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has became very outdated.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.
