Family/Spouse: Unknown EAVES. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

NOTE 1./ Reproduced from Crisp County's History in Pictures and Stories published 1978 by Cordele-Crisp County Historical Society, Inc - pages 86-87

Zack Lewis was married to Mary Jane Moncrief, and later, to Sarah Anne, her younger sister. Zack and Sarah Anne had nine children: Soloman (Sol), Nancy Childers, Jackson (Jack), Rufus (Ruf), Edna Bagwell, Ella Mae (Dolly), Annie Posey, Isabelle (Issie) Stevens, and Bessie Eaves.
Lucius and Nancy Childers lived on Zack Lewis's place and farmed from 1894 until they moved to Crisp County in December of 1912. They and their 7 children moved on a wagon with a cow and calf tied behind it. The trip took three days and 2 nights. Their children played along the way, walking part of the time to rest from riding in the jolting wagon which was loaded with all their possessions. The older boys rode along the side and helped drive the wagon. The nights were spent under and around the wagon with a camp fire providing warmth and protection. The second night, they stayed at Dooly County Camp Grounds. The third day, they arrived in Crisp County about sundown at Sol Lewis's Nancy's older brother's home. This farm is still intact today about 10 miles south of Cordele on Hwy. 33 and remains in the Lewis family. Sol and Ellen Lewis's daughter, Josie (Lewis) Sego, live there in the old home.

Zachariah married Sarah Ann Elizabeth MONCRIEF about 1870 in Crawford County Georgia. Sarah (daughter of David MONCRIEF and Sarah POLLARD) was born on 28 Apr 1850 in Bibb County, Georgia; died on 10 Feb 1936 in Crawford County, Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Rowan

Jonathan married Nancy ALBRITTON on 10 Aug 1809 in Columbia County, Georgia. Nancy (daughter of Richard ALBRITTON and Mary HART) was born in 1778 in Pitt County, North Carolina; died after 1850 in Crawford County, Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

NOTE 1./ Moncrief Family Genealogy Forum at Genealogy.com. Posting by Marta Scott on 7-21-2002. E-mail address has been removed as of 8-28-2003.

I am looking for information for David Moncrief b. circa 1804, died circa 1854. He may have been orphaned and a James Hammack/Hammock put up a guardianship bond. If this is the same David Moncrief, his father's name was William. I believe them to be the same, as he married Sarah Pollard in a double ceremony in which James Hammack/Hammock married Sarah's sister, Martha Pollard, in 1827. Any help would be appreciated.

NOTE 2./ Bibb County Census 1850 District #481 - 482 - 483

MONCRIEF, B 44 m
Sarah 40 f
Mary J. 21 f
Joseph 18 m labourer
George 13 m
Eli 12 m
Henry 10 m
Richard 8 m
Wiley 5 m
Robert 3 m
Infant 5 mo. m (recorded 2 Oct)

David married Sarah POLLARD on 05 Sep 1827 in Bibb County, Georgia. Sarah was born in 1810 in South Carolina; died about 1864 in Bibb County, Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

NOTE 1./ Historical Reference: The Year Was 1780
The year was 1780 and the American Revolution wasn't going well for the Americans in the South. British forces captured Charleston and 5,400 American troops garrisoned there. During the siege, South Carolina Governor John Rutledge managed to escape and when word reached the British General Cornwallis, he sent Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton to chase Rutledge and troops under Colonel Abraham Buford who were escorting him to North Carolina. Tarleton's men caught up with Buford's troops near the Waxhaws District six miles south of the North Carolina state line, as Governor Rutledge continued north. Buford's men put up a brief fight during which Tarleton's horse was shot from under him. As the American troops began to surrender, Tarleton's men, thinking he had been killed began renewed their attack on the surrendering Americans. More than one hundred men were killed outright and perhaps another hundred died of their wounds shortly after.

Up to that point, most thought that the South was going to remain loyal to Britain, but the Waxhaws Massacre became a rallying point for the rebels, with "Tarleton's Quarter" becoming synonymous with "no mercy."

The divisions in the South were apparent in the Battle of King's Mountain, which was fought between two American forces--Tories under the command of Major Patrick Ferguson, and the "Overmountain Men," American frontiersmen from what is now Tennessee and parts of Virginia. The Americans surrounded the Tories and this time it was they who gave "no quarter" to the surrendering Tory troops. Eventually American officers were able to reign in the troops and the battle was over. The defeat was a turning point in the Revolution in the South and forced General Cornwallis to retreat further south.

To the north, a British spy was captured with correspondence revealing that Benedict Arnold, who had recently been given command of West Point, planned to surrender it to the British. When news that the spy had been caught reached Arnold, he fled to the safety of a British ship and became a brigadier-general for the British, siding with them for the remainder of the war.

There was trouble in England as well. In 1778 a Catholic Relief Act had been passed, which reversed some of the Penal Laws of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It allowed Roman Catholics to join the armed forces with an oath amenable to Catholics and gave them the ability to hold longer leases on land. It also ended the requirement that a Catholic distribute his lands evenly among his sons upon his death. The Catholic Relief Acts weren't popular with some Protestants though and in 1780 Lord George Gordon established the Protestant Association in 1780. In June of that year an estimated 60,000 people marched on the House of Commons demanding the Relief Acts be repealed. The huge crowd turned violent and a week of rioting left two hundred and ninety people dead, and devasted Roman Catholic churches and related buildings, as well as the homes of prominent Catholics and supporters of the legislation. Troops had to be called in to end the rioting. Twenty-five of the leaders of the riot were hanged, but Gordon was found "not guilty" of treason.

May 19th was a dark day in New England--literally. A low-lying dark cloud that at times had a yellow and at times reddish hue descended on New England and was noted from Maine to as far south as New Jersey. It was darkest around northeastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire and Maine, where it became so dark that candles needed to be lit to see. The cause is thought to have been a combination of low clouds that mixed with smoke and ash from a forest fire, but at the time it wasn't known and the event caused panic for many.

New England's dark day was a minor event though in comparison to the hurricane season of 1780. Eight storms struck in various parts of America and the Caribbean. British fleets off American shores took heavy hits during several storms. (Hurricanes in the 1780s were the cause of more British Naval losses than battle.) The worst storm struck on October 10th devastating Barbados and the Windward Islands, and claiming an estimated 22,000 lives.


Birth:
Randolph

RS married Lydia FIELD in 1783 in Rowan County, North Carolina. Lydia (daughter of WilliamJr FIELD) was born on 19 Jun 1762 in Rowan County, North Carolina; died on 09 Jan 1852 in New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana; was buried in Scott Cemetery, Floyd County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Mary HART about 1774 in Pitt County, North Carolina. Mary was born in in Pitt County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]