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Ancestors of Martha Jo (Martha) Cross


      96. Samuel Love, born Abt. 1771 in PA; died Unknown.

Notes for Samuel Love:
Last Will and Testament of William Love, witnessed by son, Samuel on 11 May 1793, and proven on 23 Dec 1793 in Chester Co., PA.

Remarks: Love, William. Londonderry. May 11, 1793. Dec. 23, 1793. To wife the best improved 1/2 of the land I now live on. To daughter Rebecca wife of James Thompson and daughter Martha Love the other 1/2 of said plantation. To son Samuel Love 5 shillings, and to his son William £40 gold or silver, and to his daughter £30. To son John 5 shillings. To daughter Jean £60, etc. at her mother's decease. Remainder to wife Sarah. Executors: Wife and son John and Charles Creswell.
(The original records from which this database has been compiled are held at the Chester County Archives and Records Service, 117 West Gay Street, West Chester, PA 19380. For more information, see also the Family History Library Catalog (FHLC) for FHL 20844-20849.)
Original data: Chester County Wills. Located at the Chester County Archives and Records Service.

Chester County was formed in 1682 as an original county in Pennsylvania. Now home to such historical sites as Valley Forge National Historical Park, Chester lies just southwest of Philadelphia. The states of Delaware and Maryland also border southern Chester County.












     
Child of Samuel Love is:
  48 i.   John Love, born 1792 in Chester Co., PA; died Bet. 1860 - 1870 in Limestone Springs, Greene Co., TN; married Nancy Rinehart October 29, 1818 in Chucky, Greene Co., TN.


      104. Moses Shelby, born Abt. 1784 in Mecklenburg Co., NC; died Abt. 1826 in Mecklenburg Co., N.C.. He was the son of 208. MD Evan Shelby and 209. Susannah Polk Alexander. He married 105. Mary Ann Knox Bef. 1810 in Mecklenburg Co, NC.

      105. Mary Ann Knox, born May 28, 1785 in Mecklenburg Co, NC; died May 27, 1855 in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama. She was the daughter of 210. Allison Knox and 211. Mary Smith.

Notes for Moses Shelby:
Moses and Mary Ann Knox married before the 1810 Mecklenburg Co., NC Census.
Moses Shelby is listed in the1810 and 1820 Mecklenburg Co., NC Census, but not in any other thereafter. His last child was born in 1825.

1810, NC, Mecklenburg: Third Fed. Census pg. 503
Evan Shalvey (sic) 11101-11101001
There is a 75 year old female in house.
Moses is 16-26 (1784-94) living near an Allison Knox, possibly father or uncle of Mary Ann, his wife.

1820 Census Mecklenburg Co., NC, roll 84, bk 1, pg 181, enumerated 15 Nov 1820:
Shelby, Moses: 4 males under 10, 2 males 10 - 16, 1 males 26 - 45, 1 female under 10, 1 female
26 - 45.

In Mecklenburg Co., NC Deed Book 323, page 104: 9 Jun 1823, Charles Mitcheal sold to J. R. (John Rufus) Shelby 200 acres on Beaver Dam Creek. This is probably the same 200 [less 27 acres] his grandfather, Evan, sold to James Ross in 1783, for the monies willed to his son, Evan in 17)

In Mecklenburg Co., NC Deed Book 23, page 466: 9 Oct 1835, James M. (James Madison) Shelby representing John R. (Rufus) and James B. Shelby transact (?) for 200 acres on Beaver Dam Creek. (I believe James Madison Shelby bought back for John Rufus and James B. Shelby the land that originally was owned by their grandfather, Evan)

In Mecklenburg Co., NC Deed Book 2, page 406: Jan 1849, James M. (James Madison) and Mary Ann Shelby, et al, sold land to James M. Henderson. (I think this was a 100 acres on Beaver Dam Creek from the 1835 transaction)

Mecklenburg Co., NC Deed Book 3, page 48: Jan 1850, Mary Ann Shelby sold to M. D. Johnson 100 acres on Beaver Dam Creek. (This was, more than likely, the other 100 acres bought in the 1835 transaction)

Samuel Shelby, son of Moses Shelby & Mary Ann Knox, had a grandson, Joseph Alexander Shelby. These are from notes written by Joseph Alexander Shelby:
"Sons of Moses Shelby of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
1. Rufus Shelby - died in Dallas County, Alabama;
2. Winfield Shelby, buried at Elizabeth Church, Sumter County, Ala.;
3. James Madison Shelby. Moved from Perry County, Ala. to Tyler, Texas, 1869;
4. Dan Shelby, moved from Perry County, Ala. to Louisiana;
5. Smith Shelby of Tennessee. Father of Will L. Shelby who died in Avondale, Ala;
6. Samuel Shelby, my grandfather. (b. 14 May 1821, Mecklenburg Co., N.C., language English, Religious persuasion Methodist, Occupation Farmer and Soldier, married Priscilla Ross Gibson, 28 Oct 1847, lived in Lauderdale, Miss., date and cause of death 3 Jul 1881 Heart Failure, where buried Bethel Cemetery, Lauderdale Co., Miss., has tombstone, is buried on the south side of the cemetery);
7. Joe Shelby, never married. Died young in Dallas County, Ala.;
8. Silana Shelby married Wm. Henderson and moved to Texas;
9. Thomas Shelby moved from Dallas County to Sumter County 1854.. or 1845?"

There are many of the descendents listed in Intercoune, Sumter Co., AL.



More About Moses Shelby:
Burial: Unknown, In same area as his father Evan Shelby in Mecklenburg Co., NC

  Notes for Mary Ann Knox:
County Kilkenny seems to be where the Knox's have been in Ireland for quite a while. There is a parish in Kilkenny called the "Big Wood". The name, Knox, is actually derived from a Gaelic word that still exists in modern Irish: "cnoc" (pronounced 'ka-nok'). The full Gaelic form is d'cnoc. Which means "From the Hill". The name seems to be older than many of the more popular Gaelic names and might originate from the Pics who lived in what is now the Scottish highlands. During the height of the Celtic tribes, Scotland was divided with Picland on the North and Scotia on the south.

There is a Irish legend that the Knox's fought with the Fitzpatrick Clan during the Scot-British war and were supporting Robert the Bruce. This would suggest that there might have been an involvement with William Wallace since it was Wallace who inspired Robert. It was because of this legendary involvement that they named their children "Robin," not a typical Irish name, in honor of Robert the Bruce. When Robert's efforts failed, some of the tribe became refugees in Ireland. Apparently a large portion of the tribe settled in southern County Killkenny around "The Big Wood" just north of Waterford. They lived at the Townland of Melville. Big Wood is an unofficial townland; it does not appear on a map. Big Wood sits on the south side of Tory Hill, which is a very famous landmark. The name Knox from the Gaelic d'cnoc, which means "From the Hill" certainly could mean Tory Hill, which is a huge hill that towers over the generally flat terrain of southern Co. Kilkenny.
(Source: D. Knox and Jim Wyman)

1810, NC, Mecklenburg: Third Fed. Census pg. 503
Evan Shalvey (sic) 11101-11101001
There is a 75 year old female in house. Moses is 16-26 (1784-94) living near an Allison Knox, uncle of Mary Ann, his wife. (A Chronology of Moses & Isabel Shelby and Their Sons by Johnnie Mullinax Johnson)

My theory is that Allison was not the uncle, but the father of Mary Ann Knox. Allison had a brother named Patrick who was married to a Mary Smith, 1866 in Mecklenburg Co., NC. They had five children: Matthew, Ruth, Hannah, John and Jane (or Jean). When Patrick was killed 20 Jun 1780 at the Battle of Ramsur's Mill, Lincoln Co., NC, during the Revolution, Allison married Mary Smith Knox, 1881 in Mecklenburg Co., NC, and adopted Patrick's children. I believe Allison and Mary had a daughter whom they named Mary Ann. Their daughter would have been born at the correct time for Mary Ann's birthdate. I think the John Knox, who was appointed guardian of Moses & Mary Ann's children following Moses' death in 1826, Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., NC, was Mary Ann Knox Shelby's half brother and son of Patrick and Mary Smith Knox. I also believe Mary Ann Knox and Moses Shelby gave one of their children the first name of "Smith " because that was Mary Ann's mother's maiden name. (MCMordecai-2004)






More About Mary Ann Knox:
Burial: Unknown, Mt. Pleasant Church Cemetery, 22 miles no. of Selma, AL
     
Children of Moses Shelby and Mary Knox are:
  i.   Winfield M. Shelby, born Abt. 1810 in Mecklenburg Co, NC; died June 19, 1881 in Sumter Co., Alabama; married Melissa Alexander 1830 in Mecklenburg Co, NC; died Unknown.
  More About Winfield M. Shelby:
Burial: Unknown, Chestnut Grove Cemetery, Intercourse, Ala. North of Butler on Hwy 17N.

  ii.   Smith Shelby, born Abt. 1811 in Mecklenburg Co., N.C.; died Unknown; married Elizabeth Bodkin 1831 in Mecklenburg Co, NC; died Unknown.
  Notes for Elizabeth Bodkin:
Elizabeth had a sister, Nancy Bodkins b. abt 1805 in NC. She was living with the Shelby's in Gibson Co., TN in 1850.

  52 iii.   John Rufus Shelby, born Abt. 1813 in Mecklenburg Co., NC; died Abt. 1879 in Dallas Co., AL; married Mary Ann Deaton Abt. 1835 in Mecklenburg Co, NC.
  iv.   James Madison Shelby, born January 08, 1814 in Mecklenburg Co., N.C.; died December 04, 1889 in LaRue, Henderson Co., Texas; married Amanda Ann Henderson 1841; born March 03, 1816; died November 10, 1896 in La Rue, Henderson Co., TX.
  Notes for James Madison Shelby:
James Madison Shelby moved to Texas in 1869 (Source: Record Book of Joseph A. Shelby, Clerk of the Court of Sumpter Co., Livingston, AL for 30 years)

W. L. Henderson Post Civil War Diary transcription just as it was written; from "The Heritage of Perry County, Alabama 1999":

"W. L. Henderson Post Civil War Diary
The following is a copy of a diary kept by W. L. Henderson, a member of a caravan of covered wagons that departed Selma, Alabama, for Texas. Three of the wagons belonged to the James Madison Shelby family.
Monday the ninth
I left Perry Co. Ala for Texas Smith Co. 5 wagons of us we came 8 miles and campt.
Tuesday 11
1-1/2 miles fro Greensbrough Cousin D Moor came to camp.
Wednesday 12
We left camp went 2 miles and missed a chair and sachel I got on parmer (?) And went back but did not find it. I searched one negro house but it was in vane we crossed the War (Warrior?) river and gave the dog I had taken from John Moore to par ferrage & $1.00 we campt 2 miles from Forkland.
Thursday 13
We came through Forkland I bout 50 ct. of flour we cross the Tom bigby river and campt one mile from it.
Friday 14
We pass through Livingston. I bought some cream tarter and a pocket com we camp at Un (Uniontown) after dark came 25 miles today.
Saturday 15
We did not travel today it rained a big rain and is still cloudy.
Sunday 16
It is a pretty day and how I wish I was back at my old home.
Monday 17
We came 18 miles today we are in 21 miles of Merian Miss. It is threaten rain.
Tuesday 18
It rain lass night and it is cole now. We traveled within 1-1/2 miles of Merioa. U.B., Jessy and My Self and we bought $18.30 of flour, meat cheese crackers shot and molasses.
Wednesday 19
We pass through M traveled 16-1/2 and campt on the Chunky river.
Thursday 20
We left camp I kill 2 sqrils we pass through Clinton I bought 40 ct. gun powder and put a posal card in the P O we campt 1-1/2 Newton.
Friday 21
We left camp Henry and myself taken the railroad and went 2 miles and Jim Murry, Luse and Vroos (?) Came to us and we pass through a station and went wrong road and had to walk 5 miles to get with the wagons. We pass through Lake and we are camp 9 miles from L in the piny woods.
Saturday 22
We are 40 miles from Jackson and we stopt at dinner and we are campt 1 miles from Web Gadlock's Henry and me went squrle hunting and we killed 4 one fox sq.
Sunday 23
Henry Wil U.B. and myself went to preaching and went to Gadlock's for dinner I came back and roat a letter Perry Co.
Monday 24
we traveled 20 miles camped in creak swamp.
Tuesday 25
we came 20 miles today passed through Brandon I bought a tin cup 5 ct. a pocket knife for Jim 50 ct and had to run 1-1/2 miles to kech up with the wagons campt 1 1/2 miles of Jackson on the Perl river.
Wednesday 26
We passed through J (Jackson) and went 8 miles and passed thorugh Clinton 8 more miles and pass through Raimon (apparently he had little difficulty in the spelling as it was written once then scratched out and he started over again - EFB) and campt 1 1/2 miles from it.
Thursday 27
we traveled 20 miles pass throu Edward cross big black I have tooth ache I sent to Stasion (?) And bought 2 aples it threating rain we are 13 miles from Victburg.
Friday 28
We are campt 2 miles from V I saw more hills in one hour than I saw in the rest of my life it is cole and the wind blows so hard we don't turn our hats luse.
The diary ends abruptly right here. It is a pity he did not keep up his entries until the end of the journey, which for him, I suppose was what is now, and probably then Lindale, Texas. He does not give the month or the year - only the days of the week but this wagon train left Perry County, Alabama in 1869, and presumably in the fall of the year for he does not mention anything that would lead us to believe any of the rivers crossed were at flood stage, as would be the case in the spring, and then too, most of the group were farmers and doubtless were anxious to make a crop the following year. Written by W. L. Henderson."

1880 Census, Smith, TX, Dist 95, Precinct #1, enum. 8th June 1880: Shelby, James (James Madison Shelby) age 66, b. NC; Ann, wife, age 64, b. NC (Amanda Ann Henderson); Mary 35 daughter, age 35, b. NC; Ella, daughter, age 19, b. AL.
Next door, same census: Bell, John, m., age 28, b. TN; Martha, f., wife, age 24, b. AL; Tommie, m. age 5, b. TX; Jesse, m. age 3, b. TX; Allen, m. age 1, born TX.



















  v.   David Daniel Shelby, born 1816 in Mecklenburg Co., NC; died Unknown; married Prudence Morrison Alexander; born 1817; died Unknown.
  Notes for David Daniel Shelby:
Moved from Perry Co., Alabama to Louisana.
Source: Shelby Family Record Book, Joseph Alexander Shelby, 1902.



  vi.   Elenor Selina Shelby, born November 27, 1817 in Mecklenburg Co, NC; died October 08, 1900 in Smith County, Texas; married William Lee Henderson April 26, 1838 in Mecklenburg Co, NC; born January 04, 1808 in Mecklenburg Co, NC; died December 10, 1888 in Smith Co., TX.
  Notes for William Lee Henderson:
W. L. Henderson Post Civil War Diary

"The following is a copy of a diary kept by W.L. Henderson, a member of a caravan of covered wagons that departed Selma, Alabama for Texas. Three of the wagons belonged to the James Madison Shelby family.

Monday the ninth
I left Perry Co. Ala.for Texas Smith Co. 5 wagons of us we came 8 miles and campt.
Tuesday 11
1 miles fro Greensbrough Cousin D Moor came to camp
Wednesday 12
We left camp went 2 miles and missed a chair & sachel I got on parmer (?) And went back but did not find it I searched one negro house but it was in vane we crossed the War. (Warrior?) river and gave the dog I had taken from John Moore to par ferrage & $1.00 we campt 2 miles from Forkland.
Thursday 13
We came though Forkland. I bout 50 ct. of flour we cross the Tom bigby river and campt one mile from it.
Friday 14
We pass through Livingston. I bought some cream tarter and a pocket com we camp at Un (Uniontown) after dark came 25 miles today
Saturday 15
We did not travel today it rained a big rain and is still cloudy.
Sunday 16
It is a pretty day and how I wish I was back at my old home.
Monday 17
We came 18 miles today we are in 21 miles of Merian Miss. It is threaten rain
Tuesday 18
It rain lass night and it is cole now. We traveled within 1 miles of Merioa. U.B., Jessy and My Self and we bought $18.30 of flour, meat chesse crackers shot and molasses.
Wednesday 19
We pass through M traveled 16 and campt on the Chunky river.
Thursday 20
We left camp I kill 2 sqrils we pass through Clinton I bought 40 ct. gun powder and put a posal card in the P O we campt 1 Newton
Friday 21
We left camp Henry and myself taken the railroad and went 2 miles and Jim Murry, Luse and Vroos (?) Came to us and we pass through a station and went wrong road and had to walk 5 miles to get with the wagons We pass through Lake and we are camp 9 miles from L in the piny woods.
Saturday 22
we are 40 miles from Jackson and we stopt at dinner and we are campt 1 mile from Web Gadlock's Henry and me went squrle hunting and we killed 4 one fox sq.
Sunday 23
Henry Wil U.B. and myself went to preaching and went to Gadlock's for dinner I came back and roat a letter Perry Co
Monday 24
we traveled 20 miles camped in creak swamp
Tuesday 25
we came 20 miles today passed though Brandon I bought a tin cup 5 ct. a pocket knife for Jim 50 ct and had to run 1 miles to kech up with the wagons campt 1 miles of Jackson on the Perl river
Wednesday 26
We passed through J (Jackson) and went 8 miles and passed thorugh Clinton 8 more miles and pass through Raimon ( apparently he had little difficulty in the spelling as it was written once then scratched out and he started over again - EPB) and campt 1 miles from it
Thursday 27
we traveled 20 miles pass throu Edward cross big black I have tooth ache I sent to Stasion (?) And bought 2 aples it threating rain we are 13 miles from Victburg
Friday 28
We are campt 2 miles from V I saw more hills in one hour than I saw in the rest of my life it is cole and the wind blows so hard we don't turn our hats luse.

The diary ends abruptly right here. It is a pity he did not keep up his entries until the end of the journey, which for him, I suppose was what is now, and probaly then Lindale, Texas. He does not give the month or the year - only the days of the week but this wagon train left Perry County, Alabama in 1869, and presumably in the fall of the year for he does not mention anything that would lead us to believe any of the rivers crossed were at flood stage, as would be the case in the spring, and then too, most of the group were farmers and doubtless were anxious to make a crop the following year. Written by W.L. Henderson."

1880 Smith, TX Census, E.D. #180, enum. 15 June 1880:
Henderson, William, age 71, b. NC; Ellen, wife, age 65, b. NC; John, son, age 24, b. AL; William, son, age 22, b. AL;
Franklin, son, age 20, b. AL; Sallie, daughter, age 26, b. AL. (Wife Ellen is Elenor Selina Shelby).




  vii.   Samuel Norton Shelby, born May 14, 1820 in Mecklenburg Co, NC; died July 03, 1881 in Lauderdale, MS; married Priscilla Ross Gibson October 28, 1847 in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama; born November 1827 in Abbeville, SC; died 1903 in Lauderdale, MS.
  Notes for Samuel Norton Shelby:
Moved to Sumter Co., Alabama then Lauderdale Co., Miss. just west of the state line.

From the Samuel Shelby page just copied on page 3, at the top of the page and in left margin, written in the handwiring of the late Joseph Alexander Shelby is the following:
"Sons of Moses Shelby of Mecklenburg Co., NC.
Rufus Shelby - Died in Dallas County, Ala.
Winfield Shelby. Buried at Elizabeth Church, Sumter County, Ala.
James Madison Shelby, moved from Perry County, Ala. to Tyler, Texas 1869.
Dan Shelby, moved from Perry County, Ala. to Louisiana.
Smith Shelby of Tennessee. Father of Will L. Shelby who died in Avondale, Ala.
Tommie Shelby. Married in Dallas County, Ala. to Miss Mary Morrow, and died in the Civil War.
Samual Shelby, my grandfather. Recorded on this page.
Joe Shelby never married. Died young in Dallas County, Ala.
Miss. Silana Shelby married Wm. Henderson and moved to Texas. (daughter)
Samuel Shelby moved from Dallas County to Sumter County 1854 (or 1845).





  More About Samuel Norton Shelby:
Burial: Unknown, Bethel Cemetery, Lauderdale, MS

  More About Priscilla Ross Gibson:
Burial: Unknown, Bethel Cemetery, Lauderdale, MS

  viii.   Joseph Theodore Shelby, born 1823 in Mecklenburg Co., N.C.; died 1853 in Dallas Co, AL.
  Notes for Joseph Theodore Shelby:
From one of James Madison Shelby's grandchildren: Joseph Shelby, younger brother of James Madison Shelby went to Alabama first, managed to accumulate quite a bit of land, but died an untimely death at the age of 30 years, leaving an estate to be divided among his brothers. The family legend says this is why the sons of Moses Shelby moved to AL. Mary Shelby, Moses' widow, joined her sons there. After the end of the Cvil War, James Madison Shelby, with his wife and all his children, with one exception, migrated to Texas travelling in a caravan of five covered wagons three of which belonged to Grandpa Shelby. They left Selma, Alabama in the fall of 1869 and settled near Tyler, in Smith County, Texas. The son that remained behind was married and his wife refused to move to Texas. There is a copy of a diary that was kept for the first two weeks of the journey in the portion of this sketch entitled "Shelby Family Legends and Stories".
(Source: Ernest Perry Bell, courtesy of Jean Taylor, 2004)

  ix.   Thomas A. Shelby, born May 25, 1825 in Mecklenburg Co, NC; died Unknown; married Mary Morrow Abt. 1850 in Selma, Dallas Co, AL; died Unknown.


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