Re: Everages in Alabama
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Re: Everages in Alabama
K C 10/23/07
Thank you, KC, for sharing with me the 1880 census data on Eva Atwell Everage.I probably wouldn’t have found it for a long time to come.I’m glad that Ancestry.com listed the family members, because the facsimile of the census page is so pale as to be almost entirely illegible to me.My DeLorme Georgia Atlas & Gazetteer doesn’t list any place in Georgia by the name of North Carolina, but maybe it was a community named after the home state of the first settlers.Also in North Carolina community are several other Atwells, whom we might suppose closely related to Henry and Louisa.Probably John (b. abt. 1810) and Amelia (b. abt. 1815) are John’s parents, and Reuben (b. abt. 1833) and Robert (b. abt. 1840) his brothers.
About whether Richard’s middle name was Field or Fielder, the death certificate may be correct, but I’ve never heard that it was other than the latter, and nobody with whom I’ve discussed our genealogy at the annual Everage Reunion has ever questioned that it was Fielder.Part of a paragraph on the possibility of a Tempy Fielder as a second wife of James Everage (excerpted from a work-in-progress) may be relevant: “Furthermore, the same pattern of nomenclature appears among both the Fielders and the Everages: the name of Tempy’s brother John Fielder reappears in the name of James’s grandson John Fielder Everage; the name of one of Tempy’s cousins, Raymond Richard Richmond Fielder, may be reflected in the names of James’s grandson Richard Fielder Everage, and his son Henry Richmond Everage.James Everage’s daughter Martha Ann had a grandson named George Fielder Wasden, and the Fielder name is continued in that family.Is this repetition of Fielder names among the descendants of James Everage’s last two children entirely fortuitous?It may be coincidence, but to me it strongly suggests kinship between the Fielder and the Everage families.”
For what it’s worth – maybe not much! – one of Tempy Fielder’s nephews, James Hilliard Fielder, settled in the western part of Pike County, and that’s where we find Jonathan Andrew Everage in the 1866 State Census of Alabama.Proximity doesn’t prove kinship, but if Tempy was the mother of Jonathan, then he and James Hilliard were first cousins – so proximity may be useful circumstantial evidence.
This note from my Family Tree Maker notes on Eva Atwell may be useful to you: “In Mount Zion Cemetery, just east of Brantley, the graves of R. F. Everage, Eva A. Everage, Lillie Everage, Alice A. Moore, and Mattie E. [Everage] Campbell are all in the same plot.”
Again, thanks for leading me to all this Atwell data.
RE