The Daughters of Mary Deaton

Mary Deaton, aka Polly, was born along the Little River in Northeastern Montgomery County, North Carolina on February 20, 1828. Polly was the daughter of William Deaton and his first wife, Nancy Allen Deaton.  She was the 4th daughter and the only one of their daughters not to marry. That's not to say she didn't have children. 

Name:	William Deaton
Gender:	Male
Age:	47
Birth Year:	abt 1803
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1850:	Montgomery, North Carolina, USA
Occupation:	Farmer
Industry:	Agriculture
Real Estate:	600
Line Number:	30
Dwelling Number:	475
Family Number:	477
Household Members:	Name Age William Deaton 47 Nancy Deaton 48 Joseph Deaton 21 Eli Deaton 20 Levi Deaton 18 Deborah Deaton 16 Jemima Deaton 13 Margaret Deaton 3 Litney Deaton 1 Mary Deaton 19

In the 1850 census, Mary was listed as a 19 year old, living in the home of her parents. By then, she had already had 3 children. There was something about her first daughter, Frany Jane. I'm not sure where she was in 1850. Perhaps they had hid her from the cenus taker, but the youngest two girls in this census, Margaret and Sydney, were Polly's daughters. 

Name:	Polly Deaton
Age:	35
Birth Year:	abt 1825
Gender:	Female
Home in 1860:	Diffies, Montgomery, North Carolina
Dwelling Number:	327
Family Number:	327
Cannot Read, Write:	Y
Household Members:	Name Age Wm Deaton 55 Nancy Deaton 60 Polly Deaton 35 Jane Deaton 15 Margaret Deaton 12 Sydny Deaton 10 Betsy Deaton 8 Rena Deaton 2

35 year old Polly above is Mary Deaton, the mother. 15 year old Jane is Franie Jane who married Edmund Denson 12 year old Margaret married Stephen Lassiter and 10 year old Sydney is Sitney or Sidney Nannie Deaton who married Jacob Lassiter; 8 year old Betsy is Mary Elizabeth Deaton who married Alexander Lammonds and 2 year old Rena is Laurena A. Deaton who married William A. McCaskill. The youngest, Leatha Ellen Deaton was on her way. She would marry John T. Freeman.

It all looked rather orderly, but digging deeper, it was anything but. I've already done a post of Polly's oldest daughter, Franie Jane Deaton/ Brewer, who was unofficially adopted by Polly's older sister, Margaret Deaton Brewer.

The Devil and Franie Jane

Franie Jane married unconventionally to Edmund Denson, whose father was black and mother was white. Franie Jane would live the rest of her life as a "mulatto", even though she, and her oldest daugher, were most likely completely white biologically. 

Name:	Polly Deaton
Age:	35
Birth Year:	abt 1825
Gender:	Female
Home in 1860:	Diffies, Montgomery, North Carolina
Dwelling Number:	327
Family Number:	327
Cannot Read, Write:	Y
Household Members:	Name Age Wm Deaton 55 Nancy Deaton 60 Polly Deaton 35 Jane Deaton 15 Margaret Deaton 12 Sydny Deaton 10 Betsy Deaton 8 Rena Deaton 2

The 1860 Census is interesting in that Mary is the only child of William and Nancy Deaton, and all of the younger children are hers.

I have looked through most of the Bastardy Bonds for Montgomery County for the years that Mary's children were being born and not found one for her. Oddly, while everyone else around her were having children out of wedlock, it seemed that Mary Deaton was avoiding prosecution. Of course, there are large gaps in the years sometimes, and Montgomery is a thrice burned county, so they may have been court records regarding Mary that burned up. But 6 children and not one Bond remains?



So taking it in a timeline, I want to explore the interesting lives of Polly's daughters, and yes, 6 children and all girls. Franie Jane will remain the mystery that she is. There is no hint of who her father may have been. But for Margaret, I had seen that some of her descendants had her father as an A. B. Hogan. So, who was A. B. Hogan? I began a search for him and suddenly, I knew why he was getting the blame in 2020 for fathering Polly Deaton's children in the 1850's.

If you will notice, the marriage bond for A. B. Hogan and Marianne Deaton is co-signed by Levi Deaton. Levi Deaton was a son of William Deaton and Polly's brother. So she had gotten married. In 1855, she had already had 5 children. Lurena had just been born. Perhaps she was pregnant again and A. B. Hogan was marrying her to avoid prosecution, but then the child did not make it. Or perhaps he discovered she was untrue, or still tied to some of her previous baby daddy's, but by 1860, Polly was living with her parents and going by the name Deaton, not Hogan. And what about A. B. Hogan?


He had to be one Alexander Hogan. He was the only "A" Hogan male near by of the appropriate age, and he lived right in the neighborhood, in the small sparsely inhabited township of "Hill".

Name:	Alexander Hogan
Gender:	Male
Marriage Date:	23 Dec 1858
Marriage Place:	Montgomery, North Carolina, USA
Spouse:	Martha Jane Freeman
Spouse Gender:	Female
Event Type:	Marriage

So, in 1858, just 3 years after he married "Marianne Deaton", Alexander Hogan married Martha Jane Freeman, and this time a Henry Crowder was his bondsman. 

So, 2 years later in the 1860 census, when Polly and her daughters are living with her parents, Alexander and his bride, Martha Freeman Hogan are living near Hunsuckers Store with their baby boy, Alfred, who sadly didn't make it to grow up. 

Name:	Alexander Hogans [Alexander Hogan]
Age:	25
Birth Year:	abt 1835
Gender:	Male
Birth Place:	North Carolina
Home in 1860:	Diffies, Montgomery, North Carolina
Dwelling Number:	388
Family Number:	388
Occupation:	Farmer
Personal Estate Value:	125
Cannot Read, Write:	Y
Household Members:	Name Age Alexander Hogans 25 Martha J Hogans 21 Alfred Hogans 8/12

So, what had happened between 1855 and 1858? I'm waiting on a CD of court cases from Archives for Montgomery County P's and Q's court. Did Polly and Alexander divorce? Did he have the marriage annuled for fraud or some other reason? Or did he just walk away from the whole thing without legal discourse and just commit bigamy? From what I've learned about the ways of the 19th century Uwharrie Mountain people, many of them just lived outside the lines and their "ways" were their own. Who needed a stinking piece of paper?

Early in the 1860's, Nancy Allen Deaton died and William Deaton, Polly's father, would marry a widow named Elizabeth Allen Lassiter, the widow of Joseph Lassiter. She may have been some distant relation to his first wife, Nancy Allen, but they were not sisters. They married on May 8, 1862. 

Two of Mary's daughters would marry two of her stepmother's sons. 

Margaret Ruby Deaton would marry Stephen Lassiter on Nov 18, 1865. He had already married a Sarah Cagle back in 1858. 

He's shown with her in 1860, and they did not have any children. All of his children were born of Maggie Deaton. 

Name:	Sallie Lassiter
Age:	28
Birth Year:	abt 1832
Gender:	Female
Home in 1860:	Diffies, Montgomery, North Carolina
Dwelling Number:	358
Family Number:	358
Household Members:	Name Age Stephen Lassiter 25 Sallie Lassiter 28

Sarah didn't die, he either divorced her or separated from her unofficially and took his name back, because she's alone, alive and single in 1870. 

Name:	Sarah Cagle
Age in 1870:	40
Birth Year:	abt 1830
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Dwelling Number:	45
Home in 1870:	Little River, Montgomery, North Carolina
Race:	White
Gender:	Female
Post Office:	Troy
Occupation:	Farmer
Personal Estate Value:	300
Real Estate Value:	350
Household Members:	Name Age Sarah Cagle 40 Wm Manns 45 Ward Sarah Manns 30

She's still living in Little River and taking in borders. 

Sidney Nannie Deaton married John Jacob Lassiter on March 8, 1869, another son of Elizabeth Allen Lassiter Deaton and her 1st husband, Joseph. 

Amazingly, Sidney named her father on her marriage certificate: M Lammonds. 

Malcolm Lammonds may have also been the father of Margaret Ruby Deaton .

Malcolm Lammonds is his old age

Malcolm Lammonds was from an old Scottish family, some of the earliest Sandhills settlers. He was a married man, having married Lucinda Kellis in 1846. He also got around, not staying in one place very long, and reportedly had went to Kentucky for a little while anticipating settling there. Finding the "Indian problems" a little much to handle, he quickly returned to NC. If he was the father of Polly's oldest girls, he had developed a zigzag pattern of going between Polly and his wife Lucy, because they seemed to rotate having babies every other year, opposite of the other. 

Malcolm was typical of these ancient Uwharrie Mountain men of his era. He married in 1846. If Margaret Deaton was his first child, he was about 21 at her birth. Sidney was born in 1850 and his first known child with his wife Lucinda was in 1852. He had 6 children with Lucinda and she died by 1885. He was 61 years old at that time. His youngest child with her,  Rachel, was 21 years old when he married his second wife, Cecelia Lake.

Celia "Lela" Lake Lammonds

He didn't rob the cradle with Cecelia, she was 32 when he married her, but he was 29 years her senior, certainly old enough to be her father. Together, they had 5 more children. Malcolm was 70 when his last child was born. He fathered 11 legitimate children with his two wives and at least one with Polly Deaton, possibly 3 or 4. 

The above sheet from the 1870 census of the Little River community shows the family of  Polly Deaton, which encompassed most of the sheet. She's in Household 67 with her youngest 3 daughters.

Name:	Mary Deaton
Age in 1870:	94
Birth Year:	abt 1776 [abt 1826]  [1828 Age 49]
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Dwelling Number:	67
Home in 1870:	Hill, Montgomery, North Carolina
Race:	White
Gender:	Female
Post Office:	Aumans Hill
Occupation:	Farmer
Cannot Write:	Y
Personal Estate Value:	120
Real Estate Value:	100
Household Members:	Name Age Mary Deaton 94 Bettie Deaton Louisa Deaton 16 Leattey Deaton 12

Below her is her brother, Joseph Deaton. 

Above her is her daughter Sidney and husband Jacob Lassiter with baby, Millard. 

Above Sidney is Mary's sister, Margaret Brewer, now widowed, with Franie Jane, Mary's daughter and her baby daughter, Emily.

Above them is the family of a Catherine Maners.

Above the Maners, is Jemima Deaton Smith, Polly's sister.

Above Mima is their father, William, with his new wife, Elizabeth Lassiter Deaton and her youngest daughter and a mystery 12 year old boy whose name starts with "O".

Another Maners or Maness family heads the page.

During the next decade, the youngest 3 daughters of Polly Deaton would marry. 

Mary Elizabeth "Bettie" Deaton would marry on March 28, 1871 to Archibald Lammonds.

Lurena Louisa "Rena" Deaton would marry on August 24, 1871 to W. F. McCaskill.

Leatha Ellen Deaton would marry on March 12, 1876 ot John Thomas Freeman.

Now, going backwards, John Thomas Freeman was the son of William King Freeman and Elizabeth Hogan Freeman. As Alexander Hogan was happily remarried, there was no danger of him being Leatha's father, I don't believe. 

W. F. McCaskill was the son of John M. McCaskill and Elizabeth Allen McCaskill...there's that Allen name again.

It's Bettie that has me worried. Several family trees also have her as the daughter of Malcolm Lammonds. However, she left the "father" line blank on her marriage license. She was born not too long after the birh of Sidney, who did identify her father on her marriage license. 

Then, when I looked into who the father of Alexander "Sandy" Lammonds was. When I saw he named his father as "Malcolm Lammonds" on his birth certificate, I thought Bettie had married her half-brother. But, No, thank goodness. There were 2 Malcolm Lammonds in Montgomery County. 

Sandy was the son of Malcolm "Wagonmaker" Lammonds and his wife, Margaret Leach. I'm sure there's a good chance that the family trees of the two Malcolms collide somewhere back. They may have been cousins, but Bettie and Sandy were not closely related. 

By 1880, the babies were rolling in for the Deaton sisters. 

Maggie and Stephen were living in the neighborhood, now called "Hill" and were up to 5 children.

Name:	Margaret Laseiter
Age:	35
Birth Date:	Abt 1845
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1880:	Hill, Montgomery, North Carolina, USA
Dwelling Number:	91
Race:	White
Gender:	Female
Relation to Head of House:	Wife
Marital status:	Married
Spouse's name:	Stephen Laseiter
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Occupation:	Keeping House
Cannot Read:	Yes
Cannot Write:	Yes
Neighbors:
Household Members:	Name Age Stephen Laseiter 53 Margaret Laseiter 35 Alexander G. Laseiter 12 Willie Laseiter 10 George W. Laseiter 6 Harley L. Laseiter 4 Nancy C. Laseiter 2

Very close to them was Polly's siblings, Aaron Deaton, Mandy Deaton Dunn and Jemima Deaton Smith, as well as her widowed sister-in-law, Margaret. Oddly, or maybe not, Alexander Hogan also lived there in Deatonland. 

Name:	Sitny Lassiter [Sitny Deaton]
Age:	27
Birth Date:	Abt 1853
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1880:	Hill, Montgomery, North Carolina, USA
Dwelling Number:	69
Race:	White
Gender:	Female
Relation to Head of House:	Wife
Marital status:	Married
Spouse's name:	Jacob Lassiter
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's name:	Mary Deaton
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Occupation:	Keeping House
Cannot Read:	Yes
Cannot Write:	Yes
Neighbors:
Household Members:	Name Age Jacob Lassiter 37 Sitny Lassiter 27 Millard F. Lassiter 10 Daniel D. Lassiter 9 James T. Lassiter 7 Duncan Lassiter 5 Mary Deaton 60

Their mother, Polly, was now living with Sidney and Stephen Lassiter. It's the same neighborhood, all Deaton land. There's a few Freemans and Wards, but also Alexander Lammonds and wife Bettie, Polly's daughter and her brother, Levi Deaton and her daughter, Franie Jane and her husband Edmund Denson, with Polly's sister, Margaret Deaton Brewer, who took Franie in.

Sidney Nannie Deaton Lassiter

 Knowing Bettie lived near her mother still, we leap to Rena's family, 

Name:	Lucena Mc Askill
Age:	25
Birth Date:	Abt 1855
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1880:	Hollingsworth, Montgomery, North Carolina, USA
House Number:	49
Dwelling Number:	52
Race:	White
Gender:	Female
Relation to Head of House:	Wife
Marital status:	Married
Spouse's name:	W. F. Mc Askill
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Occupation:	Keeping House
Neighbors:
Household Members:	Name Age W. F. Mc Askill 28 Lucena Mc Askill 25 Edward Mc Askill 8 Johnnie Mc Askill 4 Barnie Lee Mc Askill 2

Lurena and her husband, W.F. McCaskill are living in Hollingsworth, which is now considered Candor, among his people. Nearly all of the neighbors are McCaskill's, save a Murchinson and a McLeod.

Name:	Lethie E. Freeman
Age:	18
Birth Date:	Abt 1862
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1880:	Little River, Montgomery, North Carolina, USA
Dwelling Number:	151
Race:	White
Gender:	Female
Relation to Head of House:	Wife
Marital status:	Married
Spouse's name:	John T. Freeman
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Occupation:	Keeping House
Neighbors:
Household Members:	Name Age John T. Freeman 24 Lethie E. Freeman 18 Eli D. Freeman 3 Dara E. Freeman 1 Elizabeth Freeman 18 Sarah F. Hogan 6

Leatha, the youngest, is living in Little River Township, neighbors were primarily Leaches, Burroughs and Allens. 

Below is the modern construct of Montgomery County Townships. Little River remains, "Hill" became Star and "Hollingsworth" became Biscoe, to my understanding.

By US Census, Ruhrfisch - taken from US Census website [1] and modified by User:Ruhrfisch, Public Domain

Franie Jane Deaton Denson was the first of Mary's daughters to pass away. Neither she, nor her husband, Edmund, made it to see 1900. It is not known exactly when they died or where they were buried. Somewhere in Eastern Montgomery County would be the best guess. Mary outlived her.

Theirs were not the only deaths in the family. Margaret was now the oldest sister in the family. She had been widowed on March 3, 1882, just one year after the birth of her youngest daughter, Margaret "Tishie" Lassiter. She had also lost her firstborn, Elmina, as a child. Her other children were grown and several married. She still had two at home at the turn of the century, Harley and Nancy Caroline.

Name:	Margaret Lassiter
Age:	35
Birth Date:	Apr 1845
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1900:	Hill, Montgomery, North Carolina
Sheet Number:	13
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation:	238
Family Number:	242
Race:	White
Gender:	Female
Relation to Head of House:	Head
Marital status:	Widowed
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother: Number of Living Children:	5
Mother: How Many Children:	8
Occupation:	Farmer
Months Not Employed:	0
Can Read:	No
Can Write:	No
Can Speak English:	Yes
House Owned or Rented:	O
Home Free or Mortgaged:	F
Farm or House:	F
Neighbors:
Household Members:	Name Age Margaret Lassiter 35 Harley L Lassiter 24 Caroline Lassiter 22

Sidney, next in line, was also still living in Hill. She still had most of her children living with her and was fortunate enough to have given birth to 12 children with 11 living.

Name:	Lassiter [Sidnie Lassiter]
Age:	50
Birth Date:	1850
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1900:	Hill, Montgomery, North Carolina
Sheet Number:	13
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation:	248
Family Number:	252
Race:	White
Gender:	Female
Relation to Head of House:	Wife
Marital status:	Married
Spouse's name:	Jacob Lassiter
Marriage Year:	1867
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother: Number of Living Children:	11
Mother: How Many Children:	12
Can Read:	No
Can Write:	No
Can Speak English:	Yes
Neighbors:
Household Members:	Name Age Jacob Lassiter 55 Sidnie Lassiter 50 Duncan Lassiter 24 Minnie Lassiter 19 Oscar Lassiter 14 Ebby L Lassiter 13 Deborah E Lassiter 11 Lourenn Lassiter 10 Albert Lassiter 8 Jacob H Lassiter 7

Bettie's family was listed on a page of  Lammonds that has nearly faded away to nothing. Below is a photo of her youngest daughter, Alice Missouri Lammonds.

Alice Missouri Lammonds Whitt

Rena and her family are still living among the McCaskills in Hollingsworth. She is listed with having had 15 children and only 10 living. The names are only known of 13. Tombstones record she lost a set of twins in 1879.

Name:	Lourena Mcaskill [Laurena Mcaskill]
Age:	48
Birth Date:	May 1852
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1900:	Hollingsworth, Montgomery, North Carolina
Sheet Number:	11
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation:	188
Family Number:	189
Race:	White
Gender:	Female
Relation to Head of House:	Wife
Marital status:	Married
Spouse's name:	Wm F Mcaskill
Marriage Year:	1880
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother: Number of Living Children:	10
Mother: How Many Children:	15
Can Read:	Yes
Can Write:	Yes
Can Speak English:	Yes
Neighbors:
Household Members:	Name Age Wm F Mcaskill 47 Lourena Mcaskill 48 Wm F Mcaskill 16 Mary E Mcaskill 14 Daniel O Mcaskill 12 Elizabeth L Mcaskill 10 Nancy C Mcaskill 7 Charlie E Mcaskill 2

Leatha was the one who moved around a bit. In 1900, she and John were living in Alamance County in 1900 and working in the cotton mills with some of their children. They would be found in Moore County ten years later, in Sheffields Township, just across the Montgomery County line. By 1920, they are found in Troy, where they would remain.

Name:	Letha Freeman
Age:	40
Birth Date:	Jan 1860
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1900:	Graham, Alamance, North Carolina
Sheet Number:	8
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation:	123
Family Number:	127
Race:	White
Gender:	Female
Relation to Head of House:	Wife
Marital status:	Married
Spouse's name:	John T Freeman
Marriage Year:	1876
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother: Number of Living Children:	6
Mother: How Many Children:	6
Can Read:	Yes
Can Write:	No
Can Speak English:	Yes
Neighbors:
Household Members:	Name Age John T Freeman 45 Letha Freeman 40 Kella H Freeman 17 Della F Freeman 15 Bessie C Freeman 13 Lillie I Freeman 9

Leatha was very fortunate in that she had 6 children and all were living. In fact, none of her children lived extremely short lives, some actually made it into their 90's. 

On Leatha's death certificate, her husband, John Thomas Freeman listed her parents as Billy Deaton and Nancy Allen. Those were her grandparents, and if would be next to impossible for Nancy, who was 56 at her birth, to be her mother. She was clearly Mary's daughter and is seen living with Mary as a child and only Mary is listed as her parent on her marriage license. J. T. was getting old by then as well, and would pass away a year after Leatha, so he may have been confused. Her father remains unknown.

Name:	Mary Deaton [Mary Britt]
Age:	44
Birth Date:	Aug 1833
Birthplace:	North Carolina
Home in 1900:	Hill, Montgomery, North Carolina
Sheet Number:	12
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation:	216
Family Number:	220
Race:	White
Gender:	Female
Relation to Head of House:	Daughter
Marital status:	Widowed
Father's name:	James Paterick Britt
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's name:	Cornelia A Britt
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother: Number of Living Children:	3
Mother: How Many Children:	4
Months Not Employed:	12
Can Read:	Yes
Can Write:	No
Can Speak English:	Yes
Neighbors:
Household Members:	Name Age James Paterick Britt 30 Cornelia A Britt 32 Millie S Britt 8 Charly B Britt 6 Lee A Britt 4 Mary D Britt 2 Rosa C Britt 3/12 Mary Deaton 44

As for Polly, she is living with a Britt family, and is a bit older by then than shown.

Polly passed away on February 3, 1908. She is buried in the Lassiter Family Cemetery with her daughters, Maggie and Sidney.

Polly left behind a large number of grandchildren. Despite her and her daughters humble beginnings,  her grandchildren included ministers, doctors, business owners, farmers, mill workers and artists. Some of them scattered like the wind, while many of them remained in or near Montgomery County and she still has many descendants there today. Her descendants today identify both as Caucasian and African American, especially those from daughter, Franie Jane, whose husband Edmund Denson had a black father.

As best as I can determine, below is the list of Mary Ann "Polly" Deatons children and grandchildren.

Franie Jane Deaton 

Born about 1845 and died before 1900.

Married Edmund Denson

1868 - Mary Emily

1875- Nancy C

1877- Fanny C

1880- Lucy Ellen

Margaret Ruby "Maggie" Deaton

Born April 5 1847 -  Died December 30, 1929 Buried in the Lassiter Family Cemetery.

Married Stephen Lassiter.

1866- Elmina

1867-1925 John

1868-1950 Alexander Gordon

1870-1955 William E. "Buddy"

1872-1958 George Washington

1876-1947 Harley Lineberry

1878-1959 Nancy Caroline

1881-1884 Mary Tishie

Sidney Nannie Deaton

Born February 10, 1850 - Died February 5, 1922 Buried in the Lassiter Family Cemetery.

Married John Jacob Lassiter

1870-1928 Millard Filmore

1871-1956 Daniel D. 

1873-1904 James Talley

1876-1928 Duncan

1878-1944 Anna L.

1881-1953 Minnie Bertha

1885-1949 Jesse Oscar

1887-1962 Ebbie Lee (male)

1888-1972 Deborah Etta

1890-1916 Sidney Lourena

1893-1921 Jacob Colon

Mary Elizabeth "Bettie" Deaton

Born March 1853 - Died September 26, 1929. Buried in the Lammonds Family Cemetery near Star.

Married Alexander "Sandy" Lammonds.

1872- ? Martha L. 

1876-1947 Analiza Mae

1876-1933 David Calvin

1879 - 1918 Bennie Lee

1886- ? Mary E. 

1892-1925 Alice Missouri

Lourena Louisa "Rena" Deaton

Born May 10 1854 - June 7 1938. Buried in the McCaskill Family Cemetery in Candor.

Married William Franklin McCaskill 1852-1925

1871-1925 Edward Alexander

1873-1875 James Mathew

1875-1947 John Winston

1878-1936 Burney Lee

1879 Twins- Names unknown, died as infants.

1881-1963 Minerva Victoria

1886-1966 Mary Elizabeth

1888-1955 Daniel Ornan

1890-1964 Elizabeth Margaret Loutisha

1895-1898 Elizabeth Leona

1898-1965 Charles Eller

Leatha Ellen Deaton

Born April 15, 1860 Died September 26, 1939. Buried in Southside Cemetery in Troy.

Married John Thomas Freeman 1855-1940

1877-1942 Eli Dorsey "Doss"

1879-1950 Dora Ellen

1881-1949 Kelley Harrison (male)

1883-1971 Della Frances

1885-1958 Bessie Caroline

1890-1971 Lillie Iola "Irene"