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Note: 1840 Federal Census of Davie County: Roll #359, p195
NASH, Will. : one male <5 (James E.), one male 5-10 (Wilson Tatum/James Caleb), one male 10-15 (William H.), one male 20-30 (unknown), one male 30-40 (William).
One female 15-20 (related to like age male?), one female 30-40 (Rebecca.)
Male slaves: one, age 36-55. Female slaves: one, <10, one 24-36.
There were two other heads of households named William Nash in Davie County, but they were even less perfect matches. In the 1850 Census, (see below) only 3 sons were shown. The person (brother, nephew, cousin) age 20-30 would have moved on. James Caleb must have died young ,otherwise why would they have named two sons "James?"
A William Nash is also listed as head of a family in Portsmouth, VA, in the 1840 Census. Likely another William Nash as William G. died in Davie County in 1840.
Willam and Rebecca Nash are listed a parents of their sons, James Edward and John C. and Willim H. , on their respective marriage certificates.
Nellie Turner listed Caleb Nash and Betsy Boushell as parents of William G. Nash. Have no documentation for this, there is a family bible, which I have not seen. This information may have come from there, as Nellie talked to a family member who had seen it /was in posseession of it (Evelyn). William G. Nash was probably not the son of William Nash and Abigail Herbert as their son was William H. Nash.
According to Davie County Cemeteries, Volume II, compiled by Davie County Historical and Genealogical Society, Mocksville, NC, 1988 Maxmillian Cutherell and his wife, Margaret Ballentine Cutherell are buried in Olive Branch Cemetery, Farmington, Davie County, NC. I did find and photograph their gravestones.
No gravesite for the William or Rebecca Nash were found. However, there were many graves with illegible stones and many spaces without stones. Directions: From Mocksville, take highway #158 to Farmington Road, turn left and travel about 5 miles. Cemetary is on the left, on a knoll. It is encircled by a brick wall, and full of very old boxwoods.
See notes for Rebecca Tatum Nash for guardianship issues for their three sons.
From: Barbara McMahon <bmcmahon@@cdepot.net>
To: rebecca lee <rebecca.lee3@@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: Rebecca Nash
Date: Saturday, November 03, 2001 8:52 PM
Hi Becky:
I'm having difficulty reading some of what you sent. I've transcribed the
two petitions requesting Dower rights. I'll enclose at the end and if you
can read the old writing better than I can, maybe you can fill in the words
I can't read.
This is what I've come up with after studying everything you sent, see what
you think:
Per the 1850 Census, Rebecca was 48, so born about 1802.
I have a Marriage Record listed in the Norfolk Cty Marriages, 1818-1840
(Vol III) for a William G. Nash and a Rebecca Tatum, December 14, 1827.
Sur. William Jones. That would have made her about 25 when she married.
Assuming he was the same age, he was also 25.
Ancestry.com shows a census listing for a William G. Nash, in St. Brides
Parish, VA, for 1830. This might be our Wm and Rebecca. I can't get to
the screen that has this listing to see the age group, but right now I
think this is likely the two who got married 3 years earlier.
According to my records, William Henry Nash, son of Wm. G and Rebecca, was
born 1828/29 in VA. His marriage license to J.J. Ballentine says he was 35
at March 6, 1865. But at the 1850 census, (taken August 5) he was 21.
And this is the reason I think for Rebecca's petition for Dower in
1850--her oldest son reached the age to inherit his share and she wanted
her portion before they began divving up the land. It would explain also
why there was a guardianship for all three in 1848 and only for the younger
2 in 1850. If William G died in 1843, there might have been other
guardianship papers, either not recorded or misfiled, or just missed. From
accounts I have on relatives in South Carolina, even if the mother is
alive, they usually appointed a male as guardian.
James was born in 1838 in VA. I think you said there were children in
between. In 1840, there are 3 listing for William Nashes in Davie
County--and none for William G. in Virginia. My guess is they moved to
Davie County sometime between James' birth in 1838 and the 1840 Census. My
records also show John as being born in 1841--the son born in Davie County.
(1850 US Census, his marriage license) so we know somewhere between 1838
and 1841 they relocated to Davie County. But why? As you know from
driving the distance, it's a long way--especially in 1840!
By 1856, William Henry had returned to Norfolk as he married Caroline
Ballentine April, 1856. If we believe Rebecca died in 1859, why did
William Henry return to Deep Creek in 1856? In 1860, William Henry is
enumerated with his father-in-law, Martin Ballentine. I don't know where
James and John were.
By April, 1861, I have William, James and John all enlisting in the CSA
from Norfolk County. I can see they might have left after their mother's
death, to return to Deep Creek and their older brother. I expect they had
other family there, even if they didn't know them well having left (in
James's case) as a baby.
In 1866, I have James married to Ann Cutherell and living in Deep Creek,
where he lived until he died in 1896. (This is the marriage license that
listed "William H. and Rebecca Nash" as James' parents. In researching all
my notes, and copies, this is the only initial I have for William, but for
more than 20 years, I have thought his Daddy was William H. Nash. Sheesh!)
William Henry and John also stayed in Virginia until their deaths.
So, do you have any idea who William G's daddy might be? Rebecca Tatum's?
What happened to the property in Davie County?
Here's what I've gotten from the two petitions:
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North Carolina
Davie County February Term, 1850
The petition of Rebecca Nash, widow of William Nash deceased, sets forth
that her husband, William Nash, departed this life, lately in the County of
Davie, intestate, and that at the time of his death he was seized and
possessed of a tract of land lying in Davie County, adjoining the land of
Max Cutherell and others, containing 140 acres more or less and that she is
entitled to Dower in the land and prays to be endowed with the same.
The same coming on to be heard, it is ordered, adjudged and decreed by our
said Court, that the Sheriff of Davie County summon and duly qualify a jury
of good and lawful men and proceed and layoff Dower as prayed for.
To the Sheriff of Davie County -- Greetings
You are hereby commanded to summon a jury of good and lawful men, and duly
qualify them, and proceed with them and the Surveyor of your County to
allot and let off, by metes and bounds, Dower to the said Rebecca Nash,
widow of the said William Nash, deceased, out of the lands above described,
of which the said William Nash did seize and possess in Davie County and
put her in possession of the same and make due return of your proceedings
in the premises, to our next Court of Pleas and Quarter Session, to be held
for the County of Davie at the Court House in Monksville, on the 4th Monday
in May next.
Witness, Caswell Harlin, Clerk of ___ said court at Monksville, the 4th
Monday in February 1850
North Carolina Court of Pleas and Quarter
Davie County Session: February term 1850
To the worshipful the justices of said Court the petition of Rebecca Nash
-- respectfully {shewith} under yr worships that her husband William Nash
hath lately departed his life intestate in said County, that the time of
his death he was seize and possessed of a tract of land lying and situated
in said County, known as the Home Tract, adjoining the land of Max
Cutherell and others, containing 140 acres more or less in which she is
entitled to Dower. That William Henry, James and John Nash (infants of tender years) are his heirs at law. She therefore prays yr worships to
issue a writ of Dower to the Sheriff of Davie commanding him to summon a
jury of freeholders to lay off and allot to yr petitioner her Dower in said
land and report to this next term of this court and that the clerk be
appointed guardian ________ for the heirs and acknowledge service of this
petition and she will ever pray ___.
Signed John Lillington
attorney for petitioner
---
Thanks again for sending all this to me. Wm. G. sure owed a lot of money
for those days. But her farm in 1850 looked prosperous. Wonder if the
boys sold it when they reached majority--which would have been in 1862 for
John. Maybe they were able to sell it prior to the Civil War, and that's
why they were in Norfolk. Who knows?
I asked my great aunt about William, since James and John were already dead
when she was born. But she said she never knew anything about her dad's
side of the family--he didn't talk about them at all. She was probably 25
or so when William Henry died.
All the best,
Barbara
[Jtatum.FTW]
Notes for William NASH
1840 Federal Census of Davie County: Roll #359, p195
NASH, Will. : one male <5 (James E.), one male 5-10 (Wilson Tatum/James Caleb), one male 10-15 (William H.), one male 20-30 (unknown), one male 30-40 (William).
One female 15-20 (related to like age male?), one female 30-40 (Rebecca.)
Male slaves: one, age 36-55. Female slaves: one, <10, one 24-36.
There were two other heads of households named William Nash in Davie County, but they were even less perfect matches. In the 1850 Census, (see below) only 3 sons were shown. The person (brother, nephew, cousin) age 20-30 would have moved on. James Caleb must have died young ,otherwise why would they have named two sons "James?"
A William Nash is also listed as head of a family in Portsmouth, VA, in the 1840 Census. Likely another William Nash as William G. died in Davie County in 1840.
Willam and Rebecca Nash are listed a parents of their sons, James Edward and John C., on their respective marriage certificates.
Nellie Turner listed Caleb Nash and Betsy Boushell as parents of William G. Nash. Have no documentation for this, there is a family bible, it may have come from there. William G. Nash was probably not the son of William Nash and Abigail Herbert as their son was William H. Nash.
According to Davie County Cemeteries, Volume II, compiled by Davie County Historical and Genealogical Society, Mocksville, NC, 1988 Maxmillian Cutherell and his wife, Margaret Ballentine Cutherell are buried in Olive Branch Cemetery, Farmington, Davie County, NC. I did find and photograph their gravestones.
No gravesite for the William or Rebecca Nash were found. there were many graves with illegible stones and many spaces without stones. Directions: From Mocksville, take highway #158 to Farmington Road, turn left and travel about 5 miles. Cemetary is on the left, on a knoll. It is encircled by a brick wall, and full of very old boxwoods.
See notes for Rebecca Tatum Nash for guardianship issues for their three sons.From: Barbara McMahon <bmcmahon@@cdepot.net>
To: rebecca lee <rebecca.lee3@@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: Rebecca Nash
Date: Saturday, November 03, 2001 8:52 PM
Hi Becky:
I'm having difficulty reading some of what you sent. I've transcribed the
two petitions requesting Dower rights. I'll enclose at the end and if you
can read the old writing better than I can, maybe you can fill in the words
I can't read.
This is what I've come up with after studying everything you sent, see what
you think:
Per the 1850 Census, Rebecca was 48, so born about 1802.
I have a Marriage Record listed in the Norfolk Cty Marriages, 1818-1840
(Vol III) for a William G. Nash and a Rebecca Tatum, December 14, 1827.
Sur. William Jones. That would have made her about 25 when she married.
Assuming he was the same age, he was also 25.
Ancestry.com shows a census listing for a William G. Nash, in St. Brides
Parish, VA, for 1830. This might be our Wm and Rebecca. I can't get to
the screen that has this listing to see the age group, but right now I
think this is likely the two who got married 3 years earlier.
According to my records, William Henry Nash, son of Wm. G and Rebecca, was
born 1828/29 in VA. His marriage license to J.J. Ballentine says he was 35
at March 6, 1865. But at the 1850 census, (taken August 5) he was 21.
And this is the reason I think for Rebecca's petition for Dower in
1850--her oldest son reached the age to inherit his share and she wanted
her portion before they began divving up the land. It would explain also
why there was a guardianship for all three in 1848 and only for the younger
2 in 1850. If William G died in 1843, there might have been other
guardianship papers, either not recorded or misfiled, or just missed. From
accounts I have on relatives in South Carolina, even if the mother is
alive, they usually appointed a male as guardian.
James was born in 1838 in VA. I think you said there were children in
between. In 1840, there are 3 listing for William Nashes in Davie
County--and none for William G. in Virginia. My guess is they moved to
Davie County sometime between James' birth in 1838 and the 1840 Census. My
records also show John as being born in 1841--the son born in Davie County.
(1850 US Census, his marriage license) so we know somewhere between 1838
and 1841 they relocated to Davie County. But why? As you know from
driving the distance, it's a long way--especially in 1840!
By 1856, William Henry had returned to Norfolk as he married Caroline
Ballentine April, 1856. If we believe Rebecca died in 1859, why did
William Henry return to Deep Creek in 1856? In 1860, William Henry is
enumerated with his father-in-law, Martin Ballentine. I don't know where
James and John were.
By April, 1861, I have William, James and John all enlisting in the CSA
from Norfolk County. I can see they might have left after their mother's
death, to return to Deep Creek and their older brother. I expect they had
other family there, even if they didn't know them well having left (in
James's case) as a baby.
In 1866, I have James married to Ann Cutherell and living in Deep Creek,
where he lived until he died in 1896. (This is the marriage license that
listed "William H. and Rebecca Nash" as James' parents. In researching all
my notes, and copies, this is the only initial I have for William, but for
more than 20 years, I have thought his Daddy was William H. Nash. Sheesh!)
William Henry and John also stayed in Virginia until their deaths.
So, do you have any idea who William G's daddy might be? Rebecca Tatum's?
What happened to the property in Davie County?
Here's what I've gotten from the two petitions:
---
North Carolina
Davie County February Term, 1850
The petition of Rebecca Nash, widow of William Nash deceased, sets forth
that her husband, William Nash, departed this life, lately in the County of
Davie, intestate, and that at the time of his death he was seized and
possessed of a tract of land lying in Davie County, adjoining the land of
Max Cutherell and others, containing 140 acres more or less and that she is
entitled to Dower in the land and prays to be endowed with the same.
The same coming on to be heard, it is ordered, adjudged and decreed by our
said Court, that the Sheriff of Davie County summon and duly qualify a jury
of good and lawful men and proceed and layoff Dower as prayed for.
To the Sheriff of Davie County -- Greetings
You are hereby commanded to summon a jury of good and lawful men, and duly
qualify them, and proceed with them and the Surveyor of your County to
allot and let off, by metes and bounds, Dower to the said Rebecca Nash,
widow of the said William Nash, deceased, out of the lands above described,
of which the said William Nash did seize and possess in Davie County and
put her in possession of the same and make due return of your proceedings
in the premises, to our next Court of Pleas and Quarter Session, to be held
for the County of Davie at the Court House in Monksville, on the 4th Monday
in May next.
Witness, Caswell Harlin, Clerk of ___ said court at Monksville, the 4th
Monday in February 1850
North Carolina Court of Pleas and Quarter
Davie County Session: February term 1850
To the worshipful the justices of said Court the petition of Rebecca Nash
-- respectfully {shewith} under yr worships that her husband William Nash
hath lately departed his life intestate in said County, that the time of
his death he was seize and possessed of a tract of land lying and situated
in said County, known as the Home Tract, adjoining the land of Max
Cutherell and others, containing 140 acres more or less in which she is
entitled to Dower. That William Henry, James and John Nash (infants of
tender years) are his heirs at law. She therefore prays yr worships to
issue a writ of Dower to the Sheriff of Davie commanding him to summon a
jury of freeholders to lay off and allot to yr petitioner her Dower in said
land and report to this next term of this court and that the clerk be
appointed guardian ________ for the heirs and acknowledge service of this
petition and she will ever pray ___.
Signed John Lillington
attorney for petitioner
---
Thanks again for sending all this to me. Wm. G. sure owed a lot of money
for those days. But her farm in 1850 looked prosperous. Wonder if the
boys sold it when they reached majority--which would have been in 1862 for
John. Maybe they were able to sell it prior to the Civil War, and that's
why they were in Norfolk. Who knows?
I asked my great aunt about William, since James and John were already dead
when she was born. But she said she never knew anything about her dad's
side of the family--he didn't talk about them at all. She was probably 25
or so when William Henry died.
All the best,
Barbara
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