My Genealogy

James Jackson Johns and Ellen Moore Parentage Research Report

I’ve been working on trying to answer the question about who are the parents of James Jackson Johns and Ellen Moore. I didn’t have a name for the parents of Ellen Moore, who is my third great grandmother, and reportedly one of the ancestors with Native American ancestry. James Jackson Johns, my third great grandfather, is often listed as the youngest son of Bartlett C. Johns, but I didn’t have anything to substantively prove that fact. So I set out to see what I could find in order to definitively prove who were their parents.

My research document is attached here, along with images of the records I used in this research.

James Jackson Johns – Ellen Moore Parentage Research Report

Pedigree Charts

Family Group Records

James Jackson Johns Confederate Service Records

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Our Military Genealogy

I’ve been doing research on my mother’s side family and came across some sources of information about potential military service by my ancestors.

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James Jackson Johns (3rd great grandfather): Confirmed military service.  A member of the 30th Georgia Infantry, Company C.  Source: Georgia, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865, M266-109, Roll 0399, Located at Fold3.com

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Ellen Moore and James Jackson Johns
Ellen Cornelia Moore

Ellen Cornelia Moore

James Jackson Johns

James Jackson Johns

The first part of the Johns family that I am going to start looking at this fall is James Jackson Johns and his wife, Ellender Cornelia Moore.  Ellen was born on October 13, 1839 in Coweta County, Georgia. Coweta County was formed in 1826 from lands originally belonging to the Creek Nation, relinquished to the US government as a part of the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs.

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Name that Ancestor

I posted the below six pictures on Facebook, with this message to my family.

It’s time to play “Name that Ancestor”. I need your help – do you know who these people are? They were in with the photos I got from Pop. They may be siblings, cousins or close friends of Grandpa and Grandma Reilly (Lawrence Ambrose Reilly and Ethel Loretta Powers Reilly).

These were probably taken in the last 1910s or early 1920s.  Potential surnames include: Reilly and Powers.

Unknown 1 – possible Powers
Unknown 2 – possible Powers
Unknown 3 – possible Powers
Unknown 4 – possible Powers
Unknown 5 – possible Powers
Unknown 6 – possible Powers

Mae and Anna Thomas – Photographed together

Mae and Anna Thomas, circa 1920, probably in Brooklyn

Mae and Anna Thomas, circa 1920, probably in Brooklyn


This is a picture of my 2nd great grandmother Anna Henrietta Noteboom Thomas and her daughter Mae Thomas. The first one is from about 1920. Mae would have been about 17 years old and Anna would have been about 39 years old. The second one is from sometime in the 1930s. My guess from the age difference sometime around 1935, which would put Mae in her early 30s and Anna in her mid-50s. Mae married a John Stamm sometime in the early 1930s and moved out to Hempstead in Nassau County, Long Island.
Mae and Anna Thomas, circa 1935, probably in Hempstead NY

Mae and Anna Thomas, circa 1935, probably in Hempstead NY