The Joiner(s) in this family history are descendants of the sons of John Joiner that died in Nash  County, North Carolina 1811, Jesse Joiner, Curtis Joiner and John Joiner, Jr. The said John  Joiner of Nash County, N.C. was deeded 300 acres of land by the State of North Carolina in 1779 and  the land was later deeded to sons Jesse and Curtis. Jesse, Curtis and John Joiner,Jr. are in Laurens County, Georgia about 1816 and in 1821 Curtis and John, Jr give brother Jesse, Power of Attorney to recover funds due them from the estate of Curtis Land, their Uncle, in Sussex County,  Virginia.  Jesse also receives power of Attorney from his sister, Elizabeth Langley in Nash County,  N.C., for the same purpose.  John Joiner of Nash County was married to Elizabeth Land, daughter of  Curtis Land and was likely born in southeastern Virginia about 1735 - 1740's.

Several descendants of John Joiner of Nash County are members of the NATIONAL SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF  THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (DAR).  Their National Numbers are 616919, 616921, 806830, 842359 and  486868.  The last three DAR members trace their ancestry through John's son Curtis Joiner and his  son Asa Joiner.  The claim for John Joiner's contribution in the American Revolution is a pay  voucher found on North Carolina Revolutionary War Pay Vouchers, Roll 68.39, 2980, and 6319.  Jesse  Joiner, another son of John Joiner, was recognized as being a Revolutionary War Veteran in the LAND  GRANTS TO GEORGIA REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERANS. Jesse Joiner of Laurens County, Georgia was a  fortunate drawer of Land Lot 70, Land District 3 in Muscogee in 1827 and the grant was completed 3  December 1831. Descendants of John Joiner, Jr. Son of John Joiner of Nash County included in this  family history likely will not be able to document that they are descendants of John Joiner unless  Y-DNA evidence is accepted as documentation.  Also, they may have to disprove that John Joiner  married to Zilpha Hinnant of South Carolina is a son of John Joiner of Nash County as the first two  DAR members listed above claim. All three sons of John Joiner of Nash County, N.C, Jesse, Curtis and  John, Jr. are proven to be in Laurens County, Georgia in Feb 1821 by the power of attorney  documentation found in Sussex County, Virginia and Minutes of the Sussex County, VA court, December  Tern 1821. In April 2017 Roy Clark Joiner, Jr. AKA Clark Joiner received a 67/65 Y-DNA match with a descendant of John  Pirie born abt 1788 and died in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK. There may be an NPE or the common ancestor goes back  before surnames were adopted. John Joiner of Nash County, NC was granted 300 acres of land by NC in Nash County in  1779 9 years before John Pirie was born.

John Joiner, died in Nash County in 1811, may be a descendant of Thomas Joyner/Joiner that was born  in Bere Regis, Dorsett, England about 1619 and immigrated to Virginia in 1635.  Ulysses P. Joyner in  his book, "JOYNER OF SOUTHAMPTON" has a well documented family history of Thomas Joyner/Joiner of  Dorset England but does not make a connection with John Joiner of Nash County, N.C. It is also  possible that John Joiner of Nash, N.C. was a descendant of a later (after 1635 - before 1735)  colonial immigrant from Scotland.  It would be helpful if a known descendant of Thomas Joyner/Joiner  from Dorset, England be Y-DNA tested to see if they match the Y-DNA of four matching descendants of  John Joiner of Nash County, N.C.  This website has 631 individuals (as of July 2013)with the Joyner surname mostly from "JOYNER OF SOUTHAMPTON". "JOYNER OF SOUTHAMPTON" was written in 1974. Several generations have been born after 1974. In the book many family's history have only been  recorded through the 1850's to early 1900's.

Y-DNA matches for descendants of John Joiner of Nash County, NC can be seen at worldfamilies.net. Go to the Joiner/Joyner  surname project and then the Y-Results page. Click to open a new window at top right of page. Matches for descendants of  John Joiner are in Haplogroup R1b - Lineage II. It would be helpful for more Joiner/Joyner males got Y-DNA tested at the 37  marker level and joined the Joiner/Joyner surname project at World Families. The Joiner/Joyner Surname Project shows that  all people with the Joiner/Joyner surname are not related. Find out the TRIBE you belong to by getting Y-DNA tested.

Much of the information for descendants of Curtis Joiner, son of John Joiner of Nash County, N.C. comes from a family history by Mary Joiner Pierce, Daughter of Perry Lee Joiner, "JOINER, MASHBURN AND ALLIED FAMILIES".  Additional information comes from A. H. Clark of Waycross, Georgia book "ASA JOINER OF MITCHELL COUNTY, Vol. 1".   Mary had made some errors in  the branch of the family of Roy Clark Joiner,Jr.  Clark Joiner has corrected information on his  branch of the Joiner Family as far as he is personally aware of.  Clark Joiner has also visited  grave sites, and talked to some living relatives and obtained information from internet searches,  court houses, libraries, and other sources normally used in genealogy research.

The Richards Family information was collected by Donald Ray Richards, Grandson of Albert Simmons  Richards and Lorena C. Cuneo.  Albert Simmons Richards had written a family history of the Richards  family that went back to John Alden and Richard Thayer both first settlers of the Plymoth Colony in  the New World. Other contributors of information on the Richards is Kydia Lee (Tuggie) Richards  Thomas and Richard Albert Pezoid husband of Clara Emily Richards.  Clara Emily was the daughter of  Eric K. and Lydia Morgan Garrison Richards and granddaughter of Albert S. and Lorena C. Richards.   The mother of Roy Clark Joiner, Jr. was Ruby May Richards, daughter of Albert S. and Lorena C.  Richards.

Much of the information for the Wells Joiner b. 1809 d.1862 family comes from Kimberly D. Sorbello,  daughter of Luther Harvey Brady and granddaughter of Ethel Joiner and Great-granddaughter of Walter  Crawford Joiner and Great-Great-Granddaughter of Wells Joiner. The information that Kimberly had  came through her sister Ronda Jo Rampy who obtained copies from a Wells Joiner Family Bible from a  Kerley family.  The wife of Wells Joiner was Celia Ann Elizabeth Causey whose father was Israel  Causey whose second wife was Margaret Foyle.  Israel and Margaret had a daughter named Margaret Ann  Causey (1841-1922) who married James Franklin Kerley (1837-1885) My research places Wells Joiner in  Houston County and Sumter County with Bennett Joiner, my Great-Great-Grandfather.  I can not prove  that Wells Joiner and Bennett Joiner are brothers as I show on this web site except by Y-DNA match.   I am pretty sure that Wells Joiner was not born in Sumter County because Sumter County did not exist  in 1809 and I can prove that Wells and Bennett were in Houston County.  Bennett came from Laurens  County but I don't think he was born in Laurens County in 1804 because Laurens County did not exist  then.  Y-DNA matches between a male descendant of Wells Joiner with a male descendant of Bennett  Joiner and a male descendant of John Joiner of Nash County, N. C., all three with the Joiner  surname, proves that all three lines have a common ancestor.  The Joiner descendant of Wells Joiner  has a 65 out of 67 marker match with the descendants of John Joiner and Bennett Joiner  The  descendant of Bennett Joiner and John Joiner have a perfect 67 marker match.

Mr Hugh Joiner, author of JOINER FAMILY IN MACON AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES,(copy at Macon County  Library, Montezuma, Georgia) has contributed information on the ancestors of William Joyner, born  1658 in Isle Wight county, Virginia and son of Thomas Joyner, born 14 Nov 1619, Bere Regis parish,  Dorset, England - died 1694 Isle Wight County, Virginia.  Hopefully a descendant of this line of  the Joiner family will  be Y-DNA tested at the 37 marker level or higher.  There are several living  descendants of this line of the Joiner family.

Some information on the Lewis Joiner family that died in Hamilton County, Florida in 1847 comes  from the family history, THE THOMAS JOINER FAMILY HISTORY IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA BY Willaim A. and  Sara Joiner McCall.  Information from that source will be indicated by the notation, "WA&SJM" and  quotation marks.  The web master has obtained some information on this family independently and  has obtained copies of some of the probate documents on the estate of Lewis Joiner in Jasper,  Hamilton County, Florida, census records, and the library in Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia.  The  reader is advised to verify information from the McCall source. Hopefully a descendant of this  line of the Joiner family will  be Y-DNA tested at the 37 marker level or higher.  There are  several living descendants of this line of the Joiner family.  On 20 March 2013 a perfect 37 marker  match between a descendant of Lewis Joiner (1794-1847) and a descendant of Bennett Joiner (1804- 1852) proves they share a common ancestor. He also matches with descendants of Wells and Curtis  Joiner.

This is a work in progress.  Anyone wanting to contribute information on the Joiner Family can send  a email to lydiamartin71@yahoo.com.