Family Record of the JOHN MILTON ENDSLEY Family

Contributed by Dick Wood

JOHN MILTON ENDSLEY CHRISTIANA E. BURGESS

Birth place: Stokes County, North Carolina Birth place: Tennessee

Birth date: 19 Mar 1803 Birth date: 16 Oct 1810

Death date: 05 Dec 1884 Death date: 10 Apr 1890

Burial place: Round Hill Cemetery Burial place: Round Hill Cemetery

Marshall County, Tenn. Marshall County, Tenn.

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JOHN MILTON ENDSLEY & CHRISTIANA BURGESS

WERE MARRIED 19 DEC 1833

In WILLIAMSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE

[John M.'s sister, Cynthia, married Christiana's brother, Willis Burgess, too]

CHILDREN:

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1. M. JOHN W. ENDSLEY _____1835 - aftter 1880 NEVER MARRIED

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2. M. JAMES BURGESS ENDSLEY 30 Nov 1836 - 09 Dec 1917 m. Mary Amna Bell

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3. M. WILLIAM McGEE ENDSLEY _____1837 - 17 Feb 1864 NEVER MARRIED

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PARENTS OF JOHN MILTON ENDSLEY PARENTS OF CHRISTIANA E. BURGESS

Father: John Endsley Father: James Endsley

Mother: Mary Blair Mother: Mary Carson

Notes from Dick Wood:

JOHN M. ENDSLEY born in Stokes County, NC. I say this because all my research of this Endsley family finds them on or close to the same tract of land on the Middle Fork of Belews Creek that they had lived on for many, many years. The spot was in Anson County before 1753, fell within Rowan when it was established in 1753, became a part of Surry which was carved off Rowan in 1771 and came to be within Stokes when it was established in 1789.

JOHN W. ENDSLEY: For a long time I thought he may be the John W. Endsley shown in muster rolls of the 1^st Alabama Cavalry. I've changed my mind. Virtually every young man near his age went off to war during the War Between the States and, consequently, missed paying the county poll tax at least some of those years. This John never missed a single year. His father didn't mention him when he made his will in 1882. For a long time I thought he was absent from the 1880 Census, but finally found him in Davidson County, TN, Dist. 5, NA Film No T9-1251, page 68D. That's the Tennessee Lunatic Asylum. Whatever was wrong with him, physical or mental, he seems to have stayed in his parents home until they were too old to care for him. He paid his poll tax in Marshall County in 1878. Nothing futher known.

WILLIAM McGEE ENDSLEY. I refer to him as "the first William McGee" to differentiate him from his nephew, William McGee, first born child of his brother, James Burgess Endsley. According to his muster record with the 32^nd TN Infantry (CSA) he was promoted to 4^th sergeant. He died 17 Feb 1864 at Fairburn, GA. As that was a rear area (to the Confederates) at the time and near the terminus of a spur rail road line, I speculate that there may have been a Confederate hospital there. Fairburn is in modern day Fulton County, GA.

WILLIAM McGEE ENDSLEY. (I call him the 1^st William McGee) Undoubtedly named for the prominent pioneer Cumberland Presbyterian minister, William McGee. He served in the 32^nd Tenn Infantry (CSA) with his brother, James Burgess Endsley. According to his muster record he died at Fairburn, Georgia on 17 Feb 1864. Some on line data bases incorrectly show the year as 1863. As the 17 Feb 1864 date was three months before Sherman even began his advance from Chattanooga to Atlanta, I figure he was probably in a Confederate hospital there. I vouch for the 1864 death date.

Mrs.Martha McDaniel of Lewisburg sent me an undated Lewisburg newspaper article that reported early meetings of the Elk River Presbytery of the CP Church were often held in the upstairs of the John Milton Endsley home. Mrs. McDaniel grew up in Liberty Valley and attended Beech Hill CP Church as a little girl.