G Aunt Lottie’s family: Bevins, Shoemakers, Woods, Echols and others

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For Lottie Bivens, Great Aunt Lottie who loved well through personal hardship.

 Research started in Santa Fe, June 22^nd or so, 2013. But not really, because I was writing to Bryan about it in February of that year.  So Aunt Lottie, who never had any kids – this is for you.

Many Thanks to Russ Ottens, Bryan Smith and Christina Smith—all of whom are obviously as in love with connecting families as I am, and whose work is included in this overview of my great aunt’s  family.

I also dedicate this work to Eddie Doris Holland-Smith, who I believe to have been a researcher after my own heart, and who collected the information that made my Great Aunt Lottie a real person for me.

Index:

• 1.   Lottie Sneed: the married woman.
• 1a. Lottie Bivens: the child. How I found her.
• 2.  Lottie: the Bivens Family.
• 3.  Lottie: The Miles and a bit about the Shoemakers
• 4.  The Shoemakers: Ellen and Nannie’s family.
• 4a-1: Margaret Althea Shoemaker:
• 4a-2: Shoemakers’ daughters: Rasa
• 5.   LOUISA A – Ellen and Nannie’s mother. Part One. Louisa as a child.
• 5a. Louisa Part Two: the Echols
• 5a-1. Louisa and Jesse’s daughter
• 5a-1-1. Louisa’s daughter part 2: who are the Arnetts?
• 5a-1-2.  Louisa’s daughter part 3: Who are the Crumlys?
• 6.   Louisa A. Wood Echols Shoemaker. Her father: Thomas Wood. Her mother: Nancy McClintock.
• 6a. Louisa’s mother: Nancy McClintock
• 6a-1: Nancy and Thomas’ two daughters. One was Louisa A Wood. The other was Francis Jane Wood.
• 6a-2: Penelope McClintock, who I suspect to be Nancy J McClintock’s sister:
• 6b. The Wood Family.  Abner is the father of Thomas.
• 7.   Compiled Census Information

1. Lottie Sneed: the married woman.

http://www.freestateofwinston.org/marriage4.htm

Marriage of Andrew Sneed to Lottie M Bivens Jan 26, 1913, Winston County. (why there???)

Also R.D. Sneed to Laura Webb July 15, 1912 ?? wonder who that was?)

1900  MO, Lawrence, MT. Hope 0075 pg 2

• Andrew Jaye is 6 – Sept 1893

1910:  Alabama, Lawrence, Mt. Hope, 84, 19/27 Fam 152

• Andrew Jackson Sneed’s family: Andrew J, his son, is 16

But where is LOTTIE as an UNMARRIED GIRL at this point?

1920: Alabama, Morgan, Albany Ward 4, 175 p12/43 fam 147

• A.J. Sneed (26)
• Lottie wife (25)

1930 census:Alabama, Jefferson, Prec 39 188, p19/76 fam 216

• Andrew J Sneed 33 M at 19
• Lottie M wife 32 married at 18  Both all Alabama

1940: Alabama, Jefferson, “Other places,” 37-94 p19/43 fam 162

• A.J. Sneed 47 M
• Lottie 46

Andrew Jay Sneed  1^st WW I registration card

Mt. Hope, Alabama. B. September 5, 1893.  “Natural Borned” citizen born at Mt. Hope and a farmer. Dependant wife.  He’s short and Slender, Dark hair, brown eyes. Can’t even give his wife a name. Grr.

1a. Lottie Bivens: the child. How I found her.

Ancestry census search for Lottie Bivens, and could only find one result:

1910 Mo, Lawrence, Mt. Hope, 0084, i14 of 27 fam 130 (3 yrs before her marriage to Andrew Jaye Sneed)

• Eugene Miles Head 27 M1 7 years  All Al all down
• Ellen N wife 27 M1 7 3children 3 surviving
• Everett A son ?
• Louie son 3 son
• Lottie Biven 15 niece

Samuel Miles Son 5/12

I had no idea who the Miles were, other than the note in the census that said she was their niece. That could mean daughter of the husband’s sister, or daughter of the wife’s brother or sister.

I  found a FindAGrave link for Lottie Bivens Sneed.  She was buried in the Bivens Cemetery, Jefferson, Alabama.  Located: Township 16 South Range 4 West Huntsville meridian.  This area is called a bunch of things, among them Bivens, Carrolville, Five Mile – I need an historic map of the area.

 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Sneed&GSfn=Andrew&GSiman=1&GScid=21647&GRid=54938341&  This is the cemetery memorial for Andrew Jay Sneed, son of Andrew Jackson Sneed, son of Seaborn Anderson Sneed of Washington County, GA.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=54938486  This is Lottie’s. The inscription reads: Lottie Bivens Sneed,  Sept 8, 1984 Nov 26, 1985 There is no extra info on this memorial – unless my contribution has resulted in the installation of links.

From Bryan Smith:  Sources from my mom’s book on the section with Lottie Bivens in it, sources listed on page 404:

•       1:Marriage records Bk. 2 p364, Jefferson Co. Courthouse, Birmingham, AL.
•       2:Information supplied by Bennie Cathrine Mellown, Authoress of “Memoirs of a Civil War Community”. (2nd cousin 1x removed to Lottie)
•       3:Civil War Records, National Archives, Washington, DC.
•       4:Census Records, Jefferson Co. AL 1860 pg647 Dw21.
•       5:”JENKINS, BLACK, NEWBERRY, and SHOEMAKER Genealogy” by Nannie Lou Dougherty. (3rd cousin to Lottie)
•       6:Velma Vines BUTTERWORTH, Mulga, AL. (3rd cousin 1x removed to Lottie)

And I will send you a copy of her book, but got to get back home first. Working away from home at the moment. Will send it next week. Take Care, Bryan Smith

2. Lottie: the Bivens Family

At this point, I started exploring the whole FindAGrave thing and the Bivens family itself, hoping to find something in the memorials that would give me a hint as to how Lottie fit into this family. There were no other Sneeds. I knew she was a Bivens (Great Aunt info), but not how she fit into the family.  Notes from that fishing trip:

Sarah E. Bivens  daughter of Robert R and Susan Linn Bivens Apr 22 1858 d 8 Jan 1926

Rufe Robert Bivens feb 15 1869 28 apr 1924

Son of James Allen Bivens and Mary Catherine Young no kids.

Mary Catherine Young married James Allen Bivens on Feb 23, 1854. 10 children children: America Jane Bivens Bagley 1857-1945

Nancy Missouri Bivens Scott 1867-1951

Rev William A Bivens 1871-1898 (dates on headstone – too lazy to record just now. There are SO many Bivens and so little indication of which connects to whom on the stones – son of, dtr of  – ). William A married Nannie Eilzabeth Shoemaker Bivens.

There are other couples here of the same vintage, but I’m feeling like James and Mary Catherine were the stem of the cemetery family tree. I she was related to them, Lottie had to be a granddaughter, considering the timing. But of which child? One of the younger ones, considering Lottie’s birth year.

Mary Catherine Young married James Allen Bivens on Feb 23, 1854.

They have ten children: (source: conglomerate census)

Martha A (married Wesley Cornelius)
America Jane (Bagley 1857 – 1945)
Mary L
John A
Bluford V
Nancy Missouri (Scott 1867-1951)
Robert R (Ruffus R in 1900 census). (Cem b 15 Feb 1869 d. 28 Apr 1924)
William A (1871-1898 md. Nannie Elizabeth Shoemaker)
Zella M
Albert B
America Jane Bivens Bagley b 30 Oct 1857 d 4 Jan 1945
Albert M b 3 Oct 1880 d 20 Sept 1967
Blueford Valentine b Jul 18 1866 d 17 July 1890
Lieut James Allen b 26 Oct 1829 d 18 Jun 1917
John Valentine son of Col Robert R and Martha Akin Bivens.  Brother of James b. 1833 26 Jan Jefferson d. 14 Mar 1923 Chilton County Al
Rufe Robert Bivens 15 Feb 1869 Jeff d 28 Apr 1824 Never married Russ
Martha Ann Bivens Cornelius 23 Feb 1855 Jeff d. 2 Oct 1918 Jeff m W.C. Cornelius on 30 Nov 1876 (that’s Wesley) Child: Minnie J Sharp Cornelius Bryant  Wesley: b.12 April 1855 d.20 June 1936
Zella M Bivens Hyde b 2 Sept 1874 d 12 Jan 1899 George Hyde
Mary Lucinda Bivens McAvoy 25 Dec 1859 d 4 Mar 1953 wife A.C. Mcavoy
Nancy Missouri “Zura” Bivens Scott 18 Jun 1867 d. June 18 1951 M Hugh Scott

I started doing a little branching out, chasing down some of the Bivens’ names – and found unrelated bits I would later be able to fit together:

1860 Alabama, Jefferson, Bivens 3/12

Fam 19:

• James A Biven 30  All Al all the way down
• Mary C 24
• Martha A. 5
• America J 3
• Mary L 5/12

Fam 20:

• Oliver Shoemaker 35  GA
• Mary 30   Ga
• Margaret C 11  Al on down.
• Sarah E 9
• Nancy J? 6
• Kitty A 2
• William L 7/12

1870: Alabama, Jefferson, Township 16 Range 4

Fam 487:

• J.A. Bevans 40
• M.C. 34
• MA 15
• A.J. 13
• M.L. 10
• J.A. 7
• B.V. 5
• N. M. 5
• R. R.  2

Fam 489 (this is grand dad)

• Robert Bevans 67  KY
• Susan? 42  AL
• Malonie? 26
• MC 22
• Wm E 20 works on farm
• M.J. 18
• Robert 14
• Sarah 13
• Harriet 10
• Andrew 8
• Newton 6
• Steelman, M 19 at school

 1880: Alabama, Jefferson, Not stated, 69, pg 35/54

fam 262

• Susan Bevans 54  Al NC NC
• Sarah E 21  Al KY AL  (down)
• Andrew J 17
• Isaac N? 15
• Mary Stillman 30 daughter

Fam 263:

• William E? Bevans 30  Al Ky AL
• Ruthy A 19 AL AL AL
• James M son 1

Fam: 264

• James A Bevans 50  Al KY SC
• Mary C 44  AL SC KY
• Mary L 20  ALà all the way down
• John A 17
• Bluford V 13 (there is a bracket that connects Blu and Nancy, indicating, I assume, that they were twins)
• Nancy M 13
• Robert R 11
• William A 9 son
• Zella M 6 daughter
• Margaret Young? 20 niece
• Sarah A 18 niece.

Fam 265

• Wesley C Cornelius 28  AL AL AL all down.
• Martha 25
• Ella M 3

1900 Alabama, Jefferson, Prec 18 i37

• James A. Bivens  70  Al  Ky NC   Oct 1829 70 m 46 yrs
• Mary C 64  AL NC KY  July 1835 64 m 46 yrs. 10 children 7 living at this time
• Ruffus R 31 Feb 1869 31 Single
• Albert B 19  Oct 1880 19 s
• Mary Stealman 36 boarder from Tenn
• Effrom Barnett 47 servant from GA

Also on page:

• William E Bivens Head apr 1850 M 22  (son of Robert)
• Ruthy A wife Nov 1861 38 m22 2 2 living
• Charley son june 1881 18 S

Found a death (FamilySearch Alabama Deaths) in Jefferson for  Lola Earl Elliot (d 4 04 1956 in Birmingham at 71. Born 1885 est. Father Balis Estes  Mother: Mary L Bivens (daughter of James and Catherine?):

1900: Alabama, Jefferson, Prec 18 0104 p34/80 fam 673

• Abe E. McAvay  Nov 1862 37 M11? Ga, Ire Ire
• Mary L wife Dec 1859 40  M11 5 children born 2 living Alabama on down.
• Frederick O Estis stepson Sept 1883 16 Single
• Lola E step dtr Nov 1885 14 S

1910:  Alabama, Jefferson, Prc 18 fam 232

• James A Bivens  80 M 1 56 years Alà all down
• Mary  wife 74 M1 for 56 years birthed 10 children 7 living
• Birt  son 28 S
• Lucinda McAvoy  50 Widowed No children listed for her.

Fam 233

• W.C. Cornelius 55 M1 33 years
• Martha wife 55 M1 33 years 4 births 4 survived
• Annie daughter 16 S
• The Sharp family, boarders.

1930: Alabama Jefferson, Birmingham 2 pg 95/120 fam 415

• McAvoy, Mary L 70 Widowed Alà
• Belle Estes grand daughter 23 S
• Bluford D Scott nephew 28 M at 26
• Grace L Scott niece 22 M at 20 Al Ga Ga
• And a roomer named Slovensky.

There is an obit for Mary in the Birmingham papers 5 March 1853 page 2

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=FSAlabamaDeath&h=1152123&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=5188  Mary L. death record. She was in Birmingham and was 93. Dates as expected. Father: James A Bivens Mother: Catherine Young

 Ancestry: Sons of American Revolution application for Albert Martin Bivens

1950 Applicant 69 years old
William Speer b Maryland 1758  d. Jefferson Co, Ala near Gardendale 1859
Applicant was born near Brookside in Jefferson 3 Oct 1880
Son of James Allen Bivens b 10/26/1829 d 6/18/1917 wife Mary Catherine Young b. 7/6/1835 d 9/10/1917 md 2/23 1854
Grandson of Martin Young b 1810 d 4/27/1880 wife Lucinda Speer b 7/12/1812 d. 4/7/1880 m 8/9/1852
There’s more, but this is not my line.
His wife: Nannie Elizabeth Smith born 5/18/1882
Children?: George Allen Bivens 7/20/1920

Find a Grave Lieut. James Allen Bivens: b. 26 Oct 1829 Jefferson County, Alabama  d. 18 Jun 1917, Jefferson, Alabama.  The son of Col. Robert R and Martha Aikins Bivens. Also buried in Bivens Chapel Cemetery. On Robert’s Memorial, children are named.  I was most interested in Nancy Jerusha Bivens Crumly.

At this point, I found Russ Ottens. His name was on a number of related Bevins Cemetery memorials, the line that came down through James A. Bivens.  So I wrote to him and got this reply:

From: kdr@ponymoon.com
Subject: Bivens
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 19:57:22 -0600
To: rjottens@hotmail.com

Russ – you were the person who filled in info for the Bivens family memorials in Find A Grave, yes? I wanted to ask you – my Great Aunt Lottie, who married Andrew J Sneed, was buried in the cemetery in 1985, but I have no idea how she’s tied to that family.

I really, really hope you have some slender hint for me -Thanks for doing the memorials

Kristen, (June 2013)

Russ Replies:

Thanks so much for contacting me.  My wife is the great great granddaughter of Confederate veteran, James Allen Bivens.  Off the top of my head, I didn’t know anything about Lottie Bivens, but it appears that Lottie may very well have been James’ granddaughter!

 I found this on Ancestry.com:

 Lottie Minette Bivens (1894 – Unknown) Found 10 Records, 7 Photos and 80,678 Family Trees.

Born in Crumly Chapel, Jefferson, Alabama, USA on 8 Sep 1894 to Will A Bivens and Nancy Elizabeth Shoemaker. Lottie Minette married Andrew Jay Sneed. She passed away in Alabama, USA.

 I’m not a member of Ancestry.com, but I could pursue the links the next time I visit our public library.

 Anyway, it appears Lottie’s father was Rev. William Akin Bivens (Nov. 22, 1871 – April 20, 1898).  Lottie would have been about 3 and 1/2 when he died.  Her mother would have been Nannie Elizabeth Shoemaker Bivens (my Findagrave memorial no. 15662103).

 I also found that Lottie M. Bivens married Andrew Sneed on Jan. 26, 1913 (Winston Co. Marriages Vol. 4 1912-1916).

 So Kristen, this is exciting news!  I’d be interested to find how you and my wife are related.  She is the great granddaughter of America Jane Bivens Bagley, the sister of Rev. William Akin Bivens.  I’m very thankful you sent me an e-mail.

 I chased down the links he’d found and in the process realized that I had already, a couple of months before, started this research process and had written to Bryan Smith, who’d posted information on Ancestry that had intrigued me. I messaged him, and he’d answered me, but I’d jumped to some other line by then and never followed up on the connection.  Revisiting Bryan’s post:

 BryanF58    Feb 23 3:36 PM GMT

The information I have for Lottie was gathered by my mother when she was doing Geneology and traveling extensively in researching her work years ago. She passed away 3 years ago so and I inherited her files. I could not find anything on Lottie after a glace through them, but that does not mean I don’t have a copy of what she may have had on her, I just haven’t found it yet. So far when going over her records they have been pretty accurate in regards to the Shoemaker line, so I have no doubt she was correct on Lottie’s first and middle names.

I appreciate the info on Andrew Sneed and will add it to my notes. Sorry I can’t provide you with sources at this time, but if I come across anything I will pass it on

 Hi, (this is Bryan again, later)

Found some information under the Shoemaker files my mother kept, unfortunately no sources are listed. However, I am sending this to see if your information matches my mother’s.

Quoted from (Brian’s Mom’s) files “Lottie’s mother, Nannie Elizabeth Shoemaker Bivens, died when Lottie was 5 years old (Both parents died from T.B.). She left Lottie with Ellen Viola Shoemaker to raise her. When Ellen Shoemaker and James Eugene Miles married, they took Lottie with them and raised her as their foster daughter.”

 As of this time, I have no notes to show if Lottie and Andrew had children. Could you verify this for me or correct me so I can show they did have children?

I hope some of this helps.  Take Care,  Bryan Smith

Later, it came to me that, depending on the years Bryan’s mom did this on-the-ground interviewing, she actually could have gotten this info from Lottie herself, who died in 1985. The note sounds solid, as though the info came from someone with a solid, first-hand familiarity with the events and people.  At that point, I had a narrative to follow.  I already knew about Ellen V Miles from the census. Now, I could verify the fact that she had been born a Shoemaker.

From there on, it was learning one lit bit of new info at a time and verifying, which led to other bits that could be verified. I also knew that the Bivens had been connected to the Shoemaker and Miles families through Nannie Elizabeth Shoemaker. So I set out to find documentation in the census, marriage and burial records for Jefferson County. At this time, I can’t get into the probates. No time to hit the Family History Library in Salt Lake, and the indexing hasn’t been done for Jefferson County by Family Search yet. The Probates for Jefferson are HUGE, and there aren’t individual indexes in the volumes, evidently.

CAVEAT: FindAGrave is not a dependable source of fact beyond the physical inscriptions read in the photographs of the actual gravestones. I have seen information in the “memorial” part either truncated so that only some of the engraved info shows on the memorial, or mistakenly transcribed. You also have to understand that the people BURYING your ancestor may not have had solid information themselves, and their guesses or wrongly transmitted information ended up literally set in stone.  The links added that describe family relationships: parents, wives and husbands, children, are added by members of the site – and may simply have been culled from “trees” on ancestry that were not founded on any documentation. Thus, anything you find on a memorial is suspect until you contact the researcher or check out the documents yourself to make sure they are solid. I’ve seen some seriously wrong info linked into these memorials.  Researchers like Russ and Christine Davis are glad to share their sources and open to new information – meaning that they are respectable, pleasant researchers who are really fun to deal with, and who I appreciate for their tremendous efforts 

It’s the same with Ancestry. Sometimes you will find someone like Bryan Smith, who has access to grass-roots family research that can supply details the documents do not. The details can still be tested against further research and proven. But many, many people on Ancestry think that “source” means simply  “where I got the information” rather than, “here is the document that is the source of true information.” My father entered a death date for someone in my family that was worse than ridiculous, considering the number of children she had after that date – but he didn’t realize he’d done it.  Now there are hundreds of “trees” on ancestry that proclaim that stupid wrong date – nobody even questioned it. They just copy from each other without even doing the math. So do NOT accept anything on Ancestry unless you see the proof.

——————————– End of James and Mary Bivens digression ———————

3.  Lottie: The Miles and a bit about the Shoemakers (This topic is kinda out of family order, but I got here because finding the Miles happened right after finding the Bivens.)

Now looking for Miles/ Biven docs:

I found a lot of jumping off points at Family Search Documents for further research. But I went to Ancestry for the documents, because you have more access to original document images there.

About James Eugene Miles and Nannie Shoemaker, his sister-in-law:

Alabama marriages 1816-1957 J.E. Miles and Ellen Shoemaker m 25 March 1903 in Jefferson Alabama.  He was b 1882 and was 21 at marriage.  She was born 1885 and was 18 at marriage. (WHOA – the information I got from census and cemetery and marriage about birth is wildly variant. I used the 1900 census and went by that, I think. The 1930 agrees with it in terms of year. Oh, and the headstone date reads this way, too – b 16 Jan 1881. That marriage doc had more than one mistake in it. Many transcriptions are, evidently, shopped out to people in non-English speaking countries. Cultural expectations of names makes the work roll along – when there aren’t any, the transcriptions can get very weird.)

 1910:

Alabama, Lawrence, Mt. Hope, 0084, i14 of 27 fam 130 (This is the ONLY time you see one of these families in Lawrence County. This is where they pick up Lottie. So maybe Nannie moved up there with the Rev. Lottie ends up marrying a Sneed from Lawrence County in the end. Wonder how long they were there?)

• Eugene Miles Head 27 M1 7 years  All Al all down
• Ellen N wife 27 M1 7 3 children 3 surviving
• Everett A or H son age: I think it says 6
• Louie son 3 son
• Lottie Biven 15 niece
• Samuel Miles Son 5/12 (this census was taken the 27^th of April) It clearly says Samuel. But James, in the next decade, is 10. She couldn’t have had a baby in Dec 1909 and another one in 1910 later, could she?

1920:

Alabama, Jefferson, Precinct 39, 158, pg 59/64 on Crumly’s Chapel Road (all three fams)

Fam: 670

• James R Shoemaker head 54  Al GA GA House Carpenter
• Mettie C. 48  AL AL GA   (I think her real name is Martha.)
• James B son 17  ALL AL on down
• Lonnie M 12

Fam 673

• Miles, James E 36 AL Al GA Laborer Coal Washer
• Ellen V wife 38
• Hershell E son 15
• Louis V son 13
• James E son 10 S This census was taken the 30 of January. So this has to be the same child.
• Pauline dtr 5
• Pauline dtr 5
• Mattie L or G 2 8/12

Fam 674

• Walter or Valter Miles S 21  AL AL AL all down  House Carpenter (Probably son of James R)
• Ethel N wife 21
• Martha A mother 58 (mother of head of household) WD

1930:

AL, Jeff, Prc 39 (right location) 188, 52/76 (See Margaret’s stuff below for the associated families included on this page:)

Fam: 589

• Arren E. Miles  66 m at 17
• Martha A wife  63 n at 15 Ga—–(Parents of James Eugene Miles)

Fam: 606  Bankhead Road

• James U Miles (U for Eugene, I’m guessing) 47 m at 19  AL AL AL
• Ellen V 49 m at 21  Al  GA TENN
• Harschel son 26 Single  All Al. Across and down.
• James E son 20 single
• Pauline dtr 15
• Mattie L dtr 12
• Julian A son 9
• Dannie J son 7

fam 610

• James R Shoemaker 64 Al Ga Ga
• Marietta 59 Al and their children.

1940

Ala, Jefferson, Other Places, 37-112 7/27  Bankhead Hwy Adamsville

fam 66:

• J. Eugene Miles 59
• Ellen S 58
• J Eudon son 30 Divorced  Buried in Crumly – b 30 Nov 1909 d 26 Oct 1987
• Dannie J son 17 S

Family Search’s doc search:

Julian’s death: Born: Crumley’s Chapel Birmingham, Alabama Died 30 Apr at 12 years 10 months 20 days.  Father born Williamsburg, Al.  Mother in Crumley’s Chapel, Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama.  Julian and fam were residing in Adamsville, Alabama when he died.  Buried at Crumley’s.

Alabama marriages: Mattie Lois Miles to James W Harden 24 Jul 1939 at Cullman Alabama He is 24 b. 1815.  Father: James P Harden. Mother: Myrtie Henley.  Mattie is 22 b 1917. Mattie’s father James E Miles – Mother Ellen Shoemaker.

1900 census:

James E Miles b april 1833 Alabama  Jefferson Alabama US.  Additional info parents: Irion Miles (ALABAMA) (This would be a phonetic spelling of Arren, said with an accent) and Martha Miles. (GA) Also Daisy Miles, Blanche, Hazel, Lucile and Nancy A Lovelady.

Alabama Deaths:

Julian Miles, son b. 10 Jun 1820? Williamsburg, Alabama d. 30 april 1933  Father James Eugene, mom Ellen Shoemaker

Alabama Deaths: James Eugene Miles death: 22 Aug 1964 Adamsville, Jefferson, Alabama  Parents: A.E. Miles, Mattie Jenkins.  He was 81 years old, b. 1883

Alabama Deaths: Louie Vernon Miles, child of James Eugene Miles and Ellen Shoemaker d. 28 Nov 1969 in Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama at 63. Md. To Nola Mae Miles.

Alabama county marriages:

James Eudon Miles, son of James Eugene Miles and Ellen Shoemaker m13 Aug 1941 in Jefferson, Alabama b. 1910 age 31 spouse: Evelyn Claire Ratchford 21 years old, b 1920. Her father: James Ed Ratchford mother: Nellie Florence Hackney

Pauline Miles M 28 Aug 1944 Jefferson she’s 29? B 1915 (I think the info got confused a little)  Her parents: James Eugene Miles and Ellen Viola Shoemaker.  Spouse: Ellis Leon Benefield 24 b year 1920?? Parents: Ellis Benefield and Linnie Onessa Huggins
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=64153980
Pauline Miles Benefield b. 10 Sep 1914 d 15 Sep 2000 The expected parents are indicated (Christina Davis) buried Crumly Chape Cemetery Forestdale, Jeff, Al.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=64151654  Ellis Leon “Jack” Benefield b. 18 June 1921 Alabama, d. 10 Aug 2008 Adamsville, Jeff, Al. Parents listed slightly different than above: Ellis Franklin Benefield (There are links to both) Odessa H Benefield.

****** Nannie E. Shoemaker m W.A. Bivens 5 Oct 1893. No more info in the marriage record. When did Lottie’s parents die, I wonder?

Ellen Shoemaker b 1885 m J.E. Miles 25 March 1903 Jefferson, Alabama she was 18.  He was 21.

(Still from Family Search record search) Ellen V Shoemaker b. Jan 1881 (1900 census dtr Alabama 116 prec 30, 39 Jefferson Ala)  Mother: Louisa A Shoemaker, also mentions Lattie Shoemaker. (This is where I go to Ancestry, so I can see the original record. The name is not LATTIE, you can see clearly that it’s LOTTIE.)

1900 census:

Ala, Jefferson prec 39 0116 pg 28 of 45 fam 482

• Louisa A Shoemaker Apr 1847 53 Widowed 5 children 4 living  Al Al Tenn
• Ellen V dtr b Jan 1891 19 single Alà
• Lottie  5 years old.  b. Sept 1894 Grand daughter  (What I wrote when I first saw this: there is no differentiation on the last name – but I’ll bet the farm this is Lottie Bivens)  

If there were more children born to William and Nannie, they’d have to have been born between June 1896 and before 1899, when Nannie died. I have found no unattributed graves in Bevins or Crumly.

The dates line up. The census lines up with Ellen V and her husband in 1910. And all of this proves Bryan’s mother’s research to be right on the money.

 Ellen’s cemetery and Find a Grave memorial:  http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSsr=1161&GScid=22377&GRid=64297494&CScn=crumly+chapel&CScntry=4&CSst=3&CScnty=62&    Ellen Viola Shoemaker Miles b. 16 Jan 1881 Crumley Chapel, Jefferson, Al  d. 19 Nov 1946 Homewood, Jefferson, Ala

Memorial mentions:

• Hurshall Everett (1904-1994)
• Louie Vernon (1906-1969)
• James Eudon (1909 – 1987) on same cemetery marker: Evelyn R. Miles   Nov 1919
• Pauline Miles Benefield (1914-2000) 10 Sep 1914 d. 15 Sep 2000 m Ellis Leon Benefield.
• Mattie Lois Miles Harden (1917-2008) b 30 Apr 1917 d. 18 Jan 2008 Obit Jan 20 2008     Birmingham News m James William Harden
• Julian (1920-1933)
• Danny Gene (1923 – 1997) US Navy WW !! b. 25 Jan 1923 d. 21 Dec 1997

http://www.hueytown.org/historical/cemeteries/Crumly_Chapel_Methodist_Church_Cemetery.pdf

The Cemetery record and Find a Grave memorial for Ellen’s husband, James Eugene Miles: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=64297501

James Eugene “Bud” Miles. B. 12 Apr 1883 Jefferson County, Al, d. 22 Aug 1964, Adamsville, Jefferson, Ala.  Memorial links assert that his parents were Arren Everett Miles and Martha Ann Jenkins Miles. I have not substantiated this by document yet (Now, I’m more sure). Christina Smith has linked to Arren’s memorial also in Crumly Chapel: B. 16 Dec, 1860 Alabama, d. 16 Mar 1943 Jefferson, Al and states that Arren was the son of James Miles.  Also someone has linked to Nancy Ann Miles Wells Lovelady (cool name).  A list of Arren’s children is also here.  Again, I have not substantiated by doc.  Arren’s father is said to be James Miles, his mother, Nancy Ann Lovelady who has a memorial: 3 Dec 1835 GA d. 11 Apr. 1920 Jefferson. Inscription (no photograph): Wife of Hiram Lovelady.  There is no link for him. Also in Crumly Chapel. Christina Smith has done a tremendous amount of work here.

4. The Shoemakers: Ellen and Nannie’s family.  Their mother has her own sections. (This section is next because it was because of the Miles that I did the work that brought me to the Shoemakers. But it’s out of order, too. Actually, we’re working backward in time. Which is confusing. But it’s in the order of discovery.)

We have been poking around the same little bitty area of Jefferson County, Alabama, for decades now and perhaps the most compelling truth here is found in the name clustering. These people lived in basically the same neighborhood for decades – all of them. If I had more time, I’d do the same thing with this area that I did in Abbeville, simply keep linking people until I recognize every surname and know all the circles of family in the area. But Aunt Lottie is not my blood line, and I just can’t linger here that long.

When this happens, this name clustering over decades, the probability of our family connection guesses becomes high.  Not absolute.

It is evident from census and marriage records that the family fate ends up in Crumly Chapel and its cemetery in Forestdale, Jefferson County. So I went there to see if I could find something about Louisa.

I found a memorial for L.A. Shoemaker (hoping she was Lousia A. Shoemaker) b. Apr 27, 1842 d. Aug 29, 1906. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=shoemaker&GSiman=1&GScid=22377&GRid=64297740&

The memorial attests that her spouse was Oliver Hammil Shoemaker, who I had no doubt I would also find in this cemetery – there is one huge Shoemaker memorial stone that says, “Father and Mother.”  The memorial further claims that their children include: Nannie Elizabeth Shoemaker Bivens, Margaret Althea Shoemaker Baker (buried at Crumly Chapel), and Ellen Viola Shoemaker Miles (also buried at Crumly Chapel – with husband and children listed).

O.H. Shoemaker marries Louisa A. Echols on 30 January 1873,

Oliver dies in 1884.  Louisa A. dies in 1906.

 1850:

*Alabama, Jefferson, Jonesboro 8/18

fam 5o

• Russum Shoemaker 25 M farmer from GA
• Elizabeth 25 F   GA
• Oliver H 2 AL  (born about 1848)
• Charles H or P 5/12  AL

1860

Alabama, Jefferson, Bivens 3/12

Fam 19:

• James A Biven 30  All Al all the way down
• Mary C 24
• Martha A. 5
• America J 3
• Mary L 5/12

Fam 20

• Oliver Shoemaker 33  (Russum’s brother do we think?)
• Mary 30
• Margaret C 11
• Sarah E 9
• Nancy J? 6
• Kitty A 2
• William L 7/12

*Ancestry.  Alabama, Jefferson, BIVENS,  p7/12

fam: 47

• Russom Shoemaker 37 farmer Ga  ( a few doors down from Echols)
• Elizabeth 32 GA
• Oliver H 12 Al  (all down) (b. about 1848)
• Charles T? 10
• Mary J 8
• Nancy E 5
• Sarah C 3
• John 11/12

1870

Alabama, Jefferson, twnshp 17 range 4, pg 3/15  (this is the same area as Bivens)

fam: 623

• R shoemaker 57  Ga
• E 50  Ga
• O. 23 Ala  M (born about 1847)
• CT? 20  M
• M J? 18 F
• E 16 F
• C 14 F
• John 12
• Wilson 10
• James? 6
• I  2

Fam 631

• Other Shoemakers, with only initials, All young 16,12,10,8

1880

Alabama, Jefferson, 71,

pg 5/24 (next page echols and arnetts)

• fam 40 Wm Shoemaker 42, Sam’l 18
• fam 42: C Shoemaker 30 with family (Including a Jasper)
• fam 43 B.N. Crumly with M Shoemaker 82, mother in law (Wife, Arabella 33 must have been Shoemaker)
• fam: 44 C.?H. Regan 57, Sarah 49
• fam 45: Mary Vandiver 66 with Julia Bivins, dtr 28 Mary Bivens dtr 25 (So Mary married a Bivens?)

fam 49 R. Shoemaker 54 farmer

• Elizabeth 47
• John M 20
• J.W. 18
• James 14
• Jasper 11
• Martha 9

pg7/24  fam 61

• O.H. Shoemaker 30
• *Louiza 37 AL–
• Nancy 6 dtr  all Al Ga Ga
• Margaret 4 dtr
• Rasa 2 dtr
• With S.J. Echols F 18. S daughter

1900:

Ala, Jefferson prec 39 0116 pg 28/45

fam 482

• *Louisa A Shoemaker Apr 1847 53 Widowed 5 children 4 living  Al Al Tenn
• *Ellen V dtr b Jan 1891 19 single Alà
• *Lottie (there is no differentiation on the last name – but I’ll bet the farm this is Lottie Bivens) She is Louisa’s GrandDTR  b. Sept 1894 5 years old Al

4a. The shoemakers’ Daughters:

We’ve already looked at Nancy (Nannie) Elizabeth Shoemaker Bivens who married the Reverand William A. Bivens. Not much to know about either of them.  And we’ve looked at Ellen Viola and James Eugene Miles, who functioned as Lottie’s parents. So that’s two daughters down.

 1900

Ala, Jefferson prec 39 0116 pg 28 of 45

fam 482

• Louisa A Shoemaker Apr 1847 53 Widowed 5 children 4 living  Al Al Tenn
• Ellen V dtr b Jan 1891 19 single Alà
• Lottie (there is no differentiation on the last name – but I’ll bet the farm this is Lottie Bivens) She is Louisa’s GrandDTR  b. Sept 1894 5 years old  Al

And remember: O.H. Shoemaker marries Louisa A. Echols on 30 January 1873,

Oliver dies in 1884.  Louisa A. dies in 1906.

Census says Lousia A Shoemaker had had 5 children, but only 4 were living at that point. She had S.J. Echols, then she had Nannie Shoemaker, Margaret Althea Shoemaker Baker (this was on the memorial.  and Ellen Viola Shoemaker Miles. In the 1880 census, there is Rasa, who is not there in 1900, but then, she’d have been 22. The memorial doesn’t mention her. So either this is someone outside the family who didn’t know about Rasa. Or she died so young, she was forgotten. Nannie had died before the 1900 census. So Rasa must still have been alive.)

4a-1: Margaret Althea Shoemaker:

F Search Marriages: Al 1816-1957:

• Ellen Shoemaker (b. 1885)  m. J.E. Miles  25 March 1903 Jefferson County
• Lethea Shoemaker 30 May 1895 Jefferson to J.W. Baker

Alabama Deaths and Burials Index ANC:

Margaret Aletha Baker b about 1875 d. 13 Nov 1951 Birmingham, Jefferson Co, Al 76 years. Father names : Shoemaker. Mother: Ludie Woods. (This explains the name posted on the memorial – Louisa Ludie Wood) FHL num 1908864

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=BAK&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=3&GScntry=4&GSsr=2761&GRid=64138901&  Margaret’s memorial and headstone: b. 13 Sep 1875 Jeff d. 13 Nov 1951 Birmingham.  Husband: James William Baker (List of children all who bear names in pattern)  Buried Crumly Chapel

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=64138912  James William Baker b Sept 22, 1874 Birmingham, Jeff, Al d. 18 Feb 1937 Fairfield, Jefferson County, Al. Memorial links assert that his parents were John Allen Baker (1839-1899) Mary Alberta Gossett Baker (1851-1922) Children:

• Ruel Ernest Baker 1896-1970
• James Raymond Baker (1898-1989)
• John Oliver Baker (1900-1903)
• Eythel Baker Blackwell (1908-1978)
• Noble Eugene Baker (1911-1978)
• Willie Belle Baker Shotts (1914 – 2001)

(All names so far unsubstantiated – need to be documented for my records – but haven’t been done yet.) More of Christina Smith’s massive work – or Christina, were these links? Can’t remember.

1900:

Alabama, Jeff, Prec 29 0112 pg 58 fam 627

• William Baker Sept 1874 25  m 5 years  Al Ga Ga
• Lithia wife Sept 1875 24 M 5 yrs.  Al Ga Al
• Renee Son or Reuel son March 1896 4  Al across and down.
• Ramond son Apr 1898 2

1910

Alabama, Jefferson, Prec 29, 0123 Pg 3

fam 27

• James W Baker 36 M 15 years  Al Al GA
• Lethea 34 M 15 years  AL all across and all down
• Renel E?? Son 14  Renee?  Reuel?
• James R son 11
• Mattie L dtr 6
• Frank O 4
• Mary E dtr 2

SS death index: Ruel Baker Birmingham b 10 Mar 1896 d May 1970

Alabama Deaths and B index Anc: Ruel E. Baker b bout 1896 d. 12 May 1970 Birmingham at 74 yrs old. Married Father: JW Baker mother Margaret Shoemaker

Wife: Lucille Baker FHL film 2033357

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=BAK&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=3&GScntry=4&GSsr=3641&GRid=64139391&  Dr. Ruel Ernest “Bud” Baker. b. 10 Mar 1896 Jefferson d. 12 May 1970. Memorial links (so far unsubstantiated by moi) wife: Francis Lucille MILES Baker.  List of children.  Crumly Chapel Cemetery

Frances Lucille Miles Baker – http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=64139302    Memorial links indicate parents to be Arren Everett Miles and Martha Ann Jenkins Miles

WWI reg: Ruel was married and an assistant chemist

According the Alabama Collected marriages 1816-1957: an R.E. Baker (Ruel Ernest, we assume – the birth dates are very close) married Lucille Miles. He was born 1897. Marriage 27 January 1917 in Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama

 1920

Ala, Jeff, Bay Vern, 169 5/20 fam 762  All Alabama across and down.

• James W (William) Baker 45
• Althea wife 44
• Martha dtr 16
• Frank Son 14
• Ethel dtr 11
• Eugene 8
• Eileen dtr 5
• William B? son 5
• Jack son 4 3/12?

(there is a Lithia Baker 1900 in Prc 29 m to William Baker with Renee who is 4 and a Ramond who is 2. This is not the correct family. So I don’t know whether the marriage recorded in these notes is for this family or ours.)– THIS IS WRONG. Turns out, the name is NOT Renee, but Ruel and he is their son.  And Ramond seems to be James’ last name. And they did live in Prec 29.

 1930

ALA, Jeff Prc 39 (right location) 188, 52/76 fam 590

• James W. Baker 55 m at 21  Al NC SC
• Margaret A wife 54 m at 20  Al US US
• Mary E dtr 20  Al all across and down
• Eugene son 18
• Willie B dtr 15

And here’s the amazing and predictable thing – who else should live on this same page but

Fam: 589

• Arren E. Miles  66 m at 17  (more evidence that Arren’s Lucille was the wife of Ruel Baker)
• Martha A wife  63 n at 15 Ga—–

fam 588

• William E Arnett 44 married at 23
• Blanche  wife 41 m at 20 (and this is, I will bet the farm on it, Blanche Miles, dtr of Eugene and Ellen Miles) with their children:
• Eva M 16
• Sammie L dtr 7
• Mary L dtr 4 i/12
• Mable A 4 1/12

Fam 585:

• Raymond Baker 32 m at 21
• Edna A wife 32 M at 21
• Maebelle 9
• Mary L dtr 7
• Earnest R son.

Lots here if you are a member of this line.  Just connect the dots. I wonder how many others of these surnames and families are intertwined with this bunch?  And this is a strong indication that the Margaret A we see here with James Williams Baker IS a part of the Miles/Shoemaker/Arnett/Echols/Bevins circle. Someone needs to call the library in the area and find out something about the area indicated as “Bevins” in that one census (Twnshp 17 range 4).  And on the next page, there are Vandivers.  And further down, another Baker family, another Miles family and at fam 606

4a-2: Shoemakers’ daughters: Rasa

In the 1880 census Alabama, Jefferson, 71, 7/24

fam 61

• O.H. Shoemaker 30
• Louiza 37 AL–
• Nancy 6 dtr  all Al Ga Ga
• Margaret 4 dtr
• Rasa 2 dtr  (born about 1878)
• With S.J. Echols F 18. S daughter

New notes:

In Family Tree, someone has listed a daughter, Rosa or Rose in this family. I am going to the records:

Ancestry: Alabama Deaths and Burials Index , 1881-1974 lists Lydia Rosie Lee Higgins. b. 9 Nov 1878  D. 6 Sept 1942 in Brimingham, Ala. Died at 63. She was married to M.A. Higgins.  Father’s name: Hamil Shoemaker. (This is Oliver Hammil Shoemaker) Mother’s name listed as Eliza Ann Woods (which is incorrect. Her mother is Louisa A – probably Ann. She was also called Ludie, which could sound like Lizzy and make someone think her name had been Eliza – Woods or Wood Echols.) Mother born in Alabama. FHL film 1908617.

There is a marriage (FS Al. Marriages 1816-1957) between Lydia Shoemaker and M.A. Higgins 11 April 1897 Wylam, Jefferson County, Alabama.

1900:

Alabama, Jeff, Prec 39, 0116 pg 43/45 fam 521:

• Asbury Higgins   March 1876   24 m 3 years
• Lydia wife     Nov 1878 21   M 3   2 births 2 living
• Maleria or maybe Malevia or Malenia dtr   Jan  1898  2 (Velera on her headstone.)
• Marion  son  Dec 1899 5/12

They are on a page with a Miles family and a Baker, among others. Not familiar branches, but certainly allied family names.

1910:

Alabama, Jefferson, Prec 49 fam 110

• Asbury Higgins 36 M 1 13 years Al Al Ga
• Lydia  wife 31 or 33  M1 13 years 6 births 5 living
• Vileria or Vilena dtr 12 (Velera on her headstone.)
• Marion Son 10
• Clyde son 7
• Clarence son 5 All Alabama above and across except for father.
• Also on page, other Higgins, Margaret Shoemaker head with children

1920:

Ala, Jeff, Mulga, 169 pg 22 fam 1154

• Marion A Higgins 45
• Lydie 41
• Mamie dtr 20 (they got totally mixed up on this one – I think the census taker misheard. This would be Marion, the oldest son)
• Clude son 18
• Clarence son 15
• Cora 9 (actually, Flora)
• John 7
• Bertha dtr 4
• Lucille dtr 1 6/12

 1930:

Ala, Jeff, prec 57 East Mulga fam 254?

• Asbury Higgins 54 M at 20 spelled Asberry/Asbery
• Liddie 51 m at 16
• Johnnie son 18 (Born abt 1912)
• Billie son 15 (Born about 1915)  (this is weird, because Bertha is the same age, but female, and she’s listed in 1920)
• Lucille dtr 18
• Rosie dtr 10
• Clarence son 25 M at 24
• Lottie M daughter in law 30 married at 29 (Marriage: Clarence Higgins 13 Nov 1829 to Lottie Mae Ellis FS Al marr 1816-1957

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=HIG&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=3&GScntry=4&GSsr=1601&GRid=41092308&  Lydia R Higgins b. 9 Nov 1878 D. 6 Sep 1942 Village Falls Cemetery Mulga Jefferson County, USA.

Links to Marion Asbury Higgins: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=41092309   Marion A. Higgins b. 1 Mar 1874 D. 1 June 1969. He links to other family info.

http://www.hueytown.org/historical/Families/James%20Thomas%20Higgins%20Descendants.pdf    An excellent account of the Higgins family by the Hueytown Historical society. Don’t know how accurate everything is, but it LOOKs good.

42.        iv.         MARION ASBURY HIGGINS, b. 1 March 1874, Jefferson Co., AL; d. 1 June 1969, Jefferson Co., AL.
42. MARION ASBURY5 HIGGINS (WILLIAM MARION4, JESSE3, JAMES THOMAS2, JAMES THOMAS1) was born 1 March 1874 in Jefferson Co., AL, and died 1 June 1969 in Jefferson Co., AL. He married LYDIA R. SHOEMAKER in Jefferson Co., AL. She was born 9 November 1878 in Jefferson Co., AL, and died 6 September 1942 in Jefferson Co., AL.
More About MARION ASBURY HIGGINS: Burial: Unknown, Village Falls Cemetery, Jefferson Co., AL
More About LYDIA R. SHOEMAKER: Burial: Unknown, Village Falls Cemetery, Jefferson Co., AL
Children of MARION HIGGINS and LYDIA SHOEMAKER are:
BILLY6 HIGGINS, b. Private.
ROSA HIGGINS, b. Private; m. FRED HUMPHRIES, Private; b. Private.
MARION H. HIGGINS, b. 5 December 1899, Jefferson Co., AL; d. 12 July 1980, Jefferson Co., AL.
CLYDE HIGGINS, b. 24 June 1902, Jefferson Co., AL; d. 20 April 1990, Jefferson Co., AL; m. MYRTLE M.; b. 16 November 1899, Jefferson Co., AL; d. 26 November 1993, Jefferson Co., AL.
More About CLYDE HIGGINS: Burial: Unknown, Village Falls Cemetery, Jefferson Co., AL
More About MYRTLE M.: Burial: Unknown, Village Falls Cemetery, Jefferson Co., AL
CLARENCE HIGGINS, SR., b. 26 November 1904, Jefferson Co., AL; d. 28 July 1972, Jefferson Co., AL.
More About CLARENCE HIGGINS, SR.: Burial: Unknown, Village Falls Cemetery, Jefferson Co., AL
FLORA HIGGINS, b. 7 January 1908, Jefferson Co., AL; d. 23 June 1909, Jefferson Co., AL.
More About FLORA HIGGINS: Burial: Unknown, Village Falls Cemetery, Jefferson Co., AL
JOHNNIE MORRIS HIGGINS, b. 19 February 1913, Jefferson Co., AL; d. 1 November 1936, Jefferson Co., AL.
More About JOHNNIE MORRIS HIGGINS: Burial: Unknown, Village Falls Cemetery, Jefferson Co., AL
VALENA HIGGINS, b. January 1898, Jefferson Co., AL; d. Unknown.

 I am assuming that “private” means that, at the time this history was put together, the person was still living. Bertha is not included in this list.

5. LOUISA A – Ellen and Nannie’s mother. Part One. Louisa as a child.

1850:

Alabama, Jefferson, Carrolsville, 1/6

fam 2

• William Goode 27 Al
• Nancy 33 TN (b. about 1817. In 1840, she’d have  been 23.)
• Francis J  F 10 Al on down
• *Louisa  8
• Penelope  E 4
• James L 1

 1860

Alabama, Jefferson, Bivens, pg2/12

fam 10:

• William Goode 37 AL
• Nancy A 40  TENN
• Penelope E 13  ALà on down
• James F 11
• John E 8
• Martha M 4
• Nancy F 1
• *Louisa Wood 18 By the way – the Ancestry transcription says “Woods,” but the entry does say Wood. There is a ditto mark at the end of the name that gives the appearance of an “S.”

5a. Louisa Part Two: the Echols

Turns out, you have to go through the census for several decades, linking layers of children through the Wood, Echols and Shoemaker families and comparing dates and places in order to understand who this woman is.

Jefferson County Alabama marriage:

Jesse N. Echols 30 June 1861 Louisa N. Wood. (The initial is probably a transcription problem. By the way, you don’t always want to say that, but when you have enough corroborating evidence, then you can.)

1850

Alabama, Jefferson, Carrolsville 5/6 fam 36

• John Echols 46 GA
• Sarah 33 SC
• Theron? N 11 AL (on down)
• *Jesse N 10
• John N or M or W 8
• Mary E 6
• Charles L 4
• James F 3
• Nancy C 0

Alabama, Jefferson, Carrolsville, 1/6  fam 2

• William Goode 27 Al
• Nancy 33 TN (b. about 1817. In 1840, she’d have  been 23.)
• Francis J  F 10 Al on down
• *Louisa  8

Penelope  E 4

James L

1860:

BIVENS, Jefferson, Ala i7/12 fam 46 (right next door to Russum Shoemaker.)

• John Echols 55
• Sarah 43
• Theron 21
• *Jesse N 20
• John W 18
• Mary 16
• Charles 14
• James 13
• Nancy 11

A word here about John Echols.  I have not yet verified any of the following info. I take the inscription dates, even knowing that sometimes the people who tell the carver what to carve don’t have the right information. You can only do so much to prove” things. But the children and the dates/places are something I like to verify when I can. Haven’t yet.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Echols&GSiman=1&GScid=22377&GRid=64296898&   John Echols’ Crumly Chapel Cemetery memorial in Jefferson, Al. The memorial is titled “John Jackson Echols,” but the stone simply says “John Echols.” B.23 Nov 1804 d. 26 April 1886. Information supplied by Christina Davis. Links by whomever. Says he was born Habersham County, GA, died in Jeff. Father: John Echols 1758-1828 Mother: Nancy Murrell (1758-1828) Children: Isaac Newton Echols,(Isaac Newton – really? Intereesting.) Jesse N Echols (father of Sarah, husband of Louisa A. Wood), John W. Echols, James F. John Echols, of this record, Married 1 Oct. 1837 in Habersham, GA to Sarah Regan Echols. Children links include Theran Newton Echols, Mary Elizabeth Echols May (1845-1903), Nancy C Echols Brown (1849-1914). The question of Theron and Isaac is interesting – but Theron is the name that shows up in the census. Theran was born in 1839, so I’m not anticipating that there was another child with that middle name before him. No Isaac shows up in the census.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=64296903  Sarah Regan Echols’ memorial. B 17 Apr 1816 Newberry, South Carolina (my old stomping ground). D. 9 Jan 1883 in Jeff. Links assert that her parents were James Regan (1793-1877) and Catherine Crumley Regan (1774-1877) and that her husband was John Jackson Echols. Children links include Charles L Echols (1845-1903)

There are three John Echols listed under Jefferson County in 1840. The third, pg 6 of the census, seems to be the only fit. This one has two boys under five, a man of 30-39, which fits beautifully, and a woman of 10-29. Sarah would have been 23. So this looks good. There were some Fields on the page, but I didn’t recognize any other names.

KIDS:

Theran Newton  Echols: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=EC&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=3&GScntry=4&GSsr=361&GRid=64296904&B. 12 Oct 1838 D. Dec 24, 1862 Inscript: son of John and Sarah Echols, died in Ringold, GA.

Mary Elizabeth Echols, daughter of John Echols, md. B.W. May on 14 Mar 1861 (FS Alabama Marriages). http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=64297432 Memorial at Crumly Chapel: Wife of Benjamin Wofford May (1842-1929) Mary: b. 24 Nov 1843 d. 1 May 1914. He was evidently a Rev.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=64296895 Charles L Echols at Crumly Chapel: b. 19 Aug 1845 d. 15 Feb 1903.  Marriage records: m. Martha J Jones 25 Nov 1869 Jeff

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=64296628Nancy C Echols’ memorial at Crumly Chapel. No picture of headstone. B. 8 Oct 1849 Jeff d. 7 Apr 1914. Child: Jasper Nixson Brown (1881-1930) not verified.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Echols&GSiman=1&GScnty=62&GRid=18512392&James F Echols. Inscription b. 27 Feb 1847 d. 3 Oct 1921 age 74 years. Nothing on the memorial. I am trusting that he is John’s son because the date and middle initial line up with the census. And there are no other James F Echols in Jefferson or in Alabama with that birth year listed in the census. Marriage records: Md. S.A> Thompson 2 December 1869.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Echols&GSiman=1&GScnty=62&GSsr=41&GRid=92346550& John W. Echols. Brd Hillview Baptist Church Cemetery.  No picture of headstone. B. Oct 26, 1841 d 22 Jun 1930 Links: Spouse: Mary B Echols (1855-1911.) Note Son of John Jackson Echols and Sarah Riggins/Regan. No documentation. Link to spouse: 14 Oct 1855-31 Jan 1911.  Marriage records: John W. Echols md 5 June 1862 Martha A. Bivens, dtr of Calaway Bivens and on 23 October 1873 md. Mary B O’Gwin.  There are no other marriages recorded for him.

1860?

Alabama, Jefferson, Bivens, pg2/12

fam 10:

• William Goode 37 AL
• Nancy A 40  TENN
• Penelope E 13  ALà on down
• James F 11
• John E 8
• Martha M 4
• Nancy F 1
• *Louisa Wood 18 By the way – the Ancestry transcription says “Woods,” but the entry does say Wood. There is a ditto mark at the end of the name that gives the appearance of an “S.”

There is an L.A. Echols in the Alabama State Census of 1866. Those state census just don’t tell you a dang thing. It’s on page 29.  I’m looking at the original now in Ancestry. It’s image 25 there, Jefferson.  Top of page: Elizabeth Shoemaker 4 males under 10, 1 under 20.  L.A. Echols is at bottom of page: 1 male 20-30 1 female under 10, one up to 20. If this is Louisa, she was born in 1842 – so she’d be over 20 at that point. And who would that male be? Still, I find no other L.A. Echols in any census – wait in 1866 in Talapaloosa there are two. But there’s no J.N. or Jesse or Louisa anywhere. And she’s gotta be there. Maybe living with the Echols?  I HATE the tick mark thing in the census.

Louisa and Jesse never show up in the federal census, and this is why:  Jesse joins the Alabama 23^rd battalion in 1862. Civil war records show that he was taken prisoner – I think that very year in Mississippi. They also show that he was exchanged in June of 1863. But a later record states that he was transferred to Camp Douglass in Chicago on December 24^th, 1864. That’s a hard thing; they say one in seven prisoners died there

The compiled records (which I have not seen, because I am not subscribed to “Fold”) state that he enlisted in 1862. Before the baby or after?

Found on the net. This person is trying to decide if this J.N. is Jesse N. I don’t think so. All the records seem to indicate that he was only in the 23^rd.  And this nurse person was in the 18^th.

http://www.hueytown.org/historical/Military/18th_Alabama_Infantry_Co_G_Roster.pdf

Echols, J. N.

Private Enlisted July 29, 1861 Jonesboro, Jefferson County, Alabama by Haughey. Nov 14, 1861 – Assigned to Hospital as a nurse by order of surgeon. Dec 15, 1861 – Discharged as nurse from hospital. October 1863 at hospital Dalton, Georgia

Gun shot wound calf of left leg. (End of Regimental Record)

A J. N. Echols married Elizabeth Roberts on September 14, 1872 in Jefferson County, Alabama. (This is not our guy, but it may be the soldier described above.)

18th Alabama Infantry Co. G Roster

Another web finding:  http://boards.ancestry.com/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=115&p=surnames.echols

Jesse N Echols was born in 1840,Al. He his 2 brothers, Theron N., and John W.Echols joined the Confederate Army. Jesse was a POW is buried in Chicago City Cemetery grave 1126 bk3. (His bro,John,is my family line. I found the info at the Nat Archives in Wash DC in the confederate files AND the Civil War Pension files (because John was a “galvanized yankee”.)Sorry I don’t have the documentation at my finger tips–will check further. Hope we can enlarge our families! Molly –az5mollyrph

Thanks for responding, Molly. I have Jesse’s father John (Jack) Echols b. 23Nov 1804, d.28 Apr 1886, and his mother Sarah (Sally) Regan, daughter of James and Catherine Regan, b.17 Apr 1816, d.9 Jan1888. Do you have anything prior?

 Hi Jean, Sally Regan’s mother was a Crumly before she married James Regan about 1810. She was born about 1790 and died about 1830. James was born 9/15/1783 and died 3/10/1877.   Sandy

Me – Kristen: His family was buried in Crumly Chapel Methodist Cemetery.

There is, indeed, a J.N. Echols buried in Oak Woods Cemetery in Cook County, Il. Of the 6000 dead confederate prisoners, 4200 are named on one huge memorial in the cemetery. The graves were moved from the Chicago City Cemetery to this new location due to ground water contamination concerns. The records of the burials are closed to the public, but you can call to get what info there may be to find.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSiman=1&GScid=173554&GSfn=&GSln=Echols

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Echols&GSiman=1&GScid=173554&GRid=37624742&

Inscription:  G 23 Alabama.  Note: Confederate Mound.

So this is our boy, from the 23^rd Alabama. How sad is that?

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5a-1. Louisa and Jesse’s daughter

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=64296810   Sarah Jane Echols’ memorial.

Christina says father Jesse Newton Echols. Link says: Samuel Martin Arnett.

Child list says:

• Claudia Lee Arnett 1883-1885 – will not show up in census
• Williiam Eretic Arnett (1885-1944)
• Samual Martin Arnteett (1886-1966)
• Annie Crumly Greenway (1896-1984) 27 Aug 1896 Jeff d 11 May 1984 Jeff

1880

Alabama, Jefferson, 71, pg7/24

fam 61

• O.H. Shoemaker 30
• Louiza 37 AL–
• Nancy 6 dtr  all Al Ga Ga
• Margaret 4 dtr
• Rasa 2 dtr
• With S.J. Echols F 18. S daughter

 To interprit: Louisa A. Echols loses her husband to Camp Douglass after 1864. He enlisted in  the confederate army in 1862. His daughter was born in 1862. Did he leave before or after the baby was born? And poor Louisa – left with a newborn, alone. I have combed through Jefferson County, looking for her with that baby, by then eight years old, in the 1870 census and have come up utterly empty. But as you see above,  there she is in the 1880s, Sarah Jane Echols, the step daughter of Oliver H. Shoemaker, older half sister to the Shoemaker girls. Took some looking, and again, I thank Ancestry’s search engine that makes some of these oblique connections, and is right enough to move the story along. It led me to Christina Smith’s memorial in Crumly Cemetery, Jefferson, Alabama.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=CRU&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=3&GScntry=4&GSsr=601&GRid=64296810&  The memorial is not written as I would expect it to be. Sarah Jane Echols Arnett Crumly is the way I would write it.   b. 28 Jun 1862 Jefferson, Co.  d. 6 Jun 1910 Jefferson, Ala    Inscription: Sarah Jane Crumly

5a-1-1. Louisa’s daughter part 2: who are the Arnetts?

In the tradition of the women in this family, Sarah Jane married once and lost her husband early. Then married again, another home boy:

FS Alabama Marriages 1816-1957.  Samuel M. Arnett  m. 15^th Dec 1881 Sarah Jane Echols in Jefferson.  Then:

J.W. Crumley  12 Sept 1889 Jefferson County, m. S.J. Arnett.

1880:

Alabama Jefferson, Not stated, 071 pg 6/24

fam53:

• William Arnet 45  SC  SC
• Millie 42  AL AL KY
• Margaret 24  — SC AL
• *Samuel M 19
• John W 15

Fam 54: (I don’t know who this is. I include it to show that the Echols and the Arnetts were neighbors.)

• M Echols 24
• Mary 21
• Jason 6/12

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=64297065   Annie Crumly Greenway

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=64126415    Claudia Lee Arnett b July 26 1883 Jeff d. 29 Jun 1885 Jeff Inscription: dtr of S.M. and S.J. Arnett

William Erestic “Willie” Arnett b. 15 May 1885 d. 9 Apr 1944 Fairfield, Jefferson, Al  wife: Leola Blanch Miles Arnett (1888-1936)  She was Arren Everett Mile’s daughter.

Samuel Martin Arnett:  3 Aug 1886 Birmingham Jeff d 9 Jul 1966 Birmingham.  Spouse: Daisy MILES Arnett   (Arren’s daughter). Children: Nellie Dean Arnett Pepper, Lehman Everyett Arnett, Frances Arnett Ragon.

Ancestry’s Engine threw me this when I searched for S.J. Echols:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=64126651  Samuel Martin Arnett, Sr.  There is no photograph of the headstone for this grave.  B. Jul 29, 1860 D. 14 September 1886  Other info, I have not documented: parents William J Arnett (1835-1887) Millie Young Arnett (1838-1920). Crumly Chapel Cemetery. Forestdale, Jefferson.

 5a-1-2.  Louisa’s daughter part 3: Who are the Crumlys?

 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=CRU&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=3&GScntry=4&GSsr=601&GRid=64296802&  John Wesley Cumly’s memorial: Christina Smith:  Inscript: At rest John Wesley Crumly b. Aug 1 1863  d.April 16 1913.  Christina says:  Parents: Charles Wesley Crumly (1834-1920)  Nancy Jerusha Bivens Crumly (1842-1905) Daughter of Robert and Martha Linn Bivens.  Spouse: Sara Jane Echols Arnett Crumly.  Children: Annie Crumly Greenway (1896-1984).  Buried at Cruly Chapel Cemetery, Forestdale, Jefferson

1900

Alabama, Jefferson pre 39 pg 28/45  Fam 484:

• John W. Crumley  aug 1862  37 M 11 years  Al Ga Ga (married in 1889?)
• Sarah J  wife June  1862  37 M 11 years  6 children, 5 living  AL à down
• William E  son may 1885 15 (born 4 years before this marriage and so is an Arnett. Again, they don’t differentiate; it drives me nuts that they don’t identify the kids with their birth surnames.
•  I can find no previous marriage for John Crumley, so I believe William E, which is a Bevins family name, to be Sarah Jane Echols Arnett’s boy)
• Sam’l M  son aug 1886 (An Arnett – named after his father, obviously.)
• M Myrtle dtr July 1889 10 (Arnett assuming John had never been married. She was born months before the marriage.)
• Jesse Wesley  son  March 1892 8 (marked “jr.” in 1910 so maybe this is John, but in 1910, he calls himself Jessie – though it looks like Gerrie. It’s . He’s their oldest child.)
• Ann Belle dtr Aug 1895 4

fam 482

• *Louisa A Shoemaker Apr 1847 53 Widowed 5 children 4 living  Al Al Tenn
• Ellen V dtr b Jan 1891 19 single Alà
• Lottie (there is no differentiation on the last name – but I’ll bet the farm this is Lottie Bivens) She is Louisa’s GrandDTR  b. Sept 1894 5 years old Al

1910

• Ala, Jess Prc 39, 0133 p21 fam78
• J.W. Crumly sr? 47  Al Ga Al
• S.J. wife  47  had 7 children 6 surviving.  Al Ga Ga (looks like John’s info. Census taker was off a line?)
• J.W. jr. son 17
• Annie? dtr 13
• Ellie dtr 9

1920  (both parents had died by this time)

Alabama, Jefferson, Precinct 39, 158 29/62

Fam 332

• Jessie Crumly 26 M All Alabama, all the way down
• Ordis E wife 26
• Harold J 2
• Ellen (sister) 18 Single

ELLEN’S FAMILY:

I do not find another Ellen Crumly in this census. Not in Alabama.

Family Search Al marriages 1816 – Ellen Crumley b. 1901 Marries John Oscar Covin 28 June 1927.  They were both 26. Married in Docena, Jefferson. But some records say Birmingham, Jefferson, Al.

http://www.brasfield.net/getperson.php?personID=I17602&tree=1000

In the Brasfield-Brassfield genealogies. Evidently set up by a living relative:  Martha Lou Ellen Crumly.  27 Mar 1901 d. 28 Nov 1990.  Father: John Wesley Crumly 1 Aug 1863 d. 16 Apr 1913.  Mother: Sara Jane Echols b. 28 Jun 1862  John Oscar Covin b 16 Jul 1900 d. 21 Feb 1967  Children: living.

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/CRUMLEY/2003-06/1054558963From: Jeanied49@cs.com [mailto:Jeanied49@cs.com]  Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 11:13 AM To: donna.hamby@oracle.com Subject: (no subject)

FYI: Annie Bell Crumly was my mother’s sister; she was born in 1896, and married John M. Greenway. She was the daughter of John Wesley Crumly and Sara Jane Echols Arnett. Don’t know who the Annie Crumly you show as married to George Taylor and dying in 1901 was, but she definitely wasn’t the daughter of John and Sara Jane. My mother was the youngest child and her name was Martha Lou Ellen; she married John Oscar Covin of Willington, SC in 1927.

6. Louisa A. Wood Echols Shoemaker. Her father: Thomas Wood. Her mother: Nancy McClintock.

1850 Alabama, Jefferson, Carrolsville, 1/6  fam 2

• William Goode 27 Al
• *Nancy 33 TN (b. about 1817. In 1840, she’d have  been 23.)
• Francis J  F 10 Al on down
• Louisa  8
• Penelope  E 4
• James L 1

1860

Alabama, Jefferson, Bivens, 2/12

fam 10:

• William Goode 37 AL
• *Nancy A 40  TENN
• Penelope E 13  AL on down (born about 1847)  This is the name of Nancy’s sister – but that comes later.
• James F 11
• John E 8
• Martha M 4
• Nancy F 1
• Louisa Wood 18 By the way – the Ancestry transcription says “Woods,” but the entry does say Wood. There is a ditto mark at the end of the name that gives the appearance of an “S.” (born about 1842)

We learn from this series pf census entries that Louisa (who was 8 in 1850 and is 18 in 1860 and who is evidently known in her life as ”Ludie,”) is clearly separated from the other children in the Goode family by a surname peculiar to her: WOOD. This suggests strongly that she is a step daughter, daughter of the wife, but not the husband.   Which would make her mother’s name Wood.  But it would also indicate that this is at least a second marriage for her mother, unless Louisa was born out of wedlock, which we are not going to assume.  Looking again at the marriage records:

MARRIAGE RECORDS, Jefferson County, Alabama – Book 2, page 250 William Goode to Nancy Wood. September 14, 1844

Book 2, page 116 Thomas Wood to Nancy McClintock, 28 November 1839. By W.W, Bagley, J.P.

There are actually a couple of Wood marriages to Nancys in Jefferson around this time. So we can’t make any real conclusions yet. (But I did find information on this couple.)

Alabama Marriages FamilySearch  1816-1957

• William Good  m. 12 September 1844 Nancy Wood
• William Goode m 11 Dec 1869 Milly Hammons or Hammonds (after the death of Nancy)
• Thomas Wood m. Nancy McClintock March 1839 Jefferson County, AL
• Penelope Ann McClintock 9 August 1838 Jefferson County M James H Youngblood (Nancy’s sister, I think)

Also from Ancestry somewhere: MARRIAGE RECORDS, Jefferson County, Alabama

• Book 2, page 96 Levi Myrick to Mary Wood, May 10, 1839. By W.W, Bagley, J.P.
• Book 2, page 116 Thomas Wood to Nancy McClintock, 28 November 1839. By W.W, Bagley, J.P.
• Book 2, page 250 William Goode to Nancy Wood. September 14, 1844
• Book 2, page 96 A.J. Waldrop, J.P., performed marriage May 12, 1839. (See Civil War records, Elizabeth Wood).
• Book 1, page 329 John H. Wood performed marriage as J.P. 29 October, 1828
• Information gathered from documents sent from Eva Payne and by docmaples to Maples Wood Family Tree on Ancestry.com.

Got this from Ancestry, but didn’t get the address:

Hi,  My mother was/is a Goode and Daisey lived right down the road from her. William Goode (b1823) married Nancy Wood (b1817,TN) and had children

• John C (my great-great grandfather) b.1852
• Martha Minerva
• Penelope (step-child)
• Fances (step-child)
• James
• John C (E) marries Nancy Foster and they have a number of children including James (the one you are interested in)  Henry Harrison (my great-grandfather) who marries 2nd wife Frances Magnola Brake.

Staci Glover  (Ancestry board)

A little more about William Goode:

U.S. Census non-population schedules 1850-80 Ancestry Agriculture 1860: Alabama, Jefferson, Bevens 1/4

• Line 7: William Goode – he did middling well. 1 horse 13 swine several cattle 240 acres, 25 improvoed.
• Line 16: James A Bivens who has the same acreage but has 2 horses, which means I like him better.
• Line 17: Oliver Shoemaker  90 more acres 2 horses
• Line 20: William Arnett 280 acres  NO HORSES
• Line 31: Robert Bivens 491 acres 50 improved 2 horses 35 pigs!
• Line 38: John Echols 180 80 improved acres 8 horses. Now, THAT’s a farm.
• Line 39: Russum Shoemaker 360 acres, 80 improved 3 horses.
• Line 40: Mary A Vandiver 120 acres 25 improved  2 horses.
• Next page: Crumlys, Hix, Vines etc.

This just shows you how clustered these families were.

Was a corporal in the confederate army. Comp I, 54^th Infantry Reg, Alabama

IRS Tax assessment list 1866. William is in Elyton. Taxed for his buggy.

He married Millie Hammonds in 1869 in Jefferson

1910:

Alabama, Jefferson, Prc. 28

Fam 69:

• William Goode  March 1823 77 M30 years  Al  KY  KY  Farmer
• Millie wife Aug 1835 64 M30 years 5 births 2 or 3 (not legible) living  Al SC SC
• William T July 1877 22 M 2 years  AL AL AL  Coal miner
• Miranda M d-I-law January 1880 20 M 2 years 2 births 2 living
• William A Grandson Sept 1898 1
• Minnie V Gr Daughter Oct 1899 7/12  Al AL AL (and all above between)
• James T grandson Feb 1878 21  Al Al GA  Coal Miner
• Boarders: Mathew A Tarrant, Seaborn S Sloan, Jon W Belcher

I don’t see him in the search after this census.

6a. Louisa’s mother: Nancy McClintock

1850:

Ala, Jeff, Carrolsville – the entire area fits into 6 pages.

Pg 1:

Fam 2:

• William Goode 27 1823 Al
• Nancy Goode 33 1817 Tenn
• Francis J 10 1840 Al
• Louisa A 1842 Al (then the rest of their children, mentioned elsewhere)

So – just to make a point, Nancy is Nancy Wood Goode. Actually, of course, she’s Nancy McClintock Wood Goode, but that doesn’t sound as fun.

Pg 3:

• A Crumley family.

Pg 5

fam 36

• John Echols 46 GA
• Sarah 33 SC
• Theron N 11 AL (on down)
• Jesse N 10
• John N or M or W 8
• Mary E 6
• Charles L 4
• James F 3
• Nancy C 0

FAM: 38

• John McClintic 66 1794 Tenn
• John A 25 1825 Tenn
• James 23 1827 Tenn
• Saml R 17 1833  Tenn

And this is pretty obviously Nancy and Penelope’s family.  Just need a smoking gun. The problem is that we can’t go any earlier for names in the census. What we need is a probate for John McClintock.

Anc: Marriage records: John McClintic married Nancy Glen 4 July 1850 in Shelby, Alabama. (there just aren’t that many listings for this family by any spelling)

1850 Alabama, Jefferson, Elyton, pg4/11  Yeah – not sure this is right.

fam 19

• Elias Glenn 38  SC  — and family
• Wife 36 KY (doesn’t line up with census below)
•  Nancy 14  Al

1880:

Alabama, Jefferson, Not stated, 175   pg 17/18 Twnship 14 or 19  Range 6 (which seems familiar and right)

Fam: 143

• John Mc Clintoc(k?) 55  Tenn NC Tenn
• Nancy wife 47?  Al SC SC
• Minnie 25  Al Tenn AL  all down.
• Sarah 27
• Emma 16
• Louisa 12  AL Tenn Tenn (the only one with this)
• Bettie 10
• Harriet 6
• Marge 3
• John 6/12 b. Jan son
• (a couple of Saterfields nearby. No familiar names yet)

1900

Alabama, Jeff, Prec 41 Dist 0110 7/8  Fam 449

• McClintick, J.A. Aug 1827 72 M 49 years Tenn NC Tenn  Farmer.
• Nancy Dec 1836 63 m49  12 births 8 living kids Al SC AL
• Emma? Dtr Jan 1874 26  AL Tenn Al all down.
• Bettie dtr Apr 1877 23
• Mollie dtr June 1878 21
• John T son Jan 1882 18 S

1840 Jeff, John B McClinton p. 13/60  2 boys under 5, 1 under 10 im-40 1 –50  1 f –5 1-10 1-15 1-30 1-40.  Land office records: John B McClinton 16 Oct 1834 Huntsville mer bought 40.9 acres Shelby, Al. Twnshp 20 S r 2 e sec 18 Tuscaloosa office.  1 Oct 1835 39.92 acres Huntsvill meridian Jefferson Alabama Twn 19-s R 5 – w sec 14 Tuscaloosa.  Fed Mortality Schedules 1850-60: John B McClinton 1850 Jefferson County Al, 45 date b. SC. Not the right guy then. Suicide. How sad.

From Gen forum: Melba Clark (ID *****2973 Melba Clarke January 03, 2004   mjrclark at Yahoo.com –  “Do you have any dates and/or locations for this Nancy Kilpatrick & John McClintock?”  (She got no answers)

 I am looking for the parents and/or siblings of a Nancy A. McClintock [b 1817-1820 in TN/AL].  Nancy married 1] Thomas Wood 28 Mar 1839; 2] William Goode 14 Sep 1844; both in Jefferson Co., AL.  Nancy died somteime between the taking of the 1860 census and William Goode’s second marriage on 4 Nov 1869.  Nancy’s children were:

• Wood: Frances Jane and Louisa;
• Goode: Mary Penelope Elizabeth, James F., John E., Martha Minerva Goode, Nancy Florence b 1859.

Burials at Oxmoor Heights Cemetery: Bluff Park, Jefferson County (On the south east side of Birmingham, a diagonal from Adamsville and what I believe to have been Bivens. All are McClintocks.

• John A. McClintock b. Aug 25, 1826 d 28 May 1906 no further info on memorial. He was the husband of Nancy below.
• Nancy McClintock.  6 Dec 1836 d 23 Sept 1912
• John T.    b. 1881 d 1952 (Our father, at rest) (Son of John and Nancy)
• Evie b. 1887 d. 1946   (Our mother, wife of J.T. at rest) (Wife of John T.)
• Horace A.   b. 28 Aug 1913 d 25 Nov 1971 Pvt US Army WWII  (son of John T?)
• Eris S McClintock 12 Nov 1923 d. 19 Jan 1978

6a-1: Nancy and Thomas’ two daughters. One was Louisa A Wood. The other was Francis Jane Wood.

Louisa, we have covered. Exhaustively.

The eldest daughter in William Goode’s family is Francis, b 1840 – and I thought I could find out if she was a Wood or not by looking at marriages. There’s no Fanny Goode at all. And I found these: Marriage between F.A. Wood and A.G. Bates 6 March 1860.  Fanny Wood and David McSpeeden? No date. Hunting for bears. Strange. Took place in Jefferson. But honestly, otherwise, she has vanished by 1860.

About FRANCIS WOOD:

http://www.marriott.com/hotelwebsites/us/b/bhmhv/bhmhv_pdfs/Ross%20Bridge%20History.pdf

Welcome to the Renaissance Ross Bridge Golf Resort & Spa. Though the resort is young, opening in mid-2005, the land and heritage of the family who settled on this land gives depth to an authentic story that lives throughout the resort.

 According to the 1790 census, there were 38 Ross families in the Palmetto state; among them was Elias Ross, a rice farmer in Orangeburg. Elias Ross had a number of children, including James Taylor Ross who would later move west to Alabama to settle the area in southern Jefferson County that now bears his name.

James Taylor Ross was a schoolteacher in South Carolina in the years before he married Mary Louisa Coward in 1836. In 1858, they moved west to Alabama, settling alongside the native American tribes of the region. J.T. Ross’s wife, Mary Louisa Coward, was part Cherokee Indian. She married James Taylor Ross in 1836, and they had four sons:

William Elias Ross (nicknamed “Ellis”)

Andrew Campbell Ross

John M. Ross Albert Alexander Ross (nicknamed “Alec”)

James Taylor Ross purchased more than 140 acres in 1858 in the land south of Oxmoor, near Shannon. His immigration to the state was not unusual, as about 15 percent of the people in Alabama at the time had migrated to the state from South Carolina.

J.T. Ross farmed cotton, a common crop in those times. Martha Ella Ross Dunham, J.T. Ross’s granddaughter wrote of “exploring the wild woods” of Alabama on horseback with her grandfather “look- ing for deer, wild pigs, and bees.” She remembered “climbing up on high steep places where there were no roads and looking down on valleys and hollows”.

Martha Dunham also writes of him “raising cattle”, and his love of “the country and wild life”. James Taylor Ross died in 1890, and is buried at Union Baptist Church in Lipscomb, just 8.3 miles east of the Renaissance Ross Bridge Resort.

All four of James Taylor Ross’ sons fought in the Confederate Army. William enlisted on July 15th, 1861 and was discharged in 1865. He was wounded in battle near Fort Morgan, according to his niece, Martha Dunham.

Andrew Campbell Ross, enlisted in the Calvary in April of 1861 under General Nathan Bedford Forrest. According to his daughter, Andrew Ross fought in many battles, including Chickamauga and Lookout Mountain. Despite engaging in some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Andrew was never wounded, a feat duplicated by few.

Andrew Campbell Ross married Frances Jane Wood and they had seven children, one of which was Martha Ella Ross Dunham. Mrs. Dunham made a few notes on August 10th, 1951 about the Ross family, which form the basis for much of what is known about the Ross family once J.T. Ross moved to Alabama.

By accounts, Andrew Campbell, unlike his older brother, stayed closer to home and helped his father with the farm. Andrew came back home after the War, ran a grocery store in Jonesboro (today’s Bessemer), farmed, worked as a timber contractor for the L & N Railroad, and ran a commissary at Brock’s Gap. He was an industrious man who assessed the situation and utilized it for his benefit.

Andrew Campbell lost his first wife and remarried Laura Harrell, who is described by Mrs. Dunham as an “old maid.” Prior to remarriage, he relocated to Helena, Alabama around 1876. His second wife took care of his four children still at home, and after she died he married a third time. Mrs. Dunham describes this marriage as “unfortunate,” and Andrew Campbell died shortly after his wedding.

6a-2: Penelope Ann McClintock, who I suspect to be Nancy McClintock’s sister:

Penelope Ann McClintock 9 August 1838 Jefferson County M James H Youngblood (Nancy’s sister, I think)

1850

in Five-Mile, Jefferson, Alabama – 15 pages. I including other families to demonstrate the tight proximity all of these families live in. So the probability of our having found the correct connecting families is very high.

Pr. 2

Fam 10: Francis Wyley 70 1780 Male SC with wife and

Sarah Youngblood 20, 1830 AL

Fam 15.

• James H Youngbood 33 1817 Tenn
• Penelope 28 1822 Tenn  (Penelope McClintock)
• Nathaniel 9 1841 AL
• John T 5 1846 Ala
• Nancy J 1 1849 Al  (Interesting – Nancy J is the name of Nancy J McClintock who married Thomas Wood.  And who I figure was Penelope McClintock’s sister. Remember the marriages above here.

Pg. 3

Fam: 19

• Robert Bivens 46 1804 Kentucky
• Martha 25 1825 AL
• James A 20 1830 AL
• Elizabeth J 19 1831 AL
• John 17 1833 AL
• Jerusha 7 1843 AL
• Missouri C 5 1845 Al
• Catherine 3 1847 AL
• William E  0 1850

Pg. 7

Fam:49

• Abner Woods and family (father of Thomas Wood who married Nancy J McClintock)

 Fam: 50

• Ephriam Youngblood 30 AL
• Mary Ann 26 1824 Al
• Andrew W 8 1842 Male
• Nancy A 6 1844 AL
• Elizabeth J 20 1830 AL
• Malinda A 2 1848 Al
• Allen M 0 1850 AL

Pg 51

Fam 53:

• Sarah Youngblood 58 1792 GA And fam.

  6b. The Wood Family.  Abner is the father of Thomas.

Land record: 1 Oct 1834, 42.27 acres, sec 32 in the following land descriptionà. 20 Mar 1837 42.27 acres Huntsville Meridian, Twnshp 15 S range 4 W (same range as Bevins, ets, but one twnshp over) sec 32 Tuscaloosa land office Authority: 24 April, 1820 Cash entry. Doc#14279 Also 84.55 ac 20 Sept 1839 same section.Also bought 80 acres 1 June 1858 sec 21.

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BEAN/2001-12/1008192493

From: melba.clark@gte.net 
Subject: Re: Bean and Wood families 
Date: 12 Dec 2001 14:28:13 –0700  Surnames: McClintock, Goode, Robbins  Classification: Query  Message Board URL: 12 Dec 2001 melba.clark@gte.net  http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/nlC.2ACIB/666.700.2.1

Message Board Post:

The Thomas Wood about whom I wrote was the son of Abner and Jane Wood. He married 28 Mar 1839, Nancy A McClintock, in Jefferson Co., AL.

Thomas and Nancy’s two daughters, Frances Jane and Louisa, are listed on the will of Thomas’ father, Abner and the probate records of the settlement of his estate. Frances Jane married Andrew Ross. Louisa married Jesse N Echols.

Thomas was deceased by 12 Sept 1844 when Nancy married her second husband, William Goode. I am descended from Nancy Florence Goode, daughter of Nancy and William. Nancy F married Andrew Michael “Mikey” Robbins. Their son, Levi C Angus Robbins was my paternal grandfather.

Location of Abner Wood’s will.  Ancestry image: http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/44915632/person/6277400737/photo/d79a977f-3f7c-46c0-a6ad-d3f393275579?src=search

http://www.geni.com/people/Abner-Wood/6000000001543117265 

A profile for Abner Wood of Tennessee, the father of Thomas Wood who married Nancy McClintock who might be our Nancy Wood.

Abner Wood (Sr) was born in South Carolina in 1792. He married Jane Staggs (date unknown) called Jennie, who was born 12 May 1786 in South Carolina. Jane Staggs Mother and Father, Mr. & Mrs. William Staggs were also born in South Carolina. (1880 Alabama census)

In 1820 the Abner Wood family was living in Tennessee, where their daughter Mary Polly was born that year. (1850 Alabama census). Prior to 1830 the family moved to Alabama in Jefferson Co. where their son Elias Wood was born. According to the 1830 Alabama census, Abner Wood (Sr) had the following family members living in his household; one male between ninety and under one hundred, one male and one female between thirty and under fifty, two females between ten and under fifteen, two males between five and under ten, and two males under the age of five.

Abner and Jane Wood had the following known children:

· Daughter Martha Patsy, who married Richard W. Glover.

· Daughter Polly (Mary) who married Levi Myrick. (See marriage records attached)

· Son Thomas who married Nancy McClintock.

· Son John who married Elizabeth Davis.

· Son Elias who married Emily S. Payne and second wife Nancy Malinda Payne.

· Son Abner (Jr.) who married Rebecca Julia Ann Wedgeworth.

· Daughter Lucretia Wood who married James C. Payne.

· Son Martin L. who married Sarah Jane Odem.

· Son William who married a Jane (Unknown).

Documentation for William Wood and Lucretia Wood was taken from the “Will” of Abner Wood, Sr. and the 1850 census. According to Abner Wood, Sr.’s Will, William and Lucretia were not the son and daughter of Abner and Jane Wood, they were their grandchildren (See attached document). Lucretia and her brother William were the illegitimate children of Abner’s daughter, Martha Patsey Wood and an unknown father. Abner and Jane adopted the children and they were given the last name of Wood. Martha Patsy eventually married Richard W. Glover and Lucretia married James C. Payne.

Nancy Wood, the widow of Thomas, married William Goode, Sept 14, 1844. (Marriage Rec).

Abner Wood, Sr. died in Jefferson Co. Alabama November 5, 1860. His widow Jane Wood was living in the household of her Grandson, Abner Glover (son of her daughter Pasty Wood Glover) in 1880, at the age of 95. (1880 Jefferson Co. census). In 1880, Jane showed her independence by working at carding and spinning. She lived to be 107 years old.

There were many members of the Wood family living in Jefferson County, Alabama during the early 1800’s. Among them were James H. Wood, a merchant (probably Abner Wood, Sr’s brother), Thomas C. Wood, William Wood, and a General John Wood. In this same time period, members of the Staggs family had settled in Walker Co., Alabama, which adjoins Jefferson Co., on the Northwest. (Orphans Court Book 1858 – 1860).

Three of Abner Wood, Sr’s sons served with distinction in the Civil War. Abner Jr. enlisted as a private in Company F, 56th Alabama Cavalry Regiment in September of 1862 at Jasper, Alabama (Walker Co.). He survived the war and died in Jefferson County, Alabama, April 25, 1916. On Feb 26, 1862, James C Payne (33) and his brothers-in-law, Elias Wood (32), and John Wood (34) rode down together from their farms in the community of Robbins Crossroads, Jefferson Co., Alabama, to the Confederate recruiting station in Elyton to volunteer for the war. They all became sergeants in the Co. G, 28th Alabama Infantry Regiment and fought under Bragg in the Tennessee campaign. John was wounded at Murfreesboro and died in Rome, GA, Jan 1863. John Wood died of wounds received in battle early in 1863. (See Civil War records attached) The address of his widow, Elizabeth Wood, in June of 1863 was c/o A.J. Waldrop (a Justice of the Peace), Elyton, Alabama (Jefferson Co.). Elias received Honor Roll distinction at Murfreesboro, fought at Chickamauga, and was captured at Missionary Ridge defending Orchard Knob through the last bayonet engagement. He spent the rest of the war in the Union prison, Rock Island until he was released in May, 1865. He returned to his farm where he fathered 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died in 1915. Elias had married in 1856 the first of James Payne’s sisters, Emily E Payne (b.1836) and a child was born in 1858, William S Wood. After Emily’s death, probably in childbirth in 1858, he married Nancy Malyndia Payne (1841- 1901) in 1860 by whom all his surviving children were born. Margaret Payne, James’ youngest sister never married and lived with her older sister, Malyndia and Elias, from 1860 until her death after 1910.

CIVILWAR RECORDS – Military Records Division, Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama.

Abner Wood, Jr. Pvt, Company F, 56th Alabama Cavalry Regt. Enlisted Sept. 1862 at Jasper, Ala. Pension warrant N. 14259. Wife Rebecca, Warrant No. 16312. Married January 20, 1858. Abner died April 25, 1916.

John Wood, Sergeant, Co. G, 28th Regt. Alabama Volunteers. Killed, Arm Broken. Auth: List of casualties, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser, January 28, 1863. (Author of this document read this issue in the newspaper. It listed Sgt. Wood as wounded, arm broken. He either died of this wound or was killed shortly thereafter. His widow’s pension application stated that he died of wounds received in battle).

Elizabeth Wood, widow of Sgt John Wood, care of A.J. Waldrop, Elyton Ala. Claim Filed June 1, 1863. Auth: List, Condition of Claims, 2nd Audit, Confederate states Treasury. (Elyton was a Post Office in Jefferson County, Ala., no longer Active).

Me:

1830:

Alabama, Jefferson, Not stated 65/68 toward the bottom of the page:

• Abner Wood.

I see no other familiar names, but he would probably not be in the area of Jefferson that we’ve been poking around in.

1840:

Same area designation 37/60

• Abner’s in about the middle of the page.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8344957  : Memorial for Jenny Staggs Wood, wife of Abner Sr.  b. Mar 12 1786 SC, USA  d. 9 Aug 1892 Jefferson County Alabama Age 106 years, 4 months 27 days.  Linns Crossing Cemetery Graysville, Jefferson County.   Woods Linns Crossing

7. Compiled Census Information:

to bring all the Census together and show the proximity of the families over time:

1830:

Alabama, Jefferson, Not stated p.65/68 toward the bottom of the page:

• Abner Wood.

1840:

Alabama, Jefferson, not stated p.37/60

Abner’s in about the middle of the page.

1850:

Alabama, Jefferson, Jonesboro 8/18  fam 5o

• Russum Shoemaker 25 M farmer from GA
• Elizabeth 25 F   GA
• Oliver H 2 AL  (born about 1848)
• Charles H or P 5/12  AL

Alabama, Jefferson, Carrolsville, 1/6  fam 2

• William Goode 27 Al
• Nancy 33 TN (b. about 1817. In 1840, she’d have  been 23.)
• Francis J  F 10 Al on down
• Louisa  8
• Penelope  E 4
• James L 1

1850

in Five-Mile, Jefferson, Alabama – 15 pages. I am collecting them if only to show the name clustering in this area.

Alabama, Jefferson, Carrolsville 5/6 fam 36

• John Echols 46 GA
• Sarah 33 SC
• Theron? N 11 AL (on down)
• Jesse N 10
• John N or M or W 8
• Mary E 6
• Charles L 4
• James F 3
• Nancy C 0

In 1850

in Five-Mile, Jefferson, Alabama – 15 pages. I am collecting them if only to show the name clustering in this area.

PG 1

I see a lot of Hix in this area.

Fam 2.

• Voluntine Bivens 70 NC
• Mary Ann 35 1815 Ireland
• Nancy 7 1843 AL
• Eliza 5 1845 Al
• Jane 3 1847 Al
• Julia Ann 1850 AL

fam 4.

• Thomas P Vandiver and family  SC

fam 5.

• Richard Glover and fam  SC

Pg 2

Fam10:

• Francis Wyley 70 1780 Male SC with wife and
• Sarah Youngblood 20, 1830 AL

fam 15.

• James H Youngbood 33 1817 Tenn
• Penelope 28 1822 Tenn
• Nathaniel 9 1841 AL
• John T 5 1846 Ala
• Nancy J 1 1849 Al  (Interesting – Nancy J is the name of Nancy J McClintock who married Thomas Wood.  And who I figure was Penelope McClintock’s sister. Remember the marriages above here.

Pg. 3

Fam: 19

• Robert Bivens 46 1804 Kentucky
• Martha 25 1825 AL
• James A 20 1830 AL
• Elizabeth J 19 1831 AL
• John 17 1833 AL
• Jerusha 7 1843 AL
• Missouri C 5 1845 Al
• Catherine 3 1847 AL
• William E  0 1850

Pg. 6

Fam: 41

• Bivins, Calaway 36 1814 Kentucky
• Martha 34 1816 Female
• Elizabeth J 13 1837 Al
• Martha A 8 1842

Fam: 45

• Brison Vandiver 55 NC and fam – BIG fam.

Pg 7

There’s an Abner Fields 1 1849 in the family above this, son of Hampton (35) and Mary (36) Fields, both of Tenn. I’m betting that Mary Fields is the daughter of Abner Wood. Maybe.

Fam 49:

• Abner Wood 58 1792 SC
• Jane 58 1792 SC
• Elias 20 1830 AL
• Abner 17 1833 Alabama
• Lucretia 17 1833 AL
• William 15 1835 AL
• Martin 14 1836 AL

Fam: 50

• Ephriam Youngblood 30 AL
• Mary Ann 26 1824 Al
• Andrew W 8 1842 Male
• Nancy A 6 1844 AL
• Elizabeth J 20 1830 AL
• Malinda A 2 1848 Al
• Allen M 0 1850 AL

Pg 51

Fam 53:

• Sarah Youngblood 58 1792 GA   And fam.

Pg 11

Fam 76

• John L Glover 22 1828 GA and fam

Pg 12

Fam 79:

• John C Brasfield 35 Male NC
• Nancy H 31 1819 SC
• John W 10 1840 AL
• James H 8 1842 AL
• Ann H 5 AL
• George W 5 Al
• Leonida 4 1846  AL
• General J 1 1849  Al
• Leonard 42 1808 NC
• Fam: 80 Leonard Brasfield 42 NC
• Bethena 25 Tenn
• Joshua 10 1840 Al
• William H 5 AL
• Matilda 3 1847 Al
• Alfred J 0 1850

Fam 81:

• William P Glover 51m 1799 SC and family
• There are some Vines.  Why do I care about Vines? I can’t remember. But I do. Because of Sue Vines, I bet.
• James H Williams 43 NC Nancy 35 Tenn

1850: Ala, Jeff, Carrolsville – all of 6 pages long and full of interest for this line.

Pg 1:

Fam 2:

• William Goode 27 1823 Al
• Nancy Goode 33 1817 Tenn
• Francis J 10 1840 Al
• Louisa A 8 1842 Al

HEY!!  There’s a Peter Downey 61 from NC here! Fam 12 pg 2. Big family.

Pg 3 has some Crumley girls

Pg 4 continues that Crumley fam.

Pg 5

Fam 35:

• John ECHOLS 46 and family as mentioned way above  (JESSE N’s FAMILY) – continued on to page 6. Where

FAM: 38

• John McClintic 66 1794 Tenn  (This may be Nancy McClintock Wood Goode’s father. Also Penelope’s)
• John A 25 1825 Tenn
• James 23 1827 Tenn
• Saml R 17 1833  Tenn

This is pretty obviously Nancy and Penelope’s family.  Just need a smoking gun.

Bivens – pg 1

• fam 4 M.L. Vandiver 23 Al and Margaret –

1860

Alabama, Jefferson, Bivens, pg2/12

fam 10:

• William Goode 37 AL
• Nancy A 40  TENN
• Penelope E 13  ALà on down
• James F 11
• John E 8
• Martha M 4
• Nancy F 1

Louisa Wood 18 By the way – the Ancestry transcription says “Woods,” but the entry does say Wood. There is a ditto mark at the end of the name that gives the appearance of an “S.”

1860 Alabama, Jefferson, Bivens 3/12

Fam 19:

• James A Biven 30  All Al all the way down
• Mary C 24
• Martha A. 5
• America J 3
• Mary L 5/12

Fam 20

• Oliver Shoemaker 33  (Russum’s brother do we think?)
• Mary 30
• Margaret C 11
• Sarah E 9
• Nancy J? 6
• Kitty A 2
• William L 7/12

Pg 5/12

Fam 33

• Calaway Bivens 46 KY
• Martha 44  Tnn
• Martha A 18  AL down
• Mary M 9
• Rhoda F 2

Fam 37

• Robert Bivens 56 KY  (James A. Bivens’ father.)
• Susan 31  AL on down
• Nancy J? 17
• Missouri C F 17
• Melinda C 12
• Wm E 10
• Martha J 7
• Robert 6
• Sarah E
• Sis? Lis? F 2/12

Mary M Steelman 11 Tenn.  (I found her in another census as a boarder – and I erased her as irrelevant. Now I can’t remember where she was.)

(Point of importance: the community of Bivens was home to William Goode where Louisa is 18, and the entire extensive Robert Bivens clan.  Also John Echols, with Jesse, who is 20, and the Crumlys – Benjamin, who has a 60 year old Margaret Shoemaker living with him. His wife is Arabella.  And some VanDivers who keep showing up here and there.

1860: BIVENS, Jefferson, Ala i7/12 fam 46 (right next door to Russum Shoemaker. Like, why didn’t I notice that in the first place??? And I think there’s  Robert Crumly with Nancy E Biven at the bottom of the page (fam 50).  Oh, And Emily F Biven (15) living with Mary A Vandiver – who is 17 (59) Oh, aand Martha, Julia A and Mary M Biven also all young. )

• John Echols 55
• Sarah 43
• Theron 21
• Jesse N 20
• John W 18
• Mary 16
• Charles 14
• James 13
• Nancy 11

(Next page- well it IS “Biven” – we find Benj N Crumly (I think – hard name to read ) with Arabella (19) and living with them, Margaret Shoemaker who is 60.  Yes, now I’m seeing staggering patterns of association. – Oh, how I love those. I could spend weeks on this line – except it’s not MY line.  It’s aunt Lottie’s)

Ancestry.  Alabama, Jefferson, BIVENS,  p7/12

fam: 47

• Russom Shoemaker 37 farmer Ga
• Elizabeth 32 GA
• Oliver H 12 Al  (all down) (b. about 1848)
• Charles T? 10
• Mary J 8
• Nancy E 5
• Sarah C 3
• John 11/12

Fam 50

• Robert Crumly 60 SC
• Nancy 48  SC
• Jane 22  GA on down
• John 11
• Nancy 15
• Nancy E Biven 17
• James A Crumly 9
• Levi M  6

Fam 51

• Benj N Crumly 28  GA all down
• Arbella C 19
• Margaret Shoemaker 60

fam 59:

• Mary A Vandiver 17 Ireland
• Emily F Biven 15 Ala
• Martha 12
• Julia A 10
• Mary M 7

1870:

Alabama, Jefferson, Township 16 Range 4

Fam 487:

• J.A. Bevans 40
• M.C. 34
• MA 15
• A.J. 13
• M.L. 10
• J.A. 7
• B.V. 5
• N. M. 5
• R. R.  2

Fam 489 (this is grand dad Bivens)

• Robert Bevans 67  KY
• Susan? 42  AL
• Malonie? 26
• MC 22
• Wm E 20 works on farm
• M.J. 18
• Robert 14
• Sarah 13
• Harriet 10
• Andrew 8
• Newton 6
• Steelman, M 19 at school

Alabama, Jefferson, twnshp 17 range 4, pg 3/15

fam: 623

• R shoemaker 57  Ga
• E 50  Ga
• O. 23 Ala  M (born about 1847)
• CT? 20  M
• M J? 18 F
• E 16 F
• C 14 F
• John 12
• Wilson 10
• James? 6
• I  2

Fam 631

• Other Shoemakers, with only initials, All young 16,12,10,8

Fam 632:

• James Ragan 85  NC

Fam 633:

• Crumly? Initials again. B.N and wife A B C
• Also an M Shoemaker 40 F  NC

1880

Alabama, Jefferson, Not stated, 69, pg 35/54

fam 262

• Susan Bevans 54  Al NC NC
• Sarah E 21  Al KY AL  (down)
• Andrew J 17
• Isaac N? 15
• Mary Stillman 30 daughter

Fam 263:

• William E? Bevans 30  Al Ky AL
• Ruthy A 19 AL AL AL
• James M son 1

Fam: 264

• James A Bevans 50  Al KY SC
• Mary C 44  AL SC KY
• Mary L 20  ALà all the way down
• John A 17
• Bluford V 13 (there is a bracket that connects Blu and Nancy, indicating, I assume, that they were twins)
• Nancy M 13
• Robert R 11
• William A 9 son
• Zella M 6 daughter
• Margaret Young? 20 niece
• Sarah A 18 niece.

Fam 265

• Wesley C Cornelius 28  AL AL AL all down.
• Martha 25
• Ella M 3

Alabama Jefferson, Not stated, 071 pg 6/24

Fam: 53

• William Arnet 45  SC  SC
• Millie 42  AL AL KY
• Margaret 24  — SC AL
• Samuel M 19
• John W 15

Fam: 54

• M Echols 24
• Mary 21
• Jason 6/12

Alabama, Jefferson, 71,

pg 5/24 (next page echols and arnetts)

• fam 40 Wm Shoemaker 42, Sam’l 18
• fam 42: C Shoemaker 30 with family (Including a Jasper)
• fam 43 B.N. Crumly with M Shoemaker 82, mother in law (Wife, Arabella 33 must have been Shoemaker)
• fam: 44 C.?H. Regan 57, Sarah 49
• fam 45: Mary Vandiver 66 with Julia Bivins, dtr 28 Mary Bivens dtr 25 (So Mary married a Bivens?)

fam 49 R. Shoemaker 54 farmer

• Elizabeth 47
• John M 20
• J.W. 18
• James 14
• Jasper 11
• Martha 9

In the 1880 census Alabama, Jefferson, 71, 7/24 fam 61

• O.H. Shoemaker 30
• Louiza 37 AL– hard to tell what the initial is. Looks like a J, could be a dropped D. Looks like the recorders other Js though.  And that would either be wrong, or this is the wrong Lousia.  However, the children:
• Nancy 6 dtr  all Al Ga Ga
• Margaret 4 dtr
• Rasa 2 dtr
• With S.J. Echols F 18. S daughter

1900:

Alabama, Jefferson, Prec 18 0104 p34/80 fam 673

• Abe E. McAvay  Nov 1862 37 M11? Ga, Ire Ire
• Mary L wife Dec 1859 40  M11 5 children born 2 living Alabamaà on down.
• Frederick O Estis stepson Sept 1883 16 Single
• Lola E step dtr Nov 1885 14 S

Alabama, Jefferson, Prec 18 i37

• James A. Bivens  70  Al  Ky NC   Oct 1829 70 m 46 yrs
• Mary C 64  AL NC KY  July 1835 64 m 46 yrs. 10 children 7 living at this time
• Ruffus R 31 Feb 1869 31 Single
• Albert B 19  Oct 1880 19 s
• Mary Stealman 36 boarder from Tenn
• Effrom Barnett 47 servant from GA

Also on page:

• William E Bivens Head apr 1850 M 22  (son of Robert)
• Ruthy A wife Nov 1861 38 m22 2 2 living
• Charley son june 1881 18 S

Ala, Jefferson prec 39 0116 pg 28 of 45 fam 482

• Louisa A Shoemaker Apr 1847 53 Widowed 5 children 4 living  Al Al Tenn
• Ellen V dtr b Jan 1891 19 single Alà
• Lottie (there is no differentiation on the last name – but I’ll bet the farm this is Lottie Bivens) She is Louisa’s GrandDTR  b. Sept 1894 5 years old Al

Alabama, Jeff, Prec 39, 0116 pg 43/45  fam 521:

• Asbury Higgins March 1876 24 m 3 years
• Lydia wife Nov 1878 21 M 3 2 births 2 living
• Malenia dtr Jam 1898 2
• Marion son Dec 1899 5/12

They are on a page with a miles family and a Baker, among others. Not familiar branches.

Fam 484:

• John W. Crumley aug 1862 37 M 11 years  Al Ga Ga (married in 1889?)
• Sarah J wife June 1862 37 M 11 years (looks like 4) 6 children, 5 living  AL à down
• William E son may 1885 15
• Sam’l M? son aug 1886
• M Myrtle dtr July 1889 10
• Jesse Wesley son March 1892 8 (marked “jr.” in 1910 so maybe this is John)
• Ann Belle dtr Aug 1895 4

Alabama, Jeff, Prec 29 0112 pg 58 fam 627

• William Baker Sept 1874 25  m 5 years  Al Ga Ga
• Lithia wife Sept 1875 24 M 5 yrs.  Al Ga Al
• Renee Son or Reuel son March 1896 4  Al across and down.
• Ramond son Apr 1898 2

1910:

Alabama, Jefferson, Prc 18 fam 232

• James A Bivens  80 M 1 56 years Alà all down
• Mary  wife 74 M1 for 56 years birthed 10 children 7 living
• Birt  son 28 S
• Lucinda McAvoy  50 Widowed No children listed for her.

Fam 233

• W.C. Cornelius 55 M1 33 years
• Martha wife 55 M1 33 years 4 births 4 survived
• Annie daughter 16 S
• The Sharp family, boarders.
•  

Alabama, Jefferson, Prec 29, 0123 Pg 3

fam 27

• James W Baker 36 M 15 years  Al Al GA
• Lethea 34 M 15 years  AL all across and all down
• Renel E?? Son 14  Renee?  Reuel?
• James R son 11
• Mattie L dtr 6
• Frank O 4
• Mary E dtr 2

Ala, Jeff, Prc 39, 0133 p21 fam78

• J.W. Crumly sr? 47  Al Ga Al
• S.J. wife  47  had 7 children 6 surviving.  Al Ga Ga (looks like John’s info. Census taker was off a line?)
• J.W. jr. son 17  AL à and down
• Annie? dtr 13
• Ellie dtr 9

Alabama, Jefferson, Prec 49 fam 110

• Asbury Higgins 36 M 1 13 years Al Al Ga
• Lydia  wife 31 or 33  M1 13 years 6 births 5 living
• Vileria or maybe Vilena dtr 12
• Miriom Son 10
• Clyde son 7
• Clarence son 5 All Alabama above and across except for father.

Also on page, other Higgins, Margaret Shoemaker head with children

Alabama, Lawrence, Mt. Hope, 0084, i14 of 27 fam 130

• Eugene Miles Head 27 M1 7 years  All Al all down
• Ellen N wife 27 M1 7 3children 3 surviving
• Everett A or H son age: I think it says 6
• Louie son 3 son
• Lottie Biven 15 niece
• Samuel Miles Son 5/12 (this census was taken the 27^th

1920

Alabama, Jefferson, Precinct 39, 158 29/62

Fam 332

• Jessie Crumly 26 M All Alabama, all the way down
• Ordis E wife 26
• Harold J 2
• Ellen (sister) 18 Single

Alabama, Jefferson, Precinct 39, 158 59/64

Fam 670: on Crumly’s Chapel Road (all three fams)

• James R Shoemaker 54 Al GA GA  House Carpenter
• Mettie C 48  AL AL GA  (I think her real name is Martha.)
• James B 17 son
• Lonnie M son 12

Fam 673

• Miles, James E 36 AL Al GA Laborer Coal Washer
• Ellen V wife 38
• Hershell E son 15
• Louis V son 13
• James E son 10 S This census was taken the 30 of January. So this has to be the same child.
• Pauline dtr 5
• Mattie L or G 2 8/12

Fam 674

• Walter or Valter Miles S 21  AL AL AL all down  House Carpenter (Probably son of James R)
• Ethel N wife 21
• Martha A mother 58 (mother of head of household) WD

Ala, Jeff, Bay Vern, 169 5/20 fam 762  All Alabama across and down.

• James W (William) Baker 45
• Althea wife 44
• Martha dtr 16
• Frank Son 14
• Ethel dtr 11
• Eugene 8
• Eileen dtr 5
• William B? son 5
• Jack son 4 3/12?

Ala, Jeff, Mulga, 169 pg 22 fam 1154

• Monroe A Higgin 45
• Lydie 41
• Mamie dtr 20
• Clude son 18
• Clarence son 15
• Cora 9
• John 7
• Bertha dtr 4
• Lucille dtr 1 6/12

1930:

ALA, Jeff, Prc 39 (right location) 188, 52/76

Fam 585:

• Raymond Baker 32 m at 21
• Edna A wife 32 M at 21
• Maebelle 9
• Mary L dtr 7
• Earnest R son.

fam 588 William E Arnett 44 married at 23

• Blanche  wife 41 m at 20 (and this is, I will bet the farm on it, Blanche Miles, dtr of Eugene and Ellen Miles) with their children:
• Eva M 16
• Sammie L dtr 7
• Mary L dtr 4 i/12
• Mable A 4 1/12

Fam: 589

• Arren E. Miles  66 m at 17
• Martha A wife  63 n at 15 Ga—–

fam 590

• James W. Baker 55 m at 21  Al NC SC
• Margaret A wife 54 m at 20  Al US US
• Mary E dtr 20  Al all across and down
• Eugene son 18
• Willie B dtr 15

Fam: 596

• Timothy A Vandiver and fam.

Fam 600

• Baker, Ruel E 34 marrie at 20 Al Al Al
• Lucile wife 31 married at 18 Al Al Ga
• Margaret A 10  Al Al Al across and down.
• Lavern 7
• June dtr 1 10/12

Fam: 602

• Valter S Miles 31 Married at 20 Al Al Al
• Ethel 31 married at 20 Al Al GA
• Martha F? dtr 10
• William S son 8
• Harold B 3 and some months

Fam: 605

• James R Higgins 46 wd  Al  Al Ga

Fam: 606  Bankhead Road

• James U Miles (U for Eugene, I’m guessing) 47 m at 19  AL AL AL
• Ellen V 49 m at 21  Al  GA TENN
• Harschel son 26 Single  All Al. Across and down.
• James E son 20 single
• Pauline dtr 15
• Mattie L dtr 12
• Julian A son 9
• Dannie J son 7

fam 610

• James R Shoemaker 64 Al Ga Ga
• Marietta 59 Al and their children.

Ala, Jeff, prec 57 East Mulga fam 254?

• Asbury Higgins 54 M at 20
• Liddie 51 m at 16
• Johnnie son 18
• Billie son 15
• Lucille dtr 18
• Rosie dtr 10
• Clarence son 25 M at 24
• Lottie M daughter in law 30 married at 29 (Marriage: Clarence Higgins 13 Nov 1829 to Lottie Mae Ellis FS Al marr 1816-1957

Alabama Jefferson, Birmingham 2 pg 95/120 fam 415

• McAvoy, Mary L 70 Widowed Alà
• Belle Estes grand daughter 23 S
• Bluford D Scott nephew 28 M at 26
• Grace L Scott niece 22 M at 20 Al Ga Ga
• And a roomer named Slovensky.

1940:

Other Places, 37-112 7/27  Bankhead Hwy Adamsville

fam 66:

• J. Eugene Miles 59
• Ellen S 58
• J Eudon son 30 Divorced  Buried in Crumly – b 30 Nov 1909 d 26 Oct 1987
• Dannie J son 17 S

This should be in a database:

They lived in these areas of Jefferson County:

• Jefferson:    1860 Bivens, Shoemaker (next door to each other)  1900 (area not stated): All Bevins, Cornelius
• Precinct 39    1900: Louisa
• Twnshp 16 Range 4.     1870 Bivens  (This is where Bivens’ Cemetery is found) 16 south 4 west Huntsville Meridian.
• Twnshp 17 Range 4:      1870 R Shoemaker (oliver H) James Ragan, Crumly (B.N.?) more Shoemakers
• Prcinct 18        1900: J.A. Bivens  1910 JABivens. Cornelius
• Birmingham:    McAvoy
• Carrolsville:     Echols and Goodes in 1850
• Jonesboro:      Russum Shoemaker 1850
• Bivens:          1860:  Goodes, Vandivers, Shoemakers, Calaway Bivens, Oliver Shoemaker, the elder, Russom    Shoemaker, John Echols family, Robert Crumly, Ben Crumly
• Area 71:       1880 O.H. Shoemaker

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Adamsville Public Library, Jefferson County, near Adamsville 2 miles from cemetery. Graysville 3 miles  Gardendale, Martha More library

“Bivens Chapel Cemetery” in The Heritage of Jefferson County, Alabama. Clanton: Heritage Publishing Consultants. p. 137  ISBN 1891647547 Except it’s wrong.  And I can’t find it anywhere on line.

“The first settlers were largely of English descent from the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Georgia. Some of the earliest settlements and towns were Jonesboro, now called something else, and Carrollsville, Bethlehem, Greensville, and Elyton.

Jefferson County Courthouse:  Carrollsville served as the first county seat of Jefferson County from 1819 to 1821.