OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

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D·ate ...... - - This book is one of 300 numbered copies, printed for distribution in the several related families listed herein.

For additional copies write to WM. E. Cox, JR., Sales Manager Southern Pines, N. C. :\IAR Y XELSOX SMITH

"He omy deserves to be remembered by posterity who treafflres up and preseroes the history of his ancestors."-Edmund Burke.

OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY I ncludimg the Nelson, Johnson, Roach, Smith, Little, Co:c, Dawson-Wooten, and Chapman Families, each related to the other by descent or marriage, or both.

Compiled by Rev. WM. E. Cox, and MRs. OLIVIA Cox McCoRMAC, with the help of other members of the family, also research work of Miss MARYBELLE DELAMAR and other genealogists.

Published by THE MARY NELSON S1\-IITH FAMILY 1938 Copyright 1938

By WILLIAM EDWARD Cox, JR.

PRINTED AND BOUND IN THE U.S. A. BY

THE EDWARDS & BROUGHTON CO~fPANY, RALEIGH, N. C. To the Memory of

MRS. MARY NELSON SMITH a rare personality with strong mind, powerful physique, resolute will, tireless energy, dauntless faith and deep devotion-one who left her impress not only upon her children to the third and fourth generation but also upon the whole community in which she lived, this book is affectionately dedicated.

FOREWORD Believing that all members of our family, future as well as present generations, will be glad to know something of their ancestry and how they themselves are related to each other, the compilers of this book have undertaken to put in perma­ nent form the genealogy of the Nels on and Smith Families as a tribute to their Mother and Grandmother, Mrs. Mary Nelson Smith. She was a remarkable personality and an out­ standing figure in our family-a Nelson belonging, as she said, to "the historic family of English Nelsons." We are also giving as fully as we can the genealogy of several related families, and in this have been aided by many members of these families, for which aid we are most grateful. We wish especially to thank the Richmond (Va.) News Leader for permission to quote copyrighted items from its pages. ABBREVIATIONS: b., born; d., died; d.y., died young; dau., daughter of; a., son of; m., married; 'UITlffn., unmarried. GENERATIONS: In the Genealogy, names preceded by a num­ ber having a letter before it represent heads of principal family groups. The letter shows to what family they belong and in what section of the Genealogy they are listed. When a letter and number in parenthesis immediately follow a name they indicate that the name they follow is later listed as head of a family group bearing the same letter and number as those in parenthesis. The children of these group heads are num­ bered 1, 2, etc.; the grandchildren (1), (2), etc., the great­ grandchildren a, b, etc. ; and great-great-grandchildren (a), (b ), etc.; and all are indented. The arrangement is simple, and we· hope easily understood. THE COMPILERS.

CONTENTS PAGE

MRs. MARY NELSON SMITH ...... Frontispiece

DEDICATION ...... V

FOREWORD ...... VII

AuTOBIOGRAPIDCAL SKETCH ...... 1

FLAXWHEEL PICTURE ...... facing p. 2

TRIBUTES FROM PUPILS AND FRIENDS ...... 7

MY ANCESTRY so FAR AS r KNOW THEM:...... 11

GENEALOGIES : Section A. The Nelson Family...... 16 Section B. The Johnson Family...... 44 Section C. The Roach Family...... 47 Section D. The Smith Family...... 57 Section E. The Little Family...... 73 Section F. The Cox Family ...... 82 Section G. The Dawson-Wooten Family...... 93 Section H. The Chapman Family...... 96

A FmAL WORD...... • ...... • ...... 108

BLANK PAGES FOR CONTINUING RECORD • . . • • . . . • . . • . . . . 111

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Mrs. :Mary Smith of Winterville, N. C., is the daughter of Edward Nelson, Jun., who was a descendant of the noble family of Nelsons of Kent, 'England. Her mother was Sarah Roach, daughter of Charles Roach, Sen. She was born at the old Nelson Homestead in Craven County, N. C., October 2, 1825. On the fifteenth of March, 1846, she married William Henry Smith of Pitt County, N. C. She had twelve children. Ten lived to be grown. Her ancestors on both sides were remark­ able for size and strength. Her grandfathers, Edward Nelson and Charles Roach, were soldiers in the Revolution of 1776 and were the two strongest men in their regiment. Her grandfather Nelson was the second tallest man in the old colonial courthouse, Governor Richard Dobbs Spaight being seven feet and her grandfather six feet, eleven and three­ quarter inches and weighed two hundred and fifty pounds. Her father was six feet, nine and a quarter inches and weighed two hundred and thirty pounds. Mrs. Smith is five feet, nine and a quarter inches, and weighed in her best days one hundred and ninety-seven pounds. Though eighty years old, she does more walking than any woman in town and can do as much house-work as most of the young women. She is spinning flax to make her youngest son, who lives in Florida, a suit of clothes. She expects to cut and make the clothes before sending them to him. She can sew very nicely on the machine. The wheel on which she is spinning is the Old Abrahamic pattern. Tradition says it was brought from England in 1733 by the Rev. Mr. Stewart, who was the first rector of St. Thomas church, Bath, N. C. Mrs. Smith bought this wheel from a widow, whose husband was a descendant of the Rev. Mr. Stewart. The wheel at her right is called the Martha Washington. This is the wheel that was used in the South in the olden days, when the women spun the clothes for their families. 2 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

It is the pattern that Mrs. :Martha Washington used when she wore her checked apron, knit her own stockings and superintended the running of thirteen spinning wheels. It was used during the Civil War when all had to spm what clothes they wore, as they could not buy them. Many were the bolts of cloth manufactured every year in a family, in the good old ante bell um days of housekeeping when the negro women spun all winter ( and summer too, when they were not hoeing the corn, cotton, and potatoes). Fustian, corduroy, huckaback, kersey, dimity, counterpanes, yarn and cotton with plain blankets, plaids, and stripes of all patterns and colors, were the products of the home loom. In those days the money that the farmer made selling corn, pork, flour, tar, and turpentine, was put in the till of the old big chest, and was not touched till there was enough to buy a negro or a piece of land. It took very little of his money to buy what dressing his family needed. The mistress, and housekeeper, who could not, with her chickens, eggs, and butter, pay her grocer's bill, and buy a dress for herself and children occasionally, was counted a poor helpmate. Mrs. Smith, though she had no great advantage of educa­ tion in her youth, has done good work as a teacher. She taught her first year in 1845, being the year before her marriage. After she was married she taught several years ( into the fifties), near her home. She had to study her gram­ mar as she taught it, having never studied it at school. She mastered it and taught it successfully. She was good in what she had studied. Increasing family cares compelled her to give up teaching. Mr. Smith employed a teacher and kept a good school near the home till 1869. At the close of '68, being made poor by the war, he found he was no longer able to support a school. There were now seven children at home, three having married. Four of the younger children had never been to school. In January 1870 Mrs. Smith determined they should not be without a school any longer. She told Mr. Smith she THIS PICTURE, l\lEXTIOXED BY l\IUS. SI\IITH IX HER .ARTICLE, WAS

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AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 3 would do the best she could, and she felt that God would help her. She had the furniture removed from a room in the second story of her house, school desks and benches put on one side, and her wheel and cards on the other. Mr. Smith took the oldest boy to help him plow, promising that he should stay next session. After preparing breakfast and doing the morning's work, Mrs. Smith would go up and have a three hour's school, carding or spinning when not hearing recita­ tions. Then she would go down, prepare the noon meal, do the chores, and again go up and have three hours of school in the afternoon. When they went down in the evening they would do the washing, or ironing or scouring, or working the garden as the turn came. She did not go on many weeks in this way, when the neigh­ bors found out she was teaching, and asked permission to send. It was not long before she had to put away the wheel and cards and give her whole attention to teaching. She soon had the room full. Others making application to send, she took her school down to the old schoolhouse to accom­ modate the neighbors. The first day she had over forty pupils. A steady increase soon made it necessary to enlarge the house. About this time she was visited by an old gentleman who was a good Latin scholar and one of the best mathematicians in the country. He had been a prominent teacher many years. He was now too old to manage a school, but would teach any one who wished to study. At Mrs. Smith's request he made her house his home. (This was John G. Elliot.) With him, though forty-five years old, she studied Latin, algebra, geometry and surveying, especially during her vaca­ tions, having his assistance at all times. She taught Latin and algebra and prepared her children for college in these branches. 4 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

It was not long before Mrs. Smith's grandchildren were her pupils. She was liberally patronized by the people of her county and surrounding counties. She taught eighteen years without stopping. At the time her school closed six of her children and two of her grand­ children were teachers. One of her daughters taught twenty years. Since then she has taught at different places in the county, making in all, over twenty-five years. She taught her last school in 1901. If her hearing had not failed she would be teaching now. Several of her many grandchildren are now teachers, be­ ing considered among the best in the county. Mrs. Smith, in her life's work, has truly verified the old proverb, that God helps those who help themselves. On Sunday, October the first, 1905, she saw her oldest grand­ son, W. E. Cox, ordained to the priesthood. Her son, Claudius F. Smith, who is a minister in Washington, D. C., preached the ordination sermon. On the next day, Monday, October 2, she was present at the consecration of a church that she and her daughters have built at Winterville. After the services, she, with about forty of her family ( children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren), accompanied by the bishop and a number of friends, repaired to a grove near by, where they found a bountiful dinner spread in celebration of her eightieth birthday. It was greatly enjoyed by all present, and was a happy time for Mrs. Smith. * * • * NOTE: Grandmother Smith wrote this autobiographical sketch by request after she was past eighty years of age. Some of her children and grandchildren wanted her own story about how her little home school grew into a boarding school with advanced courses, to which came pupils from all over the county to prepare themselves for service as teachers in AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 5 the public schools. For reasons of her own she spoke of her­ self in the third person. The sketch is presented here exactly as she wrote it. The manuscript in her own handwriting is . . now m my possession. I might add here that seven of her children, twenty-one grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren, in addition to her many boarding pupils, became teachers in Pitt County and elsewhere in this and other states. Besides that, one of her sons (Claud) and two of her grandsons (Wm. E. and Harvey A. Cox) became, and still are, clergymen of the Episcopal Church. The public library in Greenville has an alcove of books given in her memory, and an oil portrait of her hangs in that library. Furthermore, one of the flax wheels shown in the picture, together with her spinning wheel (for cotton) and her loom on which slaves formerly made cloth, have been given to East Carolina Teachers College in Greenville as an educational exhibit, and are in a special room called "The Mary Smith Room."-W. E. C.

TRIBUTES TO MRS. MARY NELSON SMITH

FROM HER PUPILS AND OTHER FRIENDS

MRS. LOUISE ALBRITTON GREENE : "She was a wonderful woman and a wonderful teacher. I was very fond of her."

MRS. EMMA HINES ALLEGOOD: "Mrs. Smith was a fine teacher and a good Christian woman. I still remember very well how all of us went into her living room every morning before breakfast and had prayer service."

MRS. ELLEN HINES HARRIS : "Mrs. Smith was a wonderful woman in her time. I could not work fractions when I went to her school; I had a first grade certificate when I left there. Her family prayers every morning and Catechism on Sunday nights impressed me deeply. I was also impressed by her attention to sick people, even to negro tenants."

MRs. JuLIA McARTHUR WoRTHINGTON: A note from Mrs. E. C. Worthington says: "Your letter to Mother Worthington came after she passed away. My husband and I regret that the leaflet and letter could not have come earlier for she would have gotten much pleasure from both. I have heard her many times speak of 'Miss Polly Smith,' and she always spoke of her with respect, reverence and love."

MRs. JocIE JoYNER McARTHUR: "The promised tribute to your Grandmother will follow soon. When you read it you will understand my inability to put down in writing the sincere admiration and esteem that I have ever had for your Grandmother. _She was, to me, simply wonderful, her energy, her executive ability, her match­ less discipline, and above all her love for the Master so plainly shown in her daily life." Here is the tribute published by Mrs. McArthur in The Greenville Reflector, issue of March 24, 1986: 2 8 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

MRS. MARY NELSON SMITH, TEACHER A Tribute from One of Her Pupils Long before the alcove in the Sheppard Memorial Library was dedicated to the honor and memory of Mrs. Smith, it had been my intention to try to pay a fitting tribute to her as a pioneer in educational work in this county. It was my good fortune to be a pupil in her school and a boarder in her home. It is impossible to convey here the im­ pression made on my youthful mind and heart by the strong personality of this Christian mother and teacher. Her presence always awakened an intense desire in us, her pupils, to do our very best. To her motherly advice I, for one, owe much of the content and happiness which have thus far attended me. The recording angel alone can tell the good which this noble, self-sacrificing woman did for orphan boys and girls whom she took into her home and gave an opportunity to make good in life. Ever kind and hospitable, she turned no one from her door. A friend in need, always ready to help those in trouble; ministering to the sick, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, comforting the dying, thus did she order her days. When I stand before her portrait recently placed in the Sheppard Memorial Library (by her devoted children and grandchildren), and look upon that placid face I wish, oh so earnestly, that every one of her pupils would write for the benefit of those who a1~e to come after them, a word of ap­ preciation for the life of this consecrated woman. MRs. CHARLES McARTHUR.

MRS. CORNELIA DIXON HINES : "I thank you for the brochure telling of the effort the family is making to do honor to the memory of your Grand­ mother-my 'Aunt Polly.' I must compliment your decision to establish a Trust Fund as a memorial rather than a tower- TRIBUTES TO :MRS. MARY NELSON SMITH 9 ing monument of stone only to be admired by the passer-by. The Fund will be of unending benefit to coming generations, thus continuing the work she loved so much. Her influence along an educational line was not confined to her immediate family, but had been an inspiration to all those who came under her influence. It was my good fortune while in my early teens to be a pupil in her community school after it had out­ growp. its simple beginnings in her home and had moved to the new building put up especially for it-a boarding school to which pupils from the whole county came." JuDGE FRANK M. WooTEN, of Greenville: In an article published in The Greenville News-Leader about prominent citizens of Pitt County whose education was "self­ accomplished" Judge Wooten said: "There are hundreds of people in our county who remember with pride the accomplishments of Mrs. Polly Smith of Swift Creek Township, who was the mother of Mrs. B. T. Cox, Mrs. John David Cox, and Rev. Claudius Smith, an Episcopal minister, and the grandmother of Rev. W. E. Cox, and Rev. Harvey A. Cox, Episcopal ministers. Mrs. Polly Smith, ac­ cording to family history, was the backbone of the school system in her section, educating her family and the children of her neighbors. Hers was an education primarily self­ accomplished." MR. H. J. HINES, Editor of The Sampson Democrat, the county from which came Mr. John G. Elliot to be Mrs. Smith's tutor: "My idea of the prominence and real worth of the late Mrs. Mary Smith is based in a measure upon the outstanding reputa­ tion she acquired ~ the public mind as an educator of the highest ideals of life, recognizing, as she did, the vital truth that the meaning of education, in its final analysis, and in its fullest sense is a preparation for life and its duties. And al­ though her e:ff orts, to the average person would be, or might be construed to be, only local, the reputation established by 10 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY this ambitious woman was not confined to that immediate sec­ tion, but was spread abroad over her home county, Pitt, and into adjoining counties as well; and it is not amiss to say, elsewhere, also. In support of this contention, the fact should not be omitted that following her departure from this life very strong articles were written about her useful life by very learned persons. "This article would be incomplete, and full justice would not be done her memory, as to her idea concerning the need for education, were the fact left out that when fully realizing the condition of her own children in this particular, the pos­ sibility of their growing up in ignorance and she not financially able to send them to school in the Reconstruction days that followed the Civil War, and realizing, too, that she was not equipped for teaching in advanced subjects, she prevailed upon the late John G. Elliot, a retired teacher of unusual learning, to reside in her home and prepare her for the work of teach­ ing advanced courses. "The attendance at the school taught in her home grew to such proportions as to make it necessary to build a house to accommodate its pupils, and to her school, thus enlarged and advanced, came boarding pupils from all parts of Pitt County. It has been said that hers was the first school of High School grade in Pitt County." MY ANCESTRY SO FAR AS I KNOW THEM

w RITTEN BY MRS. MARY SMITH My father was Edward Nelson, Jr.; his father, my grand­ father, was Edward Nelson, Sr., the son of William Nelson, my great-grandfather. My great-grandfather came from be­ low New Bern, entered a large tract of land between Fork Swamp and Chocowinity Pocoson, and made a settlement for himself and three sons, Hardee, George, and Edward. My great-grandfather's ancestor was of the historic family of English Nelsons. He came from England to Virginia and when the first permanent settlement was made in North Caro­ lina he was one of the colonists. My father, Edward Nelson, Jr., married Sallie Roach, the second daughter of Charles Roach, Sr., who was the son of John Roach, who came from Ireland, and settled on Neuse River some six or seven miles below St. John's church, in the Murphy neighborhood. He, John Roach, married Katie Johnson, sister of Jacob Johnson, who lived at Vanceboro, and owned the whole village and surrounding country. My grandfather, Charles Roach, married Polly Summers who was of Swiss descent. She was my grandmother. She raised seven children: David, Hannah, Samuel, James, Sallie, Madison, and Nancy. David built the cotton mills of Georgia and his posterity are there. Madison and Nancy went to Tennessee, and left families. The others all died in North Carolina. My grandfather, Edward Nelson, Sr., married Winifred Johnson, daughter of Jacob Johnson, Sr. So my fathe:r's grandfather ( Jacob Johnson) and my mother's grand­ mother (Katie Johnson Roach) were brother and sister. My grandmother, Winifred Nelson, had four children: Jeannette, Charles, Permelia, and Edward (my father). Jean­ nette married Matthew Williams of New Bern. She had one child, Edward. Charles married Eliza Godly of Bear Creek and moved to Tennessee. Permelia married a Surls on Swift Creek. She died soon after she was married. She was a beauti­ ful woman. My sister Emily was like her. 12 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

I do not know who my great-grandfather William Nelson married. He had six children: Hardee, George, Edward, Sal­ lie, Polly, and Esther. Polly married an Edwards, Sally mar­ ried a Clark, and Esther married a Lewis. My great-grandfather, Jacob Johnson I, married a Pearce. He had thirteen daughters and one son, Jacob II, who was cousin Fred Johnson's father, and grandfather to Allen and Edward Johnson. He married a Coart, sister to Bryan and William Pugh's mother. Anna Johnson married Charles Roach, Jr., the son of my grandfather Charles by his first wife. He had two other sons by his first wife, John and Ruben ; one went to Florida, and the other to Georgia. Susan Johnson married a Bull, and Bettie married a Campbell. Rachall, Sally, and Polly, married Bryans. This is why Johnson is a favorite name with the Bryans. One of the Johnson daughters who married a Bryan was the mother of Nancy Bryan, who was Gen. Grimes' father's first wife. (It was Gen. Grimes' grandfather who married a Bryan.-W. E. C.) You see Charles J. Nelson, John M. Bryan, and other names of the Bryan family who were descendants of the Johnsons, recorded as legislators of North Carolina. John Sedrick Nelson, who was nine times a member of the legislature and helped establish the State University (Battle's History of the University, Vol. I., p. 140), lived below New Bern and was of our family. One of his daughters married a Stanly and one a Gardner. Jordan, Caleb, Thomas, and Nimrod Nelson, who lived near Nelson's Crossroads, now Grimesland, and married into the Laughinghouse and Hardee families are our relatives. My grandfathers, Edward Nelson, Sr., and Charles Roach went to the Revolutionary War. I have heard my grand­ father, Edward Nelson, Sr., tell of the many exciting battles through which he passed: of Washington's Memorable Re­ treat; of the never to be forgotten Winter at Valley Forge, going barefooted in the snow; living on three spoonfuls of meal MY-ANCESTRY SO FAR AS I KNOW THEM 13 a day ; the attempted Meeting; being met by Washington ; was persuaded by his solemn and loving appeal to stop; threw up their hats with three cheers for Washington, and suffered on till relief came. His cheeks would, by this time be wet with tears. He would then finish in a joyful strain, with the capture of Cornwallis. Edward Nelson, Sr., was six feet, eleven inches and three quarters tall. A very large man but not corpulent. He weighed 250 pounds. Edward Nels on, Jr., was six feet, nine inches and a quarter in height. Was a little corpulent and weighed 225 pounds. Both very strong men. George Nelson, my cousin, was seven feet tall. Charles Roach was not quite so tall, but remarkably broad shouldered, lion built, and was the strongest man in his regiment. The Nelsons were all mechanics and blacksmiths. The Roaches were all mechanics and machinists. Could do anything they pleased with tools. David Roach, my mother's oldest brother and Charles Roach's oldest son, put up the first cotton mill in Georgia. He served his trade as a machinist in Raleigh, N. C. The contract to put up the Georgia Mill was his first job after serving his apprenticeship. He married and lived in Georgia and con­ tinued to put up cotton mills and all kinds of machinery. His family are now among the wealthy people of that state. Charles Roach, my mother's half brother, a son by the first wife, could make anything he ever tried, but to put a hornet's nest together. He could prepare the material but could not put it together. He could make locks and keys, ear rings, finger rings, breast pins, and silver spoons as nice as you can buy. I have seen the spoons and have one of his rings. Charles J. Nelson was my father's oldest brother. He was twice a member of the North Carolina legislature. He moved to Tennessee in the thirties and was elected to the legislature of that state. * * * NOTE: This paper was written by my Grandmother, Mary Smith, by request, a few years before she died. The manu- 14 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY script, in her own handwriting, is now in my possession. I cannot vouch for the correctness of it in every detail, but with due allowance for minor faults of memory on Grand­ mother's part, I think it an authentic and highly valuable family record.-W. E. Cox. Genealogy

in Eight Sections numbered A to H inclusive

BASED ON DATA

GATHERED BY THE DAUGHTERS OF

MRS. MARY NELSON SMITH SECTION A THE NELSON FAMILY

BATTLE HYMN OF THE NELSONS There's something strong and mighty in a good old family name And the name of Nelson shineth high upon the scroll of fame, For nearly every Nelson has pursued a lofty aim. The Clan goes marching on!

Ohorus Glory to our grand old family! Glory to the name of Nelson! "Every Nelson does his duty!" The Clan goes marching on! William was the Governor of Old Dominion State; Thomas signed the document that changed a nation's fate. Nelson at Trafalgar didn't stop to meditate. The Clan goes marching on! The Nelsons fought at Yorktown, Gettysburg and Waterloo. In every righteous cause our cousins fought as heroes do. They died in eighteen ninety-eight and nineteen eighteen too. The Clan goes marching on! Nelsons hail from England, Scotland and the Emerald Isle. We love our British cousins in that good old Saxon style. Blood's thicker than the water separating us a while. The Clan goes marching on! The Nelson family cherishes traditions of the past; With the world's great movements they have all their fortunes cast, And when they pledge their honor they are loyal to the last. The Clan goes marching on! The Nelson blood is mingled with the royal bloods of old. Each century our numbers have increased a hundred-fold. Of all the world's great families our family is pure gold. The Clan goes marching on ! We have our dukes and peasants, common folks and blue-bloods, too; We greet each other with a smile and "Cousin, Howdy-do!" This goes with all the Nelsons and it goes with me and you. The Clan goes marching on ! Nelson sons are loyal-Nelson daughters true and sweet; More noble sires and mothers you could never hope to meet. The stories of their lives and deeds with pleasure we repeat. The Clan goes marching on ! If you claim the blood of Nelson join the chorus of the Clan, In our Records and Reunions, all according to our plan; The name to highest honors boost in every way you can. The Clan goes marching on! -From Nelson Famuy Becorda. THE NELSON FAMILY 17

The Nelson family i~ too well known on both sides of the Atlantic to need an introduction. "Nelson Family Records," published by the American Historical-Genealogical Society, of Philadelphia, says: "The Nelson family has been prominent in the British Empire and in America, its members having played important roles in war and in peace. Family pride is a commendable trait and should be cultivated. All Nelsons have just cause to be proud of their family history and traditions."

THE ENGLISH FAMILY OF NELSONS The article headed "Nelson" in "Burke's Peerage," page 1235-6, 1907 Edition, London, says : "The family of Nelson appears to have been of ancient settlement in the co. of Lancaster. Their seat at Mawdesley, where they held lands by military service, is now in possession of the Riddells of Northumberland, to whom it came by female descent: some notice of them will be found in the pedigree of Earl Nelson, in Sir Richard Hoare's History of South Wilts, under the head of the Parish of Downton, p. 50. Thomas Nels on, of Fairhurst, son of Richard Nelson, or Nels ton, of Mawdesley, Lancashire, living 1508, descended, from Richard Nelston of Mawdesley, living 1377. ·. He m. Cecelia, dau. of Ralph Maxey, and left issue, I. Richard, of Fairhurst ; 2. Thomas, of Fairhurst ; 3. Edmund, of Lancaster ; 4. William, of London; and 1. Cecilie. The youngest son, "William Nelson, of London, m. Judith, dau. of ...... Clinton, and had issue, 1. :Michael; 2. William; and 8. Thomas. The youngest son, "Thomas Nels on, of London and Norfolk, b. 1580, bur. in St. Margaret's Church, King's Lynn, 28 July, 1654, aged 74, leaving, by Elizabeth his wife, I. Edmund, of whom presently. 1. Elizabeth, b. 1601, m. John Green. 2. Anne, m. William Williams. 18 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

The only son, Edmund Nels on, of Wendling, Norfolk, left by Joann, his first wife, l. Edmund, of Wendling and Scarning, Norfolk, bapt. 29 Nov. 1629, bur. l Nov. 1711, leaving issue by Mary, his wife. His descendants were settled at Holme next the Sea, Norfolk, from 1750. l. Joann, bapt. 29 June, 1636. 2. Anna, bapt. 28 May, 1637. By Alice, his second wife, Edmund Nelson left issue. 2. William, of whom presently. 3. John, bapt. 2 Feb. 1656. 3. Bridget, bapt. 24 Feb. 1653. The eldest son by the second marriage, William Nelson, of Scarning, and afterwards of Dunham Parva, Norfolk, bapt. at Wendling 24 March, 1654, m. Mary, dau. of Thomas Shene, of Dunham Parva, Norfolk, and by her· (who d. 2 Jan. 1731) left at his death, 27 Jan. 1713, three sons. 1. Thomas, of Sporle, b. 19 July, 1683; d. 22 April, 1762; his son, the Rev. Edmund Nelson, M.A., rector of Cony­ ham, Norfolk, was father of the Rev. James Nelson, also rector of Conyham, and of Charles Nelson, post captain, R.N., both deceased. 2. William, of Dunham Parva and Curds Hall, Fransham, Norfolk, b. 18 Feb. 1688, d. 29 Jan. 1773; his son, the Rev. William Nelson of Curds Hall, rector of Hillington and Hilgay, Norfolk, left three daus. the eldest of whom inherited his estates. 3. Edmund. The third son, The Rev. Edmund Nels on, M.A., vicar of Sporle, and rector and patron of Hilborough, Norfolk, b. 1693, who m. Mary, dau. of John Bland, of Cambridge, gentleman, and by her (who d. 4 July, 1789, aged 91) had issue, 1. Edmund. 2. John, d. wnm. THE NELSON FAMILY 19

1. Mary, d. 1800. 2. Alice, m. Rev. Robert Rolfe, rector of Hilborough: her grandson was Robert Monsey, Lord Cranworth. 3. Thomasine, m. John Goulty, of Norwich, gentleman. The Rev. Edmund Nelson was s. [succeeded] at his decease, 23 Oct. 1747, by his elder son, "The Rev. Edmund Nelson, M.A., rector of Hilborough and of Burnham Thorpe, in Norfolk, b. 1722. This gentleman m. 11 May, 1779, Catherine, only dau. of the Rev. Maurice Suckling, D.D., prebendary of Westminster ( see Landed Gentry, Suckling, of Barsham), whose wife was Mary, dau. of Sir Charles Turner, of Warham, Norfolk, Bart., by his wife Mary, dau. of Robert Walpole of Houghton, Norfolk, and sister of Sir Robert Walpole, K.G., 1st Earl of Orford, and of Horatio, Lord Walpole, of W olterton. Mrs. Nelson d. 26 Dec. 1767, and by her the Rev. Edmund Nelson, who d. 26 April, 1802, had issue, eight sons and three daus., 1. Edmund, b. 5 April, 1750, d. Aug. 1752. 2. Horatio, b. 28 July, 1751, d. 15 Nov. same year. 3. Maurice, a clerk in the Navy office, b. 24 May, 1753, d.s.p. [ without issue] 24 April 1801. 4. WILLIAM, 1st EARL NELSON. 5. HORATIO, VISCOUNT NELSON, the great Admiral. 6. Edmund, b. 4 June, 1762; d. U/Tllln. 11 Dec. 1790. 7. Suckling, in holy orders, b. 5 Jan. 1764; d. unm. 1799. 8. George, b. 13 Dec. 1765, d. 21 March 1766. 1. Susannah, m. 5 Aug. 1780, Thomas Bolton, of Wells, Norfolk (who d. 17 Oct. 1834), and dying 16 July, 1813, left issue, 1. Thomas Bolton, who s. [succeeded] as 2nd earl. 2. George, b. 10 Nov. 1787, d. at sea in 1799. 1. Jemima Susannah, d. 10 Aug. 1864. 2. Catherine (twin with her sister Jemima), m. 18 May, 1803, Capt. Sir William Bolton, R. N., who d. 1 Dec. 1803; she d. 22 April, 1857. 20 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

3. Elizabeth Anne, m. Rev. Henry Girdlestone, rector of Landford, Wilts, and of Colton St. Andrews, Norfolk. 4. Anne, d. unm. 3 Oct. 1830. 2. Anne, d. 15 April, 1783, unm. 3. Catherine, m. 26 Feb. 1787, George Matcham, of Ashfold Lodge, Slaugham, Sussex (who d. 3 Feb. 1833); she d. 28 March, 1842. They had issue ( with four other sons, who d. under age). [ Children and grandchildren are omitted.] The 5th son of the Rev. Edmund Nelson, "Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte, was born at the Parsonage house, Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, 29 Sept. 1758, and received the name of lloratio, after his god­ father and relative, Horatio, 2nd Lord Walpole, of Wolterton, 1st Earl of Orford, of the second creation. He was educated at the High School of Norwich, and at a school at North Walsham. In 1771 he joined, through the interest of his uncle and patron, Captain Maurice Suckling, that captain's ship, the "Raisonnable," 64 guns. This was the commence­ ment of Nelson's glorious naval career, the details of which belong to general, rather than to genealogical history, and need not be recapitulated here. His most remarkable achievements were the Battles of the Nile, Copenhagen and Trafalgar. After the victory of the Nile he was created, 6 Nov. 1798, Baron Nelson, of the Nile, and of Burnham Thorpe, in the co. of Norfolk. Parliament decreed him a vote of thanks, and 2,000.£ a year for his own life and the lives of his two immediate successors. He received from the parliament of Ireland 1,000.£ a year. The East India Company also voted him 10,000.£. After the attack on Copenhagen, 2 April, 1801, and the destruction of the Danish ships and defences, which completely broke up the Northern Confederacy, Nelson re­ ceived the thanks of the Houses of Lords and Commons, and was created 22 May, 1801, Viscount Nelson of the Nile and of Burnham Thorpe, in Norfolk; and subsequently, 18 Aug. 1801, Baron Nelson of the Nile, and of Hilborough, Norfolk, THE NELSON FAMILY 21 with remainder, failing his heirs male, to his father and his heirs male, and failing them to the heirs male of his sister Mrs. Bolton, and failing them to the heirs male of his other sister, Mrs. Matcham. In Sept. of the same year, he also received the British royal license to accept for himself and his heirs the title of Duke of Bronte, with the fief of the duchy annexed. The Battle of Trafalgar, where Nelson gained a great and glorious naval victory-the greatest and most glorious that England ever won-occurred on 21 Oct. 1805. During the action Nels on was mortally wounded in the left shoulder by a musket ball fired from the mizen-top of the French ship, the "Redoutable," and died a few hours after. The "Victory" carried his body to England, and his remains lay in state for three days in the Painted Hall of Greenwich Hospital; and again at the Admiralty; and on 9 Jan. 1806, they were honoured with a public funeral, and deposited in St. Paul's Cathedral. His lordship m. 22 March, 1787, Frances Herbert, dau. of William "'... oodward, senior judge of the Isle of Nevis, and relict of Josiah Nisbet, ~I.D., of the Isle of Nevis ( a scion of the family of Nisbet, of Carfine, Lanarkshire), but by her (who had 2,000£ a year settled on her by the 46 Geo. III, cap. 3, and who d. 4 May, 1831) he had no issue, and consequently all his British honours, save the last created barony, became extinct; but that, in accordance with the limitation, devolved, as well as the Duke­ dom of Bronte, upon his only surviving brother, Rev. William Nelson, 1st Earl Nelson, D.D., who was created 20 Nov. 1805, Viscount Merton, of Trafalgar, and of Merton, in the co. of Surry, and Earl Nels on of Trafalgar, and Merton, with remainder failing his issue male to the heirs male of the body of his sister Mrs. Bolton, and failing them to the heirs male of the body of his other sister :Mrs. Matcham. The Earl, who was b. 20 April, 1757, was a prebendary of Canter­ bury; hem. 1st, 9 Nov. 1786, Sarah, dau. of the Rev. Henry Yonge, by whom (who d. 13 April 1828) he had one son and one dau., 22 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

"Horatio, Viscount Merton, b. 26 Oct. 1788, who d. 'lllfllm. 17 Jan. 1808. "Charlotte Mary, who m. Samuel 2nd Lord Bridport, and succeeded as Duchess of Bronte ( according to the law of Sicily; see the case of Earl Nelson v. Lord Bridport, re­ ported in 8 Beavan's Chancery Reports, p. 547), which lady d. 29 Jan. 1874. "Earl Nelson m. 2ndly, 26 March, 1829, Hilare, 3rd dau. of Admiral Sir Robert Barlow, G.C.B., sister of the Viscountess Torrington, and widow of her cousin, Capt. George IDric Barlow, who d. 1824, by whom (who m. 3rdly, 7 Feb. 1837, Geo. Thos. Knight, and d. 22 Dec. 1857) he had no issue. His lordship d. 28 Feb. 1835, and was s. [ succeeded] in his British honours by ( the only son of his sister, Mrs. Bolton) his nephew, "Thomas Bolton, 2nd Earl Nelson, who, on succeeding to the title, assumed, in lieu of his own surname and arms, the sur­ name and arms of Nelson, pursuant to 46 George III, cap. 146 an act passed for securing the Nelson annuity; he was b. 7 July, 1786; m. 21 Feb. 1821, Frances Elizabeth, dau. and heir of John Maurice Eyre, of Landford, and Brickworth, Wilts, and by her (who d. 28 March, 1878) had issue." [ Children and grandchildren omitted.] NOTE: This is "the historic family of English Nelsons" mentioned by Grandmother Mary Nelson Smith in the sketch of her ancestry printed above.-W. E. C.

THE AMERICAN NELSONS Among the early colonists who came from England to America in the half century immediately following the James­ town Settlement in 1607 and the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock in 1620 were a number of English Nelsons. Some of them settled in New England, notably the founder of the well-known publishing house of Thomas Nelson and Sons, still doing business under the same name, but most of the Nelsons settled in Virginia. Hotten lists a George Nelson THE NELSON FAMILY 23 who came over in the ship Francis Bonaventure and was living at James City, Virginia, 1623. "He was one of the Governor's men at Pasbehaighs." Hotten also names a Joseph Nelson who came in 1635 on the ship Plane Joan. Greer, in his "Early Immigrants," lists John Nelson at Charles River ( ?) in 1636; l\iary Nelson in Accomac County, 1637; Matthew Nelson on the Chicahominy River in 1639; Henry Nelson in Isle of "\Vight County, 1641; George Nelson in Northampton County, 1649; also Provost Nelson, 1652, and Thomas Nelson, 1653, both in Lancaster County. In the record of land grants we find Francis Nelson in Charles City County, 1656; William Nelson in Lower Norfolk, 1656; John Nelson in West­ moreland County, 1658 ; also a John Nels on in Gloucester County, 1665; and others. These records show that the early Nelsons from England were widely settled in various parts of Virginia. A glance at the wills recorded at a slightly later date (1709-1790) shows 48 Nelson wills recorded in 21 Vir­ ginia counties, and a striking fact, to which we shall refer later, is that an even dozen of these wills were of "John" Nelsons, four of them in one county. The most outstanding family of American Nelsons, which might appropriately be called "the historic family of Ameri­ can Nelsons" is that of Thomas (Scotch Tom) Nelson who came from Penrith, England, and settled at what is now Yorktown, in Virginia. He was born in Penrith, Feb. 20, 1677, of a prominent family of successful merchants, and died in Virginia, Oct. 7, 1745. His tomb still remains in the churchyard at Yorktown. He became a man of wealth and of influence. He married first, :Margaret Reade; and second, l\.frs. Frances Tucker, nee Houston. He was the father of "\Villiam Nels on, member Council and acting Governor, and of Thomas Nelson, Secretary of State and last President of Council under Colonial regime. Thomas, son of "'\Villiam Nelson, was the well-known signer of the Declaration of Inde­ pendence, Governor of Virginia, and commander of the militia of the State at the siege of Yorktown. His brick home, still 24 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY standing at Yorktown, has imbedded in its walls cannon balls shot there during that battle.

NORTH CAROLINA NELSONS The first of our Nelson family in North Carolina was William Nels on, who came from Virginia and settled in the Swift Creek section of Craven County about 1740. There is abundant documentary evidence in the records of Craven and adjoining counties establishing our family line back to this William Nelson, and the indications are that he was one of four brothers. The Craven County tax list for 1769 shows in the same section : John Nelson Berry Nelson William Nelson Eliason Nels on William Nelson and Eliason Nelson lived on adjoining plantations. William Nels on witnessed deeds for Eliason Nelson, and Eliason Nelson witnessed deeds for William Nelson. John Nelson bought land on Swift Creek in 1742. William Nelson had land in Craven in 1747, although it has not been shown how he acquired this land. It may have been acquired by marriage. He was purchasing land on Swift Creek in 1752. Eliason Nelson acquired property on Swift Creek around same date. Berry Nelson came to Craven and lived not far from the others. He later seems to have moved to another part of the county. The name of William Nelson appears more or less steadily in Craven County records up to 1795. In 1772 William Nelson deeded land to George Nelson, and in 1783 he deeded land to both George Nelson and Hardy Nelson, two of his sons. In 1795 he died intestate, for in that year Edward Nels on, his youngest son, was made administra­ tor of his estate. John, Hardy, and George, the three older THE NELSON FAMILY · 25 sons, made a joint deed to Edward in 1795. (Craven County Records, Book 32, p. 418.) In 1832 Edward Nels on, Sr., deeded four tracts of land to his son Edward Nelson, Jr.; and so the record comes on straight to the present generation.

EARLY ANCESTRY The effort to trace the lineage of our ancestor, William Nels on, step by step back to its English origin is much more difficult. There is circumstantial evidence that John, Berry, and ·Eliason Nelson were the brothers of William Nelson, that their father was named John, and that they came to North Carolina from the Tidewater section of Virginia. Since, however, there were at that period several John Nelsons in Tidewater Virginia, six John Nelsons on the adjacent East­ ern Shore of Maryland, and as many more in Eastern North Carolina, it has as yet been impossible to find documentary evidence to show which John Nelson was the father of our William Nelson. It has been decided therefore to begin our genealogy, for the present at least, with William Nelson, rather than publish material which later might be found to be incor­ rect. It is a known fact that both in Virginia and in North Carolina there are many old and valuable records not now available for research. There is a possibility that within the next two years a great deal of this additional material for the Eastern Section of North Carolina will be made avail­ able, and when that is ready for use there is a chance that some of our problems may be solved through a search of these records. THE WILLIAM NELSON FAMILY William Nelson, from whom our immediate family is de­ scended, was born in Virginia about 1718, came to North Carolina and settled in the Swift Creek section of Craven County about 1740, and died in 1795. He seems to have married in Craven County, but who his wife was we do not know, and, so far as we can find, she is not mentioned in the 26 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

available records of Craven County. They had seven children: l. John, 2. Hardy, 3. George, 4. Edward, 5. Sally, 6. Polly, 7. Esther. In the sketch of her ancestry printed above, Grandmother Mary Nelson Smith names six children of William Nelson, but does not mention son John. Referring to this omission, our genealogist says: "That William Nelson had a son John is shown by the deeds made by John Nelson, George Nelson, and Hardy Nelson to Edward Nelson in 1795 for property of William Nelson. William Nelson died intestate and the real estate descended equally to his sons. There could have been no other reason for John to have owned an interest. Also the fact that he signed the deeds first would indicate that per­ haps he was the oldest son." (Delamar Report, Nov. 16, 1937, p. 2.) MILITARY SERVICE There were at least three William Nelsons from North Carolina who served in the Revolutionary War, and while our William Nelson might have been one of them we have no clear proof that he was. In view of the fact that he was in his sixties the probability is that he let his sons do his fighting for him in the Revolution. But that he did loyal and patrio tic service in the Colonial Militia prior to the Revolution is indicated by the following item in the North Carolina Colonial Records, Vol. 22, p. 320: "List of Militia in Craven Co. commanded by Joseph Bryan in Craven Co. belonging to Coln. Edward Griffith's Regiment ... Wm. Nelson, Sargeant. The men have all got Powder and Lead according to law. Oct. 9, 1754." There was no other William Nelson of Craven County at this period that could have been confused with our William Nelson. John and Hardy, the two older sons of William Nelson, served in the Revolutionary War, as is shown by cancelled THE NELSON FAMILY 27 vouchers in the Revolutionary accounts, North Carolina His­ torical Commission. Both served in the State Militia (Vouch­ ers No. 217 and No. 228), and Hardy served in the Continental Line, i.e., the regular army (Vouchers No. 667 and No. 851). The military record of the third son, George, we have not been able to find. Regarding the fourth son, Edward Nelson, from whom we are descended, a letter from the Veterans Administration, Washington, D. C., dated l\farch 13, 1935, states that this Edward Nels on served as a private three enlistment periods during the Revolutionary War. The first enlistment was in Capt. Jesse Bryan's Company, Col. Read's North Carolina Regiment, Dec. 10, 1780, to Aug. 1, 1781; the second enlist­ ment was in Capt. Hardy Gatlin's Company, Col. John Till­ man's North Carolina Regiment out against the Tories; and the third in Capt. William Forville's. Company, Col. Richard Nixon's Nort4 Carolina Regiment. This letter says "He stated that he was in a battle near Camden (S. C.) under General Greene." The letter also says: "He was allowed pension on his application executed August 14, 1832, at which time he was residing in Craven County, North Carolina, and gave his age as seventy-two years." This would make the date of his birth 1760, and his age 16 at the outbreak of the Revolutionary \Var. LINEAGE

Al. vV ILLIAM NELSON was born in Virginia about 1718, settled in Craven County, North Carolina, about 1740, and appears to have married in that county about 1745. He died in 1795, leaving seven children : I. JOHN NELSON. No record of wife or children. 2. HARDY (Hardee) NELSON, b...... , d. 1797-1803. No record of wife or children. 3. GEORGE NELSON, married Sabre ...... about 1777. He died in 182,5 and left one child, Garret. This Garret Nelson's will, dated :r.fay 15, 1856, and recorded in Beau- 28 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

fort County, Book OW, p. 552, mentions wife Easter; sons Berry, Abner, Garret (Jr.), and George; also daughters Aletha, Ginnet, Elizabeth and Nancy. This same Garret Nelson and his family are listed in the official Census of 1850, Beaufort County, as follows: House No. 1169. Family No. 1177. p. 430. Chocowinity Dist. Garret Nelson aged 71. Easter Nels on aged 48. Alley Nelson aged 40. Nancy Nelson aged 35. Garret Nels on aged 27. Berry Nelson aged 24. Abner Nels on aged 23. From these and records from the Garret Nelson family Bible we get the following: Garret Nelson, s. George and Sabre Nelson, b. 1778, d. Oct. 23, 1856, m. 1st Susannah Edwards (d. Nov. 5, 1845); m. 2nd, Oct. 31, 1846, Easter Jones, dau. Edward and Dorcas Jones, b. July 6, 1802. He had no children by second wife, but eleven by first wife: a. ALETHA (Alley), b. 1810, m. John Carney. b. NANCY, b. 1815. c. JACOB, b. Dec. 12, 1815. d. GEORGE B., b. Nov. 21, 1821, d. Mar. 25, 1899, m. Feb. 16, 1855. Winifred Williams (d. Mar. 27, 1884). Five children: (a) JosEPHINE, m. Joseph J. Roberts, Nov. 23, 1884. (b) GEORGE B., Jr., b. Mar. 23, 1857, m. Henriet­ ta Williams, May 18, 1884. (c) JAMES GooDWIN (Jim), b. 1863, m. Mary Delamar Harrington, live near Chocowinity, N. C. THE NELSON FAMILY 29

( d) WILLIAM HENRY (Bill), unmarried, lives with his brother, James. ( e) GEORGE FREDERICK. e. GARRET, JR., b. 1823, m. Dorcas A. E. Lewis, Oct. 14, 1857. Two sons : (a) NASH, m. Fannie Anderson (d. 1926). Two sons: i. WILLIAM, living in Washington, N. C. ii. RASBERRY. Died in forest fire. (b) BERRY. f. CHARLES E., b. June 19, 1824, m. Martha Taylor, Dec. 7, 1875. g. BERRY, b. 1826, m. Elizabeth (Betsy) Roach, June 4, 1857. h. ABNER, b. 1827, m. Ann Purser of Pitt County. i. SALLY, b ...... , d. Oct. 11, 1843. j. G1NNET, m. Shade Downs. k. ELIZABETH, m. West Lewis. 4. EDWARD NELSON (A~) s. William Nelson, m. Winifred Johnson. 5. SARAH (Sally) NELSON, m. Osborne Clark, July 30, 1785. 6. POLLY NELSON, m. an Edwards. 7. EsTHER NELSON, m. Elisha Lewis, Aug. 20, 1784. A2. EDWARD NELSON, SR., son of William Nelson, born 1760, died July 11, 1839, married, Aug. 15, 1788, Winifred John­ son, daughter of Jacob Johnson I, died Mar. 7, 1829. Four children: 1. JEANNETTE NELSON, m. Matthew Williams of New Bern, Apr. 22, 1814. 2. CHARLES J. NELSON, m. Eliza Godly and went to Ten­ nessee. 3. PERMELIA NELSON, m. Steven Searles (Surls) on Swift Creek, Jan. 3, 1814. 4. EDWARD NELSON, JR. (A3), m. Sallie Roach. 30 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

A3. EDWARD NELSON, JR., son of Edward, Sr., and "\Vinifred Johnson Nelson, born Oct. 16, 1803, died Dec. 29, 1841, mar­ ried, Jan. 20, 1825, Sarah (Sally) Roach, daughter of Charles, Sr., and Polly Summers Roach, born Mar. 8, 1805, died Oct. 15, 1867. Four children: 1. MARY NELSON (A4), m. Wm. H. Smith. 2. WINIFRED NELSON (A5), m. B. F. Harding. 3. AUGUSTUS WASHINGTON NELSON (A6), m. Susan ,vini­ fred Rountree Brewer. 4. EMILY FREEMAN NELSON (A7), m. Zaccheus Brown. A4. MARY NELSON, daughter of Edward, Jr., and Sally Roach Nelson, born Oct. 2, 1825, died Feb. 18, 1907, married, Mar. 15, 1846, Wm. Henry Smith, son of James and Holland Little Smith, born Dec. 20, 1820, died Feb. 11, 1885. Twelve children: I. JAMES SMITH, s. Wm. H. and Mary Nelson Smith, died in infancy. 2. EDWARD AUGUSTUS SMITH, s. Wm. H. and Mary Nelson Smith, b. Feb. 29, 1848, d. Nov. 4, 1936, m. Oct. 6, 1870, Ava Taylor, b. Feb. 26, 1848, d. Apr. 13, 1903. Two children: (1) ERNEST DANCY SMITH, b. Nov. 18, 1873, d. Dec. 23, 1928, m. Sydnia Jane Hill, June 12, 1909. One son: a. ERNEST EDWARD, b. Sept. 26, 1917. (2) ]\,fAGGIE AvA SMITH, b. July 29, 1875, m. Dec. 18, 1892, "\Vm. P. Phillips, b. Jan. 13, 1870. Four children: a. TROY EARLE, b. May 24, 1894, m. 1st Margaret B. Rogers, 1\.iar. 11, 1916; m. 2nd Dora Alice Lee, Apr. 7, 1925. No children by first wife. Four by second wife: (a) LovITA AILENE, b. Apr. 3, 1926. (b) TROY EDWIN, b. Sept. 28, 1928. (c) THEODORE ALLEN, b. Sept. 8, 1930. ( d) EARLENE WINIFRED, b. June 20, 1933. THE NELSON FAMILY 31

b. WILLIAM EnwARD ERNEST, b. Dec. 29, 1897, d. Sept. 26, 1898. c. AvA TEXANA, b. Oct. 12, 1899, m. 1st Ralph Harper, Dec. 3, 1917; m. 2nd Benjamin D. Hurlong, Jan. 23, 1927. One child by first husband: (a) AvA LouisE, b. Jan. 28, 1921. Two children by second husband: (a) GEORGE WILLIAM, b. Dec. 14, 1930. (b) BERTRAM NELSON, b. Oct. 16, 1934. d. WILLIAM TAYLOR, b. Dec. 3, 1904, m. Mamie Ruth Williams, Aug. 12, 1931. No children. 3. VIRGINIA SMITH, dau. "\Vm. H. and :Mary Nelson Smith, b. Feb. 11, 1850, d. Oct. 3, 1852. 4. EMILY EvELYN SMITH, dau. Wm. H. and Mary Nelson Smith, b. Nov. 23, 1852, d. Feb. 24, 1926, m. Calvin Cox, Dec. 23, 1869. Ten children: (1) WILLIAM EDWARD Cox, b. Oct. 23, 1870, m. Jan. 16, 1908, Lula O'Conner (b. July 25, 1874), dau. James and Mary Price O'Conner, of Knoxville, Tenn. One son: a. WILLIAM EDWARD, JR., b. Sept. 12, 1915. (2) AvA MAGDALENE Cox, b. Dec. 20, 1872, d. Feb. 16, 1873. (3) MARY LouisA (Lula) Cox, b. Apr. 26, 1874, m. l\Iajor William Uzzell, Feb. 17, 1897. Six children: a. EVELYN ELITHE UzzELL, b. Nov. 1, 1898, m. George B. Patrick, Aug. 20, 1915. Four children: (a) GEORGE BRANCH, JR., b. June 9, 1916. (b) MAMIE EvELYN, b. Aug. 30, 1918. ( c) ETTA LomsE, b. July 21, 1920. (d) MARY D., b. July 6, 1925. 32 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

b. PAULINE UzzELL, b. Aug. 26, 1900, m. John Bruce Eagles, June 20, 1922. One child: (a) PAULINE JEANNE, b. Dec. 23, 1926. c. LULA VALERIE UzzELL, b. Oct. 29, 1902, m. Carl L. Matheson, Nov. 25, 1924. One child: (a) CARLL., JR., b. Nov. 7, 1934. d. WILLIAM EDWARD UzzELL, b. Nov. 1, 1906, m. Katherine Murchison Clippard, July 12, 1934. No children. e. FRANCIS DuBosE UzzELL, b. May 25, 1908. f. EMILY ELIZABETH UzzELL, b. Jan. 29, 1917. ( 4) CALVIN THEODORE, b. July 18, 1876, d. Jan. 31, 1938, m. 1st Elizabeth Cox, dau. Marshall Cox, May 13, 1913; m. 2nd Lena Cobb, Jan. 12, 1932. No children by second wife. One by first wife: a. JANIE LouisE, b. Apr. 12, 1917. (5) OLIVIA GWYNNE Cox, b. Jan. 30, 1879, m. Eugene Little McCormac, June 11, 1918. No children. (6) HuLDAH MAY Cox, b. Apr. 9, 1881, m. Irving James Covert, Dec. 24, 1930. No children. (7) ADDIE ADELL Cox, b. May 3, 1883, m. Atlas Thomas Uzzell, June 6, 1906. Eight children: a. THEODORE, b. Sept. 13, 1907. b. BETTIE ANNE, b. June 11, 1909, m. Albert Cow .. ing, Jan. 2, 1932. Two children: (a) Jo ANN, b. Feb. 26, 1936. (b) ALLIE BETT, b. Feb. 10, 1938. c. JoHN RANDOLPH, b. May 14, 1911. d. FELIX HARVEY, b. Oct. 10, 1913. e. ATLAS THOMAS, JR., b. June 7, 1915. f. EvELYN C., b. Feb. 4, 1917. g. MATTHEW, b. Dec. 12, 1919. h. CALVIN, b. Jan. 18, 1926. THE NELSON FAMILY 33

(8) BEATRICE HELENA Cox, b. May 1, 1886, d. Oct. 13, 1886. (9) HARVEY ATKINSON Cox, b. Nov. 18, 1887, m. Hattie Della Moose, June 27, 1921. Three children: a. HARVEY ATKINSON, JR., b. May 21, 1922. b. MAGDALEN, b. July 6, 1923. c. EMILY ELMIRA, b. Feb. 27, 1927. (10) MAGDALEN Cox, b. Feb. 8, 1890, d. Aug. 6, 1914. 5. SARAH RoACH SMITH, dau. Wm. H. and Mary Nelson Smith, b. July 18, 1854, d. Jan. 30, 1903, m. Council Dawson, Mar. 16, 1873. Eight children: (1) WALTER WooTEN DAWSON, b. June 28, 1874, d. Jan. 2, 1930, m. Annie Brooks, Jan. 4, 1900. One child: a. RAYE BROOKS DAWSON, b. Oct. 31, 1900, m. W. I van Bissette. No children. (2) BERTHA BROWN DAwsoN, b. Sept. 12, 1876, m. Frederick G. Buhmann, Nov. 16, 1904. Two children: a. FREDERICK GusTAVUS, JR., b. June 12, 1910, d. July 12, 1912. b. SARAH ELIZABETH, b. March 10, 1914. (3) LEONORA LITTLE (Nora) DAwsoN, b. Nov. 27, 1878, d. Apr. 2, 1931, m. Charles A. Davis, Dec. 20, 1899. Two children: a. CouNCIL ExuM, b. Oct. 27, 1900, d. June, 1921. Was drowned while swimming. b. CHARLES THOMAS, b. May 16, 1906, m. Sallie Moore, June 4, 1931. Two children: (a) NoRA, b. Apr. 9, 1932. (b) CHARLES T., JR., b. May 1, 1934. (4) MARY MAGDALENE (Lena) DAWSON, b. Jan. 11, 1881. 34 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

(5) CLYDE CLAYTON DAWSON, b. Jan. 29, 1883, m. Dr. Frank Sidle Lynn, Dec. 14, 1912. Two children: a. FRANK SIDLE, JR., b. Mar. 10, 1917. b. WILLIAM DAWSON, b. Nov. 9, 1918. (6) CouNcIL CLAUDIUS DAWSON, b. July 10, 1885, m. Lucille Reams, Dec. 1, 1917. Four children: a. CLAUDIUS SIDNEY, b. Apr. 9, 1921. b. SARAH NELSON, b. Aug. 20, 1924. c. FLORENCE LATHAM, b. Mar. 10, 1926. d. SuzANNE WOOTEN, b. Oct. 23, 1930. (7) THOMAS THEODORE DAwsoN, b. Oct. 22, 1888, m. Nannie Lou Norwood, Oct. 22, 1921. Two children: a. CAROL NoRwooD, b. June 23, 1924, d. Mar. 6, 1931. b. JANE LYNN, b. Jan. 10, 1935. (8) IRMA lsABEL DAWSON, b. Aug. 5, 1897. 6. WINIFRED MAGDALENE SMITH, dau. Wm. H. and Mary Nelson Smith, b. June 11, 1856, d. Dec. 12, 1933, m. Joseph Leonidas Butt, July 22, 1891. Four children: (I) MARY OLIVIA BuTT, b. Dec. 2, 1892, m. Rev. Norvin Cornelius Duncan, June 28, 1911. Four children: a. NoRVIN CoRNELIUS, JR., b. June 29, 1917. b. JosEPH CAPERS, b. Apr. 8, 1920. c. HoRACE GoRDON, b. Jan. 20, 1922. d. JANE HARDING, b. Oct. 7, 1926. (2) VIDA GORDON BuTT, b. Nov. 18, 1895. (3) IsRAEL HARDING BuTT, b. July 21, 1897, m. Roberta Crews, Dec. 18, 1926. Three children: a. KATHERINE LASSITER, b. Nov. 8, 1928. b. MILDRED, b. Nov. 9, 1932. c. WALTER HORACE, b. Nov. 30, 1935. ( 4) WILLIAM HoRACE BuTT, b. Dec. 4, 1899, m. Lucille Johnson, June 15, 1934. One child: a. Jo ANNA, b. Mar. 31, 1935. THE NELSON FAMILY 35

7. JAMES HENRY (Dock) SMITH, s. Wm. H. and Mary Nelson Smith, b. Mar. 12, 1858, d. Oct. 15, 1893, m. Kate Seawell, l\1ay 23, 1892. One child: (1) WILLIAM AsHLEY, b. Aug. 27, 1893, m. Shirley Thomas, Apr. 11, 1925. No children. 8. CLAUDIUS FERDINAND SMITH, s. Wm. H. and Mary Nelson Smith, b. May 21, 1860, m. Clara Forsyth McGuire, Jan. 22, 1891. Four children: (1) PEYTON McGUIRE SMITH, b. Nov. 26, 1891, m. Mrs. Maud Pemberton Hart, Apr. 2, 1921. Two children: a. PEYTON McGUIRE, JR., b. Nov. 19, 1922. b. CLAUDIA PEMBERTON, b. Dec. 2, 1924. (2) EDWARD NELSON SMITH, b. Mar. 30, 1895, m. 1st Nelly Scott Payne, Oct. 16, 1918; m. 2nd Susan Massie Snead, Aug. 1, 1936. One child by first wife: a. ELLEN ScoTT, b. Aug. 16, 1919. (3) CLARA l\fASON SMITH, b. Jan. 11, 1898, m. Randall Carlyle Coleman, Feb. 27, 1919. Two children: a. RANDALL CARLYLE, JR., b. June 14, 1920. b. CLAUDIUS SMITH, b. Oct. 12, 1926. (4) RosE l\fcGurnE SMITH, b. Nov. 20, 1899. 9. ADELAIDE SMITH, dau. Wm. H. and Mary Nelson Smith, b. Feb. 16, 1862, m. John David Cox, Dec. 23, 1885. No children. Adopted: (1) JAMIE SAUNDERS (Cox), rn. Clevie Bowley, Oct. 1, 1910. Seven children: a. LAURENCE STRANGE, b. May, 1913. b. DAVID ALEXANDER, b. Feb. 1915. c. WITT LANE, b. July, 1917. d. QUINTON, b. Sept. 8, 1919. e. DoRCAS MAY, b. July 15, 1921. f. ANNIE ELIZABETH, b. June 23, 1923. g. BEATRICE BowLEY, b. Nov. 11, 1925. 36 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

10. GEORGE FREDERICK S1\HTH, s. Wm. H. and Mary Nelson Smith, b. Jan. 9, 1864, m. Nellye Washburne. No children. 11. MARY VIRGINIA SMITH, dau. Wm. H. and Mary Nelson Smith, b. Feb. 16, 1866, m. Dr. B. Thaddeus Cox, July 22, 1891. Five children: (1) VENETIA Cox,. b. May 8, 1892. Missionary in China. (2) JEANNETTE Cox, b. July 29, 1894, m. Ashley Tobias St. Amand, Sept. 4, 1923. No children. (3) OLIVERA Cox, b. Dec. 14, 1896, m. Troy Worth Rouse, Nov. 24, 1920. Four children: a. NANNIE VIRGINIA, b. June 8, 1922. b. TROY WoRTH, JR., b. July 10, 1924. c. OLIVERA MARIE, b. Aug. 3, 1927. d. RICHARD THADDEUS Cox, b. Aug. 1, 1929. ( 4) GRACE VIRGINIA Cox, b. Jan. 7, 1904, m. Jerry Thomas Gaylord, Sept. 11, 1926. Two children: a. MARY GRACE, b. July 30, 1927. b. JERRY THOMAS, JR., b. Jan. 25, 1931. (5) BERNICE THADDEUS Cox, b. Mar. 2, 1907, d. Sept. 5, 1910. 12. HoLLAND (Hollon) LITTLE SMITH, dau. Wm. H. and Mary Nelson Smith, b. Jan. 23, 1868, m. James Randal Johnson, Sept. 20, 1888. Ten children: (1) MIRIAM ADELAIDE JoHNSON, b. July 1, 1890, m. Heber B. McGlohorn, Dec. 28, 1910. No children. (2) GoRDON NELSON JoHNSON, b. Apr. 13, 1892. (3) EsTHER LITTLE JoHNSON, b. Sept. 5, 1894, m. George Herbert Cox, June 28, 1916. Two children: a. GERALDINE HoLLON, b. Jan. 4, 1918. b. GEORGE HERBERT, JR., b. Jan. 4, 1922. THE NELSON FAMILY 37

(4) HARDY JonNsoN III, b. Aug. 15, 1896, m. 1st Capitola Turnage, Oct. 11, 1921, m. 2nd Martha Brown Fountain, Dec., 1935. Two children by first wife: a. ARTIS DWIGHT, b. July 30, 1922. b. HENRY Gnrns, b. Feb. 1, 1924. One child by second wife: a. MARTHA HARDY, b. Nov. 7, 1937. (5) DoROTHY LEE JoHNsoN, b. Nov. 3, 1898, m. Robert Walter Smithwick, June 28, 1922. Three children: a. RoBERT WALTER, JR., b. May 13, 1923. b. EvELYN JoHNSON, b. May 16, 1925. c. MARY NELSON, b. June 19, 1928. (6) KATHERINE VIRGINIA JoHNSON, b. June 1, 1900, d. Feb. 12, 1901. (7) LILLIAN JOHNSON, b. Dec., 1902. Died same day. (8) JAMES RAY JoHNSON, b. Feb. 25, 1904, m. Mrs. Lucy B. Nichols, Feb. 26, 1932. Two children: a. MARY SMITH, b. Nov. 21, 1933. b. HoLLON, b. Mar. 9, 1936. (9) CLAUDIUS CLIFTON JoHNSON, b. Aug. 11, 1906, m. Annie Carr McGlohorn, Oct. 27, 1928. T'wo children : a. CLAUDIUS CLIFTON, JR., b. Dec. 16, 1930. b. STANLEY RAY, b. Dec. 6, 1982. (10) WILLIAM SMITH JoHNSON, b. Nov. 9, 1911, m. Lena Jenkins, July, 1936. No children. AS. WINIFRED NELSON, daughter of Edward, Jr., and Sally Roach Nelson, born Oct. 9, 1827, died June 14, 1882, married Benjamin Franklin Harding. Nine children: 1. HENRY EDWARD HARDING, s. Benjamin F. and Winifred Nelson Harding, b. Apr. 29, 1851, m. :Mrs. Harriet von Eberstein Hull. One child: 38 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

(1) Guy CHAMPION, b. Oct. 25, 1880, m. Blanche Lowery. Two children: a. HARRIET, b. May 9, 1906, m. Herman Lollis. b. HENRY CHAMPION, b. Mar. 26, 1916. 2. MARY MARGARET HARDING, dau. Benjamin F. and Wini­ fred Nelson I-larding, b. Aug. 18, 1852, d. Jan. 7, 1938, m. James Griffin Hill. Ten children : (1) FORREST SEVERANCE HILL, b. Mar. 25, 1875, d. Sept. 5, 1884. (2) HERBERT GurnN HILL, b. Jan. 21, 1877, d. Jan. 3, 1878. (3) CoRA MAY HILL, b. :May 17, 1878, m. Mr. Coburn. No children. ( 4) JAMES GRIFFIN HILL, b. Nov. 4, 1879, d. May 24, 1880. (5) HENRY BRYAN HILL, b. Nov. 27, 1880, m. Henrietta Baker. Two children: a. HENRY BAKER, b. 1918. b. EMILY LEE, b. 1920. (6) FENNER HILL, b. Dec. 25, 1882, m. Aline Smith. No children. (7) MATTIE HARDING HILL, b. Sept. 29, 1885, m. Walter Patrick Lynch. Two children: a. GRIFFIN HILL LYNCH, b. 1918. b. MARY MARGARET LYNCH, b. 1917, m. Wm. T. Mil­ lican, 1936. (8) GEORGE FRANKLIN HILL, b. June 25, 1887, m. Lou Shelton Zoeller. Two children : a. GEORGE FRANKLIX, JR., b. July 20, 1922. b. CAROLYN HARDING, b. Apr. 30, 1927. (9) JAMES GRIFFIN HILL, b. Apr. 20, 1889, d. Aug. 16, 1889. THE NELSON FAMILY 39

(10) SAMUEL NICHOLSON HILL, b. Nov. 26, 1892, m. Pearl Harrelson. Two children: a. MARY SuE, b. 1926. b. WILLIAM GRIFFIN, b. 1932. 3. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS HARDING, s. Benjamin F. and Wini­ fred Nelson Harding, b. Apr. 10, 1854, m. Winnie Barr. Four children: (1) WILLIAM AuGusTus HARDING, JR., b. Sept. 2, 1877, m. Emma Dixon. Six children: a. LILLIAN HARDING', b. Nov. 1, 1900, m. Louis Hill. Three children : (a) ETHEL MAE, b. Aug. 31, 1921. (b) MENDELL, b. July 3, 1925. (c) Louis, JR., b. Dec. 17, 1930. b. BLAKE HARDING, b. June 13, 1902, m. Mildred Godley. One child: (a) ALTON O'NEAL, b. Dec. 10, 1929. c. LossIE HARDING, b. Aug. 26, 1907, m. John Moore. d. BuRBLE HARDING, b. June 17, 1909, m. Julia Jones. Two children: (a) MARION TAYLOR, b. :May 3, 1934. (b) WILLIAM RoBERT, b. Nov. 7, 1935. e. OLLIE HARDING. f. HuGH BROWN HARDING, b. July, 1916, m. Phoebe Jones. (2) ELLA M. HARDING, b. May 6, 1879, m. Johnson R. Downs. One child: a. HuGH JosH, b. Nov. 21, 1912. (3) BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HARDING, JR., b. Aug. 27, 1880, m. Martha Clark. Five children: a. RALEIGH, b. Mar. 4, 1911, m. Lucy Clark. b. GuY, b. Mar. 16, 1917. 40 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

c. WILMER, b. July 18, 1918. d. WINNIE, b. Nov. 8, 1919. e. CuRTIS HooVER, b. Dec. 3, 1928. ( 4) JOHN ALLEN HARDING, b. Oct. 2, 1882, m. Sudie Harding. Three children: a. ELLA MAE, b. June 2, 1921. b. STELLA RAY, b. Oct. 24, 1923. c. JoHN ALLEN, b. Jan. 11, 1925. 4. EMILY ELIZABETH HARDING, dau. Benjamin F. and Wini­ fred Nelson Harding, b. Apr. 15, 1855, m. Timothy Cutler. Four children : (1) ANNIE BERTHA CuTLER, b. Mar. 17, 1883, d. July 15, 1884. (2) SALLIE EsTELLE CuTLER, b. Sept. 7, 1885, m. Francis Leonidas Joyner, Nov. 26, 1907. Three children: a. FRANCIS LEONIDAS, JR., b. Aug. 6, 1909, m. Emily Watson Shelburne, June 20, 1936. b. WILLIAM HARDING, b. Nov. 16, 1910, d. Oct. 3, 1930. c. EDWARD CUTLER, b. Feb. 16, 1914. (3) JAMES EDWARD CuTLER, b. Nov. 14, 1887, m. Jose­ phine Robinson. One child, Katherine Robinson Cutler. ( 4) l\:fARY ELIZABETH CuTLER, b. Apr. 10, 1892, m. James R. Russ. Three children : a. MARY CATHERINE, b. Jan. 15, 1916. b. JAMES RoBERT, b. Nov. 8, 1922. c. SALLIE EsTELLE, b. Sept. 23, 1924. 5. ALLEN GRIST HARDING, s. Benjamin F. and Winifred Nelson Harding, b. Sept. 15, 1857, m. Alice Quattlebaum. Two children: (I) WALTER RALEIGH, (2) a daughter. THE NELSON FAMILY 41

6. WILEY GRIST HARDING, s. Benjamin F. and Winifred Nelson Harding, b. 1859, d. same year. 7. AFsLEY GRIST HARDING, dau. Benjamin F. and Winifred Nelson Harding, b. May 9, 1862, m. Robert Tripp. Three children : (1) MARTHA HARDING TRIPP, b. Nov. 20, 1885, m. Robert Gilmore. Three children: a. ROBERT BAXTER, b. Oct. 11, 1909, m. Antoinette Diemer. b. FREDERICK HARDING, b. Sept. 13, 1912. c. MARTHA TRIPP, b. Dec. 17, 1921. (2) RoBERT FRANKLIN TRIPP, b. Nov. 22, 1887, d. May 26, 1888. (3) GEORGIA BoGART TRIPP, b. Oct. 23, 1898, m. Walter Pettigrew. No children. 8. SALLIE NELSON HARDING, dau. Benjamin F. and Winifred Nelson Harding, b. Oct. 10, 1864, m. John Robert Hughes, s. Rev. N. C. Hughes, Sr., D.D. Three children: (1) LucRETIA SELDEN HuGHES, b. Feb., 1890. (2) lsAAc WAYNE HuGHEs, b. Aug. 8, 1892. (3) JoHN BLOUNT HuGHEs, b. Oct. 11, 1902, d. Jan. 3, 1906. 9. LAURA HARDING, dau. Benjamin F. and Winifred Nelson Harding, d. in infancy. A6. AuGusTus WASHINGTON NELSON, son of Edward, Jr., and Sally Roach Nelson, born Nov. 21, 1833, died May 5, 1891, married Susan Winifred Rountree Brewer, died Jan. 3, 1929. Five children: 1. CHARLES EDWARD NELSON, s. Augustus W. and Susan W. R. B. Nelson, b. Aug. 26, 1859, m. Cora Amanda Bailey, June 24, 1884. No children. 2. GEORGE FREDERICK NELSON, s. Augustus W. and Susan OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

W. R. B. Nelson, b. Aug. 15, 1861, d. Jan. 20, 1930, m. Susan Catherine Eubanks, Dec. 26, 1888. Five children: (1) AUGUSTUS WHITERKER, b. Apr. 28, 1890, m. Blanche McGowan, May 2, 1928. One adopted child: a. GEORGE ROWLAND, b. June 10, 1931. (2) WILLIAM ETHERIDGE, b. Feb. 28, 1892. (3) LEVIN FREDERICK, b. Apr. 25, 1898, m. Thelma Errington Williams, Oct. 1, 1920. Five children: a. LEVIN FREDERICK, JR., b. Sept. 11, 1921. b. GAIL GENE, b. Dec. 28, 1922. c. MARY CATHERINE, b. Nov. 6, 1924. d. RoDNEY AuGusTus, b. May 2, 1926. e. KENNETH ERRINGTON, b. Mar. 3, 1936. (4) CHAUNCY MuNGER, b. Mar. 23, 1904, m. Berna Abrahamson, July 8, 1937. (5) Susm ESTELLE, b. June 24, 1906. 3. JAMES MADISON NELSON, s. Augustus W. and Susan W. R. B. Nelson, b. Oct. 30, 1865, d. Dec. 19, 1910, m. Nora Jarman, May 2, 1896. Two children: (1) AuGusTus WASHINGTON, b. Feb. 5, 1897, m. Sarah Cecilia Kelly, Apr. 15, 1926. No children. (2) WILLIAM GEORGE, b. June 2, 1898, m. Margaret Brown, June 20, 1924. No children. 4. MARY AzALIA (Minnie) NELSON, dau. Augustus W. and Susan W. R. B. Nelson, b. Apr. 12, 1871. 5. HARRY NORTON NELSON, s. Augustus W. and Susan W. R. B. Nelson, b. June 20, 1875, m. Hazel Maude Whately, Nov. 13, 1910. Two children: (1) HARRY AuGusTus, b. Nov. 30, 1911. (2) DARIEN WINIFRED, b. Mar. 19, 1916, m. Byron Varner, Feb. 24, 1936. One child: a. GoRDON WILLIAM, b. June 14, 1937. THE NELSON FAMILY 43

A7. EMILY FREEMAN NELSON, daughter of Edward, Jr., and Sally Roach Nelson, born June 20, 1837, died June 10, 1865, m. Zaccheus Brown. Two children : I. WILLIAM EDWARD BROWN, s. Zaccheus and Emily Nelson Brown, b. 1859, d. 1903, m. Ida Brewer. Six children: (1) SADIE BROWN, b. Aug. 20, 1883, m. Leon Fortiscue Simmons, Dec. 28, 1904. One child: a. LEON DALMAIN, b. Mar. 12, 1912. (2) WILLIAM ZAcCHEus BROWN, b. July 6, 1886, m. Frances Neal, Jan. 15, 1913. One son: a. WILLIAM ZACCHEus, JR., b. Jan. 11, 1915. (3) EMILY FREEMAN BROWN, b. July 11, 1888. (4) CLAYTON EDWARD BROWN, b. Aug. 11, 1890, m. Mary Catherine Littlejohn, Oct. 4, 1925. One child: a. EMILY LITTLEJOHN BROWN, b. Nov. 29, 1929. (5) RuTH BROWN, b. July 5, 1893, m. Samuel Pendleton Cowardin, Jr., Dec. 80, 1920. Three children: a. SAMUEL PENDLETON III, b. Nov. 8, 1921. b. CAMILIA ANN, c. Louis. (6) PAUL JEROME BROWN, b. Jan. 8, 1896, m. Catherine Louise Tolleson, Aug. 20, 1925. No children. 2. SALLY PHILOPENA BROWN, dau. Zaccheus and Emily Nelson Brown, m. Frederick H. von Eberstein, May 1, 1879. Three children: (1) MABEL DE VIRE voN EBERSTEIN, b. May 2, 1887. (2) JuLIA HYDE voN EBERSTEIN, b. May 7, 1888, m. William Anderson Peschau. No children. (3) WILLIAM HENRY voN EBERSTEIN, b. Jan. 22, 1892, m. 1st Mary Gaither; m. 2nd Mrs. Frances Nichol­ son. No children by either wife. SECTION B THE JOHNSON FAMILY The immigrant ancestor of the Jacob Johnson family came from England, and was the father of Jacob Johnson I (Bl). He also had a daughter Katie, who married John Roach (Cl); other children, if any, are not known. Bl. JACOB JOHNSON I, married Sallie Pearce. They had thirteen daughters and one son, Jacob Johnson II (Bf). Of the daughters, Winifred married Edward Nelson, Sr. (A.f); Anna married Charles Roach, Jr. (Cf, 1); Susan married a Bull; Bettie married a Campbell; Rachel, Sally, and Polly all married Bryans. B2. JACOB JoHNSON II, son of Jacob I, and Sally Pearce Johnson, married Pamelo Coart, sister of Bryan and William Pugh's mother (Mary Coart). Two children: 1. FREDERICK JOHNSON (B3), m. Eliza Patrick. 2. MARY CoART J oHNsoN, m ...... B3. FREDERICK JOHNSON, son of Jacob II, and Pamelo Coart Johnson, married Eliza Patrick. Three children: 1. ALLEN JOHNSON (B4), m. Jack-Ann Mccotter. 2. EDWARD JoHNSON (B5), m. 1st Henrietta Mewborn; m. 2nd Maggie Dawson. · 3. ELIZABETH JoHNSON (B6), m. Joshua L. Tucker (first wife). B4. ALLEN JoHNSON, son of Frederick and Eliza Patrick Johnson, married Jack-Ann McCotter. Three children: 1. JACOB JoHNSON III, s. Allen and Jack-Ann McCotter Johnson, m. Mary Beard. Four children: (1) JACOB IV, (2) Mary Emma, (3) Anna Margaret, ( 4) Frederick Allen. 2. RoBERT JOHNSON, s. Allen and Jack-Ann McCotter John­ son, m. Mary May. Three children : THE JOHNSON FAMILY 45

(1) MAY, m. J. Bruce Eure. Two children: a. MAY, b. Bobbie. (2) RoBERT, JR., m. Ruby Nobles, dau. Osborn Nobles. One child, Elizabeth. (3) ALLEN II, m. Mary Alice Smith, dau. J. R. Smith. Two children : a. MARY ALICE, b. Allen III. 3. GEORGE ALLEN JOHNSON, s. Allen and Jack-Ann McCotter Johnson, m. N eppie May. Four children: (1) ANNA CLAIRE, (2) Elizabeth. (3) THOMAS WATSON, m. Una Williams. One son, Frederick. (4) RAY WooTEN. BS. EDWARD JouNsoN, son of Frederick and Eliza Patrick Johnson, married first Henrietta Mewborn; second, Maggie Dawson. Three children by first wife: 1. DURWARD, m. Emily Roach Mewborn. Accidental death. 2. HERMAN. 3. RALPH, m. Elizabeth Cook. Three children: (1) RALPH, JR., (2) Charles, (3) Betty. Edward Johnson had one child, Bertha, by second wife. B6. ELIZABETH JoHNSON, daughter of Frederick and Eliza Patrick Johnson, married Joshua L. Tucker ( first wife). Five children: 1. CALVIN TucKER, s. Joshua L. and Elizabeth Johnson Tucker, m. Josephine Quinerly. Six children: (1) EARL, m. Ned McLawhorn. Two children: a. NED, JR., m. Nannie Witherington. b. TUCKER. (2) NANNIE, m. Jack Chapman. Two children: a. MuRL TucKER, b. John. (3) BLANCHE, killed in auto accident. ( 4) J osHuA, died of influenza. 46 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

(5) CALVIN, JR., accidental death. (6) CLAUDIUS, drowned when a boy. 2. LYDA TucKER, dau. Joshua L. and Elizabeth Johnson Tucker, m. Walter Quinerly. Two children: (I) SALLY, m. W. A. Darden. ( 2) W. A. (Jack), m. Aldene Best. One child, Mary Darden. 3. NANNIE TucKER, dau. Joshua L. and Elizabeth Johnson Tucker, d. unm. 4. SALLIE TucKER, dau. Joshua L. and Elizabeth Johnson Tucker, m. ,v alter Harding. Two children, both of whom died in infancy. l>. FREDDIE TucKER, dau. Joshua L. and Elizabeth Johnson Tucker, m. Clarence Vernon Cannon of Ayden, N. C. Three children: (1) RoBERT LAWRENCE, (2) Clarence Vernon, Jr., (3) Elizabeth Ann. SECTION C THE ROACH FAMILY The name Roche appears frequently in English and Irish history. "Burke's Peerage" says: "George Roche served as mayor of Limerick in 1702 and 1721, and was returned its member to parliament in 1713 and 1715. His son David Roche was mayor of Limerick in 1749." The same book also lists a Sir David Roche, who represented the city of Limerick in parliament from 1832 to 1844 and was created a baronet in 1838. The first Roche immigrants to this country settled in New England. In the early registers and well into the 18th century there was no fixed rule for spelling names. They were spelled phonetically, following the popular pronunciation of the moment, with the result that the same name was seldom spelled continuously alike ; thus the name Roche became spelled Roach, and so it has remained. Many men in the Roach family were skilled in the con­ struction of ships, and the John Roach Ship Building Com­ pany, which was succeeded by the Cramp Ship Building Com­ pany of Philadelphia, was founded and owned by a member of this family. The first of our immediate family were three Roach brothers, John, Thomas and William, who came to this country from North Ireland before the Revolutionary War, and settled in North Carolina. These were of Welch descent, men of large stature, and raised large families. The sons of these three brothers, as they came of age, served in the Revolutionary War. (This information comes from the records of Rev. E. M. Roach of Ozark, Arkansas, who had two sons, Rev. Robert Roach and James Roach, living in Ozark in 1930.) Rev. E. M. Roach was a descendant of William Roach, one of the three brothers who first came to America. Other descendants live in Tennessee and Oklahoma City. 48 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

John Roach, another of the original trio, married Katie Johnson, sister of Jacob Johnson I, and settled on Neuse River in the Murphy neighborhood below St. John's Church in Pitt County, N. C. His wife, Katie Johnson, was the aunt of Winifred Johnson who married Edward Nelson, Sr., thus making Edward Nelson, Jr., and his wife, Sallie Roach, cousins. The line of descent is as follows : Cl. JOHN RoACH I, married Katie Johnson, sister of Jacob Johnson I. They had one son Charles, hereafter referred to as Charles Roach, Sr. ( C~). C2. CHARLES RoACH, SR., son of John and Katie Johnson Roach, born Oct. 1, 1744, married first, Elizabeth ...... , May 12, 1774; he married second, Nov. 20, 1799, Polly Summers, of Swiss descent, born Dec. 27, 1777. Three children by first wife : 1. CHARLES RoAeH, JR., b. Apr. 20, 1775, m. Anna Johnson. 2. JoHN RoAcH II (C3), b. June 15, 1776, m. Anthoret ..... 3. REUBEN RoACH, b. July 27, 1778; went to Florida. Eight children by second wife: I. DAVID RoAcH (C4), b. May 20, 1800; went to Georgia and built the first cotton mills in that state. 2. HANNAH RoAcH, b. Aug. 28, 1801, m. a Pearce. 3. JAMES RoAcH ( C5), b. July 5, 1803, m. 1st Louisa Chap­ man; m. 2nd Sallie Adams. 4. SALLY RoACH, b. Mar. 8, 1805, d. Oct. 15, 1867, m. Edward Nelson, Jr. (See Nelson Family, A3.) 5. SAMUEL J. G. RoACH, b. Apr. 15, 1808; went to Tennessee. 6. JAMES MADISON RoACH, b. Jan. 10, 1809; went to Mem­ phis, 'Tennessee. 7. NANCY RoAcH, b. Apr. 21, 1810, m. an Ecklin and went to Tennessee. 8. SusAN RoACH, d.y. C3. JOHN RoAcH II, son of Charles, Sr., and Elizabeth Roach, THE ROACH FAMILY 49 born June 15, 1776, married Anthoret ...... , July 9, 1795, and went to Georgia. Three children: 1. JACK RoAcH, b. Aug. 26, 1796. 2. PoLLY RoAcH, b. Aug. 19, 1798, d. Oct. 12, 1803. 3. CHARLES RoACH Ill, b. Feb. 14, 1800. C4. DAVID RoAcH, son of Charles, Sr., and Polly Summers Roach, born May 20, 1800, married...... One daughter. 1. SusAN RoAcH, m. William Spencer Murphey. Four children: (1) SusAN, d. unm. (2) ALLIE, m. Joseph Bryan. (3) SALLY, m. Matthew Carr, Fort Barnwell, N. C. Two children: a. MATTHEW, JR., Fort Barnwell. b. AI.Ex, Lenoir County. ( 4) MARY ELIZA ( C6), m. Shadrach (Shade) Wooten, of Pitt County. CS. JAMES RoACH, son of Charles, Sr., and Polly Summers Roach, married first, Oct. 31, 1824, Louisa Chapman, daughter of Jesse and Esther Gatlin Chapman. She died in 1825; no children. James Roach married second, Feb. 2, 1826, Sarah (Sallie) Adams, daughter of David and Argent Chapman Adams. Fourteen children: 1. PoLLY RoACH, dau. James and Sallie Adams Roach, b. May 6, 1827, m. Dr. John P. Vincent, Nov. 1, 1850. No children. 2. ELIZABETH (Betsy) RoAcH, dau. James and Sallie Adams Roach, b. Apr. 23, 1828, m. Berry Nelson, June 4, 1857. One son: (1) CLEON (Tump), m. Mattie Gaskins. Two children: a. Loms, m. Vernon Causey. b. ANNA, m. Roy Causey. 3. LomsA RoAcH, dau. James and Sallie Adams Roach, b. 50 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

Apr. 10, 1829, m. Levy Wayne, Jan. 28, 1848. Six children: (1) SAMUEL. (2) GEORGE, d. unm. (3) HENRIETTA, m. David Smith. Children: a. LAURA, b. Cottie. c. EDWARD, m. Lydia Roach. [See C5, 11, {2).] ( 4) SARAH (Sack), m. Sylvester Cox ( second wife). Four children: a. EMMA, b. Jan. 28, 1874, m. George Woods. b. SYLVESTER LAWRENCE, died age 4. c. GEORGE FEsTus, died in infancy. d. SAMUEL. (5) MARIA JANE, burned to death at age 16. (6) PHINEAS, d. Jan. 29, 1938, m. Lovey Louisa Cox. No children. 4. DAVID SUMMERS RoAcH, s. James and Sallie Adams Roach, b. Mar. 18, 1831, m. Susan Lancaster, June 9, 1859. 5. LovEY RoAcH, dau. James and Sallie Adams Roach, b. July 22, 1832, m. Calvin Cox ( first wife) Dec. 13, 1860. Two children : (1) WILLIAM SAMUEL, died in infancy. (2) SARAH CATHERINE, b. May 9, 1863, m. Jesse N. Stubbs, Mar. 17, 1889. Four children: a. SoN, b. Oct. 11, 1891, died same day. b. CONSTANCE, b. July 11, 1894, d. Apr. 19, 1896. c. JESSE ALBAN, b. May 7, 1896, d. Jan. 15, 1928. d. ADA ELFRIDA, b. Feb. 18, 1898, m. Alley B. Young. (a) ETTA JEAN, b. Sept. 20, 1937. 6. NANCY RoAcH, dau. James and Sallie Adams Roach, b. Apr. 18,1834,d.unm. 7. SALLY JANE RoACH, dau. James and Sallie Adams Roach, b. Sept. 28, 1835, m. Wm. A. Lancastet, Jan. 8, 1857. THE ROACH FAMILY 51

8. CHARLES M. RoACH, s. James and Sallie Adams Roach, b. June 13, 1837, m. Lydia Chapman. Three children: (1) JENNIE, m. Mack Witherington. Two children: a. DONALD, m. Ruth McLawhorn. One child. b. JASPER, m. Mary Moore. (2) MAMIE, d. unm. (3) SALLIE, d. wnm. 9. CATHERINE RoACH, dau. James and Sallie Adams Roach, b. Aug. 13, 1838, m. Sylvester Cox (first wife), Jan. 15, 1857. Two children: (1) CHARLEY B., went north and m...... One child. a. THo?trAs, m...... Had children. (2) LovEY LOUISA, b. Oct. 20, 1860, m. Phineas Wayne. No children. 10. JAMES BRYANT RoACH, s. James and Sallie Adams Roach, b. June 29, 1841, m. Siddie Gaskins. Five children: (1) JIM, (2) Susan, (3) Will, (4) Dora, (5) Madison. 11. WILLIAM SPENCER RoAcH, s. James and Sallie Adams Roach, b. Dec. 27, 1842, m. Katherine Chapman, Feb. 16, 1871. Seven children: (1) EMILY F. RoACH, b. July 6, 1872, m. 1st Jan. 13, 1897, Walter Mewborn, b. Aug. 4, 1870, d. Oct. 19, 1906; m. 2nd Aug. 16, 1911, Durward Johnson, b. Nov. 5, 1871, d. Sept. 14, 1928. Three children by first husband: a. KATHERINE LOUISE, b. Aug. 15, 1899, d. Oct. 13, 1900. b. JosEPH SPENCER, b. Mar. 2, 1903, d. July 3, 1904. c. MARY, b. Aug. 17, 1904, m. Mason F. Leftwich, May 30, 1931. No children. (2) LYDIA C. RoAcH, b. May 12, 1874, m. L. Edward Smith. Nine children: a. lliRRY ELBERT, b. Feb. 1, 1903, m. Vera Lancaster. 52 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

b. ANDREW LEROY, b. July 27, 1904, d. Oct. 19, 1923. c. CECIL PRESTON, b. July 8, 1906, d. Oct. 6, 1906. d. EDWARD DALTON, b. Oct. 25, 1907. e. KATHLEEN, b. July 25, 1909. f. ROBERT SPENCER, b. Apr. 18, 1911. g. MILDRED HENRIETTA, b. Nov. 27, 1912. h. EMMETT GREGORY, b. Oct. 21, 1914, d. May 28, 1915. i. LERA CLAIRE, b. Aug. 1, 1917. (3) JoHN F. RoACH, b. Sept. 19, 1876, died at age 6. (4) CLARA G. RoAcH, b. Apr. 26, 1879, m. John H. Burney. Three children: a. HELEN MAY, b. Joe Ray, c. Edna Claire. (5) FANNIE C. RoAcH, b. Nov. 1, 1881, m. Heber Stokes. Three children: a. CLYDE, b. Alice, d.y., c. Kate. (6) SoN, b. Mar. 1, 1885, died in infancy. (7) LELA 0. RoAcH, b. Dec. 9, 1887, m. H. E. Barrow. Two children: a. CALTON, accidental death, age 19. b. SYBIL GRACE. 12. LEWIS CHURCHILL RoAcH, s. James and Sallie Adams Roach, b. May 24, 1847, d. unm. 13. RAYMOND F. RoAcH, s. James and Sallie Adams Roach, b. Sept. 25, 1849. 14. ALBERT IsRAEL RoAcH, s. James and Sallie Adams Roach, b. Aug. 2, 1851, m. 1st Josephine Gwaltney; m. 2nd Lizzie Edwards. No children by first wife. Eight by second wife: (1) STELLA AGNES RoAcH, b. Dec. 28, 1884, m. J. L. Worthington. Seven children: a. BowMAN, b. July 20, 1905, d. 1908. THE ROACH FAMILY 53

b. VERGIE E., b. May 12, 1907, m. a Mr. Lilly Three children. c. RowMAN L., b. Oct. 21, 1909. d. STELLA AGNES, b. May 8, 1912, d. 1913. e. EMILY JANE, b. Sept. 15, 1914. f. CLARA FRANCES, b. Dec. 5, 1916. g. VIRGINIA DARE, b. Aug. 3, 1920. (2) TIMOTHY W. RoAcH, b. Dec. 25, 1888, m. Eva Brin­ son. Two children : a. CLIFTON, b. Oct. 30, 1919. b. LAURIE, b. Apr. 3, 1922. (3) GEORGE ALLEN RoAcH, died in infancy. (4) JosEPIDNE RoACH, b. Apr. 24, 1891, m. John Buck. Eight children: a. RosALIE, b. July 19, 1907. b. LORENA, b. Aug. 25, 1909. c. RowMAN A., b. Jan. 12, 1912. d. MAE BELL, b. Sept. 21, 1914. e. PRINCE ALBERT, b. Oct. 4, 1916. f. CANNY ELIZABETH, b. July 27, 1920. g. LoursE, b. June 2, 1923. h. FRANCES, b. June 2, 1925. ( 5) DANIEL E. RoAcH, b. Oct. 26, 1895, m. :Maude Pip­ kin. Two children : a. DAN ELWORTH, b. Nov. 23, 1922. b. MARY ELIZABETH, b. Jan. 13, 1927.

(6) WINFIELD ScoTT RoACH, b. Jan. 27, 1899, m.. Martha Brinson. Two children : a. RuTH, b. Dec. 22, 1923. b. ALBERT, b. Nov. 29, 1925. (7) ELMA CATHERINE (Kate) RoACH, b. Oct. 21, 1902, m. Walter Lee. One child: a. JAMES WHEELER, b. July 19, 1928. 54 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

(8) EuLA MAE RoAcH, b. Jan. 27, 1905, m. Laurie Reel. Two children : a. ELTON DAWSON, b. Mar. 5, 1924. b. MARGIE MARIE, b. Dec. 24, 1928. (9) HowARD L. RoACH, b. Oct. 18, 1908. C6. MARY ELIZA MuRPHEY, daughter of William Spencer and Susan Roach Murphey, married, Oct. 25, 1829, Shadrach (Shade) Wooten, of Pitt County, born Feb. 29, 1808, died Mar. 24, 1891, buried in St. John's Churchyard, Pitt County. He was the son of William Wooten who married Nancy Forbes, of Pitt County, and settled on Moccasin River near Grifton. William Wooten's father was Thomas Wooten. Susan Roach Murphey (mother of Shadrach Wooten's wife, Mary Murphey Wooten) and l\:Iary Nelson Smith, were brother and sister's children, i.e., first cousins. Shadrach and Mary Murphey Wooten had nine children:

1. JoHN B. WooTEN, 8. Shadrach and Mary Murphey Wooten, b. Oct. 1, 1832, d. 1908, m. Louisa Rhem. Three children: (1) JoHN Z., m. Ida Wooten, of Florida, dau. Lafayette Wooten. (2) LAURA RHEM. (3) ALBERT, m. 1st Hallie Gooding, dau. Council and Julia Lane Gooding; m. 2nd Lucinda Lane. Four children: a. FANNIE, m. a Lane in Boston. Left one child. b. HoKE, m. Julia Wooten, dau. Lafayette Wooten. c. HERMAN, m...... Has several children. d. PARK, m...... Has one child.

2. EDWARD WooTEN, an Episcopal Minister, 8. Shadrach and Mary Murphey Wooten, b. 1836, d. 1925, m. 1st Julia Tayloe; m. 2nd Eliza Yonge Jewett, "\-Vilmington. Rev. Edward Wooten was 1st Lieutenant in Barringer's Brigade, General Lee's Army, and was with General Lee THE ROACH FAMILY 55

at Appomattox when he surrendered m 1865. Seven children by second wife: (1) BRADLEY· J. (d. 1901), m. Ann Nesfield Green Cotchett. (2) Lucy OwEN, m. Robert W. Herring (d. May 28, 1937). One child: a. EDWARD LEWIS, b. Aug. 4, 1915. (3) EDWARD YoN&E, m. Ruth James. Five children: a. BRADLEY J. b. LEILA, m. Alfred Miller. One child: (a) ANN, b. Nov., 1937. c. ELIZA YONGE, d. Mary Malone, e. Edward. ( 4) MARY M., d. 1905. ( 5) ROBERTA DRANE, d. 1889. (6) AMORET C., m. Will A. Davis. (7) ANNA EELLS, m. Thomas W. Harrison. 3. ALLEN WOOTEN, s. Shadrach and Mary Murphey Wooten, b. 1837, d. 1931, m...... Two children: (1) FuRNIFOLD SIMMONS, (2) Collier. 4. ALICE WooTEN, dau. Shadrach and Mary Murphey Wooten, b. 1840, d. 1891, m. John Kibler. Five children: (1) DAVID BURT, (2) Adolphus Bainbridge, (3) Alice, ( 4) Mont, ( 5) Simeon. 5. MARY ELIZA WooTEN, dau. Shadrach and Mary Murphey Wooten, b. 1842, m. Joseph May, 1871. Five children: (1) LIZZIE, m. Walter Cox, Jones County. One child, Eula. (2) MARY, m. Robert Johnson. (See Johnson Family, B4, 2.) (3) NEPPIE, m. George A. Johnson. (See Johnson Family, B4, 3.) ( 4) OscAR WORTH, m. Eloise Wooten. Have children;. one son, Oscar Worth, Jr., is an Episcopal MinisterA (5) JosEPH, JR., m. Mary Hodges. 56 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

6. JAMES MURPHEY WooTEN, s. Shadrach and Mary Murphey Wooten, b. 1849, m. Jennie Lane. Three children: (I) ETHEL, (2) Alfred, (3) Leon. 7. CHARLES WooTEN, s. Shadrach and Mary Murphey Wooten, b. 1851, m. Sydney Rhem. Four children: (1) SHADE, (2) Charles Lyman, (3) Floyd, (4) Herbert. 8. WILLIAM SPENCER WooTEN, s. Shadrach and Mary Murphey Wooten, b. 1853, m. Caroline Gardner. Four children: (I) LEWIS, (2) Elliott, (3) Heber, ( 4) Bertha. 9. IDA EUGENIA WooTEN, dau. Shadrach and Mary Murphey Wooten, b. 1857, m. Alfred May, 1875. Six children: (1) RoBERT, m. Mary Harris. (2) LomsA, m. W. A. B. Hearne, Greenville, N. C. (3) ADOLPH. ( 4) VENETIA, m. Harry L. Roberts, of Savannah, Ga. Died and left two boys. (5) EDWARD, m. Sarah Pollard. (6) OLGA, m. Dwight Annoys, of Newark, N. J. NOTE: The information in C6 was furnished by Mrs. Ida May, of Farmville, N. C., daughter of Shadrach and Mary Murphey Wooten. She says her father was related to the earlier Shadrach Wooten of Lenoir County, but she does not know the exact relationship. (See Dawson-Wooten Family, G5.)-W. E. C. SECTION D THE SMITH FAMILY A few years ago in a series of articles on various families and family names, published by Ruby Haskins Ellis in the Richmond (Va.) News Leader, one article headed "Smith" said: "This is the most common of all surnames and might well in itself furnish enough matter for several volumes. The name itself is derived from the Anglo-Saxon Smitan, meaning to smite, which reminds us of an old verse: 'From whence comes Smith, all be he, knight or squire, But from the Smith that forgeth at the fire?' "Among the highland clans the Smith ranked in dignity to the chief from his skill in fabricating military weapons, and his dexterity in teaching the use of them. In Wales, smith­ craft was one of the liberal sciences, and the term was ap­ plied to artificers in wood as well as metal, and in fact, to all mechanical workmen, which accounts for the great frequency of the name." Further on in the same article comes this, which will no doubt be a surprise to many: "The proudest earldom in England is that of the Smiths­ everyone is familiar with the title Earl of Derby. The County Essex branch of the Smith f am.ily traces descent from the famous 'Black Prince,' and Sir Thomas Smith was Secretary of State to King Edward VI.... "Among the signers of the Declaration of Independence was James Smith, born in Ireland.... This family has pro­ duced many governors of states. Benjamin Smith, aide to Washington, was governor of North Carolina. He was the donor of 20,000 acres to the University of that state. William Smith, born in 1796, was governor of Virginia ; Thomas Smith was a colonial governor of South Carolina in 1648.... James Smith, born in 1809, was governor of Rhode Island. 58 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

Another James Smith, born in 1828, was governor of Georgia. ''Last, but by no means least, we must remember that our hymn 'My Country, 'Tis of Thee' was written by a Smith­ Samuel Francis Smith, of Newtonville, Mass." And Miss Ellis might have added Capt. John Smith, the real hero of the Jamestown (Va.) settlement in 1607. A letter to a Professor in the Department of History, U. N. C., for verification of the item about Benjamin Smith brought this reply: "Benjamin Smith, N. C. Revolutionary soldier and aide to Washington, was a native of Brunswick County. He was one of the original trustees of the University of N. C., and, in 1790, gave to the embryo University 20,000 acres of Ten­ nessee land ( or warrants for the same) upon which the University ultimately realized $14,000. Smith Hall here (U. N. C.) is named after the donor and trustee. Benjamin Smith was in the State Senate from Brunswick County from 1792 to 1800, and again from 1804 to 1810, in which latter year he was elected by the legislature as governor, and served the annual term then permitted by the State Constitution. He died in 1829 at Smithville (now Southport). Smith Island, just off Southport, is named for him." (Reference: Dr. Battle's History of the University, Vol. I, pp. 118-120.)

OuR SMITH FAMILY Dl. HENRY (Harry) SMITH, hereafter referred to as Henry Smith I, was of Scotch-Irish descent and came to this country from Ireland. He was born in 1718 and died in 1786. He married Pennie Weeks and lived near Black Jack at a place now called Smith's Mill. They had one child, Henry Smith II. D2. HENRY SMITH II, son of Henry Smith I, and Pennie Weeks Smith, was born about 1755, and died July 17, 1845. He enlisted in the Revolutionary War August 1, 1777 ; was with Washington at Valley Forge, and was sick there. (N. C. THE SMITH FAMILY 59

Colonial Records, Vol. 15, p. 727, and Vol. 16, p. 1152.) In 1777 he married Sally Adams (born about 1758, died Apr. 22, 1845), daughter of \Villoughby Adams and Elizabeth Weeks Adams. They had nine children:

1. WILLIAM SMITH, 8. Henry II, and Sally Adams Smith, m. a Miss Blount. One child: (1) BETSY SALTER, m. a Green and went to Florida. 2. CANNON SMITH I (D3), 8. Henry II, and Sally Adams Smith, m. 1st Barbara Pollard; m. 2nd Harriet Wiggins. 3. HENRY SMITH III (D4), 8. Henry II, and Sally Adams Smith, m. Sally Cannon, dau. Dennis and Sally Pugh Cannon. 4. ALLEN SMITH, 8. Henry II, and Sally Adams Smith, m. Patsy Ann Edwards. Two children ( ?) : (1) MIMIE ANN, (2) Lizinne. 5. JAMES SMITH (D5), s. Henry II, and Sally Adams Smith, m. Holland Little. 6. DAVID SMITH, married and went to Georgia. No record. 7. MIMIE SMITH, never married. 8. PENNIE SMITH (D6), dau. Henry II, and Sally Adams Smith, m. Joe Pollard. 9. SALLY SMITH, m. a Galloway. No record. D3. CANNON SMITH I, son of Henry II, and Sally Adams Smith, married first, Barbara Pollard ; married second, Harriet Wig­ gins. Eight children by first wife: I. Lovm SMITH, dau. Cannon and Barbara Pollard Smith. No record. 2. MARY SMITH, dau. Cannon and Barbara Pollard Smith, m. Theophilus Bland. Thirteen children: (1) MATT, m. Sam Laughinghouse. No children. (2) JACK, m. Puss Cannon, dau. Shade and Harriet Cox Cannon. Five children : a. SHADE, b. Matt, c. John, d. Bettie, e. Annie. 60 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

(3) SARAH, m. George Hellen. Three children: a. BESSIE, m. C. S. Leete. b. LAWRENCE, m. Mary Jacobs. c. GEORGE, m. Carolyn Burns. Three children: (a) GEORGE, JR., (b) Elizabeth, ( c) Barbara Louise. {4) Bucx, m. Louisa Smith. Three children: a. HERMAN, b. Walter, c. Eva. (5) THEOPHILUS, JR., m. 1st Nancy Jane Cox; m. 2nd Lizzie Tucker. Children: a. MARY, b. Ada, c. Zeb, d. Nip, e. Ethel, and others. (6) JIM, m. Julie Dixon. Seven children: a. ToM, b. Maggie, c. Rosa Lee, d. Jesse, e. George, f. Frank, g. Dan. (7) DicK, m. Louisa Faulkner. Six children: a. LEANDER, b. Bob, c. Becton, d. Ralph, e. Louise, f. Richard. (8) ED, m. Gertrude Green. Two children: a. HECTOR, b. W olga. (9) JosEPHINE, m. Nick Jones. No children. (10) KIT, m. Rena Odum. Two children: a. JOE BALL, b. Theophilus. (11) ELLA. Never married. (12) IDA, m. Herbert Albritton. Two children: a. EuNICE, b. Gay. (13) CLAUD, m. Minnie Gabriel. Four children: a. CLAUDIUS FRANKLIN. b. MARY CAROL, m. Capt. Cabell. c. MINNIE GA:BRIEL, d. Roscoe Barnes. 3. BARBARA SMITH, dau. Cannon and Barbara Pollard Smith, m. Jim Nels on. One child: (1) BETTY, m. Joe Smith. 4. OLIVER SmTH, s. Cannon and Barbara Pollard Smith, m...... Three children: THE SMITH FAMILY 61

(I) PENNIE, m. Dick Garris. Two children: a. DILLIE ANN, m. Johnnie Cox. b. BETTIE, m. Jesse Cannon, s. Tommie Cannon. Five children : (a) L1L, (b) Nina, ( c) Dixie, ( d) Hennie, (e) Irma. (2) SusAN, m. Kin Worthington. (3) GUILFORD, m. Mary Wilson. Three children: a. LAURA, m. 1st Noah Anderson; m. 2nd a Mr. Savage. Three children by first husband: (a) LENA, (b) Georgia, ( c) a boy. One child by second husband: (a) JUANITA, m. a Morgan. b. BILL, m. Mittie Cofield. Have children. c. W ooD, m. Susan Smith. 5. MoLsY SMITH, dau. Cannon and Barbara Pollard Smith, m. Henry Nels on. Three children: (1) SARAH NELSON, m. Ed Dudley, of Craven County. (2) TIBERIUS NELSON, m. Puss Cannon. Six children: a. SuDIE, b. Henry, c. Eddie, d. Annie, e. Lula, f. Lissie. (3) ANN NELSON. Never :married. 6. MAJOR SMITH, s. Cannon and Barbara Pollard Smith, m. Catherine Jenkins. Five children: (1) MAJOR, JR., m. Maggie Gardner. (2) CHARLES, m. Victoria Cox, dau. John H. and Eliza Nobles Cox. Eight children: a. CHARLIE, b. Kate, c. Dick, d. Herman, e. Maggie, f. Lizzie, g. Julia, h. David. (3) JuLIA, m. Robert (Bob) Burney. Eleven children: a. KATE, b. Carrie, c. Winnie, d. Matt, e. Sally, f. Fannie, g. Julia, h. John, i. Claud, j. Lizzie, k. Ida. (4) Louis, m. 1st Mattie Hollaway; m. 2nd Mary Smith; m. 3rd Mrs. Eva Rogers Edwards, of Virginia. 62 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

(5) IRVING, m. Sarah Ewell. Five children: a. WILLIE, m. a Prince. b. LuLA, m. a Browning. c. NORA, m. a Davenport. d. MYRTLE. e. MAJOR, m ...... • 7. PERMELIA S1,nTH, dau. Cannon and Barbara Pollard Smith, m. Hardy Johnson I. Nine children: (1) Louis JOHNSON, m. Selina Tooten. Seven children: a. WILL, m. Beulah Wingate. Four children: (a) THELMA, m. Charlie Gray. One child, Peggy. (b) WILLIA, ( c) Nathalie. ( d) TRACY, m...... Has two children. b. RoM, c. Gaye, d. Lube, e. Raymond, f. Nealie, g. Landon. (2) ANNIE JoHNSON, m. Charles Rountree, of Greenville. One child: a. RosALIND', m. George Woodward. One child, Charles. (3) FRANK JoHNSON, m. 1st Lizzie Coward; m. 2nd Mittie Tyson. One child by first wife: a. AsHER, m. 1st Sadie Thomas; m. 2nd Florence Silver. Four children by first wife: (a) ADELAIDE, (b) Lizzie, ( c) Sadie, ( d) James. Two children by second wife: (a) AsHER, JR., (b) Florence. Frank Johnson had four children by second wife: a. CLARICE, m. Walter Davenport. Three children: (a) VIVIAN, (b) Louise, (c) David. b. LESLIE, m. Ca thaline. Five children : (a) CATHALINE, (b) l\fargaret, ( c) Leslie, Jr., (d) Nancy, (e) John. c. EARL, m. Dorothy ...... , of Atlantic City, N. J. Has two children. d. MARGARET, m. Leon Jenkins. THE SMITH FAMILY 63

( 4) HARDY JOHNSON II, m. 1st Ida Meecham ; m. 2nd Hattie Stanfield. Three children by first wife: a. HELEN, m. William Wyatt. Has two children. b. IDA, c. Edna. Four children by second wife: a. FRANCIS, b. Catherine, c. Ann Elizabeth, d. Vivian. (5) ADDIE JOHNSON. Never married. (6) RICHARD (Dick) JoHNSON, m. Cattie Collins. Four children: a. HowARD, m. Elberta Smith, dau. George Smith, Greenville, N. C. b. LYMAN, c. Cathaline, d. May. (7) CHARLIE JoHNSON, m. Ida Smith. Seven children: a. CARRIE, m. Joe Patrick, Ayden, N. C. Has four children. h~ MATTIE, c. Harvey, d. Bertha, e. Clyde, f. Thomas Earl, g. Katie. (8) JAMES R. (Jimmie) JoHNSON, s. Hardy I, and Permelia Smith Johnson, m. Holland Little Smith, dau. Wm. H. and Mary Nelson Smith, Sept. 20, 1888. Ten children: a. MIRIAM, b. Gordon, c. Esther, d. Hardy III, e. Dorothy, f. Katherine, g. Lillian, h. James Ray, i. Claudius, j. William. (See Nelson Family, A4, 12.) (9) KATE JOHNSON, m. Dr. W. E. Powell, of Goldsboro, N. C. Four children: a. WILL, m. Grace...... Has four children. b. ETHEL, m. Andrew Justice. Died and left one child, Catherine Johnson Justice. c. HuNTER, m. Eula Graham. Two children: (a) FRANCES, (b) Jean. d. DORA, m. Harris Fuller, of Albany, N. Y. 64 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

8. CANNON SMITH II, s. Cannon and Barbara Pollard Smith, went to Columbus County, married, and left a family there. Cannon Smith I, had three children by Harriet Wiggins, his second wife: I. JACK-ANN SMITH, dau. Cannon and Harriet Wiggins Smith, m. Louis Henry Wilson. Four children: (I) CLAUD, m. Dr. Grace Flanders. (2) HENRY, m. Susie Brown. (3) HERMAN, d.y. ( 4) RoNALD, m ...... 2. FRANK SMITH. No record. 3. SAM SMITH, s. Cannon and Harriet Wiggins Smith, m. Laura Cox and left seven children. Mary, the oldest, m. Alfred Harrington, of Ayden, N. C. Matt, the youngest, m. a Burney. D4. HENRY SMITH III, son of Henry II, and Sally Adams Smith, married Sally Cannon, dau. Dennis and Sally Pugh Cannon. Nine children : I. PoLLY SMITH, dau. Henry III, and Sally Cannon Smith, m. Furniford Chapman, s. Jesse and Esther Chapman. Ten children : (1) SALLY, (2) Permelia, (3) Jesse, (4) Everilda, ( 5) Lydia, ( 6) Henry, ( 7) Slade,... ( 8) Catherine, (9) David, (10) Gatlin. (See Chapman Family, HS.) 2. Loms SMITH, s. Henry III, and Sally Cannon Smith, m. Clarissa Adams, dau. David and Argent Chapman Adams. Two children : (1) Lovrn, (2) David. 3. CALVIN SMITH. Never married. 4. WILLIAM SMITH. No record. 5. RITTIE SMITH, dau. Henry III, and Sally Cannon Smith, m. Bryan Adams, s. David and Argent Chapman Adams. Three children : (1) FuRNIFORD, (2) Louraney, (3) Louis Bryan. THE SMITH FAMILY 65

6. DENNIS SMITH, s. Henry III, and Sally Cannon Smith, m. Mrs. Betsy Smith Dixon, dau. James and Holland Little Smith. No children. 7. BRYAN SMITH, s. Henry and Sally Cannon Smith, m. 1st Mary Ann Galloway, Jan. 21, 1841; m. 2nd Telitha Nelson, Nov. 4, 1846. Two children by :first wife: (I) WILLIAM HARVEY, b. Dec. 30, 1841. (2) ABNER, b. Oct. I, 1843. Nine children by second wife: (I) LEWIS EDWARD SMITH, b. May 27, 1849, m. Mattie Taylor. Six children: a. RosA LEE, m. Jim Williams. One son, Sidney. b. LENA, m. Ed Carraway. Three children: (a) JUANITA, (b) Ronald, (c) Lena Rivers. c. HATTIE, m. William Randolph. No children. d. EDWARD, m. Maude Tyson. Six children: (a) CARRIE, (b) Mattie, ( c) Henry Tyson, (d) Grace, (e) Maud Emily, (f) Marjorie. e. CLAUD, m. Janie Askew. Two children: (a) CLAUD, JR., (b) Elizabeth. f. HuGH, m. Mary Smith. Two children: (a) ALICE HicKs, (b) Mary Thomas. (2) JAMES RICHARD ALLEN SMITH, m. Ella Peacock. Five children : a. NORA, m. Bunn Baker. Children: (a) BESSIE, (b) Grace, ( c) Bunn, and others. b. LuLA, m. Jim Willoughby. c. WILLIE, d. Pearl. e. LEE, m. Pauline Herring. Three children: (a) EDGAR LEE, and two others. (3) BRYAN PEARCE SMITH, b. Nov. 29, 1852, m. 1st Frances Bullock; m. 2nd Ella Walker. Six children by :first wife: 66 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

a. LAURA, m. Charlie F. Morgan. Six children: (a) ANNA, (b) Curtis, ( c) Frances, ( d) Ruby, ( e) Lillian, ( f) a boy. b. WILLIAM HARVEY, m. Katie Reed. No children. c. MAGGIE, m. Lonnie A. Walker. No children. d. CALLIE, m. Josie McCorkle. No children. e. RuFus BRYAN, m. Bena Piland. Have children. f. BESSIE. Four children by Ella Walker, his second wife: a. MATTIE, m. Herbert Norville. b. LE ONELL, m. James Biggs. c. BERTHA, m ...... d. GLENN, m ...... (4) GEORGE MADISON SMITH, b. June 2, 1854, m. Eliza­ beth Willoughby. Three children : a. EL13ERTA, m. Howard P. Johnson. Have two boys. b. FLORENCE, m. 1st Levi Reasons ; m. 2nd Clifton Lewis. One child by first husband. c. BRYAN, m. Dorothy Gene Hattley. ( 5) WASHINGTON S. E. SMITH, b. Oct. 21, 1857, m. Mrs. Mattie Taylor Smith. One child: a. IRENE, m. Cleon Case. Two children : (a) EDGAR, (b) Hazel. (6) SHERROD MoNTGOMERY SMITH, b. Oct. 16, 1859, m. Lila Taylor. Seven children: a. EvA LENORA, m. Ernest Gainor. One child, Lilla. b. LILA, m. Rufus C. Shirley. Three children: (a) RoBERT, (b) Mary, (c) Bryant. c. MINNIE LEE, m. Leon Jones. Three children. d. HERBERT, m. 1st Germain Loos, in Belgium ; m. 2nd Estelle Bailey. One child, Stella, by first wife. e. RAY, m. Ellen Owens. One son, Kindall Owens. THE SMITH FAMILY 67

f. NoLA, m. Dewey Murphy. Four children: (a) D-oRwoon, (b) Belmont, (c) Jack, (d) Nola Ann. g. DELMA, m. Edwin Finch. (7) MilcELLUS SMITH, b. Sept. 11, 1863, m. Jan. 4, 1893, Hollie Smith, dau. John A. and Lovie Clark Smith, b. Dec. 14, 1864. Three children: a. HELEN, b. June 3, 1894. b. CHRISTINE, b. Oct. 22, 1900. c. HuLDAH, b. Feb. 24, 1905. (8) CoRA LEE SMITH, m. George Taylor. No children. (9) ADDIE OLIVIA SMITH, m. Jim Corbett. Three children: a. SEBA. b. CLIFTON, m. Marguerite Etheridge. One child, Patricia Ann. c. LEE, m. Callie Smith. Five children: (a) DALTON, (b) James Earl, (c) Faye, ( d) Joyce, ( e) Marion. 8. GRIZZIE SMITH, dau. Henry III, and Sally Adams Smith, d.y. 9. SALLY SMITH, dau. Henry III, and Sally Adams Smith, d. 1845. DS. JAMES SMITH, son of Henry II, and Sally Adams Smith, born Mar. 8, 1790, died Dec. 9, 1876, married, Mar. 9, 1820, Holland Little, daughter of William and Mary Crandall Little, born May 6, 1788, died Aug. 24, 1849. Five children: 1. WILLIAM HENRY SMITH (D7), s. James and Holland Little Smith, m. Mary Nelson, dau. Edward, Jr., and Sally Roach Nelson. 2. JoHN ALLEN SMITH (DB), s. James and Holland Little Smith, m. Lovie Clark. 3. SALLY SMITH (D9), dau. James and Holland Little Smith, m. Randall Ewell. 68 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

4. BETSY SMITH ( D10), dau. James and Holland Little Smith, m. 1st Oliver Dixon; m. 2nd Dennis Smith. 5. MARY SMITH, dau. James and Holland Little Smith. No record. D6. PENNIE SMITH, daughter of Henry and Sally Adams Smith, married Joe Pollard. Three children: 1. SALLY, m. Major Willis. Three children: (1) IsABELLE, (2) Betty, (3) Joe. 2. LANNIE, m. a Whitford. One child, Pennie. 3. TURNER, m. Sally Clark. Three children: (1) SARAH, (2) Billy, (3) Josephine. D7. WILLIAM HENRY SMITH, son of James and Holland Little Smith, born Dec. 20, 1820, died Feb. 11, 1885, married Mary Nelson, Mar. 15, 1846, daughter of Edward, Jr., and Sally Roach Nels on. Twelve children: 1. JAMES, 2. Edward A., 3. Virginia, 4. Emily Evelyn, 5. Sarah Roach, 6. Winifred Magdalene, 7. James Henry, 8. Claudius Ferdinand, 9. Adelaide, 10. George Frederick, 11. Mary Virginia, 12. Holland Little. (See Nelson Family, A4.) D8. JOHN ALLEN SMITH, son of James and Holland Little Smith, born Aug. 28, 1822, married Lovie Clark, daughter of Osborne and Lydia Campbell Clark, Dec. 7, 1858. Nine children: 1. WILLIAM LITTLE SMITH, s. John A. and Lovie Clark Smith, b. Nov. 22, 1860. Unmarried. 2. JoHN HERBERT SMITH, s. John A. and Lovie Clark Smith, b. Feb. 28, 1862, d. unm. 3. LYDIA CAMPBELL (Cammie) SMITH, dau. John A. and Lovie Clark Smith, b. June 30, 1863, m. Samuel Glasgow Worthington. Eight children: (1) HUBERT SMITH (Worthington), b. June 26, 1894, d. unm. Feb. 21, 1936. THE SMITH FAMILY 69

(2) ANNIE MuRLE, b. Mar. 12, 1896. (8) SAMUEL O'I'Is, b. Jan. 25, 1898, m. Bessie Harrison. Two children : a. LIN A HACKETT, b. Samuel Otis, Jr. ( 4) EsTELLE MARIE (Dolly), b. Feb. 25, 1900, m. Wil­ liam E. Walker, of Morganton. No children. (5) MARGARET lsA13ELL, b. Apr. 19, 1902, m. James Davis Mellon. Three children: a. JAMES D'.A vrs, JR., b. Phillip Worthington, c. Margaret Ann. (6) BASIL NoRTH, b. July 7, 1908. (7) CAMMIE ODESSA, b. July 25, 1905, m. Byron Lamar Snipes, Knoxville, Tenn. One child, Herman Glas­ gow. (8) LovIE SELINA, b. June 6; 1909, m. Luther Wallace (Bo) Sapp, Wilson, N. C. One child, Luther Wal­ lace (Bo), Jr. 4. HoLLON JoYCE (Hollie) SMITH, dau. John A. and Lovie Clark Smith, b. Dec. 14, 1864, m. Marcellus Smith. Three children: (1) HELEN, (2) Christine, (8) Huldah. [See D4, 7, {7).] 5. EMMA CRATON (Emmie) SMITH, dau. John A. and Lovie Clark Smith, b. July 6, 1866. 6. JAMES ATwooD SMITH, s. John A. and Lovie Clark Smith, b. Sept. 5, 1867, m. Lena Causey. One child, James Hayes. 7. Lovm SELIN A (Lina) SMITH, dau. John A. and Lovie Clark Smith, b. Nov. 12, 1869, d. unm. 8. MoNIE GERTRUDE (Mona) SMITH, dau. John A. and Lovie Clark Smith, b. Mar. 9, 1872, m. Ben A. Gardner. Four children: (1) LovIE ELIZABETH, m. W. P. White. Two children: a. LovIE R UTI-I, b. "\iVilliam Preston. 70 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

(2) lvA GERTRUDE, m. Rev. R. E. Redford. Two children. (3) EMMA RuTH, (4) Margarite. 9. SALLY l\1ARY ELIZA SMITH, dau. John A. and Lovie Clark Smith, b. Jan. 10, 1875, m. Hyman H. Proctor. Three children: (1) FRANCIS, (2) Alvis, (3) Sylvester. D9. SALLY SMITH, daughter of James and Holland Little Smith, married Randall Ewell. Five children : 1. Puss EwELL, m. a Simmons. Three children: (1) SAcx, (2) Dock, (3) Heber. 2. MARY EWELL, m. a Jones. 3. BETTY EWELL, m. Frank McCoy. One child.

4. SACK EwELL, m. Irving Smith, 8. Major and Catherine Jenkins Smith. Five children: ( 1) WILLIE, m. a Prince. (2) LULA, m. a Browning. ( 3) NORA, m. a Davenport. (4) MYRTLE. ( 5) MAJOR, m ...... • 5. MARCELLUS EWELL. D10. BETSY SMITH, daughter of James and Holland Little Smith, married first, Oliver Dixon; second, Dennis Smith. No children by second husband. Eight children by first husband:

1. JAl\IES (Jim) DIXON, 8. Oliver and Betsy Smith Dixon, m. Lydia Purser. No children. 2. HENRIETTA (Nette) DIXON, dau. Oliver and Betsy Smith Dixon, m. Louis Bryan Stokes. One child : (1) HERMAN, m. Faye Corey. 3. MACK D1xoN, s. Oliver and Betsy Smith Dixon, m. Irene Buck. Seven children : (1) BELVA, m. Pete Chapman. ( 2) GRADY, m. Julia Elliott. (3) PANSY, m. Bill Moore. THE SMITH FAMILY 71

(4) NINA, m. Jesse Braxton. (5) JUANITA, m. Rev. Daniel Lane. (6) MARK. (7) HELEN, m. Kirby Tyndall. 4. BETTY DIXON, dau. Oliver and Betsy Smith Dixon, m. Joe D. Dixon. Eight children: (1) STELLA, m. Oscar Gardner. Eight children. (2) AGNES, m. Bob Pierce. No children. (8) EDGAR, m. Eva Cox. Two children: a. MARY LEE, b. Gilmer. ( 4) ANNIE, m. John Bell. Have two boys. (5) ELLIS, (6) Oscar, (7) Floyd, (8) Bruce. 5. MARY FRANCES (Fannie) DIXON, dau. Oliver and Betsy Smith Dixon, m. 1st Benj. F. Sutton; m. 2nd George W. Wynne. Three children by first husband: (I) CLIFTON SUTTON, (2) Gladys Sutton, (3) Hadley (Jack) Sutton. Two children by second husband: (1) GEORGE BENNETT WYNNE. (2) LucILLE WYNNE, m...... Have children. 6. JosEPH (Joe) DIXON, s. Oliver and Betsy Smith Dixon, m. Lula Weatherington. Six children: (1) LORENA, m. a Mosely. Have two boys. (2) LIZZIE, m. Ola Kittrell. (3) LuLA, m. a Modlin. ( 4) Lossm BELLE, m. a Nunn. (5) LAMMIE, m. a Glover. (6) LouISE, m. a Glover. 7. SARAH (Sack) DIXON, dau. Oliver and Betsy Smith Dixon, m. Rev. Wm. F. Jones. Two children: (1) WILLIAM, (2) Mahlon.

8. CLARA CoRNELIA (Cornie) DIXON, dau. Oliver and Betsy Smith Dixon, m. Henry J. Hines, of Clinton. Three children: 72 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

(1) REBECCA, m. Leonard A. Hayes, June 6, 1932. One child: a. ELIZABETH (Betsy) Dn:oN, b. Aug. 8, 1937. (2) MARY DIXON. (3) HENRY J., JR., b. 1907. SECTION E THE LITTLE FAMILY The first of the Pitt County Littles that we know of was James Little, and about all we know of him is that he died Aug. 4, 1799, leaving one son, William. This son married Mary Crandall, lived near Pactolus in Pitt County, and left fourteen children. El. WILLIAM LITTLE, son of James Little, married Mary Crandall. Fourteen children: 1. BETSY (E~), b. Oct. 27, 1776, m. Wedigan Matthias Moore I. 2. STEPHEN, b. Mar. 2, 1778. 3. JORN ( E3), b. Sept. 2, 1779, m ...... • 4. THOMAS (E4), b. Mar. 19, 1781, m. Elizabeth Daniel. 5. RoBERT, b. Oct. 27, 1784. 6. GEORGE, b. Nov. 25, 1785. 7. HoLLAND (E5), b. May 6, 1788, d. Aug. 24, 1849, m. James Smith. 8. WILLIAM, b. Oct. 27, 1790. 9. NANCY, b. Dec. 10, 1792. 10. MARY, b. Apr. 21, 1795. 11. PYETY, b. Aug. 30, 1797. 12. HoDGES ( E6), b. Nov. 2, 1799, m ...... • 13. EDMOND, b. Dec. 2, 1801. 14. MARTHA ELIZABETH, b. Oct. 2, 1811. We have record of only five of these children-Betsy, John, Thomas, Holland, and Hodges. E2. BETSY LITTLE, daughter of William and Mary Crandall Little, born Oct. 27, 1776, married Wedigan Matthias Moore I. Two children: 1. WEDIGAN ]\,fATTHIAS MooRE II, s. Wedigan Matthias I, and Betsy Little Moore, m. 1st a Miss Langley; m. 2nd Mary Eliza Powell. One child by first wife: 74 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

(1) BETTIE MooRE, m. James W edigan Perkins, Green­ ville, N. C. Six children: a. JAMES WEDIGAN PERKINS, JR., b. Oct. 16, 1866, m. 1st Helen Stuart Moore, dau. Marcellus Moore, Greenville, b. Oct. 13, 1869, d. Oct. 13, 1906; m. 2nd Virginia Hamersly Perkins, widow of Wm. W. Perkins, Sept. 3, 1912. Five children by first wife: (a) EMILY MooRE (Perkins), b. Oct. 11, 1889, d. Oct. 14, 1889. (b) ELIZABETH GLADYS, b. May 14, 1893, d. Sept. 29, 1894. (c) JAMEs JACOB, b. Apr. 28, 1896, m. Mamie L. R. Dunn. (d) FRANK STUART, b. Nov. 29, 1898, married twice. (e) WILLIAM MooRE, b. Mar. 28, 1906. Six children by second wife: (a) MARJORIE, b. July 12, 1913. (b) FLORENCE CHURCHILL, b. Aug. 29, 1915, m. Albert Sidney Gaskins, Mar. 6, 1937. ( c) Bois PENROSE, b. May 7, 1918. ( d) HELEN STUART, b. Sept. 24, 1920. (e) CHARLOTTE HAMERSLY, b. Oct. 3, 1921. (f) DAVID TAYLOE, b. Apr. 11, 1926. b. CLYDE PERKINS, m. Ab. Tyson, Greenville. c. LIZZIE PERKINS, m. James Tyson, Greenville. d. WILLIAM WHITEHEAD PERKINS, b. Dec. 17, 1877, d. July 16, 1911, m. Oct. 17, 1906, Virginia Mus­ grove Hamersly, of Virginia, b. Aug. 19, 1886. Three children: (a) HARRY WAITE, b. Dec. 31, 1907, m. Margaret Lee, July 4, 1934. One child. i. HARRY LEE, b. June 6, 1935. THE LITTLE FAMILY 75

(b) VIRGINIA ELIZABETH, b. Oct. 20, 1909, m. Feb. 1, 1935, Robert Gray Lang, b. Mar. 23, 1907. One child: i. RACHAEL ANNE, b. Feb. 23, 1936. (c) WILLIAM WHITEHEAD, JR., b. Jan. 14, 1912, d. Apr. 31, 1912. e. HELEN PERKINS, m. Roy C. Flanagan. f. ANNIE PERKINS. Wedigan Matthias l\foore II, had five children by his second wife, Mary Eliza Powell: (1) PENNIE MooRE, m. Fernando Ward. Eight children: a. RIPPON WEDIGAN WARD, d. May 5, 1932, m. Alice Edwards. No children. b. MARY ELIZA WARD, m. Dr. Claude M. Jones. Four children: (a) FRED WARD, m. Fae Eaten, Houston, Texas. (b) ANNIE RUTH, m. Milton Moye, Farmville, N. C. ( c) MARY ELIZA, m. E"arl Westbrook, Dunn, N. C. ( d) VmGINIA PENELOPE, m. John Adams, Jr., Oxford, N. C. c. LAVINA WARD, m. Dod G. Moore. Five children: (a) WESLEY JONES, (b) Rippon Ward, (c) Elizabeth, (d) Alice, (e) Pennie Ward. d. JENNIE WARD, m. J. J. (Dick) Satterthwaite. Three children : (a) CECIL, (b) Fernando Ward, ( c) Julia Penelope. e. ADA CHERRY WARD. f. EDWARD FERNANDO WARD. g. JESSIE CORINNE WARD, m. L. Z. Fleming. One child, William. h. LomsE MALISSA WARD, m. Harvey Briley. One child, Ella Louise. 76 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

(2) THOMAS RUFFIN (Tom) MooRE, m. 1st Ida Moore; m. 2nd Mrs. Martha Simonds Carney. No children by either wife. (3) SAM MooRE, m. Lucy Patrick. One child: a. MAuD, m. John Andrews. ( 4) MARY ELIZA (Puss) Moo RE, m. John W. Daniel. Five children : a. CAMMIE, m. Thaddeus Moore, s. Stanley and Susan Moore. Twelve children: (a) ELIZA. (b) MARY ( d. Feb., 1937), m. Lon Nobles. (c) SoNORA. (d) TH,A.DDEUS, JR., m. Lessie Buchanan. (e) CARLTON, d. Aug., 1937. (f) HuGH, (g) David. (h) MEREDITH, m. Kathleen Bryson. (i) LUTHER, (j) William, (k) Ray. (1) ALLEN, d. June, 1936. b. lliTTm, m. William Vaughan, Weldon, N. C. Three children: (a) CAMMm, (b) Almyr, ( c) Otelia. c. BETTm, m. Thomas House, Richmond, Va. One child, Thomas, Jr. d. PENNIE W., m. Robert R. Fleming, Pactolus, N. C. (Baptist Minister; Chaplain in World War.) Three children. (a) GUY, (b) Blanche, ( c) Harriet. e. JoHNNIE, m. John Wicker, Graham, N. C. Six children: (a) JESSIE, (b) Ruth, (c) Jefferson, (d) Winston, ( e) Frances, ( f) Mary Elizabeth. (5) WEDIGAN MATTHIAS (Bud) MooRE III, m. Snodie Moore, dam,. Stanley and Susan Moore. Three children: THE LITTLE FAMILY 77

a. L1zz1NE, m. Judge David H. Bland, Goldsboro. b. Susra, 'In. Hugh Ragsdale, s. W. H. Ragsdale, Greenville. c. WARD, m. Harvey Tripp. 2. EDMUND MooRE, s. Wedigan Matthias I, and Betsy Little Moore, m. 1st Elizabeth Little ; m. 2nd a Miss Whitehead, sister of Howell and William Whitehead, of Pitt County. Two children by :first wife: (I) JOHN R. MooRE, m. Sallie Masters, of Beaufort County. Five children: a. SALLY, b. Sam. c. MARY, m. Rex Farmer, Wilson, N. C. d. W. B., m. Ethel Stronach. e. HADLEY. (2) MARY MooRE, dau. Edmund and Elizabeth Little Moore, m. John C. Hadley, of Wilson. Three children: a. SALLIE, died in infancy. b. BESSIE, m. Geo. W. Connor, of Wilson, who died Apr. 23, 1938, while Associate Justice of the Su­ preme Court of North Carolina. Four children : (a) JoHN HADLEY, died in infancy. (b) HENRY GRoVEs, died young. (c) MARY HADLEY, m. Thomas H. Leath, Rock­ ingham, N. C. ( d) ELIZABETH, m. Col. J. W. Harrellson, Dean of Administration, State College, Raleigh. c. MARGARET, m. Dr. A. F. Williams, of Wilson. Four children: (a) MARY MILLICENT, m. Parker McRae, Bruns­ wick, Ga. (b) ALBERT. (c) MARGARET, m. Irving Morgan, Jr., Farm­ ville, N. C. (d) GRETCHEN, m. Robert Snyder, Greensboro. 78 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

Edmund Moore and Miss Whitehead, his second wife, had one child, Claud. E3. JOHN LITTLE, son of William and Mary Crandall Little, born Sept. 2, 1779, married...... One daughter: 1. MARGARET LITTLE, dau. John Little, m. Benjamin Daniel I, s. Lanier and Elizabeth Daniel, b. Sept. 19, 1796. Eight children : (1) SYDNEY DANIEL, b. 1823, d. unm. (2) JoHN LITTLE DANIEL, b. 1827, m. Dec. 22, 1859, Lizzie Anna Chapman, b. Aug. 8, 1838. Five children: a. MARGARET FRANCES (Maggie), b. Sept. 30, 1861, m. Wm. N. M. Hammond, s. N. M. and Elizabeth Fleming Hammond, of N. Y. State, Aug. 31, 1893. Three children : (a) JoHN WM. HUGHES, b. July 31, 1894, m. Mildred Hardison, New Bern, N. C., June 27, 1920. One child: i. FRANCES ELIZABETH, b. June 1, 1921. (b) PAUL FLE~ING, b. Mar. 9, 1897. Disap­ peared in 1918 while working in a Syracuse, N. Y. ammunition plant. (c) MACON GRAHAM, b. Feb. 17, 1899. Died at age 13. b. WILLIAM ELIZABETH (Bettie), b. July 25, 1864, m. John F. McKee!, Washington, N. C. Died five weeks after marriage. c. NANCY B. (Nannie), b. Jan. 2, 1868, d. July 21, 1936, m. Lynwood B. Barnhill, of Bethel, N. C. Four boys ( all died in infancy), and three girls : (a) BERNICE, m. Nels on Garren. No children. (b) VIVIAN. ( c) L1zzIE, m. Nels on Fletcher. No children. THE LITTLE FAMILY 79

d. LovIE LouISA, b. Dec. 7, 1870, d. unm. Jan. 3, 1935. e. ANNA LITTLE, b. Apr. 19, 1883, d. May 3, 1885. (3) McRisDEN DANIEL, b. 1829, d. unm. (4) WILLIAM BARCILLIE DANIEL, b. 1831, m. Julia Wil­ son. Two children: a. EDw ARD, m. Sallie Short. b. SUDIE, m. Sam Langley. ( 5) E:eENEZER PETTIGREW DANIEL, b. 1834, m. Georgia Ann Holliday. Three children : a. SYLVESTER, b. Sydney, c. Ida Clementina (Tiny). (6) BEVERLY DANIEL, b. 1841, m. 1st Maggie Perkins, dau. William Perkins; m. 2nd Marina Langley, dau. David and Penny Edmondson Langley. Three children by first wife: a. MARY FRANCES DANIEL, m. J. S. Norman. Six children: (a) DoROTHY, m. J. Q. Trotman, Burlington, N. C. One son, Joseph. (b) MARY P., m. H. S. Williams, Kings Moun- tain, N. C. Have two children. ( C) JOSEPH S. ( d) FRANCES W., m. Geo. Braxton Starling. ( e) ELIZABETH. (f) WILLIAM G., m. Florence Moye. b. MARGARET LITTLE DANIEL, m. R. L. Brown, of Warren County, N. C. Eight children. (a) ANNIE LEE BROWN, m. Ridley Browne. One daughter, Ada Louise. (b) MABEL LomsE, m. Wyatt Pegram. Two children: i. BILLY, ii. Louise. ( c) LAMBERTH, ( d) Samuel, ( e) Margaret, (f) Mary, (g) Beverly, (h) Church P. 80 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

c. BEN ;rAMIN DANIEL III, b. Dec. 2, 1883, m. Lucile Burgess. Two children: (a) MARY FRANCES, (b) Emma. Beverly Daniel had two children by his second wife, Marina Langley: a. RuFus FLEMING- DANIEL, b. Emma Daniel. (7) FANNIE E. DANIEL, b. 1844, m. Thomas E. Langley, s. David and Penny Edmondson Langley. Seven children: a. DAVID, b. Benjamin, c. Penny, d. Fannie, e. Margaret, f. Mary Perkins, g. Deborah. (8) BENJAMIN DANIEL II, b. 1847, died in Civil War, age 18. E4. THOMAS LITTLE, son of William and Mary Crandall Little, born Mar. 19, 1781, married Elizabeth Daniel, May 29, 1814. Four children: 1. NANCY, 2. Drusilla, 3. Rody. 4. SALLIE, m. James Satterthwaite. Four children: (1) GASTON, (2) Bundy, (3) Lucy. (4) JAMES JEROME (Dick), m. Jennie Ward, dau. Pennie and Fernando Ward. Three children. [See E2, 1. (second wife), (1), d.] ES. HoLLAND LITTLE, daughter of William and Mary Crandall Little, born May 6, 1788, died Aug. 24, 1849, married James Smith, son of Henry II, and Sallie Adams Smith. Four children: 1. WILLIAM HENRY, 2. John Allen, 3. Sally, 4. Betsy. (See Smith Family, D5.) E6. HoDG-ES LITTLE, son of William and Mary Crandall Little, born Nov. 2, 1799, married...... Six children: 1. JANE LITTLE, dau. Hodges Little, m. Dick Wilson. Three children: (1) NELLIE, (2) Jimmie. THE LITTLE FAMILY 81

(3) TANKEY, m. a Mr. Overton. Three children, Pauline and two other girls. 2. GEORGE LITTLE, s. Hodges Little. 3. NANCY LITTLE, dau. Hodges Little. 4. WILLIAM (Buck) LITTLE, s. Hodges Little, m. Harriet May, dau. William May. T·wo children: (1) GEORGE, JR. (2) MAMIE, m. Bob Smith, Farmville, N. C. 5. CRANDALL LITTLE, s. Hodges Little, m...... One son: (1) CRANDALL, JR., m. a daughter of Offie Stancil. 6. AMANDA LITTLE, dau. Hodges Little, m. Henry May, a. William May. Six children: (1) JAMES R., b. Sept. 4, 1867. (2) WILLIAM H., b. Aug. 6, 1869. (3) EDMOND H., b. Jan. 25, 1871. ( 4) MARY E., b. Sept. 27, 1872. (5) RICHARD L., b. Sept. 7, 1875. (6) SusAN A., b. Mar. 7, 1877. SECTION F THE COX FAMILY Three granddaughters of Edward Nelson, Jr., and his wife Sally Roach Nelson, also two daughters and one granddaughter of James Roach, brother of Sallie Roach Nelson, all married into the Cox family. Because of this broad connection a brief sketch of the Cox family is included in this genealogy. An article by Ruby Haskins Ellis, published in the Rich­ mond (Va.) News Leader on December 4, 1930, says: "There are exactly twenty-seven English families of the name of Cox. There are other variations of spelling, such as Cocks, Cokkes, and Coxe. A study of the armorial devices of all twenty-seven branches indicates both kinship and dif­ ference. "The first of the Cox family, and the common ancestor of all branches, was one Walter de Chelworth, who was one of the followers of William the Conqueror in 1066. He estab­ lished the family in Kent County, England, taking the name of Cokkes. "A descendant, Walter Cokkes, or Le Cock, was also a resident of Kent County, England. "Dr. Daniel Cox, of London, born in 1640, became an emi­ nent physician and was the special attendant of Charles II, and Queene Anne. "It was through influence with the crown that Dr. Daniel Cox acquired immense tracts of land in America, mostly m New Jersey, where he became proprietary governor." (Copyright by Richmond, Va., News Leader, 1930.) One excellent book on the Cox family says that Walter de Chelworth, Norman-French soldier in the army of William the Conqueror, was of small stature but such a plucky fighter he reminded his comrades of a game cock, so they nicknamed him Walter "le Coq," which is French for "the cock." The nickname stuck, so he became "'\V alter the Cock," and his children "little Cocks," which in time became Cox. All branches THE COX FAMILY 83 of the. Cox family, wherever you find them, are of English or1gm.. THE PITT CouNTY FAMILY From the best information we have, three Cox brothers who came from England through Virginia settled early in the Albe­ marle section of North Carolina. One of the three settled at Blount's Creek, Beaufort County, North Carolina. His son ( or grandson) Aaron Cox I, born about 1720, moved to Pitt County, and is the first in the Pitt County branch of the family. Here is the lineage as given by the late John David Cox of Pitt County: Fl. AARoN Cox: I, born 1720, married Elizabeth Weeks. He was the first of the Pitt County family of Coxes. He had three sons: 1. AARON Cox II. No record. 2. ABRAM Cox I (FfJ), m. Lizzie Letchworth. 3. J osEPH Cox: I ( F 5), m. a Stokes. F2. ABRAM Cox I, son of Aaron and Elizabeth Weeks Cox, married Lizzie Letchworth, and lived at the place once owned by W. B. Moore, then by Abner Slaughter, and now owned by Solomon Harris. Seven children: 1. SALLIE Cox, dau. Abram and Lizzie Letchworth Cox, m. Pinckney Hazelton and moved to Georgia. 2. JosEPH Cox II (F3), 8. Abram and Lizzie Letchworth Cox, m. Nancy Hancock.

3. ABRAM Cox II, 8. Abram and Lizzie Letchworth Cox, m. a Mills. Four children: (1) WILLIAM, b. Nov. 25, 1818, d. Aug. 5, 1875, m ...... Two children: a. LAFAYETTE, b. Oct. 15, 1851, d. Aug. 22, 1922. b. ABRAM IV, m. Mattie Cox, dau. James Cox. (2) THOMAS, b. 1820, d. 1870, m. Jane Brooks Tyson. Four children: 84 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

a. THOMAS, JR., b. 1858, d. 1882. b. FRED, c. Marshall, d. James Monroe. (3) ABRAM Cox III, b. Jan. 19, 1828, d. Oct. 10, 1897, m. Louisa Haddock, dau. Frederick Haddock, b. Oct. 2, 1832, d. Mar. 9, 1910. One son, Moody, and an adopted son, John Tripp. (4) MARTHA ANN, m. Louis Henry White. 4. AARON Cox III, s. Abram and Lizzie Letchworth Cox, m. Sally Buck. Five children: (1) PHILIA, m. Isaac Hardee. (2) M1MIE, m. Tom Williams. (3) SALLY H., m. Jesse Cox. ( 4) BETTY, m. Joe Mills. (5) SOPHIA, m. Jim Hardee. 5. ELIZABETH Cox, dau. Abram and Lizzie Letchworth Cox, m. Daniel Wilson. Three children: (1) NETTIE, (2) Ellie. (3) JrM, m. Jane Jarrell. 6. JEMIMA Cox, dau. Abram and Lizzie Letchworth Cox, m. Frederick Haddock. Four children: (1) LomsA, (2) Henry, (3) Joe, (4) Bill. 7. JoHN (Jack) Cox, s. Abram and Lizzie Letchworth Cox, m. Dicie Wilson. Five sons : (1) Louis, m. Susan Buck. Four children: a. J1M, b. Bill, and two daughters. (2) JAMES, m. Elizabeth Edwards. Six children: a. ED, b. Calvin (Cal), c. Frank, d. Henry, e. Mattie, f. Mittie. (3) OLIVER, m. Nancy Buck. Six children: a. JoHN, m. Julia Hardy. b. SARAH, m. Gus Stokes. c. OLLIE, m. Bidie Boyd. d. JOE, never married. e. NOAH, m. Daisy Cox. THE COX FAMILY 85

f. GEORGE, m. Sarah Williams. (4) JoE Dic:m, (5) Jesse. F3. JOSEPH Cox II, son of Abram I, and Lizzie Letchworth Cox, married Nancy Hancock, whose ancestors came from Maryland. Six children: 1. BRYANT Cox, b. 1810, m. Mahala Hardy. Two children: (1) ANN ELIZA, (2) Mahala. 2. J oHN H. Cox, b. 1812, m. Eliza Nobles. Five children: (1) MARY ANN, m. Henry Haddock. (2) NANCY JANE, m. Theophilus Bland, Jr. [See Smith Family, D3, 2, ( 5).] (3) JoE, m. Mary Smith. ( 4) LOUISA, m. Dick Garris. ( 5) VICTORIA, m. Charles Smith. [See Smith Family, D3, 6, (2).] 3. NANCY Cox, b. 1820, m. Bill Harrington. A son, Biggs, and others. 4. J osIAH Cox ( F 4), b. 1822, m. Sallie Ann Tyson. 5. PENELOPE (Pennie), b. 1824, m. G. Bryant Ellis. Ten children: (I) OLIVER, (2) Joe, (3) Patsy Ann, ( 4) Louise, (5) Bettie, (6) Emma, (7) Susan, (8) Mack, (9) George, (10) Herbert. 6. AMERIAH BrnGs, b. 1827, m. Jemima Harrington. Children: (1) SEBRON, (2) Bettie, (3) Dick, (4) Biggs, and others. F4. J osIAH Cox, son of Joseph II, and Nancy Hancock Cox, married Sallie Ann Tyson, whose people came from Holland and settled first in Pennsylvania. Seven children: 1. NANCY HoLLAND Cox, dau. Josiah and Sallie Tyson Cox, b. 1847, d. 1929, m. Hardy Stokes. Seven children: (1) GEORGE, m. Mary Ann Hardy. (2) JAMES, m. Beah·ice \YilEams. 86 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

(3) JoHN F., m. Jessie Lindsay. (4) JESSE, m ...... • ( 5) DINx, m. Nolie Allen. (6) MITTIE, m. Joe Bright. (7) HARVEY, m. Lena Tyson. 2. NoAH TYSON Cox, s. Josiah and Sallie Tyson Cox, b. 1851, d. 1910, m. Sarah Cox. Eight children: (1) WILLIAM NoAH, m. Bettie Harper. (2) FRANK, m. Isabel Oakley. (3) HoRACE, m. Lucretia Oakley. ( 4) RoMIE, m. Cornie Oakley. (5) GEORGE HERBERT, m. Esther Johnson. ( 6) HERMAN, m. Fronie Oakley. (7) HEBER (twin to Herman), m. Maggie Holton. (8) ELMER, m. Bertha Barrow. 3. JosEPHUS Cox, s. Josiah and Sallie Tyson Cox, b. 1853, d. 1925, m. 1st Emily Carroll; m. 2nd Mrs. Della Harris. Seven children by first wife: (1) SouTHIE, m. 1st Lena Farnes; m. 2nd Rosa Cox. (2) LYNN, m.. a Hardy. (3) ERNEST, m. Melissa Crawford. {4) MATTIE, d.y. (5) BESSIE, m. Isaac Sugg. (6) RoscoE (Bogie), m. Clara Smith. (7) DAVID, m. Esther Stocks. Two children by second wife: (1) WooDROW, (2) Noah Tyson. 4. SoPHIE FRANCES Cox, dau. Josiah and Sallie Tyson Cox, b. Dec. 13, 1855, m. W. Frank Carroll. Four children: (l) CoRA, d.y. (2) SARAH, m. Tom Tyson. (3) ANNIE. (4) JoE JoHN, m. Daisy Laughinghouse. 5. JoHN DAVID Cox, s. Josiah and Sallie Tyson Cox, b. 1859, . THE COX FAMILY 87

d. 1930, m. Addie Smith. One adopted child. (See Nelson Family, A4, 8.) 6. BERIAH THADDEUS Cox, s. Josiah and Sallie Tyson Cox, b. July 29, 1863, d. Oct. 1, 1931, m. Mary Virginia Smith, July 22, 1891. Five children. (See Nelson Family, A4, 10.) 7. SARAH JANE Cox, dau. Josiah and Sallie Tyson Cox, b. 1869, d. 1925, m. L. Nash Edwards. Seven children: (1) GENEVA, m. Amos Jackson. (2) JAMES, m. Ella Stokes. (3) JonN, m. Pattie Branch. (4) LoREN, m. Ethel Thomas. (5) THELMA, m. Oscar Hardy. (6) ALVA, d.y. (7) MYRTIE RuTH, m. Raymond Tyson. FS. J osEPH Cox I, son of Aaron I, and Elizabeth Weeks Cox, married a daughter of John Stokes. They had a son named William ( F6), and perhaps other children. F6. WILLIAM Cox, son of Joseph Cox I, married first, Louisa Stokes, daughter of James Stokes and sister of Hardee and Thomas Stokes ; he married second, Sallie Gardner. No children by second wife; five by first wife : 1. SYLVESTER Cox, s. William and Louisa Stokes Cox, m. 1st Catherine Roach, dau. James Roach; m. 2nd Sarah Wayne, dau. Levy and Louisa Roach Wayne, and grand­ dau. James Roach. Two children by first wife: {l) CHARLES B., b. Dec. 27, 1857, went north and mar.. ried ...... One son, Tom. (2) LovEY Lou1sA, m. Phineas Wayne, s. Levy and Louisa Roach Wayne. No children. Four children by second wife: (1) EMMA, b. Jan. 28, 1874, m. a Mr. Wood. (2) GEoRG'E FEsTus, died in infancy. 88 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

(3) SYLVESTER LAWRENCE, b. Sept. 8, 1875, d.y. (4) SAMUEL CLEON, b. Sept. 25, 1877. 2. CALVIN Cox, s. William and Louisa Stokes Cox, b. Jan. 24, 1827, d. Mar. 16, 1891, m. 1st Lovey Roach, d{l,IIJ,. James Roach, Dec. 13, 1860 ; m. 2nd Emily Evelyn Smith, dau. Wm. Henry and Mary Nelson Smith, Dec. 23, 1869. Two children by first wife: (1) WILLIAM SAMUEL, b. 1861, d. 1865. (2) SARAH CATHERINE (Sallie), b. May 9, 1863, m. Jesse N. Stubbs, Mar. 17, 1889. Four children: a. SoN, b. Constance, c. Alban. d. AnA ELFRIDA, m. A. B. Young. (See Roach Family, C5, 5.) Ten children by second wife: (1) WILLIAM EDWARD, m. Lula O'Conner. One child, William Edward, Jr. (2) AvA MAGDALENE, died in infancy. (3) MARY LomSA (Lula), m. Major William Uzzell. Six children : a. ELITHE, b. Pauline, c. Valeria, d. William, e. Francis, f. Elizabeth. (4) CALVIN THEODORE, m. 1st Elizabeth Cox; m. 2nd Lena Cobb. One child Louise by first wife. No children by second wife. ( 5) OLIVIA GWYNNE, m. E. L. McCormac. No children. (6) HuLDAH MAY, m. Irving J. Covert. No children. (7) ADDIE ADELL, m. Atlas T. Uzzell. Eight children: a. THEODORE, b. Bettie, c. Randolph, d. Felix, e. Atlas, Jr., f. Evelyn, g. Matthew, h. Calvin. (8) BEATRICE HELENA, died in infancy. (9) HARVEY ATKINSON, m. Hattie l\foose. Three children: a. HARVEY, Jn.., h. Magdalen, c. Emily. (10) MAGDALEN, d.y. (See Nelson Family, A4, 4.) THE COX FAMILY 89

3. GUILFORD WASHINGTON Cox, ,. William and Louisa Stokes Cox, m. Nannie Penelope Taylor. Seven children: (1) WILLIAM, died in infancy. (2) EuGENE GRISSOM, m. Rena Patrick. Nine children: a. LETHA LEONA, b. Helen Hunt, c. Eugene Lester, d. Harry, e. Jeter Patrick, f. Robert McRae, g. Katie Clyde, h. Plato Collins, i. Eugene Grissom, Jr. (3) EvA BEST, died at age 3. (4) EnwARD V1cToR, died unmarried. ( 5) EULALIE. (6) GUILFORD RoscoE, d.y. (7) CLYDE. 4. HARRIET Cox, dau. William and Louisa Stokes Cox, m. Shadrach Cannon. Four children: (I) JoHN, m. Bettie Buck. Two sons: a. WATT, m. a Stokes. One daughter. b. LEVI, m. a Miss Hart. (2) SARAH, m. 1st Dr. W. R. Stephenson; m. 2nd C. C. Pearce. One child by second husband: a. JESSICA PEARCE, b. 1870, m. James Harvey Mar­ shall. Two children : (a) MAuD MARSHALL, m. 1st John D. Boone; m. 2nd W. T. Sandiford. Three children by first husband: i. JOHN D. BooNE, JR., m. 1st E. Gibbs; m. 2nd Elgie Wheeler. Two children by first wife: (i) JoHN, (ii) Joyce. 11. LLOYD BooNE. m. KATHERINE BooNE, m. Alvis R. Crawford. Two children: (i) CHARLES RAY, (ii) ALVIS MARSHALL. Maud Marshall had two children by second husband: i. LOUISE SANDIFORD, ii. Jessica Sandiford. 90 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

(b) MARY MARSHALL, m. Raymond Rogers. No children. (3) Puss, m. Jack Bland. [See Smith Family, D3, 2, (2).] ( 4) ALICE, died unmarried. 5. ARCHIBALD Cox, s. William and Louisa Stokes Cox, b. 1835, m. Sarah Elizabeth Wilson. Six children: (1) ADA, m. Rickey Moore. No children. (2) SARAH FRANCES, died an infant. (3) MELISSA, m. C. A. Tucker. Seven children: a. WILLIAM ALLEN, b. Durward Archibald, c. Simon Brooks, d. Heber Little, e. Ola Lee, f. Novella, g. Ralph Ashton. (4) ANNIE LAURIE, m. Allen Kittrell. Ten children: a. RoY BELMONT, b. Lida Elizabeth, c. Mabel Claire, d. Ila Wilson, e. Ada Louise, f. Annie Ree, g. Olive, h. Marvin Linwood, i. Minnie Lee, j. Samuel Burney. ( 5) LEON HERMAN, d. urvm., age 39. (6) MINNIE ELIZABETH, m. John Lewis Joyner. Three children: a. LLOYD LESLIE, b. Cary Archibald. c. ADA ELIZABETH, m. Adolph Savage. NOTE: John David Cox who furnished the information here given about the earlier Cox families in Pitt County, for a number of years searched titles and surveyed land for the Beaufort County Lumber Company in Pitt, Beaufort, and Craven counties, and got his knowledge largely from the actual courthouse records in those counties. The data may be incomplete in some of its details, as it was given from memory, but we believe that on the whole it is trustworthy, and the best record we know.-W. E. C. THE COX FAMILY 91

ADDITIONAL NOTES After the above matter was finished we received from Mrs. Clinton C. Cox, of Durham, a memorandum of land grants and wills found in the records of the North Carolina His­ torical Commission, as follows: State of N. C., File 1011, Bk. 73, p. 864, No. 887, to Aaron Cox, Sr., Pitt County, land on Indian Wells Swamp, Nov. 16, 1790. Also to Aaron Cox, Sr., Pitt Co., entry 1626, Bk. 132, p. 394. State of N. C., No. 1594, Bk. 182, p. 894, to Aaron Cox, Jr., land in Pitt County, on Swift Creek Swamp adjoining old Henry Smith patent and the lands of Thomas Williams and Dennis Cannon, Nov. 28, 1787. File 1059, Bk. 78, p. 223, Grant 929, land to Abraham Cox, Pitt County, on east side of Swift Creek, adjoining lands of Nathan Cannon and Willis Wilson, Dec. 2, 1790. File 1076, Bk. 78, p. 282, Grant 946, to Abraham Cox, Pitt County, land on east side of Swift Creek, beginning at a pine in Hardee's line, thence south to a red oak in Meadow Branch, thence west to a pine in Nathaniel Cannon's line, thence with said line to a pine, thence to the beginning. Dec. 20, 1792. File 1347, Bk. 10, p. 254, Grant 1317, to Abraham Cox, Pitt County, land on east side of Swift Creek, on the Little Turkey Creek pocoson, adjoining lands of Willis Wilson and others. Mch. 14, 1800. File 1771, Bk. 162, p. 226, Grant 788, to Thomas Cox land on the south side of Tar River, in the Sandy Rich Pocoson, adjoining lands of Henry Mills, Samuel Williams, Caleb Smith, and others. Sept. 24, 1857. Mrs. Clinton Cox also mentions a William Cox born 1598, who came from England to Virginia 1610, in the Ship God­ speed. On Sept. 20, 1628, he was given a grant of land in Elizabeth City County, Virginia, and on Nov. 29, 1636, had a grant of land in Henrico Co., Virginia, on James River. Sept. 1, 1642, he bought 250 acres in partnership with Isaac Hutchins 92 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY at the mouth of Falling Creek along the James River. Aug. 5, 1665, Thomas Cox, son and heir of William Cox, sold half of this 250 acres. Apr. 1, 1685, John Cox, Sr., another son and heir of William Cox, Sr., made a deed to his son, William Cox, for land a few miles above Dutch Gap in Virginia, prob­ ably the William Cox, Sr., grant of 1636. John Cox, Sr. ( son of William Cox, the immigrant), made a will in Henrico County, Va., dated Feb. 10, 1691, in which he names as heirs six sons, John, William, Bartholomew, Rich­ ard, Henry, and George, and wife Mary. Richard Cox, son of John Cox, Sr., left a will in Henrico County, Va., dated July 13, 1734, in which he named heirs John Cox; Henry Cox; Richard Cox; four daughters ; a grand­ son, Hickerson Cox; and his wife, Mary. We do not know if the Pitt County Coxes _are related to these, but the first of our Coxes came from Virginia. 1 Turning now to Abstract of Wills (N. C.), by Hathaway, Vol. 3, we find: John Cox, will, November 1807, names sons Joseph, John, Josiah, Aaron, and others. The same paper ends with the following note: "From the County Court Note Book. Aaron Cox-Sarah {Weeks) daughter of Ezekiel and Delver (Shaw) Weeks. Hyde County. Before 14 Nov. 1759." SECTION G THE DAWSON-WOOTEN FAMILY Thomas Dawson of Lenoir County, in his will dated Dec. 3, 1816, and recorded in Lenoir County, Book F, page 59, names wife Elizabeth; sons Thomas, Jr., John, James, and Benjamin; also daughters Susannah Walters, Nancy Herring, Elizabeth Byrd, Lydia Hodges; and unmarried daughters Rachel and Eliza. From these and other sources we get the following: Gt. THOMAS DAWSON, of Lenoir County, and Elizabeth his wife, had ten children : 1. THOMAS DAwsoN, JR., s. Thomas and Elizabeth Dawson, b. 1786, d. 1854, m., 1807, Mary Wooten, dau. John and Sarah Hewes Wooten. Their son, (I) JoHN WooTEN DAWSON, b. Sept., 1811, d. Oct., 1900, m. 1833, Charity Wooten, b ...... , d. Oct., 1847. Their son, a. CouNCIL D~wsoN, b. Aug., 1844, d. Oct., 1900, m. Sarah Roach Smith, dau. Wm. H. and Mary Nelson Smith, Mar. 16, 1873. They had eight children. (See Nelson Family, A4, 5.) 2. JoHN DAwsoN, s. Thomas and Elizabeth Dawson. 3. JAMES DAWSON. 4. BENJAMIN DAWSON. 5. SusANNAH DAwsoN, m. a Walters. 6. NANCY DAWSON, m. a Herring. 7. ELIZABETH DAWSON, m. a Byrd. 8. LYDIA DAWSON, m. a Hodges. 9. RACHEL DAWSON. 10. ELIZA D'.AWSON. G2. SHADR.ACH WooTEN, grandfather of Mary Wooten Dawson (wife of Thomas Dawson, Jr.) was born in 1750 and 94 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY died Apr. 12, 1812. In 1770 he married Elizabeth Allen, born 1750, died 1805. They had eight children: 1. JOHN WOOTEN, b. 1771, d. 1835, m. 1792 Sarah Hewes, b. 1772, d. 1836. (See GI.) 2. THOMAS WooTEN, m. Lucy Oliver. 3. SHADRACH WooTEN, JR., m. a Miss Treadwell. 4. RoBERT WooTEN, m...... 5. CHARITY WooTEN, m. Col. Wm. Grissett. 6. CouNCIL WooTEN, m. Mary Shipp. 7. HENRY WOOTEN, m. a Miss Brown. 8. RICHARD WooTEN, m. Eliza J. Williams. Shadrach Wooten was an ensign in the New Bern, N. C., Battalion (Revolutionary War Soldiers) raised by the General Assembly of North Carolina in 1776. (Wheeler's History, Vol. I, p. 8.) He was in the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge (Wheeler's History, Vol. I, pp. 76-88.) He represented Lenoir County in the North Carolina legislature from 1796 to 1801. An interesting article published in the Raleigh News and Obseroer of Feb. 21, 1926, says: "After the Revolution, Shad­ rach Wooten settled in Lenoir County and twice represented the county in the Legislature. He married Elizabeth Allen, a Massachusetts school teacher. To them were born John, Thomas, Charity, Robert, Shadrach, Jr., and Richard. In 1805 Shadrach Wooten, perhaps recalling the attractive virgin lands seen on his military expedition to this part of the State, decided to remove to Columbus County. He bought 10,000 acres on '\Vestern Prong, about seven miles from the present county seat, Whiteville, and here brought his children, his wife having succumbed to an attack of pneumonia a few days be­ fore they were to have moved. John, the oldest son, remained in Lenoir." The same article also says: "Alexander Brown in his 'First Republic of America' gives Dr. Thomas Wooten, gentleman, .as one of Captain Smith's exploring expedition which left Jamestown May 31, 1607. He is beyond doubt the first doctor THE DAWSON-WOOTEN FAMILY 95 of medicine in America. Thomas Wooten died in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, and mentions an only son, Richard, in his will. Richard died in 1687, and mentions two sons, Richard and Thomas, in his will. The Isle of Wight County was an unmeasured county extending into North Carolina and embracing what is now Halifax County, N. C., the home of the progenitors of the North Carolina Wootens. The father of our Revolutionary officer, Ensign Shadrach Wooten, was Council Wooten, of Lenoir County." SECTION H THE CHAPMAN FAMILY WRITTEN So~rn YEARS AGo BY Miss SALLIE CHAPMAN John Chapman came from Maryland to North Carolina in the 18th century and married Frelove Weeks. They had six children: 1. WEEKS CHAPMAN (H1), m. Sallie Gatlin. 2. JESSE· CHAPMAN (Hf), m. Esther ·Gatlin. 3. SALLIE CHAPMAN (H3), died unmarried. 4. LYDIA CHAPMAN (H4), m. Jimmie Campbell. 5. DELIVERANCE CHAPMAN (H5), m. JaII1es Clark I. 6. RosANNA CHAPMAN (H6), m. David Sutton. ' Hl. WEEKS CHAPMAN, son of John and Frelove Chapman, married Sallie Gatlin, daughter of Ned and Betsy Gatlin. Eight children: 1. JoHN, s. Weeks and Sallie· Chapman, m. Dorcas Campbell. No children. 2. SETH CHAPMAN, s. Weeks and Sallie Chapman, m. Susan Campbell, dau. Jimmie and Lydia Chapman CamP.bell. Three children: (1) SALLIE, m. 1st Sam Roach; m. 2nd John Galloway. Two children by first husband: a. JOHN, b. Bettie. Five children by second husband: a. SusAN, b. Gusta, c. Ed, d. William, e. John. (2) EDWARD, d. unm. at age 60. (3) RICHARD, d. unm. at age 50. 3. CHURCH CHAPMAN, s. Weeks and Sallie Chapman, m. 1st Nancy Pierce; m. 2nd Julia Ernul. No children by first wife. Eleven by second wife: (1) CAROLINE, m. William Archabel. Six children: a. HENRY, b. Tom, c. Chap, d. Herbert, e. Carlton, f. Mary. THE CHAPMAN FAMILY 97

(2) SALLIE. (3) JoHN, m. Lovie Gardner. Two children: a. LAWRIE, b. Cornie. (4) MARY, died at age 24. (5) ELIZABETH, m. Mathew Harvey. Five children: a. MARY, b. Joe, c. Julia, d. John, e. Bessie. (6) HENRY, (7) Victoria, (8) Noah, (9) Cornie, (10) Emma, (11) Radford. 4. NED CHAPMAN! s. Weeks and Sallie Chapman, d.y. 5. ALFRED CHAPMAN, s. Weeks and Sallie Gatlin Chapman, m. Lovie Adams, dau. David and Argent Adams. Three children: (I) LoursA, m. Christopher Dudley. Four children: a. EDWARD, b. Lafayette, c. Alfred, d. Laura. (2) NANCY, d. unm. at age 57. (3) LIZZIE ANN, m. John Little Uaniel. Five children: a. MAGGIE, b. Bettie, c. Nannie, d. Lovie, e. Anna. [See Little Family, E3, 1, (2).] 6. CELIA CHAPMAN, d(J/ll,. Weeks and Sallie Chapman, m. John Boyd. Three children: (1) SALLIE BoYD, m. John Beasley Boyd. One child, John. (2) ABNER BoYD, m. Elizabeth McDowell. Five children: a. MARY J., b. John Forman, c. Bettie, d. Lonza, e. Henrietta. (3) JoHN BoYD, m. Mary Windley. No children. 7. SALLIE CHAPMAN, dau. Weeks and Sallie Chapman, m. Thomas Gaskins. Six children: (1) PoLLIE GASKINS. (2) LEWIS GASKINS, m. Susan Gaskins, dau. Daniel Gaskins. Five children: a. THOMAS, b. Weeks, c. Sarah, d. Puss, e. Siddie. (3) SETH GASKINS, m. 1st Serena Gaskins; m. 2nd Nancy Freman. Two children by first wife: 98 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

a. LovIE, b. Adam. No children by second wife. (4) WILLIAM GASKINS, m. Lydia Adams, dau. David and Argent Adams. Three children: a. JoHN ALLEN, b. Polly, c. Ma~or. ( 5) JOHN GASKINS, m. 1st Polly Hartly, dau. Abner and Lydia Hartly; m. 2nd Clemmie Braddy. Seven children by first wife: a. LomsA, b. Edward, c. Thomas, d. Josephus, e. John, f. Lydia, g. Ida. No children by second wife mentioned. (6) NED GASKINS, m. Patsy Ann Cox. 8. Lovm, dau. Weeks and Sallie Chapman, d.y. H2. JESSE CHAPMAN, son of John al!d Frelove Chapman, mar­ ried Esther Gatlin, daughter of Ned and Betsy Gatlin. Eight children: I. DAVID CHAPMAN, s. Jesse and Esther Gatlin Chapman, b. Aug. 16, 1783, d. unm. at age 89. 2. ARGENT CHAPMAN (H7), dau. Jesse and Esther Gatlin Chapman, b. Sept. 1785, d. 1859, m. David Adams. 3. STEPHEN CHAPMAN, s. Jesse and Esther Gatlin Chapman, b. Apr. 14, 1789, m. 1st Pennie Johnson; m. 2nd Eliza Adams, dau. James Adams. Three children by first wife: (1) FRED (called Johnson) m. Sallie Whitehead. Five children: a. PENNIE, b. Elizabeth, c. Stephen, d. David, e. Julia. (2) LYDIA, m. Bryan Carney and went to Indiana. (3) BETSY, m. Weeks Clark II, s. Weeks Clark I. Four children by second wife: (I) LovIE, (2) Esther, (3) Louisa, ( 4) Jesse. 4. BETSY CHAPMAN, dau. Jesse and Esther Gatlin Chapman, b. 1791. THE CHAPMAN FAMILY 99

5. LYDIA CHAPMAN, dau. Jesse and Esther Gatlin Chapman, b. Aug. 15, 1795, m. Abner Hartly, 8. Joseph Hartly. Five children : {l) JosEPH, (2) Louisa, (3) Pollie, (4) Esther, ( 5) Jesse Abner.

6. Fun.NIFORD CHAPMAN (HS), 8. Jesse and Esther Gatlin Chapman, b. Mar. 10, 1798, d. Aug. 4, 1858. 7. LouISA CHAPMAN, dau. Jesse and Esther Gatlin Chapman, b. Mar. 6, 1804, d. 1825, m. James Roach, s. Charles Roach. No children. 8. MARY CHAPMAN, dau. Jesse and Esther Gatlin Chapman, b. Aug. 15, 1806. H3. SALLIE CHAPMAN, daughter of Jolin and Frelove Chap­ man, was poisoned eating honey. H4. LYDIA CHAPMAN, daughter of John and Frelove Chapman, married Jimmie Campbell. Seven children: 1. JIMMIE CAMPBELL, JR., 8. Jimmie and Lydia Campbell, m. Tishie Adams, dau. Abram Adams, and went to Mississippi. 2. ToMMIE CAMPBELL, 8. Jimmie and Lydia Campbell, m. Betsy Baker and went to Mississippi. 8. PoLLY CAMPBELL, dau. Jimmie and Lydia Campbell, m. David King. 4. LovIE CAMPBELL, dau. Jimmie and Lydia Campbell, m. Jim Bull. 5. SusAN CAMPBELL, dau. Jimmie and Lydia Campbell, m. Seth Chapman. Three children. {See Hl, 2.) 6. SALLIE CAMPBELL, dau. Jimmie and Lydia Campell, never married. 7. LYDIA CAMPBELL, dau. Jimmie and Lydia Campbell, m. Osborne Clark, 8. James and Deliverance Clark. Seven children: (1) DAVID, never married. ( 2) WILLIAM, never married. 100 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

(3) SALLY, m. Turner Pollard, s. Joe Pollard. Three children: a. SARAH, b. William, c. Josephine. ( 4) LYDIA, never married. ( 5) SELINA, m. Stephen Nobles. One child, Osborne. (6) WYATT, m. Clarinda Powell. Two children: a. DosHYA, b. Rosa. (7) Lovm CLARK, dau. Osborne and Lydia Campbell Clark, m. John Allen Smith, s. James and Holland Little Smith. Nine children. [See H9, 1, (5), b.] HS. DELIVERANCE CHAPMAN, daughter of John and Frelove Chapman, married James Clark I. Six children:

1. JIMMIE (James II) CLARK, 8. James and Deliverance Clark, never married. 2. WEEKS CLARK I, s. James and Deliverance Clark, m. Susan Smith, dau. Henry and Hanna Smith. Three children: (1) JIMMIE (James III), m. Winnie Lancaster. Six children: a. RACHEL, b. Jimmie (James IV), c. Weeks III, d. Jessie, e. Sallie, f. William. (2) PoLLY, (3) Weeks II. 3. JoHN CLARK, s. James and Deliverance Clark, m. Nancy Jackson. Seven children : (1) JACKSON, (2) Sallie, (3) Mary, (4) Deliverance, ( 5) Susan, (6) John, (7) Harvey. 4. OsBORNE CLARK, 8. James and Deliverance Clark, m. Lydia Campbell. Seven children. ( See H 4, 7.) 5. DAVID CLARK, 8. James and Deliverance Clark. No record. 6. SALLIE CLARK, dau. James and Deliverance Clark. No record. H6. RosANNA CHAPMAN, daughter of John and Frelove Chap­ man, married David Sutton and moved to another state. THE CHAPMAN FAMILY 101

H7. ARGENT CHAPMAN, daughter of Jesse and Esther Gatlin Chapman, born Sept. 1785, died 1859, married David Adams. Eleven children : l. Lovm ADAMS, dau. David and Argent Chapman Adams, m. Alfred Chapman, s. Weeks and Sally Chapman. Three children. (See HI, 5.) 2. SALLIE (Sarah) Adams, dau. David and Argent Chapman Adams, m. James Roach, whose sister, Sally Roach, mar­ ried Edward Nelson, Jr. Fourteen children: (I) PoLLY, (2) Betsy, (3) David Summers, (4) Nancy, (5) Louisa, (6) Sarah, (7) Charles, (8) Catherine, (9) James B., (10) William Spencer, (11) Lovie, (12) Lewis, (13) Raymond, (14) Israel. (See Roach Family, C5.) 3. JESSE ADAMS, s. David and Argent Chapman Adams, m. Patsy Stokes. Twelve children: (1) CHURCHEL, (2) Bryan, (3) Louisa, ( 4) Lovie, ( 5) Argent, (6) Sylvester, (7) Sam, (8) Madison, (9) Caswell, (10) l\fary, (11) Betsy, (12) Patsy. 4. BRYAN ADAMS, s. David and Argent Chapman Adams, m. 1st Rittie Smith, dau. Henry and Sallie Smith, m. 2nd Sally Smith. Three children by first wife: (1) FuRNIFORD, (2) Lourany, (3) Lewis Bryan. No children by second wife. 5. CLARISIA ADAMS, dau. David and Argent Chapman Adams, m. Louis Smith, s. Henry and Sally Smith. Two children: (1) Lovm, (2) David. 6. LYDIA ADAMS, dau. David and Argent Chapman Adams, m. William Gaskins. Three children: (1) JOHN ALLEN, (2) Polly, (3) Major. 7. DAVID ADAMS, s. David and Argent Chapman Adams, never married. 8. CHURCHEL ADAMS, s. David and Argent Chapman Adams, never married. 102 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

9. PoLLY ADAMS, dau. David and Argent Chapman Adams, m. Jesse Chapman, s. Stephen Chapman. No record. 10. ARGENT ADAMS, d{Jlll,. David and Argent Chapman Adams, m. Augustus Patrick. Five children: (1) BETTIE, (2) Esther, (3) Edward, ( 4) Eliza, (5) Sallie. 11. EsTHER ADAMS, dau. David and Argent Chapman Adams, m. Jessie Lancaster. Four children: (1) MARY ARGENT, (2) Simeon, (3) Delia, (4) John. HS. FuRNIFORD CHAPMAN, son of Jesse and Esther Gatlin Chapman, born Mar. 10, 1798, died Aug. 4, 1858, married Polly Smith, daughter of Henry Smith III, and Sally Cannon Smith, sister of Dennis and Bryan Smith, and niece of James Smith, therefore first cousin of William Henry Smith who mar­ ried Mary Nels on. Ten children : 1. SALLY J. CHAPMAN, dau. Furniford and Polly Smith Chapman, b. Jan. 20, 1836, never married. (Writer of this family record.) 2. MEALY (Permelia) Chapman, dau. Furniford and Polly Smith Chapman, b. Apr. 3, 1837, d. Aug. 1838. 3. JESSE CHAPMAN, s. Furniford and Polly Smith Chapman, b. Jan. 23, 1840, d. May 8, 1863. 4. EVERILDA, dau. Furniford and Polly Smith Chapman, b. Oct. 8, 1841, d. Aug. 1860. 5. LYDIA CHAPMAN, dau. Furniford and Polly Smith Chap­ man, b. May 25, 1843, m. Charles Roach, s. James Roach. Four children : (1) JENNIE, (2) Mayme, (3) Sally, (4) Luther. (See Roach Family, C5, 8.) 6. HENRY CHAPMAN, s. Furniford and Polly Smith Chap­ man, b. Nov. 12, 1844, m. Fanny Burney, dau. William and Eliza Burney. Nine children: (I) WALTER G. (2) JESSE B., b. Dec. 16, 1873, d. Sept. 30, 1881. THE CHAPMAN FAMILY 103

(3) HENRY P., b. Sept. 19, 1875. ( 4) ELIZA, b. Oct. 23, 1877. (5) MARY E., b. Nov. 7, 1881. (6) PETER C., b. Oct. 12, 1883. (7) CLAY B., b. Oct. 2, 1887, d. Nov. 2, 1888. (8) CARRIE C., b. Jan. 28, 1890. (9) CARLTON E., b. Sept. 12, 1892. 7. SLADE CHAPMAN, s. Furniford and Polly Smith Chapman, b. Apr. 25, 1846, m. Louisa Burney, dau. William and Eliza Burney. Four children: (1) SALLY, (2) John R., (3) Lydia D., (4) William H. 8. KATHERINE (Kate) CHAPMAN, dau. Furniford and Polly Smith Chapman, b. Mar. 13, 1848, m. Wm. Spencer Roach, s. James Roach. Five children: (1) EMILY, (2) Lydia C., (3) Clara, (4) Frances C., (5) Lela. (See Roach Family, C5, 11.)

9. DAVID SIMEON, s. Furniford and Polly Smith Chapman, b. June 3, 1850, d. Nov. 6, 1861. 10. GATLIN, s. Furniford and Polly Smith Chapman, m. Martha E. Purser, dau. David Purser, b. Nov. 13, 1851. Eight children : (1) CLAUD, (2) Bessie, (3) Simeon, (4) Kate, (5) Harton, (6) Lala, (7) Mayme, (8) Clyde.

SMITH FAMILY CONNECTIONS H9. ELIZABETH WEEKS, sister of Frelove Weeks, married Willowby Adams. Two children : 1. SALLY ADAMS, dau. Elizabeth and Willowby Adams, m. Henry Smith II, in 1777. (See also Smith Family, D2.) Nine children: (1) WILLIAM SMITH, m. a Blount. One child, Betsy Sultan. (2) CANNON SMITH, m. 1st Barbara Pollard; m. 2nd Harriet Wiggins. Eight children by first wife: 104 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

a. LovIE, b. Mary, c. Barbara, d. Oliver, e. Molsy, f. Major, g. Mealy (Permelia), h. Cannon, Jr. Four children by second wife: a. FRANK, b. Jack, c. Ann, d. Sam. (3) fuNRY SMITH III, m. Sally Cannon, dau. Dennis and Sally Pugh Cannon. [See Hl0, 1, (3), and Smith Family,.] (4) ALLEN SMITH, m. Patsy Ann Edwards. Two children: a. Mn\UE ANN, b. Lizinne. ( 5) JIMMIE (James) SMITH, m. Holland Little. Five children: a. WM. HENRY, m. Mary (Polly) Nelson, dau. Edward Nelson, Jr., and Sally Roach Nelson. Twelve children (two died in infancy): (a) En, (b) Evelyn, ( c) Sarah R., ( d) Dock, (e) Maggie, (f) Claudius F., (g) Addie, (h) Fz:ed, (i) Mary V., (j) Hollon Little. (See Nelson Family, A4.) b. JOHN A., m. Lovie Clark, dau. Osborne Clark. Nine children : (a) WILLIE, (b) Johnnie, ( c) Cammie, ( d) Hollie, (e) Emmie, (f) Jimmie, (g) Monie, (h) Lina, (i) Sally. (See Smith Family, D8.) c. SALLY, m. Randall Ewell. Five children. (See Smith Family, D9.) d. BETSY, m. 1st Oliver Dixon; m. 2nd Dennis Smith. No children by second husband. Eight by first husband. (See Smith Family, DI0.) e. MARY. (6) DAVID SMITH, married and went to Georgia. (7) MIMIE, never married. (8) PENNIE SMITH, m. Joe Pollard. Three children: a. SALLIE, m. Major Willis. Two children: (a) ISABEL, (b) Bettie. THE CHAPMAN FAMILY 105

b. LAYNE, m. a Whitfield. One child, Pennie. c. TURNER. (9) SALLY, m. a Galloway. 2. ABRAM ADAMS, s. Elizabeth and Willowby Adams, m. a Miss Brooks. Twelve children: (I) BILLY, (2) Jesse. (3) T1sHIE, m. Jim Campbell. ( 4) PoLLY, m. 1st a Dixon; m. 2nd a McDowell. (5) BETSY, m. a Nelson. (6) SALLY, m. an Edwards. (7) LovIE, m. a Gardner. (8) APPIE, (9) Abner, (10) David, (11) Abram, (12) Jimmie.

PUGH FAMILY CONNECTIONS H10. WILLIAM PuGH I, married first ...... ; married second a Miss Bryan. Three children by first wife: 1. SALLY PuGH, dau. William Pugh, m. Dennis Cannon. Seven children : (1) ARGENT CANNON, m. Ned Sturdiford. (2) KATE CANNON, m. Hardy Johnson I. Nine children: a. JIMMIE, b. William, c. Hardy II, d. Lewis, e. Cannon, f. Susan, g. Mimye, h. Julia, i. Annie. (3) SALLIE CANNON, dau. Dennis and Sally Pugh Cannon, m. Henry Smith III. Nine children : a. PoLLY SMITH, m. Furniford Chapman. (See HS.) b. Lours SMITH, m. Clarisa Adams. ( See H7, 5.) c. CAL VIN SMITH, never married. d. WILLIAM SMITH. e. RITTIE SMITH, m. Bryan Adams. ( See H7, 4.) f. DENNIS SMITH, m. Betsy Smith Dixon. [See H9, I, (5), d.] g. GRIZZIE SMITH, d.y. h. BRYAN SMITH, s. Henry III, and Sally Cannon Smith, m. 1st Mary A. Galloway; m. 2nd Letha. 106 OUR FAMILY GENEALOGY

Nels on. Two children by first wife: (a) HARVEY, (b) Abner. Nine children by second wife: (a) Louis, (b) James, (c) Pierce, (d) George, ( e) Washington, ( f) Sherrod, (g) Marcellus, (h) Cora, (i) Addie. (See Smith Family, D4, 7.) I. SALLY SMITH, d. 1845. ( 4) GR1zzm CANNON, m. Jack Jenkins. Four children: a. IRVIN, b. John. c. CATHERINE, m. Major Smith. Five children: (a) MAJOR, JR., (b) Charles, ( c) Julia, ( d) Lewis, (e) Irving. (See Smith Family, D3, 6.) d. MIMIE, m. Stanley Kittrell. Two children: (a) KATE, (b) John. (5) JACK CANNON, (6) Allen Cannon, (7) Pugh Cannon. (No records.) 2. RACHEL PuGH, dau. William Pugh, m. a Kilpatrick. No record. 3. PENNY PuGH, dau. William Pugh, m. a Kilpatrick. Three children: (I) BRYAN, (2) John, (3) Barbara. Wm. Pugh had four children by second wife (Miss Bryan): I. Lou!A PuGH, dau. William Pugh, m. Simon Burney. Eight children: (I) BRYAN, (2) John, (3) Polly, (4) Sally, (5) Lizzie, (6) Rachel, (7) Louya, (8) Lewis. 2. MmNm (Mimie) PuGH, dau. William Pugh, m. Shade Allen. Four children: (I) SHADE, (2) Berton, (3) John, (4) Sally. 3. STEPHEN PuGH, s. William Pugh, m...... Three children: (1) RACHEL, m. Jim Parker. (2) HoLLON, m. a Brooms. Two children: a. MARY, b. Pugh. THE CHAPMAN FAMILY 107

(3) SALLY, m. a Munford. Two children: a. LEWIS, b. Bill. 4. WILLIAM PuGH II, s. William Pugh I, m. Polly Coart. Two children: (1) BRYAN, (2) William III. A FINAL WORD While the Compilers of this book have put into it their time, their energy, and their means to the extent of their ability, it has been to them a labor of love and they find joy in the hope and the belief that it will be of satisfaction and real value, not only to those now living but to generations yet un­ born. As succeeding generations get farther and farther away from their early ancestors it becomes more and more difficult to find out with certainty who their ancestors were. This book puts in permanent form what we have been able to learn about our ancestors, so that all who come after us may have this information at their command, and we have left blank pages at the end on which each one may keep the con­ tinuing record of his or her family. To all our people we wish to say here that in this study of the history and background of the several closely connected families that make up our family tree we have learned that no one of the families has a monopoly on patriotism or on the other qualities of noble citizenship. Every family reaches back to the days of the pioneer, to early ancestors who were loyal, sturdy folk, who not only helped to win the liberties we now enjoy, but helped also to carve a nation out of a primeval forest infested with savages, and to establish a na­ tional government that is to this day the admiration if not the envy of other nations of the world. No matter to which branch of the family we belong, we may rightly re­ joice that we have good blood in our veins. Let us each and all so live that our children and our children's children may be as proud to number us among their forefathers as we feel we have a right to be proud of our own ancestors. And now our work is finished. "\'Ve are conscious that it contains errors, omissions and imperfections, but these will in time be discovered and corrected. Our hope is that, in spite of its faults, whatever they may be, our people will appreciate A FINAL WORD 109 the time and the labor we have put into it, and make good use of the material we have here collected. Finally, as Col. Wheeler wrote when he sent out his History of North Carolina, we can only say to those who may feel disposed to find fault, or criticise this work; that when this disposition may arise, instead of attacking these labors, take and examine them care­ fully, and improve on them for the benefit of all those we have sought to serve. No one will more heartily welcome their ef­ forts, and none rejoice more sincerely in their success than

THE COMPILERS.