Rountree-JA

Sally's Great Grandparents:

John Abner Rountree 1833 - 1899 | his parents
& 1867 Emily Jane Sanderlin 1834 - 1898 | her parents
& ca 1849 Stephen Dudley ca 1820 - bef 1854 | his parents
& ca 1854 Thomas Walker 1807 - 1865 | his parents
of near Sunbury, Gates County, North Carolina

   John Abner Rountree and Emily Jane Sanderlin Dudley Walker were married 15 September 1867.

   John Abner Rountree, son of Solomon Rountree and his wife Amelia Hudgins, was born 3 July 1833. He departed this life 11 December 1899--age 66. He was a farmer. He served in the Confederate Army.

    Emily Jane Sanderlin, daughter of Dorsey Asa Sanderlin and his wife Lydia Walkup, was born in 11 Dec 1834 in Camden County, NC. Emily Jane was reputed to be the belle of the tri-county ball the year she was sixteen. Her family aspired a higher education for her, but she eloped that year with Stephen Dudley of Elizabeth City. Their son William was born in 1852 and Stephen Dudley died shortly thereafter.
   Emily married next Thomas Walker, a widower with 8 children some older than herself.
Thomas was born 13 Dec 1807 in Currituck Co, the son of John Walker and wife Sarah Northern [born 8 Jan 1775]. Thomas had two siblings: John Walker Jr and Fannie Ann Walker who was born 13 Feb 1809.
Thomas Walker died 3 July 1865 leaving Emily Jane a widow for the second time with three sons of her own plus four young step-sons to rear.
    On 15 September 1867 she married for the third time John Abner Rountree of Gates County.

   In May 1898, Emily Jane's son Beaurie Walker, the sailor, came to her home sick with small pox. While nursing Beaurie Walker, Emily Jane caught the disease and died 16 June 1898 at the age of 64. At her death bed request, Emily Jane's body was interred beside her mother Lydia in a cemetery in Camden County.
   John Abner Rountree died eighteen months later 11 Dec 1899 and was buried in the Rountree Cemetery in Gates County.

Emily Jane's children

Child of Stephen Dudley and Emily Jane Sanderlin:
1. William Dudley 1852 - ca 1895
       [both were killed when excursion boat capsized during a hurricane]
     married Sally Sanderlin 1858 - ca 1895
    a. Joseph J Dudley 1875 -
    b. Walter Dudley 1877 -
    c. Warren O Dudley 1879 -
    d. Steve Dudley ca 1881 -
    e. Charlie Dudley Sept 1883 -
          married Mary Worrell several children
    f. Kate Dudley 28 Sept 1886 - 6 Mar 1945
         married Luther Eure 8 Mar 1886 - 23 Dec 1939   no issue

ca 1930 Kate Dudley Eure with Hortense Rountree Parker

    g. Alice Dudley 6 May 1889 - 23 Dec 1905 age 16
    h. William Wallace Dudley Sept 1892
          married & had several children
    i. Emma Dudley 12 Oct 1893 - 16 July 1954
         married Tom Brown Parker 1886 - 1958

Children of Thomas Walker and Emily Jane Sanderlin:
2. Adolphus [Dolly] Sanderlin Walker 2 Nov 1855 -
    married 8 Sept 1885 Delphina E [Donnie] Brown June 1865 -
    a. Fannie Hortense Walker Aug 1887 -
    b. Thomas J Walker Mar 1888 -
    c. Henry Grady Walker July 1891 -
    d. Emily Walker 1899 -
    e. Nettie Walker 1902 -
    f. Maxie Walker 1907 -

3. Jefferson O'Jennings Beauregard [Beaurie] Walker 4 Dec 1862 - aft 1924
          Home for old sailors in New York City where Mama visited him summer of 1924
           he was a life long sailor or merchant marine - never married

Children of John Abner Rountree and Emily Jane Sanderlin:
4. Warner Jackson Rountree 18 September 1868 - 17 September 1883, age 15

5. Emily Hortense Rountree 17 August 1870 -1952
     married 21 Mar 1894 Tim Parker 1859 - 1927
    a. Gladiola Parker 1895 - 1974
        married 20 May 1925 J Raynor Moore 1892 - 1969;
    b. Timothy Beauregard (Beaurie) Parker 1896 - 1984
        married 5 Jan 1921 Lillie Waff Smith 1896 - 1976

6. Dorsey Sanderlin Rountree 13 March 1873 - 9 Jan 1959
     married 2 Dec 1897 Ambronetta [Nettie] Corbett 1872 - 22 Aug 1942

Wedding Portraits 1897 of Nettie & Dorsey Rountree

Dorsey & Nettie ca 1940

Dorsey & Nettie Rountree's Home - photo ca 1975

   a. John Robert Rountree 30 Aug 1898 - 2 Nov 1900
   b. Nettie Etheleen Rountree 8 Dec 1899 - May 1984 Portsmouth VA
       married 6 Oct 1920 Emory Bernard Speight 6 Jul 1897 - Feb 1976
      i. Helen Louise Speight Belote 9 Oct 1921 - 17 Oct 2002
       ii. Mary Nettie Speight King 25 March 1924 - 8 March 1988
                "1960's" was admitted to nursing home
      iii. Emory Bernard Speight Jr 13 Nov 1928 -
      iv. Bernadine Speight Swindell 23 Nov 1935 -
   c. Thurman Benjamin Rountree 8 April 1902 - 18 April 1971
      married 7 Apr 1923 Ica Lee Rice 1 June 1903 - 26 Mar 1988
        i. Thurman Benjamin Rountree Jr 9 June 1925 - 16 Nov 2002
            married Sept 1946 Evelyn Irene Piland - died 21 Jan 1997
                1. Alvin Thurman Rountree 21 Aug 1947 - 17 Nov 2004
                2. Alma Rae Rountree 1949 - e-mail
                    married 1974 Artie Simmons Toxey
                      a. Craig Simmons Toxey 1976 -
                          married 2002 Jennifer Lee Allan
                            i. Elizabeth Rose 2004 -
                            ii. Kristin Lee 2006 -
                           iii. William Simmons 2006 -
                     b. Eric Daniel Toxey 1979 -
                          married Sarah Anne Ware div. 2006
                            i. Erica Marie
                           ii. Daniel Simmons
                      c. Dana Renee 1966 [Artie's child by 1st wife]
                3. Elaine Kaye Rountree 1956 -
                     married Dennis A Benjamin Jr
                      a. Nathan
     ii. Robert Howard Rountree 24 Jan 1927 -
      iii. Harry Lee Rountree 31 July 1930 - 3 Feb 2007 Jacksonville FL
                     left wife and children
      iv. Ralph Marion Rountree 25 Dec 1932 - 18 Dec 2007
               1. Kay Rountree Wolf e-mail
               2. James Douglas [JD] Rountree e-mail
       v. Mary Evelyn Rountree 5 Dec 1937 - e-mail
            married Fred Rea Lassiter 8 Aug 1936 -  23 Feb 2005
                                 obit 1st part & 2 part
    d. Harvey Corbitt Rountree 15 Aug 1904 -7 Jan 1956
        married 6 Jan 1927 Gladys M Johnson 26 Sept 1908 - 1 Nov 1988
        i. Harvey Milton Rountree 10 Sept 1928 - 24 July 1951
               "went down with his plane in the Sea of Japan during the Korean War"
        ii. Ellen Rountree Pfeiffer 23 June 1930 -
        iii. John Edgar Rountree 10 June 1932 -
    e. Shirley Dorsey Rountree 22 Aug 1906 - April 1979
      married 8 Dec 1929 Ethel Everett
         i. Shirley Dorsey Rountree Jr 17 Oct 1930 -
      married 2nd Virginia -------
   f. Robert Elliott Rountree 2 Dec 1908 - 6 Feb 1988
     married 17 Nov 1929 Marie Shaw Jones 16 Jul 1909 - 2 June 2000
         i. Robert Elliott Rountree Jr 29 May 1930 -
        ii. Maxine Shaw Rountree Saunders 14 Oct 1932 -
       iii. Jocelyn Irene Rountree Connolly 22 Oct 1934 - e-mail
    g. Margaret Emily Rountree 13 Oct 1912 - 11 Dec 2003
      Wednesday, 17 Dec 2003, The Roanoke-Chowan News Herald: CORAPEAKE - Margaret Rountree Ward, 91, a
native of Gates County, died December 11, 2003, in Nansemond Pointe Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, Suffolk. She was the widow of Walter Aleck Ward Sr.
A funeral was conducted Sunday in Eureka Baptist Church by the Rev. Cameron Currin. Burial was in the church cemetery. Miller Funeral Home, Gatesville, was in charge. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association, the Nansemond-Suffolk Rescue Squad or to the building fund of Eureka Baptist Church. For more than 60 years, she was an active member of Eureka Baptist Church where she had been a choir member and had taught Sunday school. She had served in leadership capacities in the Corapeake Extension Homemakers Club, the Gates County Council of Extension Homemakers Clubs and the NC Homemakers Association. A member of the Holly Rebekah Lodge of the Rebekah Assembly, International Order of Oddfellows of NC, she had served as district president and as president of the Rebekah Assembly of NC. Mrs. Ward was instrumental in organizing the Gates County Unit of the American Cancer Society and served as state director and president of the local chapter for a number of years. She had been a member of the Democratic Party since 1933 and for a number of years served as precinct vice-chairman and later as precinct chairman. Survivors include her children, son, Walter A. Ward Jr. of Chesapeake, Va.; a daughter, Frances Ward Brooks of Raleigh; 10 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
     married 17 Dec 1931 Walter Alec Ward 27 Sept 1912 - 25 Nov 1990
       i. Walter Alec Ward Jr 12 Nov 1932 -
       ii. Frances Elizabeth Ward Brooks 17 Mar 1938 -
      iii. John Atwood Ward 11 Oct 1940 - 1 Dec 2003 obit
Thursday, Dec. 4, 2003, The Virginian-Pilot: John Atwood Ward, 63, died Dec. 1, 2003, at Obici Hospital. Born Oct. 11, 1940, in Gates County, N.C., . . the son of Margaret Rountree Ward and the late Walter A. Ward. Mr. Ward was an agent for Nationwide Insurance and was a member of the Life Underwriter's Association, . . .of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of Providence United Methodist Church, where he was active in the leadership of the church. Survivors include his wife, Annie Marie Ward; daughter, Beth Ward Langston and husband David of Tifton, Ga.; son, John A. Ward II of Westwood, Calif.; stepdaughter, Lori Mc- Clenny Bender and husband Bill of Houston, Texas; stepson, Jeffrey Kane McClenny of Suffolk; sister, Frances Ward Brooks of Raleigh, N.C.; brothers, Walter A. Ward Jr. of Chesapeake, Thomas A. Ward of Raleigh, N.C.; and grandchildren, Mary Catherine Langston, Madelin Bender and Burke Bender. A funeral will be held Friday at 11 a.m. in Providence United Methodist Church . . . with burial in Eureka Baptist Church Cemetery [Sunbury NC]. . .
       iv. Thomas Alan Ward 28 June 1949 - e-mail
   h. Dorothy Sanderlin Rountree 18 July 1915 - 11 Sept 1991
     married 27 Jan 1939 William Wittler Euler 29 Jan 1904 - 1 June 1993
        i. Carolyn Anne Euler McKown 25 June 1943 - e-mail

7. John James Rountree 11 May 1875 - 1936
"killed falling off his roof while fixing shingles on a hot summer day" married Frances Hinton 1879 - 1948
Frances (Fanny) Hinton Rountree's brother, Oscar Hinton was quite the dandy of the day - wore white linen suits and a fedora, and wrote poetry.

The three Rountree Children that lived to be adults 1930
John James (Jim) Rountree 1875-1936
Emily Hortense Rountree Parker 1870-1952
Dorsey Sanderlin Rountree 1873-1959

Wedding Day of J R Moore & Gladiola Parker at the T E Parker Home 20 May 1925
Front: J. R. Moore & wife Gladiola, Aunt Fannie Rountree, Julia Moore, Back: J. W. Parker (Uncle Pomp), Emily Parker Aunt Em), Tennie Parker (Mother), Lesker Parker, Tim Parker (Papa), Bill Parker (Uncle), Ruth Parker, and Aunt Venie Parker.

    a. Alma Rountree 1907-ca 1958
        married Lester Yates Haynes of Mt. Airy, NC
       i. Jim Haynes
       ii. Frances Haynes Hawk of Ogden, Utah
    b. John Hinton Rountree 1908
         married "Jonni" Clara Mabel Sharpe of Alamance Cty, NC
         i. Frances Ann Rountree Lineweaver of Greensboro, NC
         ii. Rebecca Sharpe Rountree Harris of Brentwood, TN e-mail
        iii. Mary Hinton Rountree Moore of Chapel Hill, NC

Christmas 1954 - Hinton Rountree Family

    c. Frances Rountree
        married Warren Bray
         i. Dr. Ned Bray of Greenville, SC
         ii. Dr. Gordon Bray of Greenville, SC

8. George Alphonso Rountree 11 February 1878 - 20 June 1878, age 6 mos.

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Emily Jane's Step children:
Thomas Walker and wife Elizabeth West 1807 - 23 Oct 1845 had:
she was daughter of Willoughby West and wife Penelope
1. Adelia Ann Walker 26 Apr 1832 -
2. Caroline Walker 20 Mar 1834 -
3. Wiley O'Kelly Walker 11 May 1836 - 22 June 1922 Currituck Co NC

Private Wiley O'Kelly Walker CSA
Company I, 15th Cal Regiment Virginia
Company G, 4th Cavalry Regiment North Carolina
http://www.geocities.com/gatesguards/vetphotos.html

      married 29 Jan 1868 Mary Elizabeth Ferebee 1 Nov 1849 - 31 Dec 1928
            daughter of Enoch Dozier Ferebee & Sarah Elizabeth Halstead
        both buried Halstead Cemetery, Crawford Township, Currituck Co. NC
      a. John Thomas Walker 29 Nov 1868 - 6 Dec 1868 dy 1wk
      b. Sarah Ella Walker 13 Feb 1871 - 6 Jan 1947
           married Lucian M. Hamilton
            i. Pearl Elizabeth Hamilton
              married 16 Jan 1934 Saul Willoughby West 3 Mar 1905 NC - 31 Dec 1942 Currituck NC
           ii. Guy Hamilton 19 Dec 1906 - 20 Dec 1906
      c. Tully Halstead Walker 11 Apr 1873 - 19 Jul 1880 dy 7 yrs 3 mo
      d. William Thomas Walker 16 Feb 1876 - 18 Jul 1880 dy 4 yrs 5 mo
      e. Wiley Leroy Walker 12 Oct 1879 - 22 Jul 1880 dy 9 mos
      f. Bessie Mae Walker 1 May 1881 - 25 Oct 1945
      g. Nellie Viola Walker 15 Aug 1884 - 26 Jul 1887 dy 2 yrs 11 mo
      h. Wiley D. Walker 9 Nov 1890 - 24 Dec 1951
          married Helen Griggs 12 Jan 1896 - 8 Apr 1982
            i. Infant Walker 23 Sep 1917 - 23 Sep 1917
         ii. Robert Walker
               married Evelyn Pritchard
4. Thomas Davidson Walker 20 Oct 1840 - 9 May 1912
      married 11 Dec 1872 Lois Adelia Barefoot

Thomas Walker and 2nd wife Elizabeth Dozier 22 Aug 1819 - 23 July 1853 had:
     she was daughter of Tully Cherry Dozier and wife Polly
    she may have been married 1st to a Scott as Eliza Scott 14 is living in the household 1850
1. Licinius/Lucious Walker 11 June 1847 - 19 July 1919
        Although the family Bible was transcribed as Lucious born in 1847 his tombstone says Licineus 1848
          note the 1860 census said Lucinius
     married Etta
     married 21 Feb 1878 Mary Love Nicholson
      a. Hallie Walker
         married Sada Simmons
           i. Wilbur Walker
          ii. Manfred Walker
         iii. Mildred Walker
         iv. Elsie Mae Walker

stone in the Walker Cemetery, Moyock NC

2. Claudius Ceasar Walker 11 June 1847 - 20 May 1933

stone in the Walker Cemetery, Moyock NC

     married 8 July 1875 Sarah Elizabeth Ferebee 28 Jan 1854 - 17 Mar 1943
            sister of Mary Elizabeth Ferebee
       a. Arthur C. Walker 15 Dec 1881 - 25 Jul 1885 dy
       b. Otley Halstead Walker 9 Dec 1886 -
           married Mary Edith Kelly
             i. Thelma Walker 29 May 1912 -
       c. Glenna Elizabeth Walker 31 Jan 1888 - 28 Feb 1981
            married 18 Nov 1916 Edward Willis Addison 31 July 1880 - 18 Nov 1952
       d. William F. Walker 9 Oct 1889 - 17 Aug 1974
            married 26 Dec 1919 Katie Flora
             i. Kathryn Flora Walker 11 Nov 1920 -
                married 19 Dec 1943 Leon J. Grabow
            ii. Adelaid Baxter Walker 17 May 1922 -
           iii. Mildred Jean Walker 15 Aug 1928 -
           iv. Robert Edward Walker 26 Jan 1934 -
                 married 12 June 1955 Ellen Lowe
            v. Glenna Addison Walker 1 January 1935 -
                 married 11 July 1954 Nolan C. Alcock
3. Virginius Walker 11 June 1849 - 1849 died young
4. Virginius Walker 21 Dec 1850 - 2 Jan 1910
e-mail from Frances Thomas - Virginius Walker was my great great grandfather.
He disowned Thomas Augustus his son by Caroline Berry because he said his mother was unfaithful to him

Virginius Walker

    married Caroline Berry
      a. Charles Walker
      b. Thomas Augustus Walker 26 Mar 1873 - 16 June 1933
                   buried Walker family cemetery Moyock NC

Thomas Augustus Walker

        married Amanda Riley 20 Oct 1858 - 26 May 1893
           i. Alverta V Walker 20 Aug 1891 - died at sea
          ii. Riley A Walker 11 May 1893 - 16 May 1893
        married 2nd Fannie Huldah Pritchard 5 Oct 1874 South Mills - 14 Oct 1942
          i. Emilie Livius Walker 13 Jan 1899 - Jan 1978
              married Eugene Wilson
              married Melvin Morrisette
              married Walter Montague
         ii. Ruth Juanita Walker 26 June 1903 Norfolk - 8 Feb 1992 Towson MD
              married 5 Sept 1922 Leon Powell Dunton
   married 2nd Mary Francis Goodman 1893 - 1976
     a. Howard Virginius Walker
         married Rena Lassiter

5. Eugene Dozier Walker 13 Jan 1853 - 20 Mar 1928 Norfolk VA
     married Maude E Hitchens 1871 -

In the 1860 Census Currituck Co, NC Tulls Creek Bridge
Walker, Thomas 53 m farmer
"   Emily, 25 f
"   Wiley, 23 m
"   Davidson, 19 m
"   Lucinius 11 m
"   Claudius 11 m
       Virginius 8 m
       Eugene    7 m
       Adolphus 5 m

Grandmother Tennie always spoke of having 10 brothers before she was born. and her mother said she just did not know how to take care of a girl after all those boys.

North Carolina, Gates County, I, John A Rountree of the aforesaid County and State, being of sound mind but considering the uncertainty of my Earthly existence do make and declare this my last will and testament.
First My executor hereinafter named shall give my body a decent burial, suitable to the wishes of my friends and relations and pay all funeral expenses together with my just debts out of the first moneys which may come into his hands belonging to my Estate.
Second I give to my son Dorsey Rountree all of that tract of land which I bought of Simmon J Rountree and wife where I now live and more particularly described in the deed for the same containing Sixty acres.
Third I give to my son James Rountree all of that tract of land on the north side of the road brought of Elijah Draper and wife containing Sixty acres and more particularly described in the same.
Fourth I give to my sons James, Dorsey, and my daughter Emily H Parker all of my chattle estate equally divided between them.
Fifth I hereby constitute and appoint my friend Geo J Costen my lawful executor to all intents and purposes to execute this my last will and testament according to the true intent and meaning of the same and every part and clause thereof hereby revoking and declaring utterly void all other wills and testaments by me heretofore made. In testimony whereof I the said John A Rountree do hereunto set my hand and seal this day of 1898.
John A Rountree (seal)
Signed sealed published and declared by the said John A Rountree to be his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his request and in his presence do subscribe our names as witnesses thereto Wm H Riddick, T H Rountree.
Superior Court 22 November 1900: Exhibited by Geo J Costen executor; proved by T H Rountree and W H Riddick. Real & personal property is worth about $1000. Dorsey Rountree, James Rountree & Emily H Rountree Parker all of full age of Gates Co. are the parties entitled.

Two Witches----Grandmother told us that Living near her when she was a girl were two women known as "witches." These unforutnate women had both had out of wedlock children. Shunned by the community they both lost their sanity after their children grew up and left the area.
One kept two big sticks. A smaller one with which she beat her furniture to scare away the witches---a larger one for beating around out side the house for the same purpose.
The other had a special tattered outfit which she wore on court days to beg from the strangers coming to the county seat. This was quite profitable for her—but she never spent these coins but rather stowed them away in her little cabin. One day her house caught fire and burned—and there was all these great masses of melted coins!
Grandmother’s mother often would send Little Miss Emily Hortense with dinner to deliver to the old women. Grandmother said she was too scared to go alone & she would always wait on the road (out of sight of her mother) until someone came along & went with her.

11 January 2009