Lunsford Traywick

Notes:

Received land in the division of his father's estate, 1801, and also received land in the division of Abner's Traywick's estate, 1808. Lunsford and his family were living in Georgia as early as 10 March 1800, at which time Lunsford conveyed 220 acres of land (granted him Francis Traywick) in Wilkes County, to John McGinty (Wilkes County Deeds, Book Y, p 507)

Lunsford and his wife lived in Clarke County, Georgia where he died in 1809. Lunsford Traywick of Clarke Co, Mitchell's district, lottery #131, section 13, drew land in Baldwin County, Georgia 1806 Georgia Land Lotteries. Lunsford died in 1809 and among the buyers at the sale of his estate were: Martha Trawick, Robert Trawick, Allen Trawick, Spencer Trawick, Mrs. Trawick, Hugh Neister, John Ramey, Caleb Arthur, George Carter, and others. Robert Trawick was administrator of the estate. Returns for the estate include the following:

1810 Cash Paid

Uriah Humphrey for note $138.77 Burwell Trawick $6 Thomas Stephens, Esq. $29.85 Hugh Trawick $6 Allen Trawick $31.50 John Smith C O C $4.75 Doctor Neisler $42.43 and others

1815 Returns on Estate of Lunsford Traweek

Paid Spencer Trawick Paid Martha Trawick Paid Wm. B. Cole, Guardian

1817 Returns of Estate of Lunsford Traweek

Paid Wm. B. Cole guardian for Burwell and Hughes Trawick $72.16 Paid Martha Trawick, guardian for Elizabeth and Nancy Trawick $66.85 Paid Spencer Trawick $8.50...

Sworn to in open Court Nov. 2, 1818, by Robert Trawick, who make settlement of his administration and obtained dismission of the future administration of said estate. John H. Lowe, Clerk, Book H, p 213.

By 1830, Martha and her children, several of them married, moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

(Above courtesy of Lynell Cordell)


Sam Lenaeus, slenaeus@aol.com, supplied the following additional information about this family:

1820 Clarke County Census Trawick Martha 109 pg107.txt 10 | Martha Trawick | 0 1 0 0 0 0 | 0 1 0 0 1 | 0 | 2 0 0 | 0 0 0 0 | 0 1 (Martha Seger born 1760 Germany)

1821 Capitan Browns District Kinney, John 80 & 80 acres originally granted to Few joining Trawick, Clarke County, Oconee headwaters.

1823 Clarke County, GA Tax Digest Capt. Gahagan's Dist Athens Weir, Samuel 120 & 160 acres orig granted to Duke & Trawick joining Kinney, Clarke Co, Oconee headwaters. (Weir married a daughter of James Kenny & Sarah Alexander)

Lunsford Trawick is noted in the 1805 Sarepta minutes as a licensed preacher, the only Crooked Creek member named as a minister prior to 1837. It seems likely, given that the church had only 34 members at the time, that Trawick served as pastor in 1805, though this is unconfirmed. Trawick moved his membership to Mars Hill near Watkinsville in 1807 and died two years later. This seems to indicate that he may be buried in the Mars Hill cemetery, but if so his grave is unmarked. Trawick's daughter Esther married Johnson Freeman, and the couple are listed on the 1850 Crooked Creek church roll. Of note to local residents is the fact that longtime piano teacher Miss Montine Head of Jefferson was a direct descendant of Lunsford Trawick through Johnson and Esther Freeman.

Lunsford married Martha Segar on 3 Jan 1785 in Wake County, North Carolina. Martha (daughter of John Segar) was born after 1768 in Germany; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]