Looking for information on Richard Rowe 1842-??? and Seaborn Rowe 1835

I've been off and on doing research on my grandma Betty's side of the family.  I always hit brick walls.   My grandma Betty Wayne Maroney Benson was born to Leroy Maroney and Docia Thompson.

Leroy's parents were Richard Maroney and Caledonia Rowe.

Caledonia Rowe's parents were Mary ? Rowe and ????  Rowe.

That is where I had been stuck and not finding any information until the other day when a find a grave contributor who I didn't even remember writing to :) wrote me back and told me Mary Rowe's first husband was Richard Rowe.   I did write him back to ask him for his source and to thank him for getting back to me but haven't heard from him. 

Richard would make sense though.  Richard Rowe born about 1842 in Georgia had a brother Seaborn Rowe born about 1835.   They are the sons of Charles B. Rowe (1810) and ??? 


Mary and Caledonia are  living with Seaborn and his family in the 1870 census in Allen, Walton, Georgia. 

Source Citation: Year: 1870; Census Place: Allen, Walton, Georgia; Roll: M593_180; Page: 437B; Image: 513; Family History Library Film: 545679.



In 1880 Mary and Caledonia and another daughter Mary are living in Bradley County Arkansas and Mary is listed as a widow. 

Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: Clay, Bradley, Arkansas; Roll: 39; Family History Film: 1254039; Page: 33C; Enumeration District: 016; Image: 0395



Also in Bradley County in 1880 there is a Seabrom Rew born in Georgia listed as a widower.  He is listed as black but I do believe this is Seaborn.  He is living with Richard Maroney who would go on to marry Caledonia in 1883. 

Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: Clay, Bradley, Arkansas; Roll: 39; Family History Film: 1254039; Page: 34B; Enumeration District: 016; Image: 0398.




I have no other information on what happened to Richard, Seaborn, or Seaborn's wife Mahala (White) 

Richard and Mary's daughter Mary was born in 1871 in Arkansas so that does narrow Richard's death down to between 1870-1880. 

Mahala (Seaborn's wife) death is also narrowed down between 1870-1880.

Seaborn's death is narrowed down between 1882-1888???

Richard did serve in the Civil War along with Seaborn.

Confederate Service...Rowe, Richard F.     Co. C  9th Regiment Ga. Volunteer Infantry Walton County, Georgia (Hillyer Rifles)...private March 4, 1862. Wounded at Garnett's Farm, Virginia June 27, 1862. Paroled at Farmville, Virginia April 11-21, 1865...per "Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia", Vol. 1, page 1017..also appears on the roster of Co.F  16th Regiment out of Walton County, Georgia as a private July 19, 1861 with no later record.

Charles Rowe (father) was looking for Seaborn in 1888. 

GENEALOGICAL ABSTRACTS FROM REPORTED DEATHS,

THE NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, 1897-1899

By Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith

Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 2002

 

Page 61     March 31, 1888

 

SEABORN ROU son of Charles B. Rou of Walton Co., Ga., went to Ark. about 17 years ago; if living he would be about 50 years old; his last letter was received about 6 years ago. His father would like to know if he is living or deceased

I have been in contact with a descendent of James Madison Rowe who was a half brother to Richard and Seaborn.   When Charles lost track of Seaborn, James was asked to return to Georgia from Louisiana to take care of Charles. 

If anyone has any information on Richard or Seaborn Rowe or any ideas of where I can search for information please comment below. 

 

The Smith family! From Alfred Jones Smith to Henry Alfred Smith

  It's been awhile since I have blogged.  I spent last Monday with my Aunt Joyce and it was a really great visit.  We went through all of her pictures and I brought a whole bunch home with me to copy. 

 These are my 4th great grandparents Alfred Jones Smith and Elizabeth Harper Smith

abt 1847

Alfred Jones Smith was born in Alabama May 31, 1826.  He was the son of Charles Smith and Mirah Lacy.  He died in Louisiana February 10, 1897

Elizabeth Harper was born in  Mississippi April 2, 1830 to Samuel Harper and Mary Ann "Polly" Ainsworth.  She married Alfred Jones Smith in Mississippi in 1847.  She died May 25, 1912 in Louisiana. 

 

Their son John Wesley Smith is my 3rd great grandfather.  I do not have any pictures of him.  He was born 1862 and died in 1901.  His wife was Ella Frances Winn and they married in Magnolia, Arkansas in 1883. 

 

They had 6 children.

 

 

 

Henry, Lester, and Geneva Smith

 

 

My 2nd great grandfather was Henry Alfred Smith (1887-1977).  He married Lillian Geneva Hardaway.  She was the daughter of John William Hardaway and Sally Beatrice Slaton.

They had 4 children

Lester Alfred Smith 1911-1978

James Dolphin Smith 1915-2006

Lillian Beatrice Smith Richardson 1919-2012 (my great grandma)

William Earl Smith 1923-1960

 

 

Lester, Henry, William, Geneva, and Dolphin 1945

William, Lester, and Dolphin 1945

Carol Richardson(my grandma, daughter of Lillian) Geneva, and my Aunt Joyce (daughter of Lillian)

Geneva Hardaway Smith

Henry and Geneva Smith

Geneva with the kids 1920s

William Earl Smith

 

Grandma Carol, Great Grandma Lillian Smith Richardson, and my Aunt Joyce

Lillian Smith Richardson at the house in Lester, Arkansas

Grandma Lillian and Papaw Dude Richardson

   I LOVE THIS PICTURE OF GRANDMA LILLIAN!!! 

My sweet grandma!  I miss her so very much!  I still have the teddy bear she made me when I was little as well as Christmas ornaments she made.  I doubt Lauren will remember her but I'm so glad she got to spend 4 years with her. 

Lauren and her Great Great grandma Lillian.  I don't think many can say they knew their great great grandma. 

 

Through doing genealogy I have been able to meet some of grandma's family I never knew.  I'm so happy to know them!  It's great finding new family!