Notes: Appalachian Aristocracy

Matches 20,701 to 20,750 of 36,206

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20701	Her ancestral home was named Hillsboro. They had six other children who either died young or never married.	HILL, Mary (Mollie) (I6518)
20702	Her ancestry in English, with her grandparents being William V. Atkinson and Elizabeth Parker of Charles City, Henrico Co. VA. Her mother shortened the name to Adkins and was the common-law wife of Jacob Harley.	Adkins, Nancy (I10027)
20703	Her brother's death record shows the family was originally from Ashe Co. Virginia Deaths and Burials, 1853?1912 Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2010. Name: Alfred Billings Birth Date: abt 1834 Birth Place: Ash, North Carolina Death Date: 30 Jul 1857 Death Place: Grayson, Carroll, Virginia Death Age: 23 Race: White Gender: Male Father Name: Richard Billings Mother Name: Mary FHL Film Number: 2056981	Billings, Nancy (I31824)
20704	Her complexion was like that of my other sisters, save that she has sandy slight hair. When young was inclined to be flashy - was fine looking - had an unusual sweetness of spirit and disposition. At the age of 17 she married S. G. Davis (Sam), a widower with two children. They lived happily together until the summer of 1860 when he died, and left her with five children, four girls and one little boy. She always lacked self confidence . Gentle, mild, affectionate, unassuming, rather retiring in her manner.	KIRK, Mary (I7498)
20705	Her date of birth is according to her marriage certificate.	Yergovich, Lucille Evelyn (I25062)
20706	Her daughter, Frances', marriage record in Preble Co. OH has it spelled Rouveaux. However, Ravaux is a last name that is common in Coucy les Eppes, which is where Anne was from. http://fr.geneawiki.com/index.php?title=02218_-_Coucy-l%C3%A8s-Eppes&redirect=no Patronymes [Surnames] Babled, Baillet, Barbiot, Berth, Bertholus, Bitot, Boilet, Carère, Carlier, Charlier, Charpentier, Coisne, Coulbeaux, Debled, Debray, Delacourt, Delahaigue, Delozanne, Devlieger, Domis, Dorlée, Duterne, Fauqueux, Gaudion, Girod, Gourdoux, Guillaume, Haren, Hist, Houssart, Huhaziak, Hubert, Hummel, Laplace, Laroche, Laurent, Lebail, Leblanc, Leclaire, Lemaire, Lepage, Leroux, Linéatte, Longuet, Mardigras, Mathieux, Mennesson, Parent, Pertholus, Pétré, Poirier, Ravaux, Retrain, Rigaux, Rousselle, Sagault, Sébastien, Sorbais, Souplet, Thiéffine, Tricotteaux, Viéville, Véron, Watier.	Ravaux, Anne (I2846)
20707	Her death certificate indicated her POB is Montgomery Co. TX, but the informant gave incorrect information.	YOW, Annie Adelle (I27689)
20708	Her death certificate lists her as married with her last name of Wagner, but no husband's name is listed. Unsure if she divorced or if they separated. Have been unable to locate a West Virginia marriage certificate for a second marriage.	Family F8757
20709	Her death lead to one of the greatest murder trials of post-Civil War America. Her cousin Thomas J. Cluverius was tried and hung in a case that received extended national attention. It had the drama of a pregnant unwed woman, a handsome young lawyer, family drama and dysfunction that made for Victorian melodrama and sensationalism. Need to do more research on the exact location of her grave. For some reason Lillian was dug up and reinterred five years later in another family plot that is nearby her original location.	MADISON, Fannie Lillian (I6178)
20710	Her father Chapp Osborne was a guard at the Raven Red Ash Coal Comp and in 1920 he was appointed a Tazewell Co deputy. He was killed in a gun battle near Richlands on 22 March 1927. It is said that he shot 15 men, eight of whom died. CENSUS RECORDS 1900 Census Name: Eady Chambers Age: 56 Birth Date: May 1864 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1900: Garden, Buchanan, Virginia Race: White Gender: Female Relation to Head of House: Wife Marital Status: Married Spouse's Name: Thomas D Chambers Marriage Year: 1880 Years Married: 20 Father's Birthplace: Virginia Mother's Birthplace: Virginia Mother: number of living children: 7 Mother: How many children: 7 Household Members: Name Age Thomas D Chambers 47 Eady Chambers 56 John M Chambers 15 Mallee E Chambers 13 Jinie L Chambers 11 Robert G Chambers 9 Irena Chambers 7 Grayson Chambers 4 1920 Census Name: Eady Chambers Age: 54 Birth Year: abt 1866 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1920: Garden, Buchanan, Virginia Street: Ridge Between Levisa River And Grassy Creek Race: White Gender: Female Relation to Head of House: Wife Marital Status: Married Spouse's Name: T D Chambers Father's Birthplace: Virginia Mother's Birthplace: Virginia Native Tongue: English Able to Speak English: Yes Able to Read: Yes Able to Write: Yes Household Members: Name Age T D Chambers 64 Eady Chambers 54	OSBORN, Edith (I8123)
20711	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	RUSSELL, Sarah Jean (I5866)
20712	Her first name is also given as Terreca or Terise. Her middle name appears as Araminta, Arminta or Aramanta. In one census she goes by her intials T.A.M, then in others she is Marie, Maria or Minnie, short of Arminta. However, I have it on good authority from her granddaughter, Berrylynn Morgan Freeby, that her name was Terreca Amaminta Mariah. CENSUS RECORDS 1860 United States Federal Census Name: Aramantha W Gates [Amaminta] Age in 1860: 14 Birth Year: abt 1846 Birthplace: Alabama Home in 1860: Clarke, Alabama Gender: Female in household of William L. and Sarah L. Gates Post Office: Grove Hill 1870 United States Federal Census Name: Arminta Duke [Amaminta] Age in 1870: 22 Birth Year: abt 1848 Birthplace: Alabama Home in 1870: Gates, Clarke, Alabama Race: White Gender: Female in household of Thomas Duke Post Office: Grove Hill Household Members: Thomas Duke 24 Arminta Duke 22 Child Duke 2 [Lula] Infant Duke 9 months [William Dorsey] 1880 United States Federal Census Name: T. A. M. Duke Age: 33 Birth Year: abt 1847 Birthplace: Alabama Home in 1880: Gates, Clarke, Alabama Race: White Gender: Female Relation to Head of House: Wife Marital Status: Married Spouse's Name: W. Thomas Duke Father's Birthplace: Alabama Mother's Birthplace: Alabama Occupation: Keeps House Household Members: W. Thomas Duke 34 T. A. M. Duke 33 Lula Duke 12 William Dorsey Duke 10 John Levi Duke 9 Nancy Jane Duke 8 Sarah Elmira Duke 6 Thomas B. Duke 4 Marla O. Duke 1 1900 United States Federal Census Name: Marie Duke [Mariah] Age: 53 Birth Date: Oct 1846 Birthplace: Alabama Home in 1900: Cane Creek, Clarke, Alabama Race: White Gender: Female Relation to Head of House: Head Marital Status: Widowed Marriage Year: 1862 Years married: 38 Father's Birthplace: South Carolina Mother's Birthplace: Alabama Mother: number of living children: 10 Mother: How many children: 10 Household Members: Marie Duke 53 Dansil Duke 30 Thomas B Duke 22 Ishey E Duke 20 Is*A D Duke 17 Lillie D Duke 14 Minnie J Duke 12 Lula D Rachael 2 Terry Lovet 18 [servant] 1910 United States Federal Census Name: Maria A Duke [Mariah] Age in 1910: 64 Birth Year: abt 1846 Birthplace: Alabama Home in 1910: Grove Hill, Clarke, Alabama Race: White Gender: Female Relation to Head of House: Mother Marital Status: Widowed Father's Birthplace: Alabama Mother's Birthplace: Alabama Household Members: J Levi Duke 36 Clara Duke 26 Hilton Duke 7 Lucile Duke 1 year 11 months Maria A Duke 64 1920 United States Federal Census Name: Minnie Duke [short for Amaminta] Age: 73 Birth Year: abt 1847 Birthplace: Alabama Home in 1920: Bells Landing, Monroe, Alabama Race: White Gender: Female Relation to Head of House: Mother-in-law Marital Status: Single Father's Birthplace: Alabama Mother's Birthplace: Alabama Able to Read: Yes Able to Write: Yes Household Members: Tom H Green 32 Gladis Green 35 Mabel Green 7 Jon I. Green 5 Lila Green 3 years 10 months Grady Green 1 year 8 months Grace Green 1 year 8 months Minnie Duke 73	Gates, Terreca Amaminta Mariah (T.A.M.) (I17601)
20713	Her gravestone bears a brass representing a Jacobean lady, her hands clasped in prayer, wearing a great beaver hat and a high, pleated ruff. Above her effigy is a small brass plate with a Latin sentence that roughly translated says:"O friend, if you seek the grave of the one who prepared it, it was John my husband by the name of Austen." Beneath her effigy is a larger brass plate stating: "Here underlyeth the body of Joane Berry daughter of Jeffery Berry sometime of the parish of Midley and wyfe to John Austen of this pish [parish] of Horsmonden beinge of the age of 36 yeares who depted the 9th of Decemb: 1604 and left behind her 8 sones and one daughter. Vidz: John Jeffry [sic] Benjamin Robt Joane Francis Peter Thomas & Robid [sic - i.e. Richard] of wch two last she died in childbed often utteringe these speaches 'let nether husband nor chidren nor land nor goods separate me from the [thee] my God.'"	Berry, Joan (I36321)
20714	Her husband was a member of Virginia State Senate from Washington Co., VA. 1910 Washington Co.VA Census states Arkansas was mother of 2 children, 1 living in 1910. buried at Blackwell's Chapel	FERRELL, Arkansas Rosalie (I2282)
20715	Her husband was a Seward.	HUNTRESS, Mary (I7121)
20716	Her last name is given as Painter in her oldest daughter's Texas birth records and Poynter in the Texas birth record of her son, Robert.	Painter, Reecie (I20211)
20717	Her last name is given on the death certificate of her daughter, Ida Pearl Yow Perry. Texas, Death Certificates, 1903?1982 Name: Ida Pearl Perry [Ida Pearl Yow] Birth Date: 26 Jun 1981 Birth Place: Texas Gender: Female Race: White Residence: Teague, Freestone, Texas Father: Walter E. Yow Mother: Mary Eliza Walker Age at Death: 85 Death Date: 26 Jun 1981 Death Place: Fairfield, Freestone, Texas, USA	Walker, Mary Eliza (I27673)
20718	Her maiden name is from her son Nils' birth record. Massachusetts, Birth Records, 1840-1915 Name: Nels Allen [Nils Alsen] Gender: Male Birth Date: 23 Apr 1894 Birth Place: Arlington, Massachusetts Father: Carl W Allen [Alsen] Birthplace: Sweden Occupation: cabinet maker Mother: Anna W Andersen Birthplace: Sweden	Andersson, Anna Wilhelmina (I27244)
20719	Her maiden name may have been Reese.	Naomine (I7798)
20720	Her maiden name was possibly Chandler as there is an Ellen Chandler, age 22 who is living Nancy and her family. She could be her sister.	Chandler, Nancy (I22422)
20721	Her marriage certificate gives her age as 22, but she is 16 on the census. Did she lie about her age to get marriage so she didn't have to have parental permission? http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=11118211&Type=Marriage	Carter, Faye (I18482)
20722	Her marriage record has her POB as Wetzel Co. WV	Welling, Hannah Jane (I20547)
20723	Her marriage to a Mr. Dudley is in Col. Moses Alexander's typed family records. Alabama, Marriage Collection, 1800-1969 Name: George W Dudley Spouse: Eveline Alexander [Emeline] Marriage Date: 18 Aug 1854 County: Barbour State: Alabama Performed By Title: Justice of the Peace Performed by Name: James Stacy	Family F7188
20724	Her middle name was Jane and she uses this on subsequent census records. Listed on 1850 Census for Washington, Co. VA household 361, age 13, born in VA, listed in household is her parents Daniel, age 53, Catherine, age 52, brother James, age 23, and sisters Sarah, age 20, and Amelia [Emeline] age 18. Listed on 1860 Census for Ashe Co. NC, household 367, age 21, living with her parents Daniel, age 61 and Catherine, age 61, her husband William Brown, age 24. Birth locations for Eliza Jane Nelson Brown change between 1850 and 1860 Census from VA to NC, most likely cenus taker error or incorrect information provided as brother Harvey is listed as being born in Virgina. Listed on 1870 census for Ashe Co. NC, household 25, Jane Brown age 30, living in household of her husband, William Brown, along with her children, Catherine age 12, Harvey, age 9, Daniel age 7, James age 5 and Eveline age 3, and her mother Catherine Nelson, age 70.	NELSON, Eliza Jane (I2558)
20725	Her mother was Melinda McCoy, of the feuding McCoy CENSUS RECORDS 1920 United States Federal Census Name: Sophia Whitaker Age: 27 Birth Year: abt 1893 Birthplace: Kentucky Home in 1920: Maiden Spring, Tazewell, Virginia Race: White Gender: Female Relation to Head of House: Wife Marital Status: Married Spouse's Name: James W Whitaker Father's Birthplace: Kentucky Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky Able to Read: Yes Able to Write: Yes Household Members: James W Whitaker 27 Sophia Whitaker 27 Charles Whitaker 2 years 9 months Dock S Whitaker 64 [father in law] 1930 United States Federal Census Name: Sophia Davidson [Sophia Davison] Gender: Female Birth Year: abt 1895 Birthplace: Kentucky Race: White Home in 1930: District 6, Pike, Kentucky Map of Home: View map Marital Status: Married Relation to Head of House: Wife Spouse's Name: Fornier Davidson Father's Birthplace: Kentucky Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky Household Members: Fornier Davidson 29 Sophia Davidson 35 Charley Whittaker 13	MAYNARD, Sophia (I336)
20726	Her mother, Greta Kempton, was a famous portrait painter, who did portraits of President Truman. Her biography is available on FindAGrave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8626579	KEMPTON, Daisy (I31313)
20727	Her name is given as Lydia in the marriage record of her son Randolph.	PAYNE, Lady (I3754)
20728	Her name may have been Emeline. Listed on 1850 Census for Washington, Co. VA household 361, age 18, born in VA, listed in household is her parents Daniel, age 53, Catherine, age 52, brother James, age 23, and sisters Sarah, age 20, and Eliza, age 13.	NELSON, Amelia (I2339)
20729	Her nickname was Molly. Administration of her estate, Cumberland Co. VA. 1826 Book 8, pp. 155-6	PERROW, Marie (Mary) (I3172)
20730	Her nickname was Pattie, and was named for her maternal aunt, Martha Vincent Walden, who was also called Pat. She worked with the Children's Home Society in Richmond for adoption of orphans. The organization began in 1900 when it was chartered by the Virginia General Assembly and still provides services today. During the early years, children were brought to a receiving home in Richmond pending placement with a suitable adoptive family. By 1930, Children's Home Society of Virginia was part of the national trend of placing children in individual foster homes rather than in orphanages. CENSUS RECORDS 1870 United States Federal Census Name: Martha Russell Age in 1870: 9 Birth Year: abt 1861 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1870: Petersburg Ward 3, Petersburg (Independent City), Virginia Race: White Gender: Female Post Office: Petersburg Household Members: Warren Russell 49 Susan Russell 40 Ben W Russell 19 [half brother] Charles F R Russell 15 William W Russell 13 James R Russell 11 Martha Russell 9 George Russell 3 Hudson Russell 12 Louisa Richardson 33 [servant] Mary Thomas 10 Mahiby Richardson 4 Anna Starke 19 [servant] 1880 United States Federal Census Name: Martha E. Russell Age: 18 Birth Year: abt 1862 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1880: Tuckahoe, Henrico, Virginia Race: White Gender: Female Relation to Head of House: Daughter Marital Status: Single Father's Name: Warren Russell Father's Birthplace: Maine Mother's Birthplace: Maine Occupation: Keeps House Household Members: Warren Russell 58 James H. Russell 21 Martha E. Russell 18 Eward H. Russell 10 1900 United States Federal Census Name: Pattie E Russell Age: 30 Birth Date: Aug 1870 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1900: Clay Ward, Richmond City, Virginia [Henrico] Race: White Gender: Female Relation to Head of House: Sister [in household of William Walden Russell] Marital Status: Single Father's Birthplace: Virginia Mother's Birthplace: Virginia 1910 United States Federal Census Name: Pattie E R Phillips Age in 1910: 48 Birth Year: 1862 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1910: Baltimore Ward 19, Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland Race: White Gender: Female Relation to Head of House: Wife Marital Status: Married Spouse's Name: Kerwan P Phillips [Kirwan] Father's Birthplace: Maine Mother's Birthplace: Virginia Household Members: Kerwan P Phillips 50 [merchant] Pattie E R Phillips 48 Willie W Phillips 16 [nephew] May R Mcroy 13 [orphan] Richard C Beekman 66 [boarder] CITY DIRECTORIES U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 Publication Title: Hill Directory Co.'s Incorporated Richmond City Directory Name: Mrs Kirwan P Phillips Gender: F (Female) Residence Year: 1920 Street Address: 1 N 6th Residence Place: Richmond, Virginia U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 Publication Title: Hill's Richmond Virginia City Directory Name: Pattie Phillips Gender: F (Female) Residence Year: 1928 Street Address: 1 N 5th apt 23 Residence Place: Richmond, Virginia Occupation: Socialwkr Spouse: Widow of K P Phillips U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 Publication Title: Hill's Richmond Virginia City Directory Name: K Pattie Phillips Gender: F (Female) Residence Year: 1930 Street Address: 1 N 5th apt 22 Residence Place: Richmond, Virginia Occupation: Children's Home Society of VA Spouse: Widow of Kirwan P Phillips U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 Publication Title: Hill's Richmond Virginia City Directory Name: Pattie E R Phillips Gender: F (Female) Residence Year: 1931 Street Address: 1 N 5th apt 22 Residence Place: Richmond, Virginia Spouse: Widow of Kirwan P Phillips	RUSSELL, Martha Elizabeth (Pattie) (I5950)
20731	Her parents name are Cook on the marriage record and on the 1910 Census. But on the 1860, 1880 and 1900 Censuses her father's last name is Hart. On his death certificate, her father is listed as Isaac V. Cook with his parents being William Cook and Julia Hart. Perhaps his parents weren't married. Julia Hart is listed as Julia A. Cook in the 1850 Census in the household of Isaac Hart and as Julia Hart in the 1860 and 1870 censuses along with her son, Isaac Hart. She married Joseph Smith in 1875 and is listed as Julia Smith in the 1880, 1900, 1910 and 1920 Census. On her death certificate, her parents as listed as Issac Hart and Celia Combs. It seems Edna's family used Hart and Cook as their last names.	Cook/Hart, Edna May (I35459)
20732	Her second husband was from near Raven.	SHAW, Alice (I52)
20733	Her story is similar to the one of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. This romantic legend is based on fact, the story of Shawnee chief's daughter marrying a British soldier. Oral tradition says that Bolin Baker was captured by the Shawnee in 1756 while serving in General Benjamin Braddock's army during the French and Indian War and taken to Chief Cornstalk's village. He was forced to run the gauntlet and his courage gained him the admiration of Chief Cornstalk's daughter Aracoma. She persuaded her father to make him a member of the Shawnee. They were married. Logan County tradition says that Aracoma and Baker moved into Logan County, WV sometime close to the year 1760 and lived in peace on Midelburg Island in the Guyandotte River in what is today's city of Logan until 1780. Aracoma is credited with settling the conflict between the native population and the settlers through her marriage to a white man, Boling Baker. An Indian raid on the frontier settlement on the Bluestone River in the western part of Virginia in 1780 led to a pursuit, resulting in a battle within the present site of the city of Logan. She was killed by white men led by John Breckenridge and William Madison during the Revolutionary War, perhaps in the spring of 1780 after Baker led Indians to steal horses from New River Valley settlers. Aracoma received fatal wounds. She asked to be buried with her children who died of a plague. They had been buried in a location just above the bend in the Guyandotte river. In 1915, when the Abdoney building was being constructed on the 100 block of Stratton Street in Logan, the workmen uncovered a grave. In it was a skeleton of a young woman and a necklace of buckhorn beads. The string had rotted away, but the necklace was still arranged around the neck. The odd and haunting irony was that the skeleton was buried at the bend of the Guyandotte, almost exactly where the old and half forgotten traditions claimed was the final resting place of Aracoma. When Logan County Courthouse was chartered by the Virginia General Assembly in 1852, the town was named Aracoma, in her honor, but the name was changed to Logan in 1907 to conform with the name of the local post office. The story of Aracoma and Bolin Baker is reenacted every summer in an outdoor drama in Logan Co. WV. http://www.chiefloganstatepark.com/amphitheater.html	Cornstalk, Aracoma (I9948)
20734	Her surname may have been Fry, but this has not been proven.	Mary (I10007)
20735	Her tombstone DOB is Feb. 3, 1886.	Vipperman, Louisa Jane (Duck) (I21806)
20736	Her tombstone giver her year of death as 1943, but I have been unable to locate her death certificate.	Hurd, Elizabeth (I21987)
20737	Her tombstone has the YOB as 1862, but her death certificate has her DOB as 27 Jul 1865.	Tate, Cornelia Lenoir (Nellie) (I31285)
20738	Her tombstone says she was born in Scotland.	Wallace, Isabella (I10671)
20739	Heritage Consulting. The Millennium File. Salt Lake City, UT Name: Edward Hilton Gender: Male Birth Date: 1603 Birth Place: England Death Date: 1671 Death Place: Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire Children: Sobriety Hilton	Hilton, Edward (I29560)
20740	Herman was brother to Benjamin Snoddy who married Leafy's sister Marguerite.	Family F10608
20741	Hezekiah Alexander was listed in the Perry County, Alabama 1850 census with his wife, Charlotte. He is listed as 47 years old and she as 42 years old. Their children were, Catherine, age 20 and John A., age 18.	Alexander, Hezekiah (I11725)
20742	Hezekiah together with his brother John McKnitt were signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration. In 1774 Hezekiah built a house out of rocks. The family lived there for many years. His restored home is open to the public in Charlotte, North Carolina. There is a museum on the property also. He was a member of the Mecklenburg County Committee of Safety. On August 21, 1775, Hezekiah was appointed by the Provincial Congress meeting in Hillsborough to the Salisbury District Committee of Safety which was to serve as the local governing body for a multi-county area. In November, 1776, Hezekiah joined other state delegates at Halifax to form the Fifth Provincial Congress which was charged with the task of writing the first state constitution. After the Halifax Congress, Hezekiah joined the Fourth Regiment of North Carolina Troops as Paymaster. Will of Hezekiah South Alexander names these heirs, wife, Mary, son William, son Amos, son Joel, son Oswald, daughter Esther Garrison and granddaughter Caroline Garrison and daughter Kezia. Simpson, p. 182 "Daughter of Hezekiah Alexander" Family Tree: "Hezekiah Alexander's children, William, Margaret, Joseph, James, Silas, Ester m. Garrison, Mary, m. Polk, Hezekiah b. Apr 1767, Amos b. Apr 1769, d. 1847, Kisiah, Joel b. Apr 1776 and Oswald". Olive "Hezekiah Alexander (father James Alexander, mother Margaret McKnitt) b. 13 Jan 1722 in Penn, Maryland, d. 16 Jul 1801, Mecklenburg County, buried Charlotte, Sugaw Cr. Presbyterian Cemetery, North Carolina, m. 13 Jan 1760, Mary Sample, b. 1734, d. 17 May 1806 (father William Sample and Esther). CENSUS RECORDS 1790 Census Name: Hezekiah Alexander Home in 1790 (City, County, State): Mecklenburg, North Carolina Free White Persons - Males - 16 and over: 1 Free White Persons - Females: 2 Number of Slaves : 1 Number of Household Members: 4	Alexander, Colonel Hezekiah South (I10696)
20743	Hezekiah was employed as Farmer, Hunter, Indian fighter & Rev. War. Vet. Gentleman Justice of the Peace, appointed Sheriff by Pastrick Henry gov. of Va. He joined religion Most likely Baptist. Source: http://dahnmonwhittfamily.com/genealogy/individual.php?pid=I42&ged=Whitt Hezekiah moved from South Carolina to Montgomery county, Va. After the war for Independence Hezekiah was awarded land grants along the upper Clinch River in what is now Tazewell County, Va. Hezekiah settled near Ceder Bluff in Baptist Valley. Hezekiah helped organize Tazewell county, along with eight other Gentlemen Justices of the Peaces, all appointed by Governor Patrick Henry. Hezekiah also served as Sheriff and Judge of Tazewell County. Granted Land no.70 page 305; Tazewell County 120A. On Indian Creek, a branch of the Clinch River. 22 Aug 1821; Grant number 95, Page 393 98A. On Dismal Creek waters of the Louisa Fork of Sandy River; 29 Jun 1844. Hezekiah and his father, Richard signed the Patriot's Oath to the Free State of Virginia on Sep. 13,1777 in Montgomery Co., Va. They were members of Capt. Trigg's Company. He was scarcely 17 years old when he first saw military action in the Revolutionary war. His pension deposition states that in 1776 or 1777 he was drafted to go to the relief of the New River Island creek fort to help protect it from the Indians. He marched under the command of Lieutenant Israel Lorton. In 1777 he was a volunteer under Captian Thomas Mastin against the Cherokee Indians in the Chickamauga expedition in Tennessee. Their rendezvous point was at Colonel William Campbell's in Washington county. They marched to the big Island of the Holston River and were incorporated into General Evan Shelby's outfit. From there they marched on the Indian towns. Hezekiah was then drafted to serve in a fort on Back Creek in Montgomery county. Next He was drafted by Colonel William Preston in the summer of 1888 to march to North Carolina to join the Army of General Gates, but Hezekiah was chosen to guard the lead mines in montgomery county. Hezekiah also acted as Indian spy when needed, and always was ready to serve to win freedom for the new United States. -------------- Revolutionary War Pension Application Virginia # S7885 Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832 Recorded by Lt. S. Evans, Clerk Book E. Vol. 642 Page 39 Coped from the National Archives. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900 Name: Hezekiah Whitt Pension Year: 1845 Application State: Virginia Applicant Designation: Survivor's Pension Application File Archive Publication Number: M804 Archive Roll Number: 2569 Total Pages in Packet: 16 U.S. Pensioners, 1818-1872 Name: Hezekiah Whitt Pension Office State: Virginia Year Range: 1831-1848 County of Tazewell On this the 27th day of March eighteen hundred and forty four personally appeared in open court Hezekiah Whit a resident of the County of Tazewell and State of Virginia aged eighty four years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by Act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. The declarant states that he was born in the State of South Carolina in the year 1760, that from thence his father removed to Stewards Creek, North Carolina and afterwards to Montgomery County Virginia. That in the June of 1776 or 1777 (he is not clear in his recollection which) he was drafted to go to the relief of Island Creek Fort, against the Indians. This fort stood upon New River, and an express was sent to Colonel William Preston informing him of the danger from the presence of the Indians. The declarant marched under the command of Lieutenant Israel Lorton, and entered the fort which was then commanded by Captain Henry Patton. This draft was ordered by the Colonel Commandant William Preston of Montgomery County. Owing to the necessity of cultivating the growing crop, the service only was ordered for the space of one month for which space of time this declarant served. In the month of March and he thinks in the year 1770, he went as a volunteer under Captain Thomas Mast! in upon the expedition against the Cherokee Indians to Tennessee, called the "Chickamaugy Expedition". the point of rendezvous was at Colonel Campbell's in the County of Washington, Virginia. The men were marched to the big Island of Holston, where they were incorporated into the regiment of General Evan Shelby. From thence they marched against the Indian towns, but found upon entering them that they had already been abandoned by the Indians. this declarant was three months in this service having left home in the early part of March and returning after the troops were disbanded sometime in June. On this expedition there was a regiment of regular troops, declarant thinks of the "State Line" destined for service in the Illinois country. The Colonel who commanded them was Montgomery and the Major he thinks was Quirk. These troops continued their march westward after the militia returned home. This declarant got a regular discharge for his serviced under Shelby, which was signed by Captain Aaron Lewis, who had been sent to New Dublin in Montgomery, for the purpose of paying off the men and giving them discharges. In the following October this declarant was drafted to serve in a fort on Back Creek in Montgomery County, in which service he continued until the next March under the command of Captain James Thompson, an officer serving in the militia of Virginia. Colonel /William Thompson held the chief command of this fort. After the expiration of this service this declarant was regularly discharged by Colonel William Thompson. In the early part of the summer of 1780 (as this declarant thinks, for at this distance of time he cannot pretend to strict accuracy in dates) he was drafted by order of Colonel William Preston, to go into Caroling for the purpose of joining the army under the command of General Gates. The lead mines in Montgomery County was designate as the place of rendezvous for the troops. Here Colonel Cloyd took command. He marched with the main body of the men into Carolina. It was determined however to leave a strong guard at the lead mines, which was accordingly done. Under Colonel Saunders of this guard, this declarant stayed and remained one month. In August after wards, there was much excitement and alarm in the county least a large body of Tories and deserters should embody themselves and harass the inhabitants. Colonel William Preston ordered out the militia, and in the company of Captain Daniel Trigg this declarant served twenty days. From this time until the close of the Revolution this declarant always held himself ready to go upon any service to which he might be ordered, either in the militia or as an Indian spy. He further states that except in the instances mentioned, he never received a regular discharge, and that those he did receive have long since been lost, declarant supposing after the close of the war that a discharge was of no value. this declarant states that he has no documentary evidence to prove the facts he has stated, nor does he know of any living witness by whom he can prove his service except those rendered in the Chickemaugy or Tennessee campaigns, that he can prove by the testimony of a witness who was on the expeditions. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Hezekiah Whitt We William McGuire a clergyman residing in the County of Tazewell and Thomas Christain residing in the same county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Hezekiah Whit, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty four years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in the opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. William McGuire Thomas Christian Certified by Geo. W. G. Brown, Clerk of Court Tazewell County, March 27th, 1844 Lyles Dolsbury certifies that he served with Hezekiah Whit in various services and has known him since. Lyles (X) Dolsbury In addition to the certificate given by this affiant, he would state that this affiant was raised from childhood (being Left an orphan) by Captain Thomas Martin, whom he has often heard say, that Hezekaih Whit, the applicant for a pension in the foregoing declaration, was a soldier under him in the Cherokee Expedition into Tennessee. this affiant knew the said Whit at that time and has known him ever since. This affiant knows nothing of any other service stated by the said Whit, but he believes them to have been performed as stated. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written in open court. Thomas Christian --------- LAND RECORDS Page 137 Hezekiah Whitt Washington County Henry Lee Esquire governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia to all to whom these presents shall come, Greetings: Know ye that by virtue of a Certificate in right of Settlement given by the Commissioners- for adjusting the Titles to unpatented Lands in the District of Washington and Montgomery, and in Consideration of the Ancient Composition of ten Shillings Sterling paid by Hezekiah Whitt into the Treasury of this Commonwealth there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Hezekiah Whitt Assignee of John Hankins a certain tract or parcel of Land, containing eighty four Acres by Survey bearing date the twenty sixth day of April one thousand seven hundred and eighty three Lying and being in the County of Washington on the waters of Clinch River in the Baptist Valley and bounded as followeth towit: Beginning at two white oaks on a hill thence South forty degrees East Sixty seven poles to a large sugar tree at the foot of Kents Ridge and along the same North fifty three degrees E! ast two hundred and twenty six poles to a Lynn on Major Matins land and along his line North thirty one degrees West fifty seven poles crossing a branch to a large Chestnut oak on a high ridge corner to said Mastins land, thence leaving Mastins line and a long the said ridge South fifty five degrees West two hundred and thirty six poles to the beginning: with its appurtenances to have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land with its appurtenances to the said Hezekiah Whitt and his Heirs forever. In Witness whereof the said Henry Lee Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia hath hereunto set his hand and caused the lesser Seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond on the fourth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety two and of the Commonwealth the Seventeenth. Hezekiah Whitt Tazewell Land Survey Tazewell Co. VA Land survey March 20, 1820 page 190 Surveyed for Hez Whit 120 acres of land by virtue of an entry made the 20th March 1820 a part of a land office treasury warrant assigned to him by Hez Harmon assignee of John Cally and part of warrant No. 5334 for 500 acres dated the 6 January 1814 being in Tazewell Co. on Indian Creek a branch of Clinch River and bounded as follows; Beginning at a black oak W oak and cucumber on the top of Ready Ridge a corner of James Whitts and with the same line S 63 E 48 poles to 3 W oaks S 9 W 40 poles to a W oak on a hillside S 30 E 40 poles crossing a cabin branch to a white poplar on the point of a ridge S 86 W 80 poles to a buckeye in a rich hollow N 56 W 44 poles to a sugar sapling on a rich hillside N 80 W 60poles crossing Indian Creek to 3 sp pines in an island S 65 W 66 poles crossing said Creek to a dogwood N 8 E 32 poles crossing the creek to two birches N 53 W 10 poles to 3 black gums on top of the ridge N 7 to 50 poles to a red oak N 70 E 80 poles crossing Loone Creek to a ! W oak and birch in a bottom S 84 E 120 poles to the beginning March 24, 1820. Isaac Brown Sur for Hez Harmon S.T.C.	WHITT, Hezekiah (I4681)
20744	High Court Chancery Records - Dorchester County, Md Case No.9549 Date: 1834 MCNAMARA, John S, dec William MCNAMARA & Eliza his wife* Job SLACUM & Ann his wife* John HOOPER & Zipporah his wife* Henry L MCNAMARA & Harriet his wife Rhoda COWART John HOOPER & Susan his wife Arthur PRITCHETT & Sarah his wife John STAPLEFORT Harriet Ann BARNES* (* Living outside of Maryland)	McNamara, Ann (I24157)
20745	His sister, Elizabeth, was shot and killed by Elijah Risner as she sat by a coal oil lamp at the kitchen table in her home. The house was located across the road from the Smith & Molly Brown place on White Oak Creek and at the former site of Gardner Oney's potato patch. Elijah Risner was in turn killed by Joseph Lexington Whitt. Mountain Outlaw, Hated by many in the mountains of KY. Shot by a number of people in the town of Sayersville, Magoffin County about 1910.So many shots hit him, no one knows who killed him. KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN EXCERPT: From the Friday, January 19, 1912, Vol, 1, no. 2 issue: LOCAL NEWS: There were the following murders in 1911: Buddy Whitt, James Harper, Leck Whitt, and John Shepard. Told by Virgil Whitt of Cincinnati, Ohio to Juanita Collinsworth Oney and Opal Collinsworth Harper. There have been many different opinions and views on the killing at the Magoffin County Courthouse in Salyersville, KY on July 26, 1911. That was in the time period when people rode horse back into town for many different reasons. In some cases the whole family would hitch their mules or horses to the wagon and go into town to by their monthly supply of groceries. They usually bought a barrel of flour, a can of lard, fifty or one hundred pounds of sugar, soda, salt, and coffee. That was about the limit of their grocery order. Then there were rounds of mule shoes, nails, and maybe some leather strings to mend the harnesses. Also they might buy some leather half soles to mend their children's worn out shoes. It was always a big for day and an all day adventure going into town. And on this particular day, the town was bustling with country folks that had no idea what was about to happen. On this particular Jimmy Harper told his wife, Nannie, that he was going into town to kill Leck Whitt. She begged him not to go, but he wouldn't listen, and when it was all over three men lay with their bodies riddled with bullets. Leck Whitt was dead. Jimmy Harper and Buddy Whitt lay mortally wounded. Almost all land owners in the county at that time cut and sold their timber. After the timber was felled and the logs cut, they were floated down the Licking River. The logs were tied together like a raft and branded or stamped on the end in order to tell who owned them. It was rumored that Leck Whitt would go to the river and "scalp," cut off the ends of the logs and put his stamp on them. He was caught and had to spend time in prison for this offense. Apparently he was doing the same thing again, once he got out of prison. Jimmy Harper decided to put an end to it. So on that fatal morning he met Leck Whitt at the courthouse and said to Leck, "How's the log scalping business?" About that time the shooting started. Leck Whitt killed Jimmy Harper and his nephew, Buddy Whitt. Tom Whitt, another nephew, shot Leck six times, but Leck kept shooting. Tom Whitt was married to Leck's daughter, Agglesa Whitt. It was told that Will Amyx threw rocks until things got too hot and he ran off. Jimmy Harper's wife, Nannie was several months pregnant with their first child, a son, who they named Jimmy. Leck Whitt left a large family. Buddy was younger, but had a family. People talked about the killings for years afterward and even now eighty years later. My Mom was a young woman at the time and she was in town on that day in 1911.	WHITT, Joseph Lexington (Leck) (I4829)
20746	HIS BACKGROUND IN SCOTLAND James was one of the (Scots) Royalist soldiers who was captured at the Battle of Dunbar, (near Berwick, Scotland) March 9 1650 during the English Civil War. Having defeated the Royalists in England and beheaded the king in 1649, Oliver Cromwell proceeded to invade Scotland, the last kingdom remaining loyal to the Crown and, reaching Edinburgh after some skirmishes he marched his army to Dunbar, a town on the east coast of Scotland. General David Leslie in command of the Scottish troops had more troops than Cromwell, but his army was no longer formed of the battle-hardened veterans of the Thirty Years' War as many of them had perished during the Civil War and the 1648 invasion of England. Some had left active service or returned to Swedish or French service again. James was part of this new army that had to be raised and trained by the remaining veterans. They were raw recruits unused to war in its technical aspects, and the Scottish general Leslie was reluctant to give open battle hoping to starve out Cromwell then hemmed in on the narrow peninsula of Dunbar. The Scots were well armed, but they were poorly trained compared with their English counterparts, all of whom had served with Oliver Cromwell for years. Meanwhile the young King Charles II had arrived from Holland and joined this motley military organization to the great joy of the clansmen and made himself popular by sharing their rough camp life. Leslie's army was routed and Cromwell's cavalry pursued the disorganized Covenanters with great slaughter. The only resistance to this onslaught was made by a regiment of Highlanders who fought with great desperation as they had learned from his conquest of Ireland the tales that Cromwell would put all men to the sword and thrust hot irons through women's breasts. Cromwell claimed that 3,000 Scots were killed and 10,000 were taken prisoner. On the other hand, Sir James Balfour, a senior officer with the Scottish army, noted in his journal that there were "8 or 900 killed," and the English Royalist leader, Sir Edward Walker put the number at 6,000 captured, of which 1,000 sick and wounded men were quickly released. James was one of the the 5,000 able-bodied prisoners that marched down to Durham cathedral in order to prevent any attempt to rescue them. The conditions on the march were so appalling that as many as 2,000 died of starvation, illness or exhaustion during this eight-day, 118 mile forced march. Many had not eaten for four days prior to the Battle of Dunbar and in Cromwell's letter of the 4th September, he wrote he had to dismiss prisoners because they were sick, injured or starving. The remaining 3,000 survived the march and a diet of raw cabbage which killed with the "flux". The cathedral had been converted into a prison where these unfortunate Highlanders were destined to spend an indefinite period as captives of war. Although the Cathedral offered a degree of shelter, the English failed to provide their prisoners with adequate food or fuel for heating. Records indicate that the Scots died at an average of 30 a day between 11th September and 31st October and it seems this reached over 100 a day with virtually no food, clean water or heat and the linked spread of disease and infection. For a time, the prisoners kept warm by burning all of the woodwork in the Cathedral with the notable exception of Prior Castell's Clock in the South Transept. It is thought that they left the clock alone because it carries a thistle, the emblem of Scotland, on it. Sir Arthur Haselrigge, Member of the English Parliament for Leicester, The military leader appointed by Cromwell to take charge of the prisoners, later claimed in a letter to the Parliament that adequate food, water, bedding and fuel for heating had been provided. There is a possibility that the prisoners were experiencing what we now call "refeeding syndrome." This is a metabolic disturbances that occur as a result of reinstitution of food to patients who are starved or severely malnourished. Blood sugar and electrolytes are out of balance leading to heart rhythm irregularties, coma and convulsions and cardiac failure. This can happen to people who are anorexic and then begin eating. If a person has not eaten for five days in these modern times, they are in danger from refeeding syndrome. If they haven't eaten for ten days, then they are in critical danger. That is with modern hospital care. This syndrome was documented on the Allied Prisoners of the Japanese. The Japanese managed to kill 40 percent of their prisoners over the course of three years. Attempts were made to feed the prisoners, all of which were detrimental. Bread, Broth, meat were fed to people whose systems had shut down. It was only when they tried boiled milk with water, followed by the same with added beanflour that they began to save people. Even then, Heslerig reported that men who were seeming well were falling down dead. His letters make more sense if you add refeeding syndrome to it and if you look at what happened to the Japanese POW's and the concentration camp survivors. There was an order in Cromwell's council passed to deliver 900 prisoners for transportation to Virginia and 150 for New England. Another 500 were forced the following spring to serve in the French army, and were still fighting seven years later against the Spanish, side by side with a contingent of English soldiers sent over by Cromwell. By the end of October, the cold, malnutrition and disease had resulted in the deaths of another 1,600 of the Scottish soldiers, the Dunbar Martyrs. The bodies of many of those who had died were simply thrown into a mass grave in the form of a trench running northwards from the Cathedral. The location of their remains was then forgotten for almost three centuries until rediscovered by workmen in 1946. TRANSPORTED TO NEW ENGLAND Selected as "well and sound and free of wound," James Warren was one of the 150 men who were transported from London to Boston, on the Unity, in November, 1650. James was initially sold (going price was 15 -30 pounds per man) into a number of years of indentured servitude, possibly spending some time at Hammersmith working at the Lynn/Saugus Ironworks near Boston or more likely was sold and taken to Kittery, ME where men were needed for the Great Works sawmill. The prisoners were distributed throughout numerous towns in Massachusetts and New Hampshire in a kind of modified slavery or compulsory service which was to terminate in seven years. John Cotton had his qualms about this camouflaged slavery. In a letter to Cromwell dated Boston 28 July 1651 he said: "The Scots whom God delivered into your hands at Dunbarre and whereof sundry were sent hither, we have been desirous (as we could) to make their yoke easy. Such as were sick of the scurvey or other diseases have not wanted Physick and chyrugery. They have not been sold for slaves to perpetual servitude. But for 6 or 7 or 8 yeares as we do our own." LIFE AFTER SERVITUDE In Newichawannock between Thompson's Brook (Shorey's) and the Great Works River James was granted land 15 Aug. 1656. He received 50 acres with 48 poles (660') fronting Cow Cove where the "Pied Cow" dropped anchor in 1634, now part of the South Berwick Vaughn Woods Memorial. James was the Commissioner for Kittery 5 July 1664. He was on the grand jury 28 Dec. 1665 and also 12 June 1666. He was again on jury duty 19 Aug. 1668. In 1670 Margaret and other Scots were admonished for using profane language and in 1674 James was bound to good behavior and was disciplined for abetting Richard Gibson. On 6 Oct. 1662 James bought of John Davis a parcel of land "near the bridge" granted by the town of York in 1652 containing about 40 acres, but it is doubtful that he occupied this purchase. He may have cultivated it and harvested whatever crops he planted. James retained this property for 40 years until it was bequeathed to his eldest son Gilbert. He signed a Kittery petition as a selectman 13 Apr. 1697. He signed a Berwick petition again as a selectman 4 Sept. 1697 and another 20 May 1698 requesting £20 for the maintenance of the ministry: "whereas the circumstance of the parish of Barwick continues as bad as, or rather more grievous than hitherto by reason of the not ceasing of the wars & the extreme deadness in trading." They were granted £15 for the maintenance of the ministry for the year beginning Sept. 1698 on 2 Dec. 1698. James then signed a Berwick petition for a township as a Berwick selectman 26 July 1700. From The Highlander Magazine, Nov/Dec 2004. "Scottish Slaves in Colonial America" Part II by Diane Rapaport, p. 17. "After his servitude ended, James Warren married an Irish woman and settled near the Great Works sawmill in Kittery, Maine. His friends Daniel Ferguson, John Taylor, Peter Grant and other former war prisoners from the ship Unity acquired farms nearby. Not surprisingly this area became known as 'the Parrish of Unity' and later Berwick, reputedly in honor of Warren's Scottish birthplace. Warren seems to have been a natural leader in the Scottish community serving as a constable and selectman, but his outspoken ways sometimes offended Puritan sensibilities. In 1669 the Court admonished Warren, his wife and other Scotsmen "for using profane speeches in their common talk." He was punished in 1674 for "abetting a friend who made insolent remarks to the local militia commander" and in 1685 for "Contempt of Authority and abuse of the Constable" when Warren resisted seizure of "a small beast" for delinquent taxes. Near the end of Warren's life the Indian wars had reduced Berwick to a state of poverty. Attacks destroyed homes, barns and mills; corn crops failed; families crowded into garrisons and survived only by charity and determination. Still, Warren owned land and he dreamed of a better life for his children when he signed his will with a shaky mark, leaving "all my lands to my sons and their Heirs forever." Kittery which was in southern York Co. of Massachusetts Province, now Maine, an area which quickly became known as "Little Scotland". Berwick Parish was named after the old country town of Berwick, reputedly in honor of the birthplace of James warren, and probably of some of his neighbors. Berwick, Scotland is not far from the site of the Battle of Dunbar. In Kittery, ME there was a Unity Parish, named for or by the prisoners, who were sent there to work in the sawmills. About fifteen Scotchmen worked there and many were friends and neighbors; their children intermarrying. They are: Niven Agnew; James Barry; Alexander Cooper; William Furbush; Daniel Ferguson; Peter Grant; George Gray; William Gowen; David Hamilton; Thomas Holme; John Key; Alexander Maxwell; John Neal; John Ross; John Taylor; William Thomson; and JAMES WARREN	WARREN, James (I7076)
20747	His body was on Basalt Island, but a memorial gravestone for him is located at his wife's grave in Youngs Memorial Cemetery in Oyster Bay, New York. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Roosevelt&GSiman=1&GScid=641181&GRid=17653617&	Roosevelt, Major Quintin II (I10437)
20748	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	ALLISON, Mary Ann (I2213)
20749	His death certificate has his middle name as Jackson.	Green, John Jacob (I17655)
20750	His death certificate has his year of birth as 1870, but this is based on the information from the informant. The 1900 census information is likely more accurate.	Stackpole, Thomas Jefferson (I20443)