John R Pierce & Wife Nancy Jane Wimpey Son Archibald

Note: In my Pierce Book 1999 letter
Allen Pierce wrote to Rhea Kurykendall
stated something about "Aunt Jane" remained in GA.
Mary Lee Crew of Calif. remembers something about her mother Susie Pierce Dacus
writing an Aunt Jane in South Dakota.

From: "Brenda Pierce" <[email protected]>
Subject: [PIERCE-L & Variants ] OUR PIERCE PUZZLE SOLVED!!
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 16:04:07 -0500
I have been sitting here for quite a bit with Chuck telling me what to
write, and trying to figure out how do you say "thank you" to someone that has just handed you the "sun, moon and the stars" and totally made yesterday and today one of the most thrilling in our lives! There is really no way I know to properly say "thanks" for the hard work and the mind power .... but I will give it a shot here. Thanks to two wonderful people on this list, we now know who our Bartow Pierce of Georgia's parent's are and who is brother and sister are, and a whole lot more ..... http://www.ldpierce.com/johnrpierce.html We know all of this thanks to DAN PIERCE for all of his researching and digging through heaven only knows how many records and to L.D. (DIAZ) for his continued support and help over several years and for forwarding my help letter to Dan and for all of his hard work -- ( the link is this page).... The background to this is I sent a cryptic message to L. D. back in December of last year asking him to look through his information and I had found a record that did pan out and one that did not, and I had a question about the one that was in another area - L. D. forwarded it onto Dan - and Dan did ALOT of research and with some information from another researcher that found Bartow's brother in Lumpkin County, and Dan found next door to them was Bartow living with his mother and step-father, his father having died during the Civil War. Dan's BIG DISCOVERY THIS WEEK THAT CLINCHES IT is that he found a deed in that mentioned where the grandfather gave land to his daughter in law and her children - and named them. Dan found part of this back when I was traveling all over the place and my email went haywire, so I was unaware until he found more this week. Here's our story: (But look at the website - it is much more clear than what I am writing below). Chuck's father was James Richardson Pierce who was married to Jennie Mae Baxter - James Richardson Pierce's parents were: Bartow was married to Vina C Walch in Cherokee County, Georgia - Bartow's parents were (I am loving knowing this...) Thanks to LD we know that .... Nancy J. and John R.3 Pierce (Andrew Jackson2, Reuben1) was born 1838 in Lumpkin Co., GA, and died 1863-1864 in R Road Montgomery. He married Nancy Jane Wimpey.-You can see how they tie into L.D.'s line here .... http://www.ldpierce.com/johnrpierce.html -- and http://www.ldpierce.com/andrew.html#one -- <thank you LD!!>... The part I would never have figured out is that Nancy had remarried to a Millwood - and they were living next door to Bartow's brother (they being the brother Archibald and his wife). This certainly opens a whole new can of worms - because there were the 3 of them Bartow, Archibald and George Ann plus the half sibling Millwoods, but what a wonderful can of worms to be opened -- We would love to give OUR THE LIST HERO AWARD to -- DAN PIERCE -- a SUPER HUGE hero's award -- FOR WITHOUT ALL of his hard work and wonderful mind putting all this together, we might never have known any of this ..... and The REALLY GREAT NEWS (at least to Chuck) <grin> is that he and L.D. <DIAZ> are cousins. (I am very thrilled as well, and if you haven't viewed L.D.'s, Dan's and works - please take a look at L.D.'s site it is absolutely the greatest). -- http://www.ldpierce.com -- be sure to take a look at the http://www.ldpierce.com/johnrpierce.html page so you can see how all this fits together as I probably totally confused everyone with the above. So folks, you have the greatest researchers here on this list that I think you can possibly find anywhere!!! The information they have ferretted out complete with sources to their work is phenomenal. When we started on this line we did not know Bartow's name at all - not his first name, and is it turns out it is very difficult because it is listed as Bartow J. H. some places, J. H. B. in other places and of course the last name is Pierce, Pearce, Peirce, etc. So this has not been an easy road to follow and without Dan's work and L.D.'s we would never have put all this together. So with all that .... DAN -- YOU ARE DEFINITELY OUR HERO AND WE WILL BE FOREVER GRATEFUL TOYOU.... LD - YOU TOO ARE OUR HERO -- I AM AFRAID YOUR WEBSITE IS GOING TO BE INUNDATED WITH OUR CLAN VYING IN LINE TO SEE IT. IT'S A GREAT DAY HERE IN ALPHARETTA... THANKS MUCH GUYS -- WE OWE THIS WONDERFUL DAY WHICH WILL ALWAYS BE FOREMOST IN OUR MINDS TO YOU ..... So, AGAIN .... PLEASE EVERYONE GIVE DAN A SUPER ROUND OF APPLAUSE AND ONE FOR LD --- YOU GUYS ARE THE GREATEST .... Dan resides in California and L.D. is back in Texas now. Dan's website -- http://home.attbi.com/~tworun/famhist/pierce/index.htm is excellent as well .... link above dead Dan -- I hope you will post and tell them how your line fits into here -- is it thru Andrew's wife or am I mistaken? THANKS TO BOTH OF YOU - Chuck and brenda Pierce Alpharetta GA

1. John R.³ Pierce (Andrew Jackson², Reuben¹) was born 1838 in Lumpkin Co., GA, and died 1863-1864 in R Road Montgomery. He married Nancy Jane Wimpey.

(Brenda and Chuck) will have much more
to post here soon!! Chuck and Brenda
Welcome to the AJ Pierce Rueben Pierce Family!!

June 2012 That never happened. Chuck Pierce was ill last time heard from Brenda
and never heard from her gain about getting
Chucks ( and hers) genealogy family tree. I think she moved
and for whatever reason just would not get the boxes out and get the
info to me. also since this time the Rootsweb Pierce email list
has been languishing unmoderated. She has not responded to even
one of my emails. I wish she would contact me
Oct 15 2012 I now tracked down Brenda and Chuck Pierce
by making a million phone calls to every Pierce in Alapharetta
Sure was good to talk to her again Chuck is better
and she promises that if Dan and I supply her with what we have
on john R pierce that she will try to keypunch this line
into family tree maker (along with her information and she will willing
to talk to chucks relatives also)

I think if we get this done quick she is going to donate her genealogy materials
to the Fort worth Texas Genealogy Library (like I did and also Rhea Kuykendall did
and I am encouraging Dormans wife and son to donate his materials there)

Oct 15 received this from Thank you for contacting the Historical Society. In our case, we are the same as a genealogy society. The only mention we were able to find in our records of property is the attached notice. You may also want to check the county's website http://deeds.cherokeega.com/.

The land lots mentioned in the guardian notice were in the Wildcat Militia District, north of present day Woodstock. Lot 417 was adjacent to the Marietta & N. GA. Railroad. (1019- Wildcat (Holly Springs Area)
district was in town and outside of town)

Cherokee County still uses the current land descriptions today, so you should be able to find them, although I tried on the online map and did not know how to put in the correct query. If you are local, we would be happy to show you on our historic map.

click to see larger image

georgia milita district maps

this map shows wildcat district 15

other map
ga cherokee/maps/militiadistrictmap.htm

LD Pierce 347 762 0062

I think Dan Pierce CA sent me the info below regarding
Elizabeth Pierce Price Putnam. It included some tidbits
about John R Pierce wife Jane Wimpey remarrying
and also John H Bartow Pierce Marrying Vina Walch

There were several Price families in Cherokee County from 1850 thru 1880. However, there are no Pierce/Pearce families shown on the 1850 or 1870 census indices of Cherokee County. There also seems to be one Pence family. At any rate, the only Pierce marriages in Cherokee County between 1855 and 1884 are the ones shown below
(whom I believe are all from your A.J. Pierce family):

PUTMAN, David L. PEIRCE, Elizabeth Dec 15, 1859 D 267

PEIRCE, George W. MOSS, Molly Nov 20, 1864 D 273

GRICE, Daniel PIERCE, Georgia A. Nov 28, 1878 E 418

PEACE, J. H. B. WALCH, Vina Dec 14, 1882 E 693

Putman should actually be spelled Putnam.

The following marriage is also the wife of John R. Pierce
remarrying, but the name was misindexed as Price:

MILLWOOD, James PRICE (PIERCE) , Nancy Jane Aug 13, 1865 D 231

Your Pierce family seems to be the only one in Cherokee County during that period.

Georgia A. Pierce who married Daniel Grice is the daughter of John R. Pierce and Nancy J. Wimpey.

Also, on the 1850 census of Lumpkin Co., GA, the family of Andrew and Nancy Pierce includes
a 2 year old son named James. I would assume that he is a child of theirs that died young