Generation III Part 2 (Children of George Deatherage)

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23. NANCY DEATHERAGE EDGEMON³ (George², William¹) was a daughter of George and Nancy (Johnson) Deatherage.

Nancy married William Edgemon in the early 1790s. William, son of William and Elizabeth (Kemble) Edgemon, was born 1765 in Rowan Co., North Carolina [Pension S1810, says Surry County]. He died after 8 Sep 1843 and is buried or memorialized at the Edgemon Cemetery, Meigs Co., Tennessee [Meigs County Tennessee Cemetery Records].

William served in the military during the Revolutionary War. He first enlisted in 1779 and served his term. When he returned home he was drafted several times serving his term each time. He received a pension for his service.

William married second Nancy (Forrester) Bishop, daughter of Marcus and Deborah Forrester, on 22 Feb 1830 at Roane Co., Tennessee. Nancy married as here third husband John Breeden on 8 Feb 1846 at Osage Co., Missouri. Sources

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*Note: 53. Sarah Deatherage⁴ (William³, John², William¹)

24. BIRD DEATHERAGE³ (George², William¹), son of George and Nancy (Johnson) Deatherage was born between 1770 and 1780. He was living in 1850.

Bird married Sarah English daughter of John and Agnes English in North Carolina. Sarah died c1833.

Bird was living in Washington Co., Tennessee, in 1794 when he served on a jury there. Sometime before 5 Dec 1794 he witnessed a survey in that county. He and Sarah moved to Greene County Co., Tennessee, where he paid taxes on 100 acres in 1796. They lived near the foot of Chimney Top mountain. On 28 Jul 1806 Bird was appointed overseer of the road from the fork of Lick Creek near Daniel Morris to Washington County Line. It appears based on the land records of Green County, Bird had moved to the Hiawasse Purchase in Roane Co., Tennessee, in 1821. Bird was a Baptist minister. About the year 1846 he moved to Johnson Co., Arkansas, where he was listed in the 1850 federal census. Some researchers contend that the Bird Deatherage in the 1850 federal census for Johnson County is not this Bird. Sources

children: (and others, names unknown, who died young)

25. ABNER DEATHERAGE³ (George², William¹), son of George and Nancy (Johnson ) Deatherage, was born between 1770 and 1780 [Fed Cen]. Abner died in 1838 in Roane Co., Tennessee, intestate [Probate Record].

He married his first wife in North Carolina. She died about 1823 [Probate Record: Abner Deatherage].

After his first wife died Abner married Elizabeth Morrison. Elizabeth, daughter of James and Mary (Barnard) Morrison, was born c1795 in Tennessee [Fed Cen]. She was living with her daughter Jennett Tilley in Roane Co., Tennessee, when the federal census was taken in 1850 and 1860.

Abner moved to Greene Co., Tennessee, where he was living in 1806. He moved to Roane Co., Tennessee, about 1821. He was in Captain Oliver's Co. of the Roane County Militia in 1821. He had land surveyed in the Hiawasee Dist. in 1822. Abner was a deacon in the Baptist Church. Sources

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children: (of Abner and Elizabeth (Morrison) Deatherage)

26. ANNE DEATHERAGE CLOUD³ (George², William¹), daughter of George and Nancy (Johnson) Deatherage, was born between 1774-1786 [1800 &1810 Fed Cen].

Anne married George Cloud. George was born between 1765-1774 [1800 &1810 Fed Cen].

George was named executor in his father-in-law's will. He also took depositions in the legal battles between the heirs of George and John Deatherage. Sources

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27. URSULA DEATHERAGE JOHNSON³ (George², William¹) was a daughter of George and Nancy (Johnson) Deatherage. She married Ashley Johnson. Ursula was mentioned in the will of her grandfather Gideon Johnson dated 2 Oct 1807. The will of Gideon Johnson was probated in November 1807 in Rockingham Co., North Carolina, and is recorded in Willbook A, page 68.

Nothing further is known about Ashley and Ursula Johnson.

28. JOHN DEATHERAGE³ (George², William¹) was a son of George Deatherage. He died in 1822 in Simpson Co., Kentucky [Wheeler].

John married Sarah Cloud in Stokes Co., North Carolina, on 2 Oct 1806 [County Record]. Sarah was born about 1778 in North Carolina [Fed Cen]. She died on 25 Apr 1861 in Morgan County [Wheeler]. She is buried at Rogers Cemetery, Waverly, Illinois.

They moved to Simpson Co., Kentucky, where they were living in 1820. Between 1826 and 1830 Sarah moved to Morgan Co., Illinois. Sources

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29. PHILEMON DEATHERAGE³ (George², William¹), son of George and Mildred (Bingham) Deatherage, was born 15 Jun 1781 [Tombstone] in North Carolina. He died on 15 Feb 1871 [Tombstone] and is buried in the Deatherage-Pickel Cemetery, Meigs Co., Tennessee.

Philemon married Martha A. Cloud on 27 Dec 1808 in Stokes Co., North Carolina [County Record]. Martha was born 9 Mar 1791 [Tombstone] in North Carolina. She died 8 Sep 1862 [Tombstone] and is buried in the Deatherage-Pickel Cemetery, Meigs Co., Tennessee.

By 1820 Philemon had moved to Madison Co., Kentucky. In 1826, when he was probably 44, he moved his family to Roane Co., Tennessee, where he was a successful farmer.

Private Philomon Deathridge appears on an undated muster roll of Kincaid's Company, Welker's Battalion Cavalry (State Troops), mustered into the service of the Confererate States for the period of six months, and for service only in Tennessee, and entitled only to pay and subsistance while on duty under the orders of the President, or by his direction. This Battalion was organized 7-11 Aug 1863 at Kingston, Roane Co, Tennessee and was mustered out in Jan 1864. [Service Record] At the time of his service Philemon would have been 82 years old. Sources

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30. JAMES C. DEATHERAGE³ (George², William¹), son of George and Mildred (Bingham) Deatherage, was born c1789 [Tombstone] in present day Stokes Co., North Carolina [Obituary]. He died on 9 Sep 1874 [Tombstone, age 85; obituary has 12 Sep] in Morgan Co., Illinois. He is buried in Rogers Cemetery, Waverly, Morgan County.

James married Nancy Frances Lankford on 2 Jan 1813 in North Carolina [Obituaries]. Frances, daughter of William Lankford, was born 1798 in Stokes Co., North Carolina [Obituary]. Frances died on 11 Jun 1875 [Tombstone, age 77] in Morgan Co., Illinois. She is buried in Rogers Cemetery, Waverly, Morgan County.

James moved to Kentucky in 1812, but returned to North Carolina where he was married. He and his wife moved to Russellville, Kentucky, in 1815. They moved to Robertson Co., Tennessee, in 1817. The winter of 1828 or 1829 they moved to Morgan Co., Illinois, where they lived rest of their lives.

About 1841 James made a "profession of religion and identified himself with the Methodist Church" at a camp meeting at Franklin, Illinois. Sources

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31. WILLIAM DEATHERAGE³ (George², William¹), son of George and Mildred (Bingham) Deatherage, was born c1794 [Deposition] in North Carolina. He died on 8 Jan 1888 [Tombstone, aged about 100] at his residence in Morgan Co., Illinois. [Estate Records]

He married Lucretia Strawn Rogers on 20 May 1851 at Morgan Co., Illinois [County Record]. Lucretia was born on 19 May 1825 [Tombstone] at Barren Co., Kentucky. She died on 28 Mar 1902 at Morgan Co., Illinois [Obituary].

William was living in Simpson Co., Kentucky, in 1826. He moved that year to Morgan Co., Illinois. William, Lucretia, and all their daughters are buried at Rogers Cemetery, Waverly, Morgan County.

The Estate Records of William Deatherage are found at Morgan Co., Illinois. In the "Petition for Letters Testamentary", dated 7 Mar 1888, it states William Deatherage departed this life at his residence in Morgan County on 8 January 1888 leaving a will witnessed by George A. Miner and A.R. Dennis. He named W.W. Brown and Lucretia S. Deatherage his executors. The value of the estate was about $4000. He left a widow Lucretia S. Deatherage and Georgie Ann Scott, Elvira E. Bostic children and Bertha B. Jasper, Gracie W. Jasper, children of a deceased child, and Alma E. Jolly, child of a deceased child. In the "Petition for Letters of Administration de Bonis Non", dated 5 Aug 1890, by L.S. Deatherage it states William W. Brown had died by this time and the will had been set aside by action of the Circuit Court of Morgan County on 20 Jun 1890 on the petition of Alvira Bostic
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32. COLEMAN DEATHERAGE³ (George², William¹), son of George and Mildred (Bingham) Deatherage was born 10 Aug 1795 in Stokes Co., North Carolina [Obituary]. Coleman died on 30 Apr 1881 [Tombstone, 85-8-21] in Morgan Co., Illinois, of a "paralytic stroke." His funeral was held at Appalonia Church. The Rev. E.P. Carlile delivered the funeral oration. Coleman is buried in Rogers Cemetery, Waverly, Morgan County.

Coleman married Elizabeth Deatherage on 6 Jan 1820 in Logan Co., Kentucky [County Record]. Elizabeth, the daughter of Philip and Milly Deatherage, (see #14) was born 4 Dec 1798. Elizabeth died on 25 Feb 1860 [Tombstone, 61-2-21] and is buried in Rogers Cemetery, Waverly, Morgan County.

Coleman and Elizabeth moved to Morgan Co., Illinois, in 1826 with two of his brothers. He was a farmer. We are fortunate to have some personal details about Coleman's life as related by his granddaughter Cloah Bivin, daughter of James Stephen Deatherage.

My grandparents Coleman and Elizabeth Deatherage were born in Stokes County, North Carolina, and moved to Kentucky with his parents [it was with his mother, his father was dead]. When in the prime of manhood young Coleman with 2 brothers and families moved to Illinois in 1826. Settled in Morgan Co. about 2 miles west of Waverly, Ill. I don't think there was much of any town of Waverly but there was a blacksmith and I think a few other little stores where the farmers could buy some supplies. He settled on a place one quarter of a mile south of the little village of Appalonia, which has long since been removed. If I understand it right part of it was moved to where Waverly now is. The school house and church were close. It was where I started school. My grandmother died when my father was in his teens. He had lived on this farm for fifty-five years and I was born in the same large log house, with two large rooms and one bedroom and a long kitchen. Also had two rooms upstairs but they were used only as store rooms. But they were nice play rooms for us children in winter when we could not be outdoors. The large fireplace downstairs with the chimney going up in the center of the house between the two rooms kept it warm in those rooms above unless too awful cold.

One of the large rooms was called grandpa's room. There were two beds, a fireplace, and a large cedar chest where he always kept his tobacco, a glass jar of cubed sugar, he used in his gin, taken when he felt bad. Mama would fill a glass with some water and put a spoonful of gin in it and he drank it. And the sugar was always divided with us children. After we were cleaned up after breakfast we always ran to grandpa for our lump of sugar, and then when the jar was getting low we got our treat every Sunday morning, but never with a dirty face. I can see we kids yet, how we ran to wash our faces and hands when we saw grandpa go toward the chest for we knew he would ask us if we were clean. Ha. We played in that room a lot and grandpa would play with us. My brother Newt would be the preacher and we would all kneel down by the chair and our dear old grandpa would pray for us. We thought he was playing but Mama said when I was converted his prayer was being answered. She said she often would step close to the door to listen to his prayers for us children and all. He was a dear grandpa. He died when I was ten years old. That was a sad time for we children. For he was in our house fifteen years and we were born in his home and we loved him dearly. [The 1870 and 1880 federal census for Morgan Co., IL, shows the James Stephen Deatherage family living with Coleman Deatherage]. After his death the next year we moved to Kansas and our lives began over in a new country which we all loved.

The will of Coleman Deatherage of Morgan Co., IL, age 82 years, is dated 5 Nov 1877. He made specific gifts to daughters Nancy Rice, Emily M. Rice, Martha Piercy, Lydia F. Hardman, son Milton W. Deatherage, heirs of son Wm. L. Deatherage, heirs of daughter Minerva Wood, heirs of daughter Louisa Rodgers, son James S. Deatherage. He then divides his estate among all his children or their heirs. He named his son James S. Deatherage his executor. Witnessed by [J._. Meachum and George W. Bradley, M.D. Sources

children: (they had 15 children)

33. GEORGE DEATHERAGE³ (George², William¹), son of George and Mildred (Bingham) Deatherage, was born 4 Mar 1798 in North Carolina. He died on 22 Apr 1865 [Tombstone, 67-1-18] at his residence in Morgan Co., Illinois [Estate Record]. He is buried at Rogers Cemetery, Waverly, Morgan Co., Illinois.

George married Minerva Rogers Picture in Logan Co., Kentucky, on 19 Nov 1825 [County Record]. Minerva, daughter of the Rev. William and Elizabeth C. Rogers, was born on 24 Jan 1809 in Kentucky. She died on 17 Jul 1871 [Tombstone, 62-5-24] and is buried at Rogers Cemetery, Waverly, Morgan County.

On 9 May 1865 William W. Deatherage petitioned the Morgan County Court to administer the estate of his father George Deatherage. George died at his residence in Morgan County on or about 22 Apr 1865 intestate (without a will). The value of his personal property was about $3500. George left surviving him his widow Minerva Deatherage, and seven children, to wit, Wm. W. Deatherage, Margaret E. Turner, Edward W., Elizabeth, Jane, George, and Josephus Deatherage. Sources

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*Jane P. (Scribner) Deatherage married, second, Miles J. Abbott.

34. ACHILLES DEATHERAGE³ (George², William¹), son of George and Mildred (Bingham) Deatherage, was born on 8 Feb 1799 [Tombstone, 4 Feb 1799] in Stokes Co., North Carolina. He died on 15 Mar 1891 [Tombstone, 92-1-11] in Morgan Co., Illinois. He is buried in Rogers Cemetery, Waverly, Morgan County.

Achilles married Melinda Rogers on 26 Feb 1828 in Morgan County [County Record]. Melinda, daughter of the Rev. William and Elizabeth C. Rogers, was born on 12 Jun 1806 [Tombstone] in Kentucky. Melinda died on 19 Apr 1879 [Tombstone] at Morgan Co., Illinois [Obituary]. She is buried in Rogers Cemetery, Waverly, Morgan County.

Achilles moved to Logan Co., Kentucky, probably with his mother. It was in Kentucky that he received his education - three months schooling. He was living in Logan County in 1822 when he sued Johnson Clement for a slave that his father had bequeathed him. In 1826 Achilles moved to Morgan Co., Illinois, with his mother. They moved in a prairie schooner. Achilles enlisted in Captain William Weatherford's Company as a private during the Black Hawk War. He was a farmer and stock raiser. Of Achilles' and Melinda's children Samantha through Olivia Jane are all buried in Rogers Cemetery. Sources

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