LOONEY GENEALOGY
Compiled by Glenn Gohr


The information I have on my wife's Looney connection has come through information which has been printed on the Callico/Callicott and Vaughan families. There are several affidavits from Madison County, Arkansas in the late 1800s that mention Indian blood, and this comes through the Looney connection.

The Looney connection is intriguing and still leaves many questions unanswered. According to the book Vaughan Pioneers by Lewis E. Vaughan, 1979, p. 232, there was a Captain David Looney who was in Lord Dunmore's War in 1774. Both William Vaughan (my wife's ancestor) and Daniel Boone served in Capt. David Looney's Company during this war. It seems very plausible that Capt. David Looney would be some relative of Fereby Benton listed here.

Another intriguing part of the story are the affidavits and tales of Indian blood. Mention is made of a Cherokee Indian named "Looney Tol-lem-Tees-Key" who visited the Vaughan family in Madison County, Arkansas, and was somehow related to Fereby (Benton) Vaughan. The connection was reported to be through the LOONEY family.

Besides Eddie Davis (who is also descended from this same Vaughan/Benton/Looney line), there are other Looney researchers in Springfield, Missouri, where I live. Evelyn Looney is also a member of the Ozarks Genealogical Society, and her husband descends from a Southern line of Looneys which may be distantly connected with the Looneys that my wife descends from--if only more information could be found out about her Looney relatives. There is also a Janice Looney who belongs to the Ozarks Genealogical Society.

Here is my wife's LOONEY lineage as far as can be proven:

  1. _______ LOONEY (She was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian); md. James (?) BENTON
  2. Fereby Lou BENTON, b. ca. 1750 NC, d. May 1850 Madison Co., AR; md. ca. 1772 VA to William VAUGHAN, b. ca. 1750 Wales, d. ca. 1840 Northwest Arkansas
  3. Elizabeth VAUGHAN, b. ca. 1790 Russell Co., VA, d. ca. 1859 Madison Co., AR; md. ca. 1804 Hawkins Co., TN to James CALLICO, b. ca. 1785 Prince Edward Co., VA, d. ca. 1820 White Co., TN
  4. John Calvin CALLICO, Sr., b. 1817 Warrren Co., TN, d. 5 Jan. 1894 at Wesley, Madison Co., AR; md. ca. 1840 to Elizabeth MEANS, b. 12 Feb. 1821 TN, d. 22 Dec. 1902 Madison Co., AR
  5. John Calvin CALLICO, Jr., b. May 1847 Madison Co., AR, d. 22 Feb. 1927 Madison Co., AR; md. May 1870 Madison Co., AR to Sarah Frances "Fannie" JOHNSON, b. 22 Feb. 1854 Madison Co., AR, d. 1920 Madison Co., AR (both buried in Wesley Cemetery, Madison Co., AR)
  6. Franklin Montgomery CALLICO, b. 9 July 1877 Drake's Creek, Madison Co., AR, d. 15 Nov. 1969 Ely, White Pine Co., NV; md. 1900 Madison Co., AR to Kima Nevada ROBERTS, b. 1882 Japton, Madison Co., AR, d. 23 Dec. 1944 San Bernardino, San Bernardino Co., CA (buried at Mountain View Cemetery, San Bernardino, CA)
  7. Bonnie Ruth CALLICO, b. 5 Aug. 1905 Drake's Creek, Madison Co., AR, d. 1 Dec. 1968 San Bernardino, San Bernardino Co., CA; md. 22 Aug. 1928 to Robert Archie HENRY, Jr., b. 26 Aug. 1902 Sickles, Caddo Co., OK, d. 10 June 1944 Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA (both buried at Mountain View Cemetery, San Bernardino, CA) *These are my grandparents.


LOONEY E-MAIL LIST


If you have queries concerning the LOONEY surname, you may post these at the Looney Family Genealogy List which is a part of the Rootsweb e-mail discussion lists. It offers free queries and discussion on the Looney 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 Looney e-mail list can be found on the WEB at:

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

When prompted, type in LOONEY 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 LOONEY 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 LOONEY MESSAGE BOARDS

There are several Message Boards on Rootsweb which are set up for the LOONEY 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 Looney Message Boards.

Query Post a query (or information from any one of the above categories) on any LOONEY 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 LOONEY family on GenForum. It can be found at the following address:

    http://genforum.familytreemaker.com/looney

***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 LOONEY 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.


Some other Looney researchers and web sites include:

    Eddie Davis's Home Page

    Note: Eddie Davis is a descendant of Benjamin Vaughan who made an affidavit regarding his Indian blood. Benjamin was a son of Nancy Callicott, daughter of Beverly Callicott. Nancy Callicott married John Vaughan, son of William Patrick Vaughan. He also lives in Springfield, Missouri (where I live), and he is researching the Benton & Looney connections to the Vaughans.


Copyright (c) 1998-2003.

Last updated June 1, 2003.


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