Joe Cabaniss' genealogy: A little Cabaniss history Files to download Why this web site Other Cabaniss web sites Notable descendants        of Matthew Cabaniss Searches by other   Elijah, my gg-grandfather: Elijah did what? Elijah's path; GA to AR Union County, AR home Where is Hillsboro, AR Elijah's mother

Other Cabaniss Web Sites As time goes by, I'll add more to my site, but in the meantime, Return to opening page   Check Out This Site: The best web site on the Cabaniss surname belongs to Susan Marie CABANISS Bradford and can be found here. Susan has put tremendous amounts of effort in her web site and has done an incredible amount of work on the Cabaniss surname as well as other allied lines. She has been a great help to me and I owe her many thanks. Visit her site, I know you'll be impressed.     Another web site is that of Michael Caviness Michael's surname is interesting--it's spelled with a "v," but its origins are to be found in the "b" side of the family. It just goes to prove that if it's spelled with a "v," it may not be from Henri Cabaniss' first son, Henry Cavinis. Below is an extract from a recent e-mail from Michael. My name is Michael Caviness and I descend from the "b" line also. My family had spelled its name with a "b" until about 1882 or so. At that time my family moved from Attala County, MS to Calhoun County, MS where we are currently. There had been a "v" line Caviness (one of Ms. Alloa Anderson's bunch) living in Calhoun County before my family arrived. I'm assuming the powers that be (census taker, etc.) assumed that the families were related and spelled my family's name with a "v". Anyway my line is as follows: Michael Erwin Caviness b.1961 James Bailey Caviness James Taylor Caviness William Maxwell Caviness Peter Taylor Caviness William R. Cabiness Peter Randolph Cabiness (etc., you know the rest from Mr. Allen's Book) Michael's page is here; just take the "Start Here!" link on that opening page. Michael has recently (April, 1999) added a lot to his site and more is expected. Keep checking the site. Steven Rutherford of Tippah County, MS, descends from Henry Cavinis (Henri Cabaniss' first son) Steven has his Caviness line (and others) up for all to see. Scroll down the page a little bit and use the pop-up menu to select the Caviness surname (or any of the others). Do not over look the photos link a little below that. Presently, there are only a few, but more are promised. I was particularly impressed with the Caviness photos--they are a real treat! Wouldn't this be a whole lot easier if we all spelled it the same way? For twenty years Laura Lynne CABANESS Johnson had searched everywhere and found only dead ends. But now, thanks to Terry Dunn (another Cabaniss descendant), she's got anything but dead ends. From a recent e-mail from Laura: Needless to say, I am quite overwhelmed with all of the new information that Terry provided me with last night. I had thought that I would never find any more information on John Henry's father Lafayette as I was assuming the spelling of Cabaness remained constant. (I know, I shouldn't have assumed this, but at the time I had no further knowledge to base any other assumption on.) I have been researching the Cabaness family tree for about 20 years but every direction I turned would lead to a dead end. The may problem now seems to have been because of the change in spelling to Cabaness and that my grandfather told me years ago that the ones who didn't spell it with the "e" were of a different family entirely and were not related to us at all. My grandfather passed away in 1978 and had lost contact with most of his family over the years. Armed with new information, I imagine Laura will be working on an expansion to her Cabaniss genealogy. I look forward to her changes. Check in often; I plan to. Her web site is here. A great grandfather of Bobby Joe Seales is John James Cabaniss. Bobby Joe Seales hopes to discover the identity of John James Cabaniss' father. Let Bobby Joe Seales tell a little of his search: Hello...My name is Bobby Joe Seales and I am the ALGenWeb host for Shelby County Alabama. Visit http://www.rootsweb.com/~alshelby/shelby.html My grandmother was a Cabaniss...and I have been doing research on just her brothers and sisters and parents for quite some time. You can read about my Cabaniss line by clicking on the above website, then click on "My Connections to Shelby County" and then at the bottom of that page click on "John James Cabaniss". I have been trying...and asking for years if anyone had any connections to the Cabaniss line where John James Cabaniss tied into in Georgia. He served in the Civil War in Georgia...was in 1850 census (before marriage) but not with parents, and married in Meriwether County Georgia. Can you please help me? Do you have any inkling of an idea as to who my John James Cabaniss is connected with? I sure would appreciate any help. Bobby Joe's e-mail doesn't describe the extent of his work on the descendants of John James Cabaniss, but I think you'll agree with me that he appears to have done his homework. With all of the John James Cabaniss descendants that he has identified, it's hard to believe that someone doesn't know something about John James Cabaniss' father. Take a look at Bobby Joe Seales' web pages on his Cabaniss ancestors; you will find lots of Cabanisses, maybe the one for which you are looking. Do you have a Cabaniss web site, or do you know of one? Let me know so I can list it here. numbers@satx.rr.com   Return to Why This Site Return to opening page