This “A Tree with Many Branches” was compiled by me. I am the daughter of Prentis Blanks and Gertrude Canady. I have worked and collected this much information so far. There is more out there, it is endless as some pass and some are born. I do hope that someone in the family will keep up the work that I have started. I have instructed my family, at my death, give my research collection to the Robeson County Genealogy Collection in the Library. I am sure there are mistakes and I hope that they are minimal.

I have many cousins that I do not know. I would love to know all of them and their families. If you read this and don’t see your name. I need your information. I have met cousins through the internet that I did not know that I had. I have help to unite families that did not know they had family in this area. One was the descendants of Martin Carter, who had left this area for Texas and most recently was the family of John Nelson and Sarah Florrie Smith, who moved to Oklahoma.

We don’t have famous people in our family, but they are all important.

Our occupations: Preachers, teachers, farmers, school committee members, many in the medical fields, county employees, store owners, operators; restaurant owners, operators; factory workers, construction workers, lawyers, those who have served and currently serving in our Armed Forces and many others. Some that are or have been on the wrong side of the law; all make up a family that I am proud to be a part of.

I collect photos of family, no matter what the condition. I survey the Indian Cemeteries of Robeson County, to help preserve at least some records of the burial ground of the Indian People. If you can contribute one,
please do so. And remember respect for burial grounds.

Sacred Ground
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Canady Family
 

KENNEDY SANTEE/CANADY FAMILY

 Kennedy Santee was born about 1824 and died after 1900. He married Helen Bell, daughter of Hardy H. Bell, April 2, 1853, in Robeson County. She was born about 1832 and died 1902 in Robeson County.

Together that had six children: Farme, Alonza, Lucy Jane, Mary Susan, William J. and H.B.

 In doing my research, I found that Kennedy Santee changed his name twice.

 First, he changed his given name from Kennedy to William. Then later, after the children were born, he changed his surname to Canady. He became William Canady before his death.

 He and Helen were on the Saddle Tree Baptist Church roll. He also served as a committeeman on the Indian School Board.

 Helen lost her leg in an accident on the trussle that crosses the Ten Mile Swamp. She is buried on the family farm on Russ Road; which she received in the settlement of her father, Hardy H. Bell’s estate, in an unmarked grave, lost forever.