Suwannee Co Queries

Name: CHANCY, CHANCEY
Aug 28, 2011
Researcher: Robert Chancey

Interested in any information concerning George R.W. Chancy/Chancey born ca. 1818 in probably Tattnall County Georgia, later lived in Camden, Charlton Counties Georgia and Florida. Brother of Samuel Chancey, son of Samuel and Rebecca Kennedy Chancey
 
Last found in a Federal census in 1860 Charlton County Georgia.
 
Married (1) Louisa ?, (1850 Duval Co. Fl. census) (2) Mary Ann Hurst, dau of Daniel Hurst & Jemima Rollins, (1860 Charlton Co. Ga. census.)
 
They both disappear after 1860, and we have been advised they were in Suwannee County until G.R.W.C. died sometime in the 1860s (possibly Civil War or Indian War.)
 
Known children were by Louisa:
Mary Chancey b. 1841 Georgia
Matilda Ann Chancey b. February 1849 m. John Daniel Willis
John Chancey b. ca 1950 prob. Duval County, Florida
Phoebe A. Chancey December 25, 1851 Georgia(?)
Samuel A. (Asa??) Chancey b. April 1853. m. (1) Mary ?, ca 1871. b. Alabama..., (2) Sarah 'Sallie' Priscilla Chancey, October 15, 1891,  Charlton CO Ga. (1st cousin), (3) Allie C. Davis ca. 1896 b. Ga. m. Fl ?
George W Chancey b. 1856 m. Virginia Willis January 11, 1877, Madison County, Florida
Edward Eugene Chancey, b. January 1860 (Louisa may have died with this birth). m. Evelyn Herndon ca. 1878
 
GRWC Married Mary Ann Hurst 1860 in Georgia.
Known child of theirs was:
Isaac C Chancey, b. November 09, 1861, m. (1) Florence Josephine Sparkman m. (2) Francis 'Fannie' Bell Carroll, sister of Bertha Nancy Carroll who married Leroy Chancey, son of Elijah Jackson Chancey and Artie 'Florida' Morris.
 
Note, Francis Caroll later married Cleveland Keen ca. 1935 aft. Isaac d. June 19, 1934
 
 
Thank you for any assistance.
 
Robert Chancey
Gautier MS
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