Johney Deborah (Sampley) Slatton (abt. 1864 - bef. 1898)

Born about 1864 in Alabama, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Almerine Slayton — married 20 Aug 1882 in Dade, Georgia, United States

Descendants

Died before 1898 before about age 34 in Alabama, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Father Edmond B. Sampley was local census enumerator in 1880, implying a level of literacy for him. Family stories have him and a daughter (not Johney) as school teachers, and that schoolteacher daughter might be the standing woman in the Primary Image.

Stories from elders indicate that her middle name was said as "Dee BOR ah." It is likely, but not proven, that she is named for her grandmother Deborah (Browder) Sampley (1809-abt.1878).

A newspaper notice states that a young man named "Slatton" eloped with the daughter of Mr. E.B. Sampley, undoubtedly referring to Joseph Almerine "Beauregard" Slayton and Johney Deborah (Sampley), although neither are named. However, the notice of elopement suggests that the couple were warned away from marriage in Trenton (Dade County, Georgia) and into another county, yet the marriage between these two took place 22 August 1882, in Dade County, Georgia, adjacent to DeKalb County, Alabama. ^{[1] [2]}

Attached images show two couples, the one with only two people might be Beauregard and (pregnant?) Johnny, but because Beauregard had a twin brother, this is unclear. But she resembles the seated female in the family image.

Johney had four known children by "Beauregard," possibly more but doubtful. She apparently did not live into the 1900 census where the number of children born by that time were reported, and her husband had married another wife by 1898.

She presumably died before the 1898 marriage of Joseph Almerine "Beauregard" Slayton to Lizzie Jones, but death date and burial are still being researched.

Research Notes

Note that a 16-year-old Deborah Sampley (abt 1854) is enumerated with a 60-year-old Deborah Sampley in an 1870 census for DeKalb County, Alabama, the older woman surmised to be Deborah Browder. ^[3] and the younger Deborah is certainly not the woman at this profile, who was reported as a 6-year-old in her father's household.^[4] and 16 in 1880. ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Elopement, Chattanooga Daily Times, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 27 August 1882, page 2, accessed online at Newspapers.com on 25 October 2021.
2. ↑ Georgia County Marriage Record 1828-1978, Georgia State Archives, Morrow, GA., online at "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXVX-NMV : 7 February 2020), J. A. Slattan or Slatton and J. D. Sampley, 20 Aug 1882; citing Marriage, Dade, Georgia, United States, Georgia Department of Archives and History, Morrow, FHL microfilm 419,133.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHK3-TY5 : 28 May 2021), Deborah Sampley, page 6, Township 6 Range 9, DeKalb, Alabama
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6563-23B?cc=1438024&wc=KPMX-DP8%3A518661001%2C519219201%2C519221501 : 22 May 2019), Alabama > DeKalb > Township 6 Range 7 > Johny Debor Sampley Sampley in household of Edward Sampley > image 2 of 4; citing NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4JF-S53 : 19 February 2021), Johny Sampley in household of Edmond Sampley, Township 6 Range 8, DeKalb, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district ED 54, sheet 561B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,012.