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| 951 | Lewis J. Dupree lived 60 years in Lexington, and 15 or 20 years in Athens, GA. BIRTHS Lewis J. Deupree was b. July 31st, 1793. Martha J. Deupree was b. May the 15th, 1829. Francina Deupree was b. Dec. the 19th, 1850. Mary Lewis Deupree was b. Oct. the 12, 1852. Lucy Grattan Deupree was b. Dec. the 5, 1854 Martha Mourning Deupree was b. 24 September, 1856. DEATHS Martha J. Deupree d. 14th October 1856 in her 28 year. Martha Mourning Deupree d. 8th August 1854 Lewis J. Deupree departed this life the 17th April, 1870, in his 77th year. Francina McCalla, formerly Francina Deupree, d. at residence in Athens on the 2nd of September 1872 in the 22 year of her age. (The above records were certified before a Notary Public as being correctly copied from the original, 29 Feb. 1932, by Lucy Leah Redwine.) Same as fore-going), p. 93: Family Record from the bible of the Greer Family, Clarke County, Georgia. Present Owner (1938): ..Mr. E. K. Greer, Athens, Ga. This is record of the Greer and Cox families, mainly, and covers three families. Only those items are abstracted for this report that bear relationship to the Deupree family): Father of Rich'd Cox was born January 6th day 1737 Dec'd Oct. the 1st day 1793. Mary, wife of John Cox was born July 2Sth day 1737 John Cox Dec'd the 2nd day of Dec- 1811. Births of the children of this couple follow here, including: Belling born the 5th day of April 1781. Cox Died the 10th day of October 1842. In Alabama. Francine Bolling Cox, daughter of Belling Cox of St. Clair County Alabama, b. in 1809 was wedded in 1826 at Reuben Ransome's hard (sic) Chalky Level to Dan'l Dupree born in 1803 in Oglethorpe Co., Ga. J. D. born Apr. 25, 18_9 (''1829, apparently") at R. Ransoms. Note: The R. Ransome mentioned in bible was undoubtedly Reuben Ransome, Rev.- Sold- of Clarke County Georgia, whose home adjoined the Chalky Level, the home of the Greers, on the road between Lexington, Athens, Ga. The Greer home, formerly known as Greer's Tavern was standing in 1933. Mr. E. K. Greer, owner of the bible, still lives in the old home. The document from which the above items were taken was certified before a notary public as being correctly copied from the original by Lucy Leah Redwine. First Hundred Years, by Sarah Blackwell Gober Temple, 1935. | Deupree, Lewis Jarel II (I6806)
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| 952 | Marriage Malona Astoria Campbell & Isaac Davenport Date: 30 Aug 1849, Bibb Co., AL Malona divorced Isaac Davenport. 1860 United States Federal Census Name: William Raspberry Age in 1860: 34 Birth Year: abt 1826 Birthplace: Mississippi Home in 1860: East Side Cahaba River, Bibb, Alabama Gender: Male Post Office: Maplesville Household Members: Name Age William Raspberry 34 Malina Raspberry 32 (Malona Astoria) James Raspberry 8 (James Lawson) Benjamin Raspberry 7 (Benjamine F.) Isaiah Ward 23 1870 Census Baker Co., AL Precinct #9 P.O. Chestnut Creek: HH #208 Rasberry, M. A. 39 f w keeping house b. AL, (Malona Astoria) J. L. 17 m. w. works on farm, b. AL, (James Lawson) B. F. 15 m w works on farm, b. AL, (Benjamin F.) Thacker, John 19 m. w. works on farm, b. AL, Con, Rilar 46 f. b. domestic servant b. AL. | Campbell, Malona Astoria (I235)
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| 953 | Mecklenburg Co. Marriage Bonds, pg. 222: Shelby, Winfield - Melissa Alexander, 7 Dec 1830, Bondsmen Chas. B. Wilson and A. B. Jettson. Groom: Winfield Shelby Bride: Melissa Alexander Bond Date: 07 Dec 1830 Bond #: 000083541 Level Info: North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868 ImageNum: 000109 County: Mecklenburg Record #: 02 222 Bondsman: Charles B Wilson Witness: A B Jetton Alabama Land Records Name: Winfield M Shelby Land Office: CAHABA Document Number: 38854 Total Acres: 40.025 Signature: Yes Canceled Document: No Issue Date: 2 Feb 1852 Mineral Rights Reserved: No Metes and Bounds: No Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566 Multiple Warantee Names: No Act or Treaty: April 24, 1820 Multiple Patentee Names: No Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries Land Description: 1 SESW ST STEPHENS No 19N 11E 31 (In consideration of the Parents of Mary Ann Knox) Here is what I know about Charles B. Wilson and A. B. Jetton: A. B. Jetton is Alexander Brevard Jetton, son of Lewis Jetton and Priscilla Sharpe. He was the father of Martha Nantz Jetton who married Robert J. Wilson Knox, son of John Knox and Polly B. Robison. He was a Ruling Elder, member and is buried at Bethel Presbyterian Church, Cornelius, Mecklenburg Co, NC. Charles B. Wilson is a puzzle...I see no connection to Samuel Wilson, Jr, but he does seems to have a Knox connection: Charles B. Wilson, b. abt 1808, NC, appears in Hopewell, Mecklenburg Co, NC in 1850. Also in his HH is an Elizabeth Knox, b. abt 1787, relationship unknown. In 1860 Elizabeth is listed as his housekeeper. No record of either Charles or Elizabeth is found in 1870. In 1880, Charles he appears in Lemley, Mecklenburg Co, NC, listed as "single" b. abt 1813, NC, both parents b. NC. [Neighbors appear to be the same families as 1860/1870, so fairly sure this is the same person.] There are loose estate papers for a Charles B. Wilson, 1880, Mecklenburg Charles B. Wilson appears with James Hastings as a witness to the 1865 LWT of David Cherry I have no idea who Elizabeth Knox is either...judging by her age (21 years older than Charles..) she's a possible widowed Aunt, or an old maid Aunt...or no kin at all, and someone who simply worked for him for 20 years. (Source: Peggy Bruckner) 1850 United States Federal Census Name: J. M. Shelby (Winfield M.) Age: 39 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1811 [sic 1814/1815?] Birth Place: North Carolina Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Summerfield, Dallas, Alabama Household Members: Name Age J M Shelby 39, NC, farmer, 800 (Should be W.M. Shelby) Rachael E Shelby 46, NC [second wife of Winfield...] Houston Shelby 17, NC [Winfield & Melissa (Alexander) Shelby's eldest son Joel Houston Shelby] Margarete Shelby 13, NC Mary Shelby 11, NC Ann Shelby 9, NC Prudence Shelby 8, NC Mary Bell 40, NC [Rachael's sister...] On the 1860 Census of Jerico, Perry Co, AL, it looks like the family arrived in Alabama about 1848; however, on the 1870 Census of Troupe, Canton Beat, Smith Co, TX, they indicate they were still in NC until after Lenora was born about 1853...so there is some confusion on this point. 1870 Census Sumter Co., Earbee, AL: Shelby, Winfield 68 m w farmer b. NC --- Mary 17 f w keeps House b. AL Bell, Jimmie 14 m w farm laborer b. Al Locher, Seeley 28 f w keeps house b. AL. Joel aka "Houston" Shelby and Franklin B. Shelby appear to be the sons of Winfield M. Shelby and Melissa Alexander, daughter of Stephen Winslow Alexander & Isabella Shelby. Andrew Springs Knox was the youngest son of John Knox, assumed half-brother of Mary Ann (Knox) Shelby, and guardian of Moses Shelby's children. John Knox, b. 1777, d. 1860, is buried at Bethel. I am working to prove his line back to Capt Patrick Knox...close, but not there yet...](Peggy Bruckner) Winfield M. Shelby was born between 1804 and 1806 in North Carolina and died 19 Jun 1881 in Intercourse, Sumter County, Alabama. He is buried in the chestnut Grove Cemetery in Intercourse, Sumter County, Alabama. He married first Susan Melissa Alexander 07 Dec 1830 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. She was the daughter of Stephen Alexander and Isabella Shelby. She was born 05 Aug 1807 in Mecklenburg County died in Sumter County, Alabama. He married second Rachel Bell on 27 Apr 1869 in Dallas County, Alabama. She was born about 1834. It is not known whether Winfield and his first wife, Melissa, had children. However, by his second wife he had two children, Lucy and Wiley. Other sources say that Winfield was buried at Elizabeth Presbyterian Church's Cemetery. Unclear if that cemetery is called Chestnut Grove. The church is located 15 miles from York, AL | Shelby, Winfield Moses (I4773)
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| 954 | MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA WILLS Book G, Page 47, No. 679. Will of Margaret Wilson Written 22 April 1802, Probate not recorded with will. Enjoying comfortable health, I will to my son James the new survey of 50 acres up the branch on which I live adjacent Matthew Wallace and Alexander Campbell provided he pays to my son Elias $50 and upon completion of said payment the said land is to become his property. If it is my right to devise the land on which I now live, I will to Elias a third of said land and to my son James the remaining two thirds as he has purchased the rights of my daughter Deborah in said tract. I will to my daughter Polly Stewart the negro child Marjory, and should she have a child it is to belong to Peggy Stewart, Polly's oldest daughter, and further issue of Marjory are not to be sold but are to become the property of Polly's descendants forever. I will to my daughter Ann Alexander the negro child Sophia, and should Sophia have a child it is to become the property of Peggy Alexander, the daughter of Ann, and said Sophia and her issue are not to be sold but are to become the property of my daughter Ann and her descendants. I will to my children John, James, and Deborah, jointly, the negro Rachel, and should she have further children the first is to belong to my son James. I give to my son Elias the price of the horse disk sold to him; my wearing apparel and shelf furniture are to be equally divided among my three daughters; John and Deborah are to each have a bed and furniture and a cow; and I give a heifer to my granddaughter Peggy, daughter of Deborah. Executors: Sons Elias, John and James. Witnesses: Ezekiel Wallace and Joel Alexander. CODICIL of 22 April 1802. It is my further will that my two year old colt be sold, from the proceeds a mourning suit is to be purchased for each of my daughters and daughters-in-law, and, if there are sufficient funds, like apparel for my sons. Witnesses: As above. Dept of Archives, Raleigh NC (C.R. 65010): is found a document dated 1821 in which Elias Alexander, Sr., gave to Joel Alexander, Excutor of Kezia Alexander (his sister) $120.00 to be used for Hezekiah J. Alexander, (Kezia's son). Hist Alex: "Might this carry a hint as to the parantage of Hezekiah Julius, son of Keziah. 1810 United States Federal Census Name: Joal Alexander Township: Capt Wilson County: Mecklenburg State: North Carolina Free White Males Under 10: 2 Free White Males 26 to 44: 1 Free White Females Under 10: 2 Free White Females 26 to 44: 1 Numbers of Slaves: 2 Number of Household Members Under 16: 4 Number of Household Members Over 25: 2 Number of Household Members: 8 1820 United States Federal Census Name: Joel Alexander County: Mecklenburg State: North Carolina Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820 Free White Males - Under 10: 1 Free White Males - 10 thru 15: 2 Free White Males - 26 thru 44: 1 Free White Females - Under 10: 3 Free White Females - 10 thru 15: 1 Free White Females - 16 thru 25: 1 Free White Females - 45 and over: 1 Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 3 Slaves - Males - 45 and over: 1 Slaves - Females - 45 and over: 1 Free White Persons - Under 16: 7 Free White Persons - Over 25: 2 Total Free White Persons: 10 Total Slaves: 2 Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 12 Family Data Collection - Individual Records about Joel Alexander Name: Joel Alexander Spouse: Alexander Ruth Parents: Sample Hezek Mary Birth Place: N, Mecklenburg, CO Birth Date: Apr 1773 Marriage Date: 1789 Death Date: 17 May 1825 Family Data Collection - Marriages about Joel Alexander Name: Joel Alexander Spouse: Susan 1850 United States Federal Census Name: Joel Alexander Age: 41 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1809 Birth Place: North Carolina Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Sharon, Mecklenburg, North Carolina Family Number: 1179 Household Members: Name Age Joel Alexander 41 Susan Alexander 31 Robert Alexander 13 William Alexander 9 Martha Alexander 5 Sarah Alexander 2 1860 United States Federal Census Family #73 24 Jan 1860 Name: Joel Alexander Age in 1860: 46 (off) Birth Year: abt 1814 Birthplace: North Carolina Home in 1860: Eastern Division, Mecklenburg, North Carolina Gender: Male Post Office: Charlotte Household Members: Name Age Joel Alexander 46 farmer Wm C Alexander 19 (b. 1841) Martha Alexander 16 Sarah Ann Alexander 12 | Alexander, Joel (I8848)
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| 955 | Mecklenburg Marriages 1783 - 1868: Knox, John & Polly B. Robison, 10 Nov 1813, James A. Tobb bondsman, Isaac Alexander witness. Saga of John, Allison, and Capt Patrick Knox of Mecklenburg Co, NC Posted by: Peggy Bruckner (ID *****7164) Date: January 06, 2008 at 11:29:44 In Reply to: Re: Knox - Shelby mar. bef. 1810 Meck. NC by Mac Alexander of 3008 First, a recent fresh look (pick and shovel...) at old census data has shed some new light on 1) John Knox, son of Robert and Mary (Ewart) Knox, versus 2) John Knox, son of Capt Patrick Knox. Robert's relationship to Capt Patrick and Allison Knox who m. Capt Patrick's widow is still unclear -- as is Robert/Patrick/Allison's relationship to Capt James Knox, grandfather and namesake of James Knox Polk, our 11th President. Regarding the immediate relationship, it's now crystal clear (to me, anyway) that these TWO Johns have been confused. I'd attribute this confusion to timing. First, (1) John Knox, son of Robert left NC moved west AFTER the 1840 Lincoln Co NC Census, where he and Jane (Bell) appear with their two children Mary B. and William B. Then, (2) "my" John Knox, identified by his descendants, appears for the first time in 1850 Mecklenburg, creating the appearance that the "same" John Knox simply moved across the river. I'm 100% sure that "my" John Knox who m. Polly B.(Robison, I speculate) bef 1814, Mecklenburg Co, NC was NOT the son of Robert and Mary (Ewart) Knox. I'm 99% sure he WAS the son of Capt Patrick and Mary (Smith) Knox (who subsequently m. Allison Knox), but still have a few loose ends to tie-up before I can get to 100%. How I arrived at my conclusion is a rather complex exercise...and really difficult to net. If you are interested in the Lincoln Co NC 1790-1850 Census analysis go here to read more: http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?Jane,Bell, Lincoln::knox::2838.html At this point, I can only speculate that Robert/Allison/Patrick were brothers. From deed and census evidence, I do conclude Allison Knox, Capt Patrick Knox and "my" John Knox apparently were in Mecklenburg before and after the death of Capt Patrick... There is a Mecklenburg Co, NC Guardian Bond made April 28, 1794 - "Saml Wilson appointed guardian of Patrick Knoxes minor children John & Jane Knox" (signed by Samuel Wilson and James Curry; witness Isaac Alexander CC) In July 1800, Samuel Wilson received 3/4 of the proceeds of the Final Settlement for the Estate of Capt Patrick Knox. One of the 1/4s was for John Knox, son of Patrick and Mary (Smith) Knox, 1/4 was for Samuel's wife, Hannah Knox, 1/4 for Jane Knox (dau of Patrick & Mary), and 1/4 for Mary (Smith, Knox) Knox, Capt Patrick's widow, who was then married to Allison Knox. On 10 July 1800, two Mecklenburg deeds recorded land transactions between Samuel Wilson (legal Guardian and brother-in-law of John Knox), and "a" John Knox, who is clearly the heir of Capt Patrick Knox. The net of these two transactions is that John Knox exchanged (1) land (423 acres) owned by his father Patrick Knox's Estate, to which John's mother, Mary(Smith, Knox) Knox held "dower interests" which was located on the "east side of the Catawba River," for (2) land (384 acres) of equal value ($1500)located on McDowell Creek, which appears to be located near the Caldwell Station area of present-day Huntersville: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Deed Book 16, Mecklenburg Co, NC p. 460. 10 July 1800. Saml. Wilson, Sr., to John Knox for $1500, [384 A in three parts:] [1] 315 A on McDowell Cr being the land conveyed to Andw. Bowman by Henry E. McCulloh 21 Jan 1767; [2] 13 A on McDowell Cr adj Martin Steel & Adam Meek; [3] 56 on McDowell Cr adj Meed [sic Meek], Wm. Hill, Dunlap, Saml. Wilson, & other lands of the grantee. Wit: Robt. Wilson, Jurat, & Magt. Wilson. Proven at July Sess 1800, test Isaac Alexr., CMC. Reg 10 Sep 1800 (Source: Abstract of Deed Books 15-23 Mecklenburg County, North Carolina 1794-1830 By Herman W. Ferguson 2001; Abstract 977) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Deed Book 16 Mecklenburg Co, NC p. 461. 10 July 1800. John Knox to Saml. Wilson, Senr. $1500, 423 A in three parts viz: [1] 300 A on the east side of the Catawba River being part of a tract granted to Peter Ellis[?], conveyed by Ellis to Geo. Renich 14 Apr 1752, then to John Black 28 Oct 1754, from the heirs of Black to Archd. Henderson 2 Jan 1773, and then to Patrick Knox; [2] [73] A joining [1] adj. Wm. Henderson being originally [part of?] a grant to Renick; & [3] 50 A adj Francis Bailey & Benj. Wilson. Mary Knox, alias Mary Allison [sic Knox, wife of Allison Knox] has a dower interest in the property during her lifetime. Wit: Robt. Wilson, Jurat, & May [sic Mag] Wilson. Proven at Jul Sessions 1800, test Isaac Alexander CMC. Reg 10 Sep 1800. Source: Abstract of Deed Books 15-23 Mecklenburg County, North Carolina 1794-1830 By Herman W. Ferguson 2001 (Abstract 978) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The "neighbors" listed in the second parcel (384 acres; Deed Book 16, p 460) on McDowell Creek also appear on the 1800 Census of Mecklenburg Co, NC, page 564: Listed in this order, on this page are: Martin Steele; Widow Blakely[1]; William Hill, Sr; William Hill Jr; Robert Dunlap; James Curry[2] [1] Located smack in the middle of this bunch is the "Widow (Rebecca) Blakely" who d. bef January 1838. Sometime after Jan 1838, "my" John Knox purchased this property from the Blakely heirs. "The Blakely Place" is mentioned in "my" John's 1856 LWT, with ownership of his 126 acres already having been conveyed to his son, Robert J. Wilson Knox. This places "my" John Knox squarely on the territory of John Knox, son of Capt Patrick... [As an aside, notice that Robert and Margaret (Alexander) Wilson were witnesses to both transactions. Robert Wilson was Samuel Wilson Jr's half-brother, son of Samuel Wilson Sr and third wife, Margaret Jack. I speculate that this Robert Wilson was the namesake for my Robert J. Wilson Knox, b. 1820, Mecklenburg.] Also, "my" John's heirs say he owned a large piece of acreage in/near "Caldwell Station." In 1873, Mecklenburg Real Estate Conveyances show a purchase by Robert J. Wilson Knox of 424 acres adjacent to the "Caldwell property." This particular purchase was the result of a 1872 Estate Settlement involving RJW Knox's two brothers John/Andrew, who both died without wills or heirs, and whose property from their father's 1860 estate was subsequently divided among the surviving heirs, as per instructions left in John Sr's LWT). [2] In addition, on the 1800 Census "neighbor" list (but not mentioned on the two deeds as a neighbor), is James Curry who was co-signer with Samuel Wilson for John and Jane Knox's Guardian Bond (above) made in Mecklenburg Co, NC, April 1794. John and Polly B. Knox had a daughter named Hannah E. who was the youngest daughter. Hannah died 19 Aug 1845 in Mecklenburg Co., NC and is buried in the Bethel Church Cemetery. Her tombstone says: Hannah E. Daut of John & Polly B. Knox died Aug 29, 1845 Aged 17 y's 9 m's (would have been born December 1827) This date is only 20 days after the 9 August 1845 Marriage Bond for her older brother, Robert J. Wilson Knox's marriage to Martha N. Jetton. Also, note that the timing of her death makes it very likely that she died in the 1845 Erysipelas Epidemic described by Rev. Sommerville account below. This epidemic also took the lives of her Uncle Dr. Carnes Henderson Robison [brother of Mary B. Robison Knox], and his wife, Mary Abigail Alexander, daughter of William Bain Alexander and Violet Davidson. "Mary Abigail Alexander (Nov 9, 1813 - April 9, 1845) married March12, 1844, Kerns Henderson Robinson [a.k.a. Dr. Carnes Henderson Robison], and lived three miles east of Hopewell. Both perished in the erysipelas epidemic, 1845, when our people were almost in panic with deaths so frequent it was difficult to secure decent burials." Erysipelas (Greek - red skin) is an acute streptococcusbacterial infection of the dermis, resulting in inflammation and characteristically extending into underlying fat tissue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erysipelas (Source: Peggy Buckner) | Knox, John (I3738)
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| 956 | Millennium File Name: Robert Kirkpatrick Spouse: Birth Date: 1790 Birth County: Mecklenburg Birth State: North Carolina Birth Country: USA Parents: John K Kirkpatrick, Children: Finis Ewing Kirkpatrick Other Information: Notes | Kirkpatrick, Robert McKee (I10184)
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| 957 | Mitchell's in Perry Co., AL 1840 Census: Name: C Mitchell (may be related) County: Perry State: Alabama Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1 Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1 (1801 - 1810) Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1 Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1 Free White Persons - Females - 60 thru 69: 1 (1771 - 1780) Name: E Mitchell (may be related) County: Perry State: Alabama Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 2 Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1 (1801 - 1810) Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 2 (No Mother) Name: Eugene Mitchell (may be related) County: Perry State: Alabama Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1 Total Slaves: 48 Name: James Mitchell (may be related) County: Perry State: Alabama Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1 (1835 - 1840) Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1 (1826 - 1830) Free White Persons - Males - 50 thru 59: 1 (1781 - 1790) Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1 Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1 (1831 - 1835) Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1 Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1 (1821 - 1825) Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1 (1791 - 1800) Name: John Mitchell (married Nancy Rankin?) County: Perry State: Alabama Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1 (1835 - 1840) Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1 (1826 - 1830) Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 1 (1821 - 1825) (James Robert?) Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 (1791 - 1800) Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 2 Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 2 (1831 - 1835) Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1 Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1 With 8 Slaves Name: John C Mitchell (John G. Mitchell?) County: Perry State: Alabama Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 2 (1835 - 1840) Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1 (1811 - 1820) Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1 Name: John F Mitchell (John G. Mitchell?) County: Perry State: Alabama Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1 (1835 - 1840) Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1 (1811 - 1820) Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1 Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1 New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 (?) Name: Jas Mitchell Arrival Date: 9 Nov 1820 Birth Year: abt 1799 Age: 21 Gender: Male Port of Departure: Greenock, Scotland Port of Arrival: New York, New York Ship Name: Sarah (Sarah Sands - Sands and Co. - British) Vocation: Farmer * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Kentucky Marriages, 1802-1850 Spouse 1: Mitchell, John Spouse 2: Rankin, Nancy Marriage Date: 29 Jun 1815 Marriage Location: Kentucky Fayette County 1850 United States Federal Census (could be parents of John & James) (?) Name: John Mitchell Age: 53 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1797 Birth Place: Kentucky Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Dublin, Perry Co., Alabama Family Number: 32 Name: Nancy Mitchell Age: 53 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1797 Birth Place: South Carolina Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Dublin, Perry, Alabama Family Number: 32 Household Members: Name Age John Mitchell 53 (b. abt 1797) Nancy Mitchell 53 (b. abt 1797) Jincy Mitchell 23 (b. abt 1827) (Jenny/Jinny I believe) Sarah Mitchell 20 (b. abt 1830) Calvin Mitchell 15 (b. abt 1835) Molnettis Mitchell 10 (b. abt 1840) 1860 United States Federal Census Name: John Mitchell Age in 1860: 62 Birth Year: abt 1798 Birthplace: Kentucky Home in 1860: Plantersville, Perry, Alabama Gender: Male Post Office: Plantersville Value of real estate: View image Household Members: Name Age John Mitchell 62 b. KY Nancy Mitchell 63 b. SC D C W Mitchell 22 Luticia J Redy 4 W M Redy 3 Jane E Mitchel 17 b. NC 1880 United States Federal Census Name: Nancy Mitchell Home in 1880: Plantersville, Dallas Co., Alabama Age: 86 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1794 Birthplace: South Carolina Relation to Head of Household: MotherL Father's birthplace: Ireland Mother's birthplace: South Carolina Occupation: At Home Marital Status: Widowed Race: White Gender: Female Household Members: Name Age John Morrow 37 Malnettie Morrow 40 Peter Morrow 18 Shelton Morrow 11 Thomas Morrow 9 Mystte Morrow 6 Lily Morrow 2 Nancy Mitchell 86 (mother in law) b. SC Leeland Boggs 26 (boarder) | Mitchell, John (I10650)
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| 958 | Moses and Mary Ann Knox married before the 1810 Mecklenburg Co., NC Census and probably 1804 the time of the birth of Winfield. Moses Shelby is listed in the 1810 and 1820 Mecklenburg Co., NC Census, but not in any other thereafter. His last child was born in 1825. (MCM - 2003) 1810, NC, Mecklenburg: Third Fed. Census pg. 503 Shalvey (sic), Evan, 1 male under 10, 1 male 10-15, 1 male 16-25, 1male 45+; 1 female under 10, 1 female 10-15, 1 female 16-25, 1 female 45+. In the same Census: Moses is 16-26 (1784-94) living near an Allison Knox, possibly father of Mary Ann Knox, his wife. (by age could not be Moses who m. Mary Ann Knox) From NC State Dept. of Archives and History, Book 8, pg. 193 January 18, 1813: Moses Shelby Of Cabarrus County to Moses Wiley Consideration from the old original tract of the land of Moses Shelby - containing 1 acre and 140 poles. Signed: Moses A. Shelby (Not our Moses) Test: William Gilliam James Morrison Ack'd by the grantor January Session 1813. From NC State Sept. of Archives and History, Book 8, pg. 567 August 2, 1816: Moses Shelby of Cabarrus County to John M. Wilson, tract of land in Cabarrus on Clear Creek. Signed: Moses Shelby Test: James Morrison Sarah R. Wilson 1820 Census Mecklenburg Co., NC, roll 84, bk 1, pg 181, enumerated 15 Nov 1820: Shelby, Moses: 4 males under 10, 2 males 10 - 16, 1 males 26 - 45, 1 female under 10, 1 female 26 - 45. (These would be 7 males: Moses, Winfield, Smith, John Rufus, James Madison, David Daniel, Samuel Norton, 2 females: Mary Ann, and Elenor Selina. In Mecklenburg Co., NC Deed Book 323, page 104: 9 Jun 1823, Charles Mitcheal sold to J. R. (John Rufus) Shelby 200 acres on Beaver Dam Creek. This is probably the same 200 [less 27 acres] his grandfather, Evan, sold to James Ross in 1783, for the monies willed to his son, Evan in 17) In Mecklenburg Co., NC Deed Book 23, page 466: 9 Oct 1835, James M. (James Madison) Shelby representing John R. (Rufus) and James B. Shelby transact (?) for 200 acres on Beaver Dam Creek. (I believe James Madison Shelby bought back for John Rufus and James B. Shelby the land that originally was owned by their grandfather, Evan) In Mecklenburg Co., NC Deed Book 2, page 406: Jan 1849, James M. (James Madison) and Mary Ann Shelby, et al, sold land to James M. Henderson. (I think this was a 100 acres on Beaver Dam Creek from the 1835 transaction) Mecklenburg Co., NC Deed Book 3, page 48: Jan 1850, Mary Ann Shelby sold to M. D. Johnson 100 acres on Beaver Dam Creek. (This was, more than likely, the other 100 acres bought in the 1835 transaction) Samuel Shelby, son of Moses Shelby & Mary Ann Knox, had a grandson, Joseph Alexander Shelby. These are from notes written by Joseph Alexander Shelby: "Sons of Moses Shelby of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. 1. Rufus Shelby - died in Dallas County, Alabama; 2. Winfield Shelby, buried at Elizabeth Church, Sumter County, Ala.; 3. James Madison Shelby. Moved from Perry County, Ala. to Tyler, Texas, 1869; 4. Dan Shelby, moved from Perry County, Ala. to Louisiana; 5. Smith Shelby of Tennessee. Father of Will L. Shelby who died in Avondale, Ala; 6. Samuel Shelby, my grandfather. (b. 14 May 1821, Mecklenburg Co., N.C., language English, Religious persuasion Methodist, Occupation Farmer and Soldier, married Priscilla Ross Gibson, 28 Oct 1847, lived in Lauderdale, Miss., date and cause of death 3 Jul 1881 Heart Failure, where buried Bethel Cemetery, Lauderdale Co., Miss., has tombstone, is buried on the south side of the cemetery); 7. Joe Shelby, never married. Died young in Dallas County, Ala.; 8. Silana Shelby married Wm. Henderson and moved to Texas; 9. Thomas Shelby moved from Dallas County to Sumter County 1854.. or 1845?" Charles B. Wilson and A. B. Jetton appear as Bondsman/Witness for two of Moses Shelby's children. (Source: Johnnie M. Johnson) Raleigh's State Archives... there are a bunch of estate papers for Jane re Allison and Mary Ann Knox's husband Moses Shelby is the administrator/exe. of his estate... (I have been unable to find these papers. They do not seem any longer to be in the Archives. MCMordecai-2004) It is possible that Moses is buried in Sugaw Creek Cemetery, near Charlotte, NC or Bethel Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Huntsville, NC (6 miles outside of Charlotte, NC.) in an unmarked grave. Johnnie M. Johnson, in her book, states that he is buried 6 miles outside of Charlotte. I was unable to find him listed in the records. (MCM - 2004) Published by Central AL. Genealogical Society - 1989 Name Spouse DOB Shelby, Cornelia (Bradford) August 29, 1856 Shelby, Eloise August 30, 1860 Shelby, Inez Cook September 7, 1894 Shelby, John R. Feb. 14, 1839 Shelby, Joseph Nov. 10, 1823 Shelby, Margaret Ann (Porter)Jan 12, 1851 Shelby, Margaret E. Aug 26, 1860 Shelby, Margaret (Bradford) May 16, 1854 Shelby, Martha Dec 20, 1856 Shelby, Mary May 25, 1825 Shelby, Mary (wo of Moses) May 28, 1785 * Shelby, Nancy C. Morrow (wo of J.H. Shelby) Aug 13, 1828 Shelby, Prudence M. (wo Dan) Aug 7, 1817 Shelby, T. D. 1851 Shelby, William A. 1858 Shelby, Zena H. Nov 22, 1862 COURT MINUTES - GUARDIAN BOND ABSTRACT: Mecklenburg County NC Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions 1826 February Session, page 124 [Tuesday, Feb 28, 1826] Ordered that John Knox be Guardian for John R., Winfield, Smith, Eleanor, Thomas, Samuel & Joseph Shelby, children of Moses Shelby who appeared in Court and was bound with James Doherty, Security, in the Sum of £250. | Shelby, Moses (I3021)
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| 959 | Muster roll Civil War May 5, 1862 Camp Goldwaite Shelby Co., Alabama. Company F., 31st Alabama Infantry Regiment. 3rd Lt., James A. Cobb, Commander. Organization of the Army of Tennessee, Commanded by General John B. Hood, C. S. Army, December 10, 1864. November 14, 1864-January 23, 1865.--Campaign in North Alabama and Middle Tennessee. O.R.--Series I--Volume XLV/1 [S# 93] Organization of the Army of Tennessee, Commanded by General John B. Hood, C. S. Army, December 10, 1864. November 14, 1864-January 23, 1865.--Campaign in North Alabama and Middle Tennessee. O.R.--Series I--Volume XLV/1 [S# 93] Lee's Army Corps. Lieut. Gen. Stephen D. Lee. Johnson's Division. Maj. Gen. Edward Johnson. Deas' Brigade. Brig. Gen. Zach C. Deas. Pettus' Brigade. Brig. Gen. Edmund W. Pettus. 20th Alabama, Col. James M. Dedman, Capt. John W. Davis 23d Alabama, Lieut. Col. Joseph B. Bibb. 30th Alabama, Lieut. Col. James K. Elliott, Col. Charles M. Shelly 31st Alabama, Lieut. Col. Thomas M. Arrington, Col. D. R. Hundley (William Houston Shelby in the Company) James Cobb organized this company and later resigned. Capt. William Houston Shelby was under Col's. Arrington and Hundley). 46th Alabama, Capt. George E. Brewer. Note: William Houston Shelby was in Pettus' Brigade, Stevenson's Division, Breckenridge's Corps. in the Battle of Chicamauga on Missionary Ridge of Lookout Mountain, just inside the Georgia-Tennessee state line. The information below is from the records of the Battle of Chicamauga State Park, pg. 368, 382, 383 and 384: "Brig. Gen. Edmund W. Pettus was the commanding officer. Under Brig. Gen. Pettus were: 20th Alabama under Capt. John W. Davis; 23rd Alabama under Lieut. Col. J. B. Bibb,; 30th Alabama under Col. Charles M. Shelly; 31st Alabama under Col. D. R. Hundley; 46th Alabama under Capt. George D. Brewer. Clayton's Brigade, Stewart's Division, Breckinridge's Corps, Col. J. T. Holtzclaw commanding officer. Under Col. Holtzclaw were: 18th Alabama under Maj. Shep Ruffin; 32nd Alabama under Capt. John W. Bell; 36th Alabama under Col. Lewis T. Woodruff; 38th Alabama under Col. Charles T. Ketchum; 58th Alabama under Lieut. Col. John W. Inzer. At the opening of the engagement, 24 Nov this brigade was on the top of the mountain. At half after 12 o'clock noon, Gen. Pettus was ordered with three regiments, the 20th, 31st and 46th Alabama to proceed to the Craven's House. Arriving where this tablet stands (at Craven's house), he found Walthall's Brigade holding the line from this point to the Palisades. Gen. Pettus immediately filed his line to the left in the rear of Walthall's and, moving forward relieved it, and held the position. Gen. Pettus also extended his line 150 yards below the road to connect with the left of Moore's Brigade. Later Walthall having replenished ammunition, returned to Pettus' line and was engaged with it until the close of the battle at night. At 8 P.M. Holtzclaw's Brigade (Clayton's) of Stewart's Division, relieved Walthall's Brigade and the 20th and 31st Alabama. At 2 A.M. the 46th Alabama withdrew from the mountain with Moore's and Holtzclaw's Brigades, which covered the Confederate retreat. Casualties: Killed, 9; Wounded, 38; Missing, 9. During the night of Nov 24th Pettus' Brigade was ordered from Lookout Mountain to the extreme right on Missionary Ridge, reaching Tunnel Hill about 10 A. M. of the 25th. It took position south of front. Its right connected with Cumming's Brigade, and its left joined Wilson's Brigade of Walker's Division. From this position is engaged the right of the enemy in his several assaults. Casualties at this position: Killed, 8; Wounded, 55; Missing, 8." Note: My mother's great grandfather, William Houston Shelby fought in the American Civil War under Brig. Gen. Edmund Pettus in 1863. Between 1938 - 1940, my father, George A. Cross, helped to build the bridge over the Alabama River in Selma, AL that was named for Brig. Gen. Edmund Pettus. MCM-2003. From "Yours, Mine and Theirs, A listing of Civil War Soldiers connected with Chilton Co. AL" by Ben Roberts w/ Nell Thomas, Betty Collins & John D. Glasscock, page 125: William H. Shelby: Burial: Cobb Confederate Cemetery, Chilton Co. AL Information: Paralyzed for about 3 years. Military 1: Bet. 1861 - 1865, CSA, 2ndLt/Capt, Co. G/C, 31st Ala. Inf. Enlisted at Mims Crossroads Military 2: November 21, 1863, Captured at Vicksburg and signed the oath, resigned Nov. 21, 1863. (Can't be true if he was in the Battle of Chicamauga on Lookout Mt. Nov 24 and 25 of 1863-MCM-2003) Obituary: September 23, 1897, Obituary: 'Banner' Sept. 23, 1897. "William Houston Shelby was my great-great- grandfather. He was born on 25 April 1836 and was married to Elizabeth Malone Cobb. He was a Captain in the Civil War and served in the Vicksburg Campaign." (Source: Jack A. Gowan. 234 Williams Rd. Rose Hill, NC 28458. Ph & Fax (901) 532-2417. Member of SAR. Alabama Marriages, 1800-1920, Records 139558-139558 of 149224: Spouse 1: Wm. H. Shelby Spouse 2: Elizabeth M. Cobb Marriage Date: 17 Sep 1861 Marriage Place: Shelby Co. Performed by: JP Surety/Perf. Name: Johnathan C. Huckabee From "The Shelby Legends and Folk Stories" by Ernest Perry Bell: "...When James Madison Shelby family and that of his sister, Ann Selina Shelby Henderson, departed Selma, Alabama, for Texas, they left behind a number of brothers and one son, James Adams Shelby. Communication in 1869 was slow and travel slower, hence over the years, contact was lost with these members of the family in Alabama. Therefore our knowledge of the Alabama Shelby Legends and Folk Stories is meager indeed. We are indebted to Mrs. O. W. Kaiser of Rt. 4, Box 32, Victoria, Texas for the following. Mrs. Kaiser is the Great-Great-Granddaughter of John Rufus Shelby, older brother of our James Madison Shelby and Ann Selina Shelby Henderson. "Captain William Houston Shelby, attached to the 31st Alabama Infantry Regiment, carried his company into the Battle of Chicamauga in Georgia with the aid of a cannon purchased in England with the jewels of his wife's family. They fought valiently with the aid of the cannon until the ammunition gave out and then stood off the Yankees with rifle bullets until they were all gone and then fought the enemy using their rifles as clubs. At sunset "The Lady Cobb" was still in possession of Captain Shelby. (Captain Shelby's wife's maiden name was Elizabeth Malone Cobb and the cannons were generally named after wives). The famous cannon now stands on Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee." (Note: In Nov 2004 I attempted to find the cannon and was told that they were not identified; and that, following the end of the Civil War, the cannons were taken to the North and stored. When the battle sites became part of the national park system, they were brought from the stockpile without identification. They could be either northern or southern cannons for there was no way to tell. MCM-2005) "John Rufus Shelby and Mary Ann Deaton had a daughter named Eddy who sickened and died when twelve years old. Just before her death a flock of mourning doves came to the window of her room. Eddy asked that they be let in. The birds fanned her with their wings -- cooed and kissed her and stayed with her until death shooed them away--. Grandmother Shelby said she would have never believed it had she not seen it with her own eyes." From: Heritage of Shelby Co., AL: "Shelby Springs: Five miles above Calera and on the Montevallo-Vincent Highway, as well as the Southern Railway, was Shelby Springs. It was named for the county. Early on, the Indians had great faith in the healing qualities of the springs and considered them sacred. After the settling of Alabama, the Springs became a famous summer spa and resort, 'for its healing waters.' The Alabama and Tennessee Rivers Railroad reached this resort by 1853. During the Civil War the site and hotel and cabins were used as a Confederate Camp, and then a Confederate Hospital. The area remained a resort after the war until the depression of 1929, and by 1937 was private property. Nearby is the Old Confederate Cemetery, resulting from the days it was a hospital, now restored by the Shelby County Historical Society and the William Houston Shelby Sons of the Confederate Veterans Camp #1537. A memorial service is held here yearly at the end of April." | Shelby, William Houston (I8511)
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| 960 | North Carolina Census, 1790-1890 about Joseph Smith Name: Joseph Smith State: NC County: Duplin County Township: Wards District Year: 1786 Record Type: State or colonial census Page: 002 Database: NC Early Census Index Tennessee Census, 1810-91 about Joseph Smith Name: Joseph Smith State: TN County: Stewart County Township: 100010-44010 Year: 1810 Record Type: Tax List Page: 125 Database: TN Early Census Index 1820 United States Federal Census Name: Joseph Smith (Spencer's father) County: Stewart State: Tennessee Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820 Free White Males - Under 10: 1 (2 males) Free White Males - 26 thru 44: 1 (Joseph) (b. 1776 - 1794) Free White Females - Under 10: 4 Free White Females - 10 thru 15: 4 Free White Females - 26 thru 44: 1 (wife) Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 2 Slaves - Females - 14 thru 25: 1 Slaves - Females - 26 thru 44: 1 Free White Persons - Under 16: 9 Free White Persons - Over 25: 2 Total Free White Persons: 11 Total Slaves: 2 Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 13 U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 about Joseph Smith Name: Joseph Smith Gender: Male Birth Place: NC Birth Year: 1786 Spouse Name: Susan Boze Birth Place: NC Spouse Birth Year: 1810 Number Pages: 1 1830 United States Federal Census Name: Joseph Smith (maybe great Uncle of Spencer) Home in 1830: Stewart, Tennessee Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 2 (males 4) Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1 Free White Persons - Males - 50 thru 59: 1 (Joseph) (b. 1771 - 1780) Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1 Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 3 Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1 Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1 (1st wife) Slaves - Males - Under 10: 1 Slaves - Males - 10 thru 23: 1 Slaves - Males - 24 thru 35: 1 Slaves - Females - Under 10: 1 Slaves - Females - 36 thru 54: 1 White Persons - Blind: 3 Free White Persons - Under 20: 7 Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2 Total Free White Persons: 10 Total Slaves: 5 Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 15 1850 United States Federal Census about Joseph Smith Name: Joseph Smith Age: 64 Estimated birth year: abt 1786 Birth Place: North Carolina Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): South Division, Smith, Tennessee Family Number: 276 Household Members: Name Age Joseph Smith 64 (Spencer's father?) b. NC 1786 Susan Smith 40 (b. 1810) (2nd wife) (see marriage record above) Mary Smith 22 (b. 1828) Margret Smith 21 (b. 1829) Eliza Smith 20 (b. 1830) William Smith 15 (b. 1835) Joseph Smith 12 (b. 1838) Same Census - not living next door: Name: Josiah Smith (relative of Spencer?) Age: 61 Estimated birth year: abt 1789 Birth Place: North Carolina Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Stewart, Tennessee Family Number: 531 Household Members: Name Age Josiah Smith 61 Micheal Smith 51 Angeline Smith 20 Susan Smith 18 Josiah Smith 13 Saml Smith 7 Nancy Shepherd 64 1860 Census Stewart Co., TN Dist #2 Indian Mounds P.O. enumerated 6 Jun 1860: Household #190: Smith, Joseph age 73, m. Farm Laborer b. NC (1786-87), (Spencer's father) Susan, 27, f. b. TN (1833), (granddaughter) Suella, 3, f. b. TN. (1857) (Joseph is now a widower) Household #191: Smith, Spencer age 32, m. Farm Laborer b. TN, (1828) Elizabeth 30, f. b. TN, (1830) Nathan 10, m. b. TN, (1850) Mary 9, f. b. TN, (1851) George 6, m. b. TN. (George Henry Smith b. 1854) Household #192: Smith, Henry age 28, m. b. TN, (b. 1832) (Spencer's brother) Mary 25, f. b. TN, (b. 1835) James 9, m. b. TN, Joseph 8, m. b. TN, Nancy 2, f. b. TN. Household #193: Smith, Richard age 23, m. Farm Laborer b. TN (1837) (Spencer's brother) Ann 23, f. b. TN, (1837) Charles 1, m. b. TN. 1850 United States Federal Census about James N Smith Name: James N Smith Age: 57 Estimated birth year: abt 1793 Birth Place: North Carolina Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Montgomery, Tennessee Family Number: 1491 Household Members: Name Age James N Smith 57 (Joseph Smith's nephew?) Nancy A Smith 50 Ann Smith 17 Francis Smith 20 Valentine M Smith 14 Elizabeth S Smith 12 Margaret Smith 10 Nathaniel H Smith 6 Susan Smith 4 The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture © Tennessee Historical Society: The county's boundary lines have changed repeatedly. Today, the county encompasses 458 square miles; its population in 2000 was 12,370, representing a 30 percent increase since 1990. State and federal agencies control over 44 percent of the land in the county. Modern highways have replaced the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers as the primary transportation arteries. A Cumberland City ferry is the last remnant of a service rendered obsolete by the construction of bridges throughout the county. However, many place names indicate the county's geography and cultural history: Tobaccoport, Bumpus Mills, Big Rock, Bear Springs, Model, Bellwood, Leatherwood, Indian Mound, and Cumberland City. Cumberland City, the second largest city, was established in 1814. Prior to 1860, it was known as Bowling Green, but changed the name to Cumberland to eliminate confusion with Bowling Green, Kentucky, which was also on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. The word "City" was added by citizens who anticipated a great future for their town. The town is perhaps best known for the Cumberland City Academy, which was founded in 1893 by W. T. Thomas. Before statehood, Methodist circuit-riding preachers conducted campground meetings at the site of the McKendree Church, the oldest church in the county. Today, Cumberland City looks much as it did at the turn of the twentieth century, except for the presence of one of the largest coal burning steam plants in the world, constructed by the TVA in 1968. Adjacent to the steam plant is Stewart-Houston Industrial Park, which houses several modern manufacturing operations. Although Big Rock remains an important county community, the development of Fort Campbell in the 1940s greatly diminished the town's size and population. Indian Mound was named for the prehistoric burial mounds located in the community. Early settlers recognized the mounds and recorded their presence in early court records and deeds. The community developed with the establishment of two iron furnaces. When the furnaces closed, the population of the community declined. As the era of the iron industry passed, the economy depended more heavily on the earlier established farming and timber industry. Cotton was among the first crops grown in the early 1800s, but it declined in production due to low yields caused by poor soil conservation practices. Both dark-fired and burley tobacco were introduced into the area in the early 1800s, but dark-fired tobacco dominated and continues as the county's primary cash crop. In fact, the region is known as the "Dark-Fired Capitol of the World." In addition to tobacco, Stewart County farmers produce corn, wheat, and soybeans. The Goodspeed Publishing Co., History of Tennessee, 1886 The Cumberland River enters the southeast corner of the county and runs approximately in a northwesterly direction until it reaches a point beyond Dover, when it turns and runs nearly due north and parallel with the Tennessee River, which bounds the western side of the county. The Tennessee Ridge forms the water shed between the two rivers. The creeks of the county are Elk, Saline, Hickman, Standing Rock, Lick, Long, South Cross, Bear, Barrett's, Nevill's, Prior's, North Cross, Bullpasture, Cub, Panther, Bird's and Rushing's. Stewart County was settled principally by North Carolinians, the first of whom came some time about 1795, that State having issued military grants to survivors of the Continental war, which called for large tracts of land lying in this county. Among the persons to whom these grants were issued between the years 1795 and 1805 were James and Thomas Armstrong, Duncan Stewart, James Camper, Caleb Fisher, William Hendry, John McAuslin, J.C. Mountflounce, James Tabb, Abner Lamb, William B.. Blunt, Lewis Cannon, William Fawn, Henry Turner, Robert Hays, Robert Searcey, Daniel Wheaton, Simon Bright, Adriah Valch, Benjamin Shepherd, James Templeton, and James Martin , all of whom received from 1000 to 1500 acres each, while grants fro 174 and 640 acres each were received by Lewis Pipkin, Martin Armstrong, Charles Stewart, John Baker, John McNeese, Joseph Brach, Nathan Alexander, Arthur Tynor, Thomas Campbell, Charles Gerard, Charles Griggs, John McNairy, Robert Calf, James Mills, Anthony Hart, Solomon Kitt, James Rice, James Gillingham, Henry Johnston, Thomas Taunt, Thomas Sharp, Jesse Massie, Hayden Wells, William Curd, James Coglin, John McAdams, Joshua Doris, James Lack, Abner Lamb, Richard Fenner, John Collins, James Douge, Gryan Whitfield, and Jesse Burton. Probably the first settlers of the county were George Petty, Samuel A. Smith, Brittain Sexton, James Andrews, Samuel Boyt, and Elisha Dawson, all of whom came from North Carolina about 1795. Petty settled on the Cumberland River, near where Dover now stands; Smith in the same neighborhood; Sexton on Standing rock Creek, in the Tenth District; Andrews on Lick Creek, in the Seventh District; Boyt on Panther creek, in the Ninth District, and Dawson about five miles southwest of where now stands Dover. In 1800 Duncan Stewart, Nimrod Croswell, Robert Nelson, Seth Outlaw, William Pew, John Stansel, Thomas Shaw, Thomas B. Perrill, Christopher Brandon, Littleberry Hamilton, John Kingins, Z.T. Shamwell, John Ferrell, Maricy McCollum,Etheldred Wallace, Samuel Ross, William Carr, M.G. Morris, Charles Polk, Abraham Phillips, John Bird, Walter Boslon, Thomas Buckingham, Jack Warford, John Gardner, and Jarris Taylor came from North Carolina and settled in different parts of the county. At about the same time Joseph Smith and Larry Satterfield came together from North Carolina and settled at the foot of the Cumberland River hills, on Lick Creek, near the present site of Dover; David Lewis , another North Carolinian came in about 1803, settling in the Fifth District. About that time quite a settlement of natives of the Carolinas was formed on Long Creek, six miles southeast of Dover, among whom were Travers Moore, Matthew Manning, Bryand and Zachariah O'Neal, Thomas and David Childers, Drewry Bird, Thomas, James and William Magee, Wilson Randall and George Cathey and Philip Hornbarger was at the head of a settlement on Byron Forge Creek at the same time. In about 1804 James Scarborough, Sr., James Scarborough Jr., David Andrews, Emanuel James, Evenezer Rumphelt, Benjamin Bogt, James Boyd and John Scarborough came from Virginia, and found farms on which to locate in different sections of the county. Among other early settlers were William Massey, James Elder, Sterling May, James, Tygart, Henry Samson, John Jones, William Haggard, William R. Bell, John Trousdale, Caleb Williams, Louis Elliott, Thomas White, Moses Ward, Amos Fletcher, Ebenezer Piatt, John Cooper, William Linsey, James Galing, Samuel French, John Kyzer, Elisha Simpson, John Graham, Benjamin Downs, Jacob McCartney, Thomas Almon, John Scott, Charles Wilcox, John Hobbs, James Simpson, David Hogan, Samuel Baker, W.R. Allison, Thomas C. Clinton, William Bitts, Louis bryant, John Churchwell, Robert Lancaster, Thomas Smith, Vernon Randolph, Thomas Craig, Thomas Cottingham, James Hurd, John Boyd, Jonathan May, Henry Gibson, David Yarborough, John Frazer, Guthridge, Lyon, James Moore, John Churchwell, John Carney, Warren Fortner, John Price, John Polk (cousin of James K. Polk), William Dunbar, Benjamin Bradford, Caleb Williams, Manton Wells, Zachariah Ratcliff, James wyatt, Simon Fletcher, Nathaniel Denson, John Sanders, Robert Armstrong, Enoch James, John Scales, Elijah Simpson, Louis Keeling, James Cook, George Crassner, Silas Vincent, Wiley wheatley, Stephen Gilbert, Thomas Mallory, William Pearce, Armstead Stubblefield, John Edmonson, James Warnock, Asa Atkins, Archabald Cook, Tapley Maddos, Anthony Lee, William Christmas and Nicholas Long. The first settlers found the county infested with Indians, a majority of whom were hostile, and two block-house forts were erected for better protection from the savages. Those structures were of rough unhewn logs, calculated to withstand a furious and determined attack, and stood on Lick Creek and Tennessee River. Some time before 1795 a party of surveyors, composed of seven or eight men, who had come out from North Carolina to run the lines of tracts of land in the different military grants, were attacked one night while encamped on Spring creek (now known as Dyer's creek), in the Fifth District, and three or four were killed by the Indians. Thomas French , one of the few settlers of that early date, was one of the party, but made his escape. Depredations of all kinds were committed by the Indians, and as late as 1812 the Tennessee River had to be constantly patrolled by the militia to prevent them from making incursions and raids on the settlers. Game of every description also abounded in the vast canebrakes and forests in the early days, and many a "bar" story has been handed down, one of which is as follows and is vouched for by Judge Scarborough , of Dover: some time in 1807 James Scarborough and sons left home to attend court in Dover, leaving the farm in charge of his wife, Mary . As they lived a long distance from the county seat, it was necessary to remain overnight. Along in the evening, after the men had taken their departure, a huge black bear was detected prowling around the place, and finally got in among the pigs. The dogs were set on it, and it took refuge in a large tree near the house. By this time it was dark, and Mrs. Scarborough could not distinguish the form of Bruin, so she made a large fire under the tree and sat up all night long to replenish it, in order to keep the animal in the tree, and when morning came the plucky woman got her husband's rifle and killed the bear, which was skinned, and the hide preserved as a trophy. During the first days of the settlement there were no mills or stores nearer than Palmyra, Montgomery County, and thither went the settlers to mill and trade. A large amount of the stores used in those days were brought from New Orleans. The time required to make one of the New Orleans trips was about six months. They would load their furs, skins, and whatever produce they had on keep-boats, and float down the river. Exchanging produce for groceries, etc., they would start on the return trip. If they sold their boats they would walk home making the trip in about four months, and if the boats were brought back, as was frequently the case, the full six months were required for the trip, as it was necessary to draw the boats all the way home by hand. Among the early merchants were Mason Bennett , who in 1904 was granted license to sell whisky at his dwelling house. Bennett also kept a small assortment of general merchandise. James Russell kept a similar store, in what was afterward Dover, about the same time. At that time George Petty kept tavern at his house on the Cumberland River and John Stewart also kept tavern at his house on Wells Creek. In 1806 George Petty opened a tavern in Dover, and Philip Hornbarger kept a similar establishment at his house on Byron Forge Creek, and Phillip Wells kept a small store on Well's Creek. Nathan Skinner kept store in 1812 on Shelby Creek, and in 1815 John Ross opened store at his dwelling house. | Smith, Joseph (theoretical father of Spencer) (I8044)
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| 961 | North Carolina Death Certificates, 1909-1975 (Susan Allison Alexander Wife of William Wallace Alexander) Name: Susan Alexander Gender: Female Race: White Age: 80 Birth Date: 18 Jun 1857 Birth Place: York, South Carolina, United States Death Date: 6 Dec 1937 Death Location: Charlotte, Mecklenburg Spouse's Name: William Father's name: Martin Allison Mother's name: Mary Kimbell | Alderson, Susan (I9941)
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| 962 | North Carolina Death Certificates, 1909-1975 Name: Edna Alexander Morgan [Edna Alexander Alexander] Gender: Female Race: White Age: 56 Birth Date: 30 Apr 1898 Birth Place: Cherokee Falls, South Carolina, United States Death Date: 29 Aug 1954 Death Location: Charlotte, Mecklenburg Father's name: William W Alexander Mother's name: Susan Allison Residence: Charlotte, Meck, North Carolina | Alexander, Edna M. (I9976)
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| 963 | North Carolina Death Certificates, 1909-1975 Name: Gracie Jane Fortenbury [Gracie Jane Alexander] Gender: Female Race: White Age: 46 Birth Date: 2 Mar 1891 Birth Place: Fort Mill, South Carolina, United States Death Date: 25 May 1937 Death Location: Lincolnton #1, Lincoln Spouse's Name: Richard Fortenbury Father's name: W W Alexander Mother's name: Susan Kimble (inaccurate) (Allison) | Alexander, Gracey Jane (I9978)
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| 964 | North Carolina Death Certificates, 1909-1975 Name: James Edward Martin Gender: Male Race: White Age: 78 Birth Date: 21 Nov 1871 Birth Place: Union Death Date: 10 Oct 1950 Death Location: Charlotte, Mecklenburg Father's name: Boswell Martin Mother's name: Elizabeth Jane Miller Residence: Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina | Martin, James Edward (I10017)
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| 965 | North Carolina Death Certificates, 1909-1975 Name: Mrs Lillie Martin Gender: Female Race: White Age: 40 Birth Date: 13 Aug 1883 Birth Place: Union, North Carolina, United States Death Date: 25 Apr 1924 Death Location: Charlotte, Mecklenburg Spouse's Name: J E Martin Father's name: Wm Hargette Mother's name: Ellen Thompson | Hargett, Lilly (I10018)
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| 966 | North Carolina Death Certificates, 1909-1975 Name: Janie Alexander Stogner [Janie Alexander Alexander] Gender: Female Race: White Age: 68 Birth Date: 23 Mar 1903 Birth Place: South Carolina, United States Death Date: 20 Mar 1972 Death Location: Charlotte, Mecklenburg Father's name: Perry Alexander Mother's name: Lizzie Street | Alexander, Janie Mae (I9945)
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| 967 | North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868 Groom: Ulyssees Alexander Bride: Jane Hunter Bond_Date: 12 Jan 1831 Bond #: 000080071 Level Info: North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868 ImageNum: 003990 County: Mecklenburg Record #: 01 007 Bondsman: Hezekiah J. Alex (Hezekiah Justus?) Witness: E Elms North Carolina Marriage Collection, 1741-2004 (son maybe?) Name: Ulyssees Alexander Spouse: Milly A. Alexander Marriage Date: 6 Jun 1838 Marriage County: Mecklenburg Marriage State: North Carolina Source Vendor: County Court Records - FHL # 0546461-0546466 Source: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT | Alexander, Ulysses (I10171)
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| 968 | North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868 Groom: Smith Shelby Bride: Eliza Bodkin Bond Date: 15 Oct 1831 Bond #: 000083539 ImageNum: 000741 County: Mecklenburg Record #: 02 222 Bondsman: Charles B Wilson Witness: A B Jetton Elizabeth Bodkin mar. Smith Shelby, October 15, 1831, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. She was born between 1787 - 1814 and died between the years 1836 - 1904. Moved from Mecklenburg Co., NC to Gibson Co., TN. to Dallas Co., AL. between the years of 1830 - 1860. Known children John,1833, James,1835, William L.,1841, Jane,1840, Nancy,1843, Susan, 1844 & Winfield M. Shelby 1847. Anyone 1820 Federal Census on p 017 in Robinson twp in Livingston County, Kentucky.. Shelby Smith Smith Shelby was born between 1800 and 1819 in North Carolina, and died in 1860 in Maplesville, Dallas County, Alabama. He married Elizabeth Bodkin on 15 Oct 1831 in Mecklenburg County. She was the daughter of William S. Bodkin. Smith and Elizabeth spent some period of time in Gibson County, Tennessee where all of their children were born. Their seven children were: John, James, Jane, William L., Nancy, Susan and Winfield M. I am looking for the parents and siblings of Smith SHELBY(b.Abt 1811 - NC; m.1831 - Mecklenburg County, N.C) and Eliza BODKINS (b.Abt 1811 - NC). They moved to Gibson County, TN after they were married and had children as follows: John (b.Abt 1833 - TN); James (b.Abt 1833 - TN); Jane (b.Abt 1840 - TN); William (b.Abt 1841 - TN); Susan (b.Abt 1844 - TN); Winfield (b.Abt 1847 - TN); and Nancy (b.Abt 1849 - TN). Eliza had a sister, Nancy BODKINS (b.Abt 1805 - NC) who was living with the Shelby's in 1850 in Gibson County. | Shelby, Smith (I4872)
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| 969 | North Carolina Marriage Collection, 1741-2004 Name: Isabella Shelby Spouse: Stephen Alexander Marriage Date: 22 Nov 1797 Marriage County: Mecklenburg Marriage State: North Carolina Source Vendor: County Court Records - FHL # 0546461-0546466 Source: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT Isabella Shelby married Steven Alexander. Their children: Moffit m. Marguerett Gyeer. James m. Susan Reed, Evan Pinckey m. Elizabeth Caroline Berryhill, Lawson(Moses Lawson or M.L.) m. M.A.C. Alexander MD b. 27 Dec. 1810 d. 17 July 1888. Rachel b.23 Sept 1813 d. 19 June 1845 m. 29 May 1834 Wilson Montgomery. Mary b. 10 April 1817 d.23 April 1891 m. 10 April 1846 her brother-in-law Wilson Montgomery. Margurett m Sam Berryhill. Jane m. James Cathey. Melissa m. Thomas McDonald. (Source: Judy Trolinger) | Shelby, Isabella (I8878)
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| 970 | North Carolina Marriage Collection, 1741-2004 Name: Mildridge Orr Spouse: Amos Alexander Marriage Date: 23 Dec 1797 Marriage County: Mecklenburg Marriage State: North Carolina Source Vendor: County Court Records - FHL # 0546461-0546466 Source: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Name: Amos Alexander Gender: Male Birth Place: NC Birth Year: 1769 Spouse Name: Mildred Orr Spouse Birth Place: MD Spouse Birth Year: 1772 Marriage Year: 1797 Number Pages: 1 Family Data Collection - Deaths Name: Amos Alexander Death Date: 25 Jan 1847 | Alexander, Amos (I8852)
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| 971 | North Carolina Marriage Collection, 1741-2004 Name: Moses Wilson Spouse: Margaret Mastello (Mosteler) Marriage Date: 3 Mar 1827 Marriage County: Lincoln Marriage State: North Carolina Source Vendor: County Court Records Lincolnton, NC and FHL # 0873860 item 21 Source: County Court Records at Lincolnton, NC & Family Hi 1840 United States Federal Census Name: Mosses Wilson (Jr.) [Moses Wilson] Home in 1840 (City, County, State): District 757, Campbell, Georgia Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1 Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 2 Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1 Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1 Free White Persons - Under 20: 3 Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2 Total Free White Persons: 5 Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 5 1850 United States Federal Census Name: Moses Wilson Age: 49 Birth Year: abt 1801 Birthplace: North Carolina Home in 1850: District 10, Campbell, Georgia Gender: Male Family Number: 491 Household Members: Name Age Moses Wilson 49 Margaret Wilson 45 Jno E Wilson 32 Peter S Wilson 16 Joseph Wilson 6 (Joseph Nathaniel Wilson) Jane Wilkins 19 (Mary Jane Wilson) Martha S Krown 50 1860 United States Federal Census Name: Moses Wilson Age in 1860: 60 Birth Year: abt 1800 Birthplace: North Carolina Home in 1860: Campbell, Georgia Gender: Male Post Office: Campbellton Household Members: Name Age Moses Wilson 60 b. NC Morgrets Wilson 54 b. NC Mary Wilson 29 Joseph Wilson 14 (Joseph Nathaniel Wilson) b. GA The Carroll Times, 1872-73 AND 1876-77. Also included are notices appearing in the papers regarding Administrator sales, and applications since it gives the name of the deceased, although no dates. These notices might also indicate that a will was involved. Wilson Moses: Georgia, Carroll County....Ordinary's Office, June 2, 1873 John A. Wilson applies to me for letters of administration, with the will annexed, on the estate of Moses Wilson, late of said county, deceased. All persons concerned are hereby notified to file their objections, if any exist, on or before the first Monday in July next, else letters will be granted said applicant. D. B. Juhan, Ord'y Moses Wilson * was born 11 Oct 1766 in Tryon County, North Carolina, and died 11 Aug 1843 in Carroll County, Georgia. He was buried Kiser Cemetary in Carroll County, Georgia. He was the son of Samuel WILSON and Elizabeth. Mary Barbara Costner was born 6 Dec 1767 in Tryon County, North Carolina, and died in ,Lincoln,Nc. She was the daughter of Peter COSTNER and Margaret Dillenger. Children of Mary Barbara Costner and Moses Wilson are: i. Mary Magdalena WILSON was born 7 Feb 1796 in Lincoln (Gaston)County, North Carolina, and died 29 Mar 1872. She married Richard McKee. ii. Rebecca Katherine WILSON * was born 19 Jun 1798 in Lincoln County, North Carolina, and died AFT 1860 in Carroll County, Georgia. She married George W. Kiser 24 Feb 1827 in Lincoln County, North Carolina, son of Joseph Kiser. He was born abt 1797 in Lincoln County, North Carolina, and died aft 1880 in Carroll County, Georgia. iii. Moses Wilson Jr. was born 14 Jun 1800 in Tryon County, North Carolina, and died 3 Jul 1865 in Whitesburg, Carroll County, Georgia. He married Margaret Ann Mosteller 3 Mar 1827 in Lincoln County, North Carolina, daughter of Peter Mosteller and Mary Dellinger. She was born 5 Mar 1805 in Lincoln County, North Carolina, and died 27 Jun 1904 in Whitesburg, Carroll County, Georgia. iv. Samuel Peter Wilson was born 12 Apr 1802 in Lincoln (Gaston)County, North Carolina, and died 14 Jul 1843. He married Sarah Homesley. She was born abt 1810 in North Carolina. v. Ephraim Wilson was born 23 Feb 1804 in Lincoln (Gaston) County, North Carolina. He married Mary Magdalene Huffstetler 8 Sep 1827 in Lincoln Co., NC. vi. Absalom Wilson was born 11 Nov 1806 in Lincoln (Gaston) County, North Carolina. He married Nancy. She was born abt 1826 in Georgia. | Wilson, Moses Jr. (I11252)
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| 972 | Note: From Ezra's Will: Item; I give and bequeath to my son Paris all the remaining part of the Plantation or tract of land on which I live. Item; it is my Will that if my son Augustus do fail to make and convey to my son Paris all the land held by him within my Inclosure and also all that he holds on the West side of the Branch between my enclosed ground and William Alexander's line, in case of such failure or refusal the said Augustus shall forfeit as much of the land bequeathed to him lying most contiguous to my Improvement as may be contained within the said boundaries which forfeited land shall revert to to my son Paris. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Name: Paris Alexander Gender: Male Birth Place: NC Birth Year: 1775 Spouse Name: Dinah Eugenia Neely Spouse Birth Place: NC Spouse Birth Year: 1777 1800 United States Federal Census Name: Paris Alexander Township: Salisbury County: Mecklenburg State: North Carolina Free White Males 16 to 25: 1 Free White Females 16 to 25 : 1 Number of Slaves: 1 Number of Household Members: 3 1820 United States Federal Census Name: Parris Alexander County: Mecklenburg State: North Carolina Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820 Free White Males - Under 10: 1 Free White Males - 10 thru 15: 2 Free White Males - 16 thru 25: 1 Free White Males - 45 and over: 1 Free White Females - Under 10: 3 Free White Females - 10 thru 15: 2 Free White Females - 16 thru 25: 1 Free White Females - 26 thru 44: 1 Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 4 Number of Persons - Engaged in Manufactures: 2 Slaves - Males - Under 14: 1 Slaves - Males - 14 thru 25: 1 Slaves - Males - 45 and over: 1 Slaves - Females - 26 thru 44: 2 Free White Persons - Under 16: 8 Free White Persons - Over 25: 2 Total Free White Persons: 12 Total Slaves: 5 Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 17 1840 United States Federal Census Name: Paris Alexander County: Madison State: Tennessee Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 2 Free White Persons - Males - 60 thru 69: 1 Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1 Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 3 Free White Persons - Females - 60 thru 69: 1 Slaves - Males - Under 10: 3 Slaves - Males - 10 thru 23: 3 Slaves - Males - 36 thru 54: 1 Slaves - Females - Under 10: 3 Slaves - Females - 10 thru 23: 1 Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 19 Persons Employed in Agriculture: 6 Free White Persons - Under 20: 1 Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 5 Total Free White Persons: 8 Total Slaves: 11 Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 19 1. Paris Alexander (male) a. born on September 17, 1775 in Mecklenburg County, NC b. wife's name was documented as Dinah Eugenia Neely, though its uncertain if she was the mother to any of the children b. fathered at least 8 children, all born in North Carolina (Mecklenburg) c. moved to a town called Denmark in Madison County between 1830 and 1835. d. most of his children, all of age or near age, moved to Tennessee with him e. died in 1848 and was buried in Denmark, Madison county, Tennessee f. his children: Thomas Neely Alexander, born 1800 Jane Alexander, born about 1810 Isabella "Ibbi" M. Alexander, born 1806 James Milton Alexander, born 1808 Ezekiel Ross Alexander, born 1810 Susann Carter Alexander Cynthia C. Alexander Mary Alexander, born about 1815 Helena Alexander Paris had an older brother named Eleazor (born in 1763) who at sometime in his life, moved to Maury County, Tennessee (which is about 5 or 6 counties to the east of Madison). Eleazor died there in 1810 and is buried in Alexander Family Cemetery in Alexander Springs, Tennessee. I'm not sure why Paris lived away from Eleazor. | Alexander, Paris (I10024)
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| 973 | Note: In 1608, John Smith encountersed the Morauchtacunds (also referred to as Moraticonds, Maratticoes, and Morattico Indians). The Maurauchtacunds were a tribe of the Algonquin Nation, presided over by its Chief Powhatan.The village of Morattico takes its name from what is thought to have been one of the earliest, perhaps the first, habitation of the Morattico Indians, who, some believe, had lived in the area as early as 8, 000 B.C. By 1650 this tribe had moved further west across Morattico Creek (so named for the second Morattico Indian habitation which existed there for a time). Subsequent moves produced place names in Richmond County that included the name “Morattico.” In 1706 Joseph Ball I deeded property, which he had purchased as late as 1698 and upon which he had already begun the plantation house to become known as Morattico Plantation, to his son, Joseph Ball II. Part of this property had been bought from Charles Cale, a relative of whom, Thomas Ives, continued to own land containing Ives Creek (now Ivey Creek), the northern boundary of Joseph Ball’s Morattico Plantation. Col. Joseph Ball signed a will on 25 Jun 1711 in Lancaster Co., VA. in which he named step daughter, Elizabeth Johnson, 100 A. of land for life this is used for proof of marriage in this source. He had an estate probated on 11 Jul 1711 in Lancaster Co., VA. Mary Sue BALL Wilson's book says 'Educated in England, settled in London married first there. Barrister of Law at the English Bar.' He was married to Elizabeth ROMENY (daughter of William ROMNEY) in 1675 in VA. Elizabeth ROMENY died before 1703 in VA. Col. Joseph Ball had a plantation which he called "Epping Forest", where he lived. He was a member of the House of Burgesses, 1695. His estate has caused a considerable argument among researchers. Horance Edwin Hayden laid out the case against the Lanier family connection to George Washington's aunt in an article in ["William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine," Vol. 3, No. 1. (Jul., 1894), pp. 68-74.] His estate listed here comfirms that Esther Chinn was his daughter. Ball, Joseph, Psh. St. Mary's White Chapel. Will. 25 June 1711. Rec. 11 July 1711. Wife Mary; son Joseph; daus. Hannah Travers; Anne Conway; Esther Chinn,; Elizabeth Cornegie; Mary Ball; Eliza Johnson (dau. of his wife), dau. Mary, 400 acres of land in Richmond County; grandson James Cornegie (not 21) acknowledges gift to son Joseph Ball, and daus. Hannah Travers, Anne Conway and Esther Chinn made 11 Feb. 1707; Overseer John Hagan; negroes formerly belonging to John Cornegie, decd. Extr. Joseph Ball. Wits. Geo. Finch, Elizabeth Finch, Margaret Miller, Joseph Taylor. W.B. 10, p. 88. Eliza Johnson, Joseph Ball's step daughter, is remembered in the will of Joseph Ball with a 100 acres in 1711. "Col. Ball gave his wife a part of his estate during her natural life, with stock, slaves, etc.; to his daughter Mary, he gave 400 acres in Richmond Co.; to Eliza Johnson, 100 acres in Lancaster Co. The Lancaster Co. records could show what dis- position she made of this land. She was probably 15 or 18 years old when Col. Ball died, born say 1695, and of suitable age to have married Thomas Lanier." | Ball, Joseph I (I135)
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| 974 | PA Genealogyl Mag: " Andrew Alexander, like his brother Joseph, it is not known exactly when he came to America but he settled in Somerset Co., MD. The will of William Anderson, of Accoma County,VA, in 1692, mentions a parcel of land once owned by Andrew and his brother Samuel Alexander. Since this land mentioned is only a few miles from where these Alexanders settled in Somerset Co., Md., perhaps Andrew lived across the line in Va., for a short time before settling in Somerset Co. There is no record of his owning land there. The first records we find of Andrew is the birth of his two children, Abigail born 15 Sep 1677 and Elias born 26 Feb 1679." Recorded Somerset "Court Liber IKL - also listed as Somerset Register DB IKL: "He left very few records.The only additional records found are the registration of his cattle brand 29 Oct 1692 and and application to Co. in 1698 for witness fees in the trial of John Alexander defendent. " Somerset Judicial Records for 1696-98 pg 25: His son, Elias, appears, married his first cousin Sophia, a daughter of his Uncle Joseph Alexander (see Cecil Co. will AA-1-222)" On 29 Oct 1692 the Will of William Anderson of Accomac Co., VA describes a piece of land as "between the land of Samuel and Andrew Alexander who once lived there." Alexander Pioneers: "The first record of Andrew Alexander apears in the Somerset Register DB, I.K.L., which was begun in 1714/15. It records birth of his son and daughter "Abigail Alexander daughter of Andrew Alexander was born of his wife the fifteenth day of Sep 1677; Ellies(Elias) Alexander the son of Andrew Alexander and his wife 26 ? 1779. No other childen are registered." Welch: "Andrew Alexander also settled in Someset Co., Md. His wife is not known. Two children are listed; Abigail b 15 Sept 1677 and Elias b 1679. (Elias, it appears, married his first cousin Sophia, a daughter of his uncle Joseph Alexander See Cedil Co. will AA-1-222" MD Heraldic Fam: "Andrew Alexander m Taylor; was private at King's Mt. (See Andrew, see Virkus, Vol II for one Andrew Alexander and Anne Taylor from Earl of Sterling line.) Brevard: "Andrew Alexander son of James Alexander, b abt 1648? Immigrant from Ireland m Jean (or Jane)" Virkus Vol V p 42: under Arnold, "Andrew Alexander is from line of Bruce Andrew Alexander 1650 two children: Abigail-1677 and Elias-1679 m. dau of Jos Alexander of New Munster. Andrew Alexander evidently died comparatively young about 1700. | Alexander, Andrew (the farmer) (I1231)
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| 975 | Recorded in St. Caron's Church records: Evan Shelby son of Evan Shelby, Chr 23 Dec 1719 and buried 8 Jan 1720. (Evan & Catherine's 1st son died close to birth) Note-There are no records of departures from England and Wales until 1890. Source: http://home.clara.net/wfha/wales/faq/index.htm 1716 Wales Tregaron Cardiganshire 9 Nov Evan SHELBY marries Catherine MORGAN [hereafter E&C] Source: Letter from Lib of Wales, 26 Mawrth[sic] 1985 in response to a letter from Mrs [Johnnie M] Johnson-..."I am able to confirm that Evan Shelby and Catherine Morgan were married this date"...Our Shelbys [Note- The Vicar of St Caron's Church gives date as Oct/Nov 1716] 2003-Thanks to Ron Shelby, I now have a copy of the original marriage record-gives her name as Catherina.] 1720 Wales Tregaron Cardiganshire 23 Oct E&C son Evan Jr is Chr Source: Letter from Lib of Wales, 9 Jan 1978 in response to letter from a Miss Wiley- ..."copies from the Tregaron parish register "1720, 10 bris 23, Evanus fil. Evani Shelby, bapt. fuit. Please note that I have carefully checked the date, and that it is 1720, not 1719"] [Note- The Vicar of St Caron's Church gives the year as 1719, which is the date all the researchers have used, including Cass Knight Shelby-CKS] Evan's tombstone shows he was 74 when he died 1794, which confirms the 1720 date] 1735 PA Lancaster (now Franklin) Co "Black Walnut Point" 4 Jul Evan SHELBY granted a lic for 300a on Potomac Rd, betw Neild's FFRIEND [sic] & Edward NICHOLS. Source: State Land Office (Dept of Internal Affairs) in the Capitol, Harrisburg PA. "Blunston License Book"-a rec of lic granted to Sundry persons to settle & take up land on the west side of Susquehanah River. [Note-This was at the junction of Muddy Run with the Conococheague Cr slightly north of the bridge over the Conococheague a short distance west of the Greencastle Cem. This farm later recvd much publicity in the 1840's when it became the site of the Mormon Colony] Source: History of the Little Cove, from the Foreman Series, by Harry E Foreman of Chambersburg PA p160 [He d 1983] (Judith Trolinger) 1739 MD Prince George's Co Deed 16 Jun Cert issued by Peter Dent deputy-to Evan Shelby for a 50a tract called "Hunts Cabin" on Licking Cr in that part of the shire which has since become the Indian Spring Dist of Wash. Co, MD. (Source: Land Comm's Office, Annapolis MD-Envelope #1130. The pat. entry is in liber BY & GS#1, folio 602) 1739 MD Prince George's Co Warrant 6 Aug Evan Shelby granted 200a bearing date 7 Jun 1739 called the "Rich Lands" standing near Harris's Waggon Rd on the South & East side of Connegochego Cr abt 1 1/2 miles from said Cr... Surveyed this 9 day of Jun 1739. Patent issued same day (Source: Land Office rec's, Annapolis MD-Copied by Cass Knight Shelby [CKS] 22 Sept 1926-CKS Coll, Filson Club Library) 1739 MD Prince George's Co Warrant 7 Aug Evan Shelby's Patent for 1000a "Maidens Choice", at the mouth of Little Connogocheige [sic] Cr where on a certain Daniel Rose now lives including the Stony Lake & Flaggy Meadow.... Surveyed this 4th day of Aug 1739. Pat. issued same day (Source: MD Land Comm's Office, Hall of Rec's Annapolis, Liber E1&2, folio 858) [CKS] [Note-"Black Walnut Point" & Maiden's Choice" were in the same valley, just 9 miles apart] Notes on Maiden's Choice: Washington Co., MD Early Settler Plat Map Tract Name: Maiden's Choice Patent Date: 4 Aug 1739 Location: 1000 Owner: Evan Shelby There are twelve Shelbys of the Tregaron, Wales line who served during the French and Indian Wars, and the Revolutionary War. They are listed in the DAR Patriotic Index, Centennial Edition printed in 1994 by DAR National Society in Washington, DC. The 4th volume has brides surnames. (pipelori@fmtc.com) source: Lorene Martens. In the Testamentary Proceedings on file at Annapolis it is recorded that his wife, Catherine, and son, Evan Jr., filed a bond on July 19, 1750, as administrators of his estate; but, as he had over his personal signature conveyed a piece of land to his son John on May 19, his death must have occurred between those two dates, when he was between 55 and 60 years old. Evan Shelby Sr died at his home, "Maidens Choice". He died Intestate, as sworn by his widow Catherine, and son Evan Shelby, as Administrators of his estate, on 18 Jul 1751. Inventories (1751-2) No. 48 T.A.S., page 332, at the Land Commissioner's office The Inventory of Evan's estate was not very large and didn't appear to be worth a whole lot, but shows he had several slaves. Sons, Moses & John, signed as the nearest kin & recorded 6 Aug 1751. James Davies and Isaac Baker signed as witnesses. The sale took place on 6 Sept 1751, to be held at the dwelling house of Evan Shelby lately deceased... From a few later notations, the sale did not cover all of Evan's debts, as by 1754 Catherine and son Evan were still being sued for his debts. It is unknown if Catherine remained on the home place and died there- Or if she went to live with one of her children. The following 'vendue' was taken from the records of the clerk's office, Frederick Co, MD: The conditions of this vendue to be held the 6th day of September, 1751, at the dwelling house of Evan Shelby of Frederick County, lately deceased, is as follows: First. Whoever buys the value of 20 shillings and upward shall have nine months' credit; and whosoever buyeth under the value of 20 shillings shall pay before he, or they, shall move any particulars, and the highest bidder shall be the buyer after three distinct crings. The administrators reserve one bidding for themselves at every particular, and if, in case any one should return back any of these goods to the damage or hindrance of said sale, shall pay 2 shillings per pound to said administrators, and that every one shall give sufficient security. signed: Evan Shelby, Jr Catherine Shelby. Inventory of Evan Shelby Sr 1751 MD Frederick Co Inventory made 6 Aug. A True Inventory of the appeasement of the goods....of Evan Shelby late of Frederick County Deceased in current money so far as the same hat been brought to the Sight and Knowledge of us the appraisers having first Qualified according to the Directions and authority to us Given before Nathaniel Alexander one of the Justices of the Peace for said County the sixth day of August 1751 Imprimis [L=pound s=Sterling d=?] To his Ridding horse saddle & Bridle & his apparel 14L 10s To 6 heads of horses 12L To 10 heads of old hordes mares & colts 24L To 7 cows 14L 10s To 16 young cattle & calves 1 heifer & 1 steer 23L 16s To 24 sheep 4L 10s To 13 head of swine 3L 5s To 25 shoats 2L 10s To household goods 14L 9s 6d To plow & harrow and some old irons 3L 6s 8d To 2 stacks of winter grain 4L To 3 servants George Mercy 10L To Mary Sterling 5L To Ben Knight a mulatto 10L To a blind servant man named John Harvey 9s The above appraised by us as witness our hands James Davies Isaac Baker Signed by the nearest kin: Moses (M) Shelby and John Shelby. Geo. Gorton, Creditor; William Belle Jun Cruder (Source: Inventories, 1751-2 (book #48 T.A.S.) p48 (Courtesy of Mrs. Hoberta Frost, Bridgeport TX) Appendix D, p325 [book page]-19 Mar 1754-Frederick Co, MD: Docket: George Mason & The Ohio Company, sue Catherine & Evan Shelby [Jr], Adm's of Evan Shelby on a debt of 4 lbs 15 shillings- Item dated 3 Jul 1750.. p102 [book page]-Court Dockets show that Catherine & her son Evan Jr, were still trying to settle Evan Sr's Estate as late as 19 Mar 1754 in Frederick Co. "against Catherine and Evan Shelby for an old debt of the late Evan Shelby for L14..5 due since July 3, 1750" This is the last record I have found-to date- that mentions Catherine. (Courtesy of Judith Trolinger-2004) Note: Johnnie Mulinax Johnson gives Rachel Shelby who married 1. John McFarland, and 2. Philip Pindall as being a child of Evan and Catherine. The records of Baptism of St. Caron's clearly state that Rachel was the daughter of Rees. It wouldn't be the first time Evan was accused of getting entangled with a woman...I don't have it in front of me, but Evan was accused of being involved with a Sarah Sanders, while he was in Davidson Co, TN..oh, about 1783, I think, but was acquitted...wife Catherine at this time was in Montgomery Co, TN. conducting land transactions. From the bits and pieces, I suspect Evan and Catherine had a shaky marriage. (Source: Judy Trolinger) Online Archives of the MD STATE ARCHIVES: I found the information below in the Online Archives of the MD State Archives. Note the names of the Parish Church's given to the newly divided "All Saints Parish" of Frederick County into three new districts on 21 Nov 1770.. The Parish church's were named All Saint's Parish Church, Eden Parish Church and Frederick Parish Church. Doesn't say what denomination the churches were. In Mecklenburg Co., NC the Shelby's were involved in the establishment of Presbyterian church's, so most likely they were Presbyterians in Frederick Co. as well. Moses and Isabel were married in 1746 before the All Saint's Parish was divided into three districts in 1770, so the old parish church we are looking for must have been named "All Saint's Church". Evan spoken of in this document was Evan Jr. He was a Justice so it is easy to find state documents recording court proceedings that he was involved in. Below came from a State Record of MD. "Volume 62, 450 Assembly Proceedings, November 5-21, 1770. No. 10 Liber R. G. 1770 An Act to Divide All Saints Parish in Frederick County and to Erect two new Parishes by the Names of Eden Parish and Fred- erick Parish [Preamble.] Whereas All Saints Parish in ffrederick County is very Large extending two hundred Miles or upwards in Length and in some Places upwards of fforty Miles in Breadth containing Six thousand one hundred and fourteen Taxables and increasing very fast so that it is Impossible for one incumbent to perform the Duties of a Minister therein [All-Saints Parish to be divided into Three Districts, &c.] Be it therefore Enacted ,by the right Honourable the Lord Pro- prietary by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordships Gov- ernor and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority of the same that the said Parish of All Saints in ffrederick County Shall be immediately divided into three Several Portions or districts as nearly convenient as the Natural Situation will Admit so as that each District shall have nearly an Equal Number of Tax- ables by Messieurs William Luckett, Jonathan Wilson, Joseph Wood Normand Bruce Thomas Bowles Samuel Beall, Evan Shelby, James Smith and Joseph Smith or the Major Part of them who are hereby Authorized and impowered to make such Division and when so made shall and are hereby required to return a Certificate thereof express- ing therein the Limits and Boundaries of each District under their Hands and Seals to the Justices of the County Court of the said County there to be Recorded as a Perpetual Evidence of the Bound- aries and Limits of such Districts or Parishes [The Church or a Chapel of Ease to be in each District.] And be it Enacted that the said Division shall be so made that the Parish Church of the said All Saints Parish shall be in one District one of the Chapels of Ease belonging to the same Parish in another of the said Districts and the other Chapel of Ease belonging to the said Parish in the other of the said Districts [On the Death or Removal of B. Allen, the Three Districts to be district Parishes;] p. 99 [and the Inhabitants to enjoy the Benefits, Privileges, &c. as other Parishes now have.] And be it Further Enacted that immediately upon the Death or Removal of Bennet Allen the present Incumbent the said three Dis- tricts shall become and be distinct and Several Parishes according to the Limits and Boundaries by which they shall be Respectively laid out and ascertained as aforesaid and that the District or parish in which the said Church of All Saints Parish shall be, shall still retain the Name of and be called All Saints Parish that the District or parish in which the Present Chapel of Ease between Monocacy and Senaca Creek shall be thenceforth called and Known by the Name of Eden Parish and that the district or Parish in which the Present Chapel of Ease between Anti-eatam and Conegocheague shall be shall thenceforth be called and known by the name of Frederick Parish and the Inhabitants of each and every of the said Districts from and immediately after the Death or Removal of the said Incumbent shall have and enjoy all such Benefits Priviledges Powers and Authorities in every respect as the Inhabitants of any other Parish within this Province now have or hereafter may have or Enjoy as Parishioners and each of the said Chapels of Ease shall then be and be deemed to be the Parish Church of the Parish in which the same shall be respectively Liber R. G. 1770 And be it further Enacted that the Freeholders of the said New erected Parishes called Eden and Frederick Parishes shall have full and ample Power to meet at their respective Parish Churches afore- said on the Easter Monday next after the Death or Removal of the said Incumbent and then & there elect and Make Choice of Six Vestrymen and two Church Wardens in and for each of the same Parishes who shall be the Vestrymen and Church Wardens of the said respective Parishes for the ensuing Year and the same after- wards to alter and renew at such times and in such manner as the Laws of this Province do direct and Provide for other Parishes and that the said Vestrymen and Church Wardens of each of the said Parishes shall be Vested with the same Powers Priviledges and Authorities as Vestrymen and Church Wardens of other Parishes within this Province are vested with and shall be Liable and Subject to the same Penalties and Forfeitures and in such manner as the Laws of this Province have Provided in like Cases [The Freeholders of the said new erected Parishes, after such Death or Removal,are empowered to elect Vestrymen &c.] By the Lower House of Assembly Nov.* 21.st 1770 Read & Assented to Signed by Order Jno Duckett Cl. Lo. Ho On behalf of the right Honourable the Lord Proprietary of this Province I Will this be a Law Rob.t Eden. By the Upper House of Assembly 21.st November 1770 Read & Assented to Signed by Order U Scott Cl. Up. Ho. the great seal in wax appendantThe Lower House. 159" Princeton University in NJ was originally established by a Scot and Scot-Irish group called the “New Light” (evangelical) Presbyterians. It was originally intended to train Presbyterian ministers coming here from Scotland and Ulster, Ireland. It was chartered 1746, opened 1747, and was re-chartered in 1748. It was called the College of New Jersey until 1896. The college opened at Elizabeth, N.J., under the presidency of Jonathan Dickinson. Its second president was Aaron Burr Sr., father of the famous Aaron Burr. In 1756 the college moved to what is now Princeton, NJ. The Shelby's migrated along with other Presbyterians with intent to establish new "Meeting Houses" for the practice of their Presbyterian beliefs. When the Rock Springs Meeting House was established a minister was brought in from Princeton. Evan Sr. & Catherine Shelby had Mary baptized in the Old Christ Church in Philadelphia. That church was an Anglican church established by England in about 1690. It eventually became an Episcopal church and is still connected to England's Anglican Church. The names "Episcopal" and "Presbyterian"are both derived from Greek words. "Episcopal" churches, by definition, are churches that use a form of government that is Bishopric, which means they are headed by Bishops regarded as being in Apostolic succession. "Presbyterian" describes churches governed by elected elders. The folks from Scotland, as well as the Scot-Irish from Ulster Ireland, were referred to as the Presbyters. Most of the early Presbyterian meeting houses were governed neither by elders or bishops, but by the congregations themselves. These were called Congregationalists. My husband's father was a Congregationalist Minister from Pontyprid, Wales. I believe that our Shelby's and Alexander's were Congregationalists. They traveled together from PA down the old wagon trails to MD, to NC, and finally to TN, MS, AL and TX. The Old Meeting House Church at Rocky Springs, that Moses help to found in Mecklenburg Co., NC, was funded by Moses' brother in law, Adam Alexander, and was also named "Philadephia", after the place the Shelby's had first lived in America. When it burned, they built another Philadelphia Presbyterian Church. When that one burned, they built a final one which is still in use, and is called the Philadelphia Presbyterian Church. (Source: Martha Mordecai 2006) Information below is from Empty Nest Genealogy http://emptynestgenealogy.emptynestheritage.com/?p=881 (I personally have no documentation supporting this information - MCM 2011) Evan Isaac Shelby was the son of David Phillip Shelby (1648-1731) and Margaret Alexander (1660- ). He was born about 1694 at the beginning of the reign of William and Mary (1690-1695), and was baptised on September 2, 1694 at St. Caron’s Church in Tregaron, Cardiganshire, Wales. He was most likely a farmer and/or shepherd in Wales as these occupations were very common in the mountainous region. Although he would be considered illiterate, he could write his name. He married Catherina “Catherine” Morgan (1697-1751) on November 9, 1716 in Tregaron, Cardiganshire, Wales and they had 11 children: Moses Shelby (1718-1776); Brig General Evan S. Shelby Jr. (1720-1794); Rees (Reece) Shelby (1721-1802); Capt. John Shelby (1724-1794); Mary Hannah Shelby (1725-1805); Thomas (James) Shelby (1725-1760); David Shelby (1730-1799); Rachel Shelby (1732- ); Mary Shelby (1735-1813); Eleanor Shelby (1736- ); and Solomon Shelby (1738 -). The “Blunstone License Book” of Lancaster County in the land office in the capital at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, shows that Evan Shelby was licensed on July 4, 1735, to take up three hundred acres in the then Indian owned territory west of the Susquehanna River. Here the Shelbys settled on a beautiful spot on the east bank of Conococheague Creek on Potomoc Road, at the junction with Muddy Run, naming their farm “Black Walnut Point”. It was in Lancaster County (now Antrim, Franklin County) “between Neild’s FFRIEND (sic) and Edward Nichols”, five miles north of the Maryland (Mason-Dixon) line, north of the bridge over the Conococheague. Two years later he was licensed to acquire an additional 200 hundred acres at Rocky Spring, somewhere near his first tract. In late 1739, after his home had been seized to satisfy a debt he owed to a Richard Phillips, he relocated to Maryland, having acquired two warrants for twelve hundred acres in Prince George’s County, in the area which is now the Indian Spring District of Washington County, on June 7, 1739. One tract, called “Rich Lands” was approximately northwest of the site of Hagerstown and had been owned by Dr. Robert Stuart of Annapolis. The other, a 1,000 acre tract which he named “Maiden’s Choice”, seems to have been his home plantation. It was a narrow and irregular shaped tract that stretched from the Pennsylvania line southward along the base of the North Mountain three and a half miles. Evan built a house that was situated at the south end, probably on the road that later connected Clear Springs, Maryland, to Mercerburg, Pennsylvania. On the 26 Feb 1745, Evan sold 54 acres of “Maiden’s Choice” to his son Evan Jr. Evan Sr. obtained other land warrants and secured patents on them over the next eleven years, until he was in possession of 2,500 acres. With the exception of “Rich Lands” and a 50 acre piece called “Hunt’s Cabin”, all of Shelby’s lands seem to have been located between Conococheague Creek and the east side of North Mountain. He periodically sold some of his land and also gave some as gifts to his sons. It is recorded in the Testamentary Proceedings on file at Annapolis that his wife, Catherine, and son, Evan Jr., filed a bond on July 18, 1751, as administrators of his estate. However, since he had conveyed a piece of land to his son John on May 19, 1751, his death must have occurred between those two dates when he was about 56 years old. He died and was buried at North Mountain, Frederick County (now Washington County), Maryland. His will was probated on July 18, 1751, also at Frederick County. The Shelby family is identified with the early history of Tennessee and Kentucky, and they share, with the Seviers and Isbells, the honor of having had the greatest number of representatives in the Battle of King’s Mountain. There were seven Seviers, six Isbells and six Shelbys who participated. By coincidence, the youngest soldiers in that same battle were of the same families: James Sevier, sixteen; William Isbell, fifteen; and David Shelby, seventeen. Evan Isaac Shelby died intestate and his will was probated July 18, 1751, with his wife Catherine and his son Evan Jr. as Executors. The record of the naming of Catherine and Evan as Executors for the purposes of probate is as follows (verbatim): Adm Bond 18 Jul Maryland ss Charles, Absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Province of Maryland and Avalon, Lord Baron of Baltimore, &c, To Catherine Shelby & Evan Shelby Greeting. Whereas Evan Shelby died Intestate, as it is said, We do therefore give and grant unto the said Catherine Shelby and Evan Shelby full power and Authority to Administer all and singular of the Goods, Chattels, and Credits, of the said Deceased: and to exhibit both into our Office for Probate of Wills, &c. Lawfully authorized; touching which Inventory you are presently assigned to perform, or at farthest at or before the 15th Day of October now next ensuing; and an Account within Twelve Months from the Date of these Presents. And lastly, We do hereby constitute and appoint you the said Catherine Shelby & Evan Shelby Administrators of all and singular the Goods, Chattels, and Credits of the said Deceased. Given at Frederick County this 18 Day of July in the 37th Year of our Dominion, &c. Annoque Domini 1751. There is a family story that has been passed down through generations. Although there is no recorded evidence to support any of it, it’s worth mentioning in this post as follows: It is said that David Phillip (Phillip) Selby was a knight living in a small castle in Cardiganshire, Wales. He was obliged to support the King of England by sending men to fight when ordered. The King requested the men and Shelby sent them to Ireland under command of his son Evan. After the end of the campaign, Evan’s family was disgraced when he returned with an Irish, Roman Catholic bride. His parents demanded that she be sent back to Ireland and the marriage be annulled. At that time, Protestants could be executed for marrying Catholics. Evan refused. He attempted to settle but everyone shunned him – including his parents. As a result, Evan emigrated to America with his wife and children. These circumstances are believed to be the reason Evan never named a son for his father Phillip. His mother’s name Margaret has been passed down through the descendants for generations. | Shelby, Evan Sr. (I9392)
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| 976 | Sarah and John Alexander left NC about 1830 and settled at Big Creek, (now Cuba, TN). John was a planter and land owner. Once, when en route to New Orleans, with his produce, (on the boat) he was either robbed and thrown over board or drowned accidently, as he never reached his destination or was heard of afterwards. 1850 United States Federal Census Name: Sarah Alexander (Sarah "Sallie" Shelby Alexander) Age: 72 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1778 Birth Place: North Carolina Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 4, Shelby, Tennessee Family Number: 393 Household Members: Name Age Moses Alexander 36 (farmer) b. NC Margaret Alexander 32 b. NC Robt Alexander 12 b. TN John Alexander 9 " Amanda Alexander 7 " James Alexander 3 " Sarah Alexander 72 (Sara "Sallie" Shelby Alexander) b. NC Thos F Peyton 21 (Physician) Wm Divens 23 (laborer) | Shelby, Sarah (I14)
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| 977 | Sheriffs of Glamorgan: 1718, Thomas Popkin of Forest Llansamlet. History of Swansea: "Long before the advent of any steel works in the area there was an iron works of Forest (near Morriston) belonging to Mr. Thomas Popkin, who was Sheriff of Glamorgan in 1718. In 1729 Thomas Popkin, of Forest in Parish of Llansamlet, was party to a deed of release in respect of Yniscedwyn Ironworks. These works were said to have commenced c 1717 making the Popkins early pioneers in the district." History of Llansamlet: "In West Gower, during the 16th century, there were mines at Llanrhidian, Llandimore and Weobley; some belonged to Neath Abbey and others were under lay ownership. In the Loughor area in the opening years of the 18th Century, Slir Humphrey Mackworth took up a lease at Penclawdd and on the glebe lands of Loughor. In 1730 Thomas Popkin of Forest had also taken a lease of coal mines in the Parish of Loughor. In 1730 Sir Robert Mansell granted a lease to Robert Popkins to work coal in Llanrhidian Parish. Turning to coal working in Swansea and on the western bank of the Tawe, the Morris MS., quoting a letter of Robert Morris, says that the 'coal trade began to flourish at Swansea in 1717'. The local copper works, established in 1717, were supplied with coal at the time by only a few collieries. In 1727 it was obtained, although in insufficient quantities, from Popkin's Cwmbach and Penivilia pits." In 1751, in Llangyfelach Parish: Thomas Popkin bequeathed a rent-charge of 2 pounds for the poor (education). Thomas Popkin, Sen, Esq left 7.10 pounds per annum, charged on a tenement called Havod, in the parish of Bettws in the county of Carmarthen, for distribution among the poor of Llangyvelach. History of fisheries in the Tawe & Swansea Bay: "In June 1760, the Steward for the Lordship of Gower produced a 'Statement of His Grace the Duke of Beaufort's Title to the River Tawey in the County of Glamorgan and Evidence to Support it'. The statement demonstrates from the number of references to leases and rents for fisheries in the Tawe, many applying to freeholders with property bordering upon the river, that they were being run as 'Several fisheries' (that is private fisheries) owned by the Duke of Beaufort, some existing in the estuary and on the foreshore. The entry of 1746 records the renewal of a lease to one Lockwood Esquire for the fishing from Forrest Bridge to the sea. The statement also records other occasions when the Lordship of Gower's title to the fisheries were challenged by individuals. For example, in 1752, Thomas Popkin inherited land on both sides of the river at Forrest, he immediately made claim to the river and the fishery where it passed through his property. To defend his title the Duke of Beaufort instigated legal proceedings against Popkin. In March 1755 the dispute came to trial at Hereford where the Court found judgement in favour of the Duke." The History and Antiquities of Glamorganshire and Itts Families By Thomas Nicholas has a great deal on the Popkins. Cardiff & Merthyr Guardian 12.12.1868 ALLEGED DISCOVERY OF HEIR-AT-LAW TO GLAMORGANSHIRE ESTATES Many of our readers will remember that considerable excitement occurred in the neighbourhood of Morriston owing to the litigations between rival claimants to the Drymma Estate. Legal and physical means were resorted to for the purpose of ejecting cantankerous tenants. The new claimants to the estates were mostly people in humble circumstances. After much wrangling and expenditure of breath and money, the new claimants to these lands and hereditaments were wrested, and the matter has been in abeyance for some years. But in consequence of the judicial and legal investigations on that occasion, a poor man named Mordecai, or as he is commonly called by his neighbours, Mort, has been convinced that he is himself the long lost heir to the Drymma Estate, and to immense landed property in Swansea, Gower and various parts of Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. The new claimant has, with singular industry and pertinacity, prosecuted his patronymic researches into his pedigree until he has contrived to have an apparently unbroken genealogical tree showing his direct descent from Robert Popkin and his wife Rebecca, who married in the year 1711, and the successive transfer of the property to a Sir Watkins Lewis. Not only has the new heir succeeded in convincing himself that his claims are tenable and indisputable but he has also advanced his rights in so cogent and plausible a manner, with the aid of documentary evidence, that a number of tenants resding in various properties in dispute have absolutely refused for some years past to pay rent to anyone until the ownership, satisfactorily proved in the superior courts. (i) David Thomas gent portreeve of the Borough of Swansea; (ii) Owen Jones, common attorney of the Borough of Swansea; (iii) Daniel Vaughan the younger, common attorney of the Borough of Swansea; (iv) Thomas Popkins Esquire of Fforest, Llansamlet, Glamorgan. Counterpart lease 99 years or 3 lives for a parcel of land out of a certain waste ground called Morva Vach [Morfa-fach] and known as (iv)'s coal place, containing 50 yards in length and in breadth from the highway in the low water mark with all appurtenances; rent 6s 8d and a pair of pullets or 1s in lieu 23 September 1708 [1 parchment] (i) Swansea Corporation; (ii) Gabriel Powell the younger of Swansea gentleman. Counterpart lease for 99 years from the termination of John Rice's lease or for 3 lives for a piece of ground or coal bank lying between the coal banks of Thomas Popkins Esquire and Thomas Price Esquire in the Borough of Swansea called John Rice's coal bank in the same manner as Thomas Popkins reserving to (i) the right to enter the premises to erect mooring posts and to take landing etc. dues and to all persons to moor there ships there. Rent: 6s 8d and a pair of pullets or 1s in lieu. 1 March 1732/3 [1 parchment] (i) Swansea Corporation; to (ii) Walter Hughes of Swansea, gentleman. Counterpart lease for 99 years of a coal bank in the Strand in the Borough of Swansea, lying between the coal banks in the possession of Thomas Popkins, Esq. and Thomas Price, Esq. reserving to (i) the right of entry to erect mooring posts, to take mooring dues, and to all persons trading to moor their ships 28 October 1735 [1 parchment] (i) Swansea Corporation; (ii) Rowland Pytt Coles of Swansea, gentleman. Counterpart lease for 99 years from (i) to (ii) for a piece of land called the Cwm in the Borough of Swansea, leading from the bridge over the brook at south to the coal level at the north and having Sir Wm. Mansel's land Called Pentre Mawr and late Thomas Popkin's land called Cwm on the east, and lands of Evan Seys and (i) on the west 6 September 1779 [1 parchment] From: HISTORY OF THE VALE OF NEATH by D. Rhys Phillip Leake, Thomas Neale and Benjamin Gyles "a parcel of land whereon an ironmelting furnace stood. "1 It is clear from the delimitation made on the lease that the Old Furnace stood not far from the site occupied by Foxes & Co.'s late 18th cent. ironworks at Cwm Felin, Neath Abbey. Circa 1715.-There is some reason for concluding that Thomas Popkin of the Forest, Swansea Valley (High Sheriff of Glamorgan, 1718) was associated with the ironworks at Neath Abbey, and this may account for thc introduction of two of his Relatives as local ironfounders. Under ".Melin-y-Cwrt" we produce a document showing that castings from Neath Abbey were brought to that furnace and forge in 1718, while another MS. proves a Lease of the Melin-yCwrt Furnace by Thomas Popkin 2 in 1736. Carw Coch (Essay, pp. (33-4) stated in 1856 on the authority of James Prosser, aged 94, of Neath Abbey- whose mother had been in service with the partners (called by him Pitt, Collins, and Lewis, but known to the documents as Coles, Lewis & Co.)-that the originators of the Neath Abbey iron-works were the gentlemen here named. The only value of this testimony is its confirmation of our surmise that Pytt and his conferees succeeded Popkin not at Melin-y-Cwrt only, but also at Neath Abbey. There is some ground for assuming, as we show further on, that Popkin's nephew, Thos. Pryce, succeeded Coles, Lewis & Co. at the abbey works and the furnace of Bryncoch. Unfortunately the documents do not bridge these gaps in local metallurgical history. Thomas Lewis of Newhouse, Llanishen, was a half-brother of Gabriel Lewis who married Thos. Popkin's daughter Jane, and thus Thos. Lewis became a member3 of the firm of Coles, Lewis & Co. of the Melin-y-cwrt and Ynys-y-gerwn works. Thos. Popkin's daughter Mary, married Matthew Pryce of Cwrt-y-Carnau (the grange of Neath Abbey) a cadet of the Prices of Briton Ferry, whose 2nd son Thomas Pryce 4 lived at Cwrtrhydhir, Neath Abbey, and supplied the British Government with munitions of war. According to ID W. Jones,5 Thomas Popkin's second son, John who lived on the old Abbey land of Drymma, "owned extensive ironworks and his father before him, and his forge was so perfect that one of its chief operations was the. manufacture of muskets" (Transl.). Another connection is found in the marriage of Thomas, natural son of the above Thos. Popkin, with Elizabeth, daughter of Llewelyn Williams of Duffryn (who succeeded his father Philip Williams as Steward of the Manor of Cadoxton). Thos. Popkin, Jun., settled at Brycoch farm (which at a later period was let "at will" to the Miers' firm by his wife's 2nd husband, Dr. William Jones of Neath), and here we have a clue to the site of one of the Popkin iron-furnaces which devolved in time to his relative, Thomas Pryce. These following notes relate to the existence of an iron furnace at Bryncoch beginning about 1735. The owners were Quakers who naturally were in the armament business. The Bryncoch Furnace.-The date of the foundation of the Bryncoch Furnace has not been found, but it may possibly be fixed at c. 1735 or even earlier. "Elizabeth dau. of Mrs.. Thomas Popkins" was baptized at Ll. Gatwg, Aug. 7, 1750. Thomas Popkin died in 1752, and this date is significant in view of the appearance of the name of his nephew, Thomas Pryce, as iron master in the Customs MS.. of 1758-60 and a magazine reference to an explosion of fire-damp in 1754 at "the coal-works of Messrs. Pryce and Williams near Neath." As to Thos. Pryce, Chas. Wilkins observes rather indefinitely on page 31 of his Coal Trade, that "Previous to the Quakers there was a Mr. Pryce. He lived at Longford Court, near Neath Abbey. He was an iron 1 M.S. D.D. 829 (Nat. Lib. of Wales). 2 Son of the Sheriff of 1718. His elder bro. Robert married Rebecca Evans of Peterwell, who as "Mrs. Rebecca Popkins" appears as a subscriber to the Rev. Theoph Evan's Pwyll y Pader, 1733. 3 All the evidence we have seems to confirm this identification, though the abstracts of the leases do not, unfortunately, give Thos. Lewis's home residence. 4 A "Thomas Price, of Watford," Glam, was a partner (1759-63) with Thos. Lewis and others in the Myrthyr (Dowlais) Furnace. 5 Han. Morg, 347. BRYNCOCH AND NEATH ABBEY 287 manufacturer at Yniscedwyn . . . and other places, before the Hills and Crawshays. He had a number of small furnaces in various places, first for charcoal and then coke. Pryce died about the middle of last century, leaving a large fortune to his widow and an only son." We have a bill of exchange (Customs MSS.) which shows that Thos. Pryce1 was alive in 1785. On Feb. 22 of that year, Richard Parsons of Cadoxton writes: "pay Thomas Pryce Esq.... £100." The following extracts, from the records of the Board of Customs, indicate this gentleman's activities in 1758-60. They reveal him as a Shotfounder and Gunmaker to the Board of Ordnance and prove his residence at Cwrt-rhyd-hir, Neath Abbey,:- 175S-60. Extracts from the Customs .MSS. Oct. 11, 1758. The Board of Customs writes as follows to the Collector, etc.:-" Gent., Mr. Boddington of the Board of ordnance having by his Letter of 9 Int. acquainted us that Mr.Thos. Pryce of Coretredhir near Neath has the Iron ordnance and Round Shot men'd on the Back hereof Cast for his Maj. Service We direct you to permit the Said ordinance to be Shipped 071 board the Coaster, Jno. Williams mr. and the Ch'g Molly, Will Harris mr. with proper Dispatches in order to be Brought `& Landed at Woolrich for his Majesties Service . . . By the Coaster, Jno Will's ma.:- 26 Ton of 32 pound Shot; 14 Ton of 24 pounder; 15 4-pounder Guns, 3 3- pounder Guns by the Ch'g Molly, Will Harris ma'r:-22 ton of 32 pouncl Shot; 12 ton of 24 p'd Shot; 5 Ton of 12 pdr. Shot; 2 Ton of 6 pdr. Shot; 15 4-pounder Guns; 15 3-pounder do." Again on Dec. 2:- "Gen.... Mr. Th. Pryce, shot pounder hath got ready at Neath one hundred & Ten Ton Pound Shot for his Majesties Service, we direct you to permit the sd. Shot to be Shipt on board the Molly, Jen. Frances mr.... and Landed at Woolwich... "In other letters "Woolwich Warren" is the place of landing. On Feb. 23, 1759, there is ordered from Mr. Pryce: 'Twenty Guns, nine Pounders, and Forty Eight Tons of Round Shot". On March 6:- "10 Tons of 12 Pounders and 5 of Six Pounder Shot." On March 20: "Twelve Guns Nine Pounders: Seven tons of 12, four of 6, and 4 of 32 Pounder Shot." On July 19: "88 tons of round shot for Portsmouth." On October 9: "Fifty tons of Iron Shot." On October 25: "Seventy tons of Round Shot. . . to be shipped on board the Anne & Margaret, Sherrock Jenkins master . . . and landed at Portsmouth Gun Wharf." On Nov. 8: "Seventy tons riund shot . . . and landed at woolwich warren." On Dec. 20: "Eighty Tons Round Shot." On Jan. 12, 1760, the following Round Shot: "30 tons for 24 pounders, 20 tons for 18 pounders, 20 tons for 12 pounders, and 10 tons for 6 pounders." On Jan. 22, 1760: "Eighty Tons Round Shot." In April of same year: "10 tons for 6 pounders round shot, 40 of 12, 15 of 18, and 15 of 24 pounder shot." In May the quantity is not given - and at that date the entries on the Customs Board Orders Book came to an end. From the fact that these were shipped at Neath-as one entry indicates-we infer that the Guns and Shot were made at Thos. Pryce's works in the Bryncoch-Neath Abbey, area. Among the documents of Coles, Lewis & Co. is the following abstract lease, marking a transfer of the Bryncoch furnace (consequent possibly on the death of Thos. Pryce) to that firm, with which Thos. Lewis (a brother of Pryce's uncle Gabriel) was or had been associated:- " Lease from Philip Williams-Esqr. of Duffryn of Brincoch Furnace & Tenement of Land from Lady Day 1772 for Thirty five Years liens for the First five Years £25 p. Ann. and for the Remainder of the Term £25 p. Ann. and Also of a Coalery at Warndee on paying 4s p. Wey of 54 Baggs, each bag to Contain 3 Winchester Bushels for all Coal got on said Premisses, with a Clause in the said Lease that if the Works or Coal is not Worked within the Space of Six: Months at any one time that then the Lease shall be Void, and the said Phillip Williams or his Heirs to take to the Premises again .... ,£20." In view of the evidence we have already adduced of iron-working (probably continuous in the Neath district from the coming of the Normans by the record of 1281, the forge of 1566,2 the iron-melting furnace anterior to 1694, the Popkin-Pryce probable continuation through the 18th century till after 1780, the Coles, Lewis & Co. succession at Bryncoch in 1772, &c., the following note 1 Thos. Pryce bought Dyffryn House, St. Nicholas, and was living there in 1776, when he granted a lease of the piece of land whereon the historic chapel of Gyfylchi was built. His mother was alive in 1762 (L.P. 85), and the Minutes of the Swansea Fishery 1775 state that his brother Joseph had then "gone abroad" 2 And others of 1670-1 mentioned above. 288 HISTORY OF THE: VALE OF NEATH (received 15 July 1919) from Mr. Stephen Michell, who is writing a history of the Cornish Foundries, is worthy of quotation:- " John Harvey who originated the Hayle Foundry took old iron scrap to Neath in exchange for iron pumps1 as early as 1776. The Cornish founders of those days would only produce small and simple castings, of the methods of casting cylinders and pumps they had no knowledge. The founders at Coalbrookdale and elsewhere jealously guarded their trade secrets, to discover which John Harvey's travels and devices make a romantic story. I have been trying to find out when the Neath Abbey works were built and have no documentary evidence of earlier date than 1800. It then becomes an interesting query- where did John Harvey get his castings a quarter of a century earlier ? " We have little doubt but that they were procured from the works of Coles, Lewis & Co., or those of Thos. Pryce, which had supplied the Government with munitions in 1758-60. The last dated abstract-lease of Coles, Lewis & Co. in our possession is marked 1772, but their rentings of "A warehouse and yard, &c. at Neath Key" from Herbert Mackworth, Esq. (who was created a Baronet in 1776) and "A Warehouse at Britton Ferry" from George Venables Vernon, Esq., are both undated. On Sept. 19, 1764, a member of the above firm, "William Coles, of Cadoxton, ironmaster," leased the site and built the first Swansea Pottery Works. "The first engine turned out of the Neath Abbey works," says Turner (Ceramics, p. 11) "was placed in the old grinding mill of the Swansea Pottery by . . . William Coles." He died before Feb. 1783.2 Behind the vestry door of the parish church of Llangatwg there are two memorials, respectively in iron and stone, perpetuating the name of Thomas Guest, of Neath, Ironmaster, who died Dec. 14, 1782, aged 53. His widow Ann was buried there, Feb. 24, 1790. So far, we have found no document to throw light on his career or to indicate the local ironworks of which he was "master." But the probable link; is with the Vale of Neath firm of Coles Lewis & Co. Apparently Thomas Lewis of that firm founded the Dowlais Works in 1757-9. There were a number of shareholders who were joined by John Guest of Broseley in 1782. The latter died in 1787 and was succeeded by his son Thomas,3 who remained a prominent partner till the succession of his sons (Sir) John Josiah Guest and Thomas Revel Guest about 1819. We can only surmise, therefore, that the Thos. Guest who died at Neath in 1782 was a brother or cousin of John Guest of Broseley, grandfather of Sir. J. J. Guest of Dowlais. Neath Abbey: 1785-92: Richard Parsons.- on a previous page we quoted a bill of exchange which indicated business relations between Thos. Pryce and Richard Parsons in 1785. The link is interesting in view of a Lease which marks the termination, in 1792, of R. P.'s career as an "ironmaster." Till this lease was unearthed by us there was no evidence-not even a tradition- that Parsons had ever made iron at Neath Abbey. That he took over the "Abby Pitt," in 1793, from the Lords of the Manor of Cadoxton, is shown herein under the "Coal" section. The Advent of the Quakers.-Many attempts have been made to fix the date of the coming of the Quakers from the Duchy of Cornwall to the ancient ironworks at Cwm-y-Felin, Neath Abbey. The Fox family are said to have settled in Cornwall over two centuries ago.4 A former Geo. Croker Fox 1 "The pipes used underground for drainage are always known in Cornwall as pumps, and were originally of wood " 2 We have not been able to verify Turner's statement by any document. 3 See Lloyd, Old S. Wales Iron Works p. 33. 4 "'There is evidence that the Foxes were established in Cornwall at least as early as 1646, at St. Germans. They made their appearance in Falmouth in 1656-7. Later. members of the family settled at Looe, Fowey, St. Austell and Plymouth, and engaged in business as smelters and general merchants. In the 18th cent. the Foxes of Falmouth leased the piers and quays of Portreath, and laid out much capital in improving the roads over which copper ores were brought to the wharves for shipment to Neath, Swansea, and other places." Private leturfrom Mr. S. Michell. | John\Jenkins, Thomas Sr. Esq. (I3013)
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| 978 | Social Security Death Index about Shirley Simpson Name: Shirley Simpson Born: 29 Aug 1923 Died: Apr 1972 State (Year) SSN issued: Alabama (Before 1951) | Simpson, Shirley Ernest Sr. (I2156)
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| 979 | Social Security Death Index Name: David Sanders SSN: 265-22-0724 Last Residence: 33157 Miami, Miami-Dade, Florida, United States of America Born: 25 Jan 1925 Died: 4 Jan 1996 State (Year) SSN issued: Florida (Before 1951) U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1 about David Sanders Jr Name: David Sanders Jr Birth Date: 25 Jan 1925 Address: 10306 SW 183rd St, Miami, FL, 33157 (1988) [10360 SW 183rd St, Miami, FL, 33157-5274 (1988) U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1 about David L Sanders Name: David L Sanders Birth Date: 25 Jan 1925 Address: 10360 SW 183rd St, Miami, FL, 33157-5274 (1993) [10360 SW 183rd St, Perrine, FL, 33157-5274 (1993) | Sanders, David A. Jr. (I420)
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| 980 | Social Security Death Index Name: Ruth Mahan SSN: 451-38-6945 Last Residence: 76374 Olney, Young, Texas, United States of America Born: 13 May 1898 Died: Nov 1981 State (Year) SSN issued: Texas (Before 1951) | Mahan, Ruth (I9883)
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| 981 | Social Security Death Index Name: Bertha Hull Last Residence: 37061 Erin, Houston, Tennessee, United States of America Born: 6 Aug 1888 Died: Oct 1973 State (Year) SSN issued: Tennessee (1965) Web: Tennessee, Find A Grave Index, 1796-2011 Name: Hellen Bertha Hull Birth Date: 6 Aug 1888 Age at Death: 85 Death Date: 4 Oct 1973 Burial Place: Erin, Houston County, Tennessee, USA | Smith, Hellen Bertha (I285)
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| 982 | Social Security Death Index Name: Eunice Booker Last Residence: 39047 Brandon, Rankin, Mississippi, US Born: 5 Aug 1921 Died: 21 Mar 2011 State (Year) SSN issued: Mississippi (Before 1951) United States Obituary Collection Name of Deceased: Eunice O. D. Booker Gender: F (Female) Death Date: 21 Mar 2011 Death Place: Ridgeland Obituary Date: 24 Mar 2011 Newspaper Title: The Meridian Star Newspaper Location: Meridian, MS, USA Residence (at time of death): Ridgeland Spouse's Name: George Willis Booker Childrens' Names: Betty Spears and her husband Leon Spears, Barbara Downey and her husband Ray Downey, and Belva Crocker and her husband Rocky Crocker Siblings' Names: Ann Fairchild Daugherty; Lola Daugherty Martin | Daugherty, Eunice Ola (I7476)
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| 983 | Source: DAR, North Carolina Patriots ... Rees Shelby lived in Mecklenburg Co., NC and served under the command of his brother-in-law, Capt. Adam Alexander. His name appears, along with his brother Sgt. Moses Shelby, in "A List of Men formerly in Captain Alexander's Company". Rees received a payment of 26 pounds on Certificate #989, and 7 pounds on Certificate #1050 as shown in the North Carolina Revenue Accounts 6:68 and 12:61. From: Ancestry.com Biographies ... Rees Shelby was born about 1730 in Tregaron, Cardiganshire, Wales, and died Bet. 1810 - 1812 in South Carolina. His wife’s name was Mary. She died after 1787 in South Carolina. In December, 1758 Rees Shelby turned over his property in Pennsylvania to his son, Evan, shortly after that he and the rest of the family left their Pennsylvania home for the Carolinas. We have no record as to where Rees first settled when he reached the south. We do know that his brother, Moses, went directly to some place in South Carolina and it is of course possible that Rees did also. However, the earliest record of Rees' presence in this region is one showing that on June 2, 1762, he bought one hundred and twenty-two acres of land on Clear Creek in Anson County, North Carolina, while his brother Moses, coming up from the south, also bought a tract in that vicinity at the same time. In 1776, he is listed as a private in the Mecklenburg County militia. By 1787 Rees began to sell off some of his land and on June 2nd of the following year, he secured from the state of South Carolina a grant of three hundred acres in Cheraw District just over the North Carolina/South Carolina line. While living in South Carolina, Rees brought his land holdings to some six hundred and seventy acres. His place of residence there is not known exactly, but it was supposedly in the northwest corner of Chesterfield County. Rees Shelby is not listed in the christening records for his parents, Evan and Catherine, nor has any document come to light saying "son of . . .” Therefore, there is a chance he could have been Evan's brother rather than his son. Since the Chesterfield county court house was destroyed during the Civil War, we have no knowledge as to whether he died intestate or not and hence no complete list of his children, or when each of them was born. It is believed that Rees and Mary Shelby had at least eight children: Evan, Jacob, Jonathan, Thomas, David, Isaac, Rees and Mary. From: Don Dickenson, World Connect File: Don Dickenson's Family Tree ... Rees Shelby, son of Evan and Catherine Shelby, possibly their second, was born in Wales. His birth year has been estimated as 1721. His wife, whom he evidently married at an early age, was Mary Blair, daughter of Andrew and and his first wife. Shortly after Rees' parents moved onto the "Maiden's Choice" plantation in Maryland, the father selected and had surveyed for himself an additional 150 acres in the direction of the site of Clear Springs Village, to the south, which parcel he called the "Addition to Maiden's Choice." One hundred acres of it he let his son, Rees, have in February, 1745-6, the later making some improvements on it, including forty new fruit trees. As it turned out, Dr. Carroll of Annapolis claimed that this was his land by prior selection and threatened ejectment . The matter was not pressed to a decision just then, but probably realizing that the claim could hold, Rees vacated it after a while and moved about ten miles to the northwest beyond the mountains into a small triangular valley known as the "Little Cove". This vale in Pennsylvania enclosed on the east and west respectively by the Cove and Tuscarora Mountains and touching the Maryland line on the south, or open end. At the present time it constitutes Warren Township of Franklin County. Rees was living there as early as 1750 During the French and Indian War Rees' oldest son, Evan, then in his late teens, joined the company of his uncle, Capt. Evan Shelby, Jr., which was attached to Forbes' army, then organizing for the second attempt on Fort DuQuesne in western Pennsylvania. After the fail of Fort DuQuesne in November, 1758, active warfare in that general area ceased and Rees Shelby asked Pennsylvania's Board of Property for a warrant for one hundred and fifty acres of land, which, when issued, he laid on his Cove farm. The survey for this was made on September 13, 1760, and returned for 110 1/2 acres. For some reason or other Rees did not apply for a patent on this land, but turned it over to his son, Evan, in December and shortly after that, joining the great tide of southern migration sweeping past his door, he and the rest of the family left their Pennsylvania home for the Carolinas. Rees at this juncture was possibly around forty years of age. It may well be that on this trek he was accompanied by his younger brother, Moses, and his family, who were living down near Fort Frederick in Maryland, but who also had decided to move south at the same time. There is no record as to where Rees first settled when he reached the South. Moses went directly to some place in South Carolina and it is of course possible that Rees did also. However, the earliest record of Rees' presence in this region is one showing that on June 2, 1762, he bought one hundred and twenty two acres of land on Clear Creek in Anson County, North Carolina, while his brother Moses, coming up from the south, also bought a tract in that vicinity at the same time. Both these tracts lay in that part of the shire which soon after their arrival there became Mecklenburg County. Mary, sister of Rees and Moses, who had married Adam Alexander, was also living in this neighborhood. The time of the Alexanders' arrival there is not of record; but it is possible that they came down with the Shelby brothers. At this period North Carolina's government was having trouble with its farm population in the central area, who were outraged by the sharp practices of Lord Granville's land agents, the exorbitant fees charged by court officers for legal services and the excessive taxation to pay for the extravagances of the Tryon administration. Angry farmers, forming themselves into a union called "the Regulators," denounced the corruption and demanded reforms. Tryon met this threat with the counter-threat of force. Moses Shelby is listed as a sergeant and Rees as a private in a company of Mecklenburg County militia, commanded by their brother-in-law, Adam Alexander, in 1766. How long they were in that organization is not a matter of record. This unit was probably not called into active service, but because of the violent disturbances of the "Regulation" period, they were undoubtedly used to preserve order. When the Revolution started in 1775 the state government set up a military organization for defense, which however, had little to do at first, since for several years that kind of activity was confined almost entirely to the northern and middle states. It was not until 1780 that the British Ministry, realizing its failure in the North and western frontier, finally decided to attack the weakly defended South and sent a part of its army down by sea to take Charleston, South Carolina, which spread out and soon overran that state and Georgia. General the Earl of Cornwallis, having been left in command of the British forces, after defeating the American General Gates at Camden, moved up into Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, making Charlotte his headquarters. Rees Shelby was then in his late fifties, perhaps when this happened. The soldiers were thus within ten miles of his home. The American cause was well nigh paralyzed in this region and the patriots were for a time rendered helpless, Rees among them. The battle of King's Mountain in neighboring York County, South Carolina, in October of that year (in which four of Rees' nephews from across the mountains took part), wiping out Ferguson's force and weakening Cornwallis' hold on the populace, turned tide and showed the Southerners that all was not lost and, with the rebuilding of the Continental Army under General Nathaniel Greene, the British were gradually pushed out of the South. But it took over two long years and, while no fighting occurred in Anson and Mecklenburg counties, troop movements and patrols brought social life and business nearly to a standstill. By purchases at the beginning of the Revolution, but before the invasion of his state, Rees added to his land ownership about four hundred acres. He also obtained from the state three grants on Chinquepin Creek to the south of him, which gave him some three hundred acres more, and after the war, he acquired still other parcels. Whether he shifted his residence to any of these new properties, or got them merely to exploit is not known. Most of his acreage is in the present county of Union, which was formed years later to cover the western end of Anson and the eastern end of Mecklenburg By 1787 Rees began to sell off some of his land, and on June 2nd of the following year, he secured from the state of South Carolina a grant of three hundred acres in Cheraw District just over the line. He must have moved there about this time, for the United States census shows him resident in that district in 1790. While living in South Carolina, Rees brought his land holdings there up to some six hundred and seventy acres. His place of residence there is not known exactly, but it was supposedly in the northwest corner of Chesterfield County, a subsequent division of the Cheraw District. Rees Shelby's wife, Mary, was 1iving as late as 1787 and Rees himself was still living by 1810, but died before March 1812, when he must have been close to ninety years of age. Since the Chesterfield County courthouse was destroyed during the war between the states, there is no record as to whether he died intestate or not and hence no complete list of his children. His eldest son, Evan Shelby, remained in Pennsylvania, two sons went to the Carolinas, one son migrated to mid-Tennessee, two sons went to Illinois Territory and one son went to western Kentucky. A daughter, Mary, married Thomas Polk and remained in North Carolina. Father : Evan SHELBY c: 20 Mar 1689/1690 in St. Caron's Church, Tregaron , Cardigan, Wales Mother: Catherine Morgan b: in Wales Marriage 1 Mary BLAIR b: ABT 1721 Married: BEF 1740 in Pennsylvania or Maryland 3 Children Evan SHELBY b: ABT 1740 in Prince Georges Co., Maryland Rees SHELBY , Jr. b: ABT 1747 in Lancaster (now Franklin ) Co., Pennsylvania Thomas SHELBY b: ABT 1750 in Little Cove, Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania David SHELBY b: ABT 1753 in Prince Georges Co., Maryland Isaac SHELBY b: ABT 1771 Jonathan SHELBY b: 1761 in Craven Co., South Carolina Jacob SHELBY b: ABT 1763 in Mecklenburg Co., North Carolina Mary SHELBY b: 18 Feb 1768 in Clear Creek, Mecklenburg Co., North Carolina Sources: Title: First Four Generations of Shelby Author: Cass Knight Shelby Page: pg. 5 | Shelby, Rees (I30)
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| 984 | South Carolina Delayed Births, 1766-1900 and City of Charleston, South Carolina Births, 1877-1901 about Justus Lafeyette Alexander Name: Justus Lafeyette Alexander Birth Date: 1 May 1892 Birthplace: York Father's name: Walter Lafayette Alexander Mother's name: Elizabeth Lela Millen World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 about Justice Lafayette Alexander Name: Justice Lafayette Alexander County: Craighead State: Arkansas Birthplace: South Carolina;United States of America Birth Date: 1 May 1892 Race: Caucasian (White) FHL Roll Number: 1522837 DraftBoard: 0 1920 United States Federal Census Name: Justus L Alexander Home in 1920: Black Oak, Craighead, Arkansas Age: 27 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1893 Birthplace: North Carolina Relation to Head of House: Self (Head) Spouse's Name: Mary L Alexander Father's name: Walter L Alexander Father's Birth Place: North Carolina Mother's Birth Place: North Carolina Marital Status: Married Race: White Sex: Male 1930 United States Federal Census about Justice L Alexander Name: Justice L Alexander Home in 1930: Nettleton, Craighead, Arkansas Age: 37 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1893 Birthplace: North Carolina Relation to Head of House: Head Spouse's Name: Mary L Alexander Race: White Household Members: Name Age Justice L Alexander 37 Mary L Alexander 29 Elbert L Alexander 13 Lela May Alexander 10 Lefanss J Alexander 8 Andrey L Alexander 7 Justica L Alexander 5 Virgie L Alexander 1 10/12 U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 Name: Justus Lafayette Alexander Birth Date: 1 May 1893 Birth Place: York, South Carolina Residence: Craighead, Arkansas Race: White Home owned: Rent Able to read: Yes Able to Write: Yes Household Members: Name Age Justus L Alexander 27 (Justus Lafayette) Mary L Alexander 19 Elbert L Alexander 2 10/12 Lela M Alexander 0 2/12 Walter L Alexander 62 (Walter Lafayette) Laid W Alexander 19 (William Floyd) Social Security Death Index Name: Justus Alexander SSN: 415-24-2813 Last Residence: 72414 Black Oak, Craighead, Arkansas, United States of America Born: 1 May 1892 Last Benefit: 72414 Black Oak, Craighead, Arkansas, United States of America Died: Nov 1985 State (Year) SSN issued: Tennessee (Before 1951) | Alexander, Justus Lafayette (I9959)
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| 985 | Tennessee Marriages, 1796-1950 Groom's Name: John H. Seay Bride's Name: Bertha Smith Marriage Date: 10 Apr 1904 Marriage Place: Houston, Tennessee Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00041-7 System Origin: Tennessee-EASy Source Film Number: 547753 Reference Number: 111 | Seay, John Henry (I293)
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| 986 | Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002 Name: Nina Beason Spouse: Marvin Keel Marriage Date: 11 Apr 1936 Marriage County: Houston Marriage State: Tennessee | Smith, Nina Wilton (I283)
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| 987 | Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002 Name: Teressa Davis Spouse: James H Alexander (James Harvey) Marriage Date: 20 May 1828 Marriage County: Blount Marriage State: Tennessee 1850 United States Federal Census Name: James H Alexander Age: 42 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1808 Birth Place: Tennessee Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 10, Polk, Tennessee Family Number: 17 Household Members: Name Age James H Alexander 42 Teresa Alexander 45 Nancy Alexander 18 James H Alexander 17 Mary Alexander 14 Joseph Alexander 12 John D Alexander 8 1860 United States Federal Census Name: Teressa Alexander Age in 1860: 56 Birth Year: abt 1804 Birthplace: North Carolina Home in 1860: District 1, Polk, Tennessee Gender: Female Post Office: Benton Value of real estate: View image Household Members: Name Age J H Alexander 53 Teressa Alexander 56 Mary Alexander 23 Joseph Alexander 21 John Alexander 18 U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Name: Joseph Alexander Gender: Male Birth Place: NC Birth Year: 1776 Spouse Name: Elizabeth Mcreynolds Spouse Birth Place: NC Spouse Birth Year: 1776 Number Pages: 1 Family Data Collection - Individual Records Name: Joseph Alexander Spouse: Elizabeth Mcreynolds Parents: Hezekiah Alexander, Mary Sample Birth Place: Mecklenburg County, NC Birth Date: 1776 Marriage Date: 1807 Death Date: 1851 1850 United States Federal Census Name: Joseph Alexander ? Age: 84 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1766 Birth Place: North Carolina Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 10, Polk, Tennessee Family Number: 18 Household Members: Name Age Joseph Alexander 84 (74) Betsey Alexander 82 (72) Family Data Collection - Deaths Name: Joseph M Alexander Death Date: 1851 State: TN Country: USA | Alexander, Joseph (I10347)
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| 988 | Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002 Name: Luther M Love Spouse: Bethia E Lovett Marriage Date: 13 Aug 1857 Marriage County: Greene Marriage State: Tennessee 1860 Census, Limestone Springs, Greene Co., TN, roll 1252, bk 1, pg 373A, enumerated 8-9 June 1860, ED #18, fam 253: Love, Luther M., 30, w, m, farmer, b. TN Bertha E., 30, w, f, b. TN; Charles S., 2, w, m, b. TN; (1858) Ana E., 6/12, w, f, b. TN. (1860) U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles Name: Luther M Love Rank at enlistment: Corporal State Served: Tennessee Service Record: Enlisted in Company G, Tennessee 4th Infantry Regiment. Union Regimental History Fourth Infantry TENNESSEE (3-YEARS) Fourth Infantry. -- Col., Daniel Stover; Lieut.-Cols., Michael L. Patterson, James W. M. Grayson, Thomas H. Reeves; Maj., Gaines Lawson. This regiment was recruited at Louisville, in the spring of 1863, under the direction of Col. Daniel Stover of Carter county, Tenn. It was composed wholly of exiles from East Tennessee, who were brought out of the Confederate lines by officers and pilots sent in for that purpose. On May 29 the regiment left Louisville and was mustered into service the following June. On Sept. 9, 1863, under the command of Maj. Patterson, it marched to McMinnville, Tenn., where on Oct. 3, after 2 hours' hard fighting against a greatly superior force under Gen. Wheeler, it was captured and paroled. Maj. Patterson, with 40 men, returned to Nashville, and the remainder of the regiment, with few exceptions, returned to their homes in East Tennessee. Upon the arrival of Maj. Patterson in Nashville a court of inquiry was appointed to examine into the circumstances connected with the surrender of the post at McMinnville, which resulted in his complete exoneration from all charges. He then proceeded to Camp Nelson, Ky., to reorganize the regiment, where many of the soldiers reported immediately for duty, the paroles being invalid, having been given in violation of the cartel. On Jan. 20, 1864, the regiment was assigned to the 1st brigade, 3rd division, 23rd army corps. On the withdrawal of Gen. Schofield's army from upper East Tennessee, the regiment was sent to Loudon, and three companies under Maj. Reeves to Kingston. Maj. Patterson having been promoted to the lieutenant- colonel cy, was detached to command the brigade with headquarters at Loudon. The regiment remained there until Nov., 1864, when the troops were ordered to Knoxville. Patterson was then put in command of a brigade consisting of the 4th Tenn. and 3rd N. C. infantry for an expedition to Paint Rock, N. C., to cut off the retreat of the Confederates from Gen. Stoneman. This expedition ended about Jan. 10, 1865. The regiment remained in upper East Tennessee and vicinity until July, when it was ordered to Nashville to be mustered out. Col. Stover, who organized the regiment, was early attacked by consumption and saw no service in the field. Battles Fought Fought on 7 Jan 1864 at Washington Co., TN. | Love, Luther M. (I4661)
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| 989 | Tennessee, Death Records, 1914-1955 for John Henry Seay Name: John Henry Seay Death Date: 15 Jun 1923 Death Place: Erin, Houston, Tennessee Gender: Male Marital Status: Married Race or Color: White Age: 44 Estimated Birth Year: Birth Date: 08 Jul 1879 Birthplace: Tennessee Spouse: Berta Smith Seay Father: Riley Seay Father's Birth Place: Mother: Rhoda Sinks Mother's Birth Place: Occupation: Farmer Street Address: Residence: Cemetery: Cedar Hill Cemetery Burial Place: Erin, Tennessee Burial Date: 16 Jun 1923 Informant: Additional Relatives: Digital Folder Number: 4184521 Image Number: 1734 Film Number: 1876918 Volume/Page/Certificate Number: cn 1704 | Seay, John Henry (I293)
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| 990 | Tepper p.7: "William Alexander & Ann Liston of Raphoe Plantation in Somersett Co., Md, by 1666 assigned property by Thomas Strawbridge. This William b. 1646 died before 1707 in Somerset Co., had a great grandson, John Alexander, who died ca 1767 in Northumberland Co. John Alexander moved to Northumberland when he was quite aged.." Pennsylvania Magazine: "Ann Liston daughter of Reverend William Liston,of Letterkenny, Ireland." First Families pg 248: " William Alexandr Sr. m. Ann Liston, daughter of Rev. William Liston from Letterkenny, Ireland." Alexander Kin: "On page 5, Chapter II of Alex Kin starts something to The affect that their ancestor is James, the weaver, but will include material they have on seven brothers. The first one listed is William Alexander (born 1646) his cattle mark registered 1687, his son Wm. Jr . and his wife Ann, probably Ann Liston, dau of Wm. Liston. DAR Evans: "William Alexander In 1692 he was assistant to The court in laying out The boundaries for The original parishes in Somerset, as was also a neighbor of his sister Elizabeth and brother-in-law William Wallace (Old Somerset, 153) It is believed that his wife was Ann Liston of Letterkenny, Ireland, The dau. of William Liston, minister of The Laggan Presbytery in Northern Ireland. Burke's Peerage: "The first records of The Alexander's in Maryland, was The birth record of William Jr., s/o Wm Sr. and wife, Ann, b. 1674 Somerset Co., Md.. Ann was believed to have been d/o Rev. William Liston, of Letterkenny, IRE. | Liston, Ann (I8303)
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| 991 | Thaddeus Beall, Sr Birth: 1780 North Carolina, USA Death: Jan. 4, 1867 Chambers County Alabama, USA Columbia County, Georgia Marriage Record: Thaddeus Beall to Mary Jones on January 28, 1805. Chambers County Tract Book: Thadeus Bell, March 18. 1840 entered the North ½ of Section 33, Township 22, Range 27. 1860 US Census, Chambers Co., AL: #HH45 Beall, Thadeus 85 M Farmer R$7,000 P$32,429 (31-Slaves) born NC Mary 78F Born NC Spouse: Mary Jones Beall (1790 - 1875) Children: America Avileen Beall Waskom (1822 - 1908) Thaddeus Solon Beall (1832 - 1903) Burial: Beall Family Cemetery Boyds Chambers County Alabama, USA (Source: Churchwell, Record added: Feb 08, 2011 Find A Grave Memorial # 65381135) | Beall, Maj. Thaddeus II (I11089)
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| 992 | The ancestry of William Polk who m. Margaret Taylor has been proven by my research and by DNA testing of proven descendants of this William Polk, along with results of testing of Robert Polk, who m. Magdalen [Tasker] Porter, and whose son William Polk, who m. Ann-Nancy [Knox] Owens, said William shown as the father of William Polk, who m. Margaret Taylor in about everything ever written on the Polks to be incorrect. ... The William Polk who m. Margaret Taylor has no known ancestry at this time. Also, Charles Polke, the Indian Trader, long thought to be a son of the above mentioned William Polk/Ann-Nancy (Knox) Owens, is not a son of that couple, nor is he a brother of William Polk who m. Margaret Taylor. His line is a third and distinct family, separate from Robert Polk/Magdalen (Tasker) Porter, and separate and William Polk who m. Margaret Taylor. Three separate and distinct major Polk progenitors - Proven by DNA. (Source: Bill Polk - email: bapokc@gmail.com Homepages: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/p/o/l/Billy-F-Polk/) | Polk, William B. (I4895)
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| 993 | Thomas Polk (1732-1794): In 1755, surveyor Thomas Polk built his home where two Indian trading paths met. Many years later this crossroads would become the "Square," the intersection of Charlotte's busy Trade and Tryon streets. Polk married Susannah Spratt, whose family was one of the first to make their way through the wilderness to what would become "Charlotte Town." With Abraham Alexander and John Frohock, Polk bought 360 acres of land from Britain's Lord Augustus Selwyn. The land lay where the future downtown Charlotte would flourish. In the 1770s, conflicts grew between settlers and the British rulers who wanted to maintain control over the colonies. Thomas Polk became commander of the local army, called a "militia." He was one of 27 men who signed controversial documents in 1775 that pronounced their freedom from British rule. The "Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence" and the "Mecklenburg Resolves" would remain the source of controversy for many years. When President George Washington visited Charlotte in 1791, he dined at the home of Thomas Polk. "William Polk is a descendant of a family who emigrated from Ireland about the year 1722 and settled on the eastern shore of Maryland; where they resided until about the year 1740 when they removed into the State of Pennsylvania and in the neighborhood of Carlisle, . Thomas the third son of William and Margaret..." (Source: Archibald D. Murphy, Papers of Archibald DeBow Murphy, Vol. II, article entitled "Autobiography of Colonel William Polk") "Thomas came with his father and mother, William and Margaret Taylor Polk, and probably his brothers and sisters to the Yadkin country in the western part of the province of NC about 1750. The family settled at Sugar Creek, a branch of the Catawba River, a few miles south of the present town of Charlotte, close to the South Carolina line. His neighbors and associates were, therefore, from both the NC and the SC colonies. Most were Scotch-Irish, but the Highland Scots were generously represented. The people in this area (except the Scots) were very animated in their resistance to British tyranny. On Sugar Creek, Thomas erected a large mill and also became an extensive planter, acquiring a large amount of land and a sufficient fortune to enable him to rear and educate the children born of his marriage to Susan Spratt in the simple but liberal style of a colonial gentleman. In PA he had received a good English Education and studied for the profession of surveying. In this occupation he was quite active for some years after moving to NC, often being assisted by his son, William, who also became a skilled surveyor. Thomas was a man of great force of character, keenness of vision in public affairs and an ardent advocate of right and justice. He took a leading position among his neighbors and was consisted on important matters. He led the opposition of his neighbors to the officers of the Crown who, aided by several of the most influential members of the community, attempted to enforce what Thomas Polk and his supporters considered the unjust demands of Lord George Selwyn's agent. The question, at first one of Colonial jurisdiction, became finally one of price to be exacted of tenants for lands of the Selwyn grant already taken up and occupied by them in due form. This rather personal affair, known locally as the 'Sugar Creek War'. " (Source: First Families of America, Vol. 7, pg. 483) About 1750, Thomas Polk was an original settler in the area now known as Charlotte. At that time, this area was in Anson County. Polk was a surveyor of the Granville Line (Williams 2010). He represented this area in the North Carolina General Assembly (Williams 2010). In 1763, he built a courthouse and jail as the minimum requirement for a new county. Polk named the new county seat Charlotte in Mecklenburg County in honor of the new Queen Charlotte from Mecklenburg-Strelitz, a German principality. In 1768, the General Assembly passed a law creating Mecklenburg County with Charlotte as its courthouse (Preyer 1987, 63). 1750s–1760s Before the Revolutionary War, most residents of Mecklenburg County were Scotch-Irish Presbyterians who had emigrated from Pennsylvania during 1740–1770. Earlier, they or their parents emigrated from Ulster, Ireland. They were Presbyterians. In the part of Anson County that became Mecklenburg County, Scotch-Irish Presbyterians established the following churches: Rocky River about 1750, Sugar Creek 1755, Steele Creek 1760, Hopewell 1762, Popular Tent 1764, Centre 1765, Providence 1767, and Philadelphia 1770. (Blythe and Brockmann 1961, 195). | Polk, Thomas (I4993)
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| 994 | TX Birth Index 1907-1997: Gayla Gene Brake, 29 Jan 1955, f., Harris Co., TX father: Ollie Cody Brake, Jr., mother: Marjorie Edna Finney, roll: 1955-002. Mariam Melissa Brake, 17 Oct 1956, Harris Co., TX father: Ollie Cody Brake, Jr., mother: Marjorie Edna Finney, roll: 1956 - 0002 TX Birth Index 1903 - 1997: Kathy Marie Brake, 30 Nov 1956, Liberty Co., TX, father: Ollie Cotie (sic) Brake, mother: Jewel Marie Roberts, roll: 1956 - 0002. Alabama Divorce Index, 1950-1959 Spouse 1: Ollie C Brake Jr Gender: Male Spouse 2: Marjorie E Brake Gender: Female Divorce Date: May 1958 County: Jefferson Web: Birmingham, Alabama, Obituary Index, 1930-1996 Name: Ollie Cody , Jr Brake Publication Date: 9 Apr 1969 Publication Place: Birmingham, Alabama, United States Death Date: Abt 1969 Notes: Edition: Metro Section: Page: 62 S.S. Death Record: b. Aug 4, 1936, d. Apr 1969. Nicknamed "O.C." Was killed in an automobile accident. | Brake, Ollie Cody Jr. (I1357)
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| 995 | U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Name: Elias Alexander (son of Arthur Alexander & Margaret McKamie) Gender: Male Birth Year: 1730 Spouse Name: Kezia Alexander (not daughter of Hezekiah Alexander but sister) Spouse Birth Year: 1734 Number Pages: 1 | Alexander, Elias (I10057)
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| 996 | U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Name: Eliza Eugenia Campbell Gender: Female Birth Place: NC Birth Year: 1800 Spouse Name: Abdon I. Alexander Spouse Birth Place: NC Spouse Birth Year: 1798 Number Pages: 1 1850 United States Federal Census Name: Abdon J Alexander (Abdon Independence) Age: 51 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1799 Birth Place: South Carolina Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 19, Maury, Tennessee Family Number: 1032 Household Members: Name Age Abdon J Alexander 51 (Abdon Independence) Eliza E Alexander 50 James M Alexander 21 (James Minor) Margaret R Alexander 16 Eliza E Alexander 9 Matilda G Campbell 76 (mother in law) 1860 United States Federal Census about A J Alexander Name: A J Alexander [Abdon Independence Alexander] Age in 1860: 62 Birth Year: abt 1798 Birthplace: South Carolina Home in 1860: District 19, Maury, Tennessee Gender: Male Post Office: Springhill Value of real estate: View image Household Members: Name Age A J Alexander 62 (Alexander Independence) S C Alexander 58 (2nd wife?) F J Mcconico | Alexander, Abdon Independence (I10156)
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| 997 | U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Name: James Alexander Gender: Male Birth Place: Bu Birth Year: 1634 Spouse Name: Mary Maxwell Spouse Birth Place: Ul Spouse Birth Year: 1634 Marriage Year: 1650 Marriage State: Ul Millennium File Name: James Alexander Spouse: Birth Date: 1625 Birth City: Raphoe Birth County: Ulster Birth Country: Ireland Death Date: 17 Nov 1704 Death City: Raphoe Death County: Ulster Death State: Ire Death Country: Ireland Children: Joseph Alexander ??Rev. James ALEXANDER was born about 1620 in Bughall, Stirling, Scotland. He was ordained on 12 Dec 1677 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland. He died on 17 Nov 1704 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland. He was married to Mary MAXWELL abt 1645 ?? in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland. Mary MAXWELL was born about 1628 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland. She died in Cecil Co., Md. Rev. James ALEXANDER and Mary MAXWELL had the following children: +9i.William ALEXANDER Sr. (Org 7). +10ii.Andrew ALEXANDER (Org 7) farmer. +11iii.Elizabeth ALEXANDER org 7. +12iv.James B. ALEXANDER (Org 7) weaver. +13v.Frances ALEXANDER (Org 7). +14vi.Samuel ALEXANDER Sr. (Org 7). +15vii.Joseph ALEXANDER (Org 7) tanner. +16viii.Jane ALEXANDER org 7. +17ix.John ALEXANDER (Org 7). There are two schools of thought as to who the father of the seven brothers and two sisters, who migrated to America in the late 1600’s, were. Most believe that Reverend James Alexander, of the Laggan Presbytery, and who was imprisoned in Raphoe in 1681 for calling a fast to protest the policies of the Church of England, was the father. His wife was Mary Maxwell. The Abridged Virkus Vol V p 42 under Arnold: " William Alexander came from Scotland before 1675 and settled in Somerset Co., MD where he was an extensive trader in lands. Wife unproven. Issue as known, William, Jr. m. to Catherine. (William known to have been in Co. Donegal, Ireland. He named his farm Raphoe. Ray Worth, of Mecklenburg Signers, says the Alexanders first came to North Hampton Co., Va and then moved to Somerset Co. James Taylor, "The Great Historic Families of Scotland", London: J.S Virtue & Co., 1889. "William Alexander, Earl of Stirling to John Alexander, b.c 1590, Tarbert, Kintyre, Scotland whose children were William and seven other sons (I have also Phillip, Robert, and John born about 1624-53). William, son of John, had the 7 boys and 2 girls who came to Somerset. and Cecil Co. John Alexander b. 1603 Stirling, Scotland, son of William Alexander, Earl o f Stirling, and Janet Erskine of Mar, married Elizabeth Graham in 1623; son, William b. 1624 d. 1715 CecilCo., MD, emigrated to America in 1659 to VA d. 1677 Stafford Co., VA Norris Preyer in his book "Hezekiah and the Revolution in the Backcountry" says that the great grandparents of the 7 brothers came to Ireland about 1610 and one son, William, came to America about 1688. The two, James and William, are brothers and are both said to be the ancestors of our Alexanders. Noris W.Preyer, pg 5: " The Alexander forebears came to Raphoe, Ireland, as tenants of Sir James Conningham, as Scottish nobelman from Ayrshire, and settled on lands granted him in Donegal County in Laggan district. In 1640's. William Alexander, their son, left Scotland to seek a better life for himself in America. He first settled in on new lands opened up in Eastersn Shore of VA, Northamptons County. In 1670 William and his children left VA and moved to Somerset Co., MD. Norris Preyer, pg 11: " William Alexander who came to America was a first cousin or brother to a John Jr., William, Archibald, Robert, and Rev. Francis Alexander who remained in Donegal County. Susie Ames states in her document that Rev. James had no heirs. The reference is: " The Reunion of Two Virginia Counties", Journal of Southern History, 8 Nov 1942: 536-48. Alexander Memories: "Rev. James is said to be a probable son of William Alexander 'of Raphoe' who is on a Hearth Roll Tax of 1662, named in parish of Clonleigh, County Donegal. Maryland's Heraldic Families, from: Series II of "Register of Maryland's Heraldic Families", by Alice Norris Parran, 1938. Page 66: "Elias Alexander, son of Andrew, (and grandson of William Sr. of Somerset); wife, dau--of Joseph Alexander, of New Munster, and O'Dwiretract. Issue--six sons and daughters--William 1715, m. Agnes, his cousin. Abraham,1717-1786, m. Dorcas. Zebulon, 1720-1784, m.(first two unnamed) 3rd. Jane McClung. Ezra, 172?-1800, m. (wife not listed.) Arthur, d. 1763, m. Margaret McKamy. Daughter of Elias unnamed." Maryland's Heraldic Families, pg 64 " Andrew Alexander, b.1650 was brother of William Jr. and son of William Sr., of Somerset Co., who bought land in Somerset Co. and had first deed of that county made to him". "William is a son of John Alexander of Eredy. The name Eredy closely resembles Eradall, one of the merk lands in South Kintyre, granted by James III in 1484 to Tarlach MacAlexander, of Tarbert. (Reg. Sig., lib. X., 9 ,reference). It says "Sir William Alexander of Menstry, afterwards Earl of Stirling, maintained a correspondence with his relatives in Kintyre....... in 1629, the original settlers included John Alexander of Eredy; he received new titles to the land which was chiefly appropriated to Scottish settlers. (Hill's Montgomery MSS, p183). Norris Preyer: "According to family tradition a group of Scotch-Irish including a number of Alexanders came to America in the 1688 and brought with them their minister who had come to the dock to administer services. This company landed in Manhattan Island, New York. Their descendants went into Pennsylvania and North Carolina (Foote’s, Sketches of NorthCarolina. ) This was about the time that our Alexanders did come to America. Originally from Scotland, this family migrated to Ulster, Northern Ireland. In 1609, after the accession of James VI of Scotland, there was a move to populate the north of Ireland with Scot and English Protestants. The Alexanders came to Raphoe, Ireland as tenants of Sir James Cunningham, a Scottish nobleman from Aryshire and settled on lands in Donegal Co in the Laggan District. In about 1620, King James I decreed that all tenant rights were henceforth "utterly extinguished and abolished". The large landowners proceeded to raise their rents exorbitantly. If unable to pay they were evicted. In 1625 James I’s son, Charles, was hostile to Protestantism and instituted a campaign of harassment against nonconformists. Irish ministers, who refused to conform to the Church of England, were deposed leaving most Presbyterian congregations without ministers in1636-1641. The terrible winter of 1639-40 destroyed Ireland’s potato crop and brought famine and death to tens of thousands. The following year an Irish uprising started a civil war. Thousands of Scottish Protestants died during the 1640’s and thousands more were forced to flee Ireland." Norris Preyer who has written a scholarly work on Hezekiah and The Revolution in the Backcountry, quotes Susie Ames in that Rev. James had no heirs. Preyer states that William Alexander,a cousin or brother of Rev. James was their father and that he came to America and was found in Northampton County, Virginia, married here and was the father of seven sons and two daughters. Northampton is at the southern tip of the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. However here the nonconformists, including William Alexander who was a Calvinist, were prohibited from preaching either 'publicly or privately' and Northhampton County was denied representation in the House of Burgess. Also very heavy taxes were imposed on the Northamptoners. They responded with a protest against these 'arbitrary and illegal' taxes. Then in 1652 an English fleet sailed into Chesapeake Bay, deposed Governor Berkeley and placed the colony under the control of the Commonwealth. However, in 1660 Charles II was restored to the English throne and Parliament began prohibiting the direct shipment of tobacco to the continent. Sir William Berkeley returned as governor of Virginia and nonconformist ministers were once again prohibited from preaching and they faced banishment from the colony. But in the neighboring colony of Maryland, Lord Baltimore had granted religious toleration. So during the 1670’s the Alexander family moved from Virginia and established homes in Somerset County on Maryland’s eastern shore. Also moving from Northampton to Somerset County were the Brevard, Davidson, Harris, McKnitt, Polk, Steele and Wallace families. They had been in Northampton when the pledge was made to support the Commonwealth (1652). Upon the sites of the abandoned Indian villages, which had been ravaged by smallpox, the Scotch-Irish settled. They and the English Congregationalists established themselves along Manokin, Pocomoke and Wiccomico Rivers, and English Congregationalists at the mouth of the Annemessex. In 1680 four pastors from the Laggan Presbytery of Donegal, Ireland were sent to them—Francis McKamie, William Traile, Samuel Davis and Thomas Wilson. In 1689, when James II had fled to the continent and Parliament had offered the crown to William of Orange and his wife, Mary Stuart, who were Protestants, James and his troups of French and Irish Catholics landed in Ireland and soon overran Ulster. At this point, William Alexander Sr., and Jr., signed the pledge to stand by William and Mary. (Sharf’s History of Maryland) William Sr. was thought to have died by about 1690.(Preyer) One Stephen Horsey lead a group of settlers from the Eastern Shore of Virginia then called Accomac (now Accomac and Northampton Counties) and settled between the Little and the Big Annemessex Rivers in what is now Somerset County, Maryland between 1665 and 1670. Maryland had made overtures to dissenters and Quakers, so they moved across the line into Maryland. As early as 1665, some settlers named Alexander, began to purchase land in the most southern county of the eastern shore of Maryland, on the Annemessex and Pocomoke Rivers of SomersetCo. Maryland. Stephen Horsey died there in 1722. About 1675, William Alexander Sr., and Jr., were engaged in buying and selling land there. The Reverend Francis McKemie was sent from Barbados and established the first Presbyterian Church on American soil. McKemie lived over the line in Accomac, Va., but his labors included these people. Dr. Stafford states that this Alexander family was the first group of Alexanders to settle in the United States. The brothers, Andrew, William, Samuel, James, Francis and John Alexander were early found in Somerset County. There is documentary proof that all had settled in Maryland between the years 1677 and 1714. Probably some of them were there before. (Stafford). Joseph Alexander,as well as Brevard, Knox,, McKnitt, Polk, Wallace and Wilson families settled at the headwaters of the Manokin River (now Princess Anne). Also on the Manokin were the two sisters, Elizabeth, the wife of Matthew Wallace asurveyor who had helped lay out the boundaries of Somerset, and Jane, married to John McKnitt, a farmer whose land was named Glasgow after his ancestral Scottish home. Joseph Alexander married Abigail McKnitt.. William Alexander Jr. married Catherine Wallace. James married Mary Steele. Tobacco, the chief cash crop quickly exhausted the sandy soil ofthe Eastern Shore and Somerset was isolated from major market routes. In 1683, Joseph Alexander took out a warrant in his and son, James’, name for a tract in Cecil County known as New Munster. His brother-in-law, Matthew Wallace and brother, James Alexander, also purchased land warrants in New Munster at about this same time.(Preyer) In 1680, George Talbot, cousin of the third Lord Baltimore, was granted a large tract of land which lay between the Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers, and known as Susquehanna Manor. He later christened this land 'New Connaught', which is now Cecil County. In 1683, George Talbot issued the following certificate 'Surveyed for Edwin O’Dwire and 15 other Irishmen'. We are not sure exactly when the Alexanders departed but probably around 1700. John McKnitt whose wife, Jane, had died, John Brevard, Andrew and Samuel left Somerset around1701. Somerset records state that in March of 1707, Matthew Wallace departed to 'the woods at the head of the Bay'. This land lay in the northeastern corner of Maryland next to the Pennsylvania border and a mile west of the Delaware line. Corn, barley, oats and flax were grown for the family’s own needs and tobacco and wheat were the money crops.The sons also learned 'trades'. Joseph and son, James, were tanners. James and son, David, were weavers. John McKnitt was a shoe-maker. Others were known as farmers, carpenters, etc. Joseph’s son, James, married Margaret McKnitt, daughter of John and second wife, Jane Wallace. In the year 1714, James Stephenson, gentleman of Buck’s Co., Pennsylvania appointed John McKnitt of Back Creek, Cecil Co. MD, his attorney to sell a tract of land in the northeast corner of Cecil Co., called 'New Munster'. This tract of some 6000 acres began where the Shure Creek enters the Big Elk and with a breadth of two miles and North six miles up the Elk river until it entered some distance withint he present Pennsylvania line in Chester Co., PA. Edward Odine had first patented these lands from King Charles and Odine sold them to Daniel Taos. Daniel Taos willed them to his son, John, and he, having run into debt to Robert Roberts, the colonial Legislature granted 4500 acres to Roberts to satisfy his claim against Taos who had absconded. Robert Roberts then sold 407 acres to Daniel Pearce of Kent Co for 6000 pounds of tobacco, deed for which is dated the 4th of Sept. 1713. This 407 acres was located in the southwest corner of New Munster and contained the site of the mill near the mouth of the Shure now owned by Howard Scott. Roberts also sold to Thomas Stephenson, of Bucks County, PA, nearly three thousand acres of the same tract, a large part of which was east of the Big Elk for the sum of ¹300 current money of Maryland. The deed from Roberts to Stephenson is dated 1 April 1714. On the 8th day of May, following, Stephenson sold the tract on the east side of the Big Elk containing upwards of 1100 acres, through John McKnitt, to a company consisting of James Alexander, farmer, Arthur Alexander, farmer, David and James Alexander, weavers, Joseph Alexander, tanner and son, James, and Mathias (Matthew) Wallace. It was noted that they had already worked the land for some years so their settlement was prior to 1714. Johnston states that there is no doubt that these were part of the '15 other Irishmen' mentioned in the certificate of survey and that they located upon New Munster many years prior to the time at which they obtained the deed to their farms. In accordance with a covenant that the grantor Stephenson would make them another and and better deed if they demanded it any time during the next seven years after the date of the first deed. By eight deeds, each of which is dated August 15th 1718 (recorded in Cecil co. Deedbook 3), Stephenson re-conveyed his interest in nine hundred and three acres of the New Munster tract to Joseph, James, David, Arthur, Elijah( Elias?) and Mary Alexander, widow of James the farmer/carpenter, who had died in 1717 and was son of Samuel. Also, John Gillespie and Mathias Wallace Jr. received deeds. This land conveyed to the Alexanders embraced the northeast part of the New Munster tract and extended from a short distance north of Cowantown to the extreme northern boundary of New Munster, which was about a mile north of the State line and was located by Mason and Dixon fifty years afterward. It was bounded on the west by the Big Elk and the west branch of Christiana flowed through it for about a mile near the NE corner of that part of it that is now in Maryland. James, the farmer, was located south toward the Elk; Arthur was east of James toward the Christiana; David was north of both James and Arthur; James, the weaver, and son, Moses, were north of David; Elias east ofJames and Moses. Near these, John Alexander bought land in 1718. Afterwards others of the same name came and settled along the borders of Pennsylvania and Maryland from Munster to Nottingham. (Arthur may be another son of James the weaver). In 1718 Stephenson gave them individually deeds to each one for that part on which they had settled and improved. These lands lay on the east side of the Elk and between that river and Christiana Creek and were close to the borders of Pennsylvania and Delaware. James with son, Moses, and James’s son, David, lived in an area, which became known as Milford Hundred. Samuel Alexander with sons, Andrew and Francis, bought lands in 1723 in the southern part of Cecil County called 'Sligo' and 'Alexandria' tracts. In the same year Samuel and others bought a lot of land for a Presbyterian Church in Bohemia in the same county. In the same year, Robert Alexander, from the city of Glasgow, Scotland, then a merchant of Annapolis, had lands in the same part of Cecil Co., which in 1723 he left to his cousin, William Alexander of North Britain, (Scotland). This William became a large landholder in the vicinity of Elkton, MD. In 1741 he and Araminta, his wife, deeded a lot in Elkton for the erection of the first Presbyterian Church in that town. His lands descended to a second Robert who went off to England at the Revolutionary war and never returned. His lands were confiscated, but after the war one-third and one-half his Negroes were restored to his wife, Isabel, and his six children, William, Lawson, Araminta, Henry, Andrew and Robert." From "The History of Cecil County", by George Johnston, we learn that in 1723 many of the inhabitants of Milford Hundred which then embraced the northeastern part of the county, petitioned the court for a road from the New Munster road at David Alexander’s, across the main fresh of Elk River at Stephen Hollingsworth’s mill (which was the mill on Big Elk west of Cowantown.) to the church at North East. A few months afterwards, they presented another petition stating that the road was difficult, dangerous and troublesome to maintain by reason of crossing the east branch of North East twice and that it was only intended for a bridle path and that a cart road was much needed and might be made by a much nearer route, etc. An interesting find in Chapter XIII of Francis Cooch’s, "Little Known History of Newark, Delaware and it’s Environs" (pub. 1936) is mention of 'The Seven Stars' Tavern and Inn, found in the community of Appleton, called 'Dysart’s' as far back as 1792 and later 'Fox Chase'. The section of the county in which it is located was not then known as the Fourth or Fair Hill District, but as North Milford Hundred by 1770. This area, which was part of New Munster, is located in the northeast corner of Cecil Co, about three miles west of Newark and two miles south of the Mason and Dixon line and at the intersection of the Old Nottingham road, later the Telegraph road and the road leading from Elk Landing to New London and points north. This old building, which when Cooch wrote the book, was still standing and thought to be over 200 years old. This inn was at the intersection of two important routes of travel where farmers could haul their excess grain and other crops south to tidewater Elkton for shipment to Baltimore. Cooch traced the title of the property from Edwin O’Dwire down to Catherine Dysart. He states that one of the New Munster claimants was David Alexander, weaver, who obtained a deed for about 152 acres, 95perches. David Alexander, dying left the property to his children ,Aaron and Ann Alexander, who, on March 18 1750/51, conveyed the same to William Langwill whose daughter, Margaret Dysart, inherited. In 1820 she conveyed the property to her children, Catherine and Levi Dysart..The farm today includes the original acreage. At the present time (1936) it is said the farm with the Inn contains about 150 acres or just about the same acreage conveyed by Thomas Stephenson to David Alexander in 1714, but I am told that at one time, through various other purchases, the tract included 300 acres and stretched west on both sides of the Nottingham road all the way to the Big Elk Creek.” Of the original Alexanders of the New Munster purchase, David sold to John Alexander of Chester Co., PA. David himself removed to Chester Co. and died there about 1740, after which his widow (thought to by an Anne or Susannah) married a Mr. Dobins and removed with her husband to the Cape Fear River., NC, where her daughter, Anne Alexander, married Gilbert Clark, the first elder of the Frst Presbyterian Church which was gathered in that region under the ministry of the Rev. Mr. Campbell in 1765. Several other Alexander families removed from Chester County to North Carolina with Dobins and his wife and settled in Mecklenburg County. This was in 1749. David Alexander’s son, Aaron, removed from the Munster settlement and settled in Sherman’s Valley, PA in 1748. (Stafford and History of John Alexander and Margaret Glassen) This Aaron later died in Mecklenburg, NC in 1771. The families of James Alexander, son of Joseph, James and his sons including David Alexander attended the services at the Head of Christiana Presbyterian Church, located just over the Delaware line. Their pastor, The Reverend George Gillespie, had come to Christiana in 1712 and would serve there and the White Clay Creek Church until 1760. The opening statement in the record of the Christina Church Presbytery of New Castle in 1717, among those present are named (Mr.)George Gillespie, minister of, and John Steel elder from ChristianaCreek. David and his father, James, must have both attended Head of Christiana, although the James Alexander named as elder there in 1715 is thought to be son of Joseph. From a booklet on Head of Christiana Church, we learn that early elders in the church were:John Garner—1707, John Steel—1711, Andrew Wallace—1726 and David Alexander—1726. Other names of interest, connected with the Alexanders, are Whites, Samples, Kerrs, and Montgomerys. The meeting house was built on land that belonged to John Steel, an Irishman (Scotch-Irish?) who was in Philadelphia in 1711. George Gillespie was ordained in May 28 1713. In March of 1713 James Steel, son of John Steel (who apparently died atthis time), leased to the elders of this church two acres and four perches of land. The elders then were Samuel Johnson and John Cross of New Castle Co., Del, Alexander White and William Semple (Sample) of Chester Co., PA, and David Alexander and Andrew Wallace of Cecil Co.MD. The consideration was an annual payment of six pence if demanded. David Alexander signed the petitition, which 88 inhabitants of Cecil Co. signed, and which was sent to the Assembly and by them referred to the 'Committee of Aggrievances' on 11 Oct 1725 (Meck. Hist. Soc. ,Baltimore). This elder John Steel, who died by 1713, may have been a brother to Mary Steel, wife of James the weaver. Mary may have died in Somerset as there is no mention of her in the 1714 or 1718 deeds. An interesting note concerning this family. John Garner, the first elder of this church made a will on March 7th 1723/4, Probated 22 Oct 1725 leaving ¹40 to George Gillespie (the minister?) his entire estate to Joseph Steel during his life-time, failing issue to pass as follows: Margaret Steel, ¹40, children of George Gillespie, ¹40, children of James Steel ¹40, children of James Alexander by Mary Steel ¹40. Exec: Joseph and James Steel Test: James Alexander, John Steel, Moses Alexander. Perhaps Joseph Steel married a sister of John Garner.. Apparently Joseph, Margaret, Mary, wife of James, and James Steel were siblings. This James Alexander mentioned in the Will is believed to be our James, the weaver, who had a son named Moses as well as David and James Jr. Note that the witnesses were John Steel, probably grandfather of the Steel heirs. Perhaps Mary, wife of James Alexander, weaver, was a sister to the elder John Steel. Mary Steele was said to have been born in Raphoe about 1650 and married about 1670. She is thought to have died by 1714 when James bought land with son, Moses. David Alexander’s estimated birth was about 1680, most likely in Somerset Co., MD. He is said to have married an Anne or Susannah (One source says she was born about 1685 and same source says in Lancaster Co., PA —however, David was in Cecil Co. by 1720) David’s children were: Anne born about 1721 in Cecil Co., MD , James who married an Elizabeth, David, Ezekiel, William who married Rebecca Brown, andJohn. (children David and John are speculative). (From: Dr. Stafford’s “Alexander Notebooks”) David is said to have died soon after 1740, as his son and heir, Aaron, began disposing of his father’s property in 1749. About 1746, the widow of David Alexander married John Dobbin in Pennsylvania. For a time they resided near Winchester, VA, and then went to Carolina. They settled on the Cape Fear River. Ann Alexander, daughter of deceased, David, and stepdaughter of John Dobbin, married Gilbert, son of Alexander Clark. (NC Colonial Records Vol. 5 pg. 1197). In 1724 David Alexander patented a tract of land in Cecil Co. called 'David’s Purchase', the certificate of survey being numbered 75. (Land office, Annapolis) Besides children named Aaron, William and Anne, Ezekiel andJames it is thought that there were sons named David, John and maybe Arthur. A David Alexander was found in Pequea, Lancaster Co., PA, Will dated 1741, and a John Alexander in Martick Twp, Lancaster Co., PA, in1763. Aaron the oldest son was probably born in Cecil Co., MD, his Will, of 15 Nov 1771 in Mecklenburg, mentions his brother William. He received a warrant for 1100 acres of land in Lancaster Co., PA, on 26 April 1742 (Pa. Arc. Vol. 24 S 3). On 15 Nov 1749, Aaron Alexander, farmer, of Lancaster Co., PA, deeded John Alexander of Twp. of New Brittain, Chester Co., PA, part of a tract called New Munster which did formerly belong to David Alexander of Cecil Co., MD; Zebulon Alexander was witness. On the same date Aaron gave his well beloved and trusted friend, James Alexander, of Province of MD, farmer, a power of attorney to complete the above sale 11 Dec 1751. (This is probably James, son of Joseph). Aaron Alexander, of the township of Petersburgh, Cumberland Co., deeded William Longwill, merchant, of Cecil Co., a tract in New Munster which came from his father David Alexander who bought it from ThomasStevenson.—(this is the tract that the Seven Stars was eventually built on). Signed by Aaron and Ann. On the same date, Aaron constituted Moses Alexander of Milford Hundred, Cecil Co., MD. his attorney for the completion of this sale. (This must be his uncle or cousin, Moses). (Cecil Co. a7-270), Aaron is doubtless selling his land preparatory to removing to North Carolina. Aaron is found there in early 1750’s. Aaron bought land in Coddle Creek and English BuffaloCreek from Gov. and Justina Dobbs 22 Dec 1763. His will was proved April 1772. It names his wife, Mary son David, son Aaron b. 1735 mother was Ann, d. Nov 2 1803 wf was Eleanor Price. He was elder at Rocky River Church and Poplar Tent; and son, John Brown Alexander, b1765, mother was Jean B. Ross, a widow. He married Barbara King of Scotland. Aaron Sr.’s second wife was named Jean. | Alexander, James John (I1341)
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| 998 | U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Name: John Milton Shelby Gender: Male Spouse Name: Amanda Rudisill Marriage Year: 1833 Marriage State: TN Number Pages: 1 Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002 Name: John M Shelby Spouse: Amanda F Rudisill Marriage Date: 11 Apr 1833 Marriage County: Shelby Marriage State: Tennessee 1850 United States Federal Census Name: John M Shelby Age: 46 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1804 Birth Place: North Carolina Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 7, Shelby, Tennessee Family Number: 1035 Household Members: Name Age John M Shelby 46 Amanda Shelby 36 Amanuel Shelby 16 (Amanda R.) Mary Shelby 14 Susan Shelby 12 Jas Shelby 10 (James M.) Margaret Shelby 6 (Margaret A.) Nerissa Shelby 3 (Narcissa N.) Dane Shelby 0 (Daniel G.) 1860 United States Federal Census Name: John M Shelby Age in 1860: 54 Birth Year: abt 1806 Birthplace: North Carolina Home in 1860: District 7, Shelby, Tennessee Gender: Male Post Office: Jessamine Household Members: Name Age John M Shelby 54 (John Milton Shelby) Amanda F Shelby 47 (Amanda F. Rudisill) Amandas R Shelby 26 James M Shelby 20 Margaret A Shelby 16 Narcissa N Shelby 14 Daniel G Shelby 11 John B Shelby 9 Charles S Shelby 6 1880 United States Federal Census Name: A. F. Shelby (Amanda F. Rudisill Shelby) Home in 1880: District 7, Shelby, Tennessee Age: 67 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1813 Birthplace: North Carolina Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head) Father's birthplace: North Carolina Mother's birthplace: North Carolina Neighbors: View others on page Occupation: Keeping House Marital Status: Widowed Race: White Gender: Female Household Members: Name Age A. F. Shelby 67 (head household) Charles Shelby 26 (son) Tine Day 24 (servant) Harriet Day 20 (servant) | Shelby, John Milton (I602)
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| 999 | U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Name: Susan Ruth Polk Gender: Female Birth Place: MD Birth Year: 1734 Spouse Name: David Tasker Reese Spouse Birth Place: WA Spouse Birth Year: 1709 Marriage Year: 1750 Marriage State: MD Number Pages: 1 Family Data Collection - Individual Records about Susan Ruth Polk Name: Susan Ruth Polk Spouse: David Reese Parents: R Pollock Pollock, O Guillette Birth Place: Cecil County, MD Birth Date: 8 Jun 1719 Marriage Place: Cummerland County, PA Marriage Date: 31 Mar 1738 Death Place: Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, NC Death Date: 9 Nov 1800 David Reese (1710 - 1787) David Reese was one of the original signers of the Meckenburg Declaration of Independence. Reese’s ancestry varies a little from other signers because he was born in Wales. He inherited many books from his father’s library and was well educated for his time. When he was young, he moved to Cecil County, Maryland, and witnessed a will in that county as early as 1733. He married Susan Ruth Polk, of Dorchester County, Maryland, whose family was of royal descent. They left around 1753 and 1754 to join the migration to North Carolina and settled around Coddle Creek, which was then in Anson County. This part later became Mecklenburg County in 1762. It is now in Cabarrus County, near Poplar Tent Presbyterian Church. His home had one and a half stories with 10 rooms and was located on 770 acres. Reese was one of Mecklenburg County’s first magistrates and assisted in organizing the early Presbyterian churches in the area. He served as elder at Rocky River and Poplar Tent Presbyterian Churches. Although he was too old to serve in the Revolutionary War, he served in the Provincial Congress of 1776 to help procure firearms for Mecklenburg troops. He also furnished provisions for the Mecklenburg militia. Susan and David Reese had ten children, all six sons serving in the Revolutionary War. His oldest son, James Polk, was said to have been present at the signing of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. He later moved to Tennessee. One son, Solomon, married Harriet Jack, a sister of Capt. James Jack. (Source: Lives and Times of the 27 Signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence of May 20, 1775 by Victor C. King, Charlotte, NC, 1956 Birth and Death dates from "The Polks of North Carolina & Tennessee" by Mrs. Frank M. Angellotti. | Reese, David (I4981)
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| 1000 | U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914 Name: William F Alexander Birth year: abt 1813 Birthplace: North Carolina, United States Enlistment Age: 34 (1847) Mexican-American War 1850 United States Federal Census Name: Wm F Alexander Age: 37 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1813 Birth Place: North Carolina Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Rio Grande, Cameron, Starr, and Webb, Texas Family Number: 1108 Household Members: Name Age Wm F Alexander 37 John Alexander 16 James Alexander 14 1860 United States Federal Census Name: W F Alexander (William Franklin) Age in 1860: 47 Birth Year: abt 1813 Birthplace: North Carolina Home in 1860: Laredo, Webb, Texas Gender: Male Post Office: Laredo Household Members: Name Age W F Alexander 47 Charlot Alexander 26 (married after Adeline's death) b. TX John Alexander 4 b. TX Susan Alexander 3 b. TX Robert Alexander 3 b. TX Avalina Sanches 9 b. TX (Carlotta's daughter) 1870 United States Federal Census Name: William W F Alexander Birth Year: abt 1813 Age in 1870: 57 Birthplace: North Carolina Home in 1870: Laredo, Webb, Texas Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age William W F Alexander 57 (William Franklin Alexander) Carlota Alexander 36 (Carlotta Dovalina Sanchez) John Alexander 14 James Alexander 12 Susana Alexander 12 Name: William Franklin Alexander Sex: M ALIA: /Francis/ Birth : 3 Dec 1812 in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Death:27 Oct 1873 in Laredo, Webb County, Texas Burial:AFT. 27 Oct 1873 Laredo, Webb, TX Event: Census, Federal 1840 Mecklenburg County, NC Christening: 29 Aug 1852 Laredo, Webb County, Texas Event:Grave Saint Augustine Church Reference Number:003-66782N Note: He went to Texas about 1848. When Laredo, Webb, TX was incorporated in 1852, he was The first to serve as Mayor. He also served as Justice of The Peace, City Clerk of Laredo and was The County Clerk of Webb County, TX. He was baptized in The Roman Catholic Church prior to 1852. In 1862 he enlisted as a Private in The CSA and served in Company H, 33rd Texas Calvary under Captain Santos. He was amoung those who surrendered at Galveston on 2 Jun 1865. He is named in The will of his father. He was christened at The Saint Augustine Church. It is believed that he was buried at a spot which is now a parking lot for The Saint Augustine Church. He is found in Charlotte with 2 males 0-5; 2 males 5-10 and 2 females 15-20. William Franklin (Frank) Alexander was born on 3 December 1812 at Mecklenburg Cty, NC. He married Rebecca Adeline Gilmer daughter of John Gilmer and Mary Harris, on 2 December 1832. He married Charlott Dovalina on 4 November 1852 at Laredo, Webb Cty, TX. He died on 27 October 1873 at Laredo, Webb Cty, TX, at age 60. [Dates of birth and marriage to Adeline Gilmer are in his Family Bible presently in possession of James Steere, 685 Abinton Ct., NE, Concord, NC 18025-2583, (704) 788-4566. Data on second marriage are from records of St. Augustine Church, Laredo, TX - no record of a divorce from Rebecca Adeline Gilmer has been found. The burial ground was probably in The site of The present parking lot of The St. Augustine Church. ] William Franke was probably buried at a spot which is now a parking lot for The church, Laredo, TX He was born on 3 December 1812 at Mecklenburg Co., NC. He married Rebecca Adeline GILMER, daughter of John GILMER and Mary HARRIS, on 2 December 1832, listed in The Monroe Enquirer, Thursday, July 9, 1959, copy in Peteway Papers. He was christened on 29 August 1852 at Laredo, Webb Co., TX. He married Charlott DOVALINA on 30 August 1852 at Laredo, Webb Co., TX. He died on 27 October 1873 at Laredo, Webb Co., TX, at age 60." Rebecca Adeline Alexander's will probated Oct 1861 Mecklinburg Co NC, No record of divorce found and William contracted a second marriage to CharlotteDovaline (age 18) on 1 Sep, 1852 at St Augustine's Church, Laredo Tx According to an column published in The 1930's in The Charlotte Observer, "Reminiscences of Charlotte; Career of 'Dick 'Alexander", In The above mentioned article, Adeline moved her Family to her Family Home in Mallard Creek in 1845 when Richared .Baxtor Alexander . was five years old so William Frank is no longer present with his Family. (Source: John B. Alexander) MD Hearldic Familes Pg 58 : "Daniel Alexander father of William served under Capt Adam Alexander before 1766 He is listed as one of The "old men" and was a lieutenant. (Colonial Records Vol 22 pg 397). Daniel Alexander died on 17 July 1862 at Davidson, NC, at age 80. Daniel was appointed head of Davidson College but never inaugurated. Daniel's Sons: He had three sons: Mark, Frank & Winslow; three daughters: Isabella, who married Mr. Charles Moss, dec'd.,Mr. Joab Smith. Margaret married Mr. M. D. Johnston, a professor of Mathematics at Davidson College. Their children were : D.A.Johnston and Martha, who married John T. Harry in 1853. Martha had one child -daughter - and she then died. The will of Daniel was probated in Jan. 1863 42 It is unsigned and not witnessed. He named "three sons"; Marcus S.; Moses Winslow; William F. (Franklin). He also named daughters: Margaret JOHNSTON, Isabella Smith, Martha HARRY, as well as a granddaughter, Ida Blanca HARRY. Executor was son "M.W." " William Franklin He was born on 3 December 1812 at Mecklenburg Co., NC. He was christened on 29 August 1852 at Laredo, Webb Co., TX. He married Charlott Dovalina on 30 August 1852 at Laredo, Webb Co., TX. Susannah SHELBY Date of death from Alexander Notebook. She was born in 1785 at Mecklenburg Co., NC. She married Daniel Alexander, son of William Black Billy Alexander and Margaret (CLARK?), on 11 June 1800. She died on 1 March 1853 in Cabarrus Co., NC. (She could have died in Davidson, NC and was interred in Cabarrus Co.) Children: i) William Franklin (Frank) Alexander (see above) ii) Marcus (Mark) T. Alexander (see above) iii) Susannah J Alexander (see above) iv) (Moses) Winslow Alexander, Col. (see above) v) Isabella Alexander (see above) vi) Margaret Alexander (see above) vii) Mary C Alexander (see above) Richard B.Alexander " William Franke was probably buried at a spot which is now a parking lot for The church, Laredo, TX He was born on 3 December 1812 at Mecklenburg Co., NC. He died on 27 October 1873 at Laredo, Webb Co., TX, at age 60." Richard B. Alexander " William Franke . He was christened on 29 August 1852 at Laredo, Webb Co., TX. He married Charlott DOVALINA on 30 August 1852 at Laredo, Webb Co., TX.[1860693.FTW] Frank married Charlotte in Texas in 1852, without divorcing Rebecca Adeline. | Alexander, William Franklin (I2553)
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