Morsels

I find it boring just climbing a tree trunk with no limbs. However, that is what most people seeking their family history do. Their aim is to go back as far as they can go. Sometimes, they suceed in getting pretty far back without having to venture past the trunk. Sometimes they do not.


I prefer in climbing all out an the limbs and branches. I have found the most interesting and colorful information that has to deal with the trunk that way. If you know nothing of your ancestors siblings and other family connections, you miss so much. It's comforting knowing who the people are who witness documents and how they are tied in. Family connections can lead to fascinating new discoveries.


Sometimes when looking at a limb or leaf, you discover an unknown fact about your trunk.

Yesterday, I accidentally came across a bit of information I find fascinating.


Mariah Winfield, my "Scarlett O'Hara", had a thing for doctors. She married two of them.



Her first husband, Dr. James Moffett or Maffett (or Moffit or Mafit, many different spellings of this name), was from Fayetteville, North Carolina and of Chester County, South Carolina origin. I was looking into his brother, Dr. William H. Moffett, trying to discover when and where he died, in determination to find a will or estate papers, and possibly a mention of his niece, Mary Ann Moffett, daughter of James and Mariah. As he only had one child, Eliza, that I can determine, his niece may also have been a recipient of his benevolence.

In this search, I found that Dr. James Moffett of Fayetteville, was a member of the Philanthropic Sociey of the Univeristy of North Carolina and an alumni, member of the graduating class of 1819.

Link to the Catalogue of the Philanthropic Society of the University of North Carolina


We have a tendency to think of the early years of the 19th century as a very primitive era, with Indian tribes still lurking about and roads not more than paths and transportation, no more than horse and wagon and boat.  However, there were schools and education and civilization and fabulous architecture and art and science. Many of our current universities had their beginnings in these early years, and while the percent of the population that could attend was less than at present, there were graduates and many of them were the men who had a hand in the development and progress of this nation when she was young.


The below is a link to the findagrave link of James Moffett's family and ancestry.

William Moffet/Maffet Findagrave site

Findagrave is an interesting site. I found a link to the grave of Jordan Lafayette Howell, who was born in Fayetteville, NC, but relocated to Muscogee County, Georgia with a business partner of his father and possibly a relative of his mother, Paris Jenks Tillinghast, Jr. He later migrated to Alabama with his sister's widower, Jeremiah Broadaway, originally of Anson County, North Carolina. Jeremiah and his children migrated from Alabama to Columbus, Georgia where, Jordan L. Howell was at, serving in several civic positions and a businessman. Jeremiah had first married Clarrissa Howell, Jordan L.'s sister, and remarried in  Columbus, Georgia. An older sister, Charlotte Howell, (named for her grandmother, Charlotte Freeman Howell and her Aunt, Charlotte Howell Stancill), married Dr. Allen Newsome of the Newsome and Jackson Hill area of Davidson County, North Carolian. Indication was that while Jordan L Howell had moved to Georgia with P J Tillinghast, his sisters had probably ended up living with their grandparents, Job and Sarah Winfield Davis, along the banks of the Rocky River in southern Stanly County, as their husbands were more from this area than where they were born. Jeremiah Broadaway shows up in the 1852 estate records of Job Davis, making purchases, so that places the family here during that year.

Jordan later removed to Alabama with some of his children and finally was buried in Florida. There is a deed recorded in Cumberland County, where his father, Jordan, Sr. (or Jordan III, depending on what timeframe you are looking at), purchased 1000 acres in Florida. Perhaps Jordan L. finally sought this claim.

I know without a doubt, that Jordan Lafayette Howell was the son of Jordan Howell and his wife Hannah Handy Howell of Fayetteville, NC. Jordan Howell was the son of my (Multiple)Great-Grandmother, Sarah Winfield Howell Davis and her first husband, Richard Howell. Richard also had a brother named Jordan who married Martha Randle of Stanly County and had sons John Randle Howell, Richard Howell and James G Howell. James G. migrated to Mississippi and Richard died childless about 1871. Several Stanly citizens are descendants of James R Howell and his wife, Elizabeth "Betsy" Nash, who was the daugther of Sarah's sister, Jemima Winfield Nash.

Jordan's oldest brother, Peter Howell also named a son Richard for their father. This Richard left two children behind and his estate records are in Anson County from the 1850's, while his cousin Richards' estate records are in Stanly County.

Sarah and Jemima had a brother named Edward Winfield, named for his Virginia grandfather Edward Winfield, so the name Edward was passed quite freely around the family. I mention this because of the following links.

Jordan Howell had another son, apparently named Edward. Jordan and Peter's youngest brother, John Winfield Howell, who also lived in Fayetteville and married Clarrissa Pearce, widow of merchant Nathan Pearce, also had a son, Edward Winfield Howell. Clarrissa had several children already and was about 39 when she married John, so they only had the one together that can be determined.


I mention this because of the below links.

Jordan Lafayette Howell's Findagrave site

Link to wife of Jordan Lafayette Howell

Link to John Wesley Howells Find-a-grave

These memorials mention a "History of Pike County, Alabama". I had to find that book. There is a story on an early settler who married a daughter of Jordan Lafayette Howell. They claim relation to Varina Howell, wife of Jefferson Davis and to Richard Howell, an early govenor of New Jersey.

Varina Howell

I'd love to find where they got their information. I contacted the person who set up the Memorial and their information had came from this book.

But I also know they had a few things incorrect. Jordan Lafayette Howell's father was not Edward, but Jordan Howell. They had an uncle and a cousin named Edward Winfield Howell. Maybe they assumed that since the oldest son was named Edward, Jordan Lafayette's father was Edward. Jordan the father of Jordan L. was born in North Carolina. Where they got perhaps Scotland was unknown. Maybe a child guessed at some point. Their mother was, from all indications, born in New York. That they had right.

Richard Howell of New Jersey

Were they right about the connection to Varina Howell and Richard Howell of New Jersey? I have no clue, but I'd like to know. At first, I dismissed the whole idea, but the more I find out about the family, the more I give this idea possible credence.

Varina Howell Davis and her famous spouse.

This family did ride high in the saddle in those early years before THE WAR.

And since names got passed around in families like a contagious disease and the name Richard was not as common in those days as say John or William, the theory is at least possible that Richard Howell of Anson might have had some relation to Richard Howell of New Jersey.

It fascinates me how much they moved around and traveled. They did not have cars or planes, or even trains until a little later.

Finding out that Mariah's second husband and first cousin, Dr. George Washington Booth, paid for and erected the tombstone of his supposed cousin, John Wilkes Booth, was a real mind blower. If George can have a connection to John Wilkes Booth, then certainly Jordan could have a connection to the wife of Jefferson Davis. Those Winfield descendants really like digging their heels into things.

Treasure Trove

My uncle finally relented to letting me scan a number of old family photos to my computer. That way I can attach them to ancestry.com profiles for other family members to connect to and enjoy. I can also post them to my facebook and print them off at CVS.

As the current family historian of sorts, seeing these faces and placing them with the names I have become so familiar with, was such a delight.

To younger generations, old books, family photos, memoirs, post cards and letters, would be junk in the finding. While digging through past possessions, they would toss them away, looking for something of value, like jewelry or old coins, that they could turn into money.

To me, these photos are treasure. They are all members of the Stanly and Cabarrus area Lemmonds, Lambert, Hill, Burris/Smith and Starnes families.

Wednesday's Child: Toffey

This beautiful little girl was Toffey Lambert. She was a New Years Baby, born January 1, 1901.

She died January 17, 1912 at the age of 3 years old. She was a sister of my grandfather, Burley Lambert and the daughter of Eli Marion Lambert and Rowena Burris Lambert.

Thankfully, someone had written her name on the back of her photograph. My Dad and his Uncle have a collection of old pictures and several that can not be identified any more clearly than "some of Momma's people, etc."

The 1840 Chancery Suit

One of the documents I have waited a great deal of time for has arrived. This is the first page of the Chancery Suit between Mariah Winfield Booth, et al, and her second husband, George Washington Booth and his brother, Thomas Harper Booth. 

The document was simply an inquisition into whether Maria was owed money given to her husband during the hire of two servants by his relatives. I am awaiting other documents. Mariah and Dr. Booth may have been separated by then. Married couples had trouble in the 1800's just as much as they do today. They just handled it differently. 

I am awaiting other documents that might help me paint a broader picture, but this one was very important in helping me to establish a few things.

First: The less than 5 year old girl shown as a dash in the home of James Moffett in 1830 did not die. She is listed with her mother in this chancery suit and her name was Mary Ann Moffett.

Second: Mariah Booth Winfield Booth was alive and well in 1840.

Third: I know where Dr. George Washington Booth settled with his wife (and her daughter), after their 1836 marriage. He took her back to his home is Lawrence County, Alabama. 

But more research is needed and other questions arise.

1) Dr. Booth is in Mississippi in 1850, and no Mariah. Did she die in Alabama?

2) Did Mary Ann Moffett marry, and if so who? And where did she live? And when did she die? Did she have descendants?

3) Did Mariah and Washington have any children?

Every detail is a piece of a puzzle. Will it ever be complete?

The document reads:  The State of Alabama Lawrence County in pursuance to the written....came before me Manaseah B Hampton, Justice of the Peace....on the 27th day of May 1840, at the Town House of W. W. Bower...Alexander G Booth and John J Morrow both of legal age... wherein Mariah Booth and Mary Ann Moffitt complained against George W. Booth and Thomas H. Booth...

To Alex Booth was asked 4 questions:

Did you hire a negro boy from George W Booth in the year 1838?

Answer: I Did

What was you to give for the hire of said Negro Boy named Jim?

Answer: One hundred and forty dollars

How long did you keep the boy in your employment?

Answer: Nearly 5 months

What amount of  money did you pay and to whom did you pay it?

Answer: I paid to my father Harper Booth forty dollars for the benefit of George W. Booth.

The same questions were asked of a Mr. John J Morrow concerning the hire of "Bill".

Mariah and her daughters complaint was that they were entitled to a share of the money paid for the hiring due to the fact that the boys were left to her as part of her inheritance and that her husband, possibly estranged, owed that share to her.

Hopefully, the 1838 documents will make things even more clear.

Now to find out more about Mary Ann Moffett.

Black Sheep Sunday: Samuel Parson Morton, Mollie's Wandering Second Husband

Black Sheep Sunday is an ongoing series at geneabloggers.com. It is a blogging prompt to allow you to post concerning persons in your family tree with a shady past or questionable behavior, cads, criminals, and ne'erdowells.

There is also an organization called the International Society of Blacksheep Genealogists.
While I have a few cad-apples in the family tree, there are far more saints than sinners. However, in the words of the consummate poet of the Late Boom/Early X generation, Billy Joel, "I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the Saints cuz sinners are much more fun."

While the saints in the family tree lived mostly placid, idyllic, uneventful lives, there are a few black sheep that turn up that are all over the place and the discoveries about them can make your jaw drop.

Samuel Parson Morton and my GG Aunt Mollie were married on April 27, 1905, just 9 months after the death of Mollie's first husband, John Frank Boone in July of 1904. Mollie was 28, and had just given birth to her fifth child, John Frank Boone, Jr. in October of 1904. The 1900 census indicated that she had had a child to die, so the bride of Samp Morton was a young widow with 4 children upon her wedding.Virgil William Boone was 9, Mary Ethel, 7, Arlie Robert was 3 and Johnny F Boone was 6 months old.

The wedding was held at the home of Mollie Boon in Cottonville. Samuel Morton is called "Sampie" on his marriage license. This nickname is seen on other documents and mentions of him. Sampie must have been his standard nickname. Sampie was 20, 8 years Mollie's junior, and as far as I can tell, this was his first marriage. 

Household Members: Name Age Mollie Marton 33 Virgil Boon 14 Ethel Boon 11 Arlie Boon 8 Johnie Boon 5 Lala Morton 3

Lallie Bee Morton, their first child, was born March 30, 1907, slightly less than 2 years later. There must have been problems from an early time. Just 5 years later, Mollie and the children are enumerated in the census alone, but Mollie is recorded as being married. She is listed as the head of household, and it is noted that this was her second marriage. However, she has informed them that she was the mother of 5 children with 5 living. Sometimes, it was entirely how the enumerator issued the question as to how the respondent answered. Another disturbing find on the 1910 census is that while 33 year old Mollie is without a job, 14 year old Virgil is listed as a Dolper and 11 year old Ethel is listed as a spinner in the Cotton Mills. The family was living in Albemarle, so the children were likely working at either the Efird, Wiscassett or Lillian Mill.

Male
Relation to Head of House:	Servant
Marital Status:	Single
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Neighbors:	View others on page
Household Members:	Name Age William A Lockhart 67 Walter R Lockhart 55 Mrs. Damhie Morton 21 Dolly Kendall 30 Winnie Kendall 16 Sam Capel 5

Sampie was difficult to find in 1910, or why he was not with his family. The 1910 transcriber was way off.

"Mrs. Damhie Morton" was listed as a male. Looking at the actual document, the name is clearly "Sampie". Where the transcriber got "Mrs." from is a total mystery.

The term 'servant' is a little misleading as well, because further in the actual document, it says that he is a Laborer for Cash for the Lockhart brothers, Walter and William, who run a "General Farm."

What happened that made Sampie take off to Wadesboro, just 30 miles south of his family, to work on a farm? Was that the only job he could find? Did the responsibility of 5 children become overwhelming?

Sampie must have returned home fairly soon, because his and Mollie's second daughter, Myrtle, was born in 1911.

Then comes World War II.



34 year old Samuel P Morton is drafted. He and Mollie are still married, as she is listed as his wife. The date is September 12, 1918. Sampie is a farmer, and farms for himself. The are living in the country, Route 2, outside of Norwood, formerly called Center, just south of Albemarle and just north of Anson County, where he was working in the 1910 census.


By 1920, the Sampie is back from the Service and everything looks like a happy family. The family has returned to Albemarle, and Sampie, who denotes his profession as Carpenter, has put his Boone stepchildren back to work in the Cottonmills. The eldest, Virgil, is now on his own. Ethel is still a spinner and her brothers Arlie and Johnny are employed in something called "Lay Tilling".

Sam Marten	35
Molly Marten	42
Sally Marten	12
Myrtle Marten	9
Ethel Boon	20
Arley Boon	18
Johnnie Boon	16

In the meantime, somewhere around 1915, Sampie's younger sister, Bertha Clementine Morton, had became the second wife of an older man, James Manlove Kimrey. When 21 year old Robertha C. Morton became Mrs. Jim Kimrey, at age 21, she inherited a houseful of children. She would add 9 more of her own, eventually. But afterward crossing the threshold of the Kimrey home, she encountered, Mary Florence, only six years her junior, Bertha Lee, Myrtle, Pearl, Annie Grace, James T and Frankie Annette, only two years old.

Sampie Morton, having just returned from war, apparently hung around his sisters' home in the Tyson township quite often. The apparently intact family in the 1920, was in for a shake up.

Pearl Kimrey Morton lies beside Samuel P. Morton in the Concord United Methodist Church Cemetery, just south of the Rocky River, on the Anson County side. On her tombstone, her birthdate is April 5, 1906.

And this is where Samuel P. Morton becomes a black sheep.

Perhaps the 35 year old Sampie was a man in his prime for the era. Perhaps 42 year old Mollie was beginning to show her age. Perhaps young Pearl was a pearl of a beauty.

I have not yet found the divorce papers for Sampie and Mollie, but I know they were divorced. In the 1930 census, Molllie's marital status is divorced. I have not yet found a marriage license for Sampie and Pearl, but her name is Morton on her tombstone. They did not marry in Stanly County. The next likely place to look is Anson, so I will look when I am done there next.

What I do know is that James Morton, Pearl and Sampie's oldest child, was born August 20, 1920. Sampie would have been 36 and Pearl, only 14.

This means that when Sam was living in the home with his wife and two daughters and his 3 stepchildren were slaving in the cotton mills to support the family, Pearl Kimrey, just a mere child of 14, was well pregnant with his son.

In this day and time, Sampy would have been arrested. In the 1920's, he made an honest woman of Pearl, at some point, and two more sons were born.

Grady Webb Morton was born in 1927, but did not live a year and is also buried at Concord UMC.

Joe Cecil Morton was born November 18, 1929. Pearl Morton died shortly afterwards.


But Sampie Morton was not finished gleaning his sister's house. Remember when she was married, the youngest daughter in the home was Frankie Annette Kimrey, only 2 years old?

Sampie Morton, now age 46, had spied his next victim, and this one I did locate the marriage license for.

Seventeen-year old Annette married Sampie Morton on February 17, 1931.

Oldest daughter Belmar Morton was born October 22, 1931. It was a shotgun wedding. Annette would have been about 2 months pregnant.

Sampie and Frankie would have 12 children together, making 17 in all for Sampie.

Although I don't have a wedding date for Sampie and Pearl, there would not have been time between the April census and the August arrival of James, to have gotten a divorce from Mollie and a wedding with Pearl.

Sampie is not to be found in the 1930 census, but he had just lost his wife. His boys, James and Joe Cecil, were living with his sister, at their grandfather, Jim Kimrey's house.
J M Kimsey52  Bertha C Kimsey36  James T Kimsey19  Anett Kimsey  17  Ruth Kimsey12  Louise Kimsey11  Macy C Kimsey9  Gennie L Kimsey 7  Emma Kimsey 6  Rosa L Kimsey 2
[2 8/12] Maisie Kimsey 0
[8/12] James Morton 8  Joe C Morton0
[8/12] 

Notice that Joe and his Aunt, Maisie, are exactly the same age. 

Mollie Boone	53
John Boone	21
Myrtle Boone	19
J William Boone	10
Ethel Smart	30
Radeth Smart	8
Sue Smart	6
Elvine Smart	4 [4 5/12]
Arlene Smart	1 [1 8/12]

Mollie has moved to the Endy community, where her daughter Ethel Boone Smart resided. Arlie lives close by. She is living with son John Frank Boone, Jr.; daughter Myrtle, mistakenly called a Boone, grandson Jay William Boone, son of Virgil, who died of the after effects of being gassed in World War II, shortly after returning home, Ethel, and her children. Her marital status is divorced. 

Sampie and Annette raised their large brood back in Tyson Township.

Samueel P Marton	56
Annell Marton	22
James Marton	17
Joe C Marton	11
Belmer Marton	8
Sadie J Marton	7
Lucy M Marton	5
Bobby Marton	3
Ethel Marton	1

Samuel Parson Morton Gender: Male Race: White Age: 66 Birth Date: 5 May 1885 Birth Place: North Carolina, United States Death Date: 12 Jan 1952 Death Location: Norwood, Stanly Father's Name: William Morton Mother's Name: Ann Nash Residence: Norwood, Stanly, North Carolina

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Sampie Morton died  in 1952, of a self-inflicted gun shot wound. He was 66. Annette, who lived until 1997, buried him with her sister Pearl and their son Grady Webb Morton.  Sampie and Annette's youngest daughter was also born in 1952.

Samuel Parson Morton, one of many namesakes of Crying Sammy Morton, was a troubled man. When did the problem start? Was it with war? He earned his black sheep status for impregnating his sister's 14 year old stepdaughter while still married to his wife. He then chose the youngest of his step-niece's and impregnated her as a teen as well. He then took his own life after the birth of his 17th child. That qualifies his to this exclusive club.

Investigating Mollie

One would think that an investigation of the life of Mollie Eliza, the firstborn daughter of my great-great grandmother Frances Julina Davis would be cut and dried.

She is buried quietly beside her husband, John F Boone, Sr. I had in my coffers, her marriage license to J. F. Boone, denoting her father as Ephraim Whitley.

Horton H. Davis, my great-great grandfather had adopted Julina's children born before the marriage as his own. Her second-born, Jesse Filmore, was the only one to maintain the surname of Aldridge, their mother's maiden name. Mollie is seen as an Aldridge on her first marriage license, but in several census records, and on her tombstone, she has forever wore the surname of Davis.

Mollie was the 'bastard' child referred to in the bastardy bond documents of her mother's trial that I posted on in: The Proof is in the Pudding: Julina's Day in Court.

But on closer examination, Mollie's life was not so simple.


She had a spring wedding on May 30, 1895. Mollie was an 18 year old bride.

She and John Frank Boone had four children in a quick succession:

Virgil William on September 9, 1896, 16 months after the wedding.

Followed by Mary Ethel in 1998, Arlie Robert Curtis Boone in 1902 and John Frank Boone, Jr, arrived sadly in 1904.

John Frank Boone, Sr died on July 7, 1904. He was only 36 years old.

His namesake, John Frank Boone, Jr was born October 9, 1904. Just three months later. He never got to meet his father.

The 1900 census is the only one in which John and Mollie are shown together.

Married
Spouse's Name:	John F Boon
Marriage Year:	1895
Years Married:	5
Father's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace:	North Carolina
Mother: number of living children:	2
Mother: How many children:	3
Occupation:	View on Image
Neighbors:	View others on page
Household Members:	Name Age John F Boon 29 Caly Boon 22 William V Boon 3 Mary E Boon 2

It also claims Mollie was the mother of 3 children with 2 living. Perhaps she had just had an infant that passed away, shortly after Ethel was born.


By 1910, Molly is a Morton (transcriber error has her as a Marten), and is listed as married, but as Head of Household. No husband to be found.

Mollie Marton 33 Virgil Boon 14 Ethel Boon 11 Arlie Boon 8 Johnie Boon 5 Lala Morton 3

She also has a 3 year old daughter, 'Lalla', which turns out to be Lallie, who is a Morton.

I found this marriage license.

The young widow, 23 year old Mollie Boone, married a Sampie Morton on April 5, 1905, a year after she is widowed. Sampie was Samuel Parson Morton.

I have a Samuel Parson Morton in my family tree already. Mollie's litte brother, William Hampton Davis, my great-grandfather, marries Penny Wayne Turner, a descendant of the charismatic traveling minister known as 'Crying Sammy Morton" and his first wife, Vashti Callaway. His name was Samuel Parson Morton and he lived between 1805 and 1885. Was this Samuel P. Morton a descendant of Crying Sammy as well?

Mollie lived well past the 1910 census and so did Sam Morton. Why was she living alone in 1910?

Mollie's tombstone and death certificate decries her a Boone and not a Morton. What happened to the "Morton?"

Mollie's story is not so simple. It's going to require a little bit of investigation.

The Proof is in the Pudding; Julina's day in court.

In the words of a distant relatives Aunt, my Great Grandpa's mother was, in her younger days, 'not a nice' person. That did not mean she was ill-tempered or dishonest. What Maudie Scarboro meant when referring to her Aldridge relatives, was that Julina, like many Confederate orphans, had become a mother outside the bounds of marriage. 

In 19th century Stanly County, North Carolina, the problem of illegitimate children was handled by the court system. An unmarried woman, when found to be with child or having just had a child, would be ordered to be brought to the next term of court by the currently serving Sherriff. There, she would be ordered to pay a bond, so the burden of the cost of raising the child did not fall on the County. She would be required to name the father of the child, so he too, could be brought to court to pay the bond. If she refused, the full cost of the bond would fall on her and sometimes her own father, or brother, or another relative, or even a caring friend or relative, would pay the bond. 

Bonds were not always filed. If the family were wealthy, the county would assume they could afford to pay the bond. Sometimes, the angry father of the pregnant girl would arrange to have the responsible male brought in to court, or an abandoned woman would file herself to have her runaway beau brought into court, who had likely promised her marriage.

So there were a number of circumstances surrounding bastardy bonds. 

Julina in later years, after her marriage. The tallest two sons, Filmore and George, were born prior to the marriage.  Molly is not in the picture. She was married by then. 

In the case of Julina Aldridge, she was one of a set of twins, and the youngest daughters of Henry Garner Aldridge and his wife Prussia. She was about six years old when her father died in 1862 in Virginia, of disease caught while serving in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

Julina was 20, nearly 21, when the above order was served against her. It states: "To any lawful officer to execute and return within thirty days......wherein information hath been made to me, one of the Justices of said county that Julina Aldridge of said county is with child and when born will be a bastard and may be charged to the county. ....command you to apprehend and bring before me or any Justice of the Peace of said county, the said Julina Aldridge to answer the matter alledged against her as aforesaid and This shall be your Warrant.

This 12th day of January, 1877
R. J Morton J. P. 

Mollie Eliza Aldridge was born February 6, 1877, so Julina would have been heavy with child.

At the bottom of the above document, E. J. Whitley has signed. On Mollie's marriage license, her father is listed as Ephraim Whitley.

For a bond of $300, Julina Aldridge and her baby daddy, Ephraim Whitley, promised the court of Stanly County that the infant Mollie Eliza would not be chargeable or a burden to society.

Julina went on to have another illegitimate child whose father was a Whitley, Jesse Filmore Aldridge. Filmore lists B. L. Whitley (Benjamin Lindsey Whitley) as his ancestor in the Permanent Voter Book.

Filmore was born 1879 and is the tallest son in the picture.

Julina Aldridge married Horton H. Davis on September 10, 1889.

She was also the mother of  George W. "Gus" Davis b 1881, Titus Henry Davis b 1887, Rebecca Jane "Becky" Davis b 1888, Martha Priscilla "Mattie" Davis b 1890, William Hampton "Will" b 1891, Carrie J Davis b 1893, Thomas Parrish Davis b 1895, Ritchey Clark Davis b 1897 and Cora Victoria Davis b 1898.

All of the other children only are seen with the surname Davis, whether born prior to or after the marriage.

There is an Aldridge cemetery close the the intersection of Aldridge road and Plank Road and close to Old Davis Road where Julina once lived. Supposedly there are two daughters of hers, Sarah and Elizabeth, buried there, who died as infants. The story is that a man named Kimrey plowed over the graves. Some members of the Floyd family were reputedly buried there as well.

The child referred to in the bond,  Mollie,  died in 1945 and is buried at Rehobeth Church near Aquadale next to her first husband, John Frank Boone, Sr. in a grave surrounded with stones and a large monument. They are buried in the 'new' section of Rehobeth. Her mother and brother Filmore are buried in the same cemetery.