made their home in Pike County, Arkansas.
William served as a representative of Pike County to the Arkansas State legislature. He is recorded as serving during the following years 1854-55, 1862, 1865. William was a cabinetmaker by trade. He also farmed and was a captain in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. William died in 1874, not terribly long after the war ended.
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