Hi Kim!
I'm trying to untangle this branch of the tree, too.
The names you have with question marks are all correct.
William's son Allen had a son, Allen Isaiah (called Isaiah or Isah, born 1875). Isaiah's son,
Colon (born 1906) is my paternal grandfather. Colon and Thelma had one son,
Royce, who is my father.
I can't seem to get any farther back than William. I can tell you that
Mason appears to have moved to
Georgia, and is noted on the 1880 census in
Augusta as being sick with "an enlargement of the heart". I believe William and Rebecca had died by then.
I've looked at so many records I can't tell you which ones, but on one or two of them Pulaski's name is spelled "Tulaski".
This part of the family are all from
York, SC and
Shelby, NC (mostly
Shelby). If you don’t know this already,
Cleveland County (
Shelby) has only been in existence since 1841. Any earlier than that, and you have to look in either
Lincoln or
Rutherford County. A whole lot of them are buried at the
Pleasant Hill
Baptist Church cemetery in
Shelby. I've been there before, but I've learned a lot more since then so I'm going back on July 3 to see if I can get any more clues from the grave markers.
Oh, one more thing! I'm real close to being absolutely certain that, regardless of which
Thrift branch we're on, we're all descended from Richard
Frith of
England who was one of the first settlers of Jamestown,
Virginia. He came over with Captain John
Smith (of Pocohontas fame) on the ship HMS Susan
Constant in 1608. Cool, huh?
