Sunday, September 14, 2008

Part Three cont. The Willis family from Leola Steel Willis and her kin

My great grandfather Orla Arthur Tellis (1887-1969) had three wives, (1) Leola Steel Willis (1887-1915), Clara Allen (abt 1919-aft 1979) and Lillian Allen (1902-aft 1997). Clara and Lillian, were, yes, sisters. This blog is concerned with the family history of his first wife, Leola S. Willis, as it is from her than I am descended. I shall be discreet and not rattle the family closet skeletons about Clara and Lillian Allen Tellis, except to say that my step-great grandmother, Aunt Lillian was a very kind lady and I have good memories of her. Clara, on the other hand, yelled at me when I was four years old and got caught sticking my finger in the butter dish, and sadly, this has clouded my memory of Orla's second wife to this day. She also wore stockings that had lines on the back of her legs. Aunt Lillian never wore such fuddy-duddy hosiery.

Leola Steel Willis was born in Columbus Grove, which is in Putnam County, Ohio, on the 10th of April, 1887. This is a very important date to me, as I was also born on April 10th, but not in the same year. Leola was the second child born to her parents, Zachary Taylor Willis and Isabelle Diantha Winland. Their first child, Dossie Grace, died the same year she was born in 1883. I had always believe that my great grandmother, Leola, was the first born child to Zachary and Isabelle until a visit to some Willis family in the summer of 1987 where I happened to see the Willis family bible and there I found out about Dossie Grace Willis. The other children of Zachary and Isabelle were Kitten Jean Willis and Winland James Willis.

Leola and her brother and sister grew to adulthood in Hamilton, county seat of Butler, Ohio. Leola graduated from Hamilton High School about 1904, somewhere I have a class pin of hers that reads "HH" for Hamilton High. I could be in error of the year of her graduation from Hamilton, but she would have been 17 in 1904. She met Orla Tellis sometime before 1909, for in that year she married Orla and on 25 April 1910, their only child, Dorothea Isabelle Tellis was born.

Leola was a sickly woman who suffered from tuberculosis and as the disease was known then, "consumption," it caused her death on the 15th of September in 1915. This left my grandmother without a mother until Orla married Clara Allen above in 1919. Until 1915, in all the photos you see of my grandmother, she was a happy little girl and treated very well by her parents and grandmother, Isabelle D. Winland Willis, after 1915, it is very hard to find a photo of Dorothea smiling with that beautiful smile she had as a small girl.

Leola's death changed the lives of many people for many generations. Orla became a distant father and his second wife was none too kind to Dorothea. Dorothea idolized her father, and she was a rather distant mother to her four children, and also to her 13 grandchildren. My thought is that my grandmother, having much bitterness growing up motherless without Leola, couldn't accept willingly the love of her four children and 13 grandchildren and judged them all according to the harsh standards of her father, Orla Tellis. Just my speculation. Had the second wife been more loving to my grandmother...well I'll say no more. These skeletons are really too sadly emotional to clog up this blog on family history.

Getting back to Leola's father...Zachary Taylor Willis was born in the year 1850 and was named, obviously for President Zachary Taylor who died in the year 1850. Zachary Taylor Willis was a shoe-maker by profession and he married the very young Isabelle Winland (always called "Belle') when she was but 17 years old on Christmas Day in 1882.

Zachary T. Willis, who was known by the name of "Jack" (source: Aunt Jenny Winland, sister of Belle Winland Willis). Jack and Belle Willis moved around in Ohio several times. Belle's family, the Winlands were from Paulding, Paulding County, Ohio, in the northwest section of Ohio, which borders on the Indiana line. The couple sent their eldest daughter, Leola, in the summer of 1893 to stay with her grandfather, Alexander Winland and her Aunt Molly (Mary Winland, eldest sister of Isabelle D. Winland Willis) and during the month of August in the year 1893, Leola, while only 7 years old, witnessed the death of her grandfather, Alexander Winland. Somewhere there is a letter from Mary Winland to Belle Winland Willis describing the death of their father, Alexander Winland and how Leola was right there at the house until the final passing of Alexander. I hope I still have a copy of this letter as it was most fascinating to read about a death-bed vigil, and if I find it I will post the contents here in this section.

As mentioned, Jack Willis like to move about. In fact, he moved so much that he abandoned his family! He left Isabelle D. Winland Willis with three young children sometime after the year in which Alexander Winland died in 1893. My grandmother, Dorothea Tellis Hackett told me that she thought he had gone west to the gold rush. The only gold rush occurring in the 1890s was the Alaska Gold Rush of 1898. Dorothea also told me that she thought that Zachary Taylor Willis died in the 1906 San Francisco, California earthquake in which over 3000 people died.

I cannot find any mention of Zachary T. Willis, or Jack Willis, in the 1900 or 1910 Federal Census. If he's dead in 1906, he won't be counted in the 1910 census. Unfortunately regarding the Alaska 1898 gold rush, that area was filled with thousands of people prospecting and the list of persons in the area at that time has not been all the promising when looking for Zachary or Jack Willis. Perhaps he never intended to abandon his wife, Belle and their three children, but by 1904, when possibly Leola graduated from high school in Hamilton, Zachary T. Willis is not in the picture.

As stated Zachary Willis was born in 1850 to Wilson Willis and Nancy Ann Parrish. Wilson Willis and his family lived in Coshockton County, Ohio, which lies in the mid-section of Ohio on the eastern side of the State. They had several children which shall be listed below. I lose track of Wilson and Nancy Willis after 1850. All of their five children were born between 1846 and 1859. As I have been unable to trace Wilson and Nancy by the Federal Census, after 1850, speculatively I believed they died before 1860, or Wilson Willis did and Nancy Ann Parrish Willis remarried (but again, I find no information on her).

Interestingly I find Zachary Taylor Willis living in Michigan in the 1880 census. He is living in Charlevoix County, as a border and his occupation is shoe maker. After this he moves back to Ohio, more than likely in Paulding County where he meets Isabelle Diantha Winland whom he weds in 1882.

At the beginning of this post you see an image of Zachary Taylor Willis in the 1880 Federal Census for Charlevoix County, Michigan:

There is a Wilson Willis in the American Civil War serving in an Ohio unit from Coshockton County, but this Civil War Wilson Willis is too young to be my Wilson Willis born in 1820. Alas the Willis family, beyond Wilson Willis born in 1820, are yet again, another genealogical brick wall.


Descendants of Wilson Willis


Generation No. 1

1. WILSON1 WILLIS was born Abt. 1820 in Ohio. He married NANCY ANN PARRISH 27 January 1845 in Muskingum County, Ohio. She was born Abt. 1830 in Maryland.

Children of WILSON WILLIS and NANCY PARRISH are:

i. ELIZA E.2 WILLIS, b. Abt. 1846.

2. ii. ZACHARY TAYLOR WILLIS, b. 1850, Coshocton County, Ohio; d. Aft. 1906, California or Alaska??.

iii. JAMES M. WILLIS, b. Abt. 1854.

iv. GEORGE R. WILLIS, b. Abt. 1856.

v. MARY E. WILLIS, b. Abt. 1859.


Generation No. 2

2. ZACHARY TAYLOR2 WILLIS (WILSON1) was born 1850 in Coshocton County, Ohio, and died Aft. 1906 in California or Alaska??. He married ISABELLE DIANTHA WINLAND 25 December 1882 in Paulding County Ohio, daughter of ALEXANDER WINLAND and HANNAH MASTERS. She was born 11 May 1864 in Paulding County, Ohio, and died 25 April 1925 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Children of ZACHARY WILLIS and ISABELLE WINLAND are:

i. DOSSIE GRACE3 WILLIS, b. 1883; d. 1883.

ii. LEOLA STEELE WILLIS, b. 10 April 1887, Columbus Grove, Putnam Cty, Ohio; d. 15 September 1915, Detroit, Wayne Cty, Michigan; m. ORLA ARTHUR TELLIS, April 1909, Hamilton, Butler Cty, Ohio; b. 23 February 1887, Preble County, Ohio; d. 17 September 1969, Detroit, Wayne Cty, Michigan.

iii. KITTEN JEAN WILLIS, b. Aft. 1887; d. Arizona; m. GORDON DAUGHERTY, Bef. 1910, Ohio?.

iv. WINLAND JAMES WILLIS, b. Aft. 1887, Ohio; d. Hamilton, Butler Cty, Ohio; m. HENRIETTA STAFFORD; d. Hamilton, Butler Cty, Ohio

Part Three - The Tellis Family, a line of Denial and I don't mean the River Nile in Egypt

Okay, so I'm bored with the Hackett line and I will get back to it, but now I want to venture into the exciting world of the Tellis family. Why do I call this branch of my family a line of denial? Well, I was raised to believe that my family was lily-white and that we didn't have one drop of German Ancestry in us. Check out the following physical characteristics of the Tellis family, tall, blonde haired and blue-eyed. We do not really know the geographical heritage of our Tellis line and at one time we thought the name "Tellis" could be Greek, as there are some Greek families in Detroit, Michigan, with the name "Tellis," and if you read the Blind Greek Poet, Homer, he talks about Helen of Troy (she was Greek before she took off for Troy with Paris) as being "divinely tall and divinely fair." Again, those of us descended from Orla Tellis are tall and start out fair-haired, but we're not divine, at least not in this branch of my genealogy, but that's another post for the blog and it belongs to the Hackett line.

I digress and will return to the denial part of my heritage. My great grandfather, Orla Arthus Tellis (1887-1969) apparently didn't want genealogy research done on his family, his daughter, my grandmother, Dorothea Isabelle Tellis Hackett (1910-1996) was often repeating a statement of his when I was beginning to search out my family history, "You shouldn't do genealogy as you don't know what skeletons might be in your closet." My philosophy to this statement is, I'm not responsible for the actions of my ancestors, and I've already discovered that one of my Hackett kin committed the first murder and was the first executed person in Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. Now when you measure up black sheep, could it get worse than this? But again, I'm not responsible about the deeds of the dead but I want to know all that I can about these dead ancestors, so let the skeletons rattle in the closet. I'm all for discovery.

Orla (which means fair-haired in Irish Gaelic) Arthur Tellis was an adult during the first World War a time period, when it was not perhaps favorable to say that you had Germanic heritage. Kaiser Bill in Germany was invading most of Europe and Americans were largely out of the War, remaining neutral until 1917 when Kaiser Bill made a secret treaty with Mexico that allowed Mexico to take back parts of the United States that once belonged to Mexico, okay I'm recalling this history incorrecty, Germany proposed an alliance with Mexico, not a treaty, through the so-called "Zimmermann Telegram" which in essence states the above stuff about Mexico coming into the war on the side of Germany and retrieving all it's lost territories, stolen or purchased by the United States since 1845. Go to the following link on the Zimmermanm Telegraph, it tells the real history better than I can. When President Wilson was informed of this Zimmermann Telegraph he and the Congress got their American dander up and we entered World War I on the side of the Allies, the French and the English. Hence the bad connection for being German Americans.

So at sometime during this period of war, my great grandfather, Orla, denied his Germanic heritage to my grandmother, Dorothea and all his other children, and probably came up with the skeletons in the closet statement. I have no proof of this, and it's all conjecture, but until I was 36 years old, I did not know I came from three distince German ancestral lines until a cousin told me all about Heinrich Windlandt. You don't get anymore Germanic than the name "Heinrich!"

Now Orla is not descended from the Winland's, (how we spell the family name today), but his first wife, Leola Steel Willis was. But in Orla's maternal Heywood line, there are two, count them, German ancestral lines, the Frey's and the Boyer's. I once did the math (and I'm not very good at math) and I figured out that I was 1/66 German. Orla Tellis would be 1/8 more Germanic than me, but is this such a terrible "skeleton?" Aside from Kaiser Bill and Adolph Hitler, the Germans are really great people, beautiful land, mountains, the mountains in southern Germany (Bavaria) are magical. If I had my 'druthers' I'd rather be of Austrian descent than German as "the hills are alive with the sound of music" in Austria, but genetically the Austrians and Germans are the same stock.

So now you have the story of the Tellis denial, we're German! My eldest sister is still affected by this denial, she doesn't want me to tell her about our 3 German lines and has said she doesn't want to know about the new ones I could find!

Returning to the name "Orla" being Irish for "fair-haired," my great grandfather has stamped out this genetic trait on all of us for four generations born after Orla, being that we have been taller than the average American and born with blonde hair. Not all of us have blue eyes, but Orla's physical characteristics have left its mark on us.

My one memory of Orla occurred when I was about 5 years old and my family was living on the Harvey farm in Lum, Michigan. (I will always call it the "farm," even if we only rented the house, but the Lum house was the best, childhood home to grow up in!) I was in the kitchen eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich that my mother, Judith Hackett Brooks, had made for me and even though she had cut the sandwich in half on the diagonal, I was eating the bread slowly, taking bite after bite straight from the middle of the sandwich. At some point, Orla came into the kitchen and watched me slowly eating the sandwich. He suggested that the sandwich would get eaten faster if I took bites from each pointed end of the sandwich half rather than directly from the center as I was slowly doing. I recall I thought his advice rather unique and I followed it quickly eating the sandwich half from end to end until there was no middle left to consume, and in no time I was finished with the other half as well and got up to go play as little girls are wont to do. This is the way I still eat sandwiches and every now and I remember his advice to a little girl, who at the time didn't care for PB&J sandwiches.

Orla's Tellis family begins with his grandfather, William Tellis. William Tellis was born in 1835 and died in 1925. I believe that William was born in Ohio as on several of the Federal census taken during 1860 and 1920 (the last year William is counted) lists his place of birth as being Ohio. In 1850 there are several families in Ohio with the surname of Tellis. Most of the Tellis families in Ohio in 1850 list as coming from Virginia. When Ohio was a territory before it became a State, Virginia claimed most of Ohio as being part of Virginian territory after the American Revolutionary War. Connecticut also claimed Ohio as their reward from the Rev. War. Go to this link on the Ohio Country for a better explanation or the Virginian claim to Ohio. But what I was trying to recount is that there are many people in Ohio during the 1800's who came there from Virginia. So perhaps our Tellis are actually Southerners to begin with. And as the blog will further illuminate, there are many connections to the Tellis family history that come from the South, the Frey's were from Maryland, the Boyers from the Maryland/Pennsylvania border, the McPeeks (the only recorded case of Irish descent for my Mother's side) settled in Virginia after coming to this land in New Jersey. One Patrick McPeek came here about 1750s from Ireland and stayed to start the family McPeek in New Jersey (who later intermarried with the Masters who married into the Winlands) and Patrick McPeek went south to Virginia during the American Rev. War and served with the Patriots in Virginia. He was gone so long in Virginia that his wife had him declared dead and she married another man! Patrick McPeek came back to New Jersey after the War, and finding that Mrs. McPeek had remarried, he went back south to Virginia.

But again, the nature in me to digress has happened once more. Back to the Tellis', namely William Tellis 1835-1925. I don't know who his parents are. He's not listed in the 1850 or 1860 Federal Census in Ohio or anywhere else. Typical brickwall genealogy! He married Nancy Wilson who may have been from Indiana. The couple do not show up in the Indiana Census during 1850 or 1860. Nancy and William had four children: Henry, Lizzie, Reuben, and Thomas. The first three, Henry, Lizzie and Reuben were born in Wisconsin between 1856 and 1860. (There are other Tellis familes in Wisconsin in the 1850 and 1860 Federal census but I can't find any connection to William Tellis.) Thomas was born in 1861 and was not born in Wisconsin as I recall at this moment. If I find that this is not the case I will amend this blog for the correction. Nancy died after 1861, and where this occurred is not known.

It appears that William married almost immediately after the death of Nancy as his second wife's name is Mary McNealy. Mary brought to this family two or three sons of different surnames, meaning Mary McNealy had been married at least twice before she married William Tellis. Willliam and Mary had at least three more Tellis children, William, Elva and Franklin.

At what point I am not certain, but William Tellis with his second wife and family settled into Western Ohio, on the Indiana border in Butler County, at or near Somerville. From 1870 until before 1920, William Tellis lived here with his family.

In the 1870 Federal Census for Ohio, as I've mentioned, William is living in Butler County, Ohio, but I can't find his three oldest children living with him or nearby. The youngest son, Thomas, is still living with William Tellis and his second wife, with her two or three sons from previous marriages and her father, Hiram McNealy. But where are Henry, Lizzie and Reuben living? They are not counted in the 1870 census and they would be very young adults, Henry being approximately 15 or 16 in 1870, Lizzie about 14 and Reuben 10. I can't find them with other Tellis families in this 1870 census and as I cannot place them with any Wilson's in Indiana, where Nancy Wilson is supposed be from.

In the 1880 Federal Census William is living in Butler County with Mary and her children, William, Elva and Franklin. The older children are not listed. But in Preble County, the county directly north of Butler County I find Henry, Lizzie and Reuben Tellis, all living on their own and Lizzie has married Herman Voss. Preble County Ohio has some significane to the Tellis family history as it is the county where the Heywood family had connections. Orla A. Tellis' mother, was Lottie May Heywood and I'll write more about the Heywoods at some point when I'm finished with with the Tellis. Reuben Tellis married Lottie May Heywood in the mid-1880s and they were married by Lottie May Heywood's grandfather, Nathan Heywood, a German Dunkard minister. There is another German connection! It is so easy to connect all these German dots, but why deny it, I'll never understand?

As mentioned William Tellis remained in Ohio from 1870 until just before 1920 when he can be found living in Decatur County, Illinois with his daughter, Elva who had married a man named Leathers. There he died in 1925 and some day I will have to travel to the county seat in Decatur County, Illinois and obtain a copy of William's death certificate in the possibility that his parents will be named on it, imagine what brick walls will crumble if this information is on the death certificate? William's other two sons from the second marriage, remained in Ohio and there are some Tellis descendants to this day around the Dayton, Montgomery County area.


Descendants of William Tellis


Generation No. 1

1. WILLIAM1 TELLIS was born Bef. 1835 in Ohio. He married (1) NANCY WILSON Bef. 1858. She died Bef. 1869. He married (2) MARY MCNEALY Abt. 1869, daughter of HIRAM MCNEALY. She was born Abt. 1834 in Ohio.

Children of WILLIAM TELLIS and NANCY WILSON are:
2. i. HENRY2 TELLIS, b. 1858, Wisconsin.
ii. ELIZABETH TELLIS, b. 1859, Wisconsin; m. HERMAN VOSS; b. 1856, New York.
3. iii. REUBEN TELLIS, b. 1860, Ohio; d. 05 March 1916, Somerville, Butler County, Ohio.
iv. THOMAS TELLIS, b. 1861, Ohio.

Children of WILLIAM TELLIS and MARY MCNEALY are:
4. v. WILLIAM MAY2 TELLIS, b. Abt. 1870, Somerville, Butler County, Ohio; d. 1925, Somerville, Butler County, Ohio.
vi. ELVA E. TELLIS, b. Abt. 1872.
vii. FRANKLIN TELLIS, b. Abt. 1877.


Generation No. 2

2. HENRY2 TELLIS (WILLIAM1) was born 1858 in Wisconsin. He married ALICE KOONTZ 08 July 1883 in Preble County, Ohio. She died 12 March 1935 in Eaton, Preble County, Ohio.

Children of HENRY TELLIS and ALICE KOONTZ are:
i. CHESTER E.3 TELLIS, b. 25 July 1891.
ii. MINNIE E. TELLIS, b. 08 November 1896; m. FUDGE.
5. iii. OLLIE TELLIS.
iv. LENA B. TELLIS, m. STEINER.
v. HERBERT TELLIS, d. 1952, Preble County, Ohio.
vi. JULIA TELLIS, m. WILES.

3. REUBEN2 TELLIS (WILLIAM1) was born 1860 in Ohio, and died 05 March 1916 in Somerville, Butler County, Ohio. He married (1) LOTTIE MAY HEYWOOD 30 May 1886 in Preble County, Ohio, daughter of NATHAN HEYWOOD and MARY BRUNSON. She was born 27 May 1869 in Preble County, Ohio, and died 18 September 1895 in Eaton, Preble County, Ohio. He married (2) NELLE OVERMEYER Aft. 1895. She died Aft. 1920.

Children of REUBEN TELLIS and LOTTIE HEYWOOD are:
6. i. ORLA ARTHUR3 TELLIS, b. 23 February 1887, Preble County, Ohio; d. 17 September 1969, Detroit, Wayne Cty, Michigan.
7. ii. ETHEL BIRDIE TELLIS, b. 27 July 1889, Butler County, Ohio; d. 15 December 1960, Dayton, Ohio.

4. WILLIAM MAY2 TELLIS (WILLIAM1) was born Abt. 1870 in Somerville, Butler County, Ohio, and died 1925 in Somerville, Butler County, Ohio. He married (2) HUGHES.

Children of WILLIAM MAY TELLIS are:
i. HARLEY EDWIN3 TELLIS, d. 1925, Somerville, Butler County, Ohio.
ii. GARNET TELLIS.

Child of WILLIAM TELLIS and HUGHES is:
8. iii. WILLIAM C.3 TELLIS.

Children of WILLIAM MAY TELLIS are:
iv. ORVILLE3 TELLIS.
v. CARLYLE TELLIS.
vi. TROY TELLIS.
vii. JOHN TELLIS.
viii. CLARA TELLIS.
ix. RUTH TELLIS.


Generation No. 3

5. OLLIE3 TELLIS (HENRY2, WILLIAM1) She married SWAIN.

Children of OLLIE TELLIS and SWAIN are:
i. LLOYD J.4 SWAIN, b. Abt 1955.
ii. GEORGE H. SWAIN.

6. ORLA ARTHUR3 TELLIS (REUBEN2, WILLIAM1) was born 23 February 1887 in Preble County, Ohio, and died 17 September 1969 in Detroit, Wayne Cty, Michigan. He married (1) LEOLA STEELE WILLIS April 1909 in Hamilton, Butler Cty, Ohio, daughter of ZACHARY WILLIS and ISABELLE WINLAND. She was born 10 April 1887 in Columbus Grove, Putnam Cty, Ohio, and died 15 September 1915 in Detroit, Wayne Cty, Michigan. He married (2) CLARA ALLEN Abt. 1919 in Detroit, Michigan. She was born in Traverse City, Michigan, and died Aft. 1979. He married (3) LILLIAN ALLEN Aft. 1950 in Detroit, Michigan. She was born 1902 in Traverse City, Michigan, and died Aft. 1997 in Eugene, Oregon.

Child of ORLA TELLIS and LEOLA WILLIS is:
i. DOROTHEA ISABELLE4 TELLIS, b. 25 April 1910, Hamilton, Butler Cty, Ohio; d. 01 January 1996, Anaheim, California; m. LYLE ELTON HACKETT, 07 November 1931, City Hall, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan; b. 30 November 1908, Cleveland, Ohio; d. 07 March 1973, Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan.

Notes for DOROTHEA ISABELLE TELLIS:
Dorothea H. Tellis was cremated as per her wishes in January 1996. She was flown back to Michigan in April that same year and interred in the ground next to her Mother, Leola Steele Willis Tellis, Saturday, the 4th of May, 1996 when the ground was soft enough to permit burial of her remains..

Children of ORLA TELLIS and CLARA ALLEN are:
ii. JOANN4 TELLIS, b. 08 November 1920, Detroit, Michigan; m. JACK FITZMAURICE; d. Aft. 1990, Traverse City, Michigan.
iii. ORLA ARTHUR TELLIS, JR., b. 13 March 1927, Detroit, Michigan; m. KATHY FOOTE, Aft. 1950; b. 18 August.
iv. PATRICIA TELLIS, b. Abt. 1929, Detroit, Michigan; m. A. W. BIRK, Aft. 1945; b. Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
v. NANCY TELLIS, b. 05 October 1932, Detroit, Michigan; m. HANK DIZNEY; b. Missouri.

7. ETHEL BIRDIE3 TELLIS (REUBEN2, WILLIAM1) was born 27 July 1889 in Butler County, Ohio, and died 15 December 1960 in Dayton, Ohio. She married (1) HARRY BLACK Abt. 1907. She married (2) OSCAR HITCHEW 05 May 1923 in Detroit, Michigan. He was born 1895, and died 1967 in Dayton, Ohio.

Child of ETHEL TELLIS and OSCAR HITCHEW is:
i. MARILYN JEAN4 HITCHEW, b. 18 May 1924; d. Aft. 1990, Dayton, Ohio; m. CHARLES ENOS GRIMM, 07 December 1947, 1st Lutheran Church, Dayton, Ohio.

8. WILLIAM C.3 TELLIS (WILLIAM MAY2, WILLIAM1) He married (1) MABEL ETTER. She was born in Cowlesville, Ohio.

Child of WILLIAM TELLIS and MABEL ETTER is:
i. VINCENT H.4 TELLIS, b. Abt. 1925.

Child of WILLIAM C. TELLIS is:
ii. GAYLE4 TELLIS.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Pilgrim Samuel Fuller and his descendants

Gain Robinson Hackett and his wife/cousin, Electa Sabin are descended from Samuel Fuller, Pilgrim from the Mayflower passage in 1620.


Descendants of Samuel Fuller


Generation No. 1

1. SAMUEL1 FULLER He married BRIDGET LEE.

Child of SAMUEL FULLER and BRIDGET LEE is:
2. i. SAMUEL2 FULLER, b. 1629; d. 1695.


Generation No. 2

2. SAMUEL2 FULLER (SAMUEL1) was born 1629, and died 1695. He married ELIZABETH NICHOLS BOWEN.

Children of SAMUEL FULLER and ELIZABETH BOWEN are:
3. i. EXPERIENCE3 FULLER.
4. ii. ISAAC FULLER, b. 1674; d. 1727.


Generation No. 3

3. EXPERIENCE3 FULLER (SAMUEL2, SAMUEL1) She married JAMES WOOD.

Child of EXPERIENCE FULLER and JAMES WOOD is:
5. i. JONATHAN4 WOOD.

4. ISAAC3 FULLER (SAMUEL2, SAMUEL1) was born 1674, and died 1727. He married MARY PRATT. She died 1734.

Child of ISAAC FULLER and MARY PRATT is:
6. i. SAMUEL4 FULLER, b. 1717.


Generation No. 4

5. JONATHAN4 WOOD (EXPERIENCE3 FULLER, SAMUEL2, SAMUEL1) He married PERSIS ROBBINS, daughter of JEDUTHAN ROBBINS and HANNAH PRATT. She was born 27 November 1699.

Child of JONATHAN WOOD and PERSIS ROBBINS is:
7. i. JEDEDIAH5 WOOD, b. 25 May 1728, Middleboro, Massachusetts; d. Aft. 1775, Macedon, Wayne Cty, New York.

6. SAMUEL4 FULLER (ISAAC3, SAMUEL2, SAMUEL1) was born 1717. He married ELIZABETH TOMSON, daughter of JOHN TOMSON and ELIZABETH THOMAS.

Child of SAMUEL FULLER and ELIZABETH TOMSON is:
8. i. JOHN5 FULLER.


Generation No. 5

7. JEDEDIAH5 WOOD (JONATHAN4, EXPERIENCE3 FULLER, SAMUEL2, SAMUEL1) was born 25 May 1728 in Middleboro, Massachusetts, and died Aft. 1775 in Macedon, Wayne Cty, New York. He married KEZIAH SAMPSON 26 September 1752 in Middleboro, Massachusetts, daughter of SETH SAMPSON and RUTH BARROWS.

Child of JEDEDIAH WOOD and KEZIAH SAMPSON is:
9. i. LEVI6 WOOD, b. 12 December 1756; d. 10 August 1833, Macedon, Wayne Cty, New York.

8. JOHN5 FULLER (SAMUEL4, ISAAC3, SAMUEL2, SAMUEL1)

Children of JOHN FULLER are:
10. i. BETHANY6 FULLER, b. 1766; d. 1846, Hillsdale, Hillsdale Cty, Michigan.
11. ii. MERCY FULLER, d. Aft. 1840, Ontario County, New York.


Generation No. 6

9. LEVI6 WOOD (JEDEDIAH5, JONATHAN4, EXPERIENCE3 FULLER, SAMUEL2, SAMUEL1) was born 12 December 1756, and died 10 August 1833 in Macedon, Wayne Cty, New York. He married BETHANY FULLER 17 June 1787, daughter of JOHN FULLER. She was born 1766, and died 1846 in Hillsdale, Hillsdale Cty, Michigan.

Child of LEVI WOOD and BETHANY FULLER is:
12. i. HANNAH7 WOOD, b. 24 September 1789; d. 27 August 1858, Hillsdale, Hillsdale Cty, Michigan.

10. BETHANY6 FULLER (JOHN5, SAMUEL4, ISAAC3, SAMUEL2, SAMUEL1) was born 1766, and died 1846 in Hillsdale, Hillsdale Cty, Michigan. She married LEVI WOOD 17 June 1787, son of JEDEDIAH WOOD and KEZIAH SAMPSON. He was born 12 December 1756, and died 10 August 1833 in Macedon, Wayne Cty, New York.

Child is listed above under (9) Levi Wood.

11. MERCY6 FULLER (JOHN5, SAMUEL4, ISAAC3, SAMUEL2, SAMUEL1) died Aft. 1840 in Ontario County, New York. She married (1) GEORGE HACKETT 06 October 1785 in Pelham, Massachusetts, son of GIDEON HACKETT and BETTY SAMPSON. He was born Abt. 1760 in Massachusetts, and died 13 March 1813 in Age 56?, Farmington, Ontario Cty, New York. She married (2) SAMUEL RUSH Aft. 13 March 1813.

Children of MERCY FULLER and GEORGE HACKETT are:
13. i. GAIN ROBINSON7 HACKETT, b. 13 August 1810, Manchester, Ontario County, New York; d. 16 March 1855, Lorain County, Ohio.
ii. ESTHER HACKETT, d. 13 March 1813.
iii. POLLY HACKETT, d. 13 March 1813.
iv. GEORGE HACKETT.
v. OLIVER HACKETT, b. 1808.
vi. ABIGAIL HACKETT, m. JOHN PETERS.
vii. DEBORAH HACKETT, m. SMITON HEART.
viii. MERCY HACKETT, m. JOHN EVOTT.
ix. RACHEL HACKETT.
x. MATILDA HACKETT.


Generation No. 7

12. HANNAH7 WOOD (LEVI6, JEDEDIAH5, JONATHAN4, EXPERIENCE3 FULLER, SAMUEL2, SAMUEL1) was born 24 September 1789, and died 27 August 1858 in Hillsdale, Hillsdale Cty, Michigan. She married STEPHEN SABIN 17 November 1810 in Macedon, Wayne County, New York, son of ISRAEL SABIN and HANNAH. He was born 1790 in Connecticut, and died 01 January 1852 in Hillsdale, Hillsdale Cty, Michigan.

Notes for STEPHEN SABIN:
Stephen Sabin is descended from John and Elinor Billington who crossed to Plimouth, Massachusetts in 1620 on the Mayflower.

Child of HANNAH WOOD and STEPHEN SABIN is:
14. i. ELECTA8 SABIN, b. 25 May 1815, Ontario County, New York; d. 01 July 1897, Lorain County, Ohio.

13. GAIN ROBINSON7 HACKETT (MERCY6 FULLER, JOHN5, SAMUEL4, ISAAC3, SAMUEL2, SAMUEL1) was born 13 August 1810 in Manchester, Ontario County, New York, and died 16 March 1855 in Lorain County, Ohio. He married ELECTA SABIN 13 September 1832 in Lorain County, Ohio, daughter of STEPHEN SABIN and HANNAH WOOD. She was born 25 May 1815 in Ontario County, New York, and died 01 July 1897 in Lorain County, Ohio.

Children of GAIN HACKETT and ELECTA SABIN are:
i. ZEBINA8 HACKETT.
15. ii. MARY C. HACKETT, b. 26 August 1836, Lorain County, Ohio; d. 12 May 1908, Columbia Hills Corner Cemetery, Lorain County, Ohio.
16. iii. LAFRANCIS ELMER HACKETT, b. 22 June 1839, Lorain County, Ohio; d. 19 June 1920, Wheeler, Gratiot County, Michigan.
iv. STEPHAN HACKETT, d. 31 May 1845, Westview, Old Baker, Hoadley, Columbia Twp, Lorain Cty, Ohio.
17. v. EMILY H. HACKETT, b. Abt. 1847, Lorain County, Ohio; d. Bet. 1895 - 1912, Possibly St. Joseph, Michigan (unknown if City or County).
vi. SARAH L. HACKETT, b. Abt. 1849; d. 06 March 1865, 16y, Westview, Old Baker, Hoadley, Columbia Twp, Lorian Cty, Ohio.
vii. LAURA HACKETT.


Generation No. 8

14. ELECTA8 SABIN (HANNAH7 WOOD, LEVI6, JEDEDIAH5, JONATHAN4, EXPERIENCE3 FULLER, SAMUEL2, SAMUEL1) was born 25 May 1815 in Ontario County, New York, and died 01 July 1897 in Lorain County, Ohio. She married GAIN ROBINSON HACKETT 13 September 1832 in Lorain County, Ohio, son of GEORGE HACKETT and MERCY FULLER. He was born 13 August 1810 in Manchester, Ontario County, New York, and died 16 March 1855 in Lorain County, Ohio.

Children are listed above under (13) Gain Robinson Hackett.

From Electa Sabin to John Billington, Black Sheep and Mayflower passenger

Electa Sabin's ancestors are descended from John Billington who came over on the Mayflower in 1620 with the Pilgrims. John Billington and his family at the time of the sailing of the Mayflower were not Pilgrims. I'm not sure why he and his family were included on the passenger list and crossed the Atlantic Ocean, perhaps the folks in England were tired of him and his kin and thought the New World would be a better place for them. Certainly William Bradford in his history of Plymouth Colony written about 1650-1660, had no kind words for John Billington and his wife and two sons.

Anecdotally I recall on the crossing, the two sons, Francis and perhaps the other son was called John, were playing on the boat around the gun powder and somehow lit a fire. Luckily others put out the fire or else there would not have been a Pilgrim landing at Plymouth Rock in 1620, thank you Billingtons! Once the landing had been made, again, one of the sons got lost in the woods and fortunately Native Americans found them and returned them to their loving parents. John Billington in 1630 got into an argument with a friend and being angry went to see the friend with a gun and shot the person dead. John Billington committed the first murder in Plymouth Colony. He was subsequently hung that year and became the first executed person in Plymouth Colony. Lastly, his widow, Elinor, ran afoul of common law practice in the colony and spent some time in the public stocks. You may click here to read William Bradford's "History of Plymouth Colony" and read more about the Black Sheep, John Billington.



Descendants of John Billington


Generation No. 1

1. JOHN1 BILLINGTON was born Abt. 1580 in England, and died September 1630 in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. He married ELINOR Abt. 1604. She was born Abt. 1580 in England, and died Aft. 02 March 1641/42 in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts.

Child of JOHN BILLINGTON and ELINOR is:
2. i. FRANCIS2 BILLINGTON, b. Abt. 1606, England; d. 1684, Middleboro, Massachusetts.


Generation No. 2

2. FRANCIS2 BILLINGTON (JOHN1) was born Abt. 1606 in England, and died 1684 in Middleboro, Massachusetts. He married CHRISTIAN PENN EATON July 1634 in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. She was born 1607, and died 1684.

Child of FRANCIS BILLINGTON and CHRISTIAN EATON is:
3. i. MARY3 BILLINGTON, b. 1640; d. Aft. 28 June 1717.


Generation No. 3

3. MARY3 BILLINGTON (FRANCIS2, JOHN1) was born 1640, and died Aft. 28 June 1717. She married SAMUEL SABIN, SR., son of WILLIAM SABIN and MARY WRIGHT. He was born 1640, and died 23 September 1699.

Child of MARY BILLINGTON and SAMUEL SABIN is:
4. i. ISRAEL4 SABIN, b. 08 June 1673; d. Aft. 1718.


Generation No. 4

4. ISRAEL4 SABIN (MARY3 BILLINGTON, FRANCIS2, JOHN1) was born 08 June 1673, and died Aft. 1718. He married MARY ORMSBY, daughter of JOHN ORMSBY and GRACE MARTIN.

Child of ISRAEL SABIN and MARY ORMSBY is:
5. i. JOSIAH5 SABIN, b. 1705; d. 1752.


Generation No. 5

5. JOSIAH5 SABIN (ISRAEL4, MARY3 BILLINGTON, FRANCIS2, JOHN1) was born 1705, and died 1752. He married MARY GAY.

Child of JOSIAH SABIN and MARY GAY is:
6. i. ISRAEL6 SABIN, b. 1730; d. 1761.


Generation No. 6

6. ISRAEL6 SABIN (JOSIAH5, ISRAEL4, MARY3 BILLINGTON, FRANCIS2, JOHN1) was born 1730, and died 1761. He married AVIS BENNETT, daughter of WILLIAM BENNETT and ELIZABETH GREEN.

Child of ISRAEL SABIN and AVIS BENNETT is:
7. i. ISRAEL7 SABIN, b. 1752; d. 1838.


Generation No. 7

7. ISRAEL7 SABIN (ISRAEL6, JOSIAH5, ISRAEL4, MARY3 BILLINGTON, FRANCIS2, JOHN1) was born 1752, and died 1838. He married HANNAH 1786. She died 1812.

Child of ISRAEL SABIN and HANNAH is:
8. i. STEPHEN8 SABIN, b. 1790, Connecticut; d. 01 January 1852, Hillsdale, Hillsdale Cty, Michigan.


Generation No. 8

8. STEPHEN8 SABIN (ISRAEL7, ISRAEL6, JOSIAH5, ISRAEL4, MARY3 BILLINGTON, FRANCIS2, JOHN1) was born 1790 in Connecticut, and died 01 January 1852 in Hillsdale, Hillsdale Cty, Michigan. He married HANNAH WOOD 17 November 1810 in Macedon, Wayne County, New York, daughter of LEVI WOOD and BETHANY FULLER. She was born 24 September 1789, and died 27 August 1858 in Hillsdale, Hillsdale Cty, Michigan.

Notes for STEPHEN SABIN:
Stephen Sabin is descended from John and Elinor Billington who crossed to Plimouth, Massachusetts in 1620 on the Mayflower.

Child of STEPHEN SABIN and HANNAH WOOD is:
9. i. ELECTA9 SABIN, b. 25 May 1815, Ontario County, New York; d. 01 July 1897, Lorain County, Ohio.


Generation No. 9

9. ELECTA9 SABIN (STEPHEN8, ISRAEL7, ISRAEL6, JOSIAH5, ISRAEL4, MARY3 BILLINGTON, FRANCIS2, JOHN1) was born 25 May 1815 in Ontario County, New York, and died 01 July 1897 in Lorain County, Ohio. She married GAIN ROBINSON HACKETT 13 September 1832 in Lorain County, Ohio, son of GEORGE HACKETT and MERCY FULLER. He was born 13 August 1810 in Manchester, Ontario County, New York, and died 16 March 1855 in Lorain County, Ohio.

Children of ELECTA SABIN and GAIN HACKETT are:
i. ZEBINA10 HACKETT.
10. ii. MARY C. HACKETT, b. 26 August 1836, Lorain County, Ohio; d. 12 May 1908, Columbia Hills Corner Cemetery, Lorain County, Ohio.
11. iii. LAFRANCIS ELMER HACKETT, b. 22 June 1839, Lorain County, Ohio; d. 19 June 1920, Wheeler, Gratiot County, Michigan.
iv. STEPHAN HACKETT, d. 31 May 1845, Westview, Old Baker, Hoadley, Columbia Twp, Lorain Cty, Ohio.
12. v. EMILY H. HACKETT, b. Abt. 1847, Lorain County, Ohio; d. Bet. 1895 - 1912, Possibly St. Joseph, Michigan (unknown if City or County).
vi. SARAH L. HACKETT, b. Abt. 1849; d. 06 March 1865, 16y, Westview, Old Baker, Hoadley, Columbia Twp, Lorian Cty, Ohio.
vii. LAURA HACKETT.

Continuation of Electa Sabin's family, the descendants of James Woods

Electa Sabin's grandfather was Levi Wood,1756-1833. He was born in Massachusetts and moved to New York State where he was an early settler of Macedon, Ontario County. During his lifetime there in Ontario County, he saw the Erie Canal put through the County and saw Joseph Smith begin the faith of the Latter Day Saints, two pivotal moments in American history. Levi Wood was also a veteran of the American Revolution War and served between 1778 and 1780. At about 1799 or 1800 he and his family became members of the Baptist Church. After Levi's death in 1833, his wife and most of his 11 children and families moved to Lorain County, Ohio, and several moved on to Hillsdale County, Michigan in the 1840s. Bethany Fuller, Levi Wood's widow is buried in Hillsdale County.

Descendants of James Wood


Generation No. 1

1. JAMES1 WOOD He married EXPERIENCE FULLER, daughter of SAMUEL FULLER and ELIZABETH BOWEN.

Child of JAMES WOOD and EXPERIENCE FULLER is:
2. i. JONATHAN2 WOOD.


Generation No. 2

2. JONATHAN2 WOOD (JAMES1) He married PERSIS ROBBINS, daughter of JEDUTHAN ROBBINS and HANNAH PRATT. She was born 27 November 1699.

Child of JONATHAN WOOD and PERSIS ROBBINS is:
3. i. JEDEDIAH3 WOOD, b. 25 May 1728, Middleboro, Massachusetts; d. Aft. 1775, Macedon, Wayne Cty, New York.


Generation No. 3

3. JEDEDIAH3 WOOD (JONATHAN2, JAMES1) was born 25 May 1728 in Middleboro, Massachusetts, and died Aft. 1775 in Macedon, Wayne Cty, New York. He married KEZIAH SAMPSON 26 September 1752 in Middleboro, Massachusetts, daughter of SETH SAMPSON and RUTH BARROWS.

Child of JEDEDIAH WOOD and KEZIAH SAMPSON is:
4. i. LEVI4 WOOD, b. 12 December 1756; d. 10 August 1833, Macedon, Wayne Cty, New York.


Generation No. 4

4. LEVI4 WOOD (JEDEDIAH3, JONATHAN2, JAMES1) was born 12 December 1756, and died 10 August 1833 in Macedon, Wayne Cty, New York. He married BETHANY FULLER 17 June 1787, daughter of JOHN FULLER. She was born 1766, and died 1846 in Hillsdale, Hillsdale Cty, Michigan.

Child of LEVI WOOD and BETHANY FULLER is:
5. i. HANNAH5 WOOD, b. 24 September 1789; d. 27 August 1858, Hillsdale, Hillsdale Cty, Michigan.


Generation No. 5

5. HANNAH5 WOOD (LEVI4, JEDEDIAH3, JONATHAN2, JAMES1) was born 24 September 1789, and died 27 August 1858 in Hillsdale, Hillsdale Cty, Michigan. She married STEPHEN SABIN 17 November 1810 in Macedon, Wayne County, New York, son of ISRAEL SABIN and HANNAH. He was born 1790 in Connecticut, and died 01 January 1852 in Hillsdale, Hillsdale Cty, Michigan.

Notes for STEPHEN SABIN:
Stephen Sabin is descended from John and Elinor Billington who crossed to Plimouth, Massachusetts in 1620 on the Mayflower.

Child of HANNAH WOOD and STEPHEN SABIN is:
6. i. ELECTA6 SABIN, b. 25 May 1815, Ontario County, New York; d. 01 July 1897, Lorain County, Ohio.


Generation No. 6

6. ELECTA6 SABIN (HANNAH5 WOOD, LEVI4, JEDEDIAH3, JONATHAN2, JAMES1) was born 25 May 1815 in Ontario County, New York, and died 01 July 1897 in Lorain County, Ohio. She married GAIN ROBINSON HACKETT 13 September 1832 in Lorain County, Ohio, son of GEORGE HACKETT and MERCY FULLER. He was born 13 August 1810 in Manchester, Ontario County, New York, and died 16 March 1855 in Lorain County, Ohio.

Children of ELECTA SABIN and GAIN HACKETT are:
i. ZEBINA7 HACKETT.
7. ii. MARY C. HACKETT, b. 26 August 1836, Lorain County, Ohio; d. 12 May 1908, Columbia Hills Corner Cemetery, Lorain County, Ohio.
8. iii. LAFRANCIS ELMER HACKETT, b. 22 June 1839, Lorain County, Ohio; d. 19 June 1920, Wheeler, Gratiot County, Michigan.
iv. STEPHAN HACKETT, d. 31 May 1845, Westview, Old Baker, Hoadley, Columbia Twp, Lorain Cty, Ohio.
9. v. EMILY H. HACKETT, b. Abt. 1847, Lorain County, Ohio; d. Bet. 1895 - 1912, Possibly St. Joseph, Michigan (unknown if City or County).
vi. SARAH L. HACKETT, b. Abt. 1849; d. 06 March 1865, 16y, Westview, Old Baker, Hoadley, Columbia Twp, Lorian Cty, Ohio.
vii. LAURA HACKETT.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

More on the Hacketts from LaFrancis Elmer Hackett's mother Electa Sabin

Seven generations from Jabez Hackett is LaFrancis Elmer Hackett (1839-1920), my Yankee great great grandfather who was a soldier in the Civil War from the state of Ohio. I have a website on his unit, the 5th Independent Company Ohio Sharpshooters. His mother was Electa Sabin who was a cousin to her husband, Gain Robinson Hackett. Her grandmother Bethany Fuller was a sister to Gain's mother, Mercy Fuller. And it gets even scarier when you realize than Bethany's husband, Levi Wood was a cousin to Bethany and Mercy, and that George Hackett, Mercy's husband, was a cousin to Levi Wood and the Fuller Girls. So the Sabins have intermarried with the Hacketts, or is it the Fullers' have intermarried with the Hacketts...

This next branch in the Hackett line belongs to Electa's family, the Sabins. The founder of the Sabins here in America is William Sabin. As I recall he came over from England mid-1660s like Jabez Hackett and stayed sometime in Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts as did Jabez Hackett. I will be returning to Plymouth Colony at a later point with the Fuller family, the Cooke family, the Howland family, the Browne Family, the Billington Family, and the Tilley family, all of Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, and all who came over in 1620 on a little ship called the Mayflower, but back to William Sabin:


Descendants of William Sabin


Generation No. 1

1. WILLIAM1 SABIN was born 1609, and died Abt. 1686. He married MARY WRIGHT, daughter of RICHARD WRIGHT and MARGARET. She was born 1620, and died Abt. 1662.

Child of WILLIAM SABIN and MARY WRIGHT is:
2. i. SAMUEL2 SABIN, SR., b. 1640; d. 23 September 1699.


Generation No. 2

2. SAMUEL2 SABIN, SR. (WILLIAM1) was born 1640, and died 23 September 1699. He married MARY BILLINGTON, daughter of FRANCIS BILLINGTON and CHRISTIAN EATON. She was born 1640, and died Aft. 28 June 1717.

Child of SAMUEL SABIN and MARY BILLINGTON is:
3. i. ISRAEL3 SABIN, b. 08 June 1673; d. Aft. 1718.


Generation No. 3

3. ISRAEL3 SABIN (SAMUEL2, WILLIAM1) was born 08 June 1673, and died Aft. 1718. He married MARY ORMSBY, daughter of JOHN ORMSBY and GRACE MARTIN.

Child of ISRAEL SABIN and MARY ORMSBY is:
4. i. JOSIAH4 SABIN, b. 1705; d. 1752.


Generation No. 4

4. JOSIAH4 SABIN (ISRAEL3, SAMUEL2, WILLIAM1) was born 1705, and died 1752. He married MARY GAY.

Child of JOSIAH SABIN and MARY GAY is:
5. i. ISRAEL5 SABIN, b. 1730; d. 1761.


Generation No. 5

5. ISRAEL5 SABIN (JOSIAH4, ISRAEL3, SAMUEL2, WILLIAM1) was born 1730, and died 1761. He married AVIS BENNETT, daughter of WILLIAM BENNETT and ELIZABETH GREEN.

Child of ISRAEL SABIN and AVIS BENNETT is:
6. i. ISRAEL6 SABIN, b. 1752; d. 1838.


Generation No. 6

6. ISRAEL6 SABIN (ISRAEL5, JOSIAH4, ISRAEL3, SAMUEL2, WILLIAM1) was born 1752, and died 1838. He married HANNAH 1786. She died 1812.

Child of ISRAEL SABIN and HANNAH is:
7. i. STEPHEN7 SABIN, b. 1790, Connecticut; d. 01 January 1852, Hillsdale, Hillsdale Cty, Michigan.


Generation No. 7

7. STEPHEN7 SABIN (ISRAEL6, ISRAEL5, JOSIAH4, ISRAEL3, SAMUEL2, WILLIAM1) was born 1790 in Connecticut, and died 01 January 1852 in Hillsdale, Hillsdale Cty, Michigan. He married HANNAH WOOD 17 November 1810 in Macedon, Wayne County, New York, daughter of LEVI WOOD and BETHANY FULLER. She was born 24 September 1789, and died 27 August 1858 in Hillsdale, Hillsdale Cty, Michigan.

Notes for STEPHEN SABIN:
Stephen Sabin is descended from John and Elinor Billington who crossed to Plimouth, Massachusetts in 1620 on the Mayflower.

Child of STEPHEN SABIN and HANNAH WOOD is:
8. i. ELECTA8 SABIN, b. 25 May 1815, Ontario County, New York; d. 01 July 1897, Lorain County, Ohio.


Generation No. 8

8. ELECTA8 SABIN (STEPHEN7, ISRAEL6, ISRAEL5, JOSIAH4, ISRAEL3, SAMUEL2, WILLIAM1) was born 25 May 1815 in Ontario County, New York, and died 01 July 1897 in Lorain County, Ohio. She married GAIN ROBINSON HACKETT 13 September 1832 in Lorain County, Ohio, son of GEORGE HACKETT and MERCY FULLER. He was born 13 August 1810 in Manchester, Ontario County, New York, and died 16 March 1855 in Lorain County, Ohio.

Children of ELECTA SABIN and GAIN HACKETT are:
i. ZEBINA9 HACKETT.
9. ii. MARY C. HACKETT, b. 26 August 1836, Lorain County, Ohio; d. 12 May 1908, Columbia Hills Corner Cemetery, Lorain County, Ohio.
10. iii. LAFRANCIS ELMER HACKETT, b. 22 June 1839, Lorain County, Ohio; d. 19 June 1920, Wheeler, Gratiot County, Michigan.
iv. STEPHAN HACKETT, d. 31 May 1845, Westview, Old Baker, Hoadley, Columbia Twp, Lorain Cty, Ohio.
11. v. EMILY H. HACKETT, b. Abt. 1847, Lorain County, Ohio; d. Bet. 1895 - 1912, Possibly St. Joseph, Michigan (unknown if City or County).
vi. SARAH L. HACKETT, b. Abt. 1849; d. 06 March 1865, 16y, Westview, Old Baker, Hoadley, Columbia Twp, Lorian Cty, Ohio.
vii. LAURA HACKETT.

Part Two - the Hacketts and all their Kin

The following is the beginnings of my mother's ancestry, the Hackett ancestry going back to the founder (at least in America) Jabez Hackett the immigrant who came here from England sometime during the mid-1660s. Our Hackett family had believed for many years years, if not a few generations that they were Irish Hacketts. However, with Jabez Hackett, our line is clearly English.

With the Hacketts there is very little that needs to be explained. My mother's family has been very easy to trace. Perhaps I get my genealogy interest from the Hacketts and all their kin as in the years doing genealogy, especially on my mother's family, I go to the library, in particular the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana, or the Library of Michigan, in Lansing, Michigan, and there are books upon books written by other members of the same ancestral lines as myself and all I have to do is connect my dots to their dots and all the research for me is done.

The Hacketts from Jabez Hackett:


Descendants of Jabez Hackett


Generation No. 1

1. JABEZ2 HACKETT (JOHN?1) was born Abt. 1623 in England, and died 04 October 1686 in Taunton, Massachusetts. He married FRANCES Abt. 1653. She was born Abt. 1631 in England, and died Abt. 1701 in Taunton, Massachusetts.

Notes for JABEZ HACKETT:
Was an iron worker at Lynn, Massachusetts in 1643, removed to Taunton, MA in 1654, at Taunton 1662.

Children of JABEZ HACKETT and FRANCES are:
2. i. JOHN3 HACKETT, b. 26 December 1654, Taunton, Massachusetts; d. October 1703, Taunton, Massachusetts.
ii. JABESH HACKETT, b. 12 September 1656.
iii. MARY HACKETT, b. 09 January 1659/60.
3. iv. SARAH HACKETT, b. 13 July 1661, Taunton, Massachusetts; d. 13 August 1726, Taunton, Massachusetts.
4. v. SAMUEL HACKETT, b. 13 July 1664.
vi. HANNAH HACKETT, b. 25 January 1666/67; m. ROBERT GODFREE, 14 January 1684/85.


Generation No. 2

2. JOHN3 HACKETT (JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born 26 December 1654 in Taunton, Massachusetts, and died October 1703 in Taunton, Massachusetts. He married ELEANOR GARDNER 10 September 1688 in Taunton, Massachusetts.

Children of JOHN HACKETT and ELEANOR GARDNER are:
i. JOHN4 HACKETT, b. 12 September 1689.
ii. ELEANOR HACKETT, b. 1691.
iii. EDWARD HACKETT, b. 1693.
5. iv. GEORGE HACKETT, b. 1695.
v. MERCY HACKETT, b. 1698.

3. SARAH3 HACKETT (JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born 13 July 1661 in Taunton, Massachusetts, and died 13 August 1726 in Taunton, Massachusetts. She married EDWARD COBB 16 December 1689 in Taunton, Massachusetts. He was born Abt. 1661 in Taunton, Massachusetts, and died Abt. 1741 in Taunton, Massachusetts.

Children of SARAH HACKETT and EDWARD COBB are:
i. MARY4 COBB, m. (1) SETH DEAN; m. (2) JOHN ROSIOR; m. (3) NICHOLAS STEPHENS.
ii. EBENEZER COBB, b. 13 May 1696, Taunton, Massachusetts; d. 02 January 1770, Taunton,Mass, or Hanover Twp, Morris Cty, NJ; m. MEHITABLE ROBINSON; b. 12 January 1694/95, Taunton,Massachusetts; d. 02 August 1781, Taunton, Mass, or Hanover Twp, Morris Cty, NJ.

4. SAMUEL3 HACKETT (JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born 13 July 1664. He married MARY CRANE 28 March 1690, daughter of HENRY CRANE and TABITHA KINGSLEY. She was born 22 November 1666 in Malden, Massachusetts.

Child of SAMUEL HACKETT and MARY CRANE is:
i. SAMUEL4 HACKETT.


Generation No. 3

5. GEORGE4 HACKETT (JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born 1695. He married LYDIA THOMAS, daughter of JEREMIAH THOMAS and LYDIA HOWLAND.

Notes for GEORGE HACKETT:
January 13, 1724/3 George Hacket and Lydia Thomas both of Middleborough after lawfull pubication and consent of parents were married by me Peter Thacher. Middleborough Vital Records, page 27.


Child of GEORGE HACKETT and LYDIA THOMAS is:
6. i. GIDEON5 HACKETT.


Generation No. 4

6. GIDEON5 HACKETT (GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) He married BETTY SAMPSON, daughter of SETH SAMPSON and RUTH BARROWS.

Notes for GIDEON HACKETT:
Gideon Hacket the son of George Hacket and of Lydia his wife was born on February 22, 1726/7. Page 38 Middleborough Vital Records
August 3rd 1749 Giddion Hacket and Betty Samson both of Middleb orough were married by me Silvanus Connant. Page 107 Middleborough Vital Records

Child of GIDEON HACKETT and BETTY SAMPSON is:
7. i. GEORGE6 HACKETT, b. Abt. 1760, Massachusetts; d. 13 March 1813, Age 56?, Farmington, Ontario Cty, New York.


Generation No. 5

7. GEORGE6 HACKETT (GIDEON5, GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born Abt. 1760 in Massachusetts, and died 13 March 1813 in Age 56?, Farmington, Ontario Cty, New York. He married MERCY FULLER 06 October 1785 in Pelham, Massachusetts, daughter of JOHN FULLER. She died Aft. 1840 in Ontario County, New York.

Children of GEORGE HACKETT and MERCY FULLER are:
8. i. GAIN ROBINSON7 HACKETT, b. 13 August 1810, Manchester, Ontario County, New York; d. 16 March 1855, Lorain County, Ohio.
ii. ESTHER HACKETT, d. 13 March 1813.
iii. POLLY HACKETT, d. 13 March 1813.
iv. GEORGE HACKETT.
v. OLIVER HACKETT, b. 1808.
vi. ABIGAIL HACKETT, m. JOHN PETERS.
vii. DEBORAH HACKETT, m. SMITON HEART.
viii. MERCY HACKETT, m. JOHN EVOTT.
ix. RACHEL HACKETT.
x. MATILDA HACKETT.


Generation No. 6

8. GAIN ROBINSON7 HACKETT (GEORGE6, GIDEON5, GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born 13 August 1810 in Manchester, Ontario County, New York, and died 16 March 1855 in Lorain County, Ohio. He married ELECTA SABIN 13 September 1832 in Lorain County, Ohio, daughter of STEPHEN SABIN and HANNAH WOOD. She was born 25 May 1815 in Ontario County, New York, and died 01 July 1897 in Lorain County, Ohio.

Children of GAIN HACKETT and ELECTA SABIN are:
i. ZEBINA8 HACKETT.
9. ii. MARY C. HACKETT, b. 26 August 1836, Lorain County, Ohio; d. 12 May 1908, Columbia Hills Corner Cemetery, Lorain County, Ohio.
10. iii. LAFRANCIS ELMER HACKETT, b. 22 June 1839, Lorain County, Ohio; d. 19 June 1920, Wheeler, Gratiot County, Michigan.
iv. STEPHAN HACKETT, d. 31 May 1845, Westview, Old Baker, Hoadley, Columbia Twp, Lorain Cty, Ohio.
11. v. EMILY H. HACKETT, b. Abt. 1847, Lorain County, Ohio; d. Bet. 1895 - 1912, Possibly St. Joseph, Michigan (unknown if City or County).
vi. SARAH L. HACKETT, b. Abt. 1849; d. 06 March 1865, 16y, Westview, Old Baker, Hoadley, Columbia Twp, Lorian Cty, Ohio.
vii. LAURA HACKETT.


Descendants of Gain Robinson Hackett


Generation No. 1

1. GAIN ROBINSON7 HACKETT (GEORGE6, GIDEON5, GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born 13 August 1810 in Manchester, Ontario County, New York, and died 16 March 1855 in Lorain County, Ohio. He married ELECTA SABIN 13 September 1832 in Lorain County, Ohio, daughter of STEPHEN SABIN and HANNAH WOOD. She was born 25 May 1815 in Ontario County, New York, and died 01 July 1897 in Lorain County, Ohio.

Children of GAIN HACKETT and ELECTA SABIN are:
i. ZEBINA8 HACKETT.
2. ii. MARY C. HACKETT, b. 26 August 1836, Lorain County, Ohio; d. 12 May 1908, Columbia Hills Corner Cemetery, Lorain County, Ohio.
3. iii. LAFRANCIS ELMER HACKETT, b. 22 June 1839, Lorain County, Ohio; d. 19 June 1920, Wheeler, Gratiot County, Michigan.
iv. STEPHAN HACKETT, d. 31 May 1845, Westview, Old Baker, Hoadley, Columbia Twp, Lorain Cty, Ohio.
4. v. EMILY H. HACKETT, b. Abt. 1847, Lorain County, Ohio; d. Bet. 1895 - 1912, Possibly St. Joseph, Michigan (unknown if City or County).
vi. SARAH L. HACKETT, b. Abt. 1849; d. 06 March 1865, 16y, Westview, Old Baker, Hoadley, Columbia Twp, Lorian Cty, Ohio.
vii. LAURA HACKETT.


Generation No. 2

2. MARY C.8 HACKETT (GAIN ROBINSON7, GEORGE6, GIDEON5, GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born 26 August 1836 in Lorain County, Ohio, and died 12 May 1908 in Columbia Hills Corner Cemetery, Lorain County, Ohio. She married ROBERT REDFERN April 1857 in Columbia Township, Lorain County, Ohio, son of ROBERT REDFERN and ELLEN. He was born 24 August 1837 in White Church, Bruce County, Canada, and died 08 December 1912 in Columbia Hills Corner Cemetery, Lorain County, Ohio.

Children of MARY HACKETT and ROBERT REDFERN are:
5. i. LILLY ANN9 REDFERN, b. Abt. 1858.
ii. ELLEN MAY REDFERN, b. Abt. February 1863, Lorain County, Ohio; d. 26 August 1883, Age 20y 6m., Columbia Hills Corner Cemetery, Lorain County, Ohio; m. JOHN CULVER.
iii. EVA MAY REDFERN, b. Abt. September 1872, Lorain County, Ohio; d. 20 November 1884, Age 12y, 3m, Columbia Hills Corner Cemetery, Columbia Twp, Lorain Cty, Ohio.
iv. ELMER DWITT REDFERN, b. Abt. August 1867, Lorain County, Ohio; d. 05 October 1873, 7y, 3m, Columbia Hills Corner, Columbia Twp, Lorain Cty, Ohio.
v. INFANT REDFERN.

3. LAFRANCIS ELMER8 HACKETT (GAIN ROBINSON7, GEORGE6, GIDEON5, GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born 22 June 1839 in Lorain County, Ohio, and died 19 June 1920 in Wheeler, Gratiot County, Michigan. He married SUSANNAH WARNER 12 April 1860 in Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, daughter of SAMUEL WARNER and AMANDA REED. She was born 13 January 1842 in Lorain County, Ohio, and died 06 March 1912 in Wheeler, Gratiot County, Michigan.

Notes for LAFRANCIS ELMER HACKETT:
LaFrancis was a private with the 5th Independent Ohio Sharpshooters, a unit that was never brigaded in the U.S. Army. The 5th Ohio SS formed a battalion with the 6th and 8th Ohio SS, called the 1st Ohio Sharpshooter Battalion. The 1st Ohio SS Battalion were the headquarter quards for the Union Army of the Cumberland. The 5th Ohio SS served from October 1862 through July 1865 at which time LaFrancis was mustered out with his company (Company A, i.e. the 5th Ohio SS). LaFrancis saw action through Tullahoma, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and onto Atlanta. The 5th Ohio SS returned with General Thomas to Nashville and through the end of that theatre, (i.e. the battle of Nashville, and the pursuit of the Confederate Army of Tennessee). LaFrancis wrote a diary for the year 1864, which is
published on the internet at http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6964.

LaFrancis' Uncle (by marriage) Joseph Smith (born in England) served with Company C, 1st Michigan Infantry from 1861 through 1862/3 when he was released and came home to die in 1863 of sickness. Cousin, Rudolphus Sabin also served with the 103rd Ohio Infantry and is mentioned (not by name) in the diary several times as they (the two cousins) meet as often as they can on the Atlanta Campaign.

Children of LAFRANCIS HACKETT and SUSANNAH WARNER are:
i. ELLA A.9 HACKETT, b. 14 May 1861, Lorain County, Ohio; d. 1905, Gratiot County, Michigan.
6. ii. FRANK GAIN HACKETT, b. 27 May 1863, Lorain County, Ohio; d. 14 November 1937, Gratiot County, Michigan.
7. iii. SARAH HACKETT, b. 17 December 1865, Cuyahoga County, Ohio; d. 14 December 1940, Columbus, Ohio.
iv. NETTIE HACKETT, b. 19 June 1867, Lorain County, Ohio; d. 11 November 1944.
v. PEARL HACKETT, b. 29 January 1871, Van Buren County, Michigan; d. 23 December 1962.
vi. NINA HACKETT, b. 03 February 1874, Van Buren County, Michigan.
8. vii. SAMUEL HAYES HACKETT, b. 08 May 1876, Lorain County, Ohio; d. 15 October 1965, Saginaw, Saginaw County, Michigan.
viii. GEORGE R. HACKETT, b. 15 September 1879, Lorain County, Ohio; d. 16 March 1947, Gratiot County, Michigan.
9. ix. SUSIE MAE HACKETT, b. 24 September 1881, Lorain County, Ohio.
x. ROSA E. HACKETT, b. 14 July 1884, Clinton County, Michigan.

4. EMILY H.8 HACKETT (GAIN ROBINSON7, GEORGE6, GIDEON5, GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born Abt. 1847 in Lorain County, Ohio, and died Bet. 1895 - 1912 in Possibly St. Joseph, Michigan (unknown if City or County). She married LAURAL OSBORN.

Children of EMILY HACKETT and LAURAL OSBORN are:
i. CHILD9 OSBORN.
ii. CHILD OSBORN.
iii. CHILD OSBORN.


Generation No. 3

5. LILLY ANN9 REDFERN (MARY C.8 HACKETT, GAIN ROBINSON7, GEORGE6, GIDEON5, GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born Abt. 1858. She married JOHN RICHARDS.

Children of LILLY REDFERN and JOHN RICHARDS are:
i. CHARLES10 RICHARDS.
ii. ROBERT RICHARDS.
iii. ALBERT RICHARDS.
iv. MAY RICHARDS.
v. LENA RICHARDS.

6. FRANK GAIN9 HACKETT (LAFRANCIS ELMER8, GAIN ROBINSON7, GEORGE6, GIDEON5, GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born 27 May 1863 in Lorain County, Ohio, and died 14 November 1937 in Gratiot County, Michigan. He married MABLE LOUISE BALL. She was born 27 November 1879 in Gratiot County, Michigan, and died 08 October 1925 in Gratiot County, Michigan.

Children of FRANK HACKETT and MABLE BALL are:
i. GARTHA M.10 HACKETT, b. 06 June 1901, Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
ii. GORDAN M. HACKETT, b. 11 August 1902, Cuyahoga County, Ohio; d. 14 August 1904, Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
iii. STANLEY E. HACKETT, b. 02 September 1905, Cuyahoga County, Ohio; d. 20 October 1905, Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
iv. FRENA M. HACKETT, b. 13 July 1908, Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
v. BETTY A. HACKETT, b. 23 March 1921, Cuyahoga County, Ohio.

7. SARAH9 HACKETT (LAFRANCIS ELMER8, GAIN ROBINSON7, GEORGE6, GIDEON5, GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born 17 December 1865 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and died 14 December 1940 in Columbus, Ohio. She married MR. SHEPARD.

Children of SARAH HACKETT and MR. SHEPARD are:
i. ELMER RAY10 SHEPARD, b. 29 May 1884, 30 May 1911.
10. ii. STELLA MAY SHEPARD, b. 16 August 1886.

8. SAMUEL HAYES9 HACKETT (LAFRANCIS ELMER8, GAIN ROBINSON7, GEORGE6, GIDEON5, GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born 08 May 1876 in Lorain County, Ohio, and died 15 October 1965 in Saginaw, Saginaw County, Michigan. He married (1) LOLO VIOLA POMEROY Bef. 1902 in Methodist Church, Wheeler, Gratiot County, Michigan, daughter of MILO POMEROY and HANNAH E.. She was born 1880 in New York or Quebec, Canada, and died 28 May 1917 in Wheeler, Gratiot County, Michigan. He married (2) ANNA JOSLIN Aft. 1917 in Methodist Church?, Wheeler, Gratiot County, Michigan. She was born Aft. 1880, and died November 1973 in Saginaw, Saginaw County, Michigan.

Notes for SAMUEL HAYES HACKETT:
Samuel with his father, LaFrancis E. Hackett, constructed the Methodist Church in Wheeler, Gratiot County, Michigan, no longer standing. Samuel was a carpenter all his life. At age 75 he added a back porch and additional bedroom to the house of his son, Lyle E. Hackett, in Mount Clemems, at 250 Euclid Avenue, about 1951.

Notes for LOLO VIOLA POMEROY:
Lolo was born to parents, unknown first names, surname of Johnson, Lulu Viola. As Theo Faye Hackett Hall (daughter of Lolo Pomeroy Hackett) recalled to Sarah R. Brooks in the summer of 1988, Lolo was born, named Lulu Viola Johnson, but both her parents died or were dead when she was born. As an infant she was given to her Uncle Bob Johnson to be raised in or near Buffalo, New York, but he developed a cancer which killed him. Lolo was then taken in by Milo and Hannah Pomeroy in 1880 and adopted as their only child. They changed her name to Lolo Viola Pomeroy. 1900 Michigan Federal Census for Gratiot County shows Lolo married to Samuel Hayes Hackett (1876-1965) and living with her parents, Milo and Hannah Pomeroy, listed as "adopted daughter," and that the place of her birth was New York, unknown for her birth father, and New York for her birth mother. There are three families in the Buffalo, NY area in 1880 that have an infant Lulu Johnson.

Children of SAMUEL HACKETT and LOLO POMEROY are:
11. i. THEO FAY10 HACKETT, b. 14 October 1902, Gratiot County, Michigan; d. December 1994, Gratiot County, Michigan.
12. ii. LYLE ELTON HACKETT, b. 30 November 1908, Cleveland, Ohio; d. 07 March 1973, Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan.
iii. MILTON AUDREY HACKETT, b. 31 March 1912, Gratiot County, Michigan; d. 21 October 1957, California.
iv. ARNOLD RAYMOND HACKETT, b. 01 May 1917, Gratiot County, Michigan; d. 30 April 1950, Michigan.

Children of SAMUEL HACKETT and ANNA JOSLIN are:
13. v. LOLA MARIE10 HACKETT, b. 16 August 1921, Gratiot County, Michigan; d. September 1984.
14. vi. VERA ARLENE HACKETT, b. 16 January 1926, Gratiot County, Michigan; d. July 1997, Saginaw County, Saginaw.
15. vii. CAROL JOAN HACKETT, b. 29 May 1928.

9. SUSIE MAE9 HACKETT (LAFRANCIS ELMER8, GAIN ROBINSON7, GEORGE6, GIDEON5, GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born 24 September 1881 in Lorain County, Ohio. She married MR. ADAMS.

Children of SUSIE HACKETT and MR. ADAMS are:
i. FOREST GLEE10 ADAMS, b. 13 March 1901, Summit County, Ohio; m. GRACE CHAMBERS, 16 June 1926.
ii. FERNE EVANGELINE ADAMS, b. 30 June 1906.
iii. LAFRANCIS ADAMS, b. 1922.


Generation No. 4

10. STELLA MAY10 SHEPARD (SARAH9 HACKETT, LAFRANCIS ELMER8, GAIN ROBINSON7, GEORGE6, GIDEON5, GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born 16 August 1886. She married CLYMONTS PETCH 30 June 1908.

Child of STELLA SHEPARD and CLYMONTS PETCH is:
i. SARAH JEANETTE11 PETCH, b. 18 November 1915.

11. THEO FAY10 HACKETT (SAMUEL HAYES9, LAFRANCIS ELMER8, GAIN ROBINSON7, GEORGE6, GIDEON5, GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born 14 October 1902 in Gratiot County, Michigan, and died December 1994 in Gratiot County, Michigan. She married CLARENCE HALL. He was born 10 April 1902 in Gratiot County, Michigan, and died 1977 in Gratiot County, Michigan.

Children of THEO HACKETT and CLARENCE HALL are:
16. i. DORIS11 HALL.
17. ii. RUTH HALL.
18. iii. HELEN HALL.
iv. LAWRENCE HALL.
19. v. FLORENCE HALL, b. 1933.

12. LYLE ELTON10 HACKETT (SAMUEL HAYES9, LAFRANCIS ELMER8, GAIN ROBINSON7, GEORGE6, GIDEON5, GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born 30 November 1908 in Cleveland, Ohio, and died 07 March 1973 in Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan. He married (1) DOROTHEA ISABELLE TELLIS 07 November 1931 in City Hall, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, daughter of ORLA TELLIS and LEOLA WILLIS. She was born 25 April 1910 in Hamilton, Butler Cty, Ohio, and died 01 January 1996 in Anaheim, California. He married (2) KATHLEEN GREEN Aft. 1965 in Macomb, Wayne or Oakland County. She was born Bef. 1933. He married (3) MARION ? Aft. 1968 in Pontiac?, Oakland County, Michigan. She was born Aft. 1908.

Notes for DOROTHEA ISABELLE TELLIS:
Dorothea H. Tellis was cremated as per her wishes in January 1996. She was flown back to Michigan in April that same year and interred in the ground next to her Mother, Leola Steele Willis Tellis, Saturday, the 4th of May, 1996 when the ground was soft enough to permit burial of her remains.

Children of LYLE HACKETT and DOROTHEA TELLIS are:
20. i. JUDITH LEOLA11 HACKETT, b. 16 July 1933, Grosse Pointe Farm, Michigan.
21. ii. RICHARD ARTHUR HACKETT, b. 03 April 1935, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan; d. September 1985, Anaheim, California.
22. iii. KATHRYN JANET HACKETT, b. 12 September 1941, Mount Clemens, Macomb County, Michigan.
23. iv. STEPHEN HEYWOOD HACKETT, b. 14 July 1948, Mount Clemens, Macomb County, Michigan.

Child of LYLE HACKETT and KATHLEEN GREEN is:
v. CATHY11 HACKETT, b. in Macomb, Wayne or Oakland County, Michigan.

13. LOLA MARIE10 HACKETT (SAMUEL HAYES9, LAFRANCIS ELMER8, GAIN ROBINSON7, GEORGE6, GIDEON5, GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born 16 August 1921 in Gratiot County, Michigan, and died September 1984. She married ANTHONY J. GRAYZAR 29 May 1955.

Children of LOLA HACKETT and ANTHONY GRAYZAR are:
i. SALLY KLEMENT11 PRIOR.
24. ii. JOANNE ELAINE GRAYZAR,.
25. iii. GREGORY JOHN GRAYZAR.
iv. WILLIAM ARNOLD GRAYZAR.

14. VERA ARLENE10 HACKETT (SAMUEL HAYES9, LAFRANCIS ELMER8, GAIN ROBINSON7, GEORGE6, GIDEON5, GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born 16 January 1926 in Gratiot County, Michigan, and died July 1997 in Saginaw County, Saginaw. She married WILLIAM DAVID BOOTH 22 August 1952.

Children of VERA HACKETT and WILLIAM BOOTH are:
26. i. DAVID WILLIAM11 BOOTH.
27. ii. LISA ANN BOOTH.

15. CAROL JOAN10 HACKETT (SAMUEL HAYES9, LAFRANCIS ELMER8, GAIN ROBINSON7, GEORGE6, GIDEON5, GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born 29 May 1928. She married EDWIN A. RUDELL 15 September 1951.

Children of CAROL HACKETT and EDWIN RUDELL are:
i. JAMES ALAN11 RUDELL.
ii. DANA SAMUEL RUDEL.
28. iii. GENE EDWIN RUDELL.
29. iv. KURT RAYMOND RUDELL.


Generation No. 5

16. DORIS11 HALL (THEO FAY10 HACKETT, SAMUEL HAYES9, LAFRANCIS ELMER8, GAIN ROBINSON7, GEORGE6, GIDEON5, GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) She married JAMES HEMP.

Child of DORIS HALL and JAMES HEMP is:
i. JEFFREY12 HEMP.

17. RUTH11 HALL (THEO FAY10 HACKETT, SAMUEL HAYES9, LAFRANCIS ELMER8, GAIN ROBINSON7, GEORGE6, GIDEON5, GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) She married ELDON KEEL.

Children of RUTH HALL and ELDON KEEL are:
i. ROGER12 KEEL.
ii. PATRICIA KEEL.

18. HELEN11 HALL (THEO FAY10 HACKETT, SAMUEL HAYES9, LAFRANCIS ELMER8, GAIN ROBINSON7, GEORGE6, GIDEON5, GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) She married KEITH CURTIS.

Children of HELEN HALL and KEITH CURTIS are:
i. MICHAEL12 CURTIS.
ii. CHERYLE CURTIS.

19. FLORENCE11 HALL (THEO FAY10 HACKETT, SAMUEL HAYES9, LAFRANCIS ELMER8, GAIN ROBINSON7, GEORGE6, GIDEON5, GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born 1933. She married THOMAS HOGAN.

Children of FLORENCE HALL and THOMAS HOGAN are:
i. TOMMY12 HOGAN.
ii. GREGORY ALAN HOGAN.

20. JUDITH LEOLA11 HACKETT (LYLE ELTON10, SAMUEL HAYES9, LAFRANCIS ELMER8, GAIN ROBINSON7, GEORGE6, GIDEON5, GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born 16 July 1933 in Grosse Pointe Farm, Michigan. She married JAMES WARREN BROOKS 05 February 1955 in Grace Episcopal Church, Mt Clemens, Michigan, son of ROY BROOKS and EVA MINTER. He was born 11 January 1931 in Elmodel, Georgia.

Children of JUDITH HACKETT and JAMES BROOKS are:
30. i. SUSAN DOROTHEA12 BROOKS, b. in Celina, Ohio.
31. ii. BETH ANNE BROOKS, b. in Celina, Ohio.
iii. SARAH RUTH BROOKS, b. in, Battle Creek, Mich..
32. iv. JENNIFER KATHRYN BROOKS, b.in, Saginaw, Mich.

21. RICHARD ARTHUR11 HACKETT (LYLE ELTON10, SAMUEL HAYES9, LAFRANCIS ELMER8, GAIN ROBINSON7, GEORGE6, GIDEON5, GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born 03 April 1935 in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, and died September 1985 in Anaheim, California. He married JOANN BENNETTI 1956 in Macomb County, Michigan. She was born in Macomb County, Michigan.

Children of RICHARD HACKETT and JOANN BENNETTI are:
33. i. GREGORY ALAN12 HACKETT.
ii. RICHARD ARTHUR HACKETT, JR.
34. iii. CHRISTOPHER ROBERT HACKETT
iv. TIMOTHY SHAWN HACKETT.

22. KATHRYN JANET11 HACKETT (LYLE ELTON10, SAMUEL HAYES9, LAFRANCIS ELMER8, GAIN ROBINSON7, GEORGE6, GIDEON5, GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born 12 September 1941 in Mount Clemens, Macomb County, Michigan. She married WILLIAM CUSENZA September 1962. He was born 1939 in Detroit, Wayne Cty, Michigan.

Children of KATHRYN HACKETT and WILLIAM CUSENZA are:
i. DAVID ALLEN12 CUSENZA,.
35. ii. MARGARET ROSE CUSENZA.
36. iii. LAURA ANN CUSENZA.

23. STEPHEN HEYWOOD11 HACKETT (LYLE ELTON10, SAMUEL HAYES9, LAFRANCIS ELMER8, GAIN ROBINSON7, GEORGE6, GIDEON5, GEORGE4, JOHN3, JABEZ2, JOHN?1) was born in Mount Clemens, Macomb County, Michigan. He married (1) DIANA HAVEY 1973. He married (2) LUCINDA BEAN 1979.

Children of STEPHEN HACKETT and DIANA HAVEY are:
i. GREYSON THOMAS12 HACKETT.
37. ii. STEPHANIE MICHELLE HACKETT.

Children of STEPHEN HACKETT and LUCINDA BEAN are:
iii. COLINRICHARD12 HACKETT.
iv. KELSEY EVAGELINE HACKETT.

Concerning the first wife of David Drayton Brooks, Frances W. Coleman

My great, great grandfather, David Drayton Brooks had two wives. His first wife, Frances W. Coleman, from whom I am descended was the daughter of Margaret Cooper and Benjamin Coleman. Not much is known about Margaret Cooper and even less on Benjamin Coleman. There are plenty of Coopers and Colemans in Abbeville and Edgefield Counties, South Carolina and I have been able to link Margaret Cooper to some of the Coopers, but Benjamin Coleman is one of my brick walls I encounter quite frequently in genealogy.

Margaret Cooper is the granddaughter of one Reuben Cooper, originally from Virginia who settled into Edgefield County, SC, perhaps just after the American Revolution, of which, he participated in on behalf of the Commonwealth of Virginia. I am not certain who Margaret's parents were. I believe that her father was Hadley Cooper, possible son of Reuben Cooper. In the 1800 SC census for Edgefield County there is a Hadley Cooper listing just after Reuben Cooper. Hadley Cooper is listed as a male and he has a young wife and daughter (aged 0-5 years). Margaret Cooper Coleman's date of birth is approximately 1800 from the US censuses in which she appears, namely 1850, 1860, and 1870. She is not on the 1880 census and from a family source (I call the Jane Brooks paper), Margaret's date of death is January 24, 1885. She is listed as being deceased in the Modoc Baptist Church records posted earlier.

Margaret Cooper and Benjamin Coleman married about 1820, however no record is found showing this information. They had at least three children: Elizabeth Hadley Coleman, Frances W. Coleman, and Hezikiah Coleman. From the first daughter Elizabeth Hadley Coleman, and the will of Reuben Cooper, and the 1800 census, I draw the conclusion that her father was Hadley Cooper.

In the 1824 will of Reuben Cooper, Margaret is listed as a grandaughter. There is a grandson Hadley Cooper also listed. The following is the lineage of Reuben Cooper to where it connects with my Brooks family:


Descendants of Reuben Cooper


Generation No. 1

1. REUBEN1 COOPER was born Abt. 1761 in Virginia, and died Abt. 1824 in Edgefield County, SC. He married ELIZABETH. She died Abt. 1833 in Edgefield County, SC.

Children of REUBEN COOPER and ELIZABETH is:
2. i. HADLEY COOPER2 (POSSIBLE).
ii. Sarah Cooper
iii. Matilda Cooper
iv. Campbell Cooper

Generation No. 2

2. HADLEY COOPER2 (POSSIBLE) (REUBEN1 COOPER)

Child of HADLEY COOPER (POSSIBLE) is:
3. i. MARGARET3 COOPER, b. 1800, Abbeville or Edgefield County?, SC; d. 24 January 1885, Abbeville or Edgefield County? SC.


Generation No. 3

3. MARGARET3 COOPER (HADLEY COOPER2 (POSSIBLE), REUBEN1 COOPER) was born 1800 in Abbeville or Edgefield County?, SC, and died 24 January 1885 in Abbeville or Edgefield County? SC. She married BENJAMIN COLEMAN. He was born in Abbeville or Edgefield County?, SC, and died Bef. 1850.

Children of MARGARET COOPER and BENJAMIN COLEMAN are:
4. i. ELIZABETH HADLEY4 COLEMAN, b. Abt. 1820; d. 10 July 1860, Abbeville Cty, SC.
5. ii. FRANCES W. COLEMAN, b. 09 September 1821, SC; d. 06 July 1892, Modoc, Edgefield County, SC.
iii. HEZIKIAH COLEMAN, b. 1825, Abbeville or Edgefield Cty, SC; d. Bef. 1910, Abbeville Poorhouse, Abbeville, Abbeville Cty, SC.

Notes for HEZIKIAH COLEMAN:
Hezikiah Coleman was in Confederate service in at least two different units. He saw action at Charleston where he was wounded. His record of service is listed with Daughters of Confederacy papers. More will be added later..


Generation No. 4

4. ELIZABETH HADLEY4 COLEMAN (MARGARET3 COOPER, HADLEY COOPER2 (POSSIBLE), REUBEN1 COOPER) was born Abt. 1820, and died 10 July 1860 in Abbeville Cty, SC. She married FRANCIS ATKINS, JR.. He died 1856 in Abbeville Cty, SC.

Children of ELIZABETH COLEMAN and FRANCIS ATKINS are:
i. REVENNA W.5 ATKINS, b. 18 September 1843, Abbeville Cty, SC; d. 28 August 1861, Virginia.
ii. JAMES FRANCIS ATKINS, b. 25 July 1846, Abbeville Cty, SC.

excerpt from Abbeville South Carolina Newspapers 1856

NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, MAY 8, 1856

OBITUARY DIED, at his residence on the 16th of March, Francis ATKINS, of this district. The deceased was a kind husband, a devoted father and humane master. He left a widowed wife and four children to mourn his loss.

5. FRANCES W.4 COLEMAN (MARGARET3 COOPER, HADLEY COOPER2 (POSSIBLE), REUBEN1 COOPER) was born 09 September 1821 in SC, and died 06 July 1892 in Modoc, Edgefield County, SC. She married DAVID DRAYTON BROOKS in Abbeville ? County, SC. He was born Bet. 1832 - 1833 in SC, and died 21 March 1916.

Notes for DAVID DRAYTON BROOKS:
David's date of death is listed on his Widow's pension application for his service in the Confederacy in the war years 1861-1865, Co. A, 1st SC Cavalry. Pension application dated 21 March 1921 to McCormick County, SC.


Children of FRANCES COLEMAN and DAVID BROOKS are:

i. WILLIAM HEZEKIAH5 BROOKS, b. 1856, Abbeville Cty, SC; d. Aft. 1930, Miami Twp, Dade Cty, Florida; m. (1) MAUDE; d. Miami, Florida; m. (2) ELIZABETH MORGAN, Bef. 1884, Modoc, South Carolina; d. 1913, Live Oak, Florida.

Notes for WILLIAM HEZEKIAH BROOKS:
Appears in the 1930 Florida Census, Dade County, Miami Twp, wife is Maude.

ii. JAMES WARREN BROOKS, b. 11 October 1857, Abbeville County, SC; d. 10 June 1930, Elmodel, Baker County, Georgia; m. HULDAH IDA TUCKER, Edgefield Cty, SC; b. 26 December 1860, "Dark Corner" Edgefield Cty, SC; d. 03 March 1899, Modoc, Edgefield County, SC.

iii. MARGARET JANE BROOKS, b. 1859, Abbeville County SC; d. 1939, Jacksonville, Florida; m. THOMAS PINCKNEY HOWLE; b. 1864; d. 1940, Jacksonville, Florida..

iv. MARTHA ELIZABETH BROOKS, b. 1861, Abbeville County SC; d. Bef. 1893, Modoc, McCormick County, SC; m. PLEASANT DAVIS THURMOND, Family house of David D. Brooks.

The transcribed will of Reuben Cooper, 1824, Edgefield County, South Carolina:

EDGEFIELD DISTRICT SOUTH CAROLINA WILL OF REUBEN COOPER IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN.

I REUBEN COOPER OF EDGEFIELD DISTRICT SOUTH CAROLINA AFORESAID BEING IN A LOW STATE OF HEALTH BUT IN PERFECT MIND AND MEMORY DO MAKE THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT IN MANNER AND FORM AS FOLLOWS.

1ST. I WILL AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY BELOVED WIFE ELIZABETH COOPER ALL MY LANDS DURING HER NATURAL LIFE LIKEWISE THE FOLLOWING NEGROES NED, MOLLEY AND HER CHILD BEN. ALSO ALL MY HOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN FURNITURE TO HAVE AND TO HOLD THE SAME DURING HER NATURAL LIFE AND AFTER THE DEATH OF MY BELOVED WIFE IT IS MY WILL AND DESIRE THAT ALL MY LANDS SHALL BE MY BELOVED SONS CAMEL COOPER ALSO THE ABOVE NAMED NEGROES NED, MOLLEY AND HER CHILD BEN LIKE WISE I WILL AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY BELOVED SON CAMEL COOPER THREE OTHER NEGROES BARBRY, JACOB AND GILEROY.

I WILL AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY BELOVED GRANDSON HADLEY COOPER MY NEGRO GIRL CAROLINE TOGETHER WITH HER FUTER INCREASE.

I WILL AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY BELOVED GRANDSON REUBEN COOPER MY NEGRO GIRL RACHEL TOGETHER WITH HER FUTER INCREASE.

I WILL AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY BELOVED DAUGHTER SARAH CARTER THE FOLLOWING NEGROES SILLER, AMBROSE AND EDMUND TOGETHER WITH THE FUTER INCREASE.

I WILL AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY BELOVED DAUGHTER MATILDA DOBEY THE FOLLOWING NEGROES, HARRY, JUDY AND SARY TOGETHER WITH THERE FUTER INCREASE.

I WILL AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY BELOVED GRANDAUGHTER MARGARET COLEMAN FIFTY DOLLARS TO BE RAISED OUT OF MY PERSONAL ESTATE.

AND I DO CONSTITUTE MAKE AND ORDAIN MY BELOVED WIFE ELIZABETH COOPER AND MY BELOVED SON CAMEL COOPER EXECUTORS OF THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT AND I DO HEREBY UTTERLY REVOKE AND DISANNUL ALL AND EVERY OTHER FORMER TESTAMENT WILLS LEGACIES AND BEQUEATHS HERETOFORE MADE BY ME AND DECLARE THIS AND NO OTHER TO BE MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT IN WITNESS WHEREOF I HAVE HERE UNTO SET MY HAND AND SEAL THIS THE 17TH OF JUNE 1824.REUBEN COOPER,

HIS MARKSIGNED SEALED AND ACKNOWLEDGED IN THE PRESENCE OF JOHN MATHIS, JOHN HARRISON, FRANCES HARRISON RECORDED IN WILL BOOK "C" PAGE 153-154RECORDED 20 OCT 1824BOX 36, PKG. 1333 SOUTH CAROLINA EDGEFIELD DIST.

BY JOHN SIMKINS ESQ. ORDINARY PERSONALLY APPEARED BEFORE ME JOHN HARRISON WHO BEING DULY SWORN SAITH THAT HE SAW REUBEN COOPER SIGN, SEAL AND DELIVER THE WITHIN TO BE AND CONTAIN HIS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT AND THAT HE TOGETHER WITH FRANCES HARRISON AND HENRY MATHIS DID SIGN THEIR NAMES AS WITNESS THERE TO AT THE REQUEST OF THE TESTATOR AND IN HIS PRESENCE AND THAT THE TESTATOR WAS THEN IN PERFECT MIND AND MEMORY TO THE BEST OF THIS APOINTES BELIEF -

GIVEN UNDER MY HAND THE 15TH SEPT 1824. QUALIFED CAMPBELL COOPER EXEC. THE SAME TIME. J. N. SIMKINS, O. E. D.FROM THE ESTATE PKG OF REUBEN COOPER (NOT IN ESTATE PKG IN THIS ORDER)1824SEP 15,
PAID THE ORDINY $5.00DEC 27,
PAID THE ORDINY $1.00PAID TAX $15.12 ?
PAID WM. SAMUEL $3.251825JAN 17,
PAID JOHN DOBY $.75NOV 11,
REC.D FROM B. R. ? $9.50DEC 14,
REC.D FROM A. BUTLER $9.68 3/71826JAN 5,
PAID ELI MORGAN $18.18 3/7JAN 10,
PAID B. COLMAN $50.00JAN 22,
PAID MOSES QUARLES $5.25JAN 24,
PAID ELI MORGAN 5.00JAN 28,
PAID JOHN DOBY $5.06 ?FEB 6,
PAID THE ORDINRY $3.50JAN 2,
REC.D FROM S. MAYS $2.68 3/7JAN 6,
REC.D FROM J. M. KELLEY $21.50JAN 9,
REC.D FROM ? LUCAS $5.49JAN 17,
REC.D FROM L. B. RANDAL $.50JAN 25,
REC.D FROM J. SAMUELS $22.81 1/7JAN 27,
REC.D FROM D. DOBY $4.31 1/7JAN 28,
REC.D FROM J. STEPHEN $2.00FEB,
REC.D FROM J. CRAWFORD $24.18 3/7FEB,
REC.D FROM J. MAN $23.12 ?FEB,
REC.D FROM J. CLARK $19.37 ?FEB,
REC.D FROM J. MORRIS $22.93 2/7FEB,
REC.D FROM D. PRESCOT $2.06 ?FEB,
REC.D FROM T. MACKELHAM $19.56 1/7FEB,
REC.D FROM ELI MORGAN $168.42FEB,
REC.D FROM ELI MORGAN $50.37 ?FEB,
REC.D FROM ? SMITH $34.25FEB, R


Transcribed will of Elizabeth Cooper, widow of Reuben Cooper:

EDGEFIELD DISTRICT SOUTH CAROLINA
WILL OF ELIZABETH COOPER

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. I ELIZABETH COOPER OF THE DISTRICT OF EDGEFIELD AND STATE AFORESAID BEING OF SOUND MIND MEMORY AND UNDERSTANDING, DO MAKE AND PUBLISH THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT IN MANNER AND FORM FOLLOWING.

1ST. I WILL AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY BELOVED GRANDDAUGHTER MARGARET COLEMAN ONE FEATHER BED AND BEDSTER, ONE BED QUILT, SHEET AND COUNTERPIN? TO HER AND HER HEIRS FOREVER.

2ND. I WILL AND BEQUEATH UNTO THE CHILDREN COLLECTIVELY OF MY DEC'D DAUGHTER SARAH CARTER THE SUM OF TEN SHILLINGS TO BE PAID OUT OF THE PROCEEDS OF MY ESTATE.

3RD. IT IS MY WILL AND DESIRE THE REMAINDER OF MY ESTATE OF WHATEVER IT MAY CONSIST, BE SOLD AND EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN MY SON CAMBELL COOPER, MATILDA DOBY, AND MY GRAND DAUGHTER MARGARET COLEMAN, TO THEM AND THEIR HEIRS FOREVER.

4TH. I NOMINATE CONSTITUTE AND APPOINT MY SON CAMBELL COOPER EXECUTOR TO THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.

IN WITNESS WHERE OF I HAVE HERE UNTO SET MY HAND AND SEAL THIS 26TH DAY OF FEBRUARY IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTYONE. AND OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE THE FIFTY FIFTH.

ELIZABETH COOPER,
HER MARKSIGNED SEALED AND PUBLISHED IN PRESENCE OF US.

GEORGE TILLMAN
ANN COLEMAN
ANSEL DEVORE,

HIS MARK RECORDED IN WILL BOOK "C" PAGE 363
RECORDED MARCH 29, 1832BOX 7, PKG. 225
(TRANSCRIBED BY WPA)

More about David Drayton Brooks

David Drayton Brooks and his family while living in Modoc, what was then Edgefield County, South Carolina, attended the Modoc Baptist Church during the 1880s and 1890s.

On a trip to the Tompkins Memorial Library in Edgefield, South Carolina, doing genealogy, I found the records of the Modoc Baptist Church on microfilm and I transcribed from the record the part the Brooks' played in their religious life at this time. Below is my transcription from the microfilm:

Membership of the Modoc Baptist Church (after 1887??)


Page 7

Thomas Howl Sen. + (dead)
Martha Howl + (dead)
J. W. Shumate +
Obedience Shumate +
Nicholas Chadwick + (dismissed Sep. 8, 1888)
J. C. Harvley + (dismissed)
S. C. Harvley + (dismissed)
Bessie Harvley + (dismissed Mar 1891)
J. T. Reese +
Sallie McDaniels +
Matilda Vance + (dismissed by letter June 12, 1892)
Deacon P. R. Wates + (dismissed Feb 8, 1890)
Mary M. Wates + (dismissed " " )
Martha Glanton + (dead)
Mattie Bussey + (dead)
Jeff Shelton
Lizzie Glanton (now Roper)
Aggie Howl (dismissed by letter May 8, 1892)
Irvin Gullage (dead)
Calvin Reddy
Annie Gullage (expelled June 11, 1887)
Sussie Douglas
Betsy Howl (dead)
Ann Howl (dismissed by letter May 8, 1892)
Lizzie Shelton +
D. D. Brooks (dismissed)
Mrs. D. D. Brooks (dead, died July 6th 1892)
Mrs. Coleman (dead)
Maggie Brooks (now Howle)
Bettie Brooks Thurmond (dead)
Lizzie Brooks (srb's notes, i.e. Martha Elizabeth Morgan who married William H. Brooks)

Those marked thus + are the members…which this church was constituted…

Page 8
When received
H. Coleman
H. Gullage
Catherine Gullage
Charlotte Gullage
Annie Parker
Fannie Howl
J. J. McGlainmery
Henry Howl (dismissed by letter May 8, 1892)
Levie Douglas
Josephine Douglas
Deacon W. S. Howard Dec 28, 1884
D. by Request Feb 14, 1892

Page 10
Names of Members when received

May Wates (Dorn) Sep 11, 1887
Ella Smith " "
Annie Burnette " "
Winchester McDaniels " "
W. H. Brooks " "
H. T. Jennings Feb 11, 1888
Sarah Jennings " "
Katie Gulledge Aug 16 1888 (dismissed by letter)
Sallie Young " " (dismissed by letter)
William Young " " (Expelled)
Mattie Howel (Hornsby) " "
Carrie Crofford (Wates) " "
Florence Quarles
Savannah Stone
Mary Gulledge
Tommie Jennings Feb 14, 1892 (name eraced by request)
A. V. Bussey Oct. 12, 1889
G. W. Hammilton
J. B. Tutt Nov. 9, 1889 (dismissed by letter)
Sarah V. Tutt " " (d. by letter)
Jennie Tutt " " (d. by letter)
J. P. Moore Feb 14, 1892 (d. by request)
Virginia McDaniel " "
J. M. Holson Oct. 12, 1892
Mary Holson " "
Alice Collier Oct. 26, 1890
Robert Shumate " "
Lulu Howl " "
Mamie Collier " "
A. P. Douglass Feb. 14, 1892 (d. by request)
Charly Wood Aug 13, 1892
J. W. Brooks Aug 15, 1892
W. H. Bussey Aug 15, 1892
Millidge Ren…? Aug 15, 1892

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Names when rec'd

Revised Membership of Modoc Baptist Church March 4, 1893

J. W. Shumate 1
Mrs. Obedience Shumate 2
Deacon Nicholas Chadwick
Mrs. Annie Chadwick
Deacon J. C. Harvley
Mrs. S. C. Harvly
J. T. Reese 3
Mrs. S. C. McDaniel
Mrs. M. T. Bussey
W. H. Bussey
Mrs. Sarah Ann Howle when dismissed 4
Mrs. Ann Holmes June 1893
Miss Eliza Holmes " "
Mrs. Ella Red
Mrs. Maude Bussey 5
Sussie Douglass 6
Lizzie Shelton 7
D. D. Brooks
Mrs. Maggie Howle 8
H. Coleman 9
Mrs. Catherine Gulledge
Louis Douglass 10
Mrs. Josephine Douglass 11
Deacon George Crawford
Mrs. Mary Crawford 12
Miss Lizzie Crawford 13 Beasley now
Mrs. Kate Moore 14
Miss Eliza Crawford 15
Mrs. Emma? Sharpton
Robert Sharpton
Mrs. Georgia Reese 16
Mrs. Huldah Blair 17
Miss Sue Jennings Park
Miss Minnie Holmes

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Name when rec'd
W. H. Brooks
H. T. Jennings
Mrs. Sarah Jennings
Mrs. Katie Gulledge
Mrs. Mattie Hornsby
Miss Carrie Crawford (Wates)
Miss Savannah Stone
A. V. Bussey
Deacon G. W. Hamilton
Mrs. Virginia McDaniel
J. M. Holson
Mrs. Mary Holson
Miss Lula Howle
Charlie Wood
Mrs. Lula Wood
J. W. Brooks
Millage Renew(sp)
H. M. Harvley


Page 24

Feb 21st (1887?)

Preaching by the Pastor Bro. Bussey - from James 5 Chapter & 15 verse - Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another" After preaching Church went in conference. Opened the door of the Church for the reception of members - received none. Heard the reading and approved the minutes of last conference. Bro. H. Coleman confessed to the Church that he had been in disorder and asked to be forgiven which was unanimously granted. The committee on letting the keeping of the house not being present, it was moved & carried, that they be requested to report tomorrow. It was moved and carried that the Clerk be required to keep a list of the members present at each conference. Bro. P. R. Wates submitted the following resolution and moved to its adoption…

Unnumbered page

Feb 11 (1888?)

Our pastor being absent on account of his being sick by request of the brethren Bro P. R. Wates acted moderator protem. 1st opened door of church for reception of members, received H. T. Jennings and wife Sarah Jennings by letter from Parksville Church. Bro. H. T. Burnett stated that he had seen Willie L. Howle and that he said the he was sorry for what he had done and asked the Chruch to forgive him, he was forgiven. Bro C. J. Holmes stated that the committee on letting house had let the keeping of the church this to Bro. A. P. Douglas for four dollars. Bro. G. W. Crawford stated that Sister Martin had written to him to apply for letters of dismission for herself & son John Martin. They were granted by motion. Bro. C. J. Holmes conference adjourned.

P. R. Wates Moderator protem

Page 38

Aug 12, 1888

After Devine Service church met in conference. 1st opened door of church, received none. Minutes of last meeting was read and adopted by Bro J. C. Harvley, read a title to secure the Masons in their right to build a home over our church by motion of Bro. A. P. Douglas, it was resolved that the Deacons be authorized to assign said title. It was resolved to appoint deligates to the Association. Willie Howle, C. J. Homes, Henry Howle with J. C. Harveley & W. H. Brooks as alternatives by motion of Bro. C. J. Holmes. Conference adjourned.

Rev. J. J. Getsinger, moderator
H. T. Burnett, C. C.


Page 40

Sept 7, 1889

Church met in conference. Opened the doors of the church, rec. Bro. G. W. Hamilton by letter. Received Tommie Jennings by experience. Bro. J. C. Harvley ask for a letter of dismission for Sister Florence Quarles, granted. Bro. C. J. Holmes ask for a letter for Bro. J. B. Nelson, granted. Bro. J. K. Harveley reported to the church that he had been in disorder and ask to be forgiven, his request was granted. Bro. W. H. Brooks made a similar statement and was forgiven. Bros. Brooks & Harveley ask the prayers of the church in their behalf. The following com- was appointed to take subscription to paint the church. Bros. P. R. Wates, J. T. Reese, G. W. Hamilton & W. H. Brooks. The following deligates were appointed to the next union meeting, G. W. Hamilton, W. H. Brooks & J. K. Harvley.
On motion, Conf. adj.
P. R. Wates, C. C. Rev. A. G. Collier, Mod.


Sept 14, 1889

Church met in call conference to call a pastor. Bro. J. C. Harvey acted as moderator. Called Bro. A. G. Collier to serve the church next year. Conf. adj.

Oct 12, 1889

Church met in conference. Opened the doors of the church, received Bro. J. M. Holson and wife, Mary Holson, A. V. Bussey & G. P. Moore by letter and Mary Gulledge by experience. Read and adopted last meeting's minutes…

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Modoc Baptist Church April 12, 1890

After divine service the door of the church was opened received none. Church then went into conference, minutes of last meeting was read and approved.

The case of Bro. C. J. Holmes being the first business, Bro. W. H. Brooks request the moderator to absent himself for new minutes until the committee reported. Bro. J. C. Harvley was called to the chair. Bro. G. W. Crawford made the following report. He said, "I went to see Bro Holmes, who said he had nothing against any member of the church, but he had no confidence in our Pastor (Bro. A. G. Collier)."

Bro. J. C. Harvley said that Bro. Homes had about the same talk to him at the Union meeting at Clarks Hill. Bro. J. C. Harvley who was acting as moderate then asked what we should do with the case.

Bro. Thos Howl moved that another committee be appoint to see Bro Holmes and request that he meet with us at our next conference and show cause why he does not come to church.

Your Clerk moved that the report of the committee be received and dismissed and said that experience had taught him that our Saviour meant just what he said "where two or three should agree as asking any one thing he would grant it," and he therefore request not only two or three but the whole church to make Bro. Holmes a subject of prayer for the next month, and so strong is my belief in prayer that I believe if Bro Holmes does not come to church the fault is with him and not with us. Bro. A. G. Collier then returned and taking the chair. When Bro. J. C. Harvley moved that the church join in prayer right then for Bro. Holmes, and our pastor lead in the pray and we all join him, where our Pastor offered a ferverent earnest prayer in behalf of our erring Bro. Your Clerk reported that he had again done wrong to the church & offended God, but had prayed to God and believed that the Master had forgiven him and begged the church to forgive him and request the church to pray for him. He was forgiven.
Conference adjourned. A. G. Collier, moderator
G. W. Hamilton, C. C.

In conference of a Sunday School picnic at this place on Saturday before the second Sunday in May. G. W. Hamilton, C. C.

Modoc June 7, 1890.

After devine services the door of the church was opened for the reception of members, received none.

Bro. Holmes case being the only unfinished business, Bro. W. H. Brooks said that either Bro. Holmes or the Church were wrong and he suggested that we get right. Bro. J. C. Harvley said he thought as Bro. Brooks and compared the case to a vine.

Bro. H. T. Jennings moved that we withdraw fellowship from C. J. Holmes, seconded by Bro. J. C. Harvley. The motion was carried, and C. J. Holmes expelled.

Conference adjourned.
A. G. Collier, Moderator
G. W. Hamilton, C.C.

Modoc, July 12, 1890.

After devine service the door of the church was opened for the reception of members, received none.

The minutes of the last conference was read and confirmed.

Bro. J. C. Harvley arose, and after addressing himself feelingly to the church; said he did not believe there was any better means of drawing men to Christ than that of gentle discipline, and moved that a committee be appointed…

Modoc, S.C. Feb 14, 1892

After divine service the church met in conference. The door of the church was opened for the reception of members, received none. The first business was the report of the finance committee. Moved and seconded that committee be continued, also J. C. Robertson be added to that committee in Brother Brooks place. Next the report of the committee who was to see the members that is out of order. Brother Reese stated that he had bin out of order and said that he was sorry that he had disobeyed the rules of the church and asked the church to forgive him. His request was granted. Brother Shumate said that he talked to Sister Lizzie Brooks [wife of William H Brooks…srb] & Sister Maggie Howle [Margaret Jane Brooks who married Thomas D. Howle…srb] and they said that they was not sorry that they danced. Moved and seconded that their case be continued until next meeting. Brother Douglas and Brother Willie Howle requested their names to be taken off of the church books. The church granted their request. Brother Harvley said that Brother Tommie Jennings and Brother Charley Crofford requested their names to be taken off of the church books. Their request was granted also. Brother Shumate said that he saw Brother Coleman and talked to him about being out of order. Brother Coleman said that he was not sorry for what he had done. His case was put off until next meeting. Brother G. W. Crofford said that he talked to Brother Winchester McDaniel and he said that he would come to the church the next meeting but he failed to come. His case was put off until next meeting.
Moved & seconded conference adjourned.
Rev. G. H. Burton, Moderator


Modoc, March 12, 1892

After divine services the church met in conference the door of the church was opened for the reception of members. Received none. The business report of the finance committee, they collected $5.00. The next report of the committee to see the members out of order reported they had seen none of them. The committee continued. Brother Coleman [Hezekiah Coleman, brother of Frances W. Coleman Brooks…srb] asked the church to forgive him, his request was granted. Brother Reese said that he saw Brother Jeff Shelton and he said that he would come to church and attend to his case. Sister Brooks and Sister Howle's case continued and the clerk to rite to them. Brother Chadwick and…

…May 8, 1892

…was opened for the reception of members, received none. Brother Harvley made a report of the finance committee he said that we were due two dollars and ten cents and Brother J. M. Holson paid one, left the church due $1.10. Brother G. W. Hamilton failed to pay the dollar he promised. Brother Crofford reported that Brother W. McDaniels wanted his name taken off of the church books, but his wife wanted him to remain in the church. By motion his case was continued until the next conference and a committee to see again. Sister Maggie Howle and Sister Lizzie Brooks asked the church to forgive them for disobeying the rules of the church, their request was granted. Delegate…

Modoc Baptist Church, Saderday, Oct 8, 1892

Church met in regular conference after divine service the door of church was opened for reception of members, rec'd none. Minutes of last meeting readed and adopted being no unfinished business, Knew business was called for. By motion with second the chair appointed the following Brothering as deligates to the Union meeting, Bro. W. H. Bussey, J. W. Brooks, J. W. Shumate. By motion, W. H. Bussey was appointed as a committee to assist the deacons in collecting the Pastors salary.

Bro, G. H. Burden, Mod

Sunday June 18th 1893

After divine service the church meet in conference for the purpose of electing more deacons and Bro. Was. Hamilton, Bro J. W. Brooks, Bro N. Chadwick was elected. Bro Bussey stated that Sister Lou Jennings had violated the rules of church by dancing, it was moved that a commity be appointed to see her. The chair appointed Bro Bussey and Bro Hamilton to wait on her. Then the case of sister Ann and Eliza Holms was taken up and Bro Hamilton moved that the church withdraw fellowship for them, was carred there being no further business, conference adjourned.
Bro G. H. Burton, mod
J. T. Reese, CC