Re: any connection to Marvin Eudy
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any connection to Marvin Eudy
3/26/99
I DO NOT HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF INFO, BUT HERE GOES -MARVIN LUTHER, BORN 8/21 1891, DIED 12/1/1918 AT LA JUNTA COLORADO.
SON OF BENJAMIN ALEXANDER 1856 - 1900. WIFE NANCY ANN SMITH OF ALBANY(CLINTON COUNTY)KY, MARRIED 7/10/1879, IN KY.BORN NEAR ALBANY KY. WHERE HHE WAS RAISED, MARRIED, AND RAISED HIS FAMILY. FATHER OF 9 CHILDREN, 5 OF WHICH WERE LIVING IN JULY OF 1946. MOVED TO COLUMBUS IND. IN 1899, WHERE HE DIED IN 1900.
BENJAMIN WAS THE SON OF JOHN CALVIN 1833 - 1864, MARRIED TO NANCY CAROLINE MEANS BORN-1827, IN KY. MARRIED AT ALBANY KY IN 1855.
JOHN WAS BORN IN EITHER CABARRUS OR MONTGOMERY COS. NC. WENT TO ALABAMA WITH HIS FATHER (CHRISTOPHER D.)AT ABOUT 11 YEARS OLD. CENCUS OF 1850 FINDS HIM LIVING WITH HIS FATHER IN SOMERVILLE DIST. #9, MORGAN CO, ALABAMA. LEFT WITH HIS ATHER ABOUT 1854 AND WENT TO CLINTON KYWHERE HE MARRIED. HE WAS 22 AND NANCY WAS 28. APPARENTLY LESS THAN A YEARAFTER ARRIVING IN KY. HE MOVED TO ILL. THE NAME JOHN CALVIN IS NOT LOCATED IN THE CLINTON KY CENCUS OF 1860, BUT THE CENSUS OF 1870 REVEALS:
NANCY 43
BENJAMIN A 13
HARRIET V 12
JAMES A10
MARGARET MEANS (MOTHER TO NANCY) 64
JOHN CALVIN DIED ABOUT 1864, AND IS PROBABLY BURIED IN ONE OF THE COUNTRY CHURCH YARD CEMENTARIESIN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF THEIR FARM IN BARRON COUNTY.CHRISTOPHER DANIEL 1812 - 1866
WIFE - MARY CRISCO, BORN 1813 IN NC
CENCUS OF SOMMERVILLE DISTRICT#9 MORGAN CO ALA 1850:
CHRISTOPHER38
MARY37
JOHN CALVIN17
WILLIAM14
CATHARINE 13
JAMES11
NANCY9
SARAH7
ELIZABETH4
OURCHASED A 160 ACRE FARM IN TOWNSHIP 7 NORTH, RANGE 1W, AT THE RATE OF 121/2 CENTS AN ACRE, IN FEB OF 1853. IN 1860, HE IS REPORTED TO HAVE LEFT ALA. AND WENT NORTH INTO TENN, AND HAD THREE MORE DAUGHTERS. DR. WILLIAM THOMAS EUDY GRANDSON, STATES THAT CHRISTOPHER WAS UNABLE TO SPEAK ENGLISH UNTIL HE WAS 12, AND THAT THE FATHER OF CHRISTOPHER FOUGHT IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
CHRISTOPHER DANIEL - FATHER TO ABOVE - BORN IN 1790, AND DIED PROBABLY 1854 IN ALA. NO RECORD IN 1860 CENCUS.
WIFE - CATHERINE LIGHT (LISH-GERMAN) BORN 1794. MARRIED 5/5/1811,CABARRUS CO. NC.
ONLY KNOWN SON OF DANIEL BURNHARDT.
IT IS AT THIS POINT MY FATHER BOOK GETS RATHER DETAILED IN REGARDS TO CENCUS RECORDS AND HOW THE EUDY NAME EVOLVED FROM THE ORIGENS OF GERMAN, ANGLOSAXON HERITAGE.
THE ORIGINS OF THE EUDYS IN THE US CAME FROM
EITHER THREE BROTHERS FROM MAGDEBURG GERMANY, IN SAXONY. THE ORIGINAL SPELLING WAS UHDE.
OR ONE FATHER AND TWO SONS. THEY WERE REPORTED TO NOT BE ALBE TO SPEAK OR READ THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, AND SPOKE A LANGUAGE CALLED DUTCH( PROBABLY LOW GERMAN OR PENSYLVANIA DUTCH. LARGE NUMBERS OF THESE SETTLERS PUSHED SOUTH AND WEST IN SEARCH OF FREE LAND. LARGE NUMBERS OF THESE PEOPLE SETTLED IN THE HADKIN RIVER VALLEY ON THE PRESENT SITES OF STANLY AND CABARRUS COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINA.
THE NAMES OF THE THE THE BROS WERE - BARENHARD, CONRAD, AND GODFRYT.
I AHVE LOTS MORE INFO BUT UNFORTUNALY IT IS A BOOK WORTH. I HOPE I HAVE HELPED YOU IN YOUR SEARCH FOR KNOWLEDGE. PLEASE E-MAIL ME BACK...VIDA
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