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Elizabeth Rebecca Salmon
b. Dec 1771 GA
d. 20 Jun 1853 Gilmer, Upshur County, Texas
m. Mathias Ward abt. 1788
(All reseach below is that of Elizabeth Ramagos' and her sixty years of research.
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Notes from Donald Ward, gives her death at 1883 instead of 1853 from other records. It states her age was 82 when she died.
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1850 United States Federal Census
about Elizabeth Ward
Name: Elizabeth Ward
Age: 79
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1771
Birth Place: Virginia
Gender: Female
Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Upshur, Upshur, Texas
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Obit: Clarksville Northern Standard
Saturday June 25, 1853
Departed this life on Friday the 20th, inst. (inst means current month) in this place, Mrs. Elizabeth Ward, mother of Dr. William and Col. Matt Ward. The deceased had long been confined to her bed with both age and affliction. She is the mother of many sons and daughters that stand high in the estimation of their neighbors and friends, which is a proof of her good example in this world as a mother and a Christian. She has departed from among us to join the supernatural host whither our Fathers have gone.
We sympathize with her friends and relatives in this loss, but the earth claims it's own, and the tomb is the end of the earth, for dust thou art and unto dust shall return and the spirit to God who gave it.
(Reprinted from the Gilmer Star)
She was the daughter of Lewis Salmon and Sarah Margaret Shannon. Camp
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See Census Reports for her husband Mathias Ward
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ORDER TO VIEW TEXAS ORIGINAL LAND GRANT MAPS, HOPKINS COUNTY formed 1846 Parent County Lamar, Nacogdoches ---- GENERAL LAND OFFICE, TEXAS 1896, 1899, 1906
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A typed page, in Elizabeth Ramagos' file, on the Salmons, Shannon and Ward families.
Typed Page in File unedited as typed:
The earliest verifiable records we have on our families of Salmons, Shannon and Ward are located in Cumberland County of Virginia when John Salmon SR died and left a Will in 1761, naming his wife, Eleanor, and sons, John, Lewis, Ezkiah and Rowland saying that John was the eldest, leaving the three youngest under the care of the eldest son, John. He named his wife, Eleanor and son John as Executors. The Will was signed 29 Jan 1761 It is in Will Book 1 Page 219.
In 1980 Camp Gilliam (Family Researcher) got a letter from John Salmon in, I believe, Virginia and to quote from that letter:
"I have found a few stray references to him (John Salmon) in the 1730's Goochland Co order books (swearing, etc) but nothing to indicate where he came from. I think I've told you I believe the family came to the Goochland-Cumberland area from Hanover New Kent, mainly because it was an established route of migration. There are reference to Goochland-Cumberland families, including the Rowlands, in the Hanover-New Kent area, and the Salmons were there, too, a generation earlier.
In 1744, John Salmon, was given 150 acres in what became Cumberland Co in 1749, by Benjamin Dumas, for "saving" a land grant for Dumas--cultivation the required amount of land for him. John sold the land the next year; but I believe he remained there as a renter. For the rest of his life he was in and out of court for debt, and almost always lost his cases. Even after he died his estate was sold, and then his son John, who evidently tried to keep the farm and family together, gave up and ran away to Halifax County in 1764. He had managed to scrape together enough money to buy some land there and make a new start. Eleanor Salmon finally settled her husband's estate in 1767 and took the other three children to join young John in what had now become Pittsylvania County."
Then in 1770, March, Lewis married Margaret Shannon, daughter of Thomas Shannon, in Pittsylvania County VA. After that sometime the families, at least Lewis and his family and Shannons moved to South Carolina and Georgia where we again pick up records on Thomas Shannon when he died, leaving a Will in "Wilkes County GA in 1783 or 84 as his Will was signed 28 November 1783. The Inventory of his Estate was recorded 12 February 1794.
At the time of his death and in his Will, Thomas named his own children, apparently, those who were still living, and his grandchildren, so two of his daughters must have been dead for they are not named, but their children are named and named as children of the fathers, Lewis Salmons. Lewis Salmons is named as being deceased. The other grandchildren are Thomas and Mary Paxton. He also names his daughter Hannah Owens. He lists his land as being part of 400 acres two surveys joining each other and also joining General E Clark's land, running parallel with Savannah River. The land will not to go to the sons, until after the death of his, wife, Eleanor. Eleanor, Owen and Thomas Shannon were all named as Executors of his Will. The witnesses were Dury Harrington, Mary Paxton, and John Salmon. Later Mary Paxton married a Peacock with her grandmother, Eleanor Shannon, giving consent, in 1796.
The land that Shannon Willed his sons; was sold by them in 1797, so Eleanor must have died by then. The county of Lincoln had been formed by then and their lands were found in Lincoln County. The description reads: Lying and being in the county of Lincoln on the waters of Newford Creek, being said Shannon grant of land willed to him by his father and also being part of two different surveys bounded as follow (to wit) SW by Thomas Walton Jr & William Jones land S East by William Maders land N East by Gen E Clarks land and North West by a line dividing the above tract from Thomas Shannons land which line is begun and running from the beginning making two hundred acres more or less. This was when Owen sold his inheritance. Then Thomas sold his 1/2 of the Estate in 1798, his description Reads: Certain tract of parcel of land containing two hundred acres or upwards situated lying & being in the state aforesaid, Lincoln County, bounded by Savannah River Eastward by beginning on the corner hickory running then on General Clark's line #NO 40W422CHS to a corner Red Oak then #NO East 46 chs to a corner Hickory on the Red River, then with the claim in the river down to the beginning corner Hickory. The said land being a part of a tract or survey of land granted originally in two grants to Thomas Shannon, deed, one of the grants containing two hundred acres & the other the like quantity one of the grants granted and dated the 25th of March 1775 & the other the 18th of September 1784.
These dates show that Thomas Shannon was in that area by 1775. His granddaughter, Elizabeth Salmons Ward, was born about Dec 1770, according to the 1850 FC of Texas as will as the obit we have of her death.
Lewis Salmons died about October 1781 since an inventory of his Estate was made at that time. Also, he had died Intestate and his widow, Sarah Sammons, was named as Administratrix of his Estate. Just who this Sarah was, we don't know. It could have been another name of Margaret Shannon's or it could have been another wife. According to the records published in the book THE WILKES COUNTY PAPERS 1773-1833 Lewis Salmons is listed in His Majesty's Troup of Rangers in 1773, 1774, 1775, and 1776.
We have n further information on John Salmons, but he may have been the John Sammons who married Elizabeth Lane in 1896, Wilkes Co, GA, but we do have a lot more information on the brother, Lewis Salmons, for he stayed in the area and married Mary Bobo. We have a great deal of if information on some of the children of Lewis and Mary Bobo, but it is not relevant except where their paths crossed.
Matthias Ward: We know that he and Elizabeth Salmons were married by the time of the death of Thomas Shannon, as she is named in the Will as being the wife of Mathias Ward. In 1797 in Lincoln Co GA Mathias and Elizabeth, along with her brothers, John and Lewis Salmons, sold land on Fishing Creek to a William Overstreet and his wife. This was 8 April. Then 2 Nov 1795 Mary Bobo, Thomas Hooker and Mathias Ward sold a slave, female, named Grace, to Angus Johnson. This was in Elbert Co GA. At the time of the sale of the land from Lincoln County, Ward was living in Elbert Co. GA. In 1794 Ward bought land on Cedar Creek, being in the county aforesaid on both sides of Cedar Creek beginning on the South side of said Creek on a small Red Oak corner, then along the old line to a Pine corner, then to a Pine corner, then along the said line to a corner stake then along a new line to the head of a branch and down said branch to the mouth thence along a new line beginning corner Red Oak corner which said tract of land being a part of a tract of land granted to John Trimble by patent bearing date the 24th day of April 1786. In 1796 Ward purchased land in Franklin Co GA from Joel Crain. At the time Ward was living in Elbert Co. He paid 500 pounds sterling for this land. It was 150 acre parcel of land and was said to be situated lying and being in Elbert County on the North Fork of Lightwood Log Creek, bounded on all sides by vacant land at the line of surveying beginning at a long SW to the first bank (or branch) above McDugald Lived Riley Bennett to the mouth of the said branch of the North side of the said creek then to join the said line on the South side of said creek S10E (the 1 could be an L). as aforesaid to a Post Oak N80E45chains to the beginning to have and hold, etc. Signed in the presence of Moses Rush and John Salmon.
1793, 27 June, Wilkes Co. GA, Mathias Ward purchased a slave named Peter from James Huling. 1803, 28 January, Mathias Ward purchased land from Hugh MacDonald in Elbert County of Lightwood Log Creek, According to Obit of Elizabeth Salmons Ward they moved into Alabama.
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