Burwell Rollins & dau. Caroline Thayer

[tom]

Hello,
Back in the 1960's, my grand parents did some good work on geneology
and left a hand drawn chart. One branch stops at Burwell Rollins
(they spelled it Burnell Rollins). However, I'm sure it must have
been Burwell.
Their data has been a good starting point for much of what I have
already verified
as correct, with just a few little mistakes like trying to read old
hand writting from
census data.

I found his daughters grave (Caroline Thayer Rollins) in Jonesboro
Cemetery
(35.45064, 79.155660). She married Alvin Johnson Sloan.
These are my gg-grand parents. Caroline Thayer [Rollins] Sloan was
born 8/25/1830 died 12/26/1909 according to her grave stone.

All the family names on this branch of my family are located up in the
same
area of N.C., and earlier in Virginia (Ragland, Avent, Barham,
Massie).
From reading the post in this group, it looks like the Rollins you are
interested
in are in exactly the area I've been looking at.

If any one knows Burwell's date of birth and death, location of the
grave,
name and dates of wife, names and dates of his and her parents, I
would
appreciate if you could share. I live down in S. Florida and can only
search
for grave yards on vacation days.

I have other information on Caroline if any one wants to follow the
branch
that far.

Regards,
Tom

[Steven Weaver]

Hi Tom,

Merry Christmas and thank you for your post, welcome aboard! Thanks
so much for this information about Caroline, we certainly do
appreciate it. I found an 1865 marriage record for her awhile back
but had not yet followed up and so was not aware of her burial at
Jonesboro. Your message is quite timely, I'm planning to go down that
way tomorrow to photograph some graveyards so I'll be sure to track
her's down.

We would love any information about Caroline and her descendents that
you are willing to contribute. Please check out this website:
http://www.johnrollinsfamily.org. It's only been up a couple of
months and the homepage is still a mess but you can use the left-hand
menu column to navigate easily enough. In company with other Rollins
descendents I am trying to make this site a clearinghouse for Rollins
family research. In addition to ancestor and descendent trees I want
to include as many scanned docs, headstone photos, and family
photographs as possible so group members (only one of who currently
lives in NC) can easily access and examine them.

I've made the edits you mentioned to the website - is there anyone
else I should look for at Jonesboro tomorrow?

Thanks again and take care. Look forward to hearing from you!

Steve

[x53041]

Hello Steven,

Merry Christmas and thanks for the fast reply.
The site you sent has good information that was looking for.

I did find some Rollins in the Jonesboro cemetry, but didn't know who they
where. I wrote down the names because I figured they must be related
somehow and I would look into that later.:

Thomas Caston Rollins
November 26, 1881
April 20, 1940

Lena Lasater Rollins
November 7, 1882
June 18, 1968

It's a mid-size cemetery and I didn't search it all, but the Rollins were in
the front near
the road (Cemetery Road), not too far from the GPS location of Caroline and
A J.
(35.45064, 79.155660)

I am attaching two scanned documents found in the mess of my moms house
(which she must have found in her mothers house).
One scan is the obit of Alvin Johnson Sloan. It states he and Caroline T.
Rollins
were married December 24, 1865. and list two childeren: Mrs. D. B. Buchanon
and Mrs T. B. Kernaghan. Mrs. T. B. Kernaghan is actually Minnie Davis
Sloan,
who married Thomas B. Kernaghan.

The other scan is the obit for Mrs. W. L. Thomas. This states that before
she
was Mrs. Thomas, she was Miss Carrier Belle Buchanan, daughter of D. B.
and Betty Sloan Buchanan. There is no date on the news clipping and I
didn't
know to try and locate her when I was in Jonesboro, but it says she's there.

Notice that there are two different spellings in the obits of Buchanan or,
Buchanon.

The GPS location of Minnie Davis (Sloan) Kernaghan is in Batesburg SC.
at 33º , 53.915' N, 81º 32.872' W (sorry, I have mixed the GPS locations
as degrees.decimal above,
and here it is degree, then minutes.decimal).

Minnie D. Sloan and Thomas B. Kernaghan had one daughter, Lois Thayer
Kernghan.
Lois married John Fleming Marsh and had one daughter, Mary Sloan Marsh.
Mary S. Marsh married my dad, and they and Lois and John Marsh are buried in
Hillcrest Cemetery in West Palm Beach, Florida (26º 39.443'N, 80º
03.897'W).

That is complete information on that branch for the next 40 years or so I
hope.

Regards,
Tom.

[Steven Weaver]

Hi Tom,

Glad you found some information you can use on the website, that's
what we're hoping for! Thank you also for the additional details
about Caroline's descendents, I'll take that ball, run with it, and
get back to you with more questions. By the way, I don't think the
attachments came through, can you try resending them when you have a
chance? Thanks.

We know who Thomas G. Rollins is, not to worry - son of Gaston and
grandson of James, the latter likely one of Burwell's many brothers.

Thanks again! Look forward to collaborating with you,

Steve

[x53041]

I forgot to attach them.
Let's try that again.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Weaver" <sgw...@yahoo.com>
To: "Rollins Family of Chatham County, North Carolina"
<rollins-family-of-chath...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: Burwell Rollins & dau. Caroline Thayer

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[Steven Weaver]

Hi Tom,

Got them, thanks! I'll upload them to the site when I get back to
Virginia next week. How shall I credit you for these contributions?
Thanks again, hope you enjoy the rest of the Christmas holiday!

Steve

[x53041]

Hello Steve,
Sorry for the late reply.
I hope you had a good trip in the Carolinas and a safe return to Virginia.

Use my name if you want. It's Thomas Shoemaker.
It's better not to show exactly how I'm related since I have a brother
that is concerned with "privacy issues".

Since I know you enjoy putting the puzzle together as much as I,
I'm attaching two charts. To view them, open in wordpad,
then change page setup to landscape and select the biggest paper size
and make sure all word wrapping is turned off in the view.
The two charts can be viewed side by side. Thomas Kernaghan
married Minnie Sloan and had one daughter, Lois.
That's my grand mother.

My goal in this is to find all the graves of my gggg-grand parents
(all 64 of them). I've had good luck on my grand fathers side,
but on my grandmothers side, I haven't found a single one yet (gggg-grands).
Being from S. Florida, it's a little difficult and I must be pretty sure
I'm going to find something before I head out. My dads side
will need to wait till I retire, since Penn. is a little more time consuming
to get to.

Regards,
Tom

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Weaver" <sgw...@yahoo.com>
To: "Rollins Family of Chatham County, North Carolina"
<rollins-family-of-chath...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: Burwell Rollins & dau. Caroline Thayer

>

[Steven Weaver]

Hi Tom,

Thanks for your email and the charts, appreciate it! I'll look them
over tonight when I get home from work and am not so harried. Hope
you're doing well.

I fully appreciate your brother's privacy concerns; I'm a college
librarian and so have both a personal and professional interest in the
subject. He can rest assured that info on living individuals will not
be viewable.

Thanks again! Take care, Steve

[Rollins, Edgar A SSG NGCO]

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

I have located a decendant of John W. Rollins and found a little more
information on him and his decendants, which is being input into my ancestry
family tree. The family member I spoke with had a photo of Martha A Douglas
as an old woman and she is deffinatly the person sitting next to John in the
photo of the 3 Rollins brothers with their wives. They had done a lot of
reasearch on the family but were unable todetermine who Johns parents were.
They had also heard stories about the family having come from County Tyrone
Northern Ireland and migrating to New Hampshire, then to Varginia prior to
ending up in NC. So this confirms the third Rollins family member in the
photo is John W. Rollins. b.04 Jul 1822 in North Carolina, and died 02 Oct
1856 in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, and that the photo
was taken prior to 1856.

Notes for John W. Rollins:
He married Martha Anne Douglas 19 Dec 1848 in Cumberland County, North
Carolina, daughter of Silas Douglas and Mary Harrington. She was born 01 Feb
1832 in Cumberland County, North Carolina, and died Aft. 1918 in Alabama.

Dr. John W. Rollins was on a house call when he and horse and buggy
fell through some ice on the Cape Fear River in Cumberland County, North
Carolina.
He came down with pneumonia and died as a result.

SSG Edgar A Rollins
COAASF ALSE TECH
720 250-1624
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

[Steve Weaver]

Hi Ed,

 

Great job following up on this, Ed!  This is very interesting, thank you.  Hope to look at your tree for new information soon.

 

Sure do appreciate you keeping this ball rolling while I am bogged down.  This has been one crazy month - moving mom to her permanent room at assisted living, hauling furniture out of her house in NC, finishing up a home improvement project, travelling to Texas on business, dealing with office crises in Virginia, etc.  I have just returned from attending Merlesfest which was a nice break.  Enjoyed seeing friends from Spain again who flew in for the festival although my head almost exploded trying to think in Spanish all weekend after two years of neglect!

 

Back to genealogy, after analyzing all the known famliy relationships I concluded that John W. had to be a son of Frederick but have not since been able to follow up.  It's looking more and more like your New Hampshire thesis is a winner, congrats.  Look forward to comparing pictures.  I might have seen the picture to which you refer this past winter in a Douglas family book at the Lee County Public Library.  From the description of Martha Anne contained therein, John W. might have been one lucky fellow to die young!

 

That's fascinating about his cause of death, too.  Surely there's a newspaper article about that, will have to start hunting for one in Cumberland and Chatham.

 

Hope you're doing well.  Take care and stay in touch.  I'll get back on this soon, promise.

 

Steve

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