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Myrtle Lawn

Page history last edited by Deloris Williams 5 years, 10 months ago

 

 

 

Overview

Owned by Dr. Robert Edgar Williams (b. Sept. 16, 1817 -d. March 7, 1904) who first lived in Franklin County,NC on land left to him by his grandfather, William Williams (1760-1838), land that had previously been owned by his deceased father, Robert Webb Williams (b. Feb.27-1792-d. Nov. 15, 1822);by 1860, Robert E. had moved to Warren County to be near his widowed grandmother, Elizabeth Kearney Williams (b. May 20-1769 - d. May 22, 1863). It was sometime during this time period that he had the plantaton known as Myrtle Lawn constructed, which became his lifetime home.

 

Location

Fork Township

Warren County, North Carolina.

 

Date Constructed/ Founded

ca. 1858

 

Associated Surnames

Williams, Alston, Kearney, Davis.

 

Historical notes

Robert Edgar Williams was the son of Robert Webb Williams (1792-1822) & Harty Hodges Davis (1793-1870), who had married on October 1812. He married on October 20, 1841 in Warren Co., to Valeria Virginia Kearney (b.Dec. 7, 1822-d. Nov. 7, 1907),the daughter of William Kinchen Kearney (1785-1869) & Maria Hardy Alston (1793-1883) who had married July 22, 1810. Robert W. Williams was the son of William Williams (1760-1838) & Elizabeth Kearney (1769- 1863): William Williams was the son of Solomon Williams (d.July 28, 1794) & Temporance Bodie (d.May 11, 1784), who married June 23, 1757. Solomon Williams was the son of Samuel Williams (ca.1698-1753) & Elizabeth Alston (ca.1700-1792/1805),who married ca. 1718. Elizabeth Alston was the daughter of John Alston (ca.1670-1758) & his wife, Mary (b.ca.1680).

Maria Hardy Alston, was the daughter of William Alston (b.Oct.7, 1747-d. July 15, 1795) & Martha Hardy (1759-d. Feb. 1823). William Alston was the son of Philip Alston (ca.1706-1784) & Winefred Whitmel (1729-1795), who had married ca. 1745. Philip Alston was the son of John Alston (ca. 1670 -1758) & his wife, Mary (b.ca.1700).

 

Associated Slave Workplaces

Cherry Hill Warren NC & Tusculum Plantation (Warren Co., NC); Vine Hill & Rocky Hill Plantations (Franklin Co., NC)


 

 

Associated Free Persons

 

  • Dr. Robert Edgar Williams
  • Valeria Virginia Kearney - wife of Robert Edgar Williams
  • William Kinchen Kearney- father of V.V. Kearney
  • Benjamin Hardy James Maria Kearney (full name)- daughter of William Alston & Martha Hardy; and wife of William K. Kearney
  • William Williams - grandfather of Robert Edgar Williams

 

 

Associated Enslaved Persons

 

 

  • 1795- William Alston to wife Martha,following Slaves:
  • Sarah
  • Lettuce
  • Lucy
  • Boatswain
  • 1823- Martha Alston to daughter Maria, following Slaves:
  • Allen
  • Diley
  • Easter
  • ca. 1841- slaves from Martha Alston for children of Maria & her husband, William K. Kearney;these went with Valeria Virginia Kearney upon her marriage to Robert E. Williams:
  • Melvy, born 1804
  • Lucy, born 1820, child of Melvy
  • Hubbard, born 1827, child of Melvy
  • Delia, born 1831, child of Melvy
  • Frank, born 1836, child of Melvy

 

 

Research Leads and Plantation Records

 

 


 

 

Miscellaneous Information

 

In the 1860 Slave Schedules for Warren County, R.E. Williams had 38 slaves

Further information on Myrtle Lawn & Cherry Hill, including photographs can be found here:

http://www.ncgenweb.us/ncwarren/misc/ch-plantation.htm

 

The slave named Hubbard, took the surname of Williams, and in 1848 married the slave Harriet Williams; after her death he married Julia Jane Davis in 1876, the daughter of former slaves Louis Davis & Mary Ann Pitchford of Warren County. Louis was a former slave from the family of Burwell Davis, who had died in 1846, and who divided his slaves between his children Samuel, Edward, & John S. Davis, Jane Powell, Sally Betty, Nancy Fleming, and daughter-in-law, Winnifred Davis, widow of his son Richard.  Hubbard had children with both women, most of whom remained in the Warren County area after the end of slavery.  More can be read about the family at the website, My North Carolina Roots: 

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=dwilliams-1 

 

References

 

  • Wills of William Alston, probated August 1795, Martha Alston, probated February 1823, William Williams, probated May 1838, all in Warren County; Burwell Davis, probated August 1846 Warren County.
  • Bible Records:

William K. Kearney, Solomon Williams, Dr. R. Edgar Williams, Williams-Polk-Davis Bibles (NCGenweb Warren County website:

http://www.ncgenweb.us/ncwarren/bibles/idx-4.htm

 

 

 

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