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Date Posted: 17:48:16 07/22/03 Tue
Author: Stephen Southard
Subject: Re: Recent Southard Death
In reply to: Todd Souhard 's message, "Recent Southard Death" on 19:30:17 04/10/03 Thu

Hi Todd,
This is a Great website for the Southard family research. I'm from Charleston, SC and my grandmother's/father's family were from NC. Surry Co. I beleive. And although I never met my grandfather(divorced before I was born) I think he had ties back to Georgia, where I now live.
The early Southards started from New York and settled in Virginia and some went north to Maine.
Seems like the Va. crowd went eventually landed in NC and then slpit to Indiana, Nebraska and Texas. And

As far as the reusing of names, not sure why. But it seems the early to mid 1800's was when most Southards broke from the east coast and went west. I may have just found the link I needed going back to Thomas S. in the 1600's.
I think if you keep digging on the internet you'll eventually find tons of information.
I'll include some interesting sites below.

http://www.paradoxdesigns.com/southard/yankee.htm

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/o/u/Scott-R-Southard/
(dblclick on the names for more info)

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~batsto/
(this one's tricky. Select "search" from the sidebar, then 'Southard')

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nnnotables/zslso.html
(this is worth digging into further., Very cool!)

Good Luck!
Stephen Southard
Lawrenceville, GA

>Hello to all,
>I was playing on the net, when I came across this
>site. Very interesting. I'm 28, and I've only met
>two people in my life who have our last name. From
>what I've seen on this site, it seems that a large
>majority of Southards are from the Carolinas, Georgia.
> I live in north Texas, and there just aren't too many
>of us around here. I'm interested in knowing what
>branch broke off and headed down here.
>My great aunt, Jewelle Robinson (maiden name Southard)
>died this week. She was 84 and lived in Amarillo, TX.
> Her parents were Charles Monroe and Annie Estelle
>Southard. I don't know if this information is helpful
>to anyone--probably isn't--but I thought I'd pass it
>along. I know very little about my family. Most of
>them came from the Amarillo area. My grandfather,
>J.C. Southard, hitched a train and ended up in
>Gainesville, TX--there her met and married my
>grandmother.
>For some reason, my family seems to reuse a lot of the
>same names---was wondering if it was a "Southard"
>thing or not...

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