Mary Angleline Wellmon

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• Cemetery: Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Cleveland County, NC

Mary married Leonidas Sylvanus Gardner on 14 Dec 1884. Leonidas (son of Thomas Gardner and Mary Jane Williams) was born on 26 May 1856 in Cleveland County, North Carolina; died on 29 May 1924 in Cleveland County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Cloyd W. Gardner was born on 12 Oct 1885; died on 17 Oct 1959 in Durham, NC.
2. Paris Cleveland "Cleve" Gardner was born on 30 Jan 1887 in Cleveland County, North Carolina; died on 16 Sep 1974 in Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina.
3. Vada Royster Gardner was born on 15 Feb 1888 in Cleveland County, North Carolina; died on 16 Jul 1909 in Cleveland County, North Carolina.
4. Infant Gardner was born on 21 Apr 1889; died in 1889.
5. Zebulan "Zeb" Clifton Gardner, Sr was born on 8 Jul 1890 in Cleveland County, North Carolina; died on 1 Mar 1962 in Fayetteville, NC.
6. Vernia N C Gardner was born on 29 Dec 1891 in Cleveland County, North Carolina; died on 20 Nov 1912 in Cleveland County, North Carolina.
7. Dure Belle "Dump" Gardner was born on 28 May 1893 in Cleveland County, North Carolina; died on 10 May 1936 in Cleveland County, North Carolina.
8. Cleo Gardner was born on 5 Jan 1895; died on 4 May 1925.
9. Bryan Sylvester Gardner was born on 16 Apr 1896 in Cleveland County, North Carolina; died on 30 Jan 1950 in Cleveland County, North Carolina.
10. Willie Jane Gardner was born on 9 Jul 1897 in Cleveland County, North Carolina; died on 1 Aug 1978 in Cleveland County, North Carolina.
11. Mildred Myrle Gardner was born on 5 Feb 1899 in Cleveland County, North Carolina; died on 29 Jun 1952 in Shelby, Cleveland County, North Carolina.
12. Clonel L. S. Gardner was born on 5 Feb 1899; died on 22 Jul 1899 in Cleveland County, North Carolina.
13. Dollie Gardner was born on 28 Mar 1900; died on 20 Nov 1900.
14. Gladie Marzone Gardner was born on 9 Jul 1906 in Cleveland County, NC; died on 28 Feb 1991 in St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Cleveland County, North Carolina.

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• Cemetery: Wellmon/ Zion Baptist Church Cemetery, Cleveland County, NC
• Military Service: Civil War CSA

Notes:

From P. Cleveland Gardner's notes: He bought a farm just South of his father's homestead upon which he and his wife settled and reared a large family. Some years later he erected a large two story house just West of where he first settled, which residence is occupied by his son and known as the Wellmon Homestead. His father died will still in the prime of life and left a large family, and he administered upon the estate of his father and purchased the interest of the several heirs and took care of his mother who lived to of old age. He is buried in the family plot with his father.

Military Service:
William served in the military in 56th Regiment NC Infantry CO F The 56th Infantry Regiment completed its organization in July 1862, at Camp Magnum, near Raleigh, NC. Its members were recruited in the counties of Camden, Cumberland, Pasquotank, Northampton, Orange, Cleveland, Alexander, Rutherford, and Mechlenburg. It fought at Gum Swamp, Plymouth, and Drewry"s Bluff, endured the hardships of the Petersburg trenches south of the James River, and saw action around Appomattox. The regiment had 149 men captured at Gum Swamp, lost 4 killed and 84 wounded at Plymouth, and reported 90 causualties at Ware Bottom Church. Many were disabled at Sayler's Creek, and only 9 Officers and 62 men surrendered with the army of Northern Virginia.

William married Rebecca Gladden on 13 Feb 1849. Rebecca (daughter of Squire John L. Gladden and Patience (Patsy) Hardin) was born on 28 Oct 1831 in Rutherford County, North Carolina; died on 15 Nov 1876 in Cleveland County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Cemetery: Wellmon/ Zion Baptist Church Cemetery, Cleveland County, NC

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From P. Cleveland Gardner's notes: They had some twenty-one children, twelve of whom lived to marry and raise children.

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• Cemetery: Wellmon/ Zion Baptist Church Cemetery, Cleveland County, NC

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Buried in family plot off Zion Church Road on Wilson-Cornwell Road.

William married Rebecca R. Weathers on 7 Nov 1816 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. Rebecca (daughter of Willis Weathers and Polly Mary Lynn) was born on 9 Aug 1797; died on 26 Jul 1879 in Cleveland County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Cemetery: Wellmon/ Zion Baptist Church Cemetery, Cleveland County, NC

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Married:
Witness on marriage record Willis Weathers and Thomas Martin

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• Cemetery: Gladden Family Cemetery
• Occupation: Public School Teacher : Singing School Teacher : Justice of the Peace

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John L. and Patience Hardin Gladden lived above Shelby, NC on the 1st Broad River near Double Shoals and Lithia Springs.

From notes of P. Cleveland Gardner written in the early 1930's:
According to reliable family tradition John L. Gladden was born in South Carolina, probably just across state line adjoining Cleveland County, North Carolina, and his mother died when he was ten (10) days old, leaving him with his father. And his father placed him with James Lucus and wife Rebecca Lucus. In the old family bible of John L. Gladden, now in the possession of his grandson, Ansil C. Gladden of Blacksburg, South Carolina, Route #1, we find the following record in the hand writing of John L. Gladden, to wit: "Rebecca Lucus died July 26, 1838, age 73 years"; "James Lucus died November 19, 1841, age 78 years, 7 months, and 14 days". It is not known at present time just where this Lucas family lived. However it is possible that the Lucas family lived at the old Botts homestead some three miles north of Shelby in Cleveland County, since there is an old grave yard on this place in which members of a Lucas family were buried, and in which John L. Gladden and his wife , Patience Hardin , werer buried. John L. Gladden was a man of unusual natural ability, with a mind trained and developed far superior to that of almost any man of his community during his time. Evidently the Lucus family which reared him were well educated, and hense provided an opportunity for schooling the infant child placed in their custody. John L. Gladden was the most prominent pubic school teacher, and singing school teacher, of his day. Also, he was for many years Justice of the Peace, and member of the court of "Pleas and Quarter Session", of Cleveland County. He was "attorney and counselor" for the people of his community. He probably drafted more wills, deeds, mortages and liens, and married more people, than any other one man of the community in which he lived. Following his first marriage it seems that he settled at what is now known as the old Botts homestead North of Shelby in No. Six Township. He later resided one mile west of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church on No. Nine Township, now known as the old homestead of the late A. Dillard Hamrick. Here he owned a farm and lived during the civil war, and kept post office, the office being kept in his home. I understand that the name of the Post Office was "Beams Mill". This post office when first established was kept at the home of Andy Beam on Buffalo Creek some two miles Northeast of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, and took its name from the late Andy Beam who owned and operated a corn mill and other machinery on said creek. The post office kept by John L. Gladden in his home during the war was the only post office in the entire community for miles around. He was living here when his first wife died, and he carried her back to the old Lucas grave yard on the Botts farm and buried her there. He was buried by the side of his first wife.

John married Patience (Patsy) Hardin on 26 May 1819 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. Patience was born on 15 Aug 1802 in North Carolina; died on 6 Feb 1868 in Cleveland County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Cemetery: Gladden Family Cemetery

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• Occupation: Farmer
• Military Service: Abt 1778, North Carolina; Revolutionary War

Notes:

Born In Maryland in 1763, moved with his mother to Virginia when a young boy; From there he migrated south with his parents at the end of the revolution. He stopped in that portion of Rutherford County that is now Cleveland and hired himself to a farmer. His parents moved on to Alabama. He served three months as a private in Capt. Elias Langhorn's company in Col Lock's Regiment. He was a guard at Salsbury. He died in 1857 at his home in Cleveland County. He resided about one mile west of Fallston and owned some 1600 acres of land between Fallston and Beam's Mill.

From the notes of P. Cleveland Gardner:
The name Wellmon has been spelled several different ways, to-wit: Wilburn, Welburn, Wellons and Wellman. However the family settling in Lincoln and Cleveland Counties of this state have always spelled their name "Wellmon". The given name William has always been a fovorite name in the Wellmon family, and in every generation of the Wellmon family we find the name William.
WILLIAM WELLMON THE FIRST: Written records now in the possession of Catharine (Cary) Wellmon Williams, who resides on the Shelby-Morganton Road at Beams Mill, and who is the only living child of William Wellmon, the first, show that William Wellmon the first was born March 12th, 1763, and died September 5th, 1857. Family records says that he was born in the State of Maryland, and that his Mother's name was Katty Wellmon. While he was a young boy his mother married George Riley in Maryland and moved to Virginia, where they resided until young William Wellmon was probably 16 years old. The entire family then continued their march Southward, young Wellmon stopping and hiring to a farmer in Lincoln County, now Cleveland County, and his mother and step father going on to the State of Alabama. It is said that young Wellmon and his mother corresponded with each other for many years, or until the death of his mother.
WORKED AS HIRED HAND: It is said that William Wellmon the first on coming to North Carolina hired to a farmer who resided about one-half mile South of the present site of Waco (formally known as Ramsey's crossing). The name of the farmer is unknown. However, the exact location is pointed out at this date as being the farm later owned by Laws Botts, and later occupied by Morgan Poole.
FIRST MARRIAGE: How long this young Wellmon worked as a hired hand prior to his marriage is not known, nor is the date of his marriage known. It is very possible that immediately after his marriage with miss Moss that he either rented or purchased a farm upon which he settled and remained the remainder of his long life. This farm lies on the West side of the Shelby-Morganton Road, About one-half miles Southwest of the present site of Fallston, formally Rutherford County, now Cleveland County. It is said that he was a shrewd trader, also that he was a man of fine judgement, and was a hard worker. And by the use of these he accumulated considerable property and became one of the leading citizens of his time. He owned some 1600 acres of fine farm land, which includes the present site of the town of Fallston, and extending and lying between Fallston and Beams Mill and Double Shoals. He also owned a number of Negro slaves some who were Jack Wellmon. He and two wives and a number of his children and relatives, were buried in the family grave yard on the Wellmon old homestead and in sight of the home.

Military Service:
CAPT ELIAS LANGHORN CO, COL LOCKE NC REGT
Service Source: BWL #56857-160-55

William married Nancy (Peggy) Moss about 1788. Nancy (daughter of Henry Moss and Sarah Stephens) was born in 1773 in Rutherford County, North Carolina; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Cemetery: Wellmon/ Zion Baptist Church Cemetery, Cleveland County, NC
• Military Service: Revolutionary War

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Prior to his residence in Rutherford County ( now Cleveland), North Carolina, Willis had served in the Revolutionary War. His pension application id GSA File 57862. In this document Willis states that he entered service from Franklin County, North Carolina on 28 September 1780 as a drafted militia man under the command of Captain Jenkins Devaney in Colonel Heart's regiment later commanded by Colonel Brench under General Jones. He also said that he marched to Waxaw in South Carolina and returned and was discharged at Providence, North Carolina and entered service again as a volunteer in the fall of 1781in Franklin County, North Carolina for a term of twelve months under Captain John McKees who was under General Sumner. He later marched into South Carolina under Captain Hall in General Green's army and was discharged at Bacon Bridge in South Carolina. He stated that he had no record of his age. (Willis was born 29 March 1758 and christened 1 May 1758 with Ben Tomlinson, Edward Smith and Sarah Bradley as Godparents. This record is from Albemarle Parish Register kept by Reverend William Willie of Surry and Suxxex Counties in Virginia.) He adds that he was living in Franklin County when he entered the military; that he lived 11 years in York District, South Carolina and 3 years in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina and has lived in Rutherford County since that time which has been upwards of thirty years. He states that he was acquainted with Colonel Little (probably Lytle), Major Dunahoo, General Green and major Armstrong. He claimed that he had a discharge from Captain Hall but has since lost it. He named Drury Dobbins and John Bennett who could testify as to his character and veracity and their beliefs as to his services in the Revolutionary War. Drury Dobbins and John Bennett did sign a statement saying that they believed Willis to be a soldier in the Revolutionary War. William McKinney swore that he was acquainted with Willis Weathers and knows of his entering the service for twelve months. (William McKinney's mother was Sarah Weathers, sister of Willis Weathers) William McKinney served as a soldier in the Revolution with Willis during Willis' second term and stated that he has good reason to believe that Willis had served the other term as claimed since he had been acquainted with him throughout his life and that he had always been an esteemed and upright and a truthful individual. "Certificate 16795 issued 25 September 1833, Rate Fifty Dollars per annum Commenced 4 March 1831, Act of 7 June 1832 North Carolina Agency". This appears on the GSA records in Washington D.C. His death date is not included, but his grave marker in the Wellmon cemetery, Cleveland County, North Carolina gives the date of 1840. In "The History of Zion Church" by Lyda Poston, the author states that the first plot of land for the church was three acres purchased from Willis Weathers 5 April 1814. This land was located near the old Weathers Mill, later known as the old Lutz Mill. The land was bought for twenty dollars by the Anabaptist Church or Society at Zion. J.D. Weathers (Devaney) and A.G. Weathers (Albert), sons of William and grandsons of Willis, are listed as deacons serving the early period of church history.

of Original Deed To Zion Baptist Church Number Six Township, Cleveland County, North Carolina
Willis Weathers to Samuel Bailey, William Covington, and Mark Dedmon, Commissioners or the Ana Baptist Church or Society at Zion.
Dated April 5, 1814
Consideration $2O.00
"a part of tract whereon said Willis Weathers now resides" .... "containing three acres" .... "for the use and benefit of the said Society at Zion or Meeting house as above mentioned forever"--
Willis Weathers (seal)
Witnesses:
John Martin William Dedmon
The above deed was proven in open court by the oath of John Martin Nov. 18, 1844 and ordered to be registered. Registered November 23, 1844 in Book 3rd, No 23rd, by William H. Green, Register._______________________________________
The attached Original deed was discovered in courthouse of Cleveland County, N.C., by P. Cleveland Gardner, County Historian on the 8th day of July 1938 and by him delivered to Mr. Lee B. Weathers on the 9th day of July 1938, to be preserved by him etc.

Willis married Polly Mary Lynn. Polly and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Cemetery: Gladden Family Cemetery

James married Rebecca. Rebecca was born in 1764; died on 26 Jul 1838. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Cemetery: Gladden Family Cemetery