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Descendants of Henry Ledbetter

Generation No. 5

81. Sarah Eliza⁹ Stanley (Isham⁸, Rhoda⁷ Ledbetter, Daniel⁶, Henry⁵, John⁴, William³, Henry², Thomas¹) was born February 8, 1842 in Leeds, Alabama, and died October 4, 1903 in Leeds, Alabama. She married Caleb Gillespie.

Child of Sarah Stanley and Caleb Gillespie is:

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Ezekial S.¹⁰ Gillespie, born September 1859.

86. James Baty⁹ Ledbetter (Martin S.⁸, William⁷, Daniel⁶, Henry⁵, John⁴, William³, Henry², Thomas¹) was born 1829. He married (1) Caroline Thompson, daughter of William Thompson and Lavina. He married (2) Cynthia Ann Bain October 23, 1847 in Bedford County, Tennessee, daughter of Andrew Bain and Margaret.

Notes for James Baty Ledbetter:
Biography taken from GOODSPEED BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY MEMOIRS OF WESTERN ARKANSAS. Printed 1889

James B. Ledbetter, one of the honest and industrious farmers of Union Township and a native of Marshall Co., Tennessee, (1) was born in 1829, being the third of a family of five sons and five daughters. His education was limited to county schools prior to the age of thirteen, and at seventeen began for himslef as a farm laborer, (2) but in 1847 took unto himslef a wife in the person of Miss Cynthia A. Bain, daughter of Andrew and Margaret Bain. She was born in Bedford County, Tennessee (3), and died in Lawrence County, Missouri, in 1855 (4) and was the mother of four children, of whom two daughters survive: Margaret, the wife of F. Scroggin, and Edna J., now Mrs. Joseph Bell. Mr. Ledbetter married his present wife in 1859.(5) She was formerly Caroline Thompson, who was born in Bedford County, Tennessee. Her parents were William and Lavina Thompson, the former who died in Bedford County, Tennessee, during the war, and the latter in Missouri after the war. By this latter union Mr. Ledbetter is the father of six children, five living: Mary, wife of Horace Brown; Eliza, wife of Thomas Love; James B.; Charles S.; and Ferry M. In 1854 Mr. Ledbetter removed to Lawrence County, Missouri, and in 1861, to Benton County, Arkansas; in 1862 to Pope County, Arkansas, and in 1865 came to Conway County, Arkansas, where he has since lived, and since 1868, a resident of his farm, five miles southwest of Springfield, containing 160 acres, with about 80 acres under cultivation. In 1864 he was conscripted into the Confederate Army, and served as Orderly Sergeant in Shelby's command wand with General Price on his raid through Missouri. (6) He was reared a Whig, but since the war, has affiliated with the Democratic party. He and his wife are members of the Christian Church. Martin S. Ledbetter, the father of James B. was born in South Carolina in 1805.(7) He married Eliza McKinley (8) and removed to Middle Tennessee, but afterwards returned to South Carolina, thence to Alabama, and again to Tennessee. Mrs. Ledbetter died in Memphis, and he in Nashville, Tennessee, both in 1847. Mr. Ledbetter was a farmer and blacksmith, and was a son of Dr. William Ledbetter, who was probably South Carolinian by birth (9) but died in Mississippi about 1841, (10) a physician, merchant and farmer, and was of English descent. James B. McKinley, the maternal grandfather of our subject, died in Georgia, a farmer by occupation.

Footnotes provided by Judith Ledbetter, a researcher in Van Buren County, Arkansas:

1. At the time of J.B.'s birth, Marshall County was Bedford County, not becoming a county until between 1830-40
2. In the 1850 U.S. censuses, he is listed as tenant farmer.
3. In the 1850 U.S. censuses, she is listed as the same age as J.B.
4. Possibly in childbirth, as J.B.'s son Curtis was born in 1855 in Lawrence, Missouri.
5. When trying to acquire copies of these marriage records, it was discovered that the Bedford Co.,Courthouse burned in 1860, no documents were recovered.
6. In C.B. Ledbetter's application for Widow's Pension it is stated that J.B. "That he was a Confederate Soldier. Belonging to Company ___ Regiment of Stirman's Battalion. The as a soldier he served from about 1861 to the close of the war. The he was honorably discharged from such service ..."
7. Cenus records indicate this family lived in Pendleton District, SC, in what is now Anderson County.
8. James B. McKinley was found in the 1820 U.S. censuses in Pendleton Dist., Anderson County, SC as head of household.
9. William Ledbetter was found in 1810 and 1820 U.S. censuses in Pendleton Dist., South Carolina as head of household.
10. William Ledbetter was found in 1840 U.S. census in Tippah County, Mississippi.
11. Recorded in C.B. Ledbetter's Widow's Application for pension: "... that my husband died on the 4th day of September 1909." Buried at Scroggins Cemetery in Conway Co.,AR.

1850 Bedford County census:
Ledbetter, J.B. 21, Cynthia 21, Martha 5/12. all born Tennessee

Marriage Notes for James Ledbetter and Cynthia Bain:
James Beatty Ledbetter and Cynthia Ann Bain were married in New Providence Church, Oct 23, 1847 Bedford Co.,TN.

Children of James Ledbetter and Caroline Thompson are:

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Mary¹⁰ Ledbetter. She married Horace Brown.

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ii.

Eliza Ledbetter. She married Thomas Love.

122

iii.

James B. Ledbetter.

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iv.

Charles S. Ledbetter.

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Ferry Ledbetter.

Children of James Ledbetter and Cynthia Bain are:

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Margaret¹⁰ Ledbetter. She married F Scroggin.

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ii.

Edna J. Ledbetter. She married Joseph Bell.

127

iii.

Martha Ledbetter, born 1849.

88. Jesse M.⁹ Ledbetter (Martin S.⁸, William⁷, Daniel⁶, Henry⁵, John⁴, William³, Henry², Thomas¹) was born October 15, 1838 in Mississippi or Tennessee, and died March 20, 1917 in Fredrick, Tilman County, Oklahoma. He married Mary Matilda Hopkins January 11, 1861 in Bedford County, Tennessee, daughter of Eli Hopkins and Mary Meek.

Notes for Jesse M. Ledbetter:
Jesse M. Ledbetter was one of the young boys that his father took with him on the trip to Texas. Martin S. Ledbetter, the father of Jesse, died enroute. The two young boys made it back to their home in Tennessee to find that their mother, Eliza McKinley Ledbetter had died also. This was in the year 1847.

At the age of 21, Jesse is found living with his uncle, Jesse Mercer Ledbetter in Bedford County, Tennessee. When the Civil War broke out, Jesse would hide behind the wood pile so that he would not be asked to join to fight for the cause. He was a conscientious objector.

Jesse M. Ledbetter never learned to read or write until after he married Mary Matilda Hopkins. She taught him and after moving to Fannin/Hunt County, Texas, Jesse taught in a one room school. He taught his children as well as those in the surroundin area. Of those was one William Edward Young, son of Arzilla Ann Bynum and John t. Young, dec'd, and step-father, Christopher Williams. My grandfather, W.E. Young, told me about how he sat behind Alice Eglentine Ledbetter, daughter of Jesse and Mary Matilda Ledbetter, and he would put her long pigtails into the inkwell, and pull her pigtails. Later, these two married, much to Alice's parents regrets.

After Jesse's wife, Mary Matilda, called Monk, died, he moved to Frederick, Oklahoma with some of his children. There he died and is buried.

Children of Jesse Ledbetter and Mary Hopkins are:

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Mary Alexander¹⁰ Ledbetter, born November 28, 1863; died March 15, 1940. She married William Delk.

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ii.

Martha Elizabeth Ledbetter, born February 12, 1866; died January 1954 in Dalhart, Texas. She married William Tyler.

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iii.

James Eli Ledbetter, born January 21, 1869; died in Clovis New Mexico. He married Rebecca Ledbetter.

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iv.

William Stanley Ledbetter, born October 15, 1871; died in Munday, Texas. He married Elizabeth Ledbetter.

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Leander Madison Ledbetter, born May 14, 1874 in Bedford Co.,TN; died September 1937 in Sinton, Texas. He married Dora Eva Moses April 17, 1904.

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Dora Jane Ledbetter, born April 21, 1877; died in Estalline, Texas. She married Marshall Mabry.

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Alice Eglentine Ledbetter, born May 20, 1882 in Bedford County, Tennessee; died January 13, 1919 in Caddo, Stephens County,Texas. She married William Edward Young September 2, 1900 in Hunt County, Texas.

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viii.

Martin Washington Ledbetter, born January 22, 1884 in kTexas; died in Lamesa, Texas. He married Emma Ledbetter.

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Grover Cleveland Ledbetter, born June 1, 1887 in Fannin County, Texas; died January 9, 1956 in Dalhart, Texas. He married Rena Elizabeth Faubian January 1, 1908 in Frederick, Tillman Co.,Oklahoma.

95. Millard James Campbell⁹ Ledbetter (James Madison⁸, William⁷, Daniel⁶, Henry⁵, John⁴, William³, Henry², Thomas¹) was born March 11, 1859, and died August 1, 1930. He married Bulah Mulligan March 24, 1899 in Holly Springs, Mississippi.

Child of Millard Ledbetter and Bulah Mulligan is:

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Charles¹⁰ Ledbetter.

102. James Madison⁹ Ledbetter (Jesse Mercer⁸, William⁷, Daniel⁶, Henry⁵, John⁴, William³, Henry², Thomas¹) was born June 15, 1849, and died April 12, 1918 in Marshall Co.,TN. He married (1) Hattie M. Long. He married (2) Mattie R. Nowlin.

Children of James Ledbetter and Hattie Long are:

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Ozro¹⁰ Ledbetter.

139

ii.

Myrt Ledbetter.

140

iii.

Walter Ledbetter.

141

iv.

Mattie Lou Ledbetter, born November 20, 1884.

Child of James Ledbetter and Mattie Nowlin is:

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Mittie Elizabeth¹⁰ Ledbetter, born July 25, 1869.

118. Nathan Bedford⁹ Forrest (William⁸, Nathan⁷, Jaene⁶ Ledbetter, Henry⁵, John⁴, William³, Henry², Thomas¹) was born July 13, 1821 in Duck River, Bedford Co., TN. He married Mary Ann Montgomery September 25, 1845 in Hernando De Soto County,.

Children of Nathan Forrest and Mary Montgomery are:

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William¹⁰ Forrest, born 1846.

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ii.

Fanny Forrest, born 1848.

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