"Displaying pitch-perfect sensibility that weaves profound human empathy with piercing scholarly critique, Tiya Miles lays open the suffering: of all those who found themselves enmeshed in the world of Diamond Hill. At once monument and memorial, the Vann House is Cherokee, African, and American slavery writ large."--I AMi: s F. brooks, author of Captives and Cousins: Shivery, kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands. "This is one of the...

Jordan Smith (1805-ca. 1875) was born in North Carolina and apparently migrated to Tennessee in the early 1800's. He married Martha (or Mary) Winningham; they had ten children. Descendants are in Tennessee and neighboring states.

Thomas Vann was born in 1747, probably in Chowan County, North Carolina and died in Madison County, Alabama in 1839. His wife was Anne. Benjamin Glover was born 17 June 1754 in Ann Arundell County, Maryland and died 20 February 1840 in Madison County, Alabama. Thomas Connally was born on 4 April 1805 in Smith County, Tennessee and died on 29 January 1878 in Murray County, Georga. His wife was Mary Jones. Levi Childress was born in South Carolina...

Andrew Peters (1634-1713) married Mercy Bramsley, and emigrated from England to Andover, Massachusetts, moving before 1672 to Ipswich, Massachusetts. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Arkansas and elsewhere.

James Downing was born about 1740 in the western section of the expanding Virginia colony of pioneer settlers.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data for the Vaughan (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from Ireland and Wales. Some allied families came from Germany and Holland. Some settled in Massachusetts and Rhode Island in the 1600's. In the 1700's, some settled in Nova Scotia (Canada), and in Connecticut, Kentucky, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, Vermont , and Virginia. During the 1800's, some moved to...

Ancestry of Edgar Brown Ham (1886-1968), born in Coldspirng Texas and his wife, Rosa Lillian Hayman (1886-1965). Both are buried in San Jacinto County, Texas. Hayman ancestry is traced to Thomas Hayman who was born in 1525 in Devonshire, Colyton, England. He married Elizabeth Brown in 1553. Ham ancestry is traced to Thomas Ham (1730-1762) who was born in England and married Sarah McConnell in 1762 in Charleston, South Carolina. Family members lived...

Richard Hamlin, parents not listed, was born about 1742 in Virginia. He married Alsey, parents and surname not listed, about 1766-67 in Virginia. They had 2 children. Richard died in Dec 1819 in Jones County, Georgia. Alsey died in 1830 in Monroe County, Georgia. Their descendants have lived in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and other areas in the United States.

Edward Wright (d. 1681) married Katherine Covington (1652-1681). Edward was born in England, went to Barbados and to the Carolinas in 1672. They lived in Anson County, Maryland, where they raised seven children: first child of unknown name, James B., Soloman, Mary Ellen, Nathan, Mary Ann Cooper, Samuel. This line is traced through Soloman and his child Col. Thomas Hynson Wright who went to North Carolina. Descendants include Adams, Blackman, Byrd,...