Husband Hillery Cason
Born: 1737 - Beaufort County, NC 161
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Died: 1810 - Screven Co., GA 161
Buried:
Father: William Cason
Mother: Jane Anne Cannon
Marriage:
Wife Sarah Barrow 2
Born: 1739 - Beaufort County, North Carolina
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Died: 1825 - Bryan County, Georgia
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Children
1 M Gabriel Cason
Born: Abt 1764 - Pitt Co., NC
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Died: Abt 1836 - Columbia County, FL
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2 M John Dennis Cason
Born: 1770 - Pitt County, North Carolina, USA
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Died: 1845 - Walnut Grove, Independence County, Arkansas, USA
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3 M William Cason
Born: Abt 1772 - Pitt Co., NC
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4 M Wyriott Cason
Born: 1776 - Pitt Co., NC
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5 M Frederick Cason
Born: 1777 - South Carolina 1
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Died: 1840 - Ware County, GA
Buried: - Kettle Creek Cemetery, Waycross, Ware, Georgia
Spouse: Elizabeth Williams
Marr: Abt 1806 - Tattnall Co., GA
6 M Hillery Cason Jr.
Born: 3 Apr 1779 - Pitt County, North Carolina, USA
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Died: 1857 - Independence County, Arkansas, USA
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Spouse: Mary Susanna McClanahan
7 F Jane Cason
Born: Abt 1780 - Pitt Co., NC
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Spouse: William Cone Jr.
Marr: 1800 23
8 M Willis Cason
Born: Abt 1787 - Pitt County, North Carolina 1
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Died: Abt 1847 - Hamilton Co., FL 1
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Spouse: Abigail
9 M Willoughby Cason
Born: Abt 1789 - Pitt Co., NC 162
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Died: 4 Mar 1856 - Charlton Co., GA 162
Buried:
Spouse: Mary Conner
Marr: 23 Oct 1813 - Effingham Co., GA 162
Spouse: Elizabeth Handley
Marr: 1849
General Notes: Husband - Hillery Cason
Hillery Cason
"Hillery Cason was born in 1737 in Beaufort County, North Carolina in the part that was cut into Pitt County in 1761. Mr. Cason was the youngest son of William and Jane Cason. His mother was a daughter of Edward and Sarah Dauley Cannon. Sarah was a daughter of Dennis Dauley of Princess Ann County, Virginia.
Hillery Cason is identified as a son of William Cason by a deed gift from William to his sons, Henry and Hillery and his daughter Elizabeth (or Betty) in 1758 in Beaufort County, North Carolina.
Mr. Cason's wife was named Sarah, maiden name unknown, but there is evidence she was a Barrow.
Hillery Cason was on the Pitt Safety Committee and fought the American Revolution on the North Carolina line.
In late 1872, with others of the family connection, Mr. Cason moved to Effingham County, GA, and settled on the Ogeechee River. By the spring of 1794, he was living in Screven County, GA where he seems to have lived until his death. He died in 1810. Sarah, his wife, was living with her youngest son, Willoughby, in Bryan County in 1820.
Hillery Cason was the father of nine known children. In addition to these, there may have been two or three more daughters. Also, Cannon Cason of Tattnall, Lowndes and Thomas counties may have been a son or nephew.
The sons, Dennis and Hillery Jr., moved to Madison County, Illinois in 1829 and, later to Independence County, Arkansas. Both had large families. The descendants of Dennis Cason through his son Silas have a letter written by Dennis to Silas telling how to get to Illinois, and where they camped each night along the way.
Gabriel lived in Wayne and Ware Counties, and later, to Columbia County, Florida. Wyriott lived in Jefferson County Georgia, where he was a justice of the peace. Frederick lived in Ware County, where he died in 1840. Willis moved from Screven to Bryan to Ware Counties in Georgia to Hamilton County, Florida, where he died in October of 1849. Willoughby died in Charlton County in 1856. William was in Ware County in 1827, but nothing further is known of him. The daughter, Jane Cone, died, as thought, in Bryan County about 1825.
After Hillery's death, his wife, Sarah, and the two youngest sons, Willis and Willoughby, returned to their old home in Pitt County, NC, where she bought land from Hillery's brother, Henry. In 1813, she sold the property back to Henry and returned to Georgia with her two sons. She is thought to be the older female living with Willoughby Cason in Bryan County, GA in the 1820 census. She apparently died between 1820 and 1830.
References:
Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia, Vol. 8, pgs. 49-50.
General Notes: Wife - Sarah Barrow
When Sarah Barrow Ormond was 23 she married Hillery Cason Sr.1762 in Beauford County, North Carolina. She had 9 children, the first when she was 25 and the last she was 50 years old. After Hillery's death, Sarah, and the two youngest sons, Willis and Willoughby, returned to their old home in Pitt County, North Carolina where she bought land from Hillery's brother, Henry.
In 1813, she sold the property back to Henry and returned to Georgia along with her sons. She is thought to be the older female living with Willoughby Cason in Bryan County GA in the 1820 census. She apparently died between 1820 and 1830.
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Husband James Daugherty
Born: 1795 - Georgia 24
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Father: Dempsey Daugherty
Mother:
Marriage:
Wife Nancy Bassett
Born: 1803 - Georgia 24
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Died: Abt 1845 - Ware (now Clinch) County, GA 24
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Children
1 F Martha Daugherty
Born: 19 May 1842 - Ware (now Clinch) County, GA 23
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Died: 12 Dec 1920 - Howell, Echols County, Georgia 23
Buried:
Spouse: James Burnett
Marr: Dec 1870 - Echols County, GA 23
Spouse: Samuel Tumblin
General Notes: Husband - James Daugherty
DAUGHARTY, James Buried in Prospect Cemetery, Hamilton County, GA
Descendants of James Carter of Lancaster CASON, PURNELL.
1795-1878
CLINCH
JAMES DAUGHARTY was born in this state, in Effingham or Screven county, in 1795, son of Dempsey Daugharty. It appears that he grew to manhood in Bulloch county and the family was cut into Emanuel County in 1812. He was married twice. The first wife was Nancy Bassett, born 1803 in Effingham or Bulloch county, Georgia. She had a brother, William Bassett, who moved to Jasper, Florida, and died there. The following children were born by the first wife:
1. John
2. Elizabeth
3. Francis
4. James
5. William
6. Nancy
7. Penelope
8. Martha
The second marriage was to Miss Sarah J. Pease, born 1818, in Georgia. It is likely this marriage took place in Florida. There was a daughter, Sarah Jane, born 1848 in Georgia, born by this marriage; she apparently died young.
James Daugharty took his bride soon after his first marriage, in Emanuel County, and emigrated to the new county of Appling about 1825; four years later they moved to Hamilton County, Florida. Within a few years they had moved back to Georgia and located in Ware (now Clinch) County. There he bought Lot of Land No. 438, 12th district, on Suwannoochee Creek, and cleared up a farm and lived there until his first wife died, sometime about 1845; she was buried there. He then sold out and moved to Columbia County, Florida, where he married the second wife and lived for some years. His last years were spent in Baker County, Florida, near Sanderson.
Census References: 1820, Tattnall; 1830, Hamilton Co. Florida; 1840, Ware; 1850, Columbia Co. Florida; 1870, Baker Co. Florida.
Husband George Carter
Born: 1782
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Father: George Carter 108
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Wife Elizabeth Baxter
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Husband Stephen Baxter
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Wife Rebecca Carter
Born: 1794
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Father: George Carter 108
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Husband Franklin Lawrence Smith 163
Born: 19 Sep 1859 - St. Johns Co., FL
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Died: 12 Oct 1898 - Hamilton Co., FL
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Marriage: 17 Dec 1878 - Hamilton Co., FL
Wife Catherine Nancy Beal
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General Notes: Husband - Franklin Lawrence Smith
Husband Daniel Beale 62
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1 F Hannah Beale
Born:
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Died: 9 Oct 1722 62
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Spouse: James Carter
Marr: 3 Oct 1715
Husband James Carter
Born: 25 Dec 1684 62
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Died: 24 Oct 1743 62
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Father: Captain Thomas Carter Sr.
Mother: Catharine Dale
Marriage: 3 Oct 1715
Wife Hannah Beale
Born:
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Died: 9 Oct 1722 62
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Father: Daniel Beale 62
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Children
1 M Dan Carter
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2 M Presley Carter
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3 F Hannah Carter
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General Notes: Husband - James Carter
and Stafford Counties, Va.
James Carter, eighth son of Capt. Thomas and Catharine Dale
Carter, was born at "Barford", Lancaster county, on "Christmas
Day, 1684, it being a Thursday at 2 in y" :Morn^ & was Christn^
at Home on Sunday. M'. Jno: Edwards, ^.P. Tho : Wilkes &
M". Edwards standing as Godpar'^"
James Carter was married twice, first on Oct. 3, 1715, to Han-
nah Xeale, daughter of Daniel Xeale, presumably of the North-
umberland family.
"M^. Hannah Carter Deparf^ this life on 9th Octo., 1722, and
left a sorrowful Husband and 4 tender Children Tho. Dan\\ Presly,
and Hannah.*' On Aug. 12, 1724, the "sorrowful Husband" con-
soled himself with another bride in the person of Mary, daughter
of Hugh Brent, of Lancaster. They removed to Stafford county,
where "^Mr. James Carter, of Stafford" had the following grants
of land in that county: 393 acres, Feb. 5. 1725 ; 1.137 acres Sept.
26, 1726 \emdash his brother Joseph, of Lancaster, was a half owner in
this, but later sold out to James; 188 acres, April 19, 1728; 549
acres in King George county, Oct. 18, 1727; and 605 acres in
Prince William county above the Falls of the Potomac, adjoining
land of the said Carter, June 13, I73i- Thus he owned about
twenty-nine hundred acres, besides what he may have had from
private parties. The mutilated condition of the Stafford records
makes it impossible to obtain very full data of this branch of the
family.
The Overwharton Register says that James Carter, "an honest,
good man," died Oct. 24, 1743. The will book for this period is
missing, but the old order books show during the next ten years
numerous mention of Charles Brent as executor of "Mr. James
Carter, Deed" and also guardian of his younger children. From
the old Carter Prayer Book and the Overwharton Register we
find that James Carter had issue as follows :
GENEALOGY OF THE CARTER FAMILY 321
First ^vlarriage.
1. Thomas Carter, no other data. . ' - - -
2. Daniel Carter, no other data. • - ¦ '
3. Hannah Carter, no other data.
4. Presley Carter, no other data. ' - - ¦
Second marriage.
5. Joseph Carter, born in 1725. probably in Lancaster at his
grandfather Brent's in accordance with a custom of those days.
6. John Carter, born May 7, 1727. in Stafford.
7. James Carter, born vlar. 31, 1729, in Stafford.
8. William Caner. born Jan. 11, 1731. in Stafford (twin).
9. George Carter, born Jan. 11, 1731. in Stafford (twin).
10. Catharine Carter, born April i, 1735, in Staft'ord.
11. Hugh Carter, born Xov. 8, 1740, in Stafford.
12. Charles Carter, born Oct. 10, 1743, in Stafford.
5. Joseph Carter, eldest son of James and Mary Brent Carter,
with his brothers, John and George Carter, heirs of James Carter,
Dec'd had a grant on Sept. 4, 1747. for 1,137 acres of land
formerly granted to their father and his brother Joseph Carter,
of Lancaster county. He is mentioned in the will of his brother
William Carter probated in Stafford in 1761, and does not appear
again in the Stafford records. The census of 1785 mentions a
Joseph Carter, of Stafford, head of a family of three.
He may have been the Joseph Carter, ancestor of the Carters
of Bath and Morgan counties, Kentucky. They have a tradition
that their ancestor, Joseph Carter was a soldier in the Revolu-
tion, and after that emigrated to Kentucky, and settled on a farm
in Bath county. This Joseph Carter had a son. Dr. Benjamin
Carter, of Bath county, and a son Joseph, who was 14 years old
when they removed to Kentucky. Joseph, Jr., married Betsy
Scott, said to have been a daughter of Rev. John Scott, of Prince
William county, 'a., son of Rev. James Scott of same county,
who was a brother of Rev. Alex. Scott, of Stafford \emdash all distin-
guished ministers of the Episcopal Church in 'irginia prior to
the Revolution. Rev. James Scott was also an ancestor of the
well-known families of Bullitt and Blackfiurn. of Kentucky, and
Wa-hingtcn, of Jeff'erson county, V'a.
322 GEXEALOGV OF THE CARTER FAMILY
Joseph Carter, Jr., represented Morgan county, Ky., in the
State Legislature in 1S44. He had issue: Asa, Cynthia, Benj. F.,
Dr. Willis Green, Winifred, Polly, Margaret, and Frances.
6. JoHx Carter, born Alay 7, 1727, in Stafford, died in thai
county in 1790. In addition to being a planter, he was a "House
Joyner" by trade, as in his day it was the rule that every boy
should be apprenticed to learn some trade, unless he was heir to
a very great fortune. June 12. 1759, Thomas Thacker, orphan of
Thomas Thacker, of King George county, apprenticed himself to
John Carter, "Joyner," of Stattord, binding liirnself not to "play
at cards, or dice or arfy dther unlawful games." John "Career was
married circa. i75o-"5i to Leanna . . The Overwharton Reg-
ister records the birth of two of their sons, but they had other
children: one, probably a daughter, was at home with them in
1785. They were:
13. James Carter, born Ju'y 17, 1751. died in 1793.
14. John Carter, Jr., born, June i, 1754, died in 1791.
In June, 1790, William Edwards gave security as executor of
the estate of John Carter, Sr., and in Sept. of same year was
summoned by the court to settle the estates of John and Leanna
Carter, Dec'd.
13. James Carter, was the head of a family of seven in tlic
census of 1785. Dec. 4, 1785. James Carter and wife ]\\Ialinda, of
Overwharton parish, Stafford, made a deed for 62 acres to Chas.
Porter; and in July, 1792. they acknowledged a bill of sale to
Edw. Xorman. James Carter had a judgment against Wm.
Sharpe at the March court in 1793. -"^n old index volume shows
that his inventory of estate was recorded in 1793. They probably
were the parents of John Carter, who on April 4, 1803, had an
assignment of a lease from Wm. Edwards, his grandfather. Jolm
Carter's executor. Xov. 27, 1807, this John Carter, of Staft'ord.
gave a deed of trust on four beds and furniture, a mahogany
dining table, "beaufet," desk, bookcase, candle stand, drcs.-in::
table, looking glass, walnut table, a dozen v.indsor chairs, eleven
silver spoons, and a parcel of earth.en and china ware. kitcl:cr.
GEXEALOGV OF THE CARTER FAMILY ^2^
utensils, etc., at liis liome in the town of Woodstock, Stafford
county.
14. JoHx Carter, Jr., born June i, 1754. died a year after his
father, leaving six children under 21 years of age. In March,
1792, Joseph Reddish, guardian of Wrenn Carter, Robert Carter,
Hannah Carter. Xancy Carter, Hugh Carter, and Thomas Carter,
orphans of John Carter, brought suit against \\Vm. Edwards, ex-
ecutor of John Carter, Sr.. their grandfather.
Sept. 17, 1799. Wrenn Carter, '"House Joiner" of Prince Wil-
liam county, sold his right and title to two negro girls, which he
brought suit that day to recover from his brother Thomas Car-
ter, who was a non-resident of the State. Which slaves were al-
loted to the said Thomas Carter as his proportion of "our De-
ceased father John Carter's estate allotted by the Commissioners
appointed by the Court of Stafford county, subjected to the sum
of £13 .4 .4d., which sum I have accoumed for and paid my father's
other legatees."
7. James Carter, third son of James and ]\\Iary Brent Carter,
seems to have inherited his father's plantation of 509 acres in
King George county, and does not appear in the Stafford records
after the settlement of his father's estate, except in the Over-
wharton Register, which states that Catharine, daughter of James
and Rachel Carter was born April 21, 1754.
In 1758 James and Rachel Carter leased to George Strother a
hundred acres of their land in King George county, and a year
later released him from the same. They probably were the parents
of sons, James and Lewis Carter, of King George county. Nov.
II, 1782, James Carter, of King George county, purchased from
Xehemiah and Sarah Rosdel a hundred acres of land in Orange
county, and on Oct. 24, 1809, James Carter and wife Frances, of
King George, sold the same land to brother Lewis Carter, of
King George.
8. William Carter, born 173 1, m.arried and died in Stafford.
His will probated Dec. 22, 1761, names wife Catliarine. and bro-
thers Joseph and John Carter, all of Stafford. Xo children men-
tioned.
324 GEXEALOGY of THE CARTER FAMILY
9. George Carter, the twin brother of William, inherited a
third of the 1,137 acres mentioned before, and settled in Staitord.
In 1777, George Carter, of Stafford, paid \\Vm. Green, of Cul-
peper, £700 for an improved plantation of 184 acres in Culpeper.
and Sept. 14, 1778, George Carter and wife Sally, of StaiTord,
sold the same to Henry Field and Leonard Barnes. The census
of 1785 does not name George Carter among the heads of families
in Stafford. The old general index shows that a Geo. Carter
died in 1813.
10. C.\\th.\\rixe Carter, only daughter of James Carter and
his second wife, was married Xov. 2^, 1755, to William Davis.
Xo other data.
11. Hugh Carter, born Nov. 8, 1740, was evidently named
for his grandfather Brent. Aug. 15, 1769, Hugh Carter, of Pr.
William county, deeded to William Davis, a sorrel horse and
feather bed. This Wm. Davis may have been Carter's brother-
in-law. X'o other data of Hugh Carter.
12. Charles Carter, youngest son of James and Alary Carter,
of Stafford, probably was the Charles Carter, who died in Cul-
peper in 1781 \emdash inventory of his estate recorded Dec. 29, 1781.
amounted to £138.25.. and included besides a good lot of furni-
ture, a dozen pieces of china, and six "whole books" and some
pieces. The furnishings of his home indicated that he had a fam-
ily. He may have been the father of Charles Carter, who mar-
ried Susannah Tapp, in Culpeper, Dec. 28, 1797; ]^Iary Carter.
who married Daniel Zimmerman, Feb. 6, 1794; and of Sallie Car-
ter, married Elliott Herndon, Dec. 10. 1791. A granddaugliter
of Joseph Carter, of Spotsylvania, in a letter written in 1789 men-
tions the above named Sally and Polly Carter, and speaks of them
as cousins. Says that Elliot Herndon was very attentive to Sal-
lie.
Husband Purnell Cason
Born: 1821 - Bryan Co., GA 164
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Died: 1891 - Columbia County, FL 164
Buried:
Father: Willoughby Cason
Mother: Mary Conner
Marriage: 20 Dec 1838 - Hamilton Co., FL 164
Wife Elizabeth Beall 164
Born:
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Died: - Columbia County, FL 164
Buried:
Father: Henry Beall
Mother:
Children
1 M Wherry Cason
Born: 16 May 1847 - Hamilton Co., FL 165
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Died: 12 Feb 1905 - Benton (Columbia Co) FL 165
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Spouse: Martha Jane Sandlin
Marr: 15 Oct 1867 - Benton (Columbia Co) FL 165
General Notes: Husband - Purnell Cason
1820-1891
FLORIDA
Parnell (or Purnall) Cason was born about 1820 in Bryan County, son of Willoughby and Mary Connor Cason (Vol. VI). He came with his parents when they moved to Ware County in his boyhood, and lived there until 1838 when he went to Hamilton County, Fla., to live. He was married there the same year on Dec. 20, 1838, to Elizabeth Beal, a daughter of Henry Beal. Born to them were ten children, viz:
1. James R.
2. Henry J.
3. Pollie Ann
4. Wherry C.
5. Quintteen (girl)
6. Willoughby
7. Lucinda
8. Elizabeth
9. Emma Matilda
10. Oscar Parnell
Mr. Cason during his stay in Ware County, Georgia, served in the Indian War as a private in Capt. James Walker's Company of Ware County militia, June 9th to Aug. 19, 1838. He served in the Civil War in Co. "B", ist Florida Infantry Reserves, 1864-5. He lived in the Prospect Church community of Hamilton County and he and his wife were members of that church. His uncle, Willis Cason (Vol. V) was one of the founders and leaders in the church. In 1856, he sold out his holdings near Prospect Church and moved to a farm which he had bought located in the Benton community of northeast Columbia County, only a few miles from where he had formerly lived. He died there in 1891, and his wife died soon after. They were buried in a family cemetery known as the Cason-Green Harrington burying ground on his old homeplace. Their graves were marked but the stones have disappeared.
Parnell Cason's step-mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Handley-Yarbrough Cason later married Henry Beal, thus making Parnell and his wife to have the same step-mother.
Husband Henry Beall
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Died: 1867 - Nassau County, FL
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Marriage: 1857 - Charlton Co., GA
Wife Elizabeth Handley
Born: 1808
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Died: Abt 1901
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Other Spouse: Willoughby Cason - 1849
Children
Husband Henry Beall
Born:
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Died: 1867 - Nassau County, FL
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Wife
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1 F Elizabeth Beall 164
Born:
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Died: - Columbia County, FL 164
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Spouse: Purnell Cason
Marr: 20 Dec 1838 - Hamilton Co., FL 164