Thursday, January 17, 2013

The Moreland Muster Volume IX, Issue 1 Winter 1995/96


Dear Nona,

Received your Moreland Muster last week and have a correction to make on Dewey MORELAND and information on Walker Co., info and also some info on Joseph and Thomas MORELAND of Hamilton Co., Tennessee to add. This is what I have on my MORELAND family:

Pvt. Dewey MORELAND  b. 11 Aug. 1899, Walker Co., Georgia; d. 27 Aug. 1920, Walker Co., Georgia;  buried in LaFayette, Walker Co., Georgia.

Info from Cemetery Records of Walker Co., Georgia Vol. 1, 1987 Walker County Historical Society.

Military Service: WW1-Enlisted -RA Columbus BKS, Ohio Feb. 17, 1917; Co. A 2nd MD En to disch. (1st Division); Wounded in action, Severely abt 22 July 1918; Served overseas; June 14, 1917 to Sept. 28, 1918; Honorable discharge. SCD Feb. 9, 1920; 100 per cent disabled at discharge. "Cited Sec 1 Par b of G. O. 5 1st Inf Brig. June 1, 1919 Citation for Gallantry In Action, (but not warranting any decoration) -WW1 Service Records Book 1 A-M 1917 - 1919 WW1 Records (Alphabetized) Microfilm roll #0393273 LDS Library, San Antonio, TX

Did not die in France! James R. Sartain book is wrong. Also info on his injuries and death from family member living in LaFayette, Walker Co., Georgia.

Info on Thomas Moreland I found of Hamilton Co., Tennessee:

Thomas MORELAND attesting to the deed of an Asahel JOHNSON for a deed of land in the Ocoee District. 10 June 1840. Hamilton Co., Tennessee Deed Bk "E" Vol. 1, 1841 - 1843, Hist. Record Project. Project #65-44-1453, Tenn. R., 976.882 HIS Centennial Public Library, Chattanooga, TN

Also, found Thomas MORELAND listed in the Cherokee Land Lottery by Lloyd G. Martin reprinted 1920, pg. 181, 22nd Dist., 3rd sect. plot #326.

Yes, the Joseph MORELAND listed in your recent Fall 1995 Moreland Muster is the same Joseph MORELAND listed in Hamilton Co., Tennessee on the Tennessee Land and Property Deeds who died in 1859 in Walker Co., Georgia and husband of Devine Howard CARTER.

Joseph MORELAND found in Hamilton Co., Tennessee Deed Book mentioned he was in presence of Mathias Mount for a David N. Bell's land- 4 Nov. 1841. This land lying in the Ocoee District. Tennessee Records of Hamilton Co., Tennessee Deed Bk "F", Vol. 1 1844-1848. Hist. Project #165-44 6999 WPA. July 26, 1937 Tenn. P 976.882 HIS

Michelle L. Moreland Orlando, 3335 Deer Creek, San Antonio, TX 78230.

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Obituary
The Washington Post
29 January 1987

J. Earl MORELAND, 89, the president of Randolph - Macon College in Ashland, Virginia from 1939 to 1967, died Jan. 27 at his home in Ashland after a heart attack.

Mr. MORELAND was born in Commerce, Texas, and graduated from Southern Methodist University. He received a master’s degree in psychology from SMU and also did graduate study at George Peabody College. He was a Methodist missionary in Brazil and vice president of Scarritt College in Nashville before he became president of Randolph - Macon.

During his years as president, the enrollment of then all-male Randolph-Macon increased from 300 to 800 and 19 buildings were either built or renovated. The number of faculty members rose from 16 to 73. Mr. MORELAND held the title of president emeritus upon his retirement.

He was a former president of the Virginia chapter of the National Conference of Christians and Jews and was active in the World Council of Churches.

His wife, Helen HARDY MORELAND died in 1967. Survivors include four daughters, Helen Moreland Cotton of Boston, Jane Moreland Branscomb of Birmingham, Alabama, Mary Emma Moreland Smith of Atlanta, and Frances Moreland Nichol of Daytona Beach, Florida and 12 grandchildren.

The Moreland Family Bible with Grimsley Records
by Robert E. Parkin

Robert E. Parkin is president of the St. Louis Genealogical Society. He is a news writer for KSD-KSD TV, a community newspaper editor, historian and editor. He has a vast index of early St. Louis French and eastern Missouri pioneer genealogy.

The Moreland Family Bible is a King James version, printed in 1813 by M. Carey, No. 121 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

The Bible apparently was acquired when new by Samuel MORELAND who inserted the dates of his two marriages and birth dates of his children, all but two born before the volume was published. There are indications the book passed into the hands of his son, James L. MORELAND, and, thence, to James’s half-sister, Frances MORELAND, and, thus, into the GRIMSLEY family in August, 1836, when she was married to Nimrod GRIMSLEY. Two two-sided (4) pages of GRIMSLEY family records are inserted among the MORELAND family records, which are part of the Bible. Nimrod GRIMSLEY’s family emigrated in 1865 from Bath Co., Kentucky, to Menard Co., Illinois, and settled near Sweetwater.

The Bible now is in the hands of Mr and Mrs. Donald Riley, Greenview, Illinois.

The Moreland Family Bible

Inside of the front cover is a torn half-page containing the name George W. T. MORELAND. Another torn page contains the partial inscription, “...his hand and kiss (rubric) Wm. MORELAND was born July 31, 1811.”

Another partial page contains the inscription “R. Echanan W. MORELAND, a son of John MORELAND and Malverna his wife, was born April the 19, 1833.”

Samuel MORELAND and Elancer SHIELDS was married 28th day of December, 1797.

Births

James L. MORELAND son of Samuel MORELAND and Elender his wife was born November the 12, 1798

Elender MORELAND wife J. L. MORELAND was born June the 11, 1798.

Dolly Elizabeth MORELAND daughter of J. L. MORELAND and Elender his wife was born July 23, 1835.

Melissa Frances MORELAND daughter of James L. MORELAND and Elender his wife was born Apriel (sic) the 12 -- 1837

Joel Morehead MORELAND son of James L. MORELAND and Elender his wife was born August the 22, 1840.

Deaths

Samuel MORELAND Father was born dec 1769 or 70 & departed this life May the 23, 1848.

Mother departed this life July the 10, 1814.

Thomas H. MORELAND departed this life August the 10, 1828.

Samuel MORELAND departed this life March the 8th 1859.

James N. MORELAND Departed this life October the 25th 1863. Age 75 years.

Zeanous MORELAND departed this life January the 7th 1867.

James L. MORELAND departed this life Aprile the 8, 1873.

Ida Boon  LOCKHART Daughter of H. & M. C. LOCKHART departed this life September the 15th 1877 age 4 days in Owen Co., Kentucky & buried at ____
MORELAND in Owen Co., Kentucky

Marriages

James L. MORELAND & Elender BRAMMELL his wife was married July the 17, 1819.

Henry SHIELDS & Katharine MORELAND his wife was married December the 17, 1840.

Thomas H. MORELAND and Mary HINTON his wife was Married March the 19, 1844.

James F. JONES and Melissa F. MORELAND was married Aprile the 8th 1856.

Father & Mother was married the 28 of December 1797.

Mathias JUDY and Elender MORELAND his wife was married January the 16 1851.

R. L. BARNETT and Lizzi was married dec the 29 1893.

James H. MORELAND Hannah Jane BAXTER his wife was Married Aprile the 11, 1854

James W. BRIDGES and Elizabeth D. MORELAND was married January the 14th 1858.

James L. MORELAND Holy Bible Bought in the year of Our Lord 1832

Bible was published in Philadelphia M’Carty & Davis 1832.

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W. Frank Isaacs
782 Yale Street
Akron 11, Ohio

June 24, 1964

Mrs. W. (?). Walker
Bryan Station, Chapter D.A.R.
Lexington, Kentucky

Dear Mrs. Walker:
I note in the Kentucky  Bible Records, Vol. #1, that Mrs. Kate Bridges Dickey is the owner of a Moreland Bible.  I too, am the owner of a Moreland family Bible which was published in 1832 and purchased by James L. Moreland in 1832.  I came into possession of this Bible upon the death of my Uncle John Alsop of Georgetown last February.  John Alsop's mother was Sarah Ellen Jones Alsop.  Her mother was Melissa Frances Moreland Jones, who was born in 1837, the daughter of James L. Moreland, born 1798.  His father was Samuel Moreland, born 1769 or 70, died 1848.  Here an impasse develops.  My searchings have failed to uncover anything else on Samuel Moreland -- where he lived or who his wife was.

Do you think that Mrs. Dickey would be interested in sharing and trading any information that she might have?

If either of you are interested, I would appreciate hearing from you.  My wife and I hope to be in Lexington in October.  I could bring along this Bible, which is in rather poor condition, for verification.

Sincerely,
W. Frank Isaacs

Thanks to Mrs. Gordon R. Moreland, 3050 Old Washington Rd., Waldorf, MD 20601-3121 for the records printed above. At this point she has not been able to find a connection to her husband’s line with any of these people. Apparently his Morelands remained in Maryland.

QUERIES

I still have not been able to establish the connection between Benjamin MORELAND and Evan MORELAND, my great-grandfather, although both witnessed a will in Hawkins Co., Tennessee, and were associated in a church in Parke Co., Indiana, during the 1830-1850 time period. Evan’s daughter was named for Benjamin’s wife. I have been unable to find a record of Evan’s birth on March 4, 1804, or his wedding to Dorothy (Dolly) MORRISON, or of the birth of my grandfather, John, on May 3, 1826.

Efforts to find Sheileigh MORELAND, also descended from Evan, have been fruitless. She identified Benjamin as Evan’s father, but no proof was given. At the she wrote another Moreland living in Oklahoma, she was living in Seattle.

Barbara Gray, 302 Washington Blvd., Abilene, TX 79601

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My line is this:

Parents: Aaron Wilson Brummett & Ethel Marie Ray.

Grandparents: Mary Susan Bowman & Thomas Jefferson Brummett

Great-grandparents: Nancy Agnes BUCK & Gardner Lee BOWMAN

Great-great-grandparents: Jonathan BUCK & Margaret Susannah MORELAND

I am particularly interested in a woman named Rhoda BUCK. She was the daughter of Jonathan and Susie BUCK. My father and his nieces and nephews remember “Aunt Rody” as an old woman who had “wonderful” stories about her life of sin. She told them about her first husband Bob CAROL / CARROLL, who rode with Jesse JAMES. We always thought the stories were just her own imagination but now I have found some proof that she may have been telling at least part truth. Rhoda later married Isaac WHISENHUNT, a man much older than she was.

Barbara Jean Brummett Teaster, 291 Laurel Bluff Rd. SW, Cleveland, TN 38311

Note from Nona: Information suggests that Jesse James’ ancestors were in Goochland Co., Virginia at the same time that the Morelands were there.





United States Census Records for 1840 and Earlier
Some State Census Records Included
Provided by Eldon J. Edgin, 14908 Woodbriar Dr., Dallas, TX 75248
Phone: (214) 991-4891 Fax: (214) 991-6873

Last Name                   First Name      Year    State                County                        Post Office      District

Grindstaff
Nicholas J.
1840
Tennessee
Johnson


86        Males: 2<5, 1 20-30 Females 1<5, 1 20-30

MORELAND
Adam
1810
Pennsylvania
Allegheny

P. 220
174      Males: 2 16-26, 1 26-45 Females 2<10, 1 16-26 MM#193,670

MORELAND
Adam
1820
Pennsylvania
Washington

P. 189a
254      Males: 2<10, 1>45, 1 26-45 Females 1<10, 3 10-16 , 1 26-45 AG#1 MM#181,417

MORELAND
Aden
1810
Ohio
Columbia

P. 035
175      1810 Tax List

MORELAND
Agnes
1810
Pennsylvania
Fayette

P. 112
176      Males: None Females: 1 16-26 MM#193,680

MORELAND
Alexander
1790
Pennsylvania
Fayette

P. 105
89        2 Males<16 and >60, 2 Females MM#874,193

MORELAND
Alexander
1800
Pennsylvania
Fayette

P. 514
127      Males 1<10, 1 16-26, 1 26-45, Females: 1 16-26 MM#363,341

MORELAND
Alexander
1800
Pennsylvania
Mercer

P. 453
128      Males 1 16-26 Females: None MM#363,342

MORELAND
Alexander
1810
Pennsylvania
Fayette

P. 112
177      Males 2<10, 1 26-45,  Females: 3<10, 1 26-45 MM#193,680

MORELAND
Alexander
1810
Virginia
Ohio

P. 010
235      Males 1<10, 1 10-16, 1 16-26, 1>45 Females: 2<10, 1 10-16, 1>45 MM#181,430
Spelling is Morland

MORELAND
Alexander
1820
Kentucky
Daviess

P. 020
255      Males 1 16-26, Females: 1 10-16 AG: 0 MM#186,181

MORELAND
Alexander
1820
Ohio
Miami

P. 074
256      Males 1<10, 1 10-16, 1 16-26, 1>45 Females: 2<10, 2 10-16, 1 16-26, 1 26-45 AG 1 MM#181,400

MORELAND
Alexander
1810
Pennsylvania
Mercer

P. 962
178      Males 3<10, 1 26-45 Females: 1 16-26 MM#193,678

MORELAND
Alexander
1820
Pennsylvania
Mercer

P. 185
257      Males 1<10, 1 10-16, 1 26-45 Females: 1<10, 1 16-26 MM#181,412 AG: 1

MORELAND
Amasa
1820
Maine
Cumberland

P. 397
258      Males 3<10, 1 26-45 Females: 1 10-16, 1 26-45 AG: 0 MM#218,237

MORELAND
Andrew
1820
Virginia
Amherst

P. 031
259      Males 1<10, 1 26-45 Females: 3<10, 1 16-26 AG:  0 MM#193,690

MORELAND
Anson
1840
Georgia
Gilmer

P. 005
375      Letter from Melba Hutchison dated 5 July 1990

MORELAND
Apnis
1800
Pennsylvania
Fayette

P. 516
129      Males 1<10, 1 10-16, 1 16-26  Females: 1<10, 1 10-16, 1>45 MM#363,141

MORELAND
Arnold
1792
Kentucky
Nelson

P. ?
126      Tax List for 1792 MM

MORELAND
Baptist
1820
Virginia
Frederick

P. 035
261      Males 1>45 Females: 1 16-26, 1>45 AG: 0 MM#193,697

MORELAND
Barrot
1790
North Carolina
Halifax

P. 061
90        2 Males 16 or 60, 2 Males 16-60, 3 Females, No Slaves MM#568,147

MORELAND
Barrot
1790
North Carolina
Halifax

P. 062
973      From CD-ROM, No twp listed  03 02 08 00 00

MORELAND
Barton
1810
Pennsylvania
Clermont

P. 034
179      Tax List MM

MORELAND
Basil
1810
Virginia
Hampshire

P. 006
236      Males: 1 26-45 Females: 2<10, 1 16-26 Spelling is Morland, MM#181,429

MORELAND
Bazaleel
1820
Ohio
Jefferson

P. 211
260      Males: 2<10, 1 26-45 Females: 3<10, 2 10-16, 1 26-45 AG: 1 MM#181,397

MORELAND
Beneny?
1830
Tennessee
Hawkins

P. 023
388      Letter from Melba Hutchison dated 5 July 1990 Males: 12001, Females 1000100001

MORELAND
Benjamin
1830
Tennessee
Hawkins

P. 025
385      Letter from Melba Hutchison dated 5 July 1990 Males: 1210001, Females 00011010001

MORELAND
Benjamin
1830
Tennessee
Hawkins

P. 025
369      Males: 1<5, 2 5-10, 1 10-15, 1 40-50 Females: 1 15-20, 1 20-30, 1 40-50, 1 80-90 MOR0193

MORELAND
Benony
1830
Tennessee
Hawkins

P. 023
370      Males: 1<5, 2 5-10, 1 10-15, 1 40-50 Females: 1<5, 1 20-30, 1 70-80 MOR0193

MORELAND
Betsey
1810
North Carolina
Lincoln

P. 326
180      Males: 2<10, 1 10-16 Females: 1<10, 1 26-45 MM#337,913

MORELAND
Brison
1820
Ohio
Hamilton

P. 191
262      Males: 1<10, 2 10-16, 1 26-45 Females: 2<10, 2 10-16, 1 16-26, 1 26-45 AG: 0 MM#181,393

MORELAND
Catherine
1840
Tennessee
Johnson


84        Males: 2  5-10, 1 10-15, 1 15-20 Females: 1<5, 1 5-10, 2 10-15, 1 15-20, 1 40-50

MORELAND
Celia
1810
Pennsylvania
Allegheny

P. 285
181      Males: 1  16-26 Females: 1<10-16, 1>45  MM#193,670

MORELAND
Charles
1798
Tennessee
Carter

P. 285
593      1798 Tax List Carter County. 1 White Poll (MOR0223)

MORELAND
Charles
1810
Pennsylvania
Allegheny

P. 285
182      Males: 3<10, 1 26-45 Females: 1<10, 1 26-45 MM#193,670

MORELAND
Charles
1820
Pennsylvania
Allegheny

P. 064
263      Males: 1<10, 1 10-16, 1 16-26 1>45 Females: 3<10, 1 10-16, 1 26-45 AG: 1 MM#181,403

MORELAND
Charles
1830
Tennessee
Carter

P. 19
27        Males: 1<5, 1 60-70 Females: 1 60-70 AG: 1 MM#181,403
Next door to Wright MORELAND, Duplicated in MOR0193

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