Ther is also a Zachariah Nevill in Madison Co, Tennessee in 1850. To which family does he belong? Ruth Jan & David Faulkner wrote: > > At 08:48 PM 3/5/99 -0500, you wrote: > >Jan, > > > >Zachariah who m Ann Scott Jefferson was not the one who went to > >Tuscaloosa Co, AL. That Zachariah died 1830 in Nelson Co, VA. He had a > >son James Lewis Nevill who m Dorothy Moorman & it was their son Zachariah > >who m Ann Lewis 1853 in Tuscaloosa, AL. > > > >Shirley > > > >___________________________________________________________________ > > Shirley, > > Thank you for the correction about Zach. and Ann Scott Jefferson, their sons > James L. Nevil and Lafayette Nevil, and James L. Nevil's son, Zach. L. > Nevil! I have it right in my notes but got mixed up in my thinking when > writing about Lafayett Nevels found in a MS record for Confederate service. > Afterthoughts are dangerous when I don't check them with sources, too. It's > amazing (awful) how one sentence can have so many errors! > > In the same sentence, I also should not have stated that the family went to > AL from Amherst Co., VA. I don't have information which suggests they were > living in Amherst Co. before they went to AL. Ivan Nevill's book, GENEALOGY > OF THE NEVILL FAMILY, shows that James L. Nevill m. Dorothy Louise Moorman 3 > Oct 1831 in Albemarle Co., VA, and that first child, Zachariah Lewis Nevill, > was born 7 April 1833 in Albemarle Co., while the second child, Ann Caroline > Nevill was born 7 March 1836 in Tuscaloosa, AL. Also, Ivan Nevill shows > that James L. Nevill's estate was settled in Scottsville, Albemarle Co., VA > 1 Jan 1853 by administrator R. L. Jefferson for the years 1844-1852. > > I should have stated the following in my 3/4/99 post: > > >If it [enlistment place of Lafayett Nevels, Co. M, Wood's Regiment, > Confederate Cavalry (1st Regiment Mississippi Cavalry / Wirt Adams' Regiment > Cavalry), Private] is Monroeville, that would be in Alabama, which makes it > plausible that Lafayett Nevil, MS Confedrate soldier, had some connection > with Zach. and Ann Scott Jefferson Nevil and their son James L. Nevil, since > Zach. and Ann had another son named Lafayette b. ca 1818 (birthdate > according to Ivan Nevill's book). James L. Nevil went to AL from perhaps > Albemarle Co., VA. Maybe the Lafayett Nevels who served in a MS company > during the Civil War is the son of Zach. and Ann Scott Jefferson or a > grandson. > > I have more thoughts on the above and on Lafayette Nevil (but will try to > keep them straight <g>). Ivan Nevill shows that Dorothy L. Moorman (b. 1818 > VA - d. 1879 Moundville, AL), who was the wife of Lafayette's brother, James > L. Nevil, married (2) Andrew Jackson Lewis in 1842. He also shows that she > died in Moundville, AL and is buried in the Lewis Cemetery in Moundville. > Thus, on the 1850 AL census, she would have been in a Lewis household. > Maybe Lafayette lived with sister-in-law Dorothy Moorman Nevil Lewis's > family, which would account for his not being found in AL on the 1850 or > 1860 census. Present-day Moundville is just below the Tuscaloosa County > line in Hale Co. but was probably in Tusc. Co. in 1850s. > > The IGI index to 1850 AL shows > Squire Nevels, Tuscaloosa Co. #230 (more on him in a > separate post) > Zachariah Nevels, Tuscaloosa Co. #189 (He would probably be > the son of James L. and Dorothy Moorman Nevil, but I have > not looked at the microfilm to verify this.) > > The IGI index to 1860 census shows > Mary Nevell, Tuscaloosa Co. # 555, Collins Beat (I don't > know who she is) > > I don't have the indexes to the Lewis family in 1850 and 1860 AL census nor > the 1850 and 1860 VA census indexes to check for Lafayette Nevil. > > Zach. Lewis Nevill, son of James L. and Dorothy Moorman Nevil, m. Ann M. > Lewis 8 Nov 1853 in Tuscaloosa, AL and moved to TX before daughter Ellen > Nevill was b. in LaGrange, TX, 29 Sept. 1858 (Source is Ivan Nevill book, > again; I haven't checked these dates). > > Thank you for the reference to Richard Nevil, former slave of Fayette Nevil > and Civil War soldier living in LA, who stated he was from Nelson Co., VA. > That is a good clue! > > Jan > > ==== NEVILLE Mailing List ==== > Visit the Neville Heritage Society Home Page: > http://www.prairienet.org/neville/