Back to Virginia

For eleven years my husband and I have been traveling like nomads through Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina and finally Tennessee.  We have been living in Nashville for the last three years, but now we are going back to Virginia.  In the next week, I will be posting memorable pictures for Nashville and the surrounding areas.  I hope you enjoy.

My husband and I took the tour of the grounds and house last year.  We found the tour of the house to be very interesting and some say that the character of Scarlet O'Hara was based on the lady that owned this house during the Civil War.  If you are ever in Nashville and have plenty of time to visit this house stop off for a trip.  It is right in Nashville so there is no travel time to a adjacent town or a country estate.

James Brumfield

All I have been able to prove so far is that a James Brumfield came to Virginia in March 1672, transported here by Robert Taliaferro.
Yesterday I went to the Tennessee State Archives to look for the Vestry Book of Abingdon Parrish.  I was extremely disappointed that they did not have a copy.  I had read in several family genealogies that referred to a vestry record of Abingdon Parrish Church in Gloucester County where James Brumfield lived and in which James II and several other siblings births were recorded.
So I am going to have to search for these records.
The internet.
The internet archives has a book "Colonial Churches in the Original Colony of Virginia" in which he describes the early colonial Gloucester and Abingdon Parish. According to this book on page 190, the Abingdon Parish had 570 residents from 1677 to 1761.  On page 190 and 191, they alphabetical list resident's surnames and among those residents is a Bromfield.

James Brumfield

It has been quite a long while since I last wrote, but it is my intention to write three posts a week for the next few months and hopefully more.  I began searching my Brumfield relatives this spring.  In my past posts I was working my way backwards, but now I would like to begin with my first direct Brumfield relative James Brumfield that settled in the New World.  Now this does not mean that there were no Brumfields before he came.  This only is the only that I believe to be a direct descendant.  There was a young James Brumfield that came to Jamestown in 1607, but there is no positive proof as to what happened to him.

1.  James Brumfield married to Peshee Sutton.  Immigrants from England to Virginia on March 17, 1672.  They were transported here by Robert Taliaferro to Old Rappahannock County.  
Lived in Gloucester County.
Possible Children:
Robert, Martha, Isabel, James, Ann, William

Can I prove these facts, I don't know.  

First I went to the Library of Virginia in their Digital Memory Collection.  I found the land patent given to Robert Taliaferro March 17, 1672 conveying acreage to him for transporting colonist to the new world.  Lo and behold, they named  the colonist and in it was the name Peshee Sutton and below her name was James Brumfield.  Another Brumfield is also listed.  I could not distinquish the first name, though.
You can find this patent in the Digital Memory Collection Virginia Land Patents.

So here we have proof that James Brumfield and Peshee Sutton knew each other and they were here in 1672.
The Land was located in Rappahannock County.  There is a possibility that James and Peshee lived in Old Rappahannock when they first arrived.  That county is now extinct and the records are held at Essex County, Virginia.  Old Rappahanock was formed from Lancaster County in 1656 and became extinct in 1692

https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/(Old)_Rappahannock_County,_Virginia_Genealogy
I looked on this page for information about the Brumfield family and did not find their name listed.

While searching for family ancestry I also looked for the history of the era.  I have attached a link for 1672 below.
http://www.brainyhistory.com/years/1672.html
During that year England and France declared War on the Netherlands.

More Mystery Pictures

These are more of the pictures that may be a part of the Ramsey or Clack Stone family.  As before, if anyone knows the identity of these people, please write.

 There is a date on this picture of 1894.  It isn't a tintype.  The back of the picture says send your cabinet and get 12 miniatures for 25 cent posted note.  They said no tintypes copied.  F. J. Walsh, No. 353 Perry Street, Trenton, NJ.

There was no zip code, of course.  Zip codes did not come into existence until 1963.    It looks like this young fellow was dressed in a sailor suit or it could be a girl, but my first impression was of a boy.

 This picture was on a tintype.  I don't know what kind of outfit the little boy is wearing.  Looking at it a little more closely I believe this may be a little girl with her hair pulled back.

 This picture was taken by C.A. Pugh Photographer of Chatham, VA.    This is a handsome young fellow with a spiffy outfit.  It would be a shame for him to remain anonymous.

This is unknown woman on a tintype.

George W Dove

This is a picture of George W. Dove.  He was married to Cornelia V. Ward Walden.  Cornelia was married to Littleton Tazewell Walden until his death due to a riding accident before the War Between the States.  George W. Dove met his untimely death in 1895 so this picture would have to have been taken before then.  Their daughter was Rose/Rosa Lee Dove who was married to Albert Lee Dalton.

Above is a picture of Albert Lee Dalton and Rosa Lee Dove.


If anyone has a picture of Cornelia Ward Dove, I would really like to have a copy.

Pictures from the Past Possibly Ramsey or Stone Family

 I have no information on this man other than that it was taken on a tintype.  This process of photography was used between 1856 and 1940, but mainly during the nineteenth century.

The Photography studio for the above young ladies picture was C.R. & A. H. Blunt located in Danville, Va.  I have been searching for a date for the picture.  I already found where the photographer A. H. Blunt committed suicide on June 13, 1912. They also said that he was a photographer in Danville, Va.  I found that in the Magazine Bulletin of Photography Volume 11.

 This picture was taken by the Edwards Excelior Photograph Gallery  804 Main Street Lynchburg, VA.  By the fashion of his clothes I would say this was taken during the 1880s.

Someone kindly wrote this fellow's name on the back of the picture.  His name is Samuel Stone.  They also said that he was Aunt Chappies' youngest brother.  Oldest brothers were Eddie Stone, Jimmy Stone, Clack Stone.  This was also taken by A. H. Blunt.


About a month ago my brother gave me these pictures.  His mother in law gave them to him.  I don't know the exact particulars, but they supposedly are people that have a relation to the Ramseys or the Bennetts of Pittsylvania County, Virginia.  Above are the first four photos.  As before, if anyone has any idea about the relationship of these people, please write.  There was a Clack Stone in the ancestry.com that had a brother named Jimmy.  They served in the Civil War and someone used this Stone to apply to be in the SAR.

Jefferson Genealogy

For the past few months I have been jumping from my Jefferson family genealogy to my Brumfield family genealogy and not getting anything completed.  I think one of the most important aspects of a good genealogist is sticking to one family tree and completing before beginning another.  So don't do as I do, but do as I say.  I have a Jefferson tree that I know is correct, but I am not satisfied with all my evidence.  I need to shore up my tree from William Thomas Jefferson 1834 to 1912 to Eros Gray Bailey born from 1901 to 1974.

I don't have to prove that William Thomas Jefferson existed because that has already been proven and I wrote about those proofs in prior blogs, but I have to prove that Henrietta Jefferson that was married to Robert L Bailey is William Thomas Jefferson's daughter.  I have a marriage license in my possession that has Henrietta marrying Robert L. Bailey and it states that she is the daughter of William Jefferson and Matilda J Jefferson.  That I think should be proof enough for that generation.  I found that marriage license in Pittsylvania County Circuit Court.  Now Henrietta and Robert had eight children and one of them was my grandfather Eros Gray.  I have a death certificate for Eros Gray, but it has no mother listed.  I don't know why.  I do have a 1910 census listing Robert S Bailey and Henrietta Bailey with Eros listed as their child.  I also have Eros Gray Bailey and Kizze Mae Crawley's Marriage license.  Eros listed his mother as Henrietta Bailey.  I believe that to be enough to prove everything.  I do have some other problems.  I do not know the dates of birth for Henrietta and Robert.  Now I have found Robert's tombstone in Tosh's, Virginia, but it is not legible as you can see.  It looks like he was born on September 26, 1863 and died on January 6, 1921 or 1924.  I do have a marriage license which says that Robert was 23 on at the date of his marriage and that date was October 26, 1885.  That would mean that either Robert didn't know the exact date of his birth or the tombstone is correct.  As I stated before I found the 1910 census and Robert has his age as 47.  I looked at the census and it was taken in April of 1910.  If this census is correct, then he turned 47 in 1909 making his birth year 1862.   I would certainly like to find more information about his age and maybe I can find more accurate information.  I just spent an half hour looking at the Danville Bee on Ancestry.com for an obituary so either he died before 1922 or I just couldn't find it in an half hour.  In all probability it is 1921.  I have also looked under family history and mocavo.  I will try again tomorrow.