Molly and Elijah Wilbourne, a couple on my family tree

Last few posts in Three Family Trees have been about Maj. Elijah Wilbourne's father, Thomas HERE.  Now let's go exploring on the side of our Rogers family tree up the branch of his wife, Mary "Molly" Roundtree Wilbourne.

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."

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.

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.  

Memorial marker, Jane Bishop (no dates)

Family marker for John Bishop (see below for details)

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.   

 I'm sharing this with Sepia Saturday, as my 5th great grandparents, Molly and Elijah Wilbourne, could have been the parents of the couple shown in this photo.  Click that link to see what other "couples" the Sepians have come up with, by looking for the list of names that are links!

SEPIA SATURDAY 405 : Saturday 10 February 2018

John Henry Nicholson and his wife, Anna Cordes ca. 1890

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!

Isaac Norman 1765-1828

With all the ancestors I chase around (on my blog Three Family Trees, you'd think I would jump at the opportunity to link to a photo of a cemetery.

So how about one of the few in which I've found an ancestor of my own? I think I'll re-post some of the photos I took at that time, and share it on both my blogs!  Nothing like a triple whammy, er double!

This is my Sepia Saturday post for #402.

SEPIA SATURDAY 402 : 20 January 2018

Cemetery, Glasnevin, Ireland by Robert French : c. 1900

GRAVEYARDS : DEATH : MEMORIALS : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS

Looking for Isaac Norman's grave...
on a trip up to Indiana a few years ago...my first stop was the wrong one...but pretty area in KY where his family lived once.  HERE

He left a will, which gives September as his date of death, but the tombstone says July.  See this blog for info about that!

Here's more from my blog about Shelbyville KY...a great little town! 

So here's the post where I actually found his headstone...I'll cut and paste it so you don't have to go to the link!
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 Friday, May 1, 2015

I'm going to share my exciting adventure of finding the grave of my ancestor, Isaac Norman.  Who?

My mother's mother's mother's...oh you know lots of mother's back there.  Actually in my reckoning, which is the system I devised going back from my grandchildren as generation 1).   This Isaac Norman would be generation 10).  I am generation 3). So he's my 5th great grandfather!

(12) Isaac Norman ( 5 Oct 1682 - 7 Apr 1748)
(11) Joseph Norman (1708-16 Feb 1784)
(10) Isaac Norman II (1735 - 1776)
(9) Mary Margaret (Polly) Norman Conn (23 Mar 1792 - 13 Dec 1833)
(8) Hannah Conn Booth (1818-1884)
(7) Richard R. Booth (1846-1879)
(6) Eugenia Booth Miller (1873-1936)
(5) Mozelle Miller Webb Munhall (1897-1960)
(4) Mataley Webb Rogers (1917-2003)
(3) Barbara Booth Rogers (1942- ?)

I've posted several times already about him, a veteran of the War of 1812, Here and Here, and HERE when trying to find his grave.

I also noted that I used to have his generation numbered incorrectly.  Oops.  It's my own system and somehow I jumped him back earlier.  SO hopefuly this is the right amount of generations removed.

And here is my story from last week's actual finding of his grave marker.  (I believe the monument was erected a while after his death, but I don't know when.)

There was no "google map available" when I got into the area of Elk Creek.  So I stopped at a convenience/gas store and asked the clerk.  Fortunately the woman behind me in line knew where the Elk Creek Baptist Church was to be found, off the Old Road on your left.  I went down the Old Road (which had a numeric designation) and it had a "y" and I took the right side, to find many new homes.  Not the Old Road obviously.  Going the other way, I soon saw a beautiful antebellum home through the trees.

And it was situated on Elk Creek!

The Elk Creek Baptist Church had a huge cemetery.

My thinking went that the original founders would be buried close to the church, and here was Isaac Norman's monument right next to the drive.

I left my flowers, and took a lot of pictures.

South face, Isaac Norman, born Aug 25, 1765, Died July 22, 1828

A different person's statistics were carved on each of the 4 faces of the monument.

 

West face, Hannah G. wife of Isaac Norman, born Apr 20, 1762, Died Feb 28, 1845

I had not expected to find 2 more names on the marker. Who were they?

 East face, Abner Norman, born Dec. 30. 1789, Died Jan. 2. 1856. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."

 and the other was...

North face, Frances, wife of Abner Norman, born Apr 4, 1788, died March 28, 1864

 Frances Northmore Redman was Abner's wife.  Her marker was really hard to read however.

Frances was the last one to die in 1864, who is memorialized on this marker.  Who might have been the ones burying these elders?  Frances and Abner had a lot of children, several of whom lived into the 1920s.  So I can't speculate on that today.

View of east and north faces of monument, with my car

The Norman marker, center with flag

I did look at other markers nearby, and found the Van Dykes married a grandson of Isaac Norman, Solomon Redman Norman, and many of the graves in that area of the cemetery were of their sons and daughters.

So I said goodbye to these ancestors and went on down the road.  And thanked them for giving me life, to pass along to my own children and hopefully to many more descendents one day.
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Today's quote:


Confucius wrote: “There are three things which the wise man holds in reverence: the Will of Heaven, those in authority, and the words of the sages. The fool knows not the Will of Heaven and holds it not in reverence: he is disrespectful to those in authority; he ridicules the words of the sages.”
And: “He who does not understand the Will of God can never be a man of the higher type. He who does not understand the inner law of self-control can never stand firm. He who does not understand the force of words can never know his fellow-men.”

Nancy Whitlow Cannon, grandmother of Cyntha Cannon Rogers

In considering a sixth great grandmother, I often wonder how she dressed..(as a member of the George Rogers family tree.)

Nancy Ann WHITLOW Cannon 1747–1830 
 Birth 18 NOV 1747 • Caswell County, North Carolina, 
Death 01 JUL 1830 • Loudon County, Tennessee

grandmother of Cyntha Cannon Rogers (w. of Micajah C. Rogers) both buried in Huntsville, TX

She married John Cannon,  Birth 18 MAR 1744 • Virginia, Death OCT 1806 • Grass Valley, Knox, Tenn (an unknown location as of this date)  He did receive a 100 acres of land warrant as a result of serving in the Revolutionary War.  His ancestry site is pretty garbled up at this point, and I'll try to straighten it out (on my tree) by his birthday in March!

The clothes that were being worn by women in the 1830's are possibly what Nancy would have also worn.

 Fashion drawings show big sleeves!

And undergarments would help every lady have the right support!

Three children are listed on "Find a Grave" site with her and their markers.
Martha Cannon Nelson (1764 - 1862)
William Cannon (1771 - 1868) (father of Cyntha Cannon Rogers)
Robert Cannon (1781 - 1854)
 

Photo of Irwin House, Milton, Caswell County, NC taken 1940

Caswell County is located right on the Virginia line, and was formed in 1777.  It has today only two real towns, Yanceyville (the County Seat) and Milton.  

Casswell County Courthouse, maybe built 1830

Nancy Cannon is buried in Steekee Cemetery, Loudon County, TN.  The year she died she is on the census living with her son Robert, who has a similar headstone.  On that census she is the free white female age 80-89 years old in his household in Roane, Loudon County. TN

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Quote for Today: 

The miracle of gratitude is that it shifts your perception to such an extent that it changes the world you see.

Dr. Robert Holden

  As Thanksgiving is coming, something to think about...changing the world !

Another thought about dates...the Gregorian Calendar was mentioned back on Nov 16 HERE.
And it didn't state when or how the British changed their calendars...So here's some more info (and keep in mind England also changed it's "New Year date" from March 25 to Jan. 1.)

"In England and Wales, the legal year 1751 was a short year of 282 days, running from 25 March to 31 December. 1752 began on 1 January. To align the calendar in use in England to that on the continent, the Gregorian calendar was adopted: and the calendar was advanced by 11 days: Wednesday 2 September 1752 was followed by Thursday 14 September 1752. The year 1752 was thus a short year (355 days) as well.. Source Wikipedia