Thomas Deaver + Susannah Smith                                     Reuben Keith      +      Elizabeth Runnion
                   |                                                                                    |
Thomas Shepherd Deaver               +              Louarta Keith  
1803      -      1893                                   m. 1828                   1807 - 1876
Haywood Co NC   Madison Co NC                                 Bunc Co NC                   Mars Hill now in Madison Co NC
                                                                             |
                  
Polly Marinda Deaver (Hiram Buckner, John Sexton), 1829 - 1887
                  Minerva Elizabeth Deaver (William A. Patterson), 1833 - 1877
                  Squire Osborn Deaver (Hannah Smith,
Kittie McElroy), 1834 - ?
                  
Julia Susanna Deaver (Alexander L. Logan), 1836 - 1877
                  Reuben Manning Deaver (Sarah Ann Rollins), 1839 - 1912
                  Adolphis E. Deaver, 1841 -  aft 1869
                  Sophronia Lucinda Deaver, 1842 - ?
                  
Hester Jane Deaver (Pinkney Rollins), 1842 - 1915
                  Louisa Cordelia Deaver, 1846 - 1865
                  
Laura Samantha Deaver (Nicholas Woodfin McElroy), 1850 - 1921
                  Harriet Louarta Deaver (Ambrose Featherstone), 1853 - ?

(Note: in the 1850 census, the Deaver household included the following additional persons -
Reuben Phillips, age 35 (See Nancy's father on the
Deaver-Phillips page; this could be the same
Reuben Phillips.) William Phillips, age 16; Hiram Phillips, age 14 (Did he later marry Harvey's
daughter
Mary Ann?); Sarah Blackwell, age 16; and William Penly, age 40.

"[Thomas Shepherd Deaver ] is buried in the McElroy Cemetery in Madison County. This has
been an abandoned cemetery until it was discovered when a service station was built near it. It is
at the Big Branch Road and I-26 intersection, just below the station." - Doris Deaver-Williams, 2
Apr 2007

Thomas Deaver + Susannah Smith                                     
   |                                                                                    |
Thomas Shepherd Deaver             +           Jane (Vance?) Rice  
1803         -         1893                             aft 1876                   1832 - aft 1899?
Haywood Co NC   Madison Co NC                                   Bunc Co NC                           NC               NC

Note: In 1880, the Thomas S. Deaver household included wife Jane, 50; grandson James
Patterson, 19; grandson Adolphus Patterson, 14; servant Elisha Briggs, 19; step-daughter Mary
A. Rice, 15; and boarder/lecturer Ludwick W. Harris, 24.


Sources: Ancestry.com's OneWorldTree;
  U. S. Census, 1860, 1870, 1880, Madison Co NC;
  U. S. Census for Bunc Co NC, 1850;
  NC Death Certificate, Laura Samantha McElroy.
WNC Timeline

Please send corrections, notes, and photos.

www.childers-shepherd.org, 1 Sep 2010
           |                                                            |
 Wilson Rice            +            Jane [unknown]
1820 - bef 1870?          abt 1846?           1832    -  aft 1899?
TN?         TN                                                                NC                 NC
                                                      
  |
              
Greenbury Rice, 1847 - ?
                    Elizabeth Rice, 1850 - ?
                    Sarah A. Rice, 1856 - ?
                    Jesse Rice, 1859 - ?
                    Mary A. Rice (Julius Grant Edmonds), 1865 - 1934

Note: This family resided in Flag Pond,TN, in 1850, 1860, and 1870. In 1850, the
household incuded Catherine Runnion, age 6.  By 1870, Wilson was no longer
present, and the household included Anna Vance, age 65. (Is this Jane's mother?)

In 1900, the Julius Edmonds household in Marshall, NC, included Jane Rice, age 60.

(At each successive census in which Jane is listed, her age has advanced less than ten years. As
most of us tend to grow somewhat vague about details as we age, we should not make too much
of the fact that she is only 60 in 1900, even though she seems to have been born in 1832.)

Sources: US Census 1850, 1860, 1870, Flag Pond, Washington Co TN;
      US Census 1900, Marshall, Madison Co NC;
     Ancestry.com's Archer Fore family tree, showing grave marker for Mary A. Rice Edmonds.
                                                              Vance?