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MONTGOMERY -FLOYD REGIO AL LIBRARY
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B~IEF
HISTORY OF THE ANCESTORS OF
JOHN TAYLOR AGEE and LAURA EPPERLY
married December 2 , 1903
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Researched and compiled by
William Clyde and Eugenia Callison Agee
Route 1, Box 606
Riner, Virginia 24149
1989
TO OUR SONS
"BILL"
WILLIAM CLYDE AGEE, II
and
n
JON"
SIDNEY JONATHAN AGEE
in memory of your grandparents
JOHN TAYLOR AND LAURA EPPERLY AGEE
WHAT IF
If you could see your ancestors
all standing in a row,
Would you be proud of the~,
or don't you really know?
Some strange discoveries are made
in climbing family trees.
And some of them, you know,
do not particularly please.
If you could see your ancestors,
all standing in a row,
There might be some of them, perhaps,
you wouldn_' t care to know.
But there's another question
which requires a point of view.
If you could meet your ancestors
WOULD THEY BE PROUD OF YOU?
author unknown to me
Eugenia Callison Agee -1989
Bill and I have been researching the lives of our
ancestors for ten or eleven years, first traveling from
Dover, Delaware to courthouses in Floyd, Franklin,Patric k ,
Augusta, Montgomery, Cumberland and other counties in
Virginia as well as many in West Virginia. We've spent
many days in libraries from Dover, Del. to Richmond,
Va. to Charleston, W. Va.
Most of our ancestors "comings and goings" are public record as they documented their land holdings and
other dealings by deed or other legal instrument. Many
had no qualms about suing other family members if they
felt they had been wronged.
One thing, among many, we learned early was to consider county boundaries as they were then. When counties
were formed the records remained where they were created.
A record for a resident of what is now Floyd County could
be in Lunenburg, Bedford, Montgomery or Franklin County.
We've made an effort to document what we have written,
but there will be errors. We have many files on the Aunts,
Uncles and Cousins but have chosen to go back through the
direct lineage to keep confusion to a minimum. We are
willing to share our records and welcome your input.
Researchers are, I suppose, a strange breed of people - walking through creeks, cow pastures, dense forests and other eerie places looking for grave sites.
In most cases our folks lived very near where they were
buried so when we found their family cemeteries we had
also found their home sites.
We've learned to know ~nd care for our long ago
grandmas and grandpas and, of course , to pick favorites
just as if they were still here with us.
We hope our efforts are enjoyed.
May 23, 1989
Route 1, Box 606
Riner, Virginia 24149
INDEX
Pag e No .
Section
Contents
I
John Taylor a nd Laura Epperly Agee-----
1--- 8
II
Ancestors of Laura Epperly------------Beheler-------------------------------Cannaday------------------------------Epperly-------------------------------Gilham-------------------J------------Goodykoontz---------------------------Lemon---------------------------------Phares--------------------------------Sowers--------------------------------Wright--------------------------------Young----------------------------------
10--12
13--18
19--29
30--33
34--36
37--40
41--49
50--52
53--54
55--58
Ancestors of John Taylor Agee---------Adams---------------------------------Agee----------------------------------Brammer-------------------------------Godwin--------------------------------Hylton--------------------------------Ingram--------------------------------Nolen---------------------------------Worley---------------------------------
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60--67
68--78
79--81
82--84
85--89
90--92
93--98
99-100
III
TO READ THE FAMILY TREES
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(Pages 9 and 59)
The Fathers are entered to the right and the Mothers
to the left--Example-- Laura Epperly's Mother was Nancy
Adaline Cannaday, Nancy's Mother was Elizabeth Lemon,
Elizabeth's Mother was Sally Young, Sally's Mother was
Nancy Walker - the name of Nancy's Mother is unknown to
us.
TO READ THE ANCESTRY CHARTS
The couple on line 1 were the parents of the person
on the left on line 2.
and so on and so on---
1
LAURA EPPERLY
Laura Epperly was born February 11, 1884 to John
William and Nancy Adaline Cannaday Epperly in Floyd
County, Virginia.
We're not sure where Laura went to school.
She
had as teachers, at different times, Miss Molly Thompson
and Miss Lena Lawson.
Elva Keith has told us of her
Mother (Laura's older sister) telling them that Laura was
exceptiona~ly bright.
Laura's parents were members of West Fork Primitive
Baptist Church so we feel sure that is where she went
to church.
We're told that Laura met John Agee at his store at
Falling Branch. This was not a great distance from her
home. We don't know how long their courtship lasted.
They married about three months before her 20th birthday.
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JOHN TAYLOR AGEE
John Taylor Agee was born July 28, 1882 to John
Tazewell and Ruth Lillian Nolen Agee at Elamsville,
Patrick County, Virginia.
He apparently grew up in the Elamsville-Woolwine
area among his Aunts, Uncles and Cousins on the Nolen
side of his family. · His Nolen grandparents had died
prior to his birth.
.
We don't know where John went to school or what
his life was like in Patrick County.
We're told he
loved to dance.
His Agee grandparents lived in Floyd
County (near the Patrick County line) and we have
imagined that he probably visited them.
It was not a
great distance.
By age 21 John was a merchant at Falling Branch
in Floyd County, which was a few miles south of the
town of Floyd on what is now (1989) State Route 221.
This is where he met his future wife, Miss Laura Epperly.
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The following we dd in g announcement appeared in t he Floyd
Press, the local newspaper of Floyd County, Virg i n ia.
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AGEE
EPPERLY
Yesterday at 11 o'clock, a very pretty wedding was
solemnized at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Epperly, near town, when Mr. J. T. Agee led
to the altar Miss Laura Epperly.
The ceremony was performed in a very impressive manner by Eld. P. G. Lester,
of the Primitive Baptist Church.
Their attendants were as follows:
C. M. Epperly
with Miss Annie Whitlow, Junius Brogan with Miss Linnie
Cannaday, Emmett Turner with Miss Minnie Hooker, and
Daniel Thomas with Miss Linnie Nowlin.
The last four
named are from Elamsville.
Immediately after the ceremony all repaired to the
dining room, where a sumptous repast was spread and to
which all did ample justice.
After dinner the bride and
groom, accompanied by their attendants, left for the home
of the groom's parents at Elamsville.
They will return
Saturday.
The groom is a prosperous merchant at Falling Branch,
while the bride is one of our most popular and estimable
young ladies.
The PRESS extends congratulations to this happy
young couple and wishes for them a pleasant and prosperous journey through life.
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Mr. John Taylor Agee, son of John Tazewell and Ruth
Lillian Nolen Agee and Miss Laura Epperly, daughter of
John William and Nancy Adaline Cannaday Epperly were
married on Wednesday December 2, 1903 in Floyd County,
Virginia.
As shown in the wedding announcement, John was operating a store at Falling Branch at this time. Falling
Branch was near the town of Floyd on what is now (1989)
State Rte. 221 south.
By October 1904 they were living in Patrick County,
Virginia where their first child was born.
They moved
many times after that living in Floyd, Patrick, Henry
and Roanoke Cou nt ies in Virginia and, for a whil e , in
McDowell County, West Virginia.
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continue d
While living in Roanoke County, John and Laura were
members of Central Church of the Brethren. Bill remembers
always getting there just on time or a little late and
he also remembers that he and Louise always misbehaved
and got spanked when they got home.
In 1939-40 they bought a farm near Forest in Bedford County, Virginia where they spent the rest of their
lives. They had, a t this time, three children at home J. T., Jr., William and Louise.
Emmetthad married Mae
Peters, Nannie Ruth had married Rex Beach, Ola had married Hubert Harris, Lois had married Stokely Terry, Doris
was in nursing school. Two of their children had died
shortly after birth, Mary in 1906 and James in 1909.
During World War II John and Laura had three of
their children (John T.,Jr., Doris and William) as well
as three sons-in-law (Hubert Harris, Rex Beach and
Stokely Terry) in the service.
They kept up correspondence with all of them, sent pictures and gifts and prayed
for the war to end.
Their children all came safely home.
Their children visited often and large meals were
prepared and enjoyed. Company was welcomed for meals as
well as overnight. Any holiday was a reason to get together - but Christmas was very special. The family
members began arriving early Christmas Eve and by afternoon the tables were spread with many kinds of meat,
vegetables, breads, cakes, pies, fruits - some prepared
there others brought from the various homes. Later in
the evening gifts were exchanged in the living room
beside the large tree brought from the woods and carefully decorated. Some family members spent the night
and continued the celebration while others left for
their own homes.
John worked as a merchant and a carpenter and after
moving to Bedford County set up and operated a saw mill.
He raised rabbits, chickens, hogs and cows for meat, eggs,
milk and butter for the family.
He also grew their vegetables and fruits as well as grain and hay for the livestock.
Laura's life was spent caring for her family, teaching and training her children, canning and preserving
the mountains of food needed for the winters, doing the
other necessary chores and still finding time to make
q~ilts and to croc het bedspreads.
One Christmas Laura
and Louise made se t s of seven dish towels (from feed
sacks) for each of the couples, drawing threads near the
hems and embroidering the day of the week on each towel.
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c o n t inued
John and Laura's youngest daughter, Louise, finished
high school in Bedford County and later completed a
business course in Roanoke.
She had worked about six
months when she decided she was needed at home to care
for her parents. She stayed with them until their deaths,
Laura in 1956 and John in 1965. John, with gentle urging from his other children, deeded the farm to Louise
for her care and devotion.
Laura Epperly Agee died in Jefferson Hospital in
Roanoke, Virginia March 17, 1956 of a brain tumor. She
was buried in the cemetery of Mt. Carmel Methodist
Church at Perroville in Bedford County, Virginia. This
was where she had worshiped and is near where she had
last lived.
The cemetery is at the intersection of what
is now (1989) Bedford county roads # 644 and 663 off
State Rte. 221 from the town of Forest, Virginia.
John lived in the large house with Louise there to
care for him nine more years.
He died May 23, 1965 in
the Bedford Hospital, Bedford, Virginia of a strangulated
hernia. He was buried beside Laura at Mt. Carmel cemetery.
John Taylor and Laura Epperly Agee were the pare nts of:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9•
10.
Charles EmmetrAgee
Mary Agee
James Agee
Nannie Ruth Agee
Ola Virginia Agee
Lois Epperly Agee
Doris Lillian Agee
John Taylor Agee, Jr.
William Clyde Agee
Laura Louise Agee
* maiden name was Callison
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
Siller Mae Peters
b.&d. 2/2/1906
b.6/28 d.7/2/1909
Rex Beach
Hubert Earle Harris
Richard Stokely Terry
Never married
Billie Dove DeWitt
Eugenia C. Robertson*
Jesse Hillner
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First Row (kneeling) Nannie Ruth Agee Beach, Charles Emmett Agee
Standing (left to right and front to back) Doris Lillian Agee, John Taylor Agee, Jr.,
Laura Louise Agee, John Taylor Agee, Sr., Laura Epperly Agee, Ola Virginia Agee Harris,
Lois Epperly Agee Terry and William Clyde Agee. Picture was taken at Starkey, Virginia about 1943.
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RightParents of Laura E. Agee,
John William and Nancy
Adaline Cannaday Epperly
LeftParents of John Taylor Agee
John Tazewell and Ruth Lillian
Nolen Agee
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Baby is their grandson -Leon
Lackey - their daughter Lillie's
child. Picture was taken in the
fall of 1920 (Leon had been born
April, 1920)
WEST FORK PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH
On what is now (1989) State Rte. 221 southwest of the town of Floyd near intersection of 221 and
Floyd County rt. 807. Church has fallen down-chimneys and stone steps still stand
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OUR BEHELER ANCESTORS
DAVID BEHELER
ELIZABETH
ID.
ELIZABETH BEHELER
NANCY PHARES
LAURA EPPERLY
ID.
ID.
ID.
AMARIAH PHARES
JOHN M. EPPERLY
ID.
EDEN EPPERLY
JOHN WILLIAM EPPERLY
ID.
LEAH GILHAM
NANCY ADALINE CANNADAY
JOHN TAYLOR AGEE
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DAVID & ELIZABETH BEHELER
David and Elizabeth Beheler lived in Franklin
County, Virginia on the waters of Pigg River and
Chestnut.
They were the parents of at least eight
children who were named in property settlements
which began in 1814, after David had died, and lasted
until 1828.
Elizabeth was still alive in 1814 when she released all claim to the 300 acres of land she and
David had owned for $ 30.00.
The money was to be
paid to her by her children and their spouses.
In
1828 George Beheler entered a lawsuit against his
brothers and sisters to force the sale of the land.
The 300 acres was sold by the commissioner to the
highest bidder - and George became the owner for the
sum of $ 1.00.
Children of David and Elizabeth Beheler were:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
ELIZABETH BEHELER
Catherine Beheler
George Beheler
Jacob Beheler
Nancy Beheler
David Beheler
Polly Beheler
John Beheler
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
AMARIAH PHARES
Robert Scarborough
Mary Doss
Susannah Doss
Frederick Fishburn
no info.
no info.
Mildred
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ELIZABETH BEHELER
Elizabeth Beheler, daughter of David and Elizabeth Beheler, lived in Franklin County, Virginia prior
to her marriage on January 13, 1791 to Amariah Phares.
She must have been born in 1775.
She was German and
we're told that she spoke only German and Amariah
only English when they met.
Elizabeth and Amariah were the parents of eight
children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
NANCY PHARES
John B. Phares
Elizabeth Phares
Mary Phares
Sarah (Sally) Phares
Hannah Phares
Rachel Phares
Son-name not known
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
JOHN M. EPPERLY
Rachel Rupe
Henry Rutroff
Mart'in Walters
John Sowers
Jonathan Iddings
John Becket
Was dead by 1831
I am not sure when Elizabeth died nor where she
was buried. She and Amariah owned 75 acres of land
in the part of Franklin County that became Floyd
County in 1831. This land was, in 1831, sold by
Elizabeth and her children to her son-in-law and
daughter John M. and Nancy Phares Epperly.
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OUR CANNADAY ANCESTORS
JAMES CANNADAY (SR.)
WILLIAM CANNADAY
STEPHEN CANNADAY
ID~
ID.
ELIZABETH RAIKES
MARTHA WRIGHT
ELIZABETH LEMON
ID.
LAURA EPPERLY
ID.
ID.
JOHN TAYLOR AGEE
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JAMES CANNADAY (SR.)
James Cannaday (Sr.) was born about 1755 and died
February 1817.
His record during the Revolutionary
War shows service from October 1776 through March 1,
1777.
James married Elizabeth Raikes in 1775. They lived
in the west end of Franklin County, Virginia on Runnet
Bag Creek.
This is now (1989) on the Franklin-Floyd
County line.
They were, reportedly, parents of twelve
children although records have been found for only 8.
1. Elizabeth Cannaday
2. WILLIAM CANNADAY
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
m.
m.
m.
Mary Cannaday
m.
James Cannaday, Jr. m.
Charles Cannaday
ffi.
David Cannaday
ffi
Pleasant Cannaday
ffi.
John Cannaday
ffi.
Isaiah Turner
MARTHA (PATS¥> WRIGHT
2nd. Nancy Winfrey Hill
Pleasant Thomas
Sarah Young
Mary Ingram
Jane Walker
Elizabeth Young
Martha (Susan) Winfrey
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WILLIAM (PATRICK BILLY) CANNADAY
William Cannaday, son of James and Elizabeth Raikes
Cannaday, was born in Franklin County, Virginia 1781-83.
He married about 1804 to Martha "Patsy" wright, daughter
of Joshua and Hester wright. Family legend is that she
was 12 years old when they married.
After Patsy's death in 1857 William Cannaday married
September 11, 1857 in Floyd County, Va. to Nancy
Winfrey Hill, widow, daughter of Steven and Mary Winfrey.
William's place of residence was Patrick County
and Nancy's was Floyd County. William and Nancy had
drawn up a marriage contract on September 10, 1857 (the
day before their marriage).
She agreed, if he died
first, not to make any claims against his estate and
he agreed to give her a certain tract of land and a
negro woman named Lee Ann.
William Cannaday died July 11, 1874. His death was
reported by his son Constantine who gave his age as
93. He also said William lived about 5 miles east of
Charity in Patrick County, Va.
His burial site or that
of either of his wives have not been found.
William and Patsy Cannaday were the parents of
24 children including three sets of twins:
1. Nancy Cannaday
m.
2. Mary Cannaday
m.
3. James B. Cannaday
m.
4. Martha Cannaday
m.
5. Fleming Cannaday
m.
6.Pleasant Cannaday
m.
7. Delilah Cannaday
m.
8. William Cannaday
m.
9. Joshua Cannaday
m.
10.Constantine Cannadaym.
11.Susan Cannaday
m.
l2.Jacob B. Cannaday
m.
13.STEPHEN CANNADAY
m.
l4.Randolph Cannaday
m.
lS.Marshall P. Cannadaym.
16.John Cannaday
m.
17.Elizabeth Cannaday m.
18.Mahala Cannaday
19.Hester Cannaday
20.Burwell Cannaday
21.Ira Cannaday
22.Granvel Cannaday
23.Tommy Cannaday
24.Died at birth
Anderson Taylor
John Randolph Hall
Charlotte Agnew
John Moran
Susannah Thomas
Deborah Hall
James S. Moran
Elizabeth Hylton
Lydia Short
1st. Sarah Hall
2nd. Elizabeth Martin
Lewis Burnett
Ellender Cannaday
ELIZABETH LEMON
Mary Jane Via
Ann Sumpter
Sally Bartlett
Reuben Rakes
no information
no information
no information
no information
no information
no information
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WILLIAM (PATRICK BILLY) CANNADAY - continued
The names of the last seven children were given to
me by Elva Keith ( a gr. gr. granddaughter of william
and Martha) with a notation that she got them from
Callahil Epperly and Virgil Cannaday.
Many of the descendants of William and Martha moved
to Raleigh and Wyoming Counties in West Virginia and
were coal miners, merchants and mechanics.
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STEPHEN CANNADAY
Stephen Cannaday, son of William and Martha Wright
Cannaday was born in Patrick County, Virginia in 1828.
He married February 18, 1846, in Floyd County, Va. to
Elizabeth Lemon, daughter of Isaac, Jr. and Sally
Young Lemon.
Stephen is listed as a blacksmith in the Floyd
County records of births of their children.
Stephen died in 1879 and Elizabeth died in 1886.
They were both buried in the "Ballinger" Cemetery
which is on Floyd County, Va. road 807 off Rte. 83 miles south of the town of Floyd. This is high on
a hill on the farm of (1989) Kyle Lee.
Stephen and Elizabeth were the parents of:
1. Tazewell H. Cannadaym.
2. Isaac L. Cannaday
m.
3 . Stuart Cannaday
m.
4 . NANCY A. CANNADAY
m.
5. Emtnazetta Cannaday
m.
6. Laura M. Cannaday
7. Eliza Cannaday
8. Sarah E. Cannaday
m.
m.
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Julia Ann Foster
Emma Jamison
Nannie O'Brien
JOHN WM. EPPERLY
1st. Elkanah Weddle
2nd.John W. Epperly
John Weaver
Will Epperly
no information
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Nancy Adaline Cannaday, daughter of Stephen H. and
Elizabeth Lemon Cannaday was born June 19, 1854 in
Floyd County, Virginia. She married May 16, 1875 to
John William Epperly, son of Eden and Leah Gilham
Epperly. Officiating minister at their wedding was
Wilson H. Dodd.
They lived on Dodd's Creek about three miles south
of the town of Floyd on what is now (1989) county rd.
720. They attended the West Fork Primitive Baptist
Church, as had his parents.
Nancy and John were
probably neighbors as they grew up as the lands of
their parents adjoined.
Nancy Adaline Cannaday Epperly died February 18,
1928 and was buried in the "Ballinger" Cemetery very
near their home and where her parents and John's were
buried. This is on what is now(1989) county road 807
off route 8 about three miles from the town of Floyd,
Va. on a farm currently owned by Kyle Lee.
Nancy and John were the parents of:
1. Arthur E. Epperly
2. Levi G. Epperly
3. Isaac L. Epperly
m.
m.
m.
5. Callahil M. Epperly m.
4. Etta M. Epperly
m.
6. LAURA EPPERLY
m.
7. Fitzhugh L. Epperly m.
8. Giles M. Epperl y
m.
9. L. Elizabeth Epperlym.
10.Julia Epperly
m.
11.Florence Epperl y
m.
Sallie L. DeHart
Clara V. DeHart
1st. Linda Weddle
2nd. Nellie witham
Linnie E. Cannaday
Daniel F. Smith
JOHN TAYLOR AGEE
Alzora Ratliff
Eugenia Draper
Edgar V. Roop
L. Dow Blair
Raymond Cole
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OUR EPPERLY (EBERLE) ANCESTORS
JACOB EBERLE
JACOB EPPERLY, JR.
m.
ELIZABETH ______
m.
CATHERINA SAUR (SOWERS)
JOHN M. EPPERLY
EDEN EPPERLY
LAURA EPPERLY
m.
M.
m.
m.
NANCY PHARES
LEAH GILHAM
JOHN TAYLOR AGEE
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JACOB and ELIZABETH EBERLE
Jacob and Elizabeth Eberle lived in Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania in the mid 1700s.
By 1775 they
had moved to Frederick County, Maryland.
They were
members of Saint Peter's Lutheran Church in woodsboro,
Maryland where all of their children took their first
communion.
They were the parents of:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Christina Eberle
George Eberle
m.
JACOB EBERLE
m.
Anna Eliz. Eberle
m.
Christian Eberle
m.
John Eberle
m.
Eva Catherine Eberlem.
b. 1757 *
Maria Morgel
CATHERINA SAUR (SOWERS)
George Saur
Elizabeth Morgelin
Susanna Roth
David Funderburg
The Eberles were German as were the Morgels (Morricles),
the Saurs (Sowers) and others. Their church records, wills,
etc. were kept in German and have been translated. The
church records have been invaluable as they recorded all
births, baptisms, communions, marriages.
By 1796 three of J.~cob and Elizabeth's sons and one
daughter had migrated~Virginia - as had many of their
neighbors.
Their first child Christina apparently
remained single. She was still alive in 1810, when
her father wrote his will.
The last record of Jacob and Elizabeth taking communion was in May, 1802. Elizabeth had died by the time
Jacob wrote his will on November 20, 1810. The will
was probated May 7, 1811.
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Will of Jacob Epperly (Eberle), Sr. of Frederick County, Maryland
In the Name of God, Amen. I Jacob Epperly, of Frederick
County in the State of ~\aryland, carpenter I being sick and weak in
body but of sound and disposing mind, merrory and understanding
considering the certainty of Death and the uncertainty of the ti..rre
thereof and being desirous to settle my worldly affairs and thereby
be the better prepared to leave this world when it shall please God
to call me hence do therefore make and publish this my last will and
Testament in the manner and form following, that is to say, First
and principally I carrnit my soul unto the hands of Almighty God and
my body to the Earth to be decently buried at the Discretion of my
Executor hereinafter narred and after my Debts and Funeral charges
are paid I Devise and bequeath as follows Item, I give and bequeath unto my beloved son John Epperly the
whole of my Real and the one half of my Personal Estate to him his
heirs and assigns forever on the following Condition that is to say
my son John Epperly is to pay immediately after my decease unto my
Daughter Christina the sum of t~nty-five pounds current money one year after my decease unto my son George the sum of fifteen
pounds current money - tv.D years after my decease unto my son Jacob
the sum of fifteen pounds current money - three years after my decease unto my son Christian the sum of fifteen pounds current rroneyfour years after my decease unto my daughter Elizabeth Sours the
sum of fifteen pounds current money - five years after my decease
unto my daughter catherine Funderburg the sum of fifteen pounds
current money to them their heirs and assigns forever.
Item, I give and bequeath unto my before named daughter,
Christina my Bed and the residue of my Personal Estate to her and
her heirs or assigns forever.
And lastly I constitute ordain and appoint my ~ll beloved
son John Epperly my whole and sole Executor of this my last will and
Testament hereby revoking all former wills before this made, ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and
Testament. In witness whereof, I Jacob Epperly have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my seal this t~ntieth day of November in the
year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and ten.
Signed, sealed, published and pronounced
by the said Jacob Epperly to be his
last will and Testament in the presence
of us the subscribers.
Jacob (his X mark) Epperly
David Funderburg, _ _ _ _Margel,
George Fox
Frederick County, to wit, on the 7th day of May 1811 then came John
Epperly and made oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God that the
foregoing instrument of writing is the true whole will and Testament
of Jacob Epperly late of Frederick County.
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JACOB EPPERLY, JR.
Jacob Epperly, Jr., son of Jacob an d Elizabeth
Eberle took his first communion at St . . Peter's Lutheran
Church, Woodsboro, Maryland September 13, 1778 when
he was 15 years old.
He married on A~ ril 5, 1785 at
Monocacy Church in 'Frederick County, Maryland to
Catharina Saurin. All of these earl y records were
written in German and later translate d .
"1785, April
5.
Jacob Eberle and Catharina Saurin proclaimed 3
times. Witnesses:
George and Christina Eberle.
Johann and Jacob and Margreth Saur"
Jacob and Catherine's first six children were born
in Frederick County, Maryland, as shown by Baptismal
records of St. Peter's Lutheran Churc h .
They came to Montgomery (now Floyd) County, Virginia
about 1796.
Jacob bought 250 acres of land on Little
River near Terrys Creek.
This is northeast of the town
of Floyd.
Jacob and Catherine's last seven c h ildren were born
in what is now Floyd County, Virginia and baptised at
Zion Lutheran Church.
When the church was formally
established in 1813, Jacob Eberle and family, 13 in
number, were charter members.
Their children were:
1. Betsy (Eliz.) Epperly m.
2. Catherine Epperly
m.
3. George Epperly
m.
4. JOHN M. EPPERLY
m..
5. Jacob Epperly
m.
6. Juliana Epperly
7. Soloman Epperly
8. Maria Epperly
9. Philip Rpperly
m.
10.Polly Epperly
m.
11.Peggy Epperly
12.Sally Epperly
m.
13.Daniel Epperly
m.
George Spangler
William Lampe
S;:Illy Sowers
NANCY PHARES
Polly Howry
b. 4/16/1795 No info.
b. 5/14/1797 No info.
b. 2/12/1799 No info.
Rhoda
Jacob Sowers
b. 12/9/1 8 03 No info.
James P. Lawrence
Elizabeth Lawrence
23
JACOB EPPERLY, JR
-continued
Catherine Sowers Epperly had died by the time Jacob
wrote his will on April 9, 1849.
Four of his children
had also died.
Jacob"s son Philip posted bond on June
18, 1849 after his father had died.
We're told that Jacob and Catherine were buried
at the Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, but we have been
unable find their graves.
24
Will of Jacob Epperly of Floyd County, Virginia
In the name of God, Amen, I Jacob Epperly, sen. of the County of
Floyd and State of Virginia, feeling my body strength fast departing
fran rre and knowing that it is appointed unto rran once to die, and
being of a sound, disposing mind, do make and publish this my last
will and testament.
As follows (to wit). First of all, I direct and order that my neccessary burial and funeral expenses shall be first paid out of my
estate or effects. Secondly, I bequeath or give to my two sons
George and Daniel Ten Dollars each. Thirdly, I direct that all the
balance of my estate or effects shall be equally divided between
balance of my children (to wit) Betsy, Jacob (DC), John, catherine,
Philip, Sally, Polly and Peggy. It is expressly understood that that
portion which would go to Jacob if he were alive, is to be given to
his children as they became of lawful age. Fourthly and lastly, I
appoint my son Philip my lawful Executor. Given under my hand
and seal this 9th day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and forty-nine.
Signed and sealed in the
presence of
Jacob (his X mark) Epperly
Thomas G. Shelor
David S~s
John P. Ratliff
At a Court of quarterly session held for the County of Floyd,
at the Courthouse thereof on the 18th day of June 1849.
This last will and testament of Jacob Epperly deceased was
proved by the oaths of Thomas G. Shelor and David ~s, witnesses thereto and was ordered to be recorded. Under motion of
Philip Epperly, Executor therein narred, who rrade oath thereto and
together with Thomas G. Shelor and Jobe Wells, his security, entered
into and acknCMledged a bond in the penalty of $ 500. conditioned
as the law directs, certificate is granted him for obtaining a
probate of said will in due form.
Teste:
E. N. Zintrreyer, Clerk
25
JOHN M. EPPERLY
John M. Epperly, son of Jacob, Jr. and Catherine
Sowers Epperly, was born in Frederick County, Maryland,
January 11, 1791.
He came with his parents to what is
now Floyd County, Virginia about 1796.
He married March 10, lB14 in what is now Floyd
County (recorded in Montgomery County, Va.) to Nancy
Phares, daughter of Amariah and Elizabeth Beheler Phares.
The minister was Peter Howard.
The first land record I have for John and Nancy
is the purchase of 75 acres from the heirs of Amariah
Phares in lB31.
This is east of the town of Floyd and
was (before the organization of Floyd County) in Franklin
County.
John bought and sold many parcels of land before
finally settling (about lB35-36) southwest of the town of
Floyd on lands later owned by his sons Eden and David and still later by their sons.
John M. and Nancy Phares Epperly were the parents of:
1.
2.
EDEN EPPERLY
David Epperly
m.
3.
4.
5.
Ruth Epperly
Sarah Epperly
Luana Epperly
Soloman Epperly
Jesse Epperly
Nancy Epperly
Margaret Epperly
Samuel Epperly
Andrew J. Epperly
m.
6.
7.
B.
9.
10.
11.
m.
m.
m.
m.
LEAH GILHAM
1st. Ursula Mangus
2nd. Sarah Stigleman
Burwell Hatcher
b.10/10/1B21-d.3/B/1B54
Henry Howell
b.6/9/1B26-d.6/19/1B26
"Caroline Akers
William Altizer
b.5/23/1B34 d.3/13/1B55
b.12/27/1B37 No info.
b.5/27/1B3B-d.7/1B/1B55
John died August 25, lB5B. " Four of his children
had died before this and all but one of the rest had
married.
We're told that John and Nancy were buried
in Eastview Cemetery which is on land he once owned.
The road number is now (19B9) Floyd Co. rd. 714 and
the farm the cemetery is on is owned by Palmer Tolbert.
The cemetery is on a hill about 1/2 mile off Route B
south of the town of Floyd, Virginia. Their graves are
unmarked.
Their son David, his wives and several grandchildren were buried there.
John's wife (Nancy Phares Epperly) wrote in lB79
that John had gone to war soon after their marriage in
lB14.
We have sent a request for information of any
military records to the National Archives but have not,
as yet, heard from them.
26
EDEN EPPERLY
Eden Epperly, son of John M. and Nancy Phares
Epperly, was born in what is now Floyd Count y , Va.
April 10, 1814.
In 1836, when Eden was 22 years old and h is brother
David was 20, they jointly bQught 130 acres of land
from their father.
Four years later they bought
another 50. Part of this land joined what was then
the "Howard Mill" property.
Eden married September 11, 1845 in Floyd County,
Virginia, to Leah Gilham, daughter of William and
Maria Goodykoontz Gilham.
The minister was Jesse
Jones.
Eden and Leah were both school teachers.
Eden's ancestors (on the Epperly side) were Lutheran as were Leah's.
His mother, Nancy, had joined the
Primitive Baptist Church and that is the direction
Eden took. He served as clerk at West Fork Primitive
Baptist Church for 22 years. The church disbanded,
because of the condition of the building, sometime after
1932 and eventually fell down.
The twin chimneys and
the two sets of stone steps still stand.
This is on
Rte. 221 just past county road 807,(Huff Cannery Roadformerly Shelor's Mill Rd.).
Eden's son, John William
Epperly and his family were also members in later years.
Eden and Leah were the parents of eight children,
five of them dying as children.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
David LaFayette Epperly
Nancy Adaline Epperly
James Madison ~ Epperly
Mary Gilliam Epperly
Elizabeth Epperly
Drusilla Epperly
Rosetta E. Epperly
b. 3/27/1847-d. 2/25/1851
b. 7/23/1848 d. 3/5/1851
b. 9/8/1849 d. 3/7/1851
m. John Thomas Agee
b.-b. 7/17/1854 d:3/6/1856
m. NANCY ADALINE CANNADAY
b. 2/3/1860 d. 8/3/1873
m. John Allison
Their daughter, Mary G. Epperly, married very young,
and for several years she and her family lived with
Eden and Leah.
In the 1870 census Eden was shown as
55, Leah 49, John 13, Drusilla 10, Rosetta 5, John T.
Agee 23, Mary G. 18, Olivia 1, Mattie 2 months.
Under
Production of Agriculture for 1870 Eden had 75 acres
improved land 40 acres woods, 3 horses, 3 milk cows,
3 other cattle, 12 sheep, 2 swine, 49 bu. wheat, 60
rye, 25 corn, 100 oats and 10 bushel buckwheat.
27
EDEN EPPERLY
continued
Eden Epperly died February 7, 1876 and was buried
in the "Ballinger" cemetery on a hill above Floyd
county road # 807 about 1/4 mile off route 8 south.
The cemetery is on a farm now (1989) owned by Kyle Lee.
It was near Eden's home.
The land Eden and David had bought together as
young men had never been legally divided until after
Eden's death.
May 3, 1880 the division was made.
28
John William Epperly, son of Eden and Leah Gilham
Epperly, was born in Floyd County, Virginia June 29,
1856. I know nothing of his life prior to his marriage,
at age 18 (about six weeks before his 19th birthday).
John married May 16, 1875 to Nancy Adaline Cannaday,
daughter of Stephen H. and Elizabeth Lemon Cannaday.
They were married in Floyd County by Minister Wilson H.
Dodd of the Primitive Baptist Church.
Eden Epperly, father of John, died in 1875 and in
May, 1880 the land he had owned was divided. John's
share of this was 55-3/4 acres.
In July, 1883 he
bought 39-1/4 acres from C. T. and Sallie Lemon and in
1884 he bought 30 acres plus 70 poles from his sister
and brother-in-law Mary G. and John Thomas Agee.
In
October 1899 John bought "eleven acres of land with the
mill site and water and mill priviledges and rights
thereto belonging and appertaining" from Maude L. Howard
and Carrie Dobyns and known as the Ira Howard Mill property.
I am sure John and Nancy owned more land as there
are records of them having sold 49 acres to his sister,
Rosetta, 31-7/8 acres to John T. and Mary G. Agee and 151
acres to his sons Arthur, Levi and Isaac.
The land sold
to his sons was described as beginning at a stake in
Patrick Turnpike and joining lands of Thomas, Cannaday
and Ballinger.
In April 1901 John mortgaged the mill property for
a debt to Salem Machine Works for mill equipment. The
deed of trust was released in December 1902 having been
paid in full.
John and Nancy lived about 3 miles southwest of the
town of Floyd in a large lovely home that was later the
home of Floyd and Annie Smith. The road number is now
(1989) county road 720 which is off state route 221
south. The huge mill still stands across the road and
is owned by a relative of Floyd and Annie Smith.
It was
used for a while for a food co-op but now stands idle.
Some of the mill machinery is still there.
John William Epperly was a farmer, miller, blacksmith, carpenter and quite skilled in all kinds of
woodworking.
He was, we are told, a stern disciplinarian and a staunch believer in the teachings of the
29
John William Epperly
Continued
elders of the Primitive Baptist Church.
He and his
family attended west Fork Primitive Baptist Church.
The church has fallen down now but the twin chimneys
and stone steps still stand.
After the death of Nancy in February 1928, John
married her widowed sister Emmazetta Cannaday Weddle.
He died December 31, 1931 and was buried in the
"Ballinger" cemetery near his home on county road
807 ( off state rt. 8 south) on a farm now owned by
Kyle Lee. His parents, his wife, her parents and at
least four grandchildren were also buried there.
John William and Nancy Adaline Cannaday Epperly
were the parents of eleven children and for many years,
after the death of his father, his mother and younger
sister made their home with him.
As far as I know,
they spent their entire life in Floyd County.
1.
2.
3.
Arthur Emanuel Epperly
Levi Gilliam Epperly
Isaac Lafayette Epperly
m.
m.
m.
4•
5•
6.
7•
8.
9.
Etta Mae Epperly
Callahill Minnis Epperly
LAURA EPPERLY
Fitzhugh Lee Epperly
Giles Monroe Epperly
Leah Elizabeth Epperly
Julia Epperly
Florence Epperly
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
10.
11.
Sallie DeHart
Clara V. DeHart
1st. Linda Weddle
2nd. Nellie Witham
Daniel F. Smith
Linnie E. Cannaday
JOHN TAYLOR AGEE
Alzora Ratliffe
Eugenia Draper
Edgar Vernon Roop
Lorenzo Dow Blair
Coy Raymond Cole
30
OUR GILHAM ANCESTORS
WILHELM GILHAM
m.
MARIA "POLLY" GOODYKOONTZ
LEAH GILHAM
m.
EDEN EPPERLY
m.
LAURA EPPERLY
m.
JOHN TAYLOR AGEE
31
GILHAM
The only records of Gilham immigrants to America
we have found were from the records of "The Monmouth
Rebellion" (Ifailed to note the author) and "English
Convicts in America" by Peter Coldham - vol. 1 and 2.
This we did at the Dover Public Library in Dover,
Delaware in 1983.
I - The Monmouth Rebellion - Many rebels were transported to America in 1685 as a result of them being
followers of the Protestant James Scott, Duke of
Monmouth in his attempt to unseat the Roman Catholic
James II, Duke of York as King of England. James Scott
was imprisoned and later executed and his followers
imprisoned or deported. Among these lists we found:
1.
Josiah Gillham transported to America, 1685.
II - In "English Convicts in America" we found the
following:
1. William Gilham, page 107, sentenced 10/1757.
transported 3/1758 aboard "Dragon" to America.
2. Peter Gilham, page 59, sentenced Nov.
transported 11/1762 aboard "Prince Willia~to
America from Middlesex county.
3. Joseph Gilham, page 59, transported to Va.
1738.
We need to remember that these "convicts" and
"rebels" were seldom guilty of any crime more serious
than having a different religious belief or disagreeing
with the opinions of those in "higher places".
32
WILLIAM GILHAM
William Gilham was born in Pennsylvania in 1775
and lived for some years in Frederick County, Virginia
before coming to Floyd County and settling on Dodd's
Creek. He had married in Frederick County to Maria
"Polly" Goodykoontz, daughter o f ?
and Anna
Margaretha Gutekunst (the spelling of the name changed).
William and Polly's first three children may have
been born in Frederick County, Va.
The births and
baptisms for the last five were listed in the Zion
Lutheran Church Register, Floyd, Virginia.
These records were written in German and have been transcribed.
William Gilham was a member of the Virginia Legislature from Montgomery County before the formation of
Floyd County in 1831. The first list of Land Tax prepared in 1831 for Floyd County shows that he owned 290
acres of land on the South Fork of Little River (Dodd's
Creek) •
The first Order Book of Floyd County shows that in
the April, 1831 term of court William Gilham was commissioned as Sheriff by the Governor.
In the June, 1831
term of court Eziekel Gilham was sworn into office as a
Constable.
William Gilham died in 1831.
he was buried.
We do not know where
William and Polly were the parents of:
1.
2.
3•
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Isaac Gilham
Eziekel Gilham
David Gilham
Drusilla Gilham
Naomi Gilham
Levi Gilham
Lydia Gilham
LEAH GILHAM
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
Polly Slusher
Bianna Wade
Mary Howell
Mathew Cox
Carter Cox
No info.
Fleming Jones
EDEN EPPERLY
33
LEAH GILHAM
Leah Gilham was born March 22, 1821 and baptized
May 12, 1 8 21, as shown in the Zion Lutheran Church
Register, Floyd, Va.
She was the daughter of William
and Maria "Polly" Goodykoontz Gilham and prior to
marriage was a school teacher.
I do not know if she
taught after she married.
Leah married September 11, 1845 in Floyd County,
to Eden Epperly, son of John M. and Nancy Phares Epperly.
Leah's parents had been members of the Lutheran Church.
Her husband was a member of the Primitive Baptist
Church.
I do not know which Leah attended.
Early in the spring before Leah married she sold
her share of her inheritance from her parents to her
brother Levi, for $ 50.00.
In December, after their
marriage her husband bought the share back for $ 50.00.
Dr. Amos Wood in his book "Floyd County-It's People and
Places" remarked that William Gilham had owned the farm
later owned by Floyd Smith.
I have to wonder if this
is how the land John and Nancy Epperly's house was on,
became Epperly property.
Leah and Eden were the parents of eight children.
Only three of them lived to adulthood.
Their first
three children died within an 8 or 9 day period of
"bloody flux".
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
David Lafayette Epperly
Nancy Adaline Epperly
James Madison Epperly
Mary Gilliam Epperly
m.
Elizabeth Epperly
JOHN WM. EPPERLY
m.
Drusilla Epperly
Rosetta Epperly
m.
b.3/27/l847-d.2/25/1851
b.7/23/l848-d.3/5/1851
b.9/8/1849-d.3/7/1851
John Thomas Agee
b.7/17/l854-d.3/16/1856
b.2/l860-d.8/3/1873
John Allison
After the death of her husband in 1876 Leah and her
youngest daughter, Rosetta, made their home with her
son, John William Epperly, and his family.
Leah died March 7, 1901 and was buried at the
Ballinger Cemetery which is on what is now (1989)
Floyd County Rd. 807 on a farm owned by Kyle Lee.
This
is about 3 miles south of the town of Floyd, off State
Rt. 8.
The cemetery is on a hill and is not far from
where Lea h and Eden had lived.
34
OUR GUTEKUNST (GOODYKOONTZ) ANCESTORS
GUTEKUNST
m.
MARGARET ______
LEAH GILHAM
LAURA EPPERLY
m.
m.
m.
m
WILHEM GILHAM
EDEN EPPERLY
JOHN TAYLOR AGEE
35
MARGARET GUTEKUNST ( GOODYKOONTZ)
There are too many conflicting pieces of information as to the given name of our immigrant Gutekunst
ancestor for us to unscramble. We have searched
immigration lists, Oaths of Allegiance lists and the
Daughters of the American Revolution Index and learned
that there was a George Gutekunst, from Pa., in the
American Revolution - b. 1732 d. 1782 married Anna
Margaretha.
This agrees, somewhat, with Dr. Amos
Wood's book "Floyd County - ItS People and Places".
Elva Keith, a descendant of the Goodykoontz line
also, has a book on the Goodykoontz family which shows
a David as being the immigrant ancestor.
We have concluded that we all must agree that there
was a Margaret Goodykoontz who, with most if not all
of her chilcren, came to what is now Floyd County,
Virginia from Frederick County, Virginia.
The first
land record we found was that of Jacob Goodykoontz
who bought land on the west fork of Little River in
1802.
The record of
children shows:
1.
2.
3
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
---------
and Margaret Goodykoontz's
m.
Mary M. Goodykoontz
Jacob Goodykoontz
m.
George Goodykoontz
m.
Margaretha Goodykoontz
m.
Elizabeth Goodykoontz
MARIA "POLLY" GOODYKOONTZm.
Eva Goodykoontz
Catherine Goodykoontz
m.
Daniel Goodykoontz
m.
George Phlegar
Margaret Beaver
Mary Beaver
Abraham Phlegar
No information
WILLIAM GILHAM
No information
Christian Stipe
Hannah Beaver
Margaret Goodykoontz died in Harch 1819 and was
buried in the Zion Lutheran Church cemetery, Floyd,
Virginia. Records of her attendance, births of her
grandchildren, etc. were recorded there in German
and have been translated. These records have been
made part of a book by Marjorie Fluor and Margaret
Tise.
36
Maria "Polly" Goodykoontz was born about 1779 and
married in Frederick County, Virginia to Wilhelm
Gilham.
I do not know what year William and Polly came to
Floyd County.
They settled about three miles southwest of the town of Floyd.
Dr. Amos Wood, in his book
"Floyd County - Its People and Places" said the
Gilham farm was now (1932) owned by Floyd Smith.
This would indicate that it is the same land later
owned by Eden and Leah Gilham Epperly and still
later by John W. and Nancy A. Cannaday Epperly.
William and Maria Goodykoontz Gilham were the parents of:
l. Isaac Gilham
2. Ezeikel Gilham
3. David Gilham
4. Drusilla Gilham
5. Naomi Gilham
6. Levi Gilham
7. Lydia Gilham
~. LEAH GILHAM
m. Polly Slusher
m. Bianna Wade
m. t-1ary Howell
m. Mathew Cox
m. Carter Cox
Never Married
m. Fleming Jones
m. EDEN EPPERLY
I do not know when Maria died or where she was
buried.
37
OUR LEMON ANCESTORS
ISAAC LEMON, SR.
m.
VINA RICHARDSON
ISAAC LEMON, JR.
m.
1st. SALLY YOUNG
iND. Susan Short Turner
ELIZABETH LEMON
m.
STEPHEN CANNADAY
LAURA EPPERLY
m.
m.
JOHN TAYLOR AGEE
38
ISAAC, SR. and VINA RICHARDSON LEMON
Isaac Lemon (Sr.) was born about 1753.
He married on May 1, 1786 in Franklin County, Virginia to
Vina Richardson.
Surety for the bond was David Jones.
In 1786 Isaac bought land from Elijah Jones in
the west end of Franklin County, Virginia on Pigg
River. On September 5, 1791 he purchased 110 acres
on Pigg River adjoining lands of Peter Young and James
Greer. This is shown in Franklin County Deed Book 2,
pages 265 and 266.
Isaac, Sr. and Vina Richardson Lemon were the parents of several children. We only have information of
one of them.
1.
ISAAC LEMON, JR.
m.
SALLY YOUNG
We do not know where Isaac and Vina died nor
where they were buried.
39
ISAAC LEMON, JR.
Isaac Lemon, Jr., son of Is a ac, Sr. and Vina
Ri c hardson Lemon, was born about 1806.
He married
Sally Young, daughter of Joshua a nd Nancy Walker
You ng.
Isaac and Sally settled in t he eastern part of
Floyd County, Virginia, about 5 miles southeast of
the courthouse.
This was near Joshua and Nancy Young's
ho me.
Isaac was a farmer, blacksmith and a wagonmaker.
He and Sally were the parents of:
l.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9•
10.
ll.
12.
Nancy Lemon
Amanda Lemon
ELIZABETH LEMON
William Lemon
Crawford Lemon
Thomas Lemon
John Lemon
America Lemon
Malinda Lemon
Eliza Lemon
Emmeline Lemon
James Lemon
m.
m.
ID.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
Naaman Shortt
Col. John Williams
STEPHEN CANNADAY
Martha Jane Short
Sally Albright
Killed in Civil War
No information
Burwell Young
Haden Epperly
Andrew Weddle
Caleb Tice
Margaret Moore
After the death of Sally Young Lemon,in 1862,
Isaac married Susan Shortt Turner.
They were the
parents of:
1. t<1inerva Lemon
m.
Samuel Rakes
Isaac Lemon died about 1896. We do not know
where he or either of his wives were buried.
40
ELIZABETH LEMON
Elizabeth Lemon, daughter of Isaac, Jr. and Sally
Young Lemon, was born in Floyd County, Virginia in
1833. She married in Floyd County February 18, 1846
to Stephen Cannaday, son of William and Martha Wright
Cannaday, of Patrick County.
Elizabeth and Stephen lived southwest of the town
of Floyd on lands adjoining that of the Epperlys and
the Ballingers.
Elizabeth died in 1886 and was buried beside her
husband in the "Ballinger" Cemetery on what is now
(1989) Floyd County Road # 807, off Route 8 South.
The cemetery is on a hill on the farm of Kyle Lee.
The were the parents of:
l.
2•
3•
4•
5•
r
o.
7•
8.
Tazewell H. Cannaday
Isaac L. Cannaday
Stuart Cannaday
NANCY A. CANNADAY
Emmazetta M. Cannaday
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
Laura M. Cannaday
m.
Eliza Cannaday
m.
Sarah Ernaline Cannaday
Julia Ann Foster
Emma Jamison
Nannie O'Brian
JOHN WM. EPPERLY
1st. Elkanah Weddle
2nd. John Wm. Epperly
John Weaver
will Epperly
(
No information
41
OUR PHARES ANCESTORS
AMARIAH PHARES
m.
ELIZABETH BEHELER
NANCY PHARES
m.
JOHN M. EPPERLY
EDEN EPPERLY
LAURA EPPERLY
m.
LEAH GILHAM
m.
m.
JOHN TAYLOR AGEE
42
AMARIAH PHARES
Amariah Phares was born in New Jersey in 1755 and
was a soldier during the American Revolution, both in th e
Middlesex County Militia and in the Continental Line.
When he enlisted in the Continental Line May 23, 1778 he
gave h is residence as Cross Road: age 23 years: height
5' 8": light complexion: light eyes: brown hair.
He was
discharged February 23, 1779.
The May, 1780 Tax List for New Brunswick, South Ward,
Middlesex County, New Jersey showed him to be a single
man. However, on June 17 (or 19th) 1780 he obtained a
license to marry Sarah Van Zant. Security was posted by
Amariah Phares and Aaron Van Pelt.
Amariah's daughter wrote (in 1879) that Sarah had
died leaving a small daughter.
Amariah left his little
daughter in the care of his brother and made his way
to Franklin County, Virginia where he married on January
13, 1791 to Elizabeth Beheler, daughter of David and
Elizabeth Beheler.
Family legend is that Elizabeth
spoke only German and Amariah only English when they
me.
Amariah was a school teacher and his daughter
wrote that he was unable to fill all the positions he
was offered.
When Floyd County was formed in 1831 Amariah was
shown as owning 75 acres of land on the waters of Little
River.
His residence was shown as Floyd County.
The
land was further described as adjoining lands of Kitterman on Pine Creek.
This land was sold in 1831 by his
wife and 6 of their children to their son-in-law and
daughter, John M. and Nancy Phares Epperly.
The other
son had apparently died by this date.
Amariah Phares's military record (from the New Jersey Archives) shows his death date to be January 1,
1834, although the sale of land would indicate 1831.
Amariah and Elizabeth Beheler Phares were the parents of 8 children, 6 girls 2 boys, as written by their
daughter, Nancy, in 1879.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
NANCY PHARES
Sally Phares
John B. Phares
Elizabeth Phares
Hary Phares
Rachel Phares
Hannah Phares
Son- unknown
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
JOHN M. EPPERLY
John Sowers
Rachel Rupe
Henry Rutroff
Martin Walters
John Beckett
Jonathan Iddings
No information
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NANCY PHARES
Nancy Phares was born May 13, 1794 in the part of
Franklin which became Floyd county in 1831.
She was
the daughter of Amariah and Elizabeth Beheler Phares.
She married March 10, 1814 to John M. Epperly, son
of Jacob and Catherine Saur (Sowers) Epperly.
The license
was registered in Montgomery county.
Nancy and John
first bought 75 acres of land that had belonged to
Nancy's parents.
This land is on the Floyd-Franklin
county lirie.
They apparently lived there until they
bought 130 acres from Ira Howard and another 130 acres
from William O'Brien
in 1835.
This land is southwest of the town of Floyd and at least part of it was
sold from father to son through four generations of
Epperlys.
In 1879 Nancy wrote "a few lines of my past life
and experience" in which she described her struggles
and trials in trying to live the life she felt she
should.
She set very high standards for herself and
since she had had no religious training as a child
it would seem very difficult.
At the time she wrote
this manuscript she was living with her son Jesse (a
minister) and his family in Montgomery County, Va.
She was almost 85 years old.
In 1836 Nancy and John used their land and other
property as collateral for a purchase from "Deskins &
Thomas Merchants".
A list of their property was:
one mare, 2 cows and a calf, 1 yearling, 2 three year
old steers, 19 geese, 1 patent plow, 1 shovel plow,
2 mattocks, 2 hoes, 2 horse gear, 1 cutting axe, 1
stable shovel and fire shovel, 3 grain tubs, 1 scythe
and cradle, 1 gunn, 1 clock, 1 chest, 1 big wheel and
1 little wheel, 5 beds, 1 loom, 3 slays, 5 chairs, 3
little chairs, 1 big and 1 little pott, two ovens,
two skillets, 1 fish pan, 1 kitchen cupboard, 2 water
pails and a churn, 3 pewter dishes, 1 bason, 15 plates,
1 set cups and saucers, 4 bowls, 1 pitcher, 4 tin cups,
2 coffee pots, one tea pott, 6 tumblers, 6 tablespoons,
6 teaspoons, 3 axes, 4 coverlids, 7 bed quilts, 1 side
saddle and 1 mares saddle. Also 1
(looks like
cumberbundl.
Nancy and John were the parents of eleven children:
1. EDEN EPPERLY
2. David Epperly
3. Ruth Epperly
4. Sarah Epperly
5. Luana Epperly
6. Soloman Epperly
7. Jesse Epperly
8. Nancy Epperly
9. Margaret Epperly
lO.Samuel Epperly
m
m
m
m
m
m
Leah Gilham
1st. Ursula Mangus
2nd. Sarah Stigleman
Burwell Hatcher
b. 1821 - d 1854 -no info.
Henry B. Howell
b. 6/9/1826 d. 6/19/1826
Caroline Akers
William Altizer
b. 5/23/1824
d 3/13/1855
b. 1/27/1837 no info.
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NANCY PHARES -
11.Andrew J. Epperly
continued
b. 5/27/1838 d 7/18/1855.
Nancy Phares Epperly died January 21, 1881 and was
buried in East View Cemetery.
This is on county road
714 a short distance off route 8 south of the town of
Floyd. It is on a hill on the farm of Palmer Tolbert.
Nancy's husband, John, her son David, his wives and
several children were also buried there.
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MARCH 11, 1879
with a trembling heart and hand, I set mysel f t o write a few
lines of my past life and experience. My parents ~Bre poor people,
though I believe were honest, truthful and industrious, but not
professors of religion. They gave their children good advice and a
little education so as to read and write though indifferently.
When I was young, I was sinful as all children are, and looked
forward with almost impatience to be old enough to dance, as I
thought there was so much pleasure in it. But before I was old
enough to enjoy dancing, I had more serious thoughts.
One day a schoolmate of mine asked me which I would rather do,
stay in Hell till a little bird would come once in a thousand years,
with a little sand in its mouth, till it would build a mountain of
sand or to stay in Hell forever. As well as I can rerrember, I told
her that I would stay till the mountain was built for that would end
sometime but eternity would never end. But it made but little , if
any, impression on my mind but sometimes I would try to get to the
end by saying, forever, forever, forever, repeating it often, but
could not see the end.
So time passed
thought I could not
for I felt myself a
I thought if I died
on a few years, and I became in bad heEl.! t.l-}, and
live long, and was in a great deal of trouble
great sinner and I tried to pray for mercy for
then I would be lost.
I was in so much trouble that I could not sleep, and it seemed
that I could hear bells ringing in my ears and I thought it was
death bells. After a while my health was better, but my convictions
remained with me. I tried to pray to God for mercy, but thought I
did not know how to pray.
One day Mother and me went to see a sick man. He was in a rack
of misery and walked the floor with his hand to his head saying,
"Lord my love, Lord my love", repeating it often. As he was a goc:xJ
man, I thought perhaps that was the right way to pray.
After than, my trouble was still with me. One evening late,
I felt very bad and thought I was going to die. I took the hymn
book out but it was too dark to read, so I came back to the house.
As I came to the steps, my fears were so great I cried out, "Lord
my love." I went in and told Mother to send for sarebody, but she
said I was scared, and I was, for I thought I was going to die.
And many such things I went through. But after awhile as I
prayed often and as I thought God had forsaken all my sins, I began
to think I was a christian, for I thought christians could do no
more .
I
County
moving
time I
was then 16 or 17 years old. ~ly parents sent me to Franklin
to stay with one of my half uncles to help them fix for
to the West. I stayed seven weeks, but I was in trouble all the
stayed there. When they started on their journey, I was to go
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wi th them to my hare. We s ta yed all night at his brother-in-l aw ' s .
There were sare young people who came with a fiddle but there was
none to dance with them. They soon left, then we all went t c bed ,
but whether I slept or not I can't say, but that dreadful feeling
caIre on me with more power than at other times.
I got up out of bed. It was dark in the house. I knelt t o
pray. I was all in a tremble. After a little while, I thought it
would wear off and I went to try to lay down again but had not more
than laid down till I felt it with such power that I thought I was
sure that I would die in a little time, and I saw a horrible ~ it.
I can't describe the horror of that place. I wanted to go out
and die in a swamp I rerrembered seeing, but did not know how t o
open the door, so I knelt down rather behind the door and while I
was there the Lord seemed to be near rre, and said my sins were forgiven. There what joy, what pleasure O!
the happiness and thankfulness that I such a poor unworthy being as I was to be so blessed.
O! the joy, the glory and praise to God for his love and rrercy to rre
such a poor worthless worm, tongue cannot express, much less my pen,
what God has prepared for those that love him.
It seems the Lord loved rre and as I thought said that I would
not die then, and when I did die I would go to heaven.
After a while I went to bed, but could not sleep for joy and
gladness. For sare time then I slept a little. My first thought
when I awoke was my great deliverance. I loved the Lord with my
whole heart and rejoiced in his Holy name. I got hare but said
nothing to anyone of what I felt, and so time passed on.
I was sometimes rejoicing in the Lord, and saretimes I would be
in trouble. When anything like omitting my duty, for not praying
as I ought for the scripture says, "Pray without ceasing," but my
trouble would not last long, till I could rejoice again.
One thing I did which caused grief and perhaps may have caused
many a tear, it was this: There was an old man that had the palsy.
He always came in the meeting house with his hat on his hand that
was always above his head. Once I went in the kitchen and at that
time saw an old hat and put it on my hand, and cane in the other
and went in the house to make them laugh, which it did. Not thinking any harm of it at the time buy was sorry afterwards, and ashamed
of it to this day.
I was with other people and played but would not dance. I
married in my 19th year and saw a great deal of worldly trouble as my
husband had to go to war but through the rrercy of God he came hare
again. Sometime after then I was reading the 25th chapter of
Matthew where it gives account of the talents that each one had , and
the first gained five, the second two, but when it came to tr~ third,
he hid his Lord's money and I thought that was rre, for I had not told
anyone only my lnother and she was no professor at that time. She did
say but little about it. I also told an old man. He said that was
good experience and I ought to join the church. But this taL~ was
before I read that in ~1at thew and when I considered it, I was in
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deep distress and then I L~ought perhaps tha t sentence was passed t o
be cast into outer darkness where there is weeping and gna s hi ng of
teeth.
I tried to pray that the Lord would have rrercy on rre. I remained in trouble for sorre time but after a while it seerred the sin
of anission, that I had hid what the Lord had done for my soul. It
appeared to be a sin for not making it known to the world what the
Lord had done for my soul. I then felt it my duty to join the
c hurch and I told my husband but he did not want to hear rre talk
about it. But I could not put it off. The impression was so great
that I could not be put off though I knew I intreated him often and
was sorry to have to talk to him as I knew he did not want to hear it.
But after a while, he said to go and join the
more about it for you will never be satisfied till
thought ran on this scripture, "Fear not them that
after that have no more that they can do, but fear
destroy both soul and body in Hell."
church and say no
you do. My
kill the body but
Him that is able to
I saw a great deal of trouble about that time, as I hated to
displease him, which I feared it would if I joined the church, but
have reason to be thankful, for he never mistreated rre or threw it
up to rre.
About that time on New Year's Day I was at home alone and composed a little piece of poetry which is this:
I dread to see the year commence
In sorry grief and woe
O! when will all my suffering cease
And I shall sin no more
When will the Lord in mercy came
And all my foes subdue,
Before another year shall run
Create us all anew
Then let us seek the kingdom first
And all things he will add
For the blest Lord himself had said
He would all things provide
My dear companion go with me
Forsake all sinful ways,
Lest God should angry be with us
For trampling on his Grace.
And I joined the Dunkard Church and was rejoicing as I went home,
saying to myself (gathered in to the fold with God's people enrolled
with God's people to live and to die). But I am such a stumbler that
it appears I am not worthy to be counted among christians, for af ter
a while I becarre dissatisfied as they took them into the Church without having any experience as one of them told me, and I thought how
can we call each other Brother or Sister when we have little or no
hope of their being changed from nature to Grace. They are very
kind, they visit around every year, but never asked about my experience and i f I said anything about it they gave me but little answer.
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Saying it was a secret between the Lord and myself, which it was,
but I felt I must tell it to the church.
And I will tell a little about some of my trials. I have been
pressed upon so often and in different ways that my memory ~Duld
fail though I can say that I prayed night and day, yet I had to go
to such and such a place to pray.
When my children were all in bed and I thought asleep, I had
to go and kneel by each one and pray for them. Sometirres when I
was busy at work or about to sit down to eat, I had to go to such
a place and pray first. One tirre ,I had to go where the lightning
had struck a tree, once I went to a place I had been called before,
and when I started to the house it seemed to impress my mind that I
must go to all the places I had frequented and I think I stood still
grieving about leaving the children so long, or dreaded the journey
round, but these words came to my relief. Hitherto shalt thou come
and no farther and here shalt thy proud waves be stayed. Then I
was glad and went home.
At another tirre we had been abroad, and not rrore than half a
mile from a place we had lived at, it seemed that I must go to a
place and pray where I used to go, but we passed on and that night
later I cried and told Him all about it, for I thought something
dreadful would happen for my disobedience but he told me to pray
where I was would do as well, but the next day my little sister
came and I asked her if she would stay with the children till I
went on some business. She said she would and I went to that
place which was three miles, and when I reached the place I knelt
down but could not stay, for I was so frightened, it seemed as if a
bear was ready to devour me, but I believe it was old satan that
drove me away.
But with all my trials and temptations I enjoyed some precious
promises. Once I was in a deep distress about my husband and the
words came to me that J
would be the means of turning him,
but I will leave that to the Lord, for he knows all things. And
sometirre after that these words came in my mind, Blessed is she
that believeth for there shall be a perfonnance of the things that
was told her from the Lord. At another tirre the words came with joy.
If God the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.
So after awhile I joined the Baptist Church where I have remained till naw, as it appears we can see eye to eye and speak the
same things, but the half has never been told and what I have told
is in such a blundering manner that I fear it can't be understood,
for I have run over it in such haste and did not take tirre enough to
explain it all as it ought to be done.
I will give a description of my parents as I understood it from
them. Amariah Phares was my father's name. He was born in New Jersey. He said he was married when he was about 19 years old and his
wife died a left a little daughter only six weeks old and the war came
on and he was 5 years off and on the Revolutionary War. He said when
he left home he gave his brother John 20 pounds to educate his child
if he never returned. Af ter the War was over he taught school from
one place to another, and came to Franklin County where he married
Elizabeth Beheler of C~rman descent.
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They had 8 children, 2 boys and 6 girls. r'1y f ather taught school
most of his tLme and could not fill all the places he was requested
to fill. He had very good education for those t imes. He died in
his 72nd year. t-1other was 20 years younger and died in the 72nd year
also.
* * * * * * * *
I have written a small portion of my experience for the benefit
of my children and grandchildren, if it pleases the Lord to bless
my labours it may do good, which I hope it will ~ough the mercy of
our God.
Nancy Epperly
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Nancy Phares Epperly was t'M:> months short of her 85th blithday
when she wrote this.
Six of her eleven children had died and
her husband John M. Epperly had been dead 21 years. She was
living with her son Jesse and his family in Christiansburg.
Nancy died less than t'M:> years later on January 21, 1881.
This manuscript was copied from the original by her great granddaughter, Mary Kyle Allison Williams, December 1968.
Nancy
Epperly's daughter must have had the original, as ~1ary K. Williams
mentioned having visited Aunt Nancy Altizer. Nancy Altizer was
the daughter of John M. and Nancy Phares Epperly. She had married
William Altizer. I do not know if this is an exact copy of Nancy's
manuscript or if punctuation, spelling or grammatical changes have
been made.
Eugenia callison Agee
1989
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OUR SOWERS (SAUER) ANCESTORS
JOHN SAUER
CATHERINA SAUER
EDEN EPPERLY
LAURA EPPERLY
JACOB EBERLE, JR.
ffi.
JOHN M. EPPERLY
SOPHIA
ffi.
ffi.
ffi.
M.
ffi.
NANCY PHARES
LEAH GILHAM
JOHN TAYLOR AGEE
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JOHN AND SOPHIA SAUER (SOWERS)
John and Sophia Sauer (Sowers) were living at
Manor Hundred in Frederick County, Maryland on December
31, 1784 when John wrote his will.
They were German
and signed all documents in German.
John left his plantation and all the income thereof
to his wife, Sophia, until his youngest child, Philip,
was 15. At that time his property, both real and personal,
was to be sold and divided - 1/3 to his wife and 1/6 of
the balance to each of his children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
John Sower
Catharina Sauer
Jacob Sower
Margaret Sower
Juliana Sower
Philip Sower
m.
m.
m.
Catherine Morricle
Jacob Eberle, ,Jr.
No information
Philipp Kappel
No information
No information
John Sower had died by February 19, 1785. His will
was recorded in Frederick County, Maryland will Book GM
2, page 143.
52
CATHARINA SAUER
. Catherina Sa ue r was born in Frederick Count y , Maryland
and married there rip ril 5, 1785 to Jacob Eberle, Jr ., son
of Jacob, Sr. and Elizabeth Eberle.
They were married in
the Monocacy Church in Frederick County, Maryland. This
was all recorded i n German and later translated.
"April 5, 17 83 - Jacob Eberle and Catherina Saurin proclaimed 3 times. witnesses: George and Christina Eberle.
Johann and Jacob and Margreth Saur". The "in" added to
Catherina's last name indicated unmarried female.
Jacob and Catharina Sauer Eberle were the parents of
thirteen children, the first 6 born in Frederick County,
Maryland. The other seven after they had migrated to what
is now Floyd County, Virginia between 1792 and 1795.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
Eliz. "Betsy" Epperly
Catherine Epperly
George Epperly
JOHN M. EPPERLY
Jacob Epperly
Juliana Epperly
Soloman Epperly
Maria Epperly
Philip Epperl y
Polly Epperly
Margaretha Epperly
Sarah "Sally" Epperly
Daniel Epperly
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
George Spangler
William Lampe
Sally Sowers
NANCY PHARES
Polly Howery
b. 4/16/1795 d. by 1849
b. 5/14/1797 d. by 1849
b. 2/12/1799 d. by 1849
Rhoda
Jacob Sowers
b. 12/9/1803 -No info.
James P. Lawrence
Elizabeth Lawrence
Catherina was dead by 1849 when her husband, Jacob,
wrote his will.
I am told that she, her husband and four
of their children were buried in Zion Lutheran Church
Cemetery. We have not located the graves.
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OUR WRIGHT ANCESTORS
m.
JOSHUA WRIGHT
m.
MARTHA "PATSY" WRIGHT
m.
STEPHEN CANNADAY
LAURA EPPERLY
HESTER - - -
m.
m.
WILLIAM CANNADAY
ELIZABETH LEMON
JOHN TAYLOR AGEE
54
JOSHUA and HESTER WRIGHT
Joshua and Hester Wright were the names given as
pa rents on the death certificate in Patrick CountY I
Virginia of Ma rtha Cannaday . The Wrights reportedly
came from Rockingham CountYI North Carolina. We have
learned nothing mor e about them.
MARTHA "PATSY" WRIGHT
Martha ·Patsy Wright, daughter of Joshua and Hester
Wright, was born April 8 1 1792. She married at the age of
12 to William Cannaday, son of James and Elizabeth Raikes
Cannaday.
Patsy's
December 28,
of Palsey at
of her death
death was reported by her husband to be
1857.
She d ied in Patrick County, Virginia
the age of 65 years 8 months.
At the time
she and William lived on Smith's River.
t>1artha "Patsy" vJright Cannaday was the mother of 24
children which included three sets of twins.
Her grave site has not been found.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Nancy Cannaday
Mary Cannaday
James B. Cannaday
Martha Cannaday
Fleming Cannaday
Pleasant Cannaday
Delilah Cannaday
William Cannaday
Joshua Cannaday
Constantine Cannaday
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
2 3.
24 .
Susan Cannaday
Jacob B. Cannaday
STEPHEN CANNADAY
Randolph Cannaday
Marshall P. Cannaday
John Cannaday
.Elizabeth Cannaday
Mahala Cannaday
Hester Cannada y
Burwell Cannaday
Ira Cannaday
Granvel Cannaday
Tommy Cannaday
Died at birth
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
Anderson Taylor
John Randolph Hall
Charlotte Agnew
John Horan
Susannah Thomas
Deborah Hall
James S. Horan
Elizabeth Hylton
Lydia Short
1st. Sarah Hall
2nd. Elizabeth Martin
Lewis Burnett
Ellender Cannaday
ELIZABETH LEMON
Mary Jane Via
Ann Sumpter
Sally Bartlett
Reuben Rakes
no info.
no info.
no info.
no info.
no info.
no info.
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OUR YOUNG ANCESTORS
PETER YOUNG
ffi.
MARY ______
JOSHUA YOUNG
ffi.
NANCY WALKER
SALLY YOUNG
ffi.
ISAAC LEMON
ELIZABETR :( LEMON
ffi.
STEPHEN CANNADAY
LAURA EPPERLY
ffi.
ffi.
JOHN TAYLOR AGEE
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PETER and MARY YOUNG
Peter and Mary Young lived in the western portion of
Franklin County, Virginia as shown on the tax lists of
that county in 1786.
On January 27, 1792 Peter bought from Benjamin Hale
190 acres of land on the South side of Pigg River.
This
is recorded in Franklin County Deed Book 2 on pages 402
and 403.
Only four of the names of their eight children are
known to us:
1.
2•
3.
4.
William Young
Sally Young
m.
m.
JOSHUA YOUNG
m.
NANCY WALKER
Peter Young, Jr.
m.
1st. Malinda Mosley
2nd. Elizabeth Galasspy
Jane
James Cannaday, Jr.
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JOSHUA YOUNG
Joshua Young, son of Peter and Mary Young, was one of
the e arly settlers of Floyd County, Virginia. He married
No vember 14, 1798 to Nancy Walker, daughter of John Walker.
Joshua and Nancy lived east of the town of Floyd.
In
18 31 , when the county was formed, they owned 428 acres of
lan d on Little River.
They lived, died and were buried on their farm. "Their
so n , George, later spent his entire life on the same farm
an d was buried in the same cemetery.
Joshua and Nancy Walker Young were the parents of:
l.
2.
3.
4.
5.
George Young
John Young
Elizabeth Young
SALLY YOUNG
Mary Young
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
6.
David Young
William Young
Jennie Young
m.
7.
8.
Nancy Jane Agnew
Delphia Turner
Pleasant Cannaday
ISAAC LEMON
1st. Anderson Jones
2nd. Stephen Hill
Sally Fisher
No information
No information
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SALLY YOUNG
Sally Young was born in 1811 to Joshua and Nancy
Walker Young. She married Isaac Lemon, Jr., son of
Isaac, Sr. and Vina Richardson Lemon.
They lived in the eastern part of Floyd County,
Virginia about 5 miles southeast of the town of Floyd.
Sally and Isaac were the parents of:
1.
2•
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9•
10.
11.
12.
Nancy Lemon
Amanda Lemon
ELIZABETH LEMON
William Lemon
Crawford Lemon
Thomas Lemon
John Lemon
America Lemon
Malinda Lemon
Eliza Lemon
Emmeline Lemon
James Lemon
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
Naaman Shortt
Col John Williams
STEPHEN CANNADAY
Martha Jane Short
Sally Albright
Killed in Civil War
No information
Burwell Young
Haden Epperly
Andrew Weddle
Caleb Tice
Margaret Moore
After the death of Sally Young Lemon in 1862, Isaac
married Susan Shortt Turner. They were the parents of:
1.
Minerva Lemon
m.
Samuel Rakes
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I
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OUR ADAMS ANCESTORS
JACOB ADAMS
m.
ISAAC C. ADAMS
NANCY LEE ADAMS
RUTH LILLIAN NOLEN
JOHN TAYLOR AGEE
m.
m.
MARY -----ONEY INGRAM
CHARLES P. NOLEN
m.
m.
JOHN TAZEWELL AGEE
LAURA EPPERLY
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JACOB ADAMS
Jacob Adams was a member of Eliphaz Shelton's
Company who marched to the assistance of General
Greene at the Guilford Courthouse in the American
Revolution.
I do not know when he settled in Patrick County,
Virginia. His daughter Sarah married Cornelius Keaton
in Patrick County in 1793. He was, however, still
listed in the 1797 Tax Record (Census) of Henry County,
Virginia.
They were the parents
Jacob married Mary
of:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6•
7.
8.
9.
Jacob Adams
Peter Adams
Mary Adams
Lydia "Liddy" Adams
Elizabeth Adams
Rebecca Adams
Sarah Adams
William Adams
ISAAC C. ADAMS
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
No information
Ann Tittle
Cooper
Adam Tittle
Zachariah Keaton
James Hollandworth
Cornelius Keaton
Biddy Nowlin
1st. ONEY INGRAM
2nd. Econy Turner Foster
At the time Jacob wrote his will he owned a plantation and many slaves. He died October 20, 1807 and was
buried on this plantation in Patrick County, Virginia.
Mary died January 23, 1809. Their graves are described
as being located on the north side of Goblintown Creek
about a mile west of Fairy Stone State Park at the old
Jim Ben Roberson place and about 1/2 mile south of what
is now Patrick County Road # 717.
62
will of Jacob Adams, ,Patrick Co., VA
(Will l3c:xJk #1 pp . 96-97-1807)
In the name of God, Amen, I, Jacob Adams of Patrick County and
State of Virginia, being in a very low state of health in body but in
my perfect senses and memory and calling to mind the mortality of the
body, I do constitute and ordain this to be my last will and Testament.
First, I recommend my soul to God who gave it and my body to
the STave to be buried at the discretion of my Executors and of such
thinqs as God has given to me I dispose of as follows (to wit):
Secondly, for all my just debts to be paid.
Thirdly, I do give and bequeath to my beloved wife Mary Adams
this ?lantation whereon I now live and all the working tools belonging
thereon, and all my household and kitchen furniture; also, five negroes
namec Aaron, Will, Samuel, Dilamder and Catey, and a gray horse and a
bay rrare named Diamond and four cows and calves, and all my stock of
shee~ and hogs, also the debt Thos. Reeves awes me.
The above property for her to have without controle during life or widowhood.
Fourthly, I give to my beloved son Jacob a Negro boy named Jeremiah.
Fifthly, I give to my beloved son Peter Adams a Negro boy named
John.
Sixthly, I give to my daughter Mary Cooper a Negro girl named
during her lifetime and if she should die without any heir
born t o her body the said Negro girl and her increase to return to my
estate and be equally divided among the rest of my children.
Ciela~
Seventhly, I give to my daughter Lydda Tittle a Negro boy named
Dick.
Eightly, I give to my beloved daughter Elizabeth Keaton a Negro
boy named Arch to her and her children and not at all to be at the disposal of Zachariah her husband.
Ninthly, I give to my beloved daughter Rebecca Hollandworth and
her children a Negro girl named Hannah but not to be at the disposal
of Janes Hollandworth her husband.
Tenthly, I give to my beloved daughter Sarah Keaton and her
children a Negro boy named George but not to be at the disposal of
Cornel ius Keaton her husband.
Eleventhly, I give to my beloved son Wm. Adams a Negro boy
named Peter.
Twelfthly, I give to my beloved son Isaac Adams a Negro boy
named Isham, also a sorrel mare and her i ncrease and a featherbed.
Thirteenthly, I do will and ordain that out of the Estate given
to my wife Mary Adams that Francis Cockrel should have a horse valued
to ~Bnty-five pounds and it is further my will and desire that the r est
63
\~ill
of Jacob Adams, Patrick Co., VA.
(WB # I-pp.96-97)
of land and property not before herein mentioned shall be sold a t
twelve months credit and the money arising from such sale to be
equally divided amongst my children and further do I constitute
ruJd appoint my trusty friends Chas. Foster and capt. John Turner to
be my executors.
To this my last will and Testament as writing my hand to seal
Lhis
day of October, 1807.
' Jacob (his X mark) Adams ·
Signed in the presence of us:
James Cox
Thomas Hill
Daniel Maccantire
Patrick
December Court 1807
This will was proved in open court to be the act and deed
of the within named Jacob Adams and ordered to be recorded.
Teste:
Teste
A. Staples D.C.
(David G. Hanby), Clerk
A copy,
(Recorded in will Book # 1, at Pages 96 and 97)
64
ISAAC C. ADAMS
Isaac C. Adams was born about 1775 to Jacob and
Mary Adams.
He married in Patrick County, Virginia on November
10, 1808 to Oney Ingram, daughter of James and Martha
Ingram.
The minister was listed as being Lewis Foster.
Isaac was a representative of Patrick County in the
Virginia House of Delegates from 1828 to 1838.
Isaac and Oney Ingram Adams were the parents of five
children:
l.
Polly Adams
2.
3.
4.
5.
Elizabeth Adams
NANCY LEE ADAMS
Sally Adams
Abram Adams
m.
m.
ID.
m.
Taylor
1st.
2nd. Thomas DeHart
John Akers
CHARLES P. NOLEN
Thomas B. Woolwine
born ca. l830-no info.
Oney Ingram Adams died in 1830-31 and on June 21,
1832 Isaac married Exony Turner Foster, daughter of
Josiah and Millie Turner.
When Isaac wrote his will in February, 1852 he
made exacting provisions for part of his grandchildren.
His daughter, Nancy, had at this time seven children
but they were not mentioned in the will.
We are left to
wonder why Isaac felt such a need to make provisions for
only part of the children.
65
~'liL
of Isaac Adams, Patrick Co ., Va .
(;':13
# 4, Pase
260 )
Page -1-
I Isaac Adams of Patrick County State of Virginia do make and
orcai.n this my l as t will and testament . >ly wi ll is that all my just
de b ~ s and funeral e xpenses be paid .
i'ly will is tha t my wife Execony A.darns have for and during her
na t'.].ral life bvo slaves namely Burrell 2.11d Ira, the chain (?) horse ,
two choice of my cattle, t\.\€nty hogs, t\.,Q beds , bedsteads and neccessary furniture for the same and one half of the balance of my
household and kitchen furniture not otherwise disposed of , one yoke
of oxen one ose (?) waggon, one cart and old tire and one set of
bla.cksmi th t(X)ls.
t-Iy will is that one fifth part of all my estate both real and
personal including what my wife may leave at her death and not otherwise disposed of either in kind or the rroney arising from a fair
sale thereof shall go as follows, eight tenths thereof equally to
the eight oldest children of my daughter Polly DeHart except that
James Taylor shall receive the part going to his sister Eliza Ann
DeHart to be paid out by him in his discretion, for her as her
want s may require. In this fifth as part thereof shall be included
three hundred dollars settled with Jonathan Hubbard in sale of land
for Thomas DeHart which is the part allotted to said Polly's two
yo~~gest children, the balance of said fi fth part if any to be held
in trust by my executors and paid out in their discretion for the
benefit of my said daughter Polly.
My will is that my daughter Elizabeth Akers have either in
kind or the money arising from a fair sale ~1ereof, one fifth part
of all my estate both real and personal including what my wife may
leave at her death and not otherwise disposed of.
My will is that my daughter Nancy Nolin have one fifth part
of all my estate both real and personal including what my wife may
leave at her death and not otherwise disposed of either in kind or
the money arising from a fair sale thereof.
My will is that one fifth part of my estate both real and personal including what my wife may leave a.t her death and not otherwise
disposed of be applied as follows, the a~unt of all the debts paid
by the administrators of John Akers deceased on account of debts
contracted by or for Thomas B. W(X)lwine to be paid to Elizabeth
Akers in addition to the fifth part already left her. The balance of
one fifth part as aforesaid, to be held by my executors as a trust
fund and the profits thereof to be applied to the use of my daughter
Sally Woolwine for and during her natural life and after her death
to be equally divided among the heirs of her body. The land whereon
Tho~s B. W(X)lwine now lives shall at valuation consti~e a part
of the portion left for the benefit of Sally W(X)lwine and her children
but no increase in value shall be added f or buildings thereon.
My will is that my son Abram Adams have one bed, bedstead and
fur ni ture, one desk, also one fifth part of all my estate both real
and rersonal including what my wife may leave and not otherwise
66
l.vill of :::3aac Adams, Patrick Co., Va. (h"'B # 4, Page 260 ) Page - 2disposec of at her death e ither in kind or the money arising from a
fair sale thereof.
r·1 2· will is that my granddaughter Artaminsey S. M(x:m have all
the pro~er ty I have heretofore delivered to the possession of her or
her husl:x.nd Noah B. 1'1con except one slave namely Bill. My will i s
that saic slave be delivered to my executors and constitute part of my
general estate (she will then have had according to my estimate
sixteen ~undred dollars).
I'll' will is that my granddaughter Execony Clark have all the
property I have heretofore delivered to her or her husband Robert
M. Clark except one slave namely Adaline. She will then have had
according to my estimate thirteen hundred and twenty five dollars.
My will is that said Robert M. Clark may keep said Adaline at
valuation and retain the amount of two hundred and seventy five
dollars in his hands and pay the remainder to my executors or he
may deliver said Adaline to my executors who shall thereupon pay
to said KObert M. Clark and Execony two hundred and seventy five
dollars out of my estate.
My will is that William DeHart, James Taylor and William
Taylor rave the lands they now live on if they desire it at valuation
without any increased value being added for buildings ere&ted thereon.
I'll" will is that my slaves where it can be fairly done be
allottee and where it cannot be fairly done they be sold in the
discretion of my executors either publickly or privately all except
two namely Eliza and Sally. They are to chcose their hOITes among
my children and be supported out of my estate.
r·iy will is that the distribution be made as scon as convenient
af ter m1· decease.
t..jy will is that Wilson T. Vaughn and Naaman Harbour be and
they are hereby appointed executors of this my last will and testament. Given under my hand and seal this 17th day of February
in the year of Christ 1852.
Isaac Adams (Seal)
witnesses who signed
in the presents of the
testator and of each other
James ill. Bowling
Daniel L. Clark
William (his X mark) Lyon
Patrick County March Court 1852
This will of Isaac Adams dec'd was presented in court proved by the
oaths of the subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.
Teste: A. Staples Clk
Recordee - Patrick County, Va. will Book # 4, Page 260
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NANCY LEE ADAMS
Nancy Lee Adams was born in Patrick County, Virginia November 12, 1818 to Isaac and Oney Ingram Adams.
She married in Patrick County, December 2, 1834, to
Charles P. Nolen.
In 1835 Nancy and Charles bought 218 acres of land
in Patrick County. This was adjoining the land of Jeremiah Burnett and Reynolds.
The 1850 and 1860 census of
Patrick County shows them to' be living in house # 552,
North Division, Elamsville.
Nancy and Charles were the parents of ten children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Mary Nolen
Exoney Nolen
Isaac A. Nolen
Ephriam S. Nolen
Martha Nolen
John A. Nolen
Charles P. Nolen
George S. Nolen
RUTH LILLI AM NOLEN
Nancy Adaline Nolen
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
b. 1836 no info.
Nathaniel C. Akers
Judie A.
b. 1841 no info.
Columbus Rakes
Martha E.
Juda A. Turner
Ruth J. Hooker
JOHN TAZEWELL AGEE
John F. Turner
Nancy Lee Adams Nolen died May 6, 1878 and was
buried in the Nolen Cemetery which is on what is now
(1989) Patrick County Road # 618 near Smith River
Church of the Brethren and Bob White Covered Bridge.
Charles P. Nolen had died January 26, 1875 and had been
buried in the same cemetery as were at least seven of
their children.
After Nancy died her personal property was sold.
Many of the buyers were their children. A complete
listing of this is on record in a deed book in Patrick
County Courthouse in Stuart, Virginia.
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OUR AGEE ANCESTORS
m.
MATHIEU AGEE
m.
ANTHONY AGEE
JOHN AGEE
m.
ANN GODWIN
CHRISTIAN WORLEY
MARY OGG (or ANDERSON)
JOHN AGEE, JR.
m.
JOSHUA AGEE
m.
JOHN AGEE
m.
JOHN TAZEWELL AGEE
JOHN TAYLOR AGEE
SENA HYLTON
SARAH BRAMMER
LUCINDA WOOD
m.
m.
RUTH LILLIAN NOLEN
LAURA EPPERLY
69
MATHIEU AGE
Mathieu Age, son of Anthony and Judith Chastain
Age was born prior to 1683 in France. He was naturalized in early 1705 with other Manakintowne Huguenots.
He probably carne to America in 1700-1701 in one of the
five ships carrying Huguenot Refugees from Nantes,
France. He is shown in the tithe lists of King William
Parish in 1714 as having a wife but no children.
He
first settled on a part of the land set aside for the
French refugees in what was then Henrico County but is
now Powhatan County, Virginia.
Mathieu married about 1714 to Ann Gandovin (Godwin)
daughter of Isaac and Ann Pleasant Gandovin. They were
the parents of four children:
l.
2.
3.
4.
ANTHONY AGEE
Judith Agee
Isaac Agee
James Agee
m.
m.
m.
m.
CHRISTIAN WORLEY
. Noah Austin
Mary Ann Lucado
Marie Faure (Ford)
All of Mathieu and Ann's children were born near
Five Forks in the Manakintowne of then Henrico County,
Virginia.
In 1715 Mathieu received a patent for 221 acres of
land in what is now Powhatan County, Va.
In 1725 he
received a patent for a total of 800 acres on Jones
Creek on both sides of Mathieus Branch.
In 1738, for
the consideration of 30 shillings, he patented 300
acres in Goochland County on the south side of James River
between the two Manacan Creeks.
This land is further
described as being near Flat Rock.
In 1749, for the
consideration of 40 shillings, he patented 400
acres on the branch of Troublesome Creek of Slate River.
This was then in Albemarle County but is now Buckingham
County, Va.
In 1755 he sold his land in Powhatan Co.
and moved to what is now Buckingham Co.
In May 1759,
in consideration of 6 pounds 10 shillings, he patented
1280 acres in what is now Buckingham Co. bounded by a
branch of Turpins Creek.
This is also described as
being Hubbards Creek.
Hubbards Creek, Troublesome
Creek and Turpins Creek are all near present day Dillwyn
in Buckingham County, Virginia.
The last record found of Mathieu and Ann Godwin Agee
was a deed in 1761 showing a gift of land to their son
James.
70
ANTHONY AGEE
Anthony Agee, son of Mathew and Ann Godwin Agee,
was born ca. 1719 near Five Forks in the Manakintowne,
Henrico County, Virginia.
He first appeared on the
tax list of King William Parish in 1735 (ag age 16).
He married Christian Worley, daughter of John and
Ester Blount Worley.
I have no record of Anthony buying land near Flat
Rock or in Powhatan County but he apparently did as
there are records that he sold land to a Maxey in 1750
and in 1757 he sold land in Powhatan County.
He then
bought land in, and moved to, Buckingham County.
In 1764, in consideration of 20 shillings, he patented
200 acres in Buckingham County along the south branches
of Slate River.
In 1767, in consideration of 40 shillings, he patented 400 acres in Buckingham County on the
branches of Greens Creek of Slate River.
By 1785
Anthony appeared with his son Benjamin in Franklin
County, Virginia.
In 1791 he took up a land grant for 548 acres of
land in Sullivan County, Tennessee.
In 1795 he sold
200 acres of this and in 1798 sold 299 more acres.
I
do not know if he ever lived in Tennessee or where he
died.
Anthony and Christian Worley Agee were the parents
of 12 children. Five of them reportedly born in Powhatan
County and the last seven in Buckingham.
l.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
Joshua Agee
James Agee
Daniel Agee
Mathew Agee
William Agee
Benjamin Agee
Isaac Agee
Joseph Agee
JOHN AGEE
Anthony Agee, Jr.
Jesse (Reuben) Agee
Leah Agee
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
Sarah Ann Bondurant
Patty Huckerby
Jane Shoemaker
Mary Liggen (Ligon)
Catherine
Sarah Clark Parker (widow)
Mary Smith
no information
MARY OGG (or ANDERSON)
Jane Ransom
Elizabeth Childress
George Thomas Smith
The children are not listed in order of birth.
71
JOHN AGEE (SR.)
John Agee, son of Anthony and Christian Worley
Agee, was born about 1748 near Flat Rock in what is now
Powhatan County, Virginia. He moved with his parents
to Buckingham County in 1757 and appeared on a tithe
list there in 1773.
By 1784 he was in Henry County, Virginia and his
oldest son Charles was, by then, 16 years old as they
both appear on the personal property list of that
year. We have found no land records for this John
Agee.
John Agee married Mary Ogg (or Anderson) about 1767
and they were the parents of:
l.
2.
3.
4.
Charles Agee
Adler Agee
Jacob Agee
JOHN AGEE, JR.
m.
m.
m.
m.
Elizabeth
Joice Masten
Ailsey Burchett
SENA HYLTON
72
JOHN AGEE, JR.
John Agee, Jr., son of John, Sr. and Mary Ogg (or
Anderson) Agee was born in Buckingham County, Virginia
in 1772 and moved with his parents, to Henry County,
Virginia by 1784.
He married July 3, 1798 J in Patrick County, to
Sena (Seeny) Hylton, daughter of Nathaniel Newman and
Elizabeth Wade Hylton.
The minister was Jesse Jones.
Sena had been born about 1775.
They were living in Patrick County at the time of the
1850 census.
Their land is on what is now (1989) State
Rt. 8 about 1 mile north of Woolwine, Vriginia near where
Rt. 8 crosses Rock Castle Creek. This land later belonged
to their son Austin Agee and then in 1888 to his son
Jessie Jones Agee.
John, Jr. and Sena Hylton Agee were the parents of:
1.
JOSHUA AGEE
m.
2.
3.
Samuel (Salem) Agee
Nathaniel Agee
m.
m.
4.
William Agee
m.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Austin Agee
Lucy Agee
Eliz. (Betsy) Agee
Lewis Agee
m.
m.
m.
m.
1st. SARAH BRAMMER
2nd. Mary J. Via
Mary Cochrane
1st. Mary Maxey
2nd. Sally Kelly
1st Lucinda Spencer
2nd. Lucinda Cronister
Eliza J. Hensley
William Dillon
James Dillon
Ann Wade
73
JOSHUA AGEE
Joshua Agee, son of John, Jr. and Sena Hylton
Agee, was born April 8, 1799.
He married March 26, 1821
in Patrick County, Virginia to Sarah Brammer, daughter
of John and Sarah Lee Brammer.
Witness was Jonathan
Hubbard and the minister was Stephen Hubbard.
In 1835 Joshua bought from Reuben and Elizabeth
Rakes 125 acres of land on the head waters of Rush
Fork and Pine Creek in Floyd County, Va.
In 1838
he bought 225 more acres from Calvin R. and Sara Short.
This land is all near the junction of Floyd, Franklin
and Patrick counties just south of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Joshua and Sarah were the parents of:
1.
2.
3•
JOHN AGEE
James Agee
William Agee
m.
m.
m.
LUCINDA WOOD
Judith Thomas
Nancy ~obertson
In 1851 Joshua sold to his son William 77 acres
of land.
Joshua was listed, at this time, as living on
that part of his land that was in Franklin County.
The
same day he sold to his son James 110 acres in Floyd
and Franklin Counties.
In 1859 Joshua sold to his son
John 100 acres on Pine Creek adjoining Joshuas land.
Sarah Brammer Agee died prior to 1865 and Joshua
remarried on December 20, 1865 in Floyd County to Mary
J. Via, daughter of James Via of Patrick County. Joshua
was listed as age 66 widowed and Mary as age 23 single.
Minister was M. Howery.
Joshua and Mary were the parents of:
1.
2.
Cora Lee Agee
Marion E. Agee
m.
m.
Rev. Everett Lancaster
Mary J. Thompson
The 1880 census of Floyd County, Va. shows Joshua
Agee age 80, Mary age 39, Cora Lee age 12, Marion E.
age 10.
Joshua wrote his will on March 30, 1879 leaving
everything to his wife Mary J. Agee.
After her death
74
JOSHUA AGEE
Page -2-
everything was to be divided between Marion E. Agee and
Cora Lee Agee.
A copy of this will follows on the next
page.
Jos h ua Ag~e died in 1883 and was buried in the
Radford-Agee cemetery on land he once owned.
This is on
Floyd County, Virginia Road # 635 about 1 or 1-1/2 miles
from County Line Primitive Baptist Church, which is at
the intersection of roads 637 and 635. The land is now
(1989) owned by Miss Clynda Radford who lives about
1/2 mile from the cemetery. The cemetery was, when we
first found it, overgrown but has been cleaned by Joshuas
gr. gr. grandson William C. Agee and William's son Sidney
Jonathan Agee.
Miss Radford told us the farm was once
the Agee farm and showed us the site of a large log
cabin which she remembered from early childhood.
Joshua's tombstone is inscribed as follows:
Joshua Agee
Born April 8, 1799
Aged 84 years
Whilst in this tomb
our father lies.
His spirit rests
above in realms of
bliss it never dies
but knows a saviors
love.
=
II
75
will of Joshua Agee
Recorded-Floyd County, Virginia DB E p . 33l
Joshua Agee's will
I, Joshua Agee of the County of Floyd and State of Virginia do
hereby make my last will and testament in manner and form following. to wit
1st. I give to my wife Mary J. Agee all of my tract of land,
the sarre being on which I now reside, together with all my stock
of every kind Also my household and kitchen furniture and all property of any and every kind that nay be left after paying all of my
just debts and funeral expenses for her to have and enjoy during
her natural life. And at her death I will that my son Marion E.
Agee have my said tract of land by him paying one half of the
value of said tract of land to my daughter Cora L. Agee. But if he
cannot or does not pay her one half the value of said tract of
land then I desire that it be sold and the money fran such sale be
equally divided between themselves. I also desire that my son
Marion E. Agee and my daughter Cora L. Agee have all of my personal of any and every description to be equally divided between
them at the death of my wife Mary J. Agee.
2nd. To my sons - John Agee, Jarres Agee and William Agee
I have already given to them more property than I will have to
give to my son Marion E. Agee and my daughter Cora L. Agee.
Therefore I desire that they John Agee, Jarres Agee and William
Agee have nothing more fran my estate.
3rd.
I desire that there be no appraisement of my estate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed ,
my seal this 30th day of ~larch in the year of our Lord 1878.
Joshua Agee (seal)
Signed, Sealed, Published and
declared, as and for the last will
and testament of the above named
Joshua Agee, in the presence of us:
John A. Burnett
Tharas R. Hall
Virginia - At a County Court held for the County of Floyd at the
Courthouse thereof on the 9th day of January 1883.
A paper purporting to the the last will and testament of Joshua
Agee deceased was produced in Court and proven by the oaths of
the subscribing witnesses thereto - Admitted to probate and
ordered to be recorded.
A copy teste
B. P. Elliott Clk
76
JOHN AGEE
John Agee, son of Joshua and Sarah Brammer Agee,
was born January 13, 1822 in Floyd County, Virginia.
He married Januar y 20, 1844 in Patrick County to
Lucinda A. Wood, daughter of Henry Wood. Witness was
Alexander Wood an d the minister was Jesse Jones.
John and Lucinda lived in Floyd County near what is
now (1989) Floyd county roads # 635 and 637 very near the
Blue Ridge Parkwa y . January 24, 1859 John bought from
his father Joshua Agee 100 acres of land on Pine Creek
adjoining Joshua's land.
Record of this is in deed book
K page 108 in Flo yd County.
John and Lucinda were the parents of:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Sarah Agee
JOHN TAZEWELL AGEE
Joshua Sebert Agee
James M. Agee
Wm. Wesley Agee
Stuart Lee Agee
m.
m.
m.
Joshua Radford
RUTH LILLIAN NOLEN
Annaliza E. Davis
b. 4/3/1855 d. 6/10/1861
m.
Laura Hester Moore
The 1870 census of Floyd County shows on page 21,
Little River District, House # 153 - Agee, John 46,
Lucinda 45, John Taz. 22, Joshua Sebert 17, Wm. Wesley
11, Stuart L. 5. John's brother William and wife Nancy
lived in house # 152 with 8 children.
December 21, 1875 John and Lucinda Agee sold to John
T. Agee 120 acres (same land sold to John by Joshua).
This is recorded in Floyd County deed book N page 633.
Later John and Lucinda sold to Stuart (spelled Steward
in the deed) L. Agee 10 acres of land at $ 12.50 per
acre. Land was lying about 10 miles northeast of Floyd
Courthouse on Flo yd-Franklin Turnpike.
John's wife Lucinda died June 23, 1900 and he died
October 28, 1901. He had not prepared a will so his
property was appraised and sold at auction.
The record
of this is in will Book G pages 92 and 93 ~n the Floyd
County Circuit Clerks office.
In April 1903 William W.,
J. S. and John T. Agee entered a law suit against Stuart
L. Agee for their share of the money from the sale of
John and LUcinda's estate.
Their claim was settled and
the case dismissed.
This is in Chancery Order Bk. 7.
at page 147.
77
JOHN AGEE
continued
John Agee was a confederate soldier in the Civil
War.
He was a member of Company G. 21st Virginia Cavalry and was a private. The only record we have found
of his service is in a very worn ledger book in the
County Clerk's Office of the Floyd, Virginia Courthouse.
It states that the records are from Camp III as kept by
N. J. Agnew (Adj.). The recOrd shows that John Agee
was captured Nov. 12, 1864, after being wounded, and
imprisoned at Point Lookout. Many of this Company were
captured and imprisoned on this date. We have sent an
inquiry to the National Archives but have heard nothing
yet.
John was buried in the Radford-Agee Cemetery on
what is now (1989) Floyd County Road # 635.
It is just
south of the Blue Ridge Parkway very near County Line
Primitive Baptist Church.
His grave has a military
tombstone.
His Father (Joshua Agee), his brothers James
and William, their wives and several children are also
buried there. We believe John's wife Lucinda Wood Agee
is also buried there as there is a grave beside John's
that is marked with fieldstones.
We have no proof of
this.
78
JOHN TAZEWELL AGEE
John Tazewell Agee was born to John and Lucinda
Wood Agee, May 15, 1846 in Floyd County, Virginia.
He
married September 10, 1874 to Ruth Lillian Nolen, daughter of Charles P. and Nancy Lee Adams Nolen.
Their first child was born August 23, 1875 and died
March 21, 1876. We are not sure where they first lived
nor where this son was born or buried.
They had bought
120 acres of land on Pine Creek in Floyd County, Va. on
December 21, 1875.
This land was sold to him by his
father John Agee who had bought it from his father Joshua
Agee.
We feel sure they lived in Patrick County, Va.
by 1882 as another child died and was buried in the
Nolen cemetery near Woolwine in Patrick County.
On February 10, 1883 John T. and Ruth L. Agee sold the 120 acres
of land they had bought in Floyd County to Mary A. Agee
of Floyd County.
Mary's husband was Joshua M. Agee.
John T. and Ruth L. lived in Patrick Co. as shown on the
deed.
John T. Agee was in the military "Reserves about three
months just as the war between the States ended" as written
by his daughter Lillie Lackey in 1962.
John Tazewell and Ruth Lillian Nolen Agee were the
parents of:
1.
2.
3.
4•
5.
6.
7•
8.
9•
10.
Charles J. Agee
Nancy Lucinda Agee
Mary E. Agee
JOHN TAYLOR AGEE
Martha A. Agee
Judith A. Agee
Lula Maud Agee
George C. Agee
Lillie Mae Agee
Ross Lee Agee
m.
m~
m.
m.
m.
b. 8/23/1875 d. 3/21/1876
Samuel Hairston Hooker
b. 8/21/1879 d. 11/6/1882
LAURA EPPERLY
b. 12/3/1884 d. 7129/1888
b. 1/911887 d. 8/4/1888
never married d. 3/4/1963
Eula Gay Hylton
Barney C. Lackey
Sarah Edna Spencer
John Tazewell Agee died December 14, 1928 in Patrick
County, Va. and was buried in the Nolen Cemetery on what
is now (1989) county road # 618 in Patrick County.
Ruth
L. Agee died January 30, 1935 and was also buried there as
were four of their daughters.
79
OUR BRAMMER ANCESTORS
JOHN BRAMMER
m.
SARAH BRAMMER
m.
JOHN AGEE
m.
JOHN TAZEWELL AGEE
JOHN TAYLOR AGEE
SARAH LEE
JOSHUA AGEE
LUCINDA WOOD
rn.
m.
RUTH LILLIAN NOLEN
LAURA EPPERLY
80
JOHN & SARAH LEE BRAMMER
In 1780 -John Brammer owned 280 acres of land on
White Oak Creek in (at that time) Franklin County, Virginia.
This is near the Franklin-Patrick county lines.
This is recorded in Land Book E, page 851, Land Office,
Richmond, Virginia under Franklin County Land Grants or
Patents.
On March 20, 1790 John bought from John Fuson 50
acres more or less on the south side of Pigg River
adjoining lands of Thomas Jones. On February 4, 1793,
John sold this same land to William Johnson. Both transactions are shown in Franklin County DB 2.
John and Sarah Lee Brammer were the parents of several children. The ones we have been able to find are:
1.
2•
3.
4.
5.
William Brammer
SARAH BRAMMER
Brammer
Bethina Brammer
Frances Brammer
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
Belinda Lancaster
JOSHUA AGEE
Moran
Alexander Wood
Richard Wood.
We have been unable to learn more of John and
Sarah Brammer.
81
SARAH ·SALLIE· BRAMMER
Sarah Brammer was born about 1797-98 to John and
Sarah Lee Brammer.
She married March 26, 1821 in
Patrick County, Virginia to Joshua Agee, son of John,
Jr. and Sena Hylton Agee.
The minister was Stephen
Hubbard.
Sarah and Joshua bought a total of 350 acres of
land on the Floyd, Franklin and Patrick County lines.
A part of their land is on what is now (1989) Floyd
County roads # 635 and 637 near the County Line Primitive Church and the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Sarah and Joshua were the parents of:
m.
l.
2.
3.
JOHN AGEE
James Agee
William Agee
Agee
The 1850 census of Franklin County shows Joshua
5~ 1 Farmer
Sarah 52.
m.
m.
LUCINDA WOOD
Judith Thomas
Nancy Robertson
Sarah "Sallie" Brammer Agee died prior to 1865.
We have not found her grave yet, but believe it to be
in the Radford-Agee Cemetery on Floyd County road #
635 on the farm they owned.
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82
OUR GODWIN (GANDOVIN) ANCESTORS
m.
ISAAC GANDOVIN (GODWIN)
m.
CECILIA ANN GODWIN
ANTHONY AGEE
JOHN AGEE
m.
ANN HALL (or PLEASANT)
m.
JOHN MATHIEU AGE
CHRISTIAN WORLEY
MARY ANDERSON (or OGG)
m.
JOHN AGEE, JR.
JOSHUA AGEE
JOHN AGEE
m.
SARAH BRAMMER
m.
JOHN TAZEWELL AGEE
JOHN TAYLOR AGEE
SENA HYLTON
LUCINDA WOOD
m.
m.
RUTH LILLIAN NOLEN
LAURA EPPERLY
83
ISAAC AND ANN HALL (or PLEASANT) GANDOVIN
Isaac and Ann Godwin (Gandovin) were part of the
Huguenot immigration from Nantes, France to the Manakintowne settlement in Virginia.
Isaac was naturalized in Cumberland County, Virginia.
This is recorded in will Book 1, page 33.
We have no other information on these two.
84
CECELIA ANN GODWIN
Cecilia Ann Godwin, daughter of Isaac and Ann
Godwin, was born about 1700 in Manakin, Virginia.
She married in 1713-1714 to John Mathieu Agee, son
of Anthony and Judith Chastain Agee.
Ann and Mathieu lived near Five Forks in the Manakintowne where their four children were born. They
later moved to what is now Buckingham County, Virginia.
The last record found of Ann and Mathieu was a gift of
land to their son James in Buckingham County in 1761.
Their children were:
1.
2.
3•
4.
ANTHONY AGEE
Judith Agee
Isaac Agee
James Agee
m.
m.
m.
m.
CHRISTIAN WORLEY
Noah Austin
Mary Ann Lucado
Marie Faure (Mary Ford)
85
OUR HYLTON ANCESTORS
m.
NATHANIEL NEWMAN HYLTON
m.
SENA (SEENY) HYLTON
ELIZABETH WADE
JOHN AGEE, JR.
JOSHUA AGEE
m.
SARAH BRAMMER
JOHN AGEE
m.
LUCINDA WOOD
JOHN TAZEWELL AGEE
JOHN TAYLOR AGEE
m.
m.
RUTH LILLIAN NOLEN
LAURA EPPERLY
86
NATHANIEL NEWMAN AND ELIZABETH WADE HYLTON
Nathaniel Newman Hylton was born in King and Queen
County, Vir g inia in 1744.
His parents moved many times,
living in Prince George, New Kent, Hanover, Goochland,
Albemarle, Amherst and Bedford, all counties in Virginia.
Nathaniel married Elizabeth Wade, believed to be the
daughter of Jeremiah Wade.
In 176 9 he bought land in Bedford County, Virginia.
In 1771 he sold 50 acres on Murphy's Branch of Great
Otter to Edith Hilton (his sister who later married a
Smith).
In 1772 he sold 15 acres to Michail Kelley.
This land was on Big Otter adjoining lands of George
Walton.
In 1779 he and Elizabeth sold 150 acres on the
north side of Otter adjoining Jeremiah Jenkins.
In 1780 Nathaniel volunteered for service of the
United States in the county of Bedford.
He stated in
his pension application that he was a "Minute Man" and
served more than two years.
By 1796 they were in Patrick County, Virginia at the
time of the 1796 Tax List (census).
Nathaniel filed for
a pension for service to his country during the Revolutionary War on July 13, 1837.
He died before receiving it
and in 1852 his son Edward filed for the benefit of
Nathaniel's children.
We do not know, yet, whether the
pension was ever granted.
Nathaniel and Elizabeth were the parents of:
l.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Martha Hilton
Lucy Hilton
Elizabeth Hilton
SENNY HILTON
Edward Hilton
George Hilton
Jacob Hilton
Elijah Hilton
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
Samuel Harris
Jonathan Hubbard
William Harris
JOHN AGEE, JR.
Sally Conner Hart
Milly Wade
Jenny (Va. ) Mannin
Rachel Tuggle
The record of Nathaniel and Elizabeth's children
was found in Volume 5 p. 1111 of the Hilton Index in
the Virginia Room of the Roanoke Library.
The information had been compiled by Lillian Hilton, Meadows of
Dan, Va. in 1975 and published by Hatcher King, Spout
Spring, Va, 24593 in 1977.
Lillian is a great-great
granddaughter of Edward Hilton.
Va.
Hylton, Nathaniel N.
Number R 5467
Pension Declaration
On this 13th day of July 1837 personally appeared - before the Justices
of County of Patrick now sitting as a Court Nathaniel N. Hylton, a resident of Patrick County of the State of Virginia, age ninety-three years,
who being first duly sworn according to law, now on his oath makes the
following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named
Officers and served as herein stated. That this declarant volunteered in
the Company of Capt. William Calloway in the County of Bedford, now Campbell, in the State of Virginia in the year 1780 and marched immediately
to head of the Appc.ma ttox River at house of one Boonsborro and was stationed there about three days and then he got marched to Molly Creek and
remained there several weeks and finding Col. Tarleton was not coming up
the country as it was expected he was marched by his Lieut. John Trigg to
Bleford Gap to repel the incursion of the Tories from Green Briar on the
~st of the rrountains and returned to head quarters at New London having
been in this engagerrent at least Eleven Months. This declarant was
stationed at New London guarding the magazine as a Minute Man under Col.
Charles Lynch and Capt. Jerry Early in the Company of Capt. John Calloway,
occassionally making little excursions against the Torries and to prevent insurrections of the Negroes in the surrounding Country. --Two
years He recollects --capt. Zentmeyers a notorious traitor who was captured down below Williamsburg in Virginia and brought to New London in
Bedford County to prevent the British from rescuing him. He saw and
was acquainted with Gen. Steuben at New London at time he was there
which was about three weeks. In other excursion from the garrison at
New London this declarant marched through Pittsylvania and Halifax
Counties of Virginia to the mouth of Horse Pasture now in the county of
Henry Virginia where his outfit made the excursion to the Horse Pasture
he marched under Capt. Ananias Henderson He saw Gen. Bluford as he
passed New London on his way South before his defeat but owning to the
line of duty which he had he never was in any battles but was principally
confined to the garrison before named and its vicinity. His great age
and consequent loss of memory combined with the fact that he is illiterat has not only prevented him from stating accurately the dates and
county of his service as accurately as he would wish to do but he
thinks he is able to state his service. One thing hcmever he is
satisfied is the time that he was engaged in this service of the United
States, rrore than two years, the places and under the officers before
stated.
His discharges have all been lost, in fact his illiteracy and helpless
situation has placed it beyond his power to assert his claim as soon as
he wished for a pension. In fact he has been dependant on the aid of
others and has been anxious for the last four or five years to take steps
to secure fran the Governrrent what help and pay he is entitled to from
the hands of his country. This declarant is pcx:>r helpless and very
nearly blind and has been unable to travel any distance for several
years. He wants to mention that he was a private during the whole of
his service. He has no docurrentary evidence nor does he know of any
living witness by whan he could prove his service. He was born in
County of King and Queen and was removed by his parents to Prince
George and fran thence to New Kent thence to Hanover fran thence to
Goochland thence to Albemarle thence to Amherst and thence to Bedford
and from Bedford to Patrick, all counties in Virginia.
87
88
Page 2 -- Hylton, Nathaniel N.
-- Pension Declaration
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity
except the present and declares that his name is not found on the pension
roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year afore named.
Nathaniel N. (X) Hylton
Peter Hanby, Clergyrran, residing in the county of Patrick, Isaac
Adams residing in the county of Patrick hereby certify that we are well
acquainted with Nathaniel N. Hylton who has subscirbed and sworn to the
above declaration that we believe him to be ninety-three years of age.
We,
Virginia
Patrick County
it known that I Edward Hylton, one of the children of the late
Nathaniel N. Hylton and Revolutionary Soldier who did finding his
application for pension do hereby appoint William Hurt (Hunt) of
Washington City, D.C. or any true and lawful Attorney to examine the
papers in the Pension office with a view of ascertaining what more
evidence is required to perfect the same claim to a pension and to do
all other acts in pension the sane as though I myself were personally
present.
Be
Wittness my hand and seal the 15th Day of June 1852
Edward H. (X) Hylton
89
SENA (SEENY) HYLTON
Sena Hilton, daughter of Nathaniel Newman and
Elizabeth Wade Hilton, was born in Virginia about
1775. She married July 3, 1798 in Patrick County,
Virginia to John Agee, Jr., son of John, Sr. and
Mary Anderson (or Ogg) Agee. The Minister was Jesse
Jones.
Sena and John lived in Patrick County just off
what is now (1989) Route 8 near where it crosses
Rock Castle Creek near Woolwine, Va.
Their land
was deeded to their son, Austin Agee, in 1858 and
to Austin's son, Jessie Jones Agee, in 1888.
Sena and John were the parents of:
l. JOSHUA AGEE
2. Samuel Agee
3. Nathaniel Agee
4 • William Agee
5. Austin Agee
6 • Lucy Agee
7. Elizabeth Agee
8 . Lewis Agee
m.Ist.
2nd.
m.
m.lst.
2nd.
m. 1st.
2nd.
m.
m.
m.
m.
sarah brammer
Mary J. Via
Mary Cochrane
Mary Maxey
Sally Kelly
Lucinda Spencer
Lucinda Cronister
Eliza J. Hensley
William Dillon
James Dillon
Ann Wade
We don't know when Sena Hilton Agee died nor where
sbe was buried. The graves of her son Austin Agee and
his wife and her grandson Jessie Jones Agee and his
wife are on "Agee Hill" about one mile north of
Woolwine, Patrick County, Va. on the farm Sena and
John Agee once owned. We feel that they were buried on the same farm but have no proof of this.
90
OUR INGRAM ANCESTORS
JAMES INGRAM
m.
m.
ONEY INGRAM
NANCY LEE ADAMS
MARTHA
m.
RUTH LILLIAN NOLEN
JOHN TAYLOR AGEE
--~--
ISAAC ADAMS
CHARLES P. NOLEN
m.
m.
JOHN TAZEWELL AGEE
LAURA EPPERLY
91
JAMES AND MARTHA INGRAM
James and Martha Ingram lived on Goblintown Creek
in Patrick County, Virginia prior to 1783 when they
sold a total of 175 acres of land to William Walden,
William Martin and Joseph Street. The 'remained in
the area, apparently, as they were buried near there
about one mile north of what is now (1989) Patrick
Co. Rd. # 624.
Their graves are on a ridge above Philpott Lake.
The land is now Hse~ owned by the State of Virginia
and used as a game preserve.
I only know of two of their children:
1. James Ingram, Jr.
m.
2. Oney Ingram
m.
1st. Martha
2nd. Jane Turner
Isaac Adams
There is a town very near this area in the southwest portion of Franklin County near the Patrick Co.
line named Ingramville.
92
ONEY INGRAM
Oney Ingram, daughter of James and Martha Ingram,
married November 10, 1808 in Patrick County, Virginia
to Isaac C. Adams, son of Jacob and Mary Adams. The
minister was listed as Lewis Foster.
They were the parents qf:
l.
Polly Adams
2.
3•
Elizabeth Adams
NANCY LEE ADAMS
Sally Adams
Abram Adams
4.
5.
m.
m.
m.
m.
1st.
Taylor
2nd. Thomas DeHart
John Akers
CHARLES P. NOLEN
Thomas B. Woolwine
b. about 1830
Oney Ingram Adams died 1830-31. We do not know
where she died nor where she was buried.
After the death of Oney Isaac married in 1832
to Execony Turner Foster.
93
OUR NOLEN (NOWLIN) ANCESTORS
CHARLES P. NOLEN
RUTH LILLIAN NOLEN
JOHN TAYLOR AGEE
m.
m.
m.
NANCY LEE ADAMS
JOHN TAZEWELL AGEE
LAURA EPPERLY
94
CHARLES P. NOLEN
Charles P. Nolen was born March 16, 1806. He
married Nancy Lee Adams, daughter of Isaac and Oney
Ingram Adams, December 2, 1834 in Patrick County,
Virginia. We have been unable to document the parentage
of Charles P. Nolen although we feel he was a son of
John and Mary Thomas Nowlin.
On March 12, 1835 Charles bought 218 acres of
land in Patrick County, Virginia from James Houchins.
This land adjoined lands of Jeremiah Burnett and
? Reynolds.
The June, 1850 census of Patrick County, Va.,
North Division, Elamsville shows - Charles P. Nowlin
44, Nancy 31, Mary 14, Exony 12, Isaac 10, Ephriam 9,
Martha 5, John A. 3, also one we can't read 8 months
old. The 1860 census (taken 8/24/1860) shows the same
location plus House # 552, Family # 570 and lists Chas. P. Nolen 54, Nancy 38, Isaac 20, Ephriam S. 17,
Martha 14, John A. 12, George 8, Nancy 6, Ruth L. 4.
We did not find Charles P. Nolen, Jr. on either census although he has been listed on all other records.
The children of Charles and Nancy were:
l.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Hary Nolen
Exoney Nolen
Isaac A. Nolen
Ephriam S. Nolen
Martha Nolen
John A. Nolen
Charles P. Nolen, Jr.
George S. Nolen
Nancy Adaline Nolen
RUTH LILLIAN NOLEN
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
b. 1836 No information
Nathaniel C. Akers
Judie A.
b. 1841 No info.
Columbus Rakes
Martha E.
Juda A. Turner
Ruth J. Hooker
John F. Turner
JOHN TAZEWELL AGEE
Charles P. Nolen died January 26, 1875 in Patrick
County and was buried in the Nolen Cemetery on County
Road # 618 about a mile from Smith River Church of the
Brethren.
After Nancy's death in 1878 their personal property was sold.
Their children were the main purchasers.
A complete listing of this is on record in the Patrick
County, Virginia Courthouse at Stuart, Va.
95
RUTH LILLIAN NOLEN
Ruth Lillian Nolen was born June 7, 1857, to
Charles P. and ~ancy Lee Adams Nolen, at Elamsville,
Patrick County, Virginia.
She married September 10, 1874 in Patrick County
to John Tazewell Agee, son of John and Lucinda Wood Age~~
of Floyd County, Virginia.
In 1875 Ruth and John bought land from his parents
in Floyd County. We do not know if they ever lived in
Floyd County. They sold the land in 1883 and at the
time of the sale they lived in Patrick County.
They were the parents of:
l.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Charles J. Agee
Nancy Lucinda Agee
Mary E. Agee
JOHN TAYLOR AGEE
Martha A. Agee
Judith A. Agee
Lula Maud Agee
George C. Agee
Lillie Mae Agee
Ross Lee Agee
b. 8/23/1875 d. 3/21/1876
m. Samuel Hairston Hooker
b. 8/21/1879 d. 11/6/1882
m. LAURA EPPERLY
b. 12/3/1884 d. 7/29/1888
b. 1/9/1887 d. 8/4/1888
never marr. d. 3/4/1963
m. Eula Gay Hylton
m. Barney C. Lackey
m. Sarah Edna Spencer
Ruth Lillian Nolen Agee died January 30, 1935 and
was buried in the Nolen cemetery on Patrick County Road
# 618 near Woolwine, Va.
Her parents had been buried
there as had her husband and three of her children,
her daughter Lula died in 1963 and was also buried there.
On the following pages are photocopies of birth,
marriage and death records Ruth Lillian had written.
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OUR WORLEY ANCESTORS
m.
JOHN WORLEY
ESTHER BLOUNT
m.
CHRISTIAN WORLEY
JOHN AGEE
m.
JOHN AGEE,J R.
ANTHONY AGEE
SENA (SEENY) HYLTON
m.
JOSHUA AGEE
JOHN AGEE
m.
SARAH BRAMMER
m.
LUCINDA WOOD
JOHN TAZEWELL AGEE
JOHN TAYLOR AGEE
m.
m.
RUTH LILLIAN NOLEN
LAURA EPPERLY
100
JOHN, SR. and
ESTHER BLOUNT WORLEY
The only thing we have learned about John and
Esther Blount Worley is that they were the parents of
Christian Worley and the fact that John Worley, Sr.
died in March 1758 in Cumberland County, Virginia.
CHRISTIAN WORLEY
Christian Worley, daughter of John and Esther
Blount Worley, married Anthony Agee, son of Mathew and
Ann Godwin Agee,
Five of Christian and Anthony's children were born
near Flat Rock (now PowhatanCo., Va.).
In 1757, they
bought land in, and moved to, Buckingham County, Virginia.
Their next seven children were born in Buckingham County.
I do not know where Christian died.
There is a
record that Anthony was in Franklin County, Virginia by
1785.
Christian and Anthony were the parents of:
l.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
ll.
12.
Joshua Agee
James Agee
Daniel Agee
Mathew Agee
William Agee
Benjamin Agee
Isaac Agee
Joseph Agee
JOHN AGEE
Anthony Agee, Jr.
Jesse (Reuben) Agee
Leah Agee
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
Sarah Ann Bondurant
Patty Huckerby
Jane Shoemaker
Mary Liggen (Ligon)
Catherine
SarahClark Parker (widow)
Mary Smith
No information
Jane Ransom
Elizabeth Childress
George Thomas Smith
The children were not listed in order of birth.

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