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Bible Record Richard Charles Shurley of Jones Co GA |
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Note: This record has clearly been annotated and may contain errors and speculation. It is not known as yet which parts are found in the original bible and what has been added (We need a copy of the original)
Great-great-grandfather of Richard Charles Sherley. On the front leaf of said Bible appears: "Richard Charles Sherley, 1817, Jones County, GA." Edmund, John, Richard, James and William Sherley, brothers, were born in Scotland and came to Virginia in the early part of 1700. They settled in Augusta County, Va., became satisfied, separated, one going into Kentucky, another into South Carolina. Later James, John, Edmund, and William settled in Georgia, in the year 1775. He had then a wife and five children, and was granted 250 acres of land at the Ford of McBeans Swamp and 150 acres at Chicasaw Old Path, 200 acres each in the Parishes of St. Paul and St. George. William Stubly Sherley, Jr., son of the William Sherley mentioned, was born August 31, 1757, in Washington County, Ga.; died May or June 3, 1799, in Jones County, Ga., while on a visit to his Richard Charles. William Stubly Sherley and Elizabeth Maxwell were married Jan. 27, 1780, in Washington Co., Ga. Elizabeth M. Sherley, born Feb. 7, 1762, in Washington Co., Ga.; died May 9, 1807. Richard Charles Sherley, son of William S. and Elizabeth Sherley, born Sept. 25, 1781, in Jones County, Ga.; died Oct. 10, 1833. Richard C. Sherley, married Sarah Brooks, daughter of John Hanna Brooks, Jones County, Ga., August 5, 1804. Sarah Brooks Sherley, died Dec. 2, 1824; born Dec. 5, 1787. Elizabeth Sherley, daughter of Richard and Sarah Sherley, born April 25, 1897 (sic); died March 23, 1866 (sic); buried in Tallapoosa County, Ala. [dates as appear] Elizabeth Sherley married John Gaillard Brown, Jones County, Ga., May 19, 1825. John Gaillard Brown, born Dec. 1, 1801, Jones County, Ga.; died in Tallapoosa County, Ala., Jan. 7, 1889. Sarah Jane Brown, daughter of John Gaillard Brown and Elizabeth Sherley Brown, born in Jones County, Ga., Feb. 11, 1831. Sarah Jane Brown died in Tallapoosa County, Ala., March 13, 1890; married William Francis Teat, son of John Marshall and Martha Ball Scott Teat, Dec. 24, 1846, Jones County, Ga. William Francis Teat, born July 25, 1857, in Tuskgee (sic), Ala.; married Mary Attaway Noble, Dec. 13, 1882, in Jenifer, Ala. Mary Sherley Teat, born Sept. 25, 1895, in Anniston, Ala.; married Donald Bain Todd, Jan. 27, 1913, at Etowah, Tenn. Children of William Stubly Sherley
and wife, Elizabeth: Children of Richard and Elizabeth Sherley: Elizabeth, married John Gaillard Brown; Phoebia, married Uriah Porter; Kisire (called Kissie) married George King; Thomas, Nathaniel, Edward, and Aaron. Children of John Gaillard Brown
and wife, Elizabeth Sherley Brown: DOES ANYONE HAVE A COPY OF THE ORIGINAL? |
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