The Family Tree Searcher Volume 16 - Number 1 June 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS The 1940 Census........................................................................................................................ 2 By Kathy Merithew and Lee Brown Dunston and Teagle Descendents of Thomas Evans......................................................... 3 By L. Roane Hunt Reverend Zachariah Taylor Whiting ....................................................................................12 By Barbara J. Ward Moody House and Yard Servants at Eagle Point—1845-1865.....................................................19 By L. Roane Hunt The Roads of Gloucester County 1866-1867.....................................................................27 By William L. Lawrence Actions Recorded in Local Court Minutes of Gloucester County in Early 1861 .......31 By William L. Lawrence The Family of James Clack.....................................................................................................35 By Lee Brown 1796 Tax Related Documents for Gloucester County, Virginia ...................................42 By L. Roane Hunt GGSV Publications Available by Mail Order........................................... Inside back cover Visit the website for Gloucester Genealogical Society of Virginia at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vaggsv/ [email protected] The 1940 Census— In 1940, Glenn Miller recorded “In the Mood,” Ida May Fuller became the first person to receive social security benefits, and the price of a gallon of gas was 18 cents. And, during the spring of the year, the United States conducted its sixteenth census of the population. On April 2, 2012, seventy-two years from when the 1940 census was conducted, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) made the 1940 census available to the public for the first time. Through a partnership between NARA and archives.org, the official web site for the 1940 census is http://1940census.archives.gov (see below for other sites that also provide access). The 1940 census was conducted during a momentous time in our nation's history, as the Great Depression was winding down and not long before our entry into World War II. More information regarding how 1940 compared to previous census enumerations as well as the 2010 census may be discovered at http://www.census.gov/1940census and select 1940 Census Facts for Features. The un-indexed 1940 census is available at several online sites: ancestry.com, familysearch.org, myheritage.com, archives.com, and findymypast.com. Each site is working on its index to the 1940 census, and the completion of a state’s index will vary site by site. One way to follow the indexing status is to read the blog of The Ancestry Insider at http://ancestryinsider.blogspot.com. However, the lack of an index does not preclude browsing the census. Each of the sites has its own browsing tool, usually a technique that will convert 1930 census enumeration districts to the 1940 districts. Once the 1940 enumeration district is known, browsing is fairly straightforward. Of course, we all want an every-name index and that is being accomplished via volunteers. If indexing is something in which you might be interested, please check out the indexing volunteer opportunities on any of the sites. Kathy Merithew P.S. from the editor: I used the ancestry.com site and after a little initial confusion managed to locate the link to their 1940 census data. I selected Virginia, then Gloucester County, and then the Ware district (“Populated Place,” as they call it). That showed me two enumeration districts: 37-8 and 37-9 (it turns out that enumeration district 37 is Gloucester County and 58 is Mathews County). So I started with 37-8 and there were my grandparents, mother, aunt, and uncle in the center of the first page! Well, that was easy. What you see are the digital images of the census sheets filled in by the census taker. Frank Jarvis handled 37-8, and I have to say he doesn’t seem to have been the neatest fellow in the county. But, Jeff Sinclair did 37-9, and I think he let a chicken fill in the form. We’re going to need some indexers who will recognize our local names. Lee Brown, Editor Vol. 16, No. 1 2 June 2012 Dunston and Teagle Descendents of Thomas Evans By L. Roane Hunt It is our pleasure to announce a new discovery of original Gloucester documents from 1835. Recently, Betty Lou Dunston Kopczynski, a lifelong resident of York County, approached the Gloucester Museum of History with scrapbooks containing her family history in photographs and descriptions of each. Betty Lou is a member of the first graduating class of York High School in 1955. She married Vincent Paul “Ski” Kopczynski, and they have three sons. The photo inset was taken in the early 1970s. She is the daughter of Edgar Hansford Dunston and Mary Oneda Shackelford from Gloucester County. Betty Lou Dunston Her interest in family history was stirred with the estate sale of Kopczynski her great-aunt, Rosa Dunston Hall. Rosa had married Silas Columbus Hall, and they operated a small store in the Hayes community of Gloucester. They had no children, so their estate was settled with an auction sale. Betty Lou managed to purchase a small trunk containing some personal belongings of her Aunt Rosa. The trunk contained many photographs of the Dunston and Teagle families, and her father was able to identify most of the people and places of each. Betty Lou used her scrapbook hobby skills to preserve the documents from Aunt Rosa’s trunk for her father’s family. She also documented her mother’s Shackelford family in a separate album. See photograph of both scrapbooks below. Aunt Rosa’s trunk also contained eleven pages from a store account book of Thomas Evans dated 1835- 1837. Individual purchases of twenty-seven patrons were recorded on both sides of each page. Immediately, questions arose. Why were these documents in Aunt Rosa’s trunk? Who was Thomas Evans? And, where was his store located? An examination of Betty Lou’s pedigree chart on the next page suggests the path by which the account pages were passed down to Aunt Photograph of open Dunston scrapbook on left and closed Rosa. Rosa was the sister of Shackelford scrapbook on right Vol. 16, No. 1 3 June 2012 Dunston and Teagle Descendents of Thomas Evans Ancestors of Betty Lou Dunston Kopczynski Richard D. Dunston James Edward Dunston Jasper Clayton Hughes Jr. Susan E. Hughes Signora Buckner James Patrick Dunston Thomas C. Teagle John A. Teagle Catherine Elizabeth Evans Asenath Elizabeth Teagle John Hall Martha Ellen Hall Asenath ? Edgar Hansford Dunston b. 1907, d. 1985 William Ambrose Michael Ambrose ? ? Henry Hansford Ambrose William Taylor Heywood Elizabeth Heywood Elizabeth ? Mary Lee Inez Ambrose Smith R. Carmine James Mitchell Carmine Elizabeth Grant Alexiana Virginia Carmine Nathaniel Fosque Margaret Ann Fosque Margaret Stevens Betty Lou Dunston , m. Vincent Paul Kopczynski George Shackelford James Shackelford Elizabeth Moore James Richard Shackelford Meade Walker Ellen Adaline Walker Vincent Hudson Maria J. Hudson Mildred Shackelford Mary Oneda Shackelford b. 1910, d. 1988 William Brown William Brown Jr. Susan ? Iverson W. Brown Mildred Amelia West Mary Mamie Brown William Bonneville Burwell Bonneville Elizabeth ? Irinthia Bonneville Leyburn Sparrow Emily Sparrow Nancy ? Vol. 16, No. 1 4 June 2012 Dunston and Teagle Descendents of Thomas Evans James Patrick Dunston, Betty Lou’s grandfather. His grandmother was Asenath Teagle who was the granddaughter of Catherine Evans who was a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Evans. It appears that credit is due to Asenath Teagle Dunston, Rosa Dunston Hall, and Betty Lou for the preservation of these documents. Ancestors of Betty Lou Betty Lou descended from Richard D. Dunston, her great-great-grandfather. He had at least six children by his first wife. His second wife was Susan Hughes, widow of Henry Stubblefield. Susan Hughes was the great-great-granddaughter of Rev. Thomas Hughes, Anglican minister in Gloucester, and John Clayton, internationally known botanist and Gloucester clerk of court. As previously mentioned, James Edward Dunston married Asenath Teagle who descended from Teagle and Evans families of southern Gloucester County. Their son, James Patrick Dunston, married Inez Ambrose who descended from the Ambrose, Carmine, and Fosque families of the southwestern part of the county. Betty Lou’s mother descended from the Shackelford, Moore, Walker, Hudson, Brown, West, Bonniville, and Sparrow families of the southeastern part of Gloucester County (Guinea). Four generations: Steve, Betty Lou, Mary Oneda Shackelford Betty Lou is shown in the Dunston, and Mamie Brown Shackelford adjacent photograph with her son, mother and maternal grandmother. The Family of James Edward Dunston and Asenath Teagle James and Asenath had at least eight children that reached adulthood as shown in the family chart on the next page. Most of the photographs in Aunt Rosa’s trunk were taken of this Dunston family. Family photographs are also shown on the next page including James Edward Dunston in the lower left of the page. Asenath Dunston is shown on the upper right with two young sons and Asenath many years later in the lower right. Their oldest son, Charles, married Georgia Smith, and their daughter was the mother of Carmen Rigau Stanford. Carmen shared about her family in a previous Family Tree Searcher (FTS, Vol. 13, No. 2, December 2009). Vol. 16, No. 1 5 June 2012 Dunston and Teagle Descendents of Thomas Evans Family of James Edward & Asenath Teagle Dunston James Edward Dunston , b. 1849, m. 1874, d. 1907 +m. Asenath Elizabeth Teagle , b. 1852, d. 1929 Mattie S. Dunston , b. 1875, d. 1876 Charles Hall Dunston , b. 1876, d. 1946 +m. Georgia Aldine Smith , b. 1875, d. 1957 Bertha Elda Dunston , b. 1900, d. 1989 +m. Feliz Rosa Rigau , b. 1894, d. 1954 John Edward Dunston , b. 1880, d. 1942 +m. Blanch Estelle Beechman , b. 1881, d. 1953 James Patrick Dunston , b. 1883, d. 1959 +m. Mary Lee Inez Ambrose , b. 1882, d. 1975 Edgar Hansford Dunston , b. 1907, d. 1985 +m.