Sarah Jones Traylor and Champion Travis Traylor

The fun of genealogy is not only finding out that an ancestor is related to other people, or where they lived, or even what they might have done in their lifetimes...it's finding the materials and figuring out if they are accurate or not.  Of course detective work is always interesting to me, and most genealogists.

I think that I must make mistakes, and am always willing to change things I've shared which are incorrect.  But once things are in print, it is often assumed that the researcher knows whereof he speaks.

Yesterday I shared a description of the move of the families of Sarah Jones and Champion Traylor form Virginia to Georgia.  There's a booklet published by a descendant, which says that trip happened in 1700.  I hope it's just a typo.  She was born in 1780, and he was born in 1770.

Here're the book pages that were shared about them...

 Genealogy (in part) of William Hill Senior and Anne Hill his wife prepared by William Traylor Hill

This is the place that a date was given for the emmigration in the year 1700.  That is not accurate.

Author William Traylor Hill is the oldest of the 11 children listed here.

And with the help of Ancestry which gives Sarah Jone's dates and places (minimal, but helpful) I find that her father Frederick Jones died in 1791 when she was 11, in Brunswick VA.  Her oldest brother, Frederick Augistine Jones died in 1793 in an unknown place.  Her next oldest brother died in 1833 still in Surry VA. So it's not possible that either of these brothers would have traveled to GA by the time Sarah was 17 when she married Champion there. Next in line were 2 sisters before Sarah herself.

I'm looking at the lives of these siblings, with whom might an unmarried teen might have traveled with from Virginia to Georgia.  I know she married at 17 in Georgia.  So how did she get there?  Her mother was still alive, but unlikely to have taken this trip, as she lived until 1810, dying in Dinwiddie, Virginia.

Now I'll look at the families of her married sisters.
Sister Mary Herbert Jones married John Wright Withers in Dinwiddie VA in 1795, and had their first children there...then emigrated to Huntsville AL in 1808.

Sister Elizabeth (Betsy) Jones married (probably) a William or a George Mason.  She doesn't have clear birth dates known, nor place, nor place of a wedding or even a death date or place.  There's even another possible husband, Thomas C. MacLin.  Her marriage to Mr. Mason was probably on Dec. 26 1814. And that's all we know about her.  If she influenced her sister Sarah to move to Georgia, we don't have any documentation of her life.

Sarah's last brother Augustine Claiborne Jones has no birth or death data, but he did marry in Brunswick VA in 1807

In looking at her uncles (and aunts) on her mother's side, all are indicated to have lived their lives in VA.

Now I'm checking all the aunts and uncles on her father's side of the family.  Still doesn't look promising, though Uncle Cadwaller Jones moved to Hillsborough, Orange County, NC.

So now I'm going to see how an older man, Champion Travis Traylor, emmigrated to Georgia (Wilkes County) now Olgethorpe so he could marry Sarah Jones.  Where did he come from?