Ancestors of Warren Graham Trest

First Generation  

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1. Warren Graham Trest, son of Wendell Hamilton Trest and Neddie Graham , was born on 8 Oct 1957 in Memphis, Tennessee. Other names for Warren were Bub, and Bubba.

Noted events in his life were:

• Heraldry: Trest Heraldry. "The coat of arms so reproduced has been painted by a heraldic artist in England according to the blazon for the family surname of Trest.
Motto: None recorded.

Ref: L'Armorial General, Page 938
Rolland's Illustration, Plate XLIV.

Arms granted to Triest of Ghent, Belgium; elevated to the rank of Barons on 26th May, 1753. Appearing to be from an Italian place-name, the variants Trest and Triest are more likely to be from German source word 'Trester'-grape-husks; brewers grains; residue from brewing. In middle high ger. Trester = winepress. A brewer or other specialized worker in the winemaking industry."
(British Heradry Research)

• Occupation: Petroleum Service Industry, 1978 until now. ¹ "Warren G. Trest hired on with Sperry-Sun (then the NL Industries Baroid Company) on January 10th, 1978. He worked for the company in the Gulf of Mexico until 1979. In 1979, he transferred to Singapore, as an Applied Drilling Technolgy Engineer, and worked in Asia Pacific Operations until 1981. In 1981, he transferred to Houston for 6 months, as Assistant Product Line Manager H2S Safety Systems and then to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma until 1984 as Mid Continent District Manager. In 1984, he transferred back to Louisiana and worked as an ADT Engineer until 1989, when he transferred to West Africa (Nigeria). He worked in Nigeria until 1991 when he transferred to the MWD (Realtime Measurement While Drilling) department in Louisiana. He stayed in Field Operations until July, 2000 when he took over the position of Training Coordinator. He ran the training department in Lafayette, Louisiana until November, 2001 when he went into operations as a Service Coordinator. He is a lead Nuclear Engineer and has logged 5 years of oil wells in over 5,000' of water depths and 2 wells over 7,000 of water depths (both were records at that time). He logged the depest turnkey well for D.O.T.S. in over 7,000 of water depth in the year 2000. He is presently a Service Coordinator for Halliburton in Lafayette, La."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Marriage: Marriage of Warren and Bonnie Trest, 1 Oct 1992, Lafayette, Louisiana. ¹ "I was married to Bonnie Willingham on 1 October, 1992 at the courthouse in Lafayette, Louisiana. Our witnesses were Karen Trosclair and Rene Foreman.

The Justice of the Peace was Lynwood Broussard."
(Warren G. Trest)

• Pets: ¹ "Bonnie's children were grown when we got married. Instead of children, we had pets (the same as children to animal lovers). Bonnie had a cat, Mister Duck and a Chihuahua named Cassie Marie when we met. She brought Morten Anderson Trest, a male Chihuahua, home right before we got married (while I was in Nigeria). Until this day, May 30, 2003, these have been our children.

Morten Anderson passed away on August 31, 2003.
Cassie Marie passed away on March 9, 2004"
(Warren Trest)

• Pets: "Tami replaced Morten with a Jack Russell Terrier that we named Homer Simpson Trest. She gave Homer to us in October, 2003."

• Residence: ¹ "After leaving home and starting his career, Warren Trest lived in Lafayette, Church Point and Basile, Louisiana. He transferred to Singapore for two years, returning to Houston, Texas and transferring to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He transferred back to Lafayette, Louisiana and lived in several places in Lafayette and Alexandria, Louisiana. After his divorce from his first wife, he moved to Jackson, Mississippi and then back to Butte La Rose, Louisiana with his second wife. They bought their first home in Broussard, Louisiana, where they remain."

"Growing up, I lived in Tennessee, Arkansas, North Carolina, Michigan, Mississippi and Louisiana."
(Warren Graham Trest)

Warren married Rhonda Ann Matte , daughter of John Matte and Shirley Olivier , on 19 Aug 1978 in Church Point, Louisiana.¹ The marriage ended in divorce on 29 May 1990.

Warren next married Bonnie Jean Weifenbach , daughter of Richard Weifenbach and Francis Sue Moore , on 1 Oct 1992 in Lafayette, Louisiana.¹

  Second Generation  

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2. Wendell Hamilton Trest, son of Warner Alexander Trest and Lillian Ersell Miller , was born on 13 Oct 1928 in Louisville, Mississippi.

Noted events in his life were:

• Birthplace: 1928, Louisville, Mississippi. ¹ "My father was born in the home of Hugh Lamar Trest, whom my Grandparents were living with at the time".
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Letters: 21 Mar 1929. ¹ "The following excert is from a letter that Warner A. Trest wrote to his parents in 1928:

Yes, Little Wendell is as fine as ever. It seems that he is growing more and more each day. He spends a large portion of his time jabbering and playing with his little playthings. I know that theere is none sweeter than he."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• School: Ford High School. ¹ "Wendell was forced to leave his regular high school because he wrote an "underground" newspaper. He knew that he had to be back in school before his father returned from a trip (to Colorado - his Uncle Walter was watching him) that he was on, so he transferred to Ford High.

Graduated from Ford High School (Small High School Outside Louisville, Mississippi). The graduation class had a total of 6 students !

After going overseas with the 5th Army Air Corp. and discharged, he entered the summer session at Hinds Junior College in 1949. On the 6th of June, 1950, while in registrars line of Hinds Junior College, Wendell met Neddie Graham. They were married on the 31st of August, 1950.

Wendell and Neddie moved to Starksville, Mississippi and he attended Mississippi State University, Their first trailer (on campus) was 6 feet wide and he was 6' 4" and had to sleep, at times, with his feet out the window of the trailer. He said that either he had to sleep with his legs curled, or open the window and stretch his legs out.

He graduated Mississippi State and went into Industrial Sales."
(Warren G. Trest)

• Military Service: 5th Army Air Corp, 1947-1949, Japan and Korea. "Entered the US. Army (5th Army Air Corp) (later U.S. Air Force) as a Private in 1947 and mustered out as a Seargent in 1949.

Duties included Japan and Korea.

Wendell traveled to to Japan on a troop ship from U.S.A. to Japan via the Northern Route and suffered from seasickness the rest of his life. He stated that if he would have had to muster out of the service in Japan and pay his own airplane ticket home, he would have done it to keep have having to ride a troop ship home."
(Wendell H. Trest)

• Marriage Notes: Roxie, Mississippi. ¹ "Wendell and Neddie were married in Roxie, Mississippi on August 31, 1950 by Reverend Green, a Baptist Minister"
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Hobbies: ¹ "Hunting (Wing Shooting) and Fishing (freshwater). Bream and Sac-a-Lait. My father loved fishing and made numerous trips to Butte La Rosse and even lived there just for the fishing in Lake Henderson, Louisiana.

Collecting:
Collections of anything that Wendell took interest in. If he was collecting matches, he would have 200 shipping boxes filled with different matches. If he collected model cars, he would have every car of that scale.

As children, his sons would have every toy that was available for whatever genre he wanted. One Christmas, his children (who wanted toy soldiers) awoke to a Christmas tree that had exploding bridges, every toy soldier kit that was available (at that time), parachute troops in the Christmas tree and hundreds of soldiers across the floor (arranged in armies), Wendell must have spent all of Christmas Eve setting this up for his sons.

Whatever his collection genre was, he was always the consummate collector. In latter years, with the introduction of the Internet, if he wanted a certain item, he would make sure that he received it (between e-mails and faxes).

At different times, he collected books, matches, soaps, miniture whiskey bottles, model planes, trains and automobiles."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Occupation: Industrial Sales. "Industrial Sales:

Choctaw Incorporated
U.S. Steel Corporation (Gerrard Strapping Division).
Saint Regis Paper Company (Panelyte Division).
Crossett Lumber Company (Purchased by Georgia-Pacific Corp.)
Saint Regis Paper Company (Panelyte Division).
Tennessee Flake Board Corporation
Self Employed
Louisiana Pacific Corporation
Georgia Pacific Corporation (Retired from).
During retirement, Wendell Trest kept selling for GH&L.

After over 18 moves with his family, Wendell Trest says that the reason he did not want to make a career out of the military is that he did not want to relocate his family very many times! Relocation gave his children the background they needed to make careers out of the military and petroleum industry.

His children were amazed, latter in life, at what Wendell achieved at such young ages. When they looked back, at their present ages, at what he had accomplished, at the same age, they were amazed at his accomplishments.

At a sales meeting, his sales manager stated that if his (the sales manager) life depended on getting an order, he would send Wendell to get it.

Wendell Trest was the kind of person who enjoyed people and relished the relationships that he was able to establish over the years."
(Warren Graham Trest)

Wendell married Neddie Graham ² on 31 Aug 1950 in Roxie, Mississippi.

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Warner Neil Trest (born on 20 Jun 1952 Jackson, Mississippi)

1        ii.   Warren Graham Trest (born on 8 Oct 1957 Memphis, Tennessee)

        iii.   Wayne Hamilton Trest (born on 18 Jan 1960 Kalamazoo, Michigan)

Wendell next married Louise Long in Lafayette, Louisiana.

3. Neddie Graham,^2,5 daughter of Ned Bufkin Graham and Carrie Edith Collier , was born on 4 Feb 1932 in Roxie, Mississippi, died on 10 Mar 1992 in Jackson, Mississippi, at age 60, and was buried in 1992 in Lafayette Memorial Park, Lafayette, Louisiana ³.^,4

Noted events in her life were:

• Origin of the name Neddie: ⁶ "Mom always told the story that the way she got the name of Neddie was that they thought they were having a son that they would name Ned. When Mom was born and they found out they had a daughter instead, Grandfather named her Neddie for the fact that "Ned" had "Died".

She stated once, to a friend of mine, that she always hated her name because it made her sound so country. Dad lowered his glasses, looked over at her and stated, Hell Neddie, they are going to see Roxie tomorrow." There was not a whole lot to Roxie. The same friend of mine, after meeting her for the first time, made the comment that he didn't care if her name was Queen Elizabeth, she was real, she was sweet, but she was country. He meant this as the a compliment concerning her honesty and straightforwardness. Plus, we had just left an "all you can eat catfish house" and she had matched him fish-for-fish."
(Warren Trest)

• Neddie Trest at age 6: Roxie, Franklin County, Mississippi. "This is a picture of my mother at age 6 (1938) in Roxie, Mississippi. This picture would have been made about the time that her father died."
(Warren Trest)

• Neddie Trest at age 8: "This is a picture of my mother at age 8 (1940) in Roxie, Mississippi."
(Warren Trest)

• Marriage Notes: Roxie, Mississippi. "Neddie married Wendell Trest on August 31, 1950 in Roxie, Mississippi by Reverend Green, a Baptist Minister."

• General Memories: ¹ "During her eulogy, the Reverend Sandra Lynn Trest stated, "not only was she willing to laugh, she was willing to laugh about herself." This is a rare trait.

Her son, Warren, remembers that she would sit through a movie, knowing that she did not like it, just for the fact that she was spending that two hours with her child, with her only concern being, "Did you enjoy it?". It was never that SHE didn't enjoy it.

She had a smile and a laugh that was contagious. When the Graham sisters got together, you could not help but laugh when the Graham stories were told. Of all the sisters, she was the innocent one, the one who would ask, "Do they really do that?"

Neddie was the type of person that during a family get-to-gether would cook, clean and wait on everybody else. Her enjoyment was that everybody else was happy, well fed and content. This was her joy!

On the last mothers day that she was with us, she was just so happy to have her "boys" with her (one in the Petroleum Industry and one in the Military). She stated that all she wanted was "breakfast in bed". She stated that she did not want any presents, she was happy in just having her sons home at one time. She awoke hours before anybody else, combed her hair and waited (poised) in bed. After a few hours, she cleared her throat and exclaimed to all, "Hey, I'm ready!" Her sons had an empty box wrapped (besides her true gift). When she unwrapped the empty package, and her sons told her that they had given her exactly what she had wanted, their was not a drop of disappointment in her, she was just happy to have her "boys" with her. This is not to say the same of our father (who had given us the money to pay for her mother's day gift and exclaimed, "Hell, I knew that I should not have trusted them with that money!"). All worked out and this was the type of family reunion that always ensued. At Christmas, she just wanted to make sure that EVERYONE else got what they wanted before she would start (after much encouragement) to open her own gifts.

If there was every a lamb of God and a pure kindred spirit, it was Neddie Trest."
(Warren Trest)

• Death: ¹ "Neddie Graham Trest went into the hospital on her 60th birthday and was diagnosed with cancer. She passed away on Mar. 10, 1992 in Baptist Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi and was buried in Lafayette Memorial Park in Lafayette, Louisiana."
(Warren G. Trest)

• Tombstone: "In the Lafayette Memorial Park, Neddie Trest's tombstone reads:

NEDDIE TREST
Beloved Wife and Mother
Feb 4, 1932 - Mar 10, 1992"

Neddie married Wendell Hamilton Trest on 31 Aug 1950 in Roxie, Mississippi.

  Third Generation  

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4. Warner Alexander Trest, son of William John Trest and Flora Elizabeth McGill Ferguson , was born on 14 Nov 1904 in Sandersville, Jones County, Mississippi, died on 9 Feb 1988 in Tupelo, Mississippi, at age 83, and was buried in 1988 in Haughton Memorial Park, Amory, Mississippi.

Noted events in his life were:

• Census: 1910 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, Beat 3, 1910, Jones County, Mississippi. ⁷ "Jones County, Mississippi, Beat 3 - Warner Trest is listed as age 5 (youngest child) living with his father, William J. (age 50), mother, Mack E (age 50), Mary E. (age 20), Hugh L. (age 15), Nancie L. (age 13), Walter C. (age 11), and Ella V. (age 8)."

• Childhood: Jones County, Mississippi. "His father, WIlliam John, was always described as a kind man and a good man. Being the youngest child, it is easy to picture his father giving him much attention and affection throughout his life. He lost his youngest sister at 17 years old. He was the last child at home (in the 1920 census) and was the witness for both his mother and father's death certificates."
(Warren G. Trest)

• Census: 1920 U.S. Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 1920, Jones County, Mississippi. ⁸ "Jones County, Mississippi - Warner is listed as the only child still at home (age 15) with his Father, W.J., and Mother, M.E., who are both listed at 60 years old."

• Religion: Presbyterian. Religion - Presbyterian

"Grandfather always said the most beautiful prayers and blessings, in Kings English. You never, ever touched your food (breakfast through dinner) until he said the family blessing, with his wife's hand in his hand in prayer. To this day, my meal blessings are based on the memories of blessings given by my grandfather. As family patriarch, every special meal's blessing was given by Grandfather when the family got together. I will always remember the way he said his blessings and can only attempt to match the meaning of each and every blessing he gave."
(Warren Graham Trest)

Warner A. Trest is listed as Superintendent of Sunday School in the Louisville, Mississippi Presbyterian Church in 1941-1942..

"Mr. W.A. Trest continues his faithful leadership as Superintendent of the Sunday School 1941 - 1942"
(Mrs. Annie B. Davis - Church Historian in the Louisville, Mississippi Presbyterian Church Newsletter)

His daughter, Sandra Lynn Trest, is an ordained Presbyterian Minister.

"When he and Ersell would put bourbon in the bourbon balls or spice cakes around Christmas, they would pull the blinds down so that the neighbors could not see.

He would not abide any infidelity or wrongdoing. If a brother or family member divorced because of infidelity, he would have nothing to do with them in the future. Once, a brother, as the story goes, sold one of grandfather's mules and he would not talk to him again."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Hobbies: Hunting and Fishing. ¹ (Fishing and Hunting)

"He would make two trips to Sandersville, Mississippi (the old Trest homestead in Jones County) every year. Once in the spring to fish and once in the fall to hunt at the old Trest home, staying with his sister "Bell" and her family."
(Wendell Hamilton Trest)

"Grandfather would take me fishing for bream when I was visiting with him. He would use a little outboard motor (with a Jon Boat) to get us near his spot and then paddle the rest of the way in. He would fish with a fly-rod for bream or pearch. I remember that my father had put a knife in my tackle box and that my grandfather pulled it out and told me the merits of the knife. My grandfather showed me how to fly-fish and gave my brother his first shotgun (at Lake Tia-Kota) on his 16th birthday. During that same trip, my grandfather interested me in fishing, for the rest of my life, by stating that I had the patience of a fisherman one evening, after watching me, at the end of a fishing dock all day. This meant a lot to me. There was one thing about grandfather, when he said something, it was not pretentious and meant everything to his children and grandchildren.

Grandfather was a very proud man. He was very stoic and old world. He didn't want to go into much geneology because he was afraid that he would find a "pirate" in the family. During the late 1970's, I would not visit grandfather, for a year or so, because I had a beard and long hair. I knew that this would only upset him.

After retirement, he would carve walking sticks out of dogwood saplings. When he walked through the woods, he could tell you the name of every tree and plant."
(Warren Graham Trest)

"After retirment, some of his most enjoyable times were fishing trips to Butte La Rose, Louisiana where he would stay at Nell "Graham" Standefer's house on the bayou and fish for bream or sac-a-lait."
(Wendell Hamilton Trest)

• Occupation: District Storekeeper for Gulf, Mobil and Ohio Railroad. (District Storekeeper for G.M.&O. Railroad)

"Grandfather was a District Storekeeper for the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad. He worked for G.M.&O for 47 years as an accountant. The amazing thing was that he was that he held a senior accountant position for 47 years for G.M.&O., with less than a high school education. This type of position, today, would require a degree in Accounting. He started with the railroad in Louisville, Mississippi and retired in Jackson, Tennessee."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Education: ¹ "Grandfather went through the grades of school that were available to him at the time (around the 8th grade). Yet, he had the most beautiful penmanship and was District Storekeeper (Senior Accountant) for the G.M.& O. Railroad."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Letters: Letter to his parents, 21 Mar 1929, Louisville, Mississippi. The following is a letter written to his parents on Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad Company Letterhead:

"Louisville, Miss.
March 21, 1929

Dear Mother and Dad:

We recieved your letter two or three days ago, and we were, as usual, glad to hear from you all, and we were also glad to learn that Dad is improving.

All here, except Titus, are doing nicely. Titus has been in bed for two days with the "flu", but is improving fast. If no unforseen complications arise, we feel sure that he will be up within the next day or two.

We are having some rainy, bad weather here. It has been raining all morning, and no prospects of any change in the near future.

Yes, Little Wendell is as fine as ever. It seems that he is growing more and more each day. He spends a large portion of his time jabbering and playing with his little playthings. I know that theere is none sweeter than he.

Will close for this time, hoping to hear from you all at an early date.

Love and all good wishes from the children.

Warner, Ersell and Wendell"

• Hospital: Respritory Problems, 1944-1945, Colorado Springs, Colorado. "Grandfather was sent to Colorado Springs, Colorado somewhere around 1944 or 1945, according to my father. They thought that he may have tuberculosis which he did not and sent him to Colorado for approximately 6 months. Uncle Walter, Warner's brother, stayed with the children in Mississippi while he was in Colorado"
(Warren Graham Trest)

"Warner dear:
Just being near you always gives me strength to live each day. My first thought, my first love, has always been you and only you.
A woman never had a better husband or children ever had a better daddy than you have been to us. Our love to you: Ersell"
(Letter written on the back of the picture of Grandfather in Colorado by Ersell Trest)

• Hospital: ¹ "While Warner A. Trest was in Colorado, my father's Uncle Walter (Warner's brother) stayed in the Trest home and raised the children while Warner was recuperating.

My father has told me many times of how much everyone loved "Uncle Walter". He said that he was always a happy man, always jovial, and always had a smile. According to my father, Walter was one of my granfather's favorites and that all the family and children, loved him."
(Warren Trest)

• Residence: "Warner Trest moved from Sandersville, Jones County, Mississippi to Louisville, Mississippi and lived with Elizabeth (Auntie) Trest and Titus Parks. He hired on with G.M.&N. Railroad (later to become G.M.&O. and then Illinois Central Gulf). After he married Ersell Miller, they moved in with Hugh Lamar Trest and Eva Trest. Wendell was born in Hugh's house.

They had multiple homes in Winston County. Illinois Central closed the office in Louisville and Warner moved to Jackson, Tennessee until retirement. After retirement, Warner and Ersell moved to Tupelo, Louisville, Amory (across the street from Sandra and Charles Sisson (daughter and son-in-law). They moved to Jackson with Wendell and Neddie Trest (son and daughter-in-law) and then to Tupelo, Mississippi."
(Wendell Trest)

• Automobiles: Grandfather's Preference. "Grandfather loved a Chrysler! He had a black Chrysler for years and years that was always spick and span. When he traded it in, for another Chrysler, they put it inside the dealer showroom on display."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Obituary: Newspaper Obituaries, 1988. NEWSPAPER OBITUARIES:

TREST
"Warner Alexander Trest, 83, died Tuesday at the North Mississippi Medical Center after a short illness. He was born and reared in Sandersville, and lived in Louisville and Amory before moving to Tupelo in 1986. He was a retired district storekeeper for the Gulf, Mobil and Ohio Railroad with 47 years service and a member of the Presbyterian church. Services will be at 2:00 PM today at Pickle Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Jim Dollar and the Rev. Glenn Miller officiating. Burial will be in Haughton Memorial Park. Survivors include his wife, Lillian Ersell Miller Trest of Tupelo; two sons, Wendell H. Trest of Jackson and Warren A. Trest of Mongomery, Ala.; one daughter, the Rev. Sandra Lynne Sisson of Amory; seven grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Max Word, Herbert Harold Miller, Jess Dunlap, Herschel Lockhart, Charles A. Sisson and Ed Sisson."
(Newspaper Article - Unknown Source).

WARNER ALEXANDER TREST
"Tupelo - Warner Alexander Trest, 83, died Feb. 9, 1988 in Tupelo. Services are 2 PM today at Pickles Funeral Home in Amory with burial in Haughton Memorial Park. Mr. Warner, a Sandersville native, had also lived in Louisville and Amory. He was a retired district storekeeper for the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad. He was a Presbyterian. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lillian Miller Trest; two sons, Wendell H. Trest of Jackson and Warner A. Trest of Montgomery; daughter, the Rev. Sandra Sisson of Amory; and seven grandchildren."
(Newspaper Article - Unknown Source).

• Funeral: Funeral Notice, 1988, Haughton Memorial Park, Amory, Mississippi. ⁹ "In Memory of: Warner Alexander Trest
Born: November 14, 1904, Sandersville, Mississippi
Date of Death: February 9, 1988 in Tupelo, Mississippi
Services from: E.E. Pickle Funeral Home Chapel
Clergymen Officiating: Rev. Jim Dollar and Rev. Glenn Miller
Final Resting Place: Haughton Memorial Park
[Followed by the Twenty-Third Psalm]"
(Funeral Notice from E.E. Pickle Funeral home, Amory, Mississippi)

Warner married Lillian Ersell Miller on 12 Jul 1926 in Philadelphia, Neshoba County, Mississippi.¹⁰

Children from this marriage were:

2         i.   Wendell Hamilton Trest (born on 13 Oct 1928 Louisville, Mississippi)

         ii.   Warren Alexander Trest (born on 13 Feb 1931 Louisville, Mississippi)

        iii.   Sandra Lynn Trest (born on 28 Jul 1940)

5. Lillian Ersell Miller, daughter of John Henry Miller and Pennetta Agnes Clark , was born on 6 Feb 1904 in Noxapater, Winston County, Mississippi,¹¹ died on 14 Jul 1989 in Tupelo, Mississippi, at age 85, and was buried on 17 Jul 1989 in Haughton Memorial Park, Amory, Mississippi.

Noted events in her life were:

• Place of Birth: Noxapater, Winston County, Mississippi, 1904, Noxapater, Mississippi. ¹¹ "Lillian Ersell Miller was born in 1904 at Noxapater, Mississippi, at the home of her Grandfather Clark. She was a homemaker and teacher."
(The Hugenot Millers - Page 322)

"If she was born in Noxapater, they must have been with her grandmother, since her grandfather had died by 1904."
(Warren G. Trest)

• Census: 1920 US Census, Neshoba County, Mississippi, 1920, Philadelphia, Neshoba County, Mississippi. ¹² Ersell is listed as age 16 and living with her parents, John H., age 37, and Agnes, age 35. Also listed are a brother Sam, age 14, brother Herbert, age 12, sister Willie, age 10, and sister Doris, age 1year and 11 months. John H. Miller's occupation is listed as Drygoods Salesman.
(Page 13-A)

(Note: 4 children had already passed away before the 1920 census. This is why there is such a gap between Willie and Doris.)

• Picture of Lillian Ersell Miller Trest: Young Teens, Louisville, Mississippi. "This picture was supplied by my Uncle Warren. It is a picture of Lillian Ersell Miller in her early teens. It was taken at the Scroggins Studios in Louisville, Mississippi. You can see facial features that are the same as her father in this picture."
(Warren Trest)

• Marriage: Marriage to Warner Alexander Trest, 12 Jul 1926, Philadelphia, Neshoba County, Mississippi. ¹⁰ "Warner Alexander Trest of Sandersville, Mississippi and Lillian Ersell Miller of Philadelphia, Mississippi were by me united in matrimony according to the ordinance of God and the laws of Mississippi at Philadelphia, Mississippi on the 12th day of July in the year of our Lord 1926."
(Reverend M.R. Jones - Methodist Minister)

"Witnesses: Mrs. S.E. Miller (My grandmother), my mother, my father, sisters Doris and Willie, brothers Glenn and Cooper and friend and neighbor, Mrs. L.J. Storey."
(Lillian Ersell Miller)

"I was married at home."
(Lillian Ersell Miller)

• Occupation: School Teacher. ¹ "Grandmother was a school teacher until she married Grandfather. She use to wear a little ruby ring that her father had given her when she became a schoolteacher. After that, she was a wife and mother."
(Warren Graham Trest)

"Lillian Ersell Miller (Trest) was "the kindest person you would ever meet". She gave all of her time to her family.

She said that one of the worst things she ever did as a child was to pluck the feathers off a chicken and release it from under the house while the minister was visiting "Papa" Miller on the front porch. She told Herbert and Sam, her younger brothers, that if they would catch the chicken, she would pluck it. She would always giggle, with her hand over her mouth, when telling this story!

Every grandchild (and wives of grandchildren) loved "Grandma" Trest. When she told her stories of growing up and her adult years, they would keep you enthralled. She was the "keeper" of family history. She was always very sweet and soft spoken but had a hidden "liberated woman spirit" that came out in her latter years. Everyone loved her!

As children, when we would visit, it was always nice to spend the day with her in the kitchen. She would give us change to go to the 5 and 10 cent store to buy something to occupy our extra time. It seems like she spent the day preparing for Grandfather's return in the evening.

The little smile that is on her face in pictures was always present. Nobody ever remembers her showing anger or raising her voice.

Once, she got mad at her husband because of something that she "thought" he may have done. Sitting up in bed, she slapped him while he slept and then quickly laid back down. Warner rolled over and said, "Ersell, you must have had a nightmare, because you just hit me".

"Oh. I'm sorry, go back to sleep now" she told him as she went back to sleep, patting him on the back but content that she had retaliated.

When she was pregnant with her youngest child, they moved to a boarding house in Laurel, Mississippi until Sandra was born. Ersell said that she use to hold a newspaper in front of her and go out to the front porch for some sun in the afternoons. When asked why she held a newspaper in front of her, she meekly explained, "If somebody would have seen me, they would have known what we had been doing and that was none of their business!" With Grandma, that was logic that you could not debate!

She was an outstanding cook. Most of the day was spent in the kitchen. She kept my grandfather's childhood lunch pail on the kitchen window sill. She would cook and talk throughout the day until Grandfather returned from work. If children showed up unannounced, she would make a meal (out of a little of this and a little of that) that would leave everyone full when they left the table. She made drop biscuits that nobody could match.

Grandmother was the consumate grandmother. She was proud, religious, the teller of family history, the keeper of old world pride, funny and full of love. She was, in all ways, Grandma Trest. I have never heard a bad word about her. She was truely a sweet soul."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Hospital: 1948. ¹ "Ersell Miller Trest survived a massive mastectomy in 1948, at Jackson, Mississippi, when it was still a new and very radical procedure."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Picture of Lillian Ersell Miller Trest: "This picture was supplied from my Uncle Warren. It is a picture of Lillian Ersell Miller Trest that was photographed at the Lynn-Hall Studios, Philadelphia, Mississippi."
(Wrren Graham Trest)

• Letters: 1944 or 1945. "Warner dear:
Just being near you always gives me strength to live each day. My first thought, my first love, has always been you and only you.
A woman never had a better husband or children ever had a better daddy than you have been to us. Our love to you: Ersell"
(Letter written on the back of the picture of Grandfather in Colorado by Ersell Trest)

• Religion: ¹ Methodist/Presbyterian

"Grandmother's father was a Methodist lay minister. She was very devout, old world and proper. She told me that her first beer (alcohol) was at my first wedding in 1978. She became a Presbyterian after marrage to grandfather.

When Grandmother would put bourbon in her bourbon balls or spice cakes around Christmas, they would pull the blinds down so the neighbors would not see.

Grandmother told the story of her and grandfathers first date. They double dated and when they picked grandmother up, she smelled alcohol on grandfather's breath. She asked him if he had been drinking and he said, "Yes, I had one drink with the boys at the boarding house." She told him, "Well, you can take me home, because I will not go out with any man who indulges.

Her daughter, Sandra is an ordained Presbyterian Minister."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Funeral: 17 Jul 1989, Amory, Mississippi. ⁹ "In Memory of Mrs Lillian Ersell Trest.
Born: February 6, 1904, Philadelphia, Mississippi
Date of Death: July 14, 1989, Tupelo, Mississippi
Services From: E.E. Pickle Funeral Home Chapel, July 17, 1989
Clergyman Officiating: Rev. Jim Dollar and Rev. Glenn Miller
Final Resting Place: Haughton Memorial Park
Funeral Conducted By: E.E. Pickle Funeral Home"
(E.E. Pickle Funeral Home Notice)

Lillian married Warner Alexander Trest on 12 Jul 1926 in Philadelphia, Neshoba County, Mississippi.¹⁰

6. Ned Bufkin Graham,^2,5 son of Claudius Claborne Graham and Clara Dodd Bufkin , was born on 15 Feb 1887 in Roxie, Franklin County, Mississippi,^13,14 died on 20 Jul 1938, at age 51, and was buried in Old Union Baptist Chruch, Franklin County, Roxie, MS.

Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Cafe Owner, Constable, Ice House Owner and Saw Mill Worker. ¹ "Ned Graham ran an ice house and cafe until his death. Carrie Graham started running the boarding house (and cafe) until her death. Ned also had various other businesses such as a cab company (car and a driver) that would take people from the Roxie Train Station to Natchez."

"He is also listed in the 1920 Census as a Mill Man for a Saw Mill. In the 1910 Census, he is listed as a Loader at a Tie Mill (Saw Mill).

Ned Graham was also a constable or marshall. There was a two room jail house in the property behind his house, near the water tower. One room was for the whites and one room was for the colored."
(Warren Trest)

• Military: ¹⁴ "Ned Bufkin Graham shows in the WWI Civilian Draft Records as being born on 15 Feb, 1887 in Roxie, Mississippi, Franklin County."
(WWI Civilian Draft Records)

• Census: 1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1900. ¹⁵ "The Claude Graham family is listed in the 1900 US Census, Franklin COunty, Mississippi, Beat 2 as follows:

Claude Graham - head of family - born Jan, 1860 - age 40 - all family born in MS. - Farmer
Clara - wife - born Mar, 1868 - age 32 - all family born in MS.
Claudia - daughter - born Jan, 1885 - age 15
Ned - son - born Feb, 1887 - age 13
Betty - daughter - born Dec, 1889 - age 10
Edith - daughter - born Dec, 1892 - age 7
Katie - daughter - born May, 1897 - age 3
David - son - born Sep, 1898 - age 1 (This should have been Dewitt)"
(1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Beat 2 - Page B? - sheet 24)

• Census: 1910 US Census, Jefferson County, Mississippi, 1910. ¹⁶ "Clara Graham is shown in the 1910 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi - Beat 2 with her children (her husband died in 1903). She is listed as follows:

Clara D. Graham - Head - widowed - age 42 - all family from Mississippi - Farmer
Ned B. Graham - son - age 22 - Lumber Manufacturer
Edith M. - daughter - age 18
Kate L. - daughter - age 13
Dewitt C. - son - age 11"
(1910 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi - page 17-A)

• Census: 1920 US Census, Claiborne County, Mississippi, 1920. ¹⁷ "The Ned Graham family is listed in the 1920 US Census, Claiborne County, Mississippi, Beat 2 as follows:

B. Ned Graham, age 33, Occupation - Mill Man - Saw Mill
Carrie - wife - age 26
Pauline - daughter - age 3 1/2
C. Claude - son - age 2"
(1920 US Census, Claiborne County, Ms., Page 1B and 2A)

• Cartoon: 1923. "This is a postcard that Ned Graham drew and sent to Mr. Mack Menasco in Faraday, Louisiana (prior to a visit). It is posted with a one cent stamp and is post marked Dec. 23, 1923 in Roxie, Mississippi. I would assume that Ned wanted to have a drink with Mack Menasco when he got there."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Census: 1930 US Census, Franklin County, Missississippi, 1930. ¹⁸ "Ned Graham is shown in the 1930 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi (Roxie District) as owning a cafe and is listed with his family as follows:

Ned Graham -age 40 - Personal worth $1500 - born in Mississippi - both parents born in Mississippi - Cafe Owner
Carrie - age 39 - born in Mississippi - both parents born in Mississippi
Pauline - age 13
Claude - age 9
Roy - age 8
Fay - age 5
Nell - age 3 1/2
Joy (Joyce) - age 2 and 11 months
(Blank) - age (age 2 months) (This would have been Billie Jean)

Newman Collier - father in law - age 63 - all births in Mississippi
Katherine - mother in law - age 58 - all births in Mississippi
Clara - sister in law - age 20
(1930 US Census, Franklin County, Roxie Village, District 1, Mississippi - page 3-A)

• Grandfathers Dog: 1938. ⁶ "There was a verbal family history story that Grandfather had an old cur dog that followed his funeral procession to the graveyard. They had to take the dog from Ned's grave and tied him up in the back yard of the Graham home. He howled the first night and got untied from the rope. They found him laying next to Grandfather's grave, dead from grief the following day."
(Warren Trest)

Ned married Carrie Edith Collier ² on 30 Jun 1911 in Franklin County, MS..²

Marriage Notes: [graves 2002 good.FBK]

(volume 4 page 158

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Pauline Graham (born on 31 Jul 1916 - died in 2002 in Jackson, Mississippi)

         ii.   Claude Claiborn Graham (born on 2 Jul 1918 - died on 19 Sep 1977)

        iii.   Roy Edwin Graham (born on 27 Mar 1921 - died on 17 Aug 1987 , buried in Deridder, La.)

         iv.   Fay Marie Graham (born on 21 Nov 1923 Roxie, Franklin County, MS. - died on 30 Oct 1981 in Lafayette, La.)

          v.   Nell Bufkin Graham (born on 21 Sep 1926)

         vi.   Joyce Graham (born on 3 Apr 1928)

        vii.   Billie Jean Graham (born on 19 Jan 1930)

3      viii.   Neddie Graham (born on 4 Feb 1932 Roxie, Mississippi - died on 10 Mar 1992 in Jackson, Mississippi)

7. Carrie Edith Collier,^2,5 daughter of John Newman Collier and Catherine Lula Graves , was born on 25 Feb 1893, died on 5 Jul 1964 in Roxie, Mississippi, at age 71, and was buried in Old Union Baptist Church, Franklin County, Roxie, Mississippi.

Noted events in her life were:

• Census: 1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1900. ¹⁵ "The John Newman Collier family is found in the 1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Beat 1, District 49, page 5-A as follows:

(Page 5-A)
John Collier - born Oct, 1866 - age 33 - married 8 years - Farmer
Catherine L. - wife - born Mar, 1884 - age 26 - 4 children - all alive
Carrie - saughter - born Feb, 1893 - age 7

(Page 5-B)
Lula - daughter - born Dec, 1894 - age 5
Myrtis - daughter - born Feb, 1896 - age 4
John H. - son - born Mar, 1900 - age 2 months

Willie E. McMillan - boarder - white male - born Sep, 1877 - age 22 - Farm Laborer"
(1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi - Page 5-A and B)

• Census: 1910 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1910. ¹⁹ "The John Newman Collier family is found in the 1910 US Census, Franklin County, District 61, Beat 1, page 20-A as follows:

John N. Collier - Head - age 40 - married 18 years - Farmer - all family from Mississippi
Clara L. - Wife - 6 children with all living - age 36
Carrie - daughter - age 17
Lula - daughter - age 15
Myrtis - daughter - age 13
John H. - son - age 10
Claude - son - age 2
Clara - daughter - age 5 months"
(1910 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

• Occupation: Boarding House Owner. ¹ "Grandmother worked as a bus driver and at the school cooking after her husband passed away. She turned her home into a boarding house for oilfield workers and railroad men. In the boarding house, she also had a kitchen and eating area where lunches and dinners were served. Downtown Roxie was a square with the railroad station in the middle of it. Grandmother's boarding house was on a corner across from the station.

I wa making a business call in Jackson, Mississippi in 2002 and the conversation came up about where we were from. One of the gentlemen stated that when he had just gotten out of college, he worked in Roxie for an oil company and the best fried chicken he ever ate was served at a boarding house by the train station. This was my grandmother's house!""
(Warren Trest)

• Memories of Carrie Graham: "Carrie Graham never drank, smoked or put up with behavior she thought was unbecoming.

My father said that he use to embarrass her by pulling up to a store (with his wife and Mrs. Graham) and saying that he would take two cokes and a beer for Mrs. Graham.

My father went in halves for a pool hall in Roxie, just to have something to do when he was visiting Roxie, and somebody almost got into a fight with him. Grandmother overheard the argument and made him sell his interest in the hall because she would not have a family member almost get into a fight in Roxie.

She was a very proud person and she drove the school bus and cooked at the Roxie School so that all her children would get lunches.

My Uncle Claude, who had a speech impediment, was trying to get in the door and was calling to his sister, Joyce, nicknamed "Baby" and kept saying, "Open up the door, baby." "OK, open up the "dod-damn door bay-bee." When Grandmother opened the door, even though he was a WWII veteren, he exclaimed, "Sorry Mama, I thought you was Bay-bee!" and had to suffer her anger at that type of language.

EVERYONE who remembers her has nothing but good things to say about her. I have never heard a negative comment about Carrie Graham."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Roxie School: "This is a picture (from a Newspaper Article) showing the children outside the Roxie School in 1930. Aunt Fay is the sixth from the left on the first row. Uncle Roy is on the far right on the fourth row and Uncle Claude is the second from the left on the top row."
(Warren Trest)

• World War II: ²⁰ "Frankie and Ozell stayed with Carrie Graham during the war while Clude and Roy were away."
(William Hadsky)

"Roy and Claude fought in World War II. Claude came back shell shocked after fighting in the European Theater."

• Polly the Parrot: ¹ "Grandmother had a parrot named Polly that stayed on the L-shaped screen porch that went down the front and around one side of the boarding house. Railroad workers had taught the parrot to "curse" in three languages.

Polly was given to Grandmother by her daughter, Billie Jean Graham.

Once, my brother kept hitting Polly with a Tootsie Roll Pop. Polly whistled him over and said that she wanted a cracker. He stuck his nose near the cage and she latched on and laughed after he went running in with a bloody nose.

Polly lived on after Grandmother's death and died in the home of Nell Bufkin Graham due to pesticides in the seed she was given."
(Warren Trest)

• Color Photograph: Roxie, Franklin County, Mississippi. "This photograph was supplied from Billie Jean Graham and is the only color photograph I remember seeing of my grandmother."
(Warren Graham Trest)

Carrie married Ned Bufkin Graham ² on 30 Jun 1911 in Franklin County, MS..²

  Fourth Generation  

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8. William John Trest, son of Samuel Caper Trest and Eleanor Elizabeth McGilvray , was born on 12 Nov 1859 in Jones County, Mississippi,²¹ died on 4 Apr 1929 in Jones County, Mississippi, at age 69, and was buried in Lancaster Cemetary, Jones County, Mississippi. The cause of his death was heart Failure. Another name for William was Billy Trest.

Noted events in his life were:

• Census: 1860 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 1860, Jones County, Mississippi. ²² "William Trest is listed in the 1860 Census with his mother and father and is 11 months old. His father will soon leave for years to fight in the Civil War."
(1860 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi - Page 34)

• Census: 1870 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 1870, Jones County, Mississippi. "The Samuel Caper Trest family is listed in the 1870 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi (Ellisville PO area) as follows:

Samuel C. Trest - age 37 - Occupation Teacher - value of Real Estate - $80 - value of personal estate - $325
Elenor - age 25 - keeping house
William - age 10
Angus - age 8
Sarah - age 7
Joseph - age 2
Colon - age 3 months

They also have a white female, Josephine Creel - age 28 - without occupation and a William W Creel - age 2 - at Samuel's home."
(Page 3 - Township No. 6)

• Census 1880: 1880, Jones County, Mississippi. ²³ "William John Trest is listed in the 1880 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi and is 20 years old and a farmer by trade. He is still living with his Mother and Father (Samuel Caper Trest and Eleanor Trest, along with 5 brothers and 1 sister).

Birth Year 1860. Birthplace MS. Age 2.0 Occupation Farming. Race W.( White). Head of Household S. C. TREST. Relation Son. Father's Birthplace AL. Mother's Birthplace MS. "
(Page 331)

• Occupation: Farmer. ¹ "William John Trest was a farmer by trade according to census records and his newspaper obituary."
(Warren Trest)

• Land: 3 Jun 1891, Jones County, Mississippi. ^1,24 "William J. Trest bought 160 acres of land in the Jackson, Mississippi Land Office on June 3, 1891. Document number is 4288. These land sections were SESE, St. Stephens Base Line, Township 9N, Range 10 W, Sections 4, 9 and 9."
(Mississippi Land Records)

"In pictures of he and his wife, they are usually standing in front of their home in Jones County, Mississippi. It appears to have a long front porch with rockers on it and most pictures are taken in front of a tree in the front yard. My father thinks that he remembers that tree as a pecan tree."
(Warren Graham Trest)

"According to my father's memories, William John Trest's land was outside Sandersville and Erata. You would have taken Pleasant Grove Road (South east) out of Sandersville to Red Hill Crossing Road. You would turn left onto Red Hill Crossing (or Ned Dillard Road). In the enclosed picture, there was a church about where the "V" in Pleasant Grove is located. The William John Trest home was on the south side of the road (first house) when you turned onto Red Hill Florence Rd. It would be located about where the "R" in Pleasant Grove Rd. is located.

Dad said the barn was across the road (North) of where the homestead was. Further up the road at the corner of Steven's Drive and Ned Dillard Road was "Aunt Bell's" house. Dad said that the Steven's had a daughter that use to come down and play when they were there. This is also where the McLaurins now live. Further up the road would have been the John Ferguson III home."
(Warren Graham Trest from Wendell Trest)

• Census: 1900, Jones County, Mississippi. ²⁵ "William Trest is listed in the 1900 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi records as 40 years old and a Farmer by trade. His wife, "Mack" is listed as 40 years old. They are listed with the following children still at home: Daughter Lucille, age 17, Son Oscar, age 14, Daughter Bell, age 13, Son Johnnie, age 12, Daughter Mary, age 10, Son Boyce, age 7, Son Hugh, age 5, Daughter Nancy L, age 3 and Son Walter, age 7 months. They are being visted by an Aunt, "Betey" McGill, age 85."
(Page 135-A)

• Census: 1910, Jones County, Mississippi. "Jones County, Mississippi, Beat 3 - William J. Trest (age 50) is living with his wife, Mack E (age 50), Mary E. (age 20), Hugh L. (age 15), Nancie L. (age 13), Walter C. (age 11), Ella V. (age 8) and Warner (age 5). There is also a sister in law staying with them, L. E. Ferguson (age 38)."

• Letters: Letter to Daughter, 28 Sep 1916, Sandersville, Jones County, Mississippi. ¹ The following is letter from William J. Trest to his daughter. It is believed to be to Mary Elizabeth who was to marry Titus Parks.

"Sandersville, Miss.
Sept. 28th 1916

Dear Daughter:

Your letter recieved and in reply I will say I have nothing to say against your getting married as I feel that I have done all that I can ever do to.......(The rest of this paragraph is not descernable)....I will do the best I can. this leaves me not feeling well. I have a very bad cold and fevor and am taking medicine to prevent having fevor as there is lots of chills and fevor over the country. Ransom is having fevor and night chills. I thought night before last, it sure had me beat. I hope it is nothing more than cold. All the rest is about like you left them except Nancie and Ella, they are getting along all right. As I have no news of importance, I will close for this time.

Your Father
W.J. Trest"

(Letter to his daughter. The photocopy I had was in such disrepair, faded, that there was part of a paragraph that I could not bring out).

• Census: 1920, Jones County, Mississippi. ²⁶ "W.J. Trest is listed as 60 years old in the 1920 US, Jones County, Mississippi Census, along with his wife, M. E., also age 60. Warner is the only child still living at home at age 15."
(Page 21-A)

• General: ¹ "He was described as a "sweet and loving man" by Lillian Ersell Trest (Daughter in Law) in his latter years. She said that he would come up every afternoon and say, "Ersell let's take a walk". He would hold her by the hand and walk around the farm and to the neighbors with her. William John Trest was always described as a "good man" and a gentleman."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Preferred Names: ¹ "In most of what I have found, WIlliam John Trest is listed as "Billy", so it is assumed that he must have gone by Billy Trest. Flora Elizabeth Ferguson is usually listed as "Mack E.". so it is assumed that she must have gone by the name of Mack Trest."
(Warren G. Trest)

• Newspaper Article: Delinquent Poll Tax, 1909, Jones County, Mississippi. ²⁷ "WJ Trest is shown on an entire page of listings of delinquent poll taxes under Red hill in the April 1, 1909 Laurel Ledger Newspaper."
(Laurel Ledger)

• Memories from Roy Trest: ²⁸ "I was three years old when he died. We were living in the house with them. I was told that I was a sickly child, in fact had pneumonia, and they were afraid that I would not make it. As a result of that, I was his pet. They said that he carried me around on his shoulders everywhere he went. I have always been told, that he was a good man. He fell over a hog pen and broke some ribs and from that he took pneumonia. Of course, because there were no antibiotics, there was not much they could do for you back then."
(Roy Trest - memories of WIlliam John Trest in an e-mail to Warren Graham Trest)

• Obituary: Newspaper Obituary Article, Apr 1929. "W.J. "Billy" Trest, 70 year old resident of Sandersville died at his home at 03:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon. He had been a semi invalid for four or five years but became seriously ill only a short time ago.

Mr. Trest was a native of Jones County, having been born at Ovett and he spent the greater part of his life in Jones County, where he was engaged in farming.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Trest, six sons and three daughters: Warner and Hugh Trest of Louisville; Walter Trest of Soso; John Trest of Meridian; P.B. Trest of Birmingham; Mrs T.A. Parks of Louisville; Mrs. W.F. McLaurin of Sandersville and Mrs O.M. Underwood of Richton.

Among other surviving relatives are a number of grandchildren an, eight brothers and one sister. THe brothers are: J.A. Trest of Laurel, N.m.; J.R., R.F. and Albert of Sandersville; A.G. Trest of De-Funiack Springs, Fla.; Dan Trest of Carriere and Angus Trest of Wilmer, Alabama. The sister is Mrs. J.A. McGill of Sandersville.

Funeral services were held at the Ovett Church at 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon. Reverend Grayson L. Tucker, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Laurel, officiating. Interment followed in the McGilvery cemetary."
(Article from the Jones County Newspaper, April, 1929 - Title "W.J. Trest of Sandersville - Death Victim")

His death certificate states that the cause of death was heart failure and that he also had bladder desease and old age.

• Cemetery: Lancaster Cemetery, Jones County, Mississippi, 1929, Jones County, Mississippi. ²⁹ "William John Trest 1859-1929 is buried with his wife, Flora McGill Trest 1860-1936 in Lancaster Cemetary, Jones County, Mississippi. The cemetary is located in Sec. 13 & 24, Township 6 North, Range 11 West. He and his wife are buried in the same cemetary as his father and mother, Samuel Caper Trest and Eleanor McGilvray. None of his brothers or sisters are buried there."
(US GenWeb - Joni Jackson, MSWebGen Coordinator)

William married Flora Elizabeth McGill Ferguson on 11 Jan 1882 in Jones County, Mississippi.²¹

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Ida Lucille Trest (born on 27 Nov 1882 Jones County, Mississippi - died on 26 Jan 1911)

         ii.   William Oscar Trest (born on 14 Jul 1884 Jones County, Mississippi - died on 31 Mar 1966)

        iii.   Eleanor Catherine Isabelle Trest (born on 25 May 1886 Jones County, Mississippi - died on 28 Nov 1975)

         iv.   Samuel John Trest (born on 5 May 1888 Jones County, Mississippi - died on 4 May 1975)

          v.   Mary Elizabeth Trest (born on 16 Feb 1890 Jones County, Mississippi - died on 13 Nov 1979 in Louisville, Mississippi)

         vi.   Hector Camel Trest (born on 13 Jul 1891 - died on 13 Aug 1892)

        vii.   Porter Boyce Trest (born on 8 Jan 1893 Jones County, Mississippi - died on 15 Jul 1969 in Alabama)

       viii.   Hugh Lamar Trest (born on 16 Nov 1895 Jones County, Mississippi - died on 2 Jul 1959 in McComb, Pike County, Mississippi)

         ix.   Nancy Laura Trest (born on 12 Mar 1897 - died on 2 Feb 1976)

          x.   Walter Colan Trest (born on 31 Oct 1899 Jones County, Mississippi - died on 22 Nov 1975 in Forest County, Mississippi)

         xi.   Ella Victoria Trest (born on 18 Nov 1900 Jones County, Mississippi - died on 14 Oct 1918)

4       xii.   Warner Alexander Trest (born on 14 Nov 1904 Sandersville, Jones County, Mississippi - died on 9 Feb 1988 in Tupelo, Mississippi)

9. Flora Elizabeth McGill Ferguson, daughter of John Ferguson III and Catherine Boyce , was born on 10 Jan 1860 in Jones County, Mississippi, died on 2 Aug 1936 in Louisville, Mississippi, at age 76, and was buried in Lancaster Cemetary, Jones County, Mississippi. Another name for Flora was Mack E.

Noted events in her life were:

• Heraldry: "Fergus(s)on
The clan is most numerous in Argyllshire, but various branches can be found all over Scotland. In Perthshire there were the Fergusons of Dunfallandy and Balquhidder, in Aberdeenshire, the families of Kinmundy and Pitfour, in Fife the Fergusons of Craigdarroch, who claim their descent from the Prince of Galloway in the 12th Century. The principal family were the Fergusons of Perthshire (in the Highlands), with chiefship in the Dunfallandy family, where the chief took the name MacFhearghuis, 'son of Fergus'.

There appears to be a connection with the Fergusons of Strachur and the Fergusons of Kilkerran. The Kilkerrand were prominent in politics and in 1735, when Sir James, 2nd Baronet took the title of Lord of Kikerran he was also appointed Lord of Session. His son took the title Lord Hermand.

The Fergusons acquired the estate of Raith in Fife in the early 19th Century, and one of its members, General Sir Ronald C Ferguson, Colonel of the Cameron Highlanders recieved a medal from George III for his services in Portugal."
(www.camelotintl.com)

• Ancestry: Ferguson Ancestry. ³⁰ In the book, Family, School, Church and Pioneer History that was written by Reverend Angus Ferguson (Flora Elizabeth Ferguson's brother), his ancestry is as follows (which would be the same as hers):

"My father was John Ferguson, born Feb. 24, 1820, one mile southeast of Sandersville, Jones County, Mississippi, where he lived until he married. He died, May 3, 1884, and was buried in the family cemetery at the Ferguson old home, one mile southeast of Sandersville. This old cemetery is about one hundred yards east of where the old Ferguson home was built more than a century ago and stands today as a marker of the location of this old pioneer home. For the benifit of those it may concern, I may say that once upon a time back in the years, I gave a deed to the trustees of this cemetery for five acres of land embracing the cemetery, against all claims or trespasses of anyone forever.

My mother, Catherine Boyce, was born at Milledgeville, Georgia, April 26, 1838. She died, May 23, 1899, and was buried in the old Ferguson cemetery beside her husband, John Ferguson. John Ferguson and Catherine Boyce were married, March 12, 1857, by Reverend W.H. Singletary, a Presbyterian minister. They lived about two miles east of the old Ferguson home during their entire married life. My mother gave herself in faithful Christian service to this home of twelve children, all of whom grew to manhood and womanhood except one little sister, Harriet Lenora Vernon, who died with fever at the age of three years, three months, and twenty seven days. Mother was loved and esteemed by all who knew her.

My grandfather was John Ferguson, a native of Richmond County, North Carolina, and his father was MAlcolm Ferguson, a native of Scotland, and his father was John Ferguson, also a native of Scotland and connecting us with the Scottish Clans.

My father's grandmother, on father's side was Margaret McDonald. His great grandmother on father's side was Catherine Crawford. His grandmother on his mother's side was Elizabeth Walker. My grandmother on father's side was Flora McGill. My grandfather on father's side was Angus McGill, and his father was Archie McGill, and his father was Allen McGill.

My father's grandmother McGill was Annie Fairley. His great grandmother Fairley was Margaret Stewart, a member of the Royal family of England.

My father's great grandfather Fairley's mother was a Watson. His grandfather McGill's mother was a McCormick. They were all from Cantyre, Scotland, near a little town on the Clyde River named Granoch. As I understand, they all attended the same Presbyterian church. THey were all farmers except my great grandfather McGill, who was a weaver by trade."
(Family, School, Church, and Pioneer History - written by Angus Ferguson - pages 8 & 9)

• Migration: Mississippi Migration. ¹ "When you do research into Mississippi records, you find most of the family names that came from North or South Carolina into Mississippi. When you research into Jones County and Perry County, Mississippi, you will find the Trest, Ferguson, McGilvray, McSwain, Fairleys, McLeod and Smith families. All of the families came from the Carolinas and settled into Mississippi (within a county or two). These were mostly from the Scottish decent and seem to have traveled or migrated into Mississippi as clans."
(Warren G. Trest)

• Census: 1860 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 26 Oct 1860. ²² "John Ferguson and Robert Porter Boyce are listed in the 1860 US Census, Jones County, Ellisville Township, Mississippi as follows:

(house 400)
John Ferguson - age 40 - farmer - Value of Real Estate $3000 - Value of Personal Estate $1283 - born in Mississippi
Catherine - age 21 - born in Alabama
Angus - age 2 - male - born in Mississippi
Flora E. - age 1 - female - born in Mississippi

Robert P. Boyce - age 70 - mechanic - value of real estate $1000 - value of personal estate $50,500 - born in Delaware"
(1860 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi - page 61)

• Census: 1870 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 1870, Jones County, Mississippi. ³¹ "Flora E. Ferguson shows up in the 1870 census as 10 years old. The census of her family is as follows:
John Ferguson - age 50
Catherine - age (35 or 32?)
Angus - age 12
Flora E. - age 10
Margaret - age 8
Mary - age 7
John - age 6
Sarah - age 5
Laura - age 2
and Malcolm age (11 or 5?) months."
(1870 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi)

• Census: 1880 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 1880, Jones County, Mississippi. ³² "The John Ferguson family is listed as follows in the 1880 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi:

John - age 60 - Farmer - born in Mississippi - both parents born in N.C.
Catherine - (wife) age 40 - born in Alabama - father born in Del - Mother in NC
Angus - (son) age 27
F.E. - (daughter) age 20 (This would be Flora Elizabeth Ferguson)
M.E. - (daughter) age 19
M.C. - (daughter) age 18
J.C. - (son) age 16
S.A. - (daughter) age 15
Laura - (daughter) age 12
M.H. - (son) age 11
I.C. - (daughter) age 10
E.L. - (daughter) age 9
R.P.L. - (son) age 3

(Pages 9 & 10 - 330B)"
(1880 US Census)

• Marriage: 11 Jan 1882, Jones County, Mississippi. ¹ "Flora Elizabeth McGill Ferguson was 22 years old when she married William John Trest. They were together for 47 years and raised 11 children to maturity, even though Ella Victoria Trest died when she was only 17 years old, but was married at the time. Hector Camel Trest died in infancy. She would also outlive her daughter, Ida Lucille who died at the age of 28 years old."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Occupation: ¹ "Flora Elizabeth or Mack E. was a mother and wife and raised 11 children to maturity and one child who died as an infant. She lost her youngest daughter, Ella Victoria when she was newly wed and only seventeen years old."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Census: 1900, Jones County, Mississippi. ²⁵ "William Trest is listed in the 1900 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi records as 40 years old and a Farmer by trade. His wife, "Mack" is listed as 40 years old. They are listed with the following children still at home: Daughter Lucille, age 17, Son Oscar, age 14, Daughter Bell, age 13, Son Johnnie, age 12, Daughter Mary, age 10, Son Boyce, age 7, Son Hugh, age 5, Daughter Nancy L, age 3 and Son Walter, age 7 months. They are being visted by an Aunt, "Betey" McGill, age 85."
(Page 135-A)

• Census: 1910 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 1910, Jones County, Mississippi. ³³ "Jones County, Mississippi, Beat 3 - William J. Trest (age 50) is living with his wife, Mack E (age 50), Mary E. (age 20), Hugh L. (age 15), Nancie L. (age 13), Walter C. (age 11), Ella V. (age 8) and Warner (age 5). There is also a sister in law staying with them, L. E. Ferguson (age 38)."

• Census: 1920, Jones County, Mississippi. ⁸ "W.J. Trest is listed as 60 years old in the 1920 US, Jones County, Mississippi Census, along with his wife, M. E., also age 60. Warner is the only child still living at home at age 15."
(Page 21-A)

• Residence: 1936, Jones County, Mississippi. "After the loss of her husband, she lived with "Auntie" Mary Elizabeth Trest Parks (her fifth child) in Louisville, Mississippi until she became too sick to stay there. She then moved in with Warner Alexander Trest (her youngest child) and Ersell Miller Trest's home until she passed away in 1936 (in Louisville) and was buried with her husband in Jones County, Mississippi (near Ovett)."
(Wendell Trest)

• Cemetery: Lancaster Entry, Jones County, Mississippi. ²⁹ "William John Trest 1859-1929 is buried with his wife, Flora McGill Trest 1860-1936 in Lancaster Cemetary, Jones County, Mississippi. The cemetary is located in Sec. 13 & 24, Township 6 North, Range 11 West."
(US GenWeb - Joni Jackson, MSWebGen Coordinator)

Flora married William John Trest on 11 Jan 1882 in Jones County, Mississippi.²¹

10. John Henry Miller, son of Samuel Clark Miller and Sarah Elizabeth Cheatham , was born on 12 Jan 1882 in Philadelphia, Neshoba County, Mississippi, died on 10 Oct 1948 in Philadelphia, Neshoba County, Mississippi, at age 66, and was buried in Sandtown Methodist Church Cemetary, Neshoba County, Mississippi. Another name for John was Papa Miller.

Noted events in his life were:

• Death of Father: 1897, Neshoba County, Mississippi. ¹ "John Henry Miller was 15 years old when he was semi-orphaned by the death of his father in 1897. After reaching the age of maturity, as eldest son, he would take over the role of raising his family as male of the house. He would also suffer the loss of four children of his own at an early age."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• WWI Draft Registration: 1917-1918, Neshoba County, Mississippi. ³⁴ "John Henry Miller registered for the WWI draft in 1917-1918. He is listed with the birth date of 12-Jan-1882 and registered in Philadelphia, Mississippi."

• Census: 1920, Neshoba County, Mississippi. ¹² "The Millers are listed in the 1920 census as John H., age 37, and Agnes, age 38. Also listed are a daughter Ersell, age 16, son Sam, age 14, son Herbert, age 12, daughter Willie, age 10, and daughter Doris, age 1year and 11 months. John H. Miller's occupation is listed as Drygoods Salesman."
(Page 13-A)

(Note: 4 children had already passed away before the 1920 census. This is why there is such a gap between Willie and Doris.)

• Loss of Children: ¹¹ "They suffered the loss of four young children. Both are buried (The Millers) at Sandtown Methodist Church Cemetary, Philadelphia, Mississippi."
(The Huguenot Millers - Page 321)

""Pennetta Agnes (Clark) Miller and John Henry Miller would lose 4 children at early ages and 3 children within two months. They would lose Thomas at 2 days old, Moses in May, 1918 at age 7, and Mary Sue at age 4 and Annie Ruth at age 2 in Jun, 1918. This was during the Spanish Flu era. It is interesting to note that Pennetta Agnes Clark's parents also lost 4 children at early ages."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Census: 1930 US Census, Neshoba County, Mississippi, 1930, Neshoba County, Mississippi. ³⁵ "John H. Miller is listed in the 1930 US Census in Neshoba County, Mississippi. He is 48 years old and his wife, Nettie A., is listed as 49 years old. They have the following children still at home, a son, Sam R. (age 24), a daughter, Willie E. (age 20), a daughter, N. Doris (age 12), a son, Rush G. (age 10) and a son, C. Cooper (age 7).
(Page 6B)"
(1930 US Census, Neshoba County, Mississippi)

• Occupation: Storekeeper and Lay Minister. ^1,11 "John Henry Miller was a merchant, storekeeper and Lay Minister (Methodist)"
(Warren Graham Trest)

"Uncle John Henry Miller, the eldest, and his family lived in Philadelphia, Mississippi, at my earliest remembrance. He was a man of slight build and had dark hair and eyes. His daughter, Doris, was near the ages of my sister and me, and I recall some happy times we had visiting in their home. There was a grassy slope at the back of their house that was an ideal place for children to play. My most vivid impression of Uncle John Henry was his devotion to the church. He was very active in the Methodist Church and sometimes served as a lay minister."
(Margaret Miller White)

• Residence: ¹¹ "The John Henry Miller clan lived in North Pisgah, and Sandtown communities before moving to Philadelphia, Mississippi."
(The Huguenot Millers - Page 321)

John married Pennetta Agnes Clark ¹¹ on 24 Dec 1902 ¹¹.^,36

Children from this marriage were:

5         i.   Lillian Ersell Miller (born on 6 Feb 1904 Noxapater, Winston County, Mississippi - died on 14 Jul 1989 in Tupelo, Mississippi)

         ii.   Samuel Reuben Miller (born on 5 May 1905 Neshoba County, Mississippi - died on 6 Nov 1969 in Amite County, Mississippi)

        iii.   John Herbert Miller (born on 8 Sep 1906 Neshoba County, Mississippi - died on 20 Jul 1993 in Tupelo, Mississippi)

         iv.   Thomas Earl Miller (born on 8 Mar 1908 Neshoba County, Mississippi - died on 10 Mar 1908 in Neshoba County, Mississippi)

          v.   Willie Elizabeth Miller (born on 5 Jan 1910 Neshoba County, Mississippi - died on 7 Feb 1991)

         vi.   Moses Clark Miller (born on 21 Aug 1911 Neshoba County, Mississippi - died on 31 May 1918 in Neshoba County, Mississippi)

        vii.   Mary Sue Miller (born on 29 Jan 1914 Neshoba County, Mississippi - died on 4 Jun 1918 in Neshoba County, Mississippi)

       viii.   Annie Ruth Miller (born on 2 Jan 1916 Neshoba County, Mississippi - died on 22 Jun 1918 in Neshoba County, Mississippi)

         ix.   Nettie Doris Miller (born on 19 Jan 1918 Neshoba County, Mississippi - died on 15 Jul 1974 in Houston, Texas)

          x.   Rush Glenn Miller (born on 18 Jan 1920 Neshoba County, Mississippi)

         xi.   Charles Cooper Miller (born on 13 Nov 1922 Neshoba County, Mississippi - died on 13 Mar 1992 in Little Rock, Arkansas)

11. Pennetta Agnes Clark,¹¹ daughter of Reuben Clark and Nancy Anne Dawes , was born on 14 Jul 1880 in Kemper County, Mississippi,¹¹ died on 31 Mar 1961 in Henrietta, Texas, at age 80, and was buried in Sandtown Methodist Church Cemetary, Neshoba County, Mississippi. Other names for Pennetta were Nettie, and Mama Miller.

Noted events in her life were:

• Enumeration of Children: 1896 Enumeration of Children, 1896, Kemper County, Mississippi. ³⁷ "Reubin Clark's children are listed in the 1896 Enumeriation of Children, Kemper County, Mississippi as follows:
Clark, Reubin
R. E. 19, m
Aggie 16, f
Archie 14, m
Stennis 12, m"
(1896 Kemper County, Mississippi, Enumeration of Children)

"The Aggie Clark must be Agnes Clark (Penetta Agnes Clark) because the age is correct. This is probably a mistake by the person transcribing the enumeration. The younger children are not listed because these lists were of "Teachable Children" and Sam would have been too young in 1896."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Loss of Children: Neshoba County, Mississippi. "Pennetta Agnes (Clark) Miller and John Henry Miller would lose 4 children at early ages and 3 children within two months. They would lose Thomas at 2 days old, Moses in May, 1918 at age 7, and Mary Sue at age 4 and Annie Ruth at age 2 in Jun, 1918. This was during the Spanish Flu era. It is interesting to note that Pennetta Agnes Clark's parents also lost 4 children at early ages."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Memories from Wendell H. Trest: Neshoba County, Mississippi. "My father has told me many stories of how he remembers his Grandmother Miller. She was a very hard worker and serious. One of his main memories was her working in the gardens all day. He said that the Miller house had a well near the corner of the porch that you had to lower the water bucket into. It had a flap at the bottom of the bucket that opened when lowered in the well and closed when you lifted the bucket back up. The outhouse was 30 - 50 yards from the house. Dad said that one of his memories of Grandma Miller was her hoeing the garden in a bonnet (which she always wore outside) with perspiration dripping off her nose. Papa Miller was in town earning money to live and she spent her days tending the gardens that supplied the vegetables on the table. They would can what they did not eat fresh and keep in the cupboard.

It is amazing today what she must have gone through losing 4 children at such an early age and losing 3 children so close together. There was a strength that kept the family together through such tragedy."
(Warren G. Trest)

• Census: 1920 US Census, Neshoba County, Mississippi, 1920, Neshoba County, Mississippi. ¹² "The Millers are listed in the 1920 census as John H., age 37, and Agnes, age 38. Also listed are a daughter Ersell, age 16, son Sam, age 14, son Herbert, age 12, daughter Willie, age 10, and daughter Doris, age 1year and 11 months. John H. Miller's occupation is listed as Drygoods Salesman."
(Page 13-A)

(Note: 4 children had already passed away before the 1920 census. This is why there is such a gap between Willie and Doris.)

Pennetta married John Henry Miller on 24 Dec 1902 ¹¹.^,36

12. Claudius Claborne Graham,⁵ son of Dewitt Clinton Graham and Francis Melvina Smith , was born on 1 Jan 1860 in Franklin County, Mississippi,^38,39 died on 15 Jun 1903 in Franklin County, Mississippi, at age 43, and was buried in Old Union Baptist Chruch, Franklin County, Mississippi. Another name for Claudius was Claude.

Noted events in his life were:

• Census: 1870 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1870. ⁴⁰ "Francis Melvina Smith Graham has married L.Ransom Hall by the time of the 1870 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Meadville P.O. The family is as follows:

Ransom Hall - age 34 - Farmer - born in Mississippi - Value of real estate $1400 - Value of personal estate $830
Elvira Hall (name misspelled) - age 36 - born in Mississippi
Adda Graham - age 16 - at school - all children born in Mississippi
Mary Graham - age 12
Claudius Graham - age 10
Dewitt Graham - age 6
Eustalia Hall - male - age 4
Ada Hall - age 1."
(1870 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Meadville P.O. - Page 38)

"Eustalia Hall must have died before 1880 since he does not show up in the 1880 Franklin County, Mississippi census. This is also the only census that gives Claude Graham's name as Claudius."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Census: 1880 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1880. ⁴¹ "Francis Melvina Smith Graham has married L.R. Hall and has two children by him in the 1880 US Census. Adda is no longer living with them but the other 4 Graham children are still at home. The family is as follows:

L.R. Hall - age 44 - Farmer - Father born in North Carolina
F.M. Hall - wife - age 47 - born in Mississippi - Father born in South Carolina
Ada M. Hall - daughter - age 10 - all children born in Mississippi
R.R. Hall - son - age 7
M.D. Graham - Daughter in law - age 22
C.C. Graham - Son in law - age 19 - Farm Laborer
R.W. Graham - Son in law - age 16 - Farm Laborer
Ida Graham - Daughter in law - age 14."

• Census: 1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1900. ¹⁵ "The Claude Graham family is listed in the 1900 US Census, Franklin COunty, Mississippi, Beat 2 as follows:

Claude Graham - head of family - born Jan, 1860 - age 40 - all family born in MS. - Farmer
Clara - wife - born Mar, 1868 - age 32 - all family born in MS.
Claudia - daughter - born Jan, 1885 - age 15
Ned - son - born Feb, 1887 - age 13
Betty - daughter - born Dec, 1889 - age 10
Edith - daughter - born Dec, 1892 - age 7
Katie - daughter - born May, 1897 - age 3
David - son - born Sep, 1898 - age 1 (This should have been Dewitt)"
(1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Beat 2 - Page B? - sheet 24)

"This would be the only census that he would have shown up in after he was married. The 1890 census records were destroyed and he is still living with his mother and step father in 1880. He died before the 1910 census was taken."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Occupation: "In US Census Records, his occupation is listed as Farmer. He died when he was only 43 years old and his wife never remarried. She lived with her daughter, Kate, the rest of her life."
(Warren Graham Trest)

Claudius married Clara Dodd Bufkin ^2,41,43 on 9 Jan 1882 in Franklin County, Mississippi.⁴²

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Claudia Graham (born in Jan 1885)

6        ii.   Ned Bufkin Graham (born on 15 Feb 1887 Roxie, Franklin County, Mississippi - died on 20 Jul 1938 , buried in Old Union Baptist Chruch, Franklin County, Roxie, MS.)

        iii.   Betty Graham (born in Dec 1889)

         iv.   Edith Marie Graham (born on 25 Dec 1892 Franklin Co., MS - died on 12 Mar 1963 in Vicksburg, Mississippi)

          v.   Kate Graham (born in May 1897)

         vi.   Dewitt Clinton Graham (born on 15 Sep 1898 Franklin County, Mississippi)

13. Clara Dodd Bufkin,^2,5,41,43 daughter of Reverend Solomon Bufkin and Elizabeth Carlisle , was born on 10 Mar 1868 in Franklin County, Mississippi,^41,43,44 died on 17 Oct 1933 in Franklin County, Mississippi, at age 65,⁴² and was buried in Old Union Baptist Chruch, Franklin County, Mississippi.

Noted events in her life were:

• Census: 1870 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 21 Jul 1870. "The Soloman Bufkin family is listed in the 1870 US Census, Franklin County, Meadville P.O., page 97 as follows. (The name is mispelled as Buffkin):

Soloman Buffkin - age 37 - Minister - value of real estate $1000, value of personal estate $582.
Elizabeth Buffkin - age (37 or 39) - keeping house
Kate S. - age 7
Clara - age 2

Everyone has Mississippi listed as place of birth."
(1870 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi - page 97)

• Census: 1880 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1880. "Elizabeth Bufkin, along with her daughter Clara, are found in the 1880 US Census, Franklin COunty, Hamburg Township. Solomon Bufkin has already passes away. They are listed as follows:

Elizabeth Bufkin - age - 49 - widow - keeping house - born in Mississippi - both parents born in Georgia
Clara D. Bufkin - age 12 - attending school - all family born in Mississippi."

• Residence: "Clara must have stayed in her own home after her husband died in 1903 until sometime before 1920 when she is shown living with her daughter, Kate, and her son in law, Clifford Herring. She is living with them in 1920 and 1930 US Census records. The assumption can be made that she was still staying with them until her death in 1933."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Census: 1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1900. ¹⁵ "The Claude Graham family is listed in the 1900 US Census, Franklin COunty, Mississippi, Beat 2 as follows:

Claude Graham - head of family - born Jan, 1860 - age 40 - all family born in MS. - Farmer
Clara - wife - born Mar, 1868 - age 32 - all family born in MS.
Claudia - daughter - born Jan, 1885 - age 15
Ned - son - born Feb, 1887 - age 13
Betty - daughter - born Dec, 1889 - age 10
Edith - daughter - born Dec, 1892 - age 7
Katie - daughter - born May, 1897 - age 3
David - son - born Sep, 1898 - age 1 (This should have been Dewitt)"
(1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Beat 2 - Page B? - sheet 24)

• Census: 1910 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1910. ¹⁹ "Clara Graham is shown in the 1910 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi - Beat 2 with her children (her husband died in 1903). She is listed as follows:

Clara D. Graham - Head - widowed - age 42 - all family from Mississippi - Farmer
Ned B. Graham - son - age 22 - Lumber Manufacturer
Edith M. - daughter - age 18
Kate L. - daughter - age 13
Dewitt C. - son - age 11"
(1910 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi - page 17-A)

• Census: 1920 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1920. ⁴⁵ "Clara Graham is living with her daughter and son in law (Kate and Cliff Herring) in the 1920 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Meadville Township. Clara's husband had died in 1903. They are listed as follows:

Clifford Herring - age 27 - all family from Mississippi - Deputy Sheriff
Kate - wife - age 22 - all family from Mississippi
Clara - Mother in Law - age 52 - all family from Mississippi."
(1920 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Page 21-B)

• Census: 1930 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1930. ⁴⁶ "Clara D. Graham is shown as still living with Cliff Herring (her son in law) and Kate Graham Herring (her daughter) in the 1930 US Census, Franklin County, Roxie Township, Mississippi. The family is as follows:

Clifford H. Herring - age 37 - Head - all family from Mississippi - Autodealer
Kate L. - wife - age 32 - all family from Mississippi
Graham - son - age 11
Charles - son - age 6
Pete - son - age 2 years and 8 months
Clara - Mother in Law - age 62 - all family from Mississippi."
(1930 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Roxie, page 1-A"

• Organizations: Eastern Star. ⁴⁷ "A tribute to Clara Graham is found in the pamphlet from The Order of the Eastern Star (Masons), Roxie, Mississippi dted 1934. The tribute is as follows:

Mrs. Clara Graham

Born March 10, 1858: died October 17, 1933. Affiliated with Hannah Chapter, Meadville, Mississippi, June 6, 1924. Served as Esther 1926; Ruth 1926; Warder 1927; Esther 1928; Electa 1929. Admitted to Roxie Chapter, November 19, 1929. Served as Esther 1931; Chaplain 1932-1933.

A brighter Star has never shone,
A greater character was never known,
She lived the true principles that never die,
And has gone to her home beyond the sky."
(Order of the Easter Star)

Clara married Claudius Claborne Graham on 9 Jan 1882 in Franklin County, Mississippi.⁴²

14. John Newman Collier,^2,5 son of John Hardin Collier Jr. and Helen Edna Newman , was born on 2 Oct 1868 in Franklin County, Mississippi,² died on 12 Dec 1933 in Franklin County, Mississippi, at age 65,² and was buried in Old Union Baptist Chruch, Franklin County, Mississippi.²

Noted events in his life were:

• Census: 1880 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1880. "The John Newman Sr. family is listed in the 1880 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi and is listed as follows:

John H. Collier - Age 73 - born in Mississippi, Widower, County Officer, father born in Virginia, mother born in Mississippi (this would be senior)

John Collier - Age 35 - born in Mississippi, Farmer, both parents born in Mississippi (this would be Jr.)
Helen N. Collier - age 32 - all family born in Mississippi
John N. Collier - son - age 11 - all children born in Mississippi
Willie P. Collier - son - age 11
Cora C. Collier - daughter - age 10
Mary L. Collier - daughter - age 9
Mattie W. Collier - daughter - age 8
Etta A. Collier - daughter - age 7
Sophia J. Collier - daughter - age 4
Sally J. Collier - daughter - age 3
John H. Collier - son - age 2 months."
(1880 US Census, Franklin County, MIssissippi - District 1)

• Census: 1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1900. ¹⁵ "The John Newman Collier family is found in the 1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Beat 1, District 49, page 5-A as follows:

(Page 5-A)
John Collier - born Oct, 1866 - age 33 - married 8 years - Farmer
Catherine L. - wife - born Mar, 1874 - age 26 - 4 children - all alive
Carrie - daughter - born Feb, 1893 - age 7

(Page 5-B)
Lula - daughter - born Dec, 1894 - age 5
Myrtis - daughter - born Feb, 1896 - age 4
John H. - son - born Mar, 1900 - age 2 months

Willie E. McMillan - boarder - white male - born Sep, 1877 - age 22 - Farm Laborer"
(1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi - Page 5-A and B)

• Church Letter: 1906. ⁴⁴ "24 March 1906, NEWMAN COLLIER asked for a letter from Union Baptist Church at Whitepalle, Ms. He was excused for unchristian conduct (DRUNKENNESS)."
(Barbara Celotto)

• Census: 1910 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1910. ⁴⁸ "The John Newman Collier family is found in the 1910 US Census, Franklin County, District 61, Beat 1, page 20-A as follows:

John N. Collier - Head - age 40 - married 18 years - Farmer - all family from Mississippi
Clara L. - Wife - 6 children with all living - age 36
Carrie - daughter - age 17
Lula - daughter - age 15
Myrtis - daughter - age 13
John H. - son - age 10
Claude - son - age 2
Clara - daughter - age 5 months"
(1910 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi - page 20-A)

• Census: 1920 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1920. ⁴⁵ "The Newman Collier family is listed in the 1920 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi (Roxie Township) as follows:

Newman Collier - age 51 - all family born in Mississippi - Farmer
Kattie - age 46 - all family born in Mississippi
Claud (misspelled) - son - age 12
Clara - daughter - age 10"
(1920 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Roxie Township - sheet 4-B)

• Census: 1930 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1930. ¹⁸ "John Newman Collier, his wife and daughter are visiting or living with Ned Graham and Carrie Edith Collier Graham in the 1930 US Census. The Ned Graham household is as follows:

Ned Graham -age 40 - Personal worth $1500 - born in Mississippi - both parents born in Mississippi - Cafe Owner
Carrie - age 39 - born in Mississippi - both parents born in Mississippi
Pauline - age 13
Claude - age 9
Roy - age 8
Fay - age 5
Nell - age 3 1/2
Joy (Joyce) - age 2 and 11 months
(Blank) - age (age 2 months) (This would have been Billie Jean)

Newman Collier - father in law - age 63 - all births in Mississippi
Katherine - mother in law - age 58 - all births in Mississippi
Clara - sister in law - age 20"
(1930 US Census, Franklin County, Roxie Village, District 1, Mississippi - page 3-A)

• Death: 12th of December, 1933, Franklin Co., MS. ⁴⁴ "John Newman Collier died at the dinner table of his daughter, Carrie Edith Collier Graham of a heart attack."
(Barbara Celotto)

"My Aunt Billie Jean remembers that he stood up at the table after dinner and dropped dead of a heart attack."
(Warren Trest)

John married Catherine Lula Graves ² on 5 May 1892 in Franklin County, MS..²

Children from this marriage were:

7         i.   Carrie Edith Collier (born on 25 Feb 1893 - died on 5 Jul 1964 in Roxie, Mississippi)

         ii.   Lula Maude Collier (born on 13 Dec 1894 Franklin County, MS. - died on 20 Apr 1975 in Houma, La.)

        iii.   Myrtis Collier (born on 17 Feb 1897 Franklin County, MS. - died on 28 Jan 1931 in Batchelor, La.)

         iv.   John Hardin Collier (born on 6 Mar 1900 Franklin County, MS.)

          v.   Claude Collier (born on 7 Oct 1907 Franklin County, MS. - died on 3 Jun 1972 in Adams County, MS.)

         vi.   Clara Collier (born on 8 Dec 1909 Franklin County, MS. - died on 14 Jul 1981 in Adams County, MS.)

15. Catherine Lula Graves,^2,5 daughter of James F. Graves and Rhoda Currie Middleton , was born on 16 Mar 1874 in Franklin County, Mississippi,² died on 10 Feb 1952 in Franklin County, Mississippi, at age 77,² and was buried on 12 Feb 1952 in Old Union Baptist Chruch, Franklin County, Mississippi.² Other names for Catherine were Kate ⁴⁵, and Kattie.

Noted events in her life were:

• Census: US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 6 Jul 1880. ⁴⁹ "The James Graves family is listed in the 1880 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, District 1 - Page 53 as follows:

James F. Graves - head - age 32 - farmer - all family born in Mississippi (everyone shows all family from Mississippi)
Rhoda - wife - age35 - keeping house
O.M. - son - age 12 - at school
S.A. - daughter - age 9 - at school
Catherine - daughter - age 7
Lizzie - daughter - age 5
Eliza - daughter - age 3
(page 54)
John Q. - son - age 1"
(1880 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi - district 1 - page 53 and 54)

"Note: This would not agree with the birth date by Barbara Celotto. Catherine is listed as 7 which would have made her birth date about 1873, not 1875. In the 1900 US Census, she is listed as being born in Mar 1874, so I have changed her birth date from 1875 to 1874."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Census: 1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1900. ¹⁵ "The John Newman Collier family is found in the 1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Beat 1, District 49, page 5-A as follows:

(Page 5-A)
John Collier - born Oct, 1866 - age 33 - married 8 years - Farmer
Catherine L. - wife - born Mar, 1874 - age 26 - 4 children - all alive
Carrie - daughter - born Feb, 1893 - age 7

(Page 5-B)
Lula - daughter - born Dec, 1894 - age 5
Myrtis - daughter - born Feb, 1896 - age 4
John H. - son - born Mar, 1900 - age 2 months

Willie E. McMillan - boarder - white male - born Sep, 1877 - age 22 - Farm Laborer"
(1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi - Page 5-A and B)

• Census: 1910 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1910. "The John Newman Collier family is found in the 1910 US Census, Franklin County, District 61, Beat 1, page 20-A as follows:

John N. Collier - Head - age 40 - married 18 years - Farmer - all family from Mississippi
Clara L. - Wife - 6 children with all living - age 36
Carrie - daughter - age 17
Lula - daughter - age 15
Myrtis - daughter - age 13
John H. - son - age 10
Claude - son - age 2
Clara - daughter - age 5 months"
(1910 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi - page 20-A)

• Census: 1920 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1920. "The Newman Collier family is listed in the 1920 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi (Roxie Township) as follows:

Newman Collier - age 51 - all family born in Mississippi - Farmer
Kattie - age 46 - all family born in Mississippi
Claud (misspelled) - son - age 12
Clara - daughter - age 10"
(1920 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Roxie Township - sheet 4-B)

• Census: 1930 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1930. "John Newman Collier, his wife and daughter are visiting or living with Ned Graham and Carrie Edith Collier Graham in the 1930 US Census. The Ned Graham household is as follows:

Ned Graham -age 40 - Personal worth $1500 - born in Mississippi - both parents born in Mississippi - Cafe Owner
Carrie - age 39 - born in Mississippi - both parents born in Mississippi
Pauline - age 13
Claude - age 9
Roy - age 8
Fay - age 5
Nell - age 3 1/2
Joy (Joyce) - age 2 and 11 months
(Blank) - age (age 2 months) (This would have been Billie Jean)

Newman Collier - father in law - age 63 - all births in Mississippi
Katherine - mother in law - age 58 - all births in Mississippi
Clara - sister in law - age 20"
(1930 US Census, Franklin County, Roxie Village, District 1, Mississippi - page 3-A)

• Catherine Lula Graves Collier: A picture of Catherine Lula Graves Collier (probably during the 30's or early 40's).

• Kate and two of her sons: "This is a picture of Catherine Lula Graves Collier and two of her sons (from left to right) Claude Collier, Catherine Lula Graves Collier and John Hardin Collier."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Memories from Barbara Celotto: ⁴⁴ "KATE was born 16 March 1875 (census records say 1873). They are buried in Old Union Baptist Church Cemetery, Franklin County, Ms. with only slabs on the graves. They were separated for many years before his death. I do not know the reasons but TODDY HALFORD said that NEWMAN had a very bad temper."
(Barbara Celotto)

• Cause of Death: "Her death certificate (witnessed by Carrie Graham) states the cause of death as Coronary Thrombosis.

Catherine married John Newman Collier ² on 5 May 1892 in Franklin County, MS..²

  Fifth Generation  

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16. Samuel Caper Trest, son of John Daniel Trest and Elizabeth Walters , was born on 1 Mar 1832 in Alabama,⁵⁰ died on 19 Jun 1923 in Jones County, Mississippi, at age 91,⁵⁰ and was buried in Lancaster Cemetary, Jones County, Mississippi.²⁹

Noted events in his life were:

• Formation of Jones County, MS: Petition to form Jones County, Mississippi, 1822, Jones County, Mississippi. ⁵¹ "JONES COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI 1822 PETITION Reference: Record Group 47 (Legislative Papers), box 17, Year 1822, Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi.

To the honourable the General Assembly of the State of Mississippi to convene at the town of Jackson on the fourth Monday in December 1822. The Petitioners of the undersigned Citizens of Covington County respectfully sheweth that your petitioners labour under intolerable grievances: For that whereas, the said County of Covington is of the most inconvenient and unreasonable extent - comprehending within its extended boundaries an expanse of county amply sufficient for two constitutional counties. We believe that the area designated by the constitution is, generally, the most eligible extent for a county: - But that your petitioners should be necessitated to suffer the many inconveniences resulting from a residence in a county the enlarged boundaries of which include a tract of country of more than double that extent, is a burthen to which we cannot submit with silence. It is a duty we owe to ourselves to present our grievance before you. We sensibly feel these grievances. And a removal of them would be of unspeakable advantage to the county. All parts of the county most cordially concur with the measure. It is not the selfish request of a few interested individuals. It is the prayer of a county which is severely suffering innumerable disadvantages and hardships arising from the extensive dimensions of our County. We therefore pray your honourable body to remove our grievance by passing a law to divide our said county and form a new county of a part thereof. And we your Petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray.

Norvell ROBERTSON Jun. John HITE Angus McINNIS Norvell ROBERTSON Sen. Albert HITE William McCLELLAN William HERRINGTON Jun. Reuben PRICE (?) David SCARBOROUGH John TARBURTON Elbert WOOD Frederick CROSS Junr. Silas STEVENS Sen. Allin MURDOCK James TAYLOR Lewis PEARCE Sen. John MORRIS John FLAGG Lewis PEARCE Jun. Jas. TATE Francis SEARLE Joshua NEWTON Ewin SMITH Thomas PAGE Sen. George BAYLIS Calvin SUMNER A. STEWART George(?) P. SMITH Danil WINDHAM Thomas PAGE Junr. Joshua SMITH John SHOWS Henry PAGE Oliver M. SMITH Willis WINDHAM Willis PAGE John McCORMICK John RUSH Jacob PAGE Wm. McCORMICK Thomas Loveless MOTT William WEEK John LIGHTSEY Isaac HERRINGTON William COO-SEY John PARKER Adam SHOWS Peter COULTER Wm. JUDGE John SCRIVINER Allin HADIN Micajah HARGROVE Seaborn WADE Drury BURGE Absalom LOPER John SHOWS Sen. John L. REID Peter LOPER Henry WAID Hughey McNEERS Zachariah BLACKLEDGE Daniel SHOTS (marked out) Daniel McNEAL Jr. illegible name Francis WILLIAMSON John CARILEE illegible name Reuben WATTS William BONDS illegible name John B. LOWE Jesse LEE William PRINE Luke NORRIS Henry LUMPKINS Jesse SCRIVINER Stephen DAMPIER John HARVEY William COULTER Daniel YATES William MILES Evin HARRY Daniel McINNIS Senr. Joshua HERRING Daniel McINNIS Jun. Alexander McCLOUD Jesse HEDGEPETH Seaborn JUDD John GRAHAM Archibald GRAHAM
Number 89 END OF RECORD"


"LOCATION
Jones County is located in the southeastern part of the State and was established January 24, 1826, during the administration of Governor Holmes. It was named in honor of Commodore John Paul Jones, the founder of the American navy.

FORMATION
Jones County was formed from the counties of Covington and Wayne and its boundaries were declared to be "all that part of Covington county lying east of the center of range fourteen, and all that part of Wayne county lying west of range nine." Its northern boundary is formed by the Old Choctaw line established by the Treaty of Mt. Dexter, Nov. 16, 1805, which divides it from Jasper county, and its southern boundary is formed by the line between townships five and six, which divides it from Perry county."
(Jones County, Mississippi GenWeb)

• Census: 1850, Jones County, Mississippi. ⁵² "Samuel Trest is listed as a "farmer" and 18 years old in the 1850, Jones County, Mississippi census - and has his brother, Richard (Richard Crawson Trest) (age 16) living with him."
(Page 133).

"His sister, Rachael Dorcas Trest Walters is shown living next door with her 5 children. She was a widow by this time (she was 34 years old)."
(Page 133).

• Census: 1860 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 1860, Jones County, Mississippi. ²² "Samuel Caper Trest is either visiting or living with William McGilvray during the 1860 US Census. He is married to Eleanor and has his first son, William John (11 months old) with him. The census has the following listing of the McGilvray household:
(House 229)
Wm McGilvray - Age 42 (Farmer)
Sarah McGilvray - Age 46
Angus McGilvray - Age 20
Joseph McGilvray - Age 18
Sarah McGilvray - Age 13
Mary McGilvray - Age 11
W. McGilvray - Age 7
Daniel Smith - (either age 11 or age 77 - can not make out the census) (Farmer)
Samuel C. Trest - Age 27 (Farmer)
Eleanor Trest (spelled Ellender) - Age 17
Wm. Trest - Age 11 months
William Eubanks - Age 27
Jacob Hutts - Age 28

It might be assumed that with the mixture of people at the McGilvray's home that there may have been a planting or harvesting going on with neighbors helping but this would be an assumption. They may have been living on his estate though, since his value of personal estate is listed as $18,910 (far more than most others in the county)."
(1860 US Census, Jones Coutny, Mississippi Page 34, Ellisville Post Office Area)

• Slave Schedule: 1860 Slave Schedule, 1860, Jones County, Mississippi. ⁵³ "S.C. Trest is shown as having 2 slaves in 1860. One female (12 years old) and one male (10 years old)."
(1860 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, Slave Scedule - Page 110)

• Move to Ovett: after 1860, Jones County, Mississippi. ¹ "Samuel Caper Trest is shown living near his family in Northeast Jones County, Mississippi (near Sandersville) until he married Eleanor McGilvray. In the 1860 census, he is shown as living with his father in law (or visiting when the census was taken). Later records show that he lived in Ovett, Mississippi (near the county line with Perry, Mississippi). It can be assumed that he moved south to Ovett to be near the McGilvrays in Runnelstown. It might be assumed that he moved back to the Erata area in 1889 when he bought 40 acres of land."
(Warren Trest)

"Albert McLaurin remembers that his great-grandfather (Samuel Caper Trest) lived south and east of WIlliam John Trest's home (parallel to Trest Road outside Sandersville) on Hobson Trayler Road (going towards Rustin Community)."
(Warren Trest)

• Military Service: 7th Battalion, Mississippi Infantry, 1862-1865. ^54,55,56 "Samuel Caper Trest is listed as serving in the 7th Battalion, Company C, Mississippi Infantry during the Civil War. The 7th Battalion fought in the battle of Corinth, Mississippi and then went on to fight in Vicksburg, Mississippi. His records show that he enlisted as a Private and retired as a Private (not unusual in the Civil War)."
(Warren Graham Trest)

"7th Infantry Battalion was organized during the early spring of 1862 near Quitman, Mississippi. After participating in the conflict at Corinth the unit was assigned to Hebert's Brigade, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, and was captured when Vicksburg fell. After the exchange only 15 officers and 116 men were present. The battalion then served in Mackall's and Sears' Brigade, was prominent throughout the Atlanta Campaign, endured Hood's winter operations in Tennessee, and aided in the defense of Mobile. It reported 65 casualties at Corinth, 50 during the siege of Vicksburg, 72 at Kenesaw Mountain , and 9 at the Chattahoochee River . Few were included in the surrender in May, 1865. The field officers were Lieutenant Colonels L. B. Pardue and James S. Terral, and Major Joel E. Welborn."
(Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System)

"Records show S. C. Trest being paid $50.00 to fight in the war for three years, mustering in at Quitman, Mississippi on May 12th, 1862.

He is shown on the muster roles of the 7th Battalion from May, 1862 through February, 1864. On July 5th, 1864, he is recorded as being captured at Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia and became a prisoner of war. He was recieved at the Military Prison in Louisville, Kentucky on July 14th, 1864. He was transferred to Camp Douglas, Illinois (from Louisville, Ky.) on July 18th, 1864. He was sent to U.S. General Hospital in Point Lookout, Maryland for treatment. He took the Oath of Allegiance to be released at Point Lookout, Maryland on July 19th, 1865.
(7th Battalion Muster Roles)

On the Oath of Allegiance, Samuel Caper Trest is listed as 5' 9", Blue Eyes and Dark Hair. He was released and transferred to the General Hospital in Richmond, Virginia (with Consumption)."
(Civil War Muster Rolls)

• Point Lookout Prison Camp: ⁵⁷ Point Lookout had terrible conditions for prisoners during the Civil War.

"Point Lookout, Maryland, located in Saint Mary's County, Maryland on the southern tip of the peninsula was deemed the largest and worst Northern POW camp. Point Lookout was constructed of fourteen foot high wooden walls. These walls surrounded an area of about 40 acres. A walkway surrounded the top of the walls where negro guards walked day and night. It is reported the guards were brutal in their treatment of prisoners. Prisoner, John R. King said; "Two days out of every three we were guarded by a gang of ignorant and cruelsome negroes. Please do not think that I dislike the negroes as a race. Many of them are my friends, but the negroes authority over the white people and the defenceless prisoners suffered at their hands. Numbers of scars were left on the frame work of the closets made by negroes firing at the prisoners. The negro guard was very insolent and delighted in tantalizing the prisoners, for some trifle affair, we were often accused of disobedience and they would say, "Look
out, white man, the bottom rail is on top now, so you had better be careful for my gun has been wanting to smoke at you all day!"

No barracks were ever built. The Confederate soldiers were given tents to sleep in until overcrowding became so bad, there were not even enough tents to go around.

Approximately 50,000 Confederate enlisted men were contained within the walls of Point Lookout Prison Camp during it's operation 1863-1865. Prison capacity was 10,000 but at any given time, there would be between 12,000 and 20,000 soldiers incarcerated there.

The extreme overcrowding, Maryland's freezing temperatures, shortages of firewood for heat, and living in tents took it's toll and many lives were lost due to exposure.

As the water supply became polluted and food rations ran low, prisoners died from disease and starvation. Food was in such short supply, the men were reported to hunt rats as a food source. A prisoner, Rev. J. B. Traywick said; "Our suffering from hunger was indescribable".

Estimates report that over 14,000 prisoners died while imprisoned at Point Lookout but the cemetery is known to hold 3,384 soldiers in a mass grave with no evidence to back up this massive figure. The Confederate soldiers' bodies have been moved twice and have found their final resting place in Point Lookout Cemetery. "
(CensusDiggins.com ,Civil War Prison Camps, Point Lookout Prison)


"A prison camp for Confederate prisoners of war was built at Point Lookout, Md., on the tip of the peninsula where the Potomac River joins Chesapeake Bay. In the two years during which the camp was in operation, August, 1863, to June, 1865, Point Lookout overflowed with inmates, surpassing its intended capacity of 10,000 to a population numbering between 12,500 and 20,000. In all, over 50,000 men, both military and civilian, were held prisoner there.

G.W. Jones, a private of Co. H, 24th Virginia Cavalry, described his ominous entrance into the prison amidst "a pile of coffins for dead rebels," hearing the lid close shut on his own soon thereafter when he learned that the system of prisoner exchanges had been suspended for the duration of the war. Jones described the camp as laid out into a series of streets and trenches, intended to aid in drainage, and surrounded by a fourteen foot parapet wall. Prisoners, who lived sixteen or more to a tent, were subjected to habitually short rations and limited fire wood in winter, and when the coffee ration was suspended for federal prisoners at Andersonville, the Point Lookout prisoner lost theirs as well.

The worst the prisoners suffered, however, may have been inflicted by the physical conditions. The flat topography, sandy soil, and an elevation barely above high tide led to poor drainage, and the area was subjected to every imaginable extreme of weather, from blazing heat to bone-chilling cold. Polluted water exacerbated the problems of inadequate food, clothing, fuel, housing, and medical care, and as a result, approximately 4,000 prisoners died there over 22 months. "

(William L. Clements Library
The University of Michigan
Schoff Civil War Collections)

"Point Lookout POW Camp (Camp Hoffman) was established after the Battle of Gettysburg to incarcerate Confederate prisoners. It was in operation from August 1863 through June 1865. Being only 5' above sea level, it was located on approx. 30 acres of leveled land at the southern tip of Maryland, in St. Mary's County, and surrounded by water on three sides by the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River. It was the largest Union prison camp for Confederates.

Before the war, Point Lookout was a fashionable resort hotel and a summer bathing place with over a hundred cottages where the elite spent their leisure time. In 1862, with erection of additional buildings, it became a military hospital for the care of union soldiers, an imprisonment for Maryland citizens who were Southern sympathizers, as well as a supply depot for the Army of the Potomac. In August 1863, the large building with outbuildings arranged in spoke fashion (Hammond Hospital), became the care center for wounded/sick Confederate prisoners as well as for union men.

During the two year span of operation, Point Lookout saw approx. 52,000 POWs pass through her gates. These were military and civilian, men, women, and children. It's also interesting to note that the youngest POW at Point Lookout was Baby Perkins. He was born there. His mother was captured at the Battle of Spotsylvania with her artillery unit.

Prison conditions were deplorable. Rations were below minimal, causing scurvy and malnutrition. Prisoners ate rats and raw fish. It's recorded that one hungry Rebel devoured a raw seagull that had been washed ashore. Soap skim and trash peelings were often eaten when found. Lice, disease, and chronic diarrhea often resulted in an infectious death. Prisoners were deprived of adequate clothing, and often had no shoes in winter or, only one blanket among sixteen or more housed in old, worn, torn, discarded union sibley tents. Even the Point's weather played havoc with the prisoners. Because of it's location, it's extremely cold with icy wind in the winter and a smoldering sun reflecting off the barren sand in summer was blinding. High water often flooded the tents in the camp area. The undrained marshes bred mosquitoes. Malaria, typhoid fever and smallpox was common. The brackish water supply was contaminated by unsanitary camp conditions. There was a deadline about 10' from the approx. 14' wooden parapet wall. Anyone caught crossing this line, even to peek through the fence, was shot. Prisoners were also randomly shot during the night as they slept, or if they called out from pain.

Mjr. Brady was the Provost Marshall and Mjr. Gen. Benjamin (Beast) Butler would review the prison camp. Many times he galloped through the crowd of men, hitting them as he sped by. The sixty gun Minnesota was within a short distance from the shore to guard the prisoners."
(PLPOW/PrisonHistory.html)

• General Information: Ancestry.com Message Board. ⁵⁸ "Dear Don:

Angus B. Trest is the son of Samuel Capers Trest of Jones County, Mississippi. Angus B was born in 1862 and lived to be 104 years old. Samuel Capers was married to Eleander McGilvary in 1859. Samuel Capers was bron in Alabama in 1833. They had the following children: William John b. 1860; Angus B b. 1862; Sarah Elizabteh b. 1864 (my great grandmother); Joseph Alexander b. 1869; Colin Oliphant b. 1871; Samuel Albert, b. 1873; Richard/Richmond Felder b. 1875 and Norman Trest. Samuel Capers was in the 7th Battalion of the Mississippi Infantry, Company C. He was catpured three times. He was the son of John Trest of South Carolina. John was the son of John Trest who emigrated from Germany. He was a German sailor from the Hamburg district in Germany. He came to America in 1773. He married Rebecca Thorne and they settled in South Carolina. When their baby John was born and still a small child, the Inidans killed Rebecca. John was lost at sea and never heard from again. Little baby John was found by the McDonalds and they raised him. He marrieed Elizabeth Walters of Orangeburg, SC. They later moved to Alabama and then to Sandersville, MS, a Scotch settlement where the McDonalds had come come to live. Samuel Capers Trest was a school teacher at Ovett School in Jones County. After the Civil War, he was the first Sheriff in Jones County during Reconstruction. Angus, his son lived to be 104 years old. Angus married Nancy Walters in 1882. I do not know the children of Angus B. and Nancy Trest. This is something that you may find in ancestry.com or familytreemaker.com. I do hope this helps you. I have other information on Samuel Capers Trest which would be your grandfather if you would be interested. He is alos my great great grandfather.

Roy (Roy Pearson)"
(Ancestry.com Message Board)

• Occupation: Farmer, Teacher, Sheriff and State Representative. ^59,60 "Samuel Caper Trest was a representative to the Mississippi legislature in 1878. He was sheriff of Jones County for four terms. He rode on horseback to deliver the tax money to Jackson. Also, when there was no doctor in the vicinity where he lived with his family, he was one of the few men to pay a set salary per year to get a doctor to live there. His family was treated free of other fees."
(Letter from Elizabeth Eleanor Trest to Martha - Page 2)

"Samuel Caper Trest shows up in the History of Mississippi (page 508) as a State Representative in 1878."
(History of Mississippi)

"Samuel taught school west of Ovett; there met and married Eleanor McGilvray; lived there"
(Written History by Unknown)

"When the Civil War ended, Samuel was way up North. Battered, beaten, and ill, it took a long time for him to get home. He was assumed dead. Very much alive, he was elected the first Sheriff of Jones County after Reconstruction. His Granddaughter, Norma Gail Trest Baker, said some of his papers indicate he could serve more than one term around 1870."
(Lelia McGill)

"The fact that Samuel Caper Trest was a Sheriff is confirmed in the Jones County, Mississippi, Final Records of the Chancery Court records. From 1873 to 1877, Samuel Caper Trest is listed in the Court Records as Sheriff, serving, attending and serving suponeas in Jones County.

Items such as:

July Term of Court, 1873
Wesley Drane - Chancellor
Samuel Caper Trest - Sheriff
J.H. Bynum - Clerk of Court

appear throughout the Chancery Records from 1873 to 1877. The assumption can be made that Samuel Caper Trest was Sheriff of Jones County from 1873 - 1877 and then became a State Representative in 1878."
(Warren G. Trest)

• Census: 1870 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 1870, Jones County, Mississippi. ³¹ "The Samuel Caper Trest family is listed in the 1870 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi (Ellisville PO area) as follows:

Samuel C. Trest - age 37 - Occupation Teacher - value of Real Estate - $80 - value of personal estate - $325
Elenor - age 25 - keeping house
William - age 10
Angus - age 8
Sarah - age 7
Joseph - age 2
Colon - age 3 months

They also have a white female, Josephine Creel - age 28 - without occupation and a William W Creel - age 2 - at Samuel's home."
(Page 3 - Township No. 6)

• Registered Marks and Brands: 28 Aug 1871. ⁶¹ "ABBR Registered Marks and Brands:
Samuel Trest
Bynam - Clerk

Cattle Ear Marks:
Swallowfork & Underbit in left ear. Underbit in right ear.
Cattle Brand:
Circle Bar. Horses, sheep, and hogs the same

Mark and Brand Records show it to be a vertical bar inside a circle."

• Census: 1880 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 1880, Jones County, Mississippi. ³² "S.C. Trest is listed at 47 years old and being born in Alabama. Both of his parents are listed from South Carolina. He is joined by his wife, Eleanor, Age 36. She is listed as being born in Mississippi and her parents are listed as being from North Carolina. They are joined by their children, son W.J. (age 20), son A.B. (age 18), daughter S.E. (age 16), son J.A. (age 11), son C.O. (age 9), son S.A. (age 7) and son R.F. (age 5)."
(1880 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi - page 331-B, Ed 127)

"George Trest, black male, is listed as 37 years old and a "boarder". It can be assumed that George Trest was a slave that took the Trest name and stayed with the Trest family. George shows up as finally living next door and shows up in the 1910 census at 73 years old. His mother and father are listed as being born in Mississippi."

• Land: Land bought in Jones County, Mississippi, 29 Nov 1889. ⁶² "Samuel Caper Trest is shown as buying (Sale-Cash Entries) 40 acres on Novemeber 29, 1889 at the Augusta, Mississippi Land Office. The property was SWSE of St. Stephens, Township 9N, Range 10W, Section 22 in Jones County, Mississippi."
(Mississippi Land Records - Ancestry.com)

"Deed Record:

7-4-1855

Joel E. Welborn and Martha, his wife, to Samuel C. Trest for $60. The NW1/4 of NE1/4 and E1/2 of SW1/4 of section 17, township 9N Range 10W.

Attest: James M. Bates, J.P.

Signed J.E. Welborn and Martha Welborn."
(Page 133 - Records of Jones County, MS, Deed Books A&B, 1827-1856)

• Census: 1900, Jones County, Mississippi. ²⁵ "Samuel Trest is listed in the 1900 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi. He is listed as 67 years old. His wife, Eleanor is 56 years old. They have the following children at home: Son Samuel, age 27, Son Richmond, age 24, Son Daniel, age 19, Son Norman "McG", age 17, and Son Ransom, age 13."
(Page 181-A, Beat 3)

"George W. Trest (Black) is living next door in a home of his own and is 62 years old."

• Census: 1910 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 1910, Jones County, Mississippi. ³³ "In the 1910 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi (Beat 3), Samuel Caper is listed living next to his son, Ricmond F., and is 78 years old. His wife, Eleanor, is 66 years old. They have the following children living with them: son, James Ransom (age 22), and son, Norman M. (age 26).

They also have George W. Trest, Mulatta servant, age 73, Katie WIggins, white servant, age 26 and Mary C. Wiggins, Servant's daughter (white), age 1 1/2 at their home.

Samuel Caper's house is followed by his son, Samuel A. Trest.

The Trest's are followed by James McGIll. (Son of Sarah Elizabeth Trest, daughter of Samuel Caper Trest, and her husband, James Archibald McGill)."
(Page 29B, Beat 3)

• Census: 1920 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 1920, Jones County, Mississippi. ⁶³ "Samuel C. Trest shows up in his last census at 87 years old. He is joined by his son, James Ransom (age 31) and a daughter (or sister) in law, T. Buchanen (age 44). and is a farmer by trade.

Eleanor has passed away by 1920"
(Page 18-B, Beat 3)

• Cause of Death: Death Certificate, 1923, Jones County, Mississippi. ⁶⁴ "Samuel Caper Trest's cause of death on his Mississippi State Board of Helath Death Certificate is listed as "Old age and General Debility". It was witnessed by his son, WIlliam John Trest, who would pass away a few years later himself. Both of Samuel Caper Trest's parents are listed as being born in South Carolina and Samuel is listed as being born in Alabama. He is listed as widowed at the time of his death."
(Mississippi State Board of Health Death Certificate)

• Cemetery: Lancaster cemetery, Jones County, Mississippi, 1923, Lancaster Cemetary, Jones County, Mississippi. ²⁹ "Samuel C. Trest 1-Mar-1832 to 19-Jun-1923 is buried with his wife, Eleanor McGilvray 5-Jun-1844 to 20-Jun-1918. in Lancaster Cemetary, Jones County, Mississippi. The cemetary is located in Section 13 & 24, Township 6 North, Range 11 West."
(Joni Jackson, MSGenWeb Coordinator, USWebGen)

"His son and daughter in law (William John Trest and Flora Ferguson Trest are buried at the same cemetary."
(Lancaster Cemetary Records)

• Land: 1923, Jones County, Mississippi. ^65,66 "Albert McLaurin states that James Ransom never married and died a bachelor. He said that Ransom died in Samuel Caper Trest's home (where he lived after Samuel Trest died).

Albert said that he knew Ransom because his brother, Hubert McLaurin, farmed Ransom's farm (the original Samuel Caper Trest land) when he became too old to farm it."
(Albert McLaurin)

"This fact is backed up by the 1930 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi census records where James R. Trest (age 43 and head of house) and Norman M. Trest (age 47) are still at the Samuel Caper homestead (between Richmond and Samuel A. Trest households (houses 107, 108 and 109). In 1930, Norman had not yet married Cora Mitchell and Albert McLaurin states that James Ransom never married."
(1930 US Census)

Samuel married Eleanor Elizabeth McGilvray in 1859 in Jones County, Mississippi.²¹

Children from this marriage were:

8         i.   William John Trest (born on 12 Nov 1859 Jones County, Mississippi - died on 4 Apr 1929 in Jones County, Mississippi)

         ii.   Angus Boyce Trest (born about 1862 Ovett, Jones County, Mississippi - died in 1965 in Lucedale, Mississippi)

        iii.   Sarah Elizabeth Trest (born about 1864 - died about 1931)

         iv.   Joseph Alexander Trest (born about 1869)

          v.   Colin Oliphant Trest (born about 1871 - died after 1930)

         vi.   Samuel Albert Trest (born on 13 Mar 1873 - died on 13 Mar 1942)

        vii.   Richmond Felder Trest (born on 22 Jul 1875 - died on 23 Jan 1952)

       viii.   Daniel Cayborn Trest (born on 10 Aug 1880 - died in Oct 1962)

         ix.   Norman McGilvray Trest (born on 1 Apr 1883 Jones County, Mississippi - died in Mar 1974 in Laurel, Jones County, Mississippi)

          x.   James Ransom Trest (born on 4 Apr 1887 - died after 1930)

17. Eleanor Elizabeth McGilvray, daughter of William Tyrus McGilvray and Sarah J. Smith , was born on 5 Jan 1844 in Mississippi,⁵⁰ died on 20 Jun 1918 in Jones County, Mississippi, at age 74, and was buried in Lancaster Cemetary, Jones County, Mississippi.²⁹ Another name for Eleanor was Jenny.

Noted events in her life were:

• Heraldry: Scottish Tartan, Scotland. ⁶⁷ "MacGillvray:
Crest Badge - A stag's head couped, proper, tyned or.
Motto - Dunmaglas
Gaelic Name - MacGhille-brath

This clan, one of the oldest branches of the Clan Chattan confederation, came originally from Morven and Lochaber, where they were one of the principal clans in the time of Somerled, recognized by the Norse as King of the Isles. They suffered severely, as did many others, during the conquest by Alexander II in the 13th century. This may have been why, according to a 16th century historian, Gillivray, the progenitor of the clan, vicGillivray, whose name means 'son of the lover of knowledge', chose to take the protection from the Farquhard Mackintosh, 5th of Mackintosh.

About 1500 the MacGilvrays settled at Dunmaglass in Strathairn, and in succeeding years added considerably to their possessions. THey became influential in that part of the country and took a prominent part in public affairs and local clan disputes. The Clan Chattan Bonds of 109 and 1664 were signed by three members of the clan.

The MacGillvrays were active in the Risings of 1715 and 1745, losing their chief and many others at Culloden. The chief's brother William survived the battle and, assisted by another brother, was able to increase the family estate. On the death of WIlliam's son there followed lawsuits over succession which eventually in 1858 passed to the Dalcrombie line. They soon sold Dunmaglass, to leave the clan landless in its own country by 1890."
(Collins Gem - Clans and Tartans - Published by HarperCollins - 1986)

• McGilvrays of Scotland: Home of the Clan McGilvrays, Scotland.

• Census: 1850 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 1850, Jones County, Mississippi. ⁵² "In the 1850 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, William McGilvray's family is as follows (Note: The census taker in 1850 mispelled McGilvray as McGilberry):
(House 317)
William McGilvray - Farmer - age 31 - born in North Carolina
Sarah - age 36 - born in South Carolina
Angus - Age 10 - born in Mississippi
Joseph - age 8
Elender (Eleanor) - age 5
Sarah - age 3
Mary - age 7 months."
(Page 273)

• Marriage: 1859, Jones County, Mississippi. ¹ "Eleanor Elizabeth McGilvray was 15 years old when she married Samuel Caper Trest who was 27 years old. They stayed together for the next 59 years, raising 10 children."
(Warren Graham Trest)

Eleanor married Samuel Caper Trest in 1859 in Jones County, Mississippi.²¹

18. John Ferguson III,²¹ son of John Ferguson II and Flora Helen McGill , was born on 24 Feb 1820 in Jones County, Mississippi ^21,52 and died on 3 May 1884 in Jones County, Mississippi, at age 64.²¹

Noted events in his life were:

• Memories from Angus Furguson: ³⁰ "My father was John Ferguson, born Feb. 24, 1820, one mile southeast of Sandersville, Jones County, Mississippi, where he lived until he married. He died, May 3, 1884, and was buried in the family cemetery at the Ferguson old home, one mile southeast of Sandersville. This old cemetery is about one hundred yards east of where the old Ferguson home was built more than a century ago and stands today as a marker of the location of this old pioneer home."
(Angus Ferguson)

• Occupation: Farmer, 1870, Jones County, Mississippi. ³¹ "John Ferguson is listed as a farmer by trade in the 1850 and 1870 census"

• Census: 1850 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 1850, Jones County, Mississippi. ⁵² "Flora is listed as head of household in the 1850 Jones County, Mississippi census, thus John Ferguson is assumed to have passed away prior to 1850. She is listed as 67 years old which does not agree with the date of birth by WIlliam Parks. If she was 67 in 1850, she would have been born in 1783 instead of 1788 listed by "Bill" Parks.

The Flora Ferguson family is listed as follows (all children are listed as being born in Mississippi):

Flora - age 67 - born in North Carolina
Elizabeth - age 37 - all children born in Mississippi
Mary - age 35
John - age 30 - Farmer
Catherine - age 28
Abigail - age 26
Sarah - age 22

The Fergusons and McGill's are living near each other. Archibald McGill is in house 297, Flora Ferguson is in house 299 and Angus Ferguson is in house 300"
(Pages 136 and 136B)
(1850 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi)

• Marriage: Marriage of John Ferguson, 12 Mar 1857, Jones County, Mississippi. ³⁰ "John Ferguson married Catherine Boyce on March 12, 1857 by the Rev. W.H. Singletary, a Presbyterian minister".
(Family, School, Church and Pioneer History written by Angus Grey Furgeson - Page 8)

• Census: 1860 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 26 Oct 1860. ²² "John Ferguson and Robert Porter Boyce are listed in the 1860 US Census, Jones County, Ellisville Township, Mississippi as follows:

(house 400)
John Ferguson - age 40 - farmer - Value of Real Estate $3000 - Value of Personal Estate $1283 - born in Mississippi
Catherine - age 21 - born in Alabama
Angus - age 2 - male - born in Mississippi
Flora E. - age 1 - female - born in Mississippi

Robert P. Boyce - age 70 - mechanic - value of real estate $1000 - value of personal estate $50,500 - born in Delaware"
(1860 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi - page 61)

• Residence: ³⁰ "John Ferguson and Catherine Boyce lived about two miles east of the Ferguson old home during their entire married lives."
(Angus Ferguson)

• Military Service: ³⁰ "My father served in the Civil War and was captured in the siege of Vicksburg. He came out of the service completely broken down in health and was never well any more."
(Family, School, Church and Pioneer History by Angus Grey Furgeson - Page 33)

"There were 7 John Fergusons who fought in the Civil War in Mississippi regiments. It would seem that he either fought in the 5th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry, 24th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry or the 13 Regiment, Mississippi Infantry. These were the units I found from the Kemper or Clarke County areas. The other John Fergusons seem to have been recruited from Northern Counties. It is not provable at this time as to which unit he served in."
(Warren Trest)

• Census: 1870 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 1870, Jones County, Mississippi. ³¹ "John Ferguson is listed in the 1870 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi as follows:
John Ferguson - age 50
Catherine - age (35 or 32?)
Angus - age 12
Flora E. - age 10
Margaret - age 8
Mary - age 7
John - age 6
Sarah - age 5
Laura - age 2
Malcolm - age 5 months"
(1870 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi)

• Census: 1880 US Census, Erata, Jones County, Mississippi, 1880. ⁶⁸ "The John Ferguson household is listed as follows in the 1880 US Census, Erata, Jones County, Mississippi:

John Ferguson - age 60 - birthplace MS - Farmer - both parents born in NC.
Katharin - wife - age 40 - birthplace AL - Father born in DE - Mother born in NC
Angus - son - age 22 - All children are born in Mississippi
F.E. - dau - age 20
M.E. - dau - age 19
M.C. - dau - age 18
J.C. - son - age 16
S.A. - dau - age 15
Laura - dau - age 12
M.H. - son - age 11
Carry I. - dau - age 10
E.L. - dau - age 9
R.P.L. - son - age 3

It should be noted that many of the Fergusons live near each other in the 1880 census, along with the Carraways and Rushtons."
(1880 US Census - Page 330A)

"Flora Elizabeth McGill Ferguson would have been the F.E. - age 20."
(Warren Trest)

• Death: ³⁰ "My father was born and reared at the old Ferguson home near where he lived and died. He was taken ill at the grave of his son, Calvin, at the old Ferguson cemetary and died in a few days. The attending physician, Dr. W.J. Bailey, attributed his death to grief. He was a soldier in the Civil War and came out broken down in health and never recovered."
(Angus Ferguson)

"Before he buried Calvin, he had also buried a daughter who died at an early age - age 3."
(Warren Trest)

John married Catherine Boyce ²¹ on 12 Mar 1857.³⁰

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Angus Ferguson (born on 12 Feb 1858)

9        ii.   Flora Elizabeth McGill Ferguson (born on 10 Jan 1860 Jones County, Mississippi - died on 2 Aug 1936 in Louisville, Mississippi)

        iii.   Margaret E. Ferguson (born on 4 Apr 1861 Jones County, Mississippi - died on 20 Oct 1927)

         iv.   Mary A. Ferguson (born on 5 Aug 1862)

          v.   John Calvin S. Ferguson (born on 6 Dec 1863 Jones County, Mississippi - died on 27 Apr 1884)

         vi.   Sarah A. Ferguson (born on 10 Mar 1865 Jones County, Mississippi)

        vii.   Harriet Lenora Vernon Ferguson (born on 20 Apr 1866 Jones County, Mississippi - died on 16 Aug 1869 in Jones County, Mississippi)

       viii.   Laura Jane Ferguson (born on 22 Mar 1868 Jones County, Mississippi)

         ix.   Malcolm Hector Ferguson (born on 24 Oct 1869 Jones County, Mississippi - died on 19 Jan 1891)

          x.   Carrie Isabelle Ferguson (born on 17 Apr 1871 - died on 31 Oct 1935)

         xi.   Lou Ella Ferguson (born on 10 Dec 1872)

        xii.   Robert Palmer Ferguson (born on 20 Sep 1877)

19. Catherine Boyce,²¹ daughter of Robert Porter Boyce and Elizabeth Catherine McScrews , was born on 26 Apr 1838 in Alabama ^21,66,69 and died on 23 May 1899 in Jones County, Mississippi, at age 61.²¹

Noted events in her life were:

• Census: 1850 Clarke County, Mississippi, 1850, Clarke County, Mississippi. ⁶⁹ "The Robert Boyce family is listed in the 1850 US Census, Clarke County, Mississippi as follows:

Robert P. Boyce - Millwright - age 60 - born in Delaware
Elizabeth - age 45 - born in South Carolina
Elizabeth - age 18 - born in Florida (this is an assumption of data for birthplace - the census is hard to read).
Catherine (Katherine spelled in census) - age 12 - born in Alabama.

Note: This census does not agree with the Georgia birthplace from Bill Parks for Catherine Boyce."
(1850 US Census - Page 174B)

• Death of Children: ¹ "There were at least 3 children who died at an early age.
John Calvin Ferguson - died at age 20
Harriet Ferguson - died at age 3
Malcolm - died age 21"
(Warren G. Trest)

Catherine married John Ferguson III ²¹ on 12 Mar 1857.³⁰

20. Samuel Clark Miller,¹¹ son of Moses M. Miller and Laura Saphronia Donald , was born on 30 Jan 1859 in Oak Grove, Winston County, Mississippi,¹¹ died on 7 Jan 1897 in North Bend Community, Neshoba County, Mississippi, at age 37, and was buried in North Bend Community, Neshoba County, Mississippi. The cause of his death was struck by a log.

Noted events in his life were:

• Census: 1860, Winston County, Mississippi. ⁷⁰ "In the 1860 US WInston County, Mississippi census, his father, Moses Miller is listed as 28 years old and a farmer by trade. His father is joined by his 22 year old mother, L.S. (Laura Saphronia), his 5 year old brother, W.D. (William David), his 3 year old brother, H.M. (Henry Moore) and himself, at age one year old, S.C. (Samuel Clark). "
(Page 721 - 1860 US Census, Winston County, Mississippi)

• Census: 1880 US Census, Winston County, Mississippi, 1880. ⁷¹ "Laura S. Miller is listed in the 1880 US Census, Winston County, Mississippi as follows:

Laura S. Miller - self - widow - white female - age 43 - born in Mississippi - both parents born in South Carolina
Henry M. Miller - son - white male - age 23 - born in Mississippi - farmer - father born in South Carolina - mother born in Mississippi
Samuel C. Miller - son - white male - age 21 - born in Mississippi - At School - father born in South Carolina - mother born in Mississippi

Delia Miller - Other - widow - Black female - age 70 - born in South Carolina - Servant - both parents born in South Carolina."
(1880 US Census, Winston County, Mississippi)

• Religion: Methodist, North Bend Community, Neshoba County, Mississippi. ¹¹ "The Methodist Church to which the Miller family belonged most likely had it's origin in 1853 and was called Ebenezer Methodist Church."
(Margaret Miller White)

• School: ¹¹ "The North Bend School was a one-teacher school located a few hundred yards north of the church. THe building was located on the land of Sam Miller. He did not donate the land; they simply built the school on his land. It was made of dressed planks and ceiled with beaded ceiling. It was approximately forty by seventy feet, with a long blackboard across one end and benches to sit upon. Before it was consolidated into Bond High School, it had become a two-teacher school."
(The Huguenot Millers)

• Organizations: Mason. ¹¹ "Samuel Clark Miller was a Mason. He belonged to Coffadeliah Lodge, No. 371. After his death, Sally Miller recieved a certificate, dated August 1898, from the Lodge, stating that Sam C. Miller had raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason and was a faithful and worthy brother. It was signed by T.R. HArrison, W. MAster and R.G. Cooper."
(The Huguenot Millers)

• Cause of Death: 7 Jan 1897, North Bend Community, Neshoba County, Mississippi. ¹¹ "On January 7, 1897, Sam Clark Miller was instantly killed in a freak accident. James Lamar (Kit) Miller, his youngest child was 10 months old when his father was killed, and, of course, heard the story many times. He offered these details:

"Tom Daniel had a sawmill, and Papa was hauling logs to the mill to have them sawed and dressed. He was working on the house at the time and did not have it completed. The wagon was going downhill, and there was a washout in the road. It was believed that the horses were running downhill. A log fell off the wagon, struck him, and killed him. The horses ran off, but they turned around and came back. THey were standing by the wagon when Papa was found. He was killed about one-half mile west of North Bend Church"
(The Huguenot Millers)

Samuel Clark Miller was only 37 years old when he died, leaving his wife and 8 children.

• Obituary: ¹¹ "Following the death of Sam C. Miller, an anonymous friend the wrote the following tribute which bears no date nor signature:

We were shocked to recieve the intelligence of the unexpected death of our esteemed friend and worthy brother in Christ, Mr. S.C. Miller. Mr. Miller was a well known resident of Neshoba County and a prominent member of North Bend Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

His influence was everywhere felt by those with whom he was associated, and he will be sadly missed by all his friends and neighbors; but most of all by his family, consisting of a wife and eight children. Their children, we know from personal acquaintance, to be intelligent and promising.

How often have we seen Mr. Miller enter the church and Sunday School, followed by his children, whom he has early taught to follow Christ as their Chief Counselor in times of stress.

No cause which tended toward upbuilding of the morals of the community or aiding the Church of Christ went unsupported by Mr. Miller, and how consoling the thought that in heaven he is recieving his happy reward, known only to those who love and serve the Lord.

The unexpected death of Mr. Miller occured January 7, just in front of the school house where his children played thousands of times. While hauling logs to a swamill, he was thrown from the wagon and struck on the head by a log, causing his death. He did not have to endure a prolonged suffering, but was instantly and painlessly carried to that blest abode where we must all sooner or later assemble after having parted from our bodies of clay as God directs. So wisely, he has ordained that we know not the time or manner, but may we be found ready and watching.
- A Friend"
(It is believed that the letter above was written by a teacher at the nearby school)

Samuel married Sarah Elizabeth Cheatham ¹¹ on 20 Jan 1881.

Children from this marriage were:

10        i.   John Henry Miller (born on 12 Jan 1882 Philadelphia, Neshoba County, Mississippi - died on 10 Oct 1948 in Philadelphia, Neshoba County, Mississippi)

         ii.   Laura Helen Miller ()

        iii.   Willie Ethel Miller ()

         iv.   Thomas Andrew Miller (born on 8 Aug 1887)

          v.   Linnie Maude Miller ()

         vi.   Velma Olive Miller ()

        vii.   Moses Clark Miller (born on 3 Oct 1893)

       viii.   James Lamar Miller (born on 11 Mar 1896)

21. Sarah Elizabeth Cheatham,¹¹ daughter of Thomas A. Cheatham and Talitha Jackson , was born on 5 Dec 1862 in Carroll Parish, Louisiana,¹¹ died on 18 Feb 1935, at age 72, and was buried in North Bend Community, Neshoba County, Mississippi. Another name for Sarah was Sally.

Noted events in her life were:

• Widow: 1897. "Sarah Elizabeth Cheatham married Samuel Clark Miller when she was 18 years old and was widowed 15 years later when she was 33 years old with 8 children to raise on her own."
(Warren Trest)

• Death of Tabitha: 1897. ¹¹ "Exactly one month after Salley Miller became a widow with eight children to rear, she also lost by death her beloved sister Mary Tabitha Miller. When James Lamar (Kit) Miller was asked how Laura and Sally Miller managed to rear these families alone, he replied that although relatives were helpful, it is more importantly their strong Christian faith. The two women had a name in common, and that name was "Valiant"."
(Margaret Miller White)

• General Memories: ¹¹ "Many of us were blessed by the presence of our Grandmother, Sally Cheatham Miller, in our growing up years. She spent her latter years in the home of Lamar and Nannie Miller, but often visited her other children. She had been left an orphan when a small child and had been widowed at an early age, but she was still a cheerful person, intense and creative.

I remember Grandmother Miller as always being on a quest for beauty. She was always making something pretty. Her granddaughter, Ersell Miller Trest, remembers that, at one time, Grandmother had a millinery shop in an old store near her home, where she trimmed hats for the local ladies. She made thousands of yards of tatting, a delicate lace made with a shuttle, with which our clothes were often trimmed. She even made a tatting bedspread for one of her children. WHen her daughter Velma got married, Grandmother emboidered the silk for her wedding dress. She loved poems and collected them, along with bits of philosphy, which she kept in scrapbooks in her dresser drawers. These scrapbooks afforded me much enjoyment.

Grandmother Miller was a woman of great religious faith. She did not shout in church as Granny Miller was said to have done, but I can truely say from first-hand knowledge that Heaven came down when my grandmother prayed. She was not speaking words: she was communicating with the Almighty.

Sally Miller died February 18, 1935, at the home of James Lamar Miller and was interred in North Bend Cemetarty, Neshoba County."
(Margaret Miller White)

• Miller Home: ¹¹ "I, Sarah Margaret Miller White, was born in 1918, in the house that Samuel Clark Miller was building at the time of his death, and I have vivid memories of the first four years of my life spent there. These memories center around my parents, my sister Claire, my grandmother, Sally Miller, and my uncles and aunts. I remember the hickory nut trees, which we called "The Grove", the garden, and the orchard. I also remember Wesley and his family, who were Choctow Indians that lived on the place."
(Margaret Miller White)

• Letters: ¹¹ "Shortly before her death, Sally Miller wrote the following excerts from a letter to her children:

I want you to know what I want you to do. First, I want you to pledge yourselves to each other. Don't let anything come between your love for each other. Be true to God and the things that stand for Him. Love your fellowmen, for our attitude toward each other determines our love to God. Read your Bibles, and it will guide you aright. My prayer is that you will be good and love and stick to each other. Be good neighbors. Don't be looking for faults in people but remember that we are all human and liable to mistakes."
(Margaret Miller White)

Sarah married Samuel Clark Miller ¹¹ on 20 Jan 1881.

22. Reuben Clark,^11,72 son of Martin Clark and Ann , was born on 24 Apr 1847 in Kemper County, Mississippi,^10,73,74 died on 21 Jan 1901, at age 53,¹⁰ and was buried in Methodist Cemetary, Noxapater, Mississippi.⁷⁴ Another name for Reuben was Reubin Clarke.⁷³

Noted events in his life were:

• Name: Clark or Clarke. "The Clark name is spelled at different times as both 'CLARK' and as 'CLARKE'."

• Census: 1850 US Census, Kemper County, Mississippi, 1850, Kemper County, Mississippi. ⁷³ "The Martin Clark family is listed in the 1850 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi as follows:
Martin "Clarke" - age 50 - Farmer - born in N.C.
Ann - age 45 - born in N.C.
Jane - age 15 - born in N.C.
Robert - age 13 - born in N.C.
Hiram - age 11 - born in Miss. (all other children are born in Miss.)
Harriet - age 9
John - age 7
Martin - age 5
Reubin - age 3
Nat - age 1"
(1850 US Census, Kemper County, Mississippi)

• Military Service: Civil War Service Record, 1864, Kemper County, Mississippi. ^75,76 " Reuben Clark served in Capt. Gamblin's Company, Mississippi State Troops, Mississippi Calavry. He mustered in as a Corporal and mustered out as a Private. Film -M232 roll 8"
(Warren Graham Trest)

"Reuben Clark - enlisted Mar 27, 1864 in Kemper, age 17, blue eyes, lite hair, fair complexion, 5 feet 8 inches, from Kemper, farmer."
(Gamblin's Roster - compiled by Dawn Driskall - Kemper County Webgen)


"This Company enlisted at Dawe's Store, Kemper County, on April 30, 1864. Its Captain was E. D. Gamblin.
First Lieutenant: A. C. Gamblin
Second Lieutenant: J. W. McCraw
Third Lieutenant: C. L. Smith

Enrolled, 88.

Gamblin's Cavalry Battalion was listed in Mabry's Brigade, Wirt Adams' Cavalry, September 30, 1864. Apparently disbanded late in 1864. For those searching for ancestors who served with this unit the records are carried as Gamblin's Mississippi Cavalry Co. (State Troops).
The unit was still active in May 1865 when they were surrendered at Citronelle, Alabama."
(Kemper County Webgen Project)

• Occupation: Kemper County, Mississippi. ⁷⁴ "Reuben Clark's occupation was a Farmer"
(Census Records and Rev. Glenn Miller, Sr.)

• Loss of Children: "Reuben and Nancy Ann Clark would lose 4 children at early ages. They lost one son at childbirth, Mary at age 5 years old, Sarah at age 1 year old and Edward when he was 26 years old. Their daughter, Penetta Agnes would also lose four children at early ages."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Census: 1880 US Census, Kemper County, Mississippi, 1880, Kemper County, Mississippi. ⁷² "In the 1880 US Census, Kemper County, Mississippi, Moscow township, the Clark family is listed as follows:

Reuben Clark - age 33 - born in Mississippi, farmer by trade. Both parents born in North Carolina
Nancy Clark - age 33 - born in Mississippi, keeping house. Both parents born in North Carolina.
Martin Clark - age 12 (all children are listed as being born in Mississippi)
Martha Clark - age 9
Wiley Clark - age 8
Robt. Clark - age 5
Edward Clark (relationship - other) age 4
John Clark (relationship - other) age 3
(Page 102A)

The Reuben Clark family is followed next door by the Ellis Daws (age 25) family. Ellis Daws lists both parents being born in North Carolina. It can be assumed that Ellis Daws is Nancy Ann Daws (Dawes) brother."
(1880 US Census, Kemper County, Mississippi)

• 1896 Enumeration of Children: 1896. ³⁷ "Reubin Clark's children are listed in the 1896 Enumeriation of Children, Kemper County, Mississippi as follows:
Clark, Reubin
R. E. 19, m
Aggie 16, f
Archie 14, m
Stennis 12, m"
(1896 Kemper County, Mississippi, Enumeration of Children)

"The Aggie Clark must be Agnes Clark (Penetta Agnes Clark) because the age is correct. This is probably a mistake by the person transcribing the enumeration. The younger children are not listed because these lists were of "Teachable Children" and Sam would have been too young in 1896."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• School: Moscow, Kemper County, Miss One Room School, Kemper County, Mississippi. ⁷⁷ "The following newspaper article is not directly related to any family member. I wanted to include it as historical background of what schools were like in Kemper County. I came across this in my research and found it interesting."
(Warren Trest)

"Clippings from the "Kemper County Messenger", Mar 11, 1937
(no spelling or grammatical errors have been corrected)
"I do not know what man was put on earth for, but to me it seems sure he was put here to be successful" ...Robert Louis Stevenson.
On a train in from Hartford I met a fine looking young New York banker. I made the remark, "life is a game where you make nine sacrifice hits to one home run." He replied, "exactly."
And, I almost forgot. One Saturday I was riding into DeKalb and met a fine looking young buck on a good horse on the same errand as myself--our monthly pay. He was getting one hundred eighty dollars for his four month's work and I ask him how much he would save out of that and he replied as a matter of course, "one hundred eighty dollars."
He lived at home, would ride six miles to his school every morning and get there by seven and then ride home again about dark, for it was strictly against rules in those days to try to run a school after the sun went down, and often would help with the chores and work Saturdays to pay his father board, I forgot his name, too, a Clark, Overstreet, Stennis, Harbour, Gully, Adams or something or other. I never saw him again, but happen to know that he is a well-to-do farmer, lawyer, doctor or something like that (unless he happens to have been sent to the penitentiary or Congress) and also that he now had a bunch of fine boys and girls for grandchildren who honor their own names by paying heartfelt respect to "Grandpa".
"How so I know all that? Easy children. In this life the crop you sow as young folks is what you reap in later life, and don't let anyone lie to you about that either." The times have never changed the way seed sprout and grow and never will.
Well now, about Moscow and Thompson.
In the early days, the best teachers we had were nearly all Irish. Fifty years back I was riding with a big strapping prairie farmer who told me a a school in his boyhood. The fathers wanted their children to go get "eddication" (and their girls to know how to read and write, anyway) so they could "figger" as well as the store keepers and read the Bible as well as the preacher, and the boys wanted to get the "eddication" too, but they could not understand that they had to submit to any sort of discipline, except that their fathers handed out and when the teacher tride to keep order they would chunk him out the window and that was that. If father tried to thrash one of those young rough necks (no, he would not fight his own father) he would just leave home, go off a dozen miles or so, get work on a farm, buy a piece of land, marry the employers daughter, and bring home a grandchild or two to see the old man; and what could a father do.
There came along a double-jointed Irishman (in those days the best schools in the world were in Ireland. Even in my day one of the best superintendents New York ever had got his education in Northern Ireland) and when they found out he had an education he was asked to teach for them. When he found out what he would be up against, his old eye lighted up and he said, "Yes I will teach it."
He had a fine voice like a woman's and opened school as follows:
"Boys, they tell me you are a lively bunch and like to fight some. Now I love a lively boy and don't the least mind a little warm-up now and then and it generally takes about four good sized youngsters to make things real interesting for me, so any time now just don't be backward about coming forward. Here is your spelling lesson to start with, and the fellow who misses a single word gets a licking."
Well, he licked four of those big huskies before noon, but of course, the worst came up at home when father slyly joshed them about throwing the teacher out as usual, but one thing the fellows could not do was to be a quitter. Getting licked by the teacher might be humiliation, but being a quitter would be a disgrace. He would have to leave home.
Well after two schools the teacher refused to teach there longer in spite of the folks who wanted to make him a permanent feature of the landscape, but he gave an old-time "examination" in which they were put through all the paces to show what they could read, write, and do sums, etc., and then he parted with this advise, "Whoever gave you the notion these were bad boys? They are good boys. All they wanted to know was if there was a man around (and not such bad sense either, for our times or any other).
Well, in our history, Thompson was about the last of those old-fashioned Irish Teachers, and from what I know of him it must have suited folks in Moscow and the next morning half or three quarters of my school was absent. In that day, I hope it is much the same still, folks were intensely jealous of the reputation of their daughters and even the shadow of suspicion was to them a fearsome thing.
Again, those people were right. I am proud that they still gave me a warm friendship even in my loss.
Today, if I were instituting a school, I should demand an intense concentration in work that would make cigarettes and any disturbing emotions such as are very likely to be caused by the other sex, impossible.
Are you tired of this story of failures? Well, maybe you are tired of life too. However, I am not. I now had two hundred and started in for college -- the old A. & M. was my choice. I had had a lot of classical training and needed more science and mathematics. Besides I needed to know more in every way I knew it."
(Clippings from the "Kemper County Messenger", Mar 11, 1937)

Reuben married Nancy Anne Dawes on 4 Dec 1866.¹⁰

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Martin Luther Clark (born on 31 Jan 1868 Kemper County, Mississippi - died on 15 Sep 1953)

         ii.   Mary Jane Clark (born on 22 Aug 1870 Kemper County, Mississippi - died on 21 Jun 1945)

        iii.   Wiley Gray Clark (born on 12 Apr 1872 Kemper County, Mississippi - died on 18 Feb 1952)

         iv.   Robert Ellis Clark (born on 22 Jan 1874 Kemper County, Mississippi - died on 2 Jan 1929)

          v.   Edward Clark (born on 8 Sep 1875 Kemper County, Mississippi - died on 11 Sep 1901)

         vi.   John Walton Clark (born on 8 Nov 1877 Kemper County, Mississippi)

11      vii.   Pennetta Agnes Clark (born on 14 Jul 1880 Kemper County, Mississippi - died on 31 Mar 1961 in Henrietta, Texas)

       viii.   John Archibald Clark (born on 8 Jun 1882 Kemper County, Mississippi - died on 15 Sep 1967 in Noxapater, Mississippi)

         ix.   Ruben Stennis Clark (born on 5 Apr 1884 Kemper County, Mississippi - died in Jun 1968 in Noxapater, Mississippi)

          x.   Mary Mitchell Clark (born on 7 Oct 1886 Kemper County, Mississippi - died on 4 Apr 1891 in Kemper County, Mississippi)

         xi.   Sarah Catherine Clark (born on 29 Sep 1888 Kemper County, Mississippi - died on 28 Jul 1889 in Kemper County, Mississippi)

        xii.   Infant Clark (born on 15 Dec 1890 Kemper County, Mississippi - died on 15 Dec 1890 in Kemper County, Mississippi)

       xiii.   Sam Jones Clark (born on 15 Jan 1893 Kemper County, Mississippi - died in Oct 1975 in Chickasaw, Mississippi)

23. Nancy Anne Dawes, daughter of Sire O. Dawes and Agnes Farmer , was born on 13 Nov 1846 in Kemper County, Mississippi,¹⁰ died on 24 Apr 1927 in Probably Winston County, Mississippi, at age 80,¹⁰ and was buried in Methodist Cemetary, Noxapater, Mississippi.⁷⁴ Other names for Nancy were Nancy Ann Davis ¹¹, and Nancy Ann Daws.

Noted events in her life were:

• Name: Last Name. ¹ "Some history had Nancy Ann Daws listed as a Davis. My grandmother. Lillian Ersell Miller. had written down that Nancy Ann Dawes was a Dawes, not Davis. My father called Glen Miller in 2003 and he stated that her maiden name (his grandmother) was a Dawes (or Daws) also. Census records also point to her maiden name being Dawes or Daws. In various records, the name is spelled both as 'DAWS' and 'DAWES'"
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Loss of Children: "Reuben and Nancy Ann Clark would lose 4 children at early ages. They lost one son at childbirth, Mary at age 5 years old, Sarah at age 1 year old and Edward when he was 26 years old. Their daughter, Penetta Agnes, would also lose 4 children at young ages."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Census: 1910 US Census, Winston County, Mississippi (Noxapater), 1910, Winston County, Mississippi. ⁷⁸ "Nancy Ann Clark is listed in the 1910 US Census, Winston County, Mississippi (Noxapater) as follows (house 184):

Nancy A. Clark - (Head) - age 67 - born in Mississippi - both parents born in North Carolina - Occupation as Farm Laborer
Sam J. Clark - age 17 - born in Mississippi - both parents born in Mississippi - Occupation as Farmer

The next household is Marten L. Clark (house 185) as:
Martin L. - age 40
Sarah M. - age 30
Sadie A. - age 18 (or age 16)
Mary M. - age 11
Rubin H. - age 9
? - daughter - age 6
Mitchell - son - age 4
? - daughter - age 2."
(1910 US Census)

• Census: 1920 US Census, Winston County, Mississippi, 1920, Winston County, Mississippi. ⁷⁹ "In the 1920 US Winston County, Mississippi census, Nancy Ann Clark is living with Sam Jones Clark. She is listed as 73 years old and Sam Jones is listed as 28. Sam is listed as a laborer for Public Works. There are three Clark families that are living next door to each other. The first home is the Martin Luther Clark family, followed by Sam Jones Clark (with Nancy Ann Clark), and then the Robert Ellis Clark family."
(1920 US Census - Page 12-A)

Nancy married Reuben Clark ¹¹ on 4 Dec 1866.¹⁰

24. Dewitt Clinton Graham,^{2,5,80,81,82,83} son of Archibald Graham and Jane Holloway , was born about 1828 in Louisana ⁸⁴ and died in Nov 1865, about age 37.⁸⁵

Noted events in his life were:

• Orphaned: ^20,86 "Barbara Haigh states that Dewitt Clinton Graham was reared by Bartlett Ford after he was orphaned. (His father died in 1833 and his mother died in 1839 at ages of 38 and 29 years of age)."
(Warren Trest)

"This is backed up on page 98 of A History of Franklin County, Mississippi, to 1861 by John Willkiam Hadskey. "Dewitt Clinton Graham, the last elected representative from the county prior to the Civil War, was a socially prominent aristocrat of that day. Apparently his father, Archibald Graham, had died when Dewitt was quite young, and this young native of Hamburg community had been reared by his stepfather, Bartlett Ford. "
(William Hadskey)

• History of Franklin County, Mississippi: "Following LaSalle's trip down the Mississippi River, the Franklin County area was recognized as being populated by the Natchez Indians.

The French built their second settlement at Fort Rosalie (now Natchez) in 1716 and other settlements followed quickly. The growth of the area was slow. Notable land deals like the speculative Mississippi Company's deal led to the financial panic in 1720 known as the bursting of the Mississippi Bubble.

The Natchez Indians grew restless as French settlers began to take over their lands. They attacked Fort Rosalie in 1729 killing many settlers. Following this attack the French retaliated by virtually destroying almost all of the Natchez Indians.

With the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763 after the French and Indian War, France ceded its territory east of the Mississippi River except New Orleans. This Mississippi area which included present day Franklin County became a part of British West Florida and was known as the Natchez District. The northern boundary extended to the mouth of the Yazoo River. This area witnessed a large influx of Anglo-Americans from the Atlantic Seaboard Colonies.

During the American Revolution Spain seized the Natchez District and the remainder of British West Florida. When the American Revolution ended in 1783 Britain transferred the claim to the territory north of the 31 degree latitude to the United States. But, Spain refused to recognize the American claim to West Florida. It was not until 1795 that the Spanish agreed to the 31 degree north boundary. It was not until 1798 that the Spanish actually relinquished control of the Natchez District to the United States. In the meantime, the state of Georgia complicated matters by asserting a claim to the area. Georgia had actually sold land to three companies of eager speculators. Georgia passports were issued to settlers who would travel by land through the Creek Indian territory to the western Mississippi River settlements.

In 1798 the United States Congress created the Mississippi Territory which included all the land between Georgia and the Mississippi River which was located north of the 31 degree latitude and south of a line running due east of the mouth of the Yazoo River. In 1804 this territory was expanded to include the land northward to Tennessee. It 1812 the rest of West Florida was included.

On December 10, 1817 Mississippi was admitted as a state to the United States. The eastern part of the Mississippi Territory became the Alabama Territory.

Franklin County, Mississippi was formed from the eastern part of Jefferson County and parts of Amite, Wilkinson and Adams Counties on December 21, 1809. It was named for Benjamin Franklin, distinguished American patriot. Over the year numerous minor boundary changes create a nightmare for genealogists.

The city of Meadville was named for Cowles Meade, Virginia native, who was appointed Secretary of the Territory in 1805. He had also served as acting Governor and Speaker of the House. "
(Franklin County WebGen)

• Meadville: "Dewitt Graham is listed in the following article concerning the history of Meadville, Mississippi."

"Meadville was the political hotbed of Franklin County. Most of the leading political figures of the county lived in Meadville or in its environs. In 1860 it had telegraph service, three inns and taverns, two houses of private entertainment, a post office, cobblers, several school teachers, a group of lawyers, a number of mechanics, several blacksmiths, and a tailor lived there.

A gentleman passing through Meadville in 1841 describe it as "Being in a state of dilapidation and decline. The palsying hand of time had shaken it to pieces." Actually the whole county was suffering from the lingering depression that is usually styled "the panic of 1837." The traveler was undoubtedly sincere in his observation concerning the condition of Meadville. No one had enough money to buy a tavern license in the town that year, so he might have missed his mid-day "dram." It might have appeared dilapidated because the Whig Party had consistently led his Democratic Party during the past few years or because many people had left the county two jumps ahead of process servers to escape paying their debts and had left their homes vacant and fields unattended. The county did not have a sheriff because William K. Ratcliff, the man elected sheriff, could not get any person or group of persons as sureties for his bond, and the old jail had nearly fallen down.

Conditions in the entire state were bad. Various laws were passed restricting sheriffs who were busily selling debtors' property. The sheriff received half of the property at auction if there were no bidders and some sheriff's "forgot" to advertise the auctions. Early in 1841 a law was passed requiring the sheriff to post five notices, one being on the courthouse, advertising the auctions which could not be held without ten days' notice on personal property, or thirty days' notice on real estate. Later in the year a law was passed to ban the sheriff from receiving half of the property where there were no bidders.

About six months after the traveler came through Meadville, William Proby, Oscar J.A. Stuart and John Johnson put glasses in all the windows, repaired the broken benches and steps, made a new door for the east side of the courthouse, and made other needed repairs upon the building. About the same time, Patrick Burd, a former overseer for Robert Anderson, began to build a new jail, because in 1839, Edmund Tucker, the sheriff, had carried prisoners to the Adams County Jail due to the insufficiency of the county jail. The new jail was to be 30 feet long and 25 feet wide from out to out and two stones high, with two dungeons, one on the ground floor and the other on the second story. A sheriff's office was to be on the lower story and a debtor's room on the second story. The sheriff's office and the debtor's department each were to have a fireplace sealed to the building by iron or wooden timbers. Each story was to be nine feet in the clear and the windows of the upper and lower dungeons were to be lined with an iron plate three-eights of an inch in thickness and eleven inches wide, to extend six inches above and below. The windows were to be spiked well to the sheds and riveted through, with three bars in each window. The lower windows were to be bricked up half way from the bottom, half the thickness of the walls.
Later a rail fence with four gates was built around the public square. The posts were white oak and the fence extended 66 feet north.

In the years following the depression, life in Meadville returned to normal. Taverns and inns were again opened in the town. Before the panic the taverns were operated by Reddin Byrd; the jailor, N.R. McKay; John D. Warschow; and Lewis Hollinger, who were predominantly of old established families. After the depression taverns and inns were operated by persons who had in many cases recently arrived from abroad. Tavern keepers George Garvis and Henry N. McKenzie came from Great Britain. Ebenezer Eleeker, who ran a small store in Meadville, was a native of England. Jose Rodriquez, another merchant, came from Cuba. Lewis M. Hollinger, who had the largest tavern in town, and Hiram Mann and Jacob Stern, tavern keepers, were born in Germany.

Men of foreign ancestry comprised a large segment of the population of the town in 1860. Charles Brewerton, a local painter, was a native of England; Joseph Glick and Marcius Lilverburg, both tailors, were born in Germany; and Edward Moreau, a cobbler, was a recent immigrant from Russia. Thomas Ryan, a brick mason, hailed from the Emeral Isle, and Henry Hinelcamp, a mechanic, and Barnett Broadmitz, a clerk were both born in Europe. Sigmund Mann, who operated a general store in Meadville, were of Germanic origin, John and James Garvis, brothers of George Garvis, was originally from Great Britain.

In the various professions and crafts there were many native Americans some of whom were born in Franklin County. George W. Imes and Rufus R. Ford were engineers. Dewitt G. Graham practiced law and was a competent surveyor. Thomas M. Pickett was a carpenter. F.C. Huff, John F. Hall, William D. Buckles, and Alexander McDonally were mechanics. William K. Brown was a shoe maker.
Some of the doctors who resided in Meadville were John B. Holden, John J. Jones, James A. Lee, Orvin V. Shurtliff, and Jacob R. Sample. In addition to lawyer-surveyor D. C. Graham, other attorneys were David A. Herring, William S. Cassedy, and Judge Hiram Cassedy. John A. Sample was the town's sole artist.
John M. Flowers and Joseph B. Wilkinson operated houses of private entertainment in Meadville in 1860. Wilkinson also had a grocery store and was in charge of mail delivery. Some sources state that he became post master in Meadville, in May, 1858, upon the death of John P. Stewart, who had been post master prior to that time. Wilkinson had eight men working for him who distributed the mail throughout the county.

Several new buildings were built in the decade prior to 1860. The Masons were not satisfied with the old Masonic Lodge. In 1857 they bought two lots from William O. Weathersby and John P. Stewart, and Stewart and John A. Hunter contracted to build a new lodge hall. The old building was sold to Richard Haley by O.V. Shurtliff, one of the commissioners for the Masonic finance committee.
The various transactions in land in Meadville indicate that Seaborn E. Jones bought several lots in Meadville, and on this land he probably built his tavern. In this period other purchasers of Meadville land were David Laurie; J.P. Stewart, a lawyer; William Calvit; William S. Cassedy, a lawyer; Jesse W. Cobb, a tavern keeper; and Erwin, Cleary and John L. Bornmore.

Pickett Reynolds had begun what was to be the largest saloon in Meadville in 1860. This tavern was a two story structure about one hundred feet long and sixty feet wide. Reynolds planned to convert the lower story into a tavern and the upper story into small rooms for sleeping accommodations."
(www.franklincountyms.net)

• Occupation: Lawyer and State Representative, Franklin County, Mississippi. "Dewitt Clinton Graham is listed as a Lawyer and State Representative. By all accounts, one of his occupations should have been listed as a gambler."
(Warren Trest)

• Census: 1850 US, 1850, Franklin Co., MS. ⁸⁴ "The Dewitt Graham family is listed in the 1850 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi as follows:

DeWitt C. Graham - age 22 - Lawyer - born in Louisiana
Francis M. - age 17 - born in Mississippi.

There is an Archibald B. Graham staying next door to Dewitt and is listed as 20 years old and a student. He is listed as being born in Louisiana also. These are the only Grahams living in Franklin County in 1850. A very good assumption can be made that Archibald is Dewitt Graham's younger brother."
(1850 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, page 1)

• Slave Schedule: 1850 US Slave Schedule, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1850, Franklin Co., MS. ⁸⁷ "Dewitt Graham has 9 slaves in the 1850 US Slave Schedule, Franklin County, Mississippi. They are listed as follows:
40 year old Male
30 year old female
11 year old female
9 year old female
Two 7 year old females
Two 4 year old females
1 year old female."
(1850 US Slave Schedule, Franklin County, Mississippi - Page 1)

• Census: 1860 US, 1860, Franklin Co., MS. ⁸⁸ "The Dewitt Graham family is listed on the 1860 US Census, Franklin County, Meadville Division, Mississippi as follows:

D.C. Graham - age 32 - Lawyer - Real Estate Value of $20,000 - Personal Estate Value of $25,000 - born in Louisiana
Malvinia - age 26 - born in Mississippi
Adda - age 6
Mary - age 2
Claiborne C - age 6 months"
(1860 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, page 238)

• Slave Schedule: 1860 US Census, Slave Schedule, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1860. ⁸⁹ "D.C. Graham has 20 slaves in the 1860 Slave Schedule, Franklin County, Mississippi. They are listed as follows:
45 year old male
37 year old female
35 year old female
32 year old female
31 year old female
30 year old male
25 year old male
23 year old male
22 year old female
21 year old female
20 year old female
13 year old male
11 year old male
8 year old female
4 year old male
3 year old female
2 year old female
2 year old male
1 year old female
6 month old female."
(1860 Franklin County, Mississippi Slave Schedule - Page 2)

• Military Service: Confederate Soldier - Civil War. ^85,90 "Dewitt C. Graham served in the 7th Mississippi Infantry, CSA. He mustered in as a Sergeant and was ranked out as a Sergeant. He served in Company A, 7th Regiment Mississippi Infantry."

"Diane Hall states that Dewitt Graham was 4th Sergent in Company A, 7th Mississippi, Franklin Rifles."

"7th Infantry Regiment was organized at Corinth, Mississippi, in April, 1861 with men from Marion, Amite, Pike, Franklin, Lawrence, Yalobusha, Holmes, and Covington counties. It served on the Mississippi coast, saw action in Kentucky, then was assigned to Generals J.P. Anderson's, Tucker's, and Sharp's Brigade, Army of Tennessee. The 7th participated in many conflicts of the army from Murfreesboro to Atlanta , marched with Hood to Tennessee, and fought in North Carolina. It was mustered into Confederate service with 911 officers and men, and sustained 20 casualties at Munfordville , 113 at Murfreesboro, and 75 at Chickamauga . The unit was briefly consolidated with the 9th Mississippi Regiment in December, 1863 and totalled 468 men and 252 arms. On April 26, 1865, it surrendered with 74 men. The field officers were Colonels William H. Bishop, E.J. Goode, Hamilton Mayson, and A.G. Mills; Lieutenant Colonels R.S. Carter and Benjamin F. Johns; and Major Henry Pope."
(Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System)

"Dunbar Roland's history of the unit is as follows:

Company A -- Franklin Rifles (raised in Franklin County, MS)
Company B -- Bogue Chitto Guards (raised in Pike County, MS)
Company C -- Amite Rifles (raised in Amite County, MS)
Company D -- Jeff Davis Sharpshooters (raised in Marion County, MS)
Company E -- Franklin Beauregards (raised in Franklin County, MS)
Company F -- Marion’s Men (raised in Marion County, MS)
Company G -- Goode Rifles (raised in Lawrence County, MS)
Company H -- Dahlgren Rifles (raised in Pike County, MS)
Company I -- Covington Rifles, aka Covington Rangers (raised in Covington County, MS)
Company K -- Quitman Rifles (raised in Franklin County, MS)
Colonels -- Enos J. Goode, Hamilton Mayson, William H. Bishop, killed at Franklin. Lieutenant-Colonels -- Hamilton Mayson, R. S. Garter, A. G. Mills, Benjamin F. Johns. Majors -- R. S. Carter, Benjamin F. Johns, Henry Pope.

Aggregate original enrollment, 911 officers and men. Original rolls on file.

This regiment was organized as the Seventh Regiment, Third Brigade, Army of Mississippi, Gen. C. G. Dahlgren commanding brigade, headquarters at Shieldsboro. It was intended by Governor Pettus to be one of three regiments for coast defense. The regiment was organized September 25, 1861, and in December was stationed at Bay St. Louis. Started to Tennessee February 26, and was at Jackson, Tenn., March 3, 1862. Being recalled to Corinth, it was assigned in the organization of the army under Albert Sidney Johnston to the "High Pressure" Brigade of Gen. J. R. Chalmers. Under the command of Lieut.-Col. Hamilton Mayson, the regiment participated in the battle of Shiloh. The Tenth, Ninth and Seventh made the first charge through the Federal camp in their front on the morning of April 6, and were gallantly engaged throughout that day and the next. Mayson was honorably mentioned as conspicuous in the thickest of the fight.

During the siege of Corinth Lieut.-Col. A. G. Mills commanded the outpost on the Monterey road, with 200 men from the Seventh and other regiments of the brigade. A Federal force advanced on May 28 and took position in a swamp from which they could not be driven until Mills was reinforced by an Alabama brigade under Col. Joseph Wheeler, when battle was given May 29, resulting in dislodging the enemy. In his report Wheeler mentioned the gallantry of Colonel Mills and Private Kerns, both wounded.

With Chalmers' Brigade the regiment, Col. W. H. Bishop commanding, participated in the Kentucky campaign of 1862. After passing through Glasgow they occupied Cave City, on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, and thence moved to attack the Federal garrison of 4,000 troops at Munfordville, strongly entrenched. In this battle, September 14, the Seventh, Ninth and Twenty-ninth took position to support the battery on a knob in front of the bastion fort, and thence were advanced in two columns to closer positions, the Seventh supporting the Ninth and Twenty-ninth. After the Tenth made its assault the other three regiments moved against the works, the Seventh on the right, and seemed to have prospects of success, when the opening of fire from a Confederate battery in their rear, unknown to them, disconcerted the attack. Colonel Bishop reported that he had 141 men in the battle and lost 4 killed, 15 wounded, 1 missing. In the second battle, September 16, the Seventh supported the skirmish line in the light attack, after which General Wilder surrendered. The brigade was at Danville and Harrodsburg October 8, day of battle of Perryville, skirmished at Lawrenceburg on the retreat, crossed Cumberland Gap October 20, reached Knoxville on the 31st, and in November advanced from Chattanooga to Murfreesboro.

At the battle of Murfreesboro Chalmers' Brigade was stationed at the right of Polk's Corps, the right of the brigade resting on Stone's River. Rosecrans established his line near them, placing Palmer's Division (Hazen's, Cruft's and Grose's Brigades) from the river along the Round Forest. The lines were separated by an open field, and Chalmers' men were exposed to artillery fire. It was wet and cold, but to avoid observation they refrained from building fires. Throwing up a slight earthwork for protection, they lay there forty-eight hours, waiting for the battle. It began with the attack by Hardee's Corps at dawn, December 31. Chalmers' Brigade was the pivot on which Polk's Corps swung into action, and was not ordered to attack until 11 o'clock. Surprise had aided the other brigades in their triumphant advance, but Palmer's Brigades were fully prepared when Chalmers' went in. There was no lack of spirit in the charge of the Mississippians, but the storm of lead and iron that met them at the burnt house struck down General Chalmers and shattered the line of gray. The regiments became separated, but soon reformed and under the brigade command of Colonel White fought gallantly through the remainder of the battle, which raged about the Round Forest for three days. In his report of the battle General Bragg said, "We succeeded in driving the enemy from every position except the strong one held by his extreme left flank, resting on Stone's River and covered by a concentration of artillery of superior range and caliber which seemed to bid us defiance." All of Withers' Division except Walthall's Brigade, all of Breckenridge's Division except Hanson's Brigade, and Donelson's Brigade of Cheatham's Division, were in this fight on the left, about 12,000 men, and their killed and wounded numbered 4,000. The casualties of the Seventh Regiment were 12 killed, including Capt. R. D. McDowell and Lieuts. H. J. M. Harrigill and G. W. Jones, 97 wounded and 4 missing.

The names selected by the various companies for the Roll of Honor were: John A. Higginbotham, A (k) ; H. H. Price, B; Richard R. Chaddick, C; Jeptha Creel, D; Sergt. George Stewart, E; B. Drummond, F; M. B. Stringer, G; A. Z. Coker, H; P. W. Rogers, I; Sergt. A. E. Ford, K.

They fell back to Shelbyville and Tullahoma in January and remained in that line until July, 1863, when they crossed the Tennessee River, marched over Lookout Mountain and went in camp near Chattanooga. July 13 to August 23, at the Tennessee River near Bridgeport, on picket duty; withdrawn as Rosecrans advanced.

The regiment, with Hindman's Division of Bragg's army, retreated from Chattanooga, as Rosecrans made the flank movement, into Georgia, and the Mississippi Brigade was encamped at Lee & Gordon's mill until they marched, September 10, to give battle to one of the Federal columns coming through the mountains at Cooper's and Stevens' gaps. Through a failure of co-operation only a skirmish resulted, on the 11th, and the men, many of them barefooted, all on short rations, hungry, thirsty and worn by night marches, moved back to Lafayette, whence they reached the field of battle with Rosecrans' united army, near Lee & Gordon's mill, on the night of September 19th, and next day went into the fight under the command of Lieutenant-General Longstreet. They attacked near the Glenn house, and gained that strong position. Colonel Bishop reported: "In obedience to orders, passing through General Deas' line, I attacked the enemy in my front, drove them from their position, capturing three pieces of artillery, and pursued them nearly a mile. In this charge I lost 2 men killed and about 10 officers and men wounded, among the latter Color Sergeant W. J. Nunnery." Of this victory of his division and others over the Federal divisions of Sheridan and Jeff C. Davis, General Hindman wrote: "Anderson's fearless Mississippians, carrying the breastworks in their front, moved up rapidly on Manigault's left. Without halting these two brigades then drove the enemy across the Crawfish Spring road and up the broken spurs of Missionary Ridge to its first elevation, 100 yards west. Hiding behind this, the enemy opened a tremendous fire of musketry and cannon upon our line as it advanced, and at the same time enfiladed it from an eminence in a field on the right; but without faltering he was charged, driven from his strong position and pursued upwards of three quarters of a mile, when he ceased resisting and disappeared northward." Hindman's Division captured 17 cannon and over 1,000 prisoners. Sheridan reported that his battle was fought under the most disadvantageous circumstances and that he lost 96 officers, among them Gen. W. H. Lytle, and 1,421 men. After 1 o'clock the same day the Mississippi Brigade joined in the assaults upon Granger's line near the Vidito house, and were three times repulsed, despite their most heroic efforts, with heavy loss. In the third assault, after repelling a Federal charge, the Seventh advanced with Kelly's Brigade of Buckner's Corps. Among the killed were Capts. J. M. Brister and G. A. Robertson, "brave and gallant soldiers and attentive and efficient officers." (Bishop). Mat Stringer, of Company G, Color Corporal, who succeeded Nunnery as color bearer, was mentioned for "cool intrepidity and gallantry." The flag staff was shot in two near the crest of the ridge. Lieut. W. J. Proby of A, and Lieut. John D. Cooper of G, were given honorable mention. The casualties were 10 killed, 64 wounded, 1 missing.

Major Riedt, commanding Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania, reported capture of 15 sharpshooters of this regiment, in front of Missionary Ridge, November 24, 1863. November 25 they participated in the battle of Missionary Ridge, and joined in the retreat to Dalton, where they went into winter quarters. The Ninth Regiment was then also put under command of the field officers of the Seventh.

At the opening of the campaign of 1864, the brigade, under General Tucker, participated in the engagement at Rocky Face Ridge, May 8, and at Resaca, May 14-15, was held in reserve, supporting Walthall's brigade. General Tucker was severely wounded and the brigade suffered considerably from artillery fire. Colonel Sharp, of the Forty-fourth, was promoted to Brigadier-General. The brigade served under General Hood in the fighting along the lines of New Hope church and Kenesaw Mountain in May and June. Gen. S. D. Lee took command of the corps July 27, Hood having been promoted to command of the army, and was directed to push the Federal advance back from the Lickskillet road west of Atlanta. Sharp's Brigade, which had been moved from the east to the west side of the city the day before, marched out three miles and attacked, twice, but the Federal line was too strongly established for the force available against it. Gen. Patton Anderson resumed command of the division, which went to work intrenching westward of the city, and was engaged in this work and constant skirmishing with the Federal line for a month. August 30 they marched to Jonesboro and went into battle there against Sherman, attacking with great gallantry and perseverance a strongly posted line of the enemy. (See Forty-fourth Regiment.) Col. William H. Bishop commanded the regiment through this campaign, and Lieut.-Col. Benjamin F. Johns was detached in command of the Ninth.

In General Hood's October, 1864, campaign on the Atlanta and Chattanooga Railroad, Lee's Corps invested Resaca but did not assault, and held Snake Creek Gap against Sherman until the remainder of the army had moved toward Gadsden, Ala. Sharp's Brigade crossed the Tennessee late on October 30 and "encountered the enemy on the Florence and Huntsville road about dark. A spirited affair took place, in which the enemy were defeated." (Lee). Sharp's Brigade, with Brantley's, Deas' and Manigault's, constituted the division of Gen. Edward Johnson, in S. D. Lee's Corps. They moved to Columbia, and when the Federal force there fell back across the river and took a strong position, Johnson's Division was detached with the other two corps of the army to cross the river and move in the direction of Spring Hill. The Federal force fell back to the intrenched line on the Harpeth River at Franklin, where they were attacked November 30 by Cheatham's and Stewart's Corps and Forrest's cavalry. Lee sent Johnson's Division in as reinforcements, "but owing to the darkness and want of information as to the locality his attack was not felt by the enemy until about one hour after dark. This division moved against the enemy's breastworks under a heavy fire of artillery and musketry, gallantly driving the enemy from portions of his line. The brigades of Sharp and Brantley (Mississippians) and of Deas (Alabamians), particularly distinguished themselves. Their dead were mostly in the trenches and on the works of the enemy, where they nobly fell in a desperate hand-to-hand conflict. Sharp captured three stand of colors. These brigades never faltered in this terrible night struggle." (Lee's report, January 30, 1865). The casualties of Sharp's Brigade were 30 killed, 81 wounded, 9 missing. Col. W. H. Bishop, commanding the Seventh and Ninth, was among the killed. Lieut.-Col. Johns, Major Henry Pope and Capt. J. N. Atkinson were wounded. Total casualties, 2 killed, 10 wounded, in Companies A, C, F, H, and I.

General Thomas' army then fell back to Nashville, which was invested by General Hood, December 2-16. December 15 Thomas assumed the offensive and Lee sent Johnson's Division to the assistance of Stewart's Corps. Sharp's Brigade was placed on the extreme left extended in the night by Bates' Division. In the battle next day the line of Bates' Division was broken by Garrard's Federal Division, which reported the capture of 20 guns and about 850 prisoners, including General Johnson. In a few moments the whole Confederate line was in retreat toward Franklin. At Brentwood General Lee took command of the rear guard, and during the retreat next day he was severely wounded in the foot. The army crossed the Tennessee River December 26, and fell back to the prairies of Mississippi, Lee making his headquarters at Columbus, Hood at Tupelo.

The brigade was furloughed until February 12, 186S. Under orders for the Carolinas 274 were assembled at Meridian February 14, and started east on the 18th. They were detained some time at Montgomery on account of the Mobile campaign, but were ordered to Augusta, March 4, and thence to North Carolina. April 3, the aggregate present was 420 in the brigade. Organization of the army near Smithfield, N. C., March 31, 1865, Seventh and Ninth Regiments consolidated under the command of Lieut .-Col. B. F. Johns.

April 9 Sharp's Brigade -- the Seventh, Ninth, Tenth, Forty-first and Forty-fourth Regiments and Ninth Battalion -- consolidated as the Ninth Mississippi Regiment, Col. William C. Richards, commanding. Brig.-Gen. Sharp's Brigade included this regiment, also the Eighth Mississippi Battalion, representing the consolidation of Lowrey's Brigade, and the Twenty-fourth Alabama and Nineteenth South Carolina, the consolidation of Manigault's Brigade. This consolidated brigade was part of the division of Gen. D. H. Hill, in S. D. Lee's Corps. The army was surrendered April 26, and paroled at Greensboro, N.C. But some of this regiment did not go east, and were included in the surrender of General Taylor, May 4, 1865."
(from Dunbar Rowland’s "Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898")

"From the muster rolls was found the following:

NON COMMISSIONED OFFICERS
1St SGT. James M. Lowe
2nd SGT. Jacob R. Sample
3rd SGT. George Imes
4th SGT. Dewitt Clinton Graham
5th SGT. Thomas Samuel Cotton
1st Corp. Hardy G.H. Magee
2nd Corp. John Everly Holden
3rd Corp. John A. Higginbotham
4th Corp. Elias Green"
(PoBoys Civil War)

• Military Service: "According to William Hadskey, Dewitt Clinton Graham did not muster due to being a State Representative and went into the 23rd Calvery instead."

"The Men Of Company A:

Captain William J. Proby not -elected; reenlisted and killed at Atlanta; served as Lieutenant Colonel and Provost Marshal of Franklin County in 1862.
1st Lt. William M. Porter — resigned as Captain due to month’s illness; Co. I, 14th Confederate Cavalry
2nd Lt. Pinckney Cotesworth Herrington - not re-elected; became Lt. Col. of Cavalry
3rd Lt. Adolphus Brown — resigned Dec. 1861; enlisted Co. B 14th Confederate Cavalry
1st Sergeant James M Lowe — not mustered; joined Darden’s Artillery school teacher.
2nd Sergeant Jacob R Sample — surrendered in North Carolina; a physician
3rd Sergeant George lmes — promoted to 1st Lt. transferred to Co. K; born in Va.
4th Sergeant Dewitt Clinton Graham — did not muster; State Representative; joined 23rd Cavalry
5th Sergeant Thomas Samuel Cotton — became captain; disabled from wounds at Atlanta
1st Corp. Hardy G. H. Magee — wounded at Murfreesboro and captured at Missionary Ridge
2nd Corp. John Everly Holden not re-elected was 2nd Lt.; later served in Youngblood’s Signal; was a physician and later a judge; had his servants Ale and Blackman with him
3rd Corp. John A. Higginbotham — wounded at Shiloh; killed at Murfreesboro, Medal of Honor
4th Corp. Elias Green — did not muster; transferred to Co. E 4th Louisiana"

• Memories from William Hadskey: ²⁰ "The following is from the book, A History of Franklin County, Mississippi, to 1861 by John William Hadskey. It was his thesis for a MS degree.

p.65 "Gambling was a vice of which many of the people were guilty. Joseph B.Wilkinson,....Dewitt C.Graham,...and many others were hauled into court for gambling."
p.69 "The membership roll for this society [The Franklin County Agricultural Society] was impressive. Some of the most influential people in the county were members: ... Attorney Dewitt C.Graham...."
p.89 "Twenty-three lawyers practiced in Meadville between 1853 and 1860, and ten of those lived in the county. They were ..."Dewitt C.Graham...."
p.76 "Dewitt G.Graham practised law and was a competent surveyor."
p.98 "Dewitt Clinton Graham, the last elected representative from the county prior to the Civil War, was a socially prominent aristocrat of that day. Apparently his father, Archibald Graham, had died when Dewitt was quite young, and this young native of Hamburg community had been reared by his stepfather, Bartlett Ford. Archibald Graham, a United States surveyor, left his son a nice estate, and the young man inherited more land from his mother, the former Mary Jane Holloway, and from his stepfather. One of his kinsmen taught him the art of surveying and the fundamentals of engineering [321]. Dewitt was also well versed in law and was a close friend of John P.Stewart, one of the political leaders of the county. From the time of his birth in 1828 his family expected him to follow their aristocratic fashion. He learned well and from all accounts this tall, handsome young man was one of the most aristocratic snobs in the county. After he married Melvina Smith in 1859, he would not let Ransom Hall, a white day laborer who was working for him, eat at his table. Other supposedly inferior white people were also denied that privilege [322].

"When Graham began to practice law, he moved to Meadville. He was recognized as one of the most brilliant lawyers in the county and was noted as a mathematician. His knowledge of mathematics availed him naught in his gambling exploits; he lost nearly all his inheritance at cards although on some occasions he won as much as $5000. in a single night [323]. He was a familiar figure in circuit court, pleading for himself or some friends on a gaming charge [324].To better his political ambitions he secured the post of deputy probate clerk and served on election committees as clerk and occasionally as commissioner. He also served as a school commissioner and as a commissioner of the Homochito River Company [325].

"Graham supported for district attorney Luther M.Lee, a Meadville attorney and secretary of the county Democratic executive committee, in the convention which was held at Fayette, and in the ensuing political race his choice was defeated by a Know-Nothing [326]. He also supported Judge Cassedy fopr the congressional nomination at the district convention in Brookhaven but failed to get him nominated. Graham could afford to be magnanimous for he had been selected by acclamation to represent the county legislature in the county Democratic convention which had been held on May 2, 1859. Probably there, at the apex of his life, graham had majestically arisen and assured the assembled crowd that "if a Black Republican should b e elected in 1860, a convention of the people should be called.' That rabid group of secessiontionists knew what Graham meant [327]."
Sources: 321-Memoirs of Mississippi, Vol I, 753-4.
322-Interview with Mrs.Anna Graham, Hamburg, Miss, January 1, 1952.
323-Idem
324-Franklin Co.Circuit Court Records, 1860.
325-Franklin Co. Records of the Board of Police, Nov.20,1849; Dec 2,1850; June 12, Sept 13, 1852; March 12,1855; Nov 7,1859.
326-Fayette Watch Tower, April 30,1859, to Oct 18, 1859, passim.
327-Ibid., May 13,1859; Sept 13, 1859."
(William Hadskey)

"It is interesting to note that the Ransom Hall that he would not let eat at his table, married his wife and reared his children after his death."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Death: 1866-1867. ⁸⁵ "Francis Smith Graham married Leonidus Ransom Hall in August, 1867. Diane Hall states that Leonidus Hall married Dewitt's widow and raised his children. She believes that before the war, Leonidus Hall was Dewitt's overseer.

Francis being married to L. Hall with the Graham children is backed up by the 1880 Franklin County, Mississippi census."

"It is also of note that Leonidus Hall was a private in Company A, Franklin Rifles when Dewitt Graham was the 4th Sergent of the same unit.

The following is the original roster of the 7th, Company A:
NON COMMISSIONED OFFICERS
1St SGT. James M. Lowe
2nd SGT. Jacob R. Sample
3rd SGT. George Imes
4th SGT. Dewitt Clinton Graham
5th SGT. Thomas Samuel Cotton
1st Corp. Hardy G.H. Magee
2nd Corp. John Everly Holden
3rd Corp. John A. Higginbotham
4th Corp. Elias Green

PRIVATES
Eugene E. Adams (WIA at Atlanta)
George M. Adams
David Leroy Aldridge
Manfield L. Aldridge
John E. Allred
Charles Arnold
Ira Amasa Austin
Charles W. Beam
Soloman J. Beck
James P. Bennett
Jesse C. Bennett
Micajah P. Bennett
James M. Bovard
Charles Brewerton
Barnett Broadnitz
William K. Brown
William Prater / Prather Buckles
Joseph S. Buie
William E. Buie
Blanchard D. Butler
Thomas Byrd
Thomas Jefferson Byrd
Winston W. E. Byrd
George W. Cain
Hardy H. Cain
William T. Calert Jr.
Bryant M. Caraway
William B. Carraway
William S. Cassidy
Jasper N. Chambers
John Chambers
Henry M. Cloy
Richard M. Cloy
Zachariah Reeves Cloy
Joseph Robert Cotton
William Van Cotton
Walter Courtney
Zachariah Monroe Coward
Jacob J. Cox
Octairous H. Cox
George McD Crosby
William M. Crosby
Francis E. Cruise
Samuel Cruise
Thomas S. Cruise
Isaac J. Davis
John L. P. Dixon
Thomas Alexander Ducker
Thomas Ephraim Dixon
Jesse T. Evans
John K. Ford
Rufus R. Ford
William H. Freeman (Died in 1935)
Charles H. Gammill (Artificer)
Thomas Wesley Gammill
Wade H. Golden / Gaulden
John M. Gill
Joseph Glack
Jefferson L. Godbold
Benjamin F. Grant
Edward O. Grigsby
John F. Gunter
John F. Hall
Leonardis Ransom Hall
Samuel D. Harris"

(Warren Trest)

Dewitt married Francis Melvina Smith ^{2,81,82,91,92} on 23 May 1850 in Franklin County, Mississippi ⁸⁰.^,83

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Adda J. Graham (born in 1856 Franklin County, Mississippi)

         ii.   Mary Beatrice Graham (born on 10 Feb 1858 Franklin County, Mississippi - died on 5 Feb 1950 in Franklin County, Mississippi)

12      iii.   Claudius Claborne Graham (born on 1 Jan 1860 Franklin County, Mississippi - died on 15 Jun 1903 in Franklin County, Mississippi)

         iv.   Dewitt Clinton Graham (born on 11 Oct 1863 Franklin County, Mississippi - died on 16 Apr 1926 in Franklin County, Mississippi)

          v.   Ida Graham (born on 15 Mar 1865)

25. Francis Melvina Smith,^{2,5,81,82,91,92} daughter of William B. Smith and Francis Scott , was born on 17 Mar 1833 in Mississippi ^38,39,93 and died after 1910 in Mississippi ⁴⁸.^,85

Noted events in her life were:

• Remarriage: "Francis Melvina Smith married Dewitt Graham at an early age. She is already married in the 1850 census at age 17 to Dewitt. She must have been married at 16 or 17 years old.

After Dewitt Clinton Graham died in 1865, Francis Melvina Smith Graham married Leonidus Ransom Hall, a caretaker for Dewitt Graham. Ransom Hall reared Dewitt's children. L.R. Hall served in the same company (as a Private) during the Civil War that Dewitt Graham was a Sergent in.

It is interesting to note that this is the same L.R. Hall that Dewitt Graham would not let eat at the same table according to WIlliam Hadskey's book, A History of Franklin County, Mississippi, to 1861.

"From the time of his birth in 1828 his family expected him to follow their aristocratic fashion. He learned well and from all accounts this tall, handsome young man was one of the most aristocratic snobs in the county. After he married Melvina Smith in 1859, he would not let Ransom Hall, a white day laborer who was working for him, eat at his table. Other supposedly inferior white people were also denied that privilege [322]."

"Francis Melvina Smith remained married to L. Ransom Hall until his death between 1900 and 1910."
(Warren Graham Trest)



"
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Census: 1870 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1870. ⁴⁰ "Francis Melvina Smith Graham has married L.Ransom Hall by the time of the 1870 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Meadville P.O. The family is as follows:

Ransom Hall - age 34 - Farmer - born in Mississippi - Value of real estate $1400 - Value of personal estate $830
Elvira Hall (name misspelled) - age 36 - born in Mississippi
Adda Graham - age 16 - at school - all children born in Mississippi
Mary Graham - age 12
Claudius Graham - age 10
Dewitt Graham - age 6
Eustalia Hall - male - age 4
Ada Hall - age 1."
(1870 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Meadville P.O. - Page 38)

"Eustalia Hall must have died before 1880 since he does not show up in the 1880 Franklin County, Mississippi census."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Census: 1880 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1880. ⁴¹ "Francis Melvina Smith Graham has married L.R. Hall and has two children by him in the 1880 US Census. Adda is no longer living with them but the other 4 Graham children are still at home. The family is as follows:

L.R. Hall - age 44 - Farmer - Father born in North Carolina
F.M. Hall - wife - age 47 - born in Mississippi - Father born in South Carolina
Ada M. Hall - daughter - age 10 - all children born in Mississippi
R.R. Hall - son - age 7
M.D. Graham - Daughter in law - age 22
C.C. Graham - Son in law - age 19 - Farm Laborer
R.W. Graham - Son in law - age 16 - Farm Laborer
Ida Graham - Daughter in law - age 14."
(1880 US Census, Franklin County, Hamburg - page 36C)

• Census: 1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Jun 1900. ¹⁵ "Francis Melvina Smith (Graham) Hall is listed in the 1900 US Census, Franklin County, Beat 1, Hamburg District, Mississippi as follows:

L. Ransom Hall - Head - born Nov 1835 - age 64 - married 32 years - born in Mississippi - both parents born in Tennessee - Farmer - Owned his land, free from mortgage.
Francis M. - Wife - born Mar 1833 - age 67 - bore 10 children with 7 still living - born in Mississippi, Father born in South Carolina, Mother born in Mississippi.

Both could read and write."
(1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi - Beat 1 - Page 19)

• Census: 1910 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1910. ⁴⁸ "Francis Melvina (Graham) Hall is listed in the 1910 US Census, Franklin County, Beat 2, Antioch District, Mississippi as follows:

Melvina Hall - white - age 77 - widowed - 6 out of 7 children living - born in Mississippi.
Frank Cade - black male - lodger - age 15 - born in Mississippi
H?ll Cade - black male - lodger - age 11 - born in Mississippi
(both boys are listed as Farm Laborers)

It can be assumed that the Cade boys were working the farm for Francis."
(1910 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

Francis married Dewitt Clinton Graham ^2,81,82,83 on 23 May 1850 in Franklin County, Mississippi ⁸⁰.^,83

Francis next married Leonidas Ransom Hall on 8 Aug 1867 ⁸¹.^,82 Leonidas was born in 1836 in Mississippi ^38,39 and died on 27 Feb 1910 in Mississippi, at age 74.

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Eustatia Hall (born in 1867 Mississippi)

         ii.   Ada M. Hall (born on 23 Sep 1868 Franklin County, Mississippi)

        iii.   Robert Ransom Hall (born on 25 Feb 1873 Franklin County, Mississippi - , died in Y)

26. Reverend Solomon Bufkin,⁵ son of Benjamin Franklin Bufkin and Celia Ann Lewis , was born on 21 Apr 1832 in Copiah County, Mississippi,⁹⁴ died on 20 Dec 1877 in Franklin County, Mississippi, at age 45,⁹⁴ and was buried in Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery, Barlow, Copiah County, MS..⁹⁴

Noted events in his life were:

• Census: 1840 US Census, Copiah County, Mississippi, 1840. "Benjamin Bufkin is listed in the 1840 US Census, Copiah County, Mississippi as follows:

Benjamin Bufkin - 1 male under 5 years of age
1 male between 5 and 10 years of age (This should have been Soloman Graham since he would have been about 8 years old at the time of the census).
2 males between 10 and 15 years of age
1 male between 15 and 20 years of age
1 male between 20 and 30 years of age
1 male between 40 and 50 years of age

1 female under 5 years of age
1 female between 5 and 10 years of age
1 female between 30 and 40 years of age."
(1840 US Census, Copiah County, Mississippi)

• Census: 1850 US Census, Copiah County, Mississippi, 1850. ⁹⁵ "The Benjamin Bufkin family is listed in the 1850 US Census, Copiah County, Mississippi as follows:

Benjamin Bufkin - age 56 - Blacksmith - born in South Carolina
Celia Bufkin - age 55 - born in North Carolina
Soloman - 18 years of age - farmer - born in Mississippi
Erbane - age 14
Celia A. - age 12"
(1850 US Census, Copiah County, Mississippi)

• Occupation: home missonary. ⁹⁴ "Soloman Bufkin was a home-missionary for 16 years in Southwest Mississippi."
(Ben Bunting)

• Occupation: Pastor at Antioch Baptist Church, 1852. "Listed below are the pastors who have served Antioch Baptist Church and God's work in Western Copiah County:
1827 William Mullens
1852 A. K. Lumm
1856 Solomon Bufkin"

• Antioch Baptist Church Records: 1856. "The good work still goes on at this Church. They have licensed brother Solomon Buffkins to preach."

• Antioch Baptist Church Records: 1857. "We have peace and love in our midst. We have regular preaching by Bro. A.R. Lum. Bro. Buffkin preaches for us once a month, and regular Prayer Meetings twice a week."

• Antioch Baptist Church Records: 1859. "We are still enjoying the visitation of the Holy Spirit in our midst. The great work of the Lord is still going on. We have regular preach- ing twice a month -2nd and 4th Sabbath - by Brother S. Buffkin, whose labors seem to be blessed - have regular prayer meetings once a week, besides a regular Sunday school."

• Census: 1870 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 21 Jul 1870. ⁴⁰ "The Soloman Bufkin family is listed in the 1870 US Census, Franklin County, Meadville P.O., page 97 as follows. (The name is mispelled as Buffkin):

Soloman Buffkin - age 37 - Minister - value of real estate $1000, value of personal estate $582.
Elizabeth Buffkin - age (37 or 39) - keeping house
Kate S. - age 7
Clara - age 2

Everyone has Mississippi listed as place of birth."
(1870 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi - page 97)

• Obituary: "ELDER SOLOMON BUFKIN
April 21, 1832 December 20, 1877

As we glean the historical records we have at hand, we find Solomon Bufkin, son of Benjamin and Celia Ann Lewis Bufkin was ordained and licensed to the ministry in Antioch Baptist Church in the spring of 1854.

The following report was taken from the archives of the Mississippi Baptist Association of 1878 and we feel is worthy of printing in this book. "Report of Committee on Obituaries" your committee on obituaries would beg leave to submit the following as their report.

Elder Solomon Bufkin

A gloom has been thrown over our association by the death of our much esteemed Brother Solomon Bufkin. Soon after the last meeting of our association, death began to throw his dark shadows across his mind, and he saw and remarked to a Brother that he was not long for this world; and accordingly began setting his house in order for his departure. He realized more of it than his friends and even his bosom companion, who tried to dispel the shadows of death that then hung like a pall over him; but all the friends and physicians could do did not check the cruel hand of death. He is dead, noy, not dead, but sleepeth. He is gone to that bright world of sainted spirits to which he pointed his fellow men. He was born April 21, 1832 and died December 20, 1877; making him forty-six years old.

In the year 1851, on April 24th, he was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Carlisle, as his companion and partner in life. That union gave him eight children, all of whom are buried except two. Thus you see that the most of his family had preceded him to the spirit land. He professed conversion sometimes before he united with the church, and would not only engage in prayers, but would exhort his brethren. He established the altar of his family soon after his conversion, thus showing that the Lord has set him apart for a great work. In the spring of 1854, he united with the Antioch Baptist Church, in Copiah County, Mississippi where he was born and raised by pious parents, and in the same year, the church being so well satisfied that the Lord had chosen him as a herald of the Cross, he was licensed and ordained to the work of the Gospel minister, and we are happy to say that he ended with joy to himself and all who knew him. His labors in the ministry for sixteen years are full of zeal and self-denial - he was instant in season and out of the first part of his ministry was given churches and hard labor in the field, and God blessed him not only in his churches, but in toiling in the field. He was not supported as he should have been, and feeling that he must provide for his own family, was driven to the farm. He was away from his home and family for nearly two-thirds of his time: having to travel from twenty to thirty miles to reach all his churches except of one at home, having to encounter all the danger of crossing the Homochitto River, as well as other large creeks, and at one of these crossing on one occasion, lost a valuable horse and came near losing his own life, but God saved him amid summer's heat and winter's cold, when duty said go, he never shrank.

As to matter of his preaching, it was more practical than doctrinal. Always exhibiting that zeal and earnestness that made his preaching powerful, his manner was of that character as to rivet the audience to those holy and blessed truths that were drawn from hard study of the scriptures. His education was limited and he made himself what he was by hard study. His social qualifications were good.

There was that cheerfulness about him that made all around him happy, and this life was with him on his dying bed.

He was one of the sweet singers of Israel, his voice was strong and clear and well adapted to singing. It was one of his engagements of worship, as well as the social circle that he loved so dearly; and for this many would come to hear him preach.

Brother Bufkin was truly a working missionary Baptist. He has done more to arouse and keep a missionary spirit in this association than any other man. He has traveled miles and made speeches and preached sermons to get the churches to do something for missions, especially in the bounds of this ssociation. But, brethren; he is dead. Nay, he lives - he lives in the affections of his churches. Oh! His own churches have almost paralyzed by his loss; feeling that his place cannot be filled; and almost everywhere we see the work of his hands. These praise him and he cannot die while he is in the hearts of so many. Years may roll away and like Curtis, Felder, Cooper and others, he will still live. But while we feel his loss, there are none to feel like his beloved wife and children. That step and voice is no longer heard in his home to cheer it, but what is their and our loss, we trust in this eternal gain; therefore resolved, that we tender his bereaved family our warmest sympathies.

Pale and cold we see thee lying
Near God's temple once so dear,
And the mourner's bitter sighing,
Feels unheeded on thine ear.
All thy love and zeal to lead us,
Where immortal fountains flow,
And on living bread to feed us,
In our fond remembrance glow.
May the Conquering faith that cheered thee,
When they foot the Jordan pressed,
Guide our spirit while we leave thee,
In the tomb that Jesus blessed.
W.H. Gunby

This brother died early in December last. He was an active and zealous member of the Ebenezer Church, and died in he forty-sixth year of his age. Though cut off suddenly - dying even in the home of another - yet he was thoroughly prepared for his change. The church and community will even find it hard to fill the void created by his decease, but his companion, children, and friends, are assured that their loss was his eternal gain.

"Dying in the Lord he rests from his labors: his works do follow him"

Solomon married Elizabeth Carlisle .

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Kate Scott Bufkin (born on 20 Mar 1863 Copiah County, Mississippi - died on 19 Jan 1919)

13       ii.   Clara Dodd Bufkin (born on 10 Mar 1868 Franklin County, Mississippi - died on 17 Oct 1933 in Franklin County, Mississippi)

27. Elizabeth Carlisle,⁵ daughter of James Carlisle and Mary E. Bishop , was born about 1831 in Mississippi ^41,43 and died after 1880.⁴⁰

Noted events in her life were:

• Census: 1880 US Census, Hamburg, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1880. ⁴⁹ "Elizabeth Bufkin, along with her daughter Clara, are found in the 1880 US Census, Franklin County, Hamburg Township. Solomon Bufkin has already passes away. They are listed as follows:

Elizabeth Bufkin - age - 49 - widow - keeping house - born in Mississippi - both parents born in Georgia
Clara D. Bufkin - age 12 - attending school - all family born in Mississippi."
(1880 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

Elizabeth married Reverend Solomon Bufkin .

28. John Hardin Collier Jr.,^2,5 son of John Hardin Collier Sr. and Cora Catherine Truly , was born about Jan 1846 in Jefferson County, Mississippi,² died after Feb 1925 in Franklin County, Mississippi,² and was buried in Old Union Baptist Chruch, Franklin County, Mississippi.

Noted events in his life were:

• Census: 1850 US Census, Jefferson County, Mississippi, 30 Jul 1850. ⁹⁶ "John H. Collier Sr. is living in Jefferson County, Mississippi in the 1850 US Census, Jefferson County, Mississippi, 9 Township, page 2 and is listed as follows:

J.H. Collier - age 42 - Planter - born in Mississippi
Cora Collier - age 27 - all family born in Mississippi
Sarah A. Collier - age 7
J.H. Jr - age 4"
(1850 US Census, Jefferson County, MIssissippi)

• Military Service: "There are 3 John Colliers (with no middle initial) that fought in the Civil War out of Mississippi. It is not known if any of these records are John Hardin Collier.

1 Collier, John Confederate Infantry 1st Regiment, Mississippi Infantry (State Troops) (King's)

2 Collier, John Confederate Infantry 6th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry

3 Collier, John Confederate Infantry 26th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry"

• Census: 1870 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 3 Aug 1870. ⁴⁰ "John Hardin Collier Sr. and Jr. are living together in the 1870 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Meadville Post Office, page 169 and are as follows:

J.H. Collier Sr. - age 60 - born in Mississippi - value of real estate - $1,000 - Farmer
J.H. Collier Jr. - age 23 - born in Mississippi - Farm Laborer"
(1870 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

• Census: 1880 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1880. ⁴³ "The John Newman Sr. family is listed in the 1880 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi and is listed as follows:

John H. Collier - Age 73 - born in Mississippi, Widower, County Officer, father born in Virginia, mother born in Mississippi

John Collier - Age 35 - born in Mississippi, Farmer, both parents born in Mississippi
Helen N. Collier - age 32 - all family born in Mississippi
John N. Collier - son - age 11 - all children born in Mississippi
Willie P. Collier - son - age 11
Cora C. Collier - daughter - age 10
Mary L. Collier - daughter - age 9
Mattie W. Collier - daughter - age 8
Etta A. Collier - daughter - age 7
Sophia J. Collier - daughter - age 4
Sally J. Collier - daughter - age 3
John H. Collier - son - age 2 months."
(1880 US Census, Franklin County, MIssissippi - District 1)

• Census: 1920 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 20 Jan 1920. ⁴⁵ "John Hardin Collier is living with his daughter, Sally and grandchildren in the 1920 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Roxie Township, page 11-A. The family is listed as follows, preceeded by F.M. Collier (who must have been Frank Marshall Collier):

House 229
F.M. Collier - head - married (so his wife must not have been home when the census was taken) - white male - age 37 - Farmer
Marshall - son - age 6

House 230
J.H. Collier - head (so his daughter was with him) - age 74 - widowed
Sally M. (married name was Martin) - age 38 (hard to read) - widowed
(hard to read - possibly Sam or Samie) Martin - son - age 10
Eugene - son - age 12
Tami - daughter - age 15"
(1920 US Census, Franklin County, MIssissippi)

John married Helen Edna Newman ² on 13 Nov 1867 in Franklin County, Mississippi.²

Children from this marriage were:

14        i.   John Newman Collier (born on 2 Oct 1868 Franklin County, Mississippi - died on 12 Dec 1933 in Franklin County, Mississippi)

         ii.   Willie P. Collier (born about 1869 - died after 1880 in Buried: Old Union Baptist Church Cemetery, No Marker)

        iii.   Cora Cordelia Collier (born about Apr 1871 Franklin County, MS. - died on 8 Aug 1943 in Buried: Old Union Baptist Church Cemetery, No Marker)

         iv.   Mary Lou Collier (born about Feb 1872 Franklin County, MS.)

          v.   Mattie W. Collier (born on 7 Jun 1874 Franklin County, MS. - died on 11 Mar 1907 in Buried: Old Union Baptist Church Cemetery, Franklin County MS.)

         vi.   Etta A. Collier (born about 1876 Franklin County, MS. - , died in Dequincy, La.)

        vii.   Sophia J. Collier (born on 12 Apr 1879 Franklin County, MS. - died on 24 Jul 1967 in Franklin County, MS.)

       viii.   Sally A. Collier (born on 10 Apr 1880 Franklin County, MS. - died on 29 Apr 1964)

         ix.   John H. Collier (born about May 1880 - , died in Found Only In 1880 Census)

          x.   Frank Marshall Collier (born on 15 Apr 1881 Franklin County, MS. - died between 1930-1936 in Franklin County, MS.)

         xi.   Edna Lee Collier (born on 22 Apr 1882 Franklin County, MS. - died on 18 May 1949 in Winnsboro, Franklin Parish, La.)

        xii.   Helen Collier (born on 28 Feb 1888 Franklin County, MS. - died on 24 Feb 1908 in Buried: Old Union Baptist Church Cemetery)

29. Helen Edna Newman,^2,5 daughter of Robert James Newman and Martha Edna McMillan , was born between 1847-1848 in Mississippi,² died after 1900 in Mississippi,^2,49 and was buried in Old Union Baptist Church Cemetery, Franklin County, Mississippi.

Helen married John Hardin Collier Jr. ² on 13 Nov 1867 in Franklin County, Mississippi.²

30. James F. Graves,^2,5 son of Osborne Bartlett Graves and Eliza Jane Corban , was born on 20 Jan 1847 in Franklin County, Mississippi ² and died on 17 Mar 1927 in Franklin County, Mississippi, at age 80.² Other names for James were James Francis, and James Franklin.

Noted events in his life were:

• Census: 1850 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 16 Sep 1850. "The Osborne Graves family is listed in the 1850 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi as follows:

(house 184)
Osborne B. Graves - age 23 - farmer - value of real estate $600 - all family born in Mississippi
Eliza J. - age 18
James F. - age 5
Sarah E. - age 1
Mary A. - age 7 months

Osborne's brother and sister are also living with him in 1850"
(1850 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

• Census: 1860 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 11 Aug 1860. ⁸⁸ "The John Aldridge family is listed in the 1860 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, page 22 as follows (Osborne Bartlett Graves Sr. has died and Eliza Corban has remarried to John Aldridge by 1860):

John Aldridge - age 41 - male - farmer - value of real estate $12, 500 - value of personal estate $300 - born in Mississippi (everone is listed as birthplace of Mississippi)
Eliza - age 29 - female - domestic - can not read or write
James - age 13 - male (This is James F. Graves)
Sarah - age 12 - female - attended school in the last year
Mary - age 10 - female - attended school in the last year
William - age 9 - male
Bartlett - age 7 male
Colombus - age 2 - male
Elizabeth - age 1 - female.

It should be noted that all the children listed from James down to Bartlett were born between Eliza Corban and Osborne Graves. The last two children were between Eliza Corban and John Aldridge."
(1860 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

• Military Service: ⁵⁴ "There is a James F. Graves that served in the 19 Mississippi Infantry, Company H., that mustered in and out as a private. It is not known at this time if this is the same James F. Graves.

History of the 19th Mississipi Infantry:

CONFEDERATE MISSISSIPPI TROOPS

19th Infantry Regiment completed its organization at Oxford, Mississippi, in May, 1861, and soon moved to Virginia. The men were raised in the counties of Warren, Jefferson, Greene, Panola, Marshall, and was assigned to General Wilcox's, Featherston's, Posey's, and Harris' Brigade. It fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from Williamsburg to Cold Harbor , then served in the Petersburg trenches south of the James River and in the Appomattox Campaign. This regiment lost 15 killed and 85 wounded of the 501 engaged at Williamsburg, had 58 killed, 264 wounded, and 3 missing at Gaines' Mill and Frayser's Farm, and had 6 killed and 52 wounded in the Maryland Campaign. Its casualties were 6 killed and 40 wounded at Chancellorsville and seven percent of the 372 at Gettysburg were disabled. On April 9, 1865, it surrendered with 8 officers and 129 men. The field officers were Colonels Thomas J. Hardin, Nathaniel H. Harris, Lucius Q.C. Lamar, Christopher H. Mott, John Mullins, Richard W. Phipps, and Ward G. Vaughan; Lieutenant Colonel James H. Duncan; and Majors Ben. Allston, Robert A. Dean, Thomas R. Reading, and Abner Smead."
(Civil War Soldier and Sailor System)

• Census: 1870 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 9 Aug 1870. "The James Graves family is listed in the 1870 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Meadville P.O., page 183 as follows:

J.F. Graves - age 24 - Farm laborer - born in Mississippi - can not read or write
R. Graves - age 24 - keeping house - born in Mississippi
O.M. Graves - male - age 3 (This would be Osborne Monroe Graves - oldest child)

(I would have to wonder about the birth date of Sicily Anna Graves since she does not show up in the 1870 census)"
(1870 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

• Census: 1880 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 6 Jul 1880. ⁴⁹ "The James Graves family is listed in the 1880 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, District 1 - Page 53 as follows:

James F. Graves - head - age 32 - farmer - all family born in Mississippi (everyone shows all family from Mississippi)
Rhoda - wife - age35 - keeping house
O.M. - son - age 12 - at school
S.A. - daughter - age 9 - at school
Catherine - daughter - age 7
Lizzie - daughter - age 5
Eliza - daughter - age 3
(page 54)
John Q. - son - age 1"

(1880 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi - district 1 - page 53 and 54)

• Census: 1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 14 Jun 1900. ¹⁵ "The James Graves family is listed in the 1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Beat 1, page 10 as follows:

James F. Graves - born Jan 1844 - age 56 - farmer (all family members born in Mississippi) - married 36 years
Rhoda - born Feb 1840 - age 60 - 9 children with 8 living
John Q. - son - born Jan 1879 - age 21 - farm laborer
Stella - daughter - born Mar 1881 - age19
Lillian(d) - daughter - born Feb 1882 - age 18
Vernon - Grandson - born Jan 1892 - age 7
Thomas - Grandson - born Feb 1895 - age 5"
(1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

• Memories from Barbara Celotto: ⁵ "Joe Graves (son of James Graves and his second wife Ella) said there was a big split in the family when Jim (James F. Graves) married Ella Corban (his second wife).

He feels bitter toward Osborne Monroe Graves and John Quincy Graves (his stepbrothers) because he said they did not help him and his Mother after his Father died.

After Jim's death Mazie and Sally (daughters from James' second marriage) went to Vicksburg and stayed with Sicily for a while.

He also said Jim was a very mean man.

Billie Lea said that Mary Ella and Joe (children from second marriage) went to live with John Quincy Graves and Queen Victoria for a short time but the women did not get along and they left."
(Barbara Celotto)

• Census: 1910 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 21 Apr 1910. ¹⁹ "The James F. Graves family is listed in the 1810 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Beat 1, Page 6-A as follows:

(Note: Rhoda Middleton Graves has died since the 1900 US Census and James Graves has remarried Ella Corbin)

James F. Graves - age 67 - farmer - married 3 years - everyone born in Mississippi
Ella - wife - age 36 - 1 child - living
Jimmy May - daughter - age 3 months
Martha Corban - stepmother - age 55
Julia Corban - sister in law - (can not make out age)
Lindsey - brother in law - age 10"
(1910 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

• Census: 1920 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 19 Jan 1920. ⁴⁵ "The James F. Graves family is listed in the 1920 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Roxie township, page 10B as follows:

J.F. Graves - head - age 75 - all family members and relatives born in Mississippi - Farmer
Ella - wife - age 47
Jimmie May - daughter - age 10
Sallie - daughter - age 8
Joe V. - son - age 5
(Corban? - hard to read) Howard - brother in law - age 44
(Roberson Annie? - hard to read) - sister in law - age 36
Birtie May - daughter - age 9
Annie - daughter - age 7"
(1920 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

James married Rhoda Currie Middleton ² on 1 Feb 1866 in Franklin County, MS..²

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Osborne Monroe Graves (born on 12 Jan 1868 Franklin County, MS. - died on 24 Dec 1951 in Franklin County, MS.)

         ii.   Sicily Anna Graves (born on 31 May 1869 Franklin County, MS. - died on 14 Dec 1952 in Meridian, Lauderdale County, MS.)

15      iii.   Catherine Lula Graves (born on 16 Mar 1874 Franklin County, Mississippi - died on 10 Feb 1952 in Franklin County, Mississippi)

         iv.   Lizzie Graves (born in Apr 1876 Franklin County, MS. - died before 1910 in Franklin County, MS.)

          v.   Eliza Jane Graves (born on 16 Jan 1877 Franklin County, MS. - died on 11 Feb 1967 in Franklin County, MS.)

         vi.   John Quincy Graves (born on 13 Jan 1880 Franklin County, MS. - died on 8 May 1944 in Jackson, MS.)

        vii.   Stella Graves (born on 15 Jan 1881 Franklin County, MS. - died on 17 Jun 1968 in Beaumont, TX.)

       viii.   Lillian Graves (born on 31 Aug 1886 - died on 24 Jul 1962)

James next married Mary Ella Corban ,² daughter of Joseph Elisha Corban and Martha Alice Whittington , on 9 May 1907 in Franklin County, MS..² Mary was born on 4 Aug 1875 ² and died on 10 Apr 1967, at age 91.²

Marriage Notes: [graves 2002 good.FBK]

(Volume 1 Page 480)

General Notes: [graves 2002 good.FBK]

(7 August 1870) Alt. birth date.

She is buried in Providence Cemetery, Franklin County, Ms.

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Jimmie Mazie Graves (born on 2 Mar 1910 Franklin County, MS. - died in Jul 1984)

         ii.   Sally Graves (born on 19 Nov 1912 Franklin County, MS. - died about 1968)

        iii.   Joe Graves (born on 30 Apr 1914 Franklin County, MS.)

31. Rhoda Currie Middleton,^2,5 daughter of Levi Evans Middleton and Jane Farrar Currie , was born on 20 Sep 1842 in Franklin County, Mississippi ^2,84 and died on 20 Mar 1907 in Franklin County, Mississippi, at age 64.² Another name for Rhoda was Rhodie.

Noted events in her life were:

• Census: 1850 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1850. "The Levi Middleton family is listed in the 1850 US Census, 16 Oct, 1850, household 355 as follows:

Levi E. Middleton - male - age 45 - farmer - born in Mississippi
Jane - female - age 39 - born in Mississippi
Martha J. - age 14 - born in Mississippi
Elizabeth - age 13 - born in Mississippi
Levi - male - age 10 - born in Mississippi
Rhoda - female - age 8 - born in Mississippi
Sophronia - female - age 3 - born in Mississippi

Malcolm Currie (hard to read) - age 70 - male - born in Scotland
Martha (?) Currie (hard to read) - female - age 21
Monroe Currie - male - school teacher - age 21 - personal worth $200 - born in Mississippi."
(1850 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

• Census: 1870 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1870. "The James Graves family is listed in the 1870 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Meadville P.O., page 183 as follows:

J.F. Graves - age 24 - Farm laborer - born in Mississippi - can not read or write
R. Graves - age 24 - keeping house - born in Mississippi
O.M. Graves - male - age 3 (This would be Osborne Monroe Graves - oldest child)

(I would have to wonder about the birth date of Sicily Anna Graves since she does not show up in the 1870 census)"
(1870 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

• Census: 1880 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1880. "The James Graves family is listed in the 1880 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, District 1 - Page 53 as follows:

James F. Graves - head - age 32 - farmer - all family born in Mississippi (everyone shows all family from Mississippi)
Rhoda - wife - age35 - keeping house
O.M. - son - age 12 - at school
S.A. - daughter - age 9 - at school
Catherine - daughter - age 7
Lizzie - daughter - age 5
Eliza - daughter - age 3
(page 54)
John Q. - son - age 1"

(1880 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi - district 1 - page 53 and 54)

• Census: 1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1900. "The James Graves family is listed in the 1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Beat 1, page 10 as follows:

James F. Graves - born Jan 1844 - age 56 - farmer (all family members born in Mississippi) - married 36 years
Rhoda - born Feb 1840 - age 60 - 9 children with 8 living
John Q. - son - born Jan 1879 - age 21 - farm laborer
Stella - daughter - born Mar 1881 - age19
Lillian(d) - daughter - born Feb 1882 - age 18
Vernon - Grandson - born Jan 1892 - age 7
Thomas - Grandson - born Feb 1895 - age 5"
(1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

Rhoda married James F. Graves ² on 1 Feb 1866 in Franklin County, MS..²

  Sixth Generation  

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32. John Daniel Trest,²¹ son of John Trest and Rebecca Thorne , was born in 1772 in Orangeburg County, South Carolina ²¹ and died in 1842 in Jones County, Mississippi, at age 70.²¹

Noted events in his life were:

• Military: 1812. "There is a John Trust that is listed as a private in Juhan's Battalion, South Carolina Militia in the War of 1812. It is not provable if this is John Trest or not."
(Warren Trest)

• Census: 1820 US Census, Orangeburg County, South Carolina, 1820, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. ⁹⁷ "John Daniel Trest shows up in the 1820 US Census Records in Orangeburg County, South Carolina. He is listed between 26 and 45 years old. He has one male under 10 years old (this would be Edmond Edward). He also has his wife listed between 26 and 45 years old and 2 female children under 10 years old (these would have been Rachel Dorcas and Dicey).

Slaves: John Daniel has 2 male slaves between 14 and 26 years of age in the 1820 Census."
(1820 US Census, Orangeburg County, South Carolina)

• Census: 1830 US Census, Orangeburg County, South Carolina, 1830, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. ⁹⁸ "John Daniel Trest shows up in the 1830 US Census Records in Orangeburg County, South Carolina. He is listed between 40 and 50 years old. He has one male between 15 and 20 years old (this would be Edmond Edward). He has one son between 5 and 10 years old (this would be John Daniel). He also has 2 sons under 5 years of age (these would be Peter and William).

His wife is listed between 30 and 40 years old. They have one daughter between 10 and 15 years old (this would be Rachel Dorcas). They have two female children under 10 years old (these would have been Dicy and Mary). They also have one daughter under 5 years old. The last child is not found in any other record. I do not know the name of the last daughter nor what happened to her.

Slaves: John Daniel has 1 male slave under 10 years old, 4 female slaves under 10 years old, 1 female slave between 10 and 25 years old and 1 female slave between 25 and 36 years old in the 1820 Census."
(1820 US Census, Orangeburg County, South Carolina)

• Migration: Migration from South Carolina to Mississippi, 1832-1833, Jones County, Mississippi. ¹ "John Daniel Trest migrated from South Carolina to Mississippi from 1832 to 1834. In the 1850 Census, Samuel Caper Trest (born 1832) is listed as being born in South Carolina and his younger brother Richard Crawson Trest (born 1834) is listed as being born in Mississippi. Note: Later census records will show Samuel Caper Trest as being born in Alabama - in route to Mississippi). There is no Trest that shows up in the 1830 Census in Mississippi, but they do show up in Orangeburg County, S.C. census records in 1820 & 1830. John Daniel Trest and family are listed for the first time in Jones County, Mississippi in the 1840 census records."
(Warren Graham Trest)

"Parents of Samuel Caper Trest were shown in latter census records as being born in South Carolina, so it is an assumption that they were born in Orangeburg County."

"John Trest shows up in the 1833 Jones County, Mississippi tax rolls, so the assumption can be made that he moved to Jones County between 1832 and 1833."
(Warren Trest)

• Tax Schedule: 1833 Tax Roll, Jones County, Mississippi, 1833. ⁹⁹ "John Trest is listed in the 1833 Tax Rolls, Jones County, Mississippi as follows:

John Trest - 5 slaves - tax $3.12 1/2."
(Jones County, Mississippi Tax Rolls)

• Tax Schedule: 1834 Jones County, Mississippi Tax Schedule, 1834. ⁹⁹ "John Trest is listed in the 1834 Jones County, Mississippi Tax Schedule as follows:

John Trest - $74 at interest; 6 slaves; Tax $3.93 1/2."
(1834 Jones County, MS Tax Rolls)

• Tax Schedule: 1836 Jones County, Mississippi Tax Rolls, 1836. ⁹⁹ "John Trest is listed in the 183 Jones County, Mississippi Tax Rolls as follows:

John Trest - 5 slaves; Tax $3.12 1/2."
(1836 Jones County, MS Tax Rolls)

• Census: 1837 State Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 1837. ¹⁰⁰ "John Trest is listed in the 1837 State Census as follows:

John Trest
1 male over 45 years of age
5 males under 18 years of age

1 female over 16 years of age
3 females under 16 years of age

Slaves: 1 male and 6 females

Total Whites- 10

50 acres under cultivation and 2 bales of cotten in 1836."
(1837 State Census)

• Tax Schedule: 1837 Jones County, Mississippi Tax Roll, 1837. ⁹⁹ "John Trest is listed in the 1837 Jones County, Mississippi Tax Roll as follows:

John Trest - $70 at interest; 7 slaves; Tax $4.54 1/2."
(1837 Jones County, Mississippi Tax Rolls)

• Tax Schedule: 1838 Jones County, Mississippi Tax Roll, 1838. ⁹⁹ "John Trest is listed in the 1838 Jones County, Mississippi Tax Roll as follows:

John Trest - $112 at interest, 7 slaves, Tax $4.61 1/2."
(1838 Jones County, MS., Tax Rolls)

• Occupation: Farmer. ¹ "In every census that John Daniel is listed in, his occupation is that of Farmer or Agriculture."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Tax Schedule: 1839 Jones County, Mississippi Tax Rolls, 1839. ⁹⁹ "John Trest is listed in the 1839 Jones County, Mississippi Tax Rolls as follows:

John Trest - 7 slaves - Tax $4.37 1/2."
(1839 Jones County, MS. Tax Rolls)

• Census: 1840 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 1840, Jones County, Mississippi. ¹⁰¹ "John Daniel Trest shows up in the 1840 US Census Records in Jones County, Mississippi (his first census in Mississippi). He is listed as between 60 and 70 years old. (Edmond Edward Trest has already married and moved out. He is listed in the 1840 census living in Jones County, Mississippi along with hisfamily). John Daniel has two males between 10 and 15 years old (these would be John Daniel III and Peter N.). He has three sons between 5 and 10 years old (these would be William Byrd, Samuel Caper and Richard Crawson).

His wife is listed between 40 and 50 years old. (Their oldest daughter, Rachel Dorcas has already married and is listed with her husband, next door to John Daniel, in Jones County, Mississippi). John Daniel has a daughter between 20 and 30 years old (this would be Dicy) and a daughter between 15 and 20 years old (this would be Mary). The daughter that shows up in the 1820 census as being under 5 years old does not show up in the 1830 census, so it is assumed that there was a girl, "unknown" born before 1820 and died before 1830.
(Page 307)

It should be noted that upon arriving in Jones County, both Edmond Edward Trest and Rachel Dorcas Trest married children of Herrin Walters (prior to the 1840 census). Two other Trest children, Mary and Peter, would also marry Herrin's children in the future.

Two other children, John and William, would marry Rushton girls.

John Trest lives next door to James Walters (married to his daughter Rachel) who is followed by Edward Trest (married to James Walters' sister). They have three houses in a row in 1840. In 1850, Samuel Caper and Richard are shown living next door to Rachel (John has passed away at this time), so Samuel must be living in the original homestead in 1850."
(Warren Graham Trest and Census Records)

• Land: 1841, Jones County, Mississippi. ^24,62 "Deed found in Dead Records of Jones County:

4-11-1837 Wayne County, Mississippi. Arthur Herrington and Milley, his wife to John Trest land in Jones County for $93.75 section 17, township 9, range 10W containing 79 and 94/100 acres at $1.00 per acre.

Witness: Mallichai McLain

Signed: Arthur Herrington and Milley Herrington."
(Page 261 of Deed Book - Records of Jones County, Mississippi Deed Book A,B 1827-1856 - Compiled by Ben and Jean Strickland)

"There are records of a John Trest buying 240 acres of land on 5-Jan-1841. This appears to be the Trest properties that the children settled on in latter years."
(Warren Trest)

• Sandersville, Mississippi: Sandersville, Jones County, Mississippi. ¹ "Sandersville is the final place of the John Trest family and is in the North East section of Jones County, Mississippi."
(Warren Trest)

John married Elizabeth Walters in 1812 in Orangeburg County, South Carolina.

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Edmond Edward Trest (born on 11 Sep 1812 Orangeburg County, South Carolina - died on 9 Feb 1891 in Jones County, Mississippi)

         ii.   Rachel Dorcas Trest (born in 1816 Orangeburg County, South Carolina - died after 1880 in Jones County, Mississippi)

        iii.   Dicey B. Trest (born on 18 Sep 1821 Orangeburg County, South Carolina - died on 30 Jun 1891 in Mississippi)

         iv.   Mary B. Trest (born in 1822 Orangeburg County, South Carolina)

          v.   John Daniel Trest (born in 1825 Orangeburg County, South Carolina)

         vi.   Peter Nathaniel Trest (born on 14 Aug 1827 Orangeburg County, South Carolina - died on 28 Sep 1918 in Covington County, Alabama)

        vii.   William Byrd Trest (born before 1830 Orangeburg County, South Carolina - died between 1873-1880)

       viii.   Trest (born before 1830 - died before 1840)

16       ix.   Samuel Caper Trest (born on 1 Mar 1832 Alabama - died on 19 Jun 1923 in Jones County, Mississippi)

          x.   Richard Crawson Trest (born in 1834 Jones County, Mississippi)

33. Elizabeth Walters, daughter of Zadrack James Walters and Unknown , was born in 1792 in Orangeburg County, South Carolina and died in 1863 in Jones County, Mississippi, at age 71. Other names for Elizabeth were Elizabeth Waters, and Elizabeth Watters.

Noted events in her life were:

• Census: 1850 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 1850, Jones County, Mississippi. ⁵² "Elizabeth shows up living in Jones County, Mississippi with Peter and William (her children) in the 1850 Jones County Census. She is listed as 56 years old. Peter is listed as 23 years old and William is listed as 20 years old. Both William and Peter are listed as "Farmers" by occupation."
(Page 134-B)

"Slaves: In the 1850 Slave Schedule, Elizabeth Trest has 14 slaves. She has slaves listed as follows:
Female 56 years old
Female 35 years old
Male 33 years old
Female 30 years old
Female 25 years old
Female 23 years old
Female 20 years old
Male 12 years old
Male 7 years old
Male 4 years old
Male 2 years old
Male 1 year old
2 Males 6 months old"
(Page 3 of Jones County Slave Schedule, Sep. 12, 1850)

• Land: Land Purchase, 1 Nov 1859, Jones County, Mississippi. "Elizabeth is shown as buying (Sale-Cash Entries) 39.12 acres on Novemeber 1, 1859. The property was SWSE of St. Stephens, Township 9N, Range 10W, Section 8 in Jones County, Mississippi."

• Census: 1860 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi. ²² "Elizabeth Trest appears in the 1860 census as follows:

(She is living next door to William B. Trest) The family is as follows:

House 360:
William B. Trest - age 28 - born in S.C.
Nancy - age 31- born in Alabama
W.B. - 9 months

House 361:
Elizabeth Trest - age 72 - total of real estate $3000 - total of personal estate $3500 - born in S.C. - can not read or write
J.D. - age 33 - values of $2000 and $2000 - born in S.C.
R.C. - age 24 - values of $1100 and $2300 - born in Mississippi
James R. - age 13 - born in Mississippi (It is unknown who this James R. Trest is. He would have been born after John Daniel Trest died and before S.C. Trest's son was born. Is there a missing Trest here? Is this James (Trest) Walters?)"
(1860 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi)

Elizabeth married John Daniel Trest ²¹ in 1812 in Orangeburg County, South Carolina.

34. William Tyrus McGilvray,^52,102 son of Alexander McGilvray and Mary Elizabeth McLeod , was born about 1819 in Moore County, North Carolina ^22,61,103 and died after 1860 in Jones County, Mississippi.²²

Noted events in his life were:

• Census: 1850 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 1850, Jones County, Mississippi. ⁵² "In the 1850 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, William McGilvray's family is as follows (Note: The census taker in 1850 mispelled McGilvray as McGilberry):
(House 317)
William McGilvray - Farmer - age 31 - born in North Carolina
Sarah - age 36 - born in South Carolina
Angus - Age 10 - born in Mississippi
Joseph - age 8
Elender (Eleanor) - age 5
Sarah - age 3
Mary - age 7 months."
(Page 273)

• Slave Schedule: 1850 Jones County, Mississippi Slave Schedule, 1850, Jones County, Mississippi. "William McGilvray (spelt by the census taker as William McGilberry) owned the following slaves in the 1850 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi Slave Schedule:

1 female - age 49
1 female - age 21
1 male - age 18
1 male - age 6
1 male - age 4
and 1 female - age 1"
(Page 7)

• Census: 1860 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 1860, Jones County, Mississippi. ²² "The McGilvray household in the 1860 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi is as follows:

(House 229)
Wm McGilvray - Age 42 (Farmer) - Born in North Carolina
Sarah McGilvray - Age 46 - Born in South Carolina
Angus McGilvray - Age 20 - All Children born in Mississippi
Joseph McGilvray - Age 18
Sarah McGilvray - Age 13
Mary McGilvray - Age 11
W. McGilvray - Age 7
Daniel Smith - (either age 11 or age 77 - can not make out the census) (Farmer)
Samuel C. Trest - Age 27 (Farmer)
Eleanor Trest (spelled Ellender) - Age 17
Wm. Trest - Age 11 months
William Eubanks - Age 27
Jacob Hutts - Age 28

It might be assumed that with the mixture of people at the McGilvray's home that there may have been a planting or harvesting going on with neighbors helping but this would be an assumption. They may have been living on his estate though, since his value of personal estate is listed as $18,910 (far more than most others in the county). Samuel Caper Trest has married Eleanor McGilvray and is at the McGilvray home during the census. They have already had William - age 11 months."
(1860 US Census, Jones Coutny, Mississippi Page 34, Ellisville Post Office Area)

• Slave Schedule: 1860 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi Slave Schedule, 1860, Jones County, Mississippi. ⁵³ "In the 1860 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, William McGilvray is listed with the following slaves:

1 female - age 70
1 female - age 28
1 male - age 10
1 female - age 7
1 male - age 2
and 1 female - age 5 months old.

William McGilvray is followed in the Census (Slave Schedule) by Daniel Smith and then Samuel Caper Trest (his son-in-law)."
(Page 3)

• Military Service: ^1,75 "William McGilvray was 44 years old when the Civil War started. I have not been able to trace him to the Civil War but he had his eldest two sons, Angus and Joseph, who fought in the Mississippi Cavalry in the Civil War.

Angus McGilvray fought with the 4th Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry
Joseph McGilvray fought with Stockdale's Brigrade, Mississippi Cavalry."
(Warren Graham Trest)

William married Sarah J. Smith ²².^,103

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Angus McGilvray (born about 1840)

         ii.   Joseph McGilvray (born about 1842)

17      iii.   Eleanor Elizabeth McGilvray (born on 5 Jan 1844 Mississippi - died on 20 Jun 1918 in Jones County, Mississippi)

         iv.   Sarah McGilvray (born about 1847)

          v.   Mary Elizabeth McGilvray (born about 1850)

         vi.   William McGilvray (born about 1853)

35. Sarah J. Smith,^22,103 daughter of Daniel Smith and Eleanor Murphy , was born about 1814 in South Carolina ^22,61 and died after 1860 in Jones County, Mississippi.²²

Sarah married William Tyrus McGilvray ⁵².^,102

36. John Ferguson II,²¹ son of Malcolm James Ferguson and Mary Margaret McDonald , was born on 3 May 1776 in Richmond County, North Carolina,³⁰ died on 3 Jan 1835 in Jones County, Mississippi, at age 58,³⁰ and was buried in Old Ferguson Cemetary, Jones County, Mississippi.

Noted events in his life were:

• Census: 1810 US Census, Richmond County, North Carolina, 1810, Richmond County, North Carolina. ¹⁰⁴ "John Ferguson is listed as living 2 homes down from Angus McGill in the 1810 US Census, Richmond County, North Carolina as follows:
John Ferguson:
1 male under 10 years old, 1 male 26 to 44 years old (John Ferguson would have been 34 years old), 2 females under 10 years old and 2 females between 26 and 44 years old."
(1810 US Census, Richmond County, North Carolina - Page 110)

"It must be noted that this does not agree with birth dates given by Angus Ferguson in his book. According to his dates, there was only one child born in 1810. The only other John Ferguson in 1810 Richmond County, North Carolina is over 45 years old at the time of the census. It states that as the John Ferguson family traveled through the Creek Nation in 1811, that he had three children (see Passport section for John Ferguson). Therefore, I feel that he had three children born before 1811 and that Angus Ferguson must have been mistaken on dates."
(Warren Trest)

• History of Richmond County, North Carolina: "As I have researched geneology back, it is interesting to note that between 1800 and 1820 all of my family ancestors that were in Richmond County, North Carolina at the same time. There were the Fergusons, McGills, Fairleys and the Grahams. Each would become part of my family tree at some time in the future."
(Warren Graham Trest)

History of Richmond County, North Carolina:

"Present-day Richmond County was first settled by Native Americans living along the Pee Dee River. Richmond was part of Anson County, which was formed in 1750 from Bladen County. The General Assembly formed Richmond County from Anson in October 1779. The citizens cited the hardship in crossing the Pee Dee River to go to the courthouse in Anson County, as their reason for wanting a separate county with the dividing line of the Pee Dee River.

Richmond County was named for Charles Lennox, the third Duke of Richmond, who criticized the policy of the British toward the American colonies. The county seat was known as Richmond Courthouse. Scotland County was formed from Richmond in 1899.

The first court in the new county was held in December 1779 at the old Presbyterian Meeting House in the Zion Community. About 1783, after raising money from taxes to pay for buying land and laying out a town, a new courthouse was built in what is today downtown Rockingham. In 1784 the name of the town was changed to Rockingham in honor of Charles Watson-Wentworth, second Marquis of Rockingham, and supporter of American independence.
Dockery Meeting House (which was the forerunner of Cartledge Creek Baptist Church) was chartered in 1774, Mt. Pleasant Methodist in 1780, First Methodist Church of Rockingham in 1786, Concord Methodist Church in 1787, and Zion Methodist Church in 1829. There was a Presbyterian Meeting House in Rockingham around 1788.

The County grew slowly as many families moved down from Maryland, Virginia, and up from South Carolina. The Dockery Brick house, built in 1830, and the Leak-Wall House, built in 1854, are both still standing. The County began to grow more as the economy diversified from agriculture to cotton mills. The Richmond Mill was chartered in 1833 and was the seventh cotton mill chartered in North Carolina. It operated until 1865 when it was burned by Sherman's troops. It was rebuilt in 1869 and renamed Great Falls Mill. It burned again in 1972, and the ruins are still standing. Other cotton mills sprang up in the county."
(Richmondnc.com)

• Memories from Angus Furguson: ³⁰ "My grandfather Fergsuon was born in 1776, the first child born to his parents after they came to this country. He and grandmother were both born and reared in Richmond County, North Carolina. They moved to Wayne County, Mississippi in 1811, where they remained for awhile and, as I understand, had some part in the organization of the old Philadelphus Presbyterian Church. WHile they were there my Uncle Malcolm Ferguson was born in an Indian Fort near Winchester, Wayne County, Miss. After a short stay there they moved northwestward to Jones County, Miss. and built a home and opened a farm just west of Boguehoma Creek, one mile south of the present site of Sandersville. Here they lived and reared a large family and having finished a great life work for Jones County, passed on to the Great Beyond. With their burial, the old Ferguson cemetery was started. My grandfather, John Fergson, was born, May 3, 176 and died Jan. 3, 1835. Grandmother, Flora Ferguson, also a native of Richmond County, North Carolina, was born, Oct. 8, 1779, and died, May 25, 1857. She rests in the old Ferguson cemetery. I understand that great grandfather Ferguson and the others came over from Scotland in 1771 or 1772."
(Angus Ferguson)

• Migration: Jones County, Mississippi, Jones County, Mississippi. ^30,105,106 "Helene Stein states that John Ferguson was the first white man to settle in Jones County, Mississippi."
(Helene Stein)

"Daniel McDonald made his way to Mississippi and "reported back to North Carolina that thousands of acres of virgin timber lands in Southeast Mississippi were for sale by the government for 10 cents an acre." Also, "that the Choctow Indians were frreindly, the region abounded in wild game, fish, honey and nuts and berries and the climate was mild enough for cattle, sheep and hogs to remain throughout the year on open range affording abundent substenance".

The Fergusons were part of the old McDonald Highlanders in Scotland.

"John Ferguson decided to join the numerous caravans moving westward from North Carolina when Chief Tecumseh was attempting to lead all of the southern tribes in an all-out effort to exterminate the whites. Hundreds of ox-drawn covered wagons took the great caravan route via Savannah, Georgia and St. Stephens, Alabama to the US Land Office in Augusta, Mississippi in quest of sites with larger acreage."

"John Ferguson settled in 1811 on the west side of the Chickasawhay River. In the summer of 1812, he moved up the river to Yellow Creek, thence to the US Post Road (Savannah to Natchez) at Eucutta, and west across Big Bogue Homa swamp. He called his home place Good Hope."

The site was within what is now the corporate limits of Sandersville, Mississippi.

"It was about 1819, that he built a split-log house for worship by the US Post Road on the south side of his tract...Good Hope Presbyterian Church was organized, which soon became a religious and educational center of note, known as Good Hope Camp Ground. First a large arbor was built in front of the church, mainly for social purposes. This was later covered with boards and made into a large assembly hall. The split log church was also used as a kitchen. Cabins were built all around as well as a corral on the south side. A new plank church house of architectural symmetry with a balcony for the slaves, who were full and equal members, was erected on a five acre parcel in the southwest corner of the forty. Services and school were held the last week of every month but August, which was camp meeting month. People came from near and far and many weddings were solemnized".

"John Ferguson and Flora McGill were married in 1806. Eleven children were born to this union. Final survivors were Flora and five daughters who never married. Their home was a split log house with two rooms, hallway between and log kitchen about 100 feet from the dwelling. Later two plank rooms were added on the back so that each of the four surviving old maids had their own room, This became known far and wide as the home of the Ferguson Spinsters"

(Jones County Newspaper article based on a "subscribed and sworn" statement from Lee Bonner to the notary public, Nina M. Daly)

• Passport: Issued by Georgia Governor, 24 Jan 1811, Georgia. ¹⁰⁷ "Page 23 - Thursday, 24th January 1811
On Application

ORDERED

That the passports be prepared for the following to travel through the Creek Nation of Indians, to wit, One for Mr. John Ferguson with his wife, his sister and thre children from Richmond County, North Carolina."
(Passports issued by Governors of Georgia 1810 - 1820 - page 77)

• Census: 1830 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 1830, Jones County, Mississippi. ^1,108 "The John Ferguson family is listed in the 1830 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi as follows:

Page 15, Line 72

Ferguson, John
1 male between 10 and 15 years of age (this would have been John Ferguson III)
1 male between 15 and 20 years of age (this would have been Angus)
1 male between 20 and 30 years of age (this would have been Malcolm)
1 male between 50 and 60 years of age (this would have been John Ferguson II)
(John Ferguson would have been 54 years old)
1 female under 5 (this would have been Sarah)
2 females between 5 and 10 years of age (these would be Abigail and Catherine)
2 females between 10 and 15 years of age (these would be Flora and Mary)
1 female between 15 and 20 years of age (this would be Elizabeth)
2 females between 20 and 30 years of age (these would be Margaret and I will make the assumption that Annie - listed by Angus - is the other female, since he gave no birth or date records).
1 female between 50 and 60 years of age (this would be Flora Helen McGill - age 51)."
(1830 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi)
(Warren Trest)

• Funeral: John Ferguson Burial, 1835, Jones County, Mississippi. ¹⁰⁶ "Nearby to his home was Good Hope Cemetery in which John Ferguson was the first to be buried. It is now popularly known as the Old Maids Graveyard"
(Jones County Newspaper Article)

John married Flora Helen McGill ²¹ in 1806.²¹

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Margaret Ferguson (born on 10 Nov 1809)

         ii.   Annie Ferguson ()

        iii.   Malcolm Ferguson (born on 3 May 1811 Indian Fort, Winchester, Wayne County, Mississippi - died on 3 Mar 1899)

         iv.   Elizabeth Ferguson (born on 10 Jul 1813 Mississippi - died on 10 Jul 1901)

          v.   Mary Ferguson (born on 13 Nov 1816 Jones County, Mississippi - died on 19 Dec 1892 in Jones County, Mississippi)

         vi.   Angus Ferguson (born prob 1816 - 1817)

        vii.   Flora Ferguson (born in 1818 Jones County, Mississippi - died in 1903 in Jones County, Mississippi)

18     viii.   John Ferguson III (born on 24 Feb 1820 Jones County, Mississippi - died on 3 May 1884 in Jones County, Mississippi)

         ix.   Catherine Ferguson (born on 2 Mar 1822 Jones County, Mississippi - died on 29 Nov 1888 in Jones County, Mississippi)

          x.   Abigail Ferguson (born on 6 Oct 1824 Jones County, Mississippi - died on 19 Sep 1904 in Jones County, Mississippi)

         xi.   Sarah Ferguson (born on 25 Nov 1828 Jones County, Mississippi - died on 18 Jun 1900 in Jones County, Mississippi)

37. Flora Helen McGill,²¹ daughter of Angus McGill and Anne Fairley , was born on 8 Oct 1779 in Richmond County, North Carolina,^21,30 died on 25 May 1857 in Jones County, Mississippi, at age 77,^21,30 and was buried in Old Ferguson Cemetary, Jones County, Mississippi.

Noted events in her life were:

• Census: 1790 US Census, Richmond County, North Carolina, 1790, Richmond County, North Carolina. ¹⁰⁹ "Angus McGill is listed in the 1790 US Census, Richmond County, North Carolina with 2 free white males of 16 years and older, 2 free white males under 16 years old and 5 free white females."
(1790 US Census)

Flora Helen McGill would have been one of the 5 free white females since she should have been around 2 years old at the time of the census.

• Census: 1800 US Census, Richmond County, North Carolina, 1800, Richmond County, North Carolina. ¹¹⁰ "Angus McGill is listed in the 1800 US Census, Richmond County, North Carolina as having 2 males under 10 years old, 2 males between 16 and 25 years old, 1 male over 45 years old, 2 females under 10 years old, 2 females between 10 and 15 years old, 1 female between 16 and 25 years old and 1 female 26 to 44 years old.

He is also listed as having 3 slaves.

Flora McGill would have been one of the two females between 10 and 15 years old (she was 12 at the time)."
(1800 US Census)

• Census: 1810 US Census, 1810, Richmond County, North Carolina. ¹⁰⁴ "There is tape running through the name of Angus McGIll in the 1810 US Census but it appears to be that he is listed as having 4 males under 10 years old, 1 male 10 to 15 years old, 1 male 26 to 44 years old and 1 male 45 and older.

The females are listed as 1 female under 10 years old, 1 female 10 to 15 years old, 3 females 16 to 25 years old and 1 female between 26 and 44 years old.

They also have 1 other free person at home and 2 slaves."
(1810 US Census, Richmond County, North Carolina)

• Census: 1840 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 1840, Jones County, Mississippi. ^1,101 "In the 1840 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi the Flora Ferguson family is listed as follows (John Ferguson had passed away by this time):
Flora Ferguson Family: 1 male between 20 and 30 years old, 1 female between 15 and 20 years old, 4 females between 20 and 30 years old, 1 female between 30 and 40 years old and 2 females between 50 and 60 years old."
(1840 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi - page 307)

"It surprised me when I saw the 307 page of the US Census, Jones County, Mississippi that on one page there were the Linders, McGills, Fergusons, Walters and Trests living on the same page. Half of that page within the census were or would become related thorughout the years. Flora Ferguson is listed 13 homes from John Trest whose grandchildren, William John Trest and Flora Elizabeth McGill Fergsuon, would later marry in 1882."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Census: 1850 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 1850, Jones County, Mississippi. ⁵² "Flora is listed as head of household in the 1850 Jones County, Mississippi census, thus John Ferguson is assumed to have passed away prior to 1850.

The Flora Ferguson family is listed as follows (all children are listed as being born in Mississippi):

Flora - age 67 - born in North Carolina
Elizabeth - age 37 - all children born in Mississippi
Mary - age 35
John - age 30 - Farmer
Catherine - age 28
Abigail - age 26
Sarah - age 22


The next house is Angus Ferguson:
Angus - age 45
Dicey - age 33
Flora - age 12
John - age 11
Nancy - age 9
Dicey - age 7
Angus - age 6
Andrew - age 2

The next houee is John Daniel Trest.

The Fergusons, Trests and McGill's are living near each other. Archibald McGill is in house 297, Flora Ferguson is in house 299 and Angus Ferguson is in house 300. The assumption is being made that Archibald McGill is Flora McGill's brother.The next house, 301, is John Daniel Trest and family (Samuel Caper's brother)."
(Pages 136 and 136B)
(1850 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi)

• Family: Family of Flora McGill Ferguson, 1840 & 1850, Jones County, Mississippi. ^1,52,101 "The Archibald McGill family is shown living near the Flora (McGill) Ferguson family in Jones County, Missippi in the 1840 and 1850 US Census, It is the assumption that the McGill family moved with the Fergsuon family into Jones County, Mississippi together."
(Warren G. Trest)

Flora married John Ferguson II ²¹ in 1806.²¹

38. Robert Porter Boyce,²¹ son of Robert Nicholas Boyce and Elizabeth Porter , was born in 1798 in Delaware,²¹ died in Mar 1873 in Wayne County, Mississippi, at age 75,²¹ and was buried in State Line, Mississippi.³⁰

Noted events in his life were:

• Census: 1850 US Census, Clarke County, Mississippi, 1850, Clarke County, Mississippi. ⁶⁹ "The Robert Boyce family is listed in the 1850 US Census, Clarke County, Mississippi as follows:

Robert P. Boyce - Millwright - age 60 - born in Delaware
Elizabeth - age 45 - born in South Carolina
Elizabeth - age 18 - born in Florida (this is an assumption of data for birthplace - the census is hard to read).
Catherine (Katherine spelled in census) - age 12 - born in Alabama.

Note: This census does not agree with the Georgia birthplace from Bill Parks."
(1850 US Census - Page 174B)

• Occupation: Mill right, 1850, Clarke County, Mississippi. ⁶⁹ "Robert Porter Boyce is listed in the 1850 US Census, Clarke County, Mississippi as a Millright."
(1850 US Census, Clarke County, Mississippi)

• Census: 1860 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 26 Oct 1860. ²² "John Ferguson and Robert Porter Boyce are listed in the 1860 US Census, Jones County, Ellisville Township, Mississippi as follows:

(house 400)
John Ferguson - age 40 - farmer - Value of Real Estate $3000 - Value of Personal Estate $1283 - born in Mississippi
Catherine - age 21 - born in Alabama
Angus - age 2 - male - born in Mississippi
Flora E. - age 1 - female - born in Mississippi

Robert P. Boyce - age 70 - mechanic - value of real estate $1000 - value of personal estate $50,500 - born in Delaware"
(1860 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi - page 61)

• Organizations: Mason. ³⁰ "Grandfather Boyce was a loyal Mason and devoted member of the Baptist Church. He was honored and respected by all who knew him."
(Angus Ferguson)

• Death: 1873, State Line, Mississippi. ³⁰ "Angus Ferguson remembers:

My grandparents on mother's side were Robert P. Boyce and Elizabeth McScrews Boyce. Grandmother first married a Nelson and they had two children, George Washington and Nancy. Mr. Nelson died after which she and grandfather married and had three children; Elizabeth who married a Shoemake; Mary, who married a Holley; and Catherine, the youngest, who married my father, John Ferguson. Grandmother died when I was a small child and grandfather married a Miss Hails in Clark County, Mississippi. They had two children, Lenora and Hampton.

Grandfather Boyce's family came from Ireland to Illinois, as I understand. Grandfather and grandmother came to Mississippi, where they lived and died. She was buried in the Old Ferguson cemetery and he at State Line, Mississippi. I do not remember grandmother, but I loved Grandfather devotedly. He visited our home often during his lifetime. He was a cabinet workman and millwright and had moved to State Line to build his last mill. His second wife was partially insane at the time. When he had the mill near completion and operating, he became ill and died at the age of eighty years, or more. At this time, his wife was found sitting on the spillway down at the mill, which was built on a little creek near State Line, perfectly insane and had to be sent to the asylum, where she soon passed on. This was in February or March of 1873. I carried mother and sister Ella, a tiny baby, in an ox cart from where we lived on Boguehoma near Sandersville to Shubuta, twenty-one miles, where they took the train to State Line. They remained there until grandfather was buried and grandmother sent to the asylum."
(Angus Ferguson in Family, School, Church and Pioneer History)

Robert married Elizabeth Catherine McScrews .²¹

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Elizabeth Boyce (born about 1832 Florida)

         ii.   Mary Boyce ()

19      iii.   Catherine Boyce (born on 26 Apr 1838 Alabama - died on 23 May 1899 in Jones County, Mississippi)

Robert next married Hails .¹¹²

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Lenora Boyce (born in Mississippi)

         ii.   Hampton Boyce (born in Mississippi)

39. Elizabeth Catherine McScrews ²¹ was born about 1805 in South Carolina ⁶⁹ and was buried in Old Ferguson Cemetary, Jones County, Mississippi.¹¹¹

Elizabeth married Nelson .³⁰

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   George Washington Nelson ()

         ii.   Nancy Nelson ()

Elizabeth next married Robert Porter Boyce .²¹

Noted events in his life were:

• Census: 1850 US Census, Clarke County, Mississippi, 1850, Clarke County, Mississippi. ⁶⁹ "The Robert Boyce family is listed in the 1850 US Census, Clarke County, Mississippi as follows:

Robert P. Boyce - Millwright - age 60 - born in Delaware
Elizabeth - age 45 - born in South Carolina
Elizabeth - age 18 - born in Florida (this is an assumption of data for birthplace - the census is hard to read).
Catherine (Katherine spelled in census) - age 12 - born in Alabama.

Note: This census does not agree with the Georgia birthplace from Bill Parks."
(1850 US Census - Page 174B)

• Occupation: Mill right, 1850, Clarke County, Mississippi. ⁶⁹ "Robert Porter Boyce is listed in the 1850 US Census, Clarke County, Mississippi as a Millright."
(1850 US Census, Clarke County, Mississippi)

• Census: 1860 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi, 26 Oct 1860. ²² "John Ferguson and Robert Porter Boyce are listed in the 1860 US Census, Jones County, Ellisville Township, Mississippi as follows:

(house 400)
John Ferguson - age 40 - farmer - Value of Real Estate $3000 - Value of Personal Estate $1283 - born in Mississippi
Catherine - age 21 - born in Alabama
Angus - age 2 - male - born in Mississippi
Flora E. - age 1 - female - born in Mississippi

Robert P. Boyce - age 70 - mechanic - value of real estate $1000 - value of personal estate $50,500 - born in Delaware"
(1860 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi - page 61)

• Organizations: Mason. ³⁰ "Grandfather Boyce was a loyal Mason and devoted member of the Baptist Church. He was honored and respected by all who knew him."
(Angus Ferguson)

• Death: 1873, State Line, Mississippi. ³⁰ "Angus Ferguson remembers:

My grandparents on mother's side were Robert P. Boyce and Elizabeth McScrews Boyce. Grandmother first married a Nelson and they had two children, George Washington and Nancy. Mr. Nelson died after which she and grandfather married and had three children; Elizabeth who married a Shoemake; Mary, who married a Holley; and Catherine, the youngest, who married my father, John Ferguson. Grandmother died when I was a small child and grandfather married a Miss Hails in Clark County, Mississippi. They had two children, Lenora and Hampton.

Grandfather Boyce's family came from Ireland to Illinois, as I understand. Grandfather and grandmother came to Mississippi, where they lived and died. She was buried in the Old Ferguson cemetery and he at State Line, Mississippi. I do not remember grandmother, but I loved Grandfather devotedly. He visited our home often during his lifetime. He was a cabinet workman and millwright and had moved to State Line to build his last mill. His second wife was partially insane at the time. When he had the mill near completion and operating, he became ill and died at the age of eighty years, or more. At this time, his wife was found sitting on the spillway down at the mill, which was built on a little creek near State Line, perfectly insane and had to be sent to the asylum, where she soon passed on. This was in February or March of 1873. I carried mother and sister Ella, a tiny baby, in an ox cart from where we lived on Boguehoma near Sandersville to Shubuta, twenty-one miles, where they took the train to State Line. They remained there until grandfather was buried and grandmother sent to the asylum."
(Angus Ferguson in Family, School, Church and Pioneer History)

40. Moses M. Miller,¹¹ son of William Miller and Millsbury Robertson , was born in 1832 in Williamsburg County, South Carolina ¹¹ and died on 22 Jul 1864 in Atlanta, Georgia, at age 32.¹¹ The cause of his death was shot from his horse in the Civil War.

Noted events in his life were:

• Millers Come to Winston County: ¹¹ "In January, 1845, John M. Barrineau led a migration of several families and their slaves from South Carolina to Winston County, Mississippi. He brought with him his wife, Millsbury Robertson Miller Barrineau; their two children, Angelina Barrineau, age 6, and Edward Barrineau, age 4; and her two children, Moses M. Miller, age 13, and Mary Elizabeth Miller, age 11 (her son and daughter of her deceased first husband, William Miller of Williamsburg County, South Carolina)."
(Margaret Miller White)

• Census: 1850, Winston County, Mississippi. ¹¹³ "Moses Miller is living with the Barrineau family in the 1850 US, Winston County, Mississippi census. He is listed as a student and 18 years old. He is staying with John M. Barrineau, age 27, Millsbury (his true mother), age 38, Angelina, age 11, Edward, age 9, and an Elijah Ford, age 22."
(1850 US Census, Winston County, Mississippi)

• Marriage: 1854, Neshoba County, Mississippi. ¹¹ "There is little doubt but that Moses M. Miller was visiting his cousin, Samuel Thomas Durant, and his wife, Sarah Lowery Durant, when he met Laura Donald. Moses' mother, Millie Barrineau, had died, and his sister, Mary Elizabeth Miller, had married. Moses would have been somewhat at loose ends. He had grown up with Thomas DUrant, and the Durants lived within three to four miles of the David Donald family. It is easy to imagine that he saw the young Laura at church and that each was mutually attracted to each other. At any rate, it must have been a genuine love affair. James L. Davis, her great-grandson, remembered that when he was a small boy, Laura Miller, then an elderly woman, still talked a great deal about her husband, Moses M. Miller. Laura Miller lived as a widow for fifty five years, ever faithful to the memory of her husband."
(Margaret Miller White)

Moses Miller was 22 years old and Laura was 16 at the time of their marriage.

• Census: 1860 US Census, Winston County, Mississippi, 1860, Winston County, Mississippi. ^70,114 "In the 1860 census, Moses Miller is listed as 28 years old and a farmer by trade. He is joined by his 22 year old wife, L.S. (Laura Saphronia), his 5 year old son, W.D. (William David), his 3 year old son, H.M. (Henry Moore) and his 1 year old son, S.C. (Samuel Clark). Moses Miller lists his place of birth as South Carolina and Laura's place of birth as Mississippi."
(Page 721)

"In the 1860 Slave Schedule, Moses Miller is listed as having one female slave, age 40."
(Page 424)
(1860 US Census, Winston County, Mississippi)

"This was the last census that Moses M. Miller would have been listed in. He was killed in the Civil War on 22, July, 1864."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Military Service: Civil War (Southern), 1861-1864. ^1,11,75 "A company known as the Bogue Chitto Rangers was organized at New Hope Baptist CHurch in the North Bend Community. The church was located a short distance from North Bend Methodist Church and had been built in 1849. The company was made up of men and boys of the entire area, including some from southern Winston County, as was Moses Miller."
(Margaret Miller White)

Company B. Bogue Chitto Rangers of Neshoba County (5th Regiment, 4th Brigade) was mustered into State Service at Philadelphia, Mississippi, on August 5, 1861. Moses Miller mustered in as a Sergeant.

What was thought to be a short campaign, many thought the war would be over in a matter of weeks, would turn into a long war for Moses Miller. He would be killed just 8 months prior to the unit's surrender.

"5th Infantry Regiment, organized in the spring of 1861, contained men from Pike, Amite, Lauderdale, Winston, Noxubee, and Kemper counties. After serving in Florida it took an active part in the fight at Shiloh under General Chambers. Later it was assigned to J.K. Jacksons's, Gist's and Lowry's brigade, Army of Tennessee. The 5th was involved in the campaigns of the army from Murfreesboro to Atlanta, endured Hood's winter campaign in Tennessee, and fought in North Carolina. It lost 47% of the 170 engaged at Murfreesboro and 33% of the 225 at Chickamauga. In December, 1863, the unit totaled 395 men and 283 arms. At the battle of Atlanta there were 11 killed, 44 wounded and 11 missing. Only a remnant remained to surrender on April 26, 1865. The field officers were Col. John R. Dickins, Albert E. Fant, and John Weir; Lt. Col. Samuel F.M. Faucett, John Herring, A.T. Stennis, and W.L. Sykes; and Maj. James R. Moore."
(Civil War Soldiers and Sailors)

"Moses M. Miller would have seen all of the battles up to Atlanta and would have been one of the 11 killed. Moses rose from Seargent to Captain. He was elected to Captain on May 8, 1862, after the battle of Shiloh, and assumed the rank on July 29, 1862. Moses Miller was commanding Company B of the 5th Mississippi in the massacre at Peachtree Creek in Atlanta, when he was killed. He would have mustered in the service when he was about 29 years old and died when he was about 32 years old."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Letters: Letter from Moses to Laura Miller, 1863. ¹¹ "Bridgeport, Alabama
December 2, 1863

Dear Laura,
I now proceed to answer your very kind letter which I have not recieved but hope to recieve soon. THis leaves me well and all the rest of the biys except Jesse Glass. He is unwell and has been ever since the Battle. He has gone out in the country to see if his health will not improve. I have nothing of importance to write you at this time. Times are very still here now. We have some good weather nowadays. I am in hopes you have gotten salt before this and killed your meat. I wish I was there to get some of the backbones and spare ribs, but there is no use to grieve about things that a man cannot help, so I will bear it and say "curse the Yankees", for they are the cause of it.
I expect to live fine for the next two or three days, for I have just gotten a chicken, some butter, eggs, and a piece of shoat! So, we will have good eating at our house. Come over if you can, conveniently. Our old Colonel is back. He has been at home ever since I have been in the regiment until a few days ago. Col. Sykes was wounded in the Battle and is now at home but will be back in about fifteen days and the he and old Dickens will start up the old....."
(Letter from Moses Miller to Laura Miller)
(The rest of the letter did not survive)

The battle to which Moses Miller referred to in the letter was the Battle of Missionary Ridge.

• Atlanta Campaign: 1864, Atlanta, Georgia. ^11,115 "Captain Moses M. Miller was killed in the afternoon of an extremely hot day on July 22, 1864, in the second assault at Peachtree Creek."
(Margaret Miller White)

Moses Miller was 32 years old when he died in the Civil War.

"Johnston was relieved of command of the army, and Hood, in his place, ordered the assault along Peachtree Creek , July 20, in which Walker's Division was on the front line. Next followed the yet more bloody assault of July 22, in which Walker was killed. Walker's Division was then broken up. The Fifth and Eighth Mississippi were already transferred to Lowrey's Brigade, Cleburne's Division. Under the command of Lieut.-Col. John B. Herring, the regiment took part with Lowrey's Brigade in the Atlanta battle of July 22, when the casualties were: Company A, Capt. L. B. Fowler commanding, 4 wounded; Company B, Capt. M. M. Miller commanding, killed, Captain Miller, wounded, 4; Company C, Captain S. W. Mosby commanding, killed, Lieut. W. A. Ford and Sergt. S. S. Dennis, wounded 5, missing, Lieut. J. T. Hobgood; Company D, Lieut. W. A. Ford commanding, killed 1, wounded, Lieuts.. Ford and .W.W. Blain and 10 men; Company E, Lieut. L. L. Anderson commanding, killed 5, wounded 7; Company F, Capt. F. M. Woodward commanding, 4 wounded; Company G, Capt. D. B. Lattimore lost a leg, 1 other wounded; Company H, Capt. J. S. Featherston and 2 others wounded severely; Company I, Lieut. J. T. Hobgood commanding, 5 wounded; Company K, Capt. W. J. H. McBeath and 4 others wounded, Sergt. W. W. Phillips killed, 4 missing Total: killed, 9; wounded, 51 ; missing, 11. The Fifth served in the trenches around Atlanta and at East Point until August 30, when they marched to Jonesboro."
(From Dunbar Rowland’s "Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898" )



"Following the sad news of the death of Moses Miller, Laura Miller recieved from the Confederate government a box containing some of his personal belongings. These included his nadgun and holster, a billet, and an identification tag. The inscription on the tag reads: Co. I, 35, Miss. Vol. Inf., C.S.A.

"Kit" Miller remembers that Laura also had a fragment of a New Testament that was in the pocket of her husband when he was shot.

Mae Miller Mann, grandaughter of Moses Miller of Osceola, Indiana, stated that the Bible was in the possesion of her father, Henry Moore Miller, when the family moved to McAlester, Oklahoma in the early 1900's. The Bible was destroyed when their home burned. The story that was told to Mae was that a comrade of Moses Miller, also at the battle of Peachtree Creek, had seen Moses Miller shot from his horse and that he had retrieved the tattered Bible through which the bullet had passed."
(Margaret Miller White)

Moses married Laura Saphronia Donald ¹¹ in 1854 in Neshoba County, Mississippi.¹¹

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   William David Miller (born on 19 Dec 1854 - died on 14 Sep 1928)

         ii.   Henry Moore Miller (born in 1856 - died in 1917 in McAlister, Oklahoma)

20      iii.   Samuel Clark Miller (born on 30 Jan 1859 Oak Grove, Winston County, Mississippi - died on 7 Jan 1897 in North Bend Community, Neshoba County, Mississippi)

         iv.   John L. Miller (born in 1860 - died between 1878-1880)

          v.   Catherine Miller (born in 1862 - died before 1870)

41. Laura Saphronia Donald,¹¹ daughter of David Donald and Tabitha Hickman , was born about 1838 in Mississippi ⁷⁰ and died on 13 Jun 1919, about age 81.¹¹ Other names for Laura were Granny Laura, and Granny Miller.

Noted events in her life were:

• Census: 1860 US Census, Winston County, Mississippi, 1860, Winston County, Mississippi. ⁷⁰ "In the 1860 census, Moses Miller is listed as 28 years old and a farmer by trade. He is joined by his 22 year old wife, L.S. (Laura Saphronia), his 5 year old son, W.D. (William David), his 3 year old son, H.M. (Henry Moore) and his 1 year old son, S.C. (Samuel Clark). Moses Miller lists his place of birth as South Carolina and Laura's place of birth as Mississippi."
(Page 721)

"In the 1860 Slave Schedule, Moses Miller is listed as having one female slave, age 40."
(Page 424)

• Widow: 1864. ¹¹ After the death of her huband, Moses M. Miller:

"Laura Donald Miller was now, at age 26, a widow with four small children, ranging in age from four to nine. She became acquainted with grief early in her life. In 1862, she had suffered the death of her brother, David Donald Jr., killed at the Battle of Shiloh. In the same year (1864) that her husband, Captain Moses M. Miller, was killed at the Battle of Peachtree Creek, she suffered another sorrow in the death of her father, David Donald Sr. These experiences early in her life served to develop within her a wisdom and spiritual maturity which usually comes to others much later, if at all."
(Margaret Miller White)

Laura was married at sixteen and a widow (with 4 children) at twenty-six. She would never remarry and passed away when she was 82 years old. She survived all but one of her children."

• Census: 1880 US Census, Winston County, Mississippi, 1880. ⁷¹ "Laura S. Miller is listed in the 1880 US Census, Winston County, Mississippi as follows:

Laura S. Miller - self - widow - white female - age 43 - born in Mississippi - both parents born in South Carolina
Henry M. Miller - son - white male - age 23 - born in Mississippi - farmer - father born in South Carolina - mother born in Mississippi
Samuel C. Miller - son - white male - age 21 - born in Mississippi - At School - father born in South Carolina - mother born in Mississippi

Delia Miller - Other - widow - Black female - age 70 - born in South Carolina - Servant - both parents born in South Carolina."
(1880 US Census, Winston County, Mississippi)

• Cemetery: Noxapater, Mississippi. ¹¹ "Laura Saphronia Donald Miller was buried in the WIlliam David Miller family plot in Mt. Carmal Cemetary, located across the street from the Baptist Church in Noxapater, Mississippi.

She had survived her husband, brother, a daughter and three sons, and when she died, only had one surviving son, William David Miller."

• Obituary: 1919, Winston County, Mississippi. ^11,116 "Mrs. Laura Miller, one of the oldest citizens of our town, died at the home of her son, Mr. W.D. Miller, and granddaughter, Mrs. J.L. Davis, on Thursday night of last week, June 13, 1919. Her remains were carried to Noxapater, her old home, for burial. Mrs. Miller was in her 82nd year, and had been a sufferer for many years, but in a most beautiful Christian manner, she bore her pain. She was a good Christian woman, and had many warm friends throughout the country. We extend our condolence to the bereaved ones."
(Winston County Journal Newspaper Article - June 20, 1919)

Laura married Moses M. Miller ¹¹ in 1854 in Neshoba County, Mississippi.¹¹

42. Thomas A. Cheatham .¹¹

Thomas married Talitha Jackson .

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Mary Tabitha Cheatham (born on 5 Jun 1853 Carroll Parish, Louisiana - died in 1897)

         ii.   Sebron Andrew Cheatham (born in 1854 Carroll Parish, Louisiana)

        iii.   John Lane Cheatham (born in 1856 Carroll Parish, Louisiana)

         iv.   Thomas Moseley Cheatham (born in 1860 Carroll Parish, Louisiana - died in 1948 , buried in Sandtown Methodist Church Cemetary, Neshoba County, Mississippi)

21        v.   Sarah Elizabeth Cheatham (born on 5 Dec 1862 Carroll Parish, Louisiana - died on 18 Feb 1935 , buried in North Bend Community, Neshoba County, Mississippi)

         vi.   Dr. John lane Cheatham ()

43. Talitha Jackson .

Talitha married Thomas A. Cheatham .¹¹

44. Martin Clark,¹¹⁷ son of Daniel Clark and Peggy , was born about 1800 in North Carolina ⁷³ and died after 1850 in Probably Kemper County, Mississippi.⁷³ Another name for Martin was Martin Clarke.⁷³

Noted events in his life were:

• Census: 1830 US Census, Anson County, North Carolina, 1830. ¹¹⁸ "The Martin Clark family is listed in the 1830 US Census, Anson County, North Carolina as follows:

Martin Clark
2 free white males between 20 and 30 years of age

1 free white female under 5 years of age
1 free white female between 15 and 20 years of age

1 male slave under 10 years of age
1 male slave between 10 and 24 years of age
1 female slave between 36 and 55 years of age

1 free colored male between 10 and 24 years of age."
(1830 US Census, Anson County, North Carolina)

• Migration: North Carolina to Mississippi, Between 1837-1839, Kemper County, Mississippi. ⁷³ "Martin Clark and his wife, Ann, must have moved from North Carolina to Mississippi between 1837 and 1839. In the 1850 US Census, Kemper County, Mississippi, his son Robert (born about 1837) was born in North Carolina and his next son, Hiram, was born in Mississippi (born about 1839)."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Census: 1840 US Census, Kemper County, Mississippi, 1840, Kemper County, Mississippi. ¹¹⁹ "Martin "Clarke" is listed in the 1840 US Census, Kemper County, Mississippi (two homes down from his father, Daniel, and his family is as follows:
2 males under 5 years old and 1 male between 30 to 40 years old. (Martin would have been near 40 years old at the time).
1 female between 5 and 10 years old, 1 female between 10 and 15 years old and 1 female between 20 and 30 years old. Ann must have misquoted her age, since she should have been about 35 years old at the time of the census."
(1840 US Census, Kemper County, Mississippi)

Slaves:
"In the 1840 US Census, Kemper County, Mississippi, Martin Clarke is shown as having 1 male slave under 10 years old and 1 female slave between 24 and 35 years old."

"It can be assumed that the two younger males would have been Robert and Hiram and that the two younger females would have been Ann and Jane."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Census: 1850 US Census, Kemper County, Mississippi, 1850, Kemper County, Mississippi. ⁷³ "Martin Clark is listed in the 1850 US Census, Jones County, Mississippi as follows:
Martin "Clarke" - age 50 - Farmer - born in N.C.
Ann - age 45 - born in N.C.
Jane - age 15 - born in N.C.
Robert - age 13 - born in N.C.
Hiram - age 11 - born in Miss. (all other children are born in Miss.)
Harriet - age 9
John - age 7
Martin - age 5
Reubin - age 3
Nat - age 1"
(1850 US Census, Kemper County, Mississippi)

"The Martin Clarke family is preceeded by his father's family, Daniel Clark. Daniel Clark is living in house 872 and Martin Clarke is in house 873"
(Warren Graham Trest)

Martin married Ann ⁷³.^,117

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Ann Clark (born about 1824 North Carolina - died about 1875)

         ii.   Jane Clark (born about 1835 North Carolina)

        iii.   Robert H. Clark (born about 1837 North Carolina - died on 25 Jun 1862)

         iv.   Hiram Clark (born about 1839 Mississippi)

          v.   Harriet Clark (born about 1841 Mississippi)

         vi.   John Clark (born about 1843 Mississippi)

        vii.   Martin Clark (born about 1845 Mississippi)

22     viii.   Reuben Clark (born on 24 Apr 1847 Kemper County, Mississippi - died on 21 Jan 1901 , buried in Methodist Cemetary, Noxapater, Mississippi)

         ix.   Nat Clark (born on 6 Sep 1849 Mississippi - died in 1887 , buried in Kemper County, Mississippi)

45. Ann ^73,117 was born about 1805 in North Carolina ⁷³ and died after 1850 in Probably Kemper County, Mississippi.⁷³

Ann married Martin Clark .¹¹⁷

46. Sire O. Dawes,¹¹⁷ son of Ephraim Dawes and Suzanna , was born on 28 Aug 1818 in Edgecombe County, North Carolina,^79,120,121 died on 29 Aug 1894 in Kemper County, Mississippi, at age 76,^72,121 and was buried in Daws Family Cemetery, Kemper County, Mississippi.¹¹⁷ Other names for Sire were Sira Outley, Sire Outley, and Syer Outley Daws.

Noted events in his life were:

• Census: 1820 US Census, Edgecombe County, North Carolina, 1820. ¹²² "Ephraim Daws (Dawes) is listed in the 1820 US Census, Edgecombe County, North Carolina as follows:

Ephraim Daws

3 free white males under ten years of age (Sire O. Dawes should have been about 2 years old during this census)
2 free white males between 10 and 16 years of age
1 free white male between 16 and 18 years of age
1 free white male above 45 years of age

1 free white female under 10 years of age
2 free white females between 16 and 26 years of age
1 free white female above 45 years of age

4 persons engaged in agriculture."
(1820 US Census, Edgecombe County, North Carolina)

• Land: according to Kemper County Land Patents. There are 3 Land Patents for S.O. Dawes in Kemper County, Mississippi:

Sira Outley Daws
12-01-1849
33383
MS1500_.179

Sira O. Daws
10-01-1859
37835
MS1580_.198

Siar O. Daws
5-01-1860
40525
MS1640_.086"
(Land Patents for Kemper County, Mississippi)

• Military Service: ^76,120 "Enlisted Apr 30, 1864, Served Apr 30 - Jun 9 1864, 47 yrs old , blue eyes, dark hair, dark complexion, 5 feet 10 inches, from Richmond County, NC, farmer."

"This Company enlisted at Dawe's Store, Kemper County, on April 30, 1864. Its Captain was E. D. Gamblin.
First Lieutenant: A. C. Gamblin
Second Lieutenant: J. W. McCraw
Third Lieutenant: C. L. Smith

Enrolled, 88.

Gamblin's Cavalry Battalion was listed in Mabry's Brigade, Wirt Adams' Cavalry, September 30, 1864. Apparently disbanded late in 1864. For those searching for ancestors who served with this unit the records are carried as Gamblin's Mississippi Cavalry Co. (State Troops). The unit was still active in May 1865 when they were surrendered at Citronelle, Alabama."
(Kemper County Webgen Project)

• Occupation: Merchant, 1880. "In the 1880 US Census, his occupation is listed as Merchant."

• Census: 1880 US Census, Kemper County, Mississippi, 1880, Kemper County, Mississippi. ^1,72 "Sire O. Daws is listed in the 1880 Kemper County, Mississippi as follows:

Sire O. Daws - age 61 - Merchant - born in S.C. (this may have been in N.C.) and father born in North Carolina. There is no listing for his mother's birthplace.
Agnes Daws - age 57 - born in North Carolina and both parents born in North Carolina.

James U. George - other - age 21 - born in Tennessee - clerk in store
Callie Wright - other - age 15 - born in Mississippi - keeping house
(Page 128C)

S.O. Daws is followed by Issac Daws (2 homes down). Issac is listed with both parents being born in N.C. and he is listed at age 27 and being born in Mississippi. I will make the assumption that Issac is the son of S.O. Daws.

Since SIre O. Daws is listed as a merchant, the assumption can be made that it was at his store that Gamblin's Cavalry Battalion mustered into the Civil War military service. Kemper County Webgen stated that Gamblin's Battalion enlisted at Dawe's Store, Kemper County, on April 30, 1864."
(1880 US Census, Kemper County, Mississippi, District 4 - Warren Trest)

Sire married Agnes Farmer .¹¹⁷

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   John W. Dawes (born about 1839)

         ii.   Martin Luther Dawes (born about 1840)

        iii.   David Thomas Dawes (born about 1844)

23       iv.   Nancy Anne Dawes (born on 13 Nov 1846 Kemper County, Mississippi - died on 24 Apr 1927 in Probably Winston County, Mississippi)

          v.   S.O. Dawes (born in Dec 1848)

         vi.   Issac Richbeau Dawes (born on 23 Sep 1852 Mississippi)

        vii.   Margaret Dawes (born about 1854)

       viii.   Ellis Dawes (born about 1855)

         ix.   Mary Catherine Dawes (born on 17 Jan 1856)

47. Agnes Farmer,¹¹⁷ daughter of Issac Farmer and Mary Williams , was born about 1823 in Edgecombe County, North Carolina ^72,79 and died about 1904 in Kemper County, Mississippi, about age 81 ⁷².^,121

Agnes married Sire O. Dawes .

48. Archibald Graham,⁴² son of Duncan Baxter Graham and Elizabeth Graham , was born about 1795 in Richmond County, North Carolina ⁴² and died about 1833 in Mississippi, about age 38.⁴²

Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: United States Surveyor, Louisiana and Mississippi. ²⁰ William Hadskey states in his book, A History of Franklin County, Mississippi, to 1861:

"Dewitt Clinton Graham, the last elected representative from the county prior to the Civil War, was a socially prominent aristocrat of that day. Apparently his father, Archibald Graham, had died when Dewitt was quite young, and this young native of Hamburg community had been reared by his stepfather, Bartlett Ford. Archibald Graham, a United States surveyor, left his son a nice estate, and the young man inherited more land from his mother, the former Mary Jane Holloway, and from his stepfather. One of his kinsmen taught him the art of surveying and the fundamentals of engineering [321]. "

"The fact that his occupation was as a surveyer and that he left a large estate to his son was backed up by the Chief Geneologist for the Clan Graham."
(Warren Trest)

Archibald married Jane Holloway .¹²³

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Duncan Patrick Henry Graham (born about 1827)

24       ii.   Dewitt Clinton Graham (born about 1828 Louisana - died in Nov 1865)

        iii.   Archibald Graham (born about 1830 Louisana)

49. Jane Holloway ¹²³ was born about 1810 in Richmond County, North Carolina ¹²³ and died about 1838 in Mississippi, about age 28.⁴²

Jane married Archibald Graham .⁴²

50. William B. Smith,⁵ son of George Smith and Mary , was born on 5 Nov 1786 in South Carolina ^38,39.^,93

William married Francis Scott on 5 Sep 1816 in Franklin County, Mississippi.⁹³

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Joseph George Smith (born on 15 Feb 1818)

         ii.   James Maxwell Smith (born on 13 Apr 1819)

        iii.   Margaret Rebecca Smith (born on 17 Aug 1820)

         iv.   Mary Elizabeth Smith (born on 28 Jun 1822)

          v.   Jane Elvira Smith (born on 12 Jan 1824)

         vi.   William Gabriel Smith (born on 5 Feb 1825)

        vii.   Anna Elmira Smith (born on 13 Jul 1826)

       viii.   George Columbus Smith (born on 7 Jul 1831)

25       ix.   Francis Melvina Smith (born on 17 Mar 1833 Mississippi - died after 1910 in Mississippi)

51. Francis Scott ⁵ was born on 29 Apr 1794 in Mississippi ^38,39,93 and died on 19 Aug 1844, at age 50.⁹³

Francis married William B. Smith on 5 Sep 1816 in Franklin County, Mississippi.⁹³

52. Benjamin Franklin Bufkin,⁹⁴ son of Josiah Bufkin and Unknown , was born on 27 Sep 1794 in Georgetown District, Prince George Parish, South Carolina,⁹⁴ died in 1853 in Copiah County, Mississippi, at age 59,⁹⁴ and was buried in Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery, Barlow, Copiah County, MS..⁹⁴

Noted events in his life were:

• Migration: "Benjamin Franklin Bufkin must have migrated from South Carolina to Mississippi between 1818 and 1820 with his father. Census records have Albert Bufkin being born in South Carolina in 1818 and Harmon Floyd Bufkin being born in Mississippi in 1822. Census records have him in Perry County in 1820, so the assumption can be made that the Bufkins came from North Carolina between 1818 and 1820."
(Warren Trest)

• Occupation: Blacksmith, Copiah County, Mississippi. ⁹⁵ "In the 1850 US Census, Benjamin Franklin Bufkin is listed as a Blacksmith by trade."

• Census: 1820 US Census, Perry County, Mississippi, 1820. ¹²⁴ "The Benjamin Bufkin and John Bufkin families (who the assumption can be made is his brother) are listed on the same page of the 1820 US Census, Perry County, Mississippi as follows:

Benjamin Bufkin - 2 free white males under 5 years of age (this would have been Albert and ? maybe Harmon), 1 free white male between 16 and 26 year of age (Benjamin Bufkin would have been near 26 years of age), 1 free white female between 6 and 26 years of age (Celia would have been about 25 years of age).

1 Person engaged in Agriculture

John Bufkin (The assumption can be made that this is Benjamin's brother):
2 free white males under 5 years of age, 1 free white male between 16 and 26 years of age, 1 free white female between 16 and 26 years of age.

2 Persons engaged in Agriculture."
(1820 US Census, Perry County, Mississippi)

• History of Centerpoint Community: "Centerpoint - Located near Bayou Pierre, at the forks of Union Church and Barlow roads, was settled early in Copiah's history by the Hall, Bufkin, Holliday, Wade, Miller and Brown families. By the early 1900's it was a progressive country village, boasting a cotton-gin, several stores, a church, a blacksmith shop, and a school."
(Mississippi GenWeb Project)

• Census: 1830 US Census, Copiah County, Mississippi, 1830, Copiah County, Mississippi. ¹²⁵ "The Benjamin Bufkin Family is listed in the 1830 US Census, Copiah County, Mississippi as follows:

Benjamin Bufkin - 2 males under 5 years of age
2 males between 5 and 10 years of age
1 male 10 to 15 years of age
1 male between 30 and 40 years of age

1 female between 20 and 30 years of age."
(1830 US Census, Copiah County, Mississippi)

• Census: 1840 US Census, Copiah County, Mississippi, 1840. ¹²⁶ "Benjamin Bufkin is listed in the 1840 US Census, Copiah County, Mississippi as follows:

Benjamin Bufkin - 1 male under 5 years of age
1 male between 5 and 10 years of age
2 males between 10 and 15 years of age
1 male between 15 and 20 years of age
1 male between 20 and 30 years of age
1 male between 40 and 50 years of age

1 female under 5 years of age
1 female between 5 and 10 years of age
1 female between 30 and 40 years of age."
(1840 US Census, Copiah County, Mississippi)

• Census: 1850 US Census, Copiah County, Mississippi, 1850. ⁹⁵ "The Benjamin Bufkin family is listed in the 1850 US Census, Copiah County, Mississippi as follows:

Benjamin Bufkin - age 56 - Blacksmith - born in South Carolina
Celia Bufkin - age 55 - born in North Carolina
Soloman - 18 years of age - farmer - born in Mississippi
Erbane - age 14
Celia A. - age 12"
(1850 US Census, Copiah County, Mississippi)

• Cemetery: "The following is partial listing of the Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery in Copiah County, Mississippi. B.F. Bufkin and many, many of the Bufkins can be found. Transcribed by Susan BARLOW Holmes from a survey made on July 27, 1997 by an unknown person:


Ref.
Name
Date of Birth
Date of Death
Notes

1.
Hugh O. Holland, Sr.
Jun 09, 1906
Apr 20, 1980
2.
James M. Conn
Jan 09, 1840
Jul 22, 1902
James Madison Conn, born Aug 09, 1840 & died Jul 26, 1902 - might be the same?
3.
Annie Mae Stapp Barlow
Apr 05, 1908
Feb 14, 1927
w/o Anthony Wayne Barlow
4.
Lucien B. Barlow
(Lucien Boneparte)
1882
1963
Born Nov 17, 1882 s/o John Quincy Barlow & Rhoda Jane Robertson h/o Arcola Roberts
5.
Jeffrey Hurley Hodges
Oct 09, 1947
Apr 16, 1979
6.
Lee Roy Owens - infant
Apr 25, 1922
no date
s/o Albert Owen & Clara Inez Davis
7.
Albert F. Owens
Jun 29, 1924
Oct 09, 1924
s/o Albert Owen & Clara Inez Davis
8.
Baby Davis - infant
Jul 10, 1942
no date
9.
Baby Davis - infant
May 24, 1943
no date
10.
Amanda R. Green
75 yrs - 6 mo.
Aug 20, 1889
11.
Peter Hedrick
1844
1917
12.
Bettye H. Bufkin
Aug 25, 1890
Dec 18, 1983
13.
Francis L. Bishop
Apr 21, 1918
May 12, 1973
14.
Audrey C. Bishop
Oct 28, 1921
no date
15.
Margaret J. Bishop
Sep 08, 1920
Oct 16, 1942
16.
Essie V. Bishop
1886
1940
17.
F. M. Bishop
1882
1934
18.
Amanda W. Bishop
Jul 01, 1851
Mar 16, 1922
w/o Albert Gallatin Bishop
19.
Albert G. Bishop
Jan 26, 1849
Mar 28, 1919
h/o Amanda Missouri Williams
20.
Annie Lee Bishop, R.N.
Nov 24, 1894
Feb 08, 1985
21.
Elma Bishop
Apr 16, 1900
Jan 08, 1901
21A
Infant Son Conn
Jul 02, 1915
Jul 03, 1915
s/o Ira Frank Conn & Mary Elizabeth "Bettie" Bishop
22.
Mary Epsie Conn
Nov 26, 1910
Sep 13, 1911
d/o Ira Frank Conn & Mary Elizabeth Bishop
23.
A.D. Conn (Albert David)
1894
1933
s/o Ira Frank Conn & Mary Elizabeth Bishop Mar 25, 1894 - Feb 18, 1933
24.
Bettie Bishop Conn
Mar 17, 1875
Aug 27, 1937
w/o Ira Frank Bishop d/o Albert Gallatin Bishop & Amanda Missouri Williams
25.
Ira Conn
Apr 18, 1870
Apr 16. 1957
h/o Bettie Bishop s/o John Floyd Conn, Sr. & Minerva Frances Douglass
26.
Ola May Conn
1895
1966
d/o Ira Frank Conn & Mary Elizabeth Bishop
27.
Bobby Conn (Robert Henry)
Nov 24, 1901
Oct 16, 1968
s/o Ira Frank Conn & Mary Elizabeth Bishop h/o Gertrude Wade
28.
Zula Sine
Aug 23, 1888
Mar 10, 1980
29.
Cula L. Noyes
Oct 05, 1916
Aug 01, 1990
30.
Infant son of J. F. & Epsie B. Conn
no date
no date
s/o John Floyd Conn, Jr. & Cora Epsie Bishop
31.
Infant son of J. F. & Sally Conn
no date
no date
s/o John Floyd Conn, Jr. and Sally Augusta Wade
32.
Sallie Wade Conn
Dec 13, 1881
Oct 01, 1912
d/o James A. Wade & Maggie Tucker 1rst w/o John Floyd Conn, Jr.
33.
John Floyd Conn, Jr.
Mar 13, 1883
May 15, 1971
s/o John Floyd Conn, Sr. & Minerva Frances Douglass h/o 1. Sallie Augusta Wade & 2. Cora Epsie Bishop
34.
Epsie Bishop Conn
Mar 12, 1890
Nov 17, 1964
2nd w/o John Floyd Conn, Jr.
35.
Ray Bishop Conn
Jun 30, 1916
Jan 21, 1967
s/o John Floyd Conn, Jr. & Cora Epsie Bishop h/o Dorothy Barnett
36.
William E. Hennington
(William Ernest)
May 18, 1894
Jun 12, 1898
s/o Frank A. Hennington & Rubye Conn
37.
F.A. Hennington
(Frank)
Aug 27, 1868
Nov 22, 1900
1rst h/o Rubye Conn
38.
Ruby Conn
Hennington Davis
1872
1969
d/o John Floyd Conn, Sr. & Minerva Frances Douglass 1rst w/o Frank A. Hennington 2nd w/o Plummer Lee Davis Nov 05, 1872 - Dec 03, 1969
39.
Plummer L. Davis
1873
1946
2nd h/o of Rubye Conn
40.
Owen Howell Davis
Apr 26, 1902
Mar 26, 1976
s/o Plummer Davis & Rubye Conn h/o Betty Bishop
41.
Betty Bishop Davis
Dec 19, 1902
Nov 23, 1980
w/o Owen H. Davis
42.
John M. Beasley
Jul 20, 1864
Dec 20, 1929
43.
Mollie F. Beasley
Apr 27, 1864
Nov 03, 1914
44.
Ellen F. Hennington
May 12, 1837
Feb 15, 1905
45.
Sarah Frances Allen
Apr 18, 1845
Jun 24, 1914
d/o Harmon Floyd Bufkin & Elizabeth Ann "Betsy" Barlow w/o John B. Allen
46.
John B. Allen
Feb 15, 1888
Oct 03, 1908
s/o John B. Allen & Sarah Frances Bufkin
47.
J. B. Allen
Jul 22, 1841
Jul 09, 1900
s/o William Tarpley Allen & Sarah Ann Fore h/o Sarah Frances Bufkin
48.
J. Turner Allen
Mar 02, 1873
Jan 24, 1888
s/o John B. Allen & Sarah Frances Bufkin
49.
Florence Allen
Oct 29, 1878
Aug 20, 1885
d/o John B. Allen & Sarah Frances Bufkin
50.
William T. Allen
Oct 13, 1814
Sep 30, 1897
h/o of Sarah Ann Fore
51.
Sarah A. Allen
Dec 21, 1818
Oct 31, 1881
w/o William Tarpley Allen
52.
Margaret Douglas
Feb 24, 1834
Oct 02, 1904
53.
Marshall M. Hennington
(Marshall Morgan)
1868
1915
s/o John Hennington & Ellen Taylor h/o Clara May Conn
Aug 03, 1868 - Oct 27, 1916
54.
Clara C. Hennington
1875
1969
d/o John Floyd Conn, Sr. & Minerva Frances Douglass w/o Marshall M. Hennington Jun 23, 1875 - Jul 28, 1969
55.
Oscar H. Hennington
(Oscar Harold)
1894
1944
s/o Marshall M. Hennington & Clara May Conn h/o Louise ______ Jan 28, 1894 – May 1944
56.
Harrison Hennington
(Henry Harrison)
1905
1945
s/o Marshall M. Hennington & Clara May Conn h/o Miriam Dodds Jan 02, 1904 - Nov 13, 1945
57.
Katie M. Hennington
Katie M. McGinnis
Jun 01, 1901
Jan 24, 1996
d/o James Witherspoon McGinnis & Lee Anna Johnson w/o Marshall Frank Hennington
58.
M. F. Hennington
(Marshall Frank)
Sep 21, 1896
Jan 16, 1984
s/o Marshall M. Hennington & Clara May Conn h/o Katie M. McGinnis
59.
Lydia Conn
Sep 29, 1821
Jun 07, 1892
d/o Henry "Buck" Barlow & Charity Millsaps w/o Henry Ward Conn
60.
H.W. Conn
(Henry Ward)
Jul 20, 1808
Jan 28, 1876
s/o Richard & Margaret Conn h/o Lydia Barlow
61.
Uriah M. Conn
Uriah Millsaps "Bud"
1856
1918
s/o Henry Ward Conn & Lydia Barlow Jul 19, 1856 - Aug 14, 1918 h/o Mary Holiday Douglass
62.
Mary M. Conn
1856
1934
w/o Uriah Millsaps Conn Jun 22, 1856 - Dec 07, 1934 what is the M. for?/ should be "H"
63.
Martha Conn
May 22, 1854
Feb 28, 1899
w/o Matthew Tinsley " Mat" Conn d/o Benjamin Franklin Bufkin & Maryanne Singletary
64.
Romulus Conn
1874
1914
s/o Matthew Tinsley Conn & Martha Bufkin h/o Lettie Scott Jul 1873 - Feb 14, 1914
65.
Minerva F. Conn
(Minerva Frances)
Oct 20, 1852
Oct 20, 1896
w/o John Floyd Conn, Sr. d/o James M. Douglass & Martha Bufkin
66.
J. F. Conn
(John Floyd, Sr.)
Apr 12, 1844
Aug 24, 1912
s/o Henry Ward Conn & Lydia Barlow h/o 1. Minerva Frances Douglass h.o 2. Melissa Pickett
67.
Hobson Carey Bishop, Jr.
Mar 20, 1932
Apr 06, 1980
68.
Dora Mae Bishop
Feb 01, 1905
Nov 08, 1976
69.
Hobson C. Bishop, Sr.
Apr 07, 1900
Nov 04, 1979
70.
Andrew J. George
Mar 14, 1895
May 03, 1968
71.
Infant of
M/M I.E. Scurlock
no date
no date
s/o Isiah Elois Scurlock & Mary Elizabeth George br/o Avo Dell Scurlock
72.
Louise Helen George
Mar 25, 1861
May 31, 1906
73.
Samuel George
age 62
Jan 01, 1960
74.
Wiley C. George
Jun 08, 1884
Sep 08, 1966
75.
George Johnson
Oct 26, 1889
May 28, 1945
76.
illegible
77.
Shambry Conn
Jul 04, 1893
Nov 10, 1925
s/o Matthew Tinsley Conn & Martha Bufkin
78.
Jose Sims West
Mar 12, 1858
Jul 18, 1858
79.
Martin A. West
26 y-1 m-3 d
Jan 11, 1855
80.
William Leroy West
Aug 02, 1830
Feb 07, 1852
81.
Nancy Taylor West
1803
1838
82.
Sarah Elizabeth Allen
no date
no date
I think this may be: d/o William Tarpley Allen & Sarah Ann Fore Oct 02, 1848 - Sep 27, 1858
83.
Albert G. Bishop
Jan 31, 1888
Jan 15, 1978
s/o Albert Gallatin Bishop & Amanda Missouri Williams
84.
Susie B. Bishop
Dec 21, 1891
Apr 04, 1974
85.
Annie Bess Bishop
Dec 10, 1916
Aug 24, 1917
86.
Jarrett H. Noland
no date
no date
h/o Lizzie Bufkin
87.
Lizzie Bufkin Noland
no date
no date
w/o Jarrett H. Noland d/o Wm. David Bufkin & Susan P. Carlisle 1863 - Jan 06, 1899
88.
Susan P. Bufkin
Sep 15, 1823
Mar 25, 1886
w/o William David Bufkin d/o James Carlisle & Mary Bishop
89.
David Bufkin
Apr 08, 1827
May 18, 1880
h/o Susan P. Carlisle s/o Benjamin Franklin Bufkin & Celia Ann Lewis
90.
Beatrice A. Conn
Apr 06, 1913
Jul 09, 1988
91.
Lula F. Womack
(Lula Frances)
Sep 08, 1881
Jul 06, 1883
d/o William Washington Womack & Charity Bufkin
92.
Harmon B. Womack
(Harmon Bufkin)
Jan 01, 1879
Jul 13, 1881
s/o William Washington Womack & Charity Bufkin
93.
Howell M. Robinson
Sept 19, 1895
Jul 23, 1961
94.
George David Bufkin
Nov 08, 1887
Nov 25, 1944
s/o Ulley Dudley & Maggie Eudora Bufkin
h/o Betty Hynum
95.
Ulley Dudley Bufkin
Feb 20, 1866
Mar 09, 1944
s/o William David Bufkin & Susan P. Carlisle h/o Maggie Eudora ____
96.
Maggie Eudora Bufkin
Apr 01, 1867
Jan 10, 1941
w/o Ulley Dudley Bufkin
97.
Hugh Benjamin
Robertson
Aug 23, 1869
Feb 09, 1906
98.
Emerline Ryan
May 04, 1840
Aug 04, 1910
w/o Daniel B. Ryan maiden name: Pitts
99.
Daniel B. Ryan
Jan 15, 1838
Aug 14, 1879
h/o Emerline Pitts
100.
F. P. Ryan
Oct 18, 1869
Aug 28, 1883
ch/o Daniel Ryan & Emerline Pitts
101.
G. Macom Bufkin
(George Macon)
Apr 30, 1862
Oct 17, 1886
s/o Harmon Floyd Bufkin & Elizabeth Ann "Betsy" Barlow
102.
John J. Bufkin (Jay)
Sep 28, 1858
Sep 13, 1886
s/o Harmon Floyd Bufkin & Elizabeth Ann "Betsy" Barlow
h/o Mary J. Weeks
103.
Elizabeth Ann Bufkin (Betsy)
Oct 14, 1824
Feb 02, 1900
w/o Harmon Floyd Bufkin
d/o Henry "Buck" Barlow & Charity Millsaps
104.
Harmon F. Bufkin
(Harmon Floyd)
Jul 28, 1822
Aug 16, 1900
h/o Elizabeth Ann Barlow
s/o Benjamin Franklin Bufkin & Celia Ann Lewis
105.
M.C. Ryan Bufkin
(Matilda Carolyn Ryan)
Oct 09, 1859
Jun 26, 1890
d/o Daniel Ryan & Emerline Pitts w/o William Webster Bufkin
106.
H. F. Bufkin
(Harmon Floyd, Jr.)
May 07, 1854
May 14, 1918
h/o Fannie Golden Bondurant
s/o Harmon Floyd Bufkin & Elizabeth Ann "Betsy" Barlow
107.
Harmon Luther Bufkin
Jan 13, 1901
Jan 21, 1901
s/o Harmon F. Bufkin, Jr. & Fannie Golden Bondurant
108.
Nelwyn L. Palmertree
Oct 04, 1935
July 19, 1936
109.
Mittie Bufkin
1885
1925
110.
Ira Frank Hennington
Feb 02, 1897
Jan 26, 1987
s/o Frank A. Hennington & Rubye Conn
h/o Lola May Newman
111.
Lola May Hennington
Jun 25, 1895
Dec 27, 1985
d/o Silas Shadrick Newman & Julia Anna Weathersby
w/o Ira Frank Hennington
112.
Calvin Clyde Newman
Sep 11, 1888
Nov 28, 1968
maybe Lola's brother
113.
S. S. Newman
(Silas Shadrick)
1856
1927
h/o Julia Ann Weathersby
114.
Julia A. Newman
1861
1936
maiden name: Weathersby
w/o Silas Shadrick Newman
115.
Laura Bufkin
Dec 25, 1862
May 13, 1931
d/o Laura Whitehead
w/o Benjamin Louis Bufkin
116.
Benjamin L. Bufkin
(Benjamin Louis)
Mar 12, 1852
Mar 29, 1933
h/o Laura Whitehead
s/o William David Bufkin & Susan P. Carlisle
117.
Cecilia Compton
Mar 19, 1971
Nov 05, 1971
118.
David Conn
Dec 27, 1921
Jan 22, 1989
s/o David Conn & Frances Ellen George
119.
Kenneth Dale Conn
Dec 06, 1954
Sep 21, 1980
120.
Percy Conn
Aug 01, 1908
Apr 12, 1968
s/o David Conn & Frances Ellen George
h/o Hazel Albritton
121.
Pauline C. Jordan
June 27, 1913
Feb 21, 1985
122.
Daisy Bishop
(Daisy Belmont)
1881
1965
w/o David Hinds Bishop
d/o William Carey Bufkin & Annie Eliza Cochran Mar 14, 1881- Dec 27, 1965
123.
David H. Bishop
(David Hinds)
1877
1942
h/o Daisy Belmont Bufkin
124.
Maydee Bufkin
1908
1926
d/o William David & Fannie Bufkin
125.
Fannie Bufkin
1888
1928
w/o William David Bufkin
maiden name unknown
126.
W. D. Bufkin
(William David)
1876
1931
s/o William Carey Bufkin & Annie Eliza Cochran
h/o Fannie Mar 1876 - Nov 1931
127.
Elwin W. Bufkin
(Elwin Watson)
Jan 22, 1917
May 20, 1985
s/o William David & Fannie Bufkin
128.
Boone Bufkin
(Daniel Boone "Boony")
Dec 08, 1891
Dec 17, 1969
h/o Lutie Scott
s/o William Carey Bufkin & Annie Eliza Cochran
129.
Thomas U. Bufkin
(Thomas Urbin "Tommy")
1885
1959
s/o William Carey Bufkin & Annie Eliza Cochran
h/o Gertrude Bishop
130.
Gertrude Bishop Bufkin
1892
1978
w/o Thomas Urbin Bufkin
131.
Homer Barlow
Nov 27, 1896
Feb 07, 1963
s/o John Quincy Barlow & Rhoda Ann Robertson
h/o Hattie Lynn Bufkin
132.
Hattie Barlow
Aug 04, 1896
Aug 09, 1982
w/o of Homer Barlow
d/o William Carey Bufkin & Annie Eliza Cochran
133.
William Carey Bufkin
Apr 03, 1855
Aug 27, 1923
h/o Annie Eliza Cochran
s/o William David Bufkin & Susan P. Carlisle
134.
William Bishop Bufkin
no date
June 09, 1945
s/o Thomas Urbin Bufkin & Gertrude Bishop born Apr 12, 1919
135.
Annie Eliza Bufkin
Aug 06, 1856
Mar 27, 1931
w/o William Carey Bufkin
d/o William Cochran & Catherine Norwood
136.
David E. Bufkin
May 29, 1946
June 05, 1946
137.
Inez Bufkin
Jan 05, 1912
Feb 27, 1912
138.
David Bishop
Aug 27, 1913
Sep 05, 1919
s/o David Hinds Bishop & Daisy Belmont Bufkin
139.
James Earl Davis
Feb 15, 1927
no date
140.
Betty Ann Thompson
no date
March 1933
141.
Hugh H. Barlow
(Hugh Harmon)
Dec 08, 1873
Apr 24, 1966
s/o William Jasper Barlow & Mary Elizabeth Stanfil
h/o 1. L.V. Deere
h/o 2. Emma Parker
h/o 3. Lou Ella Cronk
142.
Green Barlow ("Pud")
1912
1976
s/o Hugh Harmon Barlow & Emma Parker
h/o Margie Gill Nov 15, 1912 - Aug 07, 1976
143.
Earl Barlow
Sep 06, 1909
Jan 08, 1911
s/o Hugh Harmon Barlow & Emma Parker
144.
Mary Elizabeth Barlow
Dec 07, 1928
no date
d/o Hugh Quintus Barlow & F. L. Bland
w/o Jasper Daniel Barlow
145.
Jasper Daniel Barlow
Feb 25, 1908
Mar 08, 1988
s/o William Jasper Barlow & Catherine Louisa Wright
h/o Mary Elizabeth Barlow
146.
Henry B. Bufkin
(Henry Rufus)
Jan 04, 1847
Jan 14, 1914
s/o of Albert Bufkin & Emaline Barlow
147.
A.G. Norwood
(Augusta G.)
Nov 25, 1868
Oct 30, 1936
h/o Holly Emaline Bordurant Bufkin
148.
Holly E. Norwood
(Holly Emaline)
1868
1956
d/o Francis Marion Bufkin & Martha Bondurant
w/o Augusta G. Norwood
149.
Gus P. Norwood
1868
1936
150.
Urben Bufkin
Jun 22, 1863
Jul 08, 1908
s/o Albert Bufkin & Emaline Barlow
h/o Frances Marion Goza
151.
Charity Bufkin ("Sweet")
Sep 15, 1858
Dec 21, 1903
d/o Albert Bufkin & Emaline Barlow
152.
Emma M. Goza
Dec 12, 1848
Sep 07, 1887
153.
James J. "Jimmy" Barlow
Oct 29, 1950
Aug 28, 1967
s/o Jasper Daniel Barlow & Mary Elizabeth Barlow
154.
Jasper Daniel Barlow, Jr.
Aug 24, 1949
Aug 24, 1949
s/o Jasper Daniel Barlow & Mary Elizabeth Barlow
155.
William Jasper Barlow
Oct 06, 1828
Dec 30, 1910
s/o Henry "Buck" Barlow & Charity Millsaps
h/o 1. Mary Elizabeth Stanfil
h/o 2. Catherine Louisa Wright
156.
M. Elizabeth Barlow
(Mary Elizabeth)
1834
1893
w/o William Jasper Barlow
d/o James M. Stanfil & Martha A. Douglass
157
Dolly Barlow
(Minerva L. "Dolly")
Nov 03, 1880
May 19, 1939
s/o William Jasper Barlow & Mary Elizabeth Stanfil
158.
John Newton Barlow
("Tucker")
Nov 26, 1858
Jul 09, 1924
s/o William Jasper Barlow & Mary Elizabeth Stanfil
h/o Alice Clorinda Goodson
159.
Alice Goodson Barlow
Feb 08, 1866
Sep 09, 1933
d/o William Goodson & Louisa Cook
w/o John Newton Barlow
160.
Otho Columbus Beall
Jul 19, 1857
Nov 26, 1931
h/o Celia Bufkin
161.
Celia Bufkin Beall
(Celia Ann)
Jul 05, 1856
Mar 31, 1892
w/o Otho Columbus Beall
d/o Benjamin Franklin Bufkin & Maryanne Singletary
162.
Emma Robertson Beall
May 22, 1858
Jun 03, 1931
163.
Harmon L. Bufkin
(Harmon Louis)
no date
1890
s/o Albert Bufkin & Emaline Barlow
Oct 02, 1849 - Aug 02, 1890
164.
Frank M. Bufkin
(Francis Marion)
Mar 1841
Sep 1890
s/o Albert Bufkin & Emaline Barlow
h/o Martha Bondurant
165.
Amanthus Jones Bufkin
Jun 1846
Mar 1890
s/o Albert Bufkin & Emaline Barlow
166.
Celia St. Clair Bufkin
Jan 06, 1873
Nov 10, 1884
167.
Emma Goza
4y-9m-12d
Nov 05, 1879
168.
Bettie Goza
1m-2d
Aug 31, 1873
169.
Albert Bufkin
Feb 22, 1818
May 27, 1880
s/o Benjamin Franklin Bufkin & Celia Ann Lewis
h/o Emeline Barlow
170.
Emeline Barlow
1823
1871
w/o Albert Bufkin
d/o Henry "Buck" Barlow & Charity Millsaps
Jan 28, 1823 - Dec 18, 1871
171.
B. F. Bufkin ("Dock")
(Benjamin Franklin)
Sep 25, 1829
Oct 28, 1904
h/o Maryanne Singletary
s/o Benjamin Franklin Bufkin & Celia Ann Lewis
172.
Francis Bufkin
1852
1922
173.
Infant son of B.L. & Laura Bufkin
Feb 05, 1893
Feb 26, 1893
s/o Benjamin Louis Bufkin & Laura Whitehead
174.
W. J. Thompson
Jan 18, 1874
Nov 23, 1900
h/o Kate Bufkin
175.
Henry C. Bufkin
Oct 11, 1864
Aug 01, 1869
176.
Benjamin Bufkin
(Benjamin Franklin)
1794
1853
born Sept 27, 1794 - s/o Josiah Bufkin
h/o Celia Lewis
177
Celia Ann Lewis Bufkin
1795
1864
w/o Benjamin Franklin Bufkin
d/o Benjamin Lewis & Celia Martin
178.
Isabell Price
Sep 07, 1882
Feb 06, 1883
d/o Josiah Bufkin - birth year should be 1802
w/o Charles Randolph Price
179.
Rachel Carlisle Price
Nov 17, 1826
Jan 07, 1896
w/o G. Thomas Carslise
d/o Charles Randolph Price & Isabella Bufkin
180
Milton H. Price
(Milton Harrison)
Nov 19, 1839
Jul 28, 1867
s/o Charles Randolph Price & Isabella Bufkin
181.
Charles R. Price (Jr.)
Apr 22, 1833
Jun 17, 1867
s/o Charles Randolph Price & Isabella Bufkin
182.
Hardy H. Price
Aug 22, 1836
Feb 16, 1859
s/o Charles Randolph Price & Isabella Bufkin
183.
Joseph Hester
Sep 15, 1860
Oct 12, 1868
184.
Charles Randolph Hester
Apr 18, 1862
Oct 02. 1873
s/o Ephraim Hester & Mary Ann Price
185.
Ephraim Hester
Aug 15, 1813
Feb 04, 1875
186.
Young Robertson
Feb 07, 1825
Jan 07, 1891
h/o Mary Jane McIntosh
187
Mary Jane Robertson
Aug 22, 1828
Nov 24, 1910
w/o Young Robertson
188.
Grace Barlow Cranfield
(Grace Agnes)
1841
1929
d/o Henry "Buck" Barlow & Miranda Hayman
w/o Jared Hoyt Cranfield
Mar 23, 1843 - Jan 10, 1929
189.
Eugene Barlow
(Albert Eugene)
Apr 26, 1899
Jan 13, 1969
s/o Hugh Harmon Barlow & Emma Parker
h/o Avo Dell Scurlock
190.
Avo S. Barlow
(Avo Dell Scurlock)
Dec 21, 1901
Mar 20, 1971
d/o Isiah Elois Scurlock & Mary Elizabeth George
w/o Albert Eugene Barlow
191.
Lilly Holloway Newman
June 14, 1909
w/o 1. Leslie Lee Williams
w/o 2. Will Sebe Newman
192.
Will Sebe Newman
Jan 03, 1889
May 18, 1967
h/o Lilly Holloway Williams
193.
W. D. Thompson
(William David)
Oct 26, 1902
Dec 15, 1960
h/o of Annie Bishop
194.
Annie Bishop Thompson
Jul 21, 1901
Jul 06, 1983
w/o William David Thompson
195
Vernon Thompson
Sep 21, 1914
Jul 16, 1969
196.
Alma L. Thompson
Aug 13, 1881
Jan 20. 1965
197.
Albert S. Thompson
Aug 15, 1871
Jan 07, 1926
198.
Baby Bufkin
Jun 16, 1930
199.
Baby Grace Bufkin
June 16, 1930
Sep 25. 1930
200.
W. D. Thompson
June 06, 1844
Jan 30, 1914
201.
Harmon Floyd Douglass
Aug 16, 1877
Sep 20, 1963
s/o Timothy Alfred Douglass & Mary Elizabeth Bufkin
h/o Allah Bufkin
202.
Allah Bufkin Douglass
Jul 26, 1877
Oct 22, 1946
d/o Benjamin Franklin Bufkin & Mary Frances Cochran
w/o Harmon Floyd Douglass
203.
Pearl Douglass
(Floyd Pearl)
Oct 16, 1921
Nov 07, 1928
h/o Harmon Floyd Douglass & Allah Bufkin
204.
Earl Douglass
(Robert Earl)
Oct 16, 1921
May 09, 1922
s/o Harmon Floyd Douglass & Allah Bufkin
205.
Fannie Golden Douglass
Feb 13, 1918
Dec 24, 1919
d/o Harmon Floyd Douglass & Allah Bufkin
206.
Neva Douglass
Aug 14, 1909
May 09, 1918
d/o Harmon Floyd Douglass & Allah Bufkin
207.
Nollie Kate Douglass
Nov 11, 1911
Aug 14, 1912
d/o Harmon Floyd Douglass & Allah Bufkin
208.
Infant Timothy Douglass
March 16, 1906
s/o Harmon Floyd Douglass & Allah Bufkin
209.
William Ashley Barlow
("Bill")
Nov 17, 1862
Oct 07, 1924
h/o Lou Ella Robinson
s/o William Jasper Barlow & Mary Elizabeth Stanfil
210.
Ella Robinson Barlow
(Lou Ella)
Nov 18, 1871
Nov 16, 1932
w/o William Ashley Barlow
Hugh George Robinson & Celia Ann Bufkin
211.
Quintus Reese Barlow
Oct 30, 1937
Jul 17, 1943
s/o Hugh Quintus Barlow & F.L. Bland
212.
H. Quintus Barlow
(Hugh Quintus)
Jul 25, 1897
Jan 24, 1970
s/o Hugh Harmon Barlow & Emma Parker
h/o F. L. Bland
213.
F. L. Barlow
Oct 05, 1910
Aug 22, 1983
d/o Joseph Bland & Susie Martin
w/o Hugh Quintus Barlow
214.
Stella Barlow
Jan 06, 1897
May 22, 1977
d/o Jesse Sumter Parker & Lateen Ashley
w/o Julian "Dude" Barlow
215.
Julian Barlow
("Dude")
Feb 04, 1907
Sep 20, 1965
s/o Hugh Harmon Barlow & Emma Parker
h/o Stella Parker
216.
Nelson Barlow
Apr 08, 1940
Feb 16, 1941
possible child of Julian Barlow & Stella Parker
217.
Emma S. Barlow
May 19, 1935
Jul 11, 1935
possible child of Julian Barlow & Stella Parker
218.
Holly Barlow
(Holly Goff)
Jan 28, 1905
Oct 27, 1972
h/o Maude Kenney
s/o Hugh Harmon Barlow & Emma Parker
219.
Bennie Barlow
(Bennie Davis)
Jun 03, 1921
Jan 08, 1938
s/o Hugh Harmon Barlow & Emma Parker
220.
Emma P. Barlow
Feb 24, 1877
Sep 03, 1933
2nd w/o Hugh Harmon Barlow
d/o Benjamin F. Parker & Malinda Oglesby
221.
James Lafayette Bufkin
Apr 20, 1859
May 25, 1945
s/o William David Bufkin & Susan P. Carlisle
h/o Sarah Frances Barlow
222
Frances Barlow Bufkin
(Sarah Frances Barlow)
Jul 10, 1856
Dec 25, 1933
w/o James Lafayette Bufkin
d/o William Jasper Barlow & Mary Elizabeth Stanfil
223
Allah Virginia Barlow
May 07, 1938
Nov 01, 1944
d/o Paul Wesley Barlow & Alyne Douglass
224
Alene D. Barlow
Oct 18, 1916
Apr 20. 1973
w/o Paul Wesley Barlow
d/o Harmon Floyd Douglass & Allah Bufkin
225.
Paul W. Barlow, Sr.
Feb 16, 1903
May 17, 1978
s/o Hugh Harmon Barlow & Emma Parker
h/o Alene Douglass
226.
Catherine Wright
Barlow - Cammack
1863
1958
2nd w/o William Jasper Barlow
2nd w/o John Edward Cammack
d/o Elijah Kendall Wright & Mary G. Cranfield
born Dec 09, 1863
227.
Jim Douglass Barlow
Sep 27, 1939
Aug 09, 1940
s/o James Jasper Barlow & Iva Kelly Douglass
228.
Alma D. Phillips Conn
Apr 16, 1906
no date
w/o Francis Lee Conn
229.
Francis Lee Conn
March 16, 1906
Dec 28, 1934
s/o David Conn & Frances Ellen George
h/o Alma D. Phillips
230.
Joe Randall Conn
Mar 09, 1959
Dec 20, 1959
231.
Donald Hartley
Aug 04, 1934
Nov 15, 1985
232.
James D. Hartley
(James Daniel)
1899
1942
h/o Dorothy Conn
died February 18, 1942
233.
Lucille H. Bufkin
(Lucille Bernita Hartley)
Nov 06, 1906
Aug 31, 1962
d/o Tucker Hartley & Sarah Wilson
w/o Frank Mullen Bufkin
234.
Frank M. Bufkin
(Frank Mullen)
Jan 14, 1894
Oct 02, 1974
s/o William Carey Bufkin & Annie Eliza Cochran
h/o Lucille Bernita Hartley
235.
Sarah Ann Hartley
July 10, 1873
Nov 24, 1945
w/o Tucker Hartley
maiden name: Wilson
236.
Tuck D. Hartley
1870
1941
h/o Sarah Ann Wilson
237.
Bessie Conn
no date
Apr 05, 1930
w/o Matthew Tinsley Conn, III
maiden name: Gibson
237B.
Matthew Conn
(Matthew Tinsley, III)
no date
Mar 25, 1929
h/o Bessie Gibson
s/o Matthew Tinsley " Mat" Conn & Martha Bufkin
238.
Herman Conn
Jan 03, 1911
Oct 15, 1986
s/o David Conn & Frances Ellen George
239.
David Conn
Sep 26, 1879
Feb 08, 1944
s/o Matthew Tinsley " Mat" Conn & Martha Bufkin
h/o Frances Ellen George
240.
Frances George Conn
(Frances Ellen)
Mar 15, 1888
Feb 14, 1969
d/o Mack George & Helen Louise Richardson
w/o David Conn
241.
Infant Son
Mar 06, 1914
Mar 07, 1914
Conn?
242
Walter Conn
Jun 11, 1912
Jun 10, 1917
s/o Thomas Luther Conn & Cora Mae Smith
243.
Hubert Bishop
1/24?
Dec 29, 1994
244
Ida Hollingsworth George
no dates
no dates
245
___ Morgan
no dates
no dates
246.
Sally Epsie Conn
Feb 11, 1915
May 28, 1992
w/o Carl Brent
d/o John Floyd Conn, Jr. & Cora Epsie Bishop
247.
Virgil Sisto Coronado
Aug 29, 1917
Nov 20, 1993
248.
Catherine Bishop Coronado
Aug 21, 1918
no date
249.
Ayres Baron Bishop
Oct 30, 1910
no date
250.
Carrie Newman
June 29, 1904
Jan 17, 1992"

Benjamin married Celia Ann Lewis ⁹⁴.^,127

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Albert S. Bufkin (born on 22 Feb 1818 Georgetown District, Prince George Parish, South Carolina - died on 27 May 1880 in Copiah County, Mississippi)

         ii.   Harmon Floyd Bufkin (born on 28 Jul 1822 Copiah County, Mississippi - died on 16 Aug 1900 in Copiah County, Mississippi)

        iii.   William David Bufkin (born on 8 Apr 1827 Copiah County, Mississippi - died on 18 May 1880 in Copiah County, Mississippi)

         iv.   Benjamin Franklin Bufkin (born on 20 Sep 1829 Copiah County, Mississippi - died on 28 Oct 1904 in Copiah County, Mississippi)

26        v.   Reverend Solomon Bufkin (born on 21 Apr 1832 Copiah County, Mississippi - died on 20 Dec 1877 in Franklin County, Mississippi)

         vi.   Margaret Bufkin (born on 24 Feb 1834 Copiah County, Mississippi - died on 2 Oct 1904 in Copiah County, Mississippi)

        vii.   Urben Bufkin (born about 1836 Copiah County, Mississippi - died in 1863 in Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi)

       viii.   Celia Ann Bufkin (born in 1838 Copiah County, Mississippi)

53. Celia Ann Lewis,^94,127 daughter of Benjamin Lewis and Celia Martin , was born in 1795 in North Carolina,⁹⁴ died in 1864 in Copiah County, Mississippi, at age 69,⁹⁴ and was buried in Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery, Barlow, Copiah County, MS..⁹⁴

Celia married Benjamin Franklin Bufkin .⁹⁴

54. James Carlisle ⁹⁴ was born in Georgia and died about 1844 in Monticello, Lawrence County, Mississippi.

Noted events in his life were:

• Census: 1820 US Census, Lawrence County, Mississippi, 1820. ¹²⁸ "James Carlilse is shown living next door to possibly his father in law in the 1820 US Census, Lawrence County, Mississippi. The families are listed as follows:

William Bishop

1 male under 10 years of age
1 male between 10 and 16 years of age
1 male 45 years or older (William Bishop)

3 females under 10 years of age
1 female 45 years or older.

James Carlisle (next home)

2 males under 10 years of age
1 male between 26 and 45 years of age (James Carlisle)

1 female between 26 and 45 years of age."
(1820 US Census, Lawrence County, Mississippi)

• Census: 1840 US Census, Lawrence County, Mississippi, 1840. ¹²⁹ "James Carlisle is listed in the 1840 US Census, Lawrence County, Mississippi as follows:

1 male under 5 years of age
1 male between 5 and 10 years of age
2 males between 10 and 15 years of age
1 between 20 and 30 years of age
1 male between 40 and 50 years of age (James)

1 female under 5 years of age
1 female between 5 and 10 years of age
1 female between 10 and 15 years of age
1 female between 15 and 20 years of age
1 female between 30 and 40 years of age.

He is listed as having the following slaves:
1 male between 10 and 24 years of age
1 female between 10 and 24 years of age
1 female between 24 and 34 years of age."
(1840 US Census, Lawrence County, Mississippi)

James married Mary E. Bishop .⁹⁴

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Susan P. Carlisle (born on 15 Sep 1823 - died on 25 Mar 1886 in Copiah County, Mississippi)

27       ii.   Elizabeth Carlisle (born about 1831 Mississippi - died after 1880)

        iii.   Newton Carlisle (born about 1837)

55. Mary E. Bishop,⁹⁴ daughter of WIlliam Bucner Bishop and Sarah Ann Runnels , was born on 22 Feb 1799 in Georgia and died after 1840 in Lawrence County, Mississippi.

Mary married James Carlisle .⁹⁴

56. John Hardin Collier Sr.,^2,5 son of Isaac H. Collier Jr. and Sarah Truly , was born about 1807 in Jefferson County, Mississippi,² died on 4 Jul 1890 in Franklin County, Mississippi, about age 83,² and was buried in Old Union Baptist Chruch, Franklin County, Mississippi.

Noted events in his life were:

• Slave Transfer: 11 Dec 1816, Jefferson Co, Mississippi. "I Found a Deed in Jefferson County, Ms. on 11 December 1816 where Sarah Collier Gave Her Sons, James J. and John H. Collier, Slaves. Witness by James B. Truly. After that there are records where the sons were wards of James B. Truly and or Richard Harrison until the Late 1820's. There Is a Marriage License for Mrs. Sarah Collier and Eli K. Ross on 17 December 1817 in Jefferson County, Ms., They were married by Lawrence Scarbourgh. From this I assume that Isaac had died and Sarah's brother and brother-in-law had custody of the boys. James Was Circuit Clerk in Jefferson County."
(Barbara Celotto)

"It is interesting to note that if John H. Collier was a ward of James B. Truly, he would later marry a daughter of James Truly."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Census: 1840 US Census, Jefferson County, Mississippi, 1840. ¹³⁰ "John Hardin Collier is found in the 1840 US Census, Jefferson County, Mississippi along with his brother and Mrs. M. Truly (living next door to each other) and they are listed as follows:

Mrs. M. Truly (This may have been Martha Truly, Cora Catherine Truly's mother). She has 2 males under 5 years old, 1 male between 5 and 10 years of age, 1 male between 10 and 15 years of age and 1 male between 40 and 50 years of age. 1 female between 5 and 10 years of age and 1 female between 30 and 40 years of age.

The next house is:
James J. Collier (John Hardin Collier's brother) - 2 males between 5 and 10 years of age, 1 male between 30 and 40 years of age, 1 female under 5 and 1 female between 20 and 30 years of age.

The next house is:
John H. Collier - 2 males between 20 and 30 years of age and 1 female between 15 and 20 years of age.

John Hardin Collier should have been about 33 years old, so his age listed may not have been correct. Cora Collier would have been 17 years old, so she would have been the female between 15 and 20 years of age."
(1840 US Census, Jefferson County, Mississippi)

• Census: 1850 US Census, Jefferson County, Mississippi, 30 Jul 1850. ⁹⁶ "John H. Collier is living in Jefferson County, Mississippi in the 1850 US Census, Jefferson County, Mississippi, 9 Township, page 2 and is listed as follows:

J.H. Collier - age 42 - Planter - born in Mississippi
Cora Collier - age 27 - all family born in Mississippi
Sarah A. Collier - age 7
J.H. Jr - age 4"
(1850 US Census, Jefferson County, MIssissippi)

"The Martha Smith that is buried in Jefferson County, Mississippi and listed as the oldest daughter must have died prior to 1850 since she is not listed in the census. She was not listed in the 1840 census either, so it is unknown when she was born or died. It must have been before 1840 or between 1840 and 1843 (since Sarah was born in 1843)."
(Warren Trest)

• Census: 1870 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 3 Aug 1870. ⁴⁰ "John Hardin Collier Sr. and Jr. are living together in the 1870 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Meadville Post Office, page 169 and are as follows:

J.H. Collier Sr. - age 60 - born in Mississippi - value of real estate - $1,000 - Farmer
J.H. Collier Jr. - age 23 - born in Mississippi - Farm Laborer"
(1870 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

"Senior and Junior are still living together in 1880 (according to census records). John Hardin Collier Junior will have married and had 9 children by then."
(Warren Trest)

"In 1870, his wife, Cora Truly is not listed, so the assumption is she had died prior to 1870."

• Census: 1880 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1880. ⁴³ "The John Newman Sr. family is listed in the 1880 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi and is listed as follows:

John H. Collier - Age 73 - born in Mississippi, County Officer, father born in Virginia, mother born in Mississippi - widowed

John Collier - Age 35 - born in Mississippi, Farmer, both parents born in Mississippi
Helen N. Collier - age 32 - all family born in Mississippi
John N. Collier - son - age 11 - all children born in Mississippi
Willie P. Collier - son - age 11
Cora C. Collier - daughter - age 10
Mary L. Collier - daughter - age 9
Mattie W. Collier - daughter - age 8
Etta A. Collier - daughter - age 7
Sophia J. Collier - daughter - age 4
Sally J. Collier - daughter - age 3
John H. Collier - son - age 2 months."
(1880 US Census, Franklin County, MIssissippi - District 1)

• Occupation: "According to census records, John Hardin Collier Sr. is listed as a Farmer and as a County Officer."

• Obituary: ⁵ " The following was found in The Fayette Chronicle of Jefferson County, Mississippi:

John H. Collier Died in Franklin County July 4, 1890 Age 85 Years, 5 Months, an Honored Citzen of Franklin County."
(Fayette Chronicle Newspaper)

John married Cora Catherine Truly ² on 5 Jan 1837 in Jefferson County, MS..²

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Martha Smith Collier (, died in 14 Sep 1848)

         ii.   Sarah A. Collier (born about 1843 Jefferson County, MS. - died on 15 Mar 1937)

28      iii.   John Hardin Collier Jr. (born about Jan 1846 Jefferson County, Mississippi - died after Feb 1925 in Franklin County, Mississippi)

57. Cora Catherine Truly,^2,5 daughter of James Benett Truly and Martha Smith , was born about 1823 in Jefferson County, Mississippi ² and died before 1870.⁴⁰

Noted events in her life were:

• Will: "In the will of her mother, Martha Smith Truly, dated 5, November, 1855, Cora Truly Collier was given $20 and her daughter, Sarah Collier, was given the female slave, Bet."

Cora married John Hardin Collier Sr. ² on 5 Jan 1837 in Jefferson County, MS..²

58. Robert James Newman,^2,5 son of Solomon Newman and Mary Ann Lowery , was born on 1 Jan 1819 in Amite County, Mississippi,² died on 2 Nov 1882 in Mississippi, at age 63,² and was buried in Probably Newman Cemetery, Franklin County, MS.

Robert married Martha Edna McMillan ² on 22 Dec 1841 in Franklin County, MS..²

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Oscar Solomon Newman (born about 1843 - died on 8 Apr 1914 in Wood County, TX.)

         ii.   Sarah Josephine Newman (born on 28 Jul 1844 - died on 28 Aug 1844 in Buried: Newman Cemetery, Franklin County, MS.)

        iii.   Eudora Stellaphine Newman (born on 25 Dec 1846 - died on 28 Mar 1847 in Buried: Newman Cemetery, Franklin County, MS.)

29       iv.   Helen Edna Newman (born between 1847-1848 Mississippi - died after 1900 in Mississippi)

          v.   Robert Douglas Newman (born about 1850 Jefferson County, MS.)

         vi.   Newman (born on 29 Mar 1854 - died on 3 Apr 1854 in Buried: Newman Cemetery, Franklin County, MS.)

        vii.   Mastin Mcmillan Newman (born on 29 Feb 1856 Franklin County, MS. - died on 7 Dec 1928 in Franklin Parish, La.)

59. Martha Edna McMillan,^2,5 daughter of Daniel McMillan and Sarah Foster , was born about 1823 in Probably Franklin County, Mississpi ² and died about 1859 in Franklin County, Mississippi, about age 36.²

Martha married Robert James Newman ² on 22 Dec 1841 in Franklin County, MS..²

60. Osborne Bartlett Graves,^2,5 son of William Graves and Sarah Ford , was born about 1827 in Franklin County, MS. ² and died after 17 Mar 1852 in Franklin County, MS..² Another name for Osborne was Aub.

Noted events in his life were:

• General Information: ⁴⁴ "AUB was born ca. 1827, probably in Franklin County, Ms. and died there after 17 March 1852, when he was bondsman for the marriage of AMELIA C. CORBAN and SAMUEL WHARTON, and before 13 September 1852. His estate papers are in Probate Book B, page 128, Franklin County, Ms. He married ELIZA JANE CORBAN on 12 February 1846 in Franklin County, Ms. (book 3 page 22). Thomas H. Corban, bondsman and married by C. C. Campbell. ELIZA JANE and AMELIA were half sisters."
(Barbara Celotto)

• Census: 1830 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1830. ¹³¹ "The William Graves family is listed in the 1830 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, page 154 as follows:

William Graves
2 males under 5 years of age (Osborne should have been one of the children under 5 years of age)
1 male between 5 and 10 years of age
1 male between 40 and 50 years of age (William would have been near 50 years of age)

1 female between 5 and 10 years of age (this person is unkown since Sarah should have not been born yet)
1 female between 30 and 40 years of age

Their slaves are as follows:

1 male under 10 years of age
3 males between 10 and 24 years of age
2 males between 24 and 36 years of age

4 females under 10 years of age
4 females between 10 and 24 years of age
1 female between 24 and 26 years of age
2 females between 36 and 55 years of age."
(1830 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

• Census: 1840 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1840. ¹³² "The William Graves family is listed in the 1840 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi as follows:

William Graves - 1 free white male under 5 years of age
1 male between 5 and 10 years of age
1 male between 10 and 15 years of age (Osborne Bartlett Graves should have been about 13 years of age, so this should be him in 1840)
1 male between 15 and 20 years of age
1 male between 10 and 30 years of age
1 male between 50 and 60 years of age

1 free white female under 5 years of age
1 female between 40 and 50 years of age."
(1840 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

• Census: 1850 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 16 Sep 1850. ⁸⁴ "The Osborne Graves family is listed in the 1850 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi as follows:

(house 184)
Osborne B. Graves - age 23 - farmer - value of real estate $600 - all family born in Mississippi
Eliza J. - age 18
James F. - age 5
Sarah E. - age 1
Mary A. - age 7 months

Sarah C. Graves - age 14 (this would have been his sister)
John Q. A. Graves - age 11 (this would have been his brother)

The assumption can be made that he has his younger sister and brother living with him that his father has passed away before 1850."
(1850 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

Osborne married Eliza Jane Corban ² on 12 Feb 1846 in Franklin County, MS..²

Children from this marriage were:

30        i.   James F. Graves (born on 20 Jan 1847 Franklin County, Mississippi - died on 17 Mar 1927 in Franklin County, Mississippi)

         ii.   Sarah Elizabeth Graves (born on 3 Aug 1848 Franklin County, MS. - died on 17 May 1935 in Franklin County, MS.)

        iii.   Mary Adeline Graves (born on 12 Oct 1849 Franklin County, MS. - died on 18 Feb 1940 in Hineston, Rapides Parish, La; Buried In Fellowship Cem.)

         iv.   William T. Graves (born in Mar 1852 Franklin County, MS. - died in 1928 in Franklin County, MS.)

          v.   Osborne Bartlett Graves (born on 3 Aug 1853 Franklin County, MS. - died on 15 Jul 1934 in Franklin County, MS.)

61. Eliza Jane Corban,^2,5 daughter of Elisha Corban and Mary Ann Kinnison , was born on 15 Nov 1830 in Franklin County, MS. ² and died after 1900 in Franklin County, MS..²

Noted events in her life were:

• Census: 1840 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1840. ¹³² "The Elisha Corban family is listed in the 1840 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi as follows:

Elisha Corban (speeled Corbin)
2 males under 5 years of age
1 male between 15 and 20 years of age
1 male between 30 and 40 years of age

2 females under 5 years of age
3 females between 5 and 10 years of age (Eliza Jane should have been one of these females)
1 female between 20 and 30 years of age."
(1840 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

• Census: 1850 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1850. ⁸⁴ "The Osborne Graves family is listed in the 1850 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi as follows:

(house 184)
Osborne B. Graves - age 23 - farmer - value of real estate $600 - all family born in Mississippi
Eliza J. - age 18
James F. - age 5
Sarah e. - age 1
Mary A. - age 7 months

Sarah C. Graves - age 14 (this would have been his sister)
John Q. A. Graves - age 11 (this would have been his brother)

The assumption can be made that he has his younger sister and brother living with him that his father has passed away before 1850."
(1850 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

• Census: 1860 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 11 Aug 1860. ⁸⁸ "The John Aldridge family is listed in the 1860 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, page 22 as follows (Osborne Bartlett Graves Sr. has died and Eliza Corban has remarried to John Aldridge by 1860):

John Aldridge - age 41 - male - farmer - value of real estate $12, 500 - value of personal estate $300 - born in Mississippi (everone is listed as birthplace of Mississippi)
Eliza - age 29 - female - domestic - can not read or write
James - age 13 - male
Sarah - age 12 - female - attended school in the last year
Mary - age 10 - female - attended school in the last year
William - age 9 - male
Bartlett - age 7 male
Colombus - age 2 - male
Elizabeth - age 1 - female

It should be noted that from James to Bartlett, these are children between Eliza Coban and Osborne Graves. The last two children were between her and John Aldridge."
(1860 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

• Census: 1870 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1870. ⁴⁰ "Eliza Jane (Graves) Aldridge is found in the John Aldridge family in the 1870 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, page 166 as follows:

(Note: The penmanship of the census taker is hard to read, so some of the letters in the names may not be correct)

J. Aldridge - age 51 - white male - everyone born in Mississippi - Farmer
E.J. Aldridge - age 40 - white female (This is Eliza Jane Corban Graves Aldridge)
E. Mathews - age 3 - black female - keeping house (I feel this age is wrong)
J.C.W. Aldridge - age 12 - white male - farm laborer
C.E.A. Aldridge - age 10 - white female
J.S. Aldridge - age 8 - white female
D.R. Aldridge - age 6 - white male
N.N. Aldridge - age 4 - white male
E.J. Aldridge - age 2 - white female
N.R. Aldridge - age 1 month - white female
W.T. Graves - age 19 - white male - Farm Laborer"
(1870 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

• Census: 1880 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 14 Jun 1880. ⁴¹ "Eliza Jane Corban Graves Aldridge is listed in the John Aldridge family in the 1880 US Census, Franklin County, Hamburg, page 20 as follows:

John Aldridge - white male - age 62 - born in MS. - farmer - father born in MD - mother born in GA.
E.J. Aldridge - wife - white female - age 49 - born in MS. - keeping house - both parents born in MS.
Ida C. Aldridge - daughter - white female - age 17 - all born in MS.
David C. Aldridge - son - white male - age 16 - farm laborer - all born in MS.
Albert N. Aldridge - son - white male - age 14 - farm laborer - all born in MS.
E.J. Aldridge - daughter - white female - age 12 - attending school - all born in MS.
Nancy R. Aldridge - daughter - white female - age 10 - attending school - all born in MS.
John F. Aldridge - son - white male - age 4 - all born in MS.

J.W. Powers - brother in law - white male - age 76 - born in VA. - farmer - both parents born in VA.
Sarah Powers - sister - white female - age 68 - born in MS. - father born in MD. - mother born in GA."
(1880 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

• Census: 1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 13 Jun 1900. ¹⁵ "Eliza Jane Corban (Graves) Aldridge is living with her son Covington in the 1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Beat 2, sheet No 80-A as follows:

Covington Aldridge - born June 1863 - age 36 - married 16 years - all born in MS.
Mary - wife - born Dec. 1865 - age 34 - 6 children - all alive
(? undecernable) - son - born Dec 1885 - age 14
Pearl - daughter - born Jan 1888 - age 12
Kirby - son - born Aug 1891 - age 8
Della - daughter - born Jan 1894 - age 6
Homer - son - born Aug 1895 - ge 4
Covington - son - born Sept 1899 - age 8 months

Eliza - mother - born Nov 1830 - age 69 - widowed - can read and write

Sarah Powers - aunt - born May 1812 - age 88 - widowed
Elizabeth Anders - mother in law - born May 1824 - age 76 - widowed"
(1900 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

Eliza married Osborne Bartlett Graves ² on 12 Feb 1846 in Franklin County, MS..²

Eliza next married John H. Aldridge ,² son of Thomas Aldridge and Catherine King , on 24 Nov 1853 in Franklin County, MS..² John was born between 1816-1819 in Mississippi.²

General Notes: [graves 2002 good.FBK]

(1860 Census Page 22 Family 158, Age 41---eliza Can't Read or Write--1870 Census Age 51--1880--dew. 189-191-age 72-farmer-born Ms.
Jospeh Aldridge Bondsman, Married by Asa J. Guice

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Columbia (Columbus) Aldridge (born about 1857 Franklin County, MS.)

         ii.   Elizabeth Jane Aldridge (born on 27 May 1858 Franklin County, MS. - died on 21 Jul 1956 in Buried: Old Union Baptist Church Cemetery, Franklin County, MS.)

        iii.   Ida C. Aldridge (born about 1862 Franklin County, MS.)

         iv.   David Covington King Aldridge (born on 28 May 1863 Franklin County, MS. - died on 14 Aug 1939 in Buried: Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Franklin County, MS.)

          v.   Albert Newton Aldridge (born in Apr 1866 Franklin County, MS.)

         vi.   Eliza Jane Aldridge (born about 1867 Franklin County, MS. - died between 1949-1950 in Jackson, MS.)

        vii.   Nancy Rosa Aldridge (born about 1869 Franklin County, MS.)

       viii.   John L. Aldridge (born on 18 Feb 1876 Franklin County, MS. - died on 27 Jul 1914 in Buried In Mt. Carmel Cemetery)

62. Levi Evans Middleton,^2,5 son of Stephen Middleton and Dicey , was born in 1808 in Mississippi ² and died in Jan 1862 in Franklin County, Mississippi, at age 54.²

Noted events in his life were:

• Census: 1850 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 16 Oct 1850. ⁸⁴ "The Levi Middleton family is listed in the 1850 US Census, 16 Oct, 1850, household 355 as follows:

Levi E. Middleton - male - age 45 - farmer - born in Mississippi
Jane - female - age 39 - born in Mississippi
Martha J. - age 14 - born in Mississippi
Elizabeth - age 13 - born in Mississippi
Levi - male - age 10 - born in Mississippi
Rhoda - female - age 8 - born in Mississippi
Sophronia - female - age 3 - born in Mississippi

Malcolm Currie (hard to read) - age 70 - male - born in Scotland
Martha (?) Currie (hard to read) - female - age 21
Monroe Currie - male - school teacher - age 21 - personal worth $200 - born in Mississippi."
(1850 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

• Census: 1860 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, 1 Oct 1860. ⁸⁸ "The Levi Middleton family is listed in the 1860 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi, Friendship P.O., page 80 as follows:

L. C. (?) Middleton - age 52 - married within the year - Farmer - value of real estate $1000 - value of personal estate $1500 - born in Mississippi
Jane - age 18 - married within the year - born in Mississippi
Levi - age 20 - farm labor - personal estate value - $175 - born in Mississippi
Monroe - age 9 - born in Mississippi"
(1860 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

Levi married Jane Farrar Currie ² on 9 Mar 1829 in Jefferson County, MS..²

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Martha Jane Middleton (born on 5 Jun 1837 Franklin County, MS. - died on 28 Sep 1902)

         ii.   Elizabeth Middleton (born about 1837)

        iii.   Levi Middleton (born about 1840)

31       iv.   Rhoda Currie Middleton (born on 20 Sep 1842 Franklin County, Mississippi - died on 20 Mar 1907 in Franklin County, Mississippi)

          v.   Sophronia Middleton (born about 1847)

         vi.   Monroe Middleton (born about 1851)

Levi next married Francis Jane Freeman ² on 7 Apr 1860 in Franklin County, MS..²

63. Jane Farrar Currie,^2,5 daughter of Malcolm Currie and Rhoda Farrar , was born on 22 Jun 1810 in Jefferson County, Mississippi,² died on 24 Jul 1859 in Franklin County, Mississippi, at age 49,² and was buried in Old Wrights Cemetery, Franklin County, Mississippi.⁵

Noted events in her life were:

• Census: 1850 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi. "The Levi Middleton family is listed in the 1850 US Census, 16 Oct, 1850, household 355 as follows:

Levi E. Middleton - male - age 45 - farmer - born in Mississippi
Jane - female - age 39 - born in Mississippi
Martha J. - age 14 - born in Mississippi
Elizabeth - age 13 - born in Mississippi
Levi - male - age 10 - born in Mississippi
Rhoda - female - age 8 - born in Mississippi
Sophronia - female - age 3 - born in Mississippi

Malcolm Currie (hard to read) - age 70 - male - born in Scotland
Martha (?) Currie (hard to read) - female - age 21
Monroe Currie - male - school teacher - age 21 - personal worth $200 - born in Mississippi."
(1850 US Census, Franklin County, Mississippi)

Jane married Levi Evans Middleton ² on 9 Mar 1829 in Jefferson County, MS..²

  Seventh Generation  

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64. John Trest was born in Hamburg, Germany and died after 1773 in Lost at Sea. The cause of his death was lost at Sea. Other names for John were Johann Treist, and Johann Trest.

Noted events in his life were:

• Death: Death, After 1773. ¹³³ "It is reported that "Big John" or Johann Trest (or Triest) arrived in Charleston, South Carolina from Hamburg, Germany and married Rebecca Thorne in 1771 in Orangeburge County, South Carolina. Their son, John Trest, was born in 1772 in Orangeburg. They were attacked by Indians in 1773 and Rebecca was killed in the attack. John was taken prisoner and the Trest baby was found and raised by a family named MacDonald. John later escaped from the Indians and was reported as lost at sea. This is from oral family history at the Trest Reunion in Jones County, Mississippi and has not been proved in any way.

On census records 1850 and on, the child John Daniel Trest is listed as being born in South Carolina, so it appears that John and Rebecca were in South Carolina at the time of John's birth."
(Warren Graham Trest)

"Our history indicates John Trest or Triest arrived in Charleston, SC about 1774 from Hamburg, Germany. Supposedly there was an Indian masacre and one son John was rescued by the McDonald family in the late 1700's. This was in the Carolina area. The family imigrated to Miss with the Fergusons in the 1840's."
(Mike and Judy Trest)

"Johann Trest was a German Sailor who came from the district of Hamburg, Germany to these shores of North America in 1773. He married Rebecca Thorne
and they settled in South Carolina.

When their baby John was born, still a small child, Indians attacked and
killed Rebecca, captured big Johann and carried him away. A family named McDonald found the small child John and reared him.

Records in Orangeburg County, South Carolina: The Indians did not kill Johann or John, he escaped. He was listed as a Ships Captain and was lost at sea.

John Trest grew up and married Elizabeth Waters of Orangeburg, South Carolina but they later moved to Alabama. After several years they settled in a Scotch Settlement called Sandersville, Jones County, MS."
(Roy Pearson)

• History of Orangeburg County, North Carolina: "The first sixty years of history in the Province of South Carolina shows that colonists either settled on the coast or in the immediate vicinity. To induce settlers to the undeveloped "backcountry", a wilderness inhabited by only a few white traders and Indians, eleven townships were formed to be called The King's Bounty Land.

Each township containing 20,000 acres, encircled by a strip of land six miles wide to be held for future exapansion. One decision that was to leave a deep impress upon the character of the South Carolina people was that which extended these land rights to Protestants of Europe. This meant that would have a heritage from the German and Swiss nationalities.

The plan of Jean Pierre Purry of the firm Purry et Compagnie in Neuchatel to found a colony in Carolinia and a list of it's German- speaking settlers is detailed in the South Carolina Historical Magazine (October 1991). A steady migration from Switzerland to other Carolina townships also began, the Swiss for economic reasons and the German refugees from religious persecution. This migration was encouraged by extravagant accounts of the land in America. While other nationalities also settled in the townships, it was the Swiss and Germans that composed the greater number of these first settlers.

The following list of immigrant ships that will indicate the strength of the migration of German-speaking families into Caroilina during this period.
1732 Purry's first party.
1732 (Dec 2) 50 Palatines expected.
1733 (July) 25 Salzburgers for Purrysburg.
1734 (November) 260 Swiss for Purrysburg.
1735 (July) 250 German Switzers.
1735 (July) 200 German Palatines.
1735 (July) 250 German-Swiss
1736 (October) A Great Number (170) of German Swiss People.
1737 (February) Above 200 Switzers out of the canton of Tockenburgh ncluding Rev. Hans Ulrich Giessendanner and his nephew Rev. John Giessendanner , the first pastors of Orangeburgh.
1744 Captain Ham's ship, which brought over some Swiss from Bern.
1744 (December) Capt. Brown's ship with 100 Palatines.

It was during the fourth decade of the eighteenth century, that German-Swiss emigration reached it's peak. A Bernese offical of the time coined for it the fitting expression "Rabies Carolinae."

• General Information: ⁵⁸ "Dear Don:

Angus B. Trest is the son of Samuel Capers Trest of Jones County, Mississippi. Angus B was born in 1862 and lived to be 104 years old. Samuel Capers was married to Eleander McGilvary in 1859. Samuel Capers was bron in Alabama in 1833. They had the following children: William John b. 1860; Angus B b. 1862; Sarah Elizabteh b. 1864 (my great grandmother); Joseph Alexander b. 1869; Colin Oliphant b. 1871; Samuel Albert, b. 1873; Richard/Richmond Felder b. 1875 and Norman Trest. Samuel Capers was in the 7th Battalion of the Mississippi Infantry, Company C. He was catpured three times. He was the son of John Trest of South Carolina. John was the son of John Trest who emigrated from Germany. He was a German sailor from the Hamburg district in Germany. He came to America in 1773. He married Rebecca Thorne and they settled in South Carolina. When their baby John was born and still a small child, the Inidans killed Rebecca. John was lost at sea and never heard from again. Little baby John was found by the McDonalds and they raised him. He marrieed Elizabeth Walters of Orangeburg, SC. They later moved to Alabama and then to Sandersville, MS, a Scotch settlement where the McDonalds had come come to live. Samuel Capers Trest was a school teacher at Ovett School in Jones County. After the Civil War, he was the first Sheriff in Jones County during Reconstruction. Angus, his son lived to be 104 years old. Angus married Nancy Walters in 1882. I do not know the children of Angus B. and Nancy Trest. This is something that you may find in ancestry.com or familytreemaker.com. I do hope this helps you. I have other information on Samuel Capers Trest which would be your grandfather if you would be interested. He is alos my great great grandfather.

Roy (Roy Pearson)"
(Ancestry.com Message Board)

John married Rebecca Thorne in 1771 in Orangeburg County, South Carolina.

Children from this marriage were:

32        i.   John Daniel Trest (born in 1772 Orangeburg County, South Carolina - died in 1842 in Jones County, Mississippi)

65. Rebecca Thorne was born in England and died in 1773 in Orangeburg County, South Carolina. The cause of her death was killed by Indians.

Noted events in her life were:

• Death: Death of Rebecca Thorne, 1773, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. ¹³³ "It is reported that "Big John" or Johann Trest (or Triest) arrived in Charleston, South Carolina from Hamburg, Germany and married Rebecca Thorne in 1771 in Orangeburge County, South Carolina. Their son, John Trest, was born in 1772 in Orangeburg. They were attacked by Indians in 1773 and Rebecca was killed in the attack. John was taken prisoner and the Trest baby was found and raised by a family named MacDonald. John later escaped from the Indians and was reported as lost at sea. This is from oral family history at the Trest Reunion in Jones County, Mississippi and has not been proved in any way.

On census records 1850 and on, the child John Daniel Trest is listed as being born in South Carolina, so it appears that John and Rebecca were in South Carolina at the time of John's birth."
(Warren Graham Trest)

"Our history indicates John Trest or Triest arrived in Charleston, SC about 1774 from Hamburg, Germany. Supposedly there was an Indian masacre and one son John was rescued by the McDonald family in the late 1700's. This was in the Carolina area. The family imigrated to Miss with the Fergusons in the 1840's."
(Mike and Judy Trest)

"Johann Trest was a German Sailor who came from the district of Hamburg, Germany to these shores of North America in 1773. He married Rebecca Thorne
and they settled in South Carolina.

When their baby John was born, still a small child, Indians attacked and
killed Rebecca, captured big Johann and carried him away. A family named McDonald found the small child John and reared him.

Records in Orangeburg County, South Carolina: The Indians did not kill Johann or John, he escaped. He was listed as a Ships Captain and was lost at sea.

John Trest grew up and married Elizabeth Waters of Orangeburg, South Carolina but they later moved to Alabama. After several years they settled in a Scotch Settlement called Sandersville, Jones County, MS."
(Roy Pearson)

Rebecca married John Trest in 1771 in Orangeburg County, South Carolina.

66. Zadrack James Walters ²¹ died after 1800. Another name for Zadrack was Zadrack Waters.

Noted events in his life were:

• Census: 1800 US Census, Orange County, North Carolina, 1800, Orange County, South Carolina. ¹³⁴ "Zadrack Walters is listed in the 1800 Orange, South Carolina census as having one male under 10 years old, 1 male 10 through 15 and 1 male 26 through 44. He also has one female under 10 years old, 1 female 10 through 15 and 1 female between 26 and 44 years old. They show up living between "indecernable" River, Beaver Creek and 4 holes.

The female child between 10 and 15 would have been Sarah Elizabeth Walters if she was born between 1794 and 1795."

Zadrack married Unknown .

Children from this marriage were:

33        i.   Elizabeth Walters (born in 1792 Orangeburg County, South Carolina - died in 1863 in Jones County, Mississippi)

67. Unknown died after 1800.

Unknown married Zadrack James Walters .²¹

68. Alexander McGilvray,¹⁰³ son of John McGilvray and Sarah Buchannon , was born about 1788 in Isle of Skye, Scotland ^{102,103,135,136} and died about 1871 in Runnelstown, Perry County, Mississippi, about age 83.¹⁰³

Noted events in his life were:

• Migration: North Carolina to Mississippi, 1820-1830. ¹ "The Alexander McGilvray family must have migrated from North Carolina after 1820 and before 1830. They do not show up in the 1820 Mississippi census but do show up in 1830.

Daniel and John, ALexander's sons, both show up in the 1850 Census as being born in North Carolina."
(Warren Trest)

• History of Perry County, MS: "In December, 1809 Wayne County, Mississippi Territory was formed from Choctaw Indian lands obtained through The Treaty of Mount Dexter in 1805. On December 9, 1811 Greene County was created out of Wayne county. Perry County was established February 3, 1820, and originally formed the western part of the large county of Greene primarily because the settlers didn't want to cross the river to get to the Courthouse!

History tells us that as more and more people arrived, they began to settle along the creeks and rivers in western Greene county. The pioneers once again began to complain about having to cross the river to conduct business at the courthouse. Thus, the movement began to create a separate county with a courthouse above the Leaf River instead of below. (Greene County's Courthouse was built on Leaf river at Boise (French for wood) Bluff which was the highest point on the river in Greene County and relatively safe from Indian attacks. Boise Bluff is located between Atkinson and Courthouse Creeks about 3/4 miler upriver from present day Highway 98 Bridge at McLain.)

This movement was led by the Gains family who owned 1,300 acres on both sides of the creek bearing their name (Gaines Creek). George S. Gains was the government's Indian factor (agent) at St. Stephens and knew most of the territorial officials personally. Gaines used his influence with those officials to get the federal land office moved from the Jackson County Courthouse to Augusta, the largest settlement in western Greene county. The people no longer had to travel to St. Stephens on the Tombigbee river to record their land deeds.

By 1819 the Augusta land office was in operation and a new county was ready to be formed, on February 3, 1820, Perry County was born and named for War of 1812 Naval Hero, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry who died in 1819. Once Perry County was formed, the Greene County Courthouse on the western edge of Greene County and this led to its relocation to Leakesville, which was closer to the center of the county, around 1826.

Its civil officers during the first year of its existence were: Jacob H. MORRIS, Chief Justice of the Quorum and John JENKINS, John GREEN, Jacob CARTER, Craven P. MOFFITT, Associate Justices; Alex. McKENZIE, Eli MOFFITT, Benjamin H.G. HARFIELD, William HUDSON, John MOFFIT, Seth GRANBERRY, Lewis W. John McDONALD, Assessor and Collector; Geo. HARRISON, Ranger; Joel LEWIS, Surveyor; John BARLOW, Constable; Wm. TISDALE, Coroner, J.J.H. MORRIS, Notary PUBLIC, Martin CHADWICK, Sheriff. Some of the other county officers, 1821-1827, were Griffin HOLLOMON, J.J.H. MORRIS, John F. MAPP, Abner CARTER, Judges of Probate; Lewis RHODES, Sheriff; Anthony PITTS, Adam ULMER, Jonathan TAYLOR, Geo. B. DAMERON, Sterling BRINSON, John DEACE, Daniel MILEY, James SIMMONS, Sherod BYRD, Isham H. CLAYTON, James OVERSTREET, Uriah MILLSAPP, Justices of the Peace; Hugh McDONALD, Treasurer; Farr PROCTOR, Go. HARRISON, Lewis RHODES, Assessors and Collectors.

Perry County was settled by a large number of hardy pioneers along its many waterways, and is located in the southeastern part of the State, in the long-leaf pine belt, and is bounded on the north by Jones and Wayne counties, on the east by Greene County, on the south by Harrison county and on the west by Lamar and Pearl River Counties, and has an area of twenty-six townships, or 936 square miles. The Leaf River was a main mode of transportation during the early years, being utilized by the many loggers of the County to transport the logs to the Mississippi Gulf Coast area. Many of the early settlers were Farmers, both food and livestock. The principal streams are the Leaf River, which flows through the center of the county from the northwest to the southeast with its numerous tributaries and Black Creek and its tributaries in the southern part. The prevailing timber is the long leaf pine, but on the rivers and creeks, oaks, hickory, poplar, magnolia, gums, cypress, etc., are found.

Its population has always been small in proportion to its acres. Within recent years its valuable timber resources have been partially exploited and it has taken on a new and permanent growth; from a total of 6,456 inhabitants in 1890, increased to 14,682 in 1900, a rate of increase considerably in excess of one hundred per cent.

The county seat, until 1906 was the old town of Augusta, near the center of the county on the east bank of the Leaf River. Old August remains a small village today.

New Augusta, two miles south of Old Augusta, on the Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City R.R., was made the county seat of Perry County. Hattiesburg which was formerly in the northwestern part of the county, and up until the early 1900s was one of the two county seats of Perry County, is a flourishing city which is now the "capital" of Forrest County."
(Sources: Richard Roman, Birth of Perry County, The Richton Dispatch Vol 91 No. 18.; Rowland, Dunbar, LL.D, editor. MISSISSIPPI; COMPRISING SKETCHES OF COUNTIES, TOWNS, EVENTS, INSTITUTIONS, AND PERSONS, ARRANGED IN CYCLOPEDIC FORM , v. 2. c1907, Southern Historical Pub. Association, Atlanta.)

• Runnelstown, Mississippi: Runnelstown, Perry County, Mississippi. ¹ "Runnelstown is just across the Perry County border from Jones County, Mississippi. Samuel Caper Trest is reported to have lived in Ovett, Mississippi which is just on the other side of the county line. Sandersville, where most of his family lived is in the North East section of Jones County."
(Warren Trest)

• Census: 1830 US Census, Perry County, Mississippi, 1830, Perry County, Mississippi. ¹³⁷ "The Alexander McGilvray family (spelled McGilberry) is listed as follows:

1 male under 5 years of age
2 males between 5 and 10 years of age
2 males between 10 and 15 years of age
1 male between 40 and 50 years of age

1 female between 15 and 20 years of age
1 female between 40 and 50 years of age.

They are shown in 1830 without slaves.

William McGilvray would have been one of the children (males) between 10 and 15 years of age in the 1830 Census. Given the accuracy of census in 1830, he may have been one of the males between 5 and 10 years old."
(Warren Trest, 1830 US Census, Perry County, Mississippi)

"It is interesting to note that Josiah Bufkin and Alexander McGilvray were in Perry County (near Runnelstown) at the same time between 1820 and 1830. Since the census record is only 9 pages (in 1820), they must have known each other in Church, in town or at Farming events. Their children would spread to Jones County (to the North) and Franklin County (to the West). The McGilvrays would marry into the Trest family (Eleanor to Samuel Caper) and the Bufkins would marry into the Grahams (Clara Dodd Bufkin to Claudius Claiborn Graham). 5 generations (on both sides) after Alexander McGilvray and Josiah Bufkin, Wendell Trest would marry Neddie Graham bringing these two lines together."
(Warren Graham Trest)

• Census: 1850 US Census, Perry County, Mississippi, 1850, Perry County, Mississippi. ¹³⁵ "The Alexander McGilvray family is listed in the 1850 US Census, Perry County, Mississippi as follows:

(Starting at the house next door with his son, Daniel):
Daniel McGilvray (the census taker spells all the names as McGilbry) - age 35 - farmer - born in N.C.
Catherine - age 23 - born in Miss.
Angus - age 5
Fl? - (daughter) - age 3
Catherine - age 1
(House 73)

Alexander McGilvray - age 60 - Farmer - born in Scotland
Mary - age 56 - born in Scotland
Neil - age 20 - farmer - born in Miss.
(House 74)

John McGilvray - age 35 - farmer - born in N.C.
Sarah - age 25 - born in Miss.
Elizabeth - age 8 - born in Miss.
William - age 5
John - age 4
Hugh - age 3
Malcolm - age 1
(House 75)"
(Page 376A)

• Census: 1860 US Census, Perry County, Mississippi, 1860, Perry County, Mississippi. ¹³⁶ "In the 1860 US Census, Perry County, Mississippi, Alexander McGilvray is living with his eldest son, Daniel McGilvray. He is listed as having $600 of real estate and $2000 of personal estate.

The Daniel McGilvray family is listed as follows (The family name is misspelled as McGilbury)

Daniel McGilvray (McGilbury) - age 35 - farmer - born in N.C. - $1000 real estate value and $6000 personal value
Catherine - age 32 - born in Mississippi
Angus - age 15 - all children born in Mississippi
Florance (?) - age 13
Catherine - age 11
Mary Jane - age 9
William - age 6
Alexander - age 4
Duncan - age 2
Margaret - age 4 months
Alexander - age 70 - farmer - born in Scotland.

His wife is not listed in the 1860 census, so the assumption can be made that Mary Elizabeth passed away prior to 1860."
(1860 US Census, Perry County, Mississippi)

• Census: 1870 US Census, Perry County, Mississippi, 1870, Perry County, Mississippi. ¹³⁸ "Alexander McGilvray is sataying with the David McGilvray family in the 1870 US Census, Perry County, Mississippi. I do not show a David McGilvray as a son, so it is not known who David McGIlvray (born about 1820) is. The family is as follows (name misspelled as McGillberry):

David McGilvray - age 50 - farmer - born in South Carolina
Phebie - age 48 - born in Mississippi
William - age 16
Alexander - age 14
Duncan - age 12
Alex - age 85 - born in Scotland
Clair - age 13"
(1870 US Census, Perry County, page 12)

• McGilvray Cemetery: Perry County, Mississippi. ¹³⁹ "The McGilvray Cemetery is located in Perry County, Mississippi, Ovett SE.

The coordinates are 31 deg 20 min 29 sec North latitude
89 deg 04 min 44 sec West longitude."
(USGS National Mapping Information)

Alexander married Mary Elizabeth McLeod ¹⁰³ about 1812.¹⁰²

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Daniel Angus McGilvray (born on 1 Jan 1814 North Carolina - died on 4 Aug 1895 in Perry County, Mississippi)

         ii.   Christian McGilvray (born on 15 Mar 1815 North Carolina - died on 28 Jun 1892 in Leon County, Texas)

        iii.   John Angus McGilvray (born about 1815-1817 North Carolina)

34       iv.   William Tyrus McGilvray (born about 1819 Moore County, North Carolina - died after 1860 in Jones County, Mississippi)

          v.   Duncan McGilvray ()

         vi.   Harmon McGilvray ()

69. Mary Elizabeth McLeod,¹⁰³ daughter of Murdoch McLeod and Christian McSwain , was born about 1794 in Isle of Skye, Scotland ^102,103,135 and died before 1860 in Runnelstown, Perry County, Mississippi.¹⁰³ Another name for Mary was Polly McLeod.¹⁰³

Noted events in her life were:

• Heraldry: ¹⁴⁰ "The fascinating origins of the clan can be traced to Leod, who was born about 1200, the son of Olaf the Black, King of Man and the Isles. Leod married the daughter and heiress of MacRaild about the year 1220. Through his son, Tormod, came the MacLeods of Harris, Dunvegan and Glenelg, and through his second son, Torquil, came the MacLeods of Lewis.

Throughout the centuries MacLeods have been known for their devotion to their chief, the tenacity with which they have maintained the ancient Dunvegan castle, their appreciation of music and Gaelic lore, their outstanding record in the professions, and their loyalty to one another."

The Castle of McLeaod - Dunvegan Castle

"Originally a rock fortress founded about eight and a half centuries ago, Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye in Invernesshire, Scotland, has grown and changed over the years until today it is a beautiful and historic castle - the oldest continuously inhabited stronghold in the British Isles, the home of the Chief and the symbolic clan home to MacLeods around the world. Among its many treasures are the Fairy Flag, the Dunvegan Cup, Rory Mor's Drinking Horn, art works, as well as its magnificent views of Loch Dunvegan and the landscaped grounds."
(www.clan-macleod.com)

Mary married Alexander McGilvray ¹⁰³ about 1812.¹⁰²

70. Daniel Smith ¹⁰³ was born about 1771 in South Carolina ¹⁰³ and died after 1850 in Mississippi.

Daniel married Eleanor Murphy .¹⁰³

Children from this marriage were:

35        i.   Sarah J. Smith (born about 1814 South Carolina - died after 1860 in Jones County, Mississippi)

         ii.   Daniel Smith (born about 1818)

        iii.   William Joseph Smith (born on 22 Jul 1822)

         iv.   George Perrigan Smith (born about 1827)

71. Eleanor Murphy ¹⁰³ was born about 1775 in South Carolina.¹⁰³

Eleanor married Daniel Smith .¹⁰³

72. Malcolm James Ferguson,^21,30 son of John Ferguson I and Catherine Crawford , was born about 1750 in Granoch, Cantyre, Scotland ²¹.^,30

Noted events in his life were:

• Migration: Migration from Nova Scotia to North Carolina to Mississippi. ¹⁰⁶ "First Settler in Jones County

Sandersville - Who were the first settlers in Jones County? An answer that would probably go unchallenged is traced back to Scotland. It is set forth in a 1957 historical document by the late Lee Bonner, "subscribed and sworn to" in Laurel before Nina M. Daly, notary public.

"The Ferguson, McGill and Smith clans," Bonner recorded, "were branches of the greatest Scot clan, the McDonald Highlanders."

The story notes that "in the period of the American Revolution, some Scots seeking a better climate than Nova Scotia (New Scotland) immigrated to North Carolina. Among them were Malcolm and Mary McDonald Ferguson, parents of John, Margaret and Mary; Angus and Annie Fairley McGill, parents of Archibald, Flora and Nancy; John Hector Smith and wife (maiden name not avaolable), parents of John Campbell, Isabelle and Daniel. The children named all migrated to Mississippi."
(Jones County Newspaper Article - page 4)

Malcolm married Mary Margaret McDonald ²¹.^,30

Children from this marriage were:

36        i.   John Ferguson II (born on 3 May 1776 Richmond County, North Carolina - died on 3 Jan 1835 in Jones County, Mississippi)

         ii.   Catherine Ferguson (born on 8 Oct 1779 Richmond County, North Carolina - died on 25 May 1857 in Jones County, Mississippi)

73. Mary Margaret McDonald ^21,30 was born in Granoch, Cantyre, Scotland.²¹

Mary married Malcolm James Ferguson ²¹.^,30

74. Angus McGill,^21,141 son of Archibald McGill and Elizabeth Walker , was born in 1758 in Granoch, Cantyre, Scotland ^21,141 and died in 1820 in North Carolina, at age 62 ^21,141.^,142

Noted events in his life were:

• Military Service: American Revolution, North Carolina. ¹⁴¹ "Angus McGill served as a Private in the Revolutionary War on the Patriot side according to D.A.R. Records. He served in North Carolina. The records show that no pension was given to him or his wives (listed as Anne Fairley and Polly Fletcher)."
(D.A.R. Records)

• Occupation: Weaver, Richmond County, North Carolina. ³⁰ "They were all farmers except my great grandfather McGill, who was a weaver by trade."
(Angus Furguson)

• Tax Schedule: 1779 Richmond County, North Carolina Tax Schedule, 1779, Richmond County, North Carolina. ⁵⁷ "Angus McGill is listed in the 1779 Tax Schedule, Richmond County, North Carolina as having 550 acres of land. His brother, Allen, (assumption) is listed as having 400 acres."
(1779 Tax Schedule)

• Census: 1790 US Census, Richmond County, North Carolina, 1790, Richmond County, North Carolina. ¹⁰⁹ "Angus McGill is listed in the 1790 US Census, Richmond County, North Carolina with 2 free white males of 16 years and older, 2 free white males under 16 years old and 5 free white females."
(1790 US Census - Page 177)

He is followed in the census by an Allen McGill (The assumption is that this is his brother).

"The Allen McGill family is listed as 1 male 16 years and older, 1 male under 16 and 4 females."
(1790 US Census - Page 177)

• Census: 1800 US Census, Richmond County, North Carolina, 1800, Richmond County, North Carolina. ¹¹⁰ "Angus McGill is listed in the 1800 US Census, Richmond County, North Carolina as having 2 males under 10 years old, 2 males between 16 and 25 years old, 1 male over 45 years old, 2 females under 10 years old, 2 females between 10 and 15 years old, 1 female between 16 and 25 years old and 1 female 26 to 44 years old.

He is also listed as having 3 slaves."
(1800 US Census)

• Census: 1810 US Census, Richmond County, North Carolina, 1810, Richmond County, North Carolina. ¹⁰⁴ "There is tape running through the name of Angus McGIll in the 1810 US Census but it appears to be that he is listed as having 4 males under 10 years old, 1 male 10 to 15 years old, 1 male 26 to 44 years old and 1 male 45 and older. (Angus would have been close to 52 years old and th 45 years or older male).

The females are listed as 1 female under 10 years old, 1 female 10 to 15 years old, 3 females 16 to 25 years old and 1 female between 26 and 44 years old. (this would have been the second wife of Angus - Polly Fletcher) . All of the children listed (except for the elder son) were children of Angus and his second wife, Polly.

They also have 1 other free person at home and 2 slaves."
(1810 US Census and Warren Trest)

Angus married Anne Fairley ²¹.^,141

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   Archibald McGill (born about 1779)

37       ii.   Flora Helen McGill (born on 8 Oct 1779 Richmond County, North Carolina - died on 25 May 1857 in Jones County, Mississippi)

        iii.   Nancy McGill (born between 1785-1794)

         iv.   McGill (born between 1785-1794)

          v.   McGill (born between 1785-1794)

Angus next married Polly Fletcher .¹⁴¹

Children from this marriage were:

          i.   McGill (born between 1800-1810)

         ii.   McGill (born between 1800-1810)

        iii.   McGill (born between 1800-1810)

         iv.   McGill (born between 1800-1810)

          v.   McGill (born between 1800-1795)

         vi.   McGill (born between 1800-1810)

75. Anne Fairley,^21,141,144 daughter of John Fairley and Lady Margaret Stuart , was born 1765 or 1764 in Granoch, Cantyre, Scotland ^21,142 and died before 1795 in North Carolina.