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Note: N205 Josiah Hart served in the Indian War of 1837, following the Indian attack on his Uncle Josiah’s family as well as on his father's family. (Hart, Josiah L., Pouncey's Co., Blair's Batt'n, AL mil, Private; Hart, Josiah L. Capt. Pouncey's Co., Wellborn's Reg't AL Mtd. Vols. (3 months 1837, Private). His brother, Moses, also served, as did either his father Robert or his brother Robert. Then he also enlisted in Captain Ledbetter’s Company of Wellborn’s Alabama Mounted Militia. This unit served during the Second Seminole Indian War. This unit was founded in Dale County, Alabama in 1837. At this time the Seminole Indians from nearby Florida were attacking the lower region of Alabama. Josiah was honorably discharged at Tampa Bay, Florida. He received a 160 acres land warrant for his service, bounty land #37494-80-’55. He applied for a pension in 1892 “by reason of old age”. At the time of his death, he was receiving $8 a month. Source: “Declaration for Indian War Survivor’s Pension”, 1892, Cert. #2368 According to Grandpa Will Walther, his grandfather Josiah Hart, a son of Robert, was injured in either the Indian attack or the war. He bore a deep scar inflicted by an Indian's weapon. (Passed on by Earl Walther)
1840 Dale Co. (later Coffee), Alabama census, p. 22 J. L. Hart 1 male 20-30, 1 male 50-60, 1 female 0-5, 1 female 15-20 There was a male, 50-60, living with them who I would guess was his father, Robert.
The marriage to Mary Ann Barlow was spoken of in papers written by James Jones of Conecuh Co., who told of it in a letter he wrote in June of 1848. Source: Conecuh Co., AL Heritage book, p. 138, 2nd column, by Sara Jones McAnulty.
1850 Conecuh Co., Alabama census, p. 345, HH#215 Josiah Hart, 35, farmer b. in South Carolina Mary, 25, b. in Alabama Nancy, 11, b. in Alabama as well as all the children Chasey, 8 Sarah, 5 Disa, 2 Mary, 1 mo. Robert, 65, farmer (They were living about a mile or two away from William and Dicey Barlow, parents of Mary Ann.)
1860 Covington Co., Alabama census, p. 375, HH#139 Josiah Hart, 45, farmer, pers. prop. $150, b. South Carolina, not read or write Mary, 36, Domestic, b. Alabama (as were all the children) Dicy, 12, attending school Mary, 10, Elva, 8 (Ellen?) Jay L., 5 William R., 3 Josiah and his family were living in Montezuma Township, Andalusia Post, about section 8 or 9, within two households of Davis S. Barrow. Sarah Hart was living with the Barrows as a domestic. John A. Franklin was living 3 households on the oher side of the Barrows. (Josiah’s son, William Robert, would marry Eliza Franklin.)
1866 Conecuh Co., AL census, T2, R13 Josiah was living two households from John Fukeway, next household to Wm. Foshee, near Bryant and John Mancil, John J. Barrow.
1870 Parker’s Beat, Escambia Co. (old Conecuh), Alabama, census, p. 203, HH #111 Hart, Joseph, 55, laborer, b. South Carolina Mary, 40, keeping house, b. Alabama as were all the children Dysie, 21 Mary, 19 Sarah, 17 Jay, 15 William, 12 (Living next household to Wm. Foshee. This was previously a part of Conecuh Co. and probably the same place as 1866.) The name, Joseph, was used here.
Oct, 8, 1873, Josiah L. Hart sold his 320 acres in S18, T5, R14 for just $10 to D. J. Foshee of Covington Co. Was there a family connection? Foshees were neighbors on each side of Josiah in the 1860s and 1870s. Bk. O, p. 317
1880 census: Josiah Hart and his family were not found in any county.
By 1889, he had homesteaded property on S8 (Rome), T2, R14 Covington Co. that he had been living on for 4 years. He reported that he was a farmer and worked from time to time as the overseer for John I. Dixon. Mr. Dixon had first attempted to homestead the land, but he sold his right to Josiah. Prior to moving on that land, Josiah and Mary had lived nearby and farmed. (Dixon was his son-in-law).
18 Aug 1895: Death of Mary Ann Hart, his wife
1900 census: Pine Grove, Escambia Co., Alabama, p. 190a, HH #81 Josiah Hart, father, b March, 1815, 85, wd., living with son Jay Hart and his family Oddly, the enumerator recorded that he was b. in France as were his parents and that he arrived here in 1818 and was naturalized. This is impossible. This record was clearly our Josiah, who definitely had a son of this age named Jay. The neighbors were even the same as from the 1870 census when Josiah was enumerated in that spot (as Joseph, with Jay in the household). The names of neighbors James Palmer, Napolion Dixon and Daniel Phelps were the same in the later censuses, and other family names present at both times were McGowan, Jordan, Mansell, Blow and Phelps. Another interesting twist is that Josiah’s daughter Dicey’s father-in-law, George Walther, did indeed come from France and was born there in 1818. Did somebody in the family get his story confused with Josiah Hart’s story?
3 Oct 1903: His deathdate was found in “Indian Wars Pensions 1892-1926”, V. I, p. 657, by Virgil D. White. Found in Brooklyn Babtist Cem. records: In memory of Mary Ann, wife of R. L. HART (Should be J. L. Hart) May 15, 1824 August 18, 1895 Next grave: Unmarked - Was this the grave of Josiah? Location: Row nine BROOKLYN BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY Twenty miles from Evergreen, AL, on County Road #6
Is this the same Josiah Lawrence connected to our Josiah L. Hart’s grandfather, Moses Hart? War of 1812 Service Records Record about JOSIAH LAWRENCE Company: 1 REGIMENT (JOHNSTON'S), GEORGIA MILITIA. Rank - Induction: 1 LIEUTENANT Rank - Discharge: 1 LIEUTENANT Roll Box: 123 Roll Exct: 602
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