64. Thomas AWBREY
Awbrey,Aubrey of Virginia & Kentucky by Walton L. Aubrey
info from Kaye Aubrey, Blackfoot,ID
68. Thomas DEDMAN
Dedman - Deadmon Family History by Anna Laura Griffith
Thomas Deadmond moved to Marion County, Illinois in 1827. He had intended to only spend the winter there since the weather caught them off guard. He built a three sided log home with an open front for shelter. 173 years later Deadmonds are still in the area. The original home site is now Deadmond's Cemetery. Legend has it that the first person buried there was a wounded Indian that Thomas tried to nurse back to health. Since that time it has grown and is still well kept by descendants of Thomas and Elizabeth. It is located in Marion county, Sandoval township, Illinois.Actually it is located closer to Odin, Ill.John Henry Deadmond the eleventh and last child of Thomas and Elizabeth also moved to Eugene, Or. He moved there after a disagreement with Bluford over the civil war. He is reported to have had a cattle ranch, town
property and a gold mine. His date of death is unknown.
Dedman - Deadmon Family History by Anna Laura Griffith
copy of letter writen by Robert's son
82. Gideon FARTHING
Census records
info from Dora Duggins,Jacksonville,IL
Marriage records from Montgomery,KY & Pike,ILCensus records
info from Dora Duggins,Jacksonville,IL
Marriage records from Montgomery,KY & Pike,IL
info from Dora Duggins,Jacksonville,IL
info from Dora Duggins,Jacksonville,IL
Georg was listed as a Soldner (laborer)in the church records, is described in the "passport" issued to him to permit him and his family to come to America as being Five feet, plus seven inches tall, stocky, brown-haired and gray-eyed. He was apparently a drinker of some note, as the church record characterizes him as a "Branntwein Jockle"
Georg married Margaretha Schock in Munster, a somewhat larger village on the Kocher River near Mittelroth. By 1821 this couple had nine children and three others had died. The family fell on hard times, according to a tradition among the American Windmillers, due to a famine caused by three consecutive seasons of heavy rainfall. The tradition recounts that the Windmiller family was reduced to a diet of potatoes supplemented by slugs, snails, and accorns that they gathered in the forest. The children cried for the scrapings of the dinnerpot, but even these scrapings were given to them in turn.
Hoping for better time, the family decided to come to America. They apparently obtained a permit for passage through the Netherlands on Fabruary 28, 1828, but it was not until June of 1832 that the entire family, accompanied by the oldest daughter's husband, left Munster and started north. However, in the city of Weinheim in Baden, north of Mannheim and Heidelberg, the wagon carrying their household goods tipped over. Part of the load stuck Georg Jakob, the father, on the head, and he died from the resulting concussion.
The mother, Margaretha decided to continue the migration to America. The voyage across the Atlantic, in an old sailing ship, took 11 weeks. Family tradition says that the ship was lost part of this time. A little son of the married daughter died and was buried at sea. The family arrived in the American port of Baltimore on January 1, 1833.
When the family arrived in Baltimore, there were practically penniless. They separated in order to earn money to travel father west. One of the girls worked for three months washing dishes in a Baltimore hotel until her brother came for her. The family then continued its migration, the next stop being Pennsylvania, probably in Somerset County. One member of the family, George , lived in Somerset County for some time and bought land there. The rest of the family left Pennsylvania and journeyed to Pike County, Illinois, arriving some time in 1834.The Windmiller Family of Wurtemburg, Germany by Wayne T. Guthrie
By 1837, Margaret Windmiller and her sons were buying land northeast of Pleasant Hill, Pike county, Illinois, near the old Oakland School. In 1850 Mararet was living with her son-in-law, Charles Zerenberg, whose wife had died in 1844. Margaret probably died before 1860, because she is not listed in the federal census of that year. No record has been found of her death or of her burial place.
86. Samuel APPLEGATE
1850 & 1870 Pike Co. IL census
info from Jeanette Cogar Rhodes, Grant Pass,OR
born Feb. 5, 1783 in what is now Rhea Co., Tenn.; died Sept. 12, 1870 in Pike Co., Ill. He married Sarah _______ (probably Stark), born 1780; died Aug. 22, 1846 in Pike Co., Ill. and they are buried in Hutton Hill Cemetery there. Samuel enlisted in the War of 1812, serving from Jan. 15, 1814 in Capt.Berry's Co., Tenn. Militia, was discharged on July 15, 1814. They fought the Creek Indians. After the war, he lived in Kingston, Rhone Co., Tenn. where his brother, Nathaniel, lived, then in Washington Co., Ind. and finally, Pike Co., Ill. He is probably the Samuel who is listed in the minutes of the Elim(New Providence) Baptist Church of Polk Twp., Washington Co., Ind. from Apr. 1831 to Feb. 1840. He apparently moved at that time to Pike Co., Ill. where he established a Baptist Church in Spring Creek Twp. and was active in that church the rest of his life.
88. Joel HILLS
300 Years of Hills in America by Sola Covell-Salven
89. Mary (Polly) FOX
300 Years of Hills in America by Zola Covell-Salven
300 Years of Hills in America by Zola Covell-Salven
Box 1, Vol 1, File29
Death Date 29 Dec 1872, Death Place, Douglas County, Oregon, no will. Heirs: Susanna Briggs, wife, of Douglas County; William F. Briggs, Son, age 35, of Douglas County; Oregon, N.P. Briggs, age 47, of Benson County, Oregon; Sophronia P. Hills, age 45, of Lane County, Oregon; Almira Parsely, age 25 of Douglas County Oregon; 3 minor children of John Briggs - deceased of Lane County, Oregon. Administrator: Susanna Briggs and William F. Briggs. Appraiser: J.R. Jennings, J.B. Nichols, Aaron Tiller, Final Settlement, 4 Jan 1876.
300 Years of Hills in America by Zola Covell-Salven
Box 5, Volume 10, File 18
Death Date 28 Jul 1880, Death Place, Canyonville, Douglas County Oregon. Will dated 27 Jul 1880 at age 75. Heirs: William F. Briggs, son; John A. Briggs, son, deceased; Joseph Bowers; Nathanil P. Briggs, son, of Benton County, Oregon; Saphronia P. Hills, daughter; Almira A. Parsley, daughter. Administrator; Daniel E. Parseley. Appraisers; L. Marks, John L. Arzner, John L. Catching. Final Settlement, 2 Jan 1883.
92. Abel RUSSELL
info from Louise Barrett, Sandy,OR
1850,1860 Census records/Oregon
Oregon Donation Land Grant application
93. Elizabeth SHELLY
Oregon Census records
info from Louis Barrett,Sandy,OR
94. William B DRURY
1850 Macon Co. MO census
History of Lane Co. Eugene Public Library 14 Feb 1980
Oregon Land Grant application
Cemetery stone inscription
1860 Lane Co. Census
Oregon Land Grant application
96. Swepson JEFFRIES
Will/Mecklenburg Co. VA Will Book 5,page 126
Swepson Jeffries Will
I Swepson Jeffries of Mecklenburg County, Virginia being weak in body but of sound mind and memory do make this my last will and testament in manner and form following.
(Viz) I lend unto my beloved wife Isabella Jeffries all my land that lays this side the North Fork Little Creek during her life or Widowhood, and in case she should marry she is to have one third part of my land. I lend unto my beloved wife Isabella Jeffries three beds and furniture, one cupboard, one trunk, one chest, two walnut tables, half dozen sitting chairs, two horses, one riding chair, ten head of cattle, twenty head of hogs, and ten head of sheep, with all my earthen and glassware and all my kitchen furniture and at her death the property left her to be sold (if any remaining, and the money arising from such sale to be divided between my three sons, Swepson Jeffries, John Jeffries and Achilles Jeffries, and all the rest of my stock and household furniture not lent to my wife except the beds and furniture to be divided between my two sons John and Achilles Jeffries.
Item: I lend to my wife Isabella Jeffries the following Negroes (that is) Tom and his wife Juno, Lyyda, Sina, Mima, Lott, Lewis, Lilla. I also lend unto my beloved wife Negroes Cloe and Juno during her life and at her death the following Negroes to be free from the claim or claims of any person or persons whatsoever or any estate they may afterwards acquire and these are their names: Waguse?, Cloe and Juno, or if they choose they may live with any of my children they make choice of.
Item: My will is that the following Negroes to be hired out (Viz) Cain, Robin, Carey? and her children and the money arising from such hire to be applied the schooling of my three sons: Howel Lewis Jeffries, Charles Jeffries and Richard Jeffries. My will that at my wives death my land be divided between my two sons John Jeffries and Achilles Jeffries. I lend unto my son John Jeffries one Negro Boy named Seymore twenty one years if the said Negro should lived as long and then to be free from the claim or claims of any person or persons whosoever or any estate he may afterward acquire. I give unto my son John Jeffries one bed and furniture, also one Black Mare which he ----- away with John Bugg.
Item: I give unto my son Achilles Jeffries one bed and furniture, also one small colt name Flagelator. I also lend unto my son Achilles Jeffries the child that Tiller is now pregnant with twenty five years if it should live and do well and then to be free from the claim or claims of any person or persons whosoever or any estate (let be male or female) he or she may afterwards acquire.
Item: I give to my three sons Howel L. Jeffries, Charles Jeffries, and Richard Jeffries two Negroes Boys, Lot and Lewis, also to each of them a horse, saddle and bridle -- -- of my last named sons one bed and furniture.
Item: my will is that after my death my Man Billy be hired out for five years and the money arising from such hire to be divided between my three sons Howel L. Jeffries, Charles Jeffries, and Richard Jeffries.
Item: my will is that at my death my Black woman Tiller be hired out for five years and the money arrising from such hire to be divided between my three sons Howell Lewis Jeffries, Charles Jeffires and richard Jeffries and at the expiration of the five years the said Negro woman to be free from the claim or claims of any Person or Persons whatsoever on any Estate she may afterwars acquirred.
Item: I give unto my daughter Elizabeth Burnett one bed and furniture which be and
furniture my said daughter has received, also I lend unto my said daughter Elizabeth Burnett one Negro woman named Jain, with her increase during my said daughter life and after my said daughter?s death the said Negro woman to be free from the Claim or Claims of any Person or Persons whatsoever on any estate she may afterwards acquire and the said Negro woman increase to serve if any until they arrive to twenty five years to be judged by the court and then to be free from the claim or claims of any person or persons whatsoever or any estate they may afterwards acquire but in case the said Negro should be removed out of the State the said Negro to be returned into my estate and to be free as foresaid.
Item: I give unto my daughter Martha Burnett one Mare, saddle, bridle, also one bed and furniture which property she has had, also my will is that my Negro girl Mille be hired out for ten years and the money arising from such hire to be for the use of my said daughter Martha Burnett.
Item: I give unto my daughter Sarah Bugg, one horse saddle and bridle also one bed and furniture which property she has received. I also lend unto my said daughter Sarah Bugg, one Negro woman named Juno for five years and then to be free from the claim or claims of any Person or Persons whatsoever or any estate she may afterwards acquire. I also lend unto my said daughter Sarah Bugg the said woman?s increase until they arrive to twenty five years and to be judged by the Court and then to be free from the Claim or Claims of any person or persons whatsoever or any estate they may afterwards acquire , and in case any of the said Negroes are to be removed out of the state for the said Negroes to be returned to my estate and to be hired out for the benefit of my three sons Howel L Jeffries, Charles and Richard Jeffries.
Item: I give unto my daughter Lucy Brown one mare, saddle and bridle, one bed and furniture which property she has received. I also lend unto my said daughter Lucy Brown one Negro girl named Jain with her increase if any until they should arrive to twenty five years to be judged by the court and then to be free from the claim or claims of any Person or Persons whatsoever or any Estate they may afterwards acquire and in case of any of the said Negroes should be removed out of this state for said Negroes to be returned to my estate for the benefit of my family.
Item: I give to my daughter Jain Barnes one mare and eighty dollars and bed and furniture which property she has received. I also lend unto my said daughter Jain Barnes one Negro girl named Fanny for the space of fourteen years and then to be free from the claim or claims of any person or persons whatsoever or any estate she may afterward acquire. I also lend to my daughter Jain Barnes the increase of the said Negro if any until they arrive to twenty five years to be judged by the court and then to be free from the claim or claims of any Person or Persons whatsoever or any estate they may afterward acquire and in case any of the said Negroes should be removed out of this state for the said Negroes to be returned to my estate for the use of my family.
Item: I give unto my daughter Susannah Jeffries one Horse bridle and saddle, one Bed and furniture. Also I lend unto my said daughter one Negro girl Sally with all her increase until they arrive to twenty five years to be judged by the court and then to be free from the claim or claims of any person or persons whatsoever or any Estate they may afterward acquire and in case any of the said Negroes should be removed out of this state the said Negro or Negroes to be returned to my Estate for the use of my family.
Item: My Desire and Will is that after my death that each of my daughters should receive twenty shillings each which is all they are to have out of my Estate together with what I have given in my Will. I appoint my friend Richard Boyd, Alexander Boyd and my two sons John Jeffires and Achilles Jeffries Executors to this my last Will and Testament. In Testimony where of I have here unto at my hand and Seal this 27th day of Jan Eighteen hundred and three.
In Presence of........
Samuel Scott
Samuel Bland Swepson Jeffries
John BuggAt court held for Mecklenburg county the 13 day of June 1803.
This will was proved by the Oath of Samuel Scott and John Bugg witness thereto and ordered to be Recorded
97. Isabella LEWIS
Lewis Family by William Cook
Emigration to other state from Southside Virginia by Katherine Elliott
Howell Lewis will, Granville Co. NC
Swepson Jeffries will, Mecklenburg, Co. VA
The Lewis of Warner Hall by Sorley
George Hamner will Mecklenburg Co.VA:Will Book 13,page 447
WILL OF GEORGE B. HAMNER, SENR.
In the name of God, Amen. I George B. Hamner of the county of Mecklenburg, VA. being of sound mind do make this my last will and testament as follows. It is my will and desire that all my just debts be paid and funeral expenses out of my estate and all the residue thereof I give to my wife during her life to be used for her use and benefit as she may think proper, and at her death it is my will and desire that the estate which may be then in being for support be equally divided amonst my children and grandchildren except Howell Jeffries, son of my daughter, Sarah Jeffries, (as his uncle Howell L. Jeffries has provided for him) and my daughter Maria "having given her as much as I intend to out of my estate". It is also my will and desire that Samuel Jeffries, also son of my daughter Sarah, is to have no part of my estate at the death of my wife. It is my will and desire that my wife and my son, William H. Hamner, "shall have the management of my estate".
Given under my hand seal this 17th day of November 1834: /s/ George B. Hamner
Wit:
WM Townes
Thomas Smullin
his
Wm X Johnson
Mark
Dated 17 November 1834
Proved 18 May 1835
(Mecklenburg County, Va., Will Book 13, p. 447)MARRIAGES
Sarah Hamner married Dr. Richard Jeffries, 7 October 1824. Surety: Epps S. McCraw/
(M.B. 4 October 1824) Minister: William Steel. Consent: Geo. B. Hamner, father of Sarah.Ann E Hamner married Reuben Puryear, 1 November 1826. Surety: B. H. Bailey.
(M.B. 29 October 1826) Minister: John B. Smith. Consent: Geo. B. Hamner, father of AnnGeorge B. Hamner, Jr., married Eliza Redd, 5 September 1828. Surety:Samuel Young. (M.B. 1 September 1828) Minister: Allen D. Metcalf
No marriage records have been found for Maria Hamner, William A. Hamner, and Samuel E.
Hamner. Samuel E. Hamner died in Brunswick County, Va., before 21 March 1822. (Mecklenburg
County, Va., Deed Book 20, p. 15)
99. Anne EDMUNDSON
father is Samuel EDMUNDSON
Chenoweth Family History:by Cora Chenoweth Hiatt
101. Mary VAN METER
Du Bois Association: by William Heigard