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The Fullton/Fulton Lines

James & Anastasia had 9 children, all but one of whom lived to adulthood, and all but two of whom married and had families of their own. We follow those various family lines below.

Rachel Offutt Fulton

I don't know anything about Rachel. Presumably named after Anastasia's mother Rachell Offutt Tuel.
Ezekiel Tuel Fulton
Ezekiel was a tailor as were his father and grandfather before him. Unfortunately, he was also in very poor health from a very early age on. The family Bible [1] records "Ezekiel T. Fullton departed this life April 19, 1816 Friday morning about one o'clock, and his funeral was preached by Jesse Richardson on Sunday the 17th of June 1816 from Phillipians 2nd Chapter, 10th and 11th verses at the house of John James near to his grave." He is buried in a small graveyard located just off of SC Highway #5 near Kings Creek in a woods. His gravestone reads: "Sacred to the memory of E.T. Fullton, who died April 19th 1816, in the 25th year of his age, who had been the son of affliction for upwards of 19 years, which he bore with pious fortitude and resignation." When he died, his brother Theodore executed his estate. (Give some details here.)
Elealah Pratt Fulton
Apparently moved to Gaston Co, NC area where the Featherstone family had one or more large plantations. Had at least two children: James and Richard.
Horatio Sparburn Fulton Theodore D. Fulton
Theodore was apparently well-educated. On Ezekiel's death, it was Theodore who handled the estate. Theodore also shows up in other capacities indicative of an education (practical or formal) in law. Theodore's middle name is unknown due to an unfortunate tear in the family Bible, but close inspection reveals it to be something like "Dem(en)tal."
Amarandah E. Fulton Arebelah Clement Fulton
Married the brother of her own brother Horatio's wife.(?) Buried next to her parents and husband in Yorkville, SC. Daniel James died from an illness he caught while attending the funeral of Richard Featherstone, his brother-in-law.
Daniel Asbury Fulton
Daniel's name is highly symbolic, for he was named after either Francis Asbury, the first bishop of American Methodism, or after Daniel Asbury, the first Methodist preacher west of the Catawba River and the man responsible for converting large numbers of residents in these areas over to Methodism. (See also his brother below. For more on Daniel Asbury, see [6].) Daniel was a farmer. Daniel's will names his wife Elizabeth as executrix and gives everything to her. He is buried with his in-laws in the Blalock Family Burial Ground, 2 miles up Kings Creek from SC Highway #5. His tombstone reads: "Sacred to the memory of Daniel A. Fullton, who departed this life after three days illness, Sep 30th 1843, aged 39 years and 56 days."

After Daniel's death in 1843, Elizabeth bought a tract of land along the old Yorkville Road in Cleveland County, midway between Shelby and Kings Mountain, from James M. Weir. She and her children moved there from S. Carolina and lived in a log cabin. Elizabeth continued there until all her children were married, at which time she remarried. (The cabin burned down in the 1930's.) Her 2nd marriage occurred in late 1859 to Thomas Porter McGill, the father-in-law of her daughter Stacy. She sold most of her land prior to the marriage to son Horatio.

Elizabeth and Thomas had quite an involved marriage contract because she owned so much property which was to be the inheritance of her children and not to be passed into his family. On Nov 25, 1859 the contract was drawn up. According to the contract, Elizabeth was "seized and possessed of considerable personal estate" which included 200 acres on Beasons Creek in Cleveland Co, 6 Negro slaves named Giles, Lewis, Joe, Harriet, Rachel and Ben. Elizabeth kept control over Joe, Harriet and Ben personally, but retained all the slaves as Fulton family property. (Based on the ages recorded in the 1850 census, it would be probable that Ben was the son of Joe and Harriett, and he would have been 9 years old in 1859.) She also mentions her intention of giving the 200 acres of land above to son William, but who was William?? (Was Jeremiah=William?). Likewise she gives up any claims of inheritance to the slaves/property of Thomas McGill.

James Whatcoat Fulton
Like his brother Daniel, James' name also connotes the family's ties to Methodism, for he was named after Richard Whatcoat, one of the first American Methodist bishops and circuit riders. I don't know much else about James yet except that he had at least 2 sons, Levi and Henry, and lived in Arkansas.

References:

  1. Family Bible record, part of the Revolutionary War widow pension application of Anastasia Tuel Fulton.
  2. A James family genealogy.
  3. Information on descendants of Horatio and Arebelah courtesy of Sylvia Rankin. See her website at http://studiosr.com/research.
  4. Information on descendants of Theodore from http://members.aol.com/Busbin8088/fhistory.html.
  5. This is my line. The research here is mostly my own, with help on some lines from George Goforth and too many other people to recognize.
  6. A short biography of the preacher Daniel Asbury can be found here
  7. A Clemmer family genealogy.