married 15 Sept 1867 Emily Jane Sanderlin Walker
5. Media Ann Rountree 13 June 1835 - c.1908
       married 22 Nov 1855 John A. Harrell
6. Emily Caroline Rountree 3 Mar 1837 - 23 Oct 1899
       married 1st 26 Dec 1854  Fred R. Jones
       married 2nd 3 March  1863  Stephen D Ballard 11 Nov 1830 -
              son of Richard H Ballard and wife Susan             
7. Simeon Joseph Rountree [Rountrey] 9 Mar 1839 - 1 June 1893

       married 17 Nov 1865 Sarah Ellen Hayes
                Gates Co bondsman John A Rountree and wit H L Eure clerk
8. Martha Eliza. Rountree 11 Aug 1840 - 9 Nov 1841
9. Mary Eliza. Rountree 2 Mar 1842 - 13 May 1908
       married 1st  21 Mar 1861  John Randolph Brinkly 22 Oct 1837 - 1884
       married  2nd  26 Jan 1887  Robert Badger
10. Joseph W. Rountree 13 Mar 1844 - 19 Aug 1845
11. Julia Amanda Rountree 4 Dec 1845 - bef. 1872
        married 8 Oct 1862 William Sanderlin
12. William Henry Rountree 20 Nov 1848 - 21 May 1909
        married ca 1872 Sarah Isabel "Sadie" Morris 21 Mar 1852 - 6 Feb 1920
13. Eliza. Alice Rountree 16 Aug 1855 - 2 (6) June 1917
        married 1st 14 Nov 1872  Richard Pearce ca 1842-
        married 2nd   _________  Andrew Eason

 THE GATES COUNTY INDEX  Wed., Sept. 15, 1943.
"Woman Born in Slavery Dies 
Sophie HUNTER, 92-year-old Negro house maid who has worked for a number of people in and around Sunbury, died on Sept. 5 from the infirmities of old age.
Her parents, Isaac and Amy ROUNTREE, were slaves of Solomon ROUNTREE of Gates County. Sophie served as maid to one of Mr. ROUNTREE's daughters and she stayed with her mistress until slavery was abolished. Sophie served as midwife for both white and negro mothers in this section for many years and was respected by people of both races. In 1863 Sophie, then 14, married Tom HUNTER and to them were born 17 children, four of which are still living.  James Crowder HUNTER and Inetta HUNTER never married and were living with their mother at the time of her death." (Contributed by Elizabeth Ross, "used on this website with her permission")

e-mail from Janet Morris Belvin 
I found your interesting website while "surfing the net." In one of your sections on Solomon Rountree and Amelia Hudgins, I found an obituary of a Sophie Hunter , an ex-slave whose daughter Inetta Hunter worked for my grandmother, Beulah Morris of Gates County, NC. I never knew of Iney's background (that is what all the family called her) but we loved her like family. It was wonderful to find out more about her parents. Thank you for that. 

Grandchildren of Solomon Rountree and Amelia Hudgins:
mostly garnered from the census and graveyard records

Children of Jane Rebecca Rountree & Jacob M Hayes:  Gates Co.
1. Cornelia Hayes ca 1847 -
2. Elisha Hayes ca 1849 -
3. Florence Ina Hayes             23 Oct 1852 - 21 July 1924 heart attack
     married 1875 John Thomas Smith    12 July 1851 - 31 Jan 1900 smallpox
                  buried in Rountree Cemetery [two stones]
     a. Elisha A Smith     29 Jan 1877 - 16 Mar 1962
     b. Cornelia Ethel Smith   Oct 1880 -
     c. Kittrell [Kitt] Smith      Jan 1883 -
     d. Beulah Jane Smith         Jun 1885 -
          married Mr Morris
                              ancestors of Janet Belvin
     e. Florence Ina Smith    Aug 1887 -
     f. Floyd Eugene Smith         Jun 1892 -
     h. Lillian Ruth Smith         Feb 1895 -
4. Henrietta Hayes ca 1855 -
5. Simeon J. [Simm] Hayes  6 Nov 1861 - 7 Oct 1925
My daddy knew him well and said he always used to have tobacco juice dripping down his beard! " Janet Bevin
      married ca 1888 Martha Etta ?  1868 - 1946
      a. Jacob T Hayes   Jan 1890 -
      b. Eva Mae Hayes   14 Apr 1894 - 23 Nov 1961
      c. Julia E. Hayes    Aug 1896 -
      d. Margaret W Hayes Oct 1898 - 1967
           married T Hurley Lawrence 1892 - 1934
6. Mary A. Hayes  Oct 1867 -
             [ Mamie Hayes b. 1869   d. 1944 At Rest]

Children of Sarah Elizabeth Rountree and Warner Pugh Hudgins:
1. Mary E. Hudgins 1848 
      married  Lassiter
2. [Annie] Virginia Ann Hudgins Jun 5, 1850 - Jun 5, 1933
     married Thomas Leroy Lassiter Hertford Co Jan 16, 1842- Apr. 21, 1922
                                Lassiter Bible on line
                     son of Henry Lassiter 1803-1878 and Elizabeth Best 1808 -1871
    a. William F. Lassiter 22 Oct. 1870 - dy
    b. Dora E. Lassiter  27 Oct 1871 - /
    c. Julia C. Lassiter  3 May  1873 - dy
    d. Emma J. Lassiter 9 Oct 1875 - Oct. 31, 1912
    e. Edward T. Lassiter 10 Feb 1877 -/
    f. Annie M.. Lassiter 17 Jan 1879 - dy
    g. John C. Lassiter 15 Dec 1880 - dy
    h.  Fannie E. Lassiter 29 Sep 1883 -/
     i. Lewis Lafayette Lassiter 16 Mar 1885 - dy
     j.  Charley C. Lassiter  22 Aug 1886 - dy
     k. Warner Hudgins Lassiter 10 Apr 1888 -/
                 gson Terry Lassiter has family Bible per Jay Lassiter
     l.  Henry Clay Lassiter 27 Sep 1890 - dy
3. Emma Hudgins 1856
4. Cornelius Walton Hudgins 19 Sept 1858 - 16 Mar 1937
     married 29 Jan 1885 Annie Mariah Wright 27 Sept 1859 - 26 June 1901
     a.  Earnest Warner Hudgins 26 March 1886 - 28 March 1886
     b.  James (Jimmy) Wright Hudgins  10 June 1889 - 23 Jan 1968
          married 8 Feb 1912 Julia Alcora Brown 19 March 1888 -16 Feb 1978
     c.  Arthur Marvin Hudgins 15 March 1891 -
            married 6 May 1914 Hattie S Whedbee
     d. George Cornelius Hudgins Sr 9 Feb 1893 - 20 Oct 1979
          married Willie Maude Blanchard 19 Sept 1892 - 17 Feb 1976
      married 2nd 11 Feb 1915  Sue Blanchard Rawls
5. Sarah A Hudgins 1860
6. Arthur Simeon Hudgins 11 March 1862- 16 Nov 1929
     married 16 Jan 1887 Lauritha Trotman Jones 27 March 1864 - 29 Feb 1932
     a. William Pugh Hudgins 12 Oct 1887 -21 March 1970
          married 5 Jan 1910 Maggie L Perry
                           ancestors of John T Kittrell
     b.  Addie Rowell Hudgins 18 Oct 1890 -21 Feb 1989
            married 21 Dec 1910 Claude W Hinton
     c.  Lucy McGhee Hudgins 20 Sept 1893 -  23 Sept 1893
     d.  Sallie Jones Hudgins 8 Oct 1894 - 20 July 1983
          married 1 Apr 1925 James B Hathaway               
     e. Arthur Julian Hudgins 24 March 1898 - 25 Jan 1953
     f.  Herbert Cornelius Hudgins 1 Sept 1901- 10 June 1976
          married Lucille Dixie Simpson 3 Aug 1901 - 21 Aug 1976

Children of  John Abner Rountree and Emily Jane Sanderlin:
1. Warner Jackson Rountree 18 September 1868 - 17 September 1883 age 15 yrs
2. Emily Hortense Rountree 17 August 1870 - 1 June 1952
        married Tim Parker 12 Sept 1859 - 2 Feb 1927
3. Dorsey Sanderlin Rountree 13 March 1873 - 11 Jan 1959
       married Nettie Corbette 12 Dec 1871 - 27 Aug 1942
4. John James Rountree 11 May 1875 - summer 1936
       married Frances Hinton 1879 - 1948
5. George Alphonso Rountree 11 February 1878 - 20 June 1878 age 6 mos.

Children of Media Ann Rountree and John A Harrell:
I have not found them

Children of Emily Caroline Rountree and Fred R Jones :
1. William R Jones 1857 -
2. Ella Jones 1859 -
3. Frederick Jones 1861 -
Children of Emily Caroline Rountree and Stephen D Ballard :
1. Eugenia Florance Ballard 10 July 1864 -
2.  Richard Romulous Ballard 30 Mar 1866 -
    married 20 Dec 1896 Lizzie Pearce Oct 1872 - his cousin
3. Annie Mary Ballard 15 Mar 1868 -
4. Charles Robert Ballard 18 Mar 1870 -
5. Leora Florence Ballard 3 Nov 1871 -
6. Antionette Caroline Ballard 25 Sept 1873 -
7. George Washington Ballard 28 May 1875 -
8. Luther Spurgeon Ballard 16 May 1877 -
9. Stephen Jethro Ballard 28 Feb 1879 -
?10. Edward Ballard Mar 1884 -

Children of Simeon Joseph Rountrey and Sarah Ellen Hayes:
"He married Sarah Ellen Hayes after he returned home from fighting in the Confederate Army where he was wounded twice. In the Battle of Gettysburg he was shot and left on the field for dead; however the bullet had hit a tintype picture he carried over his heart and he recovered." "About 1878 Simeon J sold his farm to his brother John Abner and moved to Portsmouth, Virginia, where he worked as a carpenter. He began spelling his name with a 'y' in 1881 as another Rountree lived near him and their mail got mixed too much to suit him."  " Rowntree and Rountree Family History 1521 - 1953" by J G Rountree II
   "After the war he moved to near Suffolk Va. and there he had to change the spelling of his name to Rountrey due to the fact he had a cousin already living there with the same name and their mail was getting mixed up. He went on to be the Warden of the Alms House in Norfolk.  (I'm still researching his later years). e-mail from Jim Pierce  11 Feb 2003
1. Annie W. Rountrey 1870
     married Amos Beauregard Hanbury
     a. Vernon Beauregard Hanbury
          married Maude Liverman
          i. Dorothy Almeda Hanbury
               married Harry A Pierce of Sunbury, NC
                                            parents of Jim Pierce
2. Claude Joseph Rountrey 7 May 1877 Gates Co NC - Apr 1974 Chesapeake VA
            buried in Magnolia Cemetery, Norfolk VA
     married 12 Dec 1899 Florence Virginia Halstead 2Feb 1875 - 25 Oct 1946
      a. Florence Elizabeth [Dolly] Rountrey 22 Oct 1900 - June 1966
           married Richard Ervin Collier
                     he was in the U S Coast Guard
      b. Halstead Rountrey  9 Nov 1902 - 11 Jan 1990 Chesapeake VA
      c. Claude Joseph Rountrey Jr 23 Mar 1905 - 5 June 1992 Ormond Beach FL
                lived earlier in  Nashville TN
           married Ella Shumadine  27 May 1904 - 14 Nov 1988
      d. William Franklin Rountrey 22 Dec 1914 Campostella, Norfolk VA - 19 May 2002 VA
           married Katharine Clagon Riggan d bef 2002
William Franklin  "Froggy'' Rountrey, 87, of the 900 block of St. Lawrence Ave., received his greatest blessing Sunday, May 19, 2002, when he was taken home to be with his Heavenly Father. He touched the lives of many during his 87 years on Earth, setting examples for others as a Christian father and husband, as well as a highly respected professional, civic and church leader. He will be remembered by many as an honest and upright man with a gentle spirit and pure heart. He gave much more than he received, always putting the needs of others ahead of his own needs. He was born in Norfolk County and lived his entire life in the Oaklette area. He graduated from Portlock High School as class salutatorian and then from the Norfolk Division of William and Mary College, now ODU. He was the retired president of McCallum Inspection Company and founder and past president and CEO of McCallum Testing Laboratories. Froggy became active in numerous civic organizations beginning in the late 1930s. He served on the Central YMCA Board, spent 13 years as business manager and board member of the Norfolk Symphony and Civic Chorus, and served two consecutive years as president of the Norfolk Junior Chamber of Commerce during World War II, earning the title of "The Man Who Gets Things Done.'' While in the Junior Chamber of Commerce he was also given the Key Man Award in 1941-1944 and was named Outstanding Man of the Year in the state in 1946. He helped to form and he served on the Norfolk Community Council. He was instrumental in establishing the Norfolk Civic Chorus, Miss Virginia Pageant, Tidewater Council of Natural History, Norfolk's first Boy's Club on Colonial Avenue (secretary), the Boy's Club on Azalea Garden Road, and he was instrumental in establishing food handling procedures for the Norfolk Health Department. He served on the board of the Virginia Wildlife Federation, was a past member of the Norfolk Rotary Club, and was a court-appointed member of the Chesapeake Zoning Appeals Board for more than 20 years. He was a former member and president of the Tidewater Council of Natural History, Virginia Society of Ornithology, Cape Henry Bird Club, and Rotary Club of Chesapeake. He was a life member of the American Wood Preservers Association, life member of the American Society for Testing and Materials, and active on committees of the American National Standards Institute. While serving as president of the Virginia Society of Ornithology, he was instrumental in the passing of legislation to protect birds of prey, which is still in effect today. He was one of the founders of the Cape Henry Bird Club and had been consistently active in the ornithological society's annual bird counts. Being a self-taught expert on bird identification, he was called on many times through the years to identify birds in all parts of the state. He was a lifelong member of Oaklette Methodist Church. He began teaching the Young Adult Class in 1947 and was the first and only full-time teacher of the Men's Bible Class for more than 50 years. During his lifetime, he held many administrative positions at Oaklette such as chairman of the Official Board, chairman of numerous commissions, church treasurer, trustee, and lay leader. He was predeceased by his loving wife, Katharine Riggan Rountrey, by his parents, Claude Joseph and Florence Virginia Halstead Rountrey, by his sister, Florence R. Collier, and by his brothers, George W. Halstead and Claude J. Rountrey Jr. He leaves behind a daughter, Kaye R. Herndon and her husband Jim of Chesapeake; and a granddaughter, Sheron Kaye Berg and her fiance Bobby Antoskow of Chesapeake. . . .The funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Oaklette United Methodist Church, Chesapeake, followed by burial at Riverside Memorial Cemetery. 
             i. Kaye Frances Rountrey
                 married Ned William Berg
                      1. Sheron Kaye Berg
                      married Jim Herndon
      e. George Wilson Rountrey 6 July 1911 - Feb 1975 Virginia Beach VA
            married Maude Powell Eley
      f.  Edward Rountrey 1914 -
3. Hubert Hayes [ Hugh] Rountrey 7 May 1877 - 
   married 22 Jan 1907 Callie Fentress Shipp 3 Mar 1886 -
     raised their children at 1134 Rodgers Street, Chesapeake,Va
          both buried in Riverside Cemetery on Indian River Road in Norfolk
     a. Hubert Hayes Rountrey Jr 1 Aug 1912 - 7 June 1990
         married 18 Nov 1939 Madeline Estelle Harrell
            both buried in Riverside Cemetery on Indian River Road in Norfolk
          i. Ellen Hayes Rountrey Cornelius  e-mail
     b. Arthur Shipp Rountrey 1 Mar 1914 - 26 Aug 1982  no issue
             buried in Riverside Cemetery on Indian River Road in Norfolk
           married 1967
     c. Ethel Virginia Rountrey 28 Sept 1918 - 21 Jan 2001  dsp
            buried in Riverside Cemetery on Indian River Road in Norfolk
     d. William Joseph Rountrey 12 Aug 1921 - 16 Feb 1991 no issue
           married 1942
4. Mattie C Rountrey 1881 -
5. Simeon Bozier Rountrey 1886 -
     married and had issue
?6. William Solomon Rountrey 1892 -
            on the 1930 census this family is shown just a few doors away from Hubert's family
    married Marie Edwards 1876 -
      a. Mary B Rountrey 1910 -

Children of Mary Elizabeth Rountree and John Randolph Brinkly:
 Nansemond Co --I have not found them except as Conf. Vet.

Children of Julia Amanda Rountree and William Wilson Sanderlin:
1. Laura Amelia Sanderlin 1870
others?

Children of William Henry Rountree and Sarah Isabel Morris:
 "My Great Grandfather William operated two farms at the time my Grandmother was born. He was also Postmaster in his area. The two farms were the old Rountree Farm which was built in 1812 and the place where they lived called Mill Pond near Sunbury (it was on a huge lake with cypress trees all around it). I have pictures of both farm houses taken in 1935 and I visited there in 1951. William and his wife moved to Portsmouth when their children were teenagers in the late nineteenth century and operated a large boarding house. All of the children married very well with the daughters marrying boarders at the house. The daughters were beautiful. One of my cousins has all of their pictures. Most are buried in Portsmouth."  e-mail from John Macon
I know little about Sarah's family except that they were from North Carolina (near Elizabeth City) and were Planters. Her brother was killed in the Civil War at the Battle of Seven Pines near Richmond. She was also related to the Shacklefords and was supposed to be descended from Robert Morris of Philadelphia, who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. e-mail from John Macon 
  William had inherited the Plantation House built in 1812 in Sunbury from his father Solomon Rountree. I believe the house was built by his Grandfather Abner Rountree. When I visited the house in 1955, it was in very bad repair, but a tenant farmer was living there. It had the date 1812 in the chimney. The porches which used to wrap around the house were gone and it was not painted. I have a picture of it taken in 1935 when it was already in bad shape. William had another farm where he lived with his family at Merchant's Mill which was nearby. I remember that the trees along the drive to that house were covered with Spanish Moss.

1. Harriet A Rountree 1874 - ca 1883
           drowned in the Mill Pond at age nine
2. Solomon Oscar Rountree May 1875 -
     a. Virginia Rountree [owned a restaurant in Hawaii]
     b. Aileen Rountree
          married Skip Owens in Norfolk VA
3. Lavinia Sarah [Venie] Rountree May 1878 -
    married George Price [a teacher]
     a. Fred Price  [diplomat]
     b. Leonard Price  [Realtor]
     c. Zoe Price  [married a US Senator's son]  all lived Washington DC
4. Mary O [Marie] Rountree April 1880 -
     married Edwin Cole [exec telephone company in Richmond
     a. Raymond Cole married Kathleen
5. Frederick C [Fred] Rountree July 1882 -  dy
    married Minnie Monnell
     a. Marion married James Wolfe  moved to Chattanooga  
         i. Carol Wolfe
         ii. Sandra Wolfe  
    Minnie married 2nd Karl Steublen [Supt. of the Portsmouth Naval Yard]
      a. Little Minnie married Jack Barnes
6. Harriet [Hattie] Ann Rountree 6 Aug 1882 NC - 2 Jan 1971 Norfolk VA
    married 11 Nov 1903 Joseph Arthur Specht 10 Oct 1877 Germany - 3 Oct 1912 VA
         partner of the Specht & Cox Funeral Home in Portsmouth

 
J Arthur Specht and wife Harriet Ann Rountree

      a. son died in infancy
      b. Dorothy Specht ca 1905 VA -
         married ca 1926 Edward Louis Norvell ca 1903 VA -
           i. Buddy Norvell
           ii. Jean Norvell 
           iii. Marcia Norvell
      c. Sarah Lorraine ca 1909 VA -
           married John Ferratt Macon
            i. John Macon
            ii.  Lynn Macon
      d. Heliose Specht ca 1912 VA - dsp
    married 9 June 1930 Robert [Bob] D M Ogg 26 Nov 1882 - 9 July 1945 Norfolk VA
          City Postmaster of Portsmouth VA and 33rd Degree Mason

 
Robert Ogg dressed in his Masonic uniform.
lived on Emmett Street in Portsmouth

Children of Elizabeth Alice Rountree and Richard W Pearce:
1. Lizzie Pearce Oct 1872 -
     married 20 Dec 1896 Richard R Ballard 30 Mar 1866 -
                   son of S D & Caroline
        (marriage license Lizzie age 16, Richard R. age 30)
2. Emma H Pearce ca 1875 -
      married 17 Jan 1897 William R Travis ca 1868 (mar. license)
3. Mary E Pearce Nov 1875 -
4. Nancy A Pearce 1877 -
5. Reginald W. Pierce 28 Feb 1897 - 2 Apr 1917