Happy birthday to Sarah Jones Traylor Feb 1, 1780
mother of Nancy Traylor Jones Powell, who was grandmother of Bettie Bass, who was mother of my grandfather, George Rogers
Blogs about the Jones, Bass, Rogers line are here (Stiths to Jones in 4 generations)
HERE (Jones to Rogers)
and Champion-Travis-Traylor-sr-to-Rogers.
So Sarah Jones Traylor was my 4 times great grandmother. She lived until April 4, 1847, dying in Union Parish, Louisiana, where she had been living in her son's household, Samuel Traylor. She was 67.
Sarah was born in Sussex, Sussex County, VA, the second to youngest of 6 children. Her mother's family (the Claiborns) had been active in the governance of Sussex, and some of the men were in the Revolutionary War. I couldn't locate much information about her father, and there were a lot of Frederick Jones. Her father died when she was 11. Her mother lived until 1810, but by then Sarah had married and moved first to Georgia, then Alabama, then finally Louisiana.
She married in Georgia, Champion Travis Traylor, when she was 17 and he was 27. They had 12 children who all lived to adulthood, the third one being my great great great grandmother, Nancy Traylor Jones Powell.
Champion Traylor served in the War of 1812, and thus received land in Perry County, Alabama, which is where they moved before 1817. They lived there until his death in 1832, and it wasn't until 1833 that the land grant was finally signed by Pres. Andrew Jackson.
I also was curious how the young Sarah and Champion went from Virginia to Georgia. One source says their families moved there in 1700. This was a booklet published by descendant, William Traylor of the ancestry of William and Anne Hill.
I'll post about that genealogy tomorrow! (Yes, it might have that date of 1700 wrong!)
Blogs about the Jones, Bass, Rogers line are here (Stiths to Jones in 4 generations)
HERE (Jones to Rogers)
and Champion-Travis-Traylor-sr-to-Rogers.
So Sarah Jones Traylor was my 4 times great grandmother. She lived until April 4, 1847, dying in Union Parish, Louisiana, where she had been living in her son's household, Samuel Traylor. She was 67.
Sarah was born in Sussex, Sussex County, VA, the second to youngest of 6 children. Her mother's family (the Claiborns) had been active in the governance of Sussex, and some of the men were in the Revolutionary War. I couldn't locate much information about her father, and there were a lot of Frederick Jones. Her father died when she was 11. Her mother lived until 1810, but by then Sarah had married and moved first to Georgia, then Alabama, then finally Louisiana.
She married in Georgia, Champion Travis Traylor, when she was 17 and he was 27. They had 12 children who all lived to adulthood, the third one being my great great great grandmother, Nancy Traylor Jones Powell.
Champion Traylor served in the War of 1812, and thus received land in Perry County, Alabama, which is where they moved before 1817. They lived there until his death in 1832, and it wasn't until 1833 that the land grant was finally signed by Pres. Andrew Jackson.
I also was curious how the young Sarah and Champion went from Virginia to Georgia. One source says their families moved there in 1700. This was a booklet published by descendant, William Traylor of the ancestry of William and Anne Hill.
I'll post about that genealogy tomorrow! (Yes, it might have that date of 1700 wrong!)
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