tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30641695502407685912024-03-13T15:05:17.779-05:00Porch Swings, Fireflies, and Jelly Jarskdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.comBlogger571125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064169550240768591.post-5937939070441818122024-02-25T11:49:00.000-06:002024-02-25T11:49:12.493-06:00The Dendys and The Fatal Accident <p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">© Kathy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Duncan, 2024</span></p><p>This newspaper clipping, reprinted in <i>The Troy Messenger</i> of Troy, Alabama, on 9 March 1876, recounts a horrific accident that happened in Wood County, Texas. The six-year-old daughter of the Dendy family was crushed to death in a hack accident while the family was returning home from church. My Dendy great-great grandparents moved from near Troy, Alabama to Wood County, Texas, and lived there in the 1870s, but was this my family? My great-great-grandfather, <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2012/03/james-hogan-dendy-elmira-pow.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">James Hogan Dendy</span></b></a>, had a brother who also moved from near Troy, Alabama to Wood County, Texas. I finally decided it was time to investigate.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi96aaLayVKEi9DVxcbbStCQ7XOwm5WiOHSXEGBeMxxCL0DSUk6THl16AzmipfWyJVi-BCt_DLzAtT4r2EgYz14YFQoW0SZ3gdp0S-aPjo8IW3QjR0zoWg822sNnta3Si1W3hoy91aL_XwFBN-u1eyaj_uRml2EH0Gja4PRszFF8piYK_z05eN6UhjPC1E/s743/9%20March%201876.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="743" data-original-width="257" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi96aaLayVKEi9DVxcbbStCQ7XOwm5WiOHSXEGBeMxxCL0DSUk6THl16AzmipfWyJVi-BCt_DLzAtT4r2EgYz14YFQoW0SZ3gdp0S-aPjo8IW3QjR0zoWg822sNnta3Si1W3hoy91aL_XwFBN-u1eyaj_uRml2EH0Gja4PRszFF8piYK_z05eN6UhjPC1E/w222-h640/9%20March%201876.png" width="222" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Since this article mentions J.R. Wright and the Alvis family as the other parties involved, I revisited the available records with these individuals in mind. On the 1870 census, J. H. Dendy and his family were living in precinct four of Wood County. Also, in precinct four was J.R. Wright. In 1870, James H Dendy's brother Lawson Dendy was still in Goshen Hill, Pike County, Alabama. </p><p>The 1876 Wood County tax list places J. H. Dendy and Jno R. Write in precinct four. Lawson Dendy was not present on the 1876 list. By 1877, Lawson Dendy was in Wood County along with his brother James H. Dendy, but the Wood County records no longer divided tax records up by precinct, so it is impossible to know which precinct Lawson was in. In November of 1877, James Hogan Dendy and wife Lydia Ann Pugh sold their property in the Antonio Flores survey and moved to Bowie County, Texas. From Bowie County, it would have been impossible to visit very easily with family back in Wood County. That's surprising given that the 1880 census reveals that Lawson Dendy brought their mother <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2018/01/children-of-james-and-keziah-williams.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Nancy (Williams) Dendy</span></b></a> with him to Wood County and that Lydia's sister Hannah (Pugh) Hooks had moved to Wood County. Why did James and Lydia leave Wood County just as other family members were arriving - family they had not lived near in at least six years? </p><p>On the 1880 Wood County, Texas census, J. R. Wright was still living in precinct four, there was an Alvis family in precinct four, and Lydia's sister Hannah Hooks was living in precinct four. Lawson Dendy and family with mother Ann Dendy were in precinct one. </p><p>In comparing family group sheets for James Hogan Dendy and for Lawson Dendy, neither one had a daughter born around 1870 who died or disappeared abruptly. There is a gap in both families for a daughter who could have been born after the last months of 1870 but never appeared on the census.</p><p>The current road from Black Oak, Texas to Winnsboro, Texas seems to go near if not through the Antonio Flores survey, where the James H. Dendy family lived. The total distance between Black Oak and Winnsboro is ten miles.</p><p>In pondering this problem, I suddenly remembered the mystery photograph from my Dendy great-grandparents' album. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHFWF7tV8_h0BXdxWcQPe6BkJPygSyteRISrEQdl3JEiFXxKrCSKAMRXv9E1UEhcjtvqaynCiW7Qk6D9CQInxy8aQjfNdCQ2z64_fSVbtDT2wQZyrLb69x-JkLFagVWr-ckTy2jmWOIzMbBkUQlHkA-DKeR0OtIJ1zetGhyphenhyphenEF7HKqMJ9Riwsosi3dbs_k/s720/Yarberry%20Restored%20Darkened.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="720" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHFWF7tV8_h0BXdxWcQPe6BkJPygSyteRISrEQdl3JEiFXxKrCSKAMRXv9E1UEhcjtvqaynCiW7Qk6D9CQInxy8aQjfNdCQ2z64_fSVbtDT2wQZyrLb69x-JkLFagVWr-ckTy2jmWOIzMbBkUQlHkA-DKeR0OtIJ1zetGhyphenhyphenEF7HKqMJ9Riwsosi3dbs_k/w400-h310/Yarberry%20Restored%20Darkened.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is an 1890s copy of three earlier tintypes. These pictures seem to have been taken on the same day since they seem to be sitting in the same chair. One of my cousins found a metal mourning button featuring this identical picture of the man in an old trunk that belonged to my great-grandparents. The question has been which set of great-great-grandparents this photograph portrayed - Dendy or Davis. The man does not resemble my great-great-grandfather, Davis, so he is ruled out. However, my great-great-grandmother Davis had a previous husband who died in the Civil War, and they had a daughter together. However, he died before their daughter reached this age. They could not have all posed in the same chair since he was deceased on the day these portraits were made. </p><p>That puts the spotlight on the Dendys. James Hogan Dendy died in 1892, so a mourning pin made from his picture makes sense. The inclusion of the little girl has always been a question. The Dendys had a daughter born in December 1871. Why wouldn't this photograph have been passed along to her or her family if it was a picture of her? Why make a copy with just one child? Why not include the other children who surely had their pictures made, too? My great-grandfather was born before 1870. There were also other children living at the time these photos were made, why aren't they included in this copy? I now believe that Lydia Ann had this copy made, grouping her deceased husband, herself, and their deceased daughter together in one photo memorial. Or one of the Dendy children had it made for her as a gift. </p><p>There is a picture of a youthful Lydia Ann (Pugh) Dendy that is much clearer than this one. In it, she is wearing a black bead necklace. The photograph of the woman in this group picture is of such a poor quality that it is difficult to positively identify her - although they both had dark hair, worn close to the head.</p><p>I'm confident that this is a photograph of the Dendys and their daughter as they appeared in 1874 to 1875. Unless a family Bible is found, the little girl will probably remain nameless. She would have been buried in Wood County, and so far I have not found a tombstone for her online. </p><p>The combination of the newspaper clipping and the photograph shed some light on the mystery of why the Dendys sold out and left Wood County in 1877. Since the clipping recounts that they had been to a "preaching" that fateful day, they would have had to pass the spot in the road where their daughter died every time they went to church. If the church they attended was in the direction of Winnsboro, they would have passed that spot every time they went for supplies. Plus, it would have been the talk of the community for months. I think it must have become unbearable, so they sold out and left their families behind. </p><p>No oral story of this event was passed down in my family. I think it was probably too painful for anyone to speak of. My great-grandfather would have been seven or eight when his little sister was killed, and he would have had a clear memory of this event. If it had happened to a cousin rather than a sister, I think the story would have been recounted. </p><p><br /></p>kdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064169550240768591.post-78196947414764154952024-01-01T10:38:00.000-06:002024-01-01T10:38:07.896-06:00Welcoming 2024<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">© Kathy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Duncan, 2024</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8KtPDk8w2Ha6kd6EDe-C7Bsw8EN6129XzY5dspWs2QHh62Lh_9SUNq4V6sBUWYAIn9O2Ip-u706Hd2Pus_vUjrvGeuSba-UQe3MlX2GK093p9VZjgv0ZcmJ8rVvi07uHNgloqm3WTZebY945CnFSsHme1gRQv1BjTALi5w-bKnFB8psz2jbKcFTqSn6M/s1135/New%20Year.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1135" data-original-width="735" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8KtPDk8w2Ha6kd6EDe-C7Bsw8EN6129XzY5dspWs2QHh62Lh_9SUNq4V6sBUWYAIn9O2Ip-u706Hd2Pus_vUjrvGeuSba-UQe3MlX2GK093p9VZjgv0ZcmJ8rVvi07uHNgloqm3WTZebY945CnFSsHme1gRQv1BjTALi5w-bKnFB8psz2jbKcFTqSn6M/w414-h640/New%20Year.jpg" width="414" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Once again it is time to say goodbye to one year and hello to the next. </p><p>Here is a look at 2023 in review. The year ended with 204,317 page views, which was an increase of 52,449. It would be amazing if those figures were accurate. However, they are not. This year foreign bots were trolling the internet and driving up the page view count. There are ways to filter those numbers out, but that is beyond my expertise.</p><p>This was not a very year productive in terms of writing new posts. I only managed to write and publish twenty-one. Of those posts, the three most viewed were as follows:</p><p>1. <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2023/01/daniel-lewis-son-of-john-d-lewis.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Daniel A. Lewis, Son of John D. Lewis</span></b></a>. This post was a continuation of my Lewis family research. Daniel is one of the most controversial since family researchers are not in agreement over what happened to him after his first marriage. </p><p>2. <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2023/02/squire-brown-brother-of-isaac-s-brown.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Squire Brown, Brother of Issac S Brown</span></b></a>. This was one of my favorite posts. I was able to link Issac S. Brown to at least one other family member other than his own children. As a result, I was contacted by another Brown researcher who has a photo album containing photographs of the Brown family, including my husband's 3X great-grandmother, Catherine E. (Hay) Brown. </p><p>3. <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2023/01/wiley-lewis-son-of-john-d-lewis.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Wiley Lewis, Son of John D. Lewis</span></b></a>. This was another in a series of posts on the children of John D. Lewis. Wiley turned out to be one of the most interesting of the Lewis sons. He appears to have been a good person who lived large - probably a little too large for his father's approval.</p><p>My favorite posts for the year, in no particular order:</p><p>1. <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2023/09/mollie-f-browns-photo-album.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Mollie F. Brown's Photo Album</span></b></a> was a favorite because identified photographs are so difficult to find. Plus, this experience gives me hope that more photographs and family bibles are out there waiting to be shared.</p><p>2. <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2023/10/joseph-rutherford-cawthron-returns-on.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Joseph Rutherford Cawthron Returns on the Wheaton</span></b></a> was a favorite because it added so much more information to what seems like a small event - a brother's body returned for burial in the U.S. </p><p>3. <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-bedside-of-m-p-kelley.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Bedside of M. P. Kelley</span></b></a> was a favorite because newspapers continue to be one of the most valuable research tools available to us. This small clipping told me that my 2x great-grandfather, M. P. Kelley, had been sick for a few months before his death and that his family was traveling to visit him. </p><p>Even though this has not been the most productive year in terms of publishing, it has been a very productive research year. I have been researching my cousins' ancestor who was a Mexican War veteran. At first, there was not much information about him, and it seemed like not much more could be learned about him. Then the floodgates opened. And I do mean a flood of information. He has turned into the most interesting individual I have ever researched. He is teaching me more about research strategies. Right now, I am organizing and refining the information that I have and plan to write about him in the new year. </p><p><br /></p>kdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064169550240768591.post-54502823101214190442023-10-28T15:14:00.003-05:002023-10-28T15:14:37.906-05:00Joseph Rutherford Cawthron Returns on the Wheaton<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">© Kathy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Duncan, 2023</span></p><p>Recently, a news report reminded me that a former president of the U.S. canceled a trip to the Aisne-Marne American cemetery near Paris in 2018. At the time, he blamed it on the rain. Later it was revealed that was just a convenient excuse, "Why should I go to that cemetery? It's filled with losers." Later in the same trip, he referred to the 1,800 marines who died at Belleau Wood as "suckers" for being killed in battle. The importance of that presidential trip was that it was intended to honor the sacrifice of American soldiers, and it was also intended to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. </p><p>As stunningly callous and disrespectful as those comments were, they set me thinking about my grandfather's first cousin who died in France during WWI and who was buried there for a short time. Then in 1921, his body was shipped to Sacramento, California, and reinterred there. I started wondering about the circumstances of that reinterment. </p><p>Joseph Rutherford Cawthorn, born in 1893, was the son of <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2019/02/cawthon-siblings-obituaries.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Willie Porter Cawthon</span></b></a> and his wife Maggie Skelton. Joseph and his four siblings were orphaned in 1904. The siblings seem to have been farmed out to different maternal family members, perhaps neighbors, and at least one orphanage. All of them used the Cawthorn spelling rather than the family's spelling of Cawthon. I'm not sure why that happened except perhaps the name was pronounced with an "r" sound, and the Skeltons thought that was how it should be spelled. </p><p>Joseph's World War I registration card listed his sister Lillian Inez Cawthorn as the person to be notified in the event of his death. Lillie, at age fourteen, was a minor living in Hunt County, Texas.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEKogbievO75eP0KDQZAHZG6bhHyOaitYYd9Ud6oEc8FdWsJ02kDB8oEYr-f5pz36KTc2X_t_MXTMr_fvutszH1jpLYYJGEF-sYsoBhHHhkbZeTbjz_Rnwqax1pQOq9B_l5Df5Oa7bqEm7EMHxbKanlidwyFz213UVOloBl9CX9pemo_lB5ZtYRylJIIk/s902/Cawthon,%20Joseph%20R%20WWI%20registration%20card.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="902" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEKogbievO75eP0KDQZAHZG6bhHyOaitYYd9Ud6oEc8FdWsJ02kDB8oEYr-f5pz36KTc2X_t_MXTMr_fvutszH1jpLYYJGEF-sYsoBhHHhkbZeTbjz_Rnwqax1pQOq9B_l5Df5Oa7bqEm7EMHxbKanlidwyFz213UVOloBl9CX9pemo_lB5ZtYRylJIIk/w400-h272/Cawthon,%20Joseph%20R%20WWI%20registration%20card.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Joseph, a mail clerk, died of pneumonia on 14 October 1918 and was interred in France.<div><br /></div><div>Almost three years later, his body was shipped to Sacramento, California to be reinterred in East Lawn Cemetery. For several years, I've had a copy of his burial notice that appeared in the <i>Sacramento Bee </i>on 17 June 1921.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggnmshRLr-mP6E9lIbzuCE2fdjdWvKhCxrLM_F3NDl2jfweo3soZ9bm3oiuD25vgwyAxy778QlVDPUivct9Ka68wGeGdJn7AL6zaVxDh0DrkiP1izr8SAOib9iJsJO87uPQUIvXNEI4B5iA3dcLcQAedCgAPjlPxV3dO31tDgpxdvyDKga8CuN7yrnhK8/s520/Cawthorn,%20Joseph%20R%201918.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="412" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggnmshRLr-mP6E9lIbzuCE2fdjdWvKhCxrLM_F3NDl2jfweo3soZ9bm3oiuD25vgwyAxy778QlVDPUivct9Ka68wGeGdJn7AL6zaVxDh0DrkiP1izr8SAOib9iJsJO87uPQUIvXNEI4B5iA3dcLcQAedCgAPjlPxV3dO31tDgpxdvyDKga8CuN7yrnhK8/w318-h400/Cawthorn,%20Joseph%20R%201918.png" width="318" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Mrs. S. Mancuso, listed as Joseph's "only close surviving relative," was his little sister, Lillian Inez Cawthorn. </p><p>The former president's words sent me delving back into the circumstances of Joseph's reinterment in Sacramento. I was certain that Lillian did not have the funds to have his body exhumed in France and shipped to Sacramento.</p><p>I began by revisiting Joseph's Findagrave memorial. There still was not a photograph of his tombstone. The notation on his memorial said that the exact location of his plot was unknown. I did not make a photo request at that time because the cemetery is too large for any photo volunteer to search it randomly. My next step was to find out if I could determine the location of his grave. For that, I googled the cemetery and located a database for the cemetery's burials. A search for Joseph Cawthorn gave me the section number, row number, and plot number for his grave. I returned to Findagrave and entered that information as a suggested edit. Within a short period of time, Joseph's memorial was updated. Then I made my photo request, which, to my surprise, was fulfilled in just a couple of days. Joseph's grave is unmarked, as I feared, but the Findagrave volunteer kindly laid a bouquet on his grave and photographed that.</p><p>My next step was to try to figure out where in France Joseph had been originally buried. I performed a very basic Google search for something like - France cemetery WWI US soldiers. That turned up various items that were published for and following the 100-year anniversary of the end of WWI. One especially informative <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/05/31/world-war-i-exhumed-memorial-day/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">article</span></b></a> written by Michael E. Ruane for the <i>Washington Post</i> was about the process by which bodies were returned to relatives in the U.S. Beginning in 1919, the U.S. government sent out 74,000 questionnaire postcards that asked relatives where they wanted their soldier's final resting place to be - in France or in the U.S. By January 1920, the U.S. had received 63,000 responses. Between 1919 and 1922, about 44,000 U.S. soldiers were returned to the U.S. for burial. Families could choose between a military cemetery or a civilian cemetery. </p><p>So far, I have not been able to locate the postcard that Lillian filled out and returned, but after continuing to Google for information, I found the National Archives database with records for the 44,000 soldiers whose bodies were turned. Among them, I found Joseph's information.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqP8uHkF-KKnsPsnQbGLDjyjw7-12I7-_mF7EezsZ9fzgD_udhZKCWdZasv-1vfy5hUE287gL6P4awjsMffIrDEaeDnKYb47B5OotJti9Q8kwyphfr-B1REI81v5duNrKIbXo_-GEZsloT4xaVVzvoLAM0GKlXkIcVc4Lp4wHuPnWgEg9Fwnr2AZ3SCcI/s615/Cawthon,%20Joseph%20R%20Card%20%20(1)%20Register%20of%20Burials%20of%20Deceased%20American%20Soldiers%20Record%20Group%2092.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="615" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqP8uHkF-KKnsPsnQbGLDjyjw7-12I7-_mF7EezsZ9fzgD_udhZKCWdZasv-1vfy5hUE287gL6P4awjsMffIrDEaeDnKYb47B5OotJti9Q8kwyphfr-B1REI81v5duNrKIbXo_-GEZsloT4xaVVzvoLAM0GKlXkIcVc4Lp4wHuPnWgEg9Fwnr2AZ3SCcI/w400-h255/Cawthon,%20Joseph%20R%20Card%20%20(1)%20Register%20of%20Burials%20of%20Deceased%20American%20Soldiers%20Record%20Group%2092.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguHBhRt9R6OEs8SV9LvndPpqzAN-dDcpvAZh7OwsvMevYMgwOv9hyVhW_xbogFQAPtoflk6lwL2epm7aPOl4_Nttn6zrOPkdLYKGvwSxSuGXBk5e4aaL-d3-ZvKhCCqC2qMvofpMujdrfrbOO9-ImAMnqZAXJV9E5GZYmhQoP9BofaFggZ4fCzCe8DAlI/s612/Cawthon,%20Joseph%20R%20Card%20%20(2)%20Register%20of%20Burials%20of%20Deceased%20American%20Soldiers%20Record%20Group%2092.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="612" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguHBhRt9R6OEs8SV9LvndPpqzAN-dDcpvAZh7OwsvMevYMgwOv9hyVhW_xbogFQAPtoflk6lwL2epm7aPOl4_Nttn6zrOPkdLYKGvwSxSuGXBk5e4aaL-d3-ZvKhCCqC2qMvofpMujdrfrbOO9-ImAMnqZAXJV9E5GZYmhQoP9BofaFggZ4fCzCe8DAlI/w400-h255/Cawthon,%20Joseph%20R%20Card%20%20(2)%20Register%20of%20Burials%20of%20Deceased%20American%20Soldiers%20Record%20Group%2092.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>The ship, the Wheaton, immediately caught my attention. I was sure I'd seen it mentioned in several articles that I had skimmed. Well, duh.</div><div><br /></div><div>Joseph R. Cawthorn's body had traveled on the Wheaton in the largest shipment of U.S. soldiers' remains to be repatriated to the U.S. The Wheaton landed in Hoboken, New Jersey, on 18 May 1921 with 5,000 deceased soldiers. Five separate funeral services were held at the pier as the caskets were unloaded. President Warren Harding presided over one of the services on May 23, where he laid a wreath and gave a brief speech honoring the men who had given their lives for their country. </div><div><br /></div><div>According to the information on Joseph's card, his body had been sent to Antwerp before being loaded onto the Wheaton. The National Archives has a <a href="https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2021/05/13/100th-anniversary-of-the-return-of-the-wheaton/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">photograph</span></b></a> of the group of soldiers' caskets that were loaded at Antwerp; each casket draped with a U.S. flag.</div><div><br /></div><div>The U.S. WWII Research and Writing Center has an article by Jennifer Holik on "WWI Army Transport Ships," which relates the return of the repatriated remains of soldiers. Her own great-granduncle returned on the Wheaton along with Joseph R. Cawthorn. All of the deceased on the transport ships were listed as passengers - not as cargo. In death, they were afforded a full measure of respect.</div><div><br /></div><div>My next step was to search newspaper databases to find more information about the Wheaton. I found a wealth of information in an article published by the <i>Galveston Tribune</i> in the Portal to Texas database. On 7 February 1921, the <i>Tribune</i> reprinted an article that originally appeared in the <i>San Antonio Express</i>. It consisted of an interview conducted with <a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1579641/m1/2/?q=wheaton%20hoboken" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Capt. Robert E. Shannon</span></b></a> of the U.S. Army who was assigned to the Graves Registration Service and who had been visiting his sister in San Antonio. </div><div><br /></div><div>Shannon related that once a soldier's remains were identified by a metal disk that he was wearing at the time of death and removed from the military cemetery in Europe, they were placed in a hermetically sealed metal container. The metal container was then enclosed in a burial casket, which was then placed in a wooden shipping case. The recommendation was for the metal container to remain unopened before the funeral, which was usually arranged by the American Legion. Each casket was draped in an American flag. All of the expenses involved in shipping the remains to its final destination were paid by the U.S. government. Funeral expenses of up to $100 were also paid for by the government. Most of the bodies were transported on the Wheaton. The ship would leave Hoboken carrying emptying caskets to Europe. When it returned to Hoboken with the deceased soldiers, two piers were dedicated to the Wheaton's mission. While in Hoboken, the caskets were guarded until the day they were shipped to one of several distribution centers. Lists were made of the soldiers and their destinations. Then twenty to twenty-five were loaded onto special express cars or baggage cars and were escorted by enlisted Army personnel to a local central distribution point. From there, the deceased soldiers traveled with an individual escort who remained with them until they were delivered to their families. </div><div><br /></div><div>Looking back at Joseph's card, there are several pieces of information to unpack. He was buried in grave 430 in the American Cemetery at Toul M-et-M, which turned out to be a temporary cemetery at Toul, Meurthe-et-Moselle. He was in group 91. It's difficult to pinpoint that exactly since there were groups 91A, 91B, and 91C. His sister Lillian's name appears as Lillian Inez Rouse. At the time she was the foster daughter of a Rouse family. Her guardian was a Mrs. Young. I don't know who she was. By the time Joseph was transported to Sacramento, Lillian had married Samuel Mancuso and was living at 4748 Ninth Ave. in Sacramento. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>kdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064169550240768591.post-12463502004433644172023-10-20T22:16:00.000-05:002023-10-20T22:16:06.972-05:00The Bedside of M. P. Kelley<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">© Kathy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Duncan, 2023</span></p><p>Remember that materials are constantly being added to databases, especially newspaper databases. Periodically, repeat a search that has been done before. For the best results, vary keywords and spellings. Never, never assume that you've already found everything a database has to offer.</p><p>I've long been aware of this obituary for my great-great grandfather, <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2016/06/mansel-pinkney-kelley.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Mansel Pinkney Kelley</span></b></a>. A copy of it was in his widow's Civil War pension file. Although he had lived in Oklahoma for a few years prior to his death, his obituary was published in Camden, South Carolina, where he was raised and lived well into adulthood. In fact, he enlisted in the army from Kershaw County, South Carolina during the Civil War.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigMbGqwbS4PsfRBqQjjOctLHZt2wRoUTf4bL1RPNIu_ZsmYrsuPAffz5Zs3SLfEEvLiEcUjdGjD6rpWHHBzq43RF7uvq3udHE3iEFvq6e5ZSeJORoN5Q3VZffnszr04qjgmbd9EMJt9lsCaHzYRvm9-TKAnv9sxuLWlyZVXPiFOYwZeTJixshaxy99lVY/s298/Kelly,%20M%20P%2012%20July%201912.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="284" data-original-width="298" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigMbGqwbS4PsfRBqQjjOctLHZt2wRoUTf4bL1RPNIu_ZsmYrsuPAffz5Zs3SLfEEvLiEcUjdGjD6rpWHHBzq43RF7uvq3udHE3iEFvq6e5ZSeJORoN5Q3VZffnszr04qjgmbd9EMJt9lsCaHzYRvm9-TKAnv9sxuLWlyZVXPiFOYwZeTJixshaxy99lVY/s1600/Kelly,%20M%20P%2012%20July%201912.png" width="298" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Repeated searches for a similar obituary in Oklahoma newspapers have garnered zero results. However, my search this week, using the Gateway to Oklahoma database, yielded a social notice, that indicated Pink Kelley had been seriously ill for months before his death on 19 June 1912 in Tupelo, Oklahoma. Son, Richard Singleton Kelley, had traveled from the Mt. Pleasant, Texas, area to visit his father. Although M. P. Kelley was able to sit up, he obviously did not fully recover. He was 68 years old at the time of his death. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk1WB60Q5zjfF6-duL8kHvSW3TNdRGF8PdIOzmWtLZaIcfeFdb1SWdesgAcW_V04_hViTOcq-Mhj0bzoFxDhf3W24WkcjSx7aq-Fcd2849qZaVOCxvz7_enq_tKQ7avdHaqvZ-9LqU05GewvHc7PyyVniiL3nn5JcFlEtFkBtbPzLFXyVQacWRi_AACCA/s326/Kelley,%20M%20P%20Apr%2011,%201912.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="282" data-original-width="326" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk1WB60Q5zjfF6-duL8kHvSW3TNdRGF8PdIOzmWtLZaIcfeFdb1SWdesgAcW_V04_hViTOcq-Mhj0bzoFxDhf3W24WkcjSx7aq-Fcd2849qZaVOCxvz7_enq_tKQ7avdHaqvZ-9LqU05GewvHc7PyyVniiL3nn5JcFlEtFkBtbPzLFXyVQacWRi_AACCA/w400-h346/Kelley,%20M%20P%20Apr%2011,%201912.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>kdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064169550240768591.post-57646311819344946762023-09-24T15:34:00.000-05:002023-09-24T15:34:33.191-05:00Dating Photographs through Social Media - William S. and Mary C. (Cawthon) Chapman<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">© Kathy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Duncan, 2023</span></p><p><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">One strategy for determining the date of old photographs is to join a photograph dating group on Facebook. Be warned that many will make authoritative pronouncements whether they really know and even if their conclusions are illogical. Once someone offers a date, be sure to ask what it is about the photograph that helped them determine a date; otherwise, you haven't learned much. </span></p><p><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I was hoping to receive specific information that might help narrow the date on this photograph of my great-grandparents, and I mean really narrow it down, which is always too much to hope for. The few answers I received spread possible dates over three decades. However, I think that turned out to be </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">very helpful because I think that if I combine what I already knew about the photograph with the answers that I received, it adds an interesting new layer to the story.</span></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0idw9gwqNSnpivMo27NMppp_FGGvRFwh5pS-9Jo8dMpImrTnSJLQ98NOxjNXuVGZ_XKFkEXw05kAct9Rp8k8xehmjzVwtNxzIgkxFnp0iSD6kb3KMpfJkZNyVXRi0nEUDFYYWlCHIwH8gYBrRfUElHOZ38B9iw7AkI4lqLFfwfWywtNJLG0m0EJn4AMc/s668/Chapman,%20W.S.%20and%20Maggie.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="668" data-original-width="467" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0idw9gwqNSnpivMo27NMppp_FGGvRFwh5pS-9Jo8dMpImrTnSJLQ98NOxjNXuVGZ_XKFkEXw05kAct9Rp8k8xehmjzVwtNxzIgkxFnp0iSD6kb3KMpfJkZNyVXRi0nEUDFYYWlCHIwH8gYBrRfUElHOZ38B9iw7AkI4lqLFfwfWywtNJLG0m0EJn4AMc/w448-h640/Chapman,%20W.S.%20and%20Maggie.jpg" width="448" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William Sargent and Mary Charlotte (Cawthon) Chapman</td></tr></tbody></table><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; 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color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div>What I knew: The photograph was taken in Titus County, Texas by an itinerant photographer. On the day he arrived on the scene, my great-grandfather was excited to have an opportunity to have their picture taken. He ran to the creek where my great-grandmother was washing clothes and rushed her back to the house. I assume that the photographer was setting up his equipment while my great-grandparents were rushing to change their clothes. My great-grandmother, however, was mad because she did not have time to fix her hair. I think her anger shows in the picture. She must have told this story to my grandfather repeatedly and with maybe a little regret because this was the only photograph ever taken of my great-grandparents together.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">They married on Christmas Eve, 1889. She was ten years his senior – she was 32 and he was 22. They were married for a very short time because he was killed in a hunting accident in September of 1893. Their first child was born in late November of 1890, and my grandfather was born in late December 1892. I would think that if the children had been born when this photograph was taken, one or both of them would be in the photograph, too.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The responses I received in a Facebook group dated my great-grandfather’s lapels and pants to the 1880s and his collar to the 1890s. That makes sense and fits within the timeframe of their marriage.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Another response that I received dated my great-grandmother's dress firmly in the 1870s. The poster refused to accept that the photograph could have been taken at a later date while also admitting that his clothes were from a later period. Logically, dating photographs should work in that direction: later styles do not appear in earlier photographs because that's not how time works. Another member seconded the 1870 date for the dress because it was plaid. Several members of that group also insist that women were always fashion-forward regardless of their economic status or age so that no woman would appear in a style that was over ten years old. In fact, their logic is that all women's styles are within a couple of years of a photograph being taken. That's a broad and sweeping statement that is full of pitfalls. </div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">At first blush, it makes little sense that my great-grandmother's dress in a c. 1890 photograph <i>would</i> be from the 1870s. But then maybe, again, it makes perfect sense. In the late 1870s, my great-grandmother would have been in the 19 to 22-year-old range. She was one of two daughters that her father had with his first wife. When the first wife died, he married her younger sister. Together they had a house full of children. My great-grandmother’s beloved stepmother/aunt must have died between 1878 and 1800 because her youngest child was two in 1880. In 1880, my great-grandmother’s father died, leaving her and her sister to raise their younger siblings. The sister married, had three babies who died, and then died herself in 1886. Times might have been easier while the sister was married, but overall things were very bad for this family from 1880 on. My great-grandmother struggled to raise her younger siblings by taking in laundry and by relying on the kindness of her neighbors. As a result, my great-grandmother did not marry until her younger siblings were all almost raised. When she married, she married her sister’s brother-in-law. In other words, my great-grandfather was the brother of my great-grandmother's sister’s husband.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">So that problematic dress: I would think that if it had been my great-grandmother’s dress from the late 1870s, it would have been worn out by 1890ish. However, when her stepmother/aunt died, her clothes might have been stored in a chest and left untouched. It’s reasonable to think that there might have been a dress that accommodated her last pregnancy. It’s also possible that the same thing happened when my great-grandmother's sister died in 1886, but for some reason, I think it is less likely to be her sister’s dress. I think her clothes would have been well worn, too, and post-1880.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">At this point, I think that on the day this picture was taken, my great-grandmother’s only option for a presentable dress might have been one that belonged to her stepmother and that had been stored in a chest. I also think it is possible that she might have been in the early stages of her first pregnancy although no one in the Facebook jumped to the conclusion that she was pregnant. The waist on the dress seems oddly high. I’m wondering if she had pulled it up and then spread the skirt out to conceal her little baby bump.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">My best guess is that the photograph could be narrowed to the late spring or early summer of 1890.</div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><br /><p><br /></p>kdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064169550240768591.post-66220693550469339842023-09-24T14:07:00.003-05:002023-09-26T20:41:41.767-05:00Family Search's Experimental Search Tool - Benajah and Hannah Brown<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">© Kathy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Duncan, 2023</span></p><p>In the later part of July, researchers on Facebook started sharing a link to Family Search's United States Wills and Deeds Experiment Search tool. Family Search's experimental prototypetext tool came with the warning that they made no guarantees regarding the availability of the tool. I think we all took that as a warning that it would be short-lived. </p><p>While it lasted, it was phenomenal, and I am looking forward to it being re-released in its "final" form. The beauty of the search tool was that it ran an every-name search so that it went well beyond the principal parties in a record. It found records that were in unindexed county record books. Most importantly, it shortened the length of time required to wade through records county by county. </p><p>My ancestor, <a href="http://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2018/04/nathaniel-holcomb-of-ste-genevieve.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Nathaniel Holcomb's</span></b></a> wife, serves as a prime example. Up until now, I could only theorize that her name was probably <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2018/04/nathaniel-holcombs-wife-hanah.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Hannah</span></b></a>. I knew that whatever her name was, she had married Benajah Brown of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri as her second husband after Nathaniel Holcomb died - which was by 1814.</p><p>My previous research indicated that the woman, who was Benajah Brown's wife and Nathaniel Holcomb's widow, was old enough to be the mother of all of Nathaniel Holcomb's children, but I don't know that for a fact.</p><p>The experimental search tool pulled up a deed in Ste. Genevieve County from Benajah and Hannah Brown to James Skaggs, the husband of Nathaniel Holcomb's daughter Hannah Holcomb. Hannah Brown is named in the deed and released her dower rights before Robert Jameson, the husband of Nathaniel Holcomb's eldest daughter Esther. This indicates that Hannah was still alive as of 1834 and that she could not write her own name. Of most interest is that it provides the location of their land: the NE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of sec 29 Twp 39 N Range 7E. </p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP8_-1VhHXOW4W6Qe2y9xPXcDtmOT_4Oehzaqc88m4ro4XEmU0MvFtOOCp6lnWp1HsUFRPrfp7sEaXvdKcjykL4Jr_-f475f_Ppy6FkypK5kZi3HcfIs53X27Mf-1W0oMbatSZfLAtfkHAKfhgtTUKx2g5uSzk-9Y0881OOK5mqQ1-yiEkk2N3zMADgyg/s4798/record-image_%20(4).jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3574" data-original-width="4798" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP8_-1VhHXOW4W6Qe2y9xPXcDtmOT_4Oehzaqc88m4ro4XEmU0MvFtOOCp6lnWp1HsUFRPrfp7sEaXvdKcjykL4Jr_-f475f_Ppy6FkypK5kZi3HcfIs53X27Mf-1W0oMbatSZfLAtfkHAKfhgtTUKx2g5uSzk-9Y0881OOK5mqQ1-yiEkk2N3zMADgyg/w400-h297/record-image_%20(4).jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Click to Enlarge<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The next deed record that the experiment search tool located was from Benejah Brown of Newton County, Missouri to John C. Brickey of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri in 1843. Hannah Brown was not included, which is an indication that she was deceased by 1843. This deed confirmed my theory that Benajah Brown was the elderly man living with his son <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2013/06/james-brown.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">James Brown</span></b></a> in Newton County, Missouri in 1840. This land was located at SE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Sec 29, Twp 39N, Range 7E in Ste Genevieve County.<div><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitYRQ7QS0MJJbVgdm56ue8-ffO6xwT6EhXyXtlgNxVanZ403ofit9H8IHpyOmbdtJzaXGtVJ5jf0NIoHmIkiqQnxu5Yj5VuUaPUtqmYjQiXk_-knIPIE4uXv7E1sah9vRZ1mrYhFaBkh2l_hjgJWncx0uhDRxKWgC7gEgDtNs9hoWV-rueCfEUrUexYfU/s4721/record-image_%20(5).jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3574" data-original-width="4721" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitYRQ7QS0MJJbVgdm56ue8-ffO6xwT6EhXyXtlgNxVanZ403ofit9H8IHpyOmbdtJzaXGtVJ5jf0NIoHmIkiqQnxu5Yj5VuUaPUtqmYjQiXk_-knIPIE4uXv7E1sah9vRZ1mrYhFaBkh2l_hjgJWncx0uhDRxKWgC7gEgDtNs9hoWV-rueCfEUrUexYfU/w400-h303/record-image_%20(5).jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Click to Enlarge</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />This 1930 <a href="https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A129368#page/1/mode/2up" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Plat Map Book of Ste. Genevieve</span></b></a> provides the location Sec 29 Twp 39N Range 7E:<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqhffG5KEq9XM8CUThR743R4mvkfQsccxNe0qgxhcLCggKr-u49rgaSBvBo-TxM1mKqY8bnRlW5ZKNFQQquVUpn3K4zgjtbCftw4ch28ONCc8hSYE_WHSarlKwijOgoN30S0Kz-HgDkGXXLGauPQ0Vbofwy3ITQl5Mb9G8phx79O9ELLmihBTDKXKc5qs/s721/Twp%2039N%20R7E.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="721" data-original-width="638" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqhffG5KEq9XM8CUThR743R4mvkfQsccxNe0qgxhcLCggKr-u49rgaSBvBo-TxM1mKqY8bnRlW5ZKNFQQquVUpn3K4zgjtbCftw4ch28ONCc8hSYE_WHSarlKwijOgoN30S0Kz-HgDkGXXLGauPQ0Vbofwy3ITQl5Mb9G8phx79O9ELLmihBTDKXKc5qs/w354-h400/Twp%2039N%20R7E.png" width="354" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Benajah Brown's land was roughly here:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlbVam-Psvg01tACCGRuXdWj-5kpdXhOjTJU3owXgwMgL5CjM7fTTZBzA3sq8S9-Vvym8KrKSGygg4fRWdj3ufm99X2OnR-u_78UirTlS98gA7uCz82urEA0KST6PCN9ZLIgtWGMXSr75QvAWkB4mW-pK2JOVNqtlPcXmRc5WOO9e052EnOoeqFjvI7GI/s732/Brown%20land.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="605" data-original-width="732" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlbVam-Psvg01tACCGRuXdWj-5kpdXhOjTJU3owXgwMgL5CjM7fTTZBzA3sq8S9-Vvym8KrKSGygg4fRWdj3ufm99X2OnR-u_78UirTlS98gA7uCz82urEA0KST6PCN9ZLIgtWGMXSr75QvAWkB4mW-pK2JOVNqtlPcXmRc5WOO9e052EnOoeqFjvI7GI/s320/Brown%20land.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div></div></div></div></div>kdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064169550240768591.post-38577369341491483742023-09-10T12:19:00.001-05:002023-09-10T12:19:46.670-05:00Mary (Kelly) Fair, Daughter of John Kelly Sr. - Update<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">© Kathy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Duncan, 2023</span></p><p>This post has been decades in the making. Most of the other researchers who were interested in Mary (Kelly) Fair are deceased now.</p><p>While on a brain break from working on my husband's Brown family, I decided to have another go at one of my ancestor's sisters - Mary (Kelly) Fair. I've seen a lot of new researchers ask what they should do when they have run out of steam while researching an ancestor or family line. I always work on something else that I have not touched for a long time. It's a good use of my time and beats frustrating myself with material that I can't find anything "new" in - or I just need a break from something tedious that I'm working on. Usually, new information for an old problem has become available, and I can make progress. In this case, the Hinds County, Mississippi estate files for Mary (Kelly) Fair and her husband William Fair were available on Family Search. I've attached those files to both of them as sources on Family Search. Here are the highlights from Mary's file.</p><p>Mary Fair, wife of William Fair, appears in the estate records of John Kelly Sr. of Fairfield County, South Carolina, as one of his children. She was to receive three slaves from the estate: Nelly, Tom, and Serena. A Fairfield District, South Carolina, <a href="http://fairfieldgenealogysociety.org/Members_Only/PDF/Books/Fairfield%20County%20Equity%20Court%20Records%201807-1870.pdf" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">equity court document</span></b></a> stated that Mary and William Fair resided in Mississippi as early as 1843. Tracking them from there has been difficult. A William Fair lived in Hinds County, Mississippi in the same timeframe that other children of John Kelley Sr. lived there, but it has been impossible to know for sure if it was the same William Fair. In 1850, neither Mary nor William Fair appeared on the census. Their children, if they had any, were unidentified.</p><p>As it turns out, both Mary and William Fair were deceased by 1850. Mary died first in 1846, and there is an estate record for her in Hinds County because she owned four slaves in her own right. Therefore, William Fair, filed to administer her estate. This document provides her death date, the names of the four slaves, and the names of her heirs:</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_lWKGRDcBpSnZS6usL0haHUs81PQrc9GrbfXjbdZ1YQsWrbV1lGMGL8XhawkSOz9_xng3pGQ17Hu5iPQchqFoLbmKLx5AixKFyFfoGbP_hi6XHTxLt7uXnHsh_vexWB9vu3QZLea1pKafxqJq6yK-Gi3Bou99cfstu-QSMNvKicrTdpt-RZNqIq97J2g/s2528/Mary%20Fair%20estate%20with%20death%20date%20p%201.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2528" data-original-width="1636" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_lWKGRDcBpSnZS6usL0haHUs81PQrc9GrbfXjbdZ1YQsWrbV1lGMGL8XhawkSOz9_xng3pGQ17Hu5iPQchqFoLbmKLx5AixKFyFfoGbP_hi6XHTxLt7uXnHsh_vexWB9vu3QZLea1pKafxqJq6yK-Gi3Bou99cfstu-QSMNvKicrTdpt-RZNqIq97J2g/w414-h640/Mary%20Fair%20estate%20with%20death%20date%20p%201.jpg" width="414" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-VbSVh3u6FpkOCK9QHxpRclPB_I_sKUPciNPG9gjSY3TjmYxIoQCbSgVEA0XLq9ClpOzmkiB7e6BVTTHfC7xx9SLunbdp6smewJiNFU01BzfuP6grSnMvxH6mLvYAGGI5EN9iwcqls2ewFSXTt50uJffue4F41K9EyIOq1hYO_aDAWxfTdjwsQsCUJSw/s2474/Mary%20Fair%20estate%20with%20death%20date%20p%202.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2474" data-original-width="1946" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-VbSVh3u6FpkOCK9QHxpRclPB_I_sKUPciNPG9gjSY3TjmYxIoQCbSgVEA0XLq9ClpOzmkiB7e6BVTTHfC7xx9SLunbdp6smewJiNFU01BzfuP6grSnMvxH6mLvYAGGI5EN9iwcqls2ewFSXTt50uJffue4F41K9EyIOq1hYO_aDAWxfTdjwsQsCUJSw/w315-h400/Mary%20Fair%20estate%20with%20death%20date%20p%202.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>According to the document, created on 24 January 1848, the Fairs were residents of Hinds County, where Mary died on 17 April 1846. At the time of her death, she owned four slaves: Jesse, his wife Lina, and their children Caroline and Ben. Note that these are not the slaves that Mary Fair was to receive from her father's estate. Her brother Littleton Kelly inherited a slave named Jesse. It's possible that they traded slaves. It is also possible that rather than transporting three slaves from South Carolina to Mississippi they were sold in South Carolina and the money was used to buy slaves in Mississippi. In that event, the slaves purchased with that money would still be considered Mary's property. </p><p>The document names Mary Fair's legal heirs: Sarah Harris, John Farr, Isaac Milton Farr, Frances Hutson, Mary Taylor, Mariah Floyd, Jane Farr, William H Farr, and Eliza Mitchell. The last three are noted as being minors. Farr is a frequent alternate spelling for Fair. </p><p>Additionally, the document states that the William Fair who is filing to administer the estate was Mary's husband. The document also requests that Littleton Kelly, Mary's brother, be named as one of the appraisers.</p><p>The estate record indicates that at the time of her death, Mary (Kelly) Fair was old enough to be the mother of four married daughters: Sarah Harris, Frances Hutson, Mary Taylor, and Mariah Floyd. Eliza Mitchell is a bit of a puzzle. Is Mitchell her middle name or a surname? Would a married daughter also be considered a minor??</p><p>In other documents in William Fair's estate records, Isaac M. Fair is called Isaac Middleton Fair, which seem like a more likely name for him, given that Mary had a brother named Middleton Kelly.</p><p>By 1851, William Fair was also deceased and Mary Fair's estate was being administered by Francis Stubbs.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVH0fjx-VFhW9oeZfGqpXTsa0crR24u5s1ky5BIphNe5NGwIt01k89x4F9NJnrqoVQrxtxlXn88hMVq3nA1YW_bNeo0JZZOKLC2NlvnFtFbJ3imrqK8Ff6vu5sehVY1_rZ7HjKRfvBie6gtooFjntX0diec_VylobBguxZ361a0BLeBCgeH-al_UNCkkE/s2451/record-image_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2451" data-original-width="1586" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVH0fjx-VFhW9oeZfGqpXTsa0crR24u5s1ky5BIphNe5NGwIt01k89x4F9NJnrqoVQrxtxlXn88hMVq3nA1YW_bNeo0JZZOKLC2NlvnFtFbJ3imrqK8Ff6vu5sehVY1_rZ7HjKRfvBie6gtooFjntX0diec_VylobBguxZ361a0BLeBCgeH-al_UNCkkE/w414-h640/record-image_.jpg" width="414" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This document states that Stubbs had been administering the estate since October of 1849. In another document that Stubbs filed when seeking to administer the estate, he stated that William Fair died in April 1849. This document names heirs and their whereabouts as of October 1851: Isaac M. Fair and William H. Fair who reside in the state of Lousiana; and Mariah Floyd, wife of Thomas H. Floyd, who reside in the state of Arkansas; also Eliza Tyler, wife of Joseph A. Tyler who reside in the state of Texas; and the following persons who reside in the state of Mississippi, to wit: Elizabeth J. Seastrunk, wife of Joseph Seastrunk, of Copiah County; Sarah C. Harris, wife of James Harris, of Claiborne County; John J Fair of Rankin County, and Mary Taylor wife of William Taylor, and Harriett Hutson wife of Jefferson M. Hutson deceased - each reside in Hinds County. All of them were of full age except for William H. Fair, who was under the age of 21. </p><p>Note the addition of John J. Fair to the list of heirs. Jane Fair seems to be the same person as Elizabeth J. Seastrunk. Is Eliza Tyler also the same person as Elizabeth Mitchell [Fair]?</p><p>In other documents, there are dealings with Obediah K. Kelly and F. J. Kelly - two of Mary Fair's brothers.</p><p>This is a wealth of information about Mary Fair's children, who her daughters married, and where they lived as of 1851. However, tracking them has not proven to be that easy. Only about half of them can be found on the 1850 census at this point. Even fewer can be found on the 1860 census. Even fewer of their children can be tracked forward.</p><p>Next, I need to go through the key documents in William Fair's estate records.</p><p><br /></p>kdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064169550240768591.post-65570324704530519672023-09-04T13:57:00.003-05:002023-09-04T13:57:24.518-05:00Mollie F. Brown's Photo Album<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">© Kathy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Duncan, 2023</span></p><p>A few months ago, I was contacted by Jim McCabe, who had read my blog post that connected <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2023/02/squire-brown-brother-of-isaac-s-brown.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Squire Brown</span></b></a> and <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2016/05/isaac-s-brown-of-pike-county-illinois.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Isaac S. Brown</span></b></a> as brothers. Jim had a family photo album that was kept by a young woman named Mollie F. Brown who was a daughter of James A. and Margaret (Ryan/Rian) Brown of Scott County, Illinois. Mollie's album was unusual in that it contained many identified photographs, but Jim was trying to positively identify who those people were and how they might be connected to James A. Brown.</p><p>One photograph was of "Uncle Squire Brown" of Alton, Illinois:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirkoaoZ1snmry7XzwSuld9H8vGshPCHhaFzopZhmSYM600PnaVE8TrFkRSSdhPzqgqbohXsFBUatzKBSisnSuRcHEjvhg7XYgOv_YtJiq6SJ5F_DNLf8qUQTtk_XgSnwcdvrJfUtZepJbPpu8r4oc7dYBVRERjGW0T1d_T_3LRi8Qq8C2DBc2yCYW4R8k/s639/302A%20Uncle%20Squire%20Brown%20(1818-1893),%20Alton,%20IL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="474" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirkoaoZ1snmry7XzwSuld9H8vGshPCHhaFzopZhmSYM600PnaVE8TrFkRSSdhPzqgqbohXsFBUatzKBSisnSuRcHEjvhg7XYgOv_YtJiq6SJ5F_DNLf8qUQTtk_XgSnwcdvrJfUtZepJbPpu8r4oc7dYBVRERjGW0T1d_T_3LRi8Qq8C2DBc2yCYW4R8k/w296-h400/302A%20Uncle%20Squire%20Brown%20(1818-1893),%20Alton,%20IL.jpg" width="296" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A photograph of "cousin Joe Brown," who was the son of Squire Brown:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh_9t7IGooJsmslBDis4qOphJofQBjd2AhYosgUf3nUkZ16Dj8MggsT9CNKyUZisdL7sFFNY_SvT8uB1eHTIXYbwyb08oKJ9eQJDWtot_qw5A0ikWwQe7N9tBL2NBDeaBffrR1crKl5Zaq2WvA77jcFxr1EKgyQOgpjOuoZPJBIbzH6a6yoEbwGCtnGFA/s1200/299%20Dr%20Joe%20Brown,%20Troy,%20IL,%20father%20Squire%20Brown%20-%20note%20on%20back%20-%20Cousin%20Joe%20Brown,%20signed%20Mollie.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh_9t7IGooJsmslBDis4qOphJofQBjd2AhYosgUf3nUkZ16Dj8MggsT9CNKyUZisdL7sFFNY_SvT8uB1eHTIXYbwyb08oKJ9eQJDWtot_qw5A0ikWwQe7N9tBL2NBDeaBffrR1crKl5Zaq2WvA77jcFxr1EKgyQOgpjOuoZPJBIbzH6a6yoEbwGCtnGFA/s320/299%20Dr%20Joe%20Brown,%20Troy,%20IL,%20father%20Squire%20Brown%20-%20note%20on%20back%20-%20Cousin%20Joe%20Brown,%20signed%20Mollie.JPG" width="192" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>One of "Aunt Kate" Brown. Aunt Kate would be Catherine E. (Hay) Brown, wife of Isaac S. Brown of Pike County, Illinois:</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTN93WCEoKXjL3gc4IsoGbSzI_Guto4J7gdxNkYetQiN5pEPLbebs-8NBGAJN7xjgIQpiIQd_xUfzQI1haKzOdFgb3r59mcHNMgLhQ7c665ZN4_NO_BnqIA4h1Mbg-XcPYbxd1jjqfEWCRJaa0PPMIPamKfOzV5N9djhUWJNmdofH67eQ8Bn7geoj-7FE/s1120/283%20Katherine%20Brown,%20wife%20of%20Issac%20Brown%20-%20noted%20on%20back%20-%20Aunt%20Kate,%20signed%20Mollie.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1120" data-original-width="704" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTN93WCEoKXjL3gc4IsoGbSzI_Guto4J7gdxNkYetQiN5pEPLbebs-8NBGAJN7xjgIQpiIQd_xUfzQI1haKzOdFgb3r59mcHNMgLhQ7c665ZN4_NO_BnqIA4h1Mbg-XcPYbxd1jjqfEWCRJaa0PPMIPamKfOzV5N9djhUWJNmdofH67eQ8Bn7geoj-7FE/w251-h400/283%20Katherine%20Brown,%20wife%20of%20Issac%20Brown%20-%20noted%20on%20back%20-%20Aunt%20Kate,%20signed%20Mollie.JPG" width="251" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>A photograph of "Cousin Hank E. Brown, Milton, IL." This is a photograph of Henry E. Brown, a son of Catherine E. (Hay) and Isaac S. Brown of Pike County, Illinois:<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiidf2L24oeMnRS-1sjSm5qf1bdqQA4q9gMWS9dbMUBsrmsgudXVI5um-5QWqydbdLTfYpoGHbz59eVD0HTdVJjKedVeMPgzfAmeK18FcVpQh5iBgJRljvWuYy_052mWidgMwZFeguSUngk3PZLrZU097K91puKSU78bBWNw3kZ8daQc6JJo3_9kXuyoLA/s590/304A%20Cousin%20Hank%20E%20Brown,%20Milton,%20IL.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="439" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiidf2L24oeMnRS-1sjSm5qf1bdqQA4q9gMWS9dbMUBsrmsgudXVI5um-5QWqydbdLTfYpoGHbz59eVD0HTdVJjKedVeMPgzfAmeK18FcVpQh5iBgJRljvWuYy_052mWidgMwZFeguSUngk3PZLrZU097K91puKSU78bBWNw3kZ8daQc6JJo3_9kXuyoLA/s320/304A%20Cousin%20Hank%20E%20Brown,%20Milton,%20IL.JPG" width="238" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>A photograph of "cousin Clara Grimes." Clara Grimes was the daughter of Ellen Elizabeth (Brown) and Eli Cox Grimes. Clara was also the granddaughter of Catherine E. (Hay) and Issac S. Brown:<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfQJx-0P7kyitpMshBTldyUKbGHT-OVxnQLEUlZTIgJ5L_-ZLm8F-b3xQJQOuAiDuNdShYwyEvhp--wvi3WobeugYCBtIK7GGJhnNzXInITClai0CCipA-2bmbx26JdxiR6ZQuUNqB_yvisLHBHtFq66hOEcf3Q_2bnrbl6XHCI2epH6azkKzmMaDfeB4/s1104/296%20Cousin%20Clara%20Grimes,%20Milton,%20IL-note%20on%20back%20-%20Cousin%20Clara%20Grimes,%20signed%20Mollie.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="688" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfQJx-0P7kyitpMshBTldyUKbGHT-OVxnQLEUlZTIgJ5L_-ZLm8F-b3xQJQOuAiDuNdShYwyEvhp--wvi3WobeugYCBtIK7GGJhnNzXInITClai0CCipA-2bmbx26JdxiR6ZQuUNqB_yvisLHBHtFq66hOEcf3Q_2bnrbl6XHCI2epH6azkKzmMaDfeB4/s320/296%20Cousin%20Clara%20Grimes,%20Milton,%20IL-note%20on%20back%20-%20Cousin%20Clara%20Grimes,%20signed%20Mollie.JPG" width="199" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>A photograph of "cousin Katie Grimes." Catherine Grimes was Clara's sister:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioHsyMhZa3D5nlXXRR0V4CIh8xtZbkRs2zs7Arwj4RruwyIUa0_5mUh8fvkSMEnxPQEDmehN4l60XJ5xQE35brVfl7owR_1f3BtERwYIkRI7-P5td4ohhu9WYKMX5UYtdi-oPdbrwFX2OoZVAZ8zXOU-SEETGqezZqHSnNWqcKqCONQToTidkYrrZqTyw/s1120/297%20Cousin%20Katie%20Grimes,%20Tarilton,%20IL%20-%20note%20on%20back%20-%20Cousin%20Katie%20Grimes,%20signed%20Mollie.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1120" data-original-width="672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioHsyMhZa3D5nlXXRR0V4CIh8xtZbkRs2zs7Arwj4RruwyIUa0_5mUh8fvkSMEnxPQEDmehN4l60XJ5xQE35brVfl7owR_1f3BtERwYIkRI7-P5td4ohhu9WYKMX5UYtdi-oPdbrwFX2OoZVAZ8zXOU-SEETGqezZqHSnNWqcKqCONQToTidkYrrZqTyw/s320/297%20Cousin%20Katie%20Grimes,%20Tarilton,%20IL%20-%20note%20on%20back%20-%20Cousin%20Katie%20Grimes,%20signed%20Mollie.JPG" width="192" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>A photograph of "Uncle William Brown" of Woodville, IL. I believe that this was William Brown of Woodville Twp in Greene County, Illinois rather than Woodville, Illinois:<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXX0Ik2GDA7LyPtVm3xdBbXiZ96kS6321bwWoUiWP8YfGXK2NmojHFOcPMoyBygtrx2eo-CII3YavI8qAfgNH7wEsbtPWOJg7OcBXhC2pOERPp_rFEf02JjVXWmXFixDHjIastrN3UzafMkIjtJ-WaZ6VhTKR7n1AbwYZHk4zAdQ6YrkBe_Iflm_Z0mCQ/s423/319A%20Uncle%20William%20Brown,%20Woodville,%20IL%20-%20note%20on%20back-Uncle%20William%20Brown,%20signed%20Mollie.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="327" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXX0Ik2GDA7LyPtVm3xdBbXiZ96kS6321bwWoUiWP8YfGXK2NmojHFOcPMoyBygtrx2eo-CII3YavI8qAfgNH7wEsbtPWOJg7OcBXhC2pOERPp_rFEf02JjVXWmXFixDHjIastrN3UzafMkIjtJ-WaZ6VhTKR7n1AbwYZHk4zAdQ6YrkBe_Iflm_Z0mCQ/s320/319A%20Uncle%20William%20Brown,%20Woodville,%20IL%20-%20note%20on%20back-Uncle%20William%20Brown,%20signed%20Mollie.JPG" width="247" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><div><br /><br /><div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My interpretation is that in order for Mollie to be related to these Browns in the way that the photographs are labeled, her father James A. Brown would be a brother to Squire Brown of Upper Alton, Madison County, Illinois; Isaac S. Brown of Milton, Pike County, Illinois; and William Brown of Woodville Twp, Greene County, Illinois. </p><p>There are other photographs in Mollie's album that need to be identified. </p><p>This was the most exciting genealogy "discovery" of the summer of 2023. I never thought that I would ever see a photograph of Catherine E. (Hay) Brown. </p><p><br /></p></div></div></div>kdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064169550240768591.post-70789299553573741482023-08-28T19:42:00.000-05:002023-08-28T19:42:36.158-05:00A Clue for Isaac S. Brown and His Brother, Squire<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">© Kathy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Duncan, 2023</span> </p><p>So far, I have not been able to determine much about Isaac S. Brown and his brother Squire Brown. Both were born somewhere in Kentucky - Isaac in 1810 and Squire in 1818. By pulling from biographical information about each one, it can be guessed that they came to Greene County, Illinois in 1828 with their parents. The 1880 census for Squire Brown states that his parents were born in Virginia. Of course, during the time period in which Isaac and Squire's parents were born, Kentucky was also considered Virginia. By 1850 Isaac S. Brown was living in Pike County, Illinois while Squire Brown was still in Greene County, Illinois. By 1860, Squire was in Madison County, Illinois.</p><p>I am looking for a Brown family with brothers named Isaac and Squire Brown, both born in Kentucky, to parents who had been born in Virginia. I started googling for such a family and felt hopeful when I found the following biography of Norman W. Brown of Pike, County Illinois:</p><p><b style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;">Brown, Norman W.</b></p><p><span style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;">Norman W. Brown, who follows farming on section 35. Atlas township, was born on the old family homestead of two hundred and twenty acres, upon which </span><b style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;">his father, Isaac Brown, located in 1828.</b><span style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;"> The natal day of the son was September 23, 1840, and he was reared upon the home place, acquiring his preliminary education in the old log schoolhouse of the neighborhood about one mile from his father's home. He afterward, however, attended the Summer Hill district school, from which he was graduated. All this time he was living with his parents,</span><b style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;"> Isaac and Susan (Smoot) Brown</b><span style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;">, the former of Scotch ancestry and the latter of Dutch lineage. </span><b style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;">Isaac Brown was a native of Virginia and removed from the Old Dominion to Kentucky, where he was married.</b><span style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;"> He made farming his life work and followed that occupation until his life's labor's were ended in death. He became a pioneer resident of this county, settling here in 1828, when much of the land was still in possession of the government and few clearings had been made. He at once began to cultivate his land in Atlas township and resided upon the old homestead farm until </span><b style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;">his death in 1850</b><span style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;">. He had served his country as a soldier in the war of 1812. His widow survived him until April, 1860, and was then buried beside her husband on the old home farm that is now the property of C. B. Dustin. The old flintlock musket which was carried by Isaac C. Brown in the war of 1812 is still in possession of the family, being now the property of Willis Brown, a brother of Norman W. Brown. </span><b style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;">In the family of Isaac and Susan Brown were thirteen children, namely: Maria, Mahala, Squire, Owen, Hardin, John, Willis, James, Isaac, Susan, Jane, Benjamin and Norman W.</b><span style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;"> All are now deceased with the exception of four. </span><b style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;">Isaac died in infancy</b><span style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;"> and was buried beside his parents on the old home farm, where also lie the remains of Hardin and John Brown, while Susan, Mahala and Benjamin were buried in California and Owen was buried in Kentucky near Mammoth Cave.</span></p><p><span style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;">Norman W. Brown, the youngest of his father's family, was reared upon the old homestead farm. He lost his father when but ten years of age and was reared by his older brothers and sisters with whom he lived until nineteen years of age. when, in August, 1859, in company with William and James Baxter, he started for Pikes Peak, attracted by the discovery of gold in Colorado. They traveled with ox teams a part of the way and on reaching Nebraska they met many gold-seekers who were returning and who gave them information that there was no gold to be found. This discouraged the party so that they turned back and again came to Pike county. In the spring of 1860, however, Mr. Brown once more determined to try and win a fortune from the depths of the earth, for favorable reports concerning mining operations were still being received from Colorado and California and other sections of the country. In company with about one hundred and forty others he started, the party having forty wagons, most of which were drawn by ox teams. The company was commanded by <b>John Underwood</b>, whom they elected captain, and slowly they wended their way across the plains, completing in safety the long trip of five months, and reached Sacramento, California, on the 5th of September, 1860. They saw many Indians en route but they kept a strict watch, each male member of the company standing guard in his turn and they were not molested. Upon reaching Sacramento they did not find the gold as plentiful as they had pictured in their minds, so the members of the company scattered and sought employment in various ways. Mr. Brown went to work on a ranch and was thus employed for four and a half years, at the end of which time he returned home on the ocean steamer, Moses Taylor, embarking at San Francisco on the 13th of November, 1865. He disembarked with six hundred others at San Juan on the coast of Panama and from there they traveled overland, crossing the mountains, Mr. Brown riding a pony. He finally reached Virginia Bay, where he with the rest of the party took a boat across the bay to the head of San Juan river, where they embarked on two small river boats, going to Walker's Rapids. They traveled around the rapids on foot and again embarked on two other boats, thus making their way to old Graytown. a small port in the Atlantic ocean, where they took the steamer Santiago de Cuba for New York, arriving safely at that port. Thence they traveled by rail to Niagara Falls, and then on to Quincy, Illinois, and from there Mr. Brown made his way home.</span></p><p><span style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;">On again reaching Pike county he once more engaged in farming and soon afterward he secured a companion and helpmate for life's journey. He was married on the 28th of January, 1869, to Miss Ann Elizabeth Gay, a daughter of James and Amelia (Yokem) Gay, who are mentioned on another page of this volume. Unto this marriage six children, three sons and three daughters, have been born, namely: Nellie, who was born November 25, 1869, and is now the wife of X. J. Carter, of Rockport; Paul W., who was born June 19, 1871, and is now a practicing physician in Springfield, Ohio ; Carrie, born October 27, 1873, who is the wife of H. D. Marion, a resident of Atlas township ; Claud, who was born October 9, 1876, and is living in Carterville, Illinois, where he is employed and is part owner in a mining machinery foundry; Erma, who was born May 22, 1882, and is a stenographer with the Simmons Hardware Company of St. Louis, and Bert, who was born May 10, 1884, and resides with his parents.</span><br style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;">Politically Mr. Brown is a republican, unfaltering in the advocacy of his party and its principles. He cast his first presidential ballot for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and is proud of the fact that his second vote also supported the martyred president. Mr. and Mrs. Brown are now living upon the old home farm in Atlas township, where for years he has carried on general agricultural pursuits, having devoted his life to farm work since his return home from California more than forty years ago. [Source: <i>Past and Present Of Pike County, IL</i> by Capt. Massie, 1906]</span></p><p><span style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;">Then there was this biography for Norman W. Brown's brother Willis Brown:</span></p><p><b style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;">Brown, Willis</b><br style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;">Willis Brown, who since 1877 has resided in Pike county, was <b>born in Hardin county, Kentucky, on the 2d of September, 1827.</b> He was brought by his parents to this state, the family home being established in Atlas township on a farm now owned by Charles Dustin, but which is better known as the old Brown homestead. He is a son of <b>Isaac and Susan (Snodgrass) Brown</b>. <b>The father was born in Virginia and was a planter there. He removed from the Old Dominion to Hardin county, Kentucky, where he again conducted a plantation and in the latter state he was married. He lives in Kentucky until there were eight children in the family and he and his wife, with their children, then came to Pike county, Illinois, settling in Atlas township upon what is now the Dustin farm.</b> There he carried on general agricultural pursuits, being identified with the tilling of the soil up to the time of his death, which occurred on the old homestead in 1848, while his wife passed away two years later. Their graves were made on the old home farm.<b> In their family were thirteen children, namely: Maria, Mahala, Squire, Owen, Hardin, John, Willis, James, Isaac, Susan, Jane, Benjamin and Norman W.</b> All are now deceased with the exception of four. <b>Isaac died in infancy and was buried by the side of his parents</b>, where also lie the remains of Hardin and John, while Susan, Mahala and Benjamin were buried in California, and Owen near Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.</span><br style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;">Willis Brown received but limited educational privileges as the schools of Atlas township were not in very good condition at that day. He was reared on the old homestead and early became familiar with the labors of field and meadow. After his father's death he took entire management of the farm, for his brothers had learned trades and had left the old homestead. He then conducted the property for about six years, subsequent to his mother's death, when it was sold to Charles Dustin and the proceeds of the sale were divided among the heirs. Willis Brown then purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, which was covered with forest trees. It was situated on section 25, Atlas township, and here he took up his abode and began to clear and cultivate the property. He has since made extensive improvements and now has an excellent farm, the fields being rich and productive, so that he annually harvests good crops.</span><br style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;">In 1874 Mr. Brown was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Worley, a daughter of Elias and Elizabeth Worley, and they have become the parents of eight children, Byron, Meyer, Malinda, Guy, Nettie, Sadie, Charley and Bessie. Of these Charley, Sadie, Bessie and Guy are all now sleeping in the Ball Bluff cemetery near Atlas. In 1861 Mr. Brown went to California, where he engaged in farm work for two years, returning to Pike county in 1863.</span></p><p><span style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;">In his political affiliation Mr. Brown is a stalwart republican and has always supported the party. He and his wife still reside upon the home farm in the midst of children and grandchildren. Mr. Brown is a self-made man, owing his success entirely to his own labors and during the years he has wrought earnestly to acquire a competence and provide a good living for his family. [Source: </span><i style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;">The Book of St. Louisans</i><span style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;">, Publ. 1912. Transcribed by Charlotte Slater]</span></p><p><span style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;">While Isaac Brown and his wife Susan Smoot were born in Virginia, married in Hardin County, Kentucky, and had children there, including sons named Isaac and Squire, they can't possibly be the parents of the Isaac S. Brown and Squire Brown that I am seeking. Isaac Brown and Susan Smoot's son Isaac turned out to be younger than Isaac S. Brown, and he died in infancy. Not only is he a different Isaac, but this could not be an instance of Isaac S. Brown being named after an older, deceased brother. Squire Brown, the son of Isaac Brown and Susan Smoot, was a couple of years older than the Squire Brown that I am seeking, and he remained in Pike County, Illinois while my Squire Brown was living in Greene County and Madison County, Illinois. </span></p><p><span style="color: #535155; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 16px;">However, there are several parallels between the families of Isaac and Susan (Smoot) Brown and my Isaac S. Brown and Squire Brown. In both families, the parents were born in Virginia. Both families spent a few years in Kentucky. Both families removed to Ilinois in 1828 with Isaac Brown and Susan Smoot going to Pike County and the parents of Isaac S. Brown and Squire Brown going to Greene County. Significantly, Pike County and Greene County are neighboring counties. Then there is the repetition of the names Isaac and Squire in both families. The elder Isaac Brown, husband of Susan Smoot, may have been an uncle or cousin to my Isaac S. Brown. So far, I have been able to determine that Isaac Brown and Susan Smoot married in Hardin County, Kentucky, and that Isaac Brown is supposedly a son of Dixon Brown. Dixon Brown had several sons, so one of them might yet turn out to Issac S. Brown's father. </span></p>kdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064169550240768591.post-54640237842922442232023-08-27T11:22:00.002-05:002023-08-27T12:08:07.732-05:00Starling J. Thompson<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">© Kathy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Duncan, 2023</span></p><p>Starling J. Thompson was the son of <a href="http://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2020/08/lodowick-thompson-of-lancaster-and.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lodowick</span></b></a> and Priscilla (Reeves) Thompson. He was born c. 1810 in South Carolina, probably in Kershaw County.</p><p>In April 1841, he married Margaret R. Shiver in Kershaw County, South Carolina.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaEn3ibqcFvYpMwVmQwY3RAiMnVIhhA6LMSc61HbF35sa6H6bQoRqZtSBwVLQcP39upTvAkfLVprqoIAlVOu39tSLBSWDD-mzFfy2F3W26vj95F5beyz9Z6syIvVL2wCtBgUiEBNMDyUA81yrr0EgDBGm9qQazY7waRal-5ZH1yImUZG7F7vkPCLIR/s770/Thompson,%20Starling%20marries.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="770" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaEn3ibqcFvYpMwVmQwY3RAiMnVIhhA6LMSc61HbF35sa6H6bQoRqZtSBwVLQcP39upTvAkfLVprqoIAlVOu39tSLBSWDD-mzFfy2F3W26vj95F5beyz9Z6syIvVL2wCtBgUiEBNMDyUA81yrr0EgDBGm9qQazY7waRal-5ZH1yImUZG7F7vkPCLIR/s320/Thompson,%20Starling%20marries.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>They were still living in Kershaw County in December of 1844 when Starling was arrested for defending himself from Ferdinand Hunter.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRFDKfXGyHAytHRWuALCrp96GjG_gFBxhtzO9xBsgxHKne1OyqEj63PZsnfNob-UDDuDBQHHffhj2OjOnnADXHGoAxwO1b8IvFpdIfy3SVg5mDEk0G8RhpanWH4mQjbj7_8OfIpoL5tEr5aXiBG9QtwifDIQwu3qDegF-7P0IXCtFIlzmp2ZBiAqlq/s644/Thompson,%20Starling%20affray.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="644" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRFDKfXGyHAytHRWuALCrp96GjG_gFBxhtzO9xBsgxHKne1OyqEj63PZsnfNob-UDDuDBQHHffhj2OjOnnADXHGoAxwO1b8IvFpdIfy3SVg5mDEk0G8RhpanWH4mQjbj7_8OfIpoL5tEr5aXiBG9QtwifDIQwu3qDegF-7P0IXCtFIlzmp2ZBiAqlq/s320/Thompson,%20Starling%20affray.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>The DeKalb Factory was reportedly a cotton mill that provided cottages for its workers. I've found nothing further about this incident.<div><br /></div><div>By 1850, Starling and Margaret (Shriver) Thompson were living in Chesterfield County, South Carolina.</div><div><br /></div><div>29 November 1850, Chesterfield Dist., SC, p. 152:</div><div><br /></div><div>Starling Thompson 40 M Overseer b. SC</div><div>Margaret " 29 F b. SC</div><div>Jesse " 10 M b. SC</div><div>Amelia " 8 f b. SC</div><div>Lewis " 6 M b. SC</div><div>Anne " 4 F b. SC</div><div><br /></div><div>Note that on this census Starling was working as an overseer. His brother Solomon Thompson was also an overseer in Fairfield District, South Carolina in 1860. </div><div><br /></div><div>On 31 September 1855, Sterling Thompson married Antoinette Jones in Richmond County Georgia.</div><div><br /></div><div>They were still in Richmond County, Georgia in 1860.</div><div><br /></div><div>27 June 1860, Augusta, Richmond Co., GA:</div><div><br /></div><div>460-452</div><div>Sterling Thompson 47 Carpenter M b. SC</div><div>Antoinnett Thompson 38 F b. SC</div><div>Jessee J Thompson 19 M Carpenter b. SC</div><div>Amelia Thompson 17 F b. SC</div><div>Lewis Thompson 15 M b. SC</div><div>Anna Thompson 13 F b. SC</div><div>Mary Thompson 11 F b. SC</div><div>George Thompson 8 M b. SC</div><div><br /></div><div>According to this census, all of the children would have been Margaret's. Margaret must have died between 1852 and 1855. There is no way of knowing if she died in South Carolina or Georgia. Sterling and Antoinette had no living children after five years of marriage. It seems unlikely that they ever had any children.</div><div><br /></div><div>In 1860, Starling Thompson was in debt to Hiram Scarborough, who is believed to have been his brother-in-law and husband of Abigail Thompson. In Richmond Co., GA Deed Bk 2P on pages 84-85 is a mortgage that Starling took out from Hiram indicating that he owed Hiram $150 and was putting up his household furniture as collateral. Specifically, Starling mortgaged two bedsteads and bedding, three tables, one cook stove and utensils, six chairs, one sideboard, one bay mule and a wagon - all located in Starling's house at Number 410 on the <i>south</i> side of Broad Street in Augusta. </div><div><br /></div><div>Researching a house number from 1860 is not an easy task. Over time streets were moved, renamed, and houses renumbered. A house located at 410 Broad Street in 1860 cannot be expected to still be at 410 Broad Street today even if it is still standing. I looked for it anyway.</div><div><br /></div><div>The earliest map I have found so far is a Sanborn Fire Insurance Map dated 1884. On the south side of Broad Street, there was a house numbered 410. It was near the intersection of Broad Street and 4th Street.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEickqWvuVF-WSotTKbK_TCwFslsAla7UZgcSSMLDWM28N0xNA1BeZZ6ISjpqq_PGkTr_-L84FQgiclWYBA3zZOtc3qoqqQ0TcwE35aOnOu5Avdx41RSaCxpS67tV010c5AFnXFRhtAA37mxbcIh-yh5Bhws57E2jT_aei-zFFHew5ENfjdadlZZz2B_/s921/Augusta%20410%20Broad%20circled.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="921" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEickqWvuVF-WSotTKbK_TCwFslsAla7UZgcSSMLDWM28N0xNA1BeZZ6ISjpqq_PGkTr_-L84FQgiclWYBA3zZOtc3qoqqQ0TcwE35aOnOu5Avdx41RSaCxpS67tV010c5AFnXFRhtAA37mxbcIh-yh5Bhws57E2jT_aei-zFFHew5ENfjdadlZZz2B_/w400-h228/Augusta%20410%20Broad%20circled.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>410 Broad appears to be what we would call a duplex today. The key indicates that it was a frame house.</div><div><br /></div><div>Further studying of the 1884 map indicated something that absolutely should not be on the map, but is.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwo8Je6xvmxPDy8B0uDquYdzrOO2HABke9b0A21RpCMK9rMFcBitVjEeUsQPySRkQqkukNIu2V4e2WkTGiRnaDXCzW_uVYirMuo6dD7_Nvvn51a359xb8Q0lrtLLr-7L1WrQeBmtxK7VuR_pldzlxErZgOvvAs6nvsa73_ePRv9_uQELLvVRmhXur7/s962/Agusta%20Lower%20Market%201884%20circled.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="962" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwo8Je6xvmxPDy8B0uDquYdzrOO2HABke9b0A21RpCMK9rMFcBitVjEeUsQPySRkQqkukNIu2V4e2WkTGiRnaDXCzW_uVYirMuo6dD7_Nvvn51a359xb8Q0lrtLLr-7L1WrQeBmtxK7VuR_pldzlxErZgOvvAs6nvsa73_ePRv9_uQELLvVRmhXur7/w400-h186/Agusta%20Lower%20Market%201884%20circled.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>In the middle of Broad Street, which was a wide boulevard, was the Broad Street Market, often referred to as the Lower Market. Prior to the Civil War, it served as a slave market. In 1878, a tornado swept through Augusta and left a path of devastation. All period newspapers recount the total destruction of the Market on Broad Street. The path of the tornado was mapped out in the 1878 Army Signal Corps report.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6vhV9EYDJT4PVjPmrvx9PHqcz_wygjsp1934dMnb8aGErQpFf7L-gw_dZ3gvJwR180Gtqo5_ryQzvhfepKht_0ngrndiWnxVTvfnAT-86l4kuYqp4PVW07FKCHulqXhAg3IgXSFmp8EIghp5J_GoctC-T4pRJzYaEyWPHl1xUVoqYTXYUo0HinLb1/s784/Augusta%20tornado%201878.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="784" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6vhV9EYDJT4PVjPmrvx9PHqcz_wygjsp1934dMnb8aGErQpFf7L-gw_dZ3gvJwR180Gtqo5_ryQzvhfepKht_0ngrndiWnxVTvfnAT-86l4kuYqp4PVW07FKCHulqXhAg3IgXSFmp8EIghp5J_GoctC-T4pRJzYaEyWPHl1xUVoqYTXYUo0HinLb1/w400-h238/Augusta%20tornado%201878.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The Signal Corps map shows the tornado's path when it reached Broad Street. The Lower Market took a direct hit. The map suggests that the house numbered 410 might have survived.</div><div><br /></div><div>The question is why does the 1884 map include a structure that no longer existed? My guess is that mapping Augusta was a project that took several years. Some sources indicate that the population of Augusta in 1860 was 12,000. It would have increased much more by 1878. At this point, my theory is that the Broad Street neighborhood had already been mapped prior to the tornado, and it was not revised before the map was published in 1884. That makes me think that the 1884 map shows 410 Broad Street as it was prior to the tornado.</div><div><br /></div><div>As far as I can tell, what was once the location of 410 Broad Street is now under an overpass. Of course, this assumes that the house numbered 410 in 1860 was still numbered 410 in 1878. </div><div><br /></div><div>By 1862, Starling Thompson was once again employed as an overseer. He ran this notice in the <i>Daily Constitutionalist </i>of Augusta, Georgia on 22 May 1862. Since he was over the age of 50, he would not have been expected to enlist during the Civil War.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4kE-nqUhyu-I2P8YNfyiu3EbVMdgumcHauoeW37uZEU-2B4mkFwuRvX98O8SH4H8Nh1-7lRgOPWcfma1ikAnmAP3OsxrDjFjo2CzeMqx2pBNDUbWJaMGShfdm10N9iUVQmLSby18ha9dsikdBXnDfwC-8oMmwqy6zT97lqYFljeXvTzljN-Pnb_77/s711/Thompson,%20Starling%20overseerer%201862.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="711" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4kE-nqUhyu-I2P8YNfyiu3EbVMdgumcHauoeW37uZEU-2B4mkFwuRvX98O8SH4H8Nh1-7lRgOPWcfma1ikAnmAP3OsxrDjFjo2CzeMqx2pBNDUbWJaMGShfdm10N9iUVQmLSby18ha9dsikdBXnDfwC-8oMmwqy6zT97lqYFljeXvTzljN-Pnb_77/s320/Thompson,%20Starling%20overseerer%201862.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I have been unable to locate Sterling and Antoinette Thompson on the 1870 census although they should be somewhere.</div><div><br /></div><div>Starling was deceased when the following sheriff's sale notice was run in the <i>Augusta Chronicle</i> on 20 November 1879.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7iK07qTQ2T_NiY8fQFSGp6USR6YSs47uXvqgF_T_eMw5M0AHrgzz3w93NAFUu0y-ZpX3qYwtY4ukhVpIJBG3yqLMVk9mJuyJwuHv60YTO9DHnwTW8gLkuaM13sGW0Oqj6Dk0xkXiGcynY6Gm1m03UdiHPymVmEXAJDawUFTU8aMEoHV0JxRAQvtqw/s507/Thompson,%20Starling%201879.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="507" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7iK07qTQ2T_NiY8fQFSGp6USR6YSs47uXvqgF_T_eMw5M0AHrgzz3w93NAFUu0y-ZpX3qYwtY4ukhVpIJBG3yqLMVk9mJuyJwuHv60YTO9DHnwTW8gLkuaM13sGW0Oqj6Dk0xkXiGcynY6Gm1m03UdiHPymVmEXAJDawUFTU8aMEoHV0JxRAQvtqw/s320/Thompson,%20Starling%201879.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I have not been able to locate Antoinette Thompson on the 1880 census.</div><div><br /></div><div>Antoinette (Jones) Thompson died on 29 February 1896 in the Widow's Home located at 124 Greene Street in Augusta, Georgia. The Widow's Home was originally intended for widows of Confederate soldiers, but after burning, it was reopened in 1887 with the intention of assisting needy widows.</div><div><br /><div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /><p><br /></p></div></div></div></div>kdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064169550240768591.post-16369820805959839642023-04-30T11:48:00.000-05:002023-04-30T11:48:14.001-05:00Allen Kendrick Manos, Son-in-Law of Daniel A. Lewis<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">© Kathy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Duncan, 2023</span></p><p>For those sitting on the fence about the identity of <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2018/07/matilda-lewis-mason-daughter-of-john.htmlhttps://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2018/07/matilda-lewis-mason-daughter-of-john.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">John D. Lewis's</span></b></a> son <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2023/01/daniel-lewis-son-of-john-d-lewis.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Daniel Adams Lewis</span></b></a> and whether he had one wife (Betsy Young) or several additional wives (Tempe DeSpain and Margaret Masters), consider this additional information. </p><p>In 1870, Daniel's sister <a href="http://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2018/07/jane-lewis-wife-of-milton-wardlow.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Jane (Lewis) Wardlaw</span></b></a> was a widow, living in Hunt County, Texas with three of her children and a farm laborer named Allin Manos. Jane and Milton Wardlaw's married daughter Susan Ashmore was living next door.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIDmn4ltTNKromWKUDadiVNda1VqmMbfoSW91Obkip9TEK4RZ7cY3RDjVD4g78TAH3kVY-kra0ml2y2jxS34RY9abrejn8tx_LcB5JU2lvppoAfAEuuOkIoP04sRteZV21eoLCmP4EgGXHgwN5qdevdYk5qOQW50aSTrILOaIkM3dNb0zS2_L28k06/s965/Wardlaw,%20Jane%201870%20census.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="364" data-original-width="965" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIDmn4ltTNKromWKUDadiVNda1VqmMbfoSW91Obkip9TEK4RZ7cY3RDjVD4g78TAH3kVY-kra0ml2y2jxS34RY9abrejn8tx_LcB5JU2lvppoAfAEuuOkIoP04sRteZV21eoLCmP4EgGXHgwN5qdevdYk5qOQW50aSTrILOaIkM3dNb0zS2_L28k06/w400-h151/Wardlaw,%20Jane%201870%20census.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For too many years, the identity of Allen Manos, the farm hand, was unimportant since he did not seem to have any family connection.</p><p>That is he was seemingly unimportant until he turned up again in connection with Daniel Adams Lewis's third set of children with Margaret (Masters) Digman Newby. Allen Kendrick Manos married Missouri Texana Lewis, the middle daughter of Daniel Adams and Margaret (Masters) Lewis. In 1870, Missouri Texana Lewis was living with her mother and step-father L. H. Newby in Johnson County, Texas.</p><p>How on earth did Allen K. Manos and Missouri Texana Lewis meet? There are a couple of possibilities. Missouri Texana may have gone to Hunt County to visit her aunt and met him there. Margaret (Masters) Newby's marriage disintegrated by 1880. If she was in need of reliable help and had communicated that to her sister-in-law Jane Wardlaw, then Allen K. Manos may have gone to Johnson County to work for the family. To date, I have not located the marriage record of Allen K. Manos and Missouri Texana Lewis, which might shed some light on a possible place for their meeting.</p><p>Allen K. Manos establishes that there was a connection between Daniel Adams Lewis's sister Jane Wardlow and the daughter of Daniel and Margaret (Masters) Lewis. I do not believe that was purely coincidental. </p><p>Digging into the identity of Allen K. Manos turned up even more mysterious information and even more questions. </p><p>In 1860 Allen K. Manos was living in Hunt County, Texas with his parents John and Mary J Manos. John C. Manos was born in Tennessee in 1815 and Mary J Manos was born in Tennessee in 1825. It is notable that they were living in Tishomingo County, Mississippi in 1850. Even more notable, among their many children were Wiley Manos born c. 1842 in Mississippi, Matilda Jane Manos born c. 1848 in Mississippi, and Joel Manos born c. 1859 in Texas. These are names used repeatedly in the Lewis family. </p><p>Further digging revealed that John C. Manos married Mary Jane Lewis in Jefferson County, Alabama on 20 November 1839.</p><p>Who was Mary Jane Lewis??? The short answer is that I do not know. She does not seem to be an unidentified daughter of John D. Lewis. The lawsuit brought by the children of Green and Elizabeth (Lewis) Babb against their stepmother does not include any information about Mary Jane (Lewis) Manos and her children. She does, however, seem to have a connection to John D. Lewis. At this point, I think it is very possible that she was an elder, unidentified daughter of John D. Lewis's son <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2023/01/wiley-lewis-son-of-john-d-lewis.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Wiley Lewis</span></b></a>. At the same time, I cannot figure out how she would have ended up in Alabama in 1839. </p><p>I suspect now that the marriage of Allen Kendrick Manos and Missouri Texana Lewis was a marriage between cousins. More digging needs to be done, but this is a prime example of why it is important to research siblings and associates. It is admittedly tedious, but it pays off. </p>kdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064169550240768591.post-90163784424584555412023-04-23T14:21:00.001-05:002023-04-23T14:21:36.272-05:00Obituaries of the Children of Charles Henderson and Esther A. (Jernigan) Graham<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">© Kathy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Duncan, 2023</span></p><p>In the interest of leaving no stone unturned, I searched for the obituaries of the children of Charles Henderson Graham and his wife Esther A. Jernigan. This family was living in Johnston County, North Carolina in 1850 and 1860. Henderson Graham's origins are unknown other than he was born in North Carolina in about 1820. The Jernigans had been in Johnston County for decades. Esther had been previously married to Haywood Whitley and had three children with him. I was not able to locate their obituaries. </p><p>This group of sibling obituaries was frustratingly lean on information. Parents were not named. Often spouses were not named. Children were rarely named. </p><p>Birth order of the children of Charles Henderson Graham and his wife Esther A. Jernigan:</p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Martha E. Graham b. 1845, married Fredrick E. Wayne</li><li>William Henderson Graham b. 1848</li><li>Chloe Virginia Graham b. 1849</li><li><a href="http://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2014/09/rev-e-b-graham.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Edward Bright Graham</span></b></a> b. 1852</li><li>Thomas Jefferson Graham b. 1854</li><li>Mollie Graham </li><li>Esther Ann Graham b. 1860 m. Jackson Benjamin Smith</li></ol><div><br /></div><div>Obituaries were not found for Martha E. (Graham) Wayne or Esther Ann (Graham) Smith.</div><p></p><p>Published obituaries of the Graham siblings in the order of their death:</p><p>1. Mollie F. (Graham) Mozingo died 5 October 1911. This obituary was found in <i>The Times-Dispatch</i> of Richmond, Virginia rather than in a North Carolina paper. Her obituary does not reveal that she was the widow of Jonathan P. Mozingo nor that she had a surviving son, Foy Daniel Mozingo. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5fLTy0OdsnpKbUl4C-WX1JlH_XWJ2er04Pg6usHJ2xP9kYm2skRm0WTx9cTbz8sSsBFODk2Q2s0hg4qL5LMh-5cfMMa-hBLn0jWydbXUPESju-xxavPdhDogsl5Zw3vSIuijSZpQ39ky7FXRGTs1IC7BL1GVBLfEKvFQI7iE6Uts0A1jq8JzmRju4/s413/Mozingo,%20Mollie%20obit%201911.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="235" data-original-width="413" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5fLTy0OdsnpKbUl4C-WX1JlH_XWJ2er04Pg6usHJ2xP9kYm2skRm0WTx9cTbz8sSsBFODk2Q2s0hg4qL5LMh-5cfMMa-hBLn0jWydbXUPESju-xxavPdhDogsl5Zw3vSIuijSZpQ39ky7FXRGTs1IC7BL1GVBLfEKvFQI7iE6Uts0A1jq8JzmRju4/s320/Mozingo,%20Mollie%20obit%201911.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>2. William Henderson Graham died 27 October 1917 in Ingrams Township, Johnston County, North Carolina. His obituary does not name his parents or any of his nine surviving children. No siblings are mentioned. It does mention his two wives by name: Fannie Upchurch and Mrs. Lucinda Lee. This obituary appeared in the <i>Smithfield Herald</i> of Smithfield, North Carolina on 30 October 1917.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDSM6zHiWef64so8egtwdbeI1i9GiwaK_j8nb4mPlapaYy3v0bH8f9o9B2mdjso9zTST-PapyD4hvPaJs2UQhspkodgmd_Td_wwb8fANervhOcPowHZOHIma-afnlDg0TMhmGz-9Pxx7OX6Vb1j6UxL9TT2hDUpVV2owCREUSW21Nd7KC9U7uF7SaR/s583/Smithfield%20Herald,%20Smithfield,%20NC%2030%20Oct%201917.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="583" data-original-width="329" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDSM6zHiWef64so8egtwdbeI1i9GiwaK_j8nb4mPlapaYy3v0bH8f9o9B2mdjso9zTST-PapyD4hvPaJs2UQhspkodgmd_Td_wwb8fANervhOcPowHZOHIma-afnlDg0TMhmGz-9Pxx7OX6Vb1j6UxL9TT2hDUpVV2owCREUSW21Nd7KC9U7uF7SaR/w226-h400/Smithfield%20Herald,%20Smithfield,%20NC%2030%20Oct%201917.png" width="226" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>3. Chloe Virginia (Graham) Wayne died on 16 August 1928 at her daughter's home in New Bern, North Carolina. In her obituary, her parents, siblings, and spouse are not named even though she had at least two siblings still living. As was the custom of the time, her daughter is referred to as Mrs. H. M. Buntin of Bridgeton. Her obituary appeared in the <i>News and Record</i> of Greensboro, North Carolina.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjocETQXdXaIpKMl71Kl0zqTnhZ3i1mrkjvRKWMBlE4zsw70bHXxwFeGbp44OKyfLWuR5owNn4i--0yT59OsFRkwgAq7TO34MHejrW3EVbFiY3sxT0X_79qNmqqba9zuRaex307SOnhR49iA04WdozpOddpAxukHe4j9aryUQZSWyLv87O7A7b-gXAX/s570/Wayne,%20Chloe%20Virginia.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="533" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjocETQXdXaIpKMl71Kl0zqTnhZ3i1mrkjvRKWMBlE4zsw70bHXxwFeGbp44OKyfLWuR5owNn4i--0yT59OsFRkwgAq7TO34MHejrW3EVbFiY3sxT0X_79qNmqqba9zuRaex307SOnhR49iA04WdozpOddpAxukHe4j9aryUQZSWyLv87O7A7b-gXAX/s320/Wayne,%20Chloe%20Virginia.png" width="299" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>4. Edward Bright Graham died on 3 January 1931 in Carlisle, Kentucky. His death notice appeared in <i>The News and Observer</i> of Raleigh, North Carolina because he had two surviving nieces in Johnston County, North Carolina. Even though Rev. E. B. Graham had a long and illustrious career, this is the only obituary I have found to date. It does not mention his own surviving son, William Bright Graham, or his surviving brother, Thomas Jefferson Graham. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu4pBoYonAMEGqXzJbozV3nKE0ROO2iqKrMJVFRFzUDVmKuZ4Na6_Ww0rYhXDfGpDdaiWWuIHRu5YAJWOPlqGN_1gBOvDLZaMXzoY4VHBqwpk64SOpEkoji2DSvgBc01jfdZujwL-nJYJcaQsNPfEA5fWAruGmA7jvNCrf01zFAGtEsExbsk4kpcqM/s399/Graham,%20Rev%20E%20B.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="390" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu4pBoYonAMEGqXzJbozV3nKE0ROO2iqKrMJVFRFzUDVmKuZ4Na6_Ww0rYhXDfGpDdaiWWuIHRu5YAJWOPlqGN_1gBOvDLZaMXzoY4VHBqwpk64SOpEkoji2DSvgBc01jfdZujwL-nJYJcaQsNPfEA5fWAruGmA7jvNCrf01zFAGtEsExbsk4kpcqM/s320/Graham,%20Rev%20E%20B.png" width="313" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>5. Thomas Jefferson Graham died on 20 January 1942 in Mangum, Greer County, Oklahoma. His obituary appeared in <i>The Mangum Daily Star</i> on Tuesday, 20 January 1942. It does not name his parents or his deceased wife. However, each of his six surviving children are named along with their residences: Thomas E. Graham and H.E. Graham of Oklahoma City, Carl E. Graham of Denver, Walter B. Graham of Albuquerque, Annie (Graham) Duck of Amarillo, J. M. Graham and H.H. Graham of Floydada, Texas. </div><div><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQu_R_ILEvhQfYJG6I4ME9PUcqtEv0rm-vvSDX_WFeP2PX0Rf7xy6beaFiu9gM49tDtWaxAdmGugFgcVuiRm4w-3auumHz612kQfn7i1u38eTWGQMTsV-M8FFG6ME6g8fIK3RMs4bNQctgzp5XBlMsPSOU8Vu-A2xLodI8vvbqlEWZUv_ayGd_8TTy/s560/Graham,%20T%20J%20The%20Mangum%20Daily%20Star%20Tue%2020%20Jan%201942.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="314" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQu_R_ILEvhQfYJG6I4ME9PUcqtEv0rm-vvSDX_WFeP2PX0Rf7xy6beaFiu9gM49tDtWaxAdmGugFgcVuiRm4w-3auumHz612kQfn7i1u38eTWGQMTsV-M8FFG6ME6g8fIK3RMs4bNQctgzp5XBlMsPSOU8Vu-A2xLodI8vvbqlEWZUv_ayGd_8TTy/w224-h400/Graham,%20T%20J%20The%20Mangum%20Daily%20Star%20Tue%2020%20Jan%201942.png" width="224" /></a></div><br />kdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064169550240768591.post-50377946573172942902023-04-16T09:47:00.002-05:002023-04-16T09:47:35.486-05:00Iley N Selph, Spanish American War<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">© Kathy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Duncan, 2023</span></p><p>Records indicate that Iley Nunn Selph served during the Spanish American War. Various circumstances indicate that he was already in the Signal Corps when the war erupted in April 1898. He was stationed at Fort Sill Oklahoma as early as February 1898 when he <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2011/03/iley-nun-selph-and-geronimo.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">purchased a beaded cane from Geronomo's wife</span></b></a> and sent it to Col. W.C.P. Breckinridge of Lexington, Kentucky.</p><p>Iley was still at Ft. Sill in October 1898 when he was transferred to Fort Reno, Oklahoma. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDq5x2mAQY-9TWB9Wpbi1UxHPyHB_K9iVpuSf2LFzHmDdHyal5NMGGu5ut4KACjRzhapM9DJTayQdPG9axFUNIR39GZ_WJcCF5nnysw1YuDXstmJGYwAG8l4L1XnQx7wmqadTPj4oSu3wtwCewO-9kBKrGvSKdyBYKbGs7nPBIKgjeyctEuOJRtOMh/s789/Signal%20Corp%20Oct%2012,%201898.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="789" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDq5x2mAQY-9TWB9Wpbi1UxHPyHB_K9iVpuSf2LFzHmDdHyal5NMGGu5ut4KACjRzhapM9DJTayQdPG9axFUNIR39GZ_WJcCF5nnysw1YuDXstmJGYwAG8l4L1XnQx7wmqadTPj4oSu3wtwCewO-9kBKrGvSKdyBYKbGs7nPBIKgjeyctEuOJRtOMh/w400-h156/Signal%20Corp%20Oct%2012,%201898.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>This means he served the duration of the Spanish American War, which ended in August 1898, at Ft. Sill.<div><br /></div><div>By the time of the Spanish American War, the Signal Corps had progressed from sending communications with flags and bugles to communicating by telegraph. They both erected telegraph lines and worked as telegraph operators. Most of their communications were focused on the weather.<br /><p>The skills that Iley N. Selph acquired during his stint in the military were put to use once he became a civilian. He worked for years as a telegraph operator, surveyor, and railroad agent. </p><p>At some point during his military service, Iley contracted malaria, which affected his health for the rest of his life. I'm not sure where he contracted malaria. I researched malaria outbreaks in Oklahoma, and there were some. However, this "new" tidbit of information, that reveals he was transferred to Savannah, Georgia in November 1898, may indicate where he contracted malaria. There were several forts near Savannah, and I'm not sure where he was stationed.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkvEB0WiQ47cbKtadC7FBwT0HVXMg6LMYEJQE7AfekhAwD-c_xmOb40DGEHYS1CZ_LbCp1XclB8gEZ673Oy5HSqsq9Ryyjxn9qauCIe7K30heo13L4J4vF0JIeWAjoZD7Cgq0BUGe-ZqteRdNINDu_oyKdGTZQe-m6fNE3M_4_5FQjqsGLDqriwdfM/s689/Signal%20Corp%20Nov%2017,%201898.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="244" data-original-width="689" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkvEB0WiQ47cbKtadC7FBwT0HVXMg6LMYEJQE7AfekhAwD-c_xmOb40DGEHYS1CZ_LbCp1XclB8gEZ673Oy5HSqsq9Ryyjxn9qauCIe7K30heo13L4J4vF0JIeWAjoZD7Cgq0BUGe-ZqteRdNINDu_oyKdGTZQe-m6fNE3M_4_5FQjqsGLDqriwdfM/w400-h141/Signal%20Corp%20Nov%2017,%201898.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p></div>kdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064169550240768591.post-68334840269023074772023-04-07T20:05:00.001-05:002023-06-04T10:13:51.886-05:00Pedro Ygnacio Espinosa, Death Record<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">© Kathy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Duncan, 2023</span></p><p><a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2012/12/juana-gertrudis-gonzales-and-pedro.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Pedro Ygnacio Espinosa</span></b></a> died and was buried in Rancho de Taos in January 1834. </p><p>I located this record by noting the last record that I had that indicated he was alive, which was the 1832 baptism of his grandson:</p><p>4 March 1832 (baptized), age 5 days old, Casimiro Espinosa, son of Juan Ygnacio Espinosa and Ygnacia Gonzales, paternal grandparents: Pedro Ygnacio Espinosa and Juana Gertrudis, deceased; maternal grandparents: Juan Calletano Gonzales and Lorensa Rodrigues; godparents: Jose Dolores Tayfoya and Maria Dolores Tafoya, all residents of Rancho. [Source: NM Baptims (Taos) by Windham]</p><p>I went to the microfilm of Taos deaths on Family Search and started slowly scrolling from 4 March 1832 forward. One thing I have noticed is that a surprising number of people were baptized, married, and died in and around the little village of Taos every year. In spite of that, it did not take me long to locate the January 1834 death of Pedro Ygnacio Espinosa. Other than his death date, this does not reveal any new information. I already knew that he was the widower of Maria Gertrudis Gonzales.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbOtU44DT3VouGoumR6IKAoltR0xzsMbd729nMEVX7JI1GKy8CzDyQL87GVwC0Ctic4jPx4mMm4yTwWhEHuupr82nql2qI6etxuufjHxwVYwzt5Ejd_VJUDPwcIHDJ0bjmRn7DUaX70IFzkt3Gk3q-hJpYajGhCAFhU_d-k-A1vQKuzBb8rGcsn-Xu/s694/Espinosa,%20Pedro%20Ignacio%20Death%20record.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="694" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbOtU44DT3VouGoumR6IKAoltR0xzsMbd729nMEVX7JI1GKy8CzDyQL87GVwC0Ctic4jPx4mMm4yTwWhEHuupr82nql2qI6etxuufjHxwVYwzt5Ejd_VJUDPwcIHDJ0bjmRn7DUaX70IFzkt3Gk3q-hJpYajGhCAFhU_d-k-A1vQKuzBb8rGcsn-Xu/w400-h266/Espinosa,%20Pedro%20Ignacio%20Death%20record.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>kdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064169550240768591.post-62893596934958642212023-03-16T17:21:00.004-05:002023-04-09T16:22:33.032-05:00Squire Brown's Place of Birth, 1818<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">© Kathy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Duncan, 2023</span></p><p>The <i>Illustrated Encyclopedia and Atlas Map of Madison County, Illinois</i>, reveals the only documentation that I have found so far for Squire Brown's place of birth:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKRuiMRgQu3KEj7mJEl_pRRJx0dPgZqE1rPk0NAGJIftY_9qEBN-BhJNX6azZWmHiAVr1b57HrTaB1IIOqNZESyswOHmc7vNCi5cixSoh8NunmdjhDeIqBo29-viqbtenV96d_yh33YOQjjzstPr2DyqKGKOykV0OmMXrja4JGPbeskP4OqLuaspv4/s801/1873%20Atlas.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="801" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKRuiMRgQu3KEj7mJEl_pRRJx0dPgZqE1rPk0NAGJIftY_9qEBN-BhJNX6azZWmHiAVr1b57HrTaB1IIOqNZESyswOHmc7vNCi5cixSoh8NunmdjhDeIqBo29-viqbtenV96d_yh33YOQjjzstPr2DyqKGKOykV0OmMXrja4JGPbeskP4OqLuaspv4/w400-h138/1873%20Atlas.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Like <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2016/05/isaac-s-brown-of-pike-county-illinois.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Isaac S. Brown</span></b></a>, his brother <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2023/02/squire-brown-brother-of-isaac-s-brown.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Squire Brown</span></b></a> was born in "Davis" County, Kentucky. Of course, that would actually be <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2023/03/isaac-s-browns-place-of-birth-1810.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Daviess County, Kentucky</span></b></a>. Squire was born there on 3 January 1818. This <i>Atlas</i> also reveals that he moved to Upper Alton, Madison County, Illinois in 1863, which is probably the year that he left Greene County, Illinois. </p><p>Then there is the added information that he lived in Township 5, Range 9, section 5:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhULHBmQ_1LKWrWrvayNUM62YNGxT7DZfuR9-bKDV_tSjeSwRdKWO2wKxu723PhnUNrqRhfBT1sLUglErrVwLI7ybjdKvB4VQgHXEn4t3pD8t-YWa5V4MvWPRt_y3DQ3MsIEyzauSbvAM2vZp0cRCb9fDsnK69Bvhcyjknc44TcwDeuCOOz8Jyptm9u/s436/Twp%205,%20Rng%209.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="421" data-original-width="436" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhULHBmQ_1LKWrWrvayNUM62YNGxT7DZfuR9-bKDV_tSjeSwRdKWO2wKxu723PhnUNrqRhfBT1sLUglErrVwLI7ybjdKvB4VQgHXEn4t3pD8t-YWa5V4MvWPRt_y3DQ3MsIEyzauSbvAM2vZp0cRCb9fDsnK69Bvhcyjknc44TcwDeuCOOz8Jyptm9u/w400-h386/Twp%205,%20Rng%209.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There is definitely a Brown with land in the northeast corner of section 5, but the first name does not look like Squire. It looks more like "Jam" Brown. As far as I know, Squire appears in all records as either Esquire or Squire Brown. He was not a lawyer or judge, so I think his name was actually Squire. </p>kdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064169550240768591.post-53056438820321820232023-03-16T11:54:00.003-05:002023-04-09T16:22:53.060-05:00Isaac S. Brown's Place of Birth, 1810<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">© Kathy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Duncan, 2023</span></p><p><a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2016/05/isaac-s-brown-of-pike-county-illinois.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Isaac S. Brown</span></b></a> was reportedly born in Daviess County, Kentucky on 7 February 1810. The source for that information is Isaac's Civil War service record as found on the Illinois State Archives site:</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl_AWv-mOcEji_lzFsq9zDP2r5Jcny-MtyOH1bm-_V0XkSUOmhkO2Osvy4tD5TS5rmsHjuc1vkv4al_-uFkEZXuYgui58PYTuC7hRo3MvobTYGhZNDmSxFYqSnfXJSyOcZXTXQ_Ek3G8S8Xeh3ZVvLrRdKNgUUC19rw-cZxpUWv36JAqkhUDz9X_nr/s624/Brown,%20Isaac%20S%20service%20records.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="442" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl_AWv-mOcEji_lzFsq9zDP2r5Jcny-MtyOH1bm-_V0XkSUOmhkO2Osvy4tD5TS5rmsHjuc1vkv4al_-uFkEZXuYgui58PYTuC7hRo3MvobTYGhZNDmSxFYqSnfXJSyOcZXTXQ_Ek3G8S8Xeh3ZVvLrRdKNgUUC19rw-cZxpUWv36JAqkhUDz9X_nr/w284-h400/Brown,%20Isaac%20S%20service%20records.png" width="284" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There are two problems with this record. The first problem is that Isaac S. Brown was actually 53 years old when he enlisted in 1862 - not 43 years old. It's likely that he was determined to serve and could pass for a younger man. The second problem is that there was no Davis County, Kentucky, but there is a Daviess County, Kentucky. </p><p>However, when Isaac S. Brown was born in 1810, Daviess County, Kentucky did not exist. It was formed from Ohio County, Kentucky in 1815. Ohio County had in turn been formed from Hardin County, Kentucky in 1798.</p><p>My guess is that Isaac S. Brown was born in the portion of Ohio County that became Daviess County and that the family remained in the area. Possibly, Isaac's father owned a farm in that area. My fingers are crossed for that. Since Isaac would have been five years old when the county change happened, he would have always known that location as Daviess County; hence, he would have reported his birthplace as being Daviess County rather than Ohio County.</p><p>Daviess County is the northwestern portion of what was formerly Ohio County. It is positioned between Hardin County on the west and Ohio county on the east.</p><p>I think this shifting border and the <a href="https://www.mapofus.org/kentucky/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">close proximity of these three counties</span></b></a> is going to be important in trying to identify the parents of Isaac S. Brown and his brother <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2023/02/squire-brown-brother-of-isaac-s-brown.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Squire Brown</span></b></a>.</p>kdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064169550240768591.post-56457521449191745372023-02-26T13:06:00.004-06:002023-04-09T16:24:07.789-05:00Squire Brown, Brother of Isaac S Brown<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">© Kathy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Duncan, 2023</span></p><p>In many areas of the nation, the newspapers of the later part of the nineteenth century began publishing social news - who was visiting who, who was visited by whom, who got married, who died, who was born, who celebrated a birthday, who had a golden anniversary, etc. These little tidbits are invaluable. </p><p>Combining newspaper social columns with the FANs of <a href="http://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2016/05/john-delos-brown.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">John Deloss Brown</span></b></a> has paid off multiple times, but this is the best find to date. A. L. Brown was Augustus Leroy Brown, brother of John Deloss Brown. Augustus lived in Champaign, Illinois. His first wife was also his first cousin, Lucia Hay, the daughter of Coonrod or Conrad Hay. For that reason alone, it has been important to research him. Over the years, the Champaign, Illinois newspapers reported the visits of his mother and brothers to see him in Champaign. Sometimes they reported his trips to visit them in Weldon, Illinois. There was a report when James A. Brown, one of his brothers, was murdered. Over the years, Augustus L. Brown was a justice of the peace, a marshall, and a truant officer. All of that was reported in his own obituary.</p><p>Because I know that A.L. Brown was a marshall in Champaign, Illinois during this time period, I am confident that this notice is about him:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqxsN-ySwGp1Ap0QzrKU3nD__GukDwzPz490SAlOp3GxFDoBJXJehvwT-DEkv79bZwaE0STHRg3VnP-CBV11FJA3Uv62lhRmef6BXqUZy-fVrAw6U4WxnYb8iMq5OcxCKfgsrPfcfzTInxfI2lmNWRCSnBORunSsF99RumD57wXiLXAI4PQZK8MA-6/s578/Brown,%20Squire%20uncle%20to%20AL%20Brown%20clue%201887.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="578" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqxsN-ySwGp1Ap0QzrKU3nD__GukDwzPz490SAlOp3GxFDoBJXJehvwT-DEkv79bZwaE0STHRg3VnP-CBV11FJA3Uv62lhRmef6BXqUZy-fVrAw6U4WxnYb8iMq5OcxCKfgsrPfcfzTInxfI2lmNWRCSnBORunSsF99RumD57wXiLXAI4PQZK8MA-6/w400-h154/Brown,%20Squire%20uncle%20to%20AL%20Brown%20clue%201887.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>However, because I have never been able to connect A. L. Brown's father, <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2016/05/isaac-s-brown-of-pike-county-illinois.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Isaac S. Brown</span></b></a>, to any other Browns, I had no idea that A. L. Brown had an uncle named Squire Brown. This notice in the <i>Champaign County Gazette</i> on 9 February 1887 indicates that A.L. Brown's uncle Squire Brown lived in Upper Alton, Illinois, and A.L. Brown had not seen him for more than 30 years. That would mean that Augustus had not seen his uncle since before 1857 when Augustus would have been 24 or younger.<div><br /></div><div>The most important takeaway here is that Isaac S. Brown of Pike County, Illinois had a brother named Squire Brown who lived in Madison County, Illinois. Having a brother with such an unusual name will eventually help me identify the rest of their family. <div><br /></div><div>My next step was to seek Squire Brown in Alton, Madison County, Illinois, and to hope that Squire was his real name. I found information on the Findagrave memorial of <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136081360/josephus-j-brown" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Josephus J. Brown</span></b></a> that indicated that he was the son of Squire Brown and <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136647248/jane-brown" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Jane Underwood</span></b></a>, natives of Kentucky and that he had been born in Carrollton, Greene County, Illinois on 31 July 1853. That gave me a link between Squire Brown and Isaac. S. Brown because it placed them in the same county in the mid-1800s. </div><div><br /></div><div>Even better, I found a Findagrave memorial for <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104305822/squire-brown" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Squire Brown</span></b></a> in the Troy City Cemetery, Troy, Madison County, Illinois. According to his tombstone, he was born on 3 January 1818, making him eight years younger than Isaac S. Brown. Squire Brown died on 22 March 1893 of "lung fever." </div><div><br /></div><div>Next, I doubled back into Greene County, Illinois, where I found Squire and Jane Brown on the 1850 census, living next to her parents Francis and Margaret Underwood. The Underwoods are buried in the Mt. Gilead Cemetery in Carrollton, Greene County, Illinois, as are Isaac S. Brown's mother-in-law and father-in-law, Amy and John Hay. A search of the Mt. Gilead Cemetery turned up Jane (Underwood) Brown who died in 1876. All I can imagine is that she either died while on a visit to her relatives or that Squire Brown took her to Mt. Gilead Cemetery to be interred near her parents. I wonder why Squire's children did not inter him with their mother? </div><div><br /></div><div>Squire Brown does not appear by name on the 1840 Greene County, Illinois census, but I suspect he might be the young man living in Isaac S. Brown's household. </div><div><br /></div><div>Squire then married Jane Underwood in Greene County, Illinois on 20 May 1840. They were married by Rev. Peter Dodgson, whose wife was Jane Brown, born in Kentucky. So far, I have not been able to find out enough about her to know if she is related to Squire Brown and Isaac Brown. </div><div><br /></div><div>I located a land deed for Squire Brown in Greene County, Illinois in 1844, from when he purchased land. No other Browns are mentioned in the deed in terms of having land adjacent to this purchase or as witnesses. I still need to search for Squire Brown's sale of that land.</div><div><br /></div><div>After a lot of searching, I finally found Squire Brown on the 1880 Madison County, Illinois census. On that census his name appeared as Esquire Brown, He had been indexed on Family Search as Esquire Bronen. My purpose in locating that particular census was to find out where his parents were born. On that census, their birthplaces were reported as Virginia for both father and mother. </div><div><br /></div><div>One biography that I found for Josephus J. Brown, son of Squire Brown, stated that his father had come to Greene County, Illinois with his parents at a young age. If I combine that with the account that I have of Issac S. Brown coming to Greene County in 1828, a picture of the Brown family starts to emerge. </div><div><br /></div><div>Mother and Father Brown were both born in Virginia by at least 1790. They either married there or met and married each other in Kentucky. They were married by at least 1809. They were in Kentucky from at least 1810 when Issac S. Brown was born until 1818 when Squire Brown was born. Of course, they may have been older than I have projected. They probably had several more children, some of whom may have been born in Virginia. They were probably in Greene County, Illinois by 1828. Isaac S. Brown may have been on his adventure in New York in 1830, so I need to search the 1830 Greene County, Illinois for all Brown households that have a son in Squire's age range. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /><p><br /></p></div></div>kdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064169550240768591.post-16398424466685464632023-01-31T12:21:00.002-06:002023-01-31T12:21:53.737-06:00Editing a Record on Family Search<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">© Kathy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Duncan, 2023</span></p><p>Recently, I discovered that I had misidentified my ancestor John Lewis on the 1830 census of Jackson County, Alabama because his name had been incorrectly transcribed by a Family Search indexer. Once the mistake a mistake like that is found it can be corrected by editing the entry.</p><p>Here is how the mistranscribed entry looked -</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD49p_6Xetmz4jBvuWghkZ16JXwIu_MQC1y9A6gYb6Wl3Rf5vKRbcsOJEL363gIWu9HGHbyYX940S-d21V1csJaI1AM51KgbbZHUxJk5o11MCKLwVvWR0214SzUaR8CcHyrizuTziEkk5KejO7wdOk787ZG9erqNWD-vAd-LknzavNH7D6LKeLH87K/s631/1830%20Jackson%20County%20Errors.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="631" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD49p_6Xetmz4jBvuWghkZ16JXwIu_MQC1y9A6gYb6Wl3Rf5vKRbcsOJEL363gIWu9HGHbyYX940S-d21V1csJaI1AM51KgbbZHUxJk5o11MCKLwVvWR0214SzUaR8CcHyrizuTziEkk5KejO7wdOk787ZG9erqNWD-vAd-LknzavNH7D6LKeLH87K/s320/1830%20Jackson%20County%20Errors.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>John Lewis had been indexed as John "<a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2023/01/recalculating-john-d-lewiss-estimated.html" target="_blank"><b>Seuss</b></a>," making him impossible to find since the two names are not the same phonetically. It is possible to edit this entry.</p><p>In the image index window, there is a page icon. Click on it.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjO63U1Vcn5TY58fjM-lsVtvDWQV7U0jgG1PdFSDTmQnNygFvYAzCfgsT65pT0cAmtEMHGo1cATn6gtQm2a6ssrE4hM1F5W56ZYFGrAcuKy8TuRQlqiqVtvCoAINmnwmapUGIcbpE_LvWBYm5pSev8MZvSTUcPbcoJ2eNDegk6TBDJzGAT_80Y9aev/s648/Edit%20step%20one.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="648" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjO63U1Vcn5TY58fjM-lsVtvDWQV7U0jgG1PdFSDTmQnNygFvYAzCfgsT65pT0cAmtEMHGo1cATn6gtQm2a6ssrE4hM1F5W56ZYFGrAcuKy8TuRQlqiqVtvCoAINmnwmapUGIcbpE_LvWBYm5pSev8MZvSTUcPbcoJ2eNDegk6TBDJzGAT_80Y9aev/s320/Edit%20step%20one.png" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>A full page for John Seuss opens up with an edit button below his name. This, I believe, only happens when you use the new version of Family Search.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiZByTJeoaUeOktg8LjtUj8DIWeGpPJUWUqWVT5ab_Bs8GZz1hxyw40vn45aRa0bVTVdzeDWeHMafmjw155XaQU9zFQs9v3MlcjXeDSszBaztsnsCYcAvvfl715lp3IKL8NuKBdUw6DBqBDXvYa9RXmRO3LSGNLHDYu1IznwYx2EDXzidHgLodLud6/s678/Edit%20step%20two.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="569" data-original-width="678" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiZByTJeoaUeOktg8LjtUj8DIWeGpPJUWUqWVT5ab_Bs8GZz1hxyw40vn45aRa0bVTVdzeDWeHMafmjw155XaQU9zFQs9v3MlcjXeDSszBaztsnsCYcAvvfl715lp3IKL8NuKBdUw6DBqBDXvYa9RXmRO3LSGNLHDYu1IznwYx2EDXzidHgLodLud6/s320/Edit%20step%20two.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Click on the edit button and select make a new edit. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEick8x8LsCXSGmVEo1CEpJ579RvE0wD3HjJZGoxvc4voeetw67RJEvcaelyWHYszN6sXdZsNqJ78l4-aCf3eaUlp8M_KCgokkqF4S1cgwwxVz2vr1xqWDBp7T5t7YgOWK9wDmrS3TszO9fWfrrdMxNFKwuH8owxmoYHesRx4bYwyYF1ZbK0vxYeoELB/s469/Edit%20step%20three.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="295" data-original-width="469" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEick8x8LsCXSGmVEo1CEpJ579RvE0wD3HjJZGoxvc4voeetw67RJEvcaelyWHYszN6sXdZsNqJ78l4-aCf3eaUlp8M_KCgokkqF4S1cgwwxVz2vr1xqWDBp7T5t7YgOWK9wDmrS3TszO9fWfrrdMxNFKwuH8owxmoYHesRx4bYwyYF1ZbK0vxYeoELB/s320/Edit%20step%20three.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Then click the "select a field" button. The field that I have the option to edit on this particular record his the name, which is what I want to edit.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK_JMlQuODVSrY17AOJ_WKSiZCVvWXV-IzsputZRh5N9O-QEPYYEZOMOdFsQezxhpsevZl__J8jMA9j7jqJaUSfu_Ns-6s7Jxhl8HnX81PZ23osHkZ6_KqfuAQrlPVhL886IaEleU6kci_4MSE8C5wvMRvXed1tgnV_QxqK8B_a2JdoJF5v6bpmrb-/s777/Edit%20step%20four.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="777" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK_JMlQuODVSrY17AOJ_WKSiZCVvWXV-IzsputZRh5N9O-QEPYYEZOMOdFsQezxhpsevZl__J8jMA9j7jqJaUSfu_Ns-6s7Jxhl8HnX81PZ23osHkZ6_KqfuAQrlPVhL886IaEleU6kci_4MSE8C5wvMRvXed1tgnV_QxqK8B_a2JdoJF5v6bpmrb-/s320/Edit%20step%20four.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>My next step is to replace Seuss with Lewis. Highlight Lewis on the census page very carefully so that it is still readable. Then select a reason for the edit and save.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAoZKrQvWQ1KL8r4Iw8grVjxtvxqmDkvn3O023R0J8KBvx5f3qls77_PPfRypM2rNRWX0PkWY_MRChD3CsFey9x8JDjyyMQro-9WhxZCb50v4xpQKO86-XZ_ipckh8ADb2mNxA0jMqGIhIAkHhARJmX7xQ_VnbuQkam8x9o4AFrgLkAUvKkUx6BDl3/s611/Edit%20step%20five.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="611" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAoZKrQvWQ1KL8r4Iw8grVjxtvxqmDkvn3O023R0J8KBvx5f3qls77_PPfRypM2rNRWX0PkWY_MRChD3CsFey9x8JDjyyMQro-9WhxZCb50v4xpQKO86-XZ_ipckh8ADb2mNxA0jMqGIhIAkHhARJmX7xQ_VnbuQkam8x9o4AFrgLkAUvKkUx6BDl3/s320/Edit%20step%20five.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div><br /><p><br /> </p></div></div>kdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064169550240768591.post-2369550320902422132023-01-31T12:19:00.001-06:002023-01-31T12:22:59.414-06:00Recalculating John D. Lewis's Estimated Age<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">© Kathy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Duncan, 2023</span></p><p>While working on my post for <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2023/01/daniel-lewis-son-of-john-d-lewis.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Daniel Adams Lewis</span></b></a>, son of <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2018/07/matilda-lewis-mason-daughter-of-john.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">John D. Lewis</span></b></a>, I found myself scrolling through Daniel Lewis's 1830 Jackson County, Alabama census entry. Having just looked at the <i>Family Maps of Jackson County, Alabama</i>, I noticed that on the census he was surrounded by the same men who were around him on the map. I noticed my ancestor, William Mason, and paused long enough to wonder if I had located his 1830 census entry before. His name looks like "Ulm Mason," so I wondered if he might have been indexed in some wonky that would have prevented me from finding him with the search engine on Family Search. Then I scrolled to the next page and gasped. There was John Lewis, and I knew immediately that he was not the John Lewis that I had previously identified on the 1830 census in a previous <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2020/06/john-d-lewis-estimating-his-birth-date.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">post</span></b></a>. I was just as sure that this was "my" John Lewis and that the other John Lewis I had identified was not.</p><p>So what had gone wrong before? After flipping back and forth between tabs and the search engine. I realized that there was only one John Lewis appearing in the Family Search index/search engine:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVJa6Ba1M6DV6SADeUbfqmcbgaWhagKqKjgluwxdddbH8t-P3BBRgUFAWx7O-i-c3nsqb7tZ8drUvj4MNpwFhmCSI2rUISThtrRVoYP9itBDMjaUoE1yMTZ0EwzkYYfVeMgxI6vrL82j8WxfjGCrZmOEi7rwNB8K-UXrR5zshgnxiK1d8tZ7wPyx4v/s887/1830%20Jackson%20Clark%20count.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="887" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVJa6Ba1M6DV6SADeUbfqmcbgaWhagKqKjgluwxdddbH8t-P3BBRgUFAWx7O-i-c3nsqb7tZ8drUvj4MNpwFhmCSI2rUISThtrRVoYP9itBDMjaUoE1yMTZ0EwzkYYfVeMgxI6vrL82j8WxfjGCrZmOEi7rwNB8K-UXrR5zshgnxiK1d8tZ7wPyx4v/w400-h133/1830%20Jackson%20Clark%20count.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A careful inspection of the page that "my" John Lewis appears on in Jackson County, Alabama reveals that Family Search indexed him as "John Seuss" rather than John Lewis, which makes him unfindable with a search engine:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsOIPyspqHYwh5vmdHbvJGvVenk0t0l0MKuJmWaYxb8CmB3UoCELFCSeqvpIrLOvE0TQMdssbn87oqixEAUJ-wqCJUXFCyBSil0k0MJI6vH_7uu2gY9kscgHBWxDbYAuLDswnARgkuUK6LqGEFhcWox3Oo-m_ERX2xiPtWxlVEYbnpapLZ_DasZ-W2/s631/1830%20Jackson%20County%20Errors.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="631" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsOIPyspqHYwh5vmdHbvJGvVenk0t0l0MKuJmWaYxb8CmB3UoCELFCSeqvpIrLOvE0TQMdssbn87oqixEAUJ-wqCJUXFCyBSil0k0MJI6vH_7uu2gY9kscgHBWxDbYAuLDswnARgkuUK6LqGEFhcWox3Oo-m_ERX2xiPtWxlVEYbnpapLZ_DasZ-W2/w400-h389/1830%20Jackson%20County%20Errors.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Notice that James Cotton was indexed as James Catton and Wm Dottery does not appear below "John Seuss" in the indexing although I think he probably turns up in a search. I'm not sure why all of the names on this page do not appear on the image index. It is the same situation for the page before this which contains the sons of John Lewis. </p><p>I will use the information from the image index to edit John Lewis's name in the index and will create a <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2023/01/editing-record-on-family-search.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">post</span></b></a> on how to do that. </p><p>When I found this error on my part, a little voice in my head started chiming "make a U-turn at your earliest convenience, make a U-turn at your earliest convenience. . .recalculating, recalculating."</p><p>This time I am going to calculate John Lewis's age from 1840 backward.</p><p>Here is John Lewis on the 1840 McNairy County, Tennessee census:</p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk2uZoWb0km7sbMQypt7slBAfaUgzE2ZIcy8BXv7qz-aKeDw_lw-1QDo3gM9vK1nH_cJuRxT5C7FWUOLWzNdmC62GwbKqVijhy3fcWCkqy8Ss_pcDYwRuHhs5wDMPI8KR5NJzxQuxdN2-RfvsOy-does557Zj1c9jUQU8MT752Q-MdREcH9ys5vg3S/s1131/Lewis,%20John%201840%20McNairy%20Co.,%20TN.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="299" data-original-width="1131" height="106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk2uZoWb0km7sbMQypt7slBAfaUgzE2ZIcy8BXv7qz-aKeDw_lw-1QDo3gM9vK1nH_cJuRxT5C7FWUOLWzNdmC62GwbKqVijhy3fcWCkqy8Ss_pcDYwRuHhs5wDMPI8KR5NJzxQuxdN2-RfvsOy-does557Zj1c9jUQU8MT752Q-MdREcH9ys5vg3S/w400-h106/Lewis,%20John%201840%20McNairy%20Co.,%20TN.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1840 McNairy County, Tennessee Census</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>John Lewis 000100001-100011</p><div style="text-align: left;">one male 15 - 19 = unknown male<br />one male 60 - 69 = John Lewis<br />one female 1 - 4 = Emily Lewis<br />one female 20 - 29 = Jane Lewis<br />one female 30 - 39 = Jane (Dameron) Hambrick Lewis</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This census brackets John Lewis's birth date as being from 1771 at the earliest and 1780 at the latest.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Clicking on the next image reveals the enslaved persons in John Lewis's 1840 household:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">0101-01</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">one male 10 -23 = unknown male</div><div style="text-align: left;">one male 36 - 54 = unknown male</div><div style="text-align: left;">one female 10 - 23 = unknown female</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Now the "new" 1830 Jackson County, Alabama census entry:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5TriDZH7LwBzYs3GtPXWxcO3xcs82lyBC2yTrtnZcfvFza5LXF42r-TKRec9UH_12lseSYy0jlu0b9f5aQFxhL0LkigfJnRnULH-HYNMHkIXRoWJ2R6xbaDHmONE0H6BUS3oPB-WGET50TuWP3yS1PXGO2ZazypDxCTXeBy_G9QyfVgyrf1tUtHLz/s1032/1830%20Jackson%20County%20Correction.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="214" data-original-width="1032" height="83" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5TriDZH7LwBzYs3GtPXWxcO3xcs82lyBC2yTrtnZcfvFza5LXF42r-TKRec9UH_12lseSYy0jlu0b9f5aQFxhL0LkigfJnRnULH-HYNMHkIXRoWJ2R6xbaDHmONE0H6BUS3oPB-WGET50TuWP3yS1PXGO2ZazypDxCTXeBy_G9QyfVgyrf1tUtHLz/w400-h83/1830%20Jackson%20County%20Correction.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>John Lewis 01010001-00200001</p><div style="text-align: left;">one male 5-9 = John Lewis? one unknown? two unknowns?<br />one male 15-19 = Spencer Lewis? John Lewis?<br />one male 50-59 = John Lewis<br />two females 10-14 = Elizabeth Lewis, Jane Lewis<br />one female 50-59 = wife of John Lewis</div><p>On this census, John Lewis's birth date is still in the 1771 to 1780 range. Of greater importance is the presence of a wife for John Lewis. Her birth date range is also 1771 to 1780, making her a contemporary of John's. Traditionally, she has been identified as Susan Daniel although there is no documentation, as yet, to support that. Certainly, the interaction between John Lewis and the Daniel family makes it very likely that she was a Daniel. John Lewis's wife must have died sometime between the 1830 census and John Lewis's marriage to <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2022/11/jane-dameron-wife-of-john-d-lewis.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Jane (Dameron) Hambrick</span></b></a> prior to daughter <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2022/11/emily-lewis-hanks-daughter-of-john-lewis.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Emily Lewis's</span></b></a> birth in 1838. </p><p>Clicking on the next image in Family Search reveals the enslaved persons in the John Lewis household in 1830:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlMw8QwSrzEo-awdygIPUKa0ZIXBOr40iBYH1Md4-w1OR6kUSnMnLhu6RqWMWJ69yYM1t5Fm2CNiD8EZQet_f1DQAqC2ZJIDV6Y_T3QBpXKP7LJoRa2XbJigcFE9xwQF0zwTdSzP9uhGt-aCG5DBqwqcnI-sRe3QovlGtIR-i8WjAXOkD4iquGSkaS/s481/1830%20Jackson%20County%20Enslaved.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="312" data-original-width="481" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlMw8QwSrzEo-awdygIPUKa0ZIXBOr40iBYH1Md4-w1OR6kUSnMnLhu6RqWMWJ69yYM1t5Fm2CNiD8EZQet_f1DQAqC2ZJIDV6Y_T3QBpXKP7LJoRa2XbJigcFE9xwQF0zwTdSzP9uhGt-aCG5DBqwqcnI-sRe3QovlGtIR-i8WjAXOkD4iquGSkaS/s320/1830%20Jackson%20County%20Enslaved.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The second line in this image corresponds to the line that John Lewis is on:</p><p>102-101</p><div style="text-align: left;">one male 1-9 = unknown male<br />two males 24-35 = two unknown males<br />one female 1-9 = unknown female<br />one female 24-35 = unknown female</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">There are only partially surviving census records for Alabama and Tennessee in 1820. John Lewis seems to have been in Alabama by 1817 when his daughter Jane Lewis was born, but he does not appear on the surviving 1820 census for Alabama.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In 1810, John Lewis is most likely to be the John Lewis on the Knox County, Kentucky census:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggpvB1LoTBwRnjMSbiWS6NYx3tm3MdE0xW6SNVdwDMFz6ytCNE2G_iUZmTt4OIfYAzvXcKque7AfqCgYOEkcLfzIBm4NKrzjeMNlrnFVwceIqk7fb1lhpIdJ5jU_0ui_eG5TzuxW4ADR8i_izMr_I6P8uNeoqKzNQoMoUosRvgHxKqkdGHvVX5n0mG/s893/Knox%20Co.,%20TN%201810%20census.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="116" data-original-width="893" height="53" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggpvB1LoTBwRnjMSbiWS6NYx3tm3MdE0xW6SNVdwDMFz6ytCNE2G_iUZmTt4OIfYAzvXcKque7AfqCgYOEkcLfzIBm4NKrzjeMNlrnFVwceIqk7fb1lhpIdJ5jU_0ui_eG5TzuxW4ADR8i_izMr_I6P8uNeoqKzNQoMoUosRvgHxKqkdGHvVX5n0mG/w400-h53/Knox%20Co.,%20TN%201810%20census.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><p>John Lewis 2201-3001</p><div style="text-align: left;">two males 1-9 = Joel D. Lewis, Daniel A. Lewis<br />two males 10-15 = Wiley Lewis, Henry Lewis<br />one male 26 - 44 = John Lewis<br />three females 1-9 = Celia Lewis, Matilda Lewis<br />one female 26-44 = wife of John Lewis</div><div style="text-align: left;">no enslaved persons</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The ages for the adults fall into a larger birth date bracket than the later censuses. For 1810 both adults' ages can be bracketed as being no earlier than 1766 and no later than 1784. The result is that both John Lewis and his wife's birth dates remain in the 1771 to 1780 bracket, which remains basically the same as I had concluded previously. At this point, I need another record to help narrow down their birth dates.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The lesson here is to look beyond search engine results. The old census indexes in book form would come in handy for this. </div>kdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064169550240768591.post-82474314025449474602023-01-28T14:56:00.004-06:002023-01-28T14:56:25.006-06:00Daniel A. Lewis, Son of John D. Lewis<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">© Kathy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Duncan, 2023</span></p><p>On 1 May 1828, Daniel A. Lewis, the son of <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2018/07/matilda-lewis-mason-daughter-of-john.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">John D. Lewis</span></b></a>, married Betsey Hughes in Madison County, Alabama. They were married by Joseph Rice, J.P. Betsey Hughes was the young widow of Thomas Hughes, who she had married on 8 November 1826 in Madison County. She was also the daughter of William Young. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3UFked6R3U8NPXi-MzP-E_oK2HMVvKKoqM3ggkYy7WB7c1Lz7nz4nKdCk7_ly2NgcgMdUH3eVZE-hUOOkA_VDrbp_v3b0erZXR8U0w4qiQCPCPr2UyppZM6i91eZmWktL4_aiRvwdEPDdJeRT2KhFJ959NM2Y3Ld1r6aPCfD9I6INE5I1VVR-FLDl/s547/Lewis,%20Daniel%20A%201828.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="391" data-original-width="547" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3UFked6R3U8NPXi-MzP-E_oK2HMVvKKoqM3ggkYy7WB7c1Lz7nz4nKdCk7_ly2NgcgMdUH3eVZE-hUOOkA_VDrbp_v3b0erZXR8U0w4qiQCPCPr2UyppZM6i91eZmWktL4_aiRvwdEPDdJeRT2KhFJ959NM2Y3Ld1r6aPCfD9I6INE5I1VVR-FLDl/w400-h286/Lewis,%20Daniel%20A%201828.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>In 1830, Daniel Lewis and his family were living in Jackson County, Alabama, surrounded by households headed by other Lewis family members: Henry Lewis, William Mason (husband of Matilda Lewis), Joel Lewis, and his father - John Lewis. <div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXiHMJKB4lM8Sl7jHJe6TiVRwjbpH6qmA5sCRAm0mLvSb5CHv_DWZvFRP9fXgOEXnPLdAY9VdNVW07cz5S8GexN3uGFbnawzuNCoxtWFtTlLgG4DpwTL7eUMYOcZm_l1OOQ-NP9q14R_oLBD1rcPGorY5Cs6oZgve8sEB0_idhuGkqOai1pOgW4ba8/s1377/Jackson%20County%201830.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="1377" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXiHMJKB4lM8Sl7jHJe6TiVRwjbpH6qmA5sCRAm0mLvSb5CHv_DWZvFRP9fXgOEXnPLdAY9VdNVW07cz5S8GexN3uGFbnawzuNCoxtWFtTlLgG4DpwTL7eUMYOcZm_l1OOQ-NP9q14R_oLBD1rcPGorY5Cs6oZgve8sEB0_idhuGkqOai1pOgW4ba8/w400-h105/Jackson%20County%201830.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Click on Image to Enlarge</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Composition of Daniel Lewis's household in 1830:</p><p>Daniel Lewis 20001-000001</p><div style="text-align: left;">Two males 1-4 years = two unknown males<br />One male 20 - 29 years = Daniel Lewis<br />One female 30 - 39 years = Betsey (Young) Hughes Lewis</div><p>The two unknown boys under five years old could be sons from Betsey's marriage to Thomas Hughes, or one could be from her Hughes marriage and one from her marriage to Daniel Lewis or both could be from her marriage to Daniel Lewis. At this time, I am unable to identify them. </p><p>On 30 July 1833, Daniel Adams Lewis patented 82 acres in Jackson County, Alabama.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiorEF_PKCiVgkodG0rvSjiQGECGWfIMJe00XuRnhMl6bMgzdqGNkqyX3Zg39t-H5lbVgHWe10-oEHrP9JlqGeIrWDNJVh14wXj7xwgW4qhwGnPZLk51QKDM5T9htIg0I7cEBF93iJ8cJWyuRvXK2byuEjwdfAuEx3-NlIUJiIlg2qQ1-oNzEWKXGAO/s1053/1833%20land%20patent%20Jackson%20Co%20AL.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="635" data-original-width="1053" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiorEF_PKCiVgkodG0rvSjiQGECGWfIMJe00XuRnhMl6bMgzdqGNkqyX3Zg39t-H5lbVgHWe10-oEHrP9JlqGeIrWDNJVh14wXj7xwgW4qhwGnPZLk51QKDM5T9htIg0I7cEBF93iJ8cJWyuRvXK2byuEjwdfAuEx3-NlIUJiIlg2qQ1-oNzEWKXGAO/w400-h241/1833%20land%20patent%20Jackson%20Co%20AL.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>His name appears four times on the certificate, and each time it is written out in full: Daniel Adams Lewis.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbaPAqRyEe_9VXss5vdUwxl0cdIC3B7-RLUdBkt40q4sJbROit3Ffpum6Aqt80TAnMFyC79X25T7Yjmzb_hzYPvgjwK2ihikMM988MJE1hX1Oh5KUFktnGDPgB3HW85Ci_Vob9eJxvooqEGNv7Vn9x1kQv-2-Qq_G9q3K8ewHMaNaqk-Pd3ENfCGrL/s526/Daniel%20Adams%20Lewis.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="182" data-original-width="526" height="139" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbaPAqRyEe_9VXss5vdUwxl0cdIC3B7-RLUdBkt40q4sJbROit3Ffpum6Aqt80TAnMFyC79X25T7Yjmzb_hzYPvgjwK2ihikMM988MJE1hX1Oh5KUFktnGDPgB3HW85Ci_Vob9eJxvooqEGNv7Vn9x1kQv-2-Qq_G9q3K8ewHMaNaqk-Pd3ENfCGrL/w400-h139/Daniel%20Adams%20Lewis.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So far, this is the only primary document that contains his middle name. I'm not sure why earlier researchers came to the conclusion that his middle name was Augustus, and I don't know who was the first person to think that his middle name was Augustus. Was there a Daniel Adams for whom Daniel was named? What was Daniel Adams' connection to John D. Lewis? There was a Daniel Adams in Knox County, Kentucky before 1810.</p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><i>Family Maps of Jackson County, Alabama</i> shows Daniel A. Lewis's land in Jackson County bordered on the north by the land of his brother Joel D. Lewis and on the south by the land of Kibble T. Daniel. The northwest corner of Daniel's land met the southeast corner of his father John Lewis's land. </span></p><p>Between 1830 and 1838, Daniel and Betsey Lewis had six known children:</p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Celia Sarah Louise Lewis b.c. 1829 TN or AL</li><li>William S. Lewis c. 1831 AL</li><li>Charlotte Temple Lewis b. 14 March 1834 AL</li><li>Susan M Lewis b. 27 September 1835 AL</li><li>Mansel W. Lewis b. c. 1837 AL</li><li>Elizabeth Ann Lewis b. 23 March 1838 AL</li></ol><div>I would hazard a guess that Mansel W. Lewis was named after <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2022/12/lewis-siblings-marital-fans.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Rev. Mansel Walter Matthews</span></b></a>. This suggests to me that the Disciples of Christ played a big role in the family's life. At the time of little Mansel W. Lewis's birth, Rev. Mansel W. Matthews had already gone to Texas. </div><div><br /></div><div>The oral tradition among the descendants of Betsey (Young) Hughes Lewis is that she died in childbirth in 1838.</div><div><br /></div><div>On 1 January 1840, John D. Lewis wrote <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2019/06/john-lewiss-1843-will-filed-in.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">his will</span></b></a>. Copies of it were filed in several courthouses. One copy survived in the Tishomingo County, Mississippi courthouse. The will disinherits Daniel Lewis by bequeathing one dollar to him. Here's what the will said in regards to Daniel: "And I give and bequeath to my Son Daniel A. Lewis one dollar out of my property, at my death..." Most testators go on to state that the heir has already received an equal share in the estate. However, John Lewis's will takes a twist: "I desire that my Son Daniel A. Lewis children that is to Say his first Wife & Children to have as much of my estate between them as any other of my Sons and daughters will shear, that is I want all of my son Daniel Children above named to only have as much between them all as one of my heirs as Say Son or Daughter with the exception of one hundred dollars, that I want them to lack one hundred dollars of getting as much between them all as one of my other heirs." </div><div><br /></div><div>Some insights can be gained from these statements: 1.) Daniel A. Lewis was living at the time his father's will was written; 2.) Daniel had elicited his father's ire; 3.) Daniel had on top of everything else received $100 from his father and not paid it back, so it was to be withheld; 4.) Daniel's share was to go to his children by his first wife; 5.) Daniel A. Lewis did nothing between 1840, when the will was written, and 1843, when John Lewis died, to redeem himself because there was not a codicil added; 6.) it seems like his first wife was supposed to be an heir as well her children by Daniel; 7.) Betsey (Young) Hughes Lewis is either still living in January of 1840 or John Lewis did not know she was deceased because she is not referred to as deceased; and 8.) if there was a first wife, there was probably at least a second wife. </div><div><br /></div><div>Is it possible that John D. Lewis's daughter-in-law Betsey Lewis could have been deceased for nearly two years, and he did not know it? If they were still living nearby in Jackson County, he would surely know who was still living and where they were living. Wouldn't he? Or is it an error in the way the will was written?</div><div><br /></div><div>In 1872, <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2023/01/ann-m-sharps-deposition-1872.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Ann Sharp</span></b></a> stated that John D. Lewis had told her that he was disinheriting his son <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2023/01/wiley-lewis-son-of-john-d-lewis.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Wiley Lewis</span></b></a> because he was reckless and dissipated. When asked why Daniel Lewis was disinherited, she said that she did not know. </div><div><br /></div><div>By 1840, Daniel Lewis can be found in Crittenden County, Arkansas, where his brother Wiley Lewis still was living. Daniel's household is next door to John M D'Spaine who married as his second wife Margaret (Lewis) Daugherty, Daniel's sister after migrating to Hopkins County, Texas. Researcher Chuck DeSpain alerted me to the idea that Daniel Lewis had married John DeSpains's sister Tempie DeSpain. Both John and Tempie DeSpain were the children of John and Charlotte (Daniel) DeSpain. </div><div><br /></div><div>Composition of the Daniel Lewis household, 1840 Crittenden County, Arkansas:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqhaxAMAtlPW1wVUxQHxWvL1mWHRpHoSAcylCM8niSPCSv4HDsLiZFgwm1ASPbCUR9mCAPtSp13uMP7ymy1FOsCBnGjskirg3fbnW4lZGlOV1Q0r6m0iCv_iNad32s9k4kIocyOmAHIydmY3jwwbduK4niKAYFEDHn1-VBF8u1iPXX3XmpVjX8i6Jq/s1174/Lewis,%20Daniel%201840%20Jasper%20Twp.,%20Crittenden%20Co.%20AR.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="112" data-original-width="1174" height="39" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqhaxAMAtlPW1wVUxQHxWvL1mWHRpHoSAcylCM8niSPCSv4HDsLiZFgwm1ASPbCUR9mCAPtSp13uMP7ymy1FOsCBnGjskirg3fbnW4lZGlOV1Q0r6m0iCv_iNad32s9k4kIocyOmAHIydmY3jwwbduK4niKAYFEDHn1-VBF8u1iPXX3XmpVjX8i6Jq/w400-h39/Lewis,%20Daniel%201840%20Jasper%20Twp.,%20Crittenden%20Co.%20AR.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p></p><p>Daniel Lewis 100001 - 00001</p><div style="text-align: left;">One male 1 - 4 years = Allen Lewis<br />One male 30 - 39 years = Daniel Lewis<br />One female 20 - 29 = Tempie (DeSpain) Lewis</div><p>The 1850 census reveals more about Daniel and Tempie's family and their relationship. By 1850, Tempie was no longer with Daniel. Instead, she was married to William Thomson and living in Hardin County, Tennessee near her brother Peter DeSpain, who can be seen in the household listed above hers. She had four children by Daniel Lewis and one by William Thomson (her daughter Louisa Thomson is at the top of the next page):</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC3aFjAMLgA-lZ89BPQksJTiBxmj24TwHu2UJ0tXgnUJB3jou36IT5Nl8ofX26t1Fckk6ebqU8VlTHUXeZPDh3hzKsm6RIrF3Vm28Azdrm5lISHFsBgOy4LBRD8eRdcOeyFF2g_Tn7rt_oRH-KpnNK-d8wUXk3M1WKgRmLe70st-K0afwBlb8b3BSx/s1354/1850%20Hardin%20County%20TN.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="402" data-original-width="1354" height="119" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC3aFjAMLgA-lZ89BPQksJTiBxmj24TwHu2UJ0tXgnUJB3jou36IT5Nl8ofX26t1Fckk6ebqU8VlTHUXeZPDh3hzKsm6RIrF3Vm28Azdrm5lISHFsBgOy4LBRD8eRdcOeyFF2g_Tn7rt_oRH-KpnNK-d8wUXk3M1WKgRmLe70st-K0afwBlb8b3BSx/w400-h119/1850%20Hardin%20County%20TN.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>There is a lot to unpack here. Tempie is 27 years old. Daniel and Tempie's son Allen Lewis is twelve years old and was born in Alabama. That means that Daniel and Tempie's relationship began in 1837 or early 1838, at the very latest, when Tempie was perhaps as young as 14 years old. Among other things, that creates an awkward overlap with the birth of wife Betsy's last child in March of 1838. Had Betsy and Daniel separated or divorced before her baby was born? It was fairly common for men to start second families before finalizing a divorce from a previous wife. It may be that Daniel had left Betsey and before he was able to get a divorce, she died. So far, no marriage record has been found for Tempie and Daniel, but they would have needed to be legally married at some point in order for the children to have his last name. Marriage records for Jackson County, Alabama, were burned by Federal soldiers during the Civil War, so it may not be possible to find a marriage record for Tempie and Daniel. Allen Lewis's birth in Alabama would mean that John D. Lewis was very much aware of the situation. At the time of John D. Lewis wrote his will, Daniel had either had one child with Tempie and one on the way or two children. I don't think that John D. Lewis would have frowned on a second marriage if Daniel was a widower; however, if Daniel abandoned his first wife and children for a young girl, John may have found that unforgivable enough to disinherit Daniel and award his share of the estate to the first wife and children. </div><div><br /></div><div>The next child, Susan E. Lewis, was born in 1840 in Arkansas, probably in Crittenden County. Daniel and Tempie were in Tennessee for the birth of Larkin R. Lewis in 1842 and Charlotte E. Lewis in 1843. By 1848, Tempie was with William Thomson. Their daughter Louisa Thomson was born in 1849. That means Tempie and Daniel's relationship ended between 1843 and 1847. </div><div><br /></div><div>The children of Daniel A. Lewis and Tempie DeSpain:</div><div><br /></div><div><span> </span>7. Allen Lewis b.c. 1838 AL</div><div><span> 8. Susan E. Lewis b.c. 1840 Ark</span><br /></div><div><span><span> 9. Larkin R. Lewis b.c. 1842 TN</span><br /></span></div><div><span><span><span> 10. Charlotte E. Lewis b.c. 1843 TN</span><br /></span></span></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div>In 1854, Tempie Thomson joined with her DeSpain siblings in a suit to have her children recognized as the heirs of her father John DeSpain. This suit was filed in Harden County, Tennessee, and further solidifies her identity as Tempie (DeSpain) Lewis Thomson. </div><div><br /></div><div>Among the descendants of Betsey (Young) Hughes Lewis, there is the story that Daniel Lewis went west in 1848 to make his fortune, leaving his children with the Youngs. Three or four years later, he wrote that he had his fortune and was headed home, but never arrived. </div><div><br /></div><div>Daniel went as far west as Texas. In 1847, Daniel A. Lewis can be found on the Hopkins County, Texas tax list. Note that Tempie's brother Benjamin DeSpain is next to Daniel on this list:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ366yqcO6VPiEOj_kvCud6Lt2a2NlR4aZhemlGEMe9NZyP0FxF_aqYfxUns791pb0p2A4C_MgYx9-FS6lKik9rw235skp433nvVH9Uk6PjIrVwoCQGi9XeUbLlnx8xIVki9ceFgNvoyu91M4azcRgFOj_mnqDU5EHho-vIOWAde3DDKiWg1iEGWW1/s582/1847%20Hopkins%20Co%20Tx%20Tax%20List.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="582" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ366yqcO6VPiEOj_kvCud6Lt2a2NlR4aZhemlGEMe9NZyP0FxF_aqYfxUns791pb0p2A4C_MgYx9-FS6lKik9rw235skp433nvVH9Uk6PjIrVwoCQGi9XeUbLlnx8xIVki9ceFgNvoyu91M4azcRgFOj_mnqDU5EHho-vIOWAde3DDKiWg1iEGWW1/w400-h233/1847%20Hopkins%20Co%20Tx%20Tax%20List.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Daniel A. Lewis did not pay taxes on land that year but did pay a poll tax. Also, in 1847, Daniel's sister Margaret (Lewis) Daugherty married Tempie's brother John DeSpain in Hopkins County. Several other Lewis siblings were in Hopkins county by then: Wiley Lewis, <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2017/11/william-and-matilda-lewis-mason.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Matilda (Lewis) Mason</span></b></a>, and<a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2018/07/jane-lewis-wife-of-milton-wardlow.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> Jane (Lewis) Wardlow</span></b></a>. Several of Tempie's DeSpain relatives were there as well as major leaders of the Alabama Restoration Movement (Disciples of Christ). You would think this might be awkward for Daniel. </p><p>Even so, he was still in Hopkins County in 1848, where he continued to only pay a poll tax:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ2x_z47WOtUBROnap2Lzpso1S6gY3vBE75GGFvSMz_An_EMjIYxwjn_xZkpL19Qi17p98YvRk4Ii_HmomDNXcnSnv-PE7FaIRdeU35qxMV0lrPtUlZ4J0F79xon9NCXnWp4F2ypxTNflex4tjanBPnRDeeA6qqKpDi4yaDuvRDwT-IJ3kNgCTzX_a/s561/1848%20Hopkins%20Co%20TX%20Tax%20List.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="149" data-original-width="561" height="106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ2x_z47WOtUBROnap2Lzpso1S6gY3vBE75GGFvSMz_An_EMjIYxwjn_xZkpL19Qi17p98YvRk4Ii_HmomDNXcnSnv-PE7FaIRdeU35qxMV0lrPtUlZ4J0F79xon9NCXnWp4F2ypxTNflex4tjanBPnRDeeA6qqKpDi4yaDuvRDwT-IJ3kNgCTzX_a/w400-h106/1848%20Hopkins%20Co%20TX%20Tax%20List.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>After 1848, Daniel A. Lewis is absent from the Hopkins County, Texas tax list. That year he appears in Henderson County, Texas, where he married Margaret (Masters) Digman on 25 June 1848:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3canGCDmraG1NEBUlE-OYFCpWEQRGQZDCO83s3QigjxrBWH7YkoOEJU_lDk18XiVnSyJig7KOz1pZBLx9c-200x5JM3a5JdDTF_HxoYOqu16jpL5vSdCSnEXgYNEWyB4fBR0QZoSooWnmKxBwfowETnTM-PzoAbH7fgLzaBnElvUAobFJD2oqQbxB/s611/Margaret%20Masters%20Digman%20Marriage.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="611" data-original-width="478" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3canGCDmraG1NEBUlE-OYFCpWEQRGQZDCO83s3QigjxrBWH7YkoOEJU_lDk18XiVnSyJig7KOz1pZBLx9c-200x5JM3a5JdDTF_HxoYOqu16jpL5vSdCSnEXgYNEWyB4fBR0QZoSooWnmKxBwfowETnTM-PzoAbH7fgLzaBnElvUAobFJD2oqQbxB/w313-h400/Margaret%20Masters%20Digman%20Marriage.png" width="313" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Margaret was the widow of John J. Digman. </p><p>By 1850, Daniel and Margaret had two children:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTDC5tKcbVnN1wc1GrTe_3xb_MF5p6SZ0yq7YNtGMqf5iWHECzrvySJ4guFUJN5XxCBIk-DQ9BkJ8JLEaTsS2q66EMhcICulyG3X4kv9eqqBF9E9jaJxX2MkGMhwEuHU51jrQYTU3xAPq2u1rhCxL7tvEH4suFk90-It5hFDr7tjvB94yzQAAO0Eof/s1128/1850%20Henderson%20Co.%20TX%20Census.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="204" data-original-width="1128" height="73" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTDC5tKcbVnN1wc1GrTe_3xb_MF5p6SZ0yq7YNtGMqf5iWHECzrvySJ4guFUJN5XxCBIk-DQ9BkJ8JLEaTsS2q66EMhcICulyG3X4kv9eqqBF9E9jaJxX2MkGMhwEuHU51jrQYTU3xAPq2u1rhCxL7tvEH4suFk90-It5hFDr7tjvB94yzQAAO0Eof/w400-h73/1850%20Henderson%20Co.%20TX%20Census.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>There is a lot to be learned from this census. Daniel A. Lewis was 44 years old, so he was born in Kentucky in about 1806/7. His birth would have been in either Knox County or Greene County, Kentucky. Although he had real estate in 1850, he styled himself as a hunter rather than a farmer. The children John M. Lewis and Missouri T. Lewis, both one year old, were evidently twins.</div><div><br /></div><div>By 1860, was on the Dallas County, Texas census with her third husband, Samuel Hankins Newby. They had married in Dallas County on 12 December 1854. Again, the census reveals additional information:</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-4u1eMYw1QDag6_P1kjwCnwKtbDEMpoQbp0Lw_FS0Mm5q7Ks0YzX2veYMVBAHM13wKbc36h6bNUojY0KJQ8n-p1OgQv7VeEFDldnSHiRptaxPXSlOJFynsYioxqZshX7YsPvGu7RFqxMz8HOVpHksMoS51LjNdIZhSUVLGiD05m7O0dR4VmI2dZz_/s1028/1860%20Dallas%20County%20Texas.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="302" data-original-width="1028" height="118" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-4u1eMYw1QDag6_P1kjwCnwKtbDEMpoQbp0Lw_FS0Mm5q7Ks0YzX2veYMVBAHM13wKbc36h6bNUojY0KJQ8n-p1OgQv7VeEFDldnSHiRptaxPXSlOJFynsYioxqZshX7YsPvGu7RFqxMz8HOVpHksMoS51LjNdIZhSUVLGiD05m7O0dR4VmI2dZz_/w400-h118/1860%20Dallas%20County%20Texas.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /> </div><div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Daniel A. Lewis and Margaret had at least one more child before their marriage ended - either by divorce or by the death of Daniel.</p><p>Children of Margaret Masters and Daniel A. Lewis</p><div style="text-align: left;"><span> </span>11. John Moses Lewis b. Apr 1849, Henderson Co., TS<br /><span> </span>12. Missouri Texana Lewis b. Apr 1849, Henderson Co., T<br /><span> </span>13. Amanda Jane Lewis b. 25 Nov 1852, TX</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It appears from existing records, that Margaret and Samuel H. Newby's marriage ended in divorce since he remarried after 1870, and Margaret was living with her daughter Amanda Jane (Lewis) Smith in 1880. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In 1852, Daniel A. Lewis would have been only 46 years old. Did he start another family somewhere else? Did he die? At this point, his trail has run cold. I hope it's just a temporary impasse in locating more information about him. I tend to doubt that he returned to Madison County, Alabama, and died there in 1855. The only source that I have found for that piece of information is a Findagrave memorial with no burial information, no photograph of a tombstone, and no sources. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>kdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064169550240768591.post-18377159617696816272023-01-21T12:23:00.001-06:002023-01-21T12:23:09.180-06:00Wiley Lewis, Son of John D. Lewis<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">© Kathy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Duncan, 2023</span></p><p>On 14 January 1840, <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2018/07/matilda-lewis-mason-daughter-of-john.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">John D. Lewis</span></b></a> of Jackson County, Alabama wrote <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2019/06/john-lewiss-1843-will-filed-in.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">his will</span></b></a> and left his son Wiley Lewis five dollars, which effectively disinherited him. In <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2023/01/ann-m-sharps-deposition-1872.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Ann Sharp's 1872 deposition</span></b></a>, she stated that John D. Lewis told her that Wiley was disinherited because of "his recklessness & dissipation." Recklessness probably meant that he disregarded any risks that followed from his actions. Those actions could have been connected to monetary matters - he could have been a gambler or maybe just a spendthrift. Dissipation implies that he was perhaps a wastrel - spending too much, drinking too much, etc. The image that springs to mind is a penniless drunk who would just squander his inheritance on the sins of the flesh. </p><p>It's interesting to note that no matter how disgusted John D. Lewis was with Wiley, he left his other son Daniel A. Lewis only one dollar. What could Daniel's transgression have been?! It's also interesting to consider that while John D. Lewis went to great pains to leave Daniel's share of his estate to Daniel's first wife Betsy (Young) Lewis and her children, no such provision was made for Wiley's wife and children. </p><p>In researching, Wiley Lewis, a totally different sort of man than what one might imagine emerges from the documents that are available so far. He seems to have been a respected, socially upstanding young man. He held several community offices, where he seems to have served competently. He may have had the occasional drink, but there is no record of him being arrested for being drunk. If John D. Lewis had joined in with the Disciples of Christ, as the rest of the family seems to have done during the Great Restoration Movement, then he would have been intolerant of any drinking. It seems more likely that Wiley may have had a tendency toward grand ideas in his investments. However, his actual financial ruin did not occur until several years after John D. Lewis died.</p><p>Let's start at the beginning.</p><p>Wiley Lewis married Charlotte Bricker on 24 October 1821 in Madison County, Alabama. They were married by <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2022/12/ephraim-d-moore-and-wardlows.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Rev. Ephraim D. Moore</span></b></a>, a minister of the Disciples of Christ. Ephraim D. Moore was related by marriage to Ann Sharp. He migrated to Red River County, Texas in 1835, probably with Mansel W. Matthews. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqOn9-B8MWhyBMEfcsBUVCKS3VwxiAKTUhkmsEiXq7Ges93xM2QO5p_7htJgIRgTx7rFMEEkiO3SG5er_6h7MifeJozYIpJzOHc6FIVgeEsbY3R9PqvHIcaMEg9-gwX6-zeeB4E-zATXri0CnhZ3Lpti16ereqDQhOhuGHAK4k93oNp7orDed9MGCY/s658/1821%20Marriage%20License.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="409" data-original-width="658" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqOn9-B8MWhyBMEfcsBUVCKS3VwxiAKTUhkmsEiXq7Ges93xM2QO5p_7htJgIRgTx7rFMEEkiO3SG5er_6h7MifeJozYIpJzOHc6FIVgeEsbY3R9PqvHIcaMEg9-gwX6-zeeB4E-zATXri0CnhZ3Lpti16ereqDQhOhuGHAK4k93oNp7orDed9MGCY/s320/1821%20Marriage%20License.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Wiley Lewis had settled in Crittenden County, Arkansas by 1829, so he had already gone west. According to the <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=9odHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA869&lpg=PA869&dq=%22wiley+lewis%22+crittenden&source=bl&ots=MtEAQm_0UW&sig=ACfU3U1NG0frYz0eusXHdTLwqoHOlaShRg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjj4fW2gZ38AhWslmoFHWs4DXE4FBDoAXoECAMQAw#v=onepage&q=%22wiley%20lewis%22%20&f=false" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Territorial Papers of the United States, vol. 19</span></b></a>, Wiley Lewis served as a magistrate of the Canadian township of Crittenden County, Arkansas in 1829 and again in 1831 and 1835. </p><p>Composition of the Wiley Lewis household on the 1830 Crittenden Census:</p><p>Wiley Lewis 001031-20001</p><p>One male 10-15 = unknown (not a child of Charlott's)</p><p>Three males 20 - 30 = three unknowns</p><p>One male 30 - 40 = Wiley Lewis</p><p>Two females under 5 = Matilda Lewis? and one unknown</p><p>One female 20 - 30 = Charlotte Bricker (probably in her mid to late 20s)?</p><p>In 1837, Wiley Lewis was commissioned as a <a href="http://arngmuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Vol-11-No-1-Winter-2017.pdf" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Colonel for Crittenden's regiment</span></b></a> in the U.S. Army. He served in the 2nd Division under Major General Stephen V.R. Ryan. As the Colonel, Wiley was required to organize his regiment into battalions and companies. Everything indicates that he fulfilled his responsibilities. </p><p>Starting in 1838, Wiley began purchasing tracks of land, mostly through the Real Estate Bank of the State of Arkansas. He had also formed an alliance with William D. Ferguson. At some point, they may have formed a partnership of sorts. In 1838, William D. Ferguson was embroiled in a feud with Bill Strong of St. Francis County, who accused Ferguson of acquiring land from William Cherry in some nefarious manner. Ferguson wrote a long defense of his actions and character that was published in the <i>Arkansas Times and Advocate</i> of Little Rock on Monday, 3 September 1838. However, Ferguson did not stop there. He recruited a small army of allies to provide depositions swearing that they knew Ferguson to be honest in his dealings with Cherry. Wiley Lewis was one of those allies. He joined with Joseph S. Neely, Robert C. Dean, and P.P. Whalin to issue a simple statement that they knew Strong's claims to be "false and slanderous." </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi43PBH6hIdt3Z8U0HmIjd3eA2J55cB9V771NyKt-W_kt6mtOxrqxHP6vEH2yDgx7TQGA2YNpA5UWhAnP4OYoGFr2siGOKCg_NxL4ivGrJ64dbPIqSPBQ72DmScv7z2WOCxaJ999zw8973ofEZs2SDd9pPXaM7jPaguumGMSGuXoMQQVocw9ZC_1_DG/s639/Lewis,%20Wiley%20pt%203%201838.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="409" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi43PBH6hIdt3Z8U0HmIjd3eA2J55cB9V771NyKt-W_kt6mtOxrqxHP6vEH2yDgx7TQGA2YNpA5UWhAnP4OYoGFr2siGOKCg_NxL4ivGrJ64dbPIqSPBQ72DmScv7z2WOCxaJ999zw8973ofEZs2SDd9pPXaM7jPaguumGMSGuXoMQQVocw9ZC_1_DG/w256-h400/Lewis,%20Wiley%20pt%203%201838.png" width="256" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdOqwmhs7BxSzq53kOsSHlv5-uxSdom22AjzkHhH9PIJKqiwSE2SiLnViKnUJ0hQQPhRlasQ5U48UTJZW2GK_o01tk0vXghaCKnhuBMBBlJFIwom2RClyrh90fI2cxfzLg90DA3wZhifwbuJXuIUxwRPERHIA6YBe1bvmw_dE2yarVtroFkjq7S3k_/s408/Lewis,%20Wiley%20pt%204%201838.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="395" data-original-width="408" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdOqwmhs7BxSzq53kOsSHlv5-uxSdom22AjzkHhH9PIJKqiwSE2SiLnViKnUJ0hQQPhRlasQ5U48UTJZW2GK_o01tk0vXghaCKnhuBMBBlJFIwom2RClyrh90fI2cxfzLg90DA3wZhifwbuJXuIUxwRPERHIA6YBe1bvmw_dE2yarVtroFkjq7S3k_/s320/Lewis,%20Wiley%20pt%204%201838.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In 1839, Wiley Lewis was sued by James H. Rogers, but the case was nonsuited. </p><p>By 1840, Wiley Lewis was paying taxes on at least six tracks of land in Crittenden County: </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-oCDYXVymC8PTmO1rzBYD5eUd0KmDl5421P-G6w-8CqPLNyWjdIfxdji4Y8bCDaEaY-_75ADW--W9xyXpiwnNZflTLEnYjZrPD2XWUZshN32L-erKRxs1H0-RePjPRuLmI_JLfg6fslAp-fiJCdZqAd5rNoeV-4Wk014MxpjVr9hU9NwVJTNWkvP4/s934/1840%20Tax%20List%20Crittenden%20Co%20Ark.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="221" data-original-width="934" height="95" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-oCDYXVymC8PTmO1rzBYD5eUd0KmDl5421P-G6w-8CqPLNyWjdIfxdji4Y8bCDaEaY-_75ADW--W9xyXpiwnNZflTLEnYjZrPD2XWUZshN32L-erKRxs1H0-RePjPRuLmI_JLfg6fslAp-fiJCdZqAd5rNoeV-4Wk014MxpjVr9hU9NwVJTNWkvP4/w400-h95/1840%20Tax%20List%20Crittenden%20Co%20Ark.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is the point at which John D. Lewis made the decision to disinherit Wiley by leaving him only $5. My guess is that John D. Lewis thought his son was living beyond his means in an unsustainable manner. Since they were not living near each other, it would be interesting to know what tipped him off. Perhaps Wiley was asking his father for money to cover his expenses or to use in expanding his holdings even more.</p><p>Composition of the Wiley Lewis household on the 1840 Jasper Township, Crittenden County, Arkansas Census:</p><p>Wiley Lewis 0101102-11001</p><p>One male 5 - 9 = unknown</p><p>One male 15 - 19 = unknown</p><p>One male 20 - 29 = unknown</p><p>Two males 40 - 49 = Wiley Lewis and one unknown</p><p>One female 1 - 4 = Lucinda Lewis</p><p>One female 5 - 9 = Matilda Lewis?</p><p>One female 20 - 29 = unknown, probably not Charlotte</p><p>By 1844, Wiley Lewis was deep in debt and had left Arkansas. Note that he was accompanied in his downfall by William D. Ferguson:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr1ekqwmbHqfPFqPvXVNkAT4wQjjvMEw3KCChJcCnhh0E-8fET_fLwHa6VfoYksBuPqlSaRqbjKFHy_QbfpyplCJsWyb1nB83A4zpiLbSH3nFYvVs9sbBtgPueHgbW7hK1Lh-SHf-mDXNMxcgl9oCaj-YE094KX4LqV4Q5ESAh_7s2dat_0lMyCHIX/s500/Lewis,%20Wiley%20Crittenden%20Co.,%20AR%201844.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="350" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr1ekqwmbHqfPFqPvXVNkAT4wQjjvMEw3KCChJcCnhh0E-8fET_fLwHa6VfoYksBuPqlSaRqbjKFHy_QbfpyplCJsWyb1nB83A4zpiLbSH3nFYvVs9sbBtgPueHgbW7hK1Lh-SHf-mDXNMxcgl9oCaj-YE094KX4LqV4Q5ESAh_7s2dat_0lMyCHIX/w280-h400/Lewis,%20Wiley%20Crittenden%20Co.,%20AR%201844.png" width="280" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>By 1848, Wiley Lewis was in Hopkins County, Texas where his daughter Matilda Lewis married Baily Ashmore on 20 July 1848. They were all together on the 1850 census for Hopkins County, Texas, where they were near neighbors to Wiley's sisters Margaret (Lewis) DeSpain and Matilda (Lewis) Mason: </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkPhNuq7dL_gY6eocMwtIU1PvDvuFUsOOa6Ms_1X44dQK9TMS7BmsUS3z4TbSvsOm40OEES119iLm-j6j_UdWcP93E63A84ztRhephCK2xHDDEzmzuPUVrVfDXiOvfUYbJuvUUD7pjA429aomlKxzg7qrCpZ2YPlgDnepRG5nEdZh2JpQJlTcFxHoZ/s496/1850%20Hopkins%20County,%20Texas.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="496" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkPhNuq7dL_gY6eocMwtIU1PvDvuFUsOOa6Ms_1X44dQK9TMS7BmsUS3z4TbSvsOm40OEES119iLm-j6j_UdWcP93E63A84ztRhephCK2xHDDEzmzuPUVrVfDXiOvfUYbJuvUUD7pjA429aomlKxzg7qrCpZ2YPlgDnepRG5nEdZh2JpQJlTcFxHoZ/w400-h351/1850%20Hopkins%20County,%20Texas.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Wiley Lewis has not been found on the 1860 census. By 1860, his daughter Matilda was living with her husband in Hunt County, Texas. Wiley was not living with them. However, a Wiley Lewis purchased land in Hunt County in the 1850s, so he may have moved with the Ashmores. </p><p>Nothing additional has been learned about Lucinda Lewis nor about what appears to be several older Lewis children. There is still a lot of research to be done on Wiley Lewis. </p><p><br /></p>kdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064169550240768591.post-59956007130339743052023-01-08T12:54:00.001-06:002023-01-08T12:54:44.532-06:00Rev Michael Mason Sr's Timeline<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">© Kathy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Duncan, 2023</span></p><p>I am still knee-deep in getting caught up with my posts about the children of <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2018/07/matilda-lewis-mason-daughter-of-john.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">John D. Lewis</span></b></a>. However, because I lack the discipline of researchers who stick to one project and see it through to completion, I became momentarily distracted by my Mason line. That's only natural because my Matilda Lewis, daughter of John D. Lewis, married William Mason. The Masons and the Lewises do rub shoulders with each other in Alabama. </p><p>The timeline for William Mason's grandfather <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2020/06/rev-michael-mason-sr-madison-county.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Rev. Michael Mason Sr</span></b></a>., which was put together by William Donald Mason and Sylvia Anderson, looks roughly like this:</p><p>1783 - 1787<span> Guilford County, North Carolina</span></p><p><span>1789 - 1796<span> Marlboro County, South Carolina</span></span></p><p><span><span>1796 - 1798<span> Carter County, Tennessee</span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span>1802 - 1806<span> Burke County, North Carolina</span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span>1812 - 1814<span> Bedford County, Tennessee</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span>1819 - 1832<span> Madison County, Tennessee</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span>This is the sort of timeline that, frankly, makes me a little nervous. It's a lot of movement within very short bursts of time. Could this be accurate or is there more than one Michael Mason to contend with? Can it be documented in some way that this is the same Michael Mason?</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span>From Madison County, Alabama in 1832 back to Carter County, Tennessee in 1796, the research is on solid ground with documentation that traces Michal Mason's movements. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span>William Donald Mason's research established that in 1791 Michael Mason of Marlboro County, South Carolina sold land that he owned in Guilford County, North Carolina after he had removed to Marlboro County. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span>That means, at the most, this timeline deals with two Michael Masons and not an assortment of Michael Masons. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The problem now focuses on whether this is one or two Michael Masons. Is there a way to document that Michael Mason in Marlboro County, South Carolina removed to Carter County, Tennessee? </span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span>Enter deed records of Richmond County, North Carolina. I found an <a href="http://baggetthistory.com/wills_deeds.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">abstract</span></b></a> of some Richmond County, North Carolina records, which document that in 1794, a man named Michael Mason of Marlboro County, South Carolina sold his land in Richmond County, North Carolina to Joel Beggett. There was not enough information in those abstracts to help me determine much about Michael Mason because the creator's focus was on the Baggett family, not the Mason family. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span>It was time for me to wade into the Richmond County, North Carolina records and see if Michael Mason of Marlboro County, South Carolina, generated any more records there. To be fair, I came across these abstracts a year or so ago and made no headway with them. It's probable that the Richmond County, North Carolina records were not fully digitized at the time. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span>Anyway, I went back into Family Search's catalog and surveyed the Richmond County, North Carolina deeds, which are currently not indexed on Family Search. I found that in October 1793, <b>Michael Mason of Marlboro County, South Carolina</b> purchased land from Barnabas Kipper of Richmond County, Tennessee. It's worth noting that Joel Beggett witnessed that transaction. Then in June of 1800, <b>Michael Mason of Carter County, Tennessee</b> sold the same piece of land to Henry William Harrington of Richmond County, North Carolina. That deed was witnessed by Josiah Kipper and John Robinson. Both of these deeds were conveniently (for me) rerecorded in Richmond County, North Carolina Deed Book U pages 350 - 352.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span></span></span></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht2AhTnn0lQ9hWZZewmH_PbHW0MFDbwHPy6TU6gMEYEVqYUWlxyLCu_HokArSiJ65xsi8gX5hKcbtokNd6iImZzqcDhSOGv-m9s4WSJM7ducBtQ5cTGYzMcmxnQGL3R2PwIqCnIO15FmCWMzkxTpcVJDoxgTUolWLSBd5mlJLl5F8gV3904KjN489P/s5076/Carter%20Co%20Marlboro%20Co%20Richmond%20Co.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4044" data-original-width="5076" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht2AhTnn0lQ9hWZZewmH_PbHW0MFDbwHPy6TU6gMEYEVqYUWlxyLCu_HokArSiJ65xsi8gX5hKcbtokNd6iImZzqcDhSOGv-m9s4WSJM7ducBtQ5cTGYzMcmxnQGL3R2PwIqCnIO15FmCWMzkxTpcVJDoxgTUolWLSBd5mlJLl5F8gV3904KjN489P/w400-h319/Carter%20Co%20Marlboro%20Co%20Richmond%20Co.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Richmond Co., NC Deed Bk U p 350</td></tr></tbody></table><span><span><span><br /><br /></span></span></span><p></p><p><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p>These two deeds, taken together, document that Michael Mason of Marlboro County, South Carolina, and Michael Mason of Carter County, Tennessee, are the same person. Therefore, the timeline does, indeed, deal with one person. </p><p>At this time, I have not found any indication that Michael Mason of Marlboro County, South Carolina, ever lived in Richmond County, North Carolina, but the two counties border each other, so it makes sense that Michael Mason might have lived in Marlboro County while owning land in Richmond County. Still, I need to keep in mind that there also might be family connections between Michael Mason and the Harringtons, Beggetts/Baggetts, and Kippers.</p><p>It is also disappointing that nothing in the Richmond County, North Carolina deeds indicates a wife for Michael. </p><p>While the research of William Donald Mason and Sylia Anderson is invaluable, I owe a huge debt to the Baggett family researcher who put an abstract of his or her research online. </p><p>Now, the Micheal Mason timeline provides a roadmap for where to look for possible wives for himself and spouses for his children - not to mention other Masons to whom Michael might be related. </p>kdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064169550240768591.post-43594345067035707272023-01-02T13:23:00.002-06:002023-01-02T13:23:33.377-06:00Ann M. Sharp's Deposition - 1872<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">© Kathy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Duncan, 2023</span></p><p>On 26 February 1872, Ann M. Sharp provided a deposition in the lawsuit of <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2019/06/bryant-v-fitzpatrick-john-lewis-heirs.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">F. A. Bryant v. John Fitzpatrick</span></b></a>. That suit was filed in McNairy County, Tennessee by the <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2019/06/elizabeth-lewis-babbs-children.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">children of Elizabeth (Lewis) and Green B. Babb</span></b></a> against their stepmother Mary (Broom) Babb and her husband John Fitzpatrick. At the center of the lawsuit was the inheritance that the elder Babb children should have received from their mother's inheritance from her own father's estate - <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2018/07/matilda-lewis-mason-daughter-of-john.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">John D. Lewis</span></b></a>. To determine what Elizabeth's inheritance was, depositions were taken regarding the children of John D. Lewis. Just to make it interesting, the suit was filed thirty years after John D. Lewis died, which meant that some of his heirs were deceased or had moved from Tennessee. </p><p>The depositions in this lawsuit were critical because the probate records of McNairy County, Tennessee were lost in a fire. One of the 1872 documents in the lawsuit is from a county clerk who stated that there was a fire in 1866 that destroyed all the probate records. That particular fire is not accounted for in the record losses for McNairy County on Family Search's wiki page. </p><p>Ann M. Sharp lived in McNairy County, Tennessee, and was married to John Sharp. Her maiden name was Wardlow. In an earlier <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2022/12/ephraim-d-moore-and-wardlows.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">post</span></b></a>, I related her connection by marriage to <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2022/12/lewis-siblings-marital-fans.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Ephraim D. Moore</span></b></a> who performed the marriage of John D. Lewis's son Wiley Lewis to Charlotte Bricker. Ann Sharp's deposition provided important information about some of the Lewis siblings. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8a1ir0EWrCjweG-IRW_1Gywjr4rvg5kwuuWdf01gXF5gj5MUSEgzqhGX88-PCiFiBmrfnl1lq3hKvZGDc6MmsQhk7eSHW1T-rVtbb09ZfQSxL5xXOnChqnZ1lKHL9h2bM645j1-F4zaR8smQkemjM-pZIvg78WGDOrPh8yqZVZVOk-AOyndAzCUC_/s2210/Ann%20Sharp%20cover.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1312" data-original-width="2210" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8a1ir0EWrCjweG-IRW_1Gywjr4rvg5kwuuWdf01gXF5gj5MUSEgzqhGX88-PCiFiBmrfnl1lq3hKvZGDc6MmsQhk7eSHW1T-rVtbb09ZfQSxL5xXOnChqnZ1lKHL9h2bM645j1-F4zaR8smQkemjM-pZIvg78WGDOrPh8yqZVZVOk-AOyndAzCUC_/s320/Ann%20Sharp%20cover.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Cover Sheet:<div>F.A. Bryant et al</div><div>vs</div><div>John Fitzpatrick et al</div><div>Deposition</div><div>Filed 26 February 1872</div><div>Cmplts</div><div>Ann Sharp</div><div>about sale &</div><div>circumstances of</div><div>Lewis ded'd</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7D5cDtb0hyiUIuJcFEX8HwvT1VIOyh6zIJz7WeZU5tSW6joqEVxyN1ApPc0JnD0lixPbKVk1wkXzEj4u0mZhA5ENkAT9so-FaPTfm6CKzqizIB2JDr31kQuQ_ITVi2SyGPDM47yQ_4Mo6WChBpOZaZU7fxf5UKbOx6qiBHqVyC2wZQ04S8dMktCkD/s3074/Ann%20Sharp%20p%201.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3074" data-original-width="1359" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7D5cDtb0hyiUIuJcFEX8HwvT1VIOyh6zIJz7WeZU5tSW6joqEVxyN1ApPc0JnD0lixPbKVk1wkXzEj4u0mZhA5ENkAT9so-FaPTfm6CKzqizIB2JDr31kQuQ_ITVi2SyGPDM47yQ_4Mo6WChBpOZaZU7fxf5UKbOx6qiBHqVyC2wZQ04S8dMktCkD/w282-h640/Ann%20Sharp%20p%201.jpg" width="282" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>F A Bryant et al }<div>vs }</div><div>John Fitzpatrick et al }</div><div>In the Chancery Cout of McNairy County - State of Tennessee</div><div>Deposition of Ann M Sharp witness for Plaintiffs in the above case taken upon notice on the 23rd of Feby 1872 at the office of W J Sutton Justice of the peace in and for said County in the 9th Civil district in the presents of the plaintiff and defendant. The said witness Ann M Sharp aged 65 (sixty five) years being duly sworn deposed as follows</div><div><br /></div><div>1st Was you acquainted with <b>John D Lewis</b> before his death if so where did he live and about what time did he die</div><div><br /></div><div>Ans. I was well acquainted with <b>John D. Lewis</b> before and up to the time of his death <b>he lived in the 9th civil district McNairy County & he died at his home in the same district</b> at what time he died I am not positive I think at about the year 43 or 44</div><div><br /></div><div>2nd Was you acquainted with him sufficiently for you to know anything about his situation and of his business before and up to the time of death</div><div><br /></div><div>Ans. I have intimately acquainted with him <b>John D. Lewis</b>, and know him to be a man in fair circumstances</div><div><br /></div><div>3rd Do you know that he made his last will and testament before his death and if so who was the executors and witnesses of said will and what was the nature of the provisions in said will & was the share of <b>Elizabeth Babb</b> set apart to sole and seperate use during her natural life and afterwards to go to her children</div><div><br /></div><div>[<i>Commentary: Ann Sharp would have been about 36 at the time of John D. Lewi's death. She would have been a contemporary of his eldest children. Here, she reveals the location of his death: at home in the 9th district of McNairy County, Tennessee.</i>]</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqGLFEI0x7kMLAK-XKOhQy4KBzNGaS1-B_KWYk9DbhAHB3ubziuahqY0kpEiJRya9N0kmITpLjKrE-ZbezYkqi9Itaa6qb-2osSOo4uxgCk96iMN3Rl6IOJqkhy5PlC86_1MmXlgHTLRUIx4bHuDyJT82qA6aKpV5ZVIoNI_4FoKuj8HgJEilPfoF-/s3548/Ann%20Sharp%20p%202.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3548" data-original-width="1402" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqGLFEI0x7kMLAK-XKOhQy4KBzNGaS1-B_KWYk9DbhAHB3ubziuahqY0kpEiJRya9N0kmITpLjKrE-ZbezYkqi9Itaa6qb-2osSOo4uxgCk96iMN3Rl6IOJqkhy5PlC86_1MmXlgHTLRUIx4bHuDyJT82qA6aKpV5ZVIoNI_4FoKuj8HgJEilPfoF-/w252-h640/Ann%20Sharp%20p%202.jpg" width="252" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /><div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ans. I heard him say at my house a short time before his death that he had made his will & <b>Henry Lewis and Joel Lewis were the executors</b> the witnesses to the will I do not remember I heard him say that he had made a provision for <b>Emily (his youngest child) over and above her share</b> I also heard him say that he had made <b>his wife and equal sharer with his children</b>. <b>Except his two sons Wiley & Daniel Lewis</b> whom he had made no provision for in his will As to the share of <b>(Elizabeth Babb his daughter)</b> being set apart to her and separate use during her natural life I do not know</p><p>4th State if you can the reason why he did not in his will make Daniel Lewis & Wiley Lewis Equal shares with the other heirs</p><p>Ans. I heard him say that he did not make any provisions in his will for his son <b>Wiley Lewis on account of his recklessness & dissipation</b> as to the cause of <b>his disinheriting his son Daniel Lewis</b> I do not know.</p><p>5th Was you at the sale of the personal property of the said John D Lewis and if so state as near as you can what was sold what it Brought State particularly how many negroes were sold who bought them and what did they bring</p><p>Ans. I was at the sale which lasted two days there was two negro men and one negro woman and child Sold at the sale <b>Benjamin Sanders</b> Bought one of the Negro men. I do not know what he brought <b>Aaron Rice a son in Law of John D Lewis</b> bought the other three they being a family the family I have mentioned were likely young negroes and my impression is that they sold very high he had good stock Horses and cattle and mules & hogs all sold at the sale also had good household and Kitchen furniture all of which was sold</p><p>[<i>Commentary: This portion of Ann Sharp's deposition documents that Emily Lewis was John D. Lewis's youngest child, that his widow was to receive a child's share, that Wiley and Daniel were disinherited, and that Aaron Rice was a son-in-law. Wiley was disinherited because of "his recklessness and dissipation." Wiley's recklessness and dissipation will be covered in another post, but I think he was of a much higher character than this would lead us to believe. That might be reflected in his inheritance of $5. Daniel A. Lewis, however, received only $1. His transgression is never spoken of in any way in any of the documents in the lawsuit. Although Ann's deposition does not say so, Henry and Joel Lewis were John D. Lewi's elder sons. We can guess, though, that John D. Lewis was even more displeased with Daniel than he was with Wiley. Benjamin Sanders needs to be researched.</i>]</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAOI7OP7DXH6F5Y-xTvqlNgQpvwgZDYGjQhlU9Z2tS1sYm2QFF-pP91Zs96SrlDZy4e5n_ueHOWbwTQA8DllRqo96o8sKnkQqn-_Vhjg6S6EqaLHrAKAeVw2m_fy8SrlMvMVs1oPtX6MG5IdvqnV-NwYGdwkLr5oUDEZOGpONTqYcyyJnFk9PbpRcV/s3081/Ann%20Sharp%20p%203.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3081" data-original-width="1342" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAOI7OP7DXH6F5Y-xTvqlNgQpvwgZDYGjQhlU9Z2tS1sYm2QFF-pP91Zs96SrlDZy4e5n_ueHOWbwTQA8DllRqo96o8sKnkQqn-_Vhjg6S6EqaLHrAKAeVw2m_fy8SrlMvMVs1oPtX6MG5IdvqnV-NwYGdwkLr5oUDEZOGpONTqYcyyJnFk9PbpRcV/w278-h640/Ann%20Sharp%20p%203.jpg" width="278" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>6th Do you not know that said <b>John D Lewis</b> was a <b>very cautious man</b> never going in debt and did not owe anything at the time of his death and do you not further know that he had on hand at the time of his death a considerable amt of money</p><p>Ans. I think he was <b>a very cautious man about going in debt</b>. I do not think he was in debt much when he died I do not know whether he had money on hand or not at the time of his death</p><p>7th Do you not know that he <b>John D Lewis</b> at the time of his death owned a great deal of Land and that said Lands and also the personal property was sold for distribution among the heirs and not of pay debts</p><p>Ans I do not know how much land he owned I know of his owning four tracts of land in this county and land in Alabama which I think was very valuable. the Land here was not worth so much My understanding is that the land was sold for distribution among the heirs also the personal property.</p><p>8th Do you know that <b>G B Babb</b> as agent for <b>his wife Elizabeth Babb daughter of the said John D Lewis</b> bid off a portion of said Lands and was if not there and even afterward considered to be her Land Until her death and her childrens afterward</p><p>Ans. My understanding is that G B Babb did bid off certain portions of the lands and I afterwards heard <b>Elizabeth Babb say that on account of difficulties between herself and husband she had been abused and driven from but now she had a home of her own and would leave no more</b></p><p>[Commentary: <i>We get a glimmer of John D. Lewis's personality here - he was a "very cautious man" who avoided debt. Although John D. Lewis went to extremes to disinherit sons Wiley and Daniel because he did not approve of their lifestyles, his will made no provisions to protect daughter Elizabeth's inheritance from her husband G.B. Babb.</i>]</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifVJhrCs0l6V2yeJnOCxtRcEG-xt-E-qqUHDUwQxOdPNx3pTlTmzTz-cFXR8OUeg5bVorROSzuOwZZ5anzIwZ7nIHDygi9aar04taVio4ly1YJnshBKFcdL13O1z5VHQmoa97w4g8Et_TdcyGg_fXKrjWWNYnYja4EEqDTRi-wGLjSVPlrTb6pq65y/s3326/Ann%20Sharp%20p%204.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3326" data-original-width="1382" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifVJhrCs0l6V2yeJnOCxtRcEG-xt-E-qqUHDUwQxOdPNx3pTlTmzTz-cFXR8OUeg5bVorROSzuOwZZ5anzIwZ7nIHDygi9aar04taVio4ly1YJnshBKFcdL13O1z5VHQmoa97w4g8Et_TdcyGg_fXKrjWWNYnYja4EEqDTRi-wGLjSVPlrTb6pq65y/w266-h640/Ann%20Sharp%20p%204.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>9th Do you know whether or not that said lands were paid for by discount out of said <b>Elizabeth Babbs distributive share of her father's Estate</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Ans. I think that the lands bought by <b>G. B. Babb</b> at the Sale were bought and paid for in that way that is according to my best recollection of the matter</div><div><br /></div><div>10th Was you well acquainted with <b>G.B. Babb</b> before the <b>time of the death of Said John D Lewis</b> and do you not know that Said <b>G.B. Babb</b> was at that time in very embarrassing circumstances having had to make over his property in order to evade the payment of debts and could not no did he own any thing of himself and therefore could not have paid for said lands with his own means</div><div><br /></div><div> Ans. I was tolerably well acquainted with him before and at the <b>time of the death of the said John D Lewis.</b> the report at that time was that <b>G.B. Babb was in embarrassed circumstances on account of recklessness. he had but little property</b></div><div><br /></div><div> her</div><div>Ann x M. Sharp</div><div> mark</div><div><br /></div><div>The forgoing deposition was taken before me as stated in the caption by [?] reduced to writing by me and I certify that I am not interested in the cause nor of kin or consel to either of the parties and that I sealed them and delivered them up to F.A. Bryant Without being out of my possession or altered after they were taken Given under my hand the 23d day of February 1872</div><div><br /></div><div>W.P. Sutton J.P.</div><div><br /></div><div>witness fee</div><div>1 day Travel 10 miles</div><div>J.P. Fee $1.00</div><div>witness.. <u>1.40</u></div><div> $2.40</div><div><br /></div><div>[Commentary: <i>Here we learn that G. B. Babb was basically broke as a result of his poor decisions; therefore, the land he purchased from the estate had to be paid for out of Elizabeth's cash settlement. We know from <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2018/07/elizabeth-lewis-babb-obituary.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">other documents</span></b></a> that he was brash and prone to violence.</i>]</div><div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div></div>kdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064169550240768591.post-76052945697783903752023-01-01T11:43:00.002-06:002023-01-01T12:00:54.171-06:00Welcome, 2023!<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">© Kathy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Duncan, 2023</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVQI-dOF8GsVokldtGu-vXnyV2S7dCQeHoXJ7tfHt4zVLr_x5HdEfDKyczwxyfcPQe_3zO8Ubrp1wNg-c4HeYKW5lq1N_oGKM2v5_6T-vdSv-Wrn_PXf8Ix55UWW0R_gtAdH2P3WGPbnddUeXZOCuOT4Aw5jU5xO2ZRN4L7F3NV464X1wfyqaNVFwl/s700/New%20Year%202022.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="450" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVQI-dOF8GsVokldtGu-vXnyV2S7dCQeHoXJ7tfHt4zVLr_x5HdEfDKyczwxyfcPQe_3zO8Ubrp1wNg-c4HeYKW5lq1N_oGKM2v5_6T-vdSv-Wrn_PXf8Ix55UWW0R_gtAdH2P3WGPbnddUeXZOCuOT4Aw5jU5xO2ZRN4L7F3NV464X1wfyqaNVFwl/w413-h640/New%20Year%202022.jpg" width="413" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don't know where the time goes! It's time to greet yet another new year and pause for a moment to take stock of the old year.</p><p>This has been one of my least productive years in terms of blogging about my research even though a lot of research happened. Only fifteen new posts made it to the blog. That was partly because I researched and blogged on my <a href="http://kduncanquilts.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">hobby blog</span></b></a>. Wait! What? There are other hobbies besides genealogy?! Apparently. I spent a large block of time researching antique dolls. I find that researching people or subjects not found in my personal genealogy expands and strengthens my research muscles. Most importantly, because I am not emotionally attached to those things, I can be much more ruthlessly objective in my research. That objectivity is something that I always need to bring back with me to my own genealogy research. </p><p>Okay, time for the stats. 2022 ended with 151,868 page views, an increase of 15,171 page views.</p><p>The most popular of the 2022 posts was <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2022/08/opal-miller-and-harry-mayhew-elope-1907.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Opal Miller and Henry Mayhew Elope, 1907</span></b></a>. Who does not love a romance story? </p><p>The second most popular post was <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2022/03/old-house-location-fred-and-myrtle.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Old House Location, Fred and Myrtle (Dendy) Duncan</span></b></a>. This surprised me. This was the location of a farmhouse that my grandparents rented when they first married in the early 1930s. The house no longer stands and has not during my lifetime. Since my father was an only child, there are not many of us who would care about it.</p><p>The third most popular post was <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2022/06/opal-miller-mayhews-illegal-operation.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Opal (Miller) Mayhew's Illegal Operation</span></b></a>. The post about her elopement was a follow-up to this post about her death following an abortion that her husband and a doctor "friend" performed on her. This particular post was a follow-up to <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2021/03/john-deloss-browns-letter-1913.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">John Deloss Brown's Letter, 1913</span></b></a> that was written in 2021. </p><p>As usual, my favorite posts are not the most popular posts. My favorites always involve some sort of breakthrough. This year's breakthrough posts involved uncovering the identity of women, and those are always at the top of my list of favorite breakthroughs.</p><p>This year I finally found out what became of John D. Lewis's youngest daughter Emily. I am hoping that the post, <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2022/11/emily-lewis-hanks-daughter-of-john-lewis.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Emily (Lewis) Hanks, Daughter of John Lewis</span></b></a>, will eventually find its way to her descendants who are interested in sharing information. After researching Emily Lewis, I returned to the problem of identifying her mother, which has been an issue since I discovered her existence several years ago. This time, however, she also fell into place. I was able to post her identity in <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2022/11/jane-dameron-wife-of-john-d-lewis.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Jane Dameron, Wife of John D. Lewis</span></b></a>. </p><p>Currently, I have several posts about John D. Lewis and his family in the works. Maybe this will be the year that documentation about his wife or parents is found. Well, one can dream. </p><p>I see that last year, I wanted to make progress on my <a href="http://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2017/11/susan-jane-mason-cawthon.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Cawthon</span></b></a> line. I did spend time working on it, but nothing new was found, so I still need to push on that. And I absolutely need to dig back into the <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2020/10/lley-n-selph-from-hardingdabb-collection.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Dabb/Harding Collection</span></b></a>.</p>kdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064169550240768591.post-15486124072624729802022-12-27T12:42:00.002-06:002023-01-02T13:25:22.920-06:00Ephraim D. Moore and the Wardlows<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">© Kathy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px;">Duncan, 2022</span></p><p>Lots of researchers warn against wasting time going down rabbit holes. Rabbit holes are intriguing tidbits of information that can eat up time and yield nothing other than interesting trivia that contributes nothing to the actual search. In other words, they are just interesting distractions. </p><p>However, I find I can never resist a rabbit hole because there have been too many times when I have found really good information that I would not found any other way. Those few successful experiences have kept me leaping into rabbit holes.</p><p>Researching Ephraim D. Moore's exploits in Texas was one of those rabbit holes. He was the minister who solemnized the marriage of Wiley Lewis and Charlotte Bricker in Madison County, Alabama in 1821. In researching him, I learned that among other things his wife was Mary Ann Wardlow. That was interesting because Wiley Lewis's sister Jane married Milton Wardlow. In looking at trees for Milton Wardlow and Mary Ann Wardlow, I found that there is not much information about either one of them, so I don't know if they connect to each other.</p><p>In researching <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2022/12/lewis-siblings-marital-fans.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Ephraim D. Moore</span></b></a> after he migrated to Texas, I found him administering the estate of David S. Wardlow in 1846 in Red River County, Texas. This notice of a suit to sell the property of David S. Wardlow appeared in the <i>Northern Standard</i> of Clarksville, Texas on 6 March 1847:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF6JBEiMX_fSCTsgPHj9rkkz43nWyrvUjTrRpYwdJFTp6Lfm4DD03q_30MzD0RncODHRqYdq2Y4iNwsowNuUCqB8vnj-8MsTaOsT1vhSfqjNfGvp_E3XyIxGvgDtXZuHDNnnutK0NVqfGon_R7RTLhun4WBAUa7hX_L5cqi5k89GE0ogKgWzAX1I4I/s627/The%20Northern%20Standard;%20Clarksville,%20TX%20Sat%206%20Mar%201847%20p%203.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="379" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF6JBEiMX_fSCTsgPHj9rkkz43nWyrvUjTrRpYwdJFTp6Lfm4DD03q_30MzD0RncODHRqYdq2Y4iNwsowNuUCqB8vnj-8MsTaOsT1vhSfqjNfGvp_E3XyIxGvgDtXZuHDNnnutK0NVqfGon_R7RTLhun4WBAUa7hX_L5cqi5k89GE0ogKgWzAX1I4I/w241-h400/The%20Northern%20Standard;%20Clarksville,%20TX%20Sat%206%20Mar%201847%20p%203.png" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>The heirs of David S. Wardlow were Mary Moore [Ephraim's wife], James Wardlow, John Wardlow, Ann Sharp - wife of John Sharp, and Elizabeth Tankersly. Ann Sharp's name got my attention. Reading further into the notice is the information that John Wardlow, Ann Sharp, and Elizabeth Tankersly were residents of McNairy County, Tennessee.<div><br /></div><div>Based on what I know about suits like this, these heirs are probably siblings. As a group, they are either the children of David S. Wardlow or the siblings of David S. Wardlow. This information would be helpful to a Wardlow researcher. </div><div><br /></div><div>And Ann Sharp? She is very likely the same <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2023/01/ann-m-sharps-deposition-1872.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Ann M. Sharp</span></b></a> of McNairy County, Tennessee, who provided critical information in a deposition that was presented in a lawsuit among the children of Green B. Babb in the early 1870s. The children of Elizabeth (Lewis) Babb sued their stepmother Mary (Broom) Babb and their Lewis half-siblings. Elizabeth Lewis was the daughter of John D. Lewis, who died in McNairy County, Tennessee in 1843. That lawsuit provided important documentation that identified John D. Lewis's children and last wife - the purpose of the suit was to sort out the inheritance of Elizabeth (Lewis) Babb, which required an inquiry into the settlement of John D. Lewis's estate. </div><div><br /></div><div>In an earlier <a href="https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2018/07/matilda-lewis-mason-daughter-of-john.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">post</span></b></a>, I noted that in 1840 John Lewis lived near John A. Sharp and David Wardlow. I even provided a snippet of the census that shows them to be near neighbors. At the time, I was wondering if Ann Sharp was John A. Sharp's wife, and I noted David Wardlow because of Jane Lewis's marriage to Milton Wardlow. <br /><p><br /></p></div>kdduncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324473106970005553noreply@blogger.com0