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Ross narrowly escaped death twice during WWII, once when his group was not sent to Bataan and another time in time, after D-Day, when his room was hit with a cannon shell.

Though he was offered the chance to become an officer during the war, Ross refused, perhaps because he was afraid of not doing a good job. He says the reason is because he didn't want the responsibility.

His work was not especially lucrative but it did provide for a nice home in West Houston and work for sons Alan and Kevin and for daughter-in-law Jane after Braniff Int'l went out of business. 1920 Amy Belle McLain Amy was always a hard charging kind of a person and very imaginative. She sent  son Ricky to a masquerade party at Jane's house as the boy with green hair.

She was working when she met Ross near Camp Rucker and continued to work while he went overseas during WWII and even during Ricky's early years. When she unexpectedly became pregnant with Alan and then Kevin she stayed home with the boys. Later she went to work in Ross's office.

The glimmer left the marriage sometime in the 70's when both drank too much. While it was Ross who went to the dry out hospitals several times, it was Amy who died of cirrhosis of the liver.

In 1933, Sallie remarried, this time to a distant in-law, Curtis Pennington, the brother of her deceased husband's brother's wife, Lillian Pennington.

Since Curt moved into the house Sallie and the girls had purchased with the Carnation Settlement money, there can be little denial that Curt benefited from marrying a woman with a home and some modest means, especially during the Depression. Melba seems never to have harbored any kind of grudge in that regard but Amy did. The settlement had established a trust for each of the girls to do with as they wished at the appropriate time. Amy used hers to attend Blue Mountain College and Mississippi State and to purchase a car at the appropriate time. In due course, the car was purchased and Curt took a liking to it and, in Amy's view, gave short shrift to the driving training Curt was to give them, hustling them out of the driver's seat in short order so that he could take of the driving of the beloved car.

In 1936, Tupelo was hit by a tornado which old-timers still refer to as the Great Tornado of '36. Magazine Street, where they lived, is only one block south of Main Street (Now Highway 278) on which ever object appears completely flattened in the panoramic photo taken by the Memphis Commercial Appeal. The tornado destroyed the house Sallie had built on the hill and carried Amy away. Sallie and Melba were convinced that she had been killed when another relative announced that he had just left the train station where numerous victims had been boarded onto a train for Memphis and treatment. Fortunately, he recognized Amy and passed the information on. Amy's injuries included a thumb, which many thought she would lose, but the doctors felt that a thumb was so vital that muscles were transferred from other fingers to her thumb, even though the movement would be somewhat unusual, awkward and noticeable even to the untrained. Infection and dangerous swelling were prevented by applying leeches to her wounds. Throughout the rest of her life her thumb movement, instead of being an out and in movement, was one which brought her thumb toward the fingers from under her palm.[AmyMcLain.FTW]

In 1933, Sallie remarried, this time to a distant in-law, Curtis Pennington, the brother of her deceased husband's brother's wife, Lillian Pennington.

Since Curt moved into the house Sallie and the girls had purchased with the Carnation Settlement money, there can be little denial that Curt benefited from marrying a woman with a home and some modest means, especially during the Depression. Melba seems never to have harbored any kind of grudge in that regard but Amy did. The settlement had established a trust for each of the girls to do with as they wished at the appropriate time. Amy used hers to attend Blue Mountain College and Mississippi State and to purchase a car at the appropriate time. In due course, the car was purchased and Curt took a liking to it and, in Amy's view, gave short shrift to the driving training Curt was to give them, hustling them out of the driver's seat in short order so that he could take of the driving of the beloved car.

In 1936, Tupelo was hit by a tornado which old-timers still refer to as the Great Tornado of '36. It destroyed the house Sallie had built on the hill and carried Amy away. Sallie and Melba were convinced that she had been killed when another relative announced that he had just left the train station where numerous victims had been boarded onto a train for Memphis and treatment. Fortunately, he recognized Amy and passed the information on. Amy's injuries included a thumb, which many thought she would lose, but the doctors felt that a thumb was so vital that muscles were transferred from other fingers to her thumb, even though the movement would be somewhat unusual, awkward and noticeable even to the untrained. Infection and dangerous swelling were prevented by applying leeches to her wounds. Throughout the rest of her life her thumb movement, instead of being an out and in movement, was one which brought her thumb toward the fingers from under her palm.

After she graduated from Mississippi State, Amy went on for more advanced training at the Norwood Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. From there she went to Enterprise, Alabama to work in the Gibson's Hospital. A gregarious and dramatic person, Amy was popular with fellow staff members. Phillip Sherman John Almy John Butts 1850 Adelia Wing Living Spencer Elizabeth Murray Thomas Swann 1856 Maggie Wing ~1851 Jane Porter ~1856 Marvey Porter ~1858 Mary Porter ~1860 Verona Porter ~1864 Ann Porter ~1866 Ellise Porter ~1868 - ~1889 Judson Porter 21 21 ~1837 John W. Morton ~1842 Frances Graves ~1859 Mary Morton ~1865 William C. Morton ~1870 Thomas R. Morton Unknown Green ~1877 Nancy E. Morton ~1742 Anne Kirstine Jacobsen ~1721 Andreas Celnistensen 1724 Maren Urbansen ~1695 Christian Thomsen 9 MAR 1681/82 Anne Pedersen ~1683 Urban Jensen 1782 - 1844 Joseph Wing 61 61 Taken from "Descendants of Rev. John Wing" on Internet: ( as told to Alice E. Wing by her Grandfather, Ezra D. Wing, in 1933-34. )

Notes for JOSEPH WING:
Joseph Wing...1782 to 1844
(Descendant in 6th generation from Stephen Wing, one of the founders of Sandwich, Mass., in 1637).

Joseph Wing, son of Giles and Mary (Cornell) Wing, was born Feb. 28, 1782. When 22 years of age and his bride but 16, he married Amy Pettis, who was born Dec. 23, 1788, the marriage date being June 24, 1804. Soon afterward he left his father's home in Vermont and lived for a while in Locke, Cayuga Co., N.Y., but in 1826 he removed to Trumbull County, Ohio. In 1836, the family settled in Pike County, Illinois. He died Feb. 12, 1844 while on a visit to his son Stephen in Trumbull Co., Ohio. His widow died Dec. 22, 1864, in her 74th year and is buried in the Stephen Pettis burial grounds, Newburgh, Pike County, Illinois.

The following was told by Ezra D. Wing to his granddaughter Alice E. Wing...a student in Clayton High School in 1933-1934.

Joseph Wing was born in Danby, in the state of Vermont, Feb. 23, 1782. In 1826 he, with his family, emigrated from the state of New York to Ohio and settled in the township of Mecca, Trumbull co., where he lived an industrious, honest and enterprising citizen and a much respected life. In 1835 when the tide of emigration to the western states influenced him to dispose of his property and move with his family (except one son...Stephen) to Pike county, Illinois where by his industry he was able to purchase a tract of land and settle his family comfortably around him. In the autumn of 1843, he and his wife returned to Mecca, Ohio to visit their son, Stephen, who had remained in Mecca and their former friends there. After having spent a few weeks among them death called him to his reward. He died in peace at the home of his son, Stephen on Feb. 12, 1844 at the age of 62, after an illness of nine days with pneumonia. He joined the Baptist Church when he was 24 years old. He had an amiable disposition and honesty of heart.


Children of JOSEPH WING and AMY PETTIS are:
+    308  i.        JOSEPH SMITH10 WING, born September 18, 1830 in Mecca, Trumbull Co., Ohio; died November 03, 1906 in Junction, Piute Co., Utah.
     309  ii.       Phebe Wing, born April 16, 1805. She married Samuel Parker.
+    310  iii.      Elizabeth Wing, born March 23, 1807 in Cayuga Lake, Tomkins Co. New York; died January 15,                                                                             1881.
     311  iv.       Stephen Wing, born May 29, 1810. He married Olive Rice.
+    312  v.        Matthias Wing, born November 28, 1813; died August 22, 1896.
     313  vi.       Giles Joseph Wing, born January 27, 1816.
     314  vii.      Charles Wing, born January 24, 1829. He married Helen Foreman.
     315  viii.          Benjamin Franklin Wing, born August 16, 1833.




 1788 Amy Pettis From Toni Nash's Web Site "Descendants of Rev. John Wing:

Descendants of REV. JOHN WING


Joseph Wing, son of Giles and Mary (Cornell) Wing, was born Feb. 28, 1782. When 22 years of age and his bride but 16, he married Amy Pettis, who was born Dec. 23, 1788, the marriage date being June 24, 1804. Soon afterward he left his father's home in Vermont and lived for a while in Locke, Cayuga Co., N.Y., but in 1826 he removed to Trumbull County, Ohio. In 1836, the family settled in Pike County, Illinois.

Notes for AMY PETTIS:
Letter written by Amy Pettis to her son Joseph Smith Wing, Feb. 22, 1862;

Clayton, Illinois

Dear Child,

I received your letter the last day of Dec. and was very glad to hear from you and that you and your family are well contented. "A contented mind is a continual fortune." I also received at the same time a letter from Betsy and Charles, they are well. Phebe has lost her oldest child. We had a letter from Benjamin a few days ago, he is well and talks of coming down next summer. We had a letter from Minnesota recently and they are well.

You have heard, no doubt, of the great massacre of the people in Minn. by the Indians. They killed some 800 whites and there has been hung some 37 of them at one time.

There has been several deaths in Pike Co., this fall, among them granny Davis, old Billy Johnson, Tom Smith and his wife, Tom Wiggins and George Taylor also. You request me to send you a list of your dead friends, I have sent you the whole pedigree at your request.

My great grand mother married a Warner. Their children were Anna who married Thomas Brown and had 6 children: Thomas Jr., Cyrus, John, Mary, Martha and Anna. Mary Brown married Matthias Button and they had 11 children: John, Matthias, Benjamin, Peter, Nathan, Molly, Anna, Martha, Eliza, Thankful and Amy.

My grandfather William Pettis married Mary Kinion. Their children were: Stephen (married Amy Button), Joseph (married Mary Chapman), then there were Sarah, Elsa, Mercy, Hannah, Mary and Lucy.

Your great grandfather Wing was Matthew. His children were Giles, Matthew, Ruth and Molly. Giles married Mary Cornell. His children were Samuel, John, Elizabeth, Katherine, Joseph and Giles Jr.

Stephen Pettis and Amy Button's children were Amy, Sally, Stephen, William and Nathan. Joseph Wing married Amy Pettis, you know the rest.

We are well as common, Byron has the whooping cough. Sarah is at home with us: William is in the army. Her child has the cough.

I sent you a tract, the title "The Christian's Only Hope". I want you should read and consider it well. I think if you knew all the doctrine of our faith you would respect it more than you do now. It is trouble some times now, and I think the winding up of the dispensation is close at hand.

We have had a very open winter only about 3 inches of snow at any one time and weather mild. Wheat looks bad, but not dead. The letter I wrote last fall I presume you have not received. I should have written sooner, but I meant to send my likeness and the roads have been so bad I could not go to have it taken. I will send it when I get it.

Tell Sam and John they must write to me. Norman wrote me a letter a few days ago; they are all well. You must write oftener.

From your affectionate mother,
Amy (Pettis) Wing
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Toni's notes....

When this letter was written Amy Pettis had been a widow for some 18 years. There had obviously been some disagreement between her and her son Joseph Smith Wing about religion...either her scorn of his Mormonism or his scorn of her faith...either way the fact that she sent him a tract of religious views indicates that they both were determined to adhere to their own religious beliefs.

She mentions Betsy and Charles and that they are doing well. Charles was another one of her sons. She mentions Phebe and that Phebe has lost her oldest child. Phebe would be the daughter of Amy Pettis Wing. (Phebe was the oldest child).

When she mentions the deaths in Pike Co., She wonders if Granny Davis is not Rebecca Davis's mother or grandmother. Rebecca Davis was Joseph Smith Wing's first wife...and her (Toni's) great-great grandmother.

When she mentions that Byron has the whooping cough she is referring to Joseph Smith Wing's oldest son...and her great grandfather. She doesn't know yet who Sarah and William are, but  guesses that one of them was her grandchild as well.

When she tells Joseph Smith Wing to tell Sam and John that they must write her she is referring to her grandsons by her son Matthias...they both went to Utah with Joseph Smith Wing. Norman is their other brother...another son of Matthias Wing.


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The 1860 Pike County, Illinois shows "Anny Pettis," age 61, living with Charles and Ellen Wing (ages 26 and 24), probably her son and daughter-in-law, and their children. Nearly on the census is Stephen Pettis, age 73, his wife(?) Catherine, age 47, children Harlow, Daniel, Laura and Maria. In the Pettis Cemetery, among the many Pettises, are Col. Stephen Pettis (War of 1812) and Amy Pettis, wife of Joseph Wing. Gershom Mott 1760 - 1840 Richard Cornell 80 80 1755 - 1790 Mary Jane Cornell 35 35 1746 John Cornell Rachel Mosher 20 FEB 1689/90 Joseph Wing 1763 - 1813 Matthew Wing 50 50 Ruth Wing Molly Wing Samuel Wing 1777 John Wing ~1790 Elizabeth Wing Katherine Wing 1754 - 1817 Thomas Cornell 63 63 Joseph Wing 1751 Stephen Pettis 26 JAN 1745/46 Amy Button 1722 - 1794 William M. Pettys 71 71 1721 Mary Kinion FHL Film 1309870, Item #2, Marriage Index: Connecticut 1635-1860 Shows a Mary Kinion marrying a Samuel Smith 31 March 1740. If so, then Samuel may have died and Mary may have remarried in 1745. Jeremiah Smith Sarah Pettis Elsa Pettis Mercy Pettis Hannah Pettis Mary Pettis Lucy Pettis Mercy Almy 16 JAN 1691/92 Matthias Button 1708 Mary Brown John Button Matthias Button Benjamin Button Peter Button Nathan Button Molly Button Anna Button Martha Button Eliza Button Thankful Button Button ~1675 Thomas Brown ~1675 Anna Warner Thomas Brown Cyrus Brown John Brown Martha Brown Anna Brown Sally Pettis 1777 - 1855 Stephen Pettis 77 77 William Pettis Nathan Pettis ~1717 William Sisson 1719 Thomas Sisson 1720 Peleg Sisson 1722 Rebecca Sisson 1723 Rachel Sisson James Sisson Jane Sisson 1725 Judith Sisson 1727 John Sisson 1729 Constant Sisson Hugh Mosher 1781 - 1858 Thomas Cornell 76 76 Richard Cornell Patience White D. >1633 Mary Wood An Ashwood 1686 - 1775 Thomas Lawton Sisson 88 88 1648 Caleb Allen Elizabeth Hathaway 1 JAN 1675/76 Mary Brayton Timothy Mosher ~1589 Thomas Salisbury 1592 Mrs. Salisbury D. 1717 Abigail Mumford 1610 - 1692 Mary Freeman 82 82 William Mosher Mary Perry Deliverance Gifford 1598 Samuel Batchelder Mercy Bowman Widow Mary Wyman Elizabeth F 1622 - ~1654 Stephen Sanborne 32 32 1830 - 1886 Svend Larson 56 56 Philip Bachilder Anne Flanders Phebe Hewlett Roger Mosher 1725 Mercy Cole Sisson Joane Newman James Mosher Jonathan Davol Elizabeth Patten Richard Cornell Sarah 1 Mary 1 Harding Nehemiah Palmer 1689 James Allen John McLain Denis Browne John Lake Ephraim Mosher Elizabeth B Elihue Allen Mary Wing Mary Mosher 1702 Thomas Sisson 1760 - 1854 Daniel Cornell 94 94 Mary Cornell Elizabeth Redman ~1645 - 1688 Samuel Briggs 43 43 ~1662 - 1723 Daniel Fish 61 61 John Smith Rachel Catherine Mary 2 Anne Fowler 1698 Thomas Sisson John Mott 1617 Issabel Strange Jane Pelham Samuel Cranston Mary Mosher 1830 - 1906 Joseph Smith Wing 76 76 According to notes from Ross Bonny, Sr., Joseph was one of the Mormon pioneers who pushed a hand cart all the way from Ohio to Utah. He was given property by Brigham Young in Springville, 60 miles south of Salt Lake City. He was the doctor there. I believe that this is a mistake. Joseph was probably prosperous enough to afford a wagon train whereas Joseph Smith Bohne as a youth traveled with his (widowed?) mother to America and probably pushed a hand cart.

Descendants of REV. JOHN WING (Web Site of Toni Nash)
Generation No. 8


      308. JOSEPH SMITH10 WING (JOSEPH9, GILES8, MATTHEW7, JOSEPH6, MATTHEW5, STEPHEN4, REV. JOHN3, MATTHEW2, GODFRIEDUS1 WYNGE) was born September 18, 1830 in Mecca, Trumbull Co., Ohio, and died November 03, 1906 in Junction, Piute Co., Utah. He married (1) Frances. He married (2) unknown. He married (3) Ellen Larsen. He married (4) Elizabeth Marshall. He married (5) Signa Anderson. He married (6) Amelia Hendricksen. He married (7) REBECCA P. DAVIS June 08, 1848 in Pike Co., Illinois, daughter of ISSAC DAVIS and MARGARET ROBIDOUX. He married (8) Sarah Adelia Wright August 08, 1863. He married (9) Mary Josephine Allen December 17, 1864. He married (10) Sophia Anena Bohne February 17, 1866 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He married (11) Frances McGuray (McCurdy?) 1876.

Notes for JOSEPH SMITH WING:
Information rec'd from knewdirk@@pacifer.com (Kathryn Graham). Her information came from "Owl, Vol 23, #3, June 1922, pg. 2193; LDS Family sheet, Hugh W. Law; LDS Ancestral Files, 1990)

(Joseph Smith Wing) (Descendant in 7th generation from Stephen Wing, one of the founders of Sandwich, Mass., in 1637)

Joseph Smith Wing, son of Joseph and Amy (Pettis) Wing (Giles, Matthew, Joseph, Matthew, Stephen) was born Sept. 18, 1830. at Mecca, Trumbull Co., Ohio. In 1903, the following account of his career was given in a letter to the Owl;

"I am a self-made man; got what little schooling I ever had in a log school-house, sitting upon a slab bench and but three months after I was twelve year of age. Six years after I was born my parents removed to Pike County, Ill. Both places were new and I have ever been on the frontier marching westward, until I reached Utah and in the mountains in the mining camps. i was the first discoverer of gold in Mary's Vale, Pinto County, in 1865, and returned to that county again in 1898. I am very busy in the practice of medicine which I began in 1857."

Dr. Wing furnished the Owl with much of the information relative to his grandfather, Giles.

Dr. Wing was first married in Illinois to Rebecca Davis, by whom he had 3 children, Byron, Adelia and Margaret, born in Pike County, Illinois. He later went to Black River Falls, Wisconsin and engaged with his brother, Benjamin, in the lumber and mercantile business. They were burned out and Dr. Wing returned to Illinois. While living in Black River Falls he married Sarah Adelia Wright and they had five children...Elizabeth, May, Joseph, Benjamin, and Amanda.

He remained in Illinois a year or so and then, in 1862 left for Utah with his nephew John William Wing; he was supposed to have taken his daughter Adelia with him. (Toni's notes; In fact he did take his daughter Adelia with him...he took her from her mother's home when her mother was gone). (Toni's notes; Dr. Wing was accompanied by Sarah Adelia Wright on his trek to Utah. He met Sarah Adelia Wright during his stay in Wisconsin. She eventually bore him six children). In Utah he married Mary Josephine Allen and by her had four sons...Charles, Orville, John and George. The youngest of these sons gave the following account in 1922 regarding his father's career;

"His first wife was the mother of two children, Byron and Adelia, born in Pike County, Illinois. When he set out for Utah in 1862 with his nephew John William Wing, he was supposed to have taken his daughter Adelia with him. In Utah he married Mary Josphine Allen and by her had four sons. He afterward married a Frances A. (Frank) McCURDY) by whom there were no children."

In another account of Dr. Joseph Smith Wing, written by a nephew, John W. Wing, before 1916, the following is given;

"Dr. Wing was a successful physician and also a miner. He discovered the famous Flagstaff mines in Cottonwood Canyon, Utah, from which he realized a considerable fortune."

From another account it was reported that Dr. Wing also married a Sophia Anna Bonny (or Bohne) and by her had a son named Hugh. And in an old letter written by Dr. Wing himself, many years before his death, is the following;

" I bought city lots and the best of land in and around Springville, Utah, and built my families, four in number, good new houses, bought them stock and house furnishings amounting to over twenty thousand dollars."

In a Utah newspaper the following account is given of Dr. Wing's death;

"Junction, Piute County, Utah, Nov. 4, 1906: Dr. J. S. Wing died yesterday at Kingston at the age of 86 years. He left a will which was probated yesterday, his heirs being 13 children. R. Allen is named executor of the will. His property is valued from $1500 to $1800. Dr. Wing was a highly respected citizen of Piute County and a great friend of the poor. He had lived in Kingston about eight years. He was a public spirited man, always leading out and assisting in public matters. Funeral services will be held today under the auspices of the Kingston bishopric."

From information available, it appears that the first two of the listed children were born in Illinois, the mother being Rebecca (Davis) Wing; that the next four listed were born in Utah by the wife, Mary Josephine (Allen) Wing; that the next five were born in Wisconsin by the wife Sarah Adelia (Wright) Wing; and that the two last listed were born in Utah as children of Sophia Anna (Bohne) Wing.
(7846-a) Byron b. Aug. 16, 1853, (7846-b) Adelia, (7846-B) Charles b. June 2, 1866, (7846-d) Orvile Allen, b. Feb. 14, 1868, (7846-e) John Ethan Allen b. 1873, d. 1889, (7846-f) George Francis b. April 21, 1875, (7846-g) Elizabeth, (7846-h) May, (7846-i) Joseph, (7846-j) Benjamin, (7846-k) Amanda, (7846-l) Hugh b. March 14, 1873, (7846-m) Signa Sophia


In the earliest census Toni could find, Joseph Smith Wing was 19 years old, a cooper (made barrels) and was born in Ohio. Rebecca Wing was born in Canada and she was 19 years old also. I'm not sure what Census this was.

1860 Census ...Mary Wing is listed in Springville, Utah where she says she kept house. She was 20 years old at the time and there were 5 people in the house. She was born in Iowa. (This was Joseph Smith Wings wife...Mary Josephine Allen.) This census was taken in Utah. (My note: if this is the case, he must have left Illinois before 1862, the date given above.) [Janes's Note: I do not find Joseph Smith Wing in either Utah or Illinois in 1860

1870 Census...Springville Utah. Joseph Smith Wing is listed in a different household. He says he is 39 years old and a physician. and there were 8 in that household. The line immediately following lists Mary J., age 20, from Iowa ( plus Charles age 3, born in Utah, and Arvil, age 2, born in Utah ), and Anena (Bohne, I assume), age 18, from Denmark ( plus Zena, age 2, female, born in Utah).

1870 Census...Little Cottonwood, Utah, Joseph Smith Wing says he is 40 years old and that he is a physician and that there are 4 in that particular household.

Notes for REBECCA P. DAVIS:
Source; Marriage Index for Il, In, Ky, Oh, Tn 1720-1926, CD # 2 (Family Tree Maker)
Mrs. Rebecca P. Wing married Jacob T. Cheek on June 8, 1856 in Pike Co., Il.


On this same web site there is a copy of a letter written to him by his mother chastising him for not following the ( Baptist? ) faith.




    Children of JOSEPH WING and unknown are:
     316  i.        Miland Smith11 (Wing).
     317  ii.       Homer Smith (Wing).
      Child of JOSEPH WING and Amelia Hendricksen is:
+    318  i.        Henry11 Wing, born May 22, 1873 in Springville, Utah, Utah; died December 12, 1933 in San Bernardino, California.
      Children of JOSEPH WING and REBECCA DAVIS are:
+    319  i.        BYRON11 WING, born August 16, 1853 in Milton, Pike Co., Illinois; died February 05, 1942 in Illinois.
+    320  ii.       Adelia Wing, born June 20, 1850 in Detroit, Pike Co., Illinois; died July 31, 1909 in Fairview, San Pete, Utah.
     321  iii.      Margaret Wing, born 1856.
      Children of JOSEPH WING and Sarah Wright are:
+    322  i.        Elizabeth Jane11 Wing, born November 27, 1858 in Black River Falls, Jackson, Wisconsin; died Abt. 1890.
+    323  ii.       Mary Arminta Wing, born May 26, 1862 in Sweet Water, American Plains, Wyoming.
+    324  iii.      Joseph Smith Wing Jr., born November 02, 1864 in Springville, Utah, Utah.
+    325  iv.       Sarah Adelia Wing, born February 04, 1867.
+    326  v.        Benjamin Franklin Wing, born November 20, 1869.
+    327  vi.       Amy Amanda Wing, born July 20, 1872.
      Children of JOSEPH WING and Mary Allen are:
     328  i.        Charles11 Wing, born June 02, 1866. He married Angelina Biggs.
+    329  ii.       Orville Allen Wing, born February 15, 1868 in Fairview, San Pete, Utah; died December 10, 1931 in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona.
     330  iii.      John Ethan Allen Wing, born August 15, 1873 in Springville, Utah, Utah; died June 12, 1889 in Utah.
     331  iv.       George Francis Wing, born April 21, 1875 in Fairview, San Pete, Utah.
      Children of JOSEPH WING and Sophia Bohne are:
+    332  i.        Signa Sophia11 Wing, born June 05, 1867 in Spring City, San Pete, Utah; died May 25, 1940 in Springville, Utah, Utah.
+    333  ii.       Frederick William Wing, born June 25, 1870 in Springville, Utah, Utah; died October 31, 1940 in Provo, Utah.
+    334  iii.      Hugh Bohne Wing, born March 15, 1873 in Springville, Utah, Utah; died April 12, 1947 in Provo, Utah.

From Research in Black River Falls, Wisconsin and in Pittsfield, IL and conversation with Toni Nash:

In 1852, or thereabouts, Joseph left to go to Wisconsin for a short period but remained gone for about two years. During this period, according to his own admission in letters written to Rebecca Davis and subsequently added to his divorce records, he married Frances E. Jarrad in Iowa. He blames Rebecca for his behavior, saying that he had never, despite his fervent pleadings, abandoned her family. In her divorce petition, Rebecca alludes to another woman, Sarah Jones, saying he had committed adultery with her. Family rumor had it that he had fathered other children with at least one of these women. Furthermore, the absence of a marriage record for Joseph and Sarah Adelia Wright, while not universal at that time, and while there is a records for Joseph's nephew and Sarah Adelia's sister, seems to lend some credence to the rumor that Joseph and Adelia were not legally married, though Joseph had led Sarah Adelia to believe that they were. Sarah Adelia may have begun to have her doubts about Joseph when he kidnapped his daughter Adelia and left for Utah. Sarah may have had enough of Joseph by 1868 and moved out. She later lived with her children in Idaho. By the time Joseph died, few family members were speaking to him and he had parted ways with the Mormons because he was forced to chose one wife. Many of his wives married other men after the law was changed.

[22 June 2000: Letter sent to Green County, Wisconsin requesting copy of marriage record of JOSEPH SMITH, On Nov 19, 1855. Based on preliminary results of search of Archives in Madison, Wisconsin.] 1851 Sophia Anena Bohne John Maxson Grace Bailey 1608 John Lawton <1645 William Willet Samuel Cornell ~1560 Mary Unknown Rose Knowles Laughton D. 1680 Ann Capon 1755 - 1778 John Cornell 22 22 1698 Hannah Sisson Sarah Hatchet 1702 John Sisson D. 1654 Oseah Dillingham Jonathan Mosher Anna Ewer 1609 Sarah Lawton Dary Davol Daniel Mosher 27 FEB 1612/13 Bennett Lawton 1668 John Tripp John Harndell Rachel Dennis Sarah Cornell George Cornell D. 7 MAR 1566/67 Susan Casse Wing 1669 - 1731 Elisha Wing 61 61 [.]

Stephen (or Elisha)5 Wing (STEPHEN4, REV. JOHN3, MATTHEW2, GODFRIEDUS1 WYNGE) was born September 02, 1656, and died 1675. He married Mehitable Butler.

Notes for Stephen (or Elisha) Wing:
Stephen was the first of the Wing family to lose his life for this country. He was killed in King Phillips War in 1675.

      Child of Stephen Wing and Mehitable Butler is:
     42  i.   Elizabeth6 Wing. She married Benjamin Wing.


      15. Elisha5 Wing (STEPHEN4, REV. JOHN3, MATTHEW2, GODFRIEDUS1 WYNGE) was born December 02, 1668 in Sandwich, Massachusetts. He married Mehitable Butler December 01, 1689, daughter of Thomas Butler and Dorothy Howes.

      Children of Elisha Wing and Mehitable Butler are:
+    56   i.        Jedediah6 Wing, born January 29, 1696/97.
     57   ii.       Elizabeth Wing, born March 21, 1697/98.
     58   iii.      Judah Wing, born Abt. 1700.
     59   iv.       Sarah Wing, born Abt. 1701.
     60   v.        Butler Wing, born September 17, 1702.
     61   vi.       Mehitable Wing, born August 04, 1705.
     62   vii.      Abigail Wing, born April 30, 1708. Mehitable Butler 1621 - 1710 Stephen Wing 89 89 Traveled to America on the same ship as his mother, grandfather and the Dillinghams.


In 1657, "the people called Quakers" made their first appearance in Sandwich. In Bowden's "History of the Society of Friends in America," it is mentioned that two English Friends, named Christopher Holden and John Copeland, came to Sandwich on the 20th of 6th month, 1657, and had a number of meetings, and that their arrival was hailed with feelings of satisfaction by many who had long been burdened with a lifeless ministry and dead forms in religion. But the town had its advocates of religious intolerance and no small commotion ensued." The governor issued a warrant for their arrest, but when a copy of the warrant was asked for by Wm. Newland, at whose house the meetings had been held, it was refused, and its execution was resisted. A severe rebuke and a fine was then inflicted upon them. The two prisoners were sentenced to be whipped, but the selectmen of the town declined to act in the case, and the marshal was obliged to take them to Barnstable to find a magistrate willing to comply with the order.
Tradition reports that many meetings were held at a secluded spot in the woods, which from the preacher's Christian name, was afterward known as "Christopher's Hollow." Numerous complaints were made against divers persons in Sandwich for meetings at private houses and inveighing against magistrates, and several men and women were publicly whipped for disturbing public worship, for abusing the ministers, for encouraging others in holding meetings, for entertaining the preachers and for unworthy speeches. Daniel Wing, with three others, was arrested for tumultuous carriage at a meeting of Quakers and severely fined, though there is no evidence that a single Quaker, besides the preachers, was present, and it is certain that neither of these persons professed at that time any adherence to the new sect. Daniel and Stephen Wing refused to take the oath of fidelity, not on the ground that they declined all oaths, but because this particular oath pledged them to assist in the execution of an intolerant enactment. Indeed, so generally were the laws against free worship condemned in Sandwich, that the constable was "unable to discharge his duty by reason of many disturbent persons there residing," and it was enacted that a marshal be chosen for such service in Sandwich, Barnstable and Yarmouth. In 1658 a list was made out by the governor and other magistrates of certain persons who refused to take the oath of fidelity, and for that reason had no legal right to act as inhabitants. They were, therefore, each fined five pounds to the colony's use, and it was ordered that each and every one of them should henceforth have no power to act in any town meeting till better evidence appeared of their legal admittance, nor to claim title or interest in any town privileges as townsmen, and that no man should henceforth be admitted an inhabitant of Sandwich, or enjoy the privileges thereof, without the approbation of the church and of Mr. Thomas Prince (the governor), or of the assistants whom they shall choose. Many were summoned to Plymouth to account for nonattendance upon public worship and distraints were exacted from these recusants in Sandwich to satisfy for fines to the amount of six hundred and sixty pounds. Of these fines Daniel Wing paid not less than twelve pounds.
Up to this time Daniel Wing, with others who acted with him, appear simply as friends of toleration and resisters of an oppressive law. But it was not long before he and most of these sympathizers became active converts to the persecuted sect. In 1658 no less than eighteen families in Sandwich recorded their names in one of the documents of the society. Writers of that period (1658-60) say, "We have two strong places in this land, the one at Newport and the other at Sandwich; almost the whole town of Sandwich is adhering towards them," and the records of Monthly Meetings of Friends show that the Sandwich Monthly Meeting was the first established in America." Its records extend as far
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back as 1672, which is earlier than any other known in this country. It was not until the accession of King Charles the Second (about 1660) that these proceedings against the Quakers were discontinued by the royal order, and the most obnoxious laws were repealed in the colony of Plymouth, when we are told that "the Quakers became the most peaceful, industrious and moral of all the religious sects." In the fervor of religious zeal, and while smarting under severe injuries, they doubtless, at this early period, provoked the authorities by indiscretions which none of their successors in the faith would attempt to justify, and yet every descendant of the Puritans must regret that those who had themselves suffered so much for their conscientious convictions should have inflicted such severities upon dissenters from their own views.
In 1658 the true bounds of every inhabitant's lands were laid out and ordered by the general court, so that the lands might be brought to record. There were fifty-five such owners whose names are recorded, among whom Daniel and Stephen Wing are mentioned. According to some records Daniel died in the year 1664, but Freeman and Savage make his death five years earlier (1659). His will was dated May 3, 1659, but as one of his children was born in 1660, and another later in the year 1664, we agree with the Plymouth records in placing his death near the latter date. He married 9th month, 5, 1641, Hannah, a daughter of John Swift. est. 64 years. The descendants of Daniel and Stephen Wing have nearly all been connected with the society calling themselves Friends. The place in Sandwich where they have from the first worshiped, is near Spring Hill, about three miles eastward from the central village.


From Toni Nash's Web site:

STEPHEN4 WING (REV. JOHN3, MATTHEW2, GODFRIEDUS1 WYNGE) was born Abt. 1621 in probably Holland, and died Bef. December 02, 1700 in Sandwich, Mass. Buried at Springhill Burial Ground. He married (1) SARAH BRIGGS. He married (2) Oseah (or Oziah) Dillingham 1646. He married (3) SARAH BRIGGS November 07, 1673 in Sandwich, Massachusetts, daughter of John Briggs and Catherine.

Notes for STEPHEN WING:
See John Wing Jr. notes for sources for information.


Like his brothers, John and Daniel, Stephen became a Quaker in Sandwich, following a stormy Puritan-Quaker struggle. Stephen lived on what is now called Spring Hill Road at the edge of the Shawme Marsh in East Sandwich. The house, built in 1641, is still in Wing family hands. It is the site of the annual Wing family reunion; headquarters of the Wing Family of America, Inc., and editorial office of the O.W.L (OUR WING LINEAGE), the Wing family periodical.

STEPHEN WING...1621 to 1710
(One of the four sons brought to New England by their widowed mother in 1632, from England to Saugus, Mass.)

A biographical sketch based on records compiled by Col. George W. Wing (1856-1924) who was the first president of the Wing Family of America. Between 1913 and 1924 he published the results of more than twenty-five years of research.

Stephen Wing, youngest of the sons of the Rev. John and Deborah (Bachellor) Wing to leave descendants in America, was born in England in 1621. We are fortunate in knowing the age of Stephen and that he was three years old in 1624, when his mother embarked from England with him and his older sister Deborah for Holland. Stephen, like his brothers, spent the first years of his life at Flushing, and at the Hague; came to New England with his mother when nine years old.

We can imagine that his impressionable years were affected by the strange, new life in the woods of America which were so full of interest and adventure. Barely sixteen years of age when the family settled at Sandwich in the spring of 1637, it is not probable that the adventure seemed serious to him at the time. The woods and streams were full of game, the maidens of the party were doubtless pleasant to look upon, and to a youth of Stephen's years, it must all have seemed a lark of splendid proportions.

And was not Oseah Dillingham of the party. Perhaps she lived just across the clearing over and beyond Old Trap Neck, and that a far cry across the waters of the Lake Shawme would reach her home where the "old pear tree" still was standing sentinel when, in 1903, Col. George W. Wing visited the site of that home. It is believed that Edward Dillingham was a fellow passenger on the good ship William and Francis, with the widow Deborah and her four sons...it is known that they lived at Saugus (where that group on the William and Francis first landed and lived) and that they made the settlement in the same party at Sandwich; and that they lived close neighbors and friends for many years. Stephen and Oseah must have had a romance of their own for they evidently loved well but not wisely. Living in a time when the strict code of morals devised and punished with the Scarlet letter, Stephen was before the court on March 2, 1647, and fined because of the fact that a child was born to his wife at "an unseasonable time after their marriage" which had been the preceding fall. Indiscretions and trivial offenses were taken note of by the rigorous laws of the Pilgrims. At different times many of the leading men of the colony were before the Court charged with irregularities. The rich, the poor, high and low, stood alike before the stern mandates at Plymouth. So no particular shame or chagrin should be felt by Stephen's descendants because of the following official entry in the Court records following a setting forth of the charge:

"The said Wing, coming into the face of the Court, freely acknowledging, he was, according to the order of the Court, fined and discharged." (Governor Bradford signed the record.)

It is generally believed that immediately following the marriage of Stephen and Oseah in the fall of 1646, they located in the "Old Fort House" near Spring Hill. Deborah and her son, John, (and possibly Matthew) were living upon their first homestead. Daniel had purchased the Hallett farm, and it was left to Stephen to establish himself, which he was well able to do, being then over twenty-five years of age.

In the days of the first settlements upon the Cape, the pioneers had at various times and places built substantial stone and brick enclosures as defenses against possible Indian attacks. However, they came to know that the Cape Indians were inclined to be peaceable and friendly and that the block houses or forts were unnecessary. It seems probable that, through the influence of his father-in-law and brothers, the town of Sandwich sold or assigned the old fort and its surrounding acres to Stephen. Anyway, he seems to have lived there from the very first. During the several reunions of the Wing Family at Sandwich, hundreds of Wings have visited and enjoyed the hospitality of this remarkable old home, now the property of the society to be kept as a memorial. The historian Swift, in his "History of Barnstable Families" says of the "Old Fort House: "All of the old houses of Spring Hill have undergone similar transformations. The Wing house, probably the oldest house in Massachusetts, built before 1643 as a fortification, has been altered so often that little of the original remains." Col. George W. Wing first visited in 1901 and says he examined it later many times. Its walls, like those of the majority of the old Cape Cod houses, are shingled. Deep embrasures for the windows show the thickness of the stone walls encased, and the old oaken rafters overhead indicate the size of the original building. A great fireplace occupies almost the entire end of a 15 by 18 living room. A quaint. narrow stairway leads to the second floor, and the entire ensemble impresses one with its self-evident antiquity.

The Board of Directors of the Wing Family of America, Inc., in 1941, after careful consideration, voted to authorize the purchase of the "Old Fort House" at the terms offered by Miss Cora Wing, namely: purchase price of $5,000.00, with cash payment of at least $3,000.00 at the time of taking over the property, balance to be carried as a first mortgage at the prevailing rate of interest. The building is now the Wing Memorial Museum. The value of such an undertaking is easily understood when one reads the following description given by Col. Wing in 1914:

"The attick of the "Old Fort House" is one of the most interesting places for all Wings in America. Carefully preserved by the successive generations of the family who have lived here, are accumulations of household furniture and utensils dating back probably to the time of Stephen and Oseah. Here are warming pans, leather lanterns, spinning wheels, kitchen utensils, candle-sticks, flint-lock guns, and other retired household effects in quantities. The collection is scarcely surpassed by that of the Plymouth Memorial Hall. The old home and its contents is a veritable Mecca for the Wings of America."

The building nestles at the foot of a hill, just across the old road leading up to Spring Hill Meeting House. a full panoramic sweep of the bay is presented and a five-minute walk brings one to the beach itself. Another description, given after a visit in the "eighties" by a descendant, reads in part:

"We had the pleasure of inspecting the old Stpehen Wing dwelling house, a portion of which is supposed to have been one of the several block houses which the Colonial government had caused to be erected as a protection against the Indians. At the time of the visit it was occupied by Presbury Wing, a highly respected preacher of the Society of Friends, who kindly gave us an account of the building and showed us the different apartments, even taking us into the unfinished attic where some of the original timbers are exposed to view.
The building as it stands now, is in that part of town known as Spring Hill, near the Friends' Meeting House, is an enlargement of the block house by additions upon two sides, made a great many years ago...The building is what is called in that section a "double house"; i.e., it has a room on each side of the front door."

In 1943 the very desk once used by Stephen Wing at the "Old Fort House" became the property of the society and was placed again in the old home (museum). It came as a gift from a direct descendant. Edwin Wing and his sister Elsie. Their father was Daniel B. Wing of the 8th generation from Matthew Wing of Banbury, England, and the 6 th generation from Stephen Wing, the subject of this sketch. Their line runs: Matthew (1), Rev. John (2), Stephen (3), Ebenezer (4), Stephen (5), John (6), Daniel (7), Daniel (8), Edwin (9) and Elsie (9). They also donated to the society many valuable papers, among which was the original will of Stephen Wing (5), grandson of the original Stephen21 Wing, and the one who had, in that will, left the desk to his son John (6), in 1765.

Being one of the younger men of the Sandwich settlement, there is little mention made up to the time of his wife's death, April 9, 1654. Left with infant children upon him for support, it became incumbent upon Stephen to find himself another housekeeper. This he did, by marrying Sarah Briggs, the orphaned daughter of John Briggs, who was one of the first sixty settlers of Sandwich. It is believed that Nathaniel Wing was the only child of Stephen and Oseah Wing to survive childhood. Although it is known that Nathaniel had three sons, most of the descendants of Stephen Wing carrying the Wing surname are through sons by his second wife, whom he married in November, 1654. Stephen Jr., the oldest of those sons, was killed in action at the age of twenty. It is said that he was the first Wing to give his life in defense of his country, being one of forty-six unfortunate men who fell in an ambush suffered while Capt. Michael Pearse's Plymouth County Company was engaged in the defense of the colonies during the King Phillip War, March 26, 1676. But there were four other sons, all of whom raised families.

Col. George W. Wing once said that if he were called upon to classify the three Wing brothers who settled at Sandwich, he would term them: "John, the fearless, practical pioneer; Daniel, the idealist and religionist; and Stephen, the scholar and man of affairs." At any rate, Stephen was prominent in the affairs of the colony after 1654. On January 8, 1655, he was appointed the Constable of Sandwich by the Plymouth Court, and a year later served on the jury at Plymouth. It appears that during that same time of court he sued Jonathan Fish and attached some of his property in an action to recover 13 pounds. The wording of the judgment of the Court may be of interest to his descendants, and reads as follows:

"Jan. 5, 1756. Upon a sight of a letter of attorney showed in Court, whereby it appeered that Mr. Edward Dillingham who authorized to answere a suite commenced against Jonathan Fish by Stephen Winge of Sandwidge, in an action of the case, to the damage of twelve pounds, the said Edward Dillingham came into the Court and acknowledge a judgement of six pounds in behalf of the said Jonathan Fish, whereupon the said Stephen Wing rested satisfied; the attachment that was lay upon a mare belonging to the said Fish resting upon the same for the space of two months. The judgement above said to be paid for the quality, as well as quantities, according to the term of the bill of said Stephen Winge hath unto the hand of said Jonathan Fish."

It will have been noticed by the reader that in the records of those days, spelling was not always perfect even in the official Court records. It may also have been noticed on some occasions the name is spelled Wing and at other times given as Winge. It even appears both ways in the same Court order quoted above.

The name of Green appears in some mysterious way to be closely connected with the Wings at Sandwich. Joan Newman, wife of Matthew Wing, the youngest of the Wing brothers (who returned to England) committed the care of Matthew Wing's estate in New England to her brother-in-law James Green of Malden. Here again, in a court record at Plymouth, happening the same day and date of the Fish lawsuit, Stephen Wing appears as the attorney of a John Green, as evidenced by the following decree:

"And whereas it doth appear alsoe that the said Edward Dillingham was authorized as an attorney in the behalfe of the above said Jonathan Fish to answere a complaint made by John Green, in an action of the case, to the damage of 1 pound 13 shillings, the said Edward Dillingham acknowledge a judgment of 1 pound 13 shillings, whereupon Stephen Winge, as attorney of the said John Green, rested satisfied."

Then came on the Quaker persecutions of 1657. Stephen Wing had been one of the first to unite with the Friends' movement at Sandwich. According to the Preface to Priskin's Perry-Long Genealogy, 1647-1976, "Stephen Wing was one of the growing faction of Sandwich settlers who were unsettled in their church relations, who were doubtful of the propriety of stated preaching. So, when Christopher Holden and John Copeland came to the town from Rhode Island in 1657 Stephen hearkened to them. When they called upon him to 'quake at the word of the Lord, he quaked. And within the year seventeen other families joined him in his new faith...'There were more Quaker troubles in Sandwich than in any other town in the Colony - not because Sandwich was more cruel, but because there were more Quakers there.' " The very first record we find in the Plymouth Court records relative to the legal proceedings against the Sandwich Quakers was on March 2, 1657-8, when Peter Gaunt, Daniel Wing, Ralph and William Allen were brought before the Plymouth Court and admonished for their "tumultuous carriage at a Quaker meeting," and finally fined twenty shillings apiece for the Court with their hats on. On the same day also appears the following:

"Lieut. Ellis, Stephen Winge and Thomas Butler, being summoned to answer for tumultuous carriage as aforesaid, being examined, and not found so faulty as was supposed, were admonished and cleared."

Notwithstanding the fact that Stephen Wing had been an official of the town the previous year, in 1658, with eight others, denied the "Privledges of townsmen" and it was declared that "they had no power to act in town meeting until better evidence appears of their legal admittance." Stephen was fined on many occasions for refusing to take the oath of Fidelity, a result, of course, of the peculiar belief of the Quakers that it is a sin to take an oath for any purpose.

After the persecutions ceased in 1661, Stpehen seems to have speedily resumed his former place in the affairs of the community and colony. March 2, 1662, he served on a jury at Plymouth for the trial of a case between John Thomson and Richard Church, as plaintiffs, against Captain Willit, defendant. At other times he was appointed as Surveyor of Highways, and also served on the Grand Inquest. He must have served several years as Town Clerk for the records kept between 1669 and 1674 are known to be in his hand-writing. Furthermore, a record under date of Dec. 5, 1674, shows that a contract was made by the town with Joseph Birge and Nehemiah Besse to build a town pound and the town directed that "Stephen Wing shall asyne the letter of attorney in the town's behalfe...he being the Towne Clark." And again, in the matter of a boundary dispute the records show that Stephen Wing being the Townes Clark shall asine the letter of attorney that this three men shall precure as in the townes behalfe." (spelled clark both times instead of clerk.) Under date of Jan. 27, 1681, the records cite that "the towne hath made choice of Benjamin Hammon, Stephen Skiffe and Stephen Wing to make "saille" of the whale that is lately cast on shore in ye most that can of it in the towne's behalfe, and for ye towne's use."

For the subsequent thirty years of Stephen's life there is little to be found concerning his public life. He was probably one of the last, if not the very last, of the original settlers of Sandwich to survive. He lived sixty-three years in Sandwich after the date of its first settlement in 1637. His wife Sarah died in 1689, leaving him a widower for the second time.

The society has possession of an ancient deed executed by Stephen Wing on Dec. 2, 1700. It was executed while he was a widower and upwards of eighty years of age. It conveys the "Old Fort House" and all of his landed possessions in the town of Sandwich to his sons Ebenezer and Matthew. Matthew was living at that time in Darmouth and in possession there of an estate of his own...so just why he was selected as a grantee in the deed of the old homestead is not quite clear.

On the same day that Stephen executed his deed to his sons Ebenezer and Matthew, he also executed his will, and the two papers were presumably drawn by the same person...Stephen Skiff. This will was probated in Barnstable County, July 13, 1710, and a complete copy of the will was published in the "Owl" issued March 1915. The Spring Hill records show that Stephen Wing died on April 24, 1710. a tablet to his memory was placed upon the lawn of the "Old Fort House" and dedicated by the society during its 1910 reunion at New Bedford, Mass. The principle address was delivered by G. Myron Allen and the tablet was unveiled by Mrs. Allen, both of whom were lineal descendants of Stephen Wing. The tablet reads:

STEPHEN WING

"SON OF THE REV. JOHN AND DEBORAH WING, CAME TO BOSTON IN 1632 WITH HIS MOTHER AND BROTHERS JOHN, DANIEL, AND MATTHEW, WITH WHOM HE SETTLED IN SANDWICH IN 1637. HE LIVED UPON THIS LAND AND BUILT HIS HOME IN 1641. HE WAS AN ORIGINAL MEMBER OF THE FIRST FRIENDS' MEETING IN AMERICA ESTABLISHED AT SPRING HILL IN 1658 AND SUFFERED GREAT PERSECUTION AT THE HANDS OF THE PLYMOUTH GOVERNMENT IN THE CAUSE OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. HE DIED IN 1710 AND LIES BURIED AT SPRING HILL. ERECTED IN 1910 BY THE WING FAMILY OF AMERICA, INCORPORATED."

Wooden tools, the oldest houses of Cope Cod hove weathered storms and time A sampling of historic houses shows that behind their charm lies careful planning and practicality.

Dating from 1641, the Wing Fort House in East Sandwich stands as the oldest house in New England continuously inhabited by members of one family -- in this case, for three centuries. Built by Quaker Stephen Wing, one of the Cape's first settlers, this house started out as a one-room homestead with a loft, similar to those the Pilgrims built Constructed with double walls, the "fort" was secured against Indian attacks, which never came from the friendly natives

Stephen's grandson and namesake built his own saltbox next to the Fort House The two homes were combined during the lath century, with each home losing its original chimney and gaining the peaked roof that blanketed both dwellings In the attic, however, the rakers from the Fort House's original peaked roof can be seen, now

incorporated into one of the house's gables.

All 12 rooms are filled with Wing furniture and antiques.

Located on Spring Hill Road, near Route 6A in East Sandwich, the Wing Fort House is open l O AM to 4 PM , Monday--Friday Tours given by caretakers

Will of Stephen Wing;

I, Stephen Wing of the Town of Sandwich in the County of Barnstable in New England, being aged and weak of body yet through ye mercy of God of Disposing mind and memory and calling to mind ye...uncertainly of this Transitory Life I am Desirous according to my Duty to set things in order before God shall Call me thence. And therefore Do make this my Last Will and Testament hereby Revoking and Depannelling all former Will and Wills by word or writing heretofore by me made and Do hereby Constitute and Declare this to be my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following viz; my Desire is to commit my Soul to God in Jesus Christ who gave it and my body to Decent Burial at our Friends Burying place at Spring Hill when God shall please to call me Hence: And as Touching my Worldly Estate which God hath beyond my Deserts bestowed on my my Will is to Dispose of it as followeth;

My Will is that all my Debts in Right or Conscience to any man Due Together with my funeral Charges shall be first Discharged by my Executors hereafter named in Convenient Time out of my estate.

Item. I Will and bequeath unto my Son Nathaniel Wing Ten pounds
Item. I will and bequeath unto my son Elisha Wing Ten pounds
Item. I will and bequeath unto my daughter Sarah Gifford fifty shilling
Item. I will and bequeath unto my daughter Abigail Twenty Shilling
Item. I will and bequeath unto my son John Wing my great Dripping pan and spitl.
Item. I will and bequeath unto my Grandson Jeremiah Gifford Twenty Shillings and each Legacy to be paid in Two years after my Decease.
Finally my will is and I do hereby Constitute and appoint my Two sons viz: Ebenezer Wing and Matthew Wing joint Execrs to this my last will and Testament to administer upon my said Estate and to pay my Debts and Legacus according to this my will.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Second day of December Anna Dom 1700....Stephen Wing

Signed Sealed and declared to be his last will and testament in presence of STEPHE SKIFF, DANIEL ALLEN, JASHUB WING, WM BASSETT.
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      Children of STEPHEN WING and Oseah Dillingham are:
     7    i.        Deborah5 Wing, born October 10, 1648.
+    8    ii.       Ephraim (or Nathaniel) Wing, born April 02, 1649 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA; died 1722.
     9    iii.      Mercy Wing, born November 13, 1650.
      Children of STEPHEN WING and SARAH BRIGGS are:
+    10   i.        MATTHEW WING, born January 01, 1673/74 in Sandwich, Mass..
+    11   ii.       Stephen (or Elisha) Wing, born September 02, 1656; died 1675.
+    12   iii.      Sarah Wing, born February 05, 1657/58; died August 26, 1724 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
+    13   iv.       John Wing, born September 25, 1661 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA; died September 21, 1728 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA.
     14   v.        Abigail Wing, born May 06, 1664.
+    15   vi.       Elisha Wing, born December 02, 1668 in Sandwich, Massachusetts.
+    16   vii.      Ebenezer Wing, born November 05, 1671.
     17   viii.          Joseph Wing, born February 20, 1676/77.
     18   ix.       Benjamin Wing, born July 01, 1678.
 1700 Rebecca Sisson 12 JAN 1583/84 - 1629 John Wing "John Wing, third son and sixthe child of Matthew and Mary, was born at Banbury, England, and christened in the ancient Church of St. Mary's, January 12, 1584, in the 26th year of the reighn of Queen Elizabeth.

Elizabeth ruled England with an iron hand. The Puritans were in a majority in the House of Commons, but the severe reprimands they had met with from the throne deterred them from enacting any religious laws. The prelates of the Church of England were still in the haughty exercise of all religious prerogatives. So that when Matthew, or perchance, Mary carried the infant John in her arms up the stately aisles of old St. Mary's to the Saxon baptismal font, he was baptized with the parents and attendants kneeling at the sacrament, which was sealed by the sign of the cross. Every question of ceremony was regulated by Queen Elizabeth. Even the size and height of the ruff about Mathew's neck was determined by the Queen's edict.

The very year of John's birth, Elizabeth consigned the religious life of England into the keeping of forty-four commissioners, who were empowered by all means and ways they could devise, by juries, by the rack, by torture, by inquisition, by imprisonment, to reform all heresies and schism, and to punish all breaches of uniformity of worship, so we may well imagine that John was christened by his parents with strict regard to the country's laws.

Mathew and Mary were not permitted to invite their neighbors to read and discuss the scriptures. All such gatherings, without the Queen's special permission, were unlawful. And if, perchance, Matthew (who was a tailor) in his business sold a suit of clothes to a nobleman, he was obliged to wait that gentleman's knightly pleasure or payment. If he sued to recover the price, he was liable to imprison himself It was only during the succeeding generations that the noble principles of liberty took root. Executions took place for robbery, theft and felonies; whippings and burnings in the hand were legal modes of punishment of lesser crimes. In fact, the "Merrie England" of the days of Matthew and the boyhood of John affords us no reason to be in love with the picture of the absolute monarchy or with the government of "good Queen Bess."

The boyhood of John was spent in Banbury. The square about the old Banbury cross was undoubtedly a playground, and time and again he must have passed and entered the old Reindeer Inn. The schools of the day were known as grammar schools, and undoubtedly John made good use of them, for he was also to matriculate at Oxford when but fifteen years of age. We cannot doubt that he was a regular Sunday attendant at St. Mary's. His deeply spiritual nature was a surety of that. The sermons in the English churches at that time were mere homilies prepared by the prelates and given the vicars to read, exhorting their congregations to obey the Queen and extolling her goodness.

In John's fourteenth year, all England was aflame with the approach of the great Spanish Armada. His father at that time was forty-eight years of age, and his brothers, Fulk and Thomas, twenty-four and twenty-two respectively. Unquestionably they were enrolled among the nations's defenders. The year following the excitement attending the Armada, John Wing entered Oxford University. The school was only twenty-three miles from his home. The matriculation entry is as follows:

'John Wynge of Oxon, pleb. St. St. Alban's Hall, 15 October, 1599, aged 14.'

On 12 February, 1603, Queen's College invested him with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. During the days of John's schooling there, Oxford was particularly active in the literary movement of the day, and undoubtedly the youth became acquainted there with many of the great lights who dazzled the world with their writings in the generation following."

"Of the peers of the realm during Elizabeth's reign only about sixty knew their letters. In the rural districts, to read and write were considered rare accomplishments, and even among the gentry below the first degree there was little difference in literary accomplishments between master and the boorish attendants. As we descend a step lower we reach a class wholly illiterate. Shakespeare's father was High Bailiff of Stratford, but he could neither read nor write. Of nineteen aldermen at Stratford only six could write their names. Nor was the ignorance confined to the laymen. In 1578, according to Neal, on one hundred and forty clergymen in Cornwall belonging to the established Church, not one was capable of preaching, and throughout the kingdom, those who could preach were in the proportion of one to four.

The time of the induction of John into the holy order is conjectural. Oxford at the time of his graduation was, under Elizabeth's reign, the fountainhead of English church theology. His parents were members of the established church, and it was quite likely that the young Oxford graduate secured a position in some country village as a curate or assistant to the vicar of some parish and,while acting in that capacity, met Deborah Bachiler, daughter of the Vicar of Wherwell in Hampton."

John was almost assuredly influenced, if not intimidated, by Stephen Bachiler, who was wee-known for his strong opinions, and had already refused to allow his daughter, Theodate, to marry Christopher Hussey unless they agreed to move to the New World.

John and Deborah married around 1608-1610, aged about 25 and 18. Their first child, Deborah, was born in 1611.

"On 19 June, 1620, he had been ordained as pastor of the churches of Flushing and Middleburg (in Holland) under the direction of Mr. John Paget of Amsterdam, assisted by two Dutch clergymen, and in the presence of the burgomaster and other magistrates...

"The fact that the Dutch government recognized  and materially aided the Rev. John Wing in his ministrations at the Hague and in his induction into the Pastorate at Middleburg, leads to the belief that he was a Presbyterian in his beliefs and teachings. He was the first settled English pastor English pastor as the Hague, being admitted 11 May, 1627. The states of Holland allowed him a subsidy of 300 pounds per year, which, by a decree of 1628, was augmented to 500 pounds. A subscription of 100 pounds was raised by the
English, and expended in repairing and beautifying the chapel. The church, or chapel, was much frequented by the royal family, and especially by Elizabeth, daughter of King James, wife of the King of Bohemia."

Many of his sermons remain and, while rambling, "reveal to us a man of strong spirituality, classic learning, masterful character, ready wit, fierce invective, a facile pen and a ready tongue. He lived in an age of cant and on-winded sermons, and at time his preachings take on the color of the age, but through them all gleams the effort to be of sincere use to his fellowmen."

After some fifteen years of exile in Holland, John, Deborah and their children returned to London where John fell ill and died. Whether he had previously planned to move to America or not is not known but, in any case, Deborah and the four sons and her father moved to America.

With some repetition, notes from Toni Nash's Web site:

See John Wing Jr. notes for sources of information.

John Wing, born in England in the latter 1500's. Died about 1629, The Hague, Holland or 1630 in England. Married probably about 1610 to Deborah Bachiler. They probably were married in Holland.

Like his father-in-law, Stephen Bachiler, John Wing was an English minister who moved to Holland and became a Puritan pastor there, most likely for similar reasons. He had been residing at Sandwich, County Kent, England on the Strait of Dover and then at Hanbury before migrating to Holland. There he became pastor of an English Puritan Congregation in Flushing, Province of Zealand. It is likely that he was associated in some way in Holland with Stephen Bachiler, as he married Stephen's daughter. Pope, in PIONEERS ON MASSACHUSETTS, states that John Wing died in the Hague, Holland in 1629. Lovell, in SANDWICH: A CAPE COD TOWN, states that he died in England in 1630. An early Wing family genealogist, writing in 1881, stated that John came to America and settled in Sandwich. But more recent research proves that the writer must have confused John Wing with John Wing, Jr., his son, who did accompany his widowed mother, brothers, and Stephen Bachiler to America in 1632, and settled first in Lynn, and later in Sandwich.

Rev. John Wing and Deborah Bachiler Wing had at least four sons.

JOHN WING....1584 to 1630...(of England & Holland)
(Father of four sons brought to New England in 1632 by their widowed mother, from England to Saugus, Mass.)
(*) Serial No. 2 in published genealogy

Condensed from a biographical sketch compiled about 1914 by Col. George W. Wing (1856-1924), first president of the Wing Family of America.

John Wing, third son and sixth child of Matthew and Mary, was born at Banbury, England, and christened in the ancient Church of St. Mary's., January 12, 1584, in the 26th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

Elizabeth ruled England with an iron hand. The Puritans were in a majority in the House of Commons, but the severe reprimands they had met with from the throne deterred them from enacting any religious laws. The prelates of the Church of England were still in the haughty exercise of all religious prerogatives. So that when Matthew, or perchance Mary, carried the infant John in their arms up the stately aisles of old St. Mary's to the Saxon baptismal font, he was baptized with the parents and attendants kneeling at the sacrament, which was sealed by the sign of the cross. Every question of ceremony was regulated by Queen Elizabeth. Even the size and height of the ruff about Matthew's neck was determined by the Queen's edict.

The very year of John's birth, Elizabeth consigned the religious life of England into the keeping of forty-four commissioners, who were empowered by all means and ways they could devise, by juries, by the rack, by torture, by inquisition, by imprisonment, to reform all heresies and schism, and to punish all breaches of uniformity of worship. so we may well imagine that John was christened by his parents with strict regard to the country's laws.

Matthew and Mary were not permitted to invite their neighbors to read and discuss the scriptures. all such gatherings, without the Queen's special permission, were unlawful. And if, perchance, Matthew (who was a tailor) in his business sold a suit of clothes to a nobleman, he was obliged to wait that gentleman's knightly pleasure for payment. If he sued to recover the price, he was liable to imprisonment himself. It was only during the succeeding generations that the noble principles of liberty took root. Executions took place for robbery, theft and felonies; whippings and burnings in the hand hand were legal modes of punishment for lesser crimes. In fact, the "Merrie England" of the days of Matthew and the boyhood of John affords us no reason to be in love with the picture of the absolute monarchy or with the government of "good Queen Bess."

The boyhood of John was spent in Banbury. The square about the old Banbury cross was undoubtedly a playground, and time and again he must have passed and entered the old Reindeer Inn. The schools of the day were known as grammar schools, and undoubtedly John made good use of them, for he was able to matriculate at Oxford when but fifteen years of age. We cannot doubt that he was a regular Sunday attendant at St. Mary's. His deeply spiritual nature was a surety of that. The sermons in the English churches at that time were merely homilies prepared by the prelates and given the vicars to read, exhorting their congregations to obey the Queen and extolling her goodness.

In John's fourteenth year, all England was aflame with the approach of the great Spanish Armada. His father at that time was forty-eight years of age, and his brothers, Fulk and Thomas, twenty-four and twenty-two respectively. Unquestionably they were enrolled among the nation's defenders. The year following the excitement attending the Armada, John Wing entered Oxford University. The school was only twenty-three miles from his home. The matriculation entry is as follows:

"John Wynge of Oxon, pleb. St. Alban's Hall, 15 October, 1599, aged 14."

On 12 February, 1603, Queen's College invested him with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. During the days of John's schooling there, Oxford was particularly active in the literary movement of that day, and undoubtedly the youth became acquainted there with many of the great lights who dazzled the world with their writings in the generation following.

That we may better appreciate the scholarly attainments of young John Wing, B.A., nineteen years of age, when he left the shadows of Queen's College in 1603, a review of the times may prove interesting. Of the peers of the realm during Elizabeth's reign only about sixty knew their letters. In the rural districts, to read and write were considered rare accomplishments, and even among the gentry below the first degree there was little difference in literary accomplishments between master and the boorish attendants. As we descend a step lower we reach a class wholly illiterate. Shakespeare's father was High Bailiff of Stratford, but he could neither read nor write. Of nineteen aldermen of Stratford only six could write their names. Nor was the ignorance confined to the laymen. In1578, according to Neal, of one hundred and forty clergymen in Cornwall belonging to the established church, not one was capable of preaching, and throughout the kingdom, those who could preach were in the proportion of one to four.

The time of the induction of John into the holy order is conjectural. Oxford at the time of his graduation was, under Elizabeth's reighn, the fountain head of English church theology. His parents were members of the established church, and it was quite likely with a view of taking the orders that he pursued his studies at the University. It is most likely that the young Oxford graduate secured a position in some country village as a curate or assistant to the vicar of some parish and, while acting in that capacity, met Deborah Bachiler, daughter of the Vicar of Wherwell in Hampton.

Stephen Bachiler, the Vicar of Wherwell, had gained considerable reputation among his clerical brethren for learning and ability. A man of willful independent and forceful character, he had refused conformity with the requirements of his superiors in the church and in 1605 was deprived of his living at Wherwell. He immediately secured another following in the vicinity of Wherwell and continued to preach the gospel as a Presbyterian. It was an age of fierce religious controversy, and it was during the period immediately following Bachiler's expulsion from his living at Wherwell that the young Oxford graduate met and courted Deborah. It will not for an instant be believed by those who have studied Bachiler's dominating and forceful character that he would permit his daughter to marry a clergyman of the Church of England. Tradition says that he refused to give his youngest daughter, Theodate, in marriage to young Christopher Hussey until the latter would promise to take her to New England, where he himself proposed to settle. The influence of the courtship and the marriage of John and Deborah, and the subsequent associations with the father of the latter, may have had much to do with the breaking of the young man's relations with the mother church.

John Wing and Deborah Bachiler were married about the year 1609-10. It may be conjectured that because John's brother named a daughter Deborah, born to him in 1608, that the marriage occurred even earlier. At the time of his marriage, John was about twenty-five years of age and Deborah barely eighteen. The oldest child, Deborah was born in 1611. John, the second child, is said by some student of family history to have been born at Yarmouth. He is mentioned in his grandfather's will made in 1614, so that it is probably that his birth occurred in 1613.

In 1617, John Wing is found preaching to the famous society of Merchant Adventurers of England in Hanover, Germany, and it is known definitely that he was in charge of a congregation at the old Roman Cinque port of Sandwich in Kent at some period prior to 1620. The proof of this is contained in the dedication of his first book, "The Crown Conjugall", printed in November, 1620. He thus inscribed it:

"To The Right Worshipfull Master Matthew Peke Esquire, Mayor of the Towne and Port of Sandwich, and to the Worshipfull, the Jurates of his brethren, the Common Counsell and whole Corporation of the same JOHN WING, doth with Grace and Peace and all good form from the living God through the love of our Lord Jesus Christ, by the worke of the Holy Ghost, (our former favours, and the abundant fruits of your love Right Worshipfull and well beloved in the Lord) which I have from time to time experienced ever since it pleased the Lord to cast affliction upon mine external state, doe daily provoke and deeply challenge from me, the manifestation of a thankfull hart unto you all to whose kindness I stand a Debtor much engaged to this day."

Mr. Stevens, in his "History of Presbyterianism" thus makes mention of our ancestor:
"Mr. Wing, a pious man, and edifying preacher, was first at Sandwich, but had latterly been chaplain to the Merchants Adventurers of England residing at Hamburg. He exerted himself much for the good of his people her (Flushing) until he removed to the Hague in 1627."

On 19 June, 1620, he had been ordained as pastor of the churches of Flushing and Middleburg (in Holland) under the direction of Mr. John Paget of Amsterdam, assisted by two Dutch clergymen, and in the presence of the burgomaster and other magistrates.

There are many theories as to the exact religious beliefs of the Rev. John Wing. Robert Browne, the founder of English Congregationalism, as early as 1581, had emigrated to Middleburg, in Zealand, with his followers, and it was from here that he published his several works. His followers became distracted and divided on matters of discipline and were finally disbanded. It may have been remnants of Brown's old congregation at Middleburg that John Wing preached to in 1620. The fact that the Dutch government recognized and materially aided the Rev. John Wing in his ministrations at the Hague and in his induction into the Pastorate at Middleburg, leads to the belief that he was a Presbyterian in his belief and teachings. He was the first settled English pastor at the Hague, being admitted 11 May, 1627. The states of Holland allowed him a subsidy of 300 pounds year, which, by a decree of 1628, was augmented to 500 pounds. A subscription of 100 pounds was raised by the English, and expended in repairing and beautifying the chapel. This church, or chapel, was much frequented by the royal family, and especially by Elizabeth, daughter of King James, wife of the ex-King of Bohemia. It was here that Mr. Wing preached 18 May, 1624, his sermon "The Saint's Advantage, or the Wellfare of the Faithfull in the Worst Times" before Queen Elizabeth. The sermon was given at the Hague while Mr. Wing was still in the pastorate at Middleburg. It was printed in London, in 1624, by John Dawson for John Bellamie, and was sold at his shop the the Three Golden Lions, near the Royal Exchange.

A number of the sermons of the Rev. John Wing were published. Samuel Austin Allibone, in his "Dictionary of Authors" mentions some of the publications:

"1. The Crowne Conjugall, or the Spouse Royall, Middleburg, 1620
2. Jacob's Staffe to Beare up the Faithful and Beat Down the Profane, Flushing, 1621
3. The Best Merchandis, 1622"

To those should be added "Abel's Offering" and "The Saint's Advantage." The former was printed in 1622 and is dedicated "To the Right Worshipfull and worthy fellowship of Merchants Adventurers of England, residents of Delft, in Holland." It had been preached in Middleburg, in Zealand. The book contains 138 pages. The latter sermon preached at Hamburg in November 1617, and was printed at Flushing in October of 1621.

Five of the volumes of John Wing's publications are held by the British Museum and have been seen and examined there by several members of the Wing Family of America. At least one copy of each of the five publications is now in America. a Copy of the "Crown Conjugall" was secured by the late Col. George W. Wing, first president of the Wing Family of America, having been purchased in a London bookstore in 1903. A copy of the book "The Saint's Advantage" is part of the John Adams collection in the Boston Public Library, carefully guarded under lock and key. On the title page of this copy is the following notation placed by Mr. Thomas Prince who owned the book at one time:

"This Wing was Pastor of ye English Puritan Chh. at Middleborough in Zeeland, wh. wido bro't her children to Sandwich in New England who afterwards turned Quaker and frm whm ye Wings at Sandwich, Wareham, Rochester and Dartmouth are descended."

In September, 1908, Mr. George Wing Sisson, at that time Vice President of the Wing Family of America, received from Miss Miriam H. L. wing, of Coventry, England, a bound volume containing "Jacob's Staffe," "The Best Merchandise", and "Abel's Offering", bound within the same covers. Miss Wing was the daughter of an English Clergyman and stated that the volume had been purchased by her father from a London bookseller merely because the author bore his surname.

The religious views and teachings of the Rev. John Wing are not conjectural to his descendants. Over 800 pages of his writings or preachings are accessible to those of his posterity living today. They reveal to us a man of strong spirituality, classic learning, masterful character, ready wit, fierce invective, a facile pen and a ready tongue. He lived in an age of cant and long-winded sermons, and at times his preachings take on the color of the age, but through them all gleams the effort to be of sincere use to his fellowmen.

Fully fifteen years of the lives of John Wing and his wife Deborah were spent in Germany and Holland as practical exiles from their native England. Hamburg and The Hague were cities of note and cosmopolitan beyond their contemporaries in Europe. Their associates, and the members of their congregations, were people of note and keen enterprise. The salary of 500 pounds a year while at The Hague afforded him the means of living in affluence. Reckoned for its purchasing power at that time, it would equal the modern salary of $10,000 given to favored ministers of the gospel, and speaks for itself of the value placed upon his services.

What changes of fortune brought him and his family to London before his death we are unable to determine. Perhaps it was a fatal illness: possibly the growing power of the Puritan movement: perhaps he too had caught the fever to emigrate to America. He sickened and died in London in 1630, probably during the summer, in his forty-sixth year, and his wife, Deborah, at thirty-eight was left a widow with five children.

No picture comes down to us through the ages of the Rev. John Wing. The Puritan and Presbyterian clergy of that period affected a small chin beard with mustaches, hair rather long and flowing, high hats with rather broad trims, black clothes and cloak, with knee breeches and silver- buckled shoes. The office of the clergy carried with it a great dignity and sternness of bearing. The Rev. John at all times felt the responsibilities of his mission.

The English records contain this synopsis of his will:

"John Winge, late of the Hague in Holland, clerk, now living in St. Mary Aldermary, London, 2 November, 1629, proved Aug. 4, 1630. Certain lands (freehold) in Crickston and Stroud, Kent, shall be sold as conveniently may be and the money thereof arising shall be with all other goods, etc, divided into equal parts, the one to be had, received and enjoyed unto by my loving wife, Debora, and the other part or moiety to be equally and indifferently had, parted, divided and enjoyed unto amongst all my children, share and share alike, except unto and by my daughter Debora whom I have already advanced in marriage. Wife Debora to be executrix and Edward Foord of London, merchant, and Andrew Blake of Stroud, in Kent, yeomen, overseers."

It is not unusual circumstance for the Rev. John Wing to be styled a "clerk" in his will. His father-in-law, also a minister, was so designated in at least three conveyances made by him about the same time. The term evidently had a broader meaning than is now ascribed to it, and was used to designate a scholarly gentleman.

A brief review of the family and surroundings of the widow Deborah Wing and her children at this period may bring the situation nearer home to us. Deborah herself was still a young woman of thirty-eight. Her only daughter, Deborah, aged about nineteen, had but recently married. Her eldest son, John, was but seventeen, her son Daniel a year or two younger than John, Stephen but nine and Matthew still younger. Her younger sister, Ann Sanborn, also widowed with a family , was living on the strand in London and her brothers, Samuel and Nathaniel, probably living in Holland. The freehold estate mentioned by Rev. John Wing in his will was located at Crickston and Stroud in Kent, a few miles distant from Sandwich. There is a tradition among the New England members of the family that Matthew Wing, Deborah's youngest son, "went back to England to look after some property left behind." We have positive knowledge that Matthew Wing returned to Stroud, married, lived and died there. The size, importance and value of the estate left by John to his wife and sons is not known; but it appears probable that they were provided with some means when they set out for America in the spring of 1632.

Will of Rev. John Wing



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In the name of God Amen, the second daie of November one thousand sixe hundred twenty nine And in the fifth yeare of the reigne of our Soveraigne Lord Kinge Charles etc. I John Winge late of the Hague in Holland, clarke, now living in the pish (parish) of St. Mary Aldermary London and being sicke in bodie but of good and perfect minde and memory praised bee Almightie God, Doe make and ordaine this my last will and testament in manner and forme following First and principallie I commend my soule into the hands of Almightie God my maker trusting and assuredly believing to have full and free remission of all my sinnes by and through the only marritte and righteousness of Jesus Christ my alone Savior and my bodie I committ to the earth of which it came to bee decently buried where it shall please the Lord to direct. And as touching my wordly estate and substance whereof I am now possessed, I give and bequeath the same as followeth. First whereas I am now possessed and interested of an in certayne lands being freehold with appurtenances lying and beinge in the parish of Crickston and Stroud in the county of Kent or elsewhere, I will and desire and my minde and meaning is that the same be sold as soon as conveniently maye bee by my Executrix herein after named to the best profitt and advantage, and that the money thereof arisinge shall bee (with all and singular of, my other goods chattels and estate etc. whatsoever) divided into two equal pts and porcons (parts and portions), the one moietty whereof to be had received and enioyed unto and by my loving wife Deborah and the other pte or moytie to bee equallie and indifferently had, parted, divided and enioyed unto and amongst all my children share and share like, except unto and by my daughter Deborah whom I have allready advanced in marriage. And therefore I will that what I have allready given as her marriage porcon shall be accepted as pte of her dividend and proporcon of my estate given amongst my children by this will. And my will and meaning is, and I doe hereby appoint that ye said legacies and porcons shall be paid unto my sonnes at their severall ages of one and twentie years and unto my daughters unmarried at their like several ages of one and twentie years or severall daites of marriage wen of them shall first happen. And if any of my child or children happen to die or depart this life before the said legacies shall become due to be paid unto them or any of them in and by this my will then I will that the survivor or survivors of him, her, or them that shall soe happen to die in the mean tyme, shall have, receive and enjoye the legacie and bequest of him, her, or them soe dying as in aforesaid equallie to and amongst all the said survivor or survivors. And I hereby will that my said wife shall have and enjoye the benefitt and profitt of my childrens porcon herein by my will bequeathed towards their educacon and maintenance until their said porcon shall become due and payable to them severallie and respectively according to this my present will. Item, I will that all such debts as I owe in right or in conscience, together with my funeral charges shall be first paid, deducted, and allowed out of all my estate. An . d I doe hereby name, nominate and appoint my loving wife Deborah my Executrix of this my last will & testament and my loving friends Edward Foorde of London mercht and Andrew Blake of Stroud in the Countie of  ~1592 - 31 JAN 1691/92 Deborah Batcheldor "A great and noble woman, widow of the Reverand John Wing of England and Holland, built a house and reared her sons, John, Daniel, Stephen and Mathew from whom the family in America descended. She came in the ship William and Francis with her father, the Reverand Stephen Bachiler, landing in Boston, Jan 5, 1632. Her posterity believe she named the town in honor of Sandwich, England, where her husband had received signal favors, and to which he dedicated one of his books. This tablet was erected by the Wing Family of America, Incorporated, A.D. 1903."

None of the original settlers in Sandwich came from Sanwich, Kent, England, though at least one appears to have spent a few years there. The name seems, instead to be taken from strong geographic parallels, namely:

"A shallow harbor with wide marshes.
A bay running southwest/northeast called Kent Buzzers Reach or Buzzers Belly, here Buzzards Bay.
A record of Dutch trade connections; in Kent from weavers and refugees, here from the Aptucxet Trading Post visited by New Amsterdam Secretary Isaac de Rasieres in 1727."


From the Preface to VITAL RECORDS OF SANDWICH MASSACHUSETTS TO 1885: (PG. XV) "Sandwich was the first town in Plymouth Colony, settled in 1637. Like Taunton, also settled in 1637, its first families came from Massachusetts Bay colony, then overflowing with new arrivals who were establishing new settlements in Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Long Island and Plymouth colony."

(pg. xvi-xvii): "The ship Abigail, Richard Hackwell Master, arrived at Boston in October 1635 with passengers Edmund Freeman 34, wife Elizabeth 35, children Alice 17, Edmund 15, Elizabeth 12, and John 8; plus the William Almy family and single men Benjamin Nye, Thomas Tupper, Thomas Landers and Thomas Greenfield. All these persons are found in the subsequent settlement at Sandwich...Sandwich settlers mentioned in Massachusetts Bay Colony Records include, Edward Dillingham, Thomas Dexter, Richard Chadwell, John Carman, William Wood, Henry Feake, and Rev. William Leveridge...

"On April 3, 1637 the Plymouth Colony court allowed:

" 'It is also agreed by the court that those tenn men of Saugust, vis Edmond Freeman, Henry Freake, Thomas Dexter, Edward Dillingham, William Wood, John Carman, Richard Chadwell, William Almey, Thomas Tupper & George Knott shall have liberty to view a place to sitt down & have sufficient lands for three score famylies, upon the conditions propounded to them by the Governor and Mr. Winslowe.'

"The removal of the main body of settlers from Saugus to Sandwich doubtless occurred during 1637. The first appearance of the word 'Sandwich' in Plymouth Colony Records occurs January 2, 1637/8 when a suit brought by Michael Turner of Sandwich against John Davis of Weymouth was heard in Plymouth, alleging failure of Davis to deliver goods by ship to Sandwich; the intended shipment obviously had been planned for 1637. Winthrop's History of New England states in a 1637 section:

         " ' Another plantation was begun (and called Sandwich) about fifteen miles beyound Plimouth, towards Cape Cod, by many families, which removed from Sagus otherwise Lynn.' "Massacusetts Bay Records for November 20, 1637 read 'Saugust is called Lin.' "


Of her sons, John moved further east on the Cape, Matthew returned to England, Daniel established himself where the Heritage Plantation is now and Stephen remained in Sandwich. His mother probably lived with him there. Her daughter, also named Deborah, having recently married, remained in England. Matthew returned to England later, where he lived the remainder of his life." 1611 - 1680 Deborah Wing 69 69 1613 - 1699 John Wing 86 86 [.]

. John4 Wing (REV. JOHN3, MATTHEW2, GODFRIEDUS1 WYNGE) was born Abt. 1613 in probably Holland, and died Abt. 1699 in Massachusetts. He married Elizabeth Dillingham.

Notes for John Wing:
The following information was taken from the book "SCHWARZRAUBER, STEWART AND RELATED FAMILIES." by Sayre Archie Schwartrauber. The references given in that book for information are;
Austin, John D. MAYFLOWER FAMILIES THROUGH FIVE GENERATIONS, Vol. VI. Stephen Hopkins. Plymouth, Mass.: General Society of MAYFLOWER Descendants, 1992. Lovell, R.A., Jr. SANDWICH, A CAPE COD TOWN.
N.E.H.G.R Vol. XVIII, pp. 266-7. Numerous references.
O.W.L Magazine. Journal of the Wing Family of America, Inc., Sandwich, Mass.
Pope, Charles Henry. PIONEERS OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Torrey, Clarence Almon. NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES PRIOR TO 1700.
Wing, Rev. Conway P. DD. A HISTORY AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER OF JOHN WING OF SANDWICH. MA 1662-1881.

John Wing Jr., was married to Elizabeth Dillingham and Miriam Dean. Miriam survived him. Her will was probated Jan. 8, 1702/3.

John Wing Jr. lived near or in the same house as his mother, Deborah, in Sandwich, Mass. In 1657, in a bold move with John Dillingham (perhaps his brother-in-law), he resettled in Brewster, then wilderness. Both founded large families and became Quaker supporters. John Wing had at least 5 children.

      Child of John Wing and Elizabeth Dillingham is:
+    19   i.        Ananias5 Wing, born 1652 in Sandwich, Massachusetts; died August 30, 1718 in Sandwich, Massachusetts.
 1627 - 1680 Matthew Wing 53 53 1631 - 1631 Fulk Wing 1613 - 1624 Thomas Wing 11 11 22 JAN 1577/78 - 22 FEB 1577/78 Sibill Wing 20 MAR 1578/79 - 1579 Elizabeth Wing 1 FEB 1586/87 James Wing 1659 Nathaniel Wing ~1661 Deborah Wing ~1663 Ephrian Wing ~1665 Mercy Wing 1661 - 1728 John Wing 66 66 1664 - >1700 Abigail Wing 36 36 1671 - 24 FEB 1737/38 Ebenezer Wing 1 JAN 1673/74 - 1722 Matthew Wing MATTHEW5 WING (STEPHEN4, REV. JOHN3, MATTHEW2, GODFRIEDUS1 WYNGE) was born January 01, 1673/74 in Sandwich, Mass.. He married ELIZABETH ( RICKETSON) MOTT April 09, 1696 in Dartmouth, Mass., daughter of ADAM MOTT and MARY LOTT.

Notes for MATTHEW WING:
Co- executor of fathers will.

Matthew Wing...1674 to 1724.
(son of Stephen Wing, one of founders of Sandwich, Mass., in 1637)

Matthew Wing, youngest son and child of Stephen Wing and Sarah (Briggs) Wing, was born at Sandwich"1st month 1, 1674." He received the name of his paternal great-grandfather. His mother died when Matthew was but fifteen years of age. In December, 1700, his father conveyed his homestead and other lands in Sandwich to Matthew and his older brother, Ebenezer; but previous to that date Matthew appears to have settled in the extreme western part of Dartmouth, where he married," 9th month 4, 1696," the widow Ricketson. At the time of his marriage Matthew was but twenty-two years of age. His wife was much older and had six children, the oldest of whom was fifteen years old and the youngest a son six years old.

Just how Matthew found his way from Sandwich to Dartmouth is not difficult to surmise. His brother, Elisha, lived at Wareham, about half way, and his sister had married Robert Gifford and lived in Dartmouth. After the death of his mother, young Matthew may have made his home with his sister, Sarah, and thus have been acquainted in the Ricketson neighborhood.

At the Sandwich reunion in 1905, Mr. William Arthur Wing of New Bedford, a descendant of Matthew and Elizabeth (Mott-Ricketson) Wing, read a paper entitled "Some Wings of Darmouth and Their Homes," in which was the following:

"In ye town of Dartmouth on ye 25th day of ye sd month (called April), 1704, a meeting was appointed on purpose at ye house of Matthew Wing'. So reads the worn marriage certificate signed by Matthew Wing and others - - for the 'purpose' was the marriage of his step-daughter, Rebecca Ricketson, to John Russell - 'there being nothing to hinder and their intentions being duly published.'

"The house of Matthew Wing, built about ten years after King Phillip's war - when, as Increase Mather wrote, 'Dartmouth did they burn with fire and barbarously murder both men and women' - stands on the east side of Acoxet or Westport River. Facing south on the upland, it commands a fine sweep of it commands a fine sweep of river, bay, and good old New England country. The sunset softens the time-worn shingles and the crumbling stone of the massive chimney, with its crude pilasters. Within, in spite of its pathetic desolation, the brave old beams and fine wood work bespeak an early New England craftsman at his best. The wedding room with its attractive corner buffet and great fireplace, in the simplicity of its appointments, was in accord with the assembled Friends, and if the sun streamed through the many-paned windows on that spring day - 200 years ago- it must have been a rare, quaint picture.

Up winding stairs, in the great chamber above, was a chimney piece (now in the rooms of the Old Dartmouth Historical society at New Bedford) called by experts the finest of its time extant in Massachusetts. Clamboring up to the loft to watch the last rays of the setting sun upon the hills, the river and the far-off islands, you feel your ancestor, William Ricketson, builded well. Elizabeth (Mott) Ricketson, his widow, came from Portsmouth, R.I., where her parents were well known Friends. Her grandparents, first comers of the Motts, had been members in Roxbury of the church of Rev. John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians. In 1694, Mrs. Elizabeth Ricketson was one of the two women named in the confirmatory deed to the proprietors of Dartmouth.

Matthew Wing received his first mention in the Dartmouth town meeting records in 1710, when chosen one of the two grand jurymen for the superior court of Bristol, then Dartmouth's county seat. It is interesting to find that he held several quaint offices, such as 'receiver of blackbirds' (those who killed them to have a penny a piece) and also 'fence viewer." Probably when the oldest Ricketson son married, a few years after his sister Rebecca, Matthew Wing bought the house and 100 acres at Shinuet, just north of the Ricketson homestead.

"This house was a great two-storied double one, of the lean-to type, rare in Dartmouth, and faced south - as well-behaved colonial houses should. Family tradition says that it was begun by one Landers of Sandwich, and left unfinished. When Matthew bought it the floor timbers had sprouted and small trees were growing up toward the second story. in the stone wall, near the front of the house, is a large flat stone serving as a stile. In it is a deeply-cut 'B.W - 1771', none other than Benjamin Wing, who with Joseph, were Matthew's only two sons. It is the home which Benjamin Crane, the old Dartmouth surveyor, means when in his quaint journal about 1720, he writes: 'steyed one night at Matthew Wing's.'

Like most in old Dartmouth, with its many Friends, Matthew Wing seems to have lived a life that 'glided on like rivers that water the woodland.' The Indian troubles were now fireside tales. The greatest excitements were those of town meetings, when the Friends and their affiliates made determined and repeated opposition to war, slavery and 'hireling Ministers."

A slight glimpse within this old house may be seen by selections from its master's inventory in 1724: "My bible, 19 chairs, a round table and another table, one grate table and 17 napkins, 12 pewter plates, 10 platters, 4 porringers, one tankard, 13 silver spoons, knives and forks, a case of drawers, 5 feather beds with furniture well completed, 7 pairs of good linen chests, a cradle and a spinning wheel."

The old house was torn down some years ago. Just in the rear is the old family burying ground where, as from the house, are beautiful views. Here, when the nearby orchard is in full bloom, the wind from the river below sometimes scatters the petals over the graves of Elizabeth and Matthew Wing.

Captain Franklin Howland, historian of the Howland Family, wrote this in the "OWL" in December 1906, concerning the building of the old Apponegansett Meeting House, erected in 1689-9 and still standing:

" It was just previous to these interesting events that the above Matthew Wing became a resident of Dartmouth and a member of the meeting. Of the romance that brought this about probably no man living knows. It is safe to presume, however, that young Matthew and the caring, winsome Elizabeth, grand-daughter of Adam Mott, formerly of Portsmouth, R.I., then of Dartmouth, met at one of the large meetings at Apponeganseet or at a Monthly Meeting at Spring Hill. It was no unusual occurrence for members of these meetings to exchange visits on the occasions. The distance is about 28 miles as the crow flies; the way was over winding Indian trails which increased the distance considerably, and the mode of conveyance was wholly on horse-back. But these men and women of granite nerve and muscle considered such as this no impediment to love and duty. However, in due time Matthew and Elizabeth plighted their troth and were married after the simple quaker manner; established a family home at Dartmouth and a church home with the flourishing Apponegansett Meeting. The marriage was in 1696. These and other interesting facts indicate that Matthew was a man of New England grit, gumption and good common sense; and that he personally aided building the meeting house and in establishing the Monthly Meeting with the encouragement of good-wife Wing there is no doubt. Matthew and Elizabeth Wing were prominent and useful members of the Meeting which was the religious home of nearly all their hundred of descendants of the century succeeding the marriage, many of their names appearing on the meeting records of births, marriages and deaths."

Matthew Wing appears to have been quite prominent in the affairs at Dartmouth. His marriage, and also the births of his three children, appear in the town records. He seems to have taken an active interest in town affairs. At a town meeting held at Dartmouth at the house of Philip Sherman "August the 22 day 1700, John Jene and Matthew Wing were chosen Grand juremem for the Superior Court at Bristol and Robert Remens, Joseph Earl and Jonathan Talman were chosen jureman for trialls." And here is a quaint record in the proceedings of a town meeting held in Darmouth the 24th day of January, 1704-5;

"It is also ordered at sd meeting that every householder being a planter shall kill 12 blackbirds between the first day of January and the middle of May yearly on pain of forfeiting three half-pence for every bird they shall neglect killing of sd number sd forfeture to be added to each defective person's town rate yearly to be paid into the town stock and farther it is ordered that every blackbird that shall be killed within the town within the time limited more the number of 12 to each planter as above shall be paid 1 penny out of the town stock or be abated out of the rate in the next town rate it is also ordered that each crow that shall be killed within sd time yearly shall be reckoned for three blackbirds it is also ordered that Joseph Tripp, Matthew Wing, Nathan Howland, John Russel, Jsn Spooner be the persons to take account yearly to the selectmen so that the penalty may be laid on such as are negligent and money may be raised to pay them that present more than their number."

At a town meeting held March 20, 1704-5, Matthew Wing, Nathaniel Howland and Thomas Tabor Jr., were chosen constables. On January 28, 1709, Matthew was chosen a surveyor of highways and held the office for three successive terms. He was a "fence viewer" in 1721 and 1722.

Among the brass memorial tablets in the rooms of the old Dartmouth Historical Society at New Bedford, is one to the memory of Matthew Wing.

From William Arthur Wing's Some Wings of Old Dartmouth, Matthew Wing's home in Dartmouth, called "the old fort house," was built in 1645, is or was owned by Alvin Wing, and at the time of his writing was one of the oldest homes in New England still in possession of  descendants. "This house was a great two-storied double one, of the lean-to type, and faced south - as well-behaved colonial houses should. Family tradition says that it was begun by one Landers of Sandwich, and left unfinished so when Matthew Wing bought it, the floor timbers had sprouted and small trees were growing up toward the second story. In the stone wall, near the front of the house, is a large flat stone serving as a stile. In it is a deeply cut B. W. - 1711, none other than Benjamin Wing, who with Joseph, were his only sons. It is this house which Benjamin Crane, the old Dartmouth surveyor, means when, in 1720, he writes, "stayed one night at Matthew Wing's."

"Like most in old Dartmouth, with its many Friends, Matthew seems to have lived the simple life.

The Indian troubles were now fireside tales. The greatest excitements were those of the town-meetings, when the Friends and their affiliates made determined and repeated opposition against War, Slavery and 'hireling ministers.'"

From The Owl December 1906, Captain Frankline Howland's discussion: "...young Matthew and the charming, winsome Elizabeth, granddaughter of Adam Mot, formerly of Portsmouth, R.I., then of Dartsmouth, met at Apponegansett, or at a Monthly meeting at Spring Hill. It was no unusual occurrence for members of these meetings to exchange visits on these occasions. The distance is about 28 miles as the crow flies; the way was over the winding Indian trails which increased the distance considerably, and the mode of conveyance was wholly on horseback. But these men and women of granite nerve and muscle considered such as this no impediment to love and duty. However, in due time Matthew and Elizabeth plighted their troth and were married after the simple Quaker manner; established a family home at Dartmouth and a church home with the flourishing Apponegansett Meeting. The marriage was in 1696. These and other interesting facts indicate that Matthew was a man of New England grit, gumption and good common sense; and that he personally aided building the meeting house and in establishing the Monthly meeting with the encouragement of good-wife Wing there is no doubt. Matthew and Elizabeth Wing were prominent and useful members of this meeting which was the religious home of nearly all their hundreds of descendants of the century succeeding the marriage, many of their names appearing on the meeting records of births, marriages and deaths."
 ~1675 Sarah Wing Richard Kirby 1813 - 1896 Matthias Wing 82 82 Elizabeth M. Chenoweth Grace Parsons Mary Josephine Allen Mary Sherman William Ricketson Sarah Sherman Margaret 1805 - <1850 Phebe Wing 45 45 1807 - 1881 Elizabeth Wing 73 73 1810 - 1896 Stephen Wing 86 86 1816 Giles Joseph Wing 1821 - 1921 Amy Wing 99 99 1829 Charles Wing 1833 - 1911 Benjamin Franklin Wing 77 77 [.]

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A HISTORY OF THE BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN BUSINESS DISTRICT    1839 - 1977: (pg. 49)

1858        B. F. Wing & J. W. Smith build 3-story building on #34, 35, 36 & 37
                ( Knapp & Williamson Plat Block 10 Lot 6 E1/2   Historical Society Map Block 4 Lot 34)


1860        Wing Block burned March 18, 1860 Jeremiah Clarke John VAUGHAN (VAHAN) 20 FEB 1687/88 William Ricketson Rebecca P. Davis Frances Mccurdy Signa Anderson Elizabeth Marshall 1754 - 1858 Giles Wing 104 104  GILES8 WING (MATTHEW7, JOSEPH6, MATTHEW5, STEPHEN4, REV. JOHN3, MATTHEW2, GODFRIEDUS1 WYNGE) was born Abt. 1750 in South Darmouth, Mass., and died in St. Lawerence Co., N.Y. He married MARY JANE CORNELL, daughter of DANIEL CORNELL and ELIZABETH ALLEN.

Notes for GILES WING:
Giles Wing...dates of birth and death not available)
(Descendant in 5th generation from Stephen Wing, one of the founders of Sandwich, in 1637.)

Giles Wing, son of Matthew and Elizabeth (Sisson) Wing, was born in S. Dartmouth, Mass., and went with his father about the year 1775 to Danby, Rutland Co., Vermont, although it is probable that Giles was married at this time and may have lived in Batemantown, Duchess Co., N.Y., a few years before the migration of the family to Danby. Giles married Mary Cornell, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Cornell. (Some of his descendants have the name as CORNWELL). By this first marriage he had John, Samuel, Joseph, Giles, Matthew, Catherine and Elizabeth. By a second wife, Beaulah Button, Giles had Abigail, Hyrum, Orange, Margaret and Delorum. It is also said that he had a third wife, Phoebe Dunham.

Giles Wing was a selectman of Danby for two years, 1785-5. One of his grandsons made the following report:

"My grandfather seems to have been a very strong man and was seldom "outlifted" at logging bees. He lived to be 103 years of age, and, at that advanced age, took great delight in breaking the hand-spikes left over after a logging bee, as it seems was the custom in these times."

In the "History of Danby" it is said the Giles Wing married four times, that he settled first as Mt. Tabor and then at Danby, and lived there several years; that he died in St. Lawrence Co., N.Y. (Did he inherit the property deeded to his grandfather from Samuel Cornell's estate?)

The statements in this report come from several different sources, giving some apparent discrepancies. Dr. Joseph Smith Wing wrote to the Wing Society that his grandfather was married but twice, so far as he ever heard, and that his second wife was referred to as "Granny Buly", evidently a contraction for Beaulah.
1668 Experience Wing Beulah Button 1721 - 1810 Matthew Wing 89 89 [.]

MATTHEW7 WING (JOSEPH6, MATTHEW5, STEPHEN4, REV. JOHN3, MATTHEW2, GODFRIEDUS1 WYNGE) was born September 26, 1721 in Dartmouth, Mass., and died 1810 in Dartmouth, Mass.. He married ELIZABETH SISSON July 24, 1740 in Danby, Rutland Co., Vermont, daughter of JOHN SISSON and REBECCA LAWTON.

Notes for MATTHEW WING:
Matthew Wing...1721 to 1810
(Descendant if 4th generation from Stephen Wing, one of the founders of Sandwich, Mass., in 1637.)

Matthew Wing, son of Joseph and Catherine (Cornell) Wing, was born in Dartmouth 9th month, 26, 1721. He is mentioned in the Dartmouth town records as "Nathan say Matthew" and the word "blind" is added. The town records also report that he was married to Elizabeth Sisson of Tiverton July 24, 1740. It seems that Matthew removed with his family to Batemantown, Duchess Co., N.Y., where he was living in 1773, and that he again moved in 1775, going to Danbury, Vermont. The history of Danbury says that "Joseph's Matthew came from Dartmouth in 1775 and that he died in 1810 at the age of 90 years and that he had Giles, Matthew, Ruth, Elizabeth and Mary. According to this history, he and his son Giles settled on a farm owned in 1869 by A. A. Mathewson in Danby. Matthew is mentioned in his father's will, made in 1778, and also in the U.S. Census of 1790, when he was reported in Danby with a family of one male over 16, two males under 16, and one female.
Constant Mosher 1654 Sarah Crandall >1730 - ~1809 Catherine ? Cornell 79 79 Among the many Cornell deeds in the old records of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, in 1739, there is a deed from Samuel Cornell, Paul Cornell, George Thomas and his wife Grizel Cornell, Elizabeth cornell, Deborah Cornell and Zilpah Cornell, all in Crumwell's Precinct, in the County of Duchess, New York, to Joseph Wing, the homestead which belonged to their late father, Samuel Cornell. (John Cornell's Cornell Genealogy). While Rev. Cornell does not list a possible Catherine among Samuel's children, the supposition is that she must be one. Further, the name Catherine is quite uncommon though is does appear elsewhere in the Cornell line.
 ~1779 Samuel Wing ~1784 Giles Wing ~1786 Matthew Wing ~1788 Catherine Wing ~1765 Ruth Wing 1767 Elizabeth Wing 1769 Mary Wing 1 FEB 1697/98 - 1752 Benjamin Wing 20 FEB 1701/02 - 1792 Abigail Wing 20 MAR 1717/18 Ruth Wing 23 MAR 1718/19 Edward Wing 1731 John Wing 1734 Daniel Wing 1607 - 1693 George Lawton 86 86 Peleg Gifford Robert Gifford ~1596 - 1649 Theodate BACHELOR (BACHILER) 53 53 1696 - 1767 Stephen Cornell 71 71 1689 - <1767 Ruth Pierce 78 78 1602 Richard Maxson Oct. 2 1634.     Admitted to the church, along with wife, Rebecca. (See Descendants of Richard Maxson:) Ann Hutchinson and her party came to Boston on the ship "Griffin" in 1634 and there is a possibility that Richard and Rebecca were aboard the same ship.

Feb. 7, 1639.  "Richard Maxson, upon complaints made against him, was accordingly detected for his oppression in the way of his trade, who being convinced thereof, promised amendments and satisfaction." Note: According to Fischer in Albion's Seed, it was not unusual to be so charged even if all you did was try to recoup your losses after the sinking of your ship, the Puritan thinking being that it was God's will.

April 30,1639.  With 28 others signs compact founding Poasset (Portsmouth): " We whose names are underwritten, do acknowledge ourselves the legal subjects of his majesty King Charles, and in his name do hereby bind ourselves into a civil body politicke, unto his laws according to matters of justice." Of the 29 signers, only 13, including Richard, signed their own names.

May 16, 1639. Newport, Rhode Island laid out. Richard was invited to join then and his name appears in the list of Freeman of the town.

03-06-1640.    36 Acres Recorded. His land was located on the northwestern shore of the island, within the limits of what is now Lehigh Hill Park. Rebecca later deeded away the land. In 1644 Rebecca was paid by William Roulston for the property Richard sold him in 1642.

According to family tradition, he and his son Richard were killed by Indians at Throggs Neck, afterwards Maxson's Point. According to Web Site (http://webuser.anet-stl.com) Richard and Rebecca had followed Anne Hutchinson, whose husband had died, from Rhode Island  to what is now Pelham Bay, on Long Island in 1642, where all went well until the Pequot Wars. From "Descendants of Richard Maxson": "Around December, 1639 the Indians stopped trading with Richard Maxson but said that if he would tie up his dogs they would trade again. Richard did tie up his dogs, and the Indians raided the place. Richard escaped but returned the next day with a group of other men to get food and supplies for those who were marooned in a boat, and all were massacred by the Indians. Thus, our Richard and his son met a heroic death seeking food for his family and friends. His wife, Rebecca, together with those who remained in the boat, escaped. After many hardships and harrowing experiences they reached Newport, Rhode Island, where they found sanctuary and where John Maxson was born, the first white child born in the State of Rhode Island."  (Anne Hutchinson and all but one of her family were massacred during this uprising). See also Thomas Cornell during this same period of time. Thomas Mosher 1639 - 1720 John Maxson 81 81 [.]

1639-1644.           Birth. According to Descendants of Richard Maxson, John was the first white child born in Rhode Island and was born                              AFTER his father and brother were killed by Indians at Throggs Neck. According to Web Site (http://webusers.anet-stl.com),                              he was born BEFORE the massacre and was with his mother safe aboard one of the boats where they had taken refuge.
                             John Austin's Dictionary of Rhode Island Genealogy gives a birth date of 1639.

March 22, 1661.    Signed certain articles in regard to Misquamicut (Westerly) lands.

Oct. 20, 1668.        Freman in Westerly.

May 18, 1669.       List of inhabitants, Westerly.

1670-80-90-1705.  Deputy.

Oct. 24, 1677.        Excused from jury duty because his mother and his mother-in-law were both sick.

1687.                     Overseer of the Poor. Chosen this year, with another, to present  petition to Sir                  Edmond Andros for a town charter.

1687-89.                Grand Jury.

Sept. 16, 1690.      He and two other appointed by the Assembly to proportion a rate for Westerly.

March 28, 1692.     Grant of 50 Acres near Captain Joseph Davol's.

March 11, 1694.     Sold above to Edward Larkin.

March 4, 1694.       One of the proprietors in common lands at Newport.

June 25, 1707.       Deeds to son Jonathan 22 acres.

Sept. 20, 1708.       Elder of Seventh Day Baptist Church. "Our beloved brother John Maxson, Sr., was                     ordained to the office of an elder to the congregation in and about Westerly."

Jan. 22, 1716.        Will, proved February 16, 1721. Inventory: mare, colt, bonds, wearing apparel, bible,                  books, including "Doolittle on Sacrament," feather beds, warming pan, pewter, etc.

                               Buried in the Clarke burying ground near the Paytucket River where, on a slate stone                 is inscribed, "Here lieth the body of John Maxson, died Dec. 17, 1720 in the 82nd                 year of his life." 1670 - 1754 Joseph Mosher 84 84 1673 - >1743 Lydia Taber 70 70 1671 Jonathan Tripp 6 FEB 1636/37 - >1707 Rebecca Maxson Step daughter of John Harndell. (Chamberlain & Clarenbach, Descendants of Hugh Mosher and Rebecca Maxson). Possibly followed death of father and brother Richards at Throgg's Neck by Indians. James Mosher Elizabeth Mosher 1604 - 1777 Rebecca 173 173 1666 - 1747 Nicholas Mosher 81 81 [.]

The only records in John Austin's Rhode Island Genealogy is March 11, 1747 Will. Made at Dartmouth, proved in Tiverton. Inventory: 372L, 4s., 4d., viz.: books, pewter, beds, 2 cows, swine, bonds, warming pan, stillyards. 1668 - 1739 John Mosher 71 71 1691 - 1748 Mary Mosher 57 57 1673 - AFT. 23 JAN 1716/17 Hannah Mosher Ann Wortman 1678 - BET. JUL - AUG 1751 Daniel Mosher ~1680 - >1746 Rebecca Mosher 66 66 ~1625 - 1638 Richard Maxson 13 13 Edward Thurston 1694 - 1694 Elizabeth Mott 1820 - <1824 Susannah Cornell 4 4 1680 Giles Slocum 1607 - 1640 Nicholas Mosher 33 33 Sam Behling (samcasey@@aol.com) shows this person as Nicholas Mosher. Others refer to him as Ezekial. ~1647 Elizabeth Willet 1561 Ann Bate 1594 - 1680 Stephen Bachiler 86 86 D. >1625 Samuel BACHILER (BACHELOR) (BATCHELDER) 1603 Frances Bachiler 1605 John Bachiler 1607 William Bachiler Henry Bachiler Hester Mercer Helena Masom Mary Magdalene Beedle 2 FEB 1657/58 - 1720 Sarah Wing Patience Mosher Mary Russell Content Tucker 25 JAN 1645/46 - 1 JAN 1709/10 Giles Slocum 11 FEB 1707/08 Content Brownell William Sanford 1674 - 1752 Hope Sisson 77 77 1649 - 1719 Rebecca Mott 70 70 1644 - 1703 Ann Lawton 59 59 1637 - 16 MAR 1719/20 Elizabeth Lawton 28 JAN 1700/01 - 1761 Richard Cornell 1641 - 2 FEB 1717/18 Mary Mosher <1623 - 1703 Sarah 1 Cornell 80 80 1691 - 1766 Lydia Cole 74 74 ~1650 Mehitable Fish 1688 - 1784 John Sisson 96 96 1690 Jane Peabody BEF. 29 FEB 1635/36 John Hussey 1748 Ferris Cornell BET. 1548 - 1549 - 1614 Matthew WING (WYNGE) 1552 - 1631 Mary 79 79 1574 - 1631 Fulke Wing 57 57 1576 - 1624 Thomas Wing 48 48 1581 - 1630 Elizabeth Wing 49 49 27 FEB 1585/86 Matthias Wing 19 JAN 1588/89 - 1604 Sarah Wing 1592 - 1602 Joan Wing 10 10 1 JAN 1663/64 - 10 MAR 1697/98 Hannah Swift 1581 - 1641 George Lawton 60 60 1585 Isbell Smith 1550 Thomas Lawton 1603 - 11 MAR 1693/94 Samuel Corning 1603 - 1688 Elizabeth 85 85 ~1565 - 1631 Richard Cornell 66 66 1567 Mary 1591 Daniel Cornell 24 MAR 1593/94 - 8 FEB 1655/56 Thomas Cornell From Rev. John Cornell's Genealogy of the Cornell Family (Newberry Library, call no. E  7  C809):


"Thomas Cornell came to America about 1638, with his wife and most, if not all. of his children. He is first found in Boston, where by a vote of the Town Meetings, Aug. 20, 1638, he is permitted to buy 'William Baulstone's house, yard, and garden, backside of Mr. Coddington, and to become an inhabitant This property was situated in Washington Street, between Summer and Milk Streets. He sold it in 1643 to Edward Tyng, who had a warehouse and brew house, and constructed a dial there. Sept.. 6, 1638, 'Thomas Cornhill was licensed upon tryal to keepe an inn in the room of Will Baulstone till the next General Court June 4, 1639, he 'was fined  30 Pounds for several offences selling wine without license and beare at 2d. a quart Two days later he was abated 10 Pounds of his fine, and allowed a month 'to sell off his ware which is upon his hand, and then to cease from keeping intertainment, and the town to furnish another.

"The Antinomians were great disturbers of the religious peace of the people of Boston, and in 1637 Ann Hutchinson and her adherents were expelled from the Colony. Among them we do not find the name of Thomas Cornell, whose vocation as an innkeeper perhaps saved him from doctrinal errors, but among the obnoxious ones were his neighbors, Baulstone and Coddington, and his brother-in-law John Briggs. By the advice of Roger Williams, then settled at Providence, the exiles purchased, March 28, 1638, from the Indians Canonicus and Miantonomi, the island on which Newport now stands, and on the north end of that island they began a settlement to which they gave the name of Portsmouth. Thomas Cornell arrived two years later and was admitted freeman of Portsmouth, Aug. 6, 1640. Feb. 4, 1641, 'a piece of meadow,' was granted him to be fenced in at his own cost. The same year he was made constable, and the following year ensign (name spelt Cornhill). At the same time Richard Morris was elected captain, and Mr.. Baulstone lieutenant. Some suppose this last office to have been held by his son Thomas, as the father may have been in New Amsterdam at that time. (Note-would have been only about 17 at the time)

"In the autumn, 1642, he went to New Amsterdam, and it has been supposed that Roger Williams and John Throckmorton went with him, and for this reason: the fugitives from Boston, who joined Roger Williams, had formed a sort of colony in Rhode Island, but it was only a self-created government, or squatter sovereignty that they had, and it was thought best by them in 1642, that Roger Wiliams should go to England to obtain a royal charter for his colony. He could not sail from Boston (which would be the nearest port) because he was banished from Massachusetts, so he went to New Amsterdam for that purpose, as the Dutch were more tolerant. There was not (as today) many steamers departing every week for England from that port, and he did not embark until June, 1643. We know, moreover, that he went to England then, and obtained a charter for his colony and returned. Roger Williams, Throckmorton and Cornell seem to have been much associated together and friends, and this has led to the supposition that they may have come from England in the same ship; at any rate, we know that Roger Williams and Throckmorton did. (Footnote: Ship Lyon, departed Briston Dec. 1, 1630, arrived Nantasket, Feb 5, 1630 with Williams, his wife, Throckmorton and about 18 others.) About a year after Thomas Cornell's' arrival in New Amsterdam, Governor Winthrop reports, 'Mr. Throckmorton and Mr. Cornell' established, with buildings, etc., on neighboring plantations under the Dutch. (See also Thomas C. Cornell's Adam and Ann Mott). On Oct. 2, 1642, the local Dutch government granted him permission with his associates (thirty-five families), to settle 'within the limits of the jurisdiction of their High Mightiness to reside there in peace.' (this was about eleven miles from New Amsterdam). After this general license to settle, Cornell and Throckmorton made examination of the territory, procured a survey and map, and on July 6, 1643, Gov. Kieft granted to John Throckmorton, for himself and his associated, a tract of land is what is now the town of Westchester. A serious Indian war, though of short duration, was caused by Gov. Kieft's unwise attack upon the two neighboring camps of Indians on the night between Feb 25 and 26, 1643, and in retaliation the Indians, within the following month or two destroyed many of the white settlers outside the city; and many others, who escaped fled panic stricken to New Amsterdam (se also Thomas C. Cornell) Roger Williams says,'Mine eyes saw the flames of these towns, the flights and hurrying of men, women and children, and the present removal of all that could to Holland.' (Quoted from Winthrop, R.I. Hist. Coll III, 156, New England, II, 117). Gov. Winthrop says: 'By the mediation of Mr. Williams who was then there to go in a Dutch ship to England, the Indians were pacified and peace re-established between the Dutch and them.' Cornell and Throckmorton and who were probably in New Amsterdam City at that time escaped, but Mrs. Hutchinson whose residence was near Throckmorton's was killed. For, days Gov. Winthrop of this event, under the date of Sept., 1643, 'The Indians set upon the English who dwelt among the Dutch They came to Mrs. Hutchinson in way of friendly neighborhood as they had been accustomed to, and taking their opportunity they killed her and Mr. Collins her son-in-law, and all of her family and such of Mr. Throckmorton's and Mr. Cornell's families as were at home, in all sixteen, and put their cattle into their barns and burned them;' then he also adds, 'These people had cast off ordinances and churches, and now at last their own people, and for larger accommodation had subjected themselves to the Dutch and dwelt scatteringly near a mile asunder. Some that escaped the Indian attack went back to Rhode Island. Thomas Cornell it appears during these troublous times, returned to Portsmouth, R. I., and secured a grant of land from that town, Aug. 29, 1644, in company with Mr. Brenton and Mr. Baulstone, 'Butting on Mr. Porter's round meadow,' and on Feb 4, 1646, a grant of 100 acres was made to Thomas Cornell by the town of Portsmouth, 'on the south side of the Wading River and so as to run from the river towards the land that was laid out to Edward Hutchinson' (a son of Ann Hutchinson). This may be considered the original Homestead of the Cornell family. Previous grants were made to him in company with other parties and as we will see the grant of Cornell's Neck was later. This land or the part on which the house and burial plot are situated has never been out of the family."

"After the restoration of peace in New Netherland, brought about by the mediation of Roger Williams, Thomas Cornell returned to the Dutch Colony, but not, it seems, to restore and rebuild what had been destroyed of his property on Throgg's Neck. But he asked for a tract adjacent, fronting on the south and west of that of Throckmorton, from which it was separated on the shore by the mouth of Westchester Creek, and extending thence about two miles on the Long Island Sound to the Bronx River and extending back two miles or more from the sound to the westerly edge of the present village of Westchester, formerly and even now known as Cornell's Neck; this estate was granted by Governor William Kieft to Thomas Cornell by patent, dated July 25, 1646. This was only the third private grant of land of which there is any record in Westchester County. Jonas Bronck in 1637, and Throckmorton in 1642, being previous, and possibly Adrian Van der Donk in 1646, and this grant of Cornell; Neck was four years after Thomas Cornell's first settlement in Westchester Co., in 1642. Thus he was there four years prior to Adrian Van der Dock in 1646. Thirty-five years before Governor Andros permission to make his first purchase of lands from the Indians in Westchester Co., nearly forty years earlier than the first acquisition of Westchester lands by Frederick Phillips within the present towns of Greenburgh and Mt. Pleasant in 1681, and thirty years before his first interest in Yonkers, in 1672, and fifteen years before the great-grand-father of the illustrious George Washington first settled in Virginia in 1657.

"Cornell's Neck was within the limits of Greater New York. After the death of Mr. Cornell, Thomas Pell set up a counter claim to the land, and litigation ensued between him and Sarah Bridges, in the course of which it appeared in evidence that Thomas Cornell had been at considerable charge in building, manuring and planting, that he was after several years driven off by the barbarous violence of the Indians, who burned his house and destroyed his cattle, that the widow Cornell, sole executrix of the last will and testament of her husband (although neither the will nor a copy was produced), conveyed the land to Sarah Bridges and her sister. The litigation established the validity of the Cornell title and Sarah Bridges was put in possession of the land. A new patent was issued April 15, 1667, for Cornell's Neck, setting forth the fact that Thomas Cornell's interest devolved long since on Sarah Bridges, one of the daughters of Thomas Cornell, deceased, and that said Sarah had conveyed her interest by deed to William Willett, her eldest son, to whom the new patent  was issued. (Taken from the history of the grant and the litigation in Bolton's History of Westchester County)."

"Thus we infer that after several years residence at 'Cornell's Neck,' perhaps nine years, Thomas Cornell was again driven by the Indians from his property in New Netherland, and returned to his homestead at Portsmouth, where he lived, and died, and was buried...a record of him serving on a coroner's jury in 1653, and in 1654...one of the commissioners on 'ye foure-towns upon ye re-uniting of ye Colonie of Providence Plantations' He probably died the following year.

An old memorandum made by Stephen B. Cornell of Portsmouth about the beginning of the last century, and still preserved by the family, states that Thomas Cornell, by will dated De. 5, 1651, gave to his wife Rebecca all his real estate; also that Rebecca, by will dated Sept. 2, 1664, gave to her son Thomas all her land lying on the west side of Rhode Island, and lying between the farms of Thomas Hazard and John Coggeshall. Neither of these wills is known to be now in existence, nor any copy of them. The records of the Society of Friends at Portsmouth, R.I., have numerous entries respecting Thomas and Rebecca Cornell and their descendants."
 1667 - 1748 John Maxson 81 81 [.]

Extensive landholder in Westerly. 1690 - >1758 Jane Freeman 68 68 Thomas Lawton 1647 - 1718 Sarah Lawton 71 71 1669 - 1752 Elizabeth Sisson 83 83 1670 - 1698 Mary Sisson 27 27 1672 - 19 MAR 1748/49 Ann Sisson 1676 - 1752 Richard Sisson 76 76 1680 Ruth Sisson 23 MAR 1682/83 - 1775 George Sisson 23 MAR 1684/85 - 1720 Abigail Sisson 1690 - 1776 James Sisson 85 85 ~1701 Rebecca Lawton Sam Behling gives birth date as abt. 1699 in Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England. Also gives "Of Tiverton, Newport, RI." Richard Tew 1683 - 5 MAR 1717/18 William Tew 1608 - 26 FEB 1683/84 Richard Sisson May 17, 1653.  Freeman Portsmouth, RI.

Aug. 2, 1653.    On a jury that found in the case of Thomas Bradley who was discovered dead on the highway, "that by extremity of heat the                          said Thomas was overcome and so perished by himself in the wilderness."

July 6, 1658.     Bought from William Hall 1/300 part of Conanicut (sic) and Dutch Islands, and two years later sold same, along with another                          1/300 part bought from Thomas Manchester to Peleg Sanford.

June 5, 1667.    Grand Jury in Dartmouth.

May 27, 1668.   Gave testimony, calling himself 60 years of age or thereabouts, saying, "John Archer being at my house did speak as followeth, and said the deed of gift made by Namumpam to John Sanford and himself was a cheat, and the intent thereof was to deceive Namumpam, squaw Sachem, of her land; and they were to have both corn and peage to secure her land, from Wamsutta or Peter Tallman, was to resign up the deed at her demand.' "

"And I, Mary Sisson, do testify that I heard the same words at the same time, and further, when my husband was gone out of the house, I heard both say they were troubled in conscience they had concealed it so long, and did refuse to take part of the gratification."

June 5, 1671.   Surveyor of Highways.

Oct. 18, 1683.  Will, proved Feb. 26, 1684, Executor son James. Typical allocation of chattel, funds, land. "To son James, all my housing and land in Dartmouth, excepting land near Pogansett Pond, and the reservation aforesaid for wife...To son John, all my house and land in Portsmouth."

Inventory, 600L,29s., viz: house and lands at Dartmouth 240L, house and lands at Rhode Island 60L, cattle and horsekind 118L, 15s., swine 30L, sheep 14L, 10s., beds, &tc, 50L, new cloth, wool yarn, hemp and flax 13L, negro servant 28L, one Indian servant 10L, money 12L.

April 15, 1690.  Will, proved Dec. 1, 1692. Inventory 190L, in silver money, twenty-nine cheeses, &tc.

 Arthur Hathaway Hannah \\ Thomas Lawton John Tripp 1662 - 1714 Lydia Hathaway 52 52 1614 - 1681 Thomas Lawton 67 67 [from: Lawton, Elva, The Descendants of Geroge Lawton of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 1977; Lawton, Frederick T., Thomas Lawton, Immigrant 1638, Aquidneck (Rhode) Island, 1950]

Thomas and George Lawton

Thomas and George Lawton were brothers, and the sons of George Lawton and Isbell Smith, who emigrated from Cranfield Parish, (on the western side of and on a range of hills in) Befordshire, England to Aquidneck around 1638-1655. Thomas brought with him his wife Elizabeth Salsburie and his infant daughter Elizabeth. George was not married.

Between 1635 and 1638, Bedfordshire, which was strongly Puritan, was assessed 3000 pounds by the king, without a Parliament, for ship-money and required to furnish 200men for the campaign against Scotland. The call to America was strong. The fact that the first records of the Lawtons in America were in Aquidneck, indicates that they were not Puritans. They were planters and yeomen.

During this same period of time Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony due to his opposition to the government. Within nine months, however, Anne Hutchinson and her followers revolted against Coddington and Williams and established another settlement in Newport. Amon the 32 men who signed the compact with Hutchinson were George and Thomas Lawton (who signed his name then as he did all through his life with the letter T).

George Lawton was admitted an inhabitant if 1638 and Thomas probably at the same time. George served as deputy for six years and as Assistant for nine years besides serving on numerous committees; his land was granted on the Wading River and on the opposite side of the road from his mill, the first in Lawton's Valley. Beginning in 1649, Thomas served in several capacities, Deputy for one year, Overseer of the Poor, and Commissioner for four years. He was made Freeman in 1655. Thomas's land grant was near Quaker Hill and south of Union Street; in addition, he acquired much land south of Union Street which he called "Hunting Swamp Farm." A description of Quaker Hill, which stand 285 feet high, a few hundred yards southwest of the Thomas's farm, was made by Frederick MacKenzie, a British officer in 1776, saying: "There is a hill about 7 miles from Newport, and on the eastern side of the island, called Quaker Hill (from there being a Quakers' meeting house on it) from whence there is a very fine view of all of the North part of the island, and of the adjacent islands. And the Continent for many miles. The many fine and cultivated Islands and the beautiful bays and inlets, with the distant view of the towns, farms and cultivated lands intermixed with woods, together with the many fine views of the adjacent waters, contribute to make this (even at this bleak season of the year) the finest, most diversified, and extensive prospect I have seen in America."

Thomas eventually bought several parcels of land, in addition to the original allotment of three acres near the Town Pond and that near Quaker Hill, Hunting Swamp Farm and Long Swamp Farm in the southerly part of Portsmouth, 600 acres on the southwest end of Warwick on the mainland, five parcels forming a farm on Puncatest Neck lying across Sakonnet River east of Rhode Island, a house and lot on Martha's Vinyard, land in Dartmouth, Massachusetts and in Shrewsbury, New Jersey.

The present location of the grants are located as follows:

At the junction of the West Main Road or Kings High Road and the U.S. Naval Reservation on Naragansett Bay is the 240 acre grant of George Lawton. Thomas's son Isaac had a farm of about 40 acres on the easterly side of the road in later years. About a mile and a half further south is the Wading River where George built his grist mill. Just east and north of the town line of Portsmouth was Hunting Swamp Farm. Continuing eastward to the Newport path then south to Braman Lane then east to Wapping Road is the Long Swamp Farm of Thomas Lawton on the west side of the road. Returning to the East Main Road and continuing north about two miles, one comes to Quaker Hill and then to the present Portsmouth Town Hall.

If their first abodes were like those of other early settlers they consisted of dugouts or rough shelter made of twigs woven together, with thatch roofs, followed by a 400 square foot one-room, four-foot tall log cabin. Their diet consisted of fish and oysters obtained from the Indians, wild grapes, eels (the skin of which was also braided into rope), black ducks, deer meat, rabbits, partridges, squirrels, raccoons, bear meat, turnips, red peppers and dried berries. Corn was bought from the Indians and later grown this was pounded and made into coarse bread or boiled, pounded and baked into Johnny cake. The clothing consisted often of doe skin or buck skin.

Safety was an early concern and many families had a large dog. In 1639, it was ordered "that in regard of the many incursions that the Island is subject unto and that an Alarum for the securing the place is necessary therefor it is thought meet for the present that an Alarum be appointed to give notice to all who inhabit the place that they may forthwith repair and gather together at the Howse of the Judge for the defending of the Island or quelling any Insolences that shall be tumuously raysed within the Plantation; therefore the Alarum that we appoynt shall be this Three Musketts to be discharged distinctly and a Herauld appointed to goe speedily throw the Towne and crye Alarm Alarm Upon which all are to repair immediatley to the place aforesaid." And it was not just Indians or trespassers from the mainland which caused concern; there were wild bears and boars as well.

In 1655, Thomas's wife Elizabeth died. Shortly before he made his will, June 5, 1674, Thomas married the widow Grace Parsons Bailey. It was not a marriage made in heaven. It appears that Thomas Lawton may have committed adultery with Grace and later have charged her with committing adultery. [from Fiske, Jane Fletcher, Records of the General Court of Trials, Boxford, Massachusetts, 1998] In 1671,       " Upon an Indictment by the Grand Jury against Grace Lawton the wife of Thomas Lawton formerly the wife of William Baily ffor comitting Adultrie with Thomas Lawton. The said Grace being Mandamassed, Enters Traverce pleads Not Guilty and Referrs her selfe for Tryall to god and the cuntry. The Jurrys Verdict is Not Guilty.

"The Court doe declare them selves wholy dissatisfyed with that Verdict and therefore cannot cleere her, The Aturney declareinge there was a failer in the Testimony he depended on or otherwise he had produced other Testimony."

Then, in 1673, "Upon an Indictment by the Genrl Aturney against Grace the wife of Thomas Lawton of Portsmouth for com[m]ittinge Adultry with James Murfie she enters  Traverce, pleads Not Guilty and referrs for Tyall to God and the Cuntry. The Jurrys Verdict, Not Guilty of  Adultry.The said Grace Lawton is by order of Court cleered by proclamation payinge ffees."

In Frederick T. Lawton's work, he says that a descendant of Thomas stated that he found it more difficult to get along with his second wife that with the Indians. It is his belief that misunderstanding and disagreement may have come through the use of some of Thomas Lawton's land by William and Grace Parson Bailey, pursuant to an unusual deed which was executed August 13, 1661. "Thomas Laiton has agreed that William Baily shall have three score acres of his land at his farme at Huntinge Swamp - said William Bally is to have the same land for his own life time and if his wife Grace Bally keepe herself a widowe after her husband's death then she also is to enjoy in the full term of Thomas Laitons life time and three years afterwards - agreed that William Bally shall nott lett nor sell the same land for his time to any others, but if the said William shall be minded to leave it, he shall return it to afore said Thomas Laiton againe, the said Thomas Laiton painge for it accordinge as two or three indifferent men shall judge."

Later, "Upon an action of the case for non performance of covinnat, commenced by Grace the wife of Thomas Lawton of the town of Portsmouth plaintiff against Daniel Lawton defendant, beareing date the 23 of August 1675. Damage 40L Sterll.
Upon a long debate of the case the court order that the action shall fall; and it is ordered by this court for the time past and for the future Daniell Lawton shall allow and pay to said Grace Lawton the sum of four shillings a week paid monthly, to be paid to her or he signes in silver New-England mony in liew of the use of a horse and fire-wood, the sum of twenty shillings yearly, and this act to be in force untill further care either by her husband or this to court to be taken in the premises, and the same to be paid out of his father Thomas Lawtons estate, and ordered that the said Grace Lawton shall give unto the said Daniell Lawton a true inventory of all the partickular estate she hath in her hands, and that the said Daniell Lawton shall forth-with pay the said Grace Lawton the sum of twenty shillings in mony over and above what is afore ordered."

In the Proceedings of the General Assembly of Rhode Island are many entires regarding Grace and her welfare:

"June 14, 1676. His wife Grace, having presented her many grievances to the town often, and to the Assembly several times, for due and sufficient maintenance, she being much neglected in her husband's absence, it was therefore ordered by the Assembly that 6 shillings per week in silver be paid her or her order, during her life, or until her husband, Thomas Lawton, shall come himself to maintain her. During his absence or neglect, the said sum of 6 shillings per week shall be paid by his agent, Daniel Lawton, which inventory Daniel Lawton shall have, Grace to have the privileges of chamber she is now possessed of, and use of necessary moveables; and the rights of herself or any of her children now or in future to any estate, are not cut off."

"Apr. 31, 1677 (Apr 13?). Thomas Lawton made an agreement for his step-son John Bailey, to give Grace, his mother, 10 pounds per year, and his daughter, Elizabeth Sherman, 3 pounds per year (40 shilling sin money and another 20 s. in good merchantable sheep's wool at 12 pence per pound), in return for a lease of a dwelling house, selling him the household goods, but reserving a bed, settle, chairs, etc."

"Apr. 22, 1677. Grace accepted the 10 pounds per year in silver provided for by her husband, and acquitted him of all 'dower, thirds, portions or legacies, bills, bonds or grants whatsoever.'"

Thomas's will mentions his property and his children, sons Daniel and Isaac, daughter Eilzabeth Sherman, wife of Peleg Sherman, daughter Anne Slocum, daughter Sarah Sisson, son-in-law George Sisson, and wife Grace.

 1616 - 1654 Elizabeth Salisbury 38 38 FTM Genealogy Site: Ancestors of Barbara Elaine Shelley:

Parents of Elizabeth Salsburie, wife of Thomas Lawton, are John Salsburie and Margaret Crowley. 1853 Byron Wing Unknown May 1611 Mary Lawton 1616 Isaac Lawton 20 FEB 1620/21 - 1621 Nicholas Lawton 1623 Elizabeth Lawton Sylvanus Hussey <1634 - 1704 John Cornell 70 70 [.]

From Rev. John Cornell's Genealogy of the Cornell Family, listed as one of Thomas cornell's nine children.

Here it also says that he lived at Cow Neck, L.I. Unknown 1610 - 1698 George Wolsey 87 87 31 JAN 1628/29 - 5 FEB 1712/13 Rebecca Cornell [.]

Rev. John Cornell's Genealogy of the Cornell Family lists Rebecca one of Thomas cornell's nine children. Phebe Mosher Ann Gregory Elizabeth Rathburne Elizabeth Backhouse 1659 - 1723 Elizabeth Mott 64 64 From William Arthur Wing's, Some Wings of Old Dartmouth, "her grandparents, first comers of the Motts, had been members, in Roxbury, of the church of John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians."

From will of father, Adam, left new cotton and linen sheets. Levina Fletcher 1624 - 1694 Richard Cornell 70 70 Daniel Mosher 1600 - 8 FEB 1672/73 Rebecca Briggs Maiden name might not be Briggs. See article which discusses the matter. Since John Briggs identified himself as her brother during court hearings, Briggs seems a fair assumption to me.

In 1657, Dec. 10, Rebecca Cornell was granted 10 acres in lieu of 10 acres granted her husband. In 1659, she deeded these 10 acres to her son and daughter Kent. April 30, 1661 sold Thomas Hart for 30 Pounds two parcels of land containing 8 acres with house, fruit trees, etc.; confirmed by her son Thomas in 1663. October 25, 1663, conveys to her son Joshua 1/6th of a share of land at Coshena and Acookset (part of Dartmouth) in Plymouth Jurisdiction (This he conveyed on Nov. 21, 1664, to his brother Samuel along with 20 acres of land he bought from William Earle (brother of Sarah Earle?). July 27, she deeded to Thomas all her housing, orchard, land and fencing in Portsmouth, the 100 Pound bond to which she held at her death, eight years later. In 1669, she conveys to son Samuel land in Dartmouth, one-sixth of a share. (Footnote in Cornell's Genealogy of the Cornell Family: It appears Rebecca had three-sixths of a share; she conveyed to Samuel 1/6th, to Joshua 1/6th, perhaps 1/6th to John, who lived in Dartmouth. To Thomas she gave land in Portsmouth. Her other son, Richard, had gone to Long Island in 1656 and had probably received his patrimony).

On February 8, 1773, she died strangely in Portsmouth in her own dwelling house. On May 23, her son Thomas was charged with murder, tried and executed. See Thomas for more.

Witnesses in the trial were:
Her brother John Briggs
Mary, wife of John Cornell, her son
Thomas's sons: Thomas, Stephen, Edward & John
Her daughter, Rebecca Woolsey 21 JAN 1619/20 - 1693 Adam Mott Feb. 24, 1711.  Will, proved Sept. 8, 1712. Widow Mary. Executrix daughter Sarah Tripp. To daughters Sarah Tripp, widow, and Bethia Abbott, widow, 12 acres laid out to me by townsmen of Portsmouth. To Elizabeth, see Elizabeth. Same to daughter Abigail Hefferland. To his maid Dinah Stephens, bed, and a good ewe sheep. To daughters Sarah Tripp and Bethiah Abbott, the rest of movables. Samuel Parker Edward Hatch Olive Rice Helen Forman Christina Knudsen 1644 - 1715 Samuel Cornell 71 71 One of the nine children of Thomas Cornell listed in Rev. John Cornell's Genealogy of the Cornell Family.

This is the son whom Rebecca hopes to live with instead of with her other son, Thomas.

From John Cornell's' Genealogy: On November 21, 1664, brother Joshua conveyed to Samuel, both living in "Accookset in New Plimouth," for 24L, two adjacent parcels of land there, one parcel being that which was given to him by his mother, Rebecca Cornell, the other a parcel which he purchased from William Earle.

On March 21, 1669,  "Rebecca Cornell, widow to the late deceased Mr. Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth on Rhoad Island, to my loving sonn Samuel Cornell, now an inhabitant in the town of Dartmouth (across the bay from Portsmouth, purchased originally from Wesamequen or Messasoit and his son Wamsutta on November 29, 16520, in New Plimouth, do freely willingly and of my own voluntary mind really and fully give grant enfeoff and confirm unto my said sonn Samuel Cornell, a certain parcel or tract of land (by me purchased since the decease of my aforesaid husband) conteyning the one-sixth part of a lot or share or portion of land within the aforesaid town of Dartmouth, part whereof is already laid out at the place commonly called Cookset, and now in the possession of my said son Samuel." Witnessed by Joshua Coggeshall, Thomas Cornell and Philip Allin.

May 29, 1670, in the census of Dartmouth, Massachusetts and in 1682 was the constable there.

In 1685, Samuel and his nephew, Thomas, son of his brother Thomas, reached an agreement as to the boundary line between them, there having been "a great difference between us."

May 3, 1699, will written and dated. Proved on April 5, 1715. Dartmouth. He left to Thomas, his oldest son, his dwelling and land, "with all my meadows upon three little Islands, with six acres at the point called 'Pottoswatuxet,' " all in Dartmouth. Samuel received land lying between James Sisson and James Tripp, with 50 acres of undivided lands. To his son Thomas, a chest and a box and a small Bible which belonged to his mother, a feather bed and andirons. To his daughter Comfort 40L when she became 18 and 5L each year thereafter until paid. The executors were Thomas Cornell, nephew (son of his brother Thomas) and his cousin George Cadman of Dartmouth.

Daughter Catherine had already died. Thomas Butts ~1581 Stephen Mosher Sam Behling shows:

John Moger/Mosher (d before 01/15/1611/12) married first Denis Brown ( 08 Sept. 1566) and they had
             Agnes
             Mary

John married second Edith Cross on 16 Oct 1576 and they had
     Hugh
     Tristam
     Edith-1
     John-1
     Robert-1
     Robert-2
     John-2
     Edith-2
     Nicholas who married Lydia Maxson and they had
          Hugh*
          Mary
          John
          Daniel     Joe Vincent Elizabeth Audley Experience Kirby Joseph Rathburne 1670 Stephen Cornell SUPPOSED CHILDREN: Edward, John, Richard.
 Peter Lee Mary 3 Adam Lawton 1689 Mary Tripp Robert Chamborlayne John Tripp 1599 Jeffrey Fish 1657 - 9 MAR 1686/87 Sarah Mott Peleg Sherman Ann Card Mercy Mrs Sisson 1692 - >1750 Deborah Cook 58 58 1641 Rebecca Lawton Gershom Mott 1589 Nathaniel Bachiler D. 1632 Ann Bachelder Morton Andersen Bohne Englebret Lott 1684 Elizabeth Ricketson Jesse Jr. Irish ~1743 Ruth Wing Mary Eddy 1713 George Cornell <1627 - 1673 Thomas Cornell 45 45 From Rev. John Cornell's Genealogy of the Cornell Family:

March 17, 1655, Portsmouth, called Thomas Cornell, Jr., he is chosen, along with three other to "prize" land and buildings of John Wood, deceased.

Dec. 10, 1657, granted 10 acres.

August 24, 1663, confirmed deed he made made 2 years earlier to Richard Hart.

1664-1672, several times Deputy to the General Assembly of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

May 4, 1670, he and three others appointed to audit Colonies' accounts.

June 7, 1671, his bill to Assembly for further encouragement of a troop of horses referred to next Assembly; no further record of the bill. At the same meeting, ordered that Thomas Cornell be desired to be a messenger from this court to carry a letter to the Governor of Plymouth and that he be supplied with 20 shillings in silver by the treasurer, John Coggeshall, for that purpose.

{This section from Fiske, Jane Fletcher, Rhode Island General Court of Trials 1671-1704, pub1998 Boxford, Massachusetts:]  June 15th 1571, "Upon an indictment by the Gen'r'l Aturny against Wickhopash, an Indian by the English called Harry for Grand Larceny, for ffellonious taeking away goods from Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth.
"The said Indian being brought into Court and Examined ownes him selfe Guilty of the Charge, only pleads that he was Drunk when he did it; the pertickulars stolne being one Rapier, and two yards of Tradeing cloth, The Courts sentance is that the daid Indian Wickhopash shal forthwith be sevearly whipt with therty stripes, and the said Indian shall pay unto Mr Thomas Cornell (he haveing Received his Rapier) the sum of ffower pownds and pay Court ffees which is one pownd seven shillings eight pence, which sum[m]s shall be paid within a Months time after this Court which if the said Indian wihin that time doe not pay he shall according to law be sold for a slave."

April 2, 1672, "Voted that some persons be employed by this Assembly to goe over to Narragansett and take a view of such places there or thereabouts that are fit for plantations and make inquirie of English and Indians who are the owners of, or who 'laie claim' to such lands and signify unto them that the colony doeth intend such lands be improved by peoplinge the same, and that the personds doe make return of what they doe therein to the next General Assembly." On this committee Thomas Cornell was appointed for Portsmouth (Records of the Colony of Rhode Island, vol. ii, pp. 442, 486)


From the research of Dave Acker, 4 Gray Burch. E. Sandwich, MA 02537 (06/20/99):

"From New England Hist. and Gen. Reg. v.9, p. 46 1855: Excerpt from Bradstreet's Journal (Rev. Simon Bradstreet):
1673: " A man was hanged at Road Island for killing his mother." (This would be Thomas, Jr.)

#237: (Rev.John Cornell, Genealogy of the Cornell Family) According to Friends Records of 2/8/1773: "Rebecca Cornell, widow, was killed strangely at Portsmouth in her own dwelling house, was twice viewed by the Coroner's Inquest, digged up and buried again by her husband's grave in their own land." On May 23 her son Thomas was charged with murder, after a trial that now reads like a farce, was convicted and executed. Among the witnesses of this trial were John Briggs (brother of Rebecca), Mary wife of John Cornell (his son), Thomas, Stephen, Edward, and John, sons of Thomas. Rebecca Woolsey, (his daughter), etc. It appears that the old lady having been sitting by the fire smoking a pipe, a coal had fallen from the fire or her pipe, and that she was burned to death. But on the strength of a vision which her brother John had, in which she appeared to him after death and said, "See how I was burned with fire," it was inferred she was set fire to, and that her son who was last with her did it, and principally on this evidence Thomas Cornell was tried, convicted and hung for her murder. Late legal opinion was "there was no evidence."

Thomas was convicted on the basis of spectral evidence, gossip and hearsay and superstition. The chief superstition concerns what happens to a body after death. It is worthwhile to review Malleus Malleficarum by [Cotton] Mather:

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        We have already treated of this fascination. And now with reference to the second point, namely, that blood will flow from a corpse in the presence of a murderer. According to the Speculum naturale of Vincent of Beauvis, c. 13, the wound is, as it were, influenced by the mind of the murderer, and that wound receives a certain atmosphere which has been impressed by and is permeated with his violence and hatred, and when the murderer draws near, the blood wells up and gushes forth from the corpse. For it would seem that this atmosphere, which was cause and as it were entered the wound owing to the murderer, at his presence is disturbed and greatly moved, and it is owing to this movement that the blood streams out of the dead body. There are some who declared that it is due to some other causes, and they say that this gushing forth of blood is the voice of the blood crying from the earth against the murderer who is present, and that this is on account of the curse pronounced against the murderer Cain. And with regard to that horror which a person feels when he is passing near the corpse of a man who has been murdered, although he may not be in any way cognizant of the vicinity of a dead body, this horror is psychic, it infects the atmosphere and conveys a thrill of fear to the mind. But all these explanations, be it noted, do not in any way affect the truth of the evil wrought by witches, since they are all perfectly natural and arise from natural causes."


From Cornell's' Genealogy of the Cornell Family: "1674, March 7. 'Ordered by the Assembly, whereas, Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth, who was lately executed for murthering his mother, Mrs. Rebecca Cornell. whereupon according to law, this court of Tryalls have made seizure of his estate. This Assembly (in consideration of the matter, and for the supply of the wife and children of the said Thomas), doe see cause to release the said seizure and empowere the council of the town of Portsmouth to take care and order that just debts and other charges be first paid and discharged, and that then his wife and children be supplyed and relieved and to that end do order and appoint an executor or executors for the true performance thereof, and that this Towne Council doe make a will according to law, divide the estate to this wife and children of the said Thomas.'  July 4, a writing was presented to the court of Plymouth by William Earle (Sarah's brother?), of Dartmouth, which was by some termed the will of Thomas Cornell of Rhode Island, late deceased, in which is mentioned the disposal of some estate in our colony. The court deferred accepting it for the present and appointed William Earle, and John Cornell, brother of the deceased, to take care of the estate that it be not squandered. On Oct. 29, the court ordered that such part of estate as deceased left in Plymouth colony, should be divided as follows: to widow and three children he had by her, one-half; to four eldest children of said Cornell, the other half, which they were to have in lands, being sons. The right of widow Sarah for life, in the lands, was to be paid her out of the personal, if she require it. Inventory, 77Pds, 19s, 6d. of real and personal estate in Dartmouth, viz.: 8 mares, 4 geldings, 2 years, 3 colts, 4 heffers, 4 steers, 5 yearlings, house and land, 41 Pds, gun, pair of old wheels, scythe, pair of bandoleers,&tc. (*An inventory of his estate in Portsmouth was made by John Albro and John Sandford, amounting to 452 Pds.18.5. Inventory, 22 acres land, 100 sheep, cattle, horses, &tc). 1679, Jan. 4, differences having arisen between Thomas Cornell, eldest son of Thomas Cornell, deceased, and David Lake of Nunaquaquit (a Neck in New Plymouth), now husband to Sarah, late widow to Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth, concerning right of dower belonging to said Sarah in estate of late husband, and more especially in farm said Thomas possesseth, the said differences being in a friendly manner compromised a full discharge is now given by said Lake except a bill of 20 Pounds."

The Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation in New England, vol. II, 1664-1677, (John Russell Bartlett, editor, 1857), the General Assembly records that frineds of Thomas Cornell, especially his brother-in-law William Earll, requested that his body be buried next to that of hismother following his execution. The request was denied but, in respect to Thomas Cornell, they were given permission to bury his body on his land, which was to be returned to his widow. The General Recorder and the executioner were paid for their services. [The Indian Punneau (Indian John) was apparently executed at the same time, fir the vicious rape and murder of Lottira Bulgar.]

From Rev. John Cornell's' Genealogy of the Cornell Family: Daughter Innocent was possibly named as a protest against her father's unjust execution.

Ancestral Quest also lists Elizabeth (b. 1644) and Samuel (b. 1657) as children. <1635 Ann Cornell [.]

Rev. John Cornell's Genealogy of the Cornell Family lists Ann as one of Thomas cornell's nine children. John Briggs ~1712 Mary Sisson George Mosher Henry Atkinson <1625 - 7 JAN 1627/28 William #1 Cornell 15 JAN 1636/37 - ~1708 Elizabeth Cornell [.]

Listed as one of Thomas Cornell's nine children in Rev. John Cornell's Genealogy of the Cornell Family. ~1645 Mary Cornell Margaret D. 1647 Thomas Willett William Tosh 1723 John Sisson 1715 Abigail Tew ~1623 John Lawrence 1670 - 1736 Anne Tripp 66 66 Hannah Quinby <1632 William #2 Cornell Mary ~1628 Elizabeth Hazard Esther Underhill Elizabeth Woodman 1658 - 1717 John Wing 58 58 Jane Hulet Or Hewlet Sarah 5 Elizabeth Dillingham 1600 Richard Lawton 1602 Annis Lawton 27 FEB 1617/18 - 1623 Bennett Lawton 1650 - 1676 Adam Mott 26 26 1660 - 1730 Abigail Mott 70 70 1661 Phebe Mott Dorcas Wing 1 JAN 1670/71 Mary Mott 1 JAN 1670/71 John Mott 1600 - 1634 Elizabeth Creel 34 34 1617 Infant Mott 1618 John Mott 1604 - 1661 Sarah Jennings 57 57 David Durfee Kirsten Svendsen Benjamin Haviland Robert Mosher Ann \\ 1694 - <1734 Content Sisson 40 40 1570 - 1656 John Mott 86 86 1653 - 1714 Thomas Cornell 61 61 [.]

Witness at Father's trial in 1673.

Dec. 13, 1683 Thomas and four others refuse to take oath in court when called upon to do so, all returned by the sheriff to serve on the grand jury and fined 6 shillings and 8 pence.

In 1688 Thomas and Susannah convey to R. Cadman (who married Sarah Almy, daughter of Christopher Almy) land in Dartmouth joining Samuel and Stephen Cornell. Samuel of Dartmouth and "my cousin (nephew) Thomas of Rhode Island," settled boundary disputes.

In 1696, Thomas and Susannah convey to son George "two parsells of land" in Portsmouth, one being 28 acres called the Surkit or Circuit, the other 12 acres joining the ocean.

May 5, at the General Assembly for the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, held at Newport, Thomas Cornell, Jr., admitted freeman of the colony by vote of the Assembly. (Records of the Colony of Rhode Island, Vol. III, p. 121, 311)

May 2, 1705 Chosen Justice-of-the-Peace for Portsmouth. Mary Quinby ~1675 - >1721 Ann Mosher 46 46 Elizabeth Edwards 1596 - 1661 Adam Mott 65 65 From Austin's Dictionary of Rhode Island Genealogy:

July 2, 1635.  Was a passenger aboard the ship Defence, along with his wife, the widow Sarah Lott. With them they had, her child from her                        first marriage, Mary, and his children from his first marriage, John, Adam, Jonathan,and Elizabeth. Before embarking, he                               "brought testimony from the Justice of the Peace, and minister in Cambridge, of his conformity to the orders and discipline of                        the Church of England. He hath taken the oath of allegiance and supremacy."

May 25, 1636.  Admitted Freeman in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
                         He and his wife were members of the First Church of Roxbury.
                         Shortly thereafter moved to Hinham, where he had a grant of land.   

1638.                He and others were admitted inhabitants of the Island of Aquidneck, having submitted            themselves to the government that is or shall be established. 

June 23, 1638.  Grant of land on the west side of the spring (now Spring Street?).

Sept. 6, 1638.   The Massachusetts authorities directed the constable of Hingham to attach him and bring              him before the Governor or some one of the Council but the order was too late to have                          any consequence.

Jan. 12, 1640.   Chosen with others to lay out lands at Portsmouth.

Mar. 16, 1641.  Freeman.

1642.                Clerk of the Military Company.

May 27, 1644.  Granted an addition to his lot.

Sept. 20, 1652. Deeded 12 acres to son Adam.

1655.                Freeman.

April 2, 1661.    Will, proved August 31, 1661, Executrix wife Sarah. The will appears somewhat dubious.  Elizabeth C John Wing ~1559 Francis Smith ~1524 Laughton William Sanborn David Mosher Hannah Lynch 1526 - 1597 Godfredus Wing (Wynge) 71 71 1530 - 1562 Levina 32 32 Ruth Allen 1751 - 1834 Zebulon Cornell 82 82 [.]

From Cornell Web site:

Was called Zebedee or Zeb. Lived at White Creek, Washington County, NY. Stood seven feet tall, was a Quaker, farmer, lawyer, Justice of the Peace and a Freemason. 1764 - 1765 Joseph Cornell 1m 1m 1684 Mehitable Fish The Mehitable Fish whom William Cornell married MAY have actually been the first cousin to this Mehitable Fish, namely the child of Thomas's brother John and his wife Joanna (Unknown). In Rev. John Cornell's CORNELL FAMILY, he states that in 1773 in his will Thomas Fish of Dartmouth gives 20L to his daughter Mehitable Cornell, wife of William. When I look at Austin's DICTIONARY OF RHODE ISLAND GENEALOGY, it appears to me that it is John, Thomas's brother, giving the same amount to HIS daughter in 1737. 1727 - 1799 Daniel Cornell 71 71 From Rev. John Cornell's Genealogy of the Cornell Family:

"He was a Quaker Preacher."

1774 Deed of Daniel to Zebulon and Zebulon to White.

1804 James, Thomas and wife, Mary, all of Cambridge, Washington Co., N.Y. to Anthony.
         Paul and Zebulon settled at White Creek and James and Thomas at Easton, all in Washington Co.,           N.Y. All farmers and Hixite Quakers. 1711 - 1764 Benjamin Cornell 53 53 1733 Rachel Cornell ~1696 James Allen ~1700 Mary 1722 - 1767 Elizabeth Allen 44 44 Daniel Smith 1744 Rebecca Cornell 1753 - 1828 James Cornell 75 75 Thankful Briggs James Starbuck 1757 Content Cornell 1759 Paul Cornell Elizabeth Soule 1761 - 1828 Thomas Cornell 66 66 Mary Briggs Levi Tripp 1763 Abigail Cornell 1695 - 1775 William Cornell 80 80 1697 - 1754 Edward Cornell 57 57 ~1703 Elizabeth Cornell ~1705 James Cornell 24 MAR 1715/16 - 1756 Caleb Cornell Jeremiah Mosher Joseph Rathburne Hannah Rathburne 1720 - 1801 Joseph Cornell 81 81 Deborah Allen 14 MAR 1725/26 - 1811 Alse Cornell Isaac Gifford Elizabeth Angevin Zebedee Maccumber 25 JAN 1735/36 Elizabeth Cornell Mary 1644 Elizabeth Cornell 1658 - 1708 Edward Cornell 50 50 ~1657 Samuel Cornell [.]

Rev. John Cornell's Book makes no mention of a Samuel who in Thomas 2's son. There is a Samuel who is a brother to Thomas 2,however. Information taken from LDS file. 1685 - 1763 Thomas Cornell 78 78 1678 - 1763 Catharine Potter 85 85 Joshua Cornell Deborah 3 John Mosher Mercy Ann Warren Mary Slocum George Allen Julia Schooley 1626 Jonathan Mott John Mosher 1 JAN 1655/56 Mary Mott Isaac Lawton John Hefferlund Mary Rathburne Miriam Dean John Nycholes Richard Gullins John Nicols 5 JAN 1656/57 - 1676 Stephen Wing 1677 Joseph Wing 1678 Benjamin Wing 1609 - 1690 John Briggs 81 81 [.]

From Cornell web site which references "A Cornell Family History":

"John and Sarah Briggs became followers of Ann Hutchinson...who was banished from the Bay Colony by Gov. Winthrop. The Briggs followed to RI where Roger Williams had sought sanctuary. They founded Portsmouth on Aquindeck Island in Narraganset Bay. On the advice of Williams, they purchased their land from the Indians. John Briggs was a signer of the 'Compact' and one of the founders of Portsmouth and he became a special Commissioner to the General Assembly; of RI. (Raymond V. Nelson, 700 N. Forest St.., Bellingham, WA  98225)" Compact states: (from Osborne's Genealogical Dictionary) "We, whose names are underwritten, do acknowledge ourselves the legal subjects of his Majesty, King Charles, and in his name do hereby bind ourselves into a civil body politicke, unto his laws, according to matters of justice."

From John Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island:

March 16, 1641 Freeman.

October 5, 1643, Directed to go to every house to see what arms were defective.

1648.  Assistant.

1649. Licensed to keep an ordinary.

August 31, 1654.  Commissioner for uniting the four towns.

1654-55-56-59-61-62-63.  Commissioner.

1655.  Freeman.

May 25, 1655.  On a committee to  build a cage and stocks.

1656  Juryman.

October 6, 1662.  Bough a share in Dartmouth for 42L from John Dunham, Sr. and Abigail of Plimouth.

1664-65-66-68-69.  Deputy.

Feb. 20, 1673.  Calling himself 64 years of age, or thereabouts, testified in the trial of Thomas Cornell. He had a dream a saw a woman at his bedside, "whereat he was much affrighted and cryed out, in the name of God, what art thou?" The apparition answered, "I am your sister Cornell," and twice said, "see how I was burnt with fire."

March 11, 1679.  Deeded to second son Thomas and his wife Mary," for love, &c., one quarter of a share in Dartmouth (35 acres), and if Thomas die, his wife Mary to enjoy same, if she continues his widow."

October 14, 1679.  Deeded to oldest son, John, of Portsmouth, "one half of a share in Dartmouth, and if his wife Hannah survive him, she to enjoy same while widow. If she marry again, then to my grandson John, the second son of my son John, and if he die without issue, then to my son John's next younger son, &c. In case of failure of all, then to son John's eldest son Edward, he paying to daughters of son John, L20."

April 19, 1690.  Will proved. Executor son Enoch. "To son Enoch, all and every part of lands and personal estate, goods, chattels, debts and monies, he paying legacies, &c. To eldest son John, son Thomas, son William and daughter Susannah Northway, 1s. each, these four children having 'long since received their portions and are gone from me.' To son Job, three ewes, to wether lambs and two heifers."

From Sam. Briggs, A Partial Record of the Descendants of Walter Briggs of Westchester, N.Y.:

He concludes that John Briggs "must have been a busy person in governmental affairs, given the number of times his name appears in the records, and a person of some fortune, as would appear from purchases of land made by him at various times."

NOT THE SAME JOHN BRIGGS OF SANDWICH, WHOSE DAUGHTER SARAH MARRIED STPHEN WING. Lavinia Storms ~1643 Kent Cornell [.]

Probably the same person who married Ann Cornell, i.e. Thomas Kent. 10 JAN 1671/72 Catherine Tosh Daniel Cornell ~1642 Grissell Strange William Richards 1596 Mary Batchelder ~1566 - 2 JAN 1609/10 Elizabeth Mrs Mott Benjamin Fish Grace Mott Deborah Cornell Elizabeth Richbell ~1673 - 1751 Job Tripp 78 78 1679 Preserved Fish Anna Tilson Christian Weare 1862 Caroline Matilda Larson Rebecca Harndell [.]

I suspect that this is the same person as Rebecca Maxson since the marriage dates seem to coincide. 1644 - 1700 John Harding 56 56 ~1574 Luke Wing Bathsheba Phillip Wheedon Rebecca Cook Mary 5 1718 Zerviah Wing Rebecca 4 MAR 1728/29 - 1816 Jemima Shepherd Lydai Shepherd 1691 Comfort Cornell 1670 Stephen Cornell Hannah 11 JAN 1687/88 - 1740 Samuel Cornell Rebecca \\ 1722 Mary Sisson Josiah Abbott 1664 - 1711 Bethiah Mott 47 47 1767 Samuel Cornell 20 MAR 1682/83 Caleb Allen ~1500 - ~1565 Thomas Lawton 65 65 ~1508 Joan Wheeler Ancestors of Barbara Elaine Shelley has birth date of Joan Wheeler abt. 1534,
Thomas Lawton abt. 1527.

Children:
Joan Lawton born abt. 1553
Marian born abt. 1555
Thomas born abt. 1558 in Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England; married Marry Unk. abt 1580 & Annis Unk. before 1600.

These children and dates seem too late for a match with what I have. Mary Paine Edward Samborne Elizabeth Lane ~1577 Hugh Mosher ~1535 (BATCHELDER) Elizabeth Blackmore 1648 Deborah Wing Roda Rogers Mary Potter Mary Bannister Ford 1772 Daniel Cornell ~1690 - 1762 John Cornell 72 72 1687 Jabez Tripp Mary Sarah F Lawton John Margaret Rathburne James Haight Mary Carter Joseph Mosher 1561 - 1660 Stephen BACHILER (BACHELDER) 99 99 From Batchelder, Batcheller Genealogy compiled by Frederick Clifton Pierce in 1898:

"From tradition and the characteristics of his descendants, it is probable that he was tall and sinewy, with prominent features, especially the nose; a very dark complexion; black, coarse hair in early days, white in age, mouth large and firm, eyes black as sloes; features long rather than broad; a strong, clear voice; rather slow of motion and speech; simple in dress, wearing in Lynn a suit of liste which he brought from England; obstinate and tenacious of his opinions to a marked degree; a powerful preacher, drawing largely from the scripture and impressing his hearers with the uncommon power and sanctity of his sermons; strong in his friendships and his hates."

From John Greenleaf Whittier, a descendant, "The tradition is that Mr. Bachiler was a man of remarkable personal presence, and was particularly noticeable on account of his wonderful eyes; they were dark and deep set, under broad arches, and could throw lightning glances upon occasion. For more than a century the Batcheler eye has been proverbial and in Essex county, Massachusetts, the striking feature has been steadily maintained. The resemblance between Whittier and Daniel Webster were long ago observed by those who were unaware of any relationship. Though unlike in many respects, there appeared to be a marked similarity in their broad and massive brows, swarthy complexions and expressive eyes. The characteristic of the eyes were in the looks of inscrutable depth, the power of shooting out sudden gleams, and the power of tender and lovable expression as well. It is now known that not only Whittier, Webster, but W. Pitt Fessenden, Caleb Cushing, William B. Green and other prominent men inherited their fine features, penetrating eyes and gravity of manner from the same ancestor, Rev. Stephen Bachiler. The majestic bearing and the presence of Webster were everywhere known. The keen glances of Cushing, the eminent scholar and diplomat; the deep looks of Col. Green were well remembered in Massachusetts. "



REV. STEPHEN BACHILER, OF LYNN.

(From the History of Lynn.)
Among the early settlers of Lynn were some persons of high reputation, and most of them appeared to have been men of good character and of comfortable property. There is no evidence that any of them had abandoned the church, or been persecuted for their opinions, with the exception of the Rev. Stephen Bachiler, and the few persons in his connection.
Governor Winthrop, who came over with them, begins his journal on "Easter Monday," which Mr. Savage says was "duly honored;" and it is not until nearly five years after, that we catch a glimpse of his Puritanism, which he begins to date on "eleventh month."
If all the inhabitants of Lynn, excepting Mr. Bachiler and his six adherents, were Episcopalians, how happened it that they at once zealously lent him their aid in forming the church here? Good churchmen would as soon have thought of fraternizing with Hugh Peters as Mr. Bachiler. His ardent temperament and remembered wrongs led him to manifest such envenomed opposition to the church that it is not clearly seen how her devout children could have been attracted to his fold.
1632. For the first three years the people of Lynn had no minister, but some of them attended church at Salem, and others had meetings for prayer and exhortation. The Rev. Stephen Bachiler, with his family, arrived at Boston on Thursday, 5 June, after tedious passage of eighty-eight days. He came in the ship William and Francis, Capt. Thomas, which sailed from London, 9 March. He immediately came to Lynn, where his daughter Theodate, wife of Christopher Hussey, resided. He was seventy-one years of age. In his company were six persons who had belonged to a church with him in England; and of these he constituted a church at Lynn, to which he admitted such as desired to become members, and commenced the exercise of public ministrations on Sunday, 8 June, without installation. He baptized four children, born before his arrival; two of whom, Thomas Newhall and Stephen Hussey, were born the same week. Thomas, being the first white child born in Lynn, was first presented, but Mr. Bachiler put him aside, saying, "I will baptize my own child first," meaning his daughter's.
Mr. Bachiler had been in the performance of his pastoral about four months, when a complaint was made of some irregularities in his conduct. He was arraigned before the court at Boston, on the 3rd of October, when the following order was passed: "Mr. Bachiler is required to forbear exercising his giftes as a pastor or teacher publiquely in our pattent, unlesse it be to those he brought with him, for his contempt of authority, and until some scandal be removed." This was the commencement of a series of difficulties which agitated the unhappy church for several years.(*) In the course of a few months, Mr. Bachiler had so far succeeded in regaining the esteem of the people that the court, on the 4th March, removed their injunction that he should not preach in the colony, and left him at liberty to resume the performance of his public services.
1636. Mr. Bachiler had been readily dismissed from his pastoral charge, in expectation that he would desist from its exercise, or remove from the town; instead of which, he renewed his covenant with the persons who came with him from England, intending to continue his ministration. The people opposed this design, as its tendency would be to frustrate their intention of settling another minister; they therefore complained to the magistrates, who forbade his proceeding. Finding that he disregarded their injunction, and refused to appear before them, they sent the marshal to compel him. He was brought before the Court of Assistants, at Boston, in January, and was discharged on engaging to leave the town within three months. Whoever has attentively read the lives of the early ministers of New England, as written by the Rev. Cotten Mather, must have noticed that they are all represented to have been men of uncommon learning, piety and worth. This may be imputed partly to the embellishments of his pen, and partly to the fact that they
(*)This was the second church in Essex Co.--[Essex Antiquarian.]
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were born and educated in the bosom of the church, and the best universities of Europe. We are greatly indebted to Mr. Mather for his account of those ministers; but we should have been far more grateful to him, if he had been more particular with regard to dates and facts respecting the subjects of his biography, instead of devoting so much time and space to the worthies of Greece and Rome; for we could easily have presumed his acquaintance with ancient history and the classics, without so ostentatious a display of it. In his life of Mr. Cobbet, he has given us but one date with certainty--the rest had been supplied by my laborious research. Mr. Bachiler he did not notice, and the following short sketch of his life is the first which has ever been offered to the public. The Rev. Stephen Bachiler was born in England, in the year 1561, and received orders in the established church. In the early part of his life he enjoyed a good reputation, but being dissatisfied with some of the ceremonies of the church, and refusing to continue his conformity, he was deprived of his permission to perform her services. The church has been much censured for her severity, and all uncharitableness and persecutions are to be deprecated; but in simply ejecting her ministers for nonconformity, after they had approved her mode of worship, and in the most solemn manner possible engaged themselves in her service, the church is no more censurable than all other communities, with whom the same practice is common. On leaving England, Mr. Bachiler went with his family to Holland, where he resided several years. He then returned to London, from which place he sailed, on the 9th of March, 1632, for New England. He arrived at Lynn on the 6th of June, having in his company six persons, his relatives and friends, who had belonged to his church in Holland. With them, and the few who united with them, he constituted a little church at Lynn, without any of the ceremonies usual on such occasions. He continued his ministrations here for about three years, with repeated interruptions, but he never had the support or the affections of the great body of the people. He was admitted a freeman on the 6th of May, 1635, and removed from Lynn in February, 1636. He went first to Ipswich, where he received a grant of fifty acres of land, and had the prospect of a settlement; but some difficulty having arisen, he left the place. In the very cold winter of 1637, he went on foot with some of his friends to Yarmouth, a distance of about one hundred miles. There he intended to plant a town and establish a church, but finding the difficulties great, and "his company being all poor men," he relinquished the design. He then went to Newbury, where, on the 6th of July, 1638, the town made him a grant of land. On the 6th of September, the general court granted him permission to settle a town at Hampton. In 1639, the inhabitants of Ipswich voted to give him sixty acres of upland and twenty acres of meadow, if he would reside there three years; but he did not accept their invitation. On the 5th of July, he and Christopher Hussey sold their houses and lands in Newbury for six score pounds and removed to Hampton. There a town was planted and a church gathered, of which Mr. Bachiler became the minister. The town granted him three hundred acres of land, and he presented them with a bell for the meeting house in 1640. Here he was treated with respect, and in 1641 he was appointed umpire in a case of real estate between George Cleves and John Winter. Dissensions. however, soon commenced, and the people were divided between him and his colleague, Rev. Timothy Dalton. He was accused of irregular conduct, which is thus related by Governor Winthrop.
"Mr. Bachiler, the pastor of the church at Hampton, who had suffered much at the hands of the bishops in England, being about eighty years of age, complained to the magistrates against a woman and her husband for slandering him. Soon after, his house took fire and was consumed, with nearly all his property. In 1643 he was restored to the communion, but not to the office of minister. In 1644, the people of Exeter invited to settle with them, but the court laid their injunction. In 1647, he was at Portsmouth, where he resided three years. In 1650, being then eighty-nine years of age, and his second wife, Helen, being dead, he married his third wife, Mary; and in May was fined ten pounds for not publishing the marriage according to law, half of which fine was remitted in October."
Soon after this, Mr. Bachiler left the country and returned to England.
His wife in Hampton petitioned the court, in the following words, to free her from her husband:
"To the Honored Governor, Deputy Governor, with the Magistrates and Deputies
at the General Court at Boston:
"The humble petition of Mary Bachiler, Sheweth--Whereas your petitioner, having formerly lived with Mr. Stephen Bachiler, a minister of this Collany, as his lawful wife, and not unknown to divers of you, as I conceive, and the said Mr.
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Bachiler, upon some pretended ends of his owne, hath transported himself into ould England, for many years since, and betaken himself to another wife, as your petitioner hath often been credibly informed, and there continueth, whereby your petitioner is left destitute, not only of a guide to her and her children, but also made uncapable thereby of disposing of herselfe in the way of marriage to any other, without a lawful permission; and having now two children upon her hands, there are chargeable unto her, in regard to a disease God hath has been pleased to lay upon them both, which is not easily curable, and so weakening her estate in prosecuting the means of cure, that she is not able longer to subsist, without utter ruining her estate, or exposing herself to the common charity of other which your petitioner is loth to put herself upon, if it may be lawfully avoided, as is well known to all, or most part of her neighbors. And were she free from her engagement to Mr. Bachiler, might probable soe dispose of herselfe, as that she might obtain a meet-helpe to assist her to procure such means for her livelyhood and the recovery of her childrens health, as might keep them from perishing; which your petitioner, to her grief, is much afraid of, if not timely prevented.
"Your petitioner's humble request thereof is, that this Honored Court would be pleased seriously to consider her condition, for matter of her relief in her freedom from the said Mr. Bachiler, and that she may be at liberty to dispose of herselfe in respect of any engagement to him, as in your wisdome shall see most expedient; and your petitioner shall humble pray.--Mary Bachiler."
No record appears that the court took any order on this petition; nor are we informed whether the lady succeeded to "Dispose of herselfe," in the manner which she seems to have had so much at heart. It is to be hoped, however, that her request was granted, for the woman had undoubtedly suffered enough for her lapses, as the reader will probably agree when he shall have read the sentence, which may serve to clear up at least one of the mysteries in this strangest of all the lives of our early ministers. In the records of York, on the 15th of October, 1651, is the following entry.
"We do present George Rogers and Mary Batcheller, the wife of Mr. Stephen Bachiler, minister, for adultry. It is ordered that Mrs. Batcheller, for adultry, shall receive forty stripes, save one, at the first town meeting held at Kittery, 6 weeks after her delivery, and be branded with the letter A." In the horrible barbarity of this sentence we blush for the severity of the punishment, rather than for the crime. The husband and his erring wife have long since gone to their last account, and their errors and follies must be left to the adjustment of that tribunal which we hope is more merciful than the decisions of men. Mr. Bachiler had, undoubtedly, many virtues, or he would not have had many friends, and they would not have continued with him through all the changes of his varied life. Mr. Prince says that he was "a man of fame in his day, a gentleman of learning and ingenuity, and wrote a fine and curious hand." It was on his separation from the church at Lynn, with its subsequent misfortune, that Edward Johnson wrote.
(In Morgan's Sphere of Gentry, printed in 1661, may be found Mr. Bachiler's coat of arms. It consists of a plough, beneath which is a rising sun; or, to use the technical language of heraldry, vert a plough in fesse, and in base the sun rising, or. The author calls it the coat of "Cain, Adam's son," and says it "did appertain to Stephen Bachelor, the first pastor of the church of Ligonia, in New England; which bearing was answerable to his profession in plowing up fallow ground of their hearts, and the sun appearing in that part of the world, symbolically alluded to his motto, 'sol justiti' exoritur.'" Does not "the church of Ligonia," mean the church of Lynn--an attempt being made to Latinize the name of the town? Another work on heraldry gives the name Lavonia, but this is, no doubt, a misspelling. Where the witty old author speaks of the plow as answering to Mr. Bachiler's profession in breaking up the fallow grounds of their hearts, he might have passed on to the sun's office of warming and rendering fruitfully the broken ground. The author takes occasion to note, here and there, a comforting fact that seems to have become suddenly established in his mind, with or without connection with the matter in hand.
Witness the following, which appears as a marginal note: "Women have soules." And this seems to have been proved to his satisfaction by the first temptation, for he says, "Had she not had precious and rational soul the Devil would never have attempted her." This is plausible, but it might be argued that he only operated on her as an instrument for the destruction of her husband and he seems inclined to give the evil one more credit for his sagacity than Eve for her integrity, by asking, "Indeed, how could she withstand such temptation that did entice her to curiosity and pride, the common sin of all their sex to this day?"

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(The reader's attention is here solicited for a moment to the singular spectacle brought to view in the affairs of Mr. Bachiler. While pastor of the church at Hampton, he is charged with unbecoming conduct, yet the church at Exeter, knowing the fact, invite him to settle over them. Did they discredit the charges, or consider the offense not worth weighing? In 1650 he married a woman who proves to be an adulteress, leaves her, and petitions for a divorce. This the government refuses, and going further, orders that they "shall lye together as man and wife." Now what is to be thought of a government that compels a thing so revolting and so unnecessarily cruel? From all the circumstances I am led that the whole truth does not appear; that extenuating facts are concealed; that there was a settled determination to make his continuance here uncomfortable, to say the least. The truth is, he had ventured to question the right of the civil authorities' supremacy in spiritual affairs. And that was enough to excite their indignation. The proof of his delinquencies, however, seems sufficient. It would be a bold step to attempt to discredit Winthrop; though it may not be unreasonable to suggest that, considering his ire towards those who were inclined to anything like active opposition to the ruling powers, he might have been examined with sufficient severity the slanders which Mr. Bachiler's enemies put in circulation. Not only did Mr. Bachiler oppose the incipient union of church and state, but he also espoused the interests of New Hampshire, when they clashed with the assumptions of the Bay Colony. And that was enough to bring a heavy load of fuel to the fire. And, furthermore, as is well known, his colleague at Hampton, Mr. Dalton, was strongly set in the Massachusetts interest and virulently opposed to his associate. Mr. Bachiler was evidently an opponent not easily overcome, was well educated; an adept in controversy; strong will. He was greatly sinned against. And he probably had little more sympathy in the colonial councils than Williams, Hutchinson or Wheelwright.)
Thomas Newhall, the subject of this sketch, was born in 1630, and was baptized by Rev. Bachiler, the first minister of Lynn, on the first Sunday after his arrival, being June 8, 1632. A rather comical scene occurred at the baptism. Christopher Hussey, who was a son-in-law of Mr. Bachiler, and who probably induced the Rev. gentleman to come here, had a child, named Stephen, to be baptized at the same time; and Mr. Bachiler, as Thomas was first presented for the holy rite, unceremoniously put him aside, declaring that he should baptize Stephen, who appears to have been named for his Rev. grandfather, first. Mr. Lewis seems to have thought a sort of family pride induced this movement, which struck him as an indignity toward Thomas, but it should, perhaps, be viewed in the light of a compliment. It may have been that Stephen was noisy and turbulent, insomuch that the old gentleman was ashamed of him and anxious to hurry him out of sight, while Thomas was quiet and well behaved. But it is not important to pursue the inquiry.

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REV. STEPHEN BACHILER AT HAMPTON.
(History of Hampton, N. H.)
The ancient town of Hampton, New Hampshire, embraced a large territory lying along the coast between Salisbury, Massachusetts, on the south, and Portsmouth, or the lower Piscataqua settlement on the north; and extending from the Atlantic Ocean westward, about six miles to Squamscott Patent (Stratham) and Exeter, and along the southerly side of the latter town, ten or twelve miles farther; the westerly line running thence southerly to the boundary between Salisbury (now Amesbury) and Haverhill, Massachusetts. The whole area is not less than one hundred square miles.
In the autumn of 1638, Winnacunnet (Hampton) remaining still unsettled, and the time allowed to the inhabitants of Newbury for removal hither having nearly expired, a petition, signed by Stephen Bachiler and others, was presented to the General Court, asking leave to settle here. Their prayer was granted. The record stands thus:
"The Court grants that the petitioners, Mr. Steven Bachiler, Christo: Hussey, Mary Hussey, Vidua, Thom: Cromwell, Samuel Skullard, John Osgood, John Crosse, Samu: Greenfield, John Molton, Tho: Molton, Willi: Estow, Willi: Palmer, Willi: Sergant, Richrd Swayne, Willi: Sanders, Robrt Tucke, wth divers others, shall have liberty to begin a plantation at Winnacunnet and Mr. Bradstreete, Mr. Winthrop, Jr., and Mr. Rawson, or some two of them, are to assist in setting out

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not known. It is also doubtful where he was educated; very possibly at Cambridge, where many with whom he appears to have been intimate, were known to have been. If the historians of Lynn are correct, he was of (so called) gentle blood; for Newhall, in his edition of Lewis' history of that town, states that, in Morgan's "Sphere of Gentry" (1661) is figured the coat-of-arms of Rev. Stephen Bachiler, as follows: "Vert, a plough in fesse, and in base, the sun rising, or." This gives a possible clew to the interpretation of a letter written by him, in 1643, to the church in Boston, which will be noted presently.
Mr. Bachiler received orders in the established church, but being a reformer, and having the courage of his convictions, he refused to conform to some of the ceremonials of the church, and therefore "suffered much at the hands of the bishops." He became a Dissenter, and, as a Dissenter went, with friends and followers to Holland. Now, if the historian may be permitted to "read between the lines" of the letter above mentioned, this would be the story of what immediately followed: A company was formed, of which Mr. Bachiler was the acknowledged leader, called, in his honor, The Company of the Plough, intending to come to New England in 1630, and settle in New Town (Cambridge). Mr. Bachiler to "Sit down with them," "not as a planter only but as a Pastor also." The church was organized and began its existence in Holland; and plans were so far perfected, that a ship was chartered and freighted; but "upon the disaster which happened to the goods of the company, by the false dealing of those entrusted by us with the Plough's ship and our goods therein," perhaps instigated by the persecuting bishops, all was lost and the emigration delayed. And so it happened that the pastor's family returned to England, while his daughter, Theodate, and her husband, Christopher Hussey, both young and ardent, crossed the ocean to prepare a resting place for her aged father and his church. This they found, as they fondly hoped, in Saugus (Lynn).
The above narrative, though not infallible history, is highly probable; but what follows is matter of record. Accompanied by some of his family, Mr. Bachiler sailed from London on the 9th of March, 1632, in the William and Francis, and arrived at Boston on the 5th of June. He went immediately to Lynn, where his son-in-law, Christopher Hussey, was already resident. There he began his ministry in New England, his church, organized in Holland, uniting with others previously at Lynn, without asking permission, and without ceremony.
Now, it must be premised, that many of the Puritans, persecuted in England, fled to these western shores, where they became in turn persecutors, as intolerant as their enemies across the sea. The ministers and magistrates formed a religious aristocracy, bigoted and domineering. Mr. Bachiler, a liberal Puritan, zealous for popular rights, and possibly too independent in maintaining them, soon became odious to this persecuting power.
They sought a quarrel against him, and found it in the manner of establishing his church. And now the magistrates of the colony required him "to forbeare exercising his gifts as a pastor or teacher publiquely," in Massachusetts, "unless it be to those he brought with him; for his contempt of authority, & till some scandals be removed." The term scandal has been wrongly supposed to imply immoral conduct in Mr. Bachiler. It was probably nothing more than petty quarrels, growing partly out of his partiality, in baptizing his own grandson before another child, born a week earlier.
This injunction was openly and strongly condemned by the liberal party, which was no inconsiderable one in the colony, and five months later the magistrates felt compelled to rescind it, though it does not appear that the victim had, in the meantime, made any acknowledgment of fault to prepare the way for such an act.
Mr. Bachiler remained pastor of the church at Lynn till about the close of 1635. The church at that time had been considerably enlarged, and a controversy had arisen between him and a majority of the members. The grounds of this controversy are not stated; but as Mr. Bachiler was an old man, it is possible that his church may have been desirous of obtaining a younger or a more popular minister. The account given by Governor Winthrop seems to afford some ground for this supposition. Mr. Bachiler asked a dismission for himself and his first members, six or seven in number, who had come from England with him; and the church granted it, supposing that they would leave the town, for so it was reported, Mr. Bachiler had intimated. On being dismissed, however, he and his brethren immediately renewed their old covenant, intending to raise another church there. At this "the most and chief of the town" were offended, for, as Governor Winthrop says, "it would cross their intentions of calling Mr. Peter, or some other minister." They
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He then complained to the magistrate, by whom he was forbidden "to proceed in any such church way until the cause were considered by the other ministers, etc."
But Mr. Bachiler refused to desist, probably regarding the course of the magistrates as an unjustifiable interference with his affairs; and this independence, both in thinking and acting, may give a clew to the difficulties that arose from time to time between him and the government. In this case, the magistrates "sent for him, and upon his delay, day after day, the marshall was sent" to convey him to Boston. Being thus taken into custody, he submitted to the civil authority and gave a "promise to remove out of the town within three months." He was thereupon discharged.
This account of Mr. Bachiler's connection with the church and people of Lynn is given, partly for the purpose of showing that some of the charges made against him may not have been well founded, having originated in the enmity of those who made them; and partly because here, in the renewal of the church covenant at Lynn, near the close of the year 1635, we find the organization of the Hampton church.
From Lynn, Mr. Bachiler removed to Ipswich. In 1637, he and his company undertook to form a settlement at Mattakeese (Yarmouth) on Cape Cod. Governor Winthrop says that he was then "about 76 years of age; yet he went thither on foot in a very hard season," the distance from Ipswich being nearly one hundred miles. This enterprise was relinquished on account of the poverty of the company, and the difficulties that they had to encounter.
In 1638, Mr. Bachiler and some or all of his company were at Newbury, and in the fall of that year settled at Winnacunnet.
According to tradition, a meeting house was built by those who formed the settlement, as soon as they had provided log cabins for themselves. Like their houses, it was undoubtedly made of logs, but of its form and dimensions we have no knowledge. It was built on the green--near where the Academy afterwards stood--a site occupied by a successions of meeting houses, till the early part of the present century. The people were called together for public worship by the ringing of a bell, as appears from the following vote, passed at the second town meeting, November 27, 1639: "Wm. Samborne (wth his consent) is appointed to ring the bell before the meetings on the Lord's dayes & other dayes, for which he is to have 6d pr lott of Evry one having a lott within the town." The bell, which was a present from the pastor, was probably hung on a frame in the open air, or suspended from some tree, till another house was built, which was furnished with a tower.
In the spring of 1639, Mr. Timothy Dalton was associated with Mr. Bachiler in the work of his ministry, the latter holding the office of pastor, and the former that of teacher. The great age of the pastor was probably the reason for employing another minister. But the connection was not an harmonious one. Both of the ministers were orthodox in sentiment, but they differed widely in practice, Mr. Bachiler being open and independent, and Mr. Dalton, in accord with the magistrates and elders. Mr. Bachiler was charged with a morality, but whether justly or unjustly is "not proven." He was excommunicated in 1641, and restored to the church in 1643, but not to the pastoral office.
That he committed some imprudences is admitted, but as to anything worse, it is likelier that the old persecutions followed him. He himself, in the letter before mentioned, to the church in Boston, complains bitterly of Mr. Dalton, in the following words: "I see not how I can depart hence till I have (or (I mean) God for me

More from the book is in File Genealogy\Batchelor\BatchelorHistories ~1700 - >1774 James Sisson 74 74 Daniel Stillwell 1708 - 1781 Caleb Cornell 73 73 <1724 Jacob Cornell Eleazor Mott 1525 Gulliver 1675 - 1719 Thomas Cornell 43 43 1770 - ~1852 Richard Cornell 82 82 Helen Maury Perry ~1646 Hulda Hussey ~1635 - 2 FEB 1717/18 Stephen Hussey William Hallett Newton Ursula Drusilla Beulah Wing 1691 Philip Sisson 1679 - 1756 Mary Harvey 77 77 Elizabeth E 1722 Benjamin Sisson Edith Cross ~1669 Mary Cornell ~1671 William Cornell 1713 William Tew ~1667 Richard Jr. Cornell ~1669 Sarah Cornell Elizabeth Curtis 1664 Higgins Sarah Miller Sarah Mosher Hannah Raymond 1647 Lydia Wing ~1667 Jacob Woolsey Richard Thomas Cornell Thomas Page James Kettle Jemima Rea D. >1711 Mary Flint Mary Hardy ~1625 - ~1662 Jane Godfrey 37 37 1681 - 8 JAN 1735/36 Bethiah Raymond ~1671 Sarah Tripp Ruth Clark Edward Coburn Abigail Bethia Shaw Mercy Wing Dachwood Mosher 1673 Peleg Tripp 1657 - 1716 Josiah Starr 59 59 1678 - 1728 George Allen 50 50 Phebe Titus Haight ~1670 Rebecca Archer 1660 Hannah Smith 1667 - 12 MAR 1736/37 Mary Balch ~1620 - ~1658 George Bunker 38 38 Agnes Mosher 1657 John Washburn 1657 Sarah Cornell 1656 - 1725 Richard Cornell 69 69 1659 - 13 MAR 1664/65 Thomas Cornell 1661 Elizabeth Cornell 1664 Joshua Cornell 1 FEB 1666/67 - 1743 William Cornell 1669 - 1758 Jacob Cornell 89 89 1673 Samuel Cornell 1739 - 1807 Richardus Cornell 68 68 1676 Rebecca (Twin) Cornell 1676 Mary (Twin) Cornell ~1642 - 1713 John Briggs 71 71 1673 Susanna Knowlton 1662 - 5 FEB 1709/10 Joseph Flint 1667 - >1708 Abigail Howard 41 41 1644 - 17 FEB 1716/17 Hannah Batchelder ~1662 Hester Gaines 1672 - 1754 Abiel Gaines 82 82 ~1670 Samuel Stone 1642 - 1720 Nathaniel Hayward 78 78 1659 - 1736 Hannah Cook 77 77 1653 - 1716 Elizabeth Cook 63 63 1665 Deborah Cook 1650 - 1716 William Briggs 66 66 ~1710 Jane Sisson 1690 - 1755 Nathaniel Hayward 64 64 Hepzibah Alden 1670 - 1741 Edward Colburn 71 71 1671 Sarah Heyward Blaine Bonny ~1642 - 1727 Hannah Fisher 85 85 1667 - 1718 Zacheus Butts 51 51 ~1672 Sarah Cornell [.]

Since this information came from an LDS Ancestral File, I am not at all certain of its authenticity. James Cornell ~1645 - 1697 Frances Fisher 52 52 20 FEB 1660/61 - 1736 John Stone 5 FEB 1665/66 Sarah Gale 1631 - 8 MAR 1716/17 Nathaniel Stone 1668 - >1736 Mehitable Tripp 68 68 24 MAR 1658/59 Elizabeth Stone 1663 - 23 FEB 1740/41 Nathaniel Stone Rebecca Mosher D. 1756 Phebe Stone D. 1717 Mary Stone Rebecca Stone D. 20 JAN 1711/12 Daniel Stone ~1636 - 1713 Samuel Corning 77 77 1643 - 1730 Elizabeth Corning 87 87 1643 Sarah Corning Jacob Mott 1676 - <1728 Samuel Corning 52 52 1671 - 1732 Richard Borden 60 60 <1638 Mary Hussey 1761 - 1794 Ebenezer Cornell 33 33 1655 - 1730 Thomas Wolsey 75 75 1660 - 1739 Ruth Bailey 79 79 1650 - 1727 Sarah (Sara) Wolsey (Wolsij) 77 77 1652 - 19 JAN 1739/40 George Or Joris Wolsey Or Wolsij 13 FEB 1658/59 Rebecca Wolsey Or Wolsij 16 JAN 1660/61 - 1729 John Or Johannes Wolsey Or Wolsij 19 MAR 1663/64 - 1678 Mary Or Marritie Wolsey Or Wolsij 1667 - 1700 Richard Durfee 33 33 1653 Isaac Arnald ~1656 Sarah ~1661 John Lawrence ~1667 Elizabeth Smith ~1667 Jane Whitehead ~1669 Hester Paine Ruth Slocum William Jr Creed ~1676 Richard Betts Rachel Webster 1662 - 1708 Sarah Almy 46 46 1667 Ann Almy 1684 Rebecca Woodbury 1679 - 1823 Joseph Corning 143 143 D. 1829 William Hallett ~1662 George Lawrance ~1668 Hester 1638 - 1704 William Palmer 66 66 1660 - 1714 Ruth Bayless 54 54 1713 Hopestill Sisson 26 JAN 1677/78 - 1757 Richard Cornell Benjamin Palmer 1663 John 1 Cornell 1683 - ~1734 Caleb Cornell 51 51 1685 Rebecca Cornell 1796 Jesse Cornell Benjamin Mosher 19 MAR 1618/19 - >1687 John Strange From John Austin's Dictionary of Rhode Island Genealogy:

He was a hatter.

Aug. 31, 1669.   Bought 30 acres in Portsmouth from John Parker of Shrewsbury, NJ or 34L.

Oct. 31. 1677.    He and 47 others were granted 5,000 acres to be called East Greenwich. He never went there to settle.

1680.    Taxed 8s., 3d.

Oct. 21, 1681.    Bought from Increase Robinson and Sarah, for 13L, a parcel if land down Taunton River, "both turf and twig."

Oct. 27, 1683.   " He, brother of Lot Strange, who died leaving no child to inherit his land and houses and being his only brother and so next  of blood, for divers considerations sd. sum of money paid by sister-in-law Alice Strange, widow of Lot, confirms to her all said lands and houses, &tc., and Alice Strange, wife of John, joins in deed to Alice Strange, widow of Lot and sister-in-law of John Strange."

Dec. 15, 1684.   Deeded son Lot, land bought from Increase Robinson.

Oct. 15, 1687.   "He, 'John Strange Sen.,' for sufficient maintenance of me and his beloved mother, in meat and drink during our natural lives, 'fit for ancient people as we are to have, and he is able to give' - freely and absolutely confirms to son John 20 acres, with now dwelling house and all moveables." ~1685 John Starr Benjamin Rathburne 1730 Gilbert Sisson 1711 Sarah Tew Deborah Wing 1655 Hannah Van Zandt Benjamin Wing 1661 Abigail Stevenson Mary Molineaux ~1657 - <1695 Richard Cadman 38 38 1672 - 1744 John Cornell 71 71 ~1672 Letitia Printz Mehitable Austin Edith Mosher ~1835 - 1690 John Northaway 145 145 1651 - 1704 Susannah Briggs 53 53 ~1703 Jens Hjetting ~1738 - ~1813 John Cornell 75 75 Cornell Henry Mosher 1677 - 1768 Joshua 2 Cornell 91 91 ~1669 - ~1694 Richard Cornwell 25 25 William Mosher 1665 - 1739 Rebecca Cornwell 74 74 Mabel Mosher 1764 - 1844 Haviland Cornell 79 79 1812 Phebe Ann Cornell ~1669 Priscilla Tripp ~1677 - 1753 Elizebeth 76 76 1753 Mary Cornell Abigel Waldron Mercy Rathburne 1689 - 1775 Jonathan Sisson 86 86 1644 - 1720 Thomas Briggs 76 76 ~1654 - 1733 Job Briggs 79 79 D. 1734 Enoch Briggs D. 1717 Mary Fisher 1646 - 1723 Thomas Willet 77 77 D. 1704 Helena Stoothoff 1662 John Cornell [.]

Witness at his father's trial. Seems unlikely, then, to have been born in 1669 since he would have been only 3 years old. 1673 Innocent Cornell 1666 Elizabeth Hayward 1669 Nathaniel Hayward 1670 - 1756 Nehemiah Hayward 86 86 1673 Jonathan Hayward 1675 - 1748 Nicholas Hayward 73 73 1678 - 1748 Samuel Hayward 70 70 1680 Hannah Hayward 1684 - 1762 Stephen Hayward 77 77 Mary Cornell 1655 - 1695 Lewis Morris 40 40 ~1706 Hannah Sisson 1663 - 1712 Elizabeth Almy 49 49 1669 Christopher Jr. Almy Job Almy 26 JAN 1670/71 - 24 FEB 1702/03 Rebecca Almy >1670 Hope Borden 14 MAR 1649/50 Martha Silver Phebe Cornell [.]

Never Married. ~1632 - 1689 Sarah Briggs 57 57 From The OWL, winter 1973-74, page 4185:

Sarah Briggs was the orphaned daughter of John Briggs, who "came over from England in 1635 when he was twenty years of age. He was named among the first sixty settlers of Sandwich in 1637. On the 14th of the 4th month, 1640 (July ?), in an assignment of meadow lands, John Briggs was given 7 1/2 acres. He died in 1641, in his 26th year, and his widow Catherine is said to have died during the same year. John and Catherine had two children, viz.: Samuel and Sarah, the latter of whom was born the same year as her parents' death.

The records show that the estate of John Briggs was probated at Plymouth on the 5th day of the 10th month, 1641, and an inventory of his property, showing 155L, 2s., was 'exhibited on oath of his widow Catherine, who was apt adminstratrix. And the said Catherine Briggs doth promise and give unto her two children, two cows, viz.: the younger white cow to her son Samuel, and the brown heifer to d. Sarah, to be kept for them, and increase of stock to be theirs from this time forward." 1655 Stephen Briggs ~1683 Richard Tripp 1869 Benjamin Franklin Wing William Clark Caleb Willis Daniel Lariom 1680 Hannah Woodbury Joseph Maxson Hubbard Burdick D. 1712 Charity Stevenson Edward Dillingham 28 JAN 1663/64 Daniel Wing Abigail Jane Stacey ~1683 Elisabeth Hagner Or Hayner Philip Mosher ~1662 - ~1701 Jonathan Merrihew Merchew 39 39 ~1655 - ~1695 John Morris 40 40 ~1661 - ~1711 John Leonard 50 50 ~1665 Benjamin Jefferson ~1666 Thomas Townsend ~1622 - ~1658 Elizabeth ?? 36 36 From Rhode Genealogies #1, Genealogies of R.I. Families, Volume I, Cornell Family, page 275:

"In many of the genealogical records of the Cornell Family it has been assumed that Thomas Cornell, son of Thomas of Portsmouth, R.I., married for his first wife Elizabeth Fiscock. Although this statement has several times appeared in print, it might not of itself be a matter of great importance, except that thereupon is based the belief that the family originated in Hertfordshire, where fruitless efforts have been made to trace it.

This belief..is founded on certain entries in the Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, where among the Marriages we find: 'Nov. 2, 1642, Thomas Cornelis, j. m. Uyt de Provincie Van Hertfort en Elizabeth Fiscock, j. d. Van Pleymouth in Engelt (N.Y. Gen. Record, VI., 35).

Among the Baptisms in the same church are those of Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Corenwell, Jan. 12, 1644; Sara, daughter of Thomas Carrnwell, Feb. 21, 1646; Johannes, aged 3 years, and Maria 10 weeks, children of Thomas Carrnwell, Aug. 14, 1650 (Ib. V, 34, 87, 94).

If these records referred to Thomas Cornell of R.I. we should naturally expect to find among the sponsors at some of these baptisms, his sisters Sarah Willett and Rebecca Wolsey, who were married and living in New Amsterdam, and who were present as parents or sponsors at no less than ten baptisms between 1643 and 1650. Instead of these sisters we find among the witnesses to the baptisms Eduart Fiscock, Jan Haes, who married in 1645 Edwart Fiscock's widow, Susanna Breser, probably sister of Henry Bresner, who married a daughter of Smauel Spicer of Gravesend, and Sara Cornelis, who evidently was not the Sarah Cornell who married Thomas Willett, three years before. She apparently belonged to a Dutch Cornelis family then somewhat numerous in New Amsterdam.

...I have found nothing to indicate that Thomas 2nd of R.I. was ever in New Amsterdam. That he was twice married is certain, but he had no children answering to the above (a description of of Elizabeth F's marriage and the children).

No. 9 East 54th Street, New York          Charles B. Curtis)" John Townsend ~1675 Charity Doughty Hicks 26 FEB 1683/84 Sarah Sisson 1682 Mary Frothingham 1698 Jonathan Corning 1712 James Corning 1715 Stephen Corning 1693 Samuel Corning Mary Dodge Nicholas Groves 1695 Hannah Corning 1699 - 1762 John Pride 62 62 20 JAN 1701/02 Abigail Corning David Stone 11 MAR 1706/07 Elizabeth Corning Herbert Pride 1710 Lydia Corning 1717 James Sisson Mary Sisson 1685 Elizabeth Allen ~1697 Hannah Cornell Thorne 1635 - 4 JAN 1697/98 Elizabeth Jessup 1731 Lydia Sisson Kezia Willett Thorne ~1688 Elizabeth Cornell ~1690 Mary Cornell ~1694 Richard Cornell D. 1759 Anne Gilpin 1723 John Hayward [.]

Mabe the same person as other sibling John. Information came from different Ancestral Files. 1720 - <1721 Hepzebeth Hayward 1 1 Elisabeth Nott 19 FEB 1698/99 - 1780 Matthew Franklin 1705 - 1772 Deborah Cornell 67 67 Ruth Maiden Name Hallett ~1707 - 1755 Judith Howard 48 48 Mary Hinchman Keziah Horne Richard Willett Ebenezer Nichols 1774 - 1829 Nancy Cornell 55 55 1696 - 1769 Mary Tallman 73 73 1754 - 1784 Samuel Cornell 30 30 John ? Maxson Samuel Cary 1678 William Woolsey 1695 - >1713 Hannah Swinnerton 18 18 1690 - 1716 Samuel Haskins 26 26 1689 Hannah Hayward 15 MAR 1691/92 Nathaniel Hayward 1694 Ebenezer Hayward 1696 Elizabeth Hayward 19 FEB 1701/02 Diadem Hayward 1705 Paul Hayward 1708 Mehitable Hayward D. 26 JAN 1718/19 Mary Hayward Jonathan Hayward George Hussey Abigail Hayward James Hayward Ruth Hayward 1709 Nehemiah Hayward 1712 Josiah Hayward 1714 Jabez Hayward 1717 Eunice Hayward 1719 Andrew Hayward 1722 Rose Hayward Gideon Hayward 1642 Hannah Wing Sarah 1673 - 1731 Richard Allen 58 58 James Mosher Mary Pearsall Daniel Mosher 29 FEB 1675/76 Mary Allen David Cindrick ~1702 Gretye 1684 John Cornell 1686 Elizabeth Cornell 1691 Edward Cornell Deborah 1 JAN 1694/95 - 1767 Samuel Flint Vickery 1724 Catharine Cornell ~1714 Recompense Kirby 9 MAR 1717/18 Rebekah Cornell 1726 Joshua Cornell 1730 Susannah Gifford 22 JAN 1704/05 - 1746 Hannah Pride ~1641 - ~1690 Sarah Earle 49 49 1683 John Washburn 1687 - <1719 Hannah Hallett 32 32 1685 - 1753 Susanna Washburn 68 68 1687 Mary Washburn 1693 - 1727 Jacob Anthony 33 33 1704 - 1733 Elias Merithew 29 29 24 JAN 1708/09 - 1731 Hannah Shearman 1698 - 1753 Benjamin Roundy 54 54 1665 - 1730 Daniel Briggs 65 65 12 FEB 1670/71 - 1757 James Briggs ~1673 - 1755 Sarah Wickes 82 82 1688 - 1766 Nathaniel Sr. Flint 77 77 2 JAN 1691/92 - 1726 Sarah Cutler 12 JAN 1689/90 - >1716 Abigail Flint 1691 - >1713 Jonathan Flint 22 22 1693 - ~1750 Anna Flint 57 57 1698 - >1723 Lucy Flint 25 25 1700 - >1726 Elizabeth Flint 26 26 5 MAR 1702/03 - 1723 Sarah Flint 1705 - >1740 Ruth Flint 35 35 ~1708 - >1730 Eunice Flint 22 22 1666 - 1717 Elizabeth Richmond 51 51 D. >1708 Mary Richmond Jonathan Mosher 1665 - 1747 William Almy 81 81 ~1666 - 1736 Stephen Wilcox 70 70 1664 - 1751 Sarah Wilcox 87 87 1700 - 1747 Charity Stone 47 47 1721 - 24 JAN 1742/43 Jonathan Alden 1719 - 1809 Experience Hayward 90 90 1731 John Hayward 1729 Mary Hayward 1728 Elizabeth Hayward Hannah Adley 1721 Nathaniel Hayward Jonathan Maxson 14 MAR 1671/72 - 1719 Sussanah Briggs 19 FEB 1664/65 - 1718 Edward Briggs 1723 Mary Russell 1719 - ~1782 Peleg Cornell 63 63 1680 Susannah Spencer 29 JAN 1663/64 - 1736 Thomas Briggs 1656 - 1734 James Sisson 78 78 1677 - 5 JAN 1729/30 Robert Dennis 1681 - 1744 Susanna Briggs 62 62 1695 - 1749 Benjamin Brayton 53 53 ~1697 Mary Butts 1697 - 1777 Richard Woolsey 80 80 ~1668 Martha Briggs 25 JAN 1667/68 - 1747 John Briggs 26 FEB 1672/73 Frances Briggs 1 FEB 1674/75 Richard Briggs 1678 - >1782 Robert Briggs 104 104 1681 Mary Briggs 1683 - 1683 Ann Briggs 7d 7d 1678 - 1752 Hannah North 74 74 1699 - 1779 Jonathan Cole 79 79 1695 - 1779 Miriam Stone 83 83 1690 - 1764 Priscilla Stone 74 74 Jeremiah Gifford 1693 Sarah Stone 1696 Eunice Stone 1698 - 1 MAR 1716/17 Ambrose Stone 1702 - 1751 Susanna Stone 49 49 1704 - 1763 Remember Stone 59 59 1657 Elizabeth Mott Sarah Stone Joseph Tripp 1630 - 1712 Mary Lott 82 82 1672 - 1718 Henry Howland 45 45 1674 - 1712 Deborah Briggs 38 38 1705 - 1752 David Corning 46 46 1707 - 1790 Priscilla Thissell Thistle 82 82 9 JAN 1675/76 - 1724 Samuel Wightman D. 1756 Sarah Thorne 1698 - 1770 Sarah Fowler 72 72 1684 - 1731 Thomas Wolsey 47 47 1685 - 1716 Abigail Wolsey 31 31 30 JAN 1686/87 - 1771 William Wolsey 1691 - 1751 John Wolsey 60 60 1695 - 1754 Jonathan Wolsey 59 59 ~1689 Derica Williamson 1707 - 1788 Joseph Corning 81 81 1685 - 1748 Elnathan Stevenson 63 63 ~1696 Sarah Cornell Nathaniel Thorn 1688 - 1749 William Cornell 61 61 1693 - 1728 Esek Carr 35 35 ~1685 - >1716 Robert Russell 31 31 ~1695 - >1723 Thomas Elliot 28 28 1701 - >1726 Samuel Marsh 25 25 1708 - >1730 Thomas Goldthwaite 22 22 1665 - 1753 John Palmer 88 88 D. 1746 William Palmer D. 1774 John Aspinwall ~1688 - 22 FEB 1727/28 Mary Davis 1702 - 1771 Mercy Abbee 69 69 1862 Mary Arminta Wing In Utah 1870 Census, Mary Arminta's birthplace is shown to be Nebraska and her age is 8 years. ~1705 - >1740 Archelaus Putnam 35 35 1685 - 1757 Sarah Briggs 71 71 1694 - 1694 Sarah Borden 1d 1d 1689 - 1762 Robert Hazard 72 72 3 MAR 1684/85 - Deceased Hope Borden D. 1747 Moses Northrup 1691 Abigail Cornwall 1675 - 1730 Rebecca Hallett 54 54 ~1669 - 1727 Lydia 58 58 25 FEB 1681/82 - 9 MAR 1733/34 John Jr. Woodman 1689 - 1763 Elizabeth Briggs 73 73 1685 - 21 JAN 1711/12 John Briggs 11 JAN 1687/88 - 1673 William Briggs 1693 - 23 MAR 1715/16 Thomas Briggs 1693 - 1773 Deborah Briggs 80 80 1696 - 4 MAR 1726/27 Job Briggs ~1687 Thomas Hicks 5 MAR 1688/89 - 1771 Mercy Abbe 1693 Mary Rodman 1715 George Sisson ~1696 Joshua Jr. Cornell Charity Haight ~1698 John Cornell 1702 - 1768 Samuel Cornell 66 66 ~1704 Sarah Cornell 1720 Elizabeth Cornell ~1700 - 1777 Hannah Carman 77 77 1715 - <1757 Phebe Cornell 42 42 1676 Richard Sisson ~1632 Thomas Kent Hannah Hewlett 1709 Dorcas Tew 1681 - ~1731 Thomas Woolsey 50 50 1683 - ~1717 Abigail Woolsey 34 34 1655 Thomas Wiggins ~1691 John Woolsey 1677 - 1761 Peleg Tripp 84 84 Phebe Babcock 1697 Thomas Merithew Sarah Ann Williamson 1706 Grace Merithew Patience Cory ~1698 Gloriana Cornell 1671 - 1748 Martha Freeborn 77 77 1697 - 1758 Holder Slocum 60 60 1693 William Farnum 1709 Peleg Almy 1664 - 21 MAR 1745/46 Joseph Cook MAR 1671/72 - <1742 Susanna Briggs 1687 Richard Durfee 1689 Mary Almy 1692 John Almy 1696 - 1777 Job Almy 81 81 1701 Samuel Almy 1703 Deborah Almy 1704 - 1773 Rebecca Almy 69 69 1707 William Almy 1707 Joseph Almy 13 FEB 1702/03 - 1780 Ruth Putnam ~1685 - 1769 Samuel Conkling 84 84 Mary Ferris 1708 - ~1758 Richard Cornell 50 50 1676 - 1752 George Cornell 76 76 1678 - 1732 Deliverance Clark 54 54 Hugh Mosher 1682 - 1766 Sarah Blood 84 84 JAN 1696/97 - 1732 Deborah Church 1702 - 1744 Randall Preston 41 41 1691 - <1732 Edmund Stone 41 41 John Patch Ebenezer Cleaves 1690 - <1722 Samuel Haskins 32 32 1692 - ~1739 John Allen 47 47 Benjamin Allen Judith Clarke Marye Mosher Ruth Mosher ~1692 Sarah Cornwell ~1697 Rebecca Cornell ~1699 Deborah Cornell ~1701 Hannah Cornell 1663 - 1753 John 3 Cornwell 90 90 Joseph Smith ~1690 Mary Cornwell Abiah Wheeler ~1695 John Cornell Ruth Lydia Mosher 1680 Hannah Allen Mercy Dickinson 1716 Patience Burgess Phebe F. Carpenter 12 JAN 1676/77 James Tripp 1708 Jonathan Merethew 1710 Samuel Merethew 1712 Mary Merethew 14 MAR 1713/14 Roger Merrithew 24 MAR 1716/17 Job Merethew 1721 Susannah Merethew 1723 Dinah Merethew 14 MAR 1713/14 Jeremiah Merethew Sarah Hudson Benjamin Wickam 2 MAR 1718/19 Desire Merethew ~1697 - 1774 Mary Green 77 77 1699 - 1714 John Corning 15 15 1703 - 1764 Joshua Corning 61 61 22 MAR 1704/05 Ezera Corning 11 MAR 1711/12 Nathan Corning 1715 Andrew Corning 1701 Benjamin Corning Judith Rayment 1706 Malachi Corning Eunice Leach 1719 Robert Corning Mary Yabsley 26 FEB 1684/85 Mary Sisson 1671 Mary Briggs 1676 Hannah Briggs 1678 John Briggs 1684 - 1766 Thomas Briggs 82 82 1692 - 1744 Jacob Blackwell 52 52 1687 - 1743 Mary Hallett 55 55 4 MAR 1677/78 - 1750 Joseph Hallett Lydia Blackwell Jonathan Strange Ruth 1703 - 1703 Elizabeth Holt ~1700 Samuel Coburn 19 FEB 1680/81 - 1744 Richard Sisson John Sisson Thomas Everitt 1759 - 1775 Charity Cornell 16 16 John Cannon Joseph Sutton 1705 - 1766 Sarah Sands 61 61 1710 - 1775 John Sands 65 65 ~1712 Mary Sands Hannah Harrison ~1714 Bathsheba Sands ~1716 Jerusha Sands 1708 - 1769 Abijah Sands 61 61 Hannah Warren Jane Haviland 1702 - 1770 James Sands 68 68 Rebecca Bailey 1699 - 1757 Othniel Sands 58 58 Susannah Lang 1712 - 1775 Catharine Greiner Or Grine 63 63 Barak Cornell ~1705 - 1798 Hannah Trow 93 93 1692 Mary Porter 1680 Lewis Jr. Morris 1685 Thomas Morris 1690 - 1763 Richard Morris 73 73 1697 Rebecca Morris 12 JAN 1694/95 - 1767 John Morris 1656 - ~1744 Martha Bunker 87 87 1709 Elizabeth Sisson 1700 - 1774 Lydia Tillinghast 74 74 1689 Elizabeth Jackman 24 FEB 1668/69 Martha Willett 22 FEB 1670/71 Francis Willett 29 JAN 1671/72 - 1693 Sara Willett 1674 Joseph Willett 1676 Johannah Willett 1678 Willett 12 FEB 1679/80 William Willett 1682 Thomas Willett 1685 Hannah Willett 1687 John Willett D. 30 JAN 1744/45 George Northway Lydia Unknown 1682 Mary Allen 1677 - 1729 Mary Tripp 52 52 Sarah Briggs 1733 Gideon Sisson ~1671 - 1751 William Briggs 80 80 1683 Elizabeth Fobes 1674 - 1728 Thomas Cornell 53 53 Samuel Cranston 1699 - 19 FEB 1749/50 Elizabeth Cornell Job Rathburne 1694 - 1733 Amy Bowne 39 39 1686 - 1730 James Jackson 43 43 ~1692 Hope Durfee 1685 - 1723 John Moon 38 38 <1694 Abigail Briggs Ruth Unkn 1664 - 1739 George Philips 74 74 19 MAR 1672/73 Sarah Hallett Mary Lawrence 19 JAN 1680/81 - 1708 Moses Hallett Unkn Fitch 1683 George Hallett Precilla Allen Samuel Moore 16 MAR 1684/85 Charity Hallett John Fish 1689 Elizabeth Hallett 1691 - 1769 Richard Hallett 77 77 Amy Browne D. 1746 John Akin Sarah 15 MAR 1697/98 - 1760 Zebulon Webb D. 1749 Ebenezer Haviland ~1669 Job Briggs Sarah Judith Briggs 1687 - 1717 Benjamin Head 30 30 22 JAN 1677/78 - 29 FEB 1747/48 William Hartshorne 1705 - 1781 William Cornell 76 76 ~1698 Charity Doughty John Borden 1685 Renewed 1696 Edward Coburn 1704 Robert Coburn 1719 Hepsiah Hayward Ebenezer Cushman Hazard 1729 - 30 JAN 1747/48 Elizabeth Cornell 1725 - >1796 Richard Gifford 70 70 1722 Susanna Cornell 1 FEB 1689/90 Sarah Stone 1691 Josiah Stone Joseph Mosher 1693 Nathaniel 1 Stone 1696 Benjamin Stone 1699 Ruth Stone 1702 Hannah Stone 1703 Phebe Stone 1706 David Stone 1708 Abigail Stone Mehitable Fish 12 JAN 1705/06 Peter Corning 1712 - 1712 Infant Corning ? 1714 Martha Corning 1709 - 1760 Josiah Corning 50 50 1703 Hannah Corning Mary Richards 1717 - 1797 Nehemiah Corning 80 80 D. 1809 Freeborn Bliss 26 JAN 1715/16 - 1803 Jane Andrus Anna Field 1668 William Willet ~1670 Sarah Willett 1672 - 1724 Thomas Willett 52 52 1674 - <1701 Mary Willett 27 27 1676 Elbert Willett 1678 Charles Willett 1680 - 1715 Helena Willett 34 34 Ananias Wing 1675 Philadelphia Eustis 1675 Abigail Sisson ~1691 Mary Durfee ~1693 Thomas Durfee ~1695 Ann Durfee ~1699 Amey Durfee Hannah Haviland 1701 Mary Sands Aaron Smith ~1714 Zerviah Sands 1 JAN 1707/08 - 1760 John Sands 1711 - 1793 Elisabeth Cornell 81 81 Theodata Hussey Daniel Lewis ~1685 - >1760 Amy Amey Almy Cadman 75 75 ~1683 - ~1760 William Cadman 77 77 ~1688 Elizabeth Cadman ~1690 Rebecca Rebekah Cadman ~1686 - 1716 Christopher Cadman 30 30 ~1690 Mary Cadman 14 MAR 1694/95 - 1742 John Merrihew Hugh D. Webster 1702 Timothy Merrihew 1675 Ebenezer Tripp Joanna Jacquemynte White 6 MAR 1714/15 Thorne Phebe Cornell 1667 - 1728 Joseph Palmer 61 61 1690 - 1774 John Willets 84 84 ~1670 Sarah Hinchman ~1640 Amy Bull Sarah 1731 Abigail Sisson ~1733 - ~1771 Mercy\ Marcy Sisson 38 38 1713 Barnet Sisson 1714 Joseph Sisson 1716 George Sisson 1720 James Sisson 1722 Lydia Sisson Living Bonny Living Smith 1886 - 1952 Fredrick Fritz Bonny 65 65 Fritz is listed in the 1910 and 1920 Salt Lake City Directories. In 1910, he is called Fritz,works as a Brakeman at the D & RG and lives at 3 Brown's Court. In 1920, he is called Fred, works as a conductor for the D & RG and lives at 1936 Edison. In between the two, Fritz and Amelia lived at 238 Burno Avenue in Salt Lake City; this is the address he used on his WWI Draft Registration. [See FHL 1983914, cpoy of page in possession of Jane Bonny] Family lore has always held that Fritz worked for the Union Pacific Railroad. The Denver and Rio Grande is not shown as part of the Union Pacific in the short history in my possession.

I have received a copy of Fritz's employment record from the Railroad Retirement Board. The record shows that he was "dismissed" July 7th 1931, right in the middle of the Depression, and "reinstated"  13 July 1936, resuming service on August 3rd as a Brakeman. Fritz never had enough time to make up for the depression and the dismissal; he returned as a Brakeman and reamined a Brakeman until his retirment. Joe says that the dismissal came from being caught at a normal practice of the trains crews. There was a freight run to the south which took the train through a farm where all the trains used to stop so the crews could buy eggs from the farmer. Someone turned them in and the entire crew was fired. During those 5 years Fritz worked as a Custodian at the Continental Bank at the corner of 6th and Main. (It was a job he got through the contact of his brother-in-law Joe Vincent, who was a wealthy, influential man, a restauranteur with gambling and bootlegging on the side. Fritz and Amelia named their last child after Joe Vincent.)

During that time, Fritz also studied railroad laws to return to his job, there apparently being some sort of test required in order to return. He studied every day with one of his friends. He was eventuall reinstated as a brakeman and was promoted to conductor.

During the period as bank custodian, Fritz one night caught a bank robber. Fritz was unarmed dwhen he encountered the robber so he bluffed the man into thinking that one of his keys was actually a gun. He held the man for the authorities.

Fritz and Amelia were living at 1070 South 5th Street, East in Salt Lake City, when he retired at age 55 on 17 September 1946. The reason stated for retirement was disability. The place of resisdence 8 years later when Fritz died was145 South 3rd East.

Frtiz died of a heart attack, myocardial infarction due to arterioscleratic heart disease and myxedema, eight hours after onset. He was bureid in the Salt Lke City Cemetery. 1780 Oke Pahlsson 1787 Bengta Johnson 1855 - 1917 Joseph Smith Bohne 61 61  As a child Joseph traveled with his mother, and possibly his aunt, from Denmark to America and then probably on a Pushcart Expedition, to Utah. Given the probable date of 1857 and the fact that only the expeditions for 1857-8 are missing people's names and their names do not appear on any other lists, it seems probable that they were on the one arriving in 1857. Also, the marriage of his mother in 1858 in Utah seems to add to the theory. If so, the expedition, while certainly arduous, was fortunate to have the U.S. Army traveling a parallel route to Utah at the same time for the Army donated an ox which had been crippled by a wagon wheel to the hungry travelers. In the journal of this expedition, the second offering of food, from a fellow journeyer, was not so welcome for this fellow was somewhat aged, required a cane and had lost his sense of smell. Spying a small, apparently edible creature on the prairie, he cornered it and lambasted it with his cane  until it was dead. Then he threw the small. black and white, striped animal over his shoulder and headed back to the cart train, there to be repelled by his otherwise congenial fellow travelers. (See Notes for Helsienne Hjetting, the information for whom confirms this theory)

In the 1900 Census, he is shown as being 45 years of age, a widower with three children at home, Winne who is 16 and does not attend school, Phosa who is 14 and attends school, and Fritz who is 12 and attends school. The Month on birth for each of the children is different from what I have. The Census shows Winnie as Nov. 1883, Phosa Nov. 1885, and Fritz as October 1887.

The Census also shows Joseph as having been out of the work for the previous 6 months. Joseph's obituary (12 February 1917 in the Salt Lake City Tribune) states that he was a carpenter and a member of the Masons.

Where were the other children, gone from home? Who was Phosa?


































 1858 - 1888 Elizabeth Jane Wing 29 29 In the 1870 Utah Census Elizabeth Jane's age is 10 years and her place of birth is Illinois. Her cemetery record from the Springville Cemetery states that she was born in Colhown County, Illinois. This same record indicates that her father was Joseph S. Bonney (actually her husband) and Sarah Wing (Sarh Adelia Wright Wing). 1814 - ~1852 Jens Carl Fredrick Bohne 38 38 From Pioeer Woemn of Faith and Fortitude in the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City (979 D36 v 2, page 1717):

"Magnus made his living by the sea [This is confirmed by the 1845 Census of Denmark in which he is listed as a Styrman, Ship's Pilot]. The waters of the North Sea are treacherous. Magnus was drowned at sea and left Helsine with five children to raise." 1818 - 1890 Helsienne Hjetting 71 71 Helsine was the young mother of five and the wife of a seaman when her husband was drowned at sea, Her circumstances were immediately reduced. In 1845, she, her husband and one child were living in a single family dwelling. In 1855, she and the children are living in what appears to be an apartment or other communal dwelling.

[From Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude:]

"Svend Larsen and his family had been baptized members of the L.D.S. Church. He was a wealthy sea captain who owned his own boat. He used it to assist the missionaries in getting about to further the work of the Lord in Scandinavia. In 1853, he, his wife, and their six children left Norway and came to America. As they were coming up the Mississippi River on a steamboat, Cholera broke out and took many lives. His wife and four children were among those who died. Svend went back to his homeland as a missionary and among his converts were some widows who had lost their husbands to the sea. Helsine Hjetting Bohn was one of those widows. After arriving in Utah in the fall of 1857, he followed the advice of President Brigham Young to marry the widows and provide care for them and their children. He married two widows and was sealed to his first wife on January 11, 1858. (There is IGI information to indicate that Helsienne married Sven Larsen in January, 1858.) In 1861, Sven also married Helsine's sister, Mette Marie, who gave birth to a daughter and died when her daughter was one year old. Helsine took care of her. She also had two children by Sven." (This report lends some support to the possibility that Sven was the father of the last child, Joseph.)

Helsienne Bohna, her children, Hendrik Morten (11), Jens Carl J. (13), Joseph Smith (2), Sophus Morten (8) and Anna Sophia (5), and her sister are listed as passengers on the Westmoreland which left Liverpool on April 25, 1857. The spelling of the last name does end in "A". (The ages do do exactly match those given later in Pioneer Women.)

From "Immigration Narratives" http://www.vii.com/~nelsonb/enarrative.htm#1857) and from "Handcarts to Zion," the following information is available.

On Friday, April 18, 1857, a company of emigrating Scandinavian Mormons, numbering 536 people, bound for Utah, sailed from Copenhagen on the steamer "L.N. Hvidt." The ship arrived at Grimsby, England, April 21, 1857, in the afternoon. The journey continued from there by rail to Liverpool where they boarded the Westmoreland, which sailed on the 25th of April.

During the voyage, "The emigrants went to bed between 9 and 10 o'clock in the evening and arose about 5 o'clock in the morning. Prayers were held morning and evening and, as far as possible, also at noon. The Sundays were occupied with fasting, prayers and preaching. Schools were also organized in each district (4) for the purpose of giving the Scandinavian Saints instructions in English. A musical company was organized and the Saints frequently enjoyed themselves in the dance and other innocent diversions."

The voyage lasted 36 days, arriving in Philadelphia on May 31, 1857. On June 2, 1857, the group continued by rail from Philadelphia to Iowa City by way of Baltimore and Wheeling. They arrived in Iowa City on June 9, 1857, where they emigrants were normally outfitted for the journey west. "Upon arrival at Iowa City on June 9, the emigrants were taken to the camp grounds, about three miles from town. Here large round tents, held up by a center pole, and capable of holding about twenty persons, awaited them." They were divided into two groups, ox-cart expedition and hand cart expedition. The passenger list for the Westmoreland indicates that Helsienne and the rest of her party would be part of the hand cart expedition. Unfortunately for the immigrants, when in Denmark, they had been led to believe that they would be allowed fifteen pounds of clothes per person. In Iowa City, however, they learned that the fifteen pounds included everything. Three days were allowed for disposing of beds, dishes, books and clothing.


On June 15,both groups left Iowa City.  The (Seventh) Hand Cart Expedition arrived in Florence, Nebraska on July 3, 1857. Many were sick due to the change of food and climate, as well as overexertion. Despite that, the group voted unanimously to continue without the sick. Thus, on July 7, 1857, 330 people, with 68 handcarts, 3 wagons and 10 mules continued westbound. They arrived at the same time as the ox-cart expedition, September 13, 1857.

Among the problems on the expedition was the fact that the leader was a Scotsman, James Park, who spoke no Danish. Ultimately, he was replaced by Elder Christiansen who consented to leave the wagon train in order to assist.

The daily routine was much the same as aboard the ship, rising at 5 o'clock to a whistle for breakfast and an assembly for song, prayer and instructions.

"On reaching the Loup Fork, July 16, some Indians familiar with the river crossing, were hired to help the company ford the stream. Provisions and goods were hauled across in the wagon, pulled by double teams. The emptied handcarts were then taken across by the strongest men; some women rode on horseback, clinging to the almost naked Indians who guided the horses"

"The caravan reached Fort Laramie on August 9. Approaching now the country known as the Black Hills, they found the road more rough and hilly, wood more abundant, and the nights cool. But their supply of food dwindled, and had to be rationed.

One bit of food came from an unexpected quarter. A detachment of the 'Utah Expedition,' the army going west to discipline the Saints, was traveling near the Danish handcart train. An ox, belonging to the soldiers, was disabled when a heavy wagon ran over and crushed its foot. The military captain came over to the hungry emigrants and said, 'You may have the ox, I guess you need it.' The fresh meat was gratefully devoured."

The next offer, however, was not. "An old man devoid of a sense of smell was walking some distance from the handcarts, when he saw an animal that might be suitable for food. Creeping cautiously upon it, he proceeded to lambaste it with his cane until it was lifeless. Then he threw the little striped animal over his shoulder and headed for the handcart caravan. As he approached, his friends retreated. The gift was vociferously declined, and even the giver was considered unbearable. With no change of clothing available, the kind man was ostracized. Happily, the company soon reached Deer Creek Station, where the emigrant's son was located."

"As the emigrants neared South Pass, the great divide between the Atlantic and the Pacific drainage, they met wagons loaded with flour. By giving promises or some handcart equipment as security, they were able to purchase enough for their needs. At Fort Bridger further supplies were procured. And some miles out from Salt Lake City, they were met by friends laden with fresh bread, cake, and fruits.

The final stages of the journey furnished a test between the endurance of men and mules, both groups having been on short rations through miles of heat and sand. Feed on the trail was especially scant this year for mules. Some 50,000 cattle were being driven to California along this route, besides the oxen of the huge freight trains of Johnston's army." One of every ten of the mules died; many were helped up the mountain by the emigrants.

In anticipation of the arrival of "The Utah Expedition," Brigham Young sent out a band to burn down Fort Bridger so the mention of supplies there is interesting. 1857 was the same year as The Mountain Meadow Massacre of numerous westward bound non-Mormons by a band of Mormons dressed as Indians.

Helsienne died in January 1890. While there was no obtiuary for her, it is ironic that the news of the days was not about the Mormons but whether the death of a young woman under the care of Christian Science practitioners was the result of crime or faulty science.

 1774 Hendrich Mortenesen Bohne ~1778 Anne Frisline Hansdatter Holme ~1789 - 1832 Jens Jensen Hjetting 43 43 ~1791 Karen Sophie Solesbeck ~1918 Melba McLain 7 MAR 1687/88 Jonathan Ricketson Mary ?? John Rathburne 1654 Hepzibah Wing 1898 Louis James Bonny 1715 Giles Sisson Micah Mosher Living Marcella Ralph Earle Living Bonny Daniel Fish Grace Rathburne Rebecca Rathburne 1849 - 1912 Olina Anna Andersen 62 62 On her Death Certificate, which was signed by daughter Amelia, her name was Annie. The name a the top of the Death Certificate is Olena A. Paulson. I assume that the A is for Annie or Anderson (no middle name according to Martha A Johnson). The Certificate also states that the names of the Parents are James O. Paulson and Annie Anderson; I think that possibly the young Amelia was distraught and gave information regarding her own parents rather than those of her mother's parents. It would be more than remarkable if Olena's parents' names were the same as her own and her husband's.

In the Salt Lake County Census of 1900, Olena (spelled Ilena) is widowed and supporting herself and her three daughters as a laundress.

In the 1900 Census, Olena also indicates that she arrived in the United States in 1871.

In a letter written to Blaine Bonny, Martha Johnson (cousin, aunt? in Stewartville, Minnesota) says that Olena came to America with her parents from Hedemarker, Norway and that she had 12 brothers and sisters. It is possible that it was Olena's mother who had 12 brothers and sisters. The family first settled in Chicago for a short time then moved to Minnesota and stayed with Martha's family. Olena attended school at Adams [Mowers County in southeast Minnesota]. It appears they were not there long, though the brothers were apparently not far away nor were their uncles. She mentions siblings Altena, Willard, Blanche and her husband Milton.

In 1880, Olena is in Freeborn County and her parents are perhaps in Mower County. There is no record of marriage of Olena to James in either Mower or Freeborn County. Did Olena just decide one day to take the new train to the west. Did James decide to go out of state in search of a new wife? In the late 19th century 60 per cent of all daughters left the country and farm for the city. Perhaps Olena met James in Minnesota if he served as a Scandinavian missionary there. Swedish missionary Mad Anderson was known to have worked in southern Minnesota; he may have convinced Olena to leave for Utah. Andrew Anderson Anders and Anne possibly arrived in the United States in 1871. According to a letter written to Darrel Bonny, they stayed for a while in Chicago. If so, they arrived during the cleanup following the massive Chicago Fire of 1871.

The 1880 Census shows and Andrew Anderson, age 56 from Norway, and wife Annie, age 60, also from Norway, living in Lodi, Mower County, Minnesota, which agrees with the letter written to Darrell Bonny regarding living in Adams, Mower County. In the next county to the west, Freeborn, there is an Olena Anderson living in the household of Christopher Johnson (possible relative?).

Anders, Anne and the children arrived in Minnesota during good times. The Civil War was over, the weather was good, production was good, land was relatively cheap. By 1873 when the big Panic struck, many people were giving up on their farms and the railroads had stopped building through the state of Minnesota, many having gone bankrupt. Soddies were the common form of habitat in the 1870's and 1880s, gradually being replaced by tar paper houses. By the 1880s the weather was good again, only to be followed by a severe drought in the mid-1890s. Many young people left the farm for the city; this was especially true for girls for whom the future on the plains seemed especially bleak. By 1910 the estimated cost of starting a farm was $1500 ($20,000 in 1995 dollars).

Freeborn and Mower Counties have death records which may match those of Anders and Annie or Anna early in the 20th century.

The Barc Pera arrived on Grosse Ile, Quebec, Canada in 1871, the only ship from Norway to North America with names which seem to match the Andersons. Gross Ile was Quebec's Quarantine Station. Here immigrants were separated into healthy and unhealthy groups and quarantined if necessary. Even the healthy had to stay a while and wash their clothes at "The Old Wash House." The Andersons probably traveled to Chicago or Duluth as soon as they could and from there to Minnesota but there are no border crossing records to confirm this. They may have also traveled entirely overland from Quebec to northern Minnesota.

In Freeborn County, there is an 1875 Naturalization Record for an Anders Anderson who says he filed his Letters of Intent in Mower County. If the date and person are correct. Anders arrived before the rest of his family or the five year rule was overlooked or this is not our Anders. There is an Anders living in Northwest Mower County, not far from Freeborn County and from its county seat of Albert Lea. There is no BLM record of an Anders Anderson purchasing land in Mower County but there is an Anders Anderson purchasing land in Freeborn County (5th Meridian, Township 104N, 19W, in August on 1875.

According to Letter from Martha Johnson to Blaine and Helen Bonny, dated 12-27-1970, in response to notification of the death of Amelia Paulson, James Paulson and wife Olena lived briefly in Chicago with her family, in the fall, before moving on to Utah. Anna Pederson Anna had 12 brothers and sisters, none with a middle name, according to a Letter from Martha Johnson to Blaine and Helen Bonny. Anna and her daughters went to visit all of her brothers and sisters in Minnesota before the family left for Utah.
Letter: 12/27/1970. Among the names were Altena and Blanche.

Martha Johnson? A cousin, perhaps. A sibling of or a child of a sibling of Bengta Johnson? 1724 Mary Sisson 1729 James Sisson 1671 - 22 MAR 1728/29 Thomas Thurston 1696 Edward Thurston ~1705 Thomas Thurston Peleg Thurston Jonathan Thurston Samuel Thurston John Thurston Ruth Thurston Elizabeth Thurston Anne Thurston Mehitable Thurston Mary Thurston Nathaniel Thurston Unknown Job Tripp Mehitable Tripp Isaac Tripp Benoni Tripp Ann Tripp Mary Tripp Phebe Tripp William Tripp Abigail Tripp Abiel Tripp 1675 - >1779 Elizabeth Sweet 104 104 Mary Gardiner Caleb Tripp Mary Tripp 1889 - 1970 Amelia Olina Paulson 81 81 The recollection of some of the grandchildren is that Amelia was quite stern and a bit forbidding, not soft, tender or forgiving. Ricky, however, remebers her differently, as being always concerned that he got whatever he wanted or needed when he was visiting.

Some time after Fritz died, Amelai moved to 145 South 3rd Street in Salt Lake City. That is the address she used for her application for Widow's Insurance AnnuitY.

While a tea-totaler while Fritz was alive, after his death Amelica, perhaps out of loneliness, took to drink, often to excess. 1826 - 1898 James O. Poulson 71 71 A search by Danielle Batson, Certified Genealogist, Salt Lake City, has resulted in James Poulson's "High Priest Genealogy" Document. He was ordained a High Priest in March 1876. [High Priest Genalogies, Salt Lake Stake Of Zion, Film 924617, Item #4]

A search of Poulsons in Utah Cemeteries reveals the following four Poulsons buried in spots A, 27, 1 through A. 27, 4:

Sophia E. Poulson 4 August 1887 - 23 December 1887
James O. Poulson 27 June 1826 - 21 April 1898
Ellen A. Poulson 20 May 1828 - 4 October 1891
Olina A. Poulson 3 December 1849 - 18 May 1912

It appears that Ellen A., as well as Olina A. Anderson, was a wife of James O. Paulson, while Sophia was a child. Since Ellen was approaching  the age of 60 at the time of Sophia's death, it is possible that Sophia was the child of Olina. The 1880 Census shows James and Ellen Poulsen living in West Jordan, Salt Lake County, Utah. There are no children in the household.

From the Bureau of Land Management, there is a record in 1870 of a James Poulson purchasing 80 acres of land in Cache County, Utah [Township 11N, 1E, Section 21, W 1/2NE]

I have discovered that Salt Lake County did not keep marriage records until around 1887. The Church probably kept records but when you look up the film number, you get a message saying that the records are not available unless you can prove a familial relationship and have a letter from your bishop. Is any chance that Michael Bonny can get the records?

Volume 17, pages 88-95, of Our Pioneer Heritage has an account of a man who was imprisoned in 1886 for having more than one wife. He was imprisoned with several other men, also held on the same charge. The Governor came to them in May 1886 and offered amnesty if only they would give up all of their wives except one. They unanimously declined and their statement to that effect and why was signed by all of the men, including a James O. Poulson.


The statement reads:

"To His Excellency, Caleb W. West, Governor of Utah

     Sir: On the 13inst you honored the inmates of the Penitentiary with a visit and offered to intercede for the pardon of all those enduring imprisonment on conviction under the Edmunds Law if they would but promise obedience to it in the future as interpreted by the courts.
     Gratitude for the interest manifested in our behalf claims from us a reply. We trust, however,that this will not be construed as defiance, as our silence already has been. We have no desire to occupy a defiant attitude towards the Government or to be in conflict with the nation's laws. We have never been even accused of violating any other law than the one under which we were convicted, and that was enacted purposely to oppose a tenet of our religion. We conscientiously believe in the doctrine of plural marriage and practiced it from a pure conviction of its being a divine requirement.
     Of the forty-none Elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints now imprisoned in this Penitentiary for alleged violation of the Edmunds Law all but four had plural wives from the time of its passage to thirty-five years thereto. We were united to our wives for Time and Eternity by the most sacred covenants, and in many instances numerous children have been born as a result of our union who are endeared to us by the strongest parental ties.
     What the promise asked of us implied, you declined to explain, just as the courts have done when appeals have been made to therm for an explicitly and permanent definition of what must be done to comply with the law. The ruling of the courts under the law have been too varied and conflicting heretofore for us to know what may be their future interpretations.
     The simple status of plural marriage is now made, under the law, material evidence in securing conviction of unlawful cohabitation, this independent of our acts, ruthlessly trespassing upon the sacred domain of our religious belief.
     So far as compliance with your proposition it requires the sacrifice of honor and manhood, the repudiation of our wives and children, the violation of sacred covenants; Heaven forbid that we should be guilty of such perfidy; perpetual imprisonment with which we are all threatened, or even death itself would be preferable.
     Our wives desire no separation from us, and were we to comply with your request they would regard our action as most cruel, inhuman and monstrous; our children would blush with shame and should deserve the scorn and contempt of all just and honorable men.
     The proposition you made, though prompted doubtless by a kind feeling, was not new, for we could all have avoided imprisonment by making the same promise to the courts. In fact, the penalties we are now enduring are for declining to promise, rather than for acts committed in the past. Had you offered us unconditional amnesty, it would have been gladly accepted; but dearly as we prize the greatest boon of Liberty, we cannot afford to obtain it by proving untrue to our conscience, our religion and our God.
     As loyal citizens of this great Republic, whose constitution we revere, we not only ask for, but claim our rights as free men, as if from neither local nor national authority we are to receive equity and mercy, we will make our appeal to the Great Arbiter of all human interest, who in due time will grant us the justice hitherto denied.
     That you may as the Governor of our important but afflicted Territory aid us is securing every right to which the loyal and peaceable are entitled, and find happiness in so doing, we will ever pray. And witness our hands:
Lorenzo Snow...
James O. Poulson (#10 of 49)..." [Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 17, pages 194-195]

James O. Paulson, his wives, Ellen and Olina, and four children appear in the Early Church Records. Put together with the birth and death dates of children and wife #1, plus the IGI Records at the FamilySearch.Org web site showing a marriage date between James and Olina in 1883, seem to indicate that James was, indeed married to Ellen and Olina at the same time, so he could have been the James O. Paulson who was jailed in 1886 for having more than one wife, the devoted wife who came with him from Sweden, and the younger wife with whom he had four children.


Research by Danielle Batson, Accredited Genealogist, has confirmed this supposition with he following information:

From "Church Chronology : A Record of Important Events Pertaining to the History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [Film 599327, Item 2], xxxvi, 259, 32, 204, James O. Poulson was, indeed, arrested on charges of "u.c." (unlawful cohabitation) Ms. Batson also included Newspaper Clippings of the Deseret News January 30, 1886, February 15, 1886, March 1, 1886 and September 4, 1886, all pertaining to the polygamy charges, James's arrest, imprisonment and release. In order the articles read:

"Jan 30, 1886  Within the past few days, J. W. Snell, S. F. Ball. Isaac Laughton, Hyrum Goff, Wm. J. Jenkins, Charles Livingston and J. O. Poulson were notified to be at the Federal Court Room at 9:30 sharp this morning, to be arraigned on indictments found against them by the grand jury. They were on hand at the appointed time, and after being kept in waiting for an hour and a half the court was opened... J. O. Poulson was also indicted three times and pleaded not guilty. Bail $3000."

February 15, 1886  The case [of the United States] against James O. Poulsen, of West Jordan, was taken up, and the jury in the Ball case retained to try it. The indictment in this case charged the offense to have been committed in 1884, the wives of the defendant being Ellen Poulson and Olina Andersen Poulsen.
The defendant went on the stand as a witness, acknowledged his wives, and stated that he had lived with them in 1884.
A verdict of guilty was given by the jury, and the two other the defendant continued.
Sentence will be passed March 1st."

"March 1, 1886  James O. Poulsen, of West Jordan, came next. He preferred to obey the law of God and meet the consequences, rather than crawfish, and was sentenced to the full term, with fine and costs appended."

"September 4, 1886 Releasing Prisoners.--This morning Brother Samuel F. Ball, who has served a six months' term in the penitentiary and 30 days' additional for the fine, for living with and acknowledging his wives, was released from custody. He took the required oath before Commissioner McKay previous to being set at liberty. He is enjoying good health and is in the best of spirits.
     Two others, James O. Poulsen, of West Jordan, and O.F. Due, of this city, should have been released to-day, but were not brought in from the penitentiary, and will have to remain in custody until Monday at least-two days longer than required by the law. The cause of this is that the Commissioner and his associates propose to change the order of business. In future instead of prisoners being brought in for examination the day after their imprisonment for the fees expire, they must remain at the penitentiary and make application to be released, when the Commissioner will set a day for the hearing. The reason assigned for following this method is that the Commissioner has been crowded as, for instance this week, when six were brought before him in one day, and only three being released, two days were spent on the habeas corpus proceedings for the others. Under this rule it seems probable that a delay will occur in most cases where those imprisoned are unable to pay the fine assessed against them."

"September 7, 1886  More Habeas Corpus Proceedings, Necessary.--Today Brothers Hyrum Goff, Wm. J. Jenkins and Jas. O. Poulsen were brought in form the penitentiary and taken before Commissioner McKay. The two latter were subjected to a rigid examination, but being possessed of a very small amount of property, which was invested in real estate, they were discharged in taking the  required oath. They have each served six months' imprisonment."

James and Ellen, his brother Paul and wife Catherine probably came to America in 1875 or later. All were baptized or confirmed in about 1875. Usually this was done prior to emigration. Daughter Betsy was born in Sweden in 1861 so they could not have left there prior to that date. She was also re-baptized in 1876.

In the Springville, Utah Cemetery Records, there is a Daughter "Polsen" born 9 July 1889 and died the same day. The parents are listed as "Jacob and Lena Polsen." The names are possibly misspelled and the dates do not work out with the birth dates of the other children.

There is no obituary for James in the Salt Lake City Herald. The news of the week is full of speculation on relations with Spain which has severed its relations with the United States and the Utah 24th Infantry has left for New Orleans from Rio Grande Depot.  There is an obituary in The Deseret News of April 23, 1898. It reads:
  "Died.  POLSON--At his home, East Jordan ward, on Thursday, April 32, 1898, James O, Polson, born at Malma, Sweden, July 7, 1828. Deceased was aged 71 years, 9 months and 14 days; and he died as he had lived, a true Latter-day Saint.
  Funeral from East Jordan meeting house, Sunday, April 24. Friends invited."

Danielle Batson, A.G., has searched the Naturalization Index and Court Minutes for Salt Lake and the only James Paulson which she has found who seems to match my data was naturalized on Saturday, February 25, 1878. She has provided me with a copy of the index and the Court Minutes of Vol. D, Page 709. No information on place or date of birth is given. Mercy Mosher 1652 Samuel Batchelder Wing 1900 Winnie V. Bonny 1717 Edward Tew 1723 - UNKNOWN Elizabeth Sisson Lydia Tripp Tabitha Tripp 1667 - 1729 Deliverance Smith 62 62 John Smith Deborah Smith Ann Smith Alice Smith Peleg Smith Joseph Cornell 1660 Deborah Wing Thomas Borden 1769 - 1849 John Cornell 80 80 Catherine Dean 1681 Thomas Brayton 1595 William Fish Patience Fish 1590 Austin Fish Samuel Cranston Deborah Smith D. 1809 Mary Cornell ~1600 Deborah Bachiler Henry ATKINSON 1620 Hanna Strange ~1655 Lot Strange ~1855 Mary Wright John Williams D. 1847 John Cornell ~1684 Rebecca Ricketson 1540 Bate 1543 Bate Joshua Cornell Elizabeth ELLIS Josiah Quinby Alice Knowles 1751 - 1812 Richard Cornell 61 61 Sarah Cooke 1757 - 1799 William Jr. Cornell 41 41 1714 - 1780 Mary Cornell 66 66 1775 Daniel Cornell 1645 - 1727 William Knowles 82 82 1753 - ~1839 James Cornell 86 86 Mary Fish Benjamin Mosher ~1655 - ~1734 Alice Fish 79 79 Susannah Wilcox WING 1716 John Cornell Wood Ruth Fish 1805 Lydia Cornell John Pierce 1837 - 1923 Sarah Adelia Wright 85 85 According to information from Jean Anderson, who wrote The History of Black River Falls and also Wrightsville, Sarah was, like her husband, probably also a physician, or more properly, an herbalist.

She married James Jesse Strang, as did her cousin Phoebe, as a young girl, honored to be chosen. See The History of Black River Falls and Wisconsin Pioneers. After Strang's death, she married Joseph Wing and moved to Utah where she apparently became disenchanted with polygamy and moved to Idaho. I have requested information on her death certificate from Boise. I have searched for a record of divorce in Salt Lake City and find none in the records 1852-1856 or 1877-1885. There are no records for 1857-1876. There is also no record of marriage in Black River Falls although there is a record of Joseph's nephew marrying Sarah's sister Elizabeth Jane Wright. (Copy of record in my possession).

6/12/99

I have now received a copy of Sarah Adelia's Death Certificate. She is shown as being Widowed, a Housewife. Death from Myocarditis and Nephritis resultant from senility.
Her address was: 373 S. 5th, Boise, Idaho.[PhineasWright.FTW]

Sarah was the third polygamous wife of James Jesse Strang. Although her father opposed the polygamous marriage, Sarah (and her cousin Phoebe) was proud (and possibly more than a little naive) to be one of "King Strang's" wives. She wrote to Milo Quaife in 1920:

"You ask if we all lived in the same house. We did, but we had separate rooms and all met in prayer and ate at the same table. He (Strang) was a very mild-spoken kind man to his family, although his word was law. We were all honest in our religion and made things as pleasant as possible. There were four of us living in the same house."

After Strang's assassination on June 16, 1856, it appears that both she and her cousin Phoebe returned to Black River Falls, where James Phineas was born.

Perhaps  it was in Black River Falls that Sarah met Joseph Smith Wing. In any case, they "married" and had children together. Eventually, however, Sarah, became disenchanted with Mormonism and even more so with polygamy and left Joseph to live with her daughter in Idaho. She supported herself as a medical practitioner, having, apparently, learned the trade from Joseph.

Polygamous wife of James Jesse Strang, After his death married Joseph Smith Wing and traveled with him to Utah in the Lewis Bronson ox train of 1862.

At the time of her death in 1923, she was living with her daughter, Amanda, in Boise, Idaho. She had previously lived in Springville, Utah.[PhineasWright.FTW]

Sarah was the third polygamous wife of James Jesse Strang. Although her father opposed the polygamous marriage, Sarah (and her cousin Phoebe) was proud (and possibly more than a little naive) to be one of "King Strang's" wives. She wrote to Milo Quaife in 1920:

"You ask if we all lived in the same house. We did, but we had separate rooms and all met in prayer and ate at the same table. He (Strang) was a very mild-spoken kind man to his family, although his word was law. We were all honest in our religion and made things as pleasant as possible. There were four of us living in the same house."

After Strang's assassination on June 16, 1856, it appears that both she and her cousin Phoebe returned to Black River Falls, where James Phineas was born.

Perhaps  it was in Black River Falls that Sarah met Joseph Smith Wing. In any case, they "married" and had children together. Eventually, however, Sarah, became disenchanted with Mormonism and even more so with polygamy and left Joseph to live with her daughter in Idaho. She supported herself as a medical practitioner, having, apparently, learned the trade from Joseph.

Polygamous wife of James Jesse Strang, After his death married Joseph Smith Wing and traveled with him to Utah in the Lewis Bronson ox train of 1862.

At the time of her death in 1923, she was living with her daughter, Amanda, in Boise, Idaho. She had previously lived in Springville, Utah. Addie Eliza Carter 1775 - 1777 Hannah Cornell 2 2 Elizabeth Cornell 1858 Jens Hjetting Larson 1633 - 1713 Hugh Mosher 80 80 Hugh first appears in The records of Rhode Island on June 29, 1660, when he and five other from Newport purchase land at Misquamicut (Westerly) from the Indian Socho, which had been given to same by Canonicus and Miantonomi for driving off the Pequots in 1637.

1657.                   Uncle Hugh Mosher leaves to him "House called Cookes House."

Sept. 9, 1661.     Has a share of land in Westerly apportioned to him but probably never lived there.

1664.                   Admitted freeman in Portsmouth.

July 8, 1668.       Purchases land from Thomas Lawton, and the two agree to maintain a good fence line.

August 24, 1676. Member of the Court Martial,held at Newport for the trial of several Indians charged with               being engaged in King Philip's designs. Several were sentenced to be executed.

1684.                   Ordained pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dartmouth at its organization. The church               soon encompasses Tiverton and Little Compton.

April 16, 1690.     John Walley of Bristol county writes to Thomas Hinckley, Governor of Plymouth Colony               that,  "He is a substantial man...whatsoever Mosier doth, he doth publicly, and makes                  account he can in law answer anything he hat said of done."

Nov. 7, 1691.       Sold to Joseph Braman his share of Westquadnoid.

Oct. 12, 1709.      Will, proved Dec. 7, 1709. 1685 Joseph Tripp Joe Bonny 1667 John Tripp ~1644 Joseph Tripp ~1654 - 1742 John Fish 88 88 Lars Christian Lambertsen Robert Beachman 1683 Mehitable Tripp 1807 John H. Cornell 1799 William Cornell 1762 - 1810 Sarah Cornell 48 48 John Knowles Darrell Bonny 1790 Joel Cornell Isaac Cornell ~1617 - 16 MAR 1697/98 Daniel Wing [.]

Daniel4 Wing (REV. JOHN3, MATTHEW2, GODFRIEDUS1 WYNGE) was born Abt. 1617 in Probably Holland, and died March 10, 1696/97 in Sandwich, Massachusetts. He married (1) Hannah Swift, daughter of William Swift and Joan Sisson. He married (2) Anna Ewer June 02, 1666 in Sandwich, Massachusetts.

Notes for Daniel Wing:
Tradition has it that he was the eldest son of John and Deborah (Bachiler) Wing. However, it is not known when Matthew was born. If Matthew was old enough to have remained in England in 1632 when his family emigrated, then Matthew may have been the eldest and Daniel would then be the eldest of the three American immigrant brothers. After living in Saugus (Lynn) five years, he , his brothers and mother were among the first Sandwich settlers in 1637. By 1641 Daniel had acquired enough personal and real property to marry and start his independent life.

See John Wing Jr. notes for sources of information.


Daniel became active in the fishing business on the Herring River, now the Cape Cod Canal. He also participated in financing a town mill. His house was located near the center of the present Sandwich village in what is referred to as the heritage area.

By 1655 Daniel and other prominent citizens were involved in serious religious dissension, opposing the church authorities in Plymouth. Daniel was fined for supporting newly arrived Quakers. He refused to take a loyalty oath aimed against Quaker sympathizers. The scenario became ugly with public whippings and brandings. Disgusted, Daniel left the Puritan denomination of his father and grandfather, which had become as intolerant of others as the Church of England had been towards Puritans and Separatists themselves. He joined the Quakers who in 1658 established a Friends meeting at Spring Hill in Sandwich, the first in America. His brothers, John Jr. and Stephen followed later.

Daniel and Hannah both died about the time their youngest child was born, leaving many orphans to the care of extended family. They had eleven children.

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Daniel Wing was apparently married twice. First to Hannah Swift and then to Anna Ewer.

      Children of Daniel Wing and Hannah Swift are:
     20   i.        Hannah5 Wing, born July 28, 1642.
     21   ii.       Lydia Wing, born May 23, 1647.
     22   iii.      Deborah Wing, born October 10, 1648.
+    23   iv.       Samuel Wing, born August 28, 1652.
     24   v.        Hepzibah Wing, born September 07, 1654.
+    25   vi.       John Wing, born November 14, 1658 in Sandwich, Massachusetts; died August 01, 1717 in Rochester, Mass..
+    26   vii.      Beulah Wing, born November 16, 1658 in Sandwich, Massachusetts.
     27   viii.          Deborah Wing, born September 1660.
+    28   ix.       Daniel Wing, born January 28, 1663/64.
      Children of Daniel Wing and Anna Ewer are:
     29   i.        Experience5 Wing, born August 04, 1668.
     30   ii.       Bachelor Wing, born June 1671.
     31   iii.      Jashub Wing, born June 1674.


Jane's Question: How could Daniel die and then remarry? ~1617 - ~1687 Thomas Fish 70 70 From Austin's Dictionary of Rhode Island Genealogy, pg. 78:

March 20, 1660.  He had a deed of house and land from Henry and Ann Ayres, in consideration of fencing 2 acres, but said Henry and Ann were to enjoy said land for their lives without paying rent.

1665.  Bought 2 parcels of land from James Babcock, including land, dwelling house, barn and orchard for 50L. Chosen Constable for the year.

1665.  Sold two acres to Thomas Lawton. Made freeman, indicating he was also a member of a church, probably the Quaker Church or possibly the new-formed Baptist Church of Providence or Newport.

1674.  Town Council.

May 2, 1684.  Deeded grandson, Preserved Fish, son of Thomas, deceased.., dwelling house and 15 acres where Thomas Fish, Jr. had lived and said grandson to possess it in the year 1700.

March 1, 1679. Chosen to be on the Grand Jury the next Court of Trials.

Sept 12, 1685. Appointed to Coroners Jury for an Inquest into the hanging of a Scotsman named John Crage.

February 9, 1887.  Will proved, Wife, Mary is executor. To son, John, the land bought from James Babcock. To son Robert 20s., like amount to daughters, Mehitable, Mary and Alice. To Grandson Preserved, 5s. To wife, remainder of estate.  Inventory 49L, 10s. Will is signed in bold, legible hand-writing.

September 9, 1697.  Codicil to Will. Slight changes. Inventory 130L, 2s.

Thomas, the eldest son of Robert and Alice Fish, left England at about the age of 24 and settled in the newly formed Providence Plantations in New England,  receiving his first land grant in 1643 ,"at the first Brooke," and here he became the progenitor of the Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Vermont branches of the family.

One of the earliest Town Meetings, held on 13 March 1638 recorded: "none shall be received as inhabitants or freemen...but such as be received in by the consent of the Bodye and do submit to the Government that is or shall be established according to the Word of God.

:...every inhabitant of this Island shall be always provided one musket, one pound of powder, 20 bullets, and two fademe of match with sword and rest and Bandeliers, all completely furnished.

"...the swine that are upon the Island shall be sent away from the plantation six miles up the Island or into some Islands adjacent, by the 10th of February, 1639, or else be shutt up so that they may be inoffensive to the towne

"...Ordered that the wolf catcher be payed out of the Treasurie. Also ordered that there shall be noe shooting of deere from May 1st to 1st of Nov Forfeit to be 5 pounds." ~1856 Silas Wright 1686 David Brayton Josiah Quinby 1749 - 1827 Quinby Cornell 78 78 1810 Egbert Cornell Mary Fish 1621 Grissegon Strange Thomas Cranston ~1782 Solomon Cornell Daniel Wing Moses Quinby ~1761 Ellen Margaretha Star Catherine \\ William Cornell 1721 William Cornell Henry ATKINSON Joan Wheeler 1711 Hannah Cornell ~1577 - <1662 Mary Hinckes 85 85 Living Diamond Rebecca Haight Letitia Field Annis Unknown William Knowles Francis Brayton John Russell Mary \\ Mrs. Stephen BACHILER Patience Mosher John KIRBY (KERBY) ~1726 - 1775 Joshua III Cornell 49 49 Martha Knowles William SANBORN 1728 Mary Cornell 1772 - 1842 Elizabeth Cornell 70 70 James Allen Mary Jane Quinby Abigail Stevenson 1615 Appiah Strange 1680 Idido Butts 9 MAR 1717/18 Rebecca CORNELL 1612 Jonathan Strange 1671 Bachelor Wing Stephen Cornell 1618 - 1620 Joyce Briggs 2 2 Mordecai Reynolds Ann Van Nostrand 1636 - 1718 George Sisson 82 82 From John Austin's Dictionary of Rhode Island Genealogy:

June 5, 1671.   Grand Jury. He and other appointed to view the damage done to the Indians by horses and hogs.

April 7, 1677.    Portsmouth. Sold Peleg Trip 32 acres in Portsmouth with houses, orchards, fencing &tc, for 3/8 of a share in Dartmouth.

May 19, 1683.  Sold Isaac Lawton, for 100L, a quarter share in Dartmouth.

Aug. 16, 1684.  On a jury whose verdict was that an Indian "murdered himself."

1687.                 Constable.

1688.                 Grand Jury.

1690-1702-5-7.  Deputy.

1703.                 Justice of the Peace.

Aug. 20, 1718.   Will, proved Sept. 20, 1718. Executor son Richard. Typical, largest portion to son Richard, who also receives "old negro man Abraham and Lucy his wife." Inventory: 44L, 18s., 8d. (with subsequent additions of 10L, 5s.). Wearing apparel 8L, 11s., armor 2L, plate at 8s per oz., 8L, 12s., 2d., silver money 13L, 12s.,6d., Bills of Public Credit 69L, 7s., 6d., books, 4 cows, half of 5 steers, 3 yearlings, and 2 calves, 2 mares, colt, 93 sheep and lambs, half of 4 swine and 4 shoats, geese, turkeys and fowls, small table, 12 chairs, woolen wheel, cradle, churn, cheese motes, pewter, iron and brass ware, &tc." Christopher Fish Mary Cornell 1726 - 1759 Martha Cornell 33 33 Mercy Cornell 5 MAR 1675/76 Hope Fish 1660 - 1713 Anne Sisson 53 53 Miss HEFFERLAND Mrs Grace MOTT Miss BOWNE ~1690 - 1762 John Cornell 72 72 ~1675 - ~1768 James Mosher 93 93 Ruth Fish ~1836 Phineas Wright 1639 - 1674 Mary Sisson 35 35 Ebenezer Fish 17 MAR 1683/84 Francis Brayton 1845 Hendrik Morten Bohne 1718 Zerviah WING John Mott 1638.                Admitted inhabitant, Rhode Island.

Aug. 29, 1644.  It was ordered by Assembly that Mr. Baulstone shall have 9L a year for "Ould John Mott's" washing and diet, and what                          bedding he shall want to be furnished by the town. 1706 - 10 JAN 1731/32 Richardson Cornell Bowne Phebe Smith Elizabeth ?? Mary Chapman 1811 - 1874 Phineas Wright 62 62 Notes from Reed, George, "Black River Falls, Early History, 1818-1860," The Badger Banner, January-may 1869 ( transcribed by Helen E. Brieske):

The earliest settlers, in about 1838, "were over one hundred miles from any white settlement...a the vast country around them...a wilderness...surrounded by treacherous natives on every side, who would look upon them with jealous eyes, as intruders upon their choicest hunting grounds...beyond the verge of civilization...the life before them one of toil, hardship, danger and privation."

During the year of 1842, the lumbermen of Black River Falls were joined by delegations of Mormons from Nauvoo, Illinois who had come to get material for the Temple. According to Reed's account, the Mormons proceeded to harvest logs from off of Spaulding's claim. saying that "the wilderness was the Lord's, and that no Gentile claim would be respected by the Saints."  A confrontation between the Mormons and Spaulding and his armed men resulted in a retreat by the Mormons, a return with armed men and, finally, a legal judgement against the Mormons. Not deterred, the Elder claimed he "would cut timber wherever he could find it." Spaulding then made a surprise visit on the Saints and, backed by an armed band, vowed, "Now, I'll give you ten minutes to get out of this, and if not within that time, there may be more Saints in Heaven, but I know there will be fewer in Earth." The Mormons went upstream, "groaning in bitterness...and doubting if the Lord reigned that high up Black River." Further, they made no more threats of force, "but were in all respects peaceable and well disposed citizens." Payment was made to Spaulding for interest in the lumbering business.

"The new occupants of the Falls property, were, in their way, very devout in all the outward observances of their peculiar religion, had preaching regularly as the Sabbath came, at which every Saint was present, as a matter of course, that lived anywhere near it, and among their congregations were frequently to be seen outsiders, whose curiosity prompted their presence at the Mormon tabernacle."

Following the June 7, 1844 assassination of Joseph Smith by a mob in Carthage, Illinois, the shocked Mormons sold out their business in the Falls area and departed to avenge the death of their leader.

"Samuel and Benjamin Wright, well known citizens in their time, arrived on the river in 1842."

"During the year the Mormons were in possession of the Falls property, they had improved it by finishing up the larger saw mill and leaving it in complete running order. They had erected a commodious warehouse on the present site of the house occupied by P. Roddy, and also erected some half dozen dwelling houses on the property."

This same series of articles includes stories of C.R. Johnson, former school teacher, Justice of the Peace and Clerk and some of the marriage ceremonies which he performed. The marriage record in 1860 of daughter Elizabeth Wright and Samuel Wing is signed by B. F. Johnson.

Notes from "Wrightsville, Then and Now, 1871-1965," by Georginia Bouley in 1965:

"James Jessie Strang declared himself the successor of Mormon leader Joseph Smith in 1844, thus beginning the Strangite Mormon group of which the Wright family were prominent members.

The Strang followers established their church at Voree, Wisconsin, near Burlington where Strang had been a lawyer. In 1847 Prophet Strang moved his Kingdom to Beaver Island, on the northwestern end of Lake Michigan.

In the early 1850's. Phineas Wright, James Strang and numerous others of the Strangites on Beaver Island were arrested and transported to Detroit aboard the first steel hulled steamship, Michigan.

There was much descension in the church when Strang declared his polygamy intention, and eventually resulted in many of the Saints breaking away from the church. (Strang had one legal wife and four plural wives.) Among the plural wives were Sarah and Pheobe Wright, who were cousins, and whom Strang married in 1855, Sarah on July 15, and Phoebe on October 27. Sarah's father, Phineas, was one of the twelve apostles of the church but he did not approve of polygamy, and stated that he would rather see her buried than to be married in polygamy.

Phoebe's father was Benjamin Wright, also as apostle of the church, and was in charge of the Law of the Lord when the Saints fled from Beaver Island in 1856.

Prophet Strang was shot by a mob of angry Gentiles in June, 1856 at Beaver Island and the Saints of the church were driven from the island. They fled back to Voree where they remained until Stran died of his would in July. At the death of King James the Saints or followers of Strang, dispersed with the Wright family settling in the area of Hall's Creek and Wrightsville was named after these first settlers. The Wirght Brothers established a saw mill on Hall's Creek and the other Saints engaged in farming.

The Wright family broke away from the Strangite believers and a Church of Latter Day Saints was organized in Wrightsville by member of the sect. This group was law abiding and didn't practice polygamy after coming to Jackson County. They were respectable, influential members of the community and were always on friendly terms with their neighbors.

Just a few years later the group scattered. Uncle Ben Wright settled on a tract of wild land several miles upstream from Hall's settlement, a mile east of Highway 12 near the James Reichenbach garage.

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Wright and their fives sons, Mose, George, Benjamin, William, Theodore and Mrs. and Mrs. Joseph Reichenbach were next to come to Wrightsville in the year of 1862."

"Morris and George Wright, nephews of Uncle Ben Wright, built and operated the first two sawmills on Hall's Creek. These sawmills operated in 1867-68. when the nearest railroad was at Sparta. The railroad reached Black River Falls in December 1868 and the following year, 1869, to Merrillan." A depot was built in Wrightsville but the track from Green Bay by-passed Wrightsville in favor Merillan and Wrightsville soon died and, by 1890 was little more than a memory."

[Note: Search of Madison Historical Society Library and Archives has a record of the death of a person who appears to be Phineas's brother Benjamin. It records the following:
Name: Benjamin Gil Wright
Color: White
Sex: Male
Occupation: None
Age: 91 years, 5 months, 19 days
Father: Don't Know
Mother: Don't Know
Birth Place: Toronto, Canada
Wife: Margaret
Date of Birth: 1798
Widowed
Date of Death: July 25, 1900
Place of Death: George Wright's
Burial: Wrightsville
Undertaker: Ed Pierce][PhineasWright.FTW]

BANNER-JOURNAL NEWSPAPER 03/28/1874 Obituary:

Phinehas Wright, one of the old settlers of this region died at Coral City, Trempeleau County, March 20, at the age of 62 years,leaving 7 or 8 children. His body was brought to Wrightsville for burial with the Masons and the silver cornet band being present.

[By deduction from the newspaper article, his birth date in 1811 must have been after March 11.]

Marriage to Rebecca Wagener - Certified Copy from Register of Deeds, Walworth County, Elkhorn Wisconsin, in possession of Norma Jean Herzman Dresbin.

From "The King Strang Story" by Doyle C. Fitspatrick, it appears that Phineas and his brothers were early followers of James Jesse Strang, having probably met him in or around Voree or Black River Falls. Since Phineas was opposed to polygamy, he probably became a follower of Strang's and a believer in Strang's right of prophetic succession after the assassination of Joseph Smith in 1844 because he too opposed polygamy. In the strife within the Mormon community in Voree, James Strang was the loser and Brigham Young was the winner. Strang and his followers, including, purportedly, Phineas as his right-hand man, left for Beaver Island in 1847. Though they were poor, the Mormon community there prospered. One of the other differences between the Beaver Island sect and their mainland counterparts was that it was not communistic but relied on tithing to support the congregation. While tithing remained, however, Strang, for whatever reason, be it revelation or sexual appetite, James Jesse Strang converted to polygamy, marrying first (legally) Mary Perce, then Elvira Eliza Field, Sarah Adelia Wright and Phoebe Wright.

Between April 11, 1851 and June 23, 1851, Phineas and 98 other Mormon men on Beaver Island arrested and taken from the island to Detroit to face federal charges. They were brought there aboard the Steamship Michigan. [Web site: Rearview Mirror: The King of Beaver Island]: "By 1850 Strang and his followers controlled all the political offices of Mackinac Island, to which Beaver Island and its neighboring islands were attached for judicial and elective purposes. Governor Bingham and state legislators were careful to cultivate the 700 votes of Strang's followers.

"The unrest in the area and the unhappiness of those opposed to Strang's followers did not go unnoticed, however. Stephen A. Douglas advised President Millard Fillmore to instruct the attorney general to issue orders to the U.S. district attorney of Michigan to begin prosecution of Strang for offenses punishable in the federal court, such as delaying the mail, cutting timber from public lands, tax irregularities, counterfeiting and so on.

"The United States Steamer Michigan was ordered to proceed dully armed to Beaver Island. The ship carried a U.S. marshal and deputies and the district attorney who were to bring Strang and the other indicted followers to Detroit for trial.

"Strang's followers were lured to the ship by a ruse to prevent bloodshed and eventually arrived at Detroit in May of 1851. Nearly a hundred strong, they were marched up Woodward to Gratiot and over to the old jail which stood at the corner of Gratiot and Farmer.

A day in June was set for the start of the trial. The defendants were let out of bail on Strang's word and a pledge that they would all appear when needed. It was agreed that the deputy clerk of the United States District Court should go with the district attorney and officers back to Beaver Island and take depositions of all witnesses"

While the men were exonerated, few people were left on the island to tend the crops, many other having been taken away to testify. The women did all of the work in the absence of the majority of the men and some of the women.

The records of the trial are in the National Archives in Chicago. Copies of some of the pages are in the photos section here. 1821 - 1848 Amanda Finch 26 26 Twin with brother John.

On January 1, 1848, following a 5-day illness, Amanda died, at the age of twenty-six. The next day, she became the first person to be buried in the new Mormon Cemetery in Voree, Wisconsin. James Strang, her son-in-law, described her as "one of the best of God's creatures." The children were only 2, 6, 8, and 10 years old, Sarah being the oldest and very likely the one charged with the responsibility of caring for her siblings.

Death and Burial in Voree, meaning the Garden of Peace, the first in the Strangite Cemetery in Voree (now Burlington) Wisconsin.  1842 - 1877 Elizabeth Jane Wright 35 35 1788 George Wright [PhineasWright.FTW]

According to Lita Barrie at the National Library of Canada, Land Grant for Sons and Daughters of American Loyalists appears in Order of Council of May 19, 1812 (pg. 336 of William Reid's Loyalists in Ontario).

According to Canadian Genealogist Doris Bourrie via Norma Jean Herzman, "He was listed as a private in a flank company of Lennox militia. He received a free military grant of 100 acres."

From FTM CD204, The Ontario Register, 17802-1870s Marriage Notices of Ontario, Christian Guardian, Torinto, 1830, Dec 1831-Nov 1835, there is a record of a George Wright marrying Elizabeth Aikens on 25 February 1835; both were from Toronto Twonship in Peel County.

From the same CD records, there is a Sarah Wright, second daughter of G. H. Wright of Stamford Township marrying James Garner on 27 November 1852 in G.H. Wrights' home. 1790 Phoebe Whitley 1872 Amanda Amy WING 1823 Abigail Finch ~1786 - ~1827 Unlnown Finch 41 41 1790 Elizabeth Pierce Charles Finch Abigail Strong Ephraim Pierce Abigail Brooks 1815 - 1869 Cullen Dillard 53 53 Elvira Malissa Wing ~1854 Amanda Wright John Russell Dorothy 2 Thomas Underhill James Sands John Sanborne [.]

In some references this is William Sanborn. Anna Crandall Philip Flagler Sarah Butts D. 1854 James Hallett 1720 Richard Cornell 1675 Hepzibah Butts 10 MAR 1584/85 Thomas Fish Alice Fish ~1540 - ~1601 Thomas Fish 61 61 ~1674 Daughter Cornell 1760 Josiah Cornell Ann Reynolds 1620 - 1692 John Sanborne 72 72 Henry ATKINSON 1882 Winnie Bonny Ruth Hewlett Aaron Palmer 1716 Rebecca Cornell ~1755 - ~1828 Henry Cornell 73 73 1678 Sarah Lake ~1880 James Bonny Hans Goffredsen ~1655 Robert Fish Elizabeth Lake Phebe Titus [.]

Is this the same person as Phebe Titus Haight ? Elizabeth Embree Margaret Mosher 1675 Henry Knowles BET. 1666 - 1671 John Cornell <1735 Sarah Cornell Catheroine Thorne Ellen Margareta Larson 1560 - 1630 Margaret Cradock? 70 70 1773 John Cornell 1695 Benjamin Brayton ~1657 John Fish ~1652 - 1747 Mary Fish 95 95 Thomas Appleby Henry Young Caroline Matilda Andersen Ephraim Mosher 1642 - 13 JAN 1713/14 Peleg Tripp BEF. 18 FEB 1598/99 - ABT. 7 MAR 1685/86 Christopher HUSSEY [.]

"Signed his deeds and will. Inventory includes 'one Bible' valued 5s and 'one book' valued at 5s."

First child baptized by Stephen Bachelor. 1802 - 1823 James Cornell 20 20 1670 Thomas Tripp ~1884 Ross Bonny [.]

IGI has Ross Milton Bonny born 23 September 1880, Sanpete, Mount Pleasant 11 FEB 1682/83 John Ricketson Elizabeth Chadeayne 8 JAN 1680/81 Abiel Tripp Eleanor Hunt Daniel Knowles Phebe Ferris Mary Hall 1718 Susannah Cornell 1597 Alice Fyshe Robert Knowles 12 JAN 1692/93 Mehitable Brayton John Fish 2 MAR 1626/27 Comfort Strange 1772 Elizabeth Cornell 1673 Moses Butts Elizabeth Cornell ~1655 John Strange 1768 Phebe Cornell Samuel Titus ~1759 Frederick Anderson Saelsbeck Hannah Mary Earle Possible sister to Sarah Earle. Elizabeth Tallman 1879 - 1879 Joseph Bonny Matte Marie Hjetting Mary \?\ 1673 Grissel Fish 25 FEB 1727/28 - 1808 Margaret Cornell David Lake Nancy Purdy ~1618 Anna Sanborne 1765 - 1825 Joshua Cornell 59 59 [.]

From the Cornell Web site:

Joshua, Rebecca and children Lydia, John, Samuel P., Phebe and Mary moved to Norwalk, Canada in 1824. Shinott D. 30 JAN 1717/18 Francis Brayton D. ~1850 Joshua Cornell Nicholas Mosher Sarah Fish Housenfare Johnston William SANBORN Aaron Quinby 1716 John Cornell Mary Wiggin D. 1687 Mary 6 Henry Knowles 1691 Daniel Tripp Hanna Fish William Earle Joshua Cornell Aaron Cornell 1630 Joshua Cornell [.]

His mother conveyed to him, Oct. 21, 1664, land in Plymouth, Massachusetts, which he conveyed on Nov. 21, 1664, to Samuel Cornell. There is no further account of Joshua. 1671 Alice Fish ~1631 - 1632 Kelame' Cornell 1 1 ~1615 John Briggs NOT THE SAME JOHN BRIGGS WHO TESTIFIED AT THE TRIAL OF THOMAS CORNELL IN PORTSMOUTH, RI.

See notes on Sarah for information on parents. John Fyshe William Cromwell 1658 - 1687 John Sisson 29 29 Tabitha Fish 1650 - 1740 Elizabeth Sisson 90 90 D. 1744 Joanna 1761 Samuel Cornell Unknown Sarah Birdsall 1623 Lott Strange 1728 - 1799 William Cornell 70 70 1776 Mary Cornell Elizabeth Birdsall BET. 1843 - 1849 Jens Carl Jacob Bonny The 1845 Census for Rander, Denmark, shows a two-year-old Jens in the household of Magnus Bone and Elsine Hietting. In the passage in Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude, however, his birth date is shon as 1849, no month or day. Whether the writer didn't know the age or whether they may have been another Jens is not certain. On the list of passengers aboard the Westmoreland, his age is given as 13, which would make his birth year approximatley 1844. Martha Hewlett Japheth Cornell John Cornell 1 FEB 1678/79 Alice Tripp 1656 - 1716 Sarah Butcher 60 60 Mary \\ Charles White Elizabeth Fish John Willis Joshua Cornell Living Bonny Nathan Fish D. 1782 Comfort Cornell Rebecca Mosher 1574 - 1625 Henrie Briggs 51 51 Hannah Thorne 1818 - 1883 Hepzibah Cornell 65 65 1686 Daniell Corning ~1600 - ~1663 Joan Sisson 63 63 Mary Knowles John Thorne Dorothy Bowne 1665 - 1739 Rebecca CORNELL 74 74 [.]

Is this the same person who is married to John Starr but was born abt. 10 years apart? 1820 Thomas Cornell Mercy Mosher Philip Taber Mehitable Fish Thomas Mosher Elizabeth Butts 1678 - 1756 Hannah Thorn 77 77 1640 Remember Corning Samuel Joseph Wing ~1732 - 1767 Peter Cornell 35 35 Sarah Sherman Audrey Barlowe Mary Sisson Anne Cornell 1662 - 1732 James Sands 70 70 George Sisson 1731 Rebecca Cornell William Almy Joseph Almy ~1589 - ~1643 William Swift 54 54 Mary Maria White Joseph Fish 4 JAN 1711/12 - ~1770 Joseph Cornell Patience Gifford ~1744 Margareta Henrecksen ~1725 - ~1800 Barak Cornell 75 75 Abigail Tripp Joshua Franklin 1751 - 1829 James Cornell 77 77 Edward Sands Nathan Palmer 1675 - 28 FEB 1733/34 John CORNING 1676 Eliashib Butts Susanna Fish 1780 - 1848 Deborah Cornell 68 68 Susan Pettit William ALMY 1776 Mary Cornell Mary Gale 1810 Samuel P. Cornell Tacy Burdick Hannah Maxson Charles White John or Hugh Mosher ~1724 John Cornell 1770 Benjamin Cornell Hope Fish ~1585 John Strange 1864 Joseph Smith Wing 1726 - 1800 Joshua Cornell 74 74 20 MAR 1719/20 - ~1795 Elizabeth Cornell Ebenezer Haviland John Hicks ~1612 - 2 FEB 1717/18 Lydia Maxson Hanna Strange Mary Clark Unknown ~1619 - <1662 Sarah Cornell 43 43 Elizabeth Cornell 1816 Albert Cornell D. <1633 John Hussey 1663 John Cornell Charity Cornell Benjamin Woolsey Henry Franklin Sarah Coe B. H. Brinkerhoff Abigail Mosher Chloe Sherman Henry Lake Thomasina ?? Abigail Butts Hannah Underhill [.]

Is Hannah Underhill related to Esther Underhill, brother William's wife? Content Rogers 1867 Sarah Adelia Wing ~1665 - >1736 Martha 71 71 ~1668 Mrs Martha BRIGGS Mary Maxson 22 JAN 1689/90 Timothy Ricketson Sarah Haviland Thomas Mumford Lavinia Cornell 1691 - 1751 John WOLSEY 60 60 D. 1648 Alice ?? [.]

Tried and executed for witchcraft. 1650 Isaac Lawton 1674 Jashub Wing ~1681 Mary Starr ~1649 - 1684 Thomas Fish 35 35 Thomas married Grizzel Strange (aka Grissigon Strange) in 1668. What is unusual about the marriage is the record in which it states; "Thomas Fish of the Town of Portsmouth, junior, was married unto Grisigon Strange, daughter of John of the said Portsmouth on the 16th of Dec. 1668. The birth of the said Thomas and Grizzigon fishes children are as follows: Alice fish was born 15 Sept, 1671, Grizzel, 12 April 1673, Hope 5 March 1675, Preserved 12 Aug. 1679, Mehitable 22 July, 1684."

Within nine months of the settlement of Portsmouth, followers of Anne Hutchinson broke away and formed a new settlement which they called Newport.  Almost immediatley, a government of the two settlements was established and Thomas Fish was appointed deputy to the general assembly at Newport.
 ~1637 - 30 JAN 1712/13 Christopher Almy [.]

Governor of Massachusetts (?), from Some Wings of Old Dartmouth by William Arthur Wing. ~1623 Charles Bridges [.]

English Secretary for the Province under Governor Stuyvesant in 1652; was in the Governor's council, Military Commissary in 1660; patentee of Flushing and Gravesend; lived in Pearl Street, New York.

Sarah carried on a small trade in merchandise adjoining City Hall, Wall Street, head of Broad, and had a house on State Street. Inherited /2 of Cornell's Neck, with sister Rebecca, who conveyed her share to Sarah. ~1749 - 1785 Joseph Pettis 36 36 1787 - 1864 George Cornell 77 77 ~1691 Mrs John (Sarah) WOOLSEY Abigail Fish John Mosher Dorothy Maxson ~1732 Charity Cornell ~1663 Mary Starr Sands Henry Franklin 1703 - 1762 Mary Cornell 58 58 1679 Mary Cornell Joanna Fish 1670 - 24 JAN 1707/08 William HALLETT 1723 - 1771 Benjamin Cornell 47 47 Edward Burling James McLess Hannah Cornell Thomas White Thomas Burtis Elizabeth Purdy ~1650 Grissel Strange Margaret Knowles D. 1579 Augustine Fyshe Mary Cornell Joseph Clarke ~1620 - >1687 Alice Ferre 67 67 Elizabeth Doty <1742 Letitia Cornell D. ~1699 Mary Sherman Sept. 9, 1697, Mary adds a codicil to her will. The will was proved July 12, 1699; Daniel was the Executor. In it she mentions children:

Daniel - all the outward movables
John - 5L
Robert - 5L and a cow
Mehitable Tripp - 5L, brass chaffing dish, pewter platter, three porringers, chest, pewter platter
Mary Brayton - 5L, table, basin, pewter platter, long cups and plates
Alice Knowles - 5L, two feather pillows, basin, pewter platters, pewter candlestick and plate
Mehitable, Mary, Alice -all wearing apparel both linen and woolen

Grandchildren:
Preserved, Mehitable, children of Thomas, deceased
Comfort, Ruth, Thomas, children of Daniel
Mary, daughter of John
Robert, son of Robert

The value of the estate was 130L, 2s.

Both Mary and Thomas were survivors of King Philip's War. George Smith Hope Smith Humphrey Smith Mary Smith Abigail Smith ~1678 Thomas Rogers Peleg Rogers Job Rogers Anna Rogers Mary Rogers Elizabeth Rogers Sarah Rogers Ruth Rogers Leah Rogers Priscilla Rogers Rebecca Rogers Penelope Rogers ~1670 Hannah Butler ~1699 Daniel Allen 1687 - ~1750 Hannah Wooley 63 63 William Allen Matthew Allen Lydia Allen Mary Allen Abigail Allen Daniel Allen Richard Allen Matthew Allen Joseph Allen James Allen 1684 - 1775 Mehitable Fish 91 91 Susannah Sisson Richard Sisson Thomas Sisson George Sisson Lydia Sisson James Sisson Avis Sisson Lemuel Sisson William Davol Jonathon Davol Hannah Audley Phebe Davol Joshua Davol Lydia Davol Hannah Davol Sarah Davol William Davol David Davol 6 FEB 1701/02 - <1751 Mary Wood Jonathan Sisson Mary Sisson Content Sisson James Sisson John Sisson Lydia Sisson Desire Sisson Stephen Sisson Hannah Sisson 1705 - 1740 Bathsheba Cook 35 35 Gideon Sisson Elizabeth Sisson Robert Sisson James Sisson John Sisson Lewis Sisson ~1692 Stephen Peckham 1630 - 1691 John Cooke 61 61 13 JAN 1632/33 - 1690 Mary Borden Richard Borden Joan Fowle Thomas Cooke Mary Mary Cooke Hannah Cooke Elizabeth Cooke Sarah Cooke Joseph Cooke Martha Cooke Amey Cooke Samuel Cooke Deborah Cooke Thomas Cooke Daniel Wilcox D. 1702 Edward Wilcox unknown 1679 David Lake 25 FEB 1682/83 Mary Wilcox 1671 Elizabeth Slocum Meribah Parker 1674 Ann Slocum 31 JAN 1674/75 Mary Slocum 1 MAR 1677/78 Sarah Slocum 1682 John Slocum ABT. 21 JAN 1620/21 John Fish ~1622 Ruth Fish 1626 Joseph Fish ABT. 7 MAR 1629/30 Nathan Fish 1630 Tabitha Fish ~1633 Hanna Fish ~1637 Christian Fish 1639 Benjamin Fish BET. 1618 - 1639 Mary Fish Lawton ~1583 Thomas Lawton ~1585 Mary Lawton ~1587 Joan Lawton Augustine Male Fyshe Augustine Female Fyshe 1623 - 1692 William Samborne Sanborne 69 69 D. <1671 Mary Tuck Margaret Page <1507 Robert Tuck Johanna Bachilder ~1499 Richard Lawton Unknown Purrier Thomas Wheeler Ellen Unknown ~1553 Joan Lawton ~1523 Alice Lawton John Sugar ~1525 Elizabeth Lawton ~1527 Thomas Lawton Margery Lawton ~1535 Margery Lawton Robert Fuller ~1537 - BET. 1540 - 1600 Katherine Lawton 1678 - 1720 Joshua Sherman 42 42 1644 - 1734 John Sherman 89 89 1653 Sarah Spooner 1711 Jonathan Sherman Charles Sherman Weston Sherman Abraham Sherman Susanna Butler 1738 Butler Sherman Sarah Sherman 1741 Paul Sherman 1743 Daniel Sherman 1745 Jonathan Sherman 1748 Joanna Sherman 1750 Susanna Sherman 1752 Susanna Sherman 1757 Humphrey Sherman Leah Merrihew William Spooner Hannah Pratt Philip Sherman Sarah Odding Philip Sherman 1680 Abigail Sherman 1682 Hannah Sherman 1684 Isaac Sherman 1689 Ephraim Sherman John Tripp Mary Paine Unknown Potter Ann Hull Mary Fish Joseph Fish Nathan Fish Tabitha Fish Hanna Fish Christopher Fish Benjamin Fish John Fish Deborah Cornell Zilpah Cornell 20 JAN 1713/14 Samuel Cornell 1716 John Cornell 23 MAR 1718/19 George Cornell 29 JAN 1720/21 Grizel Cornell 1723 Job Cornell 1724 Phebe Cornell 1726 Paul Cornell 1729 Elizabeth Cornell 1660 - 1726 Peter Button 66 66 21 FEB 1696/97 - 1778 Joseph Wing JOSEPH6 WING (MATTHEW5, STEPHEN4, REV. JOHN3, MATTHEW2, GODFRIEDUS1 WYNGE) was born February 20, 1696/97 in Dartmouth, Mass., and died 1778 in Massachusetts. He married CATHERINE CORNELL, daughter of SAMUEL CORNELL and DEBORAH unknown).

Notes for JOSEPH WING:
Joseph Wing...1697 to 1778
(Grandson of Stephen Wing, one of the founders of Sandwich, Mass., in 1637.)

Joseph Wing, son of Matthew and Elizabeth (Mott-Ricketson) Wing was born in Dartmouth, probably in the old Ricketson house, Feb. 20, 1697. His birth is a matter of town record. In 1626, Joseph is mentioned in the town records as a "petty juryman," and as a "grand juryman of Superior court." Sept. 7, 1731. He was chosen moderator and also thingman, one of his duties being to use his rod of office during church services to keep church-goers awake and to punish offending hands. About the year 1717, when barely twenty years of age, Joseph married a wife named Catherine. Her surname has never been definitely ascertained, but from data at hand, we believe that she was a member of the Cornell family. Probably about the year 1724, Joseph, as the oldest son, came into possession of the house and lands whereon the father dwelt. This was up the hill across the road from the great lean-to house of his brother, Benjamin's, the site now being occupied by the Major Allen house. An aged descendant now living (in 1916) remembers the house which was torn down many years ago, because of its great stone chimney and its being the only house she ever saw with diamond-paned windows.

Joseph Wing made his will in 1778 and styled himself "Joseph Wing, Gentleman." He gave to his wife Catherine and to his son Edward the farm and lot he bought of William Ricketson; mentions his sons Matthew and Daniel; his grandson John (if he should die without issue), and his daughter Ruth Howland, and her son Thomas; his grand-daughter Elizabeth Salsbury; grand-daughters Catherine Briggs and Dorcus Allen.

In 1739 there is a deed from Samuel and Paul Cornell, George Thomas and wife Grizel (Cornell), and Elizabeth, Deborah and Zilpha Cornell, all of Crumwell Precinct, County of Duchess, New York, to Joseph Wing, of the homestead which belonged to their late father, Samuel Cornell. This appeared to have been a conveyance by the heirs of the homestead of Samuel Cornell in Dartmouth. Thomas Cornell was a brother of Samuel Cornell and his wife's name was Catherine Potter. Their daughter, Rebecca, married Edward Wing. Thus we find the name Catherine rather uncommon at that time, in the Cornell family, and Joseph Wing taking over from the heirs the homestead of Samuel Cornell. From these inferences, we draw the conclusion that the wife of Joseph Wing was Catherine Cornell, daughter of Samuel.

From William Arthur Wing's, Some Wings of Old Dartmouth, was given the house and hill upon which he dwelled, across the road from the lean-to home of Matthew Wing, the site now occupied by the Major Allen house. ~1609 - 1676 John Crandall 67 67 John Crandall was probably from Shropshire, near Wales. It is not certain when he arrived in the colonies, there being another John Crandall living in Massachusetts at or about the same time. It seems fairly certain that he was the John Crandall in question in 1651 (July 21) who, along with John Clarke and Obediah Holmes, "being the representatives of the Church of Newport, upon the request of William Witter (daughter's father-in-law), of Lynn, arrived there, he being a brother in the Church, who by reason of his advanced age, could not undertake so great a journey to visit the church. William Witter lived about two miles out of Lynn and the next day being Sunday, they spent in religious services at his house, and were there apprehended by two constables at the instance of the Massachusetts authorities, while Mr. Clarke was preaching, and the next morning they were sent to prison in Boston. For the dire offense of holding this little meeting, and on other frivolous pretexts Obediah Holmes was fined, imprisoned and whipped." John Crandall was sentenced to pay a fine of L5 or be publicly whipped then released from prison upon his promise to appear at the next court.

There is little wonder then that in many ways John Crandall's history is the history of Rhode Island. Rhode Island was a colony founded on religious and political freedom, ideals which were abhorred by neighboring colonies. In the conflict between Rhode Island and her neighbors regarding her borders, Rhode Island's freedoms were very likely a consideration in the actions taken.

[Park, Alice Crandall, One Crandall Family, 1651-1996, Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore , MD, 1996] "Soon after Rhode Island's charter was openly read, the Court of 1659 ordered that John Crandall and three other men be appointed to "marke out the westward bownds of our colony as our charter bowndeth it." They were instructed to finish their work within the year and to  report any intruders. In August of 1661 a petition was presented to the Court, asking first, for its approval of the previous purchase from the Indian owner by 'adventurers' of the colony, a tract of land in a remote area on which to establish a plantation. Intruders were now confronting the colonists, so they were asking the Court for help against the 'adversaries of the colony.'" One of the nine adventurers and the signer for all was John Crandall. By not later than 1665, John and his family had moved to the new settlement of Westerly, which he had helped to establish on the mainland, still part of the Providence and Rhode Island Plantations, and part of the land of the 1661 petition.

Difficulties arose immediately for the settlers of Westerly for the land was also claimed by Stonington, Connecticut. [John Cortland Crandall, Elder John Crandall...] "A claim was made in 1662 by Connecticut of land reaching beyond Misquamicutt to Narragansett Bay. On October 17, 1667 a letter was sent by the Connecticut authorities to those of Rhode Island, complaining that John Crandall had taken possession of about a square mile of land, which he had laid out to his son, on the west side of the Pawcatuck River. On Nov. 18, 1669, Connecticut again sent a letter of complaint to him regarding appropriation of land by him and several others in Stonington Township. On March 11, 1669/70, John Crandall and Tobia Saunders answered on behalf of Westerly, denying any guilt in the matter. A few months later, on June 19, 1670, as Conservator of the Peace of Westerly, he, John, wrote a letter to the Governor of Rhode Island, informing him "of an entrance made into our jurisdiction by some of Connecticut, and of their carrying away some inhabitants prisoners." (John Cortland Crandall)

On August 2, 1670, John buried his first wife, Mary. On October, John wrote his will.

On 14 June 1670 the General Assembly, in an attempt to settle the boundary issue ordered issued "horses, boats or any other things conducing to the comfortable accommodation and speedy dispatch of Mr. John Crandall and Joseph Torrey, Jr. in the voyage to Connecticut, " but in the next year, the men of Westerly were told to ignore orders from officers of Connecticut, and to "faithfully adhere to the officers...Mr John Crandall and Mr. Tobias Sanders, Conservators of the Peace." In the fall, Connecticut sent a letter to the Governor of Rhode Island, Benedict Arnold, stating their disregard of Rhode Island claims east of the Pawcatuck River and simultaneously, in Hartford, in the Connecticut Assembly determined to take action, "in answer to the petition of Mr. John Crandall...in behalf of the people on the east side of Pawcatuck River within the bounds of Stonington. The disputes, altercations, fights, clubbings, arrests with fines and kidnappings continued, not only not diminished but possibly escalating. John and his son were specifically noted as threatening, clubbing or opposing and encouraging other residents to do likewise as well as chopping down boundary trees in Stonington.

In 1671, John Crandall himself, and others, were carried off and imprisoned in Hartford, the charges being contempt of authority, sedition and rebellion. On May 2, 1671, the Rhode Island Assembly advised him not to yield to Connecticut's claims and assured him of its support and willingness to support his financial losses during or as the result of his incarceration. On May 6, he was allowed 20 shillings to bear his charge in Connecticut.

[Minutes of The Record of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England, vol II, 1664-1677:May 3rd 1671, "Whereas, Mr. John Crandall, of the towne of Westerlye, hath been, as is asserted, apprehended, and now is in durance, by the Collony of Connecticut, and for no other cause than for endeavoring to  maintain the authority of his Majestye granted to this Collony; and having by Mr. Tobias Saunders desired the advice of the Governour and others in this Collony, whether to give in bond to the authority of Connecticut or to abide imprisonment. This Assembly doe advise the said Mr. John Crandall, that in any matter relating to his actings for the maintaining his Majestyes authority in this Collony, he give no bond. And also the Assembly do promise, that if he be forced to imprisonment for the premises, this Collony will bear his charges thereby, and endeavor to justify his actings therein."

Having survived the many disputes and encounters with the settlers of Stonington, John and his second wife, Hannah Gaylord, moved to Newport sometime before 1675 in order to escape King Philip's Indian War. It was there that he died November 29, 1676, of "the ague and fever." [Letter from Ruth Burdick, mother of Deborah Burdick who married Joseph Crandall, quoted in John Courtland Crandall's Elder John Crandall of Rhode Island and His Descendants]  D. 1670 Mary Opp Matthias Button ~1615 - 4 FEB 1661/62 Ann Lettyce Teagle 1691 - <1747 William Petty 55 55 ~1695 - <1748 Mary Petty 53 53 1663 - BEF. 13 MAR 1711/12 James Petty 1607 - >1713 Mary Lawton 106 106 John Lawton Benedick Lawton Joan Cook <1623 - 1683 Giles Slocum 60 60 John Petty Ann Canning John Brown 22 FEB 1633/34 Daniel Button 23 FEB 1633/34 - 1665 Mary Button 1645 - 1667 Elizabeth Button 22 22 ~1650 Sarah Button 1652 Hannah Button 17 MAR 1659/60 - ~1725 Matthias Button Thomas French Edward Yeomans 6 JAN 1672/73 James Kingsbury Thomas Busten Mary Neff Mary Lampere ~1692 Maren Michelsen Samuel Wright Benjamin Wright There are no records for Phineas Wright in Wisconsin but the state does have the following record fir Benjamin :

Name  Benjamin Gile Wright
Color White
Sex Male
Occupation None
Age 91 Years, 5 Months, 19 Days
Father Don't Know
Mother Don't Know
Birthplace Toronto Canada
Wife Margaret
Date of Birth 1798
Widowed
Date of Death July 25, 1900
Place of Death George Wright's
Burial Wrightsville
Undertaker Ed Pierce Elizabeth Gerrard This is the person Joseph confesses to bigamy with in his letters to Rebecca in 1854. John Whitley 1788 Mary Whitley Jenny Whitley Sally Whitley ~1808 Abigail Whitley 1800 - 1841 James Whitley 40 40 1803 Samuel Whitley Benjamin Huntley George Sheppard Peter Seeley 1918 Grace Melba McLain [AmyMcLain.FTW]

See Sallie and Amy for information on death of Gray, the Tornado of 1936.

Melba's trust gave her money to do with as she pleased at the appropriate time. She spent some of it to attend Blue Mountain College for one year, after which she married Tommie Caldwell and used the money to build the house in which she and Tommie lived throughout their married life and, for her, even after the death of Tommie in 1991. ~1916 - 1991 John Thomas Caldwell 75 75 Living Caldwell Living Caldwell Living Caldwell Living Caldwell Living Grisham Living Caldwell Living Hendershot Living Hendershot Living Tutor Living Tutor Living Tutor Living Tutor Living Brand Living Caldwell Living Caldwell Living Rogers Living Rogers Living Rogers Elizabeth Hix 1885 Phosa Bonny 1901 - 1972 Curtis Edgar Pennington 70 70 Lillian Pennington 1899 John Lee McLain [AmyMcLain.FTW]

In his youth, John was known to be a prankster. As a young man, he was good friends with Reed Porter and the two of them delighted in playing tricks on many, but especially on John's father Erastus, the judge, whom they called out late one night to perform a wedding for a couple of young elopers. Of course, no one showed up and the judge staid outside in he dark and wet all night long. His many letters home were filled with humorous stories.

Johnnie Lee and his wife, Lillian, never got along and lived in separate houses. 1883 Daisy McLain Living Bonny Living Bonny 1899 - 1979 Sallie Belle Porter 80 80 As a young girl, Sallie was probably curious and a little enchanted by the wild McLain boys and when her own sister, Roxie, married Grover McLain, it must have seemed right for her to fall in love with Grover's younger brother, Gray. Neither relationship was encouraged by Sallie's and Roxie's parents but that of the even younger lovers, Gray and Sallie, was even more strongly discouraged. Gray and Sallie resorted to leaving love notes to each other in their secret tree in the woods and meeting in secret. Finally, they eloped. They were certain that Sallies' father, Nathaniel Berry Porter, would come after them. When he, in fact,did, they hid in the preacher's home until he left. They managed to keep their marriage a secret for only a week.

I could not find the marriage records in Mississippi. Whether they married out of state or the records were lost in the tornado of 1936 or whether they were never recorded by the preacher will probably never be known. The honeymoon ended in 1930 when Gray was tragically killed in an industrial accident at the Carnation Milk Company. While the company never admitted any culpability, they did agree to an out of court settlement. Court records reveal that the settlement was $15000 [using a formula of $1000 in 1930 = $10,309, that would equate to $154,639 in 2000 dollars], of which the lawyers received half [$77,319]. After that, the remaining money went into a trust and every cent spent was both approved by the Court and unentered into a ledger, which, court records indicate, were lost during the tornado of 1936. Early on Sallie loaned money out to assorted people. While this appears initially to be poor judgement on Sallie's part, she did at least earn interest on her money (assuming the loans were ever paid back) at a time when many were losing everything in the stock market. Despite, having a small sum of money, Sallie was forced to take in boarders, one of whom was Curtis Pennington, the brother of her deceased husband's brothers's (Johhnie Lee McLain) wife, Lillian Pennington.

In 1933, Sallie, still a young woman of 33, remarried, this time to Curtis Pennington, also 33, the marriage ceremony performed by Gray's father, James E. McLain. Cousin Edna Earl McLain recalls that Melba and Amy were quite distraught by the marriage and ran over to Uncle Grover and Aunt Roxie's house and just cried their eyes out. The consensus among family members was that Sallie could probably have done better than Curt yet Curt was religious and tithed regularly at 10%.

Since Curt moved into the house Sallie and the girls had purchased with the Carnation Settlement money, there can be little denial that Curt benefited from marrying a woman with a home and some modest means, especially during the Depression. Melba seems never to have harbored any kind of grudge in that regard but Amy did. The settlement had established a trust for each of the girls to do with as they wished at the appropriate time. Amy used hers to attend Blue Mountain College and Mississippi State and to purchase a car at the appropriate time. In due course, the car was purchased and Curt took a liking to it and, in Amy's view, gave short shrift to the driving training Curt was to give them, hustling them out of the driver's seat in short order so that he could take of the driving of the beloved car.

In 1936, Tupelo was hit by a tornado which old-timers still refer to as the Great Tornado of '36.  It destroyed the house Sallie had built on the hill and carried Amy away. When Uncle Grover, Aunt Roxie and cousins Ruby, Sybil, Edna Earl and Jewel came to check on the family, they found that the house was not only destroyed but completely gone. Sallie, Melba and Curt were all in different locations and Amy was nowhere to be found. Sallie and Melba were convinced that she had been killed when another relative announced that he had just left the train station where numerous victims had been boarded onto a train for Memphis and treatment. Fortunately, he recognized Amy and passed the information on. Amy's injuries included a thumb, which many thought she would lose, but the doctors felt that a thumb was so vital that muscles were transferred from other fingers to her thumb, even though the movement would be somewhat unusual, awkward and noticeable even to the untrained. Infection and dangerous swelling were prevented by applying maggots to her wounds. Throughout the rest of her life her thumb movement, instead of being an out and in movement, was one which brought her thumb toward the fingers from under her palm.[AmyMcLain.FTW]

Sallie and Curt managed to get the house put back together and, in time, it became a place where all of the grandchildren liked to go. Years later, Diane and Linda recalled the back steps, the glass panels at the front door and, especially, the great pecan tree in the front yard, the home of many squirrels which had, over a long period of time, become sufficiently tame that as soon as Curt would shake or tap on the tree, they would scurry down to eat pecans out of his hand. Until young Ricky brought his cap gun and fired it every time they came down the tree. For this infraction the cousins never quite forgave Ricky, who seems to have some of the McLain Prankster blood in him. The neighborhood in which the house was located was unique. From the street, all the houses were middle class nice but down one of the alleys, hidden from view from the street, was an all-black shanty town where Sallie took the grandchildren to get treats, play with the black children and go with her to buy snuff.

In the early 1950's, Sallie went to Houston, Texas and stayed with her daughter, Amy, and her family while she underwent shock therapy. Edna seems to think that Sallie had had trouble coping even prior to this point in time and may have come by that tendency by heredity. [See notes on Easie, Curtis, Reed's and Roxie's children or grandchildren] Still, for a person who had a difficult time coping, twenty years after becoming a young widow until undergoing therapy is along time.

[See Facts for Court Minutes regarding Estate of Melba and Amy and authorization to spend, invest and repay. Copies of all transactions from Chancery Court Minutes in Lee County Courthouse, in possession of Jane Bonny. Numbers in facts refer to Chancery Court Minutes Vol No. and page number. The Case Number Regarding the Settlement is 6536.] 1865 - 1956 James Erastus McLain 91 91 In his obituary, it is stated that Jas. McLain was one of fifteen children, the last surviving.

James Erastus McLain came from Hartsville, Alabama, according to Edna Earl McLain Dolland, and has 13 siblings, one of whom was named Felix. James was always somewhat mysterious, and probably eccentric, according to Edna Earl Dolland. He was, perhaps, according to family lore, raised by his grandmother. A review of the 1880 census, however, reveals that James or Erastus was living with his mother and the other two youngest children and that his grandmother is, apparently, no longer living.

In 1900 Census,he is  identified as James P. McLain, possibly the result of some confusion over his initials and his job, J.D. or J. E. vs. J.P.

First two children born in Alabama, last two in Mississippi. Birth dates of children taken from 1900 Census, except for John L. It appears that the family must have moved to Mississippi between 1892 and 1897. His obituary states that he was member of the Old Enterprise Baptist Church at Double Springs, Alabama and that James and Idella moved to Pontotoc County in 1895, specifically the Longview Community, where they farmed.

Buried with Idella Morton, Mammy Clain, in Pontotoc City Cemetery.

Known to all of the kids and grand kids as Daddy Clain.

Melba's recollections indicate that he was something of the black sheep of the family, especially following his marriage to Idella (Jane's note: at age 16. Janes Note: this is probably an error; Melba probably meant Mattie, his mistress and second wife). After reviewing Mary McLain's will of 1888, perhaps Melba was right after all since James's name is conspicuously absent from his mother will.

Nita's recollections indicate that he was a Justice of the Peace and easy prey for the tricks of his son John and John's good friend, Reed Porter. James, as Justice of the Peace, and possibly also as a sign of good will, performed the marriage ceremony when his son Gray's wife, Sallie, married Curtis Pennington in 1933. His obituary states that James served five terms as Justice of the Peace in Pontotoc County, 1911-1935. After retiring from that position, he worked as a night watchman at the local compress.

After Idella died, Erastus remarried, this time to his wife's brother Clark's widow, Mattie.

In his will, written 4 October 1946, he states:

"I give, devise and bequeath unto my beloved wife Mattie A. McLain, my homestead, consisting of house and lot situated in the town of Pontotoc, State of Mississippi, and described as Lot No. 1, Block No. 12 of the Knox Subdivision of Section 5 in Township 10 of Range 3, East, for and during the term of her natural life or widowhood, with remainder over to my four living children, to wit: Mrs. Daisy McLain McCord, Grover Wesley McLain, Johnnie Lee McLain, and James Claude McLain, and to my two granddaughters, children of Allen Gray McLain, deceased, to wit: Melba McLain Caldwell and Amie Bell McLain, I do hereby give and bequeath the sum of One Dollar each.

In the event I should leave any cash money at my home or on deposit, it is my will that same be equally divided among my widow and my said above four living children."

By the time this will was written Melba and Amy were grown and, though he may not have been aware of it, Amy was also married. It is probable that they were each left One Dollar to make it obvious that he had not inadvertently left them out of his will. In any case, he must have felt that they were well taken care of at this point in their lives.

James died in the home of his son, James Claude, in Jackson, Mississippi, after an illness from cancer of two years. ~1864 - 1930 Idella J. Morton 66 66 Edna Dolland believes that Mammy Clain may have been diabetic; she had a 'sweet-sour" smell about her. She may have died shortly after Gray, her son, died, in 1930. Everyone believed she died of a "broken heart." Idella's Death Certificate says that she died of myocarditis, with Bright's Disease a contributor. Her tombstone is apparently in error.

Nita remembers that Idella let the grand children pretty much play anywhere and was a good grandparent. Along with the rest of her family (husband and children), Idella was musically inclined. While the other mostly played the violin or fiddle, Idella played the organ. Edna Earl McLain had such fond memories of Idella playing the organ, that when one just like became available at an auction, she bought it and took it home. It was there that great-grandson, Ross F. Bonny, Jr., played it, to Edna's and his own wife's great delight. (2001)

Idella's brother had a wife named Mattie. After Clark died, Mattie lived in a small shack at the back of the Old Miller Place, where, it was said, she was James McLain's mistress. Mattie was much more formidable looking than Idella and the grandchildren and great-grandchildren remember her coffee-can-spittoon and the snuff drool at the corner of her mouth. 1862 - 1949 Nathan Berry Porter 87 87 Nathan was always a kindly, generous and devoted father, husband and friend. As land owners, however, there was one area in which he was not tolerant. He did not want his daughters seeing, much less marrying, the McLain boys, whose family worked as share croppers and lived in the Old Miller Place, about a mile down the road from the Porter-Sibley Farm. Even after Roxie and Grover ran off to get married and had a child, he refused to acknowledge the child for many years.

It is possible that Nathan had some kind of drinking problem.

Nathan Berry Porter appears to have died without a will. All of his estate, however, appears to have passed to his wife Lula Mary (aka Mary Lula) so it is possible that he left a will but for some reason it is not indexed or otherwise found in the record books of Pontotoc County.

Buried, along with wife, Lula Mary Sibley, and daughter, Lillian are buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery.

Nathan Berry Porter was all his life called Jack until he had grandchildren. They called him Pap.

Pap had a stroke about five years before he died and was confined to the wheelchair for the remainder of his days. He couldn't always talk after the stroke but he did understand what was said to him.

I need a photo of his tombstone. 1874 - 1962 Lula Mary Sibley 87 87 Following her marriage to Nathaniel Berry Porter, there is no further records found of Lula Sibley until she made out her will in 1950.

Lula, known an "Mo[n]~" to the grandchildren, had very fine, thin, hair, which she combed with a fine-toothed comb, almost like a lice comb, and pulled back tight into a bun.

Her obituary staes that she was a lifelong resident of Bankhead.


In it she reveals much about her love for her husband and his lingering illness as well as her own. She states:

"I give devise and bequeath unto my two daughters, Lillian Porter and Anita Baldwin, the old home place, consisting of 58 acres, described as 40 acres, the northeast quarter of the section of Section 31 in Township 9, South of Range 4 East, except on heretofore conveyed to my son, Jack Porter, Jr. also two acres, the north half of the east half of the west half of the northwest quarter of Section 31, in Township 9 South of Range 4 East, except one acre heretofore conveyed to my son Jack Porter, Jr., I do this because my to above named daughters faithfully and loyally nursed their father throughout his long illness and are now taking care and nursing me in my failing health, and the other of my children are self sustaining and provided for." Her obituary states that she died of an illness of one month.

"The Old Home Place" referred to above is, in 2001, still in the possession of Anita Bladwin and her husband Theron. Amon the furnishings are two prized rockers which belonged to Lula and her mother before her. Anita states that her baby picture was taken in one of the rockers and even at that time Lula was fearful that it would come apart while Anita sat in it. "The Old Home" is more than "home" to Nita and Theron; it is HOME. It is where Nita, her siblings and all of her own children were born. The children of the next generation, during its working days, regarded it as a truly wonderful place, full of barnyard animals (much like a petting zoo), woods and springs.

I need to scan in the photo of her tombstone. 1893 - 1978 Aurelia Porter 85 85 Easie and Big Jack lived in Pyland, Mississippi. Big Jack died long before Easie did. They never had any children. William Elias Eddington ~1894 Roxie Porter 1892 Grover Wesley McLain Grover seems likely to have been named after President Grover Cleveland, a Democrat when the South voted heavily Democrat.

Grover was like his brothers Gray and Johnnie Lee, a prankster. All four boys were charming, friendly, tall and slender and handsome. While Gray was helpful and reliable, Claude was of a serious nature, and Johnnie Lee was the one who could spin a good tale, Gray was the charmer and the ladies' man. The McLain boys were a wild and mischievous lot, known far and wide for the pranks, which ranged from the innocent to the dangerous, including putting at least once snake onto their victim's bed. Many wondered if they would ever amount to anything at all. Although seemed to always find work, even during the Depression, including construction on the new dam being built in Muscle Schoals and ship building in Rhode Island, in other regards Grover fulfilled community expectations, eventually leaving his wife, Roxie while working in Rhode Island. The discovery was both shocking and surprising to Roxie who had brought the children to visit their father only to realize that the friendly downstairs neighbor was Grover's paramour. Sybil McLain Jewel McLain Ruby McLain 1898 - 1958 William Curtis Porter 60 60 A twin. The bigger and, apparently, more robust of the two, died, while Curt survived. 1902 Lillian Porter Lillian was a nurse. She was, in fact, on duty in the hospital when Gray McLain died. She worked some 25 years in the Community Hospital in Tupelo, leaving there to work as an industrial nurse at the Futorian plant in New Albany.

Never married. Died of malignant brain tumor. 1907 - 1959 Reed Byron Porter 51 51 1911 Jackson Miller Porter 1914 Anita Porter [AmyMcLain.FTW]

Nita's recollections and notes, along with Sallie Bell's Bible and the tombstones in the Oak Hill Cemetery and Pontotoc Cemetery, are the source of the information on the Porters and Sibleys and what information there is on the Dillards, Carlocks, Perrys and Greens.

Nits has many fond memories of growing up in Mississippi and of her grandparents. To this day she lives in the old Sibley homestead, though it is much changed from when George Sibley built it. Theron Baldwin ~1831 - ~1870 Thomas O. Porter 39 39 Church records indicate that Thomas and Nancy Green Porter came from Greenvile, South Carolina, as were the Greens and Dillards.

There are no Porter who are listed in North or South Carolina Cemeteries who appear to be of an appropriate age to be Thomas Porter's parents [http://rfci.net/wdfloyd/, which has a list of all the cemeteries in North and South Carolina].

Thomas and Nancy Green Porter are shown in the Census of 1860 and 1870 in Mississippi and in the 1850 Census in the Spartanburg District, (probably on the North Fork of the Picolet River), in South Carolina. Living with them are Catherine (age 18), Smith (age 15), Mary (age 13), Runyan (age 9), Matilda (age 7), and Elizabeth (age 3). Since Thomas is only 21 and Nancy is only 16, and there being no other Porters in the area, it seems likely that these others are Thomas's siblings. In 1840, in Spartanburg, there is a Robert S. Porter on the Census in a household of 8 people.

On either side of young Thomas and Nancy are William Green, who appears to be widowed or divorced. and B. Green. In addition, there are Dillards, possibly cousins or aunt and uncles on her mother's side, in near proximity. It appears that all left South Carolina and came to Mississippi together.

According to Nita Porter, shortly after the birth of his last child, which would have been on or about 09 November 1870, while his wife was still confined to the bed, Tom rode off on an errand and never returned. The consensus among family members is that he must have been murdered and then dumped somewhere for he was content at home and had little reason to abandon his family. His son Nathan always felt that his father had been murdered by his uncle King Dillard (husband to his mother's sister Mary). Why he felt this way is not known. The times were dangerous. Rustlers were known to be active in those parts as well as any number of other lawless sorts. In the Oak Hill Cemetery there is a monument where he would have been buried. On it it says,

"Thomas Porter
          in
     Memory
       1 Regt
     Miss Inf
       CSA
      1831
   Escaped
Ft. Donelson
  Also 3rd
Miss Cav
    Fate
Unknown"

Nearby is the grave of his wife Nancy and the grave of Infant, who died in the same year that Tom disappeared.

Civil War Record Physical Description: 5'9", eyes black, hair black, complexion dark, occupation Farming. He is shown to have enlisted in the Confederate Mississippi Company C, 1st Miss Volunteers, in Isaka (?), Miss. He is shown as sick in the hospital in Clinton, Miss Aug. 1, 1862.

On or about February 5, 1863 (notation at bottom of company Muster Roll says "+Roll Reed A.&I. So. Feb, 1863): Shown "Absent" and "Escaped, Donelson." This date of February 5 is prior to the taking of Fort Donelson so the notes must have been taken after Donelson fell. About 100-1500 men escaped from Fort Donelson with Nathan Bedford Forrest and his cavalry and Generals Pillow and Floyd. The escape was daring and took the escapees to Nashville. When Forts Henry and Donelson fell to the Union Army, the Ohio and Cumberland Rivers were in the hands of the North. Nashville, Shiloh and Vicksburg were to follow, though Vicksburg did not fall until July 1863. Though Thomas Porter was obviously in the middle of one losing battle after another in Tennessee and the Mississippi, Ohio and Cumberland River Valleys, he continued to reenlist until the end of the war. There are also Civil War Confederate records showing him in the 1st Mississippi Cavalry rather than the 3rd.


Names of 7 children (all except Nathaniel Berry) taken from 1870 Mississippi Census, Pontotoc County.

Jane was the only child born in South Carolina. Thomas and Nancy, therefore, must have moved to Mississippi between 1851 and 1856. The date of 1851-2 is confirmed by church records, copies of which are in the hands of Edna Earl McLain Dolland in Galion, Ohio.

There are several Porter wills in Union County, South Carolina but the connection, if any, is not certain. 1835 - 1903 Nancy Green 68 68 6/12/1999 Have received copy of Thomas Porter's Infantry and Cavalry Records. Nancy did not        apply for pension. Need to check 1880 census to see where Nancy was living and          how she supported herself.

Nancy Green Porter and Thomas Porter were both born in South Carolina. Since their daughter Jane was born there, in 1851, they probably married around 1850. The first child to be born in Mississippi was Mary M., born about 1858. They probably came to Mississippi between 1857 and 1858. The Oak Hill Church records show them as transferring from the Corinth Church, Union District, South Carolina, 16 July 1859.

Thomas and Nancy Green Porter are shown in the Census of 1860 and 1870 in Mississippi and in the 1850 Census in the Spartanburg District, (probably on the North Fork of the Picolet River), in South Carolina. Living with them are Catherine (age 18), Smith (age 15), Mary (age 13), Runyan (age 9), Matilda (age 7), and Elizabeth (age 3). Since Thomas is only 21 and Nancy is only 16, and there being no other
Porters in the area, it seems likely that these others are Thomas's siblings. In 1840, in Spartanburg, there is a Robert S. Porter on the Census in a household of 8 people. An alternative to the suggestion that the children living with Thomas and Nancy are his sibling is that they are Nancy's siblings since she has siblings with the same names.

On either side of young Thomas and Nancy are William Green, who appears to be widowed or divorced and B. Green. In addition, there are Dillards, possibly cousins or aunt and uncles on her mother's side, in near proximity. It appears that all left South Carolina and came to Mississippi together.

[A search for marriage records in South Carolina reveals no Thomas Porter and Nancy Green, using Langdon's Spartanburg County Marriages 1785-1911 and Marriages Notices in the Charleston Courier 1803-1808 and GenWeb. A search of LDS records is next.]

According to Nita Porter Baldwin, Nathan Berry Porter had 9 siblings: Nerve [Marvery?], Ronnie {Verona?], Mollie {Mary?], Ella [Ellise}, Jane, Judson (who died young and is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery), Ann and Emma. The last two I had not previously entered (as of 02/14/01). I now enter them but should check against the censuses. ~1845 Matilda Green Bill Stepp ~1849 Elizabeth Green Ulysses Martin 1840 - 1884 Mary Green 44 44 ~1818 Colden Dillard Katy Green Jim Clayton Sallie Green William Campbell William Smith Green Calloway Green 1842 - 1861 Winsberry Green 19 19 [AmyMcLain.FTW]

Killed in Kentucky during the Civil War.

Tombstone says:

Berry Green
1 Miss Vols
01-09-1842
10-24-1861

Benefits collected by father W. M. Green. The last name of Green was provided by Nita Porter. The initials W.M. are surmised from the nearby location of the grave of W.M. Green, and the grace of SELA Green, wife of William Green.

Information taken from National Archives Copy of Veterans Records:
Six feet tall, fair complexion, red hair, blue eyes and by profession a farmer.
Place of Death also taken from these papers. Cause of death not given.

Father William Green signed the Form of Application for Money Due Deceased Soldiers. 1802 - 1889 William M. Green 86 86 William and Sela Green were members of the Brushy Creek Baptist Church in Greenville County, South Carolina from about 1832. William preached there on several occasions and two of his slaves, Nathaniel and Matilda, were admitted into membership in 1832 as well. A Nancy Green was accepted into membership in 1842, based on experience, so it seems unlikely to be William and Sela's daughter.

The Green Family Cemetery is located in Greenville County, off of Brushy Creek Road, on Quincy Road (104 Quincy Drive). In this cemetery are buried John (June 13, 1782-June 27, 1852) and Mary Green (December 4, 1795-November 12, 1855), John P Green (Aug 31, 1830-January 7, 1850), Amanda Green (Aug 3, 1850-July 11, 1862, d/o W B & Nancy Green) and Lemuel Green (Dec 25, 1814-August 29, 1852) plus 8 other unreadable [http://rfci.net/wdfloyd/greengrn/htmlGreenville County, SC Cemeteries]. John Green is just old enough to be the father of William M. Green but his wife Mary is probably not old enough so either this is William's brother and his wife or perhaps his father and second wife. Some of the others may be grandchildren.

There is another William Green buried in Rutherford County, NC in the Bostic Brickyard Cemetery, who died  November 6, 1832, at the age of 81 years. The relationship to Willaim and Sela is unknown.

In the New Prospect Baptist Cemetery in Spartanburg County, SC, is buried Mar Agnes Greene 33y, 9m,15d, W/o SA Greene d/o W A Cantrell.

Nita Porter says that William Green, father of Winsberry (aka Berry) received his Confederate Soldier's Pay, which she believes was his first and only paycheck.

From National Archives Order for Copies of Veterans Records, William Green did, indeed, sign the Application for Money Due Deceased Soldiers. The amount received was $38.50, of which $25 was for his uniform.

In 1860, William and Seely Greene are living in Poplar Springs, Pontotoc County, Mississippi. They are living within two residences of Thomas and Nancy Greene Porter and next door to Cullen and Nancy Dillard, who are next door to Colden and Manah Dillard. Six residences away are James and Sarah Green. Another six residences down the road are possibly Joshua and Elizabeth Dillard.

In 1850, William Green was living next door to Thomas and Nancy but appears not to have a wife and two children are living with him, as is a 45-year-old female whose name might be Christian, though it is difficult to read the name.

Nearby is a Berry Green, age 38, who seems to be of an age to be William's brothers, after whom his son was named. 1808 - 1882 Sela Dillard 74 74 While Sela Dillard Green appears in the 1860 Mississippi with her husband William, she does not appear with him in the 1850 South Carolina Census, unless she is entered out of sequence and her is the illegible name second from the last of the list of people in the household.

There are other Dillards who married Greens in Spartanburg, South Carolina: Unknown Dillard m. Adaline Green, dtr. of James Green, probate in 1889; J. A. Dillard m. Eliza Ferguson, probate in 1855.

In addition, there severa Dillards bureid in Spartanburg, South Carolina but all appear to have been born in 1850 or later and would, therefore, not be ancestors of Sela Dillard. Elvin L. Jernigan 1848 - 1925 Sarah Ann Perry 76 76 Nita Porter and Edna McLain Dolland both recall Sarah or Sally as Sally Ann, though she never really heard her called by any other name than that which her husband, George W. Sibley, called her, namely "Sally Honey."

Even though she died before the Depression, Sally was secretive with her money. Everyone knew she kept it hidden but no one knew quite where. She was, however, generous with the grandchildren, paying them for their chores of collecting bark and the like, out of her secret stash.

Nita recalls stories of "Yankees" being camped around the Sibley House, a source of some concern and fright for Sally. To ease her mind when he was away, George allowed one of the male slaves to sleep in the attic of the master house to protect her. This must have been during the Civil War if they still had slaves. If it was during Reconstruction, then the "Slave" was more likely a servant or former slave.

Sallie left a will, dated 13th June 1924. It is handwritten into the Record of Wills in Pontotoc County, Mississippi. The writing is in a different style from the entry below it so it is possible that the entire entry is in her hand. She alludes to her last illness and further states, "...having considered thoughtfully the financial condition of all my children and desiring to do the fair and just thing by all of them, I hereby will, devise and bequeath to my daughter, Mrs. Nettie Floyd all the real estate that I now own consisting of 320 acres of land and described as the N. 1/2 of Section 21, T. 10, R2 East in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, and I will devise and bequeath to my daughter Mrs. Bonnie Jernigan, the sum of Three Hundred Dollars; and I will devise and bequeath to my daughter Mrs. Lula Porter, the new house we built just South of her house and $30.00 in money." The only question is when the 320 acres passed to Lula. Keats Baldwin has the record of all of the transactions. \\ Perry [AmyMcLain.FTW]

Buried in New Hope but the markers are down. \\ Simpson 1812 - 1905 William Clay Sibley 92 92 Came to Mississippi after the Civil War. Possibly from Georgia, since his wife is buried there.

In the Obituary of Hartwell Sibley, it states that he was born in Milledgeville, Georgia so it is possible that they were still in Georgia in that year.

There is a William Clay Sibley who served with the Confederacy, 9th Georgia Regiment. This William Clay Sibley mustered out 15 May 1862.

It also says that his Paternal Grandmother was the sister of Henry Clay, not his Maternal Grandmother.

Buried at the back of Oak Hill Cemetery. "W.C. Sibley". 1835 James B. Sibley 1855 - 1947 Joe Louis Sibley 92 92 John Worford 1836 - 1922 John Sibley 86 86 1842 William Capers Sibley Mattie Sibley 1857 - 1948 Sarah Emma Sibley 91 91 After the death of her husband, Emma and her son and daughter went to live with her brother George Washington Sibley. [From the recollections of Anita Porter Baldwin:] "She lost her mind as Grandpa carried her to the asylum. They were on the train [when] a man came through selling apples. Aunt Emma took the basket and poured them all in hr lap. I don't remember how long she stayed. The children I guess were old enough to look after themselves. The boy is buried at Oak Hill. Aunt Emma in later years married a Johnson and he died before Aunt Emma." Charles Edward 1852 Laura Sibley 1902 - 1989 Lillie Mae Hollaway 86 86 1900 - 1983 Bessie Lee Catledge 82 82 Living Baldwin Living Baldwin Bessie Will Porter Bessie always thought she was unwanted.

When children were growing up, she always seemed to be oblivious to their behavior. D. 2001 Samuel Edwin Porter Living Aston Living Aston Living Aston Living ?? Living Rogers Bonnie Bell Sibley Watt Jernigan Nettie Sibley After the death of George W. Sibley, his wife, Sarh Ann Perry, lived with Nettie. Nettie then felt that all the estate from George W. Sibley's will should go to her alone. As a result, attorneys were hired by Nettie on the one side, and by her sisters on the other side and the attorneys ended up with everything. Luther Floyd Jim Fishburn Living Fishburn Living Fishburn Clyde Webster Living Webster Hulon Edwards Living Edwards Living Edwards Living Edwards Edna Earl McLain Joe Dolland Joe's father came to America as a stow-away at the age of 12 from Czechoslovakia. His name was actually Dolezal but when his mother remarried after her first husband was killed in the coal mines, her second Husband name was Kaularich. The names became merged into Dolerich. After the Second World War, Joe decided to take a name which was less confusing. He chose one close to that of a man he admired, Dolland (Pronounced Do-land) 1949 - 1952 Joseph Frank Dolland 2 2 Oldest of the children, charming little Jeff died first, a drowning accident in a swift creek in New Britain, Connecticut, when he was 2 years and 3 months old. Living Dolland Living Dolland Living Dolland Living Dolland 1924 - BET. 1930 - 1931 Grover Wesley McLain [AmyMcLain.FTW]

Youngest of the children. Died at about 6 years of age. He and Joseph Frank Dolland, Jr. are buried in Pontotoc Cemetery with Roxie and Ruby. Living Porter ?? Spencer Living Porter Living Parker Living Porter Living Anderson Living Porter Living Porter Joseph Jarvis Margaret Finch 1815 Eudosia Finch Sarah Finch Theodosia Finch 1817 Rebecca Finch Living Hendershot Living Hendershot 1897 - 1930 Allen Gray McLain 32 32 The McLain boys were a wild and mischievous lot, known far and wide for the pranks, which ranged from the Innocent to the dangerous, including putting at least once snake onto their victim's bed. Many wondered if they would ever amount to anything at all. While Grover lived up to community expectations, eventually leaving his wife, Roxie, young Gray, found employment in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, on the new dam being built there, and eventually as an employee of the Carnation Milk Company. The best of Gray seemed to come out after marring Sallie Porter. His young sister-in-law, Nita Porter used to like to come over the Gray's and Sallie's place to play with Melba and Amy. One day Gray complained half-heartedly that all the neighbor kids in the house were eating him out of house and home. Young Nita heard this and from that moment forward was afraid to be around Gray. When Sallie related this to Gray, he was sadly disappointed and vowed that he would never again do anything to make any child afraid of him.

Eventually Gray was employed as a mechanic on milk processing equipment, a job which took him at least as far from home as Schulenburg, Texas. It was while lubricating some of the large equipment on the inside of a sterilizing machine at the new Carnation Milk Company Processing Plant that Gray was accidentally killed when his supervisor, who had emotional problems due to the loss of his wife, turned on the equipment. The Carnation Milk Company eventually settled with Sallie Bell, who used the money to purchase a new home up on the hill in Tupelo. She and the girls were living there when the great Tupelo tornado of 1936 struck, destroying the house and carrying Amy away and leaving Sallie under the roof.

The first ten days of February, 1930, cotton prices were down, the Carnation Milk Company had filed suit to recover $1500 embezzled by a former employee, Sioux survivors of Little Big Horn testified that Custer deliberately provoked them in a suit for $600,000 for lost land, Communists attempted to stage a demonstration before the textile mills in New Bedford, Massachusetts, The Pontotoc Progress was running a serialized version of The Scarlet Pimpernel, and The Tupelo Journal was running Gunman's Bluff. Although the stock market had crashed three months earlier, the newspapers were both reporting reason for optimism and looking for signs of a recovering economy. On the front page of both papers, however [Pontotoc Progress February 13, 1930 and Tupelo Journal, February 11, 1930], was news that made all the other reports pale for the young McLain family. The Tupelo Journal, which almost assuredly got most of its information from the Carnation Milk manager, is the more complete; it reads:

MAN CRUSHED
TO DEATH IN
LOCAL PLANT

Sterilizer Reel Catches
A. G. McLain, Car-
nation Employee

  Funeral services were held today
at Pontotoc for A. G. McLain, thirty-
two, Willis Heights, who was fatal-
ly crushed when caught in the reel
of a sterilizing tank at the Carna-
tion Milk Products Company plant
early yesterday afternoon.
  The services were held at the
Methodist Church in Pontotoc and
interment followed immediately in
that city.
  The accident came when Carl
Radke, plant engineer, and Mr. Mc-
Lain, a plant employe, were prepar-
ing the sterilizer for operation. Un-
known to the engineer. Mr. McLain
leaned into the sterilizer to oil some
parts. The motor was started and
the machinery, on a partial turn,
caught Mr. McLain.
  The motor stopped almost instant-
ly and at the same time the engi-
neer heard Mr. McLain cry out.
Hurt as badly as he was, he was able
to push himself out of the sterilizer.
He collapsed on the floor.
  Mr. Radke and other workmen
went to his assistance, and Watson
Powell, local dairyman, rushed him
to Tupelo Hospital in an automobile.
       Dies in Short Time
  He died less than a half hour aft-
er his arrival, and before physicians
could render him any material aid.
  He was conscious until three min-
utes before death occurred, and turn-
ed to Dr. R. D. Kirk and murmured:
"I can't make it."
  Dr, Kirk said the man's chest was
thoroughly crushed on both sides,
that practically every bone of the
chest wall was broken, that at least
his right lung, and probably his left,
was punctured and that other organs
might have been ruptured.
  In a statement to the Tupelo
Journal, E.A. Newman, manager of
the Carnation plant, said that Mr.
Radke and Mr. McLain were assign-
ed to the work of oiling the steril-
izer, that McLain was sent after a
can of oil to oil the rollers, that
Radke then went to the opposite
end of the sterilizer to regulate the
movement of the interior machinery
so that McLain could oil the parts
without exposing himself to danger.
        Accident Described.
  McLain, Newman said, had
leaned into the sterilizer without
Radke knowing anything about it
and Radke started the machinery
on a partial turn to make the rollers
accessible. When the reel caught
McLain, Mr. Newman said, the ma-
chinery stopped almost instantly,
but not before he was crushed.
  Mr. Newman said the sterilizer is
a large iron tank, in which are iron
cages on a reel. Milk is placed in
cans in these cages and the reel is
set to whirling, while steam is in-
jected into the tank to complete the
process of sterilization.
  "The accident was not Radle's
fault," Mr. Newman said.
  Mr. McLain was a native of Pon-
totoc. He is survived by his wife
and two little girls.
  The body was taken to Pontotoc
this afternoon by John Reed Pegues.

According to Edna Dolland, Gray died in the arms of his sister-in-law, Lillian Porter, who was a nurse in the Tupelo Hospital where Gray was taken.

Gray left no will. The settlement with the Carnation Milk Products Company put all of the money into a trust for Amy and Melba and Sallie was made their Guardian and Administrator of the trust. [See facts on Sallie Porter regarding the authorizations for spending, loaning and repaying the estate.] Living Porter Living Porter 1821 John Finch 1823 William Finch 1826 Julia Finch Hannah Kelsey 1845 Sela Dillard 1847 Lucinda Dillard On Census, name appears to be Grecinds. Spelling changed to match Oak Hill Church and Cemetery records. ~1752 Phineas Wright [PhineasWright.FTW]

Norma Jean Herzman has his Revolutionary Service Record on file.

When Daughter Eunice was 12 (abt. 1805), family moved to Canada. Zilpha Downer [PhineasWright.FTW]

Zilpha gave birth to 17 children but only 6 lived to adulthood. [Norma Jean Herzman]

Described by grandson, Benjamin Guyal Wright, as "A black eyed Yankee woman' and "an educated midwife whose father was a physician." Charles Clay 1761 - 1838 John Whitley 76 76 1809 - 1900 Benjamin Guyal Wright 91 91 1814 - 1877 Samuel C. Wright 63 63 [PhineasWright.FTW]

Marriage witnessed by Gerge and Phineas Wright. Abigail James ~1818 Nancy Thompson Nancy Thompson appears to have married an unknown Green and, perhaps later, Cullen or Curlin Dillard. The children may have been adopted by the second father. 1813 - 1856 James Jesse Strang 43 43 [PhineasWright.FTW]

Baptized February 1844 by Joseph Smith at Nauvoo, Illinois. Excommunicated after Joseph Smith's death by Brigham Young.[PhineasWright.FTW]

Baptized February 1844 by Joseph Smith at Nauvoo, Illinois. Excommunicated after Joseph Smith's death by Brigham Young. Clement Strang 1777 Lucy Wright Unknown Jacobs 1856 - 1937 James Phineas Strang 80 80 Lydia Houtz Betsy McNutt Elvira Eliza Field Mary Perce 1838 - 1926 Zenas Hovey Wright 87 87 [PhineasWright.FTW]

Cause of Death: Either infirmities of old age or brain tumor which caused his head to increase in size.

Their home was on a farm in Garden Valley, Wisconsin for 34 years, from 1877 to 1911. They then moved to the City Point area, north of the Bills Farm. His early childhood was spent on Beaver Island, Michigan. In September, 1856, his father brought the family to Black River Falls, Wisconsin.[PhineasWright.FTW]

Cause of Death: Either infirmities of old age or brain tumor which caused his head to increase in size.

Their home was on a farm in Garden Valley, Wisconsin for 34 years, from 1877 to 1911. They then moved to the City Point area, north of the Bills Farm. His early childhood was spent on Beaver Island, Michigan. In September, 1856, his father brought the family to Black River Falls, Wisconsin. 1846 Phineas Wright [PhineasWright.FTW]

Place of Birth from 1880 Census. Mary Jane Nott Charlotte Brush Rebecca Wagener ~1821 Mary Carpenter 1843 James Dillard ~1865 Edgar Wright 1771 - 1845 Margaret Hagerman 74 74 Phoebe Wright 1781 Charlotta Wright William Wright Phineas Wright Joseph Wright 1793 - 1847 Eunice Wright 54 54 [PhineasWright.FTW]

Went to Canada at the age of 12,

Died in Elizabethtown of smallpox. Predeceased by 11 children who died in infancy and by one daughter who died in 1843 at age 19; survived by her husband and 5 children. Henry Elliott John Hagerman Phoebe Ferguson Mary Tucker 1785 John Whitley 1792 John Whitley 1794 Jane Whitley 1798 Sarah Whitley ~1805 Henry Whitley Nancy Walker Eliza Watson Etta Tracherbury W. N. Dillard ~1852 Marg Dillard 1854 Philip A. Dillard ~1810 Martha Mariah Unknown ~1842 George Washington Dillard ~1845 Sarah Frances Dillard ~1848 James Dixon Dillard ~1555 - 9 FEB 1621/22 John Fish D. BET. 1630 - 1632 Margaret Craddock <1578 Augustine Fyshe BEF. 9 MAR 1580/81 William Fyshe <1582 Kathryn Fyshe <1584 Thomas Fyshe <1586 Sara Fyshe <1588 Amborse Fyshe <1589 May Fyshe <1591 Elizabeth Fyshe <1593 Francis Fyshe <1597 Anne Fyshe <1599 Mary Fyshe BEF. 26 JAN 1601/02 John Fyshe Edward Fishe 1640 - 1685 Josiah Witter 45 45 D. 1672 Elizabeth Wheeler Thomas Wheeler Hannah Gaylord William Witter Hannah Unknown Hannah Witter Thomas Barden 1 JAN 1687/88 Peter Button 1593 - 1639 Robert Fish 46 46 May have been a relative of John Fish, father to his daughter-in-law, Alice Fyshe.

Died at the early age of about 46. As result of this untimely death or perhaps due to business reversals, the young family was split up and forced upon its own resources, Thomas going to Rhode Island, John to Connecticut and Joseph perhaps also to Connecticut. <1597 Alice Fyshe 1689 Mary Button 1694 Eliphal Button Jedediah Button Samuel Button Cyrus Button Joseph Button Elizabeth Button 11 MAR 1677/78 John Witter 7 FEB 1678/79 Sarah Witter 1681 Hannah Witter 1684 Abigail Witter 1885 Mary Altina Paulson 1892 Anna Larenda Paulson 1870 - 1870 Infant Porter 6d 6d James Claude McLain Mary J. Eaves William A. Sibley Mary Elizabeth Perry Silas Moffett Addie Perry Dollie Perry Frank Perry Bill Perry Lynn Franks Sulee Goggans Jim Fields Ann Porter Nan Porter 1760 - 1832 Elijah Sibley 72 72 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

LDS IGI Record Film Number: 2034644

Revolutionary War Soldiers & Sailors, Disk 2, Volume XIV
Sibley, Elijah, Jr., Private, Capt Jonathan Woodbury's Co., Col. Jacob Davis's regt; marched July 30, 1780; discharged Aug 7, 1780; service, 12 days, on an alarm at Rhode Island, including 4 days (72 miles) travel home.  Roll dated Sutton.

[Sibley, James Scarborough, The Sibley Family in America]: "Elijah Sibley bough 500 acres of land on Waxhaw Creek and Richardson's Creek in Mecklenburg Co., N.C., (now Jackson Township of Union County) in 1811 which made him the owner of 700 acres in the area a short distance from the birth places of Andrew Jackson and James Knox Polk. He had disposed of all but about 184 acres of his land before his death and this 184 acres was acquired by his son, Elijah M. Sibley, in 1841." Sarah Robertson Lester 1728 - 1810 Robert Sibley 82 82 Much of the information regarding Robert Sibley was tekn by James Scarborough Sibley, author of The Sibley Family in America 1629-1972, was taken from Census Records and the Diary of John Osborne, a resident of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina and a neighbor of John Sibley.

It appears that Robert Sibley was born in Mecklenburg but moved toHalifax County Virginia, where his grandfather lived, around 1754. In 1755, he married Jerusha Chandler, whose family appears to have been as numerous there at the time as the Sibleys were. All of Robert and Jerusha's chil;dren were born in Halifax County Virginia.

Around 1782, Robert and Jerusha moved to Charlotte County Virginia.

Around 1802, Robert moved back to Mecklenburg, probably to be near his ailing father who died shortly thereafter. In 1804, Robert sold 200 Acres of Land in Mecklenburg County to his son Elijah. Robert's Will was probated in Mecklenburg County in 1809.

The Diary kept by Robert's father's neighbor, John Osborne, indicates that (1) John was Robert's father, (2) Robert's brother was Elijah, (3) Robert lived in Virginia and came to North Carolina to "visit his people in Mecklenburg," and (4) he owned, bought and sold slaves. Living Parker 1793 Coleman Sibley 1638 - 1686 Charles Clay 48 48 [TheClayFamily1899Pub.FTW]

Charles Clay lived in that part of Henrico County (now Chesterfield), not far from "The Old Settlement," opposite the site of present-day Petersburg.

Charles Clay was a soldier in "The Great Rebellion of 1676;" one of those "good housekeepers, well-armed" that followed the gallant Bacon in his effort to free Virginia. Records are retained in Henrico County Court house; depositions were made regarding the confiscation and killing of cattle by General Bacon's soldiers. Charles Clay's name is on the list of soldiers.

Also in the records is the Marke which was given to him by his mother for marking his livestock, "a flower de luce, on ye left ear of  his hogs or cattle, and a crop and a hole on ye right ear." (Henrico County, Xber I, 1687, page 472).

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Charles fought under Bacon in Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia in 1673, at about the age of thirty-five.

Charles died at the age of about forty-eight, without ever having made a will. His wife Hannah was appointed administrator of his estate. Her inventory is the source of the names of the children. Hannah Wilson [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

Hannah was the administrator of her husband's estate.

In her own will, she left to each of her sons, "John, Thomas and Henry, each of them, one well-fixed gun," certainly a commentary on the times and the people. Mary Ellen Sibley Robert Bell 1558 - 1632 John Clay 74 74 Mrs. ~1532 Clay ~1702 John Sibley Little is known of John Sibley, except that he began to acquire several hundred acres on Waxhaw and Richard's  Creek around 1790 through both Purchase and Grant. His relationship to John Sr. and Robert is surmised from Censuses and the Diary of John Osborne of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. D. 1750 John Sibley [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

"John was the only son of Captain John Sibley, the eldest son of John Sibley who came to Salem , Massachusetts in 1629.  Robert was born in 1728 during a return visit of his mother, Mary to Leicester, England.  Robert was then raised in the Beverly and Manchester, Massachusetts, area.  He moved to Virginia in 1754.  Unfortunately, Franklin L Sibley left no bibliography, and I have located no documentation to establish the lineage suggested.   The only son of Captain John Sibley was John3, born September 7, 1680.  No other record of John3 has been found .  A diary kept by John Osborne shows that Robert Sibley's father was, indeed, a John Sibley .  This John Sibley resided in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina in 1802.  It is unlikely that John Sibley was still living in1802.  It is possible, of course, that there was a John4, son of John3.

Osborne reported in his diary that Robert Sibley came to his home near Waxhaw, North Carolina , in the vicinity of Richardson's Creek, "for a visit and to sell a negro lad.  Said he was in a hurry to sell and get home to Virgina for he and his wife only came out of Virgina to pay a visit to his people". There is no identification of "his people", but it is presumed that he was kin to the John Sibley who lived nearby.  Robert Sibley could have been the brother of John, a nephew or his son. Osborne's diary also mentions Elijah and Robert Sibley as being sons of John Sibley and that Robert lived in Virginia.  Census records show John Sibley as ahead of family in Virgina in 1790.   In August 1802 Osborne wrote of going to a Methodist meeting and meeting "Esquire John Sibley who invited him to go home with him and have dinner with him and his son, Robert. Whether this is the Robert Sibley who was trying to sell a negro lad in June 1802 or another Robert Sibley is not known.

Another John Sibley died in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1850.  His Will lists children, William, John, Robert, Isaac, Mary Ellen and Caroline. This John Sibley could have been John3, b . 7 Sept 1680.  But, again,there is no documentation to confirm this supposition.

Another John Sibley married Sally Huey, daughter of Hercules Huey, Jr.,and Isabella Smith.  H e moved to Macon County, Alabama, and nothing further is known of him.  Hercules Huey, Sr., d . 1775, age 50, and his wife Catherine, d. 18 Nov 1808, age 80, are buried at the old Waxhaw Pr esbyterian Church near Lancaster, SC.

Very old records in Virginia, undated, name a John Sibley in the Lower Norfolk area, probably about 1630.  This John Sibley could also have been the ancestor of the Fairfax County John or of John of Mecklenburg County, or of both.

As stated, documentation is not available to establish a connection between the John Sibley of Mecklenburg County, NC and the John Sibley of Salem, Massachusetts.  Neither is documentation n available to tie John Sibley of Fairfax County, Virginia, to John Sibley of Salem, Massachusetts, or John Sibley of Mecklenburg County, NC.  The confusion concerning the origin of this John is as great as that associated with the origin of the "first" John in Massachusetts.

There are some circumstances, however, that lead one to believe there might be a close connection ton between the Fairfax County Sibleys and the Mecklenburg County family.  I suggest that John Sibley of Mecklenburg County was the son of John Sibley of Fairfax county.  The proximity of the two areas, the diary references to kinship between Virginia and North Carolina Sibleys and the coincidence of the names William, John and Robert carried through several generations provides some indication of this connection.  I further suggest that Robert Sibley lived in Virginia until sometime after 1802 when he moved to North Carolina to live with or near his father , who must have died shortly thereafter at a very advanced age.

Franklin L Sibley wrote that Robert Sibley moved to Virginia in 1754 and married Jerusha Chandler in 1755 in Halifax County and that all their children were born there.  I have not located the marriage record, but the Chandler family was well represented in the area at that time , as was the Sibley family, some of whom live there today.

Land records show that John Sibley acquired several hundred acres on Waxhaw and Richard's Creek through purchase and State Grants beginning about 1790.  Tax records locate Robert Sibley in Charlotte County, Virginia, in 1782 and land records show that he sold 200 acres in Mecklenbu rg County, NC, in 1804 to Elijah Sibley, probably his son.

Robert Sibley's Will is filed in Mecklenburg County, NC dated 4 Sep1809.  It names his children en.  The combination of land and tax records in Mecklenburg County, NC, Halifax County, VA and Anson County, NC showing Sibleys owning large tracts of land before 1800 dove-tail with census data and names listed in the Wills of several Sibleys.  This has allowed a reconstruction of f portions of the genealogy of this branch of the family with reasonable reliability.  Wills of Robert, Elijah and Elijah M. Sibley have been examined.  Each Will mentions the names of several children." SIBLEY [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Excerpt from "The Sibley Family in America" by James Scarborough Sibley

ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE SIBLEY FAMILY

"Among the many families worthy of mention in the discussion of the development of the nation is one called Sibley.    The Sibley family can certainly be considered to be one of the "old " families in this country, and those of us who bear the name today have much for which we can be justly proud.  It behooves all of us to examine our own standards, mores and goals to ensure that we are living up to the fine tranditions established and passed on to us by our forefathers.

John and Richard Sibley came to Salem, Massachusetts in 1629 in Winthrop's Fleet.  These two men are original settlers whose families have spread across the entire country.  John Sibley of Virginia was also one of the earliest Sibleys in North America whose descendents are now spread from coast to coast.  At various times since 1629 other Sibleys whose connections with John & Richard Sibley are unknown have come directly from England to the United States or through Jamaica and Canada.  The migrations of the population westward and southward from NewEngland and Virginia as the continent was opened for settlement resulted in the separation of new families from their established home areas. Meager records in some places make it extremely difficult to identify living representatives of some branches of the family with the original settlers.

There are also people named Sibley in the United States whose ancestors brought other names from Europe.  A Polish immigrant named Cibulskis changed his name to Sibley as did a Swiss named Zubli.  Yet another named Bogues adopted the name Sibley after having been saved from drowning in the St Lawrence River by a man named Sibley.  A Dutch immigrant changed his name from Sibelink to Sibley.  A Yugoslav immigrant changed his name from Serblin to Sibley.

The Sibleys are believed to be descendents of Scotch-English ancestors who brought the name to America with them.  Those from England probably have a common ancestor somewhere in the archives of Great Britain.  The kinship of all Sibleys in America has been alleged by various members of the family, but no one has demonstrated its validity through research in original sources in Great Brittain.

John Langdon Sibley conducted extensive research into the origin of the Sibley family and included much of his work in his book, History of the Town of Union, Main, published in 1851.  Thi s book contains a great amount of information concerning the descendents of Richard Sibley of Salem, Massachusetts and was the primary source for the data on this branch of the family.  The following information is John John Langdon Sibley analysis of the name Sibley.

"The name SIBLEY may be compounded of the words SIB and LEA.  The former means relationship or alliance; or, in earlier times, peace; and the latter, a field.  Hence the words combined may mean kinsman's land. Perhaps several kinsmen lived together in the same place, or on the same lea.  If the earlier meaning of the word SIB be adopted, the meaning maybe peace-lea, or land of peace; perhaps because of the harmony of the people, or because the place was exempt from war.  This explanation of the origin of the word, however, is merely conjectural.

The description of the SYBLY arms, in Burke's General Armory, is 'perpale azure and gules a griffin passant between three crescents argent'. In heraldry, the griffin, which is an imaginary animal, half eagle and half lion, denotes strength and swiftness.  The close agreement of the armorial bearing of the families of SILEBY and of SYBLY seems to show that one of the names is a variation of the other, -- the latter probably being a corruption of the former.  But it is certain that SIBLEY is of considerable antiquity, as it is found in the Rotuli Hundredorum of the reighn of Edward I (1272-1307, in the counties of Huntington, Kent,Oxford, and Suffolk, where it is spelt SYBELI, SIBELI, SIBELY, SIBILI,SIBILIE, SIBLI; and where the name SILEBY does not seem to occur.  The Public Records published by the Record Commission spell it SIBILLE , in the reign Richard II (1377-1399); and SIBYLE in that of Henry V(1413-1422); and in that of Elizabeth (1558-1603), it is SYBLEY, SIBLEY,and SIBLY; and once (with an alias) SYBERY .  A very similar name of about the same antiquity is FILIUS SIBILLAE, or FITZ-SYBL, which may have been the original of the name in some cases; in other cases it may have been derived from the parish of Hingham Sibyl, or Sible, or Sibleys, in Essex.

From Felt's Annals of Salem, i. 172, it seems that the first of the Sibleys in this country ca me to Salem in the fleet of 1629.  It is said that they were from the north part of England o r South part of Scotland,or that they came from Northamptonshire.  In Willis's Cathedrals, i i.172, it is stated that 'John Sibeley collated 1459,' succeeded Roger Mersham as Prebendary of Lincoln.  In Rymer's Foedera, xxi. 348, is recorded 'Pro Johanne Sibley.  Rex, vicesimo sext o die maii (1631 or1632) concessit Johanni Sibley et aliia Officium Clerici et Clericorumomni um et singulorum brevium et processuum in Curia Camere Stellate,durante vits. P(rivato) S(igi llo); ' meaning Clerk of the Court of the Starre Chamber for life.  In Dugdale's Warwickshire , Knightlow Hundred,Marton, i.327, under the patronage of 'Rob. Fysher miles and Bar.,' is found 'Thom. Sybley Cler. in Art. Magr. svii. Oct 1623 (v.p.m. Ric. Sealeult. Incumb.):  In the same volume, Birdingsbury, p. 325 is '(Tho. SibleyCler. ii Julii 1633).'  In Besse's Suffer ings of the Quakers, i. 638-644,Thomas Sibley, a blacksmith, is 'sent to gaol' and fined -- though he was afterward released and the fine remitted--' for being at an unlawful Meeting or Conventicle, in the parish of Crewkherne, 'in Somersetshire,on the fourth of June 1684.  In the same volume, page 345, William Sibley is named as a prisoner in 1685, in Leicester, -- the town where Higgerson was settled before he came to Massachusetts, in 1629.  Possibly some of the Sibleys were related to the early settlers in New England."

It is evident from this information that the Sibley family has been in existence for a long time.  Another source connects the family all the way back to the Norman Conquest in 1066 in a similar analysis.  The Sibley family has been in American for more than 350 years."

The Sibley family motto is found in Bolton's American Armory and translates, "To be and not to seem".  It is also the motto of the State of North Carolina. 1730 - 1790 James Clay 60 60 [TheClayFamily1899Pub.FTW]

James inherited the homestead at the death of his mother (Ancestor of Governor Clay of Alabama). Anne Clay Hannah Clay 1794 - 1818 Mary Sibley 24 24 1795 - 1828 Sarah Sibley 33 33 1797 - 1854 Gabriel Sibley 57 57 1799 - 1873 John H Sibley 74 74 1803 - 1838 Alexander B Sibley 35 35 1805 - 1850 Elijah M Sibley 45 45 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Elijah was a well known planter and slave owner in NC.  He also found the first all girls college in NC.

Will:  Anson County, NC
Elijah M. Sibley dated 25 Feb 1850 1808 - 1876 Abigail Moses 68 68 Jeremiah Wentz 1815 - <1866 Sarah Ellen Carlock 51 51 Buried in Georgia.

Nita Porter Baldwin's notes also indicate that her name may have been Elizabeth Carlock. Mary Hewlett 1848 - 1929 Matilda Elizabeth Huey 80 80 ~1870 Edward L. Sibley Eva Unknown Living Kane Living Fowler 1830 - 1888 Laura B 58 58 Margaret Hunt Living Jaerger 1847 - 1906 Sarah Elizabeth Allen 58 58 Meredith Edwards [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Related to Homer Edwards and Effie Stanley 1851 - 1854 George Washington Allen 2 2 1854 - 1924 Mary Lucretia Allen 70 70 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Charity Ella Dilley's sister Hester Ann, married Coleman Keys a brother of John Keys, making t he Keys family related to both Allens and Dilleys. John G. Keys John G. Keys 1897 - 1953 Chris Pearson 56 56 1925 - 1983 Beverly Jean Pearson 58 58 Living Patsy Living Croskey Living Pearson Living Alspaw Living Alspaw Living Alspaw Living Alspaw Living Carolyn Living Alspaw Living Gillen Living Gillen Living Sibley Living Campbell Living Gates Living Johnson D. 1983 Dorothy Benge D. 1980 Merle Gunther Living Gunther Living Gunther Living Gunther Living Fiske Living Fiske Living Sibley Living Fiske Living Peggy Peggy Ovie Patty Gunther Micky Gunther 1919 - 1993 Frank Marion Allen 74 74 Dorothy Frank Gunther Living Hall Nancy Jane Sibley Living Hotchkiss Living Hotchkiss Living Hildebrecht 1940 - 1998 Paul Jay Hildebrecht 58 58 1916 - 1944 Richard Eugene Hotchkiss 28 28 Living Umberger 1918 - 1973 John Lee Allen 55 55 1921 - 1988 E Louise Brooks 67 67 Living Allen Living Allen Living Sibley Living Allen Living Allen 1922 - 1987 Albert Merle Allen 65 65 Living Janson Living Allen Living Allen Living Allen Living Menefee Living Allen Living Allen Living Sibley Living Nelson Living Spiegel Living Nelson Living Liming Living Cain Living Nelson Living Nelson Living Nelson Living Shoop Living Nelson Living Anderson Living Nelson Living Nelson Living Nelson Living Doherty Living Nelson Living Mead Living Knechtel Living Knechtel Living Knechtel Living Knechtel 1900 - 1973 John Woodward Taylor 72 72 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

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2  PLAC John was a well known Builder in Dallas TX Living Knechtel Living Knechtel 1919 - 1993 Maurine Nelson 73 73 1919 - 1991 Harold Glenn Norris 72 72 Living Norris Living Harris Living Harris Living Harris Living Norris Living Klingeman Living Taylor Living Holden Living Norris 1923 - 1924 Douglas Udell Nelson 9m 9m 1904 - 1963 Earl Hotchkiss 59 59 Living Pena Living Wesolowski Living Wesolowski Living Wesolowski Elizabeth Ackland 1771 Henry Dilley [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Soon after moving to Pocahontas County, West Virginia, Henry Dilley married Margaret Sharp and they settled on Thorny Creek, where he built a home and Dilley's Mill, which was considered one of the best of its kind in that day and still stands as a monument to its builder.

His will is dated 1851. Living Kane Living Taylor Margaret Sharp John Sharp 1826 - 1903 Joseph Dilley 76 76 Mary Ann Friel Joseph Friel Thomas Dilley Peachy Van Reenan 1822 Ralph Dilley 1824 Mary Jane Moore William Moore Living Beckham Daniel Dilley Ms. Moore Dr. Addison Moore 1821 William Dilley [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

William settled in Huntersville, W VA and was the village blacksmith.  He was also an excellent carpenter.

He was the father of 14 children. Mary Friel Jeremiah Friel Elizabeth Baker 1845 Anne Deppard John Dilley [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

John was a mechanic. Eleanor Friel Nancy Ed Frances Dilley Lt Henry M. Poage Sallie Woods Poage Mr. Berry 1872 - 1957 Byron Deppard Dilley 84 84 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Byron spent his life as a woodsman and reaper. Eva Waugh [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Eva was the great grand daughter of Jeremiah Freil. Friel Arnold Dilley 1872 - 1950 Tipton Kohan Dilley 78 78 Stephen Dilley 1920 - 1972 Robert David Windrow 52 52 D. 1902 Allie G Barlow Nathan Barlow [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Nathan was a former recorder of Pocahontas County. James Dilley Mr. Thornton John Dilley Sr. Dilley John [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

It is unclear whether the below mentioned John Dille is the same as John Dille Sr since the d dates are clearly 100 years prior to when this John should have been born.  However, it is lik ely that this John Dille Sr is a descendant of the John Dille mentioned below but the links h ave not been connected.


Excerpt from "The Dille Family Three Hundred Years in America":

John was apprenticed out to a friend in Salem, where he is mentioned in 1659 court records .  Also, Essex County, Massachusetts, records show that John Dille made a deposition, "aged a bout twenty-one years", in 1664.

John left Essex County, Massachusetts, in 1664 and moved to Staten Island, New York, with oth er settlers from Massachusetts.  There they lived among a number of French Huguenots.  State n Island was quite a "melting pot" during this period, being inhabited by the Dutch, French , Walloons (Belgian Protestants), and English.

John was a charter member of the Puritan Colony that founded Woodbridge, New Jersey, in 1669.

In the autumn of 1665, Sir Philip Carteret, who had been appointed Governor of New Jersey i n 1664, published the "Concessions and Agreements of the Lords' Proprietors" which established d freedom of religion in the new colony.  This was the motivating cause for the establishment t of the permanent settlements of Piscataway, Woodbridge, and Elizabethtown.  A single result t of the distribution of copies of "The Concession" in New England was the arrival in new Jer sey of John Pike, Daniel Pierce, and seven associates from Newbury, Massachusetts.  They ente red into an agreement on December 11, 1666 whereby on December 3, 1667 they received from Gov ernor Carteret and some of the Elizabethtown associates a grant of land, embracing what is no w the township of Woodbridge, New Jersey.  They, as the representatives of 57 families, on Ju ne 1, 1669, were granted a charter creating a township covering six miles square, named after r their pastor, the Presbyterian John Woodbridge, of Newbury.

Most of the settlers were from Newbury and Haverhill, both in Essex County, Massachusetts, bu t a few families had come here with Governor carteret by the ship "Philip" which had arrive d July 29, 1665.  The aforementioned John Pike was the ancestor of General Zebulon Montgomery y Pike (1179-1813), who discovered Pike's Peak, Colorado, and who was killed in the War of 18 12.

The 57 Woodbridge freeholders drew for the town lots in 1669.  The land had previously been l aid off, and the lots varied in area from 15 to 448 acres.  Some of it was upland and some me adow (bottom).  At the drawing for town lots John Dille drew a 94 acre lot on Papiack Creek .  As the record states, "John Dilly with the two Pierces and several others occupied lots ac ross the Papiack on the Upland beyond the meadows".  The Pierces were prominent men in the Col ony.  In the above quotation John's name is given first, indicating that he had considerable e standing in the community, though only 24 years old.

In 1670 Papiack was a sizeable stream, but has dwindled to a brook.  The first highway ran do wn by the kirk green over the Papiack.  The Presbyterian meeting house was built on the gree n in 1675.

It is not known exactly when John married his wife, Sarah, but it was before 1673.  John an d Sarah Dille were Presbyterians, and their descendants for several generations were of the s same faith.  This may tie in with a family tradition that the Dilles were originally from Scot land, a country where this Calvinist faith was widespread.

The New Jersey Archives contain the record of a number of transactions involving John Dille y between 1669 and 1683.  The surname is spelled variously, Dille, Dilly, Dilley, and Dillie .  Genealogists all know that this is typical for the records of this period.  Law clerks an d others spelled phonetically and not too well.

The Shenandoah Co land records show John & Catherine Dilley with about 400 acres acquired i n 1773.  Three sales of land occurred in 1778 and 1780, but not all the land was sold. Catherine Himpin Christian Dilley Mary Hevelar Martin Dilley [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement of Virginia, Vol 2 pp 200-209 by Lyman Chalkley
George Poage vs. Dilley - O.S. 271; N.S. 95--Bill, 1812. On 19th November, 1782, orator made two entries in Augusta (now Bath) on head brown's Creek, one for 100 acres and one for 140 a acres; surveys on 15th December, 1785, and patents 25th July, 1800, for 140 acres.  martin Dil ly had a conflicting claim under an older patent to Moses Moore.  Answer by Martin Dilly, 9th June, 1813; On 3d April, 1809, he bought 120 acres from John Moore in Bath, part of 400 acres.  Patented to Moses Moore 16th August, 1787, between Naps Creek and Thorny Creek at a place called Richlands.  This patent was in right of settlement by certificate 15th June, 1782 .  John Moore, Sr., is father-in-law of Martin Dilly.  Samuel Waugh deposes, Moses Moore claims by the headright of Joseph Gregory.  John McCutchan petitions, he purchased the land fro m William Moore, nephew of Moses Moore.  Settlement creticate dated 15th June, 1782, for 40 0 acres settled by Joseph Gregory before 1st January, 1778, for 400 acres settled by Joseph Gregory before 1st January, 1778, signed by Commissioners, viz: Wm. McKee, Robt. Davis, Thomas Adams, Saml. Vance.  Levi Moore deposes, in Bath, October 1817, has known the place called the Richlands 44 years; is said to be distantly related to Moses Moore's family, but does not know how.  John Moore, Jr., deposes, in Bath, 13th October, 1817, has known Gregory's improvement 40 years.  George Poage has been living there 35 years.  Deponent is son of Moses Moore. Living Windrow Hannah Moore Abraham Dilley Issac Dilley Jacob Dilley 1854 Elizabeth Markin 1857 Daniel Markin 1760 - 1833 Charles W I Markin 73 73 Lucinda Dechard Warren Golden Hetty Fletcher 1885 - 1947 Thomas Anagnos 61 61 1823 Warren Markin 1830 Golden Markin 1832 Charles L Markin 1834 - 1858 Samuel Markin 24 24 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

"MARKIN, SAMUEL I.R. JUL. 01, 1858
Died on June 14th, at the residence of Thomas Markin, in this county, Samuel Markin, in the 23rd year of his age. (This notice was given wrong last week, through fault of the person who sent it to us.)" 1836 Sylvester Markin 1827 - 1904 Christopher Richard Markin 76 76 1830 Oliver Hazard Perry Markin 1825 - 1915 Eliza Markin 90 90 1823 - 1902 Lucinda D Markin 78 78 1818 - 1845 Mary Markin 27 27 Living Anagnos 1839 - 1870 Sarah Ann Markin 31 31 1840 - 1918 Thomas Jefferson Markin 77 77 Lucinda Shannon Jacob Rainsbriger John Gilkerson Thomas Moore 1825 Lucinda Gilkerson 1830 Martha Gilkerson 1832 Elizabeth Gilkerson Martha Irvin Living Bull 1827 - 1864 Charles Markin 37 37 Eunice Gilkerson John Gilkerson Mary Ann Done 1821 - 1891 Thomas Markin 70 70 1829 Melinda Markin 1834 Cornelius Markin 1839 Eliza Markin Daniel D Markin Franklin Markin Living Bull James F Markin Mary Jane Markin 1838 - 1883 Lucinda Markin 45 45 1841 Catherine Markin 1844 Charles Markin 1846 Benjamin R Markin 1849 Laura Ann Markin 1850 Susan Markin 1856 Thomas B Markin D. 1881 Joseph Blair Living Bull 1846 - 1925 Martha Blair 79 79 1834 - 1896 Andrew T Blair 61 61 Martha Bowman Mary Willis Elizabeth Gilkerson 1835 Jane Markin 1836 George Markin 1839 Cynthia Markin 1842 Charles Markin 1844 Eliza Markin Living Floyd 1915 - 1954 James Willard Jordan 39 39 1847 Lucinda Markin Elizabeth Blair 1832 - 1921 Joseph Lee Markin 89 89 1834 Charles W Markin 1835 - 1913 John Blair Markin 78 78 1842 Thomas J Markin Mary Markin Norton Markin Isabella 1842 - 1892 John Wesley Markin 50 50 Living Jordan 1843 Mary (Polly) Markin 1845 Caroline Markin 1847 Anna Markin 1848 Sarah Ann Markin Amos Webb 1848 - 1925 Emaline (Molly) Markin 77 77 1850 James M. Markin 1852 Daniel W Markin 1854 - 1936 Martha Markin 82 82 1857 - 1936 Nancy Arena Markin 79 79 1830 - 1901 James Alexander Sibley 70 70 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

James A. Sibley paid $1,000 to E.G. Knight in 1858 for 200 acres of land on the head waters of Buffalo Creek in Anson County, North Carolina.  He built a house and moved his family there.  H e enrolled in the Confederate States Army at Wadesborough, North Carolina, 10 May 1862 and joined Captain L.. A. Johnson's Company of the 4th North Carolina Cavalry, 59th State Troops, at Camp Vance, near Kittrell's, North Carolina.  He was furloughed home in July and August 1864.  It is possible that his first wife died at this time.  The circumstances of her death are not documented, but he, in later life, claimed she had been murdered by a rebellious slave.

After the war James returned to home to find his livestock gone and his buildings burned, except for the house.  Wheeler's Cavalry had passed through the area requisitioning all food stuffs and livestock, followed closely by Sherman's army which destroyed everything else of value to an army.

James married his second wife, a school teacher and widow, after the war,but for reasons no t clear to his descendants, he left his family in North Carolina and went to Texas where he apparently intended to obtain land and begin a new life.  He never communicated with his family again and they assumed that he had died.  The Federal Census in 1880 lists Jane Sibley as "widowed" and in 1909 she applied for a widow's pension on the service of James A. Sibley in the Confederate States Army.  In fact, he arrived safely in Texas, acquired land in Lee County and lived there the rest of his life, marrying for a third time and raising a third family. He is buried at Sam Smith Springs Cemetery near Beaukiss, Texas, now called Lawhon Springs.  The inscription on his gravestone reads, "Farewell my wife and children all/ From you a father Christ doth call". 1859 - 1938 George S Markin 79 79 1861 Amos Markin [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Index for Lawrence County Prisoners Incarcerated at the Ohio Penitentiary April 1844-June 1889

Markin, Amos 1-1/2 years horse stealing 1866 - 1942 William Sherman Markin 75 75 1868 Benjamin F Markin Sarah V. Fillinger Henry Fillinger Elizabeth Ferril 1840 Elizabeth Markin 1845 - 1930 Nancy Susan Markin 85 85 1847 - 1916 Jefferson Taylor Markin 68 68 1849 - 1931 Willena Ara Pharr 82 82 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

James Alexander had three wives.  The First was Ellen George.   The second wife was Jane Jordan Knight born in Montgomery County, North Carolina in 1842.  The third was Willena Ara Pharr born in New Dublin, Kentucky in 1849. 1849 Sarah Markin 1850 Miranda S Markin Delitha Jacks Ivan Jacks Aletha Macomber 1847 - 1925 Ebenezer Markin 78 78 1850 Thomas G Markin 1855 - 1936 George Washington Markin 81 81 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Burial:  Sunset Hills Cemetery, Block 32, Lot 163 or 164 1857 - 1934 John Henry Markin 77 77 1860 - 1956 Alexander Markin 96 96 1872 - 1937 Henry Clay Sibley 65 65 1864 - 1913 Charles Markin 48 48 Mary Ann Fasnaut 1839 Louisa J Markin 1845 - 1870 Thomas Taylor Markin 25 25 1850 Elizabeth Markin 1854 - 1931 Warren Fletcher Markin 77 77 1855 Rebecca Ellen Markin 1858 John William Markin 1861 Mary Alice Markin 1864 Charles Ullysis S Grant Markin 1874 - 1948 Frank Johnson Sibley 74 74 1867 James Logan Markin Sarah Douglas Joel C. Matney Hannah Ratlif 1853 William H Markin 1855 Francis Markin 1857 Mary A Markin Mr. Hackworth 1879 Nathaniel Hackworth 1850 Catherine 1876 - 1952 Minnie Ida Sibley 75 75 Sianna Taylor 1868 Isaac Markin 1870 - 1938 Arthur W Markin 68 68 Priscilla Alice Kneff 1873 Cecilla Markin 1874 James E Markin 1878 Laurie E Markin 1870 - 1940 Eliza Jane Markin 69 69 Thomas Langdon 1835 Elizabeth Langdon 1882 - 1970 Mary Addie Sibley 88 88 James Roberts 1837 - 1860 John Langdon 23 23 1840 Henry H Langdon 1841 - 1907 George Washington Langdon 65 65 Aaron R Shannon Amon Shannon Lucreid Runes 1849 - 1916 Emily E Shannon 66 66 1847 Thomas M Shannon 1852 Gideon G W Shannon 1884 Emerson Scarborough Sibley 1854 - 1855 Mary M Shannon 10m 10m 1857 Eliza Amanda Shannon 1861 - 1862 Henry Jefferson Shannon 7m 7m 1863 Francis Elizabeth Shannon John Henry Blount Andrew Blount Sarah Warren 1842 - 1892 George Warren Blount 50 50 1843 Sarah Frances Blount 1846 - 1918 Mary Etta Blount 72 72 1886 - 1887 James A Sibley 5m 5m 1848 - 1932 Lorenzo W Blount 84 84 1850 - 1920 Rachel Blount 70 70 1852 - 1915 Thomas Blount 63 63 1859 - 1937 Nancy Elizabeth Blount 78 78 1862 - 1915 John M Blount 53 53 A E C Shannon Roswell Jackson Henry Downhour Ellen Jane Chandler Rueben Lewis Living Sibley 1888 - 1978 Araminta Myrtle Sibley 89 89 Cyrus Lewis Mary Wiseman 1852 - 1868 Dorothea Markin 16 16 1853 - 1875 Charles Markin 22 22 1854 - 1899 Frances Markin 44 44 1856 - 1934 Thomas Markin 78 78 1857 - 1875 Elias Markin 17 17 1859 - 1878 Lewis Markin 19 19 1862 - 1881 Sarah Markin 19 19 1865 - 1936 Albert Markin 70 70 1890 - 1980 Lillie Belle Sibley 89 89 1868 - 1921 Andrew Markin 53 53 1871 Mary Markin Nancy Ann Fuller 1852 William T Markin 1854 Martha E Markin 1856 James R Markin Savilia McIntosh D. 1861 Elmira Hencrick 1860 Sarah Jane Markin 1854 George S Markin Ida Sibley Lucinda Spears Serepta Daily Martin 1852 Charles Markin 1853 Elizabeth Markin 1856 Warren W Markin 1858 Lucinda Markin 1859 Peter Markin 1867 Son Markin 1870 John Markin 1876 Margaret Markin Addie Sibley 1876 Martha Markin 1879 Josephus Markin 1881 - 1970 William S Markin 88 88 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

SSN #276-09-0766 1888 Josephine Markin Simon Hadley Isaac W Cooper 1852 - 1892 Sarah Anna Cooper 40 40 Infant Cooper Steven Guiles Mary Jane (Kate) Guiles Minta Sibley Alexander Jacks Ivan Jacks Aletha Macomber 1870 Martha Jacks 1873 Jr. Jacks Alexander 1875 Jay Willard Jacks Charles Rook 1883 Fridolin Rook Ebenezer W Markin Chales W. Markin Lillie Sibley Delitha Jacks 1867 Charles W. Markin 1867 Orville Markin 1868 Sarah L Markin 1869 Lu Meta Markin 1871 Singleton Markin 1872 Minnie Markin 1874 George W. Markin 1879 Albert N. Markin Elliot Webb 1856 - 1926 Allen Brown Waggoner 69 69 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Allen & Mary had 8 children all girls.  One died at a very young age.Other names unknown.

Lee County History Book names A B Waggoner as a trustee of Liberty School (west of Lexington) . 1874 Sarah M Webb Mary Elizabeth Hilderbrand 1866 Lucinda Alice Markin 1868 - 1954 Andrew Markin 86 86 1870 Charles Wesley Markin 1871 Martha Elizabeth Markin 1874 Rebecca Ellen Markin 1876 Melvina Jane Markin 1878 - 1965 William Isaac Markin 87 87 1881 Ella Garfield Markin 1857 - 1945 Mary Elizabeth 87 87 1883 - 1935 Phillip Henry Markin 52 52 1885 Ruth Hannah Markin 1898 Jesse Lee Wyman Markin Wallace Edgington Louisa Purtue Nellie McDaniels Robert Boyd Watson Cook Edward White Andrew Jackson Walker Lillian Waggoner Florence Beaumont Walter Living Waters Mary Jane Brownlee 1875 - 1935 Arminta May Markin 60 60 Martha Mary Emily Glandon John Glandon Theodocia Runyan 1864 - 1939 Cornelia Jane Markin 74 74 1866 - 1867 Sarah Ann Markin 1 1 1888 Willie Waggoner 1869 - 1950 Lorenzo Dow Markin 81 81 1871 - 1946 John Andrew Markin 74 74 1874 - 1875 Charles Edward Markin 1 1 1876 - 1938 Lewis Erna Markin 62 62 1878 - 1974 Della Mae Markin 95 95 1866 - 1951 Dempsey Ellen Markin 85 85 1867 - 1869 Loudon Francisco Markin 1 1 1870 - 1936 Mary Alice Markin 66 66 1872 - 1946 Minnie Ivan Markin 73 73 1874 - 1955 Joseph Jackson Markin 80 80 Living Floyd 1892 Hattie Waggoner 1876 - 1878 Myrtle Dell Markin 1 1 1879 - 1960 Annie Hestella E Markin 80 80 1881 - 1960 James Alfred Garfield Markin 78 78 1884 - 1972 Chloe Lucretia Markin 87 87 1886 - 1886 Baby Girl Markin James Cartwright Seth Hezekiah Collins 1869 John William Collins 1878 William Pearl Collins 1874 Mary Isabella Collins 1880 Florence Waggoner 1881 Thomas Jefferson Collins 1884 Rosa Ann Collins 1886 George Washington Collins 1891 Alva Sherman Collins Rhoda Long 1873 James Markin Zackery Brundage 1880 Daisy Violet Brundage Francis Marion Bail 1880 Wiona Bail 1882 Charles M Bail 1884 Mary Ellen Bail 1885 Elizabeth E Bail 1886 Noah Bail 1891 Arthur Bail Edna May McDonald Bail [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Illegitimate child of Charles Bail and Laura McDonald Nellie Bail Bail [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Illegitimate child of Charles Bail and Laura McDonald Charles McDonald James England Opal McCarthrine Eliza K Ingram Mary Markin Manring Perry Mary Hartman Louden Markin Maggie Markin Bessie Markin Emmit Markin Living Markin Wheeler Brothers John Brothers Susan Samantha Sibley Susan Groves 1867 Augustus Brothers 1870 John W Brothers 1873 Electa May Brothers Isabelle Ruth Boggs 1881 John Quincy Markin Clifford Markin Wheeler Markin Ruth Markin Rena Markin 1842 Eliza Sibley Flora Ann Walters Sally Ann Hughes 1892 Elmer Lamar Markin 1893 Bessie Markin Living Markin Living Markin Living Markin Living Markin 1909 - 1978 Ebenezer (Ebbie) Markin 69 69 Lena Helen Daenner [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Burial: Sunset Hills Cemetery, Block 32, Lot 163 or 164 1839 Julia Sibley John Daenner Katherine Kremser Living Markin Living Markin Living Markin 1908 - 1944 Charles Frederick Markin 35 35 Living Carr Estella Cornell 1884 John Markin 1887 Frankie B Markin 1829 - 1893 Mary Adeline Sibley 64 64 1890 Jesse C Markin 1893 Bullea Markin 1898 Romulus Johnson Markin Blaine Mays Elma Large Solomon Large Sarah Wade 1884 Lusetta Markin 1885 Nora Markin 1885 Carrie Markin Winifred Jane Sibley 1886 George Markin 1889 Maggie Markin 1889 Charles Edward Markin 1891 Myrtle Markin 1894 Nellie Blanche Markin 1895 Cleora Ethel Markin Living Markin Living Markin Living Markin Lucretia Hattie Large Patrick Gallagher Solomon Large Sarah Wade 1886 Bertha Markin 1888 Waltie Markin 1891 Asic (Asa) Markin 1894 Ivie Markin 1897 Lif (Leff) Markin Living Markin Living Markin Living Markin Living Brunnemer 1837 George Dunlap Sibley [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

George served as a 3rd Lieutenant and later as a 1st Lieutenant in the4th North Carolina Cava lry, 59th State Troops.  After the War he moved to Arkansas and settled at the mouth of the Wh ite River on what was known as Sibley Island, a few miles up the Mississippi River from Rosed ale,Miss.  He later moved to Montgomery Point across the Sibley Shoot from the Island.  About t 1901 or 1902 he moved to White haven, Tenn.  In 1905he married a widow, Jennie Cook.  The y had no children, but a nephew,George Menard Sibley, son of Hartwell Spane Sibley, lived wit h them after his father died about 1890. James Morgan Benjamin Franklin Justice Theodore Comer Lucy B Clarke 1886 Mary Markin William Holly Keeton 1888 Rebecca Markin 1889 Oscar Markin 1890 Sherman Markin 1892 Clarence Markin 1839 Jeremiah B Sibley [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Jeremiah was a color sergeant in the 14th north Carolina Infantry at the battle of Malvern Hil l.  He was wounded five times in the chest, arm and shoulder while charging a stone wall at th e head of his unit.  He died at Chimborzao Army Hospital at Richmond, Va., as a result of these e wounds. 1893 Clara Etta Markin 1895 - 1977 Homer Markin 81 81 Mae Williams 1897 Nora Markin Clayton Tackett 1898 Hattie Markin Ike Compston Living Markin Emery Caudill Cora 1840 Hartwell Spane Sibley 1889 Thomas Markin 1890 Charles Markin 1893 Lovey Markin 1897 Chester Markin Living Markin William Henry Canter 1890 Fred Arthur Canter Living Canter John Tipton Elizabeth Canter 1841 Henry Clay Sibley [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Henry enlisted in the 4th North Carolina Cavalry at Wadesboro, NC, 22 April 1861 and was mustered in at Weldon 30 April 1861.  He was discharged 28 December 1861 with an inguinal hernia, but he enlisted again in the 14th North Carolina Infantry; and he enlisted at Halifax, NC, 1 February 1864 in Captain LA Johnson's Company of the 4th North Carolina Cavalry, the same unit to which he had belonged at the beginning of the War.  He was a prisoner of war, paroled 16 May 1865.  He visited briefly in Texas and finally settled in Arkansas County, Arkansas, where he was listed as a physician in the 1880 Federal Census.  He married later in life and had one daughter. William Goheen Marie Canter Boyd Lydie Earthy Canter 1893 Jesse Canter Elizabeth Howell 1852 James U Langdon 1854 Mary E Langdon Sarah Ann Simonton David Simonton 1848 Sarah Pines Sibley Manerva Kain Mary C (Willis) Andrews 1868 David Marion Langdon 1870 Mary Elizabeth Langdon 1881 Rolvin Warren Langdon 1883 Ada Florence Langdon Zacharish T Heminger Andrew Heminger Nancy McElroy 1885 - 1961 Florence Emily Heminger 76 76 Reform Burch Nancy Ann Drake- Wilson 1863 Wilbur Blount Clara Yingling 1866 Edie Blount Blount 1867 Ora Blount 1868 Ollie Blount William W. Trullender 1871 Artie Blount 1882 - 1952 Ethel Minnie Blount 69 69 Rachel Jane Jessup [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Rachel is buried in Lot 12, Ironton Cemetery, Ironton, Wisconsin William Jessop Sarah Keith 1893 Lewis Levi Markin 1895 Charles Elmer Markin Helen Goodell 1897 Della Elizabeth Markin Archie Osborne 1898 Nina Jane Markin Heppel Costerison 1899 - 1969 Pearl Markin 70 70 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Pearl is buried in Lot 12, Ironton Cemetery, Ironton, Wisconsin
SSN 277037810 Living Markin Living Markin Living Markin Living Markin Living Cahoon 1743 - 1822 John Russell 78 78 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Resided in Mecklenburg County, Virginia as late as 1789 then moved to Lawrence, Ohio.

10-29-1839:  Francis Russell adms of Manoah B. Russell, dec'd vs. Samuel Russell, William Rus sell, Sanders Russell, Thomas Russell, James Russell, George Irvin and his wife, Elizabeth, William Nelson and Jane, his wife, Abner Dilley and Anneida his wife, Elizabeth Jane infant heir of John and Anne Compton representative of said Anne deceased, Virginia infant heir of Jeremiah Russell, dec'd representative of Jeremiah, John Russell, Lawrence Russell, Rachel Robuck, Elizabeth Robuck and Esther Russell.  In Chancery.  That William, John, Lawrence, Rachel , Elizabeth and Esther are half blood brothers and sisters of intestate and the residue are whole blood brothers and sister of said intestate, all children of John Russell, dec'd.  Suite filed to deliver deed. (546) Elizabeth Jemima Russell 1812 - 1904 Ginsey Jane Russell 91 91 D. <1839 Anna Russell 1801 - 1871 James Samuel Russell 70 70 1814 - 1866 Francis(Frank) Russell 51 51 1807 - 1871 Sanders Russell 64 64 1808 - 1871 Thomas Jefferson Russell 62 62 1619 - 1654 George Dille 35 35 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Moved to Salem, Massachusetts in 1639.

George became a seafaring man, and made several voyages between England and the Colonies.  H e became master of his own ship, the "Goodfellow" around 1645.  He became a freeman, or citizen en of Massachusetts, in 1651.  He died at sea in 1654, on a voyage to Ireland. George Irvin 1810 William Nelson John Compton 1811 - 1845 Barthasheba Smith 34 34 1822 - 1889 Mary Brammer 67 67 1773 - 1852 Hannah "Patience" Rankin 79 79 1722 - 1800 Jeffrey Russell 78 78 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Date of Will on 28 Feb 1800 in Mecklenburg County, Virginia.  Will proven on 9 Jun 1800 in Mecklenburg County, Virginia.  Will proven by Charles Ogburn, John Ogburn, and Tabitha Puckett.

Per 1790 Census wife was Elizabeth Wood. 1790 - 1876 James Brammer 86 86 Sarah Henderson Simmons 1849 - 1849 Sarah Jane Russell 10m 10m 1850 - 1909 John Calvin Russell 58 58 1852 - 1884 Rosina Russell 32 32 1853 - 1885 Virginia Russell 31 31 1856 Martha Ellen Russell 1863 Ida May Russell Living Keihn 1800 - 1854 Sarah Billups 54 54 1839 - 1901 Rachel Russell 61 61 1866 - 1930 William Alonzo Russell 64 64 1766 - 1822 Edward (Edmund) Brammer 56 56 1773 - 1844 Mary Ann Lee 71 71 1744 John Lee Sarah 1792 - 1815 Henry Brammer 23 23 1810 Anna Brammer 1799 - 1868 Jesse Brammer 68 68 1801 - 1889 Edmund Brammer 88 88 1807 Artametta Brammer 1796 William Brammer 1788 - 1846 John Brammer 58 58 1809 - 1882 Richard Brammer 73 73 John L Brammer 1725 - 1810 Mary Burgess 85 85 1700 William Burgess Susannah John Collier Ambrose Collier Nancy Adams 1772 - 1840 James Allen 68 68 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

1  BIRTH
2  DATE 1772

1810 - Augusta VA Census
James Allen 3 1 1 0 1 0 1 1794 - 1842 Anna Collier 48 48 Coleman Keys Living Gillen Living Allen Living Allen Living Ovie 1921 Warren Allen [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Warren died during WWII in B-29 crash on flight to Puerto Rico from east coast of United State s.  The entire crew and plane disappeared and not a trace of anybody or anything has every bee n found. Living Dorothy 1808 - 1853 Nancy Sibley 44 44 Living Allen Isam Blankenship Sr. 1862 - 1904 William H Alford 41 41 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

ALFORD, WM. H.----- I.R. JUN. 02, 1904
In Memoriam (need to copy) Born in Lawrence Co., Ohio, near the city of Ironton on September 0 6, 1862. Married September 20, 1892 to Miss Anna L. Golden (Do not have end of obit) 1838 Anna L. Golden Don Dilley 1906 - 1973 Edward David Jaerger 67 67 William Henry White Harry White Wilbur Dilley Lillie Dilley 1809 Elizabeth Sibley Pearl Dilley Herbert Dilley Frank Dilley George Dilley Living Jaerger Living Shields Living Hopp Living Fowler Living Hopkins Living Dilley Living Dilley Living Pension Living Dilley Living Cade Living Dilley Living Thompson Living Martin Living Martin Living Martin Living Johnson 1813 - 1830 James Sibley 17 17 Living Johnson Living Hotton Living McDiffett Living McDiffett Living Morrissey Living McDiffett Living McDiffett Living McDiffett Living Ross Living McDiffett Living McDiffett Living McDiffett Living McDiffett Living Eshnaur Living Eshnaur Living Eshnaur George Keys Rosco Keys Tracy Keys Cora Keys ~1732 Jerusha Chandler Elizabeth Keys Lillie Keys Louis Keys Margaret Keys 1875 - 1967 Effie Edwards 92 92 Charity Edwards Homer Edwards Charles Edwards Edward Stanley Clara Stanley 1757 - 1827 John Sibley 70 70 Clifton Matney Ethel Stanley Ernest Bartrum Ed Harris Homer Harris Living Marjorie Estella Leighty George Harris Everett Harris Wayne Harris Living Brunnemer 1758 - 1832 Leonard Sibley 74 74 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Leonard was engaged in the freighting business in prince Edward County, Virginia, until 1814.  He was crippled in one leg when a wagon passed over it. He moved his family to the Henry-Trimble-Ol dham Co., Ky., area in late1814 and purchased 200 acres of land on corn Creek, near the prese nt town of Bedford, KY., and M and Nancy Tandy.  The Deed is dated 16 January 1815 and was recorded 30 July 1815 at the Henry Co Clerk's Office. About1818 he purchased Fairmount Plantation n which consisted of about 600 acres and a huge, eight room log house called Fairmount, located on a promontory overlooking the Little Kentucky River.  The house had separate guest rooms at each end of the front porch and massive stone chimneys at each end of the house.  This home was built by Colonel William Marshall,Jr., in 1780 on land granted to him for his Revolutionary War service. Fairmount lies about three miles north of Sulphur, Ky., on the west side of the Little Kentucky River.  It was owned by Coleman Mayfield Sibley in1975. Pansy Living Edwards Estella Leighty Living Edwards Living Edwards Living Edwards John Bruce 1903 - 1966 Aloysius P Dreiling 63 63 Living Dreiling Living Dreiling 1763 Robert Sibley 1908 - 1992 Susan Dreiling 83 83 1910 - 1991 Celestine Dreiling 81 81 Living Dreiling Living Dreiling 1918 - 1989 Wendelin Dreiling 71 71 Living Dreiling 1920 - 1989 Angelus Dreiling 69 69 Living Dreiling 1924 - 1925 Maria Dreiling 1m 1m 1910 - 1928 Elizabeth 18 18 1765 Mary Sibley Living Dreiling Living Dreiling Living Dreiling Living Dinkel Living Foos Living Thomas Living Younker Living Logan Living Muchaw Living Urban 1767 - 1834 Gabriel Sibley 67 67 Living Wilson Living Meis Living Schreiner Living Woodruff Living Asmussen Living Stanley Living Annaniantz Living Johnson Living Kesler Living Carroll D. 1973 Russell Stone 1894 - 1982 Ralph Donald Collier 88 88 Living Collier Living Lowdermilk Living Collier Living Collier Living Collier Living Tulley Living Collier Living Collier Living Collier Living Stone Living Osborne Living Collier Living Collier Living McCobe Living Dorris Living Burton Living Burton Living Burton Living Burton Living Burton Living Stone Living Burton Living Burton Living Buxton Living Burton Living Burton Living Burton Living Burton Living Shields Living Shields Living Shields Living Touchett Living JoAnn Living Jaerger Living Jaerger Living Lou Living Jaerger 1842 - 1897 Joseph Dodds 55 55 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Joseph Dodds and his wife Catherine Bel Dodds and their daughter, MaryBell Dodds were origina lly buried in a cemetery in Marietta but in 1925 their bodies were moved to Union Cemetery i n Columbus, Ohio by the H. A. Pletcher Company with the consent of Charles A. Dodds and Margaret Dodds.

Joseph Dodds was in the Index to the 1890 Special Schedule of Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, Mar ines and Widows of the Civil War on page 44 State of Ohio, Washington County, Grandview Twp. , Supervisor's District 7,Enumeration District 246, Joseph Dodds can be found on page 2, lin e 19,house 122, family 126, Name:  Joseph Dodds, Rank:  Private, Company C,Regiment: 2 WVA Ca v., Enrollment date:  1861, Discharged: 4 July 1865,Length of Service: 3 yr 10 mos. 7 days, P ost Office Address:  Ward Washington County, Ohio , Disability incurred:  Kidney Affliction.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES ABOUT JOSEPH DODDS DEATH

THE MARIETTA TIMES Wed. April 21, 1897 Roll#25340 OHS

Mr. Joseph Dodds, a prosperous farmer, who lived six miles back ofMatemoras, committed suicide e Sunday morning by hanging himself in his barn.  There is no known cause for his act.

THE MARIETTA TIMES Wed. April 28, 1897 Roll#25340 OHS

The Matemoras Mail gives the details of the suicide of Joseph Dodds,mentioned last week as fo llows:  "Joseph Dodds, one of the best known and respected farmers of our township, hanged himself, in a fit of temporary insanity last Sabbath morning.  He left the house for the stable as usual, about six o'clock, to attend to his horses.  Breakfast being ready, one of his young daughters went to the stable to call her father, and discovered his body hanging from a cross timber in the bedding room of the stable.  In answer to the child's screams, three or four men living near, speedily ran to the stable and were horrified to see their neighbor's body hanging with the toes resting on the floor.  The litter on the floor was scattered about, giving ev dence of a struggle.  The rope was cut immediately and the body lowered to the floor.  The body was still warm, showing that life had been extinct but a very short time. All efforts to resuscitate the unfortunate man, however, were unavailing.  No cause can be assigned for the deed except that of temporary insanity produced by what is unknown.  Mr. Dodds was about 55 years old.  He was a member of the Second West Virginia Cavalry during the war, and an honorable , upright Christian man."


MARIETTA DAILY LEADER Tuesday April 20, 1897 ROLL #43193 OHS

HUNG HIMSELF.

One of the Grandview's Best Citizens Dies by His Own Hand.

News reached this city Monday morning of the suicide at his home in Grandview township of Mr. Joseph Dodds, one of the most widely known and highly respected citizens of the county.  The sad occurrence was shocking in the extreme, and has cast a shadow of sadness over the entire neighborhood.

The deed was committed some time Sunday morning.  Mr. Dodds' body found hanging at the end o f a rope tied to a rafter in his barn.  When he was discovered life was extinct.  Written o n a sled which he had been building the day before were the words:  "This is the last of me in the barn."

No cause whatever can be assigned for the act, though it is thought that it may have been the result of financial matters.  Mr. Dodds owned, however, a good farm and was considered prospreous.  He was an affectionate man in his family and commanded the very highest respect of all l who knew him.  He was about 60 years of age and leaves a wife and three children.


WOODSFIELD SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY May 13, 1897 ROLL#25123 OHS

RINARDS MILLS

Joseph Woods (Dodds), a very highly respected farmer of Grandview township, Washington County , on Easter Sunday morning hanged himself in his barn.  He went to the barn to feed his stock while his wife and daughters were preparing breakfast.  He was gone longer than usual.  One of the girls went to look for him.  On entering the barn she saw her father hanging to a joist dead.  He had written on a board in the barn with a pencil "My time has come."  They do not know any cause for the rash act. 1869 Christina Elizabeth Dodds 1869 - 1902 Charles A Dewitt 33 33 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Reverend Charles Devitt died at age 34. 1880 - 1968 Lula May Foster 88 88 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Lula and Charles had no children.  She lived her final years with her nephew Reed Lee. 1870 - 1945 Charles A. Dodds 75 75 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Cause of death - chronic nephritis at Age 74 Living Kane 1867 - 1889 Mary Bell Dodds 21 21 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Mary died when she was 21 years 10 months 14 days old  Cause of death was tuberculosis of th e bone.  Between 1867 and 1889 she lived in Washington County, Ohio in Grandview Township.

The 1880 Census lists her as mamed/invalid.  She had a hip disease. 1872 - 1938 Laura Eleanor Dodds 66 66 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Laura was possibly an invalid by age 25 when her father died in 1897.

Cause of death - diabetes  Age 66 1876 - 1956 Margaret Lillian Dodds 80 80 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Maggie was the care giver of her sister Eleanor and her mother Catharine.

Cause of death was cerebro vascular hemorrhage at age 79. 1882 - 1963 Fannie Faye Dodds 81 81 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Fannie was sixteen when she came to live in Columbus Ohio.

Cause of Death - Coronary Occlusion due to hypertensive cardio-vascular disease.  She had this condition for 15 years, according to her death certificate.  Coronary Occlusion is the total obstruction of the blood flow in a coronary artery.
 1879 - 1945 Charles Augustus Gibson 66 66 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Charles A Gibson was the president and treasurer of the Gibson-Spence Coal Co. which began i n ? and declared bankruptcy between 1932-1933.  His partner Paul G. Spence was secretary of the company during the years 1920-21.  G S Coal Co was located in rooms 902-03 of the Atlas Building, 8 E. Long St., Columbus, Ohio in 1925 and 1926.  It was in bold print during these two yea rs in the directories.  Lucy Wolfe found this information in the Columbus city Directories at the Ohio historical Society Library in 1996.  In 1925 Philip E. Ebert was the secretary of G-S Coal and by 1929 he worked as a sales agent for Sunday Creek Coal Co., and had moved from 666 Kimball Place to 740 Kimball Place.

By 1931 G-S Coal only occupied room 902 in the Atlas Building.  By 1932G-S Coal occupied rooms 900-901 in the Atlas Building.  By 1933 Charles A Gibson no longer holds the title of president and treasurer of G-S Coal Co.

The Gibsons no longer lived at 1890 Tremont Rd Upper Arlington in 1933 (they had lived at 1890 Tremont since 1918) but had moved to 48 E Frambes Ave.  Gibson's daughter Catherine still lived at home at this time, according to the Columbus City Directory for the year 1933.

Charles died of Angina Pectoris which is a severe spasm of chest pain associated with an insufficient supply of blood to the heart.

His official birth record in Guernsey county listed him as Charles Garfield Gibson and listed G. W. Gibson as his father, then crossed out the G and changed it to a C and Rachel Stevens as his mother with his birth date as 12-22-1879.  It also listed a Sherman Blain Gibson with a father of G W Gibson and Rachel Stevens as the mother born 12-27-1879.  As it turns out, Charles A Gibson had to have his birth record corrected on May 16, 1944 in the probate court in Guernsey County with the case # 2453. He was delivered by a Dr. Hill of Senecaville, Ohio .  Lucy Wolfe and Carolyn Nieset were told in June of 1997 that Charles must have needed to correct his birth record in order to apply for Social Security or some other form of government aid or pension. 1907 - 1985 Catherine Rachel Gibson 77 77 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Catherine was a music teacher in 1932. 1919 - 1990 Mary Elizabeth Gibson 71 71 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

I Lucy A Wolfe consider July 17, 1990 Mary E Gibson-Bing's death datebecause of evidence in her apartment on the morning of July 18, 1990. Roberta Traver-Moore said that her mother never went to bed without rinsing out her ice cream bowl and the bowl had not been rinsed when she arrived at her mother's apartment.  Mary was already turning black when Roberta arrived.  All death records give July 18, 1990 as her date of death, but I know my grandmother would prefer the 17th because of her Irish ancestry.

Mary died from a heart attach.  She graduated from Ohio State University with a degree in elementary education.  July 23, 1990 she was buried in St Joseph Cemetery in Fremont, Ohio.

She was christened at King Ave United Methodist Church in Upper Arlington, Ohio on June 11, 19 21.

Mary only had one kidney from birth.  She was a recovering alcoholic. She had a pacemaker fo r her heart. 1846 - 1899 Margaret E. Bell 53 53 1848 - 1929 Theodore B. Barnes 81 81 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Theodore B Barnes was a merchant in Grandview Township according to the1880 census for Washin gton County, Ohio. 1874 Louisa Bell Barnes Living Kane John Smith D. 1906 Hilda Virginia Smith 1876 - 1931 Jennie Leslie Barnes 55 55 Sam Clark Living Clark Living Clark 1848 - 1884 Miranda Barnes 36 36 1870 Charles D. Bell 1873 Clarence E.Bell 1879 - 1957 Anna Amrine 77 77 Living Allison Living Telfer Living Bell Living Sanders Living Bell Living Krueger Living Bell Living Bell 1875 - 1950 Frank E. Bell 75 75 Loyella Living Bell 1881 Edward Clyde Bell Living Telfer 1893 - 1934 John Earnest Bell 41 41 1889 Lucy Stout Keiffer Living Bell Living Gooding Living Bell Living Bell Living Bell Living Bell Living Ballard Living Bell Living Emmons Living Bell Living Bell Living Fuchs Living Fuchs Living Fuchs Living Fuchs Living Bell Living Clarksen Living Bell Living Bell 1881 - 1966 Robert Bernard Kane 85 85 1895 James Glenn Bell Living Pegolih Living Bell Living Brentz Living Bell Living Bell Living Bell Living Shelenberger Living Shelenberger 1850 - 1928 Mary Pricilla Dye 78 78 1889 - 1970 Viola Ethel Morrison 81 81 1842 - 1930 Hamilton Parr Rinard 87 87 1812 - 1893 James Rinard 81 81 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Broderbund Family Archive #20, Ed 1, Census Index:  OH, Ohio 1880 Census, MONROE CO., OH 188 0 CENSUS, Date of Import:  July 16, 1998, Internal Ref #1.20.1.13506.14

Individual:  Rinard, James
Township:  Washington
Microfilm: Page 653C
Married twice, first to Mary Scott sister of Brothers wife.
Second marriage later to:  Margaret Whittinton 39 Widow 1816 Rachel Minney 1816 - 1835 Mary Scott 19 19 1773 - 1865 Isaac Rinard 92 92 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

His family was from Germany.  He came to Ohio on a raft down river with a STONE to start the first Grist Mill in the area.  That stone sits on his grave today.  He formed Rinard Mills , and is buried there.  He was a strong man, no-nonsense person.  Williams:  History of Washington County, Ohio gives a clear pictures of this man.

Township:  Ludlow
Microfilm:  Page 220A 1791 - 1866 Easter Elder 75 75 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Easter spoke little English.  She was a tiny woman.  Her brother James married Isaac's daughter Sarah from his first marriage to Mary Young.  Ester's father was John Elder born 1761 Ireland.  Her mother was listed as Mother Elder b. 1766 in Ireland died before 1800 in Ireland.  Her father died in Washington County, Ohio.  No date given. 1777 - 1807 Mary Young 30 30 1761 John Elder 1774 - 1850 John Scott 76 76 Precious Living Kane 1742 - 1779 James Scott 37 37 16 FEB 1739/40 - 1823 Elizabeth Harrison 1710 - 1784 James Scott Sr 74 74 1715 - 1784 Sarah Brown 69 69 1650 - 1726 John Scott 76 76 Helen Grant 1689 - 1762 Gustavus Brown 73 73 2 FEB 1690/91 - 1744 Frances Fawke Mary Black 1645 - 1689 Gustavus Brown Sr 44 44 Living Kane 1670 - >1689 Jane (Jean) Mitchelson 19 19 1610 - 1640 Richard Brown 30 30 1575 David Brown 1644 George Mitchelson 1648 Isabel Elphinstone 1662 - 20 JAN 1733/34 Gerard Folkes (Fowke) 1665 - 1747 Sarah Burdette 82 82 Mary Lomax 1606 - 1669 Gerard Fowke 63 63 1630 - MAR 1702/03 Ann Thoroughgood Living Kane Ann Chandler 1598 - 1649 Roger Fowke 51 51 1590 Mary Bayley 1572 John Fowke 1576 Dorothy Cupper 1530 John Cupper 1530 Audrey Peyto 1577 William (Sir) Bailey 1604 - 1640 Adam Thoroughgood 35 35 1609 - 1657 Sarah Appley Offley 48 48 Living Kane Job Chandler 1560 - 1625 William Thorowgood 65 65 1558 - 1609 Anne Edwards 51 51 Mary Dodge Alice Holbeck 1530 - 1600 John Thorowgood 70 70 1534 Anne Luchyn 1508 Thomas Luchyn 1540 Henry Edwards John Gookin 1874 - 1945 Albert Newton Allen 70 70 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

The Bell & Allen Picture:
Back Row Left to Right and Then Down:

Edward Bell(Uncle)
Icy Newsome Bell(Aunt)
Grandfathers brothers wife (name unknown)
Alexander Bell (Grandfather of Charity)
Albert Newton Allen (Father)
Glenn Bell (Uncle)
Gladys Bell Burton (Aunt)
Grandfather Bell's brother (sitting)
Unknown
Lucy Varner Bell (Grandmother)
Ada May Bell Allen (Mother)
Albert Allen Osborne(Sister)
Campsee Bell Collier (Aunt)
Man Unknown
Kathryn Naomi Allen McDiffett (sister)
Ada Genevieve Allen Eshnaur (Sister)
Tina Bell Jaeger (Aunt)
Mildred Irene Allen Martin (Sister)


The Allen Picture:
Left to Right Back Row and Then Down:

Dr William Harvey (Charity's Uncle)
Harriet Allen Harvey (Aunt)
Frank Allen (Uncle)
Claudia Allen (Aunt)
Frank Hotchkiss (Uncle)
Ethan Allen (Uncle)
Birdsley Allen Nelson (Aunt)
Mattie Allen Mayos (Aunt)
Mildred Allen Hotchkiss (Aunt)
John Lee Allen (Grandfather)
Charity Dilly Allen (Grandmother)
Wilma Hotchkiss (Cousin)
Alberta Allen Osborne (Sister)
Eloise Pearson (Cousin)
Alberta Allen Osborne (Sister)
Eloise Pearson (Cousin)
Genevieve Allen Eshnaur (Sister)
Ada May Bell Allen (Mother)
Albert Newton Allen (Father)
Allen Hotchkiss (Cousin)
Mildred Allen Martin (Sister)
Reginald Allen (Cousin)
Kathryn Allen McDiffett (Sister)
Virginia Allen Guntler (Cousin)

Grandfather Allen served in the Civil War and was in the Battle of Bull Run.

Albert died of ulcers. Frances Yeardley 1561 - 1625 Robert Offley 63 63 1570 - 14 JAN 1652/53 Anne Osborne 1525 - 1596 Sr Offley Robert 71 71 1530 - 1571 Ms. Bracken 41 41 1475 William Offley 1484 Elizabeth Wright Elizabeth Dillorne 1450 John Offley Margery Living Brunnemer 1881 - 1961 Ada May Bell 80 80 1425 Richard Offley Rogerson Nicholas Rose 1530 - 15 FEB 1591/92 Edward Osborne 1543 - 1585 Anne Hewett 42 42 Margaret Chapman 1513 - 1581 Richard Osborne 68 68 1517 - 1570 Jane Broughton 53 53 1488 Richard Osborne Sr 1491 Elizabeth Flydane 1901 - 1962 Alberta Bell Allen 60 60 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Alberta died of stroke. 1514 - 25 JAN 1565/66 William Hewett Elizabeth Leveson Alice Nicholas Leveson 1469 Edmund Hewett 1469 Nicholas Hewett 1438 Nicholas Hewett Sr 1636 - 2 MAR 1667/68 Thomas Burdett 1640 - 1683 Verlinda Cotton 43 43 1580 - 1643 William Burdett 63 63 1610 - MAR 1639/40 Frances Saunders 1909 - 1988 Mildred Irene Allen 79 79 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Mildred died of Parkinson's Disease. 1619 - 1640 John or William Cotton 21 21 1620 - 1683 Ann Cotton Eaton Graves 63 63 Richard Boughton 1578 Andrew Cotton Joanne Thomas Burdett Francis Doughty Nathaniel Eaton 1584 - 1635 Thomas Graves 51 51 1586 - 1636 Katherine Crosher 50 50 1910 - 1991 Naomi Kathryn Allen 80 80 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Kathryn died of cancer. 1556 - 1637 Thomas Graves Sr 81 81 1560 Joan Blagrove 1534 - 1590 Thomas Blagrove 56 56 1538 Joan Bellame 1508 Richard Blagrove Ms. Wyrtt 1512 William Bellame 1561 Joseph Crosher 1703 - 1771 Cuthbert Harrison 68 68 1718 Francis Osborne Barnes Living Allen 1665 - 1746 Thomas Harrison 80 80 Anne Synthia Elizabeth Short 1637 - 1706 Burr Harrison 69 69 Mary Sarah Burdeth 11 JAN 1606/07 - 1699 Cuthbert Esquire Harrison Susanna 1840 - 1903 Catherine M. Bell 62 62 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Catherine died of Metastasis, which is the transmission of disease from an original site to on e or more sites elsewhere in the body, as in cancer.  She died at age 62.

The 1880 census lists her as mamed/invalid. 1813 - 1873 Christiana Deter 59 59 Living Ruddick 1811 - 1867 Alexander Bell 56 56 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Birth was calculated from death records so it isn't necessarily accurate.

He was a Methodist Episcopal Minister.  According to the 1860 Census he was born in Ireland an d lived in Washington Township, Graysville, Ohio in Monroe County.

1869 Map of Monroe County, Ohio shows land that Alex Bell owned:

Call #G1398

M6N6
1869a
ORR

He was also found to own land in Monroe County, Independence Township and Grandview Township i n 1875:

Call G1398

W3L3
1875a
ORR. 1848 Anthony S. Bell 1861 Edward F. Bell [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Edward lived with his sister Margaret Bell Barnes in 1880 when the census was taken and he was s a store clerk. D. 1883 Mary [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Vol 1 p 254 #5563 of the Washington County Ohio Probate Court Death Records. John M. Turinem O J Rorem 1894 - 1973 Marie Dewitt 79 79 1896 - 1945 Glyde Dewitt 49 49 Cy Deffenbaugh Chalres W. Gibson Living Lenn Rachel Stevens 1879 Sherman Blain Gibson 1891 - 1982 Max Emert Collins 91 91 Living Collins Living Collins Living Collins Living Collins Living Black Living McCarthy Living Davies Living Ruddick Living Montcrief Living Rowe Living Thompson D. 1977 Joseph Groat Living Temple Living Graham Living Birney Living Kail Living Kail 1938 - 1978 Margaret Sandra Kail 40 40 Living Roberts Living Duff Living Bevington 1915 - 1970 Robert Edward Bing 55 55 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Robert was killed in an automobile accident.  The truck was owned by Messinger Gravel and was driven by Webster Potts.  The accident site was the intersection of Joppa Rd and St Rt 113 i n Florence, Ohio in Erie County east of Milan, Ohio.

Robert received an honorable discharge from U S Navy after WWII on September 1945.  He was an insurance salesman and an accountant.  He built his own house at 1886 Morrison Rd., Fremont , Ohio. Edwin Bing Martha Smith Living Bing Living Bing Living Bing Living Bing Living Bing Living Kane Living Bing Living Urben Living Good Living Howell Living Nieset Living Plummer Living Williams Living Lounsberry Living Traver Living Moore Living Floyd John William Kane 1911 - 1965 Jerry Howard McDiffett 53 53 D. <1839 Manoah B. Russell William Russell D. <1839 Jeremiah Russell John Russell Lawrence Russell Rachel Russell Elizabeth Russell Esther Russell 1745 - 1816 Jane Russell 71 71 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Sources:  White81429@@aol.com and Lynnea Dickinson.

According to Pat (PJAFLA@@aol.com) "I have been searching Kanawha county for early Russells.  I n 1810 there was a Jane Russell, who is head of household with several children.  My gg grand father was Samuel Russell, b abt 1810.  He says his mother was elizabeth, no last name, no fa ther mentioned.  I have found an Elizabeth on the 1824 tax Records of Kanawha and also on th e 1830 Census of Kanawha.  I know that Mary Ann Russell is a daughter of John Russell, who was s about 37 or so on the 1850 census and is married to Emmerson Turley, they moved to Lawrence e County, Ohio and died there.  I do not know which John Russell was her father, nor who he r mother was, but on the 1850 census of Cabell living with Emmerson Turley and Mary Ann Russe ll there is an Elizabeth Russell who is 67 years old." 1736 Joseph Talley Living McDiffett 1767 George Washington Talley 1768 - 1852 Russell Talley 84 84 BET. 1770 - 1780 - >1830 Grief Talley 1778 Mary Ann Talley D. 1802 Jeffrey Russell [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

MILITARY:  Revolutionary War:  Private & Sergeant in the Virginia Continental & Militia Service; Served under captain Ballord, then Captain Garland; Jeffrey was then drafted in the Lunenburg Militia under Captain Walker; Fought in the Battle of Guilford, North Carolina. 1755 Sarah Gill 1780 Richard Russell 1782 Elizabeth B Russell 1784 Martha Russell 1787 Mary Russell Living McDiffett 1792 Sally Russell 1794 Rebecca Russell 1760 - 1821 Mark Russell 61 61 Mary Puckett Esther Dean John Wesley Russell D. BET. 1848 - 1850 Barbary Losey 1831 Hetty Ann Russell 1836 Eliza P Russell 1837 Sanders Russell Living Eshnaur 1843 Victoria Russell 1847 James F Russell 1808 Lucinda Boggs 1831 Sarah Ann Russell 1832 - 1894 George Russell 61 61 1833 William Hutchinson Russell 1838 Louisa P Russell 1838 Alice S Russell 1840 Alcey Jane Russell 1842 Susan Russell 1916 - 1999 Robert Francis Kane 82 82 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

OBITUARIES Bob Kane, 82, writer for Life, Parade, public relations specialist

OBITUARIES Bob Kane, 82, writer for Life, Parade, public relations specialist
BYLINE: Suzanne Gregory, Staff
DATE: 05-29-1999
PUBLICATION: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
EDITION: Home
SECTION: Local News
PAGE: G7
A writer for Life and Parade magazines and owner of a public relations firm, Bob Kane, 82, o f Decatur always had a story to tell. It could be a humorous tale about his ordering from the children's menu at Wendy's restaurant, about his grandsons or a feature on the curve ball . And Mr. Kane, a gregarious man who called into the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Ven t every other week and had six items published, knew how to tell it and write it.
"He liked telling historical stories," said his son Cameron Kane of Marietta. "He seemed to be the guy who was at every major historical event. Not in the limelight; he was in the wings. "
"He was interested in everyone. He would come home from IHOP and know all about the waitress, " said daughter-in-law Ginger Kane of Marietta. "He was absolutely nosy about people. But he did it in a way that people didn't mind," she added.
The memorial service for Robert Francis Kane is 1 P.M. today at A.S. Turner & Sons. The body was cremated. He died Wednesday of congestive heart failure at his residence.
A 1938 graduate of Kansas State University, Mr. Kane was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corp s during World War II. He gained his experience in public relations from doing the publicity for "Shot from the Sky, " an exhibition featuring captured German and Japanese military equipment, used to sell war bonds.
While at Life magazine, Mr. Kane did investigative reporting, toured the country with Life ph otographers and wrote captions for photos and short articles. He left to write for Parade whe n it was founded, said his son.
A 30-year commuter on the Long Island Railroad, Mr. Kane spent 12 years as director of publi c relations for F.H. McGraw Construction Co. A member of the National Association of Railroad Passengers and its Georgia association, Mr. Kane threw a retirement party on the train for a 50-year railroad attendant. The New York Times wrote a story on it, said Alan Yorker of Decatur, president of the Georgia Association of Railroad Passengers.
Mr. Kane was a member of the Overseas Press Club. And he created the Golden Mike Award, an award for the best football announcer of the year, for the New York Touchdown Club.
"He was always looking for publicity. His mind was always looking on how can I get publicity for this person or that person," said his wife, Aileen Kane.
Retiring from Robert Francis Kane and Associates public relations firm in New York in 1988, M r. Kane moved to Decatur. He wrote articles for area newspapers, the KSU alumni magazine and other publications. He was a member of the Aviation Writers Association, the Atlanta Press Club and the WWII Roundtable.
Survivors other than his wife and son include another son, Philip Kane of Decatur; two sisters, Marian Nering of El Paso, Texas, and Florence Richey of Birmingham; a brother, Richard Kane of Ponte Vedra, Fla.; and two grandsons.
ILLUSTRATIONS/PHOTOS: Bob Kane
TYPE: Obituary

Copyright 1999,The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, All rights reserved. 1844 Mary Russell 1845 Ruth A Russell 1846 Hanna (Hermia) Russell 1848 - 1917 Thomas E Russell 69 69 1849 Hannah E Russell 1851 Lucinda T Russell D. BET. 1845 - 1850 Mary Irwin 1829 James Russell 1830 Susan Russell 1831 Samuel F Russell 1842 - 1884 Robert Bennent Kane 42 42 1834 Ellen Russell 1834 Martha Russell 1842 John Russell 1845 William Russell 1831 Mary Ann Nelson 1838 Eliza I. Nelson 1840 John Nelson 1843 Armenia Nelson 1845 Jemima Nelson Elizabeth Jane Compton 1852 - 1924 Cecilia Flaherty 72 72 Rebecca Singer 1834 Virginia Russell D. 1845 Mary Lucy McDaniel 1791 Sterling Talley BET. 1790 - 1794 John W Talley BET. 1790 - 1794 Page Talley 1796 Rebecca Talley 1798 - 1876 George Henderson Talley 77 77 1798 Nancy Talley 1800 Jane Talley 1810 John Kane 1802 - 1851 Mary Talley 49 49 1808 Grief Talley BET. 1810 - 1815 Robertson Talley 1777 Elizabeth Creedle BET. 1794 - 1804 William Talley BET. 1804 - 1810 James Talley 1807 Joseph T Talley 1808 - 1877 Mark R Talley 68 68 BET. 1810 - 1820 John Wesley Talley BET. 1771 - 1780 Lucinda Curtis 1812 Mary Bennent Churchill Curtis Lucy 1810 Allen Talley [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Allen supposedly left his family to go west with the Mormons. Lynnea Dickensen found no proof of Allen being the son of Grief, except for the1830 Lawrence County, Ohio census.  Ida Talley, daughter of Alma, states Allen died in St Louis, MO of typhoid.

Married by William Gore, J.P.  Marriage found in Book 1-2-3 page 141. BET. 1811 - 1815 Nancy Talley 1812 Joseph Talley [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

1840 Van Buren County, Iowa Census:

Joseph Tally
1 Male    20-29     1811-1820 Joseph
1 Female  20-29     1811-1820 Lydia
1 Male    5-9  1831-1835 William
1 Female  5-9  1831-1835 Lucy
1 Male    0-4  1836-1840 John

The only 2 other Talley/Tally families, in Iowa in 1840 are John and William.  Both are living in adjoining counties to Joseph.  As Joseph names his 1st 2 sons William and John, it is assumed they are related in some way.

In the 1880 Census, Joseph states that both parents were born in Virginia.  Also, in the 1880 census, Elizabeth,  listed as wife, is with Joseph.  Did Joseph remarry?  Elizabeth born about 1815 in Pennsylvania. In an 1881 history of Marion County, Iowa, mention is made of Mr. & M rs.Tally, members of the Methodist Church.  In "Pioneers of Marion County",published 1872, Tally's Ford is noted as being the crossing on the Des Moines River.  The history tells of their generosity and aid to the early settlers.  The history goes on to say that the Tally's present residence is in Decatur County.  In the same book, Mr. Alexander May tells of his wife who " borrowed" a meal at Joseph Tally's on the north side of the Des Moines River.  In another histo ry, "Proud Mahaska", Joseph Tally was licensed March 11, 1846 to keep a ferry at a point called Tally's Ford. Rates were:

2 horses & wagon    371/2 cents
4 horses & wagon    50 cents
1 man & horse  183/4 cents
1 horse        10 cents
cattle, per head    08 cents
sheep & hogs, per head   05 cents
footman        10 cents

This history also states that Joseph Talley was one of the 1st settlers of Mahaska County, arriving shortly after 1843.  Joseph filed his claim near river.  There is an article on the "Ta ly Raid" involving a George Tally and his probable cousin Bill. BET. 1816 - 1820 - BET. 1840 - 1843 George Talley Edmund Creedle 1828 John Brown 1853 - 1926 Mary Emeline Phillips 73 73 John Corn Flaherty 1831 - 1924 Julia Ann Willis 93 93 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Occupation:  Laborer Irad B Hutcheson M.G. Thacker Elisha [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Book 5 page 183 William L. Boynton 1847 - 1875 Electa A McElroy 27 27 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

RUSSELL, ELECTA A. I.R. MAY 27, 1875
Died at her residence on Sharp's Creek, Aid Township, on May 18 of erysipelas, the wife of Tho s. E. Russell. 1875 Unknown Russell [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Headstone reads Infant Russell s/o T.E. & E.A. Aged 1D.  Died near Marion, Lawrence County, Oh io May 14, 1875

RUSSELL, INFANT I.R. MAY 27, 1875
Died near Marion, Lawrence county, on May 14, infant son of Thos. E. and E. A. Russell 1856 - 1921 Lydia A Unknown 65 65 Mr. Neal 1870 - 1889 Harriet Justice 19 19 1876 - 1897 Emory Justice 20 20 Living Woodruff Gallagher 1878 Laura M. Keys 1858 - 1937 Mary Lucy Johnson 78 78 1820 Levi Waugh Diana Mays (Maze) John Middleton 1806 - 1884 Nancy Smith Cypert 77 77 1825 Robinson Perry Talley John Anderson Talley Zachariah Wilson Talley William Grief Russell Talley Anthony Gallagher 1832 - 1850 Elizabeth Jane Talley 17 17 George Cypert Talley 1830 Wilson Talley 1839 - 1860 Tobias H. Talley 21 21 1842 - 1845 Francis James Talley 3 3 Sarah Vida Ann Talley 1849 - 1849 B L M Talley 4m 4m Isaac Collins Heath Samuel Heath 1800 - 1862 Joshua Holden 62 62 1843 - 1907 Robert Alexander Morrison 64 64 1820 - 1852 Willey Hines Holden 31 31 1821 George Richmond Holden 1823 - 1845 James H. Holden 22 22 1824 Hulda Maria Holden 1826 - 1907 William Riley Holden 81 81 1828 John R. Holden 1830 Joshua E Holden 1831 Richard Holden 1833 Elizabeth Jane Holden 1839 - 1843 Althena Angeline Holden 3 3 1848 - 1925 Laura Albine Isaccs 77 77 1843 - 1844 Rebecca Holden 10m 10m 1846 Unknown Holden 1810 Elizabeth "Betsey" 1834 - 1918 Francis Marion Talley 84 84 1836 William Talley 1838 Newton Talley 1840 Seney Talley 1842 Elizah Talley 1843 Nancy Talley 1845 Franklin Talley Andrew Morrison 1846 Nancy Talley 1848 John Talley Lucinda Stanfield Margaret 1824 - 1909 Caroline C Pound 84 84 1843 Josephine "Sophia" J. Talley Marshall J Talley 1846 Meriman A Talley 1857 Emma A Talley 1810 - 1880 Katharine Blair 70 70 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Katharine may have lived in Nauvoo, Illinois with her husband Allen. Allen and Katharine either divorced or Allen died before 1860 on his way to Salt Lake City, Utah.  Katharine states in the LDS Temple records her maiden name as Blair.  She also lists her father's place of birth as Ireland, which means she was probably aware of her mother's indiscretion with William Blair.  Katharine went by the surname of Dilley in her childhood.  Katharine may have also lived in Marshall County, Iowa, as son Elisha lists his place of birth there on the birth record of one of his children.  He lists it as Illinois in censuses. Jane Wilson Alma A Talley Emma Talley Joseph Talley Elisha Talley David Moore 1814 - 1872 Lydia Dickey 57 57 William Talley Lucy Talley John A Talley Rebecca Talley 1809 - 1897 George Washington Isaccs 88 88 1847 - 1849 Joseph Andrew Talley 1 1 1849 - 1853 Zachary Taylor Talley 4 4 Nina Talley 1813 Elizabeth Simpson 1822 Malinda Justice Moses Marion Payne George Keys Elizabeth Waller Richard Andrews Polly H. Baily 1824 - 1901 Jane Ann Eldridge 77 77 1834 - 1916 Isaac Daniel Varner 82 82 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Buried at Towanda, Butler County, Kansas. 1836 - 1875 Sarah Amelia Varner 39 39 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Buried at Fairview Cemetery, Butler County, Kansas ~1845 Roxanna M Varner 1848 - 1922 Lavosier Marcello Varner 73 73 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Lavosier Marcello Varner was short in stature and was "very German(Dutch)."  He married young Lucretia Ellen Speake, who was part Indian.  About fifteen years after his marriage to Lucretia, the young couple traveled with their five little children from Iowa to Oklahoma to take part in the great land rush.  They wintered over in Parkersville, Kansas, waiting to continue their journey until after the birth of little Mary Lucy in 1885.  Lavosier was a member of the Brethren Dunkard Church, and Lucretia also became a member.  Although Lucretia is sa d to have been a domineering wife, Lavosier Varner loved her deeply as did her children.  Lucretia was visiting on of her daughters who lived in Ellis County, when she died.  Lucretia' s body was returned to Grandfield, and there she was buried in her Dunkard cap.  After her death, Lavosier "died of a broken heart". ~1852 Louania E Varner 1852 Molona E Varner Rhoda Varner ~1856 John A. Varner ~1845 Margaret J. Hollenbeck Jacob Hollenbeck Unknown Isaccs Manda Bradley 1833 - 1910 Ruth Amelia Baker 77 77 1856 - 1877 Lucille Evaline Varner 21 21 1858 - 1936 Mary Elizabeth Varner 78 78 1859 - 1890 Isadora Arbella Varner 31 31 1861 - 1865 James Nelson Varner 4 4 1864 - 1943 Susie Alveretta Varner 79 79 1866 - 1954 Milton Emery Varner 88 88 1866 - 1929 Matilda Emma Varner 63 63 1870 - 1955 Dulcie May Varner 85 85 Julia Or'caime 1873 - 1940 Ellis Arvin Varner 66 66 1876 - 1972 Franklin Howard Varner 96 96 1830 - 1908 David Milton Baker 78 78 1855 - 1942 Joseph Warren Baker 87 87 James Willard Baker John Ainsworth Baker Jacob Wilson Baker Isaac Milton Baker Lucy Olive Baker Edith Baker 1892 - 1950 Odie Artemus Floyd 57 57 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Odie was ashamed of his name, especially Artemus and liked to be known as O A Floyd.  It is assumed that is the reason R A only had initials for a name. 1797 - 1849 William Eldridge 52 52 1852 - 1922 Lucretia Ellen Speake 70 70 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Family lore said that Lucretia was part American Indian  She is buried at Grandfield, Tillman County, Oklahoma. 1872 - 1952 Ida Viola Varner 79 79 1874 - 1931 Susan Minetta Varner 56 56 1878 - 1927 Carl Raymond Varner 48 48 1880 - 1955 Fred Ellis Varner 75 75 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Fred ran a bakery in Gage, Oklahoma. 1881 - 1951 Thomas Warren Varner 69 69 1885 - 1969 Mary Lucy Varner 83 83 1887 - 1905 Vesta Olive Varner 18 18 1888 - 1981 Cora Edith Varner 93 93 1890 - 1979 Myrtle Elisabeth Varner 88 88 1800 Harriet F Evans 1892 Alva Albion Varner John Moore Hannah Armstrong ~1803 Hannah Varner [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

It is said that Hannah and John had at least eight children, only six of whom are known. ~1805 Samuel Varner [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Little is known about Samuel Varner.  Physically, he was dark i complection and was definitely German.  He married five women in his lifetime, three of whom died young. 1806 - 1880 John "Johnny" Varner Jr 74 74 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Johnny Varner was twice married.  He and two of his Varner brothers all married Andrews sisters rs.  The Andrews were Quakers, a close-knit group of worshipers who were against marrying "co ntrary to discipline," (e.g. outside the church).  John's first marriage was to seventeen-yea r-old Irena Andrews in 1827.  Irena must have loved Johnny truly, for she paid a high price f or their love.  A year and a half later (march 24, 1829) Irena was "disowned" from her church .  The young couple settled in Barnsville, Ohio, and raised a large family of twelve children , all born in Barnsville.  Before the outbreak fo the civil War, Johnny and Irena moved to Li nn County, Iowa.  Johnny served in the Iowa Infantry during the Civil War. Not long after Ire na's death in 1868, Johnny married Julina (last name unknown). ~1808 - 1886 Isaac Varner 78 78 ~1813 - 1886 Daniel M Varner 73 73 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Like his two brothers, Daniel married an Andrews girl.  The Andrews sisters were the daughter s of strict, Quaker parents.  When Malinda married Daniel Varner, she was prohibited from rem aining a member of her church.  Daniel and Malinda settled on a farm located on the south sid e of Flag Run.  The Copelands and other Varner descendants lived north of Flag Run.  The origi nal Varner home was a log cabin on a hill.  Later descendants, Howard and Clel, told of seein g panthers and bears in earlier times around the old cabin. ~1818 Sarah Varner Joseph Bomon Evans 1828 - 1900 Armstrong M Varner 72 72 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

After Armstrong's siblings moved to Linn County, Iowa, he remained in Belmont County, Ohio .  Although he did own land in neighboring Wayne Township in Monroe County.  Armstrong married Lavinia and they lived on the old Varner homestead at Somerset.  Armstrong ran a planning mill on the bottom of Flag Run. He built a "mill race" for water to run downhill from the spr ing to the creek.  The race was lined with flagstone on the top, bottom and both sides, then covered with soil.  The site of the mill had been an Indian campground where Indians came every fall to skin animals, dry the skins, and make jerky and Pemmican for the winter.  There was also a salt lick nearby.  The Varners let the Indians come in peace.  They would exchange ideas about planting corn and other good farming ideas.

After Armstrong's death, his bachelor sons, Howard and Clel, and their spinster sister Ruth , lived there in the original home until their deaths.  They made a colorful trio.  Howard and Clel Varner were very stern old men who wore "old-time Quaker hats," though they belonged  o the Church of Christ.  Children were afraid of the brothers who kept unwanted visitors out by threatening to shoot anyone who intruded on their property.  Old Clel was so tight, he drove a 1912 car for eighteen years then sold it for fifteen dollars. ~1730 Adam Varner [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Adam Varner and his wife Eve were first discovered in Bucks County, Pennsylvania records.  Later they moved to Whitley Township, Green County.  In a widely-circulated, old family letter, Isaac Daniel Varner wrote to a grandchild, "Well Now I will try and answer your questions .  Your Grandfather Varner's name was Joseph and your Grand Mother's name was Lucy.  Her maiden name was Andrews.  A Half-sister to Tom Andrews.  Your Great Grand Father Varner's name was John, and his wife's name was Sarah.  Her maiden name was Moore.  Your Great, great Grand Father Varner's name was Adam, and his wife's name was Eve.  He lived to be one hundred and one, grandpa was a dutchman from Germany".  He signed the letter, "I.D. Varner."

According to oral family history, Adam Varner had a brother named, Peter (b. ca. 1734, d. ca . 1833), who died at the age of 99 years.  Peter Varner is said to have been a companion of Daniel Boone, the famous explorer.  Peter Varner went with Boone and Wetzel (the Indian fighter), and "settled a colony at Booneville."  History records that Danie Boone was born in 1734 to a Quaker family and was raised in Berks County, Pennsylvania.  In 1750, Boone's father m oved the family to the frontier country along the Yadkin River in North Carolina.  In the yea r 1775, Daniel Boone set out with a party of thirty woodsmen, intent on widening the Indian t rail and establishing a route to the Kentucky wilderness so that settlers could move in an in habit the interior.  Afterwards, the men built a forth south of the present-day town of Lexington, Kentucky and called it, "Boonesborough."  Apparently Peter Varner was one of Boone's thirty woodsmen.

AFN: 2TKQ-SP D. >1850 Eve Lnu [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

AFN BXTC-PO Adam Peter Varner ~1732 - ~1833 Peter Varner 101 101 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Family lore says that Peter was a companion of Daniel Boone and helped to establish Booneville e. ~1798 - 1881 John Schaffer 83 83 ~1830 John Varner Schaffer ~1833 Joseph C Schaffer ~1835 George S Schaffer ~1838 Isaac D. Schaffer Wife ~1843 Daniel W. Schaffer. ~1846 Phoeba Ann Schaffer Margaret Lake [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Margaret apparently died very young. There are no known children from this marriage. ~1809 - 1834 Maria Bonham 25 25 ~1817 Mary Hogue Miller Hogue Tracy Wilson Susan Lnu Milly J Lyons 1837 Lucy Varner 1759 - 1844 John Eldridge 85 85 1839 Sarah Varner 1843 William (possibly Wilson) Varner 1844 - 1915 Samuel Varner Jr 71 71 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Samuel was born in Monroe County, Ohio.  When he was a fifteen-year old boy, his family migrated ted to Brooke County (1860 Census) and then to New Martinsville, Wetzel, County, West Virginia a (1861).

Civil War vet6 enlisted at age 17 in Co H. WV Infantry.  He was captured and imprisoned at Libby y Prison in Richmond VA. After his parole in 1864, he returned to Shenandoah Valley, rejoined d his regiment and fought in the Battle of Winchester.  Samuel was mustered out on November 2 6, 1864.  After the war, Samuel returned to his boyhood home in Monroe County Ohio and became e a farmer.   About 1867 he moved westward to Quenemo, Kansas where he was tax assessor,  an d finally to Sonoma County California where he held several political offices..

Occupation:  Farmer 1849 - 1919 Margaret (Call?) Stoffal 70 70 1867 Thaddeus Alonzo Varner 1870 - 1933 Clara Jane Varner 63 63 1872 Samuel Sheridan Varner 1875 Philip Edward Varner 1879 Rose M Varner 1881 Frederick Garfield Varner [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Fred was the Mayor of St Helena, Napa County, California in 1911. Rebecca Edwards 1884 Elsie Margaret Varner 1891 James Blaine Varner ~1846 Robert Varner ~1847 Tamar Varner Augustus M. Kashner 1810 - 1868 Irena Emma Andrews 58 58 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

She and her two sisters who married John's brothers came from a strict Quaker family and all three were disowned by their church for their marriages.

She is buried in Lafayette, Linn County, Iowa Richard Andrews Polly Bailey 1830 Barbara Ellen Varner 1832 - 1889 Rhoda Jane Varner 57 57 Living O'Byrne 1833 - 1908 Maria Emily Varner 74 74 1836 - 1885 Malinda Elma Varner 49 49 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Malinda was ill for years with tuberculosis and cancer although she actually died of blood poisoning.
Per Don R Varner 1838 - 1839 Richard Lane Varner 1 1 1840 - 1910 Axiah Emily Varner 69 69 1843 - 1923 John Nelson Varner 79 79 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Civil War Vet Co A, 31st Regt, 1st Iowa Vols.  He fought under General Sherman from Mississippi i to Georgia in the famous "March to the Sea".  John's cousin, Joseph (son of Isaac Varner's) , enlisted with John.  John was discharged on June 27, 1865 due to sunstroke and rheumatism .  He and his wife moved to Kansas then to Jasper County Missouri and finally to Perry Count y Oklahoma.  At the time of his death he lived with his son George. 1845 - 1924 William Henry Varner 78 78 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

William Henry Varner was born on a farm near Barnsville, Ohio in 1845.  He moved as a young boy with his family to the new frontier, Linn County, Iowa.  There, he grew to manhood and fell in love with Nancy Emily Fitzgerrald, the youngest of 13 children.  They were married in 18 65, and raised a large family of ten children, five of whom were born in Linn County.  When  he West opened up in the 1870's, William Henry and Nancy could not resist the call to "go West", so they bundled up their family in a covered wagon and headed for the open country called , Kansas.  Their son, Frank Arthur, was born at Eldorado, Kansas.  The rest of the children were born in Wichita.

William Henry Varner followed the family's occupation of farming in Iowa.  When he arrived  n Kansas, he saw the need for draying service in the new frontier town of Wichita, a gathering place for immigrants before they settled in the Indian Nation, or in the countryside nearby .  William Henry ran the dray service until the railroad connected with the outlying towns .  Then, he turned toward building houses, with the help of his sons.  It has been told that the Varners worked in constructing the railway station and on several churches.

Grandpa Varner was about five feet, five inches tall, slightly stout, dark complexion and medium brown hair.  He wore glasses and would seldom venture out without his hat.  Grandpa wore boys' size four shoes and would brag about his small feet at family gatherings, saying "It is a sign of high intellect".  Grandpa smoked a pipe, but sometimes he would smoke cigars .  He played the fiddle for all the "hoe-downs" and harvest dances in nearby communities.

Grandma Nancy had a cute sense of humor.  When their daughter, Nellie, was being courted by Walt Outfield, he would arrange to be at the Varner house at mealtime.  Walt would ask Nancy Varner, "What are you cooking for dinner?" She would always reply, "Beans".  She knew Walt hated beans!  Grandma nancy would make a dish called "thickened milk" for her family, but today , no one remembers how to prepare this tasty dish.  Grandpa Varner liked bacon gravy and biscuits for breakfast, but one of his favorite items would be apple pie.  He would say "The best way to start the day is with a piece of pie."  Grandpa outlived his wife by almost twenty y ears.  He often said that Grandma Nancy was the most wonderful girl in the world.  Together Will and Nancy had ten children. 1848 - 1850 Samuel Colson Varner 2 2 1850 - 1852 Philip Mason Thomas Varner 1 1 1853 Joseph Wilson Varner 1828 - 1863 Sarah Ann Varner 34 34 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Sarah died at the age of 34, a few weeks after giving birth to their sixth child, John H..  ba by John died three moths after his mother . Living Kane 1829 - 1863 James William Nicholas Coffland 34 34 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

James served in the Union Army for seven months in 1865.  James had enlisted at Steubenville , Ohio, as a sergeant in Co. "K", 186th Regt, Ohio Vol. Inf. 1853 Susan I Coffland 1855 Charles Wesley Coffland 1856 Francis Allen Coffland 1859 - 1910 Mary Emma Coffland 51 51 1863 - 1863 John H. Coffland 3m 3m 1851 - 1934 Eliza Eleanor Coffland 83 83 George Bailey Jane Bailey Anna Bailey Living Kane Tom Bailey Marion Bailey Becka Bailey Emma Bailey Henry Thomas Warrick 1831 - 1897 Andrew J Heaney 66 66 1864 - 1888 Louela M Heaney 24 24 1868 - 1870 William R Heaney 2 2 1871 - 1888 Mary I Heaney 17 17 1833 - 1911 John Milton Coffland 78 78 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Civil War Vet Co A 31st Iowa Infantry.  He apparently left his family to adventure in the west sometime after 1883 and had to borrow money to return to his wife's funeral.  He could not even afford a headstone for her.

He is buried at Idaho Soldiers Cemetery, Ada County, Idaho Living Davis 1855 - 1895 Lancelot Columbus Coffland 39 39 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

According to oral history Lancelot felt so badly-treated by his father, he was convinced that John considered him "the black sheep of the family."  Lancelot told his children that once when he was a boy, his father sent him out in freezing weather to check on the cattle.  Lancelot had just sat down in the snow to rest when a neighbor saw him.  Fearing the boy would freeze to death, the neighbor yelled at Lancelot and scared him so that he jumped up and ran home.  Later, the neighbor had sharp words with John Coffland for sending his boy out in such bad weather. 1859 - 1949 Mary L Coffland 89 89 1862 Ross W Coffland 1867 - 1941 Charles Sylvester Coffland 74 74 1870 - 1870 John Nelson Coffland 1870 - 1873 Fedela Coffland 3 3 1875 - 1931 Ancil Coffland 56 56 ~1839 Roswell Roger Ward Wellington Ward Antha Ward 1898 - 1991 Fairy Kathleen Beaty 93 93 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

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2  PLAC Social Security Number was 454-36-9215

Although Fairy remarried and is buried beside George C Reeves with a REEVES family headstone , she insisted that her marker read Fairy Floyd. Living Kane Ell Ward Gene Ward Irena Ward Gertie Ward Ida Ward Sadie Ward ~1874 - 1905 Julia Ann Bittle 31 31 1846 - 1889 Mary "Libby" Elizabeth Cress 43 43 1893 Ida Mae Varner 1895 Leroy Edward Varner Living Samstag 1900 - 1968 Jay Dee Varner 68 68 1849 - 1906 Nancy Emily Fitzgarrald 56 56 1866 - 1936 Lorandis James Varner 69 69 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Lorandis and Elsie were married in 1894.  Eight years later, the young couple moved to Melbourne, Australia, where Lorandis was engaged in seeing after the interest of International Harvester Company.  Elsie's health was poor, and she often fought against the depression and melancholy that is so often produced by invalidism.  The Varners remained in Melbourne until Elsie had a relapse of illness, causing them to return to the US.  They moved to Seattle, WA and lived there until Elsie's death in 1916.  Lorandis remained a single widower for the next t welve years, when he married a second time. 1868 - 1879 Charlotte Irena Varner 11 11 1870 - 1919 Ancil Davis Varner 48 48 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Ancil D. Varner was a Linotype operator.  Their religion was Presbyterian.  Although Ancil didn't get very far in school, he wanted all his children to have a good education.  According to daughter, Helen Varner Hancock, after her father's death, her mother and siblings moved to Oklahoma, where they struggled to make a living.  When relatives suggested they migrate west to California, "no flies, no snow and no cold weather...it sounded like Utopia".  In 1922 M rs. Ancil Varner and children made along and harrowing car trip through cold, muddy and dangerously narrow roads to Texas and on to California.  The day they arrived at the home of Uncle Walt and Aunt Nell's house, it rained!  There, the grandchildren became acquainted with Granpa William Henry Varner. 1873 - 1950 Nellie Alice Varner 76 76 1876 - 1908 Ora Elvin Varner 32 32 1878 - 1932 Frank Arthur Varner 53 53 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Frank was born in 1878 in El Dorado, Kansas.  When a small boy, he moved with his parents t o Wichita, where he attended school.  As a young man, he journeyed to Iowa and went into service with the Milwaukee-St Paul Railway, where he was employed for 25 years.  In Marion, Iowa , Frank met Blanche Ethel Klumph.  They were married in 1901 and raised four children.  Nineteen years later, Frank and Blanche moved with their children to Los Angeles, where Frank went into the plastering contracting business. 1881 - 1957 Clarence Elze Varner 76 76 1884 - 1901 Jesse Addison Varner 17 17 Living Kane 1886 - 1960 Lena May Varner 73 73 1889 - 1962 Ollie Ray Varner 72 72 Sara Jane Dennison Deva Varner Edith Varner Rita Varner Henry Varner 1818 - 1905 Phoebe Ann Clark 87 87 ~1834 Hannah S Varner 1836 - 1917 Martha Varner 80 80 Living Kane 1841 Sarah Varner ~1842 - 1909 Joseph Varner 67 67 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Civil War Vet Co A, 31st Regt Iowa Vols.  He was wounded several times and lost toes to gangrene.  Wounded in the hip in a battle near Greensboro, NC he was taken prisoner.  He died at the Solders Home in Marshaltown Iowa. 1844 - 1921 Letitia Mary Varner 76 76 ~1846 Glafiary Varner 1852 - 1927 Phoebe Ann Varner 75 75 Isaac Merrill John Nutt L M Chambers Samuel Blaine John H. Haney Living Brotkoy Mary Isabelle Blaine Scott Phillips ~1847 - ~1895 Lucinda Jones 48 48 1883 - 1965 Rose Varner 82 82 1868 Phoebe C. Varner 1869 Malinda Varner 1872 Ida Jane Varner 1875 - 1909 Sarah M Varner 34 34 1876 Vietta Varner 1888 Oley Varner Living Nering ~1836 John Andrews Zury Jones 1849 - 1922 Armstrong L. Varner 72 72 ~1852 Ida R Wright Permilla Snodgrass 1869 Lavina Kimbro Rosy Ann Varner 1874 - 1965 Isaac Ogden Varner 91 91 William L Varner Sellesta Jane Varner Living Nering Mary Agneline Varner Maud May Varner Eva Varner Mabel Varner Delilah Varner Wesley Varner Leslie Varner Goldie Varner Living Varner Living Varner Living Nering Living Varner Fnu Scaggs ~1846 George F Wright Daughter Wright Frank Wright Charles Wright Harry Wright Isaiah Wright ~1814 Malinda Andrews Richard Andrews Living Nering Polly Baily ~1838 - 1916 Lucy Campsidel Varner 78 78 ~1840 - >1889 John S J Varner 49 49 ~1846 Irena E Varner ~1849 - 1887 Malinda Ann E Varner 38 38 1858 - 1882 Wilson Varner 24 24 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Died of Typhoid Fever 1836 - 1863 Amos Sinclair Byers 27 27 1833 Robert Copeland 1873 - 1949 John Tait Copeland 76 76 1860 Oriel L Byers Living Nering 1862 Amos Sinclair Byers Jr Elizabeth Lnu Jonathan McElroy Jesse L Coulter 1826 - 1913 Lavina Lnu 87 87 1853 Matilda A A Varner ~1857 John W T Varner ~1858 Daniel M Howard Varner ~1860 - ~1932 Sarah Ruth Varner 72 72 ~1864 Francis Varner 1915 - 1982 R A Floyd 67 67 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

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2  PLAC Social Security Number was 558-30-6258 Living Richey >1870 - ~1945 Marion McClelland Varner 75 75 Floyd Walter Floyd Hattie Floyd Living Floyd 1838 - 1919 William H. Floyd 81 81 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

William H. Floyd Served in Company F 22nd Tennessee Calvary C.S.A under Captain John Richardson.  It is said that he joined the army when he was14 years old.  He served 3 years and six months as a private.

He was injured while building a bridge at Bridgeport Alabama.  He was shot once in the foot and once in the leg and later drew a disability pension from the State of Texas #4526.

1870 (219)  Van Zandt County Census and 1880 (313) Wood County Censuses  have William Floyd living there. 1841 - 1921 Mary Elizabeth Tyson 80 80 Walter Floyd Betty Taylor 1781 - 1847 Susan Strother 66 66 Living Richey 1803 - 1877 Joseph Benjamin Ingram 73 73 1805 - 1889 Wincy C. Ingram 83 83 1815 - 1880 Jeremiah Ingram 65 65 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Book:  Montgomery County Heritage North Carolina
Article:  The Ingram Family #558
Written by:  Winnie Ingram Richter
page: 252

Jeremiah, son of William Pines and Susan Strother, was born 14 Feb 1815 and died 9 Dec 1880 .  In 1838 Jeremiah married Mary (Polly) Crump, born 25 Aug 1816, died Aug 12, 1892.  She was the daughter of Stephen and Sarah Easley Crump.  They were the parents of six boys and two girls. 1819 - 1882 Benjamin F. Ingram 63 63 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Moved to Eastern Texas before the War Between the States. Eben D. Ingram Catherine Ingram Parr Julia Ingram M. W. Burroughs Clementine Ingram Living Richey William Pines Ingram Jr. Susan Ingram John Ingram [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

The Ingrams immigrated to this country from Wales, and are known to have been in Northumberlan d County, Virginia, before the middle of the seventeenth century.  Four generations later Jose ph Ingram (1744-1828)settled in Anson County, North Carolina.  He was born in Culpepper County , Virgina, the son of John Ingram and Hannah Pines; tradition says that seven of John Ingram 's sons served in the American Revolution,and of these Joseph was one.

1790 Anson Co.,NC Fayette Census               1790  Census North Carolina
               Anson County                 Fayette district

       1st #      free white males 16 year upwards and head of families
       2nd #     free white males under 16 years
       3rd #      free white   females and head of families
       4th #      all other free persons
  `    5th #      slaves

Lampden, Robert...............................1-0-2-0-0
Arthur, John......................................1-3-3-0-0
Searcy, William.................................2-0-2-0-0
Wood, William...................................1-3-2-0-0
Denson, Shadrack..............................1-0-0-0-0
Denson, Jesse...................................1-0-0-0-0
Nayes, & Porter, Mess'rs....................6-0-0-0-2
Ponsey, Godfrey................................1-0-1-0-0
Barnwell, Joseph...............................1-0-0-0-0
Gilbert, Jesse....................................2-2-5-0-6
Yarborough, Humphrey.......................1-1-1-0-0
Yarborough, William...........................1-0-0-0-0
Allman, James...................................3-3-6-0-0
Williams, John...................................2-2-5-0-0
Treddiway, Daniel..............................1-3-4-0-0
Bloodworth, John...............................4-2-3-0-0
Bass, Frederick.................................3-2-3-0-0
Lee, William......................................1-2-2-0-0
Dudney, John....................................1-2-4-0-0
Bylue, Henry.....................................1-3-5-0-0
Soward, Nancy..................................0-1-4-0-0
Stinson, Mary....................................1-2-4-0-0
Proctor, Linney..................................0-2-6-0-0
Jones, Honor.....................................0-2-2-0-0
Odom, Richard..................................1-0-2-0-9
Ricketts, John...................................2-3-3-0-0
Scott, Drury......................................0-0-0-4-0
Scott, Francis...................................0-0-0-1-0
Newton, John....................................2-1-2-0-0
Bailey, Jacob....................................1-0-1-0-0
Murphy, John....................................3-2-3-0-0
Benton, James..................................1-1-5-0-0
Johnston, John..................................1-6-4-0-0
Wade, Thomas..................................5-1-2-0-17
Wright, John jr...................................1-1-1-0-8
Bailey, Mathew.................................1-3-3-0-0
Bailey, Thomas.................................1-2-5-0-0
Arrington, James...............................2-5-2-0-0
Johnston, John jr...............................1-3-1-0-0
Ingram, John.....................................1-5-5-0-0
McRae, Daniel..................................1-3-4-0-0
Bylue, Abraham................................1-0-2-0-0
Duglas, James..................................1-1-1-0-8
German, Robert.................................2-2-2-0-0
Hall, Robert.......................................1-0-0-0-0
Stanfill, Sampson............................1-1-3-0-0
Dabbs, Josiah...................................1-0-3-0-0
May, William.....................................2-4-5-0-7
Threadgill, Randal..............................1-3-1-0-0
Sasser, Joseph.................................2-2-5-0-0
Childs, Elizabeth...............................1-0-2-0-5
Rogers, Job......................................3-1-3-0-0
Hilldreath, David................................1-3-3-0-0
Gould, Daniel....................................1-2-3-0-4
Dejarnet, Mumford(minors).................0-2-0-0-5
Kirby, William...................................1-2-3-0-7
Hinson, John....................................3-3-5-0-3
Boggan, Patrick................................1-2-8-0-7
Lanler, William..................................1-1-2-0-10
Covington, Simon...............................1-1-1-0-0
Johnston, William..............................3-6-6-0-0
Duncan, John....................................2-2-3-0-0
Gordon, Frederick..............................2-2-2-0-1
May, Lewis.......................................1-1-1-0-3
Taylor, Charles..................................2-1-4-0-0
Lindsey, George................................2-2-4-0-1
Candell, Elizabeth..............................1-0-1-0-0
Clinton, Thomas................................1-0-1-0-5
Tarlton, Thomas.................................1-2-2-0-0
Pace, Stephen..................................2-3-5-0-8
Threadgill, John.................................1-5-4-0-0
Lanier, Isaac.....................................1-0-1-0-7
Gathings, Philip................................3-3-3-0-1
Farr, Richard jr..................................1-0-1-0-0
Rushing, William...............................1-4-1-0-0
Hammonds, George..........................1-4-2-0-9
Crawford, Michael..............................2-4-4-0-12
May, William [carpenter]....................1-3-2-0-8

       1st #      free white males 16 year upwards and head of families
       2nd #     free white males under 16 years
       3rd #      free white   females and head of families
       4th #      all other free persons
       5th #      slaves

May, William jr..................................1-1-2-0-0
Lanier, Burwell..................................2-1-5-0-28
McClendon, Ezekiel..........................1-4-3-0-0
Trull, Stephen....................................1-0-0-0-0
Williams, Josiah................................1-0-1-0-0
Bailey, Lydia.....................................2-2-1-0-0
Isgett, Joseph....................................1-5-3-0-0
McAskill, Daniel................................2-0-2-0-0
Franklin, Lawrence jr.........................1-0-1-0-0
Lisles, James...................................1-4-3-0-1
Gulledge, William..............................1-2-4-0-0
Bennet, Neavel..................................1-0-1-0-2
Morris, William..................................1-1-2-0-2
Smith, Edward..................................3-2-4-0-0
Diggs, Marshal..................................5-4-3-0-1
Kindred, Elisha.................................1-1-2-0-2
Ryal, John........................................1-0-0-0-1
Colson, Joseph.................................1-1-2-0-5
West, John.......................................2-3-2-0-0
Wynn, Zachariah...............................0-0-0-1-0
Garrot, James...................................1-0-0-0-0
Lewis, Jeremiah................................1-0-1-0-0
Booth, John......................................1-1-4-0-0
Bird, John.........................................1-3-5-0-6
Richeson, William.............................1-5-3-0-2
Dabbs, Nathaniel..............................2-3-3-0-1
Lewis, Thomas..................................1-4-7-0-3
Osborne, Nathan...............................1-0-3-0-0
Davis, Arthur.....................................1-4-6-0-0
Birmingham, Johua............................1-2-5-0-0
Birmingham, Charles.........................2-0-1-0-0
Ellis, Thomas....................................1-0-4-0-0
McClendon, Benjamin........................1-0-0-0-0
Knotts, John jr..................................1-1-2-0-0
Franklin, Laurence Sr.........................1-0-2-0-0
Wright, John.....................................1-0-2-0-0
Smith, John jr...................................1-1-2-0-0
Demery, Allen..................................0-0-0-7-0
Grissard, Hardy................................1-4-4-0-1
Smith, John Sr..................................2-4-2-0-0
White, Joseph..................................3-0-1-0-5
Burres, Joshua.................................1-4-4-0-3
Davis, Joshua...................................1-3-1-0-0
Brown, Morgan.................................4-1-2-1-5
Tarlton, Britton..................................1-0-1-0-0
Tarlton, John.....................................1-1-1-0-0
Knotts, John Sr.................................1-1-3-0-0
Lambden, Bixley, jr...........................2-1-2-0-0
Nash, Michael...................................2-1-3-0-0
Franklin, Esom.................................1-2-2-0-0
White, Henry....................................1-2-1-0-0
May, William (2nd)............................1-0-1-0-1
Lowe, William...................................1-1-2-0-0
White, George..................................1-1-2-0-0
Hill, John..........................................1-4-1-0-0
Baylor, John.....................................1-3-1-0-0
Ingram, Jesse...................................1-0-0-0-0
Ingram, John jr..................................1-1-4-0-0
Stanfill, John.....................................1-1-3-0-0
White, John......................................1-0-2-0-0
Dixon, John......................................1-1-2-0-0
Rushing, Robert................................2-4-4-0-0
Beachum, Jesse...............................1-0-2-0-0
Kirby, John.......................................1-0-5-0-17
Jackson, Isaac..................................1-1-3-0-2
Jackson, John...................................1-0-2-0-1
Hough, Hezekiah...............................5-0-5-0-6
Adams,  Zadock...............................1-0-0-0-0
White, Joseph..................................1-4-2-0-6
Colson, Mary....................................0-3-6-0-17
Howlet, Mary....................................2-1-5-0-0
Ross, Hugh......................................3-0-4-0-1
Ledbetter, Zedekiah...........................1-2-5-0-6
Rarliff, James....................................1-1-2-0-0
Ratliff, Rob't C.................................1-0-0-0-0
Bylue, John.......................................1-0-0-0-0
Long, Nancy.....................................0-0-1-0-0
Bass, Frederick jr.............................0-0-0-3-0
Ratliff, Zacharius...............................1-0-0-0-0
Jackson, Agnes................................1-0-5-0-0

       1st #      free white males 16 year upwards and head of families
       2nd #     free white males under 16 years
       3rd #      free white   females and head of families
       4th #      all other free persons
       5th #      slaves


Hinson, Benjamin..............................2-4-6-0-2
Weatherford, Charles.........................1-5-4-0-0
German, William...............................1-1-1-0-0
Lee, Robert......................................3-1-3-0-1
Ganade, Martin.................................1-2-1-0-6
Threadgill, William.............................1-1-2-0-7
Pursley, Anthony..............................1-3-1-0-0
Atkins, Lewis....................................1-1-5-0-0
Lowry, John......................................1-3-4-0-1
Diggs, Pleasant................................1-1-1-0-0
Bittle, John.......................................1-0-1-0-0
Tatum, Jesse....................................1-0-1-0-0
Plant, Williamson..............................1-1-3-0-0
Temple, Frederick.............................2-3-2-0-1
Mooreman, Benjamin........................1-3-1-0-1
Hinson, Charles................................1-0-1-00
Yarborough, James...........................1-1-3-0-0
Mills, John.......................................1-2-5-0-3
Boggan, James Sr.............................5-4-5-0-0
May, Starling....................................1-2-2-0-0
Nichols, Isaac..................................1-0-3-0-0
Lambden, John.................................1-2-4-0-0
Harrell, James..................................1-1-1-0-0
Davidson, Daniel...............................3-2-4-0-0
Ryal, James.....................................1-3-1-0-0
House, Thomas................................1-0-0-0-0
Brewer, John....................................1-0-3-0-0
Pound, Samuel.................................1-0-0-0-0
Baker, James...................................1-2-2-0-0
Falkner, Arch'd.................................1-0-2-0-0
Culpepper, John................................1-1-3-0-0
Dabbs, John.....................................1-2-2-0-0
Cox, William....................................1-2-2-0-0
Vivon, Charles..................................1-0-2-0-9
Wadkins, Christo'.............................3-1-2-0-1
Boggan, James jr.............................1-0-1-0-1
Wisdom, William..............................2-3-5-0-0
Breler, Elisha...................................1-1-2-0-0
Rushing, Abraham............................3-2-3-0-3
Sparks, Charles................................3-1-1-0-3
Watts, Malachis...............................1-1-5-0-6
Colson, John....................................1-0-1-0-9
Whitlow, Henry.................................1-0-1-0-0
White, John......................................1-0-0-0-0
Mullis, John......................................1-1-1-0-0
Winfield, Peter..................................1-1-4-0-4
Nash, Griffin......................................1-1-1-0-0
Presley, Elias...................................1-3-1-0-0
Rushing, Philip.................................1-3-3-0-0
Harrel, Zachariah..............................1-0-0-0-0
Hamer, Mary....................................3-1-4-0-5
Leonard, Jonas.................................1-0-1-0-0
Loyd, Edward...................................1-0-4-0-0
Griffin, David.....................................2-4-4-0-0
Williams, Roland...............................1-4-5-0-3
Hamer, Frances................................1-2-3-0-9
Melton, Jesse...................................1-0-0-0-0
Melton, John.....................................1-0-5-0-0
Huntly, Thomas Sr.............................2-0-7-0-0
Rushing, Philip jr...............................1-2-2-0-0
Medows, Thomas..............................3-4-4-0-0
Jackson, David..................................1-2-1-0-0
Wilson, Samuel................................2-2-0-0-3
Tison, Jehu......................................1-6-2-0-2
Gaddy, Thomas................................1-4-4-0-0
Dale, John........................................1-0-0-0-0
Ferrell, Charles.................................1-1-5-0-0
Hellems, Betty..................................0-0-1-0-0
Hellems, William...............................1-2-4-0-0
Hellems, John...................................1-0-2-0-0
Hellems, Tillman...............................1-3-2-0-0
Hellmans, David................................1-0-0-0-0
Hellems, Jacob.................................1-1-5-0-0
Head, Olive.......................................1-2-2-0-0
Beachum, William..............................2-1-3-0-1
Beachum, Susannah.........................1-0-2-0-0
Tompkins, Thomas............................1-0-1-0-0
Price, John.......................................1-0-1-0-0
Curtis, Elijah.....................................1-2-3-0-2
Madcalf, William...............................1-3-3-0-1

Transcribed by: Alice Ohlsson Tatum Frendlysky@@aol.com


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Back to Anson County NCGenweb Home Page Hannah Pines D. <1818 Jesse Ingram [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

This information is supplied by:
Marilyn Corley
104 Poinsettia Dr
Forest, MS 39074 in a letter dated August 05, 1988 ~1794 - 1850 Lemuel Ingram 56 56 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Information provided by:  Marilyn Corley, 104 Poinsettia Dr, Forest, MS39074 in a letter date d August 5, 1988.

WILL:  Located in Russell County, NC Lemuel (Husband)) Book 2, Page 14Book of Wills 1850-1873

Book:  "Ingram Family History" by Mary Ruth Stulta of 5800 Swarthmore College Park, Maryland 2 0740 Sophia Wood Billingsley John Billingsley Charity Ford 1813 - 1885 Samuel Pines 72 72 Living Richey 1816 - 1887 Benjamin Ingram 71 71 1818 - 1861 Charity Ann Ingram 42 42 1821 - 1878 Presley N Ingram 57 57 1823 - 1887 Winifred Nelms "Wincy" Ingram 64 64 Martin Pickett Myers 1824 - 1860 Sarah Jane Ingram 35 35 1827 - 1907 John Billingsley Ingram 79 79 Jemima Louise Watkins James Watkins Phoebe 1916 - 1999 Aileen Mitchell 83 83 Eleanor Covington Robert Covington Mary Hicks 1814 Phoebe D Ingram 1817 - 1848 Eliza Hawkins Ingram 31 31 1819 - 1883 Winifred Pines Ingram 63 63 John C Wadsworth 1826 - 1853 William R Ingram 26 26 1827 - 1912 Mary Hellen Ingram 84 84 John Watkins 1946 - 1968 Katherine Mary Kane Kane 22 22 1829 - 1893 Joseph Lemuel Ingram 64 64 Martha Young 1831 - 1863 Eben Nelms Ingram 32 32 1833 Jeremiah (James) Brown Ingram Sarah Smith 1835 - 1919 Sarah Jane Ingram 83 83 John W. Anderson 1838 - 1913 Thomas Coke Ingram 75 75 Jr. Dunlap George George Dunlap Living Kane Nancy Richardson 1810 - 1880 Benjamin Ingram Dunlap 69 69 1812 - 1897 Eliza Jane Dunlap 85 85 1815 - 1889 Joseph Fletcher Dunlap 74 74 Wincy Dunlap Matilda Wilkins Rebecca Allen [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Rebecca Allen info from 1812 War Pension Papers ~1817 - ~1849 Sarah Ingram 32 32 1820 - 1902 William Lemuel Ingram 82 82 Penelope Ingram Living Rucker Elizabeth Ingram Mary Ingram Thomas Ingram Martha Mariah Ingram Ann Waddell Eliza Ingram Wall 1826 - 1910 Thomas J Ingram 84 84 Arena C Funderburk [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Book:  East View Cemetery by Anson Historical Society:

She is buried section C.  There is a slight year difference in the death.  In the works received from the North Carolina archives, her death is shown as 1915, but the book on East View Cemetery states it as 1916. 1833 - 1898 Mary Ingram 64 64 Cameron Morrison Kane Uriah Staton 1836 - 1909 William Alexander Ingram 73 73 1842 - 1905 Edward Benjamin Ingram 62 62 D. 1918 Presley Ingram Jennie Ingram Sr. Ingram James Young Allen Abner Ely Louis Smith Jr. Pickett Martin Living Kane Martin Pickett Raiford 1832 - 1888 Martha F Pickett 56 56 1834 - 1904 W M Pickett 70 70 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Book:  East View Cemetery by Anson county Historical Society:

He is buried in section O along with his wife Mary J.   He was an attorney at law, a member of both House and State Legislature of NC, and a Col in the War between the States.  This data is located on page 11 of section O. 1837 - 1884 Mary J. 47 47 1816 - 1892 Mary Crump 75 75 Stephen Crump Sarah Easley 1837 - 1919 Nancy Ingram 82 82 1839 - 1920 William Stevens Ingram 81 81 Living Floyd Living Rucker 1850 - 1936 James Atlas Ingram 85 85 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

James Atlas, born 9 Aug 1850 died 6 Mar 1936, was the youngest son of Jeremiah and Polly Crump Ingram.

When the war between the North and South was raging, James was a young boy of eleven years.  He often told his friends of an incident of a time when a Yankee appeared in the yard and James began firing his gun and the Yankee left hurriedly without searching the premises.

In 1869 James west to Missouri with a friend, Thomas Threadgill.  A Yankee came to their room and started an argument about the War. Threadgill told James to raise the window and throw the "damn Yankee"out.  The Yankee didn't wait to be thrown out - he left hurriedly.  James stayed in Missouri four years before returning to his parents home in Anson County, North Carolina .

James went to Richmond County to visit his brother, Eben, who lived at the Grassy Islands.  There was good farming land and James decided he would stay and become a farmer.  There was a small house by the road near the creek where he lived for three years.  While living there he met the daughter of Frank and Elizabeth Bruton Baldwin.

James Atlas Ingram and Emma Ella Baldwin were married November 7, 1877. They lived at Grassy Island a few years after their first child was born.  In the summer the low land became infested with mosquitoes and they would move to the house on the mountain.

When they expected their second child, they moved to Mountain Creek in Black Jack Township.  Their house was small and as the family grew, four rooms were added.

Several years later he bought many acres of land in the surrounding area.  Cotton, corn, wheat and all kinds of vegetables were grown. Horses, cows, pigs, chickens, and ducks were raised , and a farm could not be without dogs and cats.  There was a big barn where feed for the stock was stored; this was the horses and mule barn.  There was a special barn for the cows and stalls to put them in for milking.

On the river there was a mill which was powered by an overshop waterwheel.  Corn was ground d for meal and feed for the animals.  In front of the house was a commissary stocked with staples for the family and the people who worked on the farm.  There was a blacksmith shop where shoes were made for the horses and mules and farm tools were repaired. 1853 - 1854 Mary B Ingram 1 1 Polly Ingram Eben N. Ingram Joseph Ingram George Ingram Martha Wall 1849 - 1921 James Alston Ingram 72 72 1853 - 1878 Edwin Wall Ingram 24 24 William Thomas Ingram 1886 - 1970 Icy Newcomb 84 84 D. 1921 Stephen Ingram [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

he had three sons and three daughters Lena Butterworth Joseph E. Ingram Benjamin Ingram Effie Muler Robert Ingram Susan Ingram Charles Davis Henrietta Ingram George A Davidson Living Jaerger Woodson Crump Living Crump Living Crump Living Crump Living Crump Living Crump Rebecca Scott Robert Scott Pittman 1842 Ann S Ingram 1843 - 1921 John D. Bell 78 78 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

John D Bell was engaged in farming.  He owned 78+117 acres in Section 5,Washington Township , Monroe County; this information was taken from pages126 and 128.  He also owned 80 acres in Section 35.  Taken from Caldwell's Atlas of Monroe County, Ohio 1898 call# G1398, M6C3, 189 8aORR at the Rutherford B Hayes Library, Fremont, Ohio published by Atlas Publishing Company , Mt Vernon, Ohio.

John D. Bell served in the 2st Tennessee Infantry (Prov), CSA during the Civil War under Gen Braxton Bragg in Company F and was a Captain. Rodgers 1844 - 1862 Robert L Ingram 17 17 1846 - 1926 Samuel Pines 80 80 1849 - 1933 William Presley Ingram 83 83 Mary N. Owens 1850 - 1854 B R Ingram 3 3 1853 - 1921 Thomas J Ingram 67 67 1855 Sallie Ingram 1857 - 1861 Albert Ingram 4 4 1860 - 1913 Wilma Myrtle Ingram 53 53 Lucy Varner Nancy Jane Bennett William Bennett Susannah Dunn 1842 - 1842 William Lemuel Ingram 3m 3m 1844 - 1864 Eben Presly Ingram 20 20 1846 - 1902 Thomas Jeremiah Ingram 56 56 1852 - 1900 Charles Nelms Ingram 48 48 Risden H. Bennett William Bennett Susannah Dunn 1852 - 1932 James Alexander Graham Bell 80 80 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

James Alexander Bell homesteaded his farm and later donated a corner of his land for the first Pleasant Ridge School.

When Grandfather Bell died he left his three older children 80 acres each.  Aunt Gladys received 80 acres and the old homestead north of Newton Allens farm.  His two younger children recei ved 120 acres. His big house near Council Grove was sold and still stands today. 1836 - 1920 Eugenia Bennett 84 84 1838 - 1917 Pressley Lemuel Bennett 79 79 1844 Wincy Sophia Bennett 1846 Wincy L Bennett 1850 - 1943 Roland Risden Bennett 92 92 Maticia Orathy Parker 1862 Lottie Sophia Ingram 1870 John Lemuel Ingram 1874 Cora Cornelia Ingram 1844 - 1933 Mary France Horne 88 88 1861 - 1927 Mary Lucy Varner 66 66 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Mary Lucy Varner was one of the first teachers in District 58, Pleasant Ridge, Morris County .  The school was located at SE34-T14-R8E.  The school opened in 1881 and closed in 1950.  Sadie Farbridge was the first teacher.  The Pleasant Ridge Church is Latitude: 38.4658 N Longitude :096.3005 W.

She was 18 years old when she came with her parents to Parkerville Kansas in 1879. Joel Horne Elizabeth Baldwin 1867 - 1867 Anna Sophia Ingram 4m 4m [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Anna is buried in the Horne Family Cemetery located on the Virginia Horne Farm, Stanback Ferry Road, 9 miles from Wadesboro, Anson, NC. 1869 - 1963 Elizabeth Lilla Ingram 93 93 1877 - 1963 Mary Belle Ingram 85 85 1879 Mary F Ingram Elizabeth Little William Little Elizabeth Steele 1839 - 1875 Annie Elizabeth Stanback 36 36 1884 - 1888 Joseph Trim Bell 4 4 1841 - 1919 Mary Jennings Stanback 78 78 Henry Wall Ledbetter 1842 - 1864 George Stanback 22 22 1843 - 1876 Charlotte Elanor Stanback 32 32 John M. Ross 1845 - 1864 William Little Stanback 19 19 1847 - 1914 Thomas Francis Stanback 66 66 1849 - 1923 Presley N 73 73 1851 - 1851 Walter Phillips Stanback 6m 6m 1852 - 1927 Jeremiah Franklin Stanback 74 74 1841 - 1929 Richard Ellis Varner 88 88 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Grandpa Varner was a carpenter by trade and lived in Parkerville, Kansas.

He appeared on the census in 1900 in Parker TWP, Morris County, Kansas.

4/17/99 - Interview with Ed Hurt Long Time Citizen of Parkerville, KS -Now 80 Years Old.

Mr. Hurt said he remembers both Joe and "Dicky" Varner.   Joe ran the livery stable and seemed d to be very personable.  Dicky however, was somewhat of a recluse.  He remembers when he was young, coming home from school one day and tying his horse up to the post in front of "Dicky' s"house.  "Dicky" came out and told him to take the horse away and never tie it there again.

Mr. Hurt said that a couple from California purchased the "Dicky" Varner house and has redone it.  They have put a lot of work in it he said.

He also said that a man from Wichita came in and purchased to old Joe Varner land and stable .  Wanted to take the rock blocks and move them to Wichita to build a house.   He had the livery stable torn down, but when he found out how much it would cost to move the blocks, he left them piled on the ground where they still remain.

Joe Varner's house is boarded up and has been taken by the State for back taxes.

AFN VHMM-H# 1854 - 1855 John Little Stanback 9m 9m 1856 - 1927 Charles Stanback 70 70 1859 - 1940 Judith Steel Stanback 81 81 Abner Y Howell 1820 - 1863 Thomas J Howell 43 43 1831 - 1863 Samuel P Howell 32 32 1835 Presley Nelms Howell 1837 William Rufus Howell 1840 Brackett Owen Howell 1840 Winifred Eugenia Howell 1871 - 1961 Frank Dilley Allen 89 89 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Was the rural mail carrier in Seibert, Colorado until he retired. 1843 Eliza N Howell Espie Howlett 1845 Rebecca Helen Howell 1849 Margaret A "Maggie" Howell 1852 Emma Dean Howell 1855 J Alice Howell Henry A Covington Thomas W Covington Mary Ellen Covington Louise J Covington 1879 - 1952 Walter Wirt Sibley 72 72 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

1  _FA1
2  DATE 15 OCT 1919
2  PLAC Walter was ordained a Baptist minister at Elm Mott Baptist Church.


Walter was a baptist minister in Texas.  He was considered a very strict,regimented father .  He was also known to be very vain and believed himself to be very much the ladies man. 1870 - 1937 Harriett Elizabeth Allen 67 67 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Harriett died of a heart attack

She was trained as a nurse and also taught school.

Their wedding was very large and the other girls said it was so much work they didn't want one like it. Alex Winburn Eliza H Covington F M Emery 1826 - 1853 William R Ingram 26 26 Laura Liles 1852 Therodora Dimock Ingram 1838 - 1913 Thomas Coke Ingram 75 75 Louise Robinson Alexander Susan McPherson 1871 Theo Dora Ingram 1876 - 1964 Mildred Jane (Armilda) Allen 87 87 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Mildred Jane received grade school education in Morris county, KS. and attended State Teachers College at Emporia.  Taught several terms of rural school in Morris County.  First home after marriage was a farm on Slough Creek between Kelso and Council Grove, KS. In 1908, Edmund, Mildred with Allen and Wilma homesteaded near Siebert, Colorado.  Lived 14 months in a one room sod house which they built with sod plowed from the 160 acre homestead.  Moved to a farm five miles west of Council Grove for several years then into Council grove and in 1920 to Santa Paula, California for one year.  Moved to Manhattan, KS in 1921. Howell Taylor 1874 Sarah Eleanor "Essie" Ingram 1876 Tommie Ingram 1879 Bessie Ingram J W Stringer 1883 Joe L Ingram Susan Isabelle Ingram Eliza Ann Crump Stephen Crump Sarah Easley 1883 - 1966 Ethan Lee Allen 83 83 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Ethan died of a stroke. 1837 Stephen T Dunlap 1839 John Jennings 1841 George T 1844 Agnes C Dunlap 1847 David Richardson Dunlap 1849 James A Dunlap 1853 Hannah Pines Dunlap Christopher Watkins 1837 Araninta Jane Watkins 1842 Winifred Watkins 1867 - 1931 Dr. William T (Doc) Harvey 64 64 Louise Watkins Martha Burroughs Bryan Burroughs Sarah P Dunlap 1838 George Bryan Dunlap 1839 Winifred Dunlap Columbus A Abercrombie Young C Allen JamesTyson 1848 William A. Tyson 1875 - 1943 Edmund J Hotchkiss 68 68 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Edmund was one of the first homesteaders in Eastern Colorado near Seibert.
Edmund died from ulcers. Laura Josephine Barnhardt Jacob Barnhardt Jane Melchor 1880 Rena Ingram Ella Jane Ellerbe John Ellerbe Mary Strother Minnie Ingram Post S P Waddell 1903 - 1995 Ellouise Allen 91 91 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Died of a heart problem Living Waddell Living Waddell Jr. Ingram James Kitty Ingram Eugenia Ingram Minnie Ingram Thomas Waddell Kendall John Kendall Winifred Turner 1848 Robert A Kendall Living L. Hildebrecht 1849 Infant Male Kendall 1854 Mary Albert Kendall 1864 William Powell Kendall 1868 A Pickett Kendall P A Grimsley Archibald Caraway Benton Maud Benton Infant Female Benton William A Benton James A Benton 1882 - 1967 Charles Edward Bell 85 85 Rena Benton 1864 Mary Elizabeth Benton Frances Catherine Barringer 1865 Lillie G Ingram 1867 Sarah Elizabeth Ingram 1869 Mary Stevens Ingram Martha Frances Ingram William Franklin McAulay 1874 Jennie Alice Ingram Charles Robadean Crocker Living Osborne Robert Klutz 1876 Edmund Jerry Ingram 1880 William Franklin Ingram Emma Ella Baldwin Frankie Lentz Frank Baldwin Elizabeth Bruton 1879 Edgar Eugene Ingram 1885 William Steven Ingram 1883 Jerry Franklin Ingram 1866 Hulda Riggs Bessie Ingram Jennie Ingram 1881 Dora Bayne Ingram Winnie Ingram Harry Arichter Susie Ingram Living Ingram Clarence W Kirk Living Ingram Living Ingram 1882 - 1946 Mable Alice Waggoner 64 64 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Mabel died of a liver disorder in 1946.  It is believed that she had liver cancer, however, Walter would not allow an autopsy, so the exact cause of her death is uncertain. Living Osborne Fannie Biggers 1862 Sallie L Ingram 1865 Jerry Addison Ingram 1866 Stephen Benton Ingram Will Ingram Helen Porter Mellie Secrest 1875 Cora Virginia Ingram 1876 James Benjamin Ingram 1878 Jeremiah Long Ingram Living Overacre 1879 Martha Beulah Ingram 1881 Willie B Ingram 1883 Eliza Bell Ingram 1885 Henrietta Ingram 1887 Mary Eva Ingram 1890 Alma George Ingram Escar Ross Kate Byrd 1890 James Eben Ingram Sidney Ingram Living Osborne Wade C Wade C Scott McCrary Jim Burrow Hennie McCrary Wilma "Girlie" McCrary Perry Boyce Ingram McCrary Emily D Carruthers Katherine McCrary D. 1893 Robert Dodds [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Robert Dodds was a farmer who was born in Ireland Found in Vol 2 #1285 p. 42 Washington County Probate Death Records. Mary Effie Wall Mial Wall Margaret McEachin Mary Anna Gamble Samuel Gamble Frances McCorkle 1892 Benjamin Wall Ingram 1893 Margaret Eachin Ingram 1894 Thomas Jeremiah II Ingram 1897 William Lemuel Living Osborne 1899 Charles Nelms Ingram Alberta McCorkle Matthew McCorkle Martha Wilfong 1899 Anna Locke Ingram John Edwin John Hill Elizabeth 1866 Elizabeth Ann Hill 1869 Henry Pines Hill Bell 1872 Benjamin Risden 1874 John Edwin Chapman III Hill Laura Bowman 1876 - 1935 William White Bennett 58 58 1881 - 1969 Ethel Dunlap 87 87 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

SS # 239-62-0511 1876 Harriett Bennett Ann Stewart Living Minch Living Minch Living Hussey Living Debbie Living Brunnemer ~1718 - 1816 William H. Talley 98 98 Rachel Grief Frederick Talley Elizabeth Wood Russell [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

U S Land Record Bk 70 #982:  Jame Johnson and one older James Johnson m. ? Russell (sister of Jane Russell Talley wife of Joseph Talley) on Meherrin River in Lunenburg/Mecklenburg County, VA 1770. John Wesley Russell Russell John Talley Anna William Talley Living Shimon Larkin Talley Lodwick Talley Peyton Talley 1827 Mary Ann Byers Garrett Byers Nancy Mann Josie Cole John Thomas Coon Alma Young Jennie Smith 1840 - 1914 Elizabeth Abagail Dye 74 74 Burt Hawkes Bill ? Della Schwenitzer (Swienger) Elmer M. Ford Lancelot Coffland Eliza Beckett 1857 Rachel Ann Johnson Malinda Elma Varner Laurinda Latham John Loper Living Osborne Gerlaw Cerne D. 1908 James Webster [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

James was a spinner by occupation.  In about 1868, Eliza and James migrated to Warren County , Illinois. 1851 John Webster 1854 Joseph Webster 1856 William Allen Webster Edith May Unknown 1858 - 1932 Samuel Nelson Webster 74 74 Lida Giles 1860 - 1935 Sarah Jane Webster 75 75 Frank Terrey Living Sibley 1840 - 1903 Christina Bell 63 63 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Page 67 Volume V Monroe County, Ohio Genealogical Records, 1967, Marietta Register:

Thursday, May 16, 1872 - Married John M. Turinem of Monroe County to Christina Bell of Washing ton County on May 9, 1872 1863 - 1937 Ella May Webster 74 74 William M. Haynes 1868 - 1956 Mary Katherine Webster 88 88 Thompson Mary Bell Mollie Larson Mary F. Pangle John S. Coffland Julia Ann Stewart 1880 Harley Coffland Living Osborne Albert Thomas Julia B Stewart Laura L. Stephens William Cress Jane P Cumming 1866 John Alvin Varner 1867 George Nelson Varner 1870 - 1950 Sylvester Elsworth Varner 80 80 1872 - 1950 Clarence Coltson Varner 77 77 1875 - 1944 William Arthur Varner 69 69 1889 - 1980 Glen Alexander Bell 91 91 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Married late in life and had no children.

The Later Years of Glen Bell as told by James Collier 3/99

Glen Bell had been an alcoholic for many years.  So much so that he let his home slowly disintegrate to the point of being unlivable.  So Glen moved into East Council Grove into a little apartment.  One night late James Collier received a call from the Council Grove Police to come down to the Police Station where they were holding Glen.  Apparently for no apparent reason , Glen had decided to run around the streets of Council Grove in the nude.  It was suggested by the Police that Glen be committed to the State Hospital for proper care.  James and one of his Uncles went to Glen's apartment to see if they could find clothes or money for him. They searched every inch of his apartment and found Glen to be totally broke - not even a dime in the place.

Since family had to commit individuals in those days, the Police asked Ada May Bell Allen to sign the papers to have Glen committed - something Glen never forgave her for in his later years.

James Collier began working Glen's land and deposited a percentage of the earnings into an account for Glen so that if he got out of the hospital he would at least have some money.

While in the hospital, however, Glen met Anna.  They apparently fell in love and one day while having one of their day excursions they escaped and ran off and got married.  Since the nearest of kin has to sign the papers to keep you committed, and since Glen and Anna were now then nearest of kin to each other, they signed themselves out of the hospital.

Some time later, Glen decided to sell his property.  His alcoholic ways had not changed.  The person who was buying the property tried to get it for a song, so James Collier took him to court to try and get fair market value for Glen.  The courts ruled in James favor and gave Glen fair market value.  All in all by this time Glen was worth about $80,000.00.  Unfortunately, Glen was furious with James for interfering and decided to cut all his relatives out of his will.

He and Anna went down and had a new will made up that left all of his money to her bastard son in the Netherlands.

After Glen's death, the family urged James to go to court to contest the will for they felt he was due a good share since he had made it all possible for Glen.  Although the family did w n, what they received only paid the attorney's fees and gave them about $20.00 each. 1877 Grace Yourt 1896 Ralph N. Varner 1898 Letha May Varner Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner 1892 Gladys Abagail Bell Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner Daisy Bass 1896 - 1986 Archibald Sylvester Varner 90 90 1898 Lewis Raymond Varner Living Varner 1898 - 1982 Anna Belle Brewer 84 84 Living Varner Living Varner 1895 - 1956 Una Campseydelle Bell 60 60 Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner Living Swaggart Living Fritz Living George Living Berg Living Compton E D Compton Living Richie 1891 - 1918 Major Bell 27 27 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Major was his name, not his rank. Living Richie Living Richie Living Richie Living Richie Living Richie Living Richie 1896 - 1948 Alma Henrietta Barnett 52 52 James Barnett Dicy Caldonia Bostick Living Varner 1906 - 1996 Tina Beulah Bell 90 90 Living Barnett Living Barnett Living Colvin John Wesley Colvin Living Taylor Living Colvin Living Colvin Living Colvin Living Blake Living Blake 1890 - 1973 Stella Heath 82 82 Living Coleman Living Colvin Living Colvin Living Colvin Living Colvin Living Raines Living Colvin Living Colvin Living Hooker Living Hooker 1881 - 1964 Claudia Carr 82 82 Living DeVasier Living Colvin Living Colvin Living Colvin Living Webster Living Webster Living Hankins Living Colvin Living Colvin Living Varner 1878 - 1958 Martha Louella Allen 80 80 1925 - 1975 Mary Ann Elizabeth Mangold 49 49 George Athel Mangold Living Dye Living Varner Living Bradford Living Slater Living Slater Living Wilson Living Slater Living Varner 1908 - 1978 Earl Elbert Sibley 70 70 1873 - 1960 Edward James Mayos 87 87 Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner 1880 - 1972 Anna Bydrsley Allen 91 91 Living Aldridge Thomas Jerry Aldridge Mary Susan Adams Living Varner Living Harrison Living Harrison Living King Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner 1883 - 1943 Carl W. Nelson 59 59 1916 - 1992 Herman Smith 75 75 Tom Smith Tenessee Graham Living Smith Living Smith Living Smith Living Smith 1922 - 1988 Ancil Dee Varner 66 66 Living Morries James Arthur Morries 1835 - 1923 John Lee Allen 87 87 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

He was 87 when he died.

He was a Civil War veteran who served as a Corporal in Company K, Fifth Regiment, West Virginia infantry, from November 6, 1861 through November 23, 1864.  Later he was promoted to Sergeant.  He became sick with typhoid fever at Sperryville, VA

He was a member of Wadsworth Post, No 7, Department of Kansas, Grand Army of the Republic.

John and Charity Allen lived on Litte Ice Creek, Ironton, Ohio for the first years of their marriage.  All 8 children were born in that location.  The family came to Kansas in December 1884.  The trip was made to Cincinnati, Ohio by river boat, then by train to Parkerville, Kansas. It took three days and nights to make the trip by train.  Harriet Dilley Stivers, a sister of Charity lived at Parkerville, a small town a few miles north of Council Grove, Kansas.  Here the family of ten lived in two rooms over the post office for several months before moving to a farm owned by Harriet Stivers.  Here they had three rooms and a kitchen roof that leaked.  On November 28, 1886 William died of typhoid fever.Several other children had the disease but recovered.  In the spring o f1904 the family moved to Council Grove (See obituary of John L. Allen and his Civil War records).

Cemetery lot for John L. Allen and Charity Ella Allen as listed above,purchased October 1917 , W F Shamleffer, Mayor, H W Craven, City Clerk.Recorded in book 29 of Deeds, page 444.

Title: Early memoirs : an interesting narrative of bygone days.
Author:
Allen, John L.
Other Information:
Publisher: Ironton Register.
Description: p. ; cm.
Location:
MAIN LIBRARY.... Hamner NonFic * REF 977.188 Al

COPIED FROM THE CIVIL WAR RECORD OF JOHN LEE ALLEN


Enlisted from Lawrence County, Ohio, on the 6th day of November, 1861, to serve three years or during the war, and was mustered into the United States service at Gauley Bridges, W. Va., as a private of Captain Alfred F. Cumpston's Company "K", Fifth Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Colonel John L. Ziegler commanding.

The regiment was organized at Ceredo, Virginia, in July and August, 1861,and mustered into service October 18, 1861.  Its first service was scouting in the Kanawha Valley, protecting the lines and property of loyal citizens, and driving out the rebels recruiting for the Confederate Army.  December 10, it was ordered to Parkersburg, Va., whence most of the regiment was sent to New Creek, Va., and in February 1862 joined the Brigade of Colonel Dunning on his expedition against Harness at Moorefield.  April 2, 1862 it left New Creek, and marched in Schenk's Brigade to McDowell, Va., joined Milroy's command May 7th, and fought the advance of Jackson's a Army at McDowell on the 8th, after which the regiment was assigned to Milroy's Brigade.  May 25 , 1862, under Freemont,it was ordered to the Shenandoah Valley, and participated in Freemont's operation against Jackson, the pursuit up the valley, and battle of Cross Keys, Va., June 8 , 1862.  It was transferred under Sigel to the Army of Virginia, July 10th, and participated i n Pope's campaign in Virginia,including battles of Cedar Mountain, Rappahannock Station, Free man'sFord, Sulphur Springs, Waterloo Bridge, and Second Bull Run, VA. Returned to Western Virginia in October 1862, and remained in the Kanawha Valley engaged in outpost and scout duty until May, 1864, then participated in Crook's Expedition to the Virginia and Tennessee Railroads , and in his advance to Staunton where the command joined Hunter's army, and took part in Hunter's raid on Lynchburg, and battle of Lynchburg, June 18, 1864, marching over the mountains, to the Kanawha, returning to the Shenandoah Valley with Hunter's command, and assigned to Duval's Brigade of the army of West Virginia, under General Crook, later Sheridan and bore a foremost part in the following battles, viz.:Kernston, Halltown, Berryville, Opequan or Winchester , Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek and numerous skirmishes.  November 9, 1864, consolidated with the 9th W. Va. Infantry and designated the 1st Regiment West Virginia Veteran Infantry, under Colonel  I. H. Duval.  It was assigned to Hayes(1st) Brigade, Duval's (2nd) Division, Crook 's Department of W. Va., and remained on duty in the Shenandoah Valley until July 21, 1865, then mustered out.

The said John L. Allen was promoted to Corporal and to Sergeant of his company.  He was taken sick with typhoid fever at Sperryville, Va., then moved to hospital at Culpepper C.H., Va., his illness lasting about six weeks.  At all other times he was with his command during its service as outlined above, until his term expired, bore a gallant part in all its engagements, an d rendered faithful and meritorious service.  He was mustered out at Wheeling, W. Va., on the 6th of November 1864 by reason of expiration of term of service.

He is the son of William Allen and Lucretia Alford-Allen, and was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, on the 5th of November 1835.  He was united in marriage to Charity E. Dilley, in Lawrence C County, Ohio, on the 10th of December 1867, from which union were born eight children.  The seven living are Harriet E., Frank D., Mildred J., Albert Newton, Mattie L.,Byrdsley, and Ethan L .

He is a member of Wadsworth Post, No. 7, Department of Kansas, Grand Army of the Republic.  His wife is an active and honored member of Wadsworth Corps, No. 72, W.R.C.

Mrs. Allen's brother, Albert Dilley, served in the 91st Ohio.  These facts are thus recorded and preserved for the benefit of all those who may be interested.

The pension certificate is No. 533711.

This article has been copied from the record given to John L. Allen by the SOLDIERS AND SAILOR S HISTORICAL AND BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.  Done at Washington, D.C. this 4th day of June, A.D. 1907 and signed by M.Wallingsford (Historian) No. 62403. Living Apperson Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner 1904 - 1985 Albert Befort 80 80 Living McCain Living McCain Living Shelton Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner 1889 - 1937 Edna Ray Bowman 48 48 Elmer Bowman Mary Elizabeth Lamar 1841 - 1927 Charity Ella Dilley 85 85 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Schoolteacher and educator, she came from a wealthy family.  She was a great bible student .  She began teaching at age 18 with a salary of $18/month.  She taught for 8 years.

Moved to Parkerville Kansas in 1894.  Lived in Parkerville in 1899, when she returned to visit t her ailing mother.  John and Charity were living with Abner in 1901.  Lived in Lawrence Cou nty, Ohio in 1902 & 1903.  All of Charity's siblings preceded her in death, except for broth er A N Dilley who is said to have stolen all of Charity's inheritance from Abner.  It is sai d that Charity always told her children they had an Uncle but that they were never to speak t o him, presumably because of the theft. 1906 - 1968 Everett Elsworth Varner 62 62 1909 - 1975 Leonard Coltson Varner 66 66 1912 - 1991 Evelyn Margaret Varner 79 79 1916 - 1977 Imogene Marie Varner 61 61 1917 - 1973 Delmar Wayne Varner 56 56 1876 Clara A Bardwell Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner Edmund Hotchkiss Living Varner Davis Fitzgarrald Elnor Henry 1868 - 1916 Elsie Miller 47 47 Jacob B Miller Sadie Albaugh Marion E Phillips 1890 - 1949 Allis Oldfield 58 58 William Henry Oldfield Sarah Twigg Living Hotchkiss 1896 - 1947 Lucille Varner 51 51 1898 - 1941 Howard Oldfield Varner 42 42 Living Varner 1914 - 1981 Doyle Ancil Varner 67 67 1892 - 1969 Harry Leslie Wilson 77 77 Living Wilson 1920 - 1974 David Elmer Wilson 54 54 Living Wilson Living Johnson Living Johnson 1902 - 1969 Allen Gerald Hotchkiss 67 67 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Allen died of Parkinson's Disease Living Trask Living Varner Living Varner 1903 - 1966 Orman Allen Hancock 63 63 John Hancock Addie Peal Living Hancock Living Hancock Living Hancock Living Wilson 1906 - 1978 Reginald Carr Allen 72 72 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Reginald died of multiple sclerosis and alcohol.

Reginald served in European area during WWII.  Died in veteran's hospital, Denver, CO - buried d in National Cemetery , Ft Logan, Colorado. Oliver Wilson Beulah Harkins Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner 1871 - 1969 Walter Scott Oldfield 97 97 1896 - 1972 Mary Elsie Oldfield 75 75 1892 - 1968 Lloyd Emery Blanpied 75 75 Living Blanpied 1900 - 1970 Lloyd William Blanpied 70 70 Living Kane 1910 - 1991 Robert Alton Sibley 80 80 1908 - 1993 Virginia Allen 84 84 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Virginia died of cancer. William Henry Oldfield Sarah Twigg 1876 - 1950 Blanche Ethel Klumph 73 73 Alonzo Klumph Martha Ann Slaeight 1902 - 1987 Mabel Lucille Varner 84 84 1904 - 1982 William Henry Varner 77 77 1909 - 1969 Arthur Edward Varner 60 60 Living Varner 1913 - 1989 June O'Beirne Bupp 76 76 Living Johnson Edmond Bupp Luoella O'Beirne Living Varner Living Varner Edwin Ralph Puckett Living Puckett 1889 - 1960 Mate Westermark 71 71 F Westermark Cecelia Jonathan Jones Living Bybee Catherine Milage William Dallas Jones William Dallas Jones Amanda Priest Hiram Jones William Reilly Jones Daniel Jones Abbigail Halloway George Comstock Harry Courtright Living Bybee Abe Smith Miss Besson Pearl May Shaffer 1909 - 1982 Viola Varner 73 73 Living Green Living Green Living Green Living Varner Living Varner Living Varner Living Bybee Living Varner Living Varner John A Baker Susan Farley John Blevins Andrew Winkler John Milton Snorf 1881 Arlie Franklin Snorf 1883 Milton Earl Snorf Inez May Snorf Living Bybee John Ridgeway Living Ridgeway Living Ridgeway Living Ridgeway Albert Torrey Effie Delia Torrey Mary Alvira Torrey Vesta Frances Torrey Orville E Torrey John A Lamb 1919 - 1978 Elinor Burgger 58 58 John H Cook Nellie J McNary Emma Lerlie John A Baker Susie Farley 1871 - 1938 Harriet Pollock 67 67 Alexander Pollock Orpha Van Note 1889 - 1947 Clara Ethyl Baker Baker 58 58 1890 - 1891 Cora L Baker 9m 9m Living Whitehill 1892 - 1973 Howard Vincent Baker 80 80 1894 - 1904 Orpha Amelia Baker 9 9 1896 - 1982 Sylvia R Baker 86 86 1900 - 1992 Russell Pollock Baker 92 92 Living Baker 1908 - 1989 Lewis Warren Baker 80 80 Richard Morris D. 1955 Alva Stearns Idell Mary Stearns Lucretia Ellen Stearns Living Whitehill D. <1931 Jacob W Baker Julia Elmina Blasier Fanny Lower 1874 - 1967 Sylvester Stevens 92 92 Obediah Stevens Elizabeth Sutton 1903 - 1988 Ellis Stevens 84 84 1905 - 1987 Obediah Treaux Stevens 82 82 1907 - 1984 Ruby Lucretia Stevens 76 76 Living Nelson Living Stevens Living Stevens Living Stevens 1921 - 1989 Adrian Leon Stevens 68 68 Herman Bishop Joel Marion Inklebarger Orvel Huston Hoover Lonie Lee Thompson Garrett Byers Nancy Mann 1902 - 1986 Edna May Sibley 83 83 Living Sakmari Mary Ann Hughes Isaac Russell Sarah Russell Hannah Russell Elizabeth Russell Jemima Elizabeth Russell 1801 Samuel Russell D. BET. 1845 - 1850 Mary Irwin 1829 James Russell 1830 Susan Russell Living Jr 1831 Samuel F Russell 1834 Ellen Russell 1834 Martha Russell 1842 John Russell 1845 William Russell George Irvin 1835 - 1845 Jeptha Vinan Holden 9 9 1837 Mary Ann Holden Una Varner [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Una died giving birth to last child. Living Keyes Living Beckham Living Keyes Living Keyes Living Keyes Living Keyes ? Stroup Abigail Hand John Hand 1647 Samuel Dille 1650 Joseph Dille 1652 Benjamin Dille Living Dyer Dille Nathan Dille John Hanneford Elizabeth 1673 George Dille Dilley Mrs Martha Knox Isam Blankenship Anna Maria Dilley Living Beckham James Allen [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Augusta county Court Records Order Book No. III
August 27, 1751
(179) Road ordered to be viewed from John Anderson's to co. Ho. by John Poage and James Allen .

Augusta County Court Records Order Book No. Iv.
August 21, 1754
(255) Saml. Pegg, servant of James Allen; Edwd. Hays, servant of Wm. Robertson; Robert Gaw, s servant of Ro. Renix.

Augusta County Court Records Order book No. V
March 23, 1756
(63) James Allen, qualified Captain of Foot.

Augusta County Court Records Order Book No. XI
August 19, 1767
(220) Hugh Allen appointed surveyor of highway from James Given's Mill, by his house, to Ston e Meeting House, and the following to work the road:  Saml. Hinds, Robt. Stevenson, Wm. Kerr , John Stewart, John Campbell, James Allen, John Anderson, Hugh Allen, William McClure, Jame s Allen, Saml Bell, Andrew Lockhart, John Burnside, Saml McKeey, James Searight, Thos Storey.

Augusta County Court Records Order Book No. XV
August 23, 1773
(197) Charles and David Beard, sons of Edward Beard, who fails to bring them up in a Christia nlike manner, to be bound to James Allen, Jr., to learn trade of carpenter and wheelwright.

Augusta County Court Records Order Book No. XVI
January 17, 1775
(35) Of Hugh Allen, deceased, for a horse proved by brother, James Allen; of John Ladlers, fo r driving pack horses,; of sundry persons for work on the expedition under James Allen and Hu gh Allen -- certified by Andrew Lewis; of Wm Kinkead, for sundreis for Militia; of Ralph Stew art, for provisions for his company of Militia.
March 25, 1775
(55) Administration of estate of Hugh Allen, decd., granted to widow Jane and brother James ( Was Hugh killed on the expedition of 1774?  See Court of Claims, supra.)

Augusta County Court Records Order Book No. XVII
September 15, 1778
(358) James Allen, Jr., appointed road surveyor from Middle River to John McMahon's.

Augusta County Court Records Order Book No. XX
September 18, 1787
(400) James, David and Mary Allen, all over 14, orphans of David Allen, chose Robert Allen th eir guardian.  George Anderson, aged 15, chose John Chrisitan guardian.

Augusta County Court Records Order Book No. XXI
May 18, 1790
(245) Robert Garland, James Allen and James Brooks qualified to practice as attorneys.

Augusta County Court Records Order Book No. XXII
January 16, 1793
(227) Stophel Mantle and James Allen, agent for John Allen, landowners, to be summoned on a r oad petition.
March 25, 1793
(259) James Allen as Lieutenant of company of Infantry in 1st Battalion -- recommended.

Augusta county Court Records Order Book No. XXIII
September 16, 1794
(160) James Allen recommended Ensign.
January 20, 1795
(212) Certified that John Allen has resided 12 months, and is of good demeanor, &c.
March 17, 1795
(235) John Allen qualified upon license as Attorney.


Augusta County Court Records Order Book No. XXIV
December 20, 1796
(93) James Allen recommended Lieutenant in 1st Battalion, 32d Regiment, vice William Young, Resigned June 21, 1797
(171-177) Lieutenant James Allen remonstrated to the Governor versus the recommendation to supply the vacancy occasioned by resignation of William Chambers.  The recommendation was made by the Court under the impression that Allen would not accept, and they now apologize and recommend Allen instead of Robert McClenachan.

Augusta County Court Judgements - Volume I
November, 1757 (A)
Maxwell vs Allen -- John Maxwell was Captain of a Company in 1756 and called out Allen, one o f his Company, to go against the Indians, but Allen refused and Maxwell sues Quitam Malcomb Allen.  Maxwell denies he ever made out the writ.
Allen vs Mathers -- James Allen, Captain, 1756, complains qui tam that William Mathers, a comm on soldier, refused to turn out when called.  Process not served, because defendant is on duty in a fort.
August, 1757 (A)
Allen vs. Rooke -- James Allen, Captain, complains Quitam, because John Rook refused to answer call to go out vs French and Indians, 1756. Allen Hugh Allen Jane Living Befort D. 1838 Nathanial Hood Elizabeth Bullard [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

AFN 2728-KR 1832 Spencer Johnson Persis Stivers 1889 - 1964 Verne Leslie Dilley 74 74 Living Megredy 1883 - 1963 William Henry White 79 79 Sarah Jane Hammond 1916 - 1958 Bertha Madeline White 41 41 1915 - 1982 John Edgar Chandler 67 67 1887 - 1913 Herbert Edgar Chandler 26 26 1884 - 1970 Ruth Naylor 86 86 Edgar Chandler Amelia Franz Mathes 1857 - 1946 John W Naylor 89 89 Emma Lou Morris Living Beckham Osburn Naylor Mary Ellen Jordan Isaac Morris Hannah Hollingsworth John Moore John Rogers Dye 1835 Mary Esther Rinard 1839 - 1863 John M Rinard 23 23 1840 - 1843 Orillo Rinard 3 3 1844 - 1922 Jane Rinard 77 77 Living Ritchie 1846 - 1926 James F Rinard 80 80 1849 - 1928 Rebecca Rinard 79 79 1851 - 1875 George W Rinard 24 24 1853 - 1860 William H Rinard 7 7 1855 - 1888 Margaret Rinard 33 33 1858 - 1942 Victoria Rinard 84 84 1885 - 1894 Lee Waggoner 9 9 1895 - 1895 Denolas Waggoner 11d 11d 1951 - 1951 Barbara Ann Windrow 27d 27d Elizabeth Isaac Sibley Living McCarthy Living McCarthy Living Davies Living Montcrief Living Windrow Living Montcrief Living Montcrief Living Montcrief Living Montcrief Living Montcrief Living Montcrief 1951 - 1975 Joanne Groat 24 24 Living Groat Living Groat Living Groat 1913 - 1989 Lee Rhett Sibley 75 75 Living Francis Living Groat Living Groat Living Groat Living Temple Living Temple Living Temple Living Graham Living Graham Living Bevington Living Bevington Living Bull Living Bing Living Bing Living Living Bing Living Bing Living Bing Living Bing Living Wodarski Living Wodarski Living Living Bull Living Wodarski Living Wodarski Living Good Living Good Living Nieset Living Wolfe Living Wolfe Living Nieset Living Nieset Living Nieset Living Moore Living Bing Living Bing Living Traver Living Traver Living Moore 1766 - 1800 Mother 34 34 1798 - 1884 Sarah Rinard 86 86 1801 - 1844 John Rinard 42 42 1809 - 1899 Isaac Rinard 89 89 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Broderbund Family Archive #255, Ed 1, Land Records:  AL, AR, FL, LA, MI, MN, OH, WI 1790-1907 , Date of Import:  May 30, 1998, Internal Ref. #1.255.1.53385.20

Patentee Name:  Richard, Isaac
Accession Number:  OH0030__-246
State:  Ohio
Volume:  30
Page:246
Document Number: 1236
Land Office:  Marietta
Aliquot Part Reference:  NENE
Section Number: 10
Township:  3 North
Range: 6 West
Meridian/Survey Area:  Ohio River Survey
Act/Treaty Authorizing Sale:  Sale-Cash Entries
Date Signed:   April 16, 1833
Acreage:  39.60
Signed:  Yes, the document on file at the BLM contains a signature.

Broderbund Family Archive #255, Ed. 1, Land Records:  AL, AR, FL, LA, MI, MN, OH, WI 1790-190 7, Date of Import:  May 30, 1998, Internal Ref. #1.255.1.53385.21

Patentee Name:  Rinard, Isaac
Accession Number:  OH0060__.431
State:  Ohio
Volume: 60
Page: 431
Document Number:  2934
Land Office:  Marietta
Aliquot Part Reference:  SE SE
Section Number:  11
Township:  3 North
Range:  6 West
Meridian/Survey Area: Ohio River Survey
Act/Treaty Authorizing Sale:  Sale-Cash Entries
Date Signed:  Nov 7, 1837
Acreage:  38.56
Signed:  Yes, the document on file at the BLM contains a signature.

Broderbund Family Archive #255, Ed. 1, Land Records:AL, AR, FL, LA, MI, MN, OH, WI 1790-1907 , Date of Import:  May 30, 1998, Internal Ref. #1.255.1.53385.22

Patentee Name:  Rinard, Isaac
Accession Number:  OH0060__.475
State:  Ohio
Volume:  60
Page:  475
Document Number:  2980
Land Office:  Marietta
Aliquot Part Reference:  W1/2SW
Section Number:  6
Township:  3 North
Range:  6 West
Meridian/Survey Area:  Ohio River Survey
Act/Treaty Authorizing Sale:  Sale-Cash Entries
Date Signed:  Nov 7, 1837
Acreage:  72.24
Signed:  Yes, the document on file at the BLM contains a signature.

Broderbund Family Archive #255, Ed. 1, Land Records:  AL, AR, FL, LA, MI, MN, OH, WI 1790-190 7, Date of Import:  May 30, 1998, Internal Ref. #1.255.1.533.85.23

Patentee Name:  Rinard, Isaac
Accession Number:  OH1100__.459
State:  Ohio
Volume:  1100
Page: 459
Document Number: 3497
Land Office:  Marietta
Aliquot Part Reference:  NE NW
Section Number: 4
Township:  3 North
Range:  6 West
Meridian/Survey Area:  Ohio River Survey
Act/Treaty Authorizing Sale:  Sale-Cash Entries
Date Signed:  Aug 21, 1837
Acreage:  40.56
Signed:  Yes, the document on file at the BLM contains a signature. 1810 - 1856 Margaret Rinard 46 46 Living Jordan 1815 - 1854 Elisabeth Rinard 39 39 1818 - 1845 Cynthia Rinard 27 27 1820 - 1850 Mary Rinard 30 30 1823 - 1897 Nancy Rinard 74 74 1826 Rebecca Rinard 1822 Elisha Lockhart 1798 - 1847 James Elder 49 49 Basil Denbow 1816 John E Elder 1819 Margaret Elder Living Brymer 1822 Mary Elder 1822 Elisabeth Elder 1825 Hester A Elder 1826 James Elder 1827 Thomas Elder 1831 Henry Elder 1833 Sarah Elder 1840 Matilda Elder 1846 Isabella Elder 1802 - 1884 Nancy Rea 82 82 Living Brymer 1825 Isaac R Rinard 1826 Samuel Kelso Rinard 1828 John William Rinard 1829 Mary Ann Rinard 1831 Seraph Dana Rinard 1833 Hannah Nesbot Rinard 1834 Luther Rinard 1836 David Murdock Rinard 1839 William Nelson Rinard 1841 Ellenor Cook Rinard Living Jordan 1842 Theadore Perry Rinard 1811 - ~1856 Catherine Scott 45 45 John Scott Preasious 1825 - 1906 Elizabeth Cline 81 81 Jacoob Cline Nancy Mills 1835 - 1913 James Scott Rinard 78 78 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Do not have any information on wife #1.  He married Margaret who also was widowed.  Buried Rinard Mills, Cemetery, Monroe County, Ohio 1834 - 1914 Elisabeth Hooper 79 79 1837 - 1917 Henry Watson Rinard 79 79 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Henry was a farmer.  He and Emily grew up together in Ludlow Township.  They lived in the sam e area. Living Gilmore 1839 - 1909 Emily Knowlton 69 69 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Emily loved to sew and tell stories to her grandchildren.  Often told the story of her two si sters who were engaged to soldiers fighting on either side of the War.  How one would walk mi les to mail her letters so no news from home could reach the wrong side in the war.  Both me n returned from the War.  The marriages took place and both couples lived on farms adjoining. 1841 Issac Rinard [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Issac went to War, Civil War 77th Ohio Inf Co C fought under Col Jesse Heldebrand for Genera l Sherman at the Battle of Shiloh.  Enlisted as a Private from Ludlow Twp Ohio. 1861 Pricilla Hooper 1846 - 1910 Richard Rinard 64 64 Lucinda Jane Adams 1848 - 1931 Mary E Rinard 82 82 Harve Edwards 1850 - 1937 Margaret Ellen Rinard 86 86 John Adams 1856 - 1934 Robert Rinard 77 77 Living Kierce Unknown 1858 Nancy Catherine Rinard William Boston 1860 Cynthia Ann Rinard Arretis Satterfield 1861 Rosetta Rinard Daniel Mitchell 1867 John Marshall Rinard 1806 - 1874 Hamilton Parr 67 67 1831 Hamilton George Parr 1905 - 1987 Mary Blanche Sibley 81 81 Living Britt 1831 - 1901 Nathan Parr 70 70 1836 Amanda Parr 1837 - 1893 Isaac Parr 56 56 1839 - 1925 Isabella Parr 86 86 1842 Rebecca Parr 1844 - 1910 Mary Elisabeth Parr 66 66 1835 Mary Esther Rinard 1839 - 1863 John M Rinard 23 23 1840 Orillo Rinard 1842 - 1930 Hamilton Parr Rinard 87 87 Living Jordan 1812 Elliott Collins 1838 Minerva Collins 1841 Elisabet G Collins 1843 Lyenrgus B A Collins 1846 Rosina Anna Collins 1813 Thomas Minney 1842 Erza Minney 1844 George P Minney 1845 John Elder Minney 1823 Isaac Parker Living Jordan 1856 Henry Parker 1858 Joseph Parker Thomas Tyson Matilda Crockett 1852 Pleasant A Dilley Jeremiah Friel William Franklin Dilley Mary E. Sharp John Wallace Dilley Eula M Dilley Dilley 1836 - 1865 Ellen George 29 29 Gibson Living Dilley Living Dilley Hill 1822 Ralph Dilley 1824 Mary Jane Moore 1855 Armiiinta Dilley Amos Dilley [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Amos was Martin Dilley's Grandson. 1858 Margaret Dilley 1862 James Dilley Jesse George 1865 - 1900 Maggie A 35 35 Octave Dilley William Dilley Mary Sharp 1858 Lillie J 1875 Lillie G Dilley 1876 Mary A Dilley 1878 Clarence S Dilley 1879 William Dilley Anne Dilley 1853 - 1920 George William Sibley 67 67 1869 Sarah R Dilley Potter Theodore Potter Clifford Potter 1870 - 1949 John Ott Dilley 79 79 D. 1956 Miranda McNeil Vernie Dilley Harsh Elizabeth Dilley Shuemaker 1854 - 1869 Ella Sibley 15 15 Living Dilley Douglas Living Dilley Living Dilley Living Dilley Living Dilley Living Dilley Living Dilley Living Dilley Living Dilley 1855 - 1944 Fannie Sibley 89 89 Living Dilley Living Dilley Everette Kemper Paul Shumaker Living Dilley Living Dilley Living Dilley D. 1945 Luey Hinkle 1875 - 1909 Leven Dilley 34 34 1876 Lavinda Dilley 1857 Emma Sibley 1877 - 1959 Blanche Dilley 82 82 William Oscar Eula Oscar Living Oscar Living Oscar Living Oscar Living Oscar Living Oscar 1880 - 1955 Marshall Dilley 74 74 Bessie Blake 1860 - 1957 Sallie Davis Sibley 96 96 1882 - 1954 Stephen Dilley 71 71 1876 - 1952 Dorinda Quintie Dilley 75 75 Lee Bussard Albert Bussard Living Bussard Living Bussard Living Bussard Russel Living Bowers Living Bussard Living Sibley D. 1912 Jane Jordan Living Bussard Isobel Dilley 1810 - 1877 John Dilley 67 67 1819 - 1897 Naomi McNeil 78 78 Christian Ackland aka Eckland Charles Cooper Cooper 1885 - 1944 Lutitia Ann Dilley 58 58 1880 - 1954 Tilman Thoomas Caraway 74 74 Joseph Franklin Caraway Mariah Elizabeth Slater Nat Knight Living Johannes M Weigel Anna Maria Anrhold 1918 - 1973 Florine Mary Stang 55 55 Willaim Stang Margaret Saunder 1867 Katherine Sibley 1868 - 1955 Robert Lee Sibley 87 87 1869 - 1938 Thomas Henry Sibley 68 68 1775 - >1844 William Pines 69 69 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

William Pines Ingram was a wealthy planter in Anson County, North Carolina and a descendent o f John Ingram, one of the early settlers in Virginia.

Book:  Montgomery County Heritage North Carolina
Article:  The Ingram Family #558
Written by:  Winnie Ingram Richter
Page:  252

William Pines Ingram, son of Joseph and Winifred, was born on 14 June1775 and died in 1844 .  He was married in 1800 to Susan Strother, born1781, died 1847. 1744 - 1828 Joseph Ingram 84 84 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Joseph was called "Joe Cap" to distinguish him from his nephew of the same name who was called "Joe Red" or "Joseph Ingram, Jr.".  He owned a large amount of land on the Pee Dee River where he built a large house.He also built a church on his land which was used by all denominations.He owned a large number of slaves, and in his Will he gave slaves to some of his nieces and nephews on the condition that they teach twenty slaves to read the scriptures, free the slaves at the age of forty and contribute $500 to a book fund, the interest of which was to be used to purchase religious books for distribution to the poor.

Membership in the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution can be attained through descent from Joseph Ingram.  Voucher Number 2805 issued by the Auditor's office Lower Board Salisbury Distric t5 Nov 1784 for the sum of thirty pounds specie, is accepted as proof of his service as a patriot.  This voucher is on file in the North Carolina Department of Archives in Raleigh under Revolutionary Accounts Vol VI, page 23, Folio 1.


Article from the North Carolina State Archives in Raleigh, North Carolina

Their home was located in the bend of the PEE DEE River, on what is now known as the Lee Little Plantation, and near this home they are buried.The interest of this family in religion, education, and civic justice area attested by Joseph's construction of a church building for the use of all denomination, the activity of members of his family in organizing and conduction the first Sunday-school in this county, liberal contributions to missions and book funds, and by the provision in who would "teach or cause to be taught to read twenty Negroes or other poor children"; and the grant of freedom to their slaves who should prove capable of taking care of themselves.

Book:  Montgomery County Heritage North Carolina
Article:  The Ingram Family #558
Written by:  Winnie Ingram Richter
Page: 252

Joseph, their youngest son, was born in Culpepper County, in 1744. Joseph came to North Carolina na first and settled in Bute County (Now Warren).  He married Winfred Nelms in 1774, daughter of Presley Nelms, Srand Elizabeth Routt Nelms.  Joseph Ingram acquired a large acreage of land in the bend of the Pee Dee River in Anson County.  He built a comfortable home there and, according to tradition, it was in this home that the first Sunday School was organized in Anson County.  It was conducted by members of his family for many years.  He also erected on his plantation a church building which was available for the use of all denominations.  Joseph died in 1828.  In the burial plot nearby are the graves of Joseph and Winifred Nelms Ingram. Winifred Nelms Sr Nelms Presley Elizabeth Routt Living King 1778 - 1856 Jeremiah Ingram 77 77 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Never married. 1781 - 1810 Benjamin Ingram 29 29 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Benjamin was accidentally killed while hunting with his brother, Ebenezer Nelms Ingram. 1783 - 1828 Lemuel Ingram 44 44 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

The church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS) IGI records shows they were married on 1 1 January 1812 in Richmond county, NC.  The information given by Tammy L Tice says differently .  May need to reseal with her data.  Church references number A537314 2202. 1785 - 1867 Elizabeth Ingram 82 82 1787 Samuel P Ingram [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Samuel was accidently killed while roofing a house. 1789 - 1869 Thomas Ingram 79 79 1791 - 1864 Hannah Pines Ingram 73 73 George W Ingram Sanders 1805 Caroline Matilda Sanders Living Floyd George Stanback Thomas Stanback Mary Jennings 1812 - 1891 Presley N Stanback 78 78 Jane Stanback Martin Charlotte Stanback John D Pemberton Caroline Stanback Horne Living Floyd Joseph Horne Tyson James C Tyson Thomas Tyson Bettie Tyson James Milton Knotts 1797 - 1887 Ebenezer Nelms Ingram 90 90 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Ebenezer studied medicine for four years in New York City.  When he returned to North Carolina, he learned his fiance had married another man.  He withdrew from society and spent his time reading, leaving the management of his affairs to his slaves. Robert Nash Frank Davis William Tyson 1919 - 1988 John William Kane 69 69 1857 Elijah JamesTyson 1862 Aaron Frank Tyson 1864 George Sibleyt Tyson Winifred Tyson Tom Robinson George C Smith Mary Smith Eben Smith Ella Smith Nancy Smith 1918 - 1999 Charity LaDelle Allen 80 80 Sydney Smith William Smith George Smith Richard Smith Frank Mabry Julia Fry John Lowder Neal Faust Sallie Redwine Esther Mae Sibley Living Kane Living Kane J W Shay Living Shay Living Shay Elvis Spikes Living Spikes 1922 - 1970 Fales Shay 48 48 Living Spikes Living Spikes Living Spikes D. 1952 Wisley Aton Allgood Living Kane Living Allgood Living Tharpe Living Spikes Living Sebern Living Spikes Living Spikes Living Spikes Living Sebern Living Spikes Living Spikes Living Kane Living Spikes Living Spikes Living Crumbly Hales Leonard Sibley 1789 John Sibley 1791 William Sibley 1793 Robert Sibley 1795 Henry Sibley 1797 Charles Sibley Living Befort 1800 Leonard Sibley Judith Booth William Booth Sr Elizabeth Sibley 1797 John Sibley Sallie Sibley 1804 Mary Booth (Polly) Sibley 1806 Albert Gallatin Sibley Martha A Sibley Pamela Caroline Sibley Living Jaeger Judith Sibley Harriet Lavinia Sibley William Tyree Sibley Nancy Sibley William Sibley Isaac Sibley Mary Ellen Sibley Caroline Sibley Living Befort Living Beardmore Living Ann Living Beardmore Living Barone Montcreta Payne D. 1974 James Bonds Living Graves Living Bonds 1854 Robert Abraham Beaty [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Robert Abraham Beatty was married twice.  He had one child by his first wife.  Alice Isabel e was his second wife.  Robert worked for Alice's father at Scatterbranch, Texas.  Robert left his family in 1919 (ran away with another woman) and went to Alabama.  He is buried near Mobile, Alabama.  None of his children ever saw him again.


Joint Will of Robert A Beaty and Alice Beaty


The State of Texas
County of Wood

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

We, Robert A. Beaty and Alice Beaty, husband and wife, of the county of Wood, State of Texas , each being of sound and disposing mind and memory,and being desirous to settle our worldly affairs while we and each of us has strength to do so, do make and publish our last will and testament,hereby revoking all others heretofore made by us or either of us.

First:    We desire and direct that our bodies be buried in a decent and Christian-like manner ,
     suitable to our circumstances and conditions in life.

Second:   We desire and direct that all our just debts be paid out of our estate without delay , by the
     Executor or Executrix to be hereinafter named and appointed.

Third:    It is the desire and will of each of us, that all of the property, both real and personal, that we
     may die seized and possessed of, either jointly or separately, after the payment of all our
     just debts, including those incident to the burial above mentioned,together with all the
     expenses incident to and connected with the probating of this will, shall pass to and vest in
     fee simple in the survivor of we two, Robert A. Beaty and Alice Beaty, and after the payment
     of all the just debts, we, and each of us, give, bequeath and devise to the survivor, the
     remainder of all the property, both real and personal, we may own either jointly or separately,
     or be interested in likewise at the time of our death, in fee simple, to manage, sell and dispose
     of as such survivor may wish or see proper.

Fourth:   We and each of us hereby constitute and appoint the survivor of we two, Executor or
     Executrix, as the case may be, and direct that no bond or security be required as such.

Fifth:    We desire and direct that after the death of both of us, that all property, both real and
     personal, that might belong to us or either of us be gathered together, together with a l claims
     that might be owing by our heirs or otherwise, and after the payment of our just debts, the
     balance or residue then remaining be divided between the following heirs as follows:
     To Mattie Virginia Beaty, and her heirs, $25.00 in cash or its equal.
     To Gussie Beaty and Fairy Beaty each and their heirs, a one half of all the property then
     belonging to our estate.

Sixth:    We desire and direct that no further action be had in the courts in the administration of our
     estate or estates than to prove and record this will and to return an inventory and
     appraisement of our estates and list of claims.

     IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, we and each of us in the presence of each other and in the
     presence of the subscribing witness, hereto set our hands at Yantis,Texas, this June
     29, 1915.

     Signed by the parties as their last wills and testaments, in presence as attesting witnesses,
     and I hereto sign as such at their instance. Living Bonds 1909 - 1976 Ralph Martin 67 67 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Ralph died of lung cancer. 1897 - 1967 Raymond Ernest Osborne 70 70 Living Osborne Living Joanne Anna Roswell No children Harvey Living Stone Living Emmons Living Emmons 1866 - 1951 Alice Isabelle Hood 85 85 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Robert & Alice had three other children that all died during their first year of life.  Name s are unknown. Living Roberts Living Mueller Living Newman Frank Hotchkiss Eva Living Hotchkiss 1906 - 1998 Hazel Hotchkiss 92 92 1890 Ollie Laurel Burton Living Burton Living Burton 1888 - 1906 Georgia Beaty 18 18 Living Burton Living Burton Living Burton Living Adell Living Burton Joseph Dilley Living Jaerger Living Osborne 1812 - 1893 William H. Allen 81 81 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

William was born in Franklin County, Virginia.  Came to Lawrence County,Ohio when about 12 years old, with his parents.  Trip was made with one horse which the mother rode, with father and William walking.  (Refer to memories by John L. Allen).  William died at his home on Ice Creek, Lawrence County, Ohio.  He was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church.  He is buried in the Allen Cemetery, Deering, Ohio.

Land Deeds for William Allen - Certificate No. 5894 - Vol. 12, page 269Signed by President Van Buren, August 5, 1837.  Certificate No. 10915,Vol 22, Page 430, Signed by President John Tyler, June 25, 1841. Registered at Land Office, Chillicothe, Ohio, probably now Columbus, Ohio .  Information on Land Deeds furnished by Dorothy Dean Ward who has the original deeds.

ALLEN, William Jan 4, 1894 Ironton Register
aged 81 yrs, died last Wed. Died at son-in-law's home, John G. KEYES. Funeral at Ice Creek Bap tist Church. Emma Allen Gussie Mae Beaty 1881 Peter S. Dreiling [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

The Dreilling family is a very large German family from Russia who came to the United State s in the 1880's to escape changes in the Soviet Union and settled in Victoria (Herzog), Elli s County, Kansas. 1883 - 1970 Barbara Mary Weigel 86 86 Minnie Langvardt Christain Langvardt Lena Langvardt Minnie Dora Langvardt Jr Langvardt Christian Millie Langvardt 1881 - 1936 Bernard Walter McDiffett 55 55 Living Kane R A Beaty [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

R A Beatty was born in Ireland and came to America around late 1700 or early 1800.  He was married twice (we are kin by his first marriage). His sons could not get along with their new step mother so Alford, Robert & Johnny ran away and came to Texas.  Robert was 14 at the time.  Robert saw his father once more when he and his daughter (Fairy Kathleen) went back to see him in 1908.  The first RA Beatty was 98 years old when he died at Americus, GA (the county seat of Plains, GA.  It is about 10-12miles from Americus.  R A Beatty was court clerk there for many years. RA owned 600 acres in Americus GA.

Beaty Lineage #298. Living McDiffett W F McDiffett Mary McDiffett Agnes McDiffett Cina McDiffett Alice McDiffett Annie McDiffett Dave M McDiffett James A McDiffett Homer L McDiffett Alfred Beaty [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Lived at or near Dallas, Texas Bruce A McDiffett Ray J McDiffett Paul W McDiffett McArthur Craig Davis Gormley 1868 - 1886 William Carr Allen 18 18 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

William died of typhoid fever at 18 years of age.

Lot for William C. Allen - Parkerville, Kansas Lot 1, block 2 containing16 and 20 feet, purchased May 9, 1887.

Arrived from Ohio to Parkerville in 1884. Living Martin 1814 - 1903 Abner Dilley 89 89 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Abner's obituary states that at the time of his death, he had "a full set of perfectly sound teeth."  According to his obit, Abner was quite wealthy.  Lived in Oak Ridge.  Since Abner was born after his mother's arrest, I am not certain that John Dilley was his father.  Charity's obit states there were 7 children in the family of Abner and Armilda. Johnny Beaty [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Went to Houston, Texas 1818 - 1900 Armilda Russell 82 82 1838 Harriet Dilley [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Lived in Parkerville Kansas in 1890, 1902 & 1903 Randall Stivers 1839 - 1920 Amissetta Dilley 80 80 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Widowed in 1900.  Lived in Waterloo, Ohio in 1902.  Lived in Lawrence County Ohio in 1903. 1836 - 1888 Nathan J. Justice 51 51 1844 - 1902 Sorilda Jane Dilley 58 58 1838 - 1886 Lorenzo Dow Markin 48 48 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Lorenzo was wounded at Winchester VA while in the 5th W VA Vol Inf Regt. Later became the She riff of Lawrence County, Ohio.  He is buried in Woodland cemetery Coal Grove Ohio. Lorenzo ha d black eyes, dark hair,fair complexion and was 5'10-1/2".  His nick names were "Dave", "Sonn y""Sweenzer D."

MARKIN, LORENZO D. I.R. NOV. 02, 1865
Married by Peras R. Polley, J. P., on the 5th day of Oct., 1865, at the Sheridan House in Iron ton, Lorenzo D. Markin and Miss Sarilda J. Dilley.

Ironton Register, Thursday, January 16, 1896
CAPT. L. D. MARKIN

Submitted by: Sharon Milich Kouns

Last Monday night, at 8 o'clock, Capt. Lorenzo Dow Markin died from an attack of pneumonia. H e was taken ill on New Years, and soon was quite sick, but was improving until the last of th e week, when he got worse,and gradually sank to the fatal moment.
The deceased was a little over 57 years old. He was born near Willow Wood, Lawrence county, De cember 23, 1838. He always lived in this county.He was a soldier in the civil war, enlisting g as a private and coming out as a Captain. He belonged to the 5th West Va. He was a brave, fa ithfulsoldier. When the war closed, he opened a store at Marion, farmed some,and filled the o office of Justice of the Peace. In 1877, he was elected Sheriff of the county, and since then h as resided in Ironton, being engaged in the grocery or shoe business. At the time of his death h he was administrator of the estate of W. D. Kelly. In 1865 Capt. Markin married Miss Sorild a Dilley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abner Dilley, of Oak Ridge,who with two daughters and a so n, survives him.
In all the relations of life Capt. Markin was a worthy, honorable,high-minded man. His influe nce was always on the side of right; and he was outspoken for what he deemed was just and upri ght. And while he was exact in his ideas of right his nature was generous and sympathetic. Just tat this point, in this sketch, an old and prominent citizen of this place came into the office e, and said: "I want to give you an instance of Capt.Markin's generous heart. I had some prop erty which was forced to sale. It cost me $5000, and Capt. Markin bought it in for $538. He so on come to me and said he had bought that property ridiculously low, and that I might redeem i t at what he paid any time; and he held the proposition open for three years, when I told hi m I was unable to redeem it at what he paid any time; and then he sold it for twice what he pa id for it. I merely tell you this to illustrate what a generous noble character Dow Markin was. "
This incident serves better than mere assertion to describe the virtues and views of this lame nted citizen. He was esteemed by all. As a Sheriff,a merchant, a citizen, integrity shone fro m every word and deed. He was a Christian gentleman and did what he could to have love and dut y prevail.
The funeral will take place from the residence on Thursday afternoon at 2o'clock. Rev. Geo. H . Geyer will officiate, and at the grave, the G. A.P. will conduct the ceremony.

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Since 02/6/99 1847 Albert R. Dilley 1856 - 1937 Abram Newton Dilley(Alva) 81 81 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

He lived in Parkerville, Kansas in 1890, 1902 & 1903.  He lived in Council Grove Kansas in 192 7. 1851 - 1916 Hester Ann Dilley 64 64 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Hester is buried in Woodland Cemetery, Section 20, Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio Mammie Beaty 1848 - 1926 Coleman Green Keyes 78 78 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Coleman is buried in Woodland Cemetery, Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio

Served three years in the regular army 15 December 1866-15 December 1869. 1771 - 1822 Elizabeth Ackland aka Eckland 51 51 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Helen Stinson sites in Greenbrier Co., two court records in 1890 and 1810, involving John & Elizabeth Dilley and a William Blair, which hint of domestic problems,  It is noted that Wm Bl air left a large family in Greenbrier Co., to move to Lawrence Co., OH where he appeared alone in the 1820 census, and died soon thereafter.  The court records imply a liaison between William Blair and Elizabeth.  His will was not probated in Lawrence Co for at least twenty years (why?).

Ed Riggs of Wheelersburg, VA shared information from the family bible on his ancestor, Peninah (Dilley) Golden,   born 25 July 1802, which indicates that the removal of John to Greenbrier C o., OH occurred when she was six weeks old, and that John's children moved to Gallia Co., Ohio o in 1813 and 1814.

In 1820, an Elizabeth Dilley married Isham Blankenship Sr.; the census for that year shows 1 5 children in the household, which included a child for each age of her known children.  It a appears that this same Mr. Blankenship married again five months later(?). 1774 Jr. Dilley John [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Wayland's appendix of German settlers, notes the birth of John Dilley in 1774 to John and Catherine Dilly. 1793 - 1879 Joseph A Dilley 86 86 Elizabeth Matthews 1818 Margaret Dilley Benjamin R Edwards 1820 John Franklin Dilley [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

John Franklin Dilley was in the army in the Minnesota Cavalry during the Civil War.  He resided in St Paul Minnesota where he enlisted. Maria 1822 Minerva Dilley Kate Beaty Samuel Atheny 1823 Barney Dilley Rachel E Clary 1815 Armida Elizabeth Dilley John Everett 1802 - 1873 Elizabeth Dilley 71 71 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

DILLEY, ELIZABETH ----- I.R. FEB. 06, 1873

Ironton Newspaper reported death of Elizbeth Dilley as February 6, 1873. 1797 - 1849 Hannah Dilley 52 52 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Hannah is buried at Rankin Farm, Near Aid, Lawrence, Ohio Armstrong Rankin 1818 Mary Polly Rankin Sylvester Wesley Drummond Susan Beaty 1818 Hiram Rankin Susan Drummond 1821 - 1844 John Rankin 22 22 1823 Penina Rankin Thornton Lambert 1825 Sarah Ann Rankin Freeman Middleton 1827 William J Rankin Barbara Stivers 1829 Asbernia Rankin Living Reed John Henry Lambert 1831 Mahalia Rankin Nicholas Null 1831 Matilda Rankin George Washington Lane 1834 James Louden Rankin 1836 Thompson Rankin Susan 1837 Barnett Rankin 1839 Diana A Rankin Living Floyd Andrew J Johnson 1801 - 1863 Barnett Dilley 62 62 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Barnett is buried in Loof Cemetery, Pattonsburg, Daviess, Missouri 1806 - 1879 Minerva Cooper 72 72 1827 Henry Dilley Minerva 1828 Joseph Dilley Mary Rose Delilah Rice 1831 Washington Dilley Elizabeth Cain Living Holmes Elizabeth Ellis 1833 William Dilley Phoebe Rice 1834 John Dilley Mary Ann Thomas 1836 Margaret Candace Dilley George W Rice 1838 Harvey Dilley Susan Ann Bailey 1841 Delilah Dilley Living Holmes Thomas Rolston 1843 - 1906 Willis Dilley 63 63 1846 - 1922 Margaret E;;em McLaughlin 75 75 1847 Rebecca Dilley 1854 Sarah Dilley 1801 - 1886 Peninah Dilley 84 84 Martial Golden 1824 Lourinda Golden Joshua Hornbuckle 1826 Fletcher Golden Living Befort Living Holmes Harriet Lionbarger 1828 Charles Golden 1830 Arvilla Golden William H Spicer Lewis Brewer 1835 William C Golden Mary R Roach 1837 Thomas Golden Mary Francis Richardson 1840 - 1842 Frances Golden 2 2 1895 Lillian B Floyd 1842 - 1842 Harrison Golden Mahala Jane Golden Charles H Myers 1845 Ann Elizabeth Golden 1806 Anna Dilley John Kelley 1827 William Kelley Artie Lane Emaline N Holder 1830 Permina Kelley Clebe Dodgen Hanibal Barnett 1830 Lewis Kelley Jane 1830 Melvina Kelley Henry Niday 1843 Charles Kelley Unmarried 1835 Polly Kelley Daniel Kayler 1837 Minerva Kelley Living Dodger Norris T Allen 1839 Catherine Kelley 1842 Nancy Jane Kelley Clint Gallup Amos Ratliff 1847 John Kelley Ann Smith 1811 Catherine Dilley Allen Talley 1837 Alma Talley Living Dodger Susan Carter Mary Belcher 1841 Emma Talley Lindsay Price William Puckett 1844 Joseph Talley Elizabeth Woody Nancy Leach 1847 Elisha Talley Thelma Price 1899 - 1952 Mattie Maude Floyd 53 53 Mary A Giles Peter Carter 1810 James Dilley Delilah Hall 1830 Washington Tracy Dilley Mary Ann Biggerstaff 1830 Mary Ann Dilley George Pool 1834 Hester Ann Dilley John J Knox 1905 - 1975 Charlie James B (Bo) Floyd 70 70 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

It is said that Charlie James Floyd tried to get into college and was rejected because he was a year too young.  So, he left, changed his name to James "Bo" Floyd and went back and sai d he was a year older to get into college.  Since he received his teaching degree, he kept the name James "Bo" Floyd for the remainder of his life and was buried under that name.

Bo Floyd was very much a horseman.  He was the first successful breeder of Tennessee Walking Horses and Shetland Ponies (late named a breed of their own).  He also wrote many articles for Quarter Horse Magazine.

Bo also did family research and had traced the family line, however, when his farmhouse burned down, all his pictures and records were destroyed. Mr. Akers 1837 Sarah Amanda Dilley Simon Adams 1838 Elizabeth Dilley 1839 Julia Ann Dilley John Kelly 1841 Arvilla Dilley Eli Brumbaugh 1843 James Vinton Dilley Sarah R Strong Tempie Floyd Susannah Whittington 1818 - 1885 Diana Dilley 67 67 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Diana is buried in Powellsville, Scioto, Ohio D. 1897 William Fitzer 1840 Sarah Hannah Fitzer Louis Knapp 1842 James Henry Fitzer Margaret Smith 1845 William Harvey Fitzer Susan D Carter 1846 Louisa Jane Fitzer Living Floyd John Cahia Trimmer 1849 John M Fitzer 1851 Barney D Fitzer Clara 1853 Charles Fitzer 1855 - 1870 Martha Ann Fitzer 15 15 1857 Luella T Fitzer William H Trimmer 1860 Mary Maggie Fitzer James B Dilley 1906 - 1986 Lera Moore 79 79 Lucinda Dilley William Dilley Unknown Whittington Mary Whittington Charles Whittington John Dilley Jr. [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

John Dilley of Shenandoah acquired 400 acres of land in 1773 on a site in the valley between t he two branches of the Shenandoah River and a river and a mountain away form Woodstock the cou nty seat of the west. 1770 Jesse Dilley Ann Smallwood 1807 James Dilley John Dilley Sr. George C. Smith Living Floyd Frederick Dilley James Dilley 1813 - 1871 Luther Dilley 58 58 Nancy G K Williams Coleman Green Wades 1826 - 1858 Margaret Waller 32 32 Margaret Thornton M Powers Lena Justice M Hackworth Living Floyd 1851 John W Dilley 1850 Margaret S Dilley Lena Justice Hackworth Living Colleen 1846 Susan J Dilley Julia Lacell Sylvester Dilley John Dilley Luther Dilley D. 1994 Dianna Floyd 1845 Nancy Dilley Powers 1852 - 1935 James H Dilley 83 83 1844 - 1868 Margaret Jane Allen 23 23 Mary Dilley 1855 - 1945 George Washington Dilley 90 90 Julia Lacell Sylvester Dilley John Dilley Luther Dilley Living Chrietzberg Louisa Unknown Name Dilley Pernina Ellswich Hackworth 1866 - 1945 Luther Clark Dilley 79 79 Mollie Humphrey Luther Dilley George Dilley William E Dilley 1868 - 1949 William Jefferson Dilley 80 80 Mary Reed Living Chrietzberg Wilbur Dilley Lillie Dilley Pearl Dilley Living Dilley Living Dilley Living Dilley Living Dilley Living Dilley Living Dilley Living Mannon 1870 - 1944 James Harrison Floyd 73 73 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Ella America Lunsford and James Harrison Floyd were first cousins Living Crandell John Robinson 1907 - 1990 Florina Dreiling 83 83 Living Befort Living Befort Living Befort Living Befort Living Befort Living Befort 1913 - 1984 Raymond Patrick Jaeger 71 71 1876 - 1952 Ella America Lunsford 76 76 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Ellas father was a school teacher.

Betty's husband died at an early age leaving her with small children.  James Harrison Floyd w ent to live with his Aunt to help her.  This is the way Ella and James began to take notice o f one another.  The families didn't seem to care or to be concerned that they were first cous ins.  The Lunsford family lived west of Yantis Texas toward Albe, Texas.  Betty was married t he first time to a Taylor.  Had one child.  That child and her husband both died.  She then m married Walter Floyd. 1904 - 1981 Delma Brown 76 76 Living Jaeger Living Jaeger Living Jaeger Living Jaeger Living Jaeger Living Roesner Living Roesner Living Pribenno Living Dennis A. Lunsford Living Dennis Living Hopp 1864 Joseph E. Varner 1865 Olive Varner Perry Hutchison 1870 Serepta Varner P W Good 1871 Edwin Rufus Hotchkiss 1854 - 1930 Mahala Ann Gardner 76 76 Jack Cranford Betty Taylor [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Dee's husband died at an early age leaving her with small children.  James Harrison Floyd went to live with his Aunt to help her.  This is the way Ella and James began to take notice of one another.  The families didn't seem to care or to be concerned that they were first cousins .  The Lunsford family lived west of Yantis Texas toward Albe, Texas.  Betty was married the first time to a Taylor.  Had one child.  That child and her husband both died.  She then married Walter Floyd. Mary Magaline Hood 1846 - 1890 W C McDaniel 43 43 Mr. Hall Mr. Pugh Mr. Cranford Living Reep Living Holmes Living Bookout Living Holmes Betty Lunsford Maude M Lunsford [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Maud was married twice first to Monterate, then to Payne J H Floyd 1893 - 1895 Ruthie May Beaty 1 1 1895 Lee Beaty 1907 - 1908 Ivey Estell Beaty 1 1 Annie Jones Dee Taylor Mr. Lunsford Alva Roe J T Adams Charles Hall Living Brunnemer Dee Lunsford Charles Hall Phendonia Ann Hood John Pugh 1894 - 1986 George Columbus Reeves 91 91 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

SS # 457-01-4883 D. 1998 Wylma Living Sibley 1887 William A. Hood George Lester Brunnemer Living Downing Living Keihn Willie Lee Lunsford D. 1999 Pauline Minch Living Georgene Living Mulvaney Living LaFleur Living Katherine 1855 - 1920 Sarah Elizabeth McDaniel 64 64 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

1  DEAT
2  DATE 29 NOV 1920
2  PLAC Scatter Branch, Scatter Branch Cemetery. Hunt County, Texas John McDaniel Nancy Crow D. 1972 Russel Theryle Hood Daisy Daugherty 1844 John F. Sibley 1876 - 1963 Willie May Hood 87 87 John Albert Smith 1881 - 1972 James Clark Hood 91 91 Lillie Leota Owens Rhoda Emery 1878 - 1970 John Wayne Hood 92 92 Estella Pearl 1884 - 1959 Nellie Aver Hood 75 75 Verner Elster Smith Massey Hood 1886 - 1964 Mary Ethyle Hood 78 78 1889 Jeanettie Fair Hood Waddi Judson Thompson 1892 - 1969 Boss Douglas Hood 76 76 Lettie Alberta Baker Alfred Baker Alice Newton 1914 - 1965 Nell Marie Hood 50 50 Living McIlwain Living Hood 1815 John P Hood Esq Living Nance 1919 - 1960 Raymond Douglas Hood 40 40 Living Hood Living Nickel 1924 - 1924 Mary Alice Hood Living Miller Albert Miller Living Plumb Living Hood Living Crowder 1828 N B Living Wilson Estelle Kane Mame Kane Stout Sullivan 1851 James Wilson Zachary Lumpkin Hood 1849 - 1922 Georgia A 72 72 B G Leverett 1861 Margarett A. F. Hood 1863 Cida A E Hood Peppers Hattie Floyd 1871 Eugenia S Hood 1875 John M Ran Hood Mary L. Carnes 1810 - 1882 Joseph W. Varner 72 72 1772 - ~1846 John Varner 74 74 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Family tradition says that both John and Sarah are buried on their farm in the Varner Cemetery.  Although John left no will, his heirs are listed in a deed, recorded in Belmont County .  After John's death, his widow broke up housekeeping and went to live with her children, staying for a few months at a time with each one.

John and Sarah made the long journey to Belmont County Ohio from Greene County, PA.  John pur chased their homestead on April 19, 1826.  Two years later John purchased 65 acres from Thomas Smith for $300.  By then, he had one horse and two head of cattle, for which he paid 38 cents, 5 mils taxes.  By 1830 John's sons, Samuel and Isaac also appeared on the Belmont County tax rolls.

Most of John and Sarah's children migrated to Linn County, Iowa by 1860, to Kansas by 1872 and to Kay County, Oklahoma Territory at the time of the land rush in the late 1800's.  These early Varners were farmers in Ohio and Iowa, and were intelligent, hard-working people.  After moving to Kansas, they went into the building industry.  Education was important, and even the earlier generation of Varner men were taught to read and write. ~1785 - ~1855 Sarah Moore 70 70 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

AFN 2TKQ-TV 1869 Millie Markin [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

According to Wilma Allen Hotchkiss Hildebrecht, Millie was a housemother at the Xenia, Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home. 1871 Margaret Markin 1873 - 1936 Abner D Markin 62 62 Christopher Strickland Lydia P Ellis Reuben H. Ellis 1878 Gertrude Ellis Ellis 1869 Cora Ellis Mr. Heald 1896 - 1981 Ellis Dow Markin 84 84 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

SSN 280-05-6613 1899 - 1967 Frank Lorenzo Markin 67 67 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

SSN 276-30-4392 D. 1992 Anne Markin Living Becham Living Markin 1835 - 1902 Jennetie T Fair McElmore 66 66 D. 1988 Abner Dilley Markin D. 1945 William Dow Markin Living Fannin Living Dunfee Living Smith LA Forrest R Andrews [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Was an attorney and Judge in Lawrence County Ohio Zitella Andrews Lee Andrews [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Attorney in Ironton Ohio Milton Andrews Clara Andrews Starling Leverett Mr. Christy Living Kesterson Living Markin Living Markin Living Markin Living Jr Living Bethune Living Bethune Living Bethune Living Turpin Living Brunnemer Living Beardmore Living Webb Living Webb Living Webb Living Webb Living Ramsey Living Markin Living Markin Living Markin 1805 - 1864 Daniel H. Markin 58 58 Margaret Sumpter J B Hood [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

JB and Fairy has 12 children.  Twelve girls and one boy.  Only one name is known. Richard Sumpter Mary Kingery 1837 - 1864 Charles M Markin 27 27 Mary A Dolton 1840 - 1897 Martha Markin 56 56 D. 1896 Bartley Blankenship 1845 - 1864 Richard Markin 19 19 1847 Luttitia Markin 1852 Lucianna Markin Elizabeth Golden Fairy Isabelle McElmore Lucinda Dechard 1788 - 1850 Samuel Markin 62 62 1790 - 1858 Thomas Markin 68 68 1792 Martha Markin 1797 John Markin 1802 Elizabeth Markin 1800 - 1880 Charles W II Markin 80 80 1808 Cornelius B. Markin 1810 - 1850 Andrew Markin 39 39 1814 - 1900 James M. Markin 85 85 James Wilson Zacariah Hood 1816 William H Markin BET. 1780 - 1790 Joseph Markin Rebecca Deckard 1826 - 1864 Charles William Markin 38 38 George Washington Keys Elizabeth Lambert Waller 1874 Oliver A Keyes [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Lived in Council Grove KS a little East of Charity & John Lee Allen, South of Main St, Sout h of Woodland Cemetery about 1/2 block.

Oliver as a rural mail carrier with horse and buggy - he was completely bald by the time Wilm a Allen Hotchkiss Hildebrecht could remember him. 1875 Emma L Keys 1877 John Hammond Keys 1880 Charity D. Keys James Wilson Zacariah Lumpkin Hood 1857 - 1945 Mary Elizabeth Waggoner 88 88 1874 Una Varner 1877 Cloa Varner 1812 - 1895 Joseph Dye 83 83 1816 - 1889 Mary Porter 73 73 1813 - 1874 Lucy Andrews 61 61 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Joseph's family migrated to Ohio in 1816, and to Otter Creek Township, (Lafayette PO) Linn County, Iowa in 1859.  When Joseph was 21 years of age, he fell in love with one of the Andrews sisters.  The girls came from strict Quaker families.  According to the Quaker religion, its members are prohibited from marrying outside of the church.  Consequently, when Lucy Andrew was married Joseph Varner at the Methodist Church in Belmont County, Ohio, she was barred from her church.  Afterwards, she joined the faith of her husband and became a Methodist.

Joseph's occupation was that of a tenant farmer.  In 1837, Joseph made a contract with Joseph Berry of adjoining Wayne township, to lease Berry's 21 acres of land in exchange for certain improvements, to wit: "clear the land and plant 25 apple trees on it of grafted fruit and 15 cherry trees" and other fruit trees, and to "build a good cabbin house 16 by 22 feet,...inc luding two windows and one door...and find sash and glass to put in the windows..."  Joseph and Lucy later migrated to adjoining Monroe County.  In 1847, Joseph purchased two lots in the village of Lewisville, which he sold three years later.  In 1856, Joseph and his siblings sold their shares to the 80-acre tract of land inherited from their father, to their brother , Daniel, for $1400.  During the next four years, Joseph, Lucy and their children moved to Linn County, Iowa.  This was probably near the time Joseph's brothers, John and Isaac, also made the move to Linn County.  Joseph continued to work as a tenant farmer, as the 1860 census proves.  After the death of Lucy in 1874, Joseph was a storekeeper.  Joseph died in 1882, and was buried beside his dear Lucy at Center Point Cemetery, Linn County, Iowa. Ada Ann Experience 1890 Earl Varner 1887 - 1887 Halleck Varner 1d 1d [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Headstone in Parkerville Cemetery reads:

Budded on Earth to Bloom in Heaven

Halleck Varner

January 31, 1887

February 1, 1887

Son of J E & M L Varner Living Eshnaur Living Scott Nancy Simpson Francis Sumter 1845 - 1928 Cornelius Singleton Markin 83 83 Elizabeth (Betsey) Blankenship 1837 - 1916 James Marion Allen 78 78 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

James was a Machinist in Ironton at the time of his death.

Allen, James; 1868 March1; d-Ironton;O-Machinist; COD-Consumption

Obituary
ALLEN, JAMES Colonel - I.R. MAR 19, 1868
Died Mar 15, 1868 Ironton, Ohio of consumption.  He was a Colonel in 2nd WV Cavalry.  He was born in Fayette Co., VA, Feb 16, 1831 but moved to Jackson County, Ohio when very young.  H e married in Gallia County in 1853.  When the war broke out he volunteered and was made captain....After the war, he returned to old situation in the Clarke, Ricker & Co. machine works. 1848 Mary Frances Woods Alice Isabel Hood 1869 Ed Allen 1844 Eliza Jane Glandon John Glandon Theodocia Runion 1816 Bird Dilley Sally Defoe Dorothy Dean Allen Living Osborne Living Jordin Living Osborne 1826 - 1899 John D Hood 73 73 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

J D and Fairy had 13 children.  Twelve girls and one boy.  Names Unknown.

J D Hood fought for the Confederate Army during the Civil War.  A letter dated January 31, 1863 indicates they marched through Montgomery and to Entaro Alabama between the 24th and 31st.


Newspaper clipping on the death of J D Hood:

J D Hood , an old and respected citizen of the Scatter Branch community, died suddenly Tuesday night.  He was not known to have been sick at all on retiring, but got up during the night and fell dead on the floor, where he was found by a member of the family.

J W Hood, son of deceased, was serving on the jury here and was greatly shocked when he received news of the sudden death of his father, who settled in the community thirty years ago and raised a large family, who will have the sympathies of a large circle of friends and acquaintances . Interment took place yesterday at Scatter Branch cemetery.

1880 Hunt County Census shows John D Hood a farmer from South Carolina.
1860 South Carolina Census shows J D Hood in Bullocks Creek PO, York County, SC No 450.
1860 York County SC Census shows J D Hood age 32 male farmer, real estate value of 1200 and P P value of 1350. Living Osborne Living Smith Living Osborne Living Osborne Living Slater Living Osborne Living Osborne Living Martin Living Marchian Living Nelson Fairy Isabelle McElmore (Possibly McLamore) Living Martin Living Martin Living King Living Martin Living Freeman Living McDiffett Living Johnson Living McDiffett Living McDiffett Living McDiffett 1810 James Wilson Zachariah Lumpkin Hood [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

1840 Census shows Zachariah Hood living in Fairfield  County, SC Page 166.

AFN 2728-WH Living Morgan Living Eshnaur Living Kitner 1811 - 1846 Lucretia Alford 35 35 Margaret Wilson [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Margaret was a relative of President Wilson. John Alford [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

John was a stowaway from Ireland. 1813 - 1896 Matilda Patterson 82 82 Mr. Ward 1840 - 1841 Anna Allen 1 1 1843 - 1890 William Harrison Allen 47 47 [SibleyClay49139.ftw]

Served in Co K 5th West Virginia Infantry in Civil War. 1909 Robbie Sibley Wesley Wallace 1872 Ardenia Elizabeth Sibley 1867 William Pinkney Vaughn 1891 Jessie Lee Vaughn 1890 - 1990 James Frank Clayton 100 100 1893 Bonnie Sue Vaughn 1892 - 1965 Wellard Bryant 72 72 1895 Hollie Emily Vaughn 1897 - 1970 Theron Lovelace Nixon 72 72 1897 - 1962 William Ivor Vaughn 65 65 1895 - 1973 Blanche Campbell 77 77 1899 - 1977 John Claborne Vaughn 77 77 1908 - 1925 Lenna Irene Hatzenbuehler 17 17 1901 Winnie Jewel Vaughn 1888 Frank James Warren 1904 - 1996 Hattie Frances Vaughn 92 92 1904 - 1986 Marvin Albert Russell 81 81 1905 - 1998 Merrell Edward Vaughn 92 92 1910 - 1995 Agnes Joyce Hitt 84 84 1907 - 1976 Mary Louvinia Vaughn 68 68 1903 - 1970 Lee Roy Wilder 66 66 ~1873 Lula Sibley L. S. Graves Paul Graves William Graves ~1878 Donia Sibley Rob F. Hodge Haden Hodge Hartwell Hodge 1882 - 1953 Hattie E. Sibley 70 70 1881 Walter A. Williams Harold Williams 1909 - 1978 Howard Augusta Vaughn 68 68 1838 Marian Sibley Elizabeth Burgess 1842 - 1921 George Washington Sibley 78 78 George was an early riser and felt that other should rise equally early. To that end, he would often pass by their homes and throw rocks at the windows and doors to get them up and out. George always took a few draughts from his jug before retiring in the evening.

One of George's sisters was considered to be quite unstable and George had her committed.

George and family all moved to Pontotoc, Mississippi in 1866. They lived in a log cabin when they first lived in Mississippi. Farmed 300 or more acres on several lots. His will gave each daughter (3) 100 acres and each grandchild a cow (except Nita).

George W. was a prosperous and well regarded Civil War Veteran. After his death, his wife, Sarah Ann Perry, lived with Nettie. Nettie then felt that all the estate from George W. Sibley's will should go to her alone. As a result, attorneys were hired by Nettie on the one side, and by her sisters on the other side and the attorneys ended up with everything.

[From Obituary sent by Edna McLain Dolland:

"He was the fifth of eleven children and was attending school when the Civil War began; he then volunteered for Confederate Service. His Confederate Record shows him as a Private in Company G, 6th Georgia Infantry, Army of Tennessee, CSA; the unit being organized in Taylor County, Georgia as the Butler Van Guards." He was a Private March 4, 1862 and Present April 30, 1864. There are no further records.
[An index card attached to the record states a summary: "Marked Absent in Hospital at Biglers Wharf for March & April 1862. Detailed for duty at the Winder Hospital, Richmond, Virginia as Nurse dated May 16, 1862. April 30 to Aug. 31, 1862 in Richmond, VA at Hospital sick. Returned to Camp Jan & Feb. 1863 present. March & April 1864 marked Present."] ]

In 1861, young George volunteered for the Butler Van Guards being organized in Taylor County; it became Company G of the 6th Georgia Infantry, the first Regiment to organized in Georgia during the Civil War. Everyone was eager to fight and bring honor to their family and state so, of course, they all hoped to be sent to Virginia, where they were sure the major fighting would take place. The young men were sent off with speeches, flags, new hand-sewn uniforms and bibles. The speech accompanying the presentation of the flag to the Butler Vanguards was:

"Gentlemen and Ladies: In presenting this flag to the Butler Vanguards, I am encouraged with the sentiment that there is too much patriotism burning upon the altar of their hearts to suffer it ever to trail in the dust, but with manful courage will they wave it at the head of the noble band, avowing no higher watchword than liberty and Southern rights. The stars are few, but they are of the first magnitude, and will shine with greater brilliancy the more heroic the achievements they wave over. I have said the stars are few, yet the mighty revolutions hat are going on will render those that are opaque more luminous, and then they will shine with greater effulgence than the stars that waved over the Swamp Fox of the noble state of South Carolina.

But, gentlemen of the Butler Vanguards, short sentences are the best; so remember when you take your exit from Butler, the smiles of the ladies will attend you, and what is far better, you will have the smiles of God. Therefore receive these colors, and with them our best wishes for success in battle and safe return. Take them, and may they wave triumphantly in the Southern army, and if needs be over the home and grave of Washington, and may they particularly, with their glowing colors of red, white and blue."

Still basking in the glow of the good feelings of family and friends, the Butler Vanguards did, indeed, head north to Virginia, joining up with he Chattahoochee Beauregards and the Pulaski Volunteers in Augusta, Georgia for the train ride. All joined in reverie and friendship, until the train reached Petersburg, where they were to change trains for the short ride to Richmond. To quote for the recollections of Green Fleming, a member of the Pulaski Volunteers, "It seems that each one of the three companies mentioned had engaged a passenger coach, fro, different railroad officials, on which to proceed to Richmond, and being that only two passenger coaches could be procured, there was a struggle as to which companies should occupy them, and for a while it seemed that the friendship which had grown so intimate between the companies was about to come to a close. Prof. John H. Brantly, who had accompanied us, requested the Volunteers to stand back and let him whip out the whole crowd and then we could have both coaches. During this time the three captains had 'compared notes,' and it being apparent that all had been treated wrong, especially the Volunteers, the Chattahoochee and Taylor companies, who had possession of the coaches, marched out, and with the Volunteers, sought and obtained another train with open cars, comfortably arranged with seats, where all fared alike and enjoyed a splendid ride.  The boys did not like the idea of riding in box cars then, but soon learned to appreciate even a stock car filled with horses.

On our arrival in Richmond we were sent to Hollingsworth Grove, a beautiful suburb of the city, and comfortably quartered."

It wasn't long before camp life took its toll on George. By April 1862, he was in the hospital at Biglers Wharf. During this time, he received orders to remain at the hospital as a nurse. While he was nursing himself and other soldiers, his regiment, which had been garrisoned at Yorktown, Virginia, fought at the Battle of Seven Pines, part of the Seven Days Battle. The regiment, led by Alfred Colquitt, fought well despite only adequate leadership on the part of General Colquitt. The unit missed the Battle of Second Manasses in August 1862 but was ready, including George, for the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. The 6th Georgia suffered heavy casualties, about 200 of the 250 men engaged.

The now battle hardened troops went on to fight at Fredericksburg, a battle noted for house to house fighting and bungled planning on the part of the Union's General Burnside. The regiment then had to really show its capabilities at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Colquitt's Sixth fought under Stonewall Jackson in an attack on the Union Eleventh Corps flank. General Colquitt hesitated, thinking, he said, that the Union cavalry was massing in his front. Fortunately, under Jackson's leadership, the battle was won anyway, although, unfortunately, Stonewall Jackson died there. After that, Colquitt and his embarrassed and depleted brigade were transferred from Virginia to North Carolina and then to Charleston, which they defended during the summer and fall of 1863.

Colquitt's Brigade, including the 6th Georgia Regiment, got its chance to redeem itself when they were sent to Florida, arriving just in time to fight at the Battle of Olustee. The Sixth was detached from Colquitt's Brigade and fought on the extreme left of the Confederate line. They held their position despite losing five killed and fifty-six wounded and running so low on ammunition that they were forced to rummage through the cartridge boxes of the dead and dying. Just when they despaired of anything but death or surrender, a supply of ammunition arrived. The Sixth had truly redeemed themselves.

The Sixth Georgia remained in Georgia for several months after that before returning to South Carolina. From there they were sent to fight Cold Harbor (June 1864) and the siege of Petersburg (July 1864). The Sixth played a prominent part in both battles. By late 1864, the Sixth had lost some 900 men killed and wounded. The unit then returned to North Carolina, where they fought at Bentonville before the final surrender in 1865.

After the war, his once prosperous parents were left poverty stricken and, hence, decided, in 1866, to move to eastern Pontotoc County, Mississippi.

"After his marriage to Lula Mary Sibley, he and his wife lived in Brame, where they were member of the New Hope Baptist Church, until 1894, when they moved to Springville, joining the Springville Baptist Church and, later, in 1904, the Palestine Methodist Church. In December 1919, they moved to Pontotoc, joining the Pontotoc Methodist Church, staying only until November 1920, when they moved back to Brame. In the Baptist Church, he served as Deacon. In the Methodist Church, he served as Steward. He was also a member of the Masonic Lodge [Obituary provided by Edna Earl McLain Dolland]." Coy Jernigan Annie Bell Jernigan Thomas J. Jernigan Killed in Car wreck. David Hood Jernigan Doyle W. Floyd Morris K. Floyd Louis L. Floyd David A. Floyd 1846 - 1914 Martha Sibley 68 68 Franklin Watts Mattie Bell Watts Will C. Dillard Emma Watts Walter G. Watts Wallace H. Watts Mattie B. Watts Charlie Watts James Clayton Viera Pitts Amandy Gentry Augustus Watts 1885 - 1956 Ida Bell Goggins 71 71 William C. Dillard Nettie Crane Ida Thompson Edward Hewlett John Allison 1850 Julie Sibley 1849 - 1910 Hartwell Sibley 60 60 Mary J. Eaves John Weaver Florence Weaver Zula Weaver Jessie Weaver Ida Weaver Tommy Weaver Tom Carlock Worth Carlock ~1864 Emaline Tempanna Kahrine Hensley 1887 John William Gilliam 1890 Harry Augustus Sibley 1888 Joseph Louis Sibley 1890 Fannie May Smith 1889 Nora Lee Sibley Lola Sibley Mary Sibley Francis Gilly John W. Johnson 1843 - 1893 Nathaniel Faulkner 49 49 Mattie A. \\ Martha Hammond Josh Stepp 1820 Allen Boston McLain In the 1850 Census of Hancock County Alabama, page 362B, line 11, there is the following family:

Allen McLain   29   Farmer    $510 Born NC
Mary      26                      Ala
Margaret        9                      Ala
Mary       6                      Ala
William         4                      Ala
Elizabeth       2                      Ala
David          2/12                    Ala
Margaret Hewatt     50                      Va

This looks promising as the parents of James McLain if the Maragaret Hewatt is actually Margaret Hewlett, mother of Mary. The census taker's spelling and writing are not good. Two pages later there is a William Hewlett, age 26, a "Lawer", born in Alabama, with his wife Sarah and sons David and William. If there is any relationship with Mary Hewlett, he would have to be her twin brother or a cousin.

In 1860, in Winston County Alabama, the former Hancock County, Township 9, Range 10, Page 1207A. there is the following family:

Allen B. McClain       42            Farmer      $1500 Real Est.  $1200 Personal Est.  Born NC
Mary K                      39                                                                                          Ala
Margaret I.                19                                               Ala
Mary K.                     17                                         Ala
William H.       14                                     Ala
Elisabeth        11                                     Ala
David H.                     9                                         Ala
Felix D.               7                                     Ala
Rebecca           6                                     Ala
Leander           2                                     Ala
Margaret Hewlett      61                                     Va

Then in 1870, also in Winston County, Houston Township, page 511A, there is this family:

Allen McLain            52    Farmer    $800      $400                 NC
Mary C.         48                                      Ala
David           20                                      Ala
Phelis D. (Felix)        17                                       Ala
Rebeca           15                                     Ala
Adan                          12                                       Ala
Dena                          10                                       Ala
Enoch              6                                         Ala
James D.                     3                                         Ala

While these appear to all be the same family, growing in size and decreasing in prosperity, there are some problems with the ages, especially of Allen and Mary, perhaps accounted for my the census taker not actually talking to Allen and Mary in one or more of the censuses. Also, James Erastus's Obituary says that his mother's name was Mary Elizabeth Hewitt while the name here is Mary C or Mary K (Katherine or Catherine?) so the possibility exists that her middle name was not Elizabeth or that she had three names in addition to her surname. James Erastus is called James D. in the 1870 Census. According to Edna Earl McLain Dolland, James Erastus was sometimes called David. Perhaps he also had three names in addition to his surname.

In 1880, Mary appears to be widowed as she and three of her children appear as: [Winston County, Township 9, page 559B]

Mary C. McClane        56                    Ala  Va   Va
Deciann           20          daughter       Ala  NC   Ala
Eunice A.         16               daughter       Ala  NC   Ala
Erastus           12          son       Ala  NC   Ala

So, now Dena in 1870 becomes Deciann; Enoch becomes Eunice and James becomes Erastus; and it appears that the census taker in 1870 had the worst spelling.

On 21 May 1888, Mary C. McLain of Lamar County Alabama left a will in which she names 10 children or their children. The daughters are named by their married names and their husbands appear to be witnesses to the will. There is also an S.F. Pennington who witnessed the will. She left 40 acres of land in Township 9, Range 10 in Winston County to each of 9 children plus 40 total to her Underwood grandchildren. The only child left out was James D. or Erastus McLain who had married Idella Morton some 5 months earlier at the age of 22 (1870 census), 23 (1870 census), or 25 (death record). Was James being left out in any way related to his recent marriage? Had he received any other money or land prior to his father's death? According to Edna Earl McLain Dolland, James was generally regarded to have been the black sheep of the family but no one at that time seemed to know why. One thing is certain, while all of his siblings owned at least a small parcel of land, James became a share cropper.

Also in the will, the mysterious Leander or Adan becomes Leanora Ader (Rush).

Also, James McLain's obituary claims that he was the last surviving of 14 children. If so, the other three must have died young enough to have never been noted in a census.

There is an Allen McLain who purchased land in Mississippi in 1840 and who may or may not be the same Allen McLain.

In 1850, Allen was the Assistant Marshall taking the Census inWinston County, Alabama.

According to the Slave Census, Allen McLain owned eight slaves.

Ancestry.com Web Site [http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse/dll?db=gedfam&ti=0&f0=f3514&f1=2319] shows an Allen McLain and sister Katherine McLain, children of Daniel McLain and Sarah Jane Unknown; this Allen McLain was married to Naomi Bateman, possibly in South Carolina. The relationship, if any, to Allen McLain and his wife Mary Hewlett, is unknown.  BET. 1821 - 1822 - BET. 1888 - 1890 Mary Catherine Hewlett Mary was widowed by 1880. In 1888, she left a will in Lamar County in which all of her children or grand children are mentioned except for James who had recently married Idella Morton.  Van McCord 1828 - 1891 Ellen A. Jepson 63 63 Living Parker George Harmon Living Unknown Joseph Dolezal Joe's father came to America as a stow-away at the age of 12 from Czechoslovakia. His name was actually Dolezal but when his mother remarried after her first husband was killed in the coal mines, she married a man whose name was Kaluarich. The names became merged into Dolerich. After the Second World War, Joe decided to to take a name which was less confusing. He chose one close to that of a man he admired, Dolland (pronounced Do-Lund). Mary Grinkgo Vincent Grenko Vincent came to America several times. Of course, he came several times as ship's company but he also came for medical treatment. After recovering from his illness, he returned to Croatia, didn't like it, went back to America, didn't like it, returned to Croatia, changed his mind and returned to America to stay. Living Parker Living Parker Living Parker Living Bramlett Living Bramlett Living Bramlett Living Bramlett Living Kathy Living Rutherford Living Baldwin Living Baldwin Living Brooks ~1872 Clark Morton Mary Adeline Vaughn Unknown Reeves 1838 Missouri Dillard 1858 - 1871 Richard D. Dillard 13 13 1851 - 1945 Margaret Green 94 94 ~1849 - 1938 King Dillard 89 89 MAY have killed his brother-in-law, Thomas Porter.

He and Mary had several children, three of whom had some kind of palsy, perhaps St.Vitus's Dance. 1877 Annie C. Dillard Robert A. Martin Jane Sabre Living Harris Living Harris Living Harris Living Ryan Living Dolland Living Dolland Living Dolland Living Massey Living Mott Living Dolland Living Leader Living Leader Living Leader ~1788 - >1860 James Dillard 72 72 Caroline Sibley Anne Unknown [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

Arrived on the ship Ann in August 1623. <1652 Francis Clay <1655 William Clay William Sibley John Wilson Mary Clay Elizabeth Clay John Clay Margaret Fulcher ~1672 - 1760 Henry Clay 88 88 [Roberts, George Braden, Genealogy of Joseph Peck and Some Related Families, 1955, Clayton Library, Houston, Texas]:

This Henry Clay is the first Henry Clay in America and the grand-father of the Statesman and orator. He owned large tracts of land in Henrico, Goochland, Chesterfiled and Cumberland Counties.

[TheClayFamily1899Pub.FTW]

From L.W. Rigsby, Henry died "of the nattles" in the Raells during an annual birthday dinner  in honor of his eighty-eighth year. His will was probated during the September 1760 term of the Chesterfield Court. In it, he gave to his son William, the land and plantation on which he lived and the land and plantation on Deep Creek, in Henrico County (where Richard Belcher was living).

To his son Henry he gave the land and plantation on which he lived plus 200 acres of land at Letalone, in Goochland County, "it being the Lower Survey belonging to me at the said Letalone."

To his son Charles, he gave the plantation on which he lived and the land on the north side of Nuttree Run plus 400 acres at Letalone, "it being my Upper Survey at Letalone."

To his son John, he gave the plantation on which he was living and the land on the north side of Swift Creek and the upper side of Nuttree Run."

He gave in joint tenancy his Grist Mill on Nuttree Brunn to his sons Charles and John.

To each of his daughters Amey and Mary 5 Pounds of current money.

To his grandson, [Dr.] Henry Clay [of Kentucky], he gave 240 acres adjoining the lands of James Hill.

To his granddaughter, Mary [later married Stephen Lockett], one Negro girl named Phoebe.

He gave his wife Mary his Negroes, Lewis, Jo, Sue, Nann, Jenny and Sarah plus "what stock and household goods she pleases to have or make use of," of his.

Other slaves were equally divided among his sons, as well as those given to his wife, after her death. Remaining money was divided among his wife and sons.

After his wife's death, the plantation and adjacent lands upon which she was living went to his son, John Clay.

"Henry Clay, of this will, is the common ancestor of the Clays of Kentucky, being the grandfather of Doctor Henry Clay, of Bourbon, of Honorable Henry Clay (great-grandson) of Ashland, of General Green Clay, of Madison,and of Captain Thomas Clay, of Daviess County, Kentucky."

"Doctor Henry and General Green Clay were also first cousins though their mothers, Lucy and Martha Green, who were sisters, and the daughters of Thomas and Elizabeth (Marston) Green, of Amelia County, Virginia. (See Elizabeth Green's will, probated January, 1760, in Amelia.)"
[LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

This is the first Henry Clay found in America.

Little else is known of either Henry or his wife Mary. Henry did, however,leave a will, which was probated during the September Term, 1760, in Henrico County, Chesterfield Court. The items she left are listed in The Clay Family. Ann Mosley Patsy Mosley Charles Clay [TheClayFamily1899Pub.FTW]

In Amelia County, Charles and his wife Mary, deeded land inherited from his brother James to William Cousins on December 29, 1756. Mary Unknown D. <1756 James Clay John Watkins Hewlett Dorothy Clay Phoebe Clay Hannah Clay JAN 1692/93 - 1777 Mary Mitchell [TheClayFamily1899Pub.FTW]

According to General Green Clay's Manuscript, Mary died of "the flux." William Mitchell [TheClayFamily1899Pub.FTW]

Willaim and Elizabeth Mitchell lived, died and were buried in Chesterfield County, on the east side of Swift Creek, on the farm occupied by Reverand Eleazer Clay. Elizabeth Innes William Mitchell Clay Henry Clay [TheClayFamily1899Pub.FTW]

Of Southam Parish, Cumberland. D. 1789 Charles Clay John Clay [TheClayFamily1899Pub.FTW]

Of Dale Parish, Chesterfield County.

John's will was made in Chesterfield County 15 November 1761 and probated November 1762. Witnesses were Thomas Hall and Francis Lockett.

He bequeathed to his son, John, four hundred acres of land lying on the south side of Swift Creek, where his own father had lived, along with the three Negroes, Hager, Daniel and Lucy and their "increase."

To his son Edward, he left two hundred acres on the head of the Dumpling Branch adjoining the road, plus the three Negroes, Peter, Chance and Fiby.

To his wife Mary, he left the use of the plantation where they lived plus the three Negroes, Indian Peter, Indian Jude and Phillis and the benefit of the Grist Mill on Nuttree Run. After her death or remarriage, the land and mill went to Edward and his heirs.

The remaining Negroes, household goods, livestock were to be equally divided among his wife Mary and the children John, Edward, Jeremiah and Fanny.

He asked that his estate not be appraised and appointed Francis Mossley and his son John his executors. [Jeremiah is not listed as a child of John in the list provided in The Clay Family but, since he is referred to in the will, I have included him on my list.] Amey Clay Mary Clay Unknown Williamson Unknown Watkins Sarah 2 Thomas Clay [TheClayFamily1899Pub.FTW]

Thomas was deeded two hundred fifty acres of land in Amelia County on 5 May 1752. Charles Clay [TheClayFamily1899Pub.FTW]

Charles was deeded two hundred fifty acres of land in Amelia County 5 May 1752. William Clay [TheClayFamily1899Pub.FTW]

William was deeded two hundred fifty acres of land in Amelia County 5 May 1752. On 6 September 1764, William and his wife Ann made a deed to part with these lands. Judith Clay [TheClayFamily1899Pub.FTW]

Judith received fifty acres adjoining her brother Thomas. Henry Clay Ann Unknown D. <1782 John Clay [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

John Clay was the son of John Clay and (Mrs.) Mary Bass.

His Will is recorded in Hanover county, Virginia. There is a copy of it in The Clay Family. The title of Sir with his name is likely an honorary one conferred due to his profession as a minister. Edward Clay Fanny Clay Jeremiah Clay Betsy Clay <1690 Margaretha Elisabetha Gerlach 1765 James Clay Pattie Clay 1760 - 1841 William Clay 80 80 [TheClayFamily1899Pub.FTW]

Wiliam was a Revolutionary War soldier, enlisting in Chesterfield County, Virginia, at the age of sixteen. He applied for a pension10 October 1832, at the age of seventy-two, when he was residing in Granger County, Tennessee. He was allowed pension for seven months' service as a Sergeant in he Virginia Troops. Part of the time he served under Captain Edward Mosely and Colonel Robert Goode.[LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

William Clay, son of James Clay and Margaret Muse Clay, enlisted in the Revolutionary War at the age of 16 an applied for a pension in Grainger County, Tennessee in 1832. Betsy Clay Sabina Clay Unknown Nunnally Zacharia Lea Nancy Clay David Lea Margaret Clay Nancy Clay 1802 Micajah Clay 1789 - 1866 Clement Comer Clay 76 76 [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

Clement Clay, son of William Clay and Rebecca Comer Clay, attended college in Knoxville, Tennessee and read law under the Hon. Hugh Lawson White, receiving his license to practice in 1809.

Soon after being admitted to the bar, he moved to Alabama, where he resided until his death in 1866.

He served in the War of 1812, represented his county in the territorial legislature in 1817...He also served his state as Supreme Court Judge, Congressman and Governor of the state. He 'was of medium size, but erect and with dark and restless eyes,His bearing was naturally austere and although sociable with a few, he was intimate with none. He was honorable in all the relations of life and sensitive to the slightest imputation of derogatory thereto.'" Samuel Clay Anderson Clay 1803 - 1873 Cynthia Clay 69 69 1887 - 1888 Sophia Ellenova Paulson 1 1 George Hudson [TheClayFamily1899Pub.FTW]

George's will was dated 30 November 1770 and probated 14 April 773. D. BET. MAY - JUN 1781 Elizabeth Jennings Mary Hudson John Watkins Henry Watkins John Clay [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

John was of the lesser gentry, entitled to a coat of arms. His title was acquired by his son Francis.
 1587 - 1655 John Clay 68 68 [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW] and [Roberts, George Braden, Genealogy of Joseph Peck and Some Related Families, 1955, Clayton Library, Houston, Texas]

The Clays are of Welsh descent, the first of the Clays to America being Captain John Clay, a Gentleman, lesser gentry but not royalty. John is the ancestor of the Georgia Branch of the Virginia Clays.

John Claye came to Jamestown Colony in Virginia in 1613 on the ship Treasurer. He received 100 acres of land as an old planter before the government of Sir Thomas Dale and 1100 acres for the transportation of 23 persons on the ship West 13 July 1635. During the early years, starvation and death were common; twice the population of 500 fell below 60. It was not until 1623 that John felt he could bring his wife Ann across the Atlantic to join him. She arrived in August 1623 aboard the Ann.

They married in 1623 in Jordan's Journey, Charles River County, Virginia.
 Richard Clay [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

Nor record of ever coming to America. William Clay [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

William settled in Charles River County, Virginia, and probably died without issue. Francis Clay [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

Settled in Northumberland County, Virginia. Edward Clay [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

Settled in Northumberland County, Virginia. Robert Sibley Thomas Clay 1785 - 1842 Levicia Brown 57 57 Thomas Clay [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

Thomas Clay lived in Prince George (Amelia) County, where his will was probated the November following the date of 06 June 1726. His children are named in the will; his wife is not.[TheClayFamily1899Pub.FTW]

Thomas Clay had land grants, July 15, 1717 and June 2, 1722, on the upper side of Namozine Creek. This land was willed to his son James in his will, dated June 6, 1725and recorded in Prince George County November 8, 1726.  His brother Henry was the sole executor of his estate. 1675 - 1765 Charles Clay 90 90 [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

Charles Clay, son of Charles Clay and Hannah Wilson Clay, a resident of Dale Parish, Chesterfield County, Virginia, signed his will 28 January 1754. His will was recorded August 1765.

In his will, he gives his homestead to his beloved wife Sarah. His granddaughter Mary receives the part of his son Henry, who is deceased
[TheClayFamily1899Pub.FTW]

Charles signed his will 28 January 1754; it was recorded in Chesterfield, August 1765. In it, he gives his homestead to his beloved wife Sarah.

His granddaughter Mary Clay, daughter of his son, Henry Clay, receives her father's part of the estate. Judith Clay 1782 Augustus Mead Hewlett Thomas Hewlett John Clay [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

In his will, John left his wife Sarah 250 acres of land on Deep Creek. 1756 - 1821 William Hewlett 65 65 ~1754 - 1789 Nancy Watkins 35 35 It seems probable that Nancy died in childbirth. Her last child was William, Jr. Sarah Chappell John Chappell John Clay Amey Clay Sarah Clay Martha Clay Dorothy Clay Phoebe Clay William Mitchell Clay [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

"While Field's company was encamped on the banks of the Little Meadow River, a branch of the Gauley, two of his men, Clay and Doward (or Cowherd) were sent to hunt deer for the company and were attacked by the Indians. Clay was killed, but Coward made his way back to camp, having first killed one of the Indians." This quote is taken from Rigsby's Historic Georgia Families; he follows it with the statement that "this was just before the battle of Point Pleasant, and I believe explains the lack of further information concerning William Clay." Henry Clay 31 JAN 1715/16 - 1789 Charles Clay D. ~1762 John Clay Amey Clay ~1735 Mitchell Clay [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

Grandfather of Henry Clay, of Kentucky, Mitchell was a Baptist minister and settled in the Slashes of Hanover.

Quoting from L. W. Rigsby:

"The Indians appear to have become angered at Clay and his family by  reason of the aid given by them to the scouts and militia during the Revolution.

In August, 1783, after Clay had harvested his crops, and while he was absent from home on a hunting expedition to secure game for the family larder, a party of Indians crept in and attacked the family. At the time Bartley and Ezekiel were building a fence around some stocks of grain. The older sons had not returned from the Revolution. Tabitha and some of the girls were at the river washing while Mrs. Clay and the smaller children seem to have been in the house.

The first they knew of the Indians was when one of them shot Bartley from ambush. This frightened the girls, but Tabitha, seeing an Indian about to scalp her brother, rushed to his assistance and engaged the Indian in hand to hand conflict, she being without any weapon. It seemed for a while she might be victorious, but the Indian resorted to his hunting knife and literally cut her to pieces.

Mrs. Clay undertook to secure the aid of one Blankinship at this time, but he being a coward, ran off and left the family to its fate. After killing Tabitha and Batley, the Indians captured Ezekiel Clay, and for some cause left the premises with him, perhaps in search of the elder Mitchell Clay.

Mrs. Clay with her small children, secured the bodies of Bartley and Tabitha and placed them on the bed, when she and her small children left home, going to the New River Settlement.

Mitchell Clay wounded a deer, which he followed for sometime and was late in returning home, when he found the bodies of his two children on the bed and his wife and small children gone. Imagine his horror and grief, not only for the dead children, but for those member of his family whose fate was as yet unknown to him. There being nothing he could do at home, he made his way to the New River Settlements, pursued by the Indians into the Settlements. Here the settlers appearing too strong, the Indians stole some horses and made their way back towards the Ohio River.

A party was soon made up to follow them, consisting of Charles Clay, Mithcell Clay, Jr., James Bailey, William Wiley, Edward Hale, Isaac Hare, John French and Captain James Moore. They first went to the cabin and buried the Clay children. The Indians had divided, which fact was not discovered by the pursuers until after they had dome up with the party that had the horses. In the ensuing battle between the whites and the Indians, several Indians were killed. Charles Clay, only a mere boy, killing one of the Indians himself in the encounter.

Mitchell Clay, Jr., was at the time too small to handle a gun well, but shot at one of the Indians, but missed him, the Indian being killed by another member of the party.

The party of Indians carrying Ezekiel Clay were not overtaken. They took him down the West fork of the River, to their town, Chillicothe, where he was burned at the stake. The whites were so incensed at this conduct of the Indians that Edward Hale and William Wiley stripped the skin from the backs of two of the Indians and took the hide home and made razor straps from it, which were kept in the family for many years as a souvenir of the battle." Pearce Clay Phoebe Belcher David Clay [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

David was the first of the Clays to move to Georgia. He is also referred to by William Hutchinson as being a scout in Virginia during the Revolutionary War. William Clay Henry Clay Charles Clay D. 1783 Bartley Clay Ezekial Clay [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

Ezekiel Clay was captured by Indians and burned at the stake. In retaliation, one of the pursuers of the Indians skinned the captured Indians and kept the skin as a razor strap and  "souvenir." Mitchell Clay Tabitha Clay [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

Tabitha was killed by Indians on Bluestone in 1783. Rebecca Clay Patience Clay Sallie Clay Obedience Clay Nannie Clay Mary Clay Mitchell Clay John Clay George Pearis George Chapman John Peters John French Joseph Hare Lucy Green Mary Clay Thomas Green [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

Thomas's father was Dutch and settled near Petersburg, Virginia. Thomas was born during the crossing to America. Thomas Green Martha Filmer Henry Filmer [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

Henry was a member of the House of Burgesses. 1736 Henry Clay [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

Henry Clay, son Henry Clay and Lucy Green Clay, moved to Kentucky in 1787 and died there in 1820.

He was physician; his records are preserved in Bourbon County Charles Clay Samuel Clay Thomas Clay Abia Clay Marston Clay Rebecca Clay John Clay Elijah Clay Lucy Clay Rachell Povall Elizabeth Clay John Clay Rebekah Clay 1761 Samuel Clay [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

Served under General Green in the Carolinas during the Revolutionary War.

His will was probated in Bourbon County, June 1810. Rachel Clay Sally Clay Tabitha Clay Mary Ann Clay Henrietta Clay Mattie Clay Henry Clay [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

Though not the celebrated statesman, Henry became a man of much note in Kentucky. Letty Clay John Bruce Patsy Ingram William Finch Nancy Winn Barkley Martin Matthew Martin Benjamin Bedford Thomas Dawson George M. Bedinger Littleberry Bedford Peggy Helm Archibald Bedford Henry C. Clay Letitia Clay Samuel Clay George Clay Littleberry Bedford Clay Richard P. Clay John Clay Thomas Clay [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

Said to have gone to Georgia. Rachel Clay William Green Clay Martha Green Eleazer Clay [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

Eleazer, son of Charles Clay and Martha Green Clay, was a Baptist minister. He married three times and possessed considerable wealth. He served in both the French and Indian War and in the Revolutionary War. 1745 Charles Clay [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

Charles Clay, son of Charles Clay and Martha Green Clay, was ordained as an Episcopal minister by the Bishop of London, in 1769. He served as Rector of St. Ann Parish, Albemarle County. "He was an earnest patriot and created much enthusiasm in behalf of American Independence. He moved from Albemarle County to Bedford County, where his Will is of record, in which he mentions his friend the Hon. Thomas Jefferson, late president of the United States." Henry Clay [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

Died during the Revolution in Trenton, Hew Jersey. Thomas Clay [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

Thomas Clay, son of Charles Clay and Martha Green Clay, was a soldier during the Revolutionary War and a member of the First Constitution Convention of Kentucky.

Many of his and Polly's descendants appear to be in Texas. Betty Clay Lucy Clay Matthew Clay Green Clay [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

General Green Clay was the first Clay Family Historian.

Green Clay was the first Deputy Surveyor of Kentucky, was a delegate to the convention that ratified the Constitution and served in the Kentucky Legislature for twenty years, as Speaker of the (Kentucky) Senate in 1807.

He was also a soldier during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Priscilla Clay Martha Clay Hopkins Lewis William Thaxton Alexander Murray Polly Callahan Editha Davies Junius Axel Clay Odin Green Clay Paul A. Clay Cyrus B. Clay Sally Lewis Elizabeth Lewis Clay Paulina Clay Sally Ann Clay Sidney Payne Clay Brutus Junius Clay Cassius Marcellus Clay [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

To quote L. W. Rigsby, "His life and career would fill a volume within itself. His life is certainly an epic of the slavery quarrel. He was appointed as minister to Russia by Abraham Lincoln. His 'Memoirs' give his records and should be secured and read by those interested in his life." Sophia Clay Mary Unknown Bass Unknown Bass Martha Hewlett Elizabeth Hudson [TheClayFamily1899Pub.FTW]

Married at about fifteen, widowed by thirty-two and remarried by thirty-five. She bore nine children, one of them the statesman and presidential candidate Henry Clay.

29 September 1784, Elizabeth appeared in court as the wife of Henry Watkins.

Her death notice appeared in "The Western Citizen," in Paris, Kentucky, December 1829:

"Died in Woodford County, on the 4th instant, Mrs. Elizabeth Watkins, widow of Henry Watkins, her second husband, in the eightieth year of her age. He preceded her in the termination of this mortal career only ten days. Few women have fulfilled better the duties incident to all the relations here below in which she stood. Few have performed more devotedly, or for a longer period, those higher duties which, it is to be hoped, have now obtained their reward above. She was the mother of Henry Clay." Among the incidents of her life to which her obituary must have referred was theencounter with Tarletons and his troops during the Revolution, just days after Rev. John's death. One soldier thrust his sword into the fresh grave and virtually everything of any worth, including food, was taken. Unknown Hudson Unknown Jennings [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

Possibly shares a common lineage with William Jennings Bryan. John Clay Henry Clay Porter Clay John Clay [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

Moved to New Orleans. Henry Clay [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

The wee-known statesman. 1779 - 1850 Porter Clay 71 71 [LWRigsbyHistGaFamilies.FTW]

Married three times.

Auditor of Kentucky in 1822, later became a Baptist minister.

In part, his obituary reads:

"Both boys were reared by a pious Baptist mother, but Henry was captivated by the glare of politics, while Porter followed the desire of his mother and became a Baptist minister and revivalist.

At the age of 21, in 1815, Porter Clay was ad admitted to the bar in Kentucky. He was appointed auditor of state accounts by Governor W. G. Slaughter." Sophie Grosch A. P. Davis Nancy D. Hewlett Betsey Hewlett John Clay Duanna Hewlett Joanna Hewlett 1737 - 1821 Margaret Muse 83 83 According to Margaret's Obituary, reprinted in L. W. Rigsby's Historic Georgia Families, she was born near Richmond Virginia. There, in the enclave of the Church of England, it became her practice to listen to the preaching of the imprisoned Baptist preachers. Eventually she converted and chose to be baptized. The site chosen was the frozen over James River in the middle of the night, in order to avoid detection. Despite their precautions, they were apprehended and sentenced to either pay a considerable fine or be publicly flogged. Margaret could not afford the fine but was saved from the flogging by a kind-hearted soul who paid the fine for her.

After the death of her husband, James, Margaret went to live with her daughter Sabrina and her husband Zacharia Lea. The young family and Margaret lived for short period in or near Knoxville. Around 1805, they, and Zachariah's brothers and their families, moved to Mississippi, traveling down the Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers on a flat boat; the "women would ply the oars while the men would ward off the Indians with their rifles." They settled on the Amite River, about 10 miles east of Liberty and 63 miles southeast of Natchez. Before long, they relocated a few miles away to Huron, where all of their children were born and Margaret lived out her remaining years.

Margaret was the acknowledged spiritual leader of the family, giving thanks at the table and conducting the family worship.

Margaret is buried with her daughter's family in the Lea Family Burying Ground at Lea Hall, Amite County, Mississippi. 1766 Rebecca Comer Martha Clay Elizabeth Clay Lydia Clay Jeremiah 1 Clay 1778 - 1863 Eleazer Clay 84 84 Nancy Clay Sabrina Clay Samuel Comer 1792 Margaret Muse Clay 1794 Nancy Clay 1797 - <1830 William Clay 33 33 1805 Samuel Anderson Clay John Bunch Unknown Hightower Unknown Kendricks Susannah Claiborne Withers 1817 Clement Claiborne Clay 1820 John Withers Clay Hugh Lawson White Clay 1784 Mary Dunville Mary Ann Clay Alicey Clay Margaret Muse Clay James (twin) Clay William (twin) Clay Nancy Clay Eleanor Clay Eleazer Greene Clay Robert D. Clay Morgan S. Clay Mahala M. Clay Angeline Clay Wade Hampton Clay ~1758 - ~1808 Levi Pennington 50 50 Levi Pennington Jr.'s will was probated in Spartanburg, South Carolina, File 1518 [http://www/members.home.net/bobpenn1/PRA Group VI] D. ~1829 Elizabeth Ray 1782 - ~1868 Benjamin Pennington 86 86 Brothers Benjamin, William M., Jesse, Solomon and Noah all moved to Fayette, then Sanford (now Lamar) County, Alabama. ~1789 - ~1868 Catherine Tackett 79 79 ~1818 - 1884 George Washington Pennington 66 66 [MarjorieGreensHankinsPenningtonResearch.FTW]

George Washington Pennington died intestate in the State of Mississippi in 1879, according to testimony regarding the administration of his estate and sale of property in Vernon, Lamar, Alabama. The property was sold for a value equal to the costs of the sale.

          1850 Federal Census for Fayette County, Alabama

Pennington,    George         32   SC
               Sarah          30   TN
               Rachel C.      12   AL
               Nancy C.       10
               Frances M.     08
               James E.       06
               Henry J.       04
               Angelina       04
               Zachery Taylor      02

          1860 Federal Census for Fayette County, Alabama

Pennington,         George         41   SC
          Louisa         36   TN
          Emeline        16   AL
          James          14   AL
          Henry          11   AL
          Angeline       11   AL
          Taylor         10   AL
          Mary Jane 09   AL
          Franklin       07   AL
          Washington     06   AL
          Barten         05   AL
          Berry          03   AL

Hankins        Andrew         24   TN
          Nancy          20   AL
          Mary      8/12 AL

          1870 Federal Census for Lamar County, Alabama
Precinct #1 P.O. Big Pond 01 August 1870

Morton         John W.        33   AL   Dry Goods Clerk
          Nancy C.       30   AL   Keeping House
          Mary      11   AL   [See Mary L. Hankins below]
          William C.     05   AL   Attending School
          Idella J.      03   AL
          Thompson R.    8/12 AL
Hankins        Mary L.        11   AL   Attending School
                             

The following information is taken from the research of Carrie Lee Pennington Boggan, The Pennington Family, vol.1, page 43:

"All of George Pennington's children were born in Lamar County near Vernon, Alabama. It is said that he purchased one of the first lots ever sold in the town of Vernon. He was a large land owner of tht area. He gave a lot to the First Methodist Church to build on.

"According ti the Confederate Military Records, 'George Pennington enlisted June 16, 1864 in Fayette County (later Lamar County) in Capt. Everett Palmer's Company, Private, Fayette Militia. He furnished a horse to July 24, 1864.

"Other record says: 'Absent without leave since December 11, 1864. Payroll dated Cahaba, Alabama December 31, 1864.

"Another card on George Pennington explained his absence without leave. 'Furlough by Medical Board for 60 days since Oct. 11, 1864.'

Another card on George Pennington says, 'George Pennington, Capt. E. Palmer's Company, age 48. Enlisted June 15, 1864 in Fayette County (Lamar). Black eyes and black hair, and dark complexion. Detailed as a farmer. In Home Guards. Record Roll, dated June 22, 1864.

After the Civil War George Pennington and his wife and most of their children moved to Calhoun County near Water Valley, Mississippi.

He died of cancer, which ate away most of the flesh on one side of his face before his death in 1884." ~1830 Franklin Pennington ~1805 John B. Pennington Brothers John and Joseph Pennington moved to Logan County, Kentucky. ~1807 Mary Pennington ~1809 William Pennington Brothers Benjamin, William M., Jesse, Solomon and Noah all moved to Fayette, then Sanford (now Lamar) County, Alabama. ~1811 Benjamin Pennington ~1814 Joseph M. Pennington Brothers John and Joseph Pennington moved to Logan County, Kentucky. ~1820 - ~1886 Alfred Pennington 66 66 ~1822 Nancy Pennington ~1824 Viney Pennington ~1827 Cynthia Pennington ~1828 James Ervin Pennington 1821 - 1879 Sarah Louisa Lusk 58 58 [MarjorieGreensHankinsPenningtonResearch.FTW]

In Lamar county Alabama testimony regarding the estate of her husband, Sarah Louisa is said to be living near the Banner, Calhoun, Mississippi. 1836 - 1904 Rachel Catherine Pennington 68 68 [MarjorieGreensHankinsPenningtonResearch.FTW]

In Lamar County testimony in 1881, Rachel is in Marion County, Alabama. ~1840 - BET. 1870 - 1875 Nancy Caroline Pennington [MarjorieGreensHankinsPenningtonResearch.FTW]

Had 4 children with second husband, John. The censuses below show Nancy Caroline Pennington as a child in her parents' household in 1850, as the young wife of Andrew Hankins in 1860, near the household of her parents, and as the wife of John W. Morton in 1870, when her daughter was also living in the same household as her mother.

          1850 Federal Census for Fayette County, Alabama

Pennington,    George         32   SC
               Sarah          30   TN
               Rachel C.      12   AL
               Nancy C.       10
               Frances M.     08
               James E.       06
               Henry J.       04
               Angelina       04
               Zachery Taylor      02

          1860 Federal Census for Fayette County, Alabama

Pennington,         George         41   SC
          Louisa         36   TN
          Emeline        16   AL
          James          14   AL
          Henry          11   AL
          Angeline       11   AL
          Taylor         10   AL
          Mary Jane 09   AL
          Franklin       07   AL
          Washington     06   AL
          Barten         05   AL
          Berry          03   AL

Hankins        Andrew         24   TN
          Nancy          20   AL
          Mary      8/12 AL

          1870 Federal Census for Lamar County, Alabama
Precinct #1 P.O. Big Pond 01 August 1870

Morton         John W.        33   AL   Dry Goods Clerk
          Nancy C.       30   AL   Keeping House
          Mary      11   AL   [See Mary L. Hankins below]
          William C.     05   AL   Attending School
          Idella J.      03   AL
          Thompson R.    8/12 AL
Hankins        Mary L.        11   AL   Attending School
                               ~1842 Frances Emeline Pennington 1843 James Ervin Pennington [MarjorieGreensHankinsPenningtonResearch.FTW]

In testimony regarding the estate of his father, James Ervin Pennington, is said to live in Vernon, Lamar, Alabama in 1881. 1845 Henry J. Pennington [MarjorieGreensHankinsPenningtonResearch.FTW]

In 1881, Henry Pennington lives in Banner, Calhoun, Mississippi. ~1848 Susan Angeline Pennington [MarjorieGreensHankinsPenningtonResearch.FTW]

In 1881 Susan Penningon Holt resides in Banner, Calhoun, Mississippi. ~1848 Zachariah Taylor Pennington [MarjorieGreensHankinsPenningtonResearch.FTW]

In 1881 Zachariah is living in Banner, Calhoun, Mississippi. ~1853 Stephen Franklin Pennington [MarjorieGreensHankinsPenningtonResearch.FTW]

In 1881 Stephen was living in Banner, Calhoun, Mississippi. 1854 George Washington Pennington [MarjorieGreensHankinsPenningtonResearch.FTW]

In 1881, George Washington Pennington, Jr. is living in Banner, Calhoun, Mississippi. ~1855 Alfred Burton Pennington [MarjorieGreensHankinsPenningtonResearch.FTW]

In 1881, Alfred Pennington is living in Banner, Calhoun, Mississippi. ~1857 - <1881 Berry Pennington 24 24 ~1851 Mary Jane Pennington [MarjorieGreensHankinsPenningtonResearch.FTW]

in 1881, Mary Jane Pennington Cobb is living in Banner, Calhoun, Mississippi. ~1836 - BET. 1860 - 1870 Andrew Hankins 1859 Mary Liza Hankins [MarjorieGreensHankinsPenningtonResearch.FTW]

In 1881, Mary Liza Hankins, according to testimony regarding estate of her father, was living in Itawamba County, Mississippi. 1841 Mary E. Hankins David Lee Hankins Mary Bean [MarjorieGreensHankinsPenningtonResearch.FTW]

A brother names Roy Bean went to Texas. John H. Hankins Mary Unknown Richard Hankins Deborah Unknown James William Hankins Mary E. Nelson Frances Rebecca Graves 1814 George Anderson Graves Nancy Jane Shaw Joseph Shaw Rebecca Forbes Calvin Polk Graves Moses J. Graves Margaret J. Graves Mary Jane Graves Sarah A. Graves Martha Ann Graves Georgia A. Graves Frances Angelina Mullinax Mary Jane Newell Simeon B. Thomas Charles Raphael Burnett Edgar Perkins James Burton Oakes Brutiken Mentau Guin 1822 Idella Morton 1826 Newton F. Morton 1828 Milton Robertson Morton 1832 James M. Morton 1834 William Locke Morton 1837 - 1910 John Wesley Morton 73 73 [MarjorieGreensHankinsPenningtonResearch.FTW]

          1870 Federal Census for Lamar County, Alabama
Precinct #1 P.O. Big Pond 01 August 1870

Morton         John W.        33   AL   Dry Goods Clerk
          Nancy C.       30   AL   Keeping House
          Mary      11   AL   [See Mary L. Hankins below]
          William C.     05   AL   Attending School
          Idella J.      03   AL
          Thompson R.    8/12 AL
Hankins        Mary L.        11   AL   Attending School

In 1881, according to testimony regarding the estate of George Washington Pennington, John Wesley Morton was living in Vernon, Lamar County, Alabama.

After 1885 John Wesley Morton and his third wife, Frances Graves, moved to Lee County, Mississippi, where he operated a blacksmith shop in Shannon. After his death, the business was operated by his son George Newton Morton and his five sons. The shop closed in1948.

                               1843 - 1893 Martin W. Morton 50 50 1850 Thomas Clarke Morton Ezekial Mace Lydia Matilda Redus Margaret Moore Mary A. Camper Eudocia Jane Price Martha Hammond James B. Morton [MarjorieGreensHankinsPenningtonResearch.FTW]

Came to Alabama in about 1820, settling in Marion County, which became Fayette County which became Lamar County.

In addition to his occupations as physician, clerk, register and judge, James and his sons also began Morton's Mill near Vernon (Morton's Pond? and Morton's Gate?)

Not on the Census after 1860. Final resting place unknown. Mary Unknown Frances Dees ~1841 Mary E. Hankins 1843 John Leroy Hankins Virginia Bailey David Thomas Hankins Hattie Havana Hankins Andrew Owens Hankins Martha Rossina Hankins Alma Jane Hankins Goerge Joel Hankins William Henry Hankins 1848 Joel G. Hankins Martha J. Perkins Alice Hankins Sarah Hankins Mary Jane Hankins Rufus Smith Hankins Mack C. Hankins David Franklin Hankins 1849 Stephen Franklin Hankins 1852 Daniel Burton Hankins Mary Jane Sizemore Catherine Hankins Green Hankins 1884 Jacob Hankins Martha Jane Hankins 1856 William Russell Hankins Nancy Ann Hankins Mary Liza Hankins 1869 Thompson R. Morton David Lee Hankins Mary Ann Bean Robert L. Pennington [MarjorieGreensHankinsPenningtonResearch.FTW]

In 1881, Rober Pennington is living in Banner, Calhoun, Mississippi. 1794 - 1870 John Lusk 76 76 [MarjorieGreensHankinsPenningtonResearch.FTW]

According to The History of Yalobusha County Mississippi, John was born on Thicketty Creek, waters of the great Broad River, in Union District, South Carolina.

John and his father, Thomas had both purchased land in Warren County Tennessee by 1812 but did not move right away. John, his wife, son, John "David", and parents migrated to Tennessee from South Carolina about 1817, just after daughter Elizabeth Ann Lusk died. In Tennessee, eight more children were born to John and Rachel.

After the birth of the 10th child, by 07 November 1835, John and Rachel had moved to Alabama, most likely Fayette County, where John's sister Betsy Lusk Steen and her husband were living, as well as David and Loucinda.

By 1840, they had moved again, this time to Choctaw County, Mississippi, where their second son TDJ Lusk and his wife Nancy Pennington were to live following their marriage in 1841.

In 1850, John and Rachel moved from Choctaw County to Lafayette County, where they lived near his sister, Betsy Lusk Steen, and her family in Paris. 1795 - 1870 Rachel Tenason 75 75 Isaac A. Smith Rebecca Moore David Holt Nancy Tackett Henry Cobb Sarah Lusk Mary Hankins Elizabeth Baswell Samuel Surratt William Winters Walter James Amos Pennington Nancy ~1781 - ~1813 Levi Pennington 32 32 ~1783 Isaac Pennington ~1785 Elizabeth Pennington ~1787 William M. Pennington Brothers Benjamin, William M., Jesse, Solomon and Noah all moved to Fayette, then Sanford (now Lamar) County, Alabama. ~1793 John Pennington ~1795 Rachel Pennington ~1797 Sarah Pennington 1798 Jesse M. Pennington Brothers Benjamin, William M., Jesse, Solomon and Noah all moved to Fayette, then Sanford (now Lamar) County, Alabama. ~1802 Joseph Pennington ~1804 Solomon Pennington Brothers Benjamin, William M., Jesse, Solomon and Noah all moved to Fayette, then Sanford (now Lamar) County, Alabama. ~1806 Mary Pennington ~1807 Noah Pennington Brothers Benjamin, William M., Jesse, Solomon and Noah all moved to Fayette, then Sanford (now Lamar) County, Alabama. Margaret Cowan James Robbins Elizabeth Surratt? Isabell Sidenham? Mary Margaret Surratt Sarah Unknown Petty BET. 1712 - 1714 - BET. 1789 - 1790 Levi Pennington The Penningtons, Beesons and Mendenhalls all lived within close proximity in Randolph County North Carolina. There is some speculation that Levi's wife, Martha, was either a Mendenhall or a Beeson.

Levi in on the Rowan County Tax Rolls from 1755 through 1799.

Levi's will , dated 5 December 1789 and probated Jun 1790 [Will Book I, Page 79] nmaes his wife and children. [http://www.members.home.net/bobpenn1/levireg/d5368html] "To son Levi - 110 acres whereon he now lives. To wife Martha & daughter Elizabeth Beeson, the 100 acres wheeon I now live...the remainder of my estate to be equally divided between my five children: Isaac, Rachel, Mary, Levi & Elizabeth." He further mentions Elizabeth's children and Levi Jr's son, also named Levi. 1714 - 1800 Martha 86 86 Isaac Pennington Rachel Pennington Mary Pennington 1761 Elizabeth Ann Pennington Edward Beeson Unknown Perry Unknown Graves John Tennyson Elizabeth 1816 John Davidson Lusk [MarjorieGreensHankinsPenningtonResearch.FTW]

In The History of Yalobusha County Mississippi, it states that David and Loucinda settled in Yalobusha County on property purchased from Alexander Tabb and located next to his cousin Robert Lusk and his great aunt Martha Davidson Lusk, near Water Valley. By 1850, they had six children, two being twins. 1819 Thomas David Jefferson Lusk [MarjorieGreensHankinsPenningtonResearch.FTW]

Thomas Jefferson Davidson and his two oldest sons joined the Confederacy. Joh D. was killed at the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee; William H.'s fate is unknown. 1817 Elizabeth Ann Lusk 1822 Martha Lucretia Lusk 1824 Susan Jane Lusk 1826 Cynthia Lusk 1828 Nancy Samantha Lusk 1829 - 1889 Francis Marion Lusk 59 59 1832 - 1859 Robert Andrew Jackson Lusk 26 26 Loucinda D. 1869 Nancy Pennington [MarjorieGreensHankinsPenningtonResearch.FTW]

Nancy and her husband TDJ Lusk helped organize the Upper Milligan Springs Baptist Church in 1865.

Nancy Pennington Lusk died of fever on 15 July 1869 and was the first person to be buried in the Upper Milligan Springs Baptist Church Cemetery. Henry Pennington William Wood Sharpe Cassandra Cross Druscilla Phelps ~1760 - 1826 Thomas Lusk 66 66 [MarjorieGreensHankinsPenningtonResearch.FTW]

Both Thomas and his first wife, Susannah Davidson, were of "Scotch-Irish" ancestry which arrived in Philadelphia and followed the Great Wagon Road to the Carolinas.

Thomas Lusk married for the second time sometime after 1810, when Susannah Davidson Lusk, his first wife, died. By 1817-1818, Thomas, his second wife and her children were accompanying his son John to Tennessee.

On 03 January 1826 Thomas died "of an overweight of cold". His stepson James Smith became the administrator of the estate. ~1730 - ~1804 Robert Lusk 74 74 [MarjorieGreensHankinsPenningtonResearch.FTW]

According to The History of Yalobusha County Mississippi, Robert and Mary Vance Lusk, along with several of their adult children, including Major James Vance Lusk, went to Kentucky and Illinois about 1799, leaving the rest of the family in South Carolina, a move which marked the beginning of political and philosophical differences among the family. ~1735 - ~1803 Mary Vance 68 68 ~1765 - 1810 Susannah Davidson 45 45 1744 - 1780 John Davidson 35 35 [MarjorieGreensHankinsPenningtonResearch.FTW]

Mrs. W.C. Trotter, Jr., in her article in Yalobusha County Mississippi History, mentions that John Davidson was a casualty of the Revolution. ~1743 - 1828 Sara Gilham 85 85 1807 Elizabeth Lusk ~1792 Isaac Lusk ~1793 Andrew Lusk 1800 Sarah Lusk ~1805 Martha Lusk ~1806 Nancy Lusk 1809 - 1879 Susan Lusk 69 69 William H. Steen Nancy Rhea James Fowler Harrington John Bankhead Allen R. Jamieson Merrille J. Smith ~1700 - ~1763 James Lusk 63 63 Jennett James Vance 1754 - 1803 James Vance Lusk 49 49 ~1756 Nancy Agnes Lusk ~1758 Robert Lusk ~1759 Andrew Lusk John Lusk Bashaba 1769 John Lusk ~1770 Sarah Lusk ~1772 - ~1853 George Vance Lusk 81 81 Lettice Thomas William Hays Steen Samuel Davidson George Davidson Martha Davidson Joseph Samms Elizabeth Hopper Lacy Sarah Lusk John Lusk Unknown Reid? BET. 1671 - 1672 John Lusk Joseph Lusk ~1696 - 24 FEB 1744/45 William Lusk ~1698 - 1748 Nathan Lusk 50 50 ~1720 - ~1763 Robert Lusk 43 43 ~1712 - 1751 John Lusk 39 39 Sarah Gunn Elizabeth Elizabeth Hayes Martha McClure 1774 Sarah Davidson ~1765 - 1846 Samuel Davidson 81 81 1769 - 1860 Martha Davidson 90 90 Thomas George Davidson ~1772 George Davidson William Coke Davidson Peggy Davidson ~1763 Mary Lusk ~1767 Jennett Lusk D. 1806 David Smith Henry Smith Frances Smith Delilah Smith James Smith [MarjorieGreensHankinsPenningtonResearch.FTW]

Oldest son of David and Bashaba Smith, James became the administrator of Thomas Lusk's estate. 1843 John D. Lusk 1845 William H. Lusk 1847 Elizabeth Lusk 1849 Pleasant James Lusk 1851 Rufus K. B. Lusk 1853 Thomas Newton Lusk 1857 Martha Lusk 1860 Robert M. Lusk 1862 Mary Lusk 1865 Jacob Addie Lusk 1841 Margaret I. McLain Might be Margaret Irene McLain. 1843 Mary Katherine McLain 1849 Elizabeth McLain Mary Catherine Hewlett McLain mentions the children of Elizabeth Underwood in her will in 1888 but does not mention Elizabeth so it seems likely that Elizabeth had already died. 1851 David Hubbard McLain From The Dictionary of Alabama Biography, pg. 1, 127:

"David Hubbard McLain, physician, was born April 23, 1861 in Winston County, Alabama and died May 31, 1897; son of Allen McLain and Mary Hewlett. The former [Allen], a North Carolinian of Scotch_Irish descent who came to Alabama with his parents when a child and located on a farm in Walker County, grandson of William Hewlett of Virginia. His ancestors, the McLains, Hewletts, Hubbards of North Carolina and Virginia achieved distinction in the War of 1812 and were prominent in the politics of the country and the cause of the Confederacy, he received his schooling at Mt. Hope Alabama, Lawrence County and in Spring Hill Academy, Tennessee under the direction of Dr. J. M. Clark at Mt Hope and graduated from the medical college of Alabama. After practicing for one year in Allens Factory in Marion County Alabama, he moved to Maysville, Madison County, Alabama and from there to Gurley in 1879 where he soon established himself in a practice extending over the eastern part of Madison County. He was a member of the Madison County medical society and the State Medical Association and for two terms was a member of the board of censors of the former, was a Democrat, a steward in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a Knight of Honor. Married June 18, 1880 to Ella McBroom of Gurley. Children 1, Deceased 2. Last residence-Gurley Alabama." 1853 Felix Duncan McLain BET. 1854 - 1855 Rebecca McLain 1858 Leonora Ader McLain 1860 Deciann McLain 1864 Eunice McLain BET. 1850 - 1851 William Hewlett McLain Unknown White Walter Nesmith A. V. Underwood Allen Underwood Eunice Underwood Eva Underwood Elizabeth Underwood Mary Underwood Ella J. McBroom Unknown Hewlett George Washington Rush William L. Morton ~1789 - 1824 William Hewlett 35 35 William bought land in Morgan County from the United States Government  on 24 April 1820. He died before 27 October 1824, when his wife appeared in court to settle her husband's estate.

In his Will, dated 25 April 1821, he names his children, his present wife and makes pains to assure that all of his children receive equal shares from his estate, to the extent of itemizing loans and gifts to each child.

The inventory of William Hewlett's Estate lists, in part, 7 Slaves ( John, Abraham, Fulles, Nelson, Eliza, Mary,and Nelley), 3 Horses, 1 Pair of Oxen and Cart, Numerous Sheep and Hogs, 3 Beds, Walnut Cupboard, Chest and Desk, 2 Tables and 10 Chairs. 1798 - BET. 1861 - 1870 Margaret Elizabeth Hubbard On 27 October 1824, Margaret Hewlett appears in the Court Records of Morgan County, Alabama in connection with the settlement of her husband's estate. She was made guardian of her infant children, Mary Catherine and William (probably twins) on 3 October 1829. Margaret filed annual reports with the Orphans court in Morgan County. Probate records show all filings connected with her husband's estate. She was twenty-six year od age at the time. His land sold for $65. On 14 February 1831, she had received only $3.34 for her two children since her last report.

In 1840, Margaret appears in Walker County with her two children under the age of 20; she also shows herself as owning three slaves at the time. Margaret never remarried and by 1850, she is in Winston County, living in the household of her daughter Mary Catherine and her husband Allen McLain.

Margaret bought 80.15 Acres of land in Winston County, Alabama on 01 September 1860. It appears to be the same amount of land which her daughter later left to her children. ~1790 Hugh McLain In Margaret Murphy's account in The Heritage of Morgan County, Alabama:

Hugh McLain was of Scotch-Irish descent and, as such, his ancestors almost assuredly arrived in America at the port of Philadelphia and, during succeeding generations, made their way down the Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia through Lancaster County, through the Shenandoah Valley and, possibly, from there toward, most likely, the Carolinas, since his wife Elizabeth Morris was born there.

Hugh brought his wife and child(ren) to Alabama when Allen was a young child. ~1790 Elizabeth Nancy Morris John Morris Mary Maxwell BET. 1821 - 1822 William Hewlett Colonel Hewlett held the highest rank of any officer from Walker County during the Civil War. 1754 - 1841 Thomas Mortimer Hubbard 86 86 In 1775, while living in Goochland County, Virginia, Thomas enlisted in the 1st Virginia Regiment, commanded by by Col. Patrick Henry. Later, he enlisted as a Sergeant in the Continental Line, serving therein for three years.

Margaret Murphy quotes from from Thomas's Revolutionary War Pension Application:

"I enlisted in the first Virginia Regiment in the ...of the Revolution under Captain John Fleming in the month of June or July in 1775, for one year. I was a citizen of Goochland County, Virginia. The Regiment was commanded by Col. Patrick Henry and Major Epps, filed officers not remembered. William Lewis and John Pettis were Lieutenants in Fleming's Company and I have forgotten the name of the Ensign. The Company joined the Regiment at Williamsburg, and from thence we marched to the Great Bridge; from the Great Bridge to Kemps Landing where we remained some time and marched to Norfolk, where the British Fleet was lying, they had cannoned the town and burned part of it before our arrival, and under the direction of the Committee of Safety, we burned the other part. After my enlistment Patrick Henry was elected Governor of Virginia and quit the Regiment.

Sometime in June 1776, we returned to Williamsburg and on hearing of the Declaration of Independence, a faux de Joy in Williamsburg. About this time the Regiment was reorganized and I enlisted under the same Company Officers, in the 'Continental Line,' 1st Virginia Regiment for three years as as Sergeant...I was at the Battle of Trenton the 26th, 28th December 1776, when the Hessions were taken and no great while afterward, the British came upon George Washington, and the two armies fired upon each other across a mill pond. At the Battle of Princeton, I was struck wish a musket shot which broke two ribs, but did not enter the hollow. Before the Battle of Brandywine, I was appointed a General."

After the Revolution, Thomas settled in Bedford County, Virginia until 1804 when he moved to Rutherford County, Tennessee. He went to Madison County, Alabama about 1815 and in 1818 went to Morgan County, Alabama. From 1818-1822, Thomas served as a Captain in Cotaco County's 6th Regiment, 2nd Division., Alabama Territorial Militia, under the command of Col. Hezekiah Johnston & Col. Jonathan L. Owens.

In 1838, Thomas appears, judging from a research of the Morgan County Court Records by Bill Tubbs (437 Battle Creek Road, Jasper, AL 35503), to have given considerable property to Thomas Jr. Son David, representing the other children brought suit to find out if Thomas Jr was exerting undue influence on their father. The court sent out Charles L. King to discover the truth. Thomas Sr. acknowledged signing the deeds but refused to answer any other questions. Mr. Tubbs speculates that Thomas may have been peeved that all the rest of his children moved south and west of Morgan County.

In his will, written in 1840, and executed by his son David, a lawyer in Moulton, Lawrence County, Alabama, he states that he had sold most of his land and Negroes, retaining only a small portion during his life. Of his remaining estate, he left to his four sons, Vincent, David, Stephen and James, equal parts of his property of any description. David was to sell everything at auction to pay his debts and, if demanded, to pay out of the proceeds, one dollar each to Green, Thomas, Elizabeth, Margaret and Catherine, and no more. Laura received his bed and furniture prior to sale of the inventory. The will and invetory follow.



State of Alabama                             Orphan Court
Morgan County                           Orphan Court Special
                                        21 Aug't 1841

This day came David Hubbard and presented an instrument in writing purporting
To be the last will and testament of Thos Hubbard late of Morgan County
Deceased and offered the same for probate. And at the same time came Alexander A. McCarthy & William C. Roberts two of the Subscribing Witnesses of
said will, and when duly Sworn deposeth and saith that they Signed the same as
witnesses, in the presence of each other, and in the presence of N K Murphy the
other Subscribing witness, and as the Said testator9') Special request said testator was of sound disposing mind and memory at the time of doing the Same
and he published & acknowledged said Instrument to be his last will & testament
And at the Same time came David Hubbard the Executor named in said will of
Thos Hubbard Dec'd and applied for letters of Executorship upon said
Decedents Estate whereupon it is ordered by the Court letters be committed to
the said David Hubbard upon his entering into bond in the final sum of Six
Thousand dollars Whereupon the said David Hubbard tendered his bond with S.
Hubbard, G P Reid and H A McCartney which was approved of by the Court and
Letters issued which was accordingly done

Ordered by the Court that D A Morton J A Patterson H A High & John be and are hereby appointed to appraise the personal property of Thos Hubbard
Dec'd.

Ordered by the Court Citations issued to Thos Hubbard Harvery Morris in right of
His wife, Margaret Hewlett John McLain in right of his wife & Vincent Hubbard for
To be and appear before the Judge of said Court at the Court house in
Summerville on the Second Monday in September next to show cause of any
They can why the last will and testament of Thomas Hubbard Dec'd should not be entered of record.

     Will of Thomas Hubbard, Senior, and Proof
The State of Alabama               Before Horatio Philpott, Judge of the
Morgan County                 County Court for said County
                              Personally came Alexander
A.   McCartney, William C. Roberts, two of the Subscribing Witnesses to the
Foregoing Will of Thomas Hubbard, Senior, late of said County, Deceased,
Which Will is hereunto appended, and Dated, in the Caption, on the 18th of
August 1840, at the request of said Thomas Hubbard, Senior, is in
Presence and in the presence of each other, and that they saw the said
Thomas Hubbard Sign the same and Acknowledge and Declare it as his
last Will and Testament, and they also saw the other Subscribing Witness Nathan H. Murphey Sign the same, in the presence of the said Thomas
Hubbard and in the presence of each of said Witnesses, and that the said
Testator Thomas Hubbard, Senior, was as the time of Signing the same of
Sound disposing mind and memory.
Sworn to and Subscribed            A. A. McCartney
In the Presence of                 W. C. Roberts
H. Philpott Judge
Ordered to be Entered of                H. Philpott
Record

          Will

    

The State of Alabama, Morgan County, August 18th 1840.
I, Thomas Hubbard, Senior, of said County, now of sound mind and
Memory (but being old and infirm) do make and ordain and publish my
Last Will and Testament, as follows, and hereby revoke all former Wills,
Whatsoever, (to wit). Item 1st Having sold my land and Negroes, retaining
Possession of the land and certain Negroes during my life, I hereby give
And bequeath unto Vincent Hub___, David Hubbard, Stephen Hubbard
And James Hubbard, my four sons in equal parts all of my property of
Every description whatsoever, Household and Kitchen furniture, Stock
Crops and Farming Utensils Debts due and Money on hand at the time of
My death.
I Thomas Hubbard appoint my son David Hubbard as Executor of this will and whose responsibility it will be to settle my estate at the ???under the will in my book. Sworn my Estate in conformity my said will viz. selling all of the property at public sale for cash giving one months notice of the
Time and place of sale and out of the proceed shall if demanded pay to Vincent Hubbard, Thomas Hubbard Elizabeth Wilson, Margaret Hewlett, Catharine Morris One Silver Dollar each, and nothing more, and the resiium of the proceeds shall be divided according to the provisions of
the first item in this Will between the said Vincent, David, Stephen, and
Jane, and if one or more of them should then not be living Children of such
As may be dead previous to the distribution herein contemplated. I give to
Cynthia Caledonia Hubbard my largest Bed as specific Legacy, with the
Furniture thereunto belonging, and I give to Livura Emily Hubbard my remaining Bed and Furniture, also a specific Legacy to be set apart
Before my Property is inventoried for the purpose of Sale. Witness my
Hand and seal, the nineteenth day of August in the year eighteen hundred
And forty, in the presence of
     Test. W. C. Roberts                Thomas Hubbard {Seal}
A.   A. McCartney


Bond of David Hubbard Executor of Thomas Hubbard Senior

Know all men by these presents, that we David Hubbard, Stephen Hubbard,
Green P. Price, Alexander A. McCartney, ar held and firmly bound unto Horatio Philpott judge of the County Court of the State of Alabama, and his successors in office, in the final sum of six thousand dollars, to which payment well and truly to be made we and each of us do bind ourselves, our heirs & firmly by these presents sealed with our seals and dated the 21st day of August 1841. Now the  condition of the above obligation is such that whereas the above bound David Hubbard has been duly appointed executor of the estate of Thomas Hubbard, Sen'r, deceased; now if said David Hubbard shall well and truly perform all the duties which are or may be by law required of him as executor, then the above obligation to be void; else to remain in full force and virtue.
Witness our hands and seals, the date above written.
                              David Hubbard {Seal}
                              Stephen Hubbard {Seal}
                              Green P. Price {Seal}
                              A. A. McCartney {Seal}
Approved and Ordered to be Entered of Record
          August 21st 1841         H. Philpott

An Appraisement of the Estate of Thomas Hubbard Senior

A List of the Personal Property Appraised by James A. Patterson and James M. Murphy and Henry A. High

1 Gray Horse   60.00
1 Bay Mare     15.00
1 Large Steer  15.00
1 Small Do.    5.00
1 Lot Hogs     45.00
1 Crib Corn    30.00
1 Lot Lumber   .50
1 Lot Old Waggon Irons   15.00
1 Wheel Barrow and Slide 1.00
1 Grindstone   1.50
1 Box Tools    .75
1 Plough etc   1.00
2 Bbls Salt    12.00
Smoke House Lumber  1.50
1 Old Cupboard 3.00
1 Half Bushel & 1 Peck Measure     .75
1 Table   3.00
2 Bedsteads    2.00
1 Small Pot    1.00
2 Ovens   2.00
1 Stew Kettle  .75
2 Pair Pot Hooks    1.00
1 Lot Shovel & Tongs     1.50
Sheep Shears etc    .75
1 Cow     7.00
Potatoes  5.00
6 Stacks Oats  18.00
2 Stacks Fodder     10.00
2 Boxes Wheat  5.00
1 Large Kettle 3.00
1 Pot and Hooks     1.50
1 Old Oven     .50
1 Tub     .75
1 Sieve Sifter and Tray  1.00
2 Spinning Wheels   1.50
5 Ploughs 5.00
1 Lot Chains etc.   3.00
1 Mattock 1.00
1 Lot Gear     2.00
1 Lot Horse Shoes   .50
1 Cross Cut Saw     3.00
1 Lot Barrels  1.00
1 Broad Axe    1.50
5 Augers  1.00
2 Saws    1.50
2 Wedges & Trow     1.00
1 Hatchet & Drawing Knife     1.00
1 Table   1.00
1 Strap and Razors  2.00
1 Walker's Dictionary    1.50
1 Old Trunk    .50
1 Old Book     .25
1 Set Knives and Forks   2.00
1 Bottle Oil   .25
1 Brush   .25
1 Old Table    .50
1 Glass   2.00
4 Large Jars   6.00
1 Pair Andirons     .50
1 Pontoon .25
1 Shot Gun     5.00
1 Bureau  7.00
1 Sideboard    4.00
1 Bed     1.50
1 Axe     1.00
1 Old Shovel   .13
1 Old Case     .25
1 Lot Meal     4.00
1 Lot Leather  3.50
1 Lot Books    1.00
6 Chairs  1.50
1 Set Plates   1.00
2 Bowls   .25
1 Pitcher 1.50
Cups and Saucers    .50
1 Box Salt     .25
3 Tumblers     .75
4 Silver Spoons     2.50
1 Lot Queensware    2.50
1 Cradle  2.50
    

Bonds of David Hubbard
No 1 Bond for $800 due 14th Dec'r 1839              800.00 
No 2 Bond for $1000 due 14th Dec'r 1840      1000.00
No 3 Bond for $900 due 14th Dec'r 1841              900.00
Note on D. Hubbard for $140, 15th April 1841,
     Due one day after Date                    140.00

     This inventory was taken by us, on or about the 20th day of August; and contains a just and true account of the Goods, Chattles, Rights and Credits of the Estate of said Thomas Hubbard, Sen'r, at the time of his death.
                         James M. Murphy
                         James A. Patterson
                         Henry A. High

     The State of Alabama          Personally appeared before
     Morgan County S. S.        me John Ormand a Justice of the
                                Peace for said
James M Murphey James A. Patterson, and Henry A. High, the above subscribing Appraisers, appointed by the Judge of the County Court of said County to assess the appraised of the Personal Estate of Thomas Hubbard late of said County, deceased, who being duly sworn Deposeth and Said that the foregoin Appraisement is s true Valuation of the aforesaid Estate as made by them, void of prejudice or partiality, and to the best of their judgment, skill and ability. Given under my hand and seal at Office on this nineteenth day of November 1841.

                              John Ormand {Seal}
                              A Justice of the Peace
State of                 Ordered by the Court That the Within
Alabama                  Inventory and Appraisement be entered of Record    
Morgan County                 Nov 22nd 1841




 D. <1841 Mary Blakeley Swann 1786 Green Kirk Hubbard 1788 Thomas Hubbard 1790 Vincent Hubbard 1792 David Hubbard David served as Congressman from Alabama and was the first Confedeerate Commissioner of Indian Affairs. During the War of 1812, he served as a Major. 1790 Elizabeth Hubbard 1805 Catherine Hubbard 1800 Stephen Hubbard 1803 James Hubbard Elizabeth Hamm John Marlin Wilson Elizabeth Campbell Rebecca Stoddard Nancy Catherine Williams Eliza Dewoody John Harvey Morris 1796 Betsey Hubbard 1811 John Morris McLain 1815 Mary Margaret Elizabeth McLain 1821 William Taylor McLain 1830 George W. McLain 1831 Martha McLain 1834 Nancy McLain 1826 Hugh McLain Thomas White Mary Ann Flannigan Living McWeeny Living McWeeny Mary Adeline Vaughn 1860 Infant Dillard Frances Dillard Elizabeth Dillard Enoch S. Baker 1841 Sarah Dillard Eliza Brown Gabriel T. Goggans ~1820 James Dillard Elizabeth Unknown 1845 Sarah Dillard 1846 Mary M. Dillard 1848 Martha C. Dillard 1850 George W. Dillard 1851 Benjamin Dillard 1852 Susan Ann Dillard 1853 Mariah R. Dillard 1856 Josephine Dillard 1859 James F. Dillard Sarah Bryant Josephus Dillard 1814 Nancy Dillard 1825 Dorcus Elizabeth Dillard 1829 Nancy Ann Dillard ~1830 Mary Dillard ~1834 Sarah M. Dillard ~1838 Thomas Dillard ~1843 Martha Dillard ~1845 Joseph Dillard ~1755 - 1851 Joseph Dillard 96 96 ~1760 - 1852 Pricilla Wilkens 92 92 ~1783 - 1852 Nancy Dillard 69 69 1785 - 1852 Gemima Dillard 66 66 1789 Harcanius Dillard 1790 - ~1857 Phoebe Dillard 67 67 1794 - 1850 Dorcas Dillard 56 56 1796 - 1857 Delilah Dillard 61 61 1798 - 1892 Samuel Dillard 94 94 1801 - 1860 Lucretia Dillard 59 59 ~1806 - 1866 Josiah Dillard 60 60 James Richardson Bryant Isaac Rodgers Nancy Bryant Unknown Barnett Johnston Briant William F. Bryant Elizabeth Reid James Reid Cynthia Hammett 1775 Mary Clay Judith Clay 1785 - WFT Est. 1818-1876 John Carlock WFT Est. 1775-1797 - WFT Est. 1818-1884 Isabelle 1740 - 1815 George Carlock 75 75 1720 - WFT Est. 1721-1810 Frederick Carlock 1674 - ~1763 David (Gerlach) Carlock 89 89 From FIRST FAMILIES OF AMERICA, Vol VI, page 637 & Vol VII, page 773:

David was born in Germany, went to Holland and then to America, before 1727, settling in the Shenandoah Valley of the  then quite vast Augusta County, Viginia. His son, Hancrist ( Johannes Christ), was a soldier in the American Revolution His son, Abraham, though too young to volunteer, made bullets for the American soldiers and later fought in the War of 1812.

David is in the court records in February 1762, concerning a dispute with John Gratton, in Brock's Gap. [www.genealogy.com. Document not named] Living Herron Living Lim Living Herron Living Herron Private Kenneth E Herron Living Johnson Living Herron Living Herron Living Herron 1903 - 1973 George R. Johnson 70 70 1906 - 1995 Nellie B. Gatton 88 88 Living Johnson 1873 - 1940 Levi Gatton 67 67 1878 - 1966 Jennie Ethel Wells 87 87 1899 - 1963 Lester Glenn Gatton 64 64 1901 - 1960 Esther Matilda Gatton 58 58 1903 - 1983 Bill Julian Gatton 79 79 Private Abraham Isaac Gatton 1908 - 1947 Ethel Naomi Gatton 38 38 1910 - 1980 Irene Isabelle Gatton 70 70 Private Wilma Muriel Gatton 1913 - 1967 Robert Levi Gatton 53 53 1915 - 1915 Helen Winona Gatton 6m 6m 1916 - 1982 Lloyd Neil Gatton 65 65 1856 - 1944 Abraham Jefferson Wells 88 88 1858 - 1927 Louisa Ione French 69 69 1879 - WFT Est. 1897-1973 Winona Wells 1882 - 1983 John Henry Wells 101 101 1885 - WFT Est. 1920-1976 Elvie Neil Wells 1887 - WFT Est. 1916-1981 Nellie Louisa Wells 1890 - WFT Est. 1904-1984 Mary Susan Wells 1893 - WFT Est. 1894-1983 Fred Wells 1896 - 1973 Iver Paul Wells 76 76 1818 - 1881 Uriah Wells 63 63 1821 - 1897 Susannah Carlock 76 76 WFT Est. 1839-1865 - WFT Est. 1844-1948 Rebecca Comfort Wells 1838 - 1915 George W. Wells 77 77 1839 - WFT Est. 1840-1933 Infant Girl Wells 1841 - WFT Est. 1855-1935 Mary T. Wells 1842 - 1927 Samuel Arthur Wells 84 84 1844 - 1915 Martha Mahala Wells 71 71 1852 - WFT Est. 1890-1947 Sara Isabel Wells 1853 - WFT Est. 1874-1943 Uriah Winton Wells 1858 - WFT Est. 1902-1950 Hiram Warner Wells 1800 - 1881 George Osborn Carlock 80 80 1802 - 1876 Elizabeth Cox 73 73 1823 - 1862 Henry Carlock 39 39 1765 - 1843 Abraham Carlock 77 77 1770 - 1802 Abigail Osborn 32 32 Living Davis Living Herron Living Nash Living Herron Living Nash Living Blue Living Herron Living Herron Private Phillip Shenefield Private Ivan G. McCullough Living McCullough Living McCullough Living McCullough Living McCullough Living McCullough Living McCullough Living McCullough Living McCullough Living Linderman Living McCullough Living McCullough Living Blue Living McCullough Living McCullough Living Adams Living McCullough Living McCullough Living McCullough Living Stafford Living Rex Living Jacob Living Jacob Living Weatherstone Living Cook Living McCullough Living McCullough Living Holmes Living McCullough Living McCullough Living White Living White Living White Living George Living Peterson 1884 - 1955 Jess Carlock 71 71 Private Tracy Bigley Private Wayne Blair Private Fred Gatton 1925 - ~1992 George Gatton 67 67 Private Leo William Baughman Private Emilie Frances White 1826 - 1858 Martha Glendening 31 31 WFT Est. 1834-1854 - WFT Est. 1859-1938 Elizabeth A Murphy WFT Est. 1824-1844 - WFT Est. 1858-1930 James Murphy WFT Est. 1840-1868 - WFT Est. 1891-1954 Ellen Puckett 1842 - 1915 Samuel Kier 73 73 1849 - WFT Est. 1890-1940 George A. Miller WFT Est. 1849-1869 - WFT Est. 1874-1953 Naomi French 1865 - WFT Est. 1902-1960 Birdie Eunice Rockwell 1846 - 1908 Henry Carlock Wells 62 62 WFT Est. 1842-1861 - WFT Est. 1867-1946 Sarah Covington 1849 - WFT Est. 1870-1939 John W. Wells WFT Est. 1845-1865 - WFT Est. 1870-1949 Amanda Gabriel WFT Est. 1878-1898 - WFT Est. 1903-1982 Florence Henderson Living Wells Private Edna Harp Private Edna Belle Berry Private Leslie Wayne Gatton Private Shirley Irene Gatton Private Earl Warner Venetz WFT Est. 1873-1893 - WFT Est. 1907-1979 Joe Mogel WFT Est. 1862-1882 - WFT Est. 1897-1968 Harry A. Negley Private Harold Negley Living Pauline 1919 - WFT Est. 1948-1997 Ruby Mae Gatton 1899 - 1958 Clifford Harold (Red) Orey 59 59 WFT Est. 1818-1841 - WFT Est. 1865-1929 Elizabeth C. Canady 1792 - WFT Est. 1793-1882 Isaac Carlock 1795 - WFT Est. 1796-1885 Reuben Carlock 1797 - WFT Est. 1798-1891 Sarah Carlock 1798 - WFT Est. 1799-1892 Eunice Carlock 1800 - WFT Est. 1801-1890 Abraham Willard Carlock 1802 - WFT Est. 1803-1896 Mary Jane Carlock 1802 - WFT Est. 1803-1896 Catherine Carlock 1780 - 1851 Mary Anne Lee 71 71 1805 - WFT Est. 1806-1899 Nancy Carlock 1807 - WFT Est. 1808-1901 Anna Carlock 1809 - WFT Est. 1810-1903 Abigail Carlock 1811 - WFT Est. 1812-1901 Jacob Madison Carlock 1813 - WFT Est. 1814-1903 Miriam Carlock 1815 - WFT Est. 1816-1909 Cynthia Carlock 1817 - WFT Est. 1818-1911 Ruth Carlock 1820 - WFT Est. 1821-1914 Penina Carlock 1823 - WFT Est. 1824-1913 William Jackson Carlock 1715 - 1803 Hanchrist Carlock 88 88 1730 - 1830 Sarah Whitman 100 100 1845 - WFT Est. 1874-1936 George William Carlock 1847 - 1904 Uriah Wells Carlock 57 57 1849 - WFT Est. 1867-1943 Sarah Ann Carlock 1851 - WFT Est. 1872-1941 Henry Glendening Carlock 1855 - 1883 Susan Jane Carlock 28 28 1853 - WFT Est. 1885-1947 Martha Elizabeth Carlock 1856 - WFT Est. 1877-1946 Hiram Warner Carlock 1857 - WFT Est. 1858-1947 John James Carlock 1859 - WFT Est. 1860-1949 Thomas Jefferson Carlock 1860 - WFT Est. 1861-1950 Richard Caleb Carlock 1862 - WFT Est. 1863-1956 Harriet Lenora Carlock WFT Est. 1859-1888 - WFT Est. 1865-1967 Uriah Wells WFT Est. 1859-1888 - WFT Est. 1864-1970 Mary J. Wells WFT Est. 1859-1888 - WFT Est. 1865-1967 George W. Wells WFT Est. 1859-1888 - WFT Est. 1865-1967 Samuel Wells WFT Est. 1859-1888 - WFT Est. 1865-1967 John Wells WFT Est. 1859-1888 - WFT Est. 1865-1967 Andrew Wells WFT Est. 1863-1892 - WFT Est. 1869-1971 Charles A. Wells WFT Est. 1863-1892 - WFT Est. 1869-1971 Oliver Wells WFT Est. 1863-1892 - WFT Est. 1869-1971 John Wells WFT Est. 1863-1892 - WFT Est. 1869-1971 Joe Wells WFT Est. 1863-1892 - WFT Est. 1869-1971 Claud Wells WFT Est. 1863-1892 - WFT Est. 1868-1974 Adella Wells WFT Est. 1863-1892 - WFT Est. 1869-1971 Hall Wells WFT Est. 1863-1892 - WFT Est. 1869-1971 Arthur Wells WFT Est. 1863-1892 - WFT Est. 1868-1974 Maud Wells WFT Est. 1863-1892 - WFT Est. 1869-1971 Roy Wells WFT Est. 1863-1892 - WFT Est. 1869-1971 Theodore Wells WFT Est. 1863-1892 - WFT Est. 1868-1974 Laurel Wells 1888 - WFT Est. 1889-1982 Edith Pearl Wells 1872 - WFT Est. 1873-1962 Harlan Miller 1875 - WFT Est. 1876-1969 Margaret Stella Miller 1880 - WFT Est. 1881-1974 Bessie Maude Miller 1883 - WFT Est. 1884-1973 Richard Jefferson Miller 1883 - WFT Est. 1884-1977 Grace Gertrude Miller 1887 - WFT Est. 1888-1981 Martha Susannah Miller WFT Est. 1822-1852 - WFT Est. 1873-1939 Strong 1870 - WFT Est. 1871-1960 Ira Bird Strong 1846 - 1905 Rachel N. Canady 58 58 1868 - WFT Est. 1869-1958 Madison Henry Carlock 1870 - WFT Est. 1871-1964 Mary Ellen Carlock WFT Est. 1868-1896 - WFT Est. 1873-1978 Elizabeth Carlock WFT Est. 1868-1896 - WFT Est. 1873-1978 Ella Carlock WFT Est. 1868-1896 - WFT Est. 1873-1978 Bell Carlock WFT Est. 1868-1896 - WFT Est. 1873-1978 Stella Carlock WFT Est. 1868-1896 - WFT Est. 1874-1975 Frank David Carlock WFT Est. 1868-1896 - WFT Est. 1874-1975 Jess Carlock WFT Est. 1868-1896 - WFT Est. 1874-1975 Charles Carlock WFT Est. 1832-1852 - WFT Est. 1867-1938 Daniel A. Canady WFT Est. 1867-1890 - WFT Est. 1872-1971 Caleb Wade Canady WFT Est. 1867-1890 - WFT Est. 1872-1971 Charles Winton Canady WFT Est. 1867-1890 - WFT Est. 1872-1974 Cora Canady WFT Est. 1867-1890 - WFT Est. 1872-1971 Lou Canady WFT Est. 1867-1890 - WFT Est. 1872-1974 Laura Canady WFT Est. 1872-1901 - WFT Est. 1877-1983 Clara Carlock WFT Est. 1872-1901 - WFT Est. 1877-1983 Mary Carlock 1846 - 1884 John Good 37 37 1869 - WFT Est. 1870-1959 George W. Good 1871 - WFT Est. 1872-1961 Henry Good 1874 - WFT Est. 1875-1968 Minerva Good 1880 - WFT Est. 1881-1974 Ada Good 1882 - WFT Est. 1883-1976 Arch Good WFT Est. 1877-1906 - WFT Est. 1883-1985 Thomas Carlock WFT Est. 1877-1906 - WFT Est. 1883-1985 Jefferson W. Carlock WFT Est. 1877-1906 - WFT Est. 1883-1985 Orville Carlock WFT Est. 1867-1895 - WFT Est. 1873-1974 Frank Wells WFT Est. 1867-1895 - WFT Est. 1873-1974 Chester Wells WFT Est. 1867-1895 - WFT Est. 1872-1977 Nellie Wells WFT Est. 1867-1895 - WFT Est. 1872-1977 Pearl Wells WFT Est. 1867-1895 - WFT Est. 1873-1974 Abraham Wells WFT Est. 1867-1895 - WFT Est. 1872-1977 Jene Wells WFT Est. 1867-1895 - WFT Est. 1872-1977 Lillie Wells WFT Est. 1870-1899 - WFT Est. 1875-1981 Margaret Wells WFT Est. 1870-1899 - WFT Est. 1876-1978 Travis Wells WFT Est. 1870-1899 - WFT Est. 1875-1981 Elsie Wells WFT Est. 1870-1899 - WFT Est. 1876-1978 Lafayette Wells WFT Est. 1870-1899 - WFT Est. 1876-1978 John Wells WFT Est. 1870-1899 - WFT Est. 1876-1978 Cleveland Wells WFT Est. 1870-1899 - WFT Est. 1875-1981 Clara Wells WFT Est. 1874-1903 - WFT Est. 1880-1982 Willie Wells WFT Est. 1874-1903 - WFT Est. 1879-1985 Clara Wells WFT Est. 1874-1903 - WFT Est. 1879-1985 Anna Wells WFT Est. 1874-1903 - WFT Est. 1879-1985 Valetta Wells WFT Est. 1862-1889 - WFT Est. 1868-1969 Henry Allen Kier WFT Est. 1862-1889 - WFT Est. 1868-1972 Nellie Marion Kier WFT Est. 1862-1889 - WFT Est. 1868-1969 Claud Kier WFT Est. 1862-1889 - WFT Est. 1868-1972 Anna Cora Kier WFT Est. 1862-1889 - WFT Est. 1868-1972 Susie Fidelia Kier WFT Est. 1862-1889 - WFT Est. 1868-1969 Andrew Jackson Kier WFT Est. 1862-1889 - WFT Est. 1868-1969 Vern C Kier WFT Est. 1862-1889 - WFT Est. 1868-1972 Martha Elizabeth Kier 1880 - WFT Est. 1881-1974 Ina Ellen Kier WFT Est. 1862-1889 - WFT Est. 1868-1969 Donald Golden Kier 1884 - WFT Est. 1885-1978 Lena Olive Kier 1883 - WFT Est. 1884-1977 Gertie Odessa Wells 1888 - WFT Est. 1889-1982 Helen Wells 1891 - WFT Est. 1892-1985 Beulah May Wells 1894 - WFT Est. 1895-1984 Golden George Wells 1897 - WFT Est. 1898-1987 Wayne Willard Wells 1899 - WFT Est. 1900-1989 Merle Wade Wells Mary Clay 1725 - WFT Est. 1726-1819 Catherine Carlock 1723 - 1811 Conrad Carlock 88 88 1717 - WFT Est. 1731-1811 Caroline Carlock 1767 - WFT Est. 1768-1857 Isaac Carlock 1775 - WFT Est. 1776-1865 Jacob Carlock 1772 - WFT Est. 1773-1862 Moses Carlock 1770 - WFT Est. 1771-1864 Eunice Carlock 1774 - WFT Est. 1775-1864 Job Carlock 1779 - WFT Est. 1780-1873 Mary (Polly) Carlock WFT Est. 1712-1729 - ~1860 Susan Witmer 1750 - WFT Est. 1751-1840 Lemuel Carlock 1755 - WFT Est. 1756-1849 Catherine Carlock 1694 - 1725 Anna Marie Lisemus 31 31 ~1679 - ~1763 Hans Gerlach 84 84 WFT Est. 1632-1655 - WFT Est. 1677-1743 Anna Maria Kummer WFT Est. 1700-1720 - WFT Est. 1734-1806 Fredrick Starnes WFT Est. 1719-1739 - WFT Est. 1740-1823 Mary Starnes Living Crawshaw 1880 - WFT Est. 1916-1971 Orlando Martin (Charlie) Henderson Private Robert Vance Henderson Private Ewena Iona Henderson Private Baby Boy A Gatton Living Gatton Private Viva Lorene Davis Living Gatton Living Gatton Living Venetz Living Carlock Living Kinzle Living Carlock Living Carlock Living Carlock Living Carlock Living Hager Living Beavers Living Bopp Living Green Living Courtney 1910 - 1973 Iva Billings 63 63 Living Gatton Living Gatton Living Gatton Living Gatton Living Gatton Living Gatton Living Gatton Living Gatton Living Gatton Living Gatton Living Roberson Living Jackie Living Gatton Living Gatton Living Stevens Living Beverly Living McDonald Living Barbara Living Jackie Private Helen Rose Living Gatton 1928 - 1928 Eugene Johnson 1946 - ~1970 Larry Joe Bigley 24 24 [MichaelHerronWFTv11t1440.ftw]

Committed suicide Private Jack Gilbert Living Gilbert Private Clarence Baughman Private William Leo Baughman Living Baughman 1933 - 1984 James Baughman 51 51 Living Baughman 1935 - 1988 Paul Baughman 53 53 Living Schultz Living Ann Living Hembry Living Noftsger Living Miller Living Baughman Living Baughman Living Redman Living Redman Living Redman Living Redman Living Redman Living Toney Living Toney Living Simpson WFT Est. 1895-1920 - 1982 Viola Belle Janssen 1936 - 1989 Irene Louise Gatton 53 53 Living Gatton Private Helen Holmes Private Marion Schoen Whipple Living Gatton Living Whipple Living Whipple 1928 - 1969 Florence Enzwiler 41 41 Living Gatton Living Gatton Living Turner Living Gatton Living Pitt Living Pitt Living Pitt Living Pitt Living Orey Living Orey Living Orey Living Orey 1943 - 1958 Clara Minerva Orey 15 15 Living Orey Living Peto Living Orey Living Orey Living Orey Living Orey Living Stark Living Stark Living Stark Living Stark Living Stark Living Miller Living Miller Living Miller Living Miller Living Hamilton Living Hamilton Living Houk Living Houk Living Houk Living Vogel Living Vogel Living Vogel Living Vogel Living Hock Living Orey Living Orey Living Orey Living Orey Living Dunn Living Orey Living Orey Living Orey Living Orey Living Cross Living Orey Living Orey Living Orey Living Garton Living Garton Living Garton Living Gatton Living Gatton Living Gatton Living Fischer Living Gatton Living Gatton Living McDermott Living Gatton Living Gatton Living Garbowski Living Gatton Living Polichio Living Gatton Living Gatton 1892 - 1935 Elona L. Lumpkin 43 43 [MichaelHerronWFTv11t1440.ftw]

Lona Wells was shot and killed by Robert Vance Henderson.  Paul was a Denver policeman.  Vance got his service gun and was drunk and shot her.
Her children were raised by Paul's brother John. 1920 - 1922 Richard Wells 2 2 Private Sylvan R. Wells 1923 - 1966 Harold Vance Wells 43 43 Private Leland Joseph Wells 1927 - 1977 Robert French Wells 50 50 Private Barbara Youngblood Living Wells Living Wells Living Wells Private Betty 1925 - 1995 Beth Margaret Creighton 70 70 Living Wells Living Wells Living Wells Living Wells Living Netz Living Wells Living Wells Living Lohr Living Wells Living Wells Living Wells Living Wells Augustus Andrew Hewlett Fred Hewlett BEF. 1 JAN 1687/88 Anna Maria Gerlach <1693 Johann Henrich Gerlach <1696 Elisabetha Margaretha Gerlach <1699 Maria Gertraud Gerlach <1702 Johann Gerlach BEF. 24 FEB 1706/07 Elsa Catharina Gerlach Mary Payne Silas Cooper Judy Unknown Samuel Dillard Living Sexton Living Sexton Living Bramlett Living Bramlett Living Bramlett Living Cockrell Living Cockrell Living Weidman Living Weidman Living Baldwin Living Baldwin Living Baldwin Thomas Hazard 1861 - <1894 Betsy V. Paulson 33 33 1822 - 1891 Paul O. Paulson 68 68 ~1629 Ann Pope 1603 - 1660 Nathaniel Pope 57 57 ~1623 Lucy ~1682 Amey Veale ~1625 Katherine D. BET. 1759 - 1760 Humphrey Pope Ann Pope John Pope Sarah Pope 1685 - 1716 Nicholas Muse 31 31 ~1668 Anna Catharina Unknown ~1608 Margaret Hawkins 1588 - 17 MAR 1661/62 Margery Aucocke 1532 - 1595 John Hawkins 63 63 1667 - 1716 Elizabeth Pope (Payne) 49 49 ~1543 Bartholomew Mewes ~1561 Margaret Bower 1568 - BET. 1616 - 1617 Edward Mewes ~1639 Michael Mewes ~1637 George Mewes ~1627 - 1689 Robert Mewes 62 62 11 MAR 1631/32 Alice Mewes BET. 1588 - 1589 - 12 MAR 1639/40 Edward Mewes ~1677 Ann Muse BET. 1561 - 1562 - 1622 Sir Richard Hawkins William Pope Muse ~1675 - 1722 John Pope 47 47 ~1671 - 1733 Humphrey Pope 62 62 ~1726 - 1786 Ann Barbara Muse 60 60 ~1665 - 1732 Thomas Muse 67 67 1592 Hawkins ~1675 - >1730 Jane Muse 55 55 ~1612 Mary Hawkins ~1610 Joan Hawkins 16 MAR 1604/05 - 1678 John Hawkins 1667 - 1717 Elizabeth Hawkins 50 50 ~1540 - 1591 Katherine Gonson 51 51 ~1568 - 1629 Judith Hele 61 61 ~1677 Mary Muse ~1673 - 1722 John Muse 49 49 ~1675 - 14 JAN 1724/25 Ann Sanford Hopkins 1699 Mary Muse ~1697 Edward Muse 9 JAN 1700/01 William Muse ~1707 Augustine Muse 1710 Hopkins Muse 1709 Ann Muse ~1715 Sarah Muse 1720 - 1790 George Muse 70 70 ~1722 John Muse 1633 - 1723 John Muse (Mewes) 89 89 ~1644 Catherine (Lewis) Moss Hopkins Muse 1667 - 1716 Elizabeth Pope 49 49 1645 - 1695 Humphrey Pope 50 50 ~1669 Jemina Pope ~1673 - 1723 Lawrence Pope 50 50 ~1675 Jemima Pope ~1677 Mary Pope ~1605 Richard Hawkins ~1663 - 1723 Johann Christ Gerlach 60 60 Johan Christian Gerlach was one of the original patentees in the Mohawk in 1723. 10 JAN 1728/29 - 1828 Mary Muse Mary Pope 1704 Elizabeth Muse 1831 Catherine Johnson Carl Johnson Ann B. Jepson Ellen Andersen William Andersen Agustus Andersen Andrew Andersen Antone Andersen Julia Andersen Antone Andersen Julia Unknown 1889 John Andersen 1892 George H. Andersen Milford Andersen Meribah Parker John Slocum Ebenezer Slocum Nathaniel Slocum Peleg Slocum Samuel Slocum Mary Slocum Eleazer Slocum Jacob Mott Adam X Mott 1672 Joanna Slocum Joanna Slocum Mary Thurston Hannah Tucker Mary Holder Abraham Tucker Elephal Fitzgerald Christopher Almy Joseph Earle Adam Lawton Joseph Russell Ann Borden Barbara Unknown 1639 - 1719 Daniel Lawton 80 80 Anders Jepson Ellen Larson Mary Unknown Martha Unknown BET. 1641 - 1644 Isbell Lawton ~1646 Mary Lawton ~1648 John Lawton ~1650 George Lawton ~1652 Robert Lawton 1657 - 1712 Susannah Lawton 55 55 ~1656 Mercy Lawton ~1658 Ruth Lawton ~1660 Job Lawton ~1662 Elizabeth Lawton Unknown McLain John McLain or, possibly, McCain, of Randolph County, North Carolina left a will in Novemebr 1824, in which he named his siblings: Hugh McLain, Lydia Burney, Vance McLain, George McLain, Forbus McLain, Mary Winning, Guy McLain, Green McLain, niece [illegible] and nephew, son of Hugh, John. Since Hugh McLain purportedly came from North Carolina, these records should be researched further. John Malmstrom Generated by GenoPro®. Click here for details.