DNA Proves Connection in the Golden and Kilpatrick Line

If you are one of the many customers of FTDNA, I hope you are having better luck making connections and finding your family lines.  Woody is now tested three times.  He has completed up to the 67 marker test, plus the family finder test.

Although the YDNA tests have led to much confusion and more questions rather than answers, we are pleased to announce that the family finder test  has yielded a result.  We received confirmation that one of Woody's possible cousins tested and a match was made.

The photo is of Mrs Mary Narnee Wooten Golden.  I found it in the Golden Family Tree at Ancestry.com She is Woody's second cousin twice removed.  She is also the mother of James Reginald Golden, Jr.   James and Woody are 3rd cousins once removed.  We are hoping to hear from him and find out more about the connection.

What we do know is that James' parents were James R Golden, Sr and  Mary Narnee Wooten. M Narnee's parents were Albert Wooten and Rhetta Chipley.  Albert's parents were Thomas Jefferson Wooten and Martha Dorill.  Thomas Jefferson was brother to Marion F Wooten and son of Benjamin and Lydia Wooten.

Benjamin and Lydia Wooten had a son, Marion F Wooten who married Martha Atkinson.  Marion and Martha had among other children a son, Benjamin Wooten.  Benjamin married Maggie Belle Anderson and they had eight children, one of which was William H Kilpatrick.  William married Edna Wooten and they had three sons and one daughter, Bonnie Kilpatrick.  Bonnie's second husband was Langston E Gibson, Jr.  They had two children,Woody (Langston E Gibson III) and Rhonda.   This makes Benjamin and Lydia Wooten 4th great grandparents of Woody Gibson.

Woody Gibson's connection to Flood M Kilpatrick

James Kilpatrick b 1765 married Sarah Doughty b. 1774.  Both are reported to be deceased in the same year, 1821.  While married they had at least three children, possibly more.  The chilren were William C Kilpatrick b. 1800,  Joseph Doughty Kilpatrick b. 1806, and Benjamin Franklin b. 1808.

Joseph went on to marry Elizabeth and they had among other children, Flood M Kilpatrick.  His brother Benjamin married Rebecca Camilla Stribling.  Among the children born to them was a son, Flood McGrew Kilpatrick.

I've found at least to other Flood McGrew Kilpatricks in this family, so I suspect that Flood M Kilpatrick may also have the middle name McGrew.  Interestingly, the two Flood's I mentioned earlier are cousins that are both born in 1833.  Flood M was born in Alabama, while his cousin, Flood McGrew was born in South Carolina.  They also both served in the Confederate army in the war between the states.

The service records for Flood M show that he enlisted as soon as the war was about to start.  He enlisted as a Private in the 15th Mississippi Infantry in Company D.  His cousin, also, was a private.  However, he didn't enlist until 1862 and he was with the 40th Mississippi Infantry in Company F.

Flood M Kilpatrick never returned from the war.  He was killed during the siege of Vicksburg on June 30th of 1863.  I've been unable to find any records indicating that he was married or had children.  As late as 1860 US Census he is still reported living at home with his parents.

As for Flood McGrew Kilpatrick b. 1833, he returned from the war and married Nancy Bungrit Wright.  One of their ten children, William T Kilpatrick b. 1862 married Eliza Ann Smith b. 1867.  William and Eliza would go on to have ten children.  One of the ten was also named Flood McGrew Kilpatrick b. 1890.  Another son, William H Kilpatrick b. 1910 married Edna Wooten b. 1911.  William and Edna had three sons and only one daughter, Bonnie Kilpatrick b. 1928.  Bonnie's second husband, Langston Edward Gibson, Jr had two children, Rhonda and Langston III.

Langston III is Woody Gibson, my wonderful husband.    That means that Flood M Kilpatrick was Woody's first cousin, 4x removed.  Meanwhiile, Flood McGrew Kilpatrick was Woody's Great Great Grandfather.  So glad he survived the war.