Husband Ezekial Stafford
Born: 15 Apr 1773 - South Carolina 4
Christened:
Died: 17 Aug 1853 - Tattnall Co., GA 4
Buried:
Father: Joshua Stafford
Mother:
Marriage: 2 Jan 1801 4
Wife Mary Eastwood
Born:
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Children
1 M Joshua Stafford
Born: 3 Nov 1801 - Tattnall Co., GA 4
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Mary Darsey
2 F Martha Stafford
Born: 2 Mar 1804 4
Christened:
Died: 13 Jul 1865 - Odom, Wayne County, Georgia 28
Buried:
Spouse: Jonathan Knight 4
Marr: 30 Jan 1823 - Tattnall Co., GA 28
3 M Lorenzo Dow Stafford
Born: 6 Feb 1806 - Tattnall Co., GA 4
Christened:
Died: 19 Oct 1806 4
Buried:
4 F Mary Stafford
Born: 25 Jan 1809 - Tattnall Co., GA 4
Christened:
Died: 1851 4
Buried:
Spouse: John Pittman 4
5 F Harriet B. Stafford
Born: 5 Mar 1811 4
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Isham Reddish 4
6 M Elijah Eleazer Stafford
Born: 18 Feb 1813 4
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
7 F Dorinda Stafford
Born: 3 Jun 1815 4
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: William R. Townsend 4
Marr: 2 Apr 1836 4
8 M Nathaniel Bell Stafford
Born: 27 Jun 1817 4
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Luvicy E. Popwell 4
General Notes: Husband - Ezekial Stafford
STAFFORD, Ezekiel EDMONDSON, JAMES MATHIS, John MATHIS, John TERRELL, John
1773-1853
Tattnall
Ezekiel Stafford was a prominent citizen of Tattnall County in his day, and has many descendants living in Wiregrass Georgia today. He was a son of Joshua Stafford, R.S., and brother of Robert Stafford (q.v), and was born in South Carolina, April 15, 1773. He died at his home in Tattnall County, August 17, 1853. He was married twice. His first wife, Mary Rawls, was born December 24, 1774, and died April 6, 1799, soon after the birth of her third child. The second marriage was to Mary Eastwood, January 2, 1801. The children by the two marriages were:
1. John
2. Nancy
3. William
4. Joshua
5. Lorenzo Dow
6. Mary
7. Martha
8. Harriet B.
9. Elijah Eleazer
10. Dorinda
11. Nathaniel Bell
Ezekiel Stafford came to Screven County, Georgia, with his parents and soon after his first marriage, moved to Montgomery County where he is found on the tax digests for the years 1797-1798. He was a Justice of Peace in 1799-1801. He was cut into the new county of Tattnall out of Montgomery in 1801, and served as County Surveyor of his county, being commissioned December 2, 1803. He served as Captain of the militia in the 39th district, Tattnall County, being commissioned June 27, 1806, serving several years. He was Justice of Peace in the 40th district, Tattnall County, 1823-1827.
Mr. Stafford was a member of the Methodist Church, and was named one of the church trustees for one of the first Methodist churches in Tattnall County, in a deed made January 7, 1820, from Joshua Dasher for six acres (Deed Book AB, page 244, Tattnall County). He was also a Mason, being a member of Rising Sun Lodge No. 20, F. & A.M., at Reidsville for many years prior to his death. This lodge was organized about 1825.
Census References: 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, Tattnall.
A return of the Vouchers Returned by
Vo. No. 1 E. E. and N. B. Stafford Executors
Georgia Received
Tattnall Co. November 21, l856
E. E. Stafford & N. B. Stafford Executors of the
last Will and Testament of Ezekiel Stafford Deceased
the Sum of one hundred and Eighty Dollars and Thirty-
one cents in full of a Pencunary (Pecuniary) legacy
Bequeathed to me in and by the last Will and Testa-
ment of the Said Ezekiel Stafford Deceased.
S. D.Surrency Jonathan S. Knight
J. P.
Vo. No. 2 Received of E. E. & N. B. Stafford Executors of
Ezekiel Stafford. Twenty-Seven hundred and fifty-
five 98/l0O dollars being the distributive share of
E. Staffords estate going to William Stafford
May 17, l856.
Jacob Moody
Isham Reddick
Jacob Moody
Vo. No. 3 Georgia, Tattnall Co. Received of Elijah E. Stafford
and Nathaniel B. Stafford. Executors of the estate
of Ezekiel Stafford deceased the sum of Twenty-six
hundred fifty-five dollars and thirty-one cents also
all interest as guardian for my children as their
proportional part of the said estate in full.
July 7, l856
John Pittman
(Voucher No. 4 was missing from the original document.)
Vou. No. 5 Received of Elijah E. Stafford Executor of the Last
Will & Testament of Ezekiel Stafford decd. the sum
of ten dollars costs accruing in the Cases of Smith,
Turman Thornington and Moody being the amount due
me as Clerk, this 7th of July, l856.
Josiah P. R. Sikes, Clerk
Received payment by Hands of E. E. Stafford, Exr.
on the Estate of E. Stafford.
J. P. R. Sikes, Clerk
Vou. No. 6 Elijah E. Stafford & Nathaniel B. Stafford Exrs.
to the Last Will & Testament of Ezekiel Stafford
deceased. To the Ordinary of Tattnall County for
the years l854-l855 Dr.
To examining and recording two returns
of Sale of Personal Property $3.37 1/2
Examining and recording the return
of the Division of the Negroes 1.68 3/4
Recording 4 Receipts for Negroes 2.00
Examining and recording sale of land 1.68 3/4
Recording sale of timber 0.75
Examining and recording annual
return for l854 1.68 3/4
Recording Vouchers 1.15
Examining and recording divisions
of Personal Property 1.68 3/4
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$14.02 1/2
Received the above costs from E.E. Stafford, one
of the Executors this 5th of May, l856
Wm. W. Tippins
Former Dept. Ordinary
(l855)
Vou. No. 7. Elijah E. Stafford & Nathaniel B. Stafford Executors
of the Last Will & Testament of Ezekiel Stafford
Deceased tQ W. W. Tippins, Deputy Ordinary of
Tattnall County to Receiving application and grant-
ing citation for dismission $ 1.25
Printers Fees 4.50
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$5.75
Received the within account of E. E. Stafford
this 28 of October l856.
Wm. W. Tippins
Former Dept. Ordinary
Vou. No. 8 Received of N. B. Stafford Executor of Ezekiel
Stafford Deceased five dollars sixty-two cents.
State Tax for the year l855 $ 5.62
Wm. H. Moore, T.C.T.C.
(Tattnall County Tax Collector)
Vo. No. 9 Received of E. E. Stafford & N. B. Stafford Executor
of the Last Will & Testament of Ezekiel Stafford
deceased the sum of $26l6.OO dollars
August 2nd day, l856. Isham Reddick
Vo. No. 10 E. E. Stafford & N. B. Stafford, Exrs.
l854-April l8. To Recorders Office to
Sale of lands of Ezekiel Stafford $ 3.50
July l855.4 Sale of 4,000 acres land
said estate 3.50
April 10 Adm. final dismission
from estate 2.50
Carried up ------
$9.50
Received March 16th l857 of E. E. Stafford Exr of
Estate of E. Stafford decd $ 9.50
In full for the within act.
0. C. Pope
per Recorder
Recorded the above Vouchers from No. 1 to No. 10
this June 1st l857
Henry Strickland
Ordinary
Husband James Edmondson
Born: 1799 4
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Isaac Edmondson
Mother: Nancy Cox 4
Marriage: 1820 4
Wife Sabra James
Born: 1799 - North Carolina 4
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Died:
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Children
General Notes: Husband - James Edmondson
1799-1870
LOWNDES
James Edmondson was born in Bulloch County in 1799, a son of Isaac Edmondson, R.,S. (see Vol. 1). He married Sabra James of Bulloch County about 1820. She was born in North Carolina in 1799. To James and Sabra Edmondson were born:
1. Elizabeth
2. Nancy (Ann)
3. Marintha
4. Wealthly
5. Bryant
6. Mary
7. John E.
8. William R.
James Edmondson moved with his family and his widowed mother and others of the family from Bulloch to Lowndes County between 1825 and 1828, and settled in present Brooks County. A year later he bought land about four miles east of the present town of Hahira, and moved there and cleared up a farm and lived until his death about 1870.
Mr. Edmondson was named by the General Assembly as one of the commissioners to locate the site of the courthouse and jail of Lowndes County by an act approved December 20, 1834. He served as a private in Capt. Levi J. Knight's independent troop of Lowndes County militia in the Indian War in 1838.
He was baptized into the membership of Union Primitive Baptist Church, December 12, 1830, and on October 9, 1847, was dismissed by letter. He then united with Pleasant Church in present Berrien County by letter, and was a member there until he died.
Census References: 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, Lowndes.
Husband John Edmondson
Born: 1806 - Bulloch County, GA 4
Christened:
Died:
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Father: Isaac Edmondson
Mother: Nancy Cox 4
Marriage:
Wife
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Children
1 M Simpson D. Edmondson
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Husband John Mathis
Born: 1774 - Duplin County, North Carolina 551
Christened:
Died: 1852 - Berrien County, Georgia 551
Buried:
Father: Rice Mathis
Mother: Civility Goff
Marriage:
Wife Nancy Edmondson
Born: 1785 24
Christened:
Died: 1820 24
Buried:
Father: Isaac Edmondson
Mother: Nancy Cox 4
Children
1 M David Mathis
Born: 1802 - North Carolina 50
Christened:
Died: Abt 1875 50
Buried:
Spouse: Sarah Monk
Marr: 1822 50
2 M Thomas Mathis
Born: 1808 - Bulloch County, GA 50
Christened:
Died: 1893 - Berrien Co., GA 50
Buried:
Spouse: Eady Register
Marr: 1 Nov 1826 - Lowndes Co., GA 50
General Notes: Husband - John Mathis
1774-1852
BERRIEN
JOHN MATHIS became the father of one of the largest families of children in Wiregrass Georgia, having twenty-three children by his two wives (who were sisters), all of these living to be grown and married. He was a brother to Edmund Mathis (q.v.) and to James Mathis. These three brothers were all born in North Carolina, their parents living in Duplin County and being cut into Sampson County when that county was formed out of Duplin about 1785. Record is found where John Mathis granted 190 acres in Duplin County, January 22, 1800.
Sometime about 1802 John Mathis and his family, with his brother Edmund and family and John Register and his family and others in the large family connection, moved from Sampson County to Bulloch County, Georgia. Record is found there of his service on the jury at various times from 1806 to 1824. He was appointed July, 1812, as a constable by the Inferior Court of Bulloch County, in Capt. Frederick Williams' district. He was elected Sheriff of Bulloch County in 1816, and served until 1822. On July 4, 1825, the Inferior Court appointed him Sheriff to fill a vacancy, and he served until February 1826. Two years later Mr. Mathis with an already large family moved to the new county of Lowndes and settled a place later known as the old Owen Smith place on the old Berrien-Lowndes County line. His residence was cut into Berrien County in its formation in 1856.
Mr. Mathis was twice married, both times to daughters of Isaac Edmondson, (q.v.), a Revolutionary soldier, who had moved from North Carolina through South Carolina to Bulloch County. The first wife was Nancy Edmondson, born 1785, and after her death in 1820 he soon after (October 25, 1820) married her sister, Susannah, born 1799. The children born by both wives were as follows:
1. David
2. James
3. Rice
4. Neil
5. Thomas
6. Civility
7. Jemima
8. Miles
9. Elizabeth
10. Riley L.
11. Rebecca
12. Nancy
13. Phoebe
14. John Edmondson
15. Matthew
16. Sarah
17. Pollie
18. Martha
19. Edmond
20. Susannah
21. Henry M.
22. Hiram Monk
23. Saleta Ann
In Lowndes County Mr. Mathis was elected a Justice of the Inferior Court in January, 1829, and served three years, then resigning. He was baptized into the membership of Union Baptist Church, September 10, 1830, and was dismissed by letter August 10, 1839, and united with Pleasant Church which had been organized the year before and was much nearer his home. He died a member of this church.
Mr. Mathis died in 1852, and his oldest son, David, applied for administration November 2, 1852, and was appointed. He and his last wife were buried at the old Owen Smith graveyard on the old Mathis homestead. Graves unmarked.
Census References: 1820, Bulloch; 1830, 1840, 1850, Lowndes.
John Mathis, who for a time signed his name as John Mathis, Jr., was a son of Edmund and Unity Mathis and was born in Bulloch County in 1802 (I find this birthdate suspect). He moved to this section with his parents, and was married in 1827 to Jemima, born 1807 in Georgia, daughter of Joshua Lee. To them were born nine children, viz:
1. Joshua
2. Nancy
3. Unity
4. John
5. Zachariah
6. Sarah
7. James
8. Ezekial
9. Martha R.
Mr. and Mrs. Mathis, after marriage lived in that portion of Lowndes now Lanier, until 1849 when they moved into what was then Ware County, and were cut into the new county of Clinch the next year, 1850. His home place was on lot 441, 7th district, where he lived until 1871 when he sold out and lived with his son Ezekiel south of Dupont until shortly before his death when he went to Hamilton County, Fla., to live with his son John, Jr. He died there and was buried at Prospect Church in that county.
Mr. Mathis was baptized Oct. 11,1840 into Union Primitive Baptist Church; was dismissed by letter April 10, 1841, and then became a charter member of Wayfare Church; was dismissed by letter Feb. 3, 1855, by Wayfare, and transferred his membership to Bethany Church, where it remained until he went into the organization of Prospect Church nearer his home, Jan. 22, 1859. He was a member of Prospect until his death. No record appears of his wife's membership.
Mr. Mathis was ensign of the militia in the 442nd district of Appling County, 1822-25; Justice of the Peace, 664th district, Lowndes County, 1833-38 and Coroner of Clinch County, 1851-58 and again 1861-64. He served two enlistments in the Indian War in 1838, one under Capt. Jesse Carter and the other under Levi J. Knight."
References:
Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia, Vol. 3, pgs, 200-201.
Husband Simpson D. Edmondson
Born:
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Father: John Edmondson
Mother:
Marriage:
Wife
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Children
1 M James Wade Edmondson
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General Notes: Husband - Simpson D. Edmondson
EDMONDSON, SIMPSON D.
1843-1918
BROOKS
Simpson David Edmondson was born June 23, 1843, in Lowndes (now Brooks) County, a son of John Edmondson (Vol. III). Simpson was married February 25, 1866, to Mary Amanda Wade, born July 16, 1848, a daughter of Elijah Wade (Vol.V). To them, nine children were born:
1. James Wade
2. Henry Turner
3. Grover C.
4. Martha Elizabeth
5. Frances Louise
6. Lucy
7. Sarah Virginia
8. Mary Lee
9. Pearl
Simpson D. Edmondson, lived at the Tall Oaks district of Lowndes County. He enlisted in 1861 in Company "C" 61st Georgia Infantry Regiment. He was wounded at Antietam, Maryland, and returned home, and furnished a substitute. Simpson died May 21, 1918. His widow, Mary, died October 13, 1825. They are both buried at Bethel Church.
Husband John Mathis
Born: 1774 - Duplin County, North Carolina 551
Christened:
Died: 1852 - Berrien County, Georgia 551
Buried:
Father: Rice Mathis
Mother: Civility Goff
Marriage: 25 Oct 1820 551
Wife Susannah Edmondson
Born: 1799 551
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Issac Edmundson 551
Mother:
Children
1 F Susan Mathis
Born: 22 Dec 1833 - Lowndes County, GA 50
Christened:
Died: 29 Jun 1919 - Lowndes County, GA 50
Buried:
Spouse: Miles Cowart
Marr: 1850 50
General Notes: Husband - John Mathis
1774-1852
BERRIEN
JOHN MATHIS became the father of one of the largest families of children in Wiregrass Georgia, having twenty-three children by his two wives (who were sisters), all of these living to be grown and married. He was a brother to Edmund Mathis (q.v.) and to James Mathis. These three brothers were all born in North Carolina, their parents living in Duplin County and being cut into Sampson County when that county was formed out of Duplin about 1785. Record is found where John Mathis granted 190 acres in Duplin County, January 22, 1800.
Sometime about 1802 John Mathis and his family, with his brother Edmund and family and John Register and his family and others in the large family connection, moved from Sampson County to Bulloch County, Georgia. Record is found there of his service on the jury at various times from 1806 to 1824. He was appointed July, 1812, as a constable by the Inferior Court of Bulloch County, in Capt. Frederick Williams' district. He was elected Sheriff of Bulloch County in 1816, and served until 1822. On July 4, 1825, the Inferior Court appointed him Sheriff to fill a vacancy, and he served until February 1826. Two years later Mr. Mathis with an already large family moved to the new county of Lowndes and settled a place later known as the old Owen Smith place on the old Berrien-Lowndes County line. His residence was cut into Berrien County in its formation in 1856.
Mr. Mathis was twice married, both times to daughters of Isaac Edmondson, (q.v.), a Revolutionary soldier, who had moved from North Carolina through South Carolina to Bulloch County. The first wife was Nancy Edmondson, born 1785, and after her death in 1820 he soon after (October 25, 1820) married her sister, Susannah, born 1799. The children born by both wives were as follows:
1. David
2. James
3. Rice
4. Neil
5. Thomas
6. Civility
7. Jemima
8. Miles
9. Elizabeth
10. Riley L.
11. Rebecca
12. Nancy
13. Phoebe
14. John Edmondson
15. Matthew
16. Sarah
17. Pollie
18. Martha
19. Edmond
20. Susannah
21. Henry M.
22. Hiram Monk
23. Saleta Ann
In Lowndes County Mr. Mathis was elected a Justice of the Inferior Court in January, 1829, and served three years, then resigning. He was baptized into the membership of Union Baptist Church, September 10, 1830, and was dismissed by letter August 10, 1839, and united with Pleasant Church which had been organized the year before and was much nearer his home. He died a member of this church.
Mr. Mathis died in 1852, and his oldest son, David, applied for administration November 2, 1852, and was appointed. He and his last wife were buried at the old Owen Smith graveyard on the old Mathis homestead. Graves unmarked.
Census References: 1820, Bulloch; 1830, 1840, 1850, Lowndes.
John Mathis, who for a time signed his name as John Mathis, Jr., was a son of Edmund and Unity Mathis and was born in Bulloch County in 1802 (I find this birthdate suspect). He moved to this section with his parents, and was married in 1827 to Jemima, born 1807 in Georgia, daughter of Joshua Lee. To them were born nine children, viz:
1. Joshua
2. Nancy
3. Unity
4. John
5. Zachariah
6. Sarah
7. James
8. Ezekial
9. Martha R.
Mr. and Mrs. Mathis, after marriage lived in that portion of Lowndes now Lanier, until 1849 when they moved into what was then Ware County, and were cut into the new county of Clinch the next year, 1850. His home place was on lot 441, 7th district, where he lived until 1871 when he sold out and lived with his son Ezekiel south of Dupont until shortly before his death when he went to Hamilton County, Fla., to live with his son John, Jr. He died there and was buried at Prospect Church in that county.
Mr. Mathis was baptized Oct. 11,1840 into Union Primitive Baptist Church; was dismissed by letter April 10, 1841, and then became a charter member of Wayfare Church; was dismissed by letter Feb. 3, 1855, by Wayfare, and transferred his membership to Bethany Church, where it remained until he went into the organization of Prospect Church nearer his home, Jan. 22, 1859. He was a member of Prospect until his death. No record appears of his wife's membership.
Mr. Mathis was ensign of the militia in the 442nd district of Appling County, 1822-25; Justice of the Peace, 664th district, Lowndes County, 1833-38 and Coroner of Clinch County, 1851-58 and again 1861-64. He served two enlistments in the Indian War in 1838, one under Capt. Jesse Carter and the other under Levi J. Knight."
References:
Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia, Vol. 3, pgs, 200-201.
Husband Issac Edmundson 551
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Children
1 F Susannah Edmondson
Born: 1799 551
Christened:
Died:
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Spouse: John Mathis
Marr: 25 Oct 1820 551
Husband Andrew Jackson McClellan
Born: 3 May 1773 - Barnwell County, South Carolina
Christened:
Died: 2 May 1848 - Wayne County, Georgia
Buried: - McClellan Cemetery, Hickox, Brantley County, Georgia
Marriage:
Wife Sarah Edwards
Born: 1776
Christened:
Died: 1 Jul 1826 - Camden County, Georgia
Buried:
Children
1 F Mary Ann McClellan
Born: 26 Apr 1807 23
Christened:
Died: 15 Jul 1862 23
Buried: - Bachlott Cemetery, Bachlott, Brantley County, Georgia
Spouse: Jeremiah H. Johns
Marr: 14 Oct 1824 - Wayne County, GA 50
Husband John Terrell
Born: 1790 - Robeson County, North Carolina 4
Christened:
Died: 1860
Buried:
Father: Philemon Terrell
Mother: Elizabeth
Marriage: 3 Dec 1815 - Liberty Co., GA 4
Wife Lydia Ellis 4
Born: 1775
Christened:
Died: 1827
Buried:
Children
1 M James Terrell
Born: 1822 4
Christened:
Died:
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2 M Reason Terrell
Born: 1825 4
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
General Notes: Husband - John Terrell
John Terrell was born in Robeson County, North Carolina, in 1790, a son of Philemon and Elizabeth Terrell. He moved with his parents to Georgia and grew up in Liberty County where he married December 3, 1815, to Miss Lydia Ellis. After her death he married Miss Nancy Overstreet in Irwin County, August 16, 1827. By the two marriages Mr. Terrell had the following children:
1. James
2. Reason
3. Lydia
4. David W.
5. Andrew J.
6. Cynthia C.
7. Mariah
8. Lucy Jane
9. Calvin Swilley
10. Rachel M.
Record is found where John Terrell granted land in Liberty County, 100 acres on Doctor's Creek being surveyed for him January 14, 1815, and 200 acres on June 25, 1816. He sold out and moved to Irwin County about 1825, and about ten years later moved to what was then Lowndes County. In 1858, he was cut out of Lowndes into Echols County when the latter was created, and he lived in Echols until his death about 1870. He was buried in the Carter Graveyard in Echols County.
John Terrell served in the Indian War in 1838 in Capt. David R. Bryan's company of Lowndes County militia. He and his wife were members of Antioch Primitive Baptist Church in Echols County.
David W. Terrell, the son named above, was a Confederate casualty. He enlisted in Co. "I", 12th Georgia Vol. Inf. Regiment, June 14, 1861, at Valdosta. He was wounded at Gambrier, Virginia, and died of his wounds. He was a charter member of Alapaha Lodge No. 209, F. & A.M. at Statenville, and died a member while in the service.
Pholemon Terrell, father of the subject, moved to Liberty County before 1800, and died there in 1816. The heirs of Philemon Terrell, including John, made a deed to their mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Terrell, December 9, 1816, for four tracts of land totaling 650 acres in Liberty County owned by the elder Terrell at his death, (Deed Book "11", page 107, Liberty County).
Census References: 1820, Liberty; 1830, Irwin; 1840, 1850, Lowndes; 1860, Echols.
Husband Matthew Ellyson
Born: Abt 1717 - New Kent County, Virginia
Christened:
Died: Bef 4 Nov 1752 192
Buried:
Father: Robert Ellyson
Mother: Sarah Crew
Marriage: 17 Sep 1737 - Charles City County, Virginia 192
Wife Elizabeth Ladd 188
Born:
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Died: 13 Sep 1779 86
Buried:
Father: William Ladd 85
Mother: Huldah Binford
Other Spouse: Andrew Crew Jr. 188 - 4 Nov 1752 - Henrico County, Virginia 86,188
Children