Thrifty Thursday: Wake County, NC Records

Facts to know when researching your ancestors in Wake County:

• Formed in 1771 from parts of Cumberland, Johnston, & Orange Counties 
• 1787 some parts of Wake were taken for the formation of Franklin County
• 1881 & 1911 some parts were taken for the formation of Durham County

Wake County Records available online

late 1700s to 1800s

1770s - late 1800s Deeds
1772-1881 Bastardy Bonds
1781 Wake Tax List (partial)
1785-present Land Deeds & Real Estate Records
1789 Wake Tax List
1799- early 1900s Wake County Deaths

1799-1893 Marriage & Death Notices

1800s to present Wake County Obituaries

late 1800s to early 1900s

1872-1944 Wake & Raleigh Directories

1899-1900 Raleigh City Directory

1891 Farmers & Landowners

1905/1907 Wake County Public Schools Biennial Report

General Links:

• Wake County Wikipedia article
• Wake- ncgenweb 
• Oakwood Confederate Burial Index
• Revolutionary & Military Service

Thankful Thursday: Census Images on Heritage Quest

I'm thankful for several things today--

#1 Census Images--because they allow you to see a spatial relationship between two or more families

#2 Heritage Quest-- I love Ancestry.com, but I don't have a subscription right now, so instead I use my local libraries access for Heritage Quest. Having more than one place to find census images is also useful because transcriptions are different on the two sites, so a road block on one might not be present on the other.

I was especially thankful earlier this week while I was writing & "updating" Matrilineal Monday: The Daughters of Frances Buffaloe & Larkin Wood. I hated connecting the daughters to their husbands based off of the single marriage records I found on FamilySearch.org.

What if there was more than one Fannie Wood and I was chasing after the wrong one?!?! But lo and behold, I found an image that subsided some of my fears--one that had several of the families I was researching all on one page.

There are at least FOUR connected families on this one page (and possibly more just from my cursory glance at the other surnames on the page):

Image of Ervin Mann & Hattie Wood Mann (daughter of Fannie Wood).

Image of William Castleberry & his children. Two months after the census is recorded he will go on to marry Minnie Wood (shown in image below).

Image of Fannie Wood and several of her unmarried children: Minnie, Rena, Lena, and Kelso. 

Image of William Hunter, his wife Fannie Wood Hunter (daughter of Fannie Wood), their children, and William's mother & sister. 

These images come from the
1900 United States Census; Series: T623, Roll: 1221, Page: 284
White Oak Township, Wake County, North Carolina
Enumeration District: 153, Sheet No. 22B

Wordless Wednesday: 96 years old

Grandma Edna: "Can we just say I'm 100 today?"

Tombstone Tuesday: Kelso K. & Burlena M. Wood

My Great-Great- Grandparents:


Kelso Kedron WOOD 
b. 7 Mar 1882
d. 10 Nov 1931
Parents: Larkin H. WOOD & Frances BUFFALOE

Burlena "Lena" MURRAY
b.5 Dec 1880
d.15 Jul 1961)
Parents: James H. MURRAY & Sarah Ann HUNTER

Married on 25 Dec 1904 in Wake County, North Carolina


Tombstone Location: Swift Creek Baptist Church Cemetery in Wake County, North Carolina

Surname Saturday: A Week of Celebrating the Wood Family

Today I am celebrating my great-grandmother's 96th birthday with family. To honor her, my oldest living relative, I will dedicate this weeks posts all to her ancestry.

Wood

mainly a topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood or a metonymic occupational name for a woodcutter or forester, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu).

nickname for a mad, eccentric, or violent person, from Middle English wod ‘mad’, ‘frenzied’ (Old English wad), as in Adam le Wode, Worcestershire 1221.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

James Wood (4th Great-Grandfather)

b. abt. 1800 in North Carolina 

m. 19 Feb 1822 to Thursey/Thiresy/Theresy in Wake County, NC

children: 

1. James Wood (abt. 1828) 
2. Mars Wood (abt 1831)
3. Larkin H. Wood (abt 1833)
4. Archibald Wood (abt 1836)
5. Mary Wood (abt 1839)

Larkin Henry Wood (3rd Great-Grandfather)

b. 1833 in North Carolina

m. 26 Feb 1861 to Frances Buffaloe in Wake County, NC

d. between 1882-1900

children: 

1. Thursey A. Wood (abt 1862)
2. Calie V. Wood (27 Sept 1864- 11 Jan 1928)
3. Ella F. Wood (30 Dec 1865-21 Sept 1940)
4. Francis Wood (abt 1868- 3 Feb 1950)
5. Anna C. Wood (31 Jul 1871-22 Apr 1917)
6. Minie Wood (May 1873)
7. Hattie Wood (abt 1876)
8. Nelly G. Wood (abt 1878)
9. Tena May Wood (15 Jun 1879)
10. Rena Rey Wood (15 Jun 1879- 20 Aug 1916)
11. Kelso Kedron Wood (7 Mar 1882-10 Nov 1931)

Kelso Kedron "K K" Wood (2nd Great-Grandfather) 

b. 7 Mar 1882 in North Carolina

m. to Burlena Murray

d. 10 Nov 1931

children:

1. Murry Wood (abt. 1906)
2. Cullen Wood (abt 1907)
3. Elberta Wood (abt 1908 4 Dec 1907- 19 Nov 1986)
4. Jackson Wood (8 Mar 1909- 18 Apr 1989)
5. Allen Wood (abt 1911)
6. Exum Wood (abt 1912 26 Sep 1912- 30 May 1991)
7. Evelyn Wood (abt 1913)
8. Ruth Wood (1 Nov 1913-28 Dec 1968)
9. Edna Wood (13 Aug 1915)
10. Larkin Henry Wood (11 Dec 1916- 9 Jan 1993)
11. Francis Wood (abt 1918)
12. Kelso Kedron Wood Jr (14 Apr 1921- 17 Mar 1994)
13. Arline Wood (abt 1925)

Edna Wood (Great-Grandmother)

b. 13 Aug 1915

m. 13 Feb 1937 to Marvin Edwards

children:

• 7 living
• 2 deceased

My "Heritage Pie Chart"

I first stumbled upon the "Heritage Pie Chart" idea on Are You My Cousin?... and found further information on the premises at My Tapley Tree... and its Branches: Saturday Night Genealogy Fun. So I thought I would give it a try- first with my 16-great-great-grandparents. I do want to note that because of "bad sentiments" towards two of my great-great-grandparents, no one in the family will tell me their names, but I have been working on my grandmother to get her brother to tell me...so hopefully someday I'll be able to add them in.

First I looked at origin by country

HA! No surprise here... thoroughly American.

So I wanted to see if there was any variety in origin by State:

James Walter Stevens, Jr., casualty WWII

James Walter Stevens, Jr.was born October 1923 in North Carolina to parents James Walter Stevens, Sr. and Essie Thompson Stevens. By the age of 6 James W. Jr. was motherless and lived with his father, brothers and sister, aunts and uncles, and his grandparents, Charles E. Stevens & Katie P. Stevens. On the 23rd March 1943, at the age of 19, James Jr. enlisted. He was a private in Company A, 117th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division and was killed in action in WWII on 19 December 1944. In his less than two years in service James received the purple heart & combat infantryman badge. His death occured in the beginning days of the Battle of the Bulge, and he was buried at the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery in Henri-Chapelle, Belgium.

Allen/Cawthorn Family Record

I found this in my great grand uncle, Uriel Powell's genealogy research. I do not know where this came from, if it is an original or if it was made by Uriel. Transcribed by K. Stevens, click on images for a larger image.

John Brent was born in Charlotte Co., VA
Margarett Brent his wife was born in Prince Edward Co., VA
James Brent their son was born 2nd July 1763
Polly Brent their daughter was born 27th Dec 1788
Julia A. Brent their daughter was born 9th April 1791

James Cawthorn and Harriett Heflin his wife were reared in Granville Co, NC
Archibald L. Cawthorn their son and Ann Elizabeth Nipper of Wake Co, NC were married in 1841
John W. Cawthorn their son was born 3rd Oct 1843
John W. Cawthorn and Cornelia E. Allen were married 25th Oct 1868
John W. Cawthorn died 14 March 1901

Charles Allen and his wife Elizabeth were born in Prince Edward, VA
Edward C. Allen their son was born 18 March 1783
Edward C. Allen and Julia A. Brent were married 17 Dec 1807
James E. Allen their son was born 10 Mar 1810 VA
Elizabeth was born 4 May 1812 VA
Emeline H. Allen was born 10 Jan 1816 VA
Charles P. Allen was born 17 July 1818 VA
David B. Allen was born 28 June 1820 VA
William N. Allen was born near Corinth, NC 18 Feb 1822
Benjamin S. Allen was born 11 July 1824
Mary C. Allen was born 18 Feb 1827
Martha A. Allen was born 21 Dec 1829

Walter Lewis Cawthorn (son of John W. & Cornelia E. Cawthorn) was born 16 July 1869
Charles Brent Cawthorn was born 8 July 1871
Pattie Elliott Cawthorn was born 1 April 1874

William Montague was born in Granville Co, NC died in 1844 age 45 years
Barbara Cook his wife was born in Franklin Co, NC died 1870
David Brent Allen and Mary Ann Montague were married 24 Dec 1844
Cornelia E. Allen their daughter was born 24 July 1847
Mary B. Allen was born 18 Dec 1849
William E. Allen was born 22 April 1851
Cordelia A. Allen was born 22 April 1853
Flora A. Allen was born 20 Feb 1855
Martha E. Allen was born 4 May 1856
Anna B. Allen was born 25 Oct 1860