Friday, March 6, 2009

More with the Wilkerson/Wilkinson


This is the newest information dug up from a Lookup researcher Wendy:

She found according to the Greenville, S C Marriage and Death Notices, 1826-1863,

December 6, 1834, on the 20th ult., by the Rev. Mr. Potter, Mr. Thomas J. Wilkinson of Greenville, to Miss Sarah R., daughter of the Hon. J. Douthett of the Anderson District.
She checked further on the Douthett line and found several people posted a lot of information both the Wilkinson and Douthett line with detailed info on Thomas and Sarah's children, including John A(dams) Wilkinson. The information they posted shows that he died in 1892 in Chickasaw County, MS.

This sounds 95 % like my family. Unfortunately, I can't find that family tree on line yet, but I hope too.


As a reminder, John Wilkinson/Wilkerson, I thought was married to my gggrandmother. But from Wendy's research, I would that was not the case. John actually married a woman Artie Jamison whose family (Robert Jamison) probably owned my gggrandmother, Charlotte, at one time.


There's more thanks to Wendy.

Greene County, AL 1850December 31, 1850

1574/1574

Thomas J. Wilkinson, 35, farmer, 800, b SC

Sarah, 35, b SC

John, 14, b AL

Sarah J., 13, b AL

James, 11, b AL

Anna, 9, b Al

Mary, 8, b AL

Louisa, 6, b AL

Andrew, 4, b AL

Lucy, 1, b AL


Chickasaw County, MS 1860, September 1, 1860
921/941
Robert Jamison, 41, farmer, b AL
Mary, 35, wife, b Al
Henry, 16, b Al
Artie, 15, f, b AL...she later became John's wife
Sarah, 13, b Al
William, 11, b AL
John Wilkinson, 23, teacher in academy, b AL
In 1866, Charlotte and John's first child, William, was born. His brother, Samuel was born 3 years later.


Chickasaw County, MS 1870
54/58
John A. Wilkinson, 33, farmer, 2000/1500, b AL
Arta T., 24, keeping house, b AL
Ella R., 6, b AL ****If Ella is six, then Arta and John had to be married in 1864. It looks like John had an affair with my gggrandmother. Also on the 1870 census, Charlotte Wilkerson list herself as a widow, so all this time I thought John was dead.
Robert, 3, b MS
Walter, 1, b MS
Andrew J., 22, Law Student, b AL (Possibly John's younger brother)

Chicasaw County, MS 1880
John A., Wilkinson, 42, teacher farmer, b AL, parents b SC (Remember Thomas and Sarah)
Artie M., 34, wife, keeping house, b AL, parents b GA
I NOTICE ELLA IS MISSING...POSS DEAD BASED ON 1900 CENSUS
Robert E., 13, son, b MS

Walter A., 11, son, b MS
Samuel, 9, son, at school, b MS
John, 5, son, at school, b MS
Thomas J., 1, son, b MS

There are 2 servants living in the John Wilkinson household:
E. D. 35, sheet 24D
Page 360D
Finis H. Linn, 21, white, servant, single, works on farm, b MS, father b AL, mother b SC
Smith Jimerson?, 25, black, servant, widower, works on farm, b AL, parents b blank


So John died in 1892.

Poplarville Town, Pearl River County, MS 1900
E. D. 83, sheet 3B, page 3B
June 2, 1900
48/49
John Wilkinson (which is John Jr.), head, b June 1874, age 26, married 1 year, b MS, parents b AL, salesman
Pauline, wife, b Sept 1880, age 19, 0 children, b TN, parents b TN
Artie F., mother, b May 1846, age 54, widow, 4 of 6 children living (who died? Ella, Thomas or Samuel), b AL, parents b AL
49/50
Walter Wilkinson, head, b oct 1868, age 31, married 10 years, b MS, parents b AL, cant read occup
Annie, wife, b Feb 1872, age 28, 4 of 4 children living, b MS, parents b MS
Bonnie, dau, b March 1891, age 9, b MS
John A., son, b Feb 1893, age 7, b MS
Artie B., dau, b Sept 1895, age 4, b MS
Gladys, dau, b Sept 1898, age 1, b MS
51/52
Robt E. Wilkinson, head, b Aug 1866, age 33, married 8 years, b MS, parents b AL, merchant, owns non-mortgaged farm
Sallie J., wife, b Feb 1875, age 25, 3 of 3 children living, b MS, father b MS, mother b SC
Ennis, son, b Oct 1892, age 7, b MS
Elma, dau, b June? 1895, age 5, b MS
?, dau, b May 1898, age 2, b


On the 1910 census, Ennis is in Birmingham , AL and signs up for WWI as Robert E. Wilkinson Jr. Afterward, he returns to AL and the family moves to Houston, TX

So, I find the tree in SC then AL then MS then TX.

Oh, boy, a lot of puzzles on this to research.