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ZACHARIAH WELLS B 1739 North Carolina
Died: around 1830 LEE COUNTY VIRGINIA.
Who Zachariah's parents are is still under research.
"Pioneer Families of Leslie County Ky" lists Zachariahs father as Richard Wells and Nancy Brown dau of George and Nancy Stephen Brown.
States:
General James Wells and his brother, George, English Revolutionary War patriots.(Rev war in England was fought against King James 1688)
(NOT THE AMERICAN REV WAR)
James was the father of Richard Wells born in Sussex England around 1715
Richard Wells and his family came to America settled in Philadelphia then Maryland. Moving to North Carolina where Zachariah and a brother Robert Was born.
Zachariah
Married:ABAGALE (ABIGAIL) OSBORNE B 1748
DAUGHTER OF JAMES OSBOURNE
JAMES OSBOURNE HAD THREE DAUGHTERS ABAGALE,HULDA, AND ELIZABETH:
ABAGALE, LISTED AS LIVING WITH
William Thomas at BIG STONE GAP VIR. LEE COUNTY IN CENSUS
MARRIED 1766 NORTH CAROLINA.
AFTER THEIR MARRIAGE, Zachariah and Abagale had 12 children
BY AT LEAST 1799 ZACHARIAH AND ABAGAIL WAS IN LEE COUNTY VA
LISTED LAND TRANSACTIONS CONCERNING ZACHARIAH WELLS SR.
EACH FROM ZACHARIAH WELLS SR. WILKES DEED BOOK D P 438.
ZACHARIAH'S DAU JEMIMA MARRIED JOHN STURGILL AND HAD A SON FRANCIS.
1799 $1000 FOR 900 ACRES ON POWELL RIVER BAP 315
1806 URIAH SHEPHERD AND ELIZABETH HIS WIFE SOLD
TO ZACHARIAH WELLS 100 ACRES FOR $133. B2 P239 3-25-1806
1807 ZACHARIAH WELLS BOUGHT LOONEYS CREEK BY BIG STONE GAP
FROM JAMES SHEPHERD BA P 315
1810 LISTED LEE COUNTY CENSUS
1810 LEE CO,VA., APRIL-2-1810 100 ACRES N FORK OF POWELLS RIVER ABOVE
THE BIG STONE GAP. BEGINNING AND CROSSING LOONEYS CREEK GRANT 60 P259
CARD 64 GRANT 60 P 259
SURVEY MADE NOV 1808 NORTH FORK OF POWELLS RIVER. (SEE DOCUMENTS)
1814 120 A SURVEYED FOR ZACHARIAH WELLS SR 12-1812
1819 S SIDE OF STONE MTN, BELOW BIG STONE GAP
NEAR ROBERT PRESTONS AND ZACH SRS
LAND BY DEED FROM ROBERT PRESTON AND ISAAC BUCKHOLDER.
1819 VIRGINIA PATENT 125 ACRES DEC 30 1819 LEE COUNTY, N SIDE OF THE
LAND WHERE HE NOW LIVES. CARD 65 GRANT 60 P 67. VA LAND PATENTS.
1819 13th of DECEMBER TO ZACHARIAH WELLS 125 ACRES OF TREASURY WARRANT LAND OF JAN 1812 SURVEY MADE 1814, WHERE HE NOW LIVES, LEE COUNTY BEGINNING AT SMALL BEECH TREE NEAR CORNER OF SURVEY OF THOMAS WELLS 100 ACRES.(SEE DOCUMENTS)
1819 ZACHARIAH TO ROBERT WELLS BOTH OF LEE CO VA, THREE FORKS POWELL RIVER ROAD
$375 B3P461 ROBERT WELLS AND ELIZABETH HIS WIFE 2 TRACTS OF LAND ONE TO WILLIAM ELKINS
FOR $300 AND PART 2 JOHN BRECKINRIDGE AND ZACHARIAH WELLS SR. BETWEEN ROBERT AND
JACOB WELLS LAND. ROBERT WELLS AND ELIZABETH HIS WIFE TO GEORGE
WELLS NORTHEAST POWELL RIVER.
1826 B 4 P13 ZACHARIAH TO JACOB WELLS FOR #1 PART OF LAND HE BOUGHT FROM ROBERT PRESTON.
1826 6-17 ZACHARIAH SR TO ROBERT WELLS BOTH OF LEE CO VA FOR $100 3 FORKS OF POWELL
RIVER BETWEEN ROBERT AND JACOB WELLS
1826 8-21 ZACHARIAH WELLS SR TO JACOB WELLS FOR $100 LAND ON POWELL RIVER
125 ACRES LEE COUNTY CENSUS
1830 Lee County Census
2 males under age 5, 1 male age 20-40, 4 females
1840 Lee County Census
7 males and 3 females
ZACHARIAH, WILLIAM, AND THOMAS WELLS ARE MENTIONED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY IN 1777 IN VIRGINIA. ZACHARIAH MOVED HIS FAMILY TO LEE COUNTY VIRGINIA AROUND 1799 AFTER THE WAR.
John P.
Wells Married:
Louisa Elizabeth Gilley born 1815 1850 Census Wise county Va. John
age 46 Eliza
age 36 Louisa
age 20 Henry
age 18 Mary
age 17 John
age 15 Catherine
age 14 Francis son age 7 Ann age
4 Elizabeth
Jane age 2 1860
Wise county Census John P.
Wells age 55 Elzia age 48 Mary
age 27 Catherine
age 23 Franklin
age 16 Elizabeth J age 13 Lucinda
age 8 Elizabeth J. age 6
(possibly grandchildren) Thomas
age 3 George
age 1 James
F. age 6 months These younger
children probably grandchildren, census doesn’t say 1870
Census John P
Wells age 64 Eliza
age 59 Zachariah
age 90 Catherine
age 38 Jane E age 22 Margaret
age 15 James F
age 11 grandson Thomas
age 11 grandson Virginia
age 10 grandau Oyen L age 4 grandson Son John and Miram living next door. And Elizabeth’s brother Absolam Gilley living
on the other side. 1880
Census Wise County living next to son John and Miram John P.
age 76 Eliza
age 70 Thomas age
22 grandson Jane age 17 grandau. Owen
age 13 grandson Kiah age 6 grandson Children: 1…Louisa born 1830 2…Henry born 1832 3…Mary born 1833 4…John born 1835 5…Catherine born 1836 6…Francis (Franklin) son born 1837 7…Ann born 1846 8…Elizabeth Jane born 1848 9…Lucinda born 1853 10..Margaret born 1855 John P.
Wells born 1832 Married:
Miram Riggs born 1836 Children: 1860
Census Scott County John Wells
age 26 Miram Wells age 23 John F.
wells age 4 Eleanor J
age 2 1870
Census taken in August John age
34 Miram age 30 Ellen J.
age 12 William H.
age 8 Eliza A
age 6 Matilda H.
age 3 Joseph C
age 5 months 1880 Census Wise County Va. Next door
to father John P and Elizabeth John Wells
age 47 Miram age 44 Henny age 18 Eliza age
16 Matilda
age 13 Joseph age
10 David age
6 1900
Census John Wells
born May 1832 age 68 Miram wife born August 1837 age 63 Taylor son
age 15 born May 1885 Listed in
this census as married 48 years 10
Children 7 living. 1910 Census Wise County Va. John Wells age 82 married
62 years born in Virginis Miram wife age 78 married 62 years 10 children 7 living
in 1910 Taylor J
age 25 Children: 1…John F born 1856 2…Eleanor (Ellen) J born 1848 3…William Henry Wells born 1860 4…Ellen J Wells born 1858 5…William Henny born 1862 6…Eliza A Wells born 1864 7…Matilda H. Wells born 1867 8…Joseph C Wells born 1869 9…David Wells born 1874 10..Taylor Jefferson Wells
1883 Joseph
C. Wells Born April 1870
Wise County Virginia Married
Cynthia Shook often spelled cintha, or Synthia born 1870 Virginia Scott County Marriage
Record States: Joseph C.
Wells And Cynthia
Shook Married
July 19th 1893 Wise County Virginia Husbands
Parents; John and Miram Wells Wifes Parents: John and Luvica Shook Age of
husband 22 years Age of
wife 22 years Husband
single Wife a
widow 1900 Census Wise County Va. Joseph C. Wells age 29 born
January 1871 Virginia Married 6
years with 4 children Cintha wife born May 1870 age 30 married 6 years 4 children born in Va. Jeremiah Wells son age 6
born January 1894 (Jerry) Riley
Wells Step son born Feb 1888 age 12 listed as a wells Kiser
Wells Step son age 10 born Oct 1890 listed as a wells Jane Wells dau. age
1 born March 1899 Vicy Shook mother in Law born Feb 1860 Virginia age 40. either
she is not Cintha’s mother or the age is wrong. 1910 Census Wise County Va. Joseph C.
Wells age 39 Married 16 years Synthia wife age 40 married (2nd) 16 years with 7 children and 7 living Jerry M.
R. Wells age 15 Tavy J.
Wells age 11 John O.
Wells age 9 Amanda E.
Wells age 6 Reppy E. Wells age 3 1930
Census Joseph age
62 Cyntha age 60 Claude son age 19
living at home. Jerry
Wells World
War II draft Registration Card for this Jerry Wells Age 47 Born
May 25 1894 Lee County Va. Big Stone Gap Person
listed who will always know where he is,
Charles Durham Employers
name was Slone Coke and Coal Imboden Wise County Va. Children: 1…Riley Wells Step son
born Feb 1888 age 12 listed as a Wells 2…Kiser Wells Step son age
10 born Oct 1890 listed as a Wells 3…Jeremiah
(Jerry M. R.)Wells born January 1894 died 1994 4…Tavy Jane Wells born
March 1899 5…John O. Wells born 1901 6…Amanda E. Wells born
1904 7…Reppy E. born 1907 9…Claude
born 1911 Jeremiah
Wells born 1894 1930
Wise County Virginia Jeremiah
Wells age 35 married age 27 C??? wife age 25 married age 17 Claud son age 7 Joe son
age 5
born 1804 died 1899
INTERESTING INFORMATION
Matthias Kelly married Abigail Sturgill, daughter of John and Jemima Wells Sturgill.
After their marriage they lived for awhile in Kentucky, probably Harlan County where some three or four
of their oldest children were born. Sometime in the 1830's they moved to the vicinity of Big Stone Gap
which is his lifetime was known as the Three Forks of Powell River. All this section was then Lee County,
becoming Wise County in 1856. Matthias is said to have operated one of the first stores in Lee County
somewhere in the Big Stone Gap vicinity.
Sometime in the 1850's he moved his family to Milam, in Sullivan County,
Missouri where he lived through the Civil War years and had moved back to Wise County by 1870.
While living in Missouri his son Franklin Newton Kelly married on May 9, 1861 to Salomey Jane Neighbors,
and they had a son, John William Kelly born May 19, 1862. Franklin Newton enlisted in the Missouri
State Militia as a Bugler in Company C of the 1st Cavalry Regiment commanded by Captain James McFerrin,
and was killed April 28, 1864, near Warrensburg in Johnson County, Missouri.
Two birth dates have been uncovered for Matthias Kelly and which one is correct remains to be proven.
The first is December 28, 1797, and second December 28, 1800. He died December 15, 1872,
and is said to have been buried about halfway between his old home site and Cadet alongside the L&N Railroad on a knoll
and it has been said a large tree is growing out of his grave.
On January 3, 1818 he was married to Abigail Sturgill, born November 30, 1801.
After the death of her husband, Abigail went to live with her oldest son,
John Jackson Kelly at the Brick Store in upper Lee County in Turkey Cove.
She died here and was laid to rest in the Jonathan Richmond Cemetery across Highway
58 from her last home, now the Dave Isaac place. Abigail's picture, her loom, and some
cloth she wore are now on display in the "Southwest Virginia Museum at Big Stone Gap. "
"ABIGAIL STURGILL B NOV 30 1801(JAN 3 1818 MARRIED: MATTHIAS KELLY D DEC 15 1872
