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- *Rachel Waters
Dau of John Phillip Waters and Elizabeth Cullom
Born ca 1788.
Believed to be born in Ashe Cty/Wilkes Cty NC or Grayson Cty Va
Married Joel C Sturgill abt 1808
Moved to Va and Missouri
May 10, 1862 - wife Rachel Waters Sturgill died in Milan, Sullivan Co., Missouri.
Believed to be buried on her home property.
No marker.
Joel & Rachel had 14 children.
Lydia (1809),
Catherine Ann (1811),
William M. (1813),
Sarah Jane (1815),
Francis Harvey (1816),
Rebecca (1817),
Malinda (1820),
Esther/Easter (1821),
John Carter (1823),
Lewis James (1826),
James George (1828),
Jacob Peck (1830),
Solomon Waters (1831)
Joel (1835) Sturgill.
NOTES
Rachel may have been born on what is called Ready/Reddy's river, a branch of the Yadkin, in Wilkes county, North Carolina
Father, JOHN P. WATERS, was a French Huguenot, who emigrated to America in early life, about the beginning of the present century, and settled in South Carolina.
He was a man of some education and liberal acquirement, of strong prejudices and passions, restless, reckless and fond of adventure.
Being remarkably stout, fearless and passionate, he was considered dangerous when excited or laboring under a sense of injury, and was supposed by those with whom he communicated most freely, to have been a refugee from South Carolina, if not from France, from some cause he never revealed to others.
He settled down, without any apparent calling, among the simple and obscure people on Ready's river, where, after a time, he married one of several wives, the mother of WILBURN (Rachel's brother), who was part Catawba Indian. [1]
- The Sturgill Family in America: A preliminary history. David Andrew Sturgill, 1960.
page 20.
Descendants of Francis Sturgill Sr. and Rebecca Hash
All children of Francis and Rebecca except Nancy born in Grayson Co. Va.
5) Joel Sturgill, Born 3/20/1786. Died about 1878 in Scott Co. Va.
Married Rachel Waters about 1810 in Ashe Co. N.C. Born 1790. Died 1864 near Milan in Sullivan Co. Mo. Their first home was in Ashe Co. on Helton Creek where they lived from 1813 to 1838 when they moved to Scott Co. Va. In 1841 they left their son Lewis on the Scott Co. farm and migrated again to Sullivan co. Mo. After the death of their mother in 1854 all of Joel's children in Missouri migrated to Oregon in 1865 and he returned to Scott Co. to live with his son Lewis. Joel lived the remainder of his life in Scott Co. but after visited his relative in Ashe and Alleghany Co's. in N.C.
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