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The Census of 1782 for Surry County lists Joanna Maddera with two black slaves. | HURDLE Joanna (I4041)
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The census taken in April of 1930 indicates that the Mathew Laine family lived in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Mathew Laine's occupation was listed as a sawman in the logging business. Ashton Laine who was 22 years old at that time was living at home and was a bookkeeper for a general store (W. J. Joyner's).
After the Surry Lumber Company failed Mattew Laine (his father) was out of work. Ashton Laine had a job working at Nachman's Department Store on Washington Avenue in Newport News, Virginia. Since Ashton was the only one working the family, including Matthew, Susie, Ashton, Catherine, and Evelyn moved to Newport News, Virginia to a house at 1144 Hampton Avenue. Evelyn enrolled in Walter Reed School into the forth grade. Macgruder school was first to third grades only. Shortly after moving to 1144 Hampton Avenue, they moved to the twelve hundred block to a house with a lower rent. This house was also of a lesser quality, poorly insulated making it rather cold in the winter.
Later Ashton, Matthew and Evelyn moved to rent an upstairs apartment with the Gray's on 22nd Street. Mr. Gray had died and Mrs. Gray rented the apartment. Shortly after this, Evelyn went to live with Pearl Dunn and her family in Emporia, Virginia. Evelyn was supposed to go into the seventh grade high (the grades used to be designated as low and high, i.e., seventh low or seventh high, indicating whether one was in the first or second half). Evelyn was instead place in high school - the eight grade. After about a year she returned to Newport News. Catherine and Charles were married and moved to a house at 222 Cherry Avenue.
Ashton married Louise and moved into the Shipyard apartments. Evelyn move in with them. Matthew moved into the apartment above the Waterfront Lumber Company Office in the twelve hundred block of Jefferson Avenue. Ashton and Louise moved to Durham, North Carolina.
Ashton was born in Homeville, Virginia. Homeville still exists and is located at the intersection of Virginia State Routes 35 and 40. Ashton retired from the U. S. Air Force at Langley Air Force Base in 1956. He was a veteran of World War II and the Korean Conflict.
Ashton and Louise re-married in the fifties and remained married until her death sometime during the night, Monday, February 26, 1968. Ashton and Louise were residing at 116 North Sixth Street in Hampton, next door to Catherine (Ashton's sister) and Charles Clemens. Ashton was in the Hampton Veteran's Hospital. Catherine received a call from the hospital on Tuesday morning notifying her of Ashton's death and requesting her to notify Ashton's wife of same. Catherine went over to the house, knocked on the doors, called, but got no response. Catherine looked in the bedroom window and saw Louise lying on the floor. She called the police and informed them of the situation. The police came and entered the house and determined that Louise had died. The exact time of death was not determined. She died sometime during the night. It could have been Monday or Tuesday ( the morning Ashton died).
They were buried in the same grave (#6750) at 11am Friday, March 1, 1968 in the Hampton Section (D) of the Hampton National Cemetery. | LAINE Ashton Calhoun (I1045)
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The census taken in April of 1930 indicates that the Mathew Laine family lived in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Mathew Laine's occupation was listed as a sawman in the logging business. Ashton Laine who was 22 years old at that time was living at home and was a bookkeeper for a general store (W. J. Joyner's). "(Old) Surry Lumber
Company Camp" was written in the border of the census sheet. Some of the houses in Central Hill were built by the Surry Lumber Company for their employees. | LAINE Matthew Augustus Reynolds (I806)
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| 4804 |
The children listed as William Ellis, I were obtained from The Ellis LineFrom Surry-Sussex, Virginia (1978) by Dixie L. McCrary and she states hersource as the Albemarle Parish Register records. This William Ellis became the guardian of Elizabeth Wright, daughter ofEdward Wright. Edward Wright was William I wife's Elizabeth's brother. From The Ellis Line From Surry-Sussex, Virginia (1978) by Dixie L.McCrary, pages 160-61: Concerning Methodism: "It is obvious from the Albemarle Parish Register that William andElizabeth were active members of Albemarle Parish (Established Church) aslate as 1772. They became actively associated with the Methodistmovement, the beginning of which in Southside Virginia dates from thecoming of the first Methodist preachers into that area in the early1770's. As early as 9 Dec. 1775, as recorded in his Journal, BishopAsbury was at 'Mr. Ellis's' in Sussex Co.; this 'Mr. Ellis' no doubt wasWilliam Ellis I. The visit is an indication that William and Elizabethwere by that time well recognized as members of the Methodist Society.They may have continued as members of the Established Church for someyears, as practically all of those belonging to the Society did, manyuntil the formal establishment of the 'Methodist Episcopal Church inAmerica' in 1784. 'Ellis Preaching House' (probably the seventh meeting house of theMethodists in Virginia, as stated by John Lednum in his 'History of theRise of Methodism in America, ') was on the land of William Ellis I, andmay have been in existence at the time of the Bishop's first visit. Theyear it was built is not of record, but it is evident that it have beenin use for some time when in May, 1783 (Deed Bk. F, p. 182), WilliamEllis made formal deed for the land on which it stood (1 acre, 26 poles)to a group of Trustees representing the Methodist Society. The trusteeswere William Nicholson, Caleb Ellis, Emanuel James, Stephen Andrews,David Rogers, Stephen Pepper, Isaac Ellis, Benjamin Ellis and WilliamEllis, Jr. The Caleb Ellis listed as one of the trustees was Caleb II, son of CalebI of Surry; Isaac Ellis was the son of Richard, brother of Caleb II;Benjamin Ellis and William Ellis, Jr., were sons of the William who gavethe land. the Stephen Andrews probably was Stephen (b. 1743), son ofJohn and Sarah (Ellis) Andrews (Sarah, a sister of the William who gavethe land). The deed was emphatic in restricting the property to the use of the'Society called Methodists' and the preaching of the doctrines of johnWesley." Concerning slaves: "By deed of 19 Dec. 1787, (Deed Bk. G, p. 124), William Ellis emancipatedhis slaves: Thomas, aged 26 years.... names 11 with ages.... heincluded the provision that as several of the slaves were 'yet in theirnonage it is my request and desire to have the care and instruction ofthem till they arrive at full age..." Concerning his will: "His will, made 24 Mar. 1795, pr. 4 June 1795 (Will Bk. E, p. 345), leftthe home plantation to his wife, Elizabeth, for her widowhood, and to hisson, Wright, at her marriage or death; and to his son, Benjamin, land andplantation 'where he now lives... 150 acres.' Bequests were made to thefollowing children, also: sons, William and John, and daughters, SusannaKinnebrough, Mary Evans, Catherine Ellis and Sally Hargrove." From The Ellis Line From Surry-Sussex, Virginia (1978) by Dixie L.McCrary, page page 133: "His will [Benjamin Ellis I] made 3 Dec. 1758,pr. 19 Jan. 1759 (Sussex Will Bk. A, p. 112), leaves to his "Dear andLoving Wife," (name not given), the plantation for her natural life, andnames his sons: William, Jonathan, Jeremiah, Benjamin and Joseph (seeSummary on each), and daughters, Mary Proctor, Priscilla Blow, SarahAndrews, Susanna Andrews and Elizabeth Moreing." | ELLIS Wright, I (I12684)
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R) (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998,
data as of 5 January 1998),
NAME Family History Library
ADDR 35 N West Temple Street
CONT Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA | Family: SHAVER Henry Strickler / FRANTZ Lucy Jane (F3417)
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The Church Register of the Surry Circuit, Methodist Episcopal Church,South 1853-1937 (Carsley) | Source (S388)
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The Church Register of the Surry Circuit- Methodist Episcopal Church South 1868-1925 Register of Carsley Methodist Church | Family: HITE Monroe Cleveland, Jr. / GOODRICH Stella Gertrude (F244)
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The church was built of the lumber her father had given to the members | RAMEY Mattie Florence (I7521)
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The Cloverfields plantation, which the Meriwether family first acquired as part of the 3,000 acre grant to Nicholas Meriwether II in 1729. No one called it"cloverfields"until at least 1760, when Nicholas Meriwether II and his wife, Margaret Douglas built the first dwelling on the property. At the present time, there are several buildings in which people live. The original chimney from the kitchen still stands on the property, as well as the original smokehouse. The other buildings have been updated and/or rebuilt since the Meriwether's lived there. One of the buildings was added to the property in order to keep it from being destroyed. Developers were building on the land where the building originally stood. The graveyard is, of course, also in its original spot and condition. Edward C. Mead wrote in 1899"Here sleep undisturbed on their native ground those noble men and women who lived in the exciting times of the REvolution and saw the wild country emerge into a'new nation.'"Many of the people who lived at the plantation were originally buried in the family plot, but have since been moved to Grace Church in Cismont. Many people interred in the graveyard lie in unmarked tombs. The most well-known burial there is William Lewis, Meriwether's father. While on leave from the Continental Army to visit his wife and children at Locust Hill, he crossed the Rivanna River in a flood. His horse drowned and he caught pneumonia. Cloverfields, his wife Lucy's childhood home was much closer, so he went there to recouperate. Instead, he died there, and his body was never moved. Cloverfields is still a private property owned by the descendants of the Meriwether family."Cloverfields Cemetery."Write-up by Douglas Valentine. April 1998 and Barnes, Sara Lee. Live Interview at Cloverfields. 2 December 2002.
Charlottesville
Albemarle County
Virginia USA
Cemetery notes and/or description:
THE OLD FAMILY GRAVEYARD, A DISGRACE TO ALL THE DESCENDANTS
Following the county road already described, starting at Charlottesville and as soon as you cross the Country Bridge over the Rivanna River, you are upon the plantation left by the will of Nicholas (2) "to my grandson Nicholas Lewis the son of Mr. Robt. Lewis, my plantation and land whereon I now live, containing by Patent One Thousand and Twenty acres, together with One Hundred and nineteen acres part of a greater tract bought of Thomas Graves…"
The county road begins to climb the side of the mountain as soon as it leaves the bridge. Off to the left a short distance, and facing the river, is the present Mansion, but upon the right of the road and facing more towards "Monticello", and the bend of the river, stood the old home of Nicholas (2) Meriwether and wife Elizabeth (Crafford). This was the house in which he died, and it was a beautiful site for a home. On the same first ridge of the mountain, but about 150 yards to the right of the present county road, and perhaps 200 yards from the bridge, was the old Meriwether family graveyard in which were buried Nicholas, Col. David, and many of the family.
At the time of the writer's visit the entire field where stood the old house and where is located the old graveyard, was planted in corn. Not even a mound marks a grave, and it seems to him a disgrace to every descendant of the family. Cannot this be rectified? The cost would be very small divided among so many | Col MERIWETHER Nicholas, Jr. (I2136)
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The data which I have gathered has been obtained from" Hotten's list of Immigrants;," from the land records of Virginia in Richmond, from the partially preserved records of Charles City county, and from
the old parish registers. It embraces the period extending from 1635 to 1700. All trace of the family has been lost from the latter date to 1846, when it is again found in Prince George county, to which county
they had, doubtless, moved about the beginning of the eighteenth century.
In 1740 my great-great-grandfather Chappell (whose given name is unknown), I learn from a reliable manuscript which has come down in the family. was a merchant and Indian trader in the city of Petersburg. He died about that time, leaving a widow. whose name was Sarah. and six children; three daughters and three sons; the latter named Robert. James, and John, the last of whom was my great-grandfather. The widow remarried one William Crawley, between 1740 and 1745, and in 1746 removed, with her husband and Chappell children, to Amelia county. The records of Amelia county have been preserved and are complete. I examined them in 1893, and found there the wills of Sarah Crawley. her husband and sons, Robert. James, and John Chappell.
John Chappell. my great-grandfather, whom I will call No. I, died in 1775. born in 1720, leaving five sons, one of whom was named John (No. 2), who was my grandfather. These sons, all except one, who
died in Amelia, removed to Halifax county, Virginia. at the close of the Revolution (1782). My grandfather, John Chappell (No.2), died in Halifax county in 1812, leaving two sons, the youngest (John. NO.3) who was my father, was born in 1788, removed to Missouri in 1836, where I was born the following year. My father died in 1860.
I have the wilIs of all of my ancestors; far back as Mrs. Crawley's (1746), and of course the genealogy of the family is complete and reliable from that date to the present time. | CHAPPELL John (I9165)
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the date of death is t/12/1919 | WINDSOR F. (I5671)
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The date of his borth is recorded in an old family Bible, Which Phil E. Chappel located. It had belonged to Mrs. Nancy Reynolds, the former widow of Alexander Chappell. The present whereabouts of the Bible is unknown. | CHAPPELL William, Sr. (I9630)
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The descendants of Benjamin Jones are discussed in Chapter 10, "Three Hundred
Years in Eastern Virginia". Founded Wolftrap branch of the Jones Family. | JONES Benjamin (I3227)
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The earliest civil record we have of the presence of Friends in Surry County, Virginia, is from a Militia list of 1687, which names the following as being Quakers and available as "horse soldiers" and "foot soldiers". The first group is: William Seward, Thomas Partridge, William Bartlett and John Barnes. The second group is: Thomas Wolves, George Morrell and Robert Lacy. We can thus prove there were Quakers in Surry before 1687 and had organized a Monthly meeting by 1702. Little Surry was the center of Quaker activity during most the time they were in Surry.
From 1752 until the Meeting closed in the 1807 we have the minutes of the Blackwater [Surry] Meeting. Many names are very familiar as their descendants are still in Surry today.
During the Revolutionary War period, houses and property of Quakers were plundered, "chiefly for military requisitions". Twenty Quakers recorded as having "suffered for refusing the test or to contribute for the support of the war". The Blackwater Monthly meeting was more persistent on the tax and test issue than others and consequently suffered more. The monthly meeting books describe this as a " time of calamity and close trial". Examples are:
April 4,1806, Exum Bailey reported taken from him by William Harrison, one hat and a gun under the militia law.
April 4, 1780, Chappell and Peter Binford reported taken from them, 1 mare, 3 barrels of corn, 1 bed and some furniture for refusal to take "the test" and contribute to the support of the war. | CHAPPELL Thomas (I2438)
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The earliest civil record we have of the presence of Friends in Surry County, Virginia, is from a Militia list of 1687, which names the following as being Quakers and available as "horse soldiers" and "foot soldiers". The first group is: William Seward, Thomas Partridge, William Bartlett and John Barnes. The second group is: Thomas Wolves, George Morrell and Robert Lacy. We can thus prove there were Quakers in Surry before 1687 and had organized a Monthly meeting by 1702. Little Surry was the center of Quaker activity during most the time they were in Surry.
From 1752 until the Meeting closed in the 1807 we have the minutes of the Blackwater [Surry] Meeting. Many names are very familiar as their descendants are still in Surry today.
During the Revolutionary War period, houses and property of Quakers were plundered, "chiefly for military requisitions". Twenty Quakers recorded as having "suffered for refusing the test or to contribute for the support of the war". The Blackwater Monthly meeting was more persistent on the tax and test issue than others and consequently suffered more. The monthly meeting books describe this as a " time of calamity and close trial". Examples are:
April 4,1806, Exum Bailey reported taken from him by William Harrison, one hat and a gun under the militia law.
April 4, 1780, Chappell and Peter Binford reported taken from them, 1 mare, 3 barrels of corn, 1 bed and some furniture for refusal to take "the test" and contribute to the support of the war. | BINFORD Peter (I2442)
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The emigrant to Virginia. He came from a very ancient family in Cheshire, England (W&M Quarterly, pd.227)
See Virginia Magazine, XV, 58-60 for more on him | BASKERVILLE John (I1554)
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The family always referred to him as Bill. Floyd's marriage license state his mothers maiden name is Cora Lee Goff.
Facts about this person:
Fact 1 Social Security #: 230-16-7940
Fact 2 Last residence: OH 43223
Fact 3 State of issue: VA | POND Floyd Lee (I6505)
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The family apparently prospered. In his will, probated in 1750, he made the following bequests: To my eldest son Charles Sledge 150 acres of land where he now lives and negros | SLEDGE Charles (I4228)
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The family apparently prospered. In his will, probated in 1750, he made the following bequests: To my eldest son Charles Sledge 150 acres of land where he now lives and negros; to my son Daniel Sledge, part of a tract of 200 acres in Brunswick County, also pewter dishes, etc.; to son Amos Sledge 171 acres of land, being a part of the above Brunswick County; to daughter Ann Griffin L 5; to daughter Sarah Sledge pewter dishes and cows; to (wife) Rebecca, negros and household goods, and 200 acres where I live; the remainder of the estate to be divided between Charles, Daniel, Sarah, John and Amos.
In the name of God, Amen: I John Sledge of the Parish of Albemarle in the County of Surry, being somewhat sick in body but sound perfect disposing mind and memory thanks be to Almighty God for the same calling to mind the uncertain state of this transitory life, and that all flesh must yield unto death when it shall please God to call do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in manner, following:
First of all, I commend my soul into the hands of Almighty God hoping through the merits of my only Saviour Jesus Christ to have full remission of all my sins and to inherit eternal life and as to my body I commend to the earth from whence it came to be decently interr'd at the discretion of my Executor hereafter named and as for my temporal estate where with it had pleased God he blessed me with I give and dispose of in manner following (Viz)
Item: I devise to my eldest son Charles Sledge & his heirs forever one tract of land containing one hundred and fifty acres being the Plantation he now lives on and one Negro boy Peter & one pewter dish.
Item: I devise to my son Daniel Sledge & his heirs forever part of a tract of land containing two hundred acres lying in the county of Brunswick and one pewter dish & one Negro boy named Tom.
Item: I devise to my son Amos Sledge & his heirs forever part of the same tract of land before mentioned
containing one hundred & seventy one acres lying in the County of Brunswick.
Item: I devise to my son Amos one feather bed, furniture & one pewter dish, one iron pot & a cow & calf.
Item: I devise to my daughter Ann Griffis five pound credit in a store & one pewter dish.
Item: I devise to my daughter Sarah Sledge one feather bed & furniture & a cow & calf and one pewter dish.
Item: I devise to my loving wife Rebecca Sledge during her natural life or widowhood one Negro woman Cloe & then she & her increase to be divided between by two youngest sons John Sledge and Amos Sledge to them and their heirs forever.
Item: I devise to my loving wife Rebecca Sledge one horse & side saddle, a bridle, one feather bed & furniture, a chest the biggest, one iron pot, to her own disposal amongst my children.
Item: I devise to my son [John?] Sledge one feather bed & furniture, one iron pot and one pewter dish and a cow and calf.
Item: I devise to my loving wife Rebecca Sledge during her natural life or widowed two hundred acres of land being the land I now live upon and at her decease I give it to my son John Sledge & his heirs forever.
Item: I devise that all the residue & remainder of my personal estate I give to be equally divided between Charles Sledge and Daniel Sledge, Sarah Sledge, John Sledge & Amos Sledge after my wife's decease & I leave my wife whole executor of this my Last Will and Testament hereby revoking all other wills by me and affixed Seal this 27th day of December, 1749.
Sign'd published & declared in presence of us, Hugh Ivey, Thomas Ivey
His
John Sledge (L.S.)
Mark
My whole will and desire that my estate may not come to an appraisement.
At a Court held for Surrey County the 18th day of December 1750. The within & after written Last Will and Testament of John Sledge deceased, was presented in Court by Rebecca Sledge, widow and relict of the said John & Executrix therein named who made oath thereto according to law and the same was proved by the oaths of Hugh Ivey & Thomas Ivey two of the witnessed thereto and by the Court ordered to be recorded and on the motion of the said Executrix certificate is granted her for obtaining a probate
thereof in due from. Teste: A Claiborne, Clk Teste: V. E. Savedge, Clk Copy | SLEDGE John, Sr. (I3545)
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The family left North Dakota (due to concerns for Agnes' health) on 20 Nov 1903 traveling by train. They arrived in Dinwiddie County, Virginia where they purchased a farm called the "Budd Farm".
18 Dec 1905 • Grafton, North Dakota
The homesick family returned to North Dakota on Dec. 18, 1905.
30 July 1906 • Prince George County, Virginia, USA
The family returned to Virginia where they purchased the "Ellis" Farm in Prince George County, Virginia. Later they moved to a home located on Sycamore Street, Petersburg, Virginia. | STRATTON Joseph W., Sr. (I10435)
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The family of Thomas Booth's mother-in-law, Mary Shield, is well documented in " Colonial Families of The Southern States of America " by Stella Pickett Hardy. Mary's father was James Shields, of Williamsburg, VA who was "one of the early ordinary keepers of the Colony." His descendants would include an early surveyor for York County, a Governor of Virginia and a President of the United States. An ordinary is the same as a bar/restaurant today | SHIELDS James, Jr. (I12344)
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The Farm: Col. Nicholas Meriwether II amassed a large quantity of land, at one point owning about 33,000 acres. In 1735 he built his plantation, [which became] "The Farm", in Goochland (now Albemarle) County, the site of which is now the city of Charlottesville, Virginia. His will, one of the longest recorded in Virginia, was witnessed by Peter Jefferson, father of Thomas Jefferson.
Descendants of Nicholas Meriwether II & Elizabeth Crawford are eligible for membership in the Magna Charta Dames or to the Barons of Runnymede (NHM p. 174).
02 May 2013 • F | Col MERIWETHER Nicholas, Jr. (I2136)
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The following gentlemen, who compose the Republican Corresponding Committee for the county of Surry will please remember that a full meeting of the members is respectfully re quested to meet at the court-house,
the fourth Monday in this month, (being court day):
Wm. E. B. Ruffin, Philip Smith, Wm.H. Edwards, Walter S. Booih, James S. Clark, James D. Edwards, Drury Stith, Wm. E. Bailey, Edwain White, John Spratley, Thomas Ruffin, David Booth, Saml. Booth, Amos Sledge, David Hargrave, Edwin T. Spratley, Patrick H. Bilbro and Arch'd Davis
Richard H. Edwards, chairman. | EDWARDS William (I8782)
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The following gentlemen, who compose the Republican Corresponding Committee for the county of Surry will please remember that a full meeting of the members is respectfully requested to meet at the court-house,
the fourth Monday in this month, (being court day):
Wm. E. B. Ruffin, Philip Smith, Wm. H. Edwards, Walter S. Booth, James S. Clark, James D. Edwards, Drury Stith, Wm. E. Bailey, Edwain White, John Spratley, Thomas Ruffin, David Booth, Saml. Booth, Amos Sledge, David Hargrave, Edwin T. Spratley, Patrick H. Bilbro and Arch'd Davis
Richard H. Edwards, chairman.
1836 | SPRATLEY Edwin Thomas (I12615)
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The following gentlemen, who compose the Republican Corresponding Committee for the county of Surry will please remember that a full meeting of the members is respectfully requested to meet at the court-house,
the fourth Monday in this month, (being court day):
Wm. E. B. Ruffin, Philip Smith, Wm. H. Edwards, Walter S. Booth, James S. Clark, James D. Edwards, Drury Stith, Wm. E. Bailey, Edwain White, John Spratley, Thomas Ruffin, David Booth, Saml. Booth, Amos Sledge, David Hargrave, Edwin T. Spratley, Patrick H. Bilbro and Arch'd Davis
Richard H. Edwards, chairman.
1836 | SLEDGE Amos, Jr. (I3480)
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| 4826 |
The following gentlemen, who compose the Republican Corresponding Committee for the county of Surry will please remember that a full meeting of the members is respectfully requested to meet at the court-house,
the fourth Monday in this month, (being court day):
Wm. E. B. Ruffin, Philip Smith, Wm. H. Edwards, Walter S. Booth, James S. Clark, James D. Edwards, Drury Stith, Wm. E. Bailey, Edwain White, John Spratley, Thomas Ruffin, David Booth, Saml. Booth, Amos Sledge, David Hargrave, Edwin T. Spratley, Patrick H. Bilbro and Arch'd Davis
Richard H. Edwards, chairman. | SPRATLEY John Thomas "Jack" (I12612)
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| 4827 |
The following gentlemen, who compose the Republican Corresponding Committee for the county of Surry will please remember that a full meeting of the members is respectfully requested to meet at the court-house,
the fourth Monday in this month, (being court day):
Wm. E. B. Ruffin, Philip Smith, Wm. H. Edwards, Walter S. Booth, James S. Clark, James D. Edwards, Drury Stith, Wm. E. Bailey, Edwain White, John Spratley, Thomas Ruffin, David Booth, Saml. Booth, Amos Sledge, David Hargrave, Edwin T. Spratley, Patrick H. Bilbro and Arch'd Davis
Richard H. Edwards, chairman. | BOOTH Walter S. (I1685)
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| 4828 |
The following is taken from the September 9, 1962 edition of The Daily Press under the headline
HISTORICAL RARIETIES:
" The song, "A String of Pearls," of this era could have been written for Dame Elizabeth Filmer
(Elizabeth Argoll) of East Sutton, County Kent, England in 1639. Legacy was Barham Family that
eventually came to Virginia.
" When Dame Elizabeth Filmer, widow or Sir Edward Filmer, Knight, wrote her will in the above
named county of England, she included much jewelry and in particular "four ropes of pearls
containing 600 in number." She was a kinswoman of the family of Samuel Argall, who came to
Virginia at an early date and was acting Governor for a while.
Since the will contained so much value and of interest to the descendants of the Barham family
of Virginia; those in Surry County and James City County, Virginia; the full contents will be
given herein;
"1638-9, March 16. Will of Dame Elizabeth Filmer, Widow, late the wife of Sir Edward Filmer,
Knight, of East Sutton, County Kent, England.
Body to Church of East Sutton beside the body of my late husband. To poor of East Sutton 5
pounds.
To Dame Anne Filmer, wife of my son Sir Robert Filmer, my jewel with diamonds and pearls.
To Elizabeth Filmer their daughter and Sarah Filmer my daughter, my FOUR ROPES OF PEARLS
CONTAINING 600 IN NUMBER to be equally divided between them.
To Sir Edward Filmer, eldest son of my son Sir Robert, a Portuguese piece of gold and a
piece of gold King Henry VII coinage, both of which were his great-grandfather's.
To the two youngest sons of my son Sir Robert, viz: Robert and Samuel 40 shillings a piece.
To Anne the youngest daughter of Sir Robert 40 shillings.
To my daughter Mary Knotchbull 40 shillings.
To my daughter Katherine Barham 10 pounds. To her eldest daughter Elizabeth Barham 300
pounds when 21 or married. If she die before, then said 300 pounds to Elizabeth and Ann Filmer,
daughters of my son Reginold Filmer.
To Susan and Ann Barham, two younger daughters of my said daughter Katherine, 400 shillings a
piece.
To daughter Elizabeth Faulconer 10 pounds. To daughter Sarah Filmer 10 pounds.
To son-in-law Robert Barham my biggest ring. To his son Thomas 10 pounds at 24 (years of age),
and to each of his other sons Edward, Robert, CHARLES, RICHARD, and John 40 shillings. To his
daughters 40 shillings each.
To daughter-in-law Jane, wife of my son Reginold, 10 pounds. To her daughters Elizabeth and
Ann Filmer, 40 shillings each.
To son Sir Robert Filmer, my silver warming pans.
To my son John 10 pounds. To son Henry 10 pounds. To son Reginold my lease of three tenements
in Knightrider Street, London.
To son-in law William Faulconer, Draper, 40 shillings.
To my brother John Argoll, Esq. (Copy unclear).
To my sister Dame Jane Feetwood, 4 pieces if Queen Elizabeths (copy unclear)coyne ( coin).
To sister Dame Sarah (Jenkinson?) like piece of gold of Queen Elizabeth's coyne.
To ( Elizabeth?) Pierson, widow, 40 shillings. To each of ( man-servants? copy unclear)
10 shillings. To Elizabeth
(copy unclear), my apprentice 40 shillings. To my every other maidservant, 10 shillings.
Residue of estate to my son Edward Filmer, sole Executor. Published August 2, 1638. Wa:
Retovick, Scrivener.
Dame Elizabeth Filmer, willeth that her three housed (must mean three apartment of houses--
Editor) in Knightrider Street (now that her son Reginold Filmer is deceased) shall be
disposed of as follows: 30 pounds of the first year's rent to Jane, late wife of said
Reginold and after the decease of testatrix to the use of her executor the paying yearly
to Elizabeth Faulkner, daughter of Dame Elizabeth Filmer and wife of William Faulkner 10
pounds.
Whereas Dame Elizabeth Filmer had bequeathed to Elizabeth, daughter of ROBERT BARHAM, gentleman,
a competent porcion her will is that 50 pounds of the said legacy in case said Elizabeth depart
this before attaining 18 years shall be divided equally between the two daughters of said
Reginold
and lastly, Dame Elizabeth Filmer willeth to Susan Barham 50 pounds apiece (sic) memorandum
the legacy 50 pounds apiece to Susan and Anne Barham were entermyned before the signing
hereof. Dated March 23, 1635-6
(Reference for the above: Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. XXI,
Pages 153-154). This feature will carry the lineage covering the Barham family of Surry County,
Virginia and adjoining counties, as well as, those who moved to the southern states, if we
have enough requests for this extensive data.-- Editor, Daily Press
The following is taken from the September 16, 1962 edition of The Daily Press under the headline
HISTORICAL RARIETIES:
Some affluent families came to the Virginia colony and among them was that of the name Barham of
Surry County. Since we had the will of Dame Filmer, grandmother of the Captain Charles Barham
of Virginia, and she was the lady with the 600 pearls left in her will, it was thought that we
would include the will of the husband of the Dame Filmer (Elizabeth Argoll).
"Dated 5 December 1629 - Will of Sir Edward Filmer of East Sutton, County Kent, England.
Sir Edward Filmer, Knight (aged 63 years, January last) ;
To daughter, Elizabeth, wife of William Faulkner, citizen and Draper of London 500 pounds.
If her husband survives her then to her children 300 pounds equally divided. If she die
without issue then to her husband 20 pounds;
To my three sons Edward, John, and Henry Filmer, 10 pounds each. Son Reginold forgiven all
debts (500 pounds) and 50 pounds cash. Son Henry, he commences MA in University of Cambridge
40 pounds and further 100 pounds.
Daughters Mary Knathbull and Catherine Barham, 20 pounds each.
To Edweard Knatchbull my Godson 5 pounds. To his sister Mary 20 pounds. To his brother
John 2 pounds;
To Edward Barham my Godson 5 pounds; To Elizabeth Barham my wife's Goddaughter 5 pounds.
To other grandchildren, Robert, Thomas, Charles and Richard Barham 40 schillings each;
To Dame Ann wife of my son, Sir Robert Filmer 20 pounds for a ring;
To daughter Sarah 1000 pounds further 500 pounds annuity of 10 pounds to my brother Henry;
To Dorothy, daughter of my brother Anthony Filmer 10 pounds;
To Dame Elizabeth, my wife, 120 pounds. All her chains and jewels and all my household
stuff in College house in Maidstone, a third part of linen and silver. My lease of Rectory in
East Sutton toward payment of my debts. The other two parts of linen, silver, etc., to my son
Sir Robert Filmer. My wife shall have the leases of certain houses in Knightrider Street
lately given me by my brother, Robert Filmer, Esq.;
Dame Elizabeth and Sir Robert, my son, Executors
Dated October 20, 1629; probated December 5, 1629.
(Reference for the above will of Sir Edward Filmer, Knight, grandfather of Captain
Charles Barham of Surry, Virginia: "Virginia Magazine of History and Biography," Vol. 24,
pages 158-159. It might be of interest to some of our readers that Henry Filmer of Henrico
County, Virginia, an early settler, was son or grandson of the above Sir Edward Filmer. It
was through this lineage that many persons have established their lineage back to the Magna
Charta and to the Crusaders). | BARHAM Thomas (I5516)
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The following is with Master Sergeant James Downey, Jr., the husband of Francis BOOTH Downey. And, Tim, would you tell us how many medals he's got? TIM: Dad has a silver start, two bronze, two purple hearts, POW medal, presidential unit citation, and, let's see, Dad, how many? One, two, five campaign medals and several other. What is this one here, Dad? That's the unit- -- presidential unit citation here, too? MR. DOWNEY: Uh-huh. Gene Harris: That's the ribbon for the purple heart. MR. DOWNEY: It was given to us two times. TIM: No. Not this one. MR. DOWNEY: Yeah. TIM: That's the oak leaf cluster for the presidential citation. Twice. Yeah. Gene Harris: Okay. Now what we're going to do is the -- what was the highest one? TIM: Silver star. Gene Harris: Right. The silver star is one of the highest awards in the Army. How did you get the silver star, sir? TIM: Silver star would be the third highest award in these days' Army. MR. DOWNEY: I was going to this place here where they have these 50 calibre aircool machine guns, run away, they call it, when you press a button it just keeps going and going, see? I told them to take me to re-ammo, every five to 10 rounds, and on the way there the Japanese, you know, it was a bomb corridor, and they still had some bombs left, they dropped in hospitals. MR. DOWNEY: Yeah. So that was in time when I went and rescued a lot of these sick people and put them in a safe place. Gene Harris: You were actually being bombed and -- MR. DOWNEY: Bombed and -- yeah. Gene Harris: Was this field hospital canvas -- MR. DOWNEY: Field hospital, yeah. Gene Harris: -- or was it a brick building or was it a canvas -- MR. DOWNEY: Oh, no. It was all canvas. Gene Harris: All canvas? Okay? MR. DOWNEY: Stand the whole thing on the (laughter) -- Gene Harris: Okay. Was there something with a fuel truck? TIM: What about the fuel truck, Dad? Outside a fuel truck was burning -- MR. DOWNEY: Oh, yeah. TIM: -- the guy was inside and -- MR. DOWNEY: That was inside. You know, they got wounded, you know, and I said, Gosh, if this thing blows up, the hospital will get involved. So I put it in gear and drove up under a ravine. Gene Harris: While it was burning? MR. DOWNEY: Yeah. And it exploded. Yeah. The guy was already dead, see. Gene Harris: Right. But it was full of fire, it was all on fire -- MR. DOWNEY: Yeah. Gene Harris: You took it and drove it away from the hospital -- MR. DOWNEY: Yeah. Gene Harris: -- over a ravine so it wouldn't -- MR. DOWNEY: Yes. Uh-huh. Gene Harris: Now, where was the lieutenant when all this was happening? MR. DOWNEY: Oh, he was in the foxhole. Gene Harris: He was in the foxhole? MR. DOWNEY: Yeah. I told him to keep the truck going, you know, just in case, you know, if he got involved, he can drive it up out of the way, see. That was Lieutenant Plesko. Gene Harris: The Lieutenant name was "Plesko?" MR. DOWNEY: Plesko, yeah. Gene Harris: P-L-E-S-C-O, I guess? MR. DOWNEY: K-O. Gene Harris: P-L-E-S-K-O. MR. DOWNEY: He was my chief of section. Gene Harris: The? MR. DOWNEY: Chief of section. Gene Harris: Oh, chief of section. MR. DOWNEY: My section. Yeah. Gene Harris: Chief of your section? He went to West Point? MR. DOWNEY: Probably, I don't know. Gene Harris: Okay. MR. DOWNEY: Every time we'd have a repair job, he was always behind me. Gene Harris: Oh, well, that figures. This is now back to the BOOTH family. Go ahead. FRANCIS A. BOOTH: Lloyd Mills and Maynard BOOTH were two people from West Point that trained the Philippine Scouts. So at one convention I met Maynard BOOTH, and I said, You may be kin to me. And, and he was from Texas and was wearing this big Texas hat and said, Ah, do you have any money? Well, that didn't set to good with me, but I still think that, that he may be -- Gene Harris:
Gene Harris: Okay. Jimmy, when were you born? MR. DOWNEY: I was born March 13, 1915. Gene Harris: And where were you born? MR. DOWNEY: I was born in the Philippines. Gene Harris: You were born in the Philippines? MR. DOWNEY: Uh-huh. Gene Harris: Were your parents in the service? MR. DOWNEY: Yes. Gene Harris: Okay. What was your father's name. MR. DOWNEY: James Snead Dominic. Gene Harris: Okay. And your middle name is Snead? TIM: No. He's James M. Junior. MR. DOWNEY: No. I never carried it. Gene Harris: Okay. And what was your mother's name. MR. DOWNEY: My mother's name was Collette Downey. Gene Harris: Can you spell the first name? MR. DOWNEY: C-O-L-L-E-T-T-E. Gene Harris: Okay. Downey, D-O-W-N-E-Y. MR. DOWNEY: Yeah. That's my grandmother's first name, I recollect.2 DATE ABT JUL 1963 2 PLAC Ft. Eustis, Va 2 NOTE And I was teaching school. And I wasn't making enough money to have a car. So I rode the, the bus that took the girls to the service club, to the dances.
So he was on one end of the dance hall and I was on the other. And I guess that we, he came over and asked me to dance. Gene Harris: Where were you living at this time? What's, what's -- FRANCIS A. BOOTH: I was living in Hilton. TIM: Hilton, Virginia. FRANCIS A. BOOTH: I was living in Hilton boarding with a lady. Gene Harris: Hilton boarding with a lady? And that was Newport News? FRANCIS A. BOOTH: Yeah.
Gene Harris: What did you do after the Army? MR. DOWNEY: I worked at a big department store, Rice's & Nachman for 16 years. MR. DOWNEY: Nachman. Gene Harris: How do you spell that? MR. DOWNEY: N-A-C-H-M-A-N. Gene Harris: Where was that. MR. DOWNEY: Here in Newport News. MR. DOWNEY: Yeah. I was a production manager.
Gene Harris: Okay. Now, your husband: Is that Master Sargeant James Downey, Junior? FRANCIS A. BOOTH: Junior. Gene Harris: It was the United States Army from 15 June, 1934, until 1 July, 1963. James Downey was a former POW on the Bataan Death March, and he was a survivor of that. And I'm looking at numerous ribbons, which one day we'll film and put on the web page. Where did you meet James Downey, Junior? FRANCIS A. BOOTH: Ft. Eustis at a -- MR. DOWNEY: Service club. FRANCIS A. BOOTH: -- at the service club, at a dance. Gene Harris: Tell us about it. FRANCIS A. BOOTH: Well, Jimmy, Jimmy didn't come to the States until he was, until after the war and he was 32 years old. And he just come to Ft. Eustis.
Gene Harris: Okay. And what did you do in the military? MR. DOWNEY: First one I was over there I was a small arms expert. Gene Harris: A what now? MR. DOWNEY: A small arm expert. Gene Harris: Were you ever in the infantry? MR. DOWNEY: Part of it, you know, horse cavalry. Gene Harris: Horse cavalry. Okay. That's what I wanted to get. TIM: Dad was a member of the Philippine Scouts, which was an elite -- MR. DOWNEY: I was with the Elite -- TIM: -- Army outfit. He was trained by MR. DOWNEY: All our arms -- all West Pointers. TIM: Yeah. Trained by West Pointers. FRANCIS A. BOOTH: And I can tell you about that. MR. DOWNEY: General Wainwright was my officer there for a while. Gene Harris: General Wainwright? MR. DOWNEY: Wainwright, yes. Gene Harris: Okay. Now, was this before MacArthur's time. MR. DOWNEY: Yes. And when the Japanese bombed Clark Air Force Base, everybody went up to Bataan, see? That was the last stand -- Gene Harris: Okay. MR. DOWNEY: -- till they surrendered. FRANCIS A. BOOTH: And I went to many conventions before I found out what was so great about Philippine scouts. So I said to Jimmy, What in the world is so great about Philippine Scout? Because all of the people that he met that was in that part of the world when the war was going on, they would come, the Americans would come up and shake Jimmy's hand and pat him on the back. Then I found out that Philippine Scouts were a group of elite soldiers trained by the, two est Pointers. Gene Harris: Now you had to be, you were an Army officer at West Point -- FRANCIS A. BOOTH: And -- Gene Harris: -- and trained with the Philippine Scouts. MR. DOWNEY: Yeah. FRANCIS A. BOOTH: When the war came along, the Philippine Scouts went in first. They did the basic -- MR. DOWNEY: They were the first line of defense. Gene Harris: The Philippine Scouts would hold the line against the Japanese? MR. DOWNEY: Yeah. TIM: When the line would start to be pushed to broken, by then the Americans had fallen back and were digging new trench lines, the Filipinos would fall back into the trench lines, the Scouts, the Americans would drop back and start digging another trench line. The Filipinos on that line would get ready to break, the Americans would move back, set up new defenses, and the Filipinos would drop into the trench line and keep fighting. Gene Harris: Okay. FRANCIS A. BOOTH: And Jimmy was very active in swimming and athletics.
Gene Harris: Now, did you retire from the Army? MR. DOWNEY: Uh-huh. I stayed there 30 years. Gene Harris: 30 years? MR. DOWNEY: Uh-huh. Gene Harris: What did you do after the Army?
Daily Press 4/20/2010 article:
Never give up. Always help your brother.
Those two themes run through the family of James Downey Jr., two positives that grew from one of the darkest chapters of American military history.
Downey was a young solder in the prime of life, six years removed from an Olympic team tryout, when Japanese soldiers captured him on April 9, 1942. He was put in line with thousands of other prisoners and ordered to start walking.
The rule was simple: Stopand you die.
It became known as the Bataan Death March, and Downey did not give up. Today he is 95 years old with a firm handshake and a memory for detail that is both inspirational and chilling.
"I dream about it sometimes," he said, "like you're being captured."
Help your brother? Downey carried him. Little brother Robert Downey was too sick to walk and, ultimately, he ended up too sick to survive.
The Bataan Death March began after some 75,000 troops under American command surrendered to Japanese forces in the Philippines . The forcible march to a Japanese POW camp covered 60 miles and lasted more than five days.
By some estimates, 11,000 died.
Men were shot, beaten to death, beheaded or stabbed. Even today, Downey cannot shake the images.
"A lot of my friends died along the way," he said. "And sometimes a Japanese tank would go over - Oh God - you'd see them along the road. It was terrible."
His son, Gary Downey, said the themes of never giving up and always helping a brother were impressed upon the children at an early age.
"This journey that happened to him on Bataan, it still continues for him," Gary said. "Dad has sort of gathered people along the way with that, made friends."
In reunions all over the country, the children of Bataan survivors "have that same, never-give-up attitude," Gary Downey said.
James Downey enlisted in the Army in 1934 and he tried out for the 1936 U.S. Olympic team as a swimmer in the backstroke.
He was half-Filipino by birth. His mother was of Philippine and Spanish heritage and his father was from Augusta County, a cavalry officer who fought in the Spanish-American War.
Downey served with the Army's 26th Calvary Philippine Scouts, a decorated unit that still rode horses into battle in the early days of World War II . In January 1942 on Luzon Island, the 26th made what is regarded as the final horse-mounted charge in the annals of the U.S. military .
Downey was on patrol on April 9 when he was captured.
"We came up and I met a Japanese," he recalled. "He said, 'War over!' waving his arms. We slept by a river that night and the next day they lined us up."
Captured along with his brother, they began marching the next day. The Japanese denied water to the POWs, even though it was sometimes within reach via artesian wells.
"If you were close by, they'd stick you with a bayonet," he said. "If you were far away, they'd shoot you."
Eventually, he and his brother made it to a POW camp, but they were gravely ill. Faith played a huge role in the will to live.
Today, Downey has a laminated picture of Jesus that he took from a Bible owned by a Filipino prisoner who died while holding it.
"I had a hard time getting it out of his hands," he said.
The horrific conditions in the camp were too much for Robert Downey, who died in June 1942 from malnutrition and disease, including dysentery.
A few months later, leaders in the Philippine government said they wanted to cooperate with the Japanese, and it resulted in the release of Filipino prisoners of war. Downey was an American, but was half-Filipino and the Japanese let him go.
He ended up living with his grandmother in another part of the country, but his freedom didn't last long. Someone turned him in as a Filipino guerrilla, and he was sent to a different prison camp.
He stayed in custody until 1945.
After the war, Downey stayed in the Army until 1963, retiring as a master sergeant.
He served a number of years at Fort Eustis in Newport News , where he met his wife, Frances, during a USO dance in 1946.
His wife died in 2006. She and James were married 57 years and had four children.
In one of his brighter memories, he recalls meeting his future wife at the dance. It was a moment where women reached out and tapped their partner.
"She tapped me," he said, laughing.
About the Bataan Death March
On April 9, 1942, Major Gen. Edward P. King Jr., the commander of the Luzon Force, Bataan, Philippines, defied orders from Gen. Douglas MacArthur and surrendered to the Japanese.
Over the next five days, the 75,000 prisoners - Americans and Filipinos - were forced-marched 60 miles to prison camps. They were denied food and water, and thousands were left to die or executed if they fell. Thousands more were killed by gunshot, bayonet and beheading.
Estimates of the number of men killed range from 6,000 to more than 20,000.
After the war, the Japanese commander, Gen. Masaharu Homma, was convicted of war crimes and executed. | DOWNEY James Snead (I1003)
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The following servants were living in the household at the 1920 census:
Lillian G, Barresch age 15
Agnez Ewing age 32
George H. Mohr age 32
Carrie Dregalla age 41 | ERNST Charlotta Elizabeth Fawcett (I2315)
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The following statement was made about James P. Pond when he was wounded at Fort Stevens on May 14, 1864. " A shell fragment struck the arm of James Pond, a youth, of Southampton County and nearly severed the limb from the body. With remarkable presence of mind and coolness for one so young, Pond grasped the broken stump above the wound, to check the bleeding, and walked a mile to receive surgical attention". They amputated the arm and he was recovering when he contact pneumonia and died at the hospital. He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Division F, row T, grave No. 8.
Facts about this person:
Military service November 16, 1862 Enlisted at Richmond, Virginia
Source: Confederate Army Service Record Author: National Archives Medium: Official Document Assugned to Captain Hankin's Company (Surry Light Arty.) Virginia Light Artillery.
Burial Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia
Source: Under The Stars and Bars Author: Lee A. Wallace, Jr. Pub. Facts: Published by The Press of Morningside Bookshoop 1975 Medium: Book Pages(s): Page 144 A History of the Surry Light Artillery of Virginia. | POND James P. (I6804)
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The funeral record for Robert W. Pond, Sr list his fathers birth place as Halifax County, Virginia but we know that he was born in Sussex County, Virginia. It is believed that his wife Judy may have been born in Halifax County, Virginia.[Bulls, Buhls & Thornton Family.FTW]
[John and Judith Pond Descendants.FTW]
The funeral record for Robert W. Pond, Sr list his fathers birth place as Halifax County, Virginia but we know that he was born in Sussex County, Virginia. It is believed that his wife Judy may have been born in Halifax County, Virginia.
Facts about this person:
Burial Possibly Crown Hill Cemetery, Clifton Forge, Virginia
Source: John and Judith Pond Descendants.FTW Medium: Other Date of Import: Oct 1, 2001
Source: Bulls, Buhls & Thornton Family.FTW Medium: Other Date of Import: Oct 8, 2001 | THOMPSON Julia B. (I6566)
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The history of the Laffoon/Lafoon family in Brunswick and Lunenburg counties probably started with Matthew and Nathaniel Laffoon. Matthew was born about 1727 and died 1789 in Brunswick County. Nathaniel was born around 1720 and died circa 1806-1810. Matthew and Nathaniel were jointly granted 400 acres of land by King George II on 10 August 1759. The two are believed to have been brothers. date, their parents have not been positively identified. There are records of earlier Laffoon/LaFon/Lafoone families in Henrico, James City County and New Kent County. The time frames give some credence that all were somehow related.
The 400 acre grant was in Lunenburg around the town of Dundas, and close to the Lunenburg/Brunswick County line. The grant/deed is on record in the Virginia archives.
Both Matthew and Nathaniel had several children and descendants who lived in Lunenburg and Brunswick counties, and were primarily farmers. Some migrated to Kentucky and other neighboring states.
Many Descendants of Nathaniel Laffoon are buried in the New Hope Christian Church cemetery in Danieltown. One of those descendants is my great grandfather, William Lewis "Lou" Laffoon. Lou is buried with his second wife, Annie Etta Hines Ogburn-Laffoon. Lou and Annie had no children together. Lou's first wife Emma Jane Nolley was the actual mother of his children.
Lou was born 23 November 1845. On 9 September 1863, he joined the Confederate Army. Lou served with Cornelius T. Allen's Heavy Artillery on the James River, south of Richmond, atop Chaffin's bluff. Lou and his unit were involved in one of the last great battles of the Civil War in Sailor's Creek, Virginia. If you look in the first Brunswick county book; you will see a civil war reunion picture from the Brunswick Times Gazette. is in the back row second from the left.
Shortly after returning from the war, on 20 December 1865, Lou married Emma Jane Nolley. Lou and Emma farmed in Brunswick County and had seven children. Emma Jane died 11 March 1907 and was buried in what was known as the old Laffoon Farm near Alberta/Danieltown. The farm was later sold and became known as the Hazlip farm.
On 18 December 1907, several months after Emma Jane died; Lou married Annie Etta Hines-Ogburn. Lou farmed in Brunswick for the remainder of his life and died on 14 March 1931. Many of his children and grandchildren commented about how the old Confederate would sit on his porch in a rocker whistling and singing "Dixie".
One of Lou and Emma Jane's sons, Pernell "Garland" Lafoon, married one of Annie Etta Hines-Ogburn's daughters, Evelyn Alzarah Ogburn. Evelyn's father was John Edward Ogburn. Garland and Evelyn were my grandparents. For reasons unknown, they dropped one "F" from the family name. For those closely reading this article, you may now realize that my Great Grandfather Lou was married to two of my Great Grandmothers. Garland and Evelyn are also buried at the New Hope Christian Church Cemetery.
Today, if you live in either county, you have probably worked with or know a Laffoon/Lafoon and may even be related. Some may still remember my grandfather, Pernell "Garland" Lafoon, my Grandmother Evelyn and their ten children: Bernice, Lila, Clyde, Lucille, Hazel, Edna, Doris, Mallory, Miles and PG.
My grandfather Garland was born on 2 September 1881 and died 27 May 1956. He married my grandmother Evelyn on 20 December 1903. Evelyn was born 9 October 1885 and died on 24 October 1954. The two spent the majority of their lifetimes farming around Alberta. During WWII, Garland worked at the Bellwood Defense General Supply Center near Richmond. My Aunt Edna, the last surviving of their ten children, passed away 23 July 2006. Many residents of Brunswick and Lunenburg Counties can still remember the ten siblings.
Estelle Lafoon was born on 25 December 1904. What a sweet Christmas gift for my grandparents. Aunt Bernice married James Ernest Wesson on 22 May 1923. Aunt Bernice and James had one daughter, Olive Anita Wesson. Aunt Bernice worked for the telephone company in Richmond and retired. She died in 6 October 1969. Her daughter Olive Wesson-Wright also made her career with the telephone company and retired as a supervisor. Olive currently resides in Imperial Plaza in Richmond. Her husband, Bill Wright, is deceased. Bill was a retired member of the National Guard.
Lila Janet Lafoon was born 19 October 1906 and married John Edwin Hook on 23 September 1929. Aunt Lila and Uncle John had one son, John Edwin Hook who spent most of his adult life living and working in Fairfax, VA. He and his wife, Margaret Ann Currence, have retired to Rock Hill, South Carolina. John's favorite memories of growing up are the times he spent in Brunswick County with his grandparents\emdash Garland and Evelyn Lafoon. Granddaddy Garland taught him how to play the card game "setback." Setback enthusiasts will appreciate and understand the term "shooting the moon" which Garland was able to do frequently. His Uncles PG and Miles taught him how to hunt. Later in life, whenever John was traveling through Brunswick County, he would stop by his Aunt Doris' house for a game of setback with his, Aunts Edna and Hazel.
I am Robert (Bobby) Lafoon, the son of Clyde Alvin Lafoon. Clyde was born 10 October 1908 and died on 11 November 1974. He married Margaret Belle Houston in the 1941. Margaret was born 20 February 1916 and died 30 December 1954. Clyde made a career as a barber in Washington, D.C. where he met Margaret, was a civil service employee. Dad was known for accidentally blowing off three of his fingers when he unknowingly put dynamite blasting caps in the school's pot belly stove. The school was located between Alberta and Danieltown. That school was later purchased by Edna (his sister) and Leonard Abernathy and converted into their home. Clyde and Margaret had two sons: Clyde Anthony "Tony" Lafoon and me, Robert Charles "Bobby" Lafoon. Tony was a star basketball player who was killed in a car accident in 1958 when returning from a game. I currently resides in Lake City, Georgia, and work as a Department of the Army civil servant. I served as a combat photographer in Vietnam between 1966 and 1967. I have two sons, Joseph Anthony Lafoon residing in Virginia Beach and George Anthony Lafoon residing in Roswell, Georgia. My sons' mother is Rosemary Catherine Ercolino-Owen. Rosemary currently resides with George in Roswell.
Etta Lucille Lafoon was born 11 October 1910 and died 7 November 1977. In high school Aunt Lucille drove a Brunswick County school bus. She attended Blackstone College and received her registered nursing degree from Grace Hospital in Richmond. She was a master bridge payer. She married Aubrey Horace Burrow (born 22 March 1908) of Disputanta on 15 September 1934 and lived in Richmond. Aubrey ran a real estate agency. They had two children: born 25 November 1942, Aubrey Jr., a naval architecture graduate of VPI and owner of Kilroy's Decks in Springfield, Virginia; and born 2 May 1946 Nancy Lou (named for great grandpa Lou) is a graduate of Mary Washington College and UNC Chapel Hill, and a program manager with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Aubrey Jr. married Dorothy Lockwood Moore 3 August 1969, and they had one son, Christopher Warren Burrow born 9 September 1972 Nancy married Allan Converse Watkins 15 June 1968 and they had two children: Catherine Elizabeth Watkins born 31 October 1973 and Allan Dean Watkins born 29 April 1976 both of Atlanta.
Hazel Alease Lafoon was the fifth child of Garland and Evelyn. Aunt Hazel was born 1 May 1913 and died 22 November 1998. Aunt Hazel graduated from Danieltown High School and attended Blackstone College. She met John Marks Matthews when he dated her sister Lucille (Aunt Lucille). Aunt Hazel and Uncle John were married in Richmond, Virginia on 13 April 1935. Uncle John was born 11 July 1909 and died 25 January 1998. Hazel and John had one daughter, Hazel Rebecca "Becky" Matthews, born 17 October 1938. Becky graduated from Lawrenceville High School in 1955 and Elon University in 1959 where she met her husband, John Richard "Rich" Kopko. Becky and Rich were married in Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church, 22 August 1959. Beck and Rich have one daughter, Kimberly Kay Kopko. Kimberly was born 20 August 1964. Kimberly married Eugene Alton Grissom on 17 April 1990. "Kim and Eugene have two children, John Matthews Grissom and Ashley Rebecca Grissom.
Edna Hardy Lafoon was born 2 February 1915 and married Leonard Nicholson Abernathy. Leonard was a WWI veteran. Aunt Edna and Uncle Leonard had one son, Walton Garland Abernathy, born 21 January 1944. Aunt Edna was the last of Garland and Evelyn's children to pass away. Aunt Edna died 23 July 2006, but is still in the memories and hearts of many Brunswick and other county residents. What a sweetheart and fantastic Aunt. son Walton and his wife Catherine Jones-Lucy-Abernathy, provide tax accountant services to residents of Brunswick and other counties, including Mecklenburg and Greensville. Walton and Cathy have three children living in Brunswick County, Christa Roberts, Terri and Stephen Abernathy. Cathy had two children from a previous marriage, Albert Michael Lucy and Lewis Scott Lucy. Aunt Edna called them her instant Grandchildren.
Vivian Doris Lafoon was the youngest daughter of Garland and Evelyn. Aunt Doris married Miles Stuart (Pete) Johnson, from Alberta on 30 June 1941. She taught junior high school math in Victoria, Brunswick, Dinwiddie and Henrico counties. Pete was a WWII veteran and bookkeeper. Their son, Miles Stuart Johnson, Jr., is a graduate of VMI, and now lives on Christanna Highway just north of Danieltown (in Brunswick County) in a big log cabin. He married Kathryn Bersch Wright on July 31, 2005. Kathy has two grown children: Joanna and Brian. Pete died 20 March 1962. Aunt Doris remarried in June of 1969, to Ernest Jones, a farmer from Rawlings. Ernest died in 1975. Doris died on 7 July 2001.
Many will remember Uncle Mallory Lafoon from his tobacco warehouse days in Lawrenceville, where he was a ticket marker. Mallory was a WWII veteran and member of the VFW. also had a fertilizer business in Lawrenceville. Uncle Mallory and Aunt Rosa had three children. Their son, Garland Douglas Lafoon, was in the fertilizer business with Mallory, and has been grading peanuts in Southside Virginia for many years. Their two daughters, Marilyn "Gay" Lafoon-Graham and Patricia Ann Lafoon-Lambert, reside in Blackstone and Richmond, respectively. Patricia and Gay attended Brunswick Senior High School. Garland attended the Brunswick Academy. Garland was named after our grandfather Garland.
Miles Taylor Lafoon Sr. was born 7 August 1922 and married Margaret Lee Buchanan. Margaret was born 3 November 1924. I guarantee many remember Uncle Miles and Aunt Margaret. They bought a house and later a business in Victoria. For many years he was a wholesale grocery salesman servicing grocery stores in Brunswick and other surrounding counties. After leaving the traveling sales position, Margaret and he bought a little country store in Victoria and were well known and loved by many of the residents and patrons. Miles was a devoted Detroit Tigers baseball fan, but we all loved him anyway. Uncle Miles died 8 November 1995 and Aunt Margaret died 23 April 2004. They had two children, Brenda Joy Lafoon-Ramsey-Marshall-Harding and Miles "Taylor" Lafoon Jr. Brenda was born on 21 January 1944 the very same day as her cousin Walton Garland Abernathy (Aunt Edna's son). Brenda passed away on 29 October 1998. Brenda was well known for hunting antiques in old empty houses and barns. Brenda also drove a school bus and was much loved by the students. Brenda is survived by four children, Susan Miles Ramsey-Hawkins, Robert Clarence Ramsey Jr. James Christopher Ramsey and Margaret Buchanan Harding. Uncle Miles and Aunt Margaret's son Taylor lives in Victoria and works for the railroad. Taylor is a fun loving character, like his father was, and is a serious collector of baseball cards. Taylor and his wife Nancy Bragg-Lafoon have three children, Lana Michelle Lafoon-Dalton, Lucy Lee Lafoon-Hall and Lindsey Blake Lafoon.
If you travel further down the road to Freeman, you will find those who remember my Uncle Palmer Glenwell "PG" Lafoon. What a character! Uncle PG was Freeman's rural mailman for years. He was always known for stopping and getting into conversations (sometimes debates) with the families along his route. Uncle PG and Aunt Bagley Bragg-Lafoon had one daughter, Lesa. How could you not know Lesa? Lesa Inez Lafoon-Daniel is now Freeman's rural mail "person," following in her father's footsteps. Lesa's husband, Kenny Daniel, works at the Vulcan rock quarry in Freeman. Chances are if you bought rock for one reason or another, you got it from or one of his coworkers. Kenny and his parents lived near Danieltown. Kenny's parents used to run the Grady Daniel's store. Maybe you know Lesa and Kenny's teenage son. You can usually find Matthew Daniel in the sports section of the Brunswick Times because of his baseball talents. | LAFOON Etta Lucille (I8849)
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The immigrant Thomas probably married a daughter of Henry Burdett, Sr. whose will, proven in executor of, and a devisee under the will. | BURDETT Henry, Sr. (I10967)
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THE INSIDE FRONT COVER OF THE BOOK "LEAVES OF GOLD", A BOOK GIVEN TO MAUDIE FROM JOHN "ON OUR 25TH ANNIVERSARY, MAY 3, 1961. | Source (S460)
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The Kirkham Cemetery is described to be 1.2 miles north of Disputanta, Virginia, on route 618; thence .8 mile northwest on Route 629; thence .1 mile south of route 629, Prince George County, Virginia.
The Kirkham Cemetery contains the remains of Joshua Simmons and his daughter, Ann Simmons Harrison and her husband, William Thomas Harrison who are the great grandparents and grandparents of William Franklin Harrison, Sarah E. Baird Harrison's husband.
The Kirkham Cemetery also contains the remains of Joshua Simmons' daughter, Martha Simmons Stainback and her husband, Peter Stainback, and their son, Adolphus "Doll" and daughter Martha Stainback Kirkham.
A marker states: Martha Stainback, wife of William Kirkham, born in Prince George County, Virginia (this place) April 2, 1828. Died in Clarksville, Virginia November 28, 1901. Mother.
And
William Kirkham
Born in Petersburg, VA Dec. 4, 1817
Died in Petersburg, VA July 13, 1893
Father
Source of information was Susie Harrison Figg, Prince George, Virginia and research by Jennie S. Harrison on Oct. 4, 1937. | KIRKHAM William (I11913)
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The Kirkham Cemetery is described to be 1.2 miles north of Disputanta, Virginia, on route 618; thence .8 mile northwest on Route 629; thence .1 mile south of route 629, Prince George County, Virginia.
The Kirkham Cemetery contains the remains of Joshua Simmons and his daughter, Ann Simmons Harrison and her husband, William Thomas Harrison who are the great grandparents and grandparents of William Franklin Harrison, Sarah E. Baird Harrison's husband.
The Kirkham Cemetery also contains the remains of Joshua Simmons' daughter, Martha Simmons Stainback and her husband, Peter Stainback, and their son, Adolphus "Doll" and daughter Martha Stainback Kirkham.
A marker states: Martha Stainback, wife of William Kirkham, born in Prince George County, Virginia (this place) April 2, 1828. Died in Clarksville, Virginia November 28, 1901. Mother.
And
William Kirkham
Born in Petersburg, VA Dec. 4, 1817
Died in Petersburg, VA July 13, 1893
Father
Source of information was Susie Harrison Figg, Prince George, Virginia and research by Jennie S. Harrison on Oct. 4, 1937. | KIRKHAM William (I11913)
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The marriage Bond for William & Norrosa was issued on 7 November 1833 in Sussex Co., Va. The marriage ceremony was conducted on 28 November 1833 by Rev. Berrell Barrett. The Bond was secured by Calvin J. Stephenson and witnessed by Robert Stephenson.[Bulls, Buhls & Thornton Family.FTW]
[John and Judith Pond Descendants.FTW]
The marriage Bond for William & Norrosa was issued on 7 November 1833 in Sussex Co., Va. The marriage ceremony was conducted on 28 November 1833 by Rev. Berrell Barrett. The Bond was secured by Calvin J. Stephenson and witnessed by Robert Stephenson. | Family: POND William Calthorpe / STEPHENSON Norrosa M. R. (F2370)
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The marriage bond of Magnes W. Pond and M. F. Bowman indicate he was a widower.
* Magnes W. Pond enlisted in the Manchester Light Artillery, 6th Regiment Virginia Volunteers as a Private on May 1, 1861 in Richmond Virginia. The unit moved to Servell's Point for training and his brother Atlas joined the unit on May 14, 1861. The unit was redesignated Company I, 16th Regiment, Virginia Infantry. The unit was reorganized as an Independent Company in May, 1862. After the Battle of Fredericksburg in which his brother Atlas was killed the unit was disbanded and the men assigned to the Courtney Artillery. Magnus was assigned to Captain William A. Tanner's Company L, Artillery, Jones's Battalion and later Cutshaw's Battalion. From the middle of 1863 until the end of the War he is listed as Absent on detached service. He was paroled on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox as a Private in the Staunton Artillery, Cutshaw's Battalion, Army of Northern Virginia. Source: National Archives Microcopy 253, roll 382; consolidated index to compiled service records of Confederate Soldiers Plymall-Poogstardt. * This is the only Pond family listed on the 1880 Federal Census records for Allegheny County, Virginia. The 1870 Va. census show a Magnes Pond residing in Chesterfield County, Va. According to the 1880 census he would have been born around 1835. Magnus would have relocated his family from Staunton City, Virgina to Clifton Forge, Virignia between his son Robert W. Pond's birth on July 11, 1879 and June 5th 1880 when the census for Clifton Forge City was taken. * Magnus was listed as employed by the Railroad, on the Allegheny Co., Va. birth register for Emma L. Pond 1882. * Magnes is listed as a Overhauler by trade on the Allegheny Co., Va. birth register for Texanna in 1884 and an unnamed female in 1885. * Magnus used his initials M. W. on most of the records that I have found. There is a small cement marker with the initials M. W. laying in the family plot of Edward Pond in Crown Hill Cemetery, Clifton Forge, Va. None of the graves are marked however we know that Edward's first wife is buried there according to his grandson Harry Pond Jr. of Charlottesville, Va. Jerry R. Pond, Sr. January 1998 [Bulls, Buhls & Thornton Family.FTW]
[John and Judith Pond Descendants.FTW]
The marriage bond of Magnes W. Pond and M. F. Bowman indicate he was a widower. * Magnes W. Pond enlisted in the Manchester Light Artillery, 6th Regiment Virginia Volunteers as a Private on May 1, 1861 in Richmond Virginia. The unit moved to Servell's Point for training and his brother Atlas joined the unit on May 14, 1861. The unit was redesignated Company I, 16th Regiment, Virginia Infantry. The unit was reorganized as an Independent Company in May, 1862. After the Battle of Fredericksburg in which his brother Atlas was killed the unit was disbanded and the men assigned to the Courtney Artillery. Magnus was assigned to Captain William A. Tanner's Company L, Artillery, Jones's Battalion and later Cutshaw's Battalion. From the middle of 1863 until the end of the War he is listed as Absent on detached service. He was paroled on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox as a Private in the Staunton Artillery, Cutshaw's Battalion, Army of Northern Virginia. Source: National Archives Microcopy 253, roll 382; consolidated index to compiled service records of Confederate Soldiers Plymall-Poogstardt. * This is the only Pond family listed on the 1880 Federal Census records for Allegheny County, Virginia. The 1870 Va. census show a Magnes Pond residing in Chesterfield County, Va. According to the 1880 census he would have been born around 1835. Magnus would have relocated his family from Staunton City, Virgina to Clifton Forge, Virignia between his son Robert W. Pond's birth on July 11, 1879 and June 5th 1880 when the census for Clifton Forge City was taken. * Magnus was listed as employed by the Railroad, on the Allegheny Co., Va. birth register for Emma L. Pond 1882. * Magnes is listed as a Overhauler by trade on the Allegheny Co., Va. birth register for Texanna in 1884 and an unnamed female in 1885. * Magnus used his initials M. W. on most of the records that I have found. There is a small cement marker with the initials M. W. laying in the family plot of Edward Pond in Crown Hill Cemetery, Clifton Forge, Va. None of the graves are marked however we know that Edward's first wife is buried there according to his grandson Harry Pond Jr. of Charlottesville, Va. Jerry R. Pond, Sr. January 1998
Facts about this person:
Burial Possibly Crown Hill Cemetery, Clifton Forge, Virginia
Source: John and Judith Pond Descendants.FTW Medium: Other Date of Import: Oct 1, 2001
Source: Bulls, Buhls & Thornton Family.FTW Medium: Other Date of Import: Oct 8, 2001 | POND Magnes Walton (I6565)
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The marriage license gives his age as 64 and widowed and her's as 41and widow. They were married at the house of Mary E. Owen. She was listed as being widower and he as a widowed. It lists her place of birth as Prince George county, Va. Samuel's occupation is listed as farmer. a pre-marriage agreement gave Samuel all her property. Samuel moved into her house near wakefield, in Sussex County, and lived there till he died. he house was destroyed by fire about 1900. Marriage Lic #: 1589-23. Married by Thomas J. Drumwright, Methodist Minister. They lived at her house near Wakefield, Virginia until he died. The house was destroyed by fire abt 1900.
She was the widow of John Owen.
She and Col. Sam left Snow Hill and lived near Owen's Grove Church in Sussex County.
She had a son by John Owen
Hi Gene,
I'll give you a call early next week after we recover from all the turkey. It's a little hectic here now.
I know of only two marriages of Samuel Booth. In 1817 he married Sarah Ellis and on Dec. 22, 1859 he married Mary Eliza Tatum Owen of Wakefield. He moved into her house and lived there until he died 1876. Mary died in 1891.
The Jean Johnson that you mentioned, does she live on 40 across from Snow Hill?
Lonnie Baird L Baird Jr. [l.bairdjr@worldnet.att.net] | OWEN Mary Elizabeth Tatum (I294)
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The marriage of Anne (Simmons) Harrison to James William Harrison took place before the 1822 Prince George Land Tax List was compiled | Family: HARRISON William Thomas / SIMMONS Anne (F3869)
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The marriage record of George W. Bess indicates he was a Railroad Firemen. | BESS George Washington (I6537)
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The marriage record of John W. Nicely indicates he was a laborer at the time. | NICELY John W. (I6551)
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The name Carolyn "unkown" added as wife of James Earl Holt on June 17, 2006 from info in pamphlet given at the funeral of his father, James Mercer Holt on June 16, 2006. I am not sure if she is the other of James Christopher Holt. | HOLT Carolyn --LNU-- (I3747)
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The obit for his mother listed his residence as Chatham, Va. He and Robert
Willard Bishop are twins. | BISHOP Roger Winn (I4703)
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The obit for M. O. Westbrook,Jr., father of Robert M. Westbrook, Jr., showed
the fathers name was R. (Robert) M. Westbrook. It showed Robert M.
Westbrook, Jr. was from LaSalle, IL. as of 8/19/98. | WESTBROOK Robert M., Jr. (I4781)
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The obit for Maitland Ollie Westbrook, Jr. in the Sussex Surry Dispatch of
8/19/98 showed Janet Lynn Day of Clovis, NM as a survivor of R. Maitland
Westbrook. His name was Maitland Ollie Westbrook, Jr. | WESTBROOK Janet Lynn (I4782)
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The offspring of John Leondius Horne and Adnie Johnson were:
Annie Mae Horne - Female - born May 20, 1880
Mattie Elizabeth Horne - Female - born October 29, 1878
Mollie Rebecca Horne - Female born December 2, 1875
John R. Horne - Male - born 1879
Lula Airy Horne - Female - born September, 25 1884
Pearl Blanch Horne - Female - born November 1886
Susie Horne - Female - born March 16, 1892
Myrtie Ruth Horne - Female - born April 25, 1888
Annie Mae married Robert William Harville - they are buried in the Salem Church Cemetery in Prince George County
Mollie Rebecca married John D. Magee - they are buried in the Salem Church Cemetery in Prince George County
Pearl was married twice. Her first husband Andrew Garland Dunn was killed in October 1912. They had a son that was born on January 3, 1913 and died May 23, 1913 - they(father and son) are buried in the Salem Church Cemetery in Prince George County. Pearl is buried in Suffolk.
Susie died in Catawba Sanatorium in 1934 and is buried in Newport News
Lula Airy married Joseph A. Harville - they are buried in Richmond
I don't know where John, Mattie, or Myrtie Ruth are. | DUNN Andrew Garland (I1037)
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The original Faison family immigrant to America | VON DOVERAGE Henryk Fayson (I12262)
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The other two children, Percy Jackson BOOTH, Jr., and Bonnie Beryl BOOTH, were by Martha V. McCoy? Francis A. BOOTH was born when? FRANCIS A. BOOTH: December 6, 1919. Gene Harris: December 6, 1919? FRANCIS A. BOOTH: Yes. Gene Harris: Okay. Percy Jackson BOOTH, Jr. Do you remember when he was born? I know it was 1933, but do you remember what month and day? FRANCIS A. BOOTH: Jackie? TIM: Yeah. FRANCIS A. BOOTH: July the, wait a 15 minute. July 27th. Gene Harris: Okay. July 27, 1933. Okay. And how about Bonnie Beryl BOOTH?
Still alive as of 1-10-2020 ... gene He cleaned out the graveyard at Snow Hill last year! | BOOTH Percy Jackson (Jackie), Jr. (I1000)
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