They belonged to Lois Jasper Lloyd. Her nickname was Tiny Weenie Grandma.
The Storer Family Bell
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
#24-2020 Handed Down. Shoes!
They belonged to Lois Jasper Lloyd. Her nickname was Tiny Weenie Grandma.
Sunday, June 14, 2020
#23 Wedding. Mom & Dad's wedding
Saturday, June 13, 2020
#22-2020. Uncertain Thomas Lloyd & Revolutionary War
22-2020. Uncertain. Thomas Lloyd
Was he a Revolutionary War Soldier or Not?
Thomas Lloyd is my 4th great grandfather.
The extensive Lloyd files that I inherited contain information that he was a Revolutionary War solider.
In the 1840 Census of Grainger County, Thomas Loyd is not listed as a pensioner for Revolutionary war or military service.
I believe this note is from Angeline Lloyd Aldrich: Thomas Lloyd, Revolutionary soldier, was appointed Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War, April 9, 1781 and served to April 17, 1785 in the North Carolina Brigade.
Angeline was the great granddaughter of Thomas. Angeline was approved for admission to the Daughter of the American Revolution (DAR) in 1924.
Thomas Lloyd’s grave in Grainger County, Tennessee was photographed in the 1920’s by Angeline Lloyd when she made a genealogy trip to Tennessee. I would suspect she made the genealogy trip to research information for her application to DAR.
Angeline Lloyd Aldrich
Thomas’s grave in Grainger County, Tennessee was honored on 30 April 1954 as a Revolutionary War soldier. It is interesting that several of his descendants attended the ceremony. Since he had 12 children, I suspect some descendants were living in Tennessee at that time.
Thomas Lloyd's headstone
The newspaper article in The Knoxville Journal, Friday, April 30, 1954
Military information on Thomas Lloyd. Is it accurate? More research is needed. The children are correct but I need further confirmation on his military service. This record is the first time I ever saw a middle initial used. The family files of information do not have a middle name or initial.
Lloyd, Thomas S (b 12-26-1763 NC/d 4-15-1857 Grainger Co.) Bur in Lloyd Family Cem on farm of Henry Cabbage at Rutledge, TN, 4 mi S Rutledge on Hwy to Jefferson City, TN. Grave marked 1856. Rev. Sol. appointed Lt 4-9-1781 in NC Brigade. Served to 4-17-1785. m 1785 MARTHA JANE McCULLOUGH b 1-8-1768/d 4-28-1785 and bur near Rutledge, TN. Ch: George; James b 12-4-1787 m 1820 Elizabeth McNair; John b 8-22-1796 m Nancy Walker; Elizabeth b 1798 m Charles Cates; Robert b 10-17-1800 m Sarah Gibbs; Anna b 2-20-1803 m Benjamin Mitchell; Deborah m Pierce Cody; Joseph; Abner; Polly.
Ref: DAR #447538; Office of Sec. of State, NC TN DAR 41-41 Yearbook, p 102; SR 41-42, 42-43
Roster of Soldiers and Patriots of the American Revolution, Buried in Tennessee 1974, complied by Lucy Womack Bates, Chairman. revised 1979 by Helen Crawford Marsh. Published by Tennessee Society, NSDAR pages 106-107
Yet the DAR will not allow any other descendants to join under his name until further and accurate military service is documented.
I am uncertain if Thomas Lloyd actually served in the Revolutionary War. Genealogists have been looking for his parents, including Angeline. We are uncertain about so much of Thomas Lloyd’s history.
Saturday, May 23, 2020
#21-2020. Tombstone-Wimsett Tombstone
Saturday, May 16, 2020
#20-2020 Travel From France to Nova Scotia in 1752
Friday, May 8, 2020
#19 Service. Helen Lloyd Shaffner
And then her husband realized his dream of owning a ranch. Now Helen added the job of bookkeeper for the ranch and providing saddlebag lunches for riders, meals for branding crews and hauling lunches to the crew trailing cattle.
Monday, May 4, 2020
#18. Where there's a Will. John McHenry Jasper
John McHenry Jasper
John McHenry Jasper, my 3rd Great Grandfather, has been a mystery to me. Although the family kept scraps of paper on everything and everybody as well as numerous stories, John was not documented other than he died in 9 August 1845 in Whitesville, Missouri.
He was married to Mary "Polly" Heath in Kentucky and they had migrated to Missouri in 1841. When he died, he left a widow and eight children; the oldest was Elizabeth at age 16 and the youngest was Minerva at age 14 months.
There is no family information as to where he was buried. It was in 1854 that Polly's son, Andrew
came back from Oregon and took his mother, her spinster sister Lois and the remaining siblings (Gilla, Lois, William, Thomas & Minerva) west to Oregon.
So when one is interested, one has to research!
The first information discovered was the Letter of Administration given to Thomas P. Jasper to administrator the estate since John McHenry Jasper died intestate. His son, Thomas P. Jasper was 9 years old at the time so he couldn't be the administrator. Although some people have attributed the administration of the estate to the son, it was obvious he was too young. Further research led to a Thomas P. Jasper, living in the 1850 census at Platte, Andrew County, Missouri. He was 35 years old at that time. In the 1850 census, Mary Jasper and her 6 children were living in Tremont, Buchanan County, Missouri. All of this information was found at Ancestry.com.
Further research at Familysearch.org led to the probate records of Andrew County, Missouri. These records were not indexed, so I flipped through 43 images for the details of the probate.
Even though John Jasper died without a will, his estate was intestate, and probated. Thomas P. Jasper was appointed as the administrator of the estate and thus had to follow the laws of the Andrew County, Missouri.
One of the tasks of an administrator is to make an inventory of the estate. From this information there is a certificate of preemption for land. Which meant as settler he had the right to purchase public lands at a federally set price. The land description is provided: the Northwest quarter of Section 26 in township 6 of Range 34. There was also a day book of accounts for smithing from February 25th to August 9, 1845. The family story is that he died August 9, 1845; no further proof has been found.
Smithing...he was a blacksmith! That information was new to me. The inventory list includes blacksmith tools, guns, a shot pouch, a cary plow, drawing chains and hames, one red steer, one white cow, one red heifer, one brindle yearling heifer, one black cow and calf, one yoke of oxen, one lot of hemp. But there were also debts; one from William Heath given on 25 May 1842 for $15.50 at six percent (6%) interest. Who is he? There is also a promissory note due A. C. Jasper dated 5th October 1847 for A. C. Jasper. (I have yet to figure out who A. C. Jasper is).
The inventory also includes who he owed money to as well as who had not yet paid him for smithing.
The inventory tidbit was the sale of the land. There is receipt signed by Mary Jasper on the 21st of January 1848 which states that she received from Thomas P. Jasper thirty dollars ($30) in part of my dower of said estate. (Since women could not own property, the dower right was the right of a non-owner spouse in real property). There is also a paper selling the property to William Combest for $100.75 in March of 1847. (William Combest was married to John Jasper's sister, Gilla Ann Jasper)
Some of the money had to be used to pay off the debts. Mary did receive money after the sale of the cattle and guns.
I have transcribed most of it but follow the money does need to be finished! Besides figure out who is A. C. Jasper. The note from William Heath is also interesting since he died in 1829, is the note from her brother? She did have a brother by that name.
Needless to say, I need to do further research on John Jasper's estate.