Deshazo vs Desassassure and Norris and Mann ,S.C.
My connection is to Nathan Norris through his daughter who married a Sawyer.Was Mary Desassassure a Deshazo.
Would appreciate any information to the Norris family from info below.Sorry for the long post.
Arcell Sawyer
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NORRIS FAMILY CEMETERY, Saluda Co., SC lists: Nathan Norris/ 1770-1851/ Mary
Desaussure Norris/ 1770-1843/ Elizabeth N. Mann/ 1778-1807/ Sarah N. Webb/
1776 - / Amelia N. Harnesberger/ 1808-1881/ Carolina N. Browning/ 1806- /
Hepzibah N. Holstein/ ---- 1854/ Carolina N. Denny/ 1840-1872/ Estelle N.
Adams/ 1857-1919/ Mary N. Holstein/ 1847-1884/ Irving M. Norris/ 1845-1862/
Hepzibah Bond Bates/ ---- 1866/ Mary Ridgell Hartley/ 1826-1862/Capt.
William Henry/ Norris C.S.A./ Aug 20 1826/ May 29 1862/ Franklin W. Norris/
Oct 6, 1853/ Apr. 30, 1930/ Alfred J. Norris/ Feb 6, 1891/ Oct., 18, 1918.
I am not related to the Deshazo family, but in reviewing my historical files on Brazos Co., Texas, I noticed that a 1905 booklet titled "Ancestry and Kindred of W.P. Zuber, Texas Veteran" contained some notes of possible interest to Deshazo researchers.
"... My mother, Mary Ann Mann, was born in Edgefield District, South Carolina; September 18, 1793. Her parents were Thomas Mann and Ann Deshazo. My maternal grandmother, Ann Deshazo, was born in North Carolina; about the year 1765. Her parents were Robert Deshazo and Mollie Trevelian ... My mother's maternal grandfather, Robert Deshazo, was born in Virginia about the year 1730. He was a son of Nathaniel Deshazo, and grandson of Peter Deshazo. Peter and Nathaniel were born in France. When Nathaniel was a little boy, Peter came to America, and settled in Virginia. There Nathaniel became a prosperous farmer. It is evident that Nathaniel's wife was also born in France, or was totally of French descent: for his son, Robert, boasted that he was a full-blood Frenchman; though he never learned the French language. When Robert Deshazo was twenty years old, his father, Nathaniel, wishing to move to a new country, sent him to North Carolina, with money, to purchase land and build a home in that Colony. He found a suitable place; purchased it; and, with hired help, built houses, cleared and inclosed land, and made a crop. He also purchased a fine lot of live stock. All this he accomplished in one year. Then he returned to Virginia, to move his father's family hither. There being no mails at that time, he had not heard from his family since his departure for North Carolina. Arrived at his old home, he found that his father had died, and his mother and the other children were averse to moving. Therefore his father's heirs amicably effected a partition of the estate; and Robert took, for his part, the property which he had procured and improved in North Carolina. Then he returned to North Carolina, and assumed possession of the home which he had prepared for his parents. This was near the residence of Mr. Trevelian: and, immediately after his return from Virginia, he married Mr. Trevlian's daughter Mollie, and took her to his own home ..."
Here's the rest of the story:
Robert Deshazo was an accomplished tobacco-farmer and raiser of live-stock; and, as tobacco then commanded what we, of today, would call fabulous prices, he aquired wealth very rapidly. At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, he owned thirteen Negroes, all young Africans, sixteen head of valuable horses, and plenty of other live-stock. He was a pious member of the Baptist Church, highly esteemed by his neighbors; and all his servants loved him, and served him faithfully. At the beginning of hostilities, Robert's eldest son, Lewis Deshazo, then sixteen years old, enlisted in the regular Continental army; in which he served till the end of the war. But Robert himself stayed at hom to care for his family and property; though, whenever there was fighting near him between the Whigs and the Tories, which frequently occurred, he always participated therein, as a volunteer, on the side of the Whigs. But a large majority of his near neighbors were Tories; and this circumstance imperiled his life, and involved the loss of most of his property. At first, his Tory neighbors tried to persuade him to join them; next, they threatened to kill him; and, finally, they robbed him of his property, and hunted him as if he were a wild beast. Then he spent much of his time hiding from them in the swamps. After driving away all of his horses and cattled, they surprised his Negroes in the field, cut off their retreat, and drove away twelve of the thirteen; whom they sold in some distant locality. Only one, a woman named Jinnie, escaped into a swamp. She was a faithful servant; was subjected to several other narrow risks of being captured by the Tories; and at one time, saved her master's life, by warning him of danger; but they never captured her. At another time, they surrounded his dwelling, entered it, cursed his wife, and threatened to kill her unless she would tell them where her husband was; but the heroic Mollie withstould them for hours; and they departed, no wiser for their dastardly conduct. When the war closed, Robert Deshazo's Tory neighbors, having lost their cause, tried to recover their former friendly relations with him. But they had robbed him, abused his family, and sought to murder him, and offered no restitution; their presence was a torture to him; and he resolved to leave them. When peace was restored, Robert Deshazo sold his home in North Carolina; and moved to Edgefield District, South Carolina. There he established a new home; and again acquired wealth, but not so rapidly as he had done in North Carolina before the war. Here he and Mrs. Deshazo lived till 1814, when their respective ages were eighty-four and eighty-two years. Then he again sold his home, and made another removal. From Edgefield District, South Carolina, he moved to Twiggs County, Georgia; wither two of his sons had gone, and where they purchased another home for him. During the next year, 1815, he died, at his home in Twiggs County, Georgia, at the age of eighty-five years. Soon after his death, his wife, Mrs. Mollie Trevelian Deshazo, returned to Edgefield District, South Carolina; and there lived with her daughter, Mrs. Mary Norris, during the rest of her life. She died at the residence of her son-in-law, Nathan Norris, in 1830, at the age of ninety-eight years. My maternal grandmother, Ann Deshazo, moved, with her parents, from North Carolina to Edgefield District, South Carolina; and there she married Thomas Mann.
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