Peyton, Presley Ross

Birth Name Peyton, Presley Ross
Gramps ID I5565
Gender male

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Death [E10467] UNKNOWN abt 1867-1868  
 

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Peyton, Craven [I5769]1794-10-201833
Mother Payne, Sarah Fleming [I1665]17951853
         Peyton, Presley Ross [I5565] UNKNOWN
    Brother     Peyton, William [I5856] 1817 UNKNOWN
    Brother     Peyton, Craven [I5857] 1821 UNKNOWN
    Brother     Peyton, Thomas [I5858] 1823-05-10 1878-02-14

Families

    Family of Peyton, Presley Ross and Leake, Indiana Herodine [F1934]
Married Wife Leake, Indiana Herodine [I5860] ( * 1823 + before 1867 )
   
Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Marriage [E13909] 1854-01-31    
 
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Peyton, Ellen S [I5863]18571931-12-30
Peyton, India Leake [I5865]about 1859UNKNOWN
  Attributes
Type Value Notes Sources
REFN 122529
 
    Family of Peyton, Presley Ross and Brooks, Martha A [F1935]
Married Wife Brooks, Martha A [I5866] ( * 1847-01-06 + 1940-08-15 )
   
Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Marriage [E13910] before 1867-11-00    
 
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Peyton, Walter R. [I5869]1867-11-181938-04-22
  Attributes
Type Value Notes Sources
REFN 122530
 

Narrative

Shelby County TN Biographies

Presley Ross Peyton was the son of Craven Peyton (1794 Jefferson Co., KY - 1833) and Sarah
This line descends from Capt. Valentine Peyton of Virginia (1687-1751) and Henry Peyton of Lincoln's Inn, London (1590-1656).
Presley Ross Peyton was the son of Craven Peyton (1794 Jefferson Co., KY - 1833) and Sarah
Fleming Payne (1795 VA – 1853 Memphis) who married in Shelby County, KY in 1813. Craven Peyton’s (1794) parents were William Peyton (1753 Loudoun Co., VA - 18 Aug 1811 Bullitt Co., KY) and Mary Ross (21 Nov 1769 Loudoun Co., VA - 25 Dec 1841 Hartford, Ohio Co., KY). William Peyton’s parents were Craven Peyton (b. 1732 Aquia Creek, Stafford Co., VA) and Ann West. Mary Ross’ parents were Lawrence Ross and Susannah Oldham. Craven Peyton’s (1732) parents were Col. Valentine Peyton and Frances Linton. Sarah Fleming Payne’s parents were Dennis Payne and Nancy Combs. Dennis Payne’s parents were Cuthbert Combs and Sarah Evans.

Presley Ross Peyton’s older brothers were Dr. William Peyton (b. 1817), Dr. Craven Peyton (b. 1821), and Dr. Thomas Fleming Peyton (10 May 1823 Mount Vernon, KY - 14 Feb 1878 Shelby, TN). Thomas married Martha Custis Woolsey (1832 Brunswick County, Virginia – 1892 Shelby, TN) and lived in Shelby County. The 1860 Shelby, TN Census lists Thomas F., 37, b. in KY, Martha, 27, b. in VA, Emma, 4, b. in TN, James, 24, attorney, b. in VA, and Virginia, 20, b. in MS. By 1870 the children listed were: Emma, 12, Fanny, 9, Sally, 6, Anna, 4, and Ashby, 2. “During the Civil War when medicine was so scarce, Martha Woolsey Peyton slipped through the Yankee lines in Memphis to secure some badly needed quinine for her husband’s patients. She was able to get the medicine which she put in the hem of her petticoat but was caught by the Yankees and put in jail. Martha was forced to pledge allegiance to the U.S. Army before they would release her.”

Presley Ross Peyton “P.R.,” 20 years old, lived with his 45 year old, widowed mother, Sarah Peyton, in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee by 1850 (5th District). (The 1840 Shelby County, Tennessee Census lists Sarah Peyton with several children.) Presley was born 14 Nov 1828 in Kentucky and died bef. 1870 Shelby County, Tennessee. He married (1) Indiana Leake and (2) Martha Brooks, both daughters of early settlers to Shelby County.

Presley Ross Peyton married (1) Indiana Herodine Leake 31 Jan 1854. She was born ca. 1823 in Goochland Co., Virginia to Richard Leake (ca. 1794 VA – July 1850 Shelby Co., TN) and Sophie T. Anderson (24 Jan 1797 - 27 Oct 1830). Richard, his second wife/sister-in-law, Mary T. Anderson, and his brother, Col. Samuel Leake, migrated to Shelby County ca. 1833. Indiana died bef. 1867 in the Morning Grove (Richard’s property) / Morning Sun area (Col. Sam’s property). Issue: Ellen S. Peyton (1857 Shelby, TN - 12/30/1931 Memphis) and India Leake Peyton (b. ca. 1859 Shelby, TN).

Indiana H. Leake married (1) James W. Lenow (25 Oct 1809 Southampton County, VA – 1850, Louisville, KY) ca. 1842. Issue: Josephine Lenow (b. ca. 1844 Shelby, TN) and James Horace Lenow (b. ca. 1850 Shelby, TN). James W. Lenow married (1) a Virginian, Elizabeth Babb, bef. 1837. Issue: Frances Louisa Lenow (b. ca. 1837 VA) and John Henry Lenow (b. ca. 1839 TN).

Attributes

Type Value Notes Sources
REFN 5565
 

Pedigree

  1. Peyton, Craven [I5769]
    1. Payne, Sarah Fleming [I1665]
      1. Peyton, Presley Ross
        1. Leake, Indiana Herodine [I5860]
          1. Peyton, Ellen S [I5863]
          2. Peyton, India Leake [I5865]
        2. Brooks, Martha A [I5866]
          1. Peyton, Walter R. [I5869]
      2. Peyton, William [I5856]
      3. Peyton, Craven [I5857]
      4. Peyton, Thomas [I5858]

Ancestors