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 Parents
of Barbara Lee, William Harrison and Annette Cecelia Rowe. Below, Barbara Lee at three years old.  |
The
Kin of Rock and Roll founder, Barbara Lee Rowe, explains
here
the
Rowe connections into the Presley, Hood, and Mansell lines.
This is a work in progress, so we ask for your patience
throughout. 
The
Rowe Family stems into
several branches The Rowe Family - We Are Presleys Who Continue To Connect to the Presley Line Via Winchester/Helms/Hargett/Crowell/Palmer/Edwards /Hood/ /Mansell/ Keziah and more! Part I The Direct Presley Connection: Presley/Helms Beginning in NC You can read about our forefather, Thomas Presley, and his relations in the history section of the website. Here we will focus on Thomas Presley marriage and his eldest daughter, Susannah, 5th ggrandmother of Barbara Lee and Gary William Rowe, and all of those Rowes of our line. Original lineage
information from the research of Henry Z. Jones. and additional
sourcing by Ed Dunn. Additional notes and updated information are
from The Kin of Rock and Roll and other noted family sources
are in BOLD print.
The Kin of Rock and Roll will add additional DAR information for some ancestors, as it applies, for the purpose of descendants who may wish to join this organization. Family members of Thomas and Susannah Presley and descendants can submit further lineage charts and photos, if available. Contact elviscousin@comcast.net NOTES:
*Have we proven that Thomas
Preslar was married to Elizabeth Culpepper? We know that Thomas
Presley did marry a Culpepper. In the US and International Marriage
Records - 1540 to 1900, we have a Thomas Presley of NC married
to ? Culpetter (misspelled). There is no known available Elizabeth
Culpepper who is listed as married to a Thomas other than Thomas
Whitehead. There was no Elizabeth Culpepper in NC born in the
time frame that would have availed her to give birth to a daughter
in 1754. We do know that Thomas Presley, and the Preslar brothers
in general, had a friendship with John and Mary Culpepper of
NC, who was a brother to both Elizabeth and Sarah. These children
were born of Joseph and Martha Culpepper from Norfolk, VA, and
then Anson County, NC. Joseph died in 1745 leaving the youngest
sons to the guardianship of their mother. It is noted that the
daughters of Joseph and Martha are not mentioned, perhaps as
they had been married. Elizabeth is known to have married a
William Wilder. However, Sarah's marriage and husband are still
unproven and uncertain. Keeping with the vicinity, the friendships,
and the age, b. 1729, Sarah seems the more likely candidate
as the Culpepper wife of Thomas Presley. It may appear that
if Sarah had married Thomas, then they may have divorced because
she relocates to GA where she becomes a member of Williams Creek
Baptist Church, Warren Co., Georgia, on 22 Dec 1787. She is
probably buried in that churchyard as in the church records,
she is listed as "dead" in a 21 Sep 1798 listing of
church members which means she would have died within that ten
year period. It is also true that Thomas' good friend (i.e.
the Last Will and Testament of Thomas Preslar) William Crittendon
was married to a Sarah Lee. After William's death, Sarah Lee
Crittendon remarried--Thomas Presley--sometime ca. 1777. William's
son from a prior marriage, John Crittendon, married Naomi Brooks.
The Brooks family land transactions are also prominent with
the Culpeppers as are those of John Edwards of NC whose daughter
married a Culpepper. The Brooks and Edwards connection stems
into the Mansell line. The Helms family from North Carolina, from three brothers, George, Tilman, and Jonathan, intermarried into the Presley line in numerous instances, and these lines can be traced from NC down to MS and also into Memphis. The Rowe/Helms line begins with the husband of Susannah Presley, John Helms, son of George Helmes/Helms and Mary Margaret Fortenberry. First, many of our family lines connect to the Presleys through intermarriage as well. Here, the Fortenberrys of NC, SC, and points down to MS, dec-cendants of Henry, Isaac, and Jacob Faukenburg, had undergone the name change |
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to Fortenberry during the American Revolution
when, it is said, that Henry and sons fled NC to SC because of
their loyalist sympathies. The first instance of relation through
intermarriage into the Mansell/Smith line is with Lillian Smith,
eldest sister of Gladys Smith Presley, whose second husband was
a Fortenberry. |
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