Working on a railroad

 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 28 (July 8-14)
Prompt: Trains
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I don’t know of many connections my family had to trains except for my grandfather, Thomas Osa McCarley, aka T. O., aka Ocie.

I haven’t found any documentation other than a story that my grandmother wrote about her courtship and first year of marriage.  Other oral stories that she told me added to the details of grandfather’s time working for the railroad.

Grandpa must have started working for the railroad not too long after they married or maybe before they were married.  They lived in El Reno, OK while he worked for the railroad there.  Grandma never mentioned what he did for the railroad or his employer’s name. However, the Rock Island Railroad had tracks, depot, and a roundhouse in El Reno at that time. The depot houses the Canadian County Historical Museum now.  As far as I can tell, the Rock Island was the only railroad with a presence in El Reno. 

When someone had more seniority, they could “bump” someone with less seniority and take their job. Grandpa was bumped from his job in El Reno.  He had to go to Ft. Worth, TX to “bump” someone and still have a job with the railroad.  They lived in Ft. Worth the winter of 1929-1930.  After they discovered that their first child was due, Grandpa took Grandma back to his home in Marlow, OK to his parent’s house.  She spent several lonely months there before Gwonda was born. 

About that time Grandpa was bumped again.  That appears to have ended his career with railroads and trains. After this bump, they moved to Bridgeport, TX where he had relatives.  He worked in one of his Niblett relative’s restaurant making pies before they moved back to Marlow.

Rock Island Depot (El Reno, Oklahoma) - Wikipedia

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Ezekiel McCarley

One of my goals this year is to write biographies of ancestors on my McCarley line when I can't think of anything to write for the 52ancestor prompts. For the last few weeks, I have been writing about Ezekiel McCarley.  I may revise this if I find new information but here is his life as I know it now. 

Ezekiel McCarley, son of Abraham and Wineford McCarley

Born about 1784
        Died between 1832 & 1835

 While we don’t know exactly when or where, we do know that Ezekiel McCarley was born around 1784 to Abraham and Wineford McCarley.  It is very likely that Ezekiel was born in Kentucky, but by 1808 he was living in Williamson Co., Tennessee.  It was there that Ezekiel married Margaret Langston when he was about 24 years old. T. (Tristram) Patton, JD performed their marriage on April 14, 1808.  Thornton Patton served as the bondsman.

In 1811, Ezekiel had enough income to be a buyer at the estate of James Buford. He bought 2 candle sticks for .50 and 5 choice hogs for $15.00.  Ezekiel paid a poll tax in Williamson County in 1811.  At that time in Tennessee, poll taxes were paid by all males over the age of 21 and under the age of 50. There was a tax on each slave and any land that was owned. Ezekiel didn’t pay any taxes on slaves or land.

Ezekiel was a buyer again at the estate of John Wills in October of 1816 in Williamson County. In 1820 he was living on a farm in Maury County, Tennessee.

The 1820 census shows Ezekiel living in Maury County, Tennessee near his father, Abraham McCarley and his brother, Abraham Jr.  At that time, he had four sons, and one daughter.  Three of his sons were less than 10 years old and one son was between 10 and 15 years old. 

The 1830 Maury County, TN census shows Ezekiel still has three children living at home, two males between the ages of 10 and 15 and one female age 15 to 19. There are also two older females. His wife is presumed to be the one between the ages of 40 and 49. Since his father died around 1820, the female, age 80 to 89, could be his mother who died around 1840.

It is presumed that Ezekiel died between 1832 and 1835. Margaret McCarley, his presumed widow, married George Cayce in 1835 so Ezekiel probably died before 1835.  He was not located on the 1840 census.

On the 1840 census, George Cayce has one male between 5 and 10 years old and another between 15- and 20-years old living with him.  It is possible that Haywood McCarley is the male between 5 and 10 years old as he would have been 8 years old at the time.  George Cayce and his family are living 2 households from Charles McCurley (McCarley) in Hardin County, TN while Margaret’s other sons, Dempsey and James are still living in Maury County, TN. 

Margaret, age 56, is living with George Casey (Cayce) in 1850 in Marshal County, Mississippi near her son, Charles M. McCurley (McCarley). At that time, James McCearly (McCarley) her son, age 39 is living with the Caseys. Margaret’s youngest son, Haywood, is living with Charles near them. 

Haywood and Charles are living in Smith County, TX in 1860. George Cayce, age 75, is living with his son, G.M. Cayce and his family back in Maury County, TN.  Margaret Langston McCarley Cayce has not been found on the 1860 census and it is presumed that she died between 1850 and 1860.

 

Children of Ezekiel and Margaret Langston McCarley

1.  Dempsey McCarley, b 1805-1810. The oldest son on the 1820 census was born between 1805 and 1810. He was not listed on the 1830 census. The 1840 Census indicates Dempsey was born between 1801-1810.  He married Anne Sweet on 6 August 1827 in Maury County, TN.  He paid a tax in 1836 in Maury County.  There is a possible 1850 Census record in Ballard Co., KY in 1850.

2.   James McCarley, bn 1810-1820.  Listed on the 1820 & 1830 census as a mark.  The 1840 census in Maury Co., TN shows him married with no children living next door to his brother, Dempsey.

3.   Daughter, bn 1811- 1815 per 1820 & 1830 Census records in Maury Co., TN.

4.  Charles M. McCarley (McCurley) bn 1811-1816. Married Ann Matilda Hines on April 3, 1835 in Maury County, TN. Most of his records list his last name as McCurley. This may be that he just didn’t close the top of the a in his name, or he deliberately went by McCurley. Most of his children were listed as McCarley.

5.   Son, bn 1816-1820 per the 1820 Census records in Maury Co., TN. There is not a mark for this son in the 1830 census. He should have been between 10 and 20 years old at the time.

6.   Haywood McCarley, bn 1832.  There is some discrepancy in the parentage of Haywood. The 1840 census for George Cayce who married Margaret McCarley (Charles M’s mother) has a male between the ages of 5-9. In 1840 Haywood should have been 8 years old.  George has another male listed between the ages of 15 and 19 which is probably one of George’s sons and not Margaret’s son. Margaret would have been about 38 when Haywood was born, and he was born about 12 years after the next known child.  

    He has been refered to as a son of Charles M. McCarley, listed as his brother here. However, there is no indication that Charles was married or had children before his marriage to Ann Matilda Hines in 1835.  On the 1840 census, Charles has two males under of the age 5 listed in his household. Those should be his sons, John K. and Albert, therefore Haywood is not living in his household in 1840. 

    Haywood is first listed by name in the 1850 census in the same household as Charles M. McCarley after both Ezekiel and Margaret are presumed deceased. Haywood is listed at the bottom of the list of children instead of being at the top in the order of children as the oldest. This indicates that he probably is not a child of Charles, but is living with him.  No records have been found that list Haywood’s parents, but it is reasonable to assume Haywood is the son of Ezekiel and Margaret McCarley.

 

References:

Hamilton, Edmond K. 1979. Marriage Records of Williamson Co., TN 1804-1850. Cook & McDowell Publications: Hartford, KY.

Marriage Book of Williamson County, TN

1820 Maury County, TN Census. Pages 28 & 56. Roll 123 M-33

1830 Maury County, TN Census

1840 Maury County, TN Census

1850 Marshall County, MS Census, page 367

1860 Maury County, TN Census p 397

Williamson County Record of Wills, Estate of James Buford, 1811.

McCarley Origins

 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 2 (Jan 8-14)
Prompt: Origins
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I wrote the following article many years ago while searching for the origins of the McCarley family.  I've recently found part of it word for word on another website. It is something that was on my website on aol before aol discontinued that service, but I'm publishing it again here.

Mc is an abbreviation of the prefix Mac, which means ‘son of’.  According to the “The Surnames of Scotland” by George F. Black, PhD., McCarley is an anglicized form of MacCarlich. It means ‘son of Charles’. It is no wonder that the McCarleys have spelled their name so many ways in America. They were just following a pattern that began in Scotland where it has been documented as MacThearlaich, MaKarlich, McKearly, McCarlie, McCarlyct, McCarliche, McKerlich, and McTarlichare as well as other spellings.

 McKerley, MacKerlie, and Macerlich were common surnames in Breadalbane around 2 to 3 hundred years ago.

 There are indications that McCarlich’s were of the Campbell Clan. “Archibald M’Kerlich in Finlarg was a vassal of Campbell of Glenurquhay in 1638”. “M’Cairlich and Charlieson…appear to have been Campbells originally, and in Argyllshire they appear under the name of M’Kerliche.”  At a Scottish festival in Texas, a Stewart clan table had paperwork claiming the McCarlys. It is hard decide if they belonged to one clan or the other or if perhaps different “McCarleys” owed allegiance to different clans.   Some “McCarley’s” mentioned in “The Surnames of Scotland" are:

 Alexander Terleti – rector of the parish church of Kilchoman, 1455 (p.465)

 Donald McCarlycht – a ‘fugitive fra the law’ in 1838 (p.465)

 Hector McCarliche in Innerbruoche & Auchinroy McCarliche in Lyne were fined for reset of members of clan Gregor in 1613 (p.465)

 John McKerlich in Finlarg was fined for reset of clan Gregor in 1613, (p.526)

 Neil M’Ewin M’Kerlich, an accomplice of Donald Gorme of State, had remission for his share in laying waste Trouterness in Skye, in 1541” (p.526)

 Duncan McTerlach was a charter witness at Carnasserie in 1436, (p.566)

 Allaster McArliche was hanged for treason in 1615 (p.454)

 

A related post:  McCarley: Is there a right way to spell it?

 

Leprechaun

 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 1 (Jan 1-7)
Prompt: Family Lore
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 Sidney E. McCarley didn’t look like his father or his sons. He supposedly took after his mother’s side of the family. He was short, stout, and dark complected, unlike his sons who were tall, redheaded, and light complected. However, he did inherit the “powers” of his Scots/Irish heritage.

 One of his grandnephews shared this story with me. This was a time when you didn’t go to the doctor unless you were bleeding and/or on the point of death. The grandson was afflicted with warts that covered his hands. His mother had tried many folk remedies that didn’t work. At her wits end, she took him to see her uncle (my great grandfather).  Sidney took the boy’s hands in his own and began to rub them with some slight pressure.  The boy’s hands began to grow warmer and warmer.  After some minutes had passed, Sidney stopped rubbing the boy’s hands. He dropped the boy’s hands and told him to go home.  He told the boy that his warts would be gone in 3 days.

 All of the warts were gone in 3 days.

 Although no one in my branch of the family admitted to hearing this, another branch said Sidney’s nickname was Leprechaun. But that is just family lore. 

 

Tombstones

 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 46  (Nov 15-21)
Prompt: Tombstones
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Time takes its toll on tombstones.  About thirty years ago, I was researching Charles M. McCurley and his family in Smith County, Texas. A visit to the local library led me to Dean Baptist Cemetery where Charles and his wife, Ann Matilda Hines were buried.

 This was before GPS, but I was lucky enough to find a librarian who knew where the cemetery was located.  She gave me detailed instructions. Even with the instructions, I felt lost before we finally arrived at the small country church with the cemetery. It was on a Saturday so there was no one at the church. We carefully opened the gate and begin to look for their tombstones.  As we went down each row, occasionally a car would slow down and check to see what we were doing. I’m sure the locals were looking out for vandals.

 In the very last row, near the back fence we found their tombstones. They were made from what looked like sandstone or some other soft rock. The names were hand chiseled and were very sparing of letters. There were no dates.  Just C McCurley on one stone, and A McCurley on the other stone.  They both had footstones that had no legible information if there was any at one time. The next grave over was J M which I assume was James McCarley their son. 

Photo on the right taken by David Cook.

I haven’t been back to the cemetery in a long time, but a more recent picture taken by David Cook has been posted on FindAGrave.  The picture below shows that time has eroded the stone even more. The stone is laying on the ground either due to vandalism or weather.

Lost Bible of Charles M. McCurley

 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 42  (Oct 18-24)
Prompt: Lost
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 The time to do genealogy is now. As time goes by clues, stories, and even artifacts are lost.  Thirty some odd years ago, I was researching Charles M McCurley trying to find definitive proof that he was the son of Ezekiel McCarley. I still haven’t found that definitive proof although I have enough circumstantial evidence to feel comfortable in declaring Ezekiel his father.

 However, those thirty years ago, I was trying to track down a family Bible that showed that direct link.  I researched each of Charles M’s twelve children trying to find a descendent who might have a family Bible with the information I needed. Instead I found a family story of loss.

 Sometime after Charles M. and his wife Ann Matilda Hines McCurley died, the children living near them in Smith County, Texas decided to bulldoze their house. It was not in very good shape and not worth saving at that point in time.  According to the story, everything that no one wanted was left in the house to be destroyed with the house including pictures on the walls.  Supposedly there was one of the old antique dome type pictures of family members and possibly the family Bible.

 I don’t know if the story is true or if the Bible that I would have treasured was in the house or even who were in the picture.  I do know that it still makes me sad to think a Bible with the definitive proof I needed was destroyed.

If anyone has any additional information about this, please let me know. 

Finding Bobby Glenn McCarley

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 31  (Aug 2 - 8)
Prompt: Help
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I can't tell you how many times that I've yelled "help" when doing research. When I do, someone almost always steps up and gives me ideas of what to do next or gives me a clue pertaining to a mystery. Sometimes, they just encourage me to keep going.  Liking and commenting on my genealogy posts gives me encouragement to continue writing and researching.

My post on September 16, 2020 was about a "road trip" when my Uncles helped me find the cemetery where an infant was buried in 1938. Before my Grandmother passed, she expressed her regrets in not knowing where her son was buried in Denton Cemetery.  That has caused me over the years to keep a watch out for more information about Bobby Glenn. 

This week, newspapers.com helped me find an obituary for Bobby Glenn in the Marlow Review.  I had not actively searched for one because according to what I was told, he was born at home and his Dad and Grandmother took him to the cemetery to be buried.  I was shocked to discover an obituary and a funeral service while searching for mentions of my family in social clubs in the area.

The newspaper article differs greatly from the account I heard from my mother, who was 8 years old at the time. To my great surprise, it listed a funeral home and a pastor who conducted the service.  Doing a DuckDuckGo search (Google wasn't helpful), I found that Steele Funeral Home filed as a Domestic For Profit Business Corporation  on November 28, 1936. It expired on November 28, 1956.  There was no current online information about the Steele Funeral Home.

There was a funeral home listed in the local town so I sent them an email knowing that if I was very lucky that Steele Funeral home might have given their records to another local funeral home when they went out of business or they might know where the records were located. Sometimes a descendent of the original owner still has the records in their attic, basement, or barn.

I received an email the very next day telling me that they did have a file on Bobby Glen and they included a contact phone number for the person who had the records for Denton Cemetery.  Today, I received a copy of the funeral record for Bobby Glenn. It didn't have much information that I didn't already have, but did confirm the details in the obituary and included the cost of the funeral.  Their record stated that he was buried in Denton Cemetery but not which plot. 

I was disappointed to learn from the keeper of the Denton Cemetery records that Bobby Glenn is not listed on the plot map of the cemetery.  However, he was very helpful in looking for him.

Some of the information conflicts with what I was told by my Mother and Grandmother (Gladys McCarley), but it is possible that Bobby Glen was born at home and when he passed, he and his mother were taken to the hospital in Marlow, where he was declared dead. I still have hopes of someday knowing  Bobby Glenn's exact resting place.

With the help of my Mother, Grandmother, Uncles, Tara at Callaway Smith Cobb Funeral Home, and Charles, keeper of the Denton Cemetery plot map, I have been able to learn about an infant born too early.  

Bobby Glenn McCarley

Born: May 21, 1938 probably at home, near Central High, Stephens County, Oklahoma

Died: May 21, 1938 at hospital in Marlow, Oklahoma

Buried: May 21st 1938 at Denton Cemetery, Stephens County, Oklahoma

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From Mother to Daughter

 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 20  (May 17 - 23)

Prompt: Textile

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 In years past our ancestors didn't have time for the creative activities that we do now. Their lives were taken up with more practical endeavors. They did manage to use their creativity in creating some of the practical items needed by their families. They sewed  the clothes their families wore, often copying patterns from New York or Paris if they were from the city or needed a party or church dress.  Clothes for daily wear were practical and sometimes they only had a few outfits depending on their circumstances. The cloth scraps were used to make beautiful quilts that often commemorated an event or family. 

My mother had a red velvet quilt with blue velvet pieces that was made from the scraps of material left from making her wedding dress and bride's maid dresses.  The quilt was used on my parents bed for many years. It kept my brothers warm when they slept on an enclosed porch and it was used for picnics and other occasions. Overtime it became faded and worn and was folded and put away.

My Great Grandmother, Sarah Violet Herndon Sample pieced a wedding ring quilt before 1932 .  My Grandmother, Gladys Mamie Sample McCarley, quilted it sometime in the 1970s. After my daughter was born in 1978, she gifted it to Katharine Meghan.  Gladys was her mother's first and only daughter, my mother, Gwonda Jane McCarley was her first daughter and I was my mother's first daughter. Katharine (Katy) is my first daughter.  This quilt has passed through 4 generations of daughters to the 5th generation daughter.

McCarley: Is there a right way to spell it?

 

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 15  (April 12-18)

Prompt: How do you spell that?

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 “Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.”

― Mark Twain

 My Mother's maiden name was McCarley and I have found it spelled in so many ways that I learned very early in my research to look for every possible spelling.  I'll list some of the spellings at the end of the article but first I want to tell you about Charles M. McCarley.  Charles married Ann Matilda Hines in Maury County, Tennessee on April 4, 1835.  His marriage license has McCarley spelled 4 different ways in the one document.  That has to be a record.  It is spelled McCarley, McCarly, McCearly, and McCorely.  Okay, some of that may be the result of poor handwriting skills. The Western Weekly Review newspaper announced his marriage in the April 17, 1835 edition, as Mr. Charles McCarty married Miss Matilda Hines.

  In most of the records after his marriage, his last name is spelled McCurley.  That could be the result of leaving the A open at the top.  I thought, perhaps he just wrote the A in an unusual way that left that gap at the top so it looks like a U.

 Then one day in talking with another descendant, I heard another reason for this change in spelling.  According to this descendant who grew up in the area where he lived as an adult, Charles M. McCarley changed his name to McCurley. It seems that Charles was so mad at another relative that he decided to change his name so he wouldn't be associated with "that relative".  The story passed down through the family didn't include the name of "that relative".  His children didn't change their names as each of their lines are McCarleys.

 As you search for your ancestor, brainstorm any possible way that a name can be spelled because it is likely to be used that way at least once in the indexed records.

 Of course, it is easier to say that the James McCerley who was charged and found guilty of keeping a bawdy house in Maury County, TN in 1849  is not my relative because we don't spell our name that way.  Although it is possible that James McCerley is Charles M. McCarley/McCurley's brother.  Maybe he is the reason Charles changed the spelling of his name.   Charles brother, James, was born in 1811.

 McArley

McAuley

McCarley

McCarly

McCarty

McCauley

McCearly

McCearley (probably from having a fancy curl at the bottom of the C)

McClearly

McCorely

McCurly

McEarly

McEley

McElry

 McKirley

Courting: A Love Story

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 8  (Feb 22-28)

Prompt: Courting

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My late cousin, Nancy (VanHoozer) Bradley, shared this with me after our Grandmother passed away.  It was hand written on a small notepad by Gladys Mamie (Sample) McCarley. I hope one of her daughters still have the original. I am just very happy that Nancy let me copy it. 

To give you some context and a timeframe.  My Grandmother got married in 1929 when she was 15 years old and my Grandfather was 25 years old. Loda Stout was my Grandfather's 1st cousin.

 To my Granddaughter, Nancy, who has asked for a love story. 

How well I remember the first time I met your Grandfather. It was at a dance at my Grandparents house. They had recently moved to a farm S.E. of Marlow. My Mother and Step Father and I went over for the dance on Sat. night. They left me to spend a week with my Step Grandparents who were the only Grandparents I ever knew. 

Any way I saw this guy dancing and thought, "I want to dance with him".  Later, I learned he had looked at me and said "There is my wife."  He did come and ask for a dance and of course I said yes. But just then they broke for a 5 or 10 minute intermission. When the music started again he came after his dance, but I didn't recognize him and told him I had this dance. My Aunt told me this was the one so I had to apologize and we danced & danced & danced mostly all the rest of the eve. 

Next day Loda Stout who lived 1/4 mile from Grandma's came and asked me if I would go with your Grandpa to the circus that night.  I told a little fib to my Grandparents in order to get permission. I told them I had been going with boys for some time and I had, really, in a group. Loda had not been going with boys either but because she would be with her cousin & I she was allowed to go.  So it was a blind date and double date. Your Grandpa made a date for Loda & she made a date for him. We went to the circus every night that week. Never did get your Grandpa on the Ferris Wheel. 

He started coming to Lawton to see me and of course I came to Marlow every excuse which was parties that turned into dances. 

We even gave a few "parties" ourselves after we were married and moved back to Marlow. Had to stop because a group of boys from Rush Springs started coming and getting drunk. The last one we gave all four of the McCarley boys almost got into a fight trying to get them to leave. 

I'm getting ahead. 

Grandpa for some reason (I think he was testing our relation) failed to come over for 3 or 4 months. Any way I thought I had lost him when one day a knock was heard on the door and I answered. I was so shocked & happy. I almost didn't ask him in. We just stood and looked at each other. 

After that he was over every weekend until he got a job on railroad at El Reno?, then when he couldn't come over he sent your Uncle Floyd. Floyd & I had some good times together. I thought, and still do, a lot of him. He has always been more like a big brother. As you know I was an only child and welcomed a big brother or sister but Viola never accepted me as her sister. Sister-in-law, yes. 

Your Grandpa never said "I love you". He never asked me to marry him. He did ask me to take a trip with him and I said not unless we were married. Somehow we just started planning our wedding. Never did take that trip. 

As I said your Grandpa never said, "I love you" in so many words but his actions said so beyond a shadow of a doubt. He literally gave his life that I and our children might have a good life. It wasn't his fault that I wasn't completely happy with the kind of life I had to live to be with him, the man I loved with all my heart. I'd do it all over again if given the chance. He would have given me the moon if he thought I needed it, but if I asked for it he would have laughed at me. 

I think your Grandpa was born to help others. It seems that when a tragedy occurred he was always there.  Once a bridge (RR) was falling and he ran in under it, held it up till 4 men could get out. and as he jumped back it fell.  He was there to pick up a man from under a load of sand that had been dumped on him from a dump truck. He was there to pick up the broken bodies of some kids who had a head on from playing chicken. If anyone in the neighborhood was sick or dying, he was there. 

After we married we lived in El Reno for a while. Then he was (bumped) that is, a man who had been with the railroad longer took his job. He had to go to Ft. Worth to (bump).  We lived in Ft. Worth the rest of that winter and he brought me back to his Mother to have my baby - Gwonda.  That was a lonesome time for me I spent a lot of time on the creek crying. .... After she was born I only had to look at her to see your Grandpa. But finally he took us home with him. Then he got bumped again. 

He got a job baking pies in Bowie, Texas. But he decided to come back to the farm he had leased at Marlow. I'll never forget that trip. We had a sport coupe. (I don't know the make). We put everything we owned in the car. I sat on top of quilts, holding Gwonda all the way from Bowie to Marlow. Was I ever glad to get there. 

Since your Great Grandpa had rented his farm & house and was living in your Grandpa's, we moved in with them until first of the year when they moved back into their own.

 

 

Landed

 

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 7  (Feb 15-21)

Prompt: Landed

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In 1729 "Moses McCarley landed at New Castle, Delaware with others under the leadership of Hance Hamilton from Northern Ireland."[1] 

Was this the same Moses McCarley who wrote his will on June 11, 1785, and was recorded September 10, 1787 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. This will names his wife, Ruthe,  sons, James, David, Abram, grandson, Thomas, and daughters, Elizabeth Cavin and Jean Heddleston. His age listed in the will would make his birth year about 1710. Samuel and Spencer Ford testified that the said Moses McCarley signed, sealed, and delivered it as his last will and testament. [2].  There are some who believe that this implies that Ruthe's maiden name was Ford, however there is no other documents at this time to collaborate that conclusion. 

The Delaware Moses McCarley is included in the list of First Settlers who made improvements in  the Manor of Maske, PA before 1741 which includes the current borough of Gettysburg, township of Cumberland, and parts of several adjacent districts in Adams County.[3]  This group of Scots-Irish were Presbyterian and believed in education.[4]  This 1765 list was also called the original squatters of the Manor of Maske and was made out in 1765.[5]  This land was under grant to William Penn and John Digges. eventually John Digges sold the land pushing the squatters out. There have been no other records of Moses McCarley found in Delaware. 

On April 28, 1768 a land grant was issued to Moses McCarley in Mecklenburg, North Carolina on both sides of Camp Creek. David and John Huddlestone were the Chain Bearers.  This is significant because Moses' daughter, Jean married a Stephen Heddleston/Huddleston.

 On December 22, 1772 Moses McCarley of Berkley Co., South Carolina sold 100 acres of the 200 acre land grant to John Deveny of Tryon Co., North Carolina for five pounds.  The 100 acres was located on both sides of Camp Creek.  It was witnessed by Alex McCaughy and David Huddlestone and received by court during the July term of 1774.[6]

 

Recorded on March 1, 1773, Moses McCarley is listed in Craven Co, North Carolina with 250 acres Vol. 18, p. 128. [7] 

March 1, 1773, Moses McCarley is also listed with 250 acres on a branch of Jimmy's Creek in (Chesterfield)  South Carolina.[8] 

April 18th, 1785, Moses McCarley was issued 37 pounds, 11 shillings, and  pence sterling for Militia Duty as private from 1779-1783.[9]  [The Moses McCarley (Ruthe) would have been about 69 in 1779 so it seems unlikely that this is the same Moses McCarley.  I have 5 different Moses McCarleys in my database so it seems likely that this is one of them. ] 

1780 Tax list of York Co., PA lists John and Moses McCarley.[10] 

1790 Census of Ninety-Six District, South Carolina. Spartanburg County lists Ruth McKerley (widow of Moses McCarley) with 1 male over 16 and 1 female.    

1790, Moses McKerly is listed in Pendleton County with 2 males over 16 and 4 females. 

Those entries in italics I can reasonably assume are my Moses McCarley & family based in large part on his FAN grouping. The rest needs more research and may never be proven. 

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[1] McAfee, Jane Berry. "The McCarley Memories". Farmersville, TX: 1980. Presbyterian Records, Historical Library, Belfast, Ireland, "List of Protestant Householders, 1700-1729".

[2] Spartanburg Co., South Carolina Will Book A. pages 245-246..

[3] https://eastcoastgenealogy.com/wp/2020/01/first-settlers-of-the-manor-of-maske/

[4]https://www.britannica.com/place/Delaware-state/The-colony

[5] https://eastcoastgenealogy.com/wp/2020/01/first-settlers-of-the-manor-of-maske/

[6] McAfee, Jane Berry.

[7] McAfee. & Pre-Revolutionary Plats Index of South Carolina.

[8] McAfee, & South Carolina Plats to 1776, Vol. 18, p. 128

[9] Accounts Audited in South Carolina AA4903 Sep276. Stub entries to Indents Issue in payments of claims against South Carolina.

[10] McAfee. & Salley, A.S., Jr. Accounts Audited in South Carolina AA 4904 SE page 275; Stub entries to Indents issue in Payments of Claims against South Carolina

My Mother: Gwonda Jane McCarley

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 19 (May 10-16)
Prompt: Mother's Day
#52ancestors

 Gwonda Jane McCarley married Leeland Golightley when she was 22 years old.  Two years later she had me and became a Mother.  Over the next 8 years, she became a mother 5 more times. Well, really 3 more times considering two of those times she had twins. Over the next years, she became a grandmother and a great grandmother. I want to celebrate her life in pictures.