Thomas Newberry

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• Census 1820: 1820, Franklin, Virginia, USA; William isn't found in the 1820 census of Franklin, however in the household of Thomas Newberry, there is a white male over the age of 45 living with them. This is probably William, as when William goes away for murder and writes out his will, he includes that Thomas be permitted to live on his land rent free. Indicating that Thomas was already living there and that they were all probably making their home together. Margaret, William's second wife is probably deceased by this time, as she isn't listed in the 1820 census nor is she mentioned in William's will of 1822.
• Witness: 1822, Franklin County, Virginia; Witnesses the will of his father in Law, John Via. Another witness is Thomas Hale.
• Census 1830: 1830, Franklin, Virginia, USA; The female 20-29 is probably Sarah, but her age if off here.
• Deed: 1838, Franklin County, Virginia; Deeds recorded in 1838 mark the sale of Thomas's father, William Newberry's property to Samuel James. The heirs named are: Levi Newberry of Barren Co. Ky; Thomas Newberry and his wife Sarah and their children; John, Sarah and Peter Cochran, Nancy, (Givey (Jincy), Audrey and Vina.
• Census 1840: 1840, Franklin, Virginia, USA

Thomas married Sarah Jane Vier on 17 Dec 1810 in Franklin County, Virginia, USA. Sarah (daughter of John B. Via Sr. and Sarah Wright) was born in 1794 in Franklin County, Virginia, USA; died in 1852 in Franklin County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Patsy married Hugh Allen Ratcliff on 3 Aug 1829 in Franklin County, Virginia, USA. Hugh was born in 1808 in Virginia; died in 1831 in Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Patsy married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Omey married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Order Book: 27 Dec 1864, Franklin County, Virginia, USA; I'm assuming Anderson Via is John A. Newberry's uncle, but I don't know what this is about.

Notes:

Order Book:
Orphea Via and Anderson Via, Jr. for Jack a slave belonging to Frances Via and John A. Newberry for Jane a slave belonging to Charles Rakes appeared in Court and acknowledged themselves indebted to the commonwealth of VA, the said Anderson Via Jr. for himself and for the said Jack a slave as aforesaid in the sum of $200 each, to be levied of their respective goods and chattels lands and tenements to the use of the said commonwealth yet upon this condition that if the said Anderson Via, Jr. Orpha Via the said Jack and the said Jane shall personally appear before the County

John married Elizabeth Cochran on 11 Oct 1844 in Floyd County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Peter Cochran on 3 Jun 1835 in Franklin County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lavina married Austin Profitt in 1851. Austin was born in Apr 1822 in Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census 1850: 1850, Franklin, Virginia, USA

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• Census 1850: 1850, Franklin, Virginia, USA

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• Court Case: 1852, Franklin County, Virginia; Bill was filed in Chancery pertaining to her death, giving death date, children and some grand children's names. Bill filed September 1852, Final decree 4 Jun 1855 To the worshipful court of the county of Frankin in Chancery Humbley complaining showeth unto your worships your orator and oratix Peter Cochran and Sally, his wife, formerly Sally Newberry, that Sally (Sarah Jane), the mother of your oratix, departed this life intestate, some time since since and xxx of a small tract of land containing about ___ acres and lying on the waters of Runnett Bag Creek in the county of Franklin. That she left as her heirs at law the following children and grand children your oratix, Sally Cochran who was intermarried with your orator (Peter Cochran), John Newberry, Omey Newberry, Thomas Newberry, Rozina Newberry, Audrey Newberry, Anderson Newberry, Jinsy Keen, formerly Jinsy Newberry, who has intermarried with a certain Jacob Keen, Vina Profitt, formerly Vina Newberry who has intermarried with a certain Austin Proffit, John Ratcliff, Thomas Hess and Sarah Hess, the last three of which are children of Patsy a child of the said Sally Newberry who first intermarried with a certain ______ Ratcliff and whom she had the said John Ratcliff, and after the death of said Ratcliff she intermarried with a certain Hess by whom she had the said Thomas Hess and Sarah Hess and then died. Your Orator and Oratix represent that the said land is of small ??? and insusceptible of division as well on the account as because some of the heirs are married women and under disabilities ?? further respresent than that the inte***n (interest?) The handwriting was extremely bad and hard to read - basically, the complaint was that the land was too small to divide among all the heirs, and Peter Cochran and his wife wanted to have the land sold and the proceeds divided between the heirs. The land was eventually sold at public auction and sold for $61 dollars, and each heir got their share after court costs.
• Census 1860: 1860, South Western District, Franklin, Virginia, USA
• Military: 21 Jun 1861, Virginia; Private Confederate, Civil War, Virginia
• Census 1870: 1870, New Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA
• Deed : 30 Oct 1874, Franklin Co, Virginia; Anderson Newberry Deed to German & Charles Canady 30 Oct 1874 Franklin County
• Census 1880: 1880, New Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA; Neighbors: Anderson Newberry, sons Thomas/ Malissa & John/Celia; Anderson's sister Rozena Prophett & her family, & John McGhee who married Anderson's niece Julia Newberry
• Deed: 18 Dec 1886, Russell County, Virginia, USA; To Joseph S. Doran & W.A. Dick 400a: Book 22 Page 178
• Deed: 10 Feb 1887, Russell County, Virginia, USA; Andreson & Amanda Newberry to Joseph S. Doran & W.a. Dick 313 acres Book 22/350 &353
• Deed: 8 Jul 1890, Russell County, Virginia, USA; From Anderson, Amanda Newberry et al to Charles Newberry 78 acres Book 26 page 369
• Deed: 2 Aug 1898, Russell County, Virginia, USA; Anderson to Anderson Meade 1 tract Book 32/124 Haven't seen record, possible this was made by heirs after Anderson's death - there is also another Anderson

Notes:

Military:
Private, Virginia Company C Unit 57th Infantry Regiment Virginia Army, Franklin Fire Eaters; enlisted 6/21/61 at Higgs Field;

12/31/61 "Absent without leave in Franklin Co, VA Furlough exsp (sic) 8 of Oct 1861" (Absent, without leave on 08 October 1861; Returned on 01 May 1862)

7/1/62 Wounded slightly in the thumb at Malvern Hill

12/31/62 Absent without leave since Sep 19, 1862. Pay forfeited from Sep 19, 1862 to Dec 31, 1862 (Absent, without leave on 19 September 1862; Returned on 15 December 1862)

2/28/1863 In confinement. Pay forfeited from Sep 19, 1862 to Dec. 31, 1862. Absent without leave from Sep 19 to Dec 31, 1862 (Confined on 16 December 1862 (For AWOL until deserted); Deserted Company C, 57th Infantry Regiment Virginia on 31 May 1863)

6/30/63 Deserted while in camp near Hanover Junction May 31, 1863

Court Martial 6/1/63, sentenced to company punishment.

Amanda Newberry; received $12 assistance 6/1863 as wife of Anderson Newberry, with 12 children.

Anderson married Amanda Viers on 25 Jul 1856 in Floyd County, Virginia, USA. Amanda (daughter of Peter Via and Margaret Martin) was born about 1835 in Franklin County, Virginia, USA; died in 1890 in Russell County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anderson married Mary L. Wyatt on 08 Sep 1891 in Tazewell County, Virginia. Mary was born in 1861 in Tazewell County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census 1880: 1880, New Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA

Rozena married John Turner on 01 Oct 1854 in Franklin County, Virginia, USA. John was born in 1832 in Franklin County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Harvey Prophett. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census 1850: 1850, Franklin, Virginia, USA

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census 1870: 1870, New Garden, Russell, Virginia
• Census 1880: 1880, New Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA

Family/Spouse: William McGhee. William was born in 1812 in Virginia; died in 1881-1892 in Russell County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Julia married Rev. William Hess on 11 Oct 1893 in Russell County, Virginia, USA. Rev. (son of Henry Hess and Polly) was born in 1827 in Russell County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sparell married Polly Ann Fuller in 1872 in Buchanan, Virginia, USA. Polly was born in 1851. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Nancy Robinson on 29 Aug 1871 in Russell County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Deed: 4 April 1914, Russell County, Virginia, USA; To sons Sparrel, & Zacariah Book 51/98

Andrew married Candice Crouse on 14 Dec 1875 in Russell County, Virginia, USA. Candice was born in Jul 1854 in Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Nancy Bashia Helton. Nancy was born about 1848 in Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census 1860: 1860, South Western District, Franklin, Virginia, USA
• Census 1870: 1870, New Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA
• Census 1880: 1880, New Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA

Thomas married Malissa Alice "Lissie" Strouth on 10 Jan 1880 in Russell County, Virginia, USA. Malissa (daughter of Michael Strouth and Mary Isabelle "Polly" Miller) was born on 18 July 1860 in Russell County, Virginia, USA; died on 15 Oct 1921 in Iaeger, McDowell, West Virginia, USA; was buried in Powell Cemetery Grapevine Mtn, Ieager, WV. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census 1870: 1870, New Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA
• Census 1880: 1880, New Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA

John married Celia Rosanna Turner on 01 Nov 1879 in Russell County, Virginia, USA. Celia (daughter of John Turner and Rozena Newberry) was born in 1858 in Virginia, United States; died on 25 Jun 1942 in Virginia, United States; was buried in Newberry & Wyatt Cemetery, Raven, Tazewell County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census 1870: 1870, New Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA
• Census 1880: 1880, New Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA

Notes:

Died:
Was shot and killed when his gun fell over at the sawmill on Mill Creek.

William married Margaret Louise Mutter on 28 Aug 1890 in Russell County, Virginia. Margaret (daughter of Reece B. Mutter and Mary McGlothlin) was born in 1872 in Buchanan, Virginia, USA; died in 1927 in Russell County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census 1880: 1880, New Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA
• Deed: 9 June 1911, Tazewell County, Virginia; Mollie, Mary Belle Newberry to Robert L. Newberry

Notes:

Deed:
Deed Mollie Short et als to Robert L. Newberry

Tazewell County Deed Records.

Mollie Short et als to Robert L. Newberry

This deed, made this the 9th day of June, in the year 1911, between Mollie Short and Joe Short, her husband, Mary Belle Palmer and P.O Palmer, her husband, of Tazewell County, Virginia, parties of the first part, and Robert L. Newberry, of Russell County, Virginia, party of the second part.

Witnesseth: that whereas Thomas J. Newberry, died possessed of a tract of land, situarted in Russell County, Virginia, on the waters of Mill Creek, containing about 50 acres, more or less, which tract of land is described as follows:

Beginning at a beech at the mouth of a spring branch on the west side of Mill Creek, a corner to the land of Charley Newberry, thence with his line up a ridge to a locust, thence southward with said Charles Newberry to a locust by the road, corner of said Newberry, thence northwardly with the road to a sourwood and chestnut, thence northwardly to the top of the ridge to a chestnut oak, thence down a spur to a birch on the west bank of Mill Creek, thence with John Newberry's line down the creek to the beginning.

And being the same tract of land conveyed to the said Thomas J. Newberry by Anderson Newberry and wife, by deed dated the 19th day of May 1894, which deed is recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Russell County, Virginia, in Deed Book 38 page 342-43. And the said Mollie Short and Mary Belle Palmer being two of the heirs of law of the said Thomas J. Newberry, deceased, and entitled to two undivided interest in the afore said described tract of land, therefore this deed.

Witnesseth that for and in consideration of the sum of sixty five dollars, heretofore paid to the said Mollie Short and Mary Belle Palmer, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the said parties of the first part doth bargin, sell and convey with covenants of general warranty of title all the undivided interest of the said Mollie Short and Mary Belle Palmer in the above described tract of land unto the said Robert L. Newberry, however reserving the coal which did not belong to the said parties of the first part. To have and to hold the undivided interest of the said Mollie Short and Mary Belle Palmer in the tract of land fully described aforesaid, and that the said Robert L. Newberry shall have quiet and peaceable possession of the same, free from the claims of anyone whomsoever.

Witness the following signatures and seals.

P.O. Palmer, Mary B. Palmer, Joseph Short, Mollie J. Short

Virginia, Tazewell County, to-wit:

I, N.B Cacy, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Tazewell, in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify that Mollie Short and Joe Short, her husband, Mary Belle Palmer, and P.O. Palmer, her husband, whose names are signed to the foregoing and annexed writing, bearing date on the 9th day of June 1911, have each acknowledged the same before me, in my county aforesaid.

Given under my hand this the 9th day of June, 1911.

Robert married Laura Katherine Turner on 31 Jan 1902 in Russell County, Virginia. Laura (daughter of Taze Turner and Katherine Samples) was born on 1 Jan 1886 in Russell County, Virginia; died on 30 Jul 1967 in Richlands, Tazewell County, Virginia; was buried in Newberry Cemetery, Horton Ridge, Swords Creek, Russell, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census 1870: 1870, New Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA
• Census 1880: 1880, New Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA

Notes:

Died:
Fever

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• Census 1870: 1870, New Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA
• Census 1880: 1880, New Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA

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• Census 1880: 1880, New Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA
• Deed: 8 July 1890, Russell County, Virginia, USA; From Anderson, Amanda et al to Charlie Newberry 78 acres Book 26/369

Charles married Sarah Alice Mutter on 12 Aug 1883 in Buchanan, Virginia, USA. Sarah (daughter of Reece Mutter and Mary "Polly" McGlothin) was born in 1865 in Russell County, Virginia; died on 11 Feb 1945 in Russell County, Virginia; was buried in 1946 in Newberry Family Cemetary, Horton Ridge, Russell County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census 1880: 1880, New Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA

George married Elizabeth M. McGhee on 1 Mar 1904 in Russell County, Virginia. Elizabeth (daughter of William McGhee and Julia Ann Newberry) was born in Aug 1871 in Russell County, Virginia, USA; died on 4 Dec 1957 in Raven, Tazewell County, Virginia; was buried in Newberry Cemetery, Horton Ridge, Swords Creek, Russell, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census 1880: 1880, New Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA

Celia married John A. Newberry on 01 Nov 1879 in Russell County, Virginia, USA. John (son of Anderson Newberry and Amanda Viers) was born in 1859 in Franklin County, Virginia, USA; died on 30 Oct 1923 in Swords Creek, Russell, Virginia, USA; was buried in Newberry & Wyatt Cemetery, Raven, Tazewell County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census 1870: 1870, New Garden, Russell, Virginia
• Census 1880: 1880, New Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA
• Witness: Jul 1897, Russell County, Virginia; Witness in the Divorce of Charles and Amedia Richardson.
• Census 1910: 1910, New Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA
• Witness: Aug 1915, Tazewell County, Virginia; Witness in his daughter Mary's divorce. Mentions a restaurant he ran with Mary's than husband.
• Census 1920: 1920, Maiden Springs District, Tazewell, Virginia

Notes:

Witness:
John McGhee another witness of lawful age after being duly sworn in.

Question: Please state your age and place of residence.

John: I am 32 years of age and live in Russell County, Virginia.

Question: Please state whether or not you are acquainted with the parties in this suit, Charley Richardson and Almeda Richardson.

John: I am acquainted with both parties to this suit.

Question: Please state if a short time before the defendant left the community, if you were at their house i the absence of the plaintiff and saw her drunk and drinking liquor and if so state her conduct and language and manner you saw. Also state if she at that time tried to get you to fix arrangements with any person to poison the plaintiff and have him killed. State what she said about it and if she wanted him dead.

John: I was out there one Sunday and was at the shop below the home, and she called me to the house and she wanted me to find out where I could find out where Charley Richardson, her husband was going away to see another woman, and she would get a man to ??? him and kill him. And I said Almedia, I would not do that. She says god damn him, I want him killed. She said she did not intend to live with him unless he did better.

Question: Please state her conduct that day.

John: She acted as if she was drinking, she used talk unbecoming a lady. She was cursing, black guarding, etc.

And further this despondent says not. John W. McGhee

Full case can be found here:

https://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/full_case_detail.asp?CFN=167-1898-030#img



Died:
Killed in a gun battle at Red Ash. The shooting refers to John's second wife, name unknown.

Deputy Sheriff Kills Wild Man

Unfortunate Shooting Affair at Raven Wednesday in Which Officer is Forced to Resort to Force-Exonerated of Blame. (By Edward Hand) Raven, Va. April 2 -

John McGee, aged about 45 years, a raving maniac, inspired by pangs of jealousy, ran amuck on Coal Creek with a .45 army colts revolver late Wednesday, seriously wounding his estranged wife, shooting his sister-in-law and killing his wife's lover before a 30-30 bullet from a high power rifle, in the hands of Deputy Sheriff Vince McGraw, brought the mad man's life to an end.

William Abshire, the dead lover of McGee's wife, leaving a wife and several children, was killed while sitting parked in an automobile with Mrs. McGee and her aged sister, who was the step-mother of Abshire, and Mrs. McGee and her sister, Mrs. James Abshire were wounded.

The trouble is said to have started several months ago when Henry Abshire also married, another brother of the dead lover, ran away with Mrs. McGee, living with her for some time, returning to her husband for a short time only, in which time McGee bought and deeded a new Ford Sedan to her only to have her leave him again with William Abshire, taking the automobile with her, which McGee tried to regain by going and taking the car some ten days previous which resulted in more trouble.

Last Friday Deputy Sheriff J.B. Altizer place a levy on the car but left it in the possession of Mrs. McGee. It was in this car that the trio had been riding, and after leaving the state highway at about a distance of thirty yards their path was blocked by one of Mullins Lumber Company's trucks loaded with logs which were being unloaded and while thus parked, McGee descended from the cab of the truck and approached the trio in the car, and without speaking, opened the door and began firing, wounding the two women and killing the man, then remarking to the truck men that after getting one more he was going to kill himself, at which remark Mr. Mullins, the mill owner, asked him not to do such an act but to go on and give himself up to an officer and he would come clear at trial, but the man gone mad with jealousy, started walking down the railroad, swinging the pistol from side to side and after walking through the coal camp of Premier Red Ash to a point about a half mile below, he encountered Deputy McGraw, who had been summoned from Raven to arrest the maniac, but concealing his pistol behind him, McGee got the drop on the officer at a distance of about twenty feet, telling him if he came another step closer he would kill him in his tracks.

After McGraw saw that the man was mad and intended to resume his killing, he pleaded with the man not to resist arrest nor kill any one else and sparred with the man until his son Walter McGee, could be summoned from the mines to try and get his father to consent to their terms, but upon arriving the son was met with the same threat that the officer received.

Then keeping the officer under cover the maniac headed for the woods. McGraw then dispatched a man to his home in Raven, a distance of three miles, to get his high powered rifle. He deputized two men, Fred Underwood and P.O. Palmer, to assist him in trailing the murderer.

At a point near the top of the mountain and close to the home of Henry Abshire, the other intended victim, the deputies exchanged a volley of shots with McGee, who turned and fled down the mountain and came out on the railroad in the lower end of Red Ash No. 2 camp, and evidently started for the home of his son Walter, but got in the wrong yard and found the door barred, then emptying his gun at the trio of officers who were coming down a slate dump, the man ran around the house and under the back porch to reload again firing at the officers at which time McGraw shot him through the head from a distance of 1,500 feet.

During the running fight about 150 spectators had gathered to witness the climax, one stray bullet from the officers gun plowed through the side of a house of John Davis and buried itself in the floor.

Mrs. McGee is a patient in the Mattie Williams hospital suffering with a bullet wound in the abdomen, her sister received a glancing shot along her hip, while Abshire was shot through the heart and remained sitting upright with both hands on the steering wheel. The shooting started at the mill of the Mullins Lumber Co's mill and lasted up the mountains and back to Red Ash. The officer came clear in a court, composed the magistrates and N. Clarence Smith, Commonwealths Attorney, at Richlands last night.

Note: WE APOLOGIZE In writing the head for the article from Raven last week regarding the John McGee shooting, we used the words, "Deputy Sheriff Kills Wild Man." The heading written just a few minutes before press time, was ill advised, and we regret that we used the terms there applied. A number of relatives of the unfortunate man are among the best people of Raven and vicinity.

Story from Audrey McGee Helbert:

John caught his second wife, Cynthia with another man in a car and shot them both. The man in the car with his wife died. Cynthia did not die. Vince McGraw was the law man at the time and lived below Powell Palmer. Vince deputized Powell and a posse to go after John. After the shooting, John went to his son Walters to hide. Vince and the posse caught up to John and Vince shot and killed him. Clarence, Powell's son-in-law, did not talk to Powell for about 9 years because of this.

Buried:
No stone, apparently buried beside his son Dewey Lee McGhee

John married Geneva Anderson on 20 Jan 1886 in Dickenson County, Virginia. Geneva (daughter of Charles H. Anderson and Matilda Colley) was born on 7 Aug 1870 in Dickenson County, Virginia; died on 5 Feb 1930 in Raven, Tazewell County, Virginia; was buried in Newberry Cemetery, Horton Ridge, Russell County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Cynthia Salyers Noah in 1930 in Russell County, Virginia. Cynthia was born in 1880 in Russell County, Virginia; died in 1963 in Tazewell County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census 1880: 1880, New Garden, Russell, Virginia
• Residence: 1900, Pearisburg, Giles County, Virginia; Elizabeth is listed as the head of household, occupation, washer woman. She is listed as living with numerous kids and grand kids, but Isaac isn't listed. I'm not sure where he is as in 1910 they are listed living together and he is head of household.

Elizabeth married Isaac Turner on 03 Nov 1880 in Russell County, Virginia, USA. Isaac (son of Richard Turner and Lucinda) was born in 1853 in Franklin County, Virginia, USA; died in 1886 in Russell County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Samuel Self in 1887 in Dickenson County, Virginia, and was divorced in 1904 in Russell County, Virginia. Samuel was born in May 1847 in Virginia; died on 11 Nov 1921 in Buchanan County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married George Newberry on 1 Mar 1904 in Russell County, Virginia. George (son of Anderson Newberry and Amanda Viers) was born in 1874 in Raven, Tazewell County, Virginia; died on 28 Feb 1943 in Raven, Tazewell County, Virginia; was buried in Newberry Cemetery, Horton Ridge, Swords Creek, Russell, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census 1870: 1870, New Garden, Russell, Virginia
• Census 1880: 1880, New Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA

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• Census 1870: 1870, New Garden, Russell, Virginia
• Census 1880: 1880, New Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA

Notes:

Ran a Mill

Buried:
Cemetery is located on Squirrel Spur Road (RR 614) at the intersection of Mayberry Church Road (RR 602).

Martha married George W. Light on 7 April 1891 in Patrick, Virginia, USA. George was born on 5 Dec 1863 in Patrick County, Virginia; died on 30 Sep 1916 in Patrick County, Virginia; was buried in Light Family Cemetery, Patrick County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census 1880: 1880, New Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA

Nancy married Larkin Cochran on 19 Dec 1895 in Russell County, Virginia, USA. Larkin (son of William Henry Cochran and Nancy Bashia Helton) was born on 25 Dec 1875 in Russell County, Virginia; died on 28 Mar 1963 in Seymour, Jackson County, Indiana; was buried in Mountain Grove Cemetery, Henryville, Clark County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census 1880: 1880, New Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA

Family/Spouse: Peck. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Larkin married Nancy Jane McGhee on 19 Dec 1895 in Russell County, Virginia, USA. Nancy (daughter of William McGhee and Julia Ann Newberry) was born in 1879 in Russell County, Virginia, USA; died on 6 Sep 1961 in Austin, Scott County, Indiana; was buried in Mountain Grove Cemetery, Henryville, Clark County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census 1910: 1910, Maiden Springs District, Tazewell, Virginia, USA
• Deed: 4 Jun 1917, Tazewell County, Virginia; This Deed made this 4th day of June 1917 by and between J.L. Palmer & Susan Palmer his wife and Sylvester Mallory.
• Census 1920: 1920, Maiden Spring, Tazewell, Virginia, USA
• Census 1930: 1930, Maiden Spring, Tazewell, Virginia, USA
• Newspaper: 22 Oct 1933, Raven, Tazewell County, Virginia; Mr. and Mrs. Ves Mallory had as guests Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Joe McGlothlin, Mrs. Lem Palmer, Mrs. John Elswick and daughter, Opal, of Road Ridge.
• Newspaper: 24 Jan 1937, Raven, Tazewell County, Virginia; Bluefield Telegraph Mrs. Lem Palmer, of Rood Ridge, visited her son, M. S, Mallory, the past week.

Susanna married William H. Mallory on 24 Dec 1888 in Tazewell County, Virginia. William (son of Stephen Mallory and Margaret Ellen Blancett) was born on 04 Jul 1868 in Wythe County, Virginia, USA; died on 01 Aug 1901 in Thompson Valley, Tazewell County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Susanna married James A. Louthian on 10 Sep 1902 in Tazewell County, Virginia, and was divorced in 1904 in Tazewell County, Virginia. James was born in 1868 in Virginia, United States; died in in Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Susanna married James Lemuel "Lem" Palmer on 08 Dec 1908 in Richlands, Tazewell County, Virginia. James (son of Unknown (not married) and Elizabeth Jane Collins) was born on 5 Jul 1867 in Stokes County, North Carolina; died on 21 Feb 1940 in Raven, Tazewell County, Virginia; was buried on 24 Feb 1940 in Palmer Cemetery, Road Ridge, Raven, Tazewell County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census 1900: 1900, Elk Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA
• Census 1910: 1910, Browns Creek, McDowell, West Virginia, USA

Joseph married Jennie B. Addison on 26 Mar 1902 in Russell County, Virginia, USA. Jennie was born in Oct 1886 in Virginia, United States; died on 6 Feb 1948 in McDowell County, West Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census 1900: 1900, Elk Garden, Russell, Virginia
• Census 1920: 1920, Sandy River, McDowell, West Virginia

Robert married Lydia "Liddie" Jane Vance on 15 Aug 1907 in Russell County, Virginia, USA. Lydia (daughter of David H. Vance and Mary Horne) was born on 24 Sep 1887 in Tazewell County, Virginia; died on 18 Jul 1964 in Bluefield, Tazewell County, Virginia; was buried in Powell Cemetery, Iaeger, McDowell County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census 1900: 1900, Elk Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA

William married Mary Belle Brown on 20 Jan 1906 in Russell County, Virginia, USA. Mary (daughter of Haywood Brown and Victoria Dye) was born on 25 Aug 1885 in Virginia, United States; died on 17 Apr 1941 in Russell County, Virginia, USA; was buried in Haywood Brown Cem, Russell County, Va. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census_1930: 1900, Elk Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA
• Deed: 9 Jun 1911, Tazewell County, Virginia; Mollie, Mary Belle Newberry to Robert L. Newberry

Notes:

Deed:
Deed Mollie Short et als to Robert L. Newberry

Tazewell County Deed Records.

Mollie Short et als to Robert L. Newberry

This deed, made this the 9th day of June, in the year 1911, between Mollie Short and Joe Short, her husband, Mary Belle Palmer and P.O Palmer, her husband, of Tazewell County, Virginia, parties of the first part, and Robert L. Newberry, of Russell County, Virginia, party of the second part.

Witnesseth: that whereas Thomas J. Newberry, died possessed of a tract of land, situarted in Russell County, Virginia, on the waters of Mill Creek, containing about 50 acres, more or less, which tract of land is described as follows:

Beginning at a beech at the mouth of a spring branch on the west side of Mill Creek, a corner to the land of Charley Newberry, thence with his line up a ridge to a locust, thence southward with said Charles Newberry to a locust by the road, corner of said Newberry, thence northwardly with the road to a sourwood and chestnut, thence northwardly to the top of the ridge to a chestnut oak, thence down a spur to a birch on the west bank of Mill Creek, thence with John Newberry's line down the creek to the beginning.

And being the same tract of land conveyed to the said Thomas J. Newberry by Anderson Newberry and wife, by deed dated the 19th day of May 1894, which deed is recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Russell County, Virginia, in Deed Book 38 page 342-43. And the said Mollie Short and Mary Belle Palmer being two of the heirs of law of the said Thomas J. Newberry, deceased, and entitled to two undivided interest in the afore said described tract of land, therefore this deed.

Witnesseth that for and in consideration of the sum of sixty five dollars, heretofore paid to the said Mollie Short and Mary Belle Palmer, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the said parties of the first part doth bargin, sell and convey with covenants of general warranty of title all the undivided interest of the said Mollie Short and Mary Belle Palmer in the above described tract of land unto the said Robert L. Newberry, however reserving the coal which did not belong to the said parties of the first part. To have and to hold the undivided interest of the said Mollie Short and Mary Belle Palmer in the tract of land fully described aforesaid, and that the said Robert L. Newberry shall have quiet and peaceable possession of the same, free from the claims of anyone whomsoever.

Witness the following signatures and seals.

P.O. Palmer, Mary B. Palmer, Joseph Short, Mollie J. Short

Virginia, Tazewell County, to-wit:

I, N.B Cacy, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Tazewell, in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify that Mollie Short and Joe Short, her husband, Mary Belle Palmer, and P.O. Palmer, her husband, whose names are signed to the foregoing and annexed writing, bearing date on the 9th day of June 1911, have each acknowledged the same before me, in my county aforesaid.

Given under my hand this the 9th day of June, 1911.

Mollie married Joseph Short on 29 Dec 1904 in Russell County, Virginia, USA. Joseph (son of Newell Jefferson Short, Sr. and Louisa Jane "Eliza" Hill) was born on 15 Jun 1884 in Tazewell County, Virginia; died on 27 Nov 1961 in Shortt's Gap, (Tazewell Co.), VA; was buried in Short Cemetery, Keen Mountain, Shortt Gap, Tazewell County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census 1900: 1900, Elk Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA
• Census 1910: 1910, Maiden Spring, Tazewell, Virginia, USA
• Deed: 9 Jun 1911, Tazewell County, Virginia; This deed, made this the 9th day of June, in the year 1911, between Mollie Short and Joe Short, her husband, Mary Belle Palmer and P.O Palmer, her husband, of Tazewell County, Virginia, parties of the first part
• Deed : 19 Dec 1911, Tazewell County, Virginia; P.O and Mary B. Palmer to Charles Cordill for $250 a parcel of land lying on the waters of Coal Creek County of Tazewell. Deed book 72 page 211

Notes:

Deed:
Deed Mollie Short et als to Robert L. Newberry

Tazewell County Deed Records.

Mollie Short et als to Robert L. Newberry

This deed, made this the 9th day of June, in the year 1911, between Mollie Short and Joe Short, her husband, Mary Belle Palmer and P.O Palmer, her husband, of Tazewell County, Virginia, parties of the first part, and Robert L. Newberry, of Russell County, Virginia, party of the second part.

Witnesseth: that whereas Thomas J. Newberry, died possessed of a tract of land, situarted in Russell County, Virginia, on the waters of Mill Creek, containing about 50 acres, more or less, which tract of land is described as follows:

Beginning at a beech at the mouth of a spring branch on the west side of Mill Creek, a corner to the land of Charley Newberry, thence with his line up a ridge to a locust, thence southward with said Charles Newberry to a locust by the road, corner of said Newberry, thence northwardly with the road to a sourwood and chestnut, thence northwardly to the top of the ridge to a chestnut oak, thence down a spur to a birch on the west bank of Mill Creek, thence with John Newberry's line down the creek to the beginning.

And being the same tract of land conveyed to the said Thomas J. Newberry by Anderson Newberry and wife, by deed dated the 19th day of May 1894, which deed is recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Russell County, Virginia, in Deed Book 38 page 342-43. And the said Mollie Short and Mary Belle Palmer being two of the heirs of law of the said Thomas J. Newberry, deceased, and entitled to two undivided interest in the afore said described tract of land, therefore this deed.

Witnesseth that for and in consideration of the sum of sixty five dollars, heretofore paid to the said Mollie Short and Mary Belle Palmer, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the said parties of the first part doth bargin, sell and convey with covenants of general warranty of title all the undivided interest of the said Mollie Short and Mary Belle Palmer in the above described tract of land unto the said Robert L. Newberry, however reserving the coal which did not belong to the said parties of the first part. To have and to hold the undivided interest of the said Mollie Short and Mary Belle Palmer in the tract of land fully described aforesaid, and that the said Robert L. Newberry shall have quiet and peaceable possession of the same, free from the claims of anyone whomsoever.

Witness the following signatures and seals.

P.O. Palmer, Mary B. Palmer, Joseph Short, Mollie J. Short

Virginia, Tazewell County, to-wit:

I, N.B Cacy, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Tazewell, in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify that Mollie Short and Joe Short, her husband, Mary Belle Palmer, and P.O. Palmer, her husband, whose names are signed to the foregoing and annexed writing, bearing date on the 9th day of June 1911, have each acknowledged the same before me, in my county aforesaid.

Given under my hand this the 9th day of June, 1911.

Died:
Mary Belle had to die 1915/20, as she married Burke in 1914 and he was widowed in the 1920. The story from one of her grand daughters was that she was murdered, beaten to death, they never knew who did it. Unable to confirm this.

Mary married Powell Osborne Palmer on 29 Aug 1905 in Eckman, McDowell County, West Virginia, USA, and was divorced on 17 Feb 1914 in McDowell County, West Virginia, USA. Powell (son of James Lemuel "Lem" Palmer and Margaret Liddia Lawson) was born on 23 Apr 1887 in Bateman, Patrick County, Virginia; died on 24 May 1951 in Raven, Tazewell County, Virginia; was buried on 27 May 1951 in Palmer Cemetery, Road Ridge, Raven, Tazewell County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married James Pearson Burke on 04 Aug 1914 in Red Ash, Tazewell, Virginia, USA. James (son of James Samuel Burke and Delphia Jane Baldwin) was born on 25 Feb 1889 in West Virginia, United States; died on 2 Oct 1956 in Richlands, Tazewell County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Tumor in head, Russell County Death Register

Other Events:

• Census 1900: 1900, Elk Garden, Russell, Virginia, USA
• Census 1910: 1910, Browns Creek, McDowell, West Virginia, USA

Edda married Charlie Moore on 10 Aug 1916 in Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Floyd married Nancy Boyd on 26 May 1908 in Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Dora Hess on 04 Mar 1925 in Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charlie married Etta Hess in Virginia, United States. Etta was born on 15 Dec 1897; died on 10 Nov 1957 in Tazewell County, Virginia; was buried in Greenhills Memory Gardens, Claypool Hill, Tazewell County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Johnnie married Mary Osborne on 02 Dec 1909 in Russell County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Laura married Elbert McGhee on 2 Dec 1909 in Tazewell County, Virginia. Elbert (son of John William McGhee and Geneva Anderson) was born on 11 May 1891 in Russell County, Virginia, USA; died on 16 Aug 1977 in Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA; was buried in Greenhills Memory Gardens, Claypool Hill, Tazewell County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Millie married Charles Whited on 25 Oct 1915. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Walter Jackson McGhee on 07 Feb 1923 in Russell County, Virginia, USA. Walter (son of John William McGhee and Geneva Anderson) was born on 30 Jun 1894 in Swords Creek, Russell, Virginia, USA; died on 5 Dec 1963 in Tazewell County, Virginia; was buried in Greenhills Memory Gardens, Claypool Hill, Tazewell County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Celia married Elbert Lee Short on 14 Oct 1904 in Russell County, Virginia. Elbert (son of Newell Jefferson Short, Sr. and Louisa Jane "Eliza" Hill) was born on 17 Apr 1883 in Tazewell County, Virginia; died on 20 Sep 1971 in Swords Creek, Russell County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary Jane Short. Mary (daughter of Newell Jefferson Short, Sr. and Louisa Jane "Eliza" Hill) was born on Jun 15 1888 in Tazewell County, Virginia; died in May 1972 in Raven, Tazewell County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rosa married James Leonard Palmer on 25 Oct 1925 in Tazewell County, Virginia. James (son of James Lemuel "Lem" Palmer and Susanna Frances "Susie" Cochran Mallory) was born on 23 May 1910 in Tazewell County, Virginia; died on 30 Oct 1930 in Tazewell County, Virginia; was buried in Palmer Cemetery, Road Ridge, Raven, Tazewell County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rosa married Clyde Vernon Richardson in May 1932 in Tazewell County, Virginia. Clyde was born on 3 Feb 1914 in Swords Creek, Russell County, Virginia; died on 6 May 1997 in Richlands, Tazewell County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married John Elswick in Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Amanda married Burley F. Compton on 30 Nov 1904 in Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Elbert Hess in Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Reese married Sally Boyd on 17 Oct 1912 in Grundy, Buchanan County, Virginia. Sally (daughter of Isaac Boyd and Mary Ann Street) was born in 1894 in Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Eliza in Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eva married Robert Hess in Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• WWI Draft Card: 1917, Tazewell County, Virginia

Stuart married Ethel Mae Palmer on 15 Dec 1914 in Tazewell County, Virginia. Ethel (daughter of James Lemuel "Lem" Palmer and Margaret Liddia Lawson) was born on 30 May 1899 in Norton, Virginia; died on 22 Nov 1956 in Richlands, Tazewell County, Virginia; was buried on 25 Nov 1956 in Newberry Family Cemetary, Horton Ridge, Russell County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Arthur married Celia Frances Griffith on 05 Aug 1918 in Virginia, United States. Celia was born on 4 Aug 1895 in Russell County, Virginia; died on 30 Sep 1948 in Tazewell County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Arthur married Rosa Griffiths Addison in 1950 in Tazewell County, Virginia. Rosa was born in 1893 in Russell County, Virginia; died on 21 Dec 1966 in Raven, Tazewell County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ezra married Sarah Meadows on 17 Oct 1918 in Buchanan, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Myrtie. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]