Family of Elkanah
Delaney Pemberton
8/31/2007
Generation #1:
- John Pemberton, born October 12, 1742, may
have emigrated from Lancashire
England
but evidence is not clear. However, he married Elizabeth Stanton Delaney (b-January 27, 1740) and they lived in Culpeper County, Virginia
by 1768. He enlisted in the
Revolutionary War in North Carolina. He served with the “Over the Mountain Men” in
the pivotal Battle of King’s Mountain (October 1780) mustering the men at the
Pemberton Oak. He earned the rank of
Captain in Col. Isaac Shelby’s regiment during the war and Colonel by
1788. He was a farmer in the Holstein
Valley of Sullivan, Tennessee who at one time had over 600 acres and a few
blacks. Elizabeth died August 7, 1812 and John died October 25, 1813. They are buried at the Pemberton cemetery in
Sullivan County, Tennessee.
These are their 6 sons and 4
daughters.
2i. Sarah “Sally” Pemberton (b-1765-1670,
m-Thomas Pemberton, live-KY)
2ii. William Pemberton (b-1766, married
Winifred?, lived in Kentucky)
2iii James Pemberton (lived 1767-1815)
2iv. Elizabeth Pemberton
(b-1772, married James Jordan George, died-1802)
2v.
Thomas Pemberton (b-1775, never married, died-1848)
2vi.
Stanton Pemberton (b-1778, m-Sarah King, moved to Cole Co, Illinois)
2vii
Ezekiel Pemberton (b-1781, never married, died-1857)
2viiiDinah Pemberton (b-1783, m-Samuel Snapp, moved to Greene Co, TN)
2ix.
Benjamin Franklin Pemberton (1786-1877)
2x.
Nancy Pemberton (b-1788, m-Jonathan King, d-1858 Washington Co.
VA)
Generation #2:
2ix. Benjamin Pemberton was the 9th
child of John and Elizabeth Pemberton, born on February 7, 1786. During the War of 1812, he was a Sergeant in
Captain Harvey King’s Company in the 2nd Regiment of Lillard’s
Eastern Tennessee Volunteers. Benjamin
married Marianna Sharp on December 3, 1812 and they
had 5 children between 1814 and 1821 when Marianna died at the age of 36 during
childbirth. Benjamin married Barbara Dryden in 1825 and they had two more sons
(Thomas Dryden, William H.). Benjamin was listed as a farmer on the census.
Like many of the families in Southern Virginia,
the oldest family members went to Missouri
seeking land. The youngest remained at
home and cared for the older people in the family. In the 1830s and 1840s, the father divided
his property with the oldest as they left for new country, and the residue was
left for the youngest in the family. We
see this happening in the Benjamin Pemberton family. The three oldest sons of the first marriage
all settled in Dade County,
Missouri. The descendants of the second marriage stayed
on Royal Oaks in Washington,
Virginia, post office Bristol, Tennessee.
The following is information compiled by Mary Ellen (Mrs. John H. III) Brown,
who visited Royal Oaks: “Royal Oaks consisted of about 4,250 acres.
The present owner now has about 300 to 400 acres of the original acreage. Tom Gideon Pemberton’s (this must be
Benjamin’s) wife died when three of his sons were teenagers. His second wife
was a “city-gal” who didn’t want the almost grown boys around. So the father gave each of the these boys
$1,200.00, an out-fitted wagon and team,
and their choice of a young negro slave, male or female, and sent them off to
Missouri to homestead land. ‘These three
boys were Henry Pemberton, John S. Pemberton, and Elkanah Delaney “Doc”
Pemberton. They homesteaded land in the
Hulston Mill area in approximately 1839 to 1841”. Benjamin, their father,
died in Sullivan County, Tennessee in 1877 at the age of 91 and is buried in
the Cold Springs Cemetery
there. Descendants still live on the
family farm, although a new home was built about the turn of the century or a
little earlier.
Benjamin’s 7 children are:
3i. Henry Harrison Pemberton (1814-1874, m-Eliza Campbell, Mary
Buchanan)
3ii. John Sharp Pemberton (1815-1890,
m-Rosanna McConnell)
3iii.Elkanah Delaney Pemberton (1817-1902,
m-Elizabeth Craig)
3iv.Melissa S. Pemberton (1819-1827, dying at the age of 8)
3v.
Benjamin Franklin Pemberton (1821, m-Eliza D. King,
daughter of Jonathan King and Nancy Pemberton)
3vi.Thomas Dryden Pemberton (1826-1899, m-Sarah Cowan, Susan Bartles)
3vii
William H. Pemberton (1830-1847, dying at the age of 17)
Generation # 3:
3iii. Elkanah Delaney Pemberton was Benjamin
and Marianna’s third son, born on August 1, 1817 in Sullivan Tennessee. He was undoubtedly named for Dr. Elcanah R.
Delaney of Sullivan
County who was a well
known citizen of that time, and also a relative of the Pembertons. He married Elizabeth Craig (born February 27, 1819 in Kentucky) on February 9, 1841. Elkanah, along with his two brothers, Henry
Harrison and John Sharp, all moved to Dade
County, Missouri in
the early 1840s. The following is a family memory told by Mrs. Kermit or Mary
Lee Wright (Otho’s daughter, Robert’s granddaughter, and Elkanah’s great
granddaughter): “Newlyweds Elkana (Doc)
and Elizabeth
left Sullivan County, Tennessee in an ox wagon, February
1841. She drove the oxen and he followed
with a string of fine breeding horses. February
1842, they purchased a tract of land on Sac River.” Four generations continued to live on
this land. The 1850 census shows all three brothers (Henry, John Sharp, and
Elkanah) living on adjoining tracts of land in Dade County. Upon arrival in Dade County,
Elkanah helped his brother, Henry, build a log mill and was a farmer like his
brother, John Sharp Pemberton. A family story retold by Jennette Wright tells
of a time when Quantrill’s raiders were in Dade County
around Civil War times. “Elkanah upon
finding out about their imminent raid, hid
and stayed with his horses leaving his wife, Elizabeth and his slave, Tom.
Quantrill came and took all the livestock but he didn’t get the horses. Although Tom had a gun aimed at the raider, Elizabeth made him put it
down.” Elizabeth
died on February 1, 1893. By the time of Elkanah’s death in1902, he was
crippled with arthritis. Elizabeth and
Elkanah Pemberton, as well as their young sons (John Jefferson, Walter Sharp,
and Elkanah, Jr.) were originally buried in the Downing Cemetery. Due to the Stockton Dam being built, these
graves were all moved to the Hampton Presbyterian Church Cemetery near Everton
in Dade County.
Elkanah and Elizabeth had 5 children with only 2 surviving past 2 years:
4i. Benjamin C. Pemberton (1842-1884)
4ii.
John Jefferson Pemberton (April 21- July 2, 1848, dying about 2 months)
4iii
Walter Sharp Pemberton (1850-1852, dying about age 2)
4iv.
Robert Henry Pemberton (1853-1929)
4v.
Elcanah Delaney Pemberton (1856-1858, dying about age 2)
Generation #4:
4i. Benjamin Craig Pemberton was the first
son born to Elkanah and Elizabeth Pemberton on Dec. 28, 1842.
He served in the Union cause during the Civil War. He first served in the Fremont Rangers Home
Guard under Captain T.A. Switzler enlisting July 4, 1861 at Melville (Dadeville), Missouri. He re-volunteered on September 1, 1861 and served for 3 years
(discharged July 16, 1864)
in the Missouri
6th Regiment Cavalry Volunteers, Company A under Captain William A.
Kirby, showing a rank of Sergeant. He
was in the battle of Wet Glaze in 1861, and Lynn Creek. He was also engaged with Price’s Army at
Sugar Creek and in the battle defeating General Coffey in 1862. He did considerable scout duty and was in the
Battle of Newtonia in 1862 and also at Prairie Grove December 7, 1862. He witnessed the destruction of several steam
boats at Van Buren, Arkansas and belonged to the command that
drove General Marmaduke out of Missouri
in 1863. After this, he served mostly on
scout and guard duty. (1) After the war,
he married Charity B. Marcum on February 9, 1868 in Dade County, Missouri. Charity was born February 21, 1850 in Kentucky to Jonathan W. Marcum and Malissa
Craig. Her husband, Benjamin’s,
occupation was a farmer as reported on the 1880 census. Benjamin inherited 185 acres of the Pemberton
homestead and then purchased 40 more acres.
He was a Republican, a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and
member of the G.A.R. He died on August 16, 1884 at the age
of 42. The 1890 census lists Charity B.
widow of Benjamin C Pemberton, 1st Sgt. The 1900 census shows Charity and 3 of her
children living with Elkanah and her brother-in-law, Robert’s family. Charity and her sons raised sheep and hogs
and had 180 acres in cultivation. She died at age 70 on April 6, 1920 in Everton, Dade County, Missouri. Benjamin and Charity Pemberton as well as two
of their sons (Virgil Henry and Benjamin Floyd) were originally buried in the Downing Cemetery. In 1965 due to the Stockton Reservoir, they
were moved to the Liberty
Baptist Church
Cemetery near Everton, Missouri.
Benjamin and Charity’s 4 children were:
5i. Leon Herbert Pemberton (1869-1956)
5ii. Virgil Henry Pemberton (1873-1928, “Bird”, unmarried, living in
Dade Co., township collector for 2 years, clerk of the school board)
5iii. Ethel Lucy Pemberton (b-1880, married Milas T. Lea, no children)
5iv. Benjamin Floyd
Pemberton (1882-1937, m-Edith Hoover
but
separated, no children, living in Dade County.)
4iv. Robert Henry Pemberton was born on September 15, 1853 in Dade County, Missouri. He married Lou Belle Gaunt, daughter of John Mott Gaunt and Emily J. Pyle, on February 28, 1888. She was
small woman only 5 feet tall. They
continued living in Dade
County on the farm where
Robert was born. Robert died at the age
of 76 on July 26, 1929. Lou Belle lived 17 years longer dying on October 8, 1946. They both were originally buried in the Downing Cemetery but later because of the
Stockton Dam moved to the Hampton Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
Their children are:
5v. Grace
Mabel Gaunt (b-1881-1963, married Thomas J. West)
5vi. Otho Gordon Pemberton
(1892-1971, married Mary Emily Barnet)
5vii. John Delaney Pemberton (b-1904, married Faye Wright (1903-2000,
daughter of
Thomas Madison and Martha Rowena Stockton Wright)
no children,
d-1976)
Generation #5, 6, 7,
8:
5i. Leon Herbert (Lynn) Pemberton, the oldest son of Benjamin
and Charity Pemberton was born December 3, 1868 in Dade County, Missouri. He married Abagail (Abbie) M. Wike who was born July 4, 1877 in Berry, Illinois, the daughter of Byron Wike and
Eliza Hamn. Leon was a commercial painter and
Abbie was a seamstress. Abbie died on February 6, 1854 in Springfield,
Missouri at the age of 76. Leon died on October 21, 1956.in Springfield, Missouri
at the age of 87.
They had 8 children”
6i. Della
Blanche Pemberton (1895-1956, married John H. Brown, II.)
7i. John H.
Brown, III. (b-1917, married Mary Ellen McGuire)
8i.
Barbara Ellen Brown
8ii. John
H. (Jay) Brown, IV
6ii. Elkanah Bruce Pemberton (1896-1976, married Ruth Saffels)
7ii. James
Leon Pemberton (b-1928, d-1938, died at 10 years)
7iii.Mary
Denzil Pemberton (married Chester W. Barnhart)
8iii.
Jim Barnhart
8iv. Ron
Barnhart
8v. Sandy Barnhart
6iii. Gladys Pemberton (b-1898, m-1. Schyler Brewer, 2. Beeler)
7iv. Odella (m-Martin)
7v. Pansy (m-Gilbert Pyle)
7vi. Skyler Leon Brewer (m-Bonnie Chaney)
6iv. Eliza Margaret Pemberton
(b-1901, m-Charles Shartino)
7vii. Pauline
Shartino (m-Powers)
6v. Byron Craig Pemberton (b-1904, d-1943, m- Stella Presley)
7iv. Kenneth
Byron Pemberton
6vi. Leon
Herbert Pemberton (b-1908, m-Stella Potter, d-1963)
7v. Herbert
Jerald Pemberton (b-1937 in KC, m-Ann Marie
Early,
d-1985)
8iii. Jerald Michael Pemberton (m-Linda S. Bach)
8iv.
Cynthia Ann Pemberton (m-James Fuller)
8v. Jane Marie
Pemberton (m-Brent Ralston)
8vi.
Denise Louise Pemberton (m-Allen L. Hosack)
8vii.Patrick Pemberton (Lynn Hartman, Cindy Jamison)
7vi Nadine
Pemberton-(unmarried)
6vi. Leona Pemberton (b-1911, m-1. Clinton,
2.Ray Calhoun)
6vii Paul Wike Pemberton (1914-1916, died about 2 years, buried at
Liberty Cemetery)
5v. Grace Mabel Gaunt, born October 1, 1881, was Lou Belle Gaunt’s daughter and was about
6 years old when Lou Belle married Robert Henry Pemberton. Grace married Thomas Josiah West (b-12/29/1881), son of Charles Daniel West and
Mary Montgomery, on December 1908.
Thomas West died December
31, 1951 in Dade County,
Missouri at age 70. Grace lived
12 more years, dying on July
30, 1963 at the age of 81.
They had 7 children:
6viii. Bernice M. West (1910-1987, m-Claypool, died in Ash Grove)
6ix Fay Robert West (1912-1997,
m-Tina Maxine Marshall
(1918-
1987), died in
Republic)
6x. Avery T. West (1914-1978,
m-Melissa Jane Davis,
died in Ash
Grove)
6xi. Mary Leona West (female, 1916-2004, m-Ira Gordon Dimmitt
(1909-1979), had 7 children, died in Springfield, Missouri)
6xii. Emma L. West (b-1918, m- Obert at Lockwood, Mo.)
6xiii.Dorothy A. West (1925-2004, m-James R. Alexander)
6xiv.Ray West (d-before 2004)
5vi. Otho Gordon Pemberton was
born April 22, 1892
and married Mary Emily “Molly” Barnett, daughter of Robert and
Claudia Pyle Barnett. Otho liked to play practical jokes such as
the time he and some friends set off firecrackers at the Sharon Baptist
Church tent meeting.
Otho’s family went to California
in 1930s and 1940s looking for work in the orange groves. However, they came back to Dade
County. He died February 21, 1971 and his wife died
in 1972 at the age of 76. They were
members of the First Christian Church of Ash Grove and were buried in the Ash
Grove cemetery.
They had 1 daughter:
6xv Mary Lee Pemberton
(b-1921-1990, married Kermit Wright)
7v. Jennette Wright (m-1.Donald J. Stanton
2. Gary Paul
Frederick)
8iv. Jennell Frederick
(1) Benjamin Pemberton biography in Dade County and Her
People, Vol. II, by The Pioneer Historical Company, Nov. 1, 1917.
Submitted by: Nancy
Wujcik, great- great- grand daughter of Henry Harrison Pemberton
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