She lived from June 1, 1772 to Oct 16, 1851. Born in Union County SC, and died in Panola County MS.
Panola County, MS is in the northwest section of Mississippi, mainly farm country, and has the Tallahatcheee River meandering south and more or less parallel to the Mississippi. The Tallahatchee River is best known in my generation for the Bobbie Gentry song, Ode to Billy Joe when "Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge."
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| A bridge over the Tallahatchee River, state of Mississippi |
Her father Richardson Roundtree of VA, was in the Revolutionary War. More about him will come soon!
Her
mother was Matilda Anderson Roundtree, who was Richardson's first
wife. In all the Ancestry trees I've looked at, the second wife, Mary
Hart Roundtree was listed as her mother, but she would have been 11 when
she married. So with my Sherlock Holmes hat on, I've finally found the
first wife...and that she had his first 8 children apparently. He did
have another 8 children with Mary Hart.
Back
to my 4th great grandmother, Molly Wilbourne. There were a lot of
siblings in her family, and I haven't had a chance to cull out the
duplicates listed on Ancestry. The Roundtree/Rountree family came to
South Carolina, District 96, before the Revolution, probably around
1760-62.
She married Maj.
Eliajh Wilbourne when she was 16, and had her first daughter in her 19th
year, (perhaps.) My great times 3 grandmother, Sabra Ann Wilbourn
Gibbs, (more on her soon!) was born the next year, 1762, and another daughter followed the
very next year. I've talked about the Wilbourne adult children moving about to
new territories HERE and here.
For
the next 50 years I don't have any facts about her life besides births
and deaths of their 11 children. Both her husband and her father died in 1819,
her husband probably in their home in Union County, SC.
But her father, Richardson Roundtree died in Edgefield SC. I've got some interesting information about that village, but will include it with her father's post.
But her father, Richardson Roundtree died in Edgefield SC. I've got some interesting information about that village, but will include it with her father's post.
The
next record I've found about Molly is when she's listed as 75 years old; in 1850
she's on the Panola County, MS census with her daughter Jane Welbourn
Bishop and her farmer husband, John.
The
Bishops had married Jan 1, 1835 in Newton County, GA, where Molly's son
James Rogers Wellborn lived and was on the census of 1840 before moving
to Talledaga County GA by 1850, when Molly was living with the Bisops
out in MS. Georgia must not have agreed with the Bishops, and it was
good for the next to youngest daughter to give elderly Molly a home. I
know her daughter Jane Bishop was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Sardis, Panola County MS, but
there is no record of where Molly was buried when she died in 1851 in
Panola County, MS.
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| Memorial marker, Jane Bishop (no dates) |
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| Family marker for John Bishop (see below for details) |
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| John Bishop husband of Jane Bishop born March 28, 1810 Died Nov 3, 1880 "In the Lord I put my Trust." |
Several of Molly''s sons were buried at the Fredonia Church in Panola county. The
Fredonia church is now in Como, Panola county MS, and has a list of the Welborns buried there, many of whom were her children and grandchildren.
Molly died Oct. 16, 1851, having lived 79 years, so that 1850 census might have been wrong in saying she was 75 then.
SEPIA SATURDAY 405 : Saturday 10 February 2018
COUPLES : TEA : HUSBAND & WIFE : BEARDS
Couples are our theme this week on Sepia Saturday and our prompt image
shows John Henry Nicholson and his wife Anna. All you need to do is to
share an old photograph which links in some convoluted way or another
with this theme. Post your post on or around Saturday 10th February 2018
and add a link to the list at bottom of SS.
I'm posting this on Alchemy of Clay rather than my family tree blog,.since it seems appropriate today!
Interesting following families as they move around from place to place. Usually going west in the time you are talking about. In the family I am following now, they went from South to North, back South, back North, way South, back North and finally ending up out West.
ReplyDeleteThere sure are a lot of children in that family tree.
ReplyDeleteHow could I not love a post about your ancestor who shared my first name? Those are handsome and well preserved tombstones, given their age. A shame you have not yet found Molly's.
ReplyDeleteIn a way every family historian is trying to find a ballad like Ode to Billy Joe to tell the tale of each ancestor. Some tunes are harder to sort out.
ReplyDeleteAlways good to be able to sort people out and 'put them to bed', as they say, snd interesting to see all the different spellings of the Welbourne surname.
ReplyDeleteRichardson fathered 16 children? Can you imagine keeping track of them and their children? Now you have the challenge of getting them all figured out. I wonder why they would install a memorial marker with no date.
ReplyDeleteAll I could think of in regard to Richardson's 16 children is how he could have afforded to send them all to college had they been born in this day and age?!!
ReplyDeleteGreat detective work
ReplyDeleteA nice way to link to to the prompt and we can all believe, for a short while, that it really is Molly and Elijah.
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