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- 1900 United States Federal Census
Name: Semantha Trollinger
Age: 1
Birth Date: May 1899
Birthplace: South Carolina
Home in 1900: Spartanburg, Spartanburg, South Carolina
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Boman Trollinger
Father's Birthplace: South Carolina
Mother's Name: Minnie Trollinger
Mother's Birthplace: South Carolina
1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Janie Keasler
Birth Year: abt 1901
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: South Carolina
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Home in 1930: Pickney, Union, South Carolina
Map of Home: View Map
Street address: South First Street
House Number in Cities or Towns: 18
Dwelling Number: 265
Family Number: 267
Age at First Marriage: 15
Attended School: No
Able to Read and Write: No
Father's Birthplace: South Carolina
Mother's Birthplace: South Carolina
Able to Speak English: Yes
Occupation: Spinner
Industry: Cotton Mill
Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker
Employment: Yes
Household Members:
Name Age
A Eugene Keasler 33
Janie Keasler 29
Florence L Keasler 14
I Bell Keasler 11
A John Keasler 8
Catheline L Keasler 6
J Roy Keasler 0 [11/12]
From: Richard Hessler
Date: Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:04 PM
Subject: Princess White Cloud Trollinger debunked
To: Beth Trollinger
Hi Beth,
Thank you for the pdf from the Trollinger cousin lady in Myrtle Beach, SC.
I have had Samantha Jane Trollinger in my files for 15-20 years along with her parents, cousins, and how she connects to my line of descent. I pieced this together from reviewing ALL SC Trollinger census records from 1810 through 1920.
I think I can help you to unsnarl her story.
First, Samantha Jane Trollinger is descended from a Bomar Trollinger who was descended from a William Trollinger, but I believe Gracie Howell latched on to the wrong Bomar Trollinger, took a left turn, and ended up back in Haw River, NC several generations sooner than she should have. You can follow my line of ancestry for Samantha Jane Trollinger on the ancestor chart or the group sheets or the GEDCOM for her and all ancestors and descendants of those ancestors. Note: I have her in my records and knew she married a Mr. Keasler, but did not know his given name.
Second, the Princess White Cloud story I suspect from a now deceased researcher Mary Trollinger of Atlanta. She was born about 1920, I talked to her and gave her my records about 20-22 years ago in 1995-1997. The Indian princess story was told to me by my late half grand aunt Louise Trollinger Mitchell Miller between when I tracked her down in 1995 and her death in 2003. She heard that story from her father John Marcus Trollinger who was the son of Albert Bomar Trollinger who was married to the "Indian Princess". Aunt Louise said her name was Destiny and that her father said she had left her children with her husband and returned to live among her people. My guess is Mary Georgia Pittman Trollinger (wife of Raymond Edgar Trollinger) heard the story from her father-in-law Thomas Benjamin Trollinger who was a son from the THIRD marriage of Albert Bomar Trollinger.
All that is clear is that Albert Bomar Trollinger and his first wife had four children. They were not married in 1860, on 1870 Haywood Co., NC census his was listed as Julia Trollinger. On the 1880 census, Albert Bomar Trollinger and wife Julia Trollinger were no longer living together. He moved to Franklin Co., GA near where their four children lived with his mother Emmeline Mahulda Trollinger Morrison and near where his second or common law wife Mary Payne lived with her parents and their three children bearing the Payne surname, evidently born out of wedlock but all three of which later used the surname Trollinger, post marriage or just took their father's last name.
Meantime, back in Spartanburg Co., SC, Julia Ann Trollinger lived with the Bishop family and cared for elderly, invalid Mrs. Bishop who died in 1884, left land to Julia Ann Trollinger, via Mrs. Bishop's son by her first marriage. Julia Ann Trollinger then married the widower Mr. Henry Jefferson Bishop on 20 Feb 1885. Julia Ann Trollinger four children's names are recorded in the Bishop family bible.
Through my ancestry.com DNA test, I have identified two direct ancestors in Spartanburg Co., SC unknown to me prior to 2016: James H. Ezell and his wife Artimissa Scruggs Dobbins. I believe they are the parents of Julia Ann Trollinger. They had a daughter same age as Julia Ann of the nickname Nancy used for given name Ann who lived on the next farm over from the old patriarch Samuel Trollinger.
Further, my Native American DNA percentage is in the 0.0 to 1.0% range as is my mother's. There is none with my father's DNA. My mother's great grandmother Julia Ann (Ezell?) Trollinger Bishop was 1/8th of my mother's DNA. My mother has another putative Indian princess on her mother's side, but point is: 1/8th is 12.5% so whatever Native American DNA Julia Ann might have had could only have been very small to be diluted to less than 1.0% for my mother. DNA does not support Julia Ann being an Indian princess or any more than 1/16th herself to pass along at most 1.0% to my mother.
Finally, no telling why Albert Bomar and Julia Ann went their separate ways, but she stayed in Spartanburg Co., SC to whence they had returned from their brief residence in Haywood Co., NC from sometime after 1866 and sometime before 1871. It was Albert Bomar Trollinger and his mother Hulda Morrison who bugged out with the four children to Franklin Co., GA when the children were all rather young. What happened to pry four young children away from their mother to be placed with their paternal grandmother; who knows, but no doubt that there was some kind of major dust up.
Attached are photos of Albert Bomar Trollinger and Julia Ann Trollinger in the possession of my cousin Jerry Mitchell of Crandall, GA near Chatsworth whose mother was Louise Trollinger. Included are photos of other names in the story above.
I'd be happy to walk you through this over the phone one evening.
Sincerely,
Richard Hessler
(678) 575-5000
rohessler@gmail.com
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1899 - 1972 (72 years)
