Missouri Family Group Sheet for the Jessie T. Maddox Family
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Submitted by: Sherry Wray
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Husband: Jessie T. MADDOX
Birthdate: abt 1799
Birthplace: Virginia
Death date: 10 Aug 1861
Place of death: Montevallo Twp, Vernon County, MO
Burial:
Father:
Mother:
Marriage date: abt 1823
Marriage place: Virginia or Tennessee
Wife: Lucinda Ann
Birthdate: abt 1799
Birthplace: Virginia
Death date: 16 Oct 1875
Place of death: Vernon County, MO.
Burial:
Father:
Mother:
CHILDREN
Child No. 1: Elizabeth Ann (Betsy)
Sex: f
Birthdate: 1824
Birthplace: Tennessee
Death date: after 1915
Place of death: Vernon County, Sheldon, MO
Burial: probaby Toalson Cemetery
Marriage date: abut 1848
Marriage place:
Spouse's name: Robert Marion Curry
Child No. 2: Wilson C
Sex: m
Birthdate: abt 1821
Birthplace: Tennessee
Death date: 20 Feb 1865
Place of death: Vernon County, MO
Burial:
Marriage date: 14 Oct 1844
Marriage place: Monroe County, MO
Spouse's name: Mary Ann Head
Child No. 3: George Anthony
Sex: m
Birthdate: abt 1829
Birthplace: Tennessee
Death date:
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Child No. 4: Martha Jane
Sex: f
Birthdate: abt 1831
Birthplace: Tennessee
Death date:
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Burial:
Marriage date: 9 Mar 1857
Marriage place: Monroe County, MO
Spouse's name: Thomas E. Willis
Child No. 5: Josephus
Sex: m
Birthdate: abt 1831
Birthplace: Tennessee
Death date:
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Child No. 6: Sarah D
Sex: f
Birthdate: abt 1833
Birthplace: Tennessee
Death date:
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Child No. 7: Ezekiel S.
Sex: m
Birthdate: abt 1836
Birthplace: Illinois
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Child No. 8: William T
Sex: m
Birthdate: abt 1838
Birthplace: Illinois
Death date: before Jul 1869
Place of death: Vernon Co. MO
Burial:
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Spouse's name:
Child No. 9: John Stuart
Sex: m
Birthdate: abt 1841
Birthplace: Illinois
Death date: 20 Feb 1865
Place of death: Vernon Co., MO
Burial:
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Documentation:
Census RecordsTHE FAMILY OF JESSE T. MADDOX OF VERNON COUNTY, MISSOURI by Ron Brothers
Perhaps Vernon County was to be the hope of final settlement for the Maddox
family in their trek across the Midwest. The coming events of the Civil War,
unknown to them, would devastate the family beyond their wildest dreams.
Jesse Maddox appears in the HISTORY OF VERNON COUNTY as being a member of the
grand jury which passed an indictment against John Brown, the antislavery
activist, on May 9, 1859. Jesse would not live long enough to see the horrors of
war that his family would experience. Land records show the death of Jesse to be
10 August 1861. In the same book, Jesse's brothers Wilson and William Maddox
appear among the citizenry in the account of a battle fought April 13, 1862 in
the town of Montevallo against a troop of Union soldiers sent there to round up
Southern sympathizers. Wilson is alluded to as the "hotel keeper" and one of the
organizers of the Confederate attack. This small town would be wiped off the
face of the earth before the end of the civil war from this and subsequent raids
by the Union army only to be relocated and rebuilt after the war a short
distance from its' original founding.
In the probate records of Jesse Maddox, a deed selling a large portion of the
original homestead, cites a graveyard containing an acre of land, then being
used, will be reserved and exempt from the sale. The grave site has been
rediscovered in a field about 1/2 mile off the road by this author and contains
six unmarked graves and one marked grave with the headstone name of Austin.
Since the death of Jesse, his son William T., and his son-in-law Robert Marian
Curry are prior to the date of sale of this land it is safe to assume that they
are buried in this cemetery since it was part of their lands. This site had long
been forgotten and is not recorded in the cemetery records of the county, nor
has it been mentioned in any subsequent deeds thereafter. One of the graves is
very prominent and is outlined by several large stones around its perimeter.
It is definitely an adult grave and probably that of Jesse Maddox. (the Dillon
Cemetery, called Batts Cemetery in the Cemetery Directory).
Etta Mae Maddox Bramlett told that her grandfather John Stuart Maddox joined the
Confederate Army in Missouri. He later learned of the birth of his son Ben
Stuart Maddox (Jan. 1861 or 1862) and deserted to return home to see his first
son. A squad was sent after him and he eluded them by clinging to a fallen log
across a creek near the family home. He later returned to his company. At the
end of the war he was returning home from Kansas with another man and was
ambushed by Jay hawkers and shot dead in a field. The friend fell to the ground
to pretend dead hoping the raiders would leave. The field was set ablaze by the
attackers and the friend escaped in the smoke. The story goes on to say that the
friend returned later and buried John Maddox in the field some distance from his
home. Etta also tells that all of the male members of the Maddox family were
killed in the Civil War. She did not know of the existence of three other sons,
George Anthony Maddox, Josephus Maddox and Ezekiel S. Maddox who did survive the
war.
Probate records are available for Jesse, William T., and John S. Maddox in
Vernon County but none list the actual date nor the cause of death of any of the
three. However, the date of death of John Stuart Maddox and Wilson C. Maddox was
found in an affidavit attached to a land deed of Robert Sykes (Book G, Page 64)
and in Vernon County Circuit Court Records of Pigg Vs. Lucy Ann Reed May 1877.
According to these sources both John and Wilson died on 20 February 1865. There
was no cause listed. It is interesting to note that the two brothers died on the
same day and would lead one to speculate that they were involved in a battle or
skirmish of some kind. History records a skirmish at Centre Creek, Missouri on
this date but information concerning that battle has not been researched at this
time. There are no known burial records of any of the male members of this
family in Vernon County.
The family farm was attacked at some unknown date by what Etta called Kansas Jay
hawkers and the two story log house was burned. Order No. 11, the infamous Union
condemnation to burn the homes of western Missouri county residents, may have
been the cause of their flight from the county. Lucy Ann Maddox Reed was allowed
to carry a tea set and table utensils away from the family farm by the
attackers. Etta told, that Mary Jane, Lucy Ann, along with the wife of John
Stuart Maddox, Martha Jane, and her son Ben Stuart Maddox, were put on a boat
and sent down the Mississippi River. This could not be so, as the Mississippi
was many days travel from the farm and no tributaries ran through the county.
They may indeed have ended up in New Orleans as Etta told, and it is likely they
did, but not in the manner Etta described. Etta maintained that in New Orleans,
they somehow met Tiford M. Reed, who fell in love with Lucy Ann Maddox. Tilford
sent the four to Lamar County, Texas to stay with "Grandpa Hull". After the war,
Tiford escorted the family back to Vernon County, Missouri where he married Lucy
13 November 1866. He bought property there in 1868 and then he and Lucy moved
back to Lamar County before the 1880 census and then to Choctaw County, Oklahoma
after 1900.
An old family story was that all first born male children should be named Stuart
because of a pact made when the Stuarts married into the Maddox family. There is
no known marriage record proving this. The marriage of Jesse Maddox has not been
located and the last name of his wife Lucinda
Ann is unknown. She could have been the Stuart connection. It is a
fact, however that descendants of Jesse have been named Stuart, i.e. John
Stuart, Ben Stuart, Jesse Stuart, Travis Stuart, Don Stuart, as well as some of
the Curry family who used the middle initial S.
by Ron Brothers Sherman, TX. (In 1998 he lives in Paris, TX.)
The above was excerpted from a longer account.
Additional information secured from Ron Brothers:
According to the History of Vernon County Missouri dated 1887, John Brown's men
raided and robbed the homes of two Vernon County residents on December 21, 1858.
The whole county was paranoid and jittery over the events of the times, there
were pleas for federal troops and state militia to the governor and state
legislature. Many residents moved away, especially those close to the Kansas
border. In May 1859 the circuit court convened and on the 9th a grand jury,
composed of R.A.
Broughan forman, A.B. Howard, James Wilson, Lewis C. Jones, Wm. Gabbard, JESSE
MADDOX, Wm. Brim, James Moore, John B. Eidson, Eli Phillips, Hazel P. Mobley,
Matthew Armstrong, J.D. Wilson, Wm. Pryor, Peter Duncan, and M.P. Woodruff,
found true bills of indictment for murder and robbery against John Brown and the
other raiders who were known by name, and also their Confederates whose names
were unknown. Nothing ever came of the indictment and no one was ever arrested.
A few months later Brown was captured on Oct. 16, 1859 for his raid on Harpers
Ferry, Virginia.
A popular song taught to school children was that of: "John Brown's body lies a
mouldering in his grave...Glory, Glory, Hallelujah.....his soul goes marching
on. It was sung as a rounder like Row, Row, Row your boat.
1830 Census Jessee Maddox living in Carter County, Tennessee
1840 Census Maddox's lived in Macoupin Co., Il p42, T5 Roll 20 - There are no
land records recorded for Jesse in this county. There is a Benjamin Maddox
recorded as a Revolutionary War Veteran on a pylon with others in the courtyard
of the Macoupin County Courthouse, Illinois.
This Benjamin is also buried in the county. There is no established relationship
to Jesse Maddox at this time.
1850 Census Monroe Co. MO. District #59 Family # 391 Name was spelled Mattox. On
July 23, 1845 Jesse Maddox buys 36 acres from Charles Burton.
He gave land to the Christian Church, which no longer exists there, on November
27, 1845. The Maddox family was Methodist and later became Baptist, and there is
no members of the Christian Church within memory of anyone.
1860 Census Vernon Co., MO Montevallo Twp.
MADDOX, Joseph 29y Farmer Indiana
Mary 25y Indiana
James F. 6y MO
Charles W. 4y MO
Jesse R. 3y Mo
Lucy 2 mo. MO
next door
MADDOX, Jesse 61y Farmer VA (died 1 year later) Lucindann 61y VA
E.S. 24y Farming IL
John S. 19y Farming IL
Jesse Maddox was a farmer as shown on the 1860 census. US General Land Office
records land grants to Jesse Maddox, Wilson C. Maddox, William T.
Maddox, Robert M. Curry and John Curry, all 160 acres of land adjoining each
other, in July 1860, in Vernon County, Missouri, Section 22, Twp 34, Range 30,
about 6 miles east of Sheldon, Missouri. The first recorded land deed of the
family in Vernon County is that of Wilson Maddox in June
1858 where he buys a plot in the town of Montevallo. Jesse's first record is
January 1859, and John Stuart Maddox, another son, buys land from his brother
Wilson C. Maddox in March of 1859. While the Curry and Maddox families migrated
to Vernon County, Missouri, one of Jesse's sons, George Anthony, stayed in
Monroe County, Missouri for a while, then is found in Page County, Iowa in 1865
and in 1870 in Yamhill County, Oregon.
1866 Probate Records dated January 23, his wife Lucy and daughter Elizabeth
Curry give up their right to administration of the Estate of Jesse Maddox.
Many books written about the Border Wars show it raged for over a year before
the Civil War erupted.THE FAMILY OF JESSE T. MADDOX OF VERNON COUNTY, MISSOURI
author Ron Brothers of Sherman, Texas Perhaps Vernon County was to be the hope
of final settlement for the Maddox family in their trek across the Midwest. The
coming events of the Civil War, unknown to them, would devastate the family
beyond their wildest dreams.
Jesse Maddox appears in the HISTORY OF VERNON COUNTY as being a member of the
grand jury which passed an indictment against John Brown, the antislavery
activist, on May 9, 1859. Jesse would not live long enough to see the horrors of
war that his family would experience. Land records show the death of Jesse to be
10 August 1861. In the same book, Jesse's brothers Wilson and William Maddox
appear among the citizenry in the account of a battle fought April 13, 1862 in
the town of Montevallo against a troop of Union soldiers sent there to round up
Southern sympathizers. Wilson is alluded to as the "hotel keeper" and one of the
organizers of the Confederate attack. This small town would be wiped off the
face of the earth before the end of the civil war from this and subsequent raids
by the Union army only to be relocated and rebuilt after the war a short
distance from its' original founding.
In the probate records of Jesse Maddox, a deed selling a large portion of the
original homestead, cites a graveyard containing an acre of land, then being
used, will be reserved and exempt from the sale. The grave site has been
rediscovered in a field about 1/2 mile off the road by this author and contains
six unmarked graves and one marked grave with the headstone name of Austin.
Since the death of Jesse, his son William T., and his son-in-law Robert Marian
Curry are prior to the date of sale of this land it is safe to assume that they
are buried in this cemetery since it was part of their lands. This site had long
been forgotten and is not recorded in the cemetery records of the county, nor
has it been mentioned in any subsequent deeds thereafter. One of the graves is
very prominent and is outlined by several large stones around its perimeter.
It is definitely an adult grave and probably that of Jesse Maddox. (the Dillon
Cemetery, called Batts Cemetery in the Cemetery Directory).
Etta Mae Maddox Bramlett told that her grandfather John Stuart Maddox joined the
Confederate Army in Missouri. He later learned of the birth of his son Ben
Stuart Maddox (Jan. 1861 or 1862) and deserted to return home to see his first
son. A squad was sent after him and he eluded them by clinging to a fallen log
across a creek near the family home. He later returned to his company. At the
end of the war he was returning home from Kansas with another man and was
ambushed by Jay hawkers and shot dead in a field. The friend fell to the ground
to pretend dead hoping the raiders would leave. The field was set ablaze by the
attackers and the friend escaped in the smoke. The story goes on to say that the
friend returned later and buried John Maddox in the field some distance from his
home. Etta also tells that all of the male members of the Maddox family were
killed in the Civil War. She did not know of the existence of three other sons,
George Anthony Maddox, Josephus Maddox and Ezekiel S. Maddox who did survive the
war.
Probate records are available for Jesse, William T., and John S. Maddox in
Vernon County but none list the actual date nor the cause of death of any of the
three. However, the date of death of John Stuart Maddox and Wilson C. Maddox was
found in an affidavit attached to a land deed of Robert Sykes (Book G, Page 64)
and in Vernon County Circuit Court Records of Pigg Vs. Lucy Ann Reed May 1877.
According to these sources both John and Wilson died on 20 February 1865. There
was no cause listed. It is interesting to note that the two brothers died on the
same day and would lead one to speculate that they were involved in a battle or
skirmish of some kind. History records a skirmish at Centre Creek, Missouri on
this date but information concerning that battle has not been researched at this
time. There are no known burial records of any of the male members of this
family in Vernon County.
The family farm was attacked at some unknown date by what Etta called Kansas Jay
hawkers and the two story log house was burned. Order No. 11, the infamous Union
condemnation to burn the homes of western Missouri county residents, may have
been the cause of their flight from the county. Lucy Ann Maddox Reed was allowed
to carry a tea set and table utensils away from the family farm by the
attackers. Etta told, that Mary Jane, Lucy Ann, along with the wife of John
Stuart Maddox, Martha Jane, and her son Ben Stuart Maddox, were put on a boat
and sent down the Mississippi River. This could not be so, as the Mississippi
was many days travel from the farm and no tributaries ran through the county.
They may indeed have ended up in New Orleans as Etta told, and it is likely they
did, but not in the manner Etta described. Etta maintained that in New Orleans,
they somehow met Tiford M. Reed, who fell in love with Lucy Ann Maddox. Tilford
sent the four to Lamar County, Texas to stay with "Grandpa Hull". After the war,
Tiford escorted the family back to Vernon County, Missouri where he married Lucy
13 November 1866. He bought property there in 1868 and then he and Lucy moved
back to Lamar County before the 1880 census and then to Choctaw County, Oklahoma
after 1900.
An old family story was that all first born male children should be named Stuart
because of a pact made when the Stuarts married into the Maddox family. There is
no known marriage record proving this. The marriage of Jesse Maddox has not been
located and the last name of his wife Lucinda
Ann is unknown. She could have been the Stuart connection. It is a
fact, however that descendants of Jesse have been named Stuart, i.e. John
Stuart, Ben Stuart, Jesse Stuart, Travis Stuart, Don Stuart, as well as some of
the Curry family who used the middle initial S.
by Ron Brothers Sherman, TX. (In 1998 he lives in Paris, TX.)
The above was excerpted from a longer account.
Additional information secured from Ron Brothers:
According to the History of Vernon County Missouri dated 1887, John Brown's men
raided and robbed the homes of two Vernon County residents on December 21, 1858.
The whole county was paranoid and jittery over the events of the times, there
were pleas for federal troops and state militia to the governor and state
legislature. Many residents moved away, especially those close to the Kansas
border. In May 1859 the circuit court convened and on the 9th a grand jury,
composed of R.A.
Broughan forman, A.B. Howard, James Wilson, Lewis C. Jones, Wm. Gabbard, JESSE
MADDOX, Wm. Brim, James Moore, John B. Eidson, Eli Phillips, Hazel P. Mobley,
Matthew Armstrong, J.D. Wilson, Wm. Pryor, Peter Duncan, and M.P. Woodruff,
found true bills of indictment for murder and robbery against John Brown and the
other raiders who were known by name, and also their Confederates whose names
were unknown. Nothing ever came of the indictment and no one was ever arrested.
A few months later Brown was captured on Oct. 16, 1859 for his raid on Harpers
Ferry, Virginia.
A popular song taught to school children was that of : "John Brown's body lies a
mouldering in his grave...Glory, Glory, Hallelujah.....his soul goes marching
on. It was sung as a rounder like Row, Row, Row your boat.
1830 Census Jessee Maddox living in Carter County, Tennessee
1840 Census Maddox's lived in Macoupin Co., Il p42, T5 Roll 20 - There are no
land records recorded for Jesse in this county. There is a Benjamin Maddox
recorded as a Revolutionary War Veteran on a pylon with others in the courtyard
of the Macoupin County Courthouse, Illinois.
This Benjamin is also buried in the county. There is no established relationship
to Jesse Maddox at this time.
1850 Census Monroe Co. MO. District #59 Family # 391 Name was spelled Mattox. On
July 23, 1845 Jesse Maddox buys 36 acres from Charles Burton.
He gave land to the Christian Church, which no longer exists there, on November
27, 1845. The Maddox family was Methodist and later became Baptist, and there is
no members of the Christian Church within memory of anyone.
1860 Census Vernon Co., MO Montevallo Twp.
MADDOX, Joseph 29y Farmer Indiana
Mary 25y Indiana
James F. 6y MO
Charles W. 4y MO
Jesse R. 3y Mo
Lucy 2 mo. MO
next door
MADDOX, Jesse 61y Farmer VA (died 1 year later) Lucindann 61y VA
E.S. 24y Farming IL
John S. 19y Farming IL
Jesse Maddox was a farmer as shown on the 1860 census. US General Land Office
records land grants to Jesse Maddox, Wilson C. Maddox, William T.
Maddox, Robert M. Curry and John Curry, all 160 acres of land adjoining each
other, in July 1860, in Vernon County, Missouri, Section 22, Twp 34, Range 30,
about 6 miles east of Sheldon, Missouri. The first recorded land deed of the
family in Vernon County is that of Wilson Maddox in June
1858 where he buys a plot in the town of Montevallo. Jesse's first record is
January 1859, and John Stuart Maddox, another son, buys land from his brother
Wilson C. Maddox in March of 1859. While the Curry and Maddox families migrated
to Vernon County, Missouri, one of Jesse's sons, George Anthony, stayed in
Monroe County, Missouri for a while, then is found in Page County, Iowa in 1865
and in 1870 in Yamhill County, Oregon.
1866 Probate Records dated January 23, his wife Lucy and daughter Elizabeth
Curry give up their right to administration of the Estate of Jesse Maddox.
Many books written about the Border Wars show it raged for over a year before
the Civil War erupted.