Hezekiah McLemore

Bef 1783 - Abt 1818  (~ 35 years)

• Name	Hezekiah McLemore
  Birth	Bef 1783	Virginia
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1818	Richland County, South Carolina
  Notes	1801 Sampson County NC Court Order Public work 10 Aug 1801 Little Coharie Ezekiah McLEMORE and Archibald McLEMORE plus others work on river (Courtesy of Robert McLemore Butler) Sampson County Deed Book Book 13, page 64 Abstract of Deed " ... I Archibald Maclemore of the county of Sampson and state of North Carolina for the love and affection I bear to my son Hezekiah Maclemore of the aforementioned county and state....do give unto the said Hezekiah part of the tract of land where I now live which I purchased of Lewis HOLMES and part of another tract I purchased from the same person. The said land I now give is on the east side of Little Cohara above where I now live including the plantation where he now lives beginning at an agreed corner from between the said HOLMES and me and betwixt the said Hezekiah Maclemore on the bank of the Little Cohara creek and running out through...an agreed line of marked trees to my back line and corner at a pine and...said line to the...branch now called Hudson Branch and down said Branch...to the run of said Cohara and Corners at a Birch Willis Mayes (?) corner and down the creek as it meanders to the beginning for one hundred acres of land...more or less...to have and to hold unto him the said Hezekiah Maclemore on the said land...I the said Archibald Maclemore as bind myself my heirs Ex. and assign firmly by these presents...unto him the said Hezekiah Maclemore his heirs Ex. and or assignees forever...In witness whereof I have set my hand and seal this 9th of June in the year 1804. Archibald (his mark) Maclemore Sampson County Witnesses Thomas FISHER and Elizabeth FISHER Registered December 11, 1804, Owen HOLMES Reg. (Abstracted from the original by Melinda McLemore Strong 26 May 2005) 1805 Sampson County NC Court order Child bond 12 Aug 1805 Evan BROOKS, age 7, to Ezekiah McLEMORE until age 21 (Courtesy of Robert McLemore Butler) 1805 Sampson County NC Court Order Deed 13 Nov 1805 Alice ROBINSON to Hezekiah McLEMORE, 200 acres, proved by Archibald McLEMORE (Courtesy of Robert McLemore Butler) 1806 Sampson County NC Court Order Public work 11 Aug 1806 River work on Little Coharie Ezekiah McLEMORE Henry McLEMORE plus others (Courtesy of Robert McLemore Butler) Sampson County Deed Book Book 16, page 114 Abstract of Deed State of North Carolina, Sampson County Be it known that Hezekiah McLEMORE of the State and County aforesaid for and in consideration of the sum of three Hundred and twenty five Dollars...paid by Jno. HANEY....do hereby...sell...two parcels of Land lying and being as follows...on the East Side of the Little Cohary above where Archibald MACLEMORE now lives and Running out through a Marsh on an agreed line of Mark'd trees to Archibald MACLEMORE's back line and corner at a pine and with the said line to the Ba? Branch...known by the name of Hudson's Branch, and down said Branch as it Meanders to the run of said Cohary and corners at a Birch formerly Willis MAGU's corner but now Tobias MACLEMORE's and down the Creek as it Meanders to the Beginning for one hundred acres of land...Second tract begins...at McLEMORE's Corner at the head of Hudson's Branch and turn thence along a line of mark'd trees nearly a west corner to the Hollow Branch...down the Branch to a stake formerly Willis MAGU's line but now Tobias and Henry MCLEMORE's line, thence along said line to Hudson'g Branch to a bay tree, thence up the said Branch to the Beginning for two hundred acres of land more of less... In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the fourteenth day of March One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eleven Hezekiah (his mark) MACLEMORE Signed, sealed and delivered In presence of us Dickson TATOM and J.G. MORRIS Sampson County May Term 1813...Deed proved in Court for Registration H. HOLMES Registered June the 23rd 1813 Owen HOLMES Reg. (Abstracted from the original by Melinda McLemore Strong 18 July 2005) Not found in the North Carolina census index from 1810-1850. Could he have died before 1820? James L. McLemore, III noted, that while browsing through Leverett's book, "Ole Rosinheels", he ran across the following entry in the Appendix, page 172: "1818, May 22 - Hezekiah McLemore's will was administered in Richland County, South Carolina. No list of heirs is given." James L. McLemore, III intially showed Hezekiah as the father of only Hezekiah McLemore, Jr. with no other known descendants of either man. Jim later believed that there was no namesake son, and Hezekiah probably never had a family or children. However, on October, 15, 2007, Jim proposed the following theory to the Sampson County, NC research group, that Hezekiah had a family later in life, and was the father of Raiford McLemore born ca 1815, who resided in Sampson County, NC in the 1840's through 1880's. Hezekiah may also have had one of more other children, yet unidentified. Jim noted that it significant that Hezekiah's death in 1818 occurred IN RICHLAND COUNTY, SC. Richland County was the home of a major branch of his line, the line descending from the immigrant James' second son John and his wife Faith. They had three sons (and two daughters), the youngest being son Joel who was in the same generation as Wright McLemore, but was over twenty-five years younger than Wright, who was five or six years older than Joel's older brother John Jr. Joel was born in January 1739/40, and moved to South Carolina sometime in the mid 1760's dying there in 1795, and leaving behind a family consisting of several children who were only slightly older than was their cousin (third cousin once removed), Hezekiah. Could it have been possible that Hezekiah went there to visit , liked what he saw and stayed. Could he have even gotten his wife there, from amongst those cousins or more likely from among their neighbors, and when he died there in 1818, his wife stayed there in SC and raised his minor children there, accounting for the fact that Raiford (b. 1815) appears in NO census in the southeast NC area that we have found until he is an adult, age 35, with a wife and growing family of his own? This hypothesis is consistent with the information discussed above and elsewhere, but it is not conclusive by any means. To it Jim added two or three more specific pieces of data that also does not prove it conclusively, but strengthens it considerably. Look at the family, the children, of Raiford (b. 1815); like the elder one, he had a son named Hezekiah of his own, which to me would indicate that he was the son of either the elder Raiford or the latter's brother Hezekiah (d. 1818); there are no other Hezekiahs among the descendants of Archibald except among the children of the two Raifords (b. 1790 and B. 1815) and their issue. That' s one piece of data. Second, and what Jim thought was even more telling: Only among the descendants of the immigrant James' second son John McLemore and his wife Faith do you find the given name "Joel" before the Civil War, that name being an almost sure give-away that its holder was a member of that family. ... Until now, when we find this one exception: right after Hezekiah (b. ca. 1844) in Raiford's (b. 1815) family is his son Joel (b. 1845), the only Joel of whom I am aware who can definitely be associated with another McLemore family besides that descending from John and Faith McLemore back in Sussex County, Virginia. It is a name that is most likely explained by this contact by Hezekiah with his cousins in Richland County, South Carolina, the Family of Joel McLemore, b. 1739/40 to John and Faith back in VA, d. 1795 in Richland County, SC, where Hezekiah himself died in 1818. And the third piece of evidence is that Raiford's next son is John McLemore, a name we do not find often in Southeast North Carolina until this time, yet every one of Joel's (died 1795, SC) children who had children, every single one, had a son named Joel AND a son named John! Is this where those two names come from? So there you have it...Raiford (b. 1815) was the son of Hezekiah (b. 1780-83, d. 1818), and by process of elimination that leaves Tobias to be daddy of Amos (b. 1813). If you don't like this theory, fine; you are left with the alternative of accepting that Raiford had two-sons-named-Raiford theory, and that the older one does not show up on early census records, or of coming up with an hypothesis of your own that is more plausible than either. That is also possible. But this as a potenial working theory as it does explain a lot and gets us that much further down that road of identifying the links between Wright McLemore (b. 1813) and his children with so many of the McLemores who can be traced to the Southeast portion of North Carolina, around Duplin/Sampson/Bladen Counties a generation or two later, but who have posed such problems to all of us and others in trying to make the connections in the past. All we have to do at this point, I suspect, is find just a bit of data of some sort that will help us tie down Melinda's ancestor John McLemore (b. 1822) as the son of Tobias of that same approximate age, and we will have about filled out Archibald's descendants. Then we can try to deal with the stubborn problems of the descendants of the other descendants of Wright (besides Archibald and his prodigy) who lived in that same area. On October 21, 2007, Jim emailed the Sampson Research Group and addendum and correction to his theory above: I have recently run across one other exception to the "Joel" Christian name rule being an indication of a connection to the family of the Immigrant James' second son John of Sussex County, VA, "Without Exception" (as a Lawyer, I should know better than to make "absolute" statements, instead of leaving myself an out with "Weasel Words"!). Apparently there seems to have been a Joel in the family of Sterling McLemore (son of Ephraim Jr.) who was probably born sometime in the mid 1780's, and was a contemporary of the only Joel (in John's family) whose later life I have not discovered elsewhere, Joel the son of James (B. ca. 1762 VA, D. 1796 SC), oldest son of Joel (B. 1739/40 VA, D. 1795 SC), and who I had hoped I had found married to a Rhoda in Yalobusha Co., MS, but that Joel now seems to be Sterling's, not James', according to Melinda' posting to the herein referred to Rootsweb site. However, after making that correction to "almost without exception" instead of "without exception", I still think the "Joel" rule is a good indicator of descent from John and his wife Faith, as stated below, so I'm not coming back in too far from the end of that limb quite yet.
  Person ID	I21776	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2021

  
  

  Father	Archibald McLemore,   b. Between 1759 and 1762, Southampton County, Virginia d. Between 1820 and 1830, Sampson County, North Carolina (Age ~ 61 years)
  Mother	??? ???,   b. Aft 1754   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Abt 1783
  	Archibald McLemore of Duplin/Sampson County, NC was NOT married to Sarah PLUMLEY/PLUMEE as is sometimes shown. It was actually a younger Archibald (a son of John McLemore, the Revolutionary Soldier), born 1787 in North Carolina and later moved to Knox County, Tennessee, who married Sarah Plumlee sometime before 1807, when their children were born. This was well after the birth of the four sons currently attributable to the elder Archibald McLemore of Duplin/Sampson County, NC. In addition to at least four sons born to Archibald and his unknown wife, Robert McLemore Butler also shows they had a daughter Susan, born ca 1770, and James McLemore, III shows a daughter, Lavinia (or Susannah), born ca 1790.
  Family ID	F5322	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	1. Raiford McLemore,   b. Abt 1815, North Carolina d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F9620	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Nov 2007

  
  

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  Birth - Bef 1783 - Virginia Death - Abt 1818 - Richland County, South Carolina  = Link to Google Earth