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I have found records that show Joseph started out life as Josephus Douglass or Douglas.
1850 Federal Census for Mississippi - In the 1850 census he is in the household of his Grandmother Martha "Duglas". Nancy is in the list also, but it doesn't say if she is the daughter or the daughter-in-law of Martha. There are 2 males in the household who could have very well been the husband of Nancy - therefore her last name would have been listed as Duglas (Douglass). 1850 Oktibbeha Co, MS – Martha Duglas 50 b. VA, Alfred 22 AL, Nancy 21 AL, Asa 19 AL, Robert 17 AL, Samuel 12 AL, Josephus 1 MS.
I know that on Aug 16, 1855 in Noxubee Co, MS his Mama, Nancy, married Benjamin R. Bird under the name Nancy Douglass, but I hadn't been able to find out if this was her maiden name or was her name by her first marriage.
1860 Federal Census for Mississippi - JC has stayed with his Grandmother Martha in Noxubee Co, MS and Nancy is living in Choctaw Co, MS with her husband BR Bird and their first child Martha Bird. Asa from the 1850 census is living with his family 2 dwellings away from Martha. In Martha’s household is Josephus and Robert. I have never been able to find Alfred (22 years old in the 1850 census) and I believe he was the father of Josephus and something happened to him between 1850 and 1855.
Sometime between the 1860 census and 1862 - JC went to Virginia because in 1862 JC joined the NC Home Guard in Richmond, VA during the Civil War (according to his pension application he joined under the name Joseph McBroom), but he was discharged when they found out how young he was. Six months before he died, Joe applied for a Civil War pension. His paperwork stated that he swore to the facts that he was born in Mississippi on December 31, 1848, that he joined the NC Home Guard in Richmond, VA in early 1862, as a horse handler with a large group of boys and that when his age was found out he was honorably discharged in 1st day of December, 1862. He was denied pension because of his position in the war and because he was discharged due of his age. (Anyone receiving pension must have been in the regular service.) The panel of 6 men swore to the truth of the statements that Joe had made in his application.
I have never been able to find him under any name in the 1870 census.
Since I have been searching for ANY details in this man’s life I came on a strange fact. In the same NC Home Guard unit serving as a horse handler, then promoted to full farrier, was Samuel Smith McBroom from Orange Co., NC. Sometime before the 1880 census Josephus Douglass changed his name to Joseph Cypher McBroom and named his first son, born 1877, Samuel Smith McBroom. When I found this fact, I called a lady in North Carolina who is a descendant of Samuel Smith and she said she had no record of a Joseph and that Samuel had not been married before the wife who was their ancestor. (I talked with her before I found out Joe had changed his name).
1880 Federal Census for Oktibbeha Co, MS - Joseph is listed As Joseph C. McBroom with his wife Sarah E. (some of the family say that her maiden name was Sutton, but I haven’t been able to confirm or deny that), son Samuel S., daughter Sarah E., mother Nancy Bird, and sister Marinda Bird. He is living next door to the George Bird family where Nancy’s daughter Martha Bird is living, listed as a niece.
In the 1900 Census Joseph is living in Walton Co., FL with his new family (doggone that missing 1890 census!!). There was Joseph, Sytha (new wife), Ed (son born in MS), Callie (daughter Sytha brought to the marriage), Eddie V. (daughter born in MS ?), Willie, Henryetta, and Indiana (the last 3 born to Joseph and Sytha). Indiana was my husband’s mother.
Also in the 1900 Alabama census Nancy’s daughter, Miranda, has married Joseph Allen Appling (spelled Aplin, Applin and probably all kinds of ways that I haven’t found yet!!) and they are living in Covington Co, AL. Covington County is just over the Florida Alabama line from Walton Co., FL
Family history has that his first wife and another child (girl) died of Yellow Fever (colora) in Mississippi. When he made it to DeFuniak Springs, FL, he had 2 boys and 1 girl. Some other family heard that he came with 2 boys. Indianna told her son (my husband WC) that her father had told her when he and his children made it to his Mama and sister they stayed in a cotton house out back of the home where his Mama and sister were living for the entire winter because the Yellow Fever had been so bad in Mississippi he wouldn't go into the house until he was sure that the danger was past of them being contagious. He said that his Mama and sister would bring food and set it outside the cotton house and leave before he would come out to get it. I have never been able to confirm or deny any of this family lore. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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