--part1_84.90ff650.26beb2e4_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_84.90ff650.26beb2e4_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-zc01.mx.aol.com (rly-zc01.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.1]) by air-zc02.mail.aol.com (v75_b3.11) with ESMTP; Sat, 05 Aug 2000 23:17:27 -0400 Received: from salisbury.net (ios.salisbury.net [207.250.252.9]) by rly-zc01.mx.aol.com (v75_b3.9) with ESMTP; Sat, 05 Aug 2000 23:16:59 -0400 Received: from oemcomputer [216.136.26.107] by salisbury.net (SMTPD32-6.00) id A8C2138C05F2; Sat, 05 Aug 2000 23:17:22 -0400 Message-ID: <[email protected]> From: "Sarah Keesee" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Catawba-West] Fwd: MEACHUM/MITCHUM and/or SMITH & WINFREE Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 23:07:47 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Alta, There is too much here for these families not to be connected, but I'm too tired tonight to even look at it my collection.. (Off my head) I don't think I've seen anything that has shown that Banks lost a leg in service. You are right...my sister and then later my younger sister joined DAR on his service record. . Did I tell you that my Banks is buried at Flint Hill Baptist Church, York Co., S.C.? This is only just across the line from Mecklenburg Co,.N.C. I'm glad, first, that you weren't hurt with the lightening strike and second that your computer wasn't ruined. Will be glad to work with you to solve the problem of the Meachams. Will try to go through the records tomorrow to see what we can find & where to go from here. Speaking of names....even the Bartlett that you show as the ninth child below. Your Bartlett m. and had family; my Banks' Bartlett d. as a child. Until then, Regards, Sarah Withers Keesee . ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 7:31 PM Subject: Re: [Catawba-West] Fwd: MEACHUM/MITCHUM and/or SMITH & WINFREE > Dear Sarah: > > Thank you very much for your e-mail of July 31st. All my home telephones > were destroyed by lightning on August 1st and I am just now able to get back > online. [So you'll know I do in fact appreciate your writing me, but have > been unable to communicate by e-mail except at my office where the "legal" > work of my attorney-employer must take priority over my own genealogy work.] > > We have combed the Albemarle Parish Register in Richmond (and have some of > the transcriptions) which have also been studied with great care; however, we > have been unable to "link" our Nathaniel Meacham/Mitchum, born 1780 to anyone > except Henry, born 1766 about which I wrote on the Catawba-West rootsweb page. > > You are absolutely correct that it is uncanny the resemblance between the > names of the children of Banks, born 1748, of Sussex County, Virginia, and > those of our Nathaniel. He and his wife, Jemima Reynolds Mitchum were > married in October of 1801 in Lincoln County, North Carolina, and had 13 > children, as follows: [We are not 100% sure of the order of birth, but have > taken this information from census and other records.] This is generally > correct, though: > > 1. Joshua Mitchum, born 1802, died 1833, Lincoln County, North Carolina; > married on January 20, 1825 to Amie Williams, born 1810, died in the 1870's > in Cleveland County, North Carolina. Three children: Berry; Thomas; and > Pinkney. > > 2. Henry Mitchum, born 1804, died ?; married on October 11, 1843 to > Elizabeth Crawford in Carroll County, Georgia. > > 3. Logan Mitchum, born 1805, died in the 1860's in Lincoln County, North > Carolina. Married on September 25, 1829 Louisa Best, born 1812, died > February 25, 1875 in Doniphan, (Ripley County) Missouri. Nine children: A > female who died very young and whose name never appeared on census or any > other record we have found; William M.; Joseph B., 1835-1861 (my ancestor); > Robert Joshua; Hugh C.; Lawson Sidney; Susannah; Dulcenia; and James. (birth > and death dates, and names of spouses omitted here). > > 4. Banks Mitchum, born 1807, died ?; married on December 7, 1831 to > Susannah Wise, born 1812, died October 25, 1885 in Rutherford County, North > Carolina. Nine children: Susannah; Andrew J.; Barbara; Nathaniel; Sarah; > Jemima; Martha; William Henry; and Albert Burtus. (Same information omitted > here and for others to follow). > > 5. Sarah (Sally) Mitchum, born 1809, died?; married first to Thomas > Cline on October 18, 1825 and secondly to Henry Johnson in 1833, both in > Lincoln County, North Carolina. Eight children: Martha Cline; William Cline; > Henry Johnson, Jr.; Mary Johnson; Carolina Johnson; Sarah A. Johnson; Nancy > A. Johnson; and Bartlett Y. Johnson. > > 6. James Nathaniel Mitchum, born 1813, died in Shelby County, > Alabama (?); married, on April 14, 1836 in Morgan County, Georgia, Eudocia > Hubbard. (Number of children not recorded here.) > > 7. Murrell Mitchem, born February 14, 1815; died January 6, 1855, > Morgan County, Georgia, (at Madison, Georgia). married, January 31, 1837, > Elizabeth Arnold, born February 14, 1818, died April 21, 1894 in Madison > (Morgan County) Georgia. Nine children: Columbus B.; Eugene; Henrietta; > James Nathaniel; Emily Elizabeth; Sparks Hunter; Malinda; Emory Franklin; and > Alonzo Murrell. > > 8. Lawson Mitchem, born 1819, died 1910; married, in 1854, Fannie Booth > Wortman, born 1834, died (?); Lincoln County, North Carolina. Eight > children: Thomas Alexander; William Franklin; Adolphus Pinkney; Roxannah; > Mary; David L.; Noah Gamewell; Lemuel R. > > 9. Bartlett C. Mitchum, born 1820, died (?); married, September 20, > 1841, in Carroll County, Georgia, Nancy C. Camp. Six or more children: > Nancy Jane; Andrew J.; Joseph M.; James; Julia Ann; and John. > > 10. Jemima Mitchum ("Junior", we call her), born 1824, died (?); married, > on February 2, 1840, Daniel Lynn, born 1820; died in Civil War?; two > children: Harriet Naomi Lynn and Marcus Lynn. > > 11. (Twin) Aaron Mitchem, born 1826, died 1874, in Lincoln County, North > Carolina; married in 1844 Mary "Polly" Brendle. Four children: Lawson, > Hosea; Clarissa; and John. > > 12. (Twin) John Robert Mitchem, born 1826, died November 1899 in Morgan > County, Georgia; married, Septembber 16, 1869, Sarah Elizabeth Gatlin, born > May 29, 1822; died January 12, 1903 in Morgan County, Georgia. Had no > children. This couple is buried in the Mitchem Family Cemetery on Sandy > Springs Road in Madison (Morgan County) Georgia, along with his brother, > Murrell Mitchem, and members of the Arnold Family (Murrell's wife). > > 13. Narcissa Mitchem, born 1828, died 1898; married on February 17, 1848, > Alfred Seagle, who died in 1863 in the Civil War. Nothing is known (by us) > of their children, if any. > > Most events occurred in Lincoln County, North Carolina (unless otherwise > stated). > > The only Lincoln County (or other) connection ... besides similarity in names > ... that I have seen between Banks, 1748-1820 and our line is that William > Andrews Meacham, son of that Banks and his second wife, Elizabeth Andrews > Person (a widow), married first to Sarah Booker and secondly to widow > Elizabeth Graham Barnett, of Lincoln County, North Carolina. It is my > recollection, also, that William Andrews Meacham died a pauper in Mississippi > after the Civil War (although he was Executor of his father's estate, which > was sizeable). > > It seems I've also read that, among DAR papers it is said that Banks, > 1748-1820, lost a leg in the American Revolutionary War; however, he did not > apply for a pension as a result. Isn't that right? I also seem to recall > that someone named Withers applied for DAR membership via relationship to > same Banks. Is that you or some of your kin? > > Have you seen a copy of Clarence E. Mitcham's book, which devotes one chapter > to the descendants of your Banks? > > It was so kind of you to write and I hope to hear further from you .... > particularly if you have any thoughts on how we might connect to the earlier > families in (probably) Virginia in (probably) the early 1700's. Thank you. > > Alta Mitchem Durden > > > > --part1_84.90ff650.26beb2e4_boundary--