52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - #41 Hannah Lawson

Hannah Lawson was my maternal 4th great grandmother. She was born on August 24, 1789, in Washington County, Georgia, to John Thompson Lawson and Alice Moore. She had at least three brothers: Andrew, Charles, and Roger. Her father John was a Colonel in the Georgia Militia during the Revolutionary War.

Hannah married Archibald MacIntyre in 1804 or 1805. Georgia Memoirs on ancestry.com notes that they were married in Jefferson County, Georgia. At some point, they moved to Twiggs County, Georgia where some of their children (if not all) were born. I haven't found a digital marriage record for them on Georgia's Virtual Vault.

Twiggs County, Georgia, as of 1807 (from http://www.randymajors.com/p/maps.html)

The children I have listed for them are Daniel, John L., Catharine Barry (b. 1809, my 3rd great grandmother), Hannah (b. 1819), Archibald Thompson (b. 1822), and Jane (b. about 1825). I've also seen Alice and Mary listed as children and "Mary Catherine" rather then "Catharine Barry" as I have her name.

Archibald participated in the war of 1812. (I haven't found a record of his service on fold3.com.) In 1818, he was sent to southwest Georgia to survey some land. He liked what he saw, so in 1826, he sent some "hands" (probably some of his slaves) to prepare the land. In 1828, Hannah and Archibald moved their family to this farm in Thomas County, Georgia.

Thomas County, Georgia, as of 1825 (from http://www.randymajors.com/p/maps.html)

Archibald didn't live much longer after they moved to Thomas County. He died on February 10, 1830. Hannah died on October 9, 1842.

My descent from Hannah Lawson:

1. Hannah Lawson and Archibald MacIntyre
2. Catharine Barry MacIntyre and Thomas Clarke Wyche
3. Mary Barry Wyche and Remer Young
4. Catherine Margaret Young and John Taylor Roberts
5. Martha Leona Roberts and William Liming Redles
6. Leona Redles and Albert Pendleton Jr.
7. me

Catherine

This post is part of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge by genealogist Amy Crow at No Story Too Small.

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Sources:

Mrs. Howard H. McCall. Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, Volume I (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 2004), 109.

Ancestry.com Georgia Memoirs, 2003. Original data: Memoirs of Georgia Vol. I-II, (The Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, 1895), 898.

William Harden. A History of Savannah and South Georgia, Vol. II (The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1913), 828.

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - #28 Catharine Barry MacIntyre

Born January 11, 1809, in Twiggs County, Georgia, Catharine Barry MacIntyre was my maternal 3rd great grandmother. She was one of the six children of Archibald MacIntyre and Hannah Lawson which included Daniel, Hannah, Jane, John L., and Archibald T. (1822-1900). (I only have birth and death dates for Catharine and Archibald.) In Confederate Memoirs, Catharine's middle name is written as Moore.[1]

Twiggs County, Georgia, as of 1807 (map from randymajors.com)

Catharine married Thomas Clarke Wyche on March 5, 1826.[2] They may have been married in Thomas County, Georgia. I haven't found a marriage record for them, but their first child Mary Barry Wyche (my 2nd great grandmother) was born the following year, on March 27, 1827, in Thomas County. Besides Mary, their children were Martha Susan (1829-1864), Elizabeth Hannah (1832-1858), George Archibald (1833-1934), Catherine Caroline (1836-1929), Thomas Lawson (1838-1844), and Alice Maud (1839-1890).

Thomas County, Georgia, as of 1825 (map from randymajors.com)

Catharine and Thomas had a plantation in Thomas County called Mill Pond Plantation. The 1860 slave schedule has 44 people listed as being held as their slaves. The oldest slave was 62; the youngest slave was two months old.[3] On their plantation, they grew "every kind of plant and tree which would grow in that climate and soil." They grew flax and mulberry trees and raised silkworms. Their slaves wove linen and spun silk.[4]

Catharine died on December 27, 1864, and Thomas died six years later on July 5, 1970. Both are buried in the family cemetery on Mill Pond Plantation.

Catherine

This post is part of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge by genealogist Amy Crow at No Story Too Small.

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[1] Constance Pendleton, ed., Confederate Memoirs: Early Life and Family History, William Frederic Pendleton and Mary Lawson Young Pendleton. (Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, 1958), 155.

[2] Ancestry.com. Georgia Bible Records. Transcription of the Thomas C. Wyche family bible, page 282. Marriage date for Thomas Clarke Wyche and Catharine Barry MacIntyre.

[3] Ancestry.com. 1860 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedule for T. C. Wyche.

[4] See Footnote 1 above.

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - #11 Alice Moore

The other day, I was looking through my family tree to see how far back I could go to see who passed down the mitochondrial DNA haplogroup HV0 that I have. I only got as far back as Alice Moore, my maternal 5th great grandmother. Just about all I knew about her before writing this post was that she was born around 1756, married my 5th great grandfather John Thompson Lawson (a Revolutionary War soldier) in 1777, and died in 1798. In doing some research for this post, I found that her father may have been Charles Moore who was born around 1727 and was Scots-Irish from Ulster, Ireland. When Charles came to America, he may have lived in one of the mid-Atlantic states before eventually heading south and settling his family in what is now Spartanburg County, South Carolina.

Alice's mother was named Mary. Some family trees on ancestry.com say she was Mary Margaret Hamilton and some say she was Mary Barry. There seems to be several connections between the Moore, Barry, and Lawson families. Also, Alice's sister Margaret Catherine married a Barry. One of Alice's daughters is named Mary Barry, and her great granddaughter (my maternal 2nd great grandmother) was named Mary Barry Wyche.

Charles and Mary built Walnut Grove Plantation in Spartanburg County in 1765, so this is probably where Alice grew up. The Moores actively aided the Patriots during the Revolutionary War and allowed the militia to muster at their plantation.

Location of Walnut Grove Plantation in Spartanburg County in  northwestern South Carolina (Aerial from Google Earth).

Walnut Grove Plantation home of Charles and Mary Moore in Spartanburg County, South Carolina (Wikipedia Commons from the Historic American Buildings Survey, National Park Service).

After Alice married John Lawson, they moved to Georgia. They had at least seven children: Charles, Hugh Thompson, Roger, Hannah Thompson (my 4th great grandmother), Mary Barry, Violet, and Alice Margaret. They may have lived in Twiggs or Warren counties. Folks Huxford, in his Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia, notes that John was a prominent citizen of Jefferson County. Jefferson and Warren counties are next to each other. Twiggs is further to the southwest near Macon, Georgia. Below is an 1863 Georgia map that I've labeled showing the locations of these counties (A. J. Johnson's map of Alabama and Georgia, http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/histcountymaps/ga1863map.htm). They could have ended up in Twiggs, which is where their daughter Hannah died in 1842.

I wonder if Alice and her husband John were cousins. John's great grandfather was named Charles Moore. Alice's grandfather was also named Charles Moore. I tried following this trail for a while but the name Charles Moore is fairly common, and I haven't found if these Charles Moores are related. What a tangled web!

Now, off to learn about the Scots-Irish from Ulster!

Catherine

This post is part of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge by genealogist Amy Crow at No Story Too Small.



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Sources:

Mrs. James W. Fant. National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form for Walnut Grove Plantation, May 16, 1970. Electronic document, "Walnut Grove Plantation", accessed March 16, 2014.

Folks Huxford, Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia, Volume 5. Self published, Homerville, Georgia, 1948, 309.

Fearless Females March 3 - Namesake

Lisa Alzo of TheAccidental Genealogist is having the fourth annual "Fearless Females: 31 Blogging Prompts" for the month of March to Celebrate Women's History Month. There is a topic for each day of the month of March to commemorate the "Fearless Females" in our families. The topic for March 3 is, in part, "Do you share the first name with one of your female ancestors? Perhaps you were named for your great-grandmother, or your name follows a particular naming pattern."

I was named after two Fearless Females in my family. I'm named Catherine after my mother's sister Catherine. My middle name is my mother's name Leona.  My first and middle names come from two separate lines on my maternal  side. I thought I'd see how far back I can trace these names.

Pretty Ladies - My mother Leona, my aunt Catherine, and my grandmother Leona. Probably taken in 1945 when my mother graduated from Ward Belmont, a junior college in Nashville, Tennessee.

Catherine

Aunt Catherine was named for her and my mother's maternal grandmother (my great grandmother) Catherine Margaret Young.  Catherine Young may have been named for her grandmother Catherine Barry MacIntyre. I'm not sure about the spelling. I've seen it spelled Catharine. Or it's possible that she was named for her mother's sister Catherine Caroline Wyche.  Maybe she was named for both. There is a Catherine Lawson who is the great aunt of Catherine MacIntyre and sister of my sixth great grandfather Roger Lawson.  She may be for whom Catherine MacIntyre was named. Here's where the trail ends for me in tracing my first name Catherine.

Leona

My mother Leona was named after her mother (my grandmother) Martha Leona Roberts. My grandmother Leona was named for her aunt Martha Leona Roberts, her father John Taylor Robert's sister. The trail ends here.  I don't have enough of these branches filled out on my tree to trace this name any further back.

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These names have continued for at least one more generation but in variations of the names. I named my daughter after my great aunt Kathleen Roberts, my grandmother Leona's sister. I was told that Kathleen was a derivative of their mother Catherine Young's name who was called Kate for short. My oldest brother named his daughter a shortened version of our mother's name (Lee) combined with her other grandmother's name.

I had a professor in college who decided he was going to call me Kate. He said "Catherine" was too long. I don't like being called a nickname, but I told him I'd allow it since that's what my great grandmother was called. To this day, he still calls me Kate. 

Catherine