John F. GANNAWAY [Parents] was born 1821 in Va. He died UNKNOWN. John married Elizabeth about 1844.
Elizabeth was born 1820. She died UNKNOWN. Elizabeth married John F. GANNAWAY about 1844.
They had the following children:
William Kendrick GANNAWAY [Parents] was born 25 Sep 1822 in Washington Co., Va. He died 12 Jan 1897. William married Eliza Jane BROYLES on 18 Aug 1848 in Rhea Co., TN.
Eliza Jane BROYLES was born 7 Jul 1822 in Tn. She died 7 Sep 1889. Eliza married William Kendrick GANNAWAY on 18 Aug 1848 in Rhea Co., TN.
They had the following children:
M i Leonidas Jerome GANNAWAY was born 8 Jun 1848 in Rhea Co., TN. He died 19 Mar 1929 in AR. F ii Mary Permilia GANNAWAY was born 12 Jan 1851 and died 13 Oct 1904. F iii Martha Ann GANNAWAY was born 29 Oct 1852 in Rhea Co., TN. She died 13 Feb 1880. M iv William Cornelius GANNAWAY was born 7 Jul 1854 and died 19 Feb 1928. M v Orville Payne GANNAWAY was born 15 Mar 1857 in Rhea Co., TN. He died 8 Nov 1889 in White Co., TN. M vi Eliza Jane GANNAWAY "Jennie" was born 19 Feb 1861 in Rhea Co., TN. He died 25 Sep 1880 in White Co., TN. F vii Susan Amanda GANNAWAY was born 19 Feb 1861. She died 11 Feb 1883. M viii Onslow Glenmore GANNAWAY was born 12 Mar 1866 and died 30 Dec 1923.
Ira M. WHITTENBURG was born 1827. He died UNKNOWN. Ira married Mary B. GANNAWAY.
Mary B. GANNAWAY [Parents] was born 1836 in Tn. She died UNKNOWN. Mary married Ira M. WHITTENBURG.
Isaac Newton BROYLES died UNKNOWN. He married Mary Permilia GANNAWAY on 14 Aug 1873 in Rhea Co., TN.
Mary Permilia GANNAWAY [Parents] was born 12 Jan 1851 in Rhea Co., TN. She died 13 Oct 1904 in Spring City, Rhea Co., TN. Mary married Isaac Newton BROYLES on 14 Aug 1873 in Rhea Co., TN.
William Cornelius GANNAWAY [Parents] was born 7 Jul 1854 in Rhea Co., TN. He died 19 Feb 1928. William married Mary Frances HUTCHINS on 2 Jun 1848 in White\.
Mary Frances HUTCHINS "Mollie" was born 1863. She died UNKNOWN. Mollie married William Cornelius GANNAWAY on 2 Jun 1848 in White\.
Onslow Glenmore GANNAWAY [Parents] was born 12 Mar 1866. He died 30 Dec 1923. Onslow married Lucille HENDERSON.
Lucille HENDERSON died UNKNOWN. She married Onslow Glenmore GANNAWAY.
Thomas PACE [Parents] was born 24 Feb 1754 in Prince George Co, VA. He died about 1780 in Yadkin Co, VA. Thomas married Keziah HOWELL.
Notes for Thomas Pace:
Death place from Jim Pace. Per petition of Burrell he was killed in the Battle of Shallow Ford, fighting for the Tories
Keziah HOWELL died UNKNOWN. She married Thomas PACE.
Notes for Keziah Howell:
Per Bruce Howard, she may have been Keziah Howell, dau. of Joseph Howell of Edgecombe, gdaughter of Aquilla Sugg.
Darlene Pace reports from unknown web site that Keziah's parents, Joseph Howell and Esther Sugg were born in 1733 and 1728 and m. 1750. Keziah was b. ABT. 1773 and m. Joseph Davis in 1790. If true Keziah is not Thomas' wife.
David BRAY SR. 1 was born 1743 in Brunswick County, NC. He died 1836 in Surry County, NC. David married Amy PACE on 1772.
Notes for David Bray, Sr.:
Per Darlene - I have the Rev War Records on David Bray. He ended up in Surry Co. He does not name his Wives and some report Three
wives ..I do know he was in same area of the John Pace of Surry Co NC per Census He does name in his pension these living Children and in this Order Wm, Hanon, Nathan, David, Amy, Martha & Ruben Pace.....
Amy PACE [Parents] was born about 1755 in Prince George Co, VA. She died about 1832 in Surry County, North Carolina. Amy married David BRAY SR. on 1772.
Notes for Amy Pace:
Amy purchased from her brother Edmund her mother's old farm and part of the tract where Richmond's widow had formerly lived, per Bruce Howard. They had 7 children per Jim Pace, Jr.From John Pace pjohndeb@verizon.net
I may be stating the obvious; but, to those who are related to the William Pace and Sarah Frazier found in Giles County TN and may wonder from where they came, there is a possible connection in the fact that the Reuben Bray family was in Giles County by the year 1822 as evidenced by the the listing of David Bray in the 1860 Giles census which states David was born in TN. He was age 38 on this census. David was the son of Reuben Bray and his wife Amy Pace Bray. Amy was the daughter of John and Sarah Pace of Surry, NC. The Reuben Bray family appears on the census of 1830 for Giles Co, TN. Amy Pace Bray and William Pace may be very closely related; the DNA results would support this. Reuben Bray was named after his uncle (or cousin) Reuben Pace who is also found in Surry, NC records.
John Pace
They had the following children:
M i William BRAY was born 1772 and died 1850. M ii Nathan BRAY was born 1773 and died before 1850. F iii Amy BRAY was born 1774 and died 1855. M iv Hannon BRAY was born 1775 and died 1843. M v Ruben BRAY was born 1777 and died Unknown. F vi Martha BRAY was born 1778 and died Unknown. M vii David BRAY was born 1779 and died 1850.
Dempsey PACE [Parents] was born about 1760 in SC. He died Unknown in AL. Dempsey married UNKNOWN.
Notes for Dempsey Pace:
Per Bruce, was killed in the Revolutionary War.
Jim Pace, Jr. has dates of abt 1753 to abt 1780.Dempsey Pace N.C. Private 15 July 1785. 640 acres to HEIR
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2006. Original data: Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1998.
Notes for Unknown:
Spouse of this Dempsey appears to be unknown. Elizabeth Rainwater was the wife of the Dempsey Pace who was William's son. See Page 228 of B. Howard.
John J. PRESTRIDGE [Parents] [scrapbook] was born about 1815 in MS. He died 2 Jan 1899 in Chico, Wise Co., TX. John married Nancy H. BURGE.
Tremont Lumber Company ledger.
Tremont was a major, Chicago based, corporation that operated several mills in Lincoln, Jackson, Winn, and Grant parishes from the early 1900s until 1973.Written on the inside cover of the ledger was the following, "Patent information entered to #1588 Inc" and the date August 14, 1914. This was the only explanation given for the information in the book. The next page was a table of contents giving the township, range, and its beginning page number.
Apparently this was land the Tremont either owned outright or had railroad right-of-way clearance through. For whatever reason, they felt it necessary to record the original patent holders of this property. Some of the dates are as early as the 1830s.
SECTION / DESC. [qtr. section] / TOWNSHIP&RANGE / ENTRYMAN / ENTRY /
U.S. PATENT / STATE PATENTDec 1854 15 Jun 1857 1483
17 SW NE 16N/2W John J. Prestridge C.E. Ctf. 12073 8
Sep 1852 1 Sep 1853 108
17 SE NE 16N/2W John J. Prestridge C.E. Ctf. 12073 8
Feb 1837 1481
17 NE SE 16N/2W J. Prestridge (G)M.W. 72182 25
Jan 1852 10 May 1852 108
17 NW SE 16N/2W J. Prestridge (G)M.W. 72182 25
Jan 1852 10 May 1852 108
17 SW SE 16N/2W J. Prestridge (G)M.W. 72182 25
Jan 1852 10 May 1852 108-33
17 SE SE 16N/2W J. Prestridge (G)M.W. 72182 25
G)C.E. Ctf.=General Cash Entry Certificate;
Mt.Wt.,M.W., or M.Wt.= Military Warrant1850 Jackson Parish, LA
Page 353 Image 186John J Prestridge 35 M Farmer
Nancy H. 29
Julia A.F. 81860 Jackson Parish, LA
house 555
John J. Prestrage 45
Nancy, 35
Robert Colon?, 401870 Alexandria, Rapides Parish, LA Page 9 Dwelling 86/Family 94
Prestridge John, 55
Prestridge, Nancy, 46
Wallace, Edwin, 8
Wallace, John, 4
Wallace, William, 361880 Navarro Co, TX Census
John PRESTRIDGE Self M Male W 63 MS Farmer GA ---
Nancy PRESTRIDGE Wife M Female W 58 MS Keeping House VA GA
William WALLACE SonL W Male W 39 AL Farmer AL AL
Edwin WALLACE GSon S Male W 19 LA Student AL MS
John WALLACE GSon S Male W 13 LA Student AL MS
Susan PRESTRIDGE Other S Female B 19 LA Servant MS TN
Lulu PRESTRIDGE Other S Female B 1 TX --- LANote: Susan was a servant and Lulu was her one year old daughter
The following letters are owned and copyrighted by John Gray and reprinted here with his permission.
(Transcribed by Julie Coley)From John J. and Nancy (Burge) Prestridge to James and Catherine (Waldrip) Prestridge
March 12th 1876
Navar County TexasDear Brother and sister and family after mi love to you all this leaves us all well hoping this to find you all well all tho wear all well as far as helth we are not as far our great distance a part we all ar from one another when I think back upon the past of feel all most like disparing but then after thinking afer a gain that this life ar soon past and gon and no more in earth to bee seen. But if faithful to our promis to god in the futur we will all meat again. But if I had this life to pas a gain I wood shape it very different to what I haif all this world can a foard on a living and if content ar easey obtaind. But uf not ar hard a nof we ar in a fine cuntry and also left a fine cuntry in Maclenon county. But I bee leave I like this the best for we have timber a plenty water a plenty a good spring branch in twenty yards of our doar a dosen springs also and as fine sandy a yard to live on as you have also to tend on one side the other black and stif a nof also valla land also bottom land that will maik from one to two bails of coton seventy to a hundred bushels of coarn to the aker and as good gras ar hart can wooshing to the dowr malbery in the swamps and ellen graps as are on red river botom and have us up a good hous and a barn thirty five or forty akers redy____ in and a peas planted in courn also a nice peach aurcherd and som apels an pars two also a nice garding at our dowr her all redy we have rented courn land from home got it planted som up but have a very norther on hand ever since nite last two cold to bee out but I think that you have could time thar two we have a fine school to send the children two and a nother school a near us taught by a lady near us a very thick setelment around us and I think that we have the best plais that I ever have had the plais in maclenon not excepted. I have bought two hundred ackers more from mrs Winey Lee a gaining our Land have three hundred and sixty ackers in our track now and look for you all this winter. But in vain rented land for you intended Bilding on mi land for you also intended to let you have a peas if you wanted it. I think if you had com you wood of bin pleased with thin cuntry catel ar fat a nof for Beaf horses ar fat that rons on the gras. I rented out mi plais in mclenon for two years for the third it maiks one hundred and twenty in cultivation six hundred in closed I think that I will hold the hold of that tract of fourteen seventy six akers in Mclenon county. I for got to tell you what I paid two dollars for that I bought. Jaimes I have not seen Bob Farrow since he got back from Louisiana received a few lines stating that hee had fifty dollars for mee but stated nothing else only that hee wood give me the news when I caim down. I am in a grate nede of mi money ar a dwoing in tilly a thout boried som to by our meat have had to sell a cow or two to git other things taking all we got to pay up that we had bored bee fore. So why did you not send the ballance by Bob. I have bin in hops that you war coming and wood bring the ballance with you but have given you out coming a towl. I gave up the land that I rented for you rote you two leters concerning it but have never herd a word from you if you have not colected it I wish for you to send the Ballance in coust or colect it for mee and get a draft on the Bank at couscanna or a poast order and send it to mee. But rite Bee fore dwoing it so I may bee looking out for it dwo you ever think of riting mee dos william ever thing of us ar not I often think of him rite to him but ar ancerd a tawl. Sallie who dwo you not rite. I am proud to her from you you rite well and why not writ to us Wallas youst to git letters but not sow now we never her from one but thar. Waldrop rote once Marindy rote once tell them to rite a gain tell Billa to see if hee can not rite we got a leter from dow graham a few days a gow stating that Parker and gaile and salla and the old man mires all ar down in a few miles of wher John Bell livd and dyed. I hante hern a worde from his wife since Wallace saw you we are afer a hundred miles from them som forty or fifty from Bobs. I like this county. I think ar a fine county the land thar ar fine timber a plenty and that ar good as you have in Louisinna only pine excepte botom land as good as on read river also plenty of valla land also perrwr land a plenty fine creeks a roning thru the county. But colder then this is foister went up thar with mee hee likes the best of all men but likes her and I think will setel here Land rates her from two and a haf to fore per aker in its wild state from fifteen to twenty inprovd som has from tenn a ajer to twenty to forty akers only while others has him one to five and a thousen in one track and meny of them haif it all in cultivation amcer this soon your frend and Brother and sister till deth
J.J.N.B. Prestridge
********************This letter was written on the side of letter from William C. Wallace to Sarah "Sallie" Ann Rebecca Prestridge
Corsicana Texas Jan 21st 1877
Brother James I have thus read a letter from Sallie to Wm Wallace stating many sad things in like all tho this ar a world of trobel, from first to last to think of old times that has long past and you maiby all feel al a lone to think wher we ar and wher you all ar give a great deal to bee set down thar ther any wasy and cood bee plaist back again our old plais ar a plais often thought of an sweet to me war is thar as I once warpt wood bee hapy but that ar imposobil and I will to stand what ar we have a nice plais her in Navar county have weve got our plais in a nice ___ to have ___ two buildins in the shaip of a ___ up staors to one hous galred and romed a rough two chimleys house nicely finished of white washed and have forty acers in cultivation a good gardin and ar a preparin to taik in forty aver more this year have rented out mi plais in mcclenin for money rent at three dollars and a haf per aker with all that I fail to hardly bee abel to live all tho we maid plenty last year coarn ar a heap from twentys five to thirty five cents a bushel but I only have two dollars in money and ar a needing of that you have the worst that I ever will in life again to send it as soon as you can ____ I have tried to borey some but can not. I rote to you long sense if you caim to texas you must sher with me and y could grine your corn ---------- three hundred bushels for corn next year I am glad to her of you all being on my old plais in Jackson when (where ??) I think you all will sertinly have (health??) come out to see our country bee fore moving it ar a searis thing to move so far and then not bee satisfide all tho I am satisfide tho meny objection her tell Billie to rite also all the rest of the family conection also Marinda tell Colon howdy
yours J J Prestridge
********************Partial letter – no date - written by Nancy H. Burge Prestridge to her niece Sarah Ann Rebecaa Prestridge
I admire so much and that is to see at church last Sunday so many young ladies with their bright cheeks and sparkling eyes and in their lily white hands were wreaths decorated with wild flowers and as I looked at them I could only think how beautiful thou art and exclaim (alas) none of them mine.
Sallie forgive my nonsense we have had a very cold winter and backward spring yet the farmers are not done planting yet we have any amount of grasshoppers now but they have not done as much harm yet and will soon be large enough to fly and they will leave them immediately. I am fearful that there will be very little wheat made in Texas this year we have received a letter from our agent in McLenan County stating that the wheat looked fine there and that the grasshoppers were doing no harm there yet. I would like that they may make good crops of wheat there for I want to move back down there before long. Sallie I must give you a chunk of a lecturing about the way you wrote about your school you stated that you were teaching but did not say where or where you were boarding your letter was maled at Gansville. I supposed you were there or near there. I am truly glad you have engaged in a business that affords plenty of means to live on and improvement and when you have some practical experience you will find it to be a great pleasure to teach and if you will employ yourself closely you will learn as fast as if you were a student yourself you stated that you dreaded Mathematic send down to Monroe of Natchitoches and get you a key to davies arithmetic and then you will be all right and if you find a sum you cannot work send it over to me by rail road and I will work it and send it back. I wish you great success and if you will stick to it you can make a lady out of yourself - set up in the shade and have plenty and have soft white hands – never dispair but keep on never think of home – not nobody else only yourself and there is no doubt but you will succeed the improvement that you can make by applying yourself will pay you and in teaching a session or two you can qualify yourself so it will be no trouble for you to get a school anywhere from what I see in the papers you will a democratic govenor in La – if so I am in hopes that peace and quietude will prevail over the grand state of La we have no news from La since your letter. I have been expecting a letter from uncle Jimey but I am nearly ready to give him up. Dear Sallie Mr. Wallace has to go to work he gives me room to writ a few words so I am very glad indeed to hear from you and that you writ about the connection for non of them will writ to us want you to writ often give us all the news you may say to your aunt Parmelia that we singe the general coll yet and singe beautiful river the little boys Eddy and Johny singes well so I must close farewell
N S Prestridge
********************Indian Territory, Ardemore August 23, 1894:
My dear old friend M. C. Walsworth and family. Your letter received, glad to hear from you all and to hear that you were well. This leaves us all well. Our country are in a fine prospers condition. Cotton coming in also grain, wheat only sells for 35 cents, oats 28, corn 25, cotton 7. A large crop here on land, hay 6 dollars a ton, watermellons of all kind from 2 to 3 for a nickle, cabbage one cent a pound head, potatoes fifty cents and soon a plentiful country to live in. Johny are a clerking in a store at fifty-five dollars a month, set in for eight months. We have bought property here and will stay here if we do not succedd in getting our claim in the Cherokee Nation. This are the Chicksaw and Choctaws will have to go to the part of the nation whenever our claims are allowed. I have wrote three letters to J. M. Beck our attorney to write me at Ardmore but have not heard from him since we left the mineral wells. He wrote to us before we left there it would be November before the consil met then he would try to get it through so we could become a citizen. I wrote to him to send papers to me to send off to you all as soon as he could. He probably are waiting to get mine through before he send others off. As soon as I get an answer from him I will write to you all about the whole matter and what for you all to do. I and Asbury Tabor of Capman Co., Texas can prove all the reationship that will have to proved up according to what our attorney says if I fail to get my claim allowed I have made a good move to get here. I have wrote to Pinkney Byrd of Tom Green County, Texas to bring our stock here as soon as he can. We are looking soon to winter at we have sheep and horses some cows. I imploy you as my agent to act as I would if I were present myself. Known all men by these presents that I heredo authorize and empower H. P. Walsworth to sell and collect as my lawful agent in Jackson or Winn or in any county in Louisiana to sell make title and sign my name J. J. Prestridge to deed of 40 acres of land on or near Red River six miles or there abouts above Colfax that I own and entered it during the war, probably 65 or 64 were state land entered by J. J. Prestridge. I have mislaid the receipt so I cannot give you the numbers at Natchitoches. The records will show all the particulars about the land you will have to refer to records at Colfax or the party that are our land Kemp & sons sent to by the land from me but Ilearned that the party on the land wanted it so sell to him at what it are worth after paying him back the taxes he is out on the land for there what you and him may agree.
J. J. Prestridge
********************J. J. Prestridge per Henry C. Walsworth, agent to H. M. Regan, deed State of Louisana, Parish of Grant Known all men by these present that Henry C. Walsworth a resident of Jackson Parish, LA and agent of John J. Prestidge, of Ardmore in the Indian Territory, U.S. A. which agency is evidenced by power of attorney contained in the letter hereto attached and made part hereof for and in consideration of the sum of thirty five & 00/100 dollars cash in hand paid to said Henry C. Walsworth agent the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath bargained sold and delivered unto H. M. Ragan a resident of the Parish of Grant but more minutely described as the SW 1/4 of the SE 1/4, Section No. 24 in Township No. 7 North and of Range No. 4 West La Mer'n containing 40 acres more or less together with all the and singularly the improvements thereon and all the estate right titles and interest of the said John J. Prestige, his heirs, assigns and legal representatives forever. The said purchaser H. M. Ragan to have and to hold the same unto himself his heirs and legal representative forever against every claim whatsoever be same and with full guarantee of titles. In witness whereof I Henry C. Walswoth agent have hereunto signed my name as such in the presence of W. D. Irwain and I. McMills who are witnesses of lawful age and domicile and who sign hereto on such with me said vendor on this the 18th day of September land 1894. Witness J. J. Prestridge I. McMills per H. C. Walsworth W. D. Irwain H. M. Ragan
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The State of Texas} Know all men by these presents, that we J.E. Wallace and wife
County of Montague} L.K. Wallace of Montague county and J.P. Wallace and wife Marie Wallace and Mrs. N.S. Prestridge all of Jack County Texas of the county of Montague and State of Texas for and in consideration of the sum of Two hundred dollars to us in hand paid by R.L. Morris, Receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, have granted sold and conveyed and by these presents do grant, sell and convey unto the said R.L. Morris of the county of Wise and State of Texas all that certain tracts of lots of land situated in Wise county Texas and described as follow to wit, all of Lot No. (2) two in Block No. (5) five on the east side of the Public Square, in the town of Chico the same being 24 feet front by 80 feet back to an alley. To have and to hold the above described premises together with all and singular the rights and appurtenances thereto in any way belonging unto the said R.L. Morris and his heirs and assigns forever. And we do hereby bind ourselves executors and administrators to warrant and forever defend all and singular the said premises unto the said R.K. Morris and his heirs and assigns against every person whomsoever lawfully claiming or to claim the same or any part thereof.
Witness in hand this 28th day of August A.D. 1899.
J.E. Wallace
Mrs. L.K. Wallace
N.B. Prestridge
M.H. Wallace
J.P. Wallace
Nancy H. BURGE [Parents] was born 1 Aug 1820 in MS. She died 1900/1910 in Jack Co., TX?. Nancy married John J. PRESTRIDGE.
From paulsmith@copper.net "I worked in the funeral home there in Jacksboro from 1941 to 1985. I have funeral records for that period such as they are, the fellow that had the funeral home could not spell very good, would not ask names and then all the record he had was name and date, there is one record that tells me it could likely be your Nancy but am not sure all it says is Grandma and date of Nov 18, 1910. If he did not know the people that would be kinda the way he would write it since she was living with a Grandson. If it is her she is likely buried in the Oakwood Cemetery and could possiblly have been overlooked in copy the cemetery or may not have a monument." Death certificates did not start until 1916 in Jacksboro, TX.
They had the following children:
F i Julia A. PRESTRIDGE was born 1842 and died 1867. ii Unknown PRESTRIDGE died 1 before 1850.