Re: FANNY E COCKRUM

Hi Ruth - this is what we have:
Ancestors of Jesse Tanksley/Tankersley


First Generation

1.Jesse Tanksley/Tankersley-[1816], son of William Brooks Tankersley
Jr.-[2619] and Mary M Clay-[2620], was born in 1834 in Columbia Co.
Ga.

General Notes: Roster of Capt JH Echols Company B 9th Ga.
Infantry.

Jesse Tankesley Pvt May 1862

Enlisted 6/12/1861 Deserted 1/22/1864 Took oath of
allegiance
to U.S at Chattanooga Tn on 3/05/1864

Research Notes: Parents of Jesse are not proven.
It is my opinion that this is Jesses parents.

Jesse married Fanny Cockrum-[1799] [MRIN:617] on 19 Mar 1865 in Davidson
Co.
Tenn.

Children from this marriage were:

i.SarahCatherine Tanksley-[136]
ii.Jesse Thomas Tanksley-[1676]
iii.Annie Emily Tanksley-[1758]

Second Generation (Parents)

2.William Brooks Tankersley Jr.-[2619], son of William Brooks
Tankersley-[2617] and Margaret Tankersley-[2618], was born in 1813
in
Columbia Co. Ga and died about 1885 in elbert Co. Ga, about age 72.

General Notes: 1850 Chambers Co. Ala Census
William B. TanksleyMechanick 37 born in Ga.
Mary37""
"
Jesse16Ga. Farmer
John13Ga.
Eliza18 Ga.
Robert11 Ga.
Charles10 Ga.
Thomas4Ga.
Leonidas3 Ala.

65. William Brooks4 Tankersley, Jr. (William Brooks3, John2,
Joseph1) was born Abt. 1813 in Columbia Co., GA, and died
Bet.
1880 - 1885 in prob. Elbert Co., GA. He married (1) Mary H.
Clay July 07, 1831 in Columbia Co., GA, daughter of Jesse
Clay.
She was born Abt. 1813 in GA, and died Bet. 1851 - 1859 in
prob. Chambers Co., AL. He married (2) Antonette Bullard
Pass
November 02, 1862 in Elbert County, GA by B.F. Jordan JP.
She
was born November 1831 in Elbert County, GA, and died Aft.
1880
in prob. Elbert County, GA.

Notes for William Brooks Tankersley, Jr.:
William Brooks Jr. first appeared on the 1840 Columbia
County,
Ga. census living next to his father.(1) In the Dec. 5, 1845
Augusta Chronicle, p. 3, a Columbia County Sheriff's Sale
was
announced which included 300 acres adjoining Harris on the
south and east, Clay and Tankersly on the north, A.L.
Kennedy
on the West known as the Gill place. The sale was levied on
the
property of William B. Tankersly, Jr. to satisfy a mortgage
fi.
fa. from the Columbia Superior Court at the instance of John
Cartledge, plaintiff against William B. Tankersly,
defendant.
This may be the John Cartledge who married William Jr.'s
aunt,
Elcy Tankersley. Also three slaves who lived on the property
of
William B. Jr. were sold to satisfy 2 fi. fas, one from the
Inferior Cot of Columbia, from the suit of Juriah Harris and
the other from Columbia Superior Court, the suit of Abner P.
Robinson, plaintiff against W. B. Jr.

According to the 1850 Chambers County, Alabama census, the
family moved to Alabama during the late 1840s.(2) This
followed
the loss of property in Columbia and may have been the cause
of
the move. Wm. B. left several records in Chambers County. In
1851 he gave consent for his daughter Eliza Ann to marry
Thomas
J. Cox.(3) He participated in the incorporation of the town
of
Fredonia, Alabama on September 29, 1853.(4) In the early
1850s,
William was a Fredonia businessman, with a firm called
Tankersley and Moon, also known as the "Tanyard." On October
16, 1851, William B. and his partner, Jesse Moon, mortgaged
the
Tanyard, and in December William was named Trustee for Sarah
K.
Moon, wife of Jesse, in a sale of property to satisfy Jesse
Moon's debts.(5) As described in the notes for Mary Clay
Tankersley, Wm. B.'s wife, Jesse Moon was related to the
Clays
by marriage.

William Jr. is found in the records of three different
counties
between 1860 and 1880. In 1860, William B. appeared on the
Columbia County, Ga. census with his widowed mother,
Margaret
and children who appear to be his sons: Robert-20, William
T.-16 and James-12.(6) His occupation in 1860 was
schoolteacher. William B. Tankersley of "Richmond" County
sold
his inheritance from his aunt, Susan Pace, to George
Tankersley
in December of 1860.(7) On the 1864 Georgia State census, he
was listed in the 29th Senatorial District, 131st Militia
District for Columbia County: Tankersley, William B., 51
years,
11 months, farmer, born in Georgia.(8) Following the death
of
his first wife, he moved to Elberton in Elbert County,
Georgia
and remarried in 1862, Antonette "Nettie" Bullard Pass,
widow
of Shelton O. Pass.(9) He was a dry goods merchant and was
listed on the 1870 and 1880 census records for that
county.(10)
In 1870, "William B. Tankersly" petitioned the Elbert County
Court of the Ordinary for a license to retail "spirituous
liquors" at his store in Fish Dam for the coming year. In
1872
the request read "spirituous liquors in quantities not less
than one quart at Smiths Mills." On the 1880 Elbert Co.
Census,
his age was given as 65 and Antonette was 48. She was the
older
sister of his son, Leonidas' wife, who also lived in
Elberton.
No record of William Jr.'s death or burial has been found.
In
Elbert Co. court records for 1885 and 1889, his second wife
Antonette bought land from Rebecca Gunter and sold it to
W.B.
Adams.(11) William's name was not mentioned, leading to the
assumption that he died sometime between 1880-1885. His name
is
not included in any Elbert County Probate Records for that
time
period.

Sources: (1) 1840 Columbia Co., Ga. census, District 4,
Image 3
of 4, line 9, M704, Roll 39, p. 295.
(2) 1850 Chambers County, AL census, Dwelling/family 109, p.
391.
(3) Marriage Records 1833-1861 of Chambers Co., AL, vol. I
(Genealogical Society of East Alabama, Inc., 1974), p. 93.
(4) Lindsey, Bobby L. The Reason For the Tears. A History of
Chambers Co., AL 1832-1900, (West Point, Ga.: Hester
Printing
Co.), 234-235.
(5) Terry Norman Tankersley, "William B. (Brooks)
Tankersley,
Jr.," The Heritage of Chambers County, AL, (Clanton, AL:
Heritage Publ. Consultants, Inc., 1999), p. 284.
(6) 1860 Columbia Co., GA census, Dist. 3&4, Eubanks Post
Office, dwelling 23, family 23, p.21-22, Ancestry Image
Online
2/90.
(7) Columbia County, GA Deeds, Records & Mortgages,
1860-1868,
p. 136.
(8) 1864 Georgia State Census, Baltimore: MD, Genealogy
Publishing Co., 2000.
(9)Elbert Co., Georgia Marriages, 1805-1913, Ann C.
Holloman,
compiler, no publisher, 1989, p. 55.
(10) 1870 Elbert Co., GA census, M593, Roll 148, family
#368,
p. 231-232 and 1880 Elbert Co., GA census, T-9, Roll 145, ED
20, SD 2, dwelling/family #197, stamped p. 395.
(11) Elbert County, Ga., Records on Microfilm, Clayton Gen.
Library, Houston, TX.




William married Mary M Clay-[2620] [MRIN:878] on 7 Jul 1831 in Columbia
Co.
Ga.

Children from this marriage were:

i.Jesse Tanksley/Tankersley-[1816]
ii.Elizabeth Ann Tankersley-[2685]
iii.William Thomas Tankersley-[2686]
iv.John Tankersley-[2687]
v.Robert Tankersley-[2688]
vi.Charles Tankersley-[2689]
vii.Leonidas Pinkston Tankersley-[2690]
viii.James Monroe Tankersley-[2691]

William married Antonette Bullard Pass-[2684] [MRIN:876] on 2 Nov 1862 in
elbert Co. Ga.

3.Mary M Clay-[2620], daughter of Jesse Clay-[2625] and Mrs Jesse
Clay-[2626], was born about 1813 in Columbia Co. Ga and died about
1859 in Chambers Co Ala., about age 46.

Mary married William Brooks Tankersley Jr.-[2619] [MRIN:878] on 7 Jul 1831
in
Columbia Co. Ga.

Third Generation (Grandparents)

4.William Brooks Tankersley-[2617], son of John Tankersley-[2621] and
Susan
Brooks-[2622], was born in 1782 in Spotsylvania Co. Va. and died on
21
Sep 1855 in Columbia Co. Ga, at age 73.

William married Margaret Tankersley-[2618] [MRIN:879].

Children from this marriage were:

i.William Brooks Tankersley Jr.-[2619]
ii.John Green Tankersley-[2680]
iii.Griffin Tankersley-[2683]
iv.Brooks Tankersley-[2682]

5.Margaret Tankersley-[2618] .

Margaret married William Brooks Tankersley-[2617] [MRIN:879].

6.Jesse Clay-[2625], son of Charles B Clay-[2627] and Mary Hawks-[2628],
was born in 1788 in Amelia Co. Va.

Jesse married Mrs Jesse Clay-[2626] [MRIN:881].

Children from this marriage were:

i.Mary M Clay-[2620]

7.Mrs Jesse Clay-[2626] .

Mrs married Jesse Clay-[2625] [MRIN:881].

Fourth Generation (Great Grandparents)

8.John Tankersley-[2621], son of Joseph Tankersley-[2692] and
Susannah-[2693], was born about 1750 in Caroline Co. Va and died in
1807 in Columbia Co. Ga, about age 57.

General Notes: . John2 Tankersley (Joseph1) was born Abt.
1750
in prob. Caroline Co., VA, and died 1807 in Columbia Co.,
GA.
He married (1) Unknown Abt. 1770 in Virginia. She was born
in
prob. Virginia, and died Abt. 1780 in prob. Spotsylvania
Co.,
VA. He married (2) Susannah Cammack Abt. 1780 in
Spotsylvania
Co,, VA. She was born Bet. 1750 - 1760 in prob. Spotsylvania
Co., VA, and died Aft. 1812 in prob. Columbia Co., GA.

Notes for John Tankersley:
John Tankersley was the leader of the Tankersley migration
from
Virginia to Columbia County, Georgia. His branch of the
Tankersleys can be traced from Caroline County, Virginia and
later to Spotsylvania County where several members of his
family moved. John was apparently a son of Joseph Tankersley
of
Caroline and Spotsylvania Counties, with the two men linked
together in court transactions when John was appointed
guardian
of two of Joseph's children, Lucy and Betsy, in 1778, by
their
choice.(1) These two sisters moved to South Carolina with
their
husbands and lived across the Georgia-South Carolina border
from their Tankersley relatives.

A John Tankersley first appeared in Caroline County Order
Books
in a transaction dated 15 February 1765, at the same time
that
Joseph is mentioned as Richard Tankersley, Sr.'s son.(2)
This
could have been the John in question or not because there
were
several John Tankersleys in the area. Since John had already
bought his own land in Spotsylvania Co., Va. in 1776 and
since
he served as a Captain in the Spotsylvania Militia during
the
Revolution, it seems safe to assume that he was born around
1750. He resigned from the militia in Spotsylvania in
1781.(3)

We must assume that John had a wife before his known
marriage
to Susannah Cammack. When Susannah's father, William
Cammack,
died in Spotsylvania Co. in 1783, John and Susannah were
both
mentioned in his will as well as William's grandchildren,
John
and Betsy Tankersley.(4) We know for sure that John's
daughter
Susan was born in 1776 and son William B. was born in 1777,
and
they were not mentioned.(5) Some of John's other children
could
have been born before his marriage to Susannah Cammack,
because
we are not sure of any of their birth dates. If he was born
around 1750, he could have been married around 1770 and
could
have had four or five children before his second marriage.
The
eleven children listed below are not necessarily in the
correct
order due to the lack of records that give their ages. The
last
two children were listed on some census records so that
their
ages could be approximated.

John owned over 400 acres and 15 slaves in 1783 and grew
tobacco and cotton.(6) He and Susannah sold 422 acres in
Spotsylvania in 1784 and moved to the Georgia frontier.(7)
John's brother, George Green Tankersley, and another brother
and sister-in-law, Joseph and Catherine Buckner Tankersley,
sold 440 acres in Spotsylvania in 1786, and later showed up
in
Georgia, so it appears that they followed their brother
John.(8)

The Creek Indians ceded three million acres of land to the
state of Georgia in 1783, the same year that the
Revolutionary
War ended. This land became very important in paying
veterans
for their military service and in running the government.
Bounty land grants of 287 1/2 acres were made to veterans,
and
head right warrants of 1000 acres were also available. The
state needed more settlers in the area to provide protection
from the Creeks, who killed 82 people along the Oconee River
between 1787 and 1789, as well as wounding 129, capturing
146,
torching 89 houses and stealing livestock and slaves.(9)

This newly-opened frontier in Georgia covered 170 miles.
Washington County had been created in 1784, and part of it
was
used to form Greene County in 1786. Then Hancock County was
formed in 1793 from Washington, and parts of Hancock and and
Washington became Baldwin County in 1802.(10) Land was
changing
counties as the boundaries moved, so that John Tankersley
may
be found in the land records of Washington, Greene, and
Hancock
Counties.

We know from several sources that John Tankersley received a
headright warrant of 1000 acres in what was then Washington
Co., Ga.(11) To receive land, each applicant had to appear
before the land court made up of justices of the peace in
the
county where he wanted to live. He made an oath stating the
size of his family and number of slaves, and the court
provided
a warrant of survey. The county surveyor would then lay out
his
land, keeping a copy of the plat and sending a copy to the
Surveyor General. The applicant then had to live on the land
for a year and cultivate at least three percent of it. This
entitled him to go to the Governor's office for his grant,
pay
the purchase price and fees, and the grant would be
recorded.(12)

This would explain why John Tankersley's land is listed in
several sets of records for Washington County with different
dates. The earliest date was in Surveyor Plat Book A for
1784
with "Warrants dated 17 May 1784" written on the plat.(13)
"A
List of Warrants issued in the County of Washington
1784-1787"
shows "John Tankersley, 1000 ac. Headright Warrant" under
warrants issued on August 2, 1785.(14) This later date may
have
been after he lived on the land for one year and the grant
was
recorded. A remnant tax digest from 1785 for Capt. Douglass'
District showed John Tankersley with 9 1/2 polls (heads), 19
slaves, 1000 acres on the Oconee River in Washington
County.(15) Rules for the Headright Warrants stated that
each
man was entitled to 200 acres as his own head-right plus an
additional 50 acres for his wife, each child and each slave,
with 1000 acres as the maximum allowed. From these records
and
from Spotsylvania Co. records, the time of their move can be
approximated. John and Susannah "of Spotsylvania County"
sold
their land in Dec 1784. Considering the other tax records,
the
Tankersleys moved to the Georgia frontier sometime during
1785.

Spotsylvania County, Va. records include an entry dated 7
Nov
1786, in which Joseph and George Green Tankersley, John's
brothers, sold 440 acres in Spotsylvania. Part of this could
have been the land their father Joseph Sr. bought twenty
years
before.(16) One month later on 30 Dec 1786, John is referred
to
as "John Tankersley of Richmond County" which later became
Columbia Co., showing he was living in the Columbia area by
that date.(17) It is possible that John's brothers came to
live
on the Washington County property while John was setting up
another plantation in the Richmond-Columbia Counties area.
George and Joseph did not show up in Greene and Hancock
records, but it does appear that John maintained ownership
of
his land from 1787 through his death. An 1804 Tax Digest for
Hancock County listed Robert and William Tankersley in
Kinchin's District, and these two could have been John's
sons.(18) The Georgia Land Lottery Drawers in 1805 included
the
three brothers, George, Joseph and John in Columbia as well
as
William in Columbia and Robert in Richmond County.(19)

When John died in 1807, he owned several tracts of land that
were later sold. In the Augusta Chronicle of March 26, 1808,
the sale was advertised as the real estate of John
Tankersley,
late of the county deceased being in the counties of
Columbia
and Hancock, alias Baldwin.(20) In 1803 Baldwin County had
been
formed adjacent to Hancock with the Oconee River running in
between. From all this evidence, we may conclude that John
maintained at least part of his original Georgia land,
perhaps
leaving the management of the land to his sons William and
Robert at various times, possibly his son John Jr. who had
been
mentioned in the Cammack will. John Jr. has not been found
in
Columbia records, but the elder John was referred to as John
Sr. in a court document regarding his daughter Eleanor.(21)
I
have tried to locate John Sr.'s land since we have the
information that it was in "Hancock, alias Baldwin" by 1807.
The plat map dated 1784 showed the southern boundary of his
1000 acres as a straight section of the Oconee River. There
is
an area of Baldwin that borders Hancock and Washington
Counties
with the Oconee running through it, close to the present
town
of Milledgeville, Georgia. The Tankersley land could have
been
in this area.

At the time of his death, John also owned 290 acres on
Little
River as well as 348-acre and 500-acre tracts on Keg Creek
in
Columbia County, Ga. He was living on the second Keg Creek
tract when he died in 1807.(22) When the administrators of
John's estate, son William Brooks Tankersley, and son-in-law
Dred Pace, were granted leave to auction off this real
estate
on December 20, 1809, William B. was the high bidder. An
inventory of his personal estate was registered on June 28,
1808, showing 38 slaves, horses, oxen, cattle, pigs, sheep,
geese, beehives, cotton, corn, potatoes, and tobacco as well
as
household items and tools. All of these personal items
totalled
$14,367 in value.(23)

Sources: (1) Caroline County, Virginia Orders 1777-1780, v.
11,
p. 98.
(2)Dorman, John Frederick, Abst. and compiled. Caroline Co.,
Va. Order Book 1764-65, Washington, DC, 1989, p. 61.
(3)Crozier, William Armstrong, Virginia County Records, vol.
1,
Spotsylvania County 1721-1800, Baltimore: Genealogical
Publishing Co., Inc., 1971, p. 523. (4)Crozier, p. 39.
(5) Tombstone data verified by Joseph J. Tankersley.
(6) Virginia Tax Records, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing
Co., 1982, p. 355.
(7) Crozier, p. 384. (8) Crozier, p. 404.
(9) Turner, Freda R., Abst., Greene County, Georgia Land
Records, Deeds 1785-1810, Fernandina Beach, FL: Wolfe
Publishing, 1997, intro. pages.
(10) Turner, introduction.
(11)Marie De Lamar & Elisabeth Rothstein, comp. Records of
Washington County, Georgia, Baltimore: Genealogical
Publishing
Co., Inc., 1985, p. 22. (12) De Lamar, p. 1-2.
(13) Dwyer, Clifford S., comp. Washington County, Georgia
Surveyor Plat Book A, 1784, Gainesville, Florida, p. 245.
(14) Mary Bondurant Warren and Jack Moreland Jones,
Washington
County, Ga. Land Warrants, 1784-1787, Athens, GA: Heritage
Papers, 1992, p. 36.
(15) Davidson, Grace Gillam, Abst. and compiled, Early
Records
of Georgia, vol. 1, Wilkes County, Greenville, SC: Southern
Historical Press, 1992, p. 42.
(16)Crozier, p. 404. (17) Crozier, p. 403.
(18) An Index to Georgia Tax Digests, 1804-1806, R. J.
Taylor,
Jr. Foundation, Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Co., 1986, p.
85.
(19) 1805 Georgia Land Lottery, Transcribed by Virginia S.
Wood
and Ralph V. Wood. Cambridge: Greenwood Press, 1964, p. 338.
(20) Augusta Chronicle for March 26, 1808 on microfilm at
Clayton Library, Houston, TX.
(21) Columbia County Day Book, 1813-1821, Court House,
Appling,
Ga.
(22)Records of Columbia Co., Ga, housed in vault in the
Probate
Judge's office, copied by Joseph J. Tankersley.
(23) Court of the Ordinary Records, Columbia Co. Ga.
Inventory
of the Estate of John Tankersley dec'd, extracted by Joseph
J.
Tankersley.)


John married Susan Brooks-[2622] [MRIN:877] in 1780 in Caroline Co. Va.

Children from this marriage were:

i.William Brooks Tankersley-[2617]
ii.Susan Tankersley-[2670]
iii.Robert Tankersley-[2672]
iv.Joseph Tankersley-[2673]
v.Nellie Tankersley-[2674]
vi.George G. Tankersley-[2675]
vii.Elsey Tankersley-[2677]

9.Susan Brooks-[2622] was born about 1765 in Caroline Co. Va.

Susan married John Tankersley-[2621] [MRIN:877] in 1780 in Caroline Co.
Va.

12.Charles B Clay-[2627], son of Charles Clay-[2629] and Unknown, was
born
in 1761 in Amelia Co. Va.

Charles married Mary Hawks-[2628] [MRIN:882] on 18 Oct 1786 in Amelia Co.
Va.


Children from this marriage were:

i.Jesse Clay-[2625]

13.Mary Hawks-[2628] was born about 1766 in Amelia Co. Va.

Mary married Charles B Clay-[2627] [MRIN:882] on 18 Oct 1786 in Amelia Co.
Va.

Fifth Generation (Great Great Grandparents)

16.Joseph Tankersley-[2692], son of Richard Tankersley-[2694] and
Margaret
Matthews-[2695].

General Notes:
Joseph Tankersley, Sr. of Caroline and later Spotsylvania
Counties, Virginia is the probable ancestor of the
Tankersleys
who came to Columbia County, Georgia and several related
family
groups across the Savannah River in Edgefield County, South
Carolina. A brief summary of his children follows with more
detail included in the notes for each individual. Joseph's
sons
John, Joseph, Jr. and George Green Tankersley moved from
Spotsylvania to Richmond County, Ga. (later Columbia)
following
John's 1000-acre land acquisition in Washington County, Ga.
John was a planter who must have found the newly-opened
frontier in Georgia a great opportunity. Court records show
the
connections between these three men as well as their
sisters,
Margaret, Elizabeth, and Lucy, who married and moved with
their
families nearby in South Carolina. lineline Spotsylvania
County records show that on 1 Oct 1764, "Joseph Tankersley
of
Caroline" bought 240 acres in Spotsylvania.(1) From this we
know that he was one of the Caroline Tankersleys who moved
to
Spotsylvania where his children John, George Green, and
Joseph,
Jr. later appear in county records. These are the only
Tankersleys found in Spotsylvania court records. lineline
Entries in the Caroline County, Virginia Order Books are
proof
that Joseph Tankersley was the son of Richard Tankersley,
Sr.
of Caroline. On 10 January 1765, Richard Tankersley, Sr.
made a
deed of gift of land to "his son Joseph Tankersley."(2) Five
months later, on 13 June 1765, the last will and testament
of
Richard Tankersley, deceased, was presented in court by
Joseph
Tankersley, executor.(3) An inventory and appraisal of
Richard's estate was to be done and returned to court.
Unfortunately, most of Caroline County's records were
destroyed
by fire, and these transactions were taken from Caroline's
Order Books, 1732-1780. They provide us with the orders to
enter documents into the record but do not tell us what was
in
the documents. Joseph remained in court records in 1765 and
1766 when he was paid 200 pounds of tobacco for giving
evidence
in court and appraising estates.(4) Then, in 1767, he also
died. On 13 Nov 1767, the appraisal of the estate of Joseph
Tankersley, deceased "in Spotsylvania County" was ordered,
and
the inventory was to be returned to Caroline Co.(5) Joseph
Sr.
had already bought land in Spotsylvania in 1764, and John
Tankersley bought 150 acres there in February 1776 and 299
more
in September 1776.(6) Joseph Jr. and brother George Green
are
not found in these records buying land, but they sold 440
acres
jointly following Joseph Sr.'s death, leading to the
assumption
that they inherited this land from their father.(7)
lineline
NOTE: The 1895 Charles W. Tankersley "Genealogy of the
Tankersley Family in the United States" gave George Edward
Tankersley of Caroline County, Virginia as the father of
John
and Joseph Tankersley of Columbia County as well as a long
list
of other siblings. While there is circumstantial evidence
that
George Edward existed, Tankersley researcher Harriet Frye
has
found no actual proof of his existence. In any case, he
definitely was not the ancestor of these men. Unfortunately,
Mr. Tankersley's work has been considered fact for over 100
years. lineline Joseph Sr.'s father was Richard Sr. of
Caroline, also mentioned by C.W. Tankersley, but Richard's
wife
was Margaret Mathews, proved by her father's will in 1707,
and
not Margaret Rowland as reported in the book. Tankersleys
began
to appear in Virginia records as early as 1689 when a George
Tankersley bought 713 acres in Gloucester County, now
Mathews
County, on Chesapeake Bay. Tankersley men moved westward
into
newly-created Virginia counties over the next decades.
Richard,
Charles and George Tankersley appeared in the early records
of
Richmond, King George, and Caroline Counties before Joseph
moved to Spotsylvania. lineline Sources: (1)William
Armstrong
Crozier, Ed. Spotsylvania County Records 1721-1800.
Baltimore:
Southern Book Co., 1955, p. 231. line (2)Caroline County,
Virginia Order Book, 1764-65, pt. 1, Abstracted and compiled
by
John Frederick Dorman, Washington, DC, 1989, p. 51. line
(3)Virginia County Court Records Order Book, Abstracts of
Caroline Co., Va, 1765, v. 1. Ed. and pub. by Ruth and Sam
Sparacio, McLean, Va., 1989, p. 3-4. line (4)Virginia
County
Court Records Order Book, v. 1, p. 98. line (5)Caroline
County, Va. Order Book, 1767-1768, v.3, 1990, p. 31. line
(6)Spotsylvania Co. Records, p. 326. line (7)Spotsylvania
Co.
Records, p. 404. linepardf1fs20par
}

Joseph married Susannah-[2693] [MRIN:909] about 1745.

Children from this marriage were:

i.John Tankersley-[2621]
ii.Margaret Tankersley-[2696]
iii.Joseph Tankersley Jr.-[2697]
iv.George Green Tankersley-[2698]
v.Elizabeth Tankersley-[2699]
vi.Lucy Tankersley-[2700]

17.Susannah -[2693] .

Susannah married Joseph Tankersley-[2692] [MRIN:909] about 1745.

24.Charles Clay-[2629], son of Charles Clay-[2630] and Unknown, was born
in
1715 and died in 1788, at age 73.

Charles married (name unknown).

Children from this marriage were:

i.Charles B Clay-[2627]

Sixth Generation (3rd Great Grandparents)

32.Richard Tankersley-[2694] .

Richard married Margaret Matthews-[2695] [MRIN:910].

Children from this marriage were:

i.Joseph Tankersley-[2692]

33.Margaret Matthews-[2695] .

Margaret married Richard Tankersley-[2694] [MRIN:910].

48.Charles Clay-[2630] was born in 1675.

Charles married (name unknown).

Children from this marriage were:

i.Charles Clay-[2629]