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"I am looking for information on Charles Rabun.Charles Rabun (spelling later changed to Rabon) married Dora Williford in Clark County, Georgia in 1799. In the 1830 census of Georgia we find Charles, Joel and Ichabod. In 1850 I find Richard in Macon County with a son named Charles. Charles later has a son named Richard ( called Deek)
Think we have a connection? Any information aooreciated. Caroline Burson Rabon"
Caroline,
My Richard Rabon was born in Hanover County, North Carolina, he died 1877 in Arkansas. I have the will of his son Thomas Rabon, he gives a very, very nice history of the Rabon family, I do not see a connection, but the Rabon's are so difficult to do anything with, George may have been Richard's brother?? Anyway, I am putting the will below, maybe you can see something I do not. Email me sometime, I am sure we are cousins in one way or the other.
Section I: Addendum to the Will of Thomas Rabon:
As all great and important subjects beofre entering on, I will ask The Good Lord to direct me and aid me in the knowledge of the truth, in writing this short history of my life.
I will in the beginning state that, I, Thomas Rabon, was born May 1, 1835 in the state of North Carolina, in Hanover or Brunswick County.
My father remanined in the above mentioned state until the year of 1840. In that year he moved to the state of Georgia. My father and family of himself and six children. My father's given name was Richard. My mother's given name was Annie, her maiden name Potter. There were eight children born to them. Two died when small, leaving six: whose names are as follows: Eliza, Emiley, William, Rufus, Westley, and Thurman. All of them have passed away, but myself. It seems that it is the evening of the last days with me.
Now I will state the move from North Carolina to Georgia. In 1840 my father located in Bibb County. In that county I was reared.
I will, before going further, state that I was raised without the care and love of a mother. My mother died when I was only two years old, so I had no training of a loving mother. I will say that my opportunities for an education was bad. My father reamined a widower the balance of his life, he died in the year 1877.
When I was not quite 21 years of age , on the 18th day of January 1855, I was married to Mary Jane Jordon, who was 18 years of age.
In February following, we moved to Alabama, and we were happy and prosperous. In that time I took some part in society.
I was made a Master-Mason in the year of 1859, in James Ponn Lodge 227, and in this order I have always held the highest esteem, It has always been a great delight to meet and commune in this body, as the lodge here below, and I hope to meet those of the faithful in a lodge not made with hand eternally in Heaven.
I was once an obligated Odfellow, but the opportunities were not very good for me; the war broke out soon after I joined and the members nearly all had to go to war. We lost our charter and when I left that Country they had not renewed their Charter, so I have not made any other connection with the order. By this time, the Civil War was getting hot, and at my age I had to go to War. On the 25th day of May, 1862, I left home and joined Company H-39th Regiment, Alabama Days Brigade, Withers Division, General Bragg's Command. I was in the War three years, got home one the 14th day of May, 1865. I was in all the wrangles of The Reconstruction, and hardships of the same. In the year of 1868, me and my wife was converted and joined the Missionary Baptist Church. I was converted under the preachings of John Dradley of whom I had the upmost Confidence-a Christian man. We lived in Alabama 15 years, of the time there were 7 children born to us. Their name were: July-Ann, Emmer Rebecca, Richard, Thomas Henry, John Lewis, George Washington, and Rufus Andrew. These children were natives of Alabama. In the year of 1870 we moved to Arkansas and in the process of the time there were four more children born; James Wesley, Robert Lee, Nora Jane, and Dora May. In the space of 24 years they began to scatter. Most all came to the Indian Territory, and we decided to come to the Indian Territory and be with our children. We lived quietly at Bokosho, Oklahoma until the year 1907, when it was the Lord's Will on the 7th day of May of that year to take my companion to her home. So, since that time, I have wandered from one of my children to the other. I surely have cause to honor God than anyone else. The children have honored me more than I deserve.
I hardly know the reason for giving this sketch of my life, more than I thought it would enable my posterity to trace back the generation.
I feel like it is the evening of the last days of my life. I could have gone into more detail of my life but I do not see that is would have added much. I hope the children will have this instrument read at my grave, and enough of these copies to hand to each of the relatives.
Amen
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