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The Family Tree Searcher

Volume 3 - Number 2 December 1999

TABLE OF CONTENTS

President’s Message ..............................................................................................2

By L. Roane Hunt

World War II and Gloucester County in the 1940’s ......................................3

By Roger C. Davis

Grave Sites of WWII Veterans .............................................................................4

By Joan Kanter

Memories of the Home Front — Ruth Smitt shares her WWII years at Gary,

Indiana ..............................................................................................................5

By Ruth Smitt

Country Stores — Genealogy — Art..................................................................7

Talk by Ben Borden

By Roger Davis and Phyllis Blount

Descendants of Samuel Muse ..........................................................................14

Submitted by Ben Borden

Pointer Brothers Store and Bena Post Office ...............................................16

Comments from an Interview with Marion Clement s

By Phyllis Blount and Roger Davis

Descendants of Michael Pointer ...................................................................... 18

From data of Sylvia Rowe & Roane Hunt

Descendants of Daniel Fitchett ....................................................................... 21

Submitted from Vertical Files for John Fitchett

Roane’s Store Off the Ware River ................................................................... 24

By L. Roane Hunt

In the Company of Harriet Cowen .................................................................. 26

Pen and Ink Sketches of Country Stores/Post Offices

By Harriet Cowen

Marriages of Gloucester County, Virginia, Book 1: 1853 -1895...............35

By Frances Haywood, Revised by L. Roane Hunt

Gloucester County Death Record Project, 1865 -1890...............................40

Submitted by Roger Davis and Committee

Genealogy Reference Sources in the Virginia Room .................................. 58

Computer Interest Group .................................................................................59

Surname Files....................................................................................................... 60

Vol. 3, No. 2 2 December 1999

Have you had any “break -throughs” recently in your family -history research? What

significant facts have you learned this past year that opened new avenues for further

study?

I believe that the answers to such questions make good stories for people interested in

genealogy or family history. The part of the story that is of general interest is not

necessarily the names and places but the mechanics of discovery, the types of activity and

sources where important clues are hidden. I hope we can include such information

exchanges in our future Society Meeting Programs, provided by our own members.

When I became interested in my family history, much information on the male lines of

descent were already available to me. However, there was one great -grandfather, Willie

Worrell, that was a mystery that no one had been concerned to solve. He died at the age of

33 years leaving behind a wife and three daughters, the eldest being four years old. His

widow remarried and his children had a new father. To my knowledge there was no

contact between my family and the Worrells. When I asked for information about Willie

Worrell, I was told that he was a sailor. This left the impression that he just came ashore

and married my great-grandmother.

My research on Willie Worrel was indirect. As I studied the

family members that I knew in more depth, I discovered some

additional information about him. First, his marriage record in

Gloucester County revealed the name of his parents. At first, I was

suspicious about the accuracy of this information because the

surname was grossly misspelled as “Worlds.”

Second, as I was checking the Roane family in the 1870 census

for King and Queen County, I found Willie with his mother living in

the household of Major Hall. They were listed close to the Charles

Roane family on a farm that Willie was share -cropping when he

died. My search for the Willie Worrell family in later censuses

failed to uncover any clues.

Third, the most curious “shot -in-the-dark” idea was to follow-up on the queer spelling

of “Worlds.” I did some searches on Worlds and did find a Joel World living in Saluda in

Middlesex County in 1850. He was the right age to be Joseph Worrell, father of Willie.

Later, as I was visiting Pat Perkinson, one of this year’s program speakers, she showed me

the newly published book of Middlesex marriages. Included in this book was the marriage

of Joseph Worrell to Mary C. Lewis, with their parents. Further search of Middlesex records

revealed a transfer of land inherited by Mary.

Fourth, I was browsing through tax books and surveys of Gloucester County that date

back before the Civil War when most of the county records were destroyed, and I stumbled

upon some of the new family names connected to Willie Worrell. There was a survey dated

June 18, 1834, that was pursuant to a court decree with “John Lewis and Lucy his wife who

was Lucy Hall.” John and Lucy Lewis were parents of Mary Lewis. The survey showed a

division of estate of John B. Hall to layoff the house and plot for his widow, Nancy Hall.

Included in the list of Hall children was Major Hall, mentioned above, with whom Willie

Worrell and his mother were living in 1870 in King and Queen County.

Well, for the new millennium, I have some new surnames to search. These families were

located along the Dragon Swamp which is the Gloucester -Middlesex border. So far these

“swamp people” do not appear consistently in the official records.

Roane Hunt

President’s Message


World War II and Gloucester County in the 1940’s

Roger C. Davis

World War II (1939-1945) had a significant impact on

the lives of nearly every citizen. Many of us living today

are the products of war stories that should be recorded

for our descendants. These experiences need not be earth

shattering, but rather, revealing events of the forties and

how those war years impacted individual lives.

Some 292,131 U. S. military personnel lost their lives

and a chance to produce descendents for their family

surnames or see their children grow. Another 671,278

Americans were wounded and many of these were left

with life long disabilities. Over 105,000 Americans were

captured and held prisoners of war. For their sacrifices

the average enlisted man received a base pay of $71.33 per

month and an officer $203.50. On the home front there

was food, gasoline, and clothing rationing. Large numbers

of women went into the industrial work force and took on

jobs in the public sector. Travel was restricted and the

sense of community grew as the shared sorrows and

hardships brought neighbors closer together.

In the rural county of Gloucester, Virginia, the country store was still a social/

commercial institution used by the people of Gloucester in 1940. Many stores housed the

area Post Office or had it adjacent to the store. This provided a central place for people to

get groceries, gasoline, often clothing, and their mail. The “pot bellied stove” was a

popular place to gather and “sit a spell” and socialize while they gathered and shared the

war and local news of the day.

World War II began September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. It was not

until December 8, 1941, that the United States declared war on Japan and entered the

conflict after the surprise bombing at Pearl Harbor.

“WWII killed more people, destroyed more property, disrupted more lives, and

probably had more far -reaching consequences than any other war in history.” World wide

“the exact number of people killed because of the war will never be known. Military deaths

probably totaled about 17 million. Civilian deaths were even greater as a result of

starvation, bombing raids, massacres, epidemics, and other war -related causes.” It is

estimated about 70 million people served in the armed forces of all the Allied and Axis

nations.

Your Editor was an eighteen-year-old youngster fresh out of George Washington High

School at Danville, Virginia. In June 1943, he and 80% of the boys in his class shipped off

to military training centers. The next year in October 1944 he crossed the Atlantic and

Roger C. Davis, WWII


Grave Sites of WWII Veterans

at Abingdon Episcopal Church, Rt. 17, White Marsh,

Gloucester County, VA

Submitted by Joan Kanter

Section 2 (inside wall on North side of church).

ROBINS, III, William A. USAR WWII

VANCE, Col. Reginald USAF 1981 WWII

Section 3 (inside wall on North side of Church).

HARRIS, Thomas Robert WWII

AMES, Fred Floyd Cdr. USNR WWII

Section 4 (next to wall on North side).

SINCLAIR, Jefferson Keith WWII

RIGAU, Felix Rosa Com. USNRF WWI, Merchant Marine WWII

STANFORD, Sr., Sam Raymon Chief Gunners Mate USN WWII

ROWE, James Mortimer Pvt. 3554 Service Unit WWII

WEBB, James Leslie Gy. Sgt. USMC WWII

Section 5 (last section new cemetery).

BURT, Jr., Reynolds J. Col. US Army WWII

BURT, Katie S. American Red Cross WWII

GLOVER, Pierre LeRoy U. S. Army WWII

CARR, John R. Capt. U. S. Army WWII

CARR, Gordon D. 1st. Sgt. U. S. Army WWII

HOUK, James N. Maj. U. S. Army WWII

The New Cemetery

DAVIDSON, Robert Col. USA WWII

STOVER, Hilliard K. USA WWII

STOVER, Richard G. USA WWII

GEDDINGS, John Herbert WWII

FARINA, James G. USAF WWII

McDILL, Thomas K. USAF WWII, Prisoner of War

Inside

CATLETT, William Edward USA WWII

World War II and Gloucester County in the 1940’s

landed at Marseilles, France. There was a lot of growing up that next year as he served with

the 14

th

Armored Division in Italy, France and Germany. His duties required a lot of

driving, in fact, in the course of time he put over 50,000 miles on his trusty jeep that bore

his wife’s name, Flo!


Memories of the Home Front—Ruth Smitt shares

her WWII years at Gary, Indiana

By Ruth Smitt

RATION BOOKS

Ration Books were some of our most

precious documents during World War II.

Everyone, including children, had their own

Ration Book for food. There were also Ration

Books for gasoline. Food and gasoline were in

great demand for the Armed Forces.

There was very little traveling for pleasure.

The trains were full of soldiers. The buses were

filled with employees going to and from work in

lieu of using their automobiles. We walked a lot!

Everyone with a little bit of land planted a

Victory Garden and grew vegetables. Some cities

allowed community Victory Gardens and everyone

attended to their own little plot.

Long lines were the order of the day

at food stores and many supply points.

For instance, when word got out that a

store had a shipment of sugar, every

homemaker would dash out to the store for

their share and people would be lined up

through the store and out on to the sidewalk.

Meats were rationed, especially the red

meats. Chicken and turkey required less food

stamps. We all learned to eat SPAM. We

substituted margarine for butter because fats

were needed for munitions.

I do not remember complaining about

rationing. We did complain about hoarders. We

understood the need and worked together. Farmers

worked overtime to increase production of food, especially the grain

products. Some also went into the factories to help out.

CIVILIAN DEFENSE

Because our city had an essential industry, it was mandatory that there not be any

lights showing from homes, businesses, or street lights, from dusk to dawn which might

guide an enemy bomber to our area.

All windows and entrances had to be covered by heavy curtains, draperies, or blankets


so that no light was exposed. Otherwise we

sat in the dark and listened to the radio. If

we had to drive at night, we drove without

lights or the lights had to be shielded

parking lights.

There were Civilian Defense

volunteers posted throughout the city.

They were trained in first aide and other

possible emergencies. It was their duty to

go out after dark to patrol their assigned

area. Wearing a white hard hat and

carrying their credentials and powerful

flashlight, they would look for any exposed

lights. They had the authority to demand

that lights be turned off or covered

immediately.

ANXIETY AND MOURNING

The World War II years were a time of

anxiety and mourning. We were anxious

for sons, fathers, and brothers and often

women members of the family who had

been drafted or who had volunteered their

services. We were concerned for our

friends.

A brother-in-law was sent to the

Pacific area. It was heartbreaking to see a

sister wait for the mail. His transport ship

had been bombed and eventually sunk. He did not meet his first son until the son was

fourteen months old.

We mourned our friends. An Air Force pilot who trained pilots crashed and both pilot

and trainee were killed. His son was born seven months later.

A friend was a Flight Nurse stationed in Europe. She ferried wounded soldiers back to

the United States. On her last trip, the plane and all personnel were lost.

It was with sadness when we saw a gold star in a window. It indicated that a Gold Star

Mother lived there and her son or daughter had lost their life.

ROSIE THE RIVETER

“Rosie the Riveter” was the name given to women who entered the work force to

replace men who had been drafted or volunteered and was off to war. Women of all walks

of life joined the work force and replaced men workers in every conceivable type of work.

They even became riveters and created a legend for themselves as the song implies.

One friend of mine who lived on a farm and was knowledgeable about machinery

drove heavy trucks for the steel industry. It was cooperation like that, which helped win

the war. It was also a big step for women to enter the business world. They could do it!

Memories of the Home Front


Country Stores — Genealogy — Art

Introduction by Roger C. Davis

Up to and including World War II the country store and post office were a social/

commercial institution that has remained in rural Gloucester County from the 1850s.

Transportation and goods distribution limited the distance traveled for most people.

Radio and telephone were in their early development stage. People still took time to “sit a

spell” and talk about the war and community news. They shared their sorrows and

hardships when they gathered at the post office and country store.

The storeowners and operators became the center of this local information exchange

and community structure. The families became an integral part of Gloucester County.

In February 1999, Kimble A. David, architectural historian, prepared a Final Report,

“Country Stores and Rural Post Offices of Gloucester County.” She reviewed thirty -nine

stores, ten at the intensive level, and documented her findings. Eight stores were

determined eligible for listing on the Virginia Landmarks Register and National Register of

Historic Places by Virginia Department of Historic Resources E -team, October 1998. These

stores are Zanoni Store and Post Office, Arthur Tab Store and Ware Neck Post Office,

Freeport Store and Post Office, P. E. Muse Store and Coke Post Office, W. E. and J. Edgar

Pointer Store and Bena Post Office, R. P. Gray Store and Signpine Post Office, Horsley Store

and Short Lane Post Office, and Roanes Store and Post Office.

I have asked Ben Borden to tell us some history and family lore about some of these

stores operated by his family. Ben is a grandson of Peachy Elbert Muse and Valentine

Haywood who operated the P. E. Muse Stores. We have a genealogy of the Muse family for

those searching this line. A copy will be placed in the Vertical File of the Virginia Room at

the Gloucester Library.

The heritages of the country stores in Gloucester have been recorded in pen and ink

drawings by Harriet Cowen and published in two books, “Driving Tour - Gloucester

County’s Country Stores and Post Offices” and “Field Trip Guide

for Elementary Schools.” Mrs. Cowen, a resident of Bena, has

captured the character and beauty of these wonderful country

store landmarks. She has consented to let us publish some of her

drawings in this issue.

At the Gloucester Genealogy Society

Meeting held on September 27, 1999, our

guest speaker was Mr. Ben Borden, and our

guest artist was Mrs. Harriet Cowen. Ben

told about the country stores in operation in

the 1940’s and 50’s, during and immediately

after World War II. He shared information

about his grandfather, Peachy Elbert Muse,

and others of his family who were involved

in the operation of these stores. The

following are excerpts from this meeting:

Ben Borden

and

Harriet Cowen


Mr. Ben Borden...

Thank you Roger. I

consider this a real pleasure

to talk about something I like

to talk about. But you may

think, before I am through,

that I didn’t have but one

granddaddy and that was

Peachy Muse. I did have a

Grandfather Borden, but my

daddy was from Front Royal

and I only saw that

Granddaddy but once or twice

a year but Peachy Muse was

just down the road.

I would like to, in this short time, give you a picture of the Muse family and Peachy

Muse in particular; how they migrated to Gloucester County and the country stores that

they operated, because there were more than one. Some of their descendants are still

living here, and I hope that it will be of interest to you.

Peachy Muse was next to the youngest of seven children and born in Essex County in

1871. His father, Samuel William Young Muse, left his first five children, one o f which was

an infant, and went to Tappahannock and enlisted in the Confederate Army. He was

discharged at age 42. That always interested me that he would leave his wife and five

young children, one an infant. My

granddaddy, Peachy, came along in

1871, and I don’t think he was the first

Muse to come to Gloucester County, but

I’ll get to that later.

The three stores I want to cover and the

three locations are the Eddie Minor’s

store in Coke or the P .E. Muse Store, (it

stayed the Eddie Minor’s longer than P.

E. Muse), the Bridges store and the store

at Ordinary. The Ordinary store had

two locations. The property where the

first store was located was bought by Newton Motor Company and Chrysler Plymouth

Dealership so my grandfather bought another store across the road, which had been owned

by a Mr. & Mrs. Dutton.

Let me take you now to Coke in about 1895. I am not sure who built that store

building and house, but I think it was a man named William Haywood. William Haywood

was my grandmother’s, Annie Valentine Muse, uncle. Both her parents had died and

Annie was raised by William Haywood and Elizabeth Hogge Haywood. He also raised

Mable Willet Buck, those two called each other sister, although they were not kin, but were

raised together and many people today think we are kin to the Bucks, but we are not, but it

was through that association a long time ago.

Sometime around 1895 Peachy Muse came on the scene in his early twenties. He had

some business dealings with William Haywood and met my grandmother. They got

married and then we find that he was operating the store. The building across the road

was the residence and they are both still standing today. In some of our publications there

are pictures of both.

Samuel Muse

Samuel William Young Muse

b. Dec. 28, 1819, m. Dec. 25, 1855, d. May 8, 1874

Elizabeth Young “Polly” Banks

Peachy Elbert Muse

b. Nov. 23, 1871, d. Sep. 30, 1949

Thomas Coates

Sarah Frances Jane Coates

b. Feb. 18, 1839, d. June 5, 1919

Frances Taylor

Joseph Levi Borden

Benjamin Elias Borden, Sr.

b. Nov. 22, 1898, m. Sep. 11, 1926, d. Mar. 1, 1968

Frances Herr

Benjamin Elias Borden, Jr.

b. Sep. 25, 1927

Peachy Elbert Muse

b. Nov. 23, 1871, m. Oct 15, 1901, d. Sep. 30, 1949

Ella Coates Muse

b. Oct. 22, 1904, d. July 4, 1980

Annie Valentine Heywood

b. Feb. 14, 1879, d. Jan. 11, 1970



Peachy Muse's children: the first of which was Dolly, then Ella, Willie and Cassie

were all born in Coke. Lot of people don’t know that. The two youngest were born later at

Bridges in 1917 and 1920, respectively.

Now I think that the store business was evidently good at Coke and I often wondered

why he wanted to move. There was a really large population in that particular area of

people who were rather prosperous in the oyster business, forestry and numerous other

things that took place at that time. He often told of some of the best customers he had in

the store business were at Coke. One of which happened to be my wife’s, Frances, great

granddaddy; a man named Benjamin Franklin Oliver, who had an oyster business. There

were many stories of salesmen who called on him. But if you visualize the store, there was

not any electricity then. I think they had gaslights, it wasn’t Delco, I think that was

something that came later, but it was gaslights.

Papa (Peachy Muse) used to talk about two blacksmith shops in sight of the store.

One was Claude Brookes’ and the other was Sylvester Oliver’s. And he would talk about

how many horses would be tied around different trees and posts on Saturday for people

who came to get the services of the blacksmiths.

He talked about the people in the community who had particular talents. One was a

man named Eddie Oliver who was a great marksman. There was hardly anything that he

couldn't hit with a .22 rifle. My granddaddy said that on one occasion a salesman, for

either the Winchester Arms Company or Remington Arms Company, who came to the

store, challenged Eddie and beat him. He said that was the only time between around 1900

and 1915 that anybody was better with a rifle than Eddie Oliver.

Another tale that he told was a ghost story, sort of, that we like to hear him tell about

my grandmother waking him up in the middle of the night and the children were all asleep

and that somebody was walking downstairs. Papa said that he went downstairs and a cat

had gotten in a rocking chair and kept it going back and forth and the cadence was exactly

of someone walking. But anyway that was a happy ending to that story.

Let me talk a little bit more about Coke in that during that time a doctor came to

Gloucester County named Dr. Clements. And that one, Papa called Old Dr. Clements. It

was not the James Clements that we all remember down at Ordinary, but his father. Well

he came down from Albemarle County and he didn’t have a horse and buggy to make his

house calls with. My granddaddy loaned him a horse and buggy. Well for that, in return

for that favor he delivered all the children and gave free medical services as long as he

lived and even up until the time Frances and I were living with my grandmother in the mid

50's at Ordinary and James Clements was still living, he wouldn’t charge my grandmother

anything. And this loyalty between people and friendship at that time, I think, is

something that should be emphasized about the communities and the various things that

happened in these stores.

During the time they were at Coke, Beech Grove Baptist Church was formed in 1904.

My mother said she went to school there. And then in wondering about why he wanted to

go to Bridges and that made him closer to Hayes Store School. And when we came along

here, we wouldn't talk about Hayes, it was Hayes Store. I didn’t know for many years later

that that was named for a man named Joel Hayes who was in Abingdon and Gloucester

and so forth. And anyway, if they moved to Bridges they would be closer to Hayes Store

School and I think my mother and Uncle Willie had a pony once and a cart and drove every

morning from Bridges down to Hayes Store School.

Let’s not leave Coke, yet. When Granddaddy decided to make that move he sold out

to Eddie Minor's father. I don’t know whether his name was Eddie also or Edward and I

don’t know when the young Eddie took the store over. But a lot of friends I had in Coke

called the young Eddie Minor and the old Eddie Minor that I remember. They called him



Bubba and Ed because they said that when he was a little boy they called him that to

distinguish him from his father. So Eddie Minor took over that store around 1915 and this

is absolutely accurate, as far as I know, and he operated it until 1964 and of course it was

Coke Post Office. Coke Post Office and Coke was a name for a person.

You have to remember at that time everything was by horse and wagon. I think

Benjamin Franklin Oliver had to take his oysters up to Clay Bank Wharf and put them on a

steamboat and what groceries came in by wagon. There wasn’t any kind of refrigeration at

that store at that time, I am told. Eddie Minor later modernized it quite a bit, which I will

tell you more about.

Let’s go on to Bridges and we will find that Papa bought Bridges from a man named

Tom Bridges. There was a home place situated on 20 acres and a store building situated on

5 acres and a farm with 100 acres. I think the Bridges family had been there for some time

for the post office there to be named Bridges. The descendants from the Bridges family

may be of some interest to you. Dr James Smith, who practiced medicine at Hayes Store,

had a wife who was Tom Bridges’ daughter. Another Bridges that some of you may have

heard about was John Bridges who was, as my granddaddy used to say, a drummer, he

didn’t say salesmen, they were all drummers, that came around and took orders from

Buryn, Old and Eaton in Norfolk and he called on my granddaddy, as I understand at

Bridges and at Ordinary.

There was a glass over the door as you entered the store at Bridges that was in gold

leaf. It read “Bridges Post Office.” Well somewhere back in the 1930's some of the Bridges’

relatives came by, and my Mother and Father gave them that glass. It might be down in

Norfolk somewhere now, but that was the sign above the door.

I am going to tell you in a minute, as time is rapidly passing, what happened to the

post office at Bridges after Papa moved to Ordinary. It went up the road to Sam Pointer's

store and I can't tell you when they started the rural route at one time from Ordinary and

they closed the store and post office at Bridges, which was then in Sam Pointer's store.

The operation at Bridges was much larger than it was at Coke. A larger building, two

story, well built, it was paneled on the inside with beaded paneling. It had a balcony; in

other words it was two stories. But upstairs there was a stairway railing around. There

was a place to display furniture on the second story. There were two long counters

downstairs with a large storage shed on the left. One more thing, upstairs was a room just

for shoes. The back had a unique type of icebox with walls that were about 6 inches thick

and filled with saw dust and a place at the top like the old icebox to put ice and every now

and then he kept some meat, probably for a short length of time. Where did they get the

ice? On the property there were two very deep holes that we were always told were “ice

holes.” They were near a stream that could be damned up, and if the winter was cold

enough they would take the ice and put it in the hole and cover it over with dirt and

sawdust and hopefully it would last to around the 4th of July. And you dig down in there

maybe to make a freezer of ice cream. Along that same line, David Burke told me that one

of the biggest occurrences in his life was on the 4th of July. They would meet a steamer

from Baltimore which had ice you could buy and go home and make a freezer of ice cream.

So times were a lot different then than they are now.

They say my grandmother was a very calm person, and she was. One day while she

was clerking in the store, my Uncle Willie was on top of the house. It was a two story with

a steep roof and someone came in and said, “ Mrs. Muse, Willie is up on top of the store

building walking down the ridge pole” and she said, “Is that right? I’ll be over there in a

minute.” Nothing ever excited her.

My two youngest aunts, Frances Haywood Muse and Annie (Betsy) Elizabeth Muse,

were born at Bridges. My daddy, Benjamin Elias Borden, also arrived while Peachy was still



at Bridges. In a little diary at home in something we call a “fertilizer book,” (fertilizer

companies used to put these out and we carried one) it says, “arrived: Bridges May 15, I

believe, 1922.” This was shortly before P. E. Muse sold the entire store and property and

his residence to someone else and moved out to Ordinary. At that time the trend was to

get out on the highway. He was a notary public and insurance investigator. They only

verified that someone was living. It was a company that was called Hooper Homes that you

could fill out the little forms that verified that a person lived at certain post office and had

three children and they paid you 50¢ or something like that.

Anyway, while at Bridges he had a gristmill and people came up Timberneck Creek to

a place called Sawmill Hill, and that wasn't named for Daddy’s sawmill it was named

Sawmill Hill long before my father put a sawmill at Bridges, and they would grind corn. On

up until about 1942 my granddaddy wouldn't have it any other way but to hook up a pair

of mules, get in the wagon and put a bag of corn in it and go all the way to Haynes Mill

Pond. Most of you know where Haynes Mill Pond is. Well, the other day the floo d

(Hurricane Floyd, Sept 1999) almost wrecked the dam and washed the rest of the mill over

into the ravine. I can remember going with him up there to Haynes Mill Pond and getting

corn ground and coming back to be put out at Bridges. Also, while he was at Bridges, he

bought the property where Rosewell Cemetery is now. That had been owned by Willie

Haywood, who raised my grandmother, and I thi nk there were a hundred and twenty -five

acres in that. That passed to Stratton in later years.

So I think he wanted to go out to Ordinary and run a small store and maybe be some

sort of a gentleman farmer. He was fortunate to have people help him, and he would, when

he didn't have an automobile, just walk out on Providence Road and hold his hand up, and

it didn’t make any difference who it was, they stopped and picked up Peachy Muse. He

never thumbed or anything or asked them, he just held his hand up like a policeman. He'd

do a school bus same way. If he was getting from Bridges to Ordinary and the school bus

was coming, Papa would stand and do like that, and they all knew him and, they would

stop and let him get on the bus.

It was about this time, in 1922, that my father met my mother. Granddaddy Muse

came to the small store, although they built a big bungalow that had three bedrooms, a

reception hall, living room, bathroom, a big dining room and a large kitchen since he loved

people so much that this was to attract the drummers that would stay overnight. It was

like a “Bed and Breakfast.” It was a great time when two or three of them were there, and

they all sat around the big dining room table. They did not help my grandmother and

Dolly dry the dishes. They all went into the living room to smoke cigars, and you couldn't

even see in the place for cigar smoke. And that is what went on there.

When all the children had gone off to school, it just left my grandmother and

grandfather there and Dolly. Dolly was born, and became deaf at a very early age, she was

their oldest child, I think born 3 October 1902. She always stayed at home, helped my

grandmother with the canning and helped take care of the younger children. My

grandmother always thought that she would expire before Dolly, but it didn’t work out

that way. Dolly died 13 February 1954, and my grandmother lived to be 90 years old and

died 8 January 1970.

Another quick story about my grandmother. She had said that both her parents died,

and she was raised by Willie Haywood and Elizabeth Hogge Haywood, that her health was

not good and the doctors told her that she wouldn’t live to be about 20 years old. And she

said, maybe it was old Dr. Clements, said that maybe you should take some cod liver oil

everyday. And she did, all of her life, and she lived to be (90) ninety.

In 1940, which Roger wanted me to talk about, the stores where being operated in this

fashion. Eddie Minor had modernized Coke a whole lot. He had a modern meat case,



which had electricity at that time. It seems that because the population in that area of

Cedar Bush Creek, Shley and Coke had increased some and there hadn't been an exodus of

people away from that community, Eddie did a great business. In recent years when the

Martins took it over and made it Martins Corner, some of his books were in there and

Eddie Minor did an excellent busin ess, particularly during the late 30's and early 40's. He

handled a lot of hardware, parts for farm implements, horse drawn farm implements, hog

points and such as that. If you wanted to buy a pump point for a pitcher pump, does any

one know what that is; you would go to Eddie Minor’s to get it. If you wanted to buy a

pump he had it and paint for boats.

After Papa, in 1922, moved from Bridges down to Ordinary, he sold to a family, I

believe, from Baltimore. They bought the house and they bought the store but, anyway, it

didn’t pan out. So he had the new house out here to pay for and the new business and I

think somehow he was still responsible, the way banking and that sort of thing were done,

for the place at Bridges. Well my mother and father got married in 1926 while Daddy was

managing a sawmill in Keysville, Virginia. In 1929 he came back to Gloucester and my

mother and father bought the Bridges place from my granddaddy, Peachy Muse. The

store and house had been vacant for awhile. There were not any modern conveniences, but

anyway in 1929 they moved in.

Daddy’s father and his grandfather had several sawmills and barrel stay mills, and

Mama always said she wasn’t real anxious to move to Bridges. But she did. Peachy Muse

was a positive thinking person and would always try to encourage someone. I remember

my mother saying that she told my granddaddy once, “You know this summer all of Ben’s,

meaning my father, brothers and their wives are coming down, and we don’t have any

modern conveniences. Papa said, “Look, Ella, you just make them feel at home.” Well, she

did, and that was the favorite place for all of them to visit from then until they all passed

away. They would come down to Gloucester, and later on we got a few conveniences. I

always liked that story.

Out at Ordinary I can remember the nights in the s tore with the men sitting around,

and up on one counter there were cigarettes, loose, and they sold them for a penny a piece.

Young Dr. Clements smoked one after another. He would sit and talk for awhile with my

granddaddy and the other men, and he would go up and get a cigarette and he would

smoke that one and when he would get ready to go, said, “Here Peachy, I had so many.”

And that was all until the next night he came over.

At that time Dr. Clements would charge $2 for an office visit. And, I guess it is alright

to tell this, but when Newton Motor Company sold a new Plymouth to him a few years after

that, actually it was after the war in 1946, he paid for it in $2 bills.

Okay so Eddie's business was thrivin g in the 40’s. Bridges Store was then used by my

father to make barrels. They had a barrel factory at Gloucester Point but the August storm

of 1933 took it all away. And that was the same time they said that the piano at Clopton's

Drug Store was going down the river playing “ Stormy weather.”

Anyway there was a migration or exodus, I guess you say, of people leaving Piney

Swamp or Bridges. Daddy was a bird hunter and we would hunt some afternoons and I’d

follow him, and there was one vacant home after another. These people had all gone to

Baltimore, Detroit or Philadelphia for jobs. There was one vacant garden after another,

which was a good place for a covey of birds.

Just a little bit more now about the Muses. So my granddaddy, Peachy Muse, had a

store at Coke and at Bridges and he came out to Ordinary and then remember I told you

that when Newton Motor Company was built he bought Mrs. Dutton’s Store. Now uncle

Bob Muse, who lived at Wicomico had a store at one time where Jones Oliver Store used to

be, a sharp bend in the road directly behind Farm Fresh. Okay, when Harry and I were



going to Hayes Store School there was a store that Carrol Muse owned and the two people

that worked there were Leroy Howlet and Wesley Jackson. Okay. So Carrol Muse was my

granddaddy’s brother’s child, so he was his nephew, but a lot of people thought that Carrol

and Peachy where brothers, but they were not. Carrol was Mary Florence Muse's father.

Let’s go back up to Essex a minute. Tom Muse evidently came down here, my

granddaddy's older brother was a carpenter. Moved back and opened a store at Upright

which was near the “old home place” way out in the country off to the west of Ozeana and

a little south of Dunnsville, that part of Tappahannock. Uncle Dickey was out on Route 17

at Ozeana and he had a country store. Uncle Charlie was an oyster inspector at one time

and Uncle Charlie and Uncle Bob both lived in Wicomico and let me give this to you quickly.

Uncle Charlie sold his property to Spottswood in 1935/36, and he and Aunt Mary moved

to Richmond and she opened a boarding house. Uncle Bob died in 1935 but he owned

Uncle Charles’ place called Pigeon Hill, and I forget now what they call... the same place

that they moved the Waterman’s Museum building from, I think the man who owns

McDonalds owns that place now, it was old Hogge property. In fact, most all the property

was owned by the Hogge family from Timberneck Creek on down the York River to Hayes.

In 1940 if you had left Coke and gone out by White Marsh and to come down to

Ordinary you would have gotten to Clopton's County Store Post Office taken a right when

you got to White Marsh there was a large store operated by Mr. Newcomb. Coming on

down the road Tommy C. Hogge had been in business for a long time. Prior to him

operating the store was a man name Taliaferro. When you got down to Ordinary, there

was, T. C. Hogge in Ordinary, Peachy Muse on one side and Dutton on the other. That was

before the Duttons passed on and so forth. Now if you came through Piney Swamp which

means you would come out at Eddie Minor's Store and get on Providence Road off of

Cedar Bush Road, you came by Sam Pointer's Store and you came by Bridges. Bridges was

the only one of those stores that I named, that was not operated in, I believe in 1940. Tell

you a little more about Clopton. Mrs. Raymond Brown, Dr. Brown's wife, Elizabeth, was a

Clopton. I intended to call her to see if she knew what year Clopton's Post Office closed

and what year they went out of the store business. It is absolutely amazing that all of them

could make a living, but as some of the literature we have here indicated, they all were very

prosperous at that time.

One other thing, I've covered the Muse men that ran stores. My grandmother used to

tell me about going back to Ozeana to visit my granddaddy’s relatives. They would leave

very early in the morning and you would get to Saluda by 12 o’clock. You would feed the

horse and rest and eat a sandwich and by dark you would be up in Essex, at Upright or

Ozeana.

Just one thing, you all probably know this by heart, I’ll close with this.

A PEOPLE WHO TAKE NO PRIDE IN THE NOBLE ACHIEVEMENTS OF

REMOTE ANCESTORS ARE NOT LIKELY TO ACHIEVE ANYTHING WORTHY

TO BE REMEMBERED WITH PRIDE BY REMOTE DESCENDANTS.

Thank you. Thank you very much, I enjoyed it.



Decendants of Samuel Muse

Submitted by Ben Borden

FIRST GENERATION

1. Samuel Muse.

He was married to Elizabeth Young "Polly" Banks. Samuel Muse and Elizabeth Young "Polly" Banks

had the following children:

+2 i. Samuel William Young Muse.

SECOND GENERATION

2. Samuel William Young Muse was born on 28 Dec 1819 in Essex Co., VA. He died on 8 May 1874

in Essex Co., VA.

He was married to Sarah F. (Frances) Jane Coates (daughter of Thomas Coates and Frances Taylor)

on 25 Dec 1855 in Essex Co., VA. Sarah F. (Frances) Jane Coates was born on 18 Feb 1839 in Essex

Co., VA. She died on 5 Jun 1918 in Essex Co., VA. Samuel William Young Muse and Sarah F.

(Frances) Jane Coates had the following children:

+3 i. Samuel Thomas Muse.

+4 ii. John Richard Muse.

+5 iii. Charles Harvey Muse.

+6 iv. Lucelia A. Muse.

+7 v. Robert Wake Pooler Muse.

+8 vi. Peachy Elbert Muse.

+9 vii. Sallie Young Muse.

THIRD GENERATION

3. Samuel Thomas Muse was born in 1856 in Essex Co., VA. He died in 1936 in Essex Co., VA.

4. John Richard Muse was born on 25 Dec 1859 in Essex Co., VA. He died in Mar 1932 in Essex Co.,

VA.

He was married to Annis G. Taylor on 29 Dec 1890 in Essex Co., VA.

5. Charles Harvey Muse was born on 18 Feb 1861 in Essex Co., VA. He died on 6 Mar 1946 in

Portsmouth, VA.

He was married to Katherine Elizabeth Fleet (daughter of Loland Fleet and Mary J. Montague) on 30

Dec 1887 in Gloucester Co., VA. Katherine Elizabeth Fleet was born in 1859. Charles Harvey Muse

and Katherine Elizabeth Fleet had the following children:

+10 i. William Carroll Muse.

6. Lucelia A. Muse died on 12 Feb 1940.

7. Robert Wake Pooler Muse was born on 29 Mar 1868 in Essex Co., VA. He died on 12 Jun 19 35.


He was married to Katherine Pauline Hogg on 20 Aug 1902.

8. Peachy Elbert Muse was born on 23 Nov 1871 in Essex Co., VA. He d ied on 30 Sep 1949 in

Richmond, VA.

He was married to Annie Valentine Heywood (daughter of Wilmore Taylor Heywood and Lucinda G.

Pointer) on 15 Oct 1901 in Gloucester Co., VA. Annie Valentine Heywood was born on 14 Feb 1879

in Gloucester Co., VA. She appeared in the census #AB415 in 1880 in Gloucester Co., VA. She died

on 11 Jan 1970 in Gloucester Co., VA. Peachy Elbert Muse and Annie Valentine Heywood had the

following children:

11 i. Sarah Lucenia Muse was born on 3 Oct 1902 in Gloucester Co., VA. She died on

13 Feb 1954 in Gloucester Co., VA.

+12 ii. Ella Coates Muse Muse.

+13 iii. William Taylor Muse.

+14 iv. Cassie Clements Muse.

15 v. Annie Elizabeth Muse was born on 25 Jan 1917 in Gloucester Co., VA.

16 vi. Frances Haywood Muse was born on 17 Aug 1952 in Gloucester Co., VA.

9. Sallie Young Muse was born in 1876. She died in 1945.

FOURTH GENERATION

10. William Carroll Muse.

William Carroll Muse and Florence Elizabeth Lawson had the following children:

+17 i. Mary Florence Muse.

12. Ella Coates Muse Muse was born on 22 Oct 1904 in Gloucester Co., VA. She died on 4 Jul 1980

in Gloucester Co., VA.

She was married to Benjamin Elias Borden (son of Joseph Levi Borden and Frances Herr) on 11 Sep

1926 in Gloucester Co., VA. Benjamin Elias Borden was born on 22 Nov 1898 in Warren Co., VA. He

died on 1 Mar 1968 in Gloucester Co., VA. Ella Coates Muse Muse and Benjamin Elias Borden had

the following children:

+18 i. Benjamin Elias Borden Jr..

19 ii. William Ray Borden was born on 2 Dec 1933 in Richmond, VA.

+20 iii. Carter Muse Borden.

13. William Taylor Muse was born on 27 Nov 1906 in Gloucester Co., VA. He died on 31 Oct 1971


He was married to Alice Harper on 15 Nov 1941 in Gloucester Co., VA. Alice Harper was born on 15

Jun 1917 in Gloucester Co., VA.

14. Cassie Clements Muse was born on 18 Dec 1908 in Gloucester Co., VA.

She was married to John William Randolph Folkes (son of Robert Andrew Folkes and Edna

Montague) on 17 Feb 1934. John William Randolph Folkes was born on 14 May 1908 in Gloucester

Co., VA. He died on 5 Jun 1976.

Descendants of Samuel Muse


Pointer Brothers Store and Bena Post Office

Comments from an Interview with Marion Clements

by Phyllis Blount and Roger Davis

James Edgar Pointer, Sr. (1876 -1952) married 1

st

, Lucy Lillie Minor and they had a son,

James Edgar Pointer, Jr. (now living in Williamsburg, VA). He married 2

nd

, Emma Jean

Daniel on 7 April 1945 and their daughter is Marion Minor Pointer Porter Clements.

In the early years (1904-1939) James Edgar, Sr. and his brother, William DuVal Pointer ran

the store as Pointer Brothers. William and his wife, Ruth, lived about a mile fr om the store

down Mark Pine Road (Route 648). Edgar and Lillie lived in the house next to the store. In

1952 the building was moved back for the road widening. J.

Edgar left the store in 1948 before his death in 1952.

Marion Clements is named after Mary Marion Minor,

daughter of John William Minor and Sarah Jane Mooring.

John Minor built the home “Riverside” on the river near Bena

and the large house with all the windows near White Marsh

(old Hickory Fork house) behind the Post Office at White

Marsh. The Milligans used to live there and then John Wyatt.

Emma Jean Daniel was in Richmond taking some typing and

shorthand courses about 1943. Mr. Kenney, who was

superintendent of schools in Gloucester for many years was

in Richmond looking for a teacher for Achilles to replace

someone who left in the middle of the year. He found Emma

Jean at Smithfield Massey and talked her into coming to

Achilles High School to help for the rest of the year. She

boarded with Mrs. Milton Harris whose house is at Tidemills

Bridge and Sarah Creek.

Just before going back to South Carolina for the Holidays,

Emma Jean got Edgar Pointer to cash a check for her. It

seems she wrote it on a wrong account and the check

bounced. After she came back he called on her to “go riding

or whatever they did then.” He never mentioned the check,

but she found out from a friend in South Carolina about the

bad check and was apologetic to Edgar and made the check

good. That’s how their courtship started. They were

married about a year later in 1945 and then Edgar died

seven years later in 1952.

The store was constructed in 1904 with the open ceiling in

the center section. The ceiling area would be closed over in

winter to save the heat downstairs. In the summer it would

be opened up again.

J. Edgar Pointer, Sr.

Courtesy of Marion Clements


Taylor Maryus Minor worked at the store for many years. He was a chef and had worked at

a number of hotels in North Carolina and at Norfolk before coming to Bena. His son,

Gerald Minor, was interviewed by Marion Clements and Jennie Woo in 1997. His memories

are reflected in this following information. Gerald came to Bena at age 7 after his Mother

died in May.

After Lillie Minor Pointer stopped using the west side wing (now Bena Post Office) for a

sewing and hat shop, Taylor Minor started a lunch room. It was called Minor’s Lunch. Pork

chops and baked chicken were a specialty.

Gerald Minor tells the “true” story that people were eating lunch in the diner while the

store was being moved back to widen the road in 1952. His Father warned his customers

to be careful when they went out the door because the steps were no longer there.

Some little known facts about the store:

Edgar raised hogs. There was a smoke -house out back where they

smoked pork ribs and chops.

Russell Armstrong (black man) did handy work there.

In the side building (Deal Tax Service), one space had an egg room;

another had a pump and sink in back room. Shot gun shells were kept

over the sink. A nail room was at rear (now a bath).

Edgar would go to Baltimore just before Christmas to purchase

Christmas stock for the store.

A wood stove was in the middle of the store. They burned coal most of

the time.

There were vinegar and molasses tanks in the store so they could pump

small amounts into jars.

There were empty capsules into which grains of quinine were placed for

medication.

They sold lemon and vanilla extract, cloth from rolls, boots, shoes, pants,

knickers, “gum boots” (the white boots not yet here) , rain gear, fish

hooks, anchors, crab nets, auto tires, horse bits, horse collars, and bilge

pumps.

The combination to the safe was 50 -0-50!!

Men played dominoes at night.

John Thomas Cook helped with farming chores; Sydney Smith built a 65

ft. boat out in the yard; Julias Edwards built cabinets in the store at one

time; Patricia Williams worked at the store.

When Pointer Brothers was dissolved, a number of people leased an d tried to run the

store, including John Fedors and Faber Mershon. Ownership of the building always stayed

with Edgar Pointer’s heirs. Today the Bena Post Office, Mo’s Stuff (gifts and framing) and

Deals Tax Service occupy the building. It is all open for a visit!

Pointers Brothers Store and Bena Post Office


Descendants of Michael Pointer

From data of Sylvia Rowe & Roane Hunt

FIRST GENERATION

1. Michael Pointer.

He was married to Dorothy DuVal. Michael Pointer and Dorothy DuVal had the following children:

+2 i. Michael Pointer.

SECOND GENERATION

2. Michael Pointer was born in 1766. He died in 1836.

He was married to Mildred Stevens. Michael Pointer and Mildred Stevens had the following children:

3 i. Michael Smith Pointer was born in 1798.

+4 ii. William DuVal Pointer.

+5 iii. Cyrus Christian Pointer.

THIRD GENERATION

4. William DuVal Pointer was born in 1798. He appeared in the census #771 in 1850 in Gloucester

Co., VA. He appeared in the census #444 in 1860 in Gloucester Co., VA. He appeared in the census

#W140 in 1870 in Gloucester Co., VA. He died in 1872.

Mary E. Wood was born in 1815. She appeared in the census #771 in 1850 in Gloucester Co., VA.

She appeared in the census #444 in 1860 in Gloucester Co., VA. William DuVal Pointer and Mary E.

Wood had the following children:

6 i. Lucy A. Pointer was born in 1834. She appeared in the census #771 in 1850 in

Gloucester Co., VA. She appeared in the census #444 in 1860 in Gloucester Co.,

VA. She appeared in the census #W140 in 1870 in Gloucester Co., VA.

7 ii. Martha W. Pointer was born in 1835. She appeared in the census #771 in 1850


+8 iii. James DuVal Pointer.

9 iv. Frances M. Pointer was born in 1840. She appeared in the census #771 in 1850


10 v. Albert M. Pointer was born in 1846. He appeared in the census #771 in 1850 in

Gloucester Co., VA. He appeared in the census #444 in 1860 in Gloucester Co.,

VA. He appeared in the census #P84 in 1870 in Gloucester Co., VA. He

appeared in the census #WW501 in 1880 in Gloucester Co., VA.

11 vi. Georgiana Pointer was born in 1848. She appeared in the census #771 in 1850

in Gloucester Co., VA. She appeared in the census #444 in 1860 in Gloucester

Co., VA.

12 vii. John W. Pointer was born in 1852. He appeared in the census #444 in 1860 in

Gloucester Co., VA. He appeared in the census #W140 in 1870 in Gloucester

Co., VA.


5. Cyrus Christian Pointer was born in 1815. He appeared in the census #184 in 1850 in

Gloucester Co., VA. He appeared in the census #154 in 1860 in Gloucester Co., VA. He appeared in

the census #W150 in 1870 in Gloucester Co., VA.

He was married to Martha Dey Stubbs (daughter of Payton Massy and Malvina ?). Martha Dey

Stubbs was born in 1817. She appeared in the census #184 in 1850 in Gloucester Co., VA. She

appeared in the census #154 in 1860 in Gloucester Co., VA. She appeared in the census #W150 in

1870 in Gloucester Co., VA. She died on 26 Sep 1877 in Gloucester Co., VA. Cyrus Christian Pointer

and Martha Dey Stubbs had the following children:

13 i. Anne Mamie Pointer was born in 1841. She appeared in the census #184 in

1850 in Gloucester Co., VA. She appeared in the census #154 in 1860 in

Gloucester Co., VA. She died in 1863.

+14 ii. Julia Frances Pointer.

15 iii. Virginia Evelyn Pointer was born in 1845. She appeared in the census #184 in

1850 in Gloucester Co., VA. She appeared in the census #154 in 1860 in

Gloucester Co., VA. She appeared in the census #W150 in 1870 in Gloucester

Co., VA.

16 iv. William L. Pointer was born on 25 Feb 1851. He appeared in the census #154 in

1860 in Gloucester Co., VA. He appeared in the census #W150 in 1870 in

Gloucester Co., VA. He appeared in the census #WW503 in 1880 in Gloucester

Co., VA. He was listed as General Merchant He died on 1 Jan 1904.

FOURTH GENERATION

8. James DuVal Pointer was born on 27 May 1839. He appeared in the census #444 in 1860 in

Gloucester Co., VA. He appeared in the census #W140 in 1870 in Gloucester Co., VA. He appeared

in the census #AA068 in 1880 in Gloucester Co., VA. He died on 4 Dec 1904.

He was married to Mary Marion Minor (daughter of John William Minor and Sarah Jane Mouring) on

27 Dec 1870 in Gloucester Co., VA. Mary Marion Minor was born in 1850. She appeared in the

census #AA068 in 1880 in Gloucester Co., VA.

1850 Glou. Census:356

1860 Glou. Census: 597 James DuVal Pointer and Mary Marion Minor had the following children:

+17 i. William DuVal Pointer.

+18 ii. James Edgar Pointer Sr..

19 iii. Lucy J. Pointer was born about 1879. She appeared in the census #AA068 in

1880 in Gloucester Co., VA.

+20 iv. Mary Wood Pointer.

+21 v. Evelyn Pointer.

14. Julia Frances Pointer was born in 1843 in Gloucester Co., VA. She appeared in the census #184

in 1850 in Gloucester Co., VA. She appeared in the census #154 in 1860 in Gloucester Co., VA. She

appeared in the census #W150 in 1870 in Gloucester Co., VA. She appeared in the census #PF476 in


She was married to Benjamin P. Phillips on 31 Aug 1865 in Gloucester Co., VA.

She was married to Miles Henry Rilee (son of Richard Cary Rilee and Nancy Hibble) on 10 Nov 1872

in Gloucester Co., VA. Miles Henry Rilee was born in 1844. He appeared in the census #535 in

1850 in Gloucester Co., VA. He appeared in the census #232 in 1860 in Gloucester Co ., VA. He

appeared in the census #P276 in 1870 in Gloucester Co., VA. He appeared in the census #PF476 in



1880 in Gloucester Co., VA. Julia Frances Pointer and Miles Henry Rilee had the following children:

22 i. Egbert Boyd Rilee was born about 1875. He appeared in the census #PF476 in


23 ii. Irene Jane Rilee was born about 1878. She appeared in the census #PF476 in


24 iii. Landon Davies Rilee was born on 10 Sep 1880.

25 iv. Linwood Rilee was born on 8 Jun 1883.

+26 v. Cyrus Christian Rilee.

FIFTH GENERATION

17. William DuVal Pointer was born on 21 Dec 1871. He appeared in the census #AA068 in 1880 in

Gloucester Co., VA. He died on 20 Oct 1939.

He was married to Ruth Anderton.

18. James Edgar Pointer Sr. was born on 12 Jun 1876. He appeared in the census #AA068 in 1880

in Gloucester Co., VA. He died on 2 Dec 1952.

He was married to Lucy Lillie Minor. Lucy Lillie Minor was born on 7 Jan 1882. She died on 27 Jan

1940. James Edgar Pointer Sr. and Lucy Lillie Minor had the following children:

27 i. James Edgar Pointer Jr..

He was married to Emma Jean Daniel on 7 Apr 1945 in VA. He was married to Emma Jean Daniel.

Emma Jean Daniel was born on 3 Nov 1905 in SC. James Edgar Pointer Sr. and Emma Jean Daniel

had the following children:

+28 i. Marion Minor Pointer.

20. Mary Wood Pointer was born on 10 Apr 1886. She died on 18 Apr 1968.

21. Evelyn Pointer was born on 15 Sep 1896. She died in Sep 1972.

26. Cyrus Christian Rilee was born on 4 Feb 1886. He died on 12 May 1964.

He was married to Pearle Walton on 14 Feb 1906 in Gloucester Co., VA.

He was married to Mary Jeanette Fleming on 9 Sep 1916 in Gloucester Co., VA. Mary Jeanette

Fleming was born on 13 Oct 1888. She died on 8 May 1982.



Descendants of Daniel Fitchett

Submitted from Vertical File for John Fitchett

1. Daniel FITCHETT was born before 26 Jan 1727 in Northampton County, Virginia.

He was married to Sarah Marchant on 8 Dec 1749 in Gloucester County, Virginia. Sarah Marchant

was born about 1720 in Gloucester County, Virginia. Daniel FITCHETT and Sarah Marchant had the

following children:

+2 i. Thomas FITCHETT.

3 ii. Daniel FITCHETT was born on 30 Aug 1757 in Gloucester County, Virginia. He

was christened on 2 Oct 1757 in Gloucester County, Virginia.

4 iii. William FITCHETT was born on 7 Mar 1760 in Gloucester County, Virginia. He

was christened on 5 Apr 1760 in Gloucester County, Virginia.

5 iv. Joshua FITCHETT was born on 12 Mar 1763 in Gloucester County, Virginia. He

was christened on 27 Mar 1763 in Gloucester County, Virginia.

6 v. Susanna FITCHETT was born on 2 Jul 1768 in Gloucester County, Virginia. She

was christened on 7 Aug 1768 in Gloucester County, Virginia.

+7 vi. Salathiel FITCHETT.

2. Thomas FITCHETT was born about 1755.

He was married to Ann Chamberlain on 28 Jan 1774 in Gloucester County, Virginia. Ann

Chamberlain was born about 1755. Thomas FITCHETT and Ann Chamberlain had the following

children:

8 i. Sarah FITCHETT was born on 1 Apr 1775 in Gloucester County, Virginia. She

was christened on 9 May 1775 in Gloucester County, Virginia.

9 ii. Daniel FITCHETT was born on 20 Nov 1776 in Gloucester County, Virginia. He

was christened on 23 Jan 1777 in Gloucester County, Virginia.

7. Salathiel FITCHETT was born on 12 Jun 1774 in Gloucester County, Virginia. He was christened

on 17 Jul 1774 in Gloucester County, Virginia.

Salathiel FITCHETT and Mary had the following children:

+10 i. Richard G. Fitchett.

10. Richard G. Fitchett was born on 9 Jan 1807 in Mathews County, Virginia.

Permelia Elizabeth died on 30 Aug 1871 in Mathews County, Virginia. Richard G. Fitchett and

Permelia Elizabeth had the following children:

+11 i. William Monroe FITCHETT.

11. William Monroe FITCHETT was born on 18 Apr 1840 in Mathews County, Virginia. He was

buried in 1907 in Locust Grove Cemetery, Mathews, Va.. He died on 11 Aug 1907 in Mathews

County, Virginia.

He was married to Lucy E. SOLES (daughter of William Dawson SOLES and Margaret E. "Peggy"

From the Vertical Files

in the Virginia Room

of the Gloucester

Public Library

.


SADLER) on 1 Mar 1866 in Mathews County, Virginia. Lucy E. SOLES was born on 3 Mar 1850 in

Mathews County, Virginia. She was buried in 1926 in Locust Grove Cemetery, Mathews, Va.. She

died on 31 Mar 1926 in Mathews County, Virginia. William Monroe FITCHETT and Lucy E. SOLES had

the following children:

+12 i. Balthis Leon FITCHETT.

+13 ii. Irene FITCHETT.

+14 iii. Edith Catherine FITCHETT.

+15 iv. Lucy Ophelia "Lucy Bet" FITCHETT.

+16 v. Maggie White FITCHETT.

+17 vi. Mollie Belle FITCHETT.

+18 vii. Blanche Marie FITCHETT.

+19 viii. Carrie Ann Lilian FITCHETT.

+20 ix. Ester Monroe FITCHETT.

12. Balthis Leon FITCHETT was born on 19 Feb 1871 in Mathews County, Virginia. He died on 18

May 1924 in Mathews County, Virginia. He was buried in Chisely Family Plot, Cobbs Creek, Va..

He was married to Malvina CHISELY (daughter of George W. CHISELY and Elizabeth S. HUDGINS) on 3

Feb 1897 in Mathews County, Virginia. Malvina CHISELY was born on 24 Feb 1873 in Mathews

County, Virginia. She died in Jul 1959 in Mathews Couny, Virginia. Balthis Leon FITCHETT and

Malvina CHISELY had the following children:

+21 i. Ervin Willard FITCHETT.

22 ii. George "Monroe" FITCHETT was born on 15 Dec 1899 in Mathews County,

Virginia. He died in Sep 1940 in Mathews County, Virginia.

+23 iii. Curtis Lee FITCHETT.

+24 iv. Luther Edwin "Eddie" FITCHETT.

+25 v. Nellie Virginia FITCHETT.

26 vi. William "Melvin" FITCHETT was born on 1 Jul 1909 in Mathews County,

Virginia.

+27 vii. John Robert FITCHETT.

13. Irene FITCHETT was born on 24 Aug 1873 in Mathews County, Virginia. She was buried in

1951 in Haynes Cemetery, Mathews, Virginia. She died on 26 Oct 1951 in Mathews County, Virginia.

She was married to J. W. Dorsey HAYNES MD on 29 Dec 1891 in Mathews County, Virginia. J. W.

Dorsey HAYNES MD was born on 5 Feb 1868 in Mathews County, Virginia. He was buried in 1956

in Haynes Cemetery, Mathews, Va. He died on 23 Oct 1956 in Mathews County, Virginia. Irene

FITCHETT and J. W. Dorsey HAYNES MD had the following children:

28 i. Countess HAYNES was born about 1892 in Mathews County, Virginia.

29 ii. Ruth HAYNES was born about 1895 in Mathews County, Virginia.

30 iii. Wade HAYNES was born about 1897 in Mathews County, Virginia.

31 iv. Hunter HAYNES was born about 1899 in Mathews County, Virginia.

32 v. William "Willie" HAYNES was born about 1901 in Mathews County, Virginia.

33 vi. Lucile HAYNES was born about 1906 in Mathews County, Virginia.

14. Edith Catherine FITCHETT was born on 2 Dec 1875 in Mathews County, Virginia. She died in

1944 in Mathews County, Virginia. She was buried in 1944 in Locust Grove Cemetery, Mathews, Va.

She was married to James Augustus GRAY on 17 Jan 1900 in Mathews County, Virginia. James

Augustus GRAY was born on 12 Nov 1873 in Gloucester, Virginia. He died on 16 Jan 1958. Edith

Catherine FITCHETT and James Augustus GRAY had the following children:



+34 i. Helen McCoy GRAY.

35 ii. Mollie GRAY was born about 1903.

36 iii. Marie GRAY was born about 1905.

15. Lucy Ophelia "Lucy Bet" FITCHETT was born on 14 Apr 1878 in Mathews County, Virginia. She

died in 1961 in Mathews County, Virginia. She was buried in 1961 in Locust Grove Cemetery,

Mathews, Va.

She was married to Nathaniel Benjamin Leigh on 19 Apr 1908 in Mathews County, Virginia.

Nathaniel Benjamin Leigh was born about 1854. He died in 1932. Lucy Ophelia "Lucy Bet"

FITCHETT and Nathaniel Benjamin Leigh had the following children:

37 i. William Leigh was born about 1908.

38 ii. Thomas M. Leigh was born about 1910.

+39 iii. Margaret Leigh.

16. Maggie White FITCHETT was born on 11 Feb 1882 in Mathews County, Virginia. She died in

1961 in Mathews County, Virginia. She was buried in 1961 in Locust Grove Cemetery , Mathews, Va..

She was married to Timothy C. Thompson on 2 Sep 1903 in Mathews County, Virginia. Timothy C.

Thompson was born in 1870. Maggie White FITCHETT and Timothy C. Thompson had the following

children:

+40 i. Gladys Thompson.

+41 ii. Raymond Thompson.

42 iii. Thompson was born about 1920.

17. Mollie Belle FITCHETT was born on 9 Mar 1886 in Mathews County, Virginia. She died in 1975

in Mathews County, Virginia.

She was married to Robert "Douglas" Soles on 26 Dec 1910 in Mathews County, Virginia. Robert

"Douglas" Soles was born in 1880. He died in 1946 in Mathews County, Virginia.

18. Blanche Marie FITCHETT was born on 23 Apr 1888 in Mathews County, Virginia. She died in

1971. She was buried in 1971 in Windsor Gardens, Mathews County, Virginia.

She was married to Elvin Clinton Sutton on 26 Dec 1910 in Mathews County, Virginia. Elvin Clinton

Sutton was born in 1890. He died in 1965. He was buried in 1965 in Windsor Gardens, Mathews

County, Virginia. Blanche Marie FITCHETT and Elvin Clinton Sutton had the following children:

+43 i. Sherwood Sutton.

+44 ii. Elizabeth Sutton.

+45 iii. Esther Sutton.

19. Carrie Ann Lilian FITCHETT was born on 2 Aug 1890 in Mathews County, Virginia. She died in

1962 in Mathews County, Virginia. She was buried in 1962 in Haynes Cemetery, Mathews, Virginia.

J. Vandorn Shipley was born in 1889. He died in 1972. Carrie Ann Lilian FITCHETT and J. Vandorn

Shipley had the following children:

+46 i. Martha Shipley.

47 ii. James Shipley.

48 iii. Warren Shipley.

20. Ester Monroe FITCHETT was born in Jul 1895 in Mathews County, Virginia. She died on 11 Sep



Roane’s Stores Off the Ware River

By L. Roane Hunt

The three sons, Luther, Richard, and Charles, of Charles A. Roane and Sarah R. Roane

of King and Queen County came to the Robin’s Neck of Gloucester County after the Civil

War and worked as merchants for about fifty years. First, Luther and Charles settled in the

area that would become Seldens Post Office. They purchased about sixty acres that had

been part of the Level Green Plantation on the Ware River at the mouth of the Wilson Creek.

The White Marsh Plantation, owned by the John Tabb family, extended eastward to include

the Wilson Creek, Tabb’s Landing, and a shipyard located on Wilson Creek near Level

Green. In the 1870 census, Luther and Charles Roane were listed at Seldens as merchant

and clerk, respectively. Later in 1877, Richard Roane purchased an acre of land at Cedar

Fork, near Robins Mill, where he

built a store (see painting on the

left) that would become Roanes Post

Office, located five miles from

Seldens toward the Courthouse.

Robins Mill was the headquarters for

the Patriots during the

Revolutionary War. In 1882, Richard

A. Roane purchased a half acre from

Luther Roane and built the Roanes

Wharf on the Ware River. Also, in

1888 Richard purchased more of the

Level Green property from Joseph

James and built the Seldens Store

and Post Office. Richard Roane

developed the two stores that were

supplied by Roanes Wharf (See

painting below.) The Roanes Wharf

was located on the Ware River which

was on the main water route to the Gloucester Courthouse, the center of county

development for many years.

The Roanes Store complex consisted of both a store and house, and according to

tradition was built in seven phases. The painting shows the store front on the left and the

house front on the right. The two -story structure has been modeled with 3D computer

soft-ware to illustrate its design. Two

views are presented at the bottom of page

23 to show the first and second floors

exposed, respectively. The actual store

had first-floor windows on the front wall

with blinds for security. The store was

open to the second floor and the two

open balconies at each end allowed light

into the store from the many windows on

three sides of the second floor. The walls

were covered with shelves to display the

goods, and storerooms were located


First Floor Exposed

Second Floor Exposed

Front Room

Hall

Dining Room

Bathroom

(1950)

Kitchen

Closed Porch

Milk House

Office

Store Front

Store Front

Bedrooms Master Bedroom

Clerk Bedrooms

Store

Balconies

House Front

House Front

behind the main store area. Two bedrooms were located above the store for the young

clerks.

The house portion was located behind the store, but the front extended beyond store

and opened into a small formal yard. This end of the house consisted of an entrance hall

and front room on the first floor and three bedrooms above on the second floor. The

kitchen was located on the other end, and it was probably separate until later additions

connected it. The center section was added last with a dining room on the first floor and

the master bedroom on the second. At times, the house was used to room and board

travelers and salesmen that came to the area by steamship and used rented buggies to go

house to house selling their wares.

Richard Roane began this store, but he enlisted family members to operate it in later

years. After 1915, it was rented, and it closed in the mid 1960s.

Roane’s Stores Off the Ware River


In the Company of

Harriet Cowen

The Gloucester Genealogical Society of Virginia is indebted to

Harriet Cowen for her kind offer to let us use her pen and

ink sketches of the eight country stores as a centerfold for

this December issue. Descendant family members of the

Owners of these stores are encouraged to enjoy them for

their personal use. We ask that no reproductions or activity

for profit be undertaken with these copyrighted images.

Ms. Cowen’s artwork can be

purchased at Mo Stuff (Pointer Store)

located in Bena and at the Focal Point

Gallery at Gloucester Court House.

Over the past twenty -five years she

has completed more than 400 “home

portraits,” which are her specialty.

Our artist was born Harriet

Goodwin, daughter of Roscoe

Goodwin and Edith Alley. She was

formerly of Fairfield, Maine. Harriet

married Earl L. Cowen in 1951 and

she moved to Bena and Gloucester

County in 1989. Today she is a

familiar and well liked “artist lady” in

a watermen’s community where she

vigorously records the local heritage

in pen and ink drawings, often tinted

with water color.

COPYRIGHT @ 1999 Harriet Cowen

All rights reserved. Printed at Gloucester

County, VA. No part of these images may be

reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or

transmitted, in any form or by any means,

electronic, mechanical, photocopying,

recording, or otherwise, without the express

and prior written permission of the artist.

Harriet Cowen, Artist

Box 81

Bena, VA 23018

Gloucester County

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Freeport

!

Signpine

!

Short

Lane

!

Zanoni

!

Roanes

!

Bena

!

Ware

Neck

!

Coke

!

Roanes

Wharf

Freeport Store and Post Office

R. P. Gray Store and Signpine Post Office


Freeport Store and Post Office Built abt. 1900

Freeport Marina

Located on the Piankatank River at Freeport Road (Rt. 673), this two story building was once an

overnight berth for the Piankatank Steamship Line before service ended in 1932. Stores have existed

at this site since the Civil War period. The current building was constructed in the 1900’s after two

predecessors were destroyed by hurricanes. The store/marina still operates on a seasonal basis.

Edward W. Fairnholt purchased the store in 1878; and his sons, John Edward and Oran Fairnholt,

operated the store during WWII.

Genealogy of John Edward Fairnholt:

R. P. Gray and Signpine Post Office Built 1894

Presently owned by Wesley Watkins, grandson of R. P. Gray, Jr.

This store is located at the intersection of Rt. 610 and Rt. 617 on Tanyard Landing Road in the

Signpine community. The store building was constructed in 1894 by R. P. Gray. The two story

building had living quarters for the Gray family on the upper floor and space for a general store,

butcher shop, post office and lumber mill office on the ground floor. During the 1930’s a two story

residence was constructed just west of the store for the Gray family. The store was in operation by

R. P. Gray, Jr. in 1940. Genealogy of R. P. Gray, Jr.:

Davy Fairnholt

Edward Wilbert Fairnholt

b. Jan. 28, 1859, m. Jan. 15, 1895, d. Dec. 22, 1934

Mary Edwards

John Edward Fairnholt

d. 1965

John Luther Fairnholt

b. Mar. 10, 1841, m. Dec. 13, 1866, d. Dec. 20, 1896

Virginia Fairnholt

b. 1874

Georgianna Roane

b. Sep. 19, 1847, d. 1930

Nelson Roche Gray

b. 1820

Rosewell Park Gray, Sr.

b. Jan. 23, 1855

Octavia Billups

Rosewell Park Gray, Jr.

d. 1969

William R. Jones

b. 1830

Elvira Louise Jones

b. 1866

Clara Bunch

b. 1829


Horsley Store and Short Lane Post Office

Arthur Tab Store and Ware Neck Post Office


Arthur Tab Store and Ware Neck Post Office Built in 1870s

Then became Taliaferro Store and Ware Neck Post Office

Next became Nuttall and Company and Ware Neck Post Office 1944-1999

This store is located at 6495 Ware Neck Road (Rt. 623) near Dunham Massie Lane (Rt. 692) in the

Ware Neck community. The building was constructed about 1875 by Arthur Tab as a two story

building. The two wings and rear living quarters were added later. He sold the store to Richard P.

Taliaferro in 1884. Later, his son, John Earl Taliaferro, owned the store and rented it to numerous

tenants. In 1944 Rudolph Nuttall purchased the building and has operated the store to the present

time. The Ware Neck Post Office has been there since 1951.

Genealogy of John Earl Taliaferro:

Horsley Store and Short Lane Post Office Built in 1920s

Roadside Antiques

This two story general merchandise store, gas station, and post office was built in the 1920’s by the

Texaco Corporation and leased to Calvin Horsley to service “the automobile.” It is located on Route

17 at the intersection of Short Lane just south of Gloucester Court House. It was in operation by

Calvin Horsley in 1940. Today it contains an antique store.

Genealogy of Calvin Horsley:

James Killingham Horsley, Sr.

b. abt 1795, d. 1845

George Washington Horsley

b. 1833, m. Sep. 10, 1868

Elizabeth Lawson

b. abt 1790, d. June, 1879

Calvin Horsley

b. Dec. 26, 1882, d. Jan. 1973

John D. Sheppard

b. 1809

Lucy Jane Sheppard

b. 1850

Elizabeth Ann Griffin

b. 1829

John P. Taliaferro

b. 1827

Richard P. Taliaferro

b. 1856

Eleanora W. Anderson

b. 1832

John Earl Taliaferro

b. 1896

Fanny Johnson

b. 1866


Roanes Store and Post Office

Zanoni Store and Post Office


Zanoni Store and Post Office Built 1885

Presently owned by Richard Willings and Julie Rios

This store is located at the intersection of Zanoni Road (Rt. 626) and Crockett Road (Rt. 628). It was

built by Hansford E. Taliaferro, son of John P. Taliaferro. Hansford and his brother, Richard, were

clerks of Arthur Tabb at the Ware Neck Store in 1880. Their father was forced to sell Toddsbury

after the Civil War to satisfy his creditors, and Arthur Tabb was one of them. The store was

operated by Charles F. Robins during WWII and he purchased it in 1942.

Genealogy of Charles F. Robins:

Roanes Store and Post Office Built abt. 1877

Presently owned by Roane Hunt and Richard Piggott, grandsons of Richard Roane

This is a large two story building that served as store, post office and boarding house. Located at

the corner of T. C. Walker Road (Rt. 628) and Paige Road (Rt. 629), it was half way from Roane’ s

Wharf on the Ware River and Gloucester Court House. Richard Roane opened the store some time

after 1877. Then, his great nephew, Bernard Woodland, operated the store from 1915 to 1950.

Genealogy of Bernard R. Woodland:

John W. Woodland

b. 1804

Thomas Jefferson Woodland

b. Jan 23, 1847, m. Nov. 10, 1891, d. July 9, 1926

Catherine Cole Lewellin

b. 1812

Bernard Roane Woodland

b. Feb. 13, 1894, d. July 2, 1988

Luther Major Roane

b. Nov. 28, 1839, m. Nov. 13, 1870, d. July 8, 1897

Magnolia Coles Roane

b. Nov 6, 1870, d. Jan. 23, 1934

Demarious Ann Elizabeth Fary

b. Nov. 30, 1850, d. Sep. 30, 1901

James W. Robins

b. 1831

William T. Robins

b. 1867, d. 1942

Virginia Ann Rowe

b. 1834

Charles F. Robins

b. 1904

James M. Nuttall

b. 1846, m. Dec. 15, 1870, d. 1923

Nora Nuttall

b. 1871

Frances Elizabeth Acra

b. 1851


Pointer Brothers Store and Bena Post Office

P. E. Muse Store and Coke Post Office


Pointer Brothers Store and Bena Post Office Built 1904

Bena Post Office, Mo’s Stuff and Deal Tax Service

James Edgar Pointer, Sr. built the store in 1904. He and his brother, William DuVal Pointer, ran the

store. At times Edgar was Postmaster. They operated the store during WWII and the 1940 period.

The Pointers lived in the house next door. After Edgar died, John Fedors operated the store for

short periods as did Faber Merchon. Taylor Minor worked in the store and at times ran a little

Lunch Room in the current Post Office section. At one point Lillie did sewing and sold hats in the

part that is a Post Office now. The Texaco gas tanks were added about 1920. The store always sold

general merchandise and did fairly well. Genealogy of J. Edgar Pointer:

P. E. Muse Store and Coke Post Office Built 1895

Eddie Minor Store and Coke Post Office after 1915

Martin’s Corner, current Owner

This store is located in the Coke community and was built in 1895 by William Haywood and sold to

Peachy Elbert Muse (born in Essex Co.). When Peachy moved to Bridges and opened his second

store, Eddie Minor, Sr. bought the building and operated the Coke store through the WWII and the

1940’s. In recent years the Martin family took over and renamed it Martin’s Corner.

Genealogy of Eddie Minor:

William DuVal Pointer

b. 1798, d. 1872

James DuVal Pointer

b. May 27, 1839, m. Dec. 27, 1870, d. Dec. 4, 1904

Mary E. Wood

b. 1815

James Edgar Pointer, Sr.

b. June 12, 1876, d. Dec. 2, 1952

John William Minor

b. 1816, m. Oct. 31, 1844

Mary Marion Minor

b. 1850

Sarah Jane Mouring

b. May 24, 1824, d. July 17, 1888

Charles Edward Minor

b. Dec. 28, 1834, d. 1872

John Edward Minor

b. Oct. 16, 1862, m. Jan. 20, 1892, d. Jan. 7, 1929

Ellen M. Stubblefield

b. 1840

John Edward (Eddie) Minor, Jr.

b. June 12, 1876, d. Dec. 2, 1952

William S. Hawkins

b. Mar., 1816, d. Aug. 1, 1883

Martha A. Hawkins

b. 1865

Louise J. Seawell

b. 1837



Marriages of Gloucester

County, Virginia, Book 1:

1853-1895

By Frances Haywood

Revisions by L. Roane Hunt

In the 1998 issues, Vol. 2, of the Family Tree

Searcher, the marriage records of Gloucester

County were published as presented by Frances

Haywood’s book, “Marriages of Gloucester

County, Virginia, Book 1: 1853-1895.” Since we

discovered significant repetition and omissions

in her book, we have changed the format to

include the page and line numbers of each

marriage as recorded in Book 1 in the

Gloucester County Clerk’s Office. The use of

Frances Haywood’s book has been invaluable in

this project, but this adjustment serves as a

direct accounting and verification of the

information.

Page 66, Continued:

Page 54a:

616/ Joseph Brown, ae 31y, mechanic, s/o

Thos. & Mildred Brown; Betty E. Howard, ae 21y,

d/o James & Betsy Howard; Feb 13 1868 by Rev.

Wm. E. Wiatt.

617/ James Cook, ae 24y, colored, farmer,

s/o Anthony & Maria Cook; Emeline Ross, ae

19y, colored, d/o Peter & Frances Ross; Feb 8

1868 by Rev. David Coulling.

618/ James Rice, ae 21y, farmer, of Halifax

Co Va, s/o Billy & Biddy Rice; Amanda

Montague, ae 17y, d/o Tilleen & Kitty Montague;

Feb 13 1868 by Rev. J. L. Shipley.

619/ Miles Seawell, ae 35y, oysterman, s/o

Abraham & Lucinda Seawell; Martha Curtis, ae

18y, d/o Robin & Maud Curtis; Feb 20 1868.

620/ Thomas C. Cooke, ae 34y, farmer, s/o

Thos. B. & Catharine Cooke; Mary J. Vaughan, ae

19y, d/o Wm. & A. F. Vaughan; Feb 27 1868 by

Rev. David Coulling.

621/ Thomas C. Enos, ae 31y, merchant, s/o

Francis & Catharine Enos; Martha C. Lowry, ae

24y, d/o Wm. & Martha Lowry; Feb 25 1868 by

Rev. Wm. E. Wiatt.

622/ Hugh A. South, ae 42y, widower,

farmer, s/o Andrew & Mary H. South; Ada S.

Hall, ae 22y, of King and Queen Co VA, d/o

Thos B. & Sarah R. Hall; Mar 4 1868 by Rev.

David Coulling.

623/ Benjamin Marbles, ae 40y, widower,

farmer, colored, of Southampton Co VA, s/o

Harry & Violet Marbles; Fanny Randolph, ae 38y,

widow, colored, parents unk; Mar 1 1868.

624/ James P. Wallace, ae 21y, oysterman, s/

o Joseph & Lilia Ann Wallace; Maria Susan

Hardy, ae 18y, d/o Robert Hardy, mother unk;

Mar 5 1868 by Rev. W S. Hawkins.

Page 67:

625/ William W. Gressitt, ae 47y, farmer, s/o

John M. & Ann W. Gressitt; Emeline S.

Blassingame, ae 36y, widow, d/o Richard D. &

Catharine Dunston; Mar 5 1868 by Rev. J. L.

Shipley.

626/ Powhatan Elliott, ae 25y, shoe maker,

of King and Queen Co Va, s/o Robert & Mary

Elliott; Susan Blassingham, ae 21y, d/o Thos. &

Martha Blassingham; Mar 5 1868 by Rev. J. L.

Shipley.

627/ James Brown, ae 23y, oysterman, s/o

James & Susanna Brown; Rebecca A. Lewis, ae

16y, d/o Wm. J & Lucy A. Lewis; Mar 24 1868


by Rev. J. L. Shipley.

628/ Benjamin A. Rowe, ae 27y, merchant,

s/o Sterling & Frances A. Rowe; Cornelia E.

Rowe, ae 19y, d/o Benjamin & Elizabeth Rowe;

Apr 2 1868 by Rev. Wm. E. Wiatt.

629/ Thomas B. Burton, ae 47y, widower,

farmer, s/o Chas. R. & Nancy Burton; Rosa Ann

Hibble, ae 27y, widow, d/o Cary & Nancy

Booker; Apr 2 1868 by Rev. Wm. E. Wiatt.

630/ Benjamin P. Dobson, ae 40y, widower,

waterman, of Middlesex Co VA, s/o Wm. & Eliza

Dobson; Martha Sampson, ae 29y, widow, d/o

Simon & Elizabeth Green; Apr 6 1868 by Rev.

Charles Mann.

631/ James H. Harris, ae 20y, colored,

farmer, s/o Wm. & Dinah Harris; Mary Ellen

Jackson, ae 17y, colored, d/o Philip & Mary

Jackson; Apr 14 1868 by Rev. Wm. E. Wiatt.

632/ George Brown, as 40y, widower,

farmer, s/o Geo. & Susan Brown; Martha Ann

Jenkins, ae 36y, d/o John & Melvinia Jenkins;

Apr 21 1868 by Rev. W. S. Hawkins.

633/ Isaac Thornton, ae 23y, colored,

farmer, s/o Paul & Kesiah Thornton; Julia Lewis,

ae 18y, colored, d/o Warner & Fanny Lewis; Apr

25 1868 by Rev. Wm. E. Wiatt.

634/ Charles L. Gwyn, ae 29y, physician, of

Norfolk VA, s/o Chas. R. & Mary Gwyn; Margaret

B. Taliaferro, ae 19y, d/o Thos. B. & Mary M.

Taliaferro; Apr 28 1868 by Rev. Charles Mann.

635/ Henry Smith, ae 62y, widower, colored,

farmer, s/o Isaac & Margaret Smith; Precillis

Smith, ae 50y, widow, colored, d/o Prince &

Polly Tompkins; May 7 1868 by Rev. Wm. E.

Wiatt.

636/ John Carter, ae 22y, oysterman, s/o

Gabriel & Ann Carter; Laura Lemon, ae 24y, d/o

John & Sally Lemon; May 14 1868 by Rev. Wm.

E. Wiatt.

Page 68:

637/ John Diggs, ae 45y, widow, farmer, s/o

Levi & Susan Diggs; Mary Ann Howard, ae 29y,

d/o James & Elizabeth Howard; May 19 1868 by

Rev. Wm. E. Wiatt.

638/ C. R. Sterling, ae 28y, sailor, of

Summerset MD, s/o Isaac & Hetty Sterling; Mary

F. Waddle, ae 21y, do John & Eliza Waddle; May

21 1868 by Rev. J. G. Councill.

639/ Joseph Grevius, ae 23y, colored,

oysterman, of Mathews Co VA, s/o Richard &

Susan Grevius; Mary An Carter, ae 18y, colored,

d/o Wm. & Sopha Carter; May 31 1868 by Rev. J.

L. Shipley.

640/ Bonaly Cooke, ae 26y, widower,

oysterman, s/o John & Lucy Cook; Hester Ann

Smith, ae 19y, d/o Fanny Smith, father

unknown; May 31 1868 by Rev. Wm. E. Wiatt.

641/ Harry Buckner, ae 22y, colored, farmer,

s/o Matt & Deanna Buckner; Catharine Laws, ae

21y, colored, d/o Leroy & Cauline Laws; May 31

1868 by Rev. Wm. E. Wiatt.

642/ Thomas J. Allmand, ae 21y, oysterman,

s/o Miles & Courtney Allmand; Mary Ann

Massie, ae 28y, d/o Franklin & Nancy Massie;

Jun 4 1868 by Rev. W. S. Hawkins.

643/ John S. Puller, ae 30y, sailor, s/o Thos.

& Mary Puller; Sarah Jane Cruiseo, ae 22y,

widow, d/o William Soles; Jun 4 1868 by Rev. W.

S. Hawkins.

644/ Joseph Bright, ae 23y, colored,

oysterman, s/o Tom & Agnes Bright; Cinderella

Bright, ae 18y, colored, d/o Wm. & Lucy Bright;

Jun 13 1868 by Rev. W. S. Hawkins.

645/ Washington S. Patterson, ae 22y,

colored, farmer, of Mathews Co VA, s/o Peter &

Eliza Patterson; Milly Pelgram, ae 21y, d/o

unknown; Jun 15 1868 by Rev. J. L. Councill.

646/ James Thompson, ae 42y, widow,

colored, oysterman, s/o Lewis & Minerva

Thompson; Rachael Fleming, ae 21y, colored,

widow, d/o Essen & Betsey Futhrie; Jun 19 1868

by Rev. Wm. E. Wiatt.

647/ James Baytop, ae 65y, widower,

colored, farmer, s/o James & Amy Tuck; Mary

Wormley, ae 40y, widow, colored, parents unk,

July 2 1868 by Rev. J. L. Shipley.

648/ William H. Holt, ae 30y, farmer, s/o

Wm. & Sarah Holt; Ann Eliza Baytop, ae 24y, d/o

Jim Baytop; July 2 1868 by Rev. J. L. Shipley.

648a/ Nathaniel Gregory, ae 23y, oysterman,

s/o Daniel & Caty Gregory; Lucy Dixon, ae 21y,

d/o John & Nancy Dixon; June 25 1868 by Rev.

Chas. Mann.

Page 69:

649/ William Shackelford, ae 30y, widower,

coach maker, s/o Wm. & Eliza Shackelford;

Margaret Cooke, ae 30y, d/o John Mordicia &

Julia Ellen Cooke; July 7 1868 by Rev. J. L.

Shipley.

650/ James A. Goalder, ae 24y, coach maker,

of King and Queen Co VA, s/o Augustine & Rosa

Goalder; Julia Ann Acra, ae 21y, d/o Wm. J. &

Julia C. Acra; July 9 1868 by Rev. Wm. E. Wiatt.

651/ Garry Stoakes, ae 23y, colored, farmer,

s/o Wm. & Judy Stokes; Mary Todd, ae 20y,

colored, d/o Philip A. Todd; July 18 1868 by

Rev. W. S. Hawkins.

652/ James H. Brooks, ae 23y, colored,

Marriages of Gloucester County, Virginia, Book 1: 1853-1895


oyster, s/o Cesar & Dianna Brooks; Louisa

Taswell, ae 20y, colored, d/o Winston & Patty

Taswell; July 25 1668 by Rev. Wm. E. Wiatt.

653/ Alexander Stoakes, ae 24y, colored,

boat man, s/o Christopher & Ann Stoakes;

Martha Wiatt, ae 30y, colored, widow, d/o

Randall & Eliza Carter; Aug 13 1868 by Rev. W.

S. Hawkins.

654/ Robert Borum, as 22y, oysterman, s/o

Daniel & Polly Borum; Catherine Davis, ae 22y,

widow, of Middlesex Co VA, d/o Jack & Laura

Davis; Aug 20 1668 by Rev. W. S. Hawkins.

655/ Taylor Whiting, as 21y, colored,

farmer, s/o Daniel & Hannah Whiting; Louisa

Singleton, ae 21y, colored, d/o Wallace & Fanny

Singleton; Aug 29 1868 by Rev. Wm. E. Wiatt.

656/ John Dutton Clayton, ae 20y, farmer,

s/o Joseph & Sarah Ann Clayton; Mary E. Baker,

ae 19y, d/o Wm. P. & Elizabeth P. Baker; Sept 6

1868 by Rev. R. B. Beadly.

657/ George W. Horseley, ae 26y, farmer, s/

o Kilingham & Elizabeth Horseley; Lucy Jane

Sheppard, ae 18y, d/o John D. & Ann Sheppard;

Sept 10 1868 by Rev. David Coulling.

658/ John W. Booth, ae 20y, farmer, s/o Jack

& Betsy Booth; Bettie Muse, ae 20y, d/o Esson &

Nancy Muse; Sept 12 1868 by Rev. Wm. E. Wiatt.

Page 70:

659/ William Monroe, ae 23y, colored,

farmer, s/o Iverson & Grace Monroe; Fanny

Dudley, ae 24y, colored, d/o Thias & Isabella

Dudley; Sept 19 1868 by Rev. W. S. Hawkins.

660/ George Owens, ae 49y, widower,

oysterman, s/o Reed & Jane Owens; Mildred

West, ae 29y, d/o Christopher & Fanny West;

Nov 19 1868 by Rev. W. S. Hawkins.

661/ Carrel Tompkins, ae 23y, colored,

farmer s/o Isaac & Rose Tompkins; Margaret

Jones, ae 26y, colored, d/o Billy & Martha

Sparks; Sept 26 1868 by Rev. David Coulling.

662/ Armstead Hall Jr, ae 19y, farmer, s/o

Armstead & Sarah Jane Hall; Kitty Hogg, ae 22y,

d/o Tho. & Betsy Hogg; Sept 24 1868 by Rev. W.

S. Hawkins.

663/ John Thomas Mathews, ae 25y, farmer,

s/o Jack & Betsy Mathews; Rosa Rilee, ae 23y, d/

o Wm. & Mary Rilee; Oct 8 1868 by Rev. David

Coulling.

664/ Joseph T. Kemp, ae 23y, farmer, s/o

Beverly & Mary B. Kemp; Sarah Elizabeth Lewis,

ae 15y, d/o John T. & Mary E. Lewis; Oct 8 1868

by Rev. David Coulling.

665/ Archibald Hayes, ae 27y, waterman, s/

o Geo. & Martha Hayes; Hester E. Croswell, ae

14y, d/o John T. & Ann Croswell; Oct 21 1868

by Rev. W. S. Hawkins.

666/ George W. Shackelford, ae 38y,

widower, waterman, s/o Benja. & Tabitha

Shackelford; Sarah Amanda Dews, ae 18, d/o

Zachariah & Elizabeth Dews; Oct 21 1868 by

Rev. W. S. Hawkins.

667/ John W. Watkins, ae 25y, oysterman, s/

o David & Elizabeth A. Watkins; Julia C. McLane,

ae 22y, d/o Wm. & Elizabeth McLane; Oct 21

1868 by Rev. Wm. E. Wiatt.

668/ Edward F. Massey, ae 25y, farmer, s/o

Edward Y. & Mary Massey; Mary A. C. Haynes, ae

19y, d/o Geo. & Mary Haynes; Nov 1 1868 by

Rev. R. B. Beadles.

669/ John Portlock, ae 27y, colored, farmer,

of Norfolk Co VA, s/o Sam & Rachael Coy; Rose

Smith, ae 22y, colored, d/o Thos. & Sally Smith;

Nov 5 1868 by Rev. Chas. Mann.

670/ Richard Cooke, as 29y, colored, oyster,

s/o James & Cloe Cooke; Louisianna Rowe, as

21y, colored, d/o Wm. & Maud Monroe; Nov 5

1868 by Rev. J. T. Wallace.

671/ Henry A. Atkinson Jr, ae 23y, attorney

at law, of Richmond VA, s/o Henry A. & Gracy E.

Atkinson; Belle V. Dobson, ae 20y, d/o Wm. &

Mary M. Dobson; Nov 4 1868 by Rev. Wm. E.

Wiatt.

672/ George Cosby, ae 25y, colored, farmer,

s/o Gabriel & Fanny Cosby; Jane Jones, ae 21y,

colored, d/o --- & Lucy Ann Jones; Nov 7 1868

by Rev. J. T. Wallace.

673/ John Burns, ae 26y, farmer, of upper

CANADA, lived Glo. Co VA, s/o Michael &

Catharine Burns; Catharine Norton, ae 35y,

widow, d/o Wm. Bristow; Nov 12 1868 by Rev.

Charles Mann.

674/ Thomas S. Beckwith, ae 26y, merchant,

of Petersburg VA, s/o Thos. L. & Agnes

Beckwith; Emma Cary, ae 25y, d/o Sam'l B. & B.

W. Cary; Nov 17 1868 by Rev. Chas. Mann.

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675/ Wm. Henry Curry, ae 34y, widower,

farmer, s/o Sowsby & Mary A. Curry; Octavia

Jane Stubbs, ae 16y, d/o Edward S. & Jane A. S.

Stubbs; Dec 3 1868 by Rev. David Coulling.

676/ Shepard G. Miller, ae 21y, farmer, of

Mathews Co VA, s/o Shepard G. & Emory Miller;

Ada G. Catlett, ae 21y, d/o Temple G. & Martha

S. Catlett; Dec 3 1868 by Rev. J. L. Shipley.

677/ William R. Stubbs, ae 69y, widower,

farmer, s/o Francis & Susannah Stubbs; Mary J.

Stubbs, ae 57y; widow, d/o John & Mary Stubbs;

Dec 7 1868 by Rev. J. L. Shipley.



678/ Philip A. Taliaferro, ae 41y, physician,

s/o Warner T. & Leah S. Taliaferro; Sarah L

McCandish, d/o Geo. & --- McCandish; Dec 10

1868 by Rev. Charles Mann.

679/ Joel Heywood, ae 25y, oysterman, s/o

Charles & Peggy Heywood; Sarah Greene, ae 18y,

d/o Geo. & Millie Greene; Dec 10 1868, by Rev.

W. S. Hawkins.

680/ Robert Carter, ae 28y, colored,

widower, oyster, s/o Henry & Polly Carter;

Pinkey Lockley, ae 21y, colored, d/o Betsy

Davenport, father unk, Dec 10 1868 by Rev.

David Coulling.

681/ James T. Gray, ae 24y, farmer, of

Somerset Co MD, s/o Major Johnson & Margaret

Gray; Mary R. Trevilian, ae 19y, d/o Augustine S.

& Julia Ann Trevilian; Dec 15 1868 by Rev. J. T.

Wallace.

682/ Lewis West, ae 25y, oysterman, s/o

Wm. & Courtney West; Hester Smith, ae 21y, d/o

Taylor & Fanny Smith; Dec 17 1868 by Rev. W. S.

Hawkins.

683/ William H. Seawell, ae 24y, farmer, of

KENTUCKY, s/o Wm. H. & Mary Seawell; Laura

O. Johnston, ae 21y, d/o Thos. E. & Elizabeth

Johnston; Dec 17 1868 by Rev. J. T. Wallace.

684/ Cicero L. Blake, ae 24y, farmer, of

Middlesex Co VA, s/o James & Ann K. Blake;

Mary K. Johnston, ae 20y, d/o Thos. E. &

Elizabeth Johnston; Dec 17 1868 by Rev. J. T.

Wallace.

685/ Beverly Jackson, ae 22y, colored,

farmer, s/o Edward & Becky Jackson; Sarah F.

Bristow; ae 20y, colored, d/o Billy & Catharine

Bristow; Dec 20 1868 by Rev. J. T. Wallace.

686/ Isaac Cook, ae 22y, colored,

oysterman, s/o Anthony & Milly Cook; Mary

Sturges, ae 23y, d/o Godfrey & Fanny Chapman;

Dec 22 1868 by Rev. David Coulling.

687/ John Tabb, ae 18y, oysterman, s/o

John & Fanny Tabb; Ellen Hearns, ae 17y, d/o

Henry & Fanny Freyer Hearns; Dec 24 1868 by

Rev. E. S. Hawkins.

688/ Charles H. Thomson, ae 26y, farmer, of

Shenandoah VA, s/o James & Mary A. Thomson;

Grace Foster, ae 21y, of Mathews Co VA, parents

unk; Dec 25 1868 by Rev. R. B. Beaddly.

689/ James Monroe, ae 21y, farmer, s/o

Elijah & Nancy Monroe; Susan Page, ae 23y,

widow, d/o Man & Suckey Page; Dec 25 1868 by

Rev. S. H. Phillips.

690/ Richard B. Roberts, ae 48y, house

carpenter, of Mathews Co VA, s/o John B. &

Patsy Roberts; Elizabeth Brown, ae 35y, widow,

d/o Thos. Howard; Dec 31 1868 by Rev. Wm. E.

Wiatt.

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691/ John A. Blake, ae 22y, farmer, of

Middlesex Co Va, s/o Barkley R. & Susan Blake;

Mary E. Massey, ae 32y, widow, d/o John

Buchannon & Susan Wilson; Dec 24 1868 by

Rev. R. B. Beaddle.

692/ George Gregory, ae 21y, oysterman, s/

o Peter & Emory Gregory; Lizzie Morriss, ae 20y,

d/o Geo. & Mary Dixon Morriss (Now Mary

Dixon); Dec 31 1868 by Rev. W. S. Hawkins.

693/ Frank Brown, ae 35y, widower, colored,

farmer, s/o Edmund & Rebecca Brown; Lucy F.

Lemon, ae 19y, colored, d/o John & Sally B.

Lemon; Dec 31 1868 by Rev. J. T. Wallace.

694/ John H. Curfman, ae 35y, widower,

clerk, of St. Mary's MD, s/o John H. & Martha

Curfman; Laura Jane Ransone, ae 16y, d/o

James R. & Susan R. Ransone; Dec 31 1868 by

Rev. Charles Mann.

695/ James Henry Robinson, ae 24y, farmer,

of King and Queen Co VA, s/o Wm. & Ony

Robinson; Nancy Meads, ae 30y, parents unk,

Dec 31 1868 by Rev. David Coulling.

696/ Lorenzo D. Cooke, ae 21y, oysterman,

s/o Wm. & --- Cooke; Martha Ellen Lockley, ae

21y, d/o Wm. & Emiline Lockley; Jan 16 1869 by


697/ Ned Carter, ae 28y, oysterman, s/o

Wm. & Sophy Carter; Maria Gardner, ae 21y, d/o

Baylor & Eliza Gardner; Jan 2 1869 by Rev.

Charles Mann.

698/ Isaac Brigerson, ae 38y, widower, stave

getter, of Northampton VA, s/o Benjamin &

Eliza Brigerson; Lucy Washington, ae 38y, d/o

George Washington & Franky; Jan 9 1869 by

Rev. J. T. Wallace.

699/ William Henry Booth, ae 38y, widower,

farmer, s/o Wm. & Rose Booth; Betsy Allen, ae

25y, widow, d/o Robert & Mariah Curtis; Jan 6


700/ William Coats, ae 22y, oysterman, s/o

John R. & Ellen Ann Coats; Nancy West, ae 21y,

d/o Wm. & Courtney West; Jan 7 1869 by No

Rev. listed.

701/ Currell Homes, ae 52y, widower,

farmer, of King William Co VA, s/o Addison &

Lucy King; Mariah Stubbs, ae 50y, widow,

parents, unk, Jan 7 1869 by Rev. Samuel H.

Phillips.

702/ Benjamin Lindsey, ae 22y, waterman,

of James City Co VA, s/o Wm. J. & Mary C.

Lindsey; Julia Blassingham, ae 18y, d/o John &

Emiline Blassingham; Jan 13 1869 by Rev. E. M.



Peterson.

703/813a/ James Thomas Banks, ae 28y,

widower, farmer, s/o John D. & Mildred Banks;

Harriet Elizabeth Jones, ae 22y, widow, d/o

Thos. L. & Elizabeth Jones; Jan 14 1869 by Rev.

E. M. Peterson.

704/ Warner Henry Hogg, ae 26y, farmer, s/

o Warner H. & Susan Hogg; Susan Brown, ae 22y,

d/o Geo. & Nancy Brown; Jan 14 1869 by Rev.

W. S. Hawkins.

705/ Christopher West, ae 26y, farmer, s/o

Christopher & Nancy West; Lillia Ann Hogg, ae

22y, d/o Warner H. & Susan Hogg; Jan 14 1869

by Rev. W. S. Hawkins.

706/ Marcellus J. Williams, ae 45y, widower,

seaman, d/o Wm. & Frances Williams; Georgia P.

White, ae 18y, d/o James & Susan F. White; Jan

20 1869 by Rev. George E. Thomas.

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707/ Edward Henry Rowe, ae 39y, farmer, s/

o Hansford & Gracie Rowe; Mary Susan

Williams, ae 20y, d/o Wm. & Martha E. Williams;

Jan 21 1669 by Rev. W. S. Hawkins.

708/ John T. Rilee, ae 29y, farmer, s/o Wm.

K. & Mary C. Rilee; Sarah C. Haynes, ae 24y, d/o

Wm. & Fanny Haynes; Jan 21 1869 by Rev. R. B.

Beaddles.

709/ Christopher Washington, ae 21y,

farmer, s/o Washington & Nancy Washington;

Laura Jane Grimes, ae 18y, d/o Jefferson & ---

Grimes; Jan 21 1869 by Rev. Wm. E. Wiatt.

710/814a/ William Smith, ae 26y,

oysterman, of Mathews Co VA, s/o Adam &

Nancy Smith; Judy Wormley, ae 21y, of

Middlesex Co VA, d/o Armstead & --- Wormley;

Jan 26 1869 by Rev. E. M. Peterson.

711/815/ Andrew W, Wright, ae 27y, hotel &

restaurant keeper, s/o Henry P. & Mary A.

Wright; Lucy Ellen Leavitt, ae 25y, d/o W. A. & L.

E. Leavitt; Feb 4 1869 by Rev. E. M. Peterson.

712/ Samuel Banks, ae 54y, widower,

farmer, s/o Adam & Jenny Banks; Lucy Lockley,

ae 54y, widow, d/o Bailey & Nanny Lockley; Jan

29 1869 by Rev. Chas. Mann.

713/ George Washington Smith, ae 39y,

widower, fireman at steam mill, of Mathews Co

VA, s/o James & Rosa Smith; Louisa Wiatt, ae

31y, widow, parents unk; Jan 30 1869 by Rev.

Chas. H. Page.

714/ Frank Thornton, ae 48y, widower,

farmer, s/o Sam & Betsy Thornton; Catharine

Burwell, ae 19y, d/o John & Harriet Burwell; Jan

30 1869 by Rev. E. M. Peterson.

715/816/ Charles Smith, ae 32y, farm hand,

of Norfolk VA, s/o Dorius & Mariah Saunders;

Mary Jane Lemon, ae 30y, widow, parents unk;

Feb 4 1869 by Rev. E. M. Peterson.

716/ Alexander W. Pearce, ae 28y,

millwright, s/o Wm. B. & Ann E. Pearce; Georgia

C. Pointer, ae 20y, d/o Wm. D. & Mary E. Pointer;

Feb 7 1869 by Rev. E. M. Peterson.

717/ Ransone Evens Dudley, ae 20y, farmer,

s/o Ransone & Mariah Dudley; Mary Frances

Baytop, ae 17y, d/o Peter & Rebecca Baytop; Feb


718/ Alexander Washington Anderson, ae

20y, farmer, s/o Ned Hills; Ann Thomas Morris,

ae 18y, d/o -- & Mariah Griffin; Feb 11 1869 by

Rev. E. M. Peterson.

719/ John Anderson Hogg, ae 38y,

oysterman, s/o Thos. & Mollie Hogg; Susanna

Shackelford, ae 25y, d/o Geo. & Betsy

Shackelford; Feb 18 1869 by Rev. W. S. Hawkins.

720/ John Henry Kelly, ae 25y, widower,

miller, s/o --- & Susan Kelly; Martha Pollard, ae

24y, d/o Philip & Sally Pollard; Feb 28 1869 by

Rev. J. T. Wallace.

721/ John H. Figg, ae 28y, wheelwright, s/o

James & Polly Figg; Tiney Blake, ae 17y, of

Middlesex Co VA, d/o W. S. & -- Blake; Mar 3

1869 by Rev. J. T. Wallace.

722/ William King, ae 30y, oysterman, s/o

Henry Taylor & Rebecca King; Lucy Jane Driver,

ae 19y, d/o Lorenzo & Sally Driver; Mar 4 1869

by Rev. David Coulling.

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723/ George Augustus Bruce, ae 26y, ship

caulker, of Norfolk Co VA, s/o Lodurick &

Elizabeth Bruce; Mary Catherine Watkins, ae

24y, d/o David & Elizabeth Watkins; Mar 8 1869

by Rev. Wm. E. Wiatt.

724/ Benjamin West, ae 25y, oysterman, s/o

Ambrose & Hannah West; Nancy West, ae 22y,

d/o Christopher & Nancy West; Mar 11 1869 by

Rev. Wm. E. Wiatt.

725/ Ralph Belvin, ae 27y, oyster & farm, s/

o Lewis & Nancy Belvin; Nancy West, ae 22y, d/o

Howard & Nancy West; Mar 18 1869 by Rev.

Samuel H. Phillips.

726/ Joe Stevens, ae 35y, widower, oyster

and farm, of Northampton Co VA, s/o John

Gayle & Leah Stevens; Jane Carter, ae 24y, d/o

Daniel & Sarah Willis; Mar 18 1869 by Rev. Chas.

Mann.

727/ Richard Harris, ae 21y, laborer, s/o

Wm. & Dinah Harris; Martha Washington, ae

21y, d/o --- & Sally Washington; Mar 20 1869 by

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NAME RACE/SEX DATE PLACE CAUSE AGE

1865

Burwell, Maria C/F Nov Gloucester unknown

Bridges, Sallie W/F Oct Gloucester

Bonneywell, Elizabeth W/F Aug Gloucester

14y

Byrd, Susan W/F Nov Gloucester old age 83y

Bright, Fereby C/M Aug Gloucester unknown 22y

Bright Louisa C/F Mar Gloucester

20y

Bland, Lilia W/F Sept Gloucester

6y

Bridges, Emmit J. W/F June Gloucester worm fever 7y

Butter, Emmit J. C/M Oct Gloucester unknown 4y

1866

Bridges, Carolina E. W/F Sept Gloucester consumption 50y

Bristow, William C. W/M Oct Gloucester unknown 63y

Brooking, William W/M Oct Gloucester typhoid fever 23y

Brown, Dolly W/F Oct Gloucester consumption 60y

Booker, Elizabeth A. W/F Mar Gloucester erysepelas 50y

Infant W/F

Gloucester

1m

1867

Gloucester County Death

Record Project

1865-1890

Members of our Society have been

working for several years on this project,

transcribing the information from the

Court House at Gloucester, VA. The large

book titled, Deaths 1865-1890, is

handwritten and often difficult to

interpret. Information has been copied as

it was recorded.

Much credit and appreciation for this

effort goes to Gertrude Brown, Joan Kanter, Ruth Smitt, Marie Hodges, Rosalyn

Mitchem, and Joan Stubbs for their long hours spent at the Court House copying

the information. Mary Barnett, Jennie Howe, Phyllis and Roane Hunt helped with

typing and Roane Hunt has developed the spread sheet format and is responsible

for the computer output. A paragraph format for each name is also available.

This is the second installment that includes all names listed under the “B’s.”

The Society plans to complete their research phase and publish the information in

book form as soon as possible.

Abbreviations:

C/F .......colored female

W/F ......white female

C/M ......colored male

W/M .....white male

y ........... years

m.......... months

d........... days

M.......... Consort: married

UM....... Consort: unmarried

H/F....... head of family


PARENTS BIRTH PLACE OCCUPATION CONSORT SOURCE RELATION

1865

Joseph & --- Burwell Gloucester

M Joseph Burwell father

William & Fanny Tomblin Gloucester

UM Elijah Bridges cousin

Geo. & Ann Bonneywell Gloucester

UM G. Bonneywell father

Addison & Susan Lewis Gloucester

UM Rle Byrd grandson

Anthony & Ann Bright Gloucester farmer UM Anthony Bright father

Anthony & Ann Bright Gloucester

UM Anthony Bright father

William L. & Caroline Bland Gloucester

UM William L. Bland father

John A. & Florida Brdges Gloucester

UM John A. Bridges father

Joseph M. & Elizabeth Butter Gloucester

UM Joseph M. Butter father

1866

James & Martha Clarke Gloucester

M James R. Bridges daughter

unknown Gloucester farmer M Sarah Bristow wife

Henry W. & V. Brooking Gloucester

UM H. W. Brooking father

unknown Gloucester

UM Jeff A. Brown son

Gloucester

UM Chas. E. C. Booker son

William & Lucy Belvin Gloucester

William Belvin father

1867

I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the

earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.

(NIV) Job 19:25-26



1868

Booker, --- W/M July Gloucester infant

1869

Brushwood, not named W/M June 1 Gloucester unknown

Burwell, Lucy C/F Nov 8 Gloucester unknown

Baytop, Sarah A. W/F Jan 31 Gloucester unknown

Bonnywell, Ann Bell W/F July 20 Gloucester unknown

Belvin, not named W/M Jan 18 Gloucester unknown

Brown, William W/M Nov 17 Gloucester unknown 40y

Burwell, Coleman C/M Sept 5 Gloucester unknown

Bland, Mary W/F Apr 25 Gloucester unknown

1870

Backhouse, John W. W/M Dec 15 Gloucester liver complaint 47y

Beer, Joanna W/F Aug 11 Gloucester billious fever 35y

Burruss, William C/M Aug 31 Gloucester 5d

Banks, Thomas C/M Nov 30 Gloucester unknown

Banks, Phill C/M Sept 1 Gloucester old age 83y

Braxton, --- C/F Feb Gloucester unknown 4d

Banks, Tommy C/M Gloucester unknown 3y

1871

Bradly, --- W/F June 13 Gloucester unknown 1y

Booth, Molly C/F Oct 18 Gloucester unknown 6y10d

Bristow, Sarah C/F Sept 18 Gloucester unknown 10y6m3d

Booth, Alice C/F Oct 1 Gloucester unknown 3y

Braxton, David C/M June 3 Gloucester Infant 4y

Baytop, --- C/M Oct 5 Gloucester unknown 6m10d

Basy, Liza W/F Oct Gloucester paralaus 6y5m15d

1872

Brown, Elizabeth W/F July Gloucester consumption 25Y

Belvin, Gracy A. W/F Not known Gloucester dyspepsia 65y

Bland, Mariah. H. W/F Aug Gloucester dyspepsia 40y

Bluefoot, Nathaniel C/M Aug Gloucester not known 10m

Baily, Thomas C/M Sept Gloucester congestive chills 2y

Blufoot, Mary B. C/F Oct 20 Gloucester 5y7m6d

Bohannon, Sarah W/F Oct 20 Gloucester 30y5m12d

Bohannon, William W/M Sept 15 Gloucester 5m23d

Baytop, Edmond C/M June 15 Gloucester 10y6m

Bright, Mary C/F Jan 20 Gloucester 5y20m

Bently, James W/M Sept 15 Gloucester old age 60y

Burnet, Samuel C/M Aug 16 Gloucester ague & fever 5m6d

Bristow, Frances A. W/F Dec 1 Gloucester not known 40y6m20d

Brooking, Julia W/F Dec 5 Gloucester heart 16y8m20d

Brooking, Maria W/F Dec 20 Gloucester heart 18y

Braxton, Robert C/M Aug 13 Gloucester ague & fever 3y5m20d

Booth, Jack C/M Apr 1 Gloucester ague & fever 2y

Baytop, Cordia C/F Sept 15 Gloucester ague & fever 3y4m6d

Baytop, Elizabeth C/F July 12 Gloucester pnumonia 1y6m20d

Blandchil, --- C/F Gloucester not known 1m

Braxton, Nellie C/F Gloucester brain fever 3y

Burwell, Willimo C/F Gloucester not known 19y

Burwell, Alice C/F Gloucester 7m

Bowden, Kittie C/F Gloucester congestive chill 1y4m

Booth, --- C/M Gloucester 14d

Bluford, --- C/M Gloucester 1m14d

Burwell, Seany C/F Gloucester 65y

Brown, Elsie C/F Gloucester burned 12y

1873

Gloucester County Death Record Project



1868

Lewis T. & Lucy F. Booker Gloucester Lewis T. Booker father

1869

Isaih & J. Brushwood Gloucester UM father father

Ben & Maria Burwell Gloucester UM father father

unknown Greenbrier Co. T. W. Baytop husband husband

George W. & Ann Bonnywell Gloucester father father

John P. E. & L. Belvin Gloucester father father

unknown Gloucester unknown unknown unknown

Cane & Matilda Burwell Gloucester father father

unknown Gloucester widow of A. Bland son son

1870

William A. & Mary Backhouse Gloucester farmer Matilda Backhouse Matilda Backhouse H/F

unknown Unknown John C. Beer John C. Beer H/F

Lucy Burross Gloucester J. S. Cook

unknown Gloucester Richard Booker friend

unknown Gloucester farmer Tom Davis friend

Braxton, Eliza Gloucester Eliza Braxton mother

unknown Gloucester Adaline Banks mother

1871

Thomas & Margaret Bradly Gloucester UM Thomas Bradly H/F

James & Agnes Booth Gloucester none UM Agnes Booth mother

William & Catherine Bristow Gloucester none UM William Bristow father

William & Betty Booth Gloucester none UM William Booth father

Peter & Alice Braxton Gloucester none UM Peter Braxton father

Randel & Susan Baytop Gloucester none UM Roands Baytop friend

William & Liza Basy Gloucester none UM Liza Basy mother

1872

James & Elizabeth Howard Gloucester Joseph Brown Joseph Brown H/F

unknown Gloucester UM Benjamin Belvin H/F

Henry & Dolly Mouring Gloucester UM John Minor H/F

Mary & Benjamin Bluefoot Gloucester UM Mary Bluefoot mother

Shirley & Fannie Baily Gloucester UM Shirly Baily father

William & Alice Blufoot Gloucester UM Alice Blufoot

John & Lucy Wood Gloucester Charles Bohannon Robert Wilson

Charles & S. Bohannon Gloucester UM Charles Bohannon

Randel & Hester Baytop Gloucester UM Randel Baytop

Levy & Eliza Bright Gloucester UM Eliza Bright

unknown Gloucester M P. S. Stubbs

Beverly & Charlotte Burnet Gloucester Catherine Burnet

Thomas Badgett Pierce King & Queen William Bristow Robtert Pearce

Henry & Valinder Brooking Gloucester UM Valinder Brooking

Henry & Valinder Brooking Gloucester Valinder Brooking

Betty Braxton Gloucester Billy Braxton

John & Eliza Booth Gloucester John Booth

Cordelia Baytop Gloucester Cordelia Baytop

Randel & Frances Baytop Gloucester UM Randel Baytop

Blandchil, Iverson & Eliza Gloucester none UM Anderson, Dinna friend

T. W. & Elizabeth Braxton Gloucester T. W. Braxton father

William & Amy Burwell Gloucester UM William Burwell father

Willen Burwell Gloucester William Burwell grandfather

James & Anna Bowden Gloucester James Bowden father

Francis & A. T. Booth Gloucester Francis Booth father

Harry & Nancy Bluford Gloucester Cary Bluford father

unknown Gloucester James Monroe friend

unknown Gloucester M Peter Brown father

1873




Brown, Mary E. W/F Gloucester 4d

Buckner, Julia W/F Gloucester burned 4y

Brown, Ada B. W/F Sept Gloucester unknown 18m

Brown, George W/M May Gloucester pneumonia 24y

Belvin, Richard A. W/M Sept 15 Gloucester brain fever 8y

Berry, Benjamin C/M Oct Gloucester unknown 3y

Berry, John C/M July Gloucester unknown 2y

1874

Bonnywell, Isaac H. W/M July 13 Gloucester diarrhrea 3y2m13d

Bryan, Emily C. W/F July 11 Gloucester consumption 34y

Boyd, Not Named C/M July 24 Gloucester unknown 14d

Berry, Edmound C/M Dec Gloucester spleen 28y

Berry, Harrison C/M June Gloucester dysentry 1y4m

Braxton, Daifny C/F May 16 Gloucester disease of womb 15y

Bush, Margaret C/F Dec Gloucester unknown 5m

1875

Booker, Eliza C/F May 15 Gloucester unknown 4m

Burrell, Mary E. C/F May 15 Gloucester dropsy 4y

Baytop, Nancy C/F Sept 15 Gloucester unknown 1d

Bridges, Florence W/F May 7 Gloucester unknown 26y

Bridges, Elizabeth W/F Aug 11 Gloucester unknown 7m

Brown, Susan W/F Aug 20 Gloucester unknown 5d

Bristow, Ann E. W/F Dec 4 Gloucester unknown 27y

Booth, Mary E. C/F May 9 Gloucester unknown 5m10d

Bridges, Ann R. W/F July 5 Gloucester old age 80y

Blufoot, Kiah C/M June Gloucester unknown 2y

Baily, Fanny C/F Fall Gloucester unknown 22y

Belvin, George W. W/M June 11 Gloucester unknown 2m11d

Bright, Sarah C/F Mar Gloucester unknown 82y

Bolden, Samuel C/M Aug Gloucester typhoid fever 75y

Brown, Chas. C/M Sept 1 Gloucester unknown 1m

Belvin, Luther M. W/M Nov Gloucester unknown 8m

Brown, Ida W/F Oct 5 Gloucester chronic diarrhrea 2y7m

Belvin, John W/M July 21 Gloucester brain fever 16y6m

Bradley, Margarett W/F Dec 1 Gloucester effects of burn 9y

Bonewell, George W. W/M Apr 6 Gloucester consumption 63y

Bidwill, Virginia W/F July Gloucester unknown 11m

Burk, F. F. W/F May 16 Gloucester typhoid fever 36y

Bridges, C. R. W/M Oct 15 Gloucester unknown 60y

Bridges, Ann E. W/F May 7 Gloucester consumption 18y

Bristow, Mary W/F Dec 24 Gloucester unknown 65y

Bristow, Mary E. W/F Mar 16 Gloucester unknown 35y

Bowden, Sally W/F Nov 20 Gloucester congestive chill 1y5m

Bland, D. A. E. W/F Dec 20 Gloucester unknown 54y

Bright, Arther C/M May 27 Gloucester consumption 54y

Blufoot, not named C/F Dec 31 Gloucester unknown 5d

Belcher, David C/M Sept Gloucester boils 1y

Brown, James H. C/M July 28 Gloucester long fever 17y

Baytop, --- C/M Sept 10 Gloucester unknown 10d

Burrell, Moses C/M Oct Gloucester unknown 6y

Butler, Henry Etta C/M Sept Gloucester dysentary 3y

Booker, Celice C/M Nov Gloucester pneumonia 70

Bristow, Elizabeth C/F July Gloucester unknown 23y

Bristow, --- C/M Jan 6 Gloucester unknown 5d

Bristow, Ann C/F Mar Gloucester consumption 30y

Blufoot, Nancy C/F Mar Gloucester consumption 30y

1876




J. R. & Mary Brown Gloucester UM J. R. Brown father

Jane Gloucester A. F. Dutton

Joseph & Elizabeth Brown Gloucester none UM Joseph Brown H/F

George & Nancy Brown Gloucester none UM George Brown H/F

Edwin & Mary Belvin Gloucester none UM Ed Belvin H/F

John & Frances Berry Gloucester none UM John Berry H/F

John & Frances Berry Gloucester none UM John Berry H/F

1874

William & Susan F. Bonnywell Gloucester none UM William Bonnywell H/F

William & Caroline Birch Queen Anne's Co., MD none Richard H. Bryan Richard H. Bryan H/F

Watt & Susan Boyd Gloucester none UM friend

Edmound & Eliza Berry Gloucester oyserman Usly Berry friend

Albert & Ann Berry Gloucester none UM Albert Berry H/F

Carter & Matilda Braxton Gloucester none UM Carter Braxton H/F

Aron & Mary Bush Gloucester none UM Aron Bush H/F

1875

Frances & Richard Booker Middlesex farmer UM Rich Booker

Marie & Bevely Burrell Gloucester farmer UM Bevely Burrell

William & Nancy Baytop Gloucester farmer UM William Baytop

J. H. & J. A. Hughes Gloucester farmer J. R. Bridges J. R. Bridges

James & Florence Bridges Gloucester farmer UM J. R. Bridges

J. R. & Mary Brown Gloucester UM J. R. Brown

Robertson & Mary Bridges Gloucester George E. Bristow George E. Bristow

J. W. & Eliza Booth Gloucester UM J. W. Booth

unknown Gloucester UM W. H. Bridges

Benjamin & Mary C. Blufoot Gloucester none UM Benjamin Blufoot father

Caeser Jackson & Mary Howard Gloucester none Shirley Baily Shirley A. Baily H/F

William H. & Georgianna Belvin Gloucester none UM William H. Belvin H/F

unknown unknown none UM Tabb Sterling H/F

Jack & Rebecca Bolden Gloucester farmer UM sister

Alex & Fanny Brown Gloucester none UM friend

Edward & Mary Belvin Gloucester none UM Mary A. Belvin mother

William & Lucretia Brown Gloucester none UM William Brown H/F

John P. & Mary Belvin Gloucester farmer UM John P. Belvin H/F

Thomas & --- Bradley Gloucester none UM J. H. Rowe friend

George W. & --- Bonewell Accomack Co., VA farmer Ann F. Bonewell John W. Bonewell son

W. T. & Virginia Bidwill Gloucester machinest UM W. T. Bidwill father

Thomas & Nancy Marchant Gloucester none W. T. Burk W. T. Burk H/F

Thomas & Elizabeth Bridges Gloucester farmer Frances Bridges W. H. Bridges son

W. H. & Maria Bridges Gloucester none UM W. H. Bridges father

unknown Gloucester farmer UM William Bristow son

Roberson & Rosy Bridges Gloucester farmer G. E. Bristow G. E. Bristow H/F

R. T. & S. E. Bowdon Gloucester farmer UM Thomas Bowden H/F

unknown Gloucester farmer UM W. C. Bland son

Nat & --- Bright Gloucester farmer Emma Bright Charles Bright son

Benjamin & Mary Blufoot Gloucester none UM Mary Blufoot mother

James & Lucreria Belcher Gloucester none UM James Belcher H/F

Millie Haywood Gloucester farmer UM Thomas Teagle friend

William & Nancy Baytop Gloucester farmer UM William Baytop father

Phil & Sarah Burrell Gloucester none UM Phil Burrell father

Henry & Sarah Butler Gloucester none UM Henry Butler father

Celice & Agnes Booker Gloucester farmer Polly Booker Frances Booker friend

William & Catty Bristow Gloucester farmer UM William Bristow father

William & Ann Bristow Gloucester farmer UM William Bristow father

Jacob & Polly Dabney Gloucester farmer William Bristow William Bristow father

John & Polly Blufoot Gloucester farmer Cary Blufoot Cary Blufoot H/F

1876




1877

Belvin, not named W/M Feb 6 Gloucester unknown 5d

Blake, Mary L. W/F June 16 Gloucester tumor 45y

Bristow, Elizabeth W/F Feb 28 Gloucester dropsy 50y

Bristow, not named W/M Mar Gloucester unknown 2d

Booker, James H. W/M Aug 20 Gloucester congestion of brain 2y

Burwell, Mary C/F Nov Gloucester unknown 22y11m

Berry, John C/M Sept 1 Gloucester unknown 1y10m

Berry, Elizabeth C/F Sept 16 Gloucester unknown 6m

Bright, Margaret C/F Mar Gloucester unknown 22y

Baytop, Nancy C/F Sept Gloucester unknown 20d

Booth, Elizabeth C/F Jan 7 Gloucester unknown 3y5m

Browne, Rebecca C/F June Gloucester paralyzed 70y

Baytop, Jeff C/M Sept Gloucester unknown 22y

Burwell, John C/M Sept Gloucester unknown 40y

Braxton, Ann E. C/F Dec 24 Gloucester unknown 4y10m

1878

Booker, William B. W/M Sept 5 Richmond City marlariai fever 1y6m

Brown, William W/M Nov Gloucester chronic diarrhia 1y2m

Brown, Catharine W/F July 14 Gloucester consumption 37y10m

Bridges, Susan W/F Nov 23 Gloucester billius fever 42y

Brown, Lucy E. W/F Feb 1 Gloucester unknown 1m

Burrell, Amma C/F Nov Gloucester consumption 33y

Berry, Martha C/F June Gloucester unknown 4y

Billups, Catherine C/F Oct Gloucester consumption 43y

Booth, John W. W. C/M June 25 Gloucester unknown 2y

Braxton, Milly C/F Dec 20 Gloucester unknown 75y

Browne, Rebecca C/F June Gloucester unknown 80y

Browne, Edward C/M Oct Gloucester unknown 90y

Baytop, Martha C/F Mar Gloucester child birth 18y

Browne, Lucy A. C/F July Gloucester unknown 1y6m

1879

Blake, Warner W. W/M Sept Gloucester cholerinfantan 1y9m

Browne, Tylor W/M Apr Gloucester unknown 6m

Belvin, Benjamin F. W/M Aug 26 Gloucester unknown 42y

Berry, Robert R. W/M Dec 19 Gloucester consumption 62y

Browne, Mary E. W/F Mar 29 Gloucester child birth 27y

Berry, Mary C/F Sept Gloucester dysentary 2y

Buford, not named C/F Sept 15 Gloucester unknown 2d

Buford, Sarah C/F Oct Gloucester dysentary 2y5m

Bailey, Catharine C/F July Gloucester unknown 25y

Banks, Elizabeth A. C/F Oct Gloucester heart desease unknown

Bailey, Catharine C/F Aug Gloucester unknown 1m

Belcher, James C/M Apr Gloucester hemorhage 39y

Belcher, Lucretia C/F Apr Gloucester teething 1y6m

Baytop, Harry C/M Dec Gloucester was shot 20y

Baytop, Nancy C/F May 15 Gloucester spasms 30y

Bright, Margaret C/F Mar 6 Gloucester unknown 29y

Burrel, James C/M Nov 6 Gloucester unknown 60y

Boyd, Edward C/M July 1 Gloucester scraffola 6y

Brooks, E. C/F Aug 9 Gloucester unknown 21y

Braxton, Lu C/M July 20 Gloucester unknown 25y

Belvin, not named W/F May 25 Gloucester spasms 7d

Belvin, Amanda T. W/F Sept 18 Gloucester spasms 1m

Blake, James M. W/M Oct Gloucester typhoid fever 10y

Brown, Mary E. W/F Oct Gloucester unknown 1m

1880




1877

W. Henry & Georgianna Belvin Gloucester farmer UM William Henry Belvin father

James & Mary Bently Gloucester farmer John Blake John Blake husband

unknown Gloucester farmer UM Lewis Fletcher son-in-law

--- & Sally Bristow Gloucester farmer UM Lewis Fletcher son-in-law

C. E. C. & E. T. Booker Gloucester farmer UM C. E. C. Booker father

Peter & Agnes Cooke Gloucester William Burwell William Burwell H/F

John & Frances Berry Gloucester UM John Berry H/F

John & Frances Berry Gloucester UM John Berry H/F

William & Mary Bright Gloucester UM Martin Cooper H/F

William & Nancy Baytop Gloucester UM William Baytop H/F

Thomas & Lara Lee Booth Gloucester UM Thomas Booth H/F

--- & Betsy Browne Gloucester UM Drumon Wiatt H/F

Peter & Rebecca Baytop Gloucester UM Peter Baytop H/F

unknown Gloucester UM Sam Driver H/F

Thomas & Betsy Braxton Gloucester UM Thomas Braxton H/F

1878

George E. & Fanny M. Booker Gloucester none UM George E. Booker father

William & Lucretia Brown Gloucester none UM William Brown father

Ralph & Mary Rowe Gloucester none UM Joseph Brown husband

R. M. & C. M. Bridges Gloucester none UM James Bridges brother

H. W. & Lucy Brown Gloucester none UM H. W. Brown father

Jackson & Eva Henderson Gloucester none Jackson Burrell Jackson Burrell husband

William & Elizabeth Berry Gloucester none UM William Berry father

Joe & Franky Roberson Gloucester none Richard Billups Richard Billups husband

John W. & Elizabeth Booth Gloucester none UM John W. Booth father

Dick & Violet Banks Gloucester none George Braxton George Braxton husband

unknown Gloucester none Randel Browne friend

Rebin & Mary Browne Gloucester none UM Randel Browne son

Randel & Frances Baytop Gloucester none UM Randel Baytop father

Frank & Lucy Browne Gloucester none UM Frank Browne father

1879

Thomas B. & Eliza Blake Gloucester none UM Thomas B. Blake father

Tylor & Margaret G. Browne Gloucester none UM Mary Browne grandmother

James & Gracy Belvin Gloucester farmer Mary E. Belvin Mary E. Belvin widow

James & Sue Berry Gloucester merchant Martha Berry Martha Berry widow

William & Elizaabeth Carry Gloucester housekeeper John R. Browne John R. Browne husband


Benjamin & Mary Buford Gloucester none UM Benjamin Blufoot father

Benjamin & Mary Buford Gloucester none UM Benjamin Blufoot father

John & Elizabeth A. Banks Gloucester housekeeper Shirley Bailey Fanny Banks sister

Margaret Whiting Middlesex housekeeper UM Fanny Banks daughter

Shirley & Catharine Bailey Gloucester housekeeper UM Fanny Banks aunt

James & --- Belcher Gloucester farmer Lucreta Belcher William Harvey friend

James & Lucretia Belcher Gloucester none UM William Harvey friend

Randel & Frances Baytop Gloucester farmer UM Randel Baytop father

Jaspher & Mary Morrow Gloucester farmer William Baytop William Baytop husband

Thomas & Sally Dixon Gloucester farmer Frank Bright Frank Bright husband

Phill & Sally Burrel Gloucester farmer Peggy Burrel Peggy Burrel wife

John & Elizabeth Boyd Gloucester farmer UM UM father

--- & Jane Page Gloucester farmer Henry Brooks Henry Brooks husband

unknown Gloucester farmer Martha Braxton Martha Braxton wife

Robert & Mary J. Belvin Gloucester none UM Robert Belvin H/F

William E. & Margaret Belvin Gloucester none UM William E. Belvin H/F

Thomas B. & Rebecca Blake Gloucester none UM Thomas B. Blake H/F

L. Thomas & Maria F. Brown Gloucester none UM L. Thomas Brown H/F

1880




Bland, Virgia M. W/F June 10 Gloucester unknown 1y6m

Broaddus, Temple R. W/M July 30 Gloucester dysentary 7m

Brooking, Thomas Hugh W/M Sept 18 Gloucester unknown 1y10m

Banks, Edger E. W/M Dec 26 Gloucester unknown 3y

Bridges, William H. W/M Nov 18 Gloucester unknown 64y

Bridges, Ann M. W/F Nov 24 Gloucester unknown 58y

Brooks, Delphia C/F Aug Gloucester old age 85y

Berry, Carrie C/F Aug Gloucester dysentary 2y

Berry, William R. C/M July Gloucester unknown 1y8m

Borum, Polly C/F Aug28 Gloucester unknown 62y

Burwell, Alice C/F Mar Gloucester spasms 10d

Brown, Haley O. C/F June 10 Gloucester teething 9m

Booker, Ever C/F May Gloucester unknown 12y

Bird, Davy C/M Feb 20 Gloucester unknown 60y

Bristow, Georgianna C/F Nov Gloucester child birth 23y

Banks, not named C/F Aug Gloucester unknown 5m

Banks, Lucy C/F Oct Gloucester unknown 60y

1881

Belvin, John T. W/M Oct 24 Gloucester dysentary 17y11m19d

Brown, E. B. W/M Sept Gloucester unknown 1m

Belvin, Adda L. W/F Aug 13 Gloucester black vomit 7m

Boothe, Elizabeth G. W/F July 10 Gloucester congestive of liver 53y

Bryan, Catharine W/F July 21 Gloucester unknown 39y

Blasingham, Rich. D. W/M May 1 Gloucester diarrhea 25y11m

Burk, Anna W/F Dec Gloucester diarrhea 36y

Bland, John H. W/M Nov Gloucester disease of liver 34y

Bradley, not named W/M June Gloucester unknown 7d

Brooking, not named W/M Nov 16 Gloucester unknown 2m10d

Broddus, Eliza W/F May 8 Gloucester paralyzed 72y

Broddus, Edwin W/M June 21 Gloucester dropsy 80y

Brown, Smith W. W/M Sept 29 Gloucester unknown 20y

Banks, Edger Edward W/M Dec 26 Gloucester croup 5y

Bristow, Emaly F. W/F Apr 10 Gloucester typhoid fever 25y

Brown, Sarah W/F Oct 20 Gloucester unknown 5m15d

Booker, Jenny C/F Aug 5 Gloucester dropsy 48y

Bright, Juda C/F Aug Gloucester unknown 1m

Berry, not named C/M Mar Gloucester unknown 1d

Berry, Ann C/F Dec Gloucester consumption 24y

Burwell, Mary E. C/F Aug 20 Gloucester child birth 27

Bird, Kitty C/F May 9 Gloucester unknown 23y

Bird, not named C/F June 9 Gloucester unknown 1m

Baytop, William C/M Sept Gloucester unknown 12y

Braxton, Eliza E. C/F Nov 28 Gloucester unknown 24y

Billups, not named C/F July 3 Gloucester unknown 3d

Boyd, Elizabeth C/F Nov 1 Gloucester scraffola 30y

Booth, Ann E. C/F Oct 27 Gloucester typhoid fever 12y

Billups, Baylor C/M Sept Gloucester unknown 3y

Banks, John C/M Sept Gloucester unknown 45y

Bright, Molly C/F June 23 Gloucester unknown 80y

Bright, Ora Bell C/F Oct 25 Gloucester unknown 8m

Brown, Francis E. W/F Oct Gloucester unknown 2m

Bonewell, Jinnette W/F Aug 26 Gloucester unknown 14d

Belvin, Harriett S. W/F Aug 30 Gloucester unknown 1y2m27d

Bonewell, Nancy

W/F Aug 9 Gloucester consumption 60y

Bristow, Emoly F. W/F Apr 10 Gloucester unknown 25y

1882




J. T. & Sally Bland Gloucester none UM Joshue T. Bland H/F

William T. & Susan Broaddus Gloucester none UM William T. Broaddus H/F

G. W. & Sarah Brooking Gloucester none UM George W. Brooking H/F

William T. & Harritt E. Banks Gloucester none UM William T. Banks H/F

Roberson & Ann E. Bridges Gloucester none Ann M. Bridges William Mun Bridges H/F

Mat & Nancy Gibbs Gloucester none UM William Mun Bridges H/F

Sam & Mary Walker Gloucester none UM Joe Brooks son

William & Elizabeth Berry Gloucester none UM William Berry H/F

Alford & Anna Berry Gloucester none UM Alford Berry H/F

Robert & Nancy Frayzier Gloucester none Danel Borum Danel Borum H/F

Coleman & Eliza Burwell Gloucester none UM Coleman Burwell H/F

Robert & Lucy Brown Gloucester none UM Robert Brown H/F

Tyler & Molly Booker Gloucester none UM Tyler Booker H/F

unknown Gloucester none Harmer Bird Harmer Bird H/F

Lundon & Catherine West Gloucester none John Bristow John Bristow H/F

Dave & India Banks Gloucester none UM Dave Banks H/F

Baylor & Nancy Gardner Gloucester none Damuel Banks Samuel Banks H/F

1881

John & Susan Belvin Gloucester farmer UM John Belvin father

Lewis T. Maria F. Brown Gloucester none UM Lewis T. Brown father

John W. & Sarah Belvin Gloucester none UM John W. Belvin father

Mordica & Elizabeth Boothe Middlesex housekeeper UM John Cooke nephew

Denice Amory Gloucester housekeeper Richard H. Bryan R. H. Bryan H/F

J. W. & Emalin Blasingham Gloucester farmer UM Julia Lindsy H/F

Isaac & Ann Howlett Gloucester housekeeper widow B. F. Howlett brother

Cary T. & Maria H. Bland K&Q clerk UM J. W. Miner friend

--- & Elizabeth Bradly Gloucester none UM Marrietta Stokes friend

George T. & Sarah E. Brooking Gloucester none UM G. T. Brooking father

Phill & Elizabeth Montague Middlesex none Edwin Braddus William J. Broddus son

William & Elizabeth Broddus Gloucester farmer UM William T. Broddus son

S. W. & Susan Brown Gloucester farmer UM S. W. Brown father

James T. & Harritt Banks Gloucester farmer UM James T. Banks father

W. L. & Eliza Bristow Gloucester farmer UM William H. Bristow brother

J. R. & Ruth Brown Gloucester farmer UM J. R. Brown father

Munford & Eliza Harwood Gloucester housekeeper J. C. Booker J. C. Booker H/F

Chas. & Margaret Bright Gloucester none UM Chas. Bright H/F

William & Eliza Berry Gloucester none UM William Berry H/F

George & Sally Gregory Gloucester housekeeper Alfred Berry Alfred Berry H/F

George & Mary A. Burwell Balt. MD housekeeper Lewis Burwell Lewis Burwell H/F

George & Catherine Braxton Gloucester housekeeper Richard Bird Rich. Bird H/F

Richard & Kitty Bird Gloucester housekeeper UM Rich. Bird H/F

--- & Lucy Baytop Gloucester housekeeper UM John Baytop friend

unknown Gloucester housekeeper Wallace Braxton Wallice Braxton friend

Joe & Bland Billups Gloucester housekeeper UM Joe Billups father

John & Sarah Lee Gloucester housekeeper John Boyd John Boyd H/F

John W. & Elizabeth Booth Gloucester housekeeper UM John W. Booth H/F

Frank & Sinty Billups Gloucester housekeeper UM Frank Billups H/F

Sam & Susan Banks Gloucester housekeeper UM Sam Banks H/F

unknown Gloucester housekeeper UM Gibbon Bright grandson

Gibbon & Susan Bright Gloucester housekeeper UM Gibbon Bright father

L. Thomas & Maria F. Brown Gloucester none UM L. Thomas Brown H/F

Robert & Alice Bonewell Gloucester none UM Robert Bonewell H/F

James & Emiline Belvin Gloucester none UM James Belvin H/F

John & Mary Robins Gloucester none widow of George

Bonewell

Joseph Bonewell son

William S. & Eliza Bristow Gloucester none William H. Bristow brother

1882




Broaddus, Edwin W/M July 17 Gloucester dysentary 13m

Bland, Columba G. W/M Aug Gloucester unknown 11m

Bristow, J. R. W/M Apr 7 Gloucester unknown 42y

Buford, Caroline C/F Aug Gloucester unknown 7m

Braxton, not named C/M Dec Gloucester unknown 14d

Boyd, Maggie C/F June Gloucester consumption 7y

Boyd, not named C/F June Gloucester unknown 7d

Burwell, William C/M Aug 26 Gloucester unknown 64y

Black, Charles C/M June 10 Gloucester unknown 23y

Bundy, Mary E. C/F Sept Gloucester dropsy 3y

Blufoot, Adler C/F Oct 12 Gloucester dropsy 28y

1883

Belvin, Luly W/F May Gloucester unknown 19y

Brooking, May F. W/F June 30 Gloucester unknown 32y

Burch Lucius W/M Sept Gloucester congestive chill 4y

Bently, Mary W/F June 17 Gloucester old age 73y

Braxton, William Henry C/M Sept 14 Gloucester unknown 2y10m16d

Berry, Cary C/M Aug Gloucester unknown 11m

Blufort, Robert N. C/M Jan 18 Gloucester whooping cough 4y4m12d

Blufort, P. Rohith C/F June 9 Gloucester measles 6y9m15d

Brown, James H. C/M Feb Gloucester unknown 18y

Boothe, Charles H. C/M Nov 1 Gloucester spasms 2y

Baylor, Kate C/F May Gloucester consumption 35y

Berry, Maria C/F Mar Gloucester consumption 18y

Burrell, William C/M June 2 Gloucester pneumonia 25y

Baytop, Randel C/M Dec 27 Gloucester killed 45y

1884

Brown, Hubbard W/M Aug Gloucester unknown 4m

Burch, Sarah Lee W/F Nov 27 Gloucester spasms 3y

Belvin, Mattie J. W/F Aug24 Gloucester diarrhea 1y2m

Bristow, Rich W/M Nov 19 Gloucester unknown 1y7m

Bristow, Hester W/F Apr Gloucester unknown 17y

Banks, John C/M Mar Gloucester measles 1y7m

Bolden, Cipio C/M Dec Rappahannock River drowned 21y

Bolden, Abram C/M Dec Rappahannock River drowned 19y

Bright, Benj C/M Apr Gloucester unknown 1y1m

Brooks, Bettie, V. S. C/F May Gloucester unknown 1m21d

Boyd, Patsy C/F June 20 Gloucester unknown 12y

Bird, India C/F Dec 1 Middlesex unknown 30y

Bird, John C/M Feb Middlesex unknown 6m

Bluford, Essa C/F May 23 Gloucester unknown 3y

Booth, Mary Lee C/F Oct Gloucester unknown 10y

Braxton, Thomas C/M Feb Gloucester unknown 2y

Billups, Polly C/F Mar Gloucester unknown 80y

Boyed, Charlie C/M Oct 25 Gloucester unknown 28y

Brown, Boy C/M Jan 30 Gloucester unknown 20d

Brown, --- W/M Jan 12 Gloucester lock jaw 6d

Bray, Thomas J. W/M Dec 8 Gloucester paralysed 81y

Brown, Mary W/F June 20 Gloucester consumption 68y

Brown, Arthur W/M June 19 Gloucester dysentary 1y4m

Bland, --- W/M Sept 3 Gloucester unknown 2d

Brown, Wesley R. W/M Sept Gloucester dysentary 11m18d

Brown, Alberta W/M July 20 Gloucester dysentary 3y

Brown, William W/M July Gloucester dysentary 5m

Belvin, Benjamin F. W/M Aug 10 Gloucester diarrhea 1m10d

Bristow, Sarah W/F Sept 24 Gloucester paralysed 70y

1885




W. T. & Susan Broaddus Gloucester none UM W. T. Broaddus father

J. T. & Sally Bland Gloucester none UM J. T. Bland father

J. R. & Mary Bristow Gloucester none Nanny Bristow brother

Benjamin & Mary C. Buford Gloucester none UM Benjamin Buford H/F

James & Rachel Braxton Gloucester none UM James Braxton H/F

Watt & Susan Boyd Gloucester none UM Watt Boyd H/F

Watt & Susan Boyd Gloucester none UM Watt Boyd H/F

Coleman & Minerva Burwell Gloucester farmer Amy Burwell Thomas Burwell son

Mary Black Gloucester farmer UM Susan Black friend

William H. & Tamer Bundy Gloucester farmer UM William Bundy friend

Henry & Betsy Green Gloucester farmer UM Thomas Blufoot friend

1883

John W. & Alice Deal Gloucester housekeeper Lee Belvin Margaret A. West neighbor

William H. & Nancy Powers Gloucester housekeeper John W. Brooking J. W. Brooking H/F

Lewis & Elizabeth Burch Gloucester UM Joshua Anchor H/F

Henry & Mary Bently Gloucester housekeeper UM William F. Hall H/F

James & Elizabeth Braxton Gloucester none UM James Braxton father


William & Martha Blufort Gloucester none UM William Blufort father

William & Martha Blufort Gloucester none UM William Blufort father

Randel & Gracy Brown Gloucester none UM Randel Brown father

Phil & Lucy Boothe Warwick Co none UM Lucy Boothe mother

John & Elizabeth Ward Gloucester none Ben Baylor Ben Baylor H/F

Robt. & Lucinda Berry Gloucester none UM Robt. Berry H/F

William & Julia Burrell Gloucester none UM India Burrell H/F

Jacob & Martha Baytop Gloucester none Frances Baytop Frances Baytop H/F

1884

Josiah & Eliz Brown Portsmouth none UM Lewis T. Brown grandparent

William H. & Anna Burch Gloucester none UM William H. Burch H/F

Lucy A. Belvin (bastard) Gloucester none UM William H. Belvin H/F

W. D. & Josie Bristow Gloucester none UM W. D. Bristow H/F

J. R. & Elizabeth Bristow Gloucester none UM Landon Carter H/F

William & Sally Banks Gloucester none UM Joicy Banks grandparent

John & Nancy Bolden Gloucester oysterman UM John Bolden H/F

John & Nancy Bolden Gloucester oysterman UM John Bolden H/F

Benj & Mary Bright Gloucester none UM Ben Bright H/F

Guy & Sarah Brooks Gloucester none UM Guy Brooks H/F

Walt & Susan Boyd Gloucester none UM Walt Boyd H/F

Henry & India Lomax Gloucester none Richard Bird Richard Bird H/F

Rich & Jullia Bird Gloucester none UM Richard Bird H/F

Thomas & Mary Susan Bluford Gloucester none UM Thomas Bluford H/F

William H. & Betsy Booth Gloucester none UM W. H. Booth H/F

Thomas & Elizabeth Braxton Gloucester none UM Thomas Braxton H/F

unknown Gloucester none UM Harry Smith friend

Mager & Mary Boyed Gloucester none UM Mager Boyed father

Tyler & Mary Brown Gloucester none UM Mary Brown mother

Thomas E. & Sarah Brown Gloucester none UM Thomas E. Brown father

Thomas & Mary Bray Middlesex farmer Martha Bray Martha Bray widow

unknown Gloucester farmer widow Tyler Brown son

William & Mildred Brown Gloucester farmer UM William Brown father

William C. & Sarah A. Bland Gloucester farmer UM William C. Bland father

Inusm & Anna Brown Gloucester farmer UM Inusm Brown father

W. A. & Ellen Brown Gloucester farmer UM James R. Brown father

B. M. & Ellen Brown Gloucester farmer UM B. M. Brown father

James & Emeline Belvin Gloucester farmer UM James Belvin father

1885




Bowden, (Girl) W/F Feb 13 Gloucester unknown 2m

Broaddus, William T. W/M Mar 27 Gloucester pneumonia 43y

Brown, Ruthe W. W/F Dec 27 Gloucester pneumonia 31y

Blassingham, Emma W/F Aug Gloucester dysentary 1y6m

Berry, --- C/M June Gloucester unknown 1m

Bright, Robt. A. C/M Feb 13 Gloucester unknown 3y7m

Banks, Robt. C/M Feb13 Gloucester unknown 1m

Berry, Bennie C/M Aug Gloucester dysentary 3y6m

Braxton, Alice C/F May 5 Gloucester unknown unknown

Burwell, W. A. C/M June 7 Gloucester unknown 1y5m

Burwell, Kain C/M Aug Gloucester dropsy 45y

Booth, --- C/M July Gloucester unknown 1m6d

Braxton, Temple C/M July 16 Gloucester consumption 22y

Buckner, Girl C/F Dec 21 Gloucester unknown 1d

Bird, Rebecca C/F Sept Gloucester unknown 12m7d

Bently, Thomas C/M Dec Gloucester old age 80y

Baytop, Randel C/M July 30 Gloucester dysentary 17y

Brown, Boy C/M Feb 2 Gloucester unknown 1d

Bowden, Ann C/F Jan Gloucester childbirth 40y

Bowden, John C/M Apr Gloucester unknown 3m

Burrell, John Lee C/M Oct Gloucester unknown 40y

Burrell, Alice C/F Apr 17 Gloucester unknown 16y

Burrell, Eliza C/F May 17 Gloucester consumption 40y

Burton, Thomas CM Aug 13 Gloucester unknown 3m

1886

Bonewell, Addie L. W/F Oct Gloucester unknown 1y

Bryan, Mary C. W/F Nov 5 Gloucester consumption 23y5m18d

Belvin, Mary J. W/F June 30 Gloucester cancer 45y

Brown, Luther W. W/M Nov 9 Gloucester drowned in well 4y6m

Brown, Lumkin D. W/M Jan 16 Gloucester unknown 12m

Bristow, Clara B. W/F Nov Gloucester childbirth 19y

Bonewell, Mary W. W/F Aug Gloucester teething 1y10m

Bright, --- C/F Oct Gloucester unknown 6d

Bright, Emma A. C/F Apr Gloucester unknown 7y

Boothe, John C/M Aug Gloucester dysentary 18y

Berry, --- C/F Aug Gloucester unknown 1d

Banks, Frances A. E. C/F July Gloucester dysentary 1y3m

Billups, --- C/F Sept Gloucester unknown 12d

Burwell, Kender C/M Dec 27 Gloucester rheumatism 74y

Baylor, Benjamin F. C/M Dec 25 Gloucester consumption 50y

Burrell, Inittas C/F Apr 28 Gloucester dysentary 19y

Bolden, Liza C/F June Gloucester killed by lightning 28y

Baoker, Patsy C/F Nov1 Gloucester unknown 70y

Banks, Boy & Girl (2) twins C/M&F July 30 Gloucester unknown 5d

Banks, Boy C/M June Gloucester unknown 5m

Baytop, Haywood C/M Oct Gloucester unknown 13y

Bowden, John C/M Apr 14 Gloucester consumption 16y

Bowden, Henry C/M Sept 6 Gloucester consumption 6y

Bowden, Clifton C/M Oct 16 Gloucester consumption 10y

Bowden, Ann C/M Mar Gloucester consumption 35y

Booker, Clara C/F July Gloucester dysentary 9m

Bland, Bertha W/F 1887 Gloucester summer complaint 3y

Broaddus, Aline W/F Feb 1 Gloucester brain fever 2y

Bland, Lizzie W/F 1887 Gloucester summer complaint 1y

Blake, not named W/F Mar 20 Gloucester fits 5d

Bristow, Ida W/F Oct 21 Gloucester summer complaint 20y

1887




R. T. & Elizabeth Bowden Gloucester farmer UM R. T. Bowden father

Edwin & Elizabeth Broaddus Gloucester merchant S. M. Broaddus S. M. Broaddus widow

Henry & Susan Prince Middlesex housekeeper J. R. Brown J. R. Brown husband

B. F. & Mary Blassingham Gloucester none UM B. F. Blassingham father

Johnny & Frances Berry Gloucester none UM John Berry father

Robt & Lucy Bright Gloucester none UM Robt. Bright father

William & Susan E. Banks Gloucester none UM Sarah Banks mother

John & Fanny Berry Gloucester none UM John Berry father

Cenel & Sally Holmes Gloucester housekeeper Felix Braxton Felix Braxton husband

Mary E. Burwell (Bastard) Gloucester none UM Mary E. Burwell mother

Edward & Nelly Burwell Gloucester none Matilda Burwell Matilda Burwell widow

Frank & Ann Booth Gloucester none UM Ann Booth mother

Temple & Rebecca Braxton Gloucester oysterman UM Rebecca Braxton mother

Henderson & Margaret Buckner Gloucester none UM Margaret Buckner mother

Peter & Maud Bird Gloucester none UM Peter Bird father

unknown Gloucester farmer Isabella Bently Isabella Bently widow

Jacob & Caroline Baytop Gloucester farmer UM Jacob Baytop father

Taylor & Maria Brown Gloucester farmer UM Maria Brown mother

Robert & Kitty Muse Gloucester farmer James Bowden Josh Richardson friend

James & Ann Bowden Gloucester farmer UM Josh Richardson friend

Phill & Polly Burrell Gloucester farmer Eliza Burrell Josh Richardson friend

John & Eliza Burrell Gloucester none UM Josh Richardson friend

James & Sarah Fox Gloucester none John Burrell Josh Richardson friend

Fate & Lucy Burton Gloucester none UM Fate Burton father

1886

Joseph H. & Indianna Bonewell Gloucester none UM Joseph H. Bonewell father

R. H. & Emily C. Bryan Queen Ann housekeeper UM R. H. Bryan father

John & Maria Belvin Gloucester none UM John P. Belvin brother

Seymour & Sarah Brown Gloucester none UM Seymour Brown father

J. R. & Ruth Brown Gloucester none UM J. R. Brown father

W. B. & Ann Soles Mathews none B. C. Bristow B. C. Bristow husband

J. W. & Elizabeth Bonewell Gloucester none UM J. W. Bonewell father

Robt & Lucy Bright Gloucester none UM Robt. Bright father

Ben & Mary Bright Gloucester none UM Ben Bright father

Robt & Ellen Boothe Gloucester oysterman UM Robert. Boothe father

Alfred & Nancy Berry Gloucester none UM Alfred Berry father

Robert & Frances A. E. Banks Gloucester none UM Robert Banks father

Sam & Louisa Billups Gloucester none UM Susan Harwood grandparent

William H. & Vernes Burwell Gloucester farmer Easter Burwell Easter Burwell widow

unknown Caroline Co farmer Henrietta Baylor Henrietta Baylor widow

Joe & Lucy Banks Gloucester housekeeper Jeff Burrell Jeff Burrell husband

Thomas & Carte Tonkins Gloucester housekeeper James Bolden James Bolden husband

Daniel & Fannie Tabb Gloucester housekeeper Robert Booker Robert Booker husband

Henry & Maria Banks Gloucester none UM Henry Banks father

Dan & India Banks Gloucester none UM Dan Banks father

Peter & Rebecca Baytop Gloucester none UM Peter Baytop father

James & Ann Bowden Gloucester none UM James Bowden father



Ruben & Kitty Paterson Gloucester none James Bowden James Bowden father

Tyler & Molly Booker Gloucester none UM Tyler Booker father

Lineous & Mary Bland Gloucester none UM Lineous Bland father

William & Susan Broaddus Gloucester none UM Susan Broaddus mother

Lineous & Mary Bland Gloucester none UM Lineous Bland father

Charles & Lottie Blake Gloucester none UM Charles Blake father

William & Josie Bristow Gloucester none UM William . Bristow father

1887




Brown, Mary E. W/F Oct 15 Gloucester unknown 14m

Belvin, John W/M Oct Gloucester pneumonia 58y

Bolden, Fannie C/F Jan 14 Gloucester old age 86

Baytop, Sallie C/F June 12 Gloucester consumption 15y

Burrel, Rosa C/F Aug 15 Gloucester croup 1y

Banks, not named C/F Apr Gloucester unknown 7d

Brown, Samuel L. C/M July 6 Gloucester summer complaint 1y

Booker, Mary C/F Aug 8 Gloucester cancer 40y

Booker, Virginia C/F Sept 24 Gloucester consumption 17y

Bluford, Anna J. C/F Sept 1 Gloucester billioucessness 3y

Butler, Randall C/M Dec 20 Gloucester cold 50y

Butler, Willie C/M Dec 25 Gloucester pneumonia 15y

Burrell, Rosa C/F July 17 Gloucester summer complaint 1y

Berrell, Albert C/M July 15 Gloucester cold 4m

Braxton, Mary C/F Aug 8 Gloucester cold 21y

Bright, John C/M Nov 5 Gloucester typhoid 20y

Bright, not named C/M Aug 16 Gloucester unknown 1d

Burwell, Amy C/F Apr 16 Gloucester asthma 65y

Burrell, Joanna C/F Jan 1 Gloucester consumption 17y

Burwell, Julia C/F Jan 8 Gloucester whooping cough 9y

Berry, not named C/M Oct 15 Gloucester unknown 5d

Burrell, Adam C/M Sept 15 Gloucester congestive chill 2y

Berry, not named C/F Nov 11 Gloucester unknown 1d

Brooks, Sarah C/F Oct 10 Gloucester consumption 25y

Byrd, Taymor C/F July 15 Gloucester old age 85y

Bright, Daniel C/M Oct Gloucester old age 73y

1888

Beasley, not named W/M Oct 20 Gloucester unknown 1/4d

Brown, Alice W/F Feb 19 Gloucester measles 3y

Brooks, Hester W/F Dec 1 Gloucester womb disease 42y

Bray, Richard B. W/M Nov 12 Gloucester dysentary 76y

Bonnywell, Alice R. W/F July 28 Gloucester whooping cough 2y

Brown, Pinkey W/F July 5 Gloucester dysentary 2y

Booker, not named W/F Mar 2 Gloucester unknown 21d

Bower, J. E. P. W/M June 22 Gloucester heart disease 59y

Bluford, not named C/F Mar 13 Gloucester unknown 3d

Booth, Betsy C/F Dec 12 Gloucester old age 80y

Berry, Robert C/M Nov 15 Gloucester drowned in well 17y

Booth, Thomas C/M July 26 Gloucester congestion 37y

Brown, not named C/M June 22 Gloucester unknown 6m

Brown, not named C/F June 28 Gloucester unknown 14d

Bowden, Susan C/F Mar 19 Gloucester scrofula 5y

Bowden, Elizabeth C/F Sept 3 Gloucester scrofula 3y

Burwell, Jack Ann C/F Feb 25 Gloucester consumption 15y

Bright, Isabella C/F May 5 Gloucester cholora infantum 2y

Burwell, Tama C/F Aug 28 Gloucester old age 87y

Blake, Mary W/F Mar 1 Gloucester pneumonia 35y

Bray, Harold M. W/M Oct 30 Gloucester congestive fever 15m

Bray, Martha W/F Dec 4 Gloucester pneumonia 74y

Brown, Susan W/F Nov 23 Gloucester consumption 68y

Blake, not named W/F Apr 2 Gloucester screaming fits 4d

Blake, Ann K. W/F Mar Gloucester bronchitis 73y

Bright, not named C/F May 2 Gloucester brain fever 2m

Brook, Bethia C/F Apr 5 Gloucester childbirth 17y

Banks, Edgar C/M Aug Gloucester pneumonia 6y

Banks, Lily C/F Aug Gloucester pneumonia 6y

1889




John A. & --- Brown Gloucester none UM John A. Brown father

Boler & Susan Belvin unknown farmer Susan Belvin James Belvin son

unknown unknown none UM Essex Micou H/F

Randal & Margaret Baytop Gloucester none Randal Baytop Randel Baytop H/F

William & Ann Burrel Gloucester none UM William Burrel friend

Davy & India Banks Gloucester none UM Davy Banks father

Robert & Lucy Brown Gloucester none UM Robert Brown father

unknown unknown none Isaac Booker Isaac Booker friend

Isaac & Mary Booker Gloucester none UM Isaac Booker friend

Thomas & Mary Bluford Gloucester none UM Mary Bluford mother

unknown unknown farmer UM Henry Butler H/F

Henry & Lucy Butler Gloucester farmer UM Henry Butler H/F

Joshua & Julia Burrell Gloucester none UM Joshua Burrell H/F

Addison & Martha Berrell Gloucester none UM Addison Berrell H/F

William & Rebecca Braxton Gloucester none UM Rebecca Braxton H/F

Sam & Nancy Bright Gloucester oysterman UM John Bolden friend

Robert & Lucy Bright Gloucester none UM Robert Bright father

unknown Gloucester none UM Thomas Burwell friend

Jackson & Arena Burrell Gloucester farmer UM Jackson Burrell father

Stephen & Urselia Burwell Gloucester none UM Stephen Burwell father

John & Fannie Berry Gloucester none UM John Berry father

Sye & Elenora Burrell Gloucester none UM Sye L. Burrell father

John & Elizabeth Berry Gloucester none UM John Berry father

unknown unknown none UM Sam'l Driver friend

unknown unknown none UM John W. Jackson friend

unknown unknown farmer UM R. C. Selden, Jr. friend

1888

F. M. & Virginia Beasley Gloucester none UM F. J. Ewell H/F

Tyler & Sarah Brown Gloucester none UM Tyler Brown H/F

David & Susan Edwards Gloucester none Payton Brooks Payton Brooks H/F

Thomas & Nancy Bray Middlesex farmer UM John R. Bray H/F

B. B. & Alice Bonnywell Gloucester none UM Alice Bonnywell H/F

James & Pinkey Brown Gloucester none UM William Brown, Sr. H/F

C. E. & Margaret Booker Mathews none UM C. E. Booker H/F

unknown Gloucester farmer Mary E. Bower Mary E. Bower H/F

Thomas & Mary Susan Bluford Gloucester none UM Thomas Bluford H/F

unknown unknown none Jack Booth John Booth H/F

Robert & Lucinda Berry Gloucester oysterman UM Robt. Berry H/F

unknown unknown farmer Laura L. Booth Laura Booth H/F

John H. & Ellenora Brown Gloucester none UM John H. Brown H/F

L. & Grace Bowden Gloucester none UM Randol Brown H/F

James & Annie Bowden Gloucester none UM James Bowden H/F

James & Annie Bowden Gloucester none UM James Bowden H/F

Jackson & Arena Burwell Gloucester none UM Katie Burwell H/F

Thomas & Mary C. Bright Gloucester none UM Elizabeth Smith H/F

unknown unknown none UM John Jackson H/F

Washington & Elizabeth Hogg Gloucester none UM B. A. Hogg brother

J. G. & Fannie W. Bray Gloucester none UM J. G. Bray father

John Hogg Gloucester none UM J. G. Bray son

Richard Garrett Middlesex none Smith W. Brown Smith W. Brown husband

Charles H. & Lottie E. Blake Gloucester none UM Charles H. Blake father

Sallie & Edmond Duncan Accomack Co. VA none James Blake James Blake husband

Ben & Mollie Bright Gloucester none UM Ben Bright father

Frank & Betsy Whiting Gloucester none William Brook William Brook husband

Robert & Mariah Banks Gloucester none UM Robert Banks father

Robert & Mariah Banks Gloucester none UM Robert Banks father

1889




Banks, Hammy C/M Dec 8 Gloucester unknown 4m

Brown, not named C/F Mar Gloucester unknown 14d

Booth, not named C/F Aug 24 Gloucester unknown 4d

Braxton, Felix C/M Apr Gloucester hernia 30y

Banks, not named C/M Aug 17 Gloucester unknown 2d

Braxton, not named C/M Oct 8 Gloucester unknown 4d

Braxton, not named C/M Oct 11 Gloucester unknown 7d

Brooks, not named C/F Apr 28 Gloucester unknown 1d

1890

Brown, not named W/M Mar 25 Gloucester crying fits 7d

Brown, Annie B. W/F June 15 Gloucester unknown 6m

Bland, not named W/F Sept 17 Middlesex unknown 5d

Bew, not named W/M Sept West Point unknown 14d

Blake, James W/M Dec 4 Gloucester pneumonia 78y

Booker, Lewis T. W/M Jan Gloucester dropsy 65y

Burwell, Cora Lee C/F Sept 20 Gloucester typhoid fever 2y

Berry, Berthina C/F Mar 15 Gloucester grippe 9m

Berry, Virginia C/F Aug 22 Gloucester worm fever 2y

Berry, not named C/F June 1 Gloucester unknown 1d

Brown, Willie C/M May 15 Gloucester grippe 20m

Bolden, H. J. W. C/M Aug 15 Gloucester unknown 3y

Bolden, John W. C/M July 15 Gloucester unknown 2y

Brooks, Joseph L. C/M Jan 17 Gloucester rheumatism 9y

Buckner, John H. C/M Dec 2 Gloucester heart disease 15y

Banks, Charles H. C/M Nov 3 Gloucester unknown 11m

Brown, not named C/F Dec 27 Gloucester crying fits 14d

Bright, Agnes C/F Nov 24 Gloucester old age 75y

Bird, not named C/M May Gloucester unknown 4m

Bird, Rosa C/F Dec Gloucester unknown 22y



728/ John Archer Brown, ae 29y, oysterman,

s/o James & Susan Brown; Mary Jane West, ae

21y, d/o Frank & Frances West; Mar 20 1869 by

Rev. W. S. Hawkins.

729/ John Dobson Rowe, ae 22y, oysterman,

d/o Wm. A. & Caroline Rowe; Emma Robins, ae

17y, d/o Wm. Robins & Elizabeth W. (now E. W.

Hall); Mar 25 1869 by Rev. W. S. Hawkins.

730/ Charles Henry Morriss Whitington, ae

22y, colored, sailor, s/o Geo. & Hetty

Whitington; Henrietta Ross, ae 21y, colored, d/o

--- & Betsy Ross; Mar 28 1869 by Rev. Chas.

Mann.

731/ Richard Thomas Shepard, ae 24y,

sailor, s/o Geo. & Polly Shepard; Alice Maria

Banks, ae 21y, d/o Thos. & Catharine Banks; Mar


732/ John A. Robinson, ae 24y, oysterman,

s/o Lewis & Susanna Robinson; Clara Jackson,

ae 21y, d/o Henry & Emiline Jackson; Apr 11

1869 by Rev. E. M. Peterson.

733/ Benjamin B. Belvin, ae 30y, farmer, s/o

(Continued from page 39)

Geo. & Fanny Belvin; Mary Green, ae 28y, d/o

Geo. & Nancy Green; Mar 27 1869 by Rev. Wm.

E. Wiatt.

734/ William Brooks, ae 21y, oysterman, s/o

--- & Hester Brooks; Sarah Gregory, ae 20y, d/o

Peter & Emily Gregory; Apr 6 1869 by Rev. E. M.

Peterson.

735/ James Thomas Jordon, ae 22y,

oysterman, s/o Wm. & Mariah J. Jordon;

Margaret Ann Purcell, ae 26y, widow, d/o John

B. & Isabella James; Apr 19 1869 by Rev. W. S.

Hawkins.

736/ Robert J. Hudgins, ae 21y, farmer, of

Mathews Co VA, s/o Wm. & Frances Hudgins;

Vandelia Hudgins, ae 23y, d/o Wm. H. & Mary E.

Hudgins; Apr 19 1869 by Rev. J. T. Wallace.

737/ L. M. Ironmonger, ae 25y, waterman, of

York Co VA, s/o L. D. & Elizabeth Ironmonger;

Sue Templeman, ae 20y, d/o Wm. H. & Mildred

Templeman; Apr 22 1869 by Rev. E. M. Peterson.

738/ Joseph Smith, ae 22y, farmer, s/o

Harry & Priscilla Smith; Adeline Semore, ae 21y,

d/o Daniel & Lucy Semore; Apr 24 1869 by Rev.

J. T. Wallace.



Davy & India Banks Gloucester none UM Davy Banks father

John & Elvira Brown Gloucester none UM John Brown father

John W. & Elizabeth Booth Gloucester none UM John W. Booth father

Carter & Matilda Braxton Gloucester none Vernor Braxton Sally Johston mother -in-law

Laura Banks Gloucester none UM William Rily friend

James & Rachel Braxton Gloucester none UM Peter Johnston friend

James & Rachel Braxton Gloucester none UM Peter Johnston friend

Guy & Sarah Brooks Gloucester none UM Sarah Brooks mother

1890

James H. & Alice Brown Gloucester none UM James H. Brown father

Thomas & Ellen B. Brown Gloucester none UM Thomas Brown father

Lineas & Mary Bland Middlesex none UM Lineas Bland father

Hesekiah & Julia Bew West Point none UM Hesekiah Bew father

Robert & Latia Blake Middlesex farmer UM J. W. Blake son

Lewis & Polly Booker Gloucester farmer Lucy Booker Lucy Booker wife

Luke & Polene Burwell Gloucester none UM Luke Burwell father

John & Frances Berry Gloucester none UM John Berry, Sr. father

John W. & Elizabeth Berry Gloucester none UM John Berry, Jr. father


Alex & Fannie Brown Gloucester none UM Alex Brown father

James & Elizabeth Bolden Gloucester none UM Mary Smith aunt

James & Elizabeth Bolden Gloucester none UM James Bolden father

Guy & Sarah Brooks Gloucester none UM Sarah Brooks mother

Harry & Catharine Buckner Gloucester none UM Harry Buckner father

John H. & Venus Banks Gloucester none UM John Banks father

Mary L. Brown (Illegitimate) Gloucester none UM Taylor Brown grandfather

unknown unknown none UM Peter Washington friend

Richard & Rosa Bird Gloucester none UM Beverly London friend

unknown unknown none UM Beverly London friend


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739/ John C. Buckins, ae 30y, wheelwright,

of Lancaster PENN, lived King and Queen, s/o

Geo. & Ann Buckins; Martha A. Booker, ae 25y,

d/o Geo. Pillsbury, mother unk, May 3 1869 by


740/ James Green, ae 25, oysterman, s/o

Geo. & Nancy Green; Elizabeth Belvin, ae 24y, d/

o Geo. & Frances Belvin; May 11 1869 by Rev.

Wm. E. Wiatt.

741/ Joseph Carter, ae 23y, oysterman, s/o

Samuel & Betsy Carter; Sally Carter, ae 37y,

widow, d/o James & Nancy Fox; May 20 1869 by

Rev. W. S. Hawkins.

742/ Si Jones, ae 21y, oysterman, s/o Si &

Fanne Jones; Grace Lee, ae 14y, d/o Jasper &

Martha Lee; May 23 1869 by Rev. Chas. Mann.

743/ David Grimes, ae 22y, oysterman, s/o

Chas. & Daffany Grimes; Mary Ellen Dixon, ae

19y, d/o Wm. & Betsy Dixon; June 3 1869 by

Rev. W. S. Hawkins.

744/ William C. Edwards, ae 40y, farmer, s/

o Thos. C. & Nancy Edwards; Mary Ann Haynes,

ae 26y, d/o Wm. & Frances Haynes; June 17

1869 by Rev. E. M. Peterson.

745/ Albert M. Stubbs, ae 26y, clerk, s/o

John W. & Ellen Wright Stubbs; Sarah J. Hughes,

ae 25y, d/o Wm. C. & Jane Hughes; June 27


746/ Robert Lockly, ae 27y, oysterman, s/o

Daniel & Milly Lockly; Melvina Robinson, ae 20y,

d/o John & Mary Robinson; June 29 1869 by


747/ Munford Howard, ae 60y, farmer, of

York Co Va, parents unk; Margaret Page, ae 35y,

d/o Daniel & Franky Page; July 8 1869 by Rev.

Wm. E. Wiatt.

748/ Robert Roades Berry, ae 45y, merchant,

s/o James & Ann Berry; Martha Glass, ae 30y, of

Mathews Co VA, d/o Andrew & Sarah Glass; July


749/ John Mince Wilkins, ae 45y, widower,

farmer, s/o Nathan & Nancy Wilkins; Elizabeth

Frances Howlett, ae 24y, d/o Isaac & Ann

Howlett; July 16 1869 by Rev. E. M. Peterson.

750/ Thomas Jefferson, ae 23y, oysterman,

parents unk; Frances Slaughter, ae 21y, d/o


Genealogy Reference Sources

In the Virginia Room

Gloucester Library, Gloucester, Virginia

These sources should provide helpful information for people researching their

ancestors from Gloucester and Mathews County, Virginia. Compiled by Roger

Davis.

1. Abbot, William W., A Virginia Chronology 1585-1783, Williamsburg, Va., 1957.

VA Ref 975.5008 Jam

2. A Guide to Gloucester County, Virginia Historical Manuscripts, 1651-1865,

Archives Division Virginia State Library, Richmond, VA, September 1976,

compiled by Charles A. Bodie and William H. Siener. VA Ref 015.7553

3. Virginia Tax Payers, 1782-1787, other than those published by the U. S. Census

Bureau. Augusta B. Fothergill and John Mark Naugle, Baltimore, MD,

Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1978. Ref VA 929.3 Vir

4. The Hornbook of Virginia History, 4

th

edition, edited by Salmon, Emily J. and

Campbell, Jr., Edward D. C.

5. Dabney, Virginius. Virginia: The New Dominion, A History from 1607 to the

Present. 1971. Reprint. Charlottesville, 1983.

6. Quit Rents of VA 1704, Smith, Annie Laurie Wright.

7. Bell, Landon C., Sunshine on the Soutside, List of Tithes, Lunenburg Co. 1748-

1783, Clearfield Co., Philadelphia, orig. pub. 1931.

8. Map Guide to the U. S. General Censuses 1790-1920, Thorndale, William and

Dollarhide, William. Pub. By Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD.

9. The Register of Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia 1677-1780,

compiled by Robert W. Robins, 1981. VA Ref 929.3 Reg.

10. Doran, Michael F., Atlas of County Boundry Changes in Virginia 1634-

1895”,Iberian Publishing Co., 1987, Athens, GA.

11. Roster of the Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution -1890-1958”,

1959, DAR, Richmond, VA, Pub. By Garrett and Massie, Inc.


Gloucester Genealogical Society of Virginia

Computer Interest Group

Genealogy related sites to explore. No one site will ever give you all the answers you seek,

however, with a little practice you may find a lot of useful information right from the

comfort of your home by exploring the Internet! Let’s try these sites.

1. Ships Passenger Lists. Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild. A volunteer group posting

ships lists; new but growing (over 300 passenger manifests with over 7,000 names).

http://istg.rootsweb.com

2. The DAR Library (Daughters of the American Revolution) is good for Surnames and

Family genealogies. Do not "limit" your search.

http://dar.library.net

3. Gloucester County, VA. Information sources. Look at First Census 1784 for Surnames;

Abingdon Parish; and Gloucester County.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaglouce/glouces.html

4. Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites. A massive source of sites and information to visit. A

must see but will require some homework and study before you get the "perfect" hit!

http://www.CyndisList.com

5. A Genealogy Help List for Virginia. A place to send your query "to a person" that will

try "look ups" in the sources they have.

View a map of the Counties.

http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/mttaylor/va.htm

6. The US Genweb Project. A contact source for all states and most counties. A nation

wide group of volunteers hosting and posting county information.

Select State, then County.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~vagenweb/

7. Roane Hunt's start-up site for our own Gloucester Genealogical Society of Virginia.

This should grow and switch to a TBI, Inc. web site in the very near future.

http://users.inna.net/~mslee/

8. Gloucester Genealogical Society of Virginia

"to a person" that will try "look ups" in the sources they have.

View a map of the Counties.

http://home.sprynet.com/


Surname Files

The Gloucester Society has set up a VERTICAL FILE in the Virginia Room at the

Gloucester (VA) Library. In addition to local articles of interest, a SURNAME FILE is being

compiled. You are encouraged to submit your family data so that others may share.

Information may be left at the front desk or mailed to:

Gloucester Genealogical Society

P. O. Box 367

Gloucester, Virginia 23061

Also, we solicit copies of your computer GEDCOM files in this connection, and files on

various Gloucester SURNAMES are available at [email protected]. The current SURNAMES

included in the file are:

NAMES:

A. ACRA, ALLARD, ARMISTEAD, & ASH.

B. BANISTER, BANKS, BASSET, BAYTOP,

BERKELEY, BERNARD, BLANTON,

BOOKER, BOOTH, BOSWELL, BRAY,

BRIADGES, BROWN, BRYAN, BUCKNER,

BURWELL, & BUSBY.

C. CARMINE, CARY, CATLETT, CHANEY,

CHAPMAN, CLAYTON, COLEMAN,

COLLIER, COOKE, & CROSWELL.

D. DAVIS, DEAL, DIGGS, DIXON, DUNN &

DUTTON.

E. ELLIOTT, EMERSON, & EPPS.

F. FIELD, FIGG, FOSTER, FITCHETT, &

FULLER.

G. GANN, GIBBS, GRAVES, GRAY, GREENE,

GROOME, GUIDOT ( CUIOT), & GWYN.

H. HAINES, HARRIS, HARRISON, HODSON,

HOPKINS, HIGGENBOTHAM, HOGG,

HUDSON, & HUNT.

I. ISHAM

J. JAQUELIN, & JONES.

K. KEMP, & KING.

L. LEWIS

M. MATIAU, & MILLER

N. NUNNALLY, & NUTTALL.

O. OLIVER, & OVERTON.

P. PATE, PHILPOTTS, PURCELL, & PRATT.

O. OLIVER, & OVERTON.

Q. QUILLIN.

R. RANSONE, READE, ROBINS, ROWE,

ROYSTER, & ROYSTON.

S. SEARS, SHACKELFORD, SEWELL,

SINGLETON, SMITH, STEVENS, STONE,

STUBBLEFIELD, & STUBBS.

T. TABB, TALIAFERRO, TAYLOR,

TEMPLEMAN, TENNIS, THOMAS,

THURSTON, TIMBERLAKE, & TYLER.

W. WALKER, WARNER, WASHINGTON,

WATERS, WEST, WIATT, WHITE,

WILLIAMS, WILSON, & WOODLAND.

Y. YATES.

MISCELLANEOUS:

Abingdon Church Register

Abingdon Parish

Grafton Christian Church Register, 1834 -

1861

Internet

Middlesex County, VA

Petsworth Parish

Robins (J. Hammond) Index

Virginia Tax Record, Lancaster County, VA

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