Slaves of the Cabell Family of Nelson County

Derek Nicholas has created a webside and CD documenting his research on the slave descendants of the CABELL family of Nelson County, Virginia. Slave Descendants of the CABELL Family is his website and it includes the NICHOLAS, VENABLE, ALLEN, WOODSON, and MAYO families of the Warminster, Lovingston, Midway Mills area of Nelson County, Virginia.

The early CABELL family of Virginia and its connections with the STINSON family of Buckingham County, Virginia is documented beginning on page 173 of "So Obscure A Person.”

Jesse and Eliza TONEY of Buckingham

I have received information from a reader who has found his grandmother on page 97 of "So Obscure A Person” as "Eliza TONEY," implied daughter of Cary and Martha STINSON of Buckingham County, Virginia. His Buckingham County, Virginia grandmother had told him that her grandmother was an Eliza Irvine STINSON who married Jesse F. TONEY. "Jesse F and Elisa TONEY" appear on the 1850 Census of Buckingham County, Virginia, with a family of children, ages 1 to 16 years. "Elisa TONEY" was born about 1820 and, if all of the children are hers, it implies that she and Jesse married about 1834, according to their births.

The children in their household of 1850, were descendants of the first Alexander STINSON of Buckingham County, Virginia. Their names were:

• Martha J Toney F 16y
• John O Toney M 14y
• Samuel E Toney M 12y
• William F Toney M 10y
• Penella Toney F 9y
• Stephen W Toney M 7y
• George M Toney M 6y
• James Toney M 5y
• Ann E Toney F 1y

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Robert STINSON, Abbeville, Alabama

Robert STINSON was born 12 May 1862, and died at the advanced age of 82, on 10 July 1944, at Abbeville, Henry County, Alabama, according to his death record. His parents and his ancestry back to Alexander STINSON of Buckingham, Virginia are documented on page 100 of "So Obscure A Person."

James STINSON of Alabama

I have received the following email, which I will answer below:

Edna, I found info about your book on the Buckingham Va Stinsons. I am looking for information about a James Stinson who was born in 1803 in Va. He may have lived in South Carolina for a while, but he settled in Pickens Co, Al where I have found him in 1840, 1850, and 1860. He married Nancy Cotton, daughter of Abner Cotton, in 1836 in Nohubee, Miss. He was a cotton broker, along with Drury Miller, my husband’s 2gtgrandfather’s brother, and a James Chalmers. He may have been related to Robert Stinson who lived in Lancaster/Kershaw SC ( married to Martha George). Any help with this man’s identity would be greatly appreciated. I am not finding much..
Carol

ANSWER: Carol - I do not know about this James STINSON (1803-p1860), nor the Robert STINSON of South Carolina. They may be descendants of the STINSONs from Buckingham County who went to Wilkes County, Georgia. "The Lincoln County, Georgia Land Lottery of 1805, listed Archibald STINSON, Joseph STINSON, Alexander TINSON and the orphans of Edmund ADCOCK." These people are cited beginning on page 79, through Generation 3, of my STINSON genealogy - "So Obscure A Person.”

Perhaps someone reading here may be able to give you some clues or information. For example, please see this previous comment about a STINSON family of North Alabama:  September 1, 2009 10:34 PM

Phoebe Barksdale

Phoebe (BARKSDALE) STINSON appears on pages 56 and 76 of "So Obscure A Person.” Her children were descendants of Alexander STINSON of Buckingham County. Her father Hickerson BARKSDALE (page 77) was a Revolutionary War soldier in the South Carolina militia under Captain John Cowan. He has been proved as a DAR Patriot Ancestor #A006165.

Her husband was George STINSON who appears on pages 43, 76-79. Although no one has yet proved him as a DAR Patriot, he signed a Virginia petition in 1780, that is now housed at the Library of Congress: Buckingham County Stinson Patriots.

Sarah Stinson & William Killgore

Sarah C. STINSON, born 23 December 1814, at Wilkes County, Georgia is a descendant of Alexander STINSON of Buckingham County, Virginia. She married William KILLGORE  on 7 January 1836, at Perry County, Alabama. Her KILLGORE descendants settled in Texas. Sarah died at Lisbon, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana on 26 October 1895.

The parents of Sarah STINSON, Dudley and Susannah STINSON, are featured on page 82 of "So Obscure A Person” where their ancestry is documented back to the STINSON family of Buckingham County.

Robert J. Stinson Family, 1870

The lineage of the Robert J. STINSON family is documented back to Alexander STINSON on pages 124, 125 of So Obscure A Person. His son Robert Lee STINSON, recorded on the census below, was the father of Admire "AD" Creed STINSON whose obituary appears below.

Robert J. Stinson family, 1870 Census of Buckingham County, Virginia (James River District)

Admire “Ad” Creed Stinson, 86, of 147 Second Street, Madison Heights, died Thursday, Oct. 1, 1998 at Camelot Hall Nursing Home. He was the husband of Lelia Morris Stinson. He was born in Buckingham County, June 4, 1912, the son of the late Robert Lee Stinson and Minnie Bryant Stinson. He retired from Glamorgan Foundry and was a member of Madison Heights Baptist Church. In addition to his wife, he is survived by two sons and their wives, Raymond and Joyce Stinson of Lynchburg, Steve and Cynthia Stinson of Madison Heights; one daughter, Eleanor Geraline Evans of Monroe; seven grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and a special friend, Donald Tyree of Madison Heights. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Monday in Whitten Monelison Chapel by Dr. Timothy Madison. Burial will follow in Briarwood Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends from 3-4:30 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home and other times at the residence. The family requests memorials be made to the Madison Heights Baptist Church Building Fund or the Monelison Rescue Squad. (Lynchburg City, Virginia Obituaries)