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John B Huddleston, born 18 Feb 1815; died Jan 1901. He married Mary Ferguson. Notes for John B Huddleston: Birth: Ov. Co. TN. Census, 1850, page 122, Dw. 841 Death: book, "Jarriott Morgan Huddleston" by Tim Huddleston Marriage: Mary Ferguson. John HUDDLESTON 1880 United States Census Household Male Other Information: Birth Year <1816> Birthplace TN Age 64 Occupation Farmer Marital Status M Race W Head of Household John HUDDLESTON Relation Self Father's Birthplace VA Mother's Birthplace NC Source Information: Census Place Albany, Clinton, Kentucky Family History Library Film 1254410 NA Film Number T9-0410 Page Number 589C Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace John HUDDLESTON Self M Male W 64 TN Farmer VA NC Mary E. HUDDLESTON Wife M Female W 33 KY Keeping House KY KY Zylpha FERGUSON MotherL W Female W 76 KY Keeping House VA VA Sarah SANDERS Other S Female W 4 KY KY KY
This would be Elam Huddleston's son for the following reasons. Since this John Huddleston's mother-in-law was Zylpha Ferguson that would make this John's wife Mary E. Ferguson. The Elam Huddleston that was a noted and decided union guerilla born 1825 died 1-1-1863 was the son of Fielding whom was possibly the son of Capt. Wiley W. Huddleston (brother to Jarriott Huddleston b. 1775) and "Polly" Hood Huddleston. Elam Edward Huddleston m. Artemia Simpson Huddleston their children: Mary E. 1853-"Belle" Bethel 1857-1939 m. Flaven Mt. Fern Huddleston 1859-1908 son of James Allen 1834-186_, son of Thomas S. 1810-1863, son of Jarriott Morgan Huddleston 1775-1856. Elam's children cont'd: Pamelia 1860 Edward E. 1863- There is a whole lot more to the story of Elam's death and what led to it and one very good account of this is told in the book "Champ Ferguson" by Thurman Sensing.
John B. HUDDLESTON Self M Male W 63 VA Farming VA VA Liley A. HUDDLESTON Wife M Female W 61 TN Keep House NC NC Virginnia HUDDLESTON Dau S Female W 15 MS Census Place District 2, Itawamba, Mississippi Family History Library Film 1254650 NA Film Number T9-0650 Page Number 430C. Mississippi: Holmes (cont'd: E.D. 7, sheet 51-end), Issaquena, Itawamba, Jackson, and Jasper (part: E.D. 108, sheet 1-E.D. 112, sheet 4; E.D. 158, sheets 1-4). Mississippi, 1880 federal census : soundex and population schedules / United States. Bureau of the Census. 10th census, 1880. From the census information which later matches his son Robbert Huddleston with wife Cyrena J. Huddleston we can see the difference between the two John B. Huddlestons. This John B. Huddleston is shown with birth date as <1817> 1880 United States Census. With the name Liley A. we can be assured that this is referring to Amelia Rowland. In the census John B. is with Liley A. when Virginnia was 15 years of age. John Branch Huddleston was born in Amelia County, Virginia and died in Prentis County, Mississippi. John Branch married Amelia Rowland who was born in Virginia. They were married in Mississippi in 1837. John Branch Huddleston was born in Amelia Co. VA in 1816. John was 7 years old when his father was supposed to have died in 1823, leaving his mother with 8 children, 3 of whom, Mary, John, and William C., were still under age. Martha moved with her children to Tennessee, moving near one of her older sons near Henderson, TN. In FamilySearch we find Thomas Huddleston and Patsy Tanner were in Overton, Tennessee. From this information and Patsy moving near her older son, it might show that Patsy was getting up in years of age and the older son and his family took care of Patsy. This would also explain why Thomas did not travel as far to Mississippi as his son John Branch did. As a young man John migrated to MS, first settling in Marshall Co. In 1837 at the age of 21 he married Ursula Amanda Rowland. According to the census of 1840 he was living in the "northern district" of Marshall Co with his wife and two young sons. He listed his employment as agriculture. By the mid 1840s John B. and his young family had moved to Tippah Co. MS. In May, 1847, he purchased 160 acres of land from John and Ezekial Law for $200. This land was located in Section 19, Township 1, Range 4 East. He sold this land in 1854 and 1855 and acquired additional land from his father-in-law William T. Rowland in Section 32, Township 3, Range 3 East. John B. and his family depended upon farming for most of their livelihood. He was an Elder in the Primitive Baptist Church, and for some years he pastored the Antioch Primative Baptist Church and Pleasant Hill Primative Baptist Church. He also helped constitute Hopewell PB Church in Prentiss County, and was pastor there in 1880. He loved his country very much and believed it was his duty to defend it. 34th Mississippi Infantry C.S.A. Name: Huddleston, John B. Rank: Captain Company: G Date of Enlistment: March 17, 1862 "The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies." Published under the direction of the Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary Of War, by Brig. Gen. Fred C. Ainsworth, Chief of the Record and Pension Office, War Department, and Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley. Series IV-Volume II. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900. Page 933 Sons of Liberty, Captain J. B. Huddleston.
This article was written by Troy D. Smith and originally published in Civil War Times Illustrated Magazine in December 2001. Troy D. Smith resides in Sparta, Tennessee, onetime hometown of Champ Ferguson. He has written for Wild West Magazine and other history publications.
Esther Frogg knew well the 20-year-old man standing at her front door on November 1, 1861, asking to see her husband, William. The visitor’s name was Champ Ferguson, and he was, like the Froggs, a native of Clinton County, Kentucky. Unlike the Froggs, however, Ferguson supported the Confederacy.
“How do you do,” she said and offered him a seat.
“I don’t have time,” he replied.
“Have some apples,” she said, gesturing toward the fruit she had just been peeling.
“I have been eating apples,” he said.
Ferguson did not want to sit. He did not want to eat. He did not want to talk. He wanted only to see William Frogg.
Esther told Ferguson her husband was sick and could not take visitors. But Ferguson was not to be deterred. He walked inside the house, leaving the two men who had come with him outside.
Ferguson approached Frogg’s bed, perhaps noticing the crib nearby where the couple’s five-month-old baby lay. Frogg told his visitor he had the measles. Indeed, he was on sick leave from his regiment, the 12th Kentucky Infantry (Union), though he no doubt withheld that bit of information from Ferguson.
“I reckon you caught the measles at Camp Dick Robinson,” Ferguson said. Camp Robinson was a sore point for Kentuckians who sided with the Confederacy. They believed that men recruited there into the Home Guard went on to fight for the Union.
Ferguson was through talking. He shot Frogg dead where he lay.
Frogg was not the first or last person to die at Ferguson’s hands during the war. There were dozens of others. Some of the killings were legitimate acts of combat, but others were nothing more than cold-blooded murder. Many of the victims were Union supporters whom Ferguson sought out more for personal reasons than political ones. In Frogg’s case, Ferguson said he had heard rumors that the pro-Union man was planning to kill him. Ferguson decided on a preemptive strike. “I told the boys that I would settle the matter by going direct to Frogg’s house and killing him,” he later said.
Before the Civil War, Ferguson was known throughout the upper Cumberland Mountains on both sides of the Kentucky-Tennessee border as a “gambling, rowdyish, drinking, fighting, quarrelsome man.” He ranged throughout the region as a hunter and a horse trader, becoming familiar with the whole region.
When the war began, Ferguson immediately sided with the Confederacy. The oldest of 10 children, born on November 29, 1821, he was now starkly at odds with his 9 brothers and sisters and his mother, all of whom supported the Union. The tension only grew when in late 1861 or early 1862, Ferguson moved his family to Sparta, Tennessee, and joined a pro-Southern guerrilla band headed by a local man named Scott Bledsoe. Soon Ferguson was captain of his own band.
Many legends that attempt to explain Ferguson’s ruthless animosity toward his enemies persevere through the efforts of his many admirers in Sparta and White County, Tennessee. In one account, Ferguson hated Yankees and their supporters because Union soldiers had shot his young son dead while the boy played innocently on the front porch, waving a Confederate flag. In reality, Ferguson’s only son died several years before the war began. An even more widely accepted explanation is that 11 Union men had come to his home while Ferguson was out and dishonored his wife and young daughter. The men forced the woman and girl to disrobe and march down the street, the story continued. Even Ferguson called this tale “absurd.”
Ferguson himself provided the most feasible explanation for why he entered the war, though it is less romantic than the others. Shortly before the war, he had been arrested for stabbing a constable in a brawl at a camp meeting in Fentress County, Tennessee. “When the War broke out,” he later said, “I was induced to join the army on the promise that all prosecution in that case would be abandoned. This is how I came to take up arms.”
Ferguson claimed that all his killings were in self-defense, while admitting that some, like the Frogg shooting, were preemptive attacks. One of them occurred about a month after Frogg’s death. Ferguson and his men went to the home of Reuben Wood, who also lived in Clinton County. Wood met the guerrillas in the road in front of his house. “Don’t you beg,” Ferguson told the older man, “and don’t you dodge.” Wood’s children later testified that their father reminded Ferguson of their past friendship and the fact that he had cared for Ferguson when he was a child. “You have always treated me like a gentleman,” Ferguson said, “but you have been to Camp Robinson, and I intend to kill you.” Reuben Wood did not die easily. Even fatally wounded he managed to knock Ferguson’s gun away with a hatchet and escape. Wood died two days later.
“Reuben Wood and I were always good friends before the War,” Ferguson said, “but after that he was connected with the same company in which my brother, Jim, was operating. I knew that he intended killing me if he ever got a chance. They both hunted me down, and drove me fairly to desperation.
“On the day that he was killed, we met him in the road and he commenced on me, and I believe he intended to shoot me. The touching story about his piteous appeals to me—that he had nursed me when a babe, and tossed me on his knee—are false, and were gotten up expressly to create sympathy, and set me forth as a heartless wretch. If I had not shot Reuben Wood, I would not likely have been here, for he would have shot me. I never expressed a regret for committing the act, and never will. He was in open war against me.”
On December 15, Union XIV Corps commander Major General William Rosecrans issued an order allowing Major General George H. Thomas, commander of the center of the XIV Corps, to send Colonel Frank Wolford’s 1st Kentucky Cavalry after Ferguson and another Tennessee guerrilla, Oliver Hamilton of Overton County. “Colonel Wolford has permission to pursue and capture Hamilton and Ferguson,” Rosecrans wrote, “but let him be careful not to get caught himself.” Nothing came of Wolford’s ambitions to snare the guerrilla chief.
On New Year’s Night 1863, Ferguson set out to rid himself of some of his most troublesome enemies in Kentucky. The first to fall was Union guerrilla Elam Huddleston. After an hour-long gunfight between Confederate guerrillas and the Huddleston brothers Elam and Moses, aided by their cousin David Huddleston, Ferguson killed his intended victim at his house. Next to die were the Zachery brothers Peter and Allen, sons of James Zachery. Ferguson killed Peter with his knife after a fierce hand-to-hand struggle.
Ferguson’s private feuds were suspended for a while after the Huddleston fight, because he was too busy tangling with the regular Federal army. Over the next two years, his guerrilla band, which now numbered in the dozens and sometimes in the hundreds, would harry Union forces and sometimes augment Confederate cavalry regiments.
By the second half of the war, the Federals were clamping down on guerrilla strongholds, especially Sparta, Tennessee. Colonel Thomas J. Harrison’s 8th Indiana Cavalry and Colonel William B. Stokes’s 5th Tennessee Cavalry scoured the area, skirmishing with partisans and raiding Ferguson’s farm twice. Ferguson was not home either time, having left to join forces with George Carter of Spencer, Tennessee, to raid Fentress County. The raid resulted in the death of Beaty’s son Dallas, among others.
On February 18, 1864, Stokes took possession of Sparta. The Union soldiers and the local Confederate partisans clashed often from then on. Ferguson fought at Calfkiller in White County on February 22 and was wounded in another engagement on March 11. No details are available about his wound. Soldiers of the 5th Tennessee Cavalry killed Scott Bledsoe, Ferguson’s old comrade, that March.
The Confederate guerrillas continued to destroy property and steal Federal stock. Major Thomas H. Reeves of the 4th Tennessee Infantry (Union), angry that the citizens of Sparta continued to secretly aid the Rebel guerrillas, took his command into town on July 15. He declared martial law and had every man he found arrested. The anguished denizens expected their town to be destroyed, but the 4th left the next day with only nine prisoners. According to Reeves, his men could boast of “unparalleled plunder.”
Within weeks, Union guerrillas had burned Ferguson’s home to the ground. Ferguson and his comrades headed south and joined themselves to Major General Joseph Wheeler’s cavalry. They were then detached from Wheeler’s command and ordered to report to Major General John C. Breckinridge in southwest Virginia.
It was in Emory, Virginia, that Ferguson committed his most infamous murder. Ferguson and his men were with a small Confederate force at Saltville, Virginia, on October 2, 1864, when a Federal cavalry attacked. The Confederates put up a spirited resistance, and after a sharp fight, the Federals withdrew. The next morning at Emory, Ferguson and his lieutenant Rains Philpot entered the Confederate hospital where Federal wounded and prisoners had been taken. Some of those same soldiers later testified they had seen Ferguson coldly killing prisoners on the battlefield, especially black men and white men in their vicinity.
At the hospital, Ferguson shot Lieutenant Elza C. Smith of the 13th Kentucky Cavalry while he lay a helpless prisoner. Ferguson may have suspected that Smith had killed his comrade Oliver P. Hamilton while Hamilton was trying to surrender. “I have a begrudge against Smith,” Ferguson was heard saying as he searched for Smith’s bed. “We’ll find him.” The killing of wounded men and prisoners that Ferguson and his men did that day would go down in history as the Saltville Massacre.
The four-year quasi-military career of Champ Ferguson came to an end on May 26, 1865, when he was taken into Federal custody in Sparta. Ferguson claimed he had surrendered, while Colonel Joseph Blackburn of the 5th Tennessee Mounted Infantry claimed to have captured him.
Ferguson thought he would be paroled, as were other guerrillas who surrendered. What he did not realize was that the Federal government had singled him out, specifying that any attempt by him to surrender should be refused. He was taken to prison in Nashville and soon became the focus of a sensational military trial. He was charged with being a guerrilla and a murderer.
A long line of witnesses appeared against him. One was his archnemesis, Beaty. Afterward, a reporter asked Ferguson what he thought of Beaty. “Well, there are meaner men than Tinker Dave,” Ferguson responded. “He fought me bravely and gave me some heavy licks, but I always gave him as good as he sent. I have nothing against Tinker Dave…. We both tried to get each other during the War, but we always proved too cunning for each other.” He noted that he was a skilled shooter who always hit his mark, except when the mark was Beaty.
When the time came for Ferguson’s defense, he could muster only a handful of character witnesses. One was Joseph Wheeler, but support from even this well-respected general was not enough to sway the court. On October 10, Ferguson was found guilty and sentenced to hang.
“I was a Southern man at the start,” Ferguson said in his final statement. “I am yet, and will die a Rebel. I believe I was right in all I did.” He reiterated that he had killed only those who had intended to kill him and that he had treated prisoners the way his own men had been treated by the enemy. “I repeat that I die a Rebel out and out, and my last request is that my body be removed to White County, Tennessee, and be buried in good Rebel soil.”
Ferguson was hanged on October 20, his wife and tearful 16-year-old daughter watching as his lifeless body dangled at the end of the rope.
Ferguson’s bloody war record reveals him to be a murderer who deserved his fate. Still, many of his contemporaries were no better than he, including some men on the pro-Union side, yet they escaped similar retribution. Beaty admitted he had taken up arms for the Union government without pay, which by definition made him a guerrilla. He could have suffered the same fate as Ferguson. Clearly, a double standard was being applied. Indeed, when pro-Union newspapers in Nashville covered the Ferguson trial, they referred to the defendant as “the monstrous criminal” and Beaty as “the celebrated Union scout.”
After Tennessee was readmitted to the Union, Beaty became a respected citizen of the state. He even served as a member of the county court when he returned to Jamestown.
The irony of the similarities between Beaty and Ferguson could not have escaped Ferguson’s defenders. The same deeds that made a man a criminal could make him a hero if his side won.
In 1862, Ferguson began his long-running war with a man named David Beaty, who would become his greatest enemy. The Nashville Dispatch noted that Beaty “fought Champ Ferguson from the beginning to the end of his career…. They have shot at each other innumerable times, and each has received ugly wounds. They were deadly enemies, and hunted each other down with savage ferocity.”
Known to his neighbors in Fentress County, Tennessee, as Tinker Dave, Beaty (also spelled Beatty) was as ruthless and vicious in his defense of the Union as Ferguson was of the Confederacy. Local legend tells of the time he shot a man and then directed his horse to step on the unfortunate victim’s face.
Beaty became a guerrilla in early 1862. About February 1, Bledsoe’s men warned Beaty to take sides or leave the country. At this point in the war, Bledsoe and Ferguson were, according to Beaty, “conscripting, killing, and shooting at Union men in general, including myself.” Beaty responded to the threat by choosing the other side and raising his own band of guerrillas. His men lived in the woods like Ferguson’s and practiced the same tactics. These enemies skirmished often.
Given the opportunity, Ferguson and Beaty would no doubt have eagerly cut each other’s throat, but they did share a mutual respect. Perhaps they sensed they were kindred spirits who had more in common with each other than with polite society or the military establishment.
By the spring of 1862, relatively few major military engagements had taken place in Tennessee, but the Cumberland Mountains were filled with violence. Roaming bands of outlaws took advantage of the war to steal whatever they wanted with no regard for their victims’ politics. It was not uncommon for these outlaws simply to declare a man an enemy sympathizer and then take his possessions or even kill him. Families, friends, and neighbors were so passionately divided that even idle rumors questioning a man’s alignment could soon lead to his death. Many prudent people avoided their own homes.
In the middle of all this chaos stood Champ Ferguson. Many of the Union men he took prisoner—some in the army, some not—were found shot and often stabbed through the heart. Ferguson favored the Bowie knife and often finished his victims off with one. There were rumors of decapitations.
On April 1, 1862, Ferguson encountered 16-year-old Fount Zachery in Fentress County. Zachery was carrying a shotgun. He surrendered the weapon, but Ferguson shot him anyway. Almost as soon as Zachery hit the ground, Ferguson was on him with his Bowie knife, and Fount Zachery became the first of four Zachery males to fall to Ferguson. Ferguson justified his actions by claiming he had official orders to kill any armed man in the area.
Over the next few weeks, Ferguson’s men killed their leader’s cousin Alexander Huff in Fentress County; Union guerrilla Elijah Kogier in Clinton County, whom they shot down as his young daughter clung to him; and Fount Zachery’s grandfather James. James Zachery’s daughter Esther would testify that she saw Ferguson chasing her father through the family orchard, yelling to his men, “Shoot him, damn him, shoot him!”
Toward the end of April, Colonel John Hunt Morgan’s Kentucky cavalry passed through Sparta, Tennessee, and Ferguson and some of his men joined the force to serve as scouts. Morgan’s men crowded around Ferguson, eager to get a glimpse of the notorious outlaw whose exploits were already becoming legend in the region. Ferguson and several of his guerrillas rode with Morgan on some raids, fighting at Tomkinsville, Lebanon, and Cynthiana, Kentucky, and on June 21 at Gallatin, Tennessee.
Ferguson became well acquainted with Morgan’s second in command and brother-in-law, Major Basil W. Duke. Duke warned his infamous scout that there would be no abusing of prisoners. Ferguson was indignant. He assured Duke he would never harm regularly commissioned officers captured in combat, because he had nothing personally against them “except that they are wrong, and oughtn’t to come down here and fight our people.” He admitted, though, that if he came across any “hounds” he had just reasons to kill, he would not hesitate to kill them.
By the fall of 1862, Ferguson had focused himself almost exclusively on personal vendettas. In October, he killed a man named Wash Tabor, whom he suspected of ambushing and killing three of his men. Ferguson did not harm others captured along with Tabor. He explained to prisoner George Thrasher, “I’m not in favor of killing you, Thrasher, you have never been bushwhacking or stealing horses. I have killed old Wash Tabor, a damned good Christian, and I don’t reckon he minds dying.” On a later occasion, the mother of one of Ferguson’s prisoners, John Crabtree, begged for her son’s life, but the guerrilla leader told her that her concern was too late in coming. The time to worry was years ago, he suggested, when she still had the chance to raise her son right.
Several of Ferguson’s victims belonged to the 7th Tennessee Infantry (Union). So it is not surprising that the commander of that regiment, Colonel William Clift, was eager to attack the independent Rebel bands trolling the Tennessee-Kentucky border. “I deem it highly indispensable to break up these guerrilla companies as speedily as possible, as there can be no safety to the peace of the country while they are permitted to exist,” he said.
[You can see the Clinton County, Kentucky in the story referring to Champ Ferguson and notice the census information referring to Zylpha Ferguson as the mother-in-law of John B. Huddleston of Tennessee. From the census information we find the same John B. Huddleston married to Mary E. Huddleston and since John B. Huddleston's mother-in-law was Zylpha Ferguson that makes Mary E. Huddleston's maiden name Ferguson. I am trying to find out what relation was Zylpha Ferguson to Champ Ferguson and from reading the census and story We know it must have been close.
1840 Clinton Co., Ky.
W.R. Ferguson 1m 5-10, 2m 10-15, 1m 15-20, 1m 40-50, 1m 60-70
2f 0-5, 1f 10-15, 1f 30-40, 1f 60-70
William R., son of Champion and Jemima Ferguson. Wm. R. m. Zilpha
Huff.
1850 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 178
327/327
William R. Ferguson 50 Ky. s/o Champion Sr.
Zilphy 48 Ky. Zilpha Huff, b. 15 Apr 1802
Jemima A. 23 Ky. m. J.C. Cowan
William 17 Ky. b. 1 Sep 1833
Sarah 14 Ky. b. 7 Mar 1835, m. Wm. Sloan
Elizabeth 12 Ky. b. 1 Jan 1837, m. John Cargile
Mary 9 Ky. b. 11 Jul 1839
Margaret 5 Ky.
Note: William R. s/o Champion and Jemima Ferguson; Zilphy is Zilpha
Huff; Jemima A. m. J.C. Cowan, see 1880 Clinton Co.,Ky., 290/300;
William, born 1 Sep 1833; Sarah born 7 Mar 1835, married
William Sloan; Elizabeth W., born 1 Jan 1837, married John Cargile; Mary
E., born 11 Jul 1839;
Margaret E., born 11Jul 1841.
1850 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 178
328/328
Champ Ferguson 29 Ky.
Martha 23 Ky.
Ann 3/12 Ky.
The notorious Champ Ferguson, Confederate Capt. of Cavalry. He was the
son of William R. Ferguson and Zilpha Huff., Champ born 29 Nov 1821, d.
21 Oct 1865, wife is Martha Owens, Champ previously married to Elizabeth
Smith, she died with infant son of fever.
Yep, this is the notorious Champ Ferguson, son of William R. and Zilpha
(Huff) Ferguson.
Martha is Martha Owens, Champ's first wife was Elizabeth Smith, she and
a son died of fever in 1848.
Ann married George Metcalf, Martha married a Bohannon after Champ's
death. See 1870 White Co., Tenn. Champ born 29 Nov. 1821, died 21 Oct
1865.
1850 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 178
329/329
Benjamin Ferguson 27 Ky.
Armenda 17 Ky.
Benjamin Franklin Ferguson, s/o Wm. R. and Zilpha (Huff) Ferguson, he
was b. 17 Nov 1823, d. 20 Mar 1909, m. Armenda Owen, b. 9 Sep 1832, d. 6
Nov 1895, d/o Brooks and Elizabeth (Stockton) Owen.
1850 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 178
330/330
James Ferguson 25 Ky.
Malinda 21 Ky.
Robert 4/12 Ky.
James s/o Wm. R. & Zilpha Ferguson, b. 1825, d. 18 Dec 1861, Malinda b.
30 Apr 1830, d. 18 Feb 1919, d/o Brooks & Elizabeth Owen.
1850 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 178
331/331
Jemima Ferguson 67 SC
Catherine 21 Tn.
Jemima the widow of the elder Champion Ferguson, Catherine a dau. of
Wm. R. Ferguson and Zilpha Huff.
1860 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 11, P.O. Albany, 20 Jun
75/75
Ben Ferguson 36 Tn.
Amanda 26 Ky.
William B. 8 Ky.
1860 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 13, P.O. Albany, 20 Jun
90/90
Champion Ferguson 38 Ky. 20,000
Martha 34 Ky.
Ann E. 9 Ky.
Marion Cowan 21 Ky. farming
1860 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 20, P.O. Albany, 22 Jun
135/135
Jeremiah Ferguson 55 Va.
Thula? Ann 33 Va.
William 15 Va.
Joel 14 Va.
James 13 Va.
Manerva 11 Va.
Hiram 9 Va.
Louisa 8 Va.
Lucinda 6 Va.
1860 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 24, P.O. Albany, 25 Jun
168/168
James Ferguson 34 Ky.
Malinda 31 Ky.
Robert B. 19 Ky.
Emily 8 Ky.
Gemima (Jemima) 5 Ky.
James s/o Wm. & Zilpha, Robert B. the father of Daniel Boone Ferguson.
1870 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 23, P.O. Albany, 20 Jun
180/149
Malinda Ferguson 40 Ky.
Robert 20 Ky.
Jemima E. 15 Ky.
Emily Talbot 18 Ky.
Frank Mathas 5 Ky.
1870 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 23, P.O. Albany, 20 Jun
161/150
Arminda Ferguson 39 Ky.
Wm. B. 19 Ky.
Levi 19 Ky. This may be Levi Stockton
1870 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 21. P.O. Albany
146/146
Joseph Ferguson 26 Va.
Pherebe 32 Tn.
Mary A. 2 Ky.
1870 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 22, P.O. Albany
147/147
Isaac T. Reneau 65 Ky minister
Mary G. 54 Ky.
Barton W. 22 Ky.
Mary B. 19 Ky.
Joseph W. 16 Ky.
Isaac L.A. 10 Ky.
Reuben I.S. 8 Ky.
Manerva A. Ferguson 23 Ky. house keeper
1870 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 22, P.O. Albany
148/148
Zilpha Ferguson 66 Ky. widow of Wm. R. Ferguson
Mary E. 25 Ky.
Elizabeth Cargile 30 Ky.
James H.M. Cargile 6 Ky.
1870 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 26 & 27, P.O. Albany, 4 Jul
188/175
Jeremiah Ferguson 57 Va.
Thuisana? 46 Va.
Wm. 26 Va.
Minerva 23 Va.
Hiram 20 Va.
Louisa 19 Va.
Luanda 16 Va.
Mary J. 9 Ky.
Pitzer 8 Ky.
Susannah 5 Ky.
Lavica 3 Ky.
Hesikiah 1/12 Ky. May
1880 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 2, Albany, June 1
17/17
Lewis P. Ferguson 33 Ky.Va.Ky.
E.J. wife 34 Tn.Tn.Tn.
James J. son 15 Ky.Ky.Ky.
Mary B. dau 13 Ky.Ky.Ky.
L. ?. son 11 Ky.Ky.Ky.
S.F. dau 8 Ky.Ky.Ky.
M.E. dau 7 Ky.Ky.Ky.
1880 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 11, Albany voting precinct, 5 Jun
91/96
Brooks Ferguson 28 Ky.Ga.Ky.
Susan A. wife 29 Ky.Ky.Ky.
Henry L. son 5 Ky.Ky.Ky.
M.L. dau 4 Ky.Ky.Ky.
Benjamin F. son 2 Ky.Ky.Ky.
1880 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 11, Albany voting precinct, 5 Jun
95/101
Benj. Ferguson 59 Ga.Ky.Tn.
Arminda wife 48 Ky.Ky.Nc.
Benjamin Franklin Ferguson, s/o Wm. R. Ferguson and Zilpha Huff.
See 1850 Clinton Co., Ky.
1880 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 30, Albany voting dist.
251/260
Robert Ferguson 31 Ky.??.Ky.
Rebecca 21 Ky.Ky.NC.
Eda 4 Ky.Ky.Ky.
Alta 2 Ky.Ky.Ky.
Frank Mathas 14 Ky.Tn.Tn. bound boy, farm labor
1880 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 30, Albany voting precinct, 18 Jun
252/261
Carroll Holsapple 27 Ky.Pa.Ky.
Gemima A. wife 25 Ky.??.Ky.
Hattie R. dau 3 Ky.Ky.Ky.
Radford son 1 Ky.Ky.Ky.
Joseph Cole s/son 7 Ky.Ky.Ky.
Jemima (Gemima) a dau. of James and Malinda (Owen) Ferguson. Clinton
Co. birth records show date of birth as 10 Dec 1854, Smith accounts book
shows 10 Nov 1854. Jemima m. 1st Carroll Chrisman Cole and after his
death married Carroll Holsapple.
1880 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 30, Albany voting district.
253/262
Malinda Ferguson 50 Ky.Ky.Ky.
J.J. McMullen dau 29 Ky.Ky.Ky.
Minnie Talbot g/dau 5 Ky.Ky.Ky.
1880 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 35, Albany voting district
291/301
John Huddleston 64 Tn.Va.NC
Mary E. wife 33 Ky.Ky.Ky.
Zilpha Ferguson m/law 76 Ky.Va.Va. wid/o Wm. R. Ferguson
Sarah Sanders boarder 4 Ky.Ky.Ky.
Zilpha widow of William R. Ferguson, Mary E. born 11 Jul 1839. After
the death of John Huddleston Mary E. married Reason Pittman..
1880 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 35, Albany voting distrct, 21 Jun
292/302
Allen Butler 42 Ky.Ky.Ky.
Margaret wife 32 Ky.Ky.Ky. d/o Wm. and Zilpha (Huff) Ferguson
Benjamin F. son 9 Ky.Ky.Ky.
John J. son 7 Ky.Ky.Ky.
Zilpha J. dau 5 Ky.Ky.Ky.
Nancy E. dau 2 Ky.Ky.Ky.
1880 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 35, Albany voting district,
281/301
John Huddleston 64 Tn.Va.NC
Mary E. 33 Ky.Ky.Ky.
Zilpha Ferguson 76 Ky.Va.Va.
Sarah Saunders 4 Ky.Ky.Ky.
Mary E. b. 11 Jul 1839, m. 1st John B. Huddleston, 2nd Reason Pittman
1880 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 35, Albany voting district
290/300
J.C. Cowan 61 Ky.Va.Ky.
Gemima 52 Ky.Ky.Ky.
Wm. 21 Ky.Ky.Ky.
Thomas 18 Ky.Ky.Ky.
Samuel 13 Ky.Ky.Ky.
Alleen 9 Ky.Ky.Ky.
Jemima Amanda, d/o Wm. R. Ferguson and Zilpha Huff.
Sandy, most of those sent that are in Clinton Co., Ky. are connected in
one way or another to the line of the senior Champion and Jemima
Ferguson. I have no idea on those showing a Va. state of birth. This may
be of interest to the woman who sent you data on Benjamin Ferguson in
Ill.
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1840 Clinton Co., Ky. Cut from Wayne, Cumberland, in 1836
John Ferguson 1 m. 40-50, 1 f. 10-15, 1 f. 30-40
John a s/o Wm. & Judah, wife Mahala, dau. Mary, m. Wm. Groom?
James Ferguson 2 m. 0-5, 1 m. 5-10, 1 m. 20-30,
2 f. 0-5, 1 f. 30-40
This is James Hamilton Ferguson, born 1802, s/o William and Juda.
1850 Clinton Co., Ky.
157 Dist. 1, 27 July
38/38
John Ferguson 53 SC
Mahala 45 Ky.
John Ferguson son of William & Judah (Wood) Ferguson. Unable to
find this John after this date. A Mary is the wife of William Groom,
see 39/39, and of such an age that she could be the dau. of John and
Mahala as seen in the 1830-40 census. Have found that a descendant of
William Groome states the wife of William Groome was Mary Ferguson, and
if
so she would be the dau. of John & Mahala Ferguson. Some evidence
indicates
that Mahala may have been a d/o John & Patsy Wright
1850 Clinton Co., Ky.
39/39
William Groom 27 farmer SC
Mary 22 Ky.
Louisa 3 Ky.
Mahala 10/12 Ky.
Jasper Ferguson 17 laborer Ky.
William " 12 Ky. b. 7 May 1838
Note a child is named Mahala, see 38/38. Jasper Newton & William
Marion Ferguson, sons of James Hamilton Ferguson and Mary Campbell.
James Hamilton Ferguson b. 1802, SC m. 7 Mar 1822 Mary Campbell, b.
10 Mar 1806, d. 2 May 1886, Bells, Tex. Children: Riley H., b. 1825,
Josephine, b. ca 1827, Richard, b. ca 1829, Jasper Newton, b. 9 Jun
1833, d. 27 Jul 1905, Henry, b. ca 1835, John b. 1840, Benjamin b.
1843, James b. 1845, Mary L., b. 1847. Source: Jack Ferguson, Albany,
Ky.
See William Marion, Milam Co., Tex. Jasper Newton, Hall Co., Ga., Meigs
Co.,
Tenn., Roane Co., Tenn., he moved to Grayson Co., Tex. during the
1880's.
1850 Clinton Co., Ky.
Pg 164, Dist. 1, 6 Aug.
124/124
John Ferguson (John H.) 28 farmer NC s/o Hugh Ferguson
Martha 30 Ky. d/o Elizabeth Wright
William H. 4 Ky.
Elijah F. (Eligah) 3 Ky. b. 8 May 1848
Hugh F. 4/12 Ky.
See 1860 Rhea Co., Tenn., 1870-80, Clinton Co., Ky. Also see
deeds, Habersham and White Co's., Ga.
1850 Clinton Co., Ky.
Page 177, Dist. 1, 19 Aug.
318/318
Elizabeth Wright 51 SC
Lean (Lee Ann) Davis 8 Ky.
Lewis Davis 6 Ky.
See Pension records of Juda (Wood) Ferguson, Habersham Co., Ga.,
also History of Lawrence Co., Mo., also 1860 census, Rhea Co., Tenn.,
also Tenn. marriages, J.C. Ferguson to L. Davis, Rhea Co., Tenn., also
1880
census, Clinton Co., Ky., home of John C. Ferguson.
1850 Clinton Co., Ky.
Dist 1, 19 Aug pg 177
319/319
James Ferguson 48 SC laborer, James Hamilton s/o Wm. & Juda
Jasper (Newton) 16 Ky. b. 9 Jun 1833, d. 11 Jan 1905, Tex.
Nancy 13 Ky.
William (Marion) 12 Ky. b. 9 May 1838, d. 26 May 1925
John (John C.) 10 Ky. see 1880 Clinton Co. Ky.
James 5 Ky.
The Jasper & Wm. Ferguson shown here are the same as those shown
in 39/39, 1850 Clinton Co., Ky. James H. & Mary are apparently
separated, some children living with the mother and some with the
father. James Hamilton Ferguson was a son of William and Juda {Wood)
Ferguson. See Meigs Co., Tenn.
1850 Clinton Co., Ky.
2nd Dist, pg 199, 13 Aug
213/213
Mary Ferguson 40 Ky. Mary Campbell, b. 10 Mar 1806
Benjamin 7 Ky.
Mary L. 2 Ky.
Mary (Campbell) Ferguson d. 24 May 1886, Bells, Grayson Co., Tex.
See
1860-70 Hall Co., Ga., 1880 Clinton Co., Ky., home of John C. Ferguson,
James Hamilton Ferguson & Mary Campbell m. 7 Mar 1822, separated prior
to the 1850 census, see other children in home of James Hamilton
Ferguson.
1850 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 178, 1st. Dist., 20 Aug.
327/327
William R. Ferguson 50 Ky.
Zilphy 48 Ky.
Jemima A. 27 Ky.
William 17 Ky.
Sarah B. 14 Ky.
Elizabeth 12 Ky.
Mary 9 Ky.
Margaret 5 Ky.
Note: Wm. R. a son of Champion Sr., Zilphy is Zilpha Huff.
1850 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 178, 1st Dist., 20 Aug.
328/328
Champ Ferguson 29 Ky.
Martha 23 Ky.
Ann 3/12 Ky.
Note: This Champ is the notorious Champ Ferguson, Capt. of
Confederate Cavalry, he was a son of Wm. R. and Zilpha (Huff) Ferguson.
Martha is Martha Owen, Champ's 2nd wife, his first wife was Elizabeth
Smith, she and young son died of a fever. See Martha and Ann in the
1870 census of White Co., Tenn. Ann m. George Metcalf.
1850 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 178, 1st Dist., 20 Aug.
329/329
Benjamin Ferguson 27 Ky.
Armenda 17 Ky.
Note: Benjamin a son of Wm. R. Ferguson and Zilpha Huff,
Armenda a dau. of Brooks and Elizabeth Owen.
1850 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 178, 1st Dist., 20 Aug.
330/330
James Ferguson 25 Ky.
Malinda 21 Ky.
Robert 4/12 Ky.
James a son of Wm. R. and Zilpha (Huff) Ferguson, Malinda
a dau.of Brooks and Elizabeth Owen.
1850 Clinton Co., Ky.
page 178, 1st. Dist., 20 Aug.
331/331
Jemima Ferguson 67 SC
Catherine 21 Tn.
Jemima widow of Champion Ferguson Sr., Catherine a dau. of
Wm. R. and Zilpha (Huff) Ferguson.
1860 Clinton Co., Ky.
185
904/877
W. Andrew Ferguson 22 Ga. farm labor, s/o Edward
Malvina (Jane Wheeler) 15 Ky. m. 1960, d. 1884 Healing Spgs. Ark.
Wm. Andrew s/o Edward & Salina (Duckett) Ferguson, he was b.
Habersham Co., Ga., d. Dec 1909, Hazel Twp., Tillman Co., Ok.
1870 Clinton Co., Ky.
P.O. Albany, Dist. #1, pg 31, 12 Aug.
225/209
John H. Ferguson 49 NC s/o Hugh, s/o Wm. & Judah
Martha 50 Ky d/o Elizabeth Wright
Wm. H. 24 Ga
Elijah 22 Ky school within year
Hugh 20 Ky
Edward L. 18 Ky
John H. 16 Ga
George W.(Washington) 14 Tn moved to Texas
Calvin B. 8 Tn
See also 1860, Rhea Co., Tenn., 1850 Clinton Co., Ky. While I am
unable to find a Ga. marriage for John H. & Martha, states of birth
for children, as well as some other data, indicates that Elizabeth
Wright and dau. Martha, were in Ga. in or before the 1840's.
1870 Clinton Co., Ky.
P.O. Albany, Dist. #1, pg 32, 12 Aug.
227/211
Mary E. Ferguson 39 SC Mary Ellen Service, b. 22 Sep 1830
Margaret J. 16 Ga school within year.
John D. 14 Ga "
Thomas W. 13 Ga "
Wm. E. 9 Ga "
Fletcher 8 Ga "
Hamilton(Hugh Hamilton) 5 Ky b. 22 Aug 1864, d. 25 Jan 1925.
Edmondson Co., Ky. Mary E. b. South Carolina, wid/o Hugh
H.Ferguson,
brother to John H. Ferguson in the preceding census. See Hugh H.
Ferguson
in the 1860 census of White Co., Ga. Hugh H. Ferguson b. 22 Aug 1818,
d. 23 Sep 1866. See Ky. cemetery data. Hugh Hamilton Jr. m. Doreas
Dorthula
Stice, children: Lemuel Adrian, b. 11 Dec 1886, d. 8 Jan 1962, m. 29 Oct
1911,
Della Ethel Sanders; Maggie Marie, b. 17 Jun 1893, d. 23 Oct 1965, m.
Herbert
Hazelip; William Tandy, b. 28 Aug 1888, m. 25 Jun 1908, Velma Wells;
Gertrude,
b. 17 Jun 1895, d. 2 Jan 1978, m. Smith Skaggs; Leonida Fletcher (Bob),
m.
Jewell Logan; Mabel, b. 22 Oct 1898, never married. All children b.
Edmondson
Co., Ky. See the chronicles of Horatio Hennion, these in Ga. pages, for
additional
information on both Hugh Hamilton Ferguson and Mary Ellen Service. Hugh
Hamilton Ferguson is also mentioned by his elder brother William J.
Ferguson,
this in one of the letters written by him to Gresham Duckett. Hugh
Hamilton
is not mentioned by name, only as his youngest brother. William J.
states that
while in good health, his youngest brother died suddenly. He also stated
that
his eldest sister died alone in the woods. This was Nancy, who married
Josiah
Duckett. We see two of her children in the home of this Hugh Hamilton
Ferguson
in the 1860 census of White Co., Ga.
1880 Clinton Co., Ky.
3rd & 6th Precinct, Super. Dist. #3, pg. 10
97/100
John C. Furgison 39 Ky NC Ky s/o James Hamilton
Lee Ann (Davis) wife 38 Ky Tn Ky J.C. m. L. Davis, Rhea Co. Tenn.
George L. son 19 Tn Ky Ky See Madison Co. Ark.
James E. son 15 Ky Ky Ky
John H. son 9 Ky Ky Ky
Mattie B. dau 7 Ky Ky Ky
Annie Lee dau 4 Ky Ky Ky m. a Teague, Madison Co. Ark.
Martha E. dau 1 Ky Ky Ky
Mary C. mother 74 Ky Ky Va Mary Campbell, w/o James H.
Malvina Wright cousin 19 Ky Ky Ky niece of Martha(Wright)Ferguson?
George Furgison bro/law 20 Tn NC Ky s/o John H. & Martha
James Daniel nephew 29 Tn Tn Ky
See John C. Ferguson in 1900 Madison Co., Ark. and 1910, Walker
Co., Tex. Mary (Campbell) Ferguson died in 1886, Bells, Grayson Co.,
Tex.
See Mary in the 1850 Clinton Co., Ky., 1860 & 70 Hall Co., Ga. census.
Geo.
L. Ferguson, 1900 Madison Co., Ark., 1910 Logan Co., Ark. George
Washington
Ferguson m. Malvina Wright, and they removed to Texas. Information is
that
Martha (Wright) Ferguson, mother of George Washington Ferguson, went to
Texas on a visit and died there, she is reportedly buried at Palestine,
Tex.
1880 Clinton Co., Ky.
Albany voting precinct, #1, Super. Dist #3, 575C
52/54
Elijah Ferguson 32 Ky.NC.Ky. s/o John H. & Martha Wright
Mary E. 24 Tn.Ky.Ky. Mary Ellen Burchett
John C. 4 Ky.Ky.Tn.
Wm. E. 2 Ky.Ky.Tn. m. Bertha Mackey
Mary L. 9/12 Ky.Ky.Tn. Sept.
Elijah b. 8 May 1848, d. 29 Oct. 1932. Other children of John H.
were:
William H. b. 1846, Hugh, b. 1849, d. Nov. 1879, Charles, removed to
Texas.
Source: Jack Ferguson, Albany, Ky.
1880 Clinton Co., Ky.
Albany voting precinct, #1, Super. Dist #3, 595C
53/55
Martha Ferguson 60 Ky.Ky.NC. wid/of John H. Ferguson
Calvin B. 18 Tn.NC.Ky.
(So in other words Zylpha Ferguson was Champ Ferguson's mother and her maiden name was Huff. John B. Huddleston of Tennessee married Champ Ferguson's sister Mary E. Ferguson and John B. Huddleston would therefore be Champ Ferguson's brother-in-law. This would definately show the destinction between the two John B. Huddlestons)
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