EDWARD W2 MILLER, SR (BENJAMIN F1) was born 13 Aug 1887 in Vernon, Washington County, Florida1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, and died 23 Mar 1952 in DeFuniak Springs, Walton County, Florida9. He married (1) IDA LEE SCOTT Abt. 1910 in Florida10, daughter of GEORGE SCOTT and NANCY YATES. She was born 30 Apr 1894 in Florida11,12,13, and died 05 Aug 1924 in Vernon, Washington County, Florida13. He married (2) RHODA GRAVES14 Abt. 1920 in Florida15, daughter of WILLIAM GRAVES and MARTHA SIMMONS. She was born 26 May 1900 in Ponce De Leon, Holmes County, Florida15,16,17, and died 12 Jul 1973. Continue reading →

Montford Stokes Bacon, son of Young Henry Bacon, was born about 1823 in Lunenburg County, Virginia. By 1850, he was living with his wife and first child in Canton, Madison County, Mississippi, and there he remained until I lost him after 1880. In the Stump Bridge Cemetery in Canton, Madison County, Mississippi there is found a Montford S Bacon, according to findagrave.com, but no dates are given in the information for the grave. No dates. No image of a headstone, or anything, so we are unable to determine for sure that this is our man. The Stump Bridge Cemetery is fast disappearing, too. My guess it is our Montford buried there along with a Henry Bacon. Continue reading →

Still researching Bacons. And, I ran into another puzzling record. When the 1900 census was taken, George E Craig (married eldest daughter of Robert Edward Bacon) was found living alone in Evening Shade, Sharp County, Arkansas, and was listed as a widower. Yet, the tombstone he shares with his wife, Addie C, states she died 14 years after this census was taken, on Feb 14, 1914??? This was definitely the correct George E Craig, unless there was more than one in Sharp County who were physicians. So…I had to see if I could find his wife. Estranged wife, perhaps? But first, I looked him up in the 1910 census. Still living in Evening Shade, Arkansas…but, in this census he is listed as married and for 40 years, no less, and also as living on his own income, rather than a physician, so apparently had retired. Obviously, the couple were living apart. So, on to find Addie. Continue reading →

Continuing my search for proof that Robert Edward Bacon was the son of Young Henry Bacon, I searched for any newspaper articles I could find on Young. The following is all that came up on a Young H Bacon:

Richmond Whig, Richmond, Virginia, Friday, July 25, 1834 issue, page 2,
NEGROES CARRIED AWAY
“YOUNG H. BACON and John Freeman Williams left this county sometime
last week with several Negroes belonging to the estate of Col. Edmund P.
Bacon. They were making their way to Richmond for the purpose of selling
them. This is to notifiy the public, that they have no right to sell the said
negroes—that they carried them away without the consent or knowledge
of the proper person, exercising legal ownership over them; and that they
will be dealt with as roughly as the law will permit, unless they return
them. GELLIE M. BACON Lunenburg county, July 19th, 1831. “ Continue reading →

I am currently researching the Bacon families in Mississippi and Arkansas. My mission is to find documentary proof that Robert Edward Bacon was the son of Young Henry Bacon. My way of going about it is always to learn all that I can about the entire family, in the hope that something will come up to point toward where the much sought after document might best be found.

So far in my search I have learned that Young Henry Bacon married Martha A Scott in Granville County, North Carolina on May 11, 1822. They had at least three sons, all born in Virginia, Montford Stokes, Robert Edward and Henry. Was Henry perhaps named after his father, Young Henry Bacon? There is a Henry Bacon buried in the Stump Bridge Cemetery in Canton, Madison County, Mississippi. He died in 1861, according to the stone transcriber. Could this be Young Henry Bacon? Continue reading →

FRANCES4 BLAND (THEODERICK3, RICHARD2, THEODERICK1)1,2 was born 24 Sep 1752 in Bristol Parish, Prince George County, Virginia3, and died 18 Jan 1788 in Williamsburg, York County, Virginia4,5. She married (1) JOHN RANDOLPH, SR6,7 09 Mar 17698. He was born 26 Jun 1742 in “Curles Neck,” Henrico County, Virginia9, and died 28 Oct 17759,10. She married (2) JUDGE ST GEORGE TUCKER, SR11,12 03 Sep 1778 in Chesterfield County, Virginia13. He was born 10 Apr 1752 in Port Royal, Southampton Parish, Bermuda, and died 10 Nov 1827 in “Warminster,” Nelson County, Virginia14. Continue reading →