My Pocahontas lineage

Revised for readability.

We had a little visitor for Easter.  Dylan's gal Sarina brought her daughter Mercedes (Sadie).

We had an eggsellent time!

 

Derek's surgery went well and he spent the weekend recovering.  It hurt him to move for a few days but he toughed it out and now can walk around pretty normally.  No heavy lifting for a while.  He of the nimble fingers owed me a favor so he keyed in the document detailing how my Dad's side of the family is descended from Pocahontas.  I originally posted it with all the "begats" cluttering things (sorry Lili) so I pulled a few highlights out up front and you can read/copy the rest if you want.  Enjoy!

...The Garland Family was criticized greatly for marrying into the Indian Families.

...Suzy Bowling’s mother was pregnant with her when Quantrill’s Renegade Rebels came through scavenging. The Rebels wanted her to tell them where the fresh horses were and she wouldn’t tell them, so they hung her and while she was hanging she pulled her clothes over her head as far as she could and hissed at them. They left her hanging until her husband, who had gone to the mill, arrived a few minutes later and cut her down. She was apparently dead but he worked with her and brought her to. When Suzy was born she was marked by this tragedy and at times they had to make her stay in the house because she would pull her clothes over her head and hiss and be out of her mind, all this being caused by the trauma before she was born...

...The rebels just took everything in sight. The Irish potatoes were in a hole under the floor and they didn’t get them but the family was left without anything to eat and this was in the winter months. So papa Solomon and the older boys armed themselves with axes and went to the woods and hunted a hibernating bear and killed it to have meat. Their dogs were starving too, so they ran a deer on the ice below the house and the men killed it for the dogs. This saved the family over...

THE GARLAND FAMILY





BY





ZURA GARLAND HIBBITTS


1701 PINE TOP RD.


LONDON, KY. 40741





THE BOLIN, BOLING, BOWLING FAMILY——1970

John Rolfe was the son of John Rolfe & Dorthea Mason.

John Rolfe married Pocahontas and had one son named Thomas Rolfe. Pocahontas died of smallpox at age 21 in England. She was buried at Gravesend. (1615)



1st. in descent—Thomas Rolfe, b. 1615, d. 16?; married Jane Poythress. Left issue one child only, a daughter.



2nd. in descent—Jane Rolfe, b. ?, d. 1676; married 1675 Col. Robert Bolling who was born 1646, died 1709; left issue one child only, a son John.



3rd. in descent—John Bolling (Colonel) b. 1676, d. 1729; married Mary Kennon, left issue one son and five daughters: John (Major), Jane, Mary, Elizabeth, Martha, Anne.



4th. in descent—John Boling (major) b. 1700, d. Sept. 6, 1757; married Aug. 1, 1728, Elizabeth Blair, daughter of Dr. Archibald Blair. They had 21 children. One of these was named Benjamin.



5th. in descent—Benjamin Boling, b. 1734, d. 1832: married Pattie Felts, He moved from Va. To North Carolina before 1760; afterwards to Tenn. And then to Eastern Ky. Had sons John, Jesse, and William who came to the Red Bird section of Clay Co., Ky. Revolutionary War service of Jesse Boling or Bowling: enlisted from North Carolina Dec 1780, applied for pension 1832, from Clay Co., Ky. Claim allowed, age 74 years, 5 months when pension granted (10-22-1832). Died 1841, March 10. Born in Va.; served with Washington at Valley Forge.



6th. in descent—Rev. Jesse Boling or Bowling, b. May 22, 1758, d. March 10, 1841; married first Polly Green, Wilks Co., N.C.; had three children: one son—John E. married Susan Sizemore and their daughter married Jesse Combs, the first County Clerk of Perry Co. They were married by Rev. Jesse. Rev. Jesse was married second time to Mary Pennington. Their children were: Justice married Hanna Reed, Polly married Deborah Duff, Jesse Jr. married a Lewis, John married Polly Lewis, One daughter married Joseph Spencer, Another daughter married a Maggard, One daughter died single, Elijah married Susannah Roberts.



7th. in descent—Elijah Boling or Bowling b. 1798 in Lee Co., Va. Married Susannah Roberts March 2, 1819. Susannah’s mother’s maiden name was Nancy Anderson and father’s name was Jesse Roberts. Their children were Elijah married Zilpha Baker, Delaney married Sally Spicer, Elisha married Elvira Crawford, Jesse married America Crawford, sister of Elvira, Elihu Married Arminie Bowman, Chainey married Zera Lewis this was probably Zura Garland Hibbitts Great Grandpa, Nancy married Lukisa Murrel. After Elijah’s first wife died he married Nancy Bell Cobb. Their Children were: America b. in Jackson, Breathitt Co., Ky., June 25, 1847, d. Aug. 5, 1937; married Sept. 25, 1866 to George Washington Patton, Martha married Hal Brewer, Dr. John, Keenus married a Young.





8th. in descent—Delaney Boling or Bowling married Sally Spicer. Their children were: Robert married Jenney Little, Ance married Nancy Spicer, Sidney married Marinda Spicer, Jesse married Alice House, William married Diannah Melissa Carrier, Delaney Jr. married Jane McWhorter, Jane married Jink Young.



9th. in descent—William b. June 19, 1845 married Melissa Carrier b. May 29, 1852 d. Jan. 26, ????. Their children were: Jesse b. March 7, 1869; d. July 20, 1966, Marilda Jane (called Aunt Sissy), b. April 30, 1871, William b. April 3, 1879 married Emma Langlin.



10th. in descent—Jesse Bowling married Eliza Cloyd their children were Edward Charles born Sept. 21, 1888; married Lura Jennings, Retta Jane born June 20, 1890; married Stephen House, Harry born Dec. 4, 1892, John born Nov. 6, 1896 married Alva Ledford and had three children, Leathor born 1901 married Maret Hackley and had two children.



11th. in descent—Leathor married Maret Hackley of Lincoln Co., Ky. On Dec. 15, 1920. Their children were: Charles Elliott Hackley b. March 17, 1924 married Dorothy Brannon of Morristown, Tenn. And had three children, Ann Elizabeth Hackley born April 21, 1930 married Robert R. Wyler of Stanford, Ky. and had three children.



This is the list of Benjamin Boling or Bowling children by first wife, Pattie Felts: Benjamin II, the eldest born 1753 or 54, John, 74 years old in 1833 Census(Tenn), Joel, David, Jesse born 1758, William, 85 years old in 1840 Census(Tenn), Isham was in the War of 1812, Levi, Robert. All of the above men came to Ky. or Eastern Tenn. And can be found in early tax lists of these states. The Eastern Ky. Bolings or Bowlings were first listed in Madison Co. which was formed from Lincoln, 1785. Clay Co. was a part of Madison, formed 1806. A large number of Bolings or Bowlings settled in Clay Co. on Red Bird Creek, their original location. This Bowling Family record was compiled by Mrs. Maret Hackley in 1970.





In 1970 Mrs. Zelma W. Price, Judge and Lawyer of Greenville, Miss. (who descended from Mary Pleasants Bowling or Boling Weatherbee) says——



“I enclose herewith my present record of the children of John Boling(Major) as compiled by me with the help of data from old files of Wesley Washington Boling the father of Ara Janet Boling Stigall as follows:”



1. Meotaka (Meta) Boling, born July 3, 1729 in Henrico Co., Va. Married James Sullivan Sr.



2. Archibald Boling, born about 1730 in Henrico Co., Va.



3. William Boling, born April 5, 1731 in Henrico Co., Va. Died 1776 while serving as Col. In Revolutionary Army in the colony of Va. Married Jan. 1, 1755, his first cousin once removed, Amelia Randolph born June 15, 1739 died Sept. 5, 1787 in Henry Co. Va. (William Boling was 5th in descent from Pocahontas and his wife is 6th in descent from her.)



4. Elizabeth Boling (twin of William) born April 5, 1731 Henrico Co.



5. Jared Boling born June 3, 1732 Henrico Co. In records concerning him is also spelled Gerard, Gerrard, Jarid, Jarret, and Jarrott.



6. Martha Boling born July 15, 1733. Henrico Co.



7. Dorothy Boling born June 30, 1734. Henrico Co.



8. Benjamin Boling (twin of Dorothy) born June 30, 1734.



9. Thomas Boling born July 7, 1734. Henrico Co.



10. John Boling born June 24, 1734. Henrico Co.



11. Robert Boling born August 17, 1738. Henrico Co.



12. Jane Boling born July 13, 1740. Henrico Co. Married William Hopkins.



13. Rodney Boling born Sept. 18, 1742 Henrico Co. died Nov. 19, 1778, Henry Co., Va. Married Aug. 10, 1764 to Elizabeth Anderson.



14. Rolfe Boling born July 16, 1744 Henrico Co.



15. Mary Boling (twin of Rolfe Boling) born July 16, 1744. Married Richard Bland 1761. He was born in 1730.



16. Edward Boling born Sept. 9, 1746. Henrico Co.



17. Sarah Boling born June 16, 1748 in Henrico Co. Married John Tazewell.



18. Archibald Boling born March 1750 in Chesterfield Co., Va.



(Chesterfield formed from Henrico) married first wife 1770 Sarah Carey; married second wife Feb. 1774 Jane Randolph daughter of Richard Randolph Jr. and Ann Meade Randolph; married third wife in 1797 (widow) Byrd; married fourth wife (widow) Clark.



19. Anne Boling born Feb. 7, 1752 in Chesterfield Co. Married William Dandridge.



20. Powhaten (name of Pocahontas’ father) Boling born April 16, 1754 Chesterfield Co.



21. James Boling born Jan. 9, 1756 in Chesterfield Co.



Archibald Boling born about 1730 in Henrico Co. was alive in 1743 when his father took out 600 acres of land for him in the Opossum Creek, Va. He evidently died shortly thereafter as there is no further mention of him. Seven years later on March 20, 1750 another son was born whom they named Archibald. The giving of two children of the same name in a family was not an uncommon thing in that day and time if one had died or moved away.





Garland Family Lineage

Family Record of James Solomon Garland. Married to Liza Bowling Garland.

Their Children:

John “Q” born Sept. 10, 1843

Henry born June 7, 1845

Martha born July 24, 1849

Rachel born Feb. 8, 1851

Solomon Jr. born Oct. 5, 1852

Susan born July 7, 1854

Joseph born Feb. 2, 1855

James H.(Preacher Jack) born Oct. 31, 1856

William born April 30, 1859

George born Oct. 18, 1864



James Solomon Garland and Jasper Garland came to America from Ireland and settled in Arkansas. They couldn’t get along so James Solomon Garland came to Clay Co., Ky. where he married Liza Bowling. Liza Bowling’s mother was a Reams. She died at a young age. She had a history of migraine headaches, she always wore a red bandana around her head. She probably had a brain tumor and pressure from the tumor caused her to start having seizures, the seizures never let up until she died. Liza Bowling’s father was of Pocahontas descent so the Indian Blood Line came in the family through him. We have Indian blood from two lines in the family tree.



Martha Garland Whitis was the mother of Jervis Garland born out of wedlock. Jervis’ father was John “Snider” Benge of Clay Co., Ky. Martha married Mr. Whitis and raised the Whitis Family that included Dr. Mack Whitis, a very well known country Doctor, who rode horseback and tended to the sick and births in a 25 mile radius in the McWhorter, Ky. area.



Johnnie “Q” Garland married Polly Ann Roe, an Indian. Their children were Fred, Lizzie, Dan, and Dave. Dave died with some kind of bowel trouble in his early 20’s. Lizzie and Dave never married. Lizzie died around the age of 65 with cancer. Dan Garland married Elizabeth Marcum and Smith. Smith Garland married Ethel Marcum a cousin to Rachel’s husband. The Rays were of Indian descent and showed strong Indian features.



Henry Garland married Kizzy Roe. Their children were Sherman, Jimmy, Mandy, and Kizzy the 2nd. They both died young and left the children to raising themselves.



Rachel Garland married Dave Roe, brother to Polly Ann and Kizzy. This Roe family were full blooded Chickasau Indians and their complexion was very black with high cheek bones, straight black hair, thin lips, and keen black eyes. The Garland Family was criticized greatly for marrying into the Indian Families.







Fred Garland married Suzy Bowling. She had a birth defect. She had lineage from Pocahontas and Fred’s grandmother was of Pocahontas descent so they were close cousins. Suzy Bowling’s mother was pregnant with her when Quantrill’s Renegade Rebels came through scavenging. The Rebels wanted her to tell them where the fresh horses were and she wouldn’t tell them, so they hung her and while she was hanging she pulled her clothes over her head as far as she could and hissed at them. They left her hanging until her husband, who had gone to the mill, arrived a few minutes later and cut her down. She was apparently dead but he worked with her and brought her to. When Suzy was born she was marked by this tragedy and at times they had to make her stay in the house because she would pull her clothes over her head and hiss and be out of her mind, all this being caused by the trauma before she was born. This took place during the Civil War. So the Garlands have lineage from Pocahontas of Virginia and the Choctaws of Ky. The Choctaw Tribe lived around Burning Springs, KY. Many white families are crossed with them. The men came to settle the land and didn’t bring women with them so they married Indian girls and raised families.



James H. Garland nicknamed Preacher Jack was born Oct. 31, 1856 and died June 16, 1922. He married Matilda Jane Proffitt born Sept. 5, 1854. Their children were:

Candacy: b. May 25, 1879, d. June 8, 1880

Victoria: b. Jan. 22, 1881, d. June 6, 1883

Cyrus born April 20, 1882

Charles born May 31, 1886

Elizabeth born Aug. 16, 1888

Nervia: b. Oct. 27, 1890, d. Oct. 27, 1891

Allander born Aug. 4, 1894



Andrew Hornsby was born the 1st Monday of Dec. 1881. He was abandoned at the courthouse in Clay Co., Ky. on a Monday which was County Court Day, he was about 18 months old. James H. Garland was magistrate and attending court that day. The Judge asked if anyone would take the little boy home and raise him. James H. said “I will” so the judge gave the little boy to James H. He went to the store and bought 5 yds. of denim to make the little boy some overalls out of. He carried him home on horseback wrapped in the 5 yds. of material to keep him warm, it was Dec. His wife took little Andrew on her lap and fed him, he was almost starved to death. She fed all she thought he could hold without getting suck but he went to the slop bucket and got the bread out and starting eating, he was so empty. They all cried tears of compassion for him. Andrew was raised and schooled the same as the other children until he married and moved to Indiana where he raised his own family. In later years he was drowned in a pond while fishing.



When James H. Garland was about 7 years old Quantrill’s rebels came through about 1863 scavenging for themselves, they were a band of rebel soldier deserters or that was what everyone thought. The rebels would take all they food they could find and herd the cattle up to be killed and eaten. They would catch all of the chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys and take the corn and meat from the smokehouse. They even took the dried beans, apples and peaches out of the loft where they were stored in sheets, sun drying was the only way they knew how to





Keep food then and pickling in salt brine, kraut, beans and roasting ear corn was picked in 20 and 40 gallon barrels for large families. The rebels just took everything in sight. The Irish potatoes were in a hole under the floor and they didn’t get them but the family was left without anything to eat and this was in the winter months. So papa Solomon and the older boys armed themselves with axes and went to the woods and hunted a hibernating bear and killed it to have meat. Their dogs were starving too, so they ran a deer on the ice below the house and the men killed it for the dogs. This saved the family over. At this same time the Rebels raided Suzy Bowling Garland’s family and took what they had too. Starving families had to rely on game for survival. Rabbits were plentiful as were opossum, squirrels deer and partridges. They had this without bread or salt, children had a bad time with it but the Garland families didn’t lose any children. The men had no guns to hunt with, only axes, rocks, and poles.











James H. Garland began to preach on Sat. Aug. 3, 1885 and was ordained to preach Mar. 16, 1887 by the church at New Salem. The Elders were Joel Philpot, Mr. Cheek, W.H. Bruner and Alex Proffitt Presbatery. The church was located in Pistol Creek in Clay Co., Ky. James H. lived at Goose Creek in Clay Co. at the same time but later moved to Long Branch and with the help of the Lord and the good neighbors on Long Branch at Congo established the New Bethel United Baptist Church. The church was a big white weatherboard building with a pot bellied heating stove in the middle and kerosene wall lights all around the wall and a big hanging kerosene lamp over the pulpit. The church had wooden shutters over the windows these were kept closed and locked between services. Church services were held on the 4th. Sat. and Sunday only. Church on Sat. was at 10:30 A.M. and 6:30 P.M. on Sunday the hours were at 6:30 A.M. and 10:30 P.M. Revivals were held once a year usually in the winter months of Dec. or Jan. and would last up to three weeks. Everyone would go each day of the Revival at 10:30 A.M. for about 3 hours then would return that evening at 6:30 P.M. for another 3 hours or longer. When the Revivals would end there would usually be 15 or 20 people to be baptized. All of them would be taken down to Long Brance and the ice had to be broken before the baptism. They sure did know they had joined the church. This was one of the most active churches in the Laurel River Association at that time. People drove mules and wagons, or rode horseback. There was a hitching rail to tie the horses to and a square planked platform called a style block for the women to walk up to get on their horse or mule. Women rode side saddle mostly at that time. The women would bring their babies and children wrapped in wool blankets. The boys wore hand knit socks and the girls wore wool knight stockings. Everyone wore hand knit mittens and toboggans and long handled underwear. There was a lot of sickness in cold un-insulated houses. Children would take croup and smother to death. Uncle William Garland had a medicine he called Golden Oil it would bring children through this if they could get it. It was made from 9 different ingredients he wouldn’t tell his formula. He would sell this and make a little money. It was a wonderful medicine and it really worked. Oh my!! How bad it tasted. Uncle William married 5 times. When teased about it he would say “There never was a jack so scrubby but what there was a bush just as scrubby to hitch it to.” He got thrown out of the church because all but his first and last wives were divorced. His first wife Sally Proffitt had all his children and died and his last wife Nancy Moore Hicks Garland died still married to him. After James H. died Howard Sherman was the pastor for several years till his health began to fail. Then there were several different pastors. Johnnie Q’s son, Fred Garland was ordained to preach and was pastor for several years.





James H. (Preacher Jack) Garland by his daughter Zura Evelyn Garland Hibbitts in 1989.



James H. Garland married his first wife, Matilda Jane Proffitt in Clay Co., Ky. They raised their children near Lebanon in Clay Co. Feuding began to get so bad as did “Bushwhacking” that he sold his farm and home there and bought the Nailer Young Farm on Long Branch in the Congo section of Laurel Co., Ky. James and Matilda’s children were at that time Cyrus, Charlie, Alander, and his foster son, Andrew who was given to them to raise by the judge of Clay Co. Also at this time they had Sherman Garland, orphan son of Henry Garland.



Nailer Young had died and the heirs sold James H. this hillside Farm it contained about 700 acres. James H. sold several small farms off of it. He gave his son, Charlie, 100 acres and his daughter, Elizabeth Garland Jones, 100 acres and his son, Alander, about 75 acres. James H. kept about 100 acres for himself. James H. and the boys cut and hauled timber off this farm. They also sold the tan bark at a processing plant in Clay Co. located near what is now known as the Dripping Springs Community but at that time it was known as Tan Bark. They did this while the boys were young to make some money. James H. made iron horse shoes and put them on horses, mules, and oxen. The shoes looked like little half moons and it took two for each hoof. The oxen was used at that time to pull plows.



James H. would haul a big 500 gallon salt kettle on a cart from Clay Co. salt mines to use to scald hogs in cold weather at hog slaughtering time. This was a community activity. The men from several families would get together and plan the whole thing. Each family would bring their hogs already killed and bled on a horse drawn sled along with lots of split logs to heat the water. There would be maybe several days in Nov. and Dec. set aside for this event. Each family would have 2 to 5 hogs weighing from 300 to 500 pounds each. The men would take hold of a foot each and get on each side of the kettle and drop the hog into the hot water for about 3 to 5 minutes then pull it out onto a barn door and several people would take butcher knives and start scraping. While some scraped others would put a stick sharpened on each end, about two feet long, through cuts made under the tendons on the hind legs. This stick was called a gambling stick. A big log was then laid across a low hanging very stout limb. This log had a notch in one end for the gambling stick to rest in, the opposite end was pulled downward with a logchain this would raise the hog into the air by it’s hind legs until it’s nose was off the ground. After the chain was tied down the cleaning continued with the removal of the hog’s head and entrails. This was a yearly thing as long as James H. lived. Women in the house would fry the liver, tenderloins and ribs from the first hog cleaned. They also made cornbread, ginger bread, stewed Irish potatoes, baked sweet potatoes, hot biscuits and fixed pots of hot coffee. Some would eat while others went on with the slaughtering business until all had eaten. All hogs were cleaned in this manner it would be an all day thing. The children would even come along. Each child would get the hog bladder from their hog and wash it and take a quill made from fishing cane and blow the bladder up and put 4 or 5 beans in it. This made a nice big balloon and could be played with until hot weather or until the dogs or cats got it.





Children would hang them on a nail on the wall for safekeeping. These were the only balloons children had to play with at that time.



James H. was a fox hunter. He would take his dogs with him and go maybe 25 miles to hold a revival meeting and then afterwards take the dogs fox hunting at night. About 6 out of 10 men fox hunted at that time. James H. bred fox hounds, trained and sold them. Also he raised and sold three dogs. He had black and tans and blue ticks. He would take his saddle bags full of cornbread pones to feed his dogs, along with some corn for his horse when we went out at night fox hunting. His sons all fox hunted as did the neighbors. In fur season he used the three dogs and caught opossums for the fur. He sold the hides and hung salted opossum carcasses in the smoke house to dry along with a hundred or so rabbits. These were salted and feed to the dogs in the winter and spring. It was a big job to keep corn shelled to make bread for the dogs, they were always big and fat and had nice fat puppies. He loved his dogs needless to say. James H. had a horn he blew and they would come running from where ever they were barking and anxious to go hunting. He also had a conch shell he would blow and in the summer it was used to prop open the front door.



Matilda Jane died after all her children were grown and married. James H. married Porter Rumley McKnight, widow of James McKnight of Clay Co. She came into his home in 1918 at the age of 45, James H. was 62. They started a new family and had one daughter Zura Evelyn Garland born June 1, 1919. James H. Garland was a very proud, loving, and indulgent father. He died June 16, 1922.





When Preacher Jack Garland began preaching he was 19 years old and was a servant of God until his death.

In his life’s work he was a magistrate of Lebanon District for several terms until he moved to Laurel Co., Ky. He moved into the Long Branch District where Squire Vaughn was Magistrate. Preacher Jack liked the Squire and they were very close friends so Jack never ran for office against Squire Vaughn.

Preacher Jack was the neighborhood Veterinarian. He castrated cattle, sheep, horses, and hogs. If anyone had a sick animal they came after him to doctor it. Along with his dogs, earlier mentioned, he also raised and sold sheep, cattle, and horses and kept a jack and a stud horse to breed mares, the horse was a percheron type. Once the stud horse broke out of it’s stall and bred a medium size pony mare. When her time was due to foal she died but Jack cut her open and saved the baby. He raised it on a bottle nipple made of a hollow elder stuck down in a bottle neck. He kept this colt for a work horse and it was like a member of the family. It died at the age of 14 with colic after a long life of faithful service in the plow, wagon, and saddle.

James H. was also a black smith. He put shoes on the horses and mules of the community. The shoes were made from long strips of iron. He also had two pairs of tooth pullers, he pulled the neighbors teeth for miles around with his homemade pullers. There was one big pair for back teeth and a little pair for front teeth.

He always kept a herd of 10 to 15 cattle and about 100 chickens that were sold for frying in the summer. He always had a bunch of hogs, geese, turkeys and ducks. He raised his own wheat and corn to feed his family and animals.

People visited quite often because you could always get a good meal and welcome at Uncle Jack’s house. His sister, Rachel, came to live with him and his second wife, Elizabeth Porter Rumley McKnight Garland. When they married he was 60 years old. When the new baby, Zura Garland Hibbitts, was born on June 1, 1919 Elizabeth Porter was 46 years of age. Preacher Jack died three years later of liver cancer. On his tombstone is this epitaph “A SINNER SAVED BY GRACE.” He is in heaven waiting. I hope to see him and mama and to get acquainted with him and enjoy their company through eternity some day.

This portion of the Preacher Jack Garland family written by Zura Evelyn Garland Hibbits on Jan. 28, 1989 she presently resides at 1701 Pine Top Rd., London, Ky. 40741. I would be glad to hear from anyone that might have any further information on the Garland Family, especially the James H. Garland Family.