George Runyon/Runion/Runyan Great Wall of China

[lildawn]

Ok my block is George Runion/Runyon/Runyan.

You might have to reread this a few hundred times to understand then you can scream like I do.

I'm doing my family tree on ancestry.com and my biggest block is George Runion.

Before my grandmother died my mom scribbled down the family history.

George Runion married Jemima Burcham in 1869 in Franklin County Arkansas. On the marriage certificate it is spelled George Runionion. George is 25 and Jemima is 20 which means George would have to be born around 1844-45. They might have met on the trip from Tennessee to Arkansas. Jemima Burcham was from Meigs Tennesse born in 1849 parents of James Burcham and Catherline Lillard Thompson. George and Jemima had one child David T. Runion. The last name is spelled Runion on the 1870 census.
As told by my grandmother, when David T was small like one or two George got up on his horse and went back home. On the census for George his birthplace is Tennessee. On the 1900 census for David of Father's birthplace is Tennessee. So I'm pretty sure George came from Tennessee. I kind of think George and Jemima had a shotgun wedding. Their marriage date is January 24, 1869. David T birthday is May 1869. So, Jemima was 4 months pregnate when a woman starts to show and Daddy gets out the shot gun. It would explain why George didn't stay around so long if he was forced? Of course I'm only speculating.
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David T. Runion married Julia Sinnickson and had two children Rose and Lillian Runyon. On their marriage certificate it is spelled Runyan. But on the 1900 census David T spells it Runyon.

Julia died in 1899 and David T died in 1901 and was buried as Runion under the same field stone. My grandmother Rose spelled it as Runyon.


Now in my mother's notes she had it as Thomas Runyon married Jemima. Right, well doing my ancestry research and marriage and census records it is spelled George Runion. I found another source from a distant cousin on Ancestry that would be Jemima GG nephew. He had Jemima married to Thomas Runyan. I asked him his resource and he said " that was the way granny had it." It is the same Jemima. I looked at his family tree and sources. Jemima and his GG grandmother was sisters.

I'm thinking it might have been spelled Runion but both Jemima and George could not spell as stated in their census. Also, it's bout to drive me beserker with all the different spellings of Runion/Runyan/Ruyon. George might be referred as George Thomas Runion or Thomas George Runion. On Ancestry there are tons of different George or Thomas Runion/Runyan/Runyons. I have to make sure I have the right one because I'm sure George (being a man) probably got remarried again in Tennessee and had a parcel of kids. So, I am sure I have relations that knew nothing of David T and Jemima if George didn't talk about them.

I hope somebody can help because I don't have much hair to loose anymore.

[lildawn]

I found my George !!!!!!

I think it was off this website I got in touch with Tom Runyan ([e-mail]) and he helped me sort though the George Runyons and there are a ton of them mostly all cousins.. But he sent me his files of of his KY George, Tn George and related Arkansas Runyons.
From those being the Census is correct that my George is from Tennessee and not anywhere else. George W. Runnions b. 1844/45 born to Eli and Mahala Runnions. (Eli father Joseph Runyan, Elizabeth Shepherd)
I saw from those files that some of the Runyons married into the Mantooth family from Blount, Meigs, and other counties. They are flat smack in Franklin County Arkansas too. I think it was George's aunt Elizabeth tha married a Mantooth and as well some of his cousins. ...
But I think why everyone had his name down as Tom is because no one could remember his name being that Jemima had married two George's. Since their kid was David T. Runyon I guess everyone thought the Thomas from his middle name was his fathers. When it is George Washington Runnions. He could have gone by the name Tom to avoid confusion with his cousins. There is like a bunch of George Washington Runyons... That drove me crazy because at first I thought a couple of them were the same ones until Tom sent me his files and then I saw the difference.
Anyhoo I am happy because it all fits smoothly like a jointed pipe.

I can live again..

My next quest is to find my Father's mother's lineage. Which is going to be difficult because there is a lot of Mary Williams in South Carolina.