Further information
a general overview

The brothers:
Robert E. Chaney
 Hosea Chaney
Hezekiah Chaney
 Ninevah Chaney
a possible sister
Zuritha Chaney
and a niece?
Sarah Jane Clark
(Sarah J. Clark Cross)
 

Carroll Co., AR, Census
 1860     1870

Chaney graves at Rule Cemetery. of Carroll Co., AR

Chaney Families of Northwest Arkansas

Carroll County Historical and Genealogical Society

Page created by:
Charles C. Chaney
Updated: 02 May 2009

C. Chaney's main index page

The four Chaney brothers
of Carroll County, Arkansas

 Robert (Bob), Hosea (Hosie), Hezekiah (Kye) & Ninevah (Bud)
 and, possibly, a sister named Zuritha

Four Chaney brothers and their mother are known to have lived in Carroll County, Arkansas, from the mid-1800's.  They appear in 1860  and 1870 census records of Carroll County, Arkansas.  Their father does not appear in any associated records and has not been identified although one family tradition reported that his name was Robert.  (However, this was from a single oral source. Research has not discovered a single trace of evidence of a Robert Chaney supporting this.)  The same source also reported that there was a sister, Jane, although this has proven to be an error.  She was referred to as "Aunt Jane" who married Bill Cross although it turned out that she was an older cousin.  She was Sarah Jane Clark, a daughter of Zuritha Chaney who married Elisha Price Clark.  Zuritha is evidently a sister of the brothers thus Sarah Jane would have been their niece.  There was an association with Hosea Chaney who appeared in the 1840 census of Newton Co., MO.  His and the Elisha P. Clark household were only two or three households apart.  This Hosea, who may be the son of Hezekiah Chaney of Wythe County, Virginia, has not been positively located since 1840.  The two eldest brothers were reported in later census records to have been born in Indiana (c1825 & c1830).  The 1830 census of Sullivan County, Indiana, reported "Hosea Channa" (difficult to read).  Further research is needed but this suggests that this Hosea Chaney could be the father of Zurinda and the brothers.  Three of the four brothers have descendents who are interested in identifying their Chaney lineage.  (The fourth brother, Ninevah "Bud", had no children.) This site has been established in hopes of learning the identity of this mysterious Chaney.

NOTE:  Recent DNA test have shown that the line goes back to Richard Cheyney who came from England and settled in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, in the mid-1600s.  There is still much research to be done but the exact line has been identified!  See the Chaney Genealogy website by Ken Chaney of New Jersey.

Recent research seems to strengthen the possibility that the father of the four brothers was Hosea Chaney son of Hezekiah Chaney who died in Wythe County, Virginia, in 1813.  It is interesting to note that one of this Hosea's sisters, Betsy, appears to have married Jeremiah Stone, Jr.  They had a son named Marvil/Marvel Stone, a name given to one of Hosea's grandsons.

The Parents
(probably) Hosea Chaney    &    Sarah A. (--?--)
              Death: after 1840                         Birth: c __ ___ 1795 NC.
                                                                         Death: after 1870 AR?