James Shurley's genealogy for this branch

Teresa Shurley Hoyle's genealogy for this branch

Posted by Dr. D. Thomas Webb jrebCSA@webtv.net on Mon, 10 Jan 2000

Surname: Brooks, Shurley

Could someone who lives on Graham Road please give me the names of the people where this cemetery is located along with the address. I have been on Graham Road 2 times now and have not found it yet. My mother was a Shurley, and William Stubley Shurley was the 1st of her line into this country from Ireland

Which part is original to the bible and which part is someone's 'research'?

From Tennessee Records, Acklen, 1933, v. 2, sub-title "Bible Records--Tombstone Inscriptions":
SHERLEY, BROWN, BROOKS AND TEAT RECORDS

From the Bible of Richard Charles Sherley, now owned by Mrs. D. B. Todd (Mary Sherley Teat), of Etowah, Tenn.

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:

Edward Sherley, Mahaley Parker (note: she did not marry until 1832, so this entry is clearly modern and from someone's research in error), Mary Sherley, Richard Charles, (Nathaniel, James Nathen, Samuel, which were triplets), Elizabeth and William, Jr., twins, born 1790.

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:
Benjamin Thomas, born Jan 25, 1829; died Oct. 8, 1856.  (interesting, they died same date)
Charnick Tharp, born May 4, 1833; died June 8, 1862.
Jeremiah, born Sept. 6, 1835; died May 3, 1863.
William Richard, born March 20, 1836; died Oct. 8, 1856.