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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 Family History Index page
C.
Chaney's main index page
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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?
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