I am looking for sourced information about the daughters of Henry Sluder (1732-1801) and Elizabeth Clark. I have looked at Henry’s will, marriage records from Rowan Co., NC, and the 1790 census. From these I’ve concluded that there were 5 daughters who lived to adulthood: Polly, Charity, Elizabeth, Mary and Nancy. (Has anyone discussed the fact that several of these given names are not glaringly “German” in quality – odd choices for a German father?) I am thinking that Mary married Hugh McCrary in 1787, died sometime before 1795 when Hugh married her sister Charity. I am wondering if Polly married a brother of Hugh? I find Elizabeth married to Manning Brookshire in 1790 and Nancy married to Boyd Wilson in 1789. Can anyone tell me the origin of the dates and places of birth of the daughters that are used/repeated in family trees without source citation???
I am interested in these Sluder sisters because my autosomal DNA data seems to be matching me to several people of whom I can find no “obvious” link and yet who all share linkage in their family trees to several of the children of Henry Sluder and Elizabeth Clark. Thus it would seem very possible that I too am descended from Henry and Elizabeth. It makes good sense because there is a cluster of families in my known ancestry that were associated with Rowan Co. at about the same time (Niblock, Andrew, Craig) and I have a ancestress, married to a Snelson (who also passed thru the same geography) with no known lineage, said to be born in this area of NC = Lucy Thomas (b 1785, m 1810). I can see Thomas families in Rowan Co. in the 1790 census.
What I had hoped to find was some indication that one of the Sluder daughters married a Thomas and was the mother of my Lucy Thomas in 1785. Obviously, I haven’t found that nice, neat data yet! I speculate that perhaps one of the Sluder daughters was originally married to a Thomas, had baby Lucy in 1785, father Thomas died and then mother Sluder-Thomas remarried. Best candidates for this would seem to be either Charity or Elizabeth.
You can see my tentative fleshing-out of this part of the Sluder family on my “Farris Family Tree”. You can also trace downwards from any person with a DNA image on their profile to see the folks that Ancestry has matched me with as far as the autosomal DNA test.
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/81110634/family?fpid=38437006... If any of these topics have already been discussed here, just let me know where to look on the forum – no need to repeat yourself. Thanks. Roberta