Thursday, July 28, 2011

AFAOA Newslatters

http://www.afaoa.org/newsletters.html
List of things that AFAOA should change,or look at.
1. New River - William and 1st wife Nancy had sons William and Nat. These are the two at Anderson Co.in 1802. Helen may have been Wiliam's wife... Nat's sister-in-law.
2. Thomas Johns was a person who married the daughter, Catherine, of Richard (d. 1759)
3. Richard had sons Thomas and John. John was actually listed in a n earlier version of AFAOA.
4. Thomas had a son Nathaniel. He was the SC-TN Nat.
5. Simple error where it says in1755 (Dan's death) that he had a daughter, Wealthy, who married Joseph
6. Bart Austin (1768-1841) had sons Andrew and Robert. He did not have brothers with those names.
7. The parents of Anne Reeves were George Reeves and JaneBurton.
Tracking the Andersons may well be the answer.  I need to see that reference book in the library in White Co. TN.

I would love to hire someone to search for the law suit of Nathan against his uncle John.  Don't know how to proceed.

Wouldlove to have a look at the Aurelia Austin papers.  Can I find the note between Aurelia and Janet Austin Curtis?

Need to look at the date of th White Co. reunion.  Can I make it?

Monday, July 11, 2011

Notes to remember:
I've added my new painting to the Wealthy Pruett Story:

                                                                                                          Painting by John Clinard, 2011
Below is a conceptual painting of Wealthy with Joseph Austin and Wealthy’s mother, Sarah. The year was 1760. Wealthy was 20, Joseph was 30 and Sarah was 50. Dan Pruett, Wealthy’s father, had been dead for five years. Her brother had been killed in the French & Indian War two years earlier. Joseph had just married another woman. Wealthy had recently given birth to Fanny, her first child, and had been charged with bastardy. The father was Joseph. Times were getting rough for Wealthy and Sarah.  Keep reading the story and you will discover how they survived, as well you will discover how Wealthy and Joseph’s love for each other produced problems and solutions. Meanwhile Sarah held the Pruett family together overcoming much adversity. The place was frontier Southside Virginia under British Colonial rule until 1776, the new day for America, and the beginning of Wealthy and Joseph’s life together as husband and wife.