52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Lucky

This post is part of Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks for 2018. The prompt for the week of March 12, 2018, is Lucky. 

I racked my brain for something to write about for this prompt. I searched through my family tree. I looked up a few more ancestors, but I just couldn't come up with anything. Then my luck changed!

I consider myself very lucky that my dad, Albert S. Pendleton, Jr., loved history and family history, and he loved to write. He wrote the newsletter for the Lowndes County Historical Society for several decades and wrote a weekly column for The Valdosta Daily Times called “Way Back When.” These publications mostly centered on people from, and happenings in, Valdosta and Lowndes County, Georgia. (He was also good at staying in touch with cousins, both near and far.) He even wrote an article about my adventure at an archaeological field school in the Pribilof Islands in Alaska 

When I began cleaning up the paper explosion in my dad’s office after he died in 2006, I filed as many of his papers as I had cabinet space for, with a focus on our family history; his research for the articles and newsletters he wrote; and his stories, poems, short stories, and plays. There are still several boxes left of papers that need to be dealt with … one day.

My cousin, Gretchen Keith, contacted me yesterday and asked if my dad had written anything about her second great grandfather, Judge Richard Augustus Peeples. Gretchen and I share Philip Coleman Pendleton and Catharine Tebeau as second great grandparents. Their son, Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton, married Judge Peeples’ daughter Sally. Charles and Sally are Gretchen's great grandparents. 

I was typing a reply to Gretchen this morning when I suddenly remembered the file I’d started for my dad’s “Way Back When” articles. I had simply put the papers in the folder to read “one day.” Well, as luck would have it, because of Gretchen’s inquiry, I finally poked through this file. 

The file folder for my dad's "Way Back When" articles. I'm sure this is just the tip of the iceberg!

What fun I had going through the folder, reading the article titles (and even reading a few articles)! While I didn’t come across anything about Judge Peeples, I did find a write-up that my dad wrote in 1996 about Judge Peeples' daughter-in-law, Maude Jenkins Peeples. (Maude was the wife of Richard Alexander Peeples).

I was happy to have an opportunity to do a little genealogy research today, and in the meantime, have a topic drop in my lap for this week's prompt. How lucky!

Catherine

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Favorite Name

This post is part of Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks for 2018. The prompt for the week of February 5, 2018, is Favorite Name.

One of my favorite names is that of my paternal second great grandmother, Catharine Sarah Melissa Tebeau. I’ve always thought it was a pretty name. My parents named my sister Melissa after her. (My first name, Catherine, is from my mom’s family.)

From Confederate Memoirs: Early Life and Family History, William Frederic Pendleton, Mary Lawson Young Pendleton. Edited by Constance Pendleton, 1958. Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania.

I haven’t found where the “Sarah” or “Melissa” in Catharine Tebeau's name might have come from. Possibly from her mother's, Hulda Lewis, side, as I've been able to match up most of Catharine's siblings' names with her father's siblings and parents (Although, some of these could also be from Hulda's family, and one of Catharine's brothers is named Lewis, obviously after Hulda's maiden name). Catharine's first name may be from her paternal grandmother, Catherine Treutlin. I’m not sure if I’m spelling either Catherine’s name correctly. I’ve seen them spelled both ways, Catharine and Catherine.

Participating in this year's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks has helped me get reacquainted with my ancestors!

Do you have a favorite ancestor name?


Catherine

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - #49 Catherine Treutlin

Catherine Treutlin (or Treutlen) was my paternal 4th great grandmother. She was born June 3, 1756, to Frederic Edmund Treutlin and Margaret Schaad, possibly in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia. Catherine's parents were early immigrants to Georgia, both landing on the Georgia coast in the 1740s.[1]

I only have two siblings listed for Catherine: Ann Margaret (1754-1827) and Elizabeth (1758-1759). Her uncle John Adam Treutlin was the first governor of Georgia.[2]

Catherine married John Robert Tebeau and gave birth to at least five children: Ann Margaret (b. 1790), Frederic Edmund (b. 1792, my 3rd great grandfather), Mary (ABT b. 1794), Charles Watson (ABT b. 1976), and Susan (b. ABT 1796).

Catherine and John lived out their lives in Chatham County. John died October 12, 1807, in Savannah. Catherine lived another 29 years after the death of her husband. It doesn't appear that she remarried after John's death. I found several tax records for "Catherine Tebeau" in Chatham County up until 1836 on ancestry.com.

Savannah Land and Tax Property Records, 1836, for Estate of John Tebeau, Catherine (Treutlin) Tebeau, and Frederic Tebeau (from ancestry.com)

The above record shows the Estate of John Tebeau had one slave and lot and improvements at Carpenters Row for both John's estate and for Catherine,

Catherine died on December 16, 1836, in Savannah. They are both buried in the family vault in Colonial Park Cemetery in Savannah.

My descent from Catherine Treutlin:

Catherine Treutlin and John Robert Tebeau
Frederic Edmund Tebeau and Hulda Lewis
Catharine Tebeau and Philip Coleman Pendleton
Alexander Shaw Pendleton and Susan Parramore 
Albert S. Pendleton Sr. and Helen Brown
Albert S. Pendleton Jr. and Leona Redles
Catherine Pendleton (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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[1] George F. Jones.  The Germans of Colonial Georgia 1733-1783. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1986, p. 116).

[2]  Georgia Salzburger Society. http://www.georgiasalzburgers.com/

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - #43 Mary Gregory

Mary Gregory was my paternal 7th great grandmother. She was born in Essex, Rappahannock County, Virginia, in 1665 to John Gregory and Elizabeth Bishop. I have her siblings as Ann, Elizabeth, John, and Richard.

Mary married James Taylor in 1682. When I noticed that the date for her husband's birth was 1635 on the marriage index record on ancestry.com (see below), making him 30 years older than she, I thought it possible that he may have been married before or maybe the dates are wrong.

U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 about Mary Gregory

Name: Mary Gregory Gender: Female Birth Place: VA Birth Year: 1665 Spouse Name: James Taylor Spouse Birth Year: 1635 Marriage Year: 1682

According to a findagrave.com memorial for James, he was married twice before. His first wife is noted as Elizabeth Underwood and his second wife as Frances (no maiden name given). He had children by all three wives according to his memorial. The children he had with Mary are noted as Ann, Elizabeth, John, Mary Bishop, Edmund, James, and John Powell.

A findagrave.com memorial for Mary says that she died on April 30, 1698. It gives James' birth as 1615 and his arrival in America as 1635. It notes Frances Walker as his only other wife, and the death date for Frances is given as 1680.

The only children I have listed for Mary are Ann, Mary Bishop (1688-1779, my 6th great grandmother), and John (1696-1780).

A genealogy on James Taylor lists his children by Mary Gregory as follows:

Anne b. 1685
Elizabeth b. 1685 (died in infancy)
Mary b. 1686 (died in infancy)
Mary Bishop b. 1688
Edmund b. 1690
John b. 1692 (died in infancy)
Elizabeth b. 1694
John b. 1696

The above genealogy notes that Mary's second husband was Rowland Thomas of Caroline County, Virginia.

According to the findagrave memorial noted above for James Taylor, he died on September 22, 1698. I have Mary's death date as 1747 in Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia. The findagrave memorial for Mary gives her death as April 30, 1698.

I did a little more research on Mary Gregory but didn't find anything definite. Several records were conflicting. One of these days, I'll get back to researching Mary and her family.

My descent from Mary Gregory:

1. Mary Gregory and James Taylor
2. Mary Bishop Taylor and Henry Pendleton
3. Elizabeth Coleman and James Pendleton
4. Martha Aubrey and Philip Pendleton
5. Martha Gilbert and  Coleman Pendleton
6. Catharine Tebeau and Philip Coleman Pendleton
7. Susan Parramore and Alexander Shaw Pendleton
8. Helen Brown and Albert S. Pendleton Sr
9. Leona Redles and Albert S. Pendleton Jr
10. me

Catherine

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

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Martha Gilbert

Martha (Patsy) Gilbert was my paternal 3rd great grandmother. She was born on May 31, 1789, in Powelton, Hancock County, Georgia to Benjamin Gilbert and Hannah Butler. She had four siblings: Edmund (b. 1783), Mary Polly (b. 1784), John (b. 1786), and Francis (b. about 1791), and five half siblings: Aly (b. 1791), Sophia (b. 1793), Washington (b. 1795), Benjamin (b. 1797), and Robert (b. 1800). Patsy's mother died sometime before September 1791 which is when Patsy's father remarried. She would have been only about two years old or younger when her mother died. (Maps below are from http://www.randymajors.com/p/maps.html with labels added.)

Hancock County, Georgia, as of 1793 

Patsy married Coleman Pendleton on June 6, 1808, in Putnam County, Georgia, when she was 19.[1] Coleman had traveled to Georgia from Virginia as a missionary for the Christian Church, and he served as a chaplain during the War of 1812.[2]

Marriage record for Patsy Gilbert and Coleman Pendleton

Putnam County, Georgia, as of 1809 

Patsy gave birth to four children: Louisa Emily (b. 1809), William Robert (b. 1811), Philip Coleman (b. 1812, my 2nd great grandfather), and Edmund Monroe (b. 1815).

Patsy and Coleman stayed in Putnam County for about 17 years and then moved to a farm in Butts County, Georgia, "near the famous Indian Springs, about thirty miles from Macon." Native Americans were still living in this area at the time.[3]

By the 1840, U.S. census, Patsy and Coleman were living in Harris County, Georgia.[4] Their son William Robert died in 1841 in Baker County, Georgia, leaving behind his wife Marion C. Jordan and young children. Their other two sons remained in Georgia the rest of their lives. Philip Coleman married Catharine Tebeau, and Edmund Monroe married Sarah Jane Thomas.

Harris and Butts counties in Georgia as of 1832

On their 30-acre farm in Harris County, Patsy and Coleman had horses, cows, sheep, and pigs, and they grew wheat, corn, oats, peas and beans, and sweet potatoes.[5]

At the time of the 1860 U.S. census, Patsy and Coleman were living in Chambers County, Alabama, with their daughter Louisa Emily and her husband John J. Oliver who was a farmer.[6]

Chambers and Tallapoosa counties in Alabama as of 1860

Sometime prior to the 1870 U.S. census, the Pendletons and Olivers moved to Tallapoosa County, Alabama. Patsy's husband Coleman died on May 31, 1862, in Tallapoosa. The 1870 U.S. census for Tallapoosa shows Patsy is living in her own household near the farms of her daughter Louisa Emily and son-in-law John Oliver and her grandson Philip Oliver.[7] She lived another 12 years after Coleman and died on August 6, 1874 in Tallapoosa County.

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] Ancestry.com. Georgia, Marriage Records from Select Counties 1828-1978. Marriage record for Patsy Gilbert and Coleman Pendleton.

[2] Constance Pendleton, ed., Confederate Memoirs: Early Life and Family History, William Frederic Pendleton and Mary Lawson Young Pendleton. (Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, 1958), 11.

[3] See Footnote 2.

[4]  "1840 United States Federal Census," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 30 June 2014), entry for Coleman Pendleton, Harris County, Georgia.

[5] "1850 United States Federal Nonpopulation Schedule 1850-1880," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 30 June 2014), entry for Coleman Pendleton, Harris County, Georgia.

[6] "1860 United States Federal Census," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 30 June 2014), entry for Coleman Pendleton and John J. Oliver, Chambers County, Alabama.

[7] "1870 United States Federal Census," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 30 June 2014), entry for Martha Pendleton, John J. Oliver, and Philip Oliver, Tallapoosa County, Alabama.

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - #10 Hulda Lewis

My paternal 3rd great grandmother Hulda Lewis was born September 30, 1795, in New York, probably in New York City. I'm not sure I have the correct parents listed for her in my tree--Gilbert Lewis and Eliza McBride. In Confederate Memoirs, it is mentioned that Hulda was related to George Washington's brother-in-law Fielding Lewis who married George's sister Elizabeth (Betty), but I haven't been able to find a connection between Hulda and Fielding Lewis.

What drew Hulda from New York all the way down to Savannah, Georgia, in the hot, humid south to meet and marry my 3rd great grandfather Frederic Edmund Tebeau there on February 20, 1817? Did Frederic meet her in New York? If so, what was he doing there? There must be an interesting story here.

Hulda gave birth to nine children: Elizabeth Ann (1818-1819), John Robert (1820-1896), Catharine Sarah Melissa (1822-1889, my 2nd great grandmother), James Gilbert (1824-1851), Emeline (1826-1858), Mary Caroline Josepha (1828-1836), Lewis Charles (1830-1901), Frederic Treutlen (1832-1858), Sarah Washington (1834-1836). Hulda and Frederic had a house in town as well as a plantation in Chatham County, Georgia. According to the 1850 U.S. Slave Schedule for Chatham County, they owned 26 people as slaves.

The 1850 U. S. Slave Schedule for Chatham County, Georgia. Frederic and Hulda Lewis Tebeau's slaves are outlined in red.

One of Hulda's great granddaughters Constance Pendleton wrote in Confederate Memoirs: "She was beautiful and exquisitely dainty, she never touched money but picked it up with a bit of white tissue paper...She was a severe and rather pious woman, who was strict in carrying out her principles." Hulda taught the supposedly reluctant slave children to read and "insisted on their learning by heart verses from the Bible." Her Pendleton grandchildren (children of daughter Catharine and Philip Pendleton), could not escape her insistence on Bible verse memorization either. Hulda would go visit her family in New York every year or so for a month and would take her youngest child with her. Apparently all of the slave children, as well as her Pendleton grandchildren, enjoyed a vacation away from her strictness while she was gone. (Her going to New York where her family was is a good clue.)

It sounds like Hulda didn't care too much for her home New York City. In a letter dated May 19, 1870, to her grandson Philip Pendleton, she wrote, "Now I perceive why I was so much troubled, on account of his [grandson William Pendleton] visiting N. Y., altho [sic] my own native city, I verily believe that it is the worst place in the whole world." Now I need to research what New York City was like during this time to make her say that!

Getting back to who Hulda's parents were, I made a naming pattern chart based on one that I found on Rootsweb to look for clues (click on it for a larger view):

Based on the above naming pattern chart, it's possible that Hulda's father was named Gilbert, her mother was Eliza or maybe Elizabeth, and the other names that I can't account for are her siblings' or grandparents' names. The siblings I have for Frederic are Ann Margaret, Mary, Charles Watson, and Susan. At least I have a few clues to go on when I get back to researching who Hulda's parents were!

Hulda died on November 21, 1875, and is buried in Springfield in Effingham County in the Tebeau cemetery.

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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Constance Pendleton, ed., Confederate Memoirs: Early Life and Family History, William Frederic Pendleton and Mary Lawson Young Pendleton. (Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, 1958), 114, 149, 175.

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - #9 Catharine Tebeau

My paternal second great grandmother Catharine Sarah Melissa Tebeau was born May 28, 1822, in Savannah, Georgia, to Frederic Edmund Tebeau and Hulda Lewis. One of nine children, her siblings were Elizabeth Ann (1818-1819), John Robert (1820-1896), James Gilbert (1824-1851), Emeline (1826-1858), Mary Caroline (1828-1836), Lewis Charles (1830-1901), Frederic Treutlen (1832-1858), and Sarah Washington (1834-1836). After its completion in 1836, the Tebeau family moved to their new family home at 16 W. Liberty Street in Savannah. (Because of a threat of demolition, this house was moved in 1984 by the Historic Savannah Foundation to the corner of Whitaker and Perry streets, renovated, and converted into apartments.)[1]

The Frederic Tebeau house now at the corner of Whitaker and Perry streets in Savannah, Georgia.
(From Google Earth street view)

Catharine met her future husband Philip Coleman Pendleton in Savannah at a party at the home of "a Mr. Godfrey" where Philip was staying while publishing his magazine the Magnolia. I found a copy of the transcribed note below in my dad's papers written by Catharine to Philip dated March 10, 1841. I don't know if it was written before or after they became engaged:

Perhaps the letter you received
Caus'd you to seem so much agrieved!
Pray tell me, was it so?
Endure with patience her complaint
Nor let it cause your heart to faint
Be pressed in spirrit [sic] though!
Let not the loss of one, though fairEnshroud your brow with gloom and care!
'Tis the Editor's Lot!
O, let ' Magnolia's leaf now greenNe'er by any be withered seen.

A friend

Savannah 10 March 1841 

My Pendleton cousins in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, have several letters written by Philip to Catharine before and after their marriage, and several are quoted in Confederate Memoirs. In one letter that he wrote before their marriage he says, "I have been anxious to both see and hear from you, and am always thinking of you...and have felt how necessary you are to my happiness."[2]

Catharine and Philip were married on November 23, 1841, in Savannah by the pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church.[3]

Marriage record for Catharine Tebeau and Philip Pendleton (from Georgia's Virtual Vault)

Philip traveled around Georgia and South Carolina in the early years of their marriage to gain subscribers, contributors, and an editor for the Magnolia. (It was Catharine who said writing is the Pendleton family curse, something my dad repeated to me years ago.) Catharine and Philip may have lived with her parents while Philip traveled, as Catharine gave birth to their second child William Frederic at her parents' home in 1845. Their first child, Edmund, died the following year when he was just three years old. Prior to giving birth to their third child James, Catharine's little family moved to a farm in Effingham County that her father had bought. Philip taught school while they were living there, and Catharine gave birth to sons James Aubrey (1846-1881), Philip Coleman (1848-1870), and Charles Rittenhouse (1850-1914). In 1851, the growing family moved to Powelton in Hancock County, Georgia, where Philip taught school for two years. Catharine gave birth to daughter Emelyn (Emma) Tebeau here in 1852.

In 1853, the family was on the move again, this time to Sandersville in Washington County. Philip stopped teaching to practice law (for which he had trained years before), and he bought the Central Georgian newspaper.[4] Catharine gave birth to son Alexander Shaw (1855-1925, my great grandfather) and daughter Mary Zella (1857-1932) while they were living in Sandersville.

Catharine contracted tuberculosis and her health was failing, so the family left Sandersville in 1857 and headed back to the Savannah area where they stayed briefly. Philip thought moving further south to "the piney woods" would benefit Catharine's health, so he and Catharine's brother Lewis bought farmland next to each other in Ware County, and in 1858, Catharine and Philip moved their family again. They called this area Tebeauville in honor of Catharine's father (now Waycross). Catharine gave birth to their son Lewis (later spelled Louis) Beauregard here in 1861, just before the start of the Civil War.[4]

When the Civil War began, husband Philip and oldest son William, who was just 17, joined the Confederate Army, leaving Catharine at home with seven children. I'm sure the older boys helped their mother and looked after their younger siblings. In the latter part of 1862, Philip became very ill and had to return to Georgia from his post in Virginia. He brought William back with him because a law had been passed that soldiers had to be at least 18 to serve. I'm sure Catharine was glad to have her husband and son back home again! This joy was must have been short lived when William rejoined the war as soon as he turned 18 in March 1863.

Catharine and Philip moved yet again, and by 1864, they were living at an area called Cat Head in south Lowndes County, Georgia, south of the county seat of Valdosta.

One of the houses of Catharine and Philip Pendleton. They had a house at Cat Head in south Lowndes County, south of Valdosta, and later moved to Valdosta. I don't know which house this is.

Philip began the first newspaper in Valdosta called the South Georgia Times (now the Valdosta Daily Times) in 1867. Just two years later, Catharine and her children were devastated when Philip died as a result of his wounds from a buggy accident in June 1869. Their young, four-year-old son Nathaniel Dandridge (1865-1937) was with Philip when the buggy overturned, but he survived. The older boys took on the responsibility of running the newspaper and providing for Catharine and their younger siblings. Tragedy struck the family again when son Philip died from typhoid in 1870, and again in 1881 when son James died.

Sons William and Nathaniel were the first and second bishops, respectively, of the Swedenborgian church in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. Son Charles was editor and owner (later part owner) of the Macon Telegraph in Macon, Georgia. Son Alexander opened a small fruit stand that grew into The A. S. Pendleton Co. wholesale grocers. His business operated nearly 100 years. Daughters Emma and Zella were teachers, and Emma had several of her stories published in the Macon Telegraph. Son Louis wrote and published several novels and a biography of Alexander H. Stephens (vice president of the Confederate States of America).

Catharine died on May 12, 1889, in Valdosta, 16 days before her 67th birthday. She's buried at Sunset Hill Cemetery in Valdosta next to her husband Philip.

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] Melody Pullen. "Work on Tebeau House Underway." Savannah Evening Press. September 17, 1985, p. 1, 2.

[2] Constance Pendleton, ed., Confederate Memoirs: Early Life and Family History, William Frederic Pendleton and Mary Lawson Young Pendleton. (Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, 1958), 12, 13.

[3] Marriage Record for Catharine Tebeau and Philip Pendleton, Chatham County Marriage Book, 1837-1842, page 201. Georgia's Virtual Vault, http://cdm.georgiaarchives.org:2011/cdm/

[4] Constance Pendleton, ed., Confederate Memoirs: Early Life and Family History, William Frederic Pendleton and Mary Lawson Young Pendleton. (Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, 1958), 12-29, 52.

Major Pendleton Goes to Scotland

One of the episodes in the life of my paternal second  great grandfather Philip Coleman Pendleton was a trip he took to Scotland in late 1867/early 1868 to bring back Scottish immigrants to settle in Valdosta, Georgia, and work on the farms. Southern planters felt that a new labor system was needed to provide workers to plant and harvest the crops--work that was formerly done by slaves. They believed that the immigrants would work for cheaper wages than the Freedmen would.[1] To that end, Philip was sent to Scotland by the Lowndes County Agricultural Society.[2] The funds to pay for the transportation of the Scottish workers to Valdosta were to come from membership dues collected by the Lowndes County Immigration Society.[3] 

In the latter part of 1867, Philip left Valdosta, likely traveling to Savannah on the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad (completed from Savannah to Valdosta on July 4, 1860).[4] Savannah is probably where he boarded the steamer Herman Livingston which deposited him in New York on November 3, 1867. Philip wrote to his son William Frederic Pendleton on November 4, 1867, "I arrived in this place yesterday (Sunday morning) by Steamer Herman Livingston..."[5]

Above is an ad in the October 19, 1867, New York Herald for the steamer Herman Livingston owned by the Atlantic Coast Mail Steamship Company. It sailed from New York to Savannah every Thursday.[6]

One of Philip’s sons, author Louis Beauregard Pendleton, describes this trip to Scotland in his novel Echo of Drums, which is a  "thinly veiled" story (as my dad called it) about Philip and his family during Reconstruction. Louis writes that "against the wishes of his more practical wife," "Major Carroll" (Major Pendleton) left Georgia before the money was raised. While the Major was in Scotland, "Mrs. Carroll" (Philip's wife Catharine Tebeau) asked their family friend "Judge Mallory" if he thought that the planters would advance the funds as loans, but the judge said that they would not. Money was tight during Reconstruction, so people were holding onto every penny.[7]

On December 21, 1867, Philip wrote the following to his wife Catharine from London,

I have been to Scotland, made all the arrangements for emigrants, but no money yet has followed me. I am much distressed about it, but hope I may soon be relieved, be able to do what I came to do, and be speeded back to you. I do not think I shall wait many days longer if I don't hear.[8]

The money never came. Philip's son  Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton describes this incident in a biographical sketch that he wrote about Philip in 1911. 

He gathered a shipload of Scotch [sic] and was about to sail with them to Savannah when a cablegram from his associates in Lowndes county warned him that cotton had suddenly fallen to a ruinous price and to abandon the scheme and return home. Men and families had given up home and job to come with him. The sudden announcement of the failure of his plan caused a mob to menace him in the city of Glasgow. The kindly strategy of a friend got him out of the city.[9]

Philip left Glasgow, Scotland, on the ship United Kingdom. He arrived in New York on January 27, 1868, and returned to Valdosta without having accomplished his mission.

Above is the passenger list for the ship  United Kingdom that carried Philip from Glasgow, Scotland, to New York in 1868.[10] Philip's passenger information is outlined in red.

Above is an illustration of the ship United Kingdom that carried Philip from Glasgow, Scotland, to New York.[11]

It seems Columbus, Georgia, was successful where Valdosta wasn't in their endeavor to bring in Scottish workers. I came across a June 26, 1867, article in Augusta, Georgia's Daily Constitutionalist written just a few months before Philip left for Scotland that says:

Among the passengers yesterday by the steamship Herman Livingston, from New York...were a large number of families from Glasgow, Scotland, en route to Columbus, Ga., where they are to be employed in the new cotton mills now erected.[12]

Overall, however, the scheme to bring in immigrants to work on Southern farms was not successful. According to Willard Range in A Century of Georgia Agriculture, some of the reasons it was difficult to entice immigrants to the South were "the lack of relatives in the South, unfamiliarity with Southern crops, and rumors of an unhealthy Southern climate." Also, many Europeans had an "Uncle Tom's Cabin concept of the South" where "foreigners" were not welcome, where "whites thought it a dishonor to work," and where "half civilized" whites carried knives and guns. Planters were under the mistaken impression that the "old slave diet and slave cabin" would be satisfactory to the immigrants.[13]

Just a year and a half after his trip to Scotland to bring back Scottish immigrants to Valdosta, Philip died on June 19, 1869, at the age of 56 from injuries received in a buggy accident. He is buried in Sunset Hill Cemetery, Valdosta, Georgia.

Catherine

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[1] Willard Range. A Century of Georgia Agriculture 1850-1950. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1954), 78.

[2] General James Jackson Chapter, NSDAR, History of Lowndes County, Georgia 1825-1941 (1942; Reprint, General James Jackson Chapter, NSDAR, 1995), 100.

[3] Jane Twitty Shelton. Pines and Pioneers: A History of Lowndes County, Georgia 1825-1900. (Atlanta: Cherokee Publishing Company, 1976), 100.

[4] Shelton, Pines and Pioneers, 154.

[5] Constance Pendleton, editor, Confederate Memoirs: Early Life and Family History, William Frederick Pendleton and Mary Lawson Young Pendleton. (Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, 1958), 92.

[6] An ad in the October 19, 1867, New York Herald for the steamer Herman Livingston, digital image, genealogybank.com (http://genealogybankcom : accessed 6 February 2013).

[7] Louis Beauregard Pendleton. Echo of Drums. (New York: Sovereign House, 1938), 8, 13.

[8] Constance Pendleton, Confederate Memoirs, 94.

[9]  C. R. Pendleton. "Philip Coleman Pendleton: His Part in the Early History of Macon, Particularly With Reference to Wesleyan College---The Southern Post and The Ladies' Book." The Macon Daily Telegraph, 7 May 1911, p. 4, col. 3.

[10] "New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," database, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 December 2012), entry for P. C. Pendleton, age 55, arrived New York, 27 January 1868 aboard the United Kingdom.

[11] Photo of United Kingdom (built 1857), digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 30 December 2012), retrieve by choosing the "ship" link attached to the "Passenger Record" database search results for P. C. Pendleton, age 55, arrived 27 January 1868 aboard the United Kingdom.

[12] "Arrival of Emigrants." Daily Constitutionalist, 26 June 1867.

[13] Range. A Century of Georgia Agriculture 1850-1950, 79-80.

The Daughters of Philip Coleman Pendleton

Recently, I found a biographical sketch in my dad's papers that was written in 1911 about my paternal second great grandfather Philip Coleman Pendleton by one of his sons, newspaper editor and publisher Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton. I realized when I read the last paragraph that I knew very little about Philip's daughters, Emma Tebeau Pendleton (1852-1919) and Mary Zella Pendleton (1857-1932). Here is what Charles had to say about his sisters:

The daughters are not married. One of them has been writing the bird stories for The [Macon] Telegraph, and has done other literary work. Both have been teachers--patrons of "female education" which so interested the early manhood and life of their father.[1]

Out of ten children, Emma and Zella were the only daughters of Philip and his wife Catharine Sarah Melissa Tebeau. Emma was born in Powelton, Hancock County, Georgia, in 1852, and Zella was born in 1857 in Sandersville, Washington County, Georgia, the same place where my great grandfather (their brother) Alexander was born. Shortly after the birth of Zella, the Pendleton family moved to the Tebeau plantation outside of Savannah, Georgia.  The following year they moved to a farm at a place they named Tebeauville (now Waycross), Georgia. During the Civil War, they moved again--this time just outside of Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia.[2]

Neither Emma nor Zella married. However, it seems that Emma may have been engaged in 1878, but I don't know to whom or why the marriage never took place. I found a clue about this in a letter she wrote in 1879 to a gentleman who was apparently interested in her. She says,

I will be as candid with you hoping to give you as little pain as possible and tell you what I have told no other gentleman who was not a relative and that is that my hand has been plighted to another since July last. I tell you this for your own sake believing that you will not mention it ever and that you have not gone so far that you can think of me now only as a true friend.[3]

Emma and Zella both attended the Girls' School at the New Church in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania--Emma from 1891-1893 and Zella from 1889-1893. Zella graduated from the Girls' School in 1892.[4] There's a photograph of her in a write-up about the first graduation held at the school on the New Church History's website. [5] (Click on their name to go to this page. She's on the right in the front row.) 

Emma must be the writer who Charles refers to in the above quote from the 1911 article. (See my post The Pendleton Family Curse about the Pendleton propensity for writing.) Below is a document that I found in my dad's papers from Godey's Lady's Book dated 1883 concerning the submission of a story called "Witchery" written by Emma.[6] (Click on the image for a larger view.)

It appears that by 1900, Emma was living in Macon, Georgia, but not with their brothers Charles and Louis who were also living there (I couldn't find her in the 1900 census). Zella was living in Canada. I found their names listed under these locations in a transcription of a document about a church assembly held in 1900.[7] By 1910, both Emma and Zella were living in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, where three of their brothers (William Frederic, Nathaniel Dandridge, and Louis Beauregard) were living. They lived with their brother Louis, who was a novelist, journalist, and newspaper editor.[8]

I found several articles on genealogybank.com from The Macon Telegraph that were written by Emma in 1910 and 1911, most of which are the bird stories mentioned by Charles in the quote above. Some of the titles are "Birds of a Feather," "Birds of a Color," "Common Bird Neighbors," and "The Wood Warblers." Here is an excerpt from one of her "Birds of a Color" articles about a robin:

He was here the other day hopping about in the beautiful autumn sunlight as dainty and charming as ever he was in the good old summer time. And though late in the fall his tendency is to take on a slightly rusty wash , especially towards the tip of his pretty wings, yet in this golden sunlight he was still a symphony in blue and white and reddish brown.[9]

How lovely!

Another story, written by Emma in two parts, is "Music Mad: A Picture From Life," about a young musical prodigy who was so enraptured with the music she played that she was driven a bit mad. [10]

Emma died in 1919, and Zella died in 1932. Both are buried in the Bryn Athyn Cathedral Cemetery, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania.

Catherine

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[1] C. R. Pendleton. "Philip Coleman Pendleton: His Part in the Early History of Macon, Particularly With Reference to Wesleyan College---The Southern Post and The Ladies' Book." The Macon Daily Telegraph 7 May 1911, p. 4, col. 3.

[2] Constance Pendleton, ed., Confederate Memoirs: Early Life and Family History, William Frederick Pendleton and Mary Lawson Young Pendleton. (Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, 1958), 19, 52.

[3] Emma Pendleton to Mr. S[illegible], letter, 2 March 1879. Privately held by Leona R. Pendleton, Valdosta, Georgia, 2013.

[4] Alan Pendleton to Catherine Pendleton, 4 February 2013, list compiled by Freda Pendleton of Pendleton family members who attended school at the New Church, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania.

[5] Ed and Kirsten Gyllenhaall, "Academy Girls School Graduation (1892),"New Church History Fun Facts, 7 June 2007 (http://newchurchhistory.org/funfacts/?p=150 : accessed 4 February 2013).

[6] Editors of Godey's Lady's Book to Emma Pendleton, letter, 23 June 1883. Privately held by Leona R. Pendleton, Valdosta, Georgia, 2013.

[7] Journal of the Fourth General Assembly of The General Church of the New Jerusalem, 1900; digital image, heavenlydoctirnes.org (http://www.heavenlydoctrines.org/New%20Church%20Life%5C1900_HTML.htm : accessed 4 February 2013).

[8] 1910 U.S. census, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, population schedule Moreland Township, p. 287 (stamped), dwelling 235, family 263, Louis, Emma, and Zella Pendleton; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com : accessed February 4, 2013); citing NARA microfilm 624, roll 1378.

[9] Emelyn Pendleton. "Birds of a Color (Blue and Bluish)," The Macon Telegraph 4 December 1910, p. 4; digital image, genealogybank.com (http://genealogybank.com : accessed 3 February 2013).

[10] Emelyn Pendleton. "Music Mad: A Picture From Life," The Macon Telegraph, 18 December 1910, p. 4.; digital image, genealogybank.com (http://genealogybank.com : accessed 3 February 2013).

Cemetery Search: Sunset Hill, Valdosta, Georgia

Several of my ancestors and relatives, including my dad, are buried in Sunset Hill Cemetery (established in the early 1860s) in Valdosta, Georgia. (Click on the name to go to their website.) I know where at least three family plots and a few other family burials are located, but there are some whose locations I don’t know. I was pleased to find out a few years ago that Sunset Hill Cemetery had an interactive online map that allows you to search for burials by name, military service, or year of death. I thought I’d share how I used this to find the grave of one of my ancestors.

Once you get to the website, click on the link “Click here to search the Sunset Hill Interactive Web Site,” and you will be taken to the map (see below). Be sure to use ALL CAPS when you type in a name or military service. Otherwise your search won’t return anything. It took me a few tries to remember this.



Above is a screen shot of the Sunset Hill Cemetery interactive map.




I typed in PENDLETON and got a pop-up, scrollable list of all of the Pendletons buried in Sunset Hill Cemetery (see above). The list gives the section, block, and lot of where the burial is located, the full name of the deceased, and birth and death year. The red squares on the map show the burial locations.




I scrolled through the pop-up list of Pendletons to my paternal second great grandmother Catharine Sarah Melissa Tebeau Pendleton. Hovering over her name brings up another pop-up that points to her burial (see above).

I used this interactive map to look up the burial location of my paternal third great grandfather Christian Herman Dasher (1786-1866).  I took a photo of the map and location info with my smart phone, hoping that having a visual would aid us in locating his grave. Then my sister Missy and I drove over to the cemetery to look for his grave.



The sections are labeled with letter and number on the ground, but we had a bit of trouble figuring out which way the section numbers went (as in the “308” in Section “C308” in the above). Then we had some trouble finding his grave as it is covered in lichen or mold or whatever-it-is and is nearly illegible (see below).

Headstone for Christian Dasher in Sunset Hill Cemetery

The cemetery office is at the cemetery, and we were about to head there for help, but we tried one more time to try to find it. Luckily, I remembered that someone had posted a photo of Christian’s headstone on findagrave.com before it became covered in mold/lichens, so I looked it up on my smart phone. We compared the findagrave photo with the headstone above, using the shape of the gravestone and the bush behind it as clues. This was it! If you look closely at the headstone, you can just make out Christian’s name. (Although, it doesn’t show up in the photo above.) His wife Elizabeth Waldhauer is buried on his left, and on his right are his brothers-in-law John C. Waldhauer (which, by the way, is spelled wrong in the database) and Israel F. Waldhauer. 

My sister is going to kill me, but I didn’t discover until some time later that the map is zoomable. (Sorry Missy, but didn’t you have fun traipsing around the cemetery looking for Christian Dasher?) We probably wouldn’t have had so much trouble if I’d found this out ahead of time. I could have gotten a better idea of where this grave is located by getting a better visual. The map controls are very faint on the upper left hand side until you hover over them. Who knew? I had never noticed this before.

The Sunset Hill Cemetery interactive map is a great aid in finding grave locations (especially now that I know where the map controls are!). I like to let my “fingers do the walking,” as they say, before I search “on the ground.” Thank goodness for technology!

Catherine

Tombstone Tuesday—Catherine (Tebeau) Pendleton

Catharine S. M. Wife of Maj. P. C. Pendleton May 28, 1822 May 12, 1889

This is the gravestone of my paternal second great grandmother, Catharine Sarah Melissa Tebeau Pendleton.  She was born in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia.  Her parents were Frederick Edmund Tebeau (1792-1869) and Hulda Lewis (1796-1875).  She’s buried next to her husband in Sunset Hill Cemetery, Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, Section C305, Block 5, Lot 2, Space 06.

One of the Pendleton plots in Sunset Hill Cemetery, Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, Section C305, Block 5, Lot 2.  Catharine S. M. Pendleton is on the right, her husband Philip C. Pendleton Sr. is in the middle, and one of their sons Philip (Philo) C. Pendleton Jr. is on the left.

Catherine

Slaves of Philip Coleman Pendleton (Update)

When I was researching census records for my 2nd great grandfather Philip Coleman Pendleton on ancestry.com a while ago, I came across an 1860 Ware County Georgia Slave Schedule with his name on it [1].  After his name, it says "as employee for."  I’m not sure what that means.  At first I thought it meant that Philip was an employee of the woman whose name is listed a few rows below his, but it didn't really make sense to list him as the owner if he wasn't.  Plus, since he had his own farm in Ware County, I didn’t think he’d be working on someone else’s farm, too.  Does this mean the people listed as his slaves were owned by someone else but worked for Philip?  It seems I read somewhere that sometimes slaves were hired out by their owners, but if these people in the 1860 slave schedule were owned by someone else, wouldn't they be included with that owner?

Below is a portion of the 1860 Ware County Georgia Slave Schedule.  There are three people listed as slaves for Philip Pendleton: one 50 year old female, one 25 year old female, one 6 or 8 year old male (the age isn't very legible).  There is one slave house.



The other day, I was reading through Confederate Memoirs looking for information for one of my blog posts.  On page 18, my second great uncle William Frederick Pendleton (Philip's son) says that when he was a baby (he was born in 1845), the Pendletons moved from Savannah to a farm in Effingham County Georgia that was owned by his maternal grandfather Frederick Edmund Tebeau (my third great grandfather); they lived there until 1851 when they moved to Hancock County Georgia [2].  (Hancock County was where Philip’s younger brother Edmund Pendleton had a plantation.) 

While on the Tebeau farm in Effingham County, Philip was employed as a teacher for the neighborhood children.  William mentions that they had one slave named Violet who had been given to his mother (Catherine Sarah Melissa Tebeau) by her uncle Alexander Shaw.  William says that Violet stayed with the Pendleton family "the rest of her life, even after she was emancipated" [3].  He doesn’t say when Violet was given to his mother, and he doesn't give any clues about her. I didn't find a slave schedule for Philip in 1850, so that makes me wonder if Violet was given to Catherine after 1850, maybe when they moved in 1851. If she is the 25-year-old female in the 1860 slave schedule, then she was probably very young in 1851, about 15 or 16.* I looked up the 1850 Chatham County Georgia slave schedule for Alexander Shaw [4]. There are two 16-year-old females on the 1850 schedule who would be about the right age to be one of the females listed in the 1860 schedule.

*Update:  I got a little ahead of myself here.  Please see paragraph below about “old Aunt Lizzie.” This is why I thought Violet might be the 25-year-old in the 1860 schedule.




On page 52, William describes coming home to Lowndes County Georgia on furlough in 1864 during the Civil War and was greeted in the yard by "old 'Aunt' Lizzie."  In Echo of Drums, Uncle Louis notes that it was a Southern custom for children to address older servants with the "handle" of Aunt or Uncle [5].  So, we have names of at least two people who were their slaves, Violet and Lizzie.  I haven't come across a name for the young boy that is listed in the 1860 slave schedule.  Since William referred to Lizzie as "old," I wonder if she's the 50 year old female in the 1860 slave schedule.  She would have been about 54 in 1864 when William was on furlough!  I guess that would be considered old to a young man; he was about 19. 
Constance Pendleton, the editor of Confederate Memoirs and the daughter of William, notes on page 84 that Philip didn't have many slaves, and the ones that he did have were "mostly house servants" that remained with the family after the war [6]. There are no servants or any other workers listed with the Pendletons in the 1870 or 1880 Lowndes County census, and there aren't any people living nearby in a separate household in either census named Lizzy or Violet. 

Philip died in 1869 after being thrown from a buggy.  The family struggled financially afterwards.  The four older boys had to run the farm and the newspaper business to support their mother and five younger siblings [7].  Maybe they had to let their servants go for financial reasons, but William says that Violet stayed with them the rest of her life.  It's possible that their servants lived somewhere else in the county but continued to work for them.  Maybe Violet died before the 1870 census.   The only Violet that I found in the index for the 1870 Lowndes County census on ancestry.com who was black is Violet Hodge [8].  She is 40 years old which would make her year of birth about 1830.  She is living on a farm, and her occupation is listed as "keeping house," meaning housewife and not a domestic.  Below is a copy of part of the census page that shows Violet Hodge and other members of the Hodge household.



I found only one Violet in the 1880 Lowndes County census.  Below is the page for Violet Crumady and two daughters.  Her age is 50 which would make her birth year about 1830.  Her occupation is listed as a laborer [9]. 



I found several women named Lizzie in 1870 in a search of the census index on ancestry.com.  All but one were born after 1860, not the right age to be the Lizzie with the Pendletons during the Civil War.  The only one that I found who was born before 1860 would have been about 24 in 1864...too young to be called "old" by a 19-year-old William.  I found the same thing in the 1880 census.  Several women named Lizzie are in that census, but most were born after 1870, and the few that were born earlier weren’t old enough to be called "old" in 1864.

I’d like to see if I can get a copy of Philip’s and Catherine’s wills (both died after the Civil War) to see if they possibly left anything to a servant whose name might be noted in their wills.  I would like to find out where Lizzie came from as well as the young boy listed in the 1860 Slave Schedule…Hancock or Ware County?

Catherine
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[1]  Ancestry.com.  1860 U.S. Federal Census Slave Schedule Record, Ware County Georgia, for Philip Pendleton.
[2]  Constance Pendleton, ed., Confederate Memoirs: Early Life and Family History, William Frederick Pendleton and Mary Lawson Young Pendleton. (Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania,1958).
[3]  See footnote 2 above.
[4]  Ancestry.com.  1850 U.S. Federal Census Slave Schedule Record, Chatham County Georgia, District 13, for Alexander Shaw.
[5]  Louis Beauregard Pendleton.  Echo of Drums (Sovereign House, New York, 1938).
[6]  See footnote 2 above.
[7]  See footnote 2 above.
[8]  Ancestry.com.  1870 United States Federal Census. Lowndes, Georgia; Roll: M593_163; Page: 393B; Image: 171; Family History Library Film: 545662.
[9] Ancestry.com.  1880 United Stated Federal Census. Valdosta, Lowndes, Georgia; Roll: 155; Family History Film: 1254155; Page: 200A; Enumeration District: 72; Image: 0755.