Births

• Rosamond Maude (McKinney) Tucker was born in 1805 in North Carolina (my 4th great-grandmother).
• Mariah M. (Langston) Roberts was born in 1833 in Sevier County, Tennessee (my 3rd great-grandmother).

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Births

• Marion L. Ellis was born in 1832 in Alabama.
• Edward Martin Roberts was born in 1893 in Murray County, Georgia.
• Arvil Headrick was born in 1895.

Deaths

• Thomas Whiteside died in 1840 in Rutherford County, North Carolina.
• Joseph J. Ellis died in 1864 in the Civil War.
• Rosamond Maude (McKinney) Tucker died in 1880 in Murray County, Georgia (my 4th great-grandmother).
• Alacia Merle (Hemphill) Wilmoth died in 1998 in Akron, Ohio.

Transcript

A 6063

State of North Carolina

Surry County

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we Tucker and Edward Moore are held and firmly bound unto this Patrick Thomas Esquire, Governor, &c. or his Successors in Office, in the full sum of Five Hundred Pounds, current Money, to be paid to the said Governor, his Successors or Assigns, for the which Payment well and truly to be made and done, we bind ourselves, our Heirs, Executors and Administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents, sealed with our Seals, and dated this 11 day of July Anno Domini 1828.

THE Condition of the above Obligation is such, that whereas the above bounden Churchwell Tucker hath made application for a License for Marriage to be celebrated between him and Rozannah McKiniy of the County aforesaid: Now, in case it shall not appear hereafter, that there is any lawful Cause or Impediment to obstruct the said Marriage, then the above obligation to be void; otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.

Signed, Sealed and Delivered,

in the presence of

[illegible]

Churchwell B. Tucker {Seal}

Edward Moore {Seal}

Commentary

I already had the date and location for this marriage, but I did not have a primary source document; thanks to @editor1130 (a Twitter friend!) for sending me this license.  I had seen numerous references in online family trees to a “Rozannah McKinney” as the wife of Churchwell Tucker and I never knew where the name Rozannah originated.  The name on the headstone adjacent to his is “Rosamond.”  I’ve always thought Rozannah and Rosamond were close enough to be the same person, although I haven’t proved this yet.

@editor1130 also sent me the marriage license for Churchwell’s parents, Branch Tucker and Lucy Blakey.  I noticed that Edward Moore is the bondsman on both licenses.  North Carolina still required marriage bonds at the time of both these marriages, so I need to look up the bonds in the Ancestry.com index to see if there is any more information that I can glean.

Births

• Esther Jane (McFry) Whitesides was born in 1827 in Tennessee.

Deaths

• Jennie Gill (Albright) Strader died in 1952 in Barnard, Missouri.

Marriages

• Rosamond Maude McKinney and Churcwill Branch Tucker were married in 1828 in Surry County, North Carolina.

Updated July 10, 2011.

It’s time to recognize ancestors who were born in February:

• Jonathan Curtis, 8x-great-grandfather, born 19 Feb 1690 in Wiltshire, England.
• John Garrett, 5x-great-grandfather, born 19 Feb 1739 in Kennet, Chester, Pennsylvania.
• Catherine Powell, 5x-great-grandmother, born 20 Feb 1785 in Burke County, North Carolina.
• Rosamond, 4x-great-grandmother, born 25 Feb 1805 in North Carolina.
• Martin Langston, 4x-great-grandfather, born 15 Feb 1809 in Sevier County, Tennessee.
• Benjamin Burgin Hemphill, 3x-great-grandfather, born 10 Feb 1826 in Old Fort, Burke, North Carolina.
• Mariah M. Langston, 3x-great-grandmother, born 25 Feb 1833 in Sevier County, Tennessee.
• Mary Elizabeth McEntire, 2x-great-grandmother, born 23 Feb 1841 in Murray County, Georgia.
• Francis Marion Kendrick, 2x-great-grandfather, born Feb 1844 in Polk County, Tennessee.
• Mary Elizabeth Patterson, 2x-great-grandmother, born 07 Feb 1869 in Ellijay, Gilmer, Georgia.

To see a complete list of February birthdays (and other February events), click on the “Family Tree” tab, then click on “Dates and Anniversaries” in the sidebar, then click on the drop-down arrow under “Day” and scroll all the way to the top, choose February under “Month”, then click “Search.”

I visited New Prospect Church Cemetery on Saturday.  I knew that some Tuckers were buried there, because I had found headstone photos on Find-a-Grave for Churchwell Branch Tucker and his wife Rosamond.  I also had found a listing last week for E. M. Ellis on the Murray County Cemeteries website; the dates were very close to my records for Elijah Marion Ellis, so I knew I had a match.

It’s a nice cemetery, built on a hill adjacent to the church, well-laid-out and small enough that I was able to look at every headstone in under an hour.  The oldest graves are from the mid-1800′s; there were only one or two that were so weathered that I couldn’t read the inscriptions.

I’m sad to report that C. B. Tucker’s headstone has broken and fallen over since the photo was taken that is on Find-a-Grave.  Fortunately, it fell face up, so it was easy to find.  Rosamond’s headstone is still intact.  Between them is the grave for Joseph, their son who died at birth.

I also found a headstone for John W. and Sarah J. Tucker, son and daughter-in-law of Churchwell and Rosamond.

I found E. M. Ellis’ headstone not far away from the Tuckers (he was their son-in-law); the stone faces the back of the cemetery, so it’s easy to miss.  Based on the marker, he died in 1865, instead of 1863 as I had previously thought.  I wonder if his death was related to the Civil War?  It would be reasonable to assume that he was a soldier, except for the fact that he was blind; he lost his sight to typhoid fever several years before his death.

I find it puzzling that Elijah’s wife, Elizabeth (Tucker) Ellis, is not buried here.  She is at Eton Cemetery, which may be my next visit.