1 DAVID McCANTS born in Scotland, died in 1759 in Williamsburgh, South Carolina. His wife's given name was
Elizabeth. He may have had sons John and William in addition to son James whom we will follow here.
Children: 1. James McCants
11 JAMES McCANTS born before 1713 in Scotland, died March 1772, probably in Prince Frederick Parish, South Carolina.
Married 1st 1 July 1740 Prince Frederick Parish to Agnes McNealy. Married 2nd 1760-1761 to Mrs. Martha Jean
{Scott} Jackson, widow of William Jackson. Married 3rd 1770 in St. Charles Church, Charleston, to Mrs. Agnes
Donnelly.
Children: (1st marriage): 1. Thomas McCants; 2. Jean McCants; 3. Mary McCants; 4. Alexander McCants;
5. Nathaniel McCants;
Children (1st or 2nd marriage): 6. James McCants
111 THOMAS McCANTS born about 1741 Williamsburgh District, South Carolina, died shortly after 17 June 1791 when
his will was written. Married 1st to ___ Burgess and married 2nd 1778 to Ann Reid died 1823-24.
Children (1st marriage): 1. Agnes McCants; 2. Samuel McCants; 3. Mary McCants; 4. Thomas McCants; 5. John
McCants
Children (2nd marriage): 6. Robert McCants; 7. Jane McCants; 8. James McCants; 9. Jannet McCants; 10. Sarah
McCants
112 JEAN McCANTS-See McCants, Wall, and Related Families, p. 20.
113 MARY McCANTS-See McCants, Wall, and Related Families, pp. 20-24.
114 ALEXANDER McCANTS-See McCants, Wall, and Related Families, pp. 24-25.
115 NATHANIEL McCANTS born about 1745 died 1816. Married Elizabeth Gautier born about 1745 died 1824 daughter
of John James and Elizabeth {McConnell} Gautier. Mrs. Jones gives "gotea" as the pronunciation of Gautier.
However, this compiler has also heard it pronounced "go-shay" both by persons bearing the name and residents of the
town of Gautier, Mississippi.
Children: 1. James McCants; 2. John J. McCants; 3. Jean McCants; 4. David McCants; 5. Elizabeth McCants
116 JAMES McCANTS-See McCants, Wall, and Related Families, pp. 25-26. 111 1 AGNES McCANTS-See McCants, Wall, and Related Families, p. 28.
111 2 SAMUEL McCANTS-See McCants, Wall, and Related Families, pp. 28-31.
111 3 MARY McCANTS-See McCants, Wall, and Related Families, p. 31.
111 4 THOMAS McCANTS born 9 February 1775 in South Carolina died 9 September 1833 probably in Wilcox County,
Alabama, married 24 (or 26) July 1798 to Anne Thompson born 20 October 1774 in South Carolina died 9 April 1859
Wilcox County, Alabama. Anne is said to have been a sister to Mary Jane Thompson who married John McCants
(111 5). The first record found of Thomas McCants in Alabama was the 1820 Census for Wilcox County where he was
listed with 11 slaves. He apparently moved to Alabama about January 1819 when he brought 10 slaves from South
Carolina into Georgia.
Children: 1. Elizabeth McCants; 2. Thomas James McCants; 3. William Thompson McCants; 4. Sarah Ann
McCants; 5. Margaret Dunwoody McCants; 6. Robert McCants; 7. Mary Alexander McCants
111 5 JOHN McCANTS The date of his birth appears from census records to have been between 1770 and 1780. His will
was signed on 15 September 1846 and filed on 5 October 1846 in Wilcox Cointy, Alabama. Married about 1803 to
Mary Jane Thompson. Mary Jane is said to have been a sister to Anne Thompson who married Thomas McCants
(111 4). The first record of John McCants was his listing in the 1816 Census for Monroe County, Mississippe
Territory. The known birthplaces of his children indicate that he arrived beteen 1812 and 1816. Part of Monroe County
became part of Wilcox County when it was created in 1819.
Children: 1. David Thompson McCants; 2. Thomas McCants; 3 John "Jack" Dinwiddy McCants; 4. William
Robert McCants; 5. Watkins McCants; 6. Jane Elizabeth "Betty" McCants; 7. Mary A. "Polly" McCants;
8. Sarah Ann "Sallie" McCants
111 6 ROBERT McCANTS-See McCants, Wall, and Related Families, pp. 41-42.
111 7 JANE McCANTS-See McCants, Wall, and Related Families, p. 42.
111 8 JAMES McCANTS born about 1779 drowned in the Santee Canal in February 1816, married 21 February 1805 to
Jean McCants (115 3).
Children: 1. Nathaniel McCants; 2. Mary Louisa McCants; 3. Robert James Pembroke McCants
111 9 JANNET McCANTS-See McCants, Wall, and Related Families, p. 42.
111 0 SARAH McCANTS-See McCants, Wall, and Related Families, p. 42.
115 1 JAMES McCANTS-See McCants, Wall, and Related Families, p. 47.
115 2 JOHN J. McCANTS-See McCants, Wall, and Related Families, pp. 47-49.
115 3 JEAN McCANTS born 2 September 1779 died 1863 near Cokesbury, /South Carolina. She was 1st married
21 February 1805 to James McCants (111 8). Children of this marriage are shown under him. She was married 2nd
27 November 1818 to Nathaniel Marion, a nephew of Gen. Francis Marion of Revolutionary fame. There is a part of
an undated settlement of a marriage agreement between Jean and Nathaniel Marion in the estate papers of Nathaniel
Marion. Names of some children and grandchildren are included. The married names of some of her granddaughters
show that the settlement was made no earlier than 1860.
115 4 DAVID McCANTS-See McCants, Wall, and Related Families, p. 52 et seq.
115 5 ELIZABETH McCANTS-See McCants, Wall, and Related Families, p. 50. 111 41 ELIZABETH McCANTS born 1 March 1800 died 1806.
111 42 THOMAS JAMES McCANTS born 10 July 1802 died 1811.
111 43 WILLIAM THOMPSON McCANTS born 16 February 1806 South Carolina died 9 January 1882, married
10 October 1826 Wilcox County, Alabama, by E. Morgan to Rachel L. Muldrow born 8 March 1804 South Carolina,
daughter of James Muldrow. Both were living in Monroe County, Alabama, in 1880.
Children: 1. Elizabeth J. McCants; 2. Salina Agnes McCants; 3. Thomas James McCants; 4. Caroline R.
McCants; 5. William Walter McCants; 6. Margaret S. McCants; 7. Joseph McCants; 8. Cora Jane McCants
111 44 SARAH ANN McCANTS born 23 October 1808 died 1811.
111 45 MARGARET DUNWOODY McCANTS born 22 July 1810 died 11 September 1835 married 6 January 1828 Wilcox
County, Alabama, by E. Morgan, J. P. to James H. Muldrow son of James Muldrow. He married 2nd 16 November
1839 Wilcox County to Margaret S. Nettles. His brother, William Muldrow, was appointed 22 March 1842 Wilcox
County as executor of his estate.
111 46 ROBERT McCANTS born 3 July 1812 died 22 September 1820.
111 47 MARY ALEXANDER McCANTS born 6 July 1816 died 28 February 1841 married 1st 16 September 1829 Wilcox
County, Alabama, by E. Morgan, J. P. to Washington Baldwin, married 2nd 17 May 1832 Wilcox County, Alabama,
by M. W. Parham, J. P. to Thomas Packer.
Children (2nd marriage): 1. Ann M. Packer; 2. Mary Jane "Jennie" Packer; 3. James T. M. Packer
111 51 DAVID THOMPSON McCANTS born about 1800 in South Carolina, died after 1880, probably in Monroe County,
Alabama. Married 1st 6 January 1825 Wilcox County, Alabama, by Samuel Black, J. P. to Mary Ann Henry born
about 1804 in Georgia. Married 2nd 3 September 1876 Monroe County, Alabama, by J. Talbert, J. P. at John
Thompson's home to Mrs. Nancy Thompson born about 1834 in Alabama.
Children (1st marriage): 1. Sarah Ann McCants; 2. John McCants; 3. David Thompson McCants, Jr.
4. F. Sophronia "Fronie" McCants; 5. Mary Jane "Jennie" McCants
111 52 THOMAS McCANTS born 12 April 1808 South Carolina, died 13 August 1875 probably in Monroe County,
Alabama, married 1st 17 December 1833 Monroe County by Thomas Wilson, J. P. to Margaret Jane Burgess born
24 March 1812 probably in South Carolina, died 29 May 1845 probably in Wilcox County, Alabama, daughter of
Joseph and Jane {Tharp} Burgess. Thomas was married 2nd 26 November 1845 Monroe County by W. C. Ross, J. P.
to Mary A. Burgess 28 March 1814 South Carolina, died 13 September 1891, Monroe County, sister of Margaret Jane.
All said to be buried in the McCants cemetery in southern Wilcox County.
Children (1st marriage): 1. Mellison Amarintha McCants; 2. William James McCants; 3. Mary Jane McCants;
4. Thomas McCants; 5. John Armstrong McCants
Children (2nd marriage): 6. Robert Watkins McCants; 7. Margaret Elizabeth McCants; 8. Sarah Ann McCants;
9. Laura Luerita McCants
111 53 JOHN "JACK" DINWIDDY McCANTS born 6 January 1810 South Carolina, died 6 January 1864 Monroe County,
Alabama, married 11 July 1830 Wilcox County, Alabama, by M. W. Parham, J. P. to Jane Elizabeth Murrary born
6 January 1815 South Carolina, died 6 June 1893. both buried McCants Cemetery, Wilcox County.
Children: 1. Margaret "Maggie" Dinwiddy McCants; 2. Elizabeth Watkins McCants; 3. John Robert McCants;
4. Rebecca J. McCants; 5. Sarah "Sallie" Ann McCants; 6. Caroline Augusta "Gussie" McCants;
7. Zachary "Jack" Taylor McCants; 8. James Murray McCants; 9. Charles Godbold McCants
111 54 WILLIAM ROBERT McCANTS married 16 March 1834 Monroe County, Alabama, by Thomas Wilson, J. G. to
Rebecca Murray. No children. After his death she was married on 26 September 1848 Monroe County to Jesse F.
"Berry" Odom.
111 55 WATKINS McCANTS died young.
111 56 JANE ELIZABETH "BETTY" McCANTS married Neil Morrison. They moved to Louisiana and she was apparently
no longer living in 1846 when her father mentioned in his will that her share of his estate was to go to her children.
111 57 MARY A. "POLLY" McCANTS born 7 August 1812 in South Carolina, died 5 June 1850 married 1st 19 October
1826 in Wilcox County, Alabama, to John Packer Davis born 6 July 1796 in South Carolina died 4 March 1865 in
Wilcox County, Alabama, son of Abel and Agnus {Packer} Davis. He married 2nd on 8 October 1857 to Mrs. Nancy
{Gerald} Tomlinson, born 27 August 1823, died 24 May 1878, widow of Jordan K. Tomlinson and daughter of Nathan
Gerald. Nancy later married James Madison Crosby. All buried McCants cemetery in southern Wilcox County. John
and Mary were staunch members of the Methodist Church at Tait's Chapel in Wilcox County.
Children: 1. Jane Elizabeth Davis; 2. Lucy Ann Davis; 3. Frances Abel Davis; 4. John Thompson Davis;
5. Eliza Spencer Davis; 6. Mary Agnus Davis
111 58 SARAH ANN "SALLIE" McCANTS born about 1816 in Alabama, died 19 February 1879 married 19 December
1829 Wilcox County, Alabama, by M. W. Parham, J. P. to James Z. Nettles born about 1809 South Carolina died
14 April 1843 Wilcox County. His will was signed 25 March 1843 and proven 18 April 1843.
Children: 1. Jane Nettles; 2. Mary L. McCants; 3. James Watkins Nettles; 4. Sara Ann Nettles; 5. Robert
Nettles; 6. Nathaniel Nettles
111 81 NATHANIEL McCANTS-See McCants, Wall, and Related Families, p. 50.
111 82 MARY LOUISA McCANTS-See McCants, Wall, and Related Families, p. 50.
111 83 ROBERT JAMES PEMBROKE McCANTS born 13 October 1812 South Carolina moved from South Carolina to
Chambers County, Alabama, shortly before 1840 when he was listed in the census as "McCats". He was a physician
and a very prosperous landowner. He was shot dead on Sep. 21, 1849 by his servant, John. It is said that John was
paid to do the deed by a rival physician. Dr. McCants was married to Caroline Elizabeth Allen, born 23 March 1815
South Carolina, died 12 October 1886. Both are buried in a fenced area at the rear of the Moses Wheat Cemetery. This
cemetery is located on a dirt road southwest of Cusseta and northeast of the highway between Lafayette and Opelika-
about 15 miles from Lafayette, Alabama.
Children: 1. Allen G. McCants; 2. Victoria Jane McCants; 3. Amanda L. McCants; 4. Lois A. McCants; 5. John
J. McCants; 6. Robert George Alexander Nathan McCants
111 431 ELIZABETH J. McCANTS born 1827 died 1831.
111 432 SALINA AGNES McCANTS born 31 October 1829 died 14 August 1910, Pineville, Alabama, married
22 November 1849 Monroe County, Alabama, to William Allen Stallworth born 30 June 1828 Evergreen, Alabama,
died 3 March 1882 Pineville, Alabama, son of Nicholas and Sarah {Allen} Stallworth. Much of the information on
the descendants of this couple has been extracted from a history of the Stallworth family.
Children: 1. William McCants Stallworth; 2. Nicholas Walter Stallworth; 3. Lizzie Salina Stallworth;
4. Elridge Stallworth
111 433 THOMAS JAMES McCANTS born 17 January 1832 died 27 October 1896 married 16 November 1855 Monroe
County, Alabama, by H. B. Farish to Elizabeth Susannah Longmire born 18 November 1837, probably Monroe
County died 18 Niovember 1914 both buried Bell's Landing Presbyterian Church.
Children: 1. William T. McCants; 2. John McCants; 3. Thomas Goldie McCants
111 434 CAROLINE R. McCANTS born 22 June 1834 died 1837
111 435 WILLIAM WALTER McCANTS born 22 September (May according to one record) 1837 died 9 November 1863.
He was a freshman at The University of Alabama in 1856.
111 436 MARGARET S. McCANTS born 22 May 1840 died 1861 married 13 January 1858 Monroe County, Alabama, by
H. B. Farish, JMP, to Dr. Calvin Calhoun Nettles born 1 August 1838 died 14 May 1928 buried Bell's Landing
Presbyterian Church, Monroe County. He later married Eliza Jane Powe daughter of Thomas Alexander and Jane
Isabella {Smith} Powe. He practiced dentistry at Bell's Landing.
Children: 1. Charles G. Nettles; 2. Margaret S. Nettles
111 437 JOSEPH McCANTS born 6 March 1844 died 1845
111 438 CORA JANE McCANTS born 6 February 1847 died 3 December 1890 married 16 December 1874 at her father's
home in Monroe County by L. W. Duke, MG to Ashley Holloman born 9 December 1848 died 9 April 1926.
Children: 1. William Walter Holloman; 2. Joe Holloman; 3. Ashley Burchette Holloman
111 471 ANN M. PACKER born 26 July 1833 married to William Bragg born Warren County, North Carolina, son of
Thomas Bragg. Captain Bragg died in the service of the Confederate States Army.
111 472 MARY JANE "JENNIE" PACKER born 7 September 1835 died 31 July 1913, buried Stallworth Family Cemetery,
Pineville, Monroe County, Alabama. Married 1st Elridge Greening Stallworth born June 1833 Evergreen, Alabama,
died 29 July 1854 Pineville, Alabama. She was married 2nd 6 September 1855 Monroe County by H. B. Farish
to Benjamin Franklin Stallworth born 21 October 1830 Evergreen, Alabama, died 23 January 1868 Pineville,
Alabama. Elridge amd Benjamin were brothers of William Allen Stallworth who married Salina Agnes McCants
(111 432). She graduated from the Dallas Academy, Selma, Alabama.
Children (1st marriage): 1. Sallie Allen Stallworth
Children (2nd marriage): 2. Elridge Greening Stallworth; 3. James Allen Stallworth; 4. Benjamin Franklin
Stallworth, Jr.; 5. Giles Goode Stallworth; 6. William Allen Stallworth; 7. Stonewall Jackson
Stallworth
111 473 JAMES T. M. PACKER born 8 January 1838 died 17 July 1890 Brewton, Alabama, buried Old Scotland
Presbyterian Church, Monroe County, Alabama, married 1st 4 February 1857 Monroe County, Alabama, to
Elizabeth Leslie, married 2nd 12 October 1864 Monroe County by I. H. Salter, MG (Presbyterian) to F. Ella
McCorvey born 5 August 1844 died 7 November 1881 daughter of Murdock and Lydia J. {Ronaldson} McCorvey.
Dr. Packer pract8iced medicine in Monroeville for some 20 years before moving to Brewton in 1887.
Children (2nd marriage): 1. James McCorvey Packer; 2. Maysie Packer; 3. Mary Ella Packer
111 511 SARAH ANN McCANTS born about 1823 married Gadi Finklea born 10 April 1813 (1809 on tombstone) died
16 June 1894 buried Bell's Landing Presbyterian Church, Mionroe County, Alabama.
Children: 1. Gadi Finklea, Jr.; 2. Evander Finklea; 3. Frank Finklea; 4. Cora Finklea; 5. Ferdinand
"Buddy" Finklea; 6. Lillian Ella Finklea; 7. Annie Finklea
111 512 JOHN McCANTS born about 1833 died at Atlanta during the Civil War.
111 513 DAVID THOMPSON McCANTS, JR. born about 1838 Alabama died between 1870 and 1880 married 23 June
1859 Wilcox County, Alabama, by Anson West, MG to Isabelle "Belle" C. Lenoir born about 1840 Alabama.
Children: 1. Mary Jane McCants
111 514 F. SOPHRONIA "FRONIE" McCANTS born about 1841 Wilcox County, Alabama, married 14 August 1863
Monroe County to John H. Snell.
111 515 MARY JANE "JENNIE" McCANTS born about 1843 Wilcox County, Alabama, married 22 July 1865 Monroe
County to Maston W. Cook. Two daughters.
111 521 MELLISON AMARINTHA McCANTS born 21 December 1834 Alabama died 14 August 1870 buried Hybart
Cemetery, Monroe County, Alabama, married 21 January 1856, Wilcox County, Alabama, by Thomas H. Godbold,
J. P., to William Lewis Hybart who had earlier married Jane Elizabeth Davis (111 571) and later married Fasce
Lina Wheeler.
Children: 1. Margaret Jane Hybart; 2. William James Hybart; 3. Samuel Cummings Hybart; 4. Thomas
Lewis Hybart; 5. Sarah Jane Hybart; 6. John Calhoun Breckenridge Hybart; 7. Joseph Burgess
Hybart
111 522 WILLIAM JAMES McCANTS born 26 September 1836 Wilcox County, Alabama, died 11 June 1907 buried Bell's
Landing Presbyterian Church married 1st 21 October 1874 at J. W. Leslie's in Monroe County by J. L. Skipper,
MG, to Mrs. Sallie {Packer} Leslie (111 581 2) died August 1879 Monroe County of tuberculosis, married 2nd
17 December 1879 at J. G. Johnson's in Monroe County by J. T. Payles, MG, to Martha E. Johnson born about
1849. He was a merchant in Monroe County. He served in Company C of the Alabama Infantry during the Civil
War.
111 523 MARY JANE McCANTS born 20 July 1838 Wilcox County, Alabama, died 13 May 1923 buried Bell's Landing
Presbyterian Church, Monroe County, Alabama.
111 524 THOMAS McCANTS born 30 January 1841 died 1 July 1862 in the Battle of Seven Pines. He served in Company
C of the Alabama Infantry during the Civil War.
111 525 JOHN ARMSTRONG McCANTS born 27 July 1843 died 5 March 1915 married 23 November 1876 Wilcox
County, Alabama, by J. L. Skipper, MG, to N. Elizabeth Wright born 3 January 1857 died 28 September 1885.
Both buried Bell's Landing Presbyterian Church. He served in Company C of the Alabama Infantry during the Civil
War.
Children: 1. Thomas Armstrong McCants; 2. Jonathon McCants; 3. Elizabeth McCants; 4. Albert Sidney
McCants; 5. Kate McCants; 6. May Posey McCants
111 526 ROBERT WATKINS McCANTS born 25 September 1847 died 1 June 1921 married 22 January 1879 at the
McDuffie home in Monroe County, Alabama, by T. Y. Abernathy to Margaret "Maggie" A. McDuffie born
22 November 1850 died 21 September 1883 buried in the McDuffie-Johnson cemetery in northwest Monroe County.
He served in Company C of the Alabama Infantry during the Civil War and is buried in the Bell's Landing
Presbyterian Church cemetery. She was shown as a teacher in the 1880 census.
111 527 MARGARET ELIZABETH McCANTS born 13 June 1849 married 16 October 1873 Monroe County, Alabama,
to George J. Bigger.
Children: 1. Leila Bigger; 2. Thomas McCants Bigger; 3. Mary Bigger; 4. James Bigger; 5. Wallace
Bigger; 6. Maggie Bigger; 7. Robbie Bigger; 8. Winnie Bigger (Twin); 9. Minnie Bigger (Twin);
10. Georgia Alice Bigger; 11. Annie May Bigger
111 528 SARAH ANN McCANTS born 25 October 1851 died 7 November 1919 married about 1881 to Andy Holly Burgess
born about 1851 died 16 July 1920.
Children: 1. Andy Burgess; 2. Willie Eddie Burgess; 3. Frank Mason Burgess
111 529 LAURA LUERITA McCANTS born 4 April 1856 died 8 October 1858.
111 531 MARGARET "MAGGIE" DINWIDDIE McCANTS born about 1836 Monroe County, Alabama, married
6 December 1852 Monroe County to John Walker Henry.
111 532 ELIZABETH WATKINS McCANTS born March 1839 died after 1900 married 24 August 1859 to Samuel Henry
Spencer born 27 March 1837 died 30 July 1892 son of William Ford and Lucy Clay {Thaxton} Spencer.
Children: 1. Robert Oliver Spencer
111 533 JOHN ROBERT McCANTS born October 1841died after 1910 married about 1865 to Isabella "Belle" Henry born
about 1840 Wilcox County, Alabama, died before 1900, daughter of Ausborn and Isabella Henry. They lived in
the Bell's Landing community in northern Monroe County, Alabama. He served in Company C, 5th Alabama
Infantry, CSA, during the Civil War and is buried in the McCants Cemetery in Wilcox County.
Children: 1. John "Jack" Robert McCants, Jr.; 2. Ausborn Henry McCants; 3. Clara Annis McCants;
4. Elizabeth W. McCants; 5. Maggie Bell McCants; 6. William McCants
111 534 REBECCA J. McCANTS born 21 March 1844 died 22 August 1898 married 19 October 1866 Monroe County,
Alabama, to George Washington Spencer born 1 May 1842 died 24 August 1881 son of William Ford and Lucinda
{Thaxton} Spencer. Both buried in the McCants Cemetery, Wilcox County, Alabama.
Children: 1. Edwin Ford Spencer; 2. Charlie Caroline Spencer; 3. Sallie Spencer; 4. Oliver Henry
Spencer; 5. George Washington Spencer, Jr.
111 535 SARAH "SALLIE" ANN McCANTS born about 1845 married 1st 3 August 1866 at the home of Mrs. McCants
in Monroe County, Alabama, to John Burgess ma (probably died prior to 1870) married 2nd 25 November 1880
at the home of Mrs. Jane McCants in Monroe County by P. J. Cree, MG, to W. Davis Brown.
Children (1st marriage): 1. Harry L. Burgess
111 536 CAROLINE AUGUSTA "GUSSIE" McCANTS born 1848 died 1940 buried McCants Cemetery, Wilcox County,
Alabama, married 9 October 1867 Monroe County, Alabama, to Daniel E. Nettles.
111 537 ZACHARY "JACK" TAYLOR McCANTS born about April 1850 Monroe County, Alabama,, died before 1900,
married 13 January 1879 Wilcox County to F. Ella Preston born October 1858.
Children: 1. Pat L. McCants; 2. Alice McCants; 3. Taylor McCants
111 538 JAMES MURRAY McCANTS born about 1852 Monroe County, Alabama, married 16 October 1874 Monroe
County, at the home of W. J. Snell, by L. W. Duke, MG, to Rosa Snell died before 1880.
Children: 1. Lillie McCants
111 539 CHARLES GODBOLD McCANTS born December 1854 Monroe County, Alabama, died 1942 married 20 March
1878 Monroe County, Alabama by Peter J. Cree, OMG, (Baptist) to Emma Rebecca Cree born July 1854 died 1901
daughter of Peter John and Elizabeth {Snell} Cree. Both buried Buena Vista, Alabama.
Children: 1. Jane E. McCants; 2. Newton H. McCants; 3. Julia Foster McCants; 4. Charles Hestle
McCants; 5. Nellie McCants
111 571 JANE ELIZABETH DAVIS, born 26 September 1827 died 25 June 1851, buried McCants Cemetery, Wilcox
County, Alabama, married 27 August 1846 to William Lewis Hybart, son of Henry Hugh and Charity {Bethea}
Hybart, born 27 May 1823 Monroe County, Alabama, died 19 January 1892 buried Hybart Cemetery near Bell's
Landing, Monroe County, Alabama. He later married Mellison Amarintha McCants (111 521) and Fasce Lina
Wheeler. During the Civil War he served as a private in Company G of the 36th Alabama Infantry from 1 March
1861 to 5 April 1865. He was a ruling elder in the Bell's Landing Presbyterian Church. A comprehensive history
of the Bethea family was published over 50 years ago and a history of the Hybart family is in preparation.
Children: 1. Lucy Isabella Hybart; 2. Henry Hugh Hybart
111 572 LUCY ANN DAVIS born 29 September 1829, died 6 November 1854, married 21 November 1853 in Wilcox
County, Alabama, to John D. McNeill, born 7 Septmber 1823 in Alabama, died 11 February 1905 at Winkler,
Navarro County, Texas. He married 2nd on 9 February 1859 in Wilcox County to Martha Jane Griffith.
Children: 1. Infant Son McNeill
111 573 FRANCES ABEL DAVIS born 14 August 1831 in Wilcox County, Alabama, died 9 August 1837 in an accident
with a pony.
111 574 JOHN THOMPSON DAVIS born 27 May 1837 in Wilcox County, Alabama, died about 1869. Married 18 July
1866 in Monroe County, Alabama, to Virginia Jeffalone Griffin, born about 1850. She was married 2nd on 20 May
1870 in Monroe County to W. C. McKinley. John was said to have been crippled and to have lived on Flat Creek
near Franklin in Monroe County, Alabama.
Children: 1. John H. Davis
111 575 ELIZA SPENCER DAVIS born 23 November 1839, died 10 July 1886. Married 1st on 1 May 1861 Wilcox
County, Alabama, to Robert Alexander Smith, born 2 June 1825, Wilcox County, Alabama, son of Archibald
McKay and Jeannette {Gordon} Smith. He was enlisted in Wilcox Couinty on 23 Augusta 1863 by Captain Farish
as a private in Company D of the 3rd Alabama Cavalry, CSA, and was killed 17 January 1864 in a fight with the
enemy near Danridge, Tennessee. Both are buried in the Smith cemetery at Coy, Alabama. Letters written by
Robert to Eliza while he was in the Confederate Army have been published. An exhaustive history of this Smith
family has been published. She married 2nd on 15 September 1872 in Wilcox County, Alabama, Elisha Pierce
Wright, born February 1842, son of Jonathon and Elizabeth Wright. At the time of the 1880 Census she was listed
as divorced and living with her three oldest children. At the time of the 1910 Census, E. P. Wright was living in
the Mims community of Wilcox County and was listed as a widower, having been married 7 years.
Children (1st marriage): 1. Mary Jeannette Smith; 2. Robert Alexander Smith
Children (2nd marriage): 3. Dee Wright; 4. Pat "Man" Wright
111 576 MARY AGNUS DAVIS born 27 July 1843 died after the taking of the 1880 Census in which she was listed as
consumptive, married about 1868 to Charles F. Gerald, born March 1846, probably died in Mobile, son of Nathan
Gerald. He married 2nd on 14 December 1881 in Wilcox County Lula O. Gordon and 3rd on 30 December 1884
Lilly Gordon. About 1894 Charles Gerald erntered the carpentry and construction business in Mobile.
Children: 1. John Davis Gerald; 2. Lucy Gerald; 3. Nancy Gerald
111 581 JANE NETTLES married 1st to William Packer married 2nd to ___ Pickens.
Children (1st marriage): 1. Elisabeth Packer; 2. Sallie Packer; 3. Percy Packer; 4. Clara Packer
111 582 MARY L. NETTLES born about 1836 Wilcox County, Alabama, married 13 January 1855 Wilcox County to James
L. Godbold. Moved to Texas.
111 583 JAMES WATKINS NETTLES born 1 June 1839 Wilcox County, Alabama, died 13 February 1907 Palmetto,
Florida, married 16 June 1859 Wilcox County by Anson West, MG, (Methodist) to Mary Caroline Powe born
20 November 1838 Wayne County, Mississippi, died 22 July 1915 Palmetto, Florida, daughter of Thomas
Alexander and Jane Isabella {Smith} Powe. Jane Isabella was a sister of Robert Alexander Smith who married Eliza
Spencer Davis (111 575).
Children: 1. Infant Son Nettles; 2. Jane Smith Nettles; 3. Frank E. Nettles; 4. Clara Nettles; 5. James
Watkins Nettles, Jr.; 6. Mary "Mamie" Powe Nettles; 7. Robert Lee Nettles; 8. Olive Vivian
Nettles; 9. Victor Nettles; 10. Infant Son Nettles
111 584 SARA ANN NETTLES born about 1841 died 1872 married 2 August 1856 to Dr. Robert Franklin Packer born
about 1830 died about 1863 son of David and Elizabeth {Powell} Packer. Dr. Packer was a graduate of Howard
College, Marion Alabama, (now Samford University, Birmingham) and received his M. D. from Tulane University
in New Orleans.
Children: 1. David Reese Packer; 2. Florence Packer
111 585 ROBERT NETTLES died at age 19.
111 586 NATHANIEL NETTLES born about 1843 Wilcox County, Alabama, died during the Civil War.
111 831 ALLEN G. McCANTS b 1836 South Carolina married 4 January 1853 Chambers County, Alabama, to Oliva
America Towles born 1838 Georgia. In 1860 he was a grocery merchant in Chambers Co. with personal property,
including 18 slaves, valued at $45,000. In 1870 he was living in Mobile in the household of Morris Towles born
1802 South Carolina with no mention of Oliva. He was a commission merchant in Mobile for the next 20 years or
so.
111 832 VICTORIA JANE McCANTS born 1838 South Carolina married 1st 29 November 1852 Chambers County,
Alabama, to Wm. H. Nunley who apparently died before 1860, married 2nd to D. Sanders.
Children (1st marriage): 1. William Nunley; 2. Son Nunley
111 833 AMANDA L. McCANTS born 1840 Alabama married 6 October 1857 Chambers Co., Alabama, to Charles W.
Winter born South Carolina.
Children: 1. George A. Winter; 2. Asa O. Winter
111 834 LOIS A. McCANTS born 30 September 1842 Alabama died 11 July 1894 married 27 November 1860 Chambers
Couny, Alabama, to Dr. Asa W. Griggs born 12 December 1828 died 16 August 1900. Five children
111 835 JOHN J. McCANTS born 1844 Alabama married Louisa ____ born 1845 Alabama. He was listed as a cotton broker
in Montgomery in the 1870 Census. In the 1878 Montgomery City Directory he was listed as a cotton factor living
at the Exchange Hotel.
111 836 ROBERT GEORGE ALEXANDER NATHAN McCANTS born January? 1850 Alabama married 1872 to Pristine
Cherokee Taylor born 1855. In 1870 he was living in Mobile with his brother Allen. He was in the cotton business
in Meridian, Mississippi in 1912.
Children: 1. Allan Gautier McCants; 2. Buena Vista McCants 111 432 1 WILLIAM McCANTS STALLWORTH born 12 October 1850 at Evergreen, Alabama, died 29 November 1884,
buried at Beatrice, Alabama, married 12 November 1872 at her father's house by William Mumford, Rector of the
Church of the Holy Cross at Uniontown, Alabama, to Mary "Mollie" Rebecca Horn born 10 November 1854 at
Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama, died 16 September 1910, buried at Thomaston, Alabama, daughter of John A.
Clement and Margaret {McArthur} Horn. They were Methodists.
Children: 1. Elizabeth Salina Stallworth; 2. John Clement Stallworth; 3. Margaret "Maggie" Mae
Stallworth; 4. Mary Ella Stallworth; 5. William McCants Stallworth; 6. Ollie Pearle
Stallworth; 7. James Nicholas Stallworth
111 432 2. NICHOLAS WALTER STALLWORTH born6 February 1853 died 8 August 1904 married 14 November 1872
at Pineville, Monroe County,Alabama, by Neil Gibbs, MG, to Dovie Stallworth born 1852 died 1921 daughter of
Joseph Jackson and Ophelia {Crosby} Stallworth. Both buried Pineville Methodist Cemetery.
Children: 1. Sallie Allen Stallworth; 2. Nicholas "Little Nick" Walter Stallworth, Jr.; 3. Eulalie Stallworth;
4. Infant Son
111 432 3 LIZZIE SALINA STALLWORTH died at age 2.
111 432 4 ELRIDGE STALLWORTH died in infancy.
111 433 1 WILLIAM T. McCANTS born 4 September 1856 died 20 October 1940 married 3 February 1880 Wilcox County,
Alabama, by D. C. Gordon, Notary Public and exofficio Justice of the Peace, to Maria Alice McArthur born
27 November 1850 died 7 July 1899 daughter of John D. and Mary {Donnelly} McArthur. Both buried Bell's
Landing Presbyterian Church.
Children: 1. John H. McCants; 2. Neil Boyd McCants; 3. William T. McCants
111 433 2 JOHN McCANTS born 1858.
111 433 3 THOMAS GOLDIE McCANTS born 7 September 1879 Wilcox County, Alabama, died 18 January 1943 married
Janie E. ___ born 14 June 1879 died 21 June 1955. Both buried Bell's Landing Presbyterian Church.
Children: 1. Thomas Goldie McCants, Jr.
111 436 1 CHARLES G. NETTLES born 1 (or 7) January 1857 died 8 June 1861.
111 436 2 MARGARET S. NETTLES born 24 January 1861 died 1861.
111 438 1 WILLIAM WALTER HOLLOMAN born 4 November 1875 died 17 October 1941 buried Bell's Landing
Presbyterian Church.
111 438 2 JOE HOLLOMAN born 4 November 1881 died 14 March 1958 buried Bell's Landing Presbyterian Church.
111 438 3 ASHLEY BURCHETTE HOLLOMAN born 30 October 1887 died 27 March 1964 buried Bell's Landing
Presbyterian Church.
111 472 1 SALLIE ALLEN STALLWORTH born 9 October 1853 died 19 July 1854.
111 472 2 ELRIDGE GREENING STALLWORTH born 14 November 1856 died 25 October 1857 buried in Stallworth
Cemetery, Pineville, Monroe County, Alabama.
111 472 3 JAMES ALLEN STALLWORTH born 16 February 1858 Pineville, Alabama, died 15 September 1928 married
27 August 1885 to Mary Jane {Harrison} Birch born 27 October 1850 Milton, Florida, died 3 March 1928, widow
of Edward P. Birch and daughter of William J. and Ann {Cotton} Harrison. Both died in Mobile, Alabama, and
are buried in Magnolia Cemetery. He was the postmaster for 35 years at Crichton, a Mobile, Alabama, suburb.
Children: 1. James Packer Stallworth; 2. Clifford Harrison Stallworth
111 472 4 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN STALLWORTH, JR. born 21 November 1859 Pineville, Alabama, died 17 December
1908 married 20 June 1886 Wilcox County, Alabama, by Joseph M. Scott, MG, to Annie Elizabeth Stillings died
16 December 1916 daughter of ___ and Ann {Farish} Stillings. Both buried in the Stallworth cemetery at Pineville.
Children: 1. William Franklin Stallworth; 2. Mary Packer Stallworth; 3. Robert Glover Stallworth;
4. Maggie Stallworth; 5. Fannie Stallworth; 6. Thomas Hugh Stallworth; 7. Bessie Stallworth;
8. John Eldridge Stallworth
111 472 5 GILES GOODE STALLWORTH born 21 June 1862 Pineville, Alabama, died 2 March 1925 Forest Home,
Alabama, buried Stallworth cemetery, Pineville, married 21 November 1894 to Helen Wall born 18 November
1872. He studied dentitry in Atlanta and practiced in Beatrice and Forest Home, Alabama. She received the B. A.
degree from Huntingdon College, Montgomery, Alabama.
111 472 6 WILLIAM ALLEN STALLWORTH born 20 February 1864 Pineville, Alabama, died 3 April 1920 Beatrice,
Alabama, married Annie Laura Nettles born 6 August 1868 Kempville, Alabama, died 13 February 1941 Beatrice,
Alabama, daughter of Thomas Alexander and Mary Jane {Robbins} Nettles. He was a graduate of the Medical
College of Alabama in Mobile and practiced medicine in Pineville and Beatrice. Both are buried in the Stallworth
cemetery.
Children: 1. Jennie Packer Stallworth; 2. Benjamin Franklin Stallworth; 3. Mattie Nettles Stallworth;
4. William Allen Stallworth, Jr.; 5. Mary Alexander Stallworth
111 472 7 STONEWALL JACKSON STALLWORTH born 23 Ajugust 1865 Pineville, Alabama, died 6 May 1932,
Beatrice, Alabama, married Bettie Johnson Nettles born 31 January 1867 died 2 December 1944 Beatrice, daughter
of Thomas Alexander and Mary Jane {Robbins} Nettles. Both are buried in the Stallworth cemetery. He was a
merchant and cattleman.
Children: 1. Thomas Nettles Stallworth; 2. Mattie Nettles Stallworth; 3. James Allen Stallworth; 4.
Stonewall Jackson Stallworth, Jr.; 5. Maysie Packer Stallworth
111 473 1 JAMES McCORVEY PACKER born 3 August 1867 died 27 March 1885. He entered The Univertsity of Alabama
as a freshman in 1884.
111 473 2 MAYSIE PACKER born about 1869 died 1945 married Jeptha J. Blackshear, son of David Wesley and Margaret
Lee {McGowan} Blackshear. Jeptha and his brother, Uriah, were in the logging and sawmill business in Escambia
County, Alabama, and various business interests in Mobile. The Jeptha Blackshear family had a summer home at
Point Clear in Baldwin County, Alabama. Many of the family now use the spelling "Blacksher".
Children: 1. Ella Packer Blackshear; 2. Barbara McCorvey Blackshear; 3. Margaret Lee Blackshear;
4. Maysie Blackshear
111 473 3 MARY ELLA PACKER born 1875 died 1894.
111 511 1 GADI FINKLEA, JR. born 27 December 1848 Alabama, probably Wilcox County, died 3 September 1930 at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. L. C. Dargan, Coleman, Texas. Married 1st 27 December 1871 Bell's Landing'
Monroe County, Alabama, by D. T. McCants, JP, to Carrie Burgess, married 2nd 8 March 1877 Waxahachie,
Texas to Eula E. England. During the Civil War he served in Company C, 5th Alabama Regiment.
Children (1st marriage): 1. Lillian Finklea
Children (2nd marriage): 2. Charles G. Finklea; 3. Ferdinand L. Finklea; 4. Annie M. Finklea; 5. Hallie
L. Finklea; 6. Kathryn A. Finklea; 7. Robert Weir Finklea; 8. Tripp F. Finklea; 9. Lorena W.
Finklea
111 511 2 EVANDER FINKLEA born about 1850 Alabama married 25 November 1877 at the home of Agrippa Grace,
Monroe County, Alabama, by J. S. Skipper to Martha Alabama Grace born 30 August 1853 died 7 August 1880
buried McCants Cemetery, Wilcox County, Alabama, daughter of Agrippa and Elizabeth {Davison} Grace. He may
have been living in Bell County, Texas, in 1900.
111 511 3 FRANK FINKLEA born about 1852 in Alabama. He may have been living in Ellis County, Texas in 1900.
111 511 4 CORA FINKLEA born about 1854 Alabama.
111 511 5 FERDINAND "BUDDY" FINKLEA born about 1858, Alabama. May have been living in Ellis County, Texas,
in 1900.
111 511 6 LILLIAN ELLA FINKLEA born 5 September 1859 (date taken from tombstone-1870 Cenus shows she was born
about 1863) died 24 December 1921 married 1st 2 November 1879 Bell's Landing by E. E. Owen to William Lee
Stallworth born 28 December 1851 died 14 October 1883 son of Mark Parker and Eliza Elizabeth {Lee} Stallworth.
Married 2nd to ___ Welch. Both buried Bell's Landing Presbyterian Church, Monroe County, Alabama.
Children (1st marriage): 1. Willie Stallworth
111 511 7 ANNIE FINKLEA born about 1869 Monroe County, Alabama, married to Ed Davison.
Children: 1. William Finklea Davison; 2. Mary Kate Davison
111 513 1 MARY JANE McCANTS born about 1867 died about 1940 Tallahassee, Florida, married to John Christian.
Children: 1. Rosabelle Christian; 2. Marie Christian; 3. John Christian, Jr.
111 521 1 MARGARET JANE HYBART born 23 November 1856 died 10 October 1862.
111 521 2 WILLIAM JAMES HYBART born 2 January 1859 died 31 August 1861 buried Hybart Cemetery, Monroe
County, Alabama.
111 521 3 SAMUEL CUMMINGS HYBART born 9 January 1861 died 6 May 1939 Monroeville, Alabama, buried Hybart
Cemetery, Monroe County, Alabama, married 1st 13 December 1892 by Rev. William S. Street (Methodist) to
Mary Atlanta Sadler born 3 November 1857 died 6 August 1906, Perdue Hill, Alabama, buried in Magnolia
Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama, daughter of William H. and Elizabeth {Cameron} Sadler, married 2nd 30 June 1909
at Mobile, Alabama, by Dr. Gardiner Tucker (Episcopal) to Dr. Nora Chapman born 1873 in Wisconsin died 8 May
1927 buried at Plattville, Wisconsin. The baptismal font in St. John's Episcopal Church in Monroeville, Alabama,
is dedicated to her.
Children (1st marriage): 1. William Lewis Hybart; 2. John Cameron Hybart
111 521 4 THOMAS LEWIS HYBART born 5 November 1862 died 7 October 1868 buried Hybart Cemetery, Monroe
County, Alabama.
111 521 5 SARAH "SALLIE" JANE HYBART born 31 January 1866 Bell's Landing, Alabama, died 1 April 1950 Mobile,
Alabama, married 5 October 1886 Bell's Landing at the home of her brother, Henry H. Hybart (111 571 2) by Rev.
H. T. Johnson (Methodist) to Robert Alexander Smith (111 575 2). She attended Barton Academy in Mobile, living
with her cousin Sarah Jane {Bethea} Ussery. On 6 April 1879 she joined the Franklin Street Methodist Church in
Mobile upon profession of faith.46 Children are listed under Robert Alexander Smith.
111 521 6 JOHN CALHOUN BRECKENRIDGE HYBART born 5 January 1868 Bell's Landing died 11 December 1922
Mobile, Alabama, married 25 January 1893 Perdue Hill, Alabama, by Rev. Powers (Methodist) to Annie Canot
Strode born 28 January 1868 died 11 October 1923 both buried McConnico Cemetery, Perdue Hill, Alabama. He
apparently did not use the name Breckenridge.
Children: 1. Vernon Strode Hybart; 2. John Calhoun Hybart; 3. William Clifton Hybart
111 521 7 JOSEPH BURGESS HYBART born 16 March 1870 died 10 December 1872.
111 525 1 THOMAS ARMSTRONG McCANTS born 20 February 1878 died 7 July 1960 buried Bell's Landing Presbyterian
Church.
111 525 2 JONATHON McCANTS born 24 February 1879 died August 1880.
111 525 3 ELIZABETH McCANTS born 29 March 1880 died 13 February 1926 married 23 January 1901 to Thomas
McCants Bigger (111 527 2). Children are listed under him
111 525 4 ALBERT SIDNEY McCANTS born 19 October 1881 died 17 March 1935 buried Bell's Landing Presbyterian
Church.
111 525 5 KATE McCANTS born 15 December 1882 died 20 June 1971 buried Bell's Landing Presbyterian Church.
111 525 6 MAY POSEY McCANTS born 22 October 1884 died 27 July 1977 married 12 November 1913 Monroe County,
Alabama, to Fleetwood Merle Dunn born 26 March 1883 died 1 August 1947 son of John Eades and Margaret
{McArthur} Dunn. Fleetwood and May are buried Bell's Landing Presbyterian Church.
Children: 1. Ellie Dunn
111 527 1 LEILA BIGGER born 28 July 1874 married to John Maxwell
111 527 2 THOMAS McCANTS BIGGER born 26 January 1876 died 2 March 1935 married 23 January 1901 to Elizabeth
McCants (111 525 3) born 29 March 1880 died 13 February 1926. Both buried Bell's Landing Presbyterian Church.
Children: 1. John Thomas Bigger; 2. Robert Gilbert Bigger; 3. William Earl Bigger
111 527 3 MARY BIGGER born 16 February 1878 died 26 August 1886.
111 527 4 JAMES BIGGER born 19 March 1880 died 25 August 1890.
111 527 5 WALLACE BIGGER born 27 January 1882.
111 527 6 MAGGIE BIGGER born 26 February 1886 died after 1970 married about 1902 to Newton H. McCants
(111 539 2) born September 1881. Children listed under him.
111 527 7 ROBBIE BIGGER born 19 November 1886 married Alexander Hayles. They were living at Pensacola, Florida,
in 1932.
111 527 8 WINNIE BIGGER (TWIN) born 6 April 1890 died 3 July 1890.
111 527 9. MINNIE BIGGER (TWIN) born 6 April 1890 died 24 August 1970 buried Mt. Vernon Methodist Church
Cemetery, Mobile County, Alabama, married Ben Massey. Six children: Mrs. George Avery, Selma, Alabama;
Mrs. Wales Owens, Augusta, Georgia; Mrs. Evan Allen, Calvert, Alabama; Ben K. Massey, Mt. Vernon,
Alabama; C. E. Massey, Theodore, Alabama; George D. Massey, Greenwood, South Carolina
111 527 0 GEORGIA ALICE BIGGER born 21 January 1892 died 14 July 1898.
111 527 1 ANNIE MAY BIGGER born 15 September 1894 married Max Rumbley who died at Sanford, Florida.
111 528 1 ANDY McCANTS BURGESS born 17 September 1887 died 5 December 1891 buried Bell's Landing Presbyterian
Church Cemetery.
111 528 2 WILLIE EDDIE BURGESS born about 1890
111 528 3 FRANK MASON BURGESS born about 1892 married 1st to Lucy Hurst, married 2nd to ___ Bohannon, married
3rd to Marie Tuberville.
Children (1st marriage): 1. Jeannette Burgess; 2. Jean Burgess; 3. Andy Burgess
111 532 1 ROBERT OLIVER SPENCER born 17 July 1861 died 26 April 1934 married 6 January 1892 Wilcox County by
J. B. Powell to Florence "Florrie" Packer (111 584 2) born 14 May 1862 died 25 September 1960. Both buried in
the Coy Cemetery, Wilcox County, Alabama.
Children: 1. Emma R. Spencer; 2. Ione Spencer; 3. Lucy "Dinks" Spencer
111 533 1 JOHN "JACK" ROBERT McCANTS, JR. born 1866 Monroe County, Alabama.
111 533 2 AUSBORN HENRY McCANTS (Note: 1/2/07 - Much of the information on this line was provided recently by Linda Brewton Strong) born October 1869 Wilcox County, Alabama, died 5/1910 and buried Bay Minette Cemetery; he was a jeweler/watchmaker. He was
married about 1897 to Alice Iola Hinson, born December 1874 Wilcox County, Alabama, died 25 July 1946 buried Pine Crest Cemetery, Mobile. She was living at Krafton (Mobile County) when she died.
Children: 1. Grady Gladden McCants 2. Joseph Inis "Pat" McCants 3. Bernard Leo McCants 4. Lola Bama McCants 5. Henry Alice McCants
111 533 3 CLARA ANNIS McCANTS born 24 October 1869 Bell's Landing, Monroe County, Alabama, died 30 October
1957 married 1 January 1893 Monroe County by Peter J. Cree (Baptist) to John Ausborn Bethea born 12 August
1855 Sedan, Wilcox County, Alabama, died 16 September 1935 son of Leroy Massingale and Mary {Rivers}
Bethea. Both buried McCants Cemetery, Wilcox County.
Children: 1. Robert Leroy Bethea; 2. Mary Blanche Bethea; 3. John Arthur Bethea; 4. Lola Iris Bethea
111 533 4 ELIZABETH W. McCANTS born about 1872 Monroe County, Alabama.
111 533 5 MAGGIE BELL McCANTS born 6 September 1875 Monroe County, Alabama, married 3 January 1895 Buena
Vista, Alabama, by Rev. Squire Rhobes (Baptist) to Thomas Dickson Bethea born 17 July 1873 Buena Vista son
of Ausborn Watkins and Margaret {Nettles} Bethea. They were living at Caddo Mills, Texas, during the early
1930s.
Children: 1. Melvin Sheely Bethea; 2. Birdie Mae Bethea; 3. Ollie Otha Bethea; 4. Alvin Ottis Bethea;
5. Thurman Dexter Bethea; 6. Julius Day Bethea; 7. Odessa Lee Bethea
111 533 6 WILLIAM McCANTS born about 1878 Monroe County, Alabama.
111 534 1 EDWIN FORD SPENCER born 31 October 1868 buried McCants Cemetery, Wilcox County, Alabama.
111 534 2 CHARLIE CAROLINE SPENCER born 9 October 1872 died 23 June 1896 married to Madison Neil Crosby born
27 September 1868 died 3 April 1923. Both buried McCants Cemetery, Wilcox County, Alabama. An infant who
died young is also buried in this cemetery.
111 534 3 SALLIE SPENCER born 6 January 1875 married 7 February 1894 Wilcox County, Alabama, by W. B. Rencher,
MG (Methodist) to Samuel E. Farish Both buried Old Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Alabama. Eleven children.
111 534 4 OLIVER HENRY SPENCER born 23 December 1876 buried Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Alabama. Married
twice, five children.
111 534 5 GEORGE WASHINGTON SPENCER, JR. born 24 November 1878 died 27 August 1917 buried McCants
Cemetery, Wilcox County, Alabama. He was a veterinarian and unmarried.
111 535 1 HARRY L. BURGESS born about 1867 married to Lizzie Bradford.
Children: 1. Owen Burgess; 2. Elouise Burgess; 3. Corrine Burgess; 4. Daughter Burgess
111 537 1 PAT L. McCANTS born October 1882 Monroe County, Alabama.
111 537 2 ALICE McCANTS born May 1885 Monroe County, Alabama.
111 537 3 TAYLOR McCANTS born August 1892 Monroe County, Alabama.
111 538 1 LILLIE McCANTS born 1877 Monroe County, Alabama.
111 539 1 JANE E. McCANTS born June 1879 Monroe County, Alabama.
111 539 2 NEWTON H. McCANTS born September 1881 married to Maggie Bigger (111 527 6).
Children: 1. Ruth E. McCants; 2. Floyd McCants; 3. Margaret McCants; 4. Percy McCants
111 539 3 JULIA FOSTER McCANTS born February 1884 Monroe County, Alabama, died 1927, buried Buena Vista
Cemetery, Monroe County, Alabama.
111 539 4 CHARLES HESTLE McCANTS born July 1886 Monroe County, Alabama.
111 539 5 NELLIE McCANTS born 1894 died 1895 buried Buena Vista Cemetery, Monroe County, Alabama.
111 571 1 LUCY ISABELLA HYBART born 13 September 1847 died 19 August 1848 buried McCants Cemetery, Wilcox
County, Alabama.
111 571 2 HENRY HUGH HYBART born 11 August 1849 died 5 August 1897 buried Hybart Cemetery, Bell's Landing,
Monroe County, Alabama, married 28 February 1872 at Monroeville, Alabama, by Rev. Watson, to Jane Calhoun
"Callie" Posey, born 22 September 1854 Monroeville, Alabama, died 5 April 1933 Mobile, Alabama, buried Pine
Crest Cemetery, daughter of James Willis and Mary Elizabeth {Rutledge} Posey. He was a graduate of Stonewall
Institute, Summerfield, Dallas County, Alabama, and they were members of the Presbyterian Church.
With Nathan Gerald Davis (his mother's half-brother), H. H. Hybart operated Bell's Landing on the
Alabama River in northern Monroe County, Alabama, from about 1880 until his death. This partnership, known
as H. H. Hybart and Company, also had extensive farming interests and is said to have owned over 40,000 acres
of land in Monroe, Wilcox, Clarke, and Dallas Counties at the time of H. H. Hybart's death. About 1888 he
moved his family to Mobile to improve the educational opportunities for his children. He served as a Justice of the
Peace in Monroe County and is on record as performing several marriages in 1874.
Children: 1. Callie Posey Hybart; 2. Charles Louis Hybart; 3. Henry Hugh Hybart; 4. Mary
Whitney Hybart; 5. James Willis Hybart; 6. Clay King Hybart; 7. Elizabeth "Bessie"
Jeanette Hybart
111 574 1 JOHN H. DAVIS born 18 January 1868 in Monroe County, Alabama, died 25 March 1893, married Samantha
L. Falkenberry, born 28 January 1862, died 21 May 1946, daughter of William and Margaret {Ballard}
Falkenberry.
Children: 1. John P. Davis; 2. Mammie Davis
111 575 1 MARY JEANNETTE "MOLLIE" SMITH born 20 April 1862 in Black's Bend, Wilcox County, Alabama. She
attended the Samuel Spencer school in Black's Bend, the Montgomery Institute at Lower Peach Tree and in June
1882 was graduated from the Alabama Conference Female College at Tuskegee, Alabama, which was operated by
the Methodist Church. She had begun her second year of school teaching at Bell's Landing in Monroe County,
Alabama, when she became ill with typhoid fever and was taken to her mother's home in Wilcox County where she
died 22 November 1883 and was buried in the Smith Cemetery at Coy.
111 575 2 ROBERT ALEXANDER SMITH, born 28 December 1863 Wilcox County, died 27 September 1939, Mobile,
Alabama, married 5 October 1886 Bell's Landing at the home of Henry H. Hybart (111 571 2) by Rev. H. T.
Johnson (Methodist) to Sarah "Sallie" Jane Hybart (111 521 5), born 31 January 1866 Bell's Landing, Alabama,
died 1 April 1950, Mobile, Alabama. Both are buried in Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama. He attended the
Samuel Spencer school in Black's Bend and the Montgomery Institute at Lower Peach Tree. R. A. Smith farmed
at Coy in Wilcox County, Alabama, until the Fall of 1902 when he moved to Mobile to enter the cotton factor and
commission business. He later operated a cotton mill in the Mobile suburb of Prichard, Michael & Lyons Grocery
Co. with Nathan Gerald Davis (his mother's half-brother), and other mercantile interests in Mobile. Beginning about
1911, he and his son operated a farm about 5 miles northeast of Pine Apple in Wilcox County, Alabama, which
he later sold to his son. During the later years of his life he owned and operated a pecan orchard about 4 miles
south of Semmes in Mobile County. He served as a county commissioner in both Wilcox and Mobile Counties. He
served on the Board of Stewards of the Government Street Methodist Church in Mobile over 35 years--a number
of them as its presiding officer.
Children: 1. Robert Alexander Smith, Jr.; 2. Sadie Eliza Smith; 3. Jeannette Calhoun Smith;
4. Mellison "Mellie" Smith; 5. Lucile Smith; 6. Henry Hybart Smith; 7. Mary Hybart
Smith; 8. Doris Smith
111 575 3 JOHN DEE "MAN" WRIGHT born 16 September 1876 Black's Bend, Wilcox County, Alabama.
111 575 4 PAT WRIGHT born 17 November 1879 Black's Bend, Wilcox County, Alabama.
111 576 1 JOHN DAVIS GERALD born about 1869 in Wilcox County, Alabama, died 10 December 1942, buried Pine
Crest Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama. Married Margaret Ann McAndrews, born 1873, died 1956, buried in Catholic
Cemetery in Mobile, daughter of Peter and Nora {Gilligan} McAndrews. He served as a clerk on the steamboats
and later as president of Michael & Lyons Grocery Co.
Children: 1. Mary Alite Gerald; 2. John Davis Gerald, Jr.; 3. Dolly Gerald; 4. Nathan Davis
Gerald; 5. Norman Staples Gerald; 6. Louis Richard Gerald; 7. Margaret Gerald
111 576 2 LUCY GERALD born June 1872 in Wilcox County, Alabama. She was living at Prichard, Alabama, at the time
of her death 14 December 1951 and was buried in Pine Crest Cemetery in Mobile. Married 1st about 1892 to John
L. Link, born in Louisiana, married 2nd to G. Fleet Knapp, born about 1882 in Alabama.
Children (1st marriage): 1. Henry Hybart Link
Children (2nd marriage): 2. Leon Knapp
111 576 3 NANCY GERALD born about 1878 in Wilcox County, Alabama, died 12 June 1945, Mobile, Alabama, buried
in Pine Crest Cemetery.
111 581 1 ELISABETH PACKER married to Bill Stanley.
111 581 2 SALLIE PACKER died August 1879 Monroe County, Alabama, of tuberculosis married 1st to Ed Leslie married
2nd 21 October 1874 Monroe County at the home of J. W. Leslie by J. L. Skipper, MG, to William James
McCants (111 522).
Children (1st marriage): 1. Ida Leslie; 2. Eva Leslie; 3. Mary Leslie
111 581 3 PERCY PACKER married to Nora Howell.
111 581 4 CLARA PACKER died young.
111 583 1 Infant Son NETTLES
111 583 2 JANE SMITH NETTLES born 1 August 1861 Wilcox County, Alabama, died 6 September 1936 married about
1889 to Joel W. Hendrix born August 1861 in Mississippi died between 1900 and 1910, son of Joel and Elizabeth
{Taylor} Hendrix.
Children: 1. Lillie Alma Hendrix; 2. James Wigfell Hendrix; 3. Detwiler Hendrix; 4. Mary Eva Hendrix
111 583 3 FRANK E. NETTLES born 1866 died 1867 Wilcox County, Alabama
111 583 4 CLARA NETTLES born 1868 died 1869 Wilcox County, Alabama
111 583 5 JAMES WATKINS NETTLES, JR. born 19 January 1869 Wilcox County, Alabama died 1957, Florida. No
children.
111 583 6 MARY "MAMIE" POWE NETTLES born 22 April 1872 Wilcox County, Alabama, died 17 April 1938 married
22 December 1891 to Henry O. Lowry born 5 March 1859 probably in Georgia, died 14 February 1927 son of John
Henry and Lamanda R. {Beall} Lowry.
Children: 1. Rosa Mary Lowry; 2. John James Lowry; 3. Charles H. Lowry;; 4. Oscar Beall Lowry;
5. Frank Oliver Lowry; 6. Ella Louise Lowry; 7. Victor Lee Lowry
111 583 7 ROBERT LEE NETTLES born 6 September 1874 Palmetto, Florida, died 30 May 1950.
111 583 8 OLIVE VIVIAN NETTLES born 26 February 1878 Palmetto, Florida, died 4 January 1948 married W. W.
Dormany. No children.
111 583 9 VICTOR NETTLES born 26 May 1881 Palmetto, Florida, died 21 October 1919 married 17 December 1907 to
Jessie J. Haley born 17 July 1884, Tennessee, died 13 April 1973, daughter of Jasper and Mary Elizabeth {Woods}
Haley.
Children: 1. Victor Fleetwood Nettles
111 583 0 Infant Son NETTLES born and died 1884.
111 584 1 DAVID REESE PACKER born about 1860 died about 1935. Moved to Texas about 1877. Five children.
111 584 2 FLORENCE "FLORRIE" PACKER born 14 May 1862 died 25 September 1960 married 6 January 1892 at the
David Packer home in Wilcox County to Robert Oliver Spencer (111 532 1). Children listed under him.
111 832 1 WILLIAM NUNLEY born 1854 Georgia.
111 832 2 Son NUNLEY born 1856
111 833 1 GEORGE A. WINTER born 1858
111 833 2 ASA O. WINTER born May 1860
111 836 1 ALLAN GAUTIER McCANTS born 20 August 1875 attended University of Alabama where he was a senior law
student in 1895
111 836 2. BUENA VISTA McCANTS born Mobile, Alabama, married Joseph E. Dixon. She was a member of the
Daughters of the American Revolution (Lineage No. 95293). 111 432 11 ELIZABETH SALINA STALLWORTH born 19 April 1874 at Pineville, Alabama, died 8 July 1961 at San
Antonio, Texas, married 25 April 1900, Wilcox County, Alabama, to Dr. John James McClelland, born 8 April
1871 at Turnbull, Alabama, died 30 March 1922.
Children: 1. William Hunter McClelland; 2. Mary Elizabeth "Bess" McClelland
111 432 12 JOHN CLEMENT STALLWORTH born 25 September 1875, died Meridian, Mississippi, buried at Orrville,
Alabama. Married Mattie Lea who died 25 March 1965.
Children: 1 William Lea Stallworth; 2. Clementine Stallworth
111 432 13 MARGARET "MAGGIE" MAE STALLWORTH born 24 January 1877, died 1935, married Dr. Charles Brooks
Thomas, for whom the town of Thomaston, Alabama, is named. In 1900 she was living in the household of Robert
A. Smith (111 575 2) at Coy in Wilcox County with her occupation given as schoolteacher. The picture of her,
which had the notation "Cousin Maggie Mae Stallworth (Thomas)" on the back was among some possessed by Jean-
nette Smith (111 575 23) who said that before moving to Mobile in 1902 she had not attended public school in
Wilcox County but had been taught at home by a tutor.
111 432 14 MARY ELLA STALLWORTH born 15 December 1878, died 26 March 1955, married 1 November 1899 to
Rutherford Horatio Seymour, born 17 December 1878, died May 1957, son of Robert Henry Seymour. Both buried
Magnolia Cemetery, Meridian, Mississippi. He attended Auburn College, was in the real estate business, and served
as a supervisor in the city of Meridian.
Children: 1. Mary Ella Stallworth Seymour
111 432 15 WILLIAM McCANTS STALLWORTH born 26 January 1881 at Old Pineville, Alabama, died 23 January 1958
at Meridian, Mississippi. Married 27 December 1906 at Turnbull, Alabama, to Gladys McClelland, born 1 October
1885 in Dallas, Texas. He was a lumberman who was active in civic affairs in Meridian.
Children: 1. Gladys Agnes Stallworth; 2. William McCants Stallworth, Jr.; 3. Robert McClelland
Stallworth
111 432 16 OLLIE PEARLE STALLWORTH born 1 October 1882, died 2 November 1935 in Thomaston, Alabama.
Married 30 May 1906 in the home of Davis Horn (her mother's brother) to Joseph Alexander Buck, born 1 October
1880, Thomaston, died 7 January 1947, Thomaston. He was a pharmacist and owned Buck Drug Company in
Thomaston. He also farmed and operated a cotton gin.
Children: 1. Mary Margaret Buck; 2. Joseph Alexander Buck, Jr.; 3. Nelle Stallworth Buck;
4. Ella Elizabeth "Bess" Buck
111 432 17 JAMES NICHOLAS STALLWORTH born 20 August 1884 at Pineville, Alabama, died 2 March 1956 in
Meridian, Mississippi, married 28 June 1911 Leila Mai Smith born 7 September 1889 in Meridian, daughter of
Lillias and Leila Pauline {Williams} Smith. He operated an automobile agency in Meridian, Mississippi.
Children: 1. Mildred Ardena Stallworth; 2. Frank Williams Stallworth
111 432 21 SALLIE ALLEN STALLWORTH born 19 May 1874 Pineville, Alabama, died 27 August 1901, buried Pineville
Methodist Cemetery, married to Albert L. Boykin. No children.
111 432 22 NICHOLAS "LITTLE NICK" WALTER STALLWORTH, JR. born 9 June 1883 Pineville, Alabama, died
7 April 1908 buried Pineville Methodist Cemetery. Not married.
111 432 23 EULALIE STALLWORTH born 22 Marh 1889 died 29 September 1982 married 6 December 1916 to David
Adam Steele born 25 March 1890 died 13 March 1966. Both buried Pineville Methodist Cemetery, Monroe County,
Alabama.
Children: 1. Infant Son Steele; 2. David Adam Steele, Jr.; 3. Nicholas Stallworth Steele; 4. Eulalie
Kendall Steele; 5. Fitzgerald Salter Steele
111 432 24 Infant Son STALLWORTH born 22 June 1893 died 23 June 1893 buried Pineville Methodist Cemetery.
111 433 11 JOHN HOWARD McCANTS born 4 May 1881 Monroe County, Alabama, died 15 July 1938 married about
1906 to Willie Stallworth born 5 January 1884 died 7 Drecember 1918, daughter of William Lee and Lillian Ella
{Finklea} Stallworth (111 511 6). Both buried Bell's Landing Presbyterian Church.
Children: 1. Infant Daughter McCants; 2. Alice McCants
111 433 12 NEIL BOYD McCANTS born May 1883 Monroe County, Alabama, married 29 September 1909 Wilcox
County, Alabama, by E. A. Dannelly, MG, to Maggie Dell Patterson.
111 433 13 WILLIAM T. McCANTS born 15 June 1885 Monroe County, Alabama, died 14 February 1922 buried Bell's
Landing Presbyterian Church.
111 433 31 THOMAS GOLDIE McCANTS, JR. born 7 July 1916 died 4 October 1974 buried Bell's Landing Presbyterian
Church.
111 472 31 JAMES PACKER STALLWORTH born 10 November 1887 Milton, Florida, married Florestine F. DeGruey
born 14 March 1887 Zundels, Alabama, daughter of Adolph and Margaret Jane {Shaw} DeGruey. They lived in
Mobile, Alabama.
Children: 1. Claude Joseph Stallworth; 2. Mary Dorothy Stallworth
111 472 32 CLIFFORD HARRISON STALLWORTH born 1 August 1889 Milton, Florida, died 24 November 1952,
Mobile, Alabama, married 16 May 1935 to Mary Myrtle Joiner born 12 December 1900 died 12 December 1954
daughter of William and Mary {Stokes} Joiner. He was a barber.
Children: 1. Mary Claire Stallworth
111 472 41 WILLIAM FRANKLIN STALLWORTH born 30 March 1887 Wilcox County, Alabama married 10 June 1917
Jackson, Alabama, to Irene Marguerite Sutton born 1 September 1890, Pascagoula, Mississippi, daughter of
James E. and Lula George {Goodloe} Sutton. He was a Methodist and a merchant at Linden, Alabama. She received
the B. A. degree from Jackson Agricultural College, Jackson Alabama.
Children: 1. William Gladstone Stallworth
111 472 42 MARY PACKER STALLWORTH born 10 December 1888 Sedan, Alabama. Married 1st August 1911 to
William Beckham born 22 August 1887 died 9 February 1918, married 2nd November 1924 to Thomas Joseph
Campbell born October 1886 died 30 April 1938, married 3rd 5 February 1955 to Herbert Clay Stallworth born
9 August 1886 died 31 July 1958 son of John Lee and Texanna{Helton} Stallworth. She lived in Mobile, Alabama.
Children (1st marriage): 1. William Franklin Beckham; 2. Helen Marie Beckham
111 472 43. ROBERT GLOVER STALLWORTH born 9 July 1891 Sedan, Alabama, died 29 October 1946 married
1 March 1914 to Sallie Lyon born 5 July 1891 died 11 October 1966 daughter of Robert Lee and Bettie {Jenkins}
Lyon. Both buried Stallworth Cemetery, Beatrice, Alabama.
111 472 44 MAGGIE STALLWORTH married to King Campbell.
111 472 45 FANNIE STALLWORTH born 15 May 1898 Buena Vista, Alabama, married 24 July 1914 to Warner Beckham.
Children: 1. Clara Belle Beckham; 2. Mary Frances Beckham
111 472 46 THOMAS HUGH STALLWORTH born 8 October 1900 Sedan, Alabama, married 8 April 1927 Greenville,
Alabama, to Martha Julia Manar born 26 June 1902 Hale County, Alabama, daughter of Otis Jay and Mattie
Pamelia {Scarbrough} Manar. He was a merchant at Atmore, Alabama. She received the B. A. degree from
Birmingham Southern College in 1925.
Children: 1. Jean Hunter Stallworth; 2. Barbara Anne Stallworth; 3. Thomas Hugh Stallworth, Jr.;
4. Martha Julia Stallworth
111 472 47 BESSIE STALLWORTH born 30 June 1903 married 2 June 1920 Mobile, Alabama, to Charles Alvin Wahl born
2 October 1899 Mobile. They lived in Fairhope, Alabama.
Chiuldren: 1. Sarah Elizabeth Wahl; 2. Charles Alvin Wahl, Jr.; 3. Ralph Holcomb Wahl; 4. Mary Ellen
Wahl; 5. Theresa Claudette Wahl
111 472 48 JOHN ELDRIDGE STALLWORTH born 25 July 1904 died 17 August 1956 Atmore, Alabama, married
7 January 1955 to Mary Earline Glass born 31 October 1909 Putnam, Alabama. She received the B. S. degree from
Troy State University and taught school.
111 472 61 JENNIE PACKER STALLWORTH born 17 March 1888 Tunnel Springs, Alabama, married 17 June 1909 to
Earl Leonard Harper born 3 December 1883 Caledonia, Alabama, died 23 June 1956 Beatrice, Alabama, son of
James Barvel and Margaret E. {Watts} Harper. She attended Alabama College and he was a merchant.
Children: 1. Agnes Louise Harper; 2. Anne Marie Harper
111 472 62 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN STALLWORTH born 26 September 1889 Kempville, Alabama, died 26 July 1946
Beatrice, Alabama, married 15 February 1921 Forest, Mississippi, to Florabel Parnell born 12 September 1900
Forest daughter of B. A. and Daisy {Culpeper} Parnell. He was a merchant and banker in Beatrice and she
attended Blue Mountain College and Hillman College.
Children: 1. Gloria Belle Stallworth; 2. Benjamin Franklin Stallworth
111 472 63 MATTIE NETTLES STALLWORTH born 10 May 1897 Beatrice, Alabama, married 1 December 1915 Beatrice
to Samuel Lide Martin born 17 February 1887 Marion, Alabama, died 23 November 1951 Beatrice. She attended
The University of Alabama.
Children: 1. Vivian Anne Martin; 2. Samuel Allen Martin; 3. William Jessie Martin
111 472 64 WILLIAM ALLEN STALLWORTH, JR. born 6 February 1899 Beatrice, Alabama, married 26 Febnruary 1931
to Maude Eugenia McMillan died 3 June 1955 in auto accident buried Frisco City, Alabama. He received the B. S.
degree from The University of Alabama and the M.D. degree from Emory University. He practiced in Frisco City
and Beatrice.
111 472 65 MARY ALEXANDER STALLWORTH born 24 September 1900 Beatrice, Alabama, married 6 November 1923
to Lloyd Terrence McCall born 1 December 1893 Hokes Bluff, Alabama, son of Lealis Law and Sarah Elena
{Crump} McCall. She attended Alabama College.
Children: 1. Sara Ann McCall; 2. Lloyd Terrence McCall, Jr.; 3. Allen Law McCall
111 472 71 THOMAS NETTLES STALLWORTH born 23 August 1886 Pineville, Alabama, died 8 July 1952 Beatrice,
Alabama, buried in the Stallworth Cemetery married 19 May 1909 to Nealie Hasseltine Nettles born 10 June 1882
daughter of George Calvin and Mary Jane {Finklea} Nettles. He was a contractor and insurance agent who took
an active part in civics affairs. She graduated from Alabama College. Both were very active in the Baptist Church.
Children: 1. Nealie Hasseltine Stallworth; 2. Mary Jane Stallworth; 3. Thomas Nettles Stallworth
111 472 72 MATTIE NETTLES STALLWORTH born 16 July 1889 at the home of her grandmother, Mary Jane Packer
Stallworth (111 472), near Pineville, Alabama, died 22 July 1972, married 15 June 1910 to Henry Houston Newton
born 16 November 1882 died 13 May 1945. He worked for the L & N Railroad. Both buried in the Stallworth
Cemetery at Beatrice, Alabama.
Children: 1. Henry Houston Newton, Jr.
111 472 73 JAMES ALLEN STALLWORTH born 24 May 1892 Pineville, Alabama, died 2 November 1946 buried
Stallworth Cemetery, Beatrice, Alabama, married 24 January 1912 Tunnel Springs, Alabama, to Mary Nettles
Dennis born 18 January 1893 daughter of Thomas Edmund and Cornelia Eliza {Davison} Dennis. He had an
automobile agency and other business interests in Beatrice. She attended the Tunnel Springs Institute and the
Brewton Collegiate Institute. She was a Sunday School teacher and served as president of the Beatrice High School
PTA.
Children: 1. Marion Johnson Stallworth; 2. Edmund Stone Stallworth; 3. Francis Dennis Stallworth
111 472 74 STONEWALL JACKSON STALLWORTH, JR. born 27 September 1903 died 9 October 1903.
111 472 75. MAYSIE PACKER STALLWORTH born 21 September 1905 Beatrice, Alabama, married 8 March 1931 to
Conrad Wall, Jr. born 27 May 1910 died 3 July 1977 buried Stallworth Cemetery Beatrice, son of Dr. Conrad and
Mary Etta {Lazenby} Wall. She attended Alabama College and tazught school. He attended Starke Military
Academy and Auburn and served as mayor of Beatrice.
Children: 1. Conrad Stone Wall; 2. Richard Albert Wall
111 473 21 ELLA PACKER BLACKSHEAR married Edward Ashton Hill.
Children: 1. Maysie Blackshear Hill; 2. Edward Ashton Hill, Jr.; 3 John Jeptha Hill
111 473 22 BARBARA McCORVEY BLACKSHEAR married Stratford E. White-Spunner.
Children: 1. Blackshear White-Spunner; 2. Stratford White-Spunner; 3. Dammer White-Spunner
111 473 23 MARGARET LEE BLACKSHEAR married Marion Adams
. Children: 1. Margaret Sue Adams; 2. Jeppie Adams; 3. Marion S. Adams
111 473 24 MAYSIE BLACKSHEAR married James Glenn Cobb.
Children: 1. James Glenn Cobb, Jr.; 2. Jeptha Cobb; 3. Maysie Barbara Cobb
111 511 11 LILLIAN FINKLEA born September 1875 in Alabama.
111 511 12 CHARLES G. FINKLEA born May 1878 Texas. He was listed as a bookkeeper in Dallas in the 1900 Census.
111 511 13 FERDINAND L. FINKLEA born July 1879 Texas. He was listed as a bookkeeper in Dallas in the 1900 Census.
111 511 14 ANNIE M. FINKLEA born May 1881 Texas.
111 511 15 HALLIE L. FINKLEA born September 1883 Texas.
111 511 16 KATHRYN A. FINKLEA born February 1886 Texas.
111 511 17 ROBERT WEIR FINKLEA born June 1887 Texas.
111 511 18 TRIPP F. FINKLEA born July 1893 Texas.
111 511 19 LORENA W. FINKLEA born September 18995 Texas.
111 511 61 WILLIE STALLWORTH born 5 January 1884 died 7December 1918 buried Bell's Landing Presbyterian
Church, married John Howard McCants (111 433 11). Children listed under him.
111 511 71 WILLIAM FINKLEA DAVISON
111 511 72 MARY KATE DAVISON
111 513 11 ROSABELLE CHRISTIAN married to ___ Cawthon.
Children: 1.Mary Jane Cawthon
111 513 12 MARIE CHRISTIAN married 1st to ___ Krebs married 2nd to M. C. Summers.
Children (1st marriage): 1. Kathleen Krebs
111 513 13 JOHN CHRISTIAN, JR.
111 521 31 WILLIAM LEWIS HYBART born 5 September 1894 Coy, Alabama, died 26 March 1967 married 27 April
1921 Wilcox County, Alabama, to Maggie Alford born 25 August 1886 died 23 May 1971 both buried Canton Bend
Methodist Church Cemetery, Wilcox County, Alabama. He served overseas as a corporal in the U. S. Army in
World War I.
Children: 1. Infant daughter Hybart; 2. Julia Sadler Hybart
111 521 32 JOHN CAMERON HYBART born 23 October 1896 Coy, Alabama, died 12 November 1980 married 22 June
1919 to Maude L. Yarbrough born 26 October 1898. He served in World War I.
Children: 1. Mary Emily Hybart; 2. John Cameron Hybart, Jr.
111 521 61 VERNON STRODE HYBART born 26 July 1895 Gosport, Alabama, died 11 July 1942 buried McConnico
Cemetery, Perdue Hill, Alabama, married 17 December 1922 by Dr. C. A. Rush (Methodist) to Enoch Cobb
Cammack born 7 November 1883 Coffeeville, Alabama.
Children: 1. John Hybart Cammack
111 521 62 JOHN CALHOUN HYBART, JR. born 19 December 1896 died 8 March 1897 buried McConnico Cemetery,
Perdue Hill, Alabama.
111 521 63 WILLIAM CLIFTON HYBART born 7 June 1898 died 13 September 1898 buried McConnico Cemetery,
Perdue Hill, Alabama.
111 525 61 ELLIE DUNN born 10 November 1915 married 1st to Arthur Lee Lawrence died 28 December 1957 married
2nd 4 June 1959 to Louis D. Murray.
111 527 21 JOHN THOMAS BIGGER
111 527 22 ROBERT GILBERT BIGGER
111 527 23 WILLIAM EARL BIGGER
111 528 31 JEANNETTE BURGESS married to John Mason.
111 528 32 JEAN BURGESS married to Edward W. Konstanzer.
Children: 1. William Carl Konstanzer 2. Linda Konstanzer
111 528 33 ANDY BURGESS
111 532 11 EMMA R. SPENCER born 26 January 1893 died 25 May 1923 buried Coy Cemetery, Wilcox County,
Alabama.
111 532 12 IONE SPENCER born 3 October 1894 died 19 May 1901 of diphtheria buried Coy Cemetery, Wilcox County,
Alabama.
111 532 13 LUCY "DINKS" SPENCER born 14 January 1896 died 4 October 1900 of diphtheria buried Coy Cemetery,
Wilcox County, Alabama.
111 533 21 GRADY McCANTS born May 1899 probably in Monroe County, Alabama, died 23 December 1939 buried Pine
Crest Cemetery, Mobile. He was living at Tuscaloosa when he died.
111 533 22 JOSEPH INIS "PAT" McCANTS born 1900
111 533 23 BERNARD LEO McCANTS born 1902
111 533 24 LOLA BAMA McCANTS born 25 October 1907 Bay Minette, AL,
died 20 August 2001 Pine Crest Cemetery in Mobile, AL,
married 14 October 1929 Mark Palmer Brewton,Sr of Mobile (10/8/07 in Mobile-11/22/94).
He was chief engineer, Port of Chickasaw.
1. Mark Palmer Brewton, Jr 6/9/31-6/11/92 , rec'd B.A., M.A. Univ. Ala. and was Prof. Fine Arts, Troy Univ.
2. Laura Jean Brewton b 8/4/33, m Roy Washburn in 1956, and had son Peter Jonathan Washburn (rec'd B.S., M.S. at Univ. Ala.), m Nicholas Kotis in January 1967.
3. Linda Alice Brewton of Mobile (B.S. Univ. So. Ala.), m Harold Strong and has three sons : Christopher Scott Strong (b 8/7/66 , graduated from Auburn, married Mariam Brandau and has children Laura Kathryn, Mariam Elizabeth, and Christopher Scott II) , Mark Ryan Strong (b 6/21/75 Mobile, B. S. Faulkner University, Montgomery, married Marisa Pafenbach and has children Marisa Kathryn and John Pafenbach) , and Carl William Strong (b 1/5/85 , attends Spring Hill College in Mobile).
111 533 25 HENRY ALICE McCANTS born May 1910 , married a Patterson, died January 2004.
1. Henry Ausborn Patterson (living, has daughter Melanie Hope who married a Herren)
111 533 31. ROBERT LEROY BETHEA born 26 November 1893 Sedan, Wilcox County, Alabama, married 30 April 1918
to Clyde Lewrey Hosford. They lived at Jamieson, Florida.
Children: 1. Dorothy Lee Bethea
111 533 32 MARY BLANCHE BETHEA born 4 November 1895 Bellview, Alabama, died 1 January 1966 buried Buena
Vista Cemetery, Monroe County, Alabama. She lived at Vredenburgh, Alabama.
111 533 33 JOHN ARTHUR BETHEA born 24 January 1898 Bellview, Alabama, died 1965 buried Buena Vista Cemetery,
Monroe County, Alabama. He lived at Vredenburgh, Alabama.
111 533 34 LOLA IRIS BETHEA born 21 November 1899 Bellview, Alabama, married 16 April 1925 Pine Apple,
Alabama, to Albert Clinton Owens. They lived at Evergreen, Alabama.
Children: 1. Donald Roy Owens
111 533 51 MELVIN SHEELY BETHEA born 17 October 1896 Caddo Mills, Texas, married 20 June 1921 by Rev. Hulon
Coffman (Baptist) Murel Lipsey born 19 October 1902 daughter of Claude and Ella Mae {Cooper} Lipsey.
Children: 1. Frankie Lou Bethea
111 533 52 BIRDIE MAE BETHEA born 26 July 1899 Caddo Mills, Texas, married 10 March 1919 Greenville, Texas,
by Rev. Hulon Coffman (Baptist) to Lewis T. Johnston born 14 March 1892 Caddo Mills, Texas, son of Lewis T.
and Lucinda {Killian} Johnston.
Children: 1. Lewis Jerome Johnston
111 533 53 OLLIE OTHA BETHEA born 21 October 1902 Caddo Mills, Texas married 20 June 1929 Brownwood, Texas,
by Rev. Horneburg to Faye Brashier born 10 August 1911 Blanket, Texas, daughter of Walter Henry and Ada
{Lile}Brashier.
111 533 54 ALVIN OTTIS BETHEA born 20 June 1904 Caddo Mills, Texas, married 22 October 1929 Rockwall, Texas,
by Rev. Joseph Fleshman (Christian) to Bonnie Barnhardt born 14 July 1912 Caddo Mills, Texas, daughter of W.
Yancey and Myrtle {Neil} Barnhardt.
111 533 55 THURMAN DEXTER BETHEA born 20 March 1906 Caddo Mills, Texas, married 23 December 1931 Dallas,
Texas, by Rev. Dr. Paul Stephens (Methodist) to Paulyne Woefe born 10 July 1911 Quinlan, Texas, daughter of
Ernest E. and Emma Adeline {Hill} Woefe.
111 533 56 JULIUS DAY BETHEA born 6 February 1909 Caddo Mills, Texas, married 19 October 1929 Royse City,
Texas, by Rev. Sschrimschire (Methodist) to Ethel Miller 2 November 1908 Caddo Mills daughter of L. Franklin
and Delia {Ballard} Miller of Tate, Texas.
111 533 57 ODESSA LEE BETHEA born 31 August 1911 Caddo Mills, Texas, married 8 February 1930 Greenville, Texas,
by Rev. Leo Jackson (Christian) to Perry P. McCord born 12 February 1910 Royse City, Texas, son of John and
Lonia {Neely} McCord.
111 535 11 OWEN BURGESS
111 535 12. ELOUISE BURGESS
111 535 13 CORRINE BURGESS
111 535 14. Daughter BURGESS
111 539 21 RUTH E. McCANTS
111 539 22 FLOYD McCANTS
111 539 23 MARGARET McCANTS
111 539 24 PERCY McCANTS
111 571 21 CALLIE POSEY HYBART born 25 November 1872 Monroeville, Alabama, died 7 November 1952 married
22 June 1898 Mobile, Alabama, to George Caldwell Gaillard born December 1872 and died 12 August 1956. Both
are buried Pine Crest Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama.
Children: 1. George Howard Gaillard; 2. Dorothy Jane Gaillard
111 571 22 CHARLES LOUIS HYBART born 5 August 1875 Monroeville, Alabama, died 5 February 1950 Monroeville,
Alabama. Buried first in the Hybart Cemetery, his grave was later moved to Monroeville. He married first about
1900, Dallas County, Alabama, to Estelle LaPointe born 1 April 1876 Alabama daughter of Napolean B. and
Antoinette {Niolan} LaPointe died 10 July 1901, buried Catholic Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama, married 2nd 1905
to Lucy Burns, married 3rd 1925, Monroe County, to Virginia Marion McDuffie, daughter of John and Virginia
Marion {Lott} McDuffie. He received the L.L.B. from The University of Alabama. He practiced law first in Mobile
and later in Monroeville. Presidential Elector in 1908 and 1912. Mason. Elder in the Monroeville Presbyterian
Church. Officer in the Alabama National Guard. Marion McDuffie was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of The
University of Alabama. She taught Latin in Monroeville and Mobile.
Children (1st marriage): 1. Estelle Hybart (Twin); 2.___Hybart (Twin)
Children (3rd marriage): 3. Virginia McDuffie Hybart
111 571 23 HENRY HUGH HYBART born 13 November 1877 Bell's Landing died 2 September 1963 buried Pine Crest
Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama, married 23 August 1899 Mobile, Alabama, at St. John's Episcopal Church, Mobile,
Alabama, by Rev. Gardiner C. Tucker (Episcopal) to Victoire Marsalette Barnett born 3 July 1881, daughter of
Charles W. and Mary E. Barnett, died 8 January 1928 buried first in Magnolia Cemetery, reinterred in Pine Crest
Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama. He was a Master and Clerk on the steamboats.
Children: 1. Myrtle Elizabeth Hybart; 2. Beulah Calhoun Hybart
111 571 24 MARY WHITNEY HYBART born 14 December 1879 Bell's Landing married 25 August 1909 Daphne,
Alabama, by Dr. R. A. Planck (Presbyterian) to Frank Lemuel Milhous born 21 November 1881 died March 1959
buried Selma, Alabama.
Children: 1. Atlas Martin Milhous
111 571 25 JAMES WILLIS HYBART born 19 October 1882 Bell's Landing died 12 October 1962 Mobile, Alabama,
buried Bell's Landing Presbyterian Church married 2 September 1908 to Lall Stallworth born 16 September 1887,
died 14 May 1941 Atmore, Alabama, buried Bell's Landing Presbyterian Church, daughter of Nicholas James and
Mary Rebecca {Burgess} Stallworth.
Children: 1. Henry Calhoun Hybart; 2. Mary Rebecca Hybart; 3. James Willis Hybart Jr.;
4. Frederick Stallworth Hybart; 5. Lall Hybart; 6. John Paul Hybart 7. Jane Calhoun
Hybart
111 571 26 CLAY KING HYBART born 25 February 1885 Bell's Landing, Alabama, died 18 November 1949 buried Bell's
Landing Presbyterian Church married 1st to Rita Vaught born 27 July 1888 died 4 May 1962, married 2nd to Marie
Urghart Phillips. He was a master, pilot, and clerk on the steamboats.
Children (1st marriage): 1. Clayrita Hybart; 2. John "Jack" Lee Hybart
111 571 27 ELIZABETH "BESSIE" JEANETTE HYBART born 17 February 1894 Mobile, Alabama, died 18 May
1982 Mobile, Alabama, buried Pine Crest Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama, married 2 August 1958 to Col. John
William Cummins, died 27 December 1965.
111 574 11 JOHN P. DAVIS born 4 June 1889 Monroe County, Alabama, died 22 December 1963, buried Springhill
Church Cemetery, Franklin, Alabama. Married 20 January 1943 to Lizzie Lou Black, born 4 September 1924.
Children: 1. Willie Lou Davis; 2. William John P. Davis; 3. Kenneth Wayne Davis; 4. Infant
Son Davis
111 574 12 MAMMIE DAVIS born 14 June 1891, died 19 April 1917, buried Springhill Church Cemetery, Franklin,
Alabama.
Children: 1. Albert Davis
111 575 21 ROBERT ALEXANDER SMITH, JR. born 16 July 1887 Coy, Alabama, died 4 May 1965 Montgomery,
Alabama, married 1st 5 December 1917 Pensacola, Florida, by Rev. D. P. Slaughter (Methodist) to Clara
Louise Melton born 7 August 1895 Pine Apple, Alabama, died 14 June 1956 Selma, Alabama, daughter of
Henry Edward and Beulah {Bizzell} Melton, married 2nd 10 October 1959 Lowndesboro, Alabama, to Mrs.
Anne {Traweek} Trice died 3 December 1975, daughter of Ira Yeldell and Leila {Smith} Traweek and widow
of George Alva Trice, all buried Magnolia Cemetery, Greenville, Alabama. Robert A. Smith, Jr. attended
Henry Wright's school (now University Military School) in Mobile, Bingham Military Academy, Asheville,
North Carolina, and Eastman Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York. He farmed and raised cattle at Pine
Apple, Alabama. He served as steward in the Pine Apple Methodist Church. He was a commissioner in Wilcox
County, Alabama.
Children: 1. Robert Alexander Smith III; 2. Louise Melton Smith; 3. Doris Jeannette Smith;
4. Henry Edward Smith
111 575 22 SADIE ELIZA SMITH born 28 January 1890 Mobile, Alabama, at the home of her uncle Henry H. Hybart
(111 571 2) died 31 December 1990, Mobile, Alabama, buried Magnolia Cemetery. She received the A.B.
degree from Sullins College, Bristol, Virginia.
111 575 23 JEANNETTE CALHOUN SMITH born 12 May 1891 Coy, Alabama, died 24 February 1988 Mobile,
Alabama. Attended Sullins College, Bristol Virginia, and received the A.B. degree from Woman's College of
Alabama (now Huntingdon College). School teacher and librarian. She was active in collecting family history.
This work is particularly indebted to her and her sisters Mellie and Lucile.
111 575 24 MELLISON "MELLIE" SMITH born 5 May 1895 Coy, Alabama, died 4 January 1986 Mobile, Alabama,
buried Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile. She was an art graduate of Woman's College of Alabama (now Huntingdon
College).
111 575 25 LUCILE SMITH born 27 October 1896 Coy, Alabama, died 14 July 1985 Huntsville, Alabama, married
5 April 1927 Mobile, Alabama, by Dr. P. B. Wells (Methodist) and Dr. A. B. Newsom (Baptist) to Charles
Henderson Newsom born 21 October 1887 Eatonton, Georgia, son of Edward Columbus and Mary Lou
{Weaver} Newsom, died 28 February 1979 Birmingham, Alabama. Both buried in Greenwood Cemetery,
Montgomery, Alabama. She received the A.B. degree from the Woman's College of Alabama (now Huntingdon
College), Montgomery, Alabama. She taught school prior to her marriage and was responsible for obtaining and
preserving copies of some of the McCants family records. She was a member of the Daughters of the American
Revolution and the Methodist Church. He received the A.B., L.L.B. and A.M. degrees from the University of
Georgia. He was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and the Baptist Church.
Children: 1. Sarah "Sally" Lucile Newsom; 2. Charles Henderson Newsom, Jr.; 3. Mary
Jeannette Newsom
111 575 26 HENRY HYBART SMITH born 3 November 1898 Coy, Alabama, died 11 April 1900 buried Smith
Cemetery, Coy, Alabama.
111 575 27 MARY HYBART SMITH born 19 February 1901, Coy, Alabama, married 23 June 1926 Mobile, Alabama,
by Dr. P. B. Wells (Methodist) to William Columbus Stapleton born 2 October 1884 Mendota, Virginia, died
14 December 1959 Mobile, Alabama, buried Pine Crest Cemetery, son of Commodore Perry and Susan Janette
{Poff} Stapleton. She received the A.B. degree from Woman's College of Alabama (now Huntingdon College)
and pursued graduate studies at Columbia University, New York City. She taught at the Downing Industrial
School, Brewton, Alabama, the Coffee County High School, Enterprise, Alabama,and the Montgomery County
High School, Ramer, Alabama, prior to marriage. Later she taught Latin and social studies for some 20 years in
the Mobile County Schools at Murphy High School, Barton Academy, and Sidney Phillips Junior High School.
He received the A.B. from Highland Home College, Highland Home, Alabama, B.S. and M.A. degrees from
The University of Alabama. He taught school in Autauga, Coosa, Butler, Lowndes, and Crenshaw Counties
before serving as principal of the Coffee County High School in Enterprise, Alabama. He also taught a short
while at the Pensacola, Florida, High School after being discharged from the U. S. Army in 1918. He was
cashier of the Enterprise Banking Company from 1919 to 1925 and was a partner in a furniture business in
Enterprise prior to joining the faculty at Murphy High School in Mobile, Alabama, in 1927. He was appointed
principal of Barton Academy in Mobile in 1945 and remained there until his retirement in 1956.
Children: 1. William Columbus Stapleton, Jr. (My father,
the author of this work) ; 2. Mary Mell Stapleton
111 575 28 DORIS SMITH born 8 May 1903, Mobile, Alabama, married 19 June 1928 Mobile, Alabama, by Dr. R. R.
Ellison (Methodist) to Joseph Gaines Morrissette born 16 Jan 1902 Mobile, Alabama, son of Edward Robison
and Ida {Marshall} Morrissette, died 22 November 1932, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, buried Magnolia Cemetery,
Mobile, Alabama. She is a graduate of The Woman's College of Alabama (now Huntingdon College). Prior to
marriage she taught school at Vernon, Enterprise, and Luverne, Alabama. She taught Home Economics and
Biology at Murphy High School in Mobile prior to retirement. Joe Morrissette was a sales representative for
Kahn Manufacturing Company at the time of the automobile accident which took his life.
Children: 1. Doris Smith Morrissette
111 576 11 MARY ALITE GERALD born about 1900, died 11 January 1989, buried in the Catholic Cemetery in
Mobile, Alabama, married Francis Hoffman.
111 576 12 JOHN DAVIS GERALD, JR., born about 1902, Mobile, Alabama, died 26 April 1977, buried Catholic
Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama. Married Octavia ___.
Children: 1. Cecile Gerald; 2. Mary Ann Gerald; 3. Jane Davis Gerald
111 576 13 DOLLY GERALD born about 1904, Mobile, Alabama, married T. A. Yeend.
111 576 14 NATHAN DAVIS GERALD born 1906, died 1934, buried Catholic Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama.
111 576 15 NORMAN STAPLES GERALD born 14 August 1909, died 9 August 1976, married Mildred Cooper born
25 July 1911, died 13 October 1976, daughter of L. M. Cooper, both buried Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile,
Alabama.
Children: 1. Norman Staples Gerald, Jr.; 2. Elaine Gerald; 3. Sue Gerald; 4. Louis Richard
Gerald II
111 576 16 LOUIS RICHARD GERALD born about 1912, Mobile, Alabama, died ___, married Jodie ___.
111 576 17 MARGARET GERALD born about 1915, Mobile, Alabama, died 28 March 1992, buried Catholic
Cemetery, Mobile. She was known as Sister Mary Maurice Gerald after she joined the Sisters of Mercy where
she served for over 50 years as a teacher in Baltimore, Pensacola, and Mobile..
111 581 21 IDA LESLIE
111 581 22 EVA LESLIE
111 581 23 MARY LESLIE
111 576 21 HENRY HYBART LINK born July 1895, married Nellie ___.
Children: 1. Henry Hybart Link, Jr.
111 576 22 LEON KNAPP born about 1908, probably in Washington County, Alabama.
111 583 21 LILLIE ALMA HENDRIX born 7 May 1890 Palmetto, Florida, died 18 December 1971
111 583 22 JAMES WIGFELL HENDRIX born 18 March 1893 Palmetto, Florida, died 9 June 1977
111 583 23 DETWILER HENDRIX born 26 May 1895 Palmetto, Florida, died 13 November 1960
111 583 24 MARY EVA HENDRIX born 18 April 1899 Palmetto, Florida, married 9 June 1933 to Frank B. Gorsky.
Children: 1. Frank B. Gorsky; 2. Geraldine Gorsky; 3. Patricia Gorsky
111 583 61 ROSA MARY LOWRY born 12 November 1892, Palmetto, Florida, died 30 January 1963, Tampa,
Florida, married 1 August 1912 to Millary Alexander McDugald born 18 July 1889 died 6 March 1963.
Children: 1. Millary Lowry McDugald; 2. Mary Virginia McDugald; 3. Grace Elizabeth McDugald;
4. Joyce McDugald; 5. James Manning McDugald; 6. Betty Ann McDugald; 7. Maureen
Francis McDugald
111 583 62 JOHN JAMES LOWRY born 11 March 1894, Palmetto, Florida, died 4 October 1964 married 1925 to
Myra Lee Grubbs.
111 583 63 CHARLES H. LOWRY born and died 1897.
111 583 64 OSCAR BEALL LOWRY born 20 August 1899, Palmetto, Florida, married 5 August 1925 to Gertrude Ivey
who died 1978.
Children: 1. Charles Lowry; 2. June Marie Lowry
111 583 65 FRANK OLIVER LOWRY born 29 January 1901 Palmetto, Florida, died 4 January 1955 married 8 October
1930 to Alma Marsh.
Children: 1. Donald Lowry
111 583 66 ELLA LOUISE LOWRY born 15 June 1903 Oak Hill, Florida, married 30 August 1922 to Richard Beavans
Hebble. Tampa, FL
Children: 1. Mary Louise Hebble; 2. Richard B. Hebble, Jr.
111 583 67 VICTOR LEE LOWRY born 7 July 1907 Palmetto, Florida, died 1974 married to Vi Van Serk
111 583 91 VICTOR FLEETWOOD NETTLES born 1 November 1914, Palmetto, Florida, married 8 November 1941
to Grace Beatrice Noble born 26 July 1919 daughter of Clarence Vernon and Beatrice {Wood} Noble of
Gainesville, Florida. He received the Ph.D degree from Cornell University. For many years he was on the
faculty of the Department of Vegetable Crops at the University of Florida, where he is now Professor Emeritus.
Children: 1. Victor Fleetwood Nettles, Jr.; 2. Beatrice "Bea" Nettles; 3. John Robert Nettles;
4. Elizabeth Grace Nettles; 5. Constance Louise Nettles 111 432 111 WILLIAM HUNTER McCLELLAND born San Antonio, Texas, died ___.
111 432 112 MARY ELIZABETH "BESS" McCLELLAND born 25 November 1903, San Antonio, Texas, married Dr.
Lorenzo L. Skaggs. She was active in the DAR and the conservation movement.
111 432 121 WILLIAM LEA STALLWORTH born 28 October 1900. He received the B. S. from Auburn in 1921 and
the M. D. from Tulane in 1925. He established a clinic in Columbus, Mississippi. Married 1st on 25 May 1925
to Hester Margaret King, born 23 April 1907, died 20 June 1945. Married 2nd on 27 June 1947 to Alice Eva
Johnston, born 30 December 1921, New Kensington, Pennsylvania, She received the B. S. in Voice from the
Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester and teaches at the Mississippi State College for Women.
Children (1st marriage): 1. Nancy Stallworth; 2. William King Stallworth
Children (2nd marriage): 3. Alice Stallworth; 4. John Clement Stallworth; 5. Clementine
Stallworth
111 432 122 CLEMENTINE STALLWORTH born 8 November 1904, died 8 May 1936. Taught at Judson College,
Marion, Alabama. Not married.
111 432 141 MARY ELLA STALLWORTH SEYMOUR born 1 January 1908, Meridian, Mississippi, married 12 June
1924 to Walter Watlington Eppes.
Children: 1. Walter Watlington Eppes, Jr.
111 432 151 GLADYS AGNES STALLWORTH born 1 January 1908, Meridan, Mississippi, married 5 September
1928, Meridian, to Thomas Morrison Tartt, Jr., born 7 March 1901, Livingston, Alabama, where he was a
banker.
Children: 1. Gladys Stallworth Tartt; 2. Sylvia Stallworth Tartt
111 432 152 WILLIAM McCANTS STALLWORTH born 31 August 1911, Meridian, Mississippi, married 20 August
1946, Meridan, to Henry Hall Hemming, born 9 June 1918. He was in the lumber business in Meridian and she
was an active member of the DAR.
Children: 1. William Henry Stallworth
111 432 153 ROBERT McCLELLAND STALLWORTH born 6 December 1916, Meridian, Mississippi, married 16 July
1939, Columbus, Mississippi, to Virginia Townsend, born 26 December 1915, Columbus, daughter of Hugh
Townsend.
Children: 1. Anne Heard Stallworth; 2. Robert McClelland Stallworth; 3. Hugh Townsend
Stallworth
111 432 161 MARY MARGARET BUCK born 16 September 1909, Thomaston, Alabama, married 30 May 1934,
Thomaston, to Nathaniel Gray Carlton, born 4 May 1905, Lamison, Alabama, died 22 August 1967, Selma,
Alabama. She received B. A. degree from Judson College, Marion, Alabama.
111 432 162 JOSEPH ALEXANDER BUCK, JR. born 13 December 1910, Thomaston, Alabama, died 29 September
1955, Birmingham, Alabama, married 13 December 1933, Marion Junction, Alabama, to Lillie Louise
Williams, born 19 July 1909, Snow Hill, Alabama, daughter of James Early and Rosalie {Harper} Williams. He
attended Auburn University and the University of Alabama.
Children: 1. Catherine Louise Buck; 2. Joseph Alexander Buck III
111 432 163 NELLE STALLWORTH BUCK born 31 July 1914, Thomaston, Alabama, married 27 January 1947,
Thomaston, Alabama, to Harrison Price Underwood, born 26 August 1909, Spruce Pine, Alabama, died
17 January 1949, Tuscumbia, Alabama. She received A. B. degree from Montevallo College for Women (now
Montevallo University) and the M. A. degree from the University of Alabama.
Children: 1. Joan Elizabeth Underwood
111 432 164 ELLA ELIZABETH "BESS" BUCK born 16 December 1915, Thomaston, Alabama, married 23 November
1941, Thomaston, Alabama, to John Franklin Pack, born 24 April 1917, Sprott, Alabama, died 9 January 1971,
Thomaston, Alabama. She received the A. B. degree from Montevallo College for Women (now Montevallo
University) and pursued graduate studies at George Peabody College for Teachers (Now part of Vanderbilt
University). She taught mathematics in the public and private high schools of Alabama for over 20 years. John
attended Auburn University and served as a Chief Petty Officer in the Seabees. Later he was Assistant Engineer
for Marengo County, Alabama.
Children: 1. John Franklin Pack, Jr.; 2. Joseph Carlton Pack; 3. James Stallworth Pack
111 432 171 MILDRED ARDENA STALLWORTH born 8 May 1912, Meridian, Mississippi, married 9 June 1929,
Meridian, to Charles Guy Keen, born 9 June 1909, Dalton Georgia.
Children: 1. Mildred Mai Keen; 2. Sandra Keen; 3. Lou Ellen Keen
111 432 172 FRANK WILLIAMS STALLWORTH born 6 April 1914, Meridian, Mississippi, married 17 June 1933 to
Norma Lois Johnson, born 24 December 1913, Birmingham, Alabama.
111 432 231 Infant Son STEELE born and died 18 September 1917 buried Pineville Methodist Cemetery, Monroe
County, Alabama.
111 432 232 DAVID ADAM STEELE, JR. born 1 April 1919 married to Oleta Cassity. He attended Auburn
University.
111 432 233 NICHOLAS STALLWORTH STEELE born 3 October 1920 married Nell Hall. He attended Auburn
University.
Children: 1. Marcia Steele; 2. Nicholas Stallworth Steele, Jr.
111 432 234 EULALIE KENDALL STEELE born 27 July 1922 married to Jesse Harrington. She attended Jusdon
College, Marion, Alabama.
111 432 235 FITZGERALD SALTER STEELE born 6 December 1927 married to Patricia Hines. He attended Auburn
University.
Children: 1. David Fitzgerald Steele
111 433 111 Infant Daughter McCANTS born and died 27 September 1907 buried Bell's Landing Presbyterian Church.
111 433 112 ALICE McCANTS born 12 April 1909 died 3 May 1945 buried Bell's Landing Presbyterian Church
married to Dossie Calvin Peevy.
Children: 1. Dossie Calvin Peevy, Jr.
111 472 311 CLAUDE JOSEPH STALLWORTH born 12 July 1909 Mobile, Alabama. He attended St. Mary's
Seminary and University, Baltimore, Maryland, studied in Rome, and graduated from St. Mary College,
Xavier, Kansas. He was president of Jesuit High School in New Orleans.
111 472 312 MARY DOROTHY STALLWORTH born 15 August 1912, Crichton (a suburb of Mobile), Alabama,
married 26 October 1933 Mobile to George Karl Graf born 22 February 1906 son of Emil and Mary Ann
{Hopkins} Graf. The Graf family operated Graf's Dairy in Mobile.
Children: 1. Joan Marie Graf; 2. Mary Ann Graf; 3. Claudia Cavil Graf
111 472 321 MARY CLAIRE STALLWORTH born 18 March 1927 Mobile, Alabama, married 3 September 1947 to
Milton Oliver Booth born 25 June 1924 Mobile, son of William Guy and Nina {Brown} Booth. She attended
Huntingdon College, Montgomery, Alabama. He served in the U. S. armed forces from 1942 to 1945, attended
The University of Alabama, and was graduated from Spring Hill College, Mobile, in 1949. He was awarded the
Lange Medal in accounting.
Children: 1. Nancy Clifford Booth; 2. Milton Oliver Booth, Jr.
111 472 411 WILLIAM GLADSTONE STALLWORTH born 12 May 1919 Chapman, Alabama. He was a merchant at
Linden, Alabama.
111 472 421 WILLIAM FRANKLIN BECKHAM born 29 June 1912 Mobile, Alabama, married 25 March 1935 to Elsie
Lina Tyler born 15 August 1912 Mobile.
Children: 1. Elsie Tyler Beckham
111 472 422 HELEN MARIE BECKHAM born 22 February 1914 Mobile, Alabama, married 15 March 1943 to Carlos
Albert Gomez born 8 July 1912 Brooklyn, New York.
Children: 1. Mary Katherine Gomez
111 472 451 CLARA BELLE BECKHAM born 23 August 1916 Mobile, Alabama, married in Mobile to Fournier Gale.
Children: 1. Warner Joseph Gale; 2. Jo Ann Gale; 3. Fournier Joseph Gale
111 472 452 MARY FRANCES BECKHAM born 7 December 1923 Mobile, Alabama, married in Mobile to Braxton
Kittrell.
Children: 1. Braxton Leon Kittrell; 2. Michael Wayne Kittrell; 3. Steven Glenn Kittrell
111 472 461 JEAN HUNTER STALLWORTH born 17 April 1928 Greenville, Alabama, married 24 August 1950
Atmore, Alabama, to Benjamin Collins Maxwell born 6 March 1925 Atmore. In 1949 she received the B. A.
degree from Huntingdon College. He served in the U. S. Navy, received the B. A. degree from the University
of Alabama, and was awarded the M. D. degree from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. He practiced
medicine in Atmore.
Children: 1. Martha Ann Maxwell; 2. Mary Lynn Maxwell; 3. Benjamin Collins Maxwell, Jr.
111 472 462 BARBARA ANNE STALLWORTH born 17 July 1933 Birmingham, Alabama. She attended Huntingdon
College and Auburn University.
111 472 463 THOMAS HUGH STALLWORTH, JR. born 1 September 1936 Atmore, Alabama. He graduated from
Marion Military Institute and attended the University of Alabama. He lived at Atmore.
111 472 464 MARTHA JULIA STALLWORTH born 20 October 1938 Atmore, Alabama, married Atmore to Thomas
Keith King born 15 April 1935 son of Leonard Bernard and Merle Louis {Murphy} King. She attended
Stephens College and The University of Alabama. He was a Civil Engineering graduate of Auburn University
and they live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Children: 1. Martha Julia King
111 472 471 SARAH ELIZABETH WAHL born 12 December 1921 Mobile, Alabama, married 20 August 1940
Fairhope, Alabama, to Travis Young Nelson born 12 July 1917 Daphne, Alabama. He served in the Merchant
Marines during World War II.
Children: 1. Travis Young Nelson, Jr.; 2. David Michael Nelson; 3. Charles Tucker Nelson
111 472 472 CHARLES ALVIN WAHL, JR. born 24 November 1922 Mobile, Alabama, married 20 January 1958
Lucedale, Mississippi to Peggy Mason born 4 February 1934 Robertsdale, Alabama. He served in the U. S.
Navy in World War II.
111 472 473 RALPH HOLCOMB WAHL born 24 November 1924 Fairhope, Alabama, married 7 April 1950 to Betty
Ann Niemeyer born 4 December 1923 Fairhope, Alabama. He served in the U. S. Navy in World War II.
Children: 1. Charles Randy Wahl; 2. Sue Ann Wahl
111 472 474 MARY ELLEN WAHL born 21 August 1934 Fairhope, Alabama, married 9 February 1957 Daphne,
Alabama, to Henry Kingston, Jr. born 20 July 1931 Mobile, Alabama. Pensacola, Florida
Children: 1. Christine Anita Kingston
111 472 475 THERESA CLAUDETTE WAHL born 28 June 1938 to Clifford Eugene Straum born 20 September 1938
Fairhope, Alabama..
111 472 611 AGNES LOUISE HARPER born 23 November 1910 Beatrice, Alabama, married 16 March 1938 to
Monroe Hestle Harper born 11 September 1913 Bay Springs, Florida. She graduated from Alabama College. He
attrended the University of Florida and was a contractor in Panama City, Florida.
111 472 612 ANNE MARIE HARPER born 20 October 1913 Beatrice, Alabama, married 21 April 1957 to William
Spencer Helms, Jr. born 12 January 1915. They lived in Montgomery, Alabama.
111 472 621 GLORIA BELLE STALLWORTH born 26 March 1923 Beatrice, Alabama, married 22 August 1942 to
Robert Henderson Borders III born 20 October 1921 Birmingham, Alabama, son of Robert Henderson and
Elizabeth {Coleman} Borders. She attended Alabama College. He attended The University of Alabama where he
was a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity. He was a Colonel in the U. S. Air Force where he served with
distinction receiving Silver Star, nine Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Air Medal.
Children: 1. Robert Henderson Borders; 2. Frank Stallworth Borders; 3. Glory Stallworth Borders
111 472 622 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN STALLWORTH born 1 January 1925 Beatrice, Alabama, married 8 February
1948 to Helen Gwin McGowan born 3 August 1926 Bay Minette, Alabama, daughter of Wayne Gene and
Margaret {Gwin} McGowan. He attended The University of Alabama where he was a member of th Sigma Nu
fraternity. He served in the Enginering Corps of the Air Force.
Children: 1. Margaret Gwin Stallworth; 2. Flora Stallworth Stallworth; 3. Benjamin Franklin
Stallworth
111 472 631 VIVIAN ANNE MARTIN born 5 December 1918 married 5 July 1937 to Clarence Augustus Pruett born
26 November 1913 McKenzie, Alabama. He received B. S. degress in Electrical and Civil Engineering from
Auburn University. He served with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineerins attaining the rank of Lieutenant
Colonel. He was awarded the Legion of Merit. He was in business in Columbia, South Carolina.
Children: 1. Samuel Martin Pruett; 2. William Allen Pruett; 3. Michael Walker Pruett
111 472 632 SAMUEL ALLEN MARTIN born 6 December 1926 married 13 August 1949 to Katherine Samford Smith
born 2 September 1926 daughter of James Allen and Katherine {Samford} Smith of Monroeville, Alabama.
Children: 1. Samuel Allen Martin, Jr.; 2. Frank Smith Martin; 3. James Nettles Martin
111 472 633 WILLIAM JESSIE MARTIN born 9 March 1931.
111 472 651 SARA ANN McCALL born 6 December 1925 Selma, Alabama, married 1st 28 June 1947 to Edwin
Coleman Lee born 13 October 1920 Monroeville, Alabama, died 12 July 1951 son of Amasa Coleman and
Frances Louise {Finch} Lee, married 2nd to John Arthur Curry born 3 December 1919.
Children (1st marriage): 1. Mary McCall Lee; 2. Edwin Coleman Lee
Children (@nd marriage): 3. Martha Ann Curry
111 472 652 LLOYD TERRENCE McCALL, JR. born 5 January 1927 Beatrice, Alabama, married 24 June 1954 to
Patsy Ruth Stephens born 12 November 1930 Anderson, South Carolina, daughter of Samuel Arthur and Ruth
Elizabeth {Tollison} Stephens.
Children: 1. Lloyd Terrence Lee III
111 472 653 ALLEN LAW McCALL born 6 September 1932 Monroeville, Alabama, died 4 January 1958.
111 472 711 NEALIE HASSELTINE STALLWORTH born 12 March 1911 Beatrice, Alabama, married 3 June 1937 to
John Philip Maxwell born 19 August 1911 Little Rock, Arkansas, son of Clarence B. and Lottie Mae
{Holcomb} Maxwell. She graduated from Alabama College and received the Master of Religious Education
degree from the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He was a graduate of Baylor University and the
Southwestrern Baptist Theological Seminary. He served as pastor to several Baptist Churches in Florida.
Children: 1. Ann Hasseltine Maxwell; 2. John Philip Maxwell, Jr.; 3. Margaret Jane Maxwell
111 472 712 MARY JANE STALLWORTH born 5 December 1912 Beatrice, Alabama, married 14 June 1935 Beatrice
to Mark Herbert Richards born 25 October 1910 Giddings, Texas. She graduated from Alabama College and
attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He graduated from Baylor University, received the ThM
degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and the ThD degree from Central Baptist Seminary in
Kansas City. He was pastor to churches in both Texas and Nebraska.
Children: 1. Mary Jane Richards; 2. Mark Stanley Richards; 3. Phyllis Ann Richards; 4. Roalie Neal
Richards
111 472 713 THOMAS NETTLES STALLWORTH born 14 January 1915 Beatrice, Alabama, married 5 November
1939 to Eva Mae Turnipseed born 19 March 1916 Fitzpatrick, Alabama. He graduated from Howard College,
served in the U. S. Navy, was a Lt Gov. of the Alabama Kiwanis, and was a groceryman. She graduated from
Troy State Teachers College.
Children: 1. William Thomas Stallworth; 2. Rose Marie Stallworth; 3. Sylvia Stallworth; 4. Eva Laine
Stallworth
111 472 721 HENRY HOUSTON NEWTON, JR. born 9 January 1912 died 21 April 1913 buried in the Stallworth
Cemetery at Beatrice, Alabama.
111 472 731 MARION JOHNSON STALLWORTH born 22 November 1912 Milton, Florida, married 25 August 1936
Beatrice to John Evan Barnes, Jr. born 9 July 1911 Pratt City, Alabama. She received the B. A. in music and
the Hypathia Loving Cup from Howard College and the M A. degree, cum laude, from Mississippi Southern
College. She taught music in the Beatrice High School. He received the B. A. degree from Howard College, the
Th. M. degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Lousivulle, and the D. D. from Mississippi
College. He was ordained in December 1932 at the Dauphin Way Baptist Church in Mobile, Alabama, and
served churches in Alabama, Kentucky, Indiana, and Mississipi. For many years he was pastor of the Main
Street Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Children: 1. Frances Marilyn Barnes; 2. John Evan Barnes III; 3. Elizabeth Carson Barnes
111 472 732 EDMUND STONE STALLWORTH born 8 October 1917 Beatrice, Alabama, married 16 May 1942 Canal
Zone, Panama, to Olga Fadul born 15 1919 Los Santos, Panama, daughter of Marcelino and Eva {Almengor}
Fadul. He received the B. A. degree from Howard College and served as a staff sergeant in the U. S. Armry
air force during World War II. Since his ordination in 1952 he has served Baptist churches in Alabama,
Panama, and the Canal Zone. She attended the University of Panama, the University of Chicago, and received
the B. A. degree from Howard College.
Children: 1. Edmund Stone Stallworth; 2. James Davison Stallworth; 3. Mary Eva Stallworth;
4. Margarita Olga Stallworth
111 472 733 FRANCIS DENNIS STALLWORTH born 9 May 1921 Beatrice, Alabama, married 4 October 1940
Atmore, Alabama, to Helen Joyce Black born 19 March 1922 Natchez, Alabama, daughter of James Alvin and
Mae {Rhoad} Black. He was involved in lumber, cattle and banking businesses and was president of the
Kiwanis Club in 1955 in Beatrice.
Children: 1. Jocelyn Stallworth; 2. Francis Dennis Stallworth; 3. Infant Son Stallworth (Twin);
4. Infant Son Stallworth (Twin); 5. James Allen Stallworth
111 472 751 CONRAD STONE WALL born 20 April 1935 Beatrice, Alabama, married 28 May 1954 Beatrice to
Patricia Andrews born 23 August 1939 Greenville, Alabama. He attended Howard College, Livingston State
College, and Clarke Memorial College. He was an insurance agent in New Orleans.
Children: 1. Conrad Stone Wall, Jr.
111 472 752 RICHARD ALBERT WALL born 30 August 1944 Montgomery, Alabama.
111 473 211 MAYSIE BLACKSHEAR HILL married Richard Murray.
111 473 212 EDWARD ASHTON HILL, JR.
111 473 213 JOHN JEPTHA HILL married to Mary Frances Deer.
111 473 221 BLACKSHEAR WHITE-SPUNNER
111 473 222 STRATFORD WHITE-SPUNNER
111 473 223 DAMMER WHITE-SPUNNER
111 473 231 MARGARET SUE ADAMS married Dr. Guy Coleman Oswalt.
111 473 232 JEPPIE ADAMS married to Jack Gallalee.
111 473 233 MARION S. ADAMS married to Ann Greer.
111 473 241 JAMES GLENN COBB, JR.
111 473 242 JEPTHA COBB
111 473 243 MAYSIE BARBARA COBB
111 513 111 MARY JANE CAWTHON married to J. Roy Albright.
Children: 1. Margaret Eleanor Albright; 2. Mary Jane Albright; 3. Jessie Kay Albright; 4. Marie
Christian "Bonnie" Albright
111 513 121 KATHLEEN KREBS married to H. M. Weisler.
111 521 311 Infant Daughter HYBART born and died 27 September 1922 buried Canton Bend Methodist Church.
111 521 312 JULIA SADLER HYBART born 1 April 1927 died 18 July 1938 buried Canton Bend Methodist Church.
111 521 321 MARY EMILY HYBART born 28 April 1922 died 31 January 1983 buried Memorial Gardens,
Monroeville, Alabama, married 20 August 1943 Monroeville, by Rev. David Edington (Presbyterian) to Clyde
"Buck" Marshall born 19 June 1921.
Children (adopted): 1. Edward Lewis Marshall; 2. Beverly Anne Marshall.
111 521 322 JOHN CAMERON HYBART, JR. born 10 July 1926 married 30 September 1946 Monroe County,
Alabama, to Ethel Eugean "Gean" Dees born 6 April 1928, daughter of Leo Dees. John served in the U. S.
Navy in China in World War II and is now retired. He enjoys hunting, fishing, and working in his shop. Gean
owns and operates Gean's Beauty Shop. They are members of the First Baptist Church in Monroeville.
Children: 1. John Cameron Hybart III; 2. Emilie Jeanine Hybart.
111 521 611 JOHN HYBART CAMMACK born 18 September 1923 Gosport, Alabama, married 15 August 1943 at the
Oakdale Methodist Church, Mobile, Alabama, to Bennie Pearl Glenn married 2nd to Betty ___.
Children (1st marriage): 1. John Hybart Cammack, Jr.
Children (2nd marriage): 2.
111 528 321 WILLIAM CARL KONSTANZER born 1945, d 12/00
111 528 322 LINDA KONSTANZER (of Mobile)
111 533 311 DOROTHY LEE BETHEA born 4 April 1920.
111 533 341 DONALD ROY OWENS born 16 December 1925.
111 533 511 FRANKIE LOU BETHEA born 4 January 1925 Terrell, Texas.
111 533 521 LEWIS JEROME JOHNSTON born 3 Aiugust 1921
111 571 211 GEORGE HOWARD GAILLARD born 31 March 1901, died 20 July 1971, married 7 October 1928,
Clarksdale, Mississippi, to Corinne Myers.
Children: 1. Ann Calhoun Gaillard; 2. John Caldwell Gaillard.
111 571 212 DOROTHY JANE GAILLARD born 7 June 1902, died 19 May 1982, Mobile, Alabama, buried Pine Crest
Cemetery, married 4 March 1923 to John Jeff Caffey born _____, died 4 January 1962.
Children: 1. Jane Calhoun Caffey
111 571 221 ESTELLE HYBART (TWIN) born Monroeville, Alabama, married to Robert Powers. He was a jeweler in
Nashville, Tennessee.
111 571 222 Infant HYBART (TWIN) died young.
111 571 223 VIRGINIA McDUFFIE HYBART born 4 October 1926, married 20 March 1948 to William Buck Taylor,
Jr.
Children: 1. Virginia "Jin" Hybart Taylor; 2. William Buck "Bucky" Taylor III; 3. Charles
"Charlie" Louis Taylor; 4. Laurie Ann "Eebie" Taylor
111 571 231 MYRTLE ELIZABETH HYBART born 18 August 1900 Mobile, Alabama, died 25 April 1976 buried
Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, Alabama, married 20 February 1924, Mobile, Alabama, by Rev. Gardiner C.
Tucker (Episcopal) to Henry Latham Hood born 30 June 1900 Carrollton, Alabama, died 6 June 1974.
Children: 1. Henry Latham Hood, Jr.
111 571 232 BEULAH CALHOUN HYBART born 5 June 1902 Mobile, Alabama, died 3 March 1988 buried Pine
Crest Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama, married 10 November 1938, Mobile, Alabama, to Fred W. Clarke.
111 571 241 ATLAS MARTIN MILHOUS born 6 November 1911 Selma, Alabama, married 1st 31 August 1940
Clarksdale, Mississippi, to Gondylock Venable, married 2nd 23 November 1946 Birmingham, Alabama, to
Katherine Green.
Children (2nd marriage): 1. Frank Lemuel Milhouse II; 2. Thomas Milhous; 3. Stephen
Milhous
111 571 251 HENRY CALHOUN HYBART born 12 September 1909 Monroeville, Alabama, died 29 June 1922 buried
Bell's Landing Presbyterian Church.
111 571 252 MARY REBECCA HYBART born 23 March 1911 Bell's Landing died 7 May 1987 Tuscaloosa, Alabama,
buried Bell's Landing Presbyterian Church married 11 May 1945 Raleigh, North Carolina, to George Lehman
Welch. A cum laude graduate of Alabama College (now Montevallo University), she received the M. A. degree
and the AA teacher certificate from The University of Alabama. She taught for 39 years, serving schools in
Sumter, Elmore, Monroe, Bibb, and Tuscaloosa Counties. She was active in many organizations including the
Girl Scouts, Daughters of the American Revolution, Tuscaloosa Wildflower Club, and the Tuscaloosa
Genealogical Society. She was an active member of the First Baptist Church of Tuscaloosa.
Children: 1. Rebecca Annette Welch; 2. Lelia Lall "Lollie" Welch.
111 571 253 JAMES WILLIS HYBART, JR. born 26 January 1914 Bell's Landing married 31 October 1941
Monroeville, Alabama, to Edith Shirah. He is vice-president of Appliance Parts and Supply Company in
Mobile.
Children: 1. Edith Susan Hybart; 2. James Willis Hybart III.
111 571 254 FREDERICK STALLWORTH HYBART born 22 March 1916 Bell's Landing married 26 August 1947
Tuskhannock, Pennsylvania, to Evelyn Dershimer. Fred is president and Evelyn is secretary of Appliance Parts
and Supply in Mobile. Evelyn also is a guidance counselor at the Sidney Phillips Junior High School in Mobile.
Children: 1. Frederick Stallworth Hybart, Jr.
111 571 255 LALL HYBART born 15 August 1919 Bell's Landing married 12 February 1943 Monroeville, Alabama, to
Robert E. Swift born 11 July 1916 Fairhope, Alabama, died 29 July 1979 Loxley, Alabama, buried Bell's
Landing Presbyterian Church. He graduated from Livingston State College (now Livingston University) and was
a high school teacher and coach prior to civil service employment at Brookley Field in Mobile and Craig Field
in Selma. Lall was the first president of Phi Delta Mu Sorority at Livingston State in 1941.
Children: 1. Lall Harriet Swift.
111 571 256 JOHN PAUL HYBART born 14 May 1922 Bell's Landing died 4 August 1978, the result of an allergic
reaction to an insect sting, buried at River Ridge Cemetery, Franklin, Alabama, married to Mrs. Elizabeth
{Harper} Rutherford, widow of Leslie Rutherford. Leslie and Elizabeth have two daughters, Mary Kelly and
Ann (Mrs. Frank) Lambert. Paul served overseas during World War II and farmed in Monroe County,
Alabama, the remainder of his life.
111 571 257 JANE CALHOUN HYBART born 3 October 1926 Bell's Landing married 1st 11 April 1947 Navy Chapel,
Banana River, Florida, to John Perry Johnson, married 2nd to Henry Rosborough.
Children (1st marriage): 1. Jane Ellen Johnson; 2. Barbara Ann Johnson; 3. Perry Clayton
Johnson.
111 571 261 CLAYRITA HYBART born 28 August 1908 married to John James Longino Godwin.
Children: 1. Nancy Calhoun Godwin; 2. John "Jack" James Longino Godwin, Jr.; 3. Clay
Mallory "Sandy" Godwin.
111 571 262 JOHN "JACK" LEE HYBART born 3 June 1910 died 28 October 1978 married 23 February 1931 to Carol
Wilson born 14 August 1914.
Children: 1. Joan Hunnell Hybart; 2. Judith Virginia Hybart; 3. John Lee Hybart, Jr.;
4. Michael George Hybart; 5. Rita "Cissy" Carol Hybart
111 574 111 WILLIE LOU DAVIS born 12 November 1943, married 1 August 1959 to Charles Kenneth Turberville,
born 22 March 1939.
Children: 1. Charles Randall Turberville; 2. Jeffrey Devan Turberville; 3. Anthony Todd
Turberville
111 574 112 WILLIAM JOHN P. DAVIS born 14 October 1945, married 23 December 1967 to Elizabeth Ann
McKenzie, born 24 July 1949.
Children: 1. William Christopher Davis
111 574 113 KENNETH WAYNE DAVIS born 9 January 1951, married 12 November 1968 to Debra Diane Till, born
10 October 1950.
Children: 1. Tracie Diane Davis
111 574 114 Infant Son DAVIS born and died 24 September 1951, buried in Springhill Church Cemetery, Franklin,
Alabama.
111 574 121 ALBERT DAVIS born 23 November 1914, died 1 November 1927, buried Springhill Church cemetery,
Franklin, Alabama.
111 575 211 ROBERT ALEXANDER SMITH III born 27 November 1920 Pensacola, Florida, married 1st
26 November 1947 Birmingham, Alabama, by Rev. Frank M. Cross (Presbyterian) to Laura Elizabeth
Trantham, daughter of Franklin Simmons and Maudie Trantham, married 2nd 15 February 1952 Mobile,
Alabama, to Dorothy Clenney born 10 February ____ Abbeville, Alabama, daughter of Augustus Daniel and
Josie {Johnson} Clenney. He died 4 January 1990 Dothan, Alabama, buried Abbeville, Alabama. A graduate of
The University of Alabama, Bob was Base Historian at Brookley Air Force Base in Mobile and served as a
Management Specialist for NASA in Huntsville. He served in both the Marine Corps and the Navy during
World War II. He coauthored a history of the town of Pine Apple which was published posthumously.
Children (1st marriage): 1. Robert "Robin" Trantham Pinkard.
111 575 212 LOUISE MELTON SMITH born 28 September 1922 Pensacola, Florida, married 21 July 1948 Pine Apple,
Alabama, to Wilkie Collins Dickson born 30 December 1920 Ellington, Missouri, son of William Marvin and
Josephine Manton {Collins} Dickson, died 14 August 1984 Montgomery, Alabama, buried Magnolia Cemetery,
Greenville, Alabama.
Children: 1. Louise Melton Dickson; 2. Martha Susan Dickson; 3. William Robert Dickson.
111 575 213 DORIS JEANNETTE SMITH born 26 August 1924, Pine Apple, Alabama, married 25 December 1963
Forest Lake Methodist Church, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to Arthur Greer, Jr. born 4 July 1907 LaGrange,
Georgia, died 24 December 1992 Selma, Alabama, buried Friendship Baptist Church, Pine Apple, Alabama,
son of Arthur and Berta {Cleveland} Greer. He managed a printing establishment in Winona, Mississippi.
111 575 214 HENRY EDWARD SMITH born 19 December 1931 Pine Apple, Alabama, died 18 August 1952 Inje
River, Korea, buried Magnolia Cemetery, Greenville, Alabama. He graduated from Moore Adademy, Pine
Apple, Alabama, and attended Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University) prior to entering the
United State Army in January 1952 at Ft. Jackson, South Carolina.
111 575 251 SARAH "SALLIE" LUCILE NEWSOM born 25 April 1928 Birmingham, Alabama, married 20 March
1948 Dexter Avenue Methodist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, to Jesse Hoyt Looney born 15 December 1927
Limestone County, Alabama, son of Jesse Olin and Leila {Mattison} Looney. Sallie received the B.S. degree
from The University of Alabama. Hoyt received the B.S. degree from The University of Alabama and the
L.L.B. degree from Jones Law School, Montgomery, Alabama. He is a Certified Public Accountant, member
of the Alabama Bar Association and various other professional organizations, the Kiwanis Club, and is
Treasurer of Trinity Methodist Church, Huntsville, Alabama. He attained the rank of Lt. Col. in the United
States Army Reserve Corps.
Children: 1. Mary Ann Looney; 2. Virginia Lucile Looney; 3. Jane Leila Looney; 4. James
Hoyt Looney.
111 575 252 CHARLES HENDERSON NEWSOM, JR. born 23 January 1931 Birmingham, Alabama, married
28 December 1962 LaPine, Alabama, to Julie {McKenzie} Waters born 29 August 1938 Montgomery,
Alabama, daughter of Sterling Price and Marjorie Bradley {Spear} McKenzie. He received the B. S. in
Mechanical Engineering degree from The University of Alabama and served as a Lt. in the United States Air
Force. He is a member of the Montgomery Country Club, Montgomery Chamber of Commerce, "A" Club of
the University of Alabama, and The Forum. He is a Steward in the Methodist Church. He is president and one
of the founders of the Alabama Engineering and Supply Company, Montgomery, Alabama.
Children: 1. Arden Bradley Newsom; 2. Amy Hybart Newsom.
111 575 253 MARY JEANNETTE NEWSOM born 2 August 1938 Birmingham, Alabama, married 9 July 1960 Dexter
Avenue Methodist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, to Charles Rudy Lewis born 21 November 1933 Covington
County, Alabama, son of Trent and Modie Gau {Johnson} Lewis. She received the B.A. degree from The
University of Alabama where she also received the prestigious Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award. She is a
member of the Georgia Poetry Society and the Presbyterian Church. She teaches adult education and coordinates
volunteers working with adult low-level learners. He received the B.S. degree from The University of Alabama
and is a Certified Public Accountant. He served in the U. S. Army four years attaining the grade of Sergeant.
He is a Mason, an Elder in the Presbyterian Church, member of the Exchange Club, and a member of the
Coastal Empire Baseball and Football Officials' Association. He is finance director for Glynn County, Georgia.
Children: 1. Margaret Lucile Lewis; 2. Charles Trent Lewis; 3. Rebecca "Bunny" Leigh
Lewis; 4. Mary Fielding Lewis.
111 575 271 WILLIAM COLUMBUS STAPLETON, JR. born 15 May 1927 Mobile, Alabama, died
16 October 1995, Tuscaloosa, buried Tuscaloosa Memorial Park,
married 19 August 1967, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, by Rev. William Curl
at the First Methodist Church to Mary Ellen Lee born
23 December 1938 Tuscaloosa, Alabama, daughter of Albert Peterson and Fannie Mae {Norton} Lee. He
served in the U. S. Navy 1945-46 at the Naval Operating Base on Guam. He received the B.S.E.E. degree from
The University of Alabama, the M.S.E.E. degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and the PhD degree
from the University of Florida. He was employed as a test engineer for the General Electric Co. in various New
England locations from 1949 to 1951. He is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at The University of
Alabama and is a registered Professional Engineer. She received the B.S. and M.A. degrees from The
University of Alabama and taught school in Montgomery and Tuscaloosa.
Children: 1. William Albert Stapleton; 2. Robert Edward Stapleton (That's me . One Heck of a guy.)
111 575 272 MARY MELL STAPLETON born 22 May 1934 Mobile, Alabama, married 8 August 1959 Mobile,
Alabama, to John Howard Segrest born 30 July 1929, son of John Worth and Ella {Harbin} Segrest. She
received the B.A. degree from David Lipscomb College and the M.A. degree from George Peabody College for
Teachers (now part of Vanderbilt University). He attended Huntingdon College, received the B.S. degree from
The University of Alabama, and was Comptroller for Converse BCM in Mobile prior to retirement.
Children: 1. Mary Ella Segrest; 2. John Howard Segrest, Jr.
111 575 281 DORIS SMITH MORRISSETTE born 1 May 1929 Mobile, Alabama, married 8 November 1955 to George
Armstrong McGowan, Jr. born 8 February 1925 Mobile, Alabama, son of George Armstrong and Emmie
{Risher} McGowan. She received the A.B. degree from Huntingdon College and taught school in Mobile
County, Alabama. He received the B.S. degree from Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University)
and did graduate work at the Georgia Institute of Technology. At Auburn he was a member of Tau Beta Pi and
Phi Lambda Upsilon, honorary fraternities. He received the Master of Business Administration (Finance) degree
from the University of Tennessee and is an Elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He is a registered
Professional Engineer.
Children: 1. George Armstrong McGowan III; 2. Joseph Morrissette McGowan; 3. Infant son
McGowan.
111 576 121 CECILE GERALD married John E. "Jack" Busbee.
Children: 1 John E. Busbee, Jr.
111 576 122 MARY ANN GERALD married Leslie M. Stabler Lexington, SC
Children: 1. Leslie Stabler; 2. Gerald Stabler; 3. Leigh Ann Stabler; 4. Philip Stabler;
5. Mark Alan Stabler
111 576 123 JANE DAVIS GERALD married Welman B. Tanner. He is president of Richardson Sales.
111 576 151 NORMAN STAPLES GERALD, JR. married Peggy ___. He is sales representative for Hoffman LaRoche
Pharmaceuticals.
Children: 1. Virginia "Ginger" Gerald; 2. Norman Staples Gerald III
111 576 152 ELAINE GERALD married ___ Dillon. Marietta, GA
111 576 153 SUE GERALD
111 576 154 LOUIS RICHARD GERALD II, married Marianne ___.
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111 576 211 HENRY HYBART LINK, JR.
111 583 241 FRANK B. GORSKY
111 583 242 GERALDINE GORSKY
111 583 243 PATRICIA GORSKY
111 583 611 MILLARY LOWRY McDUGALD born 11 October 1913 married 28 June 1944 to Helen Krajicek
111 583 612 MARY VIRGINIA McDUGALD born 21 November 1915 married 14 November 1939 to John Randolph
Wilhelm
111 583 613 GRACE ELIZABETH McDUGALD born 27 March 1919 died 7 May 1971 married Whitey Parnell
111 583 614 JOYCE McDUGALD
111 583 615 JAMES MANNING McDUGALD born 1925 died 1947
111 583 616 BETTY ANN McDUGALD born 14 February 1930 married 26 September 1949 to Earl Torres
111 583 617 MAUREEN FRANCIS McDUGALD born 13 July 1937 married to Robert Leo Boudrot of Watertown,
Massachusetts.
111 583 641 CHARLES LOWRY born September 1926
111 583 642 JUNE MARIE LOWRY married Robert Sullivan
111 583 651 DONALD LOWRY
111 583 661 MARY LOUISE HEBBLE born December 13 1923 Tampa, Florida, married 30 August 1946 to Paul
Bearss. Tampa, FL
Children: 1. Marilyn Bearss
111 583 662 RICHARD B. HEBBLE, JR. born 6 June 1927 Palmetto, Florida, married 23 February 1965 to Martha
Reid. Tampa, FL
Children: 1. Mary J. Hebble
111 583 911 VICTOR FLEETWOOD NETTLES, JR. born 21 August 1944 Gainesville, Florida, married 27 May 1966
to Margaret Eileen Minear born 7 October 1946 daughter of Marion D. and Catherine {Pond} Minear. He
received the DVM and PhD degrees and is Director of the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study at
the University of Georgia. Watkinsville, GA
Children:1. Casey Stephen Nettles; 2. Daniel Nicholas Nettles
111 583 912 BEATRICE "BEA" NETTLES born 17 October 1946 Gainesville, Florida, married 19 March 1974
Rochester, New York, to Lionel Suntop born 26 August 1942 son of Lazarus and Chene Suntop. She is head of
the Department of Art Photography in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois, Champaign,
Illinois.
Children: 1. Rachel Starr Suntop; 2. Gavin Lazar Suntop
111 583 913 JOHN ROBERT NETTLES born 2 November 1948 Ithaca, New York, married 5 April 1988 Gainesville,
Florida, to Carol Petrone. He is an attorney specializing in family affairs in Gainesville.
Children: 1. Callie Jennifer Nettles; 2. Jacquelyn Kay Nettles
111 583 914 ELIZABETH GRACE NETTLES born 23 June 1953, Gainesville, Florida, married 25 August 1972
Gainesville, Florida, to John Eastham Clark born 3 June 1952 son of Harold B. and Ann {Eastham} Clark.
Baton Rouge, LA
Children: 1. Heather Marie Clark; 2. Patrick Nolan Clark; 3. Nathan James Clark
111 583 915 CONSTANCE LOUISE NETTLES born 16 April 1956, Gainesville, Florida, married 14 February 1981
Gainesville, Florida, to William Russell Niemi born 17 September 1956, Astoria, Oregon, son of William
Henry and Maxine {Johnston} Niemi. Federal Way, WA
Children:1. Cassandra Michelle Niemi; 2. Thomas Allen Niemi; 3. Michael Victor Niemi
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