Bembry - Family History & Genealogy Message Board

Re: Bembry

bembry_elwyn — 2012-04-25 01:11:46Z

@ Brad Bembry: I believe your (and mine gg grandfather was Thomas N. Bembry instead of Thomas H. Bembry. He is buried in Suwanee County Florida. Contact me at elwynbembry@yahoo.com. My daughter has worked up an entire tree for the Hiram Bembry family. Hiram was was the grandson of Thomas N. Also, my 1st cousin, Sharon Gay, has done extensive research. We can help you.

Re: Black Bembry's from Edenton, N.C.

Ronaldbembry1 — 2012-02-28 19:23:18Z

My father was Charles Richard Bembry he had four brothers two sisters. Marylee and alma. Clinton, David ,Joseph and John Elton. parents were Joseph and Eva. My father was born in Edenton 1918.

BEMBRY Snyder P - Vietnam Wall section 3E

t42Vietnam_ParkerCoTX — 2011-12-25 15:41:21Z

BEMBRY Snyder P - Vietnam Wall section 3E

Honor our Veterans. This is one of many photographs of the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Parker Co, TX. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 223,668 photos free at http://teafor2.com where they are listed in order by state(Texas), county(Parker), cemetery(Vietnam) and Surname.

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Re: Bembry surname

blbembry — 2011-06-23 12:06:32Z

You can contact me @ blbembry@gmail.com

Re: Bembry surname

blbembry — 2011-06-23 12:05:12Z

My name is Baskin L. Bembry. I have recently been putting together an up to date family tree in an excel spreadsheet format. It is not finished, but it has alot of good information. I would love to share it with anyone who can help me piece it together. It mainly contains Bembry's from the Ga and Fla area.

North East florida bembry's

jonathanbembry — 2011-05-20 03:33:51Z

Lookin for some bembry's with knowledge of the irish ancestors that we have.

Family of Robert H. Saunders d.14 OCT 1927 in Paola, Miami, KS.

saundersws — 2011-05-06 23:50:16Z

Seek information on the family of Robert H. Saunders b.08 JUL 1835 in Fleming Co., KY; d. SEP 1921 in Paola, Miami, KS married Priscilla Ellen Lewman b.05 DEC 1837 in Fleming Co., KY; d.14 OCT 1927 in Paola, Miami, KS.
Children:

Dudley Bell Saunders
1857 – 1945 married Minerva Harriet Stevens

Margaret Jane Saunders
1859 – 1933 married Harry Granville Saunders

Charlotte Brigdett Saunders
1861 – 1944 married M.F. Ruggles

Sarah Amanda Saunders
1863 – married John W. Crouch

Laura Grant Saunders
1865 – 1949 married John W. Cordingly

Albert Wheeler Saunders
1867 – 1953

Lucy Saunders
1869 – married Catherine McGraw

Wade H. Saunders
1870 – 1934

Odie May Saunders
1873 – married George Bertram

Rex O Saunders
1875 – 1945 married Anna Vivian Dearinger

Annette Saunders
1878 – married Wesley Harnden

Henry Augustus Saunders
1880 – 1950

Re: Looking for Craig Bembry

slinkydon — 2011-03-31 12:07:31Z

how to get in touch with u

Re: Anybody out there

slinkydon — 2010-12-11 02:22:16Z

my name is craig william bembry my fathers name was iassc william bembry we can share info if u want my email is slinkydon@gmail.com

Re: Family Website

mancilou — 2010-06-01 08:17:43Z

Would like to join up with the Bembry family website!

Re: Davenport Iowa Bembrys

hobochick — 2010-03-12 20:51:07Z

Thank you! You're blog is terrific. If I find any connections, I'll let you know.

Re: Davenport Iowa Bembrys

kbmidura — 2010-03-11 14:03:01Z

Hi hobochick. The names you mention are not familiar to me, but I've been researching the Bembrys for a while, and I am pretty sure that they are all related in one way or another to Miles Bembry from the Scotland Neck area of NC. I have a blog you might like to check out here: http://bembrytree.wordpress.com/. My family came by way of GA and FL, but there is information about the early NC Bembrys that might be helpful to you.

Also, you didn't say whether you are a white or a black Bembry--there is a page on there with all the information I found about black Bembrys in the process of researching my white Bembry line. I expect we'll find that we are all connected up somehow one day.

Also, when you are searching old records, try every mispelling of the name you can think of. No one knew how to spell it back then, so you will see Bambry, Bamberry, Bemberry, Bembrey, Bumbry, Bimbry, you name it. The ancestry.com search engine doesn't catch most of these, I find. Good luck!

Davenport Iowa Bembrys

hobochick — 2010-03-01 08:08:22Z

I've just started researching my mother's family tree. Does anyone know who the Davenport Bembry family are related to? I am related to Matilda (Tilly) Bembry, George Bembry, and Geo Bembry from the 1800's. Geo Bembry is listed as being from either N.C. or VA, so I'm unsure of where to look next. Any help is appreciated! Thanks.

Re: Franklin Bembry

yugioh1015 — 2009-11-14 06:53:14Z

Hello, I just read you post about Franklin Bembry. Frankin is my uncle and I know this because the information you posted lets me know this. I went to his funeral and know is is buried at this Lynwood Cemetary. My father's name is Morris who, of course is Franklin's brother. Send me your email address so we can chat more.

Re: Black Bembrys from Hawkinsville, GA

pastorbembry — 2009-09-23 19:19:50Z

Really, that's exciting. Send me more information at pastor@newbm.com.......pictures etc.

Re: Black Bembrys from Hawkinsville, GA

lordylordygoodgod — 2009-09-23 18:57:24Z

Ned was owned by Miles and Mariah Bembry.Ned was a slave and so was Ben.They were treated well as far as slavery goes.Ben had a son named John who was my great grandfather.My grandfather and use to tell me that the white Bembrys gave his grandfather Ben some land in Hawkinsville back in the day.My family is still on part of the land still today 2009.I recently came across a photo of Bens son John on the farm in georgia from the early1900s .

Re: Black Bembrys from Hawkinsville, GA

lordylordygoodgod — 2009-09-23 18:39:08Z

My grandfather was John B.Bembry Jr. His grandparents were Ben and Mariah Bembry of Pulaski county.Does any one have any photos of any Bembrys especially Ben or Mariah?

BEMBRY, OHIO

RBEMBRY_1 — 2009-07-30 17:25:22Z

LOOKING FOR BEMBRY MY FATHER KENNNETH M BEMBRY IS FRON L AKELAND FL HIS BROTHER IS GREG BEMBRY HIS SISTER IS STORMIE DAD WAS JOHN DAVIS ,BROTHER DRAYTON GREEN BEMBRY

Re: bembry reunions

RBEMBRY_1 — 2009-07-30 17:21:22Z

CARLTON I THINK U ARE KIN TO ME MY FATHER WAS KEN BEMBRY HIS DAD WAS JOHN DAVIS BEMBRY HIS BROTHER IS DRAYTON GREEN BEMBRY MY GREAT AUNT WAS HOSTINA TOLEDO OHIO

Re: Black Bembry's from Edenton, N.C.

bbembry62 — 2009-06-26 19:31:04Z

Thanks, for the info. I just started to look into the family tree so I don't have a lot to go on. Anything you have would be helpful. I plan on contacting my aunt that still lives in Edenton to see if she has a family Bible. There are a lot of Bembry's in south Georgia and Florida from what I have read they trace thier beginning to Miles Bembry From Chowan County NC (Edenton). Good to know you too:)

Re: Black Bembry's from Edenton, N.C.

bigmtw40 — 2009-06-19 01:52:52Z

Hi Bernard,

My great, great, great grandmother is Celie Bembry. She had a son named Pilgrim, and a daughter named Julia, who's my great, great grandmother. So your uncle is probably related to Pilgrim in some way. I had an great aunt Lizzie who's maiden name was Stallings. She was married to my great uncle Samuel Wills. So I'm sure we're related in some way or fashion. Good to know you :) If you need anything about the family, let me know.

Re: Black Bembry's from Edenton, N.C.

bbembry62 — 2009-06-18 15:39:09Z

Hi, My Name is Bernard Bembry. I was born in Edenton NC. I lived with Margart Standley Badham her family name was Bembry. I have a uncle named James Prigim Bembry and aunt Evelyn Bembry that still live there. I also had uncles named John,Calvin and John Arthur Bembry. I know a Dean, Mike and Doris Wills from Edenton. I know the daugther of Luther Bembry and Pearlie Mae Stalling as Ella Bembry all of Edenton.

Re: Bembry family from Hawkinsville, GA & Hamilton, OH

lordylordygoodgod — 2009-05-23 23:04:08Z

I will let you know when the next Bembry family reunion is in Hawkinsville.Unfortunately you just missed the one they had in June08.

Re: Bembry, Leon County, Florida Territory

kbmidura — 2009-04-27 14:24:07Z

If the Halls were rich, then Kenneth also was good at marrying rich women! Mary Mayo was from a big planter family back in NC. Kenneth's brother Miles married a Marina Mayo from the same family. I have not had time to figure out whether the two may have been sisters, but I imagine they were cousins, anyway.

Yes, I believe that the Bembrys were originally from the Edgecombe county area, though Kenneth and his brothers were born in the Bertie county area. I am pretty sure that the Bembrys were originally Benburys from Chowan county and the name just got changed when a younger brother, Miles Benbury, moved west.

Kenneth and Mary Mayo did have one daughter, by the way. Her name was Henrietta, born about 1822 in NC. She did well for herself, marrying a very wealthy doctor from Virginia named Robert Westwood Fisher. They had two children. The son never married but the daughter did, and named one of her sons Kenneth!

Thank you for your information. Email me at kbmidura@yahoo.com if you want a gedcom or a family group sheet. That's funny you are also a Reubin Thompson descendant. But I am not surprised. I have started to think that everyone in the southeast is related one way or another, you just have to go back far enough!

Re: Bembry, Leon County, Florida Territory

CarolinGa — 2009-04-27 11:44:09Z

Thanks for the Bembrey infomration. Mahala's brother, William Hall Jr, lost money when the Union Bank went under in the Panic of 1837, according to a 1977 article in the "Magnolia Journal," Must be the same bank scandal. The Halls were a prosporous family, but I don't know where they came from before Georgia. Juniper Sr appears to have had ties back to Va and Maryland, where William Hall Sr's wife's family came from before moving to Pitt NC then Ga. She was Jane Adams, daughter of Colson Adams and Rachel Cason.

I am intrigued by the information that Kenneth's first wife was a Mayo, and I assume from some other research that they were in Edgecombe NC. My 3great-grandmother, Martha Thigpen, was Juniper Sr's second wife, and her family moved to Georgia from Edgecombe/Pitt N.C. Her father, Travis Hill Thigpen, had been widowed twice - first wife was Mary Dennis, second was Lydia Mayo - before he married Martha's mother, Hannah Hardy Hall. I wonder if Lydia and Mary were related.

So far I had not found any children for Kenneth and Mary. Mary did come from a large family - three brothers and five sisters. Several of them were in Alachua Fl by 1860, some also lived in Gadsden Co Fl and Thomas Co Ga. In Leon Co, they lived near Mt Pisgah church by a lake that became known as Lake Hall.

Some of Juniper Hall Sr's sons moved to Thomas Co Ga around 1830, and many descendants remained in that area - Thomas Co, Decatur Co Ga, and Gadsden and other north Florida counties. Around 1860 some of his younger sons moved to the Alachua/Clay/Bradford area of northeastern Florida.

By the way, I noticed from your posts that you are also a Reubin Thompson/Rachel Chambers descendant. So am I, though their son Rev. Robert Thompson.

I noticed from your other posts that you are a Reubin Thompson descendant also. So am I.

Re: Bembry, Leon County, Florida Territory

kbmidura — 2009-04-27 11:16:40Z

Yes, I am sure it is the same Kenneth Bembry, because Bembry was a rare name at that name, and there was only one Kenneth of that generation that I am aware of. They were married 10 Sep 1829 in Leon County, and I believe they had one daughter, though I don't know her name. She may have died young. His first wife was Mary Mayo.

Kenneth was quite wealthy, listing an estate worth $10,000 in 1850. But he was not gentry. His father, Miles Bembry, was a small-time planter from North Carolina, where Kenneth was born. His brothers were William Miles, John, and Thomas (my ancestor, who had no talent for making money!)

I found an interesting mention of Kenneth in a book. From my notes:

Mentioned on page 179 of "Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier Before the Civil War."

Initially a Democrat, Kenneth Bembry, who was the richest member of the Pisgah Methodist Church, was nominated by the Whigs as a token "yeoman" candidate for the state legislature in 1841. The Whigs were at the time attempting to overcome the bad blood from a real estate/banking scandal that was greatly resented by the common people of Leon County. The author speculates that the Whigs offered Kenneth "social acceptance" among the Virginia and North Carolina-bred planter class. He lost the election in a landslide and was branded as a "traitor" by area Democrats.

So, Mahala knew how to pick 'em. Will be happy to send a family group sheet or something if you like.

Bembry, Leon County, Florida Territory

CarolinGa — 2009-04-26 18:03:43Z

Hi, I am researching the William Hall family of Leon Fl, and the Juniper Hall family of Emanuel Co Ga. I am a descendant of Juniper, and believe that William was related to him. William Hall was born 1771/81 in possibly Maryland. He married Jane Adams in 1805 in Tattnall Co Ga, but moved to Pulaski Co Ga for a while before settling in Leon Fl abt 1824. His daughter Mahala married Kenneth Bembry about 1829. I think they are the Kenneth Bembry d 1851, and the Mahaly Bembry b 12/16/1805 d 1849, who are buried at Mt Pisgah Methodist Church in Leon Co Fl. Do you think this is the same Kenneth who was a brother of your John Bembry?

The First Black Bembry

Damelman1 — 2009-01-07 01:52:21Z

What's the bembry's african race? Nigerian or other

Re: Bembry Blacks

pastorbembry — 2008-12-11 20:47:48Z

What is your source for this document?

Re: Black Bembrys from Hawkinsville, GA

pastorbembry — 2008-12-08 04:47:14Z

doing some research and it appears that Ben parents were Ned and Sallie Bembry (1810 1815) which would put them in slavery time......any insight? I can't seem to get further than that......now who was the white Bembry who owned them and from part of Africa were they or were they born in slavery?

Re: Black Bembrys from Hawkinsville, GA

pastorbembry — 2008-12-03 05:53:21Z

I am trying to connect a Ben Bembry who married a Mariah Fleming, had a son named James who had a son named Alonzo...anyone have any data.....? My g g grandparent. Does anyone have any data on this Ben? Was he a slave? Who owned him? Anyone have any pictures on Ben, James or Alonzo?

BEMBRY Hazel O 1900-1993

t42Moore — 2008-11-02 22:50:40Z

BEMBRY Hazel O 1900-1993

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BEMBRY Glenn R 1894-1964

t42Moore — 2008-11-02 22:50:29Z

BEMBRY Glenn R 1894-1964

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Re: Black Bembrys from Hawkinsville, GA

calvinbembry1 — 2008-08-19 14:36:30Z

Yes

Re: Black Bembrys from Hawkinsville, GA

lbembry02 — 2008-08-19 14:21:26Z

Jim Bembry was my great-grandfather. He was married twice to Maggie then Margaret Fleming (my great-grandmother). His parents were Benjamin and Mariah Bembry. I think he had a son also named Jim, is that your grandfather?

Re: John Bembry - Bembry's from Georgia, Message from Darlene Bembry

Adjoah1 — 2008-08-19 14:09:30Z

Hello,

My great-grandfather was Thomas H Bembry I am not sure when he was born however I know he passed in the 1940's. I am unaware of his parent. I know he had several siblings one being Primus. If these names sound familiar let talk.

Re: Black Bembrys from Hawkinsville, GA

calvinbembry1 — 2008-08-19 13:52:25Z

My father is Douglas Bembry....His Father is Jim Bembry and His Mother is/was Clara Bembry, Duhart is her maiden. Jim had three kids..Douglas, Bertha (Deceased) and William (Deceased)
Jim is the son of Ben Bembry (1844-1919)Ben was married to Mariah.

Re: Bembry

Adjoah1 — 2008-08-19 13:51:42Z

Hi Kenneth,

I recently ran across your post and I too have familiy from Hawkinsville, Ga. My great-grandfather was Thomas H. Bembry and he married Emma Shelman. I am trying to find out who his siblings were? If there are any family members remaining in Hawkinville? Please respond so we can share additional info.

Thanks

Re: Black Bembrys from Hawkinsville, GA

lbembry02 — 2008-08-18 15:49:29Z

What is your father's name?

Re: Black Bembrys from Hawkinsville, GA

Adjoah1 — 2008-08-18 15:45:36Z

I to have just begun researching the Bembrys from Hawkinsville, Ga. My great great-grandfather was Thomas H. Bembry and he died in the 1940's. He was married to Emma Shelman. If you had any additional info please post back.
Thanks

Re: Black Bembrys from Hawkinsville, GA

Adjoah1 — 2008-08-18 15:42:38Z

Re: Bembry Line

darol18 — 2008-08-16 20:06:13Z

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Re: Bembry

darol18 — 2008-08-16 20:03:57Z

Is Thomas H Bembry African American? Was he born in Hawkinsville, GA to Ben and Mariah Bembry? Is so, please email me at Daroll@aol.com. Thanks

Re: Black Bembrys from Hawkinsville, GA

calvinbembry1 — 2008-08-13 17:02:10Z

My Grandfather is a Jim Bembry and I am sure my Father could provide additional information.

Looking for information on John Bembry, Leon County, Florida Territory

kbmidura — 2008-07-23 18:38:06Z

Looking for information on John Bembry born about 1794 in NC, moved to Leon County, FL 1820-1830, died in or moved away from Leon County between 1830 and 1840. He had a wife and about 6 children that I cannot find on later censuses, though three of them were boys. I believe one of the daughters was named Frances Martha and she married William Bryan in 1830.

There is some reason to think that John was wanted for murder of a Littleton Bryan, but I do not have the full story on that. It is possible that, if this is true, his family moved away, but I can't find them living anywhere else in 1840, either.

John's brother, Kenneth Bembry, was a big Leon County landowner who died in 1854.

Any information would be most welcome!

Re: Bembry

Adjoah1 — 2008-06-04 06:03:08Z

Hi I just ran across your post. You mentioned that your great great grandfather was Thomas H. Bembry of Hawkinsville, GA. Did he live in NJ when he died. What was his profession. If so I am the grandchild of his sister, Ellen Bembry.

Re: Black Bembrys from Hawkinsville, GA

carswells — 2008-05-29 21:10:16Z

Yes, we're related! David was my grandfather and Jim Bembry was my great-grandfather, who married Margaret Fleming after his first wife, Maggie, died. Maggie was David's mother. I have done some research on the Bembrys so let's talk. My name is Shirley; my mom Sarah is one of David's 11 children. My email is carswells@washpost.com. Hope to hear from you soon.

Re: Black Bembrys from Hawkinsville, GA

lbembry02 — 2008-05-27 15:27:26Z

My grandfather was name Dolphus Bembry. His mother was named Magaret Fleming. My grandfather oldest half-brother was named David.

Re: Black Bembrys from Hawkinsville, GA

carswells — 2008-05-24 05:15:26Z

My great-grandfather was also named Jim Bembry, and my grandfather was David Bembry, the oldest son of Jim and Maggie. I believe Jim had a brother named Ham so we may share some ancestors. What is your grandfather's name?

Black Bembrys from Hawkinsville, GA

lbembry02 — 2008-05-15 12:19:55Z

I am beginning to search on my family's history, starting with my father's side. My greatgrandfather was named Jim Bembry, I know he had a brother named Ham. I know he was married twice, my grandfather was a product from the second marriage. If anybody knows any info about my relatives, please feel free to respond.