Nancy Wellmon

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• Cemetery: Zion Hill Baptist Church, Burke Co., NC

Family/Spouse: Sampson Wellmon. Sampson (son of Wilkins Wellmon and Mary Wilson) was born in in Cleveland County, North Carolina; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Salina Wellmon
2. Roxana Wellmon
3. Webb Wellmon
4. Fate Wellmon
5. Indinia Wellmon
6. Joe Wellmon
7. John Wellmon
8. Mary Wellmon
9. Chess Wellmon
10. Mallie Wellmon

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

Notes:

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

Notes:

Married:
Witness on marriage record Willis Weathers and Thomas Martin

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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

Notes:

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]

married Katty. Katty and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Military Service: 1777, Virginia; Revolutionary War

Notes:

Henry enlisted in the Revolutionary War Jan. 13, 1777, at the age of 41, he was a 2nd Lieutenant and received a pay of $27.00 a month. He was in the 2nd Virginia Regiment, under Captain William Taylor, commanded by Colonel Christian Febiger. He was at White Plains, New York on Dec. 15, 1778 with the 1st Virginia Brigade, commanded by Brig. Gen. Woodford. He appeared on list "Arrangements of VA Battalion, White Plains, Aug. 1778, as Number 2 Ensign." On May 14, 1780 he was taken prisoner by the British at Charleston, VA., and exchanged in April 1781. Henry was given a new commission with the rank of Captain on May 26, 1781. In 1782, he is the commander of "Company of Second Virginia Regulars," in 1783. He is now a Captain in 3rd Company, Virginia Detachment, commanded by Major Samuel. Finialy, he remained in the Continental Army service until the end of the Revolutionary War, and retired on Jan. 1, 1783.

Henry Moss received 300 acres of land for his service in the war by warrant #1504 issued May 29, 1783. On May 2, 1783, he received 4,000 acres for his three years of service as a Captain, Warrant #614, dated 5-2-1783. All of these warrants of land made Henry a very rich man, but he was already rich before the Revolutionary War started.

Sources:
"Chronicles of Moss Family" by Rose Moss Scott, 1926, Willrose Farm, Chrisman, Ill.;
"Our Heritage" by M.W. Freel, Miller Printing Co., 1956, Ashville N.C.; Murphy NC Library, *6175;
Revolutionary War - 7 years - Captain - receiving for service 4,000 acres in Morgan District, Rutherford County, he lived in Loudoun County, VA, Rutherford and Lincoln Counties, N.C. in 1785; owned land on Harris Creek where it runs into Little Broad river at Double Shoals about 2 miles south to southwest of Lawndale, N.C. (now Cleveland County, N.C. in 1801 Rutherford County.
Henry Moss deeded 70 acres to Howell Moss, of Lincoln County, N.C. - Register of Deeds, Book 3, page 122-26, Dec. 1785;
Samuel Hollingsworth paid to Henry Moss for 15 pounds, for 50 acres on both sides of Mt. Creek - to Henry Moss's old line and to John Snyder's Corner, book "The Moss Family" by Paul Moss, Odessa, Texas, page 9-12, 1795;
Rutherford County Census; Marriage Records, Rutherford Co., N.C. *1800 Census and 1810 Rutherford County Census, settled not later than 1785;
Deed Book J-L, page 215; 23 Sept. 1785. Recorded 19 July 1794 Joel Vaughn of Rutherford County deeds to Henry Moss of same county for 40 pounds, 200 acres on both sides of Broad River, original grant to Vaughn Sept. 1775. This should prove that Henry Moss lived in these areas at the times indicated.

Military Service:
Henry enlisted in the Revolutionary War Jan. 13, 1777, at the age of 41, he was a 2nd Lieutenant and received a pay of $27.00 a month. He was in the 2nd Virginia Regiment, under Captain William Taylor, commanded by Colonel Christian Febiger. Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant July 11 1777. He was at White Plains, New York on Dec. 15, 1778 with the 1st Virginia Brigade, commanded by Brig. Gen. Woodford. He appeared on list "Arrangements of VA Battalion, White Plains, Aug. 1778, as Number 2 Ensign." On May 14, 1780 he was taken prisoner by the British at Charleston, VA., and exchanged in April 1781. Henry was given a new commission with the rank of Captain on May 26, 1781. In 1782, he is the commander of "Company of Second Virginia Regulars," in 1783. He is now a Captain in 3rd Company, Virginia Detachment, commanded by Major Samuel. Finialy, he remained in the Continental Army service until the end of the Revolutionary War, and retired on Jan. 1, 1783.

Henry married Sarah Stephens in 1763 in Surry Co., VA.. Sarah (daughter of James Stephens) was born in 1742 in Sussex County, Virginia; died in 1815 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In his will (probated 21 June 1768 in Sussex County, Virginia) seven children are mentioned after this statement: "I most humbly bequeath my soul to Almighty God that gave it and what worldly Estate it hath pleased the Lord of His great goodness to bestow upon me."

1. To William: "the tract of land I bought of John Sturdivant containing 150 acres, more or less; one featherbed and furniture, one cow and calf." 2. To John: "the tract of land I bought of Joseph Whelborne containing 150 acres more or less; one bed and furniture, one gun, one cow and calf." 3. To Jesse: "five cows and calves, one featherbed and furniture, five pounds current money of Virginia." 4. To Willis: "feather bead and furniture, one pot to hold ____ gallons, two dishes, two plates." 5. To Isham: "boy Matt, one cow and calf, feather bead and furniture." 6. To Sarah: "One feather bed and furniture, one cow and calf, two dishes in Pewter (water jug?) five pounds current money of Virginia. 7. To Mary: "one feather bed and furniture, two cows and calves, two dishes and two brooms."

To my wife Mary: "my young mare and the _____ plates, one feather bed and furniture; Mary also to have the rest of my estate during her widowhood, the to be equally divided among four children - Sarah, Mary, Jesse, and Willis."

Executor: "My loving wife, Mary Date: 8 May 1764 Signed: William X Weathers Witnesses: Edward Petteway John Rives Donald MacInnish

William married Mary Ann Rives. Mary (daughter of Richard Rives and Dorothy) was born in 1728 in Surry Co., VA.; died in 1764. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary purchased land in Bute County ( now Franklin and Warren) North Carolina on May 9 1778. Deed book 6, page 429, shows that she paid 75 pounds proclamation money and quitrents to Kirby Sanders for 246 acres on Crooked Creek. Her Son-in-law, Daniel McKinney, husband of Sarah, had purchased 100 acres on Crooked Creek in October 1777 (Deed book 6, page 309) and this may have influenced her to come to North Carolina. Mary's two sons, Isham and Jesse, witnessed the deed. On April 10, 1798 Mary Weathers sold the Crooked Creek property to Vincent Sanders, 246 acres for 246 dollars. She was, according to the deed living in York County, South Carolina at this time. Her Daughter Sarah was also living in York with her Husband Daniel and six children. Many of the Sussex, Virginia group who had moved to Franklin County, North Carolina migrated together to Mecklenburg, North Carolina and York, South Carolina counties. Mary's deed was again witnessed by Isham and Jesse. Deed book 4, page 72, Franklin County, North Carolina shows Jesse Weathers sold 250 acres for 250 silver dollars to Ruben Rogers of Sussex County, Virginia, 10 Sept 1784. Deed book 6, page 234, Franklin County, North Carolina shows Jesse Weathers sold 214 acres for 150 pds. to John Barrow of Southampton County, Virginia in 1790. Jesses' wife, Milley, is mentioned in the deed, indicating that this may have been the "home place".