S. LaShelle Fisher

Welcome. I was born Suzanne LaShelle LUCAS HART, and was legally adopted, as an adult, by Horace Evelyn NOYES, the step-father who raised me. Merrill Winfield Noyes is my younger brother from that marriage. I wish I knew of his whereabouts now.
Since 1970 I have been passionately involved in family history research. I have been working on the lineage of my Dad and it goes a long way back. His father was of early New England stock and his mother was of Italian and Danish descent. I began with researching my mother's adopted family, and we moved to the East Coast for five and a half years for that purpose. I have also been working on the family lines, both birth (HART, Croop, Reiss changed to Rice, McDonald), and adopted (LUCAS and Perine), of my birth father. We found him, still alive, living in Florida. We also found his birth mother, nearly one hundred years of age, in a nursing care hospital in Pennsylvania. They are now both deceased. I found my younger sisters, who are daughters of my birth father, and his wife, Betty Carrie Reynolds. He used the name of KIRK(E) LASHELLE LUCAS. They used their mother's maiden name of REYNOLDS.

My sisters are Emily Julia REYNOLDS, and Florence "Sissy" Elizabeth REYNOLDS. I found them living in New Jersey, in 1980, but only met Emily. She was studying Art Law and was about to take the New York Bar Exam. She married Barry Goodman, who she was engaged to at the time.

Here I am dealing with the lineage of my mother's birth parents. I have started this site to continue my research, and to connect with others who may have information on these individuals. I am in contact with some cousins on the internet, but I hope to find more. Some of the surnames I am working on for this page are:

At this time I am researching the Southern states looking for the ancestors of William Webster BATES, who was reported to have been born, 25 Nov. 1860, near Elberton, Elbert County, Georgia. It was said that his mother, Sarah "Sallie" COKER, died in childbirth. However, there is a Sarah BATES, 30 yrs, and William BATES 2 yrs, living with what looks like Alsa COKER, age 70, and Martha, age 60, in 1860, Jackson County, Georgia. I think they are my "Sallie" and W.W. There may have been a confusion in the family about the story that William Webster's mother died at his birth, when in reality she died when he was young. If she died in Nov 1860 that may have come down through the years as his birth date. The child was thought to have been raised by a sister of his mother, near Agusta, Arkansas. But in the 1880 Newton County, Georgia, Census, William (W) Bates was found listed with S. Ann CHEEK, who I think is his father's sister. Her name was really Sarah Adeline BATES, and she married Charles W. CHEEK. That matched with the family information that the sister married to CHEEK, raised him.

There were other BATES, COKERS and CHEEKS around. There was a Milley COKER, married 1851,to a Holland CHEEK. She may be another daughter of Asa COKER. I am not sure of all of the children in the Asa Coker family.

The sister of Asa, Cynthia or Sintha "Synthy" COKER, married 1821, William CHEEK.

The father of Asa COKER and Cynthia COKER may have been Jacob, brother of Issac, and Malachi. Those COKER brothers came to Elbert County, Georgia about 1790.

William Webster BATES' father was William E. BATES. W. E.'s brother, Samuel, married Sallie's sister. Their great grandson, Willie Arthur PILGRAM, said he was a "double" cousin of William Webster BATES.

James SHOCKLEY BATES, born about 1812, South Carolina, was the father of the BATES brothers. James (S.) is listed in the 1850 census of Franklin County, Georgia, with his second wife, and eight children, including Samuel (A.), and my William (E.). He died in 1884, and was hauled forty miles by a team of mules, to be buried next to his first wife. But the place of burial is unknown. Any information relative to that would be most welcome.

The first wife of James S. BATES, and mother of Samuel A., Sarah Adeline, William E., John C., and James Charton or Charlton "Chat", was possibly Lydia? Forrester. Another unknown. I have no information about her, except that she died after 1843 birth of her son James Charton or Charlton BATES.

James Shockley married his second wife, Priscilla CHEEK (Wid), in 1844. Number three was, Elizabeth MYERS FAIN, #4- Sarah HAZELTON MITCHELL, #5- Sallie FLOYD. He had no children with either #3 or #5.

William Webster BATES died in Eldorado, Jackson County, Oklahoma., in 1926, and the names of Sallie COKER and William E. BATES came from his death certificate.

Julie Hampton Ganis, another cousin who descends from James SHOCKLEY and Lydia? FORRESTER, found my SARAH COKER BATES, and son, in 1860.

We would be very happy to include more cousins in our search and knowledge of our family. If you who read this are related, please let me know. I have been thrilled to find helpful cousins on the Internet, as well as helpful people in general. Thank you all.

"Minnie" Staggs

1874-1875

William Webster BATES is my great grandfather on my mother's birth line. 1887, in Conway County, Arkansas, he married Florence Arminda "Minnie" STAGGS. She was, reportedly, part Cherokee. "Minnie's" father was Eli STAGGS, part Cherokee, born about 1831 in Alabama. Eli, with his parents Ezekiel and Elizabeth (CHILDRESS?) STAGGS, was listed in the 1850 census of Pontotoc County, Mississippi. The census reports that both of Eli's parents were born in South Carolina. Ezekiel's War of 1812 Pension application, names his two wives.

Eli's first wife was Mary BERRY (I found the 1852 marriage record in Mississippi). My great-grandmother, "Minnie" STAGGS BATES was the child of Eli and his 2nd wife Nancy Jane BERRY, who was the sister of first wife Mary. They were the daughters of Jarrett BERRY. According to my great-aunt Beulah BATES CHENAULT, who was the youngest daughter of "Minnie", Mary BERRY died shortly after 1860, when she and Eli, along with their four children, were listed in the census of Jackson County, Arkansas. Eli remarried and he and Nancy had twins, Florence Arminda "Minnie" STAGGS, and Robert STAGGS. When the twins were about 6 months of age, in 1866, Eli was "shot by a trooper while going for a doctor for his wife".

In the 1870 Woodruff County, Arkansas census, the 6 STAGGS children were found living with Nancy, and her new husband, William I. "GILLEON". The marriage record for Nancy STAGGS and William T GILLIAM, 07 Dec 1869, in Woodruff County, Arkansas,was found by my cousin Bill Staggs. Susan E. STAGGS, daughter of Eli and Mary, married Elijah SPRIGG, 1876. Nancy died before the 1880 census. Aunt Beulah said that Nancy died when the twins were three or four years of age. I calculate she may have died in childbirth about September 1870, shortly after the census was taken.


Willie Lea Bates Daniell 1912	G. Fred Daniell

Willie Lea BATES, the daughter of "Minnie" STAGGS and William Webster BATES, married Green Fred DANIELL, born Georgia. They are my mother's birth parents but she never had a chance to know them.

Couple on the left is Ellie (Partain) & Green WOOD, then Freddie in the tree, and his father G. Fred DANIELL, then Sarah Frances (PARTAIN) DANNIELL, and her husband E. Allen DANNIELL, squatting in right front.

I am hoping that someone will recognize this picture of Freddie in the tree. Freddie, whose name was Jesse Frederick DANIELL, was also called "Buck" (I think from military days), and "Son" (son of his mother).

(The identification of the persons in the photo comes from a letter from a son or daughter of E. Allen DANNIELL'S daughter, Minnie (DANNIELL) CLABAUGH.)

Aunt Beulah took me to the Highland Cemetery, Lawton, Comanche, Oklahoma, where I found my grandfather, Green Fred DANIELL (1883-1923). He is buried next to Allen DANNIELL(1869-1961). Aunt Beulah told me they were brothers. (This was a great act of love on the part of Aunt Beulah. She was very ill, and in pain, yet she endured a long ride in a motorhome, lying on the couch, while her daughter, my cousin Evelyn, drove us to two cemeteries where family members were buried. We lost Aunt Beulah a few weeks later. I feel so blessed to have found her before she died. Beulah Beatrice BATES CHENNAULT was 89 years of age.) I sent for the death certificates of both Green Fred, and E. Allen, but neither record showed the parents. A letter from Allen DANNIELL'S granddaughter showed his name to really be Elijah Allen DANNIELL. He, apparently, did not want to be called "Elijah" and used the name "E. Allen" or "Allen" DANNIELL (with two "n's") throughout his life. The 1870 census of Cobb County, Georgia, shows the family of David P. DANIELL and his wife Emmaline. I believe this to be David (Patman, Patmon, or Patton, - from other sources) DANIELL and his wife, Emmaline (Wood - from another source). I now have more on her (Thank you cousins).

1870 Census Cobb County, Georgia	1880 Census Jackson County, Georgia	1900 Census Banks County, Georgia
Daniell, David P. Emmaline, age 26 James, age 9 Engene, age 7 Ohilia, age 5 Liga, age 2 - -	Daniel, David Emma, age 37 Eugenia, age 15 Ophilia, age 12 Elijah, age 10 Willie, age 8 Nelie, age 4 Georgia, age 2	Danniell, David P. Nancy D., age 59 Fred, age 18

As can be seen from the above table, the 1870 census lists four children, James, Engene, Ohilia, and Liga. By 1880, the first son, James, was away from home. (He was found on another page of the same census living with another family.) The other children, Eugenia, Ophelia, Elijah, Willie, Nelie, and Georgia all seem to correspond with the earlier enumeration, with the note that the calculated ages of all of the older children is off by a couple of years from one census to the other. However, this is a very common occurence as census takers often guessed at the ages of children, or even asked neighbors about a family if they happened to be away from home at the time of the enumeration. Elijah (Allen) is listed as 10 years of age instead of 12. There is no available census of 1890, but in the 1900 census, Fred is shown with David P. DANNIELL and his second wife, Nancy D. (Delany, from another source)married 10 years. The census indicated that Nancy had no children. In the 1910 census of Jackson County, ED 109, sht 5, I found David P. Daniell, 68, and his wife Susan, 72 (a third wife?), and the January 1920 census of Watson County, ED 157, lists the same couple (ages 79 & 82), living with son-in-law B. F. Benjamin Franklin) Fowler, and N. J., his wife (Cornelia J. was called "Neelie" so N. J. in the census would fit). I surmize that David P. may have died in Watson County after this census. I will be attempting to find a "WILL" for David P. Daniell. In 1900, Elijah Allen DANNIELL is listed, with his wife and three children, in Bell County, Texas. He moved to Oklahoma and his youngest brother, Green Fred DANIELL, joined him there. Green Fred DANIELL married Willie Lea BATES in 1907 in Oklahoma. Green Fred DANIELL was working as a logger in Oregon, when he was killed, in an accident. In addition to Green Fred DANIELL and Elijah Allen DANNIELL, the following people are buried in the family plot: Sarah Frances (PARTAIN) DANIELL, wife of E. Allen DANIELL; Minnie (DANIELL) CLABAUGH (daughter of E. Allen Daniell), and Gertrude A. (DANNIELL), wife of Frank H. POIRY. Below is a photograph of Frank H. Poiry's son, Herbert C. Poiry, with his wife, Oveda, and their son, Billy Don Poiry. Also a photo of Billy Don Poiry, taken at the time of his graduation with a Master's Degree in teaching.


Herbert Poiry with wife, Oveda and son, Billy Don Poiry	Billy Don Poiry 1946	Billy Don Poiry - 1966 received Master's Degree in teaching.

If anyone has information on these family members in their records, I would very much appreciate an e-mail.

Thank you,

LaShelle

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