--part1_87.133cc59.27127a41_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Language: en In a message dated 10/3/00 8:43:03 AM Central Daylight Time, John Ozment.=20 writes > In Sept. 1749, Richard Bennett bequeathed a land tract called =E2=80=9CNeg= lect=E2=80=9D to=20 > two of the sons of John Osment, deceased, who were Thomas Osment (ca.=20 > 1725-1758) and John Osment (1728-1822). It would transfer to John, if=20 Thomas=20 >=20 > had no issue. > =20 > But, Thomas had issue: Thomas, Jr., Priscilla (Jr.), and Jonathan. > =20 > In 1793, John Osman (54) gave a deposition to the Land Commissioners.=20 Thus,=20 > he was born in 1739, and most likely was a brother of Richard (1737). > =20 > Thus, the 1790 MD census had Thomas (Jr.), Jonathan, =E2=80=9Cold=E2=80= =9D John, and John=20 > (son of 1718 Richard). > =20 > Old John=E2=80=99s son, John Osman (1756, MD - 1822, NY), moved to Montgo= mery Co.,=20 > NY, after the Rev. War (per his pension application), where he died in=20 1822,=20 >=20 > leaving a son, John Osman. Old John died in 1822 at the age of 94 (will)=20 or=20 > 96 (newspaper). > =20 > John and Cornelia (Morton) Osment had: Elinor Osment Gibson (ca.=20 > 1712-1734+), Richard Osment (1718-1751+), Edward Osmond (ca. 1721-1750s+)= ,=20 > Thomas (ca. 1725-1758), and John (1728-1822). --part1_87.133cc59.27127a41_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <johnozment@hotmail.com> Received: from rly-yg02.mx.aol.com (rly-yg02.mail.aol.com [172.18.147.2]) by air-yg05.mail.aol.com (v76_r1.8) with ESMTP; Tue, 03 Oct 2000 09:43:03 -0400 Received: from hotmail.com (f58.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.9.58]) by rly-yg02.mx.aol.com (v75_b3.9) with ESMTP; Tue, 03 Oct 2000 09:42:45 -0400 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 06:42:44 -0700 Received: from 198.93.154.20 by lw9fd.law9.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 03 Oct 2000 13:42:44 GMT X-Originating-IP: [198.93.154.20] From: "John Ozment" <johnozment@hotmail.com> To: LonRMartin@aol.com Subject: James H., etc. Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 06:42:44 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F584d5htAyD7TfSr0fV0000bd71@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Oct 2000 13:42:44.0954 (UTC) FILETIME=[CF3E73A0:01C02D3F] X-Mailer: Unknown 3 October 2000 Dear Lon, I have the following four items from Sheila Branham. branham90@yahoo.com ____________________ Item One: My line from Robert Ozment, Sr., is: Robert Shelby Ozment, Sr., married 2nd wife Susan Stewart. Robert S. Ozment, Jr. 3/29/1888 - 8/20/1974, married 1st wife Lucy T. Wolfe 1/31/1887 - 8/24/1908 (died in childbirth with a son); married second wife Emma Orella Glennon and had 6 children, one of which is my grandmother, Bernice Oleta Ozment 4/7/1919 - 10/29/1997. She married Wm Burl Brown. My father is Johnny Brown, married Edna Kay McMurry. I am Sheila Brown Branham 6/11/1971, married Michael Sean Branham. I have a brother named David, and I have 2 children. ____________________ Item Two: Among the notes left at her (Drew County) historical society by Rebecca (DeArmond) was a hand written page on a blank piece of paper from the Bible of Mrs. Eula Mae Harris. Ill start from the bottom. William Perice Harris b. 1866 in AR Eula Mae Simpson b. 1901 in AR Father Samuel Simpson b 1865 in LA Mother Lucindy Ozment b 1863 in AR Grandfather James G Ozment b 1823 in TN Grandmother Rachel Ozment b 1835 in TN G-Grandfather James Henry Ozment, Jr . b 1793 in NC G-Grandmother Elizabeth Eddings b 1795 in SC GG-Grandfather James Henry Ozment, Sr. b 1755 in England GG-Grandmother Martha Arden (Madison) b 1757 in NC GGG-Grandfather John Ozment b 1733 in England GGG-Grandmother Rachel Eaton b 1734 in England GGGG-Grandfather Robert Ozment b 1710 in England GGGG-Grandmother Norma Jean Wilson b 1712 in England Rebecca DeArmond wrote a book entitled, Old Times Not Forgotten: A History of Drew County. Have you heard of it? Her gggg-grandfather was also Alfred Ozment. She did lots of interviews and family group sheets and donated them to the Drew County Historical Society. They have her book there for sale, and I highly recommend it. The address is: Drew County Historical Society, 404 S Main St., Monticello, AR 71655, 870-367-7446. ____________________ Item Three: R.S., Jrs son Alfred has a daughter named Cindy who is supposed to be in possession of a Bible. I cant seem to get a copy of the pages. YET! I did find in my grandmothers box (Oleta) a copy of a Births page that I can only assume went in that Bible. It begins with ... Robert Ozment was born the 12 of October 1820 Susan Stuard was born the 25 of March 1849 Alpherd (Alfred) Riley Ozment was born July the 18 1881 Jimmie Ozment was bornd March the 29 1883 Elmira Ozment was bornd the 5 of November the 1886 Robert Ozment was born the 29? of March 1888 Therefore, I dont know for sure if this was Sr. or Jr. Bible. R.S. Sr. headstone does read 1828. The 1820 date is what it states in the Bible record though. Who knows? Cindy, the one with the Bible, lives in TX I think. ____________________ Item Four: Another great article that can be obtained from the historical society is titled Did You Know That? (11/23/1960) The article is by Jimmie Fox, but the narrative is mostly from Arthur Jolley. One little piece says, There were three of the Ozments brothers who came to New Orleans from England. One remained in New Orleans while Alfred and James H. made their way to South Carolina, where James H. Ozment married Elizabeth Eddings. Soon after all moved to Wilson County, Tenn., which is about the center of the state, and here Alfred Ozment married Nancy Lane and the two brothers reared their children Interesting? Who knows? ____________________ May I say that the Eula Mae Harris Bible, although I have not yet sought to procure a copy, is probably all in one handwriting, given the fact that there are so many generations given, and all without months and years. The Bibles that I have seen usually have only two or three generations and are in one to three different handwritings. It would seem likely that she obtained information from Mr. Arthur Jolley at one point. The late Lamar White of Midvale, Utah, conducted a taped interview with Arthur Jolley in 1966. It was Lamars impression that, while Mr. Jolley did the best he could, nonetheless much of what he said was not true, although he interspersed bits here and there which were largely correct. The same basic outline of E.M. Harris Bible was extracted by Lamar from his interview with Mr. Jolley. Dwight Ozment of Richmond, Virginia, has interviewed Winifred Johnson of Mesa, Arizona. Her grandfather began relating his family history to her some 70 years ago in Texas. She had contact with Mr. Jolley, too. As a result, her recollections are tainted by the Jolley narrative to the point where Dwight had to concede that Winifred, at times, could not separate those facts obtained by her grandfather from those stories related to her by Mr. Jolley. There is much of value in her knowledge of the Texas Ozments, which trace back to John Jasper Ozment (b. ca. 1798-99, NC) and his father Robert Lafayette of MS (b. ca. 1779). She grew up with Gene Autry and his mother, Elnora Ozment. Their line has female Morgans and Fraziers, which contain Indian blood. She told me that her grandfather had told her that Robert L. Ozment was also a brother of my Alfred Ozment (b. late 1804-1877), and that Alfred had a diary of family descendancy information, which sadly had never been rediscovered. Arthur Jolleys narrative is filled with improbabilities. One time it states that James H. Ozment, Sr., and Billy Eddings landed in Charleston, SC, with Lafayette, and apparently in another version states that they landed in New Orleans. James H. Ozment (1793-1861) was in New Orleans, Louisiana, for a couple of years, around 1844. The book in the Santa Clara, CA, Library on the army of Gen. Lafayette has a Jean Osmond of Caen, France, among his men. At one time, the narrative has Billy Eddings marrying White Fawn or Elizabeth, the daughter of Chief Keoto. (I think I remember that he married Rebecca Chandler of Laurens Co., SC.) It has James H., Sr., marrying Martha Arden, the daughter of Chief Keotos brother. After leaving SC, James H., Sr., and Billy taught at an Indian mission school in Robeson County, NC (which was still part of Bladen County until 1787), where they married their princesses. The Harris Bible has her as Martha Arden (Madison). There was a (James) Madison Ozment, a son of Jonathan Ozment. There was, also, a Martha A. Ozment, the firstborn child / daughter of Robert S. and Caroline Ozment. According to Lamar Whites tape, Mr. Jolleys son supposedly obtained information from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which said BIA related to me that they dont have records more that 40 years old. All older documents are forwarded to the National Archives, which said NARA related to me that they had no such documents as Mr. Jolleys son purported, in that they have no records for dissipated and unamalgamated tribes, especially of that vintage and in that area. So where did this information originate? There were a few dissipating reservations in Dorchester Co., MD, in the 1780s, when my John Ozment (1763-1842+) would've married, ca. 1785. They were Nanticoke, Choptank, etc. of the Delaware (Algonquin stock). The Indians of Robeson Co., NC, would likely have been Catawba. I have never seen a James H. Ozment, Sr., from Robeson Co., NC. The paper trail clearly shows that the Ozments came from Talbot Co., MD, to Caroline Co., MD, to Guilford Co., NC, and from thence to Wilson Co., TN. Robert L. (ca. 1779) was probably born in MD, and he was probably a son of Thomas Ozment, Jr., (1749, MD - ) who married Rachel (Mrs. Bradbury Sylvester) in 1778. Richard (D.) Ozment, Jr., (1759, MD - 1830+, TN) probably had twin boys in 1780, Manlove and Howard (both 70 in 1850, NC). Robert L. was probably too old to have been a brother of my Alfred (late 1804, NC - 1877, AR), who had brothers Eli (1786, NC - 1850+, TN), James H. (1793, NC - 1861, AR), and Richard S. (1800, NC - 1866, IL). Greenbury Ozment (1805, NC - 1850+, TN) was probably not Alfreds brother, even though they both married in Nashville a year apart. Let us just retire this Jolley narrative to family folklore, until such time as some hard evidence to the contrary surfaces. Apropos of my previous e-mail to you, I thought to append my thoughts on Richard Osment (1718, MD - 1751+, MD) and his unknown wife. Richard Ozment, Sr., (1737, MD - 1817, NC) had a Richard (D.) Ozment, Jr., (1759, MD - 1830+, TN) Could the initial stand for Davis, and represent the surname of Richard Osments wife? (E.g.: Ozment acquaintances of Hannah Oldham Davis Edge ... Elizabeth Davis Wise ... etc.) The 1733 Talbot Co., MD, tax list had one Osment male of 16 years or older paying the tax. Therefore, 1733 - 15 = 1718, the birth year of Richard Osment, who wouldve married at 18, in 1736. His son, Richard Ozment, was born in 1737. He was probably 21 by January 1759 (will witness of Hannah Edge). Therefore, 1758 - 21 = 1737, also. Richard wouldve married Rachel at age 18 or 19, in 1755 or 1756. Alternately spelled, Richard Osmond, Jr., appeared on three inventory debt lists in 1757 (along with his uncle Thomas Osmond), including that of the late William Alexander. Richard Osment (1718-1751+) appeared as next of kin, along with his brother, Thomas Osment, and his nephew, George Gibson (son of Elinor Osment Gibson), on the 1751 inventory of his father, John Osment. In Sept. 1749, Richard Bennett bequeathed a land tract called Neglect to two of the sons of John Osment, deceased, who were Thomas Osment (ca. 1725-1758) and John Osment (1728-1822). It would transfer to John, if Thomas had no issue. But, Thomas had issue: Thomas, Jr., Priscilla (Jr.), and Jonathan. In 1793, John Osman (54) gave a deposition to the Land Commissioners. Thus, he was born in 1739, and most likely was a brother of Richard (1737). Thus, the 1790 MD census had Thomas (Jr.), Jonathan, old John, and John (son of 1718 Richard). Old Johns son, John Osman (1756, MD - 1822, NY), moved to Montgomery Co., NY, after the Rev. War (per his pension application), where he died in 1822, leaving a son, John Osman. Old John died in 1822 at the age of 94 (will) or 96 (newspaper). John and Cornelia (Morton) Osment had: Elinor Osment Gibson (ca. 1712-1734+), Richard Osment (1718-1751+), Edward Osmond (ca. 1721-1750s+), Thomas (ca. 1725-1758), and John (1728-1822). John Osman / Osment (ca. 1683-by 9/1749) had been born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England in 1783 (christened in 1784). Cornelia (ca. 1690-by 1740) had been born in Virginia in about 1690. Her father, Robert Morton, first bought land in Talbot Co., MD, in 1700, with a wife of a different name than was in his 1721 will and inventory. He was 30 in 1683, when he was apprenticed for 4 years in Virginia. He was born in Caddington, Bedford (1653). As regards the 1790 NC census that you mentioned, look again on the same page as my John Osment (1763, MD - 1842+, TN) of Guilford County. You will find our Richard, Sr. and his sons Richard, Jr., and our Samuel, but the surname was spelled differently, something like Ogburn ... sort of like when the later census had it as Orsment (written with a drawl perhaps). Florence Sullivan, Jr., and Joel Sullivan, etc., were right there, too. I think I remember Richard, Jr., was listed in the 1830 TN census. It may have been there that a birth year of 1760 was inferred. But, I would take it to be late 1759. For, the 1778 Caroline Co., MD, census has Samuel and Richard, Jr., as at least 18 years old by February of 1760, the time of that enumeration. So, in the birth order of the May 1817, Guilford Co., NC, will of Richard Ozment, Sr., we would have: Samuel, 1757, Richard, Jr., 1759, daughter, 1761, John, 1763, daughter, 1765, James, 1767 (83-1850, TN), daughter, 1768/69, and Thomas, 1770 (79-10/1849). John was not on the 1815 NC state census, for he had bought land in Feb. 1811 in Wilson Co., TN. James H. Ozment served in the War of 1812, beginning in 1812, from Tennessee, and was a bondsman for his sisters wedding. Jonathan, his nephew (son of Samuel), had no son named James H. John's brother, James (1767), arrived with (prob.) Cameron (1811) by 1830. Perhaps he was the same James who (re)married in 1820 Wilson Co., TN. Im running out of time here at work, so Ill have to break it off for now. You may share what I have shared with you, if you wish. Well talk again. Take care. Sincerely, John Alan Ozment johnozment@hotmail.com 2096 Sarasota Lane, Hayward, CA 94545-4216; (510) 783-9370 _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. --part1_87.133cc59.27127a41_boundary--