Our Family's Journey Through Time
Hello and Welcome to our Carolina Clans Website. We have been researching the Hyman and Zikorus Families for several years now. Our research has evolved to where it is mainly based on Donna's family. 
This site is dedicated to researching and documenting as much as we can about our family history and genealogy. Our Hyman's emigrated from Scotland, Ireland and England and settled in the Virginia and Carolina Colonies. John's Maternal Family emigrated from Lithuania around 1900 and settled in the Boston, Massachusetts area. his paternal roots come from Germany and settled in the Ohio area. If you notice any mistakes or if you have any questions, suggestions, comments, documents, photos, stories, etc., please don't hesitate to Contact Us. We hope you can find your family here and enjoy your visit with us.
Donna's 3rd Great Grandfather, Azariah Woodson, was born 26 Aug, 1836 in Ware Place, Greenville County, South Carolina, USA. 
He was the son of Murry Woodson and Catherine "Katy" Davis. Not much is known of his upbringing, but he married Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Davis in 1864 in Greenville, South Carolina, CSA (at that time). They had 13 children together (visit the family page).
Azariah volunteered in June of 1861, as a private, in Captain Toliver L. Bozeman's Company, which subsequently became Company E, Mounted Infantry Regiment, Hampton Legion, South Carolina Volunteers.
The Hampton Legion, South Carolina Volunteers was organized 12 June 1861, with an infantry battalion of eight companies. A to H; a cavalry battalion of four companies, A to D, and an artillery battalion of two companies, A and B. By S. O. No. 196, A. & I, G, O, dated 22 August 1862, the cavalry battalion became a part of the 2nd Regiment, South Carolina Cavalry. The artillery battalion became separate and independent companies some time prior to 25 August 1862, about which date the Legion was re-organized. The infantry battalion was increased to a regiment 16 November 1862, by the addition of two companies, I and K, which had been formed by consolidation of the 13th Battalion, South Carolina Infantry, by S. O. No. 239, Hdqrs, Army Northern Virginia, dated 11 November, 1862. The infantry regiment was transferred to the cavalry service about March 1864, and it was paroled at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, 10 April 1865, as Hampton Legion Mounted Infantry, South Carolina Volunteers.
William Hyman was born in 1812 in Marion County, South Carolina (Most likely Hyman, South Carolina) shorty after his parents, Eaton and Welthy Hyman moved there from Martin County, North Carolina. William was married to Elizabeth Howren from Georgetown, South Carolina, and he later had a second family with Katherine Richardson. He had a farm in Marion County but also worked as merchant in Georgetown.
William was in is late 40's when he joined the South Carolina 10th Regiment in the summer of 1861. The regiment was formed in the coastal counties to defend the port of Georgetown, South Carolina after most of the other state regiments went to Virginia. The regiment initially had many older men, like William, but they were allowed to leave the army when the regiment was moved to Mississippi in the spring of 1862 as reinforcements after the Battle of Shiloh. His brother left the regiment, while William stayed. The regiment was part of the Kentucky campaign in the autumn of 1862 and was at the Battle of Perryville. William fell ill as the army marched back south through the Cumberland Gap and entered the hospital at Tazewell, Tennessee in October 1862. He was moved to the Fairgrounds Hospital where he died about six weeks later.
Source: Find a Grave, Memorial ID: 217592930
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Researched by Cousin Russell Blaski and transcribed to this document by Cousin Linda Hickey
The first descendant on the list is Juozapas (which means Joseph) Norkus who never came to America. I'm taking a guess that he may have been born somewhere between the years 1840 to 1850 in Lithuania. At this time we do not know his wife's name. She may have died very young. A son was also named Juozapas which meant he was the oldest son, and we do not have any knowledge at this time if Juozapas had any siblings
To understand the differences in Lithuanian surnames, it is clear that Lithuanian history affected the spelling of surnames beginning with the period 1385 to 1795 when Lithuania united with Poland. The country was occupied by Germany during both World Wars. Lithuania was proclaimed a republic in 1918, was annexed by the USSR in 1940 and was under Russian rule for the next fifty years. Lithuania declared its independence in 1990. We find that all these foreign influences have an affect on Lithuanian surnames and their spelling. Norkus is a popular Lithuanian surname - 474 lived in Lithuania circa 1989. It derived from the Lithuanian verb noreti which means 'to want, to desire'.
Joseph's son Juozapas was a teacher in Erzvilkas, in the region of Jubarkas (formerly part of the province of Kaunas), Lithuania. He came to America possibly between 1897 to 1899 before his wife Rozalio and Jozef. They are the intrepid pioneers of families around world that escaped poverty, religious persecution, oppressive governments, racism and more to start a new life in America.
Departing from Antwerp, Belgium on the SS Friesland on 30 June 1900, Roze Norkete (also spelled other ways as well, such as Rozalia Novyoknie on the passenger manifest), age 26, her two children (ages 6 and 3) and Roze's sister-in-law Ivona (Eve) Nanioksze, age 35, arrived in New York, USA on 11 July 1900. (They arrived with a group of other Poles listed as Russians because of citizenship). Transcribed incorrectly on the manifest, Roze's hometown was listed as Garswili but should have been Erzwilki. Their last place of residence was recorded as Sarswile. The manifest records stated that Rozalia could not read or write. The final destination for Eve was Cambridgeport, MA to be with brother-in-law Joe Szmitta where the words husband and father was the destination for Rozalia and her children.
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