The Family Garden

Notes


Richard Allen MCCAIN

In the Fall of 1836 just after moving to Marshall County, Mississippi from Madison County, Mississippi, Richard was sitting under a tree on his property using a turkey caller he had carved out of bone when a man down in the draw mistook him for a turkey and shot him.  They buried him under that tree in a wooden coffin lined with cotton and bleaching (undyed muslin).  His grave was then covered with sandstones, apparently to keep wild animals from digging him up, being as it was 1836 and the area yet pretty much unsettled.  There is now a cemetery where he was buried and, although the tree is now gone, the pile of sandstones is still there in the middle of the Cemetery at the Methodist Church in what is now Bethlehem, Mississippi.  
Two years after his death the young man who shot him married the Widow McCane.

Source:  Internet

Posted by Sammie Townsend Lee on 26 Sep 1998:
"Researching the ancestry and descendants of Richard Allen CAIN b ca 1810 MS and his wife Nancy Caroline MCCAULEY b ca 1815 MS. They arrived in Marshall Co immediately after the Indian cession. He died there in an accidental shooting in Aug 1836."
----------------------
Source for the following:  Selvage and Peterson Families and More
Charles J. Peterson

Marshall County, Mississippi, Probate and Will Records, p. 2. Page 23 of Wills and Marriages 1836-1839. Jonathan D. Cain appointed administrator of the estate of Richard Allen Cain. John D. Barker, bondsman. 1 january 1837.

Marshall County, Mississippi, Probate and Will Records, p. 10. Page 157 of Wills and Marriages 1836-1839. Samuel McCawley appointed administrator of the estate of Richard A. Cain. John W. Jernigan and Gordentia Waite, bondsmen, 23 April 1839.

The Old Stone Grave in the Methodist Church Cemetery Where Lies Richard Allen McCane, manuscript in the McCauley genealogy folder, Marshall County Library, Holly Springs, Mississippi. The oldest grave in the Methodist Church Cemetery at Bethleham is an unmarked crypt of sandstone, underwhich lies Richard Allen McCane. According to family tradition, he was buried at the spot where he was accidentally shot while hunting turkeys. In 1859 two acres of the family property was conveyed to the Methodist Episcopal Church which had by then been established on the land together with a cemetery.

Sammie Townsend Lee, post to Marshall County Query Forum, 26 September 1998. Richard Allen Cain arrived in Marshall County immediately after the Indian cession. Parents believed to be William and Nancy Cain.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It seems Richard McCane was sitting under a tree calling turkeys with a turkey caller carved out of bone. It was fall 1836. A 19 year old down in the draw thought it was a turkey up there and shot, killing poor Richard. He was buried under that tree, which was located on his own land, and his grave was covered with sandstones. That was the first burial in what became Bethlehem Cemetery in Bethlehem, Marshall Co., Mississippi. He left a 21 year old widow who was heavy with her 5th child. The young man who shot Richard Allen McCane married the young widow two years later and had 7 children by her. She was Nancy Caroline McCauley McCane. He was John W. Jernigan. They later moved to Pontotoc Co., MS.  Note: John W. Jernigan was the son of Thomas Jernigan and Nancy Diggs from Anson Co., NC and later Henry Co., TN. The family had moved to Marshall Co., MS about a year before this event happened.
Source:  Internet


Nancy Caroline MCCAULEY

Ancestral File LDS FHC:  Nancy was the eldest child of Samuel McCauley and Rebecca Burch McCauley.  She apparently married at age 14 to Richard Allen McCane (Cain). She was widowed at 21 when she was about 6/7 months pregnant with her 5th child, when her husband was accidently shot and killed while turkey hunting at what is now the cemetery at the Methodist Church in Bethlehem, Marshall County, Mississippi.  Two years later she married John W. Jernigan who was the man who had shot her husband Richard.  She had 7 more children with John.
Children by Richard McCane:
William Oscar Cain b. 8 Sep 1830
Rebecca Cain b. 17 Feb 1832 m. William Crownover 14 Feb 1849 Marshall County, Mississippi.
Nancy Carolyn Cain b. 17 Apr 1834 m. James McGuire 4 May 1851 Marshall County, Mississippi
Samuel Cain b. 14 Aug 1835 m. Sarah McGuire 14 Aug 1855 Marshall County, Mississippi
Richard A. Cain b. 3 Jan 1837 2 months after his fathers untimely death.

Children by John Jernigan:
(These as stated in 1850 Census for Marshall County, Mississippi mfp 264)
Sarah E. Jernigan b. about 1840
George W. Jernigan b. abt 1842
Thomas Jernigan b. abt 1843
Jesse Jernigan b. abt 1845
Wiley A. Jernigan b. abt 1847
Winnifred A. Jernigan b. abt 1848 (listed on Census as Male)
All the Jernigan children born in Marshall County, Mississippi
Marriages listed in Marshall County for Jernigans:
Caroline to Charles Owen 10 Mar 1862
Sarah to John Cade 27 July 1864
----------------------------------
Source for the following:  Selvage and Peterson Families and More
Charles J. Peterson

Marshall County, Mississippi, Probate and Will Records, p. 5. Wills and Marriages 1836-1839, 22 October 1838, Nancy Cain appointed guardian of the heirs of Richard A. Cain: William, Rebecca I., Nancy C., Samuel M., and Richard Allen Cain, all minors.

Marshall County, Mississippi, Probate and Will Records, pp. 25 and 80. Probate Court Minutes, Vol. 2, 1840-1845. Petition 27 December 1841 for dower by John W. Jernigan and Nancy  Jernigan, widow of Richard A. Cain. Also page 474 of the Records of the Probate Court, Vol. 2, 1839-1842.

Marshall County, Mississippi, Probate and Will Records, p. 161. Records of the Probate Court, Vol. 9, 1852-1854, p. 251. Setember 1852. Petition to sell land of Richard A. Cain by widow Nancy, now wife of John W. Jernigan. Daughters Rebecca J.,  wife of Wm. Crounouer, and Nancy C., wife of James McGuin. Sons William, Samuel M., and Richard A. Cain.

The Old Stone Grave in the Methodist Church Cemetery Where Lies Richard Allen McCane, manuscript in the McCauley genealogy folder, Marshall County Library, Holly Springs, Mississippi. On 14 July 1868 Nancy Jernigan petitioned the Pontotoc  County, Mississippi, court to be removed from co-administrator of the estate of John W. Jernigan, deceased. Children listed were (adults)  Sarah E. Woods, G.W. Jernigan, J.H. Jernigan and those under age Wiley A. Jernigan, Winneford A. Jernigan, and Mary F. Jernigan.


Pryor Richard GARRETT Jr

Independence, AR Marriages:

Garreatt, Prier, 19, to Margret E. Wine, 23, 24 Jan. 1867, by E. Dicus, JP,
C-214
~~~~~~~~~~~
1880 Collin County, Texas Census (copy in files)
Garrett, Priett , age 31, Farmer, born in Arkansas, parents born in
    Kentucky
   Margaret, age 32, wife, keeping house, born in Iowa, parents
       born in ??
    Albert, age 13, son, born in Arkansas, father born in Arkansas,
       mother born in Iowa
    Wines, Eli, age 18, son, born in Missouri, father born in ?,                           
      Simmons, Melvina, 24, sister, b. in Missouri, parents born in Iowa
~~~~~~~~~~~
Death Certificate
Occupation:  Retired Farmer
Birthplace:  Batesville, AR
Age:  69 years and 13 days
Father:  Prior Garrett born in Kentucky
Mother:  Vice Ann Statton born in Kentucky
Date of death:  12 Dec 1915
Cause of death:  Brights Disease
Plano, TX
Buried in city cemetary
(Copy in files)
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Marriage Certificate (copy in files)
Prier Gareatt to Margret E. Wine

Pr. Gareatt age 19 and Margret E. Wine age 23  dated 27 Jan 1867, Independence, AR
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Plano Town, Collin County, State of Texas 1900 Census
(Copy in my father's files provided by Ann Daberko)

Garrett, Pryor R.  Head of household B. Nov 1845, age 54, married
Birthplace of this person:  Arkansas
Birthplace of mother:  Kentucky
Birthplace of father:  Kentuckey

Magaret, wife, b. June 1846, age 53, married
Birthplace of this person:  Iowa
Birthplace of father:  Illinois
Birthplace of mother:  Iowa

Sarah, daughter-in-law, b. July 1876, age 23, widow
Birthplace of this person:  Georgia
Birthplace of mother:  Tennessee
Birthplace of father:  Georgia

Maggie, Grandaughter, b. Jul 1893, age 6
Birthplace of this person:  Texas
Birthplace of father:  Arkansas
Birthplace of mother:  Georgia

Wines, Eliza, daughter, b. June 1872, age 27, widow
Birthplace of this person:  Texas
Birthplace of father:  Arkansas
Birthplace of mother:  Texas

Sallie, grandaughter, b. Nov 1887, age 12
Birthplace of this person:  Texas
Birthplace of father:  Missouri
Birthplace of mother:  Texas

Laura, Grandaughter, b. Sep 1889, age 10
Birthplace of this person:  Texas
Birthplace of father:  Missouri
Birthplace of mother:  Texas

Ida, grandaughter, b. Setp 1894, age 5
Birthplace of this person:  Texas
Birthplace of father:  Missouri
Birthplace of mother:  Texas
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Copy of Guarantee from Cole Bros. & Johnson, Dealers in Lightning Rods, Sherman, TX  (dated 14 Apr 1891):
Mr. J. T. Staples & Co having errected in good order, our improved Franklin Lightning Rod, on the property belonging to P. R. Garrett......Document guarantees to protect covered buildings from all damage by lightning for 10 years or pay damages of up to $1000.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
The State of Texas
County of Collin

Know al men by these presents that I, John A. Felker of the aforesaid County and Stte have for and in consideration of the Sum of eleven hundred dollars, Secured to me by two certain Promissory notes bearing date herewith; first note for five hundred and fifty dollars due & Payable on the 25th day of December 1884 bearing 10 percent interest per annum from date; 2nd note for five hundred and fifty dollars due & Payable on the 25th day of December 1885 and bearing one percent interest per month from date bargained and sold and do by these presents grant, sell, release and convey unto Prior R. Garrett of the aforesaid County and State the following described tract of land in said County on Whiterock Creek and a part of the Mary Ann Taylor Survey............containing fifty three acres of Land Together With all the rights ___ ___ ___ and appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise incident or appertanning to have and tohold the Same the Said Prior Garrett to himself, his heirs or assignes forever and I, the said John A. Felker further gree to warrant and forever defend the title to the Same against the claim or claims of any an all persons claiming the same of any part thereof.  
    Witness My hand this February 11th, 1884.  

The State of Texas
County of Collin

Before the undersigned authority this day Personally appeared John A. Felker, to me known to be ther person whose name appears  to the foregoing Deed and acknowledges that he signed Said Deed for the Purposes and Considerations therin States.  
   Witness My official Signature and Seal of office this Feby 11th 1884.
    __J. Vance, J. P.
    Exofficio Notary Public Collin County, Texas.
(copy in files)
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Funeral Notice, Plano Star-Courier, 17 Dec 1915
P. R. GARRETT DEAD
    P. R. Garrett, aged seventy-nine years, and as old and respected resident of Plano, died at his home in the southwest part of the city at a late hour Sunday evening.  
     He was, for several years before his death an invalid, but on a few occaisions was able to leave his room and go about his home.
He leaves a wife and a number of grandchildren, but all his children preceded him to the long sleep.
    The funeral, conducted by Rev. M. L. Fuller, was conducted at the city cemetery at 2 p.m. where the burial took palce.  The deceased was a communicant of the Baptist faith, and was a good man whose death is deeply delpored.  The Star-Courier extends its sympathy to the bereaved wife and grandchildren.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
NOTES FROM MY FATHER'S GENEALOGY RECORDS (SAM HOUSTON GRAVES):

    Tradition has it that Prior Richard Garrett was a riverboat captain on the White River in Arkansas before their move to Texas.  It was obvious that they moved to Texas with enough funds to buy two farms and an extensive area of Plano, and a farm in Denton Co, TX.  Most of this property was sold after Prior's death, or taken by Mr. Sheppard as executor of the estate.  Some of the property was sold to satisfy doctors and undertakers and Margaret Ray's lawsuit.  She was the daughter of Albert Garrett (son of Prior and Margaret).  
    In line with his being a riverboat captain, he was a user of strong language.  However, all the Garrett's cussed and would fight at the drop of a hat and sometimes with the blink of an eye.  Little Granny (Prior's wife) had the ladies from her church over for High Tea one evening and remonstrated Prior for his strong language.  His reply was:  "Dammit to hell baby, who's cussing?"
   Prior could not read or write.  There are several copies of checks obviously signed by different people with different spellings of his name and in different handwriting.  Prior had a unique method of keeping up with the amount of his checks.  One example shows a check written in the amount of $28.50.  Prior made twenty-eight lines on the check and one line has a cross to denote the 50 cents.  I have no idea how he denoted any other change amounts.  Every check for Prior has the amount marked in this fashion.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Probate of His Will
As noted in my father's comments above, it has long been the family story that the lawyers and doctor fleeced Margaret Garrett, widow of Pryor, when they probated his estate.  Another part of the story is that her grandaughter, Margaret Garrett Ray took part in the stripping of the estate.  Through my cousin, Annie Daberko, I have recently obtained all the existing papers from the probate files in McKinney, Collin County,  Texas.  After some time spent examining them, it is pretty clear that this family story, sadly, has substantial facts to back it up.  Mr. Shepard, the estate administrator profited quite hansomely from the estate, and Margaret Ray took more than her fair share of the proceeds, and it appears, true to family lore, that Mr. Shepard and Margaret Ray left "Little Granny" owning a couple of pieces of property, the least valuable of the estate, and no cash whatsoever to live on.


Margaret Esther SIMMONS

Documents in my possession:

DEATH CERTIFICATE
Age:  82 years, 6 months, 1 day
Name of father:   Charles Simmons
Name of mother:  Elizabeth Schofield
Cause of death:  Influenze,  Pneumonia
~~~~~~~~
MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
Prier Garreatt to Margaret E. Wine date 24 Jan 1867, Independence Co, AR
~~~~~~~~
FUNERAL NOTICE
Mrs. Margaret Garett Passes Away on Monday
Mrs. Margaret Simmons Garrett, age 82 years, wife of the late P. R. Garrett, passed away at the home of her grandaughter, Mrs. Frank Stewart, in this city,  Monday afteroon at 3:45 o'clock.

She was born in Iowa June 13, 1846.  She was a daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Simmons.  Her parents came to this country from across the waters.  The family moved to Missouri when Margaret was only a small child of 6 or 7 years.  She did  not receive much schooling due to the upheavals and trouble immediately before the Civil war.  They later moved to Arkansas.

The deceased was first married to Alex Wines before the Civil War.  To this union, one son, Eli, who has since passed to his reward.  In the last year of the war, Mr. Wines was killed by Northern "bushwhackers".  Later she married P. R. Garrett.  To this union was born one son, Albert who died in 1899.

Surviving are: three granddaughters, Mesdames Frank Stewart of Plano, Coy Harris of Fort Worth and Harry Houston of Vernon,  a number of great-granchildren and one great-great grandchild, Magaline Graves, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Graves of this city; one half-sister, Mrs. Rhode Aires of Kansas City; two daughter-in-laws, Mesdames S. M Joyce of Mesquite and Wiser Girley of Vernon.

HARDSHIPS DURING THE WAR
A few incidents at random that Mrs. Garrett was able to recall of her youth and later life were:

The affray in which Mr. Wines was killed took place during the later years of the war.  It seems that Mr. Wines was at home on a furlough when he was discovered by Northern "bushwhackers".  They first shot his horse from under him and then proceeded to take his life.  He managed to crawl to a home where he was discovered by his spouse later.

In 1862, the family suffered many hardships.  At one time, they were without food for three days.  They managed to find some corn that they might purchase for the sum of $25 per bushel.  This they ground with the aid of rocks at a place ten miles from home.  They carried it on their backs to the home where it was utilized for food.  Salt was a scarcity in those days of suffering and sorrow and the family was without any flavoring until they discovered some rocks of salt in an old forsaken place.  They managed to wash out the salt and then sold it to the Northerners at a rate of $1.00 a pound.

It is said that when Mr. Wines was killed his burial was made by two women.  Going out and getting pine boards and making his coffin, they then carried the body into the mountains where it was buried.  

At another time, a friend of the family was at breakfast.  A group of Northerns called him out of the house.  When aked if he had said his prayers that morning, he answered "Yes" and they immediately shot him.

FAMILY RECORDS LOST
It seems that Mrs. Garrett's family had left Missouri with such haste that the family records were lost.  They started for Texas in wagons with the oxen as locomotive power.  On the way, they we attacked by the Northern scounts and their animals taken, leaving only an old horse to them.  The food was taken the the good ransacked.  Their lives were in al probabilities saved by the timely appearance of Quantrell and his men, who later took care of the family.  They saw Quantrells followers burn a town near the scene of their attack and witnessed the attempts to save wares out of the stores by those interested.

On reaching Texas, the family settled in Dallas county near the site on which Dallas now stands.  There were two stores in the place then.  Mrs. Garrett took her eggs and produce to the store of one Dave Rainwater, which stood on the banks of the Trinity river.

Later they moved to Plano.  A home was built, one room of which is still standing.  Only a mill was the start of what is now our progressive little city.

PLANO HISTORY
Mrs. Garrett was in Plano during its several times to burn, and recalled many incidents which happened during these conflagrations. She was on the outskirts of the cyclone which swept south Plano a number of years ago.  Their home had the windows broken, and the doors torn from the hinges and otherwise badly damaged, but it seems that they escaped the worst of the blow.

At the time Mr. and Mrs. Garrett came to Texas, they engaged in farming until Mr. Garrett's health failed.  Also of note on the trip to Texas was the meeting with Indians.  A girl was captured by the Indians in Clay County and scalped.

Mrs. Garrett's mother passed away eight years ago at the surprising age of 105 years, 7 months and 13 days.  

Mrs. Garrett joined the church under the ministry of Dr. R. C. Buckner, who established the Buckner Orphan's Home near Dallas.

Funeral services were held at the family home Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock, conducted by Rev. A. L. Leake.  Interment followed in the City Cemetery.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Memories of Ada Auline (Susie) Steward Graves Dunaway
From an oral interview by her son, Sam Houston Graves
(Originally transcribed from tape by Ann Daberko on 11 Nov 1980).
(Notes from me for clarification are included in brackets - Linda Graves Walker).  These stories were told to Susie as she grew up by Margaret Wines Garrett.  Margaret was her great-grandmother and she lived until Susie was 23, so these stories stuck with her for all her life.  These events took place during the Civil War.

Sam:  Tell me all you know about Little Granny (Margaret Wines Garrett).

Susie:  Sam, I'd be talking until next week.

Sam:  That's ok, talk until next week even if I have to go get some more tapes.  

Susie:  I remember the woman's first name was Drucilla, her husband and Grandpa Wines was in the same division.  And they {Margaret Wines and Drucilla} would follow around as close to the army as they could get, so they {their husbands} could come home and see them more often.  She {Margaret} felt like if she had stayed at home, he {Alex Wines} wouldn't have been killed.  She was young and wanted to be with him, so she followed around close by.  He had come in that day and {she} was fixing to go the mill to get some corn ground.  He told her no, to stay there and he would do it for her.  She didn't want him to, but he went anyway.  And he didn't come home, and didn't come home and didn't come home, so they figured trouble, so they went to look for him.  They went to the mill, this old German who owned the mill told them he {Alex} hadn't been there.  So, her girlfriend {Drucilla} had carried some grain back in there and she found him and called her and when she went back there, he was laying back across a sack of grain with an old hen sitting on his breast a'cackling.  And the German's 2 daughters were down there dancing and having a party.  So {Margaret} and Drucilla and some more women had to build a box and bury him.  They didn't have any coffins, they just took some boards and built a box and then they wrapped him in sheets or blankets or what.  {Margaret was born in 1846. We don't know what year she and Alex Wines were married, but if it were before the war, she would have been 13 or 14.  Hard to imagine a young girl traipsing about the country following her husband during the Civil War!}

Sam:  Tell me about her feather bed.

Susie:  These guys came along and looted their house, took everything they wanted outside, they were Cantrell's Raiders, and when they had done that, she didn't have anything for the baby to sleep on {Eli Wines}, and so they set her house on fire and she went in and got her feather bed and brought it out.  The guys threw it back in again, and she went back in again and brought it out again.  A corner of the feather bed was on fire and she put it out.  The commanding officer said if she didn't have any better sense than to go in a burning building to get a feather bed, let her have it.  So, he let her keep it.  

Sam:  Do you know where her house was?

Susie:  Somewhere, she was still following around after the Army.

Sam:  What about the gal they tried to make tell where her husband was?  

Susie:  She was expecting {a baby} and expecting her husband {to come home} and had a little brother about 7 years old I guess, who stayed with her and her old …..Mammy.  When these raiders came up there, the little boy slipped off thru the cornfield to head her husband off and warn him the raiders were there and waiting for him.  So, they {the raiders} tried to make her tell where he {her husband} was and she couldn't tell them because she didn't know.  {While the raiders were there, she gave birth}. So, the raiders, they took this newborn baby and held it over the fire and she got out of bed and was fighting with them to try to save her baby.  They burned the baby to death and when Little Granny {Margaret Wines} and Drucilla got there, the old …..Mammy was sitting there with her in her arms and she was dead holding her little dead baby.

Susie:  And in their wanderings around, she didn't have any hair pins to pin her hair up with, so she would get thorns off of the thorn bushes and pin their hair up with them thorns.  And they saw some deer and cows licking the ground, so they went to see and discovered it had been a salt warehouse.  The salt was still on the ground and some places it was enough they could rake it up.  They raked up all they could and then made a slose box and got a kettle and they would run this salt and dirt through this slose box and the salty water would come down off the dirt.  They would boil it down and get the salt out.  Then, they sold the salt for $10 and $15 a pound.  They didn't have enough transportation to ship salt around like now.  Said they had to eat food without salt for so long, when they first got salt, they boiled water and made salty water and drank it, they were so hungry for salt.  

Sam:  Do you now some more?

Susie:  I guess I could think up a bunch, but these stories always stuck in my mind.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Notes from descendent Annie Lester Daberko:
She was known by all as "Little Granny".  Story is she was under 5 ft tall.  In 1916, her second husband died and she lived the rest of her life with her granddaughter (Sallie Ann Wines Steward) and husband.  

She was saved by the Rev. Buckner who started Buckner's Orphan's Home.  After Pryor died, her grandaughter, Margaret Ester Garrett Ray sued her for everything Pryor owned.  It drug out in the courts until Little Granny was left with nothing.  On her death bed, she called her great-grandaughter to her side and made her promise never to marry a Yankee.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Source of notes below:  Oral interview with Madge Dunaway and Sam Graves, 1993, by Ann Daberko:

On Maple Avenue is where Mommy fried Poppy's oysters for him; only she didn't see too well and rolled those oysters in sugar instead of flour.  Well, you put damp oysters covered with sugar in hot grease and you've got nothing but boil over.  

Mommy used to go down there and take the scraps of the lining of the inside of the casket and that's what he pieced her quilt tops out of and they were so soft and washed good and there was 1 quilt left and I don't know where it got off to, but that stuff lasted for years and years and years.  It was gray and pink.  And the tops were always so soft because back then fabrics weren't, they were always harsh, they were cotton and they had so much starch to them.  She would get the stuff that looked like fur and velvet and then the satin.  The pink and gray stuff was what they covered the casket with cause they were made out of wood and then they had satin or the fluffy stuff on the inside.

After he husband was killed, (Eli Wines) some Yankee soldiers came along and she shot one, the others ran away.  He rolled down the hill to a creek and he way laying down there moaning and groaning and hollering he wanted some water and she went down there and kicked him in the water and told him to drink you s.o.b.  Well, if you walked up and found your husband laying on a sack of ground meal with a chicken cackling and pecking at him and he was dead, you might have enough too.  And you went to stay with a lady that just got through having a baby and the Yankees came in and asked her where her husband was and she told them she didn't know and they took that newborn baby and stuck it on the end of bayonet and held it over the fireplace until it burned up and the lady went into hysterics and hemorrhaged to death and died.  

The Story of the Feather Bed:
She was following her husband through some state, no telling which one, and she had Eli with her and he was just a baby, and she had a feather bed mattress.  She slept in this empty house one night and here come the Yankees, "the blue bellies"; that's what they called them when I was a kid.  They set the house on fire and she came running out with Eli and the feather bed.  One of the soldiers grabbed the bed and through it back in the house; she ran back in and brought it out again; the soldier grabbed in and threw it back in the house and she went right back in and got it again.  The Yankee in charge of the detail finally called out and said if she wants it that bad, let have it before she burns herself to death.

The Cantrell Story:
When Little Granny came down from Missouri, the Yankees attacked the wagon train she was in and they burned up almost everything and took all their food and was planning on killing them.  The only thing that saved them was the guy that everybody screams and yells and complains about, but only because the Yankees won the war, Cantrell is the one that saved them.  
Yes, he was.  They did steal everything they had.  Left them with one mule and they took all of their clothes and food and everything else and they would have starved to death if Cantrell hadn't come along.  But, he came along and got them and found what town in Missouri the Yankees were quartered at and he went up there and burned the town down and killed all the Yankees.  He killed all the men period in that town.

The few saved possessions:
That's the reason I thought it was so strange that she brought that little cup.  Little Granny said it was from a big punch set with a big bowel and all the cups and everything got destroyed, but she saved that one little punch cup.  She also saved that one little yellow rose bush.  It's so strange what you would save, in all that, she saved it and it was sitting in the corner at Plano, it was there when we moved, it bloomed every year.  (As of 1993, the cup was in the possession of a great-great-great grandaughter).


Absolom STRATTON

Places of residence: Amherst Co. Va, Simpson Co. Ky
Occupation: Farmer
Ky Tax list Simpson Co. 1819-1847. Absolom is alive 1830. Deceased by 17 Sept 1831.
1825 Court records in Simpson Co. Ky show Absolom and Celia.  Court doc destroyed.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
V. ABSOLOM STRATTON came from Virginia and settled in Kentucky in the early part of the nineteenth century.  In 1781 he was a Revolutionary soldier, and the war records at Richmond show that he was granted a pension.  Among his descendants the belief is current  that he was born in New Jersey; that he came from Virginia to Kentucky in company with five brothers, four of whom stopped in northern Kentucky, while one went on to Tennessee.

Absolom settled in Simpson County (orginally Warren Co). He married a Miss Ennis, in Virginia, on 16 Dec 1805. After her death he married Celia (Graham) Logan, in Kentucky, in 1822.  He was a farmer, and worked also at the carpenter's trade.  He belonged to the Baptist church.  If he was brought up a Quaker he must have lost his birthright in the society when he became a soldier.  He died in Simpson County, about 1831.  Three years after his death his widow married Zachariah Morris, a Baptist minister, and was again left a widow  in 1848.  Later she went to Texas and died at the home of her son, in the spring of 1867, aged about 72 years.

*Source:  "A Book Of Strattons", Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by Harriet Russell Stratton, copyright 1908, Vol I, pp 297-298
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This family was filed and approved into the Daughters of the American Revolution, #A779 #558584 and approved March 1997 by Frances Stratton.  
*Source:  Swanee@amaonline.com
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Absolom Stratton land grant certificate #2284 for 200 acres in Warren Co, KY on waters of Drakes Creek.  
Source:  Ann Daberko via Ed Phelps
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
copies of documents in my possession:

Warren KY, Court Records 1797-1812

Page 75  Bill of Sale from John INNIS to Absalom Stratten and wife Winny Stratten, for $2.00, negro children Sarah and Tom.


Winnie ENNIS

It is believed that Winnie named all her girls with the middle name "Ann" after her mother.  *Source:  swanee@amaonline.com


Albert GARRETT

Married to Sarah ----, born in 1876 in Georgia.  They had one daughter Maggie Garrett born July 1893 in Collin Co, TX.  Maggie is found on the 1900, Plano, TX census (document in my possession) with Pryor Garrett Jr and is listed as grandaughter.  Age listed as 6.

Document in my possession:  Funeral Home record:

Deceased:  Albert Garrett
Born:  Nov 11, 1867
Died:  Oct 9, 1899
Epitaph:  Gone from our home but not forgotten from our hearts.
Residence:  Plano, TX in town

Other handwritten notes on the above record:
Received four dollars and fifty cents $4.50 on written note
Received ten dollars $10.00 on written note
Received 2.00 (could be $20.00 - hard to read)
calf pasture
cash

I have no idea why calf pasture is written, unless it was used as partial payment for funeral services?


John ENNIS

From "The Minutes of the Selectmen of the Town of Boston"
John Ennis arrived in America on the 25th of June 1716 at the port of Boston on the passenger carrying ship Globe, along with 28 other passengers that sailed from Dublin, Ireland.  John's occupation was listed as currier.  A currier was a craftsman who treats animal skins with oil or grease.  It is not known who John married, but he had one son John Jr., who became well known, as a man of influence and position in the Old Dominion (VA).

Listed on the 1810 census of Warren Co, KY
John Enniss  00101-00101-01  pg 257

Warren County, KY History:
The Ennis family joined the caravan of wagons that left Amhurst, Co, VA in 1805 for Warren Co, KY.  This migration westward included the families of Ennis, Campbell, Page, Martin, Swinney, Edmonds, Allcock, Stratton and others.
*Source:  Ann Daberko via Ed Phelps

Name closely associated with Co. Kildare.  As early as 1659 it was found frequently on the census.  The Ennis family suffered under the Cromwellian and Williamite regimes.  In 1642 three of the names were attainted "two of Grenagh, Co. Wicklow, one of Hacketstown, Co. Carlow, and also James Ennis, of Claine, Co. Kildare".  A "Lt. James Ennis was a Royalist soldier of note of that time.  In the next generation we find John Ennis, who previously risen to the rank of major in the French army as Lt. colonel of Edmond Butler's Infantry Regiment in James II's Irish Army; and following their defeat Edmund Ennis, of Athy, Co. Kildare, was outlawed as a Jacobite".  
*Source:  Supplement to Irish Families by Edward MacLysaght (1964), p. 64-65

Extract from a deed dated 8 July 1762:
A John Mitchell of Great Britain and Andrew Shepherd of Virginia sell to William Dolton Of Albermarle, Fredrickvile Parish (VA) 270 acres....bounded at ENNIS's Corner.....to a Spanish Oak in John ENNIS' line.  
*Source:  Albermarle County Deed Book 3, pp. 190-191

THIS INDENTURE made this 5d of October in year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy three Between DAVID FRAZIER and BARBARA his wife of County of AUGUSTA of one part and JAMES ENNIS of County of Albermarle of other part;  Witnesseth that David Frazer and BARBARY his Wife for Thirty pounds current money of Virginia have granted unto said JAMES ENNIS his heirs one certain tract of Land contianing by supposon Two hundred acres more or Less in Albermarle County on the Brnaches of ROCKEY CREEK bounded beginning at ROCKEY CREEK being a small whie Oake to the Middle Fork to South Fork of ROCKEY CREEK to a small red Oak and thence South East to a knoby white Oak in JAMES MERIDIETHs line, thence along his line North at ROCKY CREEK to a red Oak and two white Oaks and thence North East to the beginning; with all woods houses gardens to said JAMES ENNIS and DAVID FRAZER for himself shall make good right and title when required.  In Witness whereof the sd.
*Source:  Albermarle County Deed Book 6, p. 253-254


Personal Note:  The above could be referring to John Ennis, SR or JR.

Family Lore (from the internet) - note this story is unproven!
John Ennis came across an "english soldier" beating a man for poaching birds, somehow he intervened and as a result, the soldier died.  He is said to have escaped to America with his 3 year old son in about 1730 in order to avoid the repercussions of this act  (an Irishman killing an Englishman).  Another version says that he stowed away on a ship bound for Virginia with his young son, left his wife in Ireland and that his land went to the state since he was considered a crimminal.  Other stories say he was a "Sir" with lands and property.  

From the internet site "Landowners in Co. Westmeath, circa 1870's".  
Listed:  "Sir John Ennis, bart., address Ballynahown, Athlone, owned 8.774 acres."  Family lore says that our immigrant John left vast estates in Ireland, could this be part of his holdings passed down to a descendant or relative?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
NOTES ON THE FOLLOWING:
I printed this from a website a couple of years ago that I can no longer find.  I didn't note the url, and have searched in vain for it.  If anyone knows where it is located, or has a full copy of the affidavits of Willis Lyons Ennis and/or Adeline Ussery and/or can tell me where to get a copy of them, I would very much appreciate it.  

"JAMES ENNIS was the one and only child and heir to all the Towns and Lands of Augha, Cashel, Momrach, Bananarow, Caldragh, Tullaghmore,Kmckullen, Gortnarne, Agapoloo, Killacross, all situated in the Baron of Leitrim, and County of Leitrim..." (Source: Affidavit of Willis Lyons Ennis dated 17 April 1937).
JAMES ENNIS Born at Athlone County Westmeath, Ireland, on or about __dayor 1735." (Source: Affidavit of Willis Lyons Ennis dated 17 April 1937).
"I further state that about the year 1738...SIR JOHN ENNIS...with his son, JAMES, age three fled to the United States of America..."(Source: Affidavit of Willis Lyons Ennis dated 17 April 1937).

"this is my statement as i hav bin teched about my ENNIS ginarasion JOHN ENNIS my grat grat granfather cam from dublin, irlin back in the coln days hee had one son named JIM ENNIS hee had 8 childrn thar nams was MARTN and JHON and WILLIAM an JIM ZACKARIAR an JESSA an JERAMIR an ELISABETH won gir next is our family ZACKRIAR family..."(Source statement of Adeline Ussery dated 10 December 1923).

"MARTIN JHON WILLIAM JAMES J. R. ZACKRIHAR JERAMIRE JESSA an BETSA this in the ENNES childern names of our grat grat gran father..." (Source:Statement of Adeline Ussery dated 10 December 1923).

"I further state that about the year 1738, the said Sir JOHN ENNIS became involved in killing an officer of the law, and with his son JAMES, age three fled to the United States of America, and left his property and lands, and one GEORGE JOHNSTON became possessed of by lease, (dated June 11, 1744).  embracing all lands and property herein before set forth, all situated in the Baron of Leitrim, and county of Leitrim; I further state that SIR JOHN ENNIS and OTHERS brought suit against George Johnston, on said lease dated June 11, 1744, embracing all towns and lands mentioned, and that SIR JOHN ENNIS, being forced to flee to America, never received any financial benefits from said towns and lands, and that upon the death of GEORGE JOHNSTON, in the year 1778, his son ROBERT JOHNSTON entered into and forcefully took possession of, all the lands covered by said lease dated June 11, 1744.  I further state that on December 19th, 1800,the said ROBERT JOHNSTON granted a release of said towns and lands, asset forth in said lease made by SIR JOHN ENNIS to GEORGE JOHNSTON, dated June 11, 1744, to WM SLACK and THOMAS STEWART upon trust to pay the head rent of said lands, an annuity of 46 pounds odd, unto the said ROBERT JOHNSTON, until the debts in the said deed mentioned, should be paid of fand in the next place to pay the debts of said ROBERT JOHNSTON;..."(Source: Affidavit of Willis Lyons Ennis dated 17 April 1937).
"I further depose and say that neither SIR JOHN ENNIS, nor his heirs have ever received any benefits from the towns and lands of Ireland, and that the affidavits affixed hereto are a part hereof." (Source: Affidavit ofWillis Lyons Ennis dated 17 April 1937).

"this is my statement as i hav bin teched about my ENNIS ginarasion JOHN ENNIS my grat grat granfather cam from dublin, irlin back in the colndays hee had one son named JIM ENNIS...(Source Statement of Adeline Ussery, 10 December 1923).

"I further state that JOHN ENNIS, the father of SIR JOHN ENNIS and to this union 2 children, JOHN ENNIS, later known as SIR JOHN ENNIS, as herein before stated, and MARY CATHERINE ENNIS, who was a substantial land holder, at     Warrenpoint, County Down, Ireland, and that the said MARY CATHERINE died intestate, and that her property reverted to what is know as a Dormant intestate." (Source: Affidavit of Willis Lyons Ennis dated 17 April 1937).
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Mary Ann (Polly) RADFORD

On 21 Feb 1803, Samuel Watters married Pollyanna (Anna or Ann) Radford, daughter of Reuben and Elizabeth Hackworth Radford.  Anna Radford was born cica1781 in Virginia.......Samuel Watters is listed as one of the early settlers in the Radford Section of Perry County in 1820.......
Samuel and Anna Radford Watters had 7 children:
1.  Elizabeth b. 1804
2. William b. 1804
3. Reuben b. 1807
4.  George b. 1808
5.  Samuel b. 1814
6.  Joseph b. 1816
7.  James b. 1819
The first 6 were born in Oglethorpe County, Georgia.  Only James was born in Perry County (Alabama).........
In the 1850 census, Anna's mother, Elizabeth Radford, aged 94, is living with her in the town that was named for the Radford family.
*Source:  Extracts from The Heritage of Perry Co., Alabama, Published by:  Heritage Publishig Consultants, Inc, P. O. Box 67, Clanton, AL  35046 in 1999, excerpts are from p. 198


Reuben RADFORD

Reuben was born circa 1754/5 in Virginia.  Very little is known about him in Virginia.  It is thought that he might have served in the Revolutionary War.  He married Elizabeth Hackworth, a Virginian born in 1756.  They lived in the section of Bedford County, VA that became Campbell County in 1782.  Sometime after the birth of Anna, Reuben moved his family to Georgia.  A most interesting record exists relating to this move.  Reuben obtained a passport of sorts dated 9 Oct 1783 stating his intent to travel to the Southern parts of the United States.  This document states that Reuben was acquainted with tobacco farming and had been a resident of Virginia for many years.  It was signed on 21 Oct 1783 by James Calloway, who said that Reuben "supported the character of an honest, industrious, sober man, is a good planter and a fine citizen."  Calloway, had been before 1782, the county-lieutenant of Bedord County.  Calloway states that he had been neighbors with Reuben for many years.  This document shows that Reuben left Virginia around 1783.

   Accompanying Reuben in his move to Georgia, were his sister Julia and his brother Henry.  The first record of Reuben in Wilkes County, GA is in 1785.  He paid 1 poll on 200 acres in Captain Autrey's Militia District.  He was listed 13 entries away from a William Hackworth.  This could be a relative of his wife, Elizabeth Hackworth.  Two more records place Reuben in Wilkes County.  On 15 Oct 1789, he attested a deed for James Hart, and 23 Dec 1789, he attested a deed for Alex Patrick.  

   In 1790, Reuben is recorded as living in Captain Diamond's Militia District, Wilkes County, GA.  He owned 307 acres of land listed as third quality oak and hickory.  He reported owning no slaves.  His brother Henry appeared for the first time in Georgia in the same record.  Henry was listed as a tax defaulter in Harris's Militia District.

   On 25 Feb 1794, Reuben received a land grant from Georgia.  It may have been for the land that he already lived on.  It was recorded as 297 acres.  Shortly after receiving this land, he sold part of.  A deed dated 30 Dec 1794 show that Reuben and Elizabeth sold 144 acres on Long Creek to Matthew Rainey.  His neighbors were Rainy, Joshua Sanders, Hugh Mere, and Thomas Dunn.  Both Reuben and Elizabeth left their mark on the deed.

   In the 1798 tax digest of Oglethorpe Co, GA, both Henry and Reuben are found living near each other.  On 1 May 1798, Vina Radford married George Bradshaw.  This was likely a daughter of Reuben's.

   In 1800, Reuben is recorded in the US Census.  Reuben, Elizabeth and Julia (Reuben's unmarried sister) are listed in the 26-45 age group.  The entries for the children show 4 daughters and 5 sons.   Reuben and Henry continued to live near each other in Oglethorpe according to the tax digests.  Henry also paid tax on land in Jackson and Clark counties in 1801 and 1802.  Henry appears to have become sick and succumbed to some illness.  He recorded a will in Clark County on 4 Dec 1804 and it was probated a month later on 7 Jan 1805.  Henry's will mentions his brother Reuben, wife Juliana, and children, Peggy, Rebecca, Silas and Nathan.  Sometime after this, Reuben became the guardian of Silas, who on 4 Mary 1817 is listed as an orphan.  Their last child, Samuel was born in 1806 when Reuben and his wife were well advanced in age.  Elizabeth was 50.  

   Reuben and Henry continuted to live near each other in Oglethorpe according to the tax digests.  Henry also paid tax on land in Jackson and clark counties in 1801 and 1802.  Henry appears to have become sick and succumbed to some illness.  He recorded a will in Clark County on 4 Dec 1804 and it was probated a month later on 7 Jan 1805.  The will mentions his brother Reuben, wife Juliana and children, Peggy, Rebecca, Silas and Nathan.  Sometime after this, Reuben became the guardian of Silas, who on 4 Mar 1817 was listed as an orphan.

   A series of deeds record some of Reuben's land dealings and mark the time of his move to a new home a few miles west of Oglethorpe in Morgan County.  In a deed dated 7 Dec 1807, Reuben, of Oglethorpe, bought 202.5 acres described as lot #84, in Baldwin County's 16th District for $100.  This deed is witnessed by Samuel Watters, the husband of Reuben's daughter Ann.  It shows that the deed was made in Oglethope, though it was not probated until Oct 1808.  This suggests that Reuben moved his family west to a new farm in Morgan County in the early part of 1808.  The following year, Reuben sold a quarter of lot #84, 50.5 acres in the southwest corner, to Joseph Crockett for $250, far more than he had paid for the whole lot the year before!

   A tax digest of 1817 in Morgan County records the Radford family living close together in William's Militia District, with several children having moved out of the house.  Reuben and his sons William, Elijah, and Obediah all paid a separate tax.  Soon after this, William, with his sister Ann (and her husband Sam Watters), joined a larger group that moved to Perry County, AL.  Land was easy to come by as the Indians had given it up by treaty.  They moved about 1818.  

   Reuben died on his family farm in Morgan County, GA on 20 Dec 1819.  He was laid to rest in a family cemetery on his property.   His son William, named as one of the executors (along with another son John), returned to Georgia to handle his father's estate.  Reuben's will was probated on 7 Jan 1820.  On 19 Nov 1820, the executors made a public sale of Reuben's belongings.  The list provides a good insight to they type of life that Reuben led.  Most of the household items were purchased by William and Elizabeth.

    Elijah was curiously not mentioned in the will of his father.  He never married and when he died in 1865, he willed his property to the Methodist Church.  He is buried in the family cemetery near his father.  No record of Francis, the oldest son, has been found in Georgia.  He may have died in his youth.  

*Source:  ELISHA TALMON HARBOUR  HIS LIFE AND FAMILY, by Robert L. Adair Jr.
website at:  ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ar/war/civwar/harbour.txt
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From genforum:
Reuben and Elizabeth Hackworth Radford had 12 children: Vina, m. George Bradshaw; Elizabeth, m. John K. Henson; Shadrack, m. Dorcas Green; Polly Anna, m. Samuel Watters; William, m. Nancy James (this is my ancestor); Sally, m. Henry Tye; Temperance, m. Joshua Brantley; Elijah; Obediah, m. Lucy Rogers; John, m. Elizabeth Claiborn; Reuben Westley, m. Elizabeth Duke; and Samuel, m. Teressa Goggins.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Served in the Revolutionary War
*Source:  Historical reg. Of Virginians in the Rev., soldiers, saliors and marines, 1775-1783. Ed. By John H. Gwathmey. Richmond, Va. 1938. (13, 872p.):646, Volume 142, p. 14
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
THE WILL OF REUBEN RADFORD

    In the name of God Amen I Reuben Radford of Morgan County and State of Georgia being in health and perfect mind and memory thanks be to God calling into mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men to die do make and ordain this my last will and testament revoking all others. That is to say
first of all I recommend my soul unto the hands of Almighty God that give it and my body to the Earth to be buried in a Christian like manner by my Executor hereafter named and as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with in life I give and dispose of the same in the following manner and form to wit:

First I constitute make and ordain my loving Son William Radford and John Radford the Sole Executors of this my last will and testament

First it is my desire that my property left thus remaining shall be by my Executors sold at a credit of Twelve months and all the nett proceeds to be equally divided between my loving Son John
Radford and my loving Daughter Polly Radford and my two other loving Sons Reuben Westly Radford and Samuel Radford leaving a child's part to my loving wife Elizabeth Radford to be disposed of as she may best think proper-

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 19th day of December 1818

Joseph Smith                                    his
William Harrison
John Radford                            Reuben Radford
John H. Harrison J. P.
                                                       mark

       (Will Book B 1815-1830, Pages 68-70)


Elizabeth HACKWORTH

After Reuben's death (her husband), she is found in the 1850 census in Perry County, AL along with her daughter, Polly Ann Watters, widow of Samuel Watters in Radfordville, the town named after her family.  (It was named after her son William Radford).  She was 94.  Sometime around 1859 she passed away and was buried in a small family cemetery near her son William's house known today as the Stone Family Cemetery.

In the Bedford Co. Musuem/Library there is a typed list showing both the names of Reuben Radford and George Hackworth signing a petition against the division of Bedford County into Bedford and Campbell in 1779. In 1783 Reuben Radford brought a letter of introduction to Georgia from Campbell Co. At the Radford Cemetery in Morgan Co., GA, there is a headstone which states that he is a Revolutionary Soldier. His wife is incorrectly listed on the headstone as Mary Ann Hackworth, wife, buried in Alabama. (That was his daughter Mary Ann or Polly Ann.) The name Elizabeth or Betsey can be found on many of the land sales documents signed by Reuben Radford. In 1850 in Perry County, AL, Elizabeth is living with her daughter, Ann Watters, widow of Samuel. She is listed there as 94 years old. Reuben and Elizabeth are my 4 greats grandparents.

I am a descendant of Elizabeth Hackworth, daughter of George Hackworth and Ann Leftwich. I have a descendancy chart which came to me from a fellow Radford researcher (Elizabeth Hackworth married Reuben Radford) which came to her from a descendant of one of Elizabeth's brothers. He states that George Hackworth and Ann Leftwich were married in 1742 in Caroline Co., Va.

Can you tell us who the book "Leftwich-Turner Families of Virginia and Their Connections", by Walter Lee Hopkins, has as the first husband of Anne Leftwich? The reason I ask is that I have heard that this book does not have an Anne Leftwich as the daughter of Augustine Leftwich.

Hackworth Genealogy Site:   http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/s/t/a/S-Starnes/
Leftwich Family Gen Site:   http://www.flash.net/~maclover/

George Hackworth b 1720 m Anne Leftwich
   Augustine Hackworth b 1746 m Mary Ruth Rigney
       Nichodemus Hackworth b 1779 m Mary England
           William W. Hackworth b 1814 m Eliza Jane Pennington
               John W. Hackworth b 1845 m Martha Susan Phillips
                   Victor  W. Hackworth b  1880 m Gertrude Ralston
                       Editha C. Hackworth b 1908  m Burney Parker
                           Burney  Parker Jr. (Me)   


Check Bedford Co VA message boards

Augustine Austin Hackworth
Augustine was one of five brothers who fought together in the American Revolution and are honored by a monument in Bedford County, VA according to Col. David Hackworth. He applied for a pension as a Revolutionary veteran at the age of 86. Here is the abstract from DAR records, obtained by Burney Parker from Louise Birchfield:

AUSTIN HACKWORTH R4410, VA Line, applied 21 November 1832, Marion Co., TN, aged 86. He lived in Bedford Co., VA at enlistment and later moved to Greene Co. (now in TN) NC and also enlisted there. After his service, he moved to Botetourt Co., VA for six years. He then returned to Greene Co., NC (now TN) for a few months, then to Buncomb Co., NC for one year, then returned to Greene Co. NC (TN) one year, then to Knox Co. (now Anderson Co.) TN for 33 years, then to Marion Co. TN. Soldier was born in 1746 in Caroline Co., VA. A son, Nickademus Hackworth, made affidavit 24 October 1852 in Morgan Co., AL, aged 73, and stated soldier died about 1846 or 1847 leaving 4 children: Austin, Samuel, Ruth, and Nickademus all over age 21.
Augustine Austin Hackworth's parents are thought by most researchers to be George Hackworth and Ann Leftwich. His wife was not Mary Ruth Rigney, as previously stated here, but rather Ruth Keeth or Keath or Keith. (No connection has been established to our other Keith family at this time.) The Leftwich family has been traced by some researchers back to England and possibly to the Low Countries before that, as de Leftewyk. However, at this time I do not have any reliable information about George Hackworth's background other than some statements by several researchers that several Hackworth brothers emigrated together from England in 1622. Research continues.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In the 1850 census, Anna's mother, Elizabeth Radford, aged 94, is living with her in the town that was named for the Radford family.
*Source:  Extracts from The Heritage of Perry Co., Alabama, Published by:  Heritage Publishig Consultants, Inc, P. O. Box 67, Clanton, AL  35046 in 1999, excerpts are from p. 198



.