Credits & Acknowledgements

COWEN, CANNON, MARTIN,  SIMS, LONG, SMART, HUDDLESTONE, SHEMWELL Lines:

I want to personally thank and give credit to Cousin Edward Cowan for his total commitment and devotion to his endless research on our very early Cowan/Cowen's.  Without him, much of this information would not be known.   Other credits go to Cousin Judson Crow, Cousin Betty Frazier,  Cousin Charles Martin, Cousin Anne Jarmon, Cousin Ruth Hennessey, Cousin Miles Philbeck, Cousin Gene Laughridge, Cousin Barry Shemwell, Cousin Herb Shemwell, Cousin Ronnie Shemwell, Cousin Don Smart, for allowing me to use his wonderful research in his book 'The Trail of the Smarts', my sister Dinah Cowen, and my nephew John Homman.

ASKEW, WARD, LOONEY, LAWHON, Lines:

I would like to thank Cousin's Madge Looney Crane and Phillip L. Crane, for their immense commitment  to our early Looney's.  Information was gathered from their wonderful book "Most Distinguished Characters On The American Frontier. Vol 1 1998. This book is a must have for all descendants of this line.  You can email Phillip or his mother Madge for information on obtaining their book. 
Other sources of my information were:  A SEED-BED OF THE REPUBLIC 1962 by Robert Douthat Stoners, and the article in the ROANOKE NEWS by Goodridge Wilson.

Thanks and appreciation go to Larry W. Johnson and the Looney Family Discussion Group for making Leroy W. Tilton's Manuscripts available online.

I want to also thank the following, for not only their undying support, but for their help gathering information on our Askew's & Looney's:  Cousin Gary Wortham Sr., Cousin Ann Whitecotton-Robinson, Cousin Mary Edna Harkey, Cousin Ruby Ruth Pemberton, Cousin Ruby Weiner, Cousin Jim Askew, Cousin Carroll Duane Davis, Cousin Lisa Tucker, Cousin Vicki Cato, Cousin Mac Hill, Cousin Mary Knowles, Cousin Benne McDonald, and Cousin Norman Looney.

EDMUNDSON, STANTON, WILLIAMS, HARDEN, QUINN, Lines: 

I want to thank the following people for their help in gathering the information on our Edmundson's. Cousin Jim Edmundson, Cousin Bill Edmundson, Cousin Lee Edmundson, Cousin Charles Martin, and Cousin Grace Batson.  I also would like to thank, Orvan Edmonson, Dorothy Hunter, Louise Ivey and all of the many other "distant Edmundson cousins" for their time and commitment in helping me find information on my line.  You all are WONDERFUL!  A very special heartfelt thank you goes to Cousin Forrest Clark Johnson III, for his help in providing that last piece of documented evidence I needed for my acceptance into The National Society of The Daughter's of the American Revolution (DAR),  I could not of done it without you!! 

HENDERSON, JOHNSTON, JOHNSON, WHITE,  Lines: 

Information came from Ancestry.com records complied from the research of Douglas Rutherford, Paula Jones, & Gary Thompson,  D.A.R. information of Mrs. Martha Adams-Boykin, as well as various census records and personal research.
Many thanks to Cousin Tom Johnson for his research and information supplied to me on our Johnson and White lines.