Eighth Generation

1789. Mary Aveline Lee¹³¹⁸ was born about 1871 in Drew County, Arkansas.¹³¹⁸ She died in 1962 in Bearhouse, Drew County, Arkansas. She was buried in 1962 in Prarie Grove Cemetary, Drew County, Arkansas. She was also known as Mollie Lee.¹³¹⁸

From an ancestry.com board:
"Bedwell & Nicholson
Author: Beth Thurman Date: 5 Jun 2002 5:49 PM GMT terrilee@@ipa.net (email no longer good)

James Bedwell was in charge of a ferry on the river between AL & MS (I think it is the Tombigbee)????not looking at my notes....He lived in Butler, AL area. Then he moved over to Clark Co., MS. He is the father of my ancestor, James W. Bedwell. He was married twice, but my James' mother was Mary Nicholson. My James moved on up to Hinds Co. south of Raymond. He and his family are buried in a family cemetery...Bedwell...in a pasture about 2 miles south of Raymond and on the east side of the road. One has to climb two fences to get to it. It is in bad shape. The Cemetery Book of Hinds Co. has the listings, but they are not all correct. Unfortunately, I relied on my uncle to write all this down, and his records are in a massive jumble in the basement of my cousin as he is now deceased. I always relied on him to share, and he became ill and passed away before we got it all straight. I wish I could be more helpful. My James is the father of Arabella (Bell) Nicholson BEDWELL LEE, the mother of Mary Aveline (Mollie) LEE Wolfe, the mother of Dan Bull Wolfe, the father of Minnie Lee Wolfe Thurman....then myself. I do have some more Bedwell contacts in my mailbox if you are interested. BETH"


(Note: we had a marriage date of January 26, 1867, but that can't be right).

from a rootsweb board:
"Surnames: WOLFE THURMAN LEE ONEAL(ONEILL) DANIEL HORN(E) LAGRONE WELLS VERNON
Submitter: Beth Thurman (terrilee@@ipa.net)
Date: 20 May 1998

I could have sworn that I left a query in March, but I evidently did not. I am researching the following surnames, who were in Drew County: WOLFE,THURMAN, LEE, GARDNER, LAGRONE, VERNON, ONEAL, HORN, and WELLS. Minnie Lee WOLFE and Cecil Allen THURMAN were my parents. Dan Bull WOLFE and Maggie Elizabeth LAGRONE Wolfe are my maternal gparents. Both were b. in Drew Co.(actually, Lizzie was b. just over the line in Ashley Co. Charlie Allen THURMAN and Elma Pearl WELLS are my paternal gparents. C.A. was b. in Drew co., and Pearl came here in l90l from Greene Co., Ill. Mary (Molly)Avaline LEE and Philip Zadock WOLFE were my maternal ggrandparents. Molly was b. in l872 just south of Monticello near the state school in Marion Twp. In l885, she moved between the Prairie Grove and Midway communities on what is today called Lee Creek in the Bearhouse Twp. She was the daughter of Anson Pollen LEE and Arabella BEDWELL LEE, who moved to Drew Co. from Hinds Co., MS near Raymond and Terry. A.P. was in Drew Co. with his wife and children before the Civil War because he enlisted in a unit out of Pine Bluff and was a Lt. P.Z. Wolfe was the son of Philip Samuel Wolfe, who was b. in probably Ala. He came to Drew Co. with his first wife, Judith T. BERRYMAN about l845. He came with his sister, Rachel Mihaley WOLFE ETHERIDGE and her husband Aaron ETHERIDGE, his sister Jane C.(or Jane Hepsibah) WOLFE and her husband Jessie BERRYMAN, and his brother Hilliard Vasetine WOLFE and his wife :?GREER. They moved to the Green Hill area . Hilliard later moved across the Saline River to south of Banks, and P.S. moved to southeast Drew Co. between Midway and the Prairie Grove area. Philip Samuel later married a second time to Elizabeth DANIEL FERGUSON, who had been married to a Benjamin Franklin FERGUSON, who had died in the Civil War. Both must have had about eleven children because P.Z(Dock) WOLFE always said he had twenty-two half brothers and sisters. Elizabeth was the daughter of Lewis Howell DANIEL and Pherby PENNEY DANIEL, They had come to Drew Co . from Tenn. Before that the DANIEL and PENNEY families had been in the Wake Co. NC area. Lewis was the son of Zadock DANIEL and Elizabeth LEWIS. Pherby was the daughter of Pherby JOHNSON PENNY and Alexander PENNY. James William LAGRONE and Georgia Alcora VERNON LAGRONE were my other maternal ggrandparents. Jimmy moved to the Drew / Ashley Co. line area about l895 with his mother, Margaret (Maggie) MINYARD LAGRONE CARPENTER(last husband was John C. CARPENTER, a distant cousin). Jimmy had come from the Sunflower / Carroll Co. MS area where he was b. in l860. His father was James Latner LAGRONE and was buried in Indianola, MS. His brothers, Thomas Adam LAGRONE and his wife, Etta Herrod LAGRONE, and Henry Bunyan LAGRONE, who later married Della SCOTT in Drew Co., came with them. Also, there was a sister, Fannie Latner LAGRONE CARPENTER, married to PETE CARPENTER, a distant cousin, who came with them. Jimmy was about 40 years old when he married the divorcee, Georgia Alcora VERNON MURPHY, who had settled in the Old Troy Community about l895 after coming from the Stewart, MS. area in Webster Co., MS. Georgia's three brothers, Will VERNON, who married a Goyne, Robert Baskins VERNON and his wife Mattie JOHNSON, and Malcom VERNON, along with her two sisters, Delia VERNON, who married an AHRENS, and Elizabeth (Betty) VERNON, who married Jim DONALDSON, came here with their parents: John Joseph VERNON (buried at Old Troy before l900) and Catherine Elizabeth PEARSON VERNON, who moved with all the children except Georgia to Eldorado, AR, where she is buried. All came from Webster Co. MS. Charlie Allen THURMAN was the son of Charlie Monroe THURMAN, and both were born in Drew Co. C.M. was b. in l860 at Lacey shortly after his parents Perkin and Liddy(Lydia) ??GARDNER THURMAN moved here from Henry Co., Ala. Perkin and Liddy were both born in SC. Charlie Allen Thurman's mother was Jessie O'NEAL(ONEIL), who came to Drew Co.in a wagon about l870 from Monroe Co., GA. with her parents, David Allen O'NEAL, SR. and Sarah Elizabeth HORN(E) ONEAL. Both were born in NC. Also, on the trip were Sarah's father, William HORN(b. NC) and her brother Alford HORN and his family. Sarah and David were born in the l820' and Wm. was born about the turn of the century. Any information on any of these ancestors or descentdents will be appreciated."

Phillip Zadock Wolfe was born in 1867. He died in 1949 in Drew County, Arkansas. He was buried in 1949 in Prarie Grove Cemetary, Drew County, Arkansas. Mary Aveline Lee and Phillip Zadock Wolfe had the following children:

3872	i.	Dan Bull Wolfe.
3873	ii.	Anson Philip Wolfe.
3874	iii.	Willie Claud Wolfe.
3875	iv.	Scharlotte Wolfe.
3876	v.	Eudora Pear Wolfe.