Martha's Family Connections

According to P L Jones death certificate he was born in 1858.  His birth day was either March 5 (according to death certificate) or March 4 (according to grave monument).

He was enumerated in the 1860 census as age three, giving credence to the 1858 birth date.  He lived at the Goldston Post Office in Chatham County.  His forty-five year old father, Wiley was a poor farmer with only $60 dollars worth of personal property who could not read.   His mother was a domestic.  Living with the family, were brothers William age fourteen, Atlas, age nine, and Alexander age seven.

The Fayetteville Weekly Observer reported that year in May, that there was late cold weather in the Goldston area but that it did affect the crops that much.

On January 15, 1864, P L Jones brother Thomas L Jones was born.  In 1869, the baby of the family John Thomas was born in August.

In the 1870 census, twelve year old , P L is living with his father Wiley who lists his occupation as a cooper and his mother Ruth who is keeping house.  Brother William is no longer in the household.  It is not known if he died or if he simply moved to another area and has not been found.  Brother Atlas is 20 years old and a farm laborer as is fifteen year old Alex.  Also living in the home are seven year old Thomas and John who is ten months old.  A cooper is a maker of barrels.  It is not known what kind of barrels Wiley made but a good guess would be whiskey since both Alexander and John went into the whiskey business as young men.

After the 1870 census, father Wiley and brother Atlas has not been found in any records.  They could have died or moved on.  Rob Kinney once told his granddaughter Martha that Wiley abandoned Ruth and the family and moved to Texas but this has not been corrobated.

In the 1880 census, Ruth is the head of household.  The census says she is widowed and is fifty-four years of age.  Living with her are sons Pulaski (P L), age 24, Thomas L, age 14 and John T age 11.  The census states that P L cannot write.  John T is attending school while P L and Thomas are farming while their mother is keeping house.  Alexander or A L Jones as he was known as an adult has left home and may be married.

Ruth probably died before 1882 when P L and Thomas move to Ramseur, North Carolina.  A L and John T stay in the Pittsboro, Chatham County area and go into the whisky or bar business.

Pulaski Lawrence Jones married Letha Ann Staley in Randolph County, on May 11, 1884, when she was 19 years old  and he was 24. P L  was employed in the railroad service working for the Atlantic and Yadkin which had a line down from Greensboro to Ramseur. Letha’s sister Annie married Thomas L Jones, P L’s  brother in 1885. The two Jones brothers who had married two Staley sisters began to raise their family in the town of Ramseur at the end of the 19th century. The Jones family attended the Holiness Church in Ramseur.

P L’s brother Thomas worked in the cotton mill in Ramseur.  The other two brothers A L and John T live in Pittsboro.  A L purchases property there and begins to run a bar.  His brother John T works for him.  A L seems to have conflicting views on his chosen occupation as shown by this June 9, 1887 article from the Chatham Record on page 3.

Brothers A L and John T continue to live in Pittsboro.  A L has businesses (groceries and bars) in Pittsboro, Henderson,  and in Durham North Carolina.   However, he begins to experience financial and marital problems.  Threatened by a nasty divorce and his seizure of his property is by debtors.  He and John T make their way to Norfolk Virginia to start over.

 

Letha and P L’s  first son George Wiley was born on May 8, 1886. Her second son William Barnes “Bill or Will” was born on November 9, 1888.

In February 1895, brother A L Jones contentious thirteen year marriage comes to an end as Alexander “Alex” A L Jones and Sarah Frances are divorced.  However, A L doesn’t stay unmarried too long.  In March the forty-one year old marries an eighteen year old bride.

The year 1899 was a good and bad year for the Jones family. Son Charles Tate “Doc” was born on May 18 but son George Wiley passed away on June 2, 1899 in Ramseur at the age of thirten. He is buried in the Sunset Knoll Cemetery in Ramseur.  Three other Jones children failed to make it to adult hood and passed away as children.  Letha’s 1927 obituary said that four children have preceded her to the better land.

In 1900, the only two surviving sons were Bill and “Doc”. Bill was 10 years old in this census and is listed as a day laborer who had attended school six months in that year. Pulaski’s occupation was locomotive watchman. All of the members of the household could read and write except for one year old “Doc”. They rented their home in Ramseur.

In 1900, P L’s brother Thomas is living in Ramseur working at the cotton mill providing for his growing family.  Brothers A L and John T are in Norfolk in the whiskey retail business.  A L’s is living alone with his son John Lankford and the fate of his pretty young wife is unknown.  John T has married Nellie Deford and has a growing family.  A L’s daughter, Daisy is living with John T’s family.

Daughter Ida Lee was born on July 5, 1901. On October 4, 1904, Pulaski Lawrence and Letha Jones final child is born.  That child is Nellie Victoria Jones.

On October 19, 1905, The Randolph Bulletin reports that P L Jones has returned from Norfolk from visiting his brother John.

John Thomas Jones and his family had just experienced a terrible tragedy as recounted in the following newspaper articles.

Virginian-Pilot Thursday, Jun 08, 1905 Norfolk, VA

A 3 Year Old Dies from Whiskey Drinking

Little LeRoy Jones Drank Cup of Straight Liquor at His Father’s Home and Skill of Physicians Couldn’t Save Him
As the result of drinking a teacupful of raw whiskey at a single draught little LeRoy Jones aged three years and nine months, son of John T. Jones, corner of Fenchurch and Wood Streets, died at St. Vincent’s hospital yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock. The whiskey was drunk at 6 o’clock yesterday morning and the child was removed to the hospital at 11 o’clock, where every effort was made to save his life, but to no avail.
It was stated at the Jones residence last night that the father, who is a saloon keeper at 63 Fayette Street, has been sick for several days and that a bottle of whiskey had been brought up to the house to be used by Mr. Jones for medicinal purposes. At about 6 o’clock yesterday morning the child got possession of the bottle and pouring out a cupful drank it. Soon thereafter the boy fell into a stupor and his mother, not able to arouse him, at 11 o’clock had him removed to the hospital, where every effort was made to get the whiskey out of the child, but to no purpose, owing to the length of time which had elapsed since the whiskey had been taken.

Virginian-Pilot Thursday, Jun 08, 1905 Norfolk, VA

Jones-At St. Vincent’s Hospital, Wednesday, June 7th 1905, at 4:20 p.m. Leroy, infant son of John T. and Nellie V. Jones, aged 3 years and 9 months.
The funeral will take place from the residence of his parents, No. 300 Fenchurch Street, Thursday, June 8th at 5 p.m. Friends and acquaintances respectfully invited to attend.

On January 17, 1906, P L’s brother, Thomas dies after a long illness. He is buried at Sunset Knolls in Ramseur. His wife Annie posted a card of thanks in the Courier on January 25 on page 1.

On October 18, 1908, the youngest Jones brother John Thomas passes away at Norfolk. He was suffering from acute alcoholism.  He was buried at Elmwood (Cedar Grove) in Norfolk at the lot with his son Leroy.

Virginian-Pilot Wednesday, Oct 21, 1908 Norfolk, VA
Page: 12

The funeral of John T. Jones was held from the family residence, Wood and Fenchurch Streets, at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon.
The service was conducted by Rev. Vernon I’Anson, D. D., of the Grace Baptist Church. The interment was in Elmwood Cemetery.
Following were the pall-bearers: C. M. Daniels, O. H. Bell, H. Goodman, J. W. Watson, E. L. Linn and G. N. Veal.

By 1910, P L’s older son Bill had married and left the home and P L and Letha were sharing their rented home in Ramseur with their three children, “Doc”, Ida, and Nellie.

At this point, the only living brother that P L Jones has is his brother Alexander Alex (A L) Jones. He has left Norfolk and the bar business and operates a grocery in Ramseur.

P L Jones was a quiet family man, growing a garden and meat for the family to eat and working at the Atlantic and Yadkin railroad in Ramseur, North Carolina.

P L’s wife Letha Ellen Staley Jones passed away on January 3, 1920 in Ramseur, North Carolina at the age of 55.  They had been married 35 years.

In the 1920 census, P L is the head of household. Living with him is his son Charley or Dock. Dock has just recently lost his wife, Annie Elizabeth Branson Jones. She died leaving behind a baby boy, George Wiley Jones. Caring for the baby is eighteen year old Ida with the demise of grandmother Letha. Dock is working as a doffer in the cotton mill. Fifteen year Nellie is working there too as a spinner. Also living in the home is P L’s grandson, Seth. Seth has come to live with his grand parents after the break-up of his father Bill’s marriage to Nellie Webb.

On December 4, 1927, P L Jones loses his older brother A L, Alexander Lankford (A L) Jones. He is buried at Sunset Knolls in Ramseur, North Carolina.

In the 1930 census, P L Jones is still working as a night watchman for the Atlantic and Yadkin Railroad. He is living with his daughter Nellie Jones Kinney who has married Rob Kinney and had two boys, Robert “June” Kinney and Shelton Kinney. They are ages four and two respectively.

During the Great Depression, many families faced serious hardships and joblessness with scant resources but June Kinney told his daughter Martha that his family never had to worry about this because Grandpa P L had a good job with the railroad. He always made sure his grandchildren had their wants as well as their needs. Although the Atlantic and Yadkin experienced difficulties, P L kept his job with them until 1936 when he retired after 42 years of service. He received a medal from the railroad for his service.

In June of 1937, P L Jones rent was $5. Please see receipt from Columbia Manufacturing.

In the 1940 census, P L is still living with Rob and Nellie Kinney in Ramseur, North Carolina. He is eighty years old. He reports having attended the second grade. Also living in the home are boarders, John Woodell Jr. and his wife Helen. Mr. Woodell is the grandson of P L’s brother A L Jones. Rob Kinney reports working at the furniture factory as a sander and making $480 per annum. John Woodell works at the cotton mill and is making the same.

P L Jones lived at the end of Brooklyn Avenue in Ramseur in the sunset of his years with his grandchildren June and Sheldon Kinney. The grandchildren used to play on the bridge but when it got dark it could be quite scary. Sheldon was particularly afraid of the bridge and would yell to his mother as he ran over it, “Open the door, mama, I am coming home.”

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P L Jones was living when the United States declared war on Japan just one day after the attack on Pearl Harbor killed 2,400 Americans.

Five of P L’s grandchildren served in World War II.

• Albert Jones – son of Bill Jones
• Carlton Jones – son of Bill Jones
• Wendell Jones – son of Dock Jones
• William Peter “Billy” Fogleman son of Ida Fogleman
• Robert “June” Kinney son of Nellie Kinney

His nephew, Howard Roger Jones, grandson of A L Jones lost his life in Germany in 1944.

Pulaski Lawrence “P L” Jones died on December 13, 1942 in Ramseur, North Carolina when he was 85 years old.

He was buried with his beloved wife Letha at Sunset Knolls in Ramseur, North Carolina. Photo from Find A Grave Linda Albright contributor.

There are three unknown children of Letha and Pulaski Jones who died before adulthood was attained. Other children are:

1. George Wiley Jones 1886-1899
2. William Barnes “Bill” Jones 1888-1963 married Nellie Blanch Webb, Cellie Dare Smith, Malinda Ruth Revels, and Lula Golden Rumley
3. Charles Tate “Doc” Jones 1899-1980 married Anne Elizabeth Branson and Myrtle Lou Overman
4. Ida Lee Jones (1901-1981) married George Wesley Fogleman
5. Nellie Victoria Jones (1904-1979) married Robert Roosevelt Kinney

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Martha Emma Shue was born on May 1, 1870 to Peter Shue and Temperance Coble Shue. She was most likely born in Clay Township in Guilford County since she was found there in the 1870 census with her mother and father. They were living next door to her grandfather and grandmother David Coble and Lydia Vestal Coble who had a farm there. Peter Shue was listed as working on a farm.

Martha Emma Shue was born during the height of reconstruction in the South. Many Southerners were disfranchised during this period as reported by the Greensboro Patriot on April 28, 1870.

Martha Emma’s father Peter was a Confederate Veteran and had served with Company M The Guilford Dixie Boys. The 21st Infantry Regiment, formerly the 11th Volunteers, was a twelve company command organized at Danville, Virginia, in June, 1861. Men of this unit were recruited in Davidson, Surry, Forsyth, Stokes, Rockingham, and Guilford counties. It was assigned to General Trimble’s, Hoke’s, Godwin’s, and W.G. Lewis’ Brigade. After taking part in the Battle of First Manassas and Jackson’s Valley operations, the 21st participated in many conflicts of the army from the Seven Days’ Battles to Bristoe. It was then involved in the engagements at Plymouth , Drewry’s Bluff , and Cold Harbor, marched with Early to the Shenandoah Valley, and saw action around Appomattox. The unit sustained 80 casualties at First Winchester, 13 at Cross Keys and Port Republic , 45 during the Seven Days’ Battles, 51 at Groveton , 18 at Sharpsburg , and 24 at Fredericksburg . It lost 78 at Chancellorsville , twenty-eight percent of the 436 at Gettysburg , and 52 at Plymouth . In April, 1865, it surrendered with 6 officers and 117 men of which only 40 were armed. Peter Shue was captured as a prisoner of war there at Farmville in April of 1865 and he then signed the oath of allegiance to the United States and was released at Newport News on June 27 1865.

The Shue family also lost two of Peter Shue’s brothers during the war. Daniel Shue was killed at Hanover Junction in June of 1864 and Nimrod Shue died as a prisoner of war at Point Lookout Maryland and is buried in a mass grave there.

Martha had a sister Lydia Jane who was born on April 22, 1872 and another girl joined the Shue family in 1875 when Mary Florence “Dasca” was born. The only boy James Wilbert “Doskie” was born in 1878 when Martha was eight years old.

In the 1880 census, Martha is living with her father and mother in Liberty, North Carolina in Randolph County. Her father Peter cannot read nor write but mother Temperance can. Martha and Lydia are attending school. Children Florence and Wilbert are too young.

On September 11, 1887, Martha Emma Shue marries Robert Florentine Kinney in Green Township Guilford County. Both are living in Alamance County. The marriage certificate says she is 19. The Family Bible indicates they were married on Sunday September 2nd, so this may have been a Civil Ceremony.

A year later the first son Henry Bascom Kinney was born. Robert and Martha purchased some land in Alamance County. They attended Graham Baptist Church and her mother and father lived nearby. Two more children were born in Alamance County. They were Lystra Blanch born August 11, 1890 and Templie Lorenah born November 10, 1892.

Martha’s mother Temperance also had a child during this period. That child was Nancy Freddie Shue born September 6, 1894. Peter Shue died in 1900. After her father Peter died, her mother Temperance or “Tempie” lived with Martha’s sister Lydia and her husband Walter Franklin Blackmon. The child Nancy also lived with them.

On November 11, 1893, the Kinney family sold their land in Graham, Alamance County to Rachel Shoe May and on November 21, 1893, the Kinneys purchased 100 acres in Grant Township from Eli Preston Spoon for $117.50. Eli Preston Spoon was the son of Joseph Spoon who had discovered gold near Asheboro in a region where it was not supposed there were any known gold deposits before. Robert worked some at the neighborhood Spoon Gold Mine but he mainly made his living as a farmer.

Robert and Martha’s fourth child Peter Chesley was born in Randolph County on March 4, 1895. The smallest child in this picture is Peter Chesley. Other children are Bascomb, Blanche, and Lorenah. Adults in the back are Martha, sister Florence and mother, Temperance “Tempie”.

James Ernest Kinney was born on July 8, 1898. When the census was taken in 1900, Martha and Robert are living in Grant Township with their four of their five children. Blanche, Lorenah, Peter Chesley, and James Ernest are listed.   Martha reported having five living children. Bascomb would have been twelve but he is not to be found in this census.

Wilbert Frederick was born after the census was taken on September 10, 1900. James Ernest was a sickly child and he passed away on November 25, 1902 at the age of four. The next year daughter Esther Ursula Marie was born on April 27, 1903.

During this period, the older children were becoming teenagers and there are many articles in the Courier about visiting and taking part in church services at Spoons Chapel and Mount Tabor Church and other Squirrel Creek neighborhood activities.

Son Robert Roosevelt was born November 13, 1906 and daughter Adell was born January 9, 1908. This picture is with Ursula, Wilbert, and Rob (the baby on the knee).

Adell tragically lost her life as a small toddler when she fell into the washtub while her mother was washing clothes and was scalded to death. The baby of the family, Earl Jethro was born on April 19, 1910. This is a picture of him and his mother.

Martha was a church going woman and very active in the Sunday Schools in the area. At the Grant Township Sunday School Convention at Spoons Chapel Church, the Courier said that she gave the opening remarks.

Robert and Martha continued to live at the residence in Grant Township. In November of 1912, Martha got this postcard from her sister Lydia. Lydia expresses concern for Blanche, Martha’s oldest daughter who had lost her first child, Epsie Berry in September of 1912.

In 1920, Robert and Martha are living in Grant Township. He is still farming but only the three youngest children are in the household. This is Ursula, Rob and Earl. Rob and Earl reported going to school during the year but Ursula did not. Perhaps, she was helping her mother with housekeeping duties. On December 6, 1924, Martha’s mother Temperance “Tempie” Shoe died at the age 78.

Martha’s husband, Robert Florentine Kinney died at a fairly young age. The Courier Tribune reported he collapsed in a rye field when he died at age 57 on May 17, 1925. His death certificate said the cause of death was carcinoma of the stomach. He was buried in the Mount Tabor Church Community Cemetery.

In 1930, Martha is living with her son Earl and his wife Lessie Pervis Kinney. Earl is working at a factory or mill.

On September 27, 1937, Martha’s brother James Wilbert “Doskie” died on September 27, 1937 in Georgia where he had moved when he was much younger.

In the 1940 census, Martha is living with son Earl, age 30 who works at the sawmill. Also living with Martha is Lessie, Earl’s wife and granddaughters Odelia age nine and Odessia age five.

Martha had five grand sons who served in World War II. They were Paul Wesley Berry, Wade Thomas Kinney, Baxter Eugene Kinney, Stanton Lee Kinney, and Robert “June” Kinney. June always give credit to his praying gradmother for his returning from the War safe and sound.

During the sunset of her years, Martha was very active in church. She is giving credit for having help found Mount Tabor Church and for encouraging Young Preacher Tommy Kenyon in his efforts to build that Church. She attended the Pilgram Holiness Church in Asheboro and was very active there.

She was also active in her family life and in her home. Great granddaughter Martha (one of her namesakes) remembers her sewing her a dress from a feedsack for her birthday.

During this period of her life she sold or gave away the 100 acres of land she and her husband had bought in Grantville Township. She sold 6 1/2 acres to C M Allred in 1932. The other acreage she sold or gave to her children Earl, Blanche and Ursula. The homeplace and thirty-three acres went to Robert Roosevelt Kinney and his wife Nellie Victoria Jones. Martha retained a lifetime right to this property.

Martha Emma Shue died on January 22, 1955. She was reading her Bible. The light was left on all night. The next morning, she was found dead in her chair.

Robert Roosevelt Kinney and Martha Emma Kinney had ten children in 21 years. Those children and their spouses are:

1. Henry Bascom Kinney 1888-1972 married Mary Ellen Pugh 1893-1958
2. Lystra Blanche Kinney 1890-1975 married William Henry Berry 1878-1957 and Will Watson 1900-1976
3. Tempie Lorenah Kinney 1892-1959 married William Edmund Brown 1886-1949
4. Peter Chesley Kinney 1895-1972 married Rosetta Myriah McPherson 1895-1971
5. James Ernest Kinney 1898-1902
6. Wilbert Frederick Kinney 1900-1953 married Naomi Blanche Mann 1903-1994
7. Esther Ursula Marie Kinney 1903-1978 married Colon Monroe Hicks 1903-1966 and Thurl Howard York 1914-1994
8. Robert Roosevelt Kinney 1906-1984 married Nellie Victoria Jones 1904-1979
9. Dillie Adell Kinney 1908-1909
10. Earl Jethro Kinney 1910-1971 married Lessie Elmage Purvis 1910-2002

Here are the births listed from the family bible.

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Zenri Golda Oates was born in Greenwood Township, Moore County North Carolina. She was probably born around 1864 during the Civil War. Her mother Sarah E Oates was around 26 years old. She was raised by her grandfather William Young Oates and his wife Martha Cole Oates on Herds Creek in Moore County North Carolina. Young Oates farmed near his father’s home place on Crains Creek and he received a 55 acre land grant in 1854 and a 50 acre land grant in 1864. He raised his children John Parham, Mary A, Sarah Eliza Temperance, James and Julia there.

The Civil War was a time when many of the men were away from home and the women had to step up and do the farming. This would have been particularly true in the Oates household and the oldest son John Parham Oates went off to fight the war. This article which appeared in the Fayetteville Weekly Observer gives some insight to women’s work during this time period.

Zenri’s uncle John Parham volunteered the North Carolina 3rd Infantry Regiment. He was killed on November 27, 1863 at Payne’s Farm, Virginia in the Battle of Mine Run. Documents obtained from Fold Three show that he had attained the rank of Lieutenant and that a settlement was made by the Confederate government to his father, William Young Oates.

In 1870, Zenri lived with her grandfather and grandmother William Young Oates and Martha P Oats in Greenwood Township where the grandfather is a farmer. Her mother Sarah who is thirty years old also resides in the household along with her four year old brother Ira Raymond. Her two aunts also live there (Temperance Elizabeth, age 28 and Julia age 20). Julia also has a child, Annie Favolia, age three who is living there in 1870.

Zenri’s grandfather, William Young Oates passes away soon after that and in 1880, the family consists of Grandmother Martha, Mother Sarah, Aunts Julia and Temperance Elizabeth. Children are Zenri, Brother Ira and Cousin Annie. Julia has had another son and his name is James Young Oates. He is seven years old.

In 1882, Zenri Golda Oates married William Vance Leonard from Randolph County. In 1883, Zenri and William Vance were living in Moore County where their son Lonnie Lee Leonard was born. In 1888, son Carl was born and in 1891, son William Claude was born.

In 1891, Zenri’s husband Vance appears to begin a career in distilling spirits. He leases one acre of land in Moore County from J A Dickens and wife Margaret subject to the Internal Revenue laws of the United States. In 1892, first daughter, Flossie Alice Leonard is born.

Zenri’s grandmother, Martha P Oates must have died sometime prior to 1892 because on November 1, 1892, Zenri purchases from her mother Sarah who probably inherited the Herd’s Creek land 55 acres. The land joins Tempy Brown (Zenri’s aunt), Duncan McIver, and Ira Oates (Zenri’s brother).

Vance and Zenri appear to be experiencing financial difficulties. Vance mortgages the 55 acres of land to KM Furguson for $50. The loan is discharged in full on October 2, 1893. In 1894, Vance and Zenri have another boy, Albert Carson and a second daughter, Manley Mossie is born in 1895.

In 1896, Vance gets in legal trouble for running an illicit distillery. According to Criminal Case 1627 against Vance Leonard obtained from the National Archives at Atlanta, witnesses reported that he had a illicit still in the woods at his house and that he was selling whiskey from a one-horse wagon in Pinehurst. Another witness reported that he had traded whiskey and brandy for food and provisions.

Vance is arrested and tried in Federal Court and found guilty of working at an illicit still. He had to serve one month in the Carthage jail. This was reported in The Carthage Blade on June 2, 1896

In April of 1896, Vance had to make bond to appear in Court in May. In May, probably to pay fine Vance mortgages the 55 acres of Herd Creek land again to Robert A Pope for $165.

Vance and Zenri had moved to the Seventyfirst Township, Newton’s Precinct in Cumberland County in 1900. Zenri reported that she had given birth to seven children and their were six living. Those children were Lonnie, Carl, William Claude, Flossie Alice, Manley Mossie, and Albert Carson. They were living in a rented house and William Vance reported his occupation as a Day Laborer. He said he had been employed all year. Oldest boys Lonnie and Carl were doffing in the cotton factory. Zenri’s mother Sarah was also living with the family in 1900.

In April 1902, Vance and Zenri’s Herds Creek land was sold at public auction for non-payment of the Pope mortgage.

Around this time, Zenri Golda Oates Leonard passed away. She was around 39 years old. Her granddaughter Opal Allred Hoover said her mother Flossie Alice Leonard Allred told her that her mother was buried in Greensboro. There is evidence that William Vance and some of the older boys were working at Proximity Mills during this time period so there is a possibility that she would be buried there.

Zenri Golda Oates Leonard had one unknown child who died at a young age. Other children were:

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

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Daniel Julian Allred was born in Randolph County on February 28, 1966. He was the oldest child of Isaac Wesley Allred and Mary Ann Jennings Allred.

Daniel was born the year after the Civil War ended. The Greensboro Patriot had advertisement the month he was born advertising coffee at 49 cents a pound and hoop skirts starting at $1.50.

In the 1870 census, five year old Daniel Julian was living with his mother and father in the Franklinville Township. His father Isaac was a farmer with real estate valued at $800 and personal property valued at $375. The father could read but not write. His mother was a housekeeper.

Daniel’s brother Ensey Worth Allred was born October 30, of 1870. A second brother, Albion Wesley was born November 9, 1873. The baby of the family, a girl, Louie Henrietta was born November 13, 1877.

In the 1880 census, Daniel Julian was living with his father and mother, two brothers and sister His father Isaac continued to farm and fifteen year old Daniel was listed as a farm hand.

On August 26, 1886, Daniel married Nancy Jane Elmore 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.

The Allreds seem to have lived a quiet life as there is little information to be found on them. An article in the Greensboro Telegram on January 21, 1898 seems to indicate that the Randolph County Allreds generally had a reputation for being quiet people

The 1900 census reports that Daniel Julian is farming. The three oldest boys, Laban, William and John Wesley were all in school while the girls were not
(Ada, Dola, and Addie).

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.

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

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 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.

Cedar falls appears to be economically prosperous place to live with a new road being constructed.

In the 1930 census, 65 year-old Daniel Julian Allred is living alone with 67-year-old Nancy Jane Elmore Allred. 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 died on February 14, 1935. His death certificate states he was a lifelong employee of Sapona Cotton Mills and he died of myelitis.

Danlie Julian is buried in the Cedar Falls Methodist Cemetery with his wife Nancy Jane and many other Allred family members.

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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Cora Belle Doby was born on February 28, 1873 in the Jackson Hill Community of Davidson County.

Cora Belle was the oldest daughter. Her father Manly Goldsberry Doby was 20 years of age and her mother Adaline Sarah Johnson Doby was 18.  Cora Belle’s mother, Adaline may have read her this poem which appeared in the Salisbury Carolina Watchman on March 13, 1873 on page 1 in the weeks after the birth of her first daughter. The Doby’s had one son, James L Doby who was one year older than his sister.

When Cora Belle was two, her brother Arrastus was born. In the 1980 census, James L, Cora Belle, and Arrastus are living with father Manly Goldsberry and Adaline Sara Doby. Father Manley is working as a farmer and reports being unemployed three months of the year.

In the decade of 1890, there are several children added to the Doby household. Brother Walter Finch is born in 1880, Brother Columbus M is born in 1883, Sister Mary Emma is born in 1885, Brother Joseph Monte is born in December of 1886. Brother Grover Cleveland is born in 1888 and Sister Essie is born in 1890.

Brother Joseph Monte died in February 1889 and is buried at Clear Springs Cemetery in Denton, Davidson, North Carolina.  His monument says he was 2 years 2 months old.

On September 8, 1891, Cora Belle begins her own family. She married William Robert Dunning in Davidson North Carolina when she was 18 years old.

 

After Cora Belle was married, her mother and father continued to have children. Maggie, sister was born in 1893 and Goldsberry Vance, brother was born in 1896.

During the same period of time, Cora Belle and William Robert had 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.

In early 1900, Manley Goldsberry and Adaline Sarah decide to move to Salisbury.

Cora Belle and William Robert continued to live in Healing Springs. They were living on a rented farm there in the 1900 census with their six daughters. William Robert 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.

Cora Belle’s mother and father, Manley Goldsberry and Adaline Sarah Doby had moved to nearby Salisbury, Rowan County. Manley lists his occupation as farm laborer. They are living in a rented home not a farm and many of the children are now employed. Walter Finch age 19 is a convict guard, Columbus age 16 is a brick hand, Mary Emma age 15 spools cotton and Grover Cleveland age 11 is a doffer at the cotton mill. Essie age 8, Maggie age 7, and Goldsberry Vance, age 5 are not working or attending school. The census also says that Adaline Sarah has had three children that had died. From this we can assume that in addition to Joseph Monte, sons James L and Arrastus have passed away at an early age prior to 1900.

Unfortunately, Manly Goldsberry, the family patriarch died suddenly on July 19, 1900. The Salisbury Weekly Sun reports that he had the measles following typhoid fever. He was only 47 years old.

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

Cora Belle’s younger brother Goldsbery Vance Doby, age 11 dies in 1906 of catarrhal pneumonia and peritonitis. The Lexington Dispatch ran the following death notice on February 7, 1906 on page 4.

Daughter Carrie L Dunning is born to Cora Belle and William Robert in 1907. The Dunning family continues to live at Healing Springs. However, Cora Belle’s mother Adaline Sarah Doby has moved to Durham, North Carolina. She dies there December 13, 1908 but is brought back to Clear Springs Cemetery to be buried with her husband. Cora Belle and William Robert’s daughter, Cora May, also 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 since September when the Lexington Dispatch reported her very ill.

Cora Belle and her children’s life were enriched by her world traveling brother, Walter Finch Doby, who is in the military and helped build the Panama Canal. Walter often visited the Dunnings when he was on leave and brought back curios of the tropic such as giant bean pods and boa constrictor snake skins. He lectured the students and his nieces and nephews on the building of the canal and was quite the local celebrity.

Cora Belle, with seven living daughters must have looked on having the right to vote in 1920 favorably. Many of her friends and neighbors did as reported by the Lexington Dispatch on October 26, 1920, page 1.

“4,000 OR MORE WOMEN REGISTER – SOME ESTIMATE NUMBER AT HIGHER FIGURE THAN THIS

That there was a tremendous outpouring of women to prepare for voting during the last week of registration became evident Saturday evening after the books had closed, when advices received here from different parts of the county showed that a great majority of the qualified women of the county had their names enrolled on the registration books.  It appears to be a safe estimate that at least four thousand women are now eligible to vote.

One well posted political observer puts the number at 4,300, it is understood, this estimate being based on information received from the various precincts in the county on Saturday.  More liberal estimates place the number registered at 4,500 or above.

Considering the fact that woman suffrage descended rather suddenly on the women of Davidson County and that many of them had thought little of the privilege of voting until it was upon them, the registration is phenomenal.  Early in the period of registration the Republican leaders in the county put on a strong drive to have all registered thought to be of their political faith and they met with a considerable measure of success.  The Democrats responded with an equally valiant effort and the women of the Democratic household have answered the call and are prepared to meet the issue on next Tuesday.

Lexington township, being the most largely populated in the county, shows in the neighborhood of 1,300 women on the registration books.  Thomasville township is reported to have approximately 1,000 registered.  Emmons, the third largest township in the county reports practically a solid registration.  Cotton Grove women have also registered almost solidly, as is the case also in practically all the southern tier of townships.  Advices from the townships north of Lexington are not as definite, but it is learned the registration of women has been generous.

This week will be devoted by political headquarters on both sides to plans for polling the full registered vote as nearly as possible on next Tuesday.  It being realized that a name on the registration books counts only when the potential voter casts his or her ballot at the polls on election day.  It would appear that the vote in Davidson County this time will run several thousands larger than in any previous election and that the women vote will not be far behind the male vote.”

Cora Belle did not live long after this. She died on December 2, 1920 from complications of gallstones. According to her death certificate she suffered with this condition for about a year.

The Lexington Dispatch reported that she passed away quietly on Thursday December, 2, 1920.

Cora Belle Dunning, house wife, 47 years old, 9 months, and 4 days old was buried at Clear Springs with the many members of her family on December 4, 1920.

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

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/LYWF-YKW

Fred Marvin Rogers was born on April 28, 1886 in Iron Duff, Haywood County, North Carolina. His father Sebrum was 42 years and was a Confederate War veteran. He had been married twice before when he married Elizabeth Caroline Fincher who had been married once before.

The week that Fred Marvin was born, you could buy a 120 acre farm in Haywood County for $1,500.

Fred had older brothers and sisters from his parents previous marriages. From Fred’s first marriage to Mary Cathrine Liner, there were two children, Robert J R Rogers and Mary Isabel Rogers. Robert goes missing after the 1880 census, presumably dead but Mary Isabel Rogers Stevenson lived until 1924. Fred married Sarah Jane Mason and her son Mason N Rogers was living with Fred, Sarah, Robert, and Mary in the 1880 census. Fred was also the youngest of the children born to the marriage of Sebrum and Elizabeth Carolina Fincher. His brother Elmer has not been located in census after 1910 but his sister Evie Victoria lived until 1967, living to be eighty-three.

Fred Marvin also had five Ferguson half brothers and sisters from his mother, Elizabeth Fincher, who was married to Ebed Riley Ferguson in her first marriage. Those children were Laura Louise, Robert, Joseph Dunn, Marietta Mary Elizabeth, and Francis Davis “Frank Ferguson.

Fred Marvin’s father Sebrum passed away in Iron Duff, North Carolina when he was only eleven. Fred can be found in the 1900 census living with his mother Elizabeth and sister Evie on the farm. Fred is a farm laborer and has attended school for 2 1/2 months in the year. Brother Elmer is living in the household of half-brother Joseph Dunn Ferguson and wife Flora.

Fred Marvin married Beulah Ada Mull in 1905 when he was 19 years old. His son Joe Cephas “Joe” was born in January of 1908 and son Dewey Ernest was born in March, 1910. In the 1910 census, Fred is counted in two census. He is living with his mother and sister Evie and her son James R Rogers in Haywood County. He is also living with his wife and two sons Joe and Dewey Ernest in Buford Village, Union South Carolina, working as a weaver. The Rogers family is living with Beulah Ada’s sister and her husband and child (Robert, Delia, and son Willie Franklin).

In 1912, Fred Marvin becomes a land owner in Haywood County. He buys 1/12 acres adjoining T G Davis and C M Ross from Joseph Dunn Ferguson and his mother Elizabeth Caroline Rogers. Fred and Beulah Ada have their first and only daughter, Elizabeth Mae “Lizzie” together on 1918 in Haywood County. The third son Jack Ray was born in 1919, while on a sad note, Fred’s half sister Marietta “Mary” Ferguson Ross died that year.

In 1918 when Fred registered for the World War I draft, he reported that he was engaged in farming was of medium frame and build, had grey eyes and light colored hair and had a crippled hand which would affect his military service.

In the 1920 census, Fred Marvin is doing general farming and living in Crabtree in Haywood County. He is living with wife Beulah Ada and children Joe, Dewey, Lizzie Mae, and Jack. In 1922, tragedy struck when Fred’s wife died unexpectedly. She had bronchial pneumonia after a bout with the flu.

Fred Marvin’s half sister Mary Isabell Rogers Stevenson also died in 1924 and his half brother Joseph Dunn Ferguson died in 1925.

In 1927, Fred Marvin remarries. He marries Candas Burress Lee, a widow of Dock Rockefeller Lee. Her mother was Callie M Rogers and she was a distant cousin of Fred Marvin. Candas brings to the family four Lee stepdaughters for Fred to help raise: Jessie Ann, Cloia Irene, Pearl or Pearlene, and Katherine.

Fred Marvin and Candas Burress Rogers had daughters, Doris Geneva Rogers and Virgina Dare Rogers in Waynesville, Haywood County. In 1930, they were living in a rented house on Rogers Cove Road. The family consist of Fred, Candace, Lizzie Mae Rogers, Pearl Lee, Jack Rogers, Katherine Lee and one year old Doris. Fred was a laborer in a pulp mill. Virginia Dare Rogers was born in 1930 and Fred Marvin Rogers Jr. was born in 1932. The family then moved to Union South Carolina, presumably in search of a better life.

In 1933, Fred Marvin lost his mother Elizabeth Caroline Fincher Ferguson Rogers. She passed away on April 22, 1933 in Waynesville, North Carolina at the age of 87. His son Dewey Ernest passed away suddenly on Halloween Night, October 31, 1934 in Buffalo, South Carolina at the age of 24. The truck he was riding in with his brother overturned when it hit a cow.

In 1938, daughter Basha Louise Rogers was born in Union, South Carolina. In the 1940 census, the Rogers family is living in rural Union County South Carolina in a rented home. Fred Marvin was operating an elevator in a cotton mill. Wife Candas is keeping house. Son Jack is lay roping in the cotton mill. Doris, Virginia Dare, and Fred Jr “Buddy” are all attending school.

Fred Marvin’s youngest daughter, Basha Louise suffered from Von Recklinhausen disease which comes from a mutation of the seventeenth chromosome. It affects the skin and can cause bone deformities. This picture is of her dad, Fred Marvin, brothers Joe Cephas, and Fred Marvin Jr. at the Shriners hospital.

Fred Marvin Rogers lived a long life, dying on June 6, 1972 in Buffalo in Union County, South Carolina. His obituary appeared on June 8 in the Greenville News on page 22.

Fred Marvin Rogers is buried at Union Memorial Gardens at Union, in Union South Carolina.

Fred Marvin’s children with Beulah Ada Mull 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

Fred Marvin’s children with Candas Buress were:

5. Doris Geneva Rogers 1928-2017 married Hubert Ball 1924-2014 then Fain (living)
6. Virginia Dare Rogers 1930-2009 married Herbert Eugene Gatlff 1926-1991
7. Fred Marvin Rogers, Jr. 1932-2010 married Briggs (living) 1932-2010
8. Basha Louise Rogers 1938-1976 married Adams (living)

Fred Marvin’s step children from marriage to Candas Buress widow of Dock Rockefeller Lee were:

9. Jessie Ann Lee 1911-1984 married Boyd C Turner 1907-1964
10. Cloia Irene Lee 1913-1997 married M Ladson Erwin Smith 1909-1989
11. Samuel Cordell Lee 1916-1920
12. Pearlean Lee married Watts (living)
13. Catherine Mable Lee (1920-1995) married Gaden (living)

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/LBNL-8P9

Mary Elizabeth “Mollie” Gulledge was born in Chesterfield South Carolina to Sarah Temperance Davis and Samuel Eldred “Dred” Gulledge. When Mollie was born, buggies and horses were the primary sources of transportation. Mollie was born on March 10, 1872. This advertisement is from the Abbeville paper, the week Mollie was born.

In the 1880 census Mollie is listed as five years old and is living with her 27 year old father Eldred and her 24 year old mother Temperance in Chesterfield, South Carolina. Also listed are three-year-old Thomas and two-year-old Fanny. Although not listed in the 1880 census, other children who are reported as to have been born during this decade are Rebecca “Becky” born on December 15, 1873 and Harley William born August 28, 1878.

Other brothers and sisters who were born between 1880 and 1900 include Moses Jonathan, John Samuel, Joan, Minnie, and Katie Aline. In the 1900 census, Eldred and Temperance report they have been married 27 years, and have had thirteen children, eight of whom are living. The family are farmers living in the Court House district of Chesterfield. The children are farm laborers. Mollie and her father cannot read or write. Mother Temperance can read but not write. Also, Mollie has had a baby, a little girl named “Sallie” Gulledge, aged two. In 1901, Mollie had a second child, a boy named William “Bill” Gulledge.

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 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. Also staying with them are her children from the first marriage, his daughter Della, and a niece and nephew.

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, Sallie Gulledge. Another daughter, Katy Esther “Topsy” White was born on October 2, 1911. Mollie’s son, Bill is living with grandfather Eldred and grandmother Temperance nearby.

William Benjamin White’s wife in Charlotte, Margaret Ann Hasty Barber White died on October 4, 1916 of general paralysis. She was 73 years of age. The informant on the death certificate was James A White, William Benjamin White’s nephew. The death certificate says she was a widow. It must have been referring to her first husband, because the second was alive until 1941. It is not known if they were divorced.

Mollie Gulledge was a Doctor Assistant. She worked with Dr. Benjamin James McGoogan of Morven. During the flu epedemic, 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.

This February 26, 1920 article on page 4 in the Anson paper The Messenger and Intelligencer tells of the havoc played on that community by the flu. It also speaks of a community nurse who is helping out.

In the 1920 census, Mollie and William Benjamin White are living in rural Chesterfield, very near the young Ben and Sallie Gulledge Lee family. There are the two young White girls, Hattie Mae, aged 9 and Katy “Topsy”, aged 8. The family is reported as living on a farm. Mollie’s father Eldred died on May 10, 1921. His death certificate says he died suddenly with no physician. It also said he was married, so his wife Temperance most likely out lived him and died sometime before 1930. No death certificate has been found and they are both probably buried at the Davis family burying ground off Zoar Road in Chesterfield as reported by his death certificate.

In the 1930 census, William Benjamin and Mollie White are living on Sneedsboro Road, Chesterfield, South Carolina. He is 70 years old and she is 62 and they are continuing to farm. They live in a rented house. Katy or “Topsy” is living with them as well has daughter Hattie Mae. She has married Fred Sheppard but he is not living with the family. Hattie Mae’s children, Mildred and twins Thurell and Thelma Sheppard are also living with the Whites. According to family sources, Hattie Mae was not well and had seizures.

Mollie’s husband William Benjamin White passed away on November 15, 1941 at the age of 83. They had been married 31 years. He was at the home of his daughter, Della Tarlton in Goose Creek, Union County, North Carolina. According to his death certificate, he died of heart disease. Mr. White died while visiting his daughter in North Carolina. Margie Lee related that she remembers the body of Mr. White being brought back to South Carolina around 2:00 a.m. in the night time and being put in the Ben Lee’s family living room. At that time they were living at the “Old Place”. She said she got up that morning and felt of the body and it was hard and cold. Mr. White’s death certificate and grave marker do not agree on the time of death or place of burial. it should be noted that the grave markers were purchased by daughter Topsy some time later and it is possible the date is wrong. The death certificate says that the place of burial was Center Grove Church in Chesterfield but the monument is at Westfield Creek Baptist Church.

Mollie’s son, William B “Bill” Gulledge passed away on April 13, 1944 at the age of 42 at the McLeod Infirmary in Florence, South Carolina. He died of complications of a peptic ulcer. He was a farmer and lived in Chesterfield, South Carolina. Daughter Hattie Mae died at the age of 40 at the Marlboro General Hospital in Bennettsville from complications from an automobile accident.

Mollie lived to be quite old. She was known to her many grand children and great grandchildren as “Granny White”. As you can see from the picture, she was dark and very wrinkled. Many of her descendants thought she was close to a hundred when she died but from census records it appears she was only in her late eighties. She was the oldest child of her family and she outlived all of her siblings except for her sister Kate who was born around the same time as her daughter Sallie. Many attributed her old age to her proclivity to take a nip of whiskey every day. She also liked to have a grape NEHI soda with milk daily. She lived with her daughter Sallie and Sallie’s daughter Azaline and husband J.L until she died. The front room was hers and it was off limit to kids. This was problematic in such a small house.

Mary Elizabeth “Mollie” Gulledge White died on February 21, 1959 in Chesterfield, South Carolina when she was 86 years old. Her heart gave out on her.

She was buried at Westfield Baptist Church in McFarland.

Mollie Gulledge’s children were:

1. Sarah Ellen “Sally” Gulledge 1896-1989 married Benjamin Franklin Lee 1891-1954.
2. William B “Bill” Gulledge 1901-1944 married Eunice Irene Parker 1907-1975
3. Hattie Mae White 1910-1951 married Fred Sheppard and John Thomas Ratliff 1906-1977.
4. Katherine Esther “Topsy” White 1911-1994 married Robert Augustus “Gus” Tucker 1908.

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John Thomas Lee was born on December 15, 1838 in Chesterfield, South Carolina. His father William was 22. His mother Elizabeth Martha Thomas Lee was 25. In the 1840 census, John Thomas Lee is living in Chesterfield, South Carolina with his brothers James Crawford and Samuel William. John Thomas’s sister Hannah Lee was born in 1843 and was followed by brother Henry Alexander in 1844.

After the birth of Henry Alexander, the Lee family was blessed by the birth of five girls. In 1850, John Thomas was living with his family in Chesterfield, South Carolina. His father, William was a farmer owning land “Real Estate” valued at $350. His mother Elizabeth was a housewife. According to the census, both William and Elizabeth could read and write. The Lee children were James Crawford, age 12, John Thomas, age 11, Samuel age 9, Hannah age 7, Henry, age 6, Mary age 4, Ann age 3, Jane age 2, and Eliza, 5 months. Also living with the family was hired hand, William Poston, age 17.

In the 1860 census, three of the older Lee children have left home. James has married Hauley Parker and left home and is living next door. Hannah has married Samuel James Parker and is living in the Chesterfield area with her baby girl. Mary has married Badgerwood Boggan Parker and is also living in the Chesterfield area. Three Lee siblings (James, Hannah and Mary) married three Parker siblings (Hauley, Samuel James, and Badgerwood Boggan. The Parker’s mother and father were George Parker and Hauley Lee.

In the 1860 census, John Thomas Lee is still living with father William and mother Elizabeth. Sam, Ann, Jane, Eliza and another girl, Charlotte born in 1851 who has joined the family are also listed with their parents in the 1860 census as well. The decade has apparently been a good one for the Lees as the value of their real estate property has risen from $350 to $2,560 and their personal property is worth $1,600.

Sometime after 1860, mother Elizabeth Martha dies. It is not known if she died before the Civil War or after but is not found in any records after 1860. John Thomas enlists in Company G, Butler’s South Carolina Infantry 1st South Carolina Regulars on April 3, 1863 at Fort Moltrie. These men were recruited in Charleston, Columbia, Cheraw, Greenville, Lancaster, Chesterfield, and Anderson. Company G was garrisoned at Fort Moltrie from January 1862 until the evacuation of Confederate forces on the night of February 17, 1865. They were instrumental in keeping the Port of Charleston open during the War.

John Thomas continues to stay at in the Charleston area until April 13, 1865 when he pledges allegiance to the Union and is discharged. There is no record he was paid for his service after 1863. The discharge document indicates he had dark hair, dark eyes, dark complexion and was 5 foot 2 inches.

John Thomas is living alone in Chesterfield in the South Carolina State Census of 1869 and is found in the Militia Enrollment of Men between the ages of 18 and 30 for the Chesterfield area. John Thomas half brother Joseph Daniel was born on August 26, 1869 when John Thomas was thirty years old. His father William had remarried after the death of Elizabeth Martha Thomas Lee.  William Lee married Hannah Parker and to this union, Joseph Daniel was born.

Not long after this John Thomas marries neighbor, Sarah Jane White. Her pension application states that she married him on May 11, 1870.

John Thomas and Sarah Jane Lee’s first son, John William “Johnny” was born early in their marriage in Anson, North Carolina. In 1875 John Thomas purchased 275 acres formerly owned by Joel Brock on Big Westfield Creek. This purchase has been transcribed by Charles Purvis on his blog, Carolina Family Roots. It can be found at the Register of Deeds, Chesterfield, South Carolina Deed Book 2, page 323-324, November 19, 1869.

Hugh Craig Judge of Probate to John T. Lee Deed[3]

The State of South Carolina
To all whom these presents shall come or be made known or whom the same may in any wise concern I Hugh Craig Judge of Probate for the County of Chesterfield in the State Send Greetings: Whereas James P. Brock on or about the nineteenth day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty nine [1869] did exhibit his petition on the Court of Probate at Chesterfield Court House, in the county of Chesterfield, and State aforesaid, representing that Joel W. Brock, late of said County deceased, was at the time of his death seized and possessed of a certain tract or tracts of land lying and being in said County on Big Westfield Creek and desiring and praying that a summons in partition do issue to be served, on Sam’l Brock, Sen. Adm. of said Joel Brock, Leonard Davis and Wife Sarah, Wm. P. Brock, Ann Brock, Thomas Brock, Sam’l Brock, Jr., Eli Brock, Eli Whittington and wife Elizabeth and James P. Brock requiring them to appear in the Court of Probate to be held at Chesterfield Court House on the 29th day of November A. D. 1869, to show cause if any they could why the said real estate should not be divided or Sold. And the cause being at issue, before the Honorable Court aforesaid, cause on it to be heard on the Eight day of December one thousand eight hundred and Sixty-nine, where the sad Court, after a full hearing thereof, and mature deliberations on the premises did order, adjudge and decree, that the tract or parcel of land of two hundred and Seventy [270] acres more or less herein after mentioned and described, should be, sold at public auction by the Sheriff of Chesterfield County, on the time and, for the purpose mentioned on said decretal order as by referenced thereto in the Registry of the said Court will appear and the said P. J. Spoffoad, Sheriff of Chesterfield County after having been duly advertised the said tract of two hundred and Seventy [270] acres more or less for Sale, by Public Outcry on the third day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred, and Seventy, did then, openly and publicly, and according to the customs of auctions, sold and dispose of the said tract of land below described unto Jesse C. Smith who after bidding off the same did transfer Vis Vis for the same, as will appear by and instrument of writing hereunto annexed for the sum of three hundred and fifty-five dollars being at that price, the highest bidder for the same. Now know all men that I the said Hugh Craig Judge of Probate of Chesterfield County, in consideration of the premises and also in consideration of the sum of three hundred and fifty-five dollars to me paid or secured to be paid me by the said John T. Lee the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged. Have granted, bargained, sold and released and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell and release unto the said John T. Lee and his heirs and assigns all that tract or parcel of land situated in said County on Big Westfield Creek bounded by lands of the Estate of Lucy Hinson, Isham Wallace, Samuel Brock and others sold by virtue of a Decree of the Probate Court as the property of the Estate of Joel W. Brock referenced being had to a deed from Dr. Thomas E. Powe to said Joel W. Brock will more fully appear together with all and Singular the rights, members, hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever to the said tract of parcel of land, belonging or in anywise appertaining and the reversions and reminders, rent, issues and profit thereof: and also all the Estate rights, title, interest, dower, possession, property, benefit, claim and demand, whatsoever, both at law and in Equity of the said Joel W. Brock, and of the parties to the said suit and of all other persons rightfully claiming or be claim the same or any part thereof, by, from or under them or either of them. To have and to hold the said tract of land with its hereditaments, privileges and appurtenances unto_ the said John T. Lee, his heirs and assigns forever.In witness whereof I the said Hugh Craig Judge of Probate for Chesterfield County under and by virtue of the said Decree have hereunto set my hand and seal at Chesterfield C. H. this third day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and seventy, and in the ninety fourth year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America.
Sealed and delivered}
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Hugh Craig {seal}
Samuel J. Parker}
Judge of Probate
J. C. Smith}
State of South Carolina
Chesterfield County}
Personally appeared before me J. C. Smith and made oath that he saw Hugh Craig Judge of Probate Sign Seal and as his Act and deed, deliver the within written deed and
that he with Samuel J. Parker witnessed the execution thereof.
Sworn before me}

J. C. Smith
3 January 1875}
T. F. Mulloy (no seal)}
Clk.
Recorder 24th Feby 1875
Original Del’d to John T. Lee

 

John Thomas and Sarah Jane White had six daughters beginning in 1876. These were Mary Elizabeth “Molly”, Rebecca Jane, Dora Lucy, Nancy Ellen, Bessie Aileen, and Linnie who was born in March, 1887. Unfortunately, Nancy Ellen passed away on May 28, 1883 when she was less than a year old. John Thomas’s Sister Hannah Parker died in 1890 and his sister Lottie Charlotte White died in 1891. His son Benjamin Franklin Lee was born May 17, 1891. William Lee, John Thomas’s father passed away on January 30, 1893 in Chesterfield, South Carolina at the age of 76. Because of proximity to Anson County, North Carolina, the estate was settled in both North Carolina and South Carolina.

Shortly before the death of John Thomas Lee’s father, William, his brother Samuel Lee of Blount County, Alabama transferred 86 acres on Big Westfield Creek.  Samuel had received this land from father William Lee and he transferred it to his brother, John Thomas for $150.

John Thomas and Sarah Jane Lee soon had two more sons. Son Ira Burton “Burt” was born in 1894 and son Clarence Eugene “Gene” was born in 1896. His sister Ann “Annie” Wilkerson died in 1899 when John Thomas was 61 years old.

The 1900 census finds John Thomas and Sarah Lee farming with their children, Dora, Bessie, Linnie, Benjamin Franklin, Ira Burton, Eugene and with grandson Perdie Lee. John William “Johnny” Lee had left home. He first married Roxanna Sanders. They had three children together, two of which died. Perdie Lee was the surviving child of this union and he came to live with his grandfather and grandmother. Johnny then married Lydia Frances Griggs and was living nearby with their two children and a farm laborer. Mary “Molly” Lee married Daniel Teal and they were living nearby with their three kids. Rebecca had married James Edgar Brock and they were living nearby with their son Ira and a farm laborer. Cotton was the main cash crop of the family and the process was manual. It was not mechanized until the 1940’s and 1950’s.

John Thomas and Sarah Jane Lee’s last child, Cora was born in 1902 when John Thomas was 63 years old. In 1910, John Thomas and Sarah Jane are living on the farm on McFarland Road with Benjamin Franklin “Ben”, Ira Burton, Eugene, Cora, and grandson Perdie. Dora, Bessie, and Linnie had all married and moved out. Dora had married William Harrison Teal and was living with him and their four children on McFarland Road. Bessie had married John Thomas Teal and was living with him and their five children on McFarland Road. Linnie had married Elijah Jones and was living with him and their son and a farm laborer on McFarland Road. Three of the Lee daughters married three of the Teal brothers from the family of William Harrison Teal and Elizabeth “Lisbeth” Short. Also three of the Lee siblings married into the Samuel Washington Walker Brock family. Samuel Washington Walker Brock married Sarah Jane Lee, so the offspring of these couples are double cousins. Rebecca’s husband James Edgar Brock was the son of Samuel Washington Walker Brock and Sarah Jane Lee. Eugene “Gene’s wife Nannie Brock was the daughter of Mary Brock whose parents were Samuel Washington Walker Brock and Sarah Jane Lee. Cora Lee’s first husband who died in World War I, William Samuel Brock was Nannie’s brother.

John Thomas’s brother, Henry Alexander died in 1912 when John Thomas was 73 years old. His daughter Mary Elizabeth “Molly” passed away in childbirth on October 26, 1914 at the age of 38. John Thomas’s brother Samuel William died in Alabama on June 17, 1915, when John Thomas was 76 years old. John Thomas Lee died on May 28, 1916 in Chesterfield, South Carolina when he was 77 years old.  He was the last of his generation of Lees living in the Chesterfield area.  His half brother Joseph Daniel had moved to Arkansas and was buried November 6, 1944 in the Oakland and Fraternal Historic Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas.

John Thomas Lee is buried at Zoar United Methodist Church in Chesterfield.

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

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Letha Ellen Staley was born on July 19, 1864 in Randolph County. Her father was George Staley and her mother was Sarah “Sallie” Hill Stout Staley. George was 52 years old and had been married twice before.

George’s first marriage was to Nancy Burgess in 1837.

Nancy and George had four children before she died in 1858. These were Rebecca, Hiram, Mary and Ann. Hiram died of typhoid fever January 20, 1863 as a Confederate soldier at Petersburg Virginia.

George then married Mary Butlar on December 11, 1858. From this union, Letha’s brother Robert was probably born since he was born in 1861 and George did not marry Letha’s mother Sallie until August 7, 1862.

Sarah “Sallie” Hill Stout was 34 when she married George Staley. She had been married once before to William Gaston Stout who died in 1857. She had two sons when she married George Staley. These were Jacob Washington Stout and James Abner Stout.

Letha was the oldest of George and Sallie’s children. George was a farmer and Sallie was a housekeeper and mother. Letha, their oldest child together was born July 19, 1864 during the Civil War. The Staley family was touched by the war in the worst way. Their son and brother Hiram who had enlisted in Guilford County in 1862 in Company A of the North Carolina Infantry 53 Regiment lost his life in early 1863. He succumbed to typhoid fever at the Confederate States Hospital in Petersburg Virginia. Petersburg became a focal point for North Carolina soldiers starting in June 1864 continuing to April 1865. The Greensboro Patriot on September 15, 1864, page 1 has an ad from the State of North Carolina Subsistience Department has an ad asking for Irish potatoes, Onions and Saurkraut for North Carolina soldiers in the trenches at Petersburg.

In addition to Letha, George and Sallie Staley had the following children: William G.,Sarah Annie, Permelia Caroline, and George Taylor. In 1870, Letha was 7 years old and lived with her family at Pleasant Grove Township, Randolph County North Carolina. Her father owned $450 in real estate and $700 in personal estate. In 1880, Letha was living with family at Columbia Township in Randolph County, North Carolina. The family owned 150 acres on the watershed of Millstone Creek. Millstone Creek is 4.1 miles east of Ramseur, near Parks Cross Roads. Letha at the time was 17. The census stated that she attended school, could read, but couldn’t write.

Letha Ellen Staley married Peter Pulaski Lawrence Jones sometimes known as P.L. in Randolph County, on May 11, 1884, when she was 19 years old. Pulaski Jones had come to Randolph County from Chatham County around 1882. He was employed in the railroad service working for the Atlantic and Yadkin which had a line down from Greensboro to Ramseur. Her sister Annie married Thomas L Jones, Pulaski’s brother in 1885. The two Staley sisters who had married two Jones brothers began to raise their family in the town of Ramseur at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the twentieth. Letha and her family attended the Holiness Church in Ramseur.

Letha and Pulaski’s first son George Wiley was born on May 8, 1886. Her second son William Barnes “Bill or Will” was born on November 9, 1888. Letha’s father George passed away on December 8, 1891. The year before, Sarah and George had signed over the Millstone Creek property to younger sons William G and George Taylor. Probate records list George’s personal estate and include items such as pitchers, pine table, flower vases, wash tubs, mans saddle, spinning wheel, and other furniture. These items along with a growing crop of wheat,10 sheep, 1 black mule, 6 head of hogs, 14 chickens, 1,560 pounds of lint cotton, a note and a $23 mortgage on James Cavness and an open account with W E Branson were assigned and allotted to his widow, Sarah Ann Staley. Commissioners J W Cox and J M Foushee also found that because of the number of members of the family (six exclusive of the widow), there would be provided a years support of $557.40.

The year 1899 was a good and bad year for the Jones family. Son Charles Tate “Doc” was born on May 18 but son George Wiley passed away on June 2, 1899 in Ramseur at the age of 13. He is buried in the Sunset Knoll Cemetery in Ramseur. Letha must have experienced other heartbreak because the 1900 census asks how many children she had and she answered six but only two were living. Letha’s obituary says that four children have preceded her to the better land. In 1900, the only two surviving sons were Bill and “Doc”. Bill was 10 years old in this census and is listed as a day laborer who had attended school six months in that year. Pulaski’s occupation was locomotive watchman. All of the members of the household could read and write except for one year old “Doc”. They rented their home in Ramseur.

The 1900’s brought more births and deaths to Letha’s family. Her daughter Ida Lee was born on July 5, 1901. Her half brother Jacob Washington Stout died on August 15, 1903. Daughter Nellie Victoria was born on October 4, 1904 and her half sister Rebecca died in Ohio on February 7, 1908. By 1910, older son Bill had married and left the home and Pulaski and Letha were sharing their rented home in Ramseur with their three children, “Doc”, Ida, and Nellie. In this census Letha is listed as being able to read but not able to write. Letha’s brother Robert H. died on September 28,1913 and Letha’s mother Sallie passed away on August 9, 1915 in Randolph, North Carolina at the age of 85.

Letha Ellen Staley died on January 3, 1920 at the age of 55. Her obituary published in The Courier Tribune on January 15, 1920 is entitled “Death of a Good Woman” It stated that that Mrs. Jones had not been in good health for some time but no one knew that she was so near death. A complicated trouble caused her death. Her death certificate stated the cause of death was a hyperthyroid issue. Nellie Kinney, her daughter had stated that the reason there were no pictures of Letha was she had a large goiter on her neck and did not allow pictures to be made of her.

Letha’s funeral was conducted the Sunday following at the Christian Church in Ramseur and she was buried at the town cemetery, Sunset Knolls. It was reported by the Greensboro Daily News on January 8, 1920, p. 12 that there was a large crowd of sorrowing relatives and friends. Letha not only left behind two young daughters in the home. Ida was 18 and Nellie was 15. She also left behind two grandsons she was helping to rear. Bill’s 11-year old Seth had come to live with the Jones family when his parent’s marriage fell apart. Son “Doc” had tragically lost his wife the month before and mother Letha was helping him tend to Infant George Wiley Jones.

There are three unknown children of Letha and Pulaski Jones who died before adulthood was attained. Other children are:

1. George Wiley Jones 1886-1899
2. William Barnes “Bill” Jones 1888-1963 married Nellie Blanch Webb, Cellie Dare Smith, Malinda Ruth Revels, and Lula Golden Rumley
3. Charles Tate “Doc” Jones 1899-1980 married Anne Elizabeth Branson and Myrtle Lou Overman
4. Ida Lee Jones (1901-1981) married George Wesley Fogleman
5. Nellie Victoria Jones (1904-1979) married Robert Roosevelt Kinney

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Robert Florentine Kinney was born on December 9, 1867.  His father Peter was 63 and his mother Delilah “Dillie” was 27. His father Peter had been married twice before. He had three half siblings (two sisters and a brother) through his father. These were Sabrey “Sibbie” Kinney, George Wesley Kinney, and Martha Elen Kinney. His mother, Dillie had been married before and was a Civil War widow. Robert had a half sister from his mother’s side. This sister was Mary Elizabeth Breedlove

Robert was born in Patterson Township in Alamance County, close to the Randolph County line. During the Civil War the stock of available men in the South had been depleted as they were away on the field of battle. It is no wonder that his mother Dillie married a much older man in 1864. Robert was the second oldest child born to Peter and Dillie. The other children were William Henry, Annie Jane, Jennie Selina, and Esther Delina. Jennie and Esther were twins.

Robert continued to live with his father and mother near Liberty, North Carolina until 1884 when his father died at the age of 80. Peter had arthritis and was unable to provide for his family. There were several instances documented in the local paper where the county had to help with food and provisions for the Kinney family. This clipping is from The Alamance Gleaner, March 21 1876 Tuesday, page 3.

Three years after the death of his father, Robert married Martha Emma Shue in Guilford County on Sunday, September 2, 1887. A year later his first son Henry Bascom Kinney was born. Robert and Martha purchased some land in Alamance County. They attended Graham Baptist Church and mother Dilly lived nearby with the girls and her third husband John Henry. Robert and Martha had two more children born in Alamance County. They were Lystra Blanche born August 11, 1890 and Tempie Lorenah born November 10, 1892.

On November 11, 1893, the Kinney family sold their land in Graham, Alamance County to Rachel Shoe May and on November 21, 1893, the Kinneys purchased 100 acres in Grant Township from Eli Preston Spoon for $117.50. Eli Preston Spoon was the son of Joseph Spoon who had discovered gold near Asheboro in a region where it was not supposed there were any known gold deposits before. Robert worked some at the neighborhood Spoon Gold Mine but he mainly made his living as a farmer.

Robert and Martha’s fourth child Peter Chesley was born in Randolph County on March 4, 1895. This was the same period of time that the Wright Brothers made the first flight in North Carolina. James Ernest Kinney was born on July 8, 1898 and Wilbert Frederick was born September 10, 1900. James Ernest was a sickly child and he passed away on November 25, 1902 at the age of four. The next year daughter Esther Ursula Marie was born on April 27, 1903.

During this period, the older children were becoming teenagers and there are many articles in the Courier about visiting and taking part in church services at Spoons Chapel and Mount Tabor Church and other Squirrel Creek neighborhood activities. Son Robert Roosevelt was born November 13, 1906 and daughter Adell was born January 9, 1908. This picture is with Ursula, Wilbert, and Rob (the baby on the knee).

Adell tragically lost her life as a small toddler when she fell into the washtub while her mother was washing clothes and was scalded to death. The baby of the family, Earl Jethro was born on April 19, 1910. Robert’s mother Dillie died three years later at the age of 73.

Robert and Martha continued to live at the residence in Grant Township where he performed his civic duty by serving as a juror for the March and April Term of the 1917 Randolph Superior Court. His children began to leave the household. He purchased a car but he never learned to drive it. Son Robert Roosevelt was his designated chauffeur and he took him to visit family and other friends and neighbors in the car.

Robert Florentine Kinney died at a fairly young age. The Courier Tribune reported he collapsed in a rye field when he died at age 57 on May 17, 1925. His death certificate said the cause of death was carcinoma of the stomach. He is buried in the Mount Tabor Church Community Cemetery.

Robert Roosevelt Kinney and Martha Emma Kinney had ten children in 21 years. Those children and their spouses are:

1. Henry Bascom Kinney 1888-1972 married Mary Ellen Pugh 1893-1958
2. Lystra Blanche Kinney 1890-1975 married William Henry Berry 1878-1957 and Will Watson 1900-1976
3. Tempie Lorenah Kinney 1892-1959 married William Edmund Brown 1886-1949
4. Peter Chesley Kinney 1895-1972 married Rosetta Myriah McPherson 1895-1971
5. James Ernest Kinney 1898-1902
6. Wilbert Frederick Kinney 1900-1953 married Naomi Blanche Mann 1903-1994
7. Esther Ursula Marie Kinney 1903-1978 married Colon Monroe Hicks 1903-1966 and Thurl Howard York 1914-1994
8. Robert Roosevelt Kinney 1906-1984 married Nellie Victoria Jones 1904-1979
9. Dillie Adell Kinney 1908-1909
10. Earl Jethro Kinney 1910-1971 married Lessie Elmage Purvis 1910-2002

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