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Mother: Jane WARWICK |
1859 Mountain Grove VA letter FATHER TO SONS AT SCHOOL
CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS 2 yrs later; VMI CADET Item number:
6511600221
Starting bid: US $49.99 Time left: 6 days 20 hours 7-day
listing, Ends Feb-19-05
Start time: Feb-12-05 08:32:40 PST
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Item location: Colonial Heights, VA United States
Seller information smile4me ( 1678Feedback score is 1,000 to
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Description (revised)
This folded letter sheet has a manuscript postal marking for
MOUNTAIN GROVE June 29, 1859, but I don’t see any other
markings, probably there was a stamp or two on there at one time
that fell off. This Post Office was in Bath county, Virginia.
The letter is addressed to Master Gatewoods, Academy, Pocahontas
co., Va., and is a two and a half page ‘Dear boys’ letter
written by ‘your pa, S.V.G. The headline is Mountain Grove 29th
June ’59 [1859].
After looking around some, I think the writer of the letter was
Samuel Vance Gatewood. Samuel was KIA in 1861, just two years
after this letter was written. One of his sons was a VMI cadet
who later moved to Pocahontas, VA, Andrew Cameron Lewis
Gatewood; probably the Cameron mentioned in this letter. S.V.G.
used the plural Gatewoods in the address because he’s writing to
two sons of his at some school.
Some abstracts:
I have just returned from Big Spring and the upper end of Poca.
I went to the Big Spring to Divide the land between your Uncle
Warwick & myself. We got it divided but not to my satisfaction &
I will not let the Division stand. I went from there to Green
Bank, and bought 200 sheep from Billy Wooddell, Bob Hannah is
ar[???] sheep for me.
When I came home I found old queen had no milk for her colt and
they are feeding the colt and raising it by hand, she has lost
her bag and gives no milk.
You write for your Gun, I think Cam you had better not have the
Gun some accident might happen, and then I think you will be
thinking about Hunting and spend your time that would be more
profitably spent at your Books. The boys will be borrowing and
hunting with the Gun and perhaps break and bruise the stock up.
Mr. Coffee has gone over to the Hot [springs] to see his Father
who is there afflicted with rheumatism …
Well, Capt Billy, How do you get on my boy. I want to see you
and I want to know how you like your school and how do you like
yr teacher …
Ma says she is looking for that letter you promised her. I hope
my dear sons you will apply yourselves to your books and learn
fast you are both very backward in your Education, work hard and
learn fast …. Let me beg you both to be polite and kind to every
body and more particularly to Mr. & Mrs. Shanklin Mr. Emerson,
do as poor old Dr. Strother used to tell me, let no one out do
you in Politeness.
William you must write to sister Susan and Cameron write too,
she has gone a long ways off and she will be delighted to get a
letter from her Brothers, write to Sis Ma[?] too, she loves you
both.
Be sure Cameron to write to Susan & Mr. Taliaferro. Ma sends
heap of love to you both. My dear sons good bye.
Condition of the letter rates good, some separations along the
folds were mended with archival tape, another old separation
mended with an old stamp hinge, ages ago; some staining. Very
readable.
As usual with stampless letters, after writing on one or more
sides of a sheet of paper, the letter was folded several times
and mailed. An interesting letter good for genealogy and history
research. See my other auctions for similar items.
* Member of American Philatelic Society.
* Unconditionally guaranteed authentic.
_Richard GATEWOOD Sr.____+
| (1681 - 1730) m 1712
_Richard GATEWOOD Jr._____|
| (1716 - 1760) m 1744 |
| |_Rachel KEMPE ___________+
| (1696 - 1720) m 1712
_William GATEWOOD ___|
| (1745 - 1825) m 1799|
| | _Richard TYLER Jr._______+
| | | (1685 - 1761)
| |_Frances "Frankey" TYLER _|
| (1730 - 1785) m 1744 |
| |_Catherine WILLIAMSON ___+
| (1685 - 1751)
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|--Samuel Vance GATEWOOD C.S.A.
| (1810 - 1861)
| _William WARWICK ________
| | (1716 - 1764)
| _Jacob WARWICK ___________|
| | (1747 - 1826) m 1770 |
| | |_Elizabeth DUNLAP _______+
| | (1716 - 1817)
|_Jane WARWICK _______|
(1779 - 1839) m 1799|
| _(RESEARCH QUERY) VANCE _
| |
|_Mary VANCE ______________|
(1754 - 1823) m 1770 |
|_________________________
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Mother: Mary NIX |
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_ LA LAVELLE ________|
| (1650 - ....) |
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_Edward LEAVELL I "the Immigrant"_|
| (1685 - 1749) m 1704 |
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| |_____________________|
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|--Robert LEAVELL
| (1718 - 1797)
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| _____________________|
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|_Mary NIX ________________________|
(1680 - 1760) m 1704 |
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Amite County, MS 1850 Federal Census
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LN HN FN LAST NAME FIRST NAME AGE SEX RACE OCCUP.
VAL. BIRTHPLACE MRD. SCH. R/W DDB
38 446 446 Neilson James B. 73 M Farmer
300 Miss
39 446 446 Neilson L*sisa 33 F
Amite Co Miss
40 446 446 Collinsworth Mary A. 14 F
Amite Co Miss
41 446 446 Collinsworth Minerva I. 12 F
Amite Co Miss X
42 446 446 Collinsworth Martha A. 8 F
Amite Co Miss X
1 446 446 Collinsworth Antinett 6 F
Amite Co Miss X
2 446 446 Collinsworth Nathan B. 3 M
Amite Co Miss
PG# LN# LAST NAME FIRST NAME AGE BIRTH PL
FILE NAME
82A 1 Collinsworth Antinett 6 Amite Co Miss
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81B 42 Collinsworth Martha A. 8 Amite Co Miss
pg0077b.txt
81B 40 Collinsworth Mary a. 14 Amite Co Miss
pg0077b.txt
81B 41 Collinsworth Minerva I. 12 Amite Co Miss
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82A 2 Collinsworth Nathan B. 3 Amite Co Miss
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Mother: Nancy May PARR |
_George PENN I________+
| (1706 - 1749) m 1730
_Abraham PENN _______|
| (1743 - 1801) m 1767|
| |_Ann FLEMING _________+
| (1706 - 1794) m 1730
_Horatio Gates PENN _|
| (1775 - 1838) m 1807|
| | _George STOVALL Jr.___+
| | | (1728 - 1782)
| |_Ruth STOVALL _______|
| (1743 - 1810) m 1767|
| |_Mary "Polly" COOPER _
| (1720 - ....)
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|--Gabriel PENN
| (1810 - ....)
| ______________________
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| _____________________|
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| | |______________________
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|_Nancy May PARR _____|
(1785 - ....) m 1807|
| ______________________
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|_____________________|
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Mother: Ann STANARD? STANDARD? |
"Mary was the Great Aunt of John Waller (c1741) and Dr. William
Waller (c1739.) These are the two brothers who, according to
Haley, were the original owners of Kunta Kinte. Through their
father William they were grandsons of Colonel John. (Alex Haley
and Roots the entire genealogy and the book has been declared a
fraud and is fiction; debunked by the British scholars-jb)
Many Wallers seem to be confused about the biological
relationship between Haley and our family. To the best of my
knowledge there is none. (New information, see below.) Haley was
descended from Kizzy Waller but all knowledgeable parties seem
to agree Kizzy or her descendants, simply adopted the name
following the Civil War. Haley shows Kizzy being the daughter of
Kunta Kinte and the slave, "Bell". Haley also claims Kizzy’s
son, "Chicken" George, was sired by a white man named Thomas
Lea. (or Lee).
Tom Lea (of Caswell Co, NC) was the son of Major Lea, grandson
of James Lea and Anne Herndon, great grandson of Edward Herndon
and Mary Waller. This Mary Waller (1674-1716) was the sister of
Colonel John Waller of Spotsylvania County, Virginia, founder of
the "Endfield" branch of the American Wallers." Src:
http://www.alleylaw.net/haley.html
_John WALLER I_______+
| (1645 - 1723) m 1669
_John II WALLER Gent. "the immigrant"___________|
| (1673 - 1753) m 1696 |
| |_Mary KEY ___________+
| (1648 - 1735) m 1669
_William WALLER Sr.______|
| (1714 - 1760) m 1738 |
| | _____________________
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| |_Dorothy (Dorothea) KING _______________________|
| (1675 - 1759) m 1696 |
| |_____________________
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|--William WALLER Jr.
| (1739 - ....)
| _____________________
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| _(RESEARCH QUERY) STANDARD of VA & NC & SC & GA_|
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| | |_____________________
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|_Ann STANARD? STANDARD? _|
(1715 - 1756) m 1738 |
| _____________________
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|________________________________________________|
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|_____________________
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Mother: Martha MOTHERSHEAD |
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_John William WAUGH "the Immigrant"_|
| (1630 - 1706) |
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_John William "Poison" WAUGH Sr._|
| (1661 - 1716) |
| | __
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| |____________________________________|
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|--Thomas WAUGH
| (1700 - ....)
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| _John MOTHERSHEAD __________________|
| | (1640 - ....) |
| | |__
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|_Martha MOTHERSHEAD _____________|
(1660 - ....) |
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|____________________________________|
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Mother: Susanna CLORE |
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__________________________|
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_Philipp Joseph WEAVER (WEBER) "the Immigrant"_|
| (1687 - 1726) m 1705 |
| | __
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| |__________________________|
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|--Peter Hans Dietrich WEAVER (WEBER)
| (1705 - 1763)
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| _Hans Martin KLAAR CLORE _|
| | (1665 - 1722) |
| | |__
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|_Susanna CLORE ________________________________|
(1692 - ....) m 1705 |
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|__________________________|
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Mother: Naomy HEWES |
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_Gabriel WILKINSON __|
| (1576 - 1658) |
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_William WILKINSON "the Immigrant"_|
| (1612 - 1663) m 1634 |
| | __
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| |_____________________|
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|--Rebecca WILKINSON
| (1635 - 1726)
| __
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| _____________________|
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|_Naomy HEWES ______________________|
(1616 - 1643) m 1634 |
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|_____________________|
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