Today I honor my closest Mother, my own.

Nancy Joyce Davis was born on March 3, 1939 in Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina. She was the youngest and last child of Lewis Theodore Davis and Annie Maude Mauldin Davis.

Name:	Nancy Joyce Davis
Event Type:	Birth
Birth Date:	1939
Birth County:	Stanly
Parent1 Name:	Lewis T
Roll Number:	NCVR_B_C089_66001
Volume:	26
Page:	135

She would be known by her middle name Joyce, a fact she often lamented. She had been preceded in birth by Lewis Douglas Davis, Walter Kenneth Davis and Sylvia Joanne Davis. All are deceased as of now with the exception of the firstborn, Uncle Doug.






Momma grew up in Albemarle. She attended Central Elementary and graduated from Albemarle High School.

Name:	Nancy Davis
Age:	1
Estimated birth year:	abt 1939
Gender:	Female
Race:	White
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Marital status:	Single
Relation to Head of House:	Daughter
Home in 1940:	Albemarle, Stanly, North Carolina
Map of Home in 1940:	View Map
Street:	North Depot Street
House Number:	410
Sheet Number:	8B
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Attended School or College:	No
Highest Grade Completed:	None
Native Language:	English
Neighbors:	View others on page
Household Members:	Name Age Lewis T Davis 28 Maude Davis 30 Lewis D Davis 7 Walter Davis 5 Sylva Davis 2 Nancy Davis 1

Momma was a catbird. As a child, she enjoyed playing with her little dog peanut. As a teen, she enjoyed biking and skating and hanging out at the YMCA.


Joyce was a child of the 50's. She was a Bobby-sockers who loved Rock-n-Roll and above all, she loved Elvis. Fats Domino and Little Richard were also among her favorites. I've tried to pass down all of the Lullabyes that my Mom used to sing to me to my children and now, my grandchildren, like "I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill" and "Tootie Fruitie on the Rootie".


Joyce Davis graduated Albemarle Senior High School in 1858 and married a boy from South Stanly she met at the YMCA, Melvin Eugene Lambert, in 1959. Thirteen months later, I made my appearance, in 1960.

Gene was a soldier, and served as an MP in both the Korean and Vietnam Wars. That is why I was born on an Army Base, at Valley Forge, PA.

The separation was too great and my parent were too young and the marriage didn't work out. My mother and I lived with her parents in Albemarle for a number of years and my parents were divorced in 1965.

Name:	Joyce Lambert
Spouse:	Melvin Lambert
Marriage Place:	USA
Divorce Date:	12 Jul 1965
Divorce Place:	Stanly, North Carolina, USA
Residence Place:	Stanly, USA

Momma was a working single mother for awhile. We lived with my grandparents and I attended daycare while she worked. A young mother, she was full of the Davis spit and vinegar and she liked her hot cars. She had the most beautiful aqua (her favorite color) and white 57 Chevy and when that one got a little age on it, she went for a hot little Chevy II, black with red trim. In a way, it may have been alot of fun if Momma had stayed single. Fun, but empty.

Momma would fall in love again for the last and forever time with the boy down the street. You could literally walk out in front of one house, look down the road and see the other.


With the children (and they will always be children despite their ages) in Group Homes and getting the care and instruction they needed, Momma and Daddy were free to travel a little bit, and Momma came into her own, again. She liked the bus tours and hanging out with friends and doing puzzles and riding around to look at the deer.

She collected a number of things and changed her whole decor by the month and holidays and changed the outfits on her collectible bears. She also collected dolls and unicorns and anything Elvis. She loved her soaps, becoming addicted to them while the kids were small, but really, Momma had no addictions. She didn't smoke, drink or do drugs. She only took medicines the doctors prescribed.

Momma was a beloved Grandmother to my 4 children. I remarried after my spouse died and added one more. As my Grandparents Davis had an even 4 of  two boys and 2 girls, so did I. I now have 6 Grandchildren. She got to meet the first 4.



Daddy always thought Momma would outlive him. He was older and smoked like a freight train. Unfortunately, Momma contracted NASH (Non-Alchoholic Schlerosis) and left before him. It was an inherited disease, as her sister, Sylvia, died of the same thing just a year later.

I lost my Momma on June 12, 2016. I was not ready to become the family matriarch. I never would have been. Daddy was devastated. He begged God to take him,too. Theirs was true love. They would even dress alike quite often. Daddy would go to the cemetery everyday. Every Single Day ,and sing to Momma's grave, his little love songs about his blue-eyed baby. We lost Daddy this past December. He outlived her by 3 and a half years. They are together now.

The older I get, the more I notice that I am so like my mother. I've also inherited the NASH. Because she passed first, I can now take preventive measures to postpone the last stages of the disease, or even possibly to reverse it with the proper diet.

 Momma  has a clone in my oldest daughter as far as drive and her spitfire attitude.

I miss you so much Momma. I forever love you. Hope to see you in heaven one day.

The newspaper credited her with living to be 108, and maybe the birthday we have for her is incorrect. Either way, she was long upon this Earth during an era when her life expectancy was much shorter.

Betsy was born along the Rocky River in Anson County to one of the Rocky River plantation families. Her parents were William Broadaway and his wife, Martha, maiden name unknown.

When she was 18 years old, as was common in those days, she married her Broadaway cousin, Thomas Carpenter, son of James Ludwell Carpenter and Obedience Broadaway Carpenter. "Beadie's parents were Nicholas and Grace Broadaway. I am not sure exactly how Nicholas and William we're related, but the Anson County Rocky River Broadways we're one family. One day soon, I hope to focus on them thouroughly.

Betsy and Thomas were the parents of 11 children: Obedience,  Martha, James Allen, William, Mary Ann, Nancy, Elizabeth, Caroline, Davis, John and Layfayette. Some people even attribute a Jesse and an Obediah to them. Those two I have not documented. Whether 11 or 13, by the time of her demise, Betsy Broadaway Carpenter had hundreds of descendants, as most of her children also had large families.


She and Thomas raised their children along the Rocky River in Anson. After she was widowed, Betsy would relocate to Stanly County, where she resided with her daughter, Martha Carpenter Hooks, my line.

Name:	Elizabeth Carputer [Elizabeth Carpenter]
Age in 1870:	54
Birth Year:	abt 1816
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Dwelling Number:	121
Home in 1870:	Tyson, Stanly, North Carolina
Race:	White
Gender:	Female
Post Office:	Albemarle
Occupation:	Farmer
Cannot Read:	Y
Cannot Write:	Y
Personal Estate Value:	175
Inferred Children:	Lafayette Carputer
Household Members:	Name Age Martha Hooke 39 Daniel Hooke   Elizabeth Hooke 19 Mary Hooke 17 Sarah Hooke 16 Eliza Hooke 14 Nancy Hooke 12 Ellen Hooke 10 John Hooke 9 William Hinson   Mary Hinson 25 Nancy Hinson 8 John Carpenter 18 Elizabeth Carputer 54 Lafayette Carputer 15

She would outlive Martha, who passed away in 1891 and after that would return to Anson County, and reside with her youngest son, Lafayette Carpenter.

Name:	Elizabeth Carpenter
Age:	100
Birth Date:	May 1800
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1900:	Ansonville, Anson, North Carolina
Sheet Number:	5
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation:	74
Family Number:	74
Race:	White
Gender:	Female
Relation to Head of House:	Mother
Marital status:	Widowed
Marriage Year:	1820
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother: Number of Living Children:	9
Mother: How Many Children:	11
Can Read:	No
Can Write:	No
Can Speak English:	Yes
Neighbors:	View others on page
Household Members:	Name Age Lafayette Carpenter 41 Bettie Carpenter 45 Stephen Carpenter 19 Jesse Carpenter 17 Jonah Carpenter 14 Elizabeth Carpenter 100

Betsy died in June of 1905. She is buried in the Edwards Family Cemetery near Burnsville. Again,  her longetivity was noted by columnist "Whale" of the Wharf Community in Anson, Mr. Ingram. He was incorrect that she was raised in Stanly County, she was not. Her husband Thomas, was, but not Betsy.






Rest in Peace Grandma Betsy. I hope to follow in your longetivity.

Anson County, NC - NC Marriages Database

496. Faulkner, A. W. L. (Jr)   Barett, Martha J.           1865         
 497. Faulkner, A. W. L. (Sr.)  Myers, Sarah Susan          1826         
 498. Faulkner, Elijah          Huntley, Caroline M.        1855         
 499. Faulkner, John            Webster, Susan              1856         
 500. Faulkner, Joseph          White, Mary Caroline        1858         
 501. Fenn, Zachariah           McCoy, Alecy                1780         
 502. Fesperman, David M.       Covington, Serena           1854  

This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by
Marceline Beem <marceline@mindspring.com>

Here, other Faulkner marriages are also noted. They lived in the Lanesville and Lanes Creek area, and I've not been able to connect them with other Faulkners, yet. And there's sparse mention of any Websters. Then I took the time to look back at the two deeds that mention a Webster, and read them.


Calvin


Book Z Page 127  Elias Preslar to Calvin Webster

This Indenture made the 8th day of November, 1834 between Elias Preslar, Sr of the state of North Carolina and County of Anson of the one part and Calvin Webster of the same place of the other part. Witnesseth that the said Elias Preslar, for and in consideration of the natural love and affection he hath and bear towards the aforesaid Calvin Webster, whom he has thus far raised and who is reported to be an illegitimate son of his son of her own son, Erasmus Preslar, deceased, of  NANCY WEBSTER for the above reason and for diverse other good causes and considerations.....unto Calvin Webster, two certain tracts of land lying and being in the county aforesaid and first tract adjoining Jordan Woodard and Amos Manus lands....containing 60 acres he aforesaid was granted to Jonathan Duck the 26th day of April 1823 and deeded to him the said Elias Preslar. Second tract.....lying on Flag Fork Branch near John Pooles Improvements containing 100 acres. 

Signed Elias Preslar  
Witnesses: John Preslar and Levi Preslar  July 1835

This deed of gift was proven in open court by Levi Preslar, W. Dismukes, Clerk, N D Boggan, D C.


Book 10 Page 200  Calvin Webster to Andrew J. Davis

For $212 Calvin Webster sold to Andrew J Davis two tracts of land.
The first tract of 60 acres adjoined Madame Woodward and Amos Manus. It appears Jordan Woodward was now deceased. The second tract was on Flag Fork branch near John Pooles improvements and conatined "100 acres more or less".
Witnesses were Jeremiah Keen and Edmund L. Davis.




To Summarize, Calvin Webster was the illegitimate son of Erasmus Preslar and Nancy Webster. His grandfather, Elias Preslar deeded him two tracts of land because he cared about the boy, and had been taking care of him. Several years later Calvin Webster turned around and sold both tracts to Andrew J. Davis. Elias Preslar, Sr. died in 1835, so he deeded this land to Calvin just before he died.

So, what happened to Calvin? He does not appear in any other records that I've came across in Anson County.

Going on a hunch, due to circumstances I've seen before, as in the case of Edmund Coley-Murray, son of Benjamin Murray and Fanny Coley, who I blogged on in "The Man with Two Names", who shows up as Edmund Coley in some census records and Edmond Murray in others, and whose 42 page estate records interchanged his name between Coley and Murray on every other page. Likewise with his cousin, Solomon Murray-Burris, son of Benjamin Murray's sister, Jane Murray and Joshua Christian Burris, Sr. He was referred to both ways. I began searching for Calvin Preslar and I found him. Not only did I find him, but I would discover other things that would blow my mind.

Name:	Calvin Preslar
Home in 1840 (City, County, State):	Anson, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29:	1
Persons Employed in Agriculture:	1
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49:	1
Total Free White Persons:	1
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves:	1

Legitimized by the acknowlegement of and inheritance from, his grandfather, Elias Preslar, Calvin changed his name to honor his father, Erasmus Preslar and his grandfather and became Calvin Preslar. He even witnessed one of his uncles deeds as Calvin Preslar. 1840 found him in his own household, alone in 1840, and he would sale his land this very year. But why? The resounding call of "Go West Young Man, and so he did.

Name

Calvin Preslar

Census Date

1845

County

Scott

Line

6

Roll

v229_2

His first stop was Scott County, Mississippi. He's listed there in State censuses and Tax Lists for 1843 and 1845. This is where he met and married Martha Thurman, his wife, and where their oldest son, William Roseberry Preslar, was born.  He's listed in the 1845 census with 3 males and one female. That would be himself, his wife, and his two firstborn children, William and Benjamin Franklin Preslar.

Name:	Calvin Presby
Gender:	Male
Age:	33
Birth Year:	abt 1817
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1850:	Western District, Bienville, Louisiana, USA
Occupation:	Farmer
Industry:	Agriculture
Cannot Read, Write:	Y
Line Number:	27
Dwelling Number:	85
Family Number:	85
Household Members:	Name Age Calvin Presby 33 Martha Presby 23 William A Presby 7 Benjamin F Presby 6 Amanda J Presby 4 Frances C Presby 3

The name Preslar would be "Southernized" to Presley and would go back and forth for awhile and be misspelled in multiple ways. So we find him and his young family in Louisiana in 1850. The " A" after William makes me think his middle name may have started out as "Asberry", common in Anson County.



The above clipping from the 1860 census of Polk County, Texas shows the movement of Calvin in the place of birth of his children. He lived in the town of Moscow, his neighbors professions indicate a town, as does his, so they lived within the town itself. He was near Dr, R. J. Walker, S. H. Adams, Innkeeper and D. Strauss, Merchant.  Calvins family is listed as:

Calvin Preslar, 41, Grocer born in NC
Martha Preslar, 41 born im MS
William Rasberry Preslar, 17, born in MS
Amanda Jane Preslar, 12, born in LA
Francis C Preslar, 11, born in LA
Laura Ann Preslar, 9, born in LA
Sarah A Preslar, 5, born in TX
Lyda Ann Preslar, 3, born in TX
James Calvin Preslar, 6 months old, born in TX




There would be one more child after this, a daughter, Minerva Octavia, born in 1865 in TX.  I don't know exactly when or where Calvin died, but his wife, Martha Thurman Preslar died in 1909 in Travis County, Texas.

Nancy

So, I had discovered that Nancy Webster was the mother of Calvin Webster and Erasmus Preslar, son of Elias Preslar, Sr. was his father. So looking back at the 1830 census record of Nancy Webster, some puzzle pieces begin to fit.

Name:	Nancy Webster
Home in 1830 (City, County, State):	Anson, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14:	1 Calvin
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5:	1 Susan
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9:	1 Malissa
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29:	1 Nancy
Free White Persons - Under 20:	3
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49:	1
Total Free White Persons:	4
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored):	4

There were only a few Websters mentioned in Anson County, that I could find. There was Nancy, her son Calvin, born 1817 or 1818, my Susan, born about 1827, and Malissa H. C. Webster, born about 1820. Things were about to come together. But was there any other way to link Nancy Webster to my Susan?



Above is a screenshot of the layout (neighbors) of Nancy Webster in the 1830 census of Anson County. He didn't make the cut, but it starts off with Thomas Carpenter, an ancestor of mine, whose wife, Betsy Broadaway Carpenter, I featured recently. Then there's Joshua Preslar, Charity Smith, Sarah Meggs, David, Henry and Joel Liles. Then Nancy is sandwiched in between Daniel Preslar and Stephen Preslar, which makes sense being she was the mistress of Erasmus Preslar.The list is finished off with Samuel Ponds and Allen Smith.

Now, let's jump ahead 20 years. Below is a screenshot of the 1850 census of Anson County, fearuring John Faulkner and Susan Webster Faulkner and family.





It starts off with Richard Carpenter, then there is the Faulkners, Joshua Wright, Alred Caudle, Joshua Preslar is still alive at 70, Daniel Preslar and lastly Jesse Caudle.

Despite being two decades ahead in time, and the natural changes that go with that, there's enough still identifiable to see that John and Susan were pretty much located in 1850 where Nancy was in 1830.

But what happened to Nancy?  I guess one could naturally assume she may have died. But something told me that there was more to Nancy. I felt she would lead the way.







If you recall, Calvin Webster Preslars first stop after leaving Anson was Scott County, Mississippi. I was plundering about Scott County (online) and discovered a Nancy Webster, from Anson County, NC, who had married a man named Enoch Parrot or Perrett or Peirott. I will stick with Perrett as I see it most often.

Enoch


Enoch Perrett was born in North Carolina in 1798 - 1800. I believe closer to 1798, because he served in the military in 1817-1818.

Name:	Enoch Parrot
Alias:	Parrott
Birthyear:	abt 1799
Birthplace:	North Carolina, United States
Enlistment Age:	18

The record said he was from Pendleton, North Carolina, that he was 5 foot 10, black hair, light eyes and
We'll come back to that in a minute.

Name

Enoch Perrett

Land Office

Augusta

Document Number

2504

Total Acres

38.66

Signature

Yes

Canceled Document

No

Issue Date

5 Jan 1841

Mineral Rights Reserved

No

Metes and Bounds

No

Statutory Reference

3 Stat. 566

Multiple Warantee Names

No

Act or Treaty

April 24, 1820

Multiple Patentee Names

No

Entry Classification

Sale-Cash Entries

Land Description

1 NESW CHOCTAW No 6N 7E 2

He first shows up in Mississippi in 1820 and that could have something to do with his military service. 

Name

Enoch Parett

Home in 1830 (City, County, State)

Simpson, Mississippi

Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14

1

Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39

1

Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19

1

Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39

1

Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59

1

Free White Persons - Under 20

2

Free White Persons - 20 thru 49

2

Total Free White Persons

5

Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored)

5

His first census was the 1830 one, so while he was in Simpson County, Mississippi, Nancy Webster was in Anson. He had married a first time to an unknown wife, and looks like he may also have had a mother or mother-in-law living with him.

He has a number of land patents from 1820 to 1845.

In the 1840 census and in the 1845 Mississippi State census, he has relocated to Scott County.



Simpson County                     Scott County

By 1850, he is back to Simpson County. He likely met Nancy Webster in Scott County in the late 1830's and had married her by 1840.

Enoch was a blacksmith and very obviously a well-respected and needed member of the community. That will be clear in time.

Name:	Enoch Karrob [Enoch Parrot]
Gender:	Male
Race:	Mulatto
Age:	52
Birth Year:	abt 1798
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1850:	Simpson, Mississippi, USA
Occupation:	Blacksmith
Industry:	Miscellaneous repair services
Real Estate:	300
Line Number:	8
Dwelling Number:	164
Family Number:	164
Household Members:	Name Age Enoch Karrob 52 Nancy Karrob 48 Sally Karrob 25 Daniel Karrob 18 Mary Karrob 17 Ann Karrob 12 Enoch Karrob 10 Adaline Karrob 8 Susan Karrob 5 John Webster 18 James Parrot 22 Isabel Parrot 18 Colon Parrot 0

The combined family of Enoch and Nancy was large. In the 1850 census, Parrot was mistranscribed "Karrob" on the family members listed before John Webster, who was 18, and born in North Carolina, Nancy Webster's son she had prior to the marriage, and after 1830.

Enoch is 52 and  Nancy is 48. Sarah, Daniel and Mary Parrott (Perrett) were all born in Mississippi and were Enoch's chilren by his first marriage. Ann, Enoch Jr., Adaline and Susan were also born in Ole Miss and were the children of Enoch and Nancy. Then there's Nancy's son John. After John is Enoch's son James, his wife, Isabel and their baby, Colon.

There's something odd about this census, too, but it was not a transcription error. Enoch Perrett was a mulatto, a person of mixed ancestry. He must have been a very light mulatto, as his military records state he had light skin, and eyes, but black hair. Nancy was white, and in this census, so were his children. In the 1830 census, if you recall, everyone was listed as white. But, make no mistake, Enoch was a Free Person of Color, married to a white woman, when that was illegal.

Name:	Enoch Perrette
Age:	60
Birth Year:	abt 1800
Gender:	Male
Race:	Mulatto
Birth Place:	South Carolina
Home in 1860:	Beat 3, Simpson, Mississippi
Post Office:	Westville
Dwelling Number:	243
Family Number:	243
Occupation:	Farmer
Real Estate Value:	2000
Personal Estate Value:	1800
Cannot Read, Write:	Y
Household Members:	Name Age Enoch Perrette 60 Nancy Perrette 55 Mary Perrette 27 Peter Perrette 20 Ann Williamson 23 Artemissa Williamson 8/12

In 1860, 3 adult children were at home. Ann had married and returned with a baby. Enoch's son James was listed right next door.

And if things are mind-boggling enough yet, the next document is one of the things that has Enoch's descendants minds blown.


Name:Enock Perritte
Residence Date:1860
Residence Place:Beat 3, Simpson, Mississippi, USA
Number of Enslaved People:1
All Enslaved People:

Gender	Age
Male	53

Enoch owned a slave, just one, a 53 year old man. He was probably a helper in the blacksmith's shop.

Blacksmith by John Falter

Enoch Perritt from the Digital Library of American Slavery

Petition 11083305 Details
General Petition Information
Citation Information
Processing Information

Lousiana Creole "Mixed" Civil War Soldier

There are posts online that express the wonderment of Enoch's descendants of the respect, the freedom and acceptance that Enoch held in the community. All of Enoch's children married persons of European decent. It is recorded that his first wife was also white, as was Nancy, so his children, and most definately his grandchildren, probably showed no signs of African ancestry and no one questioned their standing in the community. His oldest son James, fought in the Civil War with equal standing to those around him.

Enoch killed a man named Berry Powell, he stood trial, and though I haven't seen transcripts of the trial, he apparantly came out no worse the wear and business as usual. He married a white woman when it was not legal. He carried a gun when people of color were usually not allowed. When any problem affronted him because of his partial African heritage, his neighbors came to the forefront and defended him.

The below excerpt is from, "An Early History of Simpson County, Mississippi",  by Bee King. This is a very entaining collection of stories about the odd charactors of early Simpson County, MS. It tells of rough times and unusual circumstances. Mr. King could have rivaled Mark Twain.

By that time, the sun was up and they hurried back to the camp. Before they reached the camp they met the wagons already on the road. Mr. Rials gave them something to eat and they told him of what they had seen, and that they thought one of the men was the preacher that held a meeting that summer at the bush arbor, up on the hill east of the mill and that they were sure he was riding the same horse that Mr. Franklin Plummer rode to court at the mill when they tried Enoch Perrett for shooting Berry Powell.

Enoch Powell had an influentitial friend and associate named Mr. Joseph Boggan. Now there's an Anson County name if I ever heard one. In fact, Joseph Boggan appears last in the 1820 census of Anson County. He and his brother, James, came from a priveledged and influential family in Anson and migrated to Mississippi to establish plantations and make their fortunes. They were uncompromising and dominant men, and they had to be. So there is another connection.

If you are thinking, well, just because this colorful and barrier-breaking Enoch Perrett married a Nancy Webster, that doesn't mean it's the same Nancy Webster.

There's a few more clues. Remember that Nancy's son Calvin Webster/ Preslar came first to Scott County, Mississippi? There he married one Martha Thurman. Well, Enoch Perrett's oldest daughter, Nancy Jane, married her brother, William W. Thurman. But there's more.

Name:	Nancy Sherman [Nancy Thurman]
Gender:	Female
Age:	24
Birth Year:	abt 1826
Birthplace:	Mississippi
Home in 1850:	Simpson, Mississippi, USA
Cannot Read, Write:	Y
Line Number:	31
Dwelling Number:	523
Family Number:	523
Household Members:	Name Age William Sherman 23 Nancy Sherman 24 Patsy Sherman 6 Daniel Sherman 3 Mary J Sherman 2

Recall that Nancy was the mistress of Erasmus Preslar, son of Elias Preslar, Jr. Well, check out the 1840 census of Scott County, Mississippi.



In 1840, Elias Preslar is living right next door to Enoch Perrett. Now, this isn't Calvin's grandfather, Elias Preslar.  He died in 1835. This is Elias Preslar Jr., son of Elias Sr. and brother of Calvin's father, Erasmus. But it gets better.....

Guess what the name of Elias Preslar, Jr.'s wife was? Mary Elizabeth "Polly" Webster. So Elias Preslar, brother of Erasus Preslar, who married Polly Webster, is living right next door to Enoch Perrett, who married Nancy Webster, in Scott County, Mississippi, both being from Lanesboro, Anson County, NC. With Scott County being the same place Nancy's son and Elias's nephew, Calvin Webster-Preslar relocated to and where he married, Martha Thurman, sister-in-law of Enoch Perrett's daughter, Nancy Jane Perrett Thurman.

Sometimes, this far back, certain records are ellusive. Sometimes there are no concrete records. But here is a preponderance of circumstantial evidence, that 's not just a smoking gun, it's a battlefield of smoking guns.

I also found another Webster female from the same area of Anson County as Nancy and the Preslars.There was a Sarah Webster who married Robin Broadway, a family I am going to dive into soon, as I have two lines of Broadways.

Sarah Webster Broadway was born in 1798.
Mary Elizabeth Webster Preslar was born in 1800.
Nancy Webster Perrett was born in 1802.

Websters in Anson County was as rare as hen's teeth. It would not be too far a streach of the imagination to believe these three were sisters. Especially when two of them traveled half a country away to live side by side.







The Preslars didn't stay in Mississippi, and I bet you couldn't guess where they ended up next. Remember Calvin Webster Preslar's next stop was Louisiana, and not just any random part of Louisiana, but Bienville County, Louisiana. So there were Elias and Polly Webster Preslar as well.

Name:	Mary Presley
Gender:	Female
Age:	50
Birth Year:	abt 1800
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1850:	Western District, Bienville, Louisiana, USA
Cannot Read, Write:	Y
Line Number:	13
Dwelling Number:	109
Family Number:	109
Household Members:	Name Age Elias Presley 50 Mary Presley 50 Nancy Presley 19 Bryant R Presley 17 Mary E Presley 15 Frances C Presley 13 James Caudle 20

Elias and Polly have a story of their own. My point here is to show the connection to Nancy and her son. Polly even named a daugther Nancy.

Elias and Polly raised a large family. They were:

1826-1870 Mary Holly aka "Minnie" Preslar
1827-1915 William Culpepper "Cull" Preslar
1831-1896 Nancy Eliza Ann Preslar
1834-1890 Bryant R. Preslar
1835 - ? Mary E. Preslar
1840-1920 Frances Colon Preslar

I'd like to know the significance of the name "Colon", I've seen it run through these families. Even Enoch Perretts son James named his oldest child, "Colon". I also wonder what the Culpepper connection was, if they were possibly related to either the Preslars or the Websters.

A few of the family trees for Elias and Polly have her parents as a John Webster, with no attached records, or proof of any kind, and a Holly Tomlinson. Their oldest daughter was Mary Holly Preslar. May be. And I don't know where John Webster came from, except that Nancy named her youngest son, whom she brought to Missisisppi, John Webster, age 18 in the 1850 census.

The Perrett branch has a different idea. They speculate that a Jesse Webster, who patented property in Scott County, Missisppi, right next to Nancy Webster and near Elias Preslar and Enoch Perrett in 1841, might be Nancy's father. They also suggest the older man 60-69 living in Enoch's household in the 1840 census could be this Jesse. This is more viable. However, where is this Jesse in Anson County, where Nancy and the Preslars arrived from? There's no trace.

Name:	Jesse Webster
Land Office:	Augusta
Document Number:	6564
Total Acres:	40.16
Signature:	Yes
Canceled Document:	No
Issue Date:	5 Jan 1841
Mineral Rights Reserved:	No
Metes and Bounds:	No
Statutory Reference:	3 Stat. 566
Multiple Warantee Names:	No
Act or Treaty:	April 24, 1820
Multiple Patentee Names:	No
Entry Classification:	Sale-Cash Entries
Land Description:	1 SENE CHOCTAW No 6N 7E 22

Mary Elizabeth Webster Preslar died in Sparta, Bienville County, LA in 1884. Elias had died in 1877.
I am going to be looking more closely at the younger generations of their family, as well as Calvin's and the Perretts to see what else I can discover, possibly more connections and information.





Bienville Parrish is famous for being the place Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed.


In the meantime, I had a few loose Websters up top to clear up.

Dec. 29, 1868

James C. Webster, s. ---- & Susan Webster, and Mary V. Hildreth, d. of Polly Hildreth.

This 1868 marriage bond is for James Coleman Webster, son of my 3rd Great Grandmother and Mary Virginia Hildreth, daughter of Polly Hildreth. Now, both parties were born out of wedlock and while one might think the newspapers would not print those for this class of people, not too far in the listing was also the marriage license of George Washington Nash to his second wife, where it proudly gives his parents as Benjamin Hutson and Nancy Nash. I've researched George Washington Nash as he has a prettey interesting divorce proceeding from his first wife, Mary, in the Stanly County Superior Court records. I've also posted on the gruesome murder supposedly committed by Nancy Nash's brother Tom.

Name:	James Colmon
Gender:	Male
Age:	5
Birth Year:	abt 1845
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1850:	Lanesboro, Anson, North Carolina, USA
Attended School:	Y
Line Number:	3
Dwelling Number:	1075
Family Number:	1075
Household Members:	Name Age Richard Carpenter 37 Jemima Carpenter 32 Charity Carpenter 12 Nelson M Carpenter 10 William Carpenter 8 Dwight Carpenter 6 Jemima Carpenter 1 Abner Boggan 75 Martha Boggan 75 James Colmon 5

James first appears as a 5 year old James Coleman in the household of Richard Carpenter along with an elderly Abner Boggan and wife, Martha. The very next listing is John Faulkner and Susan Webster Faulkner, James' mother. In fact, as John and Susan didn't actually get married until 1856, she wasn't legally a Faulkner yet.

Name:	James Coleman
Age:	15
Birth Year:	abt 1845
Gender:	Male
Birth Place:	North Carolina
Home in 1860:	Lanesboro, Anson, North Carolina
Post Office:	Wadesboro
Dwelling Number:	416
Family Number:	376
Household Members:	Name Age John Folkner 48 Susan Folkner 29 Martha Manus 25 Golding Folkner 19 Azariah Folkner 15 James Coleman 15 Luanna Coleman 10 Constantine Coleman 8 John D Coleman 5 Ellen Coleman 3 Barbara Coleman 2 Marshall Coleman 2/12

In 1860, a 15 year old James Coleman is living with his mother and stepfather, John Faulkner. The erroneous transcibers, not knowing James had a different last name, labelled all of the younger children as Coleman's.

James took the Faulkner name, by formal or informal adoption, I do not know, but he and wife, Mary Virginia Hildreth Faulker bore and raised 4 children:Mary Elizabeth, B. Shelton, Catherine and Bessie. Their children were all Faulkners.

In 1870, Abner Boggan, the elderly man who was also living with the Carpenter family, left a will.

Will Book D, Page 12

In the name of God, Amen. I, Abner Boggan of the county of Anson and State of North Carolina, beign at present weak in body, but of a sound, disposing mind and memory, thanks be to God for the same, and calling to mind the uncertainty of life and the certainty of death, hath made this my last will and testament in manner and form as follows.
1st, I give and bequeath to James Coleman Webster, the tract of land on which I live, containing ninety acres as per deed now on record, after the deceause of myself and wife, to have and to hold to him and his heirs forever. I also give unto the said J. C. Webster, three beds and furniture, with all my plantation tools, together with all my stock of horses, cows, sheep and hogs."

Abner then goes on to request the payment of his and his wife's debts and appoints his trusted friend, Miles W. Mask as executor.

Abner Boggan must have become very fond of the boy when he was small. I don't know who James's father was. It may have been a Mr. Coleman, but I doubt very seriously it was the elderly Mr. Boggan.

Name:	Nancy Webster
State:	MS
County:	Scott County
Township:	No Township Listed
Year:	1841
Page:	000
Database:	MS 1841 State Census Index

Nancy Webster was counted in the 1841 and 1845 Mississippi state census records as a Webster, living near to Elias Preslar. She married Enoch Perrett between 1845  and 1850. He died in 1863 and she is listed as a Perrett, alone, in the 1866 State census.

Name:	Nancy Perritt
Census Date:	1866
County:	Simpson
Line:	33
Roll:	v229_2

Nancy must have died between 1866 and 1870. In Summary, Nancy appeared in the 1830 census of Anson County. She was living between two Preslars in the Lanes Creek area and had one young boy and two girls in her household. The ages match up to Calvin, Susan and a Malissa Webster from the 1850 census in the same area.

Elias Preslar Sr. deeds a gift of land to Calvin Webster, names him as the son of Elias's son, Erasmus and Nancy Webster. Calvin changes his name to his father's, Preslar and moves to Scott County, Missisippi. His uncle Elias Preslar, who is married to a Polly Webster, also moves to Scott County.

Nancy Webster and Elias Preslar are listed in the 1841 and 1845 state census records of Scott County. In the 1840 census, Elias Preslar is living next door to Enoch Perrett, who came from Simpson County, MS previously. Between 1845 and 1850 Enoch Perrett marries Nancy Webster.

In the 1850 census, Nancy Perrott is living with Enoch's family and her son, John Webster, born 1832 in Anson, NC.  In 1860, Enoch and Nancy are together in Simpson County, MS. Enoch dies in 1863, Nancy before 1870. Son Calvin and his uncle Elias Preslar remove to Bienville Parrish, LA.

Calvin married the sister of Enoch's son-in-law. Some of the Perrett's followed them.


Research on Nancy and her family is ongoing. Remember, this is a theory of mine, not carved in stone. Was she my 4th Great Grandmother? I believe so, and I hope I can find more coinsidences that will cement her into the family tree. I'm already getting additional leads.

Happy Mother's Day, Nancy! Thanks for the help.

By 1607, when the first English settlers founded Jamestown, the Nansemond lived in several villages centered near Chuckatuck, in present-day Suffolk, along the Nansemond River. Their head chief lived near Dumpling Island, where the tribe's temple and sacred objects were located. The Nansemond tribe spoke a dialect of Algonquian and was among the roughly twenty-eight to thirty-two tribes of Tsenacomoco, an alliance of Algonquian-speaking tribes that was ruled by the paramount chief Powhatan.

When I type the name Judith Taylor into my family tree, the same exact lady comes up not once, not twice, but 4 times! That is because I have 4 separate ancestrial lines back to Judith and her husband, Solomon Burris. It's easy to say I probably have  more dna from Judith Taylor Burris than any other 5th Great Grandmother in my family tree as she is my 5th Great Grandmother times 4! And all 4 lines lead to my paternal grandfather.

Let's see if I can draw this out. 

                                  Judith Taylor and Solomon Burris

                                                        Gen Two

                                                      Gen Three

                                                       Gen Four

                                                        Gen Five

                                                         Gen Six 

                                                         Gen Seven

                                                              Dad

                                                          Gen Eight

                                                              Me

Now, add to the fact that Charles McKinley "Kin" Honeycutt and Mary Anna Burris were 1st cousins through the Honeycutt line and that there are two Mortons in there, who may connect at some point, and you have a very limited gene pool. It's as if Red Cross, Stanly County was an island with no one else for thousands of miles.

I've posted on my Burris family several times before.     

The Burris Reunion About one of the family's yearly reunions and what brings us together.

Rowena About my Great Grandmother.

David and Ellen About my Great Great Grandparents.

Making Bricks without Straw About Ephraim Tillman Burris.

My Theory on Mary Anna Burris About my 4th Great Grandmother.

The McCamie Willis Cemetery About Obedience Burris Willis and the cemetery cleanup.

Jenny and Delilah About two G. G. Aunts

What happened to Jezebel Whitley? She married a Burris.

The Estate of Gideon Greene Burris About one of my 3rd Great Grandfathers. 

Hello Dolly: The Search for Dolly Burris Burris A Great Great Aunt. Yeah.

Black Sheep Sunday: Druken Duncan About Rowena's brother, who ended up being my Grandmother's Stepfather. Yes, my Grandparents were first cousins by marriage, but not biologically related, thank goodness. This would make Duncan my Great Great Uncle and my Step-Great Grandfather.

A bit confusin? Try being me. And yes, I have blogged about them alot. 

As far as Judith goes, the concensus is not in on who her parents were. I've seen a Robert Taylor as her parents. In my Dad's research, he had a James Taylor and wife Lucy as her parents, which I guess I will leave in my tree until it's disproven as this was inherited genealogy. 

Judith was born about 1766 in North Carolina. She was married to Solomon Burris, one date given, is December 12, 1783, in Surry County, NC. Their oldest son, Taylor Burris was born the next year. 

Solomon Burris was a Revolutionary War Soldier. Judith recieved a pension after his death.

In the 1850 census, Judith was living with her daughter, Obedience Burris Willis. Obedience and her husband , McCamey "Mac" Willis, were childless. With them besides Judith were a neice and a nephew. 

Judith passed away on April 18, 1856 in Stanly County. She was 89 years old. 

Below is a story from The Stanly County Heritage Book. There are some inconsistencies in the story, for instance, the German part. I believe his lineage is most likely Engliah as it derives from the Anglo-Saxon Burroughs or Burrows. In the early years, some of the Burris family spelled their name Burroughs. 

           

Happy Mother's Day Grandma Judith. I'm probably more like you than anyone else of your era. 

It just bothered me that I didn't know, so I began digging, snooping and calculating. The two posts are Here and Here.

There were not many mentions of any Websters in Anson County, where Susan lived and raised her family, so I took the few scraps I had and looked at them theorectically, and things started coming together. I found a Nancy Webster who seemed to have 3 children in 1830 (a fourth would be born in 1832).  I found her mentioned in an 1834 deed wherein Elias Preslar, Sr. named her as the mother of his illegitimate grandson, Calvin, by his deceased son, Erasmus.

At first, I didn't find anymore on Calvin,except that he sold the property his grandfather had given him, 6 years later. Speculating that Calvin may have taken his fathers name as an adult, I found him in the 1840 census of Anson County, then I traced him as he moved from there to Scott County, Mississippi, where he married Miss Martha Thurman. They then moved to Bienville Parrish, L. A. and lastly to Polk County, Texas.







While tracing Calvins route and records, I discovered a Nancy Webster, from Anson County, NC, no less, who was in Scott County, MS by 1841, as she shows in the state tax list for that year. She married a mixed race Blacksmith named Enoch Perrett there. Also arriving in Scott County, MS about the same time was one Elias Preslar, Jr. Brother of Erasmus, son of Elias Sr. I also discoverd that his wife was named Mary Elizabeth Webster and the difference in the ages of her and Nancy Webster Perrett was about 2 years. In the 1840 census they were living side by side.

To add an extra point of interest, Enoch Perrett's oldest daughter was married to Calvin's wife, Martha Thurmans, brother.

Elias Preslar, Jr. and family also migrated on down to Bienville Parrish with Calvin's family, but Elias didn't make it to Texas with the younger generation, including some of the Perretts. He died in Louisiana. I also discovered another female Webster in Anson County, who I believe was probably a third sister.

I am a long way from being finished researching this family. For one, two sisters, Ann E and Mary C Webster show up in Union County in its first census, just over the border from Anson, and they were born in Louisiana. Both school teachers, one marries a McCollough and the other remains single. They retire to Chester County, South Carolina. At one point, one of the sisters is found with Malissa Webster, who is in the 1850 census of Anson County, in the Lanesboro area. I believe Malissa to be one of the girls in the 1830 household of Nancy Webster and my Susan to be the other. And, of course, Calvin to be the boy. There may have been some Webster family members already in Bienville Parrish before Calvin and Elias arrived. Remember, Elias's wife was a Webster as well.

At any rate, I felt I had enough circumstantial evidence to put Nancy as Susan's mother in my Family Tree, just to see what would happen.

And Wa-Lah! Thru-Lines on ancestry.com has done its job. I share dna with descendants of Calvin.
It says he is my Half  4th Great Uncle because I have not connected Erasmus Preslar as the father of my Susan, but he probably was. The awesome thing is that I probably match more of Calvins descendants, but most of them have no idea where, or who, Calvin came from. They're from out west and have never read the deeds from Anson County, North Carolina. And they've been looking for Calvin Preslar, not Calvin Webster. But two of them have it at least partially figured out, and hopefully, because I have connected Calvin to my family tree, more of his descendants will be able to climb a little further up their family tree.

Illegitimacy in the past is the source of many a "brickwall' ancestor. Whenever I come across the situation in old court records and such, I try to figure out who the people were, and sometimes I put them in a 'free-for all tree" on ancestry, for descendants to find. Sometimes, I write a post to help folks breakdown those brickwalls, whether its my family or not.

Nancy Webster was my 4th Great Grandmother. DNA proven.

Her maternal grandfather, the Presbyterian minister, Rev. John McCamey Wilson, was not a dirt-poor, humble itinerent minister riding about the country on a donkey. He had been born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina to a patriotic family and was related to Andrew Jackson. In fact, a young President Jackson and his mother had taken refuge with the Wilsons during the British Invasion of South Carolina. His early education had been  under the private instruction of Dr. Thomas Henderson of Charlotte, NC and he then went on to graduate with high honors from Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. He furthered his education with a focus in Theology by apprenticing under a respected minister in Iredell County and afterwards served as a missionary to Western North Carolina for a period.

Reinactor portraying Alexander Burke in Morganton

He would settle in as the pastor of Quaker Meadows Presbyterian Church in Burke County, NC, where he would meet his wife Mary, a daughter of the wealthy and illustrous Planter and Patriot, Alexander Erwin of Burke County.  The minister had to have impressed Colonel Erwin to such a degree to have earned the hand of his favorite daughter, a lady so beautiful her name has came down to us through history as "Pretty Polly".

The Wilsons would settle back east in Mecklenburg County to raise their family, among them a daughter named Margaret. As Margaret would grow up, one of the families 9 children, her father would be ministering in the Rocky River and Philadelphia congregations and teaching at the Rocky River Academy that he had established. Margaret would have been raised as a proper young southern lady of the early 19th Century. When he died, Rev. Wilson was also the owner of 7 Plantations with a large acreage. So when it came to choose a husband for his daughter, not just any old John or Thomas would do.

John, James and William Means had arrived in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina by 1779 and were from London originally. They settled on adjoining tracts on English Buffalo Creek and Coddle Creek, in an area that would soon become Cabarrus county and eventually purchase property on the "Head Branch of Rocky River on the Welsh Tract".  John Means was signer of the 1778 Petition.







The Concord Register
Concord, North Carolina25 Aug 1877, Sat  •  Page 4






By the early 1800's they had became an established and useful family of the area. John Works Had a son, William Melvin Means who married a girl, Isabella Catherine Works, from Iredell County, whose origins hailed from the Worke, Creswell and Baird familes of Chester and Lancaster Counties in Pennsylvania.

So by the time the educated Preacher's daughter, Margaret was of marriagiable age, a member of the Work - Means family, of whom he was likely very familiar, was deemed a suitable candidate.

John Work Means appears in history as more of a spoiled dandy than anything. He was not as industrious as his predecessors or those of his wife, Margaret. He loved to spend money instead of make it, so instead of increasing what he was born into, he sucked from it like a leach, and his family suffered.

By the time Rev. Wilson died, he deemed his son-in-law insolvent and put the welfare and inheritance of his daughter Margaret into the hands of her brothers.


"...that said Means in the lifetime of the testor became ? embarrassed insomuch that his property was on several occasions sold under debts?against him ...further complain that said Means is as they believe totally insolvent...
From the Will of Rev. John McCamey Wilson


This was 1931 and little Harriett Catherine Means would have been 6 when her grandfather died, the youngest daughter and 5th of 7 children. Harrietts life would grow tragic after that.

Despite John W. Means being called insolvent by his father-in-law, the 1840 census, he is shown as owning 7 slaves and an average amount of property. Not extremely wealthy, but not impovershed.

Name:	John W Means
Home in 1840 (City, County, State):	Cabarrus, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5:	1
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29:	1
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49:	1
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9:	1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14:	1
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19:	3
Slaves - Males - 10 thru 23:	2
Slaves - Males - 36 thru 54:	1
Slaves - Females - Under 10:	1
Slaves - Females - 10 thru 23:	1
Slaves - Females - 24 thru 35:	1
Slaves - Females - 36 thru 54:	1
Persons Employed in Agriculture:	8
Free White Persons - Under 20:	6
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49:	2
Total Free White Persons:	8
Total Slaves:	7
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves:	15

In 1848, he was still involved in lawsuits in Morganton.




The Charlotte Journal
Charlotte, North Carolina13 Sep 1848, Wed  •  Page 3

But by the 1850 census, Margaret had been declared insane. Harriett had given birth to her daughter Sarah out of wedlock, and only she and her baby brother, John McCamey Wilson Means, where still at home. I'm sure she was taking care of her mother, her daughter and seeing to the needs of the men in the home as well. A tough burden for a young woman.

Name:	Margaret Means
Gender:	Female
Age:	50
Birth Year:	abt 1800
Birthplace:	Burk Co
Home in 1850:	Cabarrus, North Carolina, USA
Condition:	Insane
Line Number:	2
Dwelling Number:	999
Family Number:	999
Household Members:	Name Age John W Means 52 Margaret Means 50 Harriet C Means 21 John M Means 14 Sarah A Means 3

 John W. Means was working as a Ranger, and from one article, he was in his day a very strong man.




The Carolina Flag
Concord, North Carolina04 Jun 1861, Tue  •  Page 3
Despite her indescretion, Harriett married fairly well. John Q. Lemmonds was from the very patriotic Lemmonds family of Mecklenburg and Union County, a family full of red-haired Irishmen. 

Name:	Harriett C Means
Gender:	Female
Spouse:	John Q Lammons
Spouse Gender:	Male
Bond date:	2 Feb 1852
Bond #:	000008778
Marriage Date:	2 Feb 1852
Level Info:	North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868
ImageNum:	005399
County:	Cabarrus
Record #:	01 112
Bondsman:	John Wilkinson
Witness:	R. W. Foard
Performed By:	P. T. Penick

Either John Q. adopted Sarah Ann Catherine Means, or she informally took the Lemmonds name, because she went by Lemmonds after the marriage. Married in 1852, by 1860, Harriett had given birth to 4 more children.

Name:	Harriett Lemmond
Age:	33
Birth Year:	abt 1827
Gender:	Female
Birth Place:	North Carolina
Home in 1860:	Union, North Carolina
Post Office:	Oak Grove
Dwelling Number:	834
Family Number:	834
Occupation:	Servant
Household Members:	Name Age John Q Lemmond 35 Harriett Lemmond 33 Catharine Lemmond 13 Robt Lemmond 8 Javis Lemmond 6 Catherine Lemmond 5 Infant Lemmond 1

13 year old Catherine is Sarah, Robert is my line,Jarvis either died before 1870, or it was a corruption of Charles. The 5 year old Catherine was Margaret, and the infant was either Charles or Absalom, who were both actually born before 1860 according to later records. I personally believe "Javis" was a scrawl of Charles and Infant Lemmond was Absalom.

Name:	Harriet Lemond
Age in 1870:	37
Birth Year:	abt 1833
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Dwelling Number:	275
Home in 1870:	Goose Creek, Union, North Carolina
Race:	White
Gender:	Female
Post Office:	Oak Grove
Occupation:	Keeping House
Inferred Spouse:	John Lemond
Household Members:	Name Age John Lemond 49 Harriet Lemond 37 Sarah Lemond 22 Robert Lemond 17 Margaret Lemond 14 Charles Lemond 12 Absalom Lemond 11 Elizabeth Lemond 9 Jane Lemond 7 John Lemond

By 1870, another 4 to 5 children (depending on if the 1860 "infant" was Charles or Absalom). The family had moved from Cabarrus County to Union County after the marriage. They raised their large brood in the community of Oak Grove in Goose Creek Township. 


The 1870 census was the last for Harriett Catherine Mean Lemmonds. I do not know when she died or where she is buried. Most likely in Union County somewhere. 

Name:	Jos. Q. Leminand [Jos. Q. Lemmonds]  [Jon Q. Lemmond]
Age:	60
Birth Date:	Abt 1820
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1880:	Goose Creek, Union, North Carolina, USA
Dwelling Number:	213
Race:	White
Gender:	Male
Relation to Head of House:	Self (Head)
Marital status:	Widower
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Occupation:	Farmer
Neighbors:	View others on page
Household Members:	Name Age Jos. Q. Leminand 60 A. B. Leminand 21 John H. Leminand 11

John is shown in the 1880 census with just sons Absalom and John Harvey living with him. There's no news of him after that. He may have lived until about 1890. 
Harriett may have had a late, difficult pregnancy after John. I recently read more older mothers died of childbirth than younger ones, those in their late 30's or early 40's. Some hadn't had a child in a number of years and a surprise pregnancy at 43 did them in due to a higher risk of complications. I do not know. Harriett Catherine Means had been born into a wealthy, respected family. Her grandfathers and great grandfathers were all men of tremendous status and respect. Her father struggled, like to drink and gamble just a bit, but remained abover water in the end. Insanity befell her mother for unknown reasons and Harriett, the youngest daughter, remained in the home for awhile to help care for her. Harriett gave birth to a daughter out of wedlock, who was most likely the daughter of her eventual husband as the child took the Lemmonds name. She lived through the Civil War and she and her husband, John Q. Lemmonds, raised them on a small family farm in Goose Creek in Union County. She died sometime in her 40's. Harriet and John Q. were the parents of:
1847-1922 Sarah Ann Means-Lemmonds 1852-1892 Robert B Lemmonds1854 ? Javis Lemmonds  (possibly the same as Charles)1858 - bef 1870 Charles Lemmonds1859-1930 Absalom Brown Lemmonds1861-1905 Elizabeth Matidla Lemmonds1863-1885 Jane Rhea Lemmonds1864-1937 John Harvey Lemmonds
Happy Mothers Day Harriett! 

One bit of information they all provide is the Haplogroup the individual belongs to. At this point in history, Haplogroups are spread all over the world, especially those of Western Europeans who set out Centuries ago to colonize the planet, and more recently, where business is a global industry.

Still, most Haplogroups have a central, or concentrated location, which indicates it's origins. My paternal line, taken by my brother, was strictly British. Another came back Polish, another German and the most recent, Armenian. A distant, but related cousin came from the Americas and another Finland and the last from Portugal or Spain with a strong showing in France.

In my Corona era celebration of Mother's Day, I decided to order a Mitochondrial Dna test to explore the origins of my most distant maternal lines.

With this test, surnames mean nothing, as women have traditionally changed their names with marriage. Female ancestry is also the most difficult to research, as men usually were the heads of households listed in tax records, census records prior to 1850, and listed in land records.

Louis Emille Adan: Motherhood

You're fortunate if you have ancestors who left wills, probate records, Family Bibles, journals, christening records, or just made history to the point where the female ancestors were known.

So, now comes the waiting game; waiting for the test to arrive, sending it off, and waiting for the results.

I only know my mother's straight female line for a few generations. My mother was a Davis, her mother was a Mauldin, her mother was a Russell and her mother was Elizabeth ? Some have her as a Morris, others as a Mauldin. If she is the daughter of that Morris (I don't know and haven't found any evidence either way), her mother would be a West.

What am I hoping to find? Answers. There are question marks in my dna of ancestry that I can not find proof of. I will be very pleasantly surprised if this test provides those answers.