Individual Notes

Note for: Richard Barnard, 11 APR 1568 - MAR 1640/41 Index

Baptism:
     Date:   30 APR 1568
     Place:   Epworth, Lincolnshire, England

Individual Notes

Note for: Johnson McGilvary, 12 JUN 1820 - 7 MAR 1863 Index

Burial:
     Date:   MAR 1863
     Place:   Jackson, Mississippi, Natl Military Cemetery

Individual Note:
     When Lorenzo, his son, took ill at Ft. Butler (near Springfield, Illinois), Johnson and his wife and their doctor came to him. Johnson took his son Lorenzo's place in the army so that Lorenzo could return home to recuperate. Johnson McGilvry was captured at the battle of Pea Ridge and died in Youngs Point, Louisiana outside New Orleans. Johnson's name is on a Civil War memorial in Bunker Hill, IL.
He was a private in the 97th IL US Infantry, listed as Johnson McGillvary.

Johnson was an ordained elder in the Round Prairie Christian church of Bunker Hill, Illinois. He and his wife Levina were baptized into the church on September 20, 1842, two days before their wedding.

CIVIL WAR LETTERS [from Wilma McGilvry]

Johnson McGilvry had a family and lived with them near Woodburn, Illinois, in Dorchester Township. When the Civil War broke out, his 19-year-old son, Lorenzo volunteered and was assigned to the 97th Infantry Regiment, A Company, of Illinois Volunteers.

A short time later Lorenzo McGilvary came down with typhoid fever. In order to give his son a chance to pull through, the 43-year-old father lay down his plow, and took his son’s place in the Civil War.

The copies of civil war letters written by Private McGilvary dated December 25, 1862 written from Memphis, Tennessee and another one on January 27, 1863 tells something of this husband and father as well as description of one war encounter with the enemy.

Memphis, Tennessee December 15, 1862

Dear Wife and Children,

I again set down to write you. I and Willis (brother) are as well as common and doing fine. This is a miserable wet day. It rained all last night and is now pouring down like it had not rained for six months, so I have a chance to write not being on guard. Lem Turner came to see me yesterday, his Division has just returned from Holly Spring, there being no enemy there and they are now going down the River to see if there is an enemy at Vicksburg.

I don’t know if we will go down with them or stay here, some one must stay here to guard this place, and we may be the ones to stay.

We have not been paid any more money since we left Illinois, it may be that I can send you money to pay our tax, if I can I will, if I can not you must try to raise it. Have you sold any pork? I suppose you will have some to sell.

Has Jacob Randle moved to Bayless ? (Town). If he has what does he follow?

I am sorry to hear of your burning so much Molasses; it seems careless to me after burning one lot, not to take better care of the next.

How have you taken care of all the Molasses you have made and what have you done with it? What have you done about lots and stables?

I am sure sometimes provoked at your short letters when anything from home is news to me.

That account of Wayne and Walter’s, I don’t remember all about it now and can not give it correct as I know of, as well as I remember it was this.

Wayne due Six gallon Molasses $2.40
For posting $1,15
Fashion work on machine .50
Walter due Lorenzo work in 62 $1.50
Posting one yearling $1.15
Worked self thrashing 4 days $4.00
Fashion work on machine .75

Lieutenant Wood just now came in and says we will leave here on the 18th of this month, we will no doubt go down the river to Vicksburg and if the enemy don’t leave before we get there we will get to see them, that is I suppose we will.

On a rainy bad day like this my mind naturally goes back to that old dear home of mine and I think what my family are doing such weather as this.

We are in camp and looking and listening for that good time coming when we will all return home in peace and quiet.

Tomas Swain is well and fat as I ever saw him (wife’s brother). He expects to be transferred to the Regiment that William Swain is in; in the place of Captain Willard’s brother which is in that Regiment.

How does people like brother Goode and what is he doing? I sent my last weeks letter to Thompson, I suppose you would hear from me. Write as usual to Memphis to follow the Regiment.

Yours as ever, Johnson McGilvary


January 17, 1863

Dear Wife and Children,

I again set myself to write you. I am not very well. I have some diarrhea thought not very bad. I am still about and attending to duty.

Willis (brother) says he is well and sends you all his best love and respects.

I received your letter dated January 3, and was glad to hear again from home. I don’t think I get all the letters you send to me. Sometimes they are captured by guerrillas.

I have not been able to write as often as I promised on account of surrounding circumstances. I wrote last at the mouth of White Rive on the 3rd. Of January.

We are up White River to the cut off and then into Arkansas, past which was a considerable fortification: we commenced firing on it Saturday evening and it surrendered on Sunday about four o’clock---with some six or sever thousand prisoners and all their arms and everything they had. 2 - l0 inch and l - 9 inch guns and a great many smaller guns but our gunboats went up to good shelling distance in front and soon done it up for them. Their largest guns were in barrel troughs and made of solid timber 4 foot thick and covered with R.R. (Railroad) iron. But it was not a circumstance to our guns, they threw shot and shell threw it like nothing.

Well I reckon you want to know if I was in the fight, well, just slightly. We were under fire sometime but not in front but a little while. The 97th and 29th were reserved to make the final charge. We got ready to make it, they showed a white flag and the fight was over.

You speak of owing George Baker $16.00 after paying him five. I certainly didn’t owe him over $10.00 you had better pay him no more. I borrowed $10.00 from him last spring but I paid it with interest.

I am not uneasy about things at home. I have a great deal of confidence in you all, but I am anxious to hear all about things at home.

Don’t forget that grass sowing, it is getting late and quite cool. And I must come to a close.

Yours with a hope to see you again,

Johnson McGilvary

Note: Aunt Minnie McGilvry Clay related something she had heard. Lorenzo once wrote in another letter, ‘I no longer care which side wins the War. The treatment of the Southern people by the Union Army makes me very sad, especially, the women and the children. I cannot understand why, even in war, needless cruelty is so wide spread and condoned by the leaders of both armies, especially the Union army in the southern states. I will be so glad when it is over and I can again be with my family.

Not long after he’d written Pvt. Johnson, a stand in for his son, died at a river crossing. That crossing was called Young's Point, Louisiana. Date of death, March 7, 1863. Some say he is buried in the Vicksburg National Military Park and cemetery. When Mike and I visited there
we saw the momument of the Illinois Volunteers but that was all. [From Wilma McGilvry]

Individual Notes

Note for: John McGilvary, ABT 1776 - ABT 1831 Index

Individual Note:
John McGilvary was born Isle Of Skye, Scotland in about 1776. He emigrated to America via ship from Scotland as a young lad with his father in 1789; he was accompanied by brothers Malcolm and Martin; and a sister Nancy.

There was a close relationship with the McIver family.. Around 1782 to 1800, members of the McIver families filed for 7 state land grants in Moore County,there were about 644 acres. In 1792, a Donald McIver filed for the first entry for 100 acres on the west side of Juniper Creek next to the Buie land. The other 6 land grants were made by the other McIvers. This remaining land was on Patterson Creek, in Moore County N.C.. They were surveyed between 1795 & 1801. and John McGilvary served as chain carrier on each. Chain carriers were neighbors who knew the lay of the land. John McGilvary was the member of the McGilvary family who escorted other McGilvary members who came to N.C.at the Port Of Wilmington in 1802.

On the 1800 census he was enumerated as John McGilvery & head of the household. On this census there was also an unknown female between 16 & 26 years of age, along with 2 unknown males who were under 10 years of age.

John McGilvary married Ruth Owen McGilvary July 16, 1809 in Edenton, North Carolina. The Owens were of Welch decent coming just prior to the McGilvary landing. Soon after the marriage they moved west to Christian County, Kentucky (near Hopkinsville, KY). In 1810, they had the first of 11 children. John McGilvary died in Kentucky ca 1830/37. Ruth died by 1837. After Ruth died, the children moved to Illinois.

Individual Notes

Note for: Mary Orrell, ABT 1668 - 1701 Index

Individual Note:
Mary was living when Aaron and family were given a certificate of transfer. It indicated that on September 3, 1701 Aaron and family had left for Bristol, port of embarkation. She was not alive by the time Aaron and children arrived in America. She either died en route to Bristol or at sea. [internet]

Individual Notes

Note for: Philip Frazier, 13 MAR 1821 - 2 NOV 1889 Index

Burial:
     Place:   Bethel, Meth. cem.

Individual Note:
     This family was active in the Methodist Church. Just when the Quaker Fraziers became Methodists is not known. In the late 1700 and early 1800s some of the Fraziers began to marry outside of the Quaker Church and they were removed from fellowship.
Philip was a farmer and his descendants mostly stayed in TN.

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Note for: Samuel Low, ABT 1723 - Index

Alias: Samuel /Lowe/, Samuel Lau

Individual Note:
Samuel Low/Lau/Lowe was Born about 1723 in Rheinland Pfalz HRE. He married Tabitha, surname unknown, about 1744. Samuel came to this country, probably following his parents and other members of the family. Samuel is first found in Guilford County, N.C. about 1760.
(from Jean Frazier Freshour)

Individual Notes

Note for: Clarice Naomi Tindle, 25 JAN 1915 - 18 DEC 1989 Index

Burial:
Place: Richwood Cemetery, Christian County, Missouri

Individual Notes

Note for: Fern Ester Davis, 9 MAR 1928 - 26 MAY 1990 Index

Burial:
Place: Richwood Cemetery, Christian County, Missouri

Individual Notes

Note for: Frank David Howse, 24 JAN 1929 - 1978 Index

Individual Note:
Frank David Howse became a carpenter in 1943 in Worsterpark Surry, England. In 1950, he came to Omaha, Nebraska and continued as a carpenter.

Individual Notes

Note for: Paul Presley Gerard, - Index

Individual Note:
Baptist minister. [Frazier sketch]

Individual Notes

Note for: Cornelius Dunham, BET 1799 AND 1800 - 27 MAY 1863 Index

Occupation:
     Place:   Farmer

Residence:
     Date:   1860
     Place:   Orleans, , Ionia, Michigan,

Residence:
     Date:   1830
     Place:   Lyons, , Wayne, New York,

Residence:
     Date:   1840
     Place:   Arcadia, , Wayne, New York,

Residence:
     Date:   1850
     Place:   Arcadia, , Wayne, New York,

Burial:
     Place:   Wheeler Cemetery, Ionia County, MI

Individual Note:
     About 1855, Cornelius, Barbary with their son, Salem, a teenager still living at home, moved to Ionia County, Michigan and bought a farm in Orleans Township. During the same decade, Mary, Thomas, and Judith Ann, with their families all moved to Michigan as well, and bought farms in the vicinity of Ionia.

After Cornelius died in 1863, Salem took over operation of the family farm, and Barbara, as she later was known, remarried. Salem married Alice Wilcox and remained in Michigan on the family farm. Barbara died in 1881 and was buried next to Cornelius in Wheeler Cemetery, Ionia County.

[from Bob Dunham who researched census, probate, land and cemetery records]