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Dick,
I was able to trace my ancestors back to the Chiltons in a variety of
ways. One, my family remembered bits and pieces and second; they
continued to work for the family for many years after slavery; and
lastly my ancestor whom the CHILTONS apparently kidnapped from Virginia
was part Pamunkey Indian... and she lived to be nearly 100 years old.
Cemetery records indicate Mary Chilton as her former owner.
Mary Chilton's will and probate records also note my ancestor.
Additionally, in the 1870 my ancestors were all still living with
CHILTONS. Now I am tasked with trying to get land deed records, probate
and wills to determine who else the other CHILTONS in Cooper Co Missouri
owned... they too are very likely my ancestors.
Once I figured out it was Mary Chilton I proceeded to study that family
line and find out as much about them as possible including the family's
slave holding. To my horror, Stephen Chilton's (Charles Chilton of
Missouri's father) brother Charles Chilton who married Elizabeth
Blackwell... owned many many slaves. It is overwhelming to even begin..
but begin I already have.
I just keep moving. The slaves owned by Elizabeth Blackwell are very
interesting to me.. many of the names match the surnames of families to
came to the same community in Missouri.
thanks very much for your interest.
traci wilson kleekamp
african americans in missouri
missouri-slave-data.org
Dick D Fox wrote:
>
> Hi Tracy. Thank you for your letter.
>
> Old Mark Anthony Chilton used the name of his Aunt Mary Chilton Ransdell as
> one of his sources, so you would think that he would have a complete list of
> her children. But Mark was only a child when Mary died and Hannah Ransdell
> Moore had long been in Kentucky at the time.
>
> These are the names of Hannah Randsell Moore's children. Note the familiar
> family names ... Wharton, Henley, Whitney, Chilton, Turner, and Coates
> (Courts) and also the familiar given names ... William, Thomas, John,
> Charles, Samuel, Mary.
>
> William
> Wharton
> Thomas R
> Henley
> John Whitney
> Charles Chilton
> Samuel Turner
> Mary Coates
> Nancy S.
> Elizabeth G.
> Margaret J.
> James
>
> I am curious as to how you have traced your slave ancestors to Charles and
> Mary Chilton.
>
> My home page. You might want to look at the Ransdell link. Have not
> included my Chilton data yet because I have not proven the link.
> http://members.tripod.com/~dickdfox/index-dickdfox.html
>
> Dick Fox
> Lockhart, Texas
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Traci Wilson-Kleekamp <twilsonklee(a)earthlink.net>
> To: dickdfox(a)lockhart.net <dickdfox(a)lockhart.net>
> Date: Saturday, August 05, 2000 1:24 AM
> Subject: Chiltons -- Hannah
>
> >Hi Dick,
> >
> >I saw your listing for CHILTONs on the listserv archives.
> >http://genforum.genealogy.com/chilton/
> >I am also looking for CHILTONS... that came to Missouri.. my ancestors
> >were slaves in the CHILTON family... notably via Charles Chilton and
> >Susan Turner.
> >
> >Anyway, I'm attaching a Chilton genealogy that I picked up off the site
> >mentioned above.
> >
> >Your issue about Hannah is interesting. THomas Chilton and Jemima Cooke
> >had Mary Chilton who married WIlliam Randsdell and apparently had 10
> >children.. and no Hannah is listed.
> >
> >However, Thomas Chilton had daughter named HANNAH...who married Foxall
> >Sturnman and brother Charles also had a child named Hannah... so....
> >
> >You must be on to something.
> >
> >Traci Wilson Kleekamp
> >Missouri-Slave-Data.org
> >African Americans in Missouri
> >
> >P.S. My ancestors were slaves of Mary E. Chilton and Charles Chilton who
> >came to Missouri... Boonville in Cooper County. Charles was the son of
> >Stephen Chilton and Susanna Turner...
> >
> >Charles's sibling and children also owned slaves... so it appears that
> >those may also be my kin...it is a task to dig up wills, probate records
> >etc.
> >
> >Good Luck..
Kathy and others...
I hope I'm not confusing you with my questions about my enslaved
ancestors. Sorry to be long winded with this email...but in case there
are new people to the list, I'd like to tell you a little bit about my
research. I initially found my ancestors as slaves at Ravenswood in
Bunceton, MO... Cooper Co; owned by Nathaniel Leonard. Actually they
built the original Ravenswood which burned down in the Civil War and it
was re-built again after the war. I have been able to account for nearly
all the slaves in that household accept for 2. (Surnames are CLAY,
LINDSEY, JOHNSON, WILSON, SHARP, MILES)
I also realized very early on.. that to find my ancestors, I would have
to find the relatives of others. Slavery is such that our families were
broken up and divided among many slave-owning and allied families.
So... I have been learning as much as I can about the slaveowning
families. A big break through came when I realized that my paternal
great grandmother's family line MILES... had changed their name from
TUTT. In 1870 they were enumerated as TUTTS... and subsequently changed
their name to MILES. (Miles appear to be from Maryland)
I then figured out that there was a Howard, Byler, Wilson, Chambers,
Webb and Smiley connection (all Cooper County folks with Morgan County
ties)...this lead me to ask lots of questions about how the slaves were
moved around... and obviously it was through family ties. But I needed a
sure starting place.
My paternal gggreat grandmother Mahala Miles.. formerly TUTT -- had a
child by Sterling Price during the Civil named Robert Price. So I
wondered if there was some sort of PRICE and TUTT connection. I then
bought a huge stack of documents from the Western Historical Manuscript
Collection, because a bit of online research showed that there was some
sort of PRICE/TUTT connection. The documents I received included four
pages from a TUTT family bible. The pages from the bible included
listings of births and deaths of slaves. Lo and behold... there was
Mahala's husband Thornton.. and his parents and several other slave
families. Interestingly enough.. in 1870...Mahala and Thornton TUTT
lived next door to Wade Howard. They were formerly owned by James TUTT
and his wife Henrietta. At this point, I also reviewed family related
to TUTTs including Lionberger, Trigg, Ashby, Chilton, Howard, Chambers
and Talbot. Each were slaveowning families... with ties to Morgan and
Virginia.
I become obsessed with finding out whatever I could about the TUTT
family. There are 2 very large TUTT family trees online... and the
folks involved with that were very helpful. They introduced me to
Barbara Tutt Harris... who is related to Gabriel Tutt... the exact line
of people who owned my family. She had additional slave records from
family bibles which took me back into Farquier Co. VA... to around
1772. By the way, turns out that Barbara lives only 20 minutes away
from me here in California... and we got together almost immediately.
Then other things started to make sense. The Chiltons (owned my Gray
ancestors) also came from Farquier Co, VA. Stephen Chilton and his wife
Susanna Turner migrated to MO from Farquier and each of those members
who came with them owned slaves. Stephen's brother Charles Chilton m.
Elizabeth Blackwell and they owned MANY slaves in VA; and all of the
CHILTON ties include slaves. It appears there is a connection to this
family in Morgan CO (with STEPHENS and GRAY).. so now I am clearly in
Virginia territory as a starting place...but the idea of finding out my
family's REAL name is now totally shattered. There is really no such
thing when you are tracing enslaved peoples. If I ever make an Africa
connection I will be elated!
On my most recent trip to Missouri, I went to the Pleasant Green
Plantation in I believe Otterville. The current property owner, Florence
Friedrichs was kind enough to let me copy pages and pages of probate
information for the Walker, Rubey and Bushey families. Ahhhhhhh! and
guess what? The TUTTS had married into this family too... and of course
there were more slaves to track...which could be ancestors of mine. Not
to mention that Capt. Charles Leonard was mentioned as a witness to a
will or two... which means if the slaveowning families interacted and
had ties... so did they slaves they owned. I met on my trip a black
woman, Ada Simms who helps care for the brilliant Helen Mitzel the 98
year old cemetery records historian for Cooper County. Ada was able to
tell me that some of my family was not buried where I thought they
were... and indeed there were some possible ties to Pleasant Green that
I had not suspected. Moreover, she told me that she knew my great
grandfather Marion Wilson's (formerly ROSS) sister... Millie Wilson. I
was trying to make sense out of their last name. She said, "Honey, they
are not WILSONs... they just picked that name. Millie was my half
auntie" (The half sibling thing is another whole story altogether) Of
course, I thought I was going to faint from shock. I was suddenly
confused... but I figured it out somewhat. She said that Millie was
really a NELSON... fathered by her grandfather William Nelson and that
he never acknowledged her as his child. All this is further compounded
and complicated by the oppressive results of slavery.
She also corrected some data that was incorrect on the census and
cemetery records. On Ravenswood she had a batch of children and then
another after slavery; all of whom died. On Ravenswood, she had children
with Achilles Johnson (a slave who came from Nathaniel Leonard's wife
Margaret Hutchinson... her deceased husband... William H. Johnston left
slaves to Margaret's brother James Hutchinson who married Martha V.
TUTT) Can it get any better.
Millie's second marriage was to Henderson "Willie" Wilson. He had son
named Bill Wilson -- Millie's step son. This is of interest because
Marion WILSON's death certificate names his father as William Wilson (my
father and grandfather are both named William Wilson)...and Marion
Wilson named his children after the family of Nathaniel Leonard. My
great grandfather is Nathaniel Powell Leonard. (Nathaniel Leonard owner
of Ravenswood and Angelo Powell designer of the post-civil war
Ravenswood in 1880... where Marion worked.) The confusion was about
Millie's 2nd batch of children and their correction burial location.
Reviewing the 1910 census I found Ada was correct on all accounts.
Millie's children were enumerated incorrectly in 1900; and trying the
compare the cemetery records did not match. Ada showed me where
Millie's children were buried. There is no marker... she remembers
burying the children... one after another from some strange
illness...all 6 children.
So now the question is did Marion and Millie have the same mother or
father.... they obviously have some ties... as Marion CHANGED his name
to WILSON. There is a WILSON tie in Morgan County that I have tried to
connect to. Then there is case of the WILSON and BYLER connection from
Morgan CO.... and properties that are adjacent to each other in Cooper
Co. I have spent time researching the BYLERS, CHAMBERS, WILSONS, SMILEY
etc., trying to make sense of where the WILSON name could have
significance.
Since I have had suspicions about the CHISMS.. because of Elizabeth
Chism and Lot Howard... as I reviewed the documents from Pleasant Green
I saw the name of Michael Chism and a variety of other names that tied
into Morgan CO. You see, my great great grandfather's death certificate
said he was born in Morgan Co. His mother was listed with a Howard last
name. I had suspected it was Lot Howard and Elizabeth for a long time.
I just never thought to look in Elizabeth's tracks. Turns out, as I
mentioned before that Jacob Chism bequeathed Mary Ann to Elizabeth and
her mother's name was Amy. I nearly cried.. this is a monumental
accomplishment, reading and sorting through all these family ties.
Moreover, as I mentioned, in 1870 Marion and his mother was enumerated
as ROSS ... living next door to Black CHISMS. Then it all started to
make sense.
Because the families sold and kept slaves within the family, I have to
review each case of slaves being bequeathed or sold in each slave-owning
marriage. My strategy is to use wills, probate records, farm ledgers,
and the slave schedules to create of path of slave ownership among the
various families. I've gotten in a bit of trouble saying this... but I
call the families I'm researching "the incestuous subculture.." the
easier translation is there are lots of "kissing cousins."
Specifically, in response to your question, in the case of Howard
Chism... there are Black Embrys buried with other kin of mine in Cooper
Co. So anytime I can make a connection with slaves for Cooper Co... I
pretty much consider them kin.. and hope that information may be
beneficial for someone else who comes along researching.
I started my website as a way to hopefully involved black and white
researchers in a new collaborative way. Asking people for wills and
probate records is tough. And today I get an email saying that are
boxes of slave related materials in the Morgan County courthouse....
which is killing me because I live in Long Beach, CA.
So... I hope this gives you an idea of what I am trying to do..sorry for
the length of message!
traci wilson kleekamp
African Americans in Missouri
Missouri-Slave-Data.org
Peter Selph/Kathy Duncan wrote:
>
> Traci:
>
> Maybe we can help each other.
>
> Henry Chism married Taleton Embry's widow, Sarah. He
> actively represents Sarah's Embry children in securing
> their inheritance from the Embry estate and the Isaac
> Duncan estate. Sarah was the daughter of Isaac and Sarah
> (Kavanaugh) Duncan. It's hard to say if those slaves
> originated from the Duncan estate or the Embry estate.
>
> I need to go back through my records but I believe that
> Henry is accidently called Howard in one of the records,
> but that he is consistently Henry in everything else.
> I would very much like to know where Henry and Sarah Chism
> went--I don't think they stayed in Cooper Co., MO.
>
> Can you explain the Morgan Co., MO link that you are
> talking about in connection to them:
>
> "Howard Chism was the guardian of heirs of Tarlton Embry... and hired
> out slaves of the estate... "The slaves that he expects to receive in
> his possession belonging to the wards estate at Palestine, Cooper
> County, MO., on the second day of January next for 12 months." So
> some EMBRY slaves came to Cooper Co from Morgan.... "
>
> Is this a record that you found in Morgan Co., MO?
>
> Am I understanding correctly that your ancestors were from a
> different Chism family? Not Henrys?
>
> Here's what you are wanting to know:
>
> Sarah Duncan married Taleton Embry in Madison Co., KY in 29 Jan 1829.
> I don't know where she married Henry Chism--maybe in KY. I have
> seen Chisms in that area and I'm guessing that he is linked to
> them.
>
> I told you that Sarah Duncan Embry Chism's mother was Sarah
> (Kavanaugh) Duncan. Sarah probably died before the Duncans
> removed to MO. Her Kavanaugh relatives--aunts, etc also went
> to Cooper Co., MO. The Kavnaugh's cousin's were the Tutts. It
> is a very early connection. Sarah's great-grandmother
> Sarah (Williams) Kavanaugh, wife of Philemon, had a sister who
> married Richard Tutt. The Kavanaughs, Tutts, Duncans are
> all from Culpeper Co., VA and its surrounding counties:
> Orange, Stafford, Essex. The Tutt/Kavanaugh marriage is from
> the early 1700s. That is a big bridge to cross, but it is
> likely that the Tutts migrated in a similar directions as
> the Kavanaughs.
>
> Just this summer I disovered that my husband is a Chism descendant.
> I think it is probably a different Chism line, but I don't know
> enough about it yet. He descends from the Chisms who were in
> Hardeman County, TN.
>
> Kathy Duncan
> descendant of Isaac and Sarah (Kavanaugh) Duncan
Hi Dick,
I saw your listing for CHILTONs on the listserv archives.
<http://genforum.genealogy.com/chilton/>
I am also looking for CHILTONS... that came to Missouri.. my ancestors
were slaves in the CHILTON family... notably via Charles Chilton and
Susan Turner.
Anyway, I'm attaching a Chilton genealogy that I picked up off the site
mentioned above.
Your issue about Hannah is interesting. THomas Chilton and Jemima Cooke
had Mary Chilton who married WIlliam Randsdell and apparently had 10
children.. and no Hannah is listed.
However, Thomas Chilton had daughter named HANNAH...who married Foxall
Sturnman and brother Charles also had a child named Hannah... so....
You must be on to something.
Traci Wilson Kleekamp
Missouri-Slave-Data.org
African Americans in Missouri
P.S. My ancestors were slaves of Mary E. Chilton and Charles Chilton who
came to Missouri... Boonville in Cooper County. Charles was the son of
Stephen Chilton and Susanna Turner...Charles's sibling and children also
owned slaves... so it appears that those may also be my kin...it is a
task to dig up wills, probate records etc.
Good Luck..
I was wondering what happened to Edward Chilton? His email isn't working
and his web page on Chiltonia isn't there anymore. It had some useful
information on it. You can email me separately.
Thanks,
Jeff
>
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