I am looking for any info or family connections to John Milton ROSE son of Jesse Rose.....I am looking for a connection between the ROSE family and the Elisha COLBERT possible father of Hiram COLBERT married Mary Arnold....Hiram and Mary are the parents of my John D COLBERT who married Mahala HOWARD... A researcher discovered an affidavitt of Elisha Colbert's wife Maria Ann...below it is transcribed.....I have found that the Jesse Rose was the son of Drury Rose who had migrated from Elbert County, Ga to Alabama...Drury had a brother who had migrated to Gallatin, Saline County Illinois about the same time where Elisha Colbert is found. So, apparently the Rose family have a family connection or was a very close friends....I know the John Snider could be the father of Armenta Snider who married Warren Colbert possibly son of Elisha and Mariann, and the John W. Thompson ties in the one of the Thompson either thru R.R. Thompson or Benjamin Solomon Thompson....I wander if anyone else came across information between the Colbert and the Rose family? The State of Alabama } Tuscaloosa County } on this 17th day of October AD 1855 personally appeared before me a Justus of the Peace in and for the State and County a fore said authorised to administer oaths for general purposes Mariann Colbert aged ninety six years a resident of Tuscaloosa County in the State of Alabama who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Elisha Colbert deceased who was a private in the company commanded by Capt. Wadkins in the Redgment commanded by Col. Hargraves of Illinois Militia or mounted volunteers in the war of 1812 declared by the United States on the 18th day of June 1812 that her said husband Elisha Colbert entered the servis of the United States in the County of Galiton in the State of Illinois some time between the years 1812 and 1815 for the term of three months and continued in actual servis for the term of three months and was honerably discharged as she belives will appear by the muster rolls of said company and was honerby discharged said certificate of discharge is lost or destroyed by fire so that it cannot be produced she further states that that she was married to the a fore said Elisha Colbert in the State of Georgia in the County of Elbert by Jeremiah Walker a minister of the gospel and said Elish Colber is ded that he died in the State of Alabama in the County of Tuscaloosa some time in the year 1834 and that she is still a widow. She makes this application for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may intitled to under the act of the third March 1855 she further states that she never has made application for nor receive under the present or any former act of Congress any bounty land warrant. She hereby appoints John W. Thompson of Tuscaloosa County her lawful attorney to make this application and review said bounty land warrant when issued. her Mariann X Colbert mark We John Rose and John Snider upon our oaths declare that the fore going declaration was acknoleged in our presents and that we have been acquainted with Elisha Colbert in his lifetime for many years(inserted between lines) and Mariann Colbert his wife that they lived together as man and wife and was so reputed and never heard it contradicted and that Mariann Colbert is still a widow and Elisha Colbert is ded that he died previous to 3 March 1855 and we are satisfied that the applicant is the actual person she represents her self to be. John Rose his John X Snider mark The foregoing declaration and affidavits was sworn to and subscribed before me on this day and year above written and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons and that the claimant is the person she represents her self to be and that I have no interest in this claim this 17th October 1855. John W. Thompson Justus of the peace Also I believed I mayhave traced Hiram to his brother James, sr. The story below is about the son of James, sr. James T. Colbert....Drury Colbert is found in the 1860 Tuscaloosa Co Census as a farm Lab with Clover Davis head of household...Also he is found in the 1841 Noxubee Ms where he had bought land... James T. Colbert (1905) JAMES T. COLBERT, a well-to-do farmer, living near Equality, Gallatin County, Ill., was born in the neighborhood where he now lives, May 3, 1827. His father, James Colbert, was born in Alabama about 1792. When he was a young man he came with his brothers, Henry, Drury, and Hiram, to Illinois, and after working for a while at the salt works entered eighty acres of government land and passed the rest of his life as a farmer. This farm is now in the possession of the subject of this sketch, and it was there that he was born. James Colbert fought in the Black Hawk war and died in 1834. His children were: Allen B., William, Nancy J., Elisha, Hiram, James T., Thomas and Frances. Allen died at the age of thirty-five years; William lived to be seventy-seven; Nancy married Robert Pinson and after his death Johnson Kanady, and died at the age of seventy-five; Elisha died in 1862 while serving in the One Hundred and Twentieth Illinois infantry; Hiram died in 1834; Thomas died in 1890; and Frances is the wife of Calvin Baker. The mother of these children died at the age of seventy-six years. James T. Colbert commenced life on his own account when he was twenty years old, his only capital being an ax, a fiddle, and a determination to succeed. His education had been acquired in the old subscription schools, in a log house with no floor but the ground and split saplings for seats. From the time he was twenty until he was thirty years of age he followed farming during the summer seasons and worked at the Illinois Iron Works in the winter time, devoting all his leisure time to self-study, until today he is one of the best informed men in his locality. He has also prospered in the accumulation of this world's goods. When he was first married in 1847 he went to housekeeping in a log cabin, about a mile from where he now lives. He remained there until 1891, when he removed to his present location, where he has a well improved farm, all the improvements having been made by himself. He now owns eight hundred acres of fine land, five hundred acres of which are under cultivation, and has given something like four hundred acres to his children. As a stock raiser Mr. Colbert has been quite successful, though the greater part of his attention has been devoted to a general farming business. He takes an interest in public,affairs and has served as County commissioner, to which office he was elected on the Democratic ticket, having affiliated with that party ever since he became a voter. Mr. Colbert has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Mary J. Seets, a native of Tennessee, and to this marriage there were born the following children: Lucy A., wife of Jefferson Vinyard, of Hardin County; Allen B., who died at the age of ten years; Frances, wife of Robert Taylor, living near Harrisburg; Sarah, wife of Joseph Vinyard; James, who lives near his father; Mary L., who married Henry Hamp and afterward died; Aaron, who lives in the vicinity; Margaret, widow of Isaac Jennings, who was a farmer in Eagle Creek township; Thomas J.; Isabelle, who married Robert White and died some years ago as his wife; Prudence, wife of George Leadbetter, and John B., who died in 1893. The mother of these children died in 1875 and on Oct. 29, 1879, Mr. Colbert was married to Mrs. Mary A. Frohock, widow of Lucien Frohock, and a daughter of Josiah Hull. Three children have been., born to this second marriage, viz.: Virgie, wife of George Blackman, of Eagle Creek township; Virgil, on the farm with his father, and Paul, at home. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ 1905. Memoirs of the Lower Ohio Valley . Madison, Wis.: Federal Publishing Company. 2:389-390. Thanks KIm Surnames: SHUTTLESWORTH, THOMPSON, COLBERT, ERSKIN HOWARD, JOHN TROUBLESON? HOWARD, RILEY, DEASON, DOWDLE, MELLOWN/MALONE, KYZER, WEAVER, SNIDER, CARNES, PARR, TOLBART, BLACK, WOODS/WOOD, VERNON Twincerely, Kimberly Malone Morris 7949 Shelburne Lane E Southaven, MS 38672 Member of the Mothers of Multiples Club