Lineage Research Integration — Part A

Martha Elmina Wiggins (Gibby) (agent aa03938573e564bc1)

Verdict: Full Wiggins line opened up — parents, all 8 siblings, paternal grandparents, and a great-grandparent candidate identified; double Wiggins-sister/Gibby-brother marriage pattern surfaced.

New facts

• b. 30 May 1890, Charleston Twp, Swain Co NC; d. 13 Feb 1970 Towns Co GA; buried Hayesville Baptist-Presbyterian Cem., Clay Co NC — FaG memorial 17343528 — PROBABLE
• Identity anchored: FaG lists spouse John Martin Gibby (1887-1958) + son James Floyd Gibby, matching founder's known facts; reciprocal cross-link with memorial 17343508 — PROBABLE
• 8 siblings identified incl. Joanna Indiana "Anna" Wiggins (1888-1969) who married Jacob Allen Gibby — two Wiggins sisters married two Gibby men (fraternal link Jacob↔John Martin unverified) — FaG 17343528/14823906/7659697/5674719 cross-consistent — PROBABLE
• Paternal grandparents: Jason Holland Wiggins (1818-1887) + Rebecca Elizabeth "Betsy" Kirkland (1822-1905), m. 8 Aug 1840 Macon Co NC — FaG 19673453 — PROBABLE
• Great-grandparents candidate: Abraham Wiggins + Nancy Colvard — single unlinked mention — POSSIBLE
• Clara's parents candidate: William Marion Whitesides Sr (1829-1919) + Sarah Ledbetter (1827-1919) — single source — POSSIBLE
• Cherokee Scout obituary index has NO entry for Martha or John (other Gibbys present) — ncgenweb.us/clay/cherokee.htm — CONFIRMED (direct index check)

Parents found: Rev. Abraham Lincoln Wiggins (1854-1924) + Clara Whiteside Wiggins nee Whitesides (1859-1916) — PROBABLE (4 cross-linked FaG memorials, identical 9-child lists)

Spouse: John Martin Gibby (1887-1958) — CONFIRMED (exact match to founder's known facts, reciprocal FaG cross-link)

Top leads

1. Towns Co GA newspaper archives for Martha's 1970 + John's 1958 obituaries (NC-only searches will miss them)
2. NC death-certificate index for Martha's 1970 cert — primary source would upgrade parents to CONFIRMED
3. Verify Jacob Allen Gibby is John Martin's brother via George Washington "Wash" Gibby's full children list

Dead ends: Cherokee Scout index negative for Martha/John; Ancestry + one WikiTree profile inaccessible/unrelated; Wigan-England "Thomas Wiggins" family tradition entirely unverified this pass.

Eva C. Brown (Foster) (agent ae2de272e662f58f2)

Verdict: Eva's own dates, burial, and 8 children now documented; her parents remain unfound (the run's open mystery) — her 1938 GA death certificate is the named next unlock.

New facts

• b. 4 Sep 1885; d. 2 Nov 1938 (age 53); buried Woods Grove Memorial Cem., Towns Co GA — FaG memorial 16161990 — PROBABLE (agent wrote CONFIRMED; single FaG page, user-contributed)
• 8 children incl. Bertha Foster Gibby (1923-1995), which matches founder's known daughter and anchors the identification — FaG 16161990 + 16161999 reciprocal — CONFIRMED (anchored to founder-known facts)
• Julius remarried Maggie Ballard (1898-1989) after Eva's death — FaG 16161999 — PROBABLE
• Julius's parents suggested as Lumpkin Gaither Foster + Mary Adaline Hooper — unattributed AI web-search synthesis, no primary source — POSSIBLE
• Zero Brown-surname burials at Woods Grove Cem. — Eva's parents likely buried elsewhere — FaG cemetery search — PROBABLE
• No cause of death or bio text on either memorial — CONFIRMED (direct page check)

Parents found: none

Spouse: Julius Calloway "Jule" Foster (26 Sep 1878 – 24 Jun 1947) — CONFIRMED identity/joint burial (reciprocal FaG + founder anchor); marriage date UNVERIFIED (Towns Co records start 1885, first child b. 1901)

Top leads

1. Georgia Deaths 1919-1998 (FamilySearch, login-walled): Eva's 1938 death certificate would name her parents + cause of death — needs founder to pull
2. Towns Co GA marriage record for Julius x Eva (courthouse holds from 1885)
3. 1900/1910 census, Towns Co GA — Brown household with daughter Eva b. ~1885

Dead ends: FamilySearch login wall; usgwarchives Towns Co vitals unreachable (cached copy = wrong NC Eva Foster, confirmed NOT a match); Ted O. Brooke cemetery book not digitized; generic web search returned only unrelated Eva Browns.

Adella Rogers Olney (agent add5c370bf13ea03a)

Verdict: Adella's parents found, marriage dated, and the "Armitage" maiden-name hypothesis DISCONFIRMED — her mother was a Sharp; "Selmes" middle name explained by stepfather.

New facts

• b. Oct 1865 Rome, Oneida Co NY; d. 14 Dec 1918 Rome (age 53, date in two independent sources); buried Rome Cemetery Sec FF Lot 1 — same plot as James (interred 1928) — FaG 121450448/121450450 + schenectadyhistory.org — PROBABLE
• m. James P. Olney 2 Feb 1887, NYC ("Miss Adele Rogers, stepdaughter of John H. Selms") — History of the Mohawk Valley bio — PROBABLE
• ARMITAGE HYPOTHESIS DISCONFIRMED: mother's maiden name is SHARP, not Armitage; no Armitage anywhere in the FaG cluster. Daughter Florence's "Armitage" middle name remains unexplained — PROBABLE
• Naming pattern real though: 2nd daughter Marion SELMES Olney Stevens carries stepfather's surname — FaG 130079651 — PROBABLE
• James remarried 1925 (age 68) Ruth Hungerford Flandrau Sutton — explains Ruth as his listed FaG spouse — PROBABLE
• Maternal grandparents candidate: Jacob "Jake" Sharp (1817-1888) + Catharine Munson (1825-1897) — single-source FaG — POSSIBLE
• CAUTION lead: dates coincide with notorious NYC Broadway Railroad financier Jacob Sharp (1880s bribery scandal) — date coincidence only, NOT corroborated — POSSIBLE
• Unresolved discrepancy: James's birthplace Western NY (county history) vs Nantucket MA (FaG, matches founder's known fact); both agree 6 Aug 1856 — POSSIBLE

Parents found: Edgar Rogers (1837-1875, d. "apoplexy" NYC, buried Green-Wood Brooklyn) + Mary A. Sharp (1845-1923, remarried John Henry Selmes 1878) — both PROBABLE

Spouse: James Preserved Olney (1856-1928), m. 2 Feb 1887 NYC — PROBABLE

Top leads

1. Adella's Dec 1918 Rome NY newspaper obituary — primary source, would upgrade parents to CONFIRMED
2. Full Mohawk Valley bio of James — may show "Armitage" is an Olney-side name
3. Verify/refute the notorious-Jacob-Sharp identity via NYT obituary + Green-Wood Lot 3504 Sec 69 records

Dead ends: "Adele Olney" FaG search finds nothing (indexed as "Adella" — name-variant trap); archive.org fulltext search errored; Armitage-as-maiden-name disconfirmed.

Julius Calloway "Jule" Foster (1878-1947) (agent a58fb4c50bd9a5e91)

Verdict: Parent candidates identified via 1880/1900/1910 census-continuity case (Lumpkin Gaither "Gather" Foster + Mary A. Foster); three same-name contamination traps flagged; "Hooper" maiden-name claim demoted to unsourced.

New facts

• b. 26 Sep 1878, d. 24 Jun 1947, Towns Co GA; buried Woods Grove Memorial Cem. — FaG 16161999 — PROBABLE (agent wrote CONFIRMED; single FaG page)
• 8 children list matches founder's "eight children" fact exactly; daughter Bertha's memorial (46705402) lists Julius + Eva as parents and matches known m. Floyd Gibby 18 Dec 1938 Blairsville — CONFIRMED (founder-anchored cross-link)
• 1880 census Lower Hiwassee: "Gather Foster" (b.~1857) + wife Mary, son Julius ~1 yr — tracked forward to "Lumpkin G. Foster" + "Mary A." household 1900/1910 — rootsweb transcription via r.jina.ai proxy; agent flags AI-mediated extraction with internal age/year inconsistency, re-verify against raw census image — PROBABLE
• 1900 census: Julius (~20) already head of household with wife Eva (~14) — implies marriage ~1899-1900 — PROBABLE
• CONTAMINATION WARNINGS (keep): older Julius W. Foster (b.~1852, m. Elizabeth) in same county; "Julious Foster" (b.~1884, m. Stella) in Union Co 1910; unrelated "Julius Foster" d. 1933 Hiawassee — do NOT merge
• "Mary Adaline Hooper" mother-name claim = AI web-search synthesis only, no primary source — POSSIBLE
• Alleged 9th child "Julius Ralph Foster (1917-1980)" not on either parent's memorial — unresolved, do not add — POSSIBLE

Parents found: Lumpkin Gaither Foster (b.~1856-58) — PROBABLE; Mary A. Foster (b.~1856-58, maiden name UNVERIFIED) — PROBABLE. Circumstantial census-continuity case, not a naming document.

Spouse: Eva C. Brown (1885-1938) — CONFIRMED; marriage ~1899-1900 inferred, undocumented

Top leads

1. Raw 1880 Towns Co census image to verify the Gather/Julius household
2. Georgia Historic Newspapers for a 1947 obituary
3. FaG memorial for Lumpkin G. Foster — does it list Julius as a child?

Dead ends: No obituary or occupation found; FaG county-search doesn't index memorial 16161999 (direct name search required); WikiTree empty; rootsweb URL intermittently 403s (use https + tilde form).

Lucy Burt (Lucy Burt Olney) (agent a4c194fbdca6a0434)

Verdict: Lucy's Burt origins resolved — parents + 5 siblings found, and the "Burt family of Oneida County" premise corrected: the Burts were Saratoga Co (Northumberland) people; Lucy alone entered Oneida Co via her 1815 Olney marriage.

New facts

• d. 4 Jun 1876 Westernville, age 86 — FaG 17474054 + independent Wager Oneida Co history ch.50 cemetery transcription — CONFIRMED (two independent sources)
• b. 8 May 1790 Saratoga Co NY; buried Rome Cemetery Sec H, "wife of James Olney" — FaG 17474054 — PROBABLE
• Burt home ground = Northumberland, Saratoga Co NY (roots Bristol Co MA); zero Burt burials found in Westernville cemetery index — PROBABLE
• Siblings: John, Sarah "Sally" (Harris), James, Justus, Russel Burt — FaG 26437606 child list — POSSIBLE
• James A. Olney (spouse) b. 26 Oct 1783 d. 22 Feb 1862 — FaG + Wager + 1889 Olney genealogy entry No. 112 — CONFIRMED (three independent sources)
• James's parents: William Olney (1756 Providence RI - 1846) + Mary Myers (1761-1818) — same three sources — CONFIRMED
• Children: Lucy Burt Olney Waldo (1817-1883), George Joseph Olney (1821-1905), Mary Olney Brill (1824-1909) — cross-linked FaG + interment.net — CONFIRMED
• "Burt Olney" (1858-1914, presumed canning-co founder) buried same Rome Cemetery but parentage UNRESOLVED — his memorial 403/CAPTCHA-blocked; not among George Joseph's listed children — POSSIBLE

Parents found: Richard Burt (1745 Bristol Co MA – 1825 Northumberland NY) — PROBABLE; mother Lucy "Airies" Burt (1758-1826) — POSSIBLE (surname likely mistranscription; candidates Ayres/Eayres/Ayer)

Spouse: James A. Olney — CONFIRMED identity/dates; 1815 marriage not independently re-verified

Top leads

1. Burt Olney's 1914 NY death cert / obituary (nyshistoricnewspapers.org) to fix his parentage
2. 1889 Olney genealogy entry No. 236 (James's own entry) — fetch kept truncating before it
3. "History of Northumberland" for Burt origins + mother's real surname

Dead ends: RootsWeb WorldConnect 403; interment.net A-K page 404; Burt Olney memorial CAPTCHA-walled 3x; Frederick C. Olney (RI) checked and ruled out — do not revisit.

Sarah Elizabeth Lequire (Gibby), 1866-1917 (agent aa2ad2107fe9a3645)

Verdict: Age-gap mystery resolved (22-yr husband-wife gap at 1884 marriage, no earlier wife); LeQuire line traced back 3 generations; "born in France" family lore contradicted by the ancestor's own sworn pension testimony.

New facts

• m. George Washington Gibby 13 Mar 1884 Swain Co NC — George 39, Sarah 18; John Martin Gibby b. 1887 (3 yrs into marriage), reciprocally recorded as their son; no alternate mother anywhere in George's record — WikiTree Lequire-21/Gibby-62/Gibby-107 — PROBABLE
• d. 13 Jan 1917 Charleston, Swain Co NC (NC death index cited); burial site UNKNOWN — unlike both parents — PROBABLE
• Paternal grandfather: Joseph LeQuire Sr. "Little Frenchman" (c.1798-1872, Blankenship Cem., Swain Co) m. Martha Jane Watkins — with explicit do-not-merge correction: Martha Womack married his SON Joseph William LeQuire (1830-1906, Cades Cove TN) — FaG 46589664/46589669 + WikiTree notes — CONFIRMED (user-contributed but multiply cross-checked)
• Great-grandfather John LeQuire (c.1755-1847, Rutherford Co NC), Rev War pensioner ($60/yr, approved 1833); his own 1832 sworn testimony gives NC birth — directly contradicts the France/Huguenot lore — pension ledger citation via WikiTree LeQuire-14 — CONFIRMED
• Huguenot claim (Blind Pig & the Acorn blog) contradicted at this generation; if a French immigrant exists it's an earlier unidentified generation — POSSIBLE
• "Little Frenchman" nickname is a contributor-added epithet, not evidence

Parents found: William Nathaniel LeQuire (1833-1918, buried Cable Family Cem., Blount Co TN) + Susannah Jane Thomasson (1836-1881, buried Sawmill Hill, Bryson City) — both PROBABLE

Spouse: George Washington Gibby (1844-1909), m. 13 Mar 1884 Swain Co NC — PROBABLE

Top leads

1. Sarah's actual NC death certificate — cause, informant, burial place (her burial is the open gap)
2. Thomasson line: James Madison Thomasson + Susanna Truitt, Macon Co NC — unexplored
3. Raw 1900/1910 census images for the George W. Gibby household

Dead ends: No FaG memorial exists for Sarah herself; John LeQuire's parents unknown (WikiTree fields resolve to orphan profiles).

Josephine Oakford (Lambert) (agent a5e7e2a3774a97cf0)

Verdict: Burial question answered (Green-Wood Sec K Lot 17634), birth year resolved toward 1855, and a previously unknown first child (Anita B. Lambert, 1874-1882) discovered — with a New Brunswick NJ geographic anchor that redirects the marriage-record search.

New facts

• b. 1855 (not 1853), New Jersey — FaG 166493900 — PROBABLE
• d. 13 Apr 1885 Manhattan; buried 16 Apr 1885, Green-Wood Cemetery Sec K Lot 17634; Walter Rittenhouse Lambert in same plot — FaG 166493900 + 166493977 — PROBABLE (agent wrote CONFIRMED; both memorials by the same FaG contributor, BKGeni, working from Green-Wood burial lists)
• NEW PERSON: Anita B. Lambert, b. 1874 New Brunswick, Middlesex Co NJ; d. 6 Jan 1882 (age 7); buried in the family plot — previously undocumented first child — FaG 166493893 — PROBABLE
• Geographic anchor: 1874 New Brunswick NJ birth (same year as marriage) — search Middlesex Co NJ records, not NYC — PROBABLE
• John James Lambert d. 9 May 1905, chronic Bright's disease, 51 W 52nd St Manhattan (matches known address); occupation Merchant; parents Jeremiah Lambert (1812-1866) + Garetta Van Dyke Vliet (1824-1903) — FaG 166493936 — PROBABLE
• Walter R. Lambert d. 2 Apr 1943 Manhattan; m. Florence Armitage Olney 1912; no children listed — PROBABLE
• Philadelphia Oakford WikiTree profiles are thin GEDCOM stubs with no anchor — must NOT be merged — POSSIBLE

Parents found: none (Josephine's parents still unknown)

Spouse: John James Lambert (1846-1905), m. 1874, place likely Middlesex Co NJ not NYC — PROBABLE

Top leads

1. Green-Wood's full interment roster for Lot 17634 — an Oakford parent may share the plot
2. Josephine's Apr 1885 Manhattan death certificate (NYC Municipal Archives) — could name her parents
3. Middlesex Co NJ marriage records 1873-74 for Lambert-Oakford

Dead ends: Chronicling America hits were a proxy-rendering artifact (snippets didn't actually contain search terms — inconclusive, NOT evidence of absence); Green-Wood search form un-queryable (JS/POST); FaG location filter broken for NJ; Google proxied search CAPTCHA-blocked.

Mary Ann Kent (1823-1897), wife of Levi Wilson (agent a3dc98354ee55084b)

Verdict: Kent line opened — parents, 5 siblings, and a Halifax Co VA → Fannin Co GA migration narrative; Levi confirmed as widower (1st wife Leah Johnson d. 1845); a Zachary Taylor kinship claim flagged as unverified lore.

New facts

• b. 13 Dec 1823 Halifax Co VA; d. 14 Jan 1897 Fannin Co GA; buried Hot House Missionary Baptist Church Cem. with Levi — FaG 59216925/59217100 — PROBABLE
• Levi Wilson b. 5 Oct 1810 Haywood Co NC, d. 10 Dec 1900; 1st wife Leah Johnson d. 1845; m. Mary Ann 1851 (location unstated) — FaG cross-linked — PROBABLE
• 5 children: Urania Melvina (Anderson) 1853-1905, Catharine Caldonia (England) 1855-1880, Thomas Jasper 1856-1932, William Alexander 1859-1940, John A. 1861-1923 — consistent both memorials — PROBABLE
• Kent parents buried Kent-Panter Cemetery, Mineral Bluff, Fannin Co GA; siblings Sarah Carter (Tarpley), Catherine Greene, Alexander Smithfield III (d. 1858 unmarried), Martha Margarett (Pearcey), William Taylor (d. young 1851) — FaG cluster — PROBABLE (whole cluster authored by ONE contributor, Danny Mashburn; internally consistent ~9 pages, no primary corroboration)
• Grandparents candidate: Alexander Kent (1755-1841) + Mary Carter (d. 1843) — single unlinked mention — POSSIBLE
• Catherine Dudley Taylor's memorial claims she was "first cousin to President Zachary Taylor" — single unsourced claim; agent notes Zachary's father was Orange/Caroline Co VA, not Halifax — POSSIBLE, treat as lore
• Migration theory: both families independently converged on the N. GA frontier (not a VA-to-NC courtship) — PROBABLE inference

Parents found: William Alexander Kent (1794 Halifax Co VA – 1861 Fannin Co GA) + Catherine Dudley Taylor (1796-1859) — both PROBABLE

Spouse: Levi Wilson (1810-1900), m. 1851 — PROBABLE (no primary marriage record found)

Top leads

1. "Town Crier: Kent/Jeffreys Connection" (Green, 1996; FamilySearch Library 929.273 K413gL) — best shot at primary-sourced Kent history
2. Halifax Co VA deed/probate/census 1810-1850 to upgrade the single-contributor cluster
3. Correct FaG cemetery ID for Kent-Panter (guessed ID returned no matches — likely wrong ID, not a true negative)

Dead ends: FaG direct name search misses William Alexander Kent (found only via child's page); no WikiTree profiles; Alexander Kent generation unverified.

George Washington Gibby (1844-1909) (agent a5dc2fe399099d986)

Verdict: The core open question — George's mother — answered as Rowena/Roinna E. Rowland (PROBABLE, traces to one family-researcher submission); grave relocated 1943 for Fontana Dam; Civil War service still unproven.

New facts

• b. 9 Oct 1844 Cherokee Co NC; d. 29 Mar 1909 Swain Co NC — WikiTree Gibby-62 + FaG 16379244 consistent — PROBABLE
• Mother candidate Rowena/Roena/Roinna E. Rowland (b. ~1818-20, d. ~1895), m. Daniel Alexander Gibby 3 or 5 Mar 1840, Macon Co NC — cross-linked across WikiTree + 2 FaG pages, but appears to trace to the SAME underlying submission; no primary bond/census verified — PROBABLE (agent explicitly held it below CONFIRMED)
• 7 children with Sarah Elizabeth Lequire: John Martin (1887-1958), Martha Jane (Evans), Sarah Palestine (Wiggins), Addie Mansfield "Ada" (Evans), James William, Troy Sherman, Isaac Brown — FaG 16379244 — PROBABLE
• Originally buried Judson community; remains relocated 1943 to Lauada Cemetery, Bryson City, when Fontana Dam flooded the Little Tennessee valley — FaG relocation notation — PROBABLE
• No Confederate/Union service found: Moore's Roster Vol. 3 OCR has zero Gibby hits (only unrelated Gibbs); vol. doesn't cover western-NC units like Thomas's Legion — partial negative — POSSIBLE
• George was ~39 at his 1884 marriage — unusually late; possible earlier marriage unchecked

Parents found: Daniel Alexander Gibby (1818-1889) — CONFIRMED (project-established + corroborated); Rowena E. Rowland — PROBABLE

Spouse: Sarah Elizabeth Lequire (1866-1917), m. 13 Mar 1884 Swain Co NC — PROBABLE

Top leads

1. Macon Co NC marriage bonds c.1840 for Daniel Gibby x Rowena Rowland — would CONFIRM the mother
2. 1850/1860 census for Daniel A. Gibby household — independent corroboration
3. Thomas's Legion (69th NC) + western-NC unit rosters / NC Confederate pension index for the service question

Dead ends: FaG/WikiTree 403-walled (worked around via de.findagrave.com mirror); thomaslegion.net CAPTCHA-blocked; proxied Bing search returned iCarly "Gibby" noise.

Sarah Mary Salisbury (m. William Russell Olney) (agent ac19f2e1c469e34cc)

Verdict: Marriage nailed to a near-contemporary printed source (1889 Olney genealogy); Salisbury parents identified with a Shaker-raised father; Nantucket-origin theory weakened — family footprint entirely upstate NY; second Burt-Olney same-name trap defused.

New facts

• William R. Olney b. 13 Mar 1828, m. Sarah M. Salisbury 21 Aug 1855 — "A Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Olney" (1889), p.196, verbatim quote + FaG corroboration — CONFIRMED
• First child "James P., b. Aug. 6, 1856. A lawyer at Rome, N.Y." = founder's James Preserved Olney; exact birth-date match across two independent sources — CONFIRMED
• Sarah b. 9 Feb 1835, d. 28 Jan 1924, buried Rome Cemetery Sec H beside William — FaG 17474056 — PROBABLE
• Hiram Salisbury (father): New Lebanon SHAKER rearing; storekeeper 1844-46; postmaster in Stillwater/Northumberland, Saratoga Co NY; buried Bacon Hill Cem. — FaG 51712299 — PROBABLE
• Paternal grandparents candidate: Preserved Salisbury (1775-1835) + Mary (1773-1858); family-name "Salisbury Cemetery," Stillwater NY — POSSIBLE
• 1889 genealogy contains ZERO mentions of Nantucket (full-text search) — cannot explain James P.'s Nantucket birth — CONFIRMED (direct fulltext check)
• SAME-NAME TRAP: couple's actual 2nd child was "Burt W., b. April 6, 1869" per 1889 genealogy — 11-year mismatch with Rome Cemetery's Burt Olney (1858-1914, canning co.) — do NOT merge — POSSIBLE

Parents found: Hiram Salisbury (1807-1901) + Sarah Burt Salisbury (1811-1840; died when Sarah Mary was ~5) — both PROBABLE

Spouse: William Russell Olney (1828-1889), m. 21 Aug 1855 — CONFIRMED. His father likely James A. Olney (1783-1862) per genealogy chain notation — PROBABLE

Top leads

1. Nantucket 1856 birth record for James P. Olney (MA vital records / NHA) — would explain the island birth
2. 1855 NY state + 1860 US census for William R.'s occupation (maritime/merchant would explain a Nantucket stint)
3. Full p.196-199 of the 1889 genealogy for complete children list

Dead ends: No Salisbury-Nantucket tie anywhere (all upstate NY); previously flagged Salisbury-founding-family link NOT resurrected; WebSearch budget exhausted before MA vitals could be pursued.

Narcissus "Narcissa" Hunt Mashburn Dean (1840-1910) (agent a43efdaa47a1f16ce)

Verdict: Major narrative correction — Narcissa REMARRIED (William Dean, c.1863-69) and was not a 47-year widow; her Hunt parents identified; she lies in an unmarked grave.

New facts

• Remarried William (I.) Dean after Pvt. Peter Mashburn died in Confederate service 1863; Dean-surname daughters Laura (1870-1955) and Pearl (1884-1966) — stated independently on FaG 107814647 (her page) + 156047557 (father's page) — PROBABLE
• Parents: Stephen Hunt (1797 Rutherford Co NC – 1860 Blairsville, Union Co GA, buried Bethlehem Cem.) + Narcissus "Nicey" Johnson Hunt (1797-1880); she was named after her mother — anchored via matching son William Steven "Bill" Mashburn on both memorials — PROBABLE
• Burial: New Hope Cemetery, Fannin Co GA, UNMARKED grave at the foot of the Maude Cotter tombstone (family knowledge, GPS given) — FaG 107814647 — PROBABLE
• 7 children across both marriages (5 Mashburn 1856-1863, 2 Dean 1870/1884) — PROBABLE
• m. Peter Mashburn reportedly 1855, no primary record — POSSIBLE
• Paternal grandparents candidate: William Watt Hunt (1772-1856) + Rebeckah Bedford (1771-1851) — FaG linked-family only — POSSIBLE

Parents found: Stephen Hunt + Narcissus "Nicey" Johnson Hunt — both PROBABLE

Spouse: NEW 2nd spouse William (I.) Dean, m. c.1863-1869; his own vital dates unknown, no memorial found — PROBABLE

Top leads

1. 1870/1880 census Fannin/Union Co GA for a Narcissa Dean household — pins the marriage and William Dean's presence
2. Fannin/Union Co marriage registers for Mashburn-Hunt 1855 + Dean-Mashburn — CONFIRMED-tier evidence
3. Peter Mashburn's Confederate unit → widow's pension file search by regiment (surname search exhausted)

Dead ends: GA pension vault: all 112 Mashburn entries reviewed, zero for Narcissa/Peter; "Narcissus Dean" zero; William Dean unfindable in Union Co; usgwarchives pension index connection-refused (retry-worthy, not ruled out).

Kansas Magdeline "Maggie" Cook Wilson (agent abeab502441408521)

Verdict: Suspected Hemptown Baptist burial confirmed at PROBABLE tier; parents cross-linked with dates matching founder's known facts; the "why the name Kansas" question remains unresolved.

New facts

• b. 29 Jul 1865 Macon Co NC; d. 18 Feb 1928 Fannin Co GA; buried Hemptown Baptist Church Cem., Morganton GA (founder's suspected location) — FaG 165149188 — PROBABLE
• Father Barnard Rufus Cook (1832-1890) buried same cemetery; bidirectional FaG cross-link; dates match founder's knowns — FaG 29065813 — PROBABLE
• Paternal grandfather Isaiah Cook (1791-1891, lived to 100), same cemetery — FaG 29298048 — POSSIBLE
• 9 siblings listed; none carry place-name given names — "Kansas" fits no family naming pattern — POSSIBLE
• Husband John Herman Wilson (1861-1923, d. Atlanta), parents Levi Wilson + Mary Ann Kent — FaG 165202614 — PROBABLE
• Children: Cora Wilson Cook (1884-1964), Herman Everett Wilson (1885-1940), both at Hemptown — PROBABLE
• Naming discrepancy: family photo captions + 1911 postcard say "John A. Wilson," not John Herman — unexplained — POSSIBLE
• Source caveat: ALL four family memorials created by one contributor (Danny Mashburn, family historian with the photos) — same-contributor cluster, no primary records yet

Parents found: Barnard Rufus Cook (1832-1890) + Caroline M. Reid Cook (1839-1913) — both PROBABLE

Spouse: John Herman Wilson — PROBABLE; marriage undocumented, presumed pre-1884

Top leads

1. Her 1928 GA death certificate (state registration began 1919) — would name parents officially → CONFIRMED
2. 1870/1880 census, Barnard R. Cook household, Macon Co NC — primary-source confirmation of "Kansas M. Cook"
3. Contact/locate contributor Danny Mashburn's tree — likely holds the "Kansas" naming story

Dead ends: rootsweb "COOK Family of Western NC" is an unrelated Jackson Co line — do not conflate; Wayback Machine hard-blocked; "Kansas" name searches returned only generic pages; WikiTree not properly retried (not a true dead end).

Rebecca Stroud (Mrs. James Mashburn), 1794-1870 (agent a894db38559939197)

Verdict: Stroud parents identified (Peter Stroud Jr. + Margaret Curtis); a martygrant.com death-date error for James corrected (1860, not 1886); a possible James-and-Rebecca first-cousin link surfaced but unverified.

New facts

• b. 1793/94 Burke Co NC (now McDowell); d. 1870 Cartecay community, Gilmer Co GA; memorialized (grave UNMARKED, "no markings still searching thru the book") at Ebenezer Baptist Church Cem., Ellijay — FaG 78774300 — PROBABLE
• James Mashburn d. 1860 Union Co GA (matches founder's known fact); martygrant.com's d.1886 Gilmer Co claim is almost certainly conflation with son William Mashburn (1814-1886) — treat 1886 as error — PROBABLE
• Parents per 3 independently checked (all secondary) sources: martygrant.com + WikiTree Curtis-4387 + FaG — PROBABLE
• 1846 McDowell Co deed names "Margaret Stroud widow of Peter Stroud late of Burke Co" — consistent with Peter Jr.'s 1834 death — PROBABLE
• Sibling anchor: 1838 letter from Rebecca + James addressing John Stroud + Delilah as "brother and sister" (letter itself not viewed) — PROBABLE
• Grandfather Peter Stroud Sr. (bef. 1737 Brunswick Co VA – 1827); HIS parents (William Stroud + Margaret Rose) explicitly "inferred, not proven" — POSSIBLE
• COUSIN-MARRIAGE hypothesis: James's mother may be Susannah Stroud (daughter of Peter Sr.), making James and Rebecca first cousins — rests partly on an AI search summary of an unreachable angelfire page — POSSIBLE
• No marriage record for either generation; Burke Co records destroyed Civil War era — POSSIBLE

Parents found: Peter Stroud Jr. (1765/70 Orange Co NC – 22 Sep 1834) + Margaret Curtis (c.1768 – c.1851 Towns Co GA area) — both PROBABLE. Margaret's parents: Jonathan Curtis + Mary Sykes — POSSIBLE

Spouse: James Mashburn (1790/91 – 1860), m. c.1810-14 Burke Co NC (inferred) — PROBABLE

Top leads

1. Peter Stroud's surviving 1834 will/estate file (Burke/McDowell Co) — strongest primary anchor for Rebecca as daughter
2. Locate the original 1838 letter (via martygrant.com compiler contact)
3. Retry angelfire Matthew Mashburn page (DNS failed 2x) for the cousin-marriage claim

Dead ends: QUARANTINE Rebecca (Green) Stroud (1794-1871, Iowa) — same years, different person, do not merge; FaG 66202315 (Margaret) returned tracker-pixel only via proxy; no marriage record found.

Richard Wilson (1767-1850) & Rachel Strain (1773-1851) (agent a047c72737148822e)

Verdict: Rachel's Strain line documented one generation back (Rev-War militiaman Andrew Strain Sr.); Richard's parents remain the same undocumented John+Mary Wilson tradition; a specific cause-of-death and full 9-child list added.

New facts

• Richard d. 11 Apr 1850, Savannah Twp, Macon Co NC, of PNEUMONIA after 14 days' illness — 1850 Mortality Schedule cited via FaG 83085789 — PROBABLE
• Buried Wilson-Tatham-Bryson Cemetery, Savannah, Jackson Co NC; farmer per 1830/1840 census — PROBABLE
• 9 children listed: John Franklin (1795-1871), David (d. young), James (c.1800), Isabella (1802-1889), Rosanna (c.1803), Thomas Alexander (1808-1899), Mary (c.1810), Levi (1810-1900), Rachel Ann (c.1813-1892) — FaG 83085789 — PROBABLE
• Migration path reconstructed: Surry Co (b. 1767) → Iredell/Burke (m. c.1794) → Haywood (by 1810) → Macon (by 1830) → buried in future Jackson Co — internally consistent, NOT deed-corroborated — PROBABLE
• Rachel's father: Andrew Strain Sr. (c.1750-1826), NC Militia in the Revolution (NC Pay Voucher cited); will probated Haywood Co 1826 — FaG 36977006 — PROBABLE
• Andrew Sr.'s own parentage explicitly "not documented" — the Strain line's brick wall; Irish/Scottish-via-PA origin is belief, not documentation — POSSIBLE
• Competing traditions: Richard b. Surry Co NC (mortality schedule) vs. family tradition b. Ireland — POSSIBLE
• Andrew's wife Mary: maiden name conflict ("Reed" vs "Burgin") — unresolved

Parents found: John Wilson (b. c.1745) + Mary (b. c.1747) — POSSIBLE, UNVERIFIED tradition only (FaG's own text: "has not been documented")

Spouse: Rachel Strain (Jun 1773 – 8 May 1851), m. c.1794 Iredell or Burke Co NC — PROBABLE

Top leads

1. Andrew Strain Sr.'s actual 1826 Haywood Co will — could name Rachel as heir → CONFIRMED
2. "The Strain Family" (Parker/Wood/Strain, 1985) via interlibrary loan — not digitized
3. Surry Co probate/deeds 1780-1800 for a John Wilson — the direct test of the parental tradition

Dead ends: Heritage of Surry County 403-restricted; Geni pages JS-blank; FaG Strain-in-Haywood search-index quirk (returns nothing despite tagged memorial); no WikiTree profiles.

Thomas Olney (c.1600 England – 1682 Providence, RI) (agent a94ea8c2089ba1e30)

Verdict: Immigrant Olney progenitor richly documented — Planter passenger 1635, Providence co-founder with Roger Williams, first Town Treasurer, Baptist schism leader; "Marie Small" transcription error re-killed; possible Roger Williams descent via Sayles surfaced at PROBABLE.

New facts

• b. c.1600 Hertford/St. Albans, England; shoemaker; m. Marie Ashton 16 Sep 1629, St. Albans Abbey — Anderson's Great Migration + 1889 genealogy + rootsweb concur — CONFIRMED
• "Marie Small" (in the 1889 genealogy itself) is the known transcription error for Ashton — do not use — CONFIRMED
• Emigrated on the Planter (permit 2 Apr 1635, Boston 7 Jun 1635); Salem first; 1638 Providence with Roger Williams, one of 12/13 original proprietors in the 8 Oct 1638 deed — CONFIRMED (12 vs 13 count discrepancy unresolved)
• Offices: first Town Treasurer 1638; Assistant 1648-1663; judge of Justices Court WITH Roger Williams 1655; Assistant under the 1663 Royal Charter — 1889 genealogy verbatim, cross-checked — CONFIRMED
• Led the c.1652-4 "laying on of hands" Baptist schism, pastored the breakaway congregation until death — while son Thomas Jr. pastored the ORIGINAL First Baptist Church (1668-c.1710): father and son led opposite sides — CONFIRMED
• d. between 16 Jun and 9 Oct 1682; will proved 17 Oct 1682, estate £78 9s 5d, provisions itemized — Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of RI via rootsweb — CONFIRMED
• Olneyville named for descendant Christopher Olney, NOT Thomas Sr. — PROBABLE
• Catharine Sayles (m. grandson William Olney 1692) may be Roger Williams's granddaughter via Mary Williams + John Sayles — secondary cross-links only, Austin not directly quoted — PROBABLE
• Children list: 7 named; "Stephen" appears in some lists, unresolved — PROBABLE

Parents found: none (English parentage not attempted/found)

Spouse: Marie (Mary) Ashton, bapt. 25 Aug 1605, d. ~1645-59 — CONFIRMED

Top leads

1. Verbatim Austin (1887) passage on Catharine Sayles's parents — would confirm/refute Roger Williams descent
2. Providence Early Records series for primary corroboration of office years
3. Resolve the Stephen-as-son and 12-vs-13-proprietors discrepancies

Dead ends: WikiTree/rootsweb 403 without proxy; Austin's text itself unfetchable this session (secondary summaries only); rogerwilliams.org database is GEDCOM-style secondary.

Nathan Olney (5th gen., 1720-1788) — chain verification (agent a6d927db72ded5ed4)

Verdict: Verification pass, not discovery — the Thomas(2)→William(3)→William(4)→Nathan(5) chain is now anchored to verbatim 1889-genealogy entries; the Roger-Williams-via-Sayles descent claim is NOT supported by this book (tension with the Thomas Olney agent's PROBABLE).

New facts

• Chain entries quoted verbatim with page/line locations: Thomas(2) 1632-1722 m. Elizabeth March 3 Jul 1660; William(3) b. 25 Jun 1663 m. Catharine Sayles 28 Dec 1692, inherited south Wenscot Farm; William(4) 1694-1771 m. Phebe Angell 15 Apr 1716; Nathan(5) b. Nov 1720, m. Elizabeth Goodspead, moved to Saratoga NY c.1765-70, d. 1788 — archive.org genealogyofdesce1889olne — CONFIRMED (within-source)
• DISCREPANCY: Nathan's birth day 27 Nov (p.19 children list) vs 20 Nov (p.28 full entry) in the same book — likely OCR digit issue; needs physical page image — CONFIRMED discrepancy, day unresolved
• NEGATIVE: full-text search (26,410 lines) — the book NEVER names Catharine Sayles's parents and contains ZERO passages linking her to Roger Williams. The only Roger Williams marriages in the book are unrelated branches (Lydia2 x Joseph Williams; Epenetus3 x Mary Williams). Williams-descent-via-Sayles stays LIKELY-NOT-CONFIRMED — CONFIRMED negative
• The book itself prints "Marie Small" for the immigrant's wife — the very transcription error already quarantined; flagged as evidence context, question stays closed per Anderson — CONFIRMED observation

Parents found (Nathan's): William Olney 4th gen (1694-1771) + Phebe Angell — CONFIRMED per book entry No. 18

Spouse: Elizabeth Goodspead — CONFIRMED (no dates given in book)

Top leads

1. Physical page image to resolve the 27-vs-20 Nov birth day
2. Sayles family genealogy / RI colonial vitals for Catharine's parentage (this book is a closed dead end for it)

Dead ends: Catharine Sayles parentage + Roger Williams link both exhaustively negative in this volume — do not upgrade from this source.

Jeremiah Lambert (agent a6d442dd5a0d84179)

Verdict: Lambert line pushed back a generation to Oldwick, Hunterdon Co NJ — Jeremiah's parents identified with a cemetery-society citation; Garetta's Van Dyke Vliet parents remain the open gap.

New facts

• Jeremiah b. 12 Jan 1812 Hunterdon Co NJ; d. 30 Oct 1866 NY; buried Green-Wood Sec K Lot 17634 — FaG 93710229 — PROBABLE
• m. Garetta Van Dyke Vliet 11 Mar 1840 — cross-linked FaG memorials — PROBABLE
• Garetta b. Aug 1824 NJ; d. 7 Oct 1903 Manhattan of pneumonia, widow; late residence 51 W 52nd St (son John James's address — corroborates the family unit); minor internal age inconsistency on memorial (81y stated vs ~79 computed) — FaG 93718041 — PROBABLE
• ANCHOR: son John James Lambert (1846-1905, merchant, 51 W 52nd St, same burial plot) exact match to founder's known facts — CONFIRMED
• Jeremiah's parents: William Lambert (1782-1854) + Sophia Melick (1774-1849), Zion Lutheran Church Cem., Oldwick NJ; memorial cites "Genealogical Society of NJ, Zion Cemetery Oldwick records"; sibling lists match exactly across both memorials — agent tagged CONFIRMED; held at PROBABLE here (underlying GSNJ record not directly viewed; FaG-hosted)
• Garetta's parents: nothing found anywhere — negative — POSSIBLE

Parents found: William Lambert + Sophia Melick — PROBABLE (see caveat above); Melick family of Hunterdon Co is a well-documented settler line for further work

Spouse: Garetta Van Dyke Vliet — PROBABLE

Top leads

1. NJ Dutch Reformed baptismal/marriage registers for a Vliet family with daughter Garetta b. ~1824; the 1840 marriage record may name her father
2. Dutch naming-convention hypothesis: "Van Dyke" middle name = mother's maiden surname (untested)
3. Green-Wood's own register for Lot 17634 — primary-level confirmation of the whole plot

Dead ends: WikiTree public API has no person-search action; Google 429'd, Bing returned Czech business-registry noise; archive.org advancedsearch is metadata-only (useless for in-book person mentions).