Annie Anthony

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, Bedford Co (District 3), Tennessee
• Census: 1900, Bedford Co (District 3), Tennessee
• Census: 1910, Bedford Co (District 3), Tennessee
• Census: 1920, Bedford Co (District 3), Tennessee

Notes:

The following is James Frederick Anthony's answers taken from "The Tennessee Civil War Veterans Questionnaires" by Gustavus W. Dyer and John Trotwood Moore (1922):

"My name is James Frederick Anthony, at the time living in Bell Buckle, Tenn, 76 1/2 yrs. old. I was born in Franklin Co, TN. A confederate soldier in Company B - 28 Tennessee Cavalry. My father was old style Methodist Circuit rider ... my father being a minister had often as many as 15 churches under his charge and preached every day in the week and so of course was at home less than 1/3 of his time. While Father was gone, Mother had charge of her six boys, did all the house work, carded and spun and wove and would cut and make the clothes for her family, including her own, doing the sewing with her fingers. She never used a sewing machine in her life. They had no servants ...

I went to school two or three months every fall - advanced rapidly - had completed the Bluebacked Speller at 14. School was about three miles [away] ... I enlisted in the Confederate army in November 1864 and was sworn in the woods in Lincoln county in Company B 28th Tenn. Cavalry, Capt. Reed Holmer, Major Jordan Hayes Battalion; Brig. Gen. B.J. Hill. [Our company was first sent] to follow Hood's army out of Tennessee but got cut off. We turned back and went out through East Tenn. Our company was in only one regular battle and I was 30 miles away with a scouting party at the time. I was always with a scouting party - Our battles were "shoot and run" but we did not always work the lead. I was cook for my mess and I will tell how the best bread I ever ate was made. The boys got the meal and of course it was not sifted but I spread an oil cloth on the ground, put the meal on it, took a canteen of good branch water, poured it on the meal and worked it to the right consistency. Took a flat rail, rolled out my dodgers and filled my rail full. Sat it up before the fire until it toasted brown on one side - then turned the bread over & toasted the other side - of course there was some in the middle not quite done ... but we had appetites and I want to say I never in all my life ate better bread. And we ate hundred of meals of just such bread and nothing else and this is to some extent how we lived in camp. Our uniforms were uniform ragged! There was no two suits alike. We had rags of all sizes, rags of all shapes, rags of all colors, texture and makes; rags of bright colors and gloomy ones too; rags of all shades the world ever knew. "Rummage amongst them and twist them around; But a suit that will please you can never be found!" I was paroled in Chattanooga on the 16th day of May 1865. I have my parole now. We were discharged about sundown and given transportation to Tullahoma on a freight car. We climbed on the top and laid down and were soon asleep. The train either stopped or ran very very low for we were only about 30 miles from Chattanooga when daylight came. We landed at Tullahoma about two o'clock - walked six miles home, from there and found the whole family down with small pox - could not go in the yard - slept a whole week under a shade tree - But oh! how thankful I could see and talk to my mother. [Since the close of the war] being under age I was subject to my father's demands for two years. He sent me to school for ten months which is practically all the education I ever got. My life since the war has varied but slightly from the general run of Confederate soldiers. The war taught me that a man could do without everything he couldn't get so I took as my motto "Pay as you go and when you can't pay don't go". I don't only preach this but I practice it. My estate is not large but it is worth one hundred cents on the dollar. I have had nine children born to me, six of whom were raised to maturity - Five of them are now living and to my credit - there is not one of them has ever served term in the penitentiary yet. I never held an office. I ran for a county office once and I didn't think I had an enemy in the world. When the votes were counted I concluded that my friends were "darned nigh" as scarce as my enemies. However "Alls well that ends well" and I have no fears for the rest of my allotted time for I can say with the poet in all sincerity, "What ever my lot, thou hast taught me to say it is well with my soul".

The following was sent to the authors on Mar 17, 1922:

"... In the fall of '64, Maj. Jordan Hayes had instructions to raise a battalion of cavalry, he raised three companies of perhaps 50 men each. - or boys, I should say - for there were not sufficient whiskers in the entire bunch to line a birds nest. We attempted to go out with Hood's army but were cut off - we turned and went out through East Tenn. and into North Carolina across South Carolina and across Georgia below Atlanta into Alabama, to a point on Coosa River some miles below Gadsden, where we were when the war ended. We broke camp there May 15th 1865 and were paroled in Chattanooga on the 16th and come into Tullahoma in a box car - upright however - on the 17th. I make no claim to any heroic deeds, but am entitled perhaps to one distinction, I belong to a family whose father and four sons all served in the Confederate army and were all honorably discharged - the three oldest served or two of them at least, served in the first regiment made up in the state and I, the youngest - in the very last command made up in the Confederacy and perhaps the last whole command paroled".

James married Nancy Jane Frazier about 1890. Nancy was born about 1851 in Tennessee; died after 1890. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Ethnicity: "full-blooded German"
• Religion: "old style Methodist circuit rider"
• Census: 1850, Franklin Co, Tennessee
• Census: 1860, Bridgeville, Franklin Co, Tennessee
• Census: 1880, Lynchburg, Moore Co, Tennessee

Notes:

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From Bob's Genealogy Filing Cabinet II:
His son James and Roddy answered questionnaires regarding their CSA service, providing us with his wife's name. James Frederick Anthony stated that "my father was old style Methodist Circuit rider... had often as many as 15 churches under his charge and preached every day in the week..."
[34] This statement also declared that William Horace Anthony was born at Thompson's Creek in Bedford County but lived most of his life in Moore [formerly Franklin] County, that he and his two older sons joined the 1st Tennessee Regiment in 1861 and that he served as chaplain in 1862, when he resigned on account of being afflicted with rheumatism, contracted in camp. James Anthony's statement also declares that his father was a "full blooded German", that all four of his grandparents came from Germany, one of his grandmothers being named Shofner.

A similar statement by Roddy Anthony declared that his father was a traveling minister in the Tennessee Conference. He made a similar statement regarding his father's ancestry. Roddy gave his father's middle name as "Harris" and James gave it as "Horace".

The move from Bedford County to Franklin County evidently occurred between the births of those two sons, each given the respective county as their own birthplace. James Anthony's statement mentions that his brother Nicholas A. Anthony also volunteered in the CSA in 1861 but was discharged after a few months with a disability.

A good deal of information on his family came from my father's correspondence with Lassie Munsey, a granddaughter of James Frederick Anthony. There is also a family Bible with all his children.
(Rootsweb - Family Tree Sandra, sansgenmail@gmail.com)


The following were answers on a questionnaire given by William Harris Anthony's son, James Frederick Anthony:

William Horace Anthony was born at Thompson's Creek, Bedford Co, TN. He lived on turkey Creek and Big Hurricane practically all his life in Moore Co., [TN]. He and his two older sons joined Peter Turney's 1st Tenn. Regiment (afterward designated "The 1st Confederate") in 1861 and he served as chaplain in 1862, when he resigned on account of being afflicted with rheumatism, contracted in camp. After serving as chaplain during the year 1861 he resigned in the spring of 1862, came home, and continued his ministerial duties to his death. William was a full blooded German - his grandmother & grandfather on both sides came from Germany. His grandmother on his father's side was a Shofner

Name:
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From Bob's Genealogy Filing Cabinet II:
His son James and Roddy answered questionnaires regarding their CSA service, providing us with his wife?s name. James Frederick Anthony stated that ?my father was old style Methodist Circuit rider... had often as many as 15 churches under his charge and preached every day in the week...?[34] This statement also declared that William Horace Anthony was born at Thompson's Creek in Bedford County but lived most of his life in Moore [formerly Franklin] County, that he and his two older sons joined the 1st Tennessee Regiment in 1861 and that he served as chaplain in 1862, when he resigned on account of being afflicted with rheumatism, contracted in camp. James Anthony?s statement also declares that his father was a ?full blooded German?, that all four of his grandparents came from Germany, one of his grandmothers being named Shofner. A similar statement by Roddy Anthony declared that his father was a traveling minister in the Tennessee Conference. He made a similar statement regarding his father?s ancestry. Roddy gave his father?s middle name as ?Harris? and James gave it as ?Horace?. The move from Bedford County to Franklin County evidently occurred between the births of those two sons, each given the respective county as their own birthplace. James Anthony?s statement mentions that his brother Nicholas A. Anthony also volunteered in the CSA in 1861 but was discharged after a few months with a disability. A good deal of information on his family came from my father?s correspondence with Lassie Munsey, a granddaughter of James Frederick Anthony. There is also a family Bible with all his children.
(Rootsweb - Family Tree Sandra, sansgenmail@gmail.com)

Birth:
Bedford birth records:
William Horace Anthony, 8 Aug 1819 to Nicholas Anthony and Sarah Nicholson.

William married Elizabeth^ Pollock on 01 Oct 1837 in Tennessee. Elizabeth^ (daughter of John^ Pollock and Mrs. Alice^ "Alsey" (..) Pollock) was born on 31 May 1811 in Tennessee; died on 8 Jun 1888; was buried in Turkey Creek Cem, Moore Co, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Ethnicity: German
• Census: 1850, Dist 25, Bedford Co, Tennessee
• Will: 1859, Bedford Co, Tennessee

Notes:

By the late 1850s, in his late 70s, he was suffering from some form of dementia. In September 1858 a jury was appointed "to examine the lunacy of Nicholas Anthony".[7] In October the jury reported he "was a lunatic and unable to take care of his business," and the court appointed his son Laton J. Anthony as his guardian.[8] Nicholas, who would have been about 78 at this time, died within a year, as his will was proved at the October court 1859, with the widow Sally Anthony and Laton J. Anthony appointed as his administrators.[9] The will itself no longer exists, but later court records make it clear that he left one piece of property to his children and his home place property to Sally during her lifetime with reversion to his children at her death.

The widow, Sarah, appears in the 1860 and 1870 censuses in the household of her son Laton J. Anthony. She evidently died sometime in 1873. A statement filed by George T. Anthony on 1 October 1872 states that his father Nicholas Anthony died in 1858 and his widow still resided on the property where he died.[10] An offer to auction the home place land date 4 February 1873 also mentions the land ?on which his widow resides.?[11] But a document dated 29 September 1873 speaks of the ?estate of our grandmother Sallie Anthony?, implying she was dead.[12] The settlement of her estate by her son Laton J. Anthony occurred after Nicholas Anthony?s death.[13] I failed to note the date.

At his death, Nicholas owned two pieces of property: 114 acres on Thompson's Creek in the 24th Civil District of Bedford County, and the home place of 198 acres in the 25th Civil District in Roseville. The 1860 and 1870 censuses show Sarah Anthony living in the 25th Civil District, and his children later stated that Nicholas (and later Sarah) lived on that property in Roseville. Nicholas Anthony?s lost will must have left the 114 acre tract in equal shares to his children, for they engaged in a protracted court case over the distribution of that land in the 24th District. Six of the children wanted to sell the property and divide the proceeds, while the rest preferred to partition the land. The records of this case clearly show the children (or their heirs) were splitting the property 13 ways because, before the case was settled, several shares and parts of shares were sold, in each case the shares being 1/13. For example, Henry Anthony sold his 1/13 share to George Thomas Anthony prior to settlement.[14] The case was in court before 2 November 1869 because on that date the court acted on the recommendation of a commission it had appointed to consider a partition of the property. The commission laid out a 2/13 partition for George T. Anthony (19 1/2 acres), who owned his own share and Henry Anthony?s share, and recommended the remaining 94 1/2 acres be sold.[15] The land was then sold to William Shofner for $3,780 and the proceeds divided 11 ways -- $341.39 apiece after expenses. George T. Anthony then immediately sold his 19 1/2 acres to the same William Shofner, completing the transfer of all 114 acres.[16] The case was settled on 1 September 1873 when the court clerk recorded that he was holding the money for each of the heirs.[17]

After Sally Anthony?s death (probably in 1875), the division of the 198 acre home place in the 25th District prompted a similar protracted court case, with the petition filed 4 November 1875. It stated that the land contained ?the home in which Sally Anthony had resided at her death and for years before.? Again, some legatees wanted to partition the land and others wanted to sell it and divide the proceeds. This time around, the children traded their shares beginning in 1870, with some shares changing hands more than once. By the time the petition was filed, Layton J. Anthony had acquired the interests of Frederick, Roddy, Mary, Jacob, Elizabeth, and Young Anthony, giving him a 7/13 share, and argued for a partition.[18] He eventually succeeded and ended up owning the family home which he apparently had never left. Note that there were a smaller number of litigants in the 1875 case, with only three of the Anthony children participating.

From Bob's Genealogy Filing Cabinet II:
(Rootsweb Family Tree - Sandra "My Ancestors and Kindred Families" sansgenmail@gmail.com)

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From Bob's Genealogy Filing Cabinet II: A statement filed in Bedford County on 16 November 1870 by Riley E. Stubblefield and wife Sarah E. Stubblefield stated that Sarah E. Stubblefield was a granddaughter of Nicholas and Sally Anthony and one of the surviving children of William Neese and his deceased wife Betsey Anthony.

A similar statement filed 3 August 1872 stated L. W. Yates, M. C. Yates, Mellissa Neese, and Cornelia Neese were grandchildren of Nicholas Anthony and children of William and Elizabeth Neece, both deceased.

A William and Elizabeth Neese appear in the 1850 census of Henry County, Tennessee with Elizabeth age 43 and children named Sara E., Margaret, Mary C., Rebecca, Melissa, Jasper J. Bathara, Eliza, and Emily

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=sans%5Fancestry&id=I55015


Census:
Nicholas Anthony Age 70 farmer 3500 NC
Sarah, 67 f NC
Katharine 27 f TN
Loten (sp) 24 m TN
Jasper 21 m TN

(Jacob Anthony two doors prior)

Will:
October Court 1859, widow Sally Anthony and Laton J Anthony appt administrators. Will no longer exists but later court records make it clear that he left one piece of property to his children and his home place property to Sally during her lifetime with reversion to his children at her death.

Nicholas^ married Sarah^ "Sally" Nicholson about 1803 in Orange Co, North Carolina. Sarah^ was born in 1783 in Almance, Orange Co, North Carolina; died in 1870 in Shelbyville, Bedford Co, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Ethnicity: German
• Census: 1850, Bedford Co, Tennessee

Notes:

Possibly Sarah and Elizabeth are one and the same. However, since Archibald Nicholson left to grandson Young Anthony, named his daughters, indicates Elizabeth, mother of Young, was already deceased in 1821 and Sarah was a different wife. But Sarah was not a named mentioned in Archibald's will; so prob not a sister to Elizabeth; in fact, not sure were researchers even found her name to be Nicholson.

Notes:

The earliest record found for one of Robert Pollock's sons was that of John Pollock who in 1790 appeared on the muster roll of a military unit composed of men from Washington, Sullivan, Green and Hawkins Counties. John Pollock also appeared on he militia roster of the Jefferson Regiment from Hamilton District in 1794 and a Jesse Pollock was on the Green Regiment roster from Washington District. Assuming that John Pollock was a young man about 20 years old in 1790, this would make him born about 1770. This approximation is corroborated by other evidence of his age: on the 1820 census of Bedford Co, TN he was listed as over 45 years of age (born before 1775).

Since no other Pollock men, except for the previously mentioned Jesse, seemed to have served in these units, it seems likely that John was the oldest son of Robert Pollock. This Jesse Pollock was probably from North Carolina and not related. He may have been the Jesse in Seriven Co, GA, in 1806. Robert's younger sons seem to have been born by 1785, judging from their appearance on tax rolls around 1805. This would perhaps set Robert's birth date at about 1740. By May, 1808, Robert's sons appear in the civil records of White Co, TN.

Son John Pollock removed to Bedford Co, TN, although just when is not certain. A William Polk had entered a land claim in Bedford Co. in 1807 on Big Flat Creek, the very area where John Pollock eventually settled, and perhaps this was the son William who had recently fled Anderson Co. John, however, was not listed on a tax roll taken in 1812, unless the John Polk shown was actually him. Joseph Hastings was listed on the 1812 tax roll, however, along with many of his North Carolina kinsmen. John was surely there by 1815 when his son Samuel married Susanna Hastings, although no records were found before February, 1819, when the heirs settled the estate of her father, Joseph.

According to family tradition, John Pollock manufactured gun powder on the Duck River. As previously discussed, he appeared on the 1820 census of Bedford Co, TN. He was listed between the households of Samuel Pollock and James Pollock. Robert Pollock was two households down from him. John's age was listed as over 45 (born before 1775) and the others were young men in their 20's or late teens. They are assumed to be his sons and there were also four other boys in his household, along with two girls and his wife. One of these boys may have been the William Pollock who purchased a tract of land in 1830 in Bedford Co. In 1830 John (listed as John Polk) was shown on the census as a man in his 50's and, therefore, born 1771-1780. This, in combination with the 1820 census, puts his birth in the period 1771-1774.

John Pollock's place of birth is subject to considerable debate. In 1837 in Bedford Co., his daughter Elizabeth married William H. Anthony, a Methodist minister of German descent. Their son, Roddy Anthony, stated that his mother's people (the Pollock's) came from Pennsylvania. He, as well as his brother James Frederick Anthony, said that their Pollock grandmother's name was Alsey. They said their mother had three brothers: John, Benjamin and Robert Pollock with no mention of a Samuel or James. Three of the children of John and Alsey were located in the very important 1880 census which asks the birthplace of a person's parents. The oldest sibling, Robert Pollock, age 81, was living in Bedford Co. He was listed in the household of his daughter Alcie Pollock Longley and he stated that both his father and mother were born in Ireland. His sister, Elizabeth Pollock Anthony, age 68, was living in Moore Co, TN, in 1880. She said that her parents were both born in North Carolina. Her brother Benjamin Pollock, age 77, was also in Moore Co. He said that his father was born in Pennsylvania and his mother had been born in North Carolina.

So, we have three siblings and three different places of birth for their father, John Pollock. Of course, this seems absurd, but it is not that unusual in genealogy where evidence is collected from older folks with their failing memories. The daughter's response of born in North Carolina, of course, contradicts evidence given by her sons as shown above. Discounting the North Carolina answer due to the contradiction, this surely means that the Pollock family was originally from Ireland and that they emigrated to Pennsylvania before the Revolutionary War. John was probably born near the time of the move, but whether in Ireland or in America cannot now be determined. Since they were Protestants, it is likely that they were of Scots-Irish descent from Northern Ireland and probably made their way down the Virginia valley from Pennsylvania perhaps staying in Virginia and/or North Carolina for a while.

John Pollock's wife was named Alsey (spelled variously as Alcie or Alcy) which at the time was a common nickname for Alice. Her maiden name is not known. Estimates of her age from census records are the same as her husband: born 1771-1774. Two of her children listed her birthplace as North Carolina which seems entirely consistent with the other evidence. If this were the case with the common migration patterns being what they were, then she and John were almost surely married sometime around 1790 in what is now eastern Tennessee. This would imply that she came to this area when her family went west from the Carolinas. John and Alsey Pollock were probably in Sullivan Co. when their oldest child John Pollock was born.

Among John Pollock's sons and grandsons, there seemed to be fewer farmers than would be expected and many more carpenters and skilled craftsmen, with the novel occupation of wagon maker (or wagon wright) occurring several times. The occupation of wagon maker was extremely rare in the census records of small Tennessee towns of the mid-1850's. Pollock wagon makers found on the census so far are as follows: John Pollock (Robert, Sr's g-g-grandson), Joseph H. Pollock (Robert, Sr's g-g-grandson), and Benjamin Pollock (g-grandson to Robert, Sr.). It would be most interesting to learn the occupation of John's son Samuel since two of the wagon makers were his sons.
(A portion of "Descendants of Robert Pollock of Early Eastern Tennessee" by John C. Barron)

From the Seibel Family Genealogy the following was found:
John was found with Robert Pollock Esq., Robert Pollock, Jr., Benjamin Pollock and Joseph Pollock. A son-in-law said the Pollocks were from Pennsylvania. John began military service in 1790 performing service in 1790 against the Chickamouga Indians and in a group from Washington, Sullivan, Green and Hawkins counties. In 1793 he was in Gen. John Sevier's Etowah Campaign in Capt. Samuel McGaughey's company. In 1798 in Knoxville, TN, John and Philimon Higgins received a passport to go with their families from Knoxville to Stogdon's Valley [Stockton's Valley?] on the Cumberland River by way of Johnson's ferry on the Clinch River. In 1801 and 1806 he is listed as living in Anderson Co., TN; in 1812 he lived in Bedford Co., TN. He served in the War of 1812 as a corporal in Capts. Wm. Corothers & James Shenaults Bedford Co. inf companies under Col. John Winn and Robert Steel. [http://seibelfamily.net/John1771.htm]

John^ married Mrs. Alice^ "Alsey" (..) Pollock about 1790 in Tennessee. Alice^ was born about 1771 in North Carolina; died before 1850 in Bedford Co, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]