Pickett, George (b. 25 JAN 1825, d. 20 JUL 1875)

Event: Type: Fact 1
Place: Buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond,VA

Event: Type: Fact 1
Date: 16 JUN 1817
Place: Divorce granted to Sallie Drake Pickett

Event: Type: Fact 1
Date: JAN 1902
Place: Buried in new Hopewell cem., Ripley Co., IN

Note: Served in the Revolutionary War under General Lafayette. John was probably
mortally wounded in the Battle of Mommouth.

Source: (Name)
Title: The Vawter Family in America by Bicknell

Event: Type: Fact 1
Date: 07 SEP 1881
Place: Buried in Pickett Cemetery on the north side

Event: Type: Fact 2
Place: of Leatherwood Creek

Event: Type: Fact 1
Date: 1918
Place: Buried Hopewell cem., Ripley Co., IN

Note: Alfred Pike never married.

Note: The maiden name for Elizabeth was taken from postings on Ancestry.com. Source not located yet.

Note: The marriage record for Alice Vawter and Richard A Pitts is listed in the Vauter Church Vestry Book.
July 27 1865 at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Vawter

1870 US Census Essex Co., VA .. family #1538
Richard Pitts age 33 farm laborer
Ailcy age 25 keeping house
Mary M Pitts age 3 b. VA
Ella C. age 1 b. VA
1880 US Census Essex Co., VA
Richard Pitts age 38 b. VA farmer
Alice Pitts age 30 b. VA
May L. Pitts age 12
Ella C. Pitts age 10
Miney G. Pitts age 8
Hattey C. Pitts age 5 (US Census Occupacia, Essex Co. VA. #70 Hattie B. Lee age 43 widow, with son Tyler D. Lee age 17, Alfred Pitts next door #72)
Alice R. Pitts age 3
1900 US Census Occupacia, Essex Co., VA family #303
Richard Pitts b. Jan 1825 age 75 m. 35 years............obvious errors
Alice Pitts wife b. Apr 1845 age 55 m. 35 years
Alfred Pitts son b. May 1884 age 16 b. VA
Irvin Pitts son b. Feb 1887 age 13 b. VA
1910 US Census Occupacia, Essex Co., VA
Richard A. Pitts age 71 m. 48 years
Alsie Pitts age 69 m. 48 years 7 children 6 living
Alfred Pitts age 26
1920 US Census Occupacia, Essex Co., VA #263
B J Saunders age 69 head b. VA
Ester Saunders age 51 wife b. VA
William B. Saunders age 16 son b. VA
Margret Saunders age 13 dau b. VA
A. V. Pitts age 82 female single companion

Source: (Name)
Title: JAMES.FTWSource Medium: Other

Data:
Text: Date of Import: Aug 23, 2005

Note: Benjamin Porter, a native of England came to America and setled in Orange County, VA around 1726. He brought his Welch born wife with him, Ann Campbell and had five sons and 2 daughters here.

Virginia County Records Spotsylvania County 1721 - 1800 Deeds.
DEED BOOK A 1722-1729 Page 109
Novr. 5, 1719, John Taliaferro, the younger, and Francis Taliaferro of St. Marie's Par. Caroline CO., to Benjamin Porter of St. Geo. Par., Spts. Co., 10 Ster., 10a of land in St. Geo. Par. Spt. Co. - part of a pat. granted John Taliaferro, the younger, and Francis Taliaferro, June 30, 1726. Witnesses: John Robinson, Thomas Benson, John Mickel. Rec. Novr. 5, 1729.

Virginia County Records Spotsylvania County 1721 - 1800 Deeds
DEED BOOK B 1729 - 1734 Page 115
Oct. 3, 1730, Benjamin Porter of St. George's Par., Spt. CO., to Samuel Henslee of Hanover Par., King Geo. Co. 2000 lbs. tob., 400 a. in St. Geo. Par. Spts. Co. - granted to the sd. Porter by pat. Septr. 28, 1728. Abraham Field, Z. Lewis, Jno Waller. Nov. 3, 1730. Ann, wife of Besj. Porter, acknowledged her dower, etc.

Last Will and Testament of Benjamin Porter 1761:
In the name of God Amen, I Benjamin Porter of Orange County, Virginia, being in perfect health and of sound mind and memory -- Thanks be to Almighty God for the same -- but knowing the certainty of this life, do make and ordain this to be my last will and testament.
First, I resign my soul to God, hoping for pardon and remission of all my sins through the merit and suffering of my kind Savior, Jesus Christ. My body I yield to the earth, to be buried in Christian like manner. As to my executors, hereinafter named, shall they meet and to such worldly estate as it hath pleased God to bestow on me, I give, devise, and bequeath the same in manner and form the following:
I give and devise all my land and tenements in the tract I now live on and that lies on the east side of my Spring branch, down to the river, unto my sons Nicholas, Thomas, Charles and Abner -- to them and their heirs forever, to be equally divided among them; my son Nicholas having his choice either of the manor home or the plantation where he now lives.
I give and devise to my sons Benjamin and Joseph all the lower tracts of land I purchased of Mr. Nicholas Battail, and the lands I purchased of Mr. Rowland Thomas, with a waterfront on the river -- to them and their heirs.
I empower and order my executors to sell at auction the upper part of the land I purchased of the aforesaid Battail to the highest bidder and the money coming from such sale to be equally divided between my daughters, Elizabeth and FRANCES and their heirs.
I give and bequeath unto my following children viz: Benjamin, Thomas, Charles, Joseph, Abner, Jane, Bettie, Mary and Frances -- all my slaves and personal estate -- to them and their heirs forever, to be equally divided among them, except as to my son Nicholas, which I give an equal part of the personal estate (negroes excepted), he having received his share of them. I desire that my grandchildren of my daughters may be educated by my executors, out of the profits of my estate.
It is my desire, and I do order that if any of my sons should die before they arrive at the age of twenty-one years, or marry, that their part of the land be equally divided among the surviving heirs to whom I have given my land.
Lastly, I do appoint Nicholas and Benjamin, my executors of this last will and testament.
Witnesses:
George Taylor
Lewis Taylor
George Bledsoe
James Madison (handwritten in pencil, father of President Madison)

Note: Last Will and Testament of Benjamin Porter 1761:
In the name of God Amen, I Benjamin Porter of Orange County, Virginia, being in perfect health and of sound mind and memory -- Thanks be to Almighty God for the same -- but knowing the certainty of this life, do make and ordain this to be my last will and testament.
First, I resign my soul to God, hoping for pardon and remission of all my sins through the merit and suffering of my kind Savior, Jesus Christ. My body I yield to the earth, to be buried in Christian like manner. As to my executors, hereinafter named, shall they meet and to such worldly estate as it hath pleased God to bestow on me, I give, devise, and bequeath the same in manner and form the following:
I give and devise all my land and tenements in the tract I now live on and that lies on the east side of my Spring branch, down to the river, unto my sons Nicholas, Thomas, Charles and Abner -- to them and their heirs forever, to be equally divided among them; my son Nicholas having his choice either of the manor home or the plantation where he now lives.
I give and devise to my sons Benjamin and Joseph all the lower tracts of land I purchased of Mr. Nicholas Battail, and the lands I purchased of Mr. Rowland Thomas, with a waterfront on the river -- to them and their heirs.
I empower and order my executors to sell at auction the upper part of the land I purchased of the aforesaid Battail to the highest bidder and the money coming from such sale to be equally divided between my daughters, Elizabeth and FRANCES and their heirs.
I give and bequeath unto my following children viz: Benjamin, Thomas, Charles, Joseph, Abner, Jane, Bettie, Mary and Frances -- all my slaves and personal estate -- to them and their heirs forever, to be equally divided among them, except as to my son Nicholas, which I give an equal part of the personal estate (negroes excepted), he having received his share of them. I desire that my grandchildren of my daughters may be educated by my executors, out of the profits of my estate.
It is my desire, and I do order that if any of my sons should die before they arrive at the age of twenty-one years, or marry, that their part of the land be equally divided among the surviving heirs to whom I have given my land.
Lastly, I do appoint Nicholas and Benjamin, my executors of this last will and testament.
Witnesses:
George Taylor
Lewis Taylor
George Bledsoe
James Madison (handwritten in pencil, father of President Madison)

Mary (Polly) Grigsby may have been the only child of Frances Porter, but some sources list Benjamin, Hannah and Simeon (died young) and an infant who died young.
Frances died around 1779 and James Grigsby married two more times.

Note: 1800 Salisbury, Cabarrus Co., NC census:
David Powell, wife and 2 little girls.

Also Henry Plott, wife and 3 little boys. (Henry Plott of Haywood Co. owed Rebecca Powell $50 - listed in her will in 1826.]

1810 Haywood, NC census:
David Powell, wife and 5 little girls.

Henry Plott is now in Haywood Co.

October 21, 1816
David Powell died intestate.
Rebecca Powell, widow. Henry Smith, administrator. Joshua Haskell was appointed guardian for Rebecca Powell and Eddy Powell, minor heirs of David Powell.
Other heirs of David Powell: Sarah Eaton, wife of Jesse Eaton; Lydia Ward, wife of Ezekiel Ward; Elizabeth Powell.
[David Powell must have been born by 1770 if he had daughters that were married when he died in 1816]
One possibility in the 1800 census:
Cabarrus Co. NC - David Powell with wife and 2 small girls.

The only other David Powell in North Carolina was single.

Note: 1870 Gibson Co., Tennessee, Census:
Eda James 60 ? widow B. TN ?
Henry James 21
Emma James 15

1880 Gibson Co. Tennessee, Census:
Henry James 31 Farmer B. TN Parents b. TN
Lizzie James 24 wife B. TN
Edith James 72 mother B. TN and Parents b. TN conflicts with 1850 census
Robbie Hawkins 5 adopted
Joseph Fulghum servant

Note: Buried in Colonial Gardens cemetery, Harrison Co. Tx.

Note: 1910 Harrison Co. Tx. census:
George W Power.........38...TX..TN..MS
Rhoda Power...............36...TX..GA..TX
Kelcy Power................19...TX
Fred Power..................15...TX
James Power...............12 ??...TX
Vend Power..................5...TX
Joseph Power...............9..TX
Mary Power...............7/12..TX

1920 Harrison Co. Tx census:
George W Power........47...TX..TN..TX
Rhoda Power..............45...TX..GA..TX
Vend Power...............14...TX
Joseph Power............12...TX
Louise Power.............10..TX
Allen Power.................5...TX
Jack Power............8/12 ??...TX
Joedell Mason.............5...ALA.....niece

Note: 1900 Harrison Co. Tx. census:
Hugh Power.................Nov.1869.........30........TX......TN......TX
Doracy Power.............Aug 1879.........20........TN......TN......TN
Vinton Power.............Apr. 1899..........1.........TX

1910 Harrison Co. Tx. census:
Hugh B Power...........41.....TX.....TN.....MS
Dausy Power...........30......TX
Vinton Power...........11.....TX
Otis (?) Power...........9....TX
Hazel May Power......8....TX
Irvin Power...............4.....TX
Bessie Lee Power....1.....TX
Ruby ??.................28.....TX.....sister-in-law
Arelia ??..................8.....TX.....niece
Juanita ??................5......TX.....niece

1920 Harrison Co. Tx Census:
Hugh B Power...........50...TX
Vinton Power............20...TX
Otis Power................19...TX
Hazel Power.............16...TX
Irwin Power..............13...TX
Elizabeth Power........10...TX
Dare Power................9...TX
Martin Power..............5...TX

1930 Harrison Co. Tx census:
Hugh B Power..........61.....TX
Ida S Power.............59.....SC
Irvin H Power...........24.....TX
Earl D Power...........18.....TX
Will M Power............15....TX
Armand E Howell.....17....TX.....stepson

Note: Buried in Greenwood cemetery, Harrison Co. TX.

Note: WWI Draft Registration:
Kelcie Adolphus Power
b. Jul 29, 1900, in Harrison Co. Tx
next of kin - father K. A. Power

Buried in Greenwood cemetery, Harrison Co. Tx. The tombstone show b. Aug 29, 1900