Jesse Marshall CHITWOOD

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The following letter is from Jesse Marshall Chitwood to his wife, Rosaline Stroud Chitwood, date 2-6-1863, written just 12 days before his death in Wilson Hospital, NC
My Dear Rossaline
I write you a few lines this morning since I wrote to you last which was last Saturday, I have had a spell with that old pain in my side you remember about it I was bad off with it all night the Doctor said it was cramp Colic but I am doing as well as ever but I tell you I am very weak yet. I can not walk more than a hundred yards without resting it will be a good while before I go back to the Regiment I have not heard from the boys since I left them I think I am doing well but I have took so much medicine I am very weak and will take time to get (begins second page) I did think I would try to get to come home while I was sick but the Doctor wont let no body have a furlough I wrote to you about sending for Cooper. I hope you send without delay and have him at work no difference about the old Niger not liking to stay don't listen at that, send for him as soon as you can. I think I will be home to stay before long this war will stop before long I think so let Coop start me a crop. Rossa I feel like I will see you and my little children and live with you again tell mother I have often thought of her since I have been sick I must close, direct to Wilson Hospital NC I remain your devoted Marshall (footnote: there is a postscript written in the the top margin of the second page of the letter which says :"Tell Sarah Bob Havrick is here not much the matter and Jim Pitts Depriest they are most alike I can hardly tell them apart Bob says he has Chills.")

I have not proved these out, the information should be checked again by you. Most of the Chitwood's came from Melissa Bank genealogy list.

Betty

Jesse married on 8 Feb 1854. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth: Oct. 30, 1793

Rutherford County

North Carolina, USA

Death: Jan. 20, 1856

Rutherford County

North Carolina, USA



Jesse Chitwood is the son of James Chitwood and Elizabeth Whiteside. He married Sarah Horton on October 7, 1817 in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and they had at least eight children. He was drafted into the military during the War of 1812 in March 1814 in Rutherford County, NC for six months. He served as a private in the 7th Regiment (Pearson's) NC Militia. He received two land grants in Rutherford County, one on Hinton's Creek and one on Sandy Run Creek. He has eight siblings.



Son of James Chitwood, Jr. &

Elizabeth [Whiteside] Chitwood





Married Sarah Horton

October 7, 1817

Rutherford Co., North Carolina



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Spouse:

Sarah Horton Chitwood (1798 - 1882)



Children:

Margaret Chitwood Bird (1818 - 1853)*

William Chitwood (1822 - 1901)*

Elizabeth Chitwood Gettys (1825 - 1900)*

John Chitwood (1827 - 1903)*

Nancy V. Chitwood Jenkins (1835 - 1886)*

Sarah (Chitwood) Blanton (1839 - 1890)*



*Calculated relationship

Jesse married Sarah HORTON on 7 Oct 1817 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. Sarah was born on 7 Apr 1798; died on 3 Jul 1882. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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I have not proved these out, the information should be checked again by you. Most of the Chitwood's came from Melissa Bank genealogy list.

Betty

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I have not proved these out, the information should be checked again by you. Most of the Chitwood's came from Melissa Bank genealogy list.

Betty

James married Elisabeth "Elisa" WHITESIDE on 23 Dec 1794 in St. Clair, Illinois. Elisabeth (daughter of Thomas S. WHITESIDE and Isabella Elizabeth "Betsy" CHITWOOD) was born on 24 Nov 1779 in Cumberland, Virginia; died on 14 Oct 1827 in Whiteside Station, Monroe, Ilinois; was buried in Oct 1827 in Big Spring Cemetery, Monroe, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Elizabeth Betsy WHITESIDE
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I have not proved these out, the information should be checked again by you. Most of the Chitwood's came from Melissa Bank genealogy list.

Betty

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• Alt. Spelling of Last Name: ; Cheatwood
• FamilySearch ID: LZ46-6BZ
• MilitaryService: ; Officer In British Army
• MilitaryService: North Carolina; Tory in Revolutionary War
• Title: ; Captain
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Capt. James Chitwood, son of Matthias and Mary (Key) Chitwood and brother to Richard Chitwood, was a Tory during the Revolutionary War and was captured and hung after the battle of King's Mountain NC. "The names of the condemned Tories were --- Colonel Ambrose Mills, Capt. James Chitwood, Capt. Wilson, Capt. Walter Gilkey, Capt. Grimes, Lieutenant Lafferty, John McFall, John Bibby, and Augustine Hobbs.

They were swung off the Gallows Oak, three at a time, and left suspended at the place of execution. According to Lieutenant Allaire's acocunt, they died like soldiers --- like martyrs, in their own and friends' estimation. "These brave but unfortunate Loyalists', says Allaire, 'with their latest breath expressed their unutterable detestation of the Rebels, and of their base and infamous proceedings; and, as they were being turned off, extolled thier King and the British Government, Mills, Wilson, and Chitwood died like Romans.....The poor Loyalist leaders had been left swinging from the sturdy oak upon which they had been executed. No sooner had the Whigs moved off, than Mrs. Martha Bickerstaff, the wife of Capt. Aaron Bickerstaff who had served under Ferguson, and been mortally wounded at King's Mountain, with the assistance of an old man who worked on the farm, cut down the nine dead bodies. Eight of them were buried in a shallow trench, some two feet deep; while the remains of Capt. Chitwood were conveyed by some of his friends, on a plank, half a mile away to Benjamin Bickerstaff's, where they were interred on a hill still used as a grave-yard." Taken from the book "Kings Mountain and it's Heroes", by Lyman C. Draper
As depicted in the book Descendants of Matthias Chitwood compiled by I.O. Chitwood;

James Chitwood is the son of Matthias Chitwood and Mary Key.

James married Alice and they had 7 sons all born in VA;
1) James born 1752 who married Elizabeth Whiteside died in GA
2) Moses born 1754 and died in AL
3) Shadrack born 1756 who married Margaret and died in AL
4) Joshua born 1758 who married Jane Robinson in VA 1786
5) Joseph born in 1760
6) Pleasant born in 1765 and married Barbara Barnes in NC 1792 and died 1848 in TN
7) Amos born 1768 married Prudence Lattimore 1793 and died in 1843 in IN

James Chitwood was a Loyalist and Officer (Captain) during the Revolutionary War living in South Carolina.

As depicted in the book King's Mountain and its Heroes by Lyman C Draper;

The Battle of Kings Mountain (SC) was a decisive battle and turning point in the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution. British Officer Colonel Ferguson had taken up position on the top of the mountain with Loyalist militia from South Carolina but were overwhelmed in the battle on October 7, 1780 by Patriot militia "Over Mountain Men". Over 400 Loyalist were killed or wounded in the surprise attack by the Patriots. Ferguson was the only British soldier and he died in the battle that lasted about an hour. Over 600 were captured including 9 officers. One of those officers was Captain James Chitwood.

The Patriots retreated quickly with the prisoners north into NC. The set up camp and tried and sentenced 39 men to be executed in an infamous proceeding. Three at a time they were hung from a large oak tree known after as the Gallows Oak. Captain James Chitwood was in the first group of three to be hung. With nine hanging from the tree, and three more ready to go a disturbance occurred that caused the hanging to be discontinued and the remaining to be pardoned.

The men had been left swinging from the sturdy oak but as soon as the Patriot force moved off, the wife of Captain Biggerstaff (or Bickerstaff) who served under Ferguson and been mortality wounded at the battle, cut them down with the help of a farm hand. Eight were buried in a shallow trench and the remains of Captain Chitwood were taken to the Biggerstaff farm and interred on a hill there.

Find a Grave
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183144161

James married Alice ZIMMERMAN, Carpenter about 1748 in Rutherford, North Carolina. Alice (daughter of Hans Christian ZIMMERMAN, Translate Carpenter and Salome "Sarah" RUFFNER) was born on 30 Apr 1724 in Cumberland, Virginia; died in 1780 in Rutherford, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Alice CARPENTER
• Name: Alice ZIMMERMAN
• Name: Alice ZIMMERMAN
• Name: Anna or Alice CARPENTER
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Thomas married Isabella Elizabeth "Betsy" CHITWOOD in 1771 in Tyson County, NC. Isabella (daughter of Capt James C. CHITWOOD, Sr. and Alice ZIMMERMAN, Carpenter) was born about 1748 in Augusta, Virginia, British Colonial America; died on 28 Jan 1828 in St. Louis, Louisiana Territory. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AKA: ; Betsy
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• Name: Betsy
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Children: Catherine F Whiteside b: 1772 in NC Adam Jordon Whiteside b: 1775 in NC Rosanna Whiteside b: 1777 Davis Whiteside b: 1782 in NC James Hiram Whiteside b: 30 SEP 1782 in NC Sarah (Sally) Whiteside b: 1785 in NC Thomas S Whiteside , Jr b: 1792 in NC

Elizabeth (Isabella, Betsy) Chitwood, m(1) Thomas S. Whiteside, b 1749 Albemarle Co, VA, d Oct 1795 Cahokia, St. Clair Co, IL (across river from St. Louis). She m(2) 25 Dec 1795 St. Clair Co, IL, John Bond, who died before 1797, when she applied for concession for land grant in St. Louis District from Spanish gov't, using her maiden name Chitwood. She m(3) 11 Nov 1811 St. Louis Co, MO, Eusebius Hubbard, b 1743 Amelia Co, VA, d 7 Mar 1818 St. Louis Co, MO, who was first married in 1764 VA to Amy Durrett.

SOME CONFLICT in information follows to what I have proven... (from Carolyn Fairall)
Elizabeth Chitwood, was daughter of Capt. James Chitwood, d 1780 NC, as proved by letter dated 1806, from Thomas Thomson in St. Louis, to her brother James Chitwood in NC. [see: http://genforum.genealogy.com/chitwood/messages/316.html ]

Elizabeth's child from second marriage to John Bond, married Charles Laughlin (father of Henry).
http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/stlprobate/images.asp?id=323&party=HUBBERD,%20ELIZABETH&case=00776&date=1828&reel=C%2027469 (Collection 22, page 5)
A statement made 21 Jan 1828, by Thos. S. Whiteside, Administrator of Estate of Elizabeth Hubband, deceased: "to the best of his knowledge there are Six heirs of Elizabeth Hubberd now in being: James H. Whiteside; Sally Whiteside, married with J. Massey; Caty Whiteside; Adam J. Whiteside; Thomas S. Whiteside; and Rosannah Bond intermarried with Charles Laughlin."

To prove title to land already sold, a Deed of Partition for estate of Elizabeth Hubbard, dated 1853 in St. Louis Co, MO, (a quarter century after her death): "... that Rosanna Laughlin wife of Charles Laughlin, another of said heirs, had died leaving her husband Charles Laughlin and her children: John Laughlin, Elisabeth Laughlin and who reported to have married one Alfred Wilson...., HENRY LAUGHLIN, America Laughlin and Rosanna Laughlin, as her heirs at law, infants, who are minors under the age of 21 years, as they believed and who were incapable of perfecting the title to the said several tracts and pieces of lands...[Henry and siblings were minors in 1827 when Elizabeth died].

Americas Jane R. Chitwood, was named after her grandmother, Jane Robinson--------------------
Henry Laughlin's wife, Americas Jane R. Chitwood was his second cousin. She was a granddaughter of Joshua Chitwood, of Gallia Co, OH in 1800, and his wife Jane Robinson. Joshua Chitwood and Elizabeth Chitwood Whiteside Bond Hubbard, were siblings..
Americas Jane R. was living with parents in 1830 Ralls Co, MO - in family of James Chitwood, the younger (or Jr.), but not with parents in 1840. Assumption made that she was married to Henry Laughlin before 1840.
---1840 Census Pulaski Co, MO, p. 232: Henry Laughlin 00002-00001 Total 3, 2 Agri.
[1 M 20-30 b 1810/20, 1 F 20-30 b 1810/20, 1 M 20-30 b 1810/20.]
---1850 Census Camden Co, MO, Dist 13, p. 335 (785-785)
Henry Laughlin 33 M Farming 300 b 1817 MO, Jane 30 F b 1820 MO, Elizabeth 10 F b 1840 MO, James 8 M b 1842 MO, Rebeca 6 F b 1844 MO, William 4 M b 1846 MO, Joshua 2 M b 1848 MO, George 3/12 M b 1850 MO.
---1860 Census Camden Co, MO, AuGlaze Twp, Wet Glaze PO, p. 102 line 22 (218-227):
Henry Laughlin 45 M Farmer 0-894 b 1815 MO, AMERICUS J. R. 42 F b 1818 MO, James W. 17 M b 1843 MO, Rebecca C. 15 F b 1845 MO, William 12 M b 1848 MO, Joshua 11 M b 1849 MO, George 10 M b 1850 MO, Richard 8 M b 1852 MO, Michael 6 M b 1854 MO, Narcissus 4 F b 1856 MO, Henry 1 M b 1859 MO.