Children:
5 Benjamin Ford Carter 1787 - b:31 July 1787
5 Dora Carter 1789 - b: Abt.1789
5 Joseph Carter IV 1791 - b: 18 July 1791
5 Judith Carter 1793 - b: Abt.1793
5 Rene Chastain Carter b: 21 March 1794 in Bath County, KY d:
14 June 1873 in Cynthiana, Posey County, Indiana +Magdalene
Sarah Chastain b: 23 February 1801 d: 05 February 1880 in
Cynthiana, Posey County, Indiana
5 Anderson Carter - b: Abt. 1796 +Nancy Randolph
5 Anna Carter +Jacob Ragan
5 Elijah Carter 1799 - 1876 b: 10 September 1799 d: 06
October 1876 + Elizabeth Ragland
5 Oakley Carter b: Abt. 1801 +Artimilla Grimes
5 Jane Carter b: 03 April 1802 +Joseph McKinne
"William Moore Dameron (1799-1839, a son of George Ball) married
his cousin, Eliza I. Dameron (1800-1873), and became a tobacco
grower in Caswell County, North Carolina. The family Bible, now
in my possession, shows that he was twenty and she nineteen when
they were married. Both inherited slaves and life seemed fair in
prospect, but soon the young husband realized that an old enemy
to the family, pulmonary tuberculosis, had its grip upon him.
Even at that time there was a well founded belief that an
outdoor life was best for a victim marked by this disease.
Therefore, with his wife, five children, four brothers, all of
his negroes and much of his live stock, William Dameron migrated
to Missouri in 1829. Two daughters, one of whom was my mother,
were born to him after this migration. He purchased a farm in
Randolph County and continued his former occupation of growing
tobacco. The journey benefited him but did not secure the
complete suppression of the disease. Therefore he began the
practice of buying a drove of mules each year and taking them
overland to New Orleans. Here these animals were converted into
coffee, sugar and other staple merchandise and the return trip
made by boat to St. Louis. In the Black Hawk War, William
Dameron served with the rank of colonel. After his death (1839)
his widow received some back pay from the government. This she
converted into silver tablespoons bearing her late husband's
name and these were distributed among their children. My
grandmother leased her negroes to her sons and sons-in-law by
the year. During the last years of her life she made her home
with my mother. From this grandmother and the two
great-grandmothers mentioned, also from my mother and other
members of the family, I heard the story of my French ancestry
as I have outlined it. One of my mother's brothers, the late
James P. Dameron of San Francisco, published for private
distribution in the seventies three papers on this subject: (I)
Count Du Puy's Escape to America; (2) The Du Puys in America;
(3) Autobiography. In the D. A. R. magazine of January, 1921,
there may be found confirmation of this story by Edith Roberts
Ramsburgh. It is said that an article by J. Esten Cooke in an
early number of Harper's Magazine, entitled The Huguenot Sword,
is founded on this story. One may read a further confirmation of
my story in Kith and Kin by John R. Sampson, William Bird Press,
Richmond, Virginia."
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Census: 1850 Osage Twp., Carroll Co., Arkansas #274
Census: 1860 Osage Twp., Carroll Co., Arkansas
Event: Migrated 1835 To Van Buren Twp., Newton Co., Arkansas
Children:
2 Martha WHITELEY b: 18 SEP 1818
2 Charles Booth WHITELEY b: 18 FEB 1820 d: 1822
2 Nancy Rachel WHITELEY b: 6 MAY 1822 + Austin Garland SMITH
2 Jesse Maynard WHITELEY b: 8 MAR 1824
2 James T. WHITELEY b: 6 AUG 1825 + Alta L. b: ABT 1829
2 Andrew Jackson WHITELEY b: 15 MAR 1827 + Phebia J. b: ABT 1837
+ Nancy BUNCH b: 1825
2 Lucinda Susanna "Susan" WHITELEY b: 18 AUG 1828 + Isaac MURPHY
2 George W. WHITELEY b: 4 FEB 1829 + Caroline JONES
2 Phoebe Pricilla Jane WHITELEY b: 2 Nov 1833 + Abner Ellsberry
CASEY b: 1820 d: bet 1862-1865.
2 Isaac Jasper WHITELEY b: 14 May 1836 d: 22 Jan 1922 + Mary
Elizabeth SMITH b: 14 Feb 1836 d: 30 May 1906
2 Matilda Catherine WHITELEY b: 30 Mar 1841+ Robert Lee VILLINES
b: abt 1838
2 Sally Ann WHITELEY b: 26 Aug 1831 d: 10 Sep 1833
1 Lydia TARTER b: 2 APR 1808 + Samuel Van Hook WHITELEY b: 4 APR
1805 d: 11 OCT 1864
2 Cristany WHITELEY b: 15 MAR 1831
2 Winifred Vina F. WHITELEY b: 18 OCT 1832
2 Adline WHITELEY b: 5 APR 1835
2 Elizabeth WHITELEY b: 10 MAR 1838 Clay Co. IL d: AFT APR 1880
+ John Britain SMITH b: 21 MAR 1834 d: 24 AUG 1915 + John Henry
JONES