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ANCESTORS OF LACY HATTAWAY AND ELIZABETH TEAL

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In researching Lacy Hattaway and Elizabeth Teal's ancestors, sometimes it seems that they appeared out of thin air. No other Hattaways married in Jasper Co., GA about the same time as Lacy and Elizabeth. The name "Attaway" appears in Campbell County, Georgia, but there are no other "Hattaway"s outside Lacy and his descendents in Campbell County. The name, Hattaway / Hataway / Haddaway / Hathaway and even Attaway, has been spelled numerous ways in past and present times. Lacy Hattaway's only other tie, whether friendship or kin (or related to his wife, Elizabeth), is to the estate of John Nations.

There are several "suspects" as Lacy's brothers or cousins, all living very close to Lacy in 1825. Young Hattaway men of Lacy's generation, whether related or not, clustered in nearby parts of Georgia between 1820 and 1830. David Hattaway of Washington County, GA was born between 1790-1794. The brothers, Irwin (born 1789), Elisha, and Abel Hattaway from Pitt County, North Carolina, moved to Georgia. The brothers are listed as descendents of Revolutionary War soldier Thomas Hattaway of North Carolina. Levi Hattaway (born between 1780-1790) appears to have been the oldest to move to Georgia, residing in Morgan County at the time of his will in 1845. Henry B. Hattaway and another male in his household were listed in Laurens Co., GA, both being born between 1800-1810. John Baton Hattaway (born about 1793) was living in Warren Co., GA, as was Irwin Hattaway in 1830. John Baton Hattaway and Irwin Hattaway were almost surely related - Irwin had a son, James Baton Hattaway, two great grandsons one named James Baton Hattaway, and another great grandson named Thomas Baton Hattaway. Only Martin Hattaway (born between 1790-1800) is listed in Chatham County (in southeast Georgia) with 4 males in his household born between 1790-1800.

David Hattaway from Washington County's ties reached to Coweta County, GA, a parent county to Campbell County, Georgia, where our Lacy Hattaway resided from at least 1830 until his death in 1868. Also, David Hattaway of Washington Co., GA's Power of Attorney was Lemuel Wilkerson, who lived in Campbell Co., Georgia in 1830. Lemuel Wilkerson was a circuit court judge in Putnam County, GA, which may have explained his role as David Hattaway's power of attorney; nonetheless, Lemuel's father, Hammond Wilkerson, died in Jasper County, GA in 1825 - the same year and place our Lacy Hattaway and Elizabeth Teal married. David Hattaway of Washington Co., GA may have been related to Irwin, Elisha, and Amos, whose grandfather and uncle are shown as "David Hattaway."

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Elizabeth Teal's parentage is even more of a mystery with several possibilities, but no certain links. Around Jasper County and Campbell County, Georgia are the families of Revolutionary War soldiers, Emanuel Teal Jr. and Loderick Teal, whose relation to each other, whether brothers or cousins, is also unclear. The obvious choice would be Emanuel, with Elizabeth Teal and Lacy Hattaway's son named Emanuel. Also, Lacy Hattaway purchased some land from Emanuel Teal Jr.'s son, George Washington Teal, in 1834. This land record was witnessed by a Meshack Teal, of unknown relation to Elizabeth Hattaway or Wash Teal. Again in the estate of John Nations, appear Lacy Hattaway as attorney in fact and George Washington Teal as an appraiser. Although it is known that Emanuel Teal Jr. had several children by his first wife and remarried in 1818 to a much younger woman, only two of the children from his first marriage are known for certain: Mary Northan / Worthan / Wortham and George Washington Teal. Another possibility is Martha Teal, wife of Littleberry Green - of particular suspicion is the presence of Sarah Green in the household of Elizabeth Teal Hattaway's daughter, Mary Hattaway Teal, in the 1850 census of Heard Co., GA. At this point we don't know if Sarah Green related at all...nor do we know if she was related to Mary Hattaway or to Mary Hattaway's husband, Jesse Teal.

Thomas Teal, born about 1783 and died after 1860 in Henry Co., GA, where Emanuel Jr. died in 1833 adds more mystery. He is most likely one of Emanuel Jr.'s oldest children by his first wife (a probably brother to our Elizabeth Teal Hattaway). He appears to have married first in NC, then after moving to Henry County, married again to Sarah McKivins / McKibbon in 1835 in Henry County, by whom he had more children. The McKivins family from Pitt Co., NC, who moved to Georgia - even Campbell Co., GA, also married into the Rape family (see notes on Lacy and Elizabeth's estate as well). Also, Sarah McKivins Teal appears to be the aunt of Margaret McKivins Teal (wife of Emanuel Jr.'s grandson, George Washington Teal). Of particular interest, Thomas Teal may have been the father of Elizabeth Ellen Teal, born about 1833 in Henry County who married John Phillip Coen / Cone / Coan / Cohn in Henry County in 1856. It is believed that their daughter, Martha Coen age 17, was the person living with our Elizabeth Teal Hattaway (then some 85 years old and a widow) in the 1880 census of Campbell Co., GA and was listed as "Cousin." Martha Coan was born in 1862 in Henry County to John Phillip Coan and Elizabeth Ellen Teel according to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints website.

Loderick and his son, Calvin Teal, are listed in early Campbell County, Georgia property records. Loderick Teal moved to Coosa County, Alabama, where he died at age 107. Another possibility is Loderick's brother, Bradberry Teal. Both were the sons of William Teal Sr. of Anson and Pitt Counties, North Carolina. Loderick and Bradberry Teal's nephew, Joshua Teal (son of William Teal Jr.), also lived in Campbell County, Georgia from 1830 until about 1870 when he moved to Randolph Co., Alabama.

The presence of Pernina Carter in Lacy and Elizabeth's estate poses more questions. A Pernina Teal married Joseph Carter in Campbell Co,, Georgia in 1841, which made her almost young enough to be Elizabeth's daughter, although she might have been Elizabeth's only surviving sibling - perhaps actually a half-sibling. Unlike the rest of those family members listed under distributions to family members in Elizabeth's estate, Pernina Carter does not list her relation to Lacy and Elizabeth and only lists Elizabeth. Whether coincidence or hinting of facts unknown to later generations, Pernina could have been a sister or half sister to Elizabeth. In actuality, what is listed in 1884 as the estate of Lacy Hattaway, was what was left upon the death of his wife Elizabeth Teal Hattaway some sixteen years after Lacy's own death. At this time, Pernina had moved to Alabama, in the same general vicinity of many of Lacy and Elizabeth's grandchildren as well as descendants of Loderick and William Teal Jr.

Civil War soldiers from Campbell County, Georgia include Lovett, Lawson, John W., and Samuel Teal, whose relation to Elizabeth Teal Hattaway, Loderick, or Emanuel Teal Jr. is not known.

Extensive research by Candace Teal Gravelle, a descendant of William Teal Jr., indicates that Elizabeth was most likely not William Teal Jr.'s daughter. However, his son Joshua Teal did live in Campbell Co., GA in 1830 and did move on to the areas of Alabama where Pernina Teal Carter and Elizabeth Teal Hattaway's descendants lived.

TOUGH TIMES, TOUGHER PEOPLE

Wherever Lacy and Elizabeth came from, they were quite a resilient couple. Lacy was a very successful farmer, although neither he or Elizabeth appear to have known how to read or write. The information they gave to census recorders was often inaccurate, especially regarding their ages at the time of the census. Lacy listed Elizabeth as much older than himself in census records, although their tombstones place their birth dates within a year of each other. The last census, 1860, lists Lacy's real estate value at $6,000, which some indicators show would be worth over $250,000 in 2000. Regardless of its actual value, their hard work provided for Elizabeth Teal Hattaway some 16 years after her husband's death when many widows of that time where farming was the main source of income, lived in poverty. Elizabeth's own thriftiness and the fact that we know she tended to bees until her death at 89, helped her financial situation. Elizabeth's concern about holding on to her independance - her land, her home, her family cemetery is a quality rooted in her descendants. The fact that an 82 year old woman was more concerned about the need for a church beyond her own personal needs as a widow and even instigated donating her own land for Friendship Baptist, bears great significance to the type of person she was.

By their fifth anniversary, Lacy and Elizabeth had relocated some 80 miles west of where they married in Jasper County (county seat Monticello), Georgia to what is now called Palmetto in what was Campbell, but now Fulton County, Georgia. This long journey by horse and wagon no doubt seemed longer with the 3 or 4 infant children they had between 1825 and 1830. Whether they chose Palmetto for the beauty of the area, because of a military grant, or because of an inheritance, we do not yet know.

Lacy and Elizabeth's family life was filled with tragedy: losing their son Frank in an accident while hauling logs and their youngest daughter Eliza Ann to childbirth. Their daughters, Mary, Naomi, and Elizabeth were all widowed while still in their thirties and yet lived long lives and continued to provide for their families, perhaps financed through Lacy's great success at farming and the thriftiness they learned from their mother, Elizabeth Teal Hattaway. Naomi's husband, Meshack Teal, was hanged for murder in 1856, leaving her with 4 small children; Mary's husband, Jesse Teal, appears to have died during the Civil War, leaving her with 3 small daughters; Elizabeth's husband, William F. M. Mapp, died of measles in Richmond, VA after surviving some of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War.

Lacy and Elizabeth's son, Dave, who lost a leg at the Battle of Peachtree Creek during the Civil War, plowed the fields while walking on a peg leg and lived to be 86 years old. Although he had no children of his own, he and his wife adopted an orphaned child, Stella Harketh, cared for Dave's niece Odessa Beatrice Cook until her father remarried, and raised Mary Cash Hattaway's orphaned nieces, Maggie and Mary Ann Cash. Whether in tradition or interest, upon his mother's death, Dave Hattaway bought her bee hives.

Nonetheless, Lacy's tireless efforts at farming and Elizabeth's apparent work as a bee keeper are evident over a century later. Many of their descendants live on what was once Lacy and Elizabeth's farm in Palmetto, Georgia. A beautiful church that also served as an early school house stands next to what was once Lacy and Elizabeth's family cemetery. Many graves existing prior to the church remain unmarked - with two granite markers inscribed "Hattaway" in remembrance of Lacy and Elizabeth's earliest family members buried there. Over a century after the Friendship Baptist Church was started, many of Lacy and Elizabeth's descendants still regularly attend church there with many church and family members buried at Friendship Baptist.

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