Jonathan RIALS

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Family/Spouse: Susan L. "Susie" LAMBERT. Susan was born about 1820; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jesse RIALS was born on 2 Feb 1844 in Lawrence County, Mississippi; and died.

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Georgetown Mississippi named after George, the first settler.

From discertation by W.B. Russell, August 16, 1932 when 82 years old:

"George and Sallie Rials moved from South Carolina in 1815 to about three miles east of White Bluff in Marion County, Mississippi, on the east side of Perl River. They resided there a few years and then moved to a mile north of White Bluff, on the Marion Branton place. After a few years they moved to the Joe Mullins place where John Mullins now lives. After a few years they moved to Bogue Chitto Station, Lincoln County, Mississippi, where they are buried (Marion County at that time)."

"George Rials had several girls and three boys. Aron Rials reared his family near Hazlehurst. Johnathan Rials reared his family in and near Brookhaven. One of his sons, Jesse Rials, is living near there at 87. He is the only surviving grandchild of George Rials. The Carneys lived on Tilton not far from the Tynes place. Moses Rials, born May 11, 1804. Died on his 86th birthday, May 11, 1890. Moses Rials married Sallie Carney, daughter of John Carney, son of Ikenably, an Indian Chief. John Carney's mother was American."

George married Sarah "Sallie" CARNEY about 1801. Sarah (daughter of Iklannabee (Ikenaby, Iklanby) John CARNEY and Sally Ann KEARNEY (CARNEY)) was born about 1788 in East Choctaw Indian Territory; died before 1850; was buried in Bogue Chitto Station, Old Marion Co, Missisippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Tylertown Times Thursday October 2, 1980:-----
--Moses Rials was born 11 May 1804, s/o George and Sallie Rials who came to MS from SC in 1815. his wife Sally Carney was born April 1808 and died 22 Aug 1868. She was d/o John Carney, son of the Choctaw Indian, Ikenabbee. Moses and Sally made their home in Lawrence at Bismark.

Settled in Lawrence Co., Mississippi.

From Cheri Arickson:
"I have a little information for you I got it from the rials- ryals family book at the library george ryalls married sallie? he came to ms. in 1813 from johnston county, north carolina near raliegh
there children were:
1 moses married sallie carney
2 aaron married mariah wooley
3 johnathon married susie lambert
4 matilda married john chapman
5 rebecca married? may have been his granddaughter was living with george in 1850.

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• Name: Ikkenaby
• Name: Ikleabi
• Name: John CARNEY
• Naturalization: ; His name is in the Register of Choctaw's wishing to become citizens as entered by the government agent
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• Residence: 1800, Craven, North Carolina
• Census: 1820, Choctaw Nation East, Old Marion County Mississippi now Lawrence County, Mississippi
• Residence: 1840, Lawrence, Mississippi

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A Choctaw Indian Chief or Captain of warriors - bestowed through the maternal line as dictated by Indian tradition, as his white trader father married the daughter of an Indian Chief to secure trade relations as customary at the time. Other spellings: Ikenaby, Iklenaby - In Choctaw language, iklanna means 'half' in relation to blood (brother), and the full meaning was "Half-blood Warrior". Many Choctaw families helped their daughters select a trader as husband. Both Traders and elite Choctaw families sought these unions but chiefs like Franchimastabe and Taboca controlled the actions of such foreigners who wished to become part of Choctaw Society. Elite power became increasingly associated with these foreigners and their imported goods. Only elite Choctaws had marriageable access to traders and only elite Choctaw women married these traders in the late eighteenth century.

Iklannabee's father and mother are unproven at this moment, and my conclusion as to their identity is circumstantial. It is believed his father was a white Indian Trader named Arthur Carney and his mother a Choctaw woman, daughter to a chief, thus his designation along the matriarchal line as a "Captain" under a "small medal" chief. One of his wives was Sally Ann Kearney, his first wife and who is believed to be from Ireland. Her family died on the journey to their new land from a fever, and she was placed as a child with her cousins in North Carolina/Tennessee. The exact family relationship with her American family cannot be determined, but she married her distant cousin Iklannabee who from that point forward began using his and her families surname and was from then known as John Carney among whites.

DNA testing of several Carney Family volunteers has confirmed the Mississippi John Carney (B: 1775) line is related through an exact match with 37 markers to the Tennessee John Carney (B: 1748) line. Despite other researchers speculation, we cannot merge Iklannabee into John Carney (B: 1748) who is believed to be his half-brother. Reasons: (1) That John Carney has children with sufficient documentation proving that they were born and partially raised in the North Carolina and then arrived in Tennessee territory in 1783 - Iklannabee birthdate firmed up about 1758 and would have been father at 12. (2) Iklannabee was Indian in appearance, and ? breeds were not then allowed to own land in Tennessee/North Carolina or serve as juror. (3) It is shown in several Censuses that John and his children were never mentioned to be anything other than white.

The plausible conclusion as evidenced by the DNA testing and rolls, censuses, land deeds, etc is that Iklannabee of Mississippi and John Carney (B: 1748) of Tennessee have the same father, believed to be the same Indian Trader who plied his wares in Indian Territory. The Choctaw Indian Territory extended from Mississippi to eastern Alabama and up the Natchez Trace into Tennessee.

During the Spanish-American War of 1812, Iklannabee (Ikenaby) served under Andrew Jackson, who was later to lead the United States as its President. It is unknown how much action he may have been involved in, since in 1813, Andrew Jackson's militia force of 2,000 men which had been intended for the occupation of Pensacola and St. Augustine, was ordered to stand down. They were no longer needed in West Florida due to war developments, and the War department ordered the men be dismissed from the service while at Natchez, as they were impatiently in readiness for an advance on the British, Spanish and Indians. General Jackson was so disappointed by the order, that he had the men transported back to Tennessee at his own expense.

The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the last in a series of six treaties between the United States government and the Choctaw Nation of Mississippi, was signed on September 27, 1830, between the two prongs of the Big and Little Dancing Rabbit Creeks in present-day Noxubee County, Mississippi. John H. Eaton and John Coffee represented the government, and Greenwood Leflore represented the Choctaw Nation. Under the agreement of the treaty, the Choctaw Nation surrendered their remaining lands east of the Mississippi River to the government and as compensation; the government gave them the land beyond Arkansas (present-day Oklahoma) as a new Indian territory. Another stipulation was that the Choctaws were to relocate during 1831-1833. Treaty was signed by Jerry Carney, Ittabe (Ikenaby - phonetic K is tt as signed here and some other documents) and many others.

Armstrong Roll - Application to remain in Mississippi as Citizen - May 7, 1831; Iklanabee, Children: 0 under 10, 3 over 10, Indian man.
However, Iklannabee was unsuccessful in preventing his family from being sent to Oklahoma reservation and Emigrated to Skullyville, Indian Territory in the winter of 1833:
Muster Roll of Choctaw Indians who arrived in Ark. District, Choctaw
Country West, A.D. l832 and l833 of the 2nd Emigration - Agency Depot:
Skullyville, I.T.: Iklannubbee - in family: 2 males; 2 females; l child;
No. of deaths in l833: 2; Total arrived: 5 in Jan. 25, l833. Iklannabee. emigrated in the company of Mingo Homah, Capt. There is an Ikleabi and and Iklannabbee listed on the 1831 Armstrong roll, and Iklannabbe is our relative.
Library of Congress, Senate, 23rd Congress, 1st Session 1834, Public Lands: Volume 7, page 129. List of claims allowed: "Ibakanaba, 400 acres, Capt. at treaty, purchased by J.H. Horne-Relinquished"

There are some in the family who feel Iklannabee returned to Mississippi after the Emigration because a John Carney is found in the household of Elijah (B: 1803) in 1850. This John is not Iklannabee but his son John Carney B: 1775, aged 70 as correlated precisely to his particulars. Also, Iklannabee is found in the final days of his life on the reservation in 1855 census roll. He still may have returned to his homeland in later years to Mississippi, as he was entitled to as shown in: Choctaw Case Claim 285, Shows Iklanabbe (Col. Wards Register) entitled to 640 acres @ $1.25.
Nonetheless, the Choctaws who preferred to remain in or return to Mississippi after lengthy court cases, received land allotments, became subject to Mississippi law, and were no longer subject to the laws of the Choctaw tribe. Each adult Choctaw who chose to remain in Mississippi received 640 acres of land. Each child over the age of ten received 320 acres while each child under the age of ten received 160 acres of land. Approximately 5,000 Choctaws chose to remain in Mississippi.

Still, the family movements of Iklannabee have shown a degree of restlessness, as did many other family members who moved up and down the Natchez Trace and Choctaw Indian lands. An 1813 lawsuit involving a land dispute in Davidson County, Tennessee (re: the State of Tennessee against JOHN KERNEY, SR., JOHN KERNEY, JR. and ELIJAH KERNEY. Reference: Book - Davidson County, Tennessee County Court Minutes was settled out of court), might indicate the presence for the first time of Iklannabee, now known as John Carney in the white man's world, as being in Tennessee, but this is considered very unlikely and thought to be his son, John Carney born in 1775.

Additional Sources: Over 500 pages of Notes, Records and Files at the Carney DNA Project Jim Carney www.avocadoridge.com/jim March 2010

Iklannabee married Sally Ann KEARNEY (CARNEY) about 1775 in Mississippi. Sally was born about 1758 in Ireland; died before 1850 in Bogue Chitto Station, Old Marion Co, Missisippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sally Ann Kearney is believed to be from Ireland, and related to the North Carolina/Tennessee Carney's. Her family died of a fever enroute to their new land and she was placed as a child with her cousins/relatives in America. The exact relationship with her American family cannot be determined, but she did marry her distant cousin Iklannabee who from that point forward began using his and her families surname and was from then known as John Carney among whites, while maintaining his Choctaw name among the Indians.

Additional supporting info from Bill Carney:
"This is how the story is still told by the old-timers around the Tilton, MS area (lower Lawrence Co.). I haven't been able to confirm through research. ...Sally Carney was taken in by another family after her's all died of a fever enroute from Ireland. Married Ikenaby who took her last name."

Sources: Over 500 pages of Notes, Records and Files at the Carney DNA Project Jim Carney www.avocadoridge.com/jim March 2010

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I preface this particular person's lineage with the caveat that this is a 'best evidence' assumption based on facts and DNA evidence. Positive proof of Iklennabee's and John Carney's (B:1748-1750) father is NOT available and based on conclusions.

Background: It is concluded that the father of Iklennabee was likely a white man who married a Choctaw Indian woman. In Choctaw language, iklanna means 'half' in relation to blood (brother), and the full meaning was "Half-blood Warrior". Many Choctaw families helped their daughters select a trader as husband. Both Traders and elite Choctaw families sought these unions but chiefs like Franchimastabe and Taboca controlled the actions of such foreigners who wished to become part of Choctaw Society. Elite power became increasingly associated with these foreigners and their imported goods. Only elite Choctaws had marriageable access to traders and only elite Choctaw women married these traders in the late eighteenth century.

DNA testing of several Carney Family volunteers has confirmed the Mississippi John Carney (B: 1775) line is related through an exact match with 37 markers to the Tennessee John Carney (B: 1748) line. Despite other researchers speculation, we cannot merge Iklannabee into John Carney (B: 1748) who is believed to be his half-brother. Reasons: (1) That John Carney has children with sufficient documentation proving that they were born and partially raised in the North Carolina and then arrived in Tennessee territory in 1783 - Iklannabee birthdate firmed up about 1758 and would have been father at 12. (2) Iklannabee was Indian in appearance, and ? breeds were not then allowed to own land in Tennessee/North Carolina or serve as juror. (3) It is shown in several Censuses that John and his children were never mentioned to be anything other than white.

This leads us to conclude that John of Tennessee and John of Mississippi have a common male progenitor although the evidence points out it cannot be the same father, thus a generation is skipped and John of Tennessee is actually the uncle of John of Mississippi. These families are found together in eastern North Carolina, which later became Tennessee with ample evidence of association with each other and each other's friends and acquaintances. This father/grandfather of the two men, points to a Carney/Kearney man who probably entered the country from Ireland around 1731, arriving in all probability in either eastern Florida (later state of Mississippi), or colonial Georgia. Some evidence points to his being a Flax Linen Spinner/Trader from Northern Ireland who took up Trading in the new land, and some evidence points to his coming in as an Irish-Scott brigade soldier/farmer given land and passage by the French Military in exchange for service, and may indeed be the same former Flax Spinner. We do not know if this was a trader or soldier for certain. Not long after his arrival in America, this first Arthur Carney from Ireland had a son, Arthur Carney (Kearney), born in about 1735. It is known that he also had a son named Jeremiah (brother to Arthur B:1735) and another son named William who was a prolific and successful trader among the Indians (documentation maintained). Arthur Carney B: 1732 is also known as Thomas Arthur Carney but apparently usually used his middle name Arthur in most documentation.

Arthur Carney (B:c-1732) became a trader also, sometime after age 19 and his authorized area for trading was in Choctaw Territory, whereby this authority required he remain at his trading site 6 months out of the year. Most traders spent somewhat less, around 3 to 6 months of the year actually at their post, plus travel time - and like others, Arthur maintained a tobacco plantation and a white wife and family back 'home' for the other 6 months of the year. Documentation shows that Arthur was an active trader and land holder and was quite a successful businessman.

Arthur was offered, and took a Choctaw Indian wife - whose name is uncertain, but was from a prominent family; and from this union his wife bore Iklannabee, born around the year 1758. Arthur was married to a white woman also while in North Carolina and later Georgia where he based some of his holdings. Her name was Elizabeth Aderton, as noted in several dealings outlined below. From this marriage, Arthur had at least one daughter, Margaret Carney, and three sons - Jeremiah Carney (not Jerry), Arthur Carney (Indian Trader), and John Carney B:1748. Pending further documentation, Arthur may have a possible fourth son, a trader William Carney who died in 1795 without children.

The French withdrew from east Florida/Mississippi October 16, 1762 and ceded their claims in eastern Florida (Louisiana, Mississippi, etc) to Spain. The following year, the treaty of Paris gave Britain nearly all of France's holdings in America, setting the stage for dispute and conflict and a confusion of loyalties for the colonist. Who did they recognize as the true masters and heirs and to whom would they side with when the war of Independence broke out in 1776?

By October 1775 all branches of government in the Georgia Colony were gone except for the Judicial branch after being overtaken.
In December 1775 what was left of the Provincial Congress appointed a new Council of Safety. They were to organize a battalion to defend Georgia. On Jan 7th, 1776 the battalion was further organized by elected and commissioned field officers. This is when the prominent and wealthy ARTHUR CARNEY was "elected or commissioned" as a "Company Officer" with a rank of Captain, of the Fourth Company. John McIntosh, Jr Captain and Lachlan McIntosh JR 1st Lt were commissioned for the third Company. Capt Carney had 2 Lieutenants, 4 Sergents, 4 Corporals and 48 Sentinels in his company.

In August 1777, Captain Arthur Carney was taken prisoner by the British at St. Simons Island, Georgia "Their crews captured and carried away Captain Arthur Carney, five citizens, several negroes, and as much household furniture as could be conveyed in the barges." For any number of possible reasons, Arthur deserted to the British on the "10th of August 1777, and subsequently joined the enemy." His son Arthur (B: 1755/D:1804) was also a Tory he too sided with the British. After the war 100,000 loyalist were dispersed to all parts of the Empire, from Britain to Mississippi, West Indies, Canada and Florida.

Unfortunately, Arthur did not survive the war and was killed during the waning hours of the war in 1783. His property of 300 acres at Sunbury, was put up for auction in August 1781 as confiscated property, even before his death. This disposal of assets continued after his demise with other properties of "late the property of Arthur Carney...being persons named in the Act of Confiscation and Attainder, as enemies to the State." Public sale held at Sunbury February 1785. This was followed by Confiscated Estates sales in St. Patrick's Parish (now Glynn County), and others.

Partial Documentation (more on file):
1761- P 495 Jacob Lockerman of St Johns Parish, to ARTHUR CARNEY. Bill of Sale dated 1761, for his stock of cattle in said parish, and two flats (Boats) Witnesses L James Aderton, George Noble.

COMMENT: This sale witness, James Aderton confirms the ties our Arthur Carney with his wife Elizabeth Aderton and her family.

P 88 Kenneth Baillie, John Elliott, Grey Elliott, Trustees for the Town of Sunbury to ARTHUR CARNEY. Deed dated May 5, 1760 , for town lot 393 in Sunbury, size 70X130'. No Witnesses.
P89 James Maxwell, Kenneth Baillie, John Elliott, Trustees of the Town of Sunbury, to Samuel Tomlinson. Deed dated Jan 4, 1762 for lot #314 in Sunbury, size 70x130'. Witnesses: James Lockerman, Abraham Williams, Transfer recorded with deed, from Tomlinson to Arthur Carney, dated Dec 27, 1762

P 90 William Braswell to ARTHUR CARNEY. Bill of Sale for slave dated 9-11-1763. Witnesses: Alexander Kilpatrick, Sanders Colson. Deed signed by William Bracewell.

P255 Marriage Contract dated Sept 22, 1763, between Cornelius Rain and Margaret Lucas, widow, whereby her property consisting of six negroes is to remain hers, free from any clam on his part of his liabilities. Witnesses ARTHUR CARNEY and Elizabeth Carney. Probated by Arthur Carney in St Johns Parish before Francis Lee. J. P. of said Parish.
COMMENT: This marriage Contract probated by Arthur, and witnessed by him and his wife Elizabeth further document his wife as Elizabeth Aderton.
Thursday, July 28, 1763, Savannah, Georgia, Newspaper Clippings (Georgia Gazette) Notices: I hereby acknowledge that the words I inadvertently dropped to the prejudice of the characters of Arthur Carney, planter, and William Baker, carpenter, in respect to their being privy to or concerned in clandestinely conveying away horses from the northward, is without proper foundation and I never knew anything dishonest in either of them (Signed) John Hobbs. St John's Parish

December 1764 Colonial Records of Georgia - Text version of Arthur petition for 500 acres
A Petition of Arthur Carney, setting forth that had granted him two hundred and fifty Acres of Land ...
Desirous to obtain an additional Tract having a Wife two Children and ten negroes Therefore praying
for five hundred Acres upon a Branch of Turtle River not be defrauded of his Quit Rents the Prayer of the Said Petition is granted---Dec 1764
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Samuel Tomlinson of St George Parish, carpenter, to ARTHUR CARNEY Bond for Title dated Dec 27, 1762, agreeing to make title to 250 acres on the Altamaha River bounded S. E. by George Moore, Witnesses: John Martin, Abraham Williams.

Arthur Carney Land Grant
100 Acres St Philip Parish
Surveyed Nov 18, 1760 Plat Book C page 38
Granted May 21 1762 Grant Book D, Page 134
Bounded on the Southwest by Thomas Goldsmith and North by Josiah Powell
(This was in the 1732-1758 District of Ogeechee (above Canoochee River) 1758-1777 Parishes of St Phillip Effingham County by 1777, Below the Canoochee River was in Chatham County by 1777 (Savannah)
St Simons was St James Parish, From the Altamaha to the Turtle River became St David Parish from the Turtle to the Little Satilla, St Patrick, Little Satilla to the Great Satilla, St Toms, Great Satilla to the St Mary's St Mary - created in 1765

Carneys Cowpen - In 1776 Bernard Romans Travel south of the Altamaha River The Trip to Brunswick was in April 1773 but the trip to St Mary's Rivers was in Summer of 1776; The Kings Rd to St Augustine? Follows the Old Post Rd at the county line of Brantley and Glynn Counties. One evening Bartarm stopped at a cowpen, probably Carney's Cowpen "Carneys are in the Earliest Land Grants of GA English Crown Grants as early as 1747. He lodged that night at a cowpens, identified by Francis Harper as belonging to Arthur Carney, a prominent planter in that sparsely settled region...

Land Summary:
Carney, Arthur 100 acres, St. Philip Parish, May 21, 1762
150 acres, St. John Parish, December 3, 1761
500 acres, south side of the Altamaha River, February 3, 1767
500 acres, St. Patrick Parish, June 7, 1774
300 acres, St. Thomas Parish, November 1, 1774
150 acres, St. David Parish, November 1, 1774
300 acres, St. Patrick Parish, December 6, 1774
P 119 ARTHUR CARNEY of St. David's Parish, palnter, to JAMES BUTLEr ST Patrick's Parish, planter. Deed dated Dec #, 1773. Conveys 300 acres in St Patrick's Parish granted Feb. 3, 1767, to John, William and Jane Carney; thereafter said John CARNEY by his Power of Attorney dated May 15, 1773, appointed said Arthur to sell his undivided interest in said lands: and William and Jane Carney had also granted the grantor Arthur their Power of Attorney to do the same. Witnesses Robert Andrew, Andrew Cunningham. Probated by Andrew before James Spauling. JP
P122 ARTHUR CARNEY and Elizabeth his wife, of ST. David's Parish, James Butler of same place. Deed dated Dec 3, 1773, conveying 250 acres in St Patrick's Parish deeded by John Duncan and Catherine his wife to said Arthur Carney on Jan 2, 1772, same lying on south side of a branch of Turtle River. Witnesses: Andrew Cunningham, Robert Andrews. Probated by Andrews before James Spaulding J. P. Siad land having bene granted said John Duncan July 2, 1771

Additional Sources: Over 500 pages of Notes, Records and Files at the Carney DNA Project Jim Carney www.avocadoridge.com/jim March 2010

Thomas married Indian Woman CHOCTAW. Indian was born about 1740 in Indian Territory; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Additional Sources: Over 500 pages of Notes, Records and Files at the Carney DNA Project Jim Carney www.avocadoridge.com/jim March 2010