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Hi Tom and Loeta Venable, 28 Feb 2001
Reference your 27 Feb Email Subject: Childers Louisa Childers
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Search for JAMES CHILDRESS AND ELIZABETH (MAIDEN NAME UNKNOWN) of Bibb
County Ala. James died in 1815.
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CHILDREN OF JAMES CHILDRESS.---------------
1st Child - ALFRED CHILDRESS was born in the old 96th Judicial District of
SC. He lived most of his life in Bibb County Al. He married Bedia Baggett.
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2nd Child -William G. or William R. Childress. Wife - Mary Jane Caton
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3rd Child - Polly Mary Childress who married Augustus Goodgame
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4th Child - Priscilla Childress who married Stepham Braham
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5th Child - Lucretia Susan Childress 1st marriage -Thomas Watson Jones, 2nd
marriage -James Smitherman.
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All 5 childress were minors when their father -JAMES CHILDRESS died April
1815.
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REQUEST ANY INFORMATION YOU MAY HAVE ABOUT THE JAMES CHILDRESS FAMILY. My
Email address of RChildress(a)satx.rr.com
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PART 2 - Search for ALFRED CHILDRESS (CHILDERS) AND BEDIA BAGGETT of Bibb
County, Shelby County or Taladega County Al DOB 1799 DOD abt 1865.
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Children of Alfred Childress and Bedia Baggett
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1st Child - Joel B.who married Parmelia Davis, 2ndWife-Alpha Ann Robinson
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2nd Child - Cynthia A. Childress who married Samuel Agrippa Riggins
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3rd Child - Thomas Childress who married Mary Edward after the death of her
1st husband - Seaborn Clackler.
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4th Child - Mary Garner "Polly" Childress who married Blanton Box Riggins
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5th Child - Robert Brown Childress who married Sary Caroline Poole
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6th Child -Rueben B. Childress
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7th Child - William "Billy" Childress
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8th Child - Weldon E. Childress
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9th Child - David James or Daniel James Childress who married Margaret N.
Clackler.
2nd Wife - Eliza (maiden name unknown)- 3rd Wife - Acenath "Emma" Watson.
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Request any information you may have about the ALFRED CHILDRESS FAMILY. My
Email Address is RChildress(a)satx.rr.com
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TED,
You have MY James and Louisa Childers/Childress, on page 16. Below that you
say that neighbors included ALSUP. Their marriage was performed by Elijah
Alsup, J. P.
Louisa's mother would have to have been BORN at least 15 years prior to 1829
which was BEFORE 1814:
Mary (wife of Thomas) was born in 1800. Son James would have been born when
she was 17 and son Zacharia at 20. AND that was her second marriage!
Young widow.
Mary (wife of James) was old enough BUT she wouldn't be the one because her
husband James was 8 years younger than her, born in 1817, UNLESS she was
married to a Childress first time which you show she was not. James was 12
in 1829. I rule them out.
So, she could certainly be the dau of THOMAS and MARY CHILDRESS. Only snag,
though, is that on the 1880 census she says her father was born in South
Carolina. BUT, I will pursue this and see if Thomas left a will. But I
couldn't be that lucky, I'm sure.
Louisa's tombstone only states 1830 - 1890. That marker was put there many
years later by my uncle. I THINK HE basically guessed at it. I have a copy
of a letter that was mailed a long time ago from LOUISA's dau in CA to her
own dau that lived in AR. She gave all of the birth dates of LOUISA AND
JAMES'S family in that letter. LOUISA'S was APRIL 28, 1829. Even though, I
feel convinced that information came from a family Bible, no one knows of it
now. I have complete confidence that it is her real birthdate. So far, all
of the other birthdates have (as closely as possible) proven out.
Thanks so much,
Loeta Venable
I'll keep in touch with my progress on the mail list. Glad I posted.
Hello,
If you believe that your family was in TN during which time Louisa was a
child, then I can check my census records for TN and get back to you. It
will take awhile, but I will let you know on this list.
Ted
I am new to this list so hope I'm going about this the proper way. My
question:
Louisa Childers married James Yarbrough, April 27, 1845, in Benton Co., TN.
I have no record of her at all before this marriage. Does anyone have
CHILDERS - CHILDRESS ancestors from Benton County, Tennessee?
I have a copy of the marriage record and her name is written CHILDERS and
the index to the marriage says CHILDERS - But in the index they are listed 2
times - and the other spelling is CHILDRESS, Same info.
LOUISA was born in 1829 (1830?) in TN according to her census records.
James and Louisa lived:
1850 census - Decatur County, TN
1860 census - Jackson County, AR
1870 census - White County, AR
1880 census - Logan County, AR
1889/1890 - James THEN Louisa deaths - they are buried in Johnson Co., AR
They had 11 children.
I read on the CHILDERS queries about a Meredith Childers. That caught my
eye because there are several members of Louisa's (Yarbrough) descendants
with the first name, Meredith, however, I couldn't SEE any connection with
that family.
Loeta Venable
tomloeta(a)swbell.net
This all I know about William.
A History of Kentucky Baptists, From 1769 to 1885, by J. H. Spencer,
1886,
Reprinted by Church History and Archives, 1976, Lafayette, TN. Gasper
River Association. Butler County.
WILLIAM CHILDERS was raised up to the ministry in old Sandy Creek church
in Butler county, and represented that body in Gasper River Associatien
[sic], as early as 1818. He was not ordained to the ministry, however,
until 1827, and even then, seemed to develop very slowly. During the
revival of 1837, his zeal was aroused, and the church of which he was a
member called him to its pastoral care. To this church he ministered
twelve years, with good success. In 1838, he was called to succeed
Joseph
Taylor, at Point Pleasant, previously known as Midway, and subsequently,
as Monticello church, in Butler county. He served this church as
pastor,
nine years, during which time its membership increased, from 45, to 69.
He was also pastor of Salem church, in the same county, for a brief
period. He was advanced in years when he entered the ministry, but he
did
a good work, in a quiet, unostentatious way. He probably entered his
rest, about 1848.
Childres Taylor
Found this and thought someone might need it.I do not have any more
information about Adam.
Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed.,
1887, Woodford Co.
ADAM L. CHILDERS was born twelve miles northeast of Lexington, Fayette
Co., Ky., January 2, 1820, and is the second son of Lindsey and
Catherine (Lydick) Childers, natives of Garrard and Fayette Counties,
Ky. The maternal grandfather, Jacob Lydick, was born in Pennsylvania.
The paternal grandfather, Goolsberry Childers, was from Virginia, was
in the war of the Revolution, and afterward immigrated to Garrard
County. Adam L. Childers was reared on a farm in Fayette County, and
when a boy learned the brick laying trade; served three years'
apprenticeship, and afterward worked at his trade from seventeen until
he was forty-nine years of age. In the meantime he came to Woodford
County, and located in Versailles. He abandoned his trade for the farm.
He was one of the inspectors of construction of the courthouse, Free
Mason Hall, etc. He was married in 1843 to Miss Mary J. Smith, of
Fayette County; she died in 1848. In 1851 Mr. Childers married Miss
Susanna M'Cloed, a native of Bourbon County, Ky. One child living
was born to the first wife, Lindsey D.; three are living by the second:
Kate, Maggie and Henry. There is one deceased child, George. Mr.
Childers owns 345 acres in the county. The family are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Childers Lydick Smith M'Cloed
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Fayette-KY Garrard-KY Bourbon-KY PA VA
Last Will and Testament of Jacob Childers
In the Name of God Amen.
I Jacob Childers of the State of South Carolina & York District plantor on
Nale Branch Waters of King Creek of Broad River Being week in Boddy But of a
sound & perfect Mind & Memory comming to mind the mortality of Body knowing
that there is a time opinte for all men once to to Die I Doe Consttue this
to be my last will and and testamint in Maner & forms following viz: the
first of all i auder and Recomand My Sole to God that give it and my Body to
the ground from hence It was taken In full Estate: and and 2nt as for my
worly Estate I auder and Recmmand that all dets be pade i ow in aney maner
3rd I give and bequeth to my Belove wife Janney Childes all my Estate Rayal
and personal to Doe with as she thiks propper InDuareing Heur Natrl life and
Depose of it after hur deth as Se think proper aMong the rest. 4th Onely
twenty acres of my land on Nale Branch where I now live which I Doe give and
Bequeth to my Dautor Nansey to be run out of at that Corner above Joseph
Mullinaxes ---- the childrens Names to be Depos to after My wife Deth
Rachel. John . Sary. Lucy aberham. Jacob Nancy. James: Robet William:. 5th
and lust of all---
I Do leve Morgan Martin and Robert Mannin to be my Sole Excutors wherefore I
Doe Consctute this to Be My lust will and testeme---
In witnes whereof I have hearunto set my hand and affix My Seal this
Sixteenth Day of January Eighteen hundred and forty two
test
Virgil Owen
Frac Melinax
his
Morgan Martin Jr. Jacob X
Childers (L.S.
his
mark
Thomas X Mullinax
mark
1842 will book3 p63 (77-1152)
York Historical Society
York, S.C.