Elizabeth (Bettie) Bass Rogers

Begins With a Vowel - Elizabeth

Dad is my grandfather, George, Mother R. is Elizabeth "Bettie" Bass Rogers, and Elmore is an uncle who died in childhood. Taken in Galveston TX. I think her strange skirt was added by the photographer because her legs are still visible through the dark swath.

I haven't been able to find much information on my great grandmother, Elizabeth Bettie Bass Rogers, from my father's side. But there are some interesting facts about her own family tree. Here's a repost from February 12, 2014

Champion Travis Traylor Sr. 

1770 - February 6 birthday... born in Dinwiddie, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, an unincorporated township in a rural county about halfway from Richmond south to the North Carolina border.  His parents were William Michael Traylor who fought in the Revolutionary War, and Priscilla Nanny Perkinson Traylor.

Spanish moss growing on Live Oak trees.

How is he related to me?  Glad you asked.

My generation is 1
My father George is 2
His father George is 3
His mother Betty Bass Rogers is 4
Her mother Mary Ann Elizabeth Powell Bass is 5
Her mother Nancy Jones Traylor Powell is 6
and her father Champion Travis Traylor Sr. is generation 7 from mine, or my 4 times great grandfather.

Champion married 15 Aug 1797 in Wilkes County, Georgia, to the beautiful (of course) Sarah Jones (daughter of Susanna (Sukey) Claiborne (Clairborne) and Frederick Jones.  Since her family was also from Virginia, it seems probable that they were also immigrating elsewhere at that time, and may have settled in Georgia. 

At age 42, in 1812, Champion Travis Traylor (Sr.) fought against the British in the War of 1812.  He received a land grant of 169 acres as a result of this service, in Cahabu, Perry County, Alabama, where he moved before the actual deed was granted.  This is known because his death in Perry County, Alabama occurred in 1832, and the deed was signed by the secretary to President Andrew Jackson in November, 1833.

 From US Archives.

Possibly the Cahaba River near it's intersection with the Alabama River

Now Cahabu is known as Cahawba, the first capitol of Alabama, which has virtually vanished.  Here's a link to information on it...and it's a few miles south of Selma, Alabama, of which you may have heard. 

The Traylors had 12 children, all of whom at least reached their 20th birthday.  My ancestor, Mary Jones Traylor Powell was their third child, born in Oglethorpe County, GA in 1804. They lived there where 6 more brothers and sisters were born, until her little brother, Josiah, was born in 1817 in Selma, Dallas County Alabama. By 1819 the last 2 Traylor children were born in Perry County, AL, which might mean a change of name of the county while they were living in the same place.  There are 2 family Bibles available apparently, which list important life events, mostly in agreement. They state the family moved from Georgia to Alabama in 1820.

By April of 1820, Champion was a Justice in Perry County, AL.

Historic St. Luke Episcopal Church, Cahawba, Alabama

The above photos shared on this post are from .cahawba.com/index.

Champion Travis Traylor died on April 4, 1832 at age 62.  I don't know where he is buried.
Many of my ancestors received land in Alabama, and most of them moved on to Louisiana then to Texas.

And our ancestress, Nancy, married Sept. 19, 1822 to James Moore Powell in that county.  Nancy and James' second child was Mary Ann Elizabeth (Mae) Powell Bass.  Nancy died June 27, 1881, in Old Waverly, Walker County, TX.

Mae Powell married Col. Richard Bass in 1839 in Perry County AL. Their seventh of twelve children was Elizabeth (Bettie) Bass Rogers, born in 1860 in Old Waverly, Walker County TX.  She would become my great grandmother (whom I never knew.)

A blog giving lots of information about her siblings, and my conjectures as to how she raised her children after becoming a young widow is HERE.

Sharing with Sepia Saturday and 52 Ancestors 52 Weeks, a Facebook Group, called Generations Cafe.

Birth anniversary Champion Travis Traylor

Happy birthday today to the ancestor I've been posting about this week. (look at the last three posts about him and his wife.)

Champion Travis Traylor (1770-1832)

Born in Virginia, emigrated to Georgia then Alabama, he served in the War of 1812 for the United States.

I like that name of his.  It just says Old South to me.  Of course he must have been just a regular guy, but I imagine him as being a young man who helped tame the wilderness and brought justice to Alabama.

I am including here some detailed, and referenced notes about his life. Thanks cousin Linda Sparks Starr. (In changing to a larger size type font, it looks a bit run together.  But it was tiny before!)

CHAMPION TRAVIS Traylor 1770 - 1832

compiled by Linda Sparks Starr February 2008

LSS note: Descendants in this line are fortunate to have access to two family records. Each was supposedly written by one of the parents, but the two don't always agree. We don't know how many times either family record was re-copied by hand before ending up in the repository. The general assumption is, the author of "Sarah Traylor's Copybook" is the same person as Sarah (Jones) Traylor; but, she isn't identified as such. Without the Bible's copyright date, we aren't assured this family record was copied from the record written by Champion T. himself. He wasn't the one who added spouses for some of his children. Copybook entries appear first because I came to that data first when compiling this timeline. Differing and new information from the Bible entry was entered along with the copybook entry; duplicate information was not. 

 1770February 6 birth Champion T. Traylor [McKenney] ] JSB note: Someone added "Travis" as his middle name to this record after the original transcriber. (Born) "Tuesday February 6th 1770." [CTT Bible] LSS note: He was born in Dinwiddie County, Virginia where his father, William, was then living. 

1780May 1 birth Sarah Traylor [McKenney] JSB note: Someone penciled in JONES as her maiden name. "Sarah Jones was born February 1, 1780" [CTT Bible]

1792 Wilkes Co. Georgia Tax List, Capt. Edmond Jordan's Dist: Champion T. Trailer 3 slaves, 100 acres (2nd) 50 acres (3rd class) in Wilkes Co. on Indian Cr. adjacent Russell Jones; 1000 acres (3rd) in Franklin Co. on Broad River. [Hudson p. 386] LSS note: The Wilkes Co. property is probably his inheritance from William; 1000 acres is the same amount and in the same county as Randolph Traylor's holdings. To my knowledge no one has located the official record of the grant, thus reason either of them received it. 

1795August 15 marriage Champion T. Traylor and Sarah [McKenney] LSS note: They probably married in Oglethorpe County, but could be Jackson or area of Franklin Co. that became Jackson Co. February 1796.

1797August 15 marriage Champion Travis Traylor and Sarah Jones [CTT Bible] Continuing: "Both Families emigrated from Virginia to Georgia. They were married in Georgia." 

1797 September 19 Witnesses to Jackson Co. GA deed William Sharks (sic) to Richard Nall were Champion T. Traylor, Martin Nall and Randall Traylor [Maddox]

1798September 19 William Sharks (sic) to Randolph Traylor 100 acres on Oconee River Teste: Champion T. Traylor, Martin Nall, Paul Patrick Jr. [Maddox]

1799August 2 witnesses to Oglethorpe Co. GA will Pascal Traylor were William Traylor, James Brooks and Champion T. Traylor. [Oglethorpe Co. Will Bk A p. 87; McRee p. 18; PT transcription]

1799November 9 birth Polly Traylor [McKenney] She "married John Smith" [CTT Bible]

1799Jackson Co. GA Tax List, Wood's District: Travis Traylor [PT citing p. 36]

1801October 12 Champion T. Traylor witness to Jackson Co. deed John Shields to John Evins, land on Big Pond Fork of Oconee River. [Stewart]

1801December 3 birth Paskal B. Traylor [McKenney] "Paschal B." [CTT Bible]

1801December 29 Champion T. Traylor of Jackson Co. GA to Edward Traylor of Oglethorpe Co. GA for $400, on Indian Creek adjacent Edward Traylor on SE, Paschal Traylor on NE, Thomas Traylor on N and Isham Davis on NW, granted to Abner Fogerson, 150 acres ... on south Fork of creek ... /s/ C. T. Traylor. Test: James Brooks, Wm Traylor. [Oglethorpe Co. Deeds Bk D p. 452; Farmer p. 270] 

1802Halifax Co. VA Chancery Court, August Session: Richard Bradshaw vs Thomas Traylor, administrator and ... the legatees of William Traylor dec'd. ... (include) Champion T. [Halifax Co. VA Pleas Bk 21, p. 105 JSB]

1803 February 10 Jackson Co. Court of Ordinary: Petition that Charles Wakefield, admr. Henry Summerall dec'd of Wilkes Co. GA, be ordered to give clear title on land on Brushy Creek which Summerall agreed to give by October next under date May 2, 1790. (The original was witnessed by Champion Travis Taylor (sic.) Granted. [Maddox & Carter]

1804May 6 birth Nancy J. Traylor [McKenney] "May 16, 1804 married J. M. Powell" [CTT Bible]

1805 Champion T. Traylor in Jackson Co. GA drew two blanks in the Georgia Land Lottery [Graham p. 560]

1805December 24 birth William P. Traylor [McKenney] 

1806 July 16 Daniel Clower & Nancy of Jackson Co. GA to Nathaniel Allen of Elbert Co. ... land in Baldwin Co. (recorded in Morgan Co.) wit: W. Penticost, C. T. Traylor JP [Morgan Co. Deeds Bk A p. 399; Farmer p. 48] LSS note: Randolph Co. was created from a portion of Baldwin Co. December 1807; the name was changed to Jasper Co. December 1812. [Everton p. 87]

1807August 4 birth John Traylor [McKenney]

1809January 31 Abel Pennington Sr. of Randolph Co. to Isaac Pennington of Jackson Co. GA ... 345 acres granted to John Wood ... on south side of Black / Beach Creek adjacent to Travis Traylor ... [citation not provided by researcher who shared this.]

1809May 7 birth C. T. Traylor [McKenney]

1810July 15 Jas. J. Burtheimon to C. T. Traylor [Jasper Co. Index to Deeds 1808-1835; Bk 5 p. 166 JSB]

1810January 1 Joseph Bayley to C. T. Traylor [Jasper Co. Index to Deeds 1808-1835; Bk 5 p. 163 JSB]

1810May 7 Personally appeared Elizabeth Croll, Champion T. Traylor and Mary Croll ... James Croll died 12 February ... said he wanted his estate divided among his three children. Traylor said Croll also wanted his mother supported. Widow Mary, plus Hezekiah Lucker and Traylor were to be executors. [Randolph Co. GA Returns 1810, 1811, 1812; Lucas p. 43-44] 

1811January 13 Thomas Dooley Sr. to C. T. Traylor [Jasper Co. Index to Deeds 1808-1835; Bk 4 p. 86; JSB]

1811January 18 birth Thos. Traylor [McKenney]

1812April 6 Joshua Reeves to C. T. Traylor [Jasper Co. Index to Deeds 1808-1835; Bk 5 p. 223 JSB]

1813January 21 birth Samuel Traylor [McKenney]

1815February 6 birth Sarah Traylor [McKenney] "baptized the same year by S. Myers on April 3rd. Married John Hill. [CTT Bible]

1816 February 10 C. T. Traylor to Josiah Horton for $800, 202 1/2 acres in 16th District, Lot #169, grant made to Andrew Brown 8 Dec 1810. /s/ C. T. Traylor. Witnesses: Ben A. Crawford, John G. Smith JP. Rec'd Feb 27, 1817. [Jasper Co. GA Deed Bk 7 p. 629; JSB]

1816April 13 Richard Turner of Jasper Co. to C. T. Traylor of same county for $300, tract in the middle half of Lot #215, 19th District of Jasper Co., part of grant made to James Tweedle of Elbert Co. Witnesses: Eaton Banks, John G. Smith JP. Rec. 22 April 1826. [Jasper Co. Deed Bk 7 p. 257; JSB] LSS note: Eaton Banks is the son of John and Sarah (Traylor).

1816December 19 C. T. Traylor of Jasper to Daniel Doss of same for $4000, lot of land lying in county on waters of Murder Creek, Lot #273, 19th District. /s/ C. T. Traylor. Wit: Sam'l Henderson, John (x) Copling, John G. Smith JP. [Jasper Co. Ga Deed Bk 8 p. 73; JSB]

1817January 27 birth Josiah Claborn Traylor [McKenney] LSS note: Marriages of presumably this same person appear under the name "Joseph". 

1817April 22  C. T. Traylor to David Alowine [[Jasper Co. Index to Deeds 1808-1835; Bk 8 p. 361 JSB]

1817April 22 C. T. Traylor to Jno. Connrell [Jasper Co. Index to Deeds 1808-1835; Bk 8 p. 480 JSB]

1818November 9 C. T. Traylor to J. I. Williams [Jasper Co. Index to Deeds 1808-1835; Bk 8 p. 223; JSB]

1819February 1 birth James Monroe Traylor [McKenney]

1820year of move Champion Travis Traylor from Georgia to Perry Co. Alabama [Bible record located vertical files Georgia Archives. JSB]

1820April 17 Champion T. Trailor listed among the Justices of Perry Co. AL [usgenweb Perry Co. AL]

1822April 24 birth E. S. Traylor [McKenney] "Emma Traylor was born ___ Married Mr. Heard. She raised one child and died." [CTT Bible]

1822September 19 marriage Nancy Traylor (daughter C. T. & Sarah) and James Moore Powellin Perry Co. AL [PT]

1827 Thursday before November 29 marriage Paschall Traylor and Mary Ann Harrell, daughter of Gabriel Harrell of this county. [Selma Courier Nov. 29, 1827] JSB note: They were married by James Craig, Esq. Paschall was son of Champion T. and Sarah according to Family Puzzlers.

1827November 29 Alabama Land Grant to Champion T. Traylor, Perry Co. Receipts #11502 and #11503. [Card Index File at Alabama Archives, Cahaba Land Office. JSB] LSS note: Date comes from Family Puzzler; however, the Land Patents listed at [usgenweb Perry Co. AL] give November 14, 1833 as the date for two grants to Champion T. Traylor, whose death year is recorded as 1832. One grant was for 79.76 acres and the other for 159.825 acres. Both were located 18N 9E, St. Stephens. Could one be to the father and the other to the son? The son was a minor in 1827, but of age in 1833. 

1830Census Perry Co. Alabama: C. T. Traylor had 8 males, 2 females and 20 slaves in his household. [usgenweb Perry Co. AL]

1832April 4 death in Perry Co. Alabama Champion T. Traylor. LSS note: Date from [usgenweb Perry Co.] I have no documentation for the year of his death, other than it is widely reported as such. 

1833January 23 marriage Thomas Traylor and Eliza Bradford in Perry Co. Alabama [PT]

1833 January 23 marriage Sarah Traylor and James Coleman in Perry Co. AL. They had one son, Thomas, who died age 7. [PT citing Hill]

1833January 31 Paschal B. Traylor received a land grant in Perry Co. AL, located S6T17R9 and filed Book 304. [Hahn]

1836October 25 marriage Sarah (Traylor) Coleman and John Hill. They had 11 children. [PT citing Hill]

1837April 10 Alabama Land Patent to Paschal B. Traylor for 79.91 acres, 18N 9E, St. Stephens [usgenweb Perry Co. AL] 

1837August 2 Alabama Land Patent to Josiah C. Traylor for 40.08 acres, 18N 9E St. Stephens. [usgenweb Perry Co. AL]

1838July 6 marriage Samuel Traylor and Emily W. Bradford in Perry Co. AL [PT]

1839May 7 marriage James Traylor and Keziah Bass in Perry Co. AL. [PT]

1839September 10 marriage Emily/Emma Traylor and George Felix Heard in Perry Co. AL [PT]She died October 10, 1840, in Perry Co. AL.

1840death Mary "Polly" (Traylor) Smith in Union Parish, Louisiana [Colson]

1840Perry Co. Alabama Census: James, Samuel, Thomas and Sarah Traylor are found on the same page; John and Leroy H. appear on other pages of the census. [usgenweb Perry Co. AL]

1845January 19 marriage Joseph Traylor and Jemima Ann Harrison. They had six children. [PT] LSS question: Is this Josiah C.?

1850death Samuel Traylor in Union Parish, Louisiana [PT]

1850June 20 marriage (his 2nd) Thomas Traylor and Susan Parham in Union Parish, Louisiana [PT]

1852 January 15 death Thomas Traylor. [PT] 

1855May 3 marriage (his 2nd) Joseph Traylor and Mary Ann Aziek Keith in Jasper Co. Texas. They had seven children. [PT]

1859July death Paskal B. Traylor, age 58 of dysentery in 4th Ward Morehouse Parish, Lousiana [1860 Mortality Schedule] LSS note: He appears on the Dallas Co. AL 1830 and 1840 censuses and then was in Union Parish, LA in 1850. [PT]

1864March 16 death Dr. John Traylor at Waverly, Walker Co. Texas. He married Sarah Simpson. [PT]

1865August 2 death Sarah (Traylor) Coleman Hill in Walker Co. TX [PT citing Hill]

1870January 10 marriage (his 3rd) Joseph Traylor and Charlotte Sheppard in Jackson Co. Texas. They had three children. [PT]

1877May death Champion T. Traylor in Walker Co. Texas. He married Martha E. Olds. [PT]

1880death William P. Traylor in Montgomery Co. Texas. He married Theodocia Hart. [PT]

1881June 27 death Nancy (Traylor) Powell at Old Waverly, Walker Co. Texas. [PT]

1891January 14 death Joseph Traylor in Jackson Co., Texas [PT]

Sources

Oglethorpe County, Georgia Deed Books A-E 1794-1809 by Michal Martin Farmer, Dallas TX 1999

1805 Georgia Land Lottery: Persons Entitled to Draws compiled by Paul K. Graham, The Genealogy Co., Decatur, GA 2005

Morgan County, Georgia Deed Books A-G 1808-1820 by Michal Martin Farmer, Dallas, TX 2002

Notes taken by Johnella Sparks Boynton during visits to courthouses and archives. JSB

Miscellaneous Records Jackson County, Georgia by Joseph T. Maddox, 2nd edition 1984

Miscellaneous Records of Jackson County, Georgia by Maddox & Carter

Gone to Georgia: Jackson and Gwinnett Counties and Their Neighbors in the Western Migrationcompiled by William C. Stewart, 1965.

Oglethorpe County, Georgia Abstracts of Wills 1794 - 1903 by Fred W. McRee, Jr., Lexington, GA 2002

Sarah Traylor's Copy Book transcribed by Miss Cornelia McKinney of Huntsville, TX. Copy of family records on file at Georgia Archives. McKinney

Wilkes County, Georgia Tax Records 785-1805 in two volumes, compiled by Frank Parker Hudson, Atlanta, 1996

Transcription of original court records posted to the usgenweb site and also to the Traylor rootsweb list by Peggy Thompson PT

Some Georgia County Records volume 2: Clarke, Jasper, Morgan, Putnam, Oglethorpe and Green Counties compiled by Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas Jr., Southern Historical Press, 1977

Bible Record of Champion Travis Traylor "copied from the Testament of C. T. Traylor Sr. by Capt. W. J. Hill." Located by Pam Stone at the Walker Co. Texas Genealogical Society. [CTT Bible]

Eleanor Colson for family data. 

Old Cahaba Land Office Records & Military Warrants 1817-1853 by Marily Davis Hahn, revised 1986, Southern Historical Press, Easly, SC

Genealogy of Champion Travis Traylor Sr. and Sarah Traylor, his wife, who was Miss Sarah Jones by Capt. W. J. Hill

The Handybook for Genealogists, ninth edition, Published by The Everton Publishers, Inc., Logan, Utah, 1999

Return to Intro page for TRAYLOR: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lksstarr/TraylorFiles/traylor.html

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Sorry, that email address doesn't work any more.

But the link on rootsweb has interesting information about some possible errors, and some of the older generations of the Traylor family in Virginia.    I will need to look more closely at my Ancestry trees to see if I've copied the errors. 

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When and how did the Traylors get to Georgia?

52 Ancestors, Week 6  Surprise -  Genealogy is detective work.

Yes, a surprise is certainly what I found. After going through the siblings of my great times 4 grandmother, I found none of her relatives moved to Georgia at the time that Sarah Jones Traylor probably did.  There's a record of her marrying Champion Travis Traylor in 1797 in Wilkes County (now Olgethorp) GA.

So I was looking for someone else in her family that she might have moved with before the marriage when she was probably 17 years of age.  

I gave up on her family, and started looking at her husband's, since he was 10 years older than she was. And my conclusion is that they married as they moved to GA, and probably just didn't have any preacher available, or more likely in settling into new land, nobody was keeping good records at that time, they were busier getting crops in and shelters built.  Records might have had to wait years before they were written, with the dates as remembered.

The Trailor family moved to Wilkes County Georgia. But when?

Champion's father William Michael Traylor, Sr. (1733-1792) lived most of his life in Virginia.  
There's some interesting information (which isn't substantiated by documents I have seen) of the next to last of their 11 children was a daughter born in Mississippi in 1778. The last daughter (Mildred) born to William Michael and his wife Priscilla (Nanny) Perkinson Traylor (1740-1782) was born in Halifax County, Virginia on March 30 1782.  Every other child was born in VA.

Nanny Priscilla has no specific date of her death in 1782, but of note is that the record says she didn't die in Virginia, but Wilkes County, GA. However, again this is just an entry into a family tree, without any substantiating documents.  If she gave birth in March in Virginia, would she have moved to GA and then died at age 42, or perhaps 49 if alternate birthdates are to be believed.  

So let's look backwards at this family.  If we start in Wilkes County (now Oglethorpe) Georgia, Champion Travis Traylor's father, William Michael Trayler has probate in 1791 in Wilkes County GA following his death.

There is a probate document which verifies this date.  However several possible death dates are given by various Ancestry members...either In May or August 1791.

William had been in census reports in Virginia in 1782 (Halifax County) and 1783 (Chesterfield County.)  It's questionable for me to see his household in Virginia in 1782 when his wife apparently gave birth there in March, but somehow was in Georgia when she died within that year.  But it's a long year, and maybe traveling from VA to GA was contributory to her death. I think there's a mistake somewhere here, or records recorded in Georgia just reflected her date of death, but not the place.

So both of Champion's parents had died before he married in 1797 in Georgia. His father's executor of his will was Uncle Thomas Traylor, in 1791. Thomas Traylor lived from1742-1817.  So both Wiliam and Thomas were both in Wilkes County, GA.

The reason my records says (now Orgathorpe) is that it was formed out of Wilkes County.  

Wilkes County was one of the original counties created from Indian lands in 1773. The legislature designated the county in 1777 and thereafter divided it many times to form other counties. Its name pays homage to John Wilkes who had championed colonists' issues in the British House of Commons prior to the Revolutionary War. Historians believe that Washington, the county seat, is the first town in America to have been named for the first president.

Oglethorpe County was originally part of a large tract of land surrendered by Creek and Cherokee Native Americans to the Colony of Georgia in the treaty of 1773. The county itself was founded on December 19, 1793, and is named for Georgia's founder, General James Oglethorpe. SOURCE: Wikipedia

And another fun surprise.  There are times Ancestry will show me some information, but then when I try to save it to my own tree from someone else's, it just won't do it.  Uncle Thomas was listed as having 3 children by his first marriage (very late in his life) and one was (in error) our own ancestor, Champion Travis Traylor (1770-1832).  At least Champion wasn't given this second family after all, but that means someone else on Ancestry believes his father was Thomas not William. In my tree, I'm still going with William as Champion's father.

The other fun stuff I didn't expect to run into was names of the Traylor wives.

First WIlliam and Thomas's mother has been listed in most of my trees (other Ancestry members, I mean) as being Elizabeth Neal Traylor (1706-1782) but now I'm given another name in a record of William's birth and christening, that of Mary Traylor. This is the only record I've found with that name, but it's supposedly a primary source being transcribed.

And yet another name comes up on another tree, that of Elizabeth Perkinson Traylor (1698-1775). Which woman was Mrs. Edward Traylor? Elizabeth has either the birth date of 1698 or 1706 so   she would have had trouble giving birth to George Traylor at age 7 but it's more possible at 15

So I'm just leaving notes on Elizabeth Traylor's listing to check on her dates and whether she was a Perkinson or a Neal.

Did any of this tell me when the Traylors emigrated to Georgia?  Not exactly.   Champion's father, William, is on a list of a "Reconstructed Census of Georgia, Wilkes County, 1790-95." It lists just the name "Wm. Trailer."  But the only other name close to that is an Edmund Taylor, who doesn't sound related.

Champion's father died in 1791 in Georgia, with his brother Thomas as executor of the probate.  So I'm assuming it's possible other Traylors were already in Georgia at that time as well.  If I find any more information, you know I'll be talking about it here!

I'm sharing this at Generations Cafe' on Facebook, where many genealogist are following the theme for the week of 52 Ancestors 52 Weeks. I don't know if you have to be a member of the group to see postings there or not. Since I am one, I can't tell!

Sarah Jones Traylor and Champion Travis Traylor

The fun of genealogy is not only finding out that an ancestor is related to other people, or where they lived, or even what they might have done in their lifetimes...it's finding the materials and figuring out if they are accurate or not.  Of course detective work is always interesting to me, and most genealogists.

I think that I must make mistakes, and am always willing to change things I've shared which are incorrect.  But once things are in print, it is often assumed that the researcher knows whereof he speaks.

Yesterday I shared a description of the move of the families of Sarah Jones and Champion Traylor form Virginia to Georgia.  There's a booklet published by a descendant, which says that trip happened in 1700.  I hope it's just a typo.  She was born in 1780, and he was born in 1770.

Here're the book pages that were shared about them...

 Genealogy (in part) of William Hill Senior and Anne Hill his wife prepared by William Traylor Hill

This is the place that a date was given for the emmigration in the year 1700.  That is not accurate.

Author William Traylor Hill is the oldest of the 11 children listed here.

And with the help of Ancestry which gives Sarah Jone's dates and places (minimal, but helpful) I find that her father Frederick Jones died in 1791 when she was 11, in Brunswick VA.  Her oldest brother, Frederick Augistine Jones died in 1793 in an unknown place.  Her next oldest brother died in 1833 still in Surry VA. So it's not possible that either of these brothers would have traveled to GA by the time Sarah was 17 when she married Champion there. Next in line were 2 sisters before Sarah herself.

I'm looking at the lives of these siblings, with whom might an unmarried teen might have traveled with from Virginia to Georgia.  I know she married at 17 in Georgia.  So how did she get there?  Her mother was still alive, but unlikely to have taken this trip, as she lived until 1810, dying in Dinwiddie, Virginia.

Now I'll look at the families of her married sisters.
Sister Mary Herbert Jones married John Wright Withers in Dinwiddie VA in 1795, and had their first children there...then emigrated to Huntsville AL in 1808.

Sister Elizabeth (Betsy) Jones married (probably) a William or a George Mason.  She doesn't have clear birth dates known, nor place, nor place of a wedding or even a death date or place.  There's even another possible husband, Thomas C. MacLin.  Her marriage to Mr. Mason was probably on Dec. 26 1814. And that's all we know about her.  If she influenced her sister Sarah to move to Georgia, we don't have any documentation of her life.

Sarah's last brother Augustine Claiborne Jones has no birth or death data, but he did marry in Brunswick VA in 1807

In looking at her uncles (and aunts) on her mother's side, all are indicated to have lived their lives in VA.

Now I'm checking all the aunts and uncles on her father's side of the family.  Still doesn't look promising, though Uncle Cadwaller Jones moved to Hillsborough, Orange County, NC.

So now I'm going to see how an older man, Champion Travis Traylor, emmigrated to Georgia (Wilkes County) now Olgethorpe so he could marry Sarah Jones.  Where did he come from?