Susannah (Oney) Corder (bef. 1750 - aft. 1802)

Wife of Edward Corder Jr — married before 29 Mar 1767 in Frederick County, Virginia

Descendants

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Biography

Who was Susannah Corder?
The wife of Edward Corder Jr. of Frederick Co VA was not "Susannah Mary Wallace," but Susannah Oney. Please help correct this pervasive error in trees online and on Ancestry.com by alerting the owners of the trees to the information on this page.

Susannah Oney and Edward Corder Jr. were married before 29 Mar 1767, when a deed of that date from Edmund Lindsey of Frederick Co VA refers to "Edward Corder Jr. and Susannah his wife of the county of Frederick and colony of Virginia". Although Susannah is referred to as such throughout the text of the document, she made her mark at the end of the document by the name "Mary [X] Corder." She did have a sister, Mary, who married William Webb (who, coincidentally, worked at Fairfax's Land Office where the deed was likely prepared), but she is clearly called Susannah throughout the rest of the document and it's doubtful her middle name or nickname would have been the same as her sister's.

Edward Corder is listed among the sons-in-law of Benjamin Oney in Oney's August 1801 Tazewell County VA will (along with William Stapleton and Obediah Payne -- no mention of Mary's husband, William Webb). Edward's surname is nearly illegible and has been mis-transcribed as everything from "Castle" to "Carter."

Susannah may have had a previous marriage. The Y-DNA signature of some descendants of eldest son Benjamin Corder does not match the Y-DNA signature of descendants of Edward and Susannah's younger sons Elijah and Stephen (no testers have been identified for Richard's line). There are a significant number of autosomal DNA matches between descendants of the Oney family and descendants of the sons of Edward Corder Jr. of Frederick and Tazewell Counties, so between the DNA evidence and the reference in Benjamin Oney's 1801 will, I have absolutely zero doubt that Susannah Oney is the correct name of the wife of Edward Corder Jr.

We do not currently know Susannah's birth or death date so I am leaving the estimate as "before 1755" as my best guess that hopefully she was older than twelve by the time she married!

Sister of a Minute Man
Susannah's brother, Joseph Oney, was a "minute man" during the Revolution. His 1832 Tazwell County VA pension application describes his four years of service as an "Indian Spy" on the Virginia frontier and specifically mentions that the militia had to be ready to respond to Indian attacks at a minute's notice, thus, a "minute man." (Annals of Tazewell County, Virginia from 1800 to 1922, pg 226-228)

Learn more about the Corder Family
Please refer to the Wikitree entry for Edward Corder Jr. or follow this link to a chronological collection of research, records and notes regarding Edward Corder Jr. and his brother, John Corder.

Contributed by L. Henderson, 29 Jul 2018

Sources

• Frederick County, VA Deed Book 11 p. 352.
• ''Annals of Tazewell County, Virginia from 1800 to 1922'', by Harman, John Newton. Publication date 1922. Publisher Richmond, Va. : W.C. Hill Printing Co.
• Edward Corder Jr. and John Corder (through 1825), a living document by L. K. Henderson and Ron B. Stephens.