Grady/Graddy Line Part II

This Graddy line, as the first, is likely descended from the immigrant William of part one.

James Graddy

The 1773 Duplin County, North Carolina will of John Graddy (submitted into the April 1787 Court term) mentions a “grandson James Graddy son of my daughter Ann Grady”. The will also mentions a daughter Ann Croom. The assumption is that James, the father of Quinny, was a grandson of this John Grady. As to whether this is true and his mother was the Ann who married a Croom, I really have no idea although all of the Duplin County Graddy’s seem to have been descendants of John. Not a guess as to his father.

James married Elizabeth Quinney in Duplin County with a bond date of April 23, 1794. There was a John Quinney shown next to James in the 1800 census. As the only male was between the ages of 16 & 25 this could not have been Elizabeth’s father, but could have been a brother. There was also a woman age 45 or over in the John Quinney household. Possibly she was the mother of John and Elizabeth. There are no other Quinneys in the Duplin County census records. There is genealogy that shows a John as son of Sutton Quinney who also had a son named Rigdon (born 1769) by his second wife Ann Rigdon. The last born son of James was named Rigdon, but not from his marriage to Elizabeth.

James married Unity Carpenter in Duplin County on Jan. 22, 1806. There was a James Carpenter whose death is recorded as 7/30/1834 in the Whitfield Grady bible with no indication of what, if any relationship he was to the Graddy’s. ______

Census Records

1790: 1M 16+ 1800: 1M 26-44, 2M < 10, 1F < 10. 1810: 1M 45+, 1M 16-25, 1M 10-15, 2M < 10, 1F 26-45, 1F 10-15, 1F < 10. 1820: 1M 45+, 1M 10-15, 2M < 10, 1F 26-45, 1F 10-15, 1F <10. 1830: 1M 60-69, 2M 20-29, 1M 15-19, 1F 50-59. 1840: 1M 70-79, 1M 30-39, 1F 60-69. This was the household of Kenan Grady.

What I take from these census records is that James was born 1760-1765 and Unity 1770-1775. There were 5 sons with the names of all but the first born known. There were 3 daughters, names unknown. (See my breakdown which follows the references.) ______

Children of James and Elizabeth: Unknown son was born about 1794. (Still living in 1810.) Quinny was born 5/13/1797. Unknown daughter was born between 1794 and 1800. (Still living in 1810.) Some people show that Elizabeth died in 1805, but as there is no female shown over the age of 10 in the 1800 census, I believe she may have died before the 1800 census enumeration date of August 4.

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Children of James and Unity: Unknown female was born between 1804 and 1810. (Still living as of 1820.) Kenan was born before 1810. James Lee was born about 1810. Rigdon was born about 1812 in Duplin Co., NC and died in Shelby Co., TN in 1856. Unknown daughter was born between 1810 and 1820. (She is not in the 1830 census.) As I assume that James and Unity were the two older people with Kenan in the 1840 census, enumeration date of June 1, they would have died at some unknown time after this date. ______

Interesting that James and his younger sons James L. and Rigdon could write their names while the older sons Quinny and Kenan could not.

James bought a tract of land (210 acres) from William Graddy April 16, 1782. Deed does not indicate any kinship between the two. The 1786 Duplin County Tax List shows one white poll and 210 acres for James. “CHARLES WARD, JOHN HILL, JAMES OUTLAW, SAMUEL HOUSTON, DAVID MURDOCK, GEORGE MILLER & JOHN MATCHET, commissioners of the town of Sarecta, to HENRY GRADY of Duplin Co., 3 Nov 1796, for 10 pds. Currency 5 one half acre lots in Sarecta to wit: … (3) No. 25 drawn by JAMES GRADY; …” [1, p. 84] He received a 100 acre land grant on Burncoat Swamp in 1799. The original survey of this for James was in 1793. He received a 30 acre land grant on Burncoat Branch in 1803.

He sold 74 acres of land to his son Quinny in 1820. He sold 76 acres of land to Spiars Butts in 1820. He gifted 53 acres of land to his son Kenan in 1822. He gifted 53 acres of land to his son James Lee in 1822. He gifted 53 acres of land to his son Rigdon in 1822. He sold 74 acres of land to Spiars Butts in 1825.

Quinny Graddy

Quinny was born May 13, 1797 and died March 14, 1846. Birth may have been in Duplin County, North Carolina and death in Gibson County, Tennessee, but there is no proof of either. Quinny married Charity O’Daniel. Charity was born Jan. 6, 1796 and was still living at the time of the 1870 federal census. She was the daughter of Alexander O’Daniel and Elizabeth Grady. Quinny’s father, James, and his mother, Elizabeth, have been assumed to be first cousins. The marriage probably occurred between October 23, 1817 and September of 1819. (See Charity in the O’Daniel line write-up .)

Quinny first appears in the 1818 Duplin County Tax list. He received a land grant of 30 acres on the north side of Burncoat, entered on 1/19/1819 and issued 12/14/1820. On the 28th of July, 1820 (recorded in January 1823) he purchased 74 acres on Sutton Branch from his father James Graddy. April 18, 1823 he sold a tract of land containing 15 of the 74 acres to Maclendal Jarmin. One of the witnesses, James Carpenter, previously mentioned, is noteworthy as Quinny’s father was at that time married to Unity Carpenter. He sold 6 acres on May 24, 1823 and 83 acres Nov. 9, 1824 all to Samuel Davis. As this constitutes all of the land he received, it is possible he moved from Duplin County soon thereafter. 2 of 5 Grady/Graddy Line Part II

The first record I have of him in Tennessee is in the 1834 Gibson County tax lists. In a deed dated 1/24/1835: “Jesse Pipkin of Gibson Co, TN to Quinny Grady of Gibson Co., TN - $75.00 - 30½ Acres – Part of a tract of land granted to Robert Holmes for 1200 acres lying on the waters of Rutherford’s fork of Obion River bordering said Pipkins”. [2, p. 32] The early tax list records for Tennessee show him with 30 acres at a value of $150 and 1 white poll in 1836.

The only census I have found with Quinny as the head of household is 1840 in Gibson County, TN. Charity is shown in the household of her son-in-law Thomas Flowers in the 1850, 1860 and 1870 Gibson County census records. On June 22, 1852 Charity along with her daughter Catherine and son-in-law Thomas sold the 30½ acres Quinney had purchased in 1835.

Children of Quinny and Charity: Alexander was born June 6 and died two days later on June 8, 1820. Catherine Evelina was born Jan. 28, 1826 and died Oct. 8, 1859.

Note: Most of the birth and death dates are from the bible of Thomas Flowers. When my sister copied these our cousin Jean Hall had possession. Current location of this bible is unknown, but likely is still in the family line of Joe Atlee Hall.

Catherine Evelina Grady

The second “d” in the surname seems to have been dropped by those who moved from North Carolina to Tennessee.

Catherine married Thomas Flowers on November 30 1841 in Gibson County, Tennessee. She died there on October 8, 1859 and is buried in Walnut Grove Baptist Church Cemetery.

Continuation is with the Flowers & the O’Daniel lines.

Quinny’s half-brothers

Kenan Grady, as previously mentioned, received 53 acres of land from his father in 1822. June 21, 1837 he sold this land to Alexander Grady. He is in the 1840 census, but I have found no record of him afterwards.

James Lee Grady, as previously mentioned, received land from his father in 1822. He sold this land to James H. Jarman on Feb. 13, 1832 and sometime afterwards moved to Cumberland County, NC. He apparently lived in the part of Cumberland Co. that became Harnett County in 1855. James married Winnifred Catherine Hill. Children were: David T., James R., Phineas Hill, Marshall Whitfield, William Curtis, John G. H., Elizabeth W., Nancy J. and Letta A. “The Gradys trace their family back to Duplin County, North Carolina and to David’s great uncle John Grady, the only patriot to be killed at the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge during the American Revolution.” [3] This relationship is not likely correct as John was the son of William Grady and the father of the elder James Grady is unknown. More likely is in the cousin line.

Rigdon Grady, as previously mentioned, received land from his father in 1822. He sold this land to Samuel Davis on Dec. 4, 1832. He and Quinny may have moved to the Gibson County, TN area together or near the same time as he obtained a license there to marry Nancy Gleason on Aug. 1, 1836. I have not found him in the 1840 census, but in 1850 he was living in Shelby County, Tennessee where he died a few years later in 1856. [4] Children were: Henry C., Alexander W. H., Abraham L., Harriet, Elizabeth V., Rachel, Nancy, Sallie Sarah E., Rigdon H. and William T.

References:

Bible of Thomas Flowers

[1] Duplin County, North Carolina Abstracts of Deeds 1784-1813 Vol. 1, Eleanor Smith Draughon, 1983.

[2] Gibson County, Tennessee Deed Books D-E Aug. 1834-Jan. 1838, Vicky L. Morrow Hutchings, 2002.

[3] Carolina Stories “Stories of some Confederate Soldiers”, Blake Tyner (www.uncp.edu/home/tyner/people.htm).

[4] Shelby County Tennessee Register of Deeds website.

My interpretation of the census records.

1800: James age 26-44 (1755-1774) 1810: James age 45+ (1765 or earlier) 1830: James age 60-69 (1760-1770) From the above James would have been born between 1760 and 1765. His 1782 land purchase from William Graddy leads me to believe he was born before 1762.

1810: Unity age 26-44 (1765-1784) 1820: Unity age 26-44 (1775-1794) 1830: Unity age 50-59 (1770-1780) From the above Unity would have been born between 1775 and 1780.

1800: male under the age of 10. 1810: male age 16-25. The name of this male is unknown.

1800: male under the age of 10. 1810: male between the ages of 10 and 15. Quinny was born in 1797 so this would be him.

1800: female under the age of 10. 1810: female between the ages of 10 and 15. The name of this female and whether she lived to get married is not known.

1810: two males under the age of 10. (Kenan & James Lee) 1820: two males under the age of 10 (James Lee & Rigdon); : one male between the ages 10 and 15 (Kenan). 1830: two males between the ages of 20 and 29. (Kenan & James Lee) : one male between the ages of 15 and 19. (Rigdon) Notes: 1. The 1850 census shows Rigdon born about 1812; thus he was one of the 1820 under 10 and the 15 to 19 year old in 1830. 2. The 1840 census shows Kenan born between 1800 and 1810 so he was probably the older male child in 1820 and still in the household in 1830. 2. James Lee was probably listed as one of the under 10 in both 1810 and 1820 as he was born about 1810. The 1850 census shows him born about 1805, but the 1830 census has him born between 1810 and 1820 and the 1860 has his age as 50.

1810: female under the age of 10. 1820: female between the ages of 10 and 15. The name of this female born between 1804 and 1810 is not known.

1820: female under the age of 10. No further information on this unknown girl. She may have died or married at a young age.

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