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Note: From: kniel56541@aol.com
To: windsongrg@comcast.net
Subject: Re: Harris-
Date: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 10:57:08 PM
This is from the chapter called "Three Daughters of John Earl." "To go back to the family of James Crews: James Crews, son of Gideon the first, born July, 1785, married Sarah, third daughter of John Earl." The author's grandfather was a Crews, so he is strongest in that line.
"The best impression we can obtain from the deeds is that the Gideon Crews, Sr. lands and the John Earl lands adjoined around and just east, north and northwest of where Salem Church now is, three miles east and northeast of Oxford; and that grandfather, James Crews, bought them and more, comprising more than a thousand acres, and lived there until his death in 1875. His wife, Sarah, was born in 1791, and died in1863. Their first child, Allen Spencer, was born February 16, 1811, and died in infancy.
Their next child was born May 15, 1813 and was James A. Crews. He was called 'Little Jimmie' or 'Tar River Jimmie.' He married Martha Hunt, not a sister, but of the same family of which two sons, Joseph andGeorge, married his two sisters, Martha and Susan. "Little Jimmie' ashe was called, was much of a man. He soon bought a fine farm on the south side of Tar River near Minor's Mill and lived there until he wasnearly 90, rearing the following children:
1. David G. Crews married Fleming, reared a large family and lived tobe old.
2. Sarah A. Crews married William Lyon. They had three children. Kate, who married James T. Cozart and died young; Ira who married James T. Cozart's sister. Ira Lyon and wife have several children and are both still living. Sarah Crews Lyon later married Rev. Thomas J. Horner of Henderson. They both lived to be nearly 80. He died first.
3. Lorena, who married Rogers, and afterward R. G. Bobbitt, and is now a widow. She has two sons: Ira Rogers and Glenn Bobbitt.
4. Robert T. Crews married a daughter of Kizeh Stark. Robert lived to be old. They had no children.
5. Louisa Crews married William D. Mitchell of Wake. About 1889, they removed to near Middleburg, in Vance County. Mr. Mitchell died atagood old age, about 1920. His wife still lives. They have the following children: Ed D. Mitchell, W. G. Mitchell, Bunn Mitchell, Marvin Mitchell, and one who went to California and died leaving children there.
6. Edward H. Crews married Laura, daughter of Rev. Thomas J. Horner.She died. He removed to Rocky Mount, North Carolina and there married again many years later. He is dead. No children survive him.
7. Carolina Crews, called Callie, married John Smith. They had threechildren: Lonnie Smith, who long lived and does yet, in Oxford, Lennie Smith of Oxford, Maude married Mr. Jackson. They all have families.
8. Leroy Crews, married, lives at Thelma, in Halifax. The members ofhis family are unknown to me.
9. Flora Crews married Best; lived near Goldsboro, died, children unknown to me.
10. Albert A. Crews, youngest son of James A. and Martha Crews, married Miss Stark, no children.
11. Rebecca Crews, now living, never married.
The next child of James and Sarah Earl Crews was Mary E. Crews, born December 2, 1815. She married William O. Wright, a brother of John W.Wright and uncle of Mr. George W. Wright. They removed to Tennessee and had children who, in 1875, received their share of the estate of James Crews.
Rebecca A. Crews, fourth child of James and Sarah Earl Crews, was born April, 1817. She married James Cheatham. They lived about five miles southeast of Oxford, where their grandson, Hamlin Cheatham, now lives. James Cheatham died in 1865, heart broken over the result of theWar. His wife, Rebecca, died in August, 1888. Their children and descendants were:
1. William A. Cheatham, who married Asenath F., daughter of Lewis Parham. Their children were: Elizabeth, who married J. H. Goodrich of Henderson and died leaving a son, Ben, and a daughter, Lily. Benjamin H. Cheatham, who died of typhoid fever at the age of 22, unmarried, about the year 1889. Ernest Lee Cheatham, who died without issue. Adolphus Whitfield Cheatham, an Episcopal minister of the state of Oregon. Thad A. Cheatham, an Episcopal minister of Southern Pines or Pinehurst, North Carolina.
2. The second child of James and Rebecca Cheatham was Sarah, who married Albert C. Parham, son of Lewis Parham. She died in August, 1875 of typhoid fever, leaving seven small children: Alonzo W.; Edwin T.; Cornelius H.; Percy C., who was shot by accident on Thanksgiving Day, 1906, leaving a wife and several children; Mary Tazwell Parham, who married __________ Watson and died young, leaving children; James, who married Miss Hood and had several children; and Frank Earle, who is a lawyer and lives in New York and has been married twice.
3. The third child of James and Rebecca Cheatham was David Thomas Cheatham He went through the Civil War with my father. They were each the other's nearest neighbor many years and were ever good friends. He married Annie, daughter of Thomas Reavis, of near Henderson. He ownedthe Cheatham Mill for a generation until it was thought gold was foundnear it. Then he sold it and the farm for a good price and bought theMemucan H. Hester farm near Oxford, and lived there until his deathatmore than eighty in 1915. His wife survived him several years.Thechildren and descendants of D. T. and Annie Cheatham were:
1. Claudius Cecil Cheatham, a tobacconist of Youngsville, North Carolina. He married Cora W. Winston of Youngsville. Their children are: Claude C., Jr.; Winston Thomas; Clarence Burton; Robert E.; Susan Caroline and Lurline Cheatham, deceased.
2. Fred A. Cheatham, a tobacconist, of Youngsville, North Carolina. He married Maude Freeman. Their children are: Jessamine; Elizabeth; Maude and two who died in infancy.
3. Thomas Flavius Cheatham, tobacconist, Louisburg, North Carolina, married Bessie Staley. Their children are: William Staley Cheatham; Thomas Harvey Cheatham, deceased; and Florence Cheatham, deceased.
4. Robert Hubert Cheatham, farmer, deceased, never married.
5. Zeb Young Cheatham, married Annie Meeder, deceased, left one child, David Thomas Cheatham.
6. James Amis Cheatham, married Rosa Lee Parrish, Richmond, Virginia;no children.
7. Joseph Gibbs Cheatham, deceased, unmarried.
8. Lucy Catherine Cheatham, deceased.
9. Eva Rebecca Cheatham, married William B. Smoot. They have two children, William B. Smoot; Eva Cheatham Smoot.
10. Annie Belle Cheatham, married Thomas Crawford. They have three children: Thomas B. Crawford, Jr.; James Walker Crawford; Annie Caroline Crawford.
11. Mattie Roberta Cheatham, married Luther S. Farabow. Two children: Lucy Catherine and Pearl Elizabeth.
12. Pearl Elizabeth Cheatham, married Sidney R. Abernathy. Two children: Birdie Eloise and Lucy Catherine.
The other two sisters, Mary and Patsie Earl, have 272 descendants. There isn't anything of the ancestors of John Earl.
One last thing, you may want to look at www.southerncampaign.org. These are abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Statements. There is aJohn Earl listed there requesting a pension in his old age - 81 and living in Georgia in 1841. That would make this John Earl born about 1760.
Good luck!
Kathy
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