286. Levi CUMMINGS (64) was born on 24 Oct 1776 in Halifax,Virginia. He died on 5 Sep 1840 in Limestone Co,AL. He was married to Naomi KEYES on 11 Jan 1798 in Fauquier Co,VA.
287. Naomi KEYES
(64) was born in 1782. She died in 1819 in Limestone Co,AL. Margaret
Lindsey Smith gives her parents' names as David and Margaret KEYS
Note: TITL Fauquier County, Virginia Marriage Bonds: 1759-1854 And
Marriage Returns: 1785-1848ABBR Fauquier County, Virginia Marr
Page: Page 44
Cummins, Levi & Naomia Keyes, Jan. 11, 1798 - Bondsman:
daughter of Margret Cockran; MR John Monroe (Baptist) (bride
Naomi Keys, date of MR Jan 18, 1798)
Children were:
i.
Mason CUMMINGS(64) was born in 1798
in Virginia. He died in Itawamba Co,MS.
ii.
Jordan Yamouth CUMMINGS(64) was born
in 1805 in Madison Co,KY. He died on 26 Jan 1891 in Memphis,Shelby,TN.
iii.
David K. CUMMINGS(64) was born in
1806 in Rutherford [Co?],TN. He died on 15 Jul 1856 in Lee Co,MS.
143 iv.
Catherine CUMMINGS.
v.
Malachi Crawford CUMMINGS(64) was
born on 17 Oct 1810 in Limestone Co,AL. He died in Itawamba Co,MS. Per http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~robfra/cummings.html:
"Hon. M. C. Cummings, a prominent farmer and citizen of Itawamba County,
Miss., was a son of Levy and Naoma (Keas) Cummings. He is the sixth of their
family of eleven children, and was born in Limestone county, Ala., October 17,
1810. His father was born in Virginia about 1780, and was a member of one of
the old families of that state who participated in the war of 1812. He was married
in Virginia, and later removed to Kentucky, and thence to Limestone county, Ala.,
where he died in 1845. When he removed to Alabama the country was new and peopled
with Indians, who were at one time so troublesome that he was obliged to leave
the state, but returned a year or two later. he and his wife were members of
the Primitive Baptist church. The latter died when Mr. Cummings, our subject,
was about five years of age. She was a native of Virginia. The children were
named Mason, Nancy, Jordan, Isaac, Catherine, David, M.C., Malachi, Levy, Rial,
Betsey and Washington. Of these only M.C., Levy and rial are now living. The
subject of this notice was reared upon his father's plantation and began to do
for himself at the age of eighteen years. he emigrated to Western Tennessee and
settled near Perdy, where he engaged in planting. He lived there several years,
and in February, 1833 came to Columbus, Miss., where he married Miss Sarah, daughter
of Hugh and Jennie (Thompson) Rogers, who were natives of South Carolina. Their
five children were named as follows: John, William, Hugh, Jennie and Joseph.
Mrs. Cummings was born in South Carolina, in 1815. She has borne her husband
no children, but they have reared twenty-seven orphan children. The family removed
from Columbus to this county in 1836 and located on the present site of the
Fulton hotel. Mr. Cummings was the first settler in Fulton, and came at a time
when the country was practically uninhabited except by Indians, who were not
hostile, however, but showing good dispositions towards the settlers andwho llived
by hunting and fishing, some of them raising small patches of corn. He was the
owner of a tract of land embracing the site of the present town of Fulton, and
there is one place near there where he leared the timber off in 1836, and upon
which a good crop has been raised every successive season since. He built the
Fulton hotel, which was the first public house in the county, and of which he
was for some time the proprietor, though he has made planting his principal occupation.
He is the owner now of about ten thousand acres of land in this county, about
twenty-five per cent of which is under cultivation. He has occupied his present
residence, about one mile north of Fulton, since 1854, and he was influential
in the organization of his county, which took place some twenty years prior to
that date. In 1839 he was elected probate judge, and in 1841 he represented the
county in the state legislature. He was a member of the state convention of 1860
to decide upon some action in view of the political troubles of that time, and
strongly opposed secession, but when secession was an accomplished fact, he did
all in his power to aid the Confederate cause. He equipped a company which was
commanded and organized by Captain Turner, and was known as the Cummings Grays,
expending some $1,500. In 1861 he represented his district as state senator,
and filled that officewith distinction during the entire war period. After the
war he found that his property had been damaged to the extent of at least $100,000,
but he at once set about the work of rehabilitation, resuming planting and gradually
engaging more and more extensively in the cotton trade. He has been for forty-five
years a member of the Methodist church, of which his wife is also a member. Although
he has been an earnest member of the democratic party, he has, since the war,
practically retired from politics. His operations in a business way have been
very extensive, and he was the builder of most of the houses and of the Methodist
church of the town of Fulton, and is the largest land owner in Itawamba County."
Taken from an 1891 edition of Goodspeed's History of Mississippi
"I do not find any records of when his large, two-story home was built one
mile north of Fulton, but it stood until destroyed by fire February 1922. This
house had large rooms about 20 feet square, a wide hall, wide back porch and
portico out front. Mr. B.Y. Cummings refers to it as "Sunny Dell, that great
old house of ten large rooms at the top of the hill." From the time we moved
to my present home January 1, 1901 until the death of Mrs. Sarah Cummings (Uncle
Mack's widow) in 1906 we often visited Mrs. Cummings who was almost blind but
who enjoyed company. They kept peafowls and we could hear them to our house when
they screamed."
From "These Things I Remember...." by Miss Zereda Greene
The Itawamba County Times
April 8, 1965
vi.
Levi CUMMINGS(64) was born on 7 Sep
1813 in Limestone Co,AL. He died in 1892 in Marshall Co,MS. He was buried on
11 Jun 1892 in Magnolia Cemetery,Collierville,TN.
vii.
Elizabeth CUMMINGS(64) was born on
1 Jan 1816 in Limestone Co,AL. She died on 2 Nov 1858 in Holly Springs,Marshall,MS.
viii.
Joseph Rial H. CUMMINGS(64) was
born in 1817 in Limestone Co,AL. He died in Hempstead Co,AR.
ix.
Washington CUMMINGS(64) was born about
1819.