Monday, May 25, 2015

Places to go, People to see: Virginia

Most of our family in Virginia can be traced back to two areas:  Richmond and Hampton Roads.  My list of locations is far from complete, and the exact properties have yet to be determined.  I am including my questions concerning these locations.  However, these are the places on my genealogy itinerary:

Yorktown

  • Lt. Nicholas Stilwell owned a plantation on the York River "east side of West Creek." He was granted a patent on 200 acres of land, and was a tobacco grower and evaluator. In this capacity, he most certainly knew John Rolfe and his wife, Pocahontas. He was also a leader in the third Ango-Powhatan War, personally capturing Opechancanough. (Most of the male captives were sent to Tangier Island). In 1646, after the Anglo-Powhatan wars, Nicholas abandoned his plantation and and left for Graves End colony on Long Island.
Richmond

  • Henrico County - John Adam Zaun m. Elizabeth Louisa Wellner in 1868, about one year after immigrating from Germany.  How did they end up in Virginia from New York?
  • Brookland, Henrico - Mary Elizabeth Stevens m. George J. Powell from Ireland.  Son, Jefferson Monroe Powell, born 1862
  • Powell home, Henrico (see photo below) - three generations in my direct ancestry:  George J. Powell?, Jefferson Monroe Powell and Marie Louise Judd Powell, Georgia Ella Powell 
  • Tuckahoe, Henrico - George and Ida Rene Abbott, & three daughters Miriam, Audrey, & Jacqueline. 
  • Laurel Reformatory - Ida Rene's son Rawley Butler, inmate.  Ida's stepson Earl Butler worked there as a guard. 
  • Methodist Children's Home, Broad Street - residence of Earl, William, and Rawley Butler after their father's death in 1904.
Where is/was this Powell home located in Henrico County?

Southhampton County/Isle of Wight County

  • Lazarus Cobb, 1764-1829; son John born 1740
  • John Monroe Bryant m. Deborah Joyner 1782; Bailey Bryant born 1787
  • Bailey Bryant m. Dizzy Underwood, 1803; son Jacob B. Bryant born 1804
  • Jacob B. Bryant m. Temperance Owens, 1827; Eley Bryant, born 1829
  • Margaret Cobb m. Eley Bryant, 1858; twin daughters Ida Rene and Addie born 1868

Map of southampton county va
Southhampton County

  • Ridly's Mill Pond - Bailey Bryant in his will left his property "bounded by the Heirs of Amos Stephens and Ridley's Mill Pond" to be sold.  He left his wife the "land formerly owned by Thomas Fitzhugh," to be loaned at her death to Jacob B. Bryant. 
  • John Bryant m. Mary Monroe, 1760; John Monroe Bryant born 1762
  • Joshua Joyner born 1730; daughter Deborah born 1762


Map of isle of wight county
Isle of Wight County
Princess Anne County

  • Land of Promise Plantation, Pungo - Blucher & Addie Fletcher, Margaret Cobb Bryant
  • Princess Anne - Ida Rene Bryant m. ? Williams
  • Princess Anne - Ida Rene Williams (widow) m. William Butler, 1895
  • Norfolk - Ida Rene Butler (widow) m. George Wright Abbott, 1904
  • Norfolk - Addie Blucher (widow), boarder, Ocean View
  • Norfolk - Ernest Earl Zaun, boarder at 10th Street.
  • Norfolk - Ernest Earl Zaun, bookkeeper, Dalton-Bundy Lumber Co. (renamed Randolph-Bundy Inc. in 1985 after bankruptcy reorganization)
  • Norfolk - 35th Street - Earnest & Jacqueline Zaun, John and Gail
  • Norfolk - 37th Street - Horace C. and Teresa Crofford
  • Norfolk - Llewellyn Ave - Horace C. and Teresa Crofford, Sonny & Virginia
  • Norfolk - Newport Ave - Earnest & Jacqueline Zaun, John & Gail
  • Virginia Beach - Earnest Earl & Jacqueline Abbott Zaun, Witchduck Road
  • Virginia Beach - Mayflower Apartments, Jacqueline Zaun


Lynchburg

  • William B. Butler and Ida Rene, at intersection of Cabell and Rivermont.
  • Earl, William, and Rawley Butler - sons of William & Ida (Earl may have been a stepson)
  • Southern Railway - William Butler, engineer
  • Masonic Lodge - William Butler, member
  • Spring Hill Cemetery - William Brown Butler, 1842-1904




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