Ebenezer (Stearns) Starnes (1722 - 1789)

Born 23 Apr 1722 in Tolland, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Anna (Field) Stearns — married 26 Aug 1749 in Tolland, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 1789 at about age 66 in Laurens, South Carolina, United States

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Biography

Ebenezer Starns first married the daughter of David Callahan and had a daughter, Elizabeth, and son, Moses. She died of cholera morbus and he then married Elizabeth Young. Samuel Scott Starnes, Daniel, John Hadley, Ebenezer and Mary were born of this second marriage. They all were living in Augusta, Georgia in 1808.

Name

Ebenezer Stearns/Starnes

Birth

23 APR 1722 Tolland, Tolland, Connecticut

Residence

16 Feb 1741 Tolland, Tolland, Connecticut, USA

Marriage

16 Feb 1741 Tolland, Tolland, Connecticut, USA

Notes

6143-EBENEZER STARNES (6047), b., Apr. 23, 1722, son of Shubael Jr. and Rebecca (Lariby) Stearns, of Tolland, Conn.; md. (1), Aug. 26, 1743, Anna Field, of Tolland, Conn., of which marriage there was no known issue; md. (2), after removing South with the rest of his father's family, Elizabeth Young, of Buncombe Co., N. C., who became the mother of five children. About the time of the Revolution he moved into South Carolina, and, afterwards, into Columbia Co., Ga., where he d.

6144-DR. SAMUEL SCOTT STARNES (6339).

6145-DANIEL STARNES (6349), b., 1783.

6146-JOHN STARNES (6353).

6147-MARY STARNES, b., 1790; md., 1810, in Augusta, Ga., Rodham Tulloss, Esq., of Tennessee. She was the mother of eleven children, but we have only the record of two.

(a)-Louisa Tulloss, b., Mar. 25, 1812; d., unm.

(b)-John Ebenezer Tulloss, b., Nov. 30, 1817; md. (1), 1840, Sarah Scott, by whom he had two chil., named Mary E. Tulloss, b., Feb. 4, 1842, and Thomas Rodham Tulloss, a farmer, of Rock Hill, Tenn., b., Feb. 9, 1844, who md. Julia Ida Pollard, in 1869, and had six children; John E. Tulloss md. (2), Oct.. 1853, Fanny E. German, by whom he had two boys, Robert C. Tulloss, b., 1854, d., 1865, and John Daniel Tulloss, b., Apr. 1, 1859, who md., Dec. 1, 1880, Imogene Cox.

6148-EBENEZER STARNES (6354).

Sources

• Whitney, Ernest Eugene. Shubael and Rebecca (Larriford) Starns and Their Ten Children, Connecticut Nutmegger (Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Glastonbury, Conn., Sept. 2013) Vol. 46, No. 2, Page 156.
• Van Wagenen, Avis Stearns. Genealogy And Memoirs Of Isaac Stearns And His Descendants (Courier Printing Co., Syracuse, N.Y., 1901)
• Starnes, H. Gerald, Forrest's Forgotten Horse Brigadier, Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1995, pp. 93-96:
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