CORRECTION
Regarding Muster,
Vol. VI, #4, Fall 93, page 9: John
MORELAND’s
birth should be 11 June 1790 not 11 June
1791.
From Joseph Brumit.
QUERY
I have a ‘mystery’ MORELAND - Susan
MORELAND, born June 1846, Ohio and died before 1912 in London, Madison Co.,
Ohio. She married Marquis HALLAM in 1866, just after he returned from the Civil
War. I have quite a bit of data for the family after their marriage, but do not
know parents of Susan MORELAND.
Respond to Henrietta Nichols, 300 Greenglade Ave.,
Worthington, Ohio 43085
NEW SUBSCRIBER
I have recently started trying to do the genealogy on our
family. A relative that I have written to thinks that Pleasant MORELAND and Elias
MORELAND may have been our ancestors. As she has not
sent me any proof of this yet, I am not sure this is right.
James M. MORELAND’s
middle name may have been Marion, I
am sure about him and his wives and children but not of his ancestors.
The following is from Carol Blevins, 4400 East Side Road,
Ukiah, CA 95482, phone 707-462-9344:
Pleasant MORELAND died 1862 Dry Creek Twp., Gasconade Co.,
Missouri and Mary
Elizabeth BOYER born Virginia. (I am not sure these are the
right parents.) Children: James M.
MORELAND born 1850 Knoxville, Johnson Co., Arkansas or maybe Marion Co., Missouri; died 15 Feb. 1907 Quinton,
Pittsburg Co., Oklahoma married Flora
Amanda MATISON.
Note from Nona: Betty Ann Boyd, 5802 Bell Park, Amarillo, TX
79109 sent a lot of well documented information about these families which was
printed in this newsletter in Vol. VI, #2, Spring 93, pages 4-8.
CARTER CO.,
TENNESSEE
MORELAND FAMILIES
[Thanks to Eldon Edgin, 14908 Woodbriar Drive, Dallas, Texas
75248 for faxing the following information.]
Note from Eldon: Attached are some court records from Carter
County, Tennessee. Much of this probably
duplicates research done by Melba Hutchinson. Also included in this file are
records from letters from Granville W.
STOUT who married a daughter of Wright MORELAND.
Letters from Granville
W. STOUT to relatives in Carter County, Tennessee from
Barton County, Missouri. These letters are from the
Civil War Pension file of his widow Martha
C. CABLE STOUT. This letter was received from Dawn
Peters, Rt. 10, Box 1435, Elizabethton, Tennessee 37643:
In April 1856, Granville
W. W and Adaline MORELAND STOUT,
their family and other parties left Carter County to settle in Barton County,
Missouri. Granville was the son of Daniel and Sarah STOUT POTTER and a grandson of John and Mollie STOUT POTTER.
Mary Adaline was a daughter of Wright and Margaret MORELAND, maiden
name unknown. The parties separated in middle Tennessee because some decided to
go to Texas. Wright
MORELAND,
his wife Margaret and son James, died on their way to Texas.
Granville’s
family, except himself and two children, died in Missouri. Granville returned to Carter County where he remarried 10 October
1857, Martha C. CABLE,
and had three other children: Mary A.,
Manda and Daniel.
Granville served
in the 13th Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Calvary, Company G, during the Civil War.
Granville and his family are buried
in the Daniel STOUT Cemetery (named for his father) on the White
Oak Ridge section of Walnut Mountain.
The following letters from Granville to his family in Tennessee tell of the tragic ordeal the
family endured while in Missouri. These letters were found in the pension
records in Washington, DC where Martha
was filing for a Civil War pension. The spelling has been left as is. Some
punctuation has been added to denote sentences. Some words are unreadable and
followed by “?”.
Submitted by Dawn Peters.
Dear
Friends, one and all. I beg to be excused for not writing as I have not been
able since I settled in the state, either in mind or body. My body is so feble
and my mind not composed enough to do anything. A man promised me he would come
and wright some so he put off and never came. I got so uneasy knowing you all
wanted to hear from me till I concluded to do the best I could myself. I wrote
you a letter when I was in Middle Tennessee and I dont know wheather you got it
or not. Me and Wright MORELAND parted in Middle Tennessee. He went to Texes. Jim and Buck and I came out to Kansas. We went into the teritory and owing
to the confusion there we came out into this state. I would give you a precise
discription of the county though owing to my body being very feble and my mind
not conposed that have to affairs at until the present time. I will give you a
few items. South western Missouri is the pertyest country I ever saw. The land
is confined to the water courses which is from one half mile to one mile wide
and the balence prearea. The land is good and the pertyest country I ever saw.
The grass is beautiful which they cut for their stock anywhere on this side of
the town and their two year old cattle are larger than your four year olds.
They never feed their cattle till after Christmas and some times not then. The
grass rises early in the spring. Their heiffers have calves at two years old
and younger. Good cows are worth twenty dollars. Yearlings are worth from seven
to eight dollars. A great country for hogs and as to sickness with exception of
the chills they have no more sickness here than ther. Emigrants from the East
seame to suffer imensly with the chills untill they get climated. Those that
have been living here they hardly have them at all. As to the flucks it never
was in the neighborhood beoer. I thin it is a good country and my family was
all satisfied until the last.
So I must
come to a close. I doultful whether I get well or not though if I get able I
want start home about the last of February. Me and my two children. Then it
will take us about sever or eight weeks to get there if we should be so lucky
as to make the treck. I expect to come in a cargall(?). I want you to write me
a letter the hour you receive this and let me know how you all are and how you
are all doing and fail not to wriht immediately and direct you letter to Fort
Scot Kansas Teritory.
So give my
respect to all enquiring friends. Tell R.E.
CLAWSON I had Taylor
put away the same as my own family. Try and contrive Jim wont B??? Him? Where he make for I know he will be uneasy. Tell
Samuel DUGGER and family howdy for me. Now be shure and
wright for I may not be able to start at all. If I start I will send you a
letter so you make know that I am on the way. So fare you all well. Mother try
and hold out in the faith and I will try to be a partner with you. Tell my
brothers and sister to remember their creator God in the days of their youth.
G.W. STOUT
State of Missouri, Barton County
January the 29 Th. 1857
Dear Mother, Brothers and Sisters
I this
morning take the opertunity though with broken hear and feble hand to let you
know that there is a few of us in the land of the living. Myself, sarah Jane and Matison. Though the good mercy of our Savior who have saw fit to
perserve us. We are feble and not well by no means. We still have the fever and
chills. I am sometimes back and sometimes forware. So it seems like I can’t get
well. The children is perty much the same. I hope when these few lines come to
hand, the will find you all well and doing well. Now Mother, I will say
something to you about my desperate condition and bad luck witch causes me
great troubles and dissatisfaction in the first place. We was out three month
though had very good luck on the road. Nothing of perticular ocurance hapened
to us.
Will got us
to a house on the 16th day of June whitch I bought. The farms whitch was forty
acres and forth acres in cultivation, corn and oats. The buildings consisted of
two very good houses, dweling house and kitchen, good smoke house, ????house,
corn crib and tolerable stable good garden &c.
I a few
days I wen to spring Field to enter some more land whitch I entered two hundred
acres more. So I have bought two hundred and forty acres for seven hundred and
fifty dollars and is level and good about one-half timber and the other praria
in Barton Southern Missouri near the Kansas line. I think my farm would be
worth then thousand dollars in Tennessee or more. In a few days I returned from
Spring Field witch was about ninety miles east of where I live and in a few
days we all took the chills and fever witch we all had a sevier? As attact. So
on could not hardly help the other. We had to have a Doctor several times up
till October at witch tie we all took the flucks so I employed a general Doctor
and he could do any good so I sent thirty five miles and employed a Botanie?
Doctor. So the is three of us only remaining, Little William Lafayett died Wednesday October the 22nd. Taylor October the 23rd on Thursday
night and Louisa Isabella the 25th
on Saturday night. James Wilburn the
30th on Thursday morning. Mary Adaline
the 30th on Thursday morning. So it is with mutch difficulty one of us remains.
My blesed companion just before she departed this life bid fare well to all
those present in the house and esclaimed she was will to die for she would be
in the bosom of her blessed Jesus in a few minutes. So she left this world
rejoicing and willing to leave this world. Mother, what a great satisfaction
for one to leave the world in that hope I have no doubt but my family today is
in heaven enjoying the sweet comfort he has promised to all those that obey him
and c.
I am not
walla by no means nor do not know wheather I ever shall be or not. I can hardly
set up at this time attended on by a doctor. On the day Adaline and poor little James
was berryed, I moved about half a mile from where I have been ever since
where they treat me and my two little children very well are the neighbors are
sencrely good as I ever saw.
(Remainder
of letter not found)
Minutes of Court of Pleas and
Quarter Sessions
Carter Co., Tennessee
1804-1805
Page 1, Second Monday in February, 1804
Charles MORELAND appointed a hand on the public road
Page 38, Second Monday of February in the year of our Lord
1804 William MOORELAND appointed Juror to May session one thousand
eight hundred and four
Page 39 William
MOORELAND on Jury list
Page 102 August session 1804 Charles MOORLAND paid for two days as witness in the suit the
State Vs Adam RAINBOLT
Page 194 Ordered by the Court that Joseph TOMPKINS, Johnson BUMPTON and Charles
BAILEY be inspectors of the ensuing Election for the
eastern end of Carter County at the house of William MOORLAND on the first Thursday and the succeeding day
of August next
Page 212 Monday, August 12, 1805 Charles MOORELAND appointed hand on the public roads. William MOORELAND mentioned as hand on the public roads
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions,
Vol. 2
Carter County,
Tennessee 1819-1820
Page 2 Second Monday in February in the year of our Lord
1819, Ordered by the court that Peter
BULLINGER Junr
be appointed overseer of the public road in the room of Charles MOORLAND
Page 4 Ordered by the court that Michael SMITHPENDER,
Henry BULLINGER, Reubin COFFEE, Johnson HAMPTON, Lawson WHITE, John MILLER,
and Samuel WILSON be appointed a jury to view Marke and lay off
a publick road that John MOORELAND has opened through his land and report to the
next court
Page 66 Second Monday in August in the year of our Lord 1819
Charles MOORELAND appointed a Juror to November Session of 1819
Page 91 Tuesday November the 9th 1819 Jury, including Charles MOORELAND finds for plaintiff in case of A. WILLIAMS assignee Jas.
McNABB Vs. John
WRIGHT and Wm.
ELLIS
Page 94 Jury, including Chas.
MOORELAND find defendant not guilty in the state of
State Vs. James GAINES
Page 117, Second Monday in February Monday in February in
the year of our Lord 1820 A bill of sale from Sarah MOORLAND to Thomas
SIMPSON for a Negro girl named Mahaley acknowledged in open court and admitted to record, let it
be registered
Page 121 State Vs Sarah
MOORLAND Sarah
MOORLAND came into open court and acknowledged herself indebted to the
state of Tennessee in the sum of five hundred dollars. John WILSON and William
CLAWSON bail in the sum of two hundred and fifty
dollars each to be levied of their goods and also chattels lands and tenements
to be void on condition that the said Sarah
MOORLAND keep the peace toward the good people of the
state of Tennessee and especially towards Nickolas
GRINDSTAFF for or during the time of one year from the
date hereof.
Page 146 John
MOREFIELD to work on road [Should this be John MORELAND.]
Page 148 Thursday February the 17, 1820 Chas. MOORLAND to be Juror to the county court at August
court 1820
Page 157 W.M.
MORELAND served on jury in State Vs. Henry COOK which found defendant guilty
Page 164 State Vs. Elisha
BOWEN John
MOORLAND pros warrant and recognizance to keep the
peace on motion of the said Elisha
by Atto the proceedings are quashed and the prosecutor be taxed with cost
Page 164 State Vs. William
MOORLAND Elisha
BOWEN Pro trespass of assault and battery and the
said William being charged for plea
saith he is guilty therefore it is considered by the court that said William be fined five dollars and mercy
&c. Reuben COFFEE and Charles
MOORLAND acknowledges themselves bail for fine and
costs. Jno. WILSON, James W. CLAWSON and Cornelius
BOWMAN proves their attendance for two days each as
witnesses
Page 166 State Vs. Jno.
MOORLAND John
MOORLAND acknowledges himself indebted to the state in the sum of one
hundred dollars. Charles MOORLAND bail in fifty dollars to be levied of their
goods and chattels lands and tenements and void on condition that Jno. MOORLAND appear on Wednesday
before the court of please and quarter sessions towit, and stand to and abide
the judgment of sd court and not depart the court without leave
Page 170 Thursday May the 11th 1820
State Vs. John
MOORLAND
Elisha BOWEN prosecutor acknowledged himself in debt to the
state in the sum of one hundred dollars to be levied of his goods and chattels
lands and tenements void on condition that Sd Elisha BOWEN appear before the Justice of our court of please and
quarter sessions to be held for Carter County at the court house in
Elizabethton on the second Monday in August next towit, Tuesday second day said
sessions then and there to prosecute and give evidence in behalf of the state
against John MOORLAND
Page 171 State Vs. John
MOORLAND John MOORLAND ackd himself indebted to the state in the sum
of 100 dollars to be levied of his goods and chattels lands and tenements and
void on condition that Elisha BOWEN appear before the justice of our court of
pleas and quarter sessions to be held for Carter County ate court house in
Elizabethton on the second Monday in August next towit Tuesday second day of sd
session then and there to prosecute and give evidence on behalf of the state
State Vs. John
MOORLAND
John MOORLAND
ackd himself indebted to the State in the sum of 100 dollars Johnston HAMPTON bail in the sum of 50 dollars to be levied on
their goods and chattels lands and tenements and void on condition that John MOORLAND appear before the justice
of our court of please and quarter session to be held for Carter County at the
court house in Elizabethton on the second Monday in August next towit, Tuesday
second day said session then and there to answer to a plea of the state
Page 201 August 15, 1820 State Vs. John MOORLAND Assault
Charged plea not guilty and puts himself on the county Jury.
Chosen elected tried and sworn upon their oaths say do find the defendant not
guilty
Page 203 Wednesday August 16, 1820
State Vs John
MOORLAND
Elisha BOWEN prosecutor ordered by the court that the
prosecutor be taxed with costs of the prosecution and that said Elisha be in mercy, etc.
Page 203 Wednesday August 16, 1820
State Vs. John
MORELAND
Elisha BOWEN prosecutor ordered by the court that the
prosecutor be taxed with costs of the prosecution and that said Elisha be in mercy, etc.
State Vs. Jean
MOORLAND
Elisha BOWEN prosecutor and the defendant being charged for
pleas saith she is guilty therefore it is considered by the court that the said
Jean MOORLAND be fined one cent. John MOORLAND comes into court and assumes the fine and cost
therefore it is considered by the court that the state recover over against the
said John the aforesaid fine and
costs and the said John be in mercy,
etc.
Page 206 John
MOORLAND on Jury in case of Samuel McALISTER Vs. Joseph
COOPER Andrew TAYLOR find for plaintiff
Page 207 Wm. MOORLAND on jury in case of Robert PRESTON and Son Vs. Richard B. HUN finds for plaintiff
Page 210 Wm. MOORLAND
and John MOORLAND on Jury in case of Robert PRESTON and Son Vs. John RASON find for plaintiff
Page 211 William
MOORLAND and John MOORELAND on Jury in case of Robert PRESTON and Son Vs. Daniel BRADLEY finds plaintiff
Page 212 Wm. MOORLAND and John
MOORLAND on jury in case of William P. CHESTER assignee Vs. John WARD find for plaintiff
Page 213 Wm. MOORLAND on jury in case of A.M. CARTER, S. TIPTON and William
B. CARTER Vs. Thomas TIPTON
finds for plaintiff
Page 224 State Vs Jean
BOWEN Continued on Affd of defendant
Ordered by the court that Jean BOWEN be in custody of the sheriff until said Jean give recognizance to appear before
the justice of our court of pleas and ___ to be held for Carter county on the
second Monday Novr next Tuesday second day sd session then and there to answer
to a plea of the state [Was Jean BOWEN
possibly the former Jean MORELAND mentioned above and a daughter of Charles MORELAND?]
Page 225 State Vs. Jean
BOWEN
Charles MOORLAND pros acknowledges himself in debt to the state
in the sum of one hundred dollars to be levied on his goods and chattels lands
and tenements and void on condition that said Charles appear before the justice of our court of Please and
quarter sessions to be held for Carter county on the second Monday in Novr next
towit Tuesday second day said session then and there to give evidence and
prosecute on behalf of the state against Jean
BOWEN
State Vs. Jean BOWEN
Elijah BOWEN acknowledged himself in debt to the state in
the sum of one Hundred dollars Thol. D.
LOVE and John
A. AIKEN in the sum of fifty dollars each to be levied
of their goods and chattels lands and tenements and void on condition that Jean BOWEN appear before the justice of
our court of please and quarter sessions to be held for Carter county in
Elizabethton on the second Monday in November next then and there to answer to
a plea of the state and stand to and abide by the judgment of sd Court and not
depart the same without leave
Page 231 Friday August the 18, 1820
Ordered by the court that William MORELAND be appointed overseer of the public road in
the room of Peter BOLINGER removed from DUGGERs Ford on Watuga River to Valentine VANHOSEs
then up the roans Creek road to BRADLEY’s
Ford on sd creek and the hands formerly work under peter BOLINGER be the hands to work under sd MORELAND on sd road.
W. CARTER
J. HAMPTON
J. KEYS
Page 232 A deed of
conveyance from William MORELAND to Julius
DUGGAR for eight acres of land proven in open court
by James LACY and ordered to be continued for the profit of Wm. SMITH the other subscribing witness
Page 244 Wednesday November 14, 1820
State Vs. Jane BOWEN
Elisha BOWEN, Thomas D. LOVE and John
HICKS bail of Jane
BOWEN being solemnly called to bring into court the body of Jane BOWEN, Came not but made default
therefore it is considered by the court that the said Elisha BOWEN, Thomas D. LOVE and John H. HICKS forfeit the amount of their recognizance towit Elisha BOWEN in the sum of one hundred
dollars and Thomas D. LOVE and John H. HICKS each in the sum of fifty
dollars unless sufficient cause by shown at next court
Page 248 State Vs. Charles
MOORLAND
Elisha BOWEN being
sworn upon his oath saith that he is afraid his life will be taken by the said Charles MOORLAND or some great bodily
harm will be done therein by said MOORLAND
and the said Charles being then in
open court it is therefore ordered that the said Charles (page 249) give security to keep the peace towards the said
Elisha and the good people of the
state for three months or be in custody of the sheriff until he gives security
Page 249 State Vs. Charles
MOORLAND
Charles MOORELAND acknowledges himself indebted to the state in
the sum of one hundred dollars and Moses
HUMPHREYS bail in the sum of fifty dollars be levied of
their goods and chattels lands and tenements and void on condition that the
said Charles MOORLAND keep the peace
towards Elisha BOWEN and the good people of the state of Tennessee
for the term of three months
Page 250 A deed of conveyance from Sarah MOORLAND, John MOORLAND, Thomas SIMPSON and James
LLOYD to Julius
DUGGAR for fifty acres of land proven in open court
by Elisha BOWEN one of the subscribing witnesses John MILLER
to be continued
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