Re: LEVICIA WILKINSON (Driggers, Wiggins, Rewis) ??
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Re: LEVICIA WILKINSON (Driggers, Wiggins, Rewis) ??
Bob Burton in 12/16/03
Hi - I have a bit more on Levicy Wilkinson b 1802 who I believe is the mother of my John B. Driggers born abt 1833
No clue yet to the name of her first husband Driggers who died before 1840. She had left her second husband Jesse Wiggins in 1850.The info I had was that she went to Georgia where she married a Mr. Rewis then she returned to Florida.
Ok with that to work with I spent all day Sunday reading census records.I found her in 1870 in Baker County Florida as Levicy Rewis with a number of Rewis children but no husband.The kids were all born in Georgia and the three youngest with her were born after 1860 so I doubt they are her children but may be Rewis Grandchildren.In fact I do not think any of the Rewis children living with her are Levicy's but are likely to be her nieces and nephews if you follow my line of thought.
Backtracking to 1860 I used one of the children's names and came up with the family of John Rewis in Ware County, Georgia which matched all of the kids in birth order.He had no wife and there were older children already married living near by.
The 1860 Ware County, Georgia household after John Rewis and children was.....Levicy DRIGGERS living alone - the next house is John's son Malechi & his wife and children.
Question - why did she use her Driggers name?Was she actually married to Jesse Wiggins and gee I would like to know why she left him by 1850 and why the two daughters are not living with him?Sarah Wiggins was not with her father in Levy County, Florida after he married Elizabeth Osteen either - I found her with the family of a widow named Eliza Brooks (no connection to my Brooke family) in Levy County 1860. (before her marriage in 1861).
I also gathered info from Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia and added it to my database.John Rewis married first to Nancy Wilkinson (b 1814) and I am thinking the our Levicy is probably her sister and perhaps she moved to Ware County Georgia partially to either care for her sister (who died between 1850 -1860) or to care for the Rewis Children after Nancy's death.In either event it appears she married John Rewis between the 1860 and 1870 census but she would have been about 60 years old so I don't think any of the Rewis children were hers.
I need to study 1850 Census records to find Levicy and my John B. Driggers who I am still convinced is her son - and there are likely to be more Driggers children also for her since there were unidentifed children with Jesse Wiggins in 1840 Columbia County, Florida census.
John B. Driggers and his wife Elizabeth 'Betsy' Woods were in Clinch County Georgia in 1860 and in Putnam County, Florida 1870 - still missing in 1850.
Again backtracking, Ware County 1840 I find Robert D. Rewis (brother of John),Willis Wilkinson(age 40-50 so he is more likely to be a brother of Nancy and Levicy than a parent) John Rewis and Benjemin and Solomon Milton (Melton) families- the Solomon Melton comes into play because this MIGHT be Algernon Solomon Melton father of my Benjemin Melton (b1830). I need to study the Meltons in Ware county more also.
More dizzying analysis of these folks later as I think through it - anyway I have the Rewis family in my database to use to look for Levicy furhter - she may be with one of the Rewis children and their families in 1880 - but that is another day of census reading.
Candy
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