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Mary (Bledsoe) Weatherred (1780 - 1854)

Mary "Polly" Weatherred formerly Bledsoe
Born in Washington County, Virginiamap
Ancestors ancestors
Daughter of and
Sister of , , , , , , [half], , , , and [half]
Wife of — married 8 Nov 1799 in Virginiamap
Descendants descendants
Mother of , , , , , , , , , and
Died at age 73 in Tuscaloosa, Alabamamap
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Biography

Mary was born on 10 April 1780 in Washington County, Virginia. She was the daughter of Anthony James Bledsoe and Mary (Ramsey) Parker[1] (1734-1808)[2]

When Mary was about 18 she married James S. Weathered in 1799 in Sumner County, Tennessee. The couple had 12 children: Mildred Murphy Weathered, Sarah Shelby Weathered, Elizabeth Lyon Weathered, Rachel Weathered, Mary Ann Priscilla Weathered, Richard Weathered, @I7727@, Frances Emmaline Weathered, Marcus L. Weathered, Charlotte Weathered, Abraham Weathered and Bledsoe Weathered. STA[1][3]

In 1799 Mary (age about 18) was living in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.[4]

Will: 11 April 1850 in Noxubee County, Mississippi. Note: Mentions only 11 children, one may have died already.[5]

Mary died at the age of 73 on 23 March 1854 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Note: died at the home of a daughter: Mrs. Briggs[1][3][6]

Mary was buried after 23 March 1854 in Greenwood Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Research Notes

Nickname: Polly[7]

Historic Sumner County, Tennessee lists nine children:[8]

  1. Emma Weatherred[8]
  2. Richard Weatherred[8]
  3. Mildred Weatherred[8]
  4. Mary Weatherred[8]
  5. Sarah Shelby Weatherred[8]
  6. Charlotte Weatherred[8]
  7. Bledsoe Weatherred[8]
  8. Marcus Weatherred[8]
  9. Abraham Weatherred[8]

Sources with no fact or date

There are additional sources with no facts or date. Often these are sources for the baptism or marriage of children that mention the parents or father. This section can just be removed if you will be adding those children and using these sources there.[9]

Notes from external profile

Sued regarding her father’s will. The suit went to the Tennessee Supreme Court in December 1748, she continued the suit to the US Supreme Court. See the Supreme Court Reporter Pages 328-361 in the1850 term. She is incorrectly listed as Weatherhead.[10]

Notes from duplicate profile

Mary was born 10 April 1780 in Virginia. She married James S. Weatherred on 8 November 1799 in Virginia. Their daughter Sarah Shelby (Weatherred) Malone was born in 1799. Mary died 23 March 1854 in Alabama or Mississippi. [11]

Notes from DAR descendant record

Note that the main DAR records have been vetted, but the descendant records have not. The main record for Mary's father supports that he had one wife (Mary Ramsey), that he was born in Spotsylvania County, Virginia in 1733 and died 20 July 1788 in Sumner County, North Carolina, and that one of his daughters was Mary Polly and her husband was James Weatherred.[12] Her husband was the son of another DAR Patriot Ancestor - Francis Marcus Weatherhead (1740-before November 1830), which lists his son James as marrying Mary Polly Bledsoe. Francis Marcus was born in Virginia, died in Sumner County, Tennessee and was was married twice, according to his main DAR record.[13] His mother was Agnes Sudderth, a daughter of James Suddeth, DAR Patriot Ancestor #A110747.[14] Other information in this section is from descendant records.

Mary Bledsoe is the daughter of Anthony Bledsoe, DAR Patriot Ancestor #A011213,[12] and his wife Mary Ramsey.[15] His DAR record lists only one wife (Mary Ramsey).[12] Mary Ramsey was born in Orange County, Virginia in 1734. She married Anthony on 8 September 1760 in Culpeper County, Virginia and died in 1808 in Sumner County, Tennessee.[15]

When Mary was born on 10 April 1780, the place where her family was living was in Washington County, Virginia[15] (see Location Notes, below).

Mary married James Weatherred in Virginia on 8 November 1799. He was born in Albemarle County, Virginia on 5 March 1775.[15]

Both Tennessee and Sumner County, Tennessee had been created by the time that James and Mary's daughter Sarah Shelby Weatherred was born there about 1803.[15]

The Weatherreds had apparently moved to Tuscaloosa County, Alabama by 7 November 1821 - the date and place of Sarah's marriage to William Lyon Malone (who was born c1800 in Sumner County). Sarah's father James died in Alabama on 4 February 1843. Mary died 10 June 1854 in Noxubee County, Mississippi. Sarah died after 1860 in Tipton County, Tennessee.[15]

Location Notes

Anthony Bledsoe was born in Spotsylvania County and his wife Mary Ramsey was born in Orange County[15] - which had been formed from Spotsylvania County in 1734.[16]

Washington County, Virginia - where Mary Bledsoe was born[15] - had been created from Fincastle County about 1776. Its southern border lay along Virginia's southern border.[16] The southern border was a bit fluid at the time, with Virginia and North Carolina contesting a strip that would later become Tennessee, which was admitted as a state on 1 June 1796.[17]

In 1783, North Carolina created Davidson County from Washington County, North Carolina.[17]

When Anthony Bledsoe died in 1788, the land was in "Sumner County, North Carolina"[12] - North Carolina having created Sumner County from Davidson County in 1787.[18] This could have been the same land where the Bledsoes were living when Mary was born (in Washington County, Virginia) or they may have moved south a bit. It was Sumner County, Tennessee in 1799, when James Weatherred and Mary Bledsoe married.[15]

It is interesting to note that Virginia did not have a western boundary until Kentucky was admitted to the union in 1792. Looking at county formation maps for Virginia, Anthony and Mary (Ramsey) Bledsoe could have been neighbors, as Orange County was created from Spotsylvania County. The land that would become Washington County, Virginia had at one point been part of Augusta County, which had been formed from Orange County. It is unlikely that Anthony Bledsoe never moved from Spotsylvania County, which today is closer to "Northern Virginia" than the southern border,[16] but it is a remote possibility - especially considering his DAR record notes that he served as a "Justice of Peace, Fincastle Co".[12] It is also possible that Sarah Shelby Wetherred, daughter of James and Mary (Bledsoe) Weatherred, was born in the same place as her mother (Sumner County, Tennessee and Washington County, Virginia, respectively).[15]

More about Anthony's Locations

Note that the WikiTree profile for Anthony (as of 23 July 2023) has his birth on 2 July 1733 in Culpeper County, Virginia (Culpeper County was formed from Orange County in 1749[16]) and his death on 20 July 1788 at Bledsoe's Lick, Sumner County, Tennessee (which was not yet a state).[17] His profile notes that he served with the "Sullivan County Regiment, North Carolina Militia during the American Revolution" and was the "eldest of two brothers (the other being Col. Isaac Bledsoe), who helped to establish what is now Sumner County, Tennessee" having "moved to the wilderness of south-western Virginia - north-western North Carolina.... With his brother Isaac, the Shelby and Desha families they settled the Holston River Area."[19]
Col. Isaac Shelby, with the bulk of his Sullivan County [NC] Regiment of Militia (one of the regiments under the command of Col. William Campbell of Virginia), went to the Battle of King's Mountain,[20] while "Homeguards were left at Holston and Watauga under Anthony Bledsoe (1739–1788) and Charles Robertson, respectively."[21] In 1781, he moved to Greenfield and in "1785 Col. Anthony was elected as Sumner's Representative to the North Carolina Legislation."[19]

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Death: Title: InterneTree based on research by Banks McLaurin Note: Y Text: This source indicates a marraige date of abt 1670. Citing: Page: Shows name as Mary (accessed before 20 July 2013)
  2. ↑ Mary (Ramsey) Bledsoe, DAR Patriot Ancestor #A011225 (accessed 24 July 2023).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Death: Type: Book Author: Oscar Benjamin King Publication: (c) 1970 Title: King Family History Note: Y. Citing: Page: p 45 (accessed before 20 July 2013)
  4. ↑ Residence: Type: Book Author: Oscar Benjamin King Publication: (c) 1970 Title: King Family History Note: Y. Citing: Page: p 110 (accessed before 20 July 2013)
  5. ↑ Will: Type: Book Author: Oscar Benjamin King Publication: (c) 1970 Title: King Family History Note: Y. Citing: Page: p 46 (accessed before 20 July 2013)
  6. ↑ Death: Type: Internet Database Owner: Ancestry.com ADDX awt.ancestry.com,
    Page: http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1501007&id=I3130.
  7. ↑ Nickname: Type: Internet Database Owner: Ancestry.com ADDX www.ancestry.com,
    Page: gene pool.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 8.9 Jay Guy Cisco, Historic Sumner County, Tennessee (Genealogical Publishing Com, Sumner County, Tenn. : 2009), pages 107-108, accessed 24 July 2023.
  9. ↑ Unclassified: Type: Book Author: Oscar Benjamin King Publication: (c) 1970 Title: King Family History Note: Y. Citing: Page: p 34 (accessed before 20 July 2013)
  10. ↑ Source: #S8 Page: p 50-51
  11. ↑ Source will be added by Diana (Herndon) Cardoso by 31 Jul 2018.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 Anthony Bledsoe, DAR Patriot Ancestor #A011213 (accessed 23 July 2023).
  13. ↑ Francis Marcus Weatherhead, DAR Patriot Ancestor #A207986 (accessed 23 July 2023).
  14. ↑ James Suddeth, DAR Patriot Ancestor #A110747 (accessed 23 July 2023).
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 15.8 15.9 DAR descendant record for Sarah Shelby Weatherred, daughter of Mary Bledsoe and James Weatherred (accessed 23 July 2023).
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 History of County Formations in Virginia 1617-1995 (accessed 23 July 2023).
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 History of County Formations in Tennessee 1776-1985 (accessed 23 July 2023).
  18. ↑ History of County Formations in North Carolina 1664-1965 (accessed 23 July 2023).
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 From WikiTree's profile for Anthony James Bledsoe (1733-1788), accessed 23 July 2023.
  20. ↑ J.D. Lewis's Powerpoint presentation, "The Known Patriots at the Battle of Kings Mountain", pages 5 & 18 (accessed 23 July 2023).
  21. ↑ From WikiTree's space page, The Overmountain Men and Their Descendants, accessed 23 July 2023.
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Noland-165 Liz (Noland) Shifflett
update - merge completed

Bledsoe-1274 and Bledsoe-339 appear to represent the same person because: same dates/places/husband/parents - I've just proposed merges for the duplicate profiles attached as parents.

posted by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
edited by Liz (Noland) Shifflett

Rejected matches › Mary (Bliss) Perry (1781-)

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