This for Maw Maw Davis’s family. I started searching for Joe’s family in 1966 when we were still in West Helena, while we were at the store on 7th Street. I didn’t know very much about what I was doing, but the first two people that I actually researched were Arhannah Jane Earnhardt and John Curtis Cheney. Of course at the time, I didn’t know his middle name was Curtis. That came many years later. Once when Mrs. Davis and Joe and I were making a trip somewhere, I don’t remember where, we passed a barn outside Morrelton, AR and written across the roof of the barn in big letters was”Chaney’s Barn”. She said in passing, “You know one time a Cheney married a Chaney.” I didn’t think any more about that for years until I found out that John Curtis Chaney actually married Rhoda Arminta Chaney. But!! As usual, in this case that wasn’t the whole story. They both were perhaps married before. I’ve never found that John Curtis had another wife, but I found out that Rhoda or Rhody Mindy as she was called, had been married before to a Samuel Webb. They had one child named Nathan before Samuel went off to join the Confederacy. After the war we don’t know whether he was killed, but the story goes that he got on his horse and rode into the west. He then was supposed to have married and had a family leaving Rhoda to raise little Nathan. Before the end of the war, John and his brother, Artemas, after hearing some unsettling news regarding Rhoda and her sister, got on their horses and rode towards Itawamba County, Mississippi. They left Mark Tree, Arkansas, crossed the Mississippi and went to get Rhoda and her sister, Polly, who was supposed to have been part Native American. Why that part was relevant, I don’t know, but it was part of the story. Anyway, that’s not the story here because John Curtis was PawPaw Davis family not Daisy’s. This is another story from Rowan County, North Carolina about the Earnhardt family.
Daisy Ruth Barnhardt was the daughter of Henry Joseph Barnhardt and Arhannah Jane Earnhardt. Many spell her name Aranna and the Census Takers spelled it that way, but Mrs. Davis said that her mother’s name was spelled Arhannah and her sister’s name was spelled Peninnah. Many have spelled her name Penina. Arhannah’s name was spelled on her Marriage Bond as Rana or Rina and one Census record show her as Anna, another something entirely different. So I hope this is by the way of correcting that.
Arhannah’s parents were Robert or Robard Earnhardt, which was the way it was spelled in 1850, and Eunice Bunn. Eunice’s name was spelled many different ways by different people. I found her on the 1850 Census record as Unice. On the North Carolina Marriage Bonds I found her listed as Tonney and Youney, even Yourney in another place. But, her name was Eunice.
Robert Earnhardt was the son of George Earnhardt and Leah Culp. He was born 19 Jun 1839 in Gold Hill, Rowan, North Carolina and died 20 March 1919 in Kannapolis, Cabbarus, North Carolina and is buried in Center Grove Lutheran Cemetery across the street from where he lived. He married Eunice Bunn 03 Aug in Gold Hill, RowanCounty, North Carolina. Eunice was born abt 1837 in Franklin County, North Carolina and died abt 1892 in Gold Hill, North Carolina of Appendicitis and buried in an unmarked graved near one of her sisters who has a grave marker, either Clara Rose or Augusta, Her mother, Lucinda, is buried in an unmarked grave as well. They are buried in Gold Hill Methodist Cemetery.
Eunice was the daughter of Henry Littleberry Bunn. Jacksie Bunn Parker, the historian for the Bunn family, told me that he spelled his name as Burne on his marriage license and had L. Berry Burne burned into his lether wallet. Stories have it that he was murdered in Wake County for his wallet. Mrs. Parker wrote “that unsubstantiated evidence said that he was killed in a hunting accident.” His father, Benjamin Bunn, owned 3,115 1/2 in Wake and Franklin counties. Littleberry was about 14 yrs old when his father died and his father left him land in a will. After Littleberry’s death the court made a one year allowance for his widow, Lucinda Stickland Bunn, and children for a comfortable support. Women were not allowed to own land, so the government took her land away from her and the children. More about Lucinda later.
Eunice was married at 15 to John Alexander Sandy” Fisher according to North Carolina Marriage Bonds, on 29 Sept 1852 in Rowan County She was apparentley called Youney at the time and the extractors for the North Carolina Marriage Bonds spelled it differently for both her marriages. On one she was called Youney and the other she was called Tonney. So researchers need to be “Very Careful” about what they eventually call her. She signed Arhannah’s Marriage Bond as Eunice.
JohnA. Fisher was the son of Jacob and Barbara Lyerly Fisher. He was born on 22 Feb 1823 in Stanley County, North Carolina and died in Stanley County on 29 Aug 1858. He and his brother were appointed guardians of Lucinda’s children when she moved to Gold Hill to work near the Gold mines. So that tells the story of how John and Eunice met..
Eunice and John had two sons. They were James Anderson “Ad” Fisher born 10 July 1853 in Rowan County died 05 Feb 1938 and is buried in Center Grove Lutheran Cemetery in Kanapolis . James stayed in North Carolina and never married. He made a trip to Arkansas to see Arhannah and returned to Kanapolis where he lived until he died.
The second was John W. Fisher born 1856 in Rowan County – death date unknown. He was rumored to have taken his family to Texas. He had one daughter Euna Fisher who marrie Henry Wilbert Langbein.
Eunice and Robert had five children. Two I’ve already mentioned, but here they are in order: (1) Christopher Columbus Earnhardt born abt 1862 in Gold Hill, North Carolina, died in 1939, married Annie Maurice in 1886 in Gaston County, NC. Their children were: (1) Lille Mae Earnhardt b 1887 d 1912 m Lee Jenkins (2) Nellie Francis Earnhardt b 05 Jan 1889 d 03 Apr 1979 in Charlotte, NC m W. B. Long (3) Georgia Estella Earnhardt b 1891 d 1892 (4) Joseph Maurice Earnhardt b 1894 d 1959 never married(5) Eunice Catherine Earnhardt b 1897 d 1978 m W.T.Helms(6) Robert Lee Earnhardt b 08 Sep 1906 d 15 May 1968 Oteen, NC m Ruth Smith (7) Cecil C. Earnhardt 08 Aug 1906 d Charlotte, NC m Laura Frances Stubbs
(2) Arhannah Jane Earnhardt b 25 Jan 1866 d23 Feb 1937 in Haynes, Lee, AR, buried in LaGrange Cemetery, LaGrange, Phillips, AR. m Henry Joseph Barnhardt 13 Jan 1888 in Cabbarrus County, NC. Children were: (1) James Edward Barnhardt b 04 Aug 1888 Cabbarrus, NC d 02 Apr 1935 buried in LaGrange Cememtery, Phillips, AR m Jane L. one child Reba Barnhardt (2) Lotty Ally Barnhardt b 17 May 1890 Haynes,Lee, AR d 24 Aug 1925 in Haynes, Lee,AR (3) Bessie Lula Barnhardt b 30 Jan 1893 d Oct 1906 in Haynes, Lee, AR (4) Robert Asa Barnhardt b 10 Apr1895 in Haynes,Lee,AR d Apr1970 Helena, Phillips, AR buried Odd Fellows Cemetery in between Helena and West Helena, AR m Emma Cremeen Children were Edward, Anne, Nolan and Irene Barnhardt (5) Verna Eunice Barnhardt b 20 Sep 1897 Haynes, Lee, AR d 11 Sep 1901 Haynes, Lee, AR (6) Daisy Ruth Barnhardt b 03 Apr 1901 Haynes, Lee, AR d 20 Dec 1974 Helena,Phillips,AR b Sunset Cemetery in Barton, Phillips, AR m Joe Adolphus Davis 26 Jan 1919 in Haynes, Lee, AR. Children were (1) Ruby Beatrice, Dorothy Lee, Maxine Mozell, Virginia Helen, Frankie Odean, Eugene Clayton, Joe Dolphus, Betty ann, Mary Ruth, Sarah Alice, Alinda Jane, Billie Sue. (7) Joseph Columbus Barnhardt b 03 Aug 1904 Haynes,Lee,AR d06 Dec 1961 Helena, Phillips, AR m Lydia(Lyddie)Hardin in Haynes, Lee, AR abt 1930 Children were Wanda, JoAnn, Floyd, Eva, and Brenda. (8) Freddie Franklin Barnhardt b 22 Jan 1906 d 24 Nov 1906 (9) Willie Cornelious Barnhardt 02 Jan 1908 d03 Aug 1930 Both these children were born in Haynes. Freddie is buried in Haynes, Willie in LaGrange Cemetery. He died of a seizure.
(3) Agusta O. Barnhardt b 28 Dec 1868 Rowan Co.,NC d 20Apr1938 Cabbarrus Co., NC m Albert Leslie Moose b 07 Jul 1864 d 16 Aug 1947 Children were (1) Fred L. Moose b 30 Apr 1890-must have died before 1900 because he wasn’t on the 1900 nor 1910 Census (2) Ralph Moose b 31 may 1900 (3)Marvin Cecil Moose b 02 Jan 1902 All in Cooks Crossing, Cabbarus,NC
(4) Clara Rose Earnhardt b 27 Jul 1870 RowanCo., NC d 31 Mar 1948 Cabbarus County, NC m Edmund McDonald Cook b 7 Aug 1986 d 27 Aug 1926 Buried Center Grove Lutheran Cemetery in Kanapolis, NC M abt Jan 1898 Children were (1) Ollie Anne Cook b 1888 d 1962 m Henry Solomon Herrin (2) Robert Monroe Cook b 24 Jun 1893 d 04 May 1963 m Cynthi Ann Zenobia Cole (3) Horace Edwar Cook b 1894 no Death Date m Geneva Lee Walthrope (4) Marvin W. Cook b 28 Sep 1897 d 03 Jul 1927 m Ethel Neal (5) Charlie Bethel Cook b 08 Oct 1898 d 16 Oct 1961 m Martha Cook Wingard (6) Henry Greydon Cook b 09 Jan 1901 d 10 Nov 1954 m Blanche Melvina Swink (7) Frank McDonald Cook b 02 Feb 1903 d 21 Dec 1942 in a flight over the Atlantic Ocean m Mary Castor (8) James Howard Cook b 22 Apr 1905 d 07 Jul 1961 m 1st Agnes Waters 2nd Dovie Bost (9) Helen Virgina Cook b 01 Jan 1908 d 09 Sep 1994 m Raymond Herrin (10) Marnie Eunice Cook b 1911
(5)Eliza Peninnah Earnhardt 06 Dec 1873 d 22 Mar1977 at 104 yrs old in Kanapolis, Cabbarus, North Carolina m Charles Henry Castor bef 1896 b 01 Jun 1874 d 06 Dec 1953. Children were (1) Meta Mozelle Castor b abt 1896 in Cabbarrus County, NC (2) Charles Brown Castor b 03 Sep 1900 d 16 Nov 1941 m Alma Rose Kincaid (3) Joe R Castor b abt 1903 (4) Rahama Castor b abt 1906 (5)Ross Alexander Castor b 25 Apr 1909 died 1983 (6)Robert Young Castor b abt 1914.
Rober’s second marriage was to Eve Kesler 13 Sep 1894. They had two sons: (1) Robert Earnhardt (2) Ralph Earnhardt .
This is the end of Robert and Eunice descendancy and a few of thier ancestors. I’ll write their Ancestors on another day.
