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Childers/Rutledge

My Childers trail runs dry with my 4g grandparents William Archibald and Rutha Rutledge Childers. Archibald is believed to have been born around 1775 in Old Fincastle Co, VA. He and Rutha wound up in Hardeman Co, TN. He apparently died before his 40th birthday, leaving 8 children, one of whom was my 3g grandfather James Lee Childers who left Hardeman and moved across the Mississippi state line into Tippah County. James Lee married Anna Musgrave, but was killed in a Civil War skirmish leaving 11 or 12 children. No one seems to be able to definitively connect William Archibald with any of the other Childers families in Virginia/West Virginia. And I have no leads on Rutha's Rutledge family. I have noticed that the Childress spelling is sometimes used for Wm Archibald - but don't know that it means anything more than the fact that spelling just wasn't that big a deal in those days.

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Permalink Reply by Shelley Moore Hallman on March 9, 2013 at 8:22pm

martha, i have seen Childs, Childer, Childers and Childress used for the same people over and over ; seemingly interchangeable in many cases especially when used in conjuction with certain Native American names on some of the rolls. I think it mattered to the family but not necessarily to the person doing the documention. The Childers I am looking for are also in either Tippah Mississippi or Shelby Co, Tennesse. I guess the line was moved several time so you may need to broaden your search to neighboring counties.

I cannot imagine being left a widow with 11 or 12 children! Bless her heart! Have you looked in Civil War pension papers to see if an application was put in to get pension for his service? There may be a listing of names and birthdates of his children in such an application and and they would also ask when a where the marriage took place. Some sites have both the Union and Confederate lists on the same site, others separately .

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