Hardin Harding

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Family of THOMAS HARDIN/HARDING

First Generation 1. THOMAS HARDIN/HARDING was born in England. He died in Norfolk, VA.

OUR IMMIGRANT ANCESTOR Thomas appears to have been the father of our Thomas, but I have also seen speculation that our Thomas Hardin who married Mary Giles was the son of a William Hardin./vsm Thomas Harding came out with Capt. Moore Fauntleroy circa 1650, lived in Norfolk County, VA. In 1659 he and his wife Elizabeth conveyed real estate to Annie Harding, maybe a daughter. Received a patent of 240 acres of land,1679-1689 part of a grant to Thomas Harding deceased, before 1689. "The Hairstons and Penns and Their Relations," page 123. "HARDEN. The name Harden is found in Virginia at an early date. It appears that Thomas Harden came out with Capt. Moore Fontleroy May 22nd, 1650. Between the years 1654-5, a patent is recorded for 740 acres issued to Thomas Harden. Between 1655-64 another patent for 740 acres and between 1666-79 for 525 more. This settler lived in Norfolk County and in 1659 with his wife Elizabeth conveyed real estate there describing himself as of "Lynhaven River, in lower Norfolk." Anne Harden, alias Emperner of lower Norfolk perhaps a daughter of the above, received a patent for 249 acres, 1679-89, part of a great to Thomas Harden deed. The latter died therefore before 1689. The name has been variously spelled both in Virginia and Western States: Harden, Hardin, and Harding." Of Capt Fauntleroy: "He immigrated before 1643 to Upper Norfolk Co., VA. He was a member of the House of Burgesses at Virginia. He resided circa 1648 at 'Naylor's Hole', Lancaster Co., VA. He was a Colonel of the militia in 1656 at Virginia." The lands of Thomas Harding, John Harding, John Ellis, and Nicholas Perkins adjoined each other in Henrico Co. Va. Thomas Harding the elder, is mentioned as belonging to the House of Buccleuch, so famous in Scottish history. Septs & Branches of the SCOTT CLAN: Scotts of Ancrum, Scotts of Balwearie, Scotts of Buccleuch, Scotts of Harden, Laidlaw. (Buccleuch, Harden, Balwearie, Geddes, Laidlaw, Langlands.) This clan took its name from the race of Scots who landed in Argyll and established the settlement of Dal Riada. The clan traces its descent from Uchtred Filius Scoti (son of a Scot) from the early 12th Century. Moto: Amo (I love) – Sir Walter Scott is from the Buccleuch-Hardin Line. Many people with the Harden surname may be part of The Scotts Clan. The Scotts of Harden may have taken the surname Harden (or Hardin, etc.) upon immigration much like the Scotts of Buccleuch changed their name to Buckalew or a similar spelling. Sir Walter, novelist and historian, born to the borders family Scott of Harden in 1771, did more to give Scots (one t) a national identity than any other person and is largely responsible for the survival and popularization of Scottish culture in modern times. His home was in the Borders at Abbottsford and he acclaimed the 5th Duke of Buccleuch as his Clan Chief and patron.

THOMAS married Elizabeth.

They had the following children:

+ 2 M i. Thomas HARDIN * was born 1686 and died 1731.

3 M ii. William HARDIN.

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Second Generation 2. Thomas HARDIN * (THOMAS) was born 1686 in Henrico Co, VA. He died 1731 in Henrico Co, VA.

Thomas Harding (father of Thomas) came out with Capt. Moore Fauntleroy 1650, lived in Norfolk Co., Va. In 1659 he and his wife Elizabeth conveyed real estate to Annie Harding, maybe a daughter., received a patent of 240 acres of land,1679-1689 part of a grant to Thomas Harding deceased, before 1689. Thomas Harding, his son, received a patent 10-31-1716 for 319 acres for the transporting of 6 people to dwell within our colony and dominion of Virginia. The land is described on the north side of the James river. This was the first portion of land laid out for the French refuges(the Huguenots). This Thomas Harding married Mary Giles, daughter of William Giles, a planter, in Henrico county, Va. His will dated 3-4-1728-1729 was probated 4-5-1731. His wife Mary was executrix. The children of Thomas and Mary Giles Harding were: 1) William m. Sarah; died 1768; 2) Thomas 3) Mary 4) Susannah b 1722 m Charles Ellis; 1740 she died March 1817 aged 95. and 5) Bethenia m. Nicholas Perkins of Henrico Co., Va. THOMAS HARDING was born 1685 in VA, and died abt. 1731 in Henrico Co., VA. He married MARY GILES abt. 1710 in Henrico Co. VA, daughter of WILLIAM GILES and BETHANIA KNOWLES. She was born abt. 1688 in VA, and died Aft. 1742 in Henrico Co., VA. "The Hairstons and Penns and Their Relations," page 123. Thomas Harden, son of the above, received a patent October 31, 1716 for 319 acres. "In consideration of the importation of six persons to dwell within this our colony and dominion of Virginia." The land is described as situated on the east side of the main eastern branch, on the north side of James River, and as being part of the first portion of land out for French "refugees." He married Mary Giles, daughter of Wm. Giles, planter of the Parish of Varina, Henrico County, Virginia. His will dated March 4, 1728-9, was probated April 5th, 1731, his wife Mary being appointed executrix. Children of Mary and Thomas Harden: William; Thomas; Mary; Susannah born 1722, married 1740 Charles Ellis, died March 1817 at 95. Bethenia married Nicholas Perkins of Henrico County, Virginia." Notes for THOMAS HARDING: There are numerous Harding families who settled in Virginia from the early 1600s onward. At one time, it was believed that the ancestry of this Thomas Harding led back to England to a George Harding, a London grocer, and wife, Mary Orley. Other researchers dispute this lineage. However, it is known that this Thomas Harding had a brother named "William" and both brothers are probably be sons of a William Harding. "The earliest ancestor of the Tuckahoe Creek Hardings, known with certainty, is Thomas Harding (I), first mentioned in Henrico Co., VA records of the early 1700s. It is assumed he was an adult over 21, at this time. Proof of his father's identity has not yet been found, but it seem plausible he could have been the William Harding mentioned in Henrico and Charles City Co. records of 1677-1700. The records of this William Harding also involve several families, Smith, Harris, and Watkins, whose lives are intertwined with the Tuckahoe Hardings over the next two centuries. This along with the fact that Thomas Harding's brother William (I) sold land in eastern Henrico Co., not far from Charles City Co., has led me to believe that they are sons of William Harding of Charles City Co., VA. I have also seen the claim that Thomas was the son of Thomas Harding, headright of Capt. Moore Fauntleroy, May 1660 (Wulfeck Supp., p. 4), but have found no evidence to support it." (p. 432, "The Tuckahoe Creek Hardings" by Caroliyn Hardin Goudie, in Vol. 3, Hardin USA, 1986.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thomas married Mary GILES *, daughter of William * GILES and Bethenia * KNOWLES, about 1710. Mary was born 1688 in Tuckahoe Creek, Henrico County, Virginia. She died by 1769 in Henrico Co, VA.

Notes for MARY GILES: See Henrico Co., VA W & D Books 1744-1748, p. 335, in which Mary Hughes, wife of Thomas Hughes relinquishes her Dower right in land of Thomas Harding, dec'd. Mary Giles was the granddaughter of Capt. John Knowles of Henrico, who was one of the early settlers of Jamestown (Bodie, vol. 3, 1959, p. 194). Marriage Notes for THOMAS HARDING and MARY GILES: Brodie, John B., HISTORIC SOUTHERN FAMILIES, Vol. 3, 1959, p. 194.


Wulfeck, Dorothy Ford, HARDIN AND HARDING OF VIRGINIA AND KENTUCKY, and SUPPLEMENT. Children of THOMAS HARDING and MARY GILES are: i. MARY HARDING, b. VA. ii. BETHANIA HARDING, b. 1719, Henrico Co., VA; d. Aft. 1762, Breckinridge Co., KY. iii. WILLIAM HARDING, b. 23 Feb 1719/20, Henrico Co., VA; d. 1768, Goochland Co., VA. iv. SUSANNAH HARDING, b. abt. 1721, Henrico Co., VA; d. 1817, Amherst Co., VA. v. THOMAS HARDING, b. 1731, Pittsylvania Co., VA; d. 1781. Notes for THOMAS HARDING: Information on descendants of Thomas Harding (1731-1781) from "Harden-in-ing Family Assoc." From "Virginians" web site: Mary Giles (c.1685) married likely Thomas Harding. Harding was likely a descendant of the man of this name who appeared as a headright for Ambrose Cobbs in 1639. Benjamin Woodson sold Thomas Harding 150 acres on the Chickahominy Swamp in 1717. Thomas left a will in Henrico County that remembered his wife, Mary, and made bequests to two sons and a married daughter. He omitted from his will Bethania some believe to be his daughter (will dated 10 Mar. 1728/9, recorded April 1731). Mary married second Thomas Hughes. In January 1747/8 Thomas Hughes and Mary, his wife, “having a right of dower in land which belonged to Thomas Harding, dec’d… which Thomas Harding gave his two sons Thomas Harding and William Harding” conveyed their right to William Harding, who now held both portions. Thomas Hughes and Mary, his wife, presented the estate account of John North in April 1748. Henrico County ordered their sheriff to take administration of the estate of Mary Hughes 4 August 1769.


+ 4 F i. Bethenia HARDIN * was born 1719 and died after 1762.

+ 5 F ii. Mary HARDIN.

+ 6 M iii. William HARDIN was born 23 Feb 1719/1720 and died 1768.

+ 7 F iv. Susannah/Sarah HARDIN was born about 1721 and died Mar 1817.

+ 8 M v. Thomas (son of Thos. & Mary Giles) HARDIN was born 1731 and died before 1781.

Third Generation 4. Bethenia HARDIN * (Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1719 in Henrico Co, VA. She died after 1762 in

Breckinridge Co., KY..

BETHANIA HARDING (THOMAS, UNKNOWN) was born 1719 in Henrico Co., VA, and died Aft. 1762 in Breckinridge Co., KY. She married (1) JOHN CHADWELL. She married (2) NICHOLAS PERKINS 1738 in VA, son of CONSTANTINE PERKINS and ANN POLLARD?. He was born abt. 1718 in Henrico Co., VA, and died 1762 in Berry Hill Plantation, Perkins Ferry, Halifax Co., VA7. Notes for BETHANIA HARDING: See Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1770-72, p. 25. Bethania Harding married Nicholas Perkins, an Henrico County neighbor, about 1738. Nicholas left a will in Halifax County which identified the following children (see below) (will dated 25 Feb. 1762, recorded 17 June 1762). Bethania bought 434 acres on both sides of Cascade Creek in Halifax County for £20 on 7 September 1763, of which she deeded 180 acres to George Russell and 254 acres to Isaiah Watkins for £150 total on 26 December 1763. In 1765 she gave slaves and other personal property to children, Peter, Charles, Susanna, Thomas


Harding, Constant, Annie, Mary, and Elizabeth. (Information on descendants of Nicholas Perkins and Bethenia Harding from a descendant, Robert Miller, who descends through Bethenia Perkins and Absalom Bostick.) Notes for NICHOLAS PERKINS: Will of Nicholas Perkins recorded 17 Jun 1762, recorded in Halifax County, VA Will Book O, p. 142. See Hall, William K. DESCENDANTS OF NICHOLAS PERKINS OF VIRGINIA, 1980. Marriage Notes for BETHANIA HARDING and NICHOLAS PERKINS: Nicholas and Bethenia Harding Perkins lived in Goochland Co. VA until around 1754-55 when they settled on the Dan River at Perkins Ferry in Halifax (later Pittsvylania ) Co., VA near Danville. See Hall, Wm. K., DESCENDANTS OF NICHOLAS PERKINS OF VIRGINIA, 1980. Also see "Perkins of Virginia" in Dorothy Ford Wulfeck, HARDIN AND HARDING OF VIRGINIA AND KENTUCKY, privately published, pp. 4-7. Children of BETHANIA HARDING and NICHOLAS PERKINS are: i. PETER PERKINS, b. 26 Mar 1739, Goochland Co. VA; d. 1813, Williamson Co., TN. ii. CHARLES PERKINS, b. 06 Mar 1741/42, Goochland Co. VA; d. abt. 1780, Guilford Co., NC?. iii. BETHANIA PERKINS, b. 30 Aug 1743, Goochland Co. VA; d. 1809, Stokes Co., NC. iv. NICHOLAS PERKINS, b. 07 Jul 1745, Goochland Co. VA; d. 08 Dec 1800, Williamson Co., TN. v. CONSTANTINE PERKINS, b. 20 Nov 1747, Goochland Co. VA; d. 1790, Pittsylvania Co. VA; m. AGATHA MARR; b. Amelia Co. VA?. vi. SUSANNAH PERKINS, b. 20 May 1750, Goochland Co. VA; d. 1815, TN. vii. ANNA G. PERKINS, b. 09 Aug 1752, Goochland Co. VA; d. 30 May 1829, Henry Co., VA. viii. MARY HARDING PERKINS, b. 15 Aug 1754, Goochland Co. VA?; d. 24 May 1798, Davidson Co., TN. ix. THOMAS HARDIN PERKINS, b. 03 May 1757, Halifax Co., VA; d. 15 Nov 1838, Williamson Co., TN?. x. ELIZABETH PERKINS, b. 13 May 1759, Halifax Co., VA; d. 26 Jan 1818, Henry Co. VA.

Bethenia married Col. Nicholas PERKINS *, son of Constantine PERKINS * and Anne (not proved) POLLARD *, on 1738. Nicholas was born 1718 in Albemarle Co., VA. He died 1762 in "Berry Hill" Plantation, Halifax County, VA.

Col. Nicholas Perkins BIRTH: 1718, Albemarle co, VA DEATH: 1762, Halifax co, VA FATHER: Constantine Perkins (abt 1682 - Dec 1770) MOTHER: Anne Pollard (abt 1696 - ? ) SPOUSE: Bethenia Hardin (abt 1717 - ? ) dau of Thomas Hardin (abt 1691 - ? ) & Mary Giles (abt 1695 - ? ) MARRIAGE: 1738 Notes -Parentage, spouse, & marriage confirmed by Marriages of Some Virginia Residents 1607-1800, Vol II; shows his birth as ca.1718, on Tuckahoe Creek, Henrico co,VA -Will proved 17 Jun 1762, Halifax co,VA -In 1751 he was one of the Processioners for St.James Northam parish, Goochland co,VA -Service as Colonel, FRENCH & INDIAN WARS -Resident in Goochland co,VA in 1754; in ca.1755 he moved westward on the Dan River in Halifax Co,VA into the section which became Pittsylvania co,VA in 1767 -In 1759 Justice of Peace, Halifax Co,VA -Source: History of Pittsylvania Co, VA, by Mary Carter Clement,1929 Echoes of the Revolution at Berry Hill By Henry H. Mitchell, 1990.


http://www.victorianvilla.com/sims-mitchell/local/perkins/peter/berryhill/st01/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BERRY HILL: "It was here, in the spring of 1781, that General Nathanael Greene sent the wounded from the pivotal battle at Guilford Courthouse, in which his troops had yielded the field to the army of Lord Cornwallis, but only after dealing such a crippling blow that the stunned English reeled out of the Carolinas and into entrapment at Yorktown. (See also “Pittsylvanians Play Key Roles In Three Great Battles.”) "During April, May, and June of 1781, Berry Hill served as a hospital, possibly housing the wounded soldiers in tents near the Dan River. (A flood in the late 1800's unearthed a quantity of military camp hardware and weapons.) In addition to Berry Hill, three neighboring plantations hosted a portion of the hospital. Later, a court of claims reimbursed Berry Hill's owner Col. Peter Perkins, who had commnded local militia at the Guilford battle, for great quantities of food and supplies, for damage to his house, for use of his wagons and horses, and for operation of a ferry across the Dan in conjunction with the hospital. "Peter Perkins himself is one of early Pittsylvania County's most fascinating figures. Having inherited land from his father Nicholas, he managed to add parcels including a grant from the Crown for 1200 acres until he had become a major landholder by the time of the Revolution. He was elected to the Committee of Safety, a group responsible for the conduct of the Revolution in the county, and also served (as mentioned before) as a colonel of the local militia. Perkins was son-in-law of Capt. Peter Wilson, famous early settler of the Dan Valley and founder of Wilson's Ferry (which continued in operation until 1902) along the river just west of present-day Danville, along (Wilson's) Ferry Road. Nicholas Perkins (1718-1762) He operated Perkins Ferry near the line with Rockingham County, North Carolina. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In 1976, as a part of the U. S. Bicentennial effort, the Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission authorized the placement along US 58 west of Danville of a marker recognizing Berry Hill. Berry Hill, unobtrusively nestled among ancient trees and giant boxwood several miles to the southwest along the road to Eden (VA 863), seems to have quietly absorbed its past into a complicated ongoing fabric of life, rather than boldly proclaiming the important role it once had. WILL OF Nicholas Perkins WORKS PROGRESS ADMINSTRATION OF VIRGINIA - HISTORICAL INVENTORY COUNTY: Halifax - CLASS: Will 'Copy of Nicholas Perkins' Will Written Feb. 25, 1762' This write-up is a part of the Virginia W. P. A. Historical Inventory Project sponsored by the Virginia Conservation Commission under the direction of its Division of History. Credit to both Commission and the W. P. A. is requested for publication, in whole or in part. unless otherwise stated, this information has not been checked for accuracy by the sponsors. Research made by Mrs. Walter R. Ragland, Virgilina, VA - December 17, 1936 1. SUBJECT: Copy of Nicholas Perkins' Will written Feb. 25, 1762 2. LOCATION: In records in Clerk's office at Halifax, VA. In the name of God, Amen. I, Nicholas Perkins being in perfect mind and memory do make this my last will and testament. Revoking all other by me made. First I bequeath my soul to Almighty God, relying on his mercy through Christ. Also after my just debts paid, My will and desire is to give to my son Charles Perkins two Negroes named Hang and Jimmey. Also my son Constant Perkins the upper part and half of my land on the side of the river I now live after the same is equally divided together with one Negro boy called Jacob. Also give and bequeath to my loving daughter Bethunia two Negroes named Dinah and Abraham. Also to my daughter Susannah two Negroes viz, Feby and Solomon. And to my daughter Anna to Negroes Barshuba and Dan. Also to my daughter Mary two Negroes named Simon and Ned. And also to mv beloved daughter Elizabeth two Negroes Viz, David and Ben. And also my will and desire is to give and bequeath to my son Peter Perkins the one half of my lands lying on Dan River on the north side of the said river and the upper part of - the same. Also to my son Nicholas the looser part off the said land together with the land and mill on Mobleys Creek. I also give to my son Thomas Hardin Perkins the lower part and half the land I now live on after being divided Viz, as below mentioned and my will and desire is that all my lands lying on the waters of Cascade Creek shall be sold


together with seven hundred acres." in North Carolina lying on Sevines Creek and the money so arising after my debts as before mentioned and funeral charges being paid the remainder to be equally divided between my beloved wive and children and my desire is that all the residue and remainder of my estate Rail and personal to give and bequeath to my loving wife Bethunia during her natural life and after her deceas to be equally divided amongst my surviving Children. I also leave my beloved wife hole and sole executrix as witness say hand and-seal February 25th 1762. (Signed) Nicholas Perkins. SEAL. Signed sealed and delivered in presence of.-James Roberts, Jr - Elizabeth "her" Roberts mark". This is an exact copy of will.... At a court held for Halifax County the 17th day of June 1762. This last will and testament of Nicholas Perkins deceased was exhibited into court-by Bethunia Perkins his widow. Relict and executrix therein appointed who made oath thereto according to law and the same being proved by the oaths of the several witnesses is ordered to be recorded and on the notation of the said executrix certificate is granted her for obtaining a probate of the said will in due form, she giving security whereupon the said Bethunia together with James Roberts and Peter Perkins her securities entered into bond as the law directs and acknowledgedd the same. Test. Robert Munford, Cl Will Book O - 1753-1772. Part 1 Page 143 Submitted by Jim Christian Chattanooga, TN [email protected]


+ 9 F i. Bethenia PERKINS * was born 7 Jul 1743 and died 1809.

+ 10 M ii. Col. Peter PERKINS was born 26 Mar 1739 and died 12 Feb 1813.

+ 11 M iii. Col. Charles Ellis PERKINS was born 6 Mar 1742/1743 and died about 1780.

+ 12 M iv. Nicholas, Jr. PERKINS was born 7 Jul 1745 and died 8 Dec 1800.

13 M v. Maj. Constantine PERKINS was born 20 Nov 1747 in Goochland County, VA. He died about 1790 in Pittsylvania Co., VA.

Constantine Perkins, b.20 Nov 1747, Goochland co,VA; d.abt 1790, Pittsylvania co,VA marr: bef 1777, Pittsylvania co,VA Agatha Marr (abt 1756 - ? ) dau of Gideon Marr & Sarah Miller “Bachelor’s Hall” was the home of Constant Perkins. His land grant here was for 639 acres in 1770. He ran a store here on the Berry Hill Road. He was a major in the militia. Peter and his brother Constantine Perkins owned the Troublesome Creek Ironworks in Rockingham County, N.C. -------------------------------------------------

Constantine married Agatha (dau of Gideon & Sarah Miller) MARR.

+ 14 F vi. Susannah PERKINS was born 20 May 1750 and died about 1815.

15 F vii. Anna G. PERKINS "Annie" was born 9 Aug 1752 in Goochland County, VA. She died 20 May 1829 in Henry County, VA.

Anna G Perkins, b. 9 Aug 1752, Goochland co,VA; d. 20 May 1829, Henry co,VA marr.1: 8 Jan 1771 Joseph F Scales


marr.2: abt 1800 ---- Beck

Annie married Joseph H. SCALES on 8 Jan 1771.

+ 16 F viii. Mary Hardin PERKINS was born 6 Aug 1754 and died 24 May 1798.

+ 17 M ix. Lt. Thomas Hardin PERKINS was born 3 May 1757 and died 15 Nov 1838.

+ 18 F x. Elizabeth PERKINS was born 1 May 1759 and died 7 Jan 1818.

5. Mary HARDIN (Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS).

2. MARY3 HARDING (THOMAS2, UNKNOWN1) was born in VA. She married EDWARD THOMAS5 Bef. 1728. He died 1760 in Tilotson Parish, Albemarle, VA. Notes for MARY HARDING: On May 17, 1729, Thomas Harding of Verina Parish, Henrico County, VA, deeded Edward Thomas (his son-in-law) of St. James Parish, Goochland co., VA, 60 acres on the East Branch of Tuckahoe Creek at Drinking Hole Branch (Goochland Co., Deed Book 1, p. 108). Carolyn Hardin believes that this was probably a wedding gift, since the same land was given in his will w, written three months earlier, to his daughter Mary Thomas (Harding USA, Vol. 3, p. 436). Mary Harding married Thomas Edwards by the time her father wrote his will leaving her 60 acres on Drinking Hole Branch in Goochland County. He went ahead and gave them the 60 acres 17 May 1729. Mary, the mother, relinquished her dower right in the land. Henrico County taxed Thomas Edwards on 1 levy and 150 acres in 1736. Chesterfield County charged him on three tithables in 1756. Thomas and Mary sold the land her father gave them to Daniel Morrow in 1742. Notes for EDWARD THOMAS: (Information on Edward Thomas and family from Debi Polen ([email protected]), 1997). Children of MARY HARDING and EDWARD THOMAS are: i. WILLIAM THOMAS. ii. JOHN THOMAS. iii. MARTHA THOMAS. iv. ELIZABETH THOMAS. v. SUSANNAH THOMAS, b. abt. 1740, Goochland Co. VA; d. 1819, Oglethorpe, GA. 2 Mary GILES b: ABT 1688 + Thomas HARDING IV d: 1731 3 Mary HARDING b: ABT 1715 + Edward THOMAS b: ABT 1710 d: 1760 4 William THOMAS 4 John THOMAS 4 Martha THOMAS + GOOLSBY 4 Susannah THOMAS b: ABT 1740 d: 1819 + Thomas Sr STEPHENS b: ABT 1730 d: 1818 5 Joshua STEPHENS b: 31 JAN 1768 d: 26 JUL 1837 + Nancy JOHNSON 6 Susannah STEPHENS b: 4 MAY 1788 d: 7 JUL 1858 + Temple WEST 6 Elizabeth STEPHENS b: ABT 1790 + Amos CROW + Benjamin KIMBRELL 6 Nancy STEPHENS b: 8 MAR 1793 + William HUMPHREY 6 Sarah STEPHENS b: 1805 d: 17 SEP 1836 + Willis HAND 5 William STEPHENS b: ABT 1771 d: 6 MAR 1823 + Elizabeth GOOLSBY b: ABT 1775 d: FEB 1831


6 Nancy Ann STEPHENS b: ABT 1799 + Andrew WEABER b: ABT 1794 6 Minor Marlin STEPHENS b: 16 DEC 1801 d: 16 JUN 1862 + Tabitha Cumi DAVIS b: 10 JUN 1809 d: 11 MAY 1847 6 Thomas Peter Goolsby STEPHENS b: 1805 d: FEB 1836 + Mary A. J. TAYLOR 7 W. Clark T. STEPHENS b: ABT 1828 7 Winston J. T. STEPHENS b: 13 JUL 1829 d: 1 MAR 1864 6 Martha T. STEPHENS b: ABT 1809 + John O. BRADLEY 6 Joshua William STEPHENS b: 1820 5 Thomas Jr STEPHENS b: 6 OCT 1773 d: 30 JUL 1858 + Judith HARDIN b: 14 SEP 1783 d: 22 OCT 1822 6 Susannah STEPHENS + William O. FAULKNER 6 Lucinda Madeline STEPHENS b: 1810 d: 1839 + Dr. George KEY b: 24 JAN 1808 d: 1883 6 Rebecca STEPHENS b: 1814 + Samuel G. LOCKLIN b: 1810 6 Sarah J. STEPHENS b: 1815 + Isaac DILLARD b: 1807 6 Samuel M. STEPHENS b: 1819 + Sarah J. SLATON b: 1821 6 John U. STEPHENS b: 1820 + Amanda OGLESBY b: 1826 6 Mark D. STEPHENS b: 27 JAN 1822 d: 23 OCT 1825 6 Henry W. STEPHENS d: ABT 1850 + Sarah FAULKNER + Martha 6 infant dtr STEPHENS b: 2 NOV 1825 d: 2 NOV 1825 6 Eliza STEPHENS b: 1827 6 George W. STEPHENS b: 1829 + Elizabeth Jane WILSON 6 Thomas J. STEPHENS b: 1833 5 David STEPHENS b: ABT 1775 d: MAY 1837 + Frances Mary "Franky" HARRIS b: 1780 d: APR 1850 6 John Fielder STEPHENS b: ABT 1798 d: 2 NOV 1824 + Martha HARPER b: 1802 d: 16 APR 1884 7 Young John William Harper STEPHENS b: 22 NOV 1819 d: 11 JAN 1910 + Rebecca CONNER b: 26 MAR 1818 d: 18 SEP 1896 + Elizabeth SPATES 7 Thomas Harris STEPHENS b: 21 SEP 1821 d: 30 SEP 1863 + Mary A. CONNER b: 1823 d: 1907 6 Mariah STEPHENS b: 11 JAN 1799 d: 11 JUL 1881 + Joseph Malone HARPER b: 8 JAN 1799 d: 1 AUG 1850 7 John William HARPER b: 30 JAN 1818 d: 9 JUL 1888 + Martha A. APPLEWHITE b: 16 OCT 1819 d: 1 MAY 1880 7 Rhodia HARPER b: 10 OCT 1825 d: 12 JUL 1880 + William Henry Jr "Billy" THOMAS b: 15 JAN 1827 d: 15 JAN 1892 7 Joseph Malone JR HARPER b: 1829 d: 10 OCT 1863 + Roxy Ann ADKISON b: 3 MAY 1831 d: 29 MAR 1900 8 Sarah HARPER b: 1848 8 Susan F. HARPER b: 1850 d: 30 MAY 1871 + Stafford DAVIS 8 William Geo Washington HARPER b: 10 JUN 1852 d: 19 FEB 1927 + Emma BARNES 8 Martha Ellen HARPER b: 13 NOV 1855 d: 23 FEB 1902 + Benton DOLLAR


8 John T. HARPER b: ABT 1857 d: AFT 25 APR 1910 8 Mary Harper HARPER b: 24 MAY 1860 d: 27 APR 1908 + John HALL 8 Tennessee HARPER b: 10 JUL 1863 d: 19 DEC 1914 + John Henry THOMAS 7 Susan Malinda HARPER b: OCT 1830 d: AFT 1910 + Joshua William WALKER b: ABT 1826 7 Wm Geo Washington HARPER b: 18 JUN 1831 d: 29 NOV 1907 + Sarah Ann. F. ADKISON b: 23 DEC 1829 d: 9 MAR 1907 7 Frances Mary HARPER b: NOV 1834 d: ABT 1918 + John Henry DRIGGERS b: ABT 1825 d: 1850 7 Martha A. HARPER + Dan or Henry REPRESS + Daniel Green CAIN 8 Green Allen CAIN d: 1956 + Louanna GOODSON d: 1902 + Ada Drucilla SMITH 6 Susannah STEPHENS b: 1801 d: AFT 1880 + Nathaniel H. HARPER b: 1805 d: BET 1840 AND 1850 7 John W. "Buck" HARPER b: 1825 + Sarah JARRETT 7 Joseph W. HARPER b: 12 SEP 1826 d: 19 MAY 1903 + Sarah KELLY b: 1832 d: 12 MAY 1886 + Eliza Ann MORGAN b: FEB 1855 d: 2 MAR 1937 7 William HARPER b: 1845 + John JARRETT 6 Joshua STEPHENS b: 1805 d: ABT 1868 + Mary "Polly" GANN b: 18 NOV 1809 d: 1894 7 Elizabeth STEPHENS b: 1826 + Matthew MURNER b: 1824 d: BEF 1860 7 John Franklin STEPHENS b: 1828 d: 17 DEC 1891 + Mary M. SANDERS b: 1832 d: 1899 7 Frances STEPHENS b: 1832 + John CARTER 7 Nathaniel David "Nathan" STEPHENS b: 18 JAN 1835 d: 12 JUN 1913 + Elizabeth ALEXANDER b: 20 FEB 1837 d: 12 DEC 1915 7 dau STEPHENS b: 1837 7 Sarah "Sally" STEPHENS b: DEC 1839 7 Mahalia STEPHENS b: 1843 7 Henry Patrick STEPHENS b: 1844 7 Julia Ann STEPHENS b: 1848 7 Eliza G. STEPHENS b: 1850 7 Martha A. STEPHENS b: 1851 6 Harris STEPHENS b: 1806 d: 20 APR 1864 + Mary Ann DANIEL b: 1 MAY 1811 d: 7 MAR 1889 7 Isaac Thomas Franklin STEPHENS b: 1837 d: 7 AUG 1863 6 Nancy Ann STEPHENS b: ABT 1812 d: 1862 + Smith ALEXANDER b: 1810 d: 1862 7 John C. ALEXANDER b: 8 SEP 1828 d: 13 NOV 1917 + Susan b: 15 APR 1829 7 Sarah C. ALEXANDER b: 14 JAN 1833 d: 23 MAY 1904 + Henry Thomas "Rattler" GANN b: 14 MAR 1830 d: 16 JAN 1909 7 Mary Francis ALEXANDER b: 14 JUN 1835 d: 23 MAY 1921 + Seaborn GANN b: 30 JUN 1836 d: 23 MAY 1866 + James Robert GLORE b: 28 JUL 1832 d: 1 JUL 1886 7 Elizabeth ALEXANDER b: 20 FEB 1837 d: 12 DEC 1915 + Nathaniel David "Nathan" STEPHENS b: 18 JAN 1835 d: 12 JUN 1913


7 David ALEXANDER b: 1838 d: 7 MAR 1888 + Mary Jane HENDERSON 7 William A. ALEXANDER b: 1840 + Mary b: ABT 1843 7 Nancy A. ALEXANDER b: 1844 7 Henry S. ALEXANDER b: 1845 7 Elijah A. ALEXANDER b: 26 MAY 1848 d: 29 JUN 1929 + Francis Florida HUMPHRIES b: 12 JUL 1848 7 Thomas Tucker ALEXANDER b: 7 JUL 1850 d: 2 JAN 1929 + Martha "Mattie" LOVELESS b: ABT 1850 7 Eliza ALEXANDER b: 1853 6 Sarah Coffin STEPHENS b: ABT 1813 d: MAR 1830 + John GANN b: 8 JAN 1812 d: 15 AUG 1881 7 Henry Thomas "Rattler" GANN b: 14 MAR 1830 d: 16 JAN 1909 + Sarah C. ALEXANDER b: 14 JAN 1833 d: 23 MAY 1904 6 David Jr STEPHENS b: 1815 d: 1 MAR 1887 + Angeline Raine HOWZE b: 1818 d: ABT 1875 6 Overton Obadiah "Obie" STEPHENS b: 24 DEC 1820 d: 12 DEC 1912 + Sarah Ann HUMPHRIES b: 12 NOV 1823 d: 28 APR 1888 + Elizabeth Nancy Catherine "puss" DAVIS b: 18 JUL 1847 6 Mary "Polly" STEPHENS + James SHAW 7 George HARPER b: 24 DEC 1834 d: 30 DEC 1926 + William Jr GANN 6 Henry Thomas STEPHENS b: 1826 d: 25 SEP 1860 + Elizabeth EPPS b: ABT 1826 5 Nancy STEPHENS b: ABT 1785 d: AFT 1870 + John G. SMITH 4 Elizabeth THOMAS b: ABT 1755 d: ABT 1796 + Jesse MARTIN

Mary married Thomas EDWARDS.

Thomas left a will in Chesterfield County that remembered his wife, Mary, leaving her his 125-acre plantation for life. He then identified ten children. To the first five children he left slave Hannah, and to the second five he left slave Jean (will dated 26 June 1772, recorded 1 Mar. 1782 ). Some have suggested that the youngest five children were not children of Mary Harding. Indeed the marriages of the Elizabeth and William Edwards were in the 1780s, long after Thomas and Mary married. That two daughters are named Obedience and Priscilla shows a connection to the Branch, Burton, Hatcher, Moseley, Turpin, or Wilkinson families.


19 M i. Thomas (son of Thos. & Mary Hardin) EDWARDS.

20 F ii. Mary EDWARDS.

21 F iii. Martha EDWARDS.

22 F iv. Phoebe EDWARDS.

23 M v. Peter EDWARDS.

24 F vi. Sarah EDWARDS.

25 F vii. Priscilla EDWARDS.

26 F viii. Elizabeth EDWARDS.

27 F ix. Obedience EDWARDS.

28 M x. William EDWARDS.

6. William HARDIN (Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 23 Feb 1719/1720 in Henrico Co, VA. He died 1768 in Goochland, Virginia.


Note: DNA test have proved the relationship between William Hardin and his father, Thomas. WILLIAM3 HARDING (THOMAS2, UNKNOWN1) was born 23 Feb 1719/20 in Henrico Co., VA, and died 1768 in Goochland Co., VA8. He married (1) EDITH COX abt. 1745. He married (2) SARAH LA FORCE 07 Nov 1748 in Goochland Co., VA9, daughter of RENE LA FORCE and SARAH UNKNOWN. She was born abt. 1725 in Henrico Co, VA, and died abt. 1797 in Goochland Co., VA. William inherited 140 acres on Little Tuckahoe Creek in Henrico County. His father had given him land on the same creek in 1717. René Laforce sold William property in 1748. In 1759 Goochland County charged William Harding on eight tithables. 14 October 1747 The land of Henry Drake is mentioned as being adjacent to the land sold by William Harding and Sarah his wife of County of Northumberland to Thomas Vivion of County of King George. Notation is made that Henry Drake has a lease dated 19 November 1733 for 20 years. Witnesses include Christo. Quisenbury, Harry Turner, Clapham Richardson, and Tho: Jett. (Deed Abstracts of King George County, Virginia (1735-1752), Ruth and Sam Sparacio, 1987 p. 93) Notes for WILLIAM HARDING: Will, dated 7 January 1766, recorded Deed Book 9, page 154, 1765-1769, Goochland County, VA. Child of WILLIAM HARDING and EDITH COX is: 15. i. SARAH4 HARDING, b. abt. 1746; d. 1812. Children of WILLIAM HARDING and SARAH LA FORCE are: 16. ii. GILES HARDING, b. 15 Jun 1749, Goochland Co., VA; d. 1810, Davidson Co., TN. 17. iii. WILLIAM HARDING, b. 1750, Goochland Co., VA; d. 1797, Surry Co., NC. iv. RENE HARDING, b. 15 Feb 1753, Goochland Co. VA; d. Bef. 1766, VA ?. 18. v. THOMAS HARDING, b. 03 Oct 1755, Goochland Co., VA; d. 1805, TN.

William married (1) Edith COX.

Widow of William Cox, Sarah, was living in Goochland County when she made her will (will dated 29 Mar. 1726, recorded 20 Jan. 1747/8). Mary, Prudence, Judith, and Edith were then still unmarried. EDITH was the wife of William Harding 21 years later when he presented Sarah’s will. Among the witnesses to Sarah’s will was John Taylor.


+ 29 F i. Sarah HARDIN was born 1746 and died 1812.

William also married (2) Sarah LA FORCE, daughter of Rene LA FORCE, on 7 Nov 1748 in Goochland County, VA. Sarah was born about 1725. She died about 1797 in Goochland County, VA.

Notes for Sarah La Force: Will of Sarah LaForce Harding, probated 23 March 1797, Goochland County, VA. Will of Rene LaForce, dated 16 Aug. 1728, probated in 1728, recorded Book 1, pp. 37-38, 1728-1734, Goochland County, VA, names daughter, Sarah La Force. Will of her mother, Sarah Laforce, widow of Rene LaForce, dated 16 Dec. 1756, probated July 18, 1757, recorded in Deed and Will Book 7, page 143, Goochland County, VA, names daughter Sarah Hardain. William Hardain was one of the executors. Notes of Carolyn Rozelle, Hunt Co. Texas <[email protected]> i Thomas Hardin b. 1686 d. m. Mary Giles b. ca. 1650, daughter of Wm. Giles and Bethenia Knowles, who was the daughter of Capt. John Knowles w. by 1711 ii. William Hardin b. 3 Feb. 1720, LDS record


d. m. 1st Edith Cox *m. 2nd. Sarah LaForce w. ca. 1748 William Hardin had a sister named Susannah Hardin. iii. Thomas Hardin b. 3 Oct. 1755, Henrico Co., VA, LDS dates d. w.w. 25 May 1809, Rockingham Co., N.C. w.p. Nov. 1809, m. Eleanor --------- b. d. iv.-10 Jane Harding m. William Hornbuckle William Hornbuckle [1765-1824]m. Jane Harding v. 4. Alfred Hornbuckle b. ca. 1794, NC d. m. Jane DuVal . , daughter of Notley DuVal w. 16 Feb. 1815, Mason Co., KY children: 1. William R. Hornbuckle b. 12 Mar. 1816 2. John D. Hornbuckle b. 20 Mar. 1818 3. DuVal Hornbuckle b. 8 Jun. 1820 4. Jemina Jane Hornbuckle b. 7 Nov. 1823 5. Minerva Ann Hornbuckle b. 20 Feb. 1823 6. Sarah E. Hornbuckle b. 20 Dec. 1827 7. Alfred J. Hornbuckle 8. Elizabeth Jane Hornbuckle b. 7 Sept. 1832 d. m. Richard Crump b. 1828, grt gs of both Daniel & brother Edward Boone Elizabeth Jane Hornbucklie was my paternal great grandmother. 9. James M. Hornbuckle b. 7 Nov. 1840 10. Henry R. Hornbuckle b. 16 Jan. 1840


+ 30 M ii. Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN was born 15 Jun 1749 and died 1810.

+ 31 M iii. William (II) HARDIN was born 1750 and died 1797.

32 M iv. Rene (died a child) HARDIN was born 15 Feb 1753 in Goochland County, VA.

+ 33 M v. Thomas (son of Wm. & Sarah LaForce) HARDIN was born 3 Oct 1755 and died 1805.

7. Susannah/Sarah HARDIN (Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born about 1721. She died Mar 1817 in Amherst, Albemarle Co., VA.

SUSANNAH3 HARDING (THOMAS2, UNKNOWN1) was born abt. 1721 in Henrico Co., VA, and died 1817 in Amherst Co., VA. She married (1) CHARLES ELLIS 1739 in Henrico Co., VA, son of JOHN ELLIS and SUSANNAH UNKNOWN. He was born 1719 in Henrico Co., VA, and died 1760 in Albemarle Co., VA. She married (2) JOHN BECKLEY (BICKLEY) 21 Dec 1767. He was born 07 Dec 1713, and died 1793 in Amhurst Co., VA. Notes for SUSANNAH HARDING: See William & Mary Quarterly, Ser.. I, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Oct 1901), pp. 126-131. Will of Susannah Harding Ellis Beckley dated Jun 17, 1796, recorded in Amherst Co., VA March 1817. She is buried at "Red Hill" in Amherst Co., at the age of nearly 100 years. Notes for CHARLES ELLIS:


Charles Ellis, son of John and Susannah Ellis of Peter's Creek, a branch of Tuckahoe Creek, and neighbors of the Hardings in Henrico Co. VA. Charles and wife, Susannah Harding, moved to Albemarle (later Amherst) Co., VA ca 1754. Charles was Capt. in Militia Company in 1758. He built "Red Hill" on the Pedlar River in Amherst Co., and was buried there in the family burying ground (see his will of 1760 recorded in Amherst Co., VA)(HARDIN USA, p. 443; Meade, p. 461). Marriage Notes for SUSANNAH HARDING and CHARLES ELLIS: See Ellis, Thomas Harding, ELLIS FAMILY OF VIRGINIA, Richmond, VA 1849, reprinted and updated 1906. Children of SUSANNAH HARDING and CHARLES ELLIS are: i. BETHENA4 ELLIS, m. THOMAS LEFTWICH. 19. ii. HANNAH ELLIS, b. 05 Oct 1741, Henrico Co., VA; d. 27 Aug 1791, Amherst Co., VA. iii. EDITH ELLIS, b. 16 May 1743, Henrico Co., VA; d. 05 Aug 1818, Amherst Co., VA; m. DEVEREAUX GILLIAM, abt. 1767, Amherst Co., VA. Notes for DEVEREAUX GILLIAM: Devereaux Gilliam, son of William and Mary (Jarratt) Gilliam, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War from NC. He built Gilliam's Station at the mouth of the French Broad River in present-day Knox Co., TN on an 800-acre NC grant for Rev. service. (HARDIN USA, p. 444). 20. iv. SUSANNA ELLIS, b. 09 Nov 1744, Henrico Co., VA; d. Jul 1828, Wayne Co., KY. 21. v. JOSIAH ELLIS, b. 16 Feb 1745/46, Henrico Co., VA; d. 29 Jun 1810, Amherst Co., VA. vi. MARY ANN ELLIS, b. 25 Dec 1747, Henrico Co., VA; d. KY; m. PETER CARTER; d. abt. 1787, Amherst Co., VA. Notes for PETER CARTER: Peter was the son of Soloman and Mary Ann (Beckley) Carter. His descendants moved to KY, MO, and IN (HARDIN USA, p. 444). vii. CHARLES ELLIS, b. 28 Jan 1748/49, Henrico Co., VA; d. Bef. 05 Aug 1828, Perry Co., MO; m. (1) ELIZABETH WATERS; b. King William Co., VA; m. (2) SARAH TUCKER; d. 23 Nov 1803, MO. Notes for CHARLES ELLIS: Charles Ellis moved to Oglethorpe, GA, then to Jefferson Co., KY, then to the District of St. Genevieve, LA (now in Missouri), where he died (HARDIN USA, p. 444). Charles Ellis' will was dated Jun 14, 1828, probated Aug 5, 1828 in Perry Co., MO. viii. SARAH ELLIS, b. 25 Mar 1752, Henrico Co., VA; m. JOHN HARRISON; d. abt. 1797, VA. ix. ELIZABETH ELLIS, b. 05 Jan 1754, Henrico Co., VA; m. WILLIAM GILLIAM. Notes for WILLIAM GILLIAM: William Gilliam, son of William and Mary (Jarratt) Gilliam. He and wife Elizabeth Ellis moved to Georgia (HARDIN USA, p. 444). x. ROSANNA ELLIS, b. 30 Nov 1755, Amherst Co., VA; d. Amherst Co., VA; m. CHARLES DAVIS; b. Amherst Co., VA. Notes for CHARLES DAVIS: Charles Davis, son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Atkins) Davis of Amherst Co., VA. Child of SUSANNAH HARDING and JOHN (BICKLEY) is: xi. MILDRED BECKLEY4 (BICKLEY). Notes for MILDRED BECKLEY (BICKLEY): Mildred Beckley died in infancy.

Susannah/Sarah married Capt. Charles ELLIS of "Red Hill", son of John (Sr) ELLIS and Susannah ROYALL, on 1739 in Henrico Co, VA. Charles was born about 1719 in Henrico Co, VA. He died 4 May 1759 in Albemarle Co., VA.

Charles ELLIS I- son of John ELLIS Sr., Immigrant - and Susannah (Adams) ROYALL -, was born in 1719 in


Tuckahoe Creek, Henrico Co, VA, was christened in 1750, died on 4 May 1759 in "Red Hill" - Pedlar River, Amherst Co., Virginia, at age 40, and was buried in 1759 in "Red Hill" - Pedlar River, Amherst Co., Virginia. Death Notes: Died at 40 years of age. His wife lived to be 95. Burial Notes: Buried next to wife, Susannah. General Notes: From: , "old Chruches of Virginia", vol. 2.....Ruth Langwell Walker "Charles, the seventh son, (my great-grandfather,) was born in Henrico county in the year 1719, was married, by the Rev. William Stith, to Susannah Harding, daughter of Thomas Harding and Mary Giles, in the year 1739, and had issue two sons and eight daughters. He removed with his family to the county of Amherst, that the county of Albemarle, in the year 1754, and settled the original seat of the Ellises in that county, since called "Red Hill," on the waters of Pedlar River. He died May 4, 1759, and was buried in the family burying-ground at Red Hill. His widow lived to the ninety-fifth year of her age, and was buried by his side. The children of Charles Ellis and Susannah Harding were Hannah, Edith, Susannah, Josiah, Mary Ann, Charles, Sarah, Bethena, Elizabeth, and Rosanna. Hannah married William Haynes. Edith married Devereux Gilliam. Susannah married Isaac Wright. Josiah married Jane Shelton. Mary Ann married Peter Carter. Charles married--first, Elizabeth Waters, secondly, Sarah Tucker. Sarah married John Harrison. Bethena married Thomas Leftwich. Elizabeth married William Gilliam. Rosanna married Charles Davis. Josiah, (my grandfather,) above named, inherited the "Red Hill" estate, and lived and died there. His wife--a daughter of Richard Shelton--was born September 1, 1747. They were married on the 3d of April, 1766, and had issue John, Nancy, Charles, Richard Shelton, Josiah, Mary Wright, Thomas Harding, Jane Shelton, Lewis, Joshua Shelton, and Powhatan." ********************************** From: Ellis Family of Virginia by Janeen Davis Proctor Posted by: Deborah Thurman ParksDate: September 23, 2001


34 M i. Richard Shelton ELLIS was born about 1740 in Henrico Co, VA.

+ 35 F ii. Hannah ELLIS was born 5 Oct 1741 and died about 1762.

36 F iii. Edith ELLIS was born 16 May 1743 in Henrico Co, VA. She died about 1764.

Edith married Devereaux GILLIAM.

37 F iv. Susannah ELLIS was born 9 Nov 1744 in Henrico Co, VA.

Susannah married Isaac WRIGHT.

38 M v. Josiah ELLIS of "Red Hill" was born 16 Feb 1746 in Henrico Co, VA.

Josiah married Jane SHELTON on 3 Apr 1776 in Albemarle Co., VA.

They were married on the 3d of April, 1766, and had issue John, Nancy, Charles, Richard Shelton, Josiah, Mary Wright, Thomas Harding, Jane Shelton, Lewis, Joshua Shelton, and


Powhatan."

39 F vi. Marian ELLIS was born 25 Dec 1747 in Henrico Co, VA.

Marian married Peter CARTER.

40 M vii. Charles (Jr.) ELLIS was born 28 Jan 1749 in Henrico Co, VA.

Charles ELLIS II-son of Charles ELLIS I -and Susannah HARDING - was born on 28 Jan 1749 in Tuckahoe Creek, Henrico Co, VA and died on 4 Aug 1828 in , Perry County, Missouri, at age 79. Noted events in his life were: • Migration: Bef 1820, , , Missouri. Charles married ²Elizabeth WATERS about 1770. Elizabeth was born about 1750. Children from this marriage were: i. Elizabeth Tucker ELLIS - (born about 1775) Charles next married Sarah TUCKER-on 25 Aug 1770 in Wilkinson Mill, Perry Co, Missouri. Children from this marriage were: i. Lunsford I ELLIS - (born in Jun 1775 , McNairy County, Tennessee - died on 3 Jun 1836 in Perryville, Perry Co., Missouri) ii. Josiah Shelton ELLIS - (born in 1778 Amherst Co., VA - died on 30 Sep 1830 in , McNairy County, Tennessee) iii. Lucretia ELLIS - (born on 31 Aug 1773 , Amherst County, Virginia - died on 31 Aug 1837 in Columbus, GA) iv. Elizabeth ELLIS -(born in 1775 , Amherst County, Virginia) v. Susanna ELLIS - (born in 1784 , Amherst County, Virginia) vi. Julia ELLIS - (born in 1786 , Amherst County, Virginia) vii. Charles ELLIS III, Judge -(born in 1780 , Amherst County, Virginia - died on 25 Oct 1822 in , Perry County, Missouri) 252 viii. Willis ELLIS - (born on 29 Nov 1790 , Amherst County, Virginia - died on 17 Nov 1850 in Wilkinson Mill, Perry Co., Missouri)

Charles married (1) Elizabeth WATER.

Charles also married (2) Sarah TUCKER.

41 F viii. Sarah (Sally) ELLIS was born 25 Mar 1750 in Amherst County, VA.

Sarah married John HARRISON.

42 F ix. Bethenia ELLIS was born 28 Mar 1752 in Amherst County, VA.

Bethenia married Thomas LEFTWICH.

43 F x. Elizabeth ELLIS was born 5 Jan 1754 in Amherst County, VA.

Elizabeth married William GILLIAM.

44 F xi. Rosanna ELLIS was born 30 Nov 1755 in Albemarle Co., VA.

Rosanna married Charles DAVIS.

8. Thomas (son of Thos. & Mary Giles) HARDIN (Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1731 in Pittsylvania Co., VA. He died before 1781 in Lunenburg County, VA.

Thomas Harding (1710) inherited his father’s home plantation and land in Goochland County. Thomas sold the home plantation — 150 acres on Tuckahoe Creek — to his brother William in 1745. Thomas sold another tract of 248 acres that had belonged to his father to Richard Day 2 January 1767. Chesterfield County charged Thomas with


two tithables in 1756.

Thomas married Phoebe BEASLEY. Phoebe was born 1731. She died 1781 in Lunenburg County, VA.


45 M i. Thomas (son of Thos. & Phoebe Beasley) HARDIN was born 1750. He died before 1782.

+ 46 M ii. William (son of Thos. & Phoebe) HARDIN was born about 1755 and died 1805.

47 M iii. Robert (son of Thos. & Phoebe) HARDIN was born calculated 1755.

48 M iv. Alexander HARDIN was born about 1760. He died before 1815.

49 M v. Edward HARDIN was born about 1765.

50 F vi. Mary (dau of Thos. & Phoebe) HARDIN was born calculated 1765.

51 F vii. Ann (dau of Thos. & Phoebe) HARDIN was born calculated 1760.

Ann married Peter MALONE.

She married Peter Malone who was the son of Daniel and Sarah Sullivan Malone. They moved to Columbia Co., GA before 1790 where Peter served as Justice of the Peace until 1796.

52 M viii. Benjamin (son of Thos. & Phoebe) HARDIN.

53 M ix. Josiah HARDIN.

Fourth Generation 9. Bethenia PERKINS * (Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 7 Jul 1743 in Goochland,

Virginia. She died 1809 in Stokes County, NC.

Bostick Perkins, Absalom Bethenia Birth: 18 March 1767-- Stokes, Of, NC Death: 1832 -- Spouse: Bostick, Absalom Perkins, Bethenia Marriage Date: 01 Jun 1762 ------------------------------------------------- Note to the family: I place Bethenia first in list of children, but she was not the first in birth order./vsm ------------------------------------------------- BETHANIA PERKINS (BETHANIA HARDING, THOMAS,) was born 30 Aug 1743 in Goochland Co. VA, and died 1809 in Stokes Co., NC. She married ABSALOM BOSTICK 26 Jun 1762 in Halifax Co., VA, son of JOHN BOSTICK and ELIZABETH CHESSLEY. He was born abt. 1738 in Goochland Co., VA, and died 1803 in Pine Hall, Stokes Co., NC12. Notes for ABSALOM BOSTICK: Absalom Bostick (Bostic) was one of Stokes County's most active early settlers. He was country treasurer, justice of the peace, tax lister, member of the House of Commons (1790-1795) from Stokes County. Before Stokes was created, from Surry County in 1798, he represented Surry County at the Hillsborough Convention in 1788 and at Fayetteville in 1789. The convention at Hillsboro was to chose a plan for the federal government and determine the site for the capitol of North Carolina. Absalom Bostick is shown with 670 acres in the 1786 Stokes County, NC tax list, in the area near Walnut Cove. His plantation in Stokes County was called "Shoebuckle," and was located in present-day Sauratown Township.


Much information on this family and its descendnts was contributed by Brenda Joyce Jerome, Newburgh, IN ([email protected]). For more information on this family, see "Bostick Family" by Faye Moran at http://users.erols.com/fmoran/bostick.html. (note: 2006, site no longer active) More About ABSALOM BOSTICK: Burial: Stokes Co., NC Children of BETHANIA PERKINS and ABSALOM BOSTICK are: 24. i. JOHN5 BOSTICK, b. 18 Jun 1764, VA; d. 20 Sep 1850, Williamson Co., TN. 25. ii. BETHANIA BOSTICK, b. 18 Mar 1767, Pittssylvania Co., VA; d. 1832. 26. iii. II ABSALOM BOSTICK II, b. 1769, VA; d. 1855, Christian Co., KY. 27. iv. DON FERDINAND BOSTICK, b. 1772, Pittssylvania Co., VA; d. 1824, Stokes Co., NC. 28. v. SUSANNAH BOSTICK, b. Aft. 1772; d. Bef. 1814. 29. vi. ANNE BOSTICK, b. abt. 1779. 30. vii. MANOAH HARDIN BOSTICK, b. 30 Aug 1780; d. 04 Jul 1843, Green Co., IL. 31. viii. CHRISTINA BOSTICK, b. abt. 1785, Surry Co., NC; d. 1863, Stokes Co., NC. ix. INFANT DAUGHTER BOSTICK, d. 178413.

Bethenia married Col. Absalom * BOSTICK, son of JOHN BOSTICK and Nancy Elizabeth WILSON (CHESLEY?), on 22 Jun 1762 in Halifax County, VA. Absalom was born about 1740 in New Kent, Henrico Co, Virginia. He died Jun 1803 in Stokes County, NC.

Absalom Bostick, Sr. was born 1740 in Goochland County, Virginia, and died 1803 in Stokes County, North Carolina. He married Bethenia Perkins 22 JUN 1762 in Halifax County, Virginia, daughter of Nicholas Perkins and Bethenia Harding. She was born 3 AUG 1743 in Halifax County, Virginia, and died 1809 in Stokes County, North Carolina. DAR (1977), "Early Families of the North Carolina Counties of Rockingham and Stokes with Revolutionary Service." page 12 "Absalom Bostick, son of John and Elizabeth Chesley Bostick, born ca 1740 in Virginia. His parents moved from Albemarle County, Virginia to Halifax County, Virginia in 1759. When Pittsylvania County was formed in 1766, their land fell into that county. Absalom married 22 June 1762 Bethenia Perkins, born 30 August 1743, died after 1809 in Stokes County, NC, being the daughter of Nicholas and Bethenia Harden Perkins. Absalom Bostick died 1803 Stokes County leaving a will recorded in Will Book 2, page 37, dated 20 June 1798, probated June 1803. "As a resident of Surry County, NC during the Revolutionary War, Absalom Bostick served as a captain of the militia. He also served as a patriot by furnishing supplies (Revolutionary Army Accounts #(4) 947 and 233 - pay vouchers from Salisbury District). "Absalom Bostick is also mentioned in Surry County Court Minutes as being in charge of training the young men for military service. He served in the House of Commons from Surry County in 1789 and for several years from Stokes County, being a Justice of the Peace and quite active in the forming of Stokes County. He owned a large farm in what was once Capt. Bostick's District and now is in Sauratown Township." Absalom Bostick served as a captain during the Revolutionary War, while a resident of Surry co, NC. He also served as a patriot by furnishing supplies. Ref: Pay Vouchers of NC, Salisbury District #(4)947 and 233 - from Treasurer's papers. DAR #411693. ------------------------------------- "History of Surry County, or, Annals of northwest North Carolina" "On political questions, Surry County, from the earliest days has displayed a tendency to side with the radical elements. Evidently this is due to the type of settlers who constantly watch their officials, and at the first indication of political arrogance are willing to cast the old aside. A people striving to attain a purer democracy than was possible for their fathers."


In 1786, there were 340 white men between 21-60 years of age; 584 whites under 21 & over 60; 426 white females of all ages; the balance being blacks, for a total population within a territory now comprising Stokes, Forsyth, Surry and Yadkin counties totaled 1,559 persons. Four years later (1790) there were 1,531 white males over 16; 3,288 females of all ages; Total population: 7, 181. The position of Surry County on entering the Federal Union was one of opposition. In the Convention at Hillsboro in July 1788, the county was represented by Joseph Winston, James Goins, Charles McAnnally, Absalom BOSTICK, and Matthew Brooks. It will be noted that only Joseph Winston was of the old political school that had aided in placing the State on record of independence in 1776." The Convention met at Fayetteville in 1789, prepared to safeguard against encroachment by the Federal Government. Delegates were Joseph Winston, Gideon Edwards, ABSOLAM BOSTICK, Edward Lovell, and George Houser. "According to records, Edwards was the only one from the county to vote against the final acceptance of the Federal Constitution." ------------------------------------------ Will of Absalom Bostick is recorded in Stokes Co. Will Book 2, p. 37, dated 20-May-1798; probated June 1803. (Lists children: John, Absalom, Ferdinand, Manoah, Bethenia Hampton, Susannah Blackburn, Anne Guinn and Christina Bostick) ------------------------------------- Court Records Book 1 Pittsylvania County 1767-1772 Bostick vs. Gwin Dis'd Absalom Bostick P. ag George Homes Gwin D. In Trespass on the Case Suit dismissed Davenport vs. Bostick Dism'd Thomas Davenport, Gent., P. ag William Bostick, Absalom Bostick and Nathan Bostick D. In Detinue Suit dismissed ------------------------------------- COLONEL ABSOLOM BOSTICK ……by Harry Z. Tucker " The children of Colonel Absalom Bostick and wife were: John, who married Mary Jarvis (or Jervais); Bethenia, who married Capt Samuel Hampton;…. Bethenia Bostick, who married Captain Samuel Hampton, August 19, 1785, was born on March 18, 1767, and died in 1832. Captain Samuel Hampton was born before 1760, and died December 19, 1802. Besides being a brave Revolutionary soldier, Captain Hampton was a member of a distinguished Southern family. His father, James Hampton, settled on the Dan River about 1750, served in the Indian Wars, and was a member of the Surry County committee of Safety in 1775. Captain Anthony Hampton, a brother of James Hampton, was a noted colonial solder and leader of the rangers, and was the father of General Wade Hampton who removed to South Carolina, and there founded a distinguished house. These are the children of Bethenia Bostick and Captain Samuel Hampton: James, born September 15, 1786; Samuel, born October 14, 1790, and married Elizabeth Barnett December 23, 1812; Jon B. born January 12, 1793, and married Polly E. Guinn in December 15, 1812; Mary, born May 14, 1795; Susanne, born May 27, 1797, and Manoah, born July 25, 1799 (this July is probably June, as written on the back of his portrait.). Sources: Quotes: 1) Affidavit of Joseph Darnall, Stokes Co., NC, 13 Sept. 1832, in Christopher Eaton file - Darnall is well acquainted with Christopher Eaton, who now resides in Surry County. He personally knows that Eaton served faithfully as a revolutionary soldier in the militia company commanded by Capt. Absalom Bostick in Col. Armstrong's regiment under Gen. Rutherford. 2) Christopher then came home to Surry County. In June 1780 he volunteered in the North Carolina militia in Capt. Absalom Bostick's company. They marched from Richmond, Surry court house, NC, to Salisbury, NC, near which place they joined headquarters under Gen. Rutherford. They then marched to Cheraw Hills, SC, where they joined the army under General Gates. They then marched toward Camden till they met the British near Camden about August 15, 1780, where the Battle of Camden ensued. He


fought in the battle against the British under Cornwallis. The Americans under Gates were defeated and "got home the best way we could (the army being scattered)." This tour lasted about 3 months. Joseph Darnell, now residing in Stokes, will testify he served in this tour with him. 3) Declaration of Christopher Eaton - Stokes Co., NC, 15 Apr. 1832. While his name is Eaton, his certificate of oath of allegiance before Joseph Winston, JP, is called Christopher Valentine. He states again that he served a three month tour under Capt. * of Surry Co., NC, in which tour he was at Gates defeat. He then served a three-month tour under Capt. Bostick or Capt. Lewis ? in which he guarded prisoners taken at the Battle of Kings Mountain at the old Town and in conducting them from old Town to Salisbury. 4) Affidavit of John Venable - Stokes Co., NC, 15 Apr. 1834 - He is acquainted with Christopher Eaton and knows of his militia service. He was present at Gates defeat although Eaton did not serve in the same company with him. He recollects Eaton serving in the militia in guarding prisoners at Old Town and in the * under our captain and Capt. Bostick. ABSALOM BOSTICK - Captain from Salisbury District, Surrey County, N.C. Ref: Revolutionary Army accounts - Salisbury District - Surry County, N. C. D.A.R. # 298211 - V. S. Bostick McArthur "Revolutionary Solders & Patriots of N.C." Captain Absalom Bostick, Militia of Guilford County, N.C., Col. Rutherford's Regiment. (see D.A.R. Magazine for Sept., 1947; pg. 470) These Revolutionary War soldiers settled or stayed for a short while in Rockingham County N.C. They previously lived in Virginia as noted below. Proven by their Military Pension Records. Absalom BOSTICK...from Halifax Co. VA William BOSTICK....from Goochland Co. VA Sources; The Forsyth County Genealogical Society Journal, Volume XV, No. 1, Fall, 1996 Donna Vaugh (email address: [email protected]] Judy Cardwell. [Email address is: [email protected]] Colonel Absalom Bostick was one of the outstanding leaders on the Dan River during and after the Revolutionary War. He was the son of John Bostick and his wife, Elizabeth. (Absalom Bostick is shown with 670 acres in the 1786 tax list. This being in the southwestern part of Stokes County, near Walnut Cove) --------------------------------------------------------- One of the early settlers taking an active political role in Stokes County, NC, was Absalom Bostick. He was not only a county treasurer, justice of the peace and tax lister, but was a member of the House of Commons (1790-1795) from Stokes Co. Earlier, before Stokes was created from Surry County (1798), he was a representative from Surry County to conventions at Hillsborough in 1788 and at Fayetteville in 1789. The convention in Hillsborough was to determine the proposed plan of federal government and for fixing a seat of government for North Carolina...... Absalom Bostick was born ca 1738, probably in Goochland County, VA. He was the son of John and Elizabeth (maiden name unknown) Bostick. He married Bethenia Perkins, daughter of Nicholas and Bethenia (Harden) Perkins 22 Jun 1762 in Halifax County, VA. The Perkins family is well documented in William K. Hall's book, "Descendants of Nicholas Perkins of Virginia." Bethenia Perkins was born 30 Aug 1743 and died ca 1811, probably in Stokes County. Sometime after 1775, Absalom and Bethenia Bostick moved from Pittsylvania County, VA to Surry County, NC, where Absalom bought land on both sides of the Dan River. This land would later fall into the new county of Stokes. It is said that Absalom Bostick's plantation was called "Shoebuckle" and was located in present-day Sauratown Township. He died there in 1803 and it is believed he was buried on his own land. In Dec 1804, Bethenia and son, Manoah, sold this land to Peter Hairston with the condition that Absalom's burial place never be disturbed. The exact location of Absalom's grave is unknown today. Absalom Bostick was assigned the task of drilling soldiers during the American Revolution. He also furnished supplies.


Absalom Bostick's will is found in Stokes County, NC Will Book 2, pg 37. It is dated 20 Jun 1798 and proven Jun 1803. The following children are named in the will: John, Bethenia, Absalom, Ferdinand, Susannah, Ann, Manoah Harden and Christina. --------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENT: North Carolina Historical Sketches, 1584-1851, Volume II o Series III Chapter LXX Stanly County PG: 407 STOKES COUNTY: List of Member of the GENERAL ASSEMBLY from STOKES COUNTY from its formation to the last session: Years Senate House of Commons 1790 Joseph Winston George Hauser, Absalom Bostick 1791 Joseph Winston James Martin, Absalom Bostick 1793 Matthew Brooks George Hauser, Absalom Bostick 1794 Matthew Brooks Absalom Bostick, George Hauser 1795 Matthew Brooks Absalom Bostick, George Hauser --------------------------------------------------------- CENSUS: BOSTICK, ABSALOM State: NC Year: 1786 County: Surry County Record Type: State or colonial census Township: Bostick's District Page: 001 Database: NC Early Census Index -------------------------------------------------------- Absalom Bostick Birth: 1740-- Stokes Co, Of, NC Death: June 1803 --, Stokes Co, NC Spouse: Parents: John Bostick, Nancy Elizabeth Chesley Wilson --------------------------------------------------------- John Bostick, son of Absalom, was born 18 Jun 1764 and died 20 Sep 1850 Williamson County, TN. He married Mary Gervais/Jarvis 20 Dec 1787 in Richmond County, GA. Dates for this couple, as well as for their children, can be found in "Maury County Cousins," published 1967 by the Maury County, TN Historical Society. Bethenia Bostick was born 18 Mar 1767, prob. in Pittsylvania County, VA and died 1832. She married first Capt. Samuel Hampton 19 Aug 1785. He died in 1802 and on 23 Jan 1804, Bethenia married Charles Perkins, a cousin. Bethenia had a number of children by her first husband. Absalom Bostick II, son of Absalom and Bethenia, was born ca 1769 in VA and died 1855 in Christian County, KY. He married first, Nancy Dalton, daughter of David Dalton Sr., in 1794 Stokes County, NC. His second marriage was to Dolly White on 15 Nov 1822 in Rockingham County, NC. There has been a great deal of confusion about the second wife of Absalom, II, but deeds, census records and estate files clearly show that his second wife was Dolly White and not Susannah Dalton as some researchers have stated. In fact, Susannah Dalton was married to Absalom Bostick III, son of Absalom, II. Ferdinand Bostick was born 9 Mar 1772 Pittsylvania County, VA and died 1824 Stokes Co, NC, leaving a nuncupative will. He married Elizabeth Rand, daughter of William Rand, 28 May 1799. The family Bible record of this couple was owned in the early 1980's by a lady in MS. Attempts to obtain a notarized copy of the family record page have been unsuccessful. Ferdinand had the following children, according to the Bible: Bethenia, William Rand, Anna Rand, Elizabeth "Betsy" [my ancestor], Absalom, Ferdinand Jr., Wesley, James Pinkney, John, Louisa, John Thornton, and David Jackson. Ann Bostick was born ca 1779. She married Thornton Preston Guinn.


Susannah was born in the 1770's and died before 1814. She married William Blackburn and had 5 children. Manoah Harden Bostick, veteran of the War of 1812, was born 30 Aug 1780 and died 4 Jul 1843, Greene County, IL. He married first Jincey Scale in 1803 and then Frances Taliaferro Harvey in 1823 Christian County, KY. Christiana Bostick was born ca 1785 Surry County, NC and died 1863 Stokes County. She married David Dalton Jr. 1 Jun 1803 in Stokes County. Absalom & Bethenia Bostick also had a daughter not named in the will but listed in the journal of Francis Asbury. "On Wednesday, 18 [no month]...Being sent for, I went to Mr. Bostwick's, on Dan River." Then on the 22nd he says..."Preached at the funeral of Absalom Bostwick's daughter." This was in 1784. Absalom and Bethenia Bostick were my 4th great-grandparents. Contributed by: Brenda Joyce Jerome, CGRS [email protected] PO Box 325 Newburgh, IN 47629-0325 Brenda Joyce Jerome, CGRS ---------------------------------------------------------- Absalom Bostick Born: about 1738 in Halifax or Albemarle County, VA Died: 1803 in Stokes Co., NC Father: John Bostick Mother: Nancy Wilson Marriage: 22-Jun-1762 to Bethenia Perkins Notes for Absalom Bostick: There were many persons with the name "Absalom Bostick", and thus it is very difficult to sort them all out; see the attempt below by Ms. Crabtree: ABSALOM BOSTICK I and II OF VA, NC and KY By Carolyn Crabtree [email protected] Absalom Bostick I was born about 1740 in Albemarle County, Virginia (1) and died about June 1803 in Stokes County, NC. (2) On June 22, 1762 he and Bethenia Perkins, daughter of Nicholas Perkins and Bethenia Harden, were married in Halifax County, VA. (3) Absalom I and Bethenia lived at Shoebuckle Plantation, located on the bend of the Dan River near the present town of Pinehall, NC. He was well educated apparently because he served as a magistrate, sheriff, and coroner and served both houses of the General Assembly at Raleigh, NC. He was serving during the time of the ratification of the United States Constitution. He had previously served as a member of Colonel Joseph Winston's staff during the Revolutionary War and drilled soldiers for the war. "Colonel" Bostick and Bethenia had 9 known children, the third being Absalom Bostick II.


+ 54 M i. Maj. John BOSTICK Rev. War (DAR # 158183) was born 18 Jun 1765 and died 20 Sep 1850.

+ 55 F ii. * BETHENIA BOSTICK was born 18 Mar 1767 and died 1832.

+ 56 M iii. Absalom II BOSTICK was born 1769 and died 1855.

+ 57 M iv. Don Ferdinand BOSTICK was born 9 Mar 1772 and died 1822/1824.

+ 58 F v. Susannah BOSTICK died By 16 Aug 1811.

+ 59 F vi. Anne BOSTICK was born calculated 1779.


+ 60 M vii. Manoah Hardin BOSTICK was born 20 Aug 1780 and died 4 Jul 1843.

+ 61 F viii. Christina BOSTICK was born 1785 and died 1 Jan 1863.

10. Col. Peter PERKINS (Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 26 Mar 1739 in Goochland County, VA. He died 12 Feb 1813 in Williamson County, TN.

"Peter Perkins was an ardent patriot and during the Revolutionary War served first as a captain and later as colonel of the Pittsylvania County, Virginia Militia. He also threw open his home to be used as a military hospital. ("History of Pittsylvania Co., VA" by Maude Carter Clement) "Peter Perkins served in the House of Commons from Rockingham County, NC in 1786-1787. He returned to Pittsylvania County, VA and paid taxes there until 1798. About 1795 he moved to Stokes County, NC; from there he went to Williamson County, TN and settled near Hardeman Crossroads, now Triune, where he died." ("Ancestors and Descendants of Isabel Holt, Williamson County, TN" by Dr. Albert L. Cooper) Col. Peter Perkins, b.Jun 1739,Goochland co,VA d.1813, SC marr: abt 1760 Agnes Wilson (abt 1742 - ? ) dau of Peter Wilson & Ailcy Member of the VA House of Burgesses from Pittsylvania County; member of VA Conventions of 1774 and 1775; VA House of Delegartes, 1777; House of Commons of NC from Rockingham County 1786-1787; served as Capt. of a company of Militia in the Cherokee Expedition of 1776. He was promoted to Colonel and was at the Battle of Guilford Court House. (From "Bethania Hardin Perkins Chadwell" by Carolyn Hardin Goudie, p. 439, in HARDIN USA, Vol. 3, 1986 by Oran Hardin, Carolyn Hardin, & Daisy George) His home at "Berry Hill" on the Dan River served as an American military hospital for which Peter Perkins received £95 compensation in 1785 -Per Surry co,NC Deed Book B:137, on 9 Sep 1780 Joseph Carmichael sells to Peter Perkins of Pittsylvania co,VA for consideration of 10 negroes & £5,000 a tract of 333 acres on the North side of the Dan River, by name the Middle Tract-Upper Sauratown, which land descended to Joseph Carmichael by the death of his brother William Carmichael; witnesses: William Hill, Henry Hampton, Nicholas Perkins -Per Surry co,NC Deed Book D:27, on 5 Jul 1786 Peter Perkins of Guilford co,NC, sells to Peter Hairston [his son-in-law] of Henry co,VA for consideration of £1,200 VA money, a tract of 333 acres on the South side of the Dan River adjoining lands of Lemuel Smith [another son-in-law], Thomas Gray, & Constant Perkins http://www.victorianvilla.com/sims-mitchell/local/perkins/peter/berryhill/st01/ - "Berry Hill" (more quotes from Echoes of the Revolution at Berry Hill. By Henry H. Mitchell, 1990.) (recommend you to go the site to view pictures of the house) The house at Berry Hill is at first puzzling to the casual glance, a blending of fine construction of several different periods. The oldest portion is a story-and-a-half building of typical lines for a mid-17th-century home of this area. In the first photograph above, its remarkably graceful chimney can be seen as the second chimney from the right. This portion of Berry Hill is the home of Peter Perkins, thought to have been built about 1745, and the structure which served as the center of the Revolutionary hospital. Attached to the rear of the original home is the rock-chimneyed “plantation office,” precise construction date of which is not known. Attached to the front is a large gambrel-roofed addition with wrap-around porch, built in 1912, which in turn is connected to a strikingly tall structure with beautiful cornices built in 1806. The property has remained in the ownership of descendants of Peter Perkins, who himself moved to North Carolina around 1795. Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. Sims are the current residents of this, his ancestral home. Two other features adjacent to the house seem just as important as the building itself in denoting the times through which it has passed. Immediately to the rear of the building is an inward-facing court of slave quarters, intact to an extent almost never seen today. Just to the south (the vantage point from which the photograph showing all four portions of the house was taken) is found a vast and well-kept family cemetery, the final resting place of so many of the members of the Perkins, Wilson, and Hairston families who have figured prominently int he affairs of the Dan River valley since they first began to settle it almost 270 years ago. Notes Research assistance was provided by Robert V. Sims; More detailed information concerning Col. Peter Perkins and Berry Hill is found in Maud Carter Clement's Writings of Maud Carter Clement and also her History of Pittsylvania County; and Frances Hallam Hurt's Eighteenth Century


Landmarks of Pittsylvania and An Intimate History of the American Revolution in Pittsylvania County. These books are available in local libraries, and the latter three can be purchased from the Pittsylvania Historical Society; This article was first published as Part 9 of the “Pittsylvania Vignettes” series by Henry H. Mitchell, in the Star-Tribune, Chatham, VA, during September 1990. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Berry Hill” was built c1760 and is still standing. The name is said to have originated from “Bury Hill” during the Revolutionary War. After the Battle of Guilford Court House, not so far away, soldiers were brought to the home which was used as a hospital. Those who died were buried there. Col. Peter Perkins was paid 50 pounds for “damages sustained by the General Hospital being at his home.” Col. Perkins sold his property here and moved to Tennessee where he died in 1813.

Peter married Agnes (dau of Peter) WILSON, daughter of Peter WILSON "The Immigrant" and Alcey, about 1760.

Found by Lois Lois [[email protected]] Inventory of the Wilson and Hairston Family Papers, 1751-1928 Univ. of NC Collection Number 4134 http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/htm/04134.html Members of the Wilson and Hairston families were planters and merchants of Henry and Pittsylvania counties, Va., and Davie, Rockingham, and Stokes counties, N.C. Peter Hairston (1752-1832), of Pittsylvania, later Henry County, Va., was a merchant of Stokes and Rockingham counties, N.C., and owner of several plantations, including Royal Oak, Sauratown Hill, and Cooleemee Hill. His son-in-law, Peter Wilson (1770-1813), husband of Ruth Stoval Hairston (1783-1852), was a planter of Berry Hill, Brierfield, and Goose Pond, all in Pittsylvania County, Va., and partner in his father-in-law's mercantile business. Ruth Stoval (Hairston) Wilson married second Robert Hairston (1783-1852), of Leatherwood Plantation in Henry County and who, circa 1837, moved to Mississippi to manage his properties there, leaving Ruth in Virginia. Robert's brother, Samuel Hairston (1788-1875), of Oak Hill Plantation, Pittsylvania County, was one of the wealthiest men in Virginia, owning plantations there and in North Carolina and approximately 1700 slaves. His eldest son, Peter Wilson Hairston (1819-1886), lived his adult life at Cooleemee Hill in Davie County, N.C. Peter Wilson Hairston's niece, Ruth Hairston (1863-1936) married Alfred Varley Sims (1864-1944), civil engineer who worked for several railroads, taught engineering, and worked for the Knickerbocker Trust Company as general manager and chief engineer of the Cuba Eastern Railroad Company based in Guantanamo, Cuba, 1905-1908. The papers include business correspondence, financial and legal papers and scattered personal correspondence of six generations of the Wilson and Hairston families. Among the activities represented are the sale of tobacco through Virginia commission merchants; the service of Peter Hairston (1752-1832) as a deputy sheriff in Henry County, Va., mainly 1751-1788; the manumission of six Hairston slaves in 1832 through the American Colonization Society; purchase of supplies for plantation and household use; and activities of the Sandy Creek, Mayo, County Line, and Staunton River Baptist associations, 1833-1868. Civil War materials are few and consist of scattered family letters and some receipts for foodstuffs sold to the Confederate Army. Throughout the collection there is material concerning the management of the various family plantations. Approximately one-fourth of the collection consists of the personal and professional correspondence of Alfred Varley Sims as a professor at the State University of Iowa (now the University of Iowa), 1895-1904, and as a civil engineer, and includes materials related to his time in Cuba, 1905-1908, and to his connections with various southern and Cuban railroads and other businesses in Cuba and elsewhere. Biographical Note Possibly as early as 1730, the first Hairston came to America. This was Peter Hairston, a Scottish immigrant, who may have first lived in Pennsylvania and then in Albemarle County, Va. He had four sons of which one was the progenitor of the Hairstons represented in these papers. This son, Robert Hairston (d. 1783), lived in that part of Pittsylvania County, Va., that became Henry County, Va., in 1777 where he built Marrowbone Plantation. He served as a captain of the Pittsylvania County militia, justice of the peace in Pittsylvania County, and sheriff of Henry County. Robert Hairston and his wife, Ruth Stoval (d. 1808), had three sons, George (1750-1827), Peter (1752-1832), and Samuel (b. 1755), and six daughters. The first Wilson of the branch represented in these papers, Peter Wilson, immigrated from Scotland to America possibly around 1720. In the 1740s, he made his home along the Dan River in Virginia, located in Halifax County, Va., and later in Pittsylvania County, Va., where he built Wilson's Fairy (Ferry?). Peter Wilson and his wife Alcey had three sons, John (1740-1820), Peter, and William, and four daughters, Nancy, Isabella, Margaret, and Agnes (d. 1812).


This last child, Agnes, married Peter Perkins (1739-1813), the son of Nicholas Perkins and Bethenia Harden. Nicholas settled in the Dan River in 1755 and bequeathed to his son, Peter, the land on which Peter built Berry Hill Plantation near Danville, Va. Also, from 1783 to 1788, Peter and his brother Constantine Perkins owned the Troublesome Creek Ironworks in Rockingham County, N.C. Later, about 1795, Peter Perkins moved to Stokes County, N.C., and around 1805 or 1806, to Tennessee. Peter Perkins and his wife, Agnes Wilson, had one child, Alcey (1766-1814), who married the second son of Robert Hairston (d. 1783) and Ruth Stoval (d. 1808)


62 M i. Bethenia (dau of Peter) PERKINS was born about 1765 in Pittsylvania Co., VA.

Bethenia married Lemuel (son of Charles & Elizabeth Pryor) SMITH on 1778.

63 M ii. James (son of Peter) PERKINS was born 1761.

64 F iii. Elizabeth (dau of Peter) PERKINS was born about 1763.

Elizabeth married (1) John (son of Green & Susannah Perkins) PRYOR, son of Green PRYOR and Susannah PERKINS, on 25 May 1792 in Pittsylvania Co., VA.

Elizabeth also married (2) William Henley STONE on 26 May 1798 in Pittsylvania Co., VA.

+ 65 F iv. Alcey PERKINS was born 25 Sep 1766 and died 1 Dec 1814.

66 M v. Nicholas (son of Peter) PERKINS was born about 1770.

Nicholas married Elizabeth Staver PERKINS, daughter of Lt. Thomas Hardin PERKINS and Mary Magdalena O'NEAL.

11. Col. Charles Ellis PERKINS (Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 6 Mar 1742/1743 in Goochland County, VA. He died about 1780 in Guilford Co.(Now Rockingham), North Carolina.

Charles Perkins , b.6 Mar 1742, Goochland co, VA; d., Guilford Co, NC marr: 11 Aug 1760, Pittsylvania co,VA Mary Tate (abt 1741 - ? ) CHARLES PERKINS: CHARLES PERKINS born 6 March 1742 VA to NICHOLS PERKINS and wife BETHANIA HARDING. it appears he was deceased by 1790 as his widow was paying taxes in Patrick Co., VA in 1791, the year Patrick Co was formed from Henry Co. He married Mary Tate 11 August 1760, daughter of JOSEPH TATE and ALLY HUNTER of NC, that part that later became Rockingham Co.. Mary was born 27 April 1740, died June 1820, married for the second time 9 Dec. 1792 in Pittsylvania Co., VA to SAMUEL WAGGONER. By 1765 the family was living in Rowan Co, NC that part that became Gulliford Co., and in 1785 Rockingham Co.. There are references in the Gulliford Co. deeds that indicate that Charles and Mary (Tate) Perkins lived on a portion of his father-in-law’s tract on land on Beaver Island Creek before moving to VA. The obituary of their third child Nicholas Tate Perkins, states that he was born in Gulliford Co., Dec of 1767 and moved at the age of ten (abt. 1777) to Pittsylvania Co., VA. Issue: 1. ELLA PERKINS, b. ca. 1763, died 1831. Married 11 Dec 1782 Henro Co., VA to STEPHEN LYON. . 2. ANNA PERKINS, b. 28 July 1765 probably Rowan Co., NC; married JAMES WALKER moved to Davidson Co., Tn (which later became Rutherford Co). 3. NICHOLS TATE PERKINS, b. 29 Dec. 1767 Rowan Co, NC (Gulliford not formed until 1771), died 6 Aug 1843 Williamsosn Co., Tn; married 1796 Jefferson Co., Tn.; ANN PERKINS , b. 10 Aug 1770, died 7 July 1839. They are buried in a family cemetery in Williamson Co., Tn having moved there in 1803. 4. BETHANIA HARDEN PERKINS, b. 1 August 1770 Rowan Co., NC. died 17 July 1812 Willaimson Co., Tn; married JAMES SNEED, b. 29 December 1764, died 20 September 1853. They are both buried in the SNEED CEMETERY , located near Brentwood, in Williamson Co., Tn. 5.MAACAH PERKINS,b. 1 June 1772, died 1852 Tuscaloosa, Alabama; married JAMES MARLOW.


6. MARY PERKINS, b. 1 August 1774 Gulliford Co., NC died 1857 in Christain Co., KY, married a MR. KING. 7. ELIAZABETH PERKINS, b. 26 Feburary 1776 Gulliford Co., NC; married ISREAL ROBINSON. 8. CHARLES PERKINS ,b. 13 March 1778 probably Pittsylvania Co., Va.,died 14 February 1813 Stokes Co., NC; married 23 January 1804 Stokes Co., NC MRS. BETHANIA HAMPTON, widow of Capt. Samuel Hampton and daughter of Col. Absalom Bostick and wife , BETHANIA PERKINS. She was born 18 March 1767, and died 1832. PATRICK CO., VA. INFO: TAX LIST SHOW SAMUEL WAGGONER 1795 and 1796-140 acres ;1798 and 1799-140 acres and 140 acres received from CHARLES PERKINS.

Charles married Mary TATE on 11 Aug 1760 in Pittsylvania Co., VA.


67 F i. Ella (dau of Charles) PERKINS was born about 1763. She died 1831.

Ella married Stephen LYON on 11 Dec 1782 in Henrico Co, VA.

68 F ii. Mary PERKINS was born 1 Aug 1774 in Gulliford Co., NC. She died 1857 in Christain Co., KY..

Mary married (Mr.) KING.

69 F iii. Anna PERKINS was born 28 Jul 1765.

Anna married James WALKER.

Moved to Davidson Co., Tn (which later became Rutherford Co).

70 M iv. Nicholas Tate PERKINS was born 29 Dec 1767 in Rowan Co/Stokes Co., NC. He died 6 Aug 1843.

NICHOLS TATE PERKLINS, b. 29 Dec. 1767 Rowan Co, NC (Gulliford not formed until 1771), died 6 Aug 1843 Williamsosn Co., Tn; married 1796 Jefferson Co., Tn.; ANN PERKINS , b. 10 Aug 1770, died 7 July 1839. They are buried in a family cemetery in Williamson Co., Tn having moved there in 1803.

Nicholas married Ann PERKINS, daughter of Nicholas, Jr. PERKINS and Leah (dau of John & Martha Gaines) PRYOR. Ann was born 10 Aug 1770. She died 7 Jul 1839 and was buried in Williamson Co., Tn.

71 F v. Bethenia Hardin (dau of Charles) PERKINS was born 1 Aug 1770 in Rowan Co/Stokes Co., NC. She died 17 Jul 1812 and was buried in Sneed Cemetery, Near Brentwood, Williamson County, TN.

Bethenia married James SNEED. James was born 29 Dec 1764. He died 20 Sep 1853 and was buried in Sneed Cemetery, Near Brentwood, Williamson County, TN.

72 F vi. Micajah/Maaca PERKINS was born 1 Jun 1772. She died 1852 in Tuscaloosa, AL.

Micajah/Maaca married James MARLOW.

73 F vii. Elizabeth PERKINS was born 26 Feb 1776 in Gulliford Co., NC.

Elizabeth married Israel ROBINSON.

+ 74 M viii. Charles PERKINS was born 13 Mar 1778 and died 14 Feb 1813.

12. Nicholas, Jr. PERKINS (Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 7 Jul 1745 in Goochland County, VA. He died 8 Dec 1800 in Davidson County, TN.

Nicholas Perkins Jr, b.7 Jul 1745, Goochland co,VA; d.8 Dec 1800, Davidson co,TN marr: 26 Aug 1765 Leah Pryor (abt 1745 - ? ) dau of John Pryor & Margaret Gaines


Probably it is this Nicholas Perkins who mentioned in "A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans: the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities." Davidson County was still part of North Carolina territory. On October 22, 1790, Gov. Blount performed his first official act by laying off and organizing Washington County. This was speedily followed by laying off and organizing the remaining counties embraced in the North Carolina cession into corresponding counties of the territory: Sullivan, Greene, Davidson, Sumner, Hawkins and Tennessee. As each county was designated, the governor made the administration of its affairs effective by establishing court and military organizations and appointing county officers - magistrates, sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables, registers, coroners, clerks of court, county attorneys and militia officers. Among those appointed to county offices were a number of men who had been more or less prominent in the settlements, namely: John Sevier, James Robertson, James Winchester, Landon Carter, Charles Roberson, James Allison, John Rhea, David Allison, Edward Tate, James White, Stockley Donnelson, Joseph McMinn, Francis Alexander Ramsey, John Rains, ANDREW EWING, Isaac Bledsoe, Kasper Mansker, Ezekiel Polk, Luke Lea, Charles McClung, NICHOLAS PERKINS and Howell Tatum. The territory was divided into two judicial districts, Washington: consisting of Washington, Sullivan, Hawkins and Greene counties; and Mero: consisting of the counties of Davidson, Sumner and Tennessee.

Nicholas, married Leah (dau of John & Martha Gaines) PRYOR, daughter of John Henry PRYOR, on 26 Aug 1765. Leah was born 20 Nov 1747. She died 8 Feb 1810.

Nicholas Perkins b: 7 JUL 1745 d: 1800 + Leah Pryor b: 20 NOV 1747 d: 8 FEB 1810 5 Elizabeth Perkins b: 12 AUG 1776 + Nicholas Perkins Scales b: 12 MAY 1774 d: 10 JUL 1847 6 Ann Perkins Scales b: 16 AUG 1795 d: 29 JAN 1845 + Henry Scales b: 2 APR 1791 d: 22 APR 1848 7 Mariah Louisa Scales b: 21 FEB 1815 d: 21 JUL 1899 + William Lewis Ridout b: 1805 d: 1875 8 Mary Gordon Ridout b: 25 OCT 1838 d: 1875 + Barney Duff Patterson b: 25 DEC 1833 d: 6 JUL 1900 9 Sally Kate Patterson b: 7 NOV 1866 d: 1950 + Robert Lewis French b: 1856 d: 1921 10 Mary Reese French b: 20 JAN 1892 d: 6 SEP 1974 + Percy Keck Mullen b: 14 SEP 1885 d: 3 SEP 1965 10 Barney Duff French b: 19 NOV 1886 d: JUL 1966 + Ellis Gibbs b: 1888 10 Willie Lee French b: 6 OCT 1882 d: 1889 10 James French b: 1884 d: ABT. 1884 10 Mittie Lucy French b: AUG 1889 d: ABT. 1889 10 Annie Lula French b: AUG 1889 + Raymond Killingsworth 10 Freddie Lawrence French b: 1894 10 Ella Ruth French b: 13 SEP 1896 + Clem Hoyt 10 Luke Brite French b: 1899 d: ABT. 1899 10 Agnes Grace French b: 1903 + Alex Brown 10 Margaret Jennings French b: 21 JUN 1900 + William Reed Martin 10 Roberta Louise French b: 1 OCT 1905 10 Kathryn Hardin French b: 1907 d: 1926 9 Joseph Andrew Patterson b: 28 NOV 1869 + Adeline Hodges 10 John Duff Patterson 10 Velt Patterson 10 Mable Kate Patterson 9 Annie Mary Patterson b: 18 AUG 1872 + Thomas Snider 10 Loyd Snider 10 Mary Sue Snider


10 Joe Snider 10 Bernice Snider 10 Horace Snider 10 Effie Snider 9 Lula Duff Patterson b: 18 MAR 1874 + William Alexander 10 Alma Alexander 10 Dewie Alexander 10 Leslie Alexander 10 Andrew Alexander 10 Guy Alexander 10 Ora Alexander 10 Elma Lee Alexander 8 Reese Ridout 8 Henry Ridout b: 1844 + Anna Rogers 9 Carrie Ridout 9 Henry Ridout 8 Thomas Ridout b: 1840 8 William Ridout b: 1842 8 Gordon Ridout b: 1848 + Ella Clark 9 Mattie Ridout 9 Betty Lou Ridout 9 Annie Ridout 9 William G. Ridout 9 Hugh Ridout 9 Horace Ridout 8 Horace Ridout b: 1846 + Isabel Morris 9 Henry Ridout 9 Lewis Ridout 9 Reese Ridout 9 Margaret Ridout 8 Nicolas Ridout + Nettie Wells 8 Sallie Ridout b: 1837 + Joshua Whittenburg b: 8 DEC 1831 9 John Whittenburg 9 Anna Lou Whittenburg 8 Annie Ridout + Josiah Whipple 9 Anna Whipple 8 Sue Ridout + William McGinnis 9 Henrietta McGinnis 9 Ella McGinnis 9 Sallie Mae McGinnis 9 Effie McGinnis 9 John McGinnis 8 Lou Ridout 6 Margaret Gaines Scales b: 1802 6 Thomas Harden Perkins Scales b: 1797 + Elizabeth Reese Ridout b: 1803


+ 75 M i. Maj. Nicholas (III) "BigBee" PERKINS was born 14 Mar 1779 and died 6 Jan 1848.

76 F ii. Ann PERKINS was born 10 Aug 1770. She died 7 Jul 1839 and was buried in Williamson Co., Tn.

Ann married Nicholas Tate PERKINS , son of Col. Charles Ellis PERKINS and Mary TATE.


Nicholas was born 29 Dec 1767 in Rowan Co/Stokes Co., NC. He died 6 Aug 1843.

NICHOLS TATE PERKLINS, b. 29 Dec. 1767 Rowan Co, NC (Gulliford not formed until 1771), died 6 Aug 1843 Williamsosn Co., Tn; married 1796 Jefferson Co., Tn.; ANN PERKINS , b. 10 Aug 1770, died 7 July 1839. They are buried in a family cemetery in Williamson Co., Tn having moved there in 1803.

77 M iii. John Pryor PERKINS was born Circa 1765 in Perkins Ferry, Halifax County, Virginia.

John Pryor Perkins and his wife, Elizabeth (Harris) Perkins filed suit against the executors of Rev. Samuel Harris's estate 16 December 1799 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. (Court Records Book 9, p. 213.) This suit ran for 20 years. (Pittsylvania County Court & Records may divulge important data re: land grants Williamson County, Tennessee.) Eliza C. (Harris) Perkins, Executrix. Book 1, pp. 162-167, Williamson County, Tennessee. Eliza C. Harris allotment of dower dated 27 September 1820, presented to the October Court, 1820. Book 3, p. 210, Williamson County, Tennessee. Eliza C. (Harris) Perkins will, dated 16 December 1848; codicils 24 November 1849; 2 September 1851. Probated October Court, Book 1, p.300, 1851, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. She named, among others, her grandson, James P. Perkins (great grandfather oc. Cdr. Robert Wallace Parker. For descent from Jas. P. Perkins, see p. 287, Descendants of Nicholas Perkins of Virginia. (Hall)

John married Elizabeth Camp HARRIS on 25 Jun 1795.

The Rev. Wm.(?) Samuel Harris married Lucy Camp (daughter of Elizabeth, nee Clements, and her first husband, James Camp) (2nd husband Ambrose Dudley) who were the parents, among others, of Elizabeth Camp Harris, who married 25 June1795, John Pryor Perkins, born ca 1760 at Perkins Ferry, Halifax County,Virginia. (Ref: Marriages of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, 1767-1805, p. 25, by Catherine L. Knorr;

78 M iv. Margaret (dau of Nicholas & Leah Pryor) PERKINS.

79 F v. Agatha PERKINS.

80 F vi. Elizabeth (dau of Nicholas & Leah Pryor) PERKINS.

81 M vii. Constantine (son of Nicholas & Leah Pryor) PERKINS.

82 M viii. Peter (son of Nicholas & Leah Pryor) PERKINS.

83 F ix. Bethenia (dau of Nicholas & Leah Pryor) PERKINS.

84 F x. Sarah PERKINS.

14. Susannah PERKINS (Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 20 May 1750 in Goochland County, VA. She died about 1815.

Susannah Perkins, b.20 May 1750, Goochland co,VA; d.abt 1815, marr.1: abt 1766 Green Pryor (abt 1747 - ? ) son of John Pryor & Margaret Gaines marr.2: abt 1785 John Miller Marr (abt 1750 - ? ) son of Alexander Marr marr.3: aft 1798 Thomas Hardeman (abt 1750 - ? ) son of John Hardeman & Dorothy Edwards

Susannah married (1) Green PRYOR.



85 M i. John (son of Green & Susannah Perkins) PRYOR.

John married Elizabeth (dau of Peter) PERKINS, daughter of Col. Peter PERKINS and Agnes (dau of Peter) WILSON, on 25 May 1792 in Pittsylvania Co., VA. Elizabeth was born about 1763.

Susannah also married (2) John Miller Marr (son of Alexander) MARR.

Susannah also married (3) Col. Thomas (son of John & Dorothy Edwards) HARDEMAN. Thomas was born 8 Jan 1750. He died 3 Jun 1833.

16. Mary Hardin PERKINS (Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 6 Aug 1754 in Goochland County, VA. She died 24 May 1798 in Davidson County, TN.

Mary Hardin Perkins, b. 6 Aug 1754, Goochland co,VA d. 24 May 1798, Davidson co,TN marr: 17 Dec 1778 Thomas Hardeman (abt 1750 - ? ) son of John Hardeman & Dorothy Edwards Marriage 1 Mary Harden PERKINS b: 15 AUG 1754 in Goochland Co., VA Married: AFT. 1772 Children (Col.) Thomas Jones HARDEMAN b: 31 JAN 1788 in Nashville, TN Constantine HARDEMAN Nicholas Perkins HARDEMAN b: 20 OCT 1772 Nancy HARDEMAN b: 1774 John HARDEMAN b: 13 FEB 1776 Eleazer HARDEMAN b: 1 FEB 1779 Julia Ann HARDEMAN b: 27 MAY 1782 Peter HARDEMAN b: 23 MAY 1784 Dorothy HARDEMAN b: 15 MAY 1786 Blackstone HARDEMAN b: 24 MAR 1790 Elizabeth HARDEMAN b: 2 NOV 1791 Bailey HARDEMAN b: 26 FEB 1795 Franklin HARDEMAN b: 6 DEC 1796 Pitt HARDEMAN b: 1798

Mary married Col. Thomas (son of John & Dorothy Edwards) HARDEMAN. Thomas was born 8 Jan 1750. He died 3 Jun 1833.


86 M i. Thomas Jones HARDEMAN1 was born 31 Jan 1788 in Davidson County, TN. He died 11 Jan 1854 in Smithville, TX.

"History of Maury County, TN" "THOMAS JONES HARDEMAN was born in Davidson County, TN Janary 31, 1788 He and Baily Hardeman were sons of Thomas Hardeman. Thomas Jones Hardeman married a duaghter of Ezekiel Polk and bought 200 acres of land on Hurricane (Branch) of Carter's Creek in Maury County, adjoining lands of ___ Wm and Sam Polk, April 15, 1815, and probably made his home there for several years. In 1820 he moved to Hardin Couty and in 1823 helped to create Hardeman County from a portion of Hardin, which new county was named in his honor. He was a veteran of hte War of 1812 and was a practicing lawyer."

Thomas married Mary Ophelia POLK.

Marriage 1 Mary Ophelia POLK b: 6 APR 1785 in Mecklenburg Co., NC Children Thomas Monroe HARDEMAN b: 30 OCT 1815 in Hardeman Co., TN William Polk "Gotch" (Gen.) HARDEMAN b: 4 NOV 1816 in Williamson Co., TN Owen Bailey HARDEMAN b: 25 DEC 1819 in Maury Co., TN


Mary Ophelia HARDEMAN b: 8 JUN 1822 in TN Leonidas Polk HARDEMAN b: 25 MAR 1825 in Bolivar, Hardeman Co., TN

17. Lt. Thomas Hardin PERKINS (Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 3 May 1757 in Halifax County, VA. He died 15 Nov 1838 in Williamson County, TN.

Lt. Thomas Hardin Perkins, b. 3 May 1757, Halifax co,VA d. 15 Nov 1838, Williamson co,TN marr: 17 Dec 1778 Mary Magdalena O'Neal (4 Mar 1763 - 28 Oct 1835) dau of William O'Neal & Elizabeth Staver -Service in REVOLUTIONARY WAR, Lieutenant, Pittsylvania co,VA Militia; pension #S3680 Thomas Hardin Perkins built "Meeting of the Waters" in Williamson County, TN. Ridley Wills, II and his wife, Irene, live (1996) in this home. As stated in the book, "Old Enough To Die" by Ridley Wills II: Meeting-of-the-Waters (added 1982 - Building - #82004072) Also known as Thomas Hardin Perkins House NW of Franklin on Del Rio Pike, Franklin "Irene and I are fortunate to live at "Meeting of the Waters, an historic Williamson County, (TN) hoome built between 1800 and 1809 by Thomas Hardin Perkins, a brother of Bethenia Perkins Bostick. She was the wife of Absalom Bostick and the mother of John Bostick, who came to Williamson County about the time his uncle completed Meeting of the Waters. In our dining room, we have a sugar chest thought to have been owned by the Bostick family of Hardeman Cross Roads, TN. In 1994, Irene was given by her mother, Henriette Weaver Jackson, a Washington Cooper portrait of John Bostick, the grandfather of Abe, Joe, Litton and Tom." "Since moving to Williamson County, it has been a pleasure for Irene and me to get to know Mrs. John Bostick, who is the sole member of the Bostick family still lving in the county...." Miss John Bostick grew up in Triune, TN. Thomas Harden Perkins (1757-1838) lived east of his father. His father died when he was only five years old and left his half the home tract on the south side of the river. In 1776, he was an ensign in the militia. He later followed his brothers to Williamson County, Tennessee. In Ridley Wills, II's book about Belle Meade, page 36 mentions Thomas Harden Perkins, Sr., in reference to John Harding..."The first evidence of Harding's fidelty to the church comes from a history of the Franklin, TN. Church of Christ. Hardin'g role in the founding of hte Franklin Church was that of a trustee. In January 1836, he and his fellow trustees, Andrew Craig and Thomas Hardeman, both of Williamson County, accepted on behalf of the Christian congregation a sixty foot by eighty foot lot on the west side of Indigo Street. The property was a gift of THOMAS HARDEN PERKINS, SR."

Thomas married (1) Mary Magdalena O'NEAL. Mary was born 4 Mar 1763. She died 28 Oct 1835 in Davidson County, TN.

dau of William O'Neal & Elizabeth Staver October 30, 1835 MARY wife of THOMAS HARDIN PERKINS died October 28, 1835. This is recorded in the book "Early Obituaries, Williamson County, TN"


87 F i. Elizabeth Staver PERKINS.

Elizabeth married Nicholas (son of Peter) PERKINS, son of Col. Peter PERKINS and Agnes (dau of Peter) WILSON. Nicholas was born about 1770.

88 ii. (infant) PERKINS.

+ 89 F iii. Mary Hardin PERKINS was born 1794 and died 23 Apr 1840.


90 M iv. Thomas Hardin (II) PERKINS.

+ 91 M v. William O'Neal PERKINS was born 28 Feb 1791.

Thomas also married (2) Rachel TATE. Rachel died 24 Feb 1838 in near Clarksville, TN.

March 9, 1838 DEATH NOTICES AND OTHER GLEANINGS FROM THE WESTERN WEEKLY REVIEW FRANKLIN, TENNESSEE 1831-1840 Abstracted by Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 2004 RACHAL wife of THOMAS HARDIN PERKINS, SR., Williamson Co., Tenn., died near Clarksville, Tenn., February 24, 1838 aged 81 years. Baptist.

18. Elizabeth PERKINS (Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1 May 1759 in Halifax County, VA. She died 7 Jan 1818.

In November 20, 1778 she married Colonel William Letcher who was killed by the Tories in front of his house. After William died she married George Hairston. Elizabeth Perkins, b. 1 May 1759, Halifax co,VA; d. 7 Jan 1818 marr.1: 20 Nov 1778, Pittsylvania co,VA Capt. William Letcher (abt 1750 - abt 1780) son of Giles Letcher & Hannah Hughes marr.2: 1 Jan 1781, Henry co,VA Col. George Hairston (abt 1750 - ? ) son of Robert Hairston & Ruth Stovall

Elizabeth married (1) Capt. William (son of Giles & Hannah Hughes) LETCHER, son of Giles LETCHER and Hannah HUGHES, on 20 Nov 1778 in Pittsylvania Co., VA. William died 2 Aug 1780 from /was murdered during Revolutionary War by a Tory.

Giles Letcher (father of William) was descended from ancient Welsh families-- the Hughses, Gileses, and Leches. He was born in Ireland, to which country one of his ancestors had removed from Wales during the reign of Charles the Second. He emigrated to the New World before the Revolutionary War, and was married in Richmond, Va., to Miss Hannah Hughes, a lady of fortune and o[ Welsh extraction. He settled in Goochland County, Va. He had four sons and one daughter. His eldest son, Stephen Letcher, was the father of Governor Robert P. Letcher, of Kentucky. His third son, John Letcher, married the daughter of the Hon. Sam Houston, of Texas, and was the father of Governor John Letcher, of Virginia. His second son, William Letcher, removed to Pittsylvania County, Va., where he married Elizabeth Perkins, daughter of Nicholas Perkins, who owned a considerable estate upon the Dan River. He finally settled in Patrick County, on the Ararat, a small stream which rises in the Blue Ridge and empties into the Yadkin River in North Carolina. The settlers in that part of Virginia were greatly annoyed by the Tories, who were numerous in North Carolina, and many encounters had taken place between them and the Whigs in that border land. William Letcher had served in a volunteer company from his county that had defeated the Tories at the battle of the Shallow Ford, on the Yadkin, a place which is still considered historic in that locality. This victory had inspired the Whigs with new courage; and William Letcher, prominent among them, had openly expressed his determination to resist the robberies and depredations of the Tories, and to hunt them down to the death. In the latter part of June, 1780, while Mrs. Letcher was in her house alone with her infant daughter, then only six weeks old, a stranger appeared at the door and inquired for Mr. Letcher. There was nothing unusual in his manner, and Mrs. Letcher replied that her husband would soon be at home. While she was speaking, Mr. Letcher entered and invited the stranger to be seated. To this courtesy the stranger (he was a Tory named Nichols) replied by presenting his gun and saying: "I demand you in his Majesty's name." Letcher seized the gun to get possession of it; the Tory fired, and Letcher fell mortally wounded. He survived a few moments, but never spoke. Nichols fled. The terror-stricken wife despatched messengers to her relatives on the Dan River, who came to her as soon as possible, and attended to the burial of her husband. Nichols committed other murders and many robberies, but was finally overtaken in the southern part of North Carolina, and expiated his crimes on the gallows. William Letcher was a man of fine appearance, and was greatly beloved and esteemed. His widow returned to her paternal home, with her little daughter Bethenia, and there remained until her second marriage with Colonel


George Hairston, of Henry County, Va. In after years Bethenia Letcher married David Pannill, of Pittsylvania County, Va. Her daughter, Elizabeth Letcher Pannill, married Archibald Stuart. "History of Laurel Hill" The story of Jeb Stuart begins at Laurel Hill in the year of 1778 with the marriage of William Letcher and Elizabeth Perkins in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Soon after the wedding, the couple presumably decided to go west in search of a new home. West in those days, generally meant Kentucky, so during this journey, which undoubtedly was most difficult, one could readily surmise that when they came to the foot of the mountains, and saw the beautiful, pristine stream that is today the Ararat River, they decided to settle upon its banks. It is possible that Letcher moved to the area to be source of leadership for the Patriot cause during the American Revolution. Letcher, along with the slaves that he owned at during the family's occupancy built his home and began a subsistence farm. The names of the slaves that worked building and planting at various times have come down to us. They were: David, Ben, Randolph, Craft, Nann, Look, Abraham, Will and Dick. The home is believed to have been situated on the west bank of the Ararat River across from the site of Stuart's birthplace. There is no evidence that William Letcher ever owned the property, and if he did the deed was never recorded. On March 21, 1780, a daughter Bethenia was born to William and Elizabeth Letcher. Tragedy would soon strike the young family, for on the second day of August 1780, William Letcher was shot and killed by one "Nichols' a Tory or British sympathizer. Of the many oral and traditional accounts of the murder, which vary widely, it is generally agreed that his murder was politically motivated. Nichols was subsequently apprehended and paid for his crime with his life. Later Elizabeth would take her young child and return to Henry County where she would later marry George Hairston of the Beavercreek Plantation, who was by all odds the richest man in Virginia of his time. By 1800, Bethenia married David Pannill, by whom she bore two children William and Elizabeth named for their maternal grandparents. Elizabeth would become the mother of James Ewell Brown Stuart.


+ 92 F i. Bethenia LETCHER was born 21 Mar 1780.

Elizabeth also married (2) Col. George (son of Robert & Ruth Stovall) HAIRSTON, son of Robert HAIRSTON and Ruth STOVALL. George was born 1750. He died 1827 in Henry Co., VA.

George was a Captain in Col. Penn's Regiment in 1781. He later commanded the 3rd., 4th., 5th., and 6th. Virginia and 36th. North Carolina Regiments and was acting Brigadier General in the War of 1812.


+ 93 M ii. John Adams HAIRSTON was born 1781.

94 M iii. Robert HAIRSTON was born 1783 in of Leatherwood Plantation in Henry County, VA. He died 1852 in Lownes Co., MS.

Robert commanded a company in Scott's Army in the invasion of Canada. After Peter Wilson died in 1813, Ruth Stoval (Hairston) Wilson (1783-1869) married Robert Hairston (1783-1852). He was the son of George Hairston (1750-1827) and Elizabeth (Perkins) Letcher (1759-1818). His father lived in Henry County, Va., where he built Marrowbone Plantation. Robert Hairston owned Leatherwood Plantation in Henry County, and after marrying Ruth Stoval (Hairston) Wilson, he managed her plantations including Berry Hill in Pittsylvania County, Va. Around 1837, he moved to Mississippi to manage the following plantations that he owned: Bend, Black Flat, Choctaw Springs, Moore's Bluff, Nashville Place, and Pepper plantations. His wife was left to manage her properties. At his death, a controversy surrounded his will which left all his property to a slave child. -------------------------------------------------- Inventory of the Wilson and Hairston Family Papers, 1751-1928 Univ. of NC Collection Number 4134


The papers from 1814 to 1832 are principally those of Peter Hairston (1752-1832) and his nephews, Robert Hairston (1783-1852) and Samuel Hairston (1788-1875), the sons of George and Elizabeth (Perkins) Letcher Hairston. The papers are almost entirely business correspondence and financial and legal papers of the three men. Among the business correspondence are letters to Peter Hairston from his daughter Ruth Stoval (Hairston) Wilson about the management of her plantation following Peter Wilson's death in 1813 until her marriage to Robert Hairston around 1816. There are also letters to Samuel, Robert, and Peter Hairston from Lynchburg, Petersburg, and Richmond, Va., and Fayetteville, N.C., merchants. All three men produced large quantities of tobacco and sold it through commission merchants in Lynchburg while Peter Hairston sold his flour and cotton in the Fayetteville market. Also included are five letters in 1832 from R. H. Toler, William M. Rives, R. R. Gurley, and John McPhail to Robert Hairston about the American Colonization Society and the manumission of six of Hairston's slaves who were sent to Liberia. The majority of the legal papers are related to the case of Robert Hairston v. Joel, Elisha, and William Estes, a suit concerning the sale of Robert Hairston's tobacco through the Estes commission business, which appears to have lasted from 1818 to 1829. Additional legal papers consist of bills of sale for slave purchases, deeds for land purchases, property tax payments, and jailers' bills for keeping runaway slaves. The financial papers for this period are chiefly Samuel, Robert, and Peter Hairston's accounts with Lynchburg, Petersburg, Richmond, and Fayetteville merchants for their crop sales and for general merchandise. There are also receipts for tobacco hauled to these markets, doctors' bills for attending to slaves, and bills for construction in 1823 of the Oak Hill home of Samuel Hairston. Miscellaneous material includes minutes of the Sandy Creek Baptist Association, 1825-1829.

Robert married Ruth Stovall HAIRSTON, daughter of Maj. Peter (son of Robert & Ruth Stovall) HAIRSTON - Revolutionary War. Ruth was born 13 Jul 1783. She died 22 Apr 1869.

+ 95 M iv. Samuel HAIRSTON was born 1788 and died 1875.

+ 96 M v. George HAIRSTON was born 1784.

97 M vi. Harden HAIRSTON was born 1786 in Henry Co., VA. He died 1862 in Lownes Co., MS.

Harden was master of transportation in the Southern Division during the War of 1812. He and Sallie moved to Mississippi in 1842. Harden married (1) Sarah "Sallie" STAPLES. Sarah died in Lownes Co., MS.

98 M vii. Samuel HAIRSTON "Sam".

99 M viii. Nicholas (never married) HAIRSTON.

100 M ix. Henry HAIRSTON was born 1793 in Henry Co., VA. He died in Mississippi.

Henry married Mary EWELL.

101 M x. Peter (never married) HAIRSTON was born in Henry Co., VA.

102 M xi. Constantine (never married) HAIRSTON was born in Henry Co., VA.

+ 103 F xii. America HAIRSTON was born 1801.

+ 104 M xiii. Marshall HAIRSTON was born 1802.

+ 105 F xiv. Ruth Stovall HAIRSTON was born 1804.

29. Sarah HARDIN (William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1746. She died 1812.

Sarah Harding was the daughter of William Harding who conveyed her some form of property in 1748. She married Thomas Pollard in Goochland County 20 January 1763. Priscilla Pollard b: Abt 1765 in Henry Co. KY Elizabeth Pollard Sarah "Sally Pollard Benjamin Ryland Pollard Frances "Fanny" Pollard Ann Pollard


Mary Priscilla Pollard Robert Pollard Mildred Pollard William Pollard Jane Pollard Joseph Pollard Thomas Pollard

Sarah married Thomas POLLARD on 20 Jan 1763 in Goochland County, VA.

Thomas Pollard was a Church Warden and Vestry Man of the Pohick Church along with George Washington.


106 M i. Robert POLLARD.

Marriage 1 Martha Wood "Patsey" Meriwether b: Abt 1785 in Jefferson Co. KY Married: 4 OCT 1805 in Louisville,KY Children David M. Pollard b: in Louisville,Jefferson Co. KY Thomas Pollard b: in Louisville,Jefferson Co. KY

Robert married Martha "Patsey" Wood MERIWETHER.

107 F ii. Priscilla POLLARD.

Marriage 1 Valentine Wood MERIWETHER b: 17 Aug 1761 in St James, Northam Parish, Goochland, Va. Married: 27 Dec 1790 Children Thomas H. MERIWETHER b: ABT 1791 Mary Priscilla MERIWETHER b: ABT 1817 Mildred MERIWETHER b: ABT 1794 Martha Wood MERIWETHER b: ABT 1795 William Cox MERIWETHER b: ABT 1797 David MERIWETHER b: ABT 1799 in Vermillion Co., Indiana George MERIWETHER b: 08 Dec 1800 in Charlotteville, Va. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Priscilla married Valentine Wood MERIWETHER.

108 F iii. Elizabeth POLLARD.

109 F iv. Sarah "Sally" POLLARD.

Sarah married Edmund WOODFOLK.

110 M v. Benjamin Ryland POLLARD.

111 F vi. Frances "Fannie" POLLARD.

112 F vii. Ann POLLARD.

113 F viii. Mildred POLLARD.

114 M ix. William POLLARD.

115 F x. Jane POLLARD.

Marriage 1 Henry SMITH b: 1800 Children Thomas Pollard SMITH Joseph SMITH Henry Plummer SMITH b: 1819


Jane married Henry SMITH.

+ 116 M xi. Joseph POLLARD.

117 M xii. William POLLARD.

118 F xiii. Mary ? POLLARD.

30. Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN (William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 15 Jun 1749 in Goochland County, VA. He died 1810 in Davidson Co., TN.

Giles and his family are most ably recorded in the book, "The History of Belle Meade, Mansion, Plantation & Stud" by Ridley Wills, III Notes for Giles Harding: Giles Harding listed in VIRGINIA TAXPAYERS, 1782-1787 Other than Those Published by the U. S. Census Bureau, by Augusta B. Fothergill and John Mark Naugle, 1940. He is listed as residing in Goochland County, VA, and having 1 white poll. Giles was also shown as owing 3 lb. 14 s. 93/4d in "British Mercantile Claims, 1775-1802", in THE VIRGINIA GENEALOGISTS, Vol. 7, p. 72, which also stated that Giles removed to Davidson County, TN in 1797, "still in debt, but reputed able to pay." 1779 Oct. 16 Elijah Brumfield sold the home place to GILES HARDING-2,780 lbs. - Goochland Co., Va. Note: At about that same time, 1778 Mar. 26 - JASPER PILLOW witnessed: Major William Brumfield & wife presented a deed to Thos. Wright. Wife relinquished dower and it was ordered to be rec. Amelia Co. OB 14:113 - Bounded by Barnett's and Mason's corner..along Mason across the creek to Moss? line Sig. William Mathews All of the following quotes are from "The History of Belle Meade, Mansion, Plantation & Stud" by Ridley Wills, III "When the English overran Goochland Conty in 1781, his property was plundered. Giles never recovered from that setback and, until 1798 when the family moved to Tennessee, his financial situation was bleak. Nine children, six of whom were younger than (son) John, put additional strains on the family's finances and on their mother's health. John's mother, Amidia ("Amy") died a middle-aged woman before 1800. Giles's financial difficulties, which seem to have precipitated his move to Tennessee, became public when the executors of the estate of Robert Baine, also of Goochland County, filed a claim against him for 97 pounds, 12 shillings, and 6 pence. After paying off that debt in 1797, Giles decided to leave Virginia. With the death of his mother, Sarah LaForce Harding, during the winter of 1796/97, he no longer had parental responsibilities because his father, William, had been dead for nearly 30 years. The very day Sarah's will was probated, Giles sold his tract of 167 acres of Genito Creek." Giles and his family moved West in the summer of 1798. His brother, Thomas, also moved to TN. Giiles first bought 100 acres, (at $3. per acre) "a short distance north of the confluence of the Little and Big Harpeth Rivers." "Giles Harding died in 1810. When death came, Giles was nearing his sixty-first birthday, relatively old for someone who had lived his last dozen years on the western frontier. He had not realized, in material terms, all he had dreamed as an immigrant to Tennessee in 1798. At his death, he did not even own any land, having deeded his farm to John three years earlier. His four slaves, his household furniture, horses, livestock, crops and farm equipment were divided among his widow, Martha, his children, and his grandchildren. No one got much. Nevertheless, he successfully reared a family of strong, independent sons and daughters. His sons, John, Giles Jr., William, Thomas and David Morris, all became successful farmer, knnown for their hospitality and fondess of field sports. They were considered men of "the strictest integrity, truth-tellers, and fair in their dealings, but firm in contending for their rights." Will of Giles Harding, dated Aug. 21, 1810, probated 1810, Davidson Co., TN

Giles married (1) Amidia "Amy" MORRIS. Amidia died before 1800.


+ 119 M i. George HARDIN of Virginia was born 17 Dec 1773 and died 1822.


+ 120 F ii. Sarah "Sally" HARDIN was born 28 Oct 1776 and died before 1810.

+ 121 M iii. John (son of Giles) HARDIN of "Belle Meade" (TN) was born 2 Nov 1777 and died 1865.

+ 122 M iv. William (son of Giles) HARDIN was born 4 Jun 1788 and died 13 May 1832.

+ 123 M v. Giles (Jr.) HARDIN was born 3 Jun 1784 and died 7 Jan 1843.

124 F vi. Martha (Patsey) HARDIN was born 19 Jan 1786 in Goochland County, VA.

+ 125 M vii. Thomas Jefferson HARDIN was born 6 Aug 1792 and died 18 Mar 1869.

126 M viii. David Morris HARDIN was born 9 Mar 1795 in Goochland County, VA. He died 1869.

"The History of Belle Meade, Mansion, Plantation & Stud" by Ridley Wills, III "In March of 1816, John's youngest full brother, David Morris, became 21, which meant it was time for John to honor the confidence placed in him by his father to turn over to Thomas and David Morris the 100-acre family farm on the Big Harpeth. John did that on May 25. He may have waited until then to surrender his title to the land because of theillness of his stepmother Martha Harding, who presumably was still living there with Thomas, David and their younger half brothers, James and Peter. Martha must have died late that spring; her administrator, Ellis Maddox, turned in to court an inventory of her estate at the July 1816 session." David Morris Harding was executor of his brother William's estate, and guardian of his minor child, Willie Elizabeth Harding, for a time. Devon Farm, former 'Oak Hill': Recent research shows that this home was built by Giles Harding who came to Davidson County from Virginia and purchased this tract of land in 1798. Harding’s son, Morris Harding, married Fanny Davis, daughter of John Davis. John Davis lived in the area about three miles northwest of the Harding Place. The Hardings had no children, and Fanny’s nephew Edward Hicks, a well-known breeder of Devon cattle, inherited the farm after his aunt’s death and changed its name from “Oak Hill” to “Devon Farm.”

David married Fanny (dau of John & Dorcas) DAVIS.

Giles also married (2) Martha (dau of James & Isobel) DONNELLY on 31 Jul 1804. Martha died by July 1816 in Davidson County, TN.

"The History of Belle Meade, Mansion, Plantation & Stud" by Ridley Wills, III John's second wife "was Martha Donnelly, daughter of Davidson County pioneers James and Isobel Donnelly. During their few years together, Giles and Martha had two sons - James Donnelly and Peter Perkins - both a generation younger that Giles's children by his first marriage. The Donnellys lived nearby, and John Harding knew them well. He later served with Martha's father, James and her brother, John, in Captain Mullen's Militia Company." Martha died by the spring of 1816, as her administrator, Ellis Maddox, submitted an inventory to the court in July, 1816.


127 M ix. James Donnelly HARDIN was born bet 1804 - 1810.

128 M x. Peter Perkins HARDIN.

31. William (II) HARDIN (William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1750 in Goochland County, VA. He died 1797 in Surry County, NC.

Internet Posting: Frances H. Casstevens Thu May 8 13:12:23 1997 (email address at that time: [email protected]) Would like to correspond with descendants of GILES HARDING of Davidson Co., TN. Giles married Amy Morris


in VA before coming to TN ca 1800. Giles was brother to my ancestor William Harding, b. ca 1750 in Goochland Co., VA.

William married Obedience HUTCHINS on 16 Oct 1773. Obedience was born 3 Feb 1744/1745 in Hanover Co, VA.. She died about 1806 in Surry County, NC.

Father: Strangeman HUTCHINS Mother: Elizabeth COX "Adventurers of Purse and Person: "Obedience Hutchins (Elizabeth COX, Richard, John, William) born 3 Feb 1744/5, died about 1806 in North Carolina. She married 16 October 1773, WILLIAM HARDING, son of William and Sarah (LaForce) Harding, who was born 1743 and died before May 1797 when the inventory of his estate was filed. They moved to Surry Co., NC." Siblings: Thomas, Jane, Lydia (others)


129 M i. Rene HARDIN was born 28 Aug 1774. He died 1811 in Surry (now Yadkin County), NC.

Rene married Rebecca PATTERSON. Rebecca was born 15 Sep 1777. She died 24 Oct 1837.

130 M ii. Jesse HARDIN was born 15 Sep 1775. He died 1795.

131 F iii. Elizabeth HARDIN was born 28 Jun 1778 in Goochland County, VA. She died Oct 1842 in Surry County, NC.

Elizabeth married Thomas WILLIAMS on 4 Nov 1793. Thomas was born 15 Sep 1772. He died 19 Nov 1857.

132 M iv. Thomas HARDIN was born 28 Aug 1781 in Goochland County, VA. He died in Surry (now Yadkin County), NC.

Thomas married (1) Elizabeth COVE on 14 Dec 1801.

Thomas also married (2) Kurya COOK on 25 Oct 1803.

133 F v. Sarah HARDIN was born 1783. She died 1857 in McMinnville, Warren County, TN.

Sarah married Joel PATTERSON on 5 Aug 1801.

+ 134 F vi. Jean HARDIN was born 10 Sep 1784 and died 22 Mar 1854.

33. Thomas (son of Wm. & Sarah LaForce) HARDIN (William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 3 Oct 1755 in Goochland County, VA. He died 1805 in TN.

Note: DNA has proved the relationship between Thomas and his father Wililiam and grandfather Thomas. Thomas Harding married Jane Farrar. He lost property of £4:10 at the hands of Cornwallis during the Revolution. "The History of Belle Meade, Mansion, Plantation & Stud" by Ridley Wills, III Thomas moved - along with his brother, Giles - to Tennessee in 1798/99. He bought land at the same time Giles did, 200 acres (at $3 per acre) immediately west of his brother's land. In 1793, a provision to the territorial government stated that as soon as there were 5000 inhabitants in any given district, they were entitled to representation in the general assembly. The territorial legislature assembled at Knoxville August 25, 1794. The legislature consisted of 13 members: David Wilson of Sumner County, Speaker; Leroy Taylor and John Tipton of Washington; George Rutledge of Sullivan; JOSEPH HARDIN of Greene; William Cocke and Joseph McMinn of Hawkins; Alexander Kelly and John Beard of Knox; Samuel Wear and George Doherty of Jefferson; James White of Davidson; and James Ford of Tennessee. The council, commissioned by President Washington, included Griffith Rutherford, John Sevier, James Winchester, Stockly Donselson and Permenas Taylor.

Thomas married Jane FARRAR in Goochland County, VA.

Daughter of Robert FARRAR and Frances WOODSON



135 F i. Elizabeth Bibb HARDIN was born 3 Jan 1783. She died 7 Feb 1824 and was buried in near Tuscumbia, AL.

Elizabeth Bibb Harding (3 Jan. 1783 - 7 Feb. 1824) married Alexander Underwood (1 Aug. 1769 ) in Goochland County 16 March (bond) 1799. The groom, the son of Thomas Underwood and Ann Taylor, was baptized by Rev. Douglas. Elizabeth and her second husband, John Cockrill (8 July 1781 - 12 Aug. 1841), the parents of nine, are buried near Tuscumbia, Alabama.

Elizabeth married (1) Alexander UNDERWOOD.

Elizabeth also married (2) John COCKRILL.

136 M ii. Thomas (Jr.) HARDIN was born 2 Sep 1787.

137 F iii. Judith HARDIN.

daughter of Thomas Hardin, married Robert George in Goochland County 16 April (bond) 1803.

Judith married Robert GEORGE.

138 M iv. George HARDIN was born calculated 1797. He died 1859 in Tennessee.

DNA has proved the relationship of George Hardin and his father Thoams - back to Thomas Hardin born 1686 in Virginia.

35. Hannah ELLIS (Susannah/Sarah HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 5 Oct 1741 in Henrico Co, VA. She died about 1762.

Hannah married William HAYNES.


139 F i. Susannah HAYNES.

Susannah married George MCDANIEL.

46. William (son of Thos. & Phoebe) HARDIN (Thomas (son of Thos. & Mary Giles) HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born about 1755. He died 1805 in Columbia County, GA.

*William HARDING b. c 1755 VA and died in Columbia Co., GA in 1805. Military: Served in the Revolutionary War, VA Cont. line.

William married Martha (Patsy) MALONE about 1778.

He married *Martha "Patty" MALONE around 1778 in VA. * Martha "Patty" MALONE was the daughter of Daniel and Sarah Sullivan Malone.


140 F i. Nancy (dau of Wm. & Martha) HARDIN was born 10 Oct 1780. She died 30 Aug 1843 in Monroe County, MS.

Nancy married Joseph RUTLEDGE on 24 Dec 1799 in Columbia County, GA.

141 M ii. John (son of Wm & Martha) HARDIN.

John HARDIN born c1781. VA. Military: Served in War of 1812. Later moved to Limestone Co., AL

142 M iii. Erasmus HARDIN.


Erasmus HARDIN born c1782. VA. Military: Served in War of 1812. Later moved to Limestone Co., AL.

143 M iv. Thomas (son of Wm & Martha) HARDIN was born 15 Sep 1787. He died 24 Sep 1853 in Columbia County, GA.

Thomas HARDIN born September 15, 1787 in VA. He married Gracey Reid on December 29, 1816 in Columbia Co., GA, and died September 24, 1853 in Columbia Co., GA. Military: Served in War of 1812.

Thomas married Gracey REID.

144 M v. Daniel (son of Wm & Martha) HARDIN.

Daniel HARDIN born c1788. He married Martha Ship on February 9, 1809 in Columbia Co., GA. Military: Served in War of 1812. Later moved to Limestone Co., AL

Daniel married Martha SHIP.

145 M vi. William (Jr.) HARDIN.

William HARDIN born c1790 in Columbia Co., GA. Military: Served in War of 1812.

+ 146 M vii. James (son of Wm & Martha) HARDIN was born 13 Dec 1791 and died 5 Aug 1854.

Fifth Generation 54. Maj. John BOSTICK Rev. War (DAR # 158183) (Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *,

THOMAS) was born 18 Jun 1765 in Rowan Co/Stokes County, NC. He died 20 Sep 1850 in Triune, Williamson County, TN.

John Bostick, son of Absalom, was born 18 Jun 1764 and died 20 Sep 1850 Williamson County, TN. He married Mary Gervais/Jarvis 20 Dec 1787 in Richmond County, GA. Dates for this couple, as well as for their children, can be found in "Maury County Cousins," published 1967 by the Maury County, TN Historical Society. Moved to TN in 1809. Have also seen his death date as 20 Sep 1840 in Triune Williamson Co. Tennessee John Bostick, called Josh, served as a sergeant during the Revolutionary War in Capt Reuben Taylor's Company and Col. Moses Hazen's Regiment of the Continental Line. He was a resident of Surry C., NC during the Revolution and enlisted 12 Dec 1776; discharged 17 June 1783. Ref: DAR # 158183. John Bostick is listed in DAR Patriot Index as a captain. Abstracts of Rev. War Pension Files, p. 329: BOSTICK, John, R1040, NC Line, soldiers cousin Hellery B. Bostick was age 82 & on 31 Jul 1854 signs an aff’dt in Muscogee Cty GA stating that he & sol were boys together in Surry Cty NC & that soldier was appointed captain of militia & after the war soldier's uncle & family moved to Richmond Cty GA & sol came to visit them & m Miss Polly Jarvis of Richmond Cty GA & his cousin Hellery B. m an Elizabeth Jarvis in 1798 a relative of soldier’s wife, after soldier married he returned to NC & in 1808 moved to Williamson Cty TN & died there in 1850 leaving children; James A. Bostick, Bathemia Patton, Elizabeth Bell, Jane Wilson, Christina Coltart & Hardin P. Bostick, son Hardin p. appl 8 Mar 1853 Davidson Cty TN age 58, sol left a will (filed 28 Aug 1844) & in addition to the above named chidren he named a dec’d daughter Mary R. Rudder & her daughter Mary R. Rudder (Clarinda?) names not clear, also named dec’d son Hampton Bostick & his two sons John H. & James A. Bostick, also named sons (sols) John & Absalom Bostick, a John Claybrook & Johnathan Bostick were witt to his will in 1844. Notes for John Bostick, Sr.


L.G. Lynch (1976), "Our Valiant Men." P. 30. John Bostick was born in Pittsylvania Co. VA 18-Jun-1765. When he was 15 the family moved to Stokes Co., NC. In Rev. War, served 6 mo, Sgt. in Capt. Reubin Taylor’s co. Married 1787 in Stokes Co. to Mary Jarvis (1766-1833). Bostick was elected as 1st sheriff of Stokes Co., served several years. Also elected to NC Legislature. In 1809, he moved to Williamson Co., TN, where he died 41 years later. His obituary describes him as “a man of strong mind, of great firmness and decision of character .. Prudent & provident in all business matters .. Affectionate husband, the kind parent, the indulgent and humane master and the obligating and excellent neighbor.” Will probated Oct-1850 (Williamson Co. Will Book 9, p. 449). Genealogica1 Abstracts from Reported Deaths The Nashvi11e Christian Advocate 1850-1851 By Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 2003 page 17 Major JOHN BOSTICK, native of Virginia, served in the Revolutionary War; had a large family, including a son, Rev. Absalom Bostick (dec.). Died Williamson Co., Tenn., Sept. 20, 1850. [This surname was often pronounced Bostick and as such this man was listed as John Bostick, applying (R1040) for a Revolutionary War pension, in which it was mentioned that he had lived in Surry Co., N.C. about the time of the Revolution; later lived in Richmond Co., N.C. but moved to Williamson Co., Tennessee where he died. He had a number of children, whom he mentioned in his last will and testament.] The book, "Old Enough To Die" by Ridley Wills II, is about Hardin Perkins Bostick, son of John, and his family. North Carolina Historical Sketches, 1584-1851, Volume II • Series III Chapter LXX Stanly County - Pg 407 List of members of the General Assembly from Stokes County from its formation to the last session. Year: Senate House of Commons 1803 Joseph Cloud Henry B. Dobson, John Bostick 1804 Wm Hughlett John Bostick, Henry B. Dobson 1806 Johnston Clements John Bostick, Isaac Dalton ------------------------------------------------------------------ DEATH: John Bostick Birth: 18 June 1765-- Stokes, Of, NC Death: 1849 -- Father: Bostick, Absalom Mother: Perkins, Berthenia Birth Date: 18 June 1765 City: County: Stokes State: NC -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Bostick, Sr. Born: 18-Jun-1764/5 at Rowan co., NC (? Or Pittsylvania Co.?) Death: 20-Sep-1850 at Triune, Williamson Co., TN Father: Absolom Bostick (abt 1838 to 1803) Mother: Bethenia Perkins (b. abt 1839) Marriage: 20-Dec-1787 to Mary Jarvis (or Gervais) Children: Mary G. Bostick (b. 18-Oct-1797), m. _ Rudder. Bethenia Bostick (20-Oct-1788 - 1870), m. James Patton


Absolom Bostick (3), 6-Mar-1790 – 1849 (m. Mary G. Patton, 24-Sep-1829) Don F. Bostick (b. 23-Nov-1791) Hampton Bostick (b. 25-Apr-1793 John Bostick, Jr, (22-Oct-1794 - 1850), m. (15-Dec-1815) Polly Hyde Elizabeth Bostick (b. 14-Apr-1796), m. Jobe Bell Jane Bostick (b. 12-May-1799), m. Jason Wilson Manoah Bostick (22-Feb-1801 - 1837) Christina Bostick (b. 10-Dec-1802), m. _ Coltart. Hardin Perkins Bostick (30-Dec-1804 - 1861), m. Margaret R. Litton

John married Mary JARVIS/GERVAIS on 1784. Mary was born 18 Jun 1764. She died 1833 in Williamson County, TN.

Not sure of any relationships: The only Gervais listed in the US in 1800 Census was a Mary Gervais listed in Charleston, SC. with 6 young boys, and one older woman. Perhaps relation of this Mary? In 1820, John & Paul T. Gervais are listed as living in Charleston. John had 2 men & 2 women in his household.


147 M i. Absolom BOSTICK was born 6 Mar 1790. He died 1850 in Williamson County, TN.

Absolom married (1) Elizabeth BLACKBURN on 1 Apr 1809 in Stokes Co., NC.

Absolom also married (2) Mary G. PATTON on 24 Sep 1829 in Williamson County, TN.

148 F ii. Bethenia BOSTICK was born 20 Oct 1788.

Bethenia married Jason PATTON on 30 Jul 1811 in Williamson County, TN.

149 M iii. Don F. BOSTICK was born 23 Nov 1791.

+ 150 M iv. Hampton BOSTICK was born 25 Apr 1793 and died 1822.

+ 151 M v. John (Jr.) BOSTICK was born 22 Oct 1794.

152 F vi. Elizabeth BOSTICK was born 14 Apr 1796.

Elizabeth married Jobe BELL on 4 Apr 1816 in Williamson County, TN.

153 F vii. Mary G. BOSTICK was born 18 Oct 1797.

154 F viii. Jane BOSTICK was born 12 May 1799.

Jane married Jason C. WILSON on 29 Sep 1815 in Williamson County, TN.

155 M ix. Manoah BOSTICK was born 22 Feb 1801.

156 F x. Christina BOSTICK was born 10 Dec 1802.

+ 157 M xi. Hardin Perkins BOSTICK was born 30 Dec 1804 and died 22 Feb 1861.

+ 158 M xii. James Alfred BOSTICK was born 18 Jun 1806 and died 30 Dec 1868.

55. * BETHENIA BOSTICK (Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 18 Mar 1767 in probably Pittsylvania County, VA. She died 1832 in NC.

Bethenia Bostick was born 18 Mar 1767, prob. in Pittsyvlania County, VA and died 1832. She married first Capt. Samuel Hampton 19 Aug 1785. He died in 1802 and on 23 Jan 1804, Bethenia married Charles Perkins, a cousin. Bethenia had a number of children by her first husband. Children of Bethenia Bostick and Captain Samuel Hampton James Hampton (1786) Samuel Hampton (1790) m. Elizabeth Barnett John B. Hampton (1793) m. Polly E. Guinn Mary Hampton (1795) Susannah Hampton (1797) m. Hampton Bostick Manoah Hampton (1799) Bethenia married twice again after Samuel died: ISAAC JONES (3 children); and CHARLES PERKINS (2


children)

BETHENIA married (1) Capt. SAMUEL HAMPTON *, son of * James HAMPTON and Martha Mary SMITH, on 19 Aug 1785 in Surry County, NC. SAMUEL was born about 1758. He died 19 Dec 1802 in Stokes Co., NC.

Samuel served in the Revolutionary War. "SAMUEL HAMPTON, born ca. 1758 in that part of Rowan County, NC that became Surry County and then Stokes County, died 19 Dec 1802 in Stokes County, NC, his verbal will probated 27 Dec 1802, Vol. 2, page 34; married 19 August 1785 in Surry County Bethenia Bostick, (daughter of Absalom Bostick), born 18 March 1767, died 1832. "As a resident of Surry County, NC during the Revolutionary War, Samuel Hampton volunteered in the first troops of militia under Col. Joseph Williams, Major Joseph Winston, and Capt. Richard Goode and served in the Cherokee Expedition. Later he served five months under Gen. Ashe and Capt. Shephard and fought in the Battle at Brier Creek, SC. He served as lieutenant under Capt. Smith in the Battle of Kings Mountain, taking command of the company after Capt. Smith's death. He commanded as captain under Cols. Campbell and Cleveland; served as captain in the battle of Cowpens. "This service was verified by testimony by John H. Hail, 78 years of age in 1840 who knew personally of Samuel Hampton's service in the Revolution. Copy furnished in DAR Membership Applications # 71051, #527719. "The will of James Hampton (Book 2, page 3 ¾) in Stokes County willed to his youngest son Samuel 280 acres on Townfork Creek except ½ acre for cemetery." --------------------------------------------------- SAMUEL HAMPTON I- fought for American Independence. SAMUEL HAMPTON I fought at King's Mountain and Brier Creek and went out of the army as Captain. SAMUEL HAMPTON I AND BETHUNIA BOSTICK HAMPTON'S issues are : 4 sons 2 daughters JAMES SUSAN SAMUEL II POLLY OR MARY JOHN MONOAH BOSTICK Regarding Samuel Hampton, we note that Samuel Hampton was one of his father's Executors in 1794. November 4, 1800, he had a Fairfax grant of 70 ½ acres of Land. HAMPTON, Samuel (Capt.) Philip Evans pension declaration cites service to Battle of Cowpens under Capt. Samuel Hampton and Col. McDowell. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________


+ 159 M i. James M. HAMPTON was born 13 Sep 1786 and died 27 Oct 1837.

+ 160 M ii. Samuel (Jr.) HAMPTON was born 14 Oct 1790 and died 18 Feb 1874.

+ 161 M iii. John B. HAMPTON was born 12 Jan 1793 and died 7 Jun 1881.

+ 162 F iv. Mary HAMPTON was born 14 May 1795.

+ 163 F v. Susannah/Susan HAMPTON was born 27 Mar 1797.

+ 164 M vi. MANOAH BOSTICK HAMPTON was born 25 Jun 1799 and died 16 Feb 1858.

BETHENIA also married (2) Charles PERKINS, son of Col. Charles Ellis PERKINS and Mary TATE, on 23 Jan 1804 in Stokes Co., NC. Charles was born 13 Mar 1778 in Virginia. He died 14 Feb 1813 in Stokes Co., NC.


Charles lived in Goochland Co., Va.; Halifax Co., Va.; Pittsylvania Co., Va.; Guilford Co., N.C.; and Stokes Co., N.C. His widow was paying taxes in Patrick Co., Va. in 1791 the same year in which Patrick Co. was formed from Henry Co., Va. Charles served in the American Revolution at the rank of private and as a clerk in the Company of Captain Zebulin William's (it has not been definitely proven that this is the same Charles). Charles and his family were residing in Rowan Co., N.C. by 1765 (the area later becoming Guilford Co. and still later Rockingham Co., NC). Guilford Co., N.C. deeds show that he lived on a portion of his father-in-law's tract of land on Beaver Island Creek prior to moving to Virginia. The obituary of his third child, Nicholas Tate Perkins stated that he was born in Guilford Co. in December of 1767 and later moved with his parents to Pittsylvania Co., Va. when he was ten years of age. PATRICK CO., VA. INFO: TAX LIST SHOW SAMUEL WAGGONER 1795 and 1796-140 acres ;1798 and 1799-140 acres and 140 acres received from CHARLES PERKINS.


165 vii. (2 Children) PERKINS.

BETHENIA also married (3) Isaac JONES.


166 viii. (3 Children) JONES.

56. Absalom II BOSTICK (Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1769 in Rowan Co/Stokes Co., NC. He died 1855 in Christian County, Kentucky.

Absalom Bostick II, son of Ab. and Bethenia, was born ca 1769 in VA and died 1855 in Christian County, KY. He married first, Nancy Dalton, daughter of David Dalton Sr, in 1794 Stokes County, NC. His second marriage was to Dolly White on 15 Nov 1822 in Rockingham County, NC. There has been a great deal of confusion about the second wife of Ab. II, but deeds, census records and estate files clearly show that his second wife was Dolly White and not Susannah Dalton as some researchers have stated. In fact, Susannah Dalton was married to Absalom Bostick III, son of Ab. II. "By 1850 he and part of his family had moved to Kentucky where he was listed on the 1850 Census of Christian County." There is a difference of opinion as to Absalom's second wife. Absalom Bostick II, son of Ab. and Bethenia, was born ca 1769 in VA and died 1855 in Christian County, KY. He married first, Nancy Dalton, daughter of David Dalton Sr, in 1794 Stokes County, NC. His second marriage was to Dolly White on 15 Nov 1822 in Rockingham County, NC. There has been a great deal of confusion about the second wife of Ab. II, but deeds, census records and estate files clearly show that his second wife was Dolly White and not Susannah Dalton as some researchers have stated. In fact, Susannah Dalton was married to Absalom Bostick III, son of Absalom. Absolom Bostick II was born 1769 in Rowan County, NC or Pittsylvania County, VA.(5) He moved from Stokes County, NC to Christian County, KY in May 1846 (6) where he died in 1855 (7). In 1794 Absolom Bostick married Nancy Dalton, daughter of David Dalton and Susanna Davis. He married (2) Dolly M. White, daughter of Zachariah White, on November 15, 1822 in Rockingham county, NC.(8) According to the 1850 Christian County, KY Census, Dolly was born in Virginia. She died in 1865 (9) after marrying on September 20, 1860 for a second time to Benjamin F. Simmons, Sr. at her home in Christian County, KY.(10) Benjamin Simmons, Sr. was the father of Benjamin Simmons, Jr., husband to Dolly and Absolom Bostick's daughter Catherine.


The children of Absolom Bostick II and Nancy Dalton are: David D., Charles and Thornton Bostick, all of whom went to Georgia; Elizabeth Bostick who married Harden Guinn, a large planter from Stokes County, NC; Nancy Bostick; Bethenia Bostick; and Absolom Bostick, who died about 1842 in Rockingham County, NC and was married to Susannah Dalton on December 29, 1817 in Stokes County, NC. (11) The children of Absolom Bostick II and Dolly White are: James Z. Bostick, born about 1824 in North Carolina (12) and died unmarried April 15, 1905 in Christian County, KY; Sarah A. Bostick, born October 10, 1825 in North Carolina and married Robert T. Turner; Sophie Emily Bostick, born August 1, 1827 and married to Eli H. Sivley on July 11, 1850 in Christian County, KY; Catherine Bostick, born about 1830 in Stokes County, NC(13), married to Benjamin F. Simmons, Jr.; Edward McNeal Bostick, born May 22, 1832 and died in Earlington, KY in 1907; Beverly Christmas Bostick, born about 1833 and died 1866 in Christian County, KY; Joseph (Jonathan) L. Bostick, born about 1835 and died unmarried in 1896 in Christian County, KY; and Martha C. B. (L.) Bostick, born about 1838 in Stokes County, NC and married to George Samuel Sivley on April 12, 1866 in Christian County, KY at the home of E.M. Bostick. Because of the numerous Absolom Bosticks in the family, much confusion and some false information is prevalent in the research facilities. Absolom II is often confused with (1) Absolom Bostick, son of John Bostick, Sr. Absolom, son of John Bostick, Sr. married Elizabeth Blackburn on April 1, 1809 in Stokes County, NC.(14) Another Absolom with whom he is confused is (2) Absolom, son of Ferdinand Bostick, Sr. This Absolom married Mary G. Patton on September 24, 1829 in Williamson County, TN. (15) It is likely Absolom Bostick II traveled through Tennessee to get to Christian County, KY and may have even lived in Tennessee for a time. This creates some confusion about tax lists and census records for the Tennessee line. Some confusion has even been made between Absolom II and (3) his own son Absolom Bostick III. Source: http://www.fmoran.com/bostick1.html Contributed by: Brenda Joyce Jerome, CGRS [email protected] PO Box 325 Newburgh, IN 47629-0325 Brenda Joyce Jerome, CGRS Per Brenda Joyce Jerome: Absalom and Bethenia Bostick were my 4th great-grandparents. North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868 (NOT SURE ABOUT THIS INFO) Bride: Elizabeth Blackburn Groom: Absalom Bostick Bond Date: 01 Apr 1809 County: Stokes Record #: 01 027 Bondsman: Jeremiah Gibson Bond #: 000137405 Bostick, Absalom; Elizabeth Blackburn Spouse: Blackburn, Elizabeth Bostick, Absalom Marriage Date: 01 Apr 1809 Other Rockingham County, NC Marriages: Absalom Bostick and Dolly White 15 Nov 1822 Jonathan Bostick and Sarah A. Smith 9 Nov 1840 Sarah Bostwick and Peter F. Webster 6 Nov 1841 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1830 CENSUS: BOSTICK, ABSALOM State: NC


Year: 1830 County: Rockingham County Record Type: Federal Population Schedule Township: Western District Page: 325 Database: NC 1830 Federal Census Index 1850 CENSUS: Christian County, KY pg 453 District 1 30 Aug 1850 Absalom Bostick 80 farmer born VA Dolly M. Bostick 48 born VA Sarah A. Bostick 23 born NC Catherine Bostick 20 born NC Edward M Bostick 18 born NC Beverly C Bostick 17 (male) born NC Jona. L. Bostick 15 born NC Martha C.L. Bostick 12 born NC Emily Bostick 22 born NC ----------------------------------------------------------------- Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly • volume XXVII • volume XXVII, number 2 (01-MAY-1989) • A List of Qualified Voters, Halifax County, Virginia 1800 Absalom Bostick (not sure which one!) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Other notes online: Absalom BOSTICK (II) BIRTH: 1769, ,,Virginia,United States DEATH: 1855, ,Christian,Kentucky,United States Family 1: Nancy DALTON MARRIAGE: ABT 1794, ,Stokes,North Carolina,United States SEALING TO SPOUSE: 14 JUN 1966 Temple: SLAKE David BOSTICK Absolom BOSTICK

Absalom married (1) Nancy DALTON, daughter of Capt. David,, Sr. DALTON and Susannah DAVIS "Susan". Nancy was born 20 Apr 1768. She died in Marshall Co., TN..

Will David Dalton Sr, father of Nancy Dalton.... ... of Stokes County in the State of North Carolina .. 6. to my son-in-law John Fendal Carr the negro slaves Charles, Joe, Jim and Jess being the children of Cate whom I put in his possesion also the negroes Frank, Tildy, Riddle, Horace, Simon, Aaron & Tangar and all such increase during the term of the natural heirs of him and his wife Elizabeth and of the surviver at their death. I give and bequeath the said negroes and said increase to the children of the said Elizabeth who may be living at the time of her death absolutely. ... the rest equally divided btween my sons Isaac, Charles, Jonathan, & David my sons-in-law John Fendal Carr & Absolm Bostick and my granchildren John Fendal & Nancy children of Thomas Carr they only taking one part to be shared amoung them.


+ 167 M i. Absalom, III BOSTICK.

168 F ii. Bethenia (dau Absalom & Nancy Dalton) BOSTICK was born 1809.

Bethenia married Absalom Bostick GUINN, son of Thornton Preston GUINN and Anne BOSTICK.

169 M iii. David D. BOSTICK.

David married Bethenia P. GUINN, daughter of Thornton Preston GUINN and Anne BOSTICK.

170 F iv. Susannah Davis BOSTICK.


Susannah married Marmaduke Atwater GUINN "Duke", son of Thornton Preston GUINN and Anne BOSTICK.

171 F v. Elizabeth BOSTICK.

Elizabeth married Manoah H. GUINN, son of Thornton Preston GUINN and Anne BOSTICK.

Absalom also married2 (2) Dolly WHITE on 15 Nov 1822 in Rockingham Co., NC.

Note: Which marriage date is correct? Absalom Bostick II married as his second wife, Dolly White, 15 Nov 1822. in Rockingham Co, NC. They appear on the 1830 and 1840 Stokes Co, NC federal census records and then appear in Christian Co, KY in 1850.

57. Don Ferdinand BOSTICK (Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 9 Mar 1772 in Pittsylvania Co., VA. He died 1822/1824 in Stokes Co., NC.

Ferdinand Bostick, was born 9 Mar 1772 Pittsylvania County, VA and died 1824 Stokes Co, NC, leaving a nuncupative will. He married Elizabeth Rand, daughter of William Rand, 28 May 1799. The family Bible record of this couple was owned in the early 1980's by a lady in MS. Attempts to obtain a notarized copy of the family record page have been unsuccessful. Ferdinand had the following children, according to the Bible: Bethenia, William Rand, Anna Rand, Elizabeth "Betsy", Absalom, Ferdinand Jr, Wesley, James Pinkney, John, Louisa, John Thornton, and David Jackson. DON FERDINAND5 BOSTICK (BETHANIA4 PERKINS, BETHANIA3 HARDING, THOMAS2, UNKNOWN1) was born 1772 in Pittssylvania Co., VA, and died 1824 in Stokes Co., NC. He married ELIZABETH ANNE RAND 28 May 1799, daughter of WILLIAM RAND. She was born 1784, and died Aft. 1830 in Stokes Co., NC. Children of DON BOSTICK and ELIZABETH RAND are: i. BETHENIA BOSTICK, b. 1800; ii. ANNA RAND BOSTICK, b. 1801, NC; m. WILLIAM MILLS. Notes for WILLIAM MILLS: This family was living near Maw Busha, MS in 1842. 60. iii. WILLIAM RAND BOSTICK, b. 1803; d. Aft. 1870. iv. JOHN BOSTICK, b. 1805. 61. v. ELIZABETH BOSTICK, b. 1807. vi. ABSALOM BOSTICK, b. 1809; m. MARY G. PATTON, Williamson Co., TN. vii. FERDINAND BOSTICK, b. 1811; m. EMILY C. DENSON. viii. WESLEY BOSTICK, b. 1813. ix. JAMES PINKNEY BOSTICK, b. 1815. x. JOHN THORNTON BOSTICK, b. 1817. xi. DAVID JACKSON BOSTICK, b. 1819. xii. LOUISA BOSTICK, b. abt. 1821.

Don married Elizabeth Ann RAND, daughter of William RAND, on 28 May 1799 in Stokes Co., NC. Elizabeth was born 12 Aug 1784 in Halifax County, VA. She died after 1830 in Stokes Co., NC.


172 F i. Bethenia (dau of Ferdinand & Eliz) BOSTICK was born 1800. She died 31 Oct 1891.

GENEALOGICAL ABSTRACTS FROM REPORTED DEATHS THE NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE 1890-1893 By Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith - Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 2002 January 7, 1892 "Grandma" BALTHENIA (Bethenia) BOSTICK ANDREWS born in N.C. near the Va. line, May 13, 1800; died Oct. 30, 1891; married James Andrews in 1846; no children but made her home with stepchildren and grandchildren. "She lived until worn out."

Bethenia married James ANDREWS on 1846.

173 F ii. Ann Rand BOSTICK was born 1801 in North Carolina.

Ann married William MILLS.


This family was living near Maw Busha, MS in 1842.

+ 174 M iii. William Rand BOSTICK was born 1803 and died after 1870.

175 M iv. John (son of Ferdinand & Eliz) BOSTICK was born 1805.

+ 176 F v. Elizabeth (dau of Ferdinand & Eliz) BOSTICK was born 1807.

+ 177 M vi. Absalom (son of Ferdinand & Eliz) BOSTICK was born 1809 and died 1849.

178 M vii. Ferdinand (Jr) BOSTICK was born 1811.

Ferdinand married Emily E. DENSON.

179 M viii. Wesley BOSTICK was born 1813.

180 M ix. James Pickney BOSTICK was born 1815.

181 M x. John Thornton BOSTICK was born 1817.

182 M xi. David Jackson BOSTICK was born 1819.

183 F xii. Louisa (dau of Ferdinand & Eliz) BOSTICK was born about 1821.

58. Susannah BOSTICK (Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) died By 16 Aug 1811.

"Early Families of the North Carolina Counties of Rockingham and Stokes with Revolutionary Serivce," Vol 2, by Joanne Smith Pirkle: "Susannah Bostick died in Stokes County by 16 August 1811 when her death notice appeared in a Raleigh Newspaper. She married Williamg Blackburn who married second 30 Augusta 1814 in Stokes County, Winefred (sic) Waggoner." SUSANNAH BOSTICK (BETHANIA4 PERKINS, BETHANIA3 HARDING, THOMAS2, UNKNOWN1) was born Aft. 1772, and died Bef. 1814. She married WILLIAM BLACKBURN. Children of SUSANNAH BOSTICK and WILLIAM BLACKBURN are: i. ELIZABETH6 BLACKBURN, m. ABSALOM BOSTICK. ii. BETHENIA BLACKBURN. iii. MADISON BLACKBURN. iv. JOHN T. BLACKBURN, m. MARGARET PRYOR. v. MARY C. BLACKBURN. vi. SAMUEL BLACKBURN. vii. GABRIEL BLACKBURN. viii. ABSALOM B. BLACKBURN. ix. WINNIFRED BLACKBURN. x. JR. WILLIAM BLACKBURN.

Susannah married William BLACKBURN.

Marriage 1 William Blackburn b: ABT 1767 in Rowan County, North Carolina Married: BEF 1792 Children Elizabeth Blackburn b: ABT 1794 in Stokes County, North Carolina Absalom B. Blackburn b: 2 JAN 1797 in Stokes County, North Carolina John T. Blackburn b: ABT 1799 in Stokes County, North Carolina William Blackburn , Jr. b: 27 APR 1801 in Stokes County, North Carolina Robert Blackburn b: ABT 1803 in Stokes County, North Carolina Bethenia Blackburn b: 1807 in Stokes County, North Carolina Madison Blackburn b: 1809 in Stokes County, North Carolina


184 i. FIVE CHILDREN BLACKBURN.


59. Anne BOSTICK (Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born calculated 1779 in Surry County, NC. She died in Possibly In Mississippi.

"Early Families of the North Carolina Counties of Rockingham and Stokes with Revolutionary Serivce," Vol 2, by Joanne Smith Pirkle: "Ann Bostick, born ca 1779 inSurry County, NC, married Thornton Preston Guinn. He left a will dated 14 Nov 1831 in Stokes County, recorded in Will Book 3, page 243, proved March 1833. Ann later moved to Yalobuska County, Mississippi where she appears in the 1850 Census." ANNE BOSTICK (BETHANIA4 PERKINS, BETHANIA3 HARDING, THOMAS2, UNKNOWN1) was born abt. 1779. She married THORNTON PRESTON GUINN, son of ALMAND GUINN. He died 1831. Children of ANNE BOSTICK and THORNTON GUINN are: i. ABSALOM B.6 GUIN, m. BETHENIA BOSTICK; b. 1800. ii. THORNTON GUINN, m. FRANCES JANE HILL. iii. MANOAH GUINN, m. ELIZABETH BOSTICK. iv. ANNE GUINN, m. ALPHA MOORE. v. DUKE GUINN, m. SUSANNAH DAVIS BOSTICK. vi. BETHENIA GUINN, m. DAVID D. BOSTICK. vii. CHRISTINA GUINN, m. JAMES M. HAMPTON. viii. SUSANNA GUINN, m. UNKNOWN PETREE. ix. MELISSA GUINN, m. UNKNOWN HAMPTON. x. NANCY GUINN, m. UNKNOWN PETREE. xi. DAVID B. GUINN, m. NARCISSA UNKNOWN. xii. POLLY E. GUINN, m. JOHN B. HAMPTON; b. 1793.

Anne married Thornton Preston GUINN, son of Almand GUINN and Mary EVANS. Thornton died 1831.


+ 185 F i. Mary "Polly" E. GUINN was born 10 Mar 1796 and died 9 Nov 1882.

186 M ii. Thornton Preston (Jr.) GUINN.

Thornton married Frances Jane HILL.

187 M iii. Marmaduke Atwater GUINN "Duke".

Duke married Susannah Davis BOSTICK, daughter of Absalom II BOSTICK and Nancy DALTON.

188 M iv. Absalom Bostick GUINN.

Absalom married Bethenia (dau Absalom & Nancy Dalton) BOSTICK, daughter of Absalom II BOSTICK and Nancy DALTON. Bethenia was born 1809.

189 F v. Susanna GUINN was born Bet 1815-1820.

Susanna married (1) Wiley Z PETREE on 31 Jan 1835. Wiley was born about 1810. He died about 1844.

Susanna also married (2) John W. HAMPTON, son of James M. HAMPTON and Sarah (Sally) FLYNT, on circa 1845. John was born 1822.

190 F vi. Christina F. GUINN.

Christina married James Matthew HAMPTON, son of Samuel (Jr.) HAMPTON and Elizabeth BARNETT. James was born 9 Mar 1817 in Lincoln Co., TN. He died 27 Feb 1903 in Montgomery Co., MS.

191 F vii. Nancy E. GUINN.

Nancy married Robinson Depriest PETREE.

192 M viii. Manoah H. GUINN.

Manoah married Elizabeth BOSTICK, daughter of Absalom II BOSTICK and Nancy DALTON.


+ 193 M ix. David B. GUINN died 1841.

194 F x. Bethenia P. GUINN.

Bethenia married David D. BOSTICK, son of Absalom II BOSTICK and Nancy DALTON.

195 F xi. Anne D. GUINN.

Anne married Alpha MOORE.

196 F xii. Melissa GUINN.

Melissa married (Mr.) HAMPTON.

60. Manoah Hardin BOSTICK (Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 20 Aug 1780 in Surry County, NC. He died 4 Jul 1843 in Greene Co., IL.

Manoah Harden Bostick, veteran of the War of 1812, was born 30 Aug 1780 and died 4 Jul 1843, Greene County, IL. He married first Jincey Scale in 1803 and then Frances Taliaferro Harvey in 1823 Christian County, KY. In Dec 1804, Bethenia and son, Manoah, sold land to Peter Hairston with the condition that Absalom's burial place never be disturbed. The exact location of Absalom's grave is unknown today. "Early Families of the North Carolina Counties of Rockingham and Stokes with Revolutionary Serivce," Vol 2, by Joanne Smith Pirkle: "Manoah Harden Bostick, born 20 Aug 1780 Surry County, died 4 July 1840 Fayette, Green County, IL; married 1) 14 Dec 1803 Stokes County, Hincey Scales, born ca 1786, died 1819, being the daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (France) Scales; 2) Frances (Taliaferro) Harvey, born ca 1794." Marriage record to Jincey Groom: Manoah Bostic Bride: Jincey Scales Bond Date: 14 Dec 1803 Bond #: 000137403 Level Info: North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868 ImageNum: 007056 County: Stokes Record #: 01 027 Bondsman: Nathl Scales Witness: Charles Beazley Marriage record to Frances Kentucky Marriages to 1850 Bostick, Manoah Harvie, Fracis 23 Jun 1823 Kentucky Christian County More About MANOAH HARDIN BOSTICK: Military Service: War of 1812 Wayne County News (W.VA) April 10, 1924 ANCIENT SAVAGE LAND GRANT WAS SOLD FOR TAXES The Savage grant, the first land granted to private individuals in Cabell and Wayne counties, is a proposition which won't stay downed, The lands were sold after the War of 1812 for United States direct tax of two cents an acre. Cabell county, which included Wayne at that time, had to raise $1,546, 50, and the old soldiers or their heirs forfeited their tracts of 400 acres rather than pay the $8.00 accessed against it. It had been decreed that if the land taxes were not paid by July 1, 1819, the land should be sold. In 1817 surveyors were directed to come here to make such surveying as might be necessary and to make appraisal reports, and the like. The shares of James, Samuel, Hugh, Paul and Robert Jones were confirmed to Henry Hampton and his assignees. The shares of David Gorman were confirmed to Manoah Bostick.


DEATH NOTICES FROM THE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, NASHVILLE TENNESSEE 1874-1876 MANOAH HARDIN BOSTICK born Oct. 28, 1837; died Triune, Tenn. June 11, 1874; md April 1870; surviving were widow and 2 children.

Manoah married (1) Jane "Jincey or Dilcey" SCALES, daughter of Nathaniel SCALES and Mary FRANCES, on 14 Dec 1803 in Stokes Co., NC.


197 F i. Bethenia BOSTICK.

198 F ii. Mary Frances BOSTICK.

199 F iii. Sarah Elizabeth BOSTICK.

200 F iv. Jincey Carolina BOSTICK.

201 M v. Peter Lewis BOSTICK was born 1818 in Montgomery Co., TN. He died 1884 in IL.

Manoah also married (2) Frances Taliaferro HARVEY/HARVIE, daughter of Daniel HARVEY/HARVIE and Sallie TALIAFERRO, on 23 Jun 1823 in Christian County, Kentucky. Frances was born calculated 1794.


202 M vi. Manoah Thornton BOSTICK.

203 M vii. Frank BOSTICK.

204 F viii. Mary Ann BOSTICK.

+ 205 F ix. Martha Ann (same as Mary?) BOSTICK was born 30 Jan 1830 and died Aug 1911.

61. Christina BOSTICK (Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1785 in Surry Co.. She died 1 Jan 1863 in Stokes County, NC.

"Early Families of the North Carolina Counties of Rockingham and Stokes with Revolutionary Serivce," Vol 2, by Joanne Smith Pirkle: "Christina Bostick, born 1785 in Surry County, died 1863 in Stokes County; married 1 June 1803 Stokes County, David Dalton, Jr., born 15 January 1781, died 19 March 1847, being son of David Dalton, Sr., and wife Susan Davis." Christina Bostick Birth: 1787-- , Stokes, NC Death: 13 January 1863 -- Stokes, NC Spouse: David Dalton Parents: Absalom Bostick, Berthenia Perkins CHRISTINA5 BOSTICK (BETHANIA4 PERKINS, BETHANIA3 HARDING, THOMAS2, UNKNOWN1) was born abt. 1785 in Surry Co., NC, and died 1863 in Stokes Co., NC. She married JR. DAVID DALTON, JR. 01 Jun 1803 in Stokes Co., NC, son of DAVID DALTON and SUSAN DAVIS. He was born 15 Jan 1781 in VA, and died 19 Mar 1847 in Stokes Co., NC.

Christina married David, Jr. DALTON3, son of Capt. David (Sr.) DALTON Rev. War and Susannah DAVIS. David, was born 15 Jan 1771 in Albemarle Co., VA. He died 19 Mar 1847 in Snow Creek, Stokes Co., NC.

"Stokes County Heritage, North Carolina" by Stokes County Historical Society, Germanton, NC, 1981, Vol. I. "David Dalton, Jr., son of David Dalton Sr. and Susanna Davis, was born January 15, 1771 in Albemarle County, Virginia, and he died March 19, 1847 at Snow Creek, Stokes County, North Carolina. He married Christina Bostick and their children were Absalom Bostick Dalton who married Nancy Poindexter, Isaac Davis Dalton who married Susan Marshal, David Nicholas Dalton, Perkins Dalton who married Betty Neal, Don Ferdinand Dalton who married Amanda Jane Doub, Susannah Dalton who married John P. Smith, Mary Dalton who married John P.


Smith, Melissa Dalton who married Dr. William Cole, Bethenia Dalton, and John Alamand Dalton who married Mary Ann Matthews. He was a planter and a stock raiser. When he died he left each of his children (eleven) a farm of roughly 300 acres and a home."


+ 206 M i. Absalom Bostick DALTON was born 28 Aug 1804 and died 1880.

207 M ii. Isaac Davis DALTON.

Isaac married Susan MARSHALL.

208 M iii. Perkins DALTON.

Perkins married Betty NEAL.

209 M iv. Don Ferdinand DALTON.

Don married Amanda Jane DOUB.

210 F v. Susannah DALTON.

Susannah married John P. SMITH.

Groom: Jno P Smith Bride: Susan D Dalton Bond Date: 27 Oct 1829 Bond #: 000141626 Level Info: North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868 ImageNum: 001945 County: Stokes Record #: 02 284 Bondsman: Jno F Poindexte Witness: R D Golding

211 F vi. Mary DALTON.

Mary married John P. SMITH.

Groom: Jno P Smith Bride: Mary G Dalton Bond Date: 25 Feb 1845 Bond #: 000141620 Level Info: North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868 ImageNum: 001944 County: Stokes Record #: 02 284 Bondsman: William Poindex Witness: C H Nelson

212 F vii. Christina Malissa DALTON.

Groom: Wm W Cole Bride: Christiana M Dalton Bond Date: 04 Jun 1846 Bond #: 000137868 Level Info: North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868 ImageNum: 001943 County: Stokes Record #: 01 054 Bondsman: Wm A Lash Witness: Jno Hill

Christina married Dr. William W. COLE.

213 F viii. Bethenia (dau of David Jr & Christina Bostick) DALTON.


214 M ix. John Alamand DALTON.

John married Mary Ann MATTHEWS.

215 M x. David Nicholas DALTON.

65. Alcey PERKINS (Peter PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 25 Sep 1766 in Pittsylvania Co., VA. She died 1 Dec 1814 in Stokes Co., NC.

Alcey married Maj. Peter (son of Robert & Ruth Stovall) HAIRSTON - Revolutionary War, son of Robert HAIRSTON and Ruth STOVALL, on 1782. Peter was born 24 Feb 1751/1752. He died 1 Dec 1832 in Stokes Co., NC.

Peter Hairston (1752-1832) was a contemporary of John Wilson. He married Alcey Perkins (1766-1814), daughter of Peter Perkins (1739-1813) and Agnes Wilson (d. 1812); they had one child, Ruth Stoval (1783-1869), who married Peter Wilson, the son of John Wilson. Peter Hairston lived his early life in that part of Pittsylvania County, Va., that became Henry County, Va., in 1777. In Henry County, he served as deputy sheriff intermittently between 1781 and 1784 and as a captain of an infantry company under General Nathaniel Greene. During the Revolutionary War, Peter Hairston served in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina in such notable battles as Guilford Court House (15 March 1781) and Yorktown (October 1781). While still a resident of Henry County, Va., he began operating a general merchandise store and a blacksmithing shop at Sauratown in Stokes County, N.C. After moving permanently to Stokes County around 1786, he continued to operate his store as well as owning numerous plantations in North Carolina and Virginia including Royal Oak, Sauratown, and Cooleemee. Peter Hairston also represented Stokes County in the North Carolina Assembly for four terms. Major Peter Hairston (1752-1832) was a tobacco planter in Stokes, Surry, and Davie counties, N.C. Educated at the University of Virginia, he rose to the rank of major during the Revolution. In 1786, Hairston took up tobacco planting at Sauratown Hill Plantation in Stokes County. In 1817, he purchased Cooleemee Hill Plantation. Hairston married Alcey Perkins, daughter of Peter Perkins, and had one daughter, Ruth Stovall Hairston (1784-1869). Upon his death in 1832, he left the bulk of his lands to Ruth. Ruth's first marriage was to Peter Wilson, by whom she had one daughter, Agnes John Peter Wilson, who was the mother of Peter Wilson Hairston. After Peter Wilson's death, Ruth married her father's nephew, Robert Hairston, a tobacco planter of Henry County, Va., who also grew cotton in Columbus, Miss. ------------------------------------------------ Hairston Family Papers, 1751-1928 and undated. About 15,300 items. Arrangement: chronological. http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/htm/04134.html Members of the Wilson and Hairston families were planters and merchants of Henry and Pittsylvania counties, Va., and Davie, Rockingham, and Stokes counties, N.C. Peter Hairston (1752-1832), of Pittsylvania, later Henry County, Va., was a merchant of Stokes and Rockingham counties, N.C., and owner of several plantations, including Royal Oak, Sauratown Hill, and Cooleemee Hill. His son-in-law, Peter Wilson (1770-1813), husband of Ruth Stoval Hairston (1783-1852), was a planter of Berry Hill, Brierfield, and Goose Pond, all in Pittsylvania County, Va., and partner in his father-in-law's mercantile business. Ruth Stoval (Hairston) Wilson married second Robert Hairston (1783-1852), of Leatherwood Plantation in Henry County and who, circa 1837, moved to Mississippi to manage his properties there, leaving Ruth in Virginia. Robert's brother, Samuel Hairston (1788-1875), of Oak Hill Plantation, Pittsylvania County, was one of the wealthiest men in Virginia, owning plantations there and in North Carolina and approximately 1700 slaves. His eldest son, Peter Wilson Hairston (1819-1886), lived his adult life at Cooleemee Hill in Davie County, N.C. Peter Wilson Hairston's niece, Ruth Hairston (1863-1936) married Alfred Varley Sims (1864-1944), civil engineer who worked for several railroads, taught engineering, and worked for the Knickerbocker Trust Company as general manager and chief engineer of the Cuba Eastern Railroad Company based in Guantanamo, Cuba, 1905-1908. The papers include business correspondence, financial and legal papers and scattered personal correspondence of six generations of the Wilson and Hairston families. Among the activities represented are the sale of tobacco through Virginia commission merchants; the service of Peter Hairston (1752-1832) as a deputy sheriff in Henry County, Va., mainly 1751-1788; the manumission of six Hairston slaves in 1832 through the American Colonization Society; purchase of supplies for plantation and household use; and activities of the Sandy Creek, Mayo, County Line, and Staunton River Baptist associations, 1833-1868. Civil War materials are few and consist of scattered family letters and some receipts for foodstuffs sold to the Confederate Army. Throughout the collection there is material concerning the management of the various family plantations. Approximately one-fourth of the collection consists of the personal and professional correspondence of Alfred Varley Sims as a professor at the State University of Iowa (now the University of Iowa), 1895-1904, and as a civil


engineer, and includes materials related to his time in Cuba, 1905-1908, and to his connections with various southern and Cuban railroads and other businesses in Cuba and elsewhere. Processing Note: See also addition of 1979. Most of the papers from the period 1751 to 1788 are those of Peter Hairston (1752-1832) and consist mainly of legal papers relating to his role as a deputy sheriff of Henry County, Va. These papers include letters to Hairston from other county officials; warrants from justices of the peace to him; memoranda and receipts of several Henry County sheriffs, including himself and his father, Robert Hairston (d. 1783), listing monies collected for taxes and carried to Richmond, Va.; and bonds between various people. His own legal papers also include receipts, bonds, warranty deeds, and bills of sale, all for the purchases of land and slaves. Most of the papers from 1789 to 1813 are business correspondence of Peter Hairston (1752-1832) and Peter Wilson (1770-1813), the latter being the son-in-law of the former. There are letters to both of them from numerous Petersburg, Va., merchants about the arrival of new merchandise in their stores, the condition of the Petersburg market, Hairston and Wilson's accounts with these merchants, and the latest political news. There are also many financial papers for this period consisting of accounts for goods bought by Peter Wilson and Peter Hairston, some for large quantities of merchandise for their stores and others for smaller quantities of merchandise bought for plantation or personal use. Together they show patterns of buying and selling between both Wilson and Hairston and various general and commission merchants in Lynchburg, Richmond, and Petersburg, Va. Included among the financial papers are bills of sale for slave purchases by Peter Wilson and Peter Hairston.


+ 216 F i. Ruth Stovall HAIRSTON was born 13 Jul 1783 and died 22 Apr 1869.

74. Charles PERKINS (Charles Ellis PERKINS , Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 13 Mar 1778 in Virginia. He died 14 Feb 1813 in Stokes Co., NC.

Charles lived in Goochland Co., Va.; Halifax Co., Va.; Pittsylvania Co., Va.; Guilford Co., N.C.; and Stokes Co., N.C. His widow was paying taxes in Patrick Co., Va. in 1791 the same year in which Patrick Co. was formed from Henry Co., Va. Charles served in the American Revolution at the rank of private and as a clerk in the Company of Captain Zebulin William's (it has not been definitely proven that this is the same Charles). Charles and his family were residing in Rowan Co., N.C. by 1765 (the area later becoming Guilford Co. and still later Rockingham Co., NC). Guilford Co., N.C. deeds show that he lived on a portion of his father-in-law's tract of land on Beaver Island Creek prior to moving to Virginia. The obituary of his third child, Nicholas Tate Perkins stated that he was born in Guilford Co. in December of 1767 and later moved with his parents to Pittsylvania Co., Va. when he was ten years of age. PATRICK CO., VA. INFO: TAX LIST SHOW SAMUEL WAGGONER 1795 and 1796-140 acres ;1798 and 1799-140 acres and 140 acres received from CHARLES PERKINS.

Charles married * BETHENIA BOSTICK, daughter of Col. Absalom * BOSTICK and Bethenia PERKINS *, on 23 Jan 1804 in Stokes Co., NC. BETHENIA was born 18 Mar 1767 in probably Pittsylvania County, VA. She died 1832 in NC.

Bethenia Bostick was born 18 Mar 1767, prob. in Pittsyvlania County, VA and died 1832. She married first Capt. Samuel Hampton 19 Aug 1785. He died in 1802 and on 23 Jan 1804, Bethenia married Charles Perkins, a cousin. Bethenia had a number of children by her first husband. Children of Bethenia Bostick and Captain Samuel Hampton James Hampton (1786) Samuel Hampton (1790) m. Elizabeth Barnett John B. Hampton (1793) m. Polly E. Guinn Mary Hampton (1795) Susannah Hampton (1797) m. Hampton Bostick Manoah Hampton (1799)


Bethenia married twice again after Samuel died: ISAAC JONES (3 children); and CHARLES PERKINS (2 children)


217 i. (2 Children) PERKINS is printed as #165.

75. Maj. Nicholas (III) "BigBee" PERKINS (Nicholas, Jr. PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 14 Mar 1779. He died 6 Jan 1848 in TN.

Nicolas Perkins once lived in "Meeting of the Waters", the home where Ridley Wills, II now lives in Franklin County, TN. "History of Belle Meade" by Ridley Wills, II. William Giles Harding had many important visitors to Belle Meade. In 1843, Gen. Edmund Pendleton Gaines, US Mary, and Gen. Robert Patterson of Philadelphia, spent a day there. "Gaines may have told General Harding the story of the roles he and Harding's kinsman, Nicholas ("Bigbee") Perkins, of Williamson County, played in the capture of Aaron Burr in the Mississippi Territory in 1807. Although that took place the year before Harding was born, he had grown up hearing the story." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nicolas arrested Vice President Aaron Burr: The story following Vice President Aaron Burr's killing of Alexander Hamilton in a duel is very interesting. Burr had journeyed to Nashville, TN, and to Mississippi. While in MS, a judge wanted to hold Burr for questioning. There were rumors that he was to be charged with treason for fermenting a war with Mexico. "Fearing that he would not receive fair treatment, Burr fled to the Mississippi wilderness with his friend Chester Ashley. His only hope was to find a port with a ship that would take him to Europe. While seeking food and drink the exhausted fugitive was spotted by an army patrol. He was arrested and detained at Fort Stoddard." "Nicholas Perkins, who had first identified Burr, volunteered to take him to Washington D. C. where his was to stand trial for treason. Perkins’ was given $3,300.00 in reward money and hoped to receive more after his party of eight guards and one prisoner finished their thousand-mile trek." A COMPLETE ACCOUNT of Nicholas Perkins' arrest of Aaron Burr: Albert James Pickett: HISTORY OF ALABAMA. (Kindly contributed by William C. Bell) CHAPTER XXXIII. THE ARREST OF AARON BURR IN ALABAMA. During a cold night in February, two young men--Nicholas PERKINS, a lawyer, and Thomas Malone, clerk of the court--were sitting in their cabin, in the village of Wakefield, Washington county, Alabama. Before them was a backgammon board, and they were absorbed in the playing of that game. The hour was ten o'clock. The distant tramp of horses arrested their attention Two travellers presently rode up to the door, one of whom inquired for the tavern. It was pointed out to him, and then he asked the road to Colonel Hinson's. Perkins informed him that the route lay over difficult paths, the place was seven miles distant, and a dangerous creek intervened. The fire, being replenished with pine, now threw a light in the face of the traveller who pronounced these questions. His countenance appeared to PERKINS exceedingly interesting. His eyes sparkled like diamonds, while he sat upon his splendid horse, caparisoned with a fine saddle and new hilsters. His dres was that of a plain farmer, but beneath his coarse pantaloons protruded a pair of exquisitely shaped boots. His striking features, with the strange mixture of his apparel, arouised the suspicions of PERKINS, and, no sooner had the two travelers ridden from the door, then he said to Malone, with the most earnest gesticulation, "That is Aaron Burr. I have read a description of him in the proclamation. I cannot be mistaken. Let us follow him to Hinson's, and take measures for his arrest." Malone declined to accompany him, remonsrtaing, at the same time, upon the folly of pursuing a traveler, at such a late hour of the night, and, upon the basis of the merest conjecture. Perkins now rushed to the cabin of Theodore Brightwell, the sheriff, and awoke him. Feb 18 1807: Presently these men were seen riding off with a rapid pace. The night was bitten cold, and the pine trees of the forest sadly moaned. The travelers strangely made their way to the residence of Hinson, where they arrived about half past eleven o'clock. The moon had just risen, and enabled the lady of the house, whose husband was absent, to see that they were travelers, by their saddle-bags and tin cups, as she timidly peered through a small window. She made no answer to their "halloo," but quetly closed the window. The strangers alighted and went into the kitchen, where a cheerful fire was yet burning. PERKINS and the sheriff soon came in sight of the house. The former, recollecting that he had


already been seen at Wakefield. thought it polite to remain in the woods, until Brightwell could go in the house, make the necessary discoveries, and return to him. Mrs. Hinson was a relative of the sheriff, and, recognizing his voice, felt relieved by his appearance from the fears she had felt in consequence of the strangers having come at such a late hour of the night. Brightwell repaired to the kitchen and discovered one of these men sitting by the fire, with his head down, while a handkerchief partially concealed his face. His companion had gone to the stable to assist a negro in taking care of the horses. It was not long before they went into the main building, where the hostess had hastily prepared supper. While the elder traveler was eating, he engaged her in a sprightly conversation, in which he often thanked her for her kindness. At the same time he cast the keenest glances at the sheriff, who stood before the fire, evidently with the endeavor to read his thoughts and intentions. After he had finished his supper he arose from the table, bowed to the lady, walked back to the kitchen and took his seat by the fire. Mrs. Hinson then turned to his companion, and said, "Have I not, sir, the honor of entertaining Colonel Burr, the gentleman who has just walked out?" He gave her no answer, but rose from the table, much embarrassed, and also repaired to the kitchen. Her question had been prompted by Brightwell. Feb 19 1807: In the morning, after breakfast, the elder traveler sought an interview with the lady, took occasion again to thank her for the hospitable attentions, regretted the absence of her husband, inquired the route to Pensacola, and rode off with his companion. PERKINS remained at his post in the woods, shivering with cold, and wondering why Brightwell did not return to him. His patience at length became exhausted, and, believing the person he was pursuing to be really Burr, he mounted his horse, and rode rapidly to the house of Joseph Bates, Sr., at Nannahubba Bluff. Procuring from that gentleman a negro and a canoe, he paddled down the river, and arrived at Fort Stoddart at the breaking of day. Rushing into the fort, and acquainting Captain Edward P. Gaines with his suspicions, the latter made instant preparations to take the road. After a hasty breakfast, about the rising of the sun, Gaines, placing himself at the head of a file of mounted soldiers, rode off with Perkins. About nine o'clock that morning they met the two mysterious travelers, on the descent of a hill, near a wolf pen, at the distance of two miles from the residence of Hinson. The following conversation immediately ensued: Gaines--I presume, sir, I have the honor of addressing Colonel Burr. Stranger--I am a traveler in the country, and do not recognize your right to ask such a question. Gaines--I arrest you at the instance of the Federal Government. Stranger--By what authority do you arrest a traveler upon the highway, on his own private business? Gaines--I am an officer of the army. I hold in my hands the proclamations of the President and the Governor, directing your arrest. Stranger--You are a young man, and may not be aware of the responsibilities which result from arresting travelers. Gaines--I am aware of the responsibilities, but I know my duty. The stranger now became exceedingly animated, and with much eloquence and force denounced these proclamations as documents which had emanated in malevolent feeling, without any just foundation, and endeavored again to frighten the young officer from discharging his duty, by ingeniously animadverting upon the great liabilities which he was about to assume. But Gaines sternly replied, "My mind is made up. You must accompany me to Fort Stoddart, where you shall be treated with all the respect due the ex-Vice-President of the United States, so long as you make no attempt to escape from me." The stranger for a moment gazed at him with earnestness, apparently surprised at the unusual firmness which the young officer exhibited. He then assented, by a gentle motion of his head, wheeled his horse around, and took the road to the fort, riding by the side of the captain. His traveling companion rode back toward Wakefield with Brightwell, the sheriff, who was in company with the two travelers when they were met by Gaines.* * It remains a mystery to this day why Brightwell did not keep his promise with PERKINS, and I can only account for it by supposing that he became fascinated with Colonel Burr, was sorry that he had sought to arrest him, and was now conducting him to Mrs. Carson's ferry, upon the Tombigby, on the route to Pensacola. Burr had seen Colonel Hinson at Natchez, who had invited him to his house should he ever pass that way. When he escaped from Natchez he was secreted, from time to time, at the houses of his friends, and he was hastening to Hinson's with whom he had intended to pass a week. But when he found him absent, and himself discovered by Brightwell, who probably informed him of the intentions of Perkins, he determined to fly to Pensacola, and there take a ship for Europe. He intended to enlist wealthy and influential persons, both in England and France, in the scheme of making the


conquest of the North American Spanish posessions, now that he had so signally failed to accomplish it in the United States. The party reached the fort in the evening, and Colonel Burr, being conducted to his room, took his dinner alone. Late in the night, he heard a groan in an adjoining room. He arose from a table, at which he was reading, opened the door, entered the room, and approached the bedside of Geo. S. Gaines, the brother of the commandant, who was sick. He was kind to the sufferer, felt of his pulse, said he had traveled much and knew something of medicine, and offered his services. They now entered into an agreeable conversation. Burr asked the Choctaw factor many questions about the Indians and their commerce. The next day he appeared at the dinner table, and was introduced to the wife of the commandant, who was the daughter of Judge Harry Toulmin. In the evening, he played chess with that accomplished lady, and, during his confinement at the fort, was often her competitor in that intricate game. Every night he sought the company of the invalid, who became exceedingly attached to him, and who felt deep regret on account of the downfall of so interesting and so distinguished a character. Often and often did the good heart of George S. Gaines grieve over the adversities and trials of this remarkable man, as they discoursed together. In all their conversations, maintained every night, the impenetrable Burr never once alluded to the designs which he had failed to carry out, to his present arrest, or to his future plans. About the period of March 6 1807:Arriving at the Boat Yard, Burr disembarked and was delivered to the guard which was so long to be with him in dangers and fatigues. It consisted of Colonel Nicholas Perkins, of Tennessee, who had, as we have seen, been the cause of his arrest, Thomas Malone, formerly a clerk About the in the land office at Raleigh, North Carolina, but who, period of at this period, was a clerk of the court of Washington county, Alabama, Henry B. Slade, of North Carolina, John Mills, a native of Alabama, John Henry, of Tennessee, two brothers, named McCormack, of Kentucky, and two federal soldiers. With the exception of the two soldiers, Perkins had chosen these men on account of the confidence which he reposed in their honor, energy and fidelity. He had been placed over them by Captain Gaines, who entertained a high opinion of his bravery and capacity. Perkins took his men aside and obtained from them the most solemn pledge that they would not suffer the prisoner to influence them in any manner in his behalf; to avoid which, they promised to converse as little as possible with him upon the whole route to Washington. The character of Burr for making strong impressions in his favor upon the human mind was well known to Perkins. When the prisoner fled from the Natchez settlements he assumed a disguised dress. He was still attired in it. It consisted of coarse pantaloons, made of homespun of a copperas dye, and a roundabout of inferior drab cloth, while his hat was a flapping, wide-brimmed beaver, which had in times past been white, but now presented a variety of dingy colors. When the guard was ready to depart he mounted the same elegant hors which he rode when arrested. He bestrode him most gracefully flashed his large dark eyes upon the many bystanders, audibly bade them farewell, and departed.* Perkins and his men were well provided with large pistols, which they carried in holsters, while the two soldiers had muskets. They left the Boat Yard, a quarter of a mile from which the terrible massacre of Fort Mims afterwards occurred, and, pursuing the Indian path, encamped the first night in the lower part of the present county of Monroe. The only tent taken along was pitched for Burr, and under it he lay the first night by large fires, which threw a glare over the dismal woods. All night his ears were saluted with the fierce and disagreeable howling of wolves. In the wilds of Alabama, in a small tent, reposed this remarkable man, surrounded by a guard, and without a solitary friend or congenial spirit. He was a prisoner of the United States, for whose liberties he had fought; and an exile from New York, whose statutes and institutions bore the impress of his mind. Death had deprived him of his accomplished wife, his only child was on the distant coast of Carolina, his professional pursuits were abandoned, his fortune swept from him, the magnificent scheme of the conquest of Mexico defeated, and he was harassed from one end of the Union to the other. All these things were sufficient to weigh down an ordinary being and hurry him to the grave. Burr, however, was no common man. In the morning he rose with a cheerful face, and fell into traveling order, along with the taciturn and watchful persons who had charge of him. * Many persons who saw Burr in Alabama have told me that his eyes were peculiarly brilliant, and, to use the comparison of Malone, "they looked like stars." 1807: Although guarded with vigilance, he was treated with respect and kindness, and his few wants were gratified. The trail, like all Indian highways, was narrow, which required the guard to march in single file, with Burr in the middle of the line. The route lay about eight miles south of the present city of Montgomery, then an Indian town called Econchate.* Passing by the residence of "Old Milly," who, as we have seen, lived upon the creek in Montgomery county, which still bears her name, Perkins employed her husband, a mulatto named Evans, to conduct the guard across Line Creek, Cubahatchee and Calabee, all of which they were forced to swim. It was a perilous and fatiguing march, and for days the rain descended in chilling torrents upon these unsheltered horsemen, collecting in deep and rapid rivulets at every point. Hundreds of Indians, too, thronged the trail, and the party might have been


killed in one moment. But the fearless Perkins bore on his distinguished prisoner, amid angry elements and human foes. In the journey through Alabama the guard always slept in the woods, near swamps of reed, upon which the belled and hobbled horses fed during the night. After breakfast, it was their custom again to mount their horses and march on, with a silence which was sometimes broken by a remark about the weather, the creeks or the Indians. Burr sat firmly in the saddle, was always on the alert, and was a most excellent rider. Although drenched for hours with cold and clammy rain, and at night extended upon a thin pallet, on the bare ground, after having accomplished a ride of forty miles each day, yet, in the whole distance to Richmond, this remarkable man was never heard to complain that he was sick, or even fatigued. At the Chattahoochie was a crossing place, owned by an Indian named Marshall, where the effects of the expedition were carried over the river in canoes, by the sides of which the horses swam. In this manner they passed the Flint and Ockmulgee. Arriving at Fort Wilkinson, on the Oconee, Perkins entered the first ferry-boat which he had seen upon the whole route, and, a few miles beyond the river, was sheltered by the first roof--a house of entertainment, kept by one Bevin. * Econchate means Red Ground. March 1807: While breakfast was in a state of preparation, and the guard were quietly sitting before a large fire, the publican began a series of questions; and learning that the party were from the "Bigby settlement," he immediately fell upon the fruitful theme of "Aaron Burr, the traitor." He asked if he had not been arrested--if he was not a very bad man--and if every one was not afraid of him. Perkins and the rest of the guard, much annoyed and embarrassed, hung down their heads, and made no reply. Burr, who was sitting in a corner near the fire, majestically raised his head, and flashing his fiery eye upon Bevin, said: "I am Aaron Burr; what is it you want with me?" Struck with the keenness of his look, the solemnity of his voice, and the dignity of his manner, Bevin stood aghast, and trembled like a leaf. He asked not another question of the guard, but quietly moved about the house, offering the most obsequious attentions. When Perkins reached the confines of South Carolina, he watched the prisoner more closely than ever, for in this State lived Colonel Joseph Alston--a man of talents and influence, afterwards governor--who had married the only daughter, and, indeed, the only child of Burr. Afraid that the prisoner would be rescued at some point in this State, he exhorted his men to renewed vigilance. Before entering the town, in which is situated the Court House of Chester District, South Carolina, he made a halt, and placed two men in front of Burr, two behind, and two on either side of him. In this manner they passed near a tavern, at the Court House, where many persons were standing in front of the portico, while music and dancing were heard in the house. Seeing the collection of men so near him, Burr threw himself from his horse, and exclaimed in a loud voice, "I am Aaron Burr, under military arrest, and claim the protection of the civil authroities." Perkins, with several of the guard, immediately dismounted, and the former ordered the prisoner to remount. Burr, in a most defiant manner, said, "I will not!" Being unwilling to shoot him, Perkins threw down his pistols, both of which he held in his hands, and seizing Burr around the waist with the grasp of a tiger, threw him into his saddle. Thomas Malone caught the reins of the prison's horse, slipped them over his head, and led the animal rapidly on, while others whipped him up from behind. The astonished citizens saw a party enter their village with a prisoner, heard him appeal to them for protection in the most audible and imploring manner, saw armed men immediately surround him and thrust him again into his saddle, and then the whole party vanish from their presence, before they could recover from their confusion. The least timidity or hesitation on the part of Perkins would have lost him his prisoner, for the latter was still popular in South Carolina. Mar. 30 1807: Far in the outskirts of the town the party halted. Burr was in a high state of excitement, and burst into a flood of tears. The kind-hearted Malone also wept, at seeing the low condition to which this conspicuous man was now reduced. The bold attempt to escape, and the irresolution of the people to whom he appealed, suddenly unmanned him. Perkins held a short consultation with some of his men, and sending Burr on the route in charge of the guard, with Malone in command, he went back to the village, and purchasing a gig overtook the party before night. Burr was placed in this vehicle and driven by Malone, escorted by the guard. Without further incident they arrived at Fredericksburg, where despatches from Jefferson caused them to take Burr to Richmond. The ladies of the latter place vied with each other in contributing to the comforts of the distinguished ex-Vice-President, sending him fruit, wine, and a variety of fine apparel. Perkins and his men repaired to Washington, reported to the President, and returned to Alabama by the distant route of Tennessee. Aaron Burr was arraigned for treason, and was tried and acquitted. He was then arraigned for misdemeanor, and was tried and acquitted. Thus ended the most expensive and extraordinary trial known to the country. A part of the time that he was in Richmond the Federal Government caused him to be confined in the upper story of the penitentiary,


where he was permitted to enjoy the company of his daughter. Sailing to Europe, Burr was at first treated with great distinction in England. The winter of 1809 found him in Edinburgh. Residing some time in Sweden and Germany, he at length arrived in France, where Bonaparte, influenced by letters from America, conceived a prejudice against him so immovable that he refused him passports to leave the country. At length the Duke de Bassano procured him the necessary documents, when he sailed for America, and arrived at New York on the 8th of June, 1812. Here he engaged again in the lucrative practice of the law, living in dignified obscurity, if such a position could be assigned to a man of his notoriety. He died at Staten Island, on the 11th of September, 1836, at the advanced age of eighty. His body, attended by his relations and friends, was taken to Princeton, New Jersey, and interred among the graves of his ancestors." DEATH NOTICES FROM THE WESTERN WEEKLY REVIEW, FRANKLIN, TENNESSEE 1841-1851 Abstracted by Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 2004 (Page 48) Major NICHOLAS PERKINS died January 6, 1848, "one of our most distinguished citizens." [In William K. Wall's DESCENDANTS OF NICHOLAS PERKINS OF VIRGINIA, Ann Arbor, 1957, pages 126-127, it is noted that Major Perkins was born in Pittsylvania Co., Va., March 14, 1779; died Jan. 6, 1848; married Mary Harden Perkins (1794-1840), Jan. 28, 1808; father of eleven children. It was he who arrested Aaron Burr for treason in 1807. He was a first cousin of Colonel Nicholas Tate Perkins, also of Williamson County.]

Nicholas married Mary Hardin PERKINS, daughter of Lt. Thomas Hardin PERKINS and Mary Magdalena O'NEAL. Mary was born 1794. She died4 23 Apr 1840 in Williamson Co., Tn.

"Mary Harden PERKINS; died April 23, 1840; wife of Nicholas Perkins, Esq; member of Presbyterian Church; W.W.R." (Early Obituaries of Williamson County, TN)


218 F i. Mary Elizabeth PERKINS.

219 F ii. Sara Agatha PERKINS.

220 F iii. Margaret Ann PERKINS.

221 M iv. Nicholas Edwin (son of Nicholas & Mary) PERKINS.

222 v. (total of 11 children) PERKINS.

89. Mary Hardin PERKINS (Thomas Hardin PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1794. She died4 23 Apr 1840 in Williamson Co., Tn.

"Mary Harden PERKINS; died April 23, 1840; wife of Nicholas Perkins, Esq; member of Presbyterian Church; W.W.R." (Early Obituaries of Williamson County, TN)

Mary married Maj. Nicholas (III) "BigBee" PERKINS, son of Nicholas, Jr. PERKINS and Leah (dau of John & Martha Gaines) PRYOR. Nicholas was born 14 Mar 1779. He died 6 Jan 1848 in TN.

Nicolas Perkins once lived in "Meeting of the Waters", the home where Ridley Wills, II now lives in Franklin County, TN. "History of Belle Meade" by Ridley Wills, II. William Giles Harding had many important visitors to Belle Meade. In 1843, Gen. Edmund Pendleton Gaines, US Mary, and Gen. Robert Patterson of Philadelphia, spent a day there. "Gaines may have told General Harding the story of the roles he and Harding's kinsman, Nicholas ("Bigbee") Perkins, of Williamson County, played in the capture of Aaron Burr in the Mississippi Territory in 1807. Although that took place the year before Harding was born, he had grown up hearing the story." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nicolas arrested Vice President Aaron Burr:


The story following Vice President Aaron Burr's killing of Alexander Hamilton in a duel is very interesting. Burr had journeyed to Nashville, TN, and to Mississippi. While in MS, a judge wanted to hold Burr for questioning. There were rumors that he was to be charged with treason for fermenting a war with Mexico. "Fearing that he would not receive fair treatment, Burr fled to the Mississippi wilderness with his friend Chester Ashley. His only hope was to find a port with a ship that would take him to Europe. While seeking food and drink the exhausted fugitive was spotted by an army patrol. He was arrested and detained at Fort Stoddard." "Nicholas Perkins, who had first identified Burr, volunteered to take him to Washington D. C. where his was to stand trial for treason. Perkins’ was given $3,300.00 in reward money and hoped to receive more after his party of eight guards and one prisoner finished their thousand-mile trek." A COMPLETE ACCOUNT of Nicholas Perkins' arrest of Aaron Burr: Albert James Pickett: HISTORY OF ALABAMA. (Kindly contributed by William C. Bell) CHAPTER XXXIII. THE ARREST OF AARON BURR IN ALABAMA. During a cold night in February, two young men--Nicholas PERKINS, a lawyer, and Thomas Malone, clerk of the court--were sitting in their cabin, in the village of Wakefield, Washington county, Alabama. Before them was a backgammon board, and they were absorbed in the playing of that game. The hour was ten o'clock. The distant tramp of horses arrested their attention Two travellers presently rode up to the door, one of whom inquired for the tavern. It was pointed out to him, and then he asked the road to Colonel Hinson's. Perkins informed him that the route lay over difficult paths, the place was seven miles distant, and a dangerous creek intervened. The fire, being replenished with pine, now threw a light in the face of the traveller who pronounced these questions. His countenance appeared to PERKINS exceedingly interesting. His eyes sparkled like diamonds, while he sat upon his splendid horse, caparisoned with a fine saddle and new hilsters. His dres was that of a plain farmer, but beneath his coarse pantaloons protruded a pair of exquisitely shaped boots. His striking features, with the strange mixture of his apparel, arouised the suspicions of PERKINS, and, no sooner had the two travelers ridden from the door, then he said to Malone, with the most earnest gesticulation, "That is Aaron Burr. I have read a description of him in the proclamation. I cannot be mistaken. Let us follow him to Hinson's, and take measures for his arrest." Malone declined to accompany him, remonsrtaing, at the same time, upon the folly of pursuing a traveler, at such a late hour of the night, and, upon the basis of the merest conjecture. Perkins now rushed to the cabin of Theodore Brightwell, the sheriff, and awoke him. Feb 18 1807: Presently these men were seen riding off with a rapid pace. The night was bitten cold, and the pine trees of the forest sadly moaned. The travelers strangely made their way to the residence of Hinson, where they arrived about half past eleven o'clock. The moon had just risen, and enabled the lady of the house, whose husband was absent, to see that they were travelers, by their saddle-bags and tin cups, as she timidly peered through a small window. She made no answer to their "halloo," but quetly closed the window. The strangers alighted and went into the kitchen, where a cheerful fire was yet burning. PERKINS and the sheriff soon came in sight of the house. The former, recollecting that he had already been seen at Wakefield. thought it polite to remain in the woods, until Brightwell could go in the house, make the necessary discoveries, and return to him. Mrs. Hinson was a relative of the sheriff, and, recognizing his voice, felt relieved by his appearance from the fears she had felt in consequence of the strangers having come at such a late hour of the night. Brightwell repaired to the kitchen and discovered one of these men sitting by the fire, with his head down, while a handkerchief partially concealed his face. His companion had gone to the stable to assist a negro in taking care of the horses. It was not long before they went into the main building, where the hostess had hastily prepared supper. While the elder traveler was eating, he engaged her in a sprightly conversation, in which he often thanked her for her kindness. At the same time he cast the keenest glances at the sheriff, who stood before the fire, evidently with the endeavor to read his thoughts and intentions. After he had finished his supper he arose from the table, bowed to the lady, walked back to the kitchen and took his seat by the fire. Mrs. Hinson then turned to his companion, and said, "Have I not, sir, the honor of entertaining Colonel Burr, the gentleman who has just walked out?" He gave her no answer, but rose from the table, much embarrassed, and also repaired to the kitchen. Her question had been prompted by Brightwell. Feb 19 1807: In the morning, after breakfast, the elder traveler sought an interview with the lady, took occasion again to thank her for the hospitable attentions, regretted the absence of her husband, inquired the route to Pensacola, and rode off with his companion. PERKINS remained at his post in the woods, shivering with cold, and wondering why Brightwell did not return to him. His patience at length became exhausted, and, believing the person he was pursuing to be really Burr, he mounted his horse, and rode rapidly to the house of Joseph Bates, Sr., at Nannahubba Bluff. Procuring from that


gentleman a negro and a canoe, he paddled down the river, and arrived at Fort Stoddart at the breaking of day. Rushing into the fort, and acquainting Captain Edward P. Gaines with his suspicions, the latter made instant preparations to take the road. After a hasty breakfast, about the rising of the sun, Gaines, placing himself at the head of a file of mounted soldiers, rode off with Perkins. About nine o'clock that morning they met the two mysterious travelers, on the descent of a hill, near a wolf pen, at the distance of two miles from the residence of Hinson. The following conversation immediately ensued: Gaines--I presume, sir, I have the honor of addressing Colonel Burr. Stranger--I am a traveler in the country, and do not recognize your right to ask such a question. Gaines--I arrest you at the instance of the Federal Government. Stranger--By what authority do you arrest a traveler upon the highway, on his own private business? Gaines--I am an officer of the army. I hold in my hands the proclamations of the President and the Governor, directing your arrest. Stranger--You are a young man, and may not be aware of the responsibilities which result from arresting travelers. Gaines--I am aware of the responsibilities, but I know my duty. The stranger now became exceedingly animated, and with much eloquence and force denounced these proclamations as documents which had emanated in malevolent feeling, without any just foundation, and endeavored again to frighten the young officer from discharging his duty, by ingeniously animadverting upon the great liabilities which he was about to assume. But Gaines sternly replied, "My mind is made up. You must accompany me to Fort Stoddart, where you shall be treated with all the respect due the ex-Vice-President of the United States, so long as you make no attempt to escape from me." The stranger for a moment gazed at him with earnestness, apparently surprised at the unusual firmness which the young officer exhibited. He then assented, by a gentle motion of his head, wheeled his horse around, and took the road to the fort, riding by the side of the captain. His traveling companion rode back toward Wakefield with Brightwell, the sheriff, who was in company with the two travelers when they were met by Gaines.* * It remains a mystery to this day why Brightwell did not keep his promise with PERKINS, and I can only account for it by supposing that he became fascinated with Colonel Burr, was sorry that he had sought to arrest him, and was now conducting him to Mrs. Carson's ferry, upon the Tombigby, on the route to Pensacola. Burr had seen Colonel Hinson at Natchez, who had invited him to his house should he ever pass that way. When he escaped from Natchez he was secreted, from time to time, at the houses of his friends, and he was hastening to Hinson's with whom he had intended to pass a week. But when he found him absent, and himself discovered by Brightwell, who probably informed him of the intentions of Perkins, he determined to fly to Pensacola, and there take a ship for Europe. He intended to enlist wealthy and influential persons, both in England and France, in the scheme of making the conquest of the North American Spanish posessions, now that he had so signally failed to accomplish it in the United States. The party reached the fort in the evening, and Colonel Burr, being conducted to his room, took his dinner alone. Late in the night, he heard a groan in an adjoining room. He arose from a table, at which he was reading, opened the door, entered the room, and approached the bedside of Geo. S. Gaines, the brother of the commandant, who was sick. He was kind to the sufferer, felt of his pulse, said he had traveled much and knew something of medicine, and offered his services. They now entered into an agreeable conversation. Burr asked the Choctaw factor many questions about the Indians and their commerce. The next day he appeared at the dinner table, and was introduced to the wife of the commandant, who was the daughter of Judge Harry Toulmin. In the evening, he played chess with that accomplished lady, and, during his confinement at the fort, was often her competitor in that intricate game. Every night he sought the company of the invalid, who became exceedingly attached to him, and who felt deep regret on account of the downfall of so interesting and so distinguished a character. Often and often did the good heart of George S. Gaines grieve over the adversities and trials of this remarkable man, as they discoursed together. In all their conversations, maintained every night, the impenetrable Burr never once alluded to the designs which he had failed to carry out, to his present arrest, or to his future plans. About the period of March 6 1807:Arriving at the Boat Yard, Burr disembarked and was delivered to the guard which was so long to be with him in dangers and fatigues. It consisted of Colonel Nicholas Perkins, of Tennessee,


who had, as we have seen, been the cause of his arrest, Thomas Malone, formerly a clerk About the in the land office at Raleigh, North Carolina, but who, period of at this period, was a clerk of the court of Washington county, Alabama, Henry B. Slade, of North Carolina, John Mills, a native of Alabama, John Henry, of Tennessee, two brothers, named McCormack, of Kentucky, and two federal soldiers. With the exception of the two soldiers, Perkins had chosen these men on account of the confidence which he reposed in their honor, energy and fidelity. He had been placed over them by Captain Gaines, who entertained a high opinion of his bravery and capacity. Perkins took his men aside and obtained from them the most solemn pledge that they would not suffer the prisoner to influence them in any manner in his behalf; to avoid which, they promised to converse as little as possible with him upon the whole route to Washington. The character of Burr for making strong impressions in his favor upon the human mind was well known to Perkins. When the prisoner fled from the Natchez settlements he assumed a disguised dress. He was still attired in it. It consisted of coarse pantaloons, made of homespun of a copperas dye, and a roundabout of inferior drab cloth, while his hat was a flapping, wide-brimmed beaver, which had in times past been white, but now presented a variety of dingy colors. When the guard was ready to depart he mounted the same elegant hors which he rode when arrested. He bestrode him most gracefully flashed his large dark eyes upon the many bystanders, audibly bade them farewell, and departed.* Perkins and his men were well provided with large pistols, which they carried in holsters, while the two soldiers had muskets. They left the Boat Yard, a quarter of a mile from which the terrible massacre of Fort Mims afterwards occurred, and, pursuing the Indian path, encamped the first night in the lower part of the present county of Monroe. The only tent taken along was pitched for Burr, and under it he lay the first night by large fires, which threw a glare over the dismal woods. All night his ears were saluted with the fierce and disagreeable howling of wolves. In the wilds of Alabama, in a small tent, reposed this remarkable man, surrounded by a guard, and without a solitary friend or congenial spirit. He was a prisoner of the United States, for whose liberties he had fought; and an exile from New York, whose statutes and institutions bore the impress of his mind. Death had deprived him of his accomplished wife, his only child was on the distant coast of Carolina, his professional pursuits were abandoned, his fortune swept from him, the magnificent scheme of the conquest of Mexico defeated, and he was harassed from one end of the Union to the other. All these things were sufficient to weigh down an ordinary being and hurry him to the grave. Burr, however, was no common man. In the morning he rose with a cheerful face, and fell into traveling order, along with the taciturn and watchful persons who had charge of him. * Many persons who saw Burr in Alabama have told me that his eyes were peculiarly brilliant, and, to use the comparison of Malone, "they looked like stars." 1807: Although guarded with vigilance, he was treated with respect and kindness, and his few wants were gratified. The trail, like all Indian highways, was narrow, which required the guard to march in single file, with Burr in the middle of the line. The route lay about eight miles south of the present city of Montgomery, then an Indian town called Econchate.* Passing by the residence of "Old Milly," who, as we have seen, lived upon the creek in Montgomery county, which still bears her name, Perkins employed her husband, a mulatto named Evans, to conduct the guard across Line Creek, Cubahatchee and Calabee, all of which they were forced to swim. It was a perilous and fatiguing march, and for days the rain descended in chilling torrents upon these unsheltered horsemen, collecting in deep and rapid rivulets at every point. Hundreds of Indians, too, thronged the trail, and the party might have been killed in one moment. But the fearless Perkins bore on his distinguished prisoner, amid angry elements and human foes. In the journey through Alabama the guard always slept in the woods, near swamps of reed, upon which the belled and hobbled horses fed during the night. After breakfast, it was their custom again to mount their horses and march on, with a silence which was sometimes broken by a remark about the weather, the creeks or the Indians. Burr sat firmly in the saddle, was always on the alert, and was a most excellent rider. Although drenched for hours with cold and clammy rain, and at night extended upon a thin pallet, on the bare ground, after having accomplished a ride of forty miles each day, yet, in the whole distance to Richmond, this remarkable man was never heard to complain that he was sick, or even fatigued. At the Chattahoochie was a crossing place, owned by an Indian named Marshall, where the effects of the expedition were carried over the river in canoes, by the sides of which the horses swam. In this manner they passed the Flint and Ockmulgee. Arriving at Fort Wilkinson, on the Oconee, Perkins entered the first ferry-boat which he had seen upon the whole route, and, a few miles beyond the river, was sheltered by the first roof--a house of entertainment, kept by one Bevin. * Econchate means Red Ground. March 1807: While breakfast was in a state of preparation, and the guard were quietly sitting before a large fire, the publican began a series of questions; and learning that the party were from the "Bigby settlement," he immediately fell upon the fruitful theme of "Aaron Burr, the traitor." He asked if he had not been arrested--if he was not a very bad man--and if every one was not afraid of him. Perkins and the rest of the guard, much annoyed and embarrassed,


hung down their heads, and made no reply. Burr, who was sitting in a corner near the fire, majestically raised his head, and flashing his fiery eye upon Bevin, said: "I am Aaron Burr; what is it you want with me?" Struck with the keenness of his look, the solemnity of his voice, and the dignity of his manner, Bevin stood aghast, and trembled like a leaf. He asked not another question of the guard, but quietly moved about the house, offering the most obsequious attentions. When Perkins reached the confines of South Carolina, he watched the prisoner more closely than ever, for in this State lived Colonel Joseph Alston--a man of talents and influence, afterwards governor--who had married the only daughter, and, indeed, the only child of Burr. Afraid that the prisoner would be rescued at some point in this State, he exhorted his men to renewed vigilance. Before entering the town, in which is situated the Court House of Chester District, South Carolina, he made a halt, and placed two men in front of Burr, two behind, and two on either side of him. In this manner they passed near a tavern, at the Court House, where many persons were standing in front of the portico, while music and dancing were heard in the house. Seeing the collection of men so near him, Burr threw himself from his horse, and exclaimed in a loud voice, "I am Aaron Burr, under military arrest, and claim the protection of the civil authroities." Perkins, with several of the guard, immediately dismounted, and the former ordered the prisoner to remount. Burr, in a most defiant manner, said, "I will not!" Being unwilling to shoot him, Perkins threw down his pistols, both of which he held in his hands, and seizing Burr around the waist with the grasp of a tiger, threw him into his saddle. Thomas Malone caught the reins of the prison's horse, slipped them over his head, and led the animal rapidly on, while others whipped him up from behind. The astonished citizens saw a party enter their village with a prisoner, heard him appeal to them for protection in the most audible and imploring manner, saw armed men immediately surround him and thrust him again into his saddle, and then the whole party vanish from their presence, before they could recover from their confusion. The least timidity or hesitation on the part of Perkins would have lost him his prisoner, for the latter was still popular in South Carolina. Mar. 30 1807: Far in the outskirts of the town the party halted. Burr was in a high state of excitement, and burst into a flood of tears. The kind-hearted Malone also wept, at seeing the low condition to which this conspicuous man was now reduced. The bold attempt to escape, and the irresolution of the people to whom he appealed, suddenly unmanned him. Perkins held a short consultation with some of his men, and sending Burr on the route in charge of the guard, with Malone in command, he went back to the village, and purchasing a gig overtook the party before night. Burr was placed in this vehicle and driven by Malone, escorted by the guard. Without further incident they arrived at Fredericksburg, where despatches from Jefferson caused them to take Burr to Richmond. The ladies of the latter place vied with each other in contributing to the comforts of the distinguished ex-Vice-President, sending him fruit, wine, and a variety of fine apparel. Perkins and his men repaired to Washington, reported to the President, and returned to Alabama by the distant route of Tennessee. Aaron Burr was arraigned for treason, and was tried and acquitted. He was then arraigned for misdemeanor, and was tried and acquitted. Thus ended the most expensive and extraordinary trial known to the country. A part of the time that he was in Richmond the Federal Government caused him to be confined in the upper story of the penitentiary, where he was permitted to enjoy the company of his daughter. Sailing to Europe, Burr was at first treated with great distinction in England. The winter of 1809 found him in Edinburgh. Residing some time in Sweden and Germany, he at length arrived in France, where Bonaparte, influenced by letters from America, conceived a prejudice against him so immovable that he refused him passports to leave the country. At length the Duke de Bassano procured him the necessary documents, when he sailed for America, and arrived at New York on the 8th of June, 1812. Here he engaged again in the lucrative practice of the law, living in dignified obscurity, if such a position could be assigned to a man of his notoriety. He died at Staten Island, on the 11th of September, 1836, at the advanced age of eighty. His body, attended by his relations and friends, was taken to Princeton, New Jersey, and interred among the graves of his ancestors." DEATH NOTICES FROM THE WESTERN WEEKLY REVIEW, FRANKLIN, TENNESSEE 1841-1851 Abstracted by Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 2004 (Page 48) Major NICHOLAS PERKINS died January 6, 1848, "one of our most distinguished citizens." [In William K. Wall's


DESCENDANTS OF NICHOLAS PERKINS OF VIRGINIA, Ann Arbor, 1957, pages 126-127, it is noted that Major Perkins was born in Pittsylvania Co., Va., March 14, 1779; died Jan. 6, 1848; married Mary Harden Perkins (1794-1840), Jan. 28, 1808; father of eleven children. It was he who arrested Aaron Burr for treason in 1807. He was a first cousin of Colonel Nicholas Tate Perkins, also of Williamson County.]


223 F i. Mary Elizabeth PERKINS is printed as #218.

224 F ii. Sara Agatha PERKINS is printed as #219.

225 F iii. Margaret Ann PERKINS is printed as #220.

226 M iv. Nicholas Edwin (son of Nicholas & Mary) PERKINS is printed as #221.

227 v. (total of 11 children) PERKINS is printed as #222.

91. William O'Neal PERKINS (Thomas Hardin PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 28 Feb 1791.

William married Pocahontas Rebecca Bolling MEREDITH.

Name: Pocahontas Rebecca Bolling MEREDITH 1 1 Birth: 18 SEP 1806 in Nottoway, Hanover Co. VA 1 Birth: 18 SEP 1806 in Nottoway, VA 1 Death: 6 MAY 1838 in Lauderdale, Franklin Co. AL 1 1 Father: Elisha MEREDITH b: 13 OCT 1783 in Hanover Co. VA, St. Paul's Parish Mother: Sarah Bolling CABELL b: 29 MAY 1786 in Repton, Buckingham Co. VA


228 F i. Mary Magdelene PERKINS was born 9 Sep 1828 in Lauderdale County, AL.

229 M ii. Thomas Hardin (3rd of the name) PERKINS was born 18 Dec 1829. He died 1 Aug 1873.

Thomas married Louisa HEWITT.

230 F iii. Elizabeth Ann PERKINS was born 26 Jan 1832 in "The Forks" Franklin County, AL. She died 18 Aug 1872 in Florence, Lauderdale County, AL.

Marriage 1 James JACKSON b: 22 APR 1822 in Florence, AL Married: 5 OCT 1850 Children William JACKSON b: 1852 Jane JACKSON b: 3 FEB 1853 in Florence, AL Mary JACKSON b: 1854 in Florence, AL Eleanor JACKSON b: 1856 Sarah A JACKSON b: 1856 in Florence, AL James K JACKSON b: 7 APR 1861 in Florence, AL

Elizabeth married James JACKSON.

231 F iv. Sarah Cabell PERKINS was born 23 May 1834 in "The Forks" Franklin County, AL. She died 16 Mar 1868.

Marriage 1 George Moore JACKSON b: 1816 in Moorefields Children Alexander JACKSON b: 1854 Elizabeth JACKSON b: 1856 Jane Kate JACKSON b: 1858 in Hamilton Place, Maury, TN Martha JACKSON b: 1860 Rufus Polk JACKSON b: 1861 Kate Breckinridge JACKSON b: 1863 Richard Harrison JACKSON b: 1864

Sarah married George Moore JACKSON.


92. Bethenia LETCHER (Elizabeth PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 21 Mar 1780.

Bethenia married David PANNILL.


+ 232 F i. Elizabeth Letcher PANNILL was born 4 Jan 1801.

233 M ii. William PANNILL.

93. John Adams HAIRSTON (Elizabeth PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1781 in Henry Co., VA. He died in Mississippi.

John married Melinda CORN.


234 M i. George (killed in the War) HAIRSTON C.S.A..

George HAIRSTON - George was killed fighting for the CSA during the War for Southern Independence at the Battle of Shiloh while serving under Albert Sydney Johnston.

235 M ii. Marshall HAIRSTON C.S.A..

Marshall enlisted with the CSA while a youth and served during the War for Southern Indepencence on Gen. Walthall's staff. Marshall married (1) Mary WENDELL-4868. Mary was born in MS.

Marshall married Mary WENDELL.

236 F iii. Elizabeth HAIRSTON.

Elizabeth married Lewis JONES.

237 M iv. Susan HAIRSTON.

Susan married Capt. Rowland JONES C.S.A..

95. Samuel HAIRSTON (Elizabeth PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1788 in Oak Hill Plantation, Pittsylvania County. He died 1875.

Samuel Hairston (1788-1875) was a brother of Robert Hairston and lived at Oak Hill Plantation in Pittsylvania County, Va. He married Agnes John Peter Wilson (1801-1880), the daughter of Peter Wilson and Ruth Stoval (Hairston) Wilson Hairston, and they had seven children. In 1854, several newspaper articles described Samuel Hairston as the wealthiest man in Virginia and possibly in the country. His wealth was estimated at between three million and five million dollars, including ownership of around 1700 slaves on plantations in Henry and Patrick counties, Va., and Stokes County, N.C. There are also references in these articles to the comparative wealth of his relatives. -------------------------------------------------- Inventory of the Wilson and Hairston Family Papers, 1751-1928 Univ. of NC Collection Number 4134 The papers from 1833 to 1880 are principally those of Samuel Hairston (1788-1875), Robert Hairston (1783-1852), Ruth Stoval (Hairston) Wilson Hairston (1783-1869), and Peter Wilson Hairston (1819-1886). Most of the papers from 1833 to 1860 are business correspondence and financial papers. These papers include letters, bills, and receipts from numerous Danville, Lynchburg, Petersburg, and Richmond, Va., merchants about the sale of tobacco, cotton, wheat, and flour crops; merchandise the Hairstons ordered; and occasional political news. Much of the personal correspondence from 1833 to 1860 is that of Peter Wilson Hairston, with earlier correspondence pertaining to student life at the University of North Carolina and the University of Virginia and later correspondence concerning plantation management. From 1860 to 1865, there are few items, mostly letters from Peter Wilson Hairston to Samuel Hairston concerning the management of Cooleemee Plantation and scattered letters to Samuel Hairston from Confederate soldiers and officers concerning, respectively, gifts of money for their families and the purchasing of crops for the troops. From 1866 to 1880, there are primarily financial papers consisting of bills and receipts for general merchandise bought by Samuel Hairston and Ruth Stoval (Hairston) Wilson Hairston from Danville, Va.,


merchants and from Herbert Hairston, Peter Wilson Hairston's business partner in Baltimore, Md., and accounts of tenants at Royal Oak and Brierfield farms. Miscellaneous material includes minutes, 1833-1868, of the Mayo Baptist Association, the County Line Baptist Association, and the Staunton River Baptist Association.

Samuel married Agnes John Peter WILSON, daughter of Peter (son of John) WILSON and Ruth Stovall HAIRSTON. Agnes was born 1801. She died 1880.


+ 238 M i. Maj. Peter Wilson HAIRSTON C.S.A. was born 1819 and died 1886.

239 M ii. George HAIRSTON.

Biographical Note Born in Pittsylvania County, Va., in 1822, tobacco planter George Hairston (1822-1866) was the second of Agnes John Peter (Wilson) and Samuel Hairston's seven children. In 1823, Samuel Hairston (1784-1880), who in the 1850s became known as the "richest man in Virginia," built Oak Hill plantation in Pittsylvania County. George spent his early years at Oak Hill and attended the plantation school along with his brother Peter's future wife, Columbia Stuart, and her brother, the future Confederate general, James Ewell Brown (Jeb) Stuart. Like his brother Peter, George attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, but, unlike the former, George performed poorly and left the University after several incidents. In 1855, George Hairston married Anne Elizabeth Lash (1834-1925), the daughter of William and Anne Powell Hughes Lash of Bethany, N.C. Between 1855 and George's death in 1866, the couple and their two children, William and Samuel, lived at Berry Hill, the Pittsylvania County plantation of George's grandmother, Ruth Stovall Hairston. In 1875, Anne Hairston (often called Lizzie) married Colonel Forney George, with whom she had one child, Elizabeth Lash George (the future Mrs. Spencer James). Widowed again in 1877, Mrs. George returned to Oak Hill to live with her son Samuel. She died in Danville, Va., in 1925. Louisa Hardyman Hairston was George Hairston's first cousin by his paternal uncle, George Hairston (1784-1863). Louisa married Peter Wilson Watkins (fl. 1846-1865) and had three children: Hairston, Nannie, and Loulie. \\ Collection Overview - Manuscripts Department - Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION #4477 - GEORGE HAIRSTON PAPERS - Inventory Chiefly the correspondence and business papers of George Hairston, with significant correspondence of Peter and Louisa Watkins. The bulk of George Hairston's papers appear between 1850 and 1860. His estate papers, kept by William Lash, cover the period from 1866 to 1898. Hairston's correspondence consists mostly of letters from his older brother, Peter. Correspondence for the Watkins family is scattered between 1851 and 1872, with the bulk found in 1858 and 1864. Most of the letters are addressed to Louisa Watkins. A considerable number of Civil War items appear. The best opportunities to be found in this collection are for the study of family and neighborhood life, estate settlements, Civil War civilian and military experiences, and postwar finances in Virginia and North Carolina. Locations best documented include Pittsylvania and Henry counties, Va., and Stokes and Davie counties, N.C. Many of the Civil War letters pertain to soldiers in Virginia's 24th Cavalry Regiment, including Hairston Watkins. His captivity at Point Lookout, Md., in 1864 is also documented. A few scattered items relate to the North Carolina 9th Brigade. The papers provide little information on individuals, other than George Hairston and Peter Watkins, for whom financial and legal papers appear.

George married Elizabeth LASH.


240 M iii. Henry (never married) HAIRSTON.

241 M iv. Robert (never married) HAIRSTON.

242 F v. Ruth HAIRSTON.

Ruth married Sam WILSON.

+ 243 F vi. Alcey HAIRSTON was born 1830 and died 1914.

96. George HAIRSTON (Elizabeth PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1784.

George married Louisa HARDYMAN.


244 M i. John Tyler HAIRSTON.

John married Pocahontas CABELL.

245 M ii. George Stovall HAIRSTON.

George married Matilda MARTIN, daughter of Col. Joseph MARTIN and Sally HUGHES. Matilda was born in Greenwood, Henry Co., VA.

246 F iii. Elizabeth HAIRSTON.

Elizabeth married John T. SEAWELL. John was born in Gloucester Co., VA.

247 F iv. Susan Maria HAIRSTON was born in Henry Co., VA.

Susan married Col. William MARTIN C.S.A., son of Col. Joseph MARTIN and Sally HUGHES. William was born 1814. He died 1888.

William was born 1814 in Greenwood, Henry Co., VA. He died 1888 in Henry Co., VA. William was educated at the University of Virginia and practiced as an orator, lawyer, and statesman. He was a member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850-51. During the War for Southern Independence, William served as a Colonel in the 42nd. Virginia Infantry, CSA.

248 M v. Nicholas Hardiman HAIRSTON.

Nicholas married Sarah Hughes DILLARD.

+ 249 F vi. Louisa Hardiman HAIRSTON.

250 M vii. Robert Henry HAIRSTON.

Robert married Elizabeth (dau of Sam & Mary) SAUNDERS, daughter of Samuel SAUNDERS.

251 F viii. Mary Louisa HAIRSTON.

Mary married Harry M. DARNALL.

252 F ix. Lizzie Lee HAIRSTON.

Lizzie married William S. GRAVELEY`.

+ 253 M x. Samuel William HAIRSTON.

103. America HAIRSTON (Elizabeth PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1801.

America married John CALLOWAY.


254 M i. George Hairston (never married) CALLOWAY.

255 F ii. Bethenia Ruth CALLOWAY.

Bethenia married George PANNILL, son of Morton PANNILL and Mary JOHNS.

104. Marshall HAIRSTON (Elizabeth PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1802.


Marshall married Ann HAIRSTON.


256 M i. John (died in the War) HAIRSTON C.S.A..

John HAIRSTON was born in Henry Co., VA. He died 1862 in battlefield, Williamsburg, VA. John died during the War for Southern Independence at the Battle of Williamsburg while in service of the CSA.

257 F ii. Elizabeth P. HAIRSTON.

Elizabeth married J.W.T. HAIRSTON.

258 F iii. Ann Marshall (never married) HAIRSTON.

259 F iv. Ruth Stovall HAIRSTON.

Ruth married Robert WIILSON.

105. Ruth Stovall HAIRSTON (Elizabeth PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1804 in Henry Co., VA.

Ruth married Peter HAIRSTON, son of Samuel HAIRSTON and Judith SAUNDERS. Peter was born in Franklin Co., VA.


260 M i. Samuel HAIRSTON.

Samuel married Henrietta JONES. Henrietta was born in Appomattox Co., VA.

261 M ii. Col. Peter (Jr.) HAIRSTON C.S.A. was born in Henry Co., VA.

Peter was educated at West Point. During the War for Southern Independence, he served as a Colonel in the 24th. Virginia Infantry, CSA serving under General's Early and Beauregard. He was officially commended for fidelty and bravery during service.

Peter married Lou JONES.

262 M iii. George HAIRSTON.

George married Patti SMITH.

263 F iv. Elizabeth HAIRSTON.

Elizabeth married (1) Peter DILLARD.

Elizabeth also married (2) John REAMEY, son of Daniel & Susannah (Starling) REAMEY.

116. Joseph POLLARD (Sarah HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS).

Joseph married Elizabeth THORNTON.


264 M i. William S. POLLARD.

William S. POLLARD b: 25 MAY 1799 d: 1872 + Electra Ann CATT b: 1814 d: 1856 2 Emma Jane POLLARD b: 1836 d: 1904 + Samuel Hunter LEWIS b: 1828 d: 1913 3 Margaret LEWIS + James Henderson HALE 2 Mary Elizabeth POLLARD b: 1851 + James Knox Polk HALE b: 1842 d: 1913 3 Mary Pollard HALE + Jacques Francis MANIER


119. George HARDIN of Virginia (Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 17 Dec 1773 in Goochland County, VA. He died 1822 in Powhatan County, VA.

Information on George Harding, Sr. (b. 1773) and descendants from Harden-in-ing Family Assoc. George never moved from Virginia, as his siblings did.

George married Elizabeth BAKER.

Corey and Samantha Jacobs Family Tree: Marriage 1 Elizabeth Baker b: ABT. 1777 in of, Goochland, Virginia


265 M i. John B. HARDIN was born 1799 in Goochland County, VA. He died 30 Aug 1821.

266 F ii. Elizabeth Dillah HARDIN was born 9 Oct 1802.

Elizabeth married Stephen C. FARRAR.

267 M iii. George M. HARDIN was born about 1801.

Marriage 1 Mary G. Heiskell Marriage 2 Polly W. Wilkinson Married: 20 DEC 1821 in Powhatan, Virginia "History of Belle Meade" by Ridley Wills, II pg 66. Gen. William Giles Harding takes his wife, Elizabeth, along with his son John and "the Misses Bass" on a trip to the Eastern Seaboard. "The party stopped briefly at Richmond, where Harding enjoyed seeing his first cousin, George M. Harding."

268 F iv. Mahala HARDIN was born 1804. She died 6 Sep 1820.

269 F v. Catherine Amanda HARDIN was born about 1806.

Catherine married Alexander C. JOHNSON.

270 M vi. Peter Giles HARDIN was born Jun 1808. He died 1 Aug 1825.

271 M vii. Thomas P. HARDIN was born 1809. He died 3 Oct 1832.

+ 272 M viii. William Oliver HARDIN was born 1812 and died 14 Feb 1894.

273 F ix. Sarah Ann HARDIN was born 24 Jan 1814.

Marriage 1 Buck Wells Marriage 2 William N. Patterson Married: 27 JAN 1931 in Powhatan, Virginia 1 Children Agnes Patterson Ella Patterson Virginia Lee Patterson b: ABT. 1833 in VA

120. Sarah "Sally" HARDIN (Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 28 Oct 1776. She died before 1810.

Sarah married (1) Robert Thomas PAGE. Robert was born 26 Jan 1762 in Goochland County, VA. He died in Davidson County, TN.

Marriage 1 Robert Thomas Page b: 26 JAN 1762 in Goochland, Virginia Children Giles Harding Page b: 27 AUG 1762 in Virginia Polly Page b: 1794 in Virginia John Page b: 1795 in Virginia Robert Page b: 1797 in Virginia George Page b: 1798 in Virginia


Franklin Page b: 1799 in Virginia Sally Ann Page b: 1800 in Tennessee Martha Page b: 1804 in Tennessee Elizabeth H. Page b: 1809 in Tennessee


+ 274 M i. Giles Harding PAGE was born 27 Aug 1792 and died 12 Aug 1850.

275 M ii. Robert Thomas (Jr.) PAGE.

Sarah also married (2) James WALKER.


276 F iii. Bethenia H. WALKER.

121. John (son of Giles) HARDIN of "Belle Meade" (TN) (Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 2 Nov 1777 in Goochland County, VA. He died 1865.

John and his family are most ably recorded in the book, "The History of Belle Meade, Mansion, Plantation & Stud" by Ridley Wills, II. "John and Susan Harding had six children, three of whom - Amanda P.; William Giles; and Elizabeth Virginia - lived to maturity." John purchased his own land before his marriage to Susan, 250 acres on the east side of Richland Creek, six miles from Nashville, that had previously been owned by Daniel Dunham - who had been killed by Indians. The property was known as "Dunham's Station." There was likely a log cabin on the property. "Harding nearly tripled the amount of land he owned in Davidson County during the decade (1819-1829). To the approximatley 1,000 acres he owned at the end of 1819, he added nearly 3,000 during the 1820's, bringing his total holdings in the county to more than 3,800." The book recounts in detail John's land purchases. He owned land on Richland Creek, Flat Creek, Sams Creek, Whites Creek, Mill Creek and the south side of the Cumberland River. He grew and sold crops, had a grist mill and sold lumber, was a cotton factor, and was becoming known for having a fine stud plantation, boarding and selling horses and blacksmith services, along with his farm goods and lumber. In the 1820's he bought land from "his brother Giles, Daniel A. Dunham and other neighbors." "As 1838 drew to a close, John Harding felt that the time had come to give responsibility for the management of Belle Meade to his son." By 1840, "his total holdings in [Davidson County, TN] amounted to more than 8,500 acres" He had recently acquired a plantation in Mississippi County, Arkansas; as well as a plantation in Iberville Parish, Louisiana. "Harding cleared and put into successful operation a 10,000 acres cotton plantation near Plum Point Bend (Arkansas), for which he once refused an offer of $150,000 in gold." "When William Giles remarried in January 1840, John Harding felt that his son's and grandsons' adjustment to having a new wife and stepmother would go more smoothly if he and Mrs. Harding lived elsewhere.. Consequently, he bought a two story red-brick town house near the Nashville Christian Church, where he and Susan worshiped. The house was situated on a half-acre lot at 85 Spring Street in Nashville's most fasionable and affluent residential section. (1855-1865) John Harding's holdings of approximately 6,800 acres in Davidson County, though divided among his family, remained intact until his death in 1865. He gave Belle Meade to his son William Giles Harding; Amanda and her husband Frank McGavock had the plantation next to that; John Harding Jr. was given "Bellevue"; and his grandson John McGavock was given the plantation in Arkansas, named "Sans Souci". TENNESSEE STATE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES: Harding - Jackson Papers, 1819-1911. ~500 items and 16 volumes. UNC. These are the papers of John Harding (1777-1865), his son, William Giles Harding (1808-1886), and the two brothers, William Hicks Jackson (1835-1903) and Howell Edmunds Jackson (1832-1895), and sons-in-law of William Giles Harding, all of Belle Meade Plantation, Davidson County, Tennessee.


The papers are composed of farm accounts, primarily accounts dealing with the raising of horses and both family and business correspondence for three generations of plantation owners. The family correspondence consists of letters written in 1862 to William Giles Harding, a political prisoner at Fort Mackinaw, from his wife, Elizabeth (McGavock) Harding, his two daughters, his father, brother-in-law, nephew, and his faithful household servant, Susanna.

John married Susannah SHUTE "Susan" on 6 Aug 1806 in Davidson County, TN. Susan was born5 22 Aug 1785. She died 1845 in Nashville, TN and was buried in Belle Meade Family Vault, Belle Meade Plantation, Nashville, TN.

Notice of marriage in IMPARTIAL REVIEW & CUMBERLAND REPUBLICAN, Aug. 9, 1806, stated that James (should be John) Harden of Virginia married on Sunday last to Miss Susannah Shute of Davidson County [TN], p. 524. "Susan Harding probably did not go [to Belle Meade, after she and John moved to Nashville in 1838] nearly as often [as John did]. Although considered kind and charitable, she was also known to be of high character, strong willed, and straight to the point...... If she didn't want to go, she didn't." "During the summer of 1845, "one of the mot sickly seasons" that people could remember, Susan Harding became dangerously ill, having been "taken with a carbuncle." John Harding hurried home from Arkansas to be with her. Two or three operations were performed in desperate efforts to save her life. They were to no avail, however. On September 12, she died in her 62st year, leaving a husband, a son, a daughter, and five grandchildren. Mrs. Harding was buried the next day in the family vault at Belle Meade."


+ 277 F i. Amanda P. HARDIN was born 23 Oct 1807 and died 1873.

+ 278 M ii. Gen. William Giles HARDIN of "Belle Meade" (TN) was born 15 Sep 1808 and died 1886.

+ 279 F iii. Elizabeth Virginia HARDIN was born 5 Apr 1812 and died 1835.

280 iv. (3 Children - Died Before Adulthood) HARDIN.

122. William (son of Giles) HARDIN (Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 4 Jun 1788. He died6 13 May 1832 in Davidson County, TN from "bilious colic".

"The History of Belle Meade, Mansion, Plantation & Stud" by Ridley Wills, III William and his brother Thomas, lived "in the eastern portion of the county." "John's younger brother William was the first Harding to own land and live in McSpadden's Bend. In 1819, while living in Powhatan County, Virginia, he bought from Willie Barrow 476 acres at the confluence of the Cumerland and Stones Rivers with the idea of rejoining his brothers and sisters in Tennessee. William moved to Davidson County by 1823 when he expanded his holdings on Stones River by purchasing an additional 150 acres. His cotton plantation, which he named 'Two Rivers', stretched all the way from the Stones River on the east to the Cumerland River, west of today's Briley Parkway, on the west. William, still a bachelor, lived in the two-and-a-half story brick house that still stands today beside Two Rivers Mansion. In 1830 he married Elizabeth Clopton, and 18 year old neighbor. When William died two years later, his plantation had grown to 1,081 acres." In Spring 1832, "William Gile's [Harding's] uncle, William Harding, became violently ill with 'bilious colic' and died the next day, leaving a pregnant widow not yet 21 years old. Masking her gried as well as she could, Elizabeth Clopton Harding attended her husband's funeral service and the dinner for all the mourners. Jane Thomas recalled, years later, that Parson Hume preached at the service held a month after Harding's death. In those days, Miss Thomas said, funeral services were never held on the day of burial. During the same period, William Giles helped his uncle's widow, Elizabeth Harding, and her infant daughter, Willie Elizabeth. Although Elizabeth and her brother-in-law, David Morris Harding, had been appointed administratix and administrator of William Harding's estate, William Giles took Morris's place in October 1833. He was also named Elizabeth's guardian for a short time. One of his first acts as administrator was to sell 7 of her slaves to his Uncle Morris."

William married Elizabeth Hoggart CLOPTON. Elizabeth was born 28 Feb 1811. She died 25 Mar 1893.

Elizabeth Hoggatt20 Clopton, of "Spring Place" (Anthony19, Benjamin18, Walter17, William16, William15, Walter14, William13, Richard12, William11, John10, William9, Thomas8, Walter7, William6, Walter5, William4,


Walter3, William2, Guillaume1 Peche, Lord Of Cloptunna and Dalham)188 was born February 28, 1811 in "Spring Place," near Nashville, Tennessee189, and died March 25, 1893. She married (1) William Harding, of "Two Rivers" Abt. May 12, 1830 in Davidson County, Tennessee190. She married (2) Francis Asbury Owen, of "Bethel Grove" December 11, 1834, son of Sterling Owen and Lurana Brewer. He was born February 8, 1804 in Brunswick County, Virginia, and died 1883. Children of Elizabeth Clopton and Francis Owen are: 452 i. Mary Ann Hoggatt21 Owen, born October 1835; died October 15, 1838. + 453 ii. James Hoggatt Owen, born September 8, 1837; died May 22, 1895. 454 iii. Wilbur Fisk Owen, born December 9, 1839; died June 3, 1853. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The History of Belle Meade, Mansion, Plantation & Stud" by Ridley Wills, III "Late in 1834, when Willie Elizabeth (daughter) was two years old, her mother remarried. Elizabeth's second husband was Francis "Frank" Owens, a Methodist minister from northern Alabama who had been preaching in Memphis since 1831."


+ 281 F i. Willie Elizabeth HARDIN was born 25 Sep 1832 and died 23 Dec 1895.

123. Giles (Jr.) HARDIN (Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 3 Jun 1784 in Goochland County, VA. He died 7 Jan 1843 in TN.

"The History of Belle Meade, Mansion, Plantation & Stud" by Ridley Wills, III "Soon after John and Susannah Hardin moved to Dunham's Station (TN), John's younger brother, Giles, Jr., bought a 100 acre tract between his father's place and John's land. It lay at the headwaters of Richland Creek on the Nashville side of the Harpeth Ridge. Giles, Jr., and his wife, Charlotte, became John and Susan's closest neighbors. They reared twelve children in a large brick house that stood on a knoll just north of a fine spring." PAGE-HARDING CEMETERY (REMOVED) OH-47: NASHVILLE, DAVIDSON COUNTY, TN. Spring Hill Cemetery Removal of the Page-Harding Cemetery took place from its location in Belle Meade to Spring Hill Cemetery, Madison, Tennessee, on January 31, 1916. Records from Spring Hill Cemetery show ownership of Lot 71, Section M, in the name of “Giles Harding (heirs).” Historical information about the cemetery was submitted to the Davidson County Cemetery Survey by Doug Page, descendant, during 2004. Archaeological investigation at the former site of the Page-Harding Cemetery has been undertaken to determine if there were additional graves, including the grave of Henrietta Mariah (Wilkes) Page. At the writing of this summary report, the final results of this investigation are not known. Information will be added when made available. In Tombstone Inscriptions & Manuscripts, compiled by Jeannette T. Acklen and published in 1933: Sacred/ to/ the memory/ of/ Giles Harding/ Born/ June 30, 1784/ Jan. 7, 1843 Charlotte Morris/ Harding/ Born July 2, 1816/ Died June 11, 1835 Henry Perkins/ Harding/ Sept. 18, 1825/ Died/ May 8, 1848/ Aged 22 yrs. 7 months & 21 days Alexander Waits/ Apr. 26, 1794/ May 1, 1850 Giles H. Page/ Born Aug. 27, 1792/ Aug. 12, 1850 Charlotte Harding/ Consort of/ Giles Harding/ Born Nov. 20, 1790/ Died Apr. 15, 1836 Sacred/ to/ the memory/ of/ Giles Harding/ Born/ June 30, 1784/ Jan. 7, 1843 Eliza Davis/ Harding/ Oct. 26, 1813/ Sept. 13, 1840 David Harding/ Born/ May 26, 1829/ Died/ July 1846/ Aged 17 years George Harding/ Born Aug. 13/ 1818/ Died Dec. 25/ 1847 William M./ Son of Giles and Charlotte/ Harding/ Born February 2/ 1821/ Died December 29/ 1848


Giles married Charlotte DAVIS on 30 Sep 1812. Charlotte was born 20 Nov 1790. She died 15 Apr 1836.

Charlotte Harding/ Consort of/ Giles Harding/ Born Nov. 20, 1790/ Died Apr. 15, 1836 Charlotte Davis to Giles Harding, September 30, 1812. [His first wife, Martha Donelly, whom he married January 31, 1804, died in the interim.] Other Davidson County marriages around that time: Ellen Davis to Abraham Wright, solemnized by William Hume, VDM, August 1, 1816. Ann Davis to Kinchen C. Bass, September 7, 1813. In the will of William Davis of Davidson County, TN, dated March 24, 1820, and proved September 1, 1820, he mentions his wife, Mrs. Sarah Davis; daughter, Mrs. Anne Bass; daughter, Mrs. Abram Wright; Mrs. Giles Harding; and Mrs. John Goodman. He appointed his wife sole executrix of his will. Witnesses were Ephraim H. Foster, John S. Topp, and William L. Willis. [Ibid., p. 434.]


282 F i. Eliza Davis HARDIN was born 26 Oct 1813. She died 13 Sep 1840.

283 F ii. Charlotte Morris HARDIN was born 2 Jul 1816. She died 11 Jun 1835.

284 M iii. George W. HARDIN was born 13 Aug 1818. He died 25 Dec 1847.

George married Caroline Frances DEMOSS.

+ 285 M iv. Giles Scales HARDIN was born about 1820.

+ 286 M v. William M. HARDIN was born 2 Feb 1821 and died 29 Dec 1848.

287 M vi. Henry Perkins HARDIN was born 18 Sep 1825. He died 8 May 1848.

288 M vii. David HARDIN was born 26 May 1829. He died Jul 1846.

289 M viii. John HARDIN was born about 1831.

290 F ix. Sarah Amy HARDIN died 1861.

Sarah married William Thomas MCBROOM.

1 Sarah Amy Harding b: ABT. 1831 d: 1861 + William Thomas McBroom 2 Elizabeth H. McBroom d: 1877 + J. P. Carter 2 John W. McBroom + Isabella N. Fagin 2 Mary Amy (Mollie) McBroom + J. T. Carter 2 William Henry McBroom b: 1849 d: 1885 + Eliza Emaline McGill b: 1853 d: 1893 2 Giles Harding McBroom b: 1858 d: 1934 + Mary Elizabeth Bryan + Mattie McGhee

125. Thomas Jefferson HARDIN (Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 6 Aug 1792 in Goochland County, VA. He died 18 Mar 1869 in Davidson County, TN.

"The History of Belle Meade, Mansion, Plantation & Stud" by Ridley Wills, III Thomas lived in the "eastern portion of the county" along with his brother, William. Thomas was married to "Elizabeth Bosley, a daughter of Beal and Margery Shute Bosley and a niece of John Harding's wife, Susan. By 1827, Thomas and Elizabeth had four children, including Rachel, who would grow up to marry Col. John Overton. Their family would not be complete, however, until they had 10 children, four of whom were named for presidents Washington, Jefferson, Monroe and Jackson. By 1832, Thomas had accumulated 900 acres along McCrory's Creek and Stones River. John Harding and his brothers were, by the late 1820's major landowners in two of the most prosperous sections of Davidson Sounty."


[During the War of 1812 against the British], "Thomas was in the army; in January 1881 his widow, Elizabeth W. Harding, received a pension because of his service." Will of Thomas Harding (b. 1792) recorded in 1869, Davidson Co., TN (Harden-in-ing Family Assoc.) Thomas Harding's will,was dated Feb 5, 1867, recorded July 7, 1869, Davidson Co., TN. Also see, NASHVILLE REPUBLICAN BANNER, March 18, 1869 for obituary. Thomas lived in the "eastern portion of the county" along with his brother, William. Nashville and Lebanon Turnpike was chartered in 1835, extended thirty miles east of Lebanon to the foot of Snow's hill in DeKalb County. The road goes thence to Sparta, over the Cumberland Mountain, and ends at Knoxville. A famous road-tavern in DeKalb County was Beckwith Place. The commissioners appointed on the Nashville and Lebanon Pike, which goes by the Hermitage, among them were Gen. Andrew Jackson, Stokley Donnelson, Joseph Clay, THOMAS HARDIN and W.G. HARDIN.

Thomas married Elizabeth W. BOSLEY. Elizabeth was born 1803.

"History of Belle Meade" "General Hardings uncle and aunt, Thomas and Elizabeth Harding, lived on land given them in 1837 by Elizabeth's father, Beal Bosley. " Walnut Grove racecourse was just east of their land.


+ 291 F i. Rachel N. HARDIN died 21 Sep 1843.

292 M ii. James Monroe HARDIN.

293 M iii. William P. HARDIN.

294 M iv. Thomas J. (Jr.) HARDIN was born in Davidson County, TN.

295 M v. George Washington HARDIN.

+ 296 M vi. John Edgar HARDIN was born 1833.

297 M vii. Robert HARDIN was born in Davidson County, TN.

298 M viii. Andrew J. HARDIN was born 28 Dec 1848 in Davidson County, TN.

134. Jean HARDIN (William (II) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 10 Sep 1784 in Hanover or Goochland County, VA. She died 22 Mar 1854 in Cumberland County, KY..

Jean married Eli SHUGART on (bond) May 1801. Eli was born 3 Oct 1778. He died 1 Sep 1835.

Eli signed a will Aug 5, 1835-Sept, 1835.


299 F i. Elizabeth W. SHUGART was born 28 Sep 1822 in Cumberland County, KY.. She died 20 Jul 1874 in Cumberland County, KY..

Elizabeth W. SHUGART BIRTH: 28 Sep 1822, Cumberland County, KY DEATH: 20 Jul 1874, Cumberland County, KY BURIAL: Shugart Cemetery, grave unmarked. Father: Eli SHUGART Mother: Jane (Jean) HARDING Family 1 : Lorenzo Dow BOW MARRIAGE: 13 Feb 1842, Cumberland County, KY Eliza J. BOW Mary S. BOW Nathaniel Jesse BOW Oney P. BOW +Jestany BOW Diany BOW


John T BOW William W. BOW Lela E. BOW

Elizabeth married Lorenzo BOW.

146. James (son of Wm & Martha) HARDIN (William (son of Thos. & Phoebe) HARDIN, Thomas (son of Thos. & Mary Giles) HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 13 Dec 1791 in Columbia County, GA. He died 5 Aug 1854 in Warren County, GA.

James married Julia Stark STAPLES.

Julia Starke STAPLES was born around 1795 and died December 2, 1882. She was the daughter of Steve Staples and Virginia Mary "Molly" Starke, and the granddaughter of Thompson Staples of VA.


300 F i. Martha (dau of James & Julia) HARDIN.

301 M ii. Robert HARDIN.

302 M iii. William (son of James & Julia) HARDIN.

303 M iv. James T. HARDIN.

304 F v. Emily V. HARDIN.

305 M vi. Stephen T. HARDIN.

306 M vii. Henry (son of James & Julia) HARDIN.

307 F viii. Sarah HARDIN.

308 F ix. Julia A. HARDIN.

309 M x. John J. HARDIN.

310 F xi. Eveline Scott HARDIN.

Children of Eveline Scott HARDEN and William Brown HENSLEE were: *Sarah Frances HENSLEE (Born: October 9, 1855; Died: July 19, 1939 -Married: Jefferson Edgar Mansfield) Joseph Johnson HENSLEE (Born: November 24, 1856 - Married: Jennie B. DeBorde 12/18/1884) William Harden HENSLEE (Born: November 1, 1858 - Married: Lucy D. Shank 12/18/1884) Julia Emma HENSLEE (Born: December 26, 1859 - Married: B.H. Oates 3/9/1886) Beauregard HENSLEE (Born: May 23, 1861; Died: September 7, 1862) Benjamin Franklin HENSLEE (Born: October 14, 1862 - Married: Ella M. Walton 3/20/1895) Sidney Brown HENSLEE (Born: July 9, 1864; Died: August 24, 1865) George Thomas HENSLEE (Born: Jan 19, 1866) Annie Lee HENSLEE (Born: September 5, 1867; Died: November 7, 1894) Martha Elizabeth HENSLEE (Born: April 11, 1869 - Married: Charles William Cochran) Eugene Staples HENSLEE (Born: September 27, 1870 - Married: Mary Cornelia Cochran) Rosa May HENSLEE (Born: April 27, 1872 - Married: (1) John E. Smith, (2) John Lewis)


Clara Ellington HENSLEE (Born: April 18, 1874 - Married: Baxter F. Smith 12/10/1895) John Henry HENSLEE (Born: September 24, 1875) James Richard HENSLEE (Born: May 13, 1877 in Warren Co. GA; Died: February, 1971 in Tyler, TX - Married: Della May Hermus) Luther Harves HENSLEE (Born: February 14, 1879 - Married: Pearl Zleand 2/1904)

311 M xii. Augustus A. HARDIN.

Sixth Generation 150. Hampton BOSTICK (John BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was

born 25 Apr 1793. He died 1822 in Dallas County, AL.

Email query: He died in 1822 Dallas County, AL, leaving a widow, Susanna, and three minor age sons, John, Don Ferdinand and James Alfred. Susanna married Armstrong J. Blackburn in 1823 and died in 1859 Mississippi. What happened to the three sons?

Hampton married (1) Susannah B. HAMPTON.

Hampton Bostick, son of John and Mary (Gervais/Jarvis) Bostick, married John Hampton's sister, Susanna.


312 M i. John (son of Hampton & Susannah Hampton) BOSTICK was born about 1812 in Stokes Co., NC.

313 M ii. Don Ferdinand (son of Hampton) BOSTICK.

+ 314 M iii. James Alfred BOSTICK was born about 1819.

Hampton also married (2) Susannah/Susan HAMPTON, daughter of Capt. SAMUEL HAMPTON * and * BETHENIA BOSTICK, on 15 Nov 1812 in Stokes Co., NC. Susannah/Susan was born 27 Mar 1797 in Stokes Co., NC.


315 M iv. John K. BOSTICK.

+ 316 M v. James A. BOSTICK was born 1819 and died 8 Dec 1885.

151. John (Jr.) BOSTICK (John BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 22 Oct 1794.

John married Mary T. "Polly" HYDE on 15 Dec 1815 in Williamson County, TN.


+ 317 F i. Mary Manoah BOSTICK was born 1837 and died Jun 1862.

318 M ii. Richard Whitman Hyde BOSTICK was born 16 Nov 1816 in TN.

319 M iii. John Claybrook BOSTICK was born 1832.

320 F iv. Lucy Jane BOSTICK was born 1843.

157. Hardin Perkins BOSTICK (John BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 30 Dec 1804 in Stokes County, NC. He died 22 Feb 1861 in Nashville, TN.

The book, "Old Enough To Die", by Ridley Wills, II., is about the family of Hardin Perkins BOSTICK. Ridley Wills II is married to Irene Jackson, a descendant of this family. I can heartily recommend the book~!/vsm Portions of it will be quoted in the notes of this line of our family. "Hardin and Margaret Litton Bostick's home, where they were living in 1860 with five of their children - Abe, Catharine, Eliza, Mag and Susan - along with three Halbert grandchildren - was on the north side of the Charlotte


Pike between Bostick and Robertson Streets and about a mile west of Nashville's public square. It was a handsome, two-story brick house with an attic and wooden shingle roof." Living near them were Margaret Litton Bostick's sisters, Ann (Litton) Cooper and Elizabeth (Litton) Thomas. The three Litton sisters homes stood on large lots facing a commons area across the turnpike. Ann's husband was Washington B. Cooper; one son, James Litton "Jim" Cooper, would become one of five first cousins connected with the Twentieth Tennessee Infantry during the Civil War, and was a famous Nashville artist. Elizabeth Litton Thomas' husband was Jesse Thomas, a U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue in Nashville; they had 8 children, and their oldest son, James "Jim" Thomas, was another of the five cousins. (see Margaret's notes) "...Hardin Perkins Bostick was born in Stokes County, NC..... His parents, John and Mary Jarvis Bostick had moved there from Pittsylvania County, Virginia in 1778 or 1779 when Stokes County was still part of Surry County. After moving from Stokes County to near Hardeman Cross Roads, TN., with his parents and siblings in 1809, Hardin attended the Harpeth Union Male Academy and King's Chapel Methodist Church. "At the time of his marriage to Margaret Litton, in 1824, Hardin was living in Franklin where he had just opened a general store. During their early years of marriage, he was an active mason and, for two years, Franklin's town recorder. In the early 1830's, Hardin and several other Franklin men successfully petitioned the State Legislature to open a bank branch there. The Union Bank of the State of Tennessee opened in 1833." "Later in the decade, the Bosticks moved to Hardeman Cross Roads, where Hardin grew up. There he operated a general store and a 175 Acre farm with the help of 7 slaves. He, Margaret, and their children lived in a house on a separate seven acre tract." He speculated in land. In 1842 he bought the 45 acres of land on the Charlotte Turnpike where he and Margaret built their home. There his younger children grew up playing with their Cooper and Thomas first cousins, sometimes in Lick Branch, a creek that crossed the Charlotte Pike at the foot of the hill toward town...." He suffered financial reverses in the late 1850's, but was practicing law with his oldest son, J. Litton Bostick, in 1860 on North Cherry Street. He died February 22, 1861, at the age of 56. "His funeral was held two days later at his home on the Charlotte Pike. The Daily Nashville Patriot reported that he died of typhoid fever after an illness of four weeks." ----------------------- History and Genealogy Manuscripts > Guide to Manuscripts Materials at TSLA > Microfilm Part 16 (MF. 1500 - MF. 1599) Mf. 1514 -- Bostick Family Papers, 1834-1870. 73 items. TSLA. 1 reel. 35 mm. Correspondence between members of the Bostick family of Davidson County. The head of the family was Hardin Derkins Bostick and his wife was Margaret Litton Bostick. Most of the correspondence centers around the Civil War activities of the Bostick sons: Abe, J. Litton, and Thomas H. Bostick. Two of them were killed during the war, and the letters home convey quite vividly the personal tragedy engendered by the war.

Hardin married Margaret Rebecca LITTON. Margaret died 1897 in Nashville, TN.

Source: "Old Enough To Die" "Margaret Litton Bostick's parents, Catherine and Joseph L. Litton, were natives of Ireland. In 1817, they left a comfortable life in Dublin to emigrate to the United States, arriving at the Port of Philadelphia. The following spring, they moved to Nashville, where they joined McKendree Methodist Church and became steadfast and valuable members." "Margaret Litton Bostick had six siblings who did not live in the compound on the Charlotte Pike. A third sister, Susan, was married to James C. Robinson." They lived in Williamson County on a plantation known as "Blue Springs Farm", a 550 acre farm on the bend of the Harpeth River off the Natchez Road. Margaret's brother was Isaac "Ike" Litton, a well known treasurer of the Missionary Society of the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church. Nashville's Isaac Litton High School was named for him. Ike and his family lived three miles north of town on the Gallatin Pike. His son, George Litton, served in Tyler's Brigade of Hood's Army of TN. Margaret's oldest brother, Benjamin, was a "wealthy Davidson County farmer." His home, Litton Place, was where Vanderbilt University is today. His daughter, Jane Litton Taylor, sold the farm to Vanderbilt in 1873 following her father's


death." "Margaret's brother, Abram, was a college professor, first at the University of Nashville and later at St. Louis University's Medical Department where his nephew Joe Bostick studied. Margaret's two other brothers, Joseph Jr and Jacob, died relatively early." Nashville fell in late February, 1862. "In the summer of 1862, Margaret Bostick, having moved the previous winter, was living in a smaller house in town with her widowed daughter, Catherine Halbert, Catherine's children, and her youngest daughter Susan, then sixteen. Margaret's sister, Elizabeth Litton Thomas and brother, Ike, had gone to Marietta, GA where the two "families crowded together in a small house."


+ 321 M i. Capt. John LITTON BOSTICK C.S.A. was born 6 May 1826 and died 1864.

+ 322 F ii. Catherine Warren BOSTICK was born 1828 and died 1916.

+ 323 F iii. Mary Anne "May" BOSTICK was born 1830 and died after 1907.

+ 324 M iv. Dr./Maj. Joseph "Joe" BOSTICK C.S.A. was born 1 Apr 1832 and died Dec 1886.

+ 325 M v. Capt. Thomas Hardin BOSTICK was born 1833 and died 1871.

+ 326 F vi. Eliza Jane BOSTICK was born 1836 and died 22 Oct 1905.

327 M vii. Manoah BOSTICK (died young) was born 1838 in Hardeman Cross Roads, TN. He died before 1850 in TN.

328 M viii. Pvt. Abram "Abe" BOSTICK C.S.A. was born7 18 Nov 1840 in Hardeman Cross Roads, TN. He died 1862 in Gaines Mill - Virginia from killed in battle, Civil War. and was buried in a churchyard NE of Richmond, VA.

Source: "Old Enough To Die" "Before his second birthday, his family moved to Nashville where he received his education in private schools and at the Western Military Institute of the University of Nashville. Abe was one of 8 young men who graduated from the military college in 1859." "Abe was a member of McKendree Methodist Church, where he worshipped regularly with his family and where, as a child, his Litton grandfather was a prominent layman." At the time of his graduation from college, "Abe stood 5'11" tall,had gray eyes, light hair and a fair complexion. That fall, when he began teaching in school in Nashville, he was viewed as an attractive and outgoing young man with a bright future....." Abe Bostick enlisted on May 20, 1861, in Company C of the Twentieth Tennessee Regiment. Abe's letters home to his mother and sister are chronicled in the book. Among the last of his letters quoted was one written on March 17, 1862, from Fredericksburg, Virginia, to his mother. In it he states..."While the war lasts, I expect to be in the army; and should we be subjugated (I never entertain such an idea), I expect to [go] to some other country; for if my country is subject to the North, and I am spared to witness such degradation, we can go to some other country where we can at least be free. I say we, I consider your and my destinites as one." His last letter was written from Richmond, Virginia, June 22nd, 1862. E. L. F. McKenzie wrote to May Bostick of Abe's death, June 30th, 1862: "This note is to inform you of the death of your brother Abe who fell on the evening of [the] 27th while gallantly charging the enemy's fortifications with [the] 7th Tennessee Regt. The shot which proved fatal took effect just above his left knee passing through and cutting the artery. He might have been saved if he could have received attention at once but we were repulsed on the first charge and before we could rally and drive the enemy from his works he had expired from loss of blood. "We dressed his remains and interred them at a church about ten miles NE from Richmond and have marked the place so that it may be easily found....." "....he was a brave and chivalrous soldier and fell while gaining a noble victory for the South." A later letter was written by Eliza to her mother, stating that her husband was going to get


Abe's body and bury it in their "family burying ground." It does not state whether they were able to accomplish this. August, 1862, E. W. Sehon wrote to Margaret Litton Bostick, about Abe: "He was a good son, lovely and amiable and [in] every way a most useful citizen - with a bright future before him. He left all and went forth a brave and valiant soldier at the call of his suffering country - noble he bore himself - foregoing the comforts of home - enduring toil and labor he marched to his country's defense. In the unquestioned and inscrutable providence of God, he was doomed to fall but he fell at his post and fills a hero's place. His name is forever bound in the same bright volume of [the] fallen in which are preserved the names of all those who fell bravely fighting for their country's rights and liberty - and he fell too a Christian hero. He has fought the good fight - finished his course - and God has taken him home."

+ 329 F ix. Margaret Rebecca "Mag" BOSTICK was born 1842 and died 1911.

330 F x. Susan BOSTICK was born 1846 in Hardeman Cross Roads, TN. She died 1864 in Nashville, Davidson Co., Tennessee.

Source: "Old Enough To Die" Susan had "severe health problems". Died before the end of the War.

158. James Alfred BOSTICK (John BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 18 Jun 1806 in North Carolina. He died 30 Dec 1868 in Williamson County, TN.

Notes for James Alfred Bostick DAR (1977), “Early Families of the North Carolina Counties of Rockingham and Stokes with Revolutionary Service” : Lists descendant James A. Bostick, b. 18-June-1806, m. Margaret R. Litton (confounded with Hardin Perkins Bostick (1804-1861)?) James Alfred Bostick (I) Born: 18-Jun-1806 in Stokes Co., NC or Williamson Co., TN Death: 29-Dec-1868 in Williamson Co., TN Father: John Bostick, (Sr) Mother: Mary Jarvis Marriage 1: Nancy Woolsey King b: 13 MAY 1807 Married: 23 AUG 1826 in Williamson,TN Children i.Thomas King Bostick (b 28-May-1833, d. 27-Sep-1857). ii. James C. Bostick, b: ABT. 1835 iii. Manoah Hardin Bostick (b. 28-Oct-1837; d. 11-Sep-1874)[1] – married 1st cousin Mary Elizabeth King in Apr-1871. iv. Sarah Bostick, b: ABT. 1839; d. 9/22/1911) v. Martha Elizabeth Bostick, b 12-Jul-1841; m 9-May-1860 to George W. Ransom. From the notes of Jane Horn: JAMES ALFRED6 BOSTICK (JOHN5, ABSALOM4, JOHN3, WILLIAM2, CHARLES1 BOSTOCK)1 was born Jun 18, 1806 in North Carolina2, and died Dec 30, 1868 in Williamson County, Tennessee. He married (1) NANCY KING Bef. 1833. She was born May 13, 1807 in Brunswick County, Virginia3, and died Jun 16, 1844 in Williamson County, Tennessee3. He married (2) MARY J. ELLIOTT Aft. 1844 in Williamson County, Tennessee. She was born Jun 12, 1823 in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and died Jun 12, 1848 in Williamson County, Tennessee3. He married (3) MRS. MARGARET M. MCEWEN Aft. 1848 in Williamson County, Tennessee. Notes for JAMES ALFRED BOSTICK: CENSUS: 1850 STATE: Tennessee COUNTY: Williamson TOWNSHIP: 18th District


Series: M432 Roll: 900 Page: 208b Book: 1 261 Bostick, James 43 M W Farmer 13,500 NC 261 Bostick, M. 39 F W TN 261 Bostick, T. 17 M W Farmer TN 261 Bostick, J. 15 M W Farmer TN 261 Bostick, H. 13 M W TN 261 Bostick, S. F W 11 TN 261 Bostick, E. F W 9 TN 261 McCuller, R. 16 M W Farmer TN 261 Bostick, John 87 M W VA CENSUS: 1860 STATE: Tennessee COUNTY: Williamson TOWNSHIP: Triune P O Series: M653 Roll: 1279 Page: 216 516 501 Bostick, James A. 53 M W Farmer 20,000 25,000 NC 516 501 Bostick, M. M., 40 F W TN 516 501 Bostick, Sarah, 20 F W TN 516 501 Bostick, M. E. 12 F W TN (must be same as E. F. above on 1850) ? ************************************************************************************************* NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, V. 29, #5. January 30, 1869 Tribute of Respect for JAMES A. BOSTICK who d Dec. 29, 1868, Williamson Co., Tenn. by Triune Lodge #135, Masons, Dec. 30, 1868 ********************************************* NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, V. 29, #20. May 15, 1869 Tribute of Respect for JAMES A. BOSTICK b N.C., June 18, 1806; removed to Williamson Co., Tenn. when young; professed religion at 18; md (1) Nancy King; (2) Mary J. Elliott; (3) Mrs. Margaret M. McEwen; by Nolensville Circuit May 1, 1869. **************************************************** More About JAMES ALFRED BOSTICK: Census 1850: Williamson County, Tennessee Census 1860: Williamson County, Tennessee Notes for NANCY KING: GENEALOGICAL ABSTRACTS FROM REPORTED DEATHS THE SOUTHWESTERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE 1838-1846 By Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 2003 NANCY W. BOSTICK wife of James A. Bostick, Williamson Co., Tenn.; daughter of William and Sally King; born Brunswick Co., Va., May 13, 1807; died June 16, 1844. More About JAMES BOSTICK and NANCY KING: Marriage: Bef. 1833 Notes for MARY J. ELLIOTT: GENEALOGICAL ABSTRACTS FROM REPORTED DEATHS THE NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE 1847-1849 By Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 2003 July 14, 1848 MARY J. BOSTICK daughter of William and Sarah Elliott; wife of James A. Bostick; born Rutherford Co., Tenn., June 12, 1823; died on her birthday, June 12, 1848; wife and mother (an infant child). ********************************************************************************************************** More About JAMES BOSTICK and MARY ELLIOTT: Marriage: Aft. 1844, Williamson County, Tennessee


More About JAMES BOSTICK and MRS. MCEWEN: Marriage: Aft. 1848, Williamson County, Tennessee Children of JAMES BOSTICK and NANCY KING are: i. F.7 BOSTICK4, b. 1833, Tennessee4. ii. J. BOSTICK4, b. 1835, Tennessee4. iii. H. BOSTICK4, b. 1837, Tennessee4. iv. SARAH BOSTICK4, b. 1839, Tennessee4. v. E. BOSTICK4, b. 1841, Tennessee4. Child of JAMES BOSTICK and MARY ELLIOTT is: vi. INFANT7 BOSTICK5, b. Jun 12, 1848, Williamson County, Tennessee; d. Jun 12, 1848, Williamson County, Tennessee. Endnotes 1. James Bostick Morse, Research, family records and personal knowledge, Bostick Trails & Ties, Page 11. 2. James Bostick Morse, Research, family records and personal knowledge, Bostick Trails & Ties. 3. Obituary. 4. 1850 Williamson County Tennessee Federal Census. 5. Mothers Obituary.

James married Nancy Worley KING, daughter of William KING and Sarah B., on 23 Aug 1826 in Williamson County, TN. Nancy was born 13 May 1807.


+ 331 M i. James Coleman BOSTICK C.S.A. was born 28 Sep 1835 and died 10 May 1915.

332 M ii. Thomas King BOSTICK was born 28 May 1833. He died 11 Sep 1874.

333 F iii. Mary J. (dau of James & Nancy) BOSTICK.

334 M iv. Manoah H(ardin) (son of James & Nancy) BOSTICK.

335 F v. Sara P. BOSTICK was born about 1839. She died 22 Sep 1911.

336 F vi. Martha Elizabeh (dau of James & Nancy) BOSTICK was born 12 Jul 1841.

Martha married George Washington RANSOM on 9 May 1860.

Note from "Old Enough To Die".... John Bostick Ransom is a descendant who helped Ridley Wills, II, with some Bostick genealogy.

337 M vii. John (son of James & Nancy) BOSTICK.

338 M viii. William (son of James & Nancy) BOSTICK.

159. James M. HAMPTON (BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 13 Sep 1786 in Surry County, NC. He died 27 Oct 1837 in Lincoln County, TN.

James married Sarah (Sally) FLYNT, daughter of Thomas FLYNT and Sally MARTIN, on 29 Sep 1807 in Stokes Co., NC.


339 M i. Samuel Moses HAMPTON was born 28 Jul 1808.

340 M ii. Thomas F. HAMPTON was born 1810.

+ 341 M iii. James Matison HAMPTON was born 1812.

342 F iv. Mary A. HAMPTON was born 1815.

343 F v. Susan E. HAMPTON was born 1819.


344 M vi. John W. HAMPTON was born 1822.

John married Susanna GUINN, daughter of Thornton Preston GUINN and Anne BOSTICK, on circa 1845. Susanna was born Bet 1815-1820.

345 M vii. Asbury James HAMPTON was born 1825.

Asbury married Neeter COLLINS on 14 Jan 1846 in Lincoln Co., TN.

346 F viii. Margaret B. HAMPTON was born 10 May 1831.

1 Margaret B. Hampton b: 10 MAR 1831 d: 22 JAN 1898 + Nathaniel Hobbs b: 17 JUL 1827 d: 21 JUL 1885 2 Martha "Mattie" Hobbs b: SEP 1854 d: 9 JAN 1936 + James T. Rowell b: 25 MAR 1843 d: 20 FEB 1916 3 Lillie G. Rowell b: OCT 1872 d: AFT 1910 + Ed R. Bumpass b: MAY 1866 d: AFT 1930 4 Elise Bumpass b: 5 JAN 1897 d: 7 JUL 1972 + Paul Madison Helms b: 18 NOV 1895 d: 12 MAR 1967 3 Roy Hobbs Rowell b: APR 1877 d: BEF 1930 + Sarah "Sallie" Childress b: 1877 3 Nat Rowell b: NOV 1880 3 Margaret Rowell b: JUL 1889 2 Richard "Dick" A. Hobbs b: MAY 1858 + M. Elizabeth Henderson b: APR 1864 3 Taffie F. Hobbs b: SEP 1886 2 Annie Hobbs b: 1861 2 Addie F. Hobbs b: NOV 1864 + James R. Cheatham b: JAN 1862 2 Sallie Hobbs b: 1868

Margaret married Nathaniel HOBBS on 17 Jul 1849 in Lincoln County, TN. Nathaniel was born 1827.

347 F ix. Nancy Ann HAMPTON was born 10 May 1831. She died 2 Mar 1893.

348 F x. Martha C. HAMPTON was born 1835.

Martha married Nathan JOINER.

160. Samuel (Jr.) HAMPTON (BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 14 Oct 1790 in Stokes Co., NC. He died 18 Feb 1874 in Itawamba County, MS.

He married (1) ELIZABETH MCWILLIAMS. She was born 1808 in Warren County, Kentucky. He married (2) ELIZABETH BARNETT December 23, 1812 in Stokes Co., NC, daughter of A. BARNETT and ELIZABETH UNKNOWN. She was born November 06, 1795 in Stokes County, North Carolina, and died November 02, 1871 in Itawamba County, Mississippi. He moved from NC to Lincoln Co.,Tenn. He was a Lieutenant in the war of 1812 and was a large slave owner before the Civil War. Their issues are: 7 sons 6 daughters WILLIAM CAROLINE NOAH(MANOAH) FLANNIE(FANNIE,HANNIE) SAM(SAMUEL III) born 1824 (LEBS GRANDAD) could not make out) MATT SUSIE JOHN ELIZABETH NICHOLAS MARTHA


LA FAYETTE (youngest son) MARY Marriage Bond shows: Groom: Samuel Hampton Bride: Elizabeth Barnell Bond Date: 23 Dec 1812 Bond #: 000139057 Level Info: North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868 ImageNum: 000422 County: Stokes Record #: 01 126 Bondsman: Hampton Bostick 1850 CENSUS, District 7, Itawamba, MS Samuel Hampton, age 60 Elizabeth, age 55 Manoah, age 20 LaFayette, age 14 Martha, age 10 3 Samuel HAMPTON b: 14 Oct 1790 d: 1873 + Elizabeth BARNETT 4 John HAMPTON 4 Mary HAMPTON 4 Nicholas HAMPTON 4 Suzie HAMPTON 4 William HAMPTON 4 Bethenia Carolina HAMPTON b: 27 Oct 1813 4 Frances HAMPTON b: 1815 4 James Matthew HAMPTON b: 9 Mar 1817 4 Elizabeth HAMPTON b: 1820 4 Samuel F. HAMPTON b: 1824 d: 1891 4 Manoah HAMPTON b: 1830 4 Lafayette HAMPTON b: 20 Aug 1837 d: 2 Aug 1922 + Mary Ann MCKOWN 5 Laura Idell HAMPTON b: 22 Sep 1867 d: 18 Nov 1951 5 Lenora Elizabeth HAMPTON b: 12 Feb 1870 d: 1 Feb 1964 + Edward Almond REYNOLDS 4 Martha HAMPTON b: 1842 Father: Samuel HAMPTON b: 1750 Mother: Bethenia BOSTICK b: 18 Mar 1767 Marriage 1 Elizabeth BARNETT Children Elizabeth Carolina HAMPTON b: 27 Oct 1813 Elizabeth HAMPTON b: 1820 Frances HAMPTON b: 1815 John HAMPTON Manoah HAMPTON b: 1830 Martha HAMPTON b: 1842 Mary HAMPTON James Matthew HAMPTON b: 9 Mar 1817 Nicholas HAMPTON Suzie HAMPTON William HAMPTON Samuel F. HAMPTON b: 1824 Lafayette HAMPTON b: 20 Aug 1837


Samuel married (1) Elizabeth BARNETT on 23 Dec 1812 in Stokes Co., NC. Elizabeth was born 6 Nov 1795. She died 4 Apr 1871.


349 F i. Bethenia Carolina HAMPTON was born 27 Oct 1813 in Fayette Co., TN.

Bethenia married Harrison H. HUGHEY.

+ 350 M ii. James Matthew HAMPTON was born 9 Mar 1817 and died 27 Feb 1903.

+ 351 F iii. Frances Jane HAMPTON was born 2 Dec 1818.

352 F iv. Elizabeth HAMPTON was born 1820 in Lincoln Co., TN.

Elizabeth married Harrison H. HUGHEY on 5 Oct 1841 in Lincoln Co., TN. Harrison was born 1814 in TN.

+ 353 M v. Samuel Ferdinand HAMPTON was born 21 Dec 1824 and died 22 Feb 1913.

354 M vi. Manoah HAMPTON was born 1830 in Lincoln Co., TN.

Manoah married Martha WILKERSON.

+ 355 M vii. LaFayette HAMPTON was born 20 Aug 1837 and died 2 Aug 1922.

356 M viii. John HAMPTON was born 1840.

John married Iva WHARTON.

357 F ix. Martha HAMPTON was born 1842 in Lincoln Co., TN.

Martha married Jim M. HARRELL.

358 F x. Mary HAMPTON.

359 M xi. Nicholas HAMPTON.

360 F xii. Suzie HAMPTON.

361 M xiii. William HAMPTON.

Samuel also married (2) Elizabeth MEDLEY on 4 Sep 1872.

161. John B. HAMPTON (BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 12 Jan 1793 in Stokes Co., NC. He died 7 Jun 1881 in Walkertown, Forsyth Co., NC.

The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research SCMAR, Volume III Number 1, Winter, 1975 Estate Partitions in the Washington District Court of Equity, 1803-1826 SCMAR, Vol. III, Winter 1975, No. 1, p.9 Commission from Robert Creswell, Commissioner in Equity, to John Hampton, James McMorris, Benjamin May, James Davis, & Philip Pearson, ordering them to make the desired partition, dated Third Monday in February(?), 1806. Commissioners sworn 17 Oct. 1806 before Mich'ls(?) Dickert, J.P. . JOHN B.12 HAMPTON (SAMUEL11, JAMES10, JOHN9, JOHN8, THOMAS7, WILLIAM6, LAURENCE5, JOHN4, THOMAS3 DE HAMPTON, JOHN2, RICHARD GERVAIS1) was born January 12, 1793 in Stokes Co., NC, and died June 07, 1881 in Walkertown, Forsyth Co., NC. He married MARY E. GUINN December 15, 1823 in Stokes Co., NC, daughter of THORNTON GUINN and ANNE BOSTICK. She was born March 10, 1796 in Stokes Co., NC, and died November 10, 1882 in Walkertown, Forsyth Co., NC. North Carolina Marriage Record Groom: Jno B Hampton Bride: Polly E Guinn Bond Date: 15 Dec 1812 Bond #: 000139054 Level Info: North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868 ImageNum: 003180


County: Stokes Record #: 01 126 Bondsman: Hampton Bostick 3 John B. HAMPTON b: 12 Jan 1793 d: 7 Jun 1881 + Polly E. GUINN b: 10 Mar 1796 d: 10 Nov 1882 4 Eliza HAMPTON b: 30 Oct 1813 d: 21 Aug 1843 + John G. PEARSON 5 William Thornton PEARSON b: 8 Mar 1840 d: May 1853

John married Mary "Polly" E. GUINN, daughter of Thornton Preston GUINN and Anne BOSTICK, on 15 Dec 1813 in Stokes Co., NC. Mary was born 10 Mar 1796. She died 9 Nov 1882.


+ 362 F i. Eliza HAMPTON was born 30 Oct 1813 and died 21 Aug 1843.

+ 363 F ii. Anne A. HAMPTON was born 28 Dec 1815 and died 30 Mar 1877.

364 M iii. Samuel James HAMPTON (died a baby) was born 18 Jul 1818 in Stokes Co., NC. He died 2 Apr 1819 in Stokes Co., NC.

365 F iv. Mary HAMPTON was born 6 Jun 1822 in Stokes Co., NC. She died Jul 1822 in Stokes Co., NC.

+ 366 F v. Susan Rebecca HAMPTON was born 30 May 1823 and died Mar 1893.

+ 367 M vi. Thornton Preston HAMPTON was born 26 Oct 1825.

368 F vii. Martha C. HAMPTON (died a baby) was born 28 Apr 1828 in Stokes Co., NC. She died Jul 1829 in Stokes Co..

+ 369 F viii. Mary Jane HAMPTON was born 10 Jul 1830.

370 M ix. John M. HAMPTON (died a child) was born 21 Dec 1832 in Stokes Co., NC. He died Oct 1843.

4 John M. HAMPTON b: 21 Dec 1832 d: Oct 1843

+ 371 M x. William Anthony HAMPTON C.S.A. (died in battle) was born 20 Jun 1835 and died 13 Dec 1862.

+ 372 F xi. Cynthia Elizabeth HAMPTON was born 7 Dec 1837 and died 4 Dec 1896.

162. Mary HAMPTON "Polly" (BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 14 May 1795 in Stokes Co., NC. She died in Fayette Co., TN.

The year of Mary's birth seems wrong to me. She is definitely listed as being 10 years younger on several censes'. 1 Mary Bostick b: 14 MAY 1795 + Henry C. Hampton b: 1790 2 John P. Hampton b: 1820 + Pauline W. Smith Overby b: 1819 3 Martha Eva Hampton b: 8 APR 1847 d: 1882 + Bartley Johnson Sutton b: 1845 d: 1882 4 Ida Katherine Sutton b: 3 AUG 1877 d: 4 SEP 1928 + Daniel Herbert Powell b: 23 JUL 1870 d: 5 OCT 1928 5 G. A. (Allen) Powell 5 Hayes E. Powell 5 Ernest S. Powell 5 Junior Powell 5 Doris Darnell Powell 5 Frank Herbert Powell b: 23 SEP 1908 d: 5 JAN 1975 + Elva Jewel Thomasson b: 31 MAR 1912 d: 2 NOV 1990 6 Robert Carol Powell 6 Katherine Darnell Powell b: 29 AUG 1930 d: 18 JUL 1996 + Lonnie Duane Watkins b: 14 APR 1922 d: 20 OCT 1979 + Catherine Stewart


Polly married Henry C. HAMPTON, son of Collins HAMPTON, on 26 May 1814 in Stokes Co., NC. Henry was born about 1795 in North Carolina.

Email from: "Winkler" <[email protected]> According to the information I have been able to glean, Henry C. Hampton's father was Collins Hampton. Henry C. and Mary Bostick Hampton are 3rd cousins. Name: Henry C. HAMPTON Given Name: Henry C. Surname: Hampton Sex: M Birth: 1795 in N.C. 1 Birth: Bet. 1790 - 1795 in N.C. Census: 1860 Fayette Co.Tn. living next door to John Census: 1840 Fayette Co. Tn. 1820 CENSUS, Iredell, NC - Henry Hampton 2 males- under 5 1 male- 20-45 1 female- 14-26 1830 CENSUS - Iredell, NC - Most definitely a Henry "C" Hampton 1 male- under 5 1 male- 5-10 2 males- 10-15 1 male - 30-40 1 female - under 5 1 female- 5-10 1 female- 30-40 (Note - 6 children) Notes about the 1840 Census: There are several problems with this Census, compared with some of the notes we have.... Supposedly Henry would have been 45 years old in 1840, but there is not a male listed of that age. Also, in 1850 Polly is listed as being 10 years younger than Henry, which would make her birth (according to that Census, in 1805, not 1795. But according to the Census, the oldest female would have been born between 1800 & 1810). All in all, not very good matches. 1840 CENSUS, Fayette County, TN - Henry C. Hampton 1 male- 15-20 (this could be Armstead O? - but what about John?) 2 males- 20-30 (these could be older sons) 1 male- 50-60 (could be Henry - IF he was born in 1790 instead of 1795) 1 female- under 5 (could be Susan - but where is Evelyn?) 2 females- 10-20 (could be older daughters) 1 female- 30-40 (could be Mary, but she would have to have been born no earlier than 1800) 1850 CENSUS, Fayette County, TN H.C. Hampton, age 55, farmer, born in NC Polly, age 45, born in NC John P, age 24, born in NC Armstead, age 22, born in NC Eveline, age 17, born in NC Susan, age 14, born in TN James W. Ray, age 20,laborer Marriage 1 Mary Polly HAMPTON b: 14 May 1795 in ,Stokes,N.C. Married: 26 May 1814 in Stokes, N.C. Children John P. HAMPTON b: Bet. 1815 - 1819 in N.C.


O. HAMPTON b: 1828 Evelin HAMPTON Armsted HAMPTON Susan HAMPTON b: 1847 Sources: Title: The Old Three Hundred Repository: Hackleman Narrowing it down- from Debra Johnson - 12 Sep 2006 I believe my Eliza B. Hampton is sister to John Hampton below & daughter of Henry C. Hamption. They all live next to each other in the 1860 Fayette Co. TN Census. I have a great aunt that said she was named after Eliza's sister Evelyn. Does anyone have another Child for Henry C. Hampton on record? Need help on this one! Thanks, Debby Johnson, [email protected] Marriage 1 Mary "Polly" Hampton b: 14 MAY 1795 in Stokes County, North Carolina Married: 26 MAY 1814 in Stokes County, North Carolina Children John P. Hampton b: 1826 in Stokes County, North Carolina Armstead Hampton b: 1828 in Stokes County, North Carolina Evelen Hampton b: 1833 in Stokes County, North Carolina Susan Hampton b: 1836 in Tennessee Thought I would post & share what I have found so far thanks to Ginga- a new cousin: But there are still brick walls. I was greatful to learn the connection with the Wade Hampton family & Gen A.C. Johnston family as understood only by my deceased Grandfather. My Hampton ancestor (GGrandmother Eliza B. Hampton is a missing documented eldest daughter of Parents , Henry C. Hampton & Mary/Polly Bostick Hampton. QUESTION: WERE HENRY AND MARY COUSINS? & WHO ARE HENRY'S PARENTS? Eliza B. Hampton Married Bartlett Johnson. Eliza's Brother John P. Hampton had a daughter who married into the Johnson family. Another Brick Wall: Husband, Bartlett Johnson's father was William Preston Johnson b. NC. The Preston's are associated with the Hampton's. Could there be a connection to Bartlett's wife's Hampton family?. William's wife was Susannah Henley b. GA. Anyway here is a simple tree. I do have dates & Census records for sources. Esp. Fayette Co. TN & Marshall MS & Tippah MS. Descendants of Henry C. Hampton 1 Henry C. Hampton 1795 - .. +Mary /Polly Bostick Hampton 1795 - ........ 2 John P. Hampton 1826 - ............ +Paulina Overby Smith ................... 3 Cynthia A. Hampton 1843 - ................... 3 John Frank Hampton 1846 - ................... 3 Martha Eva Hampton 1847 - ................... 3 Bethenia Virginia Hampton 1849 - ................... 3 Sallie Hampton 1856 - ........ *2nd Wife of John P. Hampton: ............ +Katherine Stewart ........ 2 Armstead O. Hampton 1828 - ........ 2 Eliza B. (Bostick?) Hampton 1830 - ............ +Bartlett Johnson 1815 ................... 3 Dr. Albert Joseph Johnson


....................... +Marianna Mildred Thornton (Va roots)

............................. 4 Dr. Shelton Erskin Johnson

................................. +Love (Lovie) Webb

........................................ 5 Moss Webb Johnson

............................................ +Patricia Ann Parker

........ 2 Eveline Hampton 1833 -

........ 2 Susan Hampton 1836 -


373 F i. Elizabeth HAMPTON.

Ancestry notes of Shirley Gillelan 1 Elizabeth HAMPTON + Bartlett JOHNSON 2 Dr Albert Joseph JOHNSON + Marianna Mildred THORNTON b: 1867 3 Dr Shelton E JOHNSON + Love Lynn WEBB 3 Moss Webb JOHNSON + Patricia Ann PARKER 3 Debra Lynn JOHNSON 3 Kimberly Katherine JOHNSON + ? SCHMIDT Notes of Debra Johnson, June 2006: Anyway this is regarding My Eliza B. Hampton & proof that Henry C. Hampton is her father & Mary Bostick was mother. All census' appear to vary on ages somewhat, so I would rather go by females & household members. I feel Eliza is the eldest daughter & middle name "B." is probably Bostick- birth prob. 1830. Why? TN (Fayette County: 1840 Census Henry C. Hampton + wife: 3 male children (2 are adult age if correct) & 3 female children (I believe elsest 2 are Eliza B. & Evelyn, Youngest being Susan). 1850 Census Henry C. Hampton 55 & Polly 45 2 adult males (I believe they may have only been at the home that day) & 2 females Evelyn & Susan Note: Eliza was gone! Ms census below. Eliza married young with Bartlett in MS & came back home later to Fayette Co. & Hampton family & other associated families by 1860. This census also shows John & Pauline married with children next house. 1850 Census Marshal MS Bartlett Johnson 35 B. GA & Elisa B. born NC & 22?(This age is probably 20) 3 Male children Wm. H., age 3 B. Ms, John B., age 2, Cornelius 1/12 (must have died) 1860 Census Fayette Co. TN (All families back together as neighbors) Henry C. Hampton 70 & Mary 60 w/ "O" 32 & Susan 18 (grandchild?) John Hampton age 36 & Pauline age 45 w/Cynthia, E., Frank (John Frank), Virginia (Bethenia V.) & Sallie Bartlett Johnson age 45 & Eliza age 30 w/ Wm. H.,(William Henry) JD (John B.), A.C. (Armistead), S. C.(Susan), M. A.(Mary Alice), M. ?(Mattie), J. A.(Albert Joseph)--(Sidney S. Had not ben born as yet) [can add other relations with Sidney & same related families] Now I also wonder about John P. Hampton's wife Pauline, who is so much older. Someone states she married first an Overby, had children & John was second husband. Also have seen her as Pauline W. Overby Smith (John Smith being guardian after husband dies, I suppose).


Could "O" have been one of her children from first marriage, living with relatives or actually "Armstead"?) My Grandfather's notes say that Armstead (son of Bartlett & Eliza) married an Annie Sutton. & maybe went to TX. Also Didn't John P. Hampton's young daughter Martha Eva Hampton Marry a cousin--- Dovie Johnson Sutton's son ????? In 1850 Bartley Johnson Has land record Huntsville AL Parcel 21S, Range 11E, section 4 39.99 acres. Feb. 9 In 1860 Eliza Johnson has land record 1NWNW HUNTSVILLE NO 21S 11E (18) 39.96 acres Feb.1 Best I can do so far- brain scrambled! Please give imput. Thanks, Debby

Elizabeth married Bartlett JOHNSON, son of William Preston JOHNSON.

+ 374 M ii. John P. HAMPTON was born about 1826.

375 M iii. Armstead O. HAMPTON was born about 1828.

376 F iv. Eveline HAMPTON was born about 1833.

377 F v. Susan HAMPTON was born about 1836.

163. Susannah/Susan HAMPTON (BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 27 Mar 1797 in Stokes Co., NC.

Susannah/Susan married Hampton BOSTICK, son of Maj. John BOSTICK Rev. War (DAR # 158183) and Mary JARVIS/GERVAIS, on 15 Nov 1812 in Stokes Co., NC. Hampton was born 25 Apr 1793. He died 1822 in Dallas County, AL.

Email query: He died in 1822 Dallas County, AL, leaving a widow, Susanna, and three minor age sons, John, Don Ferdinand and James Alfred. Susanna married Armstrong J. Blackburn in 1823 and died in 1859 Mississippi. What happened to the three sons?


378 M i. John K. BOSTICK is printed as #315.

+ 379 M ii. James A. BOSTICK is printed as #316.

164. MANOAH BOSTICK HAMPTON8 (BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 25 Jun 1799 in Stokes County, NC. He died 16 Feb 1858 in Lawrence County, AL.

The Hampton's followed in the footsteps of many of our Scots/Irish families. They moved from the Carolinas into lower Tennessee and North Alabama, together or following each other. Dozens of our families followed that route. It surely had to do with the Indians being removed. In 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act. Ah-ha! New land! During this time, the US government constructed forts all through North Alabama and Southern TN. In 1835, the Indians agreed to move beyond the Mississippi River. By 1840, all of the Eastern tribes had been subdued... as in the "Trial of Tears." There was a Fort HAMPTON, west of Athens on the Limestone/Lauderdale counties line. Fort Hampton (1809 - 1817), near Coxey A Federal fort located on the Elk River near the Tennessee River, built to protect Indian lands from white squatters. Also known as Fort at Muscle Shoals. Site is now the Harmony Church. Fort Hampton found in a map of Southeastern States showing the lands of the Cherokee and Creek Indians and made in 1815. 7th Regiment of the US Army at Fort Hampton during the War of 1812. Father: Samuel, Capt. HAMPTON b: Bef. 1760 in Surry County, North Carolina Mother: Bethenia BOSTICK b: 18 Mar 1767 in probably Pittsylvania County, Virginia Marriage 1 Cynthia MITCHELL b: 1795 Married: 25 Feb 1822 in Stokes County, North Carolina Children Susan E. HAMPTON


Melinda B. HAMPTON Manoah Bostick II HAMPTON John Placibo HAMPTON b: 1825 1850 CENSUS, Lawrence County, AL (District 7) M.B. Hampton, age 55, farmer, $20,000, born in NC Cynthia, age 55, born in NC Susan E., age 19, born in Ala Matilda B., age 17, born in Ala M.B. Jr., age 13 (?), farmer, born in Ala Lucy Martin, age 35,. born in Tenn. HAMPTON, MANOAH B Land Office: HUNTSVILLE Sequence #: Document Number: 6337 Total Acres: 39.86 Misc. Doc. Nr.: Signature: Yes Canceled Document: No Issue Date: September 04, 1835 Mineral Rights Reserved: No Metes and Bounds: No Survey Date: Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566 Multiple Warantee Names: No Act or Treaty: April 24, 1820 Multiple Patentee Names: No Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries Legal Land Description: # Aliquot Parts Block # Base Line Fractional Section Township Range Section # 1 NESE HUNTSVILLE No 5S 8W 6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HAMPTON, MANOAH B Land Office: HUNTSVILLE Sequence #: Document Number: 7142 Total Acres: 79.88 Misc. Doc. Nr.: Signature: Yes Canceled Document: No Issue Date: October 16, 1835 Mineral Rights Reserved: No Metes and Bounds: No Survey Date: Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566 Multiple Warantee Names: No Act or Treaty: April 24, 1820 Multiple Patentee Names: No Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries Legal Land Description: # Aliquot Parts Block # Base Line Fractional Section Township Range Section # 1 W½NE HUNTSVILLE No 4S 9W 5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HAMPTON, MANOAH B Land Office: HUNTSVILLE Sequence #: Document Number: 723 Total Acres: 39.98 Misc. Doc. Nr.: Signature: Yes Canceled Document: No Issue Date: October 16, 1835 Mineral Rights Reserved: No Metes and Bounds: No Survey Date: Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566 Multiple Warantee Names: No Act or Treaty: April 24, 1820 Multiple Patentee Names: No Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries Legal Land Description: # Aliquot Parts Block # Base Line Fractional Section Township Range Section # 1 NWSW HUNTSVILLE No 3S 9W 31 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HAMPTON, MANOAH B Land Office: HUNTSVILLE Sequence #: Document Number: 24134 Total Acres: 39.96 Misc. Doc. Nr.: Signature: Yes


Canceled Document: No Issue Date: April 02, 1857 Mineral Rights Reserved: No Metes and Bounds: No Survey Date: Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566 Multiple Warantee Names: No Act or Treaty: April 24, 1820 Multiple Patentee Names: No Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries Legal Land Description: # Aliquot Parts Block # Base Line Fractional Section Township Range Section # 1 NESW HUNTSVILLE No 3S 9W 34 --------------------------------------------------------- Source: "Olden Times of Colbert & Franklin Counties in Alabama" Page 337 Hampton Cemetery - 5 mi N.E. of Leighton Hampton, Mandah Bostick (misspellings) April 16, 1835-Mar 2, 1915 Born Leighton Hampton, Emma Jane - Aug 17, 1840 - June 7, 1882 - Dau Joseph & Eliza(should be Josiah) Battle, born Madison Co., Ala. Died Lawrence Co., Al. Hampton Banoah Bostic - June 25, 1799 - Feb 16, 1858; Born in Stokes Co., NC Mar Cynthia Mitchell on Feb 28, 1822. Died in Lawrence Co., Al. Martin, Lucy - b. North Carolina - d. Law. Co., Jan 27, 1867 King, Mary Anderson - Dec 15, 1838 - April 23, 1824 Dau John W. & Lucinda King Hampton, Thomas F. - d. Aug 1, 1835 Hampton, Cynthia Amanda - b May 10, 1827 - died at School in Athens, AL Sept 28, 1843 Hampton, Cynthia Mitchell - June 24, 1795 - May 21, 1853 b. Iridell Co., d. Murfreesbor4o, TN Mar. M. B. Hampton Feb 28, 1822 ----------------------------------------------------------- LAWRENCE COUNTY, AL - Leiglatures - Representatives: 1838 - Tandy W. Walker, Sam'l Henderson, MANOAH B. HAMPTON, Micajah Priest. ----------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENT: Genealogy hand written by Sue Chilton McClure Aldridge ----------------------------------------------------------- Mrs. Bostwick obtained Affidavits regarding the inscriptions found on graves sites in Colbert County, Alabama: "Know all men by these presents: The undersigned, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith: that on to-wit: March 2, 1968, in the presence of each other they visited the Hampton Place in Colbert County, Alabama, (presently farmed by J. H. Johnson) situate north of Leighton, Alabama; and the undersigned while there did view, and Betty A Bostwick did abstract, the following information from tombstones in the cemetery there situate on said Hampton Place: In Memory of MANOAH BOSTIC HAMPTON Born in Stokes County, N.C. June 25, 1799 Married Cynthia Mitchell The 28th of February, 1822 Departed this life at his home In Lawrence County, Ala. The 16th of February, 1858

MANOAH married Cynthia MITCHELL, daughter of Andrew MITCHELL and Sarah "Sally" SNODDY, on 28 Feb 1822 in Stokes Co., NC. Cynthia was born 24 Jun 1795 in Iredell County, NC. She died 21 May 1853 in Murfreesboro,


TN.

------------------------------- Mrs. Bostwick obtained Affidavits regarding the inscriptions found on graves sites in Colbert County, Alabama: "Know all men by these presents: The undersigned, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith: that on to-wit: March 2, 1968, in the presence of each other they visited the Hampton Place in Colbert County, Alabama, (presently farmed by J. H. Johnson) situate north of Leighton, Alabama; and the undersigned while there did view, and Betty A Bostwick did abstract, the following information from tombstones in the cemetery there situate on said Hampton Place: In Memory Of CYNTHIA HAMPTON Daughter of Andrew and Sarah Mitchell Born in Iredell County, N.C. June 24th, 1795 Married M. B. Hampton The 28th of February, 1822 Departed this life at Murfreesboro, Tenn. The 21st of May, 1853 She lived and died a Christian and was beloved By all who knew her. M. B. H.


+ 380 F i. Mary Mitchell HAMPTON was born about 1823 and died 1 Feb 1899.

+ 381 M ii. Dr. John Placibo HAMPTON was born 22 Jan 1825 and died 8 Jun 1907.

382 F iii. Cynthia Amanda HAMPTON was born 10 May 1827. She died 18 Sep 1843 in Athens, AL and was buried in Hampton Family Cemetery, Leighton, AL.

Mrs. Bostwick obtained Affidavits regarding the inscriptions found on graves sites in Colbert County, Alabama: "Know all men by these presents: The undersigned, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith: that on to-wit: March 2, 1968, in the presence of each other they visited the Hampton Place in Colbert County, Alabama, (presently farmed by J. H. Johnson) situate north of Leighton, Alabama; and the undersigned while there did view, and Betty A Bostwick did abstract, the following information from tombstones in the cemetery there situate on said Hampton Place: In Memory of CYNTHIA AMANDA HAMPTON Born the 10th of May, 1827 Died at school in Athens, Ala,Sept. 28, 1843

383 F iv. Susan E. HAMPTON "Sue" was born about 1828/1831 in Alabama. She died in Missouri.

1860 CENSUS: Bowling Green, Pettis, MO V_________ Chilton, age 41, farmer, $19,000/$37,000, born in Virginia Susan E Chilton, age 32, est.year of birth: 1827, born in Alabama (and one hired laborer) 1870 CENSUS: Bowling Green, Pettis, MO Van T. Chilton, age 52, farmer, $22,000/$4,000, born in Virginia Susan E. Children, age 39, keeping house, born in Alabama (and two hired laborers)


1880 CENSUS: Bowling Green, Pettis, MO Van_____Chilton, age 63, farmer, VA/VA/VA Susan Chilton, age age 49 (1831) keeping house, AL/AL/AL Lula Hampton, niece, age 15, at school, AL/AL/AL Fannie R_____ (hard to read name), ditto on niece, age 14, at home, MO/KY/KY Jamie Renhart, cousin, age 6, cousin, at home, MO/?/? (two servants and three laborers, one with an 8 year old child)

Sue married "Van" T. CHILTON. "Van" was born about 1818 in Virginia.

Source: Handwritten genealogy notes by Sue Chilton McClure Aldridge States they had no children, and that they lived in Missouri.

384 F v. Matilda HAMPTON "Tillie" was born about 1833 in Alabama. She died in Probably Montana.

Source: Handwritten genealogy by Sue Chilton McClure Aldridge 1880 US FEDERAL CENSUS WILLIAM PARBERRY, DOCTOR Matilda PARBERRY, wife Age: 37 Estimated birth year: <1843> Birthplace: Alabama Occupation: Keeping House Relation: Wife Home in 1880: White Sulpher Springs, Meagher, Montana Marital status: Married Race: White Gender: Female Head of household: William PARBERRY Father's birthplace: AL Mother's birthplace: AL Image Source: Year: 1880; Census Place: White Sulpher Springs, Meagher, Montana; Roll: T9_742; Family History Film: 1254742; Page: 398B; Enumeration District: 21; Image: 0809. Others living at house: Collins, Ve____) W/F - 25 - boarder Collins, Mable W/F - 5 - boarder Collins, Lottie W/F - 3 - boarder Fray, John N/M - 23 - hired hand Butterfield, Seth W/M - 40 - hired hand Manfield, Alex B/M - 22 - hired hand Collins, Alonzo W/M - 23 - hired hand Clifford, Rodger W/M - 25 - hired hand Max, Ralf W/M - 22 - hired hand Note: a marriage record: Don Parberry married Matilda B. Hampton Jun 26, 1872

Tillie married Dr. William PARBERRY. William was born about 1833 in Kentucky.

No children. They lived in Montana. 1880 CENSUS: Matilda PARBERRY White Sulpher Springs, Meagher, MT 37 <1843> Alabama Female Wife William PARBERRY White Sulpher Springs, Meagher, MT 47 <1833> Kentucky


Document: The Daily Miner, Butte, Montana, April 25, 1882 "Dr. Parberry, formerly a member of the Territorial Council, and proprietor of the White Sulphur Springs, has returned with his wife from a visit to friends and relations in the East and South, and called yesterday at the 'Miner" office. The Dr's many friends will welcome his return." Document: The Daily Miner, Butte, Montana, June 25, 1882 "Dr. Parberry has recently purchased a ranch on the Judith, and an interest in a flock of sheep. The ranch is said to be the finest in all the Judith country." Document: The Daily Miner, July 16, 1882 "Sunday last Dr. Parberry on counting his flock of sheep which he had been keeping about the Springs, found that there were twenty head missing. Sallying forth in search of them he found them scattered about the prairie dead. Examination proved that they had been poisoned by strychnine, and the conclusion was at once reached that some evil-minded person had put out the poison for the express purpose of killing the flock. This is certainly very unprincipled proceedings, for, although the flock is very obnoxious to some of the citizens of our village, it is very inhumane to reek their spite upon the poor dumb animals." Document: The Daily Miner, 1883 "Dr. Parbery has purchased 5,000 yearling ewes in California which he will drive to Montana this summer. This makes him the largest sheep owner in Meagher county." Document: The Helena Independent, "Ancient Documents Found in Tin Box of School Cornerstone, White Sulphur Springs, March 22, 1926" 3/23/1926 "At the time the [school] buidling went up, the population of White Sulphur Springs was about 700, with 368 registered voters and 305 names on the school census. A document signed by the school clerk states that the sulphur springs were discovered by James Brewer in 1872, and passed into the possession of Dr. William Parberry in 1877. The town was laid out in 1879 by Parberry and W. H. Sutherlin." Document: The Helena Independent, "Mrs. Louise Mayn Remembers When It Took Four Women Before They Could Dance." "Interesting visitors from White Sulphur Springs, Friday, (portions not quoted) and Mrs. Louise Mayn. Few can remember more accurately than they local history they have helped shape, but they can not always be persuaded to recount it. The past holds hardships Mrs. Mayn does not like to recall. "She can remember when we was one of four white women in Smith river valley. The others were Mrs. A C Kent, wife of Col. Gus Kent; Mrs. William Parberry, whose husband laid out the townsite of White Sulphur Springs, and whose big residence, now occupied by R. T. Ringling's, still goes by the name of "the Parberry house"; and Mrs. Almon Spencer, mother of "Gid" Spencer. In those days the quadrille was a favorite dance and unless the four girls went to a dance, there was none! Sometimes for six months Mrs. Mayn would see no white women. Indians were everywhere. They crowded doors and windows in such numbers that in Mrs. Mayn's expressive phrase, "they darkened the houses."

+ 385 M vi. MANOAH BOSTICK (II) HAMPTON (C.S.A.) was born 16 Apr 1835 and died 2 Mar 1915.

386 M vii. Thomas F. (died a child) HAMPTON died 1 Aug 1835 in Leighton, AL and was buried in Hampton Cemetery, Leighton.


Mrs. Bostwick obtained Affidavits regarding the inscriptions found on graves sites in Colbert County, Alabama: "Know all men by these presents: The undersigned, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith: that on to-wit: March 2, 1968, in the presence of each other they visited the Hampton Place in Colbert County, Alabama, (presently farmed by J. H. Johnson) situate north of Leighton, Alabama; and the undersigned while there did view, and Betty A Bostwick did abstract, the following information from tombstones in the cemetery there situate on said Hampton Place: In Memory of THOMAS F. HAMPTON Departed this life Aug, 1835 "Olden Times of Colbert & Franklin Counties in Ala." pg 337,it states that Thomas F. died August 1, 1835.

167. Absalom, III BOSTICK (Absalom II BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS).

III ABSALOM6 BOSTICK (ABSALOM5, BETHANIA4 PERKINS, BETHANIA3 HARDING, THOMAS2, UNKNOWN1) He married SUSANNAH DALTON. Children of ABSALOM BOSTICK and SUSANNAH DALTON are: i. M.D. JONATHAN S.7 BOSTICK, m. SARAH A. SMITH, 09 Nov 1840, Rockingham Co., NC. ii. SARAH BOSTICK, m. PETER WEBSTER. iii. CHARLES BOSTICK. iv. RICHARD BOSTICK. v. MARTHA BOSTICK. vi. CALVIN BOSTICK. vii. SUSANNAH BOSTICK. viii. ELIZABETH BOSTICK, m. HARDEN GUINN; b. Stokes Co., NC. ix. NANCY BOSTICK. When Absolom Bostick III married Susannah Dalton, daughter of Charles Dalton and Sarah Winston, in Stokes County, NC on December 29, 1817 he was listed as Absolom, Jr. on the marriage bond. (16) Even =Early Families of the North Carolina Counties of Rockingham and Stokes with Revolutionary War Service, Vol. 1=, published by the James Hunter Chapter of NSDAR in 1977, has this information incorrect.

Absalom, married Susannah DALTON.


387 i. Nine Children BOSTICK.

174. William Rand BOSTICK (Don Ferdinand BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1803. He died after 1870.

William married Jane BROWDER.


388 M i. Jesse BOSTICK.

+ 389 F ii. Mary Jane BOSTICK.

390 F iii. Angelina (Anne) BOSTICK.

391 M iv. John W. BOSTICK.

392 M v. James Abner BOSTICK.


393 F vi. Louise BOSTICK.

176. Elizabeth (dau of Ferdinand & Eliz) BOSTICK (Don Ferdinand BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1807.

Elizabeth married William JOYCE.


394 M i. Ferdinand JOYCE.

395 M ii. A.B. (Absolom Bostick?) JOYCE.

396 M iii. James P. JOYCE.

177. Absalom (son of Ferdinand & Eliz) BOSTICK (Don Ferdinand BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1809. He died 1849 in Fayette County, TX from murdered.

This Absalom was murdered in Fayette Co. TX in 1849.

Absalom married Mary G. PATTON in Williamson County, TN.


+ 397 M i. Robert F. BOSTICK.

185. Mary "Polly" E. GUINN (Anne BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 10 Mar 1796. She died 9 Nov 1882.

Mary married John B. HAMPTON, son of Capt. SAMUEL HAMPTON * and * BETHENIA BOSTICK, on 15 Dec 1813 in Stokes Co., NC. John was born 12 Jan 1793 in Stokes Co., NC. He died 7 Jun 1881 in Walkertown, Forsyth Co., NC.

The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research SCMAR, Volume III Number 1, Winter, 1975 Estate Partitions in the Washington District Court of Equity, 1803-1826 SCMAR, Vol. III, Winter 1975, No. 1, p.9 Commission from Robert Creswell, Commissioner in Equity, to John Hampton, James McMorris, Benjamin May, James Davis, & Philip Pearson, ordering them to make the desired partition, dated Third Monday in February(?), 1806. Commissioners sworn 17 Oct. 1806 before Mich'ls(?) Dickert, J.P. . JOHN B.12 HAMPTON (SAMUEL11, JAMES10, JOHN9, JOHN8, THOMAS7, WILLIAM6, LAURENCE5, JOHN4, THOMAS3 DE HAMPTON, JOHN2, RICHARD GERVAIS1) was born January 12, 1793 in Stokes Co., NC, and died June 07, 1881 in Walkertown, Forsyth Co., NC. He married MARY E. GUINN December 15, 1823 in Stokes Co., NC, daughter of THORNTON GUINN and ANNE BOSTICK. She was born March 10, 1796 in Stokes Co., NC, and died November 10, 1882 in Walkertown, Forsyth Co., NC. North Carolina Marriage Record Groom: Jno B Hampton Bride: Polly E Guinn Bond Date: 15 Dec 1812 Bond #: 000139054 Level Info: North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868 ImageNum: 003180 County: Stokes Record #: 01 126 Bondsman: Hampton Bostick 3 John B. HAMPTON b: 12 Jan 1793 d: 7 Jun 1881 + Polly E. GUINN b: 10 Mar 1796 d: 10 Nov 1882 4 Eliza HAMPTON b: 30 Oct 1813 d: 21 Aug 1843 + John G. PEARSON 5 William Thornton PEARSON b: 8 Mar 1840 d: May 1853



+ 398 F i. Eliza HAMPTON is printed as #362.

+ 399 F ii. Anne A. HAMPTON is printed as #363.

400 M iii. Samuel James HAMPTON (died a baby) is printed as #364.

401 F iv. Mary HAMPTON is printed as #365.

+ 402 F v. Susan Rebecca HAMPTON is printed as #366.

+ 403 M vi. Thornton Preston HAMPTON is printed as #367.

404 F vii. Martha C. HAMPTON (died a baby) is printed as #368.

+ 405 F viii. Mary Jane HAMPTON is printed as #369.

406 M ix. John M. HAMPTON (died a child) is printed as #370.

+ 407 M x. William Anthony HAMPTON C.S.A. (died in battle) is printed as #371.

+ 408 F xi. Cynthia Elizabeth HAMPTON is printed as #372.

193. David B. GUINN (Anne BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) died 1841.

David married NARCISSA.


409 M i. William Thornton GUINN.

205. Martha Ann (same as Mary?) BOSTICK (Manoah Hardin BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 30 Jan 1830 in Montgomery Co., TN. She died Aug 1911 in Fayette, Greene Co., Illinois.

Her maternal grand-parents were Daniel Harvie and Sallie Taliaferro. Her paternal grand-parents were Absalom Bostick and Bethenia Perkins. Information from Andrews/Pegram family web site: http://www.patch.net/pegram/pegg32.html They had the following children:

Martha married William Wilkins ANDREWS. William was born 18 Mar 1827 in Dinwiddie County, VA. He died 12 Mar 1875 in Washington County, Arkansas.

William Wilkins Andrews (Mary Peter Pegram , Baker , Edward , Daniel , George ) was born on 18 Mar 1827 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. He died on 12 Mar 1875 in Washington Co., Arkansas. William married (1) Amanda Louisa Jones 1 on 1 May 1850 in Carrollton, Greene Co., Illinois. Amanda was born before 1831 in Carrollton, Greene Co., Illinois. She died before 1857. They had the following children: 1923 F i Mary Louisa Andrews was born in 1851. She died in 1861. 1924 M ii Hardin Andrews was born about 1852 in Greene Co., Illinois. He died before 1912. 1925 F iii Mattie Jones Andrews was born 1 on 19 Nov 1854 in Illinois. 1926 M iv Willie Andrews was born in 1856. He died in 1856. William married (2) Martha Ann Bostick daughter of Manoah Hardin Bostick and Frances Taliaferro Harvie on 9 Jun 1857. Martha was born on 30 Jan 1830 in Montgomery Co., Tennessee. She died in Aug 1911 in Fayette, Greene Co., Illinois.


410 F i. Fannie Harvey ANDREWS was born 22 Dec 1858 in Greene Co, IL. She died 30 Jan 1876 in Fayetteville, Washington Co., Arkansas.


411 M ii. Nathaniel J. ANDREWS was born 30 Oct 1860 in Fayette, Greene Co., Illinois. He died Feb 1861 in Fayette, Greene Co., Illinois.

412 F iii. Virginia Susan ANDREWS was born 12 Jul 1862 in Fayette, Greene Co., Illinois. She died 1864 in Fayette, Greene Co., Illinois.

413 F iv. Lula Virginia ANDREWS was born 19 Jan 1866 in Fayette, Greene Co., Illinois.

Lula married Robert E.L. SMITH.

414 M v. Baker Pegram ANDREWS was born 21 Jul 1869.

The Pegram/Andrews family were from Dinwiddie County, Virginia.

415 F vi. Mary Catherine ANDREWS was born 20 Feb 1873. She died 18 Feb 1954.

206. Absalom Bostick DALTON (Christina BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 28 Aug 1804 in Stokes Co., NC. He died 1880 in Stokes Co., NC.

Absalom married Nancy POINDEXTER on 11 Nov 1824 in Stokes Co., NC. Nancy was born 6 Jan 1806 in Stokes Co., NC. She died 22 Jun 1856 in Stokes Co., NC.


+ 416 M i. David Nicholas DALTON was born 1826 and died 24 Jun 1895.

417 M ii. Absalom (Jr) DALTON.

418 M iii. Samuel G. DALTON.

BIRTH: BEF 15 NOV 1843, North Carolina

216. Ruth Stovall HAIRSTON (Alcey PERKINS, Peter PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 13 Jul 1783. She died 22 Apr 1869.

Ruth married (1) Peter (son of John) WILSON, son of Gen. John WILSON and Mary LUMPKIN. Peter was born 1770. He died 1813.

Peter Wilson (1770-1813), son of John Wilson and Mary Lumpkin, married a daughter of Peter Hairston and Alcey Perkins, Ruth Stoval Hairston (1783-1869). He owned many plantations including Berry Hill (built by Peter Perkins), Brierfield, and Goose Pond, all in Pittsylvania County, Va. Peter Wilson, in partnership with his father John Wilson, ran a general merchandise store in Rockingham County, N.C. After marrying Ruth Stoval Hairston in 1800, he moved to Berry Hill Plantation but continued to run the Rockingham County store. From 1801 to 1803, Thomas Bouldin and Company probably managed the store for Peter Wilson. He also served as the head of the Second Battalion of the 42nd Regiment of the Pittsylvania County Militia and as a justice of the peace. Peter WILSON m: 1818 b: November 19, 1788 Married cousin/(1770-1830 by one account) d: 1813 Letters at UNC by her. http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/htm/04134.html


+ 419 F i. Agnes John Peter WILSON was born 1801 and died 1880.

Ruth also married (2) Robert HAIRSTON, son of Col. George (son of Robert & Ruth Stovall) HAIRSTON and Elizabeth PERKINS. Robert was born 1783 in of Leatherwood Plantation in Henry County, VA. He died 1852 in Lownes Co., MS.

Robert commanded a company in Scott's Army in the invasion of Canada. After Peter Wilson died in 1813, Ruth Stoval (Hairston) Wilson (1783-1869) married Robert Hairston (1783-1852). He was the son of George Hairston (1750-1827) and Elizabeth (Perkins) Letcher (1759-1818). His father lived in Henry County, Va., where he built Marrowbone Plantation. Robert Hairston owned Leatherwood Plantation in Henry County, and after marrying Ruth Stoval (Hairston) Wilson, he managed her plantations including Berry Hill in Pittsylvania County, Va. Around 1837, he moved to Mississippi to manage the following plantations that he owned: Bend, Black Flat, Choctaw Springs, Moore's Bluff, Nashville Place, and Pepper plantations. His wife was


left to manage her properties. At his death, a controversy surrounded his will which left all his property to a slave child. -------------------------------------------------- Inventory of the Wilson and Hairston Family Papers, 1751-1928 Univ. of NC Collection Number 4134 The papers from 1814 to 1832 are principally those of Peter Hairston (1752-1832) and his nephews, Robert Hairston (1783-1852) and Samuel Hairston (1788-1875), the sons of George and Elizabeth (Perkins) Letcher Hairston. The papers are almost entirely business correspondence and financial and legal papers of the three men. Among the business correspondence are letters to Peter Hairston from his daughter Ruth Stoval (Hairston) Wilson about the management of her plantation following Peter Wilson's death in 1813 until her marriage to Robert Hairston around 1816. There are also letters to Samuel, Robert, and Peter Hairston from Lynchburg, Petersburg, and Richmond, Va., and Fayetteville, N.C., merchants. All three men produced large quantities of tobacco and sold it through commission merchants in Lynchburg while Peter Hairston sold his flour and cotton in the Fayetteville market. Also included are five letters in 1832 from R. H. Toler, William M. Rives, R. R. Gurley, and John McPhail to Robert Hairston about the American Colonization Society and the manumission of six of Hairston's slaves who were sent to Liberia. The majority of the legal papers are related to the case of Robert Hairston v. Joel, Elisha, and William Estes, a suit concerning the sale of Robert Hairston's tobacco through the Estes commission business, which appears to have lasted from 1818 to 1829. Additional legal papers consist of bills of sale for slave purchases, deeds for land purchases, property tax payments, and jailers' bills for keeping runaway slaves. The financial papers for this period are chiefly Samuel, Robert, and Peter Hairston's accounts with Lynchburg, Petersburg, Richmond, and Fayetteville merchants for their crop sales and for general merchandise. There are also receipts for tobacco hauled to these markets, doctors' bills for attending to slaves, and bills for construction in 1823 of the Oak Hill home of Samuel Hairston. Miscellaneous material includes minutes of the Sandy Creek Baptist Association, 1825-1829.

232. Elizabeth Letcher PANNILL (Bethenia LETCHER, Elizabeth PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 4 Jan 1801.

Elizabeth Letcher Pannill, married Archibald Stuart. She inherited from her grandfather, William Letcher, a beautiful and fertile farm in the southwestern part of Patrick County, which was named "Laurel Hill." Here her children were born. The large and comfortable house was surrounded by native oaks and was beautified with a flower garden, which was one of the childish delights of her son James, to whom she had transmitted her own passionate love of flowers. The site commanded a fine view of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and near at hand was the monument erected to the memory of William Letcher by his daughter Bethenia. Amid these surroundings James Stuart passed a happy boyhood. He loved the old homestead with all the enthusiasm of his nature; and one of the fondest dreams of his manhood was that he might own the place of his birth, and there end his days in quiet retirement. He writes thus to his mother from Fort Leavenworth, in 1857:-- "I wish to devote one hundred dollars to the purchase of a comfortable log church near your place, because in all my observation I believe one is more needed in that neighborhood than any other that I know of; and besides, "charity begins at home." Seventy-five of this one hundred dollars I have in trust for that purpose, and the remainder is my own contribution. If you will join me with twenty-five dollars, a contribution of a like amount from two or three others interested will build a very respectable free church. What will you take for the south half of your plantation ? I want to buy it." A near relative writes: -- "I well remember his speaking thus to his brother in 1863: "I would give anything to make a pilgrimage to the old place, and when the war is over quietly to spend the rest of my days there." -------------------------------------------------------------------- "The History of Laurel Hill" Through a series of complex land transactions, William and Elizabeth Letcher Pannill found themselves the owners of approximately 1500 acres of land, which was to comprise the future plantation called Laurel Hill. In a series of land swaps, Elizabeth traded with her brother William, certain land she held in partnership with him in Campbell and Pittsylvania counties, and she became the sole owner of the Patrick County property. In 1817, Elizabeth Pannill at the age of 16 married Archibald Stuart. Archibald, age 22 was just then beginning a career in politics and in law. After the marriage the family lived in Campbell County Virginia where Archibald was


elected to the state legislature for the first time. In the ensuing four years, the Stuarts had produced three daughters and a son, none of whom were born on the Patrick County property. By October of 1823, Archibald had journeyed to Patrick County where he was granted a license to practice law, and may have begun arrangements to bring his family to Patrick County. It is not certain just when construction started on the home that was to be called Laurel Hill, however most agree that it was completed by 1830. It was in this home that the first child of Laurel Hill was born, William Alexander Stuart. Six more children were to see the first light of day at Laurel Hill including the seventh child and youngest surviving son, James Ewell Brown Stuart, who was born at eleven a.m. on the 6th of February 1833. The Laurel Hill home has been described as a comfortable, unpretentious farmhouse Unfortunately the home was completely destroyed by fire in the winter of 1847-48, and no contemporary detailed descriptions of the house have survived. James himself in a later letter described the fire as a "sad disaster". After the fire, Archibald along with his son Dr. John Dabney continued to live in the outbuilding that had served as the family kitchen for several years thereafter. Archibald passed away in 1855 and was buried at Laurel Hill, and remained there until 1952 when he was moved to Saltville, Virginia to lie beside his wife. By 1859, Elizabeth sold the property to two Mount Airy North Carolina men and the property passed out of the Stuart family hands forever. Children: William Alexander Stuart b: ABT. 1826 James Ewell Brown Stuart b: 6 FEB 1833 d: 1864 David Stuart b: 1823 Ann Dabney Stuart b: 1818

Elizabeth married Hon. Archibald STUART, son of Maj. Alexander STUART -Rev. War and Ann DABNEY. Archibald was born 2 Dec 1795 in Lynchburg, VA. He died Sep 1855.

The Hon. Archibald Stuart, of Patrick County, Va., the eldest son of Judge Alexander Stuart and the father of General J. E. B. Stuart, was an officer in the United States Army in the War of 1812. He embraced the profession of law. Throughout his long and eventful life he was actively engaged in the practice of his profession and in political life. He represented, first, the county of Campbell in the Virginia Legislature, and was repeatedly elected to both branches of that body from the county of Patrick. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1829-30, and of the Convention of 1850. In this latter body, he and the Hon. Henry A. Wise were two of the four members residing east of the Blue Ridge who advocated a "white basis" of representation for the State. He represented the Patrick district in the Federal Congress during the Nullification agitation, and was a strong supporter of Mr. Calhoun in that crisis. He is represented as a man of splendid talents and wonderful versatility. "A powerful orator and advocate, he charmed the multitude on the hustings, and convinced juries and courts. In addition to these gifts, he was one of the most charming social companions the State ever produced. Possessing wonderful wit and humor, combined with rare gift for song, he at once became the centre of attraction at every social gathering. Among the people of the counties where he practised his name is held in great respect, and his memory is cherished with an affection rarely equalled in the history of any public man." He married Elizabeth Letcher Pannill, of Pittsylvania County, Va., by whom he had four sons and six daughters. Among these, James E. B. Stuart was the seventh child and youngest son. Archibald and Elizabeth Stuart moved to Laurel Hill in the mid 1820s. Mrs. Stuart inherited the property from her grandfather, Letcher. Archibald Stuart was a prominent local politician serving as Commonwealth Attorney for several local counties, in both houses of the Virginia legislature from Patrick County and one term in the United States Congress. Mrs. Stuart was known for her love of nature, her strict discipline and religious faith.


420 F i. Ann Dabney STUART was born 24 Mar 1818.

421 F ii. Bethenia Frances STUART was born 10 Sep 1819.

Bethenia married (Mr.) CHEVALIER.

422 F iii. Victoria STUART.

423 F iv. Mary Tucker STUART was born 20 Jul 1821.


424 M v. David Pannill STUART was born 10 Sep 1823.

425 F vi. Virginia STUART.

426 M vii. William Alexander STUART was born 20 May 1826.

427 M viii. John Dabney STUART was born 15 Nov 1828.

John married Ann KENT.

+ 428 F ix. Columbia (sister of J.E.B.) STUART was born 30 May 1830 and died 1857.

429 M x. Gen. James Ewell Brown "J.E.B." STUART C.S.A. was born 6 Feb 1833 in "Laurel Hill" - Patrick County, VA. He died 12 May 1864 in Virginia and was buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA.

"The Life and Campaigns of Major-General J.E.B. Stuart" By H.B. McClellan. Chapter I.--Ancestry, Boyhood And Youth At the age of fourteen years James Stuart was placed at school in Wytheville; and in August, 1848, he entered Emory and Henry College. During a revival of religion among the students he professed conversion, and joined the Methodist Church. Throughout his after life he maintained a consistent Christian character. Ten years later, in 1859, he was confirmed in the Protestant Episcopal Church by Bishop Hawkes, in St. Louis. The reasons for this change in his church connections were simple and natural. His mother was an Episcopalian, and had early instilled into him a love for her own church. His wife was a member of the same communion. He found, also, that a majority of the chaplains in the United States Army at that time were Episcopalian divines, and he considered that his opportunities for Christian fellowship and church privileges would be increased by the change. His spirit toward all denominations of Christians was as far removed as possible from narrow sectarianism. In April, 1850, James Stuart left Emory and Henry College, having obtained an appointment as cadet in the United States Military Academy at West Point, on the recommendation of the Hon. T. H. Averett, of the Third District of Virginia. During his career as cadet, Stuart applied himself assiduously to study, and graduated thirteenth in a class of forty-six members. He appears to have been more ambitious of soldierly than of scholarly distinction, and held in succession the cadet offices of corporal, sergeant, orderly sergeant, captain of the second company, and cavalry sergeant; the last being the highest office in that arm of the service at the Academy. General Fitzhugh Lee speaks thus of this period:-- I recall his distinguishing characteristics, which were a strict attention to his military duties, an erect, soldierly bearing, an immediate and almost thankful acceptance of a challenge to fight from any cadet who might in any way feel himself aggrieved, and a clear, metallic, ringing voice. The reader must not suppose from this description that Stuart was an advocate of the duel. The difficulties referred to were of such a character as are always liable to occur between boys at school, especially where, under a military organization, boys bear authority over boys. Another fellow-cadet gives the testimony that Stuart was known as a "Bible-class man," but was always ready to defend his own rights or his honor; and that the singular feature of his encounters with his fellow-students was, that his antagonists were physically far superior to him, and that although generally worsted in the encounter, Stuart always gained ground in the estimation of his fellows by his manly pluck and endurance. What his conduct was under these circumstances may be inferred from the following extracts from letters written by his father, who was a man of prudence and of honor. Under date of June 15, 1853, Archibald Stuart thus writes to his son:-- I am proud to say that your conduct has given me entire satisfaction. I heard, it is true (but no thanks to you for the information), of the little scrape in which you involved yourself; but I confess, from what I understand of the transaction, I did not consider you so much to blame. An insult should be resented under all circumstances. If a man in your circumstances gains


credit by submitting to insult as a strict observer of discipline, he loses more in proportion in his standing as a gentleman and a man of courage. Again on January 5, 1854, he writes :-- I have received your letter, and much regret that you have been involved in another fighting scrape. My dear son, I can excuse more readily a fault of the sort you have committed, in which you maintained your character as a man of honor and courage, than almost any other. But I hope you will hereafter, as far as possible, avoid getting into difficulties in which such maintenance may be demanded at your hands. The relations existing between the father and son, as revealed by their correspondence during Stuart's cadet-ship, were of the most admirable character. Mutual affection was founded on mutual respect. As the time of graduation approached, the minds of both were greatly exercised over the important question of a choice of profession; and while the father seems to have preferred that his son should adopt the profession of arms, he throws the responsibility of the decision on his son, as the one most interested in, and the one most capable of making, a wise decision. The religious element in Stuart's character seems to have had a decided influence at this crisis of his life, and he was doubtless led to his decision by that Providence in which he trusted, and which was even then preparing him for his after life. During his last year at West Point he writes thus to his father:-- I have not as yet any fixed course determined upon after graduation; still I can't help but regard it as the important crisis of my life. Two courses will be left for my adoption, the profession of arms and that of law; the one securing an ample support, with a life of hardship and uncertainty,--laurels, if any, dearly bought, and leaving an empty title as a bequeathment; the other an overcrowded thoroughfare, which may or may not yield a support, -- may possibly secure honors, but of doubtful worth. Each has its labors and its rewards. In making the selection I will rely upon the guidance of Him whose judgment cannot err, for "it is not with man that walk-eth to direct his steps." After Stuart had fairly embarked on his military career his father writes thus:-- Before I conclude I must express the deep solicitude I feel on your account. Just embarking in military life (a life which tests, perhaps more than any other, a young man's prudence and steadiness), at an immense distance from your friends, great responsibility rests upon your shoulders. It is true that you have, to start with, good morals fortified by religion, a good temper, and a good constitution, which if preserved will carry you through the trial safely. But the temptations of a camp to a young man of sanguine temperament, like yourself, are not to be trifled with or despised. I conjure you to be constantly on your guard, repelling and avoiding the slightest approach towards vice or immorality. You have to go through a fiery ordeal, but it is one through which many great and pious men have gone unscathed. But the greater portion have not escaped unscorched, and many have perished. Your military training at West Point will strengthen you greatly in the struggle. By it you have been taught the necessity of strict subordination to superiors, and of kind and conciliatory manners toward equals; and I trust that you will carry those lessons into practice now that you have exchanged the Academy for the camp. Words of wisdom are these; words which the young man laid close to his heart. No stain of vice or immorality was ever found upon him. ------------------------------------------- "The History of Laurel Hill" In 1845, some two or more years before the catastrophic fire (the house burned in the winter of 1847-48), James had left Laurel Hill and moved to Wytheville, there to go to school and work for his brother William Alexander. In 1848, he matriculated at Emory and Henry College for two years, until Representative W.D. Averitt appointed him to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Graduating in 1854, in a class filled with latter day Civil War luminaries, James began his career in the United States Army.


James spent seven years mainly with the First United States Cavalry in Kansas before resigning in May 1861 to offer his services to Virginia. During this time, he would rise in rank to Captain; dabble in real estate, law and other ways to supplement his income. He married Flora Cooke, daughter of Phillip St. George Cooke, and had three children with her. In 1859, he was in Washington selling a patent of an invention to the War Department when John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry occurred. Stuart offered his services to then Colonel Robert E. Lee and accompanied him to put down the insurrection. During his time in Kansas, he offered to purchase part of Laurel Hill from his mother, and sent money for a church in the community. He would rise to fame as the commander of Robert E. Lee's cavalry in the Civil War, but his heart was always at Laurel Hill. He wrote while still at West Point that he had not appreciated how beautiful a place in which he had grown up and longed to ramble "over the dear old hills of Patrick amid all the pleasures of a mountain home for a lifetime." Stuart died in Richmond on May 12th 1864 after being wounded in the Battle of Yellow Tavern, but his spirit lives on at the place of his birth and the place he had hoped to return to had not the Civil War ended his life too soon. The J.E.B. Stuart Birthplace Preservation Trust Inc. purchased the property in 1992 for the express purpose of preserving and interpreting the birthplace of General Stuart. The College of William and Mary performed an extensive archaeological survey of the property locating the remains of the buildings as well as other valuable archaeological information. The Trust was able to purchase an additional five acres containing the grave of Stuart's great-grandfather William Letcher and the probable site of the Letcher home. In addition, the Trust has outlined the important locations with white granite posts connected by stainless chain as well as placing interpretive signs at each location. The graveyards have been restored and fenced with wrought iron. To celebrate the life of General Stuart a Civil War reenactment is held each year on the first weekend in October. A Revolutionary War reenactment is held in the spring to commemorate William Letcher, an American Patriot. The fifth biennial symposium on the life of Jeb Stuart is being planned after the next Revolutionary War encampment, which is scheduled for the spring of 2003. Laurel Hill was placed on the Virginia Landmark Register in 1998, and included on the National Register of Historic Places later that year. ----------------------------------------- "Mary Chestnut's Diary" April 11, 1864, Page 277: General Jeb Stuart was at Mrs. Randolph's in his cavalry jacket and high boots. He was devoted to Hetty Cary. Constance Cary said to me, appoint to his starts, "Hetty likes them that way, you know - gilt edged and with stars."

James married Flora COOKE on 4 Nov 1855.

238. Maj. Peter Wilson HAIRSTON C.S.A. (Samuel HAIRSTON, Elizabeth PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1819 in Pittsylania CO, VA (Cooleemee Hill in Davie County, NC.). He died 1886.

The eldest son of Samuel Hairston, Peter Wilson Hairston (1819-1886), grew up in Pittsylvania County, Va., but lived his adult life first in Davie County, N.C., and later in Baltimore, Md. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1837 and attended the University of Virginia law school from 1837 to 1839. After these years, he helped in the management of his father and Ruth Stoval (Hairston) Wilson Hairston's plantations in Virginia and North Carolina. In 1849, he married Columbia Stuart (1830-1857), sister of General J. E. B. Stuart, and settled at Cooleemee Plantation in Davie County, N.C., which his great-grandfather, Peter Hairston (1752-1832), had willed to him. By 1860, he expanded the acreage at Cooleemee to twice its original size and possibly owned approximately 300 slaves. After the death of Columbia Stuart in 1857, he married Fanny Caldwell, the daughter of Judge David F. Caldwell of Rowan County, N.C. During the Civil War, Peter W. Hairston served as a volunteer aide for General J. E. B. Stuart and General Jubal A. Early, and after the war, he moved to Baltimore, Md., to become a merchant. His overseers continues the management of Cooleemee Plantation until his death.


Biographical Notes Peter Wilson Hairston (1819-1886), tobacco planter of southwestern Virginia and north central North Carolina, Confederate soldier, and post Civil War commission merchant of Baltimore, grew up on Oak Hill Plantation in Pittsylvania County, Va. The son of Samuel Hairston (1788-1875) and Agnes John Peter Wilson (1801-1880), he received an A.B. in 1837 from the University of North Carolina before inheriting several plantations from his great-grandfather, Major Peter Hairston; his grandparents, Robert and Ruth Stovall Hairston; and other relatives. Hairston first married Columbia Stuart, who died circa 1858, leaving him two children, Elizabeth and Samuel. A year later he married Frances McCoy Caldwell (1835-1907) of Salisbury, N.C. Together they had five children: Samuel (1850-1867); Peter W. (1871-1943); Francis Caldwell (1862-1902); Agnes Wilson (1860-1914); and Ruth Wilson (1869-1947). In the early 1840s, Hairston lived in Pittsylvania County. By the late 1850s, he had taken up residence at Cooleemee Hill Plantation in Davie County, N.C. In addition to growing tobacco, he operated a mill on the Yadkin River. During the Civil War, he served as an aide to his former brother-in-law, Jeb Stuart, in the 1st Regiment of the Virginia Cavalry Volunteers, and to Jubal Anderson Early in the Army of Northern Virginia. After the war, he moved to Baltimore, where he started a commission merchant business, Herbert & Hairston. Peter Wilson Hairston (1819-1886) was the son of Samuel Hairston (1788-1875) and Agnes John Peter (1801-80) of Pittsylvania County, VA. He enrolled in the University in 1833, became a member of the Dialectic Society, and received his BA in 1837. Correspondence in the Wilson and Hairston Family Papers, SHC, indicates that after graduation he studied law at the University of Virginia, then returned to his family's plantation in 1839. He married Columbia Stuart (1830-57) in 1849 and settled on a plantation in Davie County, NC. After his first wife's death, he married Fanny Caldwell (1834-1907), with whom he had four children. During the Civil War Hairston was a major in the Confederate army, serving on the staff of Gen. Jubal A. Early. Peter Wilson Hairston's Civil War experiences, including his service, chiefly in Virginia, as aid to Jeb Stuart with the 1st Virginia Cavalry and to Jubal A. Early, are documented in his correspondence and his Civil War diary. There are also volumes documenting European travel in the 1840s and 1850s, life in Chapel Hill around the same period, documents relating to the work of freedmen and tenant farmers, clippings genealogical materials relating to Hairston family members, and other papers.

Peter married (1) Columbia (sister of J.E.B.) STUART, daughter of Hon. Archibald STUART and Elizabeth Letcher PANNILL, on 1849. Columbia was born 30 May 1830. She died 1857.

The Cooleemee Plantation House was built 1853-1855 by Peter and Columbia Stuart Hairston, a sister of Civil War General J.E.B. Stuart. The site is one of the 33 National Historic Landmark sites in North Carolina. An Anglo-Grecian villa in the shape of a Greek cross, the house contains approximately 300,000 bricks made on site. The house is still owned and occupied by the Hairston family. The name came from the Kulimi Indian tribe that surrendered to Jesse Pearson at Cooleemee, Alabama in 1814 at the end of the War of 1812.


430 M i. Samuel (died at age 17) HAIRSTON was born 1850. He died 1867.

Note: Peter Wilson Hairston also had a child named "Samuel" by his 2nd wife. Can only assume (for now) that this Samuel died young.

431 F ii. Elizabeth HAIRSTON.

Peter also married (2) Frances McCoy (dau Judge David F.) CALDWELL of Rowan, NC "Fannie".


432 F iii. Agnes Wilson HAIRSTON was born 1860. She died 1914.

433 M iv. Francis Caldwell HAIRSTON was born 1862. He died 1902.

434 F v. Ruth Wilson HAIRSTON was born 1869. She died 1947.


435 M vi. Peter W. (Jr.) HAIRSTON was born 1871. He died 1943.

243. Alcey HAIRSTON (Samuel HAIRSTON, Elizabeth PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1830. She died 1914.

Alcey married Maj. Samuel Hardin HAIRSTON C.S.A.. Samuel was born 1822. He died 1870.

From portion of letter written by J.E.B. Stuart in Reports of Maj. Gen. James E. B. Stuart, C. S. Army, commanding cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia, of operations August 16-September 2, 1862; Campaign in Northern Virginia "My division quartermaster, Maj. Samuel Hardin Hairston, in coming on to join me, was put in command of a detachment of cavalry at Salem by the commanding general, and sent on an important reconnaissance toward Warrenton, of which his report is appended." J. E. B. STUART, Major-General, Commanding Cavalry. ----------------------------------- Report of Brig. Gen. James E. B. Stuart, C. S. Army, Commanding Cavalry Brigade, of Operations June 26-- July 10. PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN--SEVEN DAYS' BATTLES, to Col. R.H. Chilton: portion quoted: "Maj. Samuel Hardin Hairston, quartermaster, and Maj. Dabney Ball, commissary of subsistence, were prevented by their duties of office from participating in the dangers of the conflict, but are entitled to my thanks for the thorough discharge of their duties." ----------------------------------- OPERATIONS IN N. VA., W. VA., AND MD. Chapter XXIV; HDQRS. STUART'S CAV. DIV., ARMY OF N. VA., February 28, 1863. "My division quartermaster, Major Samuel Hardin Hairston, in coming on to join me, was put in command of a detachment of cavalry at Salem by the commanding general, and sent on an important reconnaissance toward Warrenton, of which his report is appended. ............I have to mourn the loss of Captain J. Hardeman Stuart, signal officer, the particulars of whose death are given below." J. E. B. STUART, Major-General, Commanding Cavalry


436 F i. Ruth HAIRSTON was born 1863. She died 1963.

One sister of Peter W. Hairston, Alcey (1830-1914), married Samuel Harden Hairston (1822-1870) and had three children. One of these children, Ruth (1863-1936), married Alfred Varley Sims (1864-1944). He was the son of Alfred W. and Adelaide Sims of Pennsylvania and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in civil engineering. After finishing college, Alfred Varley Sims worked for various railroad companies including the Atlantic and Danville Railroad Company; the Virginia and Kentucky Railroad Company; the Utah, Nevada, and California Company; and the Utah and Los Angeles Air Line Railway Company. From 1895 to 1904, he taught engineering at the State University of Iowa (now the University of Iowa), in Iowa City, Iowa. From 1905 to 1908, he was employed by the Knickerbocker Trust Company of New York as general manager and chief engineer of the Cuba Eastern Railroad Company and lived in Guantanamo, Cuba. He also worked with the numerous subsidiary companies of the Knickerbocker Trust Company including the Cuba Hardwood Company, the Cuba Exploration Company, the Northeastern Cuba Railroad Company, the Guantanamo City Land and Development Company, the La Maya Valley Land and Improvement Company, the Confluente Sugar Company, and the Havana Post Publishing Company. He left this position in 1908 because of his alleged mismanagement of the company and returned to Berry Hill Farm to assume more direct management of it than possible before. From late 1908 to 1917, Alfred Varley Sims remained in Virginia, except in 1914 when he lived in England. He assisted Henry J. Boekelman of New York in a Cuba business venture while in England. From 1917, Sims worked in New York City as an independent civil engineer.

Ruth married Alfred Varley SIMS, son of Aflred W. & Adelaide SIMS. Alfred was born 1864. He died 1944.


This biographical and genealogical information is from the following sources: Maud Carter Clement, The History of Pittsylvania County, Virginia (Lynchburg, Virginia: J. P. Bell Company, 1929) and Elizabeth Seawell Hairston, The Hairstons and Penns and Their Relations (Roanoke, Virginia: Walters Printing and Manufacturing Company, 1939) in addition to the Wilson and Hairston Papers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Inventory of the Wilson and Hairston Family Papers, 1751-1928 Univ. of NC Collection Number 4134 The papers from 1881 to 1928, comprising about one-fourth of the Wilson and Hairston Papers, consist primarily of the professional and personal correspondence of Alfred Varley Sims (1864-1944), husband of Ruth (Hairston) Sims (1863-1936). During Sims's early life, 1881-1894, the papers are mainly the professional correspondence between himself and the employees of the following railroads: the Atlantic and Danville Railway Company; the Virginia and Kentucky Railroad Company; the Utah, Nevada and California Company; and the Utah and Los Angeles Air Line Railway Company. Related to this business correspondence are estimates and accounts for work and materials used in railroad construction. From 1895 to 1904, Alfred Varley Sims taught engineering at the State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, only occasionally returning to Virginia during the summers to manage Berry Hill. Approximately three-fourths of the correspondence for this period is letters from his overseers about management of Berry Hill. Personal correspondence from 1895 to 1904 includes letters, telegrams, and eulogies written by and to numerous people about the death of Charles Schaeffer, president of the University. Schaeffer was a close associate of Alfred Varley Sims, who may have headed a memorial committee for Schaeffer. In 1904, after Sims's resignation from the State University of Iowa, there are letters between William Sowden Sims (1858-1936), brother of Alfred Varley Sims; Charles Page Perin, a New York consulting engineer; and Alfred Varley Sims about his chances for an engineering position with the Knickerbocker Trust Company of New York. William Sims served as a naval aide to President Theodore Roosevelt (1908-1909), served on the staff and was president of the Naval War College in Newport, R.I. (1911-1913, 1916, 1919-1922), and commanded the United States Fleet in European waters (1917-1918). From 1905 to 1908, Alfred Varley Sims lived in Guantanamo, Cuba, while serving as chief engineer and general manager of the Cuba Eastern Railroad Company. While working for the Cuba Eastern Railroad Company, Sims also assisted the other numerous subsidiary companies of the Knickerbocker Trust Company: the Cuba Hardwood Company, the Cuba Exploration Company, the Northeastern Cuba Railroad Company, the Guantanamo City Land and Development Company, the La Maya Valley Land and Improvement Company, the Confluente Sugar Company, and the Havana Post Publishing Company. There is detailed correspondence between Alfred Varley Sims and officers of these companies. In 1907, several of the subsidiary companies were consolidated under the Fidelity Commercial and Trading Company, and there is much correspondence between Sims and officers of this holding company. Some of the Cuba correspondence is in Spanish, but most of the items have accompanying translations. In the fall of 1908, Sims left the Cuba Eastern Railroad Company because he was angered over mismanagement charges against him. At the end of 1908, there is an important cover letter referring to Sims's defense of himself. Personal correspondence, from 1905 to 1908, includes letters between J. D. Sutliffe and Sims detailing farm management; letters to Sims and his wife from Danville, Va., real estate agents about maintenance of her property; and numerous letters from Sims to American automobile, furniture, and bobbin companies. In 1908, Sims was looking for additional income and wrote these companies to interest them in purchasing Cuban wood. From 1909 to 1916, Alfred Varley Sims lived in Virginia and personally managed Berry Hill farm. Most of the correspondence is from Sims to numerous manufacturers about new farm products he ordered; from Sims to J. D. Setliffe and later R. H. Ross, another manager of Berry Hill, about farm management; from Sims to prospective tenants; to Sims from wheat and corn mills in Danville, Va.; and from Sims to the Superintendent of the Danville and Western Railroad about the building of a depot near Berry Hill. Although Sims was not


employed with the Cuba Eastern Railroad Company after 1908, he continued to be embroiled in its sister companies' problems. F. C. Walcott and R. D. Evans wrote Sims about the legal cases concerning the Cuban companies and his testimony. Writing to a New York tailor on 12 December 1909, Sims told the tailor he was unable to pay his bill and was considering declaring bankruptcy. From 1908 Sims had been receiving warning notices about the thousands of dollars he and his wife owed on stocks. There is also correspondence between Sims and Henry J. Boekelman of the Concrete Construction and Realty Company of New York, later called the Boekelman Construction Company. This correspondence begins in 1910 and continues until 1914. Boekelman possibly served as a broker for some of the Cuban companies Sims worked with from 1905 to 1908. Boekelman solicited Sims's help in the selling of the Cuba Eastern Railroad Company and possibly other sister companies. For much of 1914, Sims lived in London, England, attempting to interest English concerns with the purchase. Sims also maintained correspondence with his brother, William Sims, about topics such as United States naval power, William Sims's command of the U.S.S. Minnesota, and his year as a naval aide to President Roosevelt. From 1917 to 1928, there are scattered correspondence and receipts. Sims, in 1917, moved to New York City, N.Y., to work as an independent civil engineer, and his correspondence primarily consists of letters between himself and C. L. Finney about Berry Hill farm management; between himself and various Virginia merchants about his tenants' accounts and crops; and letters from his brother, William Sims, particularly about his service as special naval representative and observer to Great Britain and his travels in Ireland, England, and France. Undated papers are arranged roughly by type in the following order: correspondence, slave lists, financial papers, legal papers, genealogical papers, writings, and miscellaneous papers. Under correspondence,letters written by individual Wilsons and Hairstons are filed first, then there is undated correspondence according to century, including the papers of Alfred Varley Sims.

249. Louisa Hardiman HAIRSTON (George HAIRSTON, Elizabeth PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS).

Louisa married Peter Wilson WATKINS.


437 M i. Hairston WATKINS.

Hairston Watkins served in the Civil War in the 24th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and, in 1864, was held prisoner for a time at Point Lookout, Md. His first cousin, Orren W. Barrow, served as a company commander in the 24th Virginia Infantry Regiment.

438 F ii. Nannie WATKINS.

439 F iii. Loulie WATKINS.

253. Samuel William HAIRSTON (George HAIRSTON, Elizabeth PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS).

Samuel married Elizabeth PENN on 21 Oct 1848. Elizabeth was born 1826.

Elizabeth Seawell Hairston (1855-1945), genealogist, honorary president of the Virginia United Daughters of the Confederacy and member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Colonial Dames, married her first cousin, Judge Nathaniel H. Hairston (b. 1851) on 17 September 1874. Most of the 19th-century letters in the collection are to and from Elizabeth's mother Eliza Penn Hairston (b. 1826), who married Samuel William Hairston (fl. 1826-1866) on 21 October 1848. There are, however, many other correspondents, including Eliza Penn Hairston's parents, Thomas Penn (fl. 1818-1866) and Mary Christian Kennerly Penn (fl. 1818-1866); her brother, George Penn (fl. 1840-1861); her sisters, Martha Ann Catherine Penn (fl. 1820-1866), who married John N. Zentmeyer (fl. 1840-1863), and Sarah Ruth Penn (fl. 1829-1847); and her son, John Tyler Hairston (fl. 1850-1861), who was named after her brother. Eliza Penn Hairston's uncle, George Penn (fl. 1818-1826), also appears in the earlier correspondence.


A number of Eliza and Samuel's children and grandchildren were named Eliza or Elizabeth, Samuel, George, William, Nicholas, or Ruth.


440 F i. Elizabeth Seawell HAIRSTON was born 1855. She died 1945.

Elizabeth married Judge Nathaniel (1st Cousin) HAIRSTON on 17 Sep 1874. Nathaniel was born 1851.

441 M ii. John Tyler HAIRSTON.

272. William Oliver HARDIN (George HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1812 in Goochland County, VA. He died 14 Feb 1894.

William married Elizabeth Eleanor JAMES.


+ 442 M i. Richard James HARDIN was born 1842.

443 M ii. William Oliver (Jr) HARDIN was born 1851 in Amherst County, VA.

274. Giles Harding PAGE (Sarah "Sally" HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 27 Aug 1792. He died 12 Aug 1850 in Williamson County, TN.

"The History of Belle Meade, Mansion, Plantation & Stud" by Ridley Wills, III "John Harding did not fight the British. When Coffee's troops stopped at his blacksmith shop, Harding was approaching his 37th briday. Several family members did fight, however. Harding's nephews, GILES HARDING PAGE and ROBERT THOMAS PAGE, sons of Robert and Sallie Harding Page, both enlisted in Captain Robert Evan's company of mounted gunmen." Two months after Susan Harding's death, John Harding returned to his plantation in Arkansas. "His nephew, Giles Harding Page, and Page's wife, Henrietta, said in a letter written to their children the follwoing winter that Harding returned to ARkansas in early November and that, when they saw him, his health was "about as usual." "Ever since the death of Giles Harding Page in 1850, General Harding had been systematically buying from his cousin's widow and children their interests in the 180 acre Page farm bordering Belle Meade on the north and west."

Giles married Henrietta Maria WILKES.


444 M i. Thomas Turwell PAGE was born 3 Mar 1814 in "White Oak" Williamson County, TN. He died 28 Nov 1887.

445 F ii. Sarah Ann PAGE was born 1816 in "White Oak" Williamson County, TN.

446 M iii. Robert Thomas PAGE was born 1818 in "Belle Meade" - Nashville, TN.

447 F iv. Susan Harding PAGE was born 29 Dec 1820 in Maury/Davidson County, TN. She died 27 Nov 1881 in "Leiper's Fork" - Williamson County, TN.

448 M v. Daniel Webster PAGE was born 19 Sep 1826 in Maury/Davidson County, TN.

277. Amanda P. HARDIN (John (son of Giles) HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 23 Oct 1807. She died 1873.

"The History of Belle Meade, Mansion, Plantation & Stud" by Ridley Wills, III In 1818, Harding made a "small but significant purchase when he bought a tract along Richland Creek from James Maxwell. That parcel, coupled with an earlier purchase from Maxwell, was the land Harding's daughter, Amanda, would live on following her marriage, in 1823, to Francis ("Frank") McGavock." Frank McGavock corresponded with his brother-in-law, William Giles Harding, while William was a student in New England. In 1827 he reported that "Amanda was well, that their boys, John and David were in perfect health, and that he had been working on his 'little farm' near your father's [John Harding's]. That was the beginning of McGavock's extensive farm on both sides of what would later become the Harding Turnpike."


Amanda married Francis "Frank" MCGAVOCK on 1823. Francis was born 31 Jan 1794 in Nashville, Davidson County, TN. He died 1866.

Married: 23 OCT 1823 in Davidson, Tennessee 1 Children John Harding McGavock b: 1824 David Harding McGavock b: 1 SEP 1826 in of, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee unnamed McGavock b: 24 MAR 1828 Susannah Elizabeth McGavock b: 27 NOV 1829 Amanda McGavock b: 17 JAN 1832 in Davidson Co., TN unnamed McGavock b: 2 NOV 1833 Elizabeth Virginia McGavock b: 15 JUN 1836 Francis McGavock b: 1838 unnamed McGavock b: 18 SEP 1840


+ 449 M i. John Harding MCGAVOCK was born 1824 and died Apr 1861.

+ 450 M ii. David H. MCGAVOCK was born 1 Sep 1826 and died 20 Mar 1896.

451 F iii. Susannah Elizabeth MCGAVOCK was born 27 Nov 1829. She died 4 Jan 1894.

Susannah married William Henry SMITH on 21 Feb 1850.

+ 452 F iv. Amanda MCGAVOCK was born 1832 and died 1899.

453 F v. Elizabeth Virginia MCGAVOCK was born 15 Jun 1836. She died 24 Jul 1841.

454 M vi. Francis MCGAVOCK was born 1838. He died 1 Dec 1840.

278. Gen. William Giles HARDIN of "Belle Meade" (TN) (John (son of Giles) HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 15 Sep 1808. He died 1886.

"The History of Belle Meade, Mansion, Plantation & Stud" by Ridley Wills, III "In 1822, at age 14, William enrolled in the preparatory department of Nashville's struggling Cumberland College." Two years later he asked his father to let him change schools, eventually enrolling in the American Literary Scientific and Military Academy, in [Middletown], Conn., New England. The book mentions "Thomas Harden Perkins", and calls him merely a "fellow Tenneseean" and schoolmate - but he was most likely related to the Hardin/Perkins line of the family. One break from school, they visited Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and Mount Vernon where they fired 3 volleys over George Washington's grave. William was a well-respected boy by his fellow classmates. His girlfriend back home was Mary Selena McNairy. He possibly studied law for a brief while, but eventually went home after his graduation, arriving home October 21, 1828; he was 20 years old. In July 1827, his father bought his son "two large tracts immediately north of his [John's] brother William Harding's land. The combined tract of 579 acres extended all the way across McSpadden's Ben and included a portion of today's Opryland USA complex. In 1827, its southwest corner was anchored on the Cumberland near Priestley's Springs." During the early parts of his marriage to Selene, he continued his father's tradition of buying land. In April 1833 he bought an "adjoining 500 acre plantation that an old settler, Leonard Keeling, had lived on." And he and his father established a deer park. In 1838, after the death of Selene, he was given Belle Meade by his father. In 1839 he began building the Belle Meade family burial vault. "In February 1839 he was elected brigadier general of the Sixteenth Brigade, Tennessee Militia. As a general, Harding had the honor of mustering into service Tennessee troops caled to active duty for the Seminole War." "From the day of his election as brig. gen. until his death, William Giles Harding would be known as General Harding." William Giles remarried in January 1840, after the death of his first wife. He brought his bride to Belle Meade. John Harding came often to Belle Meade, "often arriving before William Giles and his family had finished breakfast." At this time, Gen. Harding expanded Belle Mead. "Their first baby daughter was born dead in 1841. Another pregnancy in 1844 resulted in another stillbirth. Between those events came 9 year old Nathaniel's


horseback riding accident and tragic death in 1843." In 1845, when Andrew Jackson (a friend and neighbor) died, "Harding commanded a comopany of Nashville Blues." 1850 Census. The book mentions that William Giles Harding, according to the 1850 Census, was the wealthiest of all the TN delegates, having property valued at $170,000. Gideon Pillow of Maury County was mentioned as being another Volunteer State representative. In 1861, Harding organized and armed the Harding Light Artillery for military service "in defense of the South. It was one of hte first Civil War companies organized in the state. Had Gov. Harris been a Unionist, Harding would have been arrested." Also in 1861, Harding was appointed, along with former Gov. Neill S. Brown and James E. Bailey to the "Military and Financial Board of Tennessee. The Board's charge was to sped up to $5 million to equip an army to take the field for the South. Harding was named the board's president." It was his work on this board that would later lead to his arrest by Union officials. It was rumored that he even offered $500,000 in cash to aid the South's cause. The Board did it's job, closing on January 7, 1862. "The order to arrest Gen Harding was issued April 2, 1862, Henry R. Meyer was like the major who arrested Harding....... "He was taken to the State Prison on Church Street where he and James Overton had been inspectors two years earlier." Harding, [Josephus Guild,] and Washington Barrow were ordered to be taken to Fort Mackinaw on Lake Hurron (by way of Detroit)." ------------------------------------------------ Nashville and Lebanon Turnpike was chartered in 1835, extended thirty miles east of Lebanon to the foot of Snow's hill in DeKalb County. The road goes thence to Sparta, over the Cumberland Mountain, and ends at Knoxville. A famous road-tavern in DeKalb County was Beckwith Place. The commissioners appointed on the Nashville and Lebanon Pike, which goes by the Hermitage, were Gen. Andrew Jackson, Stokley Donnelson, Joseph Clay, H.L. Douglass, W. McMurry, William P. Sims, Richard Buchanan, THOMAS HARDIN, James H. Foster, Edward H. Hicks, W.G.M. Campbell, Charles L. Love, H.R.W. Hill, Phillip Lindsley, W.G. HARDIN, Foster G. Crutcher, James H. Haggard, M.A. Price, Paulding Anderson, Turner Vaughn, James Jones, Alfred McClain, Ramsey L. Mason, Joseph Johnson, George Williamson, John Hearn, Robert Hallum, Robert M. Burton and Samuel C. McWherter. ----------------------------------------------- "The City Paper" Online Sign Language By Jim Brown "Belle Meade, with colorful characters William Giles Harding (Harding Road and Place) and William Hicks Jackson (Jackson Boulevard), is a storyteller's dream. The beautiful Deer Park Circle was named after the deer park Harding and his family started in 1833. Orphaned fawns, buffalo and antelope once had a sanctioned place to roam, safe from hunters, along the banks of Richland Creek, until Union soldiers foraged the property. "Ridley Wills II, author of The History of Belle Meade: Mansion, Plantation, and Stud and the great-great-grandson of Harding, said the most poignant story of his family might be the protection Selene Harding provided two Union soldiers who had been assigned to protect her and the Belle Meade Plantation. Military Governor Andrew Johnson (soon-to-be president) had assigned the young men to the plantation after they had been wounded at the Battle of Stones River. Inebriated Confederate irregulars were turned away by a pistol-waving Harding who saved the boys' lives. At the sight of the resolute Mrs. Harding, the leader of the Confederate band regained his senses, adhered to chivalry and said, "Mount and get away, boys!" Known today for its luxurious homes, the Belle Meade of yesterday was a different place entirely. "Belle Meade was the premier stud horse farm in the world," Clements said, noting famous horses Enquirer, Blackburn and Iroquois have three prominent avenues named after them. "Montgomery Bell, the namesake for the avenue skirting the famed boys' school in West Nashville, made his money in iron. "He was an early Tennessee ironmaster who never had much education," said Wills. Bell owned slaves, but after the war" on the front steps of First Presbyterian Church, he liberated a number of his slaves and paid for them to go to Liberia," said Wills. ------------------------------------------------- 2004 AREMA Annual Conference & Exposition


The Belle Meade Plantation began in 1807 when John and Susannah Harding purchased a 1790’s cabin and 250 acres of land along the Natchez Trace. Under the guidance of John and Susannah’s son - William Giles Harding - the Plantation would grow to encompass 5,400 acres and become a premier Thoroughbred Horse Stud Farm. Familiar horses such as Seabiscut, War Admiral, Secretariat and Funny Cide can all trace their bloodlines back to Belle Meade. Today, the Plantation is a 30-acre self-supported historic site that includes the beautifully restored 1853 Greek Revival Mansion, the 1890’s Carriage House and Stables, the original Harding Cabin and several other buildings.

William married (1) Mary Selena MCNAIRY "Selene", daughter of Nathaniel MCNAIRY and Kitty HOBSON, on 19 Nov 1829 in Davidson Co, TN (by Rev. William Hume). Selene was born 19 Nov 1812. She died 29 Mar 1837 in Davidson County, TN.

"The History of Belle Meade, Mansion, Plantation & Stud" by Ridley Wills, III While William and Selena courted, Selena lived at the corner of Cherry and Spring Streets, only a block away from Nashville's Presbyterian Church, which her family attended. Since about 1820, Selena's father had been clerk of the Federal Court of Tennessee. Her uncle, John McNairy, was judge of the Western Districk Court and the man responsible for Andrew Jackson's coming to Tennessee. Selena's mother was ahomemaker and hostess, who gave a ball at Clayton Talbot's tavern in 1815 to celebrate the return of Maj. Gen. Jackson from his victory at New Orleans." "On Selena's 17th birthday, November 19, 1829, she and William Giles were married by the Rev. Mr. Hume. They began life together at John Harding's plantation on Stones River." "Among the presents given Selena were a black couple named Green and their small son, Bob. "Uncle Bob Green would one day be recognized nationally as a spokesman for Belle Meade's tradition of horse-breddding excellence. Another present was a large family Bible, published in Philadelphia in 1829. It is now an important source of Harding family history." "William Giles Harding and his family probably lived in a log cabin for the entire decade they resided in McSpadden's Bend." Elizabeth and Joseph Clay were close neighbors. Her nickname was "Selene" - a name which was "passed on in later generations of Hardings and Jacksons as a given name." "On Christmas Day (1835) Selena gave birth to her last child, William Giles Harding, Jr. Evidence suggests there were serious complications. In March of 1836, Harding withdrew as a candidate for Brigadier General of the militia from Davidson and Dickson counties, citing circumstances beyond his control. Proof of Selena's serious illness came a few months later when her uncle, Dr. Boyd McNairy, wrote his friend, Henry Clay of Lexington, Kentucky, on her behalf. McNairy informed Clay that "my relation Mr. William G. Harding visits your state for the benefit of his lady's health." After expressing his personal esteem for the "great Pacificator" and his wife, McNairy asked that a Dr. Dooley "examine Mrs. Harding's case." "By the winter of 1836-37, Selena had a strong premonition of her death. Sometime during her final illness, she wrote a close relative who was also ill and in need of spiritual support. Selena was so fatigues by the ordeal of writing the letter, in which she eloquently expressed her Christian faith, that William Giles had to finish it for her. (portions quoted in the book, of which this is only a portion!): "I cannot refrain saying something appertaining to our eternal destiny, a subject so interesting to me, that I am oftentimes so delighted and absorbed in the contemplation as to forget my pains and afflictions, which are very great - often as much as weak human nature can bear. But thanks to God that is not to endure." Selena died March 29, 1837. "William Giles, Jr., Harding's infant son, died just six days after his mother." William commissioned portraits of Selena and his sister, Elizabeth, who had died in 1835. After Selene's death, William Giles Harding and his two surviving sons at that time, John Harding (Jr.) and Nathaniel McNairy Harding, probably moved to Belle Meade around 1838.


+ 455 M i. John (Jr./son of Wm Giles) HARDIN was born Jan 1831 and died 1914.

456 M ii. Nathaniel Adams McNairy (died an infant) HARDIN was born 9 Sep 1832. He died 2 Mos Old - 1832.


"The History of Belle Meade, Mansion, Plantation & Stud" by Ridley Wills, III "On September 9, 1832, Selena and William Giles's second son was born, Nathaniel Adams McNairy Harding, named for his maternal grandfather. Less than three weeks later, the widowed Elizabeth Harding (wife of Uncle William Harding) gave birth to a baby daughter, Willie Elizabeth, at Spring Place, the home of Mrs. Harding's uncle, John Clopton. Although Nathaniel lived only two months, Willie Elizabeth lived a long and fruitful life."

457 M iii. Nathaniel McNairy (died a youth) HARDIN was born 26 Dec 1833. He died Jun 1843 in Nashville, TN.

"The History of Belle Meade, Mansion, Plantation & Stud" by Ridley Wills, III "Wiliam Giles and Selena's third child, a son, was born the day after Christmas, 1833. They named him Nathaniel McNairy Harding for her father. By the time Nathaniel was born, William Giles had expanded his Stones River plantation with the purchase, a few days before Christmas, of one-fifth of the tract formerly owned by James Priestley." "In June 1843, while Nathaniel McNairy Harding was visiting his grandparents [in Nashville], he went horseback riding. While galloping down Church Street, the little boy, not yet ten years old, was thrown and instantly killed. William Giles Harding was devastated. So, too, must have been the grandparents who were so conscious that all but one of William Giles and Selena's four children were now dead." "Nearly 70 years later, Nathaniel's half siste,r Mary Elizabeth Harding Jackson, would not allow her grandchildren to use stirrups when they rode horses at her home, West Meade. Mrs. Jakcson remember hearing from her parents that if Nathaniel had ridden without stirrups, he would have been able to dismount before crashing into a tree and being thrown to his death."

458 M iv. William Giles (Jr.) (died an infant) HARDIN was born 25 Dec 1835 in Davidson County, TN. He died 4 Apr 1837 in Davidson County, TN.

William Giles Harding Jr died just six days after his mother.

William also married (2) Elizabeth Irwin MCGAVOCK, daughter of Randal MCGAVOCK Mayor of Nashville and Sarah Doughtery RODGERS, on Jan 1840 in "Carnton" Williamson County, TN. Elizabeth was born 1819. She died 1867.

"History of Belle Meade" by Ridley Wills, II page 46: Elizabeth Irwin McGavock was the 19 year old daughter of Randal and Sarah Rodgers McGavock when Harding began courting her. "Randal had been elected Nashville's mayor in 1824. Follwong one term in office, he moved to Williamson County where he had extensive hoodlings along the Harpeth River near Frankling. There, afteron 1826, he completed his magnificient home, "Carnton", which he named after the McGavock family's ancestral home in County Antrim, Ireland." "Elizabeth McGavock and William Giles Harding married at "Carnton" on a bitterly cold night in January 1840. Frozen snow covered the ground. To warm their wedding guests, Mr. and Mrs. McGavock served a 'full bushel of steaming hot apple brandy toddy." General Harding made quite an impression when he arrived from Belle Meade in a sleigh pulled by a span of blooded horses. Edward Troye painted mathcing portraits of William Giles and Elizabeth at the time of their wedding. Elizabeth posed for her portrait in her wedding dress." After the birth of Selene in 1846: "Early in 1847, Elizabeth became pregnant again. Her next child, the Harding's fourth daughter, was born on October 15, 1847. Her name ws Sarah Susan in honor of her two grandmothers. The rate of infant mortality was high in the 1840's, however, and less than nine months later little Susan died." "Elizabeth Harding's mother, Sarah McGavock, was said to have planted her garden with the help of her friend, Rachel Jackson (wife of Pres.Andrew Jackson), who furnished slips and seedlings for it from her garden at Hermitage."


+ 459 F v. Selene HARDIN was born 5 Apr 1846 and died 13 Dec 1892.


+ 460 F vi. Mary Elizabeth HARDIN of "West Meade" Nashville was born 5 Feb 1850 and died 1913.

461 vii. (at least 3 babies who died as infants) HARDIN.

"Between 1854 and 1860, [Elizabeth Harding] lost three infants and suffered serious illness. Her six-month-old baby, William, died of croup early in 1855; an infant daughter, Louise Stephenson, lived less than two months after her birth in 1856." Elizabeth's health was weak. ..."her last child, born in 1860, lived only briefly. Only two of Elizabeth and General Harding's children, Selene and Mary, survived infancy."

279. Elizabeth Virginia HARDIN (John (son of Giles) HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 5 Apr 1812. She died 1835 in Davidson County, TN and was buried in Belle Meade Family Vault, Belle Meade Plantation, Nashville, TN.

"The History of Belle Meade, Mansion, Plantation & Stud" by Ridley Wills, III "At the time of Elizabeth's birth, it seems almost certain that her father had more than doubled the size of their house by adding a second cabin, not quite square and one-and-a-half stories high. The two sections were connected by a dogtrot, also thought to have been built by Harding." Elizabeth and her sister, Amanda, attended the Nashville Female Academy, where in 1816 their father was one of the stockholders. "Both girls were there for the school's ninth term, which lasted from July until well into December, 1821." "Harding's interest in acquiring more land in 1827 was also motivated by family considerations. On April 26, his youngest child, Elizabeth, married Joseph W. Clay, a racehorse breeder whose horses had run at the Nashville meetings for the previous two seasons. As had been the case when Harding's daughter Amanda married four years earlier, the ceremony was performed by the Reverend William Hume. Joseph and Elizabeth wanted a place of their own where Joseph could operate a stud and farm. Harding decided to help. On May 18, he bought a 441 acres tract lying primarily on the north side of Lebanon Road near the bridge over Mill Creek. The land included the hilltop site where, about 1832 or 1833, he built for Elizabeth and Joseph a brick home named "Belair". By then, Clay owned an adjoining 170 acre tract that included the house where early settler James Mulherin, Sr., formerly lived. The Clay's probably lived in Mulherin's house, or in a two story brick dwelling adjacent to Belair, until their new house was completed. The same year John Harding lent additional help by building a cotton gin for Clay at a cost of $225." "When [Elizabeth Virginia Harding Clay] died in 1835, she left a young husband and a four-year-old son, Henry. Her remains were buried in the family burying ground at Belair." However, after William Giles Harding finished the family vault at Belle Meade, "Elizabeth Clay, and her son, Henry, were moved from the graveyard at Belair to the Belle Meade mausoleum, possibly about the time Clay sold his place in 1842."

Elizabeth married Joseph W. CLAY on 26 Apr 1827 in Davidson Co, TN (by Rev. William Hume).


462 M i. Henry CLAY was born in TN. He died by 1842 in Davidson County, TN and was buried in Belle Meade Family Vault, Belle Meade Plantation, Nashville, TN.

281. Willie Elizabeth HARDIN (William (son of Giles) HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 25 Sep 1832 in "Spring Place" Davidson County, TN. She died 23 Dec 1895.

The daughter of Elizabeth Hoggatt Clopton and William Harding, Willie Elizabeth Harding was born September 25, 1832, in Davidson County Tennessee. She was a direct descendant of William Clopton, Gentleman and Ann (Booth) Dennett Clopton. On May 23, 1850, she married David H. McGavock, the son of Francis McGavock. Willie died December 23, 1895. They had two children, Frank Owens McGavock and Elizabeth Clopton McGavock. As a prominent citizen of the Nashville, Tennessee area, Willie was active in social affairs and was particularly interested in the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The Methodist Episcopal Church South was organized in 1845 when the slavery issue deeply divided the Methodist Church into two conferences, the Northern and Southern Conferences. She was considered a great philanthropist and was generous with her time, energy and money.


Sarah E. H. Haskins' Women and Missions, documents one example of Willie's contributions to her church. It was through Mrs. Willie Elizabeth (Harding) McGavock that the CLOPTON SCHOOL in Shanghai, China, was established. A strong appeal was made by Mrs. J. W. Lambreth urging the women of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, at Nashville, Tennessee, to launch out upon their first foreign missionary undertaking. A contribution in money derived from the gift and sale of Mrs. David H. McGavock's (nee' Willie Elizabeth Harding) wedding diamonds, made possible a building for a school which carried with it the name "Clopton" in honor of her mother, Elizabeth Hoggatt Clopton. This school continued as the "Clopton Boarding School." One of her Clopton cousins, The Reverend Samuel Cornelius Clopton, Sr., of Virginia, became the first missionary appointed by the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board in 1846, where he served in Canton, China. Her grandson, Spence McGavock, presented a large oil portrait of Willie to the woman's Missionary Council which was hung in their headquarters in Nashville. The painting shows Willie in her bridal gown and veil. Sources: http://www.cloptonfamily.org/d_hist/wilelizh.html An Article by Sarah E H. Haskins, "Women and Missions" Published in 1920 and The Ancestors and Descendants of William Clopton of York County, Virginia Compiled by Gene Carlton Clopton, Phoenix Printing, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Records of Davidson County Court - Minute Book B - Oct. 19, 1835 – Sept. 7, 1841 Page 130, Apr. 25, 1836, Jno H Clopton Guardian Ad litem – On motion of James P Grundy Esquire, the court appoint John H. Clopton, Sen. Guardian ad litem of William Elizabeth Harding a minor orphan. in order to attend to the interest of said minor in the divisions of a tract of land held jointly between said minor and William Giles Harding. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SEWING BEES AND DUELS AT DAWN - Regarding Anthony Clopton & His Wife - Rhonda Hoggatt of “Clover Bottom Farm” By Carlyn McCullar Bain, "Willie Elizabeth Harding, would marry and become the mistress of a sprawling plantation. Willie was born five months after the death of her father, William Harding, at "Spring Place," which was located about eight miles from Nashville at that time. This was also where her mother was born. When she was two years old her widowed mother, Elizabeth Clopton Harding, married the Rev. Francis Asbury Owen, a prominent minister in the Methodist Church. He was an affectionate step-father. Brought up in the church, Willie moved from place to place when Rev. Owen took his family with him to his new assignments. It was not long before other siblings began to arrive; Mary Ann Hoggatt Owen was born in 1835, James Hoggatt Owen in 1837, and Wilbur Fish Owen came along in 1839. Sadly, little Mary Ann died in 1838, and Wilbur Fisk was the victim of a fatal gunshot accident at the age of 13. Willie and her half-brother, James, maintained a close relationship into adulthood. Possibly the loss of their siblings drew them together. She attended the "Old Academy" at Nashville. Following graduation, at age 18, Willie met and wed her young cousin, David H. McGavock. Her wedding dressed caused quite a stir, and our faithful chronicler, Miss Thomas recalled: . . . [Willie Harding] was married while I was boarding there. She graduated at the academy here. While she was at school her cousin, David McGavock, fell in love with her. After she graduated she went to Memphis to stay with her mother, who had married Mr. Owen, and wrote and asked me to buy her trousseau, which was very beautiful. Her wedding dress was lace over beautiful glase silk, with two ruffles of lace one-half yard around the skirt, and a bertha and veil of the same kind of lace. She had her portrait painted in her wedding dress. The blushing bride became the mistress of “Two Rivers,” one of the finest plantations in Tennessee. For forty-five years they resided at their beautiful home, eight miles from Nashville, one of the choicest farms in middle Tennessee. Mrs. [Willie] McGavock was a remarkable woman of superior intellect, well educated, a devoted Christian and a laborious worker in her church. She was corresponding secretary of the “Woman’s


Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church South” from its organization to the time of her death. Notwithstanding her delicate health she faithfully performed the arduous duties devolved upon her to the entire satisfaction of her associates in the work, and of the whole Methodist Church South. One of her Clopton cousins, The Reverend Samuel Cornelius Clopton, Sr., of Virginia, became the first missionary appointed by the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board in 1846, where he served at Canton, China. Her grandson, Spence McGavock, presented a large oil portrait of Willie to the woman’s Missionary Council which was hung in their headquarters at Nashville. The painting shows Willie in her bridal gown and veil. Willie opened her home to her mother and step-father when his health began to fail. They resided at “Two Rivers” until their deaths, Francis in 1883, and Elizabeth, ten years later. They were buried at the Mount Olive cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee.

Willie married David H. MCGAVOCK, son of Francis "Frank" MCGAVOCK and Amanda P. HARDIN. David was born 1 Sep 1826. He died 20 Mar 1896.

"History of Belle Meade" by Ridley Wills: pg 65: "Then, in May, came a wedding......General Harding did not go to Memphis for the engagement party of David H. McGavock, Harding's nephew and Willie Elizabeth Harding, the general's first cousin. David had met and fallen in love with Willie soon after she graduated from the Nashville Female Academy. The young couple were temporarily separated when Willie returned to Memphis to live with her mother and step-father, Elizabeth and Frank A. Owen. Following their marriage on May 23, 1850, David and Willie set up housekeeping at "Two Rivers", the thousand-acre farm her father, William Harding, had owned prior to his death in 1832."


+ 463 M i. Frank Owen MCGAVOCK was born 25 Sep 1851 and died 1920.

464 F ii. Elizabeth "Bessie" Clopton MCGAVOCK was born 18 Aug 1864. She died 1870.

285. Giles Scales HARDIN (Giles (Jr.) HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born about 1820.

"History of Belle Meade" by Ridley Wills, II "The haven that General and Elizabeth Harding, in spite of her poort health, provided their family members in the 1850's made Belle Meade a symbolic home for the extended Harding family, particularly for the children of Gen. Harding's deceased uncle, Giles Harding, Jr. One first cousin, Giles Scales Harding, and his wife, Mary Blackman Harding, frequently visited Belle Meade from their home in Rutherford County, where Giles Scales hoped to build a home to rival Belle Meade." NOTES FROM: "NATIONAL PARK SERVICE HISTORIC RESEARCH STUDY, BATTLEFIELD OF STONES RIVER" pages 46 & 47 Ironically, their home would be in the very midst of the Battle of Stones River, near Murfreesboro, TN, which took place December 31, 1862 and January 2, 1863. According to a National Parks publication about the site: "The Harding House present at the time of the battle was at two-story log structure located near the Wilkinson Pike. This was the home of Giles Scales Harding and Mary Hollowell Blackman Harding and their family. Prior to the war, the Hardings planned to construct a new brick home, and in preparation for this, they had bricks made on the place, most likely by slaves at a brick kiln located near the main house. However, construction of the house was interrupted by the war, and Union soldiers appropriated the Hardings' bricks for military purposes. During the Battle of Stones River, the Harding House stood in the midst of fighting December 31, 1862. The Union army used the building as a field hospital. On the first day of the battle, the house was captured by Confederates and all of its patients made prisoners, but after the Confederate retreat towards Tullahoma, the house once again fell into Union hands." "In the midst of the fighting, the Union troops took over the Harding House for use as a hospital. On December 30 a chaplain and doctor serving in the 36th Illinois Infantry assisted an injured soldier in reaching the Harding House. In an account originally written shortly after the battle, the minister provided the following description of the scene at the Harding House on that fateful morning:


"This building, or rather series of buidlings, is what we called "Hospital Harding", and was our place of residence for over a week, where we had the care of upwards of 150 wounded. The house was a third rate frame building, with the log cook-house, etc. attached and surrounded by negro cabins, as is the custom here, while at a little distance was a barn, cotton gin, and all the appliances of a cotton plantation. The owner was evidently a man of considerable wealth, owning ab out 50 negroes, and having an extensive plantation. There were evidences on the premises of considerable refinement, a well cultivated garden and good pianoforte being respectively in the external and internal representatives of it. Mr. Harding was at home, and two or three negroes. At the time we took possession they had sought safety in the cellar. But the rest of the family, white and black, had been removed to the other side of Murfreesboro, the secesh commanders having informed him a few days before that the battle would be fought on his land. He looked with anything but complacency upon the Federal army, and indeed there was nothing peculiarly attractive in a body of men taking forcible possession of a man's house, covering his floors, carpet, beds and bedding with bleeding men, and appropriating anything within reach that might be servicable." The house went back and forth between Confederate and Union possession, eventually remaining in Union hand, January 4th, when the Confederates retreated. "The Harding family eventually reutrned to their home, finding one wounded soldier who had been left behind. This man became the charge of the family's daughter Ellen Amy Harding, who cared for him until he recovered enough to leave. To express his appreciation, the soldier gave Ellen Amy a 2 3/4 dollar gold piece which she later had set into a broach as a momento of the war. The original Harding House survived until the late 1870's when it burned. The family constructed a frame house as a replacement. The Harding property seems to have been a popular reunion site for Confederate veterans. For example, the First Tennessee Regiment held an event there in October 1907. The site of the original Harding House is located on land proposed for acquistion by Sgones River National Battlefield's 1999 GMP."

Giles married Mary BLACKMAN.

The children of Giles Scales and Mary Blackman HARDING from the ancestry file of Samantha Jacobs, [email protected]


465 F i. Mary A. HARDIN was born about 1841.

Mary married P.G. ALLEN on 19 Apr 1870 in Rutherford County, TN.

466 F ii. Elizabeth J. HARDIN was born about 1843.

Elizabeth married Samuel G. PATTERSON on 19 Dec 1866 in Rutherford County, TN.

+ 467 F iii. Eleanor Amy HARDIN was born about 1848.

468 M iv. Alfred B. HARDIN was born about 1850.

Alfred married Maria BARKLEY on 26 Jan 1866 in Rutherford County, TN.

469 M v. Giles S. (Jr.) HARDIN was born about 1852.

Giles married Lorena Peck RANSOM.

Children Jesse Harding Lalla Mae Harding Medicus? Harding Giles Harding

470 M vi. J. HARDIN was born about 1854.

471 M vii. George HARDIN was born about 1858.

286. William M. HARDIN (Giles (Jr.) HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 2 Feb 1821. He died 29 Dec 1848.

"History of Belle Meade" by Ridley Wills, II page 51: "The second half of the century brought its own share of good times and troubles. When his cousin,


WILLIAM M. HARDING became engaged in 1846, General and Mrs. Harding offered Belle Meade as the wedding site. William and his fiancee, Marion Roberts, accepted and were married there on November 26, 1846." page 52: "The Hardings were also saddened when William M. Harding, General Harding's first cousin, who had so recently married at Belle Meade, died in 1848. William was buried in the Belle Meade family cemetery beside the graves of his parents. He left a young widow and a baby."

William married Marion ROBERTS on 26 Nov 1846 in "Belle Meade" - Nashville, TN.


472 i. (infant - name not known) HARDIN.

291. Rachel N. HARDIN (Thomas Jefferson HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) died 21 Sep 1843 in Nashville, Davidson County, TN and was buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, TN.

According to Lot Records and Owners at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Lot 52 & Lot 53 Section 3 were purchased by Col. John Overton, son of the deceased Mary M. Overton, on December 29, 1862. On November 21, 1868, in Lot 53 Section 3, Mrs. Rachel Overton and her infant and three other (unidentified) infants were “transferred from private grounds,” at Travellers Rest to Mt. Olivet. Rachel Harding, daughter of Thomas Harding, married John Overton in 1841. She died on September 21, 1843. In 1969, descendants of Judge John Overton were interviewed by Fletch Coke about the existence of a cemetery, probably very overgrown, which might have still existed, with a few graves, in the 1930’s and 1940’s. No one recalled a cemetery site. However, the last resident of Travellers Rest, Dr. John Youmans (1940-1951), did remember seeing two or three small gravestones in the area of the former cemetery. In 1951, Dr. Youmans sold the property, the house Travellers Rest and surrounding acres, to the L&N Railroad. When the L&N Railroad expanded Radnor Yard, bulldozing, on the sloping front lawn, exposed graves. Between 9 and 12 graves were uncovered during the bulldozing operation. Reburials, of these unknown persons, took place at Woodlawn Cemetery. In 1954, the L&N Railroad gave Travellers Rest to the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in Tennessee. In 1961, the L&N gave an additional ten acres, including the land on which the original cemetery would have been located. Mt. Olivet Cemetery records of Lot Records & Owners, List of Interments and Lot Burials are available to the public and may be researched on microfilm at the Metro Archives, Nashville Room of the Public Library or Tennessee State Library & Archives.

Rachel married Col. John OVERTON on 1841.

John's parents were Judge John Overton and Mary White May Overton. "History of Belle Meade" by Ridley Wills, II. "page 92: In 1862, with the fall of Nashville, Provost Marshall Stanley Matthews was instructed "to arrest John Overton, whose first wife, Rachel harding, was [Gen.] Harding's first cousin. Matthews was unsuccessful, however: Overton, supposedly the richest man in Tennessee, had gone father south, not to return until shortly before the Battle of Nashville." Andrew Johnson refused to allow "John Overton to return to Nashville without taking an oath of allegiance." Travellers Rest Plantation and Museum 636 Farrell Pkwy. Nashville, TN 37220 615-832-8197 www.travellersrestplantation.org Judge John Overton built travellers Rest Plantation in 1799. His descendents occupied the home continuously until 1946. During the Civil War, Union troops camped on the grounds during the Federal occupation of Nashville. For two weeks before the Battle of Nashville, Travellers Rest was the headquarters of Confederate Commander Gen.


John Bell Hood. Riding from Murfreesboro to confer with Hood, Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest spent the night on December 11, 1864. During the second day of the Battle of Nashville, December 16, 1864, Federal forces charged the Confederate right flank on Peach Orchard Hill, located on the Overton property and within sight of the house. It was the scene of several charges by the U.S. Colored Infantry. Directions: From I-65: exit 78B; to Franklin Road; left on Franklin, left on Lambert, follow signs to Travellers Rest. Mrs. John Overton said having the Confederate generals dine at her table was the proudest moment of her life. Over at Belle Meade, the cavalry general Chalmers and his staff were treated to snow ice cream. OVERTON CEMETERY (REMOVED) - TRAVELLERS REST - OH-33: NASHVILLE, DAVIDSON COUNTY, TN. Original location was at Travellers Rest, the home place of Judge John Overton and the Overton family. Travellers Rest Plantation , located on Farrell Parkway, is open to the public. Reburials from the Overton Cemetery at Travellers Rest occurred in 1868 and 1951. Mrs. Mary M. Overton outlived her husband, Judge John Overton, by 29 years. Judge Overton died on April 12, 1833, and was buried in the family cemetery at Travellers Rest. Mrs. Overton continued to live at Travellers Rest with her family until her death on December 12, 1862. Mrs. Overton wrote her will on October 18, 1861, and her will was recorded in Davidson County on February 26, 1863. By her will, her executors were requested to carry out the following: “My executor is to purchase a lot in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, there myself to be buried and thither to be removed the remains of my husband Judge Overton, my brother-in- law Samuel Overton, my children Ann O. Brinkley and Jackson May, and my son-in- law Richard Barry and his children, and for that purpose one thousand dollars is to be appropriated and any balance of the fund is to be applied towards erecting monuments and improving the lot…” Davidson County Will Book 19. According to List of Interments at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, on December 14, 1862, Mary M. Overton was buried in Lot 83 Section 1, on the lot purchased by Archibald Waller Overton, a nephew of Judge John Overton who had been buried there on October 6, 1857. Mt. Olivet Cemetery opened in 1855. Mary M. Overton was re-interred, in 1868, on Lot 141 Section 1, with her husband and family. According to Lot Records and Owners at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Lot 141 Section 1 was purchased, on December 29, 1862, by the Estate of Mary M. Overton. On November 20, 1868, in accordance with the wishes of Mary M. Overton, the following seven were “transferred from private grounds,” at Travellers Rest to Mt. Olivet Cemetery: Judge John Overton Samuel Overton A. J. May Mrs. Annie O. Brinkley Richard Barry M. Barry H. L. Barry Col. John Overton, the only son of Judge John and Mary Overton, was the executor of his mother’s will and would have made arrangements for the re-interments at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, including the re-interment of Dr. Francis May, his mother's first husband. Dr. Francis May moved from Winchester, Virginia, to Nashville in 1790. He practiced medicine in Nashville for several years. Later he moved to Knoxville. While living there, he married Mary McConnell White, the daughter of General James White, the founder of Knoxville. The May family returned to Nashville in 1804. Dr. May continued to practice medicine until his untimely death of heart disease in 1817, leaving a widow and five children. Three years later, Mary May married Judge John Overton of Travellers Rest.


473 i. (several infants died) OVERTON.

296. John Edgar HARDIN (Thomas Jefferson HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1833 in Davidson County, TN.

John married Elizabeth C. MITCHELL.



474 M i. John Edgar (Jr.) HARDIN.

Seventh Generation 314. James Alfred BOSTICK (Hampton BOSTICK, John BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas

HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born about 1819 in Alabama.

James married Maria SMITH.


+ 475 F i. Lizzie (Elizabeth?) BOSTICK was born 1849.

316. James A. BOSTICK (Hampton BOSTICK, John BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1819 in Alabama. He died 8 Dec 1885 in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee.

James married Maria SMITH on 1838 in Nashville, Davidson Co., Tennessee.


476 F i. Lizzie BOSTICK.

Marriage 1 George W. Buck b: 26 NOV 1844 in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee Married: 25 JAN 1866 in Davidson County, Tennessee Children Lena W. Buck b: 1867 in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee

317. Mary Manoah BOSTICK (John (Jr.) BOSTICK, John BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1837 in TN. She died Jun 1862 in Memphis, TN.

"History of Belle Meade" by Ridley Wills, II June, 1862, "news reached Belle Meade that Mary Bostick McGavock, Felix Grundy McGavock's wife, had died in Memphis during the gunboat battle on the river there."

Mary married Dr. Felix Grundy MCGAVOCK on 8 Jan 1855. Felix died 1897 and was buried in Nashville, Davidson County, TN.

Felix Grundy McGavock (Nashville 1850, North Carolina 1851). http://www.phigam.org/history/Articles/nashville.htm Felix Grundy McGavock came from "one of the most prominent and distinguished families of the 19th century." His grandfather Felix Grundy had been a U.S. Representative, Attorney General, and Senator. His elder brother Randal William McGavock (1826 - 1863) also attended Nashville, received a law degree at Harvard in 1849, and just nine years later became Nashville’s mayor. The Tennessee State Museum in Nashville has a portrait of Felix Grundy McGavock. He is buried in Nashville’s Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Also, his University of Nashville medical school dissertation has been made available on-line by the Vanderbilt Medical Center. The additional biographical information found below is from that Web site at http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/biolib/hc/dissertations/portrait.html. The author of this dissertation, Felix Grundy McGavock, 1832-1897, graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Nashville Medical School. After graduation, Dr. McGavock pursued two careers, agriculture and medicine. In 1857, Felix Grundy McGavock and his wife moved to Mississippi County Arkansas where he managed an 1800 acre plantation and developed an extensive medical practice. During the Civil War, Felix Grundy McGavock remained a farmer and demonstrated that cotton could be successfully cultivated with white labor. After the war, cotton was in great demand and brought from 70 to 90 cents per pound. Dr. McGavock went to New York City and Chicago to hire German, Irish, and Chinese immigrants to work on his Arkansas plantation. He paid $20 per month and provided board for his workers. He was also a


horticulturist of note, experimenting with orchard and grain crops. Dr. McGavock served one term in the Arkansas legislature, 1881-83. He was famed for his generosity and hospitality and was considered the most remarkable man in Mississippi County Arkansas. Felix Grundy McGavock died in 1897 and was buried in Nashville, Tennessee. Father: Jacob MCGAVOCK b: 20 Sep 1790 in Max Meadows, Wythe Co., Va Mother: Louisa Caroline GRUNDY b: 10 Feb 1798 in Springfield, Washington,


477 F i. Mary Louisa MCGAVOCK was born 18 Aug 1857.

478 M ii. Manoah MCGAVOCK was born 21 Jul 1859.

321. Capt. John LITTON BOSTICK C.S.A. (Hardin Perkins BOSTICK, John BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born7 6 May 1826 in Williamson County, TN. He died 1864 in Georgia from wounds received in battle, Civil War. and was buried in Griffin, GA.

Source: "Old Enough To Die" "Litton was born on May 6, 1826 in Williamson County, TN, where his parents were living on a farm near Hardeman Cross Roads. Litton received his early education in private schools, one of which was Mrs. Ripley's School in Franklin. A good student, he went on to graduate from the University of Nashville in 1843 and from Harvard Law School four years later." Shortly after his graduate he traveled to California for the gold-rush, arriving June 1850 on the steamer "Tennessee." He stayed there for a few years before returning to Tennessee. "J Litton Bostick was the last of the Bostick brothers to enlist under the Confederate banner. This was natural as he was the oldest of the brothers, having reached his 35th birthday in May 1861. His commitment to the Southern cause was every bit as intense as his brothers'. In November, the "Daily Nashville Patriot" announced that Litton and five other Tenneseans were named Confederate Commissioners, empowered to arrest all violators of C.S.A. laws.".... The fall of Nashville was eminent, and Bettie, in her ninth month of pregnancy, went south with their 3 children to be near her parents in Columbus, MS. The baby, a boy, was named Litton after his father, and was born on Feb. 18, two days after the fall of Fort Donelson. "A day before the Battle of Shiloh, Litton stood on dress parade and listened to Albert Sidney Johnston's "Famous Battle Order." The Twentieth Tennessee took 380 men into the Battle at Pittsburg Landing. Of these, 159 were either killed or wounded." Litton survived. "In a history of the regiment, Litton was said to have "fought gallantly" despite almost no training." He regularly communicated with his family, and his letters are faithfully reproduced in the book. In the summer of 1862, Litton was aide-de-camp to Gen. Liddell, commander of the Second Brigade of Pat Cleburne's Division near Readyville, and survived the fighting around Murfreesboro. Gen. Liddell wrote of Litton...that he "not only behaved with the most undaunted bravery, but assisted me voluntarily, and with the utmost alacrity, in pushing forward the brigade, in placing the battery in positions, and in the deployment of skirmishers in teh very face of the enemy, and in the heaviest fire whenever required..." That winter, and the spring of 1863, Litton was "at Wartrace where Gen. Liddell established his headquarters." June 24th and 25th, 1862, his brigade was in the fighting at Libery Gap. Litton's unit was also at Chickamauga, and a few weeks after the battle, Gen. Liddell commented that "Lieut. J. L. Bostick, his aide-de-camp, and another staff officer "behaved with their usual gallantry and need no commendation at my hands." Then began the struggle around Chattanooga. John Litton Bostick, (aged 35 - a "cousin" to my gg-grandfather, Manoah Bostick Hampton) ......while at his post on Missionary Ridge, October 26th, 1863, wrote this to his sister: "I am sorry that you allow yourself to have the "blues" which you complain of having, in your letter. It is a disease, which like chills, will become chronic if allowed to continue unchecked. I have, in my younger days, sometimes indulged myself in gloomy dreams and fancies but I have quit the bad habit. I have suffered more intensely from the anticipation of evils that never came to pass, than I have ever from actual, real sorrows. I have learned that real happiness has its source in the heart and not in external circumstances. There are few afflictions to which mortals are ever prepared for which a health, Christian nature will not find consolation.


"Happiness is like the sunlight, free to all, high and low, rich and poor alike, and is only denied to those who willfully shut themselves up in the darkness. Have the blues no more. Turn your thoughts more upon the blessing which you have, rather than to those which you have not; never double sorrows by anticipating them but wait til they come upon you and then, forget them as soon as possible. And finally he said: "These are the times, above all others, when the patriotic men and women of the South should cultivate a spirit of cheerfulness and contentment. The time will come when these will be looked back to as the heroic days of our country and it will be considered a proud privilege to have lived through the trials to which we are exposed." Litton was wounded near Griffin, GA during the battle for Atlanta. He was shot through the right arm, the "ball passing into his body. It was cut out at his left shoulder blade. He was wounded July 21st, 1864. His brother, Tom, was with him when he died. Litton had been cared for in the home of Mrs. Mitchell, and waited on by her daughter, Mrs. M. W. Callaway, of Griffin. Tom wrote his mother that he "buried him in the grave yard at Griffin where none but officers from Tenn. are buried." He said that "he suffered but little considering the way he was wounded. He was conscious all the time and told me early in the morning he had to die. About ten minutes before he died, he called me to him and told me what disposition he wanted made of his property. His only regret at dying seemed to be the leaving of his "wife and little orphan boys." He said, "I feel I have done my duty. Oh God have mercy on my wife and little boys." August, 1864, N. Green, Jr. wrote to Margaret Litton Bostick: "Allow me to say that among the officers of the army, I met none who combined more fully the high qualities of the soldier, scholar and gentleman that Capt. Litton Bostick. I admired him while living, and being dead I honor him. I expect to speak of his virtue and his courage and his fate to my children. Sweet be his rest among the sons of glory who have fallen in this struggle."

John married Elizabeth C. "Bettie" TOPP on 29 Oct 1854 in Columbus, MS. Elizabeth was born 1832. She died after 1909.

Bettie Topp's parents were Dr. and Mrs. William W. Topp, wealthy residents of Columbus, MS. Following their marriage they lived in Nashville, where Litton and Bently Halbert formed a law partnership at 45 North Cherry Street. Bently Halbert died in 1858, but Litton continued to practice law with his father. "Litton and Bettie lived at 73 North Summer Street in the house he bought in 1855 or 1856. Their first child, William Thomas, was born about the same time. Three years later they had a second son, Hardin Perkins." Bettie and the children stayed with her parents in Columbus, MS during the War. Mag and Mary Anne Bostick were nearby at Mr. Percival Halbert's.


479 M i. William Thomas "Willie" BOSTICK was born about 1855/1856 in Nashville, TN.

William married Susie SMITH.

480 M ii. Hardin Perkins "Hardie" BOSTICK was born about 1858/1859 in Nashville, TN.

481 M iii. Joseph BOSTICK was born 1860 in Nashville, TN.

482 M iv. John Litton (Jr.) BOSTICK was born 18 Feb 1862 in West Point, MS. He died Aug 1865.

322. Catherine Warren BOSTICK (Hardin Perkins BOSTICK, John BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1828 in Williamson County, TN. She died 1916.

Source: "Old Enough To Die" By the time of the Civil War, Catherine was a widow and Nashville school teacher. "She and her children, Hardin, Mary, and Bently Jr., were living with the Bostick's in their large home on the Charlotte Turnpike." Catherine, as the eldest Bostick daughter, "decided it was her duty to stay in Nashville with her mother, her own children, and her youngest sister, Susan. She did until the spring or early summer of 1863, when she, her mother, and her children either fled the city or were expelled by Federal authorities."


Catherine and her mother struggled together, during the War. In addition to themselves and Catherine's children, they took care of Susan, who had "chronic physical and mental problems". "They were dependent on Catherine's income from teaching school and whatever monies her brothers and sisters could periodically send them. They had only $40 per month steady income....." "Catharine regularly went to the city's hospitals to nurse dozens of Confederate prisoners to whom she brought "food and good cheer." At some point, Federal authorities were sufficiently annoyed that they ordered the "great little Rebel" to stop nursing Confederate prisoners unless she agreed to give Federal wounded equal attention. Catherine did so but only to those Yankees who were too badly wounded to fight again."

Catherine married John Bently HALBERT on 9 Sep 1847. John died 1858 in Nashville, TN.


483 M i. Hardin Bostick "Hardie" HALBERT.

484 F ii. Mary HALBERT.

Mary married (Mr.) LEWIS of Nashville, TN.

485 M iii. John Bently (Jr.) HALBERT "Bently" died 1907.

Bently married Margaret Webb MOORE.

486 F iv. Margaret HALBERT.

323. Mary Anne "May" BOSTICK (Hardin Perkins BOSTICK, John BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1830 in Nashville, Davidson Co., Tennessee. She died after 1907.

Source: "Old Enough To Die" By 1858, Mary Anne Bostick Anderson "was living in Mobile with her husband, William J. Anderson, a fifty-year-old cotton broker, and their two children, Anne and Hardin, and her two stepchildren. Before moving to Mobile, Mary Anne and William, a native Virginian, had lived in Mississippi, where Hardin was born." INTRODUCTION The Bostick Family Papers, 1834-[1861-1864]-1870, were donated in July of 1996 by Irene Jackson Wills, Granbery Jackson, and Ridley Wills II. The collection consists of 73 items, mostly correspondence, is housed in one archives box, and occupies 5 linear inches of shelf space. These documents are additions to, and replace, photocopies originally donated by the Wills' in February 1967, which comprised accession number 67-010, Bostick Papers, 1861-1864. With this new accession, the Bostick Papers collection, 1861-1864, accession number 67-010, has been dissolved. There are no restrictions on the collection, and single copies of the Bostick Family Papers may be made for scholarly research purposes. SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The Bostick Family Papers, 1834-[1861-81641-1870, consisting of seventy-three (73) letters of correspondence (and some few telegrams) are centered mostly around the family's activities during the Civil War. The collection occupies one archives box and is arranged alphabetically by the writer's name, then chronologically. For most of the letters there is included a typed transcription which was donated earlier when photocopies of the letters were donated as accession number 67-010. As reflected in these letters, the Bostick family apparently consisted of Hardin Perkins Bostick and his wife Margaret Litton Bostick; sons J. Litton Bostick, Abe Bostick, Thomas Hardin Bostick, and Joe Bostick; and daughters Mary Ann (Bostick) Anderson, Eliza Jane (Bostick) Early (wife of John F. Early), and Catherine (Bostick) Halbert (wife of Bently Halbert). The collection's two earliest letters (dated 1834, 1841) are written by Hardin Perkins Bostick to his wife Margaret Litton Bostick. One other letter dated 1858 was also written by Bostick to his wife. Letters dated February 26, 1861 (folder 72) and May 7, 1861 (folder 70) from L.M. Shackleford and E.W. Sehon respectively, indicate that Hardin P. Bostick died in early 1861. A series of six letters dated 1850 and 1853 (folders 24-29), recount a period of time that J. Litton Bostick spent as a miner and farmer in California. The bulk of the letters (63 in number) is concentrated between 1861 and 1864, and most of these recount in some detail the experiences of the Bostick sons during the Civil War. The majority were written by Abe, J. Litton, and Thomas H. Bostick to their mother and sisters. J. Litton Bostick an officer, HQ, Liddell’s Division, was wounded in battle on July 21, 1864, and later died on July 29, 1864; Abram (Abe) Bostick a Major, 7th Tennessee Infantry


(“The Blues”), was killed in a fight near Richmond, June 28, 1862; Thomas Hardin Bostick, was a Captain, Co. K, 7th Tennessee Infantry (“The Blues”); and Joseph Bostick was a Major, 34th Tennessee Infantry. Apparently, brothers Thomas H. and Joe survived the hostilities. Letters from Col. John F. Goodner (folder 63) and E. L. F. McKenzie (folder 68) give added details concerning the death of Abe Bostick. The latest letter, dated December 28, 1870 (folder 58) was written to the Rev. Thomas H. Early and signed by Hardin, Lila, and John Early, apparently the children and husband of Eliza Jane (Bostick) Early.

Mary married William J. ANDERSON on 1854. William was born 1810.

MARSHALL COUNTY, TN - COURT- Minutes Vol. A, 1836-1840 Ordered by the court that the hands of Thos. McREE Alexander FOSSETT, William BALDRIDGE & William J. ANDERSON be attached to Thos. McREES part of the road. Issued.


487 F i. Elizabeth "Anne" ANDERSON "Anne".

488 M ii. Hardin Bostick "Hardie" ANDERSON "Hardie" was born in Mississippi.

489 M iii. William "Willie" ANDERSON "Willie".

324. Dr./Maj. Joseph "Joe" BOSTICK C.S.A. "Joe" (Hardin Perkins BOSTICK, John BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born7 1 Apr 1832 in Hardeman Cross Roads, TN. He died Dec 1886 in South Pittsburg, TN and was buried in City Cemetery, South Pittsburg, TN.

Source: "Old Enough To Die" "Joe studied medicine at the Medical Department of St. Louis University, where his uncle, Abraham Litton, was on the faculty. Following graduation, the Hospital of the City of St. Louis admitted him "to the practice of this institution for one year. Toward the end of that academic year, Joe was uncertain whether to continue in medicine or go to the iron works on the Ohio River that his father had recently purchased." "Three months after his brothers, Abe and Tom, and his brother-in-law, Will Hunt, joined the army, Dr. Joseph "Joe" Bostick set aside his medical practice in Marion County, TN, and organized a company of men from the Bridgeport area of adjoining Jackson County, Alabama, for service in the Confederate Army." Joe was elected captain of Company A, "The Davis Guards." "His was one of ten companies mustered into Confederate service by Col. Wm. A. Chuchwell at Camp Sneed in Knoxville, TN on August 19, 1861. First known as the Fourth Confederate (Tennessee) Regiment, the unit's name was changed in November to the Thirty-Fourth Tennessee Regiment because another 4th TTN had already been organized in West TN. The new designation never attained general recognition, however." Maj. Joe Bostick survived the battle at Franklin, staff officer for Maj. Gen. Cheatham. "Despite having scaled the Federal breastworks and fought hand-to-hand in the Federal trenches, Joe made in through the battle unscathed. Tom, who went into the fight as brigade commissary for Big. Gen. George Washington Gordon's Brigade in John Brown's Division, also survived, as did their cousin, Jim Cooper, and their brother-in-law, John F. Early. Jim Cooper did so despite suffering his fourth wound of the war." "Joe and Tom's first cousins probably fought in the vicinity of Everbright, the palatial home of Rebecca Letitia Bostick on Carter's Creek Pike." Rebecca was the widow of their cousin, Richard W. H. Bostick. "During the battle, part of which took place at Everbright's doorstep, the Widow Bostick's wounded son, Cannon, slipped into the house and was successfully hidden by his mother. Joe and Tom also survived the "decisive Battle of Nashville fought on December 15 and 16 (1864) a few miles south of city." They were "among the 1312 Tennesseans paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina on May 1, 1865. Both men returned to Tennessee, via Asheville, NC, and Greeneville, TN, to find their families and reassume their roles and husbands and fathers." Joe returned home to find his "house and out buildings had been destroyed, his crops were in bad shape, his livestock stolen, and his silver gone." Joe and "Bub", his wife, worked hard and "methodically rebuilt their river-bottom farm." Joe Bostick saw his medical practice flourish, and was the town of South Pittsburg's first physician.


Joe married Mary Louisa "Bub" HUNT on 15 May 1855. Mary was born 1835. She died 4 Jun 1915 in Birmingham, AL and was buried in City Cemetery, South Pittsburg, TN.

Source: "Old Enough To Die" "Mary Louisa "Bub" Hunt, daughter of Henry W. and Mary Darwin (Trotter) Hunt of Columbus, MS." "On May 15, 1855, the couple married in her hometown. For a year or so, they lived in Nashville, where their first child, Margaret Litton, was born April 10, 1856. They wanted to rear their children on a farm, free of the evil influences of the city. Consequently, they focused their attention on Marion County, TN, where Joe's grandfather, John Bostick, had owned a large tract and where Joe may have visited as a boy." In 1856 Joe bought "three tracts of land encompassing 2,500 acres from the East TN Mining and Mfg Co for $6000." Joe and Mary lived in a house on the west side of the Jasper-Huntsville Road, along the Tennessee River. He also bought 122 acres adjacent to his river bottom land below the mouth of Battle Creek. He sold 50% of his interest in the land to his brother in law, William Barry "Will" Hunt in 1859, so he could devote more time to his medical practice.


490 F i. Margret Litton BOSTICK.

491 M ii. William "Willie" Hunt BOSTICK.

Source: "Old Enough To Die: "By 1880, the Bostick's son, Willie, was 22 years old and farming along the Tennessee River. Within a year or two, his yearning to move further west got the best of him. Sometime in the early 1880's he moved to Ozark, Arkansas, where he met and married Cora Annie Wish on September 4, 1884. She would bring him ten children, the first six born in Arkansas, and the last four in Texas, where they would move by wagon train about 1897."

William married Cora Annie WISH.

+ 492 F iii. Mary BOSTICK died 4 Jan 1949.

493 M iv. Joseph (Jr.) BOSTICK died 1871 and was buried in City Cemetery, South Pittsburg, TN.

Source: "Old Enough To Die" "Tragedy stuck in 1871 when seven year old Joe Jr. drowned in the Tennessee River."

494 F v. Catherine "Kate" Warren BOSTICK died 1947 in Birmingham, AL.

Catherine married Henry "Harry" BLACKLOCK on 17 Dec 1890 in Christ Episcopal Church, South Pittsburg, TN. Henry died 1941 in Birmingham, AL.

325. Capt. Thomas Hardin BOSTICK (Hardin Perkins BOSTICK, John BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1833 in TN. He died 1871 in Lebanon, TN.

Source: "Old Enough To Die" Tom was a lawyer, practicing in Lebanon, TN, at the outbreak of the Civil War. Even though he had a wife and two small daughters, he immediately joined the "Blues", the first company organized in Wilson County. "Tom was elected lieutenant and Rufus McClain (his brother-in-law) was quartermaster sergeant. Along with five other Wilson County companies, Lt. Tom Bostick and the "Blues" left Lebanon on May 20 for Nashville where they spent the night at the fairgrounds and by chance met Abe, Bill and Jim. The following evening they all went to Camp Trousdale for instruction." The six Wilson County companies were formed into the Seventh Tennessee Infantry Regiment..... Tom was elected captain of Company K, "The Blues." Abe transferred into this company. After the War, Tom returned to Lebanon, TN.

Thomas married Martha "Mat" D. MCCLAIN. Martha was born 1834.


495 F i. Mary Litton BOSTICK died 1920 and was buried in Nashville City Cemetery.


Mary married Samuel F. WILSON State Senator on 19 Aug 1880 in Lebanon, TN. Samuel died 1923 and was buried in Gallatin, TN.

+ 496 F ii. Catherine "Kate" BOSTICK.

326. Eliza Jane BOSTICK (Hardin Perkins BOSTICK, John BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1836 in TN. She died 22 Oct 1905 in Nashville, TN and was buried in Sanford, Florida.

Eliza Jane Bostick married John Fletcher Early in 1860 Source: "Old Enough To Die" Eliza Bostick Early and her husband, John, and their baby, Hardin, may have been living near Jackson, MS, during 1861 and 1862. "By the third week of April (1862), Mr. Early was a member of Lt. Charles E. Fenner's Louisiana Battery of Light Artillery, which was organized in Jackson earlier in the month. The battery was quickly sent to New Orleans, where Admiral Farragut's fleet threatened the city. On May 9, Eliza and her baby were living in Hinds County, MS, with her husband's uncle, Orville Rives. His plantation home, Forkland, had plenty of room. A widower too old to fight himself, Mr. Rives was a Confederate patriot of the first rank. He not only gave liberally to the Confederate cause, but opened his home, not only to Eliza and her baby, but to every Confederate soldier who needed shelter."

Eliza married John Fletcher EARLY on 18 Oct 1860. John died 28 Sep 1894 in Florida.

Source: "Old Enough To Die" In 1858, John Fletcher Early was "a young man from Lynchburg, Virginia, who was associated with the Southern Methodist Publishing House in New Orleans."


+ 497 M i. Hardin Bostick EARLY died 1902.

+ 498 M ii. John EARLY.

499 F iii. Lila EARLY.

+ 500 F iv. Margaret EARLY.

329. Margaret Rebecca "Mag" BOSTICK (Hardin Perkins BOSTICK, John BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1842 in Hardeman Cross Roads, TN. She died 1911 in Nashville, TN.

Source: "Old Enough To Die" Mag was in Columbus, MS with her sister, Mary Anne Bostick Anderson, during the war.

Margaret married John A. DAVIS. John was born 1834. He died 1899.


501 F i. Kitty Litton DAVIS.

502 F ii. Margaret "Margie" DAVIS.

503 F iii. Mary DAVIS was born about 1878 in Nashville, TN.

331. James Coleman BOSTICK C.S.A. (James Alfred BOSTICK, John BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 28 Sep 1835 in Williamson County, TN. He died 10 May 1915 in Williamson County, TN.

James Coleman Bostick Born: 28-Sep-1835 in Williamson Co., TN Death: 10-May-1915 at Triune, Williamson Co, TN. Father: James A. Bostick


Mother: Nancy Worley King Marriage: 28-Apr-1859, Sumner Co., TN, to Fannie Leftwick Abston (1834-1885). Children: Merry C. Bostick, Sr. Fannie Manoah Bostick James A. Bostick II (1860-1931) John Bostick At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, James Coleman Bostick enlisted in the 13th Tennessee Calvary under General Morgan. Death Records, Williamson Co., TN. Bostick, J.C., age 79 (DOB abt 1836), d. 10-May-1915 at Mt. Pleasant. Son is James A. Bostick. (Also, Maury Genealogist, Vol 2 (1972), p. 133: Bostick, Jas. C., widowed, b. 9/28/1835 in TN; died 5/10/1915 of senility. Son of J.A. Bostick, b. TN, and Nancy King, b. TN. Buried at Triune, Williamson Co. Info. By J.A. Bostick of Mt. Pleasant). Bill Bostick Return-path: <[email protected]> Oak Ridge, TN Some collected info on James Coleman Bostick: Goodspeed History Histories of Williamson Co, TN (orig. publ. 1886; reprint 1971), p. 968 James C. Bostick. b. 1835 in Williamson Co., TN. Son of James A. and Nancy Bostick; grandson of John and Mary G. Bostick, who were born in NC and settled in TN in 1809. (JCB's) mother was dau of William and Sarah King, b. NC and settled in TN at an early date. (Parents of JCB) m. 1827 in TN; 8 children: Thomas K., Mary J., James C., Manoah H., Sara P., Martha E., John, and William. JCB attended the Hardeman Academy, in Sumner Co., TN, where he fitted himself for civil engineering and in 1856 served in that capacity for the L&N RR. ca. 1858, lumber business in Nashville. 1861, enlisted 13th Tenn Calvary under Gen. Morgan and participated in all the principal battles. At close of war, returned to Sumner co, TN; moved to Williamson Co in 1869. In 1859, m. Fannie L. Abston, dau Merry and Mary Abston. 5 children: James A., Merry C., Mary A., Sallie P. and Fannie M. JCB elected County surveyer in 1873, Justice of Peace in 1871. Mrs. Bostick d. 1885. members, Methodist Episcopal Church. Of English decent. ======== At foot of James C. Bostick grave, military marker: James C. Bostick, Sep-28, 1835 - May 10, 1915, Pvt. Co. B, 14 regt, Tenn Cav. =========== ========== Hawkins, Maury Co. Tn Cemetries, p. 710: Bostick, James A., Sr. (Prof.), 1860-14-May-1931. Williamson Co, Son Jas. C & Fannie Aliston (sic) Bostick; Principal, Howard Inst. Bostick, Jas. A., Jr., 1893-1972. Bostick, Irene Irwin, 1874-1940 (2nd wife James A. Bostick). WILLIAMSON COUNTY, TN Marriages Bostick, Angeline - Wm. T. Jordan 29 Aug 1859 Bostick, Bethenia - Jason Patton 29 Jul 1811 Bostick, Bettie M. - G.W. Ransom 9 May 1860 Bostick, Christiana - John Collart 5 Dec 1833 Bostick, Delia - Wm. D. Covington 27 Feb 1867 Bostick, Ebgorn to Bettie Lane 13 Nov 1865 Bostick, James C. - Fannie L. Abston 1859 Bostick, Jane - Jason C. Wilson 29 Sep 1815 Bostick, John - Polly Hyde 18 Dec 1815 Bostick, John - Sallie J. Reams 8 Feb 1866


Bostick, J.C. - Eliza Jane Jordan 22 Feb 1859 Bostick, Lucy J - Thomas W. Jordan 10 Aug 1858 Bostick, Mary Manoah - F. Grundy McGavock 8 Jan 1855 Bostick, M.H. - Mary E. King 14 Apr 1871 Bostick, N. Cannon - Estelle Mosely 2 Oct 1865 Bostick, Parthenia - James Anderson 16 Nov 1845 Bostick, Sally A. - James M Peebles 9 May 1861 Bostick, Wes - Viney Bennell 25 Dec 1879 (bond) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Williamson County, TN Cemetery Listings By Ed Adams [email protected] The following Bostick names are indexed in =Williamson County, TN Cemeteries= by Lynch. All are listed at Triune Methodist Church Cemetery. Fanny Manoah, dau. of J.C and F.L. Bostick b. 5/1/1813 d. 9/3/1894 Sarah Peebles Bostick, wife of J.H. Dinning b. 7/5/1871 d. 10/23/1897 Sally Bostick, wife of James M. Peebles b. 9/28/1839 d. 9/22/1911 James C. Bostick, b. 9/28/1835 d. 5/10/1915 Fanny L., wife of J.C. Bostick, dau. of Mary and M. Alston, b. 12/31/1834 d. 1/3/1885 Manoah Hardin Bostick, b. 10/28/1837 d. 6/11/1874 Mary B., dau. of J.C. and F.L. Bostick, wife of W.P. Gray b. 2/22/1865 d. 10/11/1899 In addition, I found these names in the cemetery: Mary E. King Bostick Hyde b. 1848 d. 1906 Bettie Cary Bostick, 1870-1888 Will Harding Bostick 1873-1945 Nettie Jordan Bostick 1876-1946 Mary Bostick Hill 7/25/1878 d. 12/26/1968 George T. Ransom, son of G.W. and Bettie Bostick Ransom b. 2/27/1863 d. 9/12/1932 Also at the foot of the above James C. Bostick's grave, a military grave marker with the following: James C. Bostick, Sept. 28,1835-May 10,1915, Pvt. Co., B, 14 Regt., Tenn Cav. Also at the foot of the above Manoah H. Bostick's grave was a military grave marker with the following: Manoah H. Bostick, Tennessee, Pvt. Co., B, 20 Reg. Tenn Inf., Confederate States Army (no dates given). Near Triune, in a pasture, off Hwy. 31A or Nolensville Pike, is the lone grave of Mrs. Mary Bostick b. March 11, 1766 and died May 30, 1833.

James married9 Fannie L. ABSTON/ALSTON on 1859 in Williamson County, TN.


+ 504 M i. Prof. James A. (II) BOSTICK was born 1860 and died 14 May 1931.

505 M ii. Merry C. (son? of James & Fannie) BOSTICK.

506 F iii. Mary A. (dau of James & Fannie) BOSTICK.

507 F iv. Sallie P. BOSTICK.


508 F v. Fannie Manoah BOSTICK was born in Williamson County, TN. She died 3 Sep 1894 in Williamson County, TN.

341. James Matison HAMPTON (James M. HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1812.

James married Mary.


509 M i. James William HAMPTON.

350. James Matthew HAMPTON (Samuel (Jr.) HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 9 Mar 1817 in Lincoln Co., TN. He died 27 Feb 1903 in Montgomery Co., MS.

James married (1) Cynthia GUINN.


510 M i. Samuel T. HAMPTON was born after 1840. He died before 1850.

511 F ii. Ann Caroline HAMPTON was born after 1840. She died before 1850.

512 F iii. Mary Elizabeth HAMPTON was born Circa 1842.

Mary married John W. PROVINE about 1860. John was born Circa 1840. He died 12 May 1864.

513 M iv. Manoah Hardin HAMPTON was born about 1845. He died about 1865.

James also married (2) Christina F. GUINN, daughter of Thornton Preston GUINN and Anne BOSTICK.

351. Frances Jane HAMPTON (Samuel (Jr.) HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 2 Dec 1818 in Lincoln Co., TN.

Frances married Isaac HUGHEY. Isaac was born 8 May 1812 in TN. He died 28 Jul 1883 in Pulaski, TN.


514 M i. George Lafayette HUGHEY.

515 M ii. John A. HUGHEY.

516 M iii. James H. HUGHEY.

517 M iv. Samuel Ezekial HUGHEY.

518 M v. Isaac M. HUGHEY.

519 F vi. Mary Frances HUGHEY.

353. Samuel Ferdinand HAMPTON (Samuel (Jr.) HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 21 Dec 1824 in Lincoln Co., TN. He died 22 Feb 1913 in Barber, Logan Co., KY..

Samuel married Martha FERRELL. Martha was born 27 Jun 1829 in South Carolina. She died 26 Oct 1911.


520 M i. William L. HAMPTON.

521 F ii. Mary A. HAMPTON.

522 M iii. James F. HAMPTON.

523 F iv. Martha C. HAMPTON.

524 M v. John N. HAMPTON.

525 F vi. Nancy HAMPTON.

526 M vii. Manoah (son of Samuel F.) HAMPTON.

527 F viii. Hannah E. HAMPTON.

528 M ix. George S. HAMPTON.


+ 529 M x. Hardin B. HAMPTON was born 17 Apr 1865 and died 8 Oct 1935.

530 M xi. Thomas L. HAMPTON.

355. LaFayette HAMPTON (Samuel (Jr.) HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 20 Aug 1837 in Monroe Co., MS. He died 2 Aug 1922 in Franklin Co., Arkansas.

LaFayette married Mary MCKOWN.


531 F i. Laura Idell HAMPTON was born 22 Sep 1867 in Itawamba County, MS. She died 18 Nov 1951 in Pulaski, Arkansas.

532 F ii. Lenora Elizabeth HAMPTON was born 12 Feb 1870 in Franklin Co., Arkansas. She died 1 Feb 1964 in Stockton, CAen.

Lenora married Edward Almond REYNOLDS.

362. Eliza HAMPTON (John B. HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 30 Oct 1813 in Stokes Co., NC. She died 21 Aug 1843 in Stokes Co., NC.

Eliza married John G. PEARSON on 15 May 1839 in Stokes Co., NC.


533 M i. William Thornton PEARSON was born 8 Mar 1840 in Stokes Co., NC. He died May 1853 in Stokes Co., NC.

363. Anne A. HAMPTON (John B. HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 28 Dec 1815 in Stokes Co., NC. She died 30 Mar 1877 in TN.

Anne married Samuel HAMPTON.


534 F i. Martha HAMPTON.

366. Susan Rebecca HAMPTON (John B. HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 30 May 1823 in Stokes Co., NC. She died Mar 1893 in Stokes Co., NC.

4 Susan Rebecca HAMPTON b: 30 May 1823 d: Mar 1893 + Elisha BANNER 5 Elisha BANNER 5 James BANNER 5 Henry BANNER 5 Elizabeth BANNER 5 Unknown BANNER + W.R. BITING 5 Walter BITING 5 Samuel BITING 5 Joseph BITING 5 Jettis BITING

Susan married (1) Walter Raleigh BITTING.


535 F i. Mary J. BITTING was born 1844.

Mary married BROCK.

536 M ii. Walter BITTING.

+ 537 M iii. Joseph H BITTING was born 1846.

538 M iv. Samuel F. BITTING was born 1847.

539 M v. Jettis W, BITTING.


Susan also married (2) Elisha BANNER.


540 M vi. Elisha BANNER.

541 M vii. James BANNER.

542 M viii. Henry BANNER.

543 F ix. Elizabeth BANNER.

544 x. Unknown BANNER.

367. Thornton Preston HAMPTON (John B. HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 26 Oct 1825 in Stokes Co., NC.

Thornton Preston HAMPTON Given Name: Thornton Preston Surname: Hampton Sex: M Birth: 16 Oct 1825 Father: John B. HAMPTON b: 12 Jan 1793 Mother: Polly E. GUINN b: 10 Mar 1796 Marriage 1 Martha R. DAVIS Marriage 2 Martha HILL b: Jun 1829 Children John HAMPTON Columbus Samuel HAMPTON Walter Lee HAMPTON Elizabeth Evans HAMPTON William Preston HAMPTON b: 29 Sep 1858 Email query: "Looking for descendants of Thornton Preston HAMPTON, son of John B. HAMPTON, son of Samuel HAMPTON, son of James HAMPTON [born 1723]. James was a fifth generation desc. of William Hampton who came to Jamestown in 1620. James settled as an adult in Stokes Co. Grandson John B. Hampton settled in Stokes, later Forsyth Co., and Thornton moved to Davidson Co. The brothers of John B. migrated to Lincoln Co., TN. and Alabama. [email protected]" (I have been unable to contact "L. Munyon") 4 Thornton Preston HAMPTON b: 26 Oct 1825 + Martha HILL b: Jun 1829 d: 10 Jun 1904 5 John HAMPTON 5 Columbus Samuel HAMPTON 5 Walter Lee HAMPTON 5 Elizabeth Evans HAMPTON 5 William Preston HAMPTON b: 29 Sep 1858 d: 25 May 1928 6 Estelle Olive HAMPTON b: 25 Sep 1899 d: 21 Oct 1937 + Martha R. DAVIS d: 8 Jul 1852

Thornton married Martha HILL.


545 M i. John HAMPTON.

546 M ii. Columbus Samuel HAMPTON.

547 M iii. Walter Lee HAMPTON.

548 F iv. Elizabeth Evans HAMPTON.

+ 549 M v. William Preston HAMPTON was born 29 Sep 1858 and died 25 May 1928.

369. Mary Jane HAMPTON (John B. HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN,


Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 10 Jul 1830 in Stokes Co., NC.

Mary married John W. BITTING.


550 M i. John Anthony BITTING.

551 M ii. Dr. Clay BITTING.

552 M iii. William BITTING.

553 F iv. Rachel BITTING died Died In Infancy.

371. William Anthony HAMPTON C.S.A. (died in battle) (John B. HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 20 Jun 1835 in Stokes Co., NC. He died 13 Dec 1862 in Fredricksburg, Va from killed in the battle at Fredericksburg, VA.

Notes for WILLIAM A. HAMPTON: Enlisted in Confederate Army 7-4-1862. Served with Company D., 57th Regiment, North Carolina Troops under Captain J. E. Butner, who was killed the same day, 12-13-1862 at the Battle of Fredericksburg, VA. He was buried in dirt without a coffin on the battlefield. His remains were later brought home by his brother, Thornton Preston Hampton and buried in the family cemetery in Stokes Co., NC. 4 William A. HAMPTON b: 20 Jun 1835 d: 13 Dec 1862 + Catherine Elizabeth WILLIS 5 Anne Elizabeth HAMPTON b: 11 Jun 1856 + Henry C. CASE 5 Mollie HAMPTON b: Abt 1858 d: Abt 1859 5 Susan Virginia HAMPTON b: 12 Jun 1861 d: 1 Dec 1920 + Theodore E. DAVIS

William married Catherine Elizabeth WILLIS "Betty" on 1 Oct 1855.


554 F i. Ann Elizabeth HAMPTON was born 11 Jun 1856 in Stokes Co., NC.

Ann married Henry C. CASE.

555 F ii. Molile HAMPTON (died a baby) was born about 1858 in Stokes Co., NC. She died about 1859 in Stokes Co., NC.

+ 556 F iii. Susan Virginia HAMPTON was born 12 Jun 1861 and died 1 Dec 1920.

372. Cynthia Elizabeth HAMPTON (John B. HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 7 Dec 1837. She died 4 Dec 1896.

4 Cynthia Elizabeth HAMPTON b: 7 Dec 1837 d: 4 Dec 1896 + John A. WOLFF 5 Jasper WOLFF 5 William WOLFF 5 Walter WOLFF 5 Ernest WOLFF 5 Oscar WOLFF 5 Gertrude WOLFF 5 Estella WOLFF

Cynthia married John Augustine WOLFF on 12 Oct 1860. John was born 18 Apr 1841 in Rural Hall, NC. He died 13 Jan 1906.


+ 557 M i. John Walter WOLFF was born 6 Jul 1861 and died 10 Jun 1930.

+ 558 M ii. William Jacob WOLFF was born 15 Feb 1865 and died 17 Apr 1922.

+ 559 F iii. Mary Gertrude WOLFF was born 18 Aug 1867 and died 21 Aug 1899.


+ 560 M iv. Jasper Alexander Preston WOLFF was born 18 Jun 1870 and died 16 Mar 1931.

561 M v. Ernest H. WOLFF was born 3 Jul 1873.

562 F vi. Julia Estella WOLFF was born 30 Dec 1875. She died 7 Sep 1895.

+ 563 M vii. Oscar Gwyn WOLFF was born 25 Feb 1878 and died 10 Feb 1935.

374. John P. HAMPTON (Mary HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born about 1826. He died in Fayette Co., TN.

Name: John P. HAMPTON Given Name: John P. Surname: Hampton Sex: M Birth: Bet. 1815 - 1819 in N.C. 1 Death: Abt. 1890 in Dyer, Tn Census: 1850 p.666 district12 Fayette Co.Tn. line #1377,dwelling#1377 Census: 1860 p.31 district 12 Fayette Co.Tn. dwelling #1126 Note: occupation- farmer Tn Calvery website information: John P. Hampton Company G. Enlisted April 20 1864 in Dyer Co Tn. by Capt. Hibbit for 3 years. Bay mule valued at $800. Present on roll for Mar/April 1864. Present on roll for May/June 1864 Born abt 1826, living in Dyer Co 1860 Buried at Church Grove Cem Dyer Co Tn Source Compiled Serve Records, Willouby 1995 ( need to research and see if this is our John Hampton) Father: Henry C. HAMPTON b: 1795 in N.C. Mother: Mary Polly HAMPTON b: 14 May 1795 in ,Stokes,N.C. Marriage 1 Paulina W. SMITH b: Abt. 1819 in Va. Married: 5 Feb 1842 in Fayette, Tn. 1 Note: marriage license issued but never returned Children Cinthia A. HAMPTON b: Abt. 1843 in Fayette, Tn. John Frank HAMPTON b: Bet. 1846 - 1848 in Fayette, Tn. Martha Eva HAMPTON b: 8 Apr 1847 in ,Fayette?, Tn Bethina Virginia HAMPTON b: Abt. 1849 in ,Fayette, Tn. Sallie HAMPTON b: Abt. 1856 Marriage 2 Katherine STEWART Married: 23 Aug 1869 in Fayette, Tn 1

John married (1) Paulina SMITH on 5 Feb 1842 in Fayette Co., TN. Paulina was born about 1819.

Notes of Dalina Stevens: Pauline was first married to Goodwyn L. Overby/Overbey and had two daughters before he died. Ann Eliza and Mary S. Overbey who married into the Newsom family. Their daughter Annie Liza married John Eligin Sutton, son of Bartley Johnson Sutton and Martha Eva Hampton. While on vacation in VA I found the marriage bond and license for Pauline Smith and Goodwyn Overbey. This Richard Smith signed the bond, but her father Thomas Smith writes a note to give his permission to marry. So I don't know the relationship to Pauline concerning Richard, an uncle or brother perhaps. I found a marriage for Thomas Smith and Elizabeth Wartman I think? (from memory) So possibly this is her mother. Goodwyn died in Fayette Co Tn and I found his will there. I found at the LDS family history center a Hampton Book on microfilm, and I wrote the lady who wrote it. It has information on Henry, but nothing to connect them exactly to this family. They photocopied some pages and sent to me, but recommended I get the film and read it all. Which I have not had time to do. But the information on the Bostick and Hampton family that I have on my ancestry tree is from information that they sent to me.


Family notes of Fred Kraus Marriage 1 Goodwin S OVERBY b: ABT 1800 Married: 18 OCT 1836 in Mecklenburg Co., Virginia Children Ann Elizan OVERBY b: 1837 in Virginia Mary S OVERBY b: 15 DEC 1840 in Fayette Co., Tennessee Marriage 2 John P HAMPTON b: 1819 Married: 5 FEB 1842 in Fayette Co., Tennessee Children Centhia HAMPTON b: 1843 in Tennessee John F HAMPTON b: 1847 in Tennessee Martha Eva HAMPTON b: 8 APR 1847 in Fayette Co., Tennessee Berthia V HAMPTON b: 1849 in Tennessee


564 F i. Cynthia A. HAMPTON was born about 1843 in Fayette Co., TN.

565 M ii. John Frank HAMPTON was born about 1846 in Fayette Co., TN.

1880 United States Federal Census - District, 37 District 8, Dickton, Tennessee John Hampton, age 37, born in TN, farmer Mary, wife, age 33, born in TN Martha, daughter, age 11, born in TN Robert, son, age 10, born in TN Emma, daughter, age 8, born in TN William, son, age 6, born in TN Ellen, daughter, age 3, born in TN James, son, age 3/12 mo (born in Feb 1880), born in TN plus 2 servants

+ 566 F iii. Martha Eva HAMPTON was born 8 Apr 1847 and died 1882.

567 F iv. Bethenia Virginia HAMPTON was born about 1849 in Fayette Co., TN.

568 F v. Sallie HAMPTON was born about 1856 in Fayette Co., TN.

John also married (2) Katherine STEWART on 23 Aug 1869 in Fayette Co., TN.

379. James A. BOSTICK is printed as #316.

569 F i. Lizzie BOSTICK is printed as #476.

380. Mary Mitchell HAMPTON (MANOAH BOSTICK HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born about 1823 in North Carolina. She died 1 Feb 1899 in Lincoln County, MO..

Source: Handwritten genealogy notes by Sue Chilton McClure Aldridge, states they lived in Missouri, and had one son. Lincoln County, Missouri Deaths, 1866-1936 Mrs. Mary Houston died age abt 77 on 1 Feb 1899 Married: 19 Mar 1845 in Lawrence, Alabama Children John Franklin Houston b: 28 Dec 1845 Mary Mitchell Houston b: 1 Jan 1848 Augustus Young Houston b: 10 Dec 1849 Cynthia Elizabeth Houston b: 7 Jan 1854 Susan Matilda Houston b: 5 Aug 1856


Emma Amanda Houston b: 21 Jan 1859

Mary married Thomas Franklin HOUSTON, son of Capt. Placebo HOUSTON and Elizabeth Ragsdale YOUNG. Thomas was born 30 Jul 1818 in Hunting Creek, Iredell Co., NC.

Thomas F. Houston was the son of Placebo Houston (son of Christopher Houston)and Elizabeth R. Young. Notes of Virginia Sanders-Mylius: Thomas Houston was a witness at the marriage of Walter Flavis McClure (1856-1915) and Mary Elizabeth "Lilie" Hampton (1863-1925). Lilie (her nickname) was the daughter of Manoah Bostick Hampton II and Emma Jane Battle, a niece of Thomas Houston's wife, Mary Hampton. Lilie & Walter married August 11, 1885, in Houstonia, Missouri, even though they lived in south Tennessee or north Alabama during their lifetimes. They were my great-grandparents, and are buried here in Birmingham, AL. Per the brief accounts of the manuscripts of the Houston/Young family at the Univ. of North Carolina (see below), other family names of our ancestors were obviously friends or relations of the Houston's, including the Wright's, Dalton's, and Mitchell's. Nancy Young was one of our ancestresses. As were Cynthia Mitchell; and Daniel Wright. 1882 Pettis Co. History, pp. 786-788 "Man liveth not to himself alone." The truth of which text millions of human beings have testified in all ages of the christian world, and the truth of the assertion is forcibly portrayed in the example and life of Col. Thos. F. Houston. He is a man who has done more for the development of society in this locality, than any citizen in this part of the county. He is a native of Iredell County, N.C., is a son of Placebo Houston, and grandson of Christopher Houston, an eminent soldier and officer of the Revolutionary War, who settled in Rowan County, (now Iredell) before the commencement of that struggle for independence. His grandfather, Christopher Houston, improved a farm, and established a post-office at Houstonville, and was postmaster for many years, as was also Placebo Houston, the father of Thomas F., the subject of our sketch. Col. Thos. F. Houston was born July 30, 1818. His early youth was spent in acquiring an education, and assisting his father in the duties of the plantation. When about twenty years of age he began the study of law under the tuition of Gen. James Cook, of Mocksville, and afterwards with Hon. R.M. Pearson, late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, and was licensed to practice by the Supreme Court of the State in June, 1840. In 1845, he located in Leighton, Ala., where he was married that year to Miss Mary M. Hampton, a lady of culture and refinement. She is a native of North Carolina, but was raised in Alabama. In the autumn of 1848, he came west, locating where now stands the village of Bunceton, Cooper County, Mo. Here he continued farming until the spring of 1851, when he came to Pettis County, locating on his present farm. His original purchase was 920 acres, to which he subsequently added until he was in possession of a body of near 5,000 acres. Since his coming to this county Colonel H., has changed the appearance of this locality to a great extent, and in a few years the fruits of his industry were plainly visible. Broad fields of wheat and corn, to the extent of 3,000 acres, large herds of cattle, sheep and swine, could be seen where but a few years previous was barrenness and waste. His improvements were of a substantial as well as an extensive character. At the breaking out of the war, Col. Houston was a stong Union man, but on account of the policy adopted by the Federals, he became an earnest sympathizer with the Southern cause, and early in 1861, joined the Confederate corps under Capt. Robinson. Early in 1862, he was commissioned Lieut.- Colonel, to organize and drill a regiment, which he succeeded in doing, and was captured by the Federals when about ready to depart for the front. He was kept a prisoner, and was indicted by the United States Court, and kept under parole until 1865. When he returned home he again took up the peaceful pursuits of his business. That he has been identified with the development of the county, as well as the organization of society, are facts too widely known to admit of question. He was one of the founders of the Agricultural Society, and was chosen president and director, which offices he filled efficiently for many years. He, in fact, gave liberally of his time and means to its support. He organized and established the first school in this section, and has been an active worker for educational interests since. He was also one of the founders of the Houstonia Christian Church, and has been a liberal contributor since its organization. During the agitation of the railroad project the Colonel was elected a director of the Lexington & St. Louis R.R. Company. He was then elected vice-president, and later, president; which office he held until the road was transferred to the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, and it is to him that credit is due for the present location of the line, as it was decided by the board of directors to make Lamonte the junction with the other line, but the persistent and untiring efforts of the Colonel resulted in obtaining a reconsideration which resulted in favor of the present location of the road. This act alone should secure for him the lasting gratitude of the people of this locality. In the autumn of 1880, he was unanimously chosen by the Democratic Convention as a candidate for Representative to the Legislature, and was elected by a large majority, although he persistently refused the office. He has made an efficient and honorable Representative, and identified himself with measures which resulted to the advantage of his constituents. He has raised a family of five children: Frank, an attorney of Sedalia; Augustus Y., also a business man of Sedalia; Mary, wife of Jas. S. Napton; Elizabeth, who died


in 1875, wife of John Napton; and Emma who resides with her parents. 1919 HOUSTONIA Township by Mark McGruder This township derives its name from its principal town. Thomas F. Houston laid out the town of Houstonia, which was named in honor of its founder. Land in this township was sold by the Government from 12 ½ cents to $1.25 per acre. The Lexington branch of the Missouri Pacific Railway traverses this township from section 10 northwest to section 19. Thomas F. Houston was born July 30 1818 at Houstonville (named in honor of his grandfather), Iredell County, North Carolina; received a collegiate education under the instruction of Marshal Ney; adopted the profession of law; admitted to the bar June 1840; and located at Statesville in his native county. In 1845 he married Miss Mary M Hampton a relative of the Hampton families of Virginia and South Carolina. He emigrated from Alabama to near the present site of Bunceton, Cooper County MO in 1846 and devoted his whole energies to agricultural pursuits and stock raising. In 1851 he removed to the norther portion of Pettis County, near where he subsequently located the town of Houstonia, named in his honor. Houstonia Baptist is one of the old churches of the county, having been organized in 1866 under the name of Hickory Grove. Later the organization was called Wake Forest, and in 1887 the organization was moved to Houstonia, where the present church is located. The building is new, modern and up to date. Revs. G M Hyde, J M Plannett, Dr. H M Richardson, I B Dodson, W A Wilson, O Jeffries, E James, Dr. R K Maiden W J Lester and G C Davis have ministered to this church since 1882. Church membership is about 70 with Sunday school attendance of 50. 1850 CENSUS, Cooper County, Missouri Thomas F. HOUSTON, age 31, born in NC Mary M., age 27 John F., age 5, born in AL Mary E., age 3 Augustus, age 1 Luther, Martin, farmhand 1860 CENSUS, Blackwater Township, Pettis County, Missouri Thomas F. HOUSTON, age 41, farmer, born in NC, value of real estate $100,000/value of personal property $750,000 Mary Ann Houston, age 36, born in NC John T. (F?), age 14, born in Ala. Mary, age 12, born in Mo. Augustus, age 10, born in Mo. Cynthia, age 6, born in Mo. Emma, age 1, born in Mo. Plus 4 farm laborers: Melmoth Rhinehardt Thos. Turner Seander Stiles A.R. Shenault Daily Democrat (Sedalia, Missouri) July 17, 1872: "V. T. Chilton to Thomas F. Houston to e 1/2 of e 1/2 sec. 29, and all of sec. 28 except e 1/2 of said sec., tp48, Range 22, containing 720 acres, $500, warranty deed." (from abstracts filed in the County Recorders Office, week ending July 17, 1872. Sedalia Daily Democrat (Sedalia, Missouri)June 18, 1878, Thomas F. Houston was called to chair the Democratic County Convention in Sedalia, MO. July 24, 1872: "Thomas F. Houston et al to Joanna T. Walker, lots 7 &8, blk 13, Houstonia, $100. August 29, 1872: "Thomas F. Houston et al to A.H. Nicholas, lots 4, 5, & 6, blk 3, in Houstonia, $47, W.D." December 4, 1872: "Thomas F. Houston et al to P. Washington, lot 12 blk 13, and lot 1 blk 2, town of Houstona, W.D." July 23, 1873: "Thomas F. Houston et al to J.L. Wiilliams and Jas. Idol, lot 15 block 10, town of Houstona (sic)" September 1873, Thomas F. Houston, at the Central Missouri fair, poultry, sheep & swine awards, received certificates for ewes and bucks.


1880 CENSUS, Pettis County, Missouri Thomas F. HOUSTON, age 61, farmer, born in NC/NC/NC Mary M., age 57, born in NC/NC/NC Emma A., daughter, age 21. born in Mo. ------------------------------------------------------ Manuscripts Department Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION #3242 MARY HUNTER KENNEDY PAPERS Correspondence; legal and financial papers; genealogical material; student notebooks, account books, and other volumes; pictures; and other papers of members of the Houston, Young, Dalton and Kennedy families of Iredell County, N.C., and other locations in the South. Most of the papers are family letters exchanged among members of this large family, as they spread out from Iredell County seeking more profitable lands to the south and west. The letters provide vivid pictures of frontier life in Tennessee and Missouri, including reports of weather, health, crops, religion, education, slavery, and, especially, the daily lives and work of women. Biographical Note The story of the extensive family from whom these papers derive begins with Michael Cadet Young of Virginia (d. 1769). His son Thomas Young (1732-1829) of Brunswick County, Va., apparently migrated from Mecklenburg County, Va., to Hunting Creek, in what was then Rowan (now Iredell) County, N.C., about 1778-1780. His children, Elizabeth Ragsdale Young (1786-1837) and Samuel Young (1781-1847), married children of Christopher Houston (1744-1837) and Sarah Mitchell Houston of Houstonville, Iredell County. Christopher had come from Pennsylvania to North Carolina about 1765 and went on to Tennessee about 1814. Elizabeth R. Young married Christopher's son Placebo Houston (1779-1859) and Samuel Young married Placebo's sister Sarah Houston. Until the 1840s, the bulk of the papers consists of letters to these two couples, especially letters from Placebo and Sarah's father Christopher and their brother James in Tennessee, and letters to Thomas Young, especially from his relatives in Tennessee and South Carolina. From the mid 1830s, the correspondence is increasingly addressed to Placebo's daughter Mary Cecelia Houston Dalton (1814-1901) of Houstonville and Eagle Mills, also in Iredell County. Unlike her brothers and sisters, Mary Cecelia remained at home, and, throughout her long life, kept in close contact with her widely scattered relatives, especially with her brother THOMAS FRANKLIN HOUSTON in Pettis County, Mo., and her sisters, Louisa Houston Reinhardt in North Carolina and Lucy Melissa Houston Motz also in Pettis County, Mo. In 1845, Mary Cecelia married John Hunter Dalton, a manufacturer of plug and twist tobacco. Following Louisa Reindardt's death and her husband's remarriage, some of her older children lived with Mary Cecelia and with her brother Thomas. Many of the letters Mary Cecelia received from Confederate Army soldiers were from these nephews. Mary Cecelia appears to have acted as the hub of this far-flung family, the one who kept cousins many times removed up to date on family news. Probably it was from this role that her interest in genealogy grew, an interest inherited and carried on by her granddaughter, Mary Hunter Kennedy. Much of Mary Cecelia's correspondence after 1880 contains genealogical information as well as more general family news. The Daltons' daughter Bettie married Philip Butler Kennedy, her father's partner in the tobacco business. After her mother's death in 1901, the bulk of the letters are to her from her children, especially Frank H. Kennedy and Mary Hunter Kennedy. Much of Mary Hunter Kennedy's later correspondence concerns genealogy. I am not going to repeat the descriptions of all the folders. Go to http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/k/Kennedy,Mary_Hunter.html - to read the entire contents. Folders 7-8. 1824-1828. 28 items. More family letters from Maury County, Tenn., and Lawrence Lawrence County, Ala., to the Houstons and Youngs in Iredell County. Social invitations, business receipts.


Folder 9. 1829-1830. 22 items. More family letters from Tennessee and Alabama, giving news of Houston, London, Bills, Martin, Gill, Wright, and Mitchell families--health, crops, marriages, births, deaths, cholera, the times, religion, politics. Christopher Houston recommended specific reading and gave advice. Folder 13. 1837-1839. 16 items. Papers of Placebo Houston and correspondence of his daughters with their Houston and Young cousins. Letters from James Houston, Marshall County, Tenn., and others about the disputed manumission of the slaves from his father's estate. 17 October 1838, Andrew Mitchell, Hardeman County, Tenn., to his kinsman Placebo Houston, on current affairs, politics, family news. 1835-1860: Mary Cecilia Houston Dalton (MCD). Prior to MCD's marriage in 1844 there are numerous letters from cousins and friends about beaux, courtship, and marriages. Her most faithful correspondents were her sisters Lousia Reinhardt and Lucy Melissa Motz, her brother Thomas Franklin Houston, and Thomas's wife Mary Hampton. Those from the women provide a detailed picture of female life on the frontier with its loneliness and the unceasing round of spinning, sewing, preparing and putting food by, supervising slaves, and nursing both the white and black members of their households. Mary's and Lucy's letters on these subjects contrast with Thomas's, highlighting the disparities between men's and women's experiences. In the mid-1850s, there begin to be hints of the impending Civil War. Letters in this period are from Tuscumbia, Pleasant Valley, and Leighton, Ala.; Carroll, Coopers, and Pettis counties, Mo.; --------------- Sources: population schedule, District 122, (Pettis County, Missouri, United States: Thomas F. Houston household, 1880), micropublication T9, roll 708. (Reliability: 2), 02 JUL 2005 Houston family...Hampton relationship, Virginia S. Mylius, (15 APR 2006) (Reliability: 2), 15 APR 2006 Population schedule, District No. 23, (Cooper County, Missouri, United States: Thomas Franklin Houston household, 1850), micropublication M432, roll 397. (Reliability: 2), 15 APR 2006 Population schedule, Blackwater Township, Springgarden postoffice, (Pettis County, Missouri, United States: Thomas Franklin Houston household, 1860), micropublication M653, roll 638. (Reliability: 2), 15 APR 2006


+ 570 M i. John Franklin HOUSTON was born 28 Dec 1845.

+ 571 F ii. Mary Mitchell HOUSTON was born 1 Jan 1848 and died 4 Mar 1932.

572 M iii. Augustus Young HOUSTON was born 10 Dec 1849 in Missouri. He died 12 May 1926 in Missouri.

1880 United States Federal Census > Missouri > Pettis > Hughesville > District 122 Augustus Y. Houston, age 30, farmer, born in MO/NC/NC with one black laborer:

Augustus married Mary E. MCKEAN "Mamie" on 10 Oct 1883 in Sedalia, MO..

+ 573 F iv. Cynthia Elizabeth HOUSTON was born 7 Jan 1854 and died by 1903.

574 F v. Susan Matilda HOUSTON was born 5 Aug 1856 in Missouri.


575 F vi. Emma Amanda HOUSTON "Emmie" was born 21 Jan 1859 in Missouri. She died 15 Nov 1941 in Payette, Payette County, Idaho.

Emma married her sister Cynthia's widowed husband, John Napton. She also married - when about aged 60 - second to John's brother, Louis William Napton! Marriage 1 John Napton b: ABT 1843 in Saline County, Missouri, United States Married: 16 DEC 1903 in Payette, Payette County, Idaho, United States 3 Marriage 2 Louis William Napton b: 15 SEP 1857 in Saline County, Missouri, United States Married: 6 NOV 1919 in Payette, Payette County, Idaho, United States 4

Emmie married10 (1) John NAPTON, son of Judge William Barclay NAPTON -Sec of State, Missouri and Melinda WILLIAMS, on 16 Dec 1903 in Payette, Payette County, Idaho. John was born 8 Jun 1843 in Saline County, Missouri.

John's mother, who died in 1862, was Melinda Williams. Playwrite "Tennessee" Williams is a descendant of her family. One thing: Melinda's family were in Iredell County/Surry County, North Carolina, at one time. Melinda Williams Napton's father was Thomas Lanier Williams, twin brother of Lewis Williams, b. 1 Feb 1786. d. 3 Dec 1856. Buried at Nashville, TN. On 9 Aug 1811 he married Mary Lawson McClung, b. 28 May 1792, d. 16 Jun 1828, d/o Charles McClung and Margaret White McClung (d/o Gen. James White). He served in the State legislature and senate, as well as a Supreme court justice for the State of Tennessee. (see Melinda Williams) Source: Population schedule, Bully Precinct, (Malheur County, Idaho, United States: John Napton household, 1900), micropublication T623, roll 1349.

Emmie also married (2) Louis William NAPTON, son of Judge William Barclay NAPTON -Sec of State, Missouri and Melinda WILLIAMS, on 6 Nov 1919. Louis was born 15 Sep 1857 in Saline County, Missouri.

381. Dr. John Placibo HAMPTON (MANOAH BOSTICK HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 22 Jan 1825 in Lawrence County, AL. He died 8 Jun 1907 in Madison Co, AL.

Email communication with Clyde Wikle, descendant of John Placibo Hampton, who furnished the picture. Nov, 2003: Clyde currently lives in Auburn. Virginia: I'm descended from Manoah B. Hampton and Cynthia Mitchell through their son John Placibo Hampton. Manoah and Cynthia are my gggg-grandparents. In my notes, I have three other children by M.B. & C.M Susan E. Matilda B. Manoah Bostick (II) I gleened this information from census records. Something I'm interested in is the relationship between the spouses of J.P. and M.B.(II). John P. married three times - Amanda Sarah Evans, Susan Ann Burt & Mary Tommie Battle. I'm descended through Susan Burt. Do you know if/how Tommie and Emma Jane Battle are related? My parents still live on the farm in Madison County, AL where Dr. John P. and Tommie resided. I believe the farm originally belonged to Tommie before she married J.P. I don't have much detailed information about Manoah (I) or his other descendents but am willing to share what I do have. Clyde Dear Ginga:


Attached is a scanned picture of Dr. John P. Hampton standing in front of his Meridianville home. Seated on the horse is his grandson, also John Placibo Hampton - my great-grandfather. Then from left to right, front row: Harriet Cecil (Bayou) Hampton, Mary Rebecca (Maibec) Hampton; back row: Elise (DeeDee) Hampton, unknown, unknown, & Burtie Wyche Hampton. The children that I can identify are all Dr. John P.'s grandchildren through his son John Manoah. I can't identify the two young ladies in the middle. Guessing at the age of the children, the photo dates from 1894 or 1895. My dad looks exactly like Dr. John P. A few years back when my dad grew a beard, you would think that you were looking at Dr. John P. himself. I started researching my family tree for a school project when I was twelve years old (I'm 37 now). Much of my information comes from that time, when my great-grandmother Lottie Lee Cummins Hampton (Mrs. John P. Hampton) was still alive. Most of my detailed information about the Hamptons only goes back through Dr. John P. Back from there, most of my entries come from the readily available information that I have found on the Internet. Needless to say, in the the beginning I didn't do a very good job of documenting my sources but have worked hard to improve. I'm very interested in Manoah Bostick and his descendents. I have a lot of questions to ask but I won't bombard you all at once. I'll be happy to share what information I have. I'll send you some more picures and the Confederate Veteran article after Thanksgiving. Thanks for all the help. Hope you have a happy Thanksgiving. Clyde ----------------------------------------------- Email from Clyde Wikle: November, 2003 "Ginga, I can remember a Mrs. McCrary whom I used to attend church with. This was at Meridianville Cumberland Presbyterian Church during the 70's and 80's. The McCrary's were an old family from the area. Mrs. McCrary was a friend of my grandmother and great-grandmother. My grandmother (Margaret Kyle Hampton Wikle) was the last Hampton in my direct line. She died just last year and was an only child. She was 87 years old, only a couple of weeks short of 88. I have in my notes that Dr. John P. married Tommie Battle on Nov 3. 1868 in MS and that she died in May 1884. Dr. John P. died on June 8 1907. Dr. John P. was born in Lawrence County, AL on Jan 22, 1825. He lived around Monroe County, MS for quite a while before moving to Meridianville, AL in 1872. My dad happened upon the grave site of Tommie Battle 10 or 15 years ago somewhere in the New Market, AL area. I've asked my dad to take me there sometime so I can take some photographs but we never seem to find the time to go. I've lived in Auburn, AL for the last 17 years and the trips home are always too short. Regards, Clyde" -------------------------------------------------------- email found on web; unable to contact directly by email posted (tried Nov 2003) Tom LaMunyon Wed Sep 10 19:17:03 1997 I am looking for information of the descendants of Manoah Bostick HAMPTON who died in Lawrence County in 1858, and whose son, John Plassibo HAMPTON died in Madison County [CA. 1907] and whose decsendants resided in Madison County including the descendants of John M. and William Burt HAMPTON. I am a desc. of Manoah's brother James, through gr.grandson Franklin Wade HAMPTON who married and raised chilren in Madison County. [email protected] 917. Marie Rebecca "Mollie" OTEY was born about 1854/55 in Madison County, AL. She was married to John Manoah HAMPTON about 1881 in Madison County, AL. John Manoah HAMPTON was born about 1857. Marie Rebecca "Mollie" OTEY and John Manoah HAMPTON had the following children:


+1163 i. Burtie Wyche HAMPTON. --------------------------------------- LEE CO., MS BIRTH INFORMATION: RESIDENTS OF THIS COUNTY IN 1917-18 AND PERSONS WITH LINKS TO THIS COUNTY - Military Registration: Stephens, Manoah Hampton (Mawoah) 23 Apr 1880 (relationship unknown as of Nov 2003) -------------------------------------- SOURCE/DOCUMENT: Descendents of Dr. John P. Hampton, son of Manoah Bostick Hampton and Cynthia Mitchell Compiled 10 December 2003 by Clyde Wikle Notes: 2nd generation -------------- 1) No surviving children from Amanda Sarah Evans. Tradition has it that she died either during childbirth or shortly thereafter. The child did not survive either. 2) No children through Mary Thomas Battle either. May have died during childbirth as well 3) There may have been 2 children by Susan Ann Burt who did not survive. They are listed below but I haven't been able to confirm. (Carrie Hampton and Mitchell Hampton) 4) Plassie Houston Hampton moved to Lincoln County, TN but I know little else about his descendents 5) Source for William Burt Hampton's descendents is James E. Hampton (1929) 6) John Manoah Hampton's decendency chart is complete through the 4th generation in this list, beyond that it is not.

John married (1) Amanda Evans EVANS on 16 Nov 1848. Amanda was born 6 Sep 1831. She died 20 Dec 1851.


576 F i. Mary Cynthia HAMPTON was born about 1850. She died Jun 1852.

John also married (2) Susan Ann BURT on 6 Jun 1854. Susan was born 30 Jan 1836/1838. She died 8 Aug 1867.


+ 577 M ii. John Manoah HAMPTON was born 4 Aug 1857 and died 4 Nov 1913.

+ 578 M iii. William Burt HAMPTON was born 30 May 1859 and died 17 Jul 1915.

+ 579 M iv. Plassie Houston HAMPTON was born 1861.

580 F v. Carrie HAMPTON.

581 M vi. Mitchell HAMPTON.

John also married (3) Mary Thomas BATTLE "Tommie", daughter of JOSIAH DAVIS BATTLE "Joe" and Mary Elizabeth MCCRARY * "Eliza", on 1868. Tommie was born 21 Feb 1844. She died May 1884.

385. MANOAH BOSTICK (II) HAMPTON (C.S.A.) (MANOAH BOSTICK HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 16 Apr 1835 in Leighton, Colbert C., AL. He died 2 Mar 1915 in Leighton, AL and was buried in Hampton Family Cemetery, Leighton, AL.

Per Dr. Justin Glenn: Manoah Bostic[k] Hampton II [b. near Leighton in Colbert Co., Ala., April 16, 1835; attended U. of N.C.; joined the Confederate army in 1862 and was commissioned 1st lt., Co. H, 35th Ala. Inf. Subsequently he was commissioned capt. and raised a co. of cavalry, which became Co. B, 11th Ala. Cav., CSA. Though badly wounded at the battle of Corinth, he recovered and rejoined his regt., in which he served until the end of the war. He res. in Leighton, Ala., where he was active in Camp Fred A. Ashford, UCV, and where he d. March 2, 1915. He is not to be confused with the identically named Confederate soldier who served as pvt., Co. K., 1st (Turney’s) Tenn. Inf., CSA].


11th Ala Cav.-Co. B., CSA & Manoah B. HAMPTON (Virginia Sanders Mylius) Response by Mr. Alan Pitts: "There are a few details about this officer's career which should be corrected. First, Hampton was seriously wounded at Corinth MS, Oct. 3, 1862, as 1st Lt. of Co. "H", 35th Alabama Regiment. The company organized on Mar. 12, 1862, at Moulton, Ala., and mustered into Confederate service at LaGrange College, Apr. 12, 1862. Company commissions are dated Mar. 6, 1862. He did not return to this regiment, but appears to have resigned due to wounds. Julian's Alabama Cavalry Battalion Under command of Capt. W. R. Julian. Participate in pursuit of Streight's raid, Tuscumbia, Ala., to Rome, Ga., April 27 to May 3. Included Battle of Day's Gap, Sand Mt. and Black Warrior Cr., Ala., April 30 to May 1. Julian's Battalion, Alabama Cavalry: Vol. XXIII, Part 2--(961) In Roddey's brigade, General Wheeler's corps, August 10, 1863. No. 53--(501) Same. While recovering Hampton helped to recruit and organize a cavalry company in Lauderdale County. This company was accepted in Confederate service at Centre Star, Ala., Mar. 12, 1863. Members served with Julian’s Alabama Cavalry Battalion until June 1863. During that month Col. Jeffrey Forrest’s Cavalry Regiment organized in the Tennessee Valley, composed of the unorganized battalions of Maj. George L. Baxter and Capt. William R. Julian. Second, Hampton never served with the 11th Alabama Cavalry. He resigned his commission on Jan. 1, 1864, and was followed by Thomas E. Barner as captain. Hampton's former cavalry command became Company "D" of Williams’ Alabama Cavalry Battalion on Feb. 1, 1864. In September of 1864, cavalry battalions originally led by Majors Williams and Warren merged to form the 11th Alabama Cavalry. Capt. Barner continued in command of Co. "G", 11th Alabama Cavalry, until May 1865 when members were paroled at Pond Spring, Ala. Please reply if you are interested in copies of this officer's service records." http://www.tarleton.edu/~kjones/alcav.html#11th-Cav ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/military/11ala.txt 11th Alabama Cavalry - Note: Manoah never served with this regiment, although men from his cavalry company did: Also known as the 10th Alabama (Burtwell's) Cavalry Regiment. The nucleus of this regiment was a command that served for some time under Col. Jeffrey E. Forrest, Forrest's Cavalry Regiment, also called the 4th Cavalry Regiment. The command was increased to a regiment, and re-organized by transferring 4 Tennessee companies to the 18th Tennessee Cavalry and by sending 5 Alabama companies to Warren's and Moreland's cavalry battalions. The 11th Alabama Cavalry Regiment was organized by the consolidation of Warren's and William's cavalry battalions on 14 January 1865, comprising men from Franklin, Lauderdale, Limestone, and Morgan counties. It was with Forrest in the attack on Athens and Sulphur Trestle, and in the fight at Pulaski, losing very severely in casualties on the expedition. The regiment rendered effective service to Gen. John Bell Hood. It was part of Philip Dale Roddy's force at Montevallo, and was in front of Union Gen'l James Wilson's column to Selma; At the assault on the works there, the Eleventh was in the trenches, and nearly all its men retired therefrom, as the part of the line held by them was not assailed. The regiment laid down its arms at Decatur in May, 1865. Field and staff officers: Col. John Robertson Bedford Burtwell (Lauderdale); Lt. Col. John F. Doan (MS); Major Melville W. Sale; and Adjutant David H. Halsey (Franklin) Hampton, J. G. Co. D Private Hampton, M. B. Co. D Captain Hampton, W. M. Co. D Private ------------------------------------------------------- November, 2003 - The confusion of the two "Manoah B. Hampton's": Email from Ginga Mylius to Betty Bostwick: "I was at the library downtown today, and found where Manoah B. Hampton was listed in the "Alabama Census of


Confederate Soldiers 1907, Colbert County Alabama" In (on page 6 for Colbert County) this book states: #46 HAMPTON, Manoah Baslie, present address Leighton, AL., b. Apr 16, 1835 at Leighton, Lawrence Co., AL., first entered service as a Private on Apr 6, 1863 at LaGrange in the 35th AL. Inf., Co B and continued until Jan. 1864, when was commissioned to raise a Cav. Co. Re-enlisted as a Captain on Feb. 1, 1864 at Bainbridge, AL in the 11th AL Cav., Co. B and continued until Apr. 1865. Was paroled at Pondsprings, AL." THE ONLY THING WRONG WITH THIS IS THEY HAVE HIS MIDDLE NAME WRONG~!~! But it is definitely OUR Manoah. They have his birth date exactly right, and of course he was living in Leighton, where he died in 1915. I'll explain more..... I pulled the microfilm for the 11th Alabama Cavalry, and there he was~! M. B. Hampton was most definitely a Captain in the 11th Reg't Alabama Cav. There are several copies of Confederate Army documents whereby he signed a Requisition for Forage to obtain supplies for his men. They were in the Tuscumbia area at this time. Also in the same Regiment were W. M. HAMPTON (Private) and J. G. HAMPTON (Private). sI will go out on a limb, and assume there are relations of Manoah's. I'll find out the exact relationships, eventually. Second..... I then found information on the OTHER Manoah B. Hampton~! IN ARKANSAS~!!!!!! This Manoah B. Hampton was the son of James M. and Melissa (Owen) Hampton.... (NOT OURS, whose father was also Manoah~! and whose mother was Cynthia Mitchell) This Manoah, son of James, WAS a Private in Company K, Turney's Regiment, First Tennessee. --------------------------------------------------- 1870 United States Federal Census > Alabama > Lawrence > Township 4 Range 9 M.B. Hampton, age 35, farmer Emma J., age 30 Cynthia, age 9 Mary E., age 7 Thomas M., age 5 Emma B., age 1 Fleming Hampton, black male, age 14, domestic servant Brown Hampton, black male, age 12, domestic servant Manoah was educated at the University of North Carolina. Manoah and Emma Jane lived in Leighton, Alabama and were members of Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Betty has been to visit their graves (which are on their farm property) in Leighton. Manoah remarried after his wife wife, Emma Jane, died. He left everything to her upon his death. The rest of the family had moved prior to that. -----------------------------------------

MANOAH married (1) EMMA JANE * BATTLE, daughter of JOSIAH DAVIS BATTLE "Joe" and Mary Elizabeth MCCRARY * "Eliza", on 31 May 1860 in Meridianville, AL. EMMA was born 17 Aug 1840 in Meridianville, (Madison County), AL. She died 7 Jun 1882 in Lawrence County, AL and was buried in Hampton Family Cemetery, Leighton, AL.

1880 United States Federal Census about Emma J. Hampton


Name: Emma J. Hampton Home in 1880: Lawrence, Alabama Age: 40 Estimated birth year: abt 1840 Birthplace: Alabama Relation to head-of-household: Wife Spouse's name: Monoah Father's birthplace: NC Mother's birthplace: AL Neighbors: View others on page Occupation: Housekeeper Marital Status: Married Household Members: Name Age Monoah Hampton 45 Emma J. Hampton 40 Cintha M. Hampton 19 Liza B. Hampton 16 Thomas Hampton 15 Emma Hampton 10 Matilda Hampton 6 Monoah Hampton 2 Lige Hampton 20 Alford Hampton 20 Liza Mullens 35 Frank Mullens 7 Lilyain Mullens 4 George Mullens 3 George A. Hampton 30 Argustus Hampton 10 Ernest Hampton 4 Cally Hampton 2 Mrs. Betty Aldrige Bostwick obtained Affidavits regarding the inscriptions found on graves sites in Colbert County, Alabama: "Know all men by these presents: The undersigned, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith: that on to-wit: March 2, 1968, in the presence of each other they visited the Hampton Place in Colbert County, Alabama, (presently farmed by J. H. Johnson) situate north of Leighton, Alabama; and the undersigned while there did view, and Betty A Bostwick did abstract, the following information from tombstones in the cemetery there situate on said Hampton Place." EMMA JANE HAMPTON Daughter of JOSIAH and ELIZA BATTLE Born in Madison County, Ala Aug 17, 1840 Married M. B. Hampton, Jr. May 31st, 1860 Departed this life in Lawrence County, Ala. June 7, 1882


582 F i. Cynthia Mitchell HAMPTON was born 12 May 1861 in Huntsville, AL. She died 5 May 1937 in Pasadena/Los Angeles, CA.

Per Dr. Justin Glenn: Cynthia Hampton (b. in Huntsville, Ala., May 12, 1861; grad. Athenaeum [Columbia, Tenn.];


m. [Oct. 30, 1907] Arthur Wallace Sias [b. June 7, 1855; d. Aug. 2, 1928]; res. in Pasadena, Cal.; no issue). Here is the California death record for both of them. Sias Arthur W. August 2 1928 Age 73 yrs State # 40876 Los Angeles Sias Cynthia H. May 5 1937 age 76 State # 40876 Los Angeles

Cynthia married Arthur Wallace SIAS on 30 Oct 1907. Arthur was born 7 Jun 1855. He died 2 Aug 1928 in California.

Source: Handwritten genealogy notes by Sue Chilton McClure Aldridge States that Cynthia married Arthur Sias - English No children; moved to California Per Betty Bostwick: "Yes, Cynthia married Arthur Sias who was from England. No issue. She is the one who bought my statue Hebe in Italy and left it to Mother."

+ 583 F ii. * MARY ELIZABETH "Lilie" HAMPTON was born 6 Sep 1863 and died 23 Jun 1925.

584 M iii. Dr. Thomas McCrary HAMPTON was born 9 Jun 1865 in Leighton, AL.

Per Betty Bostwick: "Thomas Hampton married Ann Cameron. I have the name Browning marked through and Cameron written on it. I still may be able to find other letters in addition to the ones in a book I had put in a drawer!" "Battle Book," "Thomas McCrary Hampton, Helena, Mont.; dentist; born in Leighton, Alabama, June 9, 1865, married White Sulphur Springs, Mont. Oct. 7, 1895, Anne Mackintosh Cameron (born Burlington, VT, Feb 14, 1875; daughter of Hugh Cameron and Margaret Mackintosh Fowler). No children."

Thomas married11 Anne Mackintosh CAMERON on 7 Oct 1895 in White Sulphur Springs, Montana. Anne was born 14 Feb 1875.

+ 585 F iv. Emma Battle HAMPTON was born 14 Jul 1869.

+ 586 F v. Matilda Parberry HAMPTON was born 26 Jul 1873 and died 30 Jan 1953.

587 M vi. Manoah Bostick (III) HAMPTON was born 14 Aug 1877 in Alabama. He died 1 Dec 1957 in Los Angeles, CA.

SOURCE: Marriage date and name provided from Family Bible of Sue Chilton McClure. Notarized by Bob Bell, Birmingham, AL, August 26, 1943. Helena Independent: June 4, 1938 "Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Hampton are here from California visiting old friends. Mr. Hampton was former cashier of the First National bank in White Sulphur Springs. Mrs. James Wood came with them and she will remain here during the summer months." Name- Death Date Death Place Social Security Number Gender Birth Date Birthplace Mother's Maiden Name HAMPTON, MANOAH BOSTICK 1 Dec 1957 LOS ANGELES 566249314 MALE 14 Aug 1877 ALABAMA BATTLE

Manoah married Eva HARTFIELD on 16 Nov 1911 in Minnesota. Eva was born 23 Dec 1884 in Minnesota. She died 2 Jul 1974 in Los Angeles, CA.

Source: Hand written genealogy by Sue Chilton McClure Aldridge: States they had no children; lived in California. California Death Index: HAMPTON, EVA H FEMALE 12/23/1884 07/02/1974 MONTANA LOS


ANGELES 566249314

+ 588 M vii. Brock Chilton HAMPTON was born 15 Sep 1880.

MANOAH also married (2) Lida. Lida was born Nov 1875 in Illinois.

1900 CENSUS, Leighton, AL Manoah Hampton, age 60, AL/NC/NC, farmer Lida, age 24, wife, born Nov 1875 - IL/IL/IL Owen Smith, (white) servant, age 34 1910 CENSUS, Leighton, AL 173 Tuscumbia & Courtland Road Manoah Hampton, age 70 (71?), AL/AL/NC, farmer Lida, age 32, IL/Sweden/France Fayette Mullins (black) servant, age 30 Lida is not to be found in the 1920 Census, in Colbert County, AL.

389. Mary Jane BOSTICK (William Rand BOSTICK, Don Ferdinand BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS).

Mary married Edward VAUGHN.


589 M i. William VAUGHN was born 1859.

590 F ii. Mary Jane VAUGHN was born 1863.

591 F iii. Jettie Flora Ann VAUGHN was born 1867.

Marriage 1 William Edward VAUGHN Children Bert VAUGHN Edward VAUGHN b: 1887 Carrie Lee VAUGHN b: 1890 James Watkins VAUGHN b: 1891 Pearl Mae VAUGHN b: 1897 Marriage 2 Harrison B. BROWN b: WFT Est. 1850-1870

397. Robert F. BOSTICK (Absalom (son of Ferdinand & Eliz) BOSTICK, Don Ferdinand BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS).

Robert married Jane/Jennie DAVENPORT.


592 M i. Absalom (son of Rbt F.) BOSTICK was born (dates unknown).

398. Eliza HAMPTON is printed as #362.

593 M i. William Thornton PEARSON is printed as #533.

399. Anne A. HAMPTON is printed as #363.

594 F i. Martha HAMPTON is printed as #534.

402. Susan Rebecca HAMPTON is printed as #366.

595 F i. Mary J. BITTING is printed as #535.

596 M ii. Walter BITTING is printed as #536.

+ 597 M iii. Joseph H BITTING is printed as #537.

598 M iv. Samuel F. BITTING is printed as #538.


599 M v. Jettis W, BITTING is printed as #539.

600 M vi. Elisha BANNER is printed as #540.

601 M vii. James BANNER is printed as #541.

602 M viii. Henry BANNER is printed as #542.

603 F ix. Elizabeth BANNER is printed as #543.

604 x. Unknown BANNER is printed as #544.

403. Thornton Preston HAMPTON is printed as #367.

605 M i. John HAMPTON is printed as #545.

606 M ii. Columbus Samuel HAMPTON is printed as #546.

607 M iii. Walter Lee HAMPTON is printed as #547.

608 F iv. Elizabeth Evans HAMPTON is printed as #548.

+ 609 M v. William Preston HAMPTON is printed as #549.

405. Mary Jane HAMPTON is printed as #369.

610 M i. John Anthony BITTING is printed as #550.

611 M ii. Dr. Clay BITTING is printed as #551.

612 M iii. William BITTING is printed as #552.

613 F iv. Rachel BITTING is printed as #553.

407. William Anthony HAMPTON C.S.A. (died in battle) is printed as #371.

614 F i. Ann Elizabeth HAMPTON is printed as #554.

615 F ii. Molile HAMPTON (died a baby) is printed as #555.

+ 616 F iii. Susan Virginia HAMPTON is printed as #556.

408. Cynthia Elizabeth HAMPTON is printed as #372.

+ 617 M i. John Walter WOLFF is printed as #557.

+ 618 M ii. William Jacob WOLFF is printed as #558.

+ 619 F iii. Mary Gertrude WOLFF is printed as #559.

+ 620 M iv. Jasper Alexander Preston WOLFF is printed as #560.

621 M v. Ernest H. WOLFF is printed as #561.

622 F vi. Julia Estella WOLFF is printed as #562.

+ 623 M vii. Oscar Gwyn WOLFF is printed as #563.

416. David Nicholas DALTON (Absalom Bostick DALTON, Christina BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1826 in Rockingham Co., NC. He died 24 Jun 1895 in Dalton, North Carolina.

"Stokes County Heritage, North Carolina" by Stokes County Historical Society, Germanton, NC, 1981, Vol. I. "David Nicholas Dalton was born in 1826. He married Margaret Melissa Rives of Chatham County, North Carolina, in 1848; and they moved to the southwestern part of Stokes County near the Little Yadkin River shortly afterward. They had nine children. They settled at the town of Little Yadkin. The town of Little Yadkin at that time was a trading post located on Old Hollow Road halfway between Old Salem and Mt. Airy, North Carolina." David Nicholas Dalton built a home on a hill overlooking the Sauratown Mountain and Pilot Mountain. He built a tobacco factory and sold plug tobacco in South Carolina nd Georgia. He bought several large tracts of land along the Little Yadkin River, approximately 2000-3000 acres at least. His home at Dalton served as a stop for travelers


going by stagecoach from Old Salem to Bethania, to Mt. Airy. The name of the town was changed to Dalton Depot, and then to Dalton, when the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad was built from Greensboro to Mt. Airy in 1890. David Nicholas Dalton died on June 24, 1895, at the age of 69, and is buried at Dalton, North Carolina in a small cemetery near his home. William R. Phillips." "The son of Absalom Bostick Dalton and Nancy Poindexter, David Nickolas Dalton was born in 1826, Rockingham County, and died June 24, 1895. He first married Margaret Melissa Rives and their children were William Absalom Dalton, Frances Agnes Dalton, John Fox Dalton, Robert Edward Dalton who married Lillian Moir and Sallie Hauser Vestal,, Rufus Isaac Dalton who married Cora McCanless, Nancy Ellen Dalton who married Abraham Jones, David Nicholas Dalton who married Louise Bitting, Margaret Mellias Dalton, who married Matthew Dalton Phillips, Walter Ernest Dalton who married Della Hines, and Eleanor Thompson."

David married (1) Margaret Melissa RIVES, daughter of RIVES, on 1848 in Chatham Co., N.C.. Margaret was born 10 May 1830 in Chatham Co., NC. She died 17 Aug 1865 in Stokes Co., NC.

Died age 35.


+ 624 M i. Dr. David Nicholas (Jr.) DALTON.

625 M ii. William Absalom DALTON.

626 F iii. Frances Agnes DALTON.

627 M iv. Robert Edward DALTON.

628 F v. Nancy Ellen DALTON.

629 F vi. Margaret Mellias DALTON.

630 M vii. Walter Ernest DALTON.

631 M viii. Rufus Isaac DALTON was born 3 Nov 1855 in Stokes Co., NC.

David also married (2) Rebecca J. WESTMORELAND, daughter of Alexanders WESTMORELAND and Fanny MARSHALL. Rebecca was born 3 Dec 1841 in Stokes Co., NC. She died 26 Sep 1901 in Stokes Co., NC.

Died at age 59.


632 M ix. Thomas Alexander DALTON.

633 M x. Charles Franklin DALTON.

634 M xi. Marshall Oliver DALTON.

635 M xii. John Fox Poindexter DALTON.

636 M xiii. Oscar Davis (Sr) DALTON.

637 F xiv. Cora Alice DALTON.

638 M xv. Alfred Scales DALTON.

639 F xvi. Betha Elisia DALTON.

640 F xvii. Georgia Augusta DALTON.

419. Agnes John Peter WILSON (Ruth Stovall HAIRSTON, Alcey PERKINS, Peter PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1801. She died 1880.

Agnes married Samuel HAIRSTON, son of Col. George (son of Robert & Ruth Stovall) HAIRSTON and Elizabeth PERKINS. Samuel was born 1788 in Oak Hill Plantation, Pittsylvania County. He died 1875.

Samuel Hairston (1788-1875) was a brother of Robert Hairston and lived at Oak Hill Plantation in Pittsylvania County, Va. He married Agnes John Peter Wilson (1801-1880), the daughter of Peter Wilson and Ruth Stoval (Hairston) Wilson Hairston, and they had seven children. In 1854, several newspaper articles described Samuel


Hairston as the wealthiest man in Virginia and possibly in the country. His wealth was estimated at between three million and five million dollars, including ownership of around 1700 slaves on plantations in Henry and Patrick counties, Va., and Stokes County, N.C. There are also references in these articles to the comparative wealth of his relatives. -------------------------------------------------- Inventory of the Wilson and Hairston Family Papers, 1751-1928 Univ. of NC Collection Number 4134 The papers from 1833 to 1880 are principally those of Samuel Hairston (1788-1875), Robert Hairston (1783-1852), Ruth Stoval (Hairston) Wilson Hairston (1783-1869), and Peter Wilson Hairston (1819-1886). Most of the papers from 1833 to 1860 are business correspondence and financial papers. These papers include letters, bills, and receipts from numerous Danville, Lynchburg, Petersburg, and Richmond, Va., merchants about the sale of tobacco, cotton, wheat, and flour crops; merchandise the Hairstons ordered; and occasional political news. Much of the personal correspondence from 1833 to 1860 is that of Peter Wilson Hairston, with earlier correspondence pertaining to student life at the University of North Carolina and the University of Virginia and later correspondence concerning plantation management. From 1860 to 1865, there are few items, mostly letters from Peter Wilson Hairston to Samuel Hairston concerning the management of Cooleemee Plantation and scattered letters to Samuel Hairston from Confederate soldiers and officers concerning, respectively, gifts of money for their families and the purchasing of crops for the troops. From 1866 to 1880, there are primarily financial papers consisting of bills and receipts for general merchandise bought by Samuel Hairston and Ruth Stoval (Hairston) Wilson Hairston from Danville, Va., merchants and from Herbert Hairston, Peter Wilson Hairston's business partner in Baltimore, Md., and accounts of tenants at Royal Oak and Brierfield farms. Miscellaneous material includes minutes, 1833-1868, of the Mayo Baptist Association, the County Line Baptist Association, and the Staunton River Baptist Association.


+ 641 M i. Maj. Peter Wilson HAIRSTON C.S.A. is printed as #238.

642 M ii. George HAIRSTON is printed as #239.

643 M iii. Henry (never married) HAIRSTON is printed as #240.

644 M iv. Robert (never married) HAIRSTON is printed as #241.

645 F v. Ruth HAIRSTON is printed as #242.

+ 646 F vi. Alcey HAIRSTON is printed as #243.

428. Columbia (sister of J.E.B.) STUART (Elizabeth Letcher PANNILL, Bethenia LETCHER, Elizabeth PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 30 May 1830. She died 1857.

The Cooleemee Plantation House was built 1853-1855 by Peter and Columbia Stuart Hairston, a sister of Civil War General J.E.B. Stuart. The site is one of the 33 National Historic Landmark sites in North Carolina. An Anglo-Grecian villa in the shape of a Greek cross, the house contains approximately 300,000 bricks made on site. The house is still owned and occupied by the Hairston family. The name came from the Kulimi Indian tribe that surrendered to Jesse Pearson at Cooleemee, Alabama in 1814 at the end of the War of 1812.

Columbia married Maj. Peter Wilson HAIRSTON C.S.A., son of Samuel HAIRSTON and Agnes John Peter WILSON, on 1849. Peter was born 1819 in Pittsylania CO, VA (Cooleemee Hill in Davie County, NC.). He died 1886.

The eldest son of Samuel Hairston, Peter Wilson Hairston (1819-1886), grew up in Pittsylvania County, Va., but lived his adult life first in Davie County, N.C., and later in Baltimore, Md. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1837 and attended the University of Virginia law school from 1837 to 1839. After these years, he helped in the management of his father and Ruth Stoval (Hairston) Wilson Hairston's plantations in Virginia and North Carolina. In 1849, he married Columbia Stuart (1830-1857), sister of General J. E. B. Stuart, and settled at Cooleemee Plantation in Davie County, N.C., which his great-grandfather, Peter Hairston (1752-1832), had willed to him. By 1860, he expanded the acreage at Cooleemee to twice its original size and possibly owned approximately 300 slaves. After the death of Columbia Stuart in 1857, he married Fanny Caldwell, the daughter of Judge David F. Caldwell of Rowan County, N.C. During the Civil War, Peter W. Hairston served as a volunteer aide for General J. E. B. Stuart and General Jubal A. Early, and after the war, he moved to Baltimore, Md., to become a merchant. His overseers continues the management of Cooleemee Plantation until his death.


Biographical Notes Peter Wilson Hairston (1819-1886), tobacco planter of southwestern Virginia and north central North Carolina, Confederate soldier, and post Civil War commission merchant of Baltimore, grew up on Oak Hill Plantation in Pittsylvania County, Va. The son of Samuel Hairston (1788-1875) and Agnes John Peter Wilson (1801-1880), he received an A.B. in 1837 from the University of North Carolina before inheriting several plantations from his great-grandfather, Major Peter Hairston; his grandparents, Robert and Ruth Stovall Hairston; and other relatives. Hairston first married Columbia Stuart, who died circa 1858, leaving him two children, Elizabeth and Samuel. A year later he married Frances McCoy Caldwell (1835-1907) of Salisbury, N.C. Together they had five children: Samuel (1850-1867); Peter W. (1871-1943); Francis Caldwell (1862-1902); Agnes Wilson (1860-1914); and Ruth Wilson (1869-1947). In the early 1840s, Hairston lived in Pittsylvania County. By the late 1850s, he had taken up residence at Cooleemee Hill Plantation in Davie County, N.C. In addition to growing tobacco, he operated a mill on the Yadkin River. During the Civil War, he served as an aide to his former brother-in-law, Jeb Stuart, in the 1st Regiment of the Virginia Cavalry Volunteers, and to Jubal Anderson Early in the Army of Northern Virginia. After the war, he moved to Baltimore, where he started a commission merchant business, Herbert & Hairston. Peter Wilson Hairston (1819-1886) was the son of Samuel Hairston (1788-1875) and Agnes John Peter (1801-80) of Pittsylvania County, VA. He enrolled in the University in 1833, became a member of the Dialectic Society, and received his BA in 1837. Correspondence in the Wilson and Hairston Family Papers, SHC, indicates that after graduation he studied law at the University of Virginia, then returned to his family's plantation in 1839. He married Columbia Stuart (1830-57) in 1849 and settled on a plantation in Davie County, NC. After his first wife's death, he married Fanny Caldwell (1834-1907), with whom he had four children. During the Civil War Hairston was a major in the Confederate army, serving on the staff of Gen. Jubal A. Early. Peter Wilson Hairston's Civil War experiences, including his service, chiefly in Virginia, as aid to Jeb Stuart with the 1st Virginia Cavalry and to Jubal A. Early, are documented in his correspondence and his Civil War diary. There are also volumes documenting European travel in the 1840s and 1850s, life in Chapel Hill around the same period, documents relating to the work of freedmen and tenant farmers, clippings genealogical materials relating to Hairston family members, and other papers.


647 M i. Samuel (died at age 17) HAIRSTON is printed as #430.

648 F ii. Elizabeth HAIRSTON is printed as #431.

442. Richard James HARDIN (William Oliver HARDIN, George HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1842 in Lunchburg, VA.

Richard married Sally JOHNSON.


+ 649 M i. Rye HARDIN was born about 1860.

449. John Harding MCGAVOCK (Amanda P. HARDIN, John (son of Giles) HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1824. He died Apr 1861 in Nashville, Davidson County, TN.

John Harding MCGAVOCK was born 3 October 1824 (possibly 1823) in Cliff Lawn in Nashville, Tennessee. He married Georgia MOORE on December 1, 1853 in Presbyterian Church in Columbus, Mississippi. He died 12 April 1861 in Cliff Lawn in Nashville, Tennessee. Property: Had a manservant named Dan'l. Wedding Party: Randall & Sally McGavock, Ellen Mallone, India Sykes, 2 of the bride's brothers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Children of John Harding McGavock and Georgia Moore Susan John MCGAVOCK John MCGAVOCK


-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Database: Northeast Arkansas Biographies and Historical Memoirs Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas MISSISSIPPI COUNTY–LOCATION, BOUNDARY, TOPOGRAPHY, ETC.–THE EXPEDITION OF DE SOTO INTO MISSISSIPPI COUNTY–TOWNS–SETTLEMENTS BY LOCAL NAMES–SEORET SOCIETIES–MILITARY AFFAIRS OF THE COUNTY–THE UPRISING OF THE COLORED PEOPLE–OFFICERS OF THE COUNTY–PUBLIC BUILDINGS–POPULATION–LOCAL STATISTICS–COUNTY ORGANIZATION–LEVIES–SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES–SELECTED BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. John Harding McGavock (deceased). A glance at the genealogy of Mr. McGavock's family will show that both his paternal and maternal ancestors have been extensive real estate owners, and great men of prominence. The McGavocks are of Scotch-Irish descent, and came to America before the Revolutionary War, settling in Virginia. About 1796, one of them, David, having married a Miss McDowel, moved with his family to Davidson County, Tenn., and purchased a large tract of land, upon a part of which the city of Nashville now stands. One of his sons, Frank Preston McGavock, married a Miss Amanda Harding, a daughter of John Harding, and a sister of Gen. William G. Harding, the owner of “Belle Meade,” a noted stock farm near Nashville. This couple became the parents of John Harding, the subject of this sketch. He was reared in Nashville and educated in the State College in that city, receiving a diploma signed by Gen. Andrew Jackson and other notables of the State. After graduating in Nashville he went to Harvard, where he again received a diploma signed by Edward Everett, Greenleaf, Kent, and others. Upon his return to his home, his grandfather Harding, who some years before had come down the Cumberland, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in a skiff, and had made large purchases in Mississippi County, induced him to leave Nashville, and try the wilds of Arkansas. After this, although still claiming Nashville as his home, he spent a part of each year in Mississippi County, adding by purchase and entry to the already valuable tract given him by his grandfather, dividing his time between business and bear-hunting, in both of which he was eminently successful. In 1853 he married Miss Georgia Moore, a daughter of Joseph ****. Moore, of Columbus, Miss., she being a young lady of culture and refinement, and of one of the first families of the State. He died in 1861, just at the outbreak of the Civil War, at his father's house, near Nashville. Of the four children born to him, only one remains, Mrs. Sue McGavock Grider, wife of Henry Grider. After the death of J. H. McGavock, his widow married, in 1868, William A. Erwin, of Jackson, Miss., he belonging to a prominent family of that State, and who died in 1882, leaving one daughter, Georgia, now at school. Mrs. Erwin makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Grider, at the old homestead “Sans-Souci,” near Osceola, Ark. During the Civil War the house was used by Gen. Pope as a hospital, the yard as a cemetery; though, since, the bodies have been removed and placed in a National cemetery. The fleet when it first came down the river to attack Fort Pillow, which is a few miles below Sans-Souci, was anchored in the river opposite the house. This house, which was built by John H. McGavock, has a broad piazza, 12×74 feet in front, the pillars of which are of swamp cypress, in their natural state, except having the bark stripped off, and being painted. They are fluted in the most beautiful and artistic manner, having the appearance of the work of a skillful artist, and are the admiration of every beholder. Mrs. Grider preserves as an heirloom the cradle in which all of her mother's children and her own have been rocked. This is a turtle shell, measuring four feet two and one-half inches by three feet seven inches, polished and varnished on the outside, and mounted upon rockers of mahogany, and wadded and lined on the inside with quilted blue satin. The turtle was caught by Mr. McGavock, out of the Mississippi River at his own landing. Richard Edward Irwin Entries: 24106 Updated: Tue Feb 19 21:23:22 2002 Contact: wayne irwin <[email protected]> ID: I14565 Name: John Harding MCGAVOCK Sex: M Birth: 3 OCT 1823 in Davidson County, Tennessee Death: 12 APR 1861 in Arkansas Burial: APR 1861 Arkansas Marriage 1 Georgia A. MOORE b: 24 AUG 1833 in Oglethorpe, Georgia Children Susan John MCGAVOCK b: 23 MAY 1857 in Arkansas -------------------------------------------------------------------- "The History of Belle Meade" by Ridley Wills, II


page 41: "John Harding's relationship with his grandson, John McGavock, was extremely close. When McGavock married Georgia Moore of Columbus, Mississippi, on December 1, 1853, Harding gave him his ten-thousand acre Mississippi County, Arkansas, plantation as a wedding present. Although Sans Souci, the home John and George built there, burned in 1921, approximately a 1000 acres remain in the hands of descendants of John H. McGavock today." page 85: "At Belle Meade, General Harding learned of the South's attack on Fort Sumter the same day John H. McGavock died at Cliff Lawn, the home of his parents, Frank and Amanda Harding McGavock. Young McGavock died of lung complications developed from a deep chest cold caught while fighting a break in a levee at Sans Souci, his Arkansas plantation home, in the spring of 1859. The death of a favorite grandson and namesake must have especially saddened the 83 year old John Harding. He no doubt recalled happy days spent with John and his young family at Sans Souci."

John married Georgia A. MOORE on 1853. Georgia was born 1823.

Children Lida Carey McGavock b: 27 SEP 1854 John Harding McGavock b: 30 SEP 1855 Susan John McGavock b: 23 MAY 1857 Joseph M. McGavock b: 1859


650 F i. Sue MCGAVOCK.

Sue married Henry GRIDER.

450. David H. MCGAVOCK (Amanda P. HARDIN, John (son of Giles) HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1 Sep 1826. He died 20 Mar 1896.

"History of Belle Meade" by Ridley Wills: pg 65: "Then, in May, came a wedding......General Harding did not go to Memphis for the engagement party of David H. McGavock, Harding's nephew and Willie Elizabeth Harding, the general's first cousin. David had met and fallen in love with Willie soon after she graduated from the Nashville Female Academy. The young couple were temporarily separated when Willie returned to Memphis to live with her mother and step-father, Elizabeth and Frank A. Owen. Following their marriage on May 23, 1850, David and Willie set up housekeeping at "Two Rivers", the thousand-acre farm her father, William Harding, had owned prior to his death in 1832."

David married Willie Elizabeth HARDIN, daughter of William (son of Giles) HARDIN and Elizabeth Hoggart CLOPTON. Willie was born 25 Sep 1832 in "Spring Place" Davidson County, TN. She died 23 Dec 1895.

The daughter of Elizabeth Hoggatt Clopton and William Harding, Willie Elizabeth Harding was born September 25, 1832, in Davidson County Tennessee. She was a direct descendant of William Clopton, Gentleman and Ann (Booth) Dennett Clopton. On May 23, 1850, she married David H. McGavock, the son of Francis McGavock. Willie died December 23, 1895. They had two children, Frank Owens McGavock and Elizabeth Clopton McGavock. As a prominent citizen of the Nashville, Tennessee area, Willie was active in social affairs and was particularly interested in the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The Methodist Episcopal Church South was organized in 1845 when the slavery issue deeply divided the Methodist Church into two conferences, the Northern and Southern Conferences. She was considered a great philanthropist and was generous with her time, energy and money. Sarah E. H. Haskins' Women and Missions, documents one example of Willie's contributions to her church. It was through Mrs. Willie Elizabeth (Harding) McGavock that the CLOPTON SCHOOL in Shanghai, China, was established. A strong appeal was made by Mrs. J. W. Lambreth urging the women of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, at Nashville, Tennessee, to launch out upon their first foreign missionary undertaking. A contribution in money derived from the gift and sale of Mrs. David H. McGavock's (nee' Willie Elizabeth Harding) wedding diamonds, made possible a building for a school which carried with it the name "Clopton" in honor of her mother, Elizabeth Hoggatt Clopton. This school continued as the "Clopton Boarding School."


One of her Clopton cousins, The Reverend Samuel Cornelius Clopton, Sr., of Virginia, became the first missionary appointed by the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board in 1846, where he served in Canton, China. Her grandson, Spence McGavock, presented a large oil portrait of Willie to the woman's Missionary Council which was hung in their headquarters in Nashville. The painting shows Willie in her bridal gown and veil. Sources: http://www.cloptonfamily.org/d_hist/wilelizh.html An Article by Sarah E H. Haskins, "Women and Missions" Published in 1920 and The Ancestors and Descendants of William Clopton of York County, Virginia Compiled by Gene Carlton Clopton, Phoenix Printing, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Records of Davidson County Court - Minute Book B - Oct. 19, 1835 – Sept. 7, 1841 Page 130, Apr. 25, 1836, Jno H Clopton Guardian Ad litem – On motion of James P Grundy Esquire, the court appoint John H. Clopton, Sen. Guardian ad litem of William Elizabeth Harding a minor orphan. in order to attend to the interest of said minor in the divisions of a tract of land held jointly between said minor and William Giles Harding. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SEWING BEES AND DUELS AT DAWN - Regarding Anthony Clopton & His Wife - Rhonda Hoggatt of “Clover Bottom Farm” By Carlyn McCullar Bain, "Willie Elizabeth Harding, would marry and become the mistress of a sprawling plantation. Willie was born five months after the death of her father, William Harding, at "Spring Place," which was located about eight miles from Nashville at that time. This was also where her mother was born. When she was two years old her widowed mother, Elizabeth Clopton Harding, married the Rev. Francis Asbury Owen, a prominent minister in the Methodist Church. He was an affectionate step-father. Brought up in the church, Willie moved from place to place when Rev. Owen took his family with him to his new assignments. It was not long before other siblings began to arrive; Mary Ann Hoggatt Owen was born in 1835, James Hoggatt Owen in 1837, and Wilbur Fish Owen came along in 1839. Sadly, little Mary Ann died in 1838, and Wilbur Fisk was the victim of a fatal gunshot accident at the age of 13. Willie and her half-brother, James, maintained a close relationship into adulthood. Possibly the loss of their siblings drew them together. She attended the "Old Academy" at Nashville. Following graduation, at age 18, Willie met and wed her young cousin, David H. McGavock. Her wedding dressed caused quite a stir, and our faithful chronicler, Miss Thomas recalled: . . . [Willie Harding] was married while I was boarding there. She graduated at the academy here. While she was at school her cousin, David McGavock, fell in love with her. After she graduated she went to Memphis to stay with her mother, who had married Mr. Owen, and wrote and asked me to buy her trousseau, which was very beautiful. Her wedding dress was lace over beautiful glase silk, with two ruffles of lace one-half yard around the skirt, and a bertha and veil of the same kind of lace. She had her portrait painted in her wedding dress. The blushing bride became the mistress of “Two Rivers,” one of the finest plantations in Tennessee. For forty-five years they resided at their beautiful home, eight miles from Nashville, one of the choicest farms in middle Tennessee. Mrs. [Willie] McGavock was a remarkable woman of superior intellect, well educated, a devoted Christian and a laborious worker in her church. She was corresponding secretary of the “Woman’s Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church South” from its organization to the time of her death. Notwithstanding her delicate health she faithfully performed the arduous duties devolved upon her to the entire satisfaction of her associates in the work, and of the whole Methodist Church South. One of her Clopton cousins, The Reverend Samuel Cornelius Clopton, Sr., of Virginia, became the first missionary appointed by the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board in 1846, where he served at Canton, China. Her grandson, Spence McGavock, presented a large oil portrait of Willie to the woman’s Missionary Council which was hung in their headquarters at Nashville. The painting shows Willie in her bridal gown and veil. Willie opened her home to her mother and step-father when his health began to fail. They resided at “Two


Rivers” until their deaths, Francis in 1883, and Elizabeth, ten years later. They were buried at the Mount Olive cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee.


+ 651 M i. Frank Owen MCGAVOCK is printed as #463.

652 F ii. Elizabeth "Bessie" Clopton MCGAVOCK is printed as #464.

452. Amanda MCGAVOCK (Amanda P. HARDIN, John (son of Giles) HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1832. She died 1899.

Amanda married Archer CHEATHAM on 4 Sep 1851. Archer was born 11 Dec 1828. He died 1879.


653 M i. William Bolling CHEATHAM was born 26 Jun 1852.

William married Hattie ARMSTRONG on 19 Jul 1902.

+ 654 F ii. Amanda F. CHEATHAM was born 5 May 1855.

+ 655 F iii. Mary D. CHEATHAM was born 19 May 1861.

455. John (Jr./son of Wm Giles) HARDIN (William Giles HARDIN, John (son of Giles) HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born Jan 1831 in Davidson County, TN. He died 1914.

"The History of Belle Meade, Mansion, Plantation & Stud" by Ridley Wills, III Named for his Harding grandfather. pg 31: In 1855 "John Harding invited another grandson, John Harding, Jr., to assume responsibility for the twelve-hundred acre plantation on the Stones River, which John Harding Jr. named "Bellevue." Young Harding, who had just graduated from the University of North Carolina, accepted. That March, after he married Sophhia ("Sophie") Merritt, of Lawrenceville, Vireginia, they moved to McSpadden's Ben, where a daughter, Sophie, was born the follwoing year. On September 28, 1855, Sophie Merrit Harding died at her family home in Virginia, leaving the 24 year old widower to rear thelittle girl. John and his daughter remained at the Stones River plantation where he farmed and raised horses." John Harding Jr. attended Harvard College.

John married (1) Sophia MERRITT on 1853. Sophia died 25 Sep 1855 in Virginia.


+ 656 F i. Sophia HARDIN was born 1854 and died 1 Aug 1885.

John also married (2) Margaret Murphy OWEN on Dec 1856. Margaret was born 1834. She died 1885.

"History of Belle Meade" by Ridley Wills, II "....General and Mrs. Harding gave [a party] at Belle Meade in February 1857 for John Harding Jr., and John's second wife, Margaret "Mag" Murphy Owen. [Randal] McGavock described it as the largest party he ever attended in Tennessee. John and Mag, the widow of a brother of Frank Owen, had married the previous December. Since both had had previous marriages, their wedding was a quiet affair with only close family members present."


+ 657 F ii. Selene McNairy HARDIN was born 1857 and died 1912.

658 M iii. William Giles (III) (son of John Jr.) HARDIN was born 1860.

William married (1) Bessie CARUTHERS.

William also married (2) Sadie CROWELL.

+ 659 M iv. John (III) HARDIN.


459. Selene HARDIN "Lena" (William Giles HARDIN, John (son of Giles) HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 5 Apr 1846 in "Belle Meade" - Nashville, TN. She died 13 Dec 1892.

"History of Belle Meade" by Ridley Wills, II "On April 5 [1846], Elizabeth gave birth to a health baby girl, whom she and General Harding hamed Selene in memory of Hardings first wife, Selena. That was a generous concession on Elizabeth's part. Her decision to do so may have been influenced by the fact that she already had a namesake, Elizabeth Harding McGavock, the nearly 10-month old daughter of her brother, James Randal McGavock, and his wife, Louisa C. McGavock." In 1862, Selene and Mary "went into town every other day to take French and music lessions."

Lena married Brig. Gen. William Hicks JACKSON. William was born 7 Oct 1835 in Paris, TN. He died 30 Mar 1903 and was buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, TN.

Brigadier General William H. Jackson, one of the most prominent living [in 1899] soldiers of Tennessee, was born at Paris, Tenn., October 7, 1835. At twenty-one years he was graduated at the United States military academy (1856), and assigned as brevet second lieutenant to the mounted riflemen. In December of the same y ear he was commissioned second lieutenant while serving at the cavalry school for practice at Carlisle, Pa. he was on frontier duty at Fort Bliss, Tex., 1857, and in December of that year was engaged in a skirmish against the Kiowa Indians near Fort Craig, N.M. In 1859 he was engaged in the scouting in the Navajo country, and took part in the Comanche and Kiowa expedition of 1860. On May 16, 1861, in obedience to the command of his State, he resigned his commission in the United States army and entered the service of the Confederate States as captain of artillery. In the battle of Belmont, November 7, 1861, he acted as aide on the staff of General Pillow, and was seriously wounded while executing that officer's orders. His name is flatteringly mentioned in the reports of Generals Polk and Pillow and of Col. S. F. Marks, who, at the request of Colonel Barrow, tendered the thanks of the Eleventh Louisiana regiment to Capt. Wm. H. Jackson for valuable and gallant service rendered them. This gallant young officer was in the field again early in 1862 as colonel of the First Tennessee cavalry, winning compliments from his superior officers in every affair in which he was engaged. His name is mentioned in all the reports, and by his merit as chief of cavalry in Pemberton's department he richly earned the commission of brigadier- general, which was bestowed upon him December 29, 1862. He had acted as chief of cavalry for Van Dorn and Price in the campaign which culminated in the battle of Corinth. On the retreat from that disastrous field he had well protected the rear of the Confederate army. He increased his already high reputation throughout the Vicksburg campaign, and after its disastrous close he was indefatigable in his labors and rendered invaluable assistance to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. In the Meridian campaign of February, 1864, Jackson commanded the cavalry of Polk's army, hanging upon the flanks of the enemy and compelling his foragers to keep close to the main line. During the Atlanta campaign, Jackson commanded the cavalry corps of the army of the Mississippi, which participated in all the arduous labors and many brilliant successes of the cavalry arm of the Confederate service. When, after the brilliant cavalry victory at Newnan, Wheeler moved into the rear of Sherman's army, Jackson's cavalry shared in the movements that defeated Kilpatrick's raid against the Macon road. He led his division of cavalry through the Nashville and Murfreesboro campaign, and then retiring to Mississippi, was there, in February, 1865, assigned to command of all Tennessee cavalry in Forrest's department, with other brigades, to form Jackson's division, one of the two provided for in Forrest's reorganization. His last military service was the cutting off of Croxton's brigade from the main body of Wilson's expedition, April, 1865. At the close of the war General Jackson engaged in stock raising, and was proprietor of the celebrated Belle Meade stock farm near Nashville, Tenn. Source: Evans, Clement, ed. Confederate Military History, Vol. XII, Confederate Publishing Company, Atlanta, GA, 1899 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tennessee State Library and Archives, History and Genealogy Manuscripts > Guide to Manuscripts Materials at TSLA > Microfilm Part 09 (MF. 800 - MF. 899) Mf. 842 -- William Hicks Jackson Papers, 1766-1978. 4 vols. 300 items. TSLA. 1 reel. 35 mm. Papers of William Hicks Jackson (1835-1903), Confederate general and horse breeder of Belle Meade Plantation near Nashville; his son William Harding Jackson (1874-1903), also of Belle Meade; and his grandson, William Harding Jackson (1901-1971), a New York lawyer. The papers are concentrated in the years of the Civil War and


are composed of accounts; an almanac; clippings and correspondence; court and other legal documents; farm and land records; genealogical data; medical and military records; notes, pictures, poems, and programs; sketches and speeches; and a few miscellaneous items. Most of the collection is correspondence and is addressed primarily to William Hicks Jackson. Unique items in the collection include account books for the thoroughbred horses at Belle Meade Plantation 1901-04; an almanac of Virginia, 1785; genealogical data on members of the Ball, Giles, Harding, Jackson, McGavock, and Rodgers families of England, Ireland, Delaware, Tennessee and Virginia; and pictures of the Belle Meade Plantation and members of the Harding and Jackson families. Register available, including a name index to the correspondence indicating date and information on content. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "History of Belle Meade" by Ridley Wills, II "Young Billy Jackson" had been stationed in New Mexico at the outbreak of the Civil War. He returned to Nashville when Gov. Harris appointed "Jackson a captain in the Artillery Corp of Tennessee." After discussing the war with Gen. Harding and the Board, he reported to Maj Gen. Gideon Pillow. With the passing of William Hicks Jackson in 1903, Belle Meade Plantation’s end grew near.


660 F i. Mary Hicks (died an infant) JACKSON was born 4 Oct 1869. She died 11 Oct 1869.

+ 661 F ii. Eunice JACKSON was born 8 Feb 1871 and died 25 Mar 1901.

662 iii. (unnamed infant) JACKSON.

+ 663 M iv. William Harding JACKSON was born 13 Jul 1874 and died Jul 1903.

664 F v. Selene Harding JACKSON was born 20 Aug 1876. She died 1913.

460. Mary Elizabeth HARDIN of "West Meade" Nashville (William Giles HARDIN, John (son of Giles) HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 5 Feb 1850 in "Belle Meade" - Nashville, TN. She died 1913.

"History of Belle Meade" by Ridley Wills, II page 65: "The Spring of 1850 was an exciting time for the Harding household for a variety of reasons. First, Elizabeth McGavock Harding had given birth to a baby girl named Mary Elizabeth on February 5. By the early spring it was clear that, unlike Elizabeth's two preceding babies, Mary was healthy and would live." NASHVILLE SCENE: JUNE 23 - 29, 2005 -- ARCHITECTURE Hidden Treasures "Most Nashvillians have heard of West Meade, but few of us had actually seen it until the Junior League featured the home as this year's Decorators' Show House. West Meade has always been a private residence, set back from the road in a grove of trees tha t assures its detachment. Originally part of Belle Meade plantation, the property for West Meade was willed by William Giles Harding to his daughter Mary Elizabeth. She and her husband, Judge Howell Jackson, built their new home at what is now the inters ection of Old Harding Pike and Highway 70 West. Unlike their siblings across the road at Belle Meade, the Jacksons of West Meade chose not to dwell behind the classically inspired white columns we associate with Old Southern Living. Instead, the Howell Jacksons went with the modish Second Empire of Na poleon III for their plantation house. This French style was popular in American urban housing between the 1860s and the 1880s, in part because its steep mansard roof provided an additional floor. In adapting an urban architecture to a rural setting, the Jacksons retained the style's irregular massing and highly textured surface treatment. The walls of brick, which were hand-pressed on site, are encrusted with a series of porches featuring lathe-t urned posts, ornate balusters, and eave moldings. The slate mansard roof is laid in a two-toned fish-scale pattern and crested with a filigree of iron. Vegetative scrolls are incised in the window lintels. Floral and sunburst pediments surmount the doors , and fleur-de-lys finials crown a multitude of gables. A wealth of decorative motifs abstracted from nature creates the general impression that West Meade is growing, or that


something is growing on it." To citizens of the late 20th century, a house like West Meade has the charm of an eccentric aunt, a formidable matron wearing a little too much rouge. We often fail to understand the highly serious purpose behind the architecture's apparent whimsy. Face to face with the Industrial Revolution, the citizens of the Victorian Age mass-produced architectural details abstracted from a nature they dominated with increasing confidence. When the Jacksons set up housekeeping in the soon-to-be-suburbs, they preferred the irregular profiles and elaborate textures, taken from mountains and forests, to the smooth and rational geometry of the machine."

Mary married Howell E. JACKSON. Howell died 8 Aug 1895 in "West Meade" Nashville, Davidson County, TN.

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume VI (J) page 20 JACKSON, Howell Edmunds, jurist, was born at Paris, Tenn., April 8, 1832; son of Dr. Alexander and Mary W. (Hurt) Jackson. He was graduated from the West Tennessee college in 1849; from the University of Virginia in 1854, and from the law department of Cumberland university, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1856. He practised law in Jackson, 1856-58, and removed in 1859 to Memphis, Tenn., where he formed a partnership with the Hon. D. M. Currin. At the outbreak of the civil war he was appointed receiver for West Tennessee of property sequestrated under the Confederate confiscation act, and held the office until the close of the war. When West Tennessee fell into the hands of the Federal forces, he was prevented from joining the army by the necessity of caring for the funds in his custody, no other person being authorized to receive them. After the close of the war he returned to Memphis and resumed the practice of law in partnership with B. M. Estes. In 1874 he removed to Jackson, where he formed a law partnership with Gen. Alexander W. Campbell. In 1875, and again in 1877, by appointment of the governor, he served on the court of arbitration for West Tennessee, a provisional adjunct to the supreme court, to dispose of cases accumulated during the war. He was also several times appointed to serve as special judge of the supreme court. He was elected a representative to the state legislature on the state credit platform in 1880, and after a prolonged contest was elected to the U.S. senate in January, 1881. He served until April 15, 1886, when, on the death of Judge John Baxter, of the U.S. circuit court for the sixth circuit, he was appointed by President [p.20] Cleveland, over his protest, to fill the vacancy. His circuit was of great importance, embracing the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan. He decided many important cases, involving grave questions of constitutional, maritime, commercial and interstate law. Among his notable opinions were those construing the interstate commerce and the anti-trust acts, both his decisions being affirmed by the U.S. supreme court, which accepted his views in their entirety. On Feb. 4, 1893, President Harrison appointed him associate justice of the U.S. supreme court to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice L. Q. C. Lamar. In the short time that he was on the supreme bench he delivered an unusually large number of important opinions. At the time of the first bearing on the constitutionality of the income tax law, April 8, 1895, Justice Jackson was unable to be present because of ill health, and a tie resulted, but on the second hearing on May 6, 1895, he was present and voted in favor of the tax. In the meantime Justice Shiras had reversed his former position and the statute was annulled. Justice Jackson was twice married: first, in 1859, to Sophia Malloy, of Memphis, Tenn., who died in 1873, and secondly, in 1876, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Gen. William G. Harding, of Belle Meade. He died at his home, West Meade, Tenn., Aug. 8, 1895. Harding - Jackson Papers, Addition, 1874-1891. .42 linear feet. THS. This 1986 addition of the Harding-Jackson Papers consists of correspondence of Howell Edmunds Jackson (1832-1895) and his wife, Mary (Harding) Jackson (1850-1913) of Jackson and Nashville, Tennessee. The bulk of this correspondence regards their family.


+ 665 F i. Elizabeth JACKSON was born 14 Aug 1876 and died 15 Feb 1947.

+ 666 F ii. Louise JACKSON was born 1875 and died 1955.

463. Frank Owen MCGAVOCK (Willie Elizabeth HARDIN, William (son of Giles) HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 25 Sep 1851. He died 1920.

Frank married Lula SPENCE on 1875. Lula was born 1853. She died 1882.


667 M i. Spence MCGAVOCK was born 1876. He died 1936.

Spence married Mary Louise BRANSFORD. Mary was born 1878. She died 1965.


668 M ii. Willie MCGAVOCK was born 1880. He died 1881.

467. Eleanor Amy HARDIN "Ellen Amy" (Giles Scales HARDIN, Giles (Jr.) HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born about 1848.

Ellen Amy married A.G. HILL on 9 Nov 1871 in Rutherford County, TN.


669 F i. Willie May HILL.

Willie May Hill + Thomas Blackman Snell 2 Ellen Snell + Woodrow Wilson Coleman

Eighth Generation 475. Lizzie (Elizabeth?) BOSTICK (James Alfred BOSTICK, Hampton BOSTICK, John BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS,

Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1849 in Davidson County, TN.

Lizzie married George W. BUCK on 26 Nov 1844 in Nashville, Davidson Co., Tennessee.


670 F i. Lena W. BUCK was born 1867 in Nashville, Davidson Co., Tennessee.

492. Mary BOSTICK (Joseph "Joe" BOSTICK, Hardin Perkins BOSTICK, John BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) died 4 Jan 1949 in Birmingham, AL.

"On December 9, 1885, Dr. and Mrs. Bostick's second oldest daughter, Mary Hunt, married. Her husband was Eugene Henry Lowman. He and his brothers owned the Lowman Stove Works in neighboring Bridgeport. Initially, Eugene and Mary lived in South Pittsburg, where their two oldest daughters, Mary Louise and Kate, were born in 1886 and 1888. Later, they moved to Bridgeport, where Annie was born in 1894. Soon after Eugene Lowman died, five months before Annie's birth, Mary returned to South Pittsburg, to open a boarding house, the Lowman Inn. She owned this establishment for 16 years."

Mary married Eugene Henry LOWMAN. Eugene died 1894 in Bridgeport, AL.


671 F i. Annie Litton LOWMAN.

672 F ii. Mary Louise LOWMAN.

673 F iii. Kate LOWMAN.

496. Catherine "Kate" BOSTICK (Thomas Hardin BOSTICK, Hardin Perkins BOSTICK, John BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS).

Catherine married Edward R. PENNYBAKER.


674 M i. Frank PENNYBAKER.

675 M ii. Edwina PENNYBAKER.

497. Hardin Bostick EARLY (Eliza Jane BOSTICK, Hardin Perkins BOSTICK, John BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) died 1902.

Hardin married Hattie.


676 M i. Hardin EARLY.

498. John EARLY (Eliza Jane BOSTICK, Hardin Perkins BOSTICK, John BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia


HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS).

John married Willie FALL.


677 F i. Margaret EARLY was born 1903.

678 M ii. John (Jr.) EARLY was born 1905.

679 F iii. Katherine "Kay" Wyche EARLY was born 1909.

680 M iv. Joseph Horton Fall EARLY was born 1913.

681 F v. Elizabeth "Lib" Drennon EARLY was born 1916.

500. Margaret EARLY (Eliza Jane BOSTICK, Hardin Perkins BOSTICK, John BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS).

Margaret married Granberry JACKSON.


682 M i. John Early JACKSON was born 1902.

683 M ii. Granberry (Jr.) JACKSON was born 1906.

Granberry married Henriette WEAVER on 1937.

504. Prof. James A. (II) BOSTICK (James Coleman BOSTICK, James Alfred BOSTICK, John BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1860. He died 14 May 1931 in Williamson County, TN.

Re: James A. Bostick (2), son of James C. Bostick: James A. Bostick (II) – Prof. Born: 1860 in Williamson Co., TN Death: 14-May-1931 Father: James Coleman Bostick Marriage: in 1883 to Jenny Gray Century Review of Maury Co, TN, 1807-1907. p. 84. Prof. J.A. Bostick elected principal of Howard Institute in Mt. Pleasant. Pro. J. A. Bostick, born in Williamson Co. in 1860, educated at Union University, of Murfreesboro, has served a principal at College Grove and Howard Institute over 20 years. He married Miss Jenny Gray, of Franklin, in 1883, who has been teaching with him most of the time since. Notes for J.A. Bostick II: from “Century Review of Maury County, Tennessee,” reprinted by the Maury County Historical Society. J. A. Bostick (p. 84, “Howard Institute”) “The progressive citizens of Mt. Pleasant in 1891, realizing the need of a high-grade preparatory school, combined in the effort which culminated in the organization of the above institute, named in honor of its most generous promoter, Bithal Howard. Prof. J. A. Bostick was elected principal, and has ever since continued in charge.” “Prof. J. A. Bostick , born in Williamson Co. in 1860, educated at Union University, of Murfreesboro, has served as principal at College Grove and Howard Institute over 20 years. He married Miss Jennie Gray, of Franklin, in 1883, who has been teaching with him ever since.” (p. 211, Mt. Pleasant Directory for 1906): Lists the following Bosticks, all residing at N. Main: “JC, 70, retired, m”; JA, 45, principal, m”; “MC, 44, grocer”; “Jessie, 21, teacher.”


Hawkins, Maury Co. Tn Cemetries, p. 710: Bostick, James A., Sr. (Prof.), 1860-14-May-1931. Williamson co, Son Jas. C & Fannie Aliston (sic) Bostick; Principal, Howard Inst. Also buried in this plot: Bostick, Jas. A., Jr., 1893-1972. Bostick, Irene Irwin, 1874-1940 (2nd wife James A. Bostick). Maury Democrat, issue of 21 may 1931: Bostick, Prof. James A., age 71 (DOB abt 1860); d. Friday at Mt. Pleasant; head Howard institute; m(1) Jennie Gray; m(2) Irene Irwin. LAWRENCE CEMETERY-MT PLEASANT, MAURY COUNTY, TENNESSEE BOSTICK, James A., St. (Professor), 1860 - (14 May ) 1931. Native of Williamson Co.; Son of James C. & Fannie Aliston Bostick; Principal Howard Institute.) BOSTICK, Jennie Gray 1863 - 1910. (1st wife, James A.) BOSTICK, Irene Irwin, 1874 - (18 Apr ) 1940. (Dau. S.W. & Mattie R. Irwin; 2nd wife, James A. Bostick.) BOSTICK, Merry C., 1862 - 1956. BOSTICK, Nannie Gray, 1871 - 1937. BOSTICK, James A., Jr., 1893 - 1972. BOSTICK, Lila C., 9 Nov 1903 - 15 Aug 1974.

James married (1) Jennie GRAY. Jennie was born 1863. She died 1910 and was buried in Lawrence Cemetery, Maury Co., TN.

James also married (2) Irene IRWIN. Irene was born 1874. She died 18 Apr 1940 and was buried in Lawrence County, Mtn. Pleasant, Maury Co., TN.


684 M i. James A. (Jr.) BOSTICK was born 1893. He died 1972.

529. Hardin B. HAMPTON (Samuel Ferdinand HAMPTON, Samuel (Jr.) HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 17 Apr 1865 in Mississippi. He died 8 Oct 1935 in Piedmont, OK.

The children of Hardin Hampton are from a letter posted on line, written by Mrs. Leb A. Hampton, R#1, Sheldon, MO.; post marked 19 Mar 1962. The letter was posted on line by Cherie Cash.

Hardin married Minnie A. BOBBITT. Minnie was born 2 Apr 1874 in AK. She died 3 Dec 1935 in Piedmont, OK.

5 sons and 1 daughter


685 M i. Leb A. HAMPTON was born 15 Nov 1895.

Leb married12 Ona Irene STEPHENS on 25 Apr 1920.

Excerpt from letter of Ona S. Hampton: LEB A. HAMPTON b. 15 Nov 1895 in Clay Co.,TX married ONA IRENE STEPHENS on 25 Apr 1920 Issues are 1 son and 4 daughters HARLIN RUSSEL b. 15 June 1921 IVA JEAN b. 2 Nov 1922 LOU ANGELIN b. 5 Aug 1925 WANDA IRENE b. 13 Sep 1927 ROBERTA ELIZABETH b. 11 Aug 1929 "These last ones are our children as you see my husband is LEB A. We had a letter from a lady in FL. who was seeking information from her descendents who were related to WADE HAMPTON. Her line followed THOMAS and WADE HAMPTON was from ANTHONY'S line. THOMAS HAMPTON born 1726 died 1796 married SARA CONYER PATTERSON in 1748. Her great grandfather was named


JOHN her grandfather was ABDY PARK HAMPTON born 1836 in Jackson Co., GA. Her father was JOEL LOCKHART HAMPTON born in 1865 in FL. WADE HAMPTON (she said) was from ANTHONY'S line. Well if you could give any information we don't already have would greatly appreciate it. We can trace our ancestors back to SAMUEL I but since you are WADE HAMPTON perhaps you have more information on her THOMAS line. Perhaps you might enjoy this information about the HAMPTONS anyway. Sincerely, Mrs. Leb A. Hampton R#1,Sheldon,MO."

686 M ii. Tex A. HAMPTON was born 21 Jan 1897.

687 M iii. Pen B. HAMPTON was born 10 Sep 1903.

688 M iv. Cle B. HAMPTON was born 4 Mar 1905.

689 M v. Dot E. HAMPTON was born 27 Jun 1908.

690 F vi. Zera Effie HAMPTON was born 15 Sep 1901.

537. Joseph H BITTING (Susan Rebecca HAMPTON, John B. HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1846.

Joseph married Virginia Elizabeth HOLLINGSWORTH.


691 F i. Mary BITTING.

692 F ii. Virginia BITTING.

693 M iii. Walter BITTING.

694 M iv. Hollingsworth BITTING.

549. William Preston HAMPTON (Thornton Preston HAMPTON, John B. HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 29 Sep 1858 in Forsyth Co., NC. He died 25 May 1928 in Winston-Salem, Forsyth Co., NC.

He had the following children:

695 F i. Estelle Olive HAMPTON was born 25 Sep 1899 in Forsyth Co., NC. She died 21 Oct 1937 in Raleigh, Wake County, NC.

556. Susan Virginia HAMPTON (William Anthony HAMPTON, John B. HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 12 Jun 1861 in Stokes Co., NC. She died 1 Dec 1920 in Stokes Co., NC.

Susan married Theodore Edward DAVIS on 1882 in Stokes Co., NC.


696 M i. Wade H. DAVIS was born Feb 1884 in Stokes Co., NC.

Event: 1910 Census Stokes County, North Carolina Event: 1910 Occupation Farmer Event: 1920 Census Stokes County, North Carolina Event: 1920 Occupation Automobile Mechanic Event: 1930 Census Stokes County, North Carolina Event: 1930 Occupation Machinist at Steel Mill Marriage 1 Margaret "Maggie" (w\o Wade H. Davis) b: 1888 in North Carolina Married: 1905 in Stokes County, North Carolina Children Lindsay Edward Davis b: 15 DEC 1905 in Stokes County, North Carolina Nannie Mildred Davis b: 1909 in North Carolina Living Davis

697 F ii. Clara E. DAVIS was born Jul 1886 in Stokes Co., NC.

557. John Walter WOLFF (Cynthia Elizabeth HAMPTON, John B. HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia


PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 6 Jul 1861 in Rural Hall, NC. He died 10 Jun 1930 in Asheboro, NC.

John married Ada Lavalette GADBERRY.


698 F i. Ava Chula WOLFF.

Ava married CARR.

699 F ii. Bonita WOLFF.

700 M iii. Denis Roscoe WOLFF was born 5 Aug 1896 in Rural Hall, Forsyth Co., NC.

558. William Jacob WOLFF (Cynthia Elizabeth HAMPTON, John B. HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 15 Feb 1865. He died 17 Apr 1922.

William married Mabel Adams BROWN. Mabel was born 10 Nov 1871. She died 26 May 1947 in Charleston, SC.


701 M i. William LaFayette (Sr.) WOLFF was born 22 Sep 1891 in Forsyth Co., NC. He died 11 Oct 1954 in Charleston, S.C..

William married (1) Beulah BLACKWELL.

William also married (2) Mabel MESHAW.

702 F ii. Mabel Atha WOLFF was born 6 Sep 1892. She died 23 Sep 1986.

Mabel married Claude Rufus PFAFF. Claude was born 16 Sep 1892. He died 13 Nov 1983 in NC.

703 M iii. James Adam WOLFF was born 6 Nov 1894. He died 1897.

704 M iv. Alcuin Duclos WOLFF was born 6 Jan 1897. He died 15 Aug 1973.

Alcuin married Eula Isabella STRUPE. Eula was born 2 Nov 1900. She died 4 Mar 1988 in Bethania, NC.

705 F v. Gertrude Creth WOLFF was born 6 Jan 1900. She died 31 Jul 1957 in Forsyth Co., NC.

Gertrude married Leon Richard JONES. Leon was born 13 May 1893. He died 25 Mar 1956.

559. Mary Gertrude WOLFF (Cynthia Elizabeth HAMPTON, John B. HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 18 Aug 1867. She died 21 Aug 1899.

Mary married Sidney Lee HAUSER. Sidney was born 31 Mar 1863. He died 1893.


706 M i. Fred L. HAUSER was born 25 Apr 1888. He died 4 Mar 1908.

707 F ii. Mamie HAUSER died 1968.

Mamie married Vincent J. HEINE. Vincent was born 7 Jul 1891. He died Nov 1973.

560. Jasper Alexander Preston WOLFF (Cynthia Elizabeth HAMPTON, John B. HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 18 Jun 1870 in Forsyth Co., NC. He died 16 Mar 1931 in Pine Bluff, NC.

Jasper married Mary Eunice DARLINGTON. Mary was born 18 Apr 1878. She died 20 Jul 1944.


708 M i. Lucretius Vanpelt WOLFF was born 14 Oct 1898 in Rural Hall, Forsyth Co., NC. He died 29 Aug 1968.

Lucretius married Edythe Haldak RICH.

709 F ii. Mary Estelle WOLFF was born 6 Aug 1900. She died 2 Jul 1975.

Mary married Thomas WILSON.

710 M iii. John Grey WOLFF was born 20 May 1905 in Rural Hall, Forsyth Co., NC. He died 26 Jan 1963.


John married Margaret Smillie HANDY.

711 F iv. Florence Pauline WOLFF was born 27 Nov 1904. She died 17 Apr 1941.

Florence married Garland Burns PORTER.

712 F v. Rachel Darlington WOLFF was born 19 Sep 1907. She died 22 Oct 1994.

713 F vi. Rebecca Ruth Hampton WOLFF was born 30 Oct 1909.

Rebecca married Walter Jackson HYLTON.

714 F vii. Martha Eunice Elizabeth WOLFF was born 28 Sep 1912. She died Sep 2002.

Martha married Charlie VEITCH.

563. Oscar Gwyn WOLFF (Cynthia Elizabeth HAMPTON, John B. HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 25 Feb 1878. He died 10 Feb 1935.

Oscar married Mamie KISER. Mamie was born 17 Jun 1882. She died 1950.


715 M i. Claude Gwyn WOLFF.

716 F ii. Elizabeth WOLFF.

Elizabeth married Clarence PARSONS.

717 F iii. Mary WOLFF.

718 M iv. Oscar Eugene WOLFF.

719 M v. William Edward WOLFF.

566. Martha Eva HAMPTON (John P. HAMPTON, Mary HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 8 Apr 1847 in Fayette Co., TN. She died 1882 in Moscow, Fayette Co., Tennessee from epidemia at age 35.

Martha married Bartley Johnson SUTTON.


720 M i. John Elgin SUTTON was born 18 Jan 1869.

John married Ann Eliza. OVERBY, daughter of Goodwyn L. OVERBY and Paulina SMITH. Ann was born 1837.

570. John Franklin HOUSTON "Frank" (Mary Mitchell HAMPTON, MANOAH BOSTICK HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 28 Dec 1845 in Alabama.

Marriage 1 Hante? BROWN b: UNKNOWN Children Mary (dau of Frank) HOUSTON b: UNKNOWN Brown HOUSTON b: UNKNOWN Lilly HOUSTON b: UNKNOWN Sedalia Daily Democrat (Sedalia, Missouri) December 18, 1879 "At a meeting of the Democratic Central Committee of Pettis County in this city on Tuesday, Mr. Frank Houston was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Congressional Committee, and Mr. E.M. Phillips of Green Ridge was appointed to fill vacancy on the County Central Committee. Mr. Houston, though young, is recognized as a rising representative man, and a credit to his profession." 1880 Census, Sedalia, Pettis County, MO Frank Houston, age 33, lawyer, (note: states was born in MS, this is not correct) Hallie, wife, age 29 Rose, daughter, age 7 William, son, age 4 Lillie, daughter, age 2


Hallie, daughter, age 2 (born in April) Mary Brown, sister(in-law), age 23, boarding Margaret Parker, black, servant 1910 Census, 11th Ward Kanasas, Jackson Co. Missouri Franklin Houston, age 62, born in AL/NC/NC, lawyer insurance Hallie B., wife, age 57, born in MO/KY/VA Harriet B., daughter, age 29, born in MO 1920 Census, Jackson, MO Franklin Houston, age 74, AL/NC/NC, no prof. Harriet B., wife, age 69 Harriet B., daughter, age 40

Frank married Harriet BROWN "Hallie".


721 F i. Rose HOUSTON was born about 1873.

722 M ii. William B. HOUSTON was born about 1876.

1910 CENSUS, District 163, 11th Ward, Kansas, Jackson County, Missouri William B. Houston, age 34, MO/AL/MO, profession: something to do with plumbing (can't read portions) Gertrude A., wife, age 32, born in Ohio plus Dora Larson, servant 1920 CENSUS, District 592, St. Louis Ward 28, St. Louis (Independent City) Missouri William B. Houston, age 43, born in MO/AL/MO, broker, stocks & bonds Gertrude, wife, age 43, born in Ohio

William married Gertrude.

723 F iii. Lillie HOUSTON was born about 1878.

724 F iv. Harriett HOUSTON "Hallie" was born about 1878.

571. Mary Mitchell HOUSTON (Mary Mitchell HAMPTON, MANOAH BOSTICK HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1 Jan 1848 in Missouri. She died 4 Mar 1932 in Hazelton, Jerome County, Idaho.

November 4, 1873: 'NAPTON-HOUSTON. At the residence of the bride's father, on Thursday evening, Oct. 30th, by Elder J.B. Wright, Mr. James S. Napton, of Saline County, and Miss Mary L. Houston, daughter of Col. Thomas F. Houston, of Pettis County, Mo. No cards. Greenback received, for which many thanks returned. St. Louis papers please copy." Marriage 1 James Smith NAPTON b: UNKNOWN Married: 30 OCT 1873 in Pettis Co., Missouri 1 Children Houston NAPTON b: UNKNOWN Berkley NAPTON b: UNKNOWN Placebo (son of James) NAPTON b: UNKNOWN Lamar NAPTON b: UNKNOWN

Mary married James Smith NAPTON, son of Judge William Barclay NAPTON -Sec of State, Missouri and Melinda WILLIAMS, on 4 Oct 1873 in Pettis County, MO.. James was born 27 Aug 1845 in Saline County, Missouri. He died 25 Apr 1919 in Homedale, Owyhee, Idaho.

Birth 27 Aug 1845 Saline County, Missouri


Census 16 Jun 1880 Pettis County, Missouri Occupation - farmer Census 8 Jun 1900 Canyon County, Idaho Occupation - farmer Died 25 Apr 1919 Homedale, Owyhee, Idaho Person ID Simunac-Commer Father William Barclay Napton, b. 23 Mar 1808, Princeton, New Jersey, United States Mother Melinda Williams, b. Abt 1820, Tennessee, United States Family ID F1298 Group Sheet Family Mary M. Houston, b. 1 Jan 1848, Missouri, United States Married 30 Oct 1873 Pettis County, Missouri, United States Children 1. Houston Thomas Napton, b. 15 Sep 1874, Missouri, United States 2. William Berkeley Napton, b. 11 Jan 1878, Missouri, United States 3. James L. Napton, b. Mar 1880, Missouri, United States 4. Nadine N. Napton, b. Feb 1884, Missouri, United States 5. Mary P. Napton, b. Jul 1887, Missouri, United States Histories From the Idaho Daily Statesman, 11-Mar-1902 From the Idaho Daily Stateman - 23-May-1902 Last Modified 12 Oct 2003 Family ID F1303 Group Sheet Sources 1. population schedule, Fayette Precinct, (Canyon County, Idaho, United States: James S. Napton household, 1900), micropublication T623, roll 232. (Reliability: 2), 02 JUL 2005 2. [S1546] population schedule, District 122, (Pettis County, Missouri, United States: James S. Napton household, 1880), micropublication T9, roll 708. (Reliability: 2), 02 JUL 2005 3. [S1553] Idaho Death Index, 1911-1951, (James Smith Napton, 2 JUL 2005), certificate #025687. (Reliability: 2), 02 JUL 2005 Note: In 1880, James S. & Mary Napton were living next door to Thomas F. Houston & wife Mary. James S. Napton, age 30, farmer, born in MO Mary M., wife, age 29 Houston, son, age 5 Birkley, son, age 3 James S., son, age 3/12mo plus 5 servants/laborers


725 M i. Houston Thomas NAPTON was born 15 Sep 1874 in Missouri.

726 M ii. William Berkeley NAPTON was born 11 Jan 1878 in Missouri. He died 30 Apr 1947 in Homedale, Owyhee, Idaho.

Sources 1. population schedule, District 122, (Pettis County, Missouri, United States: James S. Napton household, 1880), micropublication T9, roll 708. (Reliability: 2), 02 JUL 2005 2. population schedule, Fayette Precinct, (Canyon County, Idaho, United States: James S. Napton household, 1900), micropublication T623, roll 232. (Reliability: 2), 02 JUL 2005 3. Idaho Death Index, 1911-1951, (William Berkeley Napton, 2 JUL 2005) (Reliability: 2), 02 JUL 2005 4. Idaho Marriages, 1842-1996, (William Berkeley Napton - Meryl Morrison Volin) (Reliability: 2), 02 JUL 2005

William married Meryl Morrison VIOLIN.


727 M iii. James L. NAPTON was born Mar 1880 in Missouri.

728 F iv. Nadine N. NAPTON was born Feb 1884 in Missouri.

729 F v. Mary P. NAPTON was born Jul 1887 in Missouri.

573. Cynthia Elizabeth HOUSTON "Lizzie" (Mary Mitchell HAMPTON, MANOAH BOSTICK HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 7 Jan 1854 in Missouri. She died by 1903.

Family 1 Cynthia Elizabeth Houston, b. 7 Jan 1854 Married 1 Jun 1875 Pettis County, Missouri, United States Children Placebo (son of John) NAPTON b: UNKNOWN

Lizzie married13 John NAPTON, son of Judge William Barclay NAPTON -Sec of State, Missouri and Melinda WILLIAMS, on 1 Jun 1875 in Pettis County, Missouri. John was born 8 Jun 1843 in Saline County, Missouri.

John's mother, who died in 1862, was Melinda Williams. Playwrite "Tennessee" Williams is a descendant of her family. One thing: Melinda's family were in Iredell County/Surry County, North Carolina, at one time. Melinda Williams Napton's father was Thomas Lanier Williams, twin brother of Lewis Williams, b. 1 Feb 1786. d. 3 Dec 1856. Buried at Nashville, TN. On 9 Aug 1811 he married Mary Lawson McClung, b. 28 May 1792, d. 16 Jun 1828, d/o Charles McClung and Margaret White McClung (d/o Gen. James White). He served in the State legislature and senate, as well as a Supreme court justice for the State of Tennessee. (see Melinda Williams) Source: Population schedule, Bully Precinct, (Malheur County, Idaho, United States: John Napton household, 1900), micropublication T623, roll 1349.


730 M i. Placebo NAPTON.

577. John Manoah HAMPTON (John Placibo HAMPTON, MANOAH BOSTICK HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 4 Aug 1857. He died 4 Nov 1913.

SOURCE: Notes in email from Clyde Wikle, Dec, 2003: "Attached is a text file containing a descendency chart for John P Hampton (I). It is incomplete but what is there is correct to the best of my knowledge. JPH had had three children to survive to adulthood: John Manoah, William Burt and Plassie Houston Hampton. I should be able to fill in the blanks for John Manoah's descendents but this will take a few phone calls and emails. I'll work on this though, shouldn't be too hard to do. John Manoah Hampton married Mary Rebecca (Molly) Otey. It was their children that I was able to identify in the picture. John Manoah and Molly Otey's only son was John Placibo (II). JP (II) married Lottie Lee Cummins. JP (II) was seated on the horse in the picture. JP (II) and Lottie were my great-grandparents. I was fortunate that I grew up just down the road from Granny (Lottie). I was 18 years old when she died in 1984."

John married Mollie Rebecca OTEY on 11 Dec 1882. Mollie was born 9 Aug 1855. She died 17 Aug 1937.

SOURCE: Email from Clyde Wikle, Dec, 2003: "Molly Otey was from "Greenlawn", just a few hundred yards across the highway from "Sunnyside", the Hampton home in Meridianville. The Greenlawn home is presently up for sale. A web page showing the home and giving some of its history is at ttp://www.thesouthpaw.net/greenlawnforsale/ The Heeschen's have done a wonderful job of restoring the home. It sat abandoned the whole time I lived up there. There is also a connection rather than a direct relation between you and I through a Wyche-Wright marriage that I will send some information about later that involves these two homes."


731 F i. Burtie Wyche HAMPTON was born 11 Dec 1882. She died 1909.

Notes from Clyde Wikle on photo of Dr. John P. Hampton and family; Dec, 2003:


Attached is a scanned picture of Dr. John P. Hampton standing in front of his Meridianville home. Seated on the horse is his grandson, also John Placibo Hampton - my great-grandfather. Then from left to right, front row: Harriet Cecil (Bayou) Hampton, Mary Rebecca (Maibec) Hampton; back row: Elise (DeeDee) Hampton, unknown, unknown, & Burtie Wyche Hampton. The children that I can identify are all Dr. John P.'s grandchildren through his son John Manoah. I can't identify the two young ladies in the middle. Guessing at the age of the children, the photo dates from 1894 or 1895.

Burtie married Dr. Allen David MCLAIN on Dec 1907.

732 F ii. Elise HAMPTON was born 1885. She died 1960.

733 F iii. Harriett Cecil HAMPTON was born 22 Dec 1889. She died Sep 1968.

734 M iv. John Placibo (II) HAMPTON was born 13 Feb 1891. He died May 1968.

John married Lottie Lee CUMMINS on Nov 1912. Lottie was born 19 Mar 1893. She died Dec 1984.

735 F v. Mary Rebecca HAMPTON.

Mary married John Edgar SHINKLE. John was born 14 Apr 1892. He died Dec 1965.

578. William Burt HAMPTON (John Placibo HAMPTON, MANOAH BOSTICK HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 30 May 1859. He died 17 Jul 1915.

William married Jennie Lula PAYNE on 5 Dec 1893. Jennie was born 20 Oct 1870. She died 26 May 1944.


736 M i. William Payne HAMPTON was born 1895. He died 1933.

737 M ii. Edwina Hurton HAMPTON was born 28 Apr 1897. He died 15 Jan 1899.

738 M iii. James P. HAMPTON was born 28 Apr 1897. He died 1961.

Tom LaMunyon Wed Sep 10 19:17:03 1997 I am looking for information of the descendants of Manoah Bostick HAMPTON who died in Lawrence County in 1858, and whose son, John Plassibo HAMPTON died in Madison County [CA. 1907] and whose decsendants resided in Madison County including the descendants of John M. and William Burt HAMPTON. I am a desc. of Manoah's brother James, through gr.grandson Franklin Wade HAMPTON who married and raised chilren in Madison County. [email protected] (note: Mr. LaMunyon's email is no longer correct). Dec 2003/vsm

James married Winona HAMMOCK on 1928.

739 F iv. Susie Burt HAMPTON was born 6 Jan 1900.

740 F v. Annie Louise HAMPTON was born 22 Jul 1902. She died 28 Feb 1970.

741 F vi. Ada Charlene HAMPTON was born 1907. She died 1979.

742 M vii. George Davis HAMPTON was born 1913. He died 1979.

579. Plassie Houston HAMPTON (John Placibo HAMPTON, MANOAH BOSTICK HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1861.

Plassie married Ella S. SOLOMON.


743 M i. Plassie Houston (Jr.) HAMPTON.

Plassie married Martha Louise TAYLOR.

583. * MARY ELIZABETH "Lilie" HAMPTON "Lilie (pronounced "Lilah")" (MANOAH BOSTICK (II) HAMPTON, MANOAH BOSTICK HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas


HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 6 Sep 1863 in Leighton, AL. She died 23 Jun 1925 in Nashville, TN and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Bham, AL - Blk 17.

MARY ELIZABETH HAMPTON (Sept 6, 1863-June 24, 1925) She was born in Leighton, AL. On August 11, 1885 she married WALTER F. McCLURE (SR) in Sedalia, Mo. They lived in Cornersville, TN, but moved to Birmingham when their children were small and lived first in East Lake and then in the Norwood area on 26th Street. Walter F. McClure died in Birmingham, AL in 1915 from appendicitis; "Lilie" (pronounced Lilah) as Mary Eliza was called, died in Nashville, TN in 1925, but is buried in Birmingham, Elmwood Cemetery, on the McClure plot beside her husband. They had six children. Marriage Certificate, from the files of Betty A. Bostwick: The marriage certificate is dated 1885 (the ink is almost faded). It reads: This certifies that on the eleventh 11th day of August in the year of our Lord 1885 Mr. Walter F. McClure and Miss Mary E. Hampton were by me united in marriage at Houstonia, Pettis County, Missouri, according to the laws of the State of Missouri Witnesses: T. Houston J. Z. Fuller Pastor First Baptist Church, Sedalia, Mo. Laura Rudy Note: Thomas Franklin Houston, who was a witness to Walter & Lilie's marriage, was the husband of Mary Mitchell Hampton, daughter of Manoah Bostick Hampton and Cynthia Mitchell. Thomas was the son of Placibo Houston & Elizabeth Ragsdale Young. The Houston's moved from Iredell County, NC to North Alabama, but Thomas Houston moved on from there to Missouri and founded the town of Houstonia. He was very well-to-do, in 1860 having real estate valued at $100,000 and personal property valued $750,000. Thomas and Mary Houston were uncle and aunt to Lilie. INTERMENT CARD from Elmwood Cemetery, provided by Betty Bostwick Name: Mrs. Mary Elizabeth McClure Interment # 9915 Date of Interment: June 26, 1925 Lot # 202 Block # 17 Owner of Lot: W. H. & W. F. McClure

Lilie (pronounced "Lilah") married WALTER FLAVIS (Sr.) MCCLURE *, son of William Dickson MCCLURE * and MARY ORLENA * PILLOW, on 11 Aug 1885 in West Sedalia (Houstonia), Mo.. WALTER was born 1 Mar 1856 in Cornersville, TN. He died 24 Jul 1915 in Birmingham, AL and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Bham, AL - Blk 17.

BIRMINGHAM CITY DIRECTORY: 1909: Walter F (Lilie) contrac - hm 8044 Underwood Avenue (E L) 1910: Walter F (Lilie) salesman - hm 1405 North 25th Street Walter F, Jr. - student - hm 1405 North 25th Street W. Hampton - hm 8044 Underwood Avenue 1918: W. Hampton (Mary B) mfg agt - 1401 Chamber of Comm. Bldg - hm: 8415 1st Ave So. Robert P. - bkpr Morris & Co; 1405 North 25th Street Lila - bkpr Walker Drug Co - 1405 North 25th Street Mary E. (widow of W. F.) 1405 North 25th Street ---------------------------------- McCLURE PLOT, ELMWOOD CEMETERY, BIRINGHAM, AL BLOCK #17 (beside some Walker plots, and close to the road) W. F. McCLURE (Sr)


1856-1915 LILIE McCLURE 1863-1925 THOMAS D. JACKSON 1870-1948 (his date of death is wrong on the marker - says 1938!) REBECCA HOPKINS, WIFE OF T. D. JACKSON 1863-1927 JOHN W. JACKSON (brother of T.D.) 1868-1929 ROBERT McCLURE 1894-1955 HELEN JACKSON McCLURE 1899-1974 WALTER F. McCLURE (Uncle Mac) 1892-1981 BESSIE W. McCLURE (Wife of Mac) 1898-1990 --------------------------- DOCUMENT: CERTIFICATE OF DEATH (provided by Betty Bostwick) Jefferson County, Alabama, Certificate of Death File # 1605-BH-1915 States that Walter F. McClure Sr. died July 24, 1915 at St. Vincent Hospital. White Male, married, date of birth not stated, age at death: 59 Occupation: Salesman Birthplace: Tennessee Father's name: William D. McClure Father's Birthplace: Tennessee Mother's Name: Mary O. McClure Mother's Birthplace: Tennessee Cause of Death: A) Uremic Poison B) Appendicitis Interval between onset and death: 8 days Physician: J. D. Heacock, M.D. Burial: Elmwood Cemetery Signed & Notarized Sept. 28, 1995 by Valerie W. Winn


744 F i. Mary Battle MCCLURE "Auntie" was born 30 Aug 1886. She died 1979 in Birmingham, AL.

OBITUARY: The Birmingham News "Mrs. W. W. Walker, widow of the founder and organizer of Walker Wholesale Drug Company, diedWednesday. She was 93. A long time resident of Birmingham, she was born at Cornersville, Tenn. She recently lived at Fair Haven and was a member of Canterbury United Methodist Church, was an honorary board member of the Girls Club and for many years was a volunteer worker for the Crippled Children's Clinic. Funeral will be at 3 pm Friday at the church, with burial in Elmwood, Valley Chapel directing. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Fred Renneker, Jr.; a son, William W. Walker, Jr.; a brother, Walter F. McClure, and two sisters, Mrs. Sue M. Aldridge, both of Birmingham, and Mrs. C. G. Miles,


Nashville. The family suggests that any memorials be made to Fair Haven, the Girls Club Scholarship Fund or Canterbury United Methodist Educational Building Fund."

Auntie married William Watson WALKER "Uncle Bill", son of Leander Thomas WALKER, on 8 Jun 1910. Uncle Bill was born 28 Apr 1882 in Clay Co., AL. He died 1943 in Birmingham, AL and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Bham, AL.

Photo taken 1923. Will Walker was a pharmacist, and founder of Walker Drug Company, Birmingham, AL. My mother, Jeanne McClure Sanders, called him "Uncle Will". When the children were little, Uncle Bill and Auntie would have all the families over the house, and he would dress up as Santa Claus. Mary Alice relates that one Christmas, as Uncle Bill (Santa) was handing out the presents she piped up..."Thank you, Uncle Bill"....whereupon her mother jerked her up and told her to "hush"!

745 M ii. William Hampton MCCLURE "Hampton" was born 22 Jul 1889 in Lewisburg, TN. He died 1959 in Birmingham, AL.

Photo of Hampton and SuMary - 1923 Hampton sold cars at Adamson Motor Co., Birmingham, AL 1930 CENSUS, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL (86th Street South) William H. McClure, age 37, born AL/TN/AL, salesman auto shop - age at first marriage: 20 Mary B., age 37, AL/AL/GA William B., son, age 14 Warren H., age 10

Hampton married Mary BRYAN "Su-Mary" on 29 Nov 1911 in Birmingham, AL. Su-Mary was born 1889. She died 1969 in Birmingham, AL.

746 M iii. Walter Flavis (Jr.) MCCLURE "Mac" was born 3 Nov 1892 in West Point, TN. He died 1981 in Birmingham, AL and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Bham, AL - Blk 17.

Mac was in real estate and insurance, and had an office in North Birmingham; They lived in Norwood on 25th and 14th Street until they moved to the Edgewood area of Homewood, on Edgewood Blvd. (We should never have let that house out of the family!) UNCLE MAC WAS A FAVORITE, a very sweet and special man. He was known and recognized with fondness by everyone downtown at the Jefferson County Courthouse in Birmingham. One thing he loved to do was to take young couples to the Courthouse to buy their marriage license. (I know he took Bill Mylius and I, and it was so much fun! VSM) Their house was always open to family, (unless the shades were drawn, when he and Bess liked to share a glass of wine!) Bill and Jimmy Walker recently spoke of Uncle Mac and Aunt Bess, and how much Mac & Bess loved to have them come by - even with their dates! They would go over to the house and help them set up the tree for Christmas; make fudge with Aunt Bess, and share a glass of wine with them. Mary Alice Miles said her brothers also used to take their dates by Mac and Bessie's, as they were always welcomed! One of her brothers now has a grandchild who was named "Mac". According to a friend, M. F. Douglass III, (823-3047) who sent a note regarding "MR. MAC"...."he used to show us all kinds of tricks, slights of hand, etc. He could also write ambidextrously, i.e. with either hand, and it was very legible. He could also "mirror write"!!" Aunt Bess was a warm and funny woman, who sang in the choir and worked very hard for All Saint's Episopal Church in Homewood.


They are buried next to each other at Elmwood Cemetery, beside Robert and Helen McClure.

Mac married Bessie WILSON. Bessie was born 14 Mar 1898 in Warrington, England. She died 1990 in Louisianna and was buried in Birmingham, AL - Elmwood Cemetery - Blk 17.

Aunt Bess was a tireless worker for All Saints Episocal Church. She was the sweetest woman. I have a shamrock plant that she gave my mother; she said she brought it with her from England. /vsm Bess lived in Louisiana, where one of her son's was living, after her husband's death, and died in a nursing home there. She is buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, next to her husband, in the McClure plot.

747 M iv. Robert P. MCCLURE * was born 29 Oct 1894 in Lewisburg, TN. He died 16 Jun 1955 in Birmingham from heart attack and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Bham, AL - Blk 17.

Robert was in the Tank Corp in France during World War I. (George S. Patton). We have the "Honorable Discharge from The United States Army" for Robert McClure, discharged on June 20th, 1919. Official records available online say that he enlisted he was 23 7/12 years of age and occupation listed a "bookkeeper". He enlisted May 4, 1918 at Ft. Oglethrope, GA, and was a NCO: Sergeant, October 10, 1918. Served in the 302nd Bn (?) Tank Corp from 5/4/1918 to 6/12/1918; 303rd Tank Corp from 6/12/1918 to 7/20/1918; 226th Bn (?) Tank Corp from 7/20/1918 to 8/9/1918; 302nd M.Tand Corp to 6/14/1919. In France from 10/22/1918 to 6/1//1919. It should be noted, however, that he listed his company at the 335th Bn Tank Corp. Notes of Joe Hartwell regarding Granddaddy's service: "Hello, the 335th Battalion, Tank Corps was formed in September of 1918 at Camp Colt, Pennsylvania. In October of 1918 they sailed from Port of Embarkation, Hoboken, NJ for France. This is also the same month in which he was listed as arriving in France. The 335th Bn Tank Corps were used as General troops and did not see combat. They returned from France in May of 1919 and went to camp Mills, NY (Ginga's notes: Camp Albert L. Mills, NY Served as embarkation cantonment to Nov. 11, 1918; thereafter, for purposes of debarkation) and then were demobilized that same month at Camp Meade, Maryland. From the dates that you listed that he returned from France I would say that he did not return with the 335th Battalion. Likely he was transferred to some general service unit for a short time in France before returning to the States. I hope this helps you. Joe" Notes from Ginga. In a picture of Granddaddy McClure from World War I, he is with 11 other buddies. He names 9 of them. Here are the notes written on the back of the picture: TANKERS - 'TREAT 'EM ROUGH" Sgt. Robert McClure, "Just I'm" Co "C" - 335 Bn - (Corp/Capt?) Fred W. Jeffery P.B. 332 Bn "Your Bud" Sgt. Wartin W. Ohlson Co B, 332 Bn "Tankers Together" Cpt. Herbert M. Micheuare/Nicheuare (sp?) Co. C 335th Bn "Drunk last night and drunk the night before" Cook Hary Marogus (sp?) Co C 335 Bn T.C. "Who does not like coffee with no sugar" Sgt. John U. McConaghy (sp?) Co. C. 335th Bn "Has 'Soopie' blown yet?" Cook Louis Secondino Co. C, 335th Bn.


"Chow ready" Sgt. A.J. Van Eucuce (sp?) Co C 335 Bn "Who's got any jave" Corp. Frank D. Keeler Co C 335 Bn "From now on nothing stronger than H20?" Corporal E.P. MacHermait (sp?) Co. B. 332nd Bn "Of course the Irish are here too!" HISTORIC NOTE: Patton served as aide to General Pershing in France during WWI. Pershing put Patton in charge of the newly formed American Tank Corps, and here Patton found his true calling. In November 1917, Patton was one of the first men detailed to the newly established Tank Corps of the United States Army and was assigned the task of organizing and training the 1st Tank Brigade near Langres, France. He led this unit in the St. Mihiel drive in mid-September 1918 and was wounded later in the month at the opening of the Meuse-Argonne offensive. Patton was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Distinguished Service Medal and promoted temporarily to the rank of colonel. The fact that Robert was a very small man, at 5' 6", probably helped him get into the tank corp, as there was not a lot of room in them! Helen was right at 5 feet tall. ROBERT was a contractor and also an insurance adjuster with USF&G. Robert and Helen raised their family in Edgewood, (a suburb of Birmingham, AL, after which they lived in West Palm Beach, FL for awhile, until he had his first heart attack, when they moved back to Birmingham. He loved to play golf, and at a tournament in Birmingham on May 23, 1953 beat Julius Boros, a famous golfer! (Ginga, a granddaughter, still has the medallion from the PGA proclaiming this). Robert hated his middle name, (which was Parberry) and refused to give his children middle names.

Robert married Helen Virginia JACKSON, daughter of Thomas Davis JACKSON "T.D." and Rebecca HOPKINS "Pet", on 12 Jun 1920. Helen was born 20 Jun 1899 in Georgia. She died 25 May 1974 in Birmingham, AL from congestive heart failure and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Bham, AL- McClure Plot - Blk 17.

NOTES FROM GINGA: "My mother, Jeanne McClure Sanders, always said that the reason Helen was such a strong willed person, even though she was barely 5 feet tall (!), was because she was the only grandchild out of the large DeLaigle family. Her mother was Rebecca (Pet) Hopkins-Jackson, one of seven children, but the only one to marry, and the only one to have a child. Helen's grandparents were Virginia DeLaigle and Thomas Newton Hopkins. The DeLaigles were originally the "de l'Aigles" of France, her gg-grandfather being Nicolas de l'Aigle, a minor noble who fled France during the Revolution. Nicolas had the first brick making factory in the South, in Augusta, GA. The family donated the land for Magnolia Cemetery to the City of Augusta, and were very involved in Augusta city affairs." Thomas N. Hopkins'(Virginia DeLaigle's husband) brother was Issac Stiles Hopkins, who founded Georgia Tech. Those of us who knew her remember that if Granny Helen wanted something her way, she usually got it! But money never meant anything to Granny. During the Depression, she thought nothing of pawning those items she inherited from the "planation" if her family needed the money. She gave most of what she had to the church and charities. Her faith was strong, and she practiced her religion, didn't just preach it. She did leave a few pieces that were inherited/passed down from her grandmother, Virginia DeLaigle Hopkins....a silver ladies dresser hand-mirror; a small crystal dresser box with a silver lid; a blue glass bowl that rests in a silver holder; a large traveling trunk; and the portrait of Virginia DeLaigle (all now in the possession of Ginga Sanders Mylius....along


with all of the family pictures)." Helen Jackson McClure was "Granny" to her grandchildren. After the death of her son, Bobby (who died when he was 39), she moved back to Birmingham to live with Sam and Jeanne Sanders and their children. ------------------------------------------ OBITUARY: Birmingham News May, 1974 MRS. McCLURE Graveside services for Mrs. Helen J. McClure, 74, of 2112 Haden Street, who died Saturday, will be at 3:00 pm Monday at Elmwood with Valley Chapel directing. A longtime resident of Homewood, Mrs. McClure was a member of Shades Mountain Independent Church. She was a former house mother for Thornwell Children's Home in Clinton, S.C. Survivors include a daugther, Mrs. Sam H. Sanders Jr. (Jeanne), Birmingham. The family suggests any memorial contributions be made to the Heart Fund." ------------------------------------------ DOCUMENT: " RESOLUTION A grateful Church in recognition of the faithful service of one of its members, Helen McClure, who passed away on May 25, 1974, causes to be inscribed upon the permanent record of its history the following items of great interest: Helen came to Miami after her husband's death to make her home with her son and his family. Helen became a vital member of Riviera Prebyterian Chruch, serving through the women of the Church in many areas, on the Board for several terms. She also served through the Presbytery as a District Charman and was among our earliest representatives to Church Women United. Helen attended Synodical Training School often, taking enough courses to be a graduate. She taught an adult Bible Class for many years. She was a very faithful Church Family Visitor. Most always the first to arrive at the home or the hospital when illness, accident or death occurred. After the death of her son, Robert Jr., she returned to Birmingham, Alabama to live with her daughter and family. She served for a time as a substitute House Mother at Thornwell Home for Children. We are grateful to Our Lord for letting her live and serve among us with such joy and zeal. Her emory is our challenge. By order of the Session of Riviera Presbyterian Church, July 1, 1974 (signed) J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Th.M. -------------------------------------------

748 F v. Lilie MCCLURE "Baby" was born 9 Mar 1898 in Lewisburg, TN. She died 1986 in Nashville, TN and was buried in Birmingham, AL.

Nicknamed "Baby" by her siblings, Lilie (pronounced Lilah) had red hair. She and her husband lived in Nashville, TN.

Baby married Campbell Gentry (Sr.) MILES "Gentry" on 14 Mar 1923 in Uncle Bill & Auntie's (Walker) House in Birmingham. Gentry was born 12 Dec 1878. He died 29 Apr 1960.

Gentry worked for the railroad, and went to Alaska during the gold rush.


749 F vi. Sue Chilton MCCLURE was born 5 Feb 1904 in Lewisburg, TN. She died 1987 in Birmingham, AL

and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Bham, AL.

Photo taken 1923. Sue Chilton McClure Aldridge married Lamar Aldridge and they had 3 children. After his death, she married his brother, Robins Pharr Aldridge, and they lived in Colorado Springs, CO, until his death, at which time she moved back to Birmingham. Many of the dates for family births, etc. come from the Family Bible of "Aunt Sue".

Sue married (1) Lamar ALDRIDGE on 20 May 1924. Lamar was born 16 Aug 1894 in Catherine, AL. He died 10 Jul 1939.

Lamar was a vice-president with Alabama Power Company.

Sue also married (2) Robins Pharr ALDRIDGE. Robins was born in Birmingham, AL.

585. Emma Battle HAMPTON (MANOAH BOSTICK (II) HAMPTON, MANOAH BOSTICK HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 14 Jul 1869 in Leighton, AL.

"the Battle Book," "Emma Battle Hampton, White Sulphur Springs, Mont.; born Leighton, Ala, July 14, 1869; graduate State Normal School, Warrensburg, MO; Episcopalian; married White Sulphur Springs, Mont, July 21, 1894, James Theodore Wood (born Quincy, Ill, Feb 4, 1865; son of Daniel Carl Wood and Janet Abernathy." Helena Independent, The (Helena, Montana) August 6, 1928: "Mrs. James T. Wood left for California, called there by the death of her brother-in-law, Arthur Sias." Helena Independent, The (Helena, Montana) May 1, 1931: Mrs. James T. Wood and Mrs. C. A. Linn, issued invitationsfor two joint social gatherings, held Thursday afternoon and Friday evening. Thurs. afternoon was a bridge luncheon and Friday evening a bridge dinner. Both the luncheon and the dinner were served in the tea room of the Public Drug. Mrs. G. K. Spencer assisted at the Thurs afternoon entertainment." Helena Independent, The (Helena, Montana) November 15, 1931: "Mrs. James T. Wood and daughter, Mrs. C. A. Linn, are visiting in Helena." Helena Independent, The (Helena, Montana) June 16, 1931: "Mr. and Mrs. James T. Wood left Tuesday morning for Butte. Before returning they will also visit Great Falls." Helena Independent, The (Helena, Montana) September 13, 1940: "Mrs. James T. Wood of Pasadena arrived here last week to visit friends and relatives for several weeks. Mrs. Wood was a former resident of White Sulphur Spring." 1880 United States Federal Census Name: Emma Hampton Home in 1880: Lawrence, Alabama Age: 10 Estimated birth year: abt 1870 Birthplace: Alabama Relation to head-of-household: Daughter Father's name: Monoah Father's birthplace: AL Mother's name: Emma J. Mother's birthplace: AL Occupation: At Home Marital Status: Single Race: White


Gender: Female Household Members: Name Age Monoah Hampton 45 Emma J. Hampton 40 Cintha M. Hampton 19 Liza B. Hampton 16 Thomas Hampton 15 Emma Hampton 10 Matilda Hampton 6 Monoah Hampton 2 Lige Hampton 20 Alford Hampton 20 Liza Mullens 35 Frank Mullens 7 Lilyain Mullens 4 George Mullens 3 George A. Hampton 30 Argustus Hampton 10 Ernest Hampton 4 Cally Hampton 2

Emma married James Theodore WOOD. James was born 4 Feb 1865 in Illinois. He died Mar 1935 in Meagher County, Montana.

1920 Census - Name: James T Wood Age: 54 years Estimated birth year: 1865 Birthplace: Illinois Race: White Home in 1920: White Sulphur Springs, Meagher, Montana Emma H. wife - 50 - born in Alabama Mary J. daugher - 26 - clerk in bank - born in Montana Roll: T625_973 Page: 1A ED: 62 Image: 0045 -------------------------- 1930 Census: White Sulphur Springs, Meagher, Montana; Roll: T626_1259; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 7; Image: 0026. Name: Jas T Wood Age: 65 Estimated birth year: 1864 Birthplace: Illinois Relation to Head-of-house: Head Race: White Home in 1930: White Sulphur Springs, Meagher, Montana Emma H. wife 60 - born in Alabama ---------------------------- Numerous newspaper quotes: Helena Independent, The (Helena, Montana) March 23, 1926: Mr. and Mrs. James T. Wood have left Pasadena to spend a few weeks with Mr. and Mrs. James T. Wood, Jr. before returning to Montana. Helena Independent, The (Helena, Montana) January 5, 1926: "Mr. and Mrs. James T. Wood entertained at dinner,


the guests being Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Spencer; Mr. adn Mrs. M. B. Hampton; Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Hampton of Helena; Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Linn and Miss Spencer." Helena Independent, The (Helena, Montana) April 20, 1926: "Laura B. Stevens and C. A. Linn went to Butte to meet Mrs. Linn on her return from California. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James T. Wood, recently arrived from San Francisco, where they visited their son, James Wood, Jr." Helena Independent, The (Helena, Montana) February 16, 1929: "Mr. and Mrs. James T. Wood have gone to California for the remainder of the winter, hoping to restore Mr. Wood's strength, after being a sufferer of rheumatism the past six weeks." Helena Independent, The (Helena, Montana) April 30, 1930: James T. Wood is honorary pallbearer for Martin T. Grand. Helena Independent, The (Helena, Montana) July 7, 1930: James T. Wood, President of the bank, acted as appraiser at the estate of Martin T. Grand. Helena Independent, The (Helena, Montana) March 31, 1931: "Mr. and Mrs. James T. Wood have returned from California, where they spent the past three months with relatives." Helena Independent, The (Helena, Montana) October 28, 1931: "Mr. and Mrs. James T. Wood have returned from Butte, where Mr. Wood received medical treatment." Helena Independent, The (Helena, Montana) February 17, 1934: Mr. and Mrs. James T. Wood again spend the winter in California. Helena Independent, The (Helena, Montana) March 31, 1934: Mr. and Mrs. James T. Wood return from visiting friends and son. Helena Independent, The (Helena, Montana) January 26, 1935: James T. Wood treasurer of the Masonic Lodge. Helena Independent, The (Helena, Montana) March 30, 1935: "Pioneer Banker of Montana Hears Call"


750 M i. James T. (Jr.) WOOD was born 3 Aug 1895.

Helena Independent, The (Helena, Montana) > 1932 > September > 14 "Mr. James T. Wood of Pasadena, CA arrived last Sunday and will be the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James T. Wood, Sr. Mr. Wood holds the position of geologist for Texaco Oil Co at Pasadena." Helena Independent, The (Helena, Montana) > 1935 > June > 3 "Mr. and Mrs. James T. Wood entertained at dinner MOnday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Milton V. Ritter of Choteau."

James married Unknown.

751 F ii. Mary J. WOOD was born 1894 in Montana.

Mary married C. A. LINN of Montana. C. A. LINN of Montana was born 1884 in Minnesota.

1930 CENSUS Name: C A Linn Age: 45 Estimated birth year: 1884 Birthplace: Minnesota Relation to Head-of-house: Head Race: White


Home in 1930: White Sulphur Springs, Meagher, Montana Parents born in Sweden Married at age 35 Occupation: Attorney Name: Mary Linn Name: Mary Linn Age: 38 Estimated birth year: 1891 Relation to Head-of-house: Wife Home in 1930: White Sulphur Springs, Meagher, Montana

586. Matilda Parberry HAMPTON (MANOAH BOSTICK (II) HAMPTON, MANOAH BOSTICK HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 26 Jul 1873. She died 30 Jan 1953 in Helena, Montana and was buried in Montana.

Per Betty Bostwick: "One was named Matilda who married Gid Spencer and both are buried in Montana. They had two children." Matilda HAMPTON Age: 6 Estimated birth year: <1874> Birthplace: Alabama Relation: Dau Home in 1880: Lawrence, Alabama Marital status: Single Race: White Gender: Female Head of household: Monoah HAMPTON Father's birthplace: AL Mother's birthplace: AL Image Source: Year: 1880; Census Place: Lawrence, Alabama; Roll: T9_18; Family History Film: 1254018; Page: 305A; Enumeration District: ------------------------------------------------ Document: The Helena Independent, July 16, 1937 "Mrs. B. C. Hampton and her daughter, Jane, were recent visitors in White Sulphur Springs from Washington, D.C. B. C. Hampton is a brother of Mrs. James Wood and Mrs. Gideon Spencer of White Sulphur Springs. Mr. Hampton is editor of a health bulletin for public health service in Washington, D.C." Document: Independent Record, Helena, Montana, Feb. 2, 1953 "White Sulphur Springs - Matilda P. Spencer, niece of a pioneer doctor of Montana and wife of Gideon K. Spencer, retired banker of White Sulphur Springs, died in the Broadwater hospital in Townsend following a short illness and funeral services will be conducted here. She is survived by her husband, G. K. Spencer, is at present a patient in St. John's hospital in Helena; a daughter, Mrs. Milton Ritter of Washington, D. C., and one grandson." MONTANA DEATH INDEX: Name: MATILDA P SPENCER Gender: F Age: 79 Death Date: 30-Jan-1953 Death County: 4 Index Number: 1039

Matilda married Gideon Kennedy SPENCER "Gid" on 16 Oct 1902 in White Sulphur Springs, Montana. Gid was born


21 Oct 1873 in Canyon Ferry. He died after 1953.

1880 CENSUS: WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS (HOTEL), MONTANA Almon SPENCER 42 <1838> Canada Self Married White Male White Sulpher Springs, Meagher, MT Clark SPENCER 1 <1879> Montana Territory Son Single White Male White Sulpher Springs, Meagher, MT Gideon SPENCER 7 <1873> Montana Territory Son Single White Male White Sulpher Springs, Meagher, MT Harvey SPENCER 38 <1842> Canada Brother Single White Male White Sulpher Springs, Meagher, MT Herman SPENCER 3 <1877> Montana Territory Son Single White Male White Sulpher Springs, Meagher, MT Irene SPENCER 5 <1875> Montana Territory Dau Single White Female White Sulpher Springs, Meagher, MT Margret SPENCER 40 <1840> Canada Wife Married White Female White Sulpher Springs, Meagher, MT NOTES: Found where Harvey died Dec 8, 1925 ------------------------------------ 1920 CENSUS: (January 27, 1920) - Roll: T625_973; Page 1A; ED: 62; Image 0045 Name: Gideon K Spencer Age: 46 years Estimated birth year: 1873 Birthplace: Montana Race: White Home in 1920: White Sulphur Springs, Meagher, Montana Sex: View Image Occupations: Cashier at Bank ALSO ON CENSUS: Spencer, Matilda P. wife, 45 years old, born in Alabama Spencer, Matilda daughter, 11 years old, born in Montana ---------------------- 1930 CENSUS White Sulphur Springs, Meagher, Montana; Roll: 1259; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 7; Image: 30.0. Spencer, G. K. 56, cashier, married at 27 years of age Spencer, Matilda, 55, no occupation, married at 26 years of age Spencer, Tillie, 21, no occupation, single (Note: Clayton, Irene and Sherman Spencer still live in White Sulphur Springs.) ---------------------- Independent Record, The (Helena, Montana) January 31, 1953 "G. K. Spencer, retired businessman of this community, is a patient in St. John's hopsital in Helena following a stroke suffered at his home here a week ago. Mrs. Spencer is confined to the house by illness, and a daughter, Mrs. Milton Ritter of Washington, DC will come to Montana to be with her parents." Independent Record, The (Helena, Montana) May 30, 1953 "Mrs. Milton Ritter of Washington, DC is here visiting her father, G. K. Spencer, who recently returned from Helena, where he was a patient in St. John's Hospital." Independent Record, The (Helena, Montana) August 30, 1953 "G. K. Spencer, lifelong resident of White Sulphur Springs, and a pioneer banker of the community, is leaving for Washington, DC to reside with his daughter, Mrs. Milton Ritter and family. He has leased his new home here to Mr. and Mrs. H.D. Clay, who will take possession Sept. 1."



752 F i. Louise SPENCER was born 1903. She died 1912.

753 F ii. Matilda SPENCER was born about 1909 in Meagher County, Montana.

Graduated the University of Montana, Missoula. The Helena Independent Helena Montana 28 December 1930 "The marriage of Miss Matilda Spencer to Mr. Milton Ritter was quietly solemnized Saturday morning, December 27, at White Sulphur Springs. The bride is a niece of Dr. and Mrs. T. M. Hampton of Helena. Mr. and Mrs. Ritter will make their home in Missoula." Helena Independent, Social News: Friday, April 25, 1941 "Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Spencer spent several days last week at Belton in Glacier Park visiting with their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Ritter." Independent Record, The (Helena, Montana) October 29, 1946 "Mr. and Mrs. Milton V. Ritter of Washington, DC have been visiting Mrs. Ritter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. G.K. Spencer."

Matilda married Milton V. RITTER on 27 Dec 1930 in White Sulphur Springs, Montana.

Sevearl references to Milton Ritter in sports. One article said he was "of" Eveleth, MN.

588. Brock Chilton HAMPTON "Chilton" (MANOAH BOSTICK (II) HAMPTON, MANOAH BOSTICK HAMPTON, BETHENIA BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 15 Sep 1880. He died in Probably Washington, DC.

Source: Handwritten genealogy by Sue Chilton McClure Aldridge: States they lived in California then Washington, DC "Brock Chilton Hampton is in "The Battle Book".p. 396. Brock Chilton Hampton - Washington, DC; editor; born Leighton, Alabama September 15, 1880; A.B. 1908 Stanford Univ., Calif.; Phi Gamma Delta; 1909-1911, newspaper reporter; 1912-18, irrigation engineer Spreckles Sugar Co., CA; 1918-1919, experimental hydraulic engineers, A. Schilling Co., San Francisco; 1919 - , editor, U.S. Public Health Service, Washington; Unitarian; m. San Jose, Calif, July 31, 1918, Anna Edith Boitano (b. Mayfield, Nov. 24, 1888; daughter of Angelo Boitano and Annie Bacigalupi); child: 1. Jane Elizabeth Hampton, born Washington, DC - January 13, 1921.

Chilton married Anna Edith BOITANO, daughter of Angelo BOITANO and Annie BACIGALUPI, on 31 Jul 1918 in San Jose, CA. Anna was born 24 Nov 1886 in Mayfield, CA.

Helena Independent: July 16, 1937 "Mrs. B. C. Hampton and her daughter Jane were recent visitors in White Sulphur Springs from Washington, DC. B. C. Hampton is a brother of Mrs. James Wood and Mrs. Gideon Spencer of White Sulpur Springs. Mr. Hampton is editor of a health bulletin for public health service in Washington, DC."


754 F i. Jane Elizabeth HAMPTON was born 13 Jan 1921 in Washington, D.C..

Jane married Jerry COLLINS.

597. Joseph H BITTING is printed as #537.

755 F i. Mary BITTING is printed as #691.

756 F ii. Virginia BITTING is printed as #692.


757 M iii. Walter BITTING is printed as #693.

758 M iv. Hollingsworth BITTING is printed as #694.

609. William Preston HAMPTON is printed as #549.

759 F i. Estelle Olive HAMPTON is printed as #695.

616. Susan Virginia HAMPTON is printed as #556.

760 M i. Wade H. DAVIS is printed as #696.

761 F ii. Clara E. DAVIS is printed as #697.

617. John Walter WOLFF is printed as #557.

762 F i. Ava Chula WOLFF is printed as #698.

763 F ii. Bonita WOLFF is printed as #699.

764 M iii. Denis Roscoe WOLFF is printed as #700.

618. William Jacob WOLFF is printed as #558.

765 M i. William LaFayette (Sr.) WOLFF is printed as #701.

766 F ii. Mabel Atha WOLFF is printed as #702.

767 M iii. James Adam WOLFF is printed as #703.

768 M iv. Alcuin Duclos WOLFF is printed as #704.

769 F v. Gertrude Creth WOLFF is printed as #705.

619. Mary Gertrude WOLFF is printed as #559.

770 M i. Fred L. HAUSER is printed as #706.

771 F ii. Mamie HAUSER is printed as #707.

620. Jasper Alexander Preston WOLFF is printed as #560.

772 M i. Lucretius Vanpelt WOLFF is printed as #708.

773 F ii. Mary Estelle WOLFF is printed as #709.

774 M iii. John Grey WOLFF is printed as #710.

775 F iv. Florence Pauline WOLFF is printed as #711.

776 F v. Rachel Darlington WOLFF is printed as #712.

777 F vi. Rebecca Ruth Hampton WOLFF is printed as #713.

778 F vii. Martha Eunice Elizabeth WOLFF is printed as #714.

623. Oscar Gwyn WOLFF is printed as #563.

779 M i. Claude Gwyn WOLFF is printed as #715.

780 F ii. Elizabeth WOLFF is printed as #716.

781 F iii. Mary WOLFF is printed as #717.

782 M iv. Oscar Eugene WOLFF is printed as #718.

783 M v. William Edward WOLFF is printed as #719.

624. Dr. David Nicholas (Jr.) DALTON (David Nicholas DALTON, Absalom Bostick DALTON, Christina BOSTICK, Bethenia PERKINS, Bethenia HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS).

David married Louisa BITTING, daughter of Joseph Anthony BITTING and Louisa Phillipina WILSON. Louisa was born 1837. She died 1919.


784 M i. General Joseph DALTON.


641. Maj. Peter Wilson HAIRSTON C.S.A. is printed as #238.

785 M i. Samuel (died at age 17) HAIRSTON is printed as #430.

786 F ii. Elizabeth HAIRSTON is printed as #431.

787 F iii. Agnes Wilson HAIRSTON is printed as #432.

788 M iv. Francis Caldwell HAIRSTON is printed as #433.

789 F v. Ruth Wilson HAIRSTON is printed as #434.

790 M vi. Peter W. (Jr.) HAIRSTON is printed as #435.

646. Alcey HAIRSTON is printed as #243.

791 F i. Ruth HAIRSTON is printed as #436.

649. Rye HARDIN (Richard James HARDIN, William Oliver HARDIN, George HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born about 1860 in Jackson, MS.

Rye married Daisy WHITE.


792 M i. Homer Giles HARDIN was born 1905 in Dallas, TX. He died 1972 in Houston, TX.

Homer married Viola Joyce GARRETT(CAIN/HARDING/WILLINGHAM).

651. Frank Owen MCGAVOCK is printed as #463.

793 M i. Spence MCGAVOCK is printed as #667.

794 M ii. Willie MCGAVOCK is printed as #668.

654. Amanda F. CHEATHAM (Amanda MCGAVOCK, Amanda P. HARDIN, John (son of Giles) HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 5 May 1855.

Amanda married Christian S. PEARCE. Christian was born 9 Nov 1853.


795 F i. Amanda Cheatham PEARCE was born 7 Nov 1876.

796 F ii. Maria Christian PEARCE was born 17 Aug 1878.

655. Mary D. CHEATHAM (Amanda MCGAVOCK, Amanda P. HARDIN, John (son of Giles) HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 19 May 1861.

Mary married Thomas H. LIPSCOMB.


797 M i. William Cheatham LIPSCOMB was born 20 Jul 1901.

656. Sophia HARDIN (John (Jr./son of Wm Giles) HARDIN, William Giles HARDIN, John (son of Giles) HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1854. She died 1 Aug 1885.

Sophie died in 1885 in childbirth, along with their child, Lillie.

Sophia married Granville S. JOHNSON on 25 Oct 1876. Granville was born 1847. He died 1912.

Father: William Honson Johnson Mother: Morgiana Napier b. 9 Feb 1827 Marriage 2 Fannie Ewing WILLIAMSON Married: 18 SEP 1888 1 Children Granville Smith JOHNSON b: 27 JUN 1891 Sophie Fannie JOHNSON b: 23 JAN 1894 In 1890, she was living with her father, her grandmother, and her two half-siblings in Gallatin, Sumner, TN


Granville Johnson, age 52 Morgiana Johnson, age 72 (his mother) Morginan Johnson, age 18, daughter - born 1879 Granville S. Johnson Jr., age 8, son - born 1891 Sophy F. Johnson, age 6, daughter - born 1894


798 M i. Harding (died an infant) JOHNSON was born 2 Aug 1877. He died 20 Sep 1877.

799 M ii. Merritt (twin - died an infant) JOHNSON was born 2 Aug 1877. He died 22 Aug 1877.

800 M iii. William Harding JOHNSON was born 15 Apr 1879. He died 1946.

801 F iv. Morgiana Napier Harding JOHNSON was born 4 Jun 1881. She died 1923.

802 F v. Lillie (died at birth) JOHNSON was born 1 Aug 1885. She died 1 Aug 1885.

657. Selene McNairy HARDIN (John (Jr./son of Wm Giles) HARDIN, William Giles HARDIN, John (son of Giles) HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1857. She died 1912.

Selene married Charles P. CURD. Charles was born 1851. He died 1906.


803 M i. Haiden T. CURD was born 1881. He died 1922.

804 M ii. John Harding CURD was born 1889. He died 1952.

659. John (III) HARDIN (John (Jr./son of Wm Giles) HARDIN, William Giles HARDIN, John (son of Giles) HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS).

John married Roberta CHASE.


805 M i. William Giles (IV) HARDIN was born 1898. He died 1981.

806 M ii. John R. (Jack) HARDIN was born 1896. He died 1968.

John married Biodena H. CARSTENS on 1929. Biodena died 1984.

661. Eunice JACKSON (Selene HARDIN, William Giles HARDIN, John (son of Giles) HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 8 Feb 1871. She died 25 Mar 1901.

Eunice married Albert D. MARKS.


807 M i. Albert Jackson (died an infant) MARKS was born 1 Nov 1896. He died 21 May 1897.

663. William Harding JACKSON (Selene HARDIN, William Giles HARDIN, John (son of Giles) HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 13 Jul 1874. He died Jul 1903.

William married Ann D. RICHARDSON.


808 M i. William Harding (Jr.) JACKSON was born 25 Mar 1901. He died 1971.

665. Elizabeth JACKSON (Mary Elizabeth HARDIN, William Giles HARDIN, John (son of Giles) HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 14 Aug 1876. She died 15 Feb 1947.

Mt. Olivet Cemetery -Extracts Lebanon Road Nashville, TN. Elizabeth Jackson Buckner Matthew Gardner Buckner Aug 14, 1876 Oct 10, 1870 (M D Insignia Feb 15, 1947 April 10, 1945 on stone)


Elizabeth married Matthew Gardner BUCKNER. Matthew was born 10 Oct 1870. He died 10 Apr 1945.

Burials in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Nashville TN - Buckner/Hyde Section Henry Bruce Buckner IV Mildred Hyde Buckner Henry B. Buckner, Sr "Big Daddy" wife of June 16, 1904 July 3, 1935 Henry B. Buckner, Sr. April 20, 1995 June 4, 1911 July 18, 1985 H. Bruce Buckner Bessie Littlefield Buckner H B Buckner June 18, 1866 wife of 1833 - 1906 Oct 28, 1950 H. Bruce Buckner, Jr. Nov 5, 1869-May 21, 1925 Sadie G Buckner Clarence Buckner Margaret Garner Buckner 1844 - 1925 1873 - 1922 1903 - 1904 Elizabeth Jackson Buckner Matthew Gardner Buckner Aug 14, 1876 Oct 10, 1870 (M D Insignia Feb 15, 1947 April 10, 1945 on stone)


809 F i. Ellen BUCKNER.

Ellen married Jesse Ely WILLS.

666. Louise JACKSON (Mary Elizabeth HARDIN, William Giles HARDIN, John (son of Giles) HARDIN, Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) HARDIN, William HARDIN, Thomas HARDIN *, THOMAS) was born 1875. She died5 1955.

"History of Belle Meade" by Ridley Wills, II page 70 - William Giles Harding expanded Belle Meade in the mid 1850's, Mr. Wills explains that no one knows if Gen. Harding had an architect involved. To quote: "His granddaughter, Louise Jackson McAlister, believed that he was hisown architect. Handwritten notes found with her obituary notice in 1955 indicate that Harding directed the construction of the house, using "selected workmen assisted by slaves."

Louise married Harry Hill MCALISTER.


810 F i. Mary Jackson MCALISTER.

811 F ii. Louise Jackson MCALISTER was born 21 Nov 1907. She died 24 Feb 1990.

Louise married H. Hamilton LOVE.

812 F iii. Laura MCALISTER was born 20 Oct 1909. She died 19 Jan 1980.

Laura married Donald Upton BATHRICK.


Appendix A - Sources 1 "History of Maury County, Tennessee". 2 Some Early Rockingham County, NC Marriages. 3 "Stokes County Heritage, North Carolina". 4 "Early Obituaries of Williamson County, TN". 5 "The History of Belle Meade, Mansion, Plantation and Stud". 6 "The History of Belle Meade, Mansion, Plantation and Stud", pg 27. 7 "Old Enough To Die". 8 "Olden Times of Colbert & Franklin Counties in Alabama" . 9 Williamson County, Tennessee Marriages. 10 Idaho Marriages, 1842-1996. 11 "The Battle Book". 12 Letter of Mrs. Leb A. Hampton. 13 MIssouri Marriages, 1851-1900.

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Alcey ()................................................................................23 Elizabeth (1S) ........................................................................1 Gertrude (570S).................................................................162 Hattie (497S) .....................................................................156 Lida (385S - b.1875)..........................................................144 Mary (341S) ......................................................................127 Sarah B. () ...........................................................................80 Unknown (585S) ...............................................................174

ABSTON/ALSTON Fannie L. (331S - m.1859).................................................126

ALDRIDGE Lamar (583S - b.1894).......................................................172 Robins Pharr (583S) ..........................................................172

ALLEN P.G. (285S - m.1870).........................................................115

ANDERSON Elizabeth "Anne" (487) .....................................................122 Hardin Bostick "Hardie" (488) ..........................................122 William "Willie" (489) ......................................................122 William J. (323S - b.1810) ................................................122

ANDREWS Baker Pegram (414 - b.1869)...............................................97 Fannie Harvey (410 - b.1858)..............................................96 James (57S - m.1846) ..........................................................46 Lula Virginia (413 - b.1866)................................................97 Mary Catherine (415 - b.1873) ............................................97 Nathaniel J. (411 - b.1860) ..................................................97 Virginia Susan (412 - b.1862) .............................................97 William Wilkins (205S - b.1827) ........................................96

ARMSTRONG Hattie (452S - m.1902) ......................................................152

BACIGALUPI Annie () .............................................................................177

BAKER Elizabeth (119S) ..................................................................68

BANNER Elisha (366S) .....................................................................129 Elisha (540) .......................................................................129 Elizabeth (543) ..................................................................129 Henry (542) .......................................................................129 James (541) .......................................................................129 Unknown (544)..................................................................129

BARKLEY Maria (285S - m.1866) ......................................................115

BARNETT Elizabeth ( - b.1795) ............................................................48 Elizabeth (160S - b.1795)....................................................83

BATHRICK Donald Upton (666S) ........................................................181

BATTLE EMMA JANE * (385S - b.1840).......................................141 JOSIAH DAVIS ( - b.1811) ......................................139, 141 Mary Thomas (381S - b.1844)...........................................139

BEASLEY Phoebe (8S - b.1731) ...........................................................16

BELL Jobe (54S - m.1816) ............................................................41

BITTING Dr. Clay (551)....................................................................130 Hollingsworth (694) ..........................................................159 Jettis W, (539) ...................................................................128

John Anthony (550) .......................................................... 130 John W. (369S) ................................................................. 130 Joseph Anthony () ............................................................. 178 Joseph H (537 - b.1846)........................................... 128, 159 Louisa (624S - b.1837)...................................................... 178 Mary (691) ........................................................................ 159 Mary J. (535 - b.1844)....................................................... 128 Rachel (553)...................................................................... 130 Samuel F. (538 - b.1847)................................................... 128 Virginia (692).................................................................... 159 Walter (536) ...................................................................... 128 Walter (693) ...................................................................... 159 Walter Raleigh (366S)....................................................... 128 William (552).................................................................... 130

BLACKBURN Elizabeth (54S - m.1809) .................................................... 41 FIVE CHILDREN (184) ..................................................... 47 William (58S)...................................................................... 47

BLACKLOCK Henry "Harry" (324S - m.1890) ........................................ 123

BLACKMAN Mary (285S) ...................................................................... 115

BLACKWELL Beulah (558S) ................................................................... 160

BOBBITT Minnie A. (529S - b.1874) ................................................ 158

BOITANO Angelo () ........................................................................... 177 Anna Edith (588S - b.1886) .............................................. 177

BOSLEY Elizabeth W. (125S - b.1803).............................................. 73

BOSTICK * BETHENIA ( - b.1767).............................................. 75, 95 * BETHENIA (55 - b.1767)......................................... 21, 41 * BETHENIA (74S - b.1767).............................................. 53 Absalom (son of Ferdinand & Eliz) (177 - b.1809) ... 47, 95 Absalom (son of Rbt F.) (592) .......................................... 144 Absalom II ( - b.1769)................................................... 48, 49 Absalom II (56 - b.1769) ............................................. 21, 43 Absalom, III (167) ....................................................... 45, 94 Absolom (147 - b.1790) ...................................................... 41 Angelina (Anne) (390) ........................................................ 94 Ann Rand (173 - b.1801) .................................................... 46 Anne ( - b.1779) ........................................ 45, 46, 81, 84, 127 Anne (59 - b.1779) ....................................................... 21, 48 Bethenia (148 - b.1788)....................................................... 41 Bethenia (197)..................................................................... 50 Bethenia (dau Absalom & Nancy Dalton) (168 - b.1809) ... 45 Bethenia (dau Absalom & Nancy Dalton) (59S - b.1809)... 48 Bethenia (dau of Ferdinand & Eliz) (172 - b.1800)............. 46 Capt. John LITTON C.S.A. (321 - b.1826).............. 77, 119 Capt. Thomas Hardin (325 - b.1833) ....................... 77, 123 Catherine "Kate" (496) .......................................... 124, 156 Catherine "Kate" Warren (494 - m.1890).......................... 123 Catherine Warren (322 - b.1828) ............................. 77, 120 Christina (156 - b.1802) ...................................................... 41 Christina (61 - b.1785) ................................................ 22, 50 Col. Absalom * ( - b.1740).................................................. 53 Col. Absalom * (9S - b.1740) ............................................. 17 David D. (169) .................................................................... 45 David D. (59S) .................................................................... 49 David Jackson (182 - b.1819) ............................................. 47


Don F. (149 - b.1791) ..........................................................41 Don Ferdinand (57 - b.1772) .......................................21, 46 Don Ferdinand (son of Hampton) (313) ..............................75 Dr./Maj. Joseph "Joe" C.S.A. (324 - b.1832)...........77, 122 Eliza Jane (326 - b.1836) ...........................................77, 124 Elizabeth (152 - b.1796) ......................................................41 Elizabeth (171) ....................................................................46 Elizabeth (59S) ....................................................................48 Elizabeth (dau of Ferdinand & Eliz) (176 - b.1807) ..47, 95 Fannie Manoah (508 - d.1894) ..........................................127 Ferdinand (Jr) (178 - b.1811)...............................................47 Frank (203) ..........................................................................50 Hampton (150 - b.1793)...............................................41, 75 Hampton (163S - b.1793) ....................................................88 Hardin Perkins "Hardie" (480 - b.1858) ............................120 Hardin Perkins (157 - b.1804).....................................41, 75 James A. (316 - b.1819) .............................................75, 118 James A. (Jr.) (684 - b.1893) .............................................158 James Abner (392)...............................................................94 James Alfred (158 - b.1806) ........................................41, 78 James Alfred (314 - b.1819) ......................................75, 118 James Coleman C.S.A. (331 - b.1835) ......................80, 124 James Pickney (180 - b.1815)..............................................47 Jane (154 - b.1799) ..............................................................41 Jesse (388) ...........................................................................94 Jincey Carolina (200) ..........................................................50 JOHN ( - b.1710).................................................................17 John (Jr.) (151 - b.1794) ..............................................41, 75 John (son of Ferdinand & Eliz) (175 - b.1805)....................47 John (son of Hampton & Susannah Hampton) (312 - b.1812)

.......................................................................................75 John (son of James & Nancy) (337) ....................................80 John Claybrook (319 - b.1832)............................................75 John K. (315).......................................................................75 John Litton (Jr.) (482 - b.1862) .........................................120 John Thornton (181 - b.1817)..............................................47 John W. (391) ......................................................................94 Joseph (481 - b.1860) ........................................................120 Joseph (Jr.) (493 - d.1871).................................................123 Lizzie (476) .......................................................................118 Lizzie (Elizabeth?) (475 - b.1849) ...........................118, 156 Louisa (dau of Ferdinand & Eliz) (183 - b.1821) ................47 Louise (393) ........................................................................95 Lucy Jane (320 - b.1843).....................................................75 Maj. John Rev. War (DAR # 158183) ( - b.1765) ...............88 Maj. John Rev. War (DAR # 158183) (54 - b.1765) ..21, 39 Manoah (155 - b.1801) ........................................................41 Manoah (died young) (327 - b.1838)...................................77 Manoah H(ardin) (son of James & Nancy) (334) ................80 Manoah Hardin (60 - b.1780) .....................................22, 49 Manoah Thornton (202).......................................................50 Margaret Rebecca "Mag" (329 - b.1842) ................78, 124 Margret Litton (490)..........................................................123 Martha Ann (same as Mary?) (205 - b.1830).............50, 96 Martha Elizabeh (dau of James & Nancy) (336 - b.1841) ...80 Mary (492 - d.1949) .................................................123, 156 Mary A. (dau of James & Fannie) (506)............................126 Mary Ann (204)...................................................................50 Mary Anne "May" (323 - b.1830) ............................77, 121 Mary Frances (198) .............................................................50 Mary G. (153 - b.1797)........................................................41 Mary J. (dau of James & Nancy) (333) ...............................80 Mary Jane (389) .........................................................94, 144 Mary Litton (495 - m.1880)...............................................123 Mary Manoah (317 - b.1837) ....................................75, 118 Merry C. (son? of James & Fannie) (505) .........................126 Nine Children (387).............................................................94

Peter Lewis (201 - b.1818).................................................. 50 Prof. James A. (II) (504 - b.1860) ........................... 126, 157 Pvt. Abram "Abe" C.S.A. (328 - b.1840) ............................ 77 Richard Whitman Hyde (318 - b.1816)............................... 75 Robert F. (397) .......................................................... 95, 144 Sallie P. (507).................................................................... 126 Sara P. (335 - b.1839) ......................................................... 80 Sarah Elizabeth (199).......................................................... 50 Susan (330 - b.1846) ........................................................... 78 Susannah (58 - d.1811) ................................................ 21, 47 Susannah Davis (170) ......................................................... 45 Susannah Davis (59S) ......................................................... 48 Thomas King (332 - b.1833) ............................................... 80 Wesley (179 - b.1813)......................................................... 47 William "Willie" Hunt (491)............................................. 123 William (son of James & Nancy) (338) .............................. 80 William Rand (174 - b.1803)....................................... 47, 94 William Thomas "Willie" (479 - b.1855).......................... 120

BOW Lorenzo (134S) ................................................................... 74

BRANSFORD Mary Louise (463S - b.1878) ............................................ 155

BROCK (366S)................................................................................ 128

BROWDER Jane (174S).......................................................................... 94

BROWN Harriet (570S) ................................................................... 162 Mabel Adams (558S - b.1871) .......................................... 160

BRYAN Mary (583S - b.1889)........................................................ 168

BUCK George W. (475S - m.1844) .............................................. 156 Lena W. (670 - b.1867) ..................................................... 156

BUCKNER Ellen (809) ........................................................................ 181 Matthew Gardner (665S - b.1870) .................................... 181

BURT Susan Ann (381S - b.1836) ............................................... 139

CABELL Pocahontas (96S)................................................................. 66

CALDWELL Frances McCoy (dau Judge David F.) of Rowan, NC (238S)

..................................................................................... 103 CALLOWAY

Bethenia Ruth (255) ............................................................ 66 George Hairston (never married) (254)............................... 66 John (103S) ......................................................................... 66

CAMERON Anne Mackintosh (385S - b.1875) .................................... 143

CARR (557S)................................................................................ 160

CARSTENS Biodena H. (659S - m.1929) ............................................. 180

CARTER Peter (7S) ............................................................................ 15

CARUTHERS Bessie (455S) .................................................................... 152

CASE Henry C. (371S) ................................................................ 130

CHASE Roberta (659S) .................................................................. 180

CHEATHAM Amanda F. (654 - b.1855) ....................................... 152, 179 Archer (452S - b.1828) ..................................................... 152 Mary D. (655 - b.1861) ............................................ 152, 179 William Bolling (653 - b.1852)......................................... 152


CHEVALIER (Mr.) (232S) ........................................................................99

CHILTON "Van" T. (164S - b.1818).....................................................92

CLAY Henry (462 - d.1842) .........................................................112 Joseph W. (279S - m.1827) ...............................................112

CLOPTON Elizabeth Hoggart ( - b.1811) ............................................150 Elizabeth Hoggart (122S - b.1811) ......................................70

COCKRILL John (33S) ...........................................................................38

COLE Dr. William W. (61S) ..........................................................51

COLLINS Jerry (588S) .......................................................................177 Neeter (159S - m.1846) .......................................................81

COOK Kurya (31S - m.1803)..........................................................37

COOKE Flora (232S - m.1855) .......................................................102

CORN Melinda (93S)......................................................................64

COVE Elizabeth (31S - m.1801).....................................................37

COX Edith (6S) ............................................................................11

CROWELL Sadie (455S) ......................................................................152

CUMMINS Lottie Lee (577S - b.1893) ................................................165

CURD Charles P. (657S - b.1851).................................................180 Haiden T. (803 - b.1881) ...................................................180 John Harding (804 - b.1889)..............................................180

DABNEY Ann () ..................................................................................99

DALTON Absalom (Jr) (417) ..............................................................97 Absalom Bostick (206 - b.1804) ..................................51, 97 Alfred Scales (638)............................................................146 Betha Elisia (639) ..............................................................146 Bethenia (dau of David Jr & Christina Bostick) (213) ........51 Capt. David (Sr.) Rev. War ( - b.1742)................................50 Capt. David,, Sr. ()...............................................................45 Charles Franklin (633).......................................................146 Christina Malissa (212) .......................................................51 Cora Alice (637) ................................................................146 David Nicholas (215) ..........................................................52 David Nicholas (416 - b.1826) ...................................97, 145 David, Jr. (61S - b.1771) .....................................................50 Don Ferdinand (209) ...........................................................51 Dr. David Nicholas (Jr.) (624).................................146, 178 Frances Agnes (626)..........................................................146 General Joseph (784) .........................................................178 Georgia Augusta (640) ......................................................146 Isaac Davis (207).................................................................51 John Alamand (214) ............................................................52 John Fox Poindexter (635) ................................................146 Margaret Mellias (629)......................................................146 Marshall Oliver (634) ........................................................146 Mary (211)...........................................................................51 Nancy ( - b.1768)...........................................................48, 49 Nancy (56S - b.1768) ..........................................................45 Nancy Ellen (628)..............................................................146 Oscar Davis (Sr) (636).......................................................146 Perkins (208) .......................................................................51

Robert Edward (627)......................................................... 146 Rufus Isaac (631 - b.1855) ................................................ 146 Samuel G. (418) .................................................................. 97 Susannah (167S) ................................................................. 94 Susannah (210).................................................................... 51 Thomas Alexander (632)................................................... 146 Walter Ernest (630)........................................................... 146 William Absalom (625)..................................................... 146

DARLINGTON Mary Eunice (560S - b.1878)............................................ 160

DARNALL Harry M. (96S).................................................................... 66

DAVENPORT Jane/Jennie (397S) ............................................................ 144

DAVIS Charles (7S) ........................................................................ 15 Charlotte (123S - b.1790).................................................... 72 Clara E. (697 - b.1886)...................................................... 159 Fanny (dau of John & Dorcas) (30S) .................................. 36 John A. (329S - b.1834) .................................................... 124 Kitty Litton (501) .............................................................. 124 Margaret "Margie" (502)................................................... 124 Mary (503 - b.1878) .......................................................... 124 Susannah ().................................................................... 45, 50 Theodore Edward (556S - m.1882)................................... 159 Wade H. (696 - b.1884)..................................................... 159

DEMOSS Caroline Frances (123S)...................................................... 72

DENSON Emily E. (57S) .................................................................... 47

DILLARD Peter (105S) ........................................................................ 67 Sarah Hughes (96S) ............................................................ 66

DONNELLY Martha (dau of James & Isobel) (30S - m.1804) ................. 36

DOUB Amanda Jane (61S) ............................................................. 51

EARLY Elizabeth "Lib" Drennon (681 - b.1916) ........................... 157 Hardin (676)...................................................................... 156 Hardin Bostick (497 - d.1902)................................. 124, 156 John (498) ................................................................ 124, 156 John (Jr.) (678 - b.1905).................................................... 157 John Fletcher (326S - m.1860).......................................... 124 Joseph Horton Fall (680 - b.1913)..................................... 157 Katherine "Kay" Wyche (679 - b.1909) ............................ 157 Lila (499) .......................................................................... 124 Margaret (500) ........................................................ 124, 157 Margaret (677 - b.1903) .................................................... 157

EDWARDS Elizabeth (26)...................................................................... 10 Martha (21) ......................................................................... 10 Mary (20) ............................................................................ 10 Obedience (27).................................................................... 10 Peter (23)............................................................................. 10 Phoebe (22) ......................................................................... 10 Priscilla (25)........................................................................ 10 Sarah (24)............................................................................ 10 Thomas (5S)........................................................................ 10 Thomas (son of Thos. & Mary Hardin) (19) ....................... 10 William (28)........................................................................ 10

ELLIS Bethenia (42 - b.1752)......................................................... 15 Capt. Charles of "Red Hill" (7S - b.1719)........................... 13 Charles (Jr.) (40 - b.1749) ................................................... 15 Edith (36 - b.1743) .............................................................. 14 Elizabeth (43 - b.1754)........................................................ 15


Hannah (35 - b.1741) ...................................................14, 38 John (Sr) () ..........................................................................13 Josiah of "Red Hill" (38 - b.1746) .......................................14 Marian (39 - b.1747)............................................................15 Richard Shelton (34 - b.1740) .............................................14 Rosanna (44 - b.1755) .........................................................15 Sarah (Sally) (41 - b.1750) ..................................................15 Susannah (37 - b.1744)........................................................14

EVANS Amanda Evans (381S - b.1831).........................................139 Mary ().................................................................................48

EWELL Mary (18S) ..........................................................................33

FALL Willie (498S) .....................................................................157

FARRAR Jane (33S)............................................................................37 Stephen C. (119S)................................................................68

FERRELL Martha (353S - b.1829) .....................................................127

FLYNT Sarah (Sally) ( - m.1807) .....................................................48 Sarah (Sally) (159S - m.1807) .............................................80 Thomas ( - b.1750) ..............................................................80

FRANCES Mary ().................................................................................50

GADBERRY Ada Lavalette (557S).........................................................160

GARRETT(CAIN/HARDING/WILLINGHAM) Viola Joyce (649S) ............................................................179

GEORGE Robert (33S) ........................................................................38

GILES William * ( - b.1650) .............................................................2

GILES * Mary (2S - b.1688) ................................................................2

GILLIAM Devereaux (7S)....................................................................14 William (7S) ........................................................................15

GRAVELEY` William S. (96S)..................................................................66

GRAY Jennie (504S - b.1863).......................................................158

GRIDER Henry (449S) .....................................................................150

GUINN Absalom Bostick (188)........................................................48 Absalom Bostick (56S)........................................................45 Almand () ............................................................................48 Anne D. (195)......................................................................49 Bethenia P. (194) .................................................................49 Bethenia P. (56S).................................................................45 Christina F. (190) ................................................................48 Christina F. (350S) ............................................................127 Cynthia (350S) ..................................................................127 David B. (193 - d.1841) ................................................49, 96 Manoah H. (192) .................................................................48 Manoah H. (56S) .................................................................46 Marmaduke Atwater (187) ..................................................48 Marmaduke Atwater (56S) ..................................................46 Mary "Polly" E. (161S - b.1796) .........................................84 Mary "Polly" E. (185 - b.1796)...................................48, 95 Melissa (196).......................................................................49 Nancy E. (191) ....................................................................48 Susanna (159S - b.1815)......................................................81 Susanna (189 - b.1815)........................................................48 Thornton Preston ( - d.1831) .....................45, 46, 81, 84, 127

Thornton Preston (59S - d.1831)......................................... 48 Thornton Preston (Jr.) (186)................................................ 48 William Thornton (409) ...................................................... 96

HAIRSTON Agnes Wilson (432 - b.1860) ............................................ 103 Alcey (243 - b.1830) ................................................... 66, 104 America (103 - b.1801) ................................................ 33, 66 Ann (104S).......................................................................... 67 Ann Marshall (never married) (258) ................................... 67 Col. George (son of Robert & Ruth Stovall) ( - b.1750) .... 97,

146 Col. George (son of Robert & Ruth Stovall) (18S - b.1750)32 Col. Peter (Jr.) C.S.A. (261)................................................ 67 Constantine (never married) (102) ...................................... 33 Elizabeth (236).................................................................... 64 Elizabeth (246).................................................................... 66 Elizabeth (263).................................................................... 67 Elizabeth (431).................................................................. 103 Elizabeth P. (257)................................................................ 67 Elizabeth Seawell (440 - b.1855) ...................................... 107 Francis Caldwell (433 - b.1862)........................................ 103 George (239) ....................................................................... 65 George (262) ....................................................................... 67 George (96 - b.1784) .................................................... 33, 66 George (killed in the War) C.S.A. (234) ............................. 64 George Stovall (245) ........................................................... 66 Harden (97 - b.1786) ........................................................... 33 Henry (100 - b.1793)........................................................... 33 Henry (never married) (240) ............................................... 66 J.W.T. (104S)...................................................................... 67 John (died in the War) C.S.A. (256).................................... 67 John Adams (93 - b.1781) ........................................... 32, 64 John Tyler (244).................................................................. 66 John Tyler (441)................................................................ 107 Judge Nathaniel (1st Cousin) (253S - b.1851) .................. 107 Lizzie Lee (252) .................................................................. 66 Louisa Hardiman (249)............................................. 66, 106 Maj. Peter (son of Robert & Ruth Stovall) - Revolutionary

War ( - b.ï and Alcey PERKINS.................................... 33 Maj. Peter (son of Robert & Ruth Stovall) - Revolutionary

War (65S - b.1751) ........................................................ 52 Maj. Peter Wilson C.S.A. (238 - b.1819).................. 65, 102 Maj. Peter Wilson C.S.A. (428S - b.1819)........................ 147 Maj. Samuel Hardin C.S.A. (243S - b.1822)..................... 104 Marshall (104 - b.1802) ............................................... 33, 66 Marshall C.S.A. (235) ......................................................... 64 Mary Louisa (251) .............................................................. 66 Nicholas (never married) (99) ............................................. 33 Nicholas Hardiman (248) .................................................... 66 Peter (105S) ........................................................................ 67 Peter (never married) (101) ................................................. 33 Peter W. (Jr.) (435 - b.1871) ............................................. 104 Robert ( - d.1792).......................................................... 32, 52 Robert (216S - b.1783)........................................................ 97 Robert (94 - b.1783)............................................................ 32 Robert (never married) (241) .............................................. 66 Robert Henry (250) ............................................................. 66 Ruth (242) ........................................................................... 66 Ruth (436 - b.1863)........................................................... 104 Ruth Stovall ( - b.1783)....................................................... 65 Ruth Stovall (105 - b.1804) ......................................... 33, 67 Ruth Stovall (18S - b.1783) ................................................ 33 Ruth Stovall (216 - b.1783) ......................................... 53, 97 Ruth Stovall (259)............................................................... 67 Ruth Wilson (434 - b.1869)............................................... 103 Samuel ( - b.1788)............................................................. 147 Samuel ()............................................................................. 67


Samuel (260) .......................................................................67 Samuel (419S - b.1788) .....................................................146 Samuel (95 - b.1788) ....................................................33, 64 Samuel (98) .........................................................................33 Samuel (died at age 17) (430 - b.1850)..............................103 Samuel William (253 - m.1848).................................66, 106 Susan (237)..........................................................................64 Susan Maria (247) ...............................................................66

HALBERT Hardin Bostick "Hardie" (483) ..........................................121 John Bently (322S - m.1847).............................................121 John Bently (Jr.) (485 - d.1907).........................................121 Margaret (486)...................................................................121 Mary (484).........................................................................121

HAMMOCK Winona (578S - m.1928) ...................................................165

HAMPTON (Mr.) (59S) ..........................................................................49 * James ( - b.1723) ..............................................................42 * MARY ELIZABETH "Lilie" (583 - b.1863) ......143, 165 Ada Charlene (741 - b.1907) .............................................165 Ann Caroline (511 - b.1840)..............................................127 Ann Elizabeth (554 - b.1856) ............................................130 Anne A. (363 - b.1815) ...............................................84, 128 Annie Louise (740 - b.1902)..............................................165 Armstead O. (375 - b.1828).................................................88 Asbury James (345 - b.1825)...............................................81 Bethenia Carolina (349 - b.1813) ........................................83 Bethenia Virginia (567 - b.1849).......................................132 Brock Chilton (588 - b.1880)...................................144, 177 Burtie Wyche (731 - b.1882) .............................................164 Capt. SAMUEL * ( - b.1758) ........................................75, 95 Capt. SAMUEL * (55S - b.1758) ........................................42 Carrie (580) .......................................................................139 Cle B. (688 - b.1905) .........................................................159 Collins ( - b.1737)................................................................85 Columbus Samuel (546) ....................................................129 Cynthia A. (564 - b.1843)..................................................132 Cynthia Amanda (382 - b.1827) ..........................................91 Cynthia Elizabeth (372 - b.1837) ..............................84, 130 Cynthia Mitchell (582 - b.1861) ........................................142 Dot E. (689 - b.1908).........................................................159 Dr. John Placibo (381 - b.1825) ................................91, 137 Dr. Thomas McCrary (584 - b.1865) .................................143 Edwina Hurton (737 - b.1897)...........................................165 Elise (732 - b.1885) ...........................................................165 Eliza (362 - b.1813) ....................................................84, 128 Elizabeth (352 - b.1820) ......................................................83 Elizabeth (373) ....................................................................87 Elizabeth Evans (548)........................................................129 Emma Battle (585 - b.1869).....................................143, 172 Estelle Olive (695 - b.1899)...............................................159 Eveline (376 - b.1833) .........................................................88 Frances Jane (351 - b.1818).......................................83, 127 George Davis (742 - b.1913) .............................................165 George S. (528) .................................................................127 Hannah E. (527) ................................................................127 Hardin B. (529 - b.1865) ..........................................128, 158 Harriett Cecil (733 - b.1889) .............................................165 Henry C. (162S - b.1795) ....................................................85 James F. (522) ...................................................................127 James M. ( - b.1786)............................................................48 James M. (159 - b.1786)...............................................42, 80 James Matison (341 - b.1812) ...................................80, 127 James Matthew (350 - b.1817) ..................................83, 127 James Matthew (59S - b.1817) ............................................48 James P. (738 - b.1897) .....................................................165

James William (509) ......................................................... 127 Jane Elizabeth (754 - b.1921)............................................ 177 John (356 - b.1840) ............................................................. 83 John (545) ......................................................................... 129 John B. (161 - b.1793) ................................................. 42, 83 John B. (185S - b.1793) ...................................................... 95 John Frank (565 - b.1846)................................................. 132 John M. (died a child) (370 - b.1832).................................. 84 John Manoah (577 - b.1857) ................................... 139, 164 John N. (524) .................................................................... 127 John P. (374 - b.1826)................................................ 88, 131 John Placibo (II) (734 - b.1891) ........................................ 165 John W. (344 - b.1822) ....................................................... 81 John W. (59S - b.1822) ....................................................... 48 LaFayette (355 - b.1837) ........................................... 83, 128 Laura Idell (531 - b.1867) ................................................. 128 Leb A. (685 - b.1895)........................................................ 158 Lenora Elizabeth (532 - b.1870) ....................................... 128 Manoah (354 - b.1830)........................................................ 83 Manoah (son of Samuel F.) (526) ..................................... 127 MANOAH BOSTICK (164 - b.1799) ......................... 42, 88 MANOAH BOSTICK (II) (C.S.A.) (385 - b.1835).. 93, 139 Manoah Bostick (III) (587 - b.1877) ................................. 143 Manoah Hardin (513 - b.1845).......................................... 127 Margaret B. (346 - b.1831).................................................. 81 Martha (357 - b.1842) ......................................................... 83 Martha (534) ..................................................................... 128 Martha C. (348 - b.1835)..................................................... 81 Martha C. (523)................................................................. 127 Martha C. (died a baby) (368 - b.1828)............................... 84 Martha Eva (566 - b.1847) ...................................... 132, 161 Mary (162 - b.1795) ..................................................... 42, 84 Mary (358) .......................................................................... 83 Mary (365 - b.1822) ............................................................ 84 Mary A. (342 - b.1815) ....................................................... 80 Mary A. (521) ................................................................... 127 Mary Cynthia (576 - b.1850)............................................. 139 Mary Elizabeth (512 - b.1842) .......................................... 127 Mary Jane (369 - b.1830) .......................................... 84, 129 Mary Mitchell (380 - b.1823) .................................... 91, 132 Mary Rebecca (735).......................................................... 165 Matilda (384 - b.1833) ........................................................ 92 Matilda Parberry (586 - b.1873) ............................ 143, 175 Mitchell (581) ................................................................... 139 Molile (died a baby) (555 - b.1858) .................................. 130 Nancy (525) ...................................................................... 127 Nancy Ann (347 - b.1831) .................................................. 81 Nicholas (359)..................................................................... 83 Pen B. (687 - b.1903) ........................................................ 159 Plassie Houston (579 - b.1861)................................ 139, 165 Plassie Houston (Jr.) (743) ................................................ 165 Sallie (568 - b.1856).......................................................... 132 Samuel (363S)................................................................... 128 Samuel (Jr.) ( - b.1790) ....................................................... 48 Samuel (Jr.) (160 - b.1790).......................................... 42, 81 Samuel Ferdinand (353 - b.1824) ............................. 83, 127 Samuel James (died a baby) (364 - b.1818) ........................ 84 Samuel Moses (339 - b.1808) ............................................. 80 Samuel T. (510 - b.1840) .................................................. 127 Susan (377 - b.1836) ........................................................... 88 Susan E. (343 - b.1819)....................................................... 80 Susan E. (383 - b.1828)....................................................... 91 Susan Rebecca (366 - b.1823) ................................... 84, 128 Susan Virginia (556 - b.1861) ................................. 130, 159 Susannah B. (150S)............................................................. 75 Susannah/Susan (150S - b.1797)......................................... 75 Susannah/Susan (163 - b.1797)................................... 42, 88


Susie Burt (739 - b.1900) ..................................................165 Suzie (360) ..........................................................................83 Tex A. (686 - b.1897) ........................................................159 Thomas F. (340 - b.1810) ....................................................80 Thomas F. (died a child) (386 - d.1835) ..............................93 Thomas L. (530) ................................................................128 Thornton Preston (367 - b.1825)...............................84, 129 Walter Lee (547) ...............................................................129 William (361) ......................................................................83 William Anthony C.S.A. (died in battle) (371 - b.1835) .84,

130 William Burt (578 - b.1859) ....................................139, 165 William L. (520)................................................................127 William Payne (736 - b.1895) ...........................................165 William Preston (549 - b.1858) ...............................129, 159 Zera Effie (690 - b.1901)...................................................159

HANDY Margaret Smillie (560S) ....................................................161

HARDEMAN Col. Thomas (son of John & Dorothy Edwards) (14S -

b.1750) ...........................................................................29 Col. Thomas (son of John & Dorothy Edwards) (16S -

b.1750) ...........................................................................29 Thomas Jones (86 - b.1788).................................................29

HARDIN (3 Children - Died Before Adulthood) (280) .......................70 (at least 3 babies who died as infants) (461)......................112 (infant - name not known) (472)........................................116 Alexander (48 - b.1760).......................................................16 Alfred B. (468 - b.1850) ....................................................115 Amanda P. ( - b.1807) .......................................................114 Amanda P. (277 - b.1807) ..........................................70, 107 Andrew J. (298 - b.1848).....................................................73 Ann (dau of Thos. & Phoebe) (51 - b.1760) ........................16 Augustus A. (311) ...............................................................75 Benjamin (son of Thos. & Phoebe) (52)..............................16 Bethenia * (4 - b.1719) .........................................................3 Catherine Amanda (269 - b.1806) .......................................68 Charlotte Morris (283 - b.1816)...........................................72 Daniel (son of Wm & Martha) (144) ...................................39 David (288 - b.1829) ...........................................................72 David Morris (126 - b.1795)................................................36 Edward (49 - b.1765)...........................................................16 Eleanor Amy (467 - b.1848) ....................................115, 156 Eliza Davis (282 - b.1813)...................................................72 Elizabeth (131 - b.1778) ......................................................37 Elizabeth Bibb (135 - b.1783) .............................................38 Elizabeth Dillah (266 - b.1802) ...........................................68 Elizabeth J. (466 - b.1843).................................................115 Elizabeth Virginia (279 - b.1812)..............................70, 112 Emily V. (304).....................................................................74 Erasmus (142)......................................................................38 Eveline Scott (310) ..............................................................74 Gen. William Giles of "Belle Meade" (TN) (278 - b.1808)

...............................................................................70, 108 George (138 - b.1797) .........................................................38 George (471 - b.1858) .......................................................115 George M. (267 - b.1801)....................................................68 George of Virginia (119 - b.1773) ...............................35, 68 George W. (284 - b.1818)....................................................72 George Washington (295) ...................................................73 Giles (Jr.) (123 - b.1784) ..............................................36, 71 Giles (son of Wm & Sarah) (30 - b.1749) ...................12, 35 Giles S. (Jr.) (469 - b.1852) ...............................................115 Giles Scales (285 - b.1820) .........................................72, 114 Henry (son of James & Julia) (306).....................................74 Henry Perkins (287 - b.1825) ..............................................72

Homer Giles (792 - b.1905) .............................................. 179 J. (470 - b.1854) ................................................................ 115 James (son of Wm & Martha) (146 - b.1791)............ 39, 74 James Donnelly (127 - b.1804) ........................................... 36 James Monroe (292)............................................................ 73 James T. (303)..................................................................... 74 Jean (134 - b.1784) ...................................................... 37, 73 Jesse (130 - b.1775) ............................................................ 37 John (289 - b.1831) ............................................................. 72 John (III) (659) ........................................................ 152, 180 John (Jr./son of Wm Giles) (455 - b.1831)............. 110, 152 John (son of Giles) of "Belle Meade" (TN) (121 - b.1777)

................................................................................. 36, 69 John (son of Wm & Martha) (141)...................................... 38 John B. (265 - b.1799)......................................................... 68 John Edgar (296 - b.1833) ........................................ 73, 117 John Edgar (Jr.) (474) ....................................................... 118 John J. (309)........................................................................ 74 John R. (Jack) (806 - b.1896)............................................ 180 Josiah (53)........................................................................... 16 Judith (137) ......................................................................... 38 Julia A. (308) ...................................................................... 74 Mahala (268 - b.1804)......................................................... 68 Martha (dau of James & Julia) (300)................................... 74 Martha (Patsey) (124 - b.1786) ........................................... 36 Mary (5) ........................................................................... 3, 7 Mary (dau of Thos. & Phoebe) (50 - b.1765)...................... 16 Mary A. (465 - b.1841) ..................................................... 115 Mary Elizabeth of "West Meade" Nashville (460 -

b.1850)................................................................. 112, 154 Nancy (dau of Wm. & Martha) (140 - b.1780) ................... 38 Nathaniel Adams McNairy (died an infant) (456 - b.1832)

..................................................................................... 110 Nathaniel McNairy (died a youth) (457 - b.1833)............. 111 Peter Giles (270 - b.1808) ................................................... 68 Peter Perkins (128).............................................................. 36 Rachel N. (291 - m.1841)........................................... 73, 116 Rene (129 - b.1774) ............................................................ 37 Rene (died a child) (32 - b.1753) ........................................ 12 Richard James (442 - b.1842) ................................. 107, 148 Robert (297) ........................................................................ 73 Robert (301) ........................................................................ 74 Robert (son of Thos. & Phoebe) (47 - b.1755).................... 16 Rye (649 - b.1860).................................................... 148, 179 Sarah "Sally" (120 - b.1776)....................................... 36, 68 Sarah (133 - b.1783)............................................................ 37 Sarah (29 - b.1746) ...................................................... 11, 33 Sarah (307).......................................................................... 74 Sarah Amy (290 - d.1861)................................................... 72 Sarah Ann (273 - b.1814).................................................... 68 Selene (459 - b.1846)................................................ 111, 153 Selene McNairy (657 - b.1857)................................ 152, 180 Sophia (656 - b.1854)............................................... 152, 179 Stephen T. (305).................................................................. 74 Susannah/Sarah (7 - b.1721)......................................... 3, 12 Thomas (132 - b.1781)........................................................ 37 Thomas (Jr.) (136 - b.1787) ................................................ 38 Thomas (son of Thos. & Mary Giles) (8 - b.1731)....... 3, 15 Thomas (son of Thos. & Phoebe Beasley) (45 - b.1750) .... 16 Thomas (son of Wm & Martha) (143 - b.1787) .................. 39 Thomas (son of Wm. & Sarah LaForce) (33 - b.1755) .. 12,

37 Thomas J. (Jr.) (294) ........................................................... 73 Thomas Jefferson (125 - b.1792) ................................ 36, 72 Thomas P. (271 - b.1809).................................................... 68 William (3)............................................................................ 1 William (6 - b.1719)....................................................... 3, 10


William (II) (31 - b.1750) ............................................12, 36 William (Jr.) (145)...............................................................39 William (son of Giles) ( - b.1788) .....................................150 William (son of Giles) (122 - b.1788) ..........................36, 70 William (son of James & Julia) (302)..................................74 William (son of Thos. & Phoebe) (46 - b.1755)..........16, 38 William Giles (III) (son of John Jr.) (658 - b.1860)...........152 William Giles (IV) (805 - b.1898) .....................................180 William Giles (Jr.) (died an infant) (458 - b.1835) ............111 William M. (286 - b.1821) .........................................72, 115 William Oliver (272 - b.1812) ...................................68, 107 William Oliver (Jr) (443 - b.1851).....................................107 William P. (293) ..................................................................73 Willie Elizabeth (281 - b.1832)..................................71, 112 Willie Elizabeth (450S - b.1832) .......................................150

HARDIN * Thomas (2 - b.1686) .........................................................1, 2

HARDIN/HARDING THOMAS (1) ........................................................................1

HARDYMAN Louisa (96S) ........................................................................66

HARRELL Jim M. (160S)......................................................................83

HARRIS Elizabeth Camp (12S - m.1795) ..........................................28

HARRISON John (7S) .............................................................................15

HARTFIELD Eva (385S - b.1884)...........................................................143

HARVEY/HARVIE Daniel ()...............................................................................50 Frances Taliaferro (60S - b.1794)........................................50

HAUSER Fred L. (706 - b.1888) .......................................................160 Mamie (707 - d.1968)........................................................160 Sidney Lee (559S - b.1863) ...............................................160

HAYNES Susannah (139) ....................................................................38 William (35S) ......................................................................38

HEINE Vincent J. (559S - b.1891).................................................160

HEWITT Louisa (91S) ........................................................................63

HILL A.G. (467S - m.1871) ........................................................156 Frances Jane (59S)...............................................................48 Martha (367S)....................................................................129 Willie May (669) ...............................................................156

HOBBS Nathaniel (159S - b.1827) ...................................................81

HOBSON Kitty () ...............................................................................110

HOLLINGSWORTH Virginia Elizabeth (537S)..................................................159

HOPKINS Rebecca ( - b.1863)............................................................170

HOUSTON Augustus Young (572 - b.1849) ........................................136 Capt. Placebo ( - b.1779) ...................................................133 Cynthia Elizabeth (573 - b.1854) ............................136, 164 Emma Amanda (575 - b.1859) ..........................................137 Harriett (724 - b.1878).......................................................162 John Franklin (570 - b.1845)...................................136, 161 Lillie (723 - b.1878) ..........................................................162 Mary Mitchell (571 - b.1848) ..................................136, 162 Rose (721 - b.1873) ...........................................................162 Susan Matilda (574 - b.1856) ............................................136

Thomas Franklin (380S - b.1818) ..................................... 133 William B. (722 - b.1876) ................................................. 162

HUGHES Hannah () ............................................................................ 31 Sally ()................................................................................. 66

HUGHEY George Lafayette (514) ..................................................... 127 Harrison H. (160S - b.1814)................................................ 83 Harrison H. (160S).............................................................. 83 Isaac (351S - b.1812) ........................................................ 127 Isaac M. (518) ................................................................... 127 James H. (516) .................................................................. 127 John A. (515) .................................................................... 127 Mary Frances (519) ........................................................... 127 Samuel Ezekial (517) ........................................................ 127

HUNT Mary Louisa "Bub" (324S - b.1835) ................................. 123

HUTCHINS Obedience (31S - b.1744) ................................................... 37

HYDE Mary T. "Polly" (151S - m.1815)........................................ 75

HYLTON Walter Jackson (560S) ...................................................... 161

IRWIN Irene (504S - b.1874) ........................................................ 158

JACKSON (unnamed infant) (662) ..................................................... 154 Brig. Gen. William Hicks (459S - b.1835)........................ 153 Elizabeth (665 - b.1876) .......................................... 155, 180 Eunice (661 - b.1871)............................................... 154, 180 George Moore (91S) ........................................................... 63 Granberry (500S) .............................................................. 157 Granberry (Jr.) (683 - b.1906)........................................... 157 Helen Virginia (583S - b.1899)......................................... 170 Howell E. (460S - d.1895) ................................................ 155 James (91S)......................................................................... 63 John Early (682 - b.1902).................................................. 157 Louise (666 - b.1875) ............................................... 155, 181 Mary Hicks (died an infant) (660 - b.1869)....................... 154 Selene Harding (664 - b.1876) .......................................... 154 Thomas Davis ( - b.1865).................................................. 170 William Harding (663 - b.1874).............................. 154, 180 William Harding (Jr.) (808 - b.1901) ................................ 180

JAMES Elizabeth Eleanor (272S) .................................................. 107

JARVIS/GERVAIS Mary ( - b.1764) .................................................................. 88 Mary (54S - b.1764)............................................................ 41

JOHNS Mary () ................................................................................ 66

JOHNSON Alexander C. (119S) ........................................................... 68 Bartlett (162S)..................................................................... 88 Granville S. (656S - b.1847) ............................................. 179 Harding (died an infant) (798 - b.1877) ............................ 180 Lillie (died at birth) (802 - b.1885) ................................... 180 Merritt (twin - died an infant) (799 - b.1877).................... 180 Morgiana Napier Harding (801 - b.1881).......................... 180 Sally (442S) ...................................................................... 148 William Harding (800 - b.1879)........................................ 180 William Preston () ............................................................... 88

JOINER Nathan (159S) ..................................................................... 81

JONES (3 Children) (166) ............................................................... 43 Capt. Rowland C.S.A. (93S) ............................................... 64 Henrietta (105S).................................................................. 67


Isaac (55S)...........................................................................43 Leon Richard (558S - b.1893) ...........................................160 Lewis (93S) .........................................................................64 Lou (105S)...........................................................................67

JOYCE A.B. (Absolom Bostick?) (395)...........................................95 Ferdinand (394) ...................................................................95 James P. (396) .....................................................................95 William (176S) ....................................................................95

KENT Ann (232S) ........................................................................100

KING (Mr.) (11S) ..........................................................................25 Nancy Worley (158S - b.1807)............................................80 William () ............................................................................80

KISER Mamie (563S - b.1882)......................................................161

KNOWLES Bethenia * ( - b.1669) ............................................................2

LA FORCE Rene () .................................................................................11 Sarah (6S - b.1725)..............................................................11

LASH Elizabeth (95S) ....................................................................65

LEFTWICH Thomas (7S) ........................................................................15

LETCHER Bethenia (92 - b.1780) ..................................................32, 64 Capt. William (son of Giles & Hannah Hughes) (18S -

m.1778) ..........................................................................31 Giles ().................................................................................31

LEWIS (Mr.) of Nashville, TN (322S)...........................................121

LINN C. A. of Montana (585S - b.1884) .....................................174

LIPSCOMB Thomas H. (655S) .............................................................179 William Cheatham (797 - b.1901) .....................................179

LITTON Margaret Rebecca (157S - d.1897) ......................................76

LOVE H. Hamilton (666S) ...........................................................181

LOWMAN Annie Litton (671).............................................................156 Eugene Henry (492S - d.1894) ..........................................156 Kate (673)..........................................................................156 Mary Louise (672).............................................................156

LUMPKIN Mary ().................................................................................97

LYON Stephen (11S - m.1782) .......................................................25

MALONE Martha (Patsy) (46S - m.1778) ............................................38 Peter (8S).............................................................................16

MARKS Albert D. (661S) ................................................................180 Albert Jackson (died an infant) (807 - b.1896) ..................180

MARLOW James (11S) .........................................................................25

MARR Agatha (dau of Gideon & Sarah Miller) (4S) ........................6 John Miller Marr (son of Alexander) (14S) .........................29

MARSHALL Fanny () .............................................................................146 Susan (61S) .........................................................................51

MARTIN Col. Joseph ().......................................................................66

Col. William C.S.A. (96S - b.1814) .................................... 66 Matilda (96S) ...................................................................... 66 Sally ( - m.1782) ................................................................. 80

MATTHEWS Mary Ann (61S) .................................................................. 52

MCALISTER Harry Hill (666S) .............................................................. 181 Laura (812 - b.1909) ......................................................... 181 Louise Jackson (811 - b.1907) .......................................... 181 Mary Jackson (810)........................................................... 181

MCBROOM William Thomas (123S)...................................................... 72

MCCLAIN Martha "Mat" D. (325S - b.1834)...................................... 123

MCCLURE Lilie (748 - b.1898) ........................................................... 171 Mary Battle (744 - b.1886)................................................ 167 Sue Chilton (749 - b.1904)................................................ 172 Walter Flavis (Jr.) (746 - b.1892)...................................... 168 WALTER FLAVIS (Sr.) * (583S - b.1856) ...................... 166 William Hampton (745 - b.1889) ...................................... 168

MCCLURE * Robert P. (747 - b.1894).................................................... 169 William Dickson ( - b.1830) ............................................. 166

MCCRARY Mary Elizabeth * ( - b.1817) ..................................... 139, 141

MCDANIEL George (35S)....................................................................... 38

MCGAVOCK Amanda (452 - b.1832) ............................................ 108, 152 David H. (281S - b.1826).................................................. 114 David H. (450 - b.1826) ........................................... 108, 150 Dr. Felix Grundy (317S - m.1855) .................................... 118 Elizabeth "Bessie" Clopton (464 - b.1864) ....................... 114 Elizabeth Irwin (278S - b.1819) ........................................ 111 Elizabeth Virginia (453 - b.1836)...................................... 108 Francis "Frank" ( - b.1794) ............................................... 114 Francis "Frank" (277S - b.1794) ....................................... 108 Francis (454 - b.1838) ....................................................... 108 Frank Owen (463 - b.1851) ..................................... 114, 155 John Harding (449 - b.1824)................................... 108, 148 Manoah (478 - b.1859)...................................................... 119 Mary Louisa (477 - b.1857) .............................................. 119 Randal Mayor of Nashville ( - b.1766) ............................. 111 Spence (667 - b.1876) ....................................................... 155 Sue (650)........................................................................... 150 Susannah Elizabeth (451 - b.1829).................................... 108 Willie (668 - b.1880)......................................................... 156

MCKEAN Mary E. (380S - m.1883) .................................................. 136

MCKOWN Mary (355S) ...................................................................... 128

MCLAIN Dr. Allen David (577S - m.1907)...................................... 165

MCNAIRY Mary Selena (278S - b.1812) ............................................ 110 Nathaniel () ....................................................................... 110

MEDLEY Elizabeth (160S - m.1872) .................................................. 83

MEREDITH Pocahontas Rebecca Bolling (91S) ..................................... 63

MERIWETHER Martha "Patsey" Wood (29S) .............................................. 34 Valentine Wood (29S)......................................................... 34

MERRITT Sophia (455S - m.1853) .................................................... 152

MESHAW


Mabel (558S).....................................................................160 MILES

Campbell Gentry (Sr.) (583S - b.1878) .............................171 MILLS

William (57S) ......................................................................46 MITCHELL

Andrew ( - b.1756) ..............................................................90 Cynthia (164S - b.1795) ......................................................90 Elizabeth C. (296S) ...........................................................117

MOORE Alpha (59S) .........................................................................49 Georgia A. (449S - b.1823) ...............................................150 Margaret Webb (322S) ......................................................121

MORRIS Amidia "Amy" (30S - d.1800).............................................35

NAPTON Houston Thomas (725 - b.1874)........................................163 James L. (727 - b.1880) .....................................................164 James Smith (571S - b.1845).............................................162 John (380S - b.1843) .........................................................137 John (573S - b.1843) .........................................................164 Judge William Barclay -Sec of State, Missouri ( - b.1808)

.....................................................................137, 162, 164 Louis William (380S - b.1857)..........................................137 Mary P. (729 - b.1887) ......................................................164 Nadine N. (728 - b.1884)...................................................164 Placebo (730).....................................................................164 William Berkeley (726 - b.1878).......................................163

NARCISSA (193S) ..................................................................................96

NEAL Betty (61S) ..........................................................................51

O'NEAL Mary Magdalena ( - b.1763)..........................................24, 58 Mary Magdalena (17S - b.1763)..........................................30

OTEY Mollie Rebecca (577S - b.1855)........................................164

OVERBY Ann Eliza. (566S - b.1837)................................................161 Goodwyn L. ( - m.1836)....................................................161

OVERTON (several infants died) (473)................................................117 Col. John (291S - m.1841).................................................116

OWEN Margaret Murphy (455S - b.1834).....................................152

PAGE Daniel Webster (448 - b.1826) ..........................................107 Giles Harding (274 - b.1792) .....................................69, 107 Robert Thomas (120S - b.1762) ..........................................68 Robert Thomas (446 - b.1818)...........................................107 Robert Thomas (Jr.) (275) ...................................................69 Sarah Ann (445 - b.1816) ..................................................107 Susan Harding (447 - b.1820)............................................107 Thomas Turwell (444 - b.1814).........................................107

PANNILL David (92S) .........................................................................64 Elizabeth Letcher ( - b.1801) .............................................103 Elizabeth Letcher (232 - b.1801).................................64, 98 George (103S) .....................................................................66 Morton () .............................................................................66 William (233) ......................................................................64

PARBERRY Dr. William (164S - b.1833)................................................92

PARSONS Clarence (563S).................................................................161

PATTERSON Joel (31S - m.1801) .............................................................37

Rebecca (31S - b.1777) ....................................................... 37 Samuel G. (285S - m.1866)............................................... 115

PATTON Jason (54S - m.1811) .......................................................... 41 Mary G. (177S) ................................................................... 95 Mary G. (54S - m.1829)...................................................... 41

PAYNE Jennie Lula (578S - b.1870) .............................................. 165

PEARCE Amanda Cheatham (795 - b.1876) .................................... 179 Christian S. (654S - b.1853).............................................. 179 Maria Christian (796 - b.1878).......................................... 179

PEARSON John G. (362S - m.1839) ................................................... 128 William Thornton (533 - b.1840) ...................................... 128

PENN Elizabeth (253S - b.1826) ................................................. 106

PENNYBAKER Edward R. (496S).............................................................. 156 Edwina (675)..................................................................... 156 Frank (674)........................................................................ 156

PERKINS (2 Children) (165) ............................................................... 43 (infant) (88)......................................................................... 30 (total of 11 children) (222) .................................................. 58 Agatha (79) ......................................................................... 28 Alcey (65 - b.1766) ....................................................... 24, 52 Ann (11S - b.1770).............................................................. 25 Ann (76 - b.1770)................................................................ 27 Anna G. (15 - b.1752) ........................................................... 6 Bethenia (dau of Nicholas & Leah Pryor) (83) ................... 28 Bethenia (dau of Peter) (62 - b.1765).................................. 24 Bethenia * ( - b.1743).......................................................... 53 Bethenia * (9 - b.1743) .................................................. 6, 16 Charles (55S - b.1778) ........................................................ 42 Charles (74 - b.1778) ................................................... 25, 53 Col. Nicholas * (4S - b.1718)................................................ 4 Col. Peter ( - b.1739)..................................................... 29, 30 Col. Peter (10 - b.1739) ................................................. 6, 22 Constantine (son of Nicholas & Leah Pryor) (81)............... 28 Constantine * ( - b.1682)....................................................... 4 Elizabeth ( - b.1759).................................................... 97, 146 Elizabeth (18 - b.1759) .................................................. 7, 31 Elizabeth (dau of Nicholas & Leah Pryor) (80) .................. 28 Elizabeth (dau of Peter) (14S - b.1763)............................... 29 Elizabeth (dau of Peter) (64 - b.1763) ................................. 24 Elizabeth Ann (230 - b.1832).............................................. 63 Elizabeth Staver (10S)......................................................... 24 Elizabeth Staver (87)........................................................... 30 Ella (dau of Charles) (67 - b.1763)...................................... 25 James (son of Peter) (63 - b.1761) ...................................... 24 John Pryor (77 - b.1765) ..................................................... 28 Lt. Thomas Hardin ( - b.1757) ..................................... 24, 58 Lt. Thomas Hardin (17 - b.1757)................................. 7, 30 Maj. Constantine (13 - b.1747) ............................................. 6 Maj. Nicholas (III) "BigBee" (75 - b.1779) ............... 27, 54 Maj. Nicholas (III) "BigBee" (89S - b.1779) ...................... 58 Margaret (dau of Nicholas & Leah Pryor) (78) ................... 28 Margaret Ann (220) ............................................................ 58 Mary Elizabeth (218) .......................................................... 58 Mary Hardin (16 - b.1754)............................................ 7, 29 Mary Hardin (75S - b.1794)................................................ 58 Mary Hardin (89 - b.1794).......................................... 30, 58 Mary Magdelene (228 - b.1828).......................................... 63 Nicholas (son of Peter) (17S - b.1770)................................ 30 Nicholas (son of Peter) (66 - b.1770) .................................. 24 Nicholas Edwin (son of Nicholas & Mary) (221) ............... 58


Nicholas, Jr. ( - b.1745) .................................................25, 58 Nicholas, Jr. (12 - b.1745)..............................................6, 25 Peter (son of Nicholas & Leah Pryor) (82)..........................28 Sara Agatha (219)................................................................58 Sarah (84) ............................................................................28 Sarah Cabell (231 - b.1834).................................................63 Susannah ( - b.1750)............................................................24 Susannah (14 - b.1750) ..................................................6, 28 Thomas Hardin (3rd of the name) (229 - b.1829)................63 Thomas Hardin (II) (90) ......................................................31 William O'Neal (91 - b.1791) ......................................31, 63

PERKINS Col. Charles Ellis (11 - b.1742) ...........................................6

PERKINS Col. Charles Ellis (11 - b.1742) ...........................................24

PERKINS Mary (68 - b.1774) ..............................................................25

PERKINS Anna (69 - b.1765) ..............................................................25

PERKINS Nicholas Tate (70 - b.1767) .................................................25

PERKINS Bethenia Hardin (dau of Charles) (71 - b.1770) ..................25

PERKINS Micajah/Maaca (72 - b.1772) ..............................................25

PERKINS Elizabeth (73 - b.1776) ........................................................25

PERKINS Nicholas Tate (12S - b.1767)...............................................27

PERKINS Col. Charles Ellis ( - b.1742) ...............................................27

PERKINS Col. Charles Ellis ( - b.1742) ...............................................42

PETREE Robinson Depriest (59S) .....................................................48 Wiley Z (59S - b.1810)........................................................48

PFAFF Claude Rufus (558S - b.1892) ...........................................160

PILLOW MARY ORLENA * ( - b.1836) .........................................166

POINDEXTER Nancy (206S - b.1806).........................................................97

POLK Mary Ophelia (16S).............................................................29

POLLARD Ann (112) ............................................................................34 Anne (not proved) * ( - m.1716)............................................4 Benjamin Ryland (110) .......................................................34 Elizabeth (108) ....................................................................34 Frances "Fannie" (111) ........................................................34 Jane (115) ............................................................................34 Joseph (116)..................................................................35, 67 Mary ? (118)........................................................................35 Mildred (113) ......................................................................34 Priscilla (107) ......................................................................34 Robert (106) ........................................................................34 Sarah "Sally" (109)..............................................................34 Thomas (29S - m.1763) .......................................................34 William (114) ......................................................................34 William (117) ......................................................................35 William S. (264) ..................................................................67

PORTER Garland Burns (560S)........................................................161

PROVINE John W. (350S - b.1840)....................................................127

PRYOR Green () ...............................................................................24

Green (14S)......................................................................... 28 John (son of Green & Susannah Perkins) (10S - m.1792)... 24 John (son of Green & Susannah Perkins) (85 - m.1792) ..... 29 John Henry () ...................................................................... 26 Leah (dau of John & Martha Gaines) ( - b.1747) .......... 25, 58 Leah (dau of John & Martha Gaines) (12S - b.1747) .......... 26

RAND Elizabeth Ann (57S - b.1784).............................................. 46 William ()............................................................................ 46

RANSOM George Washington (158S - m.1860).................................. 80 Lorena Peck (285S)........................................................... 115

REAMEY Daniel & Susannah (Starling) ().......................................... 67 John (105S) ......................................................................... 67

REID Gracey (46S) ....................................................................... 39

REYNOLDS Edward Almond (355S) .................................................... 128

RICH Edythe Haldak (560S) ....................................................... 160

RICHARDSON Ann D. (663S)................................................................... 180

RITTER Milton V. (586S - m.1930)................................................ 177

RIVES () 146 Margaret Melissa (416S - b.1830)..................................... 146

ROBERTS Marion (286S - m.1846).................................................... 116

ROBINSON Israel (11S).......................................................................... 25

RODGERS Sarah Doughtery ( - d.1854).............................................. 111

ROYALL Susannah ().......................................................................... 13

RUTLEDGE Joseph (46S - m.1799)......................................................... 38

SAUNDERS Elizabeth (dau of Sam & Mary) (96S) ................................ 66 Judith () ............................................................................... 67 Samuel ()............................................................................. 66

SCALES Jane "Jincey or Dilcey" (60S - m.1803) .............................. 50 Joseph H. (4S - m.1771)........................................................ 7 Nathaniel ( - b.1758) ........................................................... 50

SEAWELL John T. (96S)....................................................................... 66

SHELTON Jane (7S - m.1776) .............................................................. 14

SHINKLE John Edgar (577S - b.1892)............................................... 165

SHIP Martha (46S) ....................................................................... 39

SHUGART Eli (134S - b.1778).............................................................. 73 Elizabeth W. (299 - b.1822) ................................................ 73

SHUTE Susannah (121S - b.1785) ................................................... 70

SIAS Arthur Wallace (385S - b.1855) ........................................ 143

SIMS Aflred W. & Adelaide () ................................................... 104 Alfred Varley (243S - b.1864) .......................................... 104

SMITH Henry (29S)......................................................................... 35 John P. (61S)....................................................................... 51


Lemuel (son of Charles & Elizabeth Pryor) (10S - m.1778)24 Maria (314S)......................................................................118 Maria (316S - m.1838) ......................................................118 Martha Mary ( - b.1726) ......................................................42 Patti (105S)..........................................................................67 Paulina ( - b.1819) .............................................................161 Paulina (374S - b.1819) .....................................................131 Robert E.L. (205S) ..............................................................97 Susie (321S) ......................................................................120 William Henry (277S - m.1850) ........................................108

SNEED James (11S - b.1764) ...........................................................25

SNODDY Sarah "Sally" ( - b.1753)......................................................90

SOLOMON Ella S. (579S) ....................................................................165

SPENCE Lula (463S - b.1853)..........................................................155

SPENCER Gideon Kennedy (586S - b.1873) ......................................175 Louise (752 - b.1903) ........................................................177 Matilda (753 - b.1909).......................................................177

STAPLES Julia Stark (146S) ................................................................74

STEPHENS Ona Irene (529S - m.1920) ................................................158

STEWART Katherine (374S - m.1869) ................................................132

STONE William Henley (10S - m.1798) ..........................................24

STOVALL Ruth () ...........................................................................32, 52

STRUPE Eula Isabella (558S - b.1900) ............................................160

STUART Ann Dabney (420 - b.1818) .................................................99 Bethenia Frances (421 - b.1819)..........................................99 Columbia (sister of J.E.B.) (238S - b.1830) ......................103 Columbia (sister of J.E.B.) (428 - b.1830) ..............100, 147 David Pannill (424 - b.1823) .............................................100 Gen. James Ewell Brown "J.E.B." C.S.A. (429 - b.1833)..100 Hon. Archibald ( - b.1795) ................................................103 Hon. Archibald (232S - b.1795) ..........................................99 John Dabney (427 - b.1828) ..............................................100 Maj. Alexander -Rev. War ()...............................................99 Mary Tucker (423 - b.1821) ................................................99 Victoria (422) ......................................................................99 Virginia (425) ....................................................................100 William Alexander (426 - b.1826).....................................100

SUTTON Bartley Johnson (566S) .....................................................161 John Elgin (720 - b.1869) ..................................................161

TALIAFERRO Sallie () ................................................................................50

TATE Mary ( - m.1760) ...........................................................27, 42 Mary (11S - m.1760) ...........................................................25 Rachel (17S - d.1838)..........................................................31

TAYLOR Martha Louise (579S)........................................................165

THORNTON Elizabeth (116S) ..................................................................67

TOPP Elizabeth C. "Bettie" (321S - b.1832)................................120

TUCKER Sarah (7S)............................................................................15

UNDERWOOD

Alexander (33S) .................................................................. 38 VAUGHN

Edward (389S) .................................................................. 144 Jettie Flora Ann (591 - b.1867) ......................................... 144 Mary Jane (590 - b.1863) .................................................. 144 William (589 - b.1859)...................................................... 144

VEITCH Charlie (560S)................................................................... 161

VIOLIN Meryl Morrison (571S) ..................................................... 163

WALKER Bethenia H. (276)................................................................ 69 James (11S)......................................................................... 25 James (120S)....................................................................... 69 Leander Thomas () ............................................................ 168 William Watson (583S - b.1882) ...................................... 168

WATER Elizabeth (7S)...................................................................... 15

WATKINS Hairston (437) ................................................................... 106 Loulie (439) ...................................................................... 106 Nannie (438) ..................................................................... 106 Peter Wilson (249S) .......................................................... 106

WEAVER Henriette (500S - m.1937)................................................. 157

WENDELL Mary (93S) .......................................................................... 64

WESTMORELAND Alexanders ()..................................................................... 146 Rebecca J. (416S - b.1841) ............................................... 146

WHARTON Iva (160S) ........................................................................... 83

WHITE Daisy (649S) ..................................................................... 179 Dolly (56S - m.1822) .......................................................... 46

WIILSON Robert (104S)...................................................................... 67

WILKERSON Martha (160S) ..................................................................... 83

WILKES Henrietta Maria (274S) ..................................................... 107

WILLIAMS Melinda ( - b.1820) ........................................... 137, 162, 164 Thomas (31S - b.1772)........................................................ 37

WILLIS Catherine Elizabeth (371S - m.1855) ................................ 130

WILLS Jesse Ely (665S) ................................................................ 181

WILSON Agnes (dau of Peter) ( - m.1760)................................... 29, 30 Agnes (dau of Peter) (10S - m.1760) .................................. 23 Agnes John Peter ( - b.1801)............................................. 147 Agnes John Peter (419 - b.1801)............................... 97, 146 Agnes John Peter (95S - b.1801)......................................... 65 Bessie (583S - b.1898) ...................................................... 169 Gen. John ( - b.1740) .......................................................... 97 Jason C. (54S - m.1815)...................................................... 41 Louisa Phillipina ()............................................................ 178 Peter "The Immigrant" ()..................................................... 23 Peter (son of John) ( - b.1770)............................................. 65 Peter (son of John) (216S - b.1770) .................................... 97 Sam (95S) ........................................................................... 66 Samuel F. State Senator (325S - m.1880) ......................... 124 Thomas (560S).................................................................. 160

WILSON (CHESLEY?) Nancy Elizabeth ( - b.1717) ................................................ 17

WISH


Cora Annie (324S).............................................................123 WOLFF

Alcuin Duclos (704 - b.1897) ............................................160 Ava Chula (698) ................................................................160 Bonita (699).......................................................................160 Claude Gwyn (715) ...........................................................161 Denis Roscoe (700 - b.1896) .............................................160 Elizabeth (716) ..................................................................161 Ernest H. (561 - b.1873) ....................................................131 Florence Pauline (711 - b.1904) ........................................161 Gertrude Creth (705 - b.1900) ...........................................160 James Adam (703 - b.1894)...............................................160 Jasper Alexander Preston (560 - b.1870) ...............131, 160 John Augustine (372S - b.1841) ........................................130 John Grey (710 - b.1905)...................................................160 John Walter (557 - b.1861)......................................130, 159 Julia Estella (562 - b.1875)................................................131 Lucretius Vanpelt (708 - b.1898).......................................160 Mabel Atha (702 - b.1892) ................................................160 Martha Eunice Elizabeth (714 - b.1912)............................161

Mary (717) ........................................................................ 161 Mary Estelle (709 - b.1900) .............................................. 160 Mary Gertrude (559 - b.1867) ................................ 130, 160 Oscar Eugene (718)........................................................... 161 Oscar Gwyn (563 - b.1878) ..................................... 131, 161 Rachel Darlington (712 - b.1907)...................................... 161 Rebecca Ruth Hampton (713 - b.1909)............................. 161 William Edward (719)....................................................... 161 William Jacob (558 - b.1865) .................................. 130, 160 William LaFayette (Sr.) (701 - b.1891)............................. 160

WOOD James T. (Jr.) (750 - b.1895) ............................................. 174 James Theodore (585S - b.1865)....................................... 173 Mary J. (751 - b.1894)....................................................... 174

WOODFOLK Edmund (29S) ..................................................................... 34

WRIGHT Isaac (7S) ............................................................................ 14

YOUNG Elizabeth Ragsdale ( - b.1786) .......................................... 133

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