I haven't posted anything on this blog in several years. However, I was re-reading some of the posts and found that the comments/questions of those who contacted me via the "Contact Me" button had been sent  to Google Drive instead of my email. If you have contacted me in the past and still have a comment or question, please contact me via my email - martha.spivey@gmail.com. I hope to hear from you.

Addendum: I am going to attempt to contact those people.

Update on Dianna P Burns, Wife of William Nicholas Parker

Recently I came across a note on Dianna P Burns by Darran Thomas on Ancestry. I had thought all these years that she was the daughter of Walter Farr(Pharr) Burns and Sarah White Lily. All the Ancestry trees that I looked at said she was. One of her children with William Nicholas Parker, Walter Lily Parker,  even has the middle name "Lily". BUT...Darran Thomas has proved that she is NOT the daughter of Walter Farr Burns and Sarah White Lily.

Here is the post from his tree:

"First let me state that his Dianna P, wife of Wm N Parker, may or may not be named Penelope. I know her maiden name is Burns from the death certificates of her children. There is and 1850 census that shows Walter F Burns, wife Sarah and a daughter Diannah, amongst other chilren, bu that Diannah was 14 in 1850 and the same 1850 census shows Dianna P, wife of Wm Nicholas Parker already married to WM Nicholas Parker and she is 23 at the time. So, while there may be a Diannah Burns, daughter of Walter Farr Burns and Sarah White LIlly, this is not her if the Walter F Burns and Sarah from the 1850 census I saw are those people."
Source: Ancestry.com Darran Thomas
Darran Thomas originally shared this on 06 Jan 2013

1850 Burnsville Anson NC Census

Family # 700   William Parker      29           Farmer

                      *  Dianna     "            23

                         John B     "            5

                         Wilie J     "            3

                         Sarah E    "            1

Family # 723    Walter F Burns          51      Farmer

                          Sarah       "                45

                          Catherine  "              18

                          Henryetta  "              16

                       * Diannah     "             14

                          Margaret    "             12

                          Henry H     "             10

                         Walter L      "               2

                         Julias W      "            21         Farmer

Elisha A Wilson–Eastover Police Chief Murdered

 

Source: The State newspaper, 31 Aug 1945, pages 1A & 3A

William Matthew Hill 1854-1905

 The Concord Daily Tribune - 29 Nov 1905, Wed, page 1

52 Ancestors-52 Weeks #16 Sarah White Lily

Sarah White Lily, daughter of Edmund Fleming Lily Sr and Elizabeth Billingsley, was my third great grandmother. Sarah was born in North Carolina 5 October 1803, married Walter Pharr (Far) Burns in 1827, and died in Anson County North Carolina 5 November 1895.

1850 Census, North Carolina, Anson, Burnsville
23 September 1850 enumerated by J___ M Waddell

Sarah and Walter lived next door to Alexander Brooks and to William Baucom

1860 Census, North Carolina, Anson, Burnsville

1880 Census, North Carolina, Anson, Burnsville

in 1880 Sarah is widowed and living next door to Jackson Perry and John Curlee.

Sarah White Lily Burns died 5 November 1895 and is buried at Rocky Mount Baptist Church, Polkton, Anson, North Carolina.

52 Ancestors-52 Weeks #15–Nancy Dial

 

Nancy Dial is my 2nd great grandmother. She was born in 1813 in South Carolina and died in 1910 in Richland County South Carolina. I have not found her parents at this time.

She married James Brazell, son of John Brazell and Martha Parnold. They were the parents of seven children:

- William “Willie” Brazell 1855-1905
- John Brazell 1856-1952
- George Thomas Brazell 1858-1928
- James Henry Brazell 1856-1956
- John Randolph Brazell 1863-1952
- Charlotte Brazell 1866-1944
- Daniel Brazell born 1868

1850 Federal Census, South Carolina, Richland, The District
9 September 1850 enumerated by L T Levin

James and Nancy Brazell lived next door to Joshua Hammond and his wife Elizabeth and to Sarah Dial.

1870 Federal Census, South Carolina, Richland, Third Township
15 August 1870 enumerated by Philip Epstin

Nancy lived next door to Thomas Davis and his wife Mary and to William Brazell and his wife Mary.

I don’t know the date of death for James Brazell, but it appears he died after his son Daniel was born in 1868 and before the census was taken in 1870.

1880 Federal Census, South Carolina, Richland, Columbia, Center Township
7 June 1880 enumerated by E_____ Leman

Nancy and her children lived next door to William Brazell and to John J Shirah and his wife Caroline.

Nancy Dial Brazell died in 1910 and is buried in Gibson Cemetery, West Columbia SC.

Nancy Dial Brazell was 79 years old instead of 19 years old when she died.

52 Ancestors-52 Weeks #14-Malachi Harward (Howard)

Malachi Harward, my 3rd great grandfather, was the son of Jacob Myrick Harward and Milea Yates (Yeats). He was born 6 January 1806 in North Carolina and died 13 May 1854 in Anson County North Carolina. He was the fourth child and the third son of Jacob Myrick and Milea.

He married Sarah Pritchard 28 June 1832 in Anson County at the age of 26. His entire life was spent there.

Malachi and Sarah had five children:

- Narcissa Howard 1831-1910 (my 2nd great grandmother)
- Jane Howard born 1833
- James Thomas Howard 1837-1893
- David Mack Howard 1838-1915
- Mary Howard born 1842

1850 Federal Census, North Carolina, Anson, Burnsville

 

One of the documents from Malachi Harward’s Estate

Source: "North Carolina, Estate Files, 1663-1979," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-21454-1443-66?cc=1911121&wc=93LB-G5D:183204401,183304101,186356201 : accessed 15 Apr 2014), Anson County > H > Harward, Malachi (1854) > image 6 of 13; citing State Archives, Raleigh.

Malachi Harward is buried in the Harward Family Graveyard overlooking Rocky River.

I don’t have a lot of sourced information on Malachi, so he is still a work in progress.