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From: Alice Westerberg <>
Subject: Re: [Childress Research] Re: [CHILDRESS] W. D. Childress- Tenn/ Ala 18
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:11:02 -0400


Sue:
I am not Carolyn but this was sent to me. Interestingly enough, I am a
descendant of Richard Hamilton Childress who m. Becca White in Knox Co. TN.
Their son, James K. Childress, his daughter, Jennette Childress, her
daughter Leota Fern Cofer, my father , Robert Louis Vance, and me Alice
Vance Westerberg.
My sister Abby Poehler is much for authority on our paternal lines, but I
too have all the info. We can document everything including death, etc.
for Richard and Becca. We do not know for sure who his father was. Is the
next line up John Childress and Polly Kirby???
Thanks for sending me this.
Alice Westerberg
Richmond, VA
PS-- I am forwarding a copy to my sister, Abby.
>
>
>Sorry I did not get right back to you. Been extremely busy and have spent
>little time on my hobby lately.
>
>Here is basically my Childress line.
>
>John Childress b. 1770-1780 in Va. d. 1840-1850 m. Polly Kirby b. in Va.
> children: 1. Joel Childress b. 1798 in Knox Cty, Tenn
> m. Nancy Clark b. 1805 in Va.
> 2. Richard Childress b. 1800 in Knox Cty, Tn.
> m. Rebecca "Becka" White on 5/25/1819 in
>Knox Cty, Tenn
> 3. Robert Childress b. 1806 in Knox Cty, Tn. d. 8/9/1857
>in Marshall
> Cty, Tenn
> m. Delila ? ? Abt 1830 in Jackson Cty, Al
> 4. Rebecca Childress b. 1807 Knox Cty, Tn
> d. 1850-1860 in Scottsboro,
>Jackson Cty., Alabama
> m. James Russell abt. 1827 in Jacksson
Cty,
>Alabama
> 5. ? ? Childress b. 1810-1813 Knox Cty,Tn
> 6. ? ? Childress b. 1810-1814 Knox Cty, Tn
> 7. John Kirby Childress b. 11/6/1815
> d. 11/24/1897 in
>Scottoboro,Jackson Cty, Alabama
> m. Ruth Burgess abt 1840 in Jackson Cty,
>Alabama
> 8. Eliza Childress b. 1818 in Tenn d. 1851 in Jackson
>Cty, Alabama
> m. Asa Russell Green abt 1834-1835
>
>The Children of Joel Childress and Nancy Clark:
>
>1. John Childress b. 1832 in Alabama
>2. Laura Childress b. 7/1836 in Alabama Buried in Klondike, Texas
> m. John M. Burgess in Dec 1857 in Jackson Cty, Alabama
> children: Sarah V. Burgess b. 1859 died as an
>infant
> James Edward Burgess b. 1861 d. ??
> m. Ima Ophelia Spencer
b.
>1868
>3. Sarah Childress b. 1838 in Alabama
>4. Nancy Ann Childress b. 1840 in Alabama m. V. E. Scott
>5. Joseph Childress b. 1844 in Alabama
>6. Caldonia Childress b. 1847 in Alabama m. Sam Shook ???????
>
> I am descended from Laura Childress and John M Burgess. They were married
Dec
> 31, 1857 in Jackson Co.Laura came to TX in 1874 according to her confederate
> pension application. I know that John M Burgess and Laura Childress Burgess
> lived in AR for a period of time as their children were born there, and he
> died there during the Civil War in Ft Smith AR. They also at some point
lived
> with Laura's sister Nancy Childress Jones in Wood Co TX .
>
>Do any of these connect to you,
>
>Sue
>
>
>
Alice Westerberg
Administrative Assistant/Project Coordinator
Life Skills Center, Goals For Healt

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