Exciting revelation from my latest AL trip

For years I have been trying to prove that Peter Hendricks and Elizabeth Gibson are the parents of Nancy Ann Hendricks, wife of James A. Edins.


While  there's still no smoking gun, another piece of evidence revealed itself last time my cousin and I went "genealogy-ing" in AL.


Before I reveal the new information, here's a bit of explanation:

It's accepted that Simeon Hendrix/Hendricks was a middle child and third, (probably fourth) son of Peter and Elizabeth Gibson Hendricks/Hendrix. For example:

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/16522268/person/18029987388?ssrc=

and the best family tree I have found:

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3202133&id=I6568

My theory is that Nancy Ann Hendricks/Hendrix was probably the first daughter and first child of Peter and Elizabeth Gibson Hendrix/Hendricks. For supporting details see:

http://genforum.genealogy.com/eddins/messages/674.html

or

http://alroots2.blogspot.com/2012/05/parents-of-nancy-ann-hendrix-edins-part.html

Here's a revelation FamilySearch.org:

Simon Hendrix married Harriet Keith Dunham/Dunnam on October 17, 1833, in Wilcox County, AL. 


https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FQ6J-S2N

Isn't that exciting!!!!!!!

No?????

What the FamilySearch.org message doesn't contain is the name of the bondsman. Which Records of Wilcox County, Alabama by Marilyn Davis Barefield lists as........

Taaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh dahhhhhhhhhhhhhh:

James Edins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We know that James A. Edins and family were in Wilcox County for the 1830 Census. And remember the War of 1812 pension application for Mathias Walker filed in 1834? (See earlier blog entry) It mentions James A. Edins and Robert C. Dunnam as people who live near Mathias and can vouch for him. Remember the name "Dunnam?" As in, Harriet Keith Dunnam who married Simeon Hendrix? Get the connection?

No one has been able to PROVE a connection between the Eddinses and this particular branch of the Hendrixes/Hendrickes. Until now. 


My fragrant cousin reminds me that I have yet to find a will or document that conclusively mentions or proves that Nancy Ann is a daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Gibson Hendrix....


However, as my cousin-in-law Charles says, "There may no smoking gun, but the preponderance of evidence suggests..."


I think I'll go with that last one.