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I posted earlier but am rethinking the marriage of Bennett Springfield to Nancy Walker Murray Co GA. I cannot prove which Bennett Springfield this could have been. I believe the census should reveal whether there was more than one Bennett Springfield around at that time there. My ASSUMPTION of its being the same Bennett who m. 1st Mary Ann Willbanks 1835 could be incorrect. I am sure, based on family there, Bennett married Emily Jones. According to census records, it appears one wife died about the middle of the 1800s - around 1856 perhaps. Descendants have indicated this was Mary Ann Willbanks -- I don't know whether that's correct.
In any event, there could have been another Bennett old enough to marry in the mid to late 1840s. I have not located him on the census, however. That doesn't mean he wasn't around between census years.
There was an Aaron Springfield who married Emeline Rollins 1840 Murray Co GA; he died about 1847, never having appeared by name on the census there. He died without a will. His estate records are recorded at the court house office of ordinary (old records). I do not have all his estate records. I do know that among them is mentioned the name Hugh Springfield but no indication of kinship.
A descendant in the county there believes Hugh Springfield was the father of this Aaron. Aaron, Bennett, and Hugh Springfield are known to have been in the county by 1838.
Emeline Rollins was the sister of Dorcas Rollins who married Murray Co GA 1844 William Jackson (Jack) Willbanks b. 1815 to Wm.Willbanks of the 1840 Murray Co GA census and the 1850 Walker Co GA census.
In 1840, William Willbanks (bc 1776) was living beside Bennett Springfield, who had married Wm. Willbanks's dau. Mary Ann. In 1850 old William Willbanks wife Rebecca (Dollar?) and unmarried dau. Nancy E., had removed to Walker Co. GA (nearby county) and was living adjacent another daughter Rebecca, who had married 1842 (memory of year) Murray Co GA Andrew Johnson.
Emeline Rollins Springfield on the 1850 census was living with her parents George and Elizabeth Rollins; Emeline had 3 young Springfield children living with her and her parents. She later remarried in Murray Co.
A young (about 31) Hugh Springfield in 1850 was living not far from William Jackson Willbanks and Dorcas Rollins. Beside this young Hugh Springfield was a Berryman Willbanks, who witnessed 1846-7 a gift deed of land from George Rollins to his daughter Dorcas Rollins Willbanks, wife of Wm. Jackson (Jack) b. 1815 to old William (bc1776).
By 1860, Berryman Wilbanks had removed to Cherokee Co GA where other Willbanks were living -- all from South Carolina. The kinship between Berryman and William Jackson (Jack) Wilbanks has not been proven but it appears to be a close one. Berryman was 17 years older than Jack Willbanks born 1815 to old William (b. 1776).
I am trying to determine who the father was of Aaron (who m. 1840 Emeline Rollins Murray Co).
An old Walker County newspaper article reprint I have seen
indicated a Hugh Springfield died in Whitfield County (adjoins Murray County on the east) and was buried in a casket costing $100. The article (memory) indicated he died about 1849.
A Hugh Springfield appeared on the 1830 Monroe Co TN census with 5 young males; Hugh was between 40/50 (therefore born c. 1791-1800.
There was a Hugh Springfield on the 1840 Murray Co GA census with 12 in his household; there were 7 young males born between 1811-1836. A female assumed to be his wife was born 1801-10; there were 3 other females in the household b. between the years of 1821-1836.
The 1850 Murray Co GA census indicates a Martha E. Springfield 50 bc 1800 GA, whose children were Benjamin 26 b. TN; James 23 b. TN; Hugh 18 b. TN; Mary J. 18 b. TN; and Robert 12 born GA. This census was dated 31 Oct 1850.
Perhaps you would like to look at all these records and any others about which you know and let me know what you think.
I would greatly appreciate anything you can provide.
Thanks, Joann
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