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Wayne Alton Ragsdale (Al) Genealogy & DNA

Email [email protected]

Family surnames I have researched:

WILCOX,FRAZIER,JACKSON

RAGSDALE,SHEPPARD,SPEARS,UNDERWOOD,POTTS,BARNES,
TRAMMELL,HENDERSON,BOX 

FINDLEY,CARUTHERS,RAMSEY,BRINKLEY,PYBURN

RIALS,ASHLEY,HART

CULBREATH,DIVINNEY,MILLICAN,MEHARREY

WUNSCH,LIGHT,MAHURIN,TINKER

MANUEL,COLLUM,VARDEN,SOMMER,MILLER,FUSSELL

My Wilcox/Ragsdale DNA Story

 My FTDNA Y-DNA test results shows a Wilcox and not a Ragsdale 

connection. I believe my paternal grandfather is either Henry C.Wilcox

or his son Archie T.Wilcox. They were living near my grandmother

Clara Barnes Ragsdale in 1910 in Sequoyah Co,Ok. I have a good ancestry autosomal

DNA connection to Henry's aunt, Harriet Jane Wilcox.  Henry's father Jasper and

Harriet Jane would share DNA from  their father Stephen Wilcox.

An autosomal DNA connection to

Archie's mother,Lucinda Jackson, would be proof that he is my

grandfather. Henry would have Wilcox and Frazier DNA and not Jackson.  I am still searching 

for that Jackson connection. 

Update Sep 17,2016

I have found two descendants of Elisha Jackson: Leon Hudson

and Kim West. I do not match either one on ancestryDNA. This means that

Henry Wilcox and not Archie is my grandfather.

I  have several connections to descendants of Harriet Jane Wilcox

(Henry's aunt) thru her Nixon and Bullock marriages. One Nixon/Wilcox line

is Woodside and I have several ancestryDNA matches and one

gedmatch(Teresa Woodside) 

Update 12-21-2016 

I have one ancestryDNA match to a Tankersley descendant of Bertha Wilcox Posey (Henry C.

Wilcox's daughter) and another one to a descendent of Washington Lafayette Wilcox(brother 

of Harriet Jane and Jasper), surname Tiffany. 

Email [email protected]

My Findley documents:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~alragsdale/findley

My Ramsey documents: 

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~alragsdale/pframsey

Sheppard/Sheppard

Mar 24,2015

My great-great grandfather,Jeremiah Sheppard, was born in NC about 1799-1800.

He was in Richmond Co,NC in 1830 and in Randolph Co,Ala 1850 to 1880. I haven't

found him in 1840.

He is probably related to Bird and Little Bird Shepherd of Richmond Co,NC.

No will or deed proof yet that Bird is his father.

I have several ancestryDNA connection to Jeremiah, but no GEDmatch yet. 

Findley family notes

Findley DNA Research Updated 2-7-2017

I found several Ancestry.com Family Trees that showed Joel Findley b.1798 in

Lincoln Co,Tenn and his parents as Francis C.Findley and Jane

Caruthers. Username kvd02a matches my two cousins jmratterree13 and

msmagnolia10 but doesn't match me. On GEDmatch, she has a 7cM match

to msmagnolia10 and a 9cM to jmratterree and two ~3.5cM to me(abt 6.9cM). She is a

descendant of Francis C. and Jane's son Francis C.

I have a 13cM ancestryDNA match to Baughman39(thru Caruthers). Msmagnolia10 says she

doesn't match her and not sure yet about jmratterree13.

In looking back at my research notes, I believe I once looked at Francis and Jane as

being Joel's parents, but with Joel b.1792 and Francis b.1775, it

didn't appear likely so I did not pursue it any further. I believe now that the 1792 birth year

came from LDS microfilm records(IGI before 2000). I have never found the original

source provider of this date. But in a letter from Preston Bolton ( a Brice Findley descendant)

he transcribed part of my cousin John W.Findley's Findley book,and he said that

Joel's birth year was 1797. This would make it very possible that the

DNA is correct and Francis and Jane are indeed his parents. 

Findley DNA Update 12-21-2016

Two cousins and I have an ancestryDNA match to Byron Wells Steele.

I have not yet found the Findley-Steele connection but they were in Augusta Co,VA

at the same time and then in Whitley Co,Ky.

Our DNA match shows our connection would be 5 or 6 generations back.

The two possible scenarios would be:

1. A male Finley we are related to married a female Steele related to Byron Steele

(thru a male Steele sibling of her)

2.A male Steele related to Byron Steele married a female Finley

related to us (thru a male sibling of her) 

Mar 8,2015
The only place I have ever found Joseph Lewis Finley (b.1793) documented
is in "The Clan Finley" by H.F.Stout.  I researched at the Pa and Tn 
archives and could not find anything else. 
I no longer show my ancestor Joseph Joel Finley (b.1792) as being the
son of Joseph Lewis Finley (b.1753). I am trying to find a DNA connection
to Joel's ancestry. I am sure we connect to the Finley's from Ireland and
Scotland-just not sure which branch.

Feb 10,2015
Dr.Carmen J.Finley's "The John Finley's of Augusta Co,Va" is at:
http://lib-operations.sonoma.edu/specialcollections/finley/aaa-0566.html
This web page is about the family line that John W.Findley(Grandmother
Findley's cousin from Batesville,Ark)was researching in the 1970's

Jan 30,2015
I submitted the Joseph Joel Findley connection to Joseph Lewis Finley
and the Susan Blair connection to Brice Blair and Nancy McCoy to LDS,
ancestry, and rootsweb several years ago. I no longer show this
connection.
I have tried to track down every rootsweb or ancestry page which
shows this, explaining my reasoning for no longer showing these
connections. There isn't any way to correct the LDS info and 
they have copied it to CD's.Evidently it is still propagating 
over the Internet.
I am sure that we connect to the Finley's of Ireland and Scotland.
I just don't know which branch yet.
The connections on ancestryDNA's family trees are not necessarily correct. 
They are just a starting point for research. For example, my 
two Ragsdale cousins and I showed my grandfather connection
to Tom Ragsdale on our trees. If I did not have other DNA info,
I would assume this is my correct line. But now I know that 
my grandfather was a Wilcox so I have corrected my family tree
info to reflect this. I guess what I'm trying to say is just
having a name on our tree doesn't necessarily mean a connection
if there were errors made in assuming the connection,such as
I made in assuming Joel was Joseph Lewis Finley's son or Susan
Blair's parents were Brice and Nancy and that Tom Ragsdale was
my grandfather. 
I am digging up all the DNA proof I can on our Finley's now.
Until ancestryDNA provides a 'chromosome browser' to decipher
connections, I am still using GEDmatch. It is the only chromosome
matching program that I have found that will work with ancestryDNA.
So far, no Finley/Findley's matching earlier than Joel have 
submitted their DNA to GEDmatch that I can find.
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The following is not a complete family name list. This is a 
brief listing of the generations of families that I have 
researched.

Henry C.Wilcox b.1868 Ark++ m.Lucinda Jackson

++Clara Lee Barnes b.1883 Ala m.Thomas James Ragsdale b.1880 Ark

*Albert Abner RAGSDALE(1913 Sequoyah,Ok)

++ His parents were Clara Ragsdale and Henry Wilcox per DNA tests

m.Sybil Naomi FINDLEY(1921 Russellville,Ar) *Born near "Tater Hill" (Potato Knob)about 11 mi southwest Of Sallisaw,near Sadie.

POTTS

Clara Lee Barnes Ragsdale m.James Tom W.POTTS 1918 Faulkner Co,Ark SHEPPARD/SPEARS Susan Annie SHEPPARD or SPEARS(1851 or 1853 Randolph,Al) m.William H.(WELLS) BARNES(1857 Al) may be related to: *Messer SPEARS (1790 SC or NC)d.1876 Leesville,Clay,Al m.Elizabeth DODDS(1785 SC or NC)d.~1854 Al m.Ellen BARNES in Heard Co,Ga in 1856 Joshua SPEARS (1814 Ga)m.Mary "Polly" MITCHUM(1810 SC) Daniel SPEARS(1810 Ga)m.Mary WATWOOD(1814 Ga/SC) William SPEARS(1811 Ga)m.Rachael(1814 Ga) Joshua J.SPEARS(was in Randolph Co,Al in 1840) Daniel J.SPEARS(1843 Al)m.Mary Jane TOMLIN Jefferson Taylor SPEARS(1872 Randolph,Al)m.Kadora Elizabeth PIERCE(1875 Polk,Ar) *Sometimes spelled Mercer SHEPPARD $ Jeremiah SHEPPARD(1800 NC or SC) m._____ (mother of John F.SHEPPARD?)(1835 Ga/NC) $ m.Jane _____(1810 SC)possible wife of Daniel J.SPEARS who may have died in Randolph Co,Al about 1848 m.Jessy Jane______(1815-1820 Ga or SC) $Possibly father and mother of Susan Annie SHEPPARD Barnes Possible children of Jeremiah&Jessy Jane: Millard F.SHEPPARD(1858 Al)m.________ children:William R.,Thomas J.m.Hattie,Betty m.J.D.McINVALE, Hettie M. m.HURST (Millard was a Baptist minister in Ellisville/Moselle,Ms d.Aug 15,1927- was a half-brother of Susann ) Andrew J.SHEPPARD(1855 Al)m.Delilah________ (another half-brother of Susann?) *Note: Jeremiah's wife Jane in 1850 Randolph,Al may have been wife of Joshua J./Daniel J.Spears until abt 1848 and Susan's mother, making her maiden name SHEPPARD and not SPEARS. BARNES/WELLS John W.BARNES(1829 SC or NC)m. Jemima (1835 Al) William H.( WELLS) BARNES(1858 Al) m. Susann SPEARS/SHEPPARD(1851- 1853 Randolph,Al) (William was a WELLS and was taken in by the BARNES family in Ga or Al,unknown when) WELLS 1850 to 1860 Ga or Al FINDLEY Joseph/Joel FINLEY(1797-1798 Tn)m.Susan BLAIR(1798-1799 Tn) Lorenzo Dow FINDLEY(1826 Lincoln,Tn)m.Annie HUGHES (1831 Tn) William or Wilson Warren FINDLEY(1869 Ar)m.Annie J. STAPP(Ar) Emmett Warren FINDLEY(1895 Pope,Ar)m.Rebecca Mae RAMSEY(1901 Jasper,Tn) *Sybil Naomi FINDLEY(1921 Russellville,Ar)m.Albert Abner RAGSDALE(1913 Sequoyah,Ok) *born near Brown Hill,next to where Russellville Airport is now located(2005). Findley Lane is still at the top of Brown Hill. CULBREATH John CULBREATH(1810 NC)m.Mary BURTON(1811 NC) John Daniel CULBREATH(1848 Henry,Tn)m.Mattie Graham JAMES(1867) John Daniel CULBREATH(1898 Ar)m.Emma Vaida ARBUCKLE (1904 Bay Village,Ar) Lonnie CULBREATH*(1925 Harrisburg,Ar)m.Margret Elease HART(1929 Perry or Hickman,Tn) *Died about 11:30 AM 9-18-04, Baptist Memorial (East) Hospital-Memphis from complications with chemo (after third one in six weeks) treatment for lymphoma. His body became 'septic' and vital organs starting shutting down starting Mon 9-6-04 Newspaper Obit Lonnie Culbreath,79,of Memphis, retired tire builder for Firestone and Click Industries, died Saturday[Sep 18, 2004] at Baptist Memorial Hospital Memphis. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Memphis Funeral Home Germantown Parkway Chapel with burial in Memory Hill Gardens. He was a 50-year member of Cathedral of Praise Assembly of God in Cordova. Mr.Culbreath, the husband of Margret Culbreath for 57 years, also leaves two daughters, Rebecca Millican of Memphis and Elaine Ragsdale of Birmingham; a son Darrell Culbreath of Bartlett; three sisters Mattie Rhoades of Memphis, Alva May Young of Harrisburg,Ark, and Joan Campbell of Marked Tree,Ark, five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to West [Cancer]Clinic. Cause of death on death certificate (copy in possession of Kimberly & Rebecca Millican and Margret Hart Culbreath: staph infection and sepsis, secondary to lymphoma Margaret Elaine CULBREATH(1950 Tn) m. Wayne A. RAGSDALE(1945 Ar) HART Joseph HART m.Eliza CRIGGER(1843 Tn) John H.HEART(1863 Tn) m.Euler A.Cook(1871 Tn) Walter Vernon HART(1903 Hickman,Tn)m.Jennety Lee DIVINEY(1905 Hickman,Tn) Margret Elease HART(1929 Perry or Hickman,Tn)m.Lonnie CULBREATH(1925 Harrisburg,Ar) DIVINNEY James R.DIVINNEY(1827 Tn) m. Rhoda (1826 Tn) James R.DIVINNEY(1853 Hickman,Tn)m.?(Tn) Jim DIVINNEY(1871 Tn) m. Nevie Coble RICE (1875 Tn) Jennety Lee DIVINNEY(1905 Tn)m.Walter Vernon HART (1903 Hickman,Tn) MILLICAN John MILLICAN(1807 Tn)m.Anna (1811 Tn) John R.MILLICAN(1841 Al)m.Mary J.(1850 Al) William Henry MILLICAN(1865 Tn or Al)m.Hester A.(Hettie) BROWN(1871 Tn or Illinois) William Pinkley MILLICAN(1898 Tipton,Tn) m. Bertha EDMONDS(1901 Tn) Hubert Edward MILLICAN(1929 Drummonds,Tn) m. Lorena Mae MEHARREY(1929 Drummonds,Tn) James Ricky MILLICAN(1954 Tn) m.Rebecca L.CULBREATH(1954 Tn) MEHARREY John MEHARREY(1800 Ireland) m. Rebecca(1818 NC) Benjamin F.MEHARREY (1851 Al) m. Ida Jane (1859 Al) William Homer MEHARREY(1888 Al) m. Otlia Grace CROSBY(Pontotoc, Ms) Lorena Mae MEHARREY(1929 Drummonds,Tn) m.Hubert Edward MILLICAN(1929 Drummonds,Tn) RIALS John Aaron RIALS (1841 Ms) m. Alice Victoria SMITH(1855 Ms?) Benjamin F.RIALS(1877 Copiah,Ms) m. Pearl Beatrice ASHLEY (1883 Copiah,Ms) Earl RIALS(1913 Hazlehurst,Ms) m. Bessie Iola DOWNS(1917 Ga or Al) ASHLEY Lewis Moses ASHLEY m. Pherba Jane Cliburn Pearl Beatrice ASHLEY(1883 Copiah,Ms) m. Benjamin F. RIALS(1877 Copiah,Ms) BRINKLEY John BRINKLEY(1840 Tn)m.Docia Ann(1835 Tn) John R.Price BRINKLEY(1865 Ark) m.Cynthia LYNCH(1871 Ark) Marshall Hubert BRINKLEY(1888 Ark) m1.Florence (1889 Ark) m2.Montreal Canada ELROD James Marshall BRINKLEY(1922 Ark) m. Gladys Aline FINDLEY(1923 Ark) WUNSCH,LIGHT,MAHURIN,TINKER Herman Von Vunsch (WUNSCH)b.Holstein,Germany 1879 Lester WUNSCH b.1903 St.Louis,Mo d.1981 Allen WUNSCH b.~1924 m.Ruby LIGHT b.~1927 Mo Parents Freddie O.LIGHT ,Thelma Mae MAHURIN Freddie's f.Francis Marion LIGHT, m.Sarah Hill HASTY Thelma's f.William Henry MAHURIN,m.Minta Mae TINKER COLLUM/MILLER/FUSSELL/SOMMER Elkana C. "Elk C." COLLUM m.Millie VARDEN George Leonard "Chunk" COLLUM m.Paralee GLASSCOCK GLASS Ronald Leroy "Rod" COLLUM m. Maxine SOMMER Monroe Anthony "Tony" COLLUM m. Jenny MILLER Christian SOMMER m.Barbara CLAUDON Joseph C.SOMMER m.Fannie SPRINGER Nelson Christian SOMMER m.Ella KAUFFMAN Maxine SOMMER m.Rod COLLUM James Louis Lewis MILLER m.Rebecca Ann FUSSELL Delmas FUSSELL m.Vollie Mae SKIPPER