GED4WEB version 4.41 Edwards Polly [Female]
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Title: Strahan Family Reunion .FTW
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Author: Polly Ray
Title: ==BILBO AND KIN-Polly Ray
Publication: Private book
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Title: Strahan Family Reunion .FTW
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Author: Gearld and Tammy Westmoreland
Title: Gerald and Tammy Westmoreland Gen. Report
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Member of the Copeland Gang. Severely shot in shoot out with Cal Wages another member of the Copeland in front of house of Warren Strahan. Thigh was broken, and fell from horse, Strahan came out of house as Wages rode up to knife Bilbo to death. Strahan stopped Wages.
Like all residents in Mississippi, living during and immediately after the Civil War, this family had a hard time surviving. Only through hard work and ?
The first land transaction for J.O. Bilbo was on November 30, 1878 where he received through the Homestead Exemption Act 160 acres in Section 21 and 28, Range 15 West, Township 3, South, Hancock County, Mississippi (now Pearl River). He was a party to many other land deeds in both Hancock and Marion Counties after that time.
On file in the Chancery Clerks office of Pearl River County, he left a large estate which was divided equally by his children. He was Vice President of the National Bank of Poplarville and served on the County School Board for many years. To each son married, he purchased for them 600 acres of land to settle on, with the purchase price deducted from their share in his estate. He was a member of Juniper Grove Baptist Church, near Poplarville.
His wife, Beedy, was a Methodist but also took an active part in the Baptist Church.
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Last name also has been spelled Wallis
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Title: Strahan Family Reunion .FTW
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Author: Gearld and Tammy Westmoreland
Title: Gerald and Tammy Westmoreland Gen. Report
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Title: Strahan Family Reunion .FTW
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Author: Gearld and Tammy Westmoreland
Title: Gerald and Tammy Westmoreland Gen. Report
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Title: Strahan Family Reunion .FTW
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Andy Smith (sometimes called Andrew) married in North Carolina, and he and his
bride, with only a cart and pony and such supplies as they would need on the
trip started west. They crossed Pearl River just below Jackson Mississippi, on a
large raft made of cane that the Indians helped him to make. He then came on
south and stopped near what is now Poplarville. He had five sons and one
daughter - one son Jeptha, went to Texas, "Poplar" Jim the other son and
daughter stayed in Pearl River County and have many descendants. One of these
sons, Billy "Juckers" Smith, had twenty-six children by two wives. With the exception of
one son who died in infancy the thers have all lived to ripe old ages - several
living to be 80 or 90 years of age. They have always been law abiding citizens
and attribute their unusual good health and long lives to the fact that they
were taught to keep God's Commandment
Source: As told to Dora Mitchell by numerous old settlers.
Andrew b 1782 in Georgia d 1858 Married Nancy Elizabeth Roberts
He is listed in the 1830 and 1840 census. He was killed by Indians.
11/25/1803 included in a Memorial to Congress, Citizens of Ms. regarding
grants of lands to settlers (Bilbo & Kin, pg 85)
A book found in the National Archives in Ft. Worth (Typed pages bound
together in folder, Index to Census of 1840 Southern District) lists a
Andrew Smith in Hancock Co as a revolutionary pensioner.
Source: Dr. Robert S. Smith
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Nancy's first husband, Andrew Smith, fought in the American Revolution in the Ga. Troops with John Wheat. Smith family tradition says that Andrew was slain by a hostile Indian in Ga. as he was clearing the land he received for his war
service. Only known child of Nancy's first marriage was Andrew Smith, Jr., b. 1
May 1780, Ga. d. 17 Dec 1858. He married Nancy Elizabeth ________ (widow of
Abram Roberts) and they had 8 children.
John served in the American Revolution as shown by Lucian Lamar Knight in his
"Georgia's Roster of the Revolution". Page 189 shows, "Wheat, John. Certificate
of Elijah Clarke, Col., Feb 2, 1784".
John and Nancy Ann were still in Wilkes County, Ga. in 1786 when she and her sisters inherited land from her father's estate. On 15 Mar 1790, John Wheat was granted 300 acres of land in Wilkes County John sold 200 acres of this land 29 May 1790 to Joshua Johnston. He sold the last 100 acres to Leonard Phillips on 17 Oct 1797.
About this time he and Nancy Ann moved to the Tombigbee River area in what is
now Washington County, . The Mississippi Territorial Papers establish that John
and his brothers, Solomon and Hezekiah occupied adjoining land near the
Tombigbee. Brother Thomas received a Spanish Grant nearby. Life was very
difficult and settlers were sometimes attacked by Indians. Among them was the
wife of one Frederick Smith, said to be related to the Wheat's by marriage.
Court testimony was that Smith came to the area in 1798, lived with the Wheats,
raised a crop there in 1799, and after his wife was scalped and killed by the
Indians, sold his improvement to John Wheat for one gallon of taffia. Evidently
Smith was somehow related to Nancy Ann's first husband, Andrew.
By 1803, John and Nancy had moved further west. They went to St. Tamma
Parish, La. and were in the northern part of the parish on Silver Creek (the area
is now part of Washington Parish). And by 1819 they had relocated a final time,
to Hancock County, Ms. John and his sons William and Joseph appear on the Hancock County Tax Rolls from that time until their deaths. The land they finally called home is now in the northern portion of Pearl River County, Ms. Here, this branch of the family put down deep and lasting roots. Descendants still sprinkle the area today. John and Nancy Ann are buried in the Wheat Family Cemetery near the Pearl River in what is known as the Buck Branch Community.
Source" Mardi Byrd Kelly Website
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John Mark was a twin to Dora Gaye .
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