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Did George and Palatea Cabaniss Have Two Sons Named Elijah?
Apparently So!
One son was born about 1783 in Amelia County, VA, and died
in June, 1860, in Marengo County, AL, and the other was born
in 1794 in Oglethorpe County, GA, and died in 1870 in Arkansas.
- by Bill Morgan (wdmorgan@mindspring.com)
- March 15, 1998
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My name is Bill Morgan (born December 15, 1935). My father
(Grady C. Morgan) and two brothers (Bob and Jesse) grew up in
foster homes around Tupelo, Mississippi, which is about 150 miles
north of Meridian, Mississippi, where they were born. After my
Grandmother (Sallie) died in December, 1915, my Grandfather (Joseph
Jones Morgan, 1854-1935, with four children by previous marriage)
decided he could not properly care for the four sons he had with
Sallie and placed them in a State home in Jackson, Mississippi,
with a promise that the boys would be kept together until he
could afford to come back and get them. However, the home let
a well-to-do family from Indianola, Mississippi, adopt William
who was only about 2 years old and placed Bob, Grady, and Jesse
in foster homes around Tupelo. When my grandfather went back
for the boys, the home would not reveal the whereabouts of William
who had been adopted. However, my Grandfather brought the other
three sons back from foster homes to Meridian. Eventually, however,
Bob, Grady, and Jesse wound up back with and grew up with their
foster parents around Tupelo.
Since they were so young when she
died, my father and his brothers remembered little about their
mother Sallie. In fact, Bob died in 1924 at the young age of
21. My father and Jesse believed she was from Marengo County,
Alabama, and that her maiden name was Cabinet with a French sound.
After retiring as an auditor from the U.S. General Accounting
Office (The Congressional Watchdog) and later from Georgia State
University, Atlanta, GA, I got hooked on genealogy.
In Meridian, my sister and I found
that my Grandfather (Joseph Jones Morgan, 1854-1935) and my Grandmother
(Sallie Cabaniss, 1880-1915) were married November 21, 1901 (he
was 47 and she was 20 or 21). The license showed John B. Cabaniss
as Sallie's father. Census and other records in Marengo County,
AL showed Sallie's family as follows:
Father: John Bunyan Cabaniss b. 1847 Nanafalia, Marengo Co., AL
Mother: Martha Ann Partin b. 1849 SC, d. 1887
Married: November 14, 1868, Marengo Co., AL
Children:
Pency 1870
Mary 1871
Martha 1873
Camilla 1878
George 1878
Sallie 1880
Emma 1883
Mittie 1887
John Bunyan Cabaniss' father, mother, and family were:
Father: John Cabaniss b. 1810 SC, d.1863/64 AL
Mother: Mary E. Williams b. 1824 SC, d.1856 AL
Married: ?
Children:
Frances 1842 AL
John Bunyan 1847 AL
Sarah 1853 AL
John Cabaniss' father and mother were as follows:
Father: Elijah Cabaniss b. 1783 Amelia Co., VA
d. 1860 Nanafalia, Marengo Co., AL
(Per Nanafalia Baptist Church
Records Joined Church Mar 1860,
d. June 1860.)
Mother: Martha Owens b. ?
d. 1811-1818, SC
(Assumed John's mother based on
Laurens Co. SC Wills and Probate
Records and ages in 1810 Census.)
Children:
John abt 1810 SC
Elijah' second wife and children were as follows:
Martha Robertson, b.1785 SC, d. 1860-1870 AL
Married abt 1818, Laurens Co.,SC
Children:
Martha 1818 SC
Robert C. 1822 SC (Married Sarah Creighton
and lived Clarke Co, AL.)
Thomas 1826 AL
Rebecca 1830 AL
Sara A. 1832 AL (Married a Fuller)
From Elijah the blood line goes
to George and Palatea/Matthew/Henri, etc., which I won't repeat.
My readings of the Green and
Allen Cabaniss books, LDS, and local records indicate the following:
Matthew and Hannah Clay had a son named Elijah born in about
1756. In 1789 when he died in Nottoway, VA, Matthew willed the
family plantation to this son Elijah with the condition that
he take care of his mother and two unmarried sisters Elizabeth
(1758) and Amy Clay (1760). That Elijah died in VA in 1799.
Some way the two unmarried sisters
hooked up with George and Palatea's son Elijah born in 1783-1785.
According to the 1810 Laurens Co., SC Census and wills and probate
records up through 1823 for the county, the two sisters were
living with Elijah and family until the sisters' deaths in the
early 1820's. Each sister willed their possessions including
one male slave each to Elijah. In fact, Elijah and Martha were
on the slave owner lists for Marengo Co., AL. In her will Elizabeth
threw a crank into my research by calling Elijah her son. Amy
calls Elijah her nephew in her will and I really think he was
Elizabeth's nephew too???
Meanwhile, another Elijah was born
to George and Palatea in Oglethorpe County, GA in 1794. This
Elijah in 1818 was awarded land in Clarke Co., AL, which borders
Marengo Co., AL.
After Elizabeth and Amy died, the
1783 Elijah and his family came to Marengo County, AL in the
mid to late 1820's. Elijah was included in the 1830-1860 Census'
for Marengo Co., AL. He died in Nanafalia, Marengo, Co., AL in
June 1860 according to Nanafalia Baptist Church records.
The other Elijah born in 1794 was
in the 1830 and 1840 Census' for the bordering Clarke Co., AL.
That Elijah left Clarke Co., AL about 1840 and eventually wound
up in Arkansas where he died in 1870 ten years after the other
Elijah had died in Marengo Co., AL.
If anyone can add to this confusion, please do. E-Mail me
(wdmorgan@mindspring.com)
or Joe (numbers@satx.rr.com).
Note: If the Hamilton's in Carmichael, CA see this, the Elijah
Cabaniss they refer to in the LDS died in June 1860 in Marengo
Co., AL and not in Arkansas in 1870.
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