2. Virtually every family in America--including the Leavells--claims to have an Indian princess in the line somewhere, even though AmerIndians don't HAVE princesses. Don't believe the family legend unless/until you can find documentation, such as a listing on the Dawes Rolls. (Notice how it's never a big AmerIndian buck who married a blonde white ancestress of yours? Almost always an AmerIndian princess...real AmerIndians are understandably offended.)
3. You are NOT entitled to a generic coat of arms being sold all over the Web just because you share the surname of someone who DOES have a coat of arms. The coat of arms is bestowed on a specific man and his direct descendants, not everyone with a similar name, so unless your family tree goes back directly to a proven honoree(and none of the families on this website do), you don't HAVE a coat of arms.
4. Please remember that amateur genealogists are "paid" with more information. Tell me a family story. Fill me in on some stray relatives I've overlooked. (Tell me what county AND state you're talking about, and at least a rough estimate of the timeframe.) Give me the data to prove I've jumped to the wrong conclusion--don't just say, "You're wrong." DON'T ask me to spend hours and lots of money printing hundreds of pages of this genealogy for you--I've given you my data for free on the Internet, and you can print it yourself. Share with me, okay?
5. Finally, if any of your family history came from the infamous Horn papers--that nice old gentleman who wrote about Montague Lavelle/Leavell's family--read this.
How Many Ancestors Do You Have?
1)............1 YOU
2)............2 parents
3)............4 grandparents
4)............8 great grandparents
5)...........16 gg grandparents
6)...........32 ggg grandparents
7)...........64 gggg grandparents
8)..........128 ggggg grandparents
9)..........256 gggggg grandparents
10..........512 ggggggg grandparents
11).......1,024 gggggggg grandparents
12).......2,048 ggggggggg grandparents
13).......4,096 gggggggggg grandparents
14).......8,192 ggggggggggg grandparents
15)......16,184 gggggggggggg grandparents
16)......32,768 ggggggggggggg grandparents
17)......65,536 gggggggggggggg grandparents
18).....131,072 ggggggggggggggg grandparents
19).....262,144 gggggggggggggggg grandparents
20).....524,288 ggggggggggggggggg grandparents
21)...1,048,576 gggggggggggggggggg grandparents
22)...2,097,152 ggggggggggggggggggg grandparents
Well, okay, if you're from one of the families on this page, chances are you have many ancestral families that intermarried several times, meaning MANY of those ancestors are repeats; nevertheless, it's a bit daunting to consider tracking down ALL of your ancestors. Still, what say we work together and try to do it?
Part One
Part Two
GOODWIN
The incomplete autobiography of, and some biographical data on, LEANDER GOODWIN
, born October 08, 1842 Rush County, Indiana.
Five generations of a Virginia family, beginning in the mid-1700's; they ended up largely in Indiana. Updated 7/07/04.
Generations One and Two
Generations Three through Five or so
LEAVELL
A chatty, convoluted history of the Leavell family that settled mostly in WVA and in Elwood, Madison County, Indiana, written by John Wesley Leavell in 1915.
Leavell branches that apparently sprang from JEAN LAVELLE (or at least his father), many through EDWARD and MARY LEAVELL, including Alabama, Indiana, West Virginia, Missouri, Mississippi, Georgia, Texas, and Garrard Co. KY branches. It's now about 1080 pages long if you print it all. (I surely don't.)Updated February 21, 2009 (except that I generally deleted anyone I thought might be living.).
Generations 1 through 4Generation 5
Generation 6, Part 1
Generation 6, Part 2
Generation 6, Part 3
Generation 7, Part 1
Generation 7, Part 2
Generation 7, Part 3
Generation 8, Part 1
Generation 8, Part 2
Generation 9 , minus most kids born in the mid-1900's.
ALEXANDER LEVELL had a son, Beauregard Levell, born about 1832 in Culpeper Co. VA, who married Martha Skelton. His children were born in Page County, Virginia. Updated 12/9/2001.
EDWARD & ELIZABETH LEAVELL OF PAGE CO. VA includes the Holmes and Rothgeb families. Posted 9/19/02.
Descendants of GEORGE WILLIAM LEAVELL and VINA ELLEN LOYD of 1900's Missouri. Posted 9/19/02.
Some descendants of JAMES LEVELL AND AGNES COX of Gallatin County, Kentucky.Posted 1/12/2002; updated 7/23/04.
JOHN LEVELL & NANCY HUGENS of Greene Co. PA spawned a small family of Levell/Goodnight descendants in West Virginia. Posted 10/29/2000.
Some descendants of JOHN LEVELS & WIFE MARGARET; John was born about 1810 in South Carolina. Updated 1/11/2002.
Descendants of JOSEPH LEAVELL & WIFE MOLLY SNYDER of Virginia. He was born about 1790. Posted 2/17/03. Updated 3/28/07.
Descendants of MARY LEVEL AND DAVID KIBLER of Page County, Virginia in the 1800's. Posted 1/14/2002.
Some descendants of MARY LEVEL AND WILLIAM PIERCE PERRY of Orange County, Virginia in the mid-1700's. Posted 1/12/2002.
Descendants of African-Americans TOM LEAVELL and JULIA LOGAN. (See MISCELLANEOUS AFRICAN-AMERICAN LEAVELL DATA below for other African-American families.) Posted 10/29/2000. Partially updated 6/1/09. See also DESCENDANTS OF EPHRAIM LEAVELL; he may be Tom's father. Posted 2/26/2008.
WILLIAM LEVEL was born in KY in 1810; descendants were born in Missouri, Nebraska, and Texas. Updated2/8/07.
Some descendants of WILLIAM LEAVELL AND ELIZABETH RUTTER of Kirtling, Cambridgeshire, England. Updated 12/9/2001.
A few mentions of LEAVELLS FROM IRELAND, including James Leavell of Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Last updated 2/2/2003.
Assorted bits and pieces of MISCELLANEOUS AFRICAN-AMERICAN LEAVELL DATA. Posted 1/28/2003; updated 3/26/07.
MISCELLANEOUS LEAVELL FAMILIES A - J that so far haven't been connected to a specific family. Maybe you can help? Updated 4/13/07.
MISCELLANEOUS LEAVELL FAMILIES K - Z that so far haven't been connected to a specific family. Maybe you can help? Updated 4/13/07.
MISCELLANEOUS LEAVELL DATA like military, cemetery, and marriage records, with some census records, too. Some of it I can't identify with a specific line; much of it I can. States A through Illinois.Posted 2/18/03. Updated 4/13/07.
MISCELLANEOUS LEAVELL DATA 2 has states Indiana through Louisiana.
MISCELLANEOUS LEAVELL DATA 3 has states Michigan through Tennessee.
MISCELLANEOUS LEAVELL DATA 4 has states Texas through Washington, plus some extra databases.
This family first appeared in Lincoln County, North Carolina, in the late 1700's and intermarried with the Hackleman/Sailors/Perkins/Tyner crowd. This version skips the Perkins and Sailors descendants, since they can be found elsewhere on this site.Updated 8/17/03.
Generations 1 through 4
Generations 5 through 6
We believe JAMES MARSHALL was born 12 November 1781, maybe in Pennsylvania. He married Susanna BAKER (or perhaps Carpenter), who was born 16 November 1787, perhaps in PA, and died 16 March 1873. She, like her husband, was buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery, Liberty Twp., Shelby County, Indiana. They also lived for some time in Harrison County, KY. The numbering is goofy because I cut out most of the Goodwin descendants to save space. Updated 1/24/2002, 8/8/03, 3/9/04.
MISCELLANEOUS OSBORNE DATA related to the family tree above. Posted 6/2000.
PERKINS FAMILY DATA
First through fourth generations
Fifth generation
First half of seventhgeneration
Second half of seventh generation
Eighth (part one) generation
Eighth (part two) generation
Ninth (part one) generation
Ninth (part two) generation
SAILORS
Six generations of descendants of ABRAM SAILORS, including Hackleman data but leaving the Perkins, Lines, and Tyner data for those histories on this web-site. (That's why the numbering is so goofy; these families intermarried with Sailors a lot.)Updated 3/14/04.
Generations 1-4
Generations 5+
Miscellaneous Sailors data that may or may not apply to our family. Posted 8/19/03. Updated 3/14/04.
SHERRILL
Descendants of Adam Sherwell intermarried heavily with the PERKINS family, and most of my Sherrill info is found there. I deleted heavily before posting this! Posted 2/28/05.
Part One
Part Two (starting at generation seven)
Part Three
On 20 September 1797 in Mason County, Kentucky, Sarah Beard or Baird married JAMES STAGGS. Here are bits and pieces of possible clues to his background and a report on their descendants. Posted 6/2000, updated 3/9/04.
TYNER
Nine generations of descendants of Nicholas Tyner of Isle of Wight Co., Virginia, including Hackleman and Padgett families. Posted 7/2000. Updated 2/11/09.
Generations 1 through 5
Generation 6, part 1
Generation 6, part 2
Generation 7, part 1
Generation 7, part 2
Generation 7, part 3
Generation 7, part 4
Generation 8, part 1
Generation 8, part 2
Generation 9
You might try visiting the Tyner DNA project connection, which isn't mine but might give you some leads.
DESCENDANT CHARTS
Chart of descendants of Susannah Leavell and William Belton, the latter born 1746 in Ireland. Was she an Irish Lavelle? See also the Edward and Mary Leavell history above.
While looking for the obituary for my ancestor Enoch Goodwin, I found a short article that was too hysterical to pass up. Read it for a good laugh (and to see what newspapers used to get away with).
Visit my home page (which includes links to other Leavell pages and to general genealogy databases you can search), or enjoy some funny aphorisms, wisecracks, and quotations or some poetry.
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