ANTECEDENTS AND DESCENDANTS of NEHEMIAH WOOD, SR. (ABT 1731 - 3 October 1816)
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GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND ANECDOTES
G0498A:
Robert WOOD (Sr.) [008] Marriage: BY 1670 Child 1: Robert WOOD (Jr.) (25 September 1670, North Farnham Parish, (Old) Rappahannock (in 1692, Richmond) County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [M]: m. Mary ALFORD (ABT 1690, <St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County>, Virginia - AFT 27 May 1712), 21 October 1711, St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, Virginia Child 2:
Note 1: Mary ALFORD, the wife of Robert WOOD, Jr., was the daughter of John ALFORD, Sr. (died 14 March 1710, St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, Virginia, British North America) and Unknown UNKNOWN. Ms. Nancy Scott <d d a y g i r l @ c o x . n e t> reports the following:
On 27 May 1712, Robert WOOD and Mary ALFORD registered the birth of their son, Abel WOOD, in St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, Virginia. ____________________________ G0497A:
Marriage: ABT 1691, North Farnham
Parish, (Old) Rappahannock (in 1692, Richmond) County,
Virginia, British North America Child 1: Mary WOOD (ABT 1694, North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F] Child 2: Samuel WOOD I (ABT 1696, North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 28 January 1774, Richmond County, Virginia, British North America) [M]: m. Sarah UNKNOWN Child 3: Thomas WOOD (Jr.) (ABT 1698, North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia, British North America - 1 February 1726, Richmond County, Virginia, British North America) [M] Child
4: Child 5: John WOOD (12 October 1712,
Richmond County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [M] Note 1: The Will of Samuel WOOD I. From Ruth and Sam Sparacio, Will Abstracts of King George County, Virginia: 1752 - 1780 (1986), p. 106:
About the progeny of Samuel WOOD I and, especially, about Dinah WOOD who was to be the widow of William SANDY and the second wife of Nehemiah WOOD, Sr., see Note 3 under G0495A: Nehemiah WOOD (Sr.). Note 2: The Will of Thomas WOOD, Sr. was proved 3 April 1717 in Richmond County, Virginia. ____________________________ G0496A:
Marriage: ABT 1730 Child 1: William WOOD (Jr.) (ABT 1730, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1793) [M]: m. Elizabeth UNKNOWN, 1749/50, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America Child
2: Child 3: John WOOD (ABT 1733, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - November 1781, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia) [M]: m. Ann UNKNOWN, ABT 1750, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America ____________________________ G0495A:
Marriage: BY 1756 Child 1:
Child 2: John WOOD (Sr.) (1758, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia, British North America - 13 June 1821, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia: interment at Rileyville Cemetery, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia) [M]: m. Rachel MOODY (ABT 1758, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1850, Rileyville, Page County, Virginia), 1 August 1784, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia Child 3: Benjamin WOOD (30 April 1761, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia, British North America - 24 April 1829, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia: interment at Wood / Conn family cemetery, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia) [M]: m1. Sarah FALLIS (FOLLIS) (17 November 1766, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia, British North America - 27 March 1822, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia: interment at Wood / Conn family cemetery, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia), 2 February 1792, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia; m2. Elizabeth Pasquette ABBOTT (25 November 1789, Virginia - 16 November 1871, Rileyville, Page County, Virginia: interment at Wood / Conn family cemetery, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia), 18 June 1823, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia Child 4: Letitia (Lettice) WOOD (1763, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia, British North America - 1836, Page County, Virginia: interment at Atwood Cemetery, Rileyville, Page County, Virginia) [F]: m. *Sinnett ("Harry") ATWOOD (1756, Westmoreland County, Virginia, British North America - 16 November 1825: interment at Atwood Cemetery, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia), 11 December 1787, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia Child 5: Jesse WOOD (1765, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia, British North America - 1835, Rileyville, Page County, Virginia) [M]: m. Lydia MCCULLOUGH (ABT 1768, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1865, Rileyville, Page County, Virginia, British North America), 11 December 1787, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia, British North America Child 6: Joshua WOOD (15 October 1773, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia, British North America - 17 July 1858, Springfield, Page County, Virginia: interment at Springfield, Page County, Virginia) [M]: m. Mary JONES (1 November 1782, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia - 1 April 1844), 6 December 1798, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia, British North America Child 7: Nancy WOOD (1775, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia, British North America - BEF 6 April 1816, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia, British North America: interment at Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia, British North America) [F]: m. Edwin YOUNG (1770 - ?), 13 December 1796, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia Child 8: Nehemiah ("King") WOOD (Jr.) (1770, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia, British North America - 21 September 1824, Gallia County, Ohio: interment at Watson Cemetery [Adamsville], Raccoon Township, Gallia County, Ohio) [M]: m1. Eve RUFFNER (29 December 1773, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia - 29 January 1821, Gallia County, Ohio or Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia), ABT 1795, Kanawha County, Virginia; m2. Jane DOUGHERTY (28 June 1801, Monroe County, Virginia [now West Virginia] - ABT 1875, Gallia County, Ohio), 1 August 1821, Gallia County, Ohio Child 9: David WOOD (ABT 1785,
Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia - ABT
1845, Page County, Virginia: interment in the Jones
family cemetery on the property of Nehemiah WOOD, Sr.)
[M]: never married Other Marriage: 27 July 1800,
Shenandoah County, Virginia Note 1: The Will of Nehemiah WOOD, Sr. was signed 6 April 1816 and was proved 7 October 1816. The executors of his estate were his sons John WOOD and Benjamin WOOD. The witnesses to his Will were James R. Robertson, William Hancock, and Elizabeth Hancock. Nehemiah WOOD, Sr., a patriot in the Revolutionary War in Virginia, was a settler of Rileyville, Virginia. He is on record as having furnished beef to the Continental Army. Thus, a receipt given to him for "two beeves," weighing 350 pounds, supplied to the Continental Army on 27 October 1781:
Digital copy of manuscript by courtesy of Patsy R. Laird For reference, see Leo G. and Hazel P. Lawler (1233 Seacobeck St., Fredericksburg, Virginia 22401), Nehemiah Wood of Shenandoah County, Virginia, Hazeleo Publishers, Fredericksburg Virginia Note 2: Shenandoah County, Virginia Deed Books E, F, G, H 1784-1792, G-136, 24 September 1788:
Note 3: Dinah WOOD, the second wife of Nehemiah WOOD, Sr., was the widow of William SANDY (1731, <Westmoreland County>, Virginia, British North America - BEF 27 June 1791, Shenandoah County, Virginia). She was the daughter of Samuel WOOD I and Sarah UNKNOWN and was, therefore, the first cousin of Nehemiah WOOD, Sr. Her siblings were: Thomas WOOD (ABT 1720, North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia, British North America -?) [M]; Mark WOOD (ABT 1722, North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [M]; Francis WOOD (ABT 1724, North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [M]; Samuel WOOD II (ABT 1726, North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [M]; Martha WOOD (ABT 1728, North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Unknown SMITH; and Elizabeth WOOD (ABT 1730, North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Unknown BARKER. Dinah WOOD and William SANDY were married about 1759. Their offspring were: Mildred ("Milly") SANDY (ABT 1760, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1850 and BEF 1860, Madison County, Virginia) [F]: m. Benjamin NICHOLSON, Sr. (1770 - 11 December 1850, Madison County, Virginia), 18 November 1797, Shenandoah County, Virginia; Eleanor ("Nelly") SANDY (3 April 1770, King George County, Virginia, British North America - 14 April 1859, Page County, Virginia) [F]: m. Michael NICHOLSON (1740, <Culpeper County>, Virginia, British North America - August 1810, Madison, Madison County, Virginia), 27 June 1791, Shenandoah County, Virginia; Nancy SANDY (1775, Virginia, British North America- AFT 1850, <Madison County>, Virginia) [F]: m. Aaron NICHOLSON (1772, Culpeper County, Virginia, British North America - 27 March 1856, Madison, Madison County, Virginia), 26 February 1800, Madison, Madison County, Virginia; Mary ("Polly") SANDY (ABT 1776, Virginia - ?) [F]: m. Moses MOORE, 6 December 1796, Shenandoah County, Virginia, marriage solemnized by Rev. John Coontz, Baptist minister [see John W. Wayland, A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia, page 760]; Vincent Wilson SANDY (1785, Shenandoah County, Virginia - 1851, Virginia) [M]: m1. Catherine ANDREW (died BEF 13 September 1841), 13 November 1806, Rockingham County, Virginia: m2. Anna ("Anney") HOUDESHELL [sometimes spelled HOWDEYSHELL or HOWDSHELL] (1813, Virginia - AFT 1850), 13 September 1841, Augusta County, Virginia; Elizabeth SANDY (ABT 1785, Shenandoah County, Virginia - ?) [F]: m. William ASHFORD (ABT 1782 - ?), 14 August 1805, Shenandoah County, Virginia; Sarah ("Sally") SANDY (ABT 1787, Shenandoah County, Virginia - ?) [F]: m. Nehemiah WOOD II (ABT 1786, Virginia - 1853, Tennessee), 7 March 1808, Cedar Point, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia; and Lydia SANDY (ABT 1788, Shenandoah County, Virginia - ?) [F]: m. Joseph ALLEN, 19 July 1808, Shenandoah County, Virginia. [See Child 5: Joseph ALLEN under G0494A: Moses ALLEN (Sr.) in Antecedents and Descendants of Moses Allen, Sr. (2 November 1754 - 22 August 1843) and see Note 11 under G0494A: Moses ALLEN (Sr.) in Antecedents and Descendants of Moses Allen, Sr. (2 November 1754 - 22 August 1843).] Benjamin NICHOLSON, Sr. and his wife, Mildred ("Milly") SANDY, appear in the United States Census of 1850 for Madison County, Virginia, page 99B. Benjamin NICHOLSON, Sr., a farmer, is said to 80 years of age. His wife, Milly, is said to be 90 years of age. Aaron NICHOLSON and his wife, Nancy SANDY, appear in the United States Census of 1850 for Madison County, Virginia (page 73B). Aaron NICHOLSON, a farmer, is said to 78 years of age. His wife, Nancy, is said to be 75 years of age. Leavell's Register lists his death and states that he was "bedridden for many years." Benjamin NICHOLSON, Sr. and Aaron NICHOLSON were brothers, the sons of John NICHOLSON (ABT 1740, Virginia, British North America - August 1810, Madison, Madison County, Virginia) who, from 1781 until his death in 1810, was associated with the Culpeper (Virginia) army recruitment classes. Vincent Wilson SANDY and his second wife, Anna ("Anney") HOUDESHELL [sometimes spelled HOWDEYSHELL or HOWDSHELL], appear in the United States Census of 1850 for Augusta County, Virginia (page 230A). Vincent Wilson SANDY, a labourer, is said to be 65 years of age. His wife Anna is said to be 37 years of age. Catherine ANDREW, the first wife of Vincent Wilson SANDY, was given written consent by her father, Samuel ANDREW, to marry Vincent Wilson SANDY. Nehemiah WOOD II, the husband of Sarah ("Sally") SANDY, was the son of John WOOD, Sr. and Rachel MOODY. See below, Note 4. The Will of Dinah WOOD was signed 11 December 1828 and proved, in Shenandoah County, Virginia, on 11 May 1829. In this document, Dinah WOOD names nine children: Milly NICHOLS, Eleanor NICHOLS, Nancy NICHOLS, Polly MOORE, Elizabeth ASHFORD, Sarah WOOD, Lydia ALLEN, William SANDY, and Vincent SANDY. Note 4: The Will of John WOOD, Sr. was signed 21 May 1821 and was proved 13 August 1821. The witnesses to his Will were John Payne, Benjamin WOOD and Joshua WOOD. The offspring of John WOOD, Sr. and Rachel MOODY were: Elizabeth WOOD (ABT 1783, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia - 1875, <Warren County>, Tennessee) [F]: m. William NUNN (1775, <Shenandoah County>, Virginia - 1846, Warren County, Tennessee), 30 August 1800, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia; Nancy WOOD (ABT 1784, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia - February 1863, Taylorsburg, Cocke County, Tennessee: interment at Clevenger Cemetery, Taylorsburg, Cocke County, Tennessee) [F]: m. Elias CLEVENGER (1764, Shenandoah County, Virginia - 17 June 1846, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee), ABT 1805, Cocke County, Tennessee; Mary WOOD (ABT 1785, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia - ABT 1880, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia) [F]: m. William MOODY (ABT 1781 - ?), 29 June 1814, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia; Nehemiah WOOD II (ABT 1786, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia - 1853, Tennessee) [M]: m. Sarah ("Sally") SANDY (ABT 1787, Shenandoah County, Virginia - ?), 7 March 1808, Cedar Point, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia; John WOOD (Jr.) (11 August 1788, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia - 9 February 1874, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee: interment at Wood Cemetery [now near Smokey Mountain Golf Course], Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee) [M]: m1. Frances ("Fanny") GRIGSBY (26 March 1791, Hawkins County, Tennessee - 7 March 1826, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee: interment at Wood Cemetery [now near Smokey Mountain Golf Course], Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee), 1811, Tennessee: m2. Elizabeth SISK (5 December 1787, Culpeper County, Virginia - 14 April 1847, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee), 1821, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee; Moses WOOD (5 May 1790, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia - 5 May 1861, Rileyville, Page County, Virginia: interment at Rileyville Cemetery, Rileyville, Page County, Virginia) [M]: m1. Sarah ("Sally") HOOPER (ABT 1793, Virginia - BEF 25 August 1834, Page County, Virginia), 9 July 1810, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia (Bondsman: Nehemiah WOOD): m2. Catherine ANDERSON (ABT 1800, Virginia - 26 November 1866, Rileyville, Page County, Virginia: interment at Rileyville Cemetery, Rileyville, Page County, Virginia), 28 August 1834, Page County, Virginia (Marriage bond 25 August 1834. Bondsman: Simeon Abbott); Abigail WOOD (ABT 1791, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia - ABT 1859, Rileyville, Page County, Virginia: interment at Rileyville Cemetery, Rileyville, Page County, Virginia) [F]: m. Lewis BAKER (ABT 1786 - ?), 24 December 1807, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia; William ("Big Billy") WOOD (22 January 1796, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia - 6 March 1870, River, Page County, Virginia) [M]: m1. Lydia THARP (ABT 1793, Virginia - AFT 22 August 1850, Virginia), 15 July 1811, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia (Bondsman: William Templeman): m2. Mary Catherine WARD, 1850, Rileyville, Page County, Virginia; Asa WOOD (ABT 1795, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia - ?) [M]: m. Catherine HOOPER, 11 December 1820, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia; Rachel WOOD (ABT 1797, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia - ?) [F]: m. William GRAHAM, 7 February 1814, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia; Abraham Ebenezer WOOD (ABT 1790, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia - ?) [M]: m1. Mary FRAIL, 9 February 1824, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia (Bondsman: Richard Smoot); and Jesse WOOD (ABT 1800, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia - ?) [M]: m2. Elizabeth RILEY, 10 August 1830, Rileyville, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia. About 1830, William NUNN and wife Elizabeth WOOD, the daughter of of John WOOD, Sr. and Rachel MOODY, moved to Wilson County Tennessee from Shenandoah County, Virginia. By 1840, they were in Warren County, Tennessee. Their offspring were: Lindsey NUNN (ABT 1801, Shenandoah County, Virginia - ABT 1881, <Tennessee>) [M]: m1. Rachel COLEMAN (ABT 1806, Virginia - ABT 1852), 8 March 1824, Shenandoah County, Virginia: m2. Elizabeth HOLLAND; Unknown NUNN (ABT 1803, Shenandoah County, Virginia - ?) [F]; Nehemiah NUNN (ABT 1805, Shenandoah County, Virginia - January 1870, Saline County, Illinois) [M]: m. Rebecca RODGERS (10 January 1817, <Fauquier County>, Virginia - 9 January 1897, Saline County, Illinois: interment at Salem Baptist Church Cemetery, Carrier Mills, Saline County, Illinois), ABT 1838, Tennessee; Unknown NUNN (ABT 1806 - ?) [F]; Letta ("Letty") NUNN (1807, Shenandoah County, Virginia - AFT 1880, Golden Pond, Trigg County, Kentucky); William NUNN (Jr.) (ABT 1809, Shenandoah County, Virginia - 29 November 1870, Saline County, Illinois) [M]: m1. Elizabeth WILSON, August 1834, Wilson County, Tennessee: m2. Sarah ("Sally") ODUM (died AFT 1861), ABT 1840, Tennessee; Rachel Amanda NUNN (2 October 1819, Shenandoah County, Virginia - 22 December 1896, Golden Pond, Trigg County, Kentucky: interment at Long Creek Cemetery, Golden Pond, Trigg County, Kentucky) [F]: m. William Turner COMPTON (26 September 1817, Culpeper County, Virginia - 27 October 1879, Golden Pond, Trigg County, Kentucky: interment at Long Creek Cemetery, Golden Pond, Trigg County, Kentucky), 11 October 1837, Wilson County, Tennessee; Elizabeth NUNN (ABT 1821, Shenandoah County, Virginia - 7 January 1846, Warren County, Tennessee) [F]: m. James ("Jimmy") Mooney GREEN (2 March 1822, Rutherford County, North Carolina - 23 September 1900, DeKalb County, Tennessee: interment at Potter Cemetery, DeKalb County, Tennessee) 7 November 1839, Warren County, Tennessee; and Mary Ann NUNN (ABT 1823, Shenandoah County, Virginia - ?). About William Turner COMPTON, the husband of Rachel Amanda NUNN, see Child 4: William Turner COMPTON under G0493A: Matthew COMPTON IV in Descendants of John F. Compton (BEF 1644 - AFT 29 May 1713 and BEF 5 March 1718). In the United States Census for 1880 of Trigg County, Kentucky (page 408C), Letty NUNN, listed as "Letta NUNN," the daughter of William NUNN and Elizabeth WOOD, is shown to be residing in Golden Pond with her sister, Rachel Amanda COMPTON (née NUNN), a widow. In the census, Rachel Amanda COMPTON is said to be 60 years of age, born in Virginia, and Letta NUNN is said to be 73 years of age, born in Virginia. James ("Jimmy") Mooney GREEN, the husband of Elizabeth NUNN, was second married to Sarah WOMACK (20 January 1819 - 25 November 1883, Warren County, Tennessee) on 4 August 1846 in Warren County, Tennessee. He was third married to Mary Angeline MULLICAN (14 February 1845, Warren County, Tennessee - 12 October 1899, Warren County, Tennessee) on 14 December 1884 in Warren County, Tennessee. For more about James ("Jimmy") Mooney GREEN, see Note 3 under G0493A: Matthew COMPTON IV in Descendants of John F. Compton (BEF 1644 - AFT 29 May 1713 and BEF 5 March 1718). A date of 6 June 1795 is sometimes given as the date of marriage for Nancy WOOD and Elias CLEVENGER. But, if John WOOD and Rachel MOODY, the parents of Nancy WOOD, were married 1 August 1784, the date of 6 June 1795 must be incorrect. Nancy WOOD is known to have inherited land in Virginia from her father's estate which, on 3 February 1823, she gave to Benjamin WOOD. The relationship - apart from that by marriage - of William MOODY, the husband of Mary WOOD, to Rachel MOODY, his mother-in-law, remains untraced. Frances ("Fanny") GRIGSBY, the first wife of John WOOD, Jr., was the daughter of John GRIGSBY (15 October 1752, Culpeper County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 28 September 1826 [Will dated], Hawkins County, Tennessee) and Winnifred ("Winney") Elizabeth BREEDING (27 August 1757, Virginia, British North America - 1830, Hawkins County, Tennessee) who were married 6 August 1778. Winnifred ("Winney") Elizabeth BREEDING was the daughter of John Bryant BREEDING (4 October 1730, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - 23 November 1802, Russell County, Virginia) and Winifred Elizabeth ("Eliza") ASHBY (3 January 1730/31, Washington County, Virginia, British North America - 9 September 1???, Virginia) who were married 1 May 1749. By Winnifred ("Winney") Elizabeth BREEDING's marriage to John GRIGSBY, the family Bible of John BREEDING passed to the family GRIGSBY. This Bible-record, recovered in Bell County, Kentucky, was transcribed by Barbara BREEDING as follows:
In this text, "John Breeding born 25 September 1711" appears to be named as the father of "John Breeding born 4 October 1730." There is, however, another Bible record which states that the father of this John BREEDING was James BREEDING, born in 1711. "James BREEDING born 16 November 1750," the son of John Bryant BREEDING and Winifred Elizabeth ("Eliza") ASHBY, died after 28 February 1825 in Hawkins County, Tennessee. Although he seems never to have married, he is reported to have sired three children by his slave Charlotte. Pat Owen Breeding of Louisville, Kentucky, states that James BREEDING "moved to the present Russell County, Virginia with his father's family in 1782. He appeared as a Russell County taxpayer for the year 1787 only. At that time, he returned to Rockingham County and joined the family of his sister, Winifred GRIGSBY. He went with them to Hawkins County, Tennessee in 1789 and by 1809 had become the owner of a 1000-acre plantation known as the 'Brown Tower,' also one slave." The Will of James BREEDEN (BREEDING), dated 6 September 1815 in Hawkins County, Tennessee:
As Pat Owen BREEDING says, James BREEDING "left his property to his sister Winifred's descendants. One third was to go to the children of John and Betsy Grigsby RUTHERFORD; another third to the children of Samuel and Judy Grigsby SMITH, and the remainder to the children of James and Polly Grigsby SMITH." In June 1848, in Jersey County Illinois, Pleasant BREEDEN, the son of James BREEDING and slave Charlotte, furnished to the court an emancipation document by which to prove his freedom and by which, incidentally, to prove that James BREEDING was alive as of 28 February 1825, ten years after signing his Will,and residing in Hawkins County, Tennessee. [Source: Ms. Kathleen Cross]:
"John BREEDING born 8 May 1752," the son of John Bryant BREEDING and Winifred Elizabeth ("Eliza") ASHBY, was born in Frederick County, Virginia, British North America and died in Berger, Franklin County, Missouri on 7 July 1824. His interment was at the Breeding - Roark - Dithy - Schaub cemetery one mile west of Berger, Franklin County, Missouri on the Norbert Horstman farm. He was a veteran of the Revolutionary War, serving with brothers Richard, Spencer, James, William, and Bryant. There is record that, on 23 June 1785, John BREEDING married Elizabeth NAPIER, wedding officiated by Rev. Simon Cockrell. There is also record that, on 6 July 1785 in Washington County, Virginia, John BREEDING married Elizabeth NAPPER, wedding officiated by Rev. John FROST. One of these, perhaps, is the date of marriage-bond and the other is the date of ceremony. In any case, as is known to investigators of the family NAPIER, "Napper" is a variant spelling of "Napier." Elizabeth NAPIER is thought to have died, from the effects of childbirth in 1800. On 8 January 1802, John BREEDING is said to have been second married to Mary ("Polly") HALL in Adair County, Kentucky. The Bible-record shows John BREEDING married to Mary SHORT on "4 September 18____." HALL or HALE may have been the maiden name of Mary SHORT. Mary ("Polly") HALL is said to have been born in Green County, Kentucky. "Spencer R. BREEDING born 1 May 1759," the son of John Bryant BREEDING and Winifred Elizabeth ("Eliza") ASHBY, was born in Augusta County, Virginia, British North America and died 24 June 1835 in Russell County, Virginia. Spencer R. BREEDING, as the Bible-record states, was married to Elizabeth FINNEY on 5 August 1786. John GRIGSBY, the husband of Winnifred ("Winney") Elizabeth BREEDING, was the son of John ("Soldier John") GRIGSBY (ABT 1720, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 7 April 1794, Rockbridge County, Virginia: interment at Falling Springs Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Glasgow, Rockbridge, County, Virginia) and Roseanna ETCHISON (1730, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 1762, Culpeper County, Virginia, British North America) who were married in 1746, in Stafford County, Virginia. John ("Soldier John") GRIGSBY is listed in the Patriot Index of the Daughters of the American Revolution (p. 1239) as having been born, in Virginia, in 1720, and has having died 7 April 1794. He is reported to have been first married to Roseanna ETCHISON and second married to Elizabeth PORTER (27 February 1733/34, Orange County, Virginia, British North America - 7 October 1807, Rockbridge County, Virginia). He is said to have furnished patriotic - but not military - service to the American Revolution. By Roseanna ETCHISON, John ("Soldier John") GRIGSBY is said to have engendered, in addition to John GRIGSBY, the husband of Winnifred ("Winney") Elizabeth BREEDING, the following: James GRIGSBY (10 November 1748, Culpeper County, Virginia, British North America - February 1835, Sequatchee Valley, Bledsoe County, Tennessee) [M]: m1. Frances ("Frankie") PORTER (1747, Orange [now Culpeper] County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1782, Rockbridge County, Virginia: said to have been "buried near the top of sloping ground in the rear of her last dwelling place"), 1768, Orange County Virginia, British North America: m2. Rebecca ANDERSON [the widow of Col. Samuel Augustus WALLACE (ABT 1745, near Lexington, Rockbridge County,Virginia, British North America - 7 March 1786, at his farm at the east end of what is now Houston Street, Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia) whom she married, in 1770, in Rockbridge County, Virginia, British North America] (1752, Augusta County, Virginia, British North America - 1804, <Tennessee>), 20 April 1786, Rockbridge County, Virginia: m3. Mary Ann MONDAY (or MONDON) (5 April 1780, Virginia - AFT 1850, <Sumter County, Alabama>), ABT 1804; Charles GRIGSBY (6 April 1755, Culpeper County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1804, Blount County, Tennessee: interment in Blount County, Tennessee) [M]: m Elizabeth ("Betsy") WALLACE (ABT 1772, Augusta County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1812, Blount County, Tennessee), 18 February 1790, Rockbridge County, Virginia; Sarah ("Sally") GRIGSBY (30 December 1757, Upper side of the Rapidan River, Culpeper County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1822, Falling Spring, Rockbridge County, Virginia: interment at Falling Spring Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Glasgow, Rockbridge County, Viriginia) [F]: m. Thomas WELCH (1 February 1753, Orange County, Virginia, British North America - 10 July 1821, Falling Spring, Rockbridge County, Virginia: interment at Falling Spring Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Glasgow, Rockbridge County, Viriginia), 1775, Culpeper County, Virginia, British North America; and William GRIGSBY (A Revolutionary War soldier wounded at Guilford Court House, North Carolina) (6 December 1761, Culpeper County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1830, Rockbridge County, Virginia) [M]: m1. Sally PORTER, 15 March 1781; m2. Sarah MCCLURE, 18 May 1790. Col. Samuel Augustus WALLACE, the first husband of Rebecca ANDERSON, second wife of James GRIGSBY, was the son of Peter WALLACE (1719, Ulster, Ireland - 5 September 1784, Thornhill, Rockbridge County, Virginia) and Margaret WOODS (1720, Dunshauglin Castle, Meath, Ireland - 1790, Thornhill, Roickbridge County, Virginia) who were married in 1739 in Cecil County, Maryland, British North America. Elizabeth ("Betsy") WALLACE, the wife of Charles GRIGSBY, was the daughter of Col. Samuel Augustus WALLACE and Rebecca ANDERSON. During the Revolutionary War, Col. Samuel Augustus WALLACE was the commander - under George Washington - of Ft. Young. By Elizabeth PORTER, John ("Soldier John") GRIGSBY is said to have engendered: Ann GRIGSBY (15 June [or 13 September] 1766, Culpeper County, Virginia, British North America - died in infancy) [F]; Joseph GRIGSBY (6 January 1768, Culpeper County, Virginia, British North America - December 1820, Winchester, Franklin County, Tennessee [en route home from Missouri, at the house of Mr. Sharp near Winchester]) [M]: m. Mary Ashley Warren SCOTT (1782, Virginia - 1856, Virginia), 8 December 1812, south side of the James River, Botetourt County, Virginia; Jane GRIGSBY (19 October 1769, Culpeper County, Virginia, British North America - 15 November 1832, Rockbridge County, Virginia: interment at Falling Spring Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Glasgow, Rockbridge County, Viriginia) [F]: m. William PAXTON (7 April 1757, Rockbridge County, Virginia, British North America - 27 December 1838, Rockbridge County, Virginia: interment at Falling Spring Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Glasgow, Rockbridge County, Viriginia), 21 June 1787, Augusta or Rockbridge County, Virginia [William PAXTON was the maternal uncle of Gen. Samuel ("Sam") Rutherford HOUSTON. See below.]; Rachel GRIGSBY (7 May 1771, Culpeper County, Virginia, British North America - 7 January 1841, Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia) [F]: m. Alexander MCNUTT (10 March 1754, Rockbridge County, Virginia, British North America - 29 March 1812, Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia), 1790, Rockbridge County, Virginia; Martha GRIGSBY (19 September 1772, Culpeper County, Virginia, British North America - 4 October 1868, Rockbridge County, Virginia) [F]: m. Alexander TRIMBLE (15 February 1762, <Rockbridge County>, Virginia, British North America- 22 November 1816, Holly Hill, Rockbridge County, Virginia), 12 December 1793, Fruit Hill, Rockbridge County, Virginia, solemnized by Rev. Samuel HOUSTON; Elisha GRIGSBY (17 May 1774, Culpeper County, Virginia, British North America - 24 May 1847, Rose Hill, Rockbridge County, Virginia) [M]: m. Elizabeth Hawkins PORTER (21 September 1778, Virginia - 1 September 1843, Rose Hill, Rockbridge County, Virginia), 27 May 1796, Rockbridge County, Virginia; Elizabeth GRIGSBY (10 March 1776, Culpeper County, Virginia, British North America - 13 December 1842, Rockbridge County, Virginia: interment at Falling Spring Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Glasgow, Rockbridge County, Viriginia): m. William MCNUTT (16 April 1774, Rockbridge County, Virginia - 10 December 1836, Rockbridge County, Virginia), 24 July 1806, Fruit Hill, Rockbridge County, Virginia; and Reuben GRIGSBY (Served in the War of 1812 at the rank of captain) (5 July 1780, Culpeper County, Virginia - 1863, Hickory Hill, Rockbridge County, Virginia: interment at Falling Spring Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Glasgow, Rockbridge County, Viriginia) [M]: m. Verlinda Alexander PORTER (6 April 1793, Virginia - 1846, Hickory Hill, Roclbridge County, Virginia: interment at Falling Spring Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Glasgow, Rockbridge County, Viriginia), 26 February 1817, Orange County, Virginia. Elizabeth Hawkins PORTER, the wife of Elisha GRIGSBY, and Verlinda Alexander PORTER, the wife of Reuben GRIGSBY, were the daughters of Abner PORTER (25 June 1743, Orange County, Virginia, British North America - 20 April 1812, Orange County, Virginia) and Hannah INGRAM. Abner PORTER and Elizabeth PORTER were among the offspring of Benjamin PORTER (ABT 1685, Old Rappahanock [now Spottsylvania] County, Virginia, British North America - 1761, Orange County, Virginia, British North America) and Ann CAMPBELL (ABT 1693, <County Down, Ireland> - BEF January 1761 [when Abner PORTER's Will was recorded]), 1713, Essex County, Virginia. Elisha and Reuben GRIGSBY, therefore, married their first cousins. Rev. Samuel HOUSTON (1 January 1758, Hay's Creek, Rockbridge County, Virginia, British North America - 1 January 1839, Rockbridge County, Virginia: interment at his pastorate in High Bridge Churchyard, Rockbridge County, Virginia), by whom the marriage of Martha GRIGSBY and Alexander TRIMBLE was solemnized, was the son of John HOUSTON III (ABT 1716, County Antrim, Ireland - 1798, Logan County, Kentucky: interment at the Red River Meeting House on Whippoorwill Creek, Logan County, Kentucky) and Sarah TODD (29 May 1727, <Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British North America or Ireland> - 25 May 1795, Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee) who were married about 1750. John HOUSTON III was the brother of Robert HOUSTON (1720, Ireland - AFT 11 September 1760 [Will signed] and BEF May 19 1761 [Will proved], Augusta County, Virginia, British North America: interment at Blue Bell Cemetery, Timber Ridge, Maryville, Rockbridge County, Virginia), the husband of Mary DAVIDSON (ABT 1725, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania - ABT September 1793, Timber Ridge, Maryville, Rockbridge County, Virginia: interment at Blue Bell Cemetery, Timber Ridge, Maryville, Rockbridge County, Virginia). Robert HOUSTON and Mary DAVIDSON engendered Maj. Samuel HOUSTON (12 February 1744/45, Borden's Tract, Timber Ridge, Maryville, Rockbridge County, Virginia - 22 September 1806, Dennis Callighan's Tavern House, Alleghany County, Virginia: interment at High Bridge Churchyard, Rockbridge County, Virginia) who married Elizabeth ("Liz") PAXTON (ABT 1760, Rockbridge County, Virginia, British North America - 18 August 1831, Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee: interment at Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Bakers Creek, Blount County, Tennessee), on 12 February 1781 in Rockbridge County, Virginia. This Samuel HOUSTON and Elizabeth ("Liz") PAXTON engendered Gen. Samuel ("Sam") Rutherford HOUSTON (2 March 1793, Timber Ridge, Maryville, Rockbridge County, Virginia - 26 July 1863, Huntsville, Walker County, Texas, Confederate States of America: interment at Oakwood Cemetery, Huntsville, Walker County, Texas) who, on 2 January 1829, married Eliza (Elizabeth) H. ALLEN (2 December 1809, Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee - 3 March 1861, Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee: interment 4 March 1861 at Gallatin City Cemetery, Sumner County, Tennessee) in Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee. [See Child 1: Eliza (Elizabeth) H. ALLEN under G0493B: John ALLEN in Descendants of Robert Allen (ABT 1674 - ABT 1775).] This Samuel ("Sam") Rutherford HOUSTON was, of course, the Governor of Tennessee and - as history has deemed him - the liberator of Texas. William PAXTON, the husband of Jane GRIGSBY, was the son of Thomas PAXTON (ABT 1719, Balleymoney, County Antrim, Ireland - 27 September 1788, Rockbridge County, Virginia: interment at Falling Spring Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Glasgow, Rockbridge County, Viriginia) and Elizabeth ("Betsy") MCCLUNG (1724, Coleraine, County Antrim, Ireland - 3 March 1773, Rockbridge County, Virginia: interment beside her husband at Falling Spring Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Glasgow, Rockbridge County, Viriginia: epitaph reads "Here lieth the body of Elizabeth Paxton, who departed this life March 3, 1773, her age being 49 years"), and was, therefore the brother of Elizabeth PAXTON, the mother of Samuel ("Sam") Rutherford HOUSTON, President of the Republic of Texas. About Gen. Samuel ("Sam") Rutherford HOUSTON, see Sam Houston as Caius Marius. Lyman Chalkley, in Chronicles of Augusta County, Virginia, abstracts the Will of Robert HOUSTON, dated 11 September 1760, as follows: Son John (infant) 95 acres on Collier Creek; son James (infant) 200 acres adjoining place testator lives on; son Samuel (infant) plantation testator lives on, 307 acres; daughter Elizabeth - 5 shillings, already provided for; daughters Ann, Esther, Margaret, and Mary; wife Mary, son John and brother Samuel HUSTON, executors. Witnesses: Daniel Lyle, Moses TRIMBLE, Sam'l McCroskey. Will proved 19 May 1761 by Lyle and TRIMBLE. Executors qualify with Daniel Lyle, John HUSTON as sureties. The Will of John GRIGSBY, the son of John ("Soldier John") GRIGSBY and the husband of Winnifred ("Winney") Elizabeth BREEDING, dated 28 September 1826 in Hawkins County, Tennessee:
Between Frances ("Fanny") GRIGSBY, the first wife of John WOOD, Jr. and Abigail GRIGSBY, the paternal grandmother of John WOOD, Jr., the relationship is untraced. Note 5: Sinnett ("Harry") ATWOOD, the husband of Letitia (Lettice) WOOD, was the son of *Gilbert ATWOOD (ABT 1732, Westmoreland County, Virginia, British North America - 1818, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia) and *Nancy Ann YOUNG (1734, Westmoreland County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1795, Warren County, Virginia) who were married in 1752 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Note 6: The Will of Benjamin WOOD was signed 5 November 1828 and was proved 12 May 1829. The executors of his Will were Wharton Jones and Benjamin H. WOOD. The witnesses to his Will were John KOONTZ and Christian Horn. In the Will, his children are named as Hadad, Harrison, David, William F., and Nancy. He calls his home, his farm, "Cedar Point," which name was, in fact, used by the first Post Office. Cedar Point later became Rileyville. Benjamin WOOD, for three years, during the Revolutionary War, served in the First Virginia Regiment. Sarah FALLIS (FOLLIS), the first wife of Benjamin WOOD, was the daughter of Jacob FALLIS (FOLLIS) (ABT 1751, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia, British North America - 14 July 1797, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia) and Sarah SPRINGER (ABT 1756, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia, British North America - 9 October 1809, Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia) who were married 7 December 1775 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Jacob FALLIS (FOLLIS). Jacob FALLIS (FOLLIS) was a veteran of the Revolutionary War (17th Mounted Militia). The bondsman for Elizabeth Pasquette ABBOT's marriage to Benjamin WOOD was Robert Turner. Note 7: The Will of Joshua WOOD was signed 8 April 1858 and was recorded 26 July 1858. The executor of his Will was Nicholas W. Yager. The witnesses to the Will were E. W. WOOD, William Corbin, and Benjamin WOOD. In the United States Census of 1850 for Page County, Virginia, Joshua WOOD is said to be a farmer. Note 8: Mary JONES, the wife of Joshua WOOD, was the daughter of George JONES and Margaret MORGAN. Note 9: Edwin YOUNG, the husband of Nancy WOOD, was the son of Sinnit YOUNG (1740, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - 14 February 1811, Montgomery County, Kentucky) and Barsheba CATLETT (1750, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - 1830, Montgomery County, Kentucky) who, in Virginia, were married in 1765. Note 10: Nehemiah ("King") WOOD, Jr. is often said to have been first married to Susannah RADER. And, indeed, Virginia Marriages to 1800 shows that a Nehemiah WOOD was indeed married to Susanna RADER, in Shenandoah County, Virginia, on 10 June 1793. However, it is not possible that Nehemiah ("King") WOOD, Jr. was ever married to Susanna RADER. Eve RUFFNER was the daughter of Joseph RUFFNER (25 September 1740, Ruffner Homestead [now in Luray], Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia - 23 March 1803, Charleston, Kanawha County, Virginia [now West Virginia]: interment at Ruffner Hollow (now Rifleman's Memorial Park), Charleston, Kanawha County, Virginia [now West Virginia]) and Ann HIESTAND (15 October 1742 - 19 August 1820, Charleston, Kanawha County, Virginia [now West Virginia]: interment at Ruffner Hollow (now Rifleman's Memorial Park), Charleston, Kanawha County, Virginia [now West Virginia]). In The West Virginia Historical Magazine, vol. 1, no. 3 (July 1910), p. 38, an article written by Dr. William Henry Ruffner (1876 - 1908) in May 1901 shows that:
Eve RUFFNER, therefore was married to Nehemiah ("King") WOOD, Jr. previous to 1800. The children known to have been engendered by Nehemiah ("King") WOOD, Jr. before his marriage to Jane DOUGHERTY were: Bethsama WOOD (21 October 1796, <Shenandoah County, Virginia> - 18 May 1862) [F]: m. Samuel WATSON, 2 November 1815, Gallia County, Ohio; Andrew G. WOOD (1799, Shenandoah County, Virginia - 11 February 1879, Canal Lewisville, Coshocton County, Ohio) [M]: m1. Mary FEE (of Hardin County, Ohio; died in 1836, in Roscoe, Jackson Township, Coshocton County, Ohio), 16 January 1824, Gallia County, Ohio: m2. Edith COOK (née BUTLER; daughter of Thomas BUTLER; widow of Joseph COOK) (1808 - 17 March 1877, near Canal Lewisville, Coshocton County, Ohio: interment at Pioneer Cemetery, Coshocton County, Ohio), 12 March 1837; Noah WOOD (1 August 1800, Charleston, Kanawha County, Virginia [now West Virginia] - 7 January 1872, Gallia County, Ohio interment at Salem Baptist Church, Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio) [M]: m. Mary Ann GRAHAM (<Gallia County, Ohio>, December 1802 - 3 August 1887 interment at Salem Baptist Church, Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio), 30 December 1824, Gallia County, Ohio; Harrison WOOD (7 September 1802, Charleston, Kanawha County, Virginia [now West Virginia] - 12 February 1877, Raccoon Township, Gallia County, Ohio interment in Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio) [M]: m1. Mary RICKABAUGH (daughter of Adam RICKABAUGH and Catherine KOONTZ) (Gallia County, Ohio, 5 February 1806 - 15 July 1835, Gallia County, Ohio), 18 September 1825, Gallia County, Ohio: m2. Mary BING (née MAUCK; daughter of Joseph MAUCK and Elizabeth BUZWELL; widow of William BING) (19 April 1806, Virginia - 9 February 1868), 6 April 1840, Gallia County, Ohio: m3. Permelia ATWOOD (née RIDGEWAY; daughter of David RIDGEWAY and Elizabeth WAGONER; widow of Nehemiah ATWOOD) (1802, Gallia County, Ohio - 9 March 1885, Gallia County, Ohio interment at Calvary Baptist Church cemetery), 1 November 1870; William Maure WOOD (7 August 1804, Charleston, Kanawha County, Virginia [now West Virginia] - 2 January 1880) [M]: m1. Mary KOONTZ (4 October 1799, Rockingham County, Virginia - 5 April 1857, Gallia County, Ohio), 29 March 1827, Rockingham County, Virginia): m2. Sarah M. SHIERS, 16 December 1858, Gallia County, Ohio; Charles C. WOOD (1807, Gallia County, Ohio - 15 July 1879, Gallia County, Ohio interment at Calvary Baptist Church cemetery) [M]: m1. Phoebe Ann KOONTZ (27 July 1809, Rockingham County, Virginia - ?), 5 February 1840, Raccoon Township, Gallia County, Ohio, by Rev. Anthony:1 m2. Nancy WOLFENBARGER, 18 July 1841, Gallia County, Ohio; Joseph P. WOOD (9 February 1809, Gallia County, Ohio - 1 February 1899 interment at North San Juan, Yuba County, California) [M]: m1. Polly MATTHEWS, 30 August 1827, Gallia County, Ohio: m2. Susan UNKNOWN, ABT 1845: m3. Mary Elizabeth YOUNG (daughter of Charles Conrad YOUNG and Margaret JAMES) (ABT 1845 - ?), 17 May 1870, <Maysville, Coshocton County, Ohio>; Luther Davis WOOD (ABT 1811, Gallia County, Ohio - ABT 1848 interment in Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio) [M]: m. Lucinda WOOD, 1 September 1834, Page County, Virginia; James Perry WOOD (ABT 1813, Gallia County, Ohio - 15 August 1863 interment at Calvary Baptist Church cemetery, Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio) [M]: m. Rebecca MAUCK (1813, Ohio - 29 May 1879), 3 September 1835, Ohio; and Lewis N. WOOD (1818, Gallia County, Ohio - ?) [M].
The death certificate of Andrew G. WOOD, the son of Nehemiah ("King") WOOD, Jr., proves that his mother was Eve RUFFNER:
The death certificate reports the demise of Andrew G. WOOD as having occurred 20 February 1880. However, his obituary, published 18 February 1879, reports the date as 11 February 1879. It may be that his death was not actually recorded until 20 February 1880:
Andrew G. WOOD, in 1877, was predeceased by Edith COOK, his second wife:
In 1872, Andrew G. WOOD was predeceased by his brother, Noah WOOD:
It seems clear, therefore, that Eve RUFFNER was the mother of both Andrew G. WOOD and Noah WOOD and that, until her death in 1821, she was mother to all the offspring of Nehemiah ("King") WOOD, Jr. It is possible, but not now demonstrable, that Susanna RADER may have been a third wife to Nehemiah WOOD, Sr. There is no known date of death for Dinah SANDY, the second wife of Nehemiah WOOD, Sr. With the exception of Bethsama WOOD, who was married to Samuel WATSON, all the children of Nehemiah ("King") WOOD, Jr. are named in the division of his landed estate which occurred some years after his death:
The offspring of Nehemiah ("King") WOOD, Jr. and his second wife, Jane DOUGHERTY, were: Nancy WOOD (20 June 1822, Gallia County, Ohio - 1 June 1884, Raccoon Township, Gallia County, Ohio interment at Calvary Baptist Church cemetery, Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio) [F]: m1. Richard Speer KERR (16 January 1807, Green Township, Gallia County, Ohio - 15 August 1858, Raccoon Township, Gallia County, Ohio interment at Watson Cemetery, Raccoon Township, Gallia County, Ohio), 23 February 1839, Raccoon Township, Gallia County, Ohio: m2. Charles Stephen GOOCH, 23 November 1852; and Margarita WOOD (2 December 1824, Gallia County, Ohio - 6 September 1873, Gallia County, Ohio) [F]. Note 11: Jane DOUGHERTY, the second wife of Nehemiah ("King") WOOD, Jr., was the daughter of John DOUGHERTY and Hadasie ALDER and was second married to William RIDGWAY (1 June 1800, near Indian Nation, Georgia - 3 March 1822, Ohio). About Jane DOUGHERTY and Nehemiah ("King") WOOD, see Gallia County Ohio Pioneer Families; Gallia County Historical Society, Cemeteries of Raccoon Township, Gallia County, Ohio; and H. H. Hardesty, History of Gallia County, Ohio (1882 [reprinted 1976]). From: Ohio: The Cross Road of Our Nation: Records & Pioneer Families. July - September, 1963, Volume IV, No. III. Published by Esther Weygandt Powell:
Note 12: Nehemiah ("King") WOOD, Jr: Settlement of Estate:
____________________________ G0494A:
Marriage: 1776, Rileyville,
Shenandoah [now Page] County, Virginia Child 1: Lydia WOOD (1778, Shenandoah County, Virginia - 1850, Shenandoah County, Virginia) [F]: m. *William ATWOOD (1776, Shenandoah County, Virginia - ?), 13 October 1800, Shenandoah County, Virginia [Dennit ATWOOD, bondsman] Child 2:
Child 3: Jesse WOOD (ABT 1789, Shenandoah County, Virginia - ?) [M] Child 4: Edy WOOD (ABT 1801,
Shenandoah County, Virginia - ?) [F]: m. William ALLEN
(ABT 1798 - ?), 31 May 1821, Shenandoah County, Virginia
[David WOOD, bondsman] Note 1: Shenandoah County, Virginia, Deed Book R, page 487 names William ATWOOD and Lydia his wife as heirs of William WOOD, deceased. Note 2: William ATWOOD, the husband of Lydia WOOD, was the son of *John R. ATWOOD (1755, Westmoreland County, Virginia, British North America - BY 12 August 1811, Warren County [northeast], Virginia) and Elizabeth ("Betsy") ROY (1759, Shenandoah County, Virginia, British North America - 1825, Shenandoah County, Virginia) who were married 25 May 1780, in Shenandoah County, Virginia. Will Book K, for Warren County, Virginia shows that the Will of William ATWOOD was recorded 12 August 1811. Elizabeth ("Betsy") ROY, the wife of John R. ATWOOD, was the daughter of John ROY (Will signed 12 February 1813 and proved 13 April 1813, Shenandoah County, Virginia) and Unknown UNKNOWN. John ROY was second married to Jean UNKNOWN. Her siblings were: James ROY [M]: m. Lydia MOREHEAD, 3 February 1798, Fauquier County, Virginia; William ROY [M]: m. Anna STINSON, 6 October 1802, Shenandoah County, Virginia; Elijah ROY (ABT 1768, Shenandoah County, Virginia, British North America - Will proved 24 December 1840, Warren County, Virginia) [M]: m. Susannah LAWRENCE (ABT 1766, <Prince William County>, Virginia - BEF September 1798, Shenandoah County, Virginia), 30 September 1790, Shenandoah County [See below, G0493A: James WOOD, note 10.]; and Susannah ROY [F]: m. Thomas GRUBBS, 28 February 1795, Shenandoah County, Virginia. Lydia MOREHEAD, the wife of James ROY, was the daughter of Alexander MOREHEAD (Will signed 18 July 1816, Will proved 26 August 1816, Fauquier County, Virginia) and Unknown UNKNOWN. Her siblings were: Mary MOREHEAD [F]: m. Josias OLIVER, 28 August 1789, Fauquier County, Virginia; Charles MOREHEAD (Will signed 6 July 1817, Will proved 28 February 1838, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]; Joel MOREHEAD [M]; William MOREHEAD [M]; Alexander MOREHEAD [M]; and John MOREHEAD. Anna STINSON, the wife of William ROY, was the daughter of James STINSON (Will signed 10 January 1825, Will proved 8 November 1830, Shenandoah County, Virginia) and Mary KELLY (1757 - 1832). Her siblings were: John STINSON (14 February 1783, Pennsylvania - 19 June 1869, Flint Hill, Warren County, Virginia) [M]: m. Mary ("Polly") ROY (ABT 1790 - 23 March 1855, Flint Hill, Warren County, Virginia), 3 April 1832, Shenandoah County, Virginia [See below, G0493A: James WOOD, note 10.]; and James STINSON (ABT 1790, Virginia - Will signed 10 May 1867, Will proved 17 May 1867, Warren County, Virginia) [M]: m. Sally Norris ROY (ABT 1801, Shenandoah County, Virginia - 4 September 1854, Warren County, Virginia), 20 January 1817, Shenandoah County, Virginia. Sally Norris ROY, the wife of James STINSON, was the daughter of James ROY and Lydia MOREHEAD. ____________________________ G0493A:
Marriage: 10 September 1810,
Shenandoah County, Virginia Child 1:
Child 2: Moses Allen WOOD (20 April 1813, Shenandoah County, Virginia - 18 March 1884, Wilson or DeKalb County, Tennessee) [M]: m1. Delilah LAWRENCE (13 August 1819, Wilson County, Tennessee - 7 June 1880, in or near Alexandria, DeKalb County, Tennessee: interment at Eastview Cemetery, Alexandria, DeKalb County, Tennessee), 11 April 1839 (James Young, Justice of the Peace, officiating), Wilson County, Tennessee; m2. Mrs. M. N. DOSS, 29 September 1880, DeKalb County, Tennessee Child 3: Margaret WOOD (9 August 1817, <Wilson County>, Tennessee or <Shenandoah County, Virginia> - 7 December 1856, Wilson County, Tennessee) [F]: m. Claiborne Wesley ("Wes") NEAL (11 November 1807, Tennessee - 1871, Wilson County, Tennessee), 2 November 1840, Wilson County, Tennessee Child 4: James S. WOOD (ABT 1819, <Wilson County>, Tennessee or <Shenandoah County, Virginia> - AFT 12 January 1869 [Will signed] and BEF 17 September 1869 [Will proved], Wilson County, Tennessee [M]: m. Unknown UNKNOWN Child 5: William J. ("Wiltz") WOOD (1 June 1820, Shenandoah County, Virginia - 10 March 1889, Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee) [M]: m1. Jane C. NEAL (20 February 1820 - 21 January 1857, Wilson County, Tennessee: interment at Wood Cemetery on the old Burkett Everett Place in Mt Juliet [located west of Mt. Juliet Road between Highway 70 and Mt. Juliet])), 8 November 1849, Wilson County, Tennessee; m2. Elizabeth Letitia ALEXANDER (ABT 1826, Mt. Juliet, Wilson County, Tennessee - AFT 1900, <Wilson County>, Tennessee) Child 6: Susan WOOD (1827, <Wilson County>, Tennessee - ?) [F]: m. Thomas KITTRELL (1825, North Carolina - ?), 25 December 1834 (William Laurence, Justice of the Peace, officiating), Wilson County, Tennessee Child 7:
Yandell WOOD (1827, <Wilson County>, Tennessee
- AFT 18 May 1863) [M]: m. Harriet R. SNEED (1834, DeKalb
County, Tennessee - ?) Note 1: The marriage bond of James WOOD and Elizabeth ALLEN is recorded in Shenandoah County, Virginia Marriage Book: 1772 - 1850. The bond is dated 10 September 1810 and shows that Elizabeth ALLEN was the daughter of Moses ALLEN who acted as bondsman. Note 2: In the United States Census of 1850 for Wilson County, Tennessee, Civil District 13, 3 November 1850, the domicile of James WOOD, farmer, said to be 65 years of age and to have been born in Virginia, is enumerated as household number 1594. Residing with him is his wife, Elizabeth ALLEN, said to be 65 years of age and to have been born in Virginia, and a Mary KILE, 11 years of age and said to have been born in Tennessee. Note 3: From Wilson County, Tennesse Miscellaneous Records 1800-1875 (Partlow), p.108 - Wills and Inventories 1853-1858:
Note 4: William J. WOOD, the son of James WOOD, was a maker of coffins. Copies of the ledgers of his business are on file in the Genealogy Department of the Mt. Juliet Library. From the researches of Jesse Clay MARLER, which were conducted in the 1940s and 1950s, it is known that the nickname of William J. WOOD was "Wiltz." In Thomas Partlow's Wilson County, Tennessee Guardian Settlements: 1863 - 1875, William J. WOOD is named guardian of his son William T. WOOD, a minor heir of L.Y. NEAL. The guardianship was recorded 10 July 1868. Lunsford Yandell NEAL had died in Yazoo City, Yazoo County, Mississippi 11 April 1856. The Will of Lunsford Yandell NEAL was an object of legal contest. According to the Wilson County, Tennessee Court Minutes, John B. SCOBEY, executor, filed suit, on 20 January 1857, against W. J. WOOD and wife Jane, Jane NEAL, Claiborne W. NEAL, William G. NEAL, William C. BRANCH by his guardian W. H. HARRIS, Joseph B. SCOBEY, Robert Z. SCOBEY, and Mary Jane SCOBEY, infants who are legatees in the Will of L. Y. NEAL. Jane C. NEAL, the wife of William J. WOOD and the mother of William T. WOOD, died on the day following John B. SCOBEY's filing of the suit, 21 January 1857. William T. WOOD, therefore, remained as heir to his mother's portion of the estate of her brother, Lunsford Yandell NEAL. Note 5: William J. WOOD, the son of James WOOD, signed his Will 23 February 1889 in Wilson County, Tennessee:
Note 6: William .J. WOOD died at his home on 10 March 1889. Francis Harmon BASS, the husband of Mary Elizabeth WOOD [see below, Note 7], reported that he was at the house of William J. WOOD on Thursday after the burial on Monday. Note 7: William J. WOOD was first married to Jane C. NEAL (20 February 1820 - 21 January 1857, Wilson County, Tennessee: interment at Walter Reeves place, up Hearn Hill Road, near Watertown, Wilson County, Tennessee) on 8 November 1849, in Wilson County, Tennessee. Jane C. NEAL, the daughter of William NEAL, Jr. and Jane <GREEN?>, died in childbirth. She and the twins whom she was carrying lie interred in the Wood Cemetery on the old Burkett Everett place in Mt Juliet (located west of Mt. Juliet Road between Highway 70 and Mt. Juliet). About Jane C. NEAL and her immediate system of kinship, see G0491A: Richard ("Uncle Dick") MARLER, note 5, in Antecedents and Descendants of Richard Marler (1 August 1823 - 28 June 1903). William J. WOOD, sometime between 1857 and 1860, was second married to Elizabeth Letitia ALEXANDER (1826, Mt. Juliet, Wilson County, Tennessee - AFT 1900, <Wilson County>, Tennessee). Elizabeth Letitia ALEXANDER was the daughter of Benjamin ALEXANDER (1785, Alamance, Guilford County, North Carolina - 22 July 1866, Mt. Juliet, Wilson County, Tennessee and Sarah ("Sallie") CLOYD (1 February 1789, Wytheville, Montgomery County, Virginia - 1864, Mt. Juliet, Wilson County, Tennessee), who were married 24 July 1806 in Wilson County, Tennessee. The family ALEXANDER is said to include Cherokee ancestry. About 1801, Benjamin ALEXANDER, in the Donnell Settlement, taught the first school in Wilson County. Elizabeth Letitia ALEXANDER had been first married 15 March 1848 (Rev. John Beard officiating), in Wilson County, Tennessee, to Horace C. FINNEY (1822, Mt. Juliet, Wilson County, Tennessee - AFT August 1855 and BEF December 1859, Wilson County, Tennessee) by whom she engendered Thomas Lowry FINNEY (April 1856, Wilson County, Tennessee - AFT 1900, Wilson County, Tennessee). By William J. WOOD, Elizabeth Letitia ALEXANDER engendered Mary Elizabeth WOOD (20 August 1860, Wilson County, Tennessee - 5 March 1941, Mt. Juliet, Wilson County, Tennessee: interment at Bass Family Cemetery, located about one mile from Highway 70 on Bass Lane, south of the highway, 1/4 mile west of Cooks Church) [F]: m. Francis Harmon ("Frank") BASS (21 October 1857, Wilson County, Tennessee - 22 May 1925: interment at Bass Family Cemetery, located about one mile from Highway 70 on Bass Lane, south of the highway, 1/4 mile west of Cooks Church), 20 November 1879, Wilson County, Tennessee, solemnized by Rev. G. L. Staley; and Jennie Ruth WOOD (9 May 1866, Wilson County, Tennessee - ?) [F]: m. W. A. GLEAVES (1852, <Tennessee> - ?), 5 December 1892, Wilson County, Tennessee. United States Census for 1900, Wilson County, Tennessee:
Obituary of Mary Elizabeth WOOD:
W. A. GLEAVES, the husband of Jennie Ruth WOOD, was the son of John T. GLEAVES, M. D. (1823 - BEF 1893, Wilson County, Tennessee) and Tabitha P. MOORE (1827 - ?), who were married, in Davidson County, Tennessee, 7 April 1846. John T. GLEAVES, who practiced medicine at Green Hill, was a member of the 31st Tennessee Assembly (House of Representatives, 1855-57) and of the Tennessee Senate, 1877-79. For more information about the family BASS, see "The Old Bass House" in The Chronicle published by the Mt. Juliet - West Wilson County Historical Society, Vol VII No. 2, May 1985. Note 8: It was Joseph NEAL who stood as bondsman for the marriage of Susan WOOD and Thomas KITTRELL.
Note 9: Margaret WOOD and Claiborne Wesley ("Wes") NEAL:
Note 10: For the marriage of Moses Allen WOOD and Delilah LAWRENCE, Robert Donnell signed as bondsman on 9 April 1839 (date of bond). Delilah LAWRENCE was the daughter of Joseph B. LAWRENCE (ABT 1797, Fauquier County, Virginia - ABT 1848, Wilson County, Tennessee) and Mary ("Polly") NEAL (6 June 1799, .Lincoln County, Kentucky - ABT 15 September 1873, DeKalb County, Tennessee: interment at Eastview Cemetery, Alexandria, DeKalb County, Tennessee). Joseph B. LAWRENCE, who died about 1848 in Wilson County, Tennessee, was married to Mary ("Polly") NEAL on 27 June 1816 in Wilson County, Tennessee (marriage officiated by Thomas Durham, minister of the Gospel). [See Byron and Barbara Sistler, Early Middle Tennessee Marriages (Byron Sistler and Associates, Nashvillle, Tennessee: 1988] After the death of Joseph B. LAWRENCE, Mary ("Polly") NEAL was married to William WRIGHT (ABT 1801, North Carolina - 5 October 1865, DeKalb County, Tennessee: interment at <Eastview Cemetery>, Alexandria, DeKalb County, Tennessee) on 28 August 1849, in Wilson County, Tennessee, at a ceremony officiated by William VANTREASE, "minister of the Gospel." William WRIGHT was the widower of Unknown UNKNOWN whom he had married before 1825. The Will of William WRIGHT, who settled in Wilson County, Tennessee in the 1820s, is of some interest. His orthography has not been altered:
Mary ("Polly") NEAL was the daughter of Patroclus ("Pallis") NEAL (1776, Virginia - 20 March 1851, Wilson County, Tennessee: interment at C. Foutch Farm, Hickman Creek, Wilson County, Tennessee) and Sarah ("Sally") MOORE (29 October 1776, Surrey County, North Carolina - 24 July 1865, Wilson County, Tennessee), who were married 13 May 1796, in Lincoln County, Kentucky; and she was the sister of Elizabeth NEAL (22 March 1797, Lincoln County, Kentucky - 1865, Wilson County, Tennessee), the wife whom William LAWRENCE (13 September 1792 [date on gravestone], <Shenandoah County>, Virginia - 16 August 1855, Wilson County, Tennessee), the brother of Joseph B. LAWRENCE, took on 28 February 1815, in Wilson County, Tennessee. William LAWRENCE was the widower of Unknown UNKNOWN whom he had married, in Virginia, previous to 1811. Of Mary ("Polly) NEAL and Elizabeth NEAL, the remaining siblings were: William NEAL (8 February 1801, Wilson County, Tennessee or Lincoln County, Kentucky - ?) [M]; Ashley NEAL (6 June 1803, Watertown, Wilson County, Tennessee - 10 August 1886, Watertown, Wilson County, Tennessee: interment at Neal-Young Cemetery, Watertown, Wilson County, Tennessee) [M]: m. Elizabeth ("Betsy") WATERS (16 August 1804, Virginia - 4 May 1865, Watertown, Wilson County, Tennessee: interment at Neal-Young Cemetery, Watertown, Wilson County, Tennessee), 13 November 1823, Watertown, Wilson County, Tennessee; George NEAL (28 January 1805, Wilson County, Tennessee - ABT 1893) [M]: m1. Patsy BRANCH (died ABT 1839), 9 October 1824: m2. Mary ("Polly") VANTREASE (ABT 1809 - ?), 24 July 1840; Isaac NEAL (15 February 1808, Wilson County, Tennessee - BY 11 January 1834 [Will recorded], Wilson County, Tennessee) [M]: m. Sally ("Sary") JOHNSON (died BY 1840), ABT 1828; Jonathan NEAL (15 April 1810, Wilson County, Tennessee - BEF 7 May 1883) [M]: m. Mary ("Polly) BEARD (1810 - AFT 1880), 17 January 1837, Wilson County, Tennessee; Amy NEAL (28 September 1813, Wilson County, Tennessee - AFT 1870) [F]: m. Daniel SMITH, Jr. (19 October 1807 - ?), 2 August 1828, Wilson County, Tennessee; Sarah NEAL (25 November 1815, Wilson County, Tennessee - ?) [M]: m. Isaac SMITH (22 February 1810, Wilson County, Tennesee - 1877, DeKalb County, Tennessee), 25 February 1832, DeKalb County, Tennessee; Nancy C. NEAL (22 October 1820, Wilson County, Tennessee - 20 May 1863, Wilson or DeKalb County, Tennessee: interment at Salem Cemetery, Liberty, DeKalb County, Tennessee) [F]: m. James ALLEN (31 December 1814 - 14 April 1860, Wilson or DeKalb County, Tennessee: interment at Salem Cemetery, DeKalb County, Tennessee, 15 November 1837, Wilson County, Tennessee; and Martha NEAL (2 May 1823, Wilson County, Tennessee - BEF 1850) [F]: m. John H. ALLEN, 16 October 1840, Wilson County, Tennessee. Isaac SMITH and Daniel SMITH, Jr., who married the sisters Amy and Sarah NEAL were brothers, the offspring of Daniel SMITH, Sr. (27 February 1778, Virginia - 1841, DeKalb County, Tennessee) and Mary GRANDSTAFF (15 January 1779, North Carolina - BEF June 1843, DeKalb County, Tennessee), who were married 15 January 1801, in Virginia. Patroclus ("Pallis") NEAL was the son of William NEAL, Sr. and Elizabeth UNKNOWN. His siblings were William NEAL, Jr. [M] (20 February 1780, Lincoln County, Kentucky - 5 February 1849, Wilson County, Tennessee: interment at the Walter Reeves place, up Hearn Hill Road, outside of Watertown, Tennessee): m. Jane <GREEN> (10 October 1790, North Carolina - 26 May 1869, Wilson County, Tennessee: interment at the Walter Reeves place, up Hearn Hill Road, outside of Watertown, Tennessee); Mattison NEAL (1784, Lincoln County, Kentucky - AFT 1850, Wilson County, Tennessee) [M]: m. Nancy UNKNOWN (1784, North Carolina - AFT 1850, Wilson County, Tennessee); Sally NEAL (ABT 1771, Lincoln County, Kentucky - ?) [F]: m. Unknown BLACK; Sophia NEAL (ABT 1778, Lincoln County, Kentucky- ?) [F]: m. Unknown BUCK; Charles NEAL [M]: (ABT 1779, Lincoln County, Kentucky - ?); George NEAL (ABT 1780, Lincoln County, Kentucky - ?) [M]; and Doshia Elizabeth NEAL (ABT 1781, Lincoln County, Kentucky - ?) [F]: m. William COMMONS. About William NEAL, Jr., Jane <GREEN>, and their offspring, see G0491A: Richard ("Uncle Dick") MARLER, note 5, in Antecedents and Descendants of Richard Marler (1 August 1823 - 28 June 1903). Joseph B. LAWRENCE and William LAWRENCE, who married the sisters Mary ("Polly") NEAL and Elizabeth NEAL were the sons of William LAWRENCE (1762, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - 22 June 1846, Wilson County, Tennessee) and Mary BARBEE (1765 - 1856, DeKalb County, Tennessee), who were married, in Virginia,14 April 1783. Their siblings were: Edward ("Neddie") LAWRENCE (16 December 1785, <Fauquier County>, Virginia - 15 June 1870, Smith County, Tennessee: interment at Lawrence Cemetery, near Alexandria, DeKalb County, Tennessee) [M]: m. Delilah ("Lillie") WOODWARD (12 May 1791, Virginia - June 1875, <Smith County>, Tennessee: interment at Lawrence Cemetery, near Alexandria, DeKalb County, Tennessee), 21 February 1810 [marriage-bond date: 29 January 1810], Wilson County, Tennessee; John LAWRENCE (ABT 1788 - 2 June 1833, Wilson County, Tennessee) [M]: m. Mary PRAETOR (ABT 1790 - AFT 1848), 27 July 1807, Shenandoah County, Virginia; Lewis LAWRENCE (ABT 1789, <Fauquier County>, Virginia - 1823, Shenandoah County, Virginia) [M]: m. Mary ("Polly") ROY (ABT 1790 - 23 March 1855, Flint Hill, Warren County, Virginia), 1 August 1809, Shenandoah County, Virginia; Elizabeth LAWRENCE (23 May 1790, <Shenandoah County>, Virginia - ?: interment at Barbee Cemetery near Commerce, Wilson County, Tennessee [the gravestone is toppled and illegible]) [F]: m. James MARKS (1785, Virginia - ABT 1856, Wilson County, Tennessee), 13 January 1809, Shenandoah County, Virginia; Sarah LAWRENCE (8 March 1800, <Shenadoah County>, Virginia - 1 February 1878, Wilson County, Tennessee) [F]: m. Thomas PHILLIPS (16 August 1795, Pennsylvania - 18 January 1874, Wilson County, Tennessee), 2 September 1819 [marriage-bond date: 28 August 1819], Wilson County, Tennessee; Turner M. LAWRENCE (8 March 1800, <Shenandoah County>, Virginia - AFT 22 May 1862 and BY November 1862) [M]: m1. Ann BARBEE, 19 April 1821, Wilson County, Tennessee: m2. Sarah TAYLOR (7 July 1804 - 2 April 1884, Alexandria, DeKalb County, Tennessee: interment on land near Adrian LAWRENCE, Wilson County, Tennessee), 27 February 1838 [marriage-bond date: 25 February 1838], Wilson County, Tennessee; and Mary ("Polly") LAWRENCE (1 June 1802, <Shenandoah County>, Virginia - 20 December 1891, DeKalb County, Tennessee: interment at West Cemetery [Helton Farm], DeKalb County, Tennessee) [F]: m. John Franklin WEST (6 April 1796, Sussex County, Delaware - 17 July 1854, DeKalb County, Tennessee: interment at West Cemetery [Helton Farm], DeKalb County, Tennessee), 4 March 1819, Wilson County, Tennessee. For the marriage of John LAWRENCE and Mary PRAETOR, John Boyd was the bondsman. Shortly after 1799, John LAWRENCE settled in Wilson County, Tennessee in the vicinity of Round Lick Creek. After the death of John LAWRENCE, Mary PRAETOR married Unknown ALLOWAY, about 1836. She was third married, in September 1848, to James BIRCHETT (or BADGETT). Mary ("Polly") ROY, the wife of Lewis LAWRENCE, was the daughter of Elijah ROY (ABT 1768, Shenandoah County, Virginia, British North America - Will proved 24 December 1840, Warren County, Virginia) and, as it seems, Susannah LAWRENCE (ABT 1766, <Prince William County>, Virginia, British North America - BEF September 1798, Shenandoah County, Virginia), who were married, in Shenandoah County, Virginia, on 30 September 1790. [See above, G0494A: William WOOD, Note 2.] After the death of Lewis LAWRENCE, Mary ("Polly") ROY was married to John STINSON (14 February 1783, Pennsylvania - 19 June 1869, Flint Hill, Warren County, Virginia), in Shenandoah County, Virginia, on 3 April 1832. [See above, G0494A: William WOOD, Note 2.]
Susannah LAWRENCE was the sister of William LAWRENCE, husband of Mary BARBEE and father of Lewis LAWRENCE. Lewis LAWRENCE and Mary ("Polly") ROY were, therefore, first cousins. Susannah LAWRENCE, the mother of Mary ("Polly") ROY, was the daughter of Edward LAWRENCE (ABT 1737, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1817, in the Shenandoah Valley, Augusta County, Virginia) and Mary MOREHEAD (ABT 1738, Prince William [since 1 May 1759, Fauquier] County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1779, Fauquier County, Virginia). In addition to William LAWRENCE, the husband of Mary BARBEE, her siblings were: Mary LAWRENCE (? - BEF November 1802, Shenandoah County, Virginia) [F]: m. John Phillip BOOKER (ABT 1761, Frederick County, Virginia, British North America - 9 April 1804, Shenandoah County, Virginia), 25 January 1790, Shenandoah County, Virginia; Lucy LAWRENCE (ABT 1775 - ?) [F]: m. John A. BARBEE (1771, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - ?), 2 January 1795, Shenadoah County, Virginia [For this marriage, Edward LAWRENCE stood as bondsman.]; Nancy Ann LAWRENCE (? - ?: interment at Lawrence Family Cemetery, Alexandria, DeKalb County, Tennessee) [F]: m. Edward Northcroft TRAIL (1778, <Shenandoah County, Virginia> or Maryland - 1834, Smith County, Tennessee), 26 January 1801, Shenandoah County, Virginia; Hannah LAWRENCE (? - ?) [F]: m. Nathan TRAIL, 31 December 1801, Shenandoah County, Virginia; Elizabeth LAWRENCE (ABT 1765, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]: m1. Joseph BARBEE (11 February 1743/44, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - BEF October 1800, Fauquier County, Virginia), 28 April 1783, Fauquier County, Virginia (the bondsman was Edward LAWRENCE): m2. Raleigh HICKERSON, 3 January 1803, Fauquier County, Virginia ( the bondsman was Charles MOREHEAD); and Edward LAWRENCE (? - ?) [M]: m. Susanna MOREHEAD, 17 August 1812, Fauquier County, Virginia. After the death of Mary LAWRENCE, John Phillip BOOKER was second married to Nancy CLOUD, in Shenandoah County, Virginia, on 22 November 1802. The Will of John Philip BOOKER, signed 8 April 1804 and proved 13 April 1804, mentions three children. William and Salley are given to their grandfather, Edward LAWRENCE. The remaining child must have been the offspring of Mary LAWRENCE's second marriage.
John MOREHEAD, Sr. died in Fauquier County, Virginia, in 1768, leaving a Will, signed 22 June 1768 and proved 24 October 1768, which named his wife Mary and the following children: Hannah JOHNSON, Charles MOREHEAD (who married Mary TURNER, the daughter of James TURNER [born ABT 1715] and Kerenhappuch NORMAN [ABT 1715, Spotsylvania, Gloucester County, Virginia, British North America - 1807, Richmond County, North Carolina] who were married 7 May 1734 in Spotsylvania, Gloucester County, Virginia, British North America), Joseph MOREHEAD (who married Elizabeth TURNER, another daughter of James TURNER and Kerenhappuch NORMAN, and went to Barren County, Kentucky), John MOREHEAD, Jr. (Will signed 14 June 1819 and proved 22 January 1821), Alexander MOREHEAD, Mary LAWRENCE (putative wife of Edward LAWRENCE of Shenandoah and Fauquier counties, Virginia), Elizabeth BRIXTRAW (BRIXSTRAW), Samuel MOREHEAD (died 26 December 1796), and Presley MOREHEAD. John MOREHEAD, Sr., who was born in Northumberland County, Virginia about 1682, was - after being first married to Unknown UNKNOWN - second married to Mary ARMISTEAD (ABT 1700, King George County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1768), in Virginia, about 1725. Their children were: Hannah MOREHEAD (ABT 1726, Halifax, Halifax County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Unknown JOHNSON, ABT 1753, <Halifax, Halifax County>, Virginia, British North America; John MOREHEAD, Jr. (ABT 1732, Halifax, Halifax County, Virginia, British North America - Will signed 14 June 1819 and proved 22 January 1821, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]: m. Frances RIXEY, ABT 1764; Joseph MOREHEAD (19 January 1732/33, Hamilton Parish, Prince William [since 1 May 1759, Fauquier] County, Virginia, British North America - 11 July 1806, Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina) [M]: m.Elizabeth TURNER (1740, <Spotsylvania, Gloucester County>, Virginia, British North America - AFT 14 February 1795), ABT 1753, Orange County>, Virginia, British North America; Captain Charles R. MOREHEAD (19 January 1733, Prince William [since 1 May 1759, Fauquier] County, Virginia, British North America - 30 September 1783, Leeds Parish, Fauquier County, Virginia ) [M]: m. Mary TURNER (ABT 1738, Halifax County, Virginia, British North America - 27 March 1835, Warren County, Kentucky), 1756, King George County, Virginia, British North America; Alexander MOREHEAD (ABT 1738, Prince William [since 1 May 1759, Fauquier] County, Virginia, British North America - 1816) [M]: m. Lydia NELSON (24 September 1746, Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1784); Mary MOREHEAD (ABT 1738, Prince William [since 1 May 1759, Fauquier] County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1779, Fauquier County, Virginia) [F]: m. Edward LAWRENCE (ABT 1737, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1817, in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia); William MOREHEAD (ABT 1740, Hamilton Parish, Prince William [since 1 May 1759, Fauquier] County, Virginia, British North America - BEF 3 November 1809, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]: m. Mary JONES [the daughter of Solomon JONES (1727, St. Mary's County, Maryland, British North America - ?) and *Elizabeth NEVILLE (3 December 1730, Middlesex County, Virginia, British North America - 1786)]; Elizabeth MOREHEAD (14 May 1745, <Halifax, Halifax County>, Virginia, British North America - 1821, Fauquier County, Virginia) [F]: m. Lawrence BRIXTRAW (BRIXSTRAW), BEF 1768; Samuel MOREHEAD (1747, Halifax, Halifax County, Virginia, British North America - 26 December 1796, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]: m. Lucy WILMARTH (1751, Prince William County, Virginia - ?), ABT 1776; and Presley MOREHEAD (1749, Halifax, Halifax County, Virginia, British North America - 27 March 1830) [M]: m. Elizabeth HUNTON, 18 May 1778, Fauquier County, Virginia. [Halifax County, located in Southside Virginia, was created in 1752 from Lunenburg County and named for the British statesmen George Montagu Dunk, Earl of Halifax. At the time of its creation, its territory included what is today Pittsylvania, Patrick and Henry counties and parts of Franklin and Floyd counties. Its present-day boundaries were established in 1766 when Pittsylvania County was created from the western portion of the county. In addition to the Virginia counties of Pittsylvania, Charlotte, Campbell and Mecklenberg, Halifax County is also bordered by the North Carolina counties of Caswell, Person and Granville. Fauquier County,Virginia was formed 1 May 1759 from Prince William County, Virginia. Warrenton (22186) is the County Seat. It received its name from Francis Fauquier, Governor of Virginia at the time.]
Kristin Kuhlman, k r i s k u h l f a m i l y @ y a h o o . c o m, gives the following:
Kerenhappuch NORMAN TURNER, the mother-in-law of Charles R. MOREHEAD, not only sent her sons and grandsons to war, but at the battle of Guilford gave valuable service in nursing the wounded. A monument in her memory was erected at the site of the battle of Guilford.
John A. BARBEE, the husband of Lucy LAWRENCE, was born in 1771, in Fauquier County, Virginia. He was the son of Joseph BARBEE, Sr. (ABT 1748 Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - September 1790, Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia) and Ann ("Nancy") WITHERS (20 December 1751, Prince William County, Virginia - AFT September 1809, Hampshire, Mineral County, Virginia [now West Virginia]), who were married 2 February 1769 in Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia. His siblings were: Elizabeth Withers BARBEE (1772, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Matthew DAVIS (1771 - ?), 19 January 1791, Fauquier County, Virginia; Thomas Withers BARBEE (1774, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1830, Warren County, Virginia) [M]: m. Sara FOLEY (ABT 1772, Fauquier County, Virginia), 6 February 1806, Fauquier County, Virginia; Anna F. BARBEE (1777, Fauquier County, Virginia - ?) [F]: m. Richard COMPTON (ABT 1766, Culpeper County, Virginia, British North America - 1811, <Culpeper County>, Virginia), 4 March 1799, Fauquier County, Virginia; Jane D. BARBEE (ABT 1779, Fauquier County, Virginia - ?) [F]: m. William KEYES, 29 December 1803 [Ann and Thomas Jordan stood bond], Fauquier County, Virginia; Charlotte T. BARBEE (1779, Fauquier County, Virginia - ?) [F]: m. Tarpley MORRISON, 4 December 1804 [consent furnished by Ann and Thomas Jordan], Fauquier County, Virginia; Nathaniel BARBEE (1781, Fauquier County, Virginia - ?) [M]: m. Catherine BRADFORD (1785 - ?), 26 November 1816, Kentucky; Joseph BARBEE (Jr.) (1784, Fauquier County, Virginia - ?) [M]; William W. BARBEE (veteran of the War of 1812) (ABT 1785, Fauquier County, Virginia - 12 November 1857, Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky) [M]: m. Sally FOLEY (1795, Fauquier County, Virginia - 1887, Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky), 4 November 1816, Fauquier County, Virginia; and Andrew Russell BARBEE (19 May 1788, Fauquier County, Virginia - 10 May 1869, Rappahannock County, Virginia) [M]: m. Nancy BRITTON (9 November 1791, Virginia - ?), 14 November 1810, Shenandoah County, Virginia. Richard COMPTON, the husband of Anna F. BARBEE, was the son of Matthew COMPTON III (31 December 1745, Trinity Parish, Charles County, Maryland, British North America - 19 March 1810, Culpeper County, Virginia) and Mary UNKNOWN, ABT 1765, Culpeper County, Virginia, who were married, about 1765, in Culpeper County, Virginia. His siblings were: Matthew COMPTON (ABT 1767, Culpeper County, Virginia, British North America - BEF 1810) [M]: m. Nancy UNKNOWN (ABT 1777, <Culpeper County>, Virginia - ?), BEF 1810, Culpeper County, Virginia; Charles COMPTON (ABT 1771, <Culpeper County>, Virginia, British North America - ?) [M]: m. Margaret BARBEE (ABT 1773, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - 1828, Wilson County, Tennessee), 3 November 1800, Shenandoah County, Virginia; Edward COMPTON (ABT 1774, <Culpeper County>, Virginia, British North America - ?) [M]; Garrett COMPTON (ABT 1777, <Culpeper County>, Virginia - ?) [M]: m. Charlotte YATES (ABT 1780, <Culpeper County>, Virginia - ?); and Furman COMPTON (ABT 1778, <Culpeper County>, Virginia - ?) [M]. [See Child 9, Matthew COMPTON III, under G0495A: Matthew COMPTON II, in Descendants of John F. Compton (BEF 1644 - AFT 29 May 1713 and BEF 5 March 1718). Margaret BARBEE, the wife of Charles COMPTON, was the daughter of the Joseph BARBEE (11 February 1743/44, Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 1799, Fauquier County, Virginia) who first married Unknown THOMAS about 1765. This Joseph BARBEE was second married to Elizabeth LAWRENCE (see above) . This Joseph BARBEE was the son of Thomas BARBEE (1690, <Stafford County>, Virginia, British North America - 1752, <Stafford County>, Virginia, British North America) and Margaret DULANEY (DELANEY); and he was the brother of Andrew BARBEE (1716, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 28 December 1795, Fauquier County, Virginia) who was married to Jane DELANEY (ABT 1724, King George County, Virginia, British North America - 3 September 1803, Fauquier County, Virginia) on 29 September 1748 in King George County, Virginia. Andrew BARBEE and Jane DELANEY, who was first married to Unknown LACEY, were the parents of the Joseph BARBEE, Sr. (see above) who married Ann ("Nancy") WITHERS (see above). Edward Northcroft TRAIL, the husband of Nancy Ann LAWRENCE, was said by Robert TRAIL to have been "walking up a skid log which fell, causing him to jump; and he stuck a staub (recte: stob) in his foot and died of blood poisoning in 1834." [Robert TRAIL, Early Trails in Maryland, manuscript, 1979; and Judy Wendt, James Trail Descendants, unpublished manuscript, 1988] Edward Northcroft TRAIL and Nathan TRAIL, the husband
of Hannah LAWRENCE, were the sons of William TRAIL (ABT
1740, Maryland, British North America - 1779, Montgomery
County, Maryland) and Frances NORTHCROFT, who were
married in Montgomery County, Maryland before 1765. Their
siblings were: William TRAIL (ABT 1765, Montgomery
County, Maryland, British North America - 17 August 1833)
[M]: m1. Priscilla SHAW, BEF 1798: <m2. Ann BELT, 30
March 1807>: m3 (or m2): Abigail HAYS (5 June 1789,
Barnesville, Montgomery County, Maryland - 10 May 1857,
Barnesville, Montgomery County, Maryland: interment at
Methodist Episcopal Church, Barnesville, Montgomery
County, Maryland), 14 June 1809, Montgomery County,
Maryland; Rachel TRAIL (1767 - ?) [F]: m. Francis
WOODWARD; Elizabeth TRAIL (3 June 1765, Prince George
County, Maryland, British North America - ?) [F]: m.
William FISH; James TRAIL (1772, Montgomery County,
Maryland, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Hannah
Cottrell HOWARD (16 William TRAIL, the husband of Frances NORTHCROFT, was the son of James TRAIL (ABT 1715, Prince George County, Maryland, British North America - 2 May 1799, Montgomery County, Maryland: interment at Prince George Parish, Montgomery County, Maryland) and Rachel JENKINS (or WOFFORD). His siblings were: Eleanor TRAIL (ABT 1742, Maryland, British North America - ?, Spartanburg County, South Carolina or Campbell County, Kentucky) [F]: m1. Amos LEE: m2. George NICHOLS; Jean TRAIL (1744, Maryland, British North America - 1832, Union County, South Carolina) [F]: m. Benjamin WEST (1742 or 1747, Maryland, British North America - 12 May 1780, Glenn Springs, Spartanburg County, South Carolina); Sarah TRAIL (ABT 1746, Montgomery County, Maryland, British North America - AFT 1783) [F]: m1. William MCCOY: m2. John BUXTON, 1780; Cassandra TRAIL (ABT 1750, Montgomery County, Maryland, British North America - 31 October 1831, <South Carolina>) [F]: m. Zadock FORD (ABT 1752 - 9 April 1801, Spartanburg County, South Carolina), BEF 1772, Maryland, British North America; Rachel TRAIL (ABT 1752, Montgomery County, Maryland, British North America - AFT 1783, Virginia) [F]: m. Henry CYBERT; Archibald TRAIL (ABT 1755, Montgomery County, Maryland, British North America - BEF 1820) [M]: m. Monica HOWE, Montgomery County, Maryland; Margaret ("Margery") TRAIL (20 March 1757, Montgomery County, Maryland, British North America - 9 May 1824, Pendleton County, Kentucky) [F]: m. Walter Horace FRYER (11 June 1760, Frederick County, Maryland, British North America - 20 April <1821>, Pendleton County, Kentucky), 9 May 1780, Montgomery County, Maryland; Ozborn (Osborne) TRAIL (December 1759, Montgomery County, Maryland, British North America - AFT 5 December 1814 [Will signed] and BEF 28 November 1815 [Will proved], Campbell County, Kentucky) [M]: m. Frances Merrill FRYER, 9 October 1781, Montgomery County, Maryland; Nathan TRAIL [M]; and David TRAIL [M]. About Benjamin WEST, the husband of Jean TRAIL, it was reported in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal of 14 May 1933, on the occasion of dedicating a marker to him, that he - a soldier in the Revolutionary War - was ambushed on 12 May 1780 by a band of Tory raiders. Benjamin WEST was shot, scalped, and hanged. In this same issue of the Spartanburg Herald-Journal: "According to tradition Benjamin WEST and JosephWOFFORD came to what was then Ninety-Six District from Maryland and bought a large tract of land from Brownlee and Bailey. WEST settled on that part nearer the WEST springs section while WOFFORD built his cabin northwest of WEST's toward Glenn Springs although not far away.WEST's cabin was built of logs and stood on a wedge of ground at the intersection of a branch with McElwain Creek on the same side of the present highway and not five hundred yards from the old Winnsmithhouse." During the Revolutionary War, Zadock FORD, the husband of Cassandra TRAIL, was in the 7th Company of the Maryland Militia (Montgomery County). Archibald TRAIL enlisted as a soldier for the Revolutionary War in 1776 and took the Patriots' Oath in 1778. Walter Horace FRYER and Margaret ("Margery") TRAIL moved to Campbell County, Kentucky and, from there, to Pendleton County, Kentucky. Walter Horace FRYER was the son of John FRYER and Mary UNKNOWN. Frances Merrill FRYER was the daughter of George FRYER and Mary MERRILL. Frances Merrill FRYER and Walter Horace FRYER are said to have been cousins. Ann ("Nancy") WITHERS, the wife of Joseph BARBEE, was second married to Thomas JORDAN on 29 October 1791, in Fauquier County, Virginia. On behalf of the bride, James WITHERS, her brother, stood as bondsman. She was the daughter of Thomas WITHERS (15 February 1723/24, Potomac Creek, Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - November 1794, Fauquier County, Virginia and Elizabeth ("Betty") Ashby WILLIAMS (ABT 1723, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - BEF 1791, <Fauquier County>, Virginia), who were married about 1743. Her siblings were: James WITHERS (16 March 1744/45, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - BEF July 1791, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]: m. Elizabeth WILLIAMS (ABT 1745 - 27 March 1783, Woodford County, Kentucky), ABT 1767, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America; Hannah WITHERS [F] (10 September 1746, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - ?): m. James WINN, (ABT 1750, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - ?), ABT 3 March 1767, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America; Elizabeth WITHERS (ABT 1749, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Minor WINN (1730, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - 1813, Loudoun County, Virginia, British North America), 17 October 1766; John WITHERS (1753, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - November 1816, Sumner County, Tennessee) [M]; m. Katherine PORTER (1753 - AFT 1830, Sumner County, Tennessee), BEF 13 March 1786; Matthew Keene WITHERS (3 February 1755, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - 1830, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]: m. Nancy JENNINGS (7 October 1753, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - 26 July 1823, Fauquier County, Virginia), BEF 13 December 1776 [See Child 8: Nancy JENNINGS under G0495A: Augustine JENNINGS (Sr.), Major, in Descendants of John Jennings (ABT 1630/35 - 1669).]; William Hamlin WITHERS (ABT 1756, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - 24 August 1834, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]: m. Martha Ann ("Patsy") ASHBY (ABT 1770 - 15 September 1838, Gibson County, Tennessee), 28 March 1786, Fauquier County, Virginia; Enoch Keene WITHERS (14 October 1760, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - 26 July 1813, Green Meadows Plantation, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]: m. Unknown UNKNOWN, 13 May 1786, Fauquier County, Virginia; Benjamin WITHERS (22 January 1763, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - ABT March 1823, Bullitt County, Kentucky) [M]: m. Nancy ROBINSON (ABT 1763 - BEF 1820, Bullitt County, Kentucky), 24 February 1783, Fauquier County, Virginia; Sarah WITHERS (13 October 1765, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1794, <Fauquier County>, Virginia) [F]: m. Charles Cato WEST (ABT 1764 - ?), 10 June 1785, Fauquier County, Virginia; Susannah WITHERS (20 August 1767, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - ?, Bourbon County, Kentucky) [F]: m. Chichester CHINN (ABT 1767 - ?, Bourbon County, Kentucky), 9 June 1789, Fauquier County, Virginia; Joseph WITHERS (22 June 1769, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1825, Pulaski County, Kentucky) M]: m. Lydia MAUZY (ABT 1769, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America- ?), 24 January 1791, Fauquier County, Virginia; and Roger WITHERS (ABT 1770, <Fauquier County>, Virginia - ?) [M]. Thomas WITHERS was the son of James WITHERS (6 June 1681, Potomac Creek, Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 6 June 1746, Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America) who, before 1781 in Stafford County, Virginia, was married to Elizabeth KEENE (ABT 1682, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 26 July 1769, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America). His siblings were: Elizabeth WITHERS (23 December 1706, Stafford County, Virginia British North America - 26 July 1798, Stafford County, Virginia) [F]: m. Abraham FIELD (ABT 1699 - 1775, Culpeper County, Virginia, British North America), BEF 21 July 1723, Stafford County, Virginia; Ursula WITHERS (29 September 1709, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - BY 3 September 1793, Fauquier County, Virginia) [F]: m. John ALLEN, Justice of the Peace (1705, New Baltimore, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 3 October 1759, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America), ABT 1729; Mary WITHERS (twin of Martha WITHERS) (1711, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1746 and BEF 1783) [F]: m. Joseph HUDNALL (Sr.), Justice of the Peace (ABT 1711, Virginia, British North America - 1783, <Hamilton Parish, Prince William County>, Virginia), ABT 1731, King George County, Virginia; Martha WITHERS (twin of Mary WITHERS) (1711, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - BEF 1788) [F]: m. James MCDANIEL (ABT 1711 - 1783), BEF 1746; John WITHERS (Sr.) (29 January 1713/14 - Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 25 October 1794, Stafford County, Virginia) [M]: m. Hannah ALLEN (ABT 1715, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - 16 July 1801, Stafford County, Virginia), 1735, Stafford County, Virginia; Keene WITHERS I (29 January 1714/15, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1720, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America) [M]; Bridget WITHERS I (29 January 1714/15, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1717, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America) [F]; James ("Old Nigh") WITHERS (11 February 1716/17, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 9 January 1784, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]: m1. Catherine BARBEE (1 November 1720, Stafford County, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - BEF 1778), BEF 8 November 1748: m2. Jemima GARNER (ABT 1753, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1807, Fauquier County, Virginia), ABT 1778, Stafford County, Virginia; Ann Sophia WITHERS (20 June 1718, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - died in infancy, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America) [F]; Irvine WITHERS (20 June 1718, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1718, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America) [M]; Bridget WITHERS II (20 July 1720, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1788) [F]: m. William ALLEN (Jr.) (ABT 1719 - ?), 15 February 1742/43, Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America; Ann WITHERS (2 October 1722, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - BEF 1765) [F]: m. Henry MAUZY, 11 November 1744, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America; William WITHERS (25 April 1726, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 6 January 1804, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]: m. Elizabeth HORD (22 September 1732, King George County, Virginia, British North America - 17 October 1781, Fauquier County, Virginia), 15 December 1756, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America; and Keene WITHERS II (13 February 1727/28, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 1756, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America) [M]: m. Elizabeth CAVE (ABT 1727 - 1790, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America), 21 December 1747, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America. John ALLEN, the husband of Ursula WITHERS, was the son of William ALLEN (died after 16 August 1738 and before 12 May 1741 in Stafford County, Virginia) and Margaret LUNSFORD. From Wills, Administrations, and Marriages of Fauquier County, Virginia: 1759 - 1800, compiled by J. Estelle Stewart King (1939):
From Wills, Administrations, and Marriages of Fauquier County, Virginia: 1759 - 1800, compiled by J. Estelle Stewart King (1939):
From Wills, Administrations, and Marriages of Fauquier County, Virginia: 1759 - 1800, compiled by J. Estelle Stewart King (1939):
John WITHERS (Sr.) and Hannah ALLEN were the parents of: James WITHERS (29 August 1736, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - BEF 1819, Stafford County, Virginia) [M]: m. Susan Sara WALLER ( ABT 1738, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - BEF 1810), 7 December 1757, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America; John WITHERS (Jr.) (15 December 1738, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 12 June 1818, Jessamine County, Kentucky) [M]: m. Dilly ALLEN (ABT 1738 - ?), AFT 1775; Elizabeth WITHERS (28 February 1740/41, Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 15 July 1826, Garrard County, Kentucky: interment at W. Jennings Cemetery, Garrard County, Kentucky) [F]: m. William JENNINGS, Captain (ABT 1740, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - 6 April 1814, Garrard County, Kentucky: interment at W. Jennings Cemetery, Garrard County, Kentucky), 24 December 1764, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America [See Child 3: William JENNINGS, Captain, under G0495A: Augustine JENNINGS (Sr.), Major, in Descendants of John Jennings (ABT 1630/35 - 1669).]; Margaret ("Peggy") WITHERS (3 February 1741/42, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1830, Stafford County, Virginia) [F]; Mary WITHERS (23 January 1743/44, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - BEF 1794, Culpeper County, Virginia) [F]: m. John ROUTT (13 December 1742, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ?, Culpeper County, Virginia), ABT 1762; William WITHERS (21 March 1746/47, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 18 October 1821, Hardin County, Kentucky) [M]: m. Hannah ROSSER (6 August 1747, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - 17 November 1825, Hardin County, Kentucky), 21 March 1769, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America; Thomas WITHERS (15 January 1747/48, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1760, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America) [M]; Ursula WITHERS (24 December 1750, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Unknown WALLER, BEF 1794; George WITHERS (2 February 1753, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 1825, Stafford County, Virginia) [M]: m. Elizabeth C. SCANLON (ABT 1753 - October 1834, Jessamine County, Kentucky), BEF 1804; Hannah WITHERS (8 September 1754, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 1800) [F]: m. Joseph de JARNETTE, AFT 1794; Ann WITHERS (9 November 1756, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Nathaniel SMITH, BEF 1804; Sarah WITHERS (22 April 1759, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 1800) [F]: m. William MOUNTJOY (ABT 1759, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ?), BEF 1794; and Benjamin WITHERS (8 October 1762, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 14 October 1830, Prince William County, Virginia) [M]: m. Ann MARKHAM (ABT 1762 - AFT 1830), BEF 1796. Keene WITHERS II and Elizabeth CAVE were the parents of: Ann WITHERS (14 December 1748, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Thomas MOUNTJOY, ABT 1768; Amelia WITHERS (1750, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Robert SCANLON, ABT 1770; James Cave WITHERS (9 May 1752, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - 1828, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]: m. Chloe JENNINGS (ABT 1755, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America), 4 November 1775, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America [See Child 9: Chloe JENNINGS, under G0495A: Augustine JENNINGS (Sr.), Major in Descendants of John Jennings (ABT 1630/35 - 1669)]; William WITHERS (20 February 1754, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - September 1809, Hardin County, Kentucky) [M]: m. Mary WITHERS (18 February 1762, Fauquier County, Virginia, British North America - 1807, Culpeper County, Virginia), 4 January 1780, Fauquier County, Virginia [Mary WITHERS, the wife of William WITHERS, was the daughter of William WITHERS and Elizabeth HORD. See above.]; and John WITHERS (23 February 1756, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America - ?, Botetourt County, Virginia) [M]: m. Elizabeth WITHERS (ABT 1748, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - ?), 21 July 1791, Fauquier County, Virginia. [Elizabeth WITHERS, the wife of John WITHERS, was the daughter of William WITHERS and Elizabeth HORD. See above.]
James Cave WITHERS and Chloe JENNINGS were the parents of: John WITHERS (17 August 1776, Fauquier County, Virginia - 1859, Alexandria, Fairfax County, Virginia) [M]; Augustine WITHERS (11 April 1778, Fauquier County, Virginia - 1826, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]: m. Katherine WITHERS (ABT 1784, Fauquier County, Virginia - ?), 12 September 1803, Fauquier County, Virginia [About Katherine WITHERS, see below.]; Elizabeth Cave WITHERS (10 May 1780, Fauquier County, Virginia - 15 March 1857, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia) [F]: m. Fielding LUCAS (1764 <Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County>, Virginia, British North America - 21 November 1829, <Fredericksburg>, Spotsylvania County, Virginia), 24 April 1798, Fauquier County, Virginia [See Child 3: Fielding LUCAS, under G0495A: Peter LUCAS, in Descendants of Peter Lucas (ABT 1729 - 16 November 1781)]; Cave WITHERS (12 September 1782, Fauquier County, Virginia - 4 February 1813, Fauquier County, Virginia) [M]; Jennings WITHERS (25 August 1784, Fauquier County, Virginia - 14 November 1857, Boone County, Missouri) [M]: m. Catherine B. THEOBALD (30 July 1806 - 10 March 1872, Columbia, Boone County, Missouri), 31 December 1829, Kentucky; Hannah WITHERS (25 April 1787, Fauquier County, Virginia - 1844, Fauquier County, Virginia) [F]: m1. Dickerson WOOD (Jr.) (ABT 1773, Fauquier County, Virginia - BY 6 December 1827), 24 December 1793, Fauquier County, Virginia: m2. Field HENRY (Jr.) (ABT 1780 - ?), 6 December 1827, Fauquier County, Virginia [Field HENRY (Jr.) was the son of Field HENRY (Sr.) (3 February 1755, Culpeper County, Virginia, British North America - 27 May 1823, Bullitt County, Kentucky) and Susan Waller WITHERS (19 January 1765, Stafford County, Virginia - ?), who were married 4 March 1789 in Stafford County, Virginia. Susan Waller WITHERS was the daughter of James WITHERS and Susan Sara WALLER. See above.]; Sarah Jennings WITHERS (2 June 1789, Fauquier County, Virginia - BEF 1859) [F]: m. Zephaniah R. ENGLISH (1780, Maryland - ?), 25 April 1819 [Zephaniah R. ENGLISH was first married to Elizabeth Jane WITHERS on 6 October 1806. About Elizabeth Jane WITHERS, see below.]; James WITHERS (30 April 1792, Fauquier County, Virginia - 1861, Culpeper County, Virginia) [M]: m1. Frances FUNSTEN, 12 December 1822: m2. Ellen Adelaide GRIGGSBY (1806, Culpeper County, Virginia - ?), 21 November 1840, Fauquier County, Virginia; Travers WITHERS (6 April 1795, Fauquier County, Virginia - BEF 1820) [M]; and Walter WITHERS (25 February 1797, Fauquier County, Virginia - 1858, Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia) [M]: m. Margaret A. BAGGOTT (1808, Caroline County, Virginia - 1886), 8 March 1858, Fredericksburg, <Stafford> County, Virginia. Katherine WITHERS, the wife of Augustine WITHERS, and Elizabeth Jane WITHERS, the first wife of Zephaniah R. ENGLISH who was first married to Sarah Jennings WITHERS, were the daughters of James WITHERS (ABT 1750, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - BY December 1808, Fauquier County, Virginia) and Sarah PICKETT (ABT 1750, Prince William County, Virginia, British North America - March 1825, Jeffersonton, Culpeper County, Virginia), who were married about 19 November 1773 in Fauquier County, Virginia. James WITHERS was the son of James ("Old Nigh") WITHERS and Catherine BARBEE. [See above.] Thomas PHILLIPS, the husband of Sarah LAWRENCE, was a veteran of the War of 1812. Concerning Turner M. LAWRENCE:
SOME WILSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE CHANCERY COURT LOOSE RECORDS:
Thomas E. Partlow's WILSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE, CHANCERY COURT RECORDS 1842 - 1892:
Margaret Jane NEAL (10 October 1833, Wilson County, Tennessee - 15 July 1852, DeKalb County, Tennessee), the daughter of Isaac NEAL and thus the granddaughter of Patroclus ("Pallis") NEAL, who was married to William Henry WHALEY (14 March 1821, Libery, DeKalb County, Tennessee - 30 December 1872, Liberty, DeKalb County, Tennessee: interment at Salem Cemetery, Liberty, DeKalb County, Tennessee) on 4 April 1849, died leaving Sarah Frances WHALEY as her only issue. William Henry WHALEY was the son of Elijah WHALEY (24 February 1792, Anne Arundel County, Maryland - 16 November 1859, Smithville, DeKalb County, Tennessee: interment at Whorten Springs, DeKalb County, Tennessee) and Rebecca DOUGHERTY (8 February 1800, Augusta Springs, Augusta County, Virginia - 30 July 1868, Smithville, DeKalb County, Tennessee: interment at Whorten Springs, DeKalb County, Tennessee), who were married 20 June 1816 in Liberty, DeKalb County, Tennessee. And he was the brother of Seth Madison WHALEY (18 June 1824, Liberty, DeKalb County, Tennessee - 19 June 1899, Forest Home, Lawrence County, Missouri: interment at Union Cemetery, Mt. Pleasant, Lawrence County), who was second married to Mary Elinor ROSS (8 September 1837, Hardin County, Tennessee - 26 March 1890, Lawrence County, Missouri) on 31 May 1860. Seth Madison WHALEY and Mary Elinor ROSS engendered Eliza Jane WHALEY (18 February 1866, Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri - 7 July 1927, Nome, Jefferson County, Texas: interment at Magnolia Cemetery, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas) who, on 15 October 1885, in Lawrence County, Missouri, was married to Sion Wilson MARLER (18 May 1859, Alexandria, DeKalb County, Tennessee - 28 June 1929, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas: interment at Magnolia Cemetery, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas). Sarah WHALEY, whose guardian ad litem in 1854 was John K. HOWARD, and Eliza Jane WHALEY were, therefore, first cousins. Sally ("Sary") JOHNSON, the wife of Isaac NEAL, was the daughter of Duncan JOHNSON and Margaret UNKNOWN. Sarah Frances WHALEY, her granddaughter, was born after 22 July 1850 and by 1851. She died in June 1938. Sarah Frances WHALEY was heiress to a portion of the estate of Sarah NEAL, her great-aunt, the sister of Isaac NEAL. Of interest, then, is the following report:
The households of James WOOD (spouse Elizabeth ALLEN) and Moses A. WOOD (spouse Delilah LAWRENCE) are immediately next door to that of Pallis NEAL. After the death of Delilah LAWRENCE, Moses Allen WOOD appears to have remarried. Thus, an M. A. WOOD was married to Mrs. M. N. DOSS on 29 September 1880 in DeKalb County, Tennessee. United States Census of 1850 for the 13th Civil District, Wilson County, Tennessee, 3 November 1850:
Moses Allen WOOD, it should be noted, was a grandson of Moses ALLEN, Sr. and *Martha ATWOOD; and he was a nephew of Archibald P. ALLEN, who married *Sarah ("Salley") BOOKER, the granddaughter of *Edward LAWRENCE. [See G0494A: Moses ALLEN (Sr.) in Antecedents and Descendants of Moses Allen, Sr. (2 November 1754 - 22 August 1843) and see Child 2: Archibald P. ALLEN under G0494A: Moses ALLEN (Sr.) in Antecedents and Descendants of Moses Allen, Sr. (2 November 1754 - 22 August 1843).] The Will of Moses Allen WOOD was proved, in DeKalb County, Tennessee, 25 March 1884. His executor was Irenus Beckwith; and his bondsmen for the Will were William WOOD, J. W. WOOD, and J. L. Bryan, of Wilson County, Tennessee. [DeKalb County, Tennessee Wills and Inventories, p. 269] Note 11: It seems evident that Yandell WOOD was named after Lunsford Yandell NEAL (2 April 1828 - 11 April 1856, Yazoo City, Yazoo County, Mississippi), the short-lived brother of Jane C. NEAL, the first wife of William J. WOOD. See G0491A: Richard ("Uncle Dick") MARLER, note 5, in Antecedents and Descendants of Richard Marler (1 August 1823 - 28 June 1903). About the Will of Lunsford Yandell NEAL, see above, G0493A: James WOOD, Note 4. Note 12: Yandell WOOD and Harriet SNEED:
The household of Yandell WOOD is listed as number six in Alexandria, Civil District 1. In this same locale, the household of Thomas J. SNEED, M. D. is listed as number four:
That the precocious Harriet SNEED was the daughter of Thomas J. SNEED, M. D. seems likely. ____________________________ G0492A:
Marriage: 4 September
1827, Wilson County, Tennessee Child 1: Child 2: Nancy COMPTON (1832, <Culpeper County>, Virginia - ?) [F] Child 3: Susan COMPTON (1834, <Culpeper County>, Virginia - ?) [F] Child 4: Durham COMPTON (1836, Wilson or Smith County, Tennessee - ?) [M] Child 5: James COMPTON (1837, Wilson or Smith County, Tennessee – 1907, Wilson County, Tennessee: interment at Hearn Hill Cemetery, Watertown, Wilson County, Tennessee) [M]: m. Mary M. ALLEN, (4 February 1837, <Wilson County>, Tennessee - 24 August 1905, Wilson County, Tennessee: interment at Hearn Hill Cemetery, Watertown, Wilson County, Tennessee), ABT 1861 Child 6: Martha COMPTON (1840, Wilson or Smith County, Tennessee - ?) [F] Child 7: Margaret ("Peggy") COMPTON (1842, Wilson or Smith County, Tennessee – AFT 1870) [F] Child 8: Candis COMPTON (1844, Wilson or Smith County, Tennessee - ?) [F] Child 9: Richard COMPTON (1845, Wilson or Smith County, Tennessee - ?) [M] Child 10: Mary COMPTON
(1849, Wilson or Smith County, Tennessee – AFT 1870)
[F] Note 1: United States Census, 1850: Smith County, Tennessee
Note 2: It seems likely that Elizabeth ("Jennie") K. COMPTON's middle name was "KITTRELL," after Thomas KITTRELL, her uncle by marriage. [See above Child 5: Susan WOOD (1827, <Wilson County>, Tennessee - ?) under G0493A: James WOOD.] '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' |
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