Our family's historical journey through time.
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| 1051 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. DAVID SUDBURY (ca.1750-ca.1810) was born in Chesterfield County, Virginia, apparently after 1747, since he is not mentioned with his half-brother and half-sisters in his father's deed of gift recorded that year. The earliest record of his existence is from the year 1758, when local chuchwardens (in Chesterfield County?) made him and his brothers and sister a ward of Jane Hales due to their status as "orphans". The next recorded reference to David appears in the book Marriages of Amelia County, Virginia 1735-1815, compiled by Kathleen Booth Williams, where he is listed as a witness to the marriage of Joseph Scott and Elizabeth Booker on November 13, 1778. By the time of the first census of the United States, David had moved to Powhatan County, where he is shown as the head of a household of six whites and no blacks in 1783. David is also listed in the 1787 census of Virginia. At that time he was still living in Powhatan County. The limited information provided in relation to this census tells us only that he had one son living at home between the ages of 16 and 21, that he had six slaves, and that he owned three horses and 12 head of cattle. Unfortunately, the author of this history is unaware of any evidence that would indicate the name of David's son referenced in this census. Glenn Boyd's records reference an entry for David in the 1790 U.S. census, but the author of this history has not yet seen the details for that entry. Glenn also cites an unspecified source dated January 27, 1797, as indicating that David's land in Powhatan County adjoins a parcel of land belonging to Abner Crump. In the 1810 census for Virginia, David appears in the records for Buckingham County. He and his wife are listed in an age category of 45 and above. The only other "white" person living with them is a male, age 16-26, who would have been born between 1784 and 1794. Of the five children listed below, only David R., who was born about 1790, would fall into this category. The census record includes two slaves. Another listing in the 1810 census covering Buckingham County is for a woman named Caty Sudbury. Her presence in the same county as David suggests the possibility of a connection. However, she may be a freed slave, since no "free white males" or "free white females" are listed under her entry, but instead, six "other free persons except Indians not taxed". The last census with a listing for David is the 1820 Virginia census. At that time he was still living in Buckingham County. Aside from David and his wife, the census record lists two "free white males", age 26-44, and one "free white female" under 10 years of age. One of the unidentified males could have been David R. Sudbury, who would have been 30 years of age in 1820. The identity of the other young man, and the young girl, however, seem to be a complete mystery. Was the girl possibly a daughter of David R. Sudbury or William W. Sudbury? David and his wife probably died between 1820 and 1830, since there is no reference to them in the latter census. However, the Sudbury family did not disappear entirely from Buckingham County. There is an entry in the 1840 census index for a woman named Frances Sudberry, who also appears in the 1850 census, with her surname spelled "Sudsberry". The 1850 census index covering Buckingham County includes an entry for William Sudsberry. These entries should be investigated to ascertain the ages of Frances and William. It is almost certain that they are in some way connected to the family of David Sudbury. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudbury, David (I4250)
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| 1052 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. DORA BELLE STEVENSON was probably born in Okmulgee, Indian Territory, in 1902, and spent her youth in Oklahoma. She may have lived for a time in Fort Smith, Arkansas, but by 1927, she had apparently married GLENN PERKINS and settled in Yorba Linda, California. Errol Smith remembers Dora as a strong personality, who had spent some time in the Women's Army Corps, attaining the rank of Sergeant. Errol also recalls that she was a "great reader", and that at some point as a young woman she became involved with a film company and acted the part of a heroine in an early Hollywood movie. Dora's niece, Shirley Travis, has the following reminiscences: Aunt Dora joined the WACs and was among the first contingent of women to train at Fort Des Moines. Even though she spent a good part of this time in the hospital with heart trouble, I believe from talking with her when she was at Fort Des Moines and later when I visited her in California, that this was probably the happiest time of her adult life until she met and married her second husband, BROACH BOND, a thoroughly good and likeable man. _______________________________________________________________________ | Stevenson, Dora Belle (I3703)
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| 1053 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. ELIZABETH R. SUDBERRY was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, in 1843. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudberry, Elizabeth R (I4275)
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| 1054 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. EULA ELIZABETH SUDBURY was born in Rockdale, Milam County, Texas, on November 12, 1880. She married EDWARD D. DIVER, who had been born on January 18, 1873, on board a ship from England. Eula died on January 10, 1936, while Edward passed away on March 20, 1959. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudbury, Eula Elizabeth (I3900)
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| 1055 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. EZE1CIEL SUDBURY (1788-1865), the third Sudbury to bear the name "Ezekiel", was born in Amelia County to William Sudbury and his wife Frances. His own family Bible (transcription by Joyce Poynor, referred to in this history as the "Ezekiel Sudbury Bible") lists his birthdate as April 5, 1788. The date of his marriage to CATHERINE FAGG is recorded in the Ezekiel Sudbury Bible as June 7, 1810. Catherine had been born on June 28, 1788. According to information reproduced in Joyce Poynor's History, Catherine may have been the daughter of JOHN FAGG, of Nottoway County, Virginia, a "continental soldier of the 11th and 15th Virginia Regiments". U.S. census records for 1810 show Ezekiel and Catherine as married and living in Nottoway County, Virginia. They were still living in Nottoway County at the time of the 1820 census. In addition to an unidentified male aged 10-16 living with them at that time, the census record for 1820 lists two girls and one boy under the age of ten, undoubtedly Ezeldel's daughters, Nancy and Elizabeth, and son William. (According to the Ezekiel Sudbury Bible, two girls who died in infancy were also born to Ezekiel and Catherine in 1811 and 1815.) Sometime after 1820, Ezekiel and his family migrated from Virginia to Williamson County, Tennessee. The date of this move is somewhat uncertain. Although the author of this history has not located Ezekiel in the 1830 Tennessee census with his brothers Shadrack and William, Glenn Boyd says he has discovered an entry for Ezekiel in 1830, along with tax records for Ezekiel in Williamson County, Tennessee for the years 1831-1833. The memorial marker for Ezekiel in the Sudbury family cemetery near Burwood, Tennessee, states that he came to Tennessee in 1820. However, the source of the information on the marker is unknown. The author of this history believes that Ezekiel most likely came to Tennessee in late 1829 or early 1830 along with Shadrack and William. The 1840 census entry for Ezekiel in Williamson County, Tennessee, indicates that he had five young males and one young female living with him and his wife. Two of the males were between the ages of 20 and 30. One of these was probably Ezekiel's son, William, but the identity of the other remains unknown. The other three young males fell into the age groupings 15-20, 10-15, and 5-10. The younger two were probably Ezekiel's sons Abner and George, but the identity of the young man between 15 and 20 is uncertain. The age range of the girl listed as living in Ezekiel's household is given as 10-15. This is almost certainly his daughter, Sophia. Oddly, Ezekiel does not appear in the 1850 census index for Tennessee. However, he is listed in the 1860 index (still in Williamson County), at age 72, with his name misspelled as "Elizakel". The other members of his household at that time were his wife Catherine, age 71, and his daughter, Sophia, age 32. Joyce Poynor's History (page 137) gives information relating to Ezekiel copied from a deed book in the Williamson County Courthouse in Franklin, Tennessee. The entry in question appears to be dated May 10, 1855, and describes some sort of conveyance of real property involving Ezekiel Sudbury III and Nathan Meacham. The property consisted of 53i acres of land in District 2, at the "headwaters of Leipers Fork". The Ezekiel Sudbury Bible gives the date of Ezekiel's death as May 28, 1865. According to the same source, Catherine died on March 5th of the following year. They may be buried in the Sudbury family cemetery near Burwood, where a memorial marker can be found bearing their names. (For directions to the cemetery, see entry 1626 for Abner W. Sudberry.) _______________________________________________________________________ C | Sudbury, Ezekiel (I4034)
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| 1056 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. EZEKIEL SUDBURY (ca.1695-1757) is the earliest person that we can identify with reasonable certainty as the ancestor of all the Sudbury family members mentioned in this history. Based on available evidence, he was probably born in Henrico County, Virginia, near what is now the city of Richmond, sometime between 1690 and 1700. There is no evidence to indicate that he came to Virginia from England; probably he was the grandson of Peter, Robert, or Edward Sudbury, each of whom emigrated from England in the mid-1600s. Glenn Boyd speculates that Ezekiel's father was John Sudbury, one of Peter Sudbury's six sons. The earliest documentary reference to Ezekiel is found in the records of Henrico Parish, Virginia, and evidences his witnessing of the will of Bartholomew Stovall, of Henrico Parish. The entry, dated May 1, 1721, is quoted by Glenn Boyd as follows: "Will of Bartholomew Stovall presented by Anne Stovall (executrix), proved by Ezekiel Sudbury, Ashford Hughes, Stephen Hughes (a quaker). Security: Stephen Hughes, Robert Hughes." The next known reference occurs in the record of a sale, on January 2, 1729, from Richard Grills to Abel Turner, of 200 acres of land "in the possession of Ezekiel Sudbury". He may have been working this acreage as a tenant farmer. In April 1734, Ezekiel purchased some land for himself, in the amount of 140 acres, from George Francis of Henrico County. The land, which cost £25, was situated on the south side of the James River, "bounded by Henry Vanderhood, Col. Byrd, Chamberlain's field and Sadler's line". Ezekiel's first wife was named PATIENCE. He was married to her sometime before 1730, and she died before 1747. Patience was the daughter of PATIENCE TURNER, who left a will dated June 13, 1730, recorded in May 1733. In her will, Patience Turner named Ezekiel Sudbury as executor, and left certain items to Ezekiel, to her daughter Patience (Ezekiel's wife), and to her granddaughter Martha . Evidence in the will of Patience Turner, and in the will of her husband, Henry Turner, dated January 17, 1712 (or 1713), clearly indicates that Henry Turner was the second husband of Patience Turner, and that he was not the father of Ezekiel Sudbury's wife. Patience Sudbury had a different maiden name, but we can't be sure what it was. An article in volume 31 of The Virginia Genealogist entitled "The Jacksons of Lower Virginia", speculates that Patience Turner was originally married to Joseph Jackson, and that Ezekiel's wife, Patience, was their daughter. However, the evidence cited for this proposition seems inconclusive to the author of this history. In 1746, Ezekiel began a series of conveyances of land and personal property to his family, which provide a great deal of information about him. The first of these conveyances, dated July 4, 1746, and recorded the following month, was apparently a deed of gift "for love & affection" of certain land to his son, also named Ezekiel. (To avoid confusion, the second Ezekiel will be referred to in this history as "Ezekiel Jr.".) The land thus conveyed consisted of two separate parcels, the first of which Ezekiel described as "all my land I purchased of George Francis [in 1734]". This parcel was apparently given to his son outright. The gift of the second parcel was to take effect on Ezekiel's death, and was to be accompanied by a gift of, in Ezekiel's words, "my negro boy Robin". Ezekiel described the lands that were to pass on his death as "all my land and the plantation where I now live, . . . being all the land I purchased of George Rennard Turner". Among the information which we can glean from this deed of gift is that fact that Ezekiel was a resident of "Dale Parish", Henrico County. The deed also tells us that Ezekiel Jr. was the son of Ezekiel's first wife, Patience, and that by 1746, Patience had died. Ezekiel Jr. must have been approximately 20 years old at this time, if not older, to have been deemed responsible enough to handle a 140 acre farm. The following year, on April 8, 1747, Ezekiel signed an odd deed of gift which we must assume was made in contemplation of death (although he did not die for another ten years). To his son, Ezekiel Jr., he gave all his "goods and chattels", except that he gave the following menagerie to his wife ANNE: "2 cows and 2 cows with calf, 2 sows and pigs and 2 sows with pig, 2 yews and lams and 1 chest". To his daughter Patience, he gave £10 and £5 credit at a store. To his daughter Hannah he made the same gift, except that it was not to take effect until three years after his death, a fact that suggests Hannah may have been relatively young. The 1747 deed is important in that it shows Ezekiel married to a second wife, Anne, and with two daughters in addition to his son. Whether Patience and Hannah were daughters of Ezekiel's first or second wife is open to question. The author of this history speculates that they were progeny of Ezekiel's first wife, due to repetition of the name "Patience", and the fact that Ezekiel's last four children seem to have been much younger. By way of a deed dated March 20, 1756, and recorded April 2, 1756, Ezekiel made another conveyance to Ezekiel Jr. of the 200 acre plantation where he lived, together with "one negro male slave Robin". This time the conveyance was not in the nature of a gift after his death, but a present conveyance in exchange for £20. It is recorded that Anne released her dower rights in the property. Less than a year after this conveyance, Ezekiel died. The public records of Henrico County contain the following entry: _______________________________________________________________________ [O]n 25 Jan. 1757 Ezekiel Sudbury, in his last sickness, and at his house sent for Benjamin Horner and Thomas Farmer to write his will and they, not thinking themselves fit, declined. He said as follows, "Remember what I say. All that I am now possessed with I give to my wife" and called in Benjamin Horner, Thomas Farmer and Elizabeth Horner to bear witness to same. Ezekiel's dying words were reduced to writing by his wife Anne, and on October 7, 1757, the writing, "purporting to be the nuncupative will of Ezekiel Sudbury", was presented in court by Anne, as executrix, and was proven by the testimony of Benjamin Horner and Thomas Farmer. It is interesting to note that the same Benjamin Horner was a witness to the will of Patience Turner 27 years earlier. The last public record relating to Ezekiel Sudbury is at the same time one of the most in-formative and one of the most puzzling. The entry, dated March 1758, reads as follows: Churchwardens bind James and Benjamin Deans, orphans of Richard Deans to Jane Hales to learn a trade of taylor; and also Joseph Stevens, a poor child; also David, John, William and Jane Sudbury, orphans of Ezekiel Sudbury. The entry tells us that Ezekiel had four additional children, David, John, William and Jane. Probably they were Ezekiel's children by his second wife, Anne, since none of them is mentioned with his other three children in the 1747 deed of gift recorded eleven years earlier. The puzzlement arises from their description as "orphans". We know that Anne Sudbury, who was probably their mother, was alive in early October 1757 when she probated Ezekiel's will. Did she die sometime in the ensuing five months? Or did the term "orphan" simply refer to the fact that the children were without a father? If so, and Anne was still alive, why was she unable to take care of them? Had she fallen on hard times, or become seriously ill? We may never know the answers to these questions. Children of First Marriage 11. EZEKIEL SUDBURY 12. PATIENCE SUDBURY 13. HANNAH SUDBURY Children of Second Marriage 14. DAVID SUDBURY 15. JOHN SUDBURY 16. WILLIAM SUDBURY 17. JANE SUDBURY | Sudbury, Ezekiel (I4254)
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| 1057 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. GEORGE L. SUDBERRY was born in 1855, probably in Rutherford County, Tennessee. He married a woman with the first name of SUSAN, who was born in 1859. In 1880, according to Robert McBride, they were living in the Fifth District of Bedford County, Tennessee. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudberry, George L (I10030)
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| 1058 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. HANNAH SUDBURY married WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM in 1766, according to Glenn Boyd. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudbury, Hannah (I4251)
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| 1059 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. JAMES EDGAR YATES was born on April 13, 1870, in Dyer County, Tennessee, and died on January 29, 1895, probably of typhoid fever from bad water, at the Yates family settlement in Texas (in the Choctaw Nation, according to Valdo Yates Smith). He was apparently unmarried and without children. _______________________________________________________________________ | Yates, James Edgar (I3797)
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| 1060 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. JAMES ERNEST SUDBERRY was born on August 14, 1893. He married GEORGIA SMOTHERMAN (entry 1445-221), daughter of LUM B. SMOTHERMAN (entry 1445-22) and EULA ARCHER. Following their marriage, they lived in Longview, Tennessee. They had six children about whom nothing further is known at this time. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudberry, James Ernest (I10041)
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| 1061 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. JAMES HENRY SUDBERRY was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, on May 18, 1861. On November 15, 1883, according to Robert McBride, James married MARY ELIZABETH BOYCE (born 1866). Robert McBride gives Mary's date of death as 1914, and James's date of death as July 13, 1934. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudberry, James Henry (I10037)
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| 1062 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. JANE SUDBURY was, like her three brothers, probably born between 1747 and 1758 to Ezekiel Sr.'s second wife, Anne. Nothing more is known about her at this time. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudbury, Jane (I3729)
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| 1063 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. JOHN BURROUGH YATES was born on December 3, 1874, in Dyer County, Tennessee, and died on March 8, 1895, probably of typhoid fever, at the Yates family settlement in Texas. He was apparently unmarried and without children. Valdo Yates Smith remembered John and his older brother James Edgar being referred to as "Aaron" and "Burr", after the statesman of that name from the early days of the Republic. _______________________________________________________________________ | Yates, John Burrough (I3799)
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| 1064 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. JOHN EDWIN SUDBURY ("Eddie") was born in Rockdale, Milam County, Texas, on February 7, 1883. On January 22, 1905, in Rockdale, he married ANNIE ELIZABETH COLLINS, the daughter of WILLIAM COLLINS and ELIZA ANNIE MULLINS. Annie had been born in Rockdale on April 9, 1887. Eddie and Annie lived for many years in Marlin, Falls County, Texas, and began hosting a local Sudbury family reunion in the early 1940s. Eddie died on December 9, 1955, in Marlin, while Annie passed away on September 5, 1971, also in Marlin. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudbury, John Edwin (I3902)
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| 1065 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. JOHN GRAHAM SUDBURY ("Graham") was born in Friendship, Tennessee, about 1874. He married a woman whose name is unknown to the author of this history. At some point he moved to Blytheville, Arkansas, where he pursued a career as a judge. The date of his death is unknown at this time. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudbury, John Graham (I3887)
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| 1066 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. JOHN H. SUDBERRY was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, in 1841. His marriage to CHARITY T. SMOTHERMAN (on January 21, 1859) was one of an almost startling number of weddings between the Sudbury and Smotherman clans in Rutherford County. Charity, the daughter of Rev. ISOM GREEN SMOTHER- MAN, was born in 1843. John, who would have been 20 years old in 1861, appears to have fought in the Civil War. There are two listings in Tennesseans in the Civil War under the name John H. Sudberry, one reading "Pvt. I Co. 1st (Feild's) Inf." and the other reading "Pvt. Morton's L-Arty. Co." The records underlying these entries should be obtained and reviewed. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudberry, John H (I4274)
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| 1067 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. JOHN L. SUDBURY was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, in 1812. His family migrated from Virginia to Rutherford County, Tennessee sometime after 1820. On September 25, 1838, John married SARAH WOOD in Rutherford County. Sarah had been born in Tennessee in 1820. John is one of only four Sudburys listed in the 1840 Tennessee census index, where he is shown living in Robertson County (apparently a mistake for Rutherford County) on a parcel of land next to his father. John's age in the 1840 census is listed as between 20 and 30, while his wife, Sarah, falls into the 15-20 category. Their first daughter, also named Sarah, is listed as under 5 years old. In the 1850 Tennessee census index, John is listed with a middle initial "M", which appears to be a mistake, since the 1840 and 1870 censuses give his middle initial as "L". There is ample reason to believe that the John L. of the 1840 census and the John M. of the 1850 census are the same individual. The John of the 1850 census is also shown to be living on a parcel of land in Rutherford County adjacent to William W. Sudbury, and the ages of his wife and first child match (with enough accuracy) the categories of the 1840 census. The 1850 census lists John at age 38, his wife Sarah at age 31, and the following children: Sarah F. (age 10), John H. (age 9), Elizabeth R. (age 7), Mary T. (age 5), Martha A. (age 4), and Charles R. (age 3 months). A birthplace of Tennessee is listed for John's wife, Sarah. Although there is no entry for John in the 1860 census index, an entry for him (age 58) appears in the 1870 census index in Bedford County, which is situated directly south of Rutherford County. About John's later years, Robert Martin McBride writes: John L. Sudberry and his family lived until after 1870 in the 9th and 5th districts of Bedford County. Their home was about one mile north of the village of Longview. On that property (now owned by a Mrs. Boyce) is an old graveyard, identified on maps as being the "Sudberry Cemetery". It contains a number of old graves, either unmarked or with illegible inscriptions, and a number of marked graves. This spot is probably the resting place of William and Ona Sudberry, his parents. John and his wife Sarah had a total of ten children. Robert McBride observes that most of these children eventually migrated to Texas. Robert McBride. Robert spells the last name of this branch of the family as "Sudberry", and since that is the spelling these family members themselves appear to use, I will follow that spelling beginning with members of the Fifth Generation. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudberry, John L (I4271)
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| 1068 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. JOHN M. SUDBERRY was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, in 1871. He died young, at age 10, in 1881. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudberry, John (I10100)
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| 1069 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. JOHN SUDBURY (Ca. 1750-1808) was, like his brother David, probably born in Ches- terfield County, Virginia, sometime between 1747 and 1758 (when he and his siblings were apprenticed, as "orphans", to Jane Hales). Not much else is known about his early life, except that as a young man he served for a time with "John Murray's Company of Volunteers from Botetourt". Glenn Boyd cites a record dated September 10, 1774, as evidencing this military(?) service. We also know that John was living in Amelia County at the time of the first census of the United States. In 1782 he is shown as the head of a household consisting of four whites and five blacks. In 1785 he is listed as the head of a family of five "white souls" (no count of blacks is given). The 1787 census of Virginia shows John still living in Amelia County, but doesn't give any statistics about his family except that there were no white males between the ages of 16 and 21 living with him. The 1787 census does indicate that he had eight slaves, and that he owned three horses and ten head of cattle. At that time, he must have been a farmer with some significant land holdings. John's wife's name was SALLY. The date and place of their marriage is unknown. It does not appear that they were married in Amelia County, since no reference to their marriage appears in the book Marriages of Amelia County, Virginia 1735-1815. However, John was either a witness or surety with respect to four of the marriages listed in that book, occurring in the years 1790, 1796, 1801 and 1807. One of these marriages, on April 6, 1796, was that of his daughter, who was also named Sally. John appears on the Amelia County tax list for the year 1800. He and his son, John Jr., are the only Sudburys that appear on this list. The list focuses on taxable assets, and it tells us only that John was the sole male in his household over the age of 21, and that he owned two slaves and two horses. John apparently died in Amelia County around October 27, 1808. He is the subject of an entry for that date in a compilation of Amelia County wills for the period 1734- 1811. The entry lists his family members as being his wife Sally, his son John, his daughter Sally and her children, and his grandson John Sudbury, son of John Jr. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudbury, John (I4249)
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| 1070 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. JOHN SUDBURY appears with his father in the Amelia County tax list for the year 1800. This listing shows that he was the only white male in his household over the age of 21, and that he had no slaves, but owned two horses. Since he was over 21 in 1800, it follows that he was born sometime before 1779. No reference to John has so far been located in the indexes for subsequent Virginia censuses, although he is referenced in his father's will dated July 17, 1808, together with his own son John. | Sudbury, John (I6091)
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| 1071 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. JOHN W. SUDBURY was born in Dyer County, Tennessee, about 1858. He joined his parents in their migration from Tennessee to Milam County, Texas in 1877, and was still living with them at the time of the 1880 Texas census, in which he is listed (at age 21) as a farm laborer. It appears that he died sometime before 1889, since he did not join in the conveyance during that year of land his siblings inherited from their father, John B. Sudbury. He probably was unmarried and without children. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudberry, John W (I4024)
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| 1072 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. LALAR MAY SUDBERRY was born on May 18, 1889. She married DUDLEY CLANTON JONES. Following their marriage, they lived in Nashville, Tennessee. They had seven children about whom nothing further is known at this time. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudberry, Lalar May (I10040)
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| 1073 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. LUCINDA SUDBERRY was born in 1853, probably in Rutherford County, Tennessee. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudberry, Lucinda (I10029)
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| 1074 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. MAMIE EUDORA SUDBURY ("Mary") was born in Rockdale, Milam County, Texas, on December 4, 1889. She married GEORGE MANSEL WELCH, who was known as "Manse". Manse had been born on May 10, 1883, in Falls County, Texas. Mary died on June 18, 1971, while Manse passed away on June 29, 1959. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudbury, Mamie Eudora (I4017)
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| 1075 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. MARTHA ANN SUDBERRY was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, in 1846. According to Robert McBride, she married PEYTON H. WHEELHOUSE, born in Virginia in 1833, the son of DENNIS WHEELHOUSE. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudberry, Martha Ann (I4277)
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| 1076 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. MARY EDNA STEVENSON ("Edna") was born June 27, 1895, but as yet her birthplace remains unknown. She married JOHN MADDING, with whom she had three sons and six daughters. Not all of the names of Edna's children are known to the author of this history. According to Edna's niece, Sue Van Valkenburgh, Edna and John lived their entire married life in Oklahoma, at least some of the time in the town of Cushing. Another of Edna's nieces, Shirley Travis, writes: According to her brother and sisters, Aunt Edna was very like her mother -- much more than any of the others. Even though Grandmother Shearry died when I was only ten years old, I could remember her well enough to see the facial resemblance. Edna died on December 10, 1984, in Harrah, Oklahoma, and is buried at Fairlawn Cemetery in Cushing. She was the eldest of her siblings and survived them all. _______________________________________________________________________ | Stevenson, Mary Edna (I3692)
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| 1077 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. MARY POLLY SUDBURY is known to us today through the record of her marriage, set forth in Marriages of Williamson County, Tennessee 1804-1850, by Edythe Rucker Whitley. Whitley indicates that Mary and RUFFIN BROWN were married on August 17, 1837, by Gilbert Marshall, Justice of the Peace. No bondsman is listed. Mary's presence in Williamson County at the time when the families of Shadrack (entry 161), Ezekiel (entry 162) and the late William D. Sudbury (entry 163) were entrenched in that area strongly suggests a family connection. However, she is not the daughter of either Shadrack or Ezekiel, and is probably too old to be the daughter of William D. (although that remains an outside possibility, if he had an earlier marriage). Nor does she seem to be the daughter of William W. Sudbury (entry 144), who was living in nearby Rutherford County in 1840. William W. had a daughter by the name of Mary E. Sudbury (entry 1443), who married William T. Sudbury (entry 1623) in 1840. A key link to the three brothers, Shadrack, Ezekiel and William D., is supplied by the record of William D. 's estate sale, discussed in greater detail under entry 163 above. Scrutiny of that document reveals that one of the purchasers at the sale, held on February 27, 1836, was Ruffin Brown, who became Mary's husband the following year. He bought a plow and another unidentified item. Williamson County census records from 1830 also show Ruffin Brown living on a parcel of land in very close proximity to both Shadrack and William D. Sudbury. Two other census records are worth considering in this context. We know that Frances Dunnavant Sudbury, mother of Shadrack, Ezekiel and William D., had three daughters listed in her entry under the 1810 Virginia census. We also know in the Virginia census of 1820, two "free white females" between the ages of 16 and 26 were living with Frances. Was Mary one of Frances's three daughters? Given the other connecting information, it seems very likely to the author of this history that Mary was indeed a daughter of Frances, and that she migrated with one or more of her three older brothers to Tennessee sometime around 1830. There is a lot of uncertainty about Mary's life following her marriage to Ruffin Brown. We know from 1820 and 1830 census records for Williamson County that Ruffin was considerably older than Mary, and had a prior marriage. The fact that he does not appear in the Tennessee census records for 1840, and that Mary seemingly appears in the 1840 census for Williamson County under the name Mary Brown, as head of household, strongly suggests that Ruffin was by that time deceased. The 1840 census entry for Mary Brown lists two women aged 40-50 and one girl aged 10-15. What appears to be the same Mary Brown is also listed in the 1850 Tennessee census. The 1850 entry gives her age as 49 (the census survey was probably taken a little early) and her place of birth as Virginia. Listed with her are a young woman, Rebecca Brown, age 19 (probably the girl from the 1840 census), and a boy, Isaac Brown, age 7. The identity of these two young people is problematic. If this Mary Brown is the one that married Ruffin Brown, then Rebecca predates that marriage, and Isaac postdates Ruffin's apparent decease before 1840. Rebecca could be Ruffin's daughter from his first marriage, but what about Isaac? One or both may have been Ruffin's grand- children, since he had a son born 1804-1810 who would have been old enough to sire them. Further research is warranted in this regard. A final note on Mary's middle name. Glenn Boyd writes that the "P" stands for "Polly", although the original source of this information remains unknown to the author of this history. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudbury, Mary Polly (I10024)
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| 1078 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. MARY TENNESSEE SUDBERRY was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, in 1845. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudberry, Mary T (I4276)
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| 1079 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. MAY CENTENNIAL YATES was born on May 18, 1876, in Dyer County, Tennessee. Her middle name, which is remembered by her granddaughter Fran1de Hall, was apparently inspired by the centennial of the Declaration of Independence. She was also known by some of her nieces and nephews as "Aunt Mamie". According to the family Bible in the possession of the Smith family, she was married on December 14, 1892, at the young age of 16, to BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PAYNE. At the time of her mother's death in 1923, she was still living in Humboldt, Tennessee. The date and place of her death are unknown to the author of this history. _______________________________________________________________________ | Yates, May Centennial (I3800)
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| 1080 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. MILDRED V. YATES, the ninth and last child of J.J. and Nancy Yates, was one of the family's most colorful characters. She was born on March 26, 1886, in Dyer County, Tennessee, and moved with her parents first to Texas, and, later, to Olunulgee, Indian Territory, sometime around 1900. In 1907 (or thereabouts) she married BENJAMIN MARTIN, a barber and patent medicine salesman, who was quite a character himself. Ben was about four years older than Millie, and came from Illinois. Almost all of what is known about "Aunt Millie" and her husband Ben derives from stories told to Valdo Yates Smith and passed on by him. However, some additional information has been obtained from the 1910 census, where Millie and Ben are listed as living in McAlister Township, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, about 50 miles south of Olunulgee. To hear Valdo describe Ben Martin was a delight. Ben was a tall, handsome man, with dark hair and a curly beard, "a good lookin' son of a gun". He was a "happygo -lucky guy", "quite a talker", a charmer "with the gift of the Blarney". Valdo remembered going into Ben's barber shop as a young boy and watching his uncle in action. Millie's relationship with Ben must have been somewhat tempestuous. He had the reputation of being something of a "tomcat", and it was this propensity which brought a dramatic end to their marriage, probably sometime around 1915. As Valdo told it, Ben came home late one night, after having been "where he shouldn't have been". Millie was waiting up. As he started to come through the door, she threw a knife at him, which buried itself in the door jamb "right close to his head". According to Valdo, "that's the last any one in the family ever saw of him." However, reports did filter back that Ben subsequently made his living "out west somewhere" giving medicine shows and selling "snake oil" out of the back of a wagon. Another story Valdo Smith told about Millie probably dates from after Ben Martin's departure. One night Millie woke up to find a man in her bedroom. She turned on the light and said, "Who are you?" The man said something like, "I'm a murderer, and I'm going to steal something." Millie said, "What do you want'?" He replied, "Money." She said, "Just a minute, I'll get out of bed and help you look. If I can find any, I'll give you half of it." The burglar gave up in disgust and left. Valdo remembered that Aunt Millie was a "very handsome woman", and fearless; "she wasn't afraid of the Devil himself." After her husband Ben left, she continued to live in Okmulgee for some time with her two sons. The last information known about her is found in Nancy Sudbury Yates's obituary from 1923, in which Millie is identified as Mrs. Ben Martin, living at 705 South Okmulgee Avenue, Okmulgee, Oklahoma. _______________________________________________________________________ | Yates, Mildrid V (I3863)
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| 1081 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. MILLIE E. SUDBURY was born in February 1881, probably in Milam County, Texas, where her family is known to have been living in 1880. Sometime between 1880 and 1889, Millie's family moved again, to Cleburne County, Arkansas. Nothing further is known about her at this time. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudbury, Millie E (I3870)
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| 1082 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. NANCY ELIZABETH SUDBURY (1847-1923) and her husband, JOSEPH J. YATES (1840-1907) were remarkable individuals. They were true pioneers, who faced great hardships and suffered personal tragedies in their quest for a better life for themselves and their family, and who, with hard work, ultimately achieved their goal. Nancy was born on November 16, 1847, in Williamson County, Tennessee, to parents who were only 22 years of age. In 1848, while Nancy was still an infant, her parents joined her grandfather, Shadrack Sudbury, in relocating to Dyer County, Tennessee. There Nancy spent her childhood and adolescence. On November 14, 1867, two days short of her twentieth birthday, Nancy married Joseph J. Yates ("J.J."). The ceremony, which took place in Dyer County, was performed by the Reverend Thomas D. Harwell. J.J. and Nancy were an attractive couple. Tintypes in the possession of the Smith family show him to have been tall and lanky, with a long, thin face, but ruggedly handsome. She, on the other hand, was pretty and petite. J.J. had begun life in Wake County, North Carolina on September 7, 1840. (The family Bible kept by Valdo Yates Smith lists the year of birth as 1841, but 1840 is the year given by J.J.'s obituary and is more consistent with census and military records.) At age 10, according to the 1850 census index, he was living with his parents, WILLIAM B. and ELIZABETH YATES, in Madison County, Tennessee. By 1860, he had apparently left home and was living on his own. The 1860 census index locates him (age 20) in either Sumner or Sullivan County. One wonders what prompted him to venture out on his own at a relatively young age, when his older brother William was still living at home. Military records indicate that J.J. "joined for duty and enrolled" for state service with the Tennessee Infantry on July 22, 1861, at Trenton, Tennessee, in Gibson County, just east of Dyer County where his mother was then living. After enrollment (by C.H. Williams, for an initial period of twelve months), he reported to Camp Brown, where he was listed on a muster roll dated August 10, 1861. He was a 3rd Corporal assigned to Captain William A. Dawson's Company, 22nd Regiment, Tennessee Infantry. About his company and regiment, the muster roll gives the following information: This company was known at various times as Captain Dawson's Company, Company D and Company I [the "Bell Grays"], 22d Regiment Tennessee Infantry. The 22d (also known as Freeman's) Regiment Tennessee Infantry was organized for State service July 24, 1861, with nine companies, A to I, transferred to the service of the Confederate States August 9 and 10, 1861, and reorganized in May 1862. * * * [The regiment, with the exception of Companies F and K,] was consolidated with the 12th Regiment Tennessee Infantry June 16, 1862, and formed the 12th Regiment Tennessee Infantry (Consolidated). J.J. most certainly was with the 22nd Regiment when it was engaged at the Battle of Belmont on November 7, 1861. He also fought with the Regiment and the Army of Mississippi at the Battle' of Shiloh, April 6th and 7th, 1862. The 22nd suffered heavy casualties in both of these engagements. On June 16, 1862, J.J. became part of the 12th Regiment as a 2nd Sergeant. By September 1, 1862, he had been promoted to 1st Sergeant. He participated in the Kentucky Campaign with the 12th, now a part of the Army of Tennessee, under the command of Edmund Kirby Smith. While there, during the autumn of 1862, he was captured by Federal forces. His name appears on a list of prisoners of war sent from Lexington, Kentucky, to Louisville, Kentucky, by Colonel Casement, on October 23, 1862. Although the circumstances of his capture are unknown, it does not appear likely from the record of Kirby Smith's maneuvers in Kentucky that J.J. would have been taken prisoner during battle. A footnote on page 274 of Thomas Lawrence Connelly's book, Army of the Heartland, may hold a clue to this puzzle. Refer -ring to the casualties suffered by the Army of Tennessee at Munfordville, Richmond, and Perryville, Kentucky, Connelly notes that "Bragg's casualties also included some two thousand sick, part of whom were captured at Harrodsburg". By January 1863, J.J. had been released as part of a prisoner exchange, but how and when this was accomplished is not entirely clear, because his name appears on two prisoner exchange records near that time, which may or may not be mutually exclusive. The earlier of these two records is a receipt given on November 15, 1862, for prisoners of war received on board the Steamer Maria Denning near Vicksburg, Mississippi. Receipt was given for the Confederate soldiers by Major F.W. Hoadley, C.S.A., Acting Agent for Exchange, to Captain E. Morgan Wood, Agent for the U.S. The other record is a list, undated, of paroled Confederate prisoners, captured and paroled by the U.S. forces in Kentucky in September, October, and November, 1862, who reported to General Bragg and were placed in camp at Chattanooga, Tennessee. According to this record, the prisoners were declared exchanged by Colonel Robert Ould by telegram to Major Fairbanks, A.A.I.G., January 11, 1863. Given this last date, it is unlikely that J.J. was with his regiment at the Battle of Murfreesboro, although it is possible that he had returned prior to the date of the telegram. The 12th Tennessee had casualties of 56 percent at Murfreesboro. On the Company Muster Roll for January and February 1863, J.J. is listed again as a 2nd Sergeant, and remained at this rank at least through February of 1864. His record again indicates that he fought with his regiment at Chickamauga in September 1863, and possibly at Missionary Ridge in November. During the period from November 1863 through February 1864, he was listed as being in the "Pioneer Corps." for the Division. The 12th Regiment fought throughout the retreat to Atlanta, the return to Tennessee, the Battles of Franklin and Nashville in 1864, and the final battle at Bentonville, North Carolina, on March 19, 1865. Unfortunately, J.J. 's military records after February 1864 are incomplete, making it difficult to confirm his participation in the major battles near the end of the war. He may have fought in some or all of them. The last record on which J.J. 's name appears is a Muster Roll of officers and men paroled in accordance with the terms of a Military Convention entered into on April 26, 1865, between General Joseph E. Johnston, Commanding Confederate Army, and Major General W.T. Sherman, Commanding United States Army in North Carolina. The Roll is dated near High Point, North Carolina, April 28, 1865, and the soldiers were paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina on May 1, 1865. At the time of his parole, J.J. was a member of Company D, Second Consolidated Regiment, Tennessee Infantry. The Second Consolidated Regiment had been formed about April 9, 1865, from what was left of the 11th, 12th, 13th, 29th, 47th, 50th, 51st, 52nd, and 154th Regiments. At the date of the surrender, only 50 officers and men remained from the original 12th, 22nd, and 47th Tennessee regiments. Sergeant J.J. Yates was one of those men. Not much is known about J.J. and Nancy's first twenty-five years of marriage other than that they remained in Dyer County and engendered nine children, three of whom died in relative infancy. The only family document which dates from this period is a five-year policy of tornado insurance issued to J.J. on September 21, 1891, by the Continental Insurance Company. The policy indicates that J.J. and Nancy owned their own home on 114 acres situated two miles west of Friendship, Tennessee, on Dyersburg and Jackson Roads. According to oral tradition passed down to Valdo Yates Smith, J.J. and Nancy later moved westward and settled somewhere in Texas, where they homesteaded land and tried to make a living as farmers. Probably they left Tennessee sometime in 1893 or 1894. Life in Texas was hard for the Yates family. The area in which they lived was a relative wilderness, and Valdo Yates Smith remembered his mother, Hattie Belle, telling him that they would occasionally hear "the Comanche squall". From the location of the routes of the Comanche Indians at that time, we can speculate that they were living in the western part of the state, possibly in or near the Choctaw Nation. It was in Texas in 1895 that J.J. and Nancy lost their remaining sons, James and John, probably to typhoid fever. At the time of their deaths, the two boys were 25 and 21, respectively. Sometime between 1895 (when their sons died) and 1900, J.J. and Nancy gave up on their pioneer efforts in Texas. Valdo Yates Smith remembers being told that they had been "burned out". From Texas they migrated northward by covered wagon with at least two of their four remaining daughters, Hattie Belle and Mildred, to settle in what was then Indian Territory, and is now Oklahoma. For a couple of years, they farmed in an area known as "Bald Hill", on land leased from the Indians. Here there was nothing but prairie grass, and no laws or law enforcement. The nearest marshal was located in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The Yates family left the farm in 1900 (according to J.J. 's obituary) and moved to Okmulgee, a small town of a few hundred residents. In Okmulgee, they established the Yates Hotel, which became a well known and respected hostelry. About the hotel, Nancy's obituary gives the following information: To the new blood which has settled in Okmulgee since the first oil boom, the Yates hotel means nothing, but to a few pioneer citizens who are left to write the history of the one-time Indian trading post, this one-time famous hostelry brings back memories of a few log cabins, general store, and perhaps three or four hundred settlers. The old Yates hotel was located at Sixth street and Grand avenue. It was a one-story frame structure, but was looked upon with pride by the citizenship of a thriving hamlet of 400 inhabitants. It was the nicest hotel west of Muskogee. * * * Later the old wooden structure was torn down and the Severs building which now graces the spot was built. J.J. and Nancy operated the hotel "for many years", probably from about 1900 to 1907, when J.J. died. He fell victim to typhoid fever on March 28, 1907, at 1:30 a.m., after an illness of several weeks. He was 66 years of age. Funeral services were held the same afternoon at his residence, and were conducted by the Masons, with Reverend Rippey preaching the sermon. His obituary recites that "[h]e was a man of upright character, a member of the Methodist church and of the Masonic order." He is buried in the Morton Street Cemetery in south Okmulgee. Unfortunately the locations of all gravesites at this cemetery have been lost. Some time after M.'s death, Nancy went to live at the home of her daughter, Hattie Belle, where she resided for the rest of her life. Valdo Yates Smith remembered her as being fastidious in her personal habits; she never came out of her room in the morning until she was impeccably dressed, with every hair in place. Nancy died on September 26, 1923, at age 77, after having been in failing health for some time. Funeral services were held at the Trawick home, with the Reverend New Harris, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, officiating. According to Nancy's obituary, she had been an active member of the "Methodist Episcopal church, South" until the time she was bedridden. She is buried in the main Okmulgee Cemetery, operated by the Okmulgee Cemetery Association, on Highway 75 South. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudbury, Nancy Elizabeth (I3687)
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| 1083 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. NINNA E. YATES was born on November 21, 1878, in Dyer County, Tennessee, and died there at age 4 on or about February 18, 1883. _______________________________________________________________________ | Yates, Ninna E (I3812)
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| 1084 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. ONA ELIZABETH SUDBERRY ("Oney") was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, in 1854 or 1855. On August 17, 1875, in Rutherford County, she married FOUNTAIN P. SMOTHERMAN (born 1855), son of ALFRED SMOTHERMAN and his wife ELIZABETH. Alfred died in 1879, while Oney passed away in September 1924. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudberry, Ona Elizabeth (I4282)
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| 1085 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. P.F. SUDBERRY, a female, was born in 1857, probably in Rutherford County, Tennessee. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudberry, P. F. (I10033)
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| 1086 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. PATIENCE SUDBURY and her sister Hannah, dates of birth and death unknown, are known to us only as recipients of money in their father Ezekiel's 1747 deed of gift. Whether they were daughters of Ezekiel's first wife, Patience, or his second wife, Anne, is unclear. Patience's name, and the fact that she and Hannah were old enough in 1747 to receive substantial cash gifts, may suggest that the two girls were born to Ezekiel's first wife. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudbury, Patience (I4252)
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| 1087 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. PATRICK HENRY SUDBURY was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, in 1817. According to Robert McBride, Patrick moved with his parents to Rutherford County, Tennessee, about 1837. He is the right age to have been the one unidentified son listed as living with his father, William W. Sudbury, in the 1840 Tennessee census index. On May 17, 1843, in Rutherford County, Patrick married SARAH SMOTHERMAN. Sarah had been born in Rutherford County in 1822. She was the daughter of JOHN G. SMOTHERMAN and NANCY WILLIAMS. Robert McBride says that the marriage of Patrick and Sarah was part of a double ceremony in which Patrick's sister, Mariah (entry 1445), married Sarah's brother, Bartholomew Smotherman. In the 1850 Tennessee census, Patrick is listed at age 33, along with Sarah, age 23, and their son William, age 2. At that time they were living on a parcel of land in Rutherford County very close to Patrick's parents. Although there is no 1860 census listing for Patrick, there is a listing in the 1870 Tennessee census index for a "Patrick Sudbury", age 56, living in Rutherford County. Despite the three-year age discrepancy between the Patrick listed in the 1850 census and the Patrick listed in the 1870 census, there is good reason to believe that they are the same person. First of all, they are both listed as living in Rutherford County. Secondly, there is an entry in the 1870 census index for a "William Sudbury", age 22, living on a parcel of land next to Patrick. This William is the exact age that Patrick's son William would have been according to the 1850 census entry. Robert McBride recounts the following interesting facts about Patrick's life: Patrick Henry Sudberry and his family lived in the 14th district of Rutherford County. His home, since burned and replaced by another structure, lay about a mile south of the village of Link, and directly across the road from Lebanon Methodist Church. It is noted that Patrick Henry Sudberry donated the land on which "Old Leb" Church stands. In the absence of Episcopal churches in rural Tennessee, the Sudberry family invariably, it seems, became Methodists. Patrick Henry Sudberry and his brother-in-law, Bartholomew Smotherman, as well as being farmers, were partners as blacksmiths -- the 19th century equivalent of the "super service-station". They prospered and were men of some local prominence and affluence. Patrick H. Sudberry lived in the Link community for the rest of his life. He died about 1897 (his estate was settled in 1898). His wife died a year later. He and his wife are buried in a family graveyard about two miles northeast of his home. This cemetery is on the Williams farm, which once belonged to William Williams, a first cousin of Mrs. Sudberry's. The graveyard has been unattended for many years and, although there are perhaps a hundred graves there, none have legible inscriptions on the markers. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudberry, Patrick Henry (I4279)
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| 1088 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. RICHARD PITTS SUDBERRY was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, on July 9, 1852. On August 14, 1875, he married SALLY JANE WILLIAMS (1856- 1925), daughter of WILLIAM WILLIAMS and LAVESTA HOLDEN. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudberry, Richard Pitts (I10075)
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| 1089 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. ROBERT H. SUDBURY was born on February 7, 1883, probably in Milam County, Texas, where his family is known to have been living in 1880. Sometime between 1880 and 1889, Robert's family moved again, to Cleburne County, Arkansas. According to Glenn Boyd, Robert died on April 6, 1966. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudbury, Robert H (I3871)
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| 1090 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. ROBERT ROY SUDBURY was born in Rockdale, Milam County, Texas, in August 1887. On March 24, 1910, he married OLA JOYCE FLEMING (born in Texas in 1892). Robert died sometime around 1955. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudbury, Robert Roy (I4013)
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| 1091 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. SALLY SUDBURY married CHRISTOPHER WALTHALL on April 6, 1796, in Amelia County, Virginia. We know from her father's will dated July 17, 1808, that Sally had children, but we don't how many. Glynn Pennington gives the name of one of the children as follows, from an unspecified source. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudbury, Sally (I10015)
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| 1092 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. SARAH F. SUDBERRY was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, in 1840. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudberry, Sarah F (I4273)
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| 1093 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. SECOND GENERATION Children of Ezekiel Sudbury and Patience Jackson EZEKIEL SUDBURY (ca.1725-ca.1790) was his father's first son and namesake, and greatly benefited from the system of primogeniture. His father gave him 140 acres of farmland in 1746 (which means he was old enough by then to farm it), and sold him his remaining 200 acres in 1756. The only known census record for Ezekiel is found in the 1787 census of Virginia. Still living in Chesterfield County, probably on the land he had received from his father, Ezekiel is shown as owning three slaves, three horses, and eleven head of cattle. Glenn Boyd cites an undated record listing Ezekiel as witness to the will of a woman named Obedience Hatcher. A genealogist with whom the author of this history has corresponded suggests that Ezekiel had four daughters, Obedience, Ruth, Phebe, and Patsie, but this remains to be conclusively demonstrated. Glenn Boyd says that Ezekiel married a woman named CATHERINE, and believes that Ezekiel was probably the father of Ruth and Patsie. Glenn also refers to undated records listing Catherine Sudbury as witnesses to the wills of William Cunningham (her husband's brother-in-law) and Savrinah Horner. Children OBEDIENCE SUDBURY RUTH SUDBURY PHEBE SUDBURY PATSIE SUDBURY _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudbury, Ezekiel (I4253)
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| 1094 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. SHADRACK R. SUDBURY (1786-1859) was a patriarchal figure and landowner reminiscent of his grandfather Ezekiel. Both acquired extensive landholdings over a period of years, probably with a great deal of hard work. Each suffered the loss of his first wife, and went on to marry and have additional children with a second wife. One uncertainty about Shadrack is the date of his birth. Gladys Sudbury Alison gives the date as September 28, 1786, but the accuracy of Gladys' information in this regard is subject to question, since she also states that he was born at sea, en route to America, while it is clear that he was born in Amelia County, Virginia. However, some support for the birthdate of late 1786 is given by the 1850 Tennessee census, in which Shadrack is listed as being 73 years of age. It is interesting to speculate why William and Frances would name their first son Shadrack, and their second son Ezekiel. It might have been expected that the name "Ezekiel", after William's father, would have been given to their first born son. Was "Shadrack" also a family name, perhaps that of William's grandfather, or Frances's father or grandfather? Glenn Boyd has also done some thinking about this subject, and writes: One speculation I have just come across about Shadrack's name is that there was a Shadrack Dunnivant contemporary with Shadrack Sudbury. Was this his maternal grandfather or maybe an uncle? Certainly it would make sense to have the first son named after Frances's father (Shadrack), the second son named after William's father (Ezekiel) and then the third son named after William (William D.). Another question about Shadrack is the spelling of his first name. Sources for the spelling which would be expected to be somewhat reliable, namely his will and headstone, give different spellings. Whereas his will appears to record his name as "Shadrach", the spelling on his headstone is "Shadrack". Although the author of this history is not entirely convinced that "Shadrach" is not the proper spelling, the prepon- derance of available sources seem to spell the name with a "k", and that will therefore be the spelling used here. The earliest discovered record of Shadrack's existence is the 1820 census index for Virginia, where he is listed as living in Nottoway County. (The census record underlying this entry needs to be looked up.) By 1822, when his first child, Jeremiah, was born, Shadrack had married a woman named whose last name we do not know. In 1825, a second son, John, was born to Shadrack and Elizabeth. In late 1829 or early 1830, Shadrack and his family left Virginia and migrated to Tennessee, where they settled in Williamson County, near Nashville. (Glenn Boyd says Shadrack is listed in a Buckingham County, Virginia deed book, in an entry dated November 23, 1829. Most likely the entry reflects Shadrack's sale of his property in preparation for his move to Tennessee.) Shadrack was probably joined in his migration to Tennessee by his younger brother, William D. Sudbury. Shadrack and William are the only Sudburys listed in the index to the 1830 Tennessee census. Following the 1830 census, the next public record in which Shadrack's name appears is related to his brother William's death in early 1836. After William died, an estate sale of his personal property was held, and purchases by approximately 50 individuals are recorded. Shadrack is one of three Sudbury family members listed among the purchasers. He bought, among other things, a workbench and grindstone, an oil stone, a compass, and a tub. Shadrack's wife, Elizabeth, died on August 1, 1838, according to the book Early Obituaries of Williamson County, Tennessee, by Louise Gillespie Lynch. The following year, on October 31, 1839, Shadrack remarried. His new bride, SUSANNAH POYNOR, was also from Virginia, having been born there in 1801. A daughter, Sarah, was born to Shadrack and Susannah in 1843. Shadrack and his family apparently remained in Williamson County until about 1848, when they relocated to Dyer County in western Tennessee, near what is now the town of Friendship, in Crockett County. Over the next ten years, Shadrack acquired at least 275 acres of land, on part of which he operated a mill. He also had a partnership interest in a ginning and carding factory. These business ventures are briefly mentioned in his will. Some of the labor for these operations was undoubtedly supplied by the numerous slaves Shadrack owned. Gladys Sudbury Alison's history lists the names of his slaves: Monroe, Mary and two children, Lucinda and Tom; Jane and child Philip; Marion, Jeff, Eliza, Parthena and her four children, Rebecca, Mary, Mark and Jim; Charles, Azey and her two children, Ann and Luke; Nancy, Sally and Bytha. As the 1850s drew to a close, Shadrack's health declined until he was, as he stated in his will, "sound of mind but frail in body". According to Gladys Sudbury Alison's history, Shadrack died on May 18, 1859, at the age of 73. He is buried in the Mt. Zion Cemetery east of Friendship, Tennessee, and his gravesite and tall white headstone can still be visited today. (To reach the cemetery, take the Friendship-Eaton Road east from downtown Friendship, past old Highway 20. After a short drive, the road forks. Take the left fork until it crosses Mt. Zion Road. Turn right on Mt. Zion, which curves around to the left and into the cemetery.) Shadrack's will is dated February 28, 1857, with a codicil having been executed on May 10, 1859, eight days before his death. In his will, Shadrack left his real and personal property to his three children, but bequeathed to his "beloved wife Susan" a life estate in the property. Gladys Sudbury Alison's history refers to a quitclaim deed dated October 3, 1859, by which Susan relinquished her life estate to Shadrack's children in exchange for their promise to pay her an annuity of $300.00 per year for the rest of her life. The date and place of Susan's death are unknown at this time. Although she is listed in the 1860 census as living alone somewhere in Dyer County, she does not appear in the 1870 Tennessee census. Sudbury family tradition holds that Susan's only child, Sarah Sudbury Farmer, and her husband eventually left Tennessee to settle in Arkansas. Research may reveal that Susan joined them there. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudbury, Shadrack R (I3576)
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| 1095 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. SUSAN E. SUDBURY was born in Dyer County, Tennessee, about 1875. In 1877, her family moved to Milam County, Texas, and sometime between 1880 and 1889, they moved again, to Cleburne County, Arkansas. Nothing further is known about her at this time. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudbury, Susan E (I3869)
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| 1096 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. SUSAN ELIZABETH SUDBURY was born in 1814, in Prince Edward County, Virginia. According to Robert McBride, she was married in Rutherford County, Tennessee, on May 17, 1843, to THOMAS SMOTHER1VIAN, oldest son of ELIJAH SMOTHER1VIAN. Robert writes that they later moved to Missouri, and there is no further record of them in Middle Tennessee. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudbury, Susan Elizabeth (I10059)
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| 1097 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. SUSAN MASELTINE YATES was apparently known as "Tina" (pronounced to rhyme with "China"). There is some uncertainty as to the date of her birth. Her granddaughter, Shirley Travis, cites two sources, including Tina's son Bill, as giving a birthdate of May 11, 1867. However, the date on her parents' marriage certificate is November 14, 1867. One of these dates is probably wrong. Tina is listed at age 12 in the 1880 Tennessee census for Dyer County, which suggests a birth year of 1867 or 1868. She is identified in that census as "Sousey M." Her unusual middle name is remembered by her grandchildren, and may be a family name of some sort. The Smith Family Bible lists the date of Tina's marriage to WILLIAM A. STEVENSON as October 20, 1892. The location of their marriage remains unknown. Shirley Travis gives William's birthdate as March 1858, but the place of his birth also has yet to be identified. By early 1907, when William died at age 51, the Stevensons were living in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. An undated obituary entitled "Death Claims Him" states that William died at the home of his father-in-law, J.J. Yates, of pneumonia. The funeral service was conducted by Reverend W.M.P. Rippey, pastor of the Methodist church. A "Card of Thanks" printed in the local newspaper at that time states that the "bereaved families of the late J.J. Yates and W.A. Stevenson wish to thank their many friends who rendered such valuable service and showed such sympathy, in their recent sad afflictions". The two men died within eleven days of each other, on March 19 (William) and March 28 (J.J.), respectively. Following William's death, Tina was married a second time. Nancy Yates's obituary in 1923 identifies Tina as Mrs. CHARLES SHEARRY of Kansas City, Missouri. Tina and Charles made a handsome couple. Tina's fashionable eyeglasses gave her a sophisticated look, while Charles sported a well-groomed handlebar moustache. In later life, according to Shirley Travis, Tina made her home between daughter Edna, in Cushing, Oklahoma, daughter Beulah, in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and son Bill, also in Arkansas. She had suffered several strokes and was bedridden for several years before her death. Some measure of her spirit, even in her weakened condition, can be gained from the following anecdote, told by Shirley Travis: When Grandmother Shearry would stay with us, she was helpless but heart -broken because she had to lie there and be waited on. She would beg me to put a pan of dirty dishes by her bed so she could wash them and feel useful. According to Shirley Travis, Tina died at the home of her daughter Edna, in Cushing, Oklahoma, in July 1942. _______________________________________________________________________ | Yates, Susan Maseltine Yates (I3689)
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| 1098 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. SUSANNA SUDBERRY was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, in 1856 or 1857. On July 13, 1876, she married JOHN P. SMOTHERMAN, son of WILLIAM M. SMOTHERMAN and his wife, NANCY J. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudberry, Susanna (I10093)
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| 1099 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. VIRGINIA SUDBERRY ("Jenny") was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, in 1867. She died unmarried sometime after 1880. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudberry, Virginia (I10099)
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| 1100 | _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER SUDBERRY was born May 9, 1848, in Rutherford County, Tennessee. According to Robert McBride, he married his cousin, MARY ANN SMOTHERMAN, on May 19, 1866. Mary Ann, born in Rutherford County in 1845, was the daughter of FRANCIS SMOTHERMAN and ELIZABETH WEST, and the granddaughter of William's grandparents, LEWIS SMOTHERMAN and MARY WILLIAMS. There is an entry for William in the 1870 Tennessee census, showing him, at age 22, still living in Rutherford County. This entry needs to be looked up. Robert McBride tells us that William died on September 15, 1888. Mary Ann died in 1895, according to Diana Sudberry Quinn. _______________________________________________________________________ | Sudberry, William Christopher (I4281)
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