I am Allen Omega, one of Ned Edmund Autry's
many many descendants of the 21st century. I have been researching Ned's African
American families of
Bladen,
Sampson and
Duplin
counties for more than five years now. Oral history spoken from the descendants
of the
Bladen and Sampson
Autry's has it that Ned Herring alias Ned Edmund Autry was closely related to
and associated with
Ned Edward Autry's very
large family of Sampson and
Cumberland
Autrys. My curiosity of the relationship between these two families is mainly
how this research began and now it has almost became an obsession. There is a
wealth of information on this site that indirectly supports this oral history
but I have lately obtained information that directly supports it and many other
questions that have been asked about
Ned Edmund
and
Ned Edward's illusive past.
Do not be surprised at the variations found in a persons age from one time period
to another. There were many people that were born in the ante-bellum south and
the reconstruction era that did not know their age. A vast amount of these people
could not read, write or count.
Note:As I stated above, because of
new findings this entire site has became very outdated. Without a doubt, I have
now became very knowledgeable on the subject of Ned Edmund Autry and his kinsmen
of many parts of eastern NC. That is my reward for many many $'s spent and relentless
hours of research which was at one time almost nonstop day and night. I now know
of Ned's father, two of his grandmothers, a great grandmother, most of his more
than 20 siblings, a host of his uncles, aunts, 1st cousins, their families, his
birth township, County, state and his last two slave owners. Incidentally, Ned
and his uncle Archie were to be sold to their last slave owner for $3250.00.
Most of the above information is housed all throughout this site and it's
sister sites. Just as I have blindly researched and searched from the present
back to the past to put this puzzle together, the average individual can view
and search this site and put that same puzzle together. For anyone who cannot,
there will be a straight forward presentation when my new project is completed
or simply contact me now. I will gladly share any of my findings which are actually
facts based on records from yesteryear.
Unfortunately There will be
no more updating of information on this site. All additional information will
be included in another project that I am going to begin shortly.
