----- Original Message ----- From: <admin@SEE.MESSAGE.FOR.ADDRESS> To: <TnGibson@worldnet.att.net> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 7:20 PM Subject: New Gibson Co. Tn Bios Forum Post > Gibson Co. Tn Bios Forum > A new message, "BALDRIDGES OF 19TH CENTURY GIBSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE," was > posted by David Baldridge on Wed, 24 Nov 1999 > > Surname: BALDRIDGE > > > > --- > NAME: David Baldridge > EMAIL: hdbjr@mindspring.com > DATE: Nov 24 1999 > QRYTEXT: BALDRIDGES OF 19th CENTURY GIBSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE > > Patriarchs of two Baldridge family lines prominent in Gibson County, Tennessee, of the 1800s were brothers of Scotch-Irish ancestry, whose descendants arrived in West Tennessee by different routes. John and Alexander Baldrige - spelled then without the second d - were born in the far north of Ireland to William and Janette (Holmes) Baldrige. > > William Baldrige, was born in 1689 in County Londonderry, Ulster Province, and Janette Holmes was born on 24 June 1694 in County Down, also in Ulster Province. It has been reported, without authentication, that William was the son of Richard Baldrige of Wales. > > William Baldrige and Janette Holmes were married in County Londonderry, Ulster Province, Ireland, on 16 June 1714 and very likely made their living in or around the City of Coleraine as yeomen - a class of small, independent, freeholding farmers. By the mid-1720s, they were the parents of six children; John(1715 - 15/31 Jul 1766), Alexander(5 Oct 1717 - 12 Mar 1805), Margaret(1719 - 1766/1777), Janette(1721 - 8 Feb 1744), Elizabeth(1723 - 12 Feb 1808), Michael(19 May 1726 - 12 May 1812). > > In about 1726 , this Ulster-Irish (Scotch-Irish) Baldrige family, except for their eldest son, John, emigrated to Little Britain Township in southern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, reportedly landing in Philadelphia aboard the Queen Margaret. > > William and Janette (Holmes) Baldrige lived the remainder of their lives as farmers/weavers on land they colonized just north of the present-day Mason-Dixon Line, between Octoraro Creek and the eastern bank of the Susquehanna River. It is believed they were members of the Muddy Run Society, Little Britain Congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Lancaster County, where they were very likely buried, although there are no known tombstones there bearing their names. > > William Baldrige died on 25 November 1772 in Little Britain Township, and his Last Will and Testament dated 9 January 1767 was probated on 14 January 1773 and recorded in Will Book C, Volume 1. Page 124, Official Records of Lancaster County. Janette died there between 1767 and 1773, purportedly on 28 July 1768. > > THE LINE OF ALEXANDER BALDRIGE > > Alexander Baldrige(5 Oct 1717, Coleraine, Ireland - 12 Mar 1805, Lincoln Co., NC) was the second child of William and Janette (Holmes) Baldrige. He accompanied his parents when they migrated from Ireland to America in the early 1700s. Alexander Baldrige and Jane Ramsey(ca 1730 - 6 Dec 1800, Lincoln, Co., NC) were married in about 1752 in Lancaster Co., PA. It is likely that he and his family lived in Martic Township, perhaps near where his older brother, John, also made his home. Alexander traveled with John to North Carolina in about 1765 and purchased land in that part of Old Mecklenburg County that is now Lincoln County. He moved with his family to North Carolina soon thereafter. > > Alexander and Jane (Ramsey) Baldrige were the parents of nine children, six born in Lancaster Co., PA, and the last three in Lincoln Co., NC; John(28 Sep 1754 - 17 Oct 1823), Margaret(b. ca 1755), Janet(b. ca 1758), Nancy(ca 1760 - 21 Feb 1836), William(26 Feb 1761 - 26 Oct 1830), Mary(b. ca 1763), Alexander Jr.(13 Jun 1766 - 7 Feb 1851), Michael(6 Apr 1772 - 29 Sep 1839), Elizabeth(5 Mar 1777 - 29 May 1867). > > Their oldest son, John Baldridge(28 Sep 1754, Lancaster Co., PA - 17 Oct 1823, Maury Co., TN) was Captain of a North Carolina rifle company in the Revolutionary War. He married Isabella Luckey(27 Feb 1761, Lancaster Co., PA - 29 Apr 1848, Maury Co., TN) in Iredell Co., NC, on 21 Aug 1780, and they were the parents of eleven children; Nancy(22 Apr 1782 - 27 Feb 1862), James Luckey(10 Jul 1786 - 3 May 1861), Jane(30 May 1788 - after 1857), Catsy(b. 12 Jul 1790), Alexander(25 Jul 1792 - 14 Sep 1848), Isabella(b. 2 Aug 1795), Rebecca E.(b. 13 Jan 1798), John(b. 20 Feb 1800), Margaret A.(b. 4 Mar 1802), Elizabeth E.(b. 5 Jun 1804), William Davidson(b. 1 Jan 1807). This family lived in Lincoln Co., NC, until 1797, when they moved first to Davidson Co., TN, and then on to Maury Co., TN, in 1813. John and Isabella (Luckey) Baldridge are both buried in Haynes Cemetery in southeast Maury Co., TN. > > According to census data, James Luckey Baldridge, the oldest son of John and Isabella (Luckey) Baldridge, moved with his family westward to Gibson County in the 1830s. His younger brother, William Davidson Baldridge, followed with his family in the 1840s. > > William Davidson Baldridge(1 Jan 1807, TN - after 1850) and his wife, Mariah D. Blanton(15 Nov 1811, TN - 15 Oct 1852, Gibson Co., TN), were the parents of eight children; Isabella Frances(b. 18 Nov 1834), John James(b. 1 Mar 1836), Alexander W.(b. 28 Jul 1837), Eugenia Adelaide(7 Nov 1838 - 22 Nov 1839), William(b. 20 Dec 1840), Samuel Davis(16 Sep 1842 - 31 Sep 1842), Robert(b. ca 1845), Ophelia America(5 Mar 1849 - 2 Oct 1898). Mariah (Blanton) Baldridge is buried in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Yorkville, Gibson County. > > James Luckey Baldridge(10 Jul 1786, Lincoln Co., NC - 3 May 1861, Gibson Co., TN) married his first wife, Lydia Pickens, on 11 Sep 1809 in Maury Co., TN. His second wife was Narcissa Henderson(12 Dec 1790, NC - 28 Nov 1857, Gibson Co., TN). James Luckey Baldridge was the father of nine children, the first five believed to have been with his first wife; Cynthia(b. ca 1811), Lydia P.(b. ca 1815), Nancy L.(ca 1818 - 1853), John S.(b. ca 1821), Mary A.(b. ca 1823), William Henry(ca 1825 - after 1870), Alexander(b. ca 1827), Isabella N.(ca 1829 - 1875), Susanna E.(b. ca 1833). James Luckey Baldridge and Narcissa (Henderson) Baldridge are buried in the Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery. > > John S. Baldridge(b. ca 1821, TN), son of James Luckey and Lydia (Pickens) Baldridge, married Martha Moore(b. ca 1828) in Gibson County on 5 October 1846. They were listed as childless at the time of the Gibson County census of 1850. > > William Henry Baldridge(b. ca 1825, TN) was probably the first child of James Luckey Baldridge and his second wife, Narcissa Henderson. On 28 December 1846 in Gibson County, he married his first wife, Elizabeth Nuckles, who apparently died not long thereafter. His second wife was Lucy E. Nichols(b. ca 1827, TN), whom he married in Gibson County on 26 August 1850. There were perhaps eleven children; Alecta(12 May 1851 - 19 May 1929), Sarah(b. ca 1853), Elizabeth S.(b. ca 1854), John(b. ca 1856), Adolphus(b. ca 1858), Charles A.(b. ca 1860), Albert Sidney(b. ca 1862), Harve U.(b. ca 1864), Jesse D.(b. ca 1866), M.G.(b. ca 1868), Walter(b. ca 1871). William Henry Baldridge apparently moved from Gibson County to Texas sometime after the Census of 1870 and later died there in Wise County. > > Similarity in the maiden names of the two wives of William Henry Baldridge suggests that they were perhaps sisters, especially since the 1850 Census notes young William H. and Lucy Baldridge as living in the household of William Nuckolls(age 56), perhaps the father of the two wives. William was employed then as a constable in Gibson County. > > The 1850 Gibson County census found unmarried Alexander Baldridge(b. ca 1827) and teenager Susanna E. Baldridge(b. ca 1833) living at home with their parents, James Luckey and Narcissa (Henderson) Baldridge. By 1860, Alexander had evidently become a physician and was still living in the household of his father, then a 75 year old widower. Dr. Alexander Baldridge died on 28 Jul 1863 at age 36 years and is buried in the Yorkville Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery. > > THE LINE OF JOHN BALDRIGE > > John Baldrige(1715, Coleraine, Ireland - 15/31 Jul 1766, Lancaster Co., PA), firstborn child of William and Janette, remained in Ulster Province in the far north of Ireland when his parents emigrated to America. In about 1733, in Coleraine, County Londonderry, John married Rebekah Clark who had been born in that same area in about 1720. With their then three young children, John and Rebekah (Clark) Baldrige also emigrated to Pennsylvania, purportedly aboard the Village Belle, arriving in Philadelphia in about 1737. They colonized land in Martic Township in southern Lancaster County just a few miles northwest of Johns parents. > > The children of John and Rebekah probably totaled at least 16 and perhaps 18, including the following with their probable birth dates, all born in Lancaster County, except for the first three who were born in Ulster Province, Ireland: William, ca 1734; Malcolm, ca 1736; Robert, ca 1737; Francis, ca 1741; Daniel, ca 1744; James, ca 1746; Margaret, ca 1751; John, ca 1752; Alexander, ca 1756; Thomas, ca 1759; Ann, ca 1760; Joseph, 14 Sep 1762; Rebecca, Dec 1764; and possibly 3-5 others. > > In about 1765, John, along with some of his sons and his younger brother, Alexander, traveled to North Carolina and bought acreage in Old Mecklenburg County (northwest of the present-day City of Charlotte). An abstract, dated 13 May 1765, attesting to the purchase by John Baldrige of land along Indian Camp Creek and the Catawba River, can be found in Tryon-Lincoln County Deeds, Volume 1, Pages 670-671. Three other deeds involving similar purchases or rentals of land in that area by John Baldrige appear on pages 155-159 of Volume 4, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Deed Abstracts. > > John returned to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, only to die there in late July 1766 before he could relocate his family to North Carolina. John Baldriges Last Will and Testament, dated 15 July 1766 and filed for probate on 31 July 1766, was recorded in Will Book B, Volume 1, Page 448, Official Records of Lancaster County. It is generally considered that John Baldrige was buried in the cemetery of Chestnut Level Presbyterian Church, although there is no known tombstone there bearing his name. > > The widow, Rebekah (Clark) Baldrige, then in her late 40s and the mother of 16 or more Baldrige children, married Aaron Boggs on 19 May 1769 in St. James Episcopal Church, Lancaster (church record extant). Rebekah (now spelled Rebecca) and Aaron Boggs moved with most of the younger Baldrige children to Old Mecklenburg County (to what is now Lincoln County - northwest of the City of Charlotte), North Carolina. Rebecca went on to give birth to three Boggs children, giving her a grand total of at least 19 (perhaps 21), the last being born in about 1778 with Rebecca in her late 50 s. > > Rebecca (Clark) Baldrige Boggs died on 1 July 1823 at the probable age of about 103 years. Her very weathered tombstone still stands in the cemetery of Knob Creek Methodist Church, Belwood, in eastern Cleveland County, North Carolina. > > At some time around 1770, perhaps occasioned by the death of their father in 1766 and remarriage of their mother in 1769, the older sons of John and Rebecca Baldrige moved their families from Lancaster County southward to North Carolina, primarily to Orange County. > > Daniel Baldridge (by then spelled with the second d) settled a few miles northeast of the present-day City of Hillsborough in Orange County, North Carolina, . There is no known extant record bearing the name of his wife whom he apparently married in Lancaster County, PA, in about 1761. Except for perhaps the first two or three, their nine known children were born in Orange County, NC; James(ca 1762 - before 1830), John(ca 1763 - ca 1819), Hannah( ? - ? ), William(12 Jul 1777 - ca 1855), Andrew W.(ca 1779 - ? ), Robert(ca 1780 - before 1850), Daniel Jr.(ca 1784 - 28 Jan 1844), Francis Marion(3 Aug 1785 - 11 Oct 1847), Catherine(ca 1787 - ? ). > > On 1 May 1810, Daniel sold what was probably his last land holding in Orange County, North Carolina. Shortly thereafter, he moved to Davidson County, Tennessee (Nashville area), where his name appeared on a tax list in 1811. > > The 1820 Census suggests that Daniels wife (name as yet unknown) had died since the previous census ten years earlier - either in North Carolina or Tennessee. The aging Daniel was very likely by 1820 living in the household of his son, Francis Marion Baldridge, in either Davidson County or contiguous Rutherford County, Tennessee. > > In 1822, Daniel received a land warrant (#5071) from the State of North Carolina for his military service during the Revolutionary War. This warrant was for 640 acres which turned out to be located a few miles southeast of the present-day City of Martin, in Weakley County, Tennessee. > > Daniel and his son, William, soon took up residence on this land grant in Weakley County, where Daniel died in about 1828. His grave site (tombstone erroneously displaying earlier best-guess birth and death dates as 1754 and 1834, respectively) is now prominently preserved in the Y formed by the Pair Road exit ramp and the south(west)bound traffic lanes of a highway bypass southeast of the City of Martin. > > Francis Marion Baldridge, the youngest son of Daniel Baldridge, was born in Orange County, North Carolina, on 3 August 1785. By the early 1800s, he had migrated westward to Davidson and Rutherford Counties in Middle Tennessee. On 21 November 1811, he married Frances Dickey(b. 20 Aug 1792) in Rutherford County, where all of their nine children were later born; James Henderson(25 Aug 1812 - 5 Apr 1902), Melinda Caroline(10 Sep 1813 - ? ), Ira J.(16 Feb 1817 - ? ), Catherine Minerva(10 Feb 1819 - 5 Jul 1899), Mary Logue(25 Mar 1821 - ? ), Francis Marion Jr.(25 Sep 1822 - ? ), Eliza(ca 1827 - ? ), Rebecca Jane(ca 1832 - ? ), Margaret M.(4 Dec 1835 - 6 Aug 1859). It was with this family that Daniel Baldridge apparently lived from about 1811 until about 1822, when he left to occupy his land grant in Weakley County. > > In about the early 1840s, Francis Marion Baldridge, with his wife and younger children, moved from Rutherford County, Tennessee, to Clinton County, Illinois, where he died on 11 October 1847. Frances (Dickey) Baldridge died on 29 October 1874 in Benton County, Arkansas, on land granted to her for her husbands military service in the War of 1812. > > Their oldest son, James Henderson Baldridge married Elizabeth J. Todd(b. ca 1815, TN) in about 1833 in Rutherford County and became the parents of eight children; Elmira J.(ca 1834 - 1 May 1880), William T.(ca 1837 - 18 Apr 1909), John P.(ca 1838 - ? ), Francis Frank(ca 1840 - ? ), James Smith(17 Sep 1843 - 21 Jun 1922), Edmund Todd E.T.(20 Nov 1844 - 20 Oct 1920), Lucinda Lucy(ca 1846 - ? ), Mary Elizabeth(ca 1849 - ? ). Elizabeth (Todd) Baldridge died in Rutherford County in about 1853. > > James Henderson Baldridge married his second wife, Mary Brogden(ca 1829, NC - ca 1877, TN), on 15 September 1857, either when still living in Rutherford County or shortly after moving westward to Madison County. By 1861, they had moved to adjacent Gibson County, where they spent the remainder of their married life. They were the parents of at least seven children; Benjamin Brogden(ca 1858 - ? ), George Luckey(31 Mar 1861 - 11 Oct 1920), Robert H.(ca 1863 - ? ), Edith(ca 1865 - ? ), twins Virginia Tennessee(13 Mar 1868 - 20 Mar 1923) and Julius H.(13 Mar 1868 - ? ), Luther Caldwell(1870 - ? ). > > Mary (Brogden) Baldridge died in about 1877 in Gibson County. The Census evidences that by 1880 James Henderson Baldridge (age 79) had moved with his younger children to Crockett County: George Luckey (age 19); Robert H. (age 17); Frances (Edith ?) (age 15); twins, Virginia Tennessee (age 12) and Julius H. (age 12); and Luther Caldwell (age 9). > > An article published in the Rutherford Courier on 23 May 1882 describing old landmarks around Yorkville in Gibson County noted that The old brick chimney at the old homestead of James H. Baldridge, the first brick chimney built between Trenton and Little Rock, Arkansas, is still standing... > > James Henderson Baldridge died in Crockett County on 5 April 1902 and is buried in Section 3 of the Alamo Cemetery. An inscription on his tombstone reads simply, Only Sleeping. > > At the time of the 1860 Census, Edmund Todd E.T. Baldridge, (then age 16) was living in the household of his father and step-mother, James Henderson Baldridge and Mary (Brogden) Baldridge, in Madison County, Tennessee. > > E.T. enlisted in the Civil War in the summer of 1863, being formally inducted when he and other new recruits were organized into a company on 20 July 1863 at Gadsden in Madison County (now in Crockett County). He served as a private in Company B, 14th(Neelys) Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, Confederate States Army, under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest. During the final almost two years of the war, E.T. participated in numerous battles in southwestern Tennessee, northern Mississippi and Alabama ( including Pontotoc and Old Salem in Mississippi; Sulphur Trestle, Britain Lane, Athens and Huntsville in Alabama; Estenaula, Collierville and Pittsburg Landing in Tennessee). Having been cut off from his unit by Federal forces while detailed as a scout shortly before cessation of hostilities in early 1865, E. T. responded to a general surrender order and turned himself in at Brownsville, Tennessee, where he was paroled as a prisoner of war on 31 May 1865. > > On 27 February 1868, E. T. married Amanda T. Mendy Fisher(23 May 1849 - 22 Feb 1880), and they lived most of their 12 years of married life farming in Gibson County, Tennessee. They were the parents of probably five children; Walter Lee(1868 - 1952), Thomas Oliver(24 Dec 1871, Gibson Co., TN - 23 Oct 1938, Shelby Co, TN), James Earl Early (4 June 1874 - 14 Jan 1933), Leroy(b. 1876), Susan A.(b. 1878). > > Amanda (Fisher) Baldridge died in Gibson County on 22 February 1880 at the young age of 30 years and is buried at Good Hope Methodist Church Cemetery which is located on Currie Road a few miles southwest of Dyer, Gibson County, Tennessee. Census records of 1880 suggest that, very soon after the death of their mother, the two younger children, Leroy (age 4) and Susan (age 2) went to live in the nearby household of their maternal grandparents, Thomas Henry Fisher and Elizabeth (Featherson) Fisher. > > On 26 September 1883, E. T. married his second wife, Elizabeth Bettie Worrell(b. 1847, TN), and they were the parents of at least two children, including Hattie(1886 - 1919) and Dora( ? - ? ). Susan, his daughter by his first wife, apparently rejoined her father after he remarried. E.T. and Bettie, with their then three daughters, were farming near Trenton in Gibson County as late as 1907 This family moved later to Crockett County, where Elizabeth (Worrell) Baldridge died in 1915. Civil War pension records note that in 1919 E.T. and one remaining daughter were living in the area of Alamo in Crockett County. > > Edmund Todd Baldridge died of septicemia (blood poisoning) on 20 October 1920 in Crockett County. He and his second wife, Elizabeth Bettie (Worrell) Baldridge(d. 1915), are buried in the cemetery of Cypress Methodist Church which is located at the intersection of Clint Warren Road and Cypress Church Road about three miles southeast of Alamo. > > E.T.s oldest son, Walter Lee Baldridge(1868 - 1952), married Claude M. Orr(1875 - 1953), and they lived out their lives in Gibson County, where they were the parents of two children; James Robert(1899 - 1980) and Marian(1902 - 1946). Walter and Claude (Orr) Baldridge are buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Dyer, TN. > > James Earl Baldridge(4 Jun 1874 - 14 Jan 1933), E.T.s third son, never married and lived his last years in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, where he was employed as a security guard in a bank. He died of myocarditis and is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis. > > Thomas Oliver Baldridge(24 Dec 1871 - 23 Oct 1938), E.T.s second son, moved from Gibson County to Memphis,Shelby County, in about 1894. He made his living as a salesman of industrial leather goods (machinery drive belts, etc.). In about 1898, he married Estelle Meyer(7 Feb 1872 - 19 Oct 1925), and they became the parents of seven children, all born in Memphis; Arthur E.(22 Jul 1899 - 28 Sep 1959), James Meyer Mike(ca 1900 - 2 Mar 1954), Henry David(16 May 1902 - 18 Jun 1969), Irma Ardell(17 Aug 1904 - 3 Mar 1997), Bernice E.(14 Sep 1905 - 13 Jan 1986), Thomas O., Jr.(19 Jan 1907 - 16 Dec 1985), Kahn R.(19 Jan 1909 - 8 Dec 1991). > > Estelle (Meyer) Baldridge died of complications from gall bladder surgery. Thomas Oliver Baldridge was fatally injured by an automobile while crossing a street near his home in Memphis. Both are buried at the Jewish Cemetery in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee. > > Ref: Kennedy, Chester C. (1993). Our Baldridge Forbears and Some of Their Collateral Lines, 2nd Ed., privately published, The Kennedy Library of Konowa, Inc., Route 1, Box 3, Konawa, OK 74849-9602. > > Respectfully submitted by a grandson of Thomas Oliver Baldridge, Sr. > Henry David Baldridge, Jr. > hdbjr@mindspring.com > . > > > This is an automatically-generated notice. > > <http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tn/GibsonBios?admin> >