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Hi, Susan -
Here in a nutshell is what I know about my great-grandparehts:
John Wilson Hancock was considerably older than Sarah Hartsfield, and she was his second wife. He was the son of Joel and Elisabeth Hancock; Joel was b. 1792 in GA and has been proven through DNA testing to be related to the family of Clement and Mary Renfroe Hancock, who came out of SC to GA. You may want to check out the Hancock DNA testing web pages:
http://www.small-stuff.com/HANCOCK/DNA/index.htm
and the Hancock World Wide Genealogy Project pages:
http://members.aol.com/heatherjvw/Hancock/charts.htm
Be aware, however, that there are some errors in the information provided on the Hancock World Wide Project pages - I have sent in several corrections related to my grandfather's branch of the family, but some of the incorrect information is still there. Joel (my g-g-grandfather)'s family is Chart #24; Clement Hancock's family, minus Joel, is Chart #20.
John Wilson Hancock, b. 1821, married Maryann Johnson in 1841, and they had one daughter, Matilda, and 4 sons: Gallanus (pronounced Glane-us), Joel E., Henry T., and David Robert. After Maryann died, John married Sarah Allen Hartsfield, who was considerably younger (b. 1840), just prior to the start of the Civil War. Sarah's first two children died one terrible December during the war; shortly afterward, Sarah had a daughter whom she named Virginia Lee, followed by a son, born in July, 1865, whom she named after her brother, Col. Wiley F. Hartsfield, who had been killed at the battle of Sayler's Creek two months earlier. John W. Hancock served in the Confederate Army, as did Gallanus and Joel E. Joel was hit in the hip with a minnie-ball and limped for the rest of his life.
After the war, Sarah and John Wilson Hancock had several more children: Eliza Kerenhappuch (named after Sarah's maternal grandmother, Kerenhappuch Hendon Olive); Lovett Davis (another good Southern name!); Jose Dunn, whom my mother remembers fondly; Sarah; Mary Frances; Bessie Mae; and my grandfather, Jesse Wilson Hancock, who was born in 1883. As a little girl, I met Aunt Sarah, Aunt Mary, and Aunt Bessie, but I never met any of my grandfather's brothers.
John Wilson and Sarah Hancock settled in Cullman Co., Alabama. They donated the land for Sardis Baptist Church and its cemetery, and both are buried there. John W. died in 1899 and Sarah in 1915.
Jesse Wilson Hancock married Allie Leona Trimble, daughter of Willis C. and Mary A. Trimble. They had six children: Gladys Marie, who married Bill Evers and was a well-known Hancock genealogist; Jesse Hoyt, who married Sophia Crider; Herbert Allen, who married Carol Atkeson and had two daughters; Willis Harold, who married Dot Hamrick and had four children; Bonnie Lee, who died in infancy; and Eva Winogene, my mother, who married J. Robert Ogletree and had three daughters. All of Jesse's children are now deceased except for my mother, the youngest. Jesse and Allie are both buried in Cullman Co., AL.
I hope this is helpful. It is always nice to "meet" family!
Debbie
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