HANDY GENEALOGY
Compiled by Glenn Gohr


What little bit I know about the HANDY family comes through my study of the Herrimans. From what I can gather, Elizabeth who married J. T. Reeves, was previously married to a Mr. Handy (first name unknown) and she had no children by Mr. Handy. I have set up this web page, just to help those who are researching the HANDY surname and also to make clear the connection (even though it is not a blood line) with the HANDY family that comes down to my wife's REEVES and HERRIMAN family.

According to Barbara Grams [email protected] who wrote to me in August 2001, "Elizabeth Powell married a man named Handy. They had been married just a short time when he went on a trip. About 3 months or so later, a man came to Elizabeth and told her he was dead. It seems he observed Mr. Handy crossing a stream or river by holding on to his horse's tail. When the horse reached shore, he kicked Mr. Handy in the head killing him. The other man buried him there. Elizabeth was sister to Henry Powell. As far as anyone knows she had no children by Handy."

Here is my wife's HANDY connection (although there is no HANDY blood that has come down through the generations-Handy was a previous married name of Elizabeth):

  1. Elizabeth Powell HANDY, b. ca. 1795 TN, d. 18 Jan. 1884 Drakes Creek, Madison Co., AR; md. 9 Nov. 1820 Smith Co., TN to Jeremiah Turner "J. T." REEVES, b. 20 Oct. 1794 VA, d. 28 March 1861 Jackson Creek, Madison Co., AR
  2. Mary Ann "Polly" REEVES, b. ca. 1822 Wilson Co., TN, d. 13 Oct. 1857 Jackson Creek, Madison Co., AR; md. 2 Jan. 1843 Cannon Co., TN to John HERRIMAN, Jr., b. 30 Jan. 1817 TN, d. 14 Dec. 1890 Jackson Creek, Madison Co., AR (both buried in Jackson Creek Cemetery)
  3. Rachel Caroline HERRIMAN, b. 10 Nov. 1844 Cannon Co., TN, d. 12 March 1911 Madison Co., AR; md. 6 Sept. 1860 Madison Co., AR to Joel Van Buren ROBERTS, b. 30 April 1842 Platte Co., MO, d. 26 Jan. 1921 Madison Co., AR (both buried Aurora Cemetery)
  4. Kima Nevada ROBERTS, b. 1882 Japton, AR, d. 23 Dec. 1944 San Bernardino, CA (buried at Mountain View Cemetery, San Bernardino, CA); md. 1900 Madison Co., AR to Franklin Montgomery CALLICO, b. 9 July 1877 Drake's Creek, AR, d. 15 Nov. 1969 Ely, White Pine Co., NV
  5. Bonnie Ruth CALLICO, b. 5 Aug. 1905 Drake's Creek, Madison Co., AR, d. 1 Dec. 1968 San Bernardino, CA; md. 22 Aug. 1928 to Robert Archie HENRY, Jr., b. 26 Aug. 1902 Sickles, Caddo Co., OK, d. 10 June 1944 Los Angeles, CA (both buried at Mountain View Cemetery, San Bernardino, CA) *These are my wife's grandparents.




HANDY E-MAIL LIST


If you have queries concerning the HANDY surname, you may post these at the Handy Family Genealogy List which is a part of the Rootsweb e-mail discussion lists. It offers free queries and discussion on the Handy surname and variant spellings.

To subscribe, send an e-mail to: [email protected]
Leave subject line blank (This will be ignored).
In the body of the message type: subscribe

Then a welcome message will be sent telling how to post messages. Once you are subscribed, you may send a query to everyone on the list by sending e-mail to: [email protected]

Archived postings to the Handy e-mail list can be found on the WEB at:

    https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/

When prompted, type in HANDY for the name of the list. A second screen will appear where you can choose a year and type in a search word(s). If you type in HANDY you would probably get all the previous postings to the list. You can also type in a person's name instead or a locality to narrow your search. If you wish to do a search by date, try entering it in quotation marks with the day and then the month as "01 Mar" using single digit dates preceded by a zero and only the first three letters of the month.

ROOTSWEB HANDY MESSAGE BOARDS

There are several Message Boards on Rootsweb which are set up for the HANDY surname. These boards are for posting information in the following categories: BIBLE, BIOGRAPHY, BIRTH, CEMETERY, CENSUS, DEATH, DEED, IMMIGRATION, LOOKUP, MARRIAGE, MILITARY, OBITUARY, PENSION, QUERIES, and WILLS. The search perameters and drop down screen on the main page allow you to do a key word search or to view all postings according to one of the above categories. Click on the icon below to access the Handy Message Boards.

Query Post a query (or information from any one of the above categories) on any HANDY name or related family. Please give dates, and locations they lived. Try to give as much information as possible.


An online genealogy forum for posting queries has also been set up specifically for the HANDY family on GenForum. It can be found at the following address:

    http://genforum.familytreemaker.com/handy

***Note***During the Fall of 1998, GenForum combined with Family Tree Maker, which means that all queries and information posted to that site becomes the property of Family Tree Maker. This is still a good site to look up information and get contact names for the HANDY lines you are searching, but be advised that if you now post a new query or a response to something on that site, chances are that sometime in the future Family Tree Maker will include that information on a CD-ROM which they will sell for profit to anyone who is interested. I do not like the idea of someone else using my hard researched information and ideas and selling them for a profit without my knowledge. This same practice is evident on all of the Family Tree Maker pages which are found on the internet, if you will read the disclaimer notices on those pages. I recommend the Family Tree Maker pages as good look up pages, but I don't recommend posting information there. Similar things can be said for Ancestry.com and MyFamily.com which are connected to each other and seek to make a profit from genealogical materials on the internet.



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Last updated June 1, 2003.


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