Thanks for the leads to Birds, IL. I had not seen this before.
I am thinking my Jereter is related to this particular Jereter Field. There was
her aunt, one Jereter(1) Vickrey, sister to Charlotte VICKREY, born May 8,
1754, Augusta, VA, died April 13, 1804, who m. Joseph NATION, and also a
Jereter(2) Vickrey, b. 30 Jun 1786, a daughter of Christopher Vickrey and
granddaughter of Marmaduke Vickrey and Elizabeth NATION, who married her first
cousin, Abner Vickrey, son of John Vickrey and grandson of Marmaduke Vickrey
and Elizabeth NATION. They married on June 30, 1804 in Randolph Co., NC. On
page 547 of the 1860 Census for Randolph County, NC, there is a VICKREY family
with several children including a son named Marmaduke Vickrey, age 4. On the
next page 548 is the family of Wiley WALL and his wife Juretta (who we now
know to be Jereter, as spelled on her gravestone, which I visited recently last
week, in Henry County, IN as follows:
JERETER
wife of
WILEY WALL
died 2 25 1876
aged 73y 5m 25d
The next stone over by her grave is that of the Rev Emsley BROOKSHIRE, who d.
1890 and for whose family the cemetery is named, the Brookshire Cemetery.
Jereter occupies a corner lot in this cemetery and appears to be one of the
first buried in this particular cemetery. Wiley supposedly died in Wayne
County, IN but I have no information on where he was buried, if it is not here
in Brookshire Cemetery; possibly he occupies one of the damaged stone sites.
Since POLKs are prominent in several towns in Henry Co. IN I am thinking there
is a strong relationship here. Have you actually seen the gravesites in Birds,
IL? Since it was a Baptist cemetery, I would like to investigate further as my
Jereter was buried in a Methodist cemetery and was disowned from the Quaker
meeting at Center MM in Guilford Co. NC. on 15 Feb 1840. I am wondering if
Wiley WALL was buried next to a first wife in Wayne County, with maybe some of
his older children? I do know that Jereter and Wiley are on the 1850 Census and
1860 Census for Randolph County, NC and her name is spelled as JERETTA in 1850
and JURETTA in 1860.
Tim Walls (Louisville)
Robert P Rose wrote:
I have been doing further research on Polk line and discovered the
Hugh
actually died
at Birds ILl. on Huly 30, 1877 is buried in the St. Paul's Cemetery
(Baptist)
Jereter Fields was his wife and she was born February 15, 1803 and died Feb
8. 1863
and buried in Birds, ILL.
This correction will enter in GenServ with my next update.