I9911: Robert Blevens ALVIS (10 May 1881

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1910 Census Hawkins Co. TN w/wife, son; 1920 census w/wife, 5 ch.

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VI. William Thomas Barret((6)) (Matilda W.((5)), Henry((4)), John((3)), Henry((2)), Philip((1))), married Elizabeth Towles. Issue:

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NORTH BEAVER TOWNSHIP. EARLY SETTLEMENTS [p. 66]
"In April, 1802, Fran cis Nesbit came, with his family, and settled on Hickory creek, near w here the old mill stands, south of Mount Jackson. The family consisted of his wife, five sons, and two daughters. The sons were John, Franci s, William, James and Allen; and the daughters, Elizabeth and Anna. Th ey came from Cumberland county, Pa., although the Nesbits were origina lly from Scotland. William Espy, who married Elizabeth Nesbit, had set tled the previous year, 1801. His son, Thomas Espy, afterward went to North Carolina, and died there. A daughter of his afterward married Go vernor Vance, of that State. Francis Nesbit gave twenty-five dollars t oward the establishment of the old college at Darlington, Beaver county.
William Espy had made arrangements to build a mill, and Mr. Nesbit, who had also been out in 1801, brought out the mill-gearing with him in 1802, and he and Espy built the mill. Espy was a surveyor by profes sion. They located on Donation tract, number 1786 supposed to contain four hundred acres, but a survey showed that it contained over five hundred.

Mr. Nesbit sold his interest in the mill to Espy, and took all but one hundred acres of the land. Mr. Nesbit died in September, 1802, and was the first person ever buried in the cemetery at Westfield Pre sbyterian Church. (...)

After William Espy became sole proprietor of t he grist-mill mentioned, he traded it for a farm, about 1806, to a man named Wylie, who owned it about four years, and traded it to a man na med James Boyes. Boyes kept it some eight years, and sold it finally t o Elder John Edgar, from Westmoreland county, who had previously start ed a distillery near Westfield church."
From : History of Lawrence Cou nty, Pennsylvania, with illustrations descriptive of its scenery, pala tial residences, public buildings, fine blocks, and important manufact ories, from original sketches of the highest ability , [by S.W. and P. A. Durant], Philadelphia, L. H. Everts, 1877.
On line on : http://www. rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/lawrence/1877/#biograph

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James ROSE. Born 1809 in Mecklinburg Co., VA. Died 5 Dec 1857 in Marshall Co., Guntersville, AL. James is named in his father Howell H. Rose's will, dated Sept. 1845, in Marshall Co. AL.

He married Margaret McKEE, daughter of William McKEE, in probably Marshall Co., AL. Born 1811 in Tennessee.

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The Walker family, originally out of New Kent was also in this same area, patenting land along Lickinghole Creek.

My Southern Family

Robert Blevens ALVIS

10 May 1881 - 9 Jun 1945

ID Number: I9911

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George L. ARDINGER Jr.

ABT 1890 - ____

ID Number: I24442

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William Thomas BARRET

ABT 1815 - ____

ID Number: I68505

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Clara BURNETT

ABT 1760 - ____

ID Number: I29809

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William ESPY

1771 - ____

ID Number: I85025

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Frances HEREFORD

ABT 1690 - ____

ID Number: I55901

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Mary MIDLAND

ABT 1600 - ____

ID Number: I72421

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James ROSE

1809 - 5 Dec 1857

ID Number: I40363

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Cyrus STOUT Sr.

Elizabeth WALKER

1725 - BEF 1798

ID Number: I37046

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