Yardley, Sarah N. (b. AUG 1850, d. ?)

Note: The date of birth conflict with the death of Sarah father which is given as 28 Nov 1848.

Note: FamilySearch.com Mormon database.
Thomas N Yardley b 1846 Big Spring Rutherford Tn.
Parents John Washington Armstrong Yardley, Sarah Fulks parents John Daniel and
Betsy Fulks. Mother Mary Ann Rawlinngs.
B 1825 Rutherford Co Tn, Buried Clark, Arkansas, Old Rome Cem
married 15 Dec 1842 Rutherford Co Tn.

Death: 1882 South Fork, Clark, Arkansas, buried in Old Rome Cemetery

Note: John Yardley(jlyardley@@worldnet.att.net)
Descendant.

FamilySearch.com Mormon database.
Thomas N Yardley b 1846 Big Spring Rutherford Tn.
Parents John Washington Armstrong Yardley, Sarah Fulks.
IDS Disc#7 Pin#846706 Michael J Godshalk
Thomas Yardley b 23 Jan 1846, D 21 Feb 1906 Murfreesboro, Tn.
Spouse Martha J Culp b 9 Apr 1849 Somerville, Fayette Co, Tn d 1 Jun 1911
Desdemona, Eastland Co, Texas parents Leroy and Alzira Goforth Culp.

Death: 21 FEB 1906 Murfreesboro, Rutherford Co., TN

Note: Notes from Rootswell:

FamilySearch.com Mormon database.

Thomas N Yardley b 1846 Big Spring Rutherford Tn.
Parents John Washington Armstrong Yardley, Sarah Fulks.
IDS Disc#7 Pin#846706 Michael J Godshalk
Thomas Yardley b 23 Jan 1846, D 21 Feb 1906 Murfreesboro, Tn.
Spouse Martha J Culp b 9 Apr 1849 Somerville, Fayette Co, Tn d 1 Jun 1911
Desdemona, Eastland Co, Texas parents Leroy and Alzira Goforth Culp.

Death: 1 JUN 1911 Desdemona, Eastland, TX

Death: 8 MAY 1926 Rutherford Co., TN

Note: Notable Southern Families, Armstrong, Vol I-II, 929.2

John Thomas was born July 1 1841, is now nearly eighty. He served in
the War Between the States as a member of Company E, 23rd Tennessee
Infantry, C S A under Captain W S Lowe. He married Amanda E Prater.
Their children are:(a) Mollie who was born March 3 1866 and died
August 20 1866;(b) William T born August 10 1867 and married Mrs
Amanda Stammer, December 18 1870; (d) Octa born December 31 1871, died
October 8 1874; (e) Etta Atrice born March 31 1875 and is unmarried;
(f)Charles Ephraim Kelton was born July 31 1877 was married December
11 1911 to Lula Ridley who was born September 3 1884. Their children
are: Samuel Weakley Kelton, born January 7 1913; John Knox Kelton
born April 24 1914; Robert Ridley and William Thomas were twins born
March 5 1917, William died April 1 1917; Sarah Elizabeth was born
April 29 1920. (g) Elizabeth kelton was born July 12 1884. She
married December 3 1907, Samuel Pearson and lives in Murfreesboro.
Their children are: james Franklin born November 1 1908, Minnie Jane
who was born June 12 1909; Willie Lewis born march 17 1913.

Death: 20 AUG 1866 Rutherford Co., TN

Note: Tn 1870 Census Rutherford Co 24th Dist 12th Aug M593 R1558 L131\132 S208
Kelton, John age 27 farmer PE$400 Tn, Amanda age 31 Tn, Wm T age 3 Tn,
James age 4\12 Tn.

Cem Rec of Bedford Cty Tn
Helen C & Timothy Marsh
Shelbyville Tn Rvsd 1985 t-g 929.5
Cedar Grove Cem known as the Osteen Cem. pg 31-32

Death: ABT. 1948 Bedford, TN, buried Cedar Grove Cemetery, Bedford, TN

Death: 2 DEC 1870 Murfreesboro, Rutherford Co., TN

Death: 8 OCT 1874 Murfreesboro, Rutherford Co., TN

Death: 9 JUL 1974 Murfreesboro, Rutherford Co., TN

Death: AFT. 1969

Death: AFT. 1969 Murfreesboro, Rutherford Co., TN

Death: FEB 1976 Murfreesboro, Rutherford Co., TN

Note: RootsWeb has the following and families of each of the children.

NC Census 1790 Salisbury Dist Iredell Co p155 first co.
KELTON, Robert 1 FWM 16+, 1 FWM under 16, 2 FWF.
NC Census 1800 Iredell Co p656
KELTON, Robert 11021-21010-02

NC Census 1820 Iredell Co p236
Kelton, Robert

Age 50.

Notable Southern Families, Armstrong, Vol I-II, 929.2
II. Robert Kelton.
Robert KELTON oldest son of William and Elizabeth KELTON was born May 6, 1776.
He married while still in Mecklenburg Co North Carolina Rachel JETTON. This
name has been variously spelled Jeton, Gieton and Jelton, the latter spelling
is used in the first census of North Carolina (1780). He died in Rutherford Co
Tennessee in 1826 intestate and his brother William was appointed
administrator. His wife Rachel survived him a number of years, certainly until
1844 as deeds signed by her at that date are on record at Murfreesboro. (In
1850 Census). Robert KELTON, probably lived on the southwest corner of the Black
Fox Camp Plantation, as that had been set aside for him in the division of his
father's estate. Their children were: William Pleasant, 1800, Jackson, 1802,
Samuel, 1805, Emily, 1808, Mary, 1810, Robert, 1812, George and David, 1814,
Margaret, 1816, James H, 1818.

Tennessee Tidbits 1778-1914 Vol 1 976.8

Military
Soldiers of the War of 1812 Buried in Tennessee, McCown 973.52609768
(1776-1826 Rutherford Co); War of 1812
KELTON, Robert
Pvt, Capt JETTON's Co, Col John COFFEE's Regt W T Mil; T S A & Texas
1812 Records; Rutherford Co.

Enlisted Men, War of 1812
KELTON, Robert, Pvt, Col John COFFEE, Capt Robt JETTON, Cav.

War of 1812 Kelton, Robert Coffee's Reg Cav W Tn Vols Pvt Pvt Box 115 Ext 602

National Society U S Daughters of 1812 Ancestor Index 1892-1970 973.52 Galvin.
pg 287.

Land Records:
Burke Co North Carolina Land Records 1779-1790 Vol 2 Huggins 975.6H
#1697, p. 556, Robert KELTON, 100 acres head of Little Crooked Creek "where the
path that goes from Brandons MCCAFFERLYS (McCafferty) place crosses a Little
Mountain," down branch including both sides for complement. Entered 9 Sept
1779. Warrant Ordered. Not paid.

His land was at Murphey Spring where the old Coca Cola Plant is located.
Oct 16 1816 a division of part of William Kelton's Estate was consumated-
a division of Black Fox Camp, originaltract and subsequent additions totaling
1688 1/4 acres. Robert received Lot No 3 containing 108 acres including
Murfree's Spring itself.

Health failing by 1819 Robert arranged for brother James to manage his
land Lot No 3 for the benefit of his wife Rachel and heirs. Robert directs
his borhter to use the money thus derived to care for his "beloved wife" until
she dies and to continue the childrens education until age 21 and then to
divide the land among his heirs and no one else. 1 May 1819.
My People The Keltons by Lorane Kelton Peterson.

Estate Settlement:
Wm KELTON's settlement as adm of Robert KELTON dec State of Tennessee
Rutherford Cty. In pursuance of an order to us directed Wm GILLIAM & VD GOWEN
from the County of Rutherford, county of Rutherford County at the May term of
1831 approving us commissioners, to settle with William KELTON Jr as
administrator of Robert KELTON dec and make report at the August term of said
court on examination we find the administrator cargible as follows pr
inventory returned to court. vouchers 1-15 134.96 and one note on Thos BROTHER
relieved insolvent for 25.00, one note on Eli MUIRHEAD settled with the widow
for the use of the family for 42.00 for a total of 211.96. On a settlement we
find the estate indebted to the administrator six dollars & 28 cents. we
further recompense the court the sum of five dollars as compensation for his
services as adm August 15, 1831. VD COWAN Recorded 11th xxx1831. William
GILLIAM. pg 271,272

In Scottish tradition named Robert after his paternal grandfather.

Death: ABT. 1828 Murfphey's Spring, Rutherford Co., TN

Death: 1736 York Co., Pennsylvania

Note: From RootsWebb: Records of Colleen Kelly

Death: 21 MAR 1753 Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Death: 1788 Albemarle Co., Virginia

Note: There is no known connection between the family of Thomas Jamison of Adams Co., PA to those in Rutherford Co., TN thus far in my research. This record is provided to allow researchers to perhaps provide the missing link.

The Thomas Jamison of Adams County, PA is provided from http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Cottage/gen19700.html

The Jamisons left Ireland some years after the minor emigration of Scotch-Irish that sailed in 1734-35 and settled in the southwest portion of Adams county, Pennsylvania. They sailed aboard the ship "William and Mary" arriving in 1742 in Philadelphia. During the ocean voyage their fourth child, Mary, was born to them upon storm-tossed seas which fore-shadowed the events of her life in America.

Mr. Jamison was a thrifty, industrious man and greatly liked by the community at large. In time he had razed the wooded land along the frontier near the source of the Marsh Creek into a large growing farm. Two additional children born to him and Jane marked their swift progress in a wild territory largely settled by the Scotch-Irish and swarming with Indians. In 1754 the Jamisons moved their home a short way upon their land settling into Buchanan Valley, then known as Pleasant Valley which was six miles in length and two miles wide. The Jamison land encroached upon the valley from the east and was previously owned by Joseph I. Lever and later was sold to Francis Cole after 1755 *(1). In that year the French and Indian War commenced at Great Meadows when the Virginian force, 150 men, under Lt. Col. George Washington, was driven back from Fort Duquesne(Fort Necessity) by the French led by Coulon de Villiers in the Ohio territory. Among the men under Washington was John Jamison, as tradition would have it*(2), a brother of Thomas Jamison, killed in action on that fateful day of July 3rd. Tradition states that these Jamisons were part of a family of Jamisons from Leith, Scotland tied in with Henry Jamison, James Jamison, and William(of Maine) and John(of Boston) Jamison, brothers who came over in 1718 *(3).

In the spring of 1755, the Jamisons were attacked by Indians. In separate reports of the circumstances by Mary Jamison, herself, and Mrs. Robert Bleakney *(4) some years later the following events transpired. Thomas Jamison was shaving an axe-halve at the side of the cabin, while Mrs. Jamison, Mary, Matthew, Robert, Mrs. Buck and her three children were inside preparing breakfast. Mary's two oldest brothers were working near the barn and Robert Buck stood near the front door of the house. When the alarm was first raised with a volley of shot, Mrs. Jamison, upon opening the door, saw Mr. Buck dead upon the ground. Mr. Jamison was captured and tied up by some of the six Shawanee Indians and four Frenchmen present. They rushed the house and took Mrs. Jamison, Matthew, Robert, Mary, Elizabeth, Mrs. Buck, and her three children as prisoners while plundering the cabin of its contents. Thomas and John Jamison, the eldest sons, hid
inside a hollowed out log near the barn and escaped the slaughter that befell their family and friends. Both boys left Adams county and settled in with their maternal grandfather, Mr. Erwins, in Virginia.

With their ten captives the perpetrators traveled westward passing a fort at Chambersburg continuing until the following day when they camped at a dismal swamp. Knowing they were pursued by a determined band of neighbors from Buchanan Valley, led by a Mr. Field's, the Frenchmen and Shawanees, burdened by so many captives, killed and scalped Mr. and Mrs. Jamison, Elizabeth, Robert, Matthew, Mrs. Buck and two of her children. Mary and a son of the Bucks' remained and were taken by two Indian squaws in a small canoe down the Ohio River to a small Seneca town called She-nan-jee. There Mary Jamison was given a suit of Indian clothes and formally adopted into the tribe as Deh-he-wa-mis, meaning pretty girl. No other records indicate what had happened to the Buck boy.

In the meantime many of the remaining Scots-Irish, including the Bleakneys removed to Conowago for protection. Hance Hamilton, a neighbor, was not idle either raising a 200 man militia from the surrounding area and became its Captain. Mr. Fields' relief party of six men were in hot pursuit speedily moving in on the enemy as they tracked them down during the next two days. But the massacre at the swamp and the bloodied and naked forms of the slain was too much for Fields and his party when they came upon the grizzly scene. They soon returned to their town saddened and disheartened by the unexpected murders. With Hamilton, they embarked on defending the
territory settling their scores in the defense pushing the frontier further west toward Ohio.

In Virginia a John{Jonathan} Jamison resided in Augusta county with his wife, Jane Erwin, and their nine children. He and Jane were both born in Ireland and after emigrating to the Virginia Plantation married in present day Augusta county. Mrs. Jamison was a daughter of Matthew and Elizabeth (Hobson?) Erwin of Tinkling Springs, Augusta co., VA. Both Matthew and Elizabeth show up in Thomas and Jane Erwin Jamison's list of children. While evidence is not conclusive and considered vague concerning the John Jamison under the command of George Washington in 1754, speculation persists circumstantially that the John Jamison in Augusta co., VA. may have been a brother of the foregoing Thomas Jamison. Who better than relatives should the sons, Thomas and John Jamison, flee to in 1755 after the Indian massacre? In the same area as Matthew Erwin and John Jamison was a William and Margaret Jamison of Tinkling Springs. The couple in 1769 sold to John and Jane Erwin Jamison for 55 pounds a 310 acre farm. This resulted in a 45 pound lost for them having purchased the tract in 1765 from William Martin for 100 pounds. The transaction was an "Estate of Inheritance in fee simple". Could William and Margaret have been Thomas' and John's parents? Or was William Jamison his brother? What happened to them after 1769? Did they live on their son's farm after selling it to him? To this is further added another record of a John Jamison, born in 1752 and who died in 1790, They resided in York, then later in Marsh Creek, Adams Co., PA

Rockbridge co., VA.*(5) He married Barbara Carlock in 1782 and they had the following children:

James, b. 1782;
John, b.c. 1783;
Jane, b.c. 1785;
Catherine, b.c. 1787;

and two daughters of whom nothing is known. Besides the obvious naming of the children above, John's grandson, Samuel M. Jamison, his son's James' son, removed in 1824 to Williamson and Davidson counties, TN. The family then moved on to Dent co., MO. between 1830 and 1833.

The connections to Adams Co., PA. and Augusta co., VA. are tenuous and strife with uncertainty, but further documentation from another source indicates that Thomas and Jane Jamison's son, Thomas, appears to have had descendants. This will be explored in the follow-up section on the son. Add to all of this that the Jamison's out of Rockbridge, latter named among the above group of people, moved on to the same area of Tennessee as Thomas Jamison did and speculation takes on a decidedly circumstantial turn, instead.

References:

1] Smith Collection of Virginia; 2] History of Rockbridge co., VA., 1920, Morton, p.495; 3] Will of John Jamison(40700), 3/15/1790, bk.1,p.373,
Augusta co., VA; 4] Virginia Valley Records, p.188; 5] Early Middle TN. Marriages, Sistler, 1985; 6] Augusta co., VA(deeds), k.16,ps.154-157;
bk.11,ps. 773,816,817; 7] Chalkley, v.3,ps.91,418,420; 8] Virginia Wills before 1799, bk.5,p.406(John Jamison's will(40900)); 9] History of Adams Co., PA., ps.8-11,25,252,253,256; 10] The Life of Mary Jemison, James E. Seaver, 1918,1925rev.; 11] Indian Captive-A Story of Mary Jemison, Lois Lenski, 1941; 12] The White Woman and Her Valley, Arch Merrill, Stratford Press, no date; 13] Biographical Memoirs of Mississippi, Goodspeed, 1891, ps.1018,1014;

Death: 5 APR 1758 Franklin Twp., Adams, Pennsylvania

Death: 15 SEP 1923 Almeda, TX

Note: Mary was a Scotch/Irish immigrant born on ship William & Mary at sea to Thomas & Mary Erwin. Spent rest of her life with the Indians. She married 2 chiefs. her two brothers escaped the raid: Thomas & John, by hiding in the barn. Some say a brother, George, was captured and raised by Indians in OK. Thomas & John were sent to their grandfather Erwin, in Va to be raised. (Matthew Erwin of Chalkey, Augusta Co., VA/WV)

Death: 19 SEP 1833 Buffaloe Creek Reservation, NY