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This site was created to replace a family newsletter, “Stickneys of Texas”, which I began a few years ago to communicate with paternal relatives and share information with them on our family history. I’ve posted some of those articles here and will add more as time allows. This website has been a struggle in recent years due to life getting in the way but hoping we are off and running again. Will do my best at sourcing facts in my writings but if necessary you can contact me via the form below for further information.

My two sides:

The Stickneys in Texas began with Edward Lawrence Stickney, who grew up in Mobile, Alabama, but was studying law in Baltimore, Maryland when he was encouraged to come to Texas to aid in their break from Mexico in 1836. Lawrence, the name he went by, represents the union of two early colonial families, one with a New England Puritan beginning and the other as Quakers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. These two patriotic branches merged after the American revolution in Baltimore, Maryland, and are my father’s people and represent only half of those that will be detailed on this site.

My mother’s families partly tell the story of loyalist some of which relocated to Canada prior to the revolution and some after. I am still getting acquainted with their stories that led them to be settled in the American Southwest. The other half of my maternal ancestors are “Smiths” originally from Virginia, but before the Civil War were settled along the Tennessee and Mississippi border. The Civil War split the family up and a few went west to homestead and aided in establishing Sterling, Colorado then moved on to merge with the Canadian branch in Farmington, New Mexico.

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