John McFerrin Notation
I HAVE SOME NEWS THAT MAY BE HELPFUL. My relative, Charles Linburg Key wrote this:
THERE IS A NOTATION I FOUND ABOUT SOMEONE NAMED JOHN MCFERRIN WHO LIVED IN SOUTH CAOLINA IN ABOUT 1783.
THIS MAY BE WHEN HE ARRIVED IN AMERICA.
HE MARRIED MARGARET ANN (LAST NAME UNKNOWN) IN SOUTH CAROLINA IN ABOUT 1812 IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
THEY HAD NINE CHILDREN, AND THEIR NAMES WERE MINIRVA, MARTH, JOHN ROSS, MATILDA, JAMES CLINTON, ROBERT ,. JANE G., ELIZABETH, AND WILLIAM ANDREW.
JOHN MCFERREN DIED JUNE 30, 1856 AND WAS BURRIED IN HOPEWELL CEMETERY, PALMYRA LOWNDES COUNTY, ALABAMA.
JOHN WAS LIVING IN SOUTH CAOLINA BEFORE MOVING TO ALABAMA.
NOW I DON'T KNOW IF THESE WERE KIN ON MAMA'S SIDE OR DADDY'S SIDE.
I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT DADDY'S FOLKS.
DADDY'S NAME WAS ALBERT LEE KEY, AND HIS BROTHER'S NAME WAS COLUMBUS M KEY, AND ONE SISTER BESSIE KEY, ADKINS.
DADDY'S MOTHER'S NAME WAS MATTIE REDDING AND HIS DADDY'S NAME WAS JIM KEY DADDY'S MAMA HAD ONE BROTHER NAMED WILL REDDING AND ONE SISTER NAMED MENDY REDDING, WINKLES.
DADDY'S DAD HAD ONE BROTHER NAMED JOHN KEY, WHO LIVED IN CLOSE TO MOUNT PLEASANT, TEXAS.
DAD'S MAMA AND GRANDMA POWELL LIVED IN DURANT, OKLAHAMA ON THE SAME STREET FOR SEVERAL YEARS UNTIL GRANDMA POWELL WENT TO LIVE CLOSE TO EVELYN AT A TOWN NORTH OF DURANT.
ALL I EVER NEW GRANDMA POWELL'S NAME TO BE WAS DOSHA, OF COURSE I WAS MUCH YOUNGER AND DIDN'T THINK ABOUT FAMILY HISTORY.
ALL I HEARD ABOUT WAS GRANDMA POWELL WAS MARRIED TO JOHN HUNTER AND HAD ONE CHILD NAMED MINNIE E.HUNTER.
GRANDMA POWELL'S MOTHER WAS NAMED PRUITT, (I CAN'T REMEMBER HER FIRST NAME) I KNOW THAT DOSHA PRUITT HAD ONE SISTER AND ONE OR TWO BROTHERS.
(NAMES UNKNOWN) GRANDMA PRUITTS MAIDAN NAME WAS (Sallie A. GLADDEN), (NOTHING KNOWN ABOUT NAMES OR PARENTS) THE OLDER PICTURE THAT YOU SENT MAY BE OF GRANDMA PRUITT AND FAMILY(THE CLOTHES LOOKS LIKE IT MAY HAVE BEEN TAKEN IN THE MID 1800'S) IT SEEMS THAT ALL OF OUR KIN FOLKS CAME FROM ALABAMA AND GEORGIA.
MAMA AND DADDY MARIED IN 1920.
THEY HAD 10 CHILDRED, THE FIRST WAS STILL BORN. HAZEL WAS BORN IN 1921, VERDEAN IN 1923, FAYEZELL IN 1925, MATTIE WANELL IN 1927, HORACE FRANKLIN IN 1931, CHARLES L. IN 1936, ERNEST A. IN 1942, PATRICA L. IN 1944 AND BETTY L. IN 1946.
WE LIVED IN AND AROUND CADDO, OKLAHOMA, AND OTHER SMALL TOWN CLOSE TO DURANT UNTIL WE MOVED TO TYLER TEXAS IN 1941.
THE LAST THREE KIDS WERE BORN IN TYLER.
C. L.