The Maddox ChronicleA Family History · Wales to the Western Waters
Chapter the Sixth

Sources & Criticism

The two family histories written by Rodney C. Maddox, on which this chronicle rests — and an honest ledger of where they disagree with each other or with the stones. Doubt recorded is better than certainty invented.

The Source Documents

  • Maddox Family History

    by Rodney C. Maddox

    27,454 words · 222 passages carried into the chronicle

  • Maddox Family History Charts

    by Rodney C. Maddox

    11,483 words · 82 passages carried into the chronicle

Rodney C. Maddox (document author); this dataset extracted and reconciled from two independent AI extractions, with every discrepancy resolved against the source document. Prose blocks extracted from the two Word-document transcripts. Repeated passages are retained when they occur in both sources; group-sheet fact rows remain in the canonical family-tree data rather than being duplicated here.

Where the Sources Disagree

23 points of conflict recorded

  • John Maddox (generation 3)

    marriage year · the chronicle uses 1727

  • John Maddox (generation 3)

    death date · the chronicle uses 25 May 1785

  • Matthew Maddox, Jr. (generation 5)

    first marriage date (to Mary Ann Romine) · the chronicle uses 31 August 1801

  • Rozzel Maddox (generation 5)

    marriage place (to Mary Posey) · the chronicle uses Harrison County, Virginia (WV)

  • Dorcus Maddox (generation 5)

    death date · the chronicle uses c1869

  • Dorcus Maddox (generation 5)

    identity of second husband · the chronicle uses William White, Sr.

  • Charles E. Neale (husband of Dorcus Maddox)

    death date · the chronicle uses 1809

  • Alfred Alpheous Maddox (generation 5)

    marriage place (to Hannah Cassandra Barnes) · the chronicle uses Wood County, Virginia (WV)

  • Edward Tracewell (husband of Jane Teressa Neale)

    death date · the chronicle uses 14 March 1876

  • William Oscar Maddox and Anna Maria Elizabeth Cheuvront (generation 6)

    marriage date vs. first children's births · the chronicle uses all values retained verbatim

  • Rebecca Rose Maddox (generation 7)

    death date · the chronicle uses 17 October 1866

  • Mary Louisa Maddox (generation 7)

    marriage year (to James Harvey Currey) · the chronicle uses 13 December 1861

  • George C. Maddox (generation 7)

    marriage year (to Mahala Lockhart) · the chronicle uses 25 December 1856

  • Hannah Jane “Sis” Conger (wife of John Amos Maddox)

    death year · the chronicle uses 5 May 1905

  • John Amos Maddox (generation 8)

    second marriage year (to Bertha A. Smith) · the chronicle uses 18 June 1907-(1908)

  • George William Maddox (generation 9)

    death date · the chronicle uses 5 May 1976

  • James Ray Maddox (generation 10) and Esther Ann “Betty” Wise

    marriage date · the chronicle uses 18 June 1955

  • David Graham

    birth date · the chronicle uses 22 November 1955

  • Samuel (Madoc) Maddox (generation 1)

    arrival ship · the chronicle uses Good Intent is reported by the later charts; the earlier manuscript's uncertainty is retained.

  • Samuel (Madoc) Maddox (generation 1)

    first county-ledger year · the chronicle uses 1667 in the person note; both years retained here.

  • Ann (Anne) Notley

    death and remarriage chronology · the chronicle uses death unknown

  • Matthew Maddox, Jr. (generation 5)

    identity as a Baptist minister · the chronicle uses possible, but not established

  • John Amos Maddox (generation 8)

    acreage received for Matilda Cheuvront's care · the chronicle uses the tract is described without a resolved acreage

Recorded Anomalies

Oddities the source documents themselves point out — misdated gravestones, impossible dates, and stories the records cannot support.

  • Anna Maria Elizabeth (Cheuvront) Maddox's gravestone is engraved 7 November 1886, but the source documents her death as 7 November 1866 and states the stone is not correct.
  • Katherine “Katie” Maddox (generation 9) is listed as born 1866, which precedes her parents' 1885 marriage and her brother George William's 1888 birth; likely a source typographical error (perhaps for 1886). Retained verbatim.
  • Oliver V. Dailey is listed as born 9 January 1855, which precedes his parents' 1882 marriage; likely a source error (perhaps for 1885). Retained verbatim.
  • John Kenner Tracewell's death is printed as 11 November 1833, before his 1847 birth; likely a source error for 1933. Retained verbatim.
  • Eliza Louisa Maddox (born 1817) has a printed marriage date of 19 September 1823, at age about six; likely a source error. Retained verbatim.
  • Hiram Loring Maddox's dates are printed as '(born-15 February 1912)'; because a 1912 birth is impossible for a child of Thomas Maddox (1820-1901), 15 February 1912 is recorded here as his death date.
  • David Graham's birth is printed as 22 November 1974, which would make him a child at his 1983 marriage; likely a source error. Retained verbatim.
  • Bertha Winebrenner is listed as born 1874, two years before her parents' recorded 1876 marriage. Retained verbatim.
  • Franklin Maddox, Jr. is listed as born 1896, one year before his parents' recorded 1897 marriage. Retained verbatim.
  • America Maddox is recorded as born 27 May 1843, a few months before her parents' recorded 3 September 1843 marriage. Retained verbatim.
  • Sisters Mary E. Ott (born 29 November 1859) and Rebecca Ott (born 29 February 1860) have birth dates only three months apart. Retained verbatim.
  • Sisters Elizabeth Betty Maddox (born 22 November 1860) and Sarah Maddox (born 20 February 1861) have birth dates only three months apart. Retained verbatim.
  • Jane Teressa Neale's birth (15 June 1799) precedes her parents' recorded 11 July 1807 marriage. Retained verbatim.
  • Juliet Sheets (1847) and Florence Byrd Sheets (24 January 1847) are both recorded as born in 1847. Retained verbatim.
  • Harrison Maddox (born 19 February 1819) and Hannah Maddox (born 14 December 1819), children of Alfred Alpheous Maddox, are both recorded as born in 1819. Retained verbatim.
  • The document numbers two consecutive chapters as 'CHAPTER 12' (James Ray Maddox, then Rodney Carl Maddox); the following chapter for Jerrold Lee Maddox is 'CHAPTER 13'.

✦ the ledger of doubt ✦