A New Series of Postings Focusing on a Lauderdale Family of the U.S. South
John Lauderdale (1745 – 1830/1840), Father of Sarah Lauderdale Leonard (1)
John Lauderdale (1745 – 1830/1840): Revolutionary War Records, Virginia to Georgia (2)
John Lauderdale (1745 – 1830/1840): Georgia and South Carolina Records to 1790 (3)
John Lauderdale (1745 – 1830/1840): South Carolina Records, 1790-1806 (4)
John Lauderdale (1745 – 1830/1840): Final Years in Tennessee and Alabama (5)
Researchers of this Lauderdale family have not found any single record that identifies all of John and Milbury’s children. To the best of my knowledge, no estate records naming their children are extant for John or Milbury. The 27 September 1962 affidavit of Mattie Conwill Murphy of Clay County, Mississippi, discussed in a previous posting states the following about the children of John Lauderdale and Milbury Mauldin:
John and Millie Maulden [sic] Lauderdale had four children:
1. Sallie, married Thomas Leonard and had 10 or 12 children
2. John Gammell, married Penelope Nichols and had 11 children
3. James, married Miss Henry and settled in Pontotoc Co., Miss. They had several daughters and one son
4. Josiah, married Harriet Birdwell and had four children, three boys, one girl
As the posting linked above indicates, Mattie Murphy appears to have given this affidavit for a DAR application. In making the affidavit, she notes that the information she was providing in the affidavit had been given to her in August 1943 and February 1949 by two granddaughters of John Gammel and Penelope Nichols Lauderdale, Winnie Gartrell and Martha Lauderdale Lusher. Mattie Murphy was a descendant of Josiah Mauldin Lauderdale. A digital copy of Mattie Murphy’s affidavit is here.
As several of the postings linked above show (see here and here), it can be proven that John and Milbury had children Sarah and James, since the 2 January 1795 deeds John made to those children in Pendleton County, South Carolina, which are discussed in the two postings I’ve just linked, name Sarah and James as his children. The deeds also imply that Sarah was the oldest of John and Milbury’s children and that James was born after her. Various pieces of information I’ll mention below corroborate that conclusion.
As another previous posting notes, a Goodspeed biography of Abner Driver Lauderdale, a son of John Gammel Lauderdale and wife Penelope Nichols, gives the names of Abner’s parents and also states that John G. Lauderdale’s parents were John and Millie Maudlin [sic] Lauderdale.[1]
In addition to these three children — Sarah M., James H., and John Gammel — for which there’s conclusive evidence, there are many strong indicators that John Lauderdale and Milbury Mauldin had another son, Josiah Mauldin Lauderdale, who lived in Limestone County, Alabama, as they did at the end of their lives, and who will be discussed in more detail below. A 25 November 1941 letter of Ruth Porter Maxfield, a niece of Mattie Conwill Murphy mentioned above, states that she was a descendant of Josiah Mauldin Lauderdale and that Josiah was a brother of John Gammel Lauderdale.
Here’s a sketch of salient details about the children of John Lauderdale and Milbury Mauldin:
1. Sarah M. Lauderdale, whose full name was likely Sarah Mauldin Lauderdale, was born about 1785 in Wilkes County, Georgia. About 1800 in Pendleton District, South Carolina, Sarah married Thomas Lewis Leonard, son of Thomas Leonard and Hannah Elizabeth James. Sarah died before 1870 (about 1866, according to some undocumented sources) near Alto in Cherokee County, Texas. A previous posting has discussed Sarah in detail, citing documents that ground the statements I’ve just made about her. Sarah Lauderdale and Thomas Lewis Leonard are my 4th-great-grandparents. In a future posting focusing on Thomas Lewis Leonard, I’ll provide information about Thomas and Sarah’s twelve children, in addition to the information I’ve already provided (and here) about their daughter Aletha and husband James G. Birdwell.
2. James Henry Lauderdale was born 12 September 1790 in Pendleton County, South Carolina. As a previous posting notes, this date of birth is recorded in the bible that has passed down among the descendants of John Lauderdale, which originally belonged to John himself, according to family tradition. The bible gives the name of this first son of John Lauderdale and Milbury Mauldin as James, with no middle name stated.
In her book My Henry Family, Jeanne Hand Henry erroneously gives James’ birthdate as 13 September 1795, and, unfortunately, this incorrect date is now circulated widely in published and online trees for the Lauderdale family.[2] As we’ve seen previously (and here), on 2 January 1795, John Lauderdale deeded land to his young children Sarah and James. This deed tells us that James has to have been born prior to that date.
I’m placing the birth of James Henry Lauderdale in Pendleton County, South Carolina, since it appears that this Lauderdale family was living in Wilkes County, Georgia, up to the end of the 1780s and then moved to South Carolina shortly before 1790. By 10 August 1790, when John Lauderdale sold Christopher Williman his Revolutionary land grant in Franklin County, Georgia, the family had settled in Pendleton County, South Carolina. As the record for this transaction discussed in the posting I’ve just linked indicates, John sold the land while living in Pendleton County, South Carolina, and stating that he had lately lived in Wilkes County, Georgia.
A number of documents show James Lauderdale with the middle initial H. These include the 1840 federal census for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, and an inventory and appraisal of James’ property made in the same county on 1 December 1840.[3] As a previous posting notes, James’ descendants have indicated that his middle name was Henry. James’ aunt Anna, sister of John Lauderdale, married James Henry, and it might well be that John Lauderdale and wife Milbury then named a son after this brother-in-law. I have not seen documents spelling out James’ middle name as Henry, but since he had the middle initial H., it’s entirely possible the tradition that he was James Henry Lauderdale is accurate.
As has been discussed, not only may James H. Lauderdale have been named for his uncle James Henry, husband of his aunt Anna Lauderdale, but James married his first cousin Sarah Lauderdale Henry, daughter of James Henry and Anna Lauderdale. Clint Lauderdale thinks that James and Sarah married either in the years in which James’ parents lived in Sumner County, Tennessee, or after the family moved from Sumner to Lincoln County, Tennessee.[4] As the posting I’ve just linked says, it’s thought that the family of John Lauderdale left South Carolina for Sumner County, Tennessee, in 1806, when James H. was sixteen years old. How long John Lauderdale and his family lived in Sumner County is not clear. The move to Lincoln County probably took place between 1810-1815 — but in the absence of records to document this fact, this is just a guess.
By August 1815, James H. Lauderdale was definitely in Lincoln County, since, as the posting linked in the previous paragraph says, on 7 August 1815, James bought thirty acres of land at the headwaters of the Flint River in Lincoln County. The linked posting suggests that by this time, James H. Lauderdale had married his cousin Sarah Lauderdale Henry, or the couple were preparing to marry when James bought land in Lincoln County. I have not seen a record of this marriage. The couple’s first child, a daughter Elizabeth Ann, was born about 1816.[5]
If James H. Lauderdale’s father-in-law James Henry is the James Henry Sr. listed on a tax list in Giles County, Tennessee, in 1812, James Henry was living in a county contiguous to Lincoln County by 1812. Giles borders Lincoln on the west. James Henry made an affidavit in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, on 10 December 1832, filing for a pension for his Revolutionary service.[6] The affidavit states that James Henry had moved to Tuscaloosa County from Tennessee thirteen years earlier, that is, in 1819. The family of James H. and Sarah Lauderdale made the move to Tuscaloosa County from Tennessee along with Sarah’s parents. As previously noted, the family of John Lauderdale is thought to have moved from Tennessee to Alabama in the same year, settling in Limestone County several counties north of Tuscaloosa County.[7]
After appearing on the 1840 federal census in Tuscaloosa County,[8] James Henry Lauderdale died prior to 12 November 1840, when his widow Sarah was granted administration of his estate with John L.S. Foster as co-administrator and with Hardy Foster and Willis Willingham giving bond.[9] A court order for the appraisement of the estate was given on 1 December 1840, and on that date, Hardy Foster, Willis Willingham, Charles S. Bealle, and David G. Jones appraised the estate and returned the appraisement to court.[10]
John Lovelace Savidge Foster and his brother Hardy were sons of John and Elizabeth Savidge Foster of Tuscaloosa County.[11] The Foster family lived a number of miles southwest of Tuscaloosa in the vicinity of a community that came to be called Fosters after the Foster family. A Hardy Foster family cemetery is found in this community, and nearby is the Foster home, also called Cedar Hill or Sylvan Plantation, which is on the National Register of Historic Places and is located on extensive landholdings originally belonging to Elizabeth Savidge Foster.[12] A cemetery named for the Bealle family to which Charles Simmons Bealle, another of the estate appraisers, belonged is also nearby. David Golden Jones also lived near the Fosters, and this is probably why he was an appraiser of James Henry Lauderdale’s estate. James Henry Lauderdale and his father-in-law James Henry lived near the Foster and Bealle families south of Tuscaloosa in township 24 north, range 4 east, sections 15 and 16.[13] This is just southeast of the Fosters community.
James Henry Lauderdale and wife Sarah Lauderdale Henry had the following children: Elizabeth Ann (m. William M. Fuller); Millie C. (m. James Lauderdale Henry); John Henry (m. Mary Margaret Reid); Sarah Henry (m. Wilson Harvey Stanford); Teresa Caroline; and Mary Jane (m. John Flemons Stanford).
3. Josiah Mauldin Lauderdale was born between 1790 and 1800 in Pendleton County, South Carolina. Since it seems evident that when John Lauderdale deeded his land on 2 January 1795 in Pendleton County to his children, he intended to divide the land between all of his children, I think Josiah was born after that date. The deeds John made on 2 January 1795 name his two children born prior to January 1795, Sarah and James.
As we’ve seen, the 1800 federal census for Pendleton District shows John with three males under age 10: James (born 12 September 1790); Josiah; and John (born 13 March 1798). Josiah appears to have been born between 2 January 1795, when his father deeded land to his two older siblings, and 13 June 1797 (nine months prior to 13 March 1798, when his brother John Gammel was born). Josiah would have been born in Pendleton County, South Carolina, since his family was living there at the time of his birth.
As we’ve seen previously, in 1820 in Lincoln County, Tennessee, the household of John Lauderdale contains two males aged 16-25. These are John’s two sons who were not yet married in 1820, Josiah and John G. This census places the birthdates of both sons between 1795 and 1804.
The 1830 federal census enumerates Josiah M. Lauderdale (as his name appears on the census) with a male aged 30-39 as the oldest male in the household.[14] Since it’s clear that this is Josiah, the 1830 federal census corroborates that Josiah was born between 1791 and 1800. The 1840 federal census shows J.M. Lauderdale in Limestone County, pointing to an age of 30-39 for him.[15] Given all the other pieces of evidence I’ve cited about when Josiah was born, it’s evident that this census listing is incorrect — it’s off by a decade — when it computes Josiah’s age.
As noted above, both the DAR affidavit that Josiah’s descendant Mattie Conwill Murphy gave in September 1962 and a 25 November 1941 letter of Mattie Murphy’s niece Ruth Porter Maxfield state that Josiah Mauldin Lauderdale was a son of John and Milbury Mauldin Lauderdale and a brother of John Gammel Lauderdale. Ruth Maxfield’s November 1941 letter is transcribed in Pauline Jones Gandrud’s Alabama Records.[16]
As a previous posting shows, about 1820 in Limestone County, Alabama, Josiah Mauldin Lauderdale married Harriet Birdwell, a daughter of Moses Birdwell. Harriet was a sister of James G. Birdwell, who married Aletha Leonard (and here), a daughter of Josiah’s sister Sarah and husband Thomas Lewis Leonard. Previous postings (here and here) have discussed the shared roots of the Birdwell and Lauderdale families in Botetourt County, Virginia, where they were neighbors living on the James River before branches of both families connected again in north Alabama in the early 1800s.
Another previous posting noted that when Thomas Lewis Leonard and wife Sarah M. Lauderdale sold their 660-acre homeplace in Limestone County on 6 May 1839 as they moved to Alabama, Thomas and Sarah acknowledged the deed (they sold the land to Thomas’ brother John Leonard) before Sarah’s brother Josiah Mauldin Lauderdale as j.p.[17]
The posting I’ve just linked also notes that in October 1827, Josiah became clerk of Round Island Baptist church in Limestone County, to which Thomas and Sarah Lauderdale Leonard belonged, and Josiah’s mother Milbury took the clerk’s position in June 1836. As previous postings note (here and here), Moses Birdwell, whose daughter Harriet married Josiah Mauldin Lauderdale, joined the Round Island church in 1820.
An additional important piece of information about Josiah Mauldin Lauderdale appeared in another previous posting: this is that the family bible that is thought by Lauderdale descendants to have belonged originally to John Lauderdale passed from John to Josiah, and from Josiah to his descendants. The fact that Josiah inherited this family bible is another strong indicator that he was indeed a son of John Lauderdale and Milbury Mauldin.
As noted above, Josiah was a justice of the peace in Limestone County in the latter part of the 1830s and first part of the 1840s. The Limestone County Civil Register of County Officials shows him receiving a commission as j.p. on 18 March 1841.[18]
Some researchers have proposed that Josiah Mauldin Lauderdale is a J.M. Lauderdale who served in Captain Carver’s company of Acee’s Mississippi Mounted Volunteers during the Creek War of 1836.[19] I suspect, however, that this J.M. Lauderdale is a Josiah M. who was son of John Lauderdale and Amelia Wood — that John being a first cousin of Josiah Mauldin Lauderdale. John Lauderdale (1768-1853), son of James Lauderdale and Sarah Mills, was discussed briefly in a previous posting.
Josiah Mauldin Lauderdale died in Limestone County at some point between 10 March 1842, when he appears in county court minutes as a juror, and 13 June 1842, when his brother John G. Lauderdale appealed for administration of Josiah’s estate.[20] John G. Lauderdale was granted administration on 13 June 1842 after giving bond in the amount of $1,500 with John Leonard (spelled Linard in this document) and Nathaniel Hancock. John Leonard was a brother of Thomas Lewis Leonard who married Josiah’s sister Sarah M. Lauderdale. John Leonard’s daughter Sarah married Abner Driver Lauderdale, son of John Gammel Leonard. At the same court session, Edward M. Glaze, James Maxwell, and Jenkins J. Odom were ordered to appraise Josiah’s estate.
Josiah’s perishable property was inventoried 2 August 1842 by Maxwell, Glaze, and Odom, and on 5 August, an estate sale was held.[21] The widow Harriet was a primary buyer, along with her brother-in-law John Gammel Lauderdale. The estate inventory shows notes owed to the estate including one by Harriet’s brother Abraham Marshall Birdwell.
On 22 August 1842, Josiah’s widow Harriet Birdwell Lauderdale petitioned for her share of her husband’s land, which included 166 acres in sections 5 and 6, township 4, range 4 west in Limestone County.[22] Harriet’s appeal for dower states that Josiah left children Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Laprade, and three minor sons, James B., Benjamin M. , and John C. Harriet was allotted a dower share of 55 acres.
On 7 December 1842, John G. Lauderdale filed an account of the sale of corn and fodder belonging to Josiah’s estate.[23] This is the last record of this estate I’ve located.
I have not found a record of Josiah Mauldin Lauderdale’s burial place, nor a record of when and where his widow Harriet Birdwell Lauderdale died. I don’t find Harriet on the 1850 federal census, and assume she died between 22 August 1842, when she received her dower interest in Josiah’s estate, and 1850.
The children of Josiah Mauldin Lauderdale and Harriet Birdwell were Elizabeth Jane (m. Thomas Laprade); James Birdwell (m. Martha Ann Lamb); Benjamin Mauldin (m. Sophia Goodhue Griffin); and John Crutcher (died unmarried at Gettysburg during the Civil War).
4. John Gammel Lauderdale was born 13 March 1798 in Pendleton County, South Carolina. This date of birth is recorded on his tombstone in Bakers Chapel cemetery, Hernando, DeSoto County, Mississippi.[24] A digital image of the tombstone is at the head of this posting. The 27 September 1962 DAR affidavit of Mattie Conwill Murphy discussed above also states this date of birth for John, citing information provided to her by two of John’s descendants, Winnie Gartrell and Martha Lauderdale Lusher.
As also noted above, a Goodspeed biography of John’s son Abner Driver Lauderdale contains some biographical information about John and his wife Penelope Nichols Lauderdale, noting that John was a native of South Carolina, son of John and Millie Maudlin [sic] Lauderdale.[25] A digital copy of this biography is at a previous posting. The biography also states,
The father [i.e., John Gammel Lauderdale] was a planter and mechanic, and was quite a genius in the science of mechanics. He died in 1872 at the age of seventy-four years.
The posting I’ve just linked also has a digital image of a photo of John G. and Penelope Nichols Lauderdale reproduced in Clint Lauderdale’s History of the Lauderdales in America.
Mattie Murphy’s September 1962 DAR affidavit says that John G. Lauderdale and Penelope Nichols married in 1824 in Limestone County, Alabama. A number of Lauderdale researchers including Frances Lauderdale Baxter, a great-granddaughter of John G. Lauderdale, state that the marriage occurred in Limestone County on 8 February 1824 with Reverend Jeremiah Tucker, pastor of Round Island Baptist church, officiating.[26] Penelope was the daughter of John Nichols and Martha Driver. As has previously been noted, Jeremiah Tucker (1782-1841) was, with Thomas Obanion/O’Banion, the first pastor of the Round Island church to which John G. Lauderdale’s mother Milbury and brother Josiah belonged, along with members of the Birdwell family intermarried with the Lauderdale family.
Following his marriage to Penelope Nichols, John G. Lauderdale appears throughout the 1830s in Limestone County records associated with the firm of Lauderdale and Nichols, and also as a justice of the peace. As a j.p., John officiated at the marriage of his niece Maria W. Leonard, daughter of Thomas Lewis Leonard and Sarah M. Lauderdale, to William Marmaduke Johnson in Limestone County on or just after 6 August 1833.[27]
As a previous posting notes, the 1830 federal census record for the family of John Gammel Lauderdale in Limestone County shows a male aged 80-89 and a female aged 60-69 who are very likely John’s parents John Lauderdale and Milbury Mauldin.[28] It appears that John G. Lauderdale’s aged parents spent their final years living with their youngest son and likely died while living with him in the period 1803-1840, perhaps prior to November 1836 when John G. Lauderdale’s family moved from Limestone County, Alabama, to Giles County, Tennessee.
On 16 November 1836, John Lauderdale moved his family from Limestone County, Alabama, to Giles County, Tennessee. According to Clint Lauderdale, this information is recorded in a bible that belonged to Penelope Nichols Lauderdale, which is cited as well by Frances Lauderdale Baxter, a great-granddaughter of John and Penelope, in notes circulated by Frances Baxter to other Lauderdale researchers.[29] Giles County borders Limestone County on the north. Penelope Nichols Lauderdale’s bible states, according to Frances Baxter, that the Lauderdale family returned to Limestone County on 1 January 1841 and then made another final move on 1 October 1846 to DeSoto County, Mississippi, where John G. Lauderdale died 8 August 1872.[30]
As discussed above, in the period between 1841-6 when John G. Lauderdale had returned to Limestone County, he acted as administrator of the estate of his brother Josiah Mauldin Lauderdale, a charge he received from the county court on 13 June 1842. County records show John also continuing to act as a j.p. in Limestone County in this period prior to his family’s move to Mississippi.
John Gammel Lauderdale died testate near Hernando, the county seat of DeSoto County, Mississippi, on 8 August 1872. His tombstone in Bakers Chapel cemetery at Hernando, which was erected by his son Eli Benton Lauderdale, incorrectly gives the year of death as 1873.[31] John’s will is dated 8 September 1871, and was probated 15 January 1873.[32] The will leaves John’s estate in the hands of his widow Penelope up to the time of her death, and names John’s children Abner D., Martha (Lynch), Joseph A., Sarah E. (Brown), Amanda (Robinson), Eli B., and Alfred M. Lauderdale. The will also makes a bequest to the children of John’s deceased son David Crockett Lauderdale, Lillian D. and John David Lauderdale. John made his three living sons his executors, and signed his will John G. Lauderdale with witnesses Thomas F. Johnston, Theodore F. Johnston, and George F. Sanders.
Here’s a complete list of the children of John Gammel Lauderdale and Penelope Nichols, with their full names stated: Abner Driver; Martha Milberry (m. Naphtali Lynch); Joseph Andrew; Sarah Elizabeth (m. Thomas Noble Brown); Amanda (m. Simon Bolivar Robinson); David Crockett; Adeline; John William; James Knox Polk; Eli Benton; and Alfred Moore Lauderdale. Adeline and James died as infants and John William as a young unmarried man. The name Gammel is, by the way, a phonetic rendering of the surname Gamble, a family long connected to the Lauderdale family, whose name was pronounced in the past to sound like Gammel.
[1] Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi, etc., vol. 1 (Chicago: Goodspeed, 1891), pp. 1102-3.
[2] Jeanne Hand Henry, My Henry Family, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Incidentally, Oklahoma (New Market, Alabama: Southern Genealogical Services, 1973), as cited by Clint A. Lauderdale, History of the Lauderdales in America: 1714-1850 (Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1998), p. 87, n. 5. Clint Lauderdale also cites here Pauline Jones Gandrud, Alabama Records, vol. 7: Tuscaloosa County (p. 97). Clint Lauderdale says (p. 86) that James was born about 1790.
[3] 1840 federal census Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, p. 220A; Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, Inventory book 1837-1842, pp. 273-6. The 1830 federal census enumerates James H. Lauderdale in Tuscaloosa County as J.H. Lauderdail (p. 311A). In addition, when James Lauderdale was taxed in 1837 in beat 6, 18th regiment of Tuscaloosa County, his name appeared on the tax list as James H. Lauderdale: see Maggie Hubbard Sudduth, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama Records, vol. 1: 1837 Tax List and Probate Records (Tuscaloosa, 1988), p. 59. When James H. Lauderdale patented federal land in Tuscaloosa County on 4 January 1831, the certificate for this land was issued to him under that name: see Alabama State Volume Patent Bk. 780, p. 74, certificate 7191.
[4] Clint Lauderdale, History of the Lauderdales in America, p. 87.
[5] Ibid.
[6] NARA, Case Files of Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Applications Based on Revolutionary War Service, compiled ca. 1800 – ca. 1912, documenting the period ca. 1775 – ca. 1900, RG 15, file of James Henry, Virginia, S16871, available digitally at Fold3. The pension affidavit states that James Henry would be aged 72 the next April, that he was born in Pennsylvania sixty miles from Philadelphia, and that he gave military service in 1776-7 in Botetourt County with his father Andrew Henry as captain, then volunteered again in October 1780 at Fincastle in Botetourt County where his parents lived. After the war, he moved to Tennessee; the affidavit does not state the year of the move.
[7] On the move of the Henry and Lauderdale families to Tuscaloosa County in 1819, see Clint Lauderdale, History of the Lauderdales in America, p. 87.
[8] See supra, n. 2.
[9] Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, Orphans Court Bk. 2, pp. 88, 163.
[10] Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, Inventory book 1837-1842, pp. 273-6.
[11] See Tuscaloosa Genealogical Society, Pioneers of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama Prior to 1830 (Montgomery: Herff Jones, 1981), p. 87; and Thomas McAdory Owen, History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, vol. 3 (Chicago: S.J. Clarke, 1921), p. 600. See also Find a Grave memorial page of John Lovelace Savidge Foster, created by james foster, maintained by Find a Grave, Grants Creek cemetery, Fosters, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama; Lovelace S. Foster, Fifty Years in China: An Eventful Memoir of Tarleton Perry Crawford, D.D. (Nashville: Bayless-Pullen, 1909), p. 29; and Albert Burton Moore, History of Alabama and Her People, vol. 2 (Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1927), p. 398.
[12] Shirley Qualls and Robert Gamble, “Foster Home (Sylvan Plantation),” National Register of Historic Places Inventory (1984), online at National Parks Service website; and “Foster Home/Sylvan Plantation,” Wikipedia.
[13] On 16 March 1842, Tuscaloosa’s Independent Monitor published a notice (p. 3, col. 3) that on 6 April land formerly belonging to James H. Lauderdale would be sold at the house of Sarah L. Lauderdale, who lived on the land: the east ½ of northwest ¼, section 16, township 21, range 4 east and the west ½ of northwest ¼, section 15, township 24, range 4 east.
[14] 1830 federal census, Limestone County, Alabama, p. 12.
[15] 1840 federal census, Limestone County, Alabama, p. 139A.
[16] Pauline Jones Gandrud, Alabama Records, vol. 88: Limestone County, p. 91.
[17] Limestone County, Alabama, Deed Bk. B 5, pp. 567-8.
[18] Limestone County Civil Register of County Officials, vol. 2, p. 181.
[19] NARA, Indexes to the Carded Records of Soldiers Who Served in Volunteer Organizations During the Indian Wars, compiled 1899 – 1927, documenting the period 1817 – 1858, RG 94, available digitally at Fold3.
[20] Limestone County, Alabama, Court Minutes Bk. 1844-5, p. 138; and Limestone County, Alabama, Orphans Court Minutes Bk. 1835-1843, p. 532.
[21] Limestone County, Alabama, Will Bk. 6, pp. 202-5.
[22] Ibid., pp. 222-3.
[23] Ibid., p. 226.
[24] See Find a Grave memorial page for John Gammel Lauderdale, Bakers Chapel cemetery, Hernando, DeSoto County, Mississippi, created by Rachelle Ashmore Sanders, with a tombstone photo by Sanders. See also J.P. Bell and Mildred M. Scott, DeSoto County Cemetery Inscriptions (Hernando, Mississippi: Genealogical Society of DeSoto County, 1987), p. 16.
[25] See supra, n. 1.
[26] An April 1997 family group sheet for this family compiled by Nancy Breidenthal, which she sent to me, cites an 18 October 1990 letter of Frances Lauderdale Baxter of Hernando, Mississippi, for this information. Frances Lauderdale Baxter (1915-1995), wife of Malcolm Davis Baxter, was a daughter of David Rascoe Lauderdale and Mary Crawford. David was a grandson of John G. and Penelope Nichols Lauderdale. In his History of the Lauderdales in America, Clint Lauderdale has the same date of marriage (p. 91). Clint Lauderdale cites a bible owned by Penelope Nichols Lauderdale. Though he does not state that this is the source of his information about the marriage, I think it’s likely that this bible is the source for this information.
[27] Limestone County, Alabama, Marriage Licenses Bk. 1832-1845, p. 19, no. 1140. The 6 August 1833 date is the date on which William M. Johnson received license for his marriage to Maria W. Leonard.
[28] 1830 federal census, Limestone County, Alabama, p. 11A.
[29] See supra, n. 26.
[30] Information about the 1846 move from Limestone to DeSoto County also appears in the Goodspeed biography of John’s son Abner Driver Lauderdale: see supra, n. 1.
[31] See supra, n. 24.
[32] DeSoto County, Mississippi, Will Bk. 2, pp. 186-7.
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