Genealogy of William Austin (1654 – 1706) of Kent Co., MD
-into the 14th generation- (rev. 4/27/06)
Significantly
from the database, © 2004, of the
Austin Families
Association of America. http://www.afaoa.org/
Contributors
contact information: E-mail: lizcarlin@socal.rr.com
(responsible for the original text)
and
Jim Austin jdiastr@yahoo.com
(solely
responsible for the unauthorized editing)
1. William #1
Austin was born about 1654.
His mother was the sister of Andrew Skinner
(below). He died
11 Jun
1706 in Kent
Co., MD.
He married
Elizabeth _______ 1672 - 1689 in MD.
They had 4 or more
children:
+ 2. m. i.
William #2 Austin, born 1689 -1690, died
in 1735.
3. m. ii. John Austin, born about 1691
in MD. John
is remembered in this historical account: COURT
PROCEEDING: John Austin, son of William, at March Court, 1726/7, was
ordered to stand in the pillory for one hour for using indecent language in
court. (Ref: COLONIAL FAMILIES OF
THE EASTERN
SHORE, Vol.
1).
NOTES
for William and John: WILL-SPOUSE-CHILDREN:
William #1 Austin died
leaving a will dated 22 Jun
1697, and
proved 6 Nov
1706.
Bequests were made to: William #2 at 21
yrs., 1/2 "Waterford"
plantation and land; wife Elizabeth, executrix, residue of said land; son
John, place called "Smithfield". To wife & daughters, residue of estate equally. Executor:
John King, St. Michael's River, Talbot Co., MD.
(Ref: COLONIAL FAMILIES OF THE EASTERN
SHORE, Vol.
1)
LAND:
20 Aug
1672 Talbot
Co., MD Deed Book I, p 219. “Andrew Skinner to nephew William Austin 400 acres
Waterford
granted to me and Nathaniel Evett who hath assigned over all his right to me
….” (Research from Cindy Schmidt, MD historian, 2006)
Andrew Skinner was surveyor to Lord Baltimore.
SPOUSE-CHILD-DEATH: FGS of Mary Jane Miller,
IL 1995, give Wm. #1’s death as 11 Jun
1706 in Kent Co.,
MD.
2. William #2 Austin (William1) was born 1689 -1690 in
MD. He was the son of
William #1 Austin and Elizabeth _______ . William died in 1735 in Queen Anne’s
Co., MD. He married (1) Elizabeth
Tippen. She was the daughter of William
Tippen and Sarah Hall, one of the daughters of Richard
Hall.
They had 5
children:
+ 4. m.
i.
William #3 Austin, born about 1710, died
in 1791.
+ 5. m.
ii. John Austin, born about 1714, died
about 1770.
+ 6. m. iii.
Jacob
Austin, born about 1715.
7. f.
iv. Mary Austin was
born about 1716.
She
married Bingham Halfpenny 18 Feb 1734.
8. f. v. Elizabeth Austin was
born about 1719.
She
married John Wiley 28 Feb 1749 in St. Luke's Parish, Queen Anne’s
Co., MD.
NOTES for
Elizabeth:
MARRIAGE-PARENTS:
"Colonial Families of the Eastern
Shore", Volumes
3 and 4, Family Line Publications, 1999. "On 24 Feb 1768, William #3 Austin of QA Co., blacksmith, eldest son of
William #2 Austin of QA Co., dec., and his wife
Elizabeth Tippen, daughter of William Tippen and his wife Sarah Hall, one of the
daughters of Richard Hall, TA Co., blacksmith, dec. …"
William #2
also married (2)
Martha McCainley 3 Jul
1732 in St.
Luke's Parish, Queen Anne’s Co., MD. They had no known
children.
NOTES for Martha:
MARRIAGE: Records of St. Luke's Parish, Church Hill, Queen
Anne’s Co., MD. This data was
extracted from "Maryland Eastern Shore Vital Records, 1726 - 1750" by F. Edward
Wright, available at the
Los
Angeles
Family
History
Center. See also Salt Lake Film #1,205,003. Martha is most
likely the widow of Daniel MacKambly, for whose estate in 1733 she was the
administrator.
NOTES for
William #2:
BIRTH:
Deposition in Queen Anne’s Co.
"William
#2 Austin age 42
in 1731" (QA 2:
130-131)
BIRTH-DEATH-MARRIAGES-CHILDREN:
NC-MD Notebook of AFAOA genealogist Janet Austin Curtis. It contains her own
research, as well as contributions from other researchers including Hal Steiner,
Sally Austin Day and many others, page 22, that are in possession of AFAOA
genealogist Liz Austin Carlin.
SPOUSE-CHILD-DEATH:
FGS of Mary Jane Miller, IL 1995. Gives Wm. #2’s death as 1735 in Queen Anne’s
Co.,
MD.
4. William #3 Austin (William2, William1) was born about 1710 in MD. He was the son of
William #2 Austin and Elizabeth Tippen. William
died in 1791 (in Queen Anne’s Co.,
MD, or in Burke Co., NC) He married
Mary Cleaves 13 Aug 1735 in St. Luke's Parish, Queen Anne’s Co.,
MD. She is the daughter of Nathaniel Cleaves and Katherine
_____.
They had 5
children:
9. f. i.
Mary
Austin was born
8 May
1736 in Queen
Anne’s Co., MD.
Probably
died in infancy.
+10. m. ii. William #4
Austin, born 9 May 1738.
11. f. iii. Mary
Austin was born
18 May
1741 in Queen
Anne’s Co.,
MD.
12. m.
iv.
Benjamin(4)
Austin was born
28 Aug
1743 in Queen
Anne’s Co., MD.
The 1790 Burke Co., NC
census shows “Austin, Benjamin Sen. (Sr.)” with 3 boys, wife and 4
daughters.
13.
f.
v. Elizabeth
Austin was born
4 Nov
1755 in Queen
Anne’s Co.,
MD.
BIRTH: St. Luke's Parish, Queen Anne’s Co.,
MD.
NOTES for
Mary and Wm. #3:
PARENTS-MARRIAGE: Will of Mary’s father Nathaniel Cleaves,
Queen Anne’s Co., 6 Apr 1740, proved 24 Apr 1740. RESEARCHERS: Glenn A. Reiff, 3/93. Mary Jane
Miller, IL 1995.
BIRTH-PARENTS-MARRIAGE-SPOUSE-CHILD-DEATH:
FGS of
Mary Jane Miller, IL 1995. Gives Wm. #3’s birth
1710, died 1791 Queen Anne’s Co., MD,
mar. Aug. 13,
1735 to Mary
Cleaves.
NOTES for
William #3
MARRIAGE-PARENTS: "Colonial Families of the
Eastern Shore", Volumes 3 and 4, Family Line
Publications, 1999. "On 24 Feb 1768, William #3
Austin of QA Co., blacksmith, eldest son of William
#2 Austin of QA Co., dec., and his wife Elizabeth Tippen, daughter of
William Tippen and his wife Sarah Hall, one of the daughters of Richard Hall, TA
Co., blacksmith, dec. …"
LAND: 1783
William #3 Austin was
assessed on his land known as "Waterford".
OCCUPATION:
Blacksmith. NC-MD Notebook of AFAOA genealogist Janet Austin
Curtis. In possession of AFAOA genealogist Liz Austin
Carlin.
10. William #4 Austin (William3, William2, William1) was born 9 May
1738 in St. Lukes Parish,
Queen Anne’s Co., MD. He was the son of William #3 Austin and Mary Cleaves. William #4 died about 1807 in Burke Co., NC, and was buried
in Burke Co., NC. He married (1st wife) Elizabeth Green
the daughter of Henry Green and Anne Purdy. She was born in 1730 in MD, died in
1758.
They had 3
children:
+ 20. m. i. William #5 Austin, nicknamed
by researchers as William
“Deux Twain” Austin, born 11 Apr
1754, died before Aug. 1805,
apparently in Orange Co., NC.
+ 21. m. ii. Samuel John Austin, born about 1756, died in Jul
1824. Notes from a biography:
“Samuel John Austin was a Loyalist …. of seven
brothers. He was enrolled for the journey in Richard Squires' Militia company
(Bell, p26) and traveled on the [ship]
'Grace' to St. John, New Brunswick (Canada) with the July 1783 Fleet (Bell,
p25).”]
It is important to
note the reference to seven brothers here. Though it is not known why
only seven are mentioned here, Samuel John Austin only had two “full” brothers.
This unifies the 3 sons of Elizabeth Green Austin and the 5 sons of Ann Jones
Austin as half-brothers.
+ 22. m. iii. Philip Austin, born about 1758, died 23 Oct
1843. He
was 85 when he died.
NOTES for
Elizabeth:
MARRIAGE: Notes of Hal
Steiner. Also, “Great, Great,
Grandmother” Elizabeth Green is identified as the wife of William Austin, one of
the sons of the Irish emigrant, in William #6 G. Austin’s family
Bible.
William #4 also
married (2nd wife) Ann Jones in 1759 in Orange
Co., NC. She was born in 1742 in MD. Ann died in Burke Co., NC between 1804 and
1810.
They had 7
children:
+ 23. m. I Benjamin(5)
Dillery Austin, born
21 Jan
1760 in MD,
died in 1840 in Burke Co., NC. He
married Mary “Polly” Bradburne, who
was
the young widow of Isaac Bradburne,
in 1782
in Burke Co., NC. She died in Mar 1837.
They had 6
children:
55. f. i.
Mary Austin* was born in 1783 in Burke Co., NC.
56. m. ii.
Benjamin Austin Jr.* was born in 1785 in Burke Co., NC. He died in 1789
in Burke Co., NC.
+ 57.
m. iii.
William Austin, born in
1785.
+ 58.
f. iv.
Catherine Austin, born in
1787.
+ 59.
f. v.
Arramentha Austin.
+60. m. vi. Elijah(6) (Sharper
Lige)
Austin (Benjamin5, William4, William3, William2, William1) was born in 1792 in
Burke Co., NC. He married Cassandra "Kisire" Austin, his first cousin,
7 Nov
1821 in Burke Co., NC. She
was born in 1802 in Burke Co., NC. Cassandra is the daughter of Nathan Austin
and Rebecca Teague. (NOTES
for Cassandra: RESEARCHER: Glenn A. Reiff, 3/93.)
The 4th of
their 4 children:
+250. Elijah(7) Tillman Austin (Elijah6, Benjamin5, William4, William3, William2, William1) was born
17 Jul
1845 in Taylorsville,
Alexander Co., NC. Elijah died 19
Feb 1879 in
Taylorsville,
NC, and was buried in
1879 in Taylorsville,
NC. He married Judith
Brown. She was born in Aug 1831 in NC. Judith died in 1919 in Taylorsville,
Alexander Co., NC, and was buried in Taylorsville,
NC.
The second of their 5
children:
+683. Robert(8) Sherman
Austin (Elijah7, Elijah6, Benjamin5, William4, William3, William2, William1) was born
24 Jan
1867 in Taylorsville,
Alexander Co., NC. Robert died 2 Aug
1949 in
Taylorsville,
NC, and was buried in
Taylorsville,
NC. He married Rebecca Louetta Reid 4 Oct
1896. She was born
14 Mar
1872 in NC. Rebecca died
17 Jul
1951 in
Taylorsville,
NC, and was buried in
Taylorsville,
NC. The eighth of their
10 children:
+1292.
Wayne(9)
Reid
Austin (Robert8, Elijah7, Elijah6, Benjamin5, William4, William3, William2, William1) was born
9 Oct
1911 in Taylorsville,
Alexander Co., NC. Wayne died 15 Nov
1992 in
Taylorsville,
NC, and was buried in
Taylorsville,
NC. He married Ellen
Hollar in 1934. She was born 22 Jul 19??.
* Recs. of
David W. Austin NC 1999.
NOTES for
Benjamin:
In
the 1790 Burke Co., NC census there is also Benjamin Austin Jun. (Jr.)
with a smaller, younger family.
MILITARY:
PENSION RECORD OF BENJAMIN AUSTIN #S-6548: “Benjamin Austin, formerly of Orange
Co., N.C.; b. 1-21-1760 and
entered service of U.S. 1779
under command of Rokard Christmas. Furnished a substitute,
John O'Donnel, who was discharged April 1781. Then Benjamin Austin
volunteered 1781 and was taken prisoner by the Tories at the same time as Gov.
Burke, at Orange
County Court
House,
N.C. Benj.
Austin was taken
to Wilmington,
N.C. where he
was put aboard a prison ship and sent to Charleston,
S.C. and from
there to John
Island near
Charleston. From
John
Island he was
taken to Savanna, Ga., where he
made his escape on the night of Apr 9,
1782 and went
up the Savannah
River where
General Wayne was stationed at Ebenezer.” (Could Wm. #5
have helped him to escape?)
He
received from Gen. Wayne a passport to return home. He returned to Burke Co.,
N.C. He was called again in 1782 to fight the Cherokee Indians, but, having
married, he hired a substitute. His [15 year
old] brother Nathan Austin vouched for the above, also Philip Austin
(relationship not stated) [his 24 year old
half-brother].
MILITARY: Roster
of N.C. Soldiers in Rev. War - D.A.R. Benjamin Austin, Pvt. N.C. Militia
received a pension beginning 3/4/1831 at age 71.
+
24. f. ii.
Elizabeth (Betsy) Austin, born
about 1762 in MD.
+25. m. iii. Samuel(5) Austin
Sr.
(William4,
William3,
William2,
William1) was
born about 1763 in MD. He was the son of William Austin and Ann Jones. Samuel
died in 1845 in Caldwell Co., NC. He married Mary Conners
26 Jun
1783 in
Orange Co., NC.
The eighth of their 9
children:
+75.
John(6)
Austin
(Samuel5,
William4,
William3,
William2,
William1)
was born 29 or 30
Apr 1797
in Orange Co., NC. John died 9
Apr 1871
in Alexander Co., NC, and was buried in Antioch
Cemetery,
Alexander Co.,
NC. He married Rebecca _____. She was born in
1808 in NC. Rebecca died 5
Aug 1889
in Alexander Co., NC, and was buried in Antioch
Cemetery,
Alexander Co.,
North
Carolina.
The second of
their 6 children:
+280. William(7) D.
Austin (John6, Samuel5, William4, William3, William2, William1) was born
14 Jan
1839 in Burke Co., NC.
William died 28 Mar
1893 in Alexander Co., NC,
and was buried in Antioch
Cemetery, Alexander
Co., NC. He married Mary Elizabeth Teague. She was born
7 Apr
1848 in NC. Mary was the
daughter of Elijah A. Teague and Martha _____. She died 4 Sep
1925 in Alexander Co.,
NC.
The 9th of
their 14 children:
+741. Gwaltney(8) W.
Austin (William7, John6, Samuel5, William4, William3, William2, William1) was born
7 Oct
1882 in Alexander Co., NC.
Gwaltney died 26 Feb
1934. He married Luda
Naomi Ingram. She was born 13
Jan 1886.
Luda died 4 Apr
1968 in Alexander Co.,
NC.
The first of their 8
children:
+1371. Carris(9)
J. Austin was born 12 Feb
1909 in Alexander Co., NC.
He married Sue Kirby.
+
26. m. iv. Nathan Austin, born in
1767 in Wilmington,
DE, died in
1853.
+
27. m. v.
Elijah Austin,
born
15 Feb
1774 in NC,
died after 1854.
28. f. vi.
Aramentha Austin. Born in
NC. Never
married. Living with Elijah in 1820.
RESEARCHER:
Glenn A. Reiff, 3/93.
+
29. m. vii.
Elisha Austin, born in
1776 in NC, died 13 Sep
1858.
NOTES for
Ann:
A note by Hal A. Steiner on one of his charts
indicates that Ann could have been born in
Germany.
BIRTH-SPOUSE-CHILD: Mary Jane Miller, IL
1995. Gives birth as 1742 MD.
NOTES for William [attempting to clearly differentiate between Wm. #4 and Wm.
#5]:
BIRTH-DEATH:
St. Luke's Parish, Queen Anne’s Co., MD.
William #4 and Ann Austin's early
history before 1764 is best detailed in their marriage and in the births of their
children. The following land deal begins the historical account: [LAND:
"William of Kent Co., MD, planter, on 29 Sep 1764, with wife Ann,
conveyed to Absalom Christfield, taylor, a tract on Cypress Branch, adjoining a
tract formerly taken up by Capt. Richard Smith, 100 acres." (Ref: COLONIAL
FAMILIES OF THE EASTERN
SHORE, Vol.
1)]. [William and his wife Ann are selling land.
Perhaps they are preparing to move away from
Maryland.] This reference, from this book, is the best “proof” that
William #4 is descendent from the 3 previous William Austin’s from the same
county and state! And when this William is referenced with his second wife
Ann, it is an excellent clarifier that we are always referring to William
Austin #4.
NOTE:
Absalom Christfield Austin was William #4's
gr-son via Elijah and Temperance Payne. [Elijah was born 1774 and his son Absalom Christfield Austin
was born in 1812, so Mr. (first name) Absalom (last name) Christfield is likely
the namesake for the later Absalom Christfield
Austin.]
For years
Col. Hal Steiner (with Janet Curtis' advice and encouragement) worked on the
premise that William #4and #5
Austin were originally from
Maryland. And
when one reviews the Maryland data, a
very good case can be made for this premise. The
ancestry of a William Austin can be traced back to about 1672 as the possessor
of a plantation in Queen Anne's County known as
"Waterford." The
William Austin who possessed "Waterford" was
assessed for the property in 1783. In this database, we are saying that there
is a very strong possibility that that William #3 and his wife Mary Cleaves are the progenitors of
the William Austin family in North
Carolina.
There was a Benjamin Austin (who resided in
Missouri in the late 1880's) who was the son of Nathan Austin who was an older
brother of Elijah. According to Benjamin's biography, which is included in the
Goodspeed History of Lawrence County, Missouri, pp. 170-174, Nathan
Austin was born in Wilmington, Delaware and moved to
Orange
County,
NC at a young age. According to this history,
Nathan and Elijah's father [William #4 Austin]
was born in Ireland and came to
America at an early age. Grandmother Ann Austin was
supposed to have been born in Germany. One does not know how much credibility to
give to Benjamin's history. Col. Steiner's view is that family members who
were much closer to the time of interest than we are in the 1980’s and 90’s
provided the data for this history to the publisher in the 1880’s. It is
possible they had access to family Bibles, old letters or other documents that
are not available today. Therefore, until such documentation and proof is found,
the theory that William #4
Austin was an Irish emigrant who came to
America before 1767 (when Nathan was born) cannot be
discarded.
(Comment of Liz Austin
Carlin, AFAOA Southern Austin genealogist editing this database: It is also very
possible that the Ireland connection occurred several
generations before the present William. I personally have seen biographies of
this type in which this kind of information was in error. In one article on my
ancestor, the authors were 3 generations off on the immigration from
England).
[Comments of Jim
Austin of Lompoc, CA, 2005: The notes in the family Bible of William #6 G.
Austin, (b. 1790 – d. 1876) details the tradition that the first American
William (#3) Austin was the young Irish emigrant that came to America (in the
early 1700’s) by ship. To pay for his voyage, he was sold into a 7 year period
of indentured servitude as a weaver, after which he married and had many
children including William #4 (Nathan and Elijah's father, and
Benjamin’s grandfather) that married
Elizabeth Green and later, Ann Jones. So, the notes
in this family Bible do not agree (by one generation) with Benjamin’s
account.]
BIRTH-DEATH-SPOUSE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCE:
At the 1992 Annual Meeting of the Austin Families Association of America held
during August in Sunnyvale,
CA the
President of the Association, Col. Hal Steiner, allowed Glenn Reiff to copy from
the manuscript of a book, titled "Some Southern Austins," he is writing. The following information is from
this manuscript and from earlier published work of Col. Steiner: "This
William #4, the first son of William #3 and Mary Cleaves, married
and moved to North
Carolina where
he settled in Orange
County by
1770."
Were
there one, two, or even more William Austins in
Orange
County,
North
Carolina at the
same time late in the 18th century? Col. Steiner tackled this puzzle via a
detailed examination of the land and tax records in
Orange
County….
-On
6 May
1755, Lord
Granville conveyed Grant No. 92 to John Hunter, of
Orange
County. This
tract consisted of 177 acres on a small branch of the
Enoe
River
[Hillsborough,
Orange Co., NC]. During
the next 24 years, this tract of land changed hands several times. On
15 Oct
1770, Edmund
Fanning sold it to William #4
Austin
[Wm. #4 was now purchasing property in NC. Wm. #5 was only 15 years
old].
-From
the May Term, 1777 [Orange Co., NC] court, the
following was recorded: A deed from William #4 Austin and Ann, his wife, to Joseph Glasson was acknowledged by the said William
#4 Austin and Ann, his wife, was privately
examined, who relinquished her right of Dower, [and the
sale of this property was] ordered to be registered. [Wm. #4 was now selling property in Orange Co., perhaps
preparing to move west into Burke Co.]
Corroborating
evidence positively identifies this William #4
Austin as the
one who flourished in the Hillsborough Tax District. He obtained land grants,
bought and sold lands and was consistently on the tax records for several years.
He was also the progenitor of the large family of
Austins that
moved to Burke
County, NC
in about 1780. Much genealogical research has been done on this
family.
Col.
Steiner also examined the question of William Austin's participation in the
Revolutionary War….
Before
and during the Revolutionary War, Orange County,
NC became a center of growing discontent as
the frontiersman resisted the power of the Crown. When discontent erupted into
open rebellion, this prompted divisiveness between the people. Most
Orange
County residents became staunch
patriots but others remained loyal to the Crown. Those
who remained loyal to the Crown were known as Tories or Loyalists. The
Loyalists (or Tories) came under increasing
suspicion and their activities were investigated. In 1776 an official committee
was appointed "...to inquire into the conduct of insurgents and suspected
persons...." On 10 May 1776 the report of
the committee included the following: "...that William
#5 Austin (age 22) did actually take up Arms and go forth to war
as a common soldier under John Piles for the avowed purpose of assisting the
enemies of
America...."
John Pyles was identified as a resident of
Orange
County, but later he resided in
Chatham
County. Apparently, Pyles' raids were
centered in Orange
County early in the war. A Patriot
force defeated a group of men under his command, en route to join Cornwallis, in
February 1781. The Tory activities that involved one of the William Austins (#5) occurred at the
beginning and early part of the War. But there was also a William Austin (still Wm. #5) who was active during the later stages.
The official records show that this William #5
Austin actually served as a private in Col. John Hamilton's Company of the
Royal North Carolina Regiment that was stationed in Hillsborough,
Orange
County. In April 1781, this William
Austin was entitled to pay for 60 days service. This same William Austin
remained a private in John Hamilton's Company and, in June 1782, was entitled to
pay for 61 days service. At that time the company of Loyalists had left
Hillsborough, NC and was located at Quarter House, (today’s North Charleston) South Carolina. [Could he have helped his younger brother Benjamin Dillery
Austin to escape? From Quarter House to John’s Island was only
10 miles, and 70 miles from Savannah.] Based on the evidence presented, since he was from
Orange
County, it
is likely that this was William #5 Austin! William Austin #4
had lived in the Hillsborough District but then migrated to
Burke
County in
about 1779. Conjecture from Jim Austin of
Lompoc,
CA,
2005: William #4 was a prosperous landowner, was 43 years old, and had already
moved to Burke Co. by 1781. I think if he were in the military, he would have
been an officer. On the other hand, William #5 was 27 years old in 1781. William
#5 was young enough to be a private. His kid brother Samuel John Austin
was also a Tory! Read the notes from a biography… BIOGRAPHY:
Samuel John Austin was a Loyalist …. of seven
brothers. He was enrolled for the journey in Richard Squires' Militia company
(Bell, p26) and traveled on the (ship) 'Grace' to St. John, New Brunswick with
the July 1783 Fleet (Bell, p25).
It
is also important to note the reference to seven brothers here. Though it
is not known why only seven are mentioned, Samuel John Austin only had two
“full” brothers. This unifies the 5 sons of Ann Jones Austin and the 3 sons of
Elizabeth Green Austin as half-brothers.
Pure speculation
from Jim Austin: The above reference to seven brothers, and the 1790
Burke Co. reference to Austin, Benjamin Sen. (Sr.), and Austin, Benjamin Jun.
(Jr.) makes me wonder if Benjamin Dillery Austin wasn’t the son of Wm. #4’s
brother Benjamin?
Family
tradition, as detailed in William #6 G. Austin’s Bible, records that two of the
(grand)sons of the Irish emigrant left the country and
went to Canada rather than
fulfill the oath of loyalty to the English Crown that they had both taken, and
were never heard from again.
I don’t think it
is unusual for family tradition to be a mixture of both fact and
legend.
So
it seems the two Tories might have been in the 5th generation, not
the fourth. And one of the two Tories (Samuel John Austin) did in fact ship out
with his family to live in New
Brunswick,
Canada,
where he later died.
"The Folks Out West"
indicates that land for a church (“The New Meeting
House Baptist Church” in what was then Burke Co.) was donated by William
Austin #4 in 1781. This shows that Wm. #4, Ann and his younger sons had moved
into this area by then!
In the book “History of Antioch
Baptist Church” (produced in Taylorsville, NC, July 2001 by Dewey P. Austin and
others) pg. 2 states, “This church [The New Meeting House] was built in the area
to serve the people who moved westward to escape the tyranny of Governor Tryon
after the battle of Alamance [May 16, 1771].”
LAND: Wm. #4
donated the land, in 1781, where the
Antioch Baptist Church* was erected. "History of
Alexander Co., NC" by W. E. White, Stony
Point, 1926. BIOGRAPHY-ANALYSIS: "The Folks Out West," book by Billie Lou Edlin, 1970's. *This first church, that burned down in 1828, was called “The New Meeting
House Baptist Church.” It was a little east of where the
Antioch Baptist Church is today. [Notes from William
Robert Austin, March 2006].
Wm. #5 married Ruth Kelly in 1787
in Orange Co., NC. Also, on 26 Nov
1787 he
purchased 100 acres on the Haw River (Orange Co., NC) from John
Jennings, of Anson Co. Witnesses were James Milikin and Enoch Kelly. [Orange Co., NC Deeds, Book 5, pg.335]. The Orange Co.
Caswell Tax District (though the records are incomplete) records Wm.#5 lived on this property in 1787,1788, and 1796.
Historian
W. E. White claimed in his history "...William Austin was an old man when he
arrived in Burke
County in
1791...." [Note from Jim Austin of
Lompoc,
CA,
2006: I suppose this “old man” could have been Wm. #3 who died in 1791. He would
have been 81 years old.]
William
Austin #4 obtained land grants in 1792 and 1794
on the waters of the Upper and Middle Little
Rivers, in Burke Co., NC. The 1800 census for Burke Co., NC lists a William
Austin, age over 45, without family. There is no available explanation
why his family was not enumerated because Wm.
#4’s wife Ann Austin as well as his daughter Arramentha was alive and
well.
On 1 Nov
1804, Nathan Austin and Elijah Austin bound themselves by Court Order to take
care of William #4, Ann and Arramentha Austin,
“our father, mother and sister."
Arramentha
was living with Elijah in 1820, but it is not known when William and Ann died.
They are not identifiable in the 1810 census. (With this, it
can be estimated that they died ca. 1807.) Of
the 8 sons of Wm. #4 Austin,
5 acquired land grants in Burke Co., before 1800 (see Burke Co., NC USGenWeb
Project). Of the three sons that didn’t, son #1, William (#5) was living in
Orange Co., NC, son #2, Samuel John Austin, had moved to Canada, and
son
#7, Elijah Austin, was probably caring for his Mother, Father and Sister,
fulfilling the above Court Order.
According
to local tradition in Alexander County, NC, (remembering that Alexander Co. was not formed until 1847)
William #4
Austin died on
his own land and was
buried in a pine forest beneath a large boulder. There may be a local historian
of Alexander
County who
knows where it is. [William Robert Austin, who goes by
Robert, says that his father, Wayne R. Austin, took him out into the pine field
and identified this stone (and gravesite) to him in about 1966. Robert is a
direct descendant of Benjamin Dillery Austin.]
LAND-BURIAL:
Article (from "The Heritage of Alexander County,
NC", editor Sarah C. Allen, 1986, Alexander County Genealogical Society, Hunter
Publishing, Winston-Salem, NC) on Benjamin Dillery Austin by Wayne R. Austin (1911-1992
Taylorsville, NC) who cites personal knowledge, "Early Pioneer Families of
Alexander County", "A History of Alexander County", the Taylorsville Times, and
Mr. W.T. Pennell as sources….
"William #4 ...purchased land...on the
Duck Creek branch of Middle Little River on the south side of Job's Mountain
which is a small round mountain just north of Antioch Baptist Church...It
(Job’s Mountain) can be seen from State Road
1165 (Caldwell Pond Rd.) just above the "Little
Store" (Tom Little) Building. William and his wife [Ann] are buried in the
old pine field (beneath a large stone) from the
point on Caldwell
Pond Rd. where
you see Job's Mountain." Source: Col. Harold A. Steiner,
P.O. Box
12354,
Las
Vegas,
NV
89112. [Robert Austin confirms the source of the article and the
location of the burial site; March, 2006] Copies of the article were sent
to Austin Families Assn.
Later, when the new
Church was organized, Wm. #4’s son Nathan Austin, b. 1767, deeded five acres of
his land to the trustees for use of the Church.
Since then, the Church acquired through gift or purchase, approximately thirty
additional acres. This newly organized church was called Antioch Baptist
Church, a name brought forth from Orange County where the Austin’s had, some
years earlier, helped establish a church of the same name, before moving
westward. The new church was organized on 29 July
1826.
[In 1826, Wm.’s #3, #4 and #5 had died, and Wm. #6 was living in Burns, TN with his wife and
children.]
20. William #5 Austin (William4, William3, William2, William1), nicknamed
by researchers as William “Deux Twain” Austin, was born
11 Apr
1754 in
MD. He was
the son of William #4 Austin and Elizabeth
Green. William #5 was known as "Captain Bill" perhaps from exploits in the early part of the Northwest
Indian War(?). William died before Aug.
1805 in Orange Co., NC. Wm. #5 married Ruth Kelly in 1787 in
Orange Co., NC. She was born about 1767. Ruth died 11 July
1827 in Burns, Dickson Co.,
TN. She is buried in The Austin Cemetery on the
“Lonesome” property in Burns, Dickson Co., TN. They had 6 children:
+ 37. m. i. John(6) Austin, born 11 Jan 1788 in
Orange Co., NC, d. 1820-1822 in TN. John
married Nancy Baldwin, born about 1790. Of their 5 children, their
first:
A.
William Green(7)
Austin
was born in 1806 in Dickson Co., TN. He died in 1883 in Stewart Co., TN, and was
buried in Smith-Austin Cem., Stewart Co., TN. He
married Mary May Cathey. She was born in 1805 in NC. Mary is the daughter of
John R. Cathey and Margaret _____. She was buried in Smith-Austin Cemetery,
Stewart Co., TN. Of their 10 children, the 5th:
Samuel
Green(8)
Austin
was born in 1835 in Dickson Co., TN. He died in 1887 in Stewart Co., TN.
Samuel
first married (#1)Mary Ann Meek (the daughter of
Moses Christopher Meek and Clemency Laws) on 10
Mar 1853
in Dickson Co.,
TN. She was born 1832 in Dickson Co., TN; d. 1865 in Calloway, Graves Co., KY.
They had 5 children:
William
Washington (m.i.)
b. 20
Feb 1854
in TN
Clemmie
Ann (f.ii.)
b. 19
May 1855
in Weakley Co., TN
Mary
Lucinda (f.iii.)
b. 29
Jun 1856
in TN
Christopher
Columbus (m.iv.)
b. 27
Aug 1859
in Weston,
MO
He
was the founder/entrepreneur of Austin
Springs,
TN. The sulfur water spring was an attraction for miles around and brought
people from neighboring states. As now, sulfur was known to provide a measure of
pain relief in certain ailments, like arthritis. Chris limited the urbanization
of Austin
Springs
by not allowing the railroad to pass through. Later, the state built a road over
the spring; but the neighboring creek (close to Halls Gro) still contains
seepage from the sulfur spring.
Margaret
Jane (f.v.)
b. 23
May 1863
in MO
Samuel
then married (#2)Martha E. Crider, (in about
1868) the daughter of George W. Crider and Mary Ann Brush. She was born in May
1844 in KY. She died 14
July 1927
in KY. They had 8 children:
B.
Dora (f.vi.)
b. 2
July 1870
in KY
Izora
Fanetta (f.vii)
b.
26
Dec 1871
in KY; d. 25
Dec 1916
in KY; m. John Crider
Sylvia
Victoria (f.viii)
b. 24
July 1874
in KY; d.
10
May 1958
in Lynnville,
KY
George
F. (m.ix.)
b. 1876 in KY
Alvis Lee (m.x.)
b. 3 Feb 1877 in KY;
d. 4 July 1931 in TN
John
Robert (m.xi.)
b. 25
Nov 1879
in TN; d. 9
May 1955
in TN
Lewis
Carlos (m.xii.)
b. 14
Dec 1881
in TN; 9
July 1959
in KY
Ida
(f.xiii.)
b. March 1883 in TN; d. 1901 in TN
Alvis
Lee Austin(9)
married Frances “Fannie” Evans (b. April 1882 in KY) 14
Feb 1900
in Mayfield,
KY.
Fannie died 21July 1954 in Austin
Springs,
TN. She was probably the daughter of James M. Evans and Minnie A. _____ of
Mayfield,
KY.
In
a letter from Cecil Crider of Farmington,
KY
to Sally Austin Day, 5
Feb 1981, " [Alvis Lee
Austin] married Fannie Evans. Her people died shortly after she married from
drinking milk from a cow that ate a poison weed. They [Alvis and Fannie] moved
down close to Austin
Springs
and raised their family." They
had 8 children:
Barney
M. (m.i.)
b. 1901, Weakly Co., TN; d.13 Aug 1955, Fulton,
KY
Fondie
(f.ii.)
b. 1904 in TN
Aubrey
R. (m.iii.)
b. 1908 Weakly Co.,
TN, d. 24
Feb 1972
in Fulton
KY
Allie
(f.iv.)
b. Sep 1909 TN
Nell
(f.v.)
b. 1911 in KY
Myrtle (f.vi.)
b. 8
Nov 1913 in KY, d. 1984
Austin
Springs, TN
Jesse
(f.vii.)
b. 1915 in KY
Jack (m.viii.)
b. 1917 in KY
Myrtle(10)
Austin
married Stanley Hall. He was born 17
Feb 1893
and died May 1965 in TN. His father was George Hall who married Carline _____,
and they lived in the Moskow, KY area. George’s father was Richard A. Hall.
Stanley
and Myrtle Hall had 2 children, one:
Lesley(11)
Hall
was born in TN. He married Janie Callahan. She was born in 1943. She is the
daughter of Garner Callahan and Zola Burnett.
B.
Their
second child was Abraham(7) J. Austin. He
was born in 1805/6 and died in 1852 in Dickson Co., TN. He married Martha _____
(b. 1813/14) in 1829. Their second child (of two) was Jacob J.(8) Austin
b. 1831/32 in Dickson Co., TN. He married Melinda Jane Foster (b. 1832
in Dickson Co., TN) the daughter of Willis A. Foster and Mary F. Halliburton, on
26
Nov 1852
in Dickson Co., TN.
Abraham
and Martha’s first child, Elizabeth Jane(8)
Austin
was born 1829 in TN. She married HOLLOWAY
MORRIS
SEALS
23
Dec 1848.
He was born 1829 in TN.
One
of their
daughters, Cora Frances(9) Seals, b. 2 Nov 1869; d. 16 Jun
1928, married
James Howard Turner on 20 Sep 1883 in Dickson Co., TN. James was the s/o Dillard
Turner and Emma D. Hayes. James was b. 29 Jan 1861, d. 3 Nov 1941 in TN; one of
James and Cora’s sons, Braden Kirklin(10) Turner (b. 14 Feb 1886, d. 19
Nov 1979 in Dickson Co., TN) married Della Elizabeth Brazzell (b. 16 Jul 1889 in
Dickson Co., TN) on 12 Apr 1908 in Dickson Co., TN. She was the d/o the daughter
of William J. Brazzell and Mattie Choate; one of their two daughters, Lucille
O'Neal(11) Turner (b. 30 Dec 1909, d. 1 Jun 1998 in Clarksville, Montgomery
Co., TN) married Theodore Roosevelt Wilson (b. 26 Jan 1908 in Dickson Co., TN)
on 24 Dec 1931 in Dickson Co., TN. Their daughter is Martha “Faye”(12) Wilson, who married Edward Glenn Keele,
24
Nov 1966
in Dickson, Dickson Co., TN. Edward is the son of William Hadie Keele and Lenora
F. Skelton. “Faye “ was b. 24 Nov 1942 in Dickson, TN. Edward was b. 3 Aug 1943
in Dickson, TN. Edward and Faye had 3 children:
(i)
Tammy(13)
Renea Keele, b. 2
Nov 1966
(ii)
Glen
Ellen(13) Keele, b. 28 Mar 1970, who married Junior Ray Fowler on
14
Feb 1992;
they have 2 boys:
a.
Edward(14)
Caron Fowler b. 8
Oct 1992
in Dickson,
TN
and
b.
William(14)
Hunter Fowler b. 17
Feb 1995
in Dickson,
TN.
(iii)
William(13)
Ted Keele b. 12
Nov 1971
in Dickson,
TN.
Another
of their children was WHITNEY
HARPER(9)
(HARP)
SEALS, b. 7 Nov
1856, d. May 22,
1919.
He married SAFRONIA
JANE
REYNOLDS
4
Aug 1876,
daughter of SAMUEL
REYNOLDS
and
ELIZABETH
MCCLELLAND,
Safronia was born April 1861, d. 1907. One of their children was
LAWRENCE(10)
SEALS,
b.
24
Apr 1877
in Sylvia,
TN,
d. 4
Aug 1924
in Tulsa,
OK.
He married MYRTLE
MAE
CHRISTY
July
29, 1895
in Dickson Co., TN, daughter of FREDERICK
CHRISTY
and
RACHEL
CHENEY.
Myrtle was born July
30, 1879
in Holgate,
OH,
and died April
27, 1958
in New
Castle,
PA.
One of their female children was OLLIE
CLYDE(11)
SEALS,
b.
10
Jan 1897
in Sylvia,
TN,
d. 22
Jan 1979
in Tucson,
AZ.
She married JAMES
BENJAMIN
MURRAY
April
1916 in Jasper, AR, he is the son of WALTER
MURRAY
and
PRISCILLA
AMMONS.
James was born 6
Nov 1897
in Jasper, AR, d. 27
Jun 1977
in Tullahoma,
TN.
One of their children is JAMES
CONARD(12)
MURRAY
born February 08, 1923 in Jasper, AR. He married FRANCES
MARIE
HOOPER
February
12, 1944
in Rossville,
GA,
daughter of JAMES
HOOPER
and
FRANCES
HOLT.
Frances
was born September
18, 1925
in Nashville,
TN,
and died October
20, 1983
in Tullahoma,
TN
Another
of their children was Chambers(9) “Charles”
Wesley Seals b. 28
May 1852
in TN. He married Susan T. Elliot (b. 9
Aug 1859
in TN, d. 8
Aug 1892)
on 25
Apr 1881
in Dickson, TN. Susan was the d/o Thomas S. Elliot and
Jane R. Rushing. They had 4 children:
(i)
Fred(10) Seals (b. Aug 1882 in TN) married
Eunice C. Elliot (d/o Millard F. Elliot and Jennifer E. Luffman) b.
22
July 1894
in TN, d. 16
Dec 1989
in Dallas,
TX.
They had one son:
a.
Eugene(11)
Wayland Seals b. Jan 1912 in TN.
(ii)
Wade(10)
Seals (b. 11
May 1884,
d. 6
Dec 1965
in Dickson,
TN)
married Cordelia Burgess (b. 1882 in TN) 20
Dec 1908
in Dickson,
TN.
They had 2 children:
a.
Howard(11)
Seals b. 22
Sept 1909,
d.
16
May 1989,
Dickson,
TN;
m.
17
Aug 1921
to Helen Mathis. They had a son:
i.
Buddy(12)
Seals.
b.
Bessie(11)
T. Seals b. 2
Oct 1910
in Dickson,
TN,
d. 16
Dec 1992
in Dickson,
TN.
On 3
Oct 1931
she married Andrew Brown McClurkan (b. 10
Jun 1903
and d. 8
May 1998
in Dickson,
TN)
s/o George Hickman McClurkan and Beulah
Street.
Of their 3 children:
i.
Mary
Sue(12) McClurkan married Ralph Dotson and they
eventually purchased the farm (on Yellow Creek) of Mary Sue’s
parents.
(iii)
Homer(10) Seals (b. July 1886) married Eva L.
Daniel 29 Nov 1908. She was b. 1891 in Dickson,
TN.
They had 6 children:
a.
Sonny(11)
Seals b. 14
Sept 1909
b.
Birdie
Lou(11) Seals, b. 1910,
Dickson,
TN,
d. 25
Dec 2002,
Dickson,
TN.
On 10
Sept 1927
(in Dickson,
TN)
she married Lesley Lloyd Stewart. They had two children:
i.
Jimmy(12)
Stewart
ii.
Peggy(12)
Stewart who married Mr. Cunningham.
c.
Alonzo(11)
H. Seals b. 20
Apr 1912,
d. 10
May 1991
in Dickson,
TN.
He married Fannie Dickson b. 8
Apr 1916,
d. 24
Jun 1993.
They had one son and one daughter.
d.
Mildred(11)
S. Seals b. 1915, married Carl Adams on 23
Dec 1930
in Dickson,
TN.
e.
Dewey(11)
E. Seals b. 1919, married Ailene.
f.
Ezmer(11)
(female) Seals b. 1923, in TN.
(iii)
Ernest(10)
Seals (b. 17
Jan 1891,
d. 4
Nov 1932
in CA)
married Bertha Smart Iredale (b. 1877 in
Illinois)
in 1925 in CA.
Chambers
“Charles” Wesley Seals then married Will Ella Deason, d/o Phillip H. Deason and
Martha K. Mathis, in 1893. She was born 3
Aug 1872
d. 21
Sept 1962.
They had one daughter and one son:
(v)
Ossie(10) Seals b. Mar 1894 in TN who married
William Buckner b. 1892.
(vi)
Elmer(10)
Seals b. 16
Dec 1901,
d. 28
July 1986
in Dickson, TN. Elmer married Mary Lois Broaddus (b. 25
Sept 1908
in Houston,
TX;
d. 7
Jun 1995
in TN) about 1937. She was the daughter of Newell E. Broaddus and Mattie Lee
West.
C.
Their
4th child was MARTHA(7)
AUSTIN
born
11
May 1814
in TN. She married BENJAMIN
B.
BRIANT
14
Jul 1831 in Dickson Co., TN. He was born 25
Aug 1804
in South
Carolina,
and died 1892 in Marion, Montgomery Co., TN.
They
had 8 children, 6 who lived through infancy. One was:
BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN(8)
BRYANT
b.
11
Jun 1840
in Dickson Co., TN, d. 2
Feb 1922
in Montgomery
Co.,
TN. He married PHREDONIA
REYNOLDS
26
Dec 1860 in Dickson Co., TN, daughter of JOHN
REYNOLDS
and
LYDIA
LEWIS.
Phredonia was born 4
Jun 1840
in Dickson Co., TN, d. 18
Jan 1906
in Montgomery Co., TN. They are both buried in the
Bryant
Family
Cemetery
in Montgomery Co., TN. They had 11 children, 9 living to adult age.
One:
JAMES
FRANKLIN(9)
BRYANT
was
born 28
Oct 1866
in Dickson Co., TN, d. 1
May 1951
in Catron,
Missouri.
He married (1) REBECCA
JANE
(Candy)
FERRELL
1
Dec 1887 in Dickson Co., TN, she was the daughter of WILLIAM
FERRELL
and
BECKY
______.
Candy was born 11
Jun 1871
in TN, d. 1891 in Montgomery Co., TN. They had 2 children, one
was:
SUSIE
AGNES(10)
BRYANT,
b.
8
Oct 1888
in Montgomery
Co.,
TN, d. 18
Aug 1976
in McEwen, Humphreys Co., TN. She married JOHN
GARDNER
HUFF
23
May 1905 in Dickson Co., TN, son of THOMAS
HUFF
and
ANNIE
BROWN.
John was born 25
Feb 1879
in Breckinridge Co., KY, d. 7
Apr 1940
in Kingston Springs, Cheatham Co.,
TN. They had 8 children, one was:
JAMES
FRANK(11)
(Frank or Franklin) HUFF, b. 24 Oct
1912, Erin, Houston Co., TN,
d. 13 Feb
1970, Davidson Co., TN. He
married LOIS
STINNETT
22 May 1937
in Sevierville,
TN. She was born
23 Feb
1917 in Sevier Co., TN, d.
19 Apr
1997, Robertson Co., TN. She
was the daughter of George W. Stinnett and Cora Hopkins. They had 2
children:
+ 38. m. ii. William #6 G. Austin, born 20 Jun
1790, died
9 Oct 1876.
+ 39. m. iii.
Samuel Demetrius Austin,
born
18
Jan 1793
in Orange Co., NC, died in 1876 in Graves Co., KY.
He
married Mary Baker, 2
Mar 1817
in Dickson Co., TN. She was born about 1793 in
Georgia.
Of
their 13 children:
A.
James Dawson(7th
Gen) Austin
was born 25 Mar 1825 in Dickson Co., TN. James died 26 Apr 1902 in
Stephenville, Erath Co., Texas. He married Mary Gentry
25
Mar 1857
in Dickson Co., TN. [She was born 1837 in Dickson Co., TN. She was the daughter
of Anderson Gentry and Mary Murrell. (Researchers: Fred and Laurel Cochrane,
8301-275
Mission Gorge Rd.,
Santee,
CA
92071)]
Of
their 3 children:
Samuel
Demetrius(8th
Gen) Austin
was born 4
Apr 1854
in Dickson Co., TN. He died 9
Aug 1925
in Johnson Co., TX. He
marr. Tennessee
Ann Taylor
14
Dec 1878
in Texas(?).Tennessee
Ann Taylor was born 29
Jan 1857
in Dade Co., MO. She died 4
Dec 1941
in Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., Texas.
One of their children:
Charles
Franklin(9th
Gen) Austin, Sr.
was born 15
Jul 1885
in Godley, Johnson Co., TX. He died 18
Mar 1971
in Abilene,
Taylor Co., TX. He marr. Sarah Catherine Crutcher, 2
Jan 1910
in TX.
She was born 16
Jun 1888
Pleasantview, Henderson Co., TX. She died 21
Mar 1952
Denton, Denton Co., TX.
One
of their female children…
Lena
Ve(10th
Gen)
Austin
was born 6
Feb 1923
in Samnorwood, Collingworth Co., TX. She died 2
Mar 1997
in Wichita
Falls,
Wichita
Co.,
TX. She marr. Alvin Christopher James
Sr., 4
Nov 1942
in Denton,
Denton Co., Texas.
He was born 4
Jul 1922
in Lewisville,
Denton Co., TX. He died 14
Aug 1975
in Wichita
Falls,
Wichita
Co.,
TX. One
of their children was…
B.
Houston
Gaines(7)
Austin
was
born 26
Jul 1836
in Dickson Co., TN. Houston died 19
Jun 1918
in Dickson Co., TN. He married Eliza J. Carr 25
Nov 1857
in Dickson Co., TN. She was born 4
May 1837
in TN. Eliza died 10
Jul 1914
in Dickson Co., TN. One of their 7 children:
Samuel
Houston(8)
Austin
was born in Mar 1871 in Dickson Co., TN. He married Frances Golden Hall.
She was born in Apr 1875 in TN.
One
of their 4 children:
Susie
Evalyn(9)
Austin
was born 19
Aug 1901
in Burns, Dickson, TN. Susie died 27
Jan 1969.
She married Alex Theopolis Fulghum, b. 1
Mar 1900.
Alex died 4
Jan 1969.
They had 1 child.
+ 40. m. iv.
Philip West(6)
Austin was born
13 Dec 1797 in
Orange Co., NC. Philip died 24
Sep 1872
in Graves Co., KY. He married (2) Sallie Gilbert
18
Mar 1834
in Dickson Co.,
TN. She was born 9
Aug 1809
in Dickson Co., TN. Sallie was the daughter of Benjamin
Gilbert and an unknown mother. Sallie died 29
Dec 1883
in Graves Co., KY. Of their 14 children:
Samuel(7)
Austin
was born 10
Mar 1853
in Graves Co., KY. Samuel died 30
Jun 1907
in Graves Co., KY. His first wife was Selinda Belle Elkins, b. 22
Aug 1858
in TN. Two of their children were:
(a)
Harriet
Louise Austin(8) b. 29
Nov 1875
in Graves Co. KY, d. 14
Aug 1960
in Graves Co., KY. On 29
Mar 1894
she married James Ollie Traughber in Mayfield,
KY.
He was b. 17
Nov 1873
in Springfield
TN.
He died Jan 1961 in Springfield,
TN.
They had 3 children: (i) Mary Allene Traughber(9), b.
5 Sep 1894 in KY who on 16 Aug 1913 married Fred Clarence Nelson in Metropolis,
IL (ii) Samuel B. Traughber(9), b. 1908 in KY and (iii) Donnie (female)
Traughber(9), b. after the 1910 census.
(b)
Albert Pullen Austin(8) b. in KY in Nov 1881. He
married Allie M. “Myrtle” Harris (b. 1885 in TN) in KY, about 1906. They had two
children: (i) Eulous “Acree”
Austin(9),
b. 1908 in KY and (ii) Charles Harris Austin(9) b. in 26
Oct 1916
in KY. The Acree
Cemetery
in Dukedom (formerly Austin
Springs)
TN was apparently re-named after this Acree Austin.
Samuel
then married (2) Mary Ann Cross 27
Dec 1885.
She was born 27
Aug 1861
in Graves Co., KY. Mary died 5
Apr 1937
in Graves Co., KY.
Of
their 8 children:
(c)
Coleman Farthing(8)
Austin
was born 17
Aug 1888
in Graves Co., KY. He died 18
Jul 1970
in Graves Co., KY, and was buried in Trinity Cem., Graves Co., KY. He married Floella Spillman
14
Feb 1922
in Graves Co., KY. She was born 15
Mar 1906
in Graves Co., KY. Floella is the daughter of William Franklin Spillman and
Sallie Blalock. She was buried in Trinity Cem., Graves Co., KY.
They
had 1 child:
C.
F. Austin(9)
was born 11
Dec 1926
in Graves Co., KY. He married Dorothy Dean Melton 30
Apr 1949
in Graves Co., KY. She was born 25
Jul 1928
in Mayfield, Graves Co., KY. They have two children.
+ 41. m. v. Charles B.
Austin, born 25 Aug
1800 in Orange Co., NC.
42. f. vi. Nancy Polly Austin was born 9 Feb
1804 in Orange Co., NC. She married John Brock,
6 Jul 1829 in Dickson Co., TN.
MARRIAGE: "Early Austin Marriages in
Tennessee" extracted by Sally Austin Day from
3 publications of Byron and Barbara Sisler (Early East TN Marr 1987-Middle TN
Marr 1989-Early West TN Marr 1989). Printed in
"Austin’s of
America", Feb 1992, p 416. Dickson Co.,
TN.
Notes for Wm. #5
(from Jim Austin of Lompoc,
CA,
2005):
BIRTH: Wm. #5’s birthday from a
letter written by Mr. R. W. Greene, of Oakboro,
NC
dated 27 Apr 1982. Also,
other researchers give his birth date as before 1755.
After The Louisiana Purchase in
1803, and after the death of William #5 Austin (≈1805), beginning probably in the early spring of 1807,
Ruth Kelly Austin Passmore and David Passmore went with her children, along with
about 15 other pioneer families, by wagon train to
Knoxville,
TN.
There they dismantled or sold the wagons and built or acquired rafts. By raft,
the group of pioneer families floated down the Tennessee River, south into
Alabama then west and then north through Tennessee into Kentucky where the
Tennessee River flows into the Ohio River (modern day Paducah, KY). From there,
they all had to “pole” northeast upstream (not too far, to modern day
Smithland,
KY)
to where the Cumberland
River flows into the
Ohio River. Then they all had to continue poling upstream (about 75
miles) on the Cumberland
River south and east.
The pioneers continued poling
upstream toward the Fort
Nashborough area (now Nashville). From there they may have poled upstream (but south) via
the Harpeth
River, about 35 miles east of Nashville, into the Dickson area. Their trip would have been
planned so that they would arrive at their destination in time to prepare for
the winter. (Some notes taken
from “The Lonesome Story”, ã2001, by William
Wyatt Austin Jr.)
NOTES for
Ruth:
MARRIAGE:
Ruth married (spouse #2) David Passmore in 1807 in
Orange Co., NC. David and Ruth had one child, Mary Fussell Passmore, born
Feb. 27, 1808 in Dickson Co., TN. Mary first married Levi Reeder, about 1825,
and had one daughter, Eliza Ann Reeder (b. Sep 1826; d. 19 Jul 1911) by him. He
died and she married (#2) Benjamin Brown Hall 25
Nov 1834,
and had 7 children (all b. in Burns, TN) by him:
(m.i.)
Benjamin Tobias Hall
b. ?
(f.ii.)
Sarah Ann Hall
b. 1835
(m.iii.)
John W. Hall
b. 8
May 1837
(m.iv.)
Benjamin Franklin Hall
b. 7
Nov 1839
(m.v.)
Wm. Crawford Hall
b. 19
Mar 1842
(f.vi.)
Mary S. Hall
b. 1844
(f.vii.)
Martha E. Hall
b. 3
Sep 1847
Mary
Hall passed away in 1854. Benjamin then married Mary D. Fussell (b.
24
Jun 1825
in Dickson,
TN)
d/o Wm. Fussell and Margaret Donegan, and had 7 more children by her. Again we
see the Hall family in this genealogy!
38. William #6 Austin (William5, William4, William3, William2, William1) was born 20 Jun
1790 in Orange Co., NC. He
was the son of William #5
Austin and
Ruth Kelly. William died 9 Oct
1876 in Burns, Dickson Co.,
TN, and was buried in Austin Cem., Burns, Dickson Co.,
TN. William married Dicey Horner 21 Oct
1819 in Dickson Co., TN. She
was born 23 Dec 1800 in Dickson Co., TN. Dicey
died 7 Jan 1884 in Burns, Dickson Co., TN, and is buried in the
Austin Cem., on the “Lonesome” property.
They had 12
children:
136. m. i. Thomas Austin was born
1820/21 in Burns, Dickson Co., TN.
BIRTH: "Brief History of Burns,
Tennessee from Early Pioneer Days
to June 1975" author unknown. Page in possession of AFAOA
Southern genealogist. 1830 census.
+
137. m. ii. David Passmore
Austin, born 12 Mar
1822.
138. m.iii. William #7 Jasper Austin was born in 1823 in
TN.
CENSUS:
1850 TN, Dickson Co.289-788.
139. m.
iv.
Philip West II
Austin. b. 19 Mar
1825, d.
26 July
1827
BIRTH-DEATH:
Letter of Aug 20,
1980 from
Dorothy Wood of Pine
Bluff,
Arkansas to AFAOA
genealogist Janet Austin Curtis. Filed in NC/MD Notebook, pp
98-99. Died as an infant.
+
140. m.v. George
Wyatt Austin, born about 1828.
141. f.
vi.
Elizabeth Green Austin was born
about 1829 in Burns, Dickson, TN. Died of Typhoid,
3
Sept 1854.
She was
buried in Austin Cem., Burns, Dickson Co., TN.
142. f. vii. Minerva Emeline Austin
was born
about 1831 in Burns, Dickson, TN. Died of Typhoid,
27
Aug 1854.
She was
buried in Austin Cem., Burns, Dickson Co., TN.
143. f. viii. Dicy Jane Austin was born
about 1834 in Burns, Dickson Co., TN. Died of Typhoid,
29
Aug 1854.
She was
buried in Austin Cem., Burns, Dickson Co., TN.
+ 144. m. ix. Calvin Franklin(7) Austin was
born 21
Sep 1836
in Burns, Dickson Co., TN. One
of his descendants continues to own the old Austin
cabin called “Lonesome” in Burns, Dickson Co., TN. He
died 27
Feb 1894
and is buried in Austin Cem., in Burns, Dickson,
TN.
He married Lurana Elizabeth Anderson 9
Dec 1877
in Dickson Co., TN. She was born 18
Mar 1850.
She was the daughter of Isaac Anderson and Martha Glass. Lurana died
4
Oct 1891
in Dickson Co., TN, and was buried in Austin Cem., Burns, Dickson Co., TN.
Of
their seven children:
William
Wyatt(8)
Austin
was born 18
Aug 1879
in Burns, Dickson Co., TN.
He
married (1) Laura Odelle Duff on 2
Dec 1905
in Nashville,
TN.
She was born circa 1885 in TN. He later married (2) Ethel Amanda Catherine
Davis on 3
Feb 1914
in Birmingham,
AL.
She was the daughter of Adiel Davis and Eliza Sharp/Sharpe. Ethel was born
16
Feb 1889
in Cumby, Hopkins Co., TX, and died 17
May 1949
in Birmingham.
William died on 8
November 1949
in Birmingham,
AL,
and is buried there in the Elmwood
Cemetery
with Ethel.
William
had one child by his first wife Laura:
ROBERT CALVIN AUSTIN, b.
16 September
1902; d.
13 January
1905 in
Nashville,
TN.
and
one child by his second wife Ethel:
WILLIAM
WYATT(9)
AUSTIN,
JR., born 29
May 1915
in Vicksburg,
Warren Co., MS. He
was married on 28
June 1939
in Birmingham,
Jefferson Co., AL
to Lucia Meade Patton, the daughter of Lucius Patton and Fannie
Bessie Lanier. Lucia was born on 21
July 1916
in Birmingham,
Jefferson Co., AL. William passed away on October
8th, 2004.
His ashes
were inurned in the columbarium at Highland
United
Methodist
Church,
Raleigh,
NC and were buried in the
Austin Family Cemetery in
Burns, TN in June 2005.
They
had four children:
145. m.
x. Albert
“Newton” Austin was born
about 1839 in Burns, Dickson Co., TN. He was buried in Austin Cem., Burns,
Dickson Co., TN. He married Elizabeth Carolyn Signar
Austin 4 Dec
1865 in
Dickson Co., TN. She was born 22 Dec
1839 in
Dickson Co., TN. Elizabeth is the daughter of Samuel
Demetrius Austin and Mary Baker. She was buried in Austin Cem., Burns, Dickson
Co., TN.
NOTES for
Elizabeth:
BIRTH: FGS of Dorothy Austin of Mayfield,
Graves, KY
Aug 1980. Filed in AFAOA MD/NC Notebook, pages 101-102.
MARRIAGE: "Early Austin Marriages in
Tennessee" extracted by Sally
Austin Day from 3 publications of Byron
and Barbara
Sisler (Early East TN Marr1987-Middle TN Marr 1989-Early West TN Marr 1989).
Printed in "Austins of
America", Feb
1992, p 416. Dickson Co.
146. f. xi.
Lucinda Paralee Austin was born
about 1841 in Burns, Dickson Co., TN. She married James Frasher. MARRIAGE:
"Brief History of Burns, Tennessee from
Early Pioneer Days to June 1975" author unknown. Page in
possession of AFAOA Southern genealogist. She
died 4
Apr 1913,
age 72 years and ½ month.
+
147. f. xii. Mary Zena Austin, born
8 Apr 1844, died 7 May 1922.
NOTES for
Dicey:
MARRIAGE-RESIDENCE
-DEATH: Pension records from the War of 1812.
BIRTH-DEATH:
Austin
Cemetery gravestone records, as
copied and diagrammed by William W. Austin, Jr. Aug 15, 1967. In possession of
AFAOA Southern genealogist in Tennessee Vol. B, page 52.
NOTES for William #6:
MARRIAGE-RESIDENCE
-MILITARY-DEATH: Pension records from the War of 1812. Served
Andrew Jackson, and Hamilton's and C. Hudson's
Co.’s, TN
Militia. Lived in Dickson Co., TN. CENSUS: TN, Dickson Co., p
307.
CHILDREN:
Notes of descendant Sally Austin Day. Bible Records (NC/MD
Notebook, p 73.)
NAME-CHILDREN: "Brief History of Burns,
Tennessee from Early Pioneer Days
to June 1975" author unknown. Page in possession of AFAOA
Southern genealogist.
According
to family writings (thought to be written by Frances Elouiza Austin Mitchell, b.
6 June 1862, the daughter of David Passmore Austin) William #6 G. Austin was ”…6
feet tall; a farmer, born in Orange Co., NC, black hair, blue eyes, fair
complexion.”
This
is the William for whom the old Austin
cabin, called “Lonesome” was built in 1819 in Burns, Dickson Co., TN. He lived
there with his wife Dicey Horner, and raised a big family. This 7+ acre property
remains to this day (Feb 2006) in the possession of a direct ancestor of William
#6 G. Austin. The “Austin
Cemetery”
is on this property.
[Middle
initial “G.” added from an entry in Dickson County Deed Book F, pages 392 and
393 ”…May, Eighteen hundred and Thirty Between William G. Austin… and Epps
Jackson…”]
Consistent
with his forefathers, in 1820, William G. Austin helped establish a church, this
one a Methodist
Church
in Burns, Dickson Co., TN. Mrs. Sarah Davidson donated the site and the timber;
William and Dicey contributed major financial support. Itinerant Minister and
circuit rider Lorenzo Dow was the first Methodist Minister to preach in this
area. (Source: Dickson Co., TN Handbook-Burns United
Methodist
Church)
137. David Passmore(7) Austin (William6, William5, William4, William3, William2, William1) was born in
12 Mar
1822 in Burns,
Dickson, TN. He is
the son of William G. Austin and Dicey Horner. He married Frances Louise
Grace
19 Jul
1848 in
Trigg Co., KY. She was born 28 Apr
1833 in
Trigg Co., KY. Frances was the
daughter of William D. Grace and Mary Organ. She died 28 Dec
1881 in
Trigg Co., KY.
They had 13
children:
465. f. i. Mary Elizabeth Austin
was born 27 July
1849. She
married William T. Sears 9 Feb 1879 in KY.
466. m. ii George Franklin
Austin was born
6 Apr 1851, died in
infancy.
+ 467.m.
iii. William David
Austin, born in
18 Dec 1852 in TN.
468.
m. iv. John C. Austin was born in 1855 in
TN.
469.
m. v. James
Austin was born in 1857 in KY.
470.
f.
vi. Dicey
Austin was born in 1858 in KY.
471. m.
vii. Wyatt Austin was born in
1860 in Trigg Co., KY.
472. f.
viii.
Frances
(Fannie) Elouiza Austin(8) was
born in 6
Jun 1862
in Trigg Co., KY. She married Benjamin Thomas Mitchell (b. Jan 1959 in
KY) 9
Sep 1880
in Trigg Co., KY. (MARRIAGE:
Trigg
County
Marriage records as viewed on the Trigg Co. GenWeb Website.) He died in March of
1945. She died 31 March of 1948. They had 9 children, all born in
KY:
(f.i.)
Roxie Young
b. Jun 1881
m. Robert Hall (born 1867) in 1902.
(m.ii.)
Douglas
b. Aug 1882
(m.iii.)
Benjamin D.
b. Jun 1885
m. Mary E. Collier, they had 1 son:
(m.i.)
Cletus F. Mitchell(10) b. 16
Apr 1912;
d. 19
Jun 1986.
He married Eva Lou Petitt b. 1915, d. 14
Oct 1979.
They had 1 daughter.
(m.iv.)
Frank
b. Jun 1888
(f.v.)
Nayoma
b. Sep 1891
(f.vi.)
Evie E.
b. Aug 1894
(m.vii.)
Marvin
b. Aug 1897
(m.viii.)
Auston
b. Feb 1899
(m.ix.)
Clarence Mitchell(9) b. 1900. He married Addie
Louanna Jones, (b. 1898) in 1918 in KY. They had 2 daughters:
(f.i.)
Mary Virginia Mitchell McAllister(10) b.
7
Nov 1919.
She married Mr. Evard McAllister (both still alive as
of late Dec 2005).
(f.ii.)
Roberta Mitchell Lyonhurst(10) is living in Mayfield,
KY married Earl Lyonhurst. They have one daughter:
+
473. m. ix.
George S. Austin, born in 1865, died in 1946.
+ 474. m. x. Stephen Andrew Austin(8), born
2
Dec 1866,
died 26
Dec 1943.
He was a postman in the city of Mayfield,
KY. He married Martha Jane Sellars in 1904. She was born 5
Feb 1873
in KY and died 7
Aug 1943
in KY. She was the daughter of David Sellars and Martha E. ______. The youngest
of their many children was Will Ed Austin(9), born in
KY in 1916. He married Mabel Ethel Price, b. 15
May 1920
in KY. He died in the late 1900’s, and is buried in
Mayfield,
KY.
475. m. xi. Alfred Pinkey Austin was born
2 Nov
1868 in Trigg Co.,
KY.
+ 476. m.xii. Asa Philip Austin, born 2 Nov
1868, died 1 Sep
1935.
477.m.xiii. Thomas
Austin was born in 1871 in Trigg Co., KY.
NOTES for Frances
Grace:
BIRTH-DEATH-MARRIAGE: Biographical sketch of W.D. Grace in
the "History of Christian and Trigg
Counties", 1884. p
189. CENSUS: KY, Trigg,
Bethesda, p 402.
NOTES for
David:
BIRTH:
"Brief History of Burns, Tennessee
from Early Pioneer Days to June 1975" author unknown. Page in
possession of AFAOA Southern genealogist. 1830
census. BIRTH: Letter of Aug 20,
1980 from Dorothy Wood of Pine Bluff,
Arkansas to AFAOA genealogist Janet Austin
Curtis. Filed in NC/MD Notebook, pp 98-99.
BIRTH-DEATH-SPOUSE-CHILDREN-CENSUS: 1860 KY, Trigg,
Cadiz, p 17; 1870 KY, Trigg, Golden
Pond, p 94; 1880 KY, Trigg,
Bethesda, p 402.
Frances is a
widow in 1880. MARRIAGE: Trigg
County Marriage records as viewed on
the Trigg Co. GenWeb Website.
467.
William David Austin(8)
(m.iii.) (David7,
William6, William5, William4, William3, William2, William1), was born 18 Dec 1852 in TN. He left his wife just after 1900; after that,
it is unknown what happened to him. He was the
son of David Passmore Austin and Frances Grace. He married Elizabeth Ann Wilkerson in Trigg
Co., KY about 1873. Bettie was born in April of 1854 in KY; she died in 1936 in
Maynard, AR. She was the daughter of Gabriel Jones Wilkerson and
Susan Mary Adams. William and Bettie had 6 children:
- Lula
Mae Austin Abbott Taylor(9) (f.i.) was born
10 Sep
1873 in
KY. Lula married (#1) Eli Abbott
24
Feb 1895
in Randolf Co.,
AR. He was born in 1827, the son of Dennel Abbot (b. 1805 in S.C.) and
Nancy
_____. Eli
died just after 1900. Lula Mae and Eli had 3 children:
a)
Eli “Lehman”
Abbott(10) (m.i.) born 18 Dec
1895 in AR, died Aug 1983 in
Maine. He married Jessie L. ______, born 1901. They had
2 children:
1)
Clark J. Abbott(11) (m.i.) born 30 Jan 1923 in AR, died 9 Jan 1989.
2)
Betty L.
Abbott(11) (f.ii.) born 1925 in AR
b)
Joseph Abbott(10) (m.ii.) born 1898 in AR. Joe Abbott married Vivian Redwine, born Aug 1898 in AR.
She is the daughter of Charles J. Redwine and Lena E. Richardson. They had 6
children:
1)
Eli E. Abbott(11) (m.i.) born 25 Oct 1918 in AR, died 12 Feb 1995.
2)
Katherine L.
Abbott(11) (f.ii.) born 1921 in AR
3)
Roy C. Abbott(11) (m.iii.) born 18 Mar 1922 in AR, died 29 Jan 1996 in AR.
4)
Lena May
Abbott(11) (f.iv.) born 1924 in AR
5)
Jill Abbott(11)
(f.v.) born after 1930
6) Jan
Abbott(11) (m.vi.) born after
1930
c)
Estelle G. Abbott(10) (f.iii.) born 1900 in AR. She married Paul Maynard
(the son of Tom Maynard and Mary L. _____) in 1923 in AR. They had one
child:
1) Charles Maynard born Oct 1926 in
AR.
Between
1910 and 1920, Lula married (#2) William “Thomas” Taylor (born 1860 in
AR). In the 1920 census, Thomas, Lula and two of her children (Lehman and
Estelle) were living together on their farm. In the 1930 census for Maynard, AR,
Betty (Elizabeth Ann Wilkerson Austin) now 75 years old, was living in her own
little home (valued at $200) near her daughter Lula, who is again a widow,
living in her own home/farm (valued at $3,000). They were both in close
proximity to Lula’s two sons, Lehman with his family in their home (valued at
$2,000), and Joe with his family in their home (valued at $800). Lula died
Thursday,
16 Dec 1954.
- Etna Floyd (pronounced Flaud) Austin Bly Abbott
Legate(9) (f.ii.) born in Aug 1874 in KY, married
Mr. Bly in 1893. She had one
son by him:
a)
George B. Bly(10) (m.i.) born in March 1894 in
AR.
Mr. Bly was born in
Illinois. Floyd then married
Columbus “Lum” Grazier Abbott in March 1899. He was the son
of Simpson M. Abbott (b. 1823 in TN) and Nancy K. Dickey. Simpson’s father was
John Abbot (b. 1795 in S.C.). Columbus was born in early June 1858 in TN, and died before
the 1920 census. Floyd died in the autumn of 1957. They had two
sons:
b)
Oran
Bearn Abbott(10) (m.i.) was born in Feb 1900 in
Maynard,
AR; he
died Feb 1964 in Kerrville,
TX.
Oran married
Kathryn Claire Stevenson 4 Feb
1926 in
El
Dorado,
AR. She is
the daughter of William R. Stevenson and Sarah Jarnagin. Katherine was born
29 Nov
1900 in
Nacogdoches,
TX, and
died 5 Feb
1988 in
Kerrville,
TX. They
had two children:
1)
Carroll Lem
Abbott(11) (m.i.) born 6 Dec
1926 in
Texarkana, TX, died 5 July 1984 in Kerrville, TX. He married Edna Lorene Black 14 Feb 1947. Edna was
born 23 May 1926 in Simms, TX. She is the daughter of Earl Wayne Black and Ethel
Mae Crabtree.
2)
Anna L. Abbott(11) (f.ii.) born May 1929.
c)
Wendell A. Abbott(10) (m.ii.) born 1910 in AR.
In the
1920 Arkansas census,
Floyd was living with her 10-year-old son Wendell and her Mom, “Betty”,
Elizabeth Wilkerson Austin. Floyd married G. W. Legate 17 Dec 1937, in
AR.
- Luther “Butler” Austin(9) (m.iii.) born 1876 in KY. Luther married Malisse ______ (born 1884 in AR).
As an Army musician,
Butler was in The Philippines with his
younger brother Arthur in the 1900 census. Butler died after 1916. They had 5 children:
a)
Laughton C.
“Red” Austin(10) (m.i.) born 1904-05 in AR. He married Edna
Arnett.
b)
Reva “Grace”
Austin(10) (f.ii.) born 1906 in AR. She
married a Mr. Bratcher who was born in AR, and by him had a son named Kenneth(11) Bratcher (b. 1926 in
Mich.).
She then married John Thomas McKeel (b. 1904 in TN) in 1927. In the April 1930
census, all four (including Graces’ sister Ludon) were living in Dearborn, Wayne
Co., Mich.
They paid $40 rent and had a radio. John was working at an Auto Factory
polishing radiators; Ludon was a waitress.
c)
Tharon A. Austin(10) (m.iii.) born 1908-09 in AR. It is said that Tharon was killed by
a lightning strike in his early teens.
d)
Loudon Austin(10) (f.iv.) born 1912-1914 in
AR.
e)
John M. Austin(10) (m.v.) born 1916 in AR.
- Elbert B. Austin(9)
(m.iv.) born 1878 in AR.
- Arthur Wyatt Austin(9)
Sr. (m.v.) born January
1880 in Maynard, AR, died 30 Jan
1919 in Berkeley, CA. (He
became very sick in The Philippines and went by ship, back to the west coast
of California, and died soon after.) He married
Florence Ida
“Fig” Guittard. She was born
11 Apr 1891 in Killbuck, OH. She is the daughter of Dr. Alwin Meigs Guittard (M.D.) and
Lovina Jane Hinkle. Fig died 7 Jan 1938 in Napa, CA. The ashes of Arthur Sr. and
Florence are held at The Chapel of the Chimes in
Oakland, CA.
(In 1928
or 1929, Dr. Alwin Meigs Guittard, a
medical doctor in The Philippines, being very ill and wishing to die in America,
took his daughter (now the Widow) Florence “Fig” Austin and her son Arthur Jr.
and went by ship back to America. Dr. Guittard died during the voyage before
making it to America. His
body is said to have been buried in San
Francisco - The
Presidio).
They (A. W. Austin Sr. and FIG) had 1
child:
a)
Arthur Wyatt
Austin(10) Jr. (m.i.) (my Dad) born Nov. 4th,
1916 in Manilla, The Philippine Islands. He died 23 Nov
1985 in
San
Jose, CA. His ashes are buried at
Skylawn Memorial Park above Half Moon Bay, CA. He married Dorothy Janes, 20 Nov
1943 in
Reno, NV. She was born 25 May 1922 in Boston, Mass. She is the daughter of Julius Janes and Mathilda
Helen Kleinberg.
6. Julian Astil Austin(9) (m.vi.)
born 21 Jan 1885 in Maynard, AR. He died Aug 1943 in
Brandsville, MO. He married Sarah Katherine Harper (born
3 Sept 1888 in Albertha, AR) in 1904 in Maynard, AR. She was the daughter of Robert V. Harper and
Charlotte Foster. She died 9 Sept 1976 in Granite City, IL. They divorced after 1911.
They had 2 children:
a)
Pelham Austin
Sr.(10) (m.i.) born 17 Oct
1907 in
Maynard, AR. He died 19 Feb 1987. Pelham married Esther Ada
Toler (born 15 May 1905 in AR) 24 Oct 1924 in Knobel, AR.
She is the daughter of John Albert Toler
and Vanilla Miller.
They had 5 children:
1)
Pelham Austin
Jr.(11) (m.i.) born 28 Aug 1925 in Peach Orchard, AR. He died 24 Apr
1976. He married Lottie Marie Bradley (the daughter of
Harry G. Bradley and Lydia Myra Leach) 28 June 1948. She was born in Poplar Bluff, MO, 30 Sept 1923. One of their 4 children:
i.
Betty Jean Austin(11) (f.ii.) born 27 Jan 1927 in AR, married Lloyd Duane Chapman in
Atlanta GA, 17 Jun 1950. He was born 8 Nov 1923. He died October 1994.
b)
Thelma Jeanette
Austin(10) (f.ii.) born 1911 in AR, died
abt.1995.
She married Warren Marks (who died), then Ed Grisham
(the son of Thompson Owen Grisham and Floy James Gibson); no
children.
Compiled
(with
lots of help from family members, genealogists and historians)
by Jim
Austin,1332 Sunnybrook Ct., Lompoc, CA
93436- 8114
email:
jdiastr@yahoo.com Latest revision:
5/29/2006
