Isom Weathersbee (1780 - 1846)

Born 12 Mar 1780 in Bladen, North Carolina, United States

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Died 11 Nov 1846 at age 66 in Lawrence County, Mississippi, United States

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Isom Weathersbee served in the 13th Regiment, Mississippi Militia in the War of 1812
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Biography

ISOM WEATHERSBEE was born 12 March 1780^[2] in Bladen County, NC, and died 11 November 1846 in Lawrence County, Mississippi. He married SARAH THOMAS 07 September 1797. She died 08 June 1850 in Lawrence County, Mississippi

Children of ISOM WEATHERSBY and SARAH THOMAS are:

1. ELIZABETH WEATHERSBY, b. 23 Mar 1798, Bladen Co, NC; d. 24 Mar 1858, Simpson Co, MS She married Soloman Magee on November 24, 1814 in Marion County, Mississippi. After his death in 1826 in Simpson County, Mississippi, she married Francis Marion Walker in Simpson County, Mississippi.
2. JANE WEATHERSBY b. 29 Sep 1799, Bladen County, North Carolina; d. Unknown. m. JAMES THAMES; d. Unknown.
3. CADE WEATHERSBY, b. 26 Feb 1801, Bladen Co, North Carolina; d. after 13 MAR 1852 in Lawrence County, Mississippi. He married Naomi Garner b: 1809 in TN
4. MICHAEL WEATHERSBY, b. 15 Jan 1803
5. DANIEL WEATHERSBY, b. 27 Apr 1804; d. 25 Jun 1809
6. WILLIAM WEATHERSBY b. 26 Feb 1806. William married Sarah Slater (1809-after 1851) on March 27, 1828, in Lawrence County. Died Dec. 4, 1854 Lawrence County Mississippi
7. WYAT WEATHERSBY, b. 22 Apr 1808, Bladen Co, North Carolina; d. Abt. 09 Jan 1862. , buried Lawrence County Mississippi, married Mary Dear
8. JONATHAN. WEATHERSBY, b. 09 Jan 1810; d.Mar. 26, 1860 Simpson County Mississippi
9. Flora Weathersby (1810 - 1811)
10. JAMES JASPER WEATHERSBY b. 18 Jul 1812; d. Unknown.
11. Owen Weathersby, b. 06 Jan 1812; d. 15 Mar 1877 married Sarah Ann Magee Weathersby (1816 - 1901)
12. DUNCAN WEATHERSBY b. 07 Apr 1816 d. unknown, Lawrence County Mississippi. Married Elmyra M. McDaniels on June 15, 1837 in Simpson County, Mississippi.
13. HARRIET WEATHERSBY b. 13 Feb 1818; d. April 3rd 1850 in Amite County Mississippi. Married Hatton Culpeper Weathersby (son of Lewis, Thomas, Thomas)^[3]
14. JOHN WEATHERSBY, b. 16 Aug 1819 d. JUL 18th1863 in Buried Jefferson Davis County Mississippi married Rebecca Newsom b: 1826 in Lawrence County
15. SARAH WEATHERSBY, b. 29 Jul 1823; d. 22 Aug 1844
16. ISOM WEATHERSBY, b. 29 Jul 1823; d. JUN 1887 in Old Hebron, Lawrence County. Married Sarah Elizabeth Newsom b: 9 JUN 1832 in Lawrence County, Mississippi

Isom Weathersby's life

The following description of Isom Weathersby's life has been extracted from the Weathersby Family Genealogy website: with the permission of Frank H. Roberts. The family has been researched extensively and one article related to them is found in Southern Historical Families, Volume XIII pp 103-110. This material was contributed by Lenora Weathersby Smith and Elizabeth (Willis) Dehugg. Much of what appears in this genealogy concerning the Weathersbys came from this source. Thank you to the Weathersby researchers.

"Isom and his descendants settled in Lawrence County in the Silver Creek community. The spelling of his name varies. In Mississippi History books and North Carolina land grants his name is spelled "Isham" but his father stipulated that it was "Isom" as was shown in his will.

Isom Weathersby was the 8th child of Cade Weathersbee. He lost his mother before he was 10, and his father when he was 13. He married Sarah Thomas when he was 17-l/2 and having inherited "100 acres of land and a negro boy named Jack" in his father's will, they set up housekeeping in Bladen Co--where their first nine children were born.

Isom was a successful planter and added to his holdings through purchase and land grants--three having been as follows: "On 11-24-1806, Isom Weathersbee received a grant of 3 acres in the fork of Beaver Dam. On 2-27-1809, he received 50 acres, beginning at a pine. All in Bladen Co., N.C."

A South Carolina Historian says, "Isom Weathersbee, along with brothers and other kinsmen probably went to Mississippi about 1814, or earlier.

In territorial papers of the U.S. Goverment Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1938, there is a record of a petition of 12-6-1814, by inhabitants of the post road from Choctaw Agency to Henry G. Nixon's for a road from the center of the Mississippi Territory to commence at the Choctaw Agency at Pearl River. Among the signers was Isom Weathersbee".

Lawrence County, Mississippi was formed in 1814. Lowery and McCarkle, in their History of Mississippi mention Isom Weathersby as being one of the earliest settlers, and certainly none were more important to the development of the new country than he was. Tradition says that his wagon-train was composed of Magees, Slaters, Weathersbys, the Grays of Prentiss and others. The Weathersbys settled on Silver Creek (Lawrence County) and built a spacious home where they reared 13 sons and daughters to adulthood.

Isom was the holder of extensive lands and slaves, in both Lawrence and Covington Counties. His home was in Lawrence County where his family was prominently identified with all Community and Church activities. They are frequently mentioned in minutes of the historic Hebron Baptist Church, original manuscript of which has been placed in the Library of Miss. College at Clinton, Mississippi.

The Bible, which came with the family from North Carolina, is a most interesting one. It measures 4x6-l/2x2-l/2 inches, is leather bound, scorched and water soaked--giving evidence of the rugged times through which its owners lived. It was "Translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by His Majestys Special Command". It was printed in Edinburgh by Mark and Charles Kerr, His Majesty's Printers in MDCCXCVII (1797)". One of the most unique features is the fact that the Book of Psalms is in its regular place and form, and again in the back in the original Meter form. The type is the typical English with strange "s".

Truly, its records "A Heap o' Living". Among the descendants of this wonderful old family are many splendid businessmen, farmers, lawyers, preachers, teachers, and other professional men--the very large number of physicians being noteworthy. They are buried in the graveyard of Old Hebron Baptist Church, which was organized in their community in 1821. The description given by their grandson, Thomas Jefferson Weathersby, is most apt: "Atop a red clay gravel hill, among an acre of Weathersbys".

374 4 March 1800. William Bedsole to Isham Weathersby-$100….on North side of Weathersby's Mill Bay. Wit: A.Weathersby, Samuel Pharis. J.S.Purdie,C.C.^[4]

Isom served in the War of 1812, Private, 13th Regt. Nixon's Mississippi Militia with his brother-in-law, James Thomas.

Mississippi, Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers, 1812-1815 about Isham Weathersby

Name: Isham Weathersby

Military Unit: 13th Regiment (Nixon's)

Highest Rank: Private

First Muster Date: 8 Jan 1815

Discharge Date: 7 Feb 1815

Series Number: M678

Roll Number: 7

• Fact: Residence (1840) Not Stated, Lawrence, Mississippi
• Fact: Burial (1846) Hebron Cemetery, Hebron, Jefferson Davis, Mississippi, United States
• Fact: Named in father's will dated 23 May 1793 in Bladen County, North Carolina Was bequeathed 100 acres of land lying on the Big Swamp in Bladen County.

Sources

1. ↑ http://www.accessgenealogy.com/military/13th-regiment-of-mississippi-militia.htm
2. ↑ Mississippi Genealogical Society, Cemetery and Bible Records Volume III p 175, Weathersby Bible Record
3. ↑ https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE946808 page 50
4. ↑ http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/bladen/bios/records20bs.txt

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 26 January 2024, 22:02), entry for Isham Weathersby (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LZ1M-F6Y ); contributed by various users.

• http://www.ncgenweb.us/bladen/reports/descendents/weathersbee.thomas.pdf

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=joanbill&id=I2082

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=butchrose&id=I14862

• http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/b/r/o/Norma-Jean-Brown-Arkansas/GENE1-0006.html

• DeHuff, Elizabeth Willis. The Weathersbee Family of Halifax and Martin Counties, North Carolina and Barnwell County, South Carolina.

• Weathersbee, Albert A & Weathersbee, William B. The Weathersbee Family, 1965.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #117771946

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Allan Thomas for creating Weathersby-27 on 1 Aug 13. Click the Changes tab for the details on contributions by Allan and others.