Johanne (Jones) Gilreath (abt. 1752 - 1817)

Born about 1752 in Granville District, North Carolina

Ancestors

Wife of John Gilreath — married 1771 in Bute, North Carolina

Descendants

Died 18 Oct 1817 at about age 65 in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Johanne was born in 1749 at an unknown location. She was the daughter of Benjamin John Jones Sr. and Johannah (Perry) Jones. Province of North Carolina, Wilkes County

Johanne died at the age of about 73 in 1825 in Wilkes County, North Carolina.

Johanne was born in 1753. She passed away in 1825.

Sources

• FamilySearch: Johannah Jones (1752 – 18 October 1817)
• Geni Person ID: 6000000017821842739.
• This webpage has a lot of info about her and her husband John Gilreath and their children
• JOHANNAR2 JONES (BENJAMIN1)77 was born Bet. 1750 - 1755 in Bute County, North Carolina78, and died Aft. 1817 in Wilkes County, North Carolina78.She married JOHN GILREATH79,80 Bet. 1771 - 1774 in Bute County, NC81, son of WILLIAM GILREATH and MARY ARRINGTON.He was born Abt. 1752 in Granville County, NC81, and died December 1802 in Wilkes County, North Carolina81.

Notes for JOHANNAR JONES: [Gilreath.FTW] Johannar Jones is probably the eldest of seven daughters of Benjamin and Johannar Jones. Although she is not named in Benjamin's will, and the other six daughters are, the will gives her husband, John Gilreath, full possession over Benjamin's land on behalf of widow Johanna Jones. He was also a legatee under the will. She went with John and her children to settle in Wilkes County, North Carolina sometime around 1782.In February 1806 she became the guardian of a John Dougherty, probably the son of her daughter Sarah who married a John Dougherty (Dorety). Notes for JOHN GILREATH: [Gilreath.FTW] John Gilreath was the oldest of five sons of William Gilreath.His name is first found on the Bute County tax lists in 1771, living apart from his father.No record of his marriage to Johannar Jones has been found but there seems to be general agreement among Gilreath family researchers that this is a fact. After his marriage to Johannar Jones, it appears that they lived on the farm of her father and mother, Benjamin and Johannar Jones.In his will, made in 1776, Benjamin Jones leaves John Gilreath in full possession of the farm, for his widow's behalf, and gives him a share of his estate.There was clearly a close relationship between John Gilreath and Benjamin Jones. Although in 1778, John and his father, William, refused to sign a loyalty oath in support of North Carolina and against King George 3rd, he and two of his brothers were soldiers in the Revolutionary War.Why they refused to sign the oath is a mystery.That same year, John and his brothers James and William signed a petition to divide Bute County into what became Warren and Franklin counties.The Carolina legislature approved and, in 1779, the part of Bute County where the Gilreaths lived became Warren County.Sometime before 1782,his family moved West to Wilkes County, North Carolina following in the footsteps of his father and brothers William and Alexander. He remained there for the rest of his life.Although he received land grants in Wilkes County ranging from 50 to 100 acres during the 1780s, the land his family seemed to have retained after his death was a tract of 106 acres purchased in May 1794. John and Johannarhad three daughters and four sons.Three of his sons moved on from Wilkes County to Whitley County, North Carolina.His will was proved in the Wilkes County, North Carolina court on December 19, 1802.In it he names only one child, Sarah Dorety (Dougherty?).Other children are named in a deed from the heirs and legatees of John Gilreath to John Saint Clair in the Wilkes County, NC Deed Book L, p. 275, dated October 18, 1817.His widow, Johannar, was still living on the land at this time. John Gilreath was a soldier in the Revolutionary War but he died long before pensions were authorized for war veterans. More About JOHN GILREATH: Will Proved: December 19, 1802, Wilkes County, North Carolina82,83

Children of JOHANNAR JONES and JOHN GILREATH are: 6. i. WILLIAM3 GILREATH, b. Abt. 1774, Bute County, North Carolina; d. Abt. 1828, Whitley County, Kentucky.

ii. NANCY GILREATH84, b. Abt. 1775, Bute County, North Carolina85. Notes for NANCY GILREATH: [Gilreath.FTW] On the 1850 census she was single. 7. iii. MARY SUSANNA GILREATH, b. August 23, 1784; d. August 18, 1840, Jackson County, Alabama. 8. iv. BENJAMIN JONES GILREATH, b. Abt. 1785, Wilkes County, North Carolina; d. September 03, 1864, Whitley County, Kentucky.

v. SARAH GILREATH86, b. 1790, North Carolina87; m. JOHN DOUGHERTY88. 9. vi. JESSE GILREATH, b. Abt. 1794, Wilkes County, North Carolina; d. 1825, Wilkes County, North Carolina. 10. vii. GIDEON GILREATH, b. September 28, 1797, Wilkes County, North Carolina; d. 1867, Whitley County, Kentucky.

GEDCOM Note "Johannah Jones Gilreath was one of seven daughters of Benjamin and Johannah Jones. Although she is not named in her father's Will, and the other six children are, his Will gives Johannah's husband, John, full control over Benjamin's land on behalf of his widow, Johannah Jones. John Gilreath was also a legatee under the will.

Johannah Gilreath went with John, her children and her widowed mother to settle in Wilkes Co., NC sometime arounf 1780. There John Gilreath joined his father and two brothers who migrated to Wilkes in 1778.

On 6 Feb 1896 she signed an apprentice bond for her daughter Sarah Dougherty's son, John. John was bound until he was 21 to Johannah to "learn the occupatiob of farmer". A few months later, on 9 May 1806, she took on another apprentice, Ulsey Robert, "to learn the occupation of spinster" until she was 18 years of age. It seems likely that Ulsey Roberts was the orphaned chid of one of Johannah and John Gilreath's children.

Bond provided 1: 6 February 1806, Apprentice bond for nephew John Dougherty to become a farmer. Bond provided 2: 9 May 1806, Apprentice bond for Ulsey Roberts to learn occupation of spinster."