I don't have a Wooten line. Since these people were born in our area, will get this to Guy for posting to Greene and LEnoir. Many thanks. Martha >Resent-Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:45:00 -0700 >X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Fri Feb 22 15:44:59 2002 >Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:45:13 -0600 >From: "Jack D. Elliott, Jr." <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; U) >Old-To: Martha Marble <[email protected]>, > "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, > "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, > "Greg W. Lasley" <gla[email protected]> >Subject: [NCLENOIR] Wooten cemetery >To: [email protected] >Resent-From: [email protected] >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/1383 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Resent-Sender: [email protected] > >Martha, > >Didn't you say that you're interested in Wootens? > >There's a very small Wooten cemetery--mid-19th c.--in Clay County in >which Sutton Hardy's daughter Unity Hardy Wooten is buried. I visited >the cemetery with my mother in mid-1970s, and it had been destroyed . > >However, there is a listing for the cemtery which I came across years >ago, copied, but somehow or the other failed to get the source. FWIW, >here is the entry, typed up verbatim: > > >[page 130] >WOOTEN CEMETERY >Location - Clay County, Mississippi, 2 miles west of West Point, on the >place of Russell Hawkins [note: this cemetery is actually northWEST of >West Point.-Jack Elliott]. To go to the cemtery, go on Highway #50 west >from West Point, turn right on gravel road; go 2 miles to pasture gate >on right side of gravel road (gate has name of Russell Hawkins on it); >go through gate for about 1 mile to house. The stones from the cemetery >have all been piled together under a tree at the back of hte house. >Copied by - Mrs. John H. Bryan and Mrs. Joe Hawkins >Submitted by - Mrs. John H. Bryan >Adress - West Point, Clay County, Mississippi >Date copied - Summer of 1960. > >Note: William M. Wooten (d. 8/7/1846/ was the son of John and Sarah >Hewes Wooten/ and grandson of Shadrack Wooten of Lenoir County, N. C. >Shadrack was a Revolutionary soldier, born in Lenoir Co., N.C., 1739: >died in Columbia Co., N.C. 1812. He was Ensign in the 5th N.C. >Army.Ref: (1) Heitman's Officers in the Continental Army, p. 606: (2) >DAR's North Carolina Soldiers in the Revolution, p. 50: (3) DAR National >#123971. >Unity Hardy Wooten (d. 9/15/1864) was the daughter of Sutton and Martha >Taylor Hardy of Dobbs (Greene) County, N.C., and the granddaughter of >Mary Sutton and Lemuel Hardy. Lemuel Hardy, Revolutionary War soldier, >was born in Bertie County, N.C. May 20, 1730: died in Dobbs (Greene) >Co., N.C. Feb. 8, 1797: married 1762. He served as a private in N.C. >Militia, 1777, from Bertie County. Ref: (1) State Records. Vol. 1, p. >A-M, No. 6, p. 18: (2) Vol. 24, p. 26, N.C. State Auditor's Office: (3) >DAR National #'s 223, 705 and 223, 708. Mrs. Lawson N. Dick, R #5, Box >382, Vicksburg, Mississippi. >Many descendants of the Wooten family live in West Point and Clay >County, Mississippi. - Mrs. John H. Bryan. > >[page 131] >William M. Wooten/ died Aug. 7, 1846/ aged 54 years. >William J. Wooten/ son of M.F. and S.W. Wooten/ died 1853. >Unity Wooten/ died Sept/ 15, 1864/ aged 70 years, 11 mos. >Lucy Frances/ dau. of Allen and Martha Ellis/ b. March 9, 1845/ d. Jan. >12, 1858 >Little Martha/ who departed this life May 20, 1857/ age 8 days >There was a foot stone with the initials W H W. >There was a foot stone with Martha/ no last name. > >