Happy Wedding Anniversary (15 November 1798) to My 5th Great Grandparents, Elizabeth Ward and John H. Hardy

I got a little carried away tonight and goofed around with Social Explorer (which is free if you just use the Federal Census Data, 1790-abt 1940).  The map shows the move that my 5th great grandparents made after their marriage in Bertie County, North Carolina to (then) frontier Lincoln County, Georgia (this map was used with 1800 Census state and county information)

I finally buckled down and used the Social Explorer site to make custom historical maps for my ancestors - 5th Great Grandparents Elizabeth Ward and John H. Hardy.  There is a learning curve but it is pretty intuitive overall, and they give you a lot of control on making custom maps.

The following is the pricing for this service.  I think if you belong to an institution of higher learning, government, or business you may already have the ability to access this.  In San Diego, for instance, it looks like UCSD has it available at any time by a limited number of students.

I use the free service.  If you pay more of course you get more functionality but even the limited functions are powerful.

© 2018 Copyright, Christine Manczuk, All Rights Reserved.

Family Friday: Anna & Eli Lockhart

This double portrait of siblings Anna Pherebe Lockhart (1840-1897) and her brother Elial Lockhart (1832-1861) was added to their Ancestry.com profiles by "debbiemcl" who is one of my paternal DNA matches.*

[Anna and Eli Lockhart, found on the Ancestry.com tree of debbiemcl]

Anna married Abdy Park Hampton (1836-1902) in Russell County, Alabama, shortly after the start of the Civil War. She and her husband moved to Florida** shortly after the wedding and went on the have six children. They both died in Tampa.

Eli, who never married, died in Tampa in 1861.




*The common ancestors we share are John H Hardy/Elizabeth Ward

[Ancestry.com]

Eli and Anna (using her middle name) were named in an 1857 list of the heirs of John H. Hardy.

["Alabama Estate Files, 1830-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RGV-32B?cc=1978117&wc=MX5T-7N1%3A314239401%2C315421601 : 24 August 2018), Russell > Hardy, John H (1854) > image 42 of 51;

county courthouses, Alabama.]

**This branch of the Lockhart clan appear to have relocated to Florida as early as 1850.


© 2018 Copyright, Christine Manczuk, All Rights Reserved.

From the Probate Files: Feriby/Pheraby Sowell - Bertie County, North Carolina, 1814

Last week we looked at the administrator's bond and inventory of Feraby's estate but I postponed examination of the final settlement because the document is large and isn't available online as a single image.*

Affixed to the top of the page is this order from the court:

State of North Carolina}

Bertie County Court   } May Term 1814

                                   Ordered that Hardy

Freeman, Timothy Walton, William Jones and

Mills Jornagan or any three of them

audit & Settle the Accounts of James Ward

admn of Fereby Ward dec'd and that

they make return to next Court

           Test. Jas[?] Blunt[?]

[Ancestry.com. North Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: North Carolina County, District and Probate Courts.]

The Estate of Pheriby Ward dec'd in account with James Ward administrator
======================================================================
1814                                                                                    1814
Feb.          To cash paid Clerk fees           £     18     0         Mar       By account Sale   £181 19   2½

                 To cash paid for keeping old}                                         By bal. due adm.      62 [damage]
                      Negro                               }     4    0    0         _________________________________
                 To my account against said  }
                 dec'd estate rendered            }   135   4    7
                 Comm allowed admn                 4                                                                                         
                                                                  £144  9    7                                                          £144  9    7


                 To bal. due admin.                £ 62   10   4½
                
State of North Carolina}
       Bertie County     } In Pursuant to the annexed order from the Worshipful the County Court of Bertie to us directed We the undersigned have audited and Stated the accounts of James Ward admn. of Pheraby Ward dec'd and find a balance due the administrator of Sixty two pounds ten shillings and four pence half penny as above stated which is respectfully Submitted to your Worships approbation Given under our honor
                                                                                  Hardy Freeman
                                                                                  Timo. Walton
                                                                                  Wm. Jones
                                                                                   Mills Jernigan

You may be wondering why the amounts are mentioned denoted in pounds/shillings/pence but apparently the reference isn't to the British pound sterling but a carryover of the North Carolina pound. Here's the best explanation I've found.



*Here's a scan of the reverse of the entire document.

From the Probate Files: Feriby/Pheraby Sowell - Bertie County, North Carolina, 1814

Feriby survived her husband Thomas Ward by 17 years.* Although Thomas left his "beloved wife" several bequests outright thereby empowering her "to dispose of as she shall or may think proper" it doesn't appear that she made her own will because the following administration bond for "five hundred Pounds"** executed on February 14, 1814, named her son James Ward the administrator of her estate.

As administrator James was charged with the task of making an inventory of his mother's estate which he had apparently done the previous month, although no values were assigned to the items on the list.

An inventory of the personal proper

ty of Pheraby Ward decd. January 10, 1814

1 Negro woman Sophia,          20 Gals Honey -----

1 Feather bed & furniture,       3 Hives of bees

1 Chest of Cloathes, ----         A quantity of bees wax

6 Shotes, 2 Sows & pigs,

2 Cows and yearlings,            A quantity of Cloth & Thread

3 Heifers, 1 Ewe & lamb,        1 Pair of fire dogs

1 Lot crocre ware,                  1 Bofait [Buffet?] 2 old chests

1 Ax, 2 Tables                       1 Pot and scillet

1/2 dozen chairs ----              Stove [?] ---------    

Cash $7 --------

                                         Jas Ward

This comprehensive list of the items of Feriby's possessions sold on March 4th gives us a better idea of what she owned. (Note that the prices are still given in British currency.)

An Account of the Sale of the Estate of Feriby Ward Decd

Sold March the 4th 1814                                                             

                                                                                £       S      D

5 chears_________________To | James Ward_____|  " |  12 |    6

1 Pewter dish with Bacon___"  |   do       do______|  "   |  15 |   ~

7 Earthen plates___________"  |   do       do_____|      |  12 |   3 

3 Bowl__________________"  |   do       do_____|      |  11 |   ~

1 Pitcher_________________"  |   do       do_____|      |   4 |   6

1 Tureen & Dish___________ | Benjamin Hardy_____|     |    6 |   ~ ***

1 Sugar Dish______________  |   do       do_____|     |   2 |   6

13 Yds Striped Cloth @ 6/3___ | James Ward______|   3 |    1 |  3

4¾ lbs @ 12/lb_____________ |    do     do_____|  2   | 10 |  4½

1 book____________________ |    do     do_____|      |   10|  0

1 bed & furniture___________ | Benjamin Hardy____| 21  |   ~ |   ~

1 glass tumbler____________  | James Ward_____|     |   2 |  0

2 Stocks bees______________ |    do     do_____|     |  15 |  6

3   do     do________________ |    do     do_____|  1 |   12 |  6

5 Gall. Honey _____________ |    do     do_____|  2  |   10 |  0

5 gall. do _________________ |    do     do_____|  2  |   10 |  

5  do  do _________________ |    do     do_____|  2  |  10 |  

5  do balance______________ |    do     do_____|  2  |  10 | 

1 Black cow & yearling______ |   do     do_____|  5  |   15 | 

1 Heifer___________________ |  do      do_____|  5  |   0 |  0

1 do_______________________ |  do      do_____|  4   |   0 |  0

1 cow & calf________________ |  do      do_____|  4   | 12 |  6

1 Bull_____________________ |  do      do_____ |  1  |  10 |  0

1 Ewe & Lamb______________ |  do      do_____|  1  |  10 |  0

2 Sows & 8 pigs_____________ |  do      do_____|  5  |   0 |  0

6 Hogs_____________________ |  do      do_____| 3  |   0 |  0

18 lb Beeswax_______________ | William Jones_____|  1  |  10 |  0

1 Pr. fire Irons_______________ | James Ward_____|  1  |  5 |  0

1 Chest_____________________ | James Ward_____|  "   |    1 |  3

1  do_______________________ |    do     do_____|    |   10 |  0

1 table______________________ |   do     do_____| ~   |  ~ |  6

1½ bushel Wheat_____________ |   do     do_____|     |  15 |  

1 pine Beaufat_______________ |   do     do_____| 2  |   0 |  6

1 Linnen Wheel______________ |   do     do_____|     |  7 |  0

1 Woolen  do________________ |   do     do_____|     |    |  6

1 pot Trammel & hook________ |    do     do_____|     |    |  6

1 Stove_____________________ |  do     do_____|     |     |  6

1 Chest with clothes__________ | Benj. Hardy_____|  1  |  0 |  0

1 Iron pot__________________ | James Ward_____|    |   7 |  6

3 pewter & 1 Silver tea spoons__ |   do      do_____| ~ |  5 |  1

You may recall from last week's post about Thomas Ward's will that his bequest to his wife included an enslaved woman named Sophia. The next page refers to her and since it states that James Ward is paying £4 to "the lowest undertaker" for her maintenance until January 1, 1815, it's clear that Sophia not considered able to be hired out as a worker.

[All documents are from Wills and Estate Papers (Bertie County), 1663-1978; Author: North Carolina. Division of Archives and History (Raleigh, North Carolina); Probate Place: Bertie, North Carolina. Ancestry.com]

Next week I'll take a look at the final accounting James Ward filed with the probate court.

*And her father John Sowell by 58 years.
**The amount of the bond usually was matched to the estimated value of the deceased estate.
***Benjamin Hardy (who is a 5th great uncle of mine) was the husband of Eleanor (Elendar) Ward, the Feriby's youngest child. By the terms of Thomas Ward's will, Eleanor was to eventually inherit the house he had "loaned" to her mother during her widowhood.

© 2017 Copyright, Christine Manczuk, All Rights Reserved.

Monday Is for Mothers: Feriby/Pheraby Sowell (About 1749 - 1813)

With this fifth great grandmother we have another female ancestor about whom very little is known except for what can be inferred from her father's and husband's wills and other probate records found in Bertie County, North Carolina, including from an inventory taken after her own death in 1813.

If we have her lineage correct Feriby was very young when her father John Sowell died in 1755. In his will, written in 1750, John directed that she and her four sisters were to be given their "Potions" when they were fifteen.

[Ancestry.com. North Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: North Carolina County, District and Probate Courts.]

Item My will and Pleasure is that the Rest of my
Esttate after all Charges is Paid to be equally
Divided Between my Beloved wife Anne Sowell
and my four Daughters my beloved wife have
ing her first choys and firther I desire that
my four Daughters may have their Potion Deli
vered to them when they com to the age of
fifteen years old and all and Every of the ar
ticles above written to Mary Elisbeth Feriby
Ann and their heirs forever

I haven't found any record of her marriage to Thomas Ward, a widower with four small children, but her first child was born in 1768 when Feriby would have been about 18. My direct ancestor Elizabeth Ward was the fifth of her seven children.

By the time of the first federal census in 1790, only three daughters seem to have been living in the household with Thomas and Feriby, along with 16 enslaved persons.

[Ancestry.com. 1790 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: First Census of the United States, 1790 (NARA microfilm publication M637, 12 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.]

Thomas Ward died in 1796 leaving a will drawn up a year earlier. It's getting late here in France* so I'll be covering that later this week along with records from Feriby's probate in 1813.

*Nine hours ahead of San Diego.

© 2017 Copyright, Christine Manczuk, All Rights Reserved.

Family Friday: Teel

Here's a picture of another fifth cousin from the Warren side of my lineage. Mary "Bethel" Teel (1910 - 1942) is the great great granddaughter of Allen Love Warren, one of Robert Warren's sons that Great Uncle Jeremiah didn't exclude from benefiting from his 1831 will.

[Harry A. Scott, Jr. added this to Mary "Bethel" Teel's profile in his Ancestry.com tree SIMMONS' OF ALABAMA]

Here's how Ancestry.com explains our relationship:

Mary "Bethel" Teel (1910 - 1942)

5th cousin

Alice May Kent (1882 - 1950)

mother of Mary "Bethel" Teel

Rutha A Warren (1859 - 1935)

mother of Alice May Kent

Henry Marion Warren (1834 - 1906)

father of Rutha A Warren

Allen Love Warren (1807 - 1836)

father of Henry Marion Warren

Robert Warren (1783 - 1851)

father of Allen Love Warren

Jesse WARREN Sr (1747 - 1827)

father of Robert Warren

Jesse WARREN Jr (1790 - 1826)

son of Jesse WARREN Sr

Jesse Thomas Simeon WARREN (1825 - 1894)

son of Jesse WARREN Jr

James Chappell "J C" WARREN Sr (1854 - 1924)

son of Jesse Thomas Simeon WARREN

James Chappell WARREN Jr (1897 - 1923)

son of James Chappell "J C" WARREN Sr

Tracy Stuart WARREN (1923 - )

son of James Chappell WARREN Jr

Patricia Ann SLATER

You are the daughter of Tracy Stuart WARREN

She married Julian Evans Ward Sr. (1893-1972) in Russell County, Alabama, on September 9, 1933.

[Amy Koon shared this image on Julian Ward's profile in her DUCKOONS tree on Ancestry.com]

[Another photo shared by Harry A. Scott, Jr.]

The couple had four children before Bethel's death on May 18, 1942, in Russell County.




© 2016 Copyright, Christine Manczuk, All Rights Reserved.

Where Were My Ancestors About 1796? Abraham Bradley's Map of the United States: Part 2

This is a continuation of my post earlier this week using Abraham Bradley's postal map of 1796.  This is just an exercise to get a handle on where all of my American ancestors were during the Federalist Era.  I can already see the fatal flaw of adding ancestors by going up and down my tree as opposed to grouping by location--for instance, I actually have a lot of people who were in the western Pennsylvania area, but there will be separate maps for the family groups in this iteration because they are on different branches of my tree.  I will put together a more concise version at a later date.

In Bertie County, North Carolina, possibly in the Salmon Creek area, John H Hardy, 23, was married to his first wife, Jamima Wilson, and they had a toddler Etheldred.  Jamima would die in the next year.  John's mother Sarah Sowell, 63, had been widowed 3 years before when her husband William Hardy died, and she would be listed in the 1800 Federal Census as head of household in Bertie County, North Carolina.   John's future second wife, Elizabeth Ward, 21, daughter of Thomas Ward (who had died the year before at about age 60) and Pheraby Sowell, about 47.  John Hardy and Elizabeth Ward were distant cousins--their mothers were both descendants of Richard Sowell (born c. 1659).

John Chappell, 33, had moved to Georgia probably in the mid to late 1780's from Sussex County, Virginia, likely with his parents, Revolutionary veteran John C Chappell, 58, and Nancy "Nannie" Harrison, 55.  Like Jesse Warren Sr he was in the area that would become Hancock County, Georgia. John and his wife, Sarah "Sallie" P Heath, 25, had several small children by the time the map was made.  Sallie was the daughter of Valley Forge veteran Abraham Heath, 56, and Winnifred "Winny" (??), 50, who had moved from Surry County, Virginia to Burke/Warren County, Georgia 10 years earlier.
Josiah Freeman, 33, was likely in Oglethorpe County, Georgia with his first wife, Susannah Hawkins, and at least 5 small children.  He had likely moved to Georgia sometime between 1786 and 1790.  He was originally from Virginia, possibly Sussex or Surry counties.  His parents William Freeman, 58, and Sarah Williams(??), about 56, were in Surry County, North Carolina, and may have originally been from Surry County, Virginia.  All these Surry counties!!  It gets confusing.  Elizabeth Jordan, Josiah's second wife, was only about 9 in 1796.  I have not yet figured out who Elizabeth's parents were.  Elizabeth was born in either Georgia or possibly South Carolina.
Richard Turner, 17, had been born in Cascade, Pittsylvania, Virginia, and had moved with his family to Wilkes County, Georgia (part of which became Lincoln County) when he was about 5.  His parents, Shadrack Turner and Margaret Hill, were both about 45.  Mary Henderson, 15, would marry Richard about 3 years later in Wilkes or Lincoln County.  She had Virginia as place of birth on the 1850 and 1860 Censuses, but I have not yet been able to determine who her parents were, although there were numerous Henderson families in Elbert County (neighbor county to both Wilkes and Lincoln) at the time she would have married Richard.

William Porter was born in May 1796 in Sheffield, Caledonia, Vermont, to Benjamin Porter, 24, and Lydia Wilcox, 21.  It is not clear why they were there, as they had married in Surry, Cheshire, New Hampshire the year before, and were back there by the 1800 federal census.  Benjamin's widowed mother Esther Carpenter, 57, allegedly didn't die until 1827 in Lyme, Grafton, NH, but apparently didn't head a household in the censuses and probably lived with one of her adult children.  Lydia's parents, physician Obediah Willcox, 72, and Sarah Talcott, 61, were likely living in Surry, Cheshire, New Hampshire.
Joshua Shepard, 43, and Lucia "Lucy" Farnsworth, 34, were living in Alstead, Cheshire, New Hampshire.  Joshua's parents, Jonathan Shepard, 87, and Love Palmer, 79, had divorced 32 years earlier (about 1764), and had both subsequently remarried.  Love had married a Mr. Heard or Herrick (date unknown), and she died 23 July 1796 in Alstead, Cheshire, New Hampshire.  Jonathan had married Mary Underwood in 1765 and lived in Windsor, Windsor, Vermont, where he died 2 years after this map was made (26 March 1798).  Lucy's parents, Thomas Farnsworth, 65, and Elizabeth Davis, 68, also lived in Alstead (they had moved there sometime between 1776 and 1790).








© 2015 Copyright, Christine Manczuk, All Rights Reserved.

Monday Is for Mothers: Elizabeth Ward (About 1775? - After 1840)

In Thomas Ward's will, dated March 14, 1795, he made provision for his widow Pheraby and his eleven children* including Elizabeth**. If he listed his children in their birth order as is common, Elizabeth was his ninth child and fifth daughter. Only she and Eleanor, his youngest daughter, were not married at the time he drew up his will.

["North Carolina, Probate Records, 1735-1970," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-19446-102535-1?cc=1867501&wc=MDRZ-W66:169765101,169908101 : accessed 15 March 2015),

Bertie > Wills, 1784-1797, Vol. D > image 384 of 393; county courthouses, North Carolina.]

Elizabeth Ward became John H. Hardy's second wife on November 15, 1798 in Bertie County and their oldest child William Ward Hardy was born there the next year.

By the 1800 U.S. Census, a daughter had been added to the young family who were still living in Bertie County. There are no slaves belonging to the household so we don't know what happened to the two left to Elizabeth by her father.

[Ancestry.com. 1800 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.

Original data: Second Census of the United States, 1800. NARA microfilm publication M32 (52 rolls).

Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29.]

Soon after that, possibly as early as 1801, John and Elizabeth and their family moved to Lincoln County***, Georgia, where the rest of their ten children were born, including my third great grandfather Alfred Ward Hardy in 1809.

By the 1820 U.S. Census, the Hardy household had grown to twenty-four inhabitants, including thirteen free white persons, ten slaves**** and one "free colored person: male 14-24".

[Ancestry.com. 1820 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

Images reproduced by FamilySearch.

Original data: Fourth Census of the United States, 1820. (NARA microfilm publication M33, 142 rolls).

Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.]

The 1830 U.S. Census in Lincoln County lists six free white persons, John, Elizabeth and their youngest children and 14 slaves, once again mostly children but at least one woman over 55*****. This is about the time that Alfred married Sarah Heath Chappell.

[Ancestry.com. 1830 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Fifth Census of the United States, 1830. (NARA microfilm publication M19, 201 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.]

The Hardy household has gotten much smaller by the 1840 U.S. Census--only five people including John, Elizabeth, and three white females. There are no slaves.

[Ancestry.com. 1840 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Sixth Census of the United States, 1840. (NARA microfilm publication M704, 580 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.]

We haven't been able to locate John H. Hardy and his family in the 1850 U.S. Census. In his will, written in Russell County, Alabama, and dated April 12, 1854, there is no mention of Elizabeth so she must have died sometime before that but we don't know whether it occurred in Georgia or after moving to Alabama. John died at a daughter's house and is buried in the Old Lebanon Methodist Church Cemetery.

Elizabeth must have been proud of her lineage as four of her six sons have Ward as their middle name. One son, Charles W. Hardy, became an acclaimed Methodist minister before his early death at age 36. Another, James Ward Hardy, was president of LaGrange College (University of North Alabama) at the time of his death in 1853.

*All of them born in Bertie County, North Carolina.
**My paternal fourth great grandmother, her inheritance included  "one negro woman named Lidia and her Child named Rachel", bed & furniture, "one linnin wheel" and calves and sheep.
***There are several land tax records confirming this.
****Seven of them under the age of 14, the other three under 25.
*****I wonder if this could be Lidia's child that Elizabeth inherited from her father and somehow was reunited with the family at some point? The third item in John's 1854 will reads as follows:

"I wish and it is my will that my Negro woman Rachel shall be permitted to live with my children as long as she may desire. David Lockhart my son in law is hereby appointed her Guardian to whose direction and control I commit her that my will herein expressed may be performed as the laws of the State may allow."

We'll never know for sure but this is one of the few signs of benevolence towards their human property that I've found while researching my slave-owning ancestors.

© 2015 Copyright, Christine Manczuk, All Rights Reserved.