According to census records of Sumner County, Tennessee, Walter Anglea/Angel was born in Virginia about the year 1794. At present, his parents are unknown. It is believed that his father was either, William Anglea or James Anglea of Cumberland County, Virginia who later migrated to North Carolina and eventually to Tennessee or Kentucky. The first recorded information found on Walter/Walthell was a marriage license for his marriage to Polly Robertson (1795 - ca. 1872) in Sumner County, Tennessee on February 15, 1819.

Walter Angel/Anglea was listed in the 1820, 1830, and 1840 U. S. Census of Sumner County, Tennessee. He was not listed in the 1850 Census of Sumner County but his wife and children were. The last record on him in Sumner County, Tennessee was from a probate sale of household goods where he purchased various items in 1845. There is no record of disposition of his personal property if he died in Sumner County between 1845 and 1850. However, if he had no valuable property, there would understandably be no records of property transfers. I suspect that this is the case.

Sumner County, Tennessee records indicate that Walter and his wife, Mary (Polly) Robertson Anglea lived in Sumner County with their family until just prior to 1850. After this time, no other records have been found on Walter. It is assumed that he died about that time, because his wife and younger children appear in the 1850 Census without him. The last record found on Walter/Walthell is where he purchased several items from a sale of personal property of Aaron Hodges (deceased), on January 21, 1845. Walter could have died in the Smallpox epidemic that raged in the area in 1847 and 1849. Another possibility is that he could have been caught up in the 1849 Gold Rush to California in the late 1840s and perished on the trail. Maybe someday this will be cleared up.

Two family bibles were found belonging to two of Walter's sons [John F. Angel/Anglea (1821 - 1875) and Robert A. Anglea (1822 - 1896)]. Neither bible mentioned Walter or Mary (Polly) Anglea/Angel. However, information on the brothers and sisters of the two were listed in both. Both bibles had sections where family information had been, mutilated and cut out. There is a possibility that this mutilation could have been intentional for the purpose of destroying family information not intended for future generations.

Mrs. Virgil Corder of Marion, Illinois has the family Bible of her ancestor, John Franklin Angel/Anglea and it lists John's brothers and sister and their birth dates. John was the brother of Walter/Walthell Anglea/Angel recorded in Mrs. Corder's Bible corresponds with the birth date recorded on Robert Allen Anglea's tombstone and his Bible, which I have in my possession.

Two generations of the Walter Anglea/Angle family are listed below:

 

1 Walter Anglea (ca.  1795) 

  m (15 Feb 1819) Mary (Polly) Robertson (ca. 1795 - 1872/1873)

  2 Lucy Anglea (26 Nov 1819) m. (19

Sep1839)

James R. Riggs (b. ca 1817-18)

  2 John Franklin Anglea (15 May 1821 - 4 Jan 1875) 

    m (20 Jan 1849) Elizabeth Rankin (13 Jun 1823 - 13 Aug 1896)

    3 James T.  Angel (27 Nov 1849 - 11 Nov 1916) 

      m (14 Aug 1879) Elizabeth (Lizzie) Handkins (17 Sept 1857-10 May 1936)

    3 John W.  Angel (1851 - very young)

    3 William Franklin Angel (1852 - 1933) 

      m (24 Sep 1872) Polly Ann Grant (1855 - 1885)

      m Mattie Jones

    3 Mary Jane Angel (1855 - ca.  1881) 

      m (3 May 1880) L.  H.  Turner

    3 Lucy Ann Angel (5 Apr 1856 - 27 Jun 1936) 

      m (2 Nov 1876) Lewis Cass Pulley (23 Jan 1849 - 10 Apr 1915)

    3 Robert Elmore Angel (17 Feb 1858 - 19 Dec 1928) 

      m (24 Sep 1882) Sophronia Alice Handkins (10 Mar 1862 - 27 Apr 1939)

    3 Sarah Frances Angel (3 Sep 1860 - 6 Mar 1948) 

      m (1 Jan 1880) Isaac Hall Pulley (1 Apr 1853 - 9 Nov 1919)

    3 Joshua Allen Angel (1 Sep 1862 - 11 Jul 1916) 

      m (6 Apr 1881) Margaret Elizabeth Peebles (17 Feb 1866 - 22 Jan 1913)

  2 Robert Allen Anglea (15 Mar 1822 - 4 Jun 1896) 

    m (20 Jul 1848) Cynthia Frances Anglea (11 Apr 1828 - 3 Apr 1908)

    3 Mary Frances Anglea (8 Jun 1850 - 9 Aug 1906) 

      m (17 Dec 1866) Aaron Robert Brown (23 Nov 1845 - 17 Aug 1917)

    3 Sarah Katherine Anglea (5 Aug 1852 - bef 1900) 

      m (25 Dec 1867) William James (Will) Brown  (15 Dec 1840 - 12 Mar 1925)

    3 Martha Ann Anglea (23 Nov 1854 - 7 Mar 1923) 

      m (8 Sep 1872) John Henry Fleming (8 Jul 1852 - 6 Apr 1928)

    3 John William Anglea (5 Jan 1857 - 25 Sep 1937) 

      m (19 Dec 1878) Malinda Ellen Denning (21 Sept 1862 - 28 Feb 1937)

    3 James Monroe Anglea (5 Jun 1859 - 10 Jun 1859)

    3 Robert Elmore (Ell) Anglea (10 Jul 1860 - 9 Jan 1909) 

      m (25 Nov 1883) Isadora Jane Grant (9 July 1865 - 9 Apr 1948)

    3 Cynthia Henrietta Anglea (13 Feb 1863 - 9 May 1943) 

      m (8 Apr 1880) Joseph Mansfield Gant (4 Jun 1858 - 5 Jul 1906)

    3 George Booth Anglea (25 Aug 1866 - 8 Nov 1920) 

      m (17 Oct 1888) America Tennessee Sherron (6 Jun 1867 - 16 Feb 1947)

    3 Charles B.  Anglea (10 Dec 1868 - 4 Mar 1869)

    3 Cassandra A.  Anglea (2 Aug 1870 - 19 Jun 1933) 

      m (14 Sep 1889) John Sherron (Mar 1864 - 1934)

    3 Derinda Anglea (27 Jul 1873 - 21 Jul 1943) 

      m John H.  Graves (5 Sep 1865 - 2 Sep 1933)

  2 P. E. B.  Anglea (2 Apr 1826)

  2 William W.  Anglea (23 Jul 1827 - 12 Dec 1907) 

    m (24 Nov 1847) Margaret Bracken (1827/28 - 17 Oct 1899)

    3 Amanda (Mandy) B.  Anglea (1850)

    3 Sarah Ram Anglea (1852 ) m Frank Wray

    3 Savannah (Van) Anglea (Aug 1853 - 1936) 

      m (5 Oct 1869) William Martin Perry (Jul 1849 - 1929)

    3 William L.  (Bud) Anglea (1856) 

      m 1 W.L. A.  (Unknown) 

      m 2 (24 Apr 1894) Isabelle Lee 

      m 3 (22 Aug 1899) Mary M.  Sadler (Nov 1856 - )

    3 Margaret Loan (Lonnie) Anglea (12 Sep 1858 - 11 Apr 1937) 

      m 1 (8 Jan 1879) John L. Philips 

      m 2 James (Jimmy) Witham

    3 A. (Aggie) J. C. Anglea (1860 - 1940) 

      m Martin Graves (1858 - 1941)

    3 Roe Ark Anglea (29 Feb 1863 - 31 Mar 1942) 

      m 1 (31 Jan 1886) Etta Sloan (4 Jan 1866 - 4 Jan 1892) 

      m 2 (10 Feb 1896) Ida Ewing Wray (26 May 1871 - 13 Sep 1951)

    3 Sidney M.  Anglea (Jan 1868) 

      m 1 Mary Frances Anderson 

      m 2 (29 Sep 1888) Louella Sadler (Sep 1874)

  2 Charles Thomas Anglea (22 Jan 1829 - 22 Apr 1889) 

    m (11 Dec 1851) Nancy Smothers (16 Apr 1828 - 16 Sep 1909)

    3 Elisah Burton Anglea (18 Sep 1852 - 13 Nov 1905) 

      m 1  (23 Dec 1874) Mary E. ( Mollie) Gant (24 Jan 1860 - Mar 1900) 

      m 2 (3 Jun 1903) Mallie (Mollie) Bryant (1875)

    3 Mary Jane (Sis) Anglea (29 Aug 1854 - 4 Dec 1937) 

      m (2 Dec 1870) Alfred Gillespie Sarver, Jr. (15 May 1852 - 2 Jul 1948)

    3 James B. Anglea (12 May 1856 - 7 May 1959)

    3 Charles William Anglea (18 Apr 1859 - 7 Apr 1927) 

      m (10 Oct 1878) Hester Henrietta Fykes (24 Oct 1860 - 30 Sep 1941)

    3 Sarah Elizabeth Anglea (27 Jan 1862 - 24 Nov 1950) 

      m (20 Jun 1878) William Porter Gant (3 Oct 1856 - 30 Jun 1915)

    3 Louella E.  Anglea (16 Apr 1864 - 10 Sep 1945) 

      m (10 May 1883) James Martin Rippy (25 Jul 1858 - 22 Jan 1932)

    3 Robert E.  Lee Anglea (4 Apr 1866 - 24 Dec 1893) 

      m (20 Dec 1884) Martha  I.  (Mattie) Groves

    3 Tom Anglea (26 Feb 1871 - 11 Feb 1948) 

      m 1  (Apr 1901) Mary Estelle Hayes (16 Apr 1872 - 28 Mar 1928) 

      m 2 (1935) Lelia Alford (1886)

  2 Martin Anglea (21 Jan 1831/34 - 1908) 

    m Nancy A.  J.  Kerly (May 1844)

    3 Mary E.  Anglea (1859)

    3 James Newton Anglea ( 4 Apr 1860 - 1946) 

      m (21 Aug 1881) Lucy A. Gilliam (13 Aug 1864 - Jan 1944) 

    3 Ella M.  Anglea (1862)

    3 Hester R.  Anglea (1864)

    3 John Franklin Anglea (Jul 1870) 

      m 1 Louise Gibbs 

      m 2 Nancy (Nannie Jane Porter

  2 Burton Anglea (4 May 1833/6 - 1870) 

    m(12 Feb 1856) Malinda F. Marcum (1840 - 1910)

    3 Albert Monroe Anglea (7 May 1857 - 24 Sep 1908) 

      m Elizabeth Jane Burt (15 Jul 1869 - 27 Feb 1947).

    3 Sarah C.  Anglea (Aug 1859) 

      m (30 Jul 1874) Thomas D.  Hobdy (Aug 1849)

    3 John Franklin Anglea (Nov 1862 - 2 Oct 1907)) 

      m 1  (24 Oct 1888) Sina Ann Perdue (1863 - 1897) 

      m 2 Beulah Shelton (Mar 1879)

    3 Queen Henrietta Anglea (1867) 

      m (12 Nov 1884) Lafayette F.  Brown

    3 Charles Thomas Anglea/Angel (1 Dec 1867 - 29 May 1926) 

      m (3 Apr 1890) Amanda Ellen Amos (19 Jan 1868 - 15 Jan 1916)

    3 Nannie Neal Anglea (24 Dec 1870 - 26 Nov 1941) 

      m (16 Mar 1887) Felix Kirk Zollicoffer Denning (3 Aug 1865-21 Sep 1942)

  2 Marcus Lafayette Anglea (9 Nov 1835 - 26 Aug 1892) 

    m 1  (15 Jan 1859) Erena Jones (5 Jan 1838 - 20 Dec 1878) 

    m 2 (26 Mar 1880) Sally E.  Tomberlin

    3 Henrietta Anglea (5 Jun 1860) 

      m 1 (Unknown) Greer 

      m 2 (Unknown) Dean 

      m 3 (1933) L.  W.  Watson

    3 Isabelle Anglea (21 Aug 1861) 

      m William Munroe Howard

    3 James Lafayette Angle (25 Feb 1863 - 27 Jan 1949) 

      m (3 Jul 1890) Eliza C. Brown (5 May 1869 - 27 Jul 1964)

    3 Albert A.  Angle (13 Oct 1864)

    3 Durrett Monroe Angle (11 Jun 1866)

    3 Dora E.  Angle/Angel (5 May 1868 - 28 Dec 1961) 

      m (3 Jul 1889) Robert E. Lee Howard, Sr. (7 Sep 1867 - 13 May 1938)

    3 Nannie Neal Angle (Mar 1870 - 30 Jul 1957) 

      m (14 Dec 1892) John William Brown (2 Sep 1870 - 9 Dec 1915)

    3 Charles T.  Angle (20 May 1872)

    3 John Walter Angle (22 Sep 1874 - 12 Jan 1970) 

      m Lela Vance (31 Jul 1890 - 7 Oct 1981)

    3 William Mattie Angle (5 Dec 1876 - 29 Jan 1879)

    3 Minnie Lea Angle (31 Dec 1881 - 27 Dec 1976) 

      m (13 Oct 1896) J.  T.  (Dink) Recer ( ? - 1953)

    3 Lula Angle 

    3 Willie Marcus Angle

    3 Lutha Angle

    3 Bessie Angle

    3 Grady Angle

  2 Sarah Elizabeth Anglea (27 Aug 1838 - 27 Sep 1910) 

    m 1 (25 Sept 1854) Robert S. Brown 

    m 2 Jeff Hodges

Click here to see a photograph of Robert Allen and Cynthia Frances Anglea.

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Click here to see a photograph of Charles Thomas and Nancy Smothers Anglea

Click here to see a photograph of the daughters of Charles Thomas and Nancy Smothers Anglea