Thomas Bagwell [Parents] was born in 1642 in Matompkin, North Hampton Co., Va. He died before 16 Sep 1690 in North Hampton Co., Va. He married Ann Stokley in 1661 in Accomack Co., Va.
Ann Stokley [Parents] was born in 1645 in North Hampton Co., Va. She died after 1693 in Sussex Co., de. She married Thomas Bagwell in 1661 in Accomack Co., Va.
They had the following children:
F i Comfort Bagwell F ii Vallance Bagwell
Francis Stokley was born in 1598 in North Hampton Co., Va. He died on 1 Jan 1655 in North Hampton Co., Va. He married Joan Hall.
Joan Hall.Joan married Francis Stokley.
They had the following children:
F i Ann Stokley
Henry Bagwell [Parents] was born on 29 Oct 1589 in St. Petrock, Exeter, Devonshire, England. He died before 28 Apr 1663 in North Hampton Co., Va. He married Alice B Hawkins in 1623 in North Hampton Co., Va. Henry was employed as First Clerk of Northampton Co..
Alice B Hawkins [Parents] was born on 29 May 1605 in Madeley, Stafford, England. She was christened on 14 Sep 1607 in Holy Trinity the Less, London, London, England. She died in North Hampton Co., Va. She married Henry Bagwell in 1623 in North Hampton Co., Va.
They had the following children:
M i Thomas Bagwell
David Bagwell was born on 29 Oct 1589 in St. Petrock, Exeter, Devonshire. He died about 28 Apr 1663. He married Ann.
Ann.Ann married David Bagwell.
They had the following children:
M i Henry Bagwell
William Hawkins was born in 1585 in England. He died in 1646 in Northampton Co., Va. He married Ann about 1604.
Ann was born about 1590 in England. She died about 1646 in Northampton, Va. She married William Hawkins about 1604.
They had the following children:
F i Alice B Hawkins
Richard Cantril [Parents] was born about 1643 in Bakewell, Debyshire, England. He married Alice on 11 Oct 1640 in , Kniveton, Derby, England.
Alice was born in Bakewell, Debyshire, England. She married Richard Cantril on 11 Oct 1640 in , Kniveton, Derby, England.
They had the following children:
M i Richard L Cantril F ii Ann Cantril was born in 1667 in Bakewell, Debyshire, England.
William Cantril was born in Bakewell, Debyshire, England. He died in Ashover, Derbyshire, England.
He had the following children:
M i Richard Cantril M ii Joseph Cantril was born on 23 Dec 1666 in Ashover, Derbyshire, England. He died on 10 May 1689 in Schuykill River, Pa. The cause of death was Drowned.
Thought to be the same Joseph who drowned and will named Richard L Cantrell as executor of estate
Ross Asbill [Parents] was born in 1792 in Hangingdog, Cherokee Nation, NC. He died in 1864 in Ft Scott, Bourbon Co., KS. He married Elizabeth Becknell on 27 Dec 1816 in , Madison, Ky.
Other marriages:, Patsy
Cornelius, Elizabeth
Dresler Wise, Margaret
Elizabeth Becknell [Parents] was born in 1798 in Madison Co., KY. She married Ross Asbill on 27 Dec 1816 in , Madison, Ky.
They had the following children:
M i Alex Asbill died before 29 Mar 1910. M ii Charles Asbill died before 29 Mar 1910. F iii Jaley Asbill F iv Mahaley Jean Asbill M v Thomas Asbill was buried in National Cemetary At Springfield Mo. M vi John Asbill
William Asbill [Parents] was born in 1763 in Bertie, NC. He died in 1820 in Madison Co., KY. He married Nar-Nee "Elizabeth" Ross in 1783 in Estill, Nc.
Found in 1810 Kentucky census: https://sites.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/ky/madison/census/1810/215.jpg
Nar-Nee "Elizabeth" Ross [Parents] was born in 1770 in Hangingdog, Cherokee Nation, NC. She died in 1851 in Ft. Gibson, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory (OK). She married William Asbill in 1783 in Estill, Nc.
1. Ethelda Henry, said in a letter to Lucille Gano that William's descendants in Kentucky had told her that William only had one wife. Recently, several very important documents were found by David Nobles and Arlona Mayhugh among the records of the Cherokee Nation's Commission on Citizenship (1887) and the Guion Miller Commission (1907). These records verify, among other things, that the wife of William Asbell, Sr., was a full-blood Overhill Cherokee from what is today Cherokee Co., North Carolina. Her name was Nar-nee, and she took the English name of Elizabeth Ross. (See note #4 re: John Ross' affidavit.)
2. Researchers are still trying to determine the relationship, if any, between Nar-nee's family and that of Chief John Ross. The records mentioned in note #3 indicate that Nar-nee had a brother named Oo-ya-sis-tah and a sister named Gar-en-sah. Some of their descendants went to Indian Territory during the time of the Cherokee removal of 1839 ("The Trail of Tears"). Others may have left before the removal. Still others, it is known, went to Indian Territory after the Civil War. Nar-nee had a nephew (son of Oo-ya-sis-tah) who took the name of John Ross. This particular John Ross, not to be confused with Chief John Ross, came west to the new Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory after the Civil War when the Western Cherokee extended an invitation to the Eastern Cherokee to join them. He submitted an affidavit in Tahlequah in 1887 in support of the application for citizenship of Jaley Asbill Johnson, daughter of Ross Asbell. John Ross, who was first cousin to John and Ross Asbell, knew Nar-nee and William when they were living at Hangingdog, North Carolina. He mentions their two sons, John and Ross, only.
He makes no mention of the three older children, who were probably born in Georgia. The three older children were apparently staying with relatives in Randolph Co., where Mary Nancy was married in 1801, before William moved the whole family in 1805 to Madison Co., Ky. His brother, John, had already moved to Madison Co. about ten years earlier.3. Census and other records indicate that Nar-nee and her husband, William, probably went back to Hangingdog, N.C., after their daughter and youngest child, Sarah, married and moved to Missouri in the late spring of 1829. For a number of years before the forced removal of 1839, it was becoming increasingly obvious to most Cherokee that the white man was going to take their land. Some Cherokee ("Old Settlers") left for assigned Indian lands in Arkansas and later in Indian Territory before 1839. Neither Nar-nee nor William are on the federal census of 1830 nor the 1835 Cherokee census, which was taken prior to and in anticipation of the removal. William may have died sometime between 1829 and 1835, and Nar-nee may have gone west with relatives to Indian Territory, but died before the Old Settler Payroll of 1851. The payroll listed a Nar-nee (deceased) who had been living in the household of Kee Kee Gunter (age 40), her nephew, in Ft. Gibson, Cherokee Nation, I.T. So far, the only Nar-nee that researchers have found in Cherokee records has been William's Cherokee wife.
4. The three eldest children of William & Nar-nee may have been born in Wilkes Co., Georgia, where William and his brother, John, received bounty land for their military service during the Revolutionary War. They left Georgia around 1789 and return to North Carolina, where William is found on the 1790 federal census for Randolph Co. The reason they returned to North Carolina may have been due to the fact that white settlers were moving into Georgia and displacing the Cherokee. Oral family history indicates that William and John may have been as much as 1/2 Cherokee. The Asbells may have felt unwelcome, even threatened, living in Georgia.
They had the following children:
F i Mary Nancy Asbill M ii William Asbill Jr M iii Joseph Asbill M iv John Asbill M v Ross Asbill F vi Lydia Asbill F vii Elizabeth Asbill F viii Sarah Asbill
Joseph Asbell [Parents] was born in 1732 in Perquiman Co., NC. He died in 1819 in Probably Madison Co., KY. He married Dorothy Ross in 1756 in , Probably, Perquimans, Nc..
To date, I have not found any proof that our Rosses are related to THE Chief John Ross, but oral family history says that we are related "to the Ross family of Cherokees," as was stated in one Dawes Commission application. "Dorothy Ross" was a figment of George Bennett's imagination. I have seen no proof that "Joseph & Dorothy Ross Asbell/Asbill" were the parents of our Wm. Asbell, Sr. And neither did Bennett's daughter, the late Ethelda Bennett Henry. Sara Bates was the second wife of "Black John" Asbill. His first wife, Nancy Wood, died in a measles epidemic at Springfield, Mo., during the Civil War (Jan., 1863, if my memory serves me), as did Black John's brother, Thomas Asbill. Thomas is buried at the national cemetery in Springfield. Thomas and John were twin brothers. Mahala Jean Asbill Barnes was their sister. John died about 10 years later due to severe wounds he received at the Battle of Pea Ridge. He is buried near Little Rock, Ark. The other John Ross was brother to our Nar-nee. He was a minor chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokees. After the Civil War, the Western Band invited members of the Eastern Band to join them in Indian Territory. Some took up their offer, including John Ross. His affidavits given in support of Jaley Asbill Johnson's application to the Cherokee Nation's Commission on Citizenship are invaluable. He remembered the Asbells when they were in North Carolina, although some of his statements are not entirely accurate. I am still intrigued by the name Nar-nee on the 1851 Old Settlers Payroll, which seems to indicate that Nar-nee left Kentucky before the Trail of Tears and came to I.T. She is listed as "deceased." She had been living with a nephew in Ft. Gibson, which is about 20 miles west of Tahlequah. Delmar R. Asbill Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Dorothy Ross [Parents] was born in 1735 in New Castle, New Castle, DE. She died in Perquiman Co., NC. She married Joseph Asbell in 1756 in , Probably, Perquimans, Nc..
They had the following children:
M i Aaron Asbell M ii John Asbill or Asbell was born in 1762 in Perquimans, Nc. He died on 28 Nov 1828 in Estill, Ky. He was buried in 1828 in Estill, Ky.. M iii William Asbill M iv Christopher Asbell was born about 1763 in Probably Bertie Co., Nc.. M v Martin Asbell was born about 1764 in Bertie Co., NC. M vi Joseph Asbell was born in 1764 in Perquiman Co., Nc. M vii Emanuel Asbell was born about 1765 in Bertie Co., NC. M viii James Asbell was born in 1765 in Probably Bertie Co., Nc.. F ix Mary Asbell was born in 1767 in Bertie Co., NC. F x Martha Asbell was born about 1769 in Bertie Co., NC. F xi Elizabeth Asbell was born in 1770 in Bertie Co., NC. F xii Hannah Asbell was born about 1771 in Bertie Co., NC. F xiii Nannie Asbell was born in 1772 in Bertie Co., NC.