The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-28
Genealogical.

| Query No. 2S. :, Rhodes -King--I wish to find tho de- scendants of the N. c. Rhodes family that was related to wm. R. King, the Alabama statesman. This Rhodes line vas related also to- my great grand
 rather Kings whose name appears as a witness to N. C.. Rhodes will; about
 iso0. Will the Alabama Rhodes fami- ly assist me in my search7
 Query No. s24.@=.---.-,. .-.--...--.-.,.s .-.-, Tipton- -Brantleys-I should like to get
 into correspondence with the Alabama Tipton family. A sister of my grand
 mother. Rebecca Brantiey, married a MT. Tfpton, and among her descend- | ants were -Drs. Frank and William Tipton. of Selma. I am trying to ar-
 range the Brantley genealogy and wish
 to put this line in its proper place. D. A. R. papers can be made out on an | ancestors services. I have found the will of the first American Brantley, which establishes the first three gene rations very clearly. If can find the
 intervening ancestors. of whom think
 there are not more than two, the line will be authentic from about 164O through the present generations. The family history is very interesting. Mrs. James R. Draper, Oxford. Ala. Report of committee on igenealogy read at the annual conference of the Alabama D. A. R.. held at Anniston December 2 and 3. 1908.
 It is impossible in a report of this
 kind to put together all the detailed
 genealogical work that this committee has done. Should attempt to do so, the list of names alone would fill pages of paper. and many of them would be unimportant, since they occur only in genealogical lines. and add nothing to the interest or value of records.
 have devoted much time to collect ing local history. and the genealogy and family history of residents of Ox- ford. Among the ancestors of families whose partial. records have procured there are Draper. Wood, Lipscomb, VIII kins. Terrell, Wright. Staples, Moon. Snow. Monger, Toe. Privett. Bagley. Walker. Gunnels, Cunningham, Allen, Hingson. McPherson. Prothro, Nichols, Boak. Williams. Blair. Stewart. Pyles, Perrin. These have been worked up in varying degrees of completeness, and form an interesting collection of biography, tradition and history. have found few families that have not some tradition of Revolutionary ser vices of ancestors. I have interviewed several old ladies whose grandparents lived during the Revolution. and relat- ed to these granddaughters their per- sonal experiences during that period.
 D. A. R. papers have been work ed up in services of John Freeman. of Georgia; Robert Boyd, of Georgia; Henry Hampton, of South Carolina William Lipscomb. of Virginia. Very full sketches of the men above. have also been compiled. have furnished data for papers on service of John trh Af ov,to ~A an hand all that is necessary for papers on James Stewart, of North Carolina; John Williams. of South Carolina; Will liam Caldwell. Of South Carolina; three Revolutionary herofnes. Several pa pers are complete with the exception of actual proof of services.
 Miscellaneous collections of Ward. Lawrence, Boyd. Wood (different fam fly from the one previously mentioned), Mcclure. and Ewing records have been made. Some idea of the fact that the records of the seven families just men, toned covered more than one hundred pages of paper this size Carge letter size).
 ., The line of William Caldwell. of South Carolina. has been established as far back as the first American an- cestor. and I have found material for Colonial Danes papers and also inter esting English and American family history. ...t
 have procured from several branch es of the American Stockley family their genealogy and history. One line is complete to Francis Stockley, who came to Virginia in 1882! I have &C., cumulated vast stores of English rec ords of the many variants of the name. beginning with the records in the Domesday Book. The only Stokely line in America that seems to be distinct from the others is that of Jehu Stoke ly,, who came to America Just before the revolution.