Joseph Nichols Echols^[1]

1736 - 1785  (49 years)

• Name	Joseph Nichols Echols
  Nickname	Moses
  Birth	1736	, Caroline, Virginia, USA
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1782	, Halifax, Virginia, USA   [2]
  Death	1785	, Halifax, Virginia, USA
  Person ID	I522	Master
  Last Modified	3 Nov 2015

  
  

  Father	Richard Echols,   b. 1706, Old Point Comfort, Hampton, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA d. 15 Jan 1778, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Catherine Caty Evans,   b. 1709, , Caroline, Virginia, USA d. 7 Sep 1766, , Halifax, Virginia, USA (Age 57 years)
  Marriage	1728	, , Virginia, USA
  Family ID	F127	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Betsy Wynne,   b. 1741, , Brunswick, Virginia, USA d. 8 Oct 1777, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA (Age 36 years)
  Marriage	1755	, Halifax, Virginia, USA
  Children	+ 1. Evans W Echols,   b. 1760, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 1819 (Age 59 years)  [Father: Natural]   2. Drucilla Echols,   b. 1763, , Halifax, Virginia, USA d. , Williams, Tennessee, USA   3. Tabitha A "Tabby" Echols,   b. 6 Sep 1764, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 3 Oct 1844, , Troup, Georgia, USA (Age 80 years)  [Father: Natural]   4. Betsy Echols,   b. 1767, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 1823, , , Georgia, USA (Age 56 years)  [Father: Natural]   5. Obediah Echols,   b. 1770, , , Virginia, USA d. 1835, , , Virginia, USA (Age 65 years)  [Father: Natural]   6. Lucinda "Lucy" Echols,   b. 1772, , Halifax, Virginia, USA d. 1837, , , Georgia, USA (Age 65 years)  [Father: Natural]   7. John Echols,   b. 1774, , Halifax, Virginia, USA d. Jul 1820, , Williamson, Tennessee, USA (Age 46 years)  [Father: Natural]
  Family ID	F6462	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Nov 2015

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1736 - , Caroline, Virginia, USA Marriage - 1755 - , Halifax, Virginia, USA Residence - 1782 - , Halifax, Virginia, USA Death - 1785 - , Halifax, Virginia, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  4th Virgina Regiment during War of 1812 Moses Echols son of Moses Nichols Echols and Elizabeth Wynne served in the Lynchburg Rifles of the 4th Virginia Regiment during the War of 1812. Richard Echols was the fifth son of English John Echols who married Caty Evans - he was my grandfather - and by her had fourteen children. Three died in infancy. The rest lived to raise families. Their first son was Moses who married Betsy Wynne. They raised a considerable family. Their first son was John who married Fanny Formby and moved from Virginia to Tennessee. I know but little of the family. He was a one-eyed man, he was very smart and had great property. Their second son was Obediah. He married Betsy Terry. He died at about 65 years of age. I know but little of his family, only one son who lives in the western district of Tennessee by name of Champness Terry Echols, a Baptist preacher. Moses third son was by name of Moses who married a Miss Terry - cousin to his brother Obediah's wife. I know nothing of his family. Their fourth son was by name of Evans who married Anna Terry, sister to his brother Moses wife. They live in Virginia. I know no more of their family. Old Moses daughters were by name of Rebecca, Priscilla, Tabitha, Betsy, Lucy and Frances. Rebecca married Edward Akin. I have no knowledge of their family. Priscilla married David Bates in Halifax County, a very large man who offered for the legislature in the county that he was born and raised in when he was about twenty-five years old. He got every vote that was given in the county and the county was very large. He continued to go to the legislature as long as he stayed in Virginia. He then moved to Georgia, Wilkes County. He became a representative of Wilkes County in Senate and was once appointed President Senate pro tem - you can see his name in the digest of the laws of Georgia. He became so fat that it was supposed by the doctors that his fat melted in him, killed him before he was sixty years old. He weighed nearly four hundred pounds. He raised his family in Wilks County, Georgia but after his death they moved to Tennessee. I have but little account of them since. He had one son named Randolph and one named Anderson. Of the rest I have no account only one daughter named Susanah who married James Johnson of Oglethorpe County. Old Moses third daughter Tabitha married Nathan Formby. He moved from Virginia to Georgia and died in Walton County. He raised four sons and several daughters. His sons were named Moses, Obediah and Nathan. The other I don't know the name of, he married a Miss Harvie in Newton County and died there. Moses and Obediah live in Newton County. They both have families but I don't know the name of either of their wives. Nathan lives in Alabama. I know not of his family. One of old Nathan's daughters married John Whitaker and one married Henry Nichols. One Israel Moore and one married a Mr. Park. I know nothing of the family. Old Moses fourth daughter Betsy married Marlin Farmer. I know no more of the family. His fifth daughter Lucy married Jonas Meadows and that's all I know about them. His sixth daughter Frances married a man by the name of Shelton. I have no account of them further. Information copied from: HISTORY OF ECHOLS FAMILY by MILNER ECHOLS 1850

  
  

• Sources

  [S761] Yates Publishing, Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=84360378&pid=41 [S36] Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp., Virginia, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.).