I am new to genealogy and I am trying to find out about my fathers's family. My father never said much about them, so I do not have much to go by. I have a photostatic copy of a special certificate of births for use in recording births occurring prior to 1911. Nathan Thomas Sutton was born in 1859 in Union County, Kentucky. He was married to Dixie Jones, who was born in 1861 in Webster County, Kentucky. Dixie gave birth to my father, Carson on August 11, 1894 in Providence, Kentucky and three years later gave birth to a second son, Starling in August of 1897. When my father was 6 years old his parents divorced and my father and uncle were kidnapped by their father and were hidden at their grandparents farm. My father said that his mother tried for a while to get her sons back, but my grandfather was always successful in keeping them hidden. After a while his mother gave up and started a new life in either Indiana or Illinois, where she remarried and started another family. He never said whether he knew what her new married name was or how many children she had though he did say she had more children. Nathan remarried a woman named Addie Maddox whom my father referred to as Momma. Nathan and Addie never had any children and they divorced, but my father continued to have a relationship with her and I met her when she was in her 70's as my grandmother. My father may have grown up in the Louisville/Paducah, Kentucky area, as he would mention those towns when he talked of his youth. My father never said anything about my grandfather. I do not know if he ever married again or had anymore children. I don't know where or when he died or anything about the Sutton family he came from. If anyone has any information about this branch of Suttons please let me know. I have never seen the names of Carson or Starling in anything I have read on the Sutton web sight. As these names are unusual I was hoping to spot a family with them in their family tree. I believe that the name of Springer was related to this line of Suttons because I do remember my dad as introducing a man named Carson Springer to me as his cousin.
Any information will be greatly appreciated. Thank-you