To all list members, I am new to the list and wanted to inquire if others might be researching the same family. John and Mary/Polly ALLEN are my 4th ggrandparents and I am searching for John's parents and/or siblings as well as any information concerning Mary's parentage. In application for Revolutionary War widow's pension (NC R#135), Mary/Polly filed an affidavit in Harrison County, Indiana, in 1843, stating the family had moved to Indiana in 1813. Others who gave affidavits in Harrison County in 1843, stating they had known John and Mary ALLEN in North Carolina, were: John JOHNSON/JOHNSTON; John SMITH; Lucretia FOOTE; Hezekiah ALLEN. John ALLEN Born 1759 North Carolina? Died 28 Dec 1832 Harrison County, Indiana Married Mary/Polly ?, in October 1778 Caswell County, North Carolina Mary (ALLEN) Born 1761 North Carolina? Died bef 25 Mar 1854 Harrison County, Indiana Three Known Children: Sally ALLEN Born 1794 North Carolina Died bef 1860 Harrison County, Indiana Married Joseph WRIGHT, 20 Oct 1814, Harrison County, Indiana Nancy ALLEN Born 1802 North Carolina Died 25 May 1888 Corydon, Harrison County, Indiana Married Francis WRIGHT 15 May 1820, Harrison County, Indiana John ALLEN Jr. A Valentine ALLEN is also linked to the family by a marriage bond in Harrison County. I would like to correspond and exchange information with others researching this family. Thank you, Dixie Haas [email protected]

Hi, I hope everyone has been to the Caswell Co OHGenWeb page. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nccaswel/ Joy Hyde

I am looking for Albert Atkinson Patillo in the 1870 census. Does anyone have the census images that could check something for me? The 1870 census index has: JOTTILLS ALBERT* Caswell Co. NC pg. 478 Yanceyville Township NC523161734 [The asterisk means that the original should be double checked, that the reader isn't sure of the name.] I am wondering if this might be Albert Patillo. Previous census records have his name as: /Patillo/Pattitte/Potillo/Pottilla We have record of him in Caswell Co as late as 1869 and do not know death date or place. Albert Atkinson Patillo was b 1819 Caswell Co m Eliza Anne Dodson 1838 in Caswell Co b c 1821 (don't know if she was still alive) children: (all born in Caswell Co) 1) Thomas Milton Patillo b c 1839 (was in the 1860 census in Caswell Co.living with father; in TX/1870 census) 2) William H. Patillo b c 1841 m Mary E 3) Mary Virginia Patillo b 1843 m 1865 James H. Paylor 4) Laura A. Patillo b c 1845 5) Lewis/Louis Alexander Patillo b 1849 (moved to TX by 1879) 6) Emma Patillo b c 1853 7) L (possibly Louisa) Theodosia Patillo b c 1855 8) Bettie Blair Patillo b 1859 d 1879 Caswell Co. Thanks, Lil Marlau (nee Nina Lillian Pattillo) [email protected]

Any Wilson or Willson who EVER lived in Caswell Co--would love to hear about them to see if I can get unstalled. thanks

Any Wilson/Willsons at all who lived at any time in Caswell Co? I'd love to hear about them and see if I can get unstalled here. Thanks, Phyllis Richerson

I have researched the BARNWELL family back into the 1700's, but can find nothing about the MORRIS side past James MORRIS who married Elisa BARNWELL around 1822. He was the overseer at the Wm BARNWELL plantation for a while. If anyone has any info on this, I would really appreciate it. There was a MORRIS Tavern, also, but I can find nothing about it, either, or who might have owned it. Thanks, Marie Smith [email protected]

I looked on the Geobase and it wasn't listed there. Do you have a list of the creeks in Caswell Co.? If not, I can send those that were sorted. Maybe it has an alias. :-) Lil Marlau [email protected] > Can anyone give me the location of Dobbins Creek in Caswell Co?

Can anyone give me the location of Dobbins Creek in Caswell Co? Joseph Swann sold land there in 1823. I've already searched the USGS site on the net, with no results. Thanks for any help. Sylvia

Searching for any information on James BROOKS and his wife Elizabeth TRAYLOR who married in Caswell County, NC on December 26, 1782. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Betty Parrish

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> -----Original Message----- > From: Stim, Mary - SBS > Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 10:40 AM > To: '[email protected]' > Subject: Cemetery records > > Someone, somewhere must know where my Fosters are buried. They were born, > married and died in Caswell County. Never leaving the land they inherited > or bought on Moon's Creek. On the Census they are listed in both > Yancyville and Locust Hill. I haven't been able to find any cemetery > records for them. Foster families I'm looking for John and Nancy Perkins > Foster, Thomas and Mary Ann Haralson Foster, Azariah and his wife Nancy > King Foster, John and Elizabeth Perkins Foster, Jesse and Mary Adkins > Foster. Susannah Foster Gunn and her husband Richard Gunn. Does anyone > have any suggestions? Going to North Carolina is not an option anytime > soon but boy I sure would like to. > Thanks > Mary

I am trying to find some information on James Fletcher who died in 1785. He has a will probated in Jan. of 1786 and an abstract suggests wife's name as Ursley. It also lists several children. I am trying to find who his children married as one of them married an Alexander Gray which may be my family. Does anyone have any information?

>Hello, > My name is Larry Riggs, and I'm researching the RIGGS of Caswell Co. >My oldest confirmed relative is my ggggf John Riggs b. 1815 Caswell Co., >m. Ann Phillips in 1840. His son John R. Riggs b. 1848, m. Rebecca >Stephens in 1866, and died in 1923. His son Preston Dixon b. 1867, d. 1936, m. Lessie Ann Smith. Preston's son Frank P. Riggs, my gf, b. 1897, d. 1949 ran a General Store below the Prospect Hill High School in the 1930's and 1940's. Frank m. Mary Holsomback in 1922. My father, Frank Coleman Riggs, b. 1925. > If anyone has info on John Riggs or any of the Thomas Riggs, please >let me know. >Thanks, >Larry Riggs > >

Hello, I am searching for Slave Schedules for Caswell Co. 1850, 1860. Does anyone have information re: CD's, web sites etc. that have them? Thanks, Lil Marlau [email protected]

Looking for parents of John Hightower, b.l800 {Tn.l850 census] N.C or SC. Named son Caswell. Have been unable to find any one working on this line. l830 cenus E. Tn, l850 " Monroe Co. Tn. Married Mary Cunningham {da of Joseph and Phobe Wilson Cunningham] 3 children born in SC, rest in Tn My line John, David {went to Il}, James Caswell Hightower, Evelyn mr. A.E. Brewster, Barbara Brewster, mr. Wayne Owen. Could John have come from the town of Hightower in Caswell Co? Would appreciate any info. Barbara Owen

I am new to this list and looking for the ancestry of my children. I am looking for William WINTERS b 1769 of VA m Mary BELEW m Sept 20, 1795 Caswell Co NC. Regards from southern CA. Charlene Phillips Email: [email protected] BELEW, PHILLIPS, WINTERS, BRADSHAW of Burke, Caswell and Union Co. NC ...

I am trying to find info on Babe Young, I know he was in Caswell County in 1955 but before that and after that I do not know. I am not even sure if that is his real name or just a nick-name, the older people in the family swear he was just Babe. I have been to the church cemeteries with no luck finding him, have also been to the library. Any help would be appreciated. Julie

Hello! Does anyone have cemetery records for Caswell County for the 1840's and 1860's? If so, could you see if you have a John ECCLES/EAKLES/ECHOLS; who would have died in the 1860's. Also, a James MCREYNOLDS who would have died in teh 1840's. Thanks so very much! Deborah

Hello Doug, I am a descendant of Thomas Rice through his daughter, Rebecca, who married John Windsor. I did not locate your ancestor in the data that I have, but I felt that you should look over the family so that you can better determine your research. I will tell you that there were two Thomas Rice's in Caswell County,NC. Mine was referred to Thomas(CB) Rice because he resided on Cabbin Branch; the other was referred to as Thomas Rice, Esq.; he named all of his children with names that began with the letter "Z". They both had originally lived in Hanover County, VA prior to their move to NC. It is believed that they were cousins. This is an old outline form that I used for a while. I would suggest that you copy it and paste it into your word processing documents, with the margins set at their widest. This should allow everything to fall into place for you. Hope that this gives you some assistance. Best regards, John Fox Winston-Salem, NC THOMAS (CB) RICE FAMILY OF CASWELL COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA The major portion of this information was found in the Rockingham County Legacy Book from an article supplied by Anne S. Neal. John Fox believes from his research that Thomas' grandparents were Thomas and Marcy King Rice of New Kent in Hanover County, Virginia as listed in the Mormon records. These records list the birth/christening date of a John Rice as 18 September 1698. This conceivably could be the father of our Thomas Rice of Caswell County, North Carolina since he named his first-born son John. Also Thomas Rice of Caswell had a daughter named Marcey, apparently named after his grandmother. Marymond Killian Carter in her book, 15 Southern Families published in 1974 gives her views of the origin of the Rice family of Hanover County, Virginia: "It is believed, after much research, that our line of RICE came from the little picturesque country of Wales. They were Welsh descendents of Kings of the 8th Century, and they were known as Aps Rhys, this being the Welsh spelling.....The prefix Ap denoted distinction or nobility. Several researchers have traced the Rice line back to Rhys Ap Griffith of Wales who married Catherine Howard, who was descended from William the Conqueror, and Kings Henry I and II, King John and King Edward I. Rice Ap Griffith was the son of Sir Griffith Rice who was the twentieth in paternal descent from Vryan Refed, Lord of Kidwelly, Carunllon and Yskenen, in South Wales..... Further research shows that the Rice and Thomas families have the same coat of arms, and stemmed from a Welsh Chiefton, Sir Rhys ap Thomas, a natural son of George Plantagenet.. Catherine Howard and Rice ap Griffith had two known sons: Thomas born 1525 and William, born 1522.. The Rev. David Rice, a grandson of the immigrants Thomas and Marcey Rice, wrote about them in a rare volume found in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., published in 1824. He states: Thomas Rice was an Englishman by birth, of Welsh extraction. He was an early adventurer into Virginia; where he spent the first part of his life is not certain. In the later part of his life, he owned a small plantation in the lower part of what is now Hanover County, Virginia. Here he left his wife, 9 sons and 3 daughters, and rturned to England to receive a considerable estate which had been left to him, but returned no more. The sailors reported that he had died at sea. It is supposed that he was assassinated. No return was ever made of the property after which he had gone, and his family were left destitute in a strange land. The family left without an earthly father were distressed, but part of them moved about thirty miles up the country where they procured a small plantation, on which they raised numerous families; four or five of them became serious preachers of religion, and were succeded in their religious profession by a considerable number of their children. Thomas' wife Marcey, was esteemed truly a religious woman. The known children of Thomas and Marcey were: 1. William, born 4 April 1686 (St. Peters Parrish Register) 2. James, born 4 April 16f86; was lame. 3. Thomas, born 24 June 1688. 4. Edward, born 17 April 1690. 5. Mary, born 9 December 1694. 6. *John, born 18 September 1698. 7. Alice, born 27 September 1700. 8. Marcey, born 5 July 1702. 9. David, married Susannah Searcy; parents of Rev. David Rice. 10. Susannah, married Thomas Hart, Jr. in 1730 in Hanover County, Virginia. He died ca 1755 leaving her with six children. They later moved to Orange County, North Carolina. Susannah and Thomas Hart's children were Thomas Hart III, who married Susann Gray of New Bern; their daughter married Henry Clay; John Hart; Benjamin Hart, married Nancy Morgan; settled in Georgia; David Hart, married Susanah Nunn; Nathaniel Hart, born 8 May 1734 in Hanover,Virginia; died 11 August 1782 at Boonsboro, Kentucky, married Sarah Simpson, died February 1785 in Lincoln County, Kentucky; Nathaniel helped set up the Transylvania Company set up to help settle lands in Tennessee; Ann Hart, married James Gooch; their daughter, Ann, married Jesse Benton. Ann Benton's husband died; she and her eight children left Orange County, North Carolina to move to Tennessee to claim lands left to her husband. The children were Susan, Ann, Jesse, Jr., Samuel, Nathaniel, Mary, Margaret, and Thomas Hart Benton. Thomas Hart Benton was a famous lawyer who fought a duel with Andrew Jackson, and also a senator. His grandnephew, Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) was a famous regional American painter. + Thomas Rice Came from Hanover County, Virginia around 1775 and settled on a branch of Hogan's Creek in then Guilford County, later Rockingham County. Thomas was referred to as "Cabbin Branch" or "C.B" Rice to distinguish him from another Thomas Rice who had settled in Caswell County about the same time period. It is not known what relationship these two had, but they did move from the same Hanover County, Virginia to North Carolina. Thomas (CB) Rice was called for jury duty Tuesday 19 December 1780, p. 167 of the Caswell County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions to serve on 20 December 1780. This act of jury service qualifies his descendants for membership in Revolutionary period organizational membership for patriotic service. Thomas "C.B" Rice's property stretched into Caswell County on the east, and the original home was located on the county line. His wife's name is unknown at this time. His will, written on 20 March 1804 listed his seven surviving children to receive equal shares in his personal and real property. + Marcey (Massey) Rice Born 19 May 1754; married Francis Nunn IV 4 May 1774, and moved west, had a large family which can be found listed in Alexander Nunn's book Nunns of the South . - Elizabeth Nunn Born 13 March 1775; died 23 November 1804. - Elijah C. Nunn Born 14 March 1777 in South Carolina. (Family records of son of Elijah) - Zepheniah Nunn Born 15 August 1779 in South Carolina. - William Richard Nunn Born 11 April 1782 in South Carolina. - Sarah Nunn Born 3 June 1787; married James Mayfield. - Thomas Young Nunn Born 27 April 1784 in South Carolina; died 27 July 1874. - Rebecka Nunn Born 11 September 1792 in South Carolina; died 14 August 1812 in Williamson County, Tennessee. - Mary "Polly" Nunn Born 29 March 1795 in South Carolina. - Joel Nunn Born 10 March 1798 in South Carolina. - John Rice Born 1757; was killed by Indians while going down the Ohio River with Sevier in 1792. He was a large landowner in the area of today's Memphis, then called Chickasaw Bluffs; but through extensive court litigation over the holdings, the lands were eventually lost to the heirs. John was never married. + Elisha Rice Went to Tennessee and was married to Ann Collier there in 1791.. He died in 1806. - Harriet S. Rice Born 31 March 1792; married Nathaniel Crenshaw 19 September 1810 in Wilson County, Tennessee. - Elizabeth L. Rice Born 4 March 1794; married Rev. Hardy M. Cryer 11 August 1812 in Sumner County, Tennessee. - Nancy C. Rice Born 26 September 1802; married Peyton Rascoe 22 April 1825 in Sumner County, Tennessee. - Mary Oldham Rice Born 8 March 1796; married Elmore H. Cryer Sarver. - Joel C. Rice Born 4 February 1798; married Rebecca Reading 13 April 1820; died 16 August 1849. - John B. Rice Born 11 March 1800; married Elizabeth Organ; died 7 March 1848. - Rebecca Rice Married John Windsor of Caswell County See the Windsor lineage for the decendents of Rebecca. + Joel Rice Born 1762 in Virginia; married Mary Elizabeth Pryor Hickman, widow of Capt. Edwin Hickmam who was killed by Indians in Tennessee; died in 1833 in Madison County, Alabama. Settled for a period in Tennessee and represented Nashville in the North Carolina Legislature in Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1789; and was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of the same year. + Green Pryor Rice Married twice: first to daughter of Cheatman Ewing; second to Anne Eliza Turner. Served in the Alabama State Legislature; Presbyterian preacher. - Neander Rice Child of first wife. - Leonora M. Rice Child of first wife. - Green Pryor Rice, Jr. First child by second wife; married Mary Campbell. - Turner Benjamin Rice - Edward Rice Married Sarah Malone. - Jackson Van Buren Rice Married Lizzie Lester. - Hamilton Rice - Mary Emily Rice Married John Weakley. + Josephine Rice Married Josiah Patterson. - Malcolm Rice Patterson Called Ham Patterson; was governor of State of Alabama. - Septemius Decimes Rice Married twice: first Fannie Ottaway; second Eliza Brock. + Elisha Rice Married Mary Pittman; died in 1851. - Joel Rice - Laura L. Rice - Amanda Rice - William M. Rice Born 18 March 1800; died April 1890; never married. + George Washington Rice Born 1809 in Madison County Alabama; died 1847 in Mississippi. - Roman Knott Rice - Greek Polan Rice - George Washington Rice, Jr. - Aurelia Isabella Rice - Mary Lenora Rice - Joel David Rice + Andrew Jackson Rice Born 1814; died in Florida; married twice: first Sarah E. Ewing; second Elizabeth R. Robertson. - Andrew J. Rice, Jr. Child by first wife. - Stephen Ewing Rice Child by first wife. - Joel Rice Child by second marriage. - Elisha Rice Child by second wife. - Joel L. Rice + Agatha R. Rice Married Jesse Scott in 1831; died 18? - Andrew J. Scott - Agatha P. Scott - Howland Rice Scott - Alexander Erskine Scott + Cornelia Rice Married Allen Green. - Elizabeth Green - Susan Rice - Hyposia Rice Married James Kinnebrough in 1826 in Madison County, Alabama. - Tullioda A. Rice Married three times: first William H. Powers; second T.S. McCalley; third George W. Hunt. No issue. + William Higgason Rice Born in Hanover County, Virginia 12 March 1761. Moved to Caswell County, North Carolina with his father in 1775, according to his Revolutionary War Pension Application. He married first Susanna Williams Brooks, a daughter of Colonel Henry Williams and his wife Elizabeth, and widow of Christopher Brooks.. William H. Rice became guardian of her son Christopher Williams Brooks. Marriage bond in Caswell County records is dated 20 December 1784. After her death, William H. Rice married second Sarah "Sally" Gooch on 7 September 1795. Sally was a daughter of William Gooch, Sr. and his wife Frances Rice Gooch, who was daughter of John Rice, Sr. and wife Letisha, of Caswell County. Sally or Sarah Rice is mentioned in her father's will probated January 1803 as "Sarah Rice, wife of William H. Rice." William Rice married a third time in his later years in Rockingham County Eliza Bowman, by whom there were no children. William owned the High Rock Mill in Rockingham County. He did not live there, but did record that he had made peach brandy from the peach trees grown on the land. - Rebecca Rice Daughter of William and Susannah Williams Brooks Rice. Married Zachariah Neal of Amelia County, Virginia, recently removed to Caswell County, North Carolina. The marriage bond was dated 9 December 1811. They settled on land purchased from the estate of George Simpson, on the county line with Caswell County in Rockingham County, North Carolina, where they lived until about 1840. About that time they returned to Caswell County and purchased the estate of Colonel John Williams. Zachariah died in 1850; Rebecca died around 1857. - Polly Rice Daughter of William and Susannah Williams Brooks Rice; married a Scott. - Elizabeth Rice Daughter of William and Susannah Williams Brooks Rice; married a Simpson. - Marcy Rice Daughter of William and Susannah Williams Brooks Rice; married a Wall. - Henrietta Rice Daughter of William and Susannah Williams Brooks Rice; married Nathaniel Rice in 1812; second to Edmond Rice. - Stephen D. Rice Son of William and Sarah Gooch Rice; married Mary Boyd. - James Y. Rice Was deceased before his father's will was written. - William Clayton Rice Married Temesur Bowman 9 December 1839, bondsman Ryal Bowman. (Rockingham Marriage Bonds) - Solomon Rice - Sammy R. Rice - Nathan Rice Died before his father's will was written. Left a wife Sally and several children, among whom was a son, Williamson Rice. + Sarah "Salley" Rice Married Hugh Gwyn. + William Gwyn - Sarah Gwyn Married Jermiah Murphy, son of Alexander Murphy of Caswell County, North Carolina and grandson of Archibald Murphy. - Lucy Rice Married first John Scoby and second John Debow and lived in Orange County, now Alamance County, North Carolina.

I would appreciated any info on descendants or relations of Thomas RICE, who died in 1804, who went to Tennessee in the early part of the 1880's, particulary into the Wilson and Sumner Co. areas. My gggg grandfather Abijah RICE, b. @ 1797 in Cocke County, TN, was I believe part of this line. In 1817, he married Jaley Ann BROWN in Wilson Co., TN (I believe this to be Abijah, even though the license is for an "Elijah" RICE, yet the name is spelled "Ebijah" twice--also we know for certain that his wife's name WAS Jaley Ann BROWN, according to Guion Miller records.) By 1818 or 1819, they were in Southeastern Missouri. Thanks, Doug Powers