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Special note: This page in particular, and the site in general will be undergoing major changes in the near future. At the moment, there are very few pages up and running. The recent upheaval at Homestead has been a time consuming shuffle of files and images. They will all be appearing at Rootsweb as soon as possible.
Primary records will be added as they become available, and documentation will be noted whenever possible. Undocumented research simply provides a point of departure, but a starting point is better than a stumbling block, and there are always plenty of those.
Here are a few of mine:
Cook
Downs
Downen
Frailey
Fuller
Hays
Layman
Lippington
McCoy
Robertson
Robinson
South
Swiney
White
Current Focus Points:
Tilley and Jane (Robertson) Downs of Sumner Co, TN & Franklin Co., IL
John & Mary Jane (White) Downs of Franklin Co., IL
Mary Jane (White) Downs of Malden, Dunklin Co., MO
Manuel Rice Downs of Franklin Co., IL
John Quincy Downs of Franklin Co., IL
Solomon & Nancy (Rogers) Hays of Giles Co., TN & Franklin Co., IL
William Allen & Frances Minerva (Hays) Swiney of Marshall & Giles, Co., TN & Franklin Co., IL
William A. & Rebecca Jane (Cook) Swiney of Marshall Co., TN
Thomas L. & Emily Jane (Swiney) Hays of Marshall & Giles Co., TN & Franklin Co., IL
Daniel Webster Frailey of Warren Co., KY & Hardin & Franklin Co., TN
Daniel Frailey of Sumner Co., TN & Warren Co., KY
Josiah Downen
David Robinson Downen
Fredrick & Mary (Downen) Layman of White & Franklin Co., IL
Daniel Frailey of Pennsylvania
Susannah McCoy, her father Archibald, and her grandfather John
The list is endless.... Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
Scanned images of primary documents will be added in the near future. If you have records you would like to contribute, please send as a JPG or GIF file to Barbara Collin at