Tinker Family Washington County, Tennessee

A TINKER family descendant sent me this photograph several years ago. It was in her grandmother's collection. This is the same photograph which appeared in a book that others have listed on ancestry and elsewhere. She also copied the writing on the back and sent that to me as well.

Transcription by me: Phillip Parks Tinker (Our Great Grandpa). Wife Alice Tinker, Our Great Grandma. Aunt Hess Tinker (our Great Aunt) Frank Tinker, (Our Grandpa) Grandpa`s brothers Barnett, Phil, Willie, Jake, Boone, Bernie. White Coat, has grapes in his hand. Aunt Sallie Phillips, grandpa`s other sister is not in this picture. Our Great Grandma Alice Tinker was a Graham before she married and Grandpa Phillip Parks Tinker mother was a Parks before she married.

This photograph is of the Phillip Parks TINKER Sr. family. Phillip Parks TINKER Sr married one Anne Hessaltine GRAHAM daughter of John GRAHAM and Mary BAYLESS.  Apparently this family member referred to Anne as Alice. This is the first time I have seen her called Alice, she is usually referred to as Anne in the documents pertaining to the family. Anne GRAHAMS line of the Graham family can be traced back to Scotland. In a future post I will be sharing a little of the GRAHAM genealogy that I have traced thus far. Phillip Parks TINKER Sr was the son of James Abraham TINKER and Nancy A. PARKS. This couple made their home in Washington, then Unicoi County, Tennessee area.

Update on Consadie EADES MCDANIEL

Part One (See Part 2 for the continuation of this post after reading this one)

Today I have been doing some more research on the MCDANIEL and EADES families. Namely Consadie and Allen MCDANIEL.

The Iredell County Genealogical Society was kind enough to send me a copy of the article written on the  McDANIEL family contributed by Hazel Speece WILSON (See my prior posts for more on said article).

After having read through the article I decided to do some more research. I know there has been some confusion in the past as to the actual name for Consadie. I have seen it spelled in a variety of ways. I have put together a table with the spellings from each of the census years along with the spelling on her death certificate.



As you can see she has often been referred to as Fanny, Cansada, Cansady, Kansadie and even Soda! I have also seen the name MCDANIEL being written in a variety of ways. Take a look at the spelling on the 1930 census, they spelled it DANTIS.  I have seen DANIELS, DANIEL, MCDANIEL, MCDANIELS. MCDONNELL, MCDONALD......etc.

This week during my Genealogical studies we were learning about how we need to pay close attention to names and their derivatives.  Surnames often change through the years as well.

In the article that I got in today`s mail , Ms. Wilson stated that Consadie married Albert McDANIEL who was the son of George and Merkie MCDANIEL. That has puzzled me for some time because I clearly find him living in the house with Allen and Rebecca MCDANIEL and is listed as their son. So, given that bit of information I decided to go back into my files and see what I could find.

The only logical person that made since name wise was Allen`s brother, George Washington MCDANIEL and his wife America Loutisha COPE PARKS. Now it is obvious that there is no way that Allen could have been the son of his brother George and his wife America. But I kept wondering where Ms. Wilson could have gotten the name "Merkie" from? The only thing that made since was a derivative of America aka Merica or Merkie?? So, I decided to see if I could find anyone else in the area named George MCDANIEL with a wife named Merkie.

There is a second George Washington MCDANIELS and he married one Susannah "Susan" WILLIAMS. This George was the son of John Allen MCDANIEL and Rachael STEWART.  This George had a son named Albert Spencer MCDANIEL but he married one  Ida Jane SUMMERS. This Albert was born in 1867 in Davie County, North Carolina. In 1900 he was living with his wife Ida and there children so this rules this Albert MCDANIEL out, he could not be two places at once so there is no way he could have been Consadie`s husband.

The third George McDANIELS that I found was a son of  Lewis MCDANIELS and Rainey A. T. EADES, remember that Rainey was the sister to Consadie.  Lewis was the son of Allen MCDANIEL and Rebecca BART. This George was born in 1874. He married one Mary Jane RUPARD. Mary was the daughter of Caleb Phillip RUPARD and Lellice L CASEY. To my knowledge they did not have a son named Albert.

To Save space and give you a chance to take a break, I am going to continue this in Part 2 in the next post.