Hi All, while trying to update the Hines line came across something , need your help to see if maybe i am on the rigth track here, i will do a GenReport with notes, so you all can see what i am talking about. Thanks in advance for any help given Christine Grimes Thacker 1st i have this info on a Josiah Grimes , his gamily was in Stewart Co., Ga, he died in Muscogee Co., Ga. do not know what happen to his wife CARRAWAY, i am thinking that his wife was CARRAWAY HINES, after putting in the update today, and remeber i have written where someone has Matilda Grimes b 1817 as the dau of Stephen & Bethany Hines Grimes, and in the 1820 census for Stephen & Bethany only child is a son., Well i think Matilda Grimes b 1817 was a dau of Josiah & Carraway Hines Grimes?? Can anyone prove or disprove this ?? Does anyone have a death date for Matilda?? she may have died before her father ?? Descendants of Josiah Grimes 1 Josiah Grimes b: Abt. 1791 d: September 27, 1847 in Muscogee Co.,Ga. +Carraway ?Grimes 2 David L. Grimes b: Abt. 1818 +Mary S. Ross b: Abt. 1824 in Ga Father: Henry G. Ross Mother: Sarah Bullock 2 Franklin T. Grimes b: Abt. 1820 +Eugenia Prather b: August 17, 1825 d: May 01, 1901 in Buried Cussetta,Ga. Father: Wm Clark Prather Mother: Emily Carraway Grimes 2 Erastus W.J. Grimes b: Abt. 1826 +Georgia A. Ross b: Abt. 1830 2 Josiah L. Grimes 2 Tom Grimes 2 Susah H. Grimes +David J. Parsons 2 Emily Carraway Grimes b: Abt. 1823 d: Abt. 1883 +Wm Clark Prather Father: Mr Prather now here is the Grimes Hines, Summerlin info 1.  WILLIAM6 HINES  (CHARLES5, JOHN WILLIAM4, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was bornSeptember 06, 1745, and died February 21, 1811 in Duplin Co., NC..  He married ELIZABETH ?? HINES.  Notes for WILLIAM HINES:  Info for this line Jim Hines  6/25/01.        Children of WILLIAM HINES and ELIZABETH HINES are: 2.   i.  WILLIS7 HINES, b. Abt.1785.                  ii.       ZILPHA HINES.                 iii.       CARRAWAY HINES.3.               iv.       CHARITY HINES, b. Abt. 1776; d. Aft. 1850, Dale Co., Al.. Generation No. 2 2.  WILLIS7 HINES (WILLIAM6, CHARLES5, JOHN WILLIAM4, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, JOHN 1) was bornAbt. 1785.        Child of WILLIS HINES is: 4.   i.   WILLIAM MOAB8 HINES, b. Abt.1810, Duplin Co., NC.. 3.  CHARITY7 HINES (WILLIAM6, CHARLES5, JOHN WILLIAM4, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was bornAbt. 1776, and died Aft. 1850 in Dale Co., Al..  She married JACOB SUMMERLIN, JR., son of JACOB SUMMERLIN and CHARITY GLISSON.  He was born1772 in NC. Notes for CHARITY HINES: Age 74 in 1850 Dale Co., Al Census, in HH isMarshall age 13.        Children of CHARITY HINES and JACOB SUMMERLIN are:                   i.       THOMAS B.8 SUMMERLIN, b. 1794,NC; d. May 1860, MoreHouse Parish, La.; m. (1) SUSANNA WESLEY, Bef. 1842;d. 1842; m. (2) MARY HINSON, Aft. 1842; b. Abt. 1817.                  ii.       HENRY SUMMERLIN, b. Abt. 1800; m. MARTHA ?? SUMMERLIN. Notes for HENRY SUMMERLIN:  Henry is listed in the Dale Co., Al 1840census, not in the 1850. Could the Marshall listed with Charity be their son??  Henry 1840 census, 1m5/10--1m10/15 1m 20/30--1m40/50                                   1f 5/10- 1f 15/20- 1f 40/50.                  iii.       HINES SUMMERLIN, b. Abt. 1805, NC; m. (1) NANCY GLISSON, Abt. 1828;m. (2) ELIZABETH ??HINES, Abt. 1840. Notes for HINES SUMMERLIN: 1850 Dale Co., Census has Hines Summerlin 45NC, Elizabeth 25 NC, Alexander 11,Al., Wm H. 9 Al, Gennetta 4,Al., Amaranda 1.  Everet age 20 Nc  Cicey age 22 NC,Clarrisa 2,Al, Wm A. 1 Al., Margaret Maulding age 18, Ga. Everet is on one side of Hines, and the other side is his mother Charity 74.  this was on page 2, on page 62 is GilesSummerline age 23NC, Patience 23NC (dau of Stephen & Bethany Hines Grimes)Eveline 6, Al, Delia 4, Rachel2, Parisee (f) 1. I think this is a Gson ofCharity and Jacob also.                   iv.       NEEDHAM SUMMERLIN, b. Abt. 1807; d. 1854, Tx.; m. (1) HEPSY BROCK; m. (2) MATILDA GRIMES; b. Abt.1817; m. (3) MANDA DOWLING. Notes for HEPSY BROCK: 1st wife. Notes for MATILDA GRIMES: 2nd wife. I have found where some think this is the dau of Stephen & BethanyHines Grimes. unless her date of b was wrong , Bethany & Stephen m ca 1919, 1820 census there was only 1 son listed for them.                     v.     WILLIAM SUMMERLIN, b. 1811, NC; m. ELIZABETH ??; b. 1813 NC.      vi.       ALLEN SUMMERLIN.                vii.       JESSE SUMMERLIN, m. MARGARET PEGGY WILLIAMS. Generation No. 3 4.  WILLIAM MOAB8 HINES (WILLIS7, WILLIAM6, CHARLES5, JOHN WILLIAM4, WILLIAM3 , WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born Abt. 1810 in Duplin Co., NC..        Child of WILLIAM MOAB HINES is: 5.    i.       SIDNEY LEROY9 HINES, b. 1846,Crenshaw Co., Al.. Generation No. 4 5.  SIDNEY LEROY9 HINES (WILLIAM MOAB8, WILLIS7, WILLIAM6, CHARLES5, JOHN WILLIAM4, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born1846 in Crenshaw Co., Al..        Child of SIDNEY LEROY HINES is: 6.   i.       SIDNEY MONROE10 HINES, b. Abt.1869, Bieville Parish, La.. Generation No. 5 6.  SIDNEY MONROE10 HINES (SIDNEY LEROY9, WILLIAM MOAB8, WILLIS7, WILLIAM6, CHARLES5, JOHN WILLIAM4, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born Abt. 1869 in Bieville Parish, La..        Child of SIDNEY MONROE HINES is: 7.    i.    JAMES WALTER11 HINES, b. Abt.1892, Avoyelles Parish, La.. Generation No. 6 7.  JAMES WALTER11 HINES (SIDNEY MONROE10, SIDNEY LEROY9, WILLIAM MOAB8, WILLIS7, WILLIAM6, CHARLES5, JOHN WILLIAM4, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was bornAbt. 1892 in Avoyelles Parish, La..        Child of JAMES WALTER HINES is:                    i.       JAMES HARVEY12 HINES,Bossier Parish, La..

does anyone have the Hines Book ?? by Hurley, , if so will you look on page 19, and list the 1st 4 children, i copied pages 20-27 and i notice that child #6 has ABSOLA, b 2/13/1719, could this be Solomon?? that is in the Sampson Co., Hertiage Book?? Also has anyone on the Hines list recieved the post i made today?? If some one is on the Wayne Co., NC list , i posted something on the message board, i am not a member to that list but was wondering if anyone on that mailing list recieved the Hines message?? If so please let me know. Thank you Christine Grimes Thacker

A special thanks to several volunteers who have agreed to do some posting to the Lenoir and Greene Archives. Christine - is going to type up the articles from the Wilson paper that are being fed to us by my college classmate, Bobby Boykin. The Wilson paper has turned over their old newspapers to him to cull for whatever project it is he is doing. He is pulling all the articles about people in Greene Co and sending them - his wife is a Mewborn from Greene Co and he has some interest. They are rather interesting -they are mostly before 1920. The wealtiest woman in the world in 1914 was born in Greene Co - she was worth 5 to 10 million - not bad. Many thanks to the Wilson paper for permission to post and Bobby for sending them. Debbie - Debbie is going to plow though a bunch of Lenoir COurt list I had forgotten about. Ca 1848-1860 or so. Mostly just a list of names that were in court but given the lack of records, those lists help document who was there at the time. This will be a slow proect as there are a lot of them and a lot of typing because I doubt they can be scanned. Pat A - Fairview Cemetery - we were not given permission to post the excellent Fairview Cemetery survey but I have found a parital list done by Helen Braxton Chamberline back in the 40's. It is probably not even 1/5 of the last survey. Mrs. Chamberline's Collection was given to Heritage Place so there is no problem in posting this list. Maybe this fall when the snakes leave, some of the local list members can take this partial list, take a Sat and resurvey the cemetery and add to the list. Maybe a picnic in the cemetery? Allen - Industrial Issue of the Free Press of 1906 - running into a bit of a problem on this one. Allen has scanned and corrected the bios for the Neck section which he has. I have the entire paper but the pages are crumbling and if I try to copy it, am going to end up with torn pages. Have taken it apart but have to order some oversized mylar folders to put the pages in to copy. Once he, maybe with some help, please - gets the bios and other copy done, we can figure out how to scan some of the pictures and put them on Old Dobbers. Going to have to play that by ear. Our thanks to Christine, Debbie, Pat and Allen. Martha

Forgot to reply all :-( Subj: Re: [NCLENOIR] Boards and messages to the list Date: 6/30/01 2:15:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: <A HREF="mailto:CGT%20714">CGT 714</A> To: <A HREF="mailto:mmarble@erols.com">mmarble@erols.com</A> In a message dated 6/30/01 2:03:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mmarble@erols.com writes: >  Leave it to me to find the backway LOL,  :-), that is what i did to get some of the hines info into my PC, so now i can check the PC instead of looking through Papers, :-) T > he messages are coming > to the respective lists but they are not saying they are coming from the > Boards. Unless they change this, it is going to be a problem. We have no > way if the poster is a list member - if you answer to the list and they > No one i know is online right now that i know is not a list member but otherwise, i would get them to post something on the board and see if it goes to the list. that would be one way too check, there was a rumor months ago about Rootsweb stopping the archive part of the E-mails, maybe this is their way of the info going to the list and not having to archive, but than that is not right either :-( because if you send to the mailing list it does not go to the Board, dang , Oh well, Martha will get it strighten out :-) Thanks Christine Grimes Thacker

Christine got me into the Lenoir Board the backway. The messages are coming to the respective lists but they are not saying they are coming from the Boards. Unless they change this, it is going to be a problem. We have no way if the poster is a list member - if you answer to the list and they aren't, they will not receive the message. Martha

FYI - I found this North Carolina genealogy book on another site ... Press Release: A new book on the NC area has been published by Jeffrey Williams. Lore and Legacy: A History of the Cheek, Sale and Sparks Families is a 430 page photobook covering 400 years of English - North Carolina history, from the early 1600s to present. Noteables include: US Senator Robert Byrd (born as Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr), Joel Owsley Cheek (founder of Maxwell House Coffee), Sir John Cheke (tutor to King Edward VI), Elizabeth Sparks and Daniel Boone. Approximately 160 images, including family crests. The book, bookjacket and additional info may be viewed at the Pilgrim Press website: <A HREF="http://www.thepilgrimpresss.homestead.com/homestead.html">The Pilgrim Press</A> or http://www.thepilgrimpresss.homestead.com/homestead.html (notice the 3 "s" in "press"). The book has over 5,000 indexed names, many of which are prominent in the North Carolina area (the author's family is from Jonesville, NC), including: Bauguess, Benge, Blackburn, Blackwell, Brooks, Chambers, Cheek, Cook, Creekmore, Crenshaw, Curry, Elmore, Graves, Gray, Gregory, Harris, Henderson, Hemric, Jarvis, Logan, Martin, Mock, Money, Pardue, Parks, Royal, Sale, Seagraves, Sparks, Stimson, Swaim, Triplett, Ussery, Wagoner, Webb. - Jack Lewis, Editor-in-Chief, The Pilgrim Press

Press Release: A new book on the NC area has been published by Jeffrey Williams. Lore and Legacy: A History of the Cheek, Sale and Sparks Families is a 430 page photobook covering 400 years of English - North Carolina history, from the early 1600s to present. Noteables include: US Senator Robert Byrd (born as Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr), Joel Owsley Cheek (founder of Maxwell House Coffee), Sir John Cheke (tutor to King Edward VI), Elizabeth Sparks and Daniel Boone. Approximately 160 images, including family crests. The book, bookjacket and additional info may be viewed at the Pilgrim Press website: <A HREF="http://www.thepilgrimpresss.homestead.com/homestead.html">The Pilgrim Press</A> or http://www.thepilgrimpresss.homestead.com/homestead.html (notice the 3 "s" in "press"). The book has over 5,000 indexed names, many of which are prominent in the North Carolina area (the author's family is from Jonesville, NC), including: Bauguess, Benge, Blackburn, Blackwell, Brooks, Chambers, Cheek, Cook, Creekmore, Crenshaw, Curry, Elmore, Graves, Gray, Gregory, Harris, Henderson, Hemric, Jarvis, Logan, Martin, Mock, Money, Pardue, Parks, Royal, Sale, Seagraves, Sparks, Stimson, Swaim, Triplett, Ussery, Wagoner, Webb. - Jack Lewis, Editor-in-Chief, The Pilgrim Press

Good - was afraid they weren't going to. The queries were going to the list before but not the rest. Tried to get on the boards all day yesterday to check out something Red had a concern about and they were down. Martha >Resent-Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 21:15:00 -0600 >X-Original-Sender: CGT714@aol.com Fri Jun 29 21:15:00 2001 >From: CGT714@aol.com >Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 23:14:50 EDT >Old-To: mmarble@erols.com, NCDOBBS-L@rootsweb.com, NCLENOIR-L@rootsweb.com, > NCDUPLIN-L@rootsweb.com, HINES-L@rootsweb.com, Grimes-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10520 >Subject: [NCLENOIR] posting on the New Boards >To: NCLENOIR-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-From: NCLENOIR-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <NCLENOIR-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/614 >X-Loop: NCLENOIR-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-Sender: NCLENOIR-L-request@rootsweb.com >Resent-Bcc: > > Hi Martha and all, sorry about the type o for Lenoir Co misspelling, >fingernail got 2 letters at one click. > not what i am writing about, just found out tonight that if you post to the >new GenConnect boards, it will go the mailing list also, It must have just >started that today, because it did not do that on the 27th :-) > Thought you all might like to know . > Good luck to all > >Christine Grimes Thacker > >

There was a Henry Hines in Lenoir Co.,NC. 1850 census, could he have been connected to these Hines in Va. Thank you all here is the link http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/va/charlotte/chwills.htm Abstract (names only) Will of Henry Hines ,1810 Charlotte Co., Va. I lend to my beloved wife, Elizabeth Hines, four youngest children, namely, Simeon, Barbara, Nancy,and Walton Hines, youngest children, namely, Simeon, Barbara, Nancy, and Walton Hines. Item, I give unto my son, John Hines . Item, I give and bequeath unto my son William Hines Item, I give and bequeath unto my son, Henry Hines I give and bequeath unto my daughter Tabitha Parsons, I also give unto mythree grandsons, namely, John, Thomas, and William Parsons, . Item, I give and bequeath unto my daughter,Polly Adams, wife of William B. Adams, the sum of one silverdollar to her, and her heirs forever. Item, I give and bequeathunto my son James, and to his heirs forever, one silver dollar,and no more. Item, I give and bequeath unto my son, Thomas Hines and to his heirs forever, one silver dollar, and no more. Item,I lend to my daughter, Elizabeth Hines Good luck CGT

Hi Martha and all, sorry about the type o for Lenoir Co misspelling, fingernail got 2 letters at one click. not what i am writing about, just found out tonight that if you post to the new GenConnect boards, it will go the mailing list also, It must have just started that today, because it did not do that on the 27th :-) Thought you all might like to know . Good luck to all Christine Grimes Thacker

I have been told (I have no proof) that my gg grandmother was Martha M. Maddry...married to Thomas Henry Wade in Polk Co, Alabama March/1866. If you have these names in your line, I would appreciate hearing from you.

Here is a Deed i miss sending the other day . Wayne Co., NC Kinfolk Deed Book 8 p.307 SOLOMON GRANTHAM deed to DAVID HINES and CHARLES HINES as heirs of the estate of CHARLES HINES, deceased, 1/14/1796. p. 334 CHARLES STEVENS and DAVID HINES, both of Williamson Co., Tn., by virture of a power of attorney from MARK PIPKIN and POLLY HINES of the same place, all four being heirs of CHARLES HINES, deceased, late of Wayne Co., deed to ROBERT HOLLOWELL of Wayne Co., for land situated in Wayne Co., excepting the graveyard where the Reverned CHARLES HINES and his children are buried, 12/20/1805. p. 337 DAVID HINES and CHARLES STEVENS, both of William Co., Tn., by virtue of power attorney from MARK PIPKIN and POLLY HINES, all four being heirs of CHARLES HINES, deceased, deed to JESSE BIZZELL of Wayne Co., for land situated in Wayne Co., 12/20/1805. Abstracted from the Wayne Co., Hertiage book. page 274 . Charles Hines b Ca 1746 Wayne Co., NC, d ca 1796, will dated 1794. probably a son or Gson of Robert Hines, who appeared in Edgecombe Co as early as 1743, and owned land in Wayne Co., NC east of Sleepy Creek, A Known son of ROBERT HINES, KADER HINES owned land on Sleepy Creek prior to 2/10/1789. Kader was most likely a brother or father of CHARLES. Not known the name of Charles 1st wife and probably mother of his children. He married 2nd Nancy Hooten, and after the death of CHARLES she married ISAAC BIZZELL. Names in the Will: wife NANCY ; children, DAVID, REBECCA, SARAH, ESTHER, POLLY, OWEN and WILLIS not mention, because he had already provided for them. Son WILLIS HINES b ca 1769, d 1835, m SALLY CARROWAY, dau. of ADAM CARROWAY. Source: Wills, deeds, tombstones, History of Kehukee Baptist Association. submitted by Mrs Gordon B. Weeks. Good luck to all ******** Hi All , i have started putting the other Hines in the date base found a way through the Carroway/ Kornegay /Grimes connection, but already i have found something that does not add up , One source has Charles Hines #3 below and another has Charles Hines b ca 1746 d 1794 which the deeds support, it list the 1st wife as Sarah Taylor, no 2nd wife listed, deeds above do say wife Nancy for Charles, here is what i have found online for Charles b 1746 d 1794 children Willis b1769 (not mention in Will already provided for) Owen b ?? (''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''',also not mention in Deeds???) Charles mention in Deeds,not in WILL. David , in Will & Deeds. Rebecca b 3/25/1780 d 10/8/1860 mca1801 Charles Stevens,in Will Husband in Deeds. Sarah, in Will, Esther m Mark Pipkin , in Will & Husband mention in Deeds. Mary (Polly) in Will & Deeds. Stephen d 1838 m Levina Martin(i think this may be a son of someone else, have not found my papers for the Line of Solomon Hines). so the QUESTION is Willis the son of the above Charles?? anyone have info on Stephen?? Thanks For any help, Descendants of John William Hines 1 John William Hines b: March 12, 1675/76 +Sarah Ann Holliday 2 Charles Hines b: June 22, 1715 in Chuckatuck, Nansemond Co., Va. d: 1794 in Wayne Co., NC. +Nancy Carraway 3 Charles Hines b: Abt. 1743 in Chuckatuck, Nansemond Co., Va. d: in Wayne Co., NC. +Nancy Hooten. b: 1747 4 Willis Hines b: June 06, 1769 d: May 18, 1819 in Lenoir Co., NC. +Sally Carraway b: September 10, 1776 in Wayne Co., NC. d: May 22, 1837 in Duplin Co., NC. Father: Adam Caraway Mother: Susannah Oates 2 Robert * Hines b: Abt. 1717(not a proven son of John William Hines,Can anyone up date this line .Thank you CGT) Charles Hines b ca1746,d ca1794, Looks like someone has info cross, Thanks to all Christine Grimes Thacker

Hi John, finally trying to update my files, check out the Chart and see if i have gotten your info right ok. and if anyone else can update, correct or add to please do so . Thank you all Christine Descendants of Lewis Hines 1 Lewis Hines b: May 22, 1802 in N.C. +Nancy Winders b: Abt. 1805 in N.C. Father: Edward Winders Mother: Nancy Albertson 2 Martha Elizabeth Betsey Hines b: February 13, 1831 +?? Skipper 2 Nancy Hines b: October 08, 1832 d: May 18, 1906 2 Jermiah Hines b: January 03, 1835 d: May 12, 1864 2 James Allen Hines b: December 05, 1838 2 Lucy Jane Hines b: March 29, 1840 2 John Edward Hines b: March 07, 1842 2 Chloe Hines b: January 26, 1846 d: February 25, 1921 +James Hardy b: August 14, 1825 Father: Fleetwood Hardy Mother: Charity Mathews 3 Charity Hardy +Daniel Outlaw 4 Jim Ned Outlaw 4 Gordon Outlaw 4 William Daniel Outlaw 4 Chloe Ann Outlaw +Ed Rouse 2 Samuel Ivey Hines b: February 09, 1834 d: September 04, 1882 in Buried Stroud Cem. Liddell,Lenoir Co., NC. +Sarah Stroud b: 1846 d: June 07, 1882 in Buried Stroud Cem. Liddell,Lenoir Co., NC. Father: Lot Stroud Mother: Jincey Ann Stanley 3 Lizzy Hines b: January 16, 1878 d: July 25, 1955 +Walter Raleigh Chambers 4 Walter Edgar Chambers +Olive Rouse Father: Ed Rouse Mother: Chloe Ann Outlaw 3 Nancy Jane Hines b: December 17, 1874 +William Bonner Baily 4 Dau Baily +Hamlet 3 Paurice Emanias Hines b: September 13, 1869 d: February 24, 1948 in TX. +Ellen Ford 3 Sally S. Hines b: June 07, 1872 d: July 28, 1922 +Richard James Elmore 3 Dennie Hines b: August 15, 1880 d: September 17, 1962 +Jesse Herbert Dawson 2 Hepsey Ann Hines b: October 15, 1829

Issue: 1- Blackman Crumpler 1784-1868 married Jane Holmes 1786-1848, daughter of Archibald Holmes. 2- Redman Crumpler 1788-184x married Sarah Holmes, also a daughter of Archibald Holmes. 3- Bethsheba Crumpler 1793-1850+ married Thomas Sutton Jr. and moved to Louisiana. Meanwhile back to John Crumpler Jr. and by 1800 his first wife had died. He was now well to do and has 12 servants. He could play the fiddle and did so on many a Saturday night dances. One single lady by the name of Edith Gurley [1782] of Wayne County and daughter of Joel Gurley happen to attend one on these events. In June of 1801, John and Edith were married and she was soon with child: 4- William Gurley Crumpler was born. John now was ridding high. He was a Constable, his wife was again expecting a child, and he had 1440 acres of land. However, to the shock of every one John Jr. died on May 12, 1803. William Gurley Crumpler later married Treacy Tatum. The unborn child was: 5- John Ballard Crumpler and he married Mary A. Crumpler about 1830. Edith relinquished her right to administer the estate of John Jr. to Joab Blackman. Bond was set at 5000 pounds and secured by Josiah Blackman and Hardy Royal. I believe that his first wife was a sister to Joab and Josiah Blackman. Guardianships were established as Blackman, chose Macajah Crumpler. Redman chose Joab Blackman, and Bathsheba chose Josiah Blackman. a- William Gurley Crumpler remained with Edith and so did b- John Ballard Crumpler when he was born in mid-1803. One of those who helped settle and manage the estate of John Crumpler Jr. was neighbor John Honeycutt, then about 29 years old. He also managed a few other things for this 22-year-old widow. Somehow Edith managed to have six more children: c- Roxanna b1812 who married a Roberson, d- James H. Crumpler, e- Bluman Crumpler and f- Chelly A. Crumpler b1817 [Chelly and Bluman Crumpler were twins and credit was given to John Honeycutt. Twins are a trait of the descendants in this family even to this day….2001.] g- Macajah Crumpler 1820 who married Mary Jane Crumpler and later died in the war, and h-Ann Jane Crumpler who married Thomas Crumpler. Bluman was born in 1817 and John Honeycutt was living with him in 1850. No doubt the relationship was well known. Bluman owned four Slaves and ran the Crumpler Mill at Bear Skin when Sherman’s men came calling in March of 1865. Bluman had wrapped his hams in burlap bags and hid them in manure piles in the field and then he hid in a hollow log in the woods. Sherman’s men ran the mill for two days and left if running when they left. However, one of his slaves asked his wife, Nancy Holmes Crumpler to fetch Bluman’s new suit so he could air it out. Bluman never saw his slave or his suit again. Stacy Crumpler use to have a picture of Bluman Crumpler hanging in the hall of his home. I descend from John Crumpler, son of Matthew and also John Honeycutt. Some Crumplers do to. Will of John Crumpler Sr. In The Name of God Amen I, John Crumpler of The County of Duplin in the State of North Carolina Yoeman being weak in Body but of sound mind and memory blessed be God for it and calling to mind the mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it and for my Body to be buried in the Earth at the Discretion of my Executors nothing doubting but I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me in this life I give and dispose of the same in manner and form following that is to say Imprimus— Item: I give to my son Jacob Crumpler the plantation whereon he now lives ( ) I bought of Pircybell Clay containing one hundred acres lying on Bearskin Swamp and the cattle he formerly was possessed of and one bed that is now in the possession of Elihu Wiggins and one black mair and coalt to him and his heirs forever— Item: I give to my son John Crumpler a measure or tract of land containing two hundred and thirty acres on both sides the road joining Benj’n Williams land and Crumplers Marsh also another peace of land lying on Magason Branch containing one hundred acres also another peach of land containing three hundred and twenty acres it being part of an entry of six hundred and forty acres lying on both side Hauls Branch whereof Lazarus Haul is to have 320 acres and my son John and J’d Haul to make a line between themselves when the patent is obtained and for my Executors to make him a Deed for the same also a stock of cattle now in the ( ) of William Laton also I leave the USE of the plantation and my Negros whereon I now live to my said son John for to raise my children thereon and also one feather bed— Item: I give my daughter Rachel Crumpler five cows and calves to be paid for at the age of twenty one or married if the stock be sufficient for all the rest of her younger Brethren to have as many and if not to have an Equal Share of what there is at such a time and ten pounds in silver or gold and a feather bed and sheet— Item: I give to my Daughter Sarah Crumpler five cows and calves if the stock be sufficient at such time as has been before mentioned and ten pounds in gold or silver and a feather Bed Rug and sheet— Item: I give to my Daughter Nancy Crumpler five cows and calves if the stock be sufficient at such a time or to have as has been before mention and ten pounds in gold or silver and thirty five pounds of feathers— Item: I give to my Daughter Elizabeth Crumpler five cows and calves if the stock be sufficient at such time and if not to have an Equal Share at such time as aforementioned and a Negro woman called Rose and the first child She Ever brings and a feather bed Rug and sheet and the rest of her Increase I leave to be Equally divided amongst the Rest of my Daughters— Item: I give to my son Cajah Crumpler the plantation whereon I now live containing two hundred acres and another messuage of land containing one hundred acres adjoining the former Magason Swamp and a other hundred acres joining that and William Boykins land and another hundred acres on the East Side of Daniels Branch also a Negro Boy named Seacar and five cows and calves and a feather bed Rug and Sheet—and half the sheet that is at Ephraim Emanuels of my stock I give to my son Jacob and the remainder of all the rest of my sheet I leave to be equally divided between all my children Except Jacob & Grace and all the remainder of my Estate household goods and moveable I have to be Equaly Divided between my children 1-Grace, 2-Rachel, 3-Sarah, 4-Elizabeth, 5-Nancy, and 6-Cajah. I appoint my sons 7-Jacob Crumpler 8-John Crumpler and Elihu Wiggins my Executors of this my Last Will and Testament Dissolving all other former wills by me made Ratifying and confirming This and no other to be my Last Will and Testament in Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this seventh Day of February Anno Domni 1782. Signed seald publishd Declard & pronounced by the said John Crumpler as his Last Will and Testament in presence of us— Arthur Coor /s/ John Crumpler Daniel Coors William (his mark) Wiggs State of North Carolina Duplin County April Court 1782 Will of Archibald Holmes In the Name of God Amen. I Archibald Holmes of the County of Cumberland of State of North Carolina being weak in body, but of sound memory (blessed by God) do this Day make and publish this my first Will and Testament in manner following (That is to Say) - First I give my Son Jas the (Negro Virgil); and Negroe Tom I give for the use and service of my wife Elizabeth Holmes until my son Archibald is of age, then Tom is to be equally Shared between Mary McKithin and Hannah Hadly, and then Negro Jack to come in in Tom’s room and so remain and continue with my wife Elizabeth for life, and after he Decease; the said Negroe Jack to be equally Divided between my sons Arch’d and George; also I give Negroes Rose and Hanna to my wife During natural life, and after he Decease the aforesaid Negro girls and their issue if there will be any I order to be equally Divided among all my wife’s children - Archibald and Jean/Jane and Peggy, George and Sarrah and Also the land wherein I now live I give to my wife During her natural life and after her Decease the said land to be equally divided between my sons Archibald and George Holmes. Also I give my Wife Elizabeth Holmes all household stuff and furniture and all the utensils belong to me on the plantation all to be at her Disposal as she thinks proper; also all the rest and Residue of my Chattels & Personal Estate whatsoever I give to my said Wife Elizabeth Holmes and I make & ordain her my said Wife sole Administratrix [sic] of this my Will in trust for the intents and purposes in this my will contained, & in Witness Whereof I the said Archibald Holmes have to this my Will and Testament set my Hand & Seal, July 22, 1796. Signed, Sealed & Delivered by the /s/ Archibald Holmes (Seal) Said Archibald Holmes, as for his First and Last Will & Testament in the Presence of us who were present at the signing & sealing thereof; Test /s/ John Blue (Bluie) /s/ Edward McMillan And that we have allotted and delivered over said Slaves at their several valuations to the heirs as follows. Rose to Jane Holmes, Jack to George Holmes, Grace to John Crumpler & his wife Margaret (Peggy), Tom to Archibald Holmes & George to Sarah Holmes, etc QUERIES: Bryan McCULLEN: I am searching for records to prove Bryan McCullen as a new DAR Patriot through his daughter Ann McCullen who married James Howard on May 8, 1812 in Cumberland County. Bryan McCullen was born 1755, d. 1835, married Clarkey McDaniel. Any documents, Bibles, Wills, Estate Records, land transactions which name Bryan McCullen, his wife or any of his other children would be greatly appreciated. Information and documents will be shared with the Sampson County Historical Society. Ramona A. Winer winerputznround@aol.com P. O. Box 40745 Fort Worth, Texas 76140 (817) 483-8070 James Howard has been approved by the DAR as a Patriot. Thanks to the efforts of Jo Cartledge of MS and the above Ramona Winer of Texas. Jerome D. 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Powell, William S., North Carolina Through Four Centuries, Chapel Hill, N. C., The University of North Carolina Press, 1989. Rankin, Hugh F., The North Carolina Continentals, Chapel Hill, N. C., The University of North Carolina Press, 1971. ______, ______, The North Carolina Continental Line in the American Revolution, Raleigh, N. C. Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1977. Unknown, History of the Johnston Family, �Dedicated to Mrs. James D. Moore,� Dunn, N. C., Upchurch Printing Co., c. 1941. White, Virgil D., Index to Revolutionary War Service Records, Vol. II (of 4 Vols.), Waynesboro, TN, National Historical Publishing Co., 1983. (Printed version of NARA Microfilm Publication #M860, 58 rolls). SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF THE FOURTH OF JULY By Micki Cottle A light mist floats gently over the trees this Southern morning, but the sliding orange ball of merciless sun tells me, mist will burn quickly away, and the day will be hot, throat scorching hot. There is no heat quite like the volcanic heat of North Carolina in July, August and usually September. The frogs are still screeching somewhere in their tropical hideaways. Such a noisy chorus. They sound a little like the "good old boys" when they were blessed with fire in their souls and a natural gift of political histrionics. The days when thunderous voices would ring out over the House or Senate Chamber, the voices that would make you sit up and take notice. For me perched high in the House balcony, it was the best entertainment in town. Well, most of the rascals in politics were snappy actors, even known to wipe a tear or two every now and then. Sadly, like old-timey, God fearing, pulpit-banging preachers, there aren't a handful of the real "good old boys" left. Time has winked pretty hard at most of these old warriors and I doubt we'll ever hear the melodious likes of them again. These fruitful months of July and August are packed full of the sights and sounds of summer spectacles, it is a little dazzling. Day follows silky day, and we absorb the heat, and breathe the richness of these sweet seconds, knowing life itself is so precious we must trace each footprint of time, savor each second. Time will never taste sweeter than this moment. I remember childhood visits to the farm. Fat, glistening watermelons laying idly in blistered country fields. "Eat all you can hold children" my uncle would say. And we did. We gouged our little city souls with watermelon and blistering July sunshine. The juice dribbled down our chins, puddled in our play-suits, and we just sat there, fat and sassy. July brings us that firecracker day of celebration. Independence Day. What an expensive word this one has been? Worth every nickel! I enjoy the noisy-sentimental-teary plea-sures of the Fourth of July. I feel good watching folks waving flags. And fireworks, nothing beats fireworks. Wonderful to live in a country where Americans still seem to be proud to fly their flags and sing their patriotic songs. Occasionally, we independent Americans need to pause and remember who we are, where we came from. We need to look upward at the streaks of man-made magic that embrace our sense of wonder, bringing ahhhs and ohhhs from tired parents and squeals of excitement from bright-eyed youngsters. Finally sleepy, and a little lighter of heart we will stumble home to darkened houses, pausing briefly to remember, that indeed we are a part of a very large family in this United States of America. And despite our differences, we are tied securely at the hip with this belt of freedom. No matter how you might choose to celebrate your Fourth, quietly or gang-buster style, noisy and crowded; the fabric of this particular holiday was cut from the cloth of our American birth. Of all the holidays we celebrate, the Fourth of July has the power to shake us and make us smile at the unique privilege of being an American, proud. And if we aren't, as the old orators would have said, "we don't need to live here anymore." When all is said and done, most of us can expect to enjoy summer�s passing parade without the threat of dodging bullets, and the constant fight for simple daily survival. Most of our children do not go to bed hungry at night. And if our politicians irritate us too much, we have the privilege of voicing our opinions. We are no longer persecuted for our religious beliefs. We had forefathers, with a lot of insight, who spent a mighty long time ironing out this problem. So, maybe once again it is time to look around, take stock. Pause, as we walk back to our safe havens in these great, good, nights. Breath deeply of that intoxicating air of freedom. We do take it for granted you know. Then, silently, after all the hoopla has died down, we should thank our good Lord and remember our brave men and women who gave us this special country and this gift of freedom. And as we turn our thoughts to perhaps another time and place; remembering past Fourths, that we celebrated somewhere with other faces. These precious, fleeting pleasures, will all too quickly become part of our history. And these dusky summer evenings that lighten our world, will be stored in our hearts forever. TAR HEEL SOLDIER By Kent Wrench The "Duplin Turpentine Boys" carried their identity to war. They organized as the Duplin Turpentine Boys, Company E, 30th Reg. NC Troops in Teachey, NC, August 28, 1861. This company of soldiers were in part responsible for our state nickname that emerged from the war years. The earliest known recorded use of the term Tar Heel is in a diary entry dated, February 6, 1863, by Second Lieutenant William B. A. Lowrance, he wrote: "I know now what is meant by the piney woods region of North Carolina and the idea occurs to me that it is no wonder we are called Tar Heels." As the North Carolina soldiers left the piney woods of home and began to fill the ranks of the army of Northern Virginia, soldiers of other states sized up their crude and humble appearance and referred to them as Tar Heels. In the earliest days of the war being call a Tar Heel was to suffer insult. As the North Carolina Troops distin-guished themselves in battle, the mocking tone of the nickname Tar Heel gradually became a badge of honor. Gov. Zebulon Baird Vance bestowed the official approval of the nickname Tar Heels when he delivered a speech to North Carolina troops on March 28, 1864. According to one of the soldiers, the governor addressed them as "fellow Tar Heels� as we always stick." Major Joseph Englehard wrote following the battle of Ream�s Station: "It was a Tar Heel Fight." After the battle of Reams Station General Lee is reported to have cried out "Thank God for the Tar Heel boys!" During the war years North Carolina began to use the nickname proudly. Private George Quinton Peyton enlisted in the 13th Virginia Infantry, in May 1864. Peyton recorded in his diary his observation and thoughts as the 13th Virginia Army marched 511 miles in 32 days up the Shenandoah Valley toward Washington, D. C. Peyton had been a recruit of a single month when he recorded in his diary the following: An old lady gave me a big piece of loaf bread. The Tar Heels call it "Wasp Bread." John Archibald Gillis of Cumberland County, North Carolina was in Co A 63rd Reg. NCST. He was photograph holding a turpentine hack. In a sense he is a symbol of the many turpentine farmers turned soldier in the Old North State. He represents the lean lanky men and boys that left the turpentine woods to find adventure in the war. Was the nickname Tar Heels coined during the Civil War or was it already in use and only popularized outside the borders of our state during the war? We may never know. The Civil War certainly amplified and insured that the name would stick. JOHN CRUMPLER JR. ESQUIRE By Jerome Tew John Crumpler Jr. was born about 1756 and about the time his father settled in the Duplin area. I believe that John Crumpler Sr. (c1724-1782) married Nancy Holmes (c1731-c1780) in 1750 in the county of Isle of Wight Virginia. At lest three of their children, Jacob, John Jr. (c1754-1803), and Sarah Crumpler were born in Virginia or somewhere in between. Note: This John Crumpler is often confused with John Crumpler the son of Matthew Crumpler Sr. and this John was sheriff of Sampson County for several years after 1812. This John died February 23, 1830. This John married Margaret Holmes 1792-1869, daughter of Archibald Holmes of Cumberland Co. NC in 1806. This John has a large family and lived near the other Crumpler Mill three miles north of Salemburg NC. Meanwhile John Jr. got 230 acres of land from his father�s 1782 will. John Jr., apparently married about this time. There is nothing documented but he must have married the daughter of Joseph Blackman. To this marriage were born Blackman Crumpler 1784, Redman 1786, and Bathsheba was born about 1793. His wife was dead before the 1800 Census. John joined Benjamin Phillips in a partnership and established the firm of Crumpler and Phillips. They operated a county store near Bear Skin and likely the first store in that area. The following items were available in the store: Dutch blankets, Dutch ovens, sizzars, knives and forks, cotton stockings, thread, gloves, calico, gingham and corduroy cloth, linen, spelling books, tea pots, hair ribbons, dictionaries, testaments, trunks, combs, fish hooks, pearl buttons, ear bobs, and files. The following persons had accounts in the store: John Bennett, Mourning Bennett, Bedreddon Carraway Sr., Larry Coor, John Crumpler, John Faircloth Sr., Rezin Faircloth, Elijah Gainey, John Hair, Edmund, Hawley, John Honeycutt, Mary Johnston, Sarah Newman, Thomas Manuel, Willie Mobley, Elenor McIllwinnen, John McIllwinnen, Duncan McPhail, Peter O�Quinn, Robert Reynolds, Biggers Royal, Larry Royal, Reason Royal, Young Royal, John W. Turner, Jonathan Whitney, Fanny W. Wise, and John Wrench. This John also likely was the first to operate the Crumpler mill that still stands near Bear Skin on the old Stacy Crumpler place. Living near Jr. was another John Crumpler, he was the son of Jacob Crumpler and was living with Daniel Wooten in 1850. This John was born c1770, and was a Baptist Minister.

The 10th. Regiment was authorized by the North Carolina General Assembly, April 1777 �under the command of Col. Abraham Sheppard.� (NORTH CAROLINA THROUGH FOUR CENTURIES, by William S. Powell, page 191). The 10th. Regiment was the last Regiment to be organized, but not nearly as �organized� as it could have been. We find in the book, THE NORTH CAROLINA CONTINENTALS, by Hugh F. Rankin, a number of references to the 10th. Regiment and Col. Abraham Sheppard, commander of the �Tenth.� �Abraham Sheppard�s Tenth Regiment, who, to fill their own quotas, made promises that all those who enlisted in their regiments would not be required to leave the state.� (Page 127) �By early August (1777), Abraham Sheppard�s Tenth Regiment was being assembled and organized at Kinston (then Kingston); 328 men had been enlisted, but they were, in general, the sickly off scouring of the back country.� (Page 129) �...on June12, 1777, the Tenth Regiment had been placed on the Continental establishment. Sheppard was ordered to march forward to join Washington as soon as he had enlisted three hundred men.� (Page 129) �By late August Governor Caswell was beginning to demonstrate his displeasure with Sheppard�s seeming procrastination and �endeavored to excite Colonel Sheppard and his officers to a discharge of their duty by urging them on every principle of honor, love of liberty and their country...� Only three companies had appeared at the rendezvous at Kinston and they were troops from the immediate area.� (Page 130) �The governor complained of the lethargy of the officers of the Tenth, saying, �For God�s sake, and your Country�s sake, for your own honor and that of your Regiment, let me entreat you, nay order and command, immediately to order your officers to repair to Head Quarters at Kingston...� (Page 130) �On September 15, Caswell, his patience exhausted, ordered Sheppard to march northward no later than Thursday, September 25. With Vance�s artillery company to be attached to the Tenth Regiment until it joined the main army. Although Sheppard was supposed to march directly to Richmond to await further orders from Caswell, by October 6, he had moved no further than the Roanoke River, two miles from Halifax. Sheppard, for some unexplained reason, left his troops encamped on the banks of the river and returned to his home in Dobbs County. Ordered back to his regiment by the governor, he returned in a few days with a memorandum from his officers, complaining of their treatment. Bread was scarce, and the men of the Tenth were near naked; Sheppard�s command had received only 111 pairs of breeches, not a single pair of stockings, no hats, and less than half of their assigned supply of tents, blankets, and shoes. Yes they had received more than similar units. Already the men were grumbling and accusing the officers of �breach of promise.� When Sheppard finally began his march he was forced to leave forty-seven behind who were too ill to take the rigors of a long march.� (Pages 130-131) November, 1777: General Assembly ap-pointed �...a committee to look into the con-duct of the officers of the Tenth Regiment...� (Page 132) �The conduct of Abraham Sheppard and the officers of the Tenth Regiment also fell under the scrutiny of Archibald MacLaine�s senate committee and a similar group in the House headed by Willie Jones. In general, the committee reports charged Sheppard and his officers with procrastination, and there was the suggestion that they had been more than reluctant to march northward to join the Grand Army. And the assembly seemed to be quite willing to accept the word of Thomas Craike, commissary of stores, that the critical supply situation within the Tenth Regiment had been more the fault of Sheppard than of any state agency. There had been two rather shocking revelations. Benjamin Sheppard, paymaster of the Tenth, and Alexander Outlaw, the quartermaster, were declared unworthy of holding office when they were suspected of counterfeiting.� (Page 133) �The conclusion of the committee was that Colonel Sheppard and the officers under his command have disobeyed orders on frivolous and insufficient reason; that their conduct casts a shade, not only on themselves, but in some measure draws a reflection on the State.� (Page 134) Mid February 1778:�...Abraham Shep-pard�s Tenth Regiment, by mid-February ... was no further north than Tottopomey Creek in Hanover County, Virginia.� (Page 138) �To many observers it was already clear that Sheppard�s Tenth Regiment would be more of a hindrance than any great aid to the war effort. The unit was soon to fade into obscurity as a result of continued desertions. The pitiful few who finally reached Valley Forge were disbanded and attached to the First and Second Regiments.� (page 138) For further information and details on North Carolina Regiments see: THE NORTH CAROLINA CONTINENTALS, by Hugh F. Rankin (especially pages 124-148); published by The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC QUESTION: How these Johnston brothers joined the Tenth North Carolina Continental in 1781 is a mystery since the men of the Tenth, by 1778, were �attached to the First, Second and Sixth Regiments,� after it was disbanded in 1778, and they did not enlist until 15 June 1781? In the book, NORTH CAROLINA RESEARCH, GENEALOGY AND LOCAL HISTORY, edited by Helen F. M. Leary, pages 381-384, an explanation on the �Tenth� and how to research muster rolls is delineated It is suggested that one consult J. R. B. Hathaway�s NORTH CAROLINA HISTORI-CAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, Volume I (July, 1900, No. 3) for roster of those Regiments into which men of the �Tenth� were assigned after deactivation. Hathaway published only the officers of the various Regiments in the above reference. There is no �Captain Samuel Johnston� listed on the muster roll of officers in the �Tenth.� (Hathaway, page 425). Clark in THE STATE RECORDS OF NORTH CAROLINA, Vol. XVI, page 1093, lists the three Johnson men as being in Capt. Jones� Company. However, we know now that this is an inaccurate entry. In Vol. II, of four volumes, INDEX TO WAR SERVICE RECORDS, E-K, page 1463 compiled by Virgil D. White (from National Archives microfilm Series #M860) the following is recorded: �JOHNSON, Ephrim, 2nd. N. C. JOHNSON, Solomon, 2nd. N. C. JOHNSON, Soasby, 2nd. N. C.� Xerox copies of �Index Cards,� and �Enlistment cards,� from compiled records received from National Archives shows that the Johnson brothers were in the 2nd. North Carolina Continental Army, in Capt. Coleman�s Company, rather than in the �10th.� Also, in the file is a letter from the State of North Carolina, dated 1844, stating that Solomon was in the 10th Regiment even though Regimental Records show otherwise. This letter may be what has confused researchers in the past. We are convinced, based on the evidence, that all three brothers served in the 2nd. North Carolina Continental under Capt. Benjamin Coleman. (See attached NARA cards). What military activity or action the Johns(t)on brothers were engaged in has not been determined -YET! It is our feeling that these three Johns(t)on men where in the Battle of Eutaw Springs, SC (September 8, 1781), and Yorktown, VA (October 10, 1781). We have found no evidence of them �deserting� or �going home� early, like so many other soldiers. BIBLIOGRAPHY Clark, Walter. The State Records of North Carolina, Vol. XVI, 1782-1783, Wilmington, N. C. Broadfoot Publishing Co., 1993. Daughters of the American Revolution, National Society, Washington, D. C. Application of Fredda Sue Fender, National No. 567357 et al, including copy of marriage bond. Hathaway, J. R. B., Editor. The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 1, July 1900, No. 3. Edenton, N. C. Heitman, Francis B., Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of The Revolution, April, 1775 to 1783, with addendum by Robert H. Kelby, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1993. Leary, Helen F. M., Editor, North Carolina Research, Genealogy and Local History, Raleigh, N. C., North Carolina Genealogical Society, 1996. National Archives, Washington, DC. Xerox copies of complied military records. North Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution, Durham, NC, Roster of Soldiers From North Carolina in the American Revolution, 1932. Reprinted for Clearfield Publishing Co., 2000, by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD.,

NOTE: Received this issue this morning - guess Jerome put me on the list. Many of you are aware of the Sampson County Co publication. Found this more than interesting even though I have no Sampson families and am going to subscribe to the online service. Thought some of the rest of you might also be interested since it is only $5.00 a year. The dues information is in this issue. THis is being run with the permission of Jerome Tew. Martha NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE SAMPSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Volume XXIII, Number 2 ...... 15 June 2001 President: Jerome Tew, 600 Gloucester Rd., Goldsboro, NC 27534 Phone 919-735&#64979;4848 First V.P.: Kenneth Wrench, Wrench Rd., Godwin NC 28344 Phone 910-567-6528 or 2821 Second V.P.: Joyce Bass Binkley, 506 Tanabridge Rd. Wilmington, NC 28405 Phone 910-799-9818 Secretary: Margaret Wrench, same as Kenneth Wrench kwrench@intrstar.net Treasurer: Jean Faircloth, 19 Barber Cooper Ln., Roseboro, NC 28382 Phone 910- 525&#64979;4219 Editor: Jerome D. Tew &#64979; same as above - jdtew@esn.net Co-Editor: Micki Cottle 99 Pike Dr., Clinton NC 28328 910-592-6705 mcottle@intrstar.net Genealogy: Bradley West HH: Distribution: Bob Lewis and Robeania Hobbs. NEXT QUARTERLY MEETING ON SATURDAY, JULY 14 At the Piggly-Wiggly Restaurant, Jordon Shopping Center, Clinton, NC, STARTING at 2:00 P.M. Eat Downstairs and then go up an elevator for the Meeting. The speaker will be Wanda Royal who has written a book on her part of the Royal family of Sampson Co. NC. She will give details of the passion and purpose for writing this book. Her book is Royal Family Legacy. She is an ordained minister and lives in Wade NC. You will enjoy her story. I want to extend my appreciation for the copy of the Sampson county Historical Soc. newsletter. I had intended to get in touch with someone from the Society during a genealogical trip that I made to N.C. some weeks back. I had no specific names etc. Unfortunately when I arrived at the N.C. State Library and Archives in Raleigh I had terrible results in uncovering any of the information that I was seeking so I changed schedule and put in an extra day there. It was still to no avail despite the very gracious help of the people there. What little came up was information that I had already. So I diverted to the northern end of the trip and visited the site of the Battle of Antietam where my ggf and his son both fought with the 30th N.C. and were wounded so severely that they died before returning to their Clinton home. I am sending Online dues for the year 2001 and want to support what you are doing even though I cannot be there with you. My best wishes...James A. Clarkson jacl@ismi.net 2001 DUES ARE DUE Its time to pay annual dues again. Please make your check or money order for $7.50 payable to the Sampson County Historical Society and send to our treasurer: Mrs. Jean Faircloth, P.O. Box 1084, Clinton, NC 28328. Online dues are $5 and the online edition will be emailed out by Bob Lewis. Send email address to: rprestonlewis@hotmail.com Virginia and Oscar Bizzell have retired to do more books. P. O. Box 194, Newton Grove, NC. 28366 1-910-594-0577 Sampson County Heritage Book has been reprinted. It was done in two volumes without a hard cover. The cost will be $70. S&H included. Sampson County Court Minutes 1830-1840 is underway and about one third finished. http://www.angelfire.com/hi3/nccounties/ NC Cos A LONE GRAVE IN THE SWAMP Submitted by Judy Sellars Strickland. This appeared in the Waycross Highlight (former name of the Waycross Journal Herald) June 4, 1890. On a little knoll by thick bushes, terraced over by wild shrubbery, leaves and such, in the swamp of the Satilla River, not much over a dozen miles from Waycross, GA, is a lone grave in the swamp. One day, it was a Friday in February, old man Richard Gunter, who had not heard it thunder for 65 years or more, a man who had lost his ambitions and aspirations in life (he had no family) and was spending his later days in going from place to place, staying here and there among his friends, left JUDGE SELLARS LEE'S home just across the line in Appling to visit some friends on the Satilla River. (Note: keep reading - this IS about the Sellars line) Judge Lee not being home that day, Mrs. Lee, a kinder hearted woman can be found no where, had a Negro to hitch a horse and carry the old man a few miles to help him on his way. Four or five miles over in Ware County, the old man was left to complete his journey. The weather was severely cold for the climate. Along late that Friday evening he was seen passing Mr. William Brantley's. He failed to turn up at the place he was supposed to visit. Some days after that, the old man Gunter was not in the neighborhood he was supposed to visit. Inquiry was made but no one had seen him. A crowd gathered and instituted a search for him but failed to discover his whereabouts. After several days another search was made and about 2 miles from Mr. William Brantly's, where he was last seen, and just 21 days after that Friday, in the swamp of the river, his remains were discovered by Judge Sellars Lee. The body was intact and well preserved, the freezing weather kept it from decaying. A coffin was procured, a shroud prepared, a grave dug and his remains were interred on the same spot where the soul took its flight to the Eternal Land. (I just love the way they expressed "death" in those days - such a beautiful way to say that he died in the woods alone -probably froze to death ) Note: this spot is only a couple of miles from Brunnsville on the Waycross airlines (I have no idea what "airlines" means - do you?) NOTE: Sellars Lee was born in 1821, a son of James and Cinderella SELLARS Lee - and a great-grandson of RS SAMUEL SELLARS. Sellars Lee was married in 1841 to Dorcas Dedge and they had nine children. Judge Lee died in 1891 - just one year following this incident. Both Judge Lee, his wife, and Cinderella Sellars, are buried at Pine Grove Cemetery near Alma. Samuel served in the N.C. Militia from Duplin in the Revolutionary War and a few years afterwards moved his family to Effingham County, Georgia. On 9 Nov 1790, Samuel sold the old Sellars home place of 384 acres to Nathaniel Merritt. The transaction is recorded in Sampson deed book 9 page 336 at Clinton, NC. He married a cousin Zilpha Sellars and he died on August 29, 1794 in GA. Cinderella Sellars was daughter of Samuel III and gd of RS Samuel Sellars Jr. THREE JOHNS(T)ON MEN FROM SAMPSON COUNTY WHO SERVED IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARYWAR By Fred Hintze Jr. We, the descendants of Solomon Johnston, Jr., Soasby Johnston, Sr., and Ephraim Johnston, sons of Solomon and Mary (Herring) Johnson, have been, at times, enamored of their service in the American Revolutionary War. A number of ladies have joined the DAR as a result of being descendants of these brothers. I have collected many of their DAR Applications, plus Compiled Service Records (NARA) thanks to Mrs. Ava Healy of Rockville, Maryland. In an attempt to verify and document, historically and genealogically, I have research extensively, their military service, and put together all the information I have found in regards the unit in which they served. The enlistment of these men first came to my attention, in the book, HISTORY OF THE JOHNSTON FAMILY, dedicated to Mrs. James D. Moore, who collected early notes on the family, and which was published about 1941, Upchurch Printing Co., Dunn, N. C., compiler unknown. On page 61 we find, �...these Johnston brothers ...enlisted June 15, 1781 as privates in Captain Samuel Johnston�s Company, 10th North Carolina Regiment, serving 12 months. Ref.: see Vol. 16, page 1093, STATE RECORDS OF NORTH CAROLINA, 1782-1783. It is said the Tories captured these brothers and put them in Halifax jail because they would not fight with the Tories. While in jail they sung a patriotic song, which they learned in jail. It ran as follows: �The French are full of envy, The city�s full of pride The Parish is full of poverty And we can not abide. �The three brothers escaped from jail and rejoined the Revolutionary Army the same day in the same company as above mentioned.� Where this information came from is unknown. i.e., being jailed, singing, and their escape! This said, we have found that these brothers could NOT have enlisted in Captain Samuel Johnston�s Company, as we will show, but in the company of �Captain Benjamin Coleman.� A Samuel Johnson was found in HISTORICAL REGISTER OF OFFICERS OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY DURING THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION, April 1775 to December 1783, by Francis B. Heitman, page 39, #321, but as a Lt. in the �10th. N. C. wounded at King�s Mountain, NC, October 7, 1780. (Died September 15, 1834).� It has been reported that this Samuel Johnson was a brother of the three Johnson men of Sampson County, NC, but we have found that he was born, c. 1757 in Virginia (near Richmond), the son of Jeffery and Rachel (Walker) Johnson, and married Mary Hammonds, 25 June 1781. Mary Hammonds was the daughter of Ambrose and Ann Hammonds. (DAR Applications with attached documentation).

Dear Davis Fairfax and all! I will be off the internet for two weeks as of this email on Friday, 6-29-2001... Peace to you! ....LOL ...{:)]] THANKS FOR ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT! If you wish to removed from my mailing list, please reply to this as my inbox is empty at the moment ... ADIOS! Happy Fourth of July to ALL! God Bless America! Dan Fairfax Nashville, Tennessee dfairfax@nespower.com ===========================

William Nunn bc 1770 either in Craven or Dobbs was the proven son of Francis Nunn III and his wife Isabella Holloway. He married Margaret - no hard proof - who was born 1775 and died 15 January 1854 in Pearl, Montgomery Cou, Miss where she moved with her son William Francis Nunn. THe Nunns were SS of the river. I have no clue who Margaret was but have a hunch she might have been a Jones of some sort. One of her daughters, Matilda, married Lewis Jones son of Aretus Jones, and there were several other marriages between these families in later generations. It is my understanding this particular Jones family was out of Jones County. There was a Margaret Jones on the 1780 Dobbs Co Tax List. Does anyone know who she was or have any Margaret Jones in their files? William and Margaret appear to have had only had two sons who lived to adulthood - William Francis and Redding D. who was my direct ancestor. THere were several daughters other than Matilda that I know nothing about. Redding D. Nunn had three wives - Elizabeth Noble by whom he probably had one son William F. Nunn but I can't prove that either - Zelota surname unknown by whom he probably had the rest of his children - James F., Mary, Benjamin F., and the youngest Martha Ann who was my g grandmother. Redding then married Nancy Cauley who was his cousin. I don't think they had any children but not sure. Does anyone have a family SS of the river where the name Zelota appears? She was born in 1801 according to her tombstone at Maplewood. Redding moved around a lot - he appears to have lived in Duplin Co on the 1830 Census so it is possible Zelota was from Duplin Co. Redding sold his land in Duplin Co in 1833 so assume that is when he moved back. In 1840 Redding was back in Lenoir County, where he lived in various places - Woodington, NS of the river, Kinston, and then the Trent Township. I have a picture of Redding and Zelota. Any help on possible surnames of the two wives would be appreciated. Martha

In a message dated 6/29/01 3:06:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mmarble@erols.com writes: > Christine, note that John/Jack and Anna had a son Buckner Hardy Nunn. That > yep, the name Buckner is showing up more, Buckner Hines, Buckner Nunn, and the Buckner Grimes i have been looking for who was probably born in Duplin Co. NC, to William Grimes and Mary Nancy Mitchell, William was the son of James and Sarah Winders Grimes. I looked at the index for Early Dale & Coffee Co., Al. to see if i could find Giles Loftin, but not there 1830, a Wm Loftin listed 1840 , Charles, Henry, J.M., & Wm Loftin listed, Hardy for 1840, Adam, Alex, Gardnur(sic), JOhn . 1850 Coffee Co. Al Adam, Alexander, Andrew, George. Hardy. 1860 "" "" " " , "" ,Jacob B, Patrick Hardy. no Loftin or Nunn's in Coffee Co., Al. 1850 Dale Co., Al hh# 581 John M. Loftin 39 NC. Elizabeth 30, Ga, WM. 63 NC.Finette E (f) 18 Al. hh# 619 Wm D. Loftin23 Al, Quincey (f) 24 SC, James M. 6 months, Robert H. Smith 14 Al. hh# 624Charles Mc Loftin 40 NC, Edith 30 NC, Thomas J. 10 Al, Nancy J. 3, John H.2, Elizabeth Strickland 16 NC. hh# 712 Lewis H. Loftin 34 NC, Katherine J. 32 Ga.,Wm 13 Al, John W. 12 Al, Mary 10, Nancy 8, Thomas 3, Charles A.1, No Hardy's in Dale 1850. from the census looks like Giles family did not come to this area of Al.. Good luck to All. Christine Grimes Thacker