Unusual BLIZZARD AND POOL CENSUS RECORDS

by Barbara Neel Blizzard, NSDAR

EMAIL BARBARA: bjblitzen@yahoo dot com

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We are all familiar with the usual census records. Here are a few that are unusual or follow-ups on unusual census records because they were previously unknown or misspelled, or in an unusual location.

Blizard/Lovett Valentine Blizard, born 27 July 1811 in Barnwell, South Carolina; married Elizabeth Lovett, born 20 Januaary1810 in North Carolina, both died in Fairfield Co, SC. just outside of Ridgeway. In the 1850 census below, Elizabeth's father Henry Levett age 78, and mother Leesy Levett,age 68, also born in North Carolina, were living near Valentine's brother Jacob Blizard, Jr. and their mother Mary Gill Blizard.  On the next census and living next to Jacob Blizard, Jr. and their mother is Valentine and Elisabeth. In the 1860 census, 91 year old Henry Lovett is living in the Home of Valentine and Elizabeth Blizard. Leesy died before the 1860 census.  Jacob and his mother Mary Gill Blizard had already moved to Georgia. Jacob Blizard, Jr., by the way, was an Atorney At Law.

Williamson/Bryant Samual Williamson in the 1840 census below married Recia Bryant of Irish linage. The Bryant name was originally the Irish O’Brian spelling, not the German Bryant version of more recent years which can be confusing and lead genealogists in the wrong direction. Recia Bryant, Macon Bryant and Isaac Sr. Bryant were the children of William Bryant, son of Darby Obriant son of Darby O’Brian and Sarah Schanner. William Bryant’s siblings were Darby, Jr, Thomas and Fountain Obriant. Fountain’s daughter Sarah Bryant married John T. Williamson, son of Samuel Williamson.

Poole/Gunter DNA has proved that Walter Poole of Lexington and his cousin Walter Poole of Ohio, are descended from William “The Joyner” Poole of Virginia through Walter “The Cooper” Poole. Descendants of Walter Cooper Poole and both his wives have all been DNA tested and related as direct descendants. Walter Poole and Elizabeth of Lexington had a son named Tilman who married Tirzah Gunter of Royal descent from the Emperor Charlemagne. Tirzah had multi lines from Charlemagne through Richard Gunter and his wife Cissil Bois as well and their descendants both William W. Gunter of Gileston, Wales and his wife Lucy Harvard. Census records can prove descent from Joshua Gunter and Keziah Banks sons Russell and Ballam Gunter to Russell’s grandson Tilman Poole II and his daughters Ivy and Olivia and their husbands Willie and Fred Gunter, descendants of Ballam Gunter. Tillman II married Dolly Ann Nettie Williamson, daughter of John Williamson and Sarah Bryant above.