Faded into the Mist of Time
Mariann Musgrave Brownson
Rawls Family page 7
James Rawls (1822 - 1887), on Oct. 16,1845
married Linnie Pernecie Shelton, (1827 - 1909).
They farmed all their lives in Hamilton County and raised 8
children. They are buried in
the Rawls Cemetery.
William Rawls (1824 - ), married Rebecca: (1825 - ). At least 3
children.
Louisa Jane Rawls (1829 -), married (1) Elias Munday (1829 - after 1860).
7 children. Married
(2) James Manchester (1808 - before 1880).
1 child.
Nancy Rawls (1831 -1917),
on Jan. 16, 1848 married (1) Henry C. Hall (1826 -
?). 3 children.
Lucinda Rawls (1833 - ) on Oct. 2,1853 married (1) Andrew Jackson Belt (1833 – before
1860). 1 child. She married
on Oct. 15,1860 (2) Joel L. Canady.
Elizabeth Rawls (1836 -
after 1910) on Nov. 6,1856
married Andrew Jackson Lowery (Mar. 6,1839 -
Dennis Rawls (Nov. 14,
1838 -Oct. 14,1921) married on Jul. 23, 1859 Martha Matilda Turner (Mar.
13,1841 -
“Little Mary” Rawls died
before Oct.,1849.
Reddick Rawls, Jr. was
born in 1846. In the 1850
census at age 4 (after the death of his father) he is listed as having
an estate valued at $100. He
died before 1860.
Canady Rawls
was born in 1821, Martin County, NC.
Of all the Rawls, he was the most difficult to trace because of
so many spelling variations of his name written by census takers and
nicknames given by his family members:
Canady, Canna, Carma, Cannon, Kennedy.
The name “Canady” is the spelling used the first time his first
name appears in the census in 1850.
This was probably a pronunciation of “Kennedy”. He was most
likely named after grandmother's maiden name, just as his father Reddick was named for his
grandmother's maiden name.
On Jun. 23, 1844 he married Sarah “Sally” Warfield, born in 1827,
daughter of John P. Warfield
and Nancy Rebecca Ward of Hamilton County, IL.
Canady bought land from
the U.S. Government: in
Jul., 1854 he patented 62 acres, and in Jun1859 another 31 acres.
Patenting the land meant that he had made the payments over many
years, and finally received the deeds in the
years the last payments were made.
His 93 acres cost $1.25 an acre, or $116.25, and cash money was
hard to come by. The
first US dollar bill was not printed until 1862 during the Civil War,
and before that people used Spanish dollars, gold, or paper dollars
printed by the individual states known as bills of credit.
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Canna Rawls Land Grant (click on image
to enlarge) Document Credit: ( Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, U.S. Government) |