There are quite a few errors in the Christie book.  It would be nice to 
share errors as we find them.

Please send submissions to Bruce Cantrall, bruce@cornell-iowa.edu

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Hello the List--------
Following this brief apology from me, I am forwarding a message from Warren.
I assume everyone knows how many years he has devoted to these CANTRELL's of
ours--a lifetime.  I asked his permission to pass this info on to the list.
I didn't get it, but he didn't say no.  Please don't be upset Warren.  I
feel we should all share from our combined research and Mistakes.
I don't agree that we need to burn the entire book.  There are some things
worth saving.  It's just that it is very important for EVERYONE to VERIFY,
VERIFY, VERIFY everything you find. If it is a primary resource,
DOCUMENT!!!!!!   Books, no matter how new or old, are good places to START.
I knew this and should have made it clear to begin with.  I aplogize, to
Warren, and everyone out there.  Sometimes, we tend to take things, (other's
knowledge of how-to) for granted that we shouldn't.
At least I found out there is "someone out there" and got something going.

The following info is directly from Warren Cantrell, Family Historian and
researcher "extraordinaire" .

)Dale,
)I realize the weather is hot but why don't you start up a fire in the stove
)and fuel the flames with the Christie book?!!
)For forty years, I have owned one of the orginial 300 copies of this
)misguided publication.
)I also  have copies of the many additions that have been added to it without
)research as to its authenticity.   I can name half a dozen cousins who have
)been led down this prim-rose path.  Two of who lived in your area.
)Let us take a brief visit to the book.  Page 8.  John #7 didnot have the 23
)sons and two daughters as listed.  Many of those listed were children of his
)brother Isaac.  Page 9 Abraham #12 did not die in SC  but in Warren co. TN in
)1826.   #33 was not his son but a son of his brother John "M"     Richard
) #37 wa born ca 1764 and was 16 years older than his father as listed!!
) Richard #37 was a son of Isaac Sr.  Abraham # 33 is the same person as
)Abraham  #800.  John #44  is the same as  John #809.  "Peanuts" mother made
)an attempt to straighten out  Isaac Denton #67  and Isaac Denton # 958.  #43
)and #48  are the same. There was no Felix in  this  family  Isaac #13 did not
)have all of the children listed!   John #318 did not move to TN but moved to
)GA. where he reared his family and died in the 1850s.  Sarah lived to be
)quite old.   Christie was so anxious to join the DAR  and she knew her
)ancestor was a Jacob Cantrell  and in NC she found a voucher for pay to a
)Jacob Cantrell.  This Jacob was married and had a house full of children at
)the time of the Rev. War.  He was a son of John.  Now he had a cousin, Jacob
)son of Isaac who was unmarried and the right age.  She made sure that this
)Jacob was never mentioned in her book but she came in contact with one of
)sons, John.So she made an intentional error  for #319  and called Jacob,
)Isaac and encluded a sketch for him.  Aaron #320 was not a son of  Isaac
)unless he was born when Isaac was under 16 years of age.   Aaron #20  and
)Aaron #320 are probably the same person.  Thomas Webb is of that opinion and
)i concur.   Page 34, Mary wife of Jacob did not die in KY but in NC and son,
)Zebulon took over the administration  of the estate.  Christie did so little
)research on her own line that she did not know that Jacob had another
)daughter born after the will of  1782 was made.  David #477 was not a son of
)Zebulon #470  but a son of  Zebulon, son of Christopher.  Have 1926
)affidavits to back  up this fact.   Page 59, Joseph #15  was  Joseph #8..
)  John's Joseph  was #1392, He had one son and several daughters    Page 124,
)Zebulon  #9 was a son of  Joseph Cantrell but this Joseph was #1568  by his
)2nd wife, Mrs Sarah Edwards n'ee Cantrell daughter of Joseph and Catherine
)heath Cantrell.    Page 60, William #630 was the only son  of Joseph #1392
) Page 62, Isaac #635 was a son  of Benjamin #634.  Stephen #16 was not a
)soldier in the Rev. War.   The soldier was his uncle Stephen who died in GA.
)  Elizabeth #802 did not marry Daniel Adcock but  rather David Adcock  #808
)married Mark Forrest as his lst of three wives.   Now to Thomas #23, my
)ancestor.  Gabriel #1099  did not go to MO.  In early Dec. 1849, he tied a
)rope around his neck and jumped out of the barn loft.  Jacob #1092 died in
)1840s in McMinn co. and in 1853, she joined my widowed great grandmother on
)the move to Dade co. MO.  Son David had accompanied his uncle Elijah to Dade
)co.   Elizabeth  DeLong Cantrell was  accompanied  by daughter Elizabeth
)Jane,  and the widow of Gabriel, Elizabeth McMinn Cantrell  and her three
)children., and perhaps by son James.  Gabriel's widow did not like MO. so she
)joined a wagon train and went  west to CA.  She married 2nd Grizzle Wallace.
)  James may have accompanied her, as we never located him after 1850.  When
)the new county of Webster MO was created. my G grandmother Nancy Smith
)Cantrell and her sister-in-law, Elizabeth Delong  Cantrell  moved to Cantrell
)Creek in the new county.  Elizabeth Jane married James Jasper VanHooser.
)    Jacob's dau. Mary Ann had married Bloomfield Logan  in 1840 and moved to
)Dade co. in l848, the same time that he brother, David moved.   Bloomfield
)Logan was a brother to William Calvin Logan who married her sister, Judith
)Malinda.   William and Judith moved to Mo after 1870.  Jacob's dau, Nancy
) married James Milton Rutherford. After the war, they moved to MO. and
)settled in Wright co.  In 1883, she was a widow and drawing a pension.
)Andrew Jackson #1103 did not move to MO.  He was born in Feb. 1822 and in
)1920 he was 98 years old and living in Bradley co. TN.  By two wives. he
)reared a family of 10 children.  Of all the families to mess up this was
)Christie's best.  As her dasughter married a grandson of Jacob, it would
)appear that this was one of the best possibilities to get correct.  By the
)way, in 1920, Christie and her hiusband were living  with the dau. in
)Chattanoga.  We understand that her records were given to the City  library
)in 1944 and they have never been catalogued. and they won't allow them to be
)searched.
)Page 112, Reuben #24   Christie evidently viewed the 1790 census of NC and
)picked up a CURTIS  family and accredited it  to Reuben. so we don't really
)know who the father of  #1235, 1236, 1237   was!   Page 115, Benjamin  #26
)was a son of Isaac and not John..
)Page 118 James #28 was not a son of John but  a son of Isaac.  Page 141 and
)142  Isaac #1520  is really #10   The Protest of Isaa's will  son. Peter
) names all of the children of Isaac  with the lead off of eldest son. JACOB.
) Isaac's 3rd wife was Mary LINDER not Leonard.
)Can you now get some idea why I get so disgusted and upset when  I read
)E-mail where you offer to send info from the Christie Book.   Some years  ago
)when  genie was  1sr set up a cousin in Cisco, CA.  started doing the same
)thing and several of the Cantrell Cousins  convinced her to cease the
)practice.   40 years have gone into my recording of the Cantrell family
)history,  I hate to see those years wasted by  cousins accepting the Christie
)book as gospel.     I don't claim my records are correct but they  are as
)complete as my years of research   have been able to make  them.  The last
)family historian was a 2nd cousin of my father and we spent many hours
)together in IL and later in Fl  where he died in his 90s;  He died regretting
)mistakes he made in the records and as I reach the sunset  of my life, I too
)will die, regretting
)I ask your forgiveness if this upsets you and I remain, in kinship
)Warren G. Cantrell
)1913 Willowbend Dr.
)Killeen, TX 76543
)(254)  699-2143
)
>dalcantrell@dekalb.net
>DALE GIVAN CANTRELL  researching Liberty,TN and BETHEL,  BRATTEN,  DALE,
>GIVAN, JORDAN, TRUITT, WHALEY, and more.

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>Lynn.
>For Lord's sake take the  Hannah Haynes junk out of your file.   That was a
>rumor that I started 25 years ago and have lived to regret.  John "Snow Shoe"
 >and Hannah Hanes Heath  did not have,  I repeat. didnot have a daughter
>Catherine among their 10 or 12 children.
>Warren G. Cantrell
>Family Historian
>1913 Willowbend Dr.
>Killeen,. TX 76543
>(254) 699-2143

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Diane,
Please, please  remove all information from your files that Catherine was a
daughter of John "Snow Shoe"  and Hannah Haynes Heath.  That was a ruor  that
I started 25 years ago and have long regretted.  John and hannah did not and
I repeat did not have a dau. named Catherine.  Futher there is not proof that
Catherine was a Heath. That was a rumor that Nobel Bethel started in 1928.
 His opinion was based on the 1747 will of John Heath that named a cousin,
Alice Cantrell as an heir.  john and Hanah Haynes Heath never left MA or
Conn.
Warren G. Cantrell
1913 Willowbend Dr.
Killeen TX 76543
(254) 699-2143