Mary Deaton, aka Polly, was born along the Little River in Northeastern Montgomery County, North Carolina on February 20, 1828. Polly was the daughter of William Deaton and his first wife, Nancy Allen Deaton. She was the 4th daughter and the only one of their daughters not to marry. That's not to say she didn't have children.
| Name: | William Deaton | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Gender: | Male | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Age: | 47 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Year: | abt 1803 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home in 1850: | Montgomery, North Carolina, USA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation: | Farmer | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Industry: | Agriculture | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Real Estate: | 600 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line Number: | 30 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dwelling Number: | 475 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Family Number: | 477 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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In the 1850 census, Mary was listed as a 19 year old, living in the home of her parents. By then, she had already had 3 children. There was something about her first daughter, Frany Jane. I'm not sure where she was in 1850. Perhaps they had hid her from the cenus taker, but the youngest two girls in this census, Margaret and Sydney, were Polly's daughters.
| Name: | Polly Deaton | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Age: | 35 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Year: | abt 1825 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Gender: | Female | ||||||||||||||||||
| Home in 1860: | Diffies, Montgomery, North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dwelling Number: | 327 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Family Number: | 327 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cannot Read, Write: | Y | ||||||||||||||||||
| Household Members: |
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It all looked rather orderly, but digging deeper, it was anything but. I've already done a post of Polly's oldest daughter, Franie Jane Deaton/ Brewer, who was unofficially adopted by Polly's older sister, Margaret Deaton Brewer.
Franie Jane married unconventionally to Edmund Denson, whose father was black and mother was white. Franie Jane would live the rest of her life as a "mulatto", even though she, and her oldest daugher, were most likely completely white biologically.
| Name: | Polly Deaton | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Age: | 35 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Year: | abt 1825 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Gender: | Female | ||||||||||||||||||
| Home in 1860: | Diffies, Montgomery, North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dwelling Number: | 327 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Family Number: | 327 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cannot Read, Write: | Y | ||||||||||||||||||
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The 1860 Census is interesting in that Mary is the only child of William and Nancy Deaton, and all of the younger children are hers.
I have looked through most of the Bastardy Bonds for Montgomery County for the years that Mary's children were being born and not found one for her. Oddly, while everyone else around her were having children out of wedlock, it seemed that Mary Deaton was avoiding prosecution. Of course, there are large gaps in the years sometimes, and Montgomery is a thrice burned county, so they may have been court records regarding Mary that burned up. But 6 children and not one Bond remains?
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So taking it in a timeline, I want to explore the interesting lives of Polly's daughters, and yes, 6 children and all girls. Franie Jane will remain the mystery that she is. There is no hint of who her father may have been. But for Margaret, I had seen that some of her descendants had her father as an A. B. Hogan. So, who was A. B. Hogan? I began a search for him and suddenly, I knew why he was getting the blame in 2020 for fathering Polly Deaton's children in the 1850's.
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If you will notice, the marriage bond for A. B. Hogan and Marianne Deaton is co-signed by Levi Deaton. Levi Deaton was a son of William Deaton and Polly's brother. So she had gotten married. In 1855, she had already had 5 children. Lurena had just been born. Perhaps she was pregnant again and A. B. Hogan was marrying her to avoid prosecution, but then the child did not make it. Or perhaps he discovered she was untrue, or still tied to some of her previous baby daddy's, but by 1860, Polly was living with her parents and going by the name Deaton, not Hogan. And what about A. B. Hogan?
He had to be one Alexander Hogan. He was the only "A" Hogan male near by of the appropriate age, and he lived right in the neighborhood, in the small sparsely inhabited township of "Hill".
So, in 1858, just 3 years after he married "Marianne Deaton", Alexander Hogan married Martha Jane Freeman, and this time a Henry Crowder was his bondsman.
So taking it in a timeline, I want to explore the interesting lives of Polly's daughters, and yes, 6 children and all girls. Franie Jane will remain the mystery that she is. There is no hint of who her father may have been. But for Margaret, I had seen that some of her descendants had her father as an A. B. Hogan. So, who was A. B. Hogan? I began a search for him and suddenly, I knew why he was getting the blame in 2020 for fathering Polly Deaton's children in the 1850's.
If you will notice, the marriage bond for A. B. Hogan and Marianne Deaton is co-signed by Levi Deaton. Levi Deaton was a son of William Deaton and Polly's brother. So she had gotten married. In 1855, she had already had 5 children. Lurena had just been born. Perhaps she was pregnant again and A. B. Hogan was marrying her to avoid prosecution, but then the child did not make it. Or perhaps he discovered she was untrue, or still tied to some of her previous baby daddy's, but by 1860, Polly was living with her parents and going by the name Deaton, not Hogan. And what about A. B. Hogan?
He had to be one Alexander Hogan. He was the only "A" Hogan male near by of the appropriate age, and he lived right in the neighborhood, in the small sparsely inhabited township of "Hill".
| Name: | Alexander Hogan |
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| Gender: | Male |
| Marriage Date: | 23 Dec 1858 |
| Marriage Place: | Montgomery, North Carolina, USA |
| Spouse: | Martha Jane Freeman |
| Spouse Gender: | Female |
| Event Type: | Marriage |
So, in 1858, just 3 years after he married "Marianne Deaton", Alexander Hogan married Martha Jane Freeman, and this time a Henry Crowder was his bondsman.
So, 2 years later in the 1860 census, when Polly and her daughters are living with her parents, Alexander and his bride, Martha Freeman Hogan are living near Hunsuckers Store with their baby boy, Alfred, who sadly didn't make it to grow up.
| Name: | Alexander Hogans [Alexander Hogan] | ||||||||
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| Age: | 25 | ||||||||
| Birth Year: | abt 1835 | ||||||||
| Gender: | Male | ||||||||
| Birth Place: | North Carolina | ||||||||
| Home in 1860: | Diffies, Montgomery, North Carolina | ||||||||
| Dwelling Number: | 388 | ||||||||
| Family Number: | 388 | ||||||||
| Occupation: | Farmer | ||||||||
| Personal Estate Value: | 125 | ||||||||
| Cannot Read, Write: | Y | ||||||||
| Household Members: |
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So, what had happened between 1855 and 1858? I'm waiting on a CD of court cases from Archives for Montgomery County P's and Q's court. Did Polly and Alexander divorce? Did he have the marriage annuled for fraud or some other reason? Or did he just walk away from the whole thing without legal discourse and just commit bigamy? From what I've learned about the ways of the 19th century Uwharrie Mountain people, many of them just lived outside the lines and their "ways" were their own. Who needed a stinking piece of paper?
Early in the 1860's, Nancy Allen Deaton died and William Deaton, Polly's father, would marry a widow named Elizabeth Allen Lassiter, the widow of Joseph Lassiter. She may have been some distant relation to his first wife, Nancy Allen, but they were not sisters. They married on May 8, 1862.
Two of Mary's daughters would marry two of her stepmother's sons.
Margaret Ruby Deaton would marry Stephen Lassiter on Nov 18, 1865. He had already married a Sarah Cagle back in 1858.
He's shown with her in 1860, and they did not have any children. All of his children were born of Maggie Deaton.
| Name: | Sallie Lassiter | ||||||
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| Age: | 28 | ||||||
| Birth Year: | abt 1832 | ||||||
| Gender: | Female | ||||||
| Home in 1860: | Diffies, Montgomery, North Carolina | ||||||
| Dwelling Number: | 358 | ||||||
| Family Number: | 358 | ||||||
| Household Members: |
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Sarah didn't die, he either divorced her or separated from her unofficially and took his name back, because she's alone, alive and single in 1870.
| Name: | Sarah Cagle | ||||||||
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| Age in 1870: | 40 | ||||||||
| Birth Year: | abt 1830 | ||||||||
| Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||
| Dwelling Number: | 45 | ||||||||
| Home in 1870: | Little River, Montgomery, North Carolina | ||||||||
| Race: | White | ||||||||
| Gender: | Female | ||||||||
| Post Office: | Troy | ||||||||
| Occupation: | Farmer | ||||||||
| Personal Estate Value: | 300 | ||||||||
| Real Estate Value: | 350 | ||||||||
| Household Members: |
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She's still living in Little River and taking in borders.
Sidney Nannie Deaton married John Jacob Lassiter on March 8, 1869, another son of Elizabeth Allen Lassiter Deaton and her 1st husband, Joseph.
Amazingly, Sidney named her father on her marriage certificate: M Lammonds.
Malcolm Lammonds may have also been the father of Margaret Ruby Deaton .
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| Malcolm Lammonds is his old age |
Malcolm Lammonds was from an old Scottish family, some of the earliest Sandhills settlers. He was a married man, having married Lucinda Kellis in 1846. He also got around, not staying in one place very long, and reportedly had went to Kentucky for a little while anticipating settling there. Finding the "Indian problems" a little much to handle, he quickly returned to NC. If he was the father of Polly's oldest girls, he had developed a zigzag pattern of going between Polly and his wife Lucy, because they seemed to rotate having babies every other year, opposite of the other.
Malcolm was typical of these ancient Uwharrie Mountain men of his era. He married in 1846. If Margaret Deaton was his first child, he was about 21 at her birth. Sidney was born in 1850 and his first known child with his wife Lucinda was in 1852. He had 6 children with Lucinda and she died by 1885. He was 61 years old at that time. His youngest child with her, Rachel, was 21 years old when he married his second wife, Cecelia Lake.
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| Celia "Lela" Lake Lammonds |
He didn't rob the cradle with Cecelia, she was 32 when he married her, but he was 29 years her senior, certainly old enough to be her father. Together, they had 5 more children. Malcolm was 70 when his last child was born. He fathered 11 legitimate children with his two wives and at least one with Polly Deaton, possibly 3 or 4.
The above sheet from the 1870 census of the Little River community shows the family of Polly Deaton, which encompassed most of the sheet. She's in Household 67 with her youngest 3 daughters.
| Name: | Mary Deaton | ||||||||||
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| Age in 1870: | 94 | ||||||||||
| Birth Year: | abt 1776 [abt 1826] [1828 Age 49] | ||||||||||
| Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||
| Dwelling Number: | 67 | ||||||||||
| Home in 1870: | Hill, Montgomery, North Carolina | ||||||||||
| Race: | White | ||||||||||
| Gender: | Female | ||||||||||
| Post Office: | Aumans Hill | ||||||||||
| Occupation: | Farmer | ||||||||||
| Cannot Write: | Y | ||||||||||
| Personal Estate Value: | 120 | ||||||||||
| Real Estate Value: | 100 | ||||||||||
| Household Members: |
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Below her is her brother, Joseph Deaton.
Above her is her daughter Sidney and husband Jacob Lassiter with baby, Millard.
Above Sidney is Mary's sister, Margaret Brewer, now widowed, with Franie Jane, Mary's daughter and her baby daughter, Emily.
Above them is the family of a Catherine Maners.
Above the Maners, is Jemima Deaton Smith, Polly's sister.
Above Mima is their father, William, with his new wife, Elizabeth Lassiter Deaton and her youngest daughter and a mystery 12 year old boy whose name starts with "O".
Another Maners or Maness family heads the page.
During the next decade, the youngest 3 daughters of Polly Deaton would marry.
Mary Elizabeth "Bettie" Deaton would marry on March 28, 1871 to Archibald Lammonds.
Lurena Louisa "Rena" Deaton would marry on August 24, 1871 to W. F. McCaskill.
Leatha Ellen Deaton would marry on March 12, 1876 ot John Thomas Freeman.
Now, going backwards, John Thomas Freeman was the son of William King Freeman and Elizabeth Hogan Freeman. As Alexander Hogan was happily remarried, there was no danger of him being Leatha's father, I don't believe.
W. F. McCaskill was the son of John M. McCaskill and Elizabeth Allen McCaskill...there's that Allen name again.
It's Bettie that has me worried. Several family trees also have her as the daughter of Malcolm Lammonds. However, she left the "father" line blank on her marriage license. She was born not too long after the birh of Sidney, who did identify her father on her marriage license.
Then, when I looked into who the father of Alexander "Sandy" Lammonds was. When I saw he named his father as "Malcolm Lammonds" on his birth certificate, I thought Bettie had married her half-brother. But, No, thank goodness. There were 2 Malcolm Lammonds in Montgomery County.
Sandy was the son of Malcolm "Wagonmaker" Lammonds and his wife, Margaret Leach. I'm sure there's a good chance that the family trees of the two Malcolms collide somewhere back. They may have been cousins, but Bettie and Sandy were not closely related.
By 1880, the babies were rolling in for the Deaton sisters.
Maggie and Stephen were living in the neighborhood, now called "Hill" and were up to 5 children.
| Name: | Margaret Laseiter | ||||||||||||||||
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| Age: | 35 | ||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | Abt 1845 | ||||||||||||||||
| Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||
| Home in 1880: | Hill, Montgomery, North Carolina, USA | ||||||||||||||||
| Dwelling Number: | 91 | ||||||||||||||||
| Race: | White | ||||||||||||||||
| Gender: | Female | ||||||||||||||||
| Relation to Head of House: | Wife | ||||||||||||||||
| Marital status: | Married | ||||||||||||||||
| Spouse's name: | Stephen Laseiter | ||||||||||||||||
| Father's Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||
| Mother's Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||
| Occupation: | Keeping House | ||||||||||||||||
| Cannot Read: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| Cannot Write: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
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Very close to them was Polly's siblings, Aaron Deaton, Mandy Deaton Dunn and Jemima Deaton Smith, as well as her widowed sister-in-law, Margaret. Oddly, or maybe not, Alexander Hogan also lived there in Deatonland.
| Name: | Sitny Lassiter [Sitny Deaton] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Age: | 27 | ||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | Abt 1853 | ||||||||||||||||
| Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||
| Home in 1880: | Hill, Montgomery, North Carolina, USA | ||||||||||||||||
| Dwelling Number: | 69 | ||||||||||||||||
| Race: | White | ||||||||||||||||
| Gender: | Female | ||||||||||||||||
| Relation to Head of House: | Wife | ||||||||||||||||
| Marital status: | Married | ||||||||||||||||
| Spouse's name: | Jacob Lassiter | ||||||||||||||||
| Father's Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||
| Mother's name: | Mary Deaton | ||||||||||||||||
| Mother's Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||
| Occupation: | Keeping House | ||||||||||||||||
| Cannot Read: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| Cannot Write: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
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Their mother, Polly, was now living with Sidney and Stephen Lassiter. It's the same neighborhood, all Deaton land. There's a few Freemans and Wards, but also Alexander Lammonds and wife Bettie, Polly's daughter and her brother, Levi Deaton and her daughter, Franie Jane and her husband Edmund Denson, with Polly's sister, Margaret Deaton Brewer, who took Franie in.
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| Sidney Nannie Deaton Lassiter |
Knowing Bettie lived near her mother still, we leap to Rena's family,
| Name: | Lucena Mc Askill | ||||||||||||
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| Age: | 25 | ||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | Abt 1855 | ||||||||||||
| Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||||
| Home in 1880: | Hollingsworth, Montgomery, North Carolina, USA | ||||||||||||
| House Number: | 49 | ||||||||||||
| Dwelling Number: | 52 | ||||||||||||
| Race: | White | ||||||||||||
| Gender: | Female | ||||||||||||
| Relation to Head of House: | Wife | ||||||||||||
| Marital status: | Married | ||||||||||||
| Spouse's name: | W. F. Mc Askill | ||||||||||||
| Father's Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||||
| Mother's Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||||
| Occupation: | Keeping House | ||||||||||||
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Lurena and her husband, W.F. McCaskill are living in Hollingsworth, which is now considered Candor, among his people. Nearly all of the neighbors are McCaskill's, save a Murchinson and a McLeod.
| Name: | Lethie E. Freeman | ||||||||||||||
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| Age: | 18 | ||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | Abt 1862 | ||||||||||||||
| Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||||||
| Home in 1880: | Little River, Montgomery, North Carolina, USA | ||||||||||||||
| Dwelling Number: | 151 | ||||||||||||||
| Race: | White | ||||||||||||||
| Gender: | Female | ||||||||||||||
| Relation to Head of House: | Wife | ||||||||||||||
| Marital status: | Married | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse's name: | John T. Freeman | ||||||||||||||
| Father's Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||||||
| Mother's Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||||||
| Occupation: | Keeping House | ||||||||||||||
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Leatha, the youngest, is living in Little River Township, neighbors were primarily Leaches, Burroughs and Allens.
Below is the modern construct of Montgomery County Townships. Little River remains, "Hill" became Star and "Hollingsworth" became Biscoe, to my understanding.
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| By US Census, Ruhrfisch - taken from US Census website [1] and modified by User:Ruhrfisch, Public Domain |
Franie Jane Deaton Denson was the first of Mary's daughters to pass away. Neither she, nor her husband, Edmund, made it to see 1900. It is not known exactly when they died or where they were buried. Somewhere in Eastern Montgomery County would be the best guess. Mary outlived her.
Theirs were not the only deaths in the family. Margaret was now the oldest sister in the family. She had been widowed on March 3, 1882, just one year after the birth of her youngest daughter, Margaret "Tishie" Lassiter. She had also lost her firstborn, Elmina, as a child. Her other children were grown and several married. She still had two at home at the turn of the century, Harley and Nancy Caroline.
| Name: | Margaret Lassiter | ||||||||
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| Age: | 35 | ||||||||
| Birth Date: | Apr 1845 | ||||||||
| Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||
| Home in 1900: | Hill, Montgomery, North Carolina | ||||||||
| Sheet Number: | 13 | ||||||||
| Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation: | 238 | ||||||||
| Family Number: | 242 | ||||||||
| Race: | White | ||||||||
| Gender: | Female | ||||||||
| Relation to Head of House: | Head | ||||||||
| Marital status: | Widowed | ||||||||
| Father's Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||
| Mother's Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||
| Mother: Number of Living Children: | 5 | ||||||||
| Mother: How Many Children: | 8 | ||||||||
| Occupation: | Farmer | ||||||||
| Months Not Employed: | 0 | ||||||||
| Can Read: | No | ||||||||
| Can Write: | No | ||||||||
| Can Speak English: | Yes | ||||||||
| House Owned or Rented: | O | ||||||||
| Home Free or Mortgaged: | F | ||||||||
| Farm or House: | F | ||||||||
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Sidney, next in line, was also still living in Hill. She still had most of her children living with her and was fortunate enough to have given birth to 12 children with 11 living.
| Name: | Lassiter [Sidnie Lassiter] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Age: | 50 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 1850 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home in 1900: | Hill, Montgomery, North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sheet Number: | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation: | 248 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Family Number: | 252 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Race: | White | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gender: | Female | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relation to Head of House: | Wife | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marital status: | Married | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse's name: | Jacob Lassiter | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marriage Year: | 1867 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Father's Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mother's Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mother: Number of Living Children: | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mother: How Many Children: | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Can Read: | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Can Write: | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Can Speak English: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bettie's family was listed on a page of Lammonds that has nearly faded away to nothing. Below is a photo of her youngest daughter, Alice Missouri Lammonds.
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| Alice Missouri Lammonds Whitt |
Rena and her family are still living among the McCaskills in Hollingsworth. She is listed with having had 15 children and only 10 living. The names are only known of 13. Tombstones record she lost a set of twins in 1879.
| Name: | Lourena Mcaskill [Laurena Mcaskill] | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Age: | 48 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | May 1852 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||||
| Home in 1900: | Hollingsworth, Montgomery, North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sheet Number: | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation: | 188 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Family Number: | 189 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Race: | White | ||||||||||||||||||
| Gender: | Female | ||||||||||||||||||
| Relation to Head of House: | Wife | ||||||||||||||||||
| Marital status: | Married | ||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse's name: | Wm F Mcaskill | ||||||||||||||||||
| Marriage Year: | 1880 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Father's Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mother's Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mother: Number of Living Children: | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mother: How Many Children: | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Can Read: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Can Write: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Can Speak English: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
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Leatha was the one who moved around a bit. In 1900, she and John were living in Alamance County in 1900 and working in the cotton mills with some of their children. They would be found in Moore County ten years later, in Sheffields Township, just across the Montgomery County line. By 1920, they are found in Troy, where they would remain.
| Name: | Letha Freeman | ||||||||||||||
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| Age: | 40 | ||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | Jan 1860 | ||||||||||||||
| Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||||||
| Home in 1900: | Graham, Alamance, North Carolina | ||||||||||||||
| Sheet Number: | 8 | ||||||||||||||
| Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation: | 123 | ||||||||||||||
| Family Number: | 127 | ||||||||||||||
| Race: | White | ||||||||||||||
| Gender: | Female | ||||||||||||||
| Relation to Head of House: | Wife | ||||||||||||||
| Marital status: | Married | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse's name: | John T Freeman | ||||||||||||||
| Marriage Year: | 1876 | ||||||||||||||
| Father's Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||||||
| Mother's Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||||||
| Mother: Number of Living Children: | 6 | ||||||||||||||
| Mother: How Many Children: | 6 | ||||||||||||||
| Can Read: | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| Can Write: | No | ||||||||||||||
| Can Speak English: | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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Leatha was very fortunate in that she had 6 children and all were living. In fact, none of her children lived extremely short lives, some actually made it into their 90's.
On Leatha's death certificate, her husband, John Thomas Freeman listed her parents as Billy Deaton and Nancy Allen. Those were her grandparents, and if would be next to impossible for Nancy, who was 56 at her birth, to be her mother. She was clearly Mary's daughter and is seen living with Mary as a child and only Mary is listed as her parent on her marriage license. J. T. was getting old by then as well, and would pass away a year after Leatha, so he may have been confused. Her father remains unknown.
| Name: | Mary Deaton [Mary Britt] | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Age: | 44 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | Aug 1833 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||||
| Home in 1900: | Hill, Montgomery, North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sheet Number: | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation: | 216 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Family Number: | 220 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Race: | White | ||||||||||||||||||
| Gender: | Female | ||||||||||||||||||
| Relation to Head of House: | Daughter | ||||||||||||||||||
| Marital status: | Widowed | ||||||||||||||||||
| Father's name: | James Paterick Britt | ||||||||||||||||||
| Father's Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mother's name: | Cornelia A Britt | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mother's Birthplace: | North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mother: Number of Living Children: | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mother: How Many Children: | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Months Not Employed: | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Can Read: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Can Write: | No | ||||||||||||||||||
| Can Speak English: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
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As for Polly, she is living with a Britt family, and is a bit older by then than shown.
Polly passed away on February 3, 1908. She is buried in the Lassiter Family Cemetery with her daughters, Maggie and Sidney.
Polly left behind a large number of grandchildren. Despite her and her daughters humble beginnings, her grandchildren included ministers, doctors, business owners, farmers, mill workers and artists. Some of them scattered like the wind, while many of them remained in or near Montgomery County and she still has many descendants there today. Her descendants today identify both as Caucasian and African American, especially those from daughter, Franie Jane, whose husband Edmund Denson had a black father.
As best as I can determine, below is the list of Mary Ann "Polly" Deatons children and grandchildren.
Franie Jane Deaton
Born about 1845 and died before 1900.
Married Edmund Denson
1868 - Mary Emily
1875- Nancy C
1877- Fanny C
1880- Lucy Ellen
Margaret Ruby "Maggie" Deaton
Born April 5 1847 - Died December 30, 1929 Buried in the Lassiter Family Cemetery.
Married Stephen Lassiter.
1866- Elmina
1867-1925 John
1868-1950 Alexander Gordon
1870-1955 William E. "Buddy"
1872-1958 George Washington
1876-1947 Harley Lineberry
1878-1959 Nancy Caroline
1881-1884 Mary Tishie
Sidney Nannie Deaton
Born February 10, 1850 - Died February 5, 1922 Buried in the Lassiter Family Cemetery.
Married John Jacob Lassiter
1870-1928 Millard Filmore
1871-1956 Daniel D.
1873-1904 James Talley
1876-1928 Duncan
1878-1944 Anna L.
1881-1953 Minnie Bertha
1885-1949 Jesse Oscar
1887-1962 Ebbie Lee (male)
1888-1972 Deborah Etta
1890-1916 Sidney Lourena
1893-1921 Jacob Colon
Mary Elizabeth "Bettie" Deaton
Born March 1853 - Died September 26, 1929. Buried in the Lammonds Family Cemetery near Star.
Married Alexander "Sandy" Lammonds.
1872- ? Martha L.
1876-1947 Analiza Mae
1876-1933 David Calvin
1879 - 1918 Bennie Lee
1886- ? Mary E.
1892-1925 Alice Missouri
Lourena Louisa "Rena" Deaton
Born May 10 1854 - June 7 1938. Buried in the McCaskill Family Cemetery in Candor.
Married William Franklin McCaskill 1852-1925
1871-1925 Edward Alexander
1873-1875 James Mathew
1875-1947 John Winston
1878-1936 Burney Lee
1879 Twins- Names unknown, died as infants.
1881-1963 Minerva Victoria
1886-1966 Mary Elizabeth
1888-1955 Daniel Ornan
1890-1964 Elizabeth Margaret Loutisha
1895-1898 Elizabeth Leona
1898-1965 Charles Eller
Leatha Ellen Deaton
Born April 15, 1860 Died September 26, 1939. Buried in Southside Cemetery in Troy.
Married John Thomas Freeman 1855-1940
1877-1942 Eli Dorsey "Doss"
1879-1950 Dora Ellen
1881-1949 Kelley Harrison (male)
1883-1971 Della Frances
1885-1958 Bessie Caroline
1890-1971 Lillie Iola "Irene"
