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                                                               CHAPTER ONE

                                                  CLAN FERRILL ~  in Mississippi


                                                                     Written by: E. Ferrill McKee


April 4, 2012 will mark two hundred years since Bryant T. Ferrill of McIntosh County, Georgia, was granted a federal passport to "travel through the Creek Nation to the Western Country", which would on December 18 of that year become Jackson County of the Mississippi Territory. In August of that year Bryant, wife Susannah Williamson Ferrill, seven children and eleven slaves traveled across the "Western Country" on a four-foot wide trail to what we now know as George County, Mississippi. Every possession was moved by animal backs, wheelbarrows, and ground sleds. The youngest child in the movement was about six months old, and he seems to have made the movement without special problems. His name was John Wesley Ferrill, and he lived another 91 years, most of that time as a Methodist ordained minister, preaching in churches across the coastal area of Mississippi.

Indian Creek Cemetery, George County, MS



We speculate as to the origin of the name John Wesley Ferrill. The  original John Wesley is widely credited as being the founder of Methodism. It appears likely that Bryant T. and Susannah were greatly impressed by John Wesley's sermons, and they imbued in their eldest son, John, a desire to become a preacher in the Methodist Church.

Six other children had been born in Georgia to Bryant T. and Susannah:

  • Williamson Ferrill
  • Mary Ferrill, born 1800, who married Claiborn Chatham
  • Elizabeth Ferrill, born 1802, who married Robert Dixon
  • George Washington Ferrill, born 1804, who married Mary McDonald
  • Lucy Ferrill, born 1806, who married Chauncey Stevens
  • Amelia Emily Ferrill, born 1808, who married Daniel Pickett
  • Archelous Adolphus Ferrill, born 1810, who married Martha Hough

Children of Bryant and Susannah born in Jackson County Mississippi were:

  • Benjamin Ferrill, born 1814, who married Matilda Ward
  • Susan Ferrill, born 1820, who married John Hogan
  • Abigale Ferrill, born 1822, who married Herrin Brannan
  • John Wesley Ferrill married twice, following the death of Emaline Hough Ferrill in 1868, he married-Louisa Azaline Baptiste Renegar. In 1876, Mary Ferrill Chatham and Claiborn Chatham had one child,
  • Bryant Chatham, born 1822 in Mississippi.

    The marriage of Lucy Ferrill and Chauncey Bigelow Stevens produced the following children:
  • Wiliam Stevens, born 1826; Emily Stevens, born 1828
  • Benjamin Stevens, born 1830, and served in the Confederate Army, 17th
  • Battalion, Mississippi Cavalry, as a Captain.
[Service record copy is filed in the Genealogy Department of the Pascagoula library branch.]
  • Sarah Stevens, born 1835
  • Richard Stevens, born 1836. [Richard served in the same battalion as his
    brother Benjamin. He is believed to have died in combat.]
  • Elizabeth Stevens, born 1838
  • Martin Van Buren Stevens, born 1842
  • John Bigelow Stevens, born 1848
  • Lucy Stevens, born 1852

    Children born to Amelia Emily Ferrill and Daniel L Pickett were:
  • Hannah Ann Pickett, born 1831
  • Joseph Pickett, born 1834
  • Robert Tilden Pickett, born 1836

    Children born to Archelous Ferrill and Martha Hough in Mississippi:
  • Melissa Elizabeth Ferrill, born 1838 in Mississippi
  • William B. Ferrill, born 1839 in Mississippi
  • Levicey Emerline Ferrill, born 1841 in Mississippi
  • Thomas Benton Ferrill, born 1843 in Mississippi
  • Francis Virgil Ferrill, born 1845 in Mississippi
  • John B. Ferrill, born 1848 in Mississippi;
  • Martha C. Ferrill, born 1848 in Alabama
  • Sara Louise Ferrill, born 1861 in Alabama
  • Alfred C. Ferrill, born 1863 in Alabama.

    Children born to John Wesley and Emaline Hough Ferrill:
  • Wesley Francis, born in 1842.
  • Dalmanutha born in 1843
  • Isabella Geraldine, born in 1845
  • Thomas Alhanan, born in 1847
  • Unity Hough, born in 1849
  • Vicey Susannah, born in 1851
  • Sarah was born in 1860 and died the day she was born.
  • Cyrennius R. was born in 1852. {He died 1868 - see obituary below, only a month after his mother, Emaline, died}
  • Alson B. born in 1854
  • John Towles was born in 1856Emaline C. was born in 1858 and married Thomas Peter Rawles

    Children born to John Wesley and Louise Ranegar Ferrill:
  • Anola Pearl Ferrill, born 1877, who married William Faulkner
  • Lula Esther Ferrill, born 1879, who married Charles Prevost
  • Maggie Edwina (sp?) Ferrill, born 1882, who married Madison Tanner
  • Winnie Ginnett Ferrill, born 1883
  • Jacob Martin Ferrill, born 1884, who apparently did not marry
  • Susan Corene Ferrill, born 1886, who married Edward Terry

Martha Ferrill, born 1818, who married Lewis Hogan
The remains of Louisa Ranegar Ferrill who died in 1937, repose in Ferrill Cemetery, Escatawpa, Jackson County next to the Confederate Soldier marker for her husband, John Wesley Ferrill, in the cemetery named for him.

A sample of news writing, an obituary during that time follows:

"Cyrenius R. Ferrill died at the residence of his father, Rev. John Wesley Ferrill, near East Pascagoula, Mississippi, of congestion of the brain, October 20, 1868, in the seventeenth year of his age. Just one month, to the very hour, his mother "crossed the flood" before him. Thus, the bereavement was doubly sad and afflicting---how mysterious the dispensations of Providence that calls away the mother from the bosom of the family and follows it so soon with another, widening and deepening their grief! Yet how often does it occur. One affliction sometimes seems sent to make way for another, and often renders a repetition of the stripes necessary to bring our lacerated hearts to how with submission to the chastening hand of our all-wise and loving Father. Take the cup, my brother. Though the draught be bitter, drain it to the dregs, saying, "Thy will be done," knowing that 'The Lord loveth whom he chasteneth."

Not long after Wesley was released from the Confederate Army he was married to Sarah Jane Kirkwood, daughter of Henry and Miranda Whittington Kirkwood. Henry was the son of William and Elizabeth Kirkwood.

Every boy, every man, caught up in the United States Civil War, whether as a unionist or as a rebel, whether he died on the battlefield, or years later, in his bed, has a story to tell, a message to send. Oftentimes this message is a mystery that can partly be told by a gravestone. A gravestone is a message. Some messages are clear, some not so clear, some verbose, some succinct, some true, some somewhat imaginative.

Meanwhile, Wesley Francis Ferrill
, born 1842, died 1930 at the Confederate Soldiers Home at Beauvoir, in Biloxi, Harrison County Mississippi; Sarah Jane died in 1929, in Columbia Marion County, Mississippi. The remains of each rest at Columbia Cemetery, Columbia, Marion County, Mississippi. Under a common gravestone.

Children born to that marriage were:

  • Hubert I was born in 1869 and died 1969
  • Bertie Emaline Williamson, born 1873, died 1917
  • Morris A. born in 1874. died 1940
  • Cadmus Alley was born in 1870 and died 1883
  • Wesley John was born 1883, died 1903
  • Elinor Ferrill Leake was born 1872, died 1913

Hubert, Morris, Cadmus, Elinor, Bertie, Wesley John, are buried at Columbia Cemetery, Columbia, Marion County Mississippi, along with their parents (Wesley and Sarah).

Myra Miranda was born 1878, died 1954, She and husband Irvin McClendon Sr. rest in a cemetery (name not now known), in Bogalusa, Louisiana.

Irvin Sr. died about 1951

Remains of Celeste Louise Ferrill, born 1880, and Kate Moore Ferrill McDonald, born 1891, each of whom died in 1962, were interred at Woodlawn Cemetery, Columbia MS, Marion County, Mississippi

Cammie Inez Ferrill McKee was born 1888 in Columbia, Marion County Mississippi. Her husband Hugh Kelsey McKee Sr born 1885, and raised in Kemper County Mississippi, died 1960.

Cammie's sister, Flora, who was born in 1885, died 1957

Hugh Kelsey McKee died 1960

Cammie died 1971.

Their remains are interred in the Family McKee plot, Section H, New Palestine Cemetery, Picayune, Pearl River County, Mississippi. The remains of three of their children, Catherine Inez (1912-2003, Robert Morris (1922-1989) and Hugh Kelsey Jr (1925-1988), as well as Cammie's sister Annette Flora, are interred in the same McKee family plot.

The lives and activities of members of CLAN FERRILL gives a sample of the westward movement of Irish families from the Souheastern coast of the United States across the North American continent

© efm 1/31/2007.



CHAPTER TWO

CLAN FERRILL ~
in North Carolina


Richard Ferrill was born ca 1665, in Franklin County North Carolina. Richard married and that marriage produced several children, among whom was John Ferrill born 1695. John married Ann Bryant, born 1697, each of whom is presumed to have been born in Franklin County North Carolina.
That marriage produced the following children:

Bryant ca 1720
John Jr 1723
William 1725 {see children names below}
Rebecca 1730
Patty 1732
Temple 1734
Frankie 1734
Clancy, 1738
Elizabeth, 1740
Polly, 1742
Penelope 1744

There is evidence on the Internet that John and his son William, each signed an oath of loyalty to the State of North Carolina, opposed to King George during the period of 1774 and 1804. There is an indication on the Internet that William served in the Revolutionary Army, although that has yet to be fully documented.

John died in Bute County, North Carolina, in January 1786.

William Ferrill married and that marriage produced:
Byrd Ferrill, born ca1760 in Bute County, North Carolina
Benjamin Ferrill, born 1765 in Bute County, North Carolina
Bryant T Ferrill, born May 29, 1769, in Bute County, North Carolina
Archelous Ferrill, born 1772, in Bute County, North Carolina

There is a strong probability that William moved his family to Screven County, Georgia during the latter part of the 1700's.

Byrd married Elizabeth, surname not known, and that marriage produced the following children:

William, born ____
Williamson, born ____
John, born ____
Sara, born ____
Elizabeth, born ____
Nancy, born ____
Polly, born
Bennett, born 1785
Mickelberry, born 1787


Records indicate that Archelous Ferrill married Sally Parker, who had been born in Greene County, North Carolina.

© 2006.e f mckee


CHAPTER THREE

CLAN FERRILL ~ in Georgia



By E. Ferrill McKee

Mickelberry, son of Byrd, married Nancy Coleman. They had one child, Sara Coleman Ferrill, born 1817, presumably in Georgia.

Byrd died in Butts County, Georgia in 1829.
Benjamin and wife, surname Miller, given name not now known, produced the following, some if not all in
Georgia:

Benjamin Ferrill 2
Byrd Ferrill 2
Martha Ferrill
Mary Ferrill
Miriam Ferrill
Julia Ferrill

Benjamin, listed in the 1830 census, died 1834 in Screven County, Georgia. There appears to have been a will dated December 2, 1834. Bryant met and married Susannah Williamson in Georgia, born to Mr. and Mrs. George Williamson in Screven County, Georgia, in 1780. The marriage produced the following children in Georgia:

Mary Ferrill, born 1800
Elizabeth Ferrill, born 1802
George Washington Ferrill, born 1804
Lucy Ferrill, born 1806
Archelous Adolphus Ferrill 2
John Wesley Ferrill, born 1812
Bennett, son of Byrd, met and married Julia Coleman. The marriage produced one child, Blount Coleman Ferrill, born 1816, died 1908.

© 2006   e. f. mckee

UPDATED JANUARY 31, 2007

CHAPTER FOUR

CLAN FERRILL ~ in Texas

By E. Ferrill McKee

In 1862, a fifteen year old boy, striving to be a man, walked up to a recruiter for the Confederate Army, and declared himself to be in the fight. His father and older brother had already enlisted in the Confederate army a year before. He was given a weapon and a uniform. His name? Thomas Alhanan Ferrill, son of John Wesley Ferrill and brother of Wesley Francis Ferrill.

After standing down in 1865, along with all other Confederate soldiers, he returned to his father?s home in Escatawpa, Jackson County, Mississippi. He met Lydia Bond, and married her on November 17, 1867. Lydia?s parents were Russell and Lydia Nelson Bond. Later, the Batson/Bond Family Book records that Lydia and infant son John R. died of fever, along with others in the family. Lydia and infant John were interred in Colonel John Bond Family Cemetery in Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi.

Thomas Alhanan Ferrill had been born to John Wesley and Emaline Hough Ferrill, on April 18, 1847, in Escatawpa, Jackson County, Mississippi. Thomas moved from Mississiippi after the death of his wife and son. Census records for 1870 include the family of John Wesley Ferrill, but do not include the name of Thomas, so that we may assume that by that time Thomas had moved on at some date between 1868 and 1870.

In Texas Thomas married Emma Hall, who had been born February 15, 1854 in Texas.

The marriage of Thomas and Emma produced the following:

1873?.Jerusha Ferrill, who married John A. Calloway

1875?.Emma Ferrill, who married Samuel A. Spivey

1877?.Howell Alhanan Ferrill, who married 1) Dora Hunter; 2) Johnnie Pixie)

1878?.Kate Ferrill, who married James A. Spivey (related to Samuel

Jerusha Ferrill and John Calloway produced several chiildren:

1899?.Lena (Laura?) Calloway

1900?Johnnie Calloway

1904?.Bernard Calloway

1907?.Mitchell Calloway

1909?. Edward Calloway

1910?.Walter Calloway

1912?.Louisa Calloway

Children born to Emma Ferrill Spivey and Samuel A. Spivey:

1898?Floyd Spivey

1902?Troy Spivey

1905?Alson Spivey

1908?Davis Spivey

1911?Argie Spivey

Emma Hall Ferrill died July 5, 1914.

Thomas Alhanan Ferrill died January 4, 1923 in Waller County, Texas.


CROSS-REFERENCE TO NAMES OF PERSONS WHO ARE LISTED IN "CLAN FERRILL"

Father's Given

Surname

Given Name

Born

Died

Spouse Surname

Spouse Given

Chap

Pg

Not Known

Ferrill

Richard

1665

   

NC

1

Richard

Ferrill

John 1

1695

1786

Bryant

Ann

NC

1

John 1

Ferrill

Bryant

1720

   

NC

1

John 1

Ferrill

John 2

1723

   

NC

1

John1

Ferrill

William 1

1725

1807

  

NC

1

John 1

Ferrill

Rebecca

1730

   

NC

1

John 1

Ferrill

Patty

1732

   

NC

1

John 1

Ferrill

Temple

1734

   

NC

1

John 1

Ferrill

Frankie

1734

   

NC

1

John 1

Ferrill

Clancy

1738

   

NC

1

John 1

Ferrill

Elizabeth

1740

   

NC

1

John 1

Ferrill

Polly

1742

   

NC

1

John 1

Ferrill

Penelope

1744

   

NC

1

William 1

Ferrill

Byrd

1760

1829

 

Elizabeth

NC

2

William 1

Ferrill

Benjamin

1765

1834

Miller

 

NC

2

William 1

Ferrill

Bryant T

1769

1836

Williamson

Susannah

NC

2

William 1

Ferrill

Archelous

1772

 

Parker

Sally

NC

2

Byrd

Ferrill

William 2

    

NC

2

Byrd

Ferrill

Williamson

    

NC

2

Byrd

Ferrill

John

    

NC

2

Byrd

Ferrill

Sara

    

NC

2

Byrd

Ferrill

Elizabeth

    

NC

2

Byrd

Ferrill

Nancy

    

NC

2

Byrd

Ferrill

Polly

    

NC

2

Byrd

Ferrill

Bennett

    

NC

2

Byrd

Ferrill

Mickelberry

  

Coleman

Nancy

NC

2

Mickelberry

Ferrill

Sara Coleman

1817

   

GA

1

Benjamin

Ferrill

Benjamin 2

    

GA

1

Benjamin

Ferrill

Byrd 2

    

GA

1

Benjamin

Ferrill

Martha

    

GA

1

Benjamin

Ferrill

Mary

    

GA

1

Benjamin

Ferrill

Miriam

    

GA

1

Benjamin

Ferrill

Julia

    

GA

2

Bryan T

Ferrill

Mary

1800

 

Chatham

Claiborn

GA

2

Bryan T

Ferrill

Elizabeth 2

1802

 

Dixon

Robert

GA

2

Bryan T

Ferrill

George Washington

1804

 

McDonald

Mary

GA

2

Bryan T

Ferrill

Lucy

1806

 

Stevens

Chauncey

GA

2

Bryan T

Ferrill

Amelia

1808

 

Pickett

Daniel

GA

2

Bryan T

Ferrill

Archelous 2

1810

 

Hough

Martha

GA

2

Bryan T

Ferrill

John Wesley

1812

1893

Hough

Emaline

GA

1

Bryan T

Ferrill

John Wesley

1812

1893

Ranager

Louisa

GA

1

Bennett

Ferrill

Blount Coleman

1816

1908

  

GA

2

Bryan T

Ferrill

Benjamin3

1814

 

Ward

Matilda

MS

2

Bryan T

Ferrill

Martha

1818

 

Hogan

Lewis

MS

2

Bryan T

Ferrill

Susan

1820

 

Hogan

John

MS

2

Bryan T

Ferrill

Abigale

1822

 

Brannan

Harrin

MS

2

Claiborn

Chatham

Bryant

1822

   

MS

1

John Wesley

Ferrill

Wesley Francis

1842

1930

Kirkwood

Sarah Jane

MS

1

John Wesley

Ferrill

Dalmunutha

1843

   

MS

3

John Wesley

Ferrill

Isabella Geraldine

1845

   

MS

3

John Wesley

Ferrill

Thomas Alhanan

1847

1923

Bond

Lydia

TX

1

John Wesley

Ferrill

Thomas Alhanan

1847

1923

Hall

Emma

TX

1

John Wesley

Ferrill

Unity Hough

1849

   

MS

3

John Wesley

Ferrill

Vicey Susannah

1851

   

MS

3

John Wesley

Ferrill

Cyrennius R

1852

1868

  

MS

3

John Wesley

Ferrill

Alson B

1854

   

MS

3

John Wesley

Ferrill

John Towles

1856

   

MS

3

John Wesley

Ferrill

Emaline C

1858

 

Rawles

Thomas P

MS

3

John Wesley

Ferrill

Sarah

1860

1860

  

MS

3

John Wesley

Ferrill

Anola Pearl

1877

 

Faulkner

MS

MS

3

John Wesley

Ferrill

Lula Esther

1879

 

Prevost

Charles

MS

3

John Wesley

Ferrill

Maggie Edwina

1883

 

Tanner

Madison

MS

3

John Wesley

Ferrill

Winnie Gennett

1883

   

MS

3

John Wesley

Ferrill

Jacob Martin

1884

   

MS

3

John Wesley

Ferrill

Susan Corene

1886

 

Terry

Edward

MS

3

Chauncey

Stevens

William

1826

   

MS

2

Chauncey

Stevens

Emily

1828

   

MS

2

Chauncey

Stevens

Benjamin

1830

   

MS

2

Chauncey

Stevens

Sarah

1835

   

MS

2

Chauncey

Stevens

Richard

1836

  

Anna

MS

2

Chauncey

Stevens

Elizabeth

1838

   

MS

2

Chauncey

Stevens

Martin Van Buren

1842

   

MS

2

Chauncey

Stevens

John Bigelow

1848

   

MS

2

Chauncey

Stevens

Lucy

1852

   

MS

2

Daniel

Pickett

Hannah Ann

1831

   

MS

2

Daniel

Pickett

Joseph

1834

   

MS

2

Daniel

Pickett

Robert Tilden

1836

   

MS

2

Archelous 2

Ferrill

Melissa Elizabeth

1836

   

MS

2

Archelous 2

Ferrill

William B

1839

   

MS

2

Archelous 2

Ferrill

Licivey Emmerline

1841

   

MS

3

Archelous 2

Ferrill

Thomas Benton

1843

   

MS

3

Archelous 2

Ferrill

Francis Virgin

1845

   

MS

3

Archelous 2

Ferrill

John Bigelow

1848

   

MS

3

Archelous 2

Ferrill

Martha C

1848

   

MS

3

Archelous 2

Ferrill

Sara Louise

1861

   

MS

3

Archelous 2

Ferrill

Alfred C

1863

   

MS

3

Wesley Francis

Ferrill

Hubert I

1869

1942

  

MS

4

Wesley Francis

Ferrill

Morris A

1870

1940

  

MS

4

Wesley Francis

Ferrill

Cadmus

1870

1883

  

MS

4

Wesley Francis

Ferrill

Wesley John

1873

1903

  

MS

4

Wesley Francis

Ferrill

Elinor

1872

1913

Leake

 

MS

4

Wesley Francis

Ferrill

Myra Miranda

1874

1954

McClendon

Irvin

MS

4

Wesley Francis

Ferrill

Celeste

1875

1962

  

MS

4

Wesley Francis

Ferrill

Ammette Flora

1885

1957

  

MS

5

Wesley Francis

Ferrill

Cammie Inez

1888

1971

McKee

Hugh Kelsey

MS

5

Wesley Francis

Ferrill

Katie

1891

1962

McDonald

 

MS

5

Hugh Kelsey

McKee

Catherine

1912

2003

Lynd

Carl B

MS

5

Hugh Kelsey

McKee

Robert Morris

1922

1989

Stewart

Eleanor

MS

5

Hugh Kelsey

McKee

Hugh Kelsey 2

1925

1988

  

MS

5


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