Hi, Misty,
I am so,so surprised to find the missing connection of the family. My relatives say they are related to a man from France; Pierre Jacques Payan/Payen Sieur de Chavios!Did not know he came from Canada. They say his ancestors are documented in Israel from the time of 470ad. He indeed come to South Carolina and moved down further South and dwelt among a special tribe of American Indians to help them fight for their lands in the French Indian revolution against general Jackson in the battle of Natchez Missisippi. Many Indians died there, there are very few Chavios,Chavis/Chavers family remaining. The special Indians he had intergrated himself in were of royal tribe descendants of Prince Madoc who came to America 300 years before ChristopherColombus, Madoc brougt with him many people from Frace who escaped Normandy with William the Conquerer who came to join Madoc in Wales to his expedition toAmerica. Eleven ships of them came and integrated among the Indian Tribes they found were of the Ancient land they were common to. Madocs descendants became known as the" The blue eyed Indians
". They had many things in common with the French Hero who had joined another French Hero who also integrated into the family, ancestery, culture, and religion. Many of these still meet in the Carolinas till this day. They mispelled his name backwards, thinking that Payan/Payen, was part of his first name and that Chavios was his last name, they could not pronounce the o so they dropped it and called him Chavis. He did have a son named John who changed the name Chavis to Chavers, thus being the ancestor of all of the Chaver's French-Indians of the South, most went to Alabama and Missisippi and Georgia, Florida. John Chavers did also have a son by the name of Jordan.