The Family Garden

Notes

Charles B CLAY

Charles Clay, of Dale Parish, Chesterfield County, where he patented 150 acres, 17 Aug, 1725 (66), married Sarah ____.  His will, 28 Jan. 1754-2 Aug. 1765 (67),named hiw wife and children.  

Footnotes:
(66)  Patent Bk. 12, p. 307
(67)  Chesterfield Co. Will Bk. 1, pp. 341-42, Order Bk. 3, p. 680
*Source:  Adventurers of Purse and Person, p. 196

Henry CLAY

He died before Jan 1754, married ____.
*Source:  Adventurers of Purse and Person, p. 196

William CLAY

William deeded by his father 152 acres in Amelia County, 5 May 1752 (73), settled in Dinwiddie County where he was last a taxpayer, 1799 (74), married, (bond 10) May 1756, Ann Old, daughter of John Old; (75).

Footnotes:
(73)  Amelia Co. Deed Bk. 4, pp. 372-73.
(74)  Dinwidde Co., Personal Property Tax, 1799
(75)  Williams, op. cit., p. 26
*Source:  Adventurers of Purse and Person, p. 197

James CLAY

James, of Halifax County, inherited the homestead at his mother's death, left will 16 Feb. 1789-27 June 1791 (76), married Margaret Muse, born 2 April 1737, died 13 Feb. 1832; (77).

Footnotes:
(76)  Halifax Co. Will Bk. 2, p. 445-46
(77) Tombstone, Zachariah Lee Cemetery, Huron, Amite Co. Miss, in Mississippi Genealogical Society, Cemetery and bible Records, II (Jackson, 1955), p. 187
*Source:  Adventurers of Purse and Person, p. 197

Judith CLAY

Judith, may have married William Hatcher, to whom Charles Clay made a deed of gift, recorded 28 Feb. 1764 (78).

Footnote:
(78) Amelia Co. Deed Bk. 8, p. 503

Green B MERRITT

Green was a farmer and had land in Dist. 21.   His house is still standing today and is in good condition.  His grandson, Dixon Merritt, lived in it for many years.  Green and Lourane are buried in a  family cemetery on their home place.
*Source:  Samuel Thompson Clemmons and His Descendants, Thelma Caraway Landrum, 1981, p. 133

1850 Wilson County, Tennessee Census, District 21, p. 176
(copy in files)
Green B. Merrit, age 35, b. Tenn
Lurany, age 30, b. Tenn
Matha, age 10, b. Tenn
Willis, age 8, b. Tenn
Mary, age 6, b. Tenn
Priscilla, age 13, b. Tenn
Thomas, age 2, b. Tenn

William DONALDSON

William's last night is either Donaldon or Donelson

Sallie Smith GRAVES

Notes from Graves Family Newsletter:
Sallie Graves was born 12 March 1793 and died 26 May 1871.  She married Henry Harper Rogers on 30 Oct 1811 in Lebanon, Wilson Co, TN (according to Wilson Co. records on LDS microfilm).  John Farrington was bondsman. (Could he have been a brother of Nancy Farrington who married Bachelor/Bartlett Graves, Jr, brother of Sallie?).  Henry Rogers was born 29 Aug 1788 and died 2 Feb 1843.  Their marriage record seems to show that her maiden name was either Graves and she first married a Mr. Jones or her maiden name was Jones and she first married a Mr. Graves.  This raises the possibility that she was the Sally Jones who married Asa Graves in 1824.  That does not seem possible if her marriage to Henry Rogers was in 1811.  Also, her birthdate of 1793 makes her only 18 when she was married in 1811, not giving her much time for a prior marriage. More evidence is needed to sort out the possibilities.  If she was born Sallie (or Sally) Jones, then she wasn't a Graves at all, and her children by Henry Rogers could not have been Graves Descendants.

Notes from Linda Graves Walker:
I have a list of Rogers/Graves children, but am not including them until there is conclusive evidence that this Sally is a  Graves.  Also, the above does not document her middle name being Smith, so am unsure of how Smith/Jones/Graves relate, if at all, to this Sallie.

1850 Wilson County, Tennessee (widowed, with daughter Lucinda Chandler's household).
Sallie Graves is listed as "Sarah" and is living with her daughter Lucinda Green Rogers Chandler next door to her son Asa Graves Rogers in the 1850 census of Wilson County, Tennessee.
*Source of census and census note: Database of  Brian McLaughlin, famtree1@aol.com
http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=fbmac&id=I00121

Children are:
1. Asa Graves Rogers b: 22 JAN 1818 in Silver Spring, Wilson County, Tennessee
2.  George Washington Rogers b: 21 OCT 1812 in Wilson County, Tennessee
3. James Braden Rogers,  b: 8 FEB 1814 in Wilson County, Tennessee
4.  Louisa Harriet Rogers, b: 10 JAN 1816 in Wilson County, Tennessee
5.  Lucinda Green Rogers,  b: 10 NOV 1819 in Tennessee 6.  William Riley Rogers, b: 20 DEC 1821 in Wilson County, Tennessee
6.  Jane Thomas Rogers, b: 5 FEB 1824 in Wilson County, Tennessee