Martha's Family Connections

Introduction

In this study of Peter Kinney and his descendants, there are no cases where any Kinneys choked and died on a cork but there are several tragic endings involving planes, ships, railroads, highways and other forms of transportation.

Causes of Death: Peter Kinney died of old age as did many of his descendants. Other causes of death were acts of war, disease such as typhoid and polio, and accidents (mostly involving modes of transportation). Many of Peter Kinney’s descendants (men and women) had sudden heart problems which ended their life. The Kinney’s also had quite the reputation for dramatic train wrecks.

Female descendants sometimes died in childbirth. This could have been the cause of death for Mary Chaple, the first wife of Peter as she died quite young. Other descendants died of cancer and other chronic diseases. However many lived to old age as did Dillie Coble Breedlove Kinney Henry Woodell. Peter was her second husband and she had two more husbands after him. Peter’s second wife Sophia disappeared after the 1860 census. Her cause of death is unknown.

Places they lived:

Peter Kinney lived in the southern area of Alamance County (Patterson Township and Graham). In his last decade of life he lived in northern Randolph in Liberty Township. Many of his descendants lived in Alamance County (Boone Station, Burlington, Gibsonville, Elon College, Graham, and Faucette Township). Others lived in the bordering counties of Guilford, Randolph, and Davidson. Larger towns such as Greensboro, Durham, and Raleigh drew some of them in. The counties of Halifax, Cumberland, and Brunswick also attracted Peter’s descendants. Virginia and South Carolina were the home of a few of the descendants. And even fewer migrated to Massachusetts, California, Colorado, Florida, and Texas.

Occupations: Peter Kinney was a hard scrabble farmer who never appears to have owned the farm he worked on. Not many of his descendants followed the farmer’s footsteps. A few farmed but they were more likely to have worked in the growing textile industry. A few ancestors were acute businessmen or skilled craftsman. A few were physicians. Some were preachers and some were police. Some of his descendants were involved in politics. They were mayors, aldermen, coroners, and Judges. Many were involved in the military. Peter had descendants who were Confederate Soldiers, World War I Veterans, World War II Veterans, Korean War Veterans, Viet Nam Veterans, and Desert Storm Veterans. None of his Confederate kinsmen appear to have owned slaves. Their motivation to join the Confederacy may have come from their view of the Union being similar to the Crown of England in being a tyrannical government who was trying to enforce a different way of life on them. Alamance County was the center of the “Regulator” movement in 1771 where residents fought to “regulate” their own affairs without intervention from wealthy English officials in Eastern North Carolina.

Most of the Kinney female descendants were domestics, but some were business women, teachers, librarians, textile workers, and soldiers, serving their country during peace and wartime.

The Life and Times of Peter Kinney 1804-1884

Early Life:

Peter Kinney was most likely born in what was then Orange County, North Carolina in 1804. From all indications, it appears that Peter Kinney lived in the part of Orange County which became Alamance County in 1849. The Robert Florentine Kinney Bible indicates that he was born October 16, 1804.

Peter Kinney was born on the eve of the second election of the third President, Thomas Jefferson in November of 1804. The ensuing advertisement dated September 10, 1804 from A. Gilchrist solicits “your suffrages” as an elector who promises to vote for Thomas Jefferson, Esquire as President, “deviating from my general principles as a Federalist,” acknowledging “that the Administration of Jefferson in general been satisfactory to me.”

The second advertisement from March 6, 1804 is for the services of the stud horse “Burrampooter” of Orange County. Augustine Willis advertised the services of Burrampooter. The horse is a “rising five years old, a fine Bay, upwards of sixteen hands high, elegantly formed, lengthy, strong boned and said by the best of Judges to be as fine a cold as his Sire Dare-Devil is a horse, being like him in every part, shape, and size. His pedigree will shew him to be as fine a blooded Colt as any in America.” The cost of the services of Burampooter are five Dollars for the first time, ten Dollars for the season, and for the insurance of a foal, twenty Dollars.

There is indirect evidence that David Kinney and his wife Susannah Cortner could have been Peter Kinney’s mother and father.

• The ages of David and Peter work out. David and Susannah were married in 1802. Peter was born in 1804.
• They lived close together Orange County, Southern Alamance, Northern Randolph County.
• Descendants of Peter share DNA with David’s known descendants.

Transcription:

State of North Carolina Orange County

Know All Men by these Presents, That We David Kiney & Nathan Horneday are held and firmly bound unto the Governor, or his Successors in Office, in the full Sum of Five Hundred Pounds, current Money to be paid to the said Governor, his Successors or Assignees, for the which Payments well and truly to be made and done, we bind ourselves, our Heirs, Executors, and Administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents, sealed with our Seals and dated this 15^th day of Sept Anno Domini 1802. 

The Condition of the above Obligation is such, That whereas the above bounden David Kiney hath made Application for a License for a Marriage to be celebrated between him and Susannah Cortner of the County aforesaid:  Now in case it shall not appear hereafter, that there is any lawful cause or Impediment to obstruct the said Marriage, then the above Obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in Full Force and Virtue.

Signed, Sealed, and Delivered in the Presence of

Jno Taylor                                                                              David Kinney his mark X Seal                                 Nathan Horneday     Seal

The will of Rosannah Cortner dated December 22, 1825 and proved in February 1826 Court of Orange County wills unto Susannah Kinney 50 cents. This will makes Rosannah Unknown and David Cortner 1755-1810 a candidate for Susannah Cortner Kinney’s parents or some of her relatives.

Transcription:

In the name of God Amen! I Rosannah Cotner of the County of Orange of the State of North Carolina being very weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given unto God calling and mind the ­­­­­­­­­_____ of my body knowing that it is appointed for all men one time to die do make and constitute this my last will and testament, first after my just debts are paid and any final expenses, I will and bequeath unto Barbary Hunt fifty cents, I will unto Eve ____ fifty cents.  I will unto Mary Alexander fifty cents.  I will unto Peter Cotner fifty cents.  I will unto Susannah Kinney fifty cents.  I will unto my grandson Aaron Cotner my horse.  I will and bequeath unto Lewis Cotner, Grace Cotner  & Roseannah Gifford all the rest of my property.  My will is that my Family shall sell the property to the highest bidder in twelve months and collect the money that is owing me and divide the _______ equally amongst the said three children and my will is that Isiah Hornaday, Samuel Horner be my executors this 22^nd day of December 1825.   

                                                                                                                                Roseannah Cortner Her Mark

Witness

Micajah Thompsons

Job Evans

The execution of the forgoing last will and testament of Rosannah Cotner was duly proved in court by the oath of Micajah Thompson ………………

Will obtained from State Archives also abstracted in Abstracts of Wills, Orange County 1752-1850 Compiled by Ruth Herndon Shields, Chairman Genealogical Records Committee Davie Popular Chapter, NSDAR Chapel Hill, North Carolina, E107.   

The 1820 census lists seven sons and one daughter for David Kinney. 

The sibling candidates that I have identified from DNA matches include:

• Peter Kinney 1804-1884
• Daniel Kinney 1807-1856
• Isaac Kinney 1815-1885
• George Henry Kinney 1818-1863
• Simpson Kinney 1820-1865
• Matilda Kinney Lineberry 1822-1907
• William Kinney 1828-after 1870

All of these have descendants who have DNA matches in Ancestry to a direct descendant of Peter Kinney.

Peter Kinney was married to Mary Chaple in Orange County on May 25, 1822.

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Transcription:

State of North Carolina,  We the undersigned, do hereby acknowledge ourselves indebted to his Excellency, Gabriel Holmes, Esquire, Governor, and his successors in office, in the sum of five hundred pounds; but to be void on condition that there is no lawful cause to obstruct a marriage between Peters Kiney and Mary Chapel for whom a license now issues.  In Witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 25 day of May A.D. 1822.

Witness                                                                                                       By Petters Kiney his mark

D Patterson                                                                                                 George Curtner his mark

Sabrey “Silva, Sibbie” Kinney was born to this couple on June 6, 1823. Mary Chapel may have died in childbirth as there is no record for her after she married Peter in May of 1822.

After Mary Chaple died, Peter Kinney married Sophia Unknown and they had a son in 1827. In the 1830 census, Peter is living with Sophia and son George Wesley Kinney. No record is found for Sabrey. After her mother’s death, she may have been cared for by a member of her mother’s family.

 Brother Daniel Kinney married Susan Burnette sometime before 1826 and their oldest son Mebane Kinney was born in 1826.

In August of 1837, both Peter Kinney and Daniel Kinney voted in the Congressional Election between Dr. William Montgomery and William A Graham.  Also elected were a Clerk of the Superior Court and a Clerk for the Pleas and Quarter Sessions.  Peter and Daniel voted at Henry Fogelman’s place in Orange County.  There William A Graham (Whig) received 96 votes and Dr. William Montgomery (Van Buren Democrat) received 61 votes. However, Dr. William Montgomery received more votes in other Orange County precincts and won the election.    Wake County gave Graham a majority of 57 votes and Orange gave native son Montgomery a majority of 118 votes so Montgomery won by 61 votes.  William Shields won Superior Court Clerk at Fogelman’s as well as the rest of Orange. John Taylor, Esquire won Clerk for Pleas and Quarter Sessions although native son Samuel Holt beat out John Taylor Esquire by 140 votes to 26 at Fogelman’s.

In August of 1839, Peter Kinney mortgages his crops, 20 heads of hogs, two cattle, one colt and his household property to David and George Patterson in Orange County, North Carolina. This can be found in Family Search at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89DD-6D2F

Transcripton: This indenture made this twenty fourth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine between Peter Kiney of the first part and David Patterson jr of the second part county of Orange and State of North Carolina and George Patterson on the third part Witnesseth that whereas, the sd. Peter Kiney stands jointly indebted to the said George Patterson in the sum of sixty two dollars and seven cents due by bond bearing date 24th of August 1830 which the said Peter Kiney honestly desired to ____ and pay. In consideration thereof and in further consideration of fifty cents to him in hand paid by the said David Patterson before the signing, sealing and deliverying of these presents, the receipt whereof the said Peter Kiney doth hereby acknowledge the said David Patterson do this for himself, his heirs, and assigns, give, grant, bargain, sell and deliver, and by these presents hath given granted, bargained sold and delivered to the said David Patterson his heirs and assigns, for the purposes having been mentioned, all my growing crop of corn 20 head of hogs, two head of cattle one two year old colt household furniture, twenty bushels of wheat and one lot of oats and one lot of Hay to have and to hold the above described property and every part thereof, with all the rights and privileges thereunto belonging, free and clear from the lawful claim or claims, ir encumbrances of any person whatsoever unto him the said David Patterson or his heirs and assigns forever: In trust nevertheless that he the said Peter Kiney or his heirs, shall and may at any time after the six months sell the said property to the highest bidder for ready money, at such time and place as the said David Patterson or his heirs shall think proper: first giving 20 days by public advertisement of the time and place of sale and the money arising from said sale to apply to the discharge of the aforesaid Debt of sixty two Dollars and 7 cents due and owing to he said George Patterson or so much thereof as may remain due and unpaid and also the interest thereon together with the cost of advertisement, regarding this instrument, and all other costs arising b reason of these presents and to make and execute to the purchaser thereof and the balance thereof of the money if any to be paid to said Peter Kiney his heirs and assigns. In witness whereof we the above named have hereunto set our hands and seals the day and year first above written.

Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of

Wm Patterson

Peter Kiney his mark Seal

D Patterson Seal

Geo Patterson Seal

State of North Carolina

The Execution of this deed was proved before me Clerk of Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarters Sept by the oats of William Patterson or subscribing witness thereto set it be registered

STaylor CC

to hand and registered 27th August 1839 26th Aug 1839

No record is found of Peter Kinney’s family in the 1840 census, but Father David is found in Northern Randolph county and it looks like David and Susannah have an empty nest.

No record is found of Daniel Kinney’s family (brother) in the 1840 census but Daniel and his wife have several children during this period.

• Sally 1830
• Edwin 1831
• William 1832
• Anderson 1836
• Julia 1838
• Polly 1840

George Henry Kinney (brother) married Ruth McMasters on December 28, 1839 and in the 1840 census, the couple appear to have been in Chatham County. 

Isaac Kinney (brother) married Lydia Campbell sometime prior to 1837 when son Henderson was born.  A daughter named Mary was likely born next to this couple.  In 1840, there were four members of Isaac’s family and he was living in the Northern Division of Randolph County.   No 1840 census record can be found for Simpson Kinney (brother). 

In the 1850 census, Peter Kinney is listed as a 48 year old farmer residing in the South District of Alamance County.  Alamance County was carved out of Orange County in 1849. Peter Kinney did not own any real estate. 

 His wife is Sophia Unknown Kinney and is 45 years old.  George Wesley Kinney is 21 years old.  Nancy Clapp is also a member of the household.  She is 19 years old and her relationship to the family is unknown.  A daughter, Martha, aged eight also is in the home.  Martha had not attended school during the year.   Martha Elen Kinney is listed in the family bible as being born May 14, 1841. 

In the 1850 census, David Kinney (father) is listed as a 74 year old farmer residing in the Northern Division of Randolph County.  His wife is 73 year old Susannah Kinney.  Also in the home is Matilda Lineberry, age 28 and Eliza aged 7.  There is no strong evidence that Matilda is their daughter, as Susannah would have been 45 when she was born.  Susannah Cortner Kinney died sometime between 1850 and 1860.  However, 89 year old David Kinney is found listed in the 1860 census in the home of his son, Isaac in the Western District of Randolph County.  Matilda Lineberry married Jacob Foust and is living in his home in Eastern Randolph County with her daughter Eliza in the 1850 Census. 

In the 1850 census, Daniel Kinney is (brother) is listed  as a 43 year old farmer residing in the Upper Regiment of Chatham County.  His wife, Susan Burnette Kinney is also 43.  Children in the home are Sally (20), Edwin (18), William (16), Anderson (14), Julia (12), Polly (10), Oliver (8), Clingman (7) and Emeline (4).  Daniel Kinney did not own any real estate.  Daniel Kinney died sometime after 1856 when he was the purchaser at the estate sale of Peter Charles Smith in Guilford County.  In the 1860 census, his widow, Susan Burnette Kinney is 56 years old and is living next door to nephew George Wesley Kinney with her children Oliver (18), Clingman (16), and Emeline (14).   She has personal estate of $100.  Oliver at 18 is the breadwinner and is listed as a laborer. 

George Wesley is Peter Kinney’s second child who is now out on his own and living in Alamance County.  He is 31 years old and is listed as a laborer in the 1860 census.  His family has a personal estate of $100.  He is married to Mary Elizabeth Clapp and has the following children Martha (5), Mary Ellen (4), and Peter (2).     

In the 1850 census, Isaac Kinney (brother) is listed as a 35 year old farmer residing in the Southern Division of Randolph County.  His wife is 35 year old Lydia Campbell Kinney.  Children in the home are Henderson (14), Mary (9), Martha (7), David (5), and Marion (2).   In the 1860 census, Isaac Kinney is listed as a 44 year old Cooper residing in the Western District of Randolph County.  His wife Lydia is also listed in the home.  Isaac owns Real Estate worth $300 and a personal estate of $265.  Children in the home include Henderson Kinney who is 23 and listed as a carpenter.  He has a personal estate of $150.  Other children in the home are Mary (18), Martha (14), David (13), Peter (11), Hannah (7) and Emmaline (5).  Isaac’s 89 year old father, David is also living in the home. 

In the 1850 census, George Henry Kinney (brother) is listed as a 30  (probably 32)  year old farmer residing in the Northern Division of Randolph County.  His wife is 30 year old Ruth McMasters Kinney.  The children in the home are Caroline (9), Susannah (6), Frances (4) and Emily (1).  In 1860, George Henry is listed as a 43 year old carriage shop worker.   He is living with his wife Ruth also 43 in the Union District (New Salem) of Randolph County.  Also living in the home is Daughter Elizabeth Caroline “Sibba” Kinney (19).  She is listed as a weaver.  Daughter Susannah (14) is listed as a spinner.  Other Kinney children in the home are Frances Lane (12) and Emily (11).  Also staying in the home are Mebane Free (12), Solomon Henry Free (9), Milton Wood Free (7) and Molsey Free (4).  These children’s father had died in 1862.  The whereabouts of their mother is unknown.  George Henry and Ruth’s four youngest children are staying in the home of Nancy McDonald in Cedar Falls.  Those children are William Robert (9), Mary (7), Martitia Adalide (4) and George Henry (11 months).

In the 1850 census, Simpson Kinney (brother) is listed as a 30 year old farmer residing in the Southern Division of Randolph County.  He is living next door to Isaac Kinney.  His wife is 28 year old Nancy McMasters Kinney who is the sister of Ruth McMasters, George Henry Kinney’s wife.  Living in the home is Polly (7), Rosannah (5), Lewis M (3), and James C (1).  In the 1860 census Simpson Kinney is a 39 year old farm laborer.  His wife Nancy has died, and he was living two doors down from his brother, Isaac in the Western District of Randolph County.  His children are Mary (17), Roseanna (14), Lewis (12), Elisha (9), Oliver (7), Thomas (6), Mila Ann (5), and Jane (2).  Also living in the home are two other farm laborers who do not appear to be related to the family.  They are Ferrebee Henley (25) listed as mulatto, and Dixon Harrellson (25). 

Another potential brother is William Kinney who appears in 1850 census.  He is 22 years old and living in the Southern Division of Guilford, North Carolina and is a distiller.  His wife is Julia Ann Sheppard Kinney and she is 20.  Her father is David Martin Sheppard and her mother is Sarah “Sally” Neese.

Peter Kinney and Mary Chaple’s daughter Sabrey is found in the 1850 census.  Sabrey married widower, William Green Hutson around 1845.  He was thirteen years her senior and had three children with his first wife, Sarah Evans who died around 1841.  In the 1850 census William and Sabrey “Silva”  are found in South District of Alamance County.  Sabrey “Silva” Sabrey Kinney is 27 and her husband William Hutson is 39.  He owns $600 in real estate and is a farmer.  Children in the home are Sarah (13), Peggy J (12) and John (10).  These are Sabrey’s stepchildren.   William and Sabrey’s children are Martha (5), Henry (4) and Ellen (1).  In the 1860 census William (45) and Sabrey (32) are found in the South Division of Guilford County.  William is a farmer.  He has real estate valued at $1,000 and personal estate valued at $500.  Living in the home are children Sarah (25), Martha (16) Mary (13), Emily (11), William (6), Mary ?(4), and Calvin Alexander 1 month.

In the 1860 census, Peter Kinney was listed as 60 years old.  He was a farmer and his wife Sophia was 60.  He was living in Alamance, County.  His daughter Martha was in the home and was listed as 18 years old.  He owned no real estate and had $200 in personal estate.  An orphan John Riggins was also in his home.  Several of John’s brothers and sisters were scattered in homes in the community. 

In the 1860 census, William Kinney (potential brother) (age 34) has left Randolph County and moved to Brown, Morgan, Indiana.  He was a Farm Hand.  He has possibly moved north because he does not agree with Confederate views.  Enumerated with William in the census is  his wife Julia Ann and children Sarah J (9), John C (7), Louis M (5) and William D (3) and Peter Kinney (4 months).

Civil War Era:

William Kinney appears on a list of men subject to military duty with the Union Army but I found no evidence he served with the Union forces.

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Ancestry.Com, Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records); NAI: 4213514; Archive Volume Number: 4 of 5

The Civil War brought much tragedy to the Kinney family in the South.

George Wesley Kinney, Peter Kinney’s son with wife Sophia joined the 22nd Regiment North Carolina Infantry.  He joined Captain John M Odell’s Company which were called the Randolph Hornets.  He was a 33 year old farmer, married to Mary Elizabeth Clapp and father of four when he joined on March 6, 1862.  He was six feet tall.  He served the Confederacy five months and he got sick and died at the Brigade Hospital.

Wesley Kinney

Residence: Randolph County, North Carolina

Occupation: Farmer

Enlistment Date: 6 Mar 1862

Enlistment Place: Randolph County, North Carolina

Side Served: Confederacy

State Served: North Carolina

Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 6 March 1862 at the age of 33.

Enlisted in Company M, 22nd Infantry Regiment North Carolina on 6 Mar 1862.

Died Company M, 22nd Infantry Regiment North Carolina on 7 Aug 1862.

Simpson Kinney, Peter Kinney’s brother joined Company E, 58 North Carolina Regiment on December 1, 1863.  He was a 42 year old widower who was a farm laborer.  He was a father of eight when he joined the 58th.  Simpson deserted his Company on January 10^th, 1864 but he returned on August 8, 1864.  He was captured in Orangeburg, South Carolina on February 14, 1865, confined at Newbern, North Carolina and sent to Hart’s Island, New York Harbor as a prisoner of war.   He died there 10 days after his arrival of pneumonia.

“In 1865, as the Civil War was ending, the Federal government used the Island as a prison camp for Confederate soldiers. Hart Island was a prisoner of war camp for four months in 1865. 3,413 captured Confederate soldiers were housed. 235 died. Their remains were relocated to Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn in 1941.

The final prison established by the Union was on Hart Island in New York City and it quickly evolved into the city’s most horrible site. Located in Long Island Sound about twenty miles north of the city and just a few miles south of David’s Island, Hart Island wasn’t even used until April 1865, the month the Civil War came to an end. Within three weeks of its opening, 3,413 POWs are crammed into the post’s tiny, enclosed area Hart does not become completely cleared of prisoners until July. Within the four months of its operation, nearly 7 percent of all the camp’s POWs died, mostly from illnesses brought with them, such as chronic diarrhea and pneumonia.

It, too, was nothing more than a concentration camp. The first POWs arrived on April 7 and were immediately placed into a stockade enclosure of about four acres. “Two thousand and twenty-nine prisoners of war were received,” noted Henry W Wessells, the prison commandant. “They seem to be healthy with few exceptions, and tolerably well clothed … The guard is entirely insufficient consisting of a small detachment sent with them from City Point. Three hundred and fifty effective men are required.” …

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https://www.mycivilwar.com/pow/ny-hart-island.html

Simpson Kinney’s oldest son Lewis, Peter Kinney’s nephew also served in the Confederate Army.

Mebane Kinney, Peter Kinney’s nephew, son of Daniel Kinney joined Company E, 13 North Carolina Infantry on July 27, 1861 at Camp Ruffin, Virginia.   He was a 35 year old farmer who was married to Mary Nancy Councilman.  He had two sons. He served the Confederacy for 11 months and was killed at the Battle of Malvern Hill. 

Mebane’s wife Mary Nancy Councilman Kinney did not receive all of Mebane’s soldier pay after his death.   The following letter is in his file at Fold 3.

“State of North Carolina this day come before me Geo Patterson an acting justice of the peace in the said county Mary Kinney and made oath on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God that she is he widow of Mebane Kinney deceased late or private of Capt. Cooks Company E 13^th N.C. Troops and she is therefore entitled to the arrears of pay that may be due him from the Confederate States of America, and also appeared at this time George A Foster and made oath as of one said that he knows the said Widow and knew the Husband and the facts Sworn to by her are true and he is disinterested therein October 25^th 1862.  Sworn and Subscribed before me

Geo Patterson, Jr.

   Mary Kinney Seal

                                                                                     G A Foster Seal

I certify that the witness, Geo A. Foster is of good character and that all attention should be paid to his affidavit.

October 28, 1862                                                                                                Geo Patterson

State of North Carolina

                I John Faucett, Clerk of Alamance County Court Certify that George Patterson is an Acting Magistrate in said County duly Commissioned & sworn or that all but official acts and entitled to full faith & credit as such.

                                Given under my hand & office in Graham this 4^th November 1862

                                                                                                                Jno Faucett, CCC

From Mary Nancy Councilman Kinney’s tenacity, the Confederate Bureaucracy identified that she was due $132. 

Transcription:  I certify the within Mebane Kinney a Private of Captain Thomas G Martin’s Company E of the Thirteenth Regiment of North Carolina born in Alamance County in The State of North Carolina, aged 36 years, 5 feet 8 inches, dark complexion, grey eyes, dark hair and by occupation Farming was enlisted by Capt. Thomas Ruffin at Camp Ruffin on the 27^th day of July, 1861 to serve one years, and is now dead was killed at the battle of Malvern Hill, VA, 30^th June 1862.  The said Mebane Kinney was last paid by Capt. Hill to include the 31^st day of December 1861 and has pay coming from that date to the date of his death.  There is due him $50 Confederate Bounty and $77 in wages.  Given in duplicate at Camp Orange this 7^th day of March 1864.  W.M. Anderson, Commanding Company.

Edwin Kinney, Peter Kinney’s nephew, son of Daniel Kinney joined Company I, 8^th North Carolina Infantry on September 17,  1862.   He was a 35 year old farmer who was married to Amy Marshall.  He had three children. He was absent on duty because of sickness and served as a hospital guard at Peace Institute Hospital, a confederate hospital for soldiers for most of the time. 

Transcription:  Medical Examining Board General Hospital No 8 Raleigh, January 15, 1864.  We certify that we have carefully examined Private Edwin Kinney of Com 18^th NC Regiment, Clingman Brigade and find him incapable of performing the duties of a soldier with his company because of paraplegia following Typhoid Fever from the effects of which he has suffered for fourteen months.  We further declare as our belief, that he will not be fit for duty during the War and he is a subject for discharge, being fit for service

as a Guard in the Medical Department in Accordance with Par. F. General Orders, No. 96, A and I, G. Office 1863, we recommend him for a detail, as such to report to Surgeon Thos. Hill for assignment of duty.

                                                                                                Thomas Hill

                                                                                                Senior Surgeon for Examining Board

                                                                                                E Burke Haywood Surgeon

                                                                                                Wm A Holt Surgeon

Fold 3 at https://www.fold3.com/image/33013772

Edwin Kinney was stationed at what is now Peace College but during the Civil War was a hospital for wounded Confederate Soldiers. 

William, Peter Kinney’s nephew, son of Daniel Kinney joined Company I, 8^th North Carolina Infantry on September 12,  1862.   He was a 35 year old farmer who was married to Jane Holt.  He had three children at the time of his enlistment. He and his brother Edwin were stationed together at Raleigh, North Carolina.  However he was sent to Cold Harbor, Virginia where he was captured on May 31, 1864 on the first day of the battle.

William was confined at Point Lookout, Maryland as a Prisoner of War from May 31, 1864 to July 9, 1864.  According to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, of the 50,000 Confederate soldiers held in the army prison camp at Lookout Point in tents, nearly 4,000 died.

On July 9, 1864, William was transferred to Elmira, New York where he was released on May 19, 1865 after he took the oath of allegiance and told his captors he wanted to stay  up north thus avoiding the cost to them of a railroad ticket home. 

William, Peter Kinney’s nephew, Oliver son of Daniel Kinney joined Company  H 15th North Carolina Infantry on  May 21, 1861.   He was wounded on December 13, 1862 at Fredericksburg, Virginia and discharged on April 22, 1864 with a discharge disability.

Clingman, Peter Kinney’s nephew, son of Daniel Kinney joined Company I, 8^th North Carolina Infantry on July 12,  1861.  He was only 17.  He was taken as a  Prisoner of War by  General A. E. Burnside on Roanoke Island, February 8, 1862.  He was released on parole at Elizabeth City, N. C. on February 21, 1862.  On November 1, 1862 he went on a sick furlough.  After returning from sick furlough, he was captured at Cold Harbor March 31, 1864.  He arrived at White House, Virginia on June 11, 1864 where he was transferred to Elmira New York, July 12, 1864.  Clingman died at Elmira Prison on October 22, 1864.  Clingman was with his older brother William at Cold Harbor, Virginia; Point Look Out Maryland and at Elmira Prison in New York.  All three brothers were at Raleigh, N. C. at the beginning of the War (Edwin, William, and Clingman).

Henderson, Peter Kinney’s nephew, son of Isaac Kinney joined Company F, 2^nd In North Carolina Infantry on February 11, 1863.  He was 25 years old.  He was hospitalized on June 12, 1863 in Richmond at the Chimborazo Hospital 3.  He deserted on July 13, 1863 and never returned to his company. 

Latter Years

Peter Kinney’s wife Sophia and his daughter Martha died sometime after the 1860 census.  He married for the third and final time to widow Delilah Ganeitta “Dillie” Breedlove Coble.  She is the daughter of Abram “Fox” Coble and Maria Sophia Hagey Coble of Southeast Guilford area.  She lost her first husband, Daniel William Breedlove in the Civil War.  She had one daughter with Daniel Breedlove.  The child’s name was Mary Elizabeth Breedlove. 

In the 1870 census, Peter Kinney is living at Patterson Township, Alamance County with wife Dillie.  He is listed as being 60 years old and she is 28.  Also in the home is Mary Breedlove, William Henry Kinney age 5 and Robert Kinney, an infant.  Peter Kinney has $30 real estate value. 

Peter only has one surviving brother who is living (Isaac) who is living on the west side of Asheboro at Science Hill and is a Shoemaker in the 1870 census.  His personal estate is $357 and real estate value is 390.  Isaac is living with his 56 year old wife, Lydia, and children David (24), Martha (23), Peter (21), Hannah (19), Emeline (18), Elizabeth (18), and Robert (13).  The oldest son Henderson died in 1869.

In 1876, Isaac Kinney was in trouble with the Sheriff for selling whiskey.

“ASHEBORO, MARCH 1, 1876. M. S. ROBINS, Editor. At the recent Term of our Superior Court, one Isaac Kinney was incarcerated for want of Bail to appear at the next Term of the Court, to answer charges of selling spirituous liquors by the small measure. Rumor has had it that there were some sixty or seventy true bills against him. As Kinney is a man so notoriously destitute of property that no fine or costs can possibly be collected out of him, we were unwilling to credit the rumor, till we had proof of its truth. It savored too much of the days of 1868, when R. F. Trogdon, one of the makers of the present State Constitution, last Sheriff of the county, pocketed eight hundred and fifty ($850.00) dollars of  the County taxes  of that year, and never really discovered it was not his own till the report of the Finance committee and a suit in Court, roused him to a consciousness, that it was not his own. and caused him to shell it out into the County Treasury as he did during last Court. Those times when Sheriff Trogdon and other Radicals took advantage of the indebtedness of the county, by buying  at a heavy shave the evidences of indebtedness, and turning them over to o the County Treasurer at par for payment of the county taxes, thus absorbing all the money paid by the taxpayers, so that the Treasurer never received any and so that the honest creditors of the county, who refused to submit to this iniquitous shave, had to stand out in the cold, and get nothing, and all this in utter defiance of the law forbidding such practices. We are no apologist for Isaac Kinney or anyone who violates the law against retailing spirituous liquors by the small or any other law. He or any other man who violates the law ought to be punished. But it is perfectly palpable that some half a dozen or less bills would have punished him as severely as a thousand, and that so vast a number of them as reported could have no other effect than to saddle the taxpayers of the county with heavy costs for no conceivable benefit. Upon investigation we find that in fact there were found against Kinney some sixty-five of these bills. But the strangest and saddest part of the story remains yet to be told.  The only witness against Kinney; on 6O of these 65 bills, is W. R. Ashworth the high Sheriff of the county. We admit that the Sheriff has not rendered himself liable to indictment by thus purchasing of Kinney. But what a picture of morals does it present; when the high Sheriff of a county, whose duty it is to assist in preserving the law unbroken, is not only present at, but gives his assistance to an ignorant and humble citizen, not once only but sixty times, in breaking the law that it is his duty so far as in him lies to preserve from infraction to say nothing of the evil example it presents to others.” (Randolph Regulator, Wednesday, March 1, 1876)

Matilda Lineberry, sister of Peter? Is also living.  In the 1870 census, she lives in Columbia Township with her fifty year old husband Jacob and children Elizabeth (24), Washington, (18), Susannah (15) Sarah (13), Henry (12), Isabella (8), Peter (6), Rubie (4). William Kinney (42) (potential brother who went north has moved from Indiana to Illinois.  He is enumerated in the 1870 census at Sumpter, Cumberland, Illinois. 

Living in the family is wife Julia Ann, and children Lewis W (15-, William D (13), Oliver PM (5) and Telesta (5).  Sometime after this census, William probably passed away as he is not found in the 1880 census.

In the 1880 census, Peter was 75 and disabled with rheumatism.  His wife Dillie was 39.  Sons William Henry Kinney (15) and Robert (12) were listed as laborers.  Also in the home was Annie (10) and twins Esther and Jenny (5). 

In the 1880 census, Isaac Kinney (age 64) appears to have given up selling whiskey and has become a shoemaker.  His wife Lydia is in the home as is Peter (32) Emeline (25) Martha (36) and grandchildren Cicero (14) and William Gurney (5).

Peter Kinney’s oldest daughter, Sabrey Kinney died in 1880 and is most likely buried at Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church in Kimesville, Guilford County with her husband and children.

Peter Kinney  died in 1884.   No grave has been found but I believe he is most likely buried with his daughter, Sabrey at Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church. This is the plaque that Dillie Coble had made to honor her three husbands (before she married Matthew Woodell).

Children of Peter Kinney and Mary Chaple

• Sabrey “Silva” “Sibbey” Kinney  1823-1880

Children of Peter Kinney and Sophia Unknown

• George Wesley Kinney 1827-1862
• Martha Elen Kinney 1841-after 1860

Children of Peter Kinney and Delilah “Dillie” Ganeitta Coble Breedlove 1840-1913

• William Henry Kinney 1864-1930
• Robert Florentine Kinney 1867-1925
• Annie Jane Kinney 1871-1951
• Esther Delina Kinney 1875-1941
• Jennie Selina Kinney 1875-1961

Peter Kinney’s children were born over a span of 52 years (Sabrey in 1823 and Esther and Jennie in 1875 and they died over a period of 99 years (Wesley 1862 and Jennie 1961).

References available at Rogers Family Tree on Ancestry at https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/34712803/family?cfpid=18685370656

and at Family Search at https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LHYH-61H

Sarah Temperance Davis “Tempiebell” was born around 1851 according to the 1860 census.

Sarah was the daughter of Elisha Davis (1821-1870) and Elizabeth Knight Davis.  Elisha’s parents were Jonathan Davis and Sarah Parker Davis.  Elizabeth ‘s parents were Moses Knight and Temperance Eddins.  She had six sisters.  They were:

• Mary Jane Davis 1852-1935
• Ellen Virginia Davis 1856-before 1897 married Alexander” Sandy” Campbell 1851-1913
• Melissa Emmaline Davis 1859-1935 married William George Deese 1857-1919
• Nancy Ardelia Davis 1866-1957 married Horry Franklin Campbell 1858-1942
• Jo Ann Davis 1867-1925 married William Hamilton Lewis 1867-1925
• Harriet Ellen “Hattie” Davis 1867-1930 married Daniel T Horne 1867-1927

In the 1860 census Tempiebell was living with her 36 year-old-father Elisha and her 27-year-old mother Elizabeth Knight Davis.  Her father was a farmer and had $2,000 in real property and $200 in real estate.  She was the oldest of four girls who were living in the home.  Her sisters were Mary Jane (7), Ellen (4) , and an unnamed girl,  (2) most likely Melissa Emmaline.  Her grandmother and namesake, Tempy Eddins Knight was also living with the family.

Mary Jane was a cripple.  She became crippled from age three with infantile paralysis.  This is evident from her death certificate.

Childhood illnesses and death were very common during this time. However, infantile paralysis seems to have been fairly uncommon. The most common childhood disease reported from the City of Charleston in the first week of July 1853 was Cholera Infantum. (The Charleston Daily Courier, 13 July 1853, page 4).

Sister Nancy Ardelia Davis Campbell lived to be 90, passing away in 1957.  This is a picture of her with her daughter Rachel Campbell Prevette and her daughter’s husband, Dewey Thompson Previtte.  The photo was shared on Ancestry.Com by Thompson_Elizabeth at https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/34712803/person/372018003172/media/08523da3-d8a8-4650-82b8-0adf911ec3de?usePUBJs=true.

 

In 1860 Tempiebell  and her family lived in Household #495.  The next door neighbors (Household 494) were John Privette and his wife Elizabeth with their family.  Mr. Privette was a farm laborer with only $50 in personal value listed on the census.  His wife Elizabeth Davis Privette was the first cousin of Tempiebell’s  Dad, Elisha.  In Household #496, James and Jane Dees lived with their children.  He was also a farm laborer with only $25 in personal value listed on the census.  In Household #498, Tempiebell’s paternal grandmother Sarah Parker Davis (age 60) lived with her daughter Jerusha Davis McBride (age 37) and her children.  The oldest son seventeen year old James McBride was a farm laborer.  Sarah had $100 in personal value listed on the census while Jerusha had $150.   The wealthiest neighbor was seventy-one year old Riley Smith (Household #499) who was a slave-owning farmer.  He had $10,000 in real property and $16,000 in personal property.  In Household #500 Andrew Jackson Eddins, a blacksmith was living with his family.  He was a cousin to Tempiebell  through her maternal grandmother, Temperance Eddins Knight.  Other neighbors include Wiley Morris and Charity Short (Household 490) and their family and William Short and Aisley “Alie” Ada White (Household #493) and their family.

In February of 1870, Elisha Davis, Tempiebell’s father  Elisha entered into a mortgage (Bond Agreement) with his neighbor William P Brock and Hugh Craig, the Probate Judge of ChesW.P. Brock & Elisha Davis to Hugh Craig Judge of Probate Mortgage

The State of South Carolina

To whom all these presents may concern. We William P Brock & Elisha Davis in and by our certain bond or obligation bearing date the third day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred seventy st and firmly held and bound into Hugh Craig Judge of Probate for Chesterfield County in the final sum of one hundred and forty two dollars and fifty cents conditioned for the payment of the full and just sum of seventy one dollars and twenty-five cents in two annual instalments with interest payable annually the first payment payable Jany 5 1871 and the second payment on the 3rd day Jany 1872 as in and by the said Bond and condition thereof. reference being thereunto had, will more fully appear. Now Know all men that we the said Wm. P. Brock and Elisha Davis in consideration of the said debt and sum of money aforesaid, and for the better securing the payment thereof to the said Hugh Craig Judge of Probate according to the condition of said Bond; and also in consideration of the further sum of three dollars to us the said Wm. P. Brock and Elisha Davis in hand, well and truly paid by the said Hugh Craig at and before the sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged. We have granted, bargained, sold and released, and by these presents do grant bargain, sell and release unto the said Hugh Craig Judge of Probate, all that certain piece or parcel of land on Westfield Creek, bounded by Wm. Short, Estate of Richmond White and others, known as the mill seat on Indian Branch, containing five acres, more or less. Together with all and singular the rights, members Hereditaments and appurtances unto said Hugh Craig, Judge of Probate his Heirs and assignees, from and against us and our Heirs, executors, administrators and assignees & all other persons lawfully claiming or to claim the same or any part thereof. Provided always nevertheless, and it is the true intent and meaning of the parties to these Presents, that of the said Wm. P. Brock and Elisha Davis do and shall well and truly pay or cause to be paid unto the said Hugh Craig the said debt or a sum of money aforesaid and the interest thereon, if any shall be due, according to the intent and meaning of the said Bond and condition thereunder written there this deed of bargain and sale, shall cease and be null and void or else remain in full force and virtue. And it is agreed by and between the said parties that the said Wm. P. Brock and Elisha Davis are to hold and enjoy the said premises until default of payment shall be made. Witness my hand and seal this third day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and seventy.
Signed Sealed and delivered in the presence of
W E Craig
E B Smith Sr.
Wm. P. Brock Seal
Elisha Davis Seal

U.S. Stamps amounting to Fifty cents
properly recorded

State of South Carolina
Chesterfield County

Personally appeared Wm. E. Craig before me and made oath that he saw Wm P. Brock and Elisha Davis sign, seal and deliver the written instrument of writing for the purpose thereon containe and that he with Elisha B Smith saw signed the same as witnesses to the due execution thereof.

W. E. Craig
Sworn before me
the 28th day of Feby 1870
T F Mulloy
Clk Recorded 2nd March 1870
Original Dlvd to H. Craig
Chesterfield County

 

On August 15, 1870, the Elisha Davis Household is listed as Dwelling #1, Family#1 in the Courthouse Township of Chesterfield South Carolina.  Father Elisha is listed as a farmer (age 46)  with a personal estate of $110 and real estate worth $500.  Elisha passed away sometime between 1870 and 1880 as he is not listed in the 1880 census and his wife is a widow.  No record has been found of his tombstone.  Tempiebell  is listed as being a fifteen-year old which would have made her born in 1855.  Her sister Mary Jane is sixteen.  Other sisters include E B (Ellen Virginia age 12), M E (Melissa or Margaret Emmeline age 10), JS (Joe Ann age 4), A (Nancy Ardelia age 3), and H E (Harriett Ellen “Hattie” age 2).  Although some of the girls were too young, none of the older girls could read or write.  Tempiebell’s grandmother Sarah Elizabeth Parker Davis lived next door.  Other close neighbors included Gardeners and Burrs.  Elisha’s nephew and Sarah Elizabeth Parker Davis’s grandson, Fred Davis (Richard Frederick) lived nearby in Dwelling #10 with his family.

In the 1880 census , Sarah Temperance”Tempiebell” is a twenty-four year old married lady.  She has married Eldred “Dred” Gulledge around 1873.  There are three children in the household:  Mary E (age 5), Thomas (age 3), and Fanny possibly Rebecca (age 2).  Eldred is a farmer and Tempiebell  works on the farm.  The family lived in Dwelling #284 in the Courthouse District 5 in Chesterfield South Carolina.  Her next door neighbor in Dwelling #283 was her sister Margaret Emmeline Deese and her husband William George Deese.  Next door is Alexander Sandy Campbell and his wife Ellen (Tempiebell’s sister) in Dwelling #282.  He would later marry Dred and Sarah Temperance Davis Gulledge’s daughter, Rebecca.  In Dwelling #281, Tempiebell’s mother, Elizabeth Knight Davis is living with her four daughters, Mary, Joe Ann, Nancy, and Harriet.  In Dwelling  #285, Jenet White Lang is living with her family and Fred Davis (Richard Frederick) is still a close neighbor with his family in Dwelling #286.

In the 1900 census Sarah Temperance Davis Gulledge “Tempiebell”  reports she is 46 years old, has thirteen children, eight of which are living.  Her husband Samuel “Dred” Gulledge is 53.  The children in the household are Mary E (age 25), John (age 16), Moses (age 15), Joan (age 14), Minnie (age 11), Harley (age 9), Kate A (age 4) and granddaughter Sarah (age 2).  Sarah is the daughter of  twenty-five year old Mary Elizabeth or “Mollie”.  “Dred” is a farmer and the family lives in the Court House District 21 in Dwelling #319.  Sarah’s sister Margaret Emmeline lives next door with her husband William George Deese and their five children in Dwelling #319.  Sarah’s sister Joan lives in Dwelling 316 with her husband William H. Lewis and their five chidren.  Sarah’s mother Elizabeth Knight Davis lives in Dwelling #315 with her daughter Mary Jane and granddaughter Hattie J. Dees.  Sarah and Dred’s daughter Rebecca is living in Morven with her husband Alexander “Sandy”Campbell and his two teen-age sons, John Washington Campbell and Daniel Campbell.    Rebecca reports having been married three years and has no children.   John Washington Davis and his wife Malissia Pittman Davis live in Dwelling #314 with their family.

In 1902, Mother Elizabeth Knight Davis divides up her husband’s Elisha’s estate lands.  There was 269.50 acres of land  on the waters of Big Westfield Creek joining the North Carolina line which she divided up among her daughters and some of their husbands.

• 37 acres of land to Joanne Davis Lewis
• 41 acres of land to William Hamilton Lewis (Joanne’s husband) on the caveat that he provide and maintain her and daughter Mary Jane throughout their lifetimes
• 50 acres of land to William George Deese on the caveat that he provide and maintain her and daughter Mary Jane throughout their lifetimes
• 28 3/4 acres of land to Sarah Temperance Davis Gulledge
• 37 acres of land to Melissa Emmaline Davis Deese
• 42 acres of land to Nancy Ardelia Davis Campbell
• 33.75 acres of land to Hattie Ellen Davis Horn

Nancy Ardelia Davis was the last deed completed by Elizabeth Knight Davis and it was done on May 1, 1902.  Sometime after that, Elizabeth Knight Davis passed away but there is no record of where she was buried.

The following is a copy of the deed which was made to Sarah Temperance Davis Gulledge.  It is in Book 17, page 486, 487, and 488 of the Chesterfield County Register of  Deeds.

The State of South Carolina

Know all men by These Presents, That, We Elizabeth Davis, Mary Jane Davis, ME Davis, Joanne Lewis, NA Campbell and HE Horn in the state aforesaid, and Chesterfield County in consideration of the sum of Ten Dollars to us in hand paid at and before the serving of these presents by S T Gulledge in the State aforesaid and Chesterfield County the receipt whereof is hereby accomplished have guaranteed, bargained, sold and released and by these Presents do grant bargain sell and release unto the said S T Gulledge all of that certain piece parcel or tract of land situate lying and being in the aforesaid County and State on the waters of Big Westfield Creek commencing at stake West of a small branch and running S 1 1/2 degrees West 81 chains and 50 links to a Stake Thence S 88 degrees E 9 Chs 15 links to Stake at corner of field, thence N 12 degrees E 81 chs 50 links to Pine stake + 111, thence 9 chs to the Beginning Corner. The same being marked Lot No 7 on a plat made by WR Robeson in the Division of the Estate lands of Elisha Davis Deceased, Containing Twenty Eight and three fourth (28 3/4) acres more or less, The some being a portion of land alloted to hem in the division of the said Estate land. References For the aforesaid plat will more fully show boundaries to Some.
Together, with all and singular the rights, members, hereditaments and appurtances. To have and to hold all and singular the said premises belonging or an anywise incident or appertaining. To Have and To Hold all and singular the said premises before mentioned unto the said S.T. Gulledge and her Heirs and assigns forever.
And we do hereby bind ourselves and our Heirs, Executors and Administrators to warrant and forever defend all and singular the said Premises unto the said S.T. Gulledge and her Heirs and Assigns against ourselves and our Heirs and all other persons lawfully covering or to cover the some, or any part thereof. Witness our Hand and serve this 9th day of March in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and one and in the one hundred and 25 year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America.
Signed Sealed and Delivered in the presence of Elizabeth Davis her mark Seal
J.R. Stacy M E Deese her mark Seal
J.A. Irving Joanna Lewis her mark Seal
N A Campbell her mark Seal
M E Horne her mark Seal
The State of South Carolina
Chesterfield County
Personally appeared before me J.A Irving and made oath that he saw the within named persons sign seal and as their act and deed deliver the within written deed and that he with J.R. Stacy witnessed the execution thereof.
Sworn to before me this 9th Day of March A.D. 1901
R.E. Rivers Clerk of Court J.A. Irving

Recorded this 9th Day of March 1901 in Book 1 Page 45
Fee $.25
E. G. Mulloy
Chesterfield County S.C.
Record 9th March 1901

 

This plat was registered at the Chesterfield Register of Deeds in Book 36, page 25 on December 4, 1912 as the result of some unknown dispute. Of interest is Lot 2 which shows 42 acres belonging to Alex Campbell.  Alexander “Sandy” Campbell married Ellen Virginia Davis, Tempiebell’s sister.  She died before 1897.  He had two sons with Ellen Davis.  Alex “Sandy” died in 1913 but not before he remarried is first wife’s niece, Rebecca Gulledge, Tempiebell’s daughter,  Of this union was born, Bessie, Coyt, Cliff, and Ruth.

In the 1910 census Sarah Temperance reports she is 53 years old, has fifteen children, eight of which are living.  She must have been counting her two grandchildren that unmarried Mollie had (Sarah and Bill).  The children in the household are Moses (age 21), Minnie (age 18), Harley (age 15), Katie (age 13), and Bill (age 7).  Bill is a grandson but is reported as a son.  John Washington Campbell and Daniel Campbell,  Daughter Rebecca’s step sons were next door neighbor on one side.  Harry and Maggie Marshall, a young black couple were neighbors on the other side.  Also living nearby was the Mark Morris family.  Mark Morris was the son of Joseph Morris and Mary Elizabeth Burr.

In the 1920 census, Sarah Temperance Gulledge and her husband Dred Gulledge are living with her daughter Kate and her son Moses Jonathan Gulledge and his wife Maggie Culley Gulledge and son David and daughter Geneva “Tempie Belle” Gulledge.  The next door neighbors are a black farming family, Luke and Carry Bennett Marshall and their children Lila J, Louisa, and Robert L.  Niece Nancy L Marshall and nephew Arlis Marshall are also living with this family.  On the other side, the neighbors were another black family Neal McKhan and his wife Emma Little McKhan and children James, Willie and Clara.  He was also a farmer.

Tempiebell’s husband Samuel “Dred” passed away on May 10, 1921 in South Carolina at the age of 81.  His death certificate  says he is buried at the Davis Burying Ground.

Sarah Temperance “Tempiebell” Davis Gulledge died on March 9, 1922.  Her obituary  reads as follows:

From Obituaries from the Chesterfield Advertiser 1892-1928
Chesterfield County, South Carolina
James C Pigg

March 9, 1922, page 4, col.4: Mrs Temple Gulledge, who had been sick for quite a while died Tuesday night at the age of 66. She left three sons, five daughters. She is missed by a number of friends. She was laid to rest Thursday afternoon. She is gone but not forgotten. May God bless every one of her children.

There is no known tombstone for Sarah Temperance “Tempiebell” Davis or her husband, Samuel Eldred “Dred” Gulledge.  However, indirect evidence on death certificates indicates that they are buried at the Davis Family Cemetery which is located on Water Plant Road in Chesterfield.  The Cemetery is on the right in the edge of the woods where the pavement ends.  There are only a few readable tombstones in this cemetery.  These pictures were made at the cemetery on January 12, 2020.

There are several depressions where it looks like there are graves and some tombstones that are unreadable.  Other family members who are likely in this cemetery are Tempiebell’s sister Mary Jane Davis and sister  Joan Davis Lewis and her husband William Hamilton Lewis.

Children of Sarah Temperance “Tempiebell” Davis and Samuel Eldred “Dred” Gulledge are

• Mary Elizabeth “Mollie” Gulledge 1875-1959 married William Benjamin White 1858-1941
•  Thomas Gulledge 1877-before 1900
•   Fanny Gulledge 1878-before 1900
•   Rebecca “Becky” Gulledge” 1878-1953 married Alexander “Sandy” Campbell 1851-     1913 and John Amos Polson 1859-1921
•   Moses Jonathan Gulledge 1881-1943 married Margaret Ann Culley 1898-1936
•   John Samuel Gulledge 1883-1930 married Massey Katherine Brock 1866-1930
•   Joan Gulledge 1886-1953 married Calvin T Tucker 1883-1942
•   Harriett Ellen “Hattie” Davis 1867-1930 married Daniel T Horne 1867-1927

References available at Rogers Family Tree on Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/34712803/family
and at Family Search https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LML8-X2P

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isaac Wesley Allred was born on May 17, 1844, in Randolph County, North Carolina.  His  father Anderson Allred was 34 and his mother Sabina McMasters Allred was 30.  Isaac Wesley was born during a presidential election.  The election was between James Polk and Henry Clay.  James Polk was a dark horse, Democratic candidate who was born in Pineville, North Carolina, near Charlotte.  His family moved to Tennessee when he was a child and he was an Andrew Jackson protégé.  Henry Clay was the better known candidate and was endorsed by the local Asheboro paper,  Southern Citizen.  

 

The main issue in the 1844 election was whether to allow the slave-holding state of Texas into the Union.  James Polk strongly adopted the policy of Manifest Destiny which contended that the expansion of the United States throughout the American Continent was justifiable and inevitable.  Henry Clay waffled on Texas annexation and lost votes in key states because of immigration issues and identification with a nativist anti-Catholic movement,  particularly in Philadelphia and New York where there were riots against the Irish Catholics.  James Polk narrowly won the election and like Donald Trump in the 2016 election was a dark-horse winner who failed to carry their state of residency.  Polk lost Tennessee by 123 votes.  Trump lost his state of residency, New York by a whopping 1.8 million votes.  Both Polk and Trump also had contentious relationships with Mexico.   Under Polk’s watch, there was the Mexican American War from 1846-1848.  Trump campaigned on bringing back manufacturing jobs and Polk campaigned on bringing back farming jobs.

So the times that Isaac Wesley Allred were born in were in many ways similar to the times we have today.     However, they were much simpler and basic.  The commodities or items to be purchased were fewer and more basic as seen by this May 22, 1844 listing for the Asheboro market from The Southern Citizen.

 

Isaac Wesley’s life appears to have been very much centered around family as his next door neighbors were all part of his close family (paternal and maternal grandparents).

One of Isaac Wesley’s cousins had become caught up the Texas War for Independence.  According to an article published by the East Texas Genealogical Society (East Texas Family Records, Summer 1986, Vol 8, No. 2 by Leila B Lagrone).  Elijah was the son of William and Patience Julian Allred of Randolph County, North Carolina.

“Elijah heard Sam Houston’s plea for volunteers; and he left for Texas. He was 34 years old and single. He rode to Texas on “his good horse Shirk” and his equipment and provisions included a blanket, a rifle, an axe, a frying pan, a sack of corn meal and a slab of bacon. A descendant, S.T. Allison, said, “It must have been the close of 1835 or beginning of 1836 when Elijah, with a few dollars in his pocket, left the home of William and Patience Allred, in North Carolina, to go to Texas to fight for her independence.”
Upon reaching Nacogdoches in 1836, he learned that Texas had won independence; so he moved northward along Trammel Trace until he found unclaimed land that suited his fancy, “off Trammel’s Trace to the East in what is now the community of Fairplay, in late 1836.” Here he built his first home, his closest neighbor being the Reverend Isaac Reed family, four miles south.
He chose his home site among pines just north of present Fairplay. He bought land from Lewis Sanchez and built a cabin of small logs or poles which he could manage by himself. This was the first house built in that community.
Wild game was plentiful, but he needed bread, so he cleared a patch and planted corn. When the corn was gathered, he rode Shirk to Elder Reed’s or to Nacogdoches, some forty five miles away for grinding. He became closely associated with people at Reed’s Settlement when he and Isaac Reed Jr., married sisters, daughters of Abner Herrin.”

Elijah’s two brothers, Stephen and Renee also followed him from Randolph County, North Carolina to Texas.   By 1845, all three of the brothers were living and raising a family in Texas.  Renee became the great-grandfather of Governor James V. Allred of Texas.

In the 1850 census, seven year old “Wesley” as he is referred to is House #1232 in the Northern Division of Randolph County.  He is living with his 41-year-old father Anderson Allred and his thirty-seven-year-old mother, Sabina McMasters Allred.  He also has six brothers and sisters:  Elisha, age 18, Rachel, age 13, Edith, age 11, Nancy, age 9, Catherine age 5 and Ann (Kiss ReeAnn).  According to the census, Elisha, Rachel, Edith and Nancy could all read.  The real estate value of the farm was $340.   Anderson Allred had purchased 100 acres of land on the waters of Deep River for $5 from the State of North Carolina (Randolph County Register of Deeds Book 23, page 28).  The land joined Isaac (presumably Elisha’s father) and John Allred’s line.

Next door in House #1233 was his grandfather Isaac Allred.  Isaac was living with his wife Rachel Trogdon Allred and his daughter Rachel.  Also living with them was his sister (not proven), Deanna Allred.  Also living with Isaac and Rachel was daughter Mary “Polly” Allred Jennings and her husband David Jennings with children Alson, Nancy, Adrian, Peter, Mary and Ruben.  The real estate value of Isaac’s farm was $600.

Other neighbors included House #1231 where Samuel Hayes lived with his wife Elizabeth York and their children.  Samuel was a farmer with real estate worth $100.  His son Lewis was a shoemaker and son Gasden was a blacksmith.   Samuel was related to Sabina McMasters Allred through his mother who was Nancy McMasters, daughter of Irish immigrant James McMasters and his wife, Susan Cann.

In House #1234 lived Henry Branson Allred with his wife Eunice Leonard Allred and their baby.  In  House #1235, Isaac Wesley’s maternal grandparents lived.  Elisha McMasters and wife Dinah Hinshaw McMasters lived there with their son Thomas Yancey.  Isaac Wesley’s Uncle Emsley McMasters (his mother’s brother) lived in House #1236 with his wife Rebecca Kendricks McMasters and their children.

Sadly, Isaac’s father Anderson died in January 1851.  He is buried at the Billy Trogdon burying ground on Row 9, Grave 1 (Photograph courtesy of Lance, Find  Grave).

His baby sister Kiss ReeAnn  died May 31, 1851.  She too is buried at the Billy Trogdon burying ground.  (Photograph courtesy of Lance, Find A Grave).

According to the Federal Mortality Schedule, Isaac Wesley’s grandfather, Isaac Allred died in August of 1859.  He was 81-years-old and died of palsy after being  ill nine days.

In the 1860 census, sixteen-year old Isaac Wesley is living with his mother who is a 40 year-old female farmer with $200 worth of real estate and $300 personal estate.  They are living in Household 1046 in Randolph County County with a Cedar Falls post office.  Living with Sabina McMasters Allred are children Rachel (21), Edith (20) Sabra (14) and Eddy (6).  Also living with her is her niece Angeline McMasters who is listed as a factory hand.  It is not clear if Eddy is the child of Sabina and an unknown male, child of Anderson or perhaps child of Rachel.

Living next door in Household 1045 is Sabina and Anderson’s oldest son, Elisha Franklin Allred.  He has married Finity Williams.  Living with them is Luvenia McMasters (Angeline’s sister) who is listed as a factory hand.  In Household 1048 is Hezekiah Trogdon and his wife Lavicy Allred Trogdon.  Hezekiah is a wagonmaker and does not own any real estate.

In Household 1049 is Isaac Wesley’s 82 year-old grandmother Rachel Trogdon Allred.  She is living with her 40-year old unmarried daughter, Rachel.  She is listed as having $700 worth of real estate property and $1,000 worth of personal items.  Rachel Trogdon Allred died in 1866.  Her nephew, Joel Trogdon was her executor.  She left her estate worth about $100 to her three surviving daughters, Lavina Allred Diffee, Mary Allred Jennings, and Rachel Allred.  She left Lavinia a bed and furniture, Mary a side saddle, and Rachel, her unmarried daughter who later married Julius Cicero Gregson a black horse, farming tools, growing crops and provisions, sheep and hogs, and any other property.

Around 1865, Isaac Wesley married Mary Ann Jennings, a nearby neighbor and the niece of his Uncle by Marriage David Jennings who was married to Mary Polly Allred.  Mary Ann was the daughter of Nancy Jennings who apparently never married but had several children by Gabriel Lamb.

In December 1868, Isaac Wesley received 28 acres on Gabriel Creek as his share of his father and grandfathers 200 acres which was divided among his brother and sisters.  Gabriels Creek is up above Cedar Falls on Deep River.

In September 1869, Isaac purchased 50 acres of land for $200 on the west side of Deep River adjoining William Diffee.  He purchased the land from Caroline and John W. Glascow.  In December of that year, the family experienced sadness as sister Sabra Catherine Allred Ferree died in December 1869  when Isaac Wesley was 25 years old.  Sabra was twenty-two years old and died of consumption of the bowels.  Her baby daughter, Rosanna Ferree had died in November of hives.  Sabra’s husband, Mebane Causey Ferree was a widower at age 21.

By the census of 1870, Isaac Wesley and Mary Ann Jennings had set up housekeeping.  They lived in Household #167 in Franklinville, Randolph County, North Carolina.  He was a farmer with $800 in real estate and $375 in personal property.  Mary Ann was a domestic, looking after five-year-old Daniel Julian Allred.  His nearest neighbors were his brother and mother.   Brother Elisha Franklin and his wife, Finity were Household #166.  Along with their children, twenty-five year old Mary Kinney was living with them.  Mary Kinney was the daughter of Sabina McMaster Allred’s sister, Nancy who had died in 1860.  Elisha had $300 in real estate and $300 in personal property.  Isaac Wesley’s mother Sabina McMasters Allred was living in Household #165 with unmarried daughters Rachel and Nancy who worked in the factory.  Rosanna Kinney, Mary’s sister was also living with her aunt and working in the factory.  Also in the household were two farm laborers, Thomas and Eli Allred age 16 and 14.  There was also a black domestic servant named Hannah Bray living there.

Isaac Wesley and Mary Ann’s second son Ensey Worth was born on October 30, 1870. Isaac Wesley Allred bought 170 acres on Bush Creek for $505 at a Sheriff’s auction on January 18, 1871.   The bid was passed down from Dale Henry, Mines Hinshaw to Isaac. His neighbors were James Odell and John T. Allred.  Isaac Wesley moved his family there and this is what was known as the Old Isaac Wesley Allred homeplace.

Isaac’s son Albion Wesley was born in 1874.  His sister, Edith died in 1876.  She was the widow of Henderson Kinney but had recently married Eli Cagle in 1873.  Edith was 37 years old when she died.    Isaac Wesley and Mary Ann Allred had their final child (a girl) in 1878.  She was named Louie Henrietta.

In the 1880 census, thirty-six year old Isaac Wesley Allred was listed as a farmer.  His wife Mary Ann was keeping house.  The two oldest sons Daniel Julian and Ensey Worth attended school and Daniel Julian was also listed as a farm laboroer.  The youngest two children six-year old Albion and two year old Louie did not attend school. The Household was #47 in the Franklinville District  14.  In Household #46 the family of  Oliver P. Hays was living.  His wife was Mary Ann Jennings Hays.  She was the daughter of David Jennings and Mary “Polly” Allred.  She was cousin to Isaac Wesley on the Allred side and cousin to Mary Ann Jennings Allred on the Jennings side.  In Household #48 William Y. Allred and his wife Mary Ann Trogdon Allred was living.  He was the son of John T. (maybe the T stood for Tennessee) and Mary Polly York.  In Household #49 was living eighty-two year old James Odell with housekeeper Nancy Allred and son Hallie.  Nancy was probably the daughter of John T. Allred and the sister of William Y. Allred.

In October of 1881, Isaac  Wesley Allred bought 63 acres of Angeline Trogdon’s land in foreclosure bid for $230. The land on was on Bush Creek near M T Pugh, I W Allred, Emsley Trogdon, Dushkine, and John Trogdon Sr.  In December of 1882, Isaac Wesley’s sister Racheal died.  She was forty-three.  In October of 1883, Isaac Allred bought 14 acres from John M. Trogdon for $60.   The land joined Hayes corner on Lick Branch.  In June of 1885, Isaac Wesley’s older brother Elisha Franklin Allred died.  Elisha was fifty-three.

On July 24, 1886 Isaac Wesley Allred took  a mortgage deed from  a black family, Andy and Martha Foust and Gaston Lane for a $118 bond due in year and $10 interest payment. The loan was backed by a mortgage deed on 157 acres  which joined Isaac Allred’s corner on Deep River.  This was a pattern that continued for Isaac Wesley Allred for the rest of his life.  He would loan his neighbors money on their land, securing it with a mortgage deed and a bond requiring payment in a short period of time (usually one year) and paying interest of usually six percent.   Sometimes he would do as many as a half a dozen of these loans in a year.

In February of 1887, Isaac Allred purchased 74 acres from the estate of James Odell, his neighbor.  This deed was not recorded until 1927 when his estate was being settled by his wife and children.

In May of 1891, Isaac Wesley and Mary Jane Allred sold the 50 acres of land  they purchased in 1869 from Caroline and John W. Glascow for $200, breaking even.   The land adjoined AM Diffie and Luke Cross.  It was sold to family members.  The purchaser was Ellieth Kinney. Martha Ella “Ellieth” Campbell Kinney married Thomas Frederick Kinney, grandson of Isaac’s aunt Nancy McMasters who was married to Simpson Kinney.

Isaac Wesley’s mother Sabina passed away on July 22, 1891, in Cedar Falls, North Carolina, at the age of 77.  She was a widow for forty years.  Her husband, Anderson died in 1851.  She is buried at Cedar Falls Baptist Church Cemetery.

In the 1900 census, Isaac Wesley and Mary Ann Allred continue to live at their Bush Creek Homeplace in Franklinville Township.  All of the boys have left home leaving only twenty-two year old Louie.  The census says that Isaac Wesley and Mary Ann had been married thirty-four years and they had four children during that period of time, all of who were living.  All of the members of the household could read and write.  Isaac Wesley and Mary Ann’s Household was #279.  Living next door in Household #277 was Nancy Allred and her son Hallie.  Household #278 was Widower Charles Richard Hurly and his children.  Household #280 was George Pugh and Ida Smith Pugh.  Isaac and Mary Ann’s sons lived in the same Census District 86 in Franklinville Township.  Their Household numbers were #312 for Daniel Julian and his family for a rented home, Household #317 for Ensey Worth and his family for a rented house and #318 for Albion Wesley and his family for a rented house.

Isaac continued his pattern of loaning money on deeds of property during the decade between 1900 and 1910 and in 1910, he sold the timber on his property to AM Davis whose home was near liberty.

In the 1910 census, Isaac Wesley, Mary Ann, and Louie were Household #124 in East Franklinville District 85.  Isaac reported he was a farmer and that he and his wife had been married 45 years.  This census also stated that Isaac Wesley was a member of the Confederate Army but I have found no other evidence he served in the Confederate Army.  Isaac’s neighbors are Household #125 Nathan Hays and his family and Household #123 Wilson Davis and his family.  Isaacs son’s Albion and his family lived in a rented house in Household #126 and Ensey Worth lived in a rented house in Household #121.  His son Daniel Julian lived further away as he was working in the cotton mill.  He lived in Household #286.

The Courier Tribune reported in March of 1911 that Isaac Allred was building a store building at the crossroads close to his house.

In the 1920 census, Isaac Wesley and Mary Ann are 75 and are still living at the homeplace in Franklinville Township.  According to the census, their farm is free of mortgage.  Living with them is forty-year- old Louie.  His neighbors are still the Hurleys, Pughs and the Davises.  His son Albion lives close by in Household #204 in a rented home.  Albion lives in Household #190 in an owned home, and Daniel Julian lives in a rented home in Household #234.

On November 25, 1925, Isaac Wesley’s last surviving sibling died.  His sister Nancy Leah Allred Frazier died in Marshall  Indiana.  She was 73 years old and had been a resident of Indiana since the 1870’s when she and her family moved there.

Isaac Wesley Allred, the last surviving child of Anderson Allred and Sabina McMasters Allred died on March 26, 1926 at his home three miles north of Cedar Falls.  The following is his obituary which appeared in The Courier Tribune,

 

Isaac Wesley continued to loan money on mortgage deeds up until his death.  His sons Ensey Worth and Albion settled some of them after he was deceased.

After the death of Isaac Wesley Allred, mother Mary Jennings Allred and son Daniel Julian Allred and his wife signed over the bulk of the land that he owned to sons Albion Wesley and Ensey Worth Allred.  Albion got the 63 acres purchased on Bush Creek on October of 1881 and Ensey Worth got 74 acres purchased from James  Odell.

Isaac Wesley was buried at the Whites Memorial Baptist church along with his wife Mary Ann Jennings Allred who died the next year on April 12, 1927.

 

 

The couple are buried in the White Memorial Baptist Church, their home church.  Photograph is from Find a Grave’s Polly Fry Hagerman.

Children  of the couple are:

Daniel Julian Allred 1866-1935 married Nancy Jane Elmore 1863-1933

Ensey Worth Allred 1870-1956 married Carrie Lee Odell 1870-1925

Albion Wesley Allred 1874-1952 married Carrie Ethel Johnson 1873-1947

Louie Henrietta Allred 1878-1954

After Isaac Wesley’s death, Daniel Julian Allred signed over his remaining portion of the homeplace to Ensey Worth Allred and Albion Wesley Allred. It was for $10 and other valuable consideration.  Those consideration included the future care and support of sister Louie.  Sister Louie outlived all of her brothers except Ensey Worth who lived two years longer.

References available at Rogers Family Tree on Ancestry
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/34712803/family
and at Family Search https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LCRN-Z9M

 

 

Sarah Ellen “Sally” Gulledge was born on June 20, 1896 in Chesterfield County, South Carolina.  Her mother was Mary Elizabeth “Mollie” Gulledge.  Sally first appears in the 1900 census in the household of her grandparents along with her mother.  She lived near the town of Chesterfield which had just experienced a terrible fire and bloodshed between whisky runners and constables who felt it necessary to form a posse to keep the peace by keeping the whisky out of their county.  The whisky runners were getting their illegal whisky from Hightower Distillery in Wadesboro, North Carolina and transporting it in to South Carolina.  Mr. Kelly was transporting illegal whisky to his home in Bishopville in Lee County, South Carolina when he was killed by a Constable’s posse in Chesterfield County.  (The Gaffney Ledger, December 24, 1896, page 8).  The Chesterfield fire occurred on February 23, 1896 and was reported by The Watchman and Southron on page 3 on February 26, 1896.

The 1900 census places  Sally Gulledge in the household of her grandfather Samuel Eldredge “Dred” Gulledge (age 53) and her grandmother, Sarah Temperance “Tempie Bell” (age 46).  Her mother, Mary Elizabeth “Mollie” Gulledge (age 25) also lived in the home.  She is listed as single and a farm laborer.  Other Gulledge children in the home are John (age 16), Moses (age 15), Joan (age 14), Minnie (age 11), Harley (age 9),  and Kate Aline (age 4).  In this census, Sally is reported as being 2 years old and born in 1897.  However Sally’s death records say she was born in 1896.

The 1900 census shows the Gulledge family in Enumeration District 21 which is the Courthouse Township portion which is east of Bishopville and Wadesboro Public Road outside of Chesterfield town.  They are family 325.  Father Dred Gulledge is a farmer and all of the older children are farm laborers.  Their neighbors are all farmers also.  Family 324 is William George Dees and his wife Margaret or Melissa Emeline Davis Dees.  She is Sally’s great aunt (sister of Tempie Bell).  They have five sons, ranging from 2 to 18.  There is also a five-year daughter in the household.  Family 326 is a black family, Richard Gordon and his wife Frances,  They are ages 36 and 34 respectively.  they have a six-year old girl, and two-year old son and an infant boy.  Family 327 is Mark Morris (age 22) and his recent wife Martha Campbell Morris (age 18).

Mark Morris’s father Joseph Morris is living in Anson County, North Carolina in the 1900 census.  He and his family live in Morven in District number 7 which includes McFarlan Town and would be close to where the Gulledges live.  In 1900, Joseph is 57 and Mary is 58.  Children in the home are Luke (age 23) John (age 19), Lucy (age 17) and William Bivens (16) and Julian (age 16).  James Washington Morris (age 27) live next door.  Louis  (30) is married and living in Gulledge Township

In 1901,  Sally’s brother William B “Bill” Gulledge was born on December 10, 1901 in South Carolina.  Sally was five years old.  Mother Mollie was still single.  There is no paper trail that shows whether Sally and Bill share a father or if they are half brothers and sisters.

Sally’s mother Mollie married or started living with William Benjamin White around 1910. His first wife, Lizzie Landon died. He had one daughter with his first wife named Della Nancy White. He then married Margaret Ann Hasty, the widow of Reverend James Alfred Barber on April 17, 1887 in Union County, North Carolina. In 1900, William Benjamin is living with Margaret Ann in Charlotte.

In the 1910 census, William Benjamin White is 40 and is living with his 34 year old-wife, Mollie on Morven Road in Chesterfield, South Carolina. Also living with them is baby Hattie Mae and Mollie’s daughter, Sally Gulledge (age 13, born 1897). Another daughter, Katy Esther “Topsy” White was born on October 2, 1911.  Hattie Mae and Topsy’s father was William Benjamin White.  The White’s are family 121 and their next door neighbors are Fred Richard Davis, Mollie’s mother’s brother and his second wife Lucy Hardy White (Family 120).  Lucy Hardy White was the daughter of Thrashley White.  Her brother, Ervin White and his wife Ellen are family 122.

Grandpa Dred and Grandmother Tempie Bell also live on Morven Road.  Mollie’s son, Bill is seven years old and he lives with his grandma and grandpa.  Others living in the home are Moses (age 21), Minnie (18), Harley (15), and Katie (13).  Dred is listed as a farmer and the children are all farm laborers except for Bill.  Two doors down, Mark Morris (age 33) and wife Martha Campbell (age 25) are living with their three children.

The Joseph Morris family lives just over the County line in Anson County.  Joseph is 69 and is living with his wife Mary (age 69).  Also living with them is Lucy (age 28) who apparently has had a baby Dewey Morris who is an infant and is listed as a grandchild.  Julian is still in the home.  Most of the other Morris boys have started a family and have left home but live nearby in Anson County (John, James Washington, and Louis). Luke and Mark live in Chesterfield with their families.

On December 30, 1911, fourteen year old Sallie Gulledge marries Benjamin Franklin Lee.  Her mother Mollie states she was born July 26, 1897.   Since she is under age, her Uncle John Gulledge (with whom she is living at that time) also gave permission.  He states her true age is 14 1/2.

Sally’s first child was born stillborn in the early years of her marriage to Ben Lee.  But she soon settled into being a responsible and beloved mother to her children.  She had seven children over a period of twenty-six years.  From the accounts of her children, she was a devoted wife to her husband, Ben who was a sweet-spirited person.  She had a harsher edge and was very protective of Ben and her children, almost like a “momma bear.”

The picture below is probably take in the 1940’s after  Ben and Sally’s son Wilson returned from World War II.  Sallie could not read or write and Ben read her the Bible daily.

Sallie became a widow at age fifty-seven when her beloved Ben passed away from problems with his diabetes and kidneys.  This is a picture of the family at Ben’s funeral.

Sally never worked at public work.  She helped Ben farm, raised her children and then helped raise her 21 living grandchildren.  As one of the middle grandchildren, my memories of her occur after she was widowed.  She was a strict disciplinarian, expecting children to work hard and not be prone to a lot of foolishness.  Sally always had trouble with her stomach and had lost all of her teeth because of pellagra stemming from poor diet in her younger years.  She always wore her false teeth to church on Sunday and her best hat and dress.

Sally also cared for her mother, Mollie, whom we called “Granny White”.  Granny White had the front room all by herself while the rest of us were consigned to the other two bedrooms which had two large beds each.  Four generations lived in Sally’s home until the death of “Granny White” in 1959.  Daughter Azaline and her husband, Jesse Leon “JL” and three small children shared the home.   Four of Sally’s children lived away from the Hinson Hill Home in Chesterfield and they often returned to stay overnight.

I was eight years old when “Granny White” died and I remember being told as a child my Grandma Sally was a “woods chicken” and did not know her father.  I remember being told various theories about her origin.  Ms. Mollie Gulledge  “Granny White” was a Doctor Assistant. She worked with Dr. Benjamin James McGoogan of Morven. During the flu epidemic, it is said she warded off flu germs by always keeping a dip of snuff in her mouth. She also was a well known midwife and delivered many babies on her own.   One family theory was that Dr. McGoogan was the father of  Mollie’s children.  The problem with this theory was that Dr. McGoogan didn’t arrive in McFarlan until 1917, well after the birth of Sally and her brother, Bill as shown by this article in the Message and Intelligencer, published on April 5, 1917, page 8.

Another theory was that Mollie was somehow jilted by a man who was just passing through the community, an artist or traveling salesman.  This is sort of negated by the fact that there were two children born without a father who are about five-years apart in age.

DNA evidence seems to point toward the  Joseph Morris family.   Indirect evidence points in that direction as well.  The family lived in close proximity to the Gulledge family during the time period of Sally’s birth.  Also, one of Mollie Gulledge’s sister married one of the Morris brothers.  Minnie Gulledge married Julian Jule Morris.

In examining the DNA evidence, the following steps were followed:

1.  Examine Ancestry, GEDmatch, 23 and me, and My Heritage shared matches between this family and Margie Lee, Sallie’s daughter
2.  Through DNA Painter for matches in this family, determine how the match is related.  If it is related through paternal side, or known maternal relationships through Dred Gulledge and Tempie Davis, then it would be ruled out.
3. Plot the relationships on the What are the Odds Tool in DNA Painter to determine if evidence supports a Morris relationship for Sally’s father.

The conclusion from this analysis is that there is weak not overwhelming evidence that Sarah Ellen “Sally” Gulledge could be the daughter of  two of the sons of Joseph Morris.  The other sons along with Joseph Morris and his brother James “Bud” Morris are ruled out by the statistical odds of DNA.  The two brothers who are not ruled out are James Washington Morris and John Walter Morris.  James Washington Morris would have been a 21 year-old young man around the same age as Mollie Gulledge.  He was single farmer living on his own next to his parents in the 1900 census.  John Walter was 18 in 1896 and in the 1900 census he was single and still living with his parents.

Sally Gulledge enjoyed a long life.  She lived until age 93.  She was only incapacitated for the last few years of her life.  She lost her vision and stayed in bed most of the time.  Before her decline, she was very interested in the world around her, always watching the news on television and having her family read to her as she was unable to read.  This picture is of her as she celebrated her 89th birthday.

 

This is the verse that appeared on her funeral card.  She certainly had her trials in life but she lived her life with strength, light, and grace.

God has not promised
Skies Always Blue
Flower-Strewn Pathways
All Our Lives Through
God Hath Not Promised
Sun without Rain
Joy without Sorrow
Peace without Pain
But God Hath Promised
Strength for the Day
Rest for the Labor
Light for the Way
Grace for the Trials
Help from Above
Unfailing Sympathy
Undying Love

 

 

Nancy Jane Elmore was born on November 9, 1863 in Randolph County, North Carolina.  Her parents were Parish Garner Elmore, age 24 and Elizabeth Caroline Ellison, age 23.  Parish was a worker in the cotton factory, most likely at Randleman.  His wife Elizabeth Caroline Ellison worked as a reeler in the cotton factory prior to their marriage.  The Ellison and Elmore families lived in close proximity to each other in the community of New Salem.  The Elmores moved to the area from Chatham County after 1850.    Here is W. S. Lineberry’s description of the New Salem Community.”

From the Courier Tribune Thursday May 10, 1923, page 3

New Salem is one among, if not the oldest towns in the county. It is located a mile east of Randleman on the Greensboro and Hillsboro road. It has never grown to be a large town, but some prominent, and business men have lived and done business in this little village.
At the east end in the forks of the Greensboro and Hillsboro road is the cemetery, and until a few years ago stood the old Quaker church, which was built more than a hundred years ago. This church has been torn down and a Methodist Protestant Church erected. At this old church the Friends used to meet twice a week, on Sunday and Thursdays to worship. The men wore broad brim hats and spike tailed coats. The women wore plain purple dresses with scooped bonnets trimmed with purple. About their shoulders they wore a large silk hankerchief of the same color. They would meet at 11:00 o’clock and sit for an hour so quietly you could hear a pin drop. At the end of this time, some leader of the church would arise, and then they would shake hands and exchange greetings.
The first house at the east end lived Jonathan Vickory, later A.L. Lamb. Uncle Jonathan was a good, honest old man. He ran a smith shop and was always in a good humor. The boys liked to meet here on rainy days to hear him tell jokes. He moved to Indiana in the sixty’s.
Next lived Dr. C. W. Woollen. He was a noted doctor and had a large practice. He married the daughter of Hiram Worth, an Abolitionist preacher. Woollen had a daughter, Ida, who married A.W. Vickery and lives in Florida, and a son Charles, who died in Florida several years ago. Opposite of him lived Mark Albertson, who ran a tin shop. People came for miles to get their coffee pots and tinware. Next was Sammy and Elwood Lineberry. They made buggies and carriages. Sammy was also a preacher. He moved to Indiana where he has several children. Among them the Rev. W.W. Lineberry who has been president of the Methodist Protestent Conference for years and is said to be a noted preacher. Opposite of them lived Peter Dix, a noted and popular man of his day. He had a son James who built the grist mill at Randleman, and was one of the builders and stockholders of the Union, now known as Randleman Mills. Peter Dix had a daughter, Sallie, who married Dr. John M Worth. They lived at New Salem for several years, where he practiced medicine. Dix had another daughter Annie, who married Jesse Walker, one of the stockholders of Union Factory and father of James E. Walker of Asheboro.
Later Frank McCollum, the noted boot maker lived here. Then the blind preacher, Dr. Brantley York who ran a graded school in New Salem several years. On the opposite side lived Addison Worth, who was a merchant. He had a young man, Bill Elliott, for a clerk. One day Worth was looking over his books and found charged to Bill Elliott, a saddle $17.50 fools experience. He made inquiry what it meant, Elliott said one day a man came in and was showing him a trick in cards. Elliott was sure he knew what the top card was and bet the saddle against so much money and when he turned up the card it was a different card, so he charged up the saddle as fool’s experience. Back of Worth’s house some 200 yards is the spring where Naomi Wise met Bill Lewis when he took her to Deep River and drowned her. A few years ago, the stump could still be seen where she got upon Lewis’ horse behind him. On the opposite side from the Worth’s house, N.C. and M Jarrell had a store and in the piazza was where the elections were held. People came for 10 and 15 miles to vote and as New Salem went, so went the county. Here was also the post office, we had mail on Friday going from Greensboro to Asheboro and back on Saturday. People came for 10 to 12 miles for their mail and in time of the war Friday was like a general muster, so many people came for their mail. After N.C. Jarrell moved away Miss Addie Ingold was post mistress.
Next house on the south side lived Wm. B. Vickery. He ran a tan yard and harness shop. From the Naomi Springs he obtained his water for his tannery, which was conveyed to his tannery through a lead pipe some 300 yards.
During the war one night a squad of deserters stole all his pipeing. He then quit the tanning business and devoted the balance of his life to farming. He had three sons and three daughters by his first wife, Joseph C. Vickery, a prominent business man of Bloomingdale, Ind., who died a year ago. H. B. Vickery, who died in Kansas several years ago and A. W. Vickery, who now lies in Florida. His daughters, Mrs. A.L. Lamb and Mrs. W.S. Lineberry live in Randolph and Mrs. H. C. Lambe in Bloomingdale, Ind. He had several children by his last wife, the most of them living in Randolph County. Opposite his house once stood the Masonic Lodge.
Next we come to the Ingold hotel, which was owned by Joel Ingold. He was prominent in his day. He had some intelligent boys; A.W. Ingold who for a number of years was editor and proprietor of the Greensboro Patriot. Later he moved to Yorkville, S. C. and edited the Yorkville Enquirer. He was a fine writer. E. Ingold was the finest boy writer I ever ead after, but he was only 18 years old. F.N. Ingold was express messenger on the railroad for years, but later ran a hotel in Randleman. He was the father of Fred Ingold, of High Point. Miss Addie Ingold the only sister lives in Randleman. Then we come by the Ingold store and bar room (all hotels in that day had bar rooms) where Billy Brown lived. He was a prominent man in his day and was deputy sheriff under the late Sheriff Joe Steed for many years. Opposite his house was the camp ground. On this lot on election days you could find many wagons and cards peddling out their wares of different kinds. Old Miss Davenport would be selling her ginger cakes baked in a dirt oven and they were good too. I never saw any cake that I thought was as good. Then you would see Clark Fentress at the end of his wagon, selling cider, and you would see many wagons selling water melons and that were raised on Muddy Creek and they were such fine melons. Then you could see Miles Lamb with the back gate of his wagon off selling whiskey. You could buy it by the glass or quart or any way, and strange to say you saw but a few men drunk. I don’t remember ever seeing a man drunk at an election. Then the “fiddle” and banjo would be sounding all day and some dancing, others would be playing marbles and out in the bushes you could see some playing cards. These election days were big days. Every man went and voted as he pleased, no buying of votes.
When a boy about 10 years old, my father let me go with him to the election one day. Mother gave me a six pence (we had no nickels then) to buy me a ginger cake and I was very happy. During the day I saw Ephram Whittington come out in the street and Jonathan Frazier was following him with a large cane. Withington was telling him not to follow him, all at once he turned around and with a small pen knife he cut Fraier across his stomache, and Frazier walked off with his bowels in his hands. They took him over to Billy Browns lot and placed him on a table and the doctors sewed him up. This act caused a great deal of excitement and various opinions were expressed. Some thought Whittington would be hung, but I don’t think there was much done about it. Frazier had been a noted fighter and was never whipped, but this cured him and I never heard of his having a fight afterwards.

Nancy Jane Elmore was born in the midst of the War Between the States.  Randolph County and the New Salem Community were not slave holding communities and Randolph County voted against secession.  There is no indication that Parish Garner Elmore, Nancy Jane’s father, participated in the War as a soldier.

On the day, that Nancy Jane Elmore was born, November 9, 1963 there was an advertisement in the Fayetteville Semi Weekly Observer on page 1.   This article indicates  the kind of life that a girl of her economic means could hope for (being a servant or working in the textile economy).

In the 1880 census, the Elmore family has moved down Deep River to Cedar Falls where Parish Garner Elmore, the thirty-nine year old father is listed as being a shoemaker.  His wife Elizabeth Caroline is keeping house.  Seventeen year-old Nancy Jane and her fourteen year-old brother Calvin Laban are working in the cotton mill.

On August 17, 1882, Nancy Jane’s mother, Elizabeth Carolina Ellison Elmore died at the age of 42.  She is buried at Mount Lebanon United Methodist Church in Randleman, North Carolina.

On August 26, 1886, Nancy Jane Elmore  married Daniel Julian Allred from Franklinville in Randolph County. They soon started a family. Son Arthur Labon was born in 1887. William Henry was born in 1888. John Wesley was born in 1891. Daughter Martha Ada was born in 1894 and Lydola “Dola” was born in 1897. Ada Augustus “Addie” came along in 1900.

On June 26th, 1900 when the census was taken, Nancy Jane Elmore Allred was 39 and she was living with her 35 year old husband, Daniel Julian in the East Franklinville Precinct with her six children.  The three oldest children, Arthur Laban, William Henry, and John Wesley had attended school three or four months out of the year.  The three girls, Martha Ada, Lydola and Addie were not old enough being 5 years old, 2 years old and 10 months.  The adults could read and write and the two oldest sons could read or write.  Nine-year old John Wesley had not yet mastered the task according to the census taker.  Nancy Jane had no other occupation besides looking after her family.  Daniel Julian’s occupation was farming and that the family rented their dwelling.

Nancy’s father, Parish Garner Elmore lived in Randleman, North Carolina in 1900.  He was widowed and lived with his two unmarried sisters, Sarah, and Lucy.  He was listed as a farmer.  He may have been a sickly man because he received an allowance in 1876 as an outside pauper as reported by the Randolph Regulator on October 11, 1976.   Parish Garner Elmore died sometime after 1900.

 

In 1902, another girl joins the family. Her name is Bertha Pearl Allred. In 1908, son Arthur Labon died at age 21. He is buried at Cedar Falls Methodist Church Cemetery. The Courier Tribune reported on April 22, 1909, Mr. D.J. Allred has recently accepted a position with The Cedar Falls Manufacturing Company as overseer of the roping department.

In 1910, the census shows the family has completely left farming and joined the textile revolution. Daniel Julian is working in the cotton mill as a space hand. William is a slubber hand, John Wesley is an oiler and Ada is a spinner. The father and the older boys can read and write.  The family again is  renter and does not own their home.

According to the Randolph Bulletin paper January 18, 1906, page 3, the Cedar Falls Cotton Mill was a good place to work.

Nancy Jane’s only sibling, Laban Calvin died (age 51) on March 7, 1917 in Randolph County, North Carolina.  He was suffering from cancer of the stomach.  He is buried at the Country Holiness Church in Randleman.

In the 1920 census, the family continues to work in the cotton mill. William Henry has married Crissie Geneva Laughlin and is living nearby and is working in the cotton mill. John Wesley has left home and is living nearby working in the cotton mill. He has started a family with his wife Alice Leonard Allred with children Delsie, Bill, Claude, and James. Ada has married John Pugh and they live nearby with son Clarence. John Pugh works in the cotton mill also. Living with Daniel Julian and Nancy Jane are daughter Dola and Bertha who are working in the cotton mill with their father. Also living with the family is son-in-law Theron Laughlin with wife Addie. Theron also works in the cotton mill.  The Allred family is again renting their home, presumably from the cotton mill.

In the 1930 census, 65-year-old Daniel Julian Allred is living alone with 67-year-old Nancy Jane Elmore Allred.   They both report that they are able to read and write but that they never attended school.  Also, there is no radio set available in the home.

Nancy Jane suffered from paralysis beginning June 30, 1930 according to her death certificate. She died on December 24, 1933 and was buried at Cedar Falls Methodist Church.

Daniel Julian Allred and Nancy Jane Elmore Allred had the following children:
1. Arthur Laban Allred 1887-1908
2. William Henry Allred 1889-1970 married Crissie Geneva Laughlin 1892-1978
3. Martha L “Ada” Allred 1894-1971 married John Milton Pugh 1888-1960
4. John Wesley Allred 1891-1985 married Flossie Alice Leonard 1892-1960
5. Lydola “Dola” Allred 1897-1985 married Lee Watson Shaw 1901-1939
6. Ada Augustus “Addie” 1900-1984 married Theron Lesley Laughlin 1901-1987
7. Bertha Pearl Allred 1902-1969 married Emery L Smith 1901-1977
8. Charles Melvin Allred 1903-1905

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William Robert “Bob” Dunning was born August 29, 1870 in Silver Hill, Davidson, North Carolina.  His father was William Dunning  who was a farm laborer and his mother was Mary Rhodes Dunning who kept house.  Bob had two older brothers.  David was three years older than Bob and John was one year older.

This newspaper article from The Carolina Watchman, published the week after Bob Dunning’s birth lists the staples his family would have survived on:  Eggs were 10 to 12 cents per dozen and bacon was 16 to 18 cents per pound.

In the 1880 census, there is no longer a husband in the house.  Mary is the head of the house and she is listed as a widow or divorced.  The children in the house are David, age 13, John age 11,  Robert or “Bob”,age 9,  Washington or “Wash”, age 7, and Martha age 1.  They are living in Silver Hill in Davidson County.  Silver Hill was a mining town and the mine had just reopened in 1879.  This article is from  The Goldsboro Messenger on June 19, 1979, page 2.

Bob Dunning grew up poor in a family with no father.  Mother Mary and  youngest daughter Martha were put in the poor house and she died soon after.  Family historians say that Bob lived with Pinkney Redwine and that Mr. Redwine  gave him some farm land.    This apprenticeship bond found at the NC State Archives Davidson County Apprenticeship Bonds 1870-1918, page 75 shows that Bob was an orphan at age 13 years and two months when he became an apprentice to W P Redwine.   Mr. Redwine was supposed to teach him farming and otherwise provide for his basic needs.  Bob was to be his apprentice and servant until age 21.  At that time Mr. Redwine was to provide him with $100 and a Bible.

His brother “Wash” would have been twelve and baby sister, Martha Jane would have been seven when the children were orphaned.  Martha Jane was raised by the maternal side of the family (Rhodes).  Wash may have been bound out as well.

On September 8, 1891 “Bob” Dunning was wed to Cora Bell Doby.

In the first decade of their marriage, Cora Belle and “Bob” are blessed with six daughters. These were Ethel Lou born in 1892, Bertie Alice born in 1894, Minnie Irene born in 1896, Fannie, born in 1897, Marry A in 1898, and Lillie Beatrice was born in 1900.

Cora Belle and Bob continued to live in Healing Spring. They were living on a farm there in the 1900 census with their six daughters. Bob Dunning is a farmer there. Ethel Lou age 7, Bertie Alice age 6, and Minnie Irene, age 5 all attended school some months during the year. Fannie, Marry A, and Lillie Beatrice did not attend school as they were toddlers or babies.

Bob and Cora Belle have a son, Robert Lee Dunning, who was born sometime after 1900 who dies and is buried at Clear Springs Methodist Church in the Healing Springs Community in 1902. Two other sons are then born. William Adam was born in 1903 and Walter Goldsberry was born in 1905.

Bob Dunning appears to have been civic minded.  Articles from  The Lexington Dispatch  show him to be on the Healing Springs School Committee during this time period.

Daughter Carrie L Dunning is born to Cora Belle and William Robert in 1907. The Dunning family continues to live at Healing Springs.   Cora Belle and William Robert’s daughter, Cora May,  dies on February 4, 1909 and is buried at Clear Springs.

In 1910, Cora Belle and William Robert continue to live in the Healing Springs community on their rented farm. They have nine living children now. Ethel Lou, Bertie Alice, Minnie Irene, Fannie, Marry A, Lillie Beatrice, William Adam, Walter Goldsberry, and Carrie B. All of them are attending school except for Walter and Carrie who are too young.

Cora Belle’s final child and another daughter, Lola Pearle was born at Healing Springs on April 9, 1911. Daughter Minnie Irene sickens and passes away on October 18, 1915 at the age of 19. She had been ill since at least September when the Lexington Dispatch reported her very ill.

On January 16, 1918,  The Dispatch  reported that W R “Bob” Dunning served as a Juror in Healing Springs.

In the 1920 census, the four oldest girls have married and left home  (Ethel Lou, Bertie Alice, Fannie, and Mary Adaline).  Bob and Cora Belle are still living in Healing Springs.  Lilly Beatrice has married Edward Gallimore and they are living in the Dunning home as are Walter, Adam, Carrie, and Pearl.  Cora Belle is suffering from gall stones and in December of that year, she dies from complications from gallstones.

Pearl, the baby of the family is only nine years old when her mother dies in 1920.  This is a picture of Pearl with her pet dog from that time period.

More sadness comes to the family in 1923 when daughter Fannie sickens and dies from pulmonary tuberculosis.  Fannie married John Beck in 1920 and had lost several infants in the three-year period they were married, dying at the age of 25 leaving no living children.

On October 24, 1928, “Bob” Dunning remarried.  The fifty-eight year old widower married a thirty-five year old widow, Eva Bowers Charles.  She was the widow of Joe F. Charles and had two daughters, Eva Aleine aged 9 and Mary Audrey aged 7.  On June 18, 1929, “Bob” and Eva have a son together.  His name was Darrell Austin but he was called Austin.

In the 1930 census, the Dunning family are living in Thomasville in Davidson County in a house they own.  The household includes “Bob” and Eva and children Aleine, Mary, and Austin.  All of the older have left home and married.  The baby of the first family, Pearl is living in High Point with Charles and Lillie Perdue as a roomer.  She is working in a hosiery mill as a looper.

In the 1940 census, the Dunning family is still living in Thomasville in Davidson County.  The family now includes only “Bob”, age 69, Eva, age 47, and Austin, age 10.  “Bob” is still listed as a farmer and Eva does not work outside the home.  Eva dies the next year at age 48, leaving “Bob” to raise Austin alone.

William Robert Dunning lived to the ripe old age of ninety.  He outlived all of his sblings.  David died before 1930.  John wandered away from home in 1943 and died of exposure. “Wash” died in 1950 and sister Martha died in 1953.  “Bob” died in the rest home in Granite Quarry on February 28, 1961.  His obituary appeared in The Courier Tribune on March 2, 1961, page 12B.

William Robert “Bob” Dunning was buried by his wife Cora Belle Doby Dunning in the family plot at  Clear Springs Methodist Church in the Healing Springs Community of Davidson County, North Carolina.

Cora Belle Doby and William Robert Dunning’s children were:
1. Ethel Lou Dunning 1892-1969 married Oscar Lewis Brady Sr. 1888-1963
2. Bertie Alice Dunning 1894-1995 married James Harrison Cameron 1883-1971
3. Minnie Irene Dunning 1896-1915
4. Fannie Dunning 1897-1923 married John Everett Beck 1895-1959
5. Marry A Dunning 1898-1974 married Ernest Dexter Sexton 1893-1979
6. Lillie Beatrice Dunning 1900-1972 married Edmund Burch Gallimore 1896-1952
7. Robert Lee Dunning died 1902
8. William Adam Dunning 1903-1971 married Sadie Lee Everhart 1910-2002
9. Walter Goldsberry Dunning 1905-1988 married Mary Elizabeth Brady 1908-1982
10. Carrie L. Dunning 1907-1968 married Edward Emerson Rogers 1897-1956
11. Cora May Dunning died 1909
12. Lola Pearle Dunning 1911-2003 married Dewey E Rogers 1910-1934 and Martin E Cooper 1895-1987

William Robert Dunning also had one child with his second wife, Eva Bowers Charles Dunning.  That child is still living, inheriting his father’s proclivity for long life.  Below is the February 28, 1961 obituary from The Lexington Dispatch when William R Dunning passed away.

 

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William Vance Leonard was born to Albert Darius Leonard and Rebecca Brady Leonard in Browers Township, Randolph County, North Carolina on October 10, 1862.  When William Vance was born, he lived in the Confederate States of American and Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederacy.  The Confederate States had just passed a strict exemption act that only allowed a few exemptions for not serving in the service.  Deserters were being hunted, flogged, and sometimes even executed.  The newspapers were full of war casualties and sometimes victories.

William Vance’s father Albert Darris served in the Confederate Army in Company E North Carolina 44th Infantry Regiment.  He mustered Out on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia.  In the 1870 census, William Vance Leonard is living with his family in Brower’s Township, Randolph County North Carolina.  He is the oldest child at age seven.  His brother Albert Wesley is age five, and sister Mahala Jane is aged three.  Father Albert Darris is forty-two and mother Rebecca is forty.  Albert Darris owns real estate valued at $150 and personal property valued at $130.  Also living with the family is sixty-four year old grandmother Nancy Leonard who has real estate valued at $650.   Nancy and her sister, Mahala had inherited 400 acres from their father Jacob.  Also living with the family is sixty-four year old Allen Scott who is listed as a farm laborer.

The baby of the family, Ada Frances Leonard was born on May 1, 1871 when William Vance was eight years old.  His mother Rebecca died sometime after the birth of Ada Frances and before the 1880 census.  In the 1880 census, seventeen year old William Vance is living with is widowed father Albert Darris and widowed grandmother Nancy Leonard.  This is scant evidence that Nancy was ever married.  Her father was Jacob Leonard and she went by Leonard all of her life.  Also living in the household is Allen Scott who is not related to anyone in the household.  He and Nancy are about the same age and were living together in the same household in 1860, 1870, and 1880 census.  He is listed as being single.  Other children in the household are Albert Wesley, age 16, Mahala Jane, age 14, and Ada Frances, age 8.

William Vance Leonard married Zenri Golda Oates in 1882 when he was twenty.  She was from Moore County.  On October 16, 1883, his first son Lonnie Lee was born in Moore County.  In 1888, Vance and Zenri had a second son, Carl.  In May of 1890, a third son William Claude was born.  Records show he was born in Chatham County.  Vance and Zenri moved around quite a bit.  In 1891, the family was back in Moore County where Vance leased one acre of land from J A Dickens and his wife for the purpose of distilling spirits subject to the Internal Revenue laws of the United States.  The next year Zenri and Vance had their first daughter, Flossie Alice who was born on April 27, 1892.  That year the couple purchased 55 acres along Herds Creek in Moore County from Zinger’s mother Sarah E Oates.

Sarah’s grandfather had received land through land grants from the State of North Carolina.  In 1893, Vance mortgaged the Herds Creek land to KM Furguson for a debt of $50 which was soon discharged via a contract with DB Johnson.  In 1894, Vance and Zenri had their final son, Albert Carson, and the last daughter, Manley Mossie was born in 1895.

On April 16, 1896, Vance Leonard was charged with violation of Internal Revenue Laws and running an illicit distillery.  Vance made bond on the charges of running an illicit distillery with KM Furguson as surety on the bond.  Vance mortgaged the Herds Creek land multiple times that year as his legal troubles affected the family’s finances.  Vance’s trial for running the illicit distillery was held on May 26, 1896.  Several of Vance’s friends and neighbors testified against him.  Wiley Hall said he saw Vance selling whisky in Pinehurst in a one horse wagon.  Sam Trogden testified he saw beer and a still in the woods near Vance’s house.  A C Hales testified that he bought brandy from Vance and paid for it with meal and meat.  Vance plead guilty to the charges against him and was sentenced to one month in the Carthage jail for working at a still.

Vance’s father, Albert Darris passed away in 1905 in Randolph County, North Carolina.  He was 77.  Albert Darris Leonard owned land which the Leonard family had gotten through land grants from the state of North Carolina.  This land was passed on to his second son Albert Wesley and his daughter Mahala Leonard Brown.  Vance does not appear to have received any land.  It may have been because his father disapproved of his lifestyle of moonshiner.  In 1900, Vance and Zenri were living with their family in the Seventyfirst Township, Newton’s Precinct in Cumberland County.    The children in the home were Lonnie 15, Carl, 13, William Claude, 8, Flossie Alice, 6, Manley Mossie, age 5, and Albert Carson, age 2.    William Vance and Zenri Golda Oates Leonard were both reported as being thirty-four years old and had been married eighteen years.  There were seven children born of this marriage and six who were surviving.  In 1902,  Zenri Golda Oates Leonard passed away at the age of thirty-seven.  Zenry and Vance had been married only 19 years.  In 1902, the Herds Creek land in Moore County was foreclosed on and sold at public auction.

Zenri passed away after the 1900 census was taken when the county was living in Guilford County and according to family history is buried there.    The older boys and Vance worked at Proximity Mills there in the early 1900’s.  Soon after that, Vance moved back to Randolph County, where he married Molsy Jane Garner  Cox.  Molsy was the widow of Henry Martin Cox.  She had three almost grown children, Authur, Hester Ella and Bert Lee Cox.  Vance and Molsy had one daughter together, Myrtle who was born in 1908.

In the 1910 census, the William Vance Leonard family was living in East Franklinville.  Vance is 49 years old and his wife Molsy is 48 years old.  They report having been married nine years.  Children in the home are eighteen year old Alice Leonard who is a spinner in the cotton mill, fifteen year old Mossie who is also a spinner in the cotton mill.  Bert Lee Cox, Molsy’s eighteen year old son also lives in the home and is a dresser hand in the cotton mill.  Twelve year old Carson and two year old Myrtle round out the family members.

In 1910, Vance and Zenri’s baby daughter, Manley Mossie died on May 7, 1910.  Manley Mossie was 15.  This was heartbreaking for Alice Leonard who had been caring for her sister since the death of her mother.  She often talked of Manley Mossie’s beautiful blue eyes and said this was where her grandson Darrell got his blue eyes.  Manley Mossie is buried in the Old Baptist Cemetery Church in Cedar Falls but there is no marker.

When William Vance Leonard was living in Franklinville in 1910, The Courier Tribune reported that even in midlife, Vance had skills to compete and win at a footrace.  These skills were probably honed during his career as a moonshiner.

Vance’s wife Molsy Jane died in 1913 and he soon remarried.  He married Ina Mae Stout in Randolph County on December 24, 1916 when he was 54 years old.  She was the thirty year old widow of Elsevan Bean.  Her children were Everett Chester Stout, and Fred Douglas, Elsie Dorothy, Minnie Nellie, Joe and Nancy Ellen Bean.  Vance had his young daughter Myrtle who he was caring for.  All of the older children from his wife,  Zenri Golda Oates Leonard had left the nest and were on their own.

In 1917, the United States entered World War I.  Vance had grown children but he also began to have a new family with his new wife.  Vance and Ina Mae’s first daughter, Margie Marie was born on September 2, 1917.  Vance and Zenri’s third-born son, William Claude had enlisted in the Army and tragically he lost his life in Europe on October 6, 1918.  The couple’s second born son, Carl  also died young of a heart condition.  He died on February 26, 1919 in High Point, North Carolina.

In the 1920 census, William Vance is living in Columbia Township in Randolph County.  He is 56 years old and is living with his 34 year old wife Ina.  Also in the home is Myrtle Leonard, age 12, Margie Leonard age 2, and Fred, Elsie, Minnie, Joe, and Nancy Ellen Bean.  The Bean children are ages 14, 12, 10, 7 and 4 respectively.  Also living in the home is Ina’s father, Josiah Stout who is 67 years old and is reported to be a carpenter.

Vance and Ina had a second child, Clyde Walter who was born on January 11, 1920 in Columbia Township, Randolph County, North Carolina.  The couple had a another daughter Viola Mae on July 12, 1924, and a son Wade Hampton on June 26, 1925.

The Leonard family continued to live in Ramseur, North Carolina.   They were living there when William Vance Leonard died on January 22, 1930.  Vance’s probate records reveal an estate that was worth around $200.  His son, Albert Carson Leonard was the executor.  He left behind his young wife Ina and four minor children, Margie, Clyde, Viola and Wade Leonard.  His wife, Ina also had another two minor children from her first marriage who were still at home,  Joe and Nancy Ellen Bean.

Vance was buried at Pleasant Grove Christian Church Cemetery at Coleridge, North Carolina on January 23, 1930.  Vance’s great aunt, Mahala Jane Leonard Wilson and Vance’s grandmother, Nancy Leonard had deeded the land for the establishment of this church because of the family’s “love and respect they have for a preached gospel” on December 6, 1868.   It was originally given to the church by Nancy and Mahala Jane’s father, Jacob Leonard but the original deed was burned during the Civil War.

The photo is courtesy of Clarence Bailey from Find A Grave.com.

William Vance Leonard had twelve children with three different wives.

Wiliam Vance Leonard and Zenri Oates Leonard had one unknown child who died as an infant.  They also had six surviving children.

1. Lonnie Lee Leonard 1883-1947 married Minnie Jane Brower 1886-1965
2. Carl C Leonard 1888-1919 married Dora Ometa Kimes 1894-1955
3. William Claude Leonard 1890-1918 married Nancy Emeline Graves 1892-1912
4. Flossie Alice Leonard 1892-1960 married John Wesley Allred 1891-1985
5. Albert Carson Leonard 1894-1961 married Ruth Ida Hartman 1899-1972
6. Manley Mossie Leonard 1895-1910

William Vance Leonard and Molsy Jane Garner Cox Leonard had one child

1. Myrtle Leonard 1908-1960 married Henry Wellons Brady 1857-1945 and Albert Julius Bryan 1880-1956.

William Vance Leonard and Ina Mae Stout Bean Leonard had four children.

1. Margie Marie Leonard 1917-1992 married William Marvin Kimrey 1917-1992
2. Clyde Walter Leonard 1920-2006 married Alice Lea Owen 1913-1970
3. Viola Mae Leonard 1924-1996 married Hillard Starling Turner 1915-2000
4. Wade Monroe Leonard 1925-1989 married Beatrice Burris 1925-2000

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Beulah Ada Mull and her twin sister, Della Mull  were born June 4, 1890 to Avery Smith Mull and Susan Whisnant Mull.  Census records indicate they were born in North Carolina.  Most likely they were born in Howards Creek, Lincoln, Carolina where the family resided in the 1880 census.    There is no 1890 census for the year the twins were born.  In 1890, the year of their birth, the twins older siblings were Hulda age 17, Eliza Elizabeth Eliza “Etta” age 12, Adolphus age 8, and Katie, age 6, and Mary age 2.

The Avery Mull family in its early years went by Smith because Avery’s mother Mary was not married to his father George Mull.  Avery provided for his family through farming so the family was probably interested in the farming news in the Lincoln Courier in June of 1890.

 

In the 1900 census, the Avery Mull family has moved to Spartanburg, South Carolina.  Avery is still farming and Susan is housekeeping.  The two older children in the home were Eliza, age 21 and Adolphus, age 17  They are listed as cotton mill weavers.  Kate, age 14,  Mary, age 12, and Beulah Ada and Della, age 9 are listed as cotton mill spinners.  There are no pictures of this family but this public domain photo shows some of the smallest cotton room spinners who were workin in the textile mills in Spartanburg, South Carolina during this time period.

Credit:  Hine, Lewis Wickes, photographer. Some of the smallest spinners at the Beaumont Mill.Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina. South Carolina Spartanburg United States, 1912. May. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018675629/.

In July of 1905, tragedy befell the Mull family.  Their father Avery or Aaron as the newspapers called him went to downtown Spartanburg to sell some cotton bales.  After the sale, he came across some mean whisky and he partook.  The Mull father came home drunk and there was a fight and he took a blow to the head.  The family said he fell against the house but the attending doctor said he got hit in the head with a blunt instrument such as an axe.  The only boy in the family, Adolphus faced charges in the death.  The outcome of the charges is unknown but in the 1910 census, Adolphus is living in Spartanburg, working in the mill so punishment was not too great. These two articles from the Bamberg Herald on July 13, 1905 and the Gaffney paper on July 21, 1905 tell of the incident and the subsequent death of Avery “Aaron” Mull.

 

 

Soon after that, Beulah Ada married Fred Marvin Rogers.  Her first born son was born on January 30, 1908 in South Carolina.  His name was Joe Cephas or “Joe” as he was called.  The second son Dewey Ernest as he was named in the 1910 census or Dewey Edgar as his descendants called him was reported born in Haywood County in 1910.

In 1912, Beulah Ada and Fred Marvin were in Haywood County, North Carolina where Fred Marvin’s family was from.  The family bought 1 1/2 acres from Fred Marvin’s mother, Elizabeth Fincher Ferguson Rogers.  During this time period, Beulah Ada’s twin sister, Della died.  Beulah Ada’s daughter Lizzie Mae was born in 1918.

In the 1920 census Beulah Ada Rogers was 29.  She was living with her thirty-three year old husband Fred Marvin and sons Joe and Dewey who were 11 and 9 in Crabtree, Haywood County North Carolina.  Lizzie Mae was a one year old baby.  According to the census Fred Marvin, Joe and Dewey could read and write but Beulah Ada could not.   She apparently never got the chance to go to school, having gone to work in the cotton mill when she was nine years old.    In June of 1920, Beulah Ada and Fred Marvin had their final child together, Jack Ray Rogers.

Sadly two years later, Beulah Ada Mull Rogers passed away from bronchial pneumonia following the influenza.

Beulah Ada was laid to rest at the beautiful cemetery behind Davis Chapel Church in Iron Duff, North Carolina in the beautiful Smokey mountains.

 

Although a search was made of the cemetery and inquires were made of the Western District of the Methodist Church of North Carolina, no monument or exact place of burial can be found for Beulah Ada or for her son Dewey who was buried there in 1934 after he was killed in an auto accident.  However, she may have been buried close to her mother-in-law, Elizabeth Carolina Fincher Ferguson Rogers “Aunt Lizzie”.

This is the place that we have identified that could be Beulah Ada’s grave.  It is likely her son Dewey is beside her as there appears to be an spot next to the marker that is an additional grave.

Beulah Ada Mull Roger’s children with Fred Marvin Rogers  were:
1. Joe Cephas Rogers 1908-1987 married Thelma Ellen Dennis 1911-1988 and Gladys Inez Willis 1920-1979
2. Dewey E Rogers 1910-1934 married Lola Pearle Dunning 1911-2013
3. Elizabeth Mae “Lizzie” Rogers 1916-1971 married David Peter Kelly 1910-1993
4. Jack Ray Rogers 1919-1992 married Mildred Helen Graham 1930-2015

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Sara Jane White was born in Chesterfield County, South Carolina on June 7, 1854.

Her father Thrashley White was 48 and her mother Eliza Jones White was 26.  Sara’s mother and father met when her grandfather, Rev. Wiley Jones came to the Westfield Community, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, around 1850-1851 to hold a revival.  He brought with him his daughter Eliza Ann Jones who was around 22 – 24 years old. While here she met Thrashley White, many, many years her senior, fell in love, married him and to the best of knowledge never went back to Kershaw Buffalo Community where she was reared.

Sara Jane White’s family was quite poor.  Prior to Thrashley White’s marriage to Eliza,  Thrashley had owned 548 acres on the south side of Westfield Creek close to Mcfarlan, North Carolina at the South Carolina line.   His land was advertised for Sheriff sales as the result of lawsuits by creditors several times.  It was advertised on January 19, 1842 in the Cheraw Gazette and on September 4, 1844,  the Gazette says Thrashley  is in debtors prison.

The Cheraw Gazette was a near by newspaper and here are two samples of articles which appeared there around the time of Sara Jane’s birth.

James Heywood White was the oldest child of Thrashley and Eliza.  He was born in 1852.  Two years later Sara Jane was born.  Three years after that, John Erwin White was born and  two years later Henry Wiley White was born in 1859.      In the 1860 census, the White family was number 325 and they were enumerated in Chesterfield, South Carolina.  Sara Jane was living with her 56 year old father Thrashley, her 35 year old mother Eliza, brothers James Heywood, John Erwin, and Henry Wiley White.  Also living with the White family was eighty year old Jane Lemons.  Jane Lemons also lived with Batchelor Thrashley White along with James Lemons in the 1850 census.  The nature of the relationship between the Lemons and the Whites is unknown.

Sara Jane finally got a baby sister when she was nine years old.  Lucy Hardy was born in July 1863.  Brother William Franklin followed a year later in 1865.  When Sara Jane was fifteen, the baby of the family Ellison Thrashley was born in 1869.

These were hard times for the White family.  First there was the war, then Sherman came through the area and destroyed what little was left.  This is one of the stories that Sara Jane told of that time period:

Taken from: http://thrashleyandelizawhite.blogspot.com/2009/08/sherman-and-bantam-rooster.html
My Aunt Emma Rae Hammond Eskridge relayed the following story at the White Family Reunion July 26, 2009 at Pine Grove Church. Aunt Emma Rae heard this story directly from her Great Aunt Sara Jane White Lee, the daughter of Thrashley White and Eliza Ann Jones. Sara Jane White Lee’s birthday was June 7, 1854 and Aunt Emma Rae’s mother Lissie Arie White Hammond’s birthday was June 7, 1894. Sara Jane and Lissie Arie shared the same birth day, June 7th. Aunt Emma Rae remembered Momma Hammond (Lissie Arie White Hammond) having Aunt Sara and Uncle Thomas Lee over for dinner on June 7th for many years to celebrate their joint birthday. Aunt Sara Jane told many stories but the one Aunt Emma Rae remembered was one about the bantam rooster and Sherman’s troops. Prior to the Civil War, Chesterfield held one of the first secession rallies in the South, encouraging the state to secede from the Union. Sherman remembered this in March 1865 as he marched through the uplands of South Carolina and viewed the event as an act of treason justifying retribution. Sherman’s troops burned barns, destroyed crops and gardens, killed livestock, plundered, and ate anything they wanted included chickens. Sara Jane was 10 years old when Sherman came through and she had a prized pet bantam rooster. She was afraid the Union troops would catch and kill her pet rooster. Her dad, Thrashley White removed a board from the ceiling of their house and put the rooster into the attic to hide him from the troops. The troops entered the farm and they destroyed the early spring garden, destroyed all they could, but did not find the bantam rooster. Sara Jane was afraid the rooster would crow and give away his hiding place but he remained quiet. The rooster survived the close call and was retrieved from the attic healthy and whole. Aunt Emma Rae remembers seeing Uncle Thomas and Aunt Sara Lee drive up in their bright yellow car. Aunt Emma Rae said she remembered this story because she also had a pet bantam rooster at the time.

Submitted by: Leon F. (Bud) Hammond Jr.
August 2, 2009

The family not only suffered during the war, they suffered during the reconstruction period.  The father Thrashley was aged and suffered from rheumatism.  They received rations from the Freedman’s Bureau which was the welfare system of that time period.

On May 11, 1870, one month before she turned 16, Sara Jane White married John Thomas Lee.  John Thomas Lee was sixteen years older than she was and was a Confederate war veteran.  Below is Sara Jane’s application for a war pension from the State of South Carolina:

John Thomas Lee followed in his father William’s footsteps and was a cotton former.  John Thomas had bought 270 acres of land from the sale of the Joel Brock estate in January of 1870 before he married.    The family’s first born was a son, John William “Johnny” was born January 31, 1873.  Mary Elizabeth “Molly” was born in 1876, followed by daughter Rebecca Jane.

In 1879, Sara Jane Lee purchased 19 1/2 acres on Sneedsboro Road in Chesterfield County for $14.44 from Samuel Parker.  Sneedsboro Road was what Zoar Road was called during this time period.  According to Margie Lee Kinney, Sara Jane’s granddaughter, this was the site of the first home of the John Thomas and Sara Jane Lee.

In April of  1880, Sara Jane’s father Thrashley White passed away at the age of 74.  He was buried at the Short cemetery behind Westfield Baptist church.  In May of 1880, her fourth child Dora Lucy was born.  The fifth child was a daughter Nancy Ellen.  She was born in 1882 and died in 1883 when she was less than a year old.  She was buried and Zoar Methodist Church in the Zoar community where they lived.

In 1883, Sara Jane White bought 100 acres  for the sum of $100 dollars from Squire H Brock on Meadow Branch in Chesterfield County.  Daughter Bessie Aileen was born in September of 1884.  The next baby was another girl, Linnie Eliza who according to census was born in 1887.  In 1891, another child was born.  This time it was a boy, Benjamin Franklin Lee.

In 1893, the Lees became greater landowners as Samuel Lee, John Thomas Lee’s brother deeded him an additional 86 acres on Big Westfield Creek.  Samuel had acquired the land from his father William Lee who died in 1893 at the home of Sara Jane and John Thomas.  Samuel had moved to Blount County Alabama.  In 1894, Sara Jane Lee bought an 150 acre tract on Reedy Branch from James C and Hauley Lee who was John Thomas’s uncle.  This family moved to Richmond County, North Carolina.

In  1894, Sara Jane and William were blessed with another son, Ira Burton “Burt” was born in June of 1894.  In 1896, John Thomas Lee signed over the two tracts of land he owned to his wife Sara Lee.  This was the 184 acres he had bought from the Joel Brock estate and the 86 acres he had acquired from his brother Samuel.  Why he signed them over to his wife is a mystery.  It could have been for financial reasons or because of his age or health.  For whatever reason, Sara Jane White Lee was the landowner in the family from this point forward.

In 1896, the Lees had another son.  Clarence Eugene “Gene was born on August 22, 1896.  In 1897, Sara Jane bought another 106 acres on the west side of Westfield Creek.  This was land that was conveyed by John Thomas Lee’s father William to his brother Henry in 1886.  She bought it in a foreclosure sale against Henry from Annie Eliza Lacoste Evans, a local woman who gave her occupation as capitalist in the census.

In the 1900 census, the Lee family is number 251.  Sara Jane is 44 years of age while her husband is 61.  Living in the household are Dora Lucy, Bessie Aileen, Lennie Eliza, Benjamin Franklin, Ira Burton, Eugene or Gene as he was called, and grandson Perdie Ellison Lee.  A boarder, John Teal who was a farm laborer also was present.

Sara Jane and John Thomas’s three oldest children have started families of their own.  John William or “Johnny” as he was known got a rough start.  He married Roxanna Saunders in 1893 and they had a baby girl in 1895 who died the next year when their son Perdie Ellison Lee was born.  Roxanna became pregnant again in 1897 and she and the baby had both died.  Perdie Ellison came to live with his grandfather John Thomas and Sara Jane and was raised as a brother to his uncles and aunts.  Johnny married again in 1898.  He married Lydia Frances Delila Griggs.  When the 1900 census was taken, Johnny and Lydia had two baby boys, one year old Henry Jackson  and infant Harvey William.  Oldest daughter Mary  Elizabeth “Mollie” had married Daniel Teal in 1896 and she had three children by the time the 1900 census was taken.  These were Luther, Irene and Mae Teal.  Rebecca Jane had married James Edgar Brock in 1896.  They had a one year old Ira in the 1900 census.  Johnny, Mollie, and Rebecca’s families all lived nearby their father and mother.

In 1902, Sara Jane John Thomas had their final baby.  Sara Jane was 46 at the time that daughter Cora was born.  In 1907, the 150 acres of Reedy Creek Land which had been purchased in 1894  was sold to T F Meisenheimer.

In 1900, Dora Lucy Lee married William Harrison Teal, brother of Daniel Teal (Mollie’s husband).  Around 1902, daughter Bessie Aileen married John Thomas Teal, also Daniel’s brother.  All in all, three of the Lee daughters married  neighbor William Harrison Teal and Elizabeth Short’s sons.  Around 1907, Lennie Eliza married Elijah Preston Jones.  Since there were no more Teal sons available,  she had to settle for a Jones.

In the 1910 census, John Thomas was 72 and Sara Jane was 51.  The children who were still at home were Benjamin Franklin “Ben”, Ira Burton “Burt”, Eugene “Gene” and Cora.  Also in the home was grandson Perdie Ellison.  In 1911, Sara Jane White started giving each of her older chidren  33 1/3 acres of land.  Mollie and Bessie got 40 acres.

In 1912, Sara Jane White Lee’s  mother Eliza Ann Jones White died.  She had been living with her son Henry Wiley White.  She lived thirty years longer minus one day than her husband Thrashley.

In 1913, Sara Jane White Lee’s  brother William Franklin died followed by her oldest daughter Mary Elizabeth “Mollie” Lee Teal who died in childbirth.  Then her beloved husband John Thomas Lee passed away in 1914.

In 1918, Sara Jane sold 68 acres of land to John T McNair for $100.  This was land that was conveyed to her brother John Heywood White by her husband but was foreclosed on by the Sheriff.

Sara Jane’s youngest child Cora had married William Samuel Brock at the age of 16 and had a child.  Her husband died on November 10, 1918 in France during World War I of disease.  Sara Jane lived with daughter Cora and the baby, Clarence William Brock.  She helped her daughter who was a minor obtain guardianship of the estate.  This comes from South Carolina Probate Records at Family Search https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-N3S6-LH?cc=1911928&wc=MPP5-BZ9%3A190567401%2C190561002%2C190567402%2C192067501

In 1919,  Sara Jane White Lee sold 33 1/3 acres of land on Big Westfield Creek To W T Buddy White for $1,500.  She also applied for a Confederate Widow’s pension in that year, stating that her income did not exceed $1,000 from all sources.  In 1920, she gave all of her younger children 33 1/3 acres of land.  When the 1920 census was taken, Sara Jane was living with youngest son Gene and his wife Nannie and their child Clarence.  Also living with them was sister Cora who was a widow and her baby.  All of the adults in the house could read and write.

Sara Jane’s brother John Heywood died in 1928, when she was 74 years old and her brother John Erwin died two years later when she was 76.  In 1930, Sara Jane lived with her daughter Cora Brock who was still an unmarried widow and her eleven year old son, Clarence.

The next decade of Sara Jane’s life was filled by many losses.  She lost her daughter Dora Lucy who passed away of chronic myocarditus on January 19, 1931 at at the age of 50.  Sister Lucy Hardy White Davis died of cardio renal disease in 1932.  Son John William passed away on January 1, 1935 at the age of 61.  After a long hospital stay in Durham, North Carolina with complications from a foot infection, brother Henry Wiley White passed away on December 21, 1935.

Sara Jane White died on May 30, 1940 when she was 85 years old.  She died of senile heart disease and uremia.  Although she was the second to oldest child, she outlived all of her siblings except her baby brother Ellison Thrashley White who died in 1947.

Sara Jane White was buried at Westfield Creek Cemetery a few miles from Zoar Methodist where her husband was buried in 1914.  Grave photo shared by Mobil81 on Ancestry.com

John Thomas Lee and Sarah Jane White had eleven children in a span of thirty years. Those children and their spouses are:
1. John William “Johnny” Lee 1873-1935 married Roxanna Saunders 1878-1897, Lydia Frances Delila Griggs 1874-1922, Lillie Mae Peele 1899-1973
2. Mary Elizabeth “Molly” Lee 1876-1914 married Daniel Teal 1870-1950
3. Rebecca Jane Lee 1878-1952 married James Edgar Brock 1873-1941
4. Dora Lucy Lee 1880-1931 married William Harrison Teal Jr, 1873-1967
5. Nancy Ellen Lee 1882-1883
6. Bessie Aileen Lee 1884-1962 married John Thomas Teal 1870-1964
7. Linnie E. Lee 1887-1964 married Elijah Jones 1884- died unknown
8. Benjamin Franklin Lee 1891-1954 married Sarah Ellen Gulledge 1896-1989
9. Ira Burton “Burt” Lee 1894-1958 married Mollie Ellen McLaurin 1894-1965
10. Clarence Eugene “Gene” Lee 1896-1957 married Nancy Jane “Nannie” Brock 1898-1883
11. Cora Lee 1902-1943 married William Samuel Brock 1896-1918, Lonnie Lee Parks 1910-1999

References available at Rogers Family Tree on Ancestry
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/34712803/family
and at Family Search https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/M6MX-NXH