Re: McLendons of Anson Co., NC
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Re: McLendons of Anson Co., NC
Whitney Taylor 11/12/11
Dear Whitney,
I am sorry I am so long in replying, but I didn't see this message until just now. I've just been researching my McLendons more.
My Edmund McLendon (c.1780-1840s) and his wife Elizabeth (c. 1781/4-1840s, perhaps maiden name was Wilson or Gray), had a son named John, but I've got "circa 1802/4" as a birth date for him. In Feb. 1833, Edmund deeded a 111 tract of land to John McLendon "in consideration of the natural love and affection which he as for the said John McLendon...." the word son is not mentioned. If the birth date of 24 Feb. 1809, which I found elsewhere for your John is accurate, he'd only have been 13 or 14 at the time. I wonder if your John could have been older that the recorded date for him.
The land Edmund McLendon bought the land that deeded to John McLendon in 1833, at an 1823 Sheriff's sale, land formerly belonging to Jesse McLendon, some have suggested Jesse was Edmund's son, but I don't think this is right.
My Edmund McLendon first appears in the 1800 census of Montgomery County, NC. The household included Edmund & wife, Elizabeth, age 16-25 (c.1775-84), a male age 10-15 (1785-90, possibly Edmund's brother, William) and a male under 10 (1791-1800, Edmund & Elizabeth's son, Jesse?)
I've been told, though I am not sure of it, that Edmund's father was Jesse McClendon, who shows up in the 1790 census of Montgomery Co., household including 2 males over 16, 5 males under 16, 3 females and 8 slaves. This Jesse's wife's name was Ann. My assumption was that this Jesse in Montgomery Co., was a son of Dennis McClendon (1718-1790s) and his wife Mary Ingram, of Anson Co., NC, but I don't know if this is true. I've also wondered if my Edmund could be a son of Dennis' son Joel McClendon who married Frances Lilly. Frances Lilly's father's name was Edmund Lilly.
In the 1810 census, Edmund was still in Montgomery Co., NC, the Brown District, with 1 male & 1 female 26-44 (1766-84, Edmund & Elizabeth), 1 m 10-15 (1795-1800, Jesse), 1 m & 3 females under 10 (1801-10, Mary, John, Sarah and Elizabeth). William was also in the Brown District of Montgomery Co., with his wife Martha Chambers/Campbell, and four children under 10. William moved to Alabama in 1819, and I have information on his family.
By 1820, Edmund and Elizabeth appear to have moved to Richmond Co., NC. Their eldest daughter, Mary (c.1801-?) had married a man named Roberson. (Their son was Edmund McLendon Roberson, 1819-1879). The household of Edmund & Elizabeth in 1820 included 1 m & 1 f 26-44 (1776-94, Edmund & Elizabeth), 1 m 19-25 (1795-1801, Jesse?), 1 m 16-18 (1802-04, John?), 1 m 10-15 (1805-10, who?), 2 f 10-15 (1805-10, Sarah & Elizabeth) and 1 males & 1 female under 10 (1811-20, who?), and 3 slaves.
In 1823, Edmund bought a tract of land of 111 acres in Anson Co, which was sold at a sheriff's sale, land formerly belonging to Jesse McLendon. It has been suggested that this land belonged to his son Jesse, and that Jesse died in 1823. However, the census seems to indicate that Jesse had still been living with his parents in 1820 in Richmond Co., and there is a Jesse McLendon listed in the 1820 census of Anson Co., the household includes 1 m & 1 f 26-44 (1776-94), w f 10-15 (1805-10), 2 m & 1 f under 10 (1811-20).
Edmund & Elizabeth's daughter Mary "Polly" McLendon (c.1801-?), whose husband Mr. Roberson had evidently died, married John Redfearn (1801-1871), of Anson Co. around 1824. Edmund & Elizabeth's daughter Sarah "Sallie" McLendon (c.1805-1865) married William Taylor (c.1794-1848), of Anson Co. around 1823. (This is my line.)Edmund & Elizabeth's daughter Elizabeth (c.1808-1840s) married Arthur Davis (c.1802-1870s) around 1825. Mary, Sarah and Elizabeth all three had sons with Wilson as a first or middle name, which suggests to me Edmund's wife Elizabeth may have been born a Wilson. (However, Sarah McLendon's husband William Taylor may have had Wilson as his middle name, too. He appears as Wilson Taylor in some War of 1812 records.)
The relationship between Edmund McLendon and his daughters, Mary McLendon Roberson Redfearn, Sarah McLendon Taylor and Elizabeth McLendon Davis is proved by three deeds of gift in which he deeded to each of them a servant girl. The deed to Elizabeth was in 1828, to Mary in 1836, and to Sarah in Jan. 1837. These deeds were registered in the April 1837 court term, which originally made me think that Edmund died between Jan. and April of 1837. However, I've just recently found him in the 1840 census (listed as McLindon)
Back to the census, Edmund & Elizabeth appear in Anson Co. in 1830, household includes: 1 m 50-59 (1771-80, Edm), 1 f 40-49 (1781-90, Eliz), 1 m 15-19 (1811-15, who?), 1 m & 1 f 10-14 (1816-20, who?), 1 m & 1 f 5-9 (1821-25, who?) 7 slaves.
In Feb. 1833, Edmund McLendon deeded the 111 acre tract formerly belonging to Jesse McLendon to John McLendon. In July 1833, William Taylor (Sarah McLendon's husband) deeded Edmund McLendon his plantation on Brown Creek in Anson Co. Why he did this is unclear.
In 1840, the household of Edmund McLendon included: 1 m 60-69 (1771-80, Edmund), 1 f 50-59 (1781-90, Elizabeth), 1 m 20-29 (1811-20, who?), 1 f 5-9 (1831-5, who?) 3 slaves.
I do not know what happened to Edmund & Elizabeth's sons, Jesse & John, or the other children that seem to have been born in the 1810s & 1820s. (I am not even sure that their first two sons were named Jesse & John, but several sources have that.)My summary of the daughters families will follow:
Mary "Polly" McLendon (c.1801-?) married Mr. Roberson (perhaps Edmund or Edward?) and had Edmund McLendon Roberson (1819-1879, m. Mahalia Worthington, 2nd m. Clara Huntley, went to Taylor Co., Ga., then Crawford Co., Ga.). Mary 2nd married John Redfearn (1801-1871, son of Nimrod Redfearn & Sarah Elizabeth Huntley). Mary is not listed in the 1850 census, which led me to believe she died in the 1840s; however, there's a Mary Redfearn, age 60, in John's household in 1860, so I wonder if she was just left out in 1850. Their children were: Robert Huntley Redfearn (1825-?, went to Georgia), Eliza or Elizabeth Redfearn (c.1828-1857, m. James Myers), John W. Redfearn (1830-1912, m. Elizabeth Lazenby, went to Georgia but came back to NC), James Thomas Redfearn (c. 1832-1860s, CSA soldier, killed in the War), Mary Jane Redfearn (1835-1922, m. Marshall Moore), Wilson C. Redfearn (1836-1861, CSA soldier, killed in the War), Sarah Ann Redfearn (c. 1839-?), Frances Caroline Redfearn (1843-1899, m. Henry Traywick, 2nd m. Henry Woodward, went to Tennessee).
Sarah "Sallie" McLendon (c.1805-1865) married William Taylor (c.1794-1848, son of Stephen Taylor and Judith Yarbrough) circa 1823. Children: Elizabeth Ann Taylor (1824-1908, m. Joseph Steen, lived in Chesterfield Co., SC), Edmund Gray Taylor (c.1826-c.1870, m. Elizabeth Dean, CSA soldier, wounded in the War, never recovered), Ellen Taylor (c.1828-?, m. Elias Steen, lived in Chesterfield Co., SC), unknown daughter (1826-30), unknown daughter (1831-35), John Thomas Taylor (c.1832/4-aft. 1880, never married), Mary Jane "Kizzie" Taylor (1836-1882, m. Jeremiah Washington Beachum, my line), Louisa Taylor (c.1838-?), William Wilson Taylor (1840-1917, m. Sophronia Ellen Beachum, double first cousin to Mary Jane's husband, CSA soldier). The unknown Taylor daughters may have been named Sarah and Ida.
Elizabeth McLendon (c.1808-1840s) married Arthur Davis (c.1802-1870s, son of Isham Davis & Elizabeth Ingram) around 1826. I don't have proof that Arthur was Elizabeth's husband, but the deed where Elizabeth's father gave her the servant girl in 1828 was witnessed by Isham Davis, Arthur's father, and Arthur named a son Edmund M. (McLendon?) Davis. The children of Arthur Davis (and probably Elizabeth McLendon) were: Isham Wilson Davis (1827-1918, m. Mary Hubbard, 2nd m. Sarah Hubbard, sisters), unknown daughter Davis ((1825/30), Edmund M. Davis (c.1832-?, m. Mariah L. Preslar, sister to his stepmother, CSA soldier), Pleasant Davis (c.1834-1909, went to Georgia), William Davis (c.1837), Elizabeth Davis (c.1840), John Joseph Davis (c.1842), Albert Davis (c.1845). These last two may be sons of Arthur's second wife Susannah Preslar (c.1824-aft. 1880), though I think they belong to Elizabeth, because Susannah started having children in 1851, and had a baby every other year for a while, and the gap between 1845 & the 1850 census seems the most logical place for the death of the first wife and a remarriage. Some sources, however, have the remarriage as 1841.
Edmund McLendon and his wife Elizabeth (Wilson?) do not show up on the 1850 census of Anson County, so they had probably died by then. However, their daughter, Sarah McLendon (c.1805-1865), widow of William Taylor, and her family don't show up on the 1850 census either, though they certainly should be there. (She sold a tract of William's Anson Co. land in 1852, and appears in the Anson Co. census in 1860.)
In 1850, the following McLendons show up in Anson Co:
1850 Anson Co. (Wadesboro District)
2 Aug. 1850, Joel McLendon, 72, farmer, $1320, Susanna, 74
on down the page (Joel is 79/79, Lewis is 81/81)
2 Aug. 1850, Lewis McLendon, 40, farmer, $3700, Mary A, 37, Eliza A, 11, William J, 9, Mary E, 7, Lewis M. M., 2
(Joel McLendon (1779-1855) is said to have been a son of Joel McClendon (c.1744-c.1789) m. Frances Lilly, (daughter of Edmund Lilly) and a grandson of Dennis McClendon (1718-1790s). Joel's wife was Susannah May.)
1850 Anson Co. (Gulledge District)
John W. McLendon, 40 (c. 1810, and his family) yours.
1850 Anson Co. (Beverley District)
John McLendon, 37 (c. 1813, and his family)
1850 Anson Co., (Cedar Hill District)
Louis McLendon, 37 (c. 1813, and his family)
1850 Anson Co. (Wadesboro District)
Edmund L. McLendon, 36 (c. 1814, and his family)
(Edmund Lilly McLendon, b. 1814, said to be a son of Joel McLendon & Susannah May, grandson of Joel McLendon & Frances Lilly)
I also found:
1850 Dooly Co., Ga.
Edmund L. McLendon, 30 (c. 1820), b. NC, and his family)
As I said before, I can't find Sarah McLendon Taylor and her family in the census in 1850, though she shows up in 1860. Both the Redfearn and Davis familys were in Anson Co. in 1850. Mary McLendon's eldest son, Edmund McLendon Roberson (1819-1879) had moved to Houston Co., Ga., and Sarah McLendon Taylor's daughters were across the state line in Chesterfield Co., SC.
I was interested to see that your John W. McLendon went to Union Co., Arkansas. One of Sarah McLendon Taylor's granddaughters, Cleopatra Beachum (1861-1931, Mrs. J. W. H. Irby) and her family went to Union Co., Arkansas in 1890.
My line comes down from another of Sarah McLendon's granddaughters, Mary Jane Beachum (1866-1910) who married Dulin Benson Stearns (1863-1962) in 1884. The ninth of their ten children, and the youngest to survive infancy, was Eunice Virginia Stearns (1906-1983, Mrs. John L. Field), my grandmother.
Best Regards,
John Field Pankow
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