Jeremiah White

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• Residence: May 1788, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Notes:

William White, land transactions, Pittsylvania Co, VA 1792

[per jeremiah's will, this was, "purchased from Hugh Charles being a moiety of land which is to be equally divided between me and the orphans of Mr. Conway?s for which I obtained a certificate dated 6 March 1780"]

type: grant
ref: CGB 25:607
date: 8 Feb 1792
to: Christopher Connaway orphan of James Connaway Deceased
con A.C. £1.S15 Sterl.
by: Survey 1 Aug 1788
re: 340a Pittsylvania/ on the Branches of Sandy Cr.
location: 19250 30735 F127 L0 P255
pt A) at William Whites crnr. ptrs. in Benjamin Hardys line
ln S70E; 90P; Benjamin Hardy
pt B) p.
ln n38e; 244p; George Hardy
pt C) sp.o.
ln N37W; 90P; Lewis, xg a br.
pt D) p.
ln N; 95P; xg a br.
pt E) post oak crnr. in Benjamin Terrys line
ln S86W; 150P; Benjamin Terry
pt F) w.o.
ln s6w; 320p; William Whites new Dividing line

type: grant
ref: CGB 25:593
date: 25 Feb 1792
to: William White
con A.C. £1.S15 Sterl.
by: Survey 2 Aug 1788
re: 350a Pittsylvania/ on the branches of Sandy Creek
location: 17310 28735 F127 L0 P255
pt A) at Francis Wisdoms crnr. Sp.o.
ln S47.5W; 212P; Francis Wisdom, xg a Br.
pt B) r.o.
ln S59.5W; 44P; xg the Road
pt C) a branch
!& th. running up the sd branch as it Meanders 90P to
lm s20e; 90P; [est dir] up a br.
pt D) the fork
lm ; 96p; up the left fork of the sd Br.
pt E) w.o. on the same off a new line
ln S; 60P;
pt F) Mark Cheltons [Sheltons] crnr. p.
ln S83E; 168P; Mark Shelton, xg the road & 2 forks of a Br.
pt G) Ben Hardys crnr. p.
ln N7W; 116P; Ben Hardy
pt H) r.o.
ln N32.5E; 114P; xg a br.
pt I) p. in the sd Whites former line
ln N24W; 32P; sd White
pt J) p.
ln N4W; 162P;

type: grant
ref: CGB 25:595
date: 25 Feb 1792
to: William White
con A.C. £1.S15 sterl.
by: survey 1 Aug 1788
re: 340a Pittsylvania/ on the Branches of Sandy Creek
location: 17334 28483 F127 L0 P255
pt A) at Kennons crnr. Beech now Francis Wisdoms
ln S4E; 28P; Kennon, now Francis Wisdoms
pt B) sp.o.
!th. a new line the same course continued 162P to
ln s4e; 162p;
pt C) p.
ln S24E; 32P;
pt D) p. in Benjamin Hardys line
ln N30E; 60P; Benjamin Hardy, xg a br.
pt E) p.
ln S70E; 150P;
pt F) ptrs.
ln n6e; 320p; new line
pt G) w.o. in Benjamin Terrys line
ln S86W; 150P; Benjamin Terry, xg a br.
pt H) sd Terrys crnr.
!in the sd William Whites former line
!& th. along the same
ln S18W; 56P; sd William White
pt I) ptrs.
ln S65W; 71P; xg a br.

Excerpt from "Pittsylvania's Eighteenth Century Grist Mills" by Herman Melton

page 102-105
JEREMIAH WHITE: PATRIARCH MILLER ON SWEETING'S FORK
Three Sweeting brothers entered grants of land along the Banister River in 1748. It was from these early settlers that Sweden's Fork, as the waterway is now called, got its name. Jeremiah White called it "Sweeting Fork, a branch of Sandy Creek," when he wrote his will in April of 1788. This branch heads up on the south slope of White Oak Mountain near Chestnut Level. It is the mniddle branch of the creek and is joined by John's Run at a point a few hundred yards from its confluence with Sandy Creek of the Banister. This location is approximately three miles southeast of the village of Spring Garden.

Some distinguished patriots of the Revolution lived along the banks of Sweeting Fork. Among them were Nathaniel Terry, who was a member of the Pittsylvania County Militia during the Revolution. His father, Benjamin, lived on Sweeting's Fork, and Nathaniel may have been born there. Colonel Robert Williams had holdings on that branch also. In the Colonel's property was a grist mill and over five thousand acres of land. Williams was one of the most prominent Pittsylvania County patriots during the Revolution. Since he was a lawyer before the founding of the county, and a planter with enormous wealth, milling was not his chief pursuit. Nevertheless, Patsy, one of his daughters, married into a milling family when she married John Henry, one of the owners of Henry's Mill on the Sandy Creek of the Banister.

From the sale of inherited land by Jeremiah's son William, the historian learns that Matthew Clay, who served in the Virginia House of Delegates and in the United States Congress, was a neighboring landowner. Although Clay was a distinguished public servant, who was at least partly responsible for the founding of the Town of Danville at Wynne's Falls, his career was overshadowed by that of Henry Clay of Kentucky who descended from the same family.

Jeremiah White moved to the Sweeting's Fork area from Dinwiddie County in 1778. He filed a petition to erect a grist mill on the waterway in August of 1782 -- "he being the owner of the land on both sides." The move was made during the Revolution, and that would have been the most difficult of times. Jeremiah was in declining years by this time, but county records show that a Jeremiah White served as a member of the County Militia during the Revolution. He was to die ten years later, but managed to accumulate 2108 acres of land on six tracts in the county, most of which was presumably on Sweeting's Fork. He left the use of his land to his wife and named sons William and Jeremiah as Executors.

County records show Jeremiah White to be a very prominent citizen. He was commissioned First Lieutenant of the Militia in the County and took the Oath of Allegiance in October of 1780. White was a charter member of Pittsylvania Lodge No. 24, of the Order of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons when it was constituted on September 15, 1788. He was named Justice of Peace in 1780, and qualified as Coroner on March 15, 1787. It was common practice in the early days for prominent men in the communities to qualify as Deputy Sheriff. Jeremiah White did likewise on May 16, 1786.

His son, Jeremiah Jr., rose to the rank of Captain in the Militia in 1794 before being elected to the office of Commisioner of Revenue in 1798.

Old Jeremiah was one of the landed people who owned slaves and was sometime granted exemption from paying property taxes on them. From County Court records, it appears that slaveowners were often exempted thusly when they furnished "tithables" (laborers in this case) for the buildling and repairing of roads, bridges, public buildings, etc.

A Jeremiah White diary would make interesting reading. However, as is the case with the histories of most of the early pioneers, there is a paucity of records. Even so, there is at least one trait which characterizes Jeremiah White. He wa a loyal family man who loved his children and went to any extreme to be fair. This assessment is based on the wording in his will. One can see the effort he went to in trying to divide his estate equally among his heirs.

There were eight children in Jeremiah and Jane White's family. One was a daughter who married a prominent county leader, politician, planter, businessman and miller known as Col. Clark. William Clark. He lived some seven miles east of Competition in the elegant high columned home he called "Pineville", near the Banister River. His wife was the daughter of a miller, married a miller, and gave birth to a daughter who married a miller. The daughter, Lettice, married Col. Leonard Claiborne who applied to build two mills in the county during the late 1820s and early 1830s. One was on "Sawyer's Mill Creek" and one was on Burch Creek. It is known that he operated one of them for awhile, since the name "Claiborne's Mill" appears on a batteaux manifest of the Roanoke Navigation Company during the 1830s. It was not unusual to find three generations of millers in one family in Pittsylvania County during the 19th cCentury.

Jeremiah White's will was written on April 28, 1788. The will included the following dispositions of his property:

A. He left the use of his "Manner" (manor) house to his wife, Jane, for her natural life "to enable her to educate my younger children." He left seven slaves to her and the use of all land and slaves bequeathed to younger children until they "become of age".

B. One half interest in a tract of land was mentioned. It was a parcel he acquired in an agreeement in which he was to share ownership with the "Conway orphans." This was a strange arrangement which defies understanding.

C. The share of any living child who preceded him in death was to be divided equally among all living children upon his (Jeremiah's) death.

D. He defined the boundaries of the land each child was to receive. This provision gives historians the identity of his neighbors which included the aforementioned families of Terry, Clay and Williams.

E. There was a division of some four hundred acres in Charlotte County.

The disposition of the grist mill became the most interesting and poignant provision in the will. He driected that interest in it should be divided equally between "my two sons, William and Jeremiah, to them and their heirs forever, subject to the following encumbrances, to Wit: As my children have laboured hard with me in assisting to build said mill, I am desirous to give them some privilege therein, but hope this privilege may never become a bone of contention between them, but as a recompence for their labour and dutiful behaviour. It is my will and desire that all my children be entitled for their own families to grind their grain to be free and they bare an equal share of all expenses in keeping the said mill in repair." He also directed that ten acres of land be set aside for the mill.

This will, one of the most carefully crafted wills in early Pittsylvania County history, was proven on May 19, 1788 -- a mere fortnight before the Virginia Constitution Ratification Convention in Richmond. Col. Robert Williams, one of his closest neighbors, was duly elected, in the March past, to be one of Ptittyslvania's two delegates to the convention.

Old Jeremiah tried painfully hard to divide land, slaves, personal effects and household goods equaillly among his heirs. The provisions covering the ownership and operation of the grist mill after his passing are unique in that all were to share in its upkeep and all were to share in its output.

The inference from the reading of the will is that it was a closely knit family which was kept that way by a stern but caring and considerate patriarchal father. The provisions in the deed indicate that he was an impeccably honest man also.

The mill property was buried in tax records as ordiinary acreage with assessed value and all of White's property stayed in his name until after the probation of his estate. Its final disposition is obscured by settlement of the estate and by missing, or non-existant. There is no reason to believe that it was as successful a mill operation as was that of his son-in-law William Clark on the Banister. Perhaps it was largely a plantation mill since there were many slaves in the White fields and a large personal family in the manor house to feed. It is believed that it stayed in the White family for an extended period, since no record of the sale of it was found in county archives.

The records concerning the fate of the remaining White property are confusing. Some heirs begin selling property as soon as their mother departed this life. However, one cannot judge their successes or failures on land transactions and tax records alone. Furthermore, the new nation was to endure at least two of its worst financial panics during the next half century. Failures were not always the fault of the property owner, but were frequently the direct results of distant events and forces beyond the control of local citizens.

Present day Jeremiah White descendants believe they know the location of the mill site because of some stone formations, etc.

The story of Jeremiah White's Mill affords the best example of a family run mill wherein everybody worked and everybody shared in the output. This arrangement worked during Jeremiah White's lifetime because he appeared to have been every inch the "Patriarch of Sweetings Fork". All unanswered questions aside, he deserves having this title applied to him in 1988 -- the bicentenial of his passing.

Jeremiah married Jane in 1752 in , Halifax, Virginia, USA. Jane died in 1782. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jeremiah married Jane Shelton on 11 Mar 1784 in , Albemarle, Virginia, USA. Jane (daughter of Crispen Shelton and Letitia Buford) was born in 1750 in , Amelia, Virginia, USA; died in 1845. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

PITTSYLVANIA CO., VA - CEMETERIES – Clark Cemetery

Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection
LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Clark graveyard:1937 Mar. Research made by Mabel Moses
Cemetery Location: 6 miles northeast of Chatham, Virginia, on Route #691, on the south corner of the intersection of Routes #691 and #649 at “Pineville” the home of D.H. Crawley.

DATE:1820.
OWNERS:William Clark
D. H. Crawley 1838

DESCRIPTION:
This family burying ground is situated about 25 yards from the old home of William Clark, known as “Pineville”, and is enclosed by an iron fence. To the right after entering the gate there lies buried William Clark and wife Jane in one tomb overcovered by a tall brick wall with a flat slab thereon, from which it reads as follows:

Sacred to the memory of Col. William Clark
Born on the 3rd January 1759
Died April 2nd, 1827

Sacred To the memory of Mrs. Jane Clark a member of the Presbyterian Church
Born 20th May 1792
Died 23rd April 1839

Sacred to the memory of Gen. Thos. H. Clark
Born 3rd Dec’r 1786
Died 9th Nov’r 1829

Sacred to the memory of Martha Jane infant daughter of Dr. A. and May J. Wade
Born 14th Sept. 1835
Died 14th Oct. 1837

Sacred to the memory of Col. Wm. S. Clark
Born 22nd January 1791
Died 26th Nov. 1820
A good man is rather to be chosen than great riches.

Sacred to the Memory of William David infant son of Wm. and Maud W. Clark
Born 8th April 1819
Died 20th Nov’r 1819

Sacred to the memory of Jane Augustine Stone adopted daughter of Mary & Has. Garland
Born ____
Died ____

Sacred to the Memory of David Clark Infant son of Dr. John W. & Mary G. Wilson
Born 6th November 1855
Died 6th April 1856

Sacred to the Memory of The infant daughter of David H. and Martha M. Clark
Born dead 5th Nov. 1828

Mary C. Fowlkes
Born July 1808
Died March 1837

Sacred to the Memory of Nancy Weatherford Consort of Chas. A. Weatherford
Who died Oct. 31st 1840

Sacred to the Memory of Rev. Chas. A. Weatherford
Born 15th March 1785
Died 12th Oct. 1846

Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. E. C. Clark
Died Oct. 15, 1884
in the 74th year of her age
Blessed are the dead, which die in the Lord

John A. Clark
Born 3rd March 1806
Died the 15th January 1845
An honest man, the noblest work of God

Sacred to the Memory of Virginia R. Clark daughter of J.A. and E.C. Clark
Born 19th Nov. 1840
Died 30th March 1850

In Memory of David H. Clark
Born April 8th, 1798
Died April 234th, 1861
in the 63rd year of his age

In Memory of Martha M. Clark wife of David H. Clark
Born Sept. 5th 1810
Died December 12, 1860
in the 51st year of her age

Family/Spouse: William Howson Clark, Col. William (son of Thomas Clark and Phoeba Howson) was born on 3 Jan 1759 in , Prince Edward, Virginia, USA; died on 2 Apr 1827 in Pineville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In March 1781 the entire county militia of Pittsylvania County Va was drafted for the battle of Guilford Courthouse. The Virginia Militia made up the second line of defense at the Guilford Courthouse battlefield. The main body of the
British hit the American second line where the Virginians gave a good account of themselves. They finally had to withdraw in an orderly fashion. Many military historians comment on the outstanding performance of the Virginian Militia. Cornwallis won the battlefield at a terrible cost, turning his cannons on his own men during hand to hand combat.

Campanies of Militia marched from Pittsylvania County in September 1781, and the one commanded by Captain Charles Hutchings rendezvoused at Stoney Hill (in Pittsylvia County), and marched directly to Yorktown.

References: Pension records, James Brayhill (S32136), Elisha Collins (S10463), David Irby, John Harris, Virginia Militia, Revolutionary War, J.T. McAllister.

source: http://www.genfan.com/getperson.php?personID=I476&tr ee=MASTER

Notes:

The History of Pittsylvania County, Virginia - Maud Carter Clement

page 210
"Another custom of colonial days that was retained under our Republican form of government was that of having each county organized for military defense. The following order for processioning gives the militia companies in the county at the time:

"At a court held for Pittsylvania County, June 1803, it is ordered that the following persons do Procession Lands in their respective Precincts, between the 1st day of October and the 30th of March next:

"...Jeremiah White and Gardner Mays in said White's Company of Militia... William White and Washington Thompson in John White's Company of Militia..."

page 218
"In their need of higher education for their children the citizens of the county established in 1802 an academy about six miles east of the courthouse on Banister River, which was known as Banister Academy. In response to a petition from the inhabitants, the General Assembly enacted in December 1802, that, 'Thomas H. Wooding, Edmund Tunstall, William Tunstall, Edmund Fitzgerald, Allen Womack, Thomas B. Jones, John Adams, jun., Armistead Shelton, John White, William Wimbish, Edward Robertson, Samuel Calland, William Clark, Moses Hutchings, William White, Joseph Carter, John Smith, James M. Williams, and Rawley White shall be and are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the names of the Trustees of Banister Academy, with power to take and hold any estate for use of the Academy."

Jeremiah married Lettice Shelton in Aug 1791 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Lettice (daughter of Abraham Shelton and Chloe Robertson) was born on 17 Dec 1773 in , Amelia, Virginia, USA; died on 10 Oct 1850 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married Phillip Lightfoot Grasty on 29 Oct 1812 in , , Virginia, USA. Phillip (son of George Grasty and Ann Lightfoot) was born in 1775 in , Orange, Virginia, USA; died in 1827 in , , Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1860, Laurel Grove, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Letitia married Leonard Claiborne in 1819 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Leonard (son of Richard Henry Claiborne and Mary Cook) was born in 1791 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; died on 5 Aug 1858 in Mont Blanc, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Family/Spouse: Martha Maria Clark. Martha (daughter of John Randall Clark and Elizabeth Wright) was born on 5 Sep 1810 in , Patrick, Virginia, USA; died on 12 Dec 1860 in Pineville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1820, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1830, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1 Jun 1840, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1860, Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1870, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Mary married George Fackler on 4 Sep 1810 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. George (son of Michael Fackler and Helfina Eleanora Schreyack) was born on 10 Jan 1785 in Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, USA; died on 29 Mar 1875 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1820, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1830, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1840, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1860, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1870, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Abraham married Martha Patsey Hardy on 10 Dec 1819 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Martha was born in 1805 in , Lunenburg, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Jane married William Henry Wooding on 27 Sep 1831. William was born on 23 Jan 1806 in , , Virginia, USA; died on 23 Nov 1872 in Danville, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1900, Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Mary married John Willis Wilson, Jr on 20 Dec 1854 in Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. John was born on 30 Aug 1827 in , Cumberland, Virginia, USA; died on 29 Jun 1901 in Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1860, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1870, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Lettice married John W Chism on 16 Nov 1830 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. John was born on 22 Nov 1807; died in Oct 1839 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lettice married Robertson Lipford on 22 Nov 1848 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Robertson (son of Daniel Lipford and Elizabeth "betsey" Robertson) was born in 1814 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; died on 27 Sep 1882 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1860, Pleasant Gap, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

George married Elizabeth H Carter on 6 Nov 1839 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Elizabeth was born on 1 Mar 1816 in , , Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, Danville, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1860, , Stokes, North Carolina, USA
• Residence: 1870, Richmond, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA

Helena married Saunders Slate on 15 Nov 1837 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Saunders (son of Abraham Slate and Lucy Gaines) was born on 22 Sep 1815 in , Halifax, Virginia, USA; died on 22 Aug 1858 in Danville, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1860, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1900, Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Notes:

Thomas Giles Cemetery, Pittsylvania County, VA

Located on private property of Harry Lee Demott, 2756 Concord Road. This cemetery is about 0.4 miles down a dirt road, off West Giles Road, off Concord Road, off of the Irish Road (Route 703), right at the Concord Methodist Church.

Giles, Mary Fackler b. 1817 d. 1913 #1614
Giles, Ellis b. 1813 d. 1874 #1614/1
Giles, Thomas b. 1841 d. 1856 #16141
Giles, Donnie Collie b. 1855 d. 1912 #16142/1
Giles, William b. 1844 d. in Civil War #16143
Giles, Jerry W. b. 1846 d. 1880 #16144
Giles, Letitia J. b. 1847 d. 1862 #16145
Farthing, Mary Helenda b. 1 Dec 1849 d. 2 Nov 1929 #16146
Farthing, James b. 16 Feb 1840 d. 13 Oct 1888 #16146/1
Giles, H. E. b. 1858 [?] d. 1922 #16148
Giles, Lucy A. b. 1859 d. 1890 #16148/1
Giles, John b. 1859 #1614A

Family/Spouse: Ellis Giles. Ellis (son of Thomas Giles and Lucy Easley) was born on 4 Jul 1813 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; died in Jun 1874 in Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1860, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1900, Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Jeremiah married Sarah Elizabeth Emmerson on 12 Nov 1850 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Sarah was born in 1830 in , , Virginia, USA; died in 1869 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jeremiah married Bettie Jones about 1885. Bettie was born in Nov 1857 in , , Virginia, USA; died on 28 Jun 1923 in Danville, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1860, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 22 Apr 1861, Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; Sergeant, Co I, 53rd Virginia Infantry Regiment
• Residence: 1880, Callands, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1900, Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Notes:

Chatham, Sept. 7 – Abram Fackler died at his home in Pittsylvania County today after a lingering illness of several months from paralysis. He was born in this county nearly seventy-nine years ago. Two sisters and two daughters survive.
8 Sep 1904, Washington Post

Echols / Fackler Cemetery, Pittslyvania County, VA 2005
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LOCATED, on rt. 703( THE IRISH ROAD), west, off rt. 29, at Tightsqueeze VA. Go past Chatham High School about 2 miles. About 1/4 mile past the Concord Methodist Church, on left. Cemetery is about 200' off rd., beside old 2 story house. This house is next door to the home of Mr. Edward and Clara Shelton, 681 Irish Rd. the current land owners. This land was once owned by Benjamin Riddle and Nancy Giles Riddle( my gggg-grandparents). I feel very certain that my ggg-grandparents are buried here or directly across the road. my ggg-grandfather was , Jesse McNeely, b.abt.1800 - d.1837, his wife was, Francis (fannie) Riddle McNeely, ( daughter of Benjamin and Nancy Riddle), b. abt. 1794 - d.jan.1823(at child-birth). Also, i believe that Benjamin and Nancy Riddle are buried here too. their son, Rueben Riddle also. for they all were living here at the time of their deaths. the farm was sold to a Mr. Anthony after Rueben died. Anthony was a minister at the OLD BANNISTER RIVER BAPTIST CH., which was about was about 1/2 mile farther down the rd., just past the river, on north side of road.

these are the only marked graves i could find in the cemetery; (not kept up, but i plan to clean it up)

1/ david echols, b.1/27/1776 - d. 2/18/1854
2/ dinah echols, (wife of david echols), b.1/11/1784 - d. 5/12/1848
3/ abram fackler, b.1826 - d.1904
4/ abigal g. fackler, died,1902
5/ jackson hall, b.1891 - d.1891
6/ nannie hall, b.1866 - d.1891
7/ henry fackler, b.1867 - d.1880
8/ harriett s. fackler, b.1842 - d.1871
9/ samuel fackler, infant
10/ robert fackler, infant

Abram married Harriet Frances Scates on 23 Oct 1858 in , Caswell, North Carolina, USA. Harriet (daughter of Grief David Scates and Susan Sarah Echols) was born on 18 Dec 1842 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; died on 16 May 1872 in Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; was buried in May 1872 in 681 Irish Road, Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abram married Abigail Austin in 1890 in Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Abigail was born in May 1835 in , Henry, Virginia, USA; died in 1902 in Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; was buried in 1902 in 681 Irish Road, Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1860, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1870, Smith River, Patrick, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1880, Horse Pasture, Henry, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1900, Horse Pasture, Henry, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1910, Horse Pasture, Henry, Virginia, USA

Susan married Beverly Farmer Bert Dodson on 26 Jan 1854 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Beverly was born in Jul 1818 in , , Virginia, USA; died on 30 Jun 1905 in , Henry, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1860, Fort Osage, Jackson, Missouri, USA
• Residence: 1870, Lexington, Lafayette, Missouri, USA
• Residence: 1880, Dover, Lafayette, Missouri, USA

William married Harriet McCarty on 26 Dec 1849 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Harriet was born in 1824 in , , Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]