Let me just say how glad I am to be able to share this info with those that want to  validate their lives with the truth about who, where, when, and why as best as I can verify. This  started out as the Hanna tree but now has grown to include all the rest of my bloodlines. My  branch of the Hanna clan from Anson Co.,NC was lost by those before me.I remember asking my  grandfather Boss Hanna about our heritage but he could not give me much  information because he was seperated from the Hannas at an early age as I was from him and  grandmother Nannie Teal Hanna at age two.I did not get to hear about the other people who  came before and where they were from.Soon they had all gone on to their rewards without telling me  much. 
   So I really had to dig down for any truth about my ancestors.Luckily I found a very good  researcher,Steve Bailey,in the town of Wadesboro,NC who knew how to get the actual written legal  proof and soon I had connected to the Hannas,James(still a mystery) and Fathy(also)the parents of  Robert H.Hanna who started the Anson Co.Hannas and then came  Teals,Henrys,Waldrups,Littles,Ricketts,Gibsons,Stones,Gulledges,Tarltons,and   others that I haven`t had a chance to really research yet. All these are on my fathers side.         The native/american came thru the Gibsons who were "known" Indian families from Wake Co.. They were  forced to give up their land and move to the land vacated by the Cherokees in western NC.             My mothers native/american came from her father who told her he was fullblooded  but did not know which tribe. Well I found who and where.Grant Marsh was a descendant of Robert  Marsh, a Pamunky indian from Va. who was a Colonial solder and fought the battles in the Carolinas  and Va. that helped defeat the British army and gained our independence from England .After the war  he became a Baptist preacher and with his wife and two sons, moved to the Catawba nation to  convert them to Christianty.He did not do too good a job at this. Five families left the nation to  go west with the Mormans because the whites were persecuting their religous beliefs.    His sons took Catawba wives and had children.The sons tried very hard to  repopulate the tribe as Chief Gilbert Blue told me one day when I had the chance to talk to  him. Marsh blood runs thru much of the remaining population of the Catawbas.     I had ancestors in the Rev.War, the War of 1812 and in the War between the States as well as the  other conflicts in our history.This is dedicated to those who came before and probably didn`t know  as much of the ancestry as I am lucky enough to know. The struggles I faced as a child   with not knowing my people has been overcome and I proudly tell the story that I have come to know.   This is told by someone who always wanted to know the truth  about his origins and roots.When I was a boy and listened as my mother and  her sisters and brother would talk about the people they knew to be their kin I always   hungered for more. From an extremely poor farm laborer family suffering  thru `hard times` most Americans today don`t even remember I grew up in and  around Cheraw,S.C.,`the prettiest town in Dixie`,always with the idea that  someday I would trace my roots as far back as possible.With the `where there`s a  will there`s a way `attitude instilled in me by a mother,Beulah Belle Marsh, who  could not read or write and had a speech impediment and a temper to boot I listened and talked to  different people and tried to find those who knew the facts about my people.   Mostly I found tales that proved false or way off course and not even close to  the actual facts.As the old ones passed on my chances for locating my  heritage dwindled but there is always hope.One day I made up my mind to  really `do it` and so here in this site I have reliable info that I feel  are the actual facts about my ancestors.To any one reading this that have any  questions or even any facts to add please respond to my 
 e-mail,bosshanna@hotmail.com                                                                                
  I have finally found the last name of my grandmother Marsh. Annie Tarlton was the daughter of Kate  Tarlton from Gulledge township in Anson Co.NC. She was the mother of Mossie when she met and  married Grant Marsh.
        
  The death of Pauline Marsh Bailey in 2009 saddens me and the last one of Grant and Annie Marshs     children died recently."Knee baby" Gladys Marsh Harden dropped her body on Sat. morning April 9.  2011. I will miss her greatly. These were mommas older sisters. "Little" Grant Marshs widow Louise  left her tired aching body behind  Feb.7,2012.She was the last of the old ones and I want everyone  to know she was much loved and appreciated for all she did for me.Now I must tell you with heavy  heart of the passing of my sister,Daphine Hanna Sistare,7-17-2012, buried 7-20-2012 in Memorial  Park cemetery in Lancaster,S.C.. 
   These are sad times as I lost a childhood friend, Gerald Lang,who I admired so  much when we were going to the old country school at Orange Hill. He was very talented, drawing  cowboys and indians on scratch paper at school and tap dancing on the counter top at his fathers  store at Laney siding. 
   Yesterday I learned that Dorothy Hanna Bandy,daughter of John Arthur  Hanna,grandpa Boss Hannas brother passed away in Michigan on Monday Aug. 20th,2012.Her son and I  had recently started corresponding about the Hannas ( John Jackson and Mag Henrys sons} with some  info that I did not know about. His mother,Dorothy,was staying with Mag, her grandmother, and was  in the house when Mag was struck and killed by lightning. 
  My fathers sister,Beatrice Brock, passed away in Gaffney Friday night,Oct.12,2012. She ran a good  and honorable race and will be greatly missed.She was laid to rest in Grand View Memorial Park in  Rock Hill,S.C. next to husband Roy Brock. As with my Marshs recently now there is only one of Boss  and Nannies children left, aunt Betty Lee Hanna Kimery ,now 81 years old.  Sadly I must pass the news of the death of my first cousin George Marsh,one of Vander Marshs sons.  He passed March 20,2013. 
  My former mother-in-law Allie Mae Lewis Stafford passed away on Sunday,April 21,2013 and was buried at Mt. Olivet in the Teals Mill community of Chesterfield County,SC Tuesday afternoon April  23,2013. 
  With a sad heart I must add the passing of the last of Boss and Nannie Teal Hannas children, Betty  Lee Hanna Kimery, who I admired greatly for her grace and gentleness. Born nine years before me she  was there in Grandma Nannies house when I was born and when Grandpa Boss named me for himself and  his father, John "Jackson" Hanna. Aunt Betty Lee Kimery died at six-thirty a.m. Thursday morning,  September 
 12,2013 and was interred on Sat. afternoon by Hartzell Funeral Home in Albmarle, N.C. in Hudson  family cemetery not far from her house. I was able to share the ancestral lines "Hanna-Teal" with  her back in 2008. She too will be greatly missed.
  Frances Hanna Oliver passed away on Sunday afternoon October 20,2013. She was the firstborn of  John Robert and Sadie Johnson Hanna. John Robert was my fathers brother.  He was of great help to me when I was young and foolish as uncles are supposed to be. Frances will  be greatly missed. 
  John Mackey, widower of our sister Nan, passed away on Sat.Oct.26 2013 and will  be laid to rest on Tues. Oct.29 in Memorial Park in Lancaster, S.C.  My cousin James Vernon Hanna passed away in Sanford ,N.C. in April.  My sister-in-law Sara Bell Stafford Price passed away on 10-12-2014. May her journey be smooth  to the other side. Amen. She was interred at Douglas Mill Baptist Church cemetery on October 15,  2014 at 3:00 pm. Sadly now I add the name of J. C. Hannah to the list of loved ones gone on to be with the ancestors.  He was laid to rest near his parents at Oakland Baptist Church on Oct.23,2014. Elizabeth Dawkins Hanna, my stepmother, was laid to rest Jan.10 2015. She was very much loved by all and will be  greatly missed.
  I lost a great friend on 2nd of Feb. 2016 when Patricia Baskin`s passed away. She was buried in  the Bethesda United Methodist Church cemetery on Saturday 2-27-2016. I miss her greatly!!!  The old ones are getting gone now and soon there will be no one to tell me about the times before  I was born. Mr. William Brock passed away on Saturday April 30th and was buried on Tuesday, May 3rd  in Florida. He was ninety some years old and told me of knowing my father and mother and when they  were married. Also told me about courting my daddies sister Ruth. This info was passed on to me at the  2015 Brock reunion in Rock Hill when he learned I was Boss Hanna`s grandson. I did not know he had  traveled from Florida to be at the reunion and wish I could have talked to him a lot longer but  there were others wanting to talk to him as well as me.
  My brother Charlie lost his daughter Lisa on Aug.16, 2018. She will be interred on Sunday at 3:00  pm. in Lancaster, SC.
  The mother of my two children, Betty Zane Stafford, passed away on 08/21/2016.  I respectfully request all who visit this site to sign the guest book and let me know you have  been here. Much love to all.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Now I have been given some new info by Steve Bailey, my researcher who always finds info when you don`t expect it, on our Henry ancestor. The earliest we know about the Henrys is Ishams father was in Sussex County, Virginia commonwealth in 1758 when he returned from the French and Indian war. He was named Wilcox Henry and became a pastor for the Methodist-Episcopal Church of the Virginia Commonwealth where he remained until he died in 1806. Also lots of the Henry  descendants left NC/SC area for better lands in Alabama, Miss. and La. after the Indian removal from these lands.                                                                                                                                                                      
         The good Lord has blessed me with the first Great-grand child of my line, a beautiful girl child born of my daughter Debbie`s daughter Stefanie Stewart and her husband Mark DeSpagni in Knightdale, NC on Dec.12, 2019. LOVE her!!!!!
  We lost Aunt Margret Hanna, Uncle Bobbies widow. She had fallen some weeks before her death and seems to have never recovered!!!!!