Lineage Research Integration — Part B

Eleanor Lambert Wilson (r1 agent ac7ac4fc952b80f3a)

Verdict: Her full obituary found (Ivie Funeral Home, Murphy NC) — parents named, and the grandchildren list includes "Ben and Anne Wilson," directly anchoring the founder's descent.

New facts

• b. 1919 NYC; d. Thursday 2 Sep 2010 at Murphy medical center — Ivie Funeral Home obituary (via r.jina.ai proxy) — CONFIRMED
• Married Monroe Wilson 1945 in Cedarhurst, Long Island NY — same obituary — CONFIRMED
• Children: Anne Harper (Timonium MD), Florence Atwood (Pittsburgh PA), Daniel Wilson (Brasstown NC), John Wilson (Danville KY); grandchildren incl. Ben and Anne Wilson — same obituary — CONFIRMED (living-person data stays local)
• Career: Martins Creek School + Ogden Elementary teacher; 1960s dairy farming; Cherokee Co Social Services; Clay Co Social Services + Smoky Mountain Mental Health Center (Marble NC) counselor; private practice in retirement — same obituary — CONFIRMED
• She and Monroe were one of four founding couples of Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Hayesville NC (1955) — same obituary — CONFIRMED
• Sister Louise Eaton (Chatham MA); cousin Adele Vail (Ignacio CO) — same obituary — CONFIRMED
• Memoir pub. details: My Journey to Appalachia (2004, 182pp), My Life in Brasstown (2009, 125pp) — Goodreads — PROBABLE

Parents found: Walter Rittenhouse Lambert + Florence Olney Lambert, "of New York" — CONFIRMED (obituary; funeral-home source, not FaG)

Spouse: Monroe Wilson — marriage 1945 Cedarhurst LI now CONFIRMED with place.

Top leads

1. Vassar class-of-1941 alumnae records for her Folk School-era roles
2. Folk School's own archive/history center — she appears in NONE of the public Folk School histories checked (verified absence)
3. Bright Mountain Books press/jacket bio material

Dead ends: Berea finding aid, WCU Craft Revival, folkschool.org, WNC Magazine centennial, NCpedia — all zero mentions of her; archive.org full-text zero; Amazon listing HTTP 500.

Herman Monroe Wilson (r1 agent a9ec8015dd98b74ff)

Verdict: FaG memorial located with full family; two WWII Navy muster-roll index entries isolated on Fold3 but paywalled — ship/dates still unknown.

New facts

• b. 20 Feb 1921 Hemptown, Fannin Co GA; d. 6 Oct 1996 Brasstown NC; buried Hemptown Baptist Church Cem., Morganton GA — FaG 181380025 — PROBABLE (agent wrote CONFIRMED; single FaG page)
• Spouse Eleanor Lambert Wilson, m. 1945 — FaG + prior NYT Oct 1945 announcement — CONFIRMED (two independent sources)
• Eight siblings listed (Myrtle Emily, Bessie Leona, Annie Mae, Callie Irene, John William "Bill," Mattie Geraldine, Kansas Madeline "Maggie," James Olin) — FaG 181380025 — POSSIBLE
• FaG "Veteran" flag present but no branch/rank/ship detail — CONFIRMED (direct page check)
• Two "Wilson, Herman Monroe" entries in U.S. WWII Navy Muster Rolls 1938-1949, Fold3 sub-images 295703402 + 295706618 — name-match only, fields membership-gated — POSSIBLE

Parents found: Herman Everett Wilson (1885-1940) + Letha Leona "Lethy" Mashburn Wilson (1886-1975) — PROBABLE (FaG family links; strong anchor but user-submitted)

Spouse: cross-confirmed (above).

Top leads

1. Any brief Fold3/Ancestry login: pull the two isolated record IDs directly — no search needed
2. Oct 1996 obituary via name variants ("Herman M. Wilson") — exact phrase returned 0
3. WWII draft registration index, Fannin Co GA

Dead ends: Fold3/Ancestry fields fully paywalled (verbatim-extraction leaked nothing); no Wayback snapshots; WikiTree rate-limited (403/429); SSN 243-30-5473 neither corroborated nor refuted.

John M. Hayes (r1 agent ae56af2c0ee2c181a)

Verdict: Dates found — he died 16 Aug 1864, mid-Civil War, age 32; a Confederate widow's pension application for his wife Catharine surfaced, strong circumstantial evidence of Confederate service.

New facts

• b. 17 Dec 1831; d. 16 Aug 1864; m. Catherine "Katie" Thomas 1854 — FaG 300498500 (created May 2026 by descendant, thinly sourced, burial unknown) cross-linked to 29298721 — PROBABLE
• Catherine: b. 4 Jan 1839 Yancey Co NC; d. 8 Jul 1895 Hemp GA; buried Hemptown Baptist Church Cem., inscription quoted — FaG 29298721 — PROBABLE (agent wrote CONFIRMED; single FaG page)
• Confederate Pension Application, "Catharine Mrs Hayes," Fannin Co, 7 pages, GA Archives RG 58-1-1, record USAMILCONFEDGA_178705-01091 — vault.georgiaarchives.org id 558615 — PROBABLE
• Children: Martha Ann "Mattie" (1856-1946, m. Wm Stephen Mashburn 13 Feb 1878 — matches founder facts, gregmashburngenealogy.com — CONFIRMED), Joseph Marion (1861-1923), John Lee (b. 2 Dec 1864, ~3.5 months after father's death) — FaG cross-links — PROBABLE
• FaG "Veteran" flag on his memorial — POSSIBLE alone
• Fannin Co was ~2/3 Union-sympathizing; guerrilla violence context 1864 — county context only, NOT about him — POSSIBLE

Parents found: none (his parents remain unknown)

Spouse: Catherine's parents newly found — William Hunsucker "Billy" Thomas (1810-1906) + Nancy Willis Thomas (1812-1904), Yancey Co NC — PROBABLE

Top leads

1. View the 7-page pension application at GA Archives Virtual Vault — would name his company/regiment
2. 1850 Union/Gilmer + 1860 Fannin census for his household/parents
3. Henderson's Roster of Confederate Soldiers of Georgia for Fannin-area Hayes entries

Dead ends: Union Co marriage index negative; WikiTree no match; NPS Soldiers & Sailors DB unqueryable; his own burial location unknown.

Marie Ashton (r1 agent a4274aac058f0a4ab)

Verdict: "Mary Small" transcription error now CONFIRMED at its 1887 source via archive.org full-text search; Ashton family of St. Albans fully enumerated; her death remains undocumented (best candidate: "bef. 15 Sep 1659").

New facts

• Austin's 1887 Genealogical Dictionary of RI prints "Mary (Small)" (pp. 461/463) and contains ZERO hits for "Mary Ashton" — archive.org genealogicaldict00aust search-inside — CONFIRMED (closes the quarantine-note provenance)
• Bapt. 25 Aug 1605 St. Albans Abbey; m. Thomas Olney there 16 Sep 1629 — WikiTree Ashton-51/47 citing Brigg 1897 parish registers + Smith 1992 (NEHGS) — PROBABLE
• 9 siblings (10 children total — one more than founder's brief of 8; discrepancy flagged, not resolved) — WikiTree Ashton-47 — PROBABLE
• Sister Alice Ashton m. Thomas Angell; d. Providence 24 Dec 1694; will witnessed by Tho. Olney and Epenetus Olney — WikiTree Ashton-46 citing Early Providence Records — PROBABLE
• Death "before 15 September 1659, Providence — named in deed of husband" — rootsweb family-group page, unresolved citation 1051 — POSSIBLE (conflicts with WikiTree's "bef. 1679" placeholder — POSSIBLE)
• The correct "NEHGS Angell genealogy" = Dean Crawford Smith, The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell (NEHGS 1992) — access-restricted on archive.org; NOT the 1872 Avery Angell book — CONFIRMED (bibliographic ID only)

Parents found: James Ashton (b. ~1580; bur. 27 May 1651 St. Albans Abbey) + Alice, surname unproven ("Pemberton"/"Honeychurch" flagged as likely misattributions — do not merge) — PROBABLE

Spouse: Thomas Olney bio expanded (shoemaker; Providence clerk/treasurer/justice; Baptist founding member) — PROBABLE

Top leads

1. Resolve rootsweb citation 1051 → the 1659 deed (best path to her death date)
2. Borrow Smith 1992 via archive.org CDL/NEHGS/ILL — extract the Ashton chapter
3. Brigg 1897 parish registers directly (verify baptism/marriage primary)

Dead ends: Smith 1992 blocked (CDL); 1889 Olney genealogy has one sentence ("Marie Small"), nothing else on her; Austin 1887 Olney entry unreachable in truncated djvu.

John Herman Wilson (r1 agent a867f63135c2b226c)

Verdict: Burial "with the family" at Hemptown confirmed at PROBABLE; died in Atlanta away from home (reason still unknown); parents Levi + Mary Ann Kent surfaced (single-source here; independently strengthened by the Levi agent below).

New facts

• b. 22 Nov 1861 GA; d. 6 Aug 1923 (age 61) Atlanta, Fulton Co — FaG 165202614 — PROBABLE
• Buried Hemptown Baptist Church Cem., Morganton GA (GPS 34.8826294,-84.1711731), alongside wife and son — FaG 165202614/165149188/132394483 — PROBABLE
• Childhood portrait photo captioned "John Herman Wilson-1873-12 years old" in memorial gallery; "John A. Wilson" variant traced to a photo caption, same person — PROBABLE
• Wife Kansas Magdeline "Maggie" Cook: b. 29 Jul 1865 Macon Co NC; d. 18 Feb 1928 Fannin Co GA — FaG 165149188 — PROBABLE
• New sibling for Herman Everett: Cora Wilson Cook (1884-1964) — FaG cross-links — POSSIBLE
• Naming-heirloom recurrence: granddaughter Kansas Madeline "Maggie" Wilson Brackett b. 1923, the year he died — WikiTree Wilson-41048 + FaG — PROBABLE
• Maggie's parents: Barnard Rufus Cook (1832-1890) + Caroline M. Reid Cook (1839-1913), Macon Co NC — FaG — POSSIBLE

Parents found: Levi Wilson (1810-1900) + Mary Ann Kent Wilson (1823-1897) — POSSIBLE from this agent alone (single FaG family-links section; see Levi section for upgrade to PROBABLE)

Spouse: as above; marriage date/place still unfound.

Top leads

1. 1923 Fulton Co death certificate (GA Virtual Vault) — answers "why Atlanta"
2. Atlanta papers Aug 1923 obituary (paid archives)
3. OCR the two grave-marker photos → upgrade dates to CONFIRMED

Dead ends: wilsonsinfannin.webnode.page documents a DIFFERENT Fannin Wilson line (Johnson Wilson m. Maynard) — contamination trap, do not merge; Chronicling America CAPTCHA-gated; GALILEO search JS-walled.

Levi Wilson (r1 agent ac8c75688ed3c3198)

Verdict: First wife found — Leah Johnson, died in childbirth 1845 — which pushes the Wilson NC→GA migration to 1845 or earlier, six-plus years before the known 1851 remarriage.

New facts

• b. 5 Oct 1810 Haywood Co NC; d. 10 Dec 1900 (age 90) Hot House, Fannin Co GA; buried Hot House Missionary Baptist Church Cem. — FaG 59217100 — PROBABLE
• First wife Leah Johnson (d. 1845): "She died in child birth and the child was buried with her" — FaG 165202928 citing local history book The Facets of Fannin; buried Douthit Cem., Mineral Bluff GA — PROBABLE
• NC→GA move at or before 1845 (Leah died/buried in GA); pre-1854 records would file under Union/Gilmer Co (Fannin created Jan 1854) — derived — PROBABLE
• m. Mary Ann Kent 1851 in Fannin Co GA — same Facets of Fannin citation — PROBABLE
• Five children of Levi + Mary Ann incl. Catharine Caldonia Wilson England (1855-1880, new) and John Herman Wilson (1861-1923) — FaG 59217100 — PROBABLE
• Civil War: Levi 50-55 during the war, all children too young; no service-age sons found — resolved non-finding — PROBABLE

Parents found: Richard Wilson (1767-1850) + Rachel Strain (1773-1851) — PROBABLE (reciprocal FaG cross-links both directions; round-1 brief's [PROBABLE tier] holds, no primary record yet)

Spouse: Leah Johnson (first, new); Mary Ann Kent (second, marriage now dated/placed).

Top leads

1. Macon Co NC Estates 1833-1920 collection (NC State Archives) — Richard Wilson will naming Levi → CONFIRMED
2. Read The Facets of Fannin directly (source of both new claims)
3. 1830/1840 Macon Co NC census for Richard's household (claim seen but NOT verified this pass)

Dead ends: Geni project page empty via proxy; usgwarchives census transcriptions unreachable (ECONNREFUSED/422); Bing drowned in Levi's-jeans noise; WikiTree JS-walled.

John Martin Gibby (r1 agent af6c5b85e8ce77d89)

Verdict: Gibby Island naming attribution moved from unverified to PROBABLE — a June 2026 Clay County Progress feature directly ties the island to his flooded farm; his death cause (logging accident) surfaced.

New facts

• Verbatim: "Part of John's original farm remains visible as Gibby Island. It can be seen from the Chatuge Dam." — Clay County Progress, "Origins of an historic farm, evolution to present day," Marcia Barnes, 4 Jun 2026 — PROBABLE (family-interview newspaper feature, not a TVA primary record)
• Original farm 220 acres; TVA announced dam 1941; by Aug 1941 he bought a 130-acre replacement on Fires Creek Rd (later ~230 acres); moved everything except the house "seven or eight miles" — same article — PROBABLE
• Killed in a logging accident, Dec 1958 — same article, consistent with known 1958-12-13 death — PROBABLE
• Land divided among children "Bill" (father of current owner Keith Gibby), Floyd, Alice; part remains as Still Waters Landing (est. 2015) — same article — PROBABLE
• DISCREPANCY: "Bill" matches none of the nine children of record — unrecorded son or opaque nickname — POSSIBLE
• Vitals b. 18 Jul 1887 / d. 13 Dec 1958, buried Hayesville Baptist-Presbyterian Cem. — FaG 17343508, matches known anchors — CONFIRMED
• Gibby Island is real, mapped at N35.013146, W83.791562 — TopoQuest + Natural Atlas + Mapcarta — CONFIRMED
• Rev. Stanley Warren Gibby d. 6 May 2026 Scottsboro AL; FaG withholds his obituary ~3 months post-death — FaG 300077790 — PROBABLE (agent wrote CONFIRMED; single FaG page)

Parents found: George Washington "Wash" Gibby (1844-1909) + Sarah Elizabeth Lequire Gibby (1866-1917) — PROBABLE (FaG/WikiTree, same underlying index)

Spouse: Martha Elmina Wiggins Gibby (1890-1970) — PROBABLE; marriage date still unfound.

Top leads

1. TVA condemnation/land-acquisition file for the 220-acre tract (NARA Southeast, Atlanta) — the primary source that could CONFIRM the island naming
2. Resolve "Bill Gibby" against the nine recorded children
3. Clay Co Register of Deeds, Aug 1941 Fires Creek purchase + TVA conveyance

Dead ends: CourtListener no TVA case; archive.org zero "Gibby"+"Chatuge"; Chronicling America + Legacy.com bot-walled; Wikipedia's Chatuge articles only name Cemetery Island.

Rev. Abraham Lincoln Wiggins (r2 agent a63d6a15316707aa3)

R2 target: round-1 claim that he is Martha Elmina Wiggins Gibby's father. Verdict: CONFIRMED at PROBABLE tier and EXTENDED one generation.

New facts

• Parent link independently re-verified: Martha's memorial lists both parents with exact date/place match; anchored via her spouse John Martin Gibby + son James Floyd Gibby matching founder facts — FaG 17343528 x 7659697 — PROBABLE
• Sister-check: Joanna Indiana "Anna" Wiggins Gibby lists identical parents, different Gibby husband (Jacob Allen) — rules out same-spouse contamination — FaG 14823906 — PROBABLE
• Reciprocal generation-up link: Jason Holland Wiggins's memorial lists Abraham as child (both directions) — FaG 19673453 — PROBABLE
• b. 22 Jan 1854 Macon Co NC; d. 25 Jun 1924 Bryson City; buried Laurel Branch Cem. — FaG 7659697 — PROBABLE
• All 9 children identical across three memorials — PROBABLE
• No denomination/church/pastorate found for the "Rev." title — POSSIBLE (thin)

Parents found: Jason Holland Wiggins (30 Mar 1818 Haywood Co NC – 16 May 1887 Bryson City) + Elizabeth Rebecca "Betsy" Kirkland (1822-1905), m. 8 Aug 1840 Macon Co NC — PROBABLE. Next edge: Jason's parents listed as Abraham Wiggins + Nancy Colvard — POSSIBLE, unresearched.

Spouse: Clara Whiteside Wiggins (1859-1916); marriage undated, first child b. 1878.

Top leads

1. 1924 Bryson City obituary — the CONFIRMED-tier upgrade
2. Baptist association minutes for his ministry
3. Whitesides line (Clara's parents)

Dead ends: zero hits on "Rev. A.L. Wiggins" ministry searches; no WikiTree profile; Deep Creek/Laurel Branch church histories silent.

Clara Whiteside Wiggins (r2 agent aabef6cc05f98e574)

R2 target: round-1 claim that she is Martha Elmina's mother. Verdict: CONFIRMED at PROBABLE tier; EXTENDED — her parents upgraded from Part A's POSSIBLE to PROBABLE via bidirectional cross-links.

New facts

• Mother link verified via three mutually-consistent independently-maintained memorials (Clara's, Martha's, Abraham's), identical 9-child sets, matching dates+places — FaG 5674719/17343528/7659697 — PROBABLE
• b. 3 Aug 1859 Macon Co NC; d. 2 Jan 1916 Swain Co NC; buried Laurel Branch Cem. beside Abraham — FaG 5674719 — PROBABLE
• Parents bidirectionally verified: both parent memorials list Clara among 11 children with identical sibling sets — FaG 37609734 + 37769506 — PROBABLE
• Paternal grandparents: Noah Whiteside (1806-1858) + Malinda Lynch Whiteside (1809-1875) — single-direction — POSSIBLE
• Maternal grandparents: Barzillai Ledbetter (1805-1875) + Sarah Elliott Ledbetter (1809-1856) — single-direction — POSSIBLE
• Family geography: parents lived/died Rutherford Co NC; Clara born Macon Co — migration question opened — PROBABLE

Parents found: William Marion Whitesides Sr. (25 Apr 1829 – 25 May 1919, farmer) + Sarah Ledbetter Whitesides (18 Oct 1827 – 17 Apr 1919), both buried Rock Springs Baptist Church Cem., Rutherfordton NC — PROBABLE

Spouse: Rev. Abraham Lincoln Wiggins — reciprocal — PROBABLE.

Top leads

1. NC death certificate for Clara (d. 1916; NC certs begin ~1913) → CONFIRMED-tier parent names
2. 1900/1910 census, Abraham Wiggins household
3. Cross-check the four grandparent memorials directly

Dead ends: "Sarah Whiteside Ledbetter (1819-1893)" is a same-name trap — different person, do not merge; FaG site-search missed William Sr. (county/DOB variance) — resolved via direct parent-link URLs. Caution: sister Flora also b. 1859 — watch for twin/confusion in primary records.

Edgar Rogers (r2 agent a848f541ccd65d898)

R2 target: round-1 claim that Edgar Rogers is Adella Rogers Olney's father. Verdict: CONFIRMED at PROBABLE tier with a physical-plot corroboration; EXTENDED with death details and the Jacob Sharp connection.

New facts

• Parent link reciprocal on both memorials; Adella's bio note names mother Mary Sharp and the Green-Wood burial detail, which independently checks out — FaG 58363541 x 121450448 — PROBABLE (whole chain is FaG user-contributed; no primary record found)
• d. 1 Oct 1875 (age 37-38), cause "Apoplexy" (stroke), residence 320 West 23rd St, Chelsea, Manhattan — FaG 58363541 — PROBABLE
• Buried Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Lot 3504 Section 69 — the exact plot of father-in-law Jacob "Jake" Sharp per Sharp's own memorial (plot-level match corroborates the in-law link) — FaG 57667493 — PROBABLE
• m. Mary A. Sharp 1862 — FaG 58363541 + 183681198 — PROBABLE
• Infant son Edgar M. Rogers d. 30 Oct 1871 of "Varicella" (chickenpox), buried in same plot — FaG 58363540 — PROBABLE
• His parents unnamed; memorial notes father b. Scotland, mother b. Boston — POSSIBLE
• Jacob Sharp = NYC streetcar magnate, convicted 14 Jul 1887 of bribing the Board of Aldermen (Broadway railway), overturned on appeal Nov 1887 — FaG quoting Appletons' — POSSIBLE
• Granddaughter: Florence Armitage Olney Lambert (1889-1975) — FaG 121450448 — POSSIBLE

Parents found: none.

Spouse: Mary A. Sharp (1845-1923), remarried John Henry Selmes 1878 — PROBABLE.

Top leads

1. NYC marriage records 1862 Rogers-Sharp → CONFIRMED
2. 1875 NYC newspapers obituary (would name his parents)
3. Green-Wood lot 3504/sec 69 interment register

Dead ends: no WikiTree profile; Schenectady Sharp genealogy is a different line; no obituary located.

Hiram Salisbury (r2 agent a2515197fb281d98d)

R2 target: round-1 claim that Hiram is the father of Sarah Salisbury (m. William Russell Olney). Verdict: CONFIRMED — upgraded from POSSIBLE to PROBABLE (reciprocal double-anchored cross-memorials); EXTENDED one generation with a county-history corroboration. Also flagged: the "Sarah MARY Salisbury" middle name is unverified.

New facts

• Parent link: Sarah's memorial independently lists Hiram + Sarah Burt Salisbury with matching dates AND matching sibling John B Salisbury (1836-1873) on both pages, different contributors — FaG 51712299 x 17474056 — PROBABLE (not CONFIRMED: secondary-to-secondary)
• b. 24 Sep 1807; d. 10 Oct 1901 (age 94) Saratoga NY; buried Bacon Hill Cem. — FaG 51712299 — PROBABLE
• Father corroborated OUTSIDE FaG: Sylvester's 1878 History of Saratoga County names "Rebecca Salisbury, daughter of Preserved Salisbury, of Stillwater" — Rebecca is Hiram's listed sister — saratoganygenweb.com/Sylvester/chap41.html — PROBABLE
• m. Sarah Burt 27 Feb 1834; she d. 30 May 1840 — FaG — PROBABLE
• Shaker rearing (New Lebanon); store 1844; ~4 years postmaster "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" era (mild chronology tension unresolved) — FaG bio text — POSSIBLE
• Will executed 2 Dec 1897, codicil 7 Aug 1898, probated 18 Nov 1901 → surviving Saratoga Surrogate's Court file — PROBABLE
• No source gives Sarah a middle name "Mary" — gap flagged — POSSIBLE

Parents found: Preserved Salisbury (1775-1835) — PROBABLE (two independent secondaries); Mary Salisbury (1773-1858) — POSSIBLE (FaG only)

Spouse: Sarah Burt — PROBABLE (see next section's failure note).

Top leads

1. Saratoga Co probate file for Hiram → CONFIRMED-tier heir list
2. Sylvester ch. 33 (Stillwater) for the store/postmaster passage
3. Shaker Museum (Old Chatham NY) records for the Salisbury family

Dead ends: unrelated Bedfordshire/NSW Salisbury page; Jefferson Co "Hiram Salisbury" vestryman = same-name trap, excluded.

Sarah Burt Salisbury (r2 agent a1853f7aea1eabcef) — AGENT FAILED

Verdict: No usable output. The agent returned a placeholder stub ("Test." / "test fact" / "test source") — a tool/workflow artifact, not research. The round-1 claim (Sarah Burt Salisbury, 1811-1840, as mother of Sarah Salisbury Olney) remains at its round-1 confidence, partially propped by the Hiram agent's reciprocal cross-check (mother named with matching dates on Sarah's memorial — PROBABLE via that path). Note FaG's internal birth-year conflict (1811 vs 1807) is still unresolved, and her Burt parentage (→ Richard Burt) rests on the Richard Burt agent below. Re-dispatch this agent in any round 3.

Mary A. Sharp (r2 agent ad55169ad6ac78be4)

R2 target: round-1 claim that Mary A. Sharp (Selmes) is Adella Rogers Olney's mother. Verdict: CONFIRMED at PROBABLE tier; EXTENDED — Sharp parents verified reciprocally, and a likely origin found for the "Armitage" name.

New facts

• Mother link reciprocal across independently-created memorials (different creators/maintainers), matching sibling Edgar M Rogers on both — FaG 183681198 x 121450448 — PROBABLE
• b. 1845; d. 27 Sep 1923 NYC; buried Woodlawn Cem., Bronx, "Heather Plot" Sect. 69 — same exact plot as second husband John Henry Selmes (physical-plot anchor) — FaG 183681198/183681118 — PROBABLE
• Parents reciprocal: Jacob "Jake" Sharp (6 Jul 1817 Montgomery Co NY – 5 Apr 1888) + Catharine Munson Sharp (1825-1897, m. 23 Mar 1838 St Peters/Chelsea NYC) list Mary as daughter with matching siblings — FaG 57667493 — PROBABLE
• Jacob Sharp = the "Boodle Board of Aldermen" Broadway Surface Railroad bribery financier; funeral held early "to avoid the attention of the curious public" — FaG + corroborating web search — PROBABLE
• Selmes memorial cites 1880/1910 census + Dutch Reformed Church records (not independently viewed) — PROBABLE

Parents found: Jacob Sharp + Catharine Munson (above).

Spouse: Edgar Rogers (m. 1862, d. 1875); John Henry Selmes (m. 1878, d. 1916) — PROBABLE.

Top leads

1. Florence Armitage Olney Lambert (1889-1975): "Armitage" appears as her middle name on Adella's memorial — likely the true source of the founder's "Armitage hypothesis" (name conflation, not an ancestral surname), and the forward link to Eleanor Lambert Wilson's mother Florence Olney Lambert
2. NYT obituaries for Jacob Sharp (1888) and Mary (1923) → CONFIRMED upgrades
3. Green-Wood plot verification for Edgar Rogers

Dead ends: no bio text on Mary's memorial; no obituary found in 2 searches; her birthplace unknown; Selmes occupation/children unknown.

William Nathaniel LeQuire (r2 agent a1279ab76d3056944)

R2 target: round-1 claim that he is the father of Sarah Elizabeth Lequire (Gibby). Verdict: CONFIRMED — upgraded from single-source to reciprocal PROBABLE; EXTENDED with Civil War service and both wives.

New facts

• Parent link reciprocal both directions with exact date matches; Sarah's memorial cites underlying census + NC death-certificate collections (images not viewed) — FaG 7791805 x 17343414 — PROBABLE
• b. 2 Feb 1833; d. 2 Aug 1918; buried Cable Family Cemetery, Blount Co TN — WikiTree Lequire-57 + FaG 7791805 — PROBABLE (agent wrote CONFIRMED; WikiTree/FaG likely share the same underlying index)
• Civil War: Pvt., Co. F, 69th NC Infantry — Thomas's Legion (Wm Holland Thomas's Cherokee-and-highlander unit) — gravestone inscription per FaG, unit identity corroborated by Wikipedia/NCpedia — PROBABLE (not checked against a muster roll)
• First wife (Sarah's mother): Susannah Jane Thomasson (30 May 1836 – 2 Aug 1881), buried Sawmill Hill FWB Church Cem., Bryson City; her parents James Madison Thomasson (1809-1891) + Susannah Rebecca Truitt (1817-1890) — FaG 30038168 — PROBABLE
• Second wife: Mary Catharine Cable (1847-1927) — burial among her family suggests late-life move to Blount Co TN — PROBABLE
• Sarah Elizabeth Gibby full record: b. 15 Jan 1866 Macon Co NC, d. 13 Jan 1917 Swain Co, buried Lauada Cem.; brother Joseph Isaac Lequire also d. 1917 — PROBABLE

Parents found: Joseph Alexander "Little Frenchman" LeQuire Sr. (1798-1872, War of 1812 veteran) + Martha Jane Watkins (1800-1871) — PROBABLE (reciprocal FaG)

Top leads

1. Sarah's 1917 NC death certificate → CONFIRMED-tier father name
2. Thomasson line (Sarah's maternal grandparents)
3. Merrell Riddle's "LeQuire Family of Western North Carolina" for the "John and Mary LeQuire" generation

Dead ends: WikiTree "No descendants recorded" = JS-rendering artifact, do NOT read as contradiction; "Rutherford County" birthplace hint = likely proxy misparse, withheld.

Richard Burt (r2 agent a00b8197d5655d0a5)

R2 target: round-1 claim that Richard Burt is the father of Lucy Burt (Olney). Verdict: DOWNGRADED-with-nuance — link is real-looking but both memorials were created by the SAME contributor on the same day, so it is cross-linked secondary only → PROBABLE, not CONFIRMED. EXTENDED with strong Sylvester 1878 primary-source biography.

New facts

• Parent link: two-way FaG cross-match (birth year 1790, Saratoga Co, five shared named siblings) BUT both pages by one contributor (Dave Peck, 27 Apr 2008); Sylvester's 1878 county history discusses the Burts in detail yet never names Lucy — FaG 26437606 x 17474054 + Sylvester ch. 41 — PROBABLE
• 1770: emigrated RI → Chatham, Columbia Co NY; eldest son John (of "eleven children") b. 1775 — Sylvester 1878 — CONFIRMED
• 1790: moved to Northumberland, Saratoga Co; bought 572 acres on the Hudson near Fort Miller Falls; "erected mills" — Sylvester 1878 — CONFIRMED
• Burt-Olney intermarriage pattern: son John Burt m. Sarah Olney, "daughter of Stephen Olney, of Saratoga," 31 Dec 1807 — Sylvester 1878 — CONFIRMED (makes Lucy-marries-Olney plausible, not proven)
• Birthplace disputed: FaG says Bristol Co MA; Sylvester says "native of Rhode Island" — unresolved — PROBABLE
• d. 29 Oct 1825 (age 80); buried Bacon Hill Cem. — FaG 26437606 — PROBABLE
• Wife: Lucy [surname "Airies" — likely transcription artifact] (1758 – 26 Aug 1826) — FaG 26437706 — PROBABLE marriage/burial; POSSIBLE maiden name
• 1889 Olney genealogy full-text searched: zero hits for "Lucy Burt" / "James A. Olney" — that book does not cover this branch — negative finding

Parents found: none (total dead end so far).

Top leads

1. Saratoga Co probate for Richard (d. 1825) — a will naming daughter Lucy = the missing CONFIRMED source
2. Check whether James A. Olney was also a son of Stephen Olney (possible double sibling-exchange marriage)
3. Full manual read of Sylvester ch. 41 (keyword extraction may have missed children)

Dead ends: WikiTree 403; Google scrape blocked; no standalone Northumberland history exists (it's Sylvester ch. 41).

Lumpkin Gaither "Gather" Foster (r2 agent a453ecde9cf6d54df)

R2 target: round-1 claim that Lumpkin Gaither Foster is the father of Julius Calloway "Jule" Foster. Verdict: CONFIRMED at PROBABLE tier (not upgraded) — the key rootsweb census transcription was reached via Wayback and corroborates the household chain; his own parents newly found.

New facts

• 1880 Towns Co census: "Gather Foster" (head, b. 1857) + wife Mary, with infant son "Julius Foster" (age 1), Lower Hiwassee dist.; household tracked as "Lumpkin G. Foster" through 1900/1910/1920 — Don Tucker's rootsweb census compilation via Wayback snapshot — PROBABLE (no explicit annotation ties Julius specifically; a younger sibling Erastus IS annotated "(Son of Lumpkin G. Foster)")
• His parents: 1870 census lists "Lumpkin G. Foster (son), age 14" in household of Franklin C. Foster (b. ~1830 GA) + Harriett Foster (b. ~1825 NC), with 10+ siblings; Franklin cross-referenced "(father)" in adult sons' 1900/1910 households — same source — PROBABLE
• Julius vitals cross-corroborated by 5 census enumerations + FaG 16161999 (Woods Grove Memorial Cem.) — CONFIRMED
• Wife consistent across 1880/1900/1910/1920 as Mary/"Mary A."/"Adaline"; maiden name NOT established — "Hooper" rests on one unsourced Ancestry tree snippet — POSSIBLE only
• Possible 1860 entry "Larkin Foster" (b. 1857) = same child — POSSIBLE
• No death date, burial, or FaG memorial found for Lumpkin under any variant — searched thoroughly

Parents found: Franklin C. Foster + Harriett Foster (above) — PROBABLE

Spouse: Mary Foster (b. ~1856-1858 GA) — PROBABLE; maiden name open.

Top leads

1. Bertha Foster Gibby (1923-1995), Julius's daughter — check against the family's target Bertha Gibby (likely the actual link into the tree)
2. Raw 1880 census image (Lower Hiwassee, dwelling ~#35) → CONFIRMED upgrade
3. GA death index/Towns Co probate for Lumpkin (d. after 1920)

Dead ends: FaG zero for Lumpkin (7 "L G Foster" hits all out-of-state); Woods Grove browse CAPTCHA-walled; WikiTree no profile; rootsweb 403s except via Wayback+curl.

Mary A. Foster (r2 agent a2377446384af1164)

R2 target: round-1 claim that Mary A. Foster is Julius Calloway Foster's mother (and "Hooper" maiden name). Verdict: DOWNGRADED to POSSIBLE by this agent — but read alongside the Lumpkin agent above, whose census-transcription evidence this agent could not reach (hard 403; its tooling couldn't reach Wayback). Net: parent link stays PROBABLE on the Lumpkin agent's evidence; the "Hooper" maiden name is affirmatively weakened (Geni gives NO maiden surname, contradicting round 1).

New facts

• Could not verify the mother link with any anchor; downgraded from PROBABLE to POSSIBLE (superseded in part — see above) — negative-result pass — POSSIBLE
• Geni tree names mother "Mary Adeline Foster" with no maiden surname — actively contradicts "Hooper" — POSSIBLE
• WikiTree Foster-34876 (Julius, b. 1878 d. 1947) exists with daughter Edna Elizabeth Foster Hall (1905-1928) but ZERO parents, no spouse — API check — POSSIBLE
• CONTAMINATION RISK (valuable): a separate well-documented Foster family in the same Hiawassee locale — Julius Woodfin Foster (1852-1933) — includes sons literally named "Lumpkin Foster" (b. 1888) and Grover Lumpkin Foster (b. 1885); "Julius" and "Lumpkin" recur in that OTHER family — classic conflation trap — POSSIBLE
• Claims of no FaG memorial for Julius (d. 1947 GA) — FALSE NEGATIVE: FaG search missed memorial 16161999, which two other agents fetched directly (FaG search index is unreliable; treat search-zero as weak evidence)
• Zero archive.org full-text hits for "Julius Calloway Foster" / "Lumpkin Gaither Foster" — PROBABLE

Parents found: none.

Spouse: Lumpkin Gaither Foster — POSSIBLE per this agent; PROBABLE per the census-based agent.

Top leads

1. Julius's 1947 GA death certificate — informant-reported parent names = strongest anchor available
2. Enumerate ALL of Julius Woodfin Foster's children to rule out line-conflation
3. Marriage record for Julius x Eva C. Brown

Dead ends: rootsweb hard-403 (this agent); FamilySearch + Geni JS-walled; Google fetches unreliable; oocities "JuleW" page = the other Foster line only.

Cross-cutting integration notes (Part B)

• Olney chain closes toward Eleanor: Adella Rogers Olney's daughter Florence Armitage Olney Lambert (1889-1975) matches Eleanor Lambert Wilson's obituary-CONFIRMED mother "Florence Olney Lambert" — the Rogers/Sharp/Olney research line connects to the founder's grandmother. "Armitage" is a middle name, not an ancestral surname (Armitage hypothesis likely resolved as name conflation).
• Levi Wilson parentage: single-FaG POSSIBLE in the John Herman Wilson result, reciprocal PROBABLE in the Levi result — record as PROBABLE.
• Agent failure: Sarah Burt Salisbury r2 verifier returned a test stub — re-dispatch.
• Tool caveats to keep: FaG search index misses memorials that exist (two demonstrated cases); WikiTree via proxy shows false "no descendants"; most fetches routed through r.jina.ai proxy; Ancestry/Fold3/FamilySearch fields paywalled or JS-walled throughout.