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Nancy Mangum

Female 1794 - 1877  (82 years)


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  • Name Nancy Mangum 
    Born 11 Nov 1794  , Newberry, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 25 Jan 1877  Carrollton, Pickens, Alabama, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1385  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father John Mangum,   b. 19 Jan 1763, , Lunenburg, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. From 2 Mar 1842 to 4 Mar 1844, Fulton, Itawamba, Mississippi, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years) 
    Mother Mary or Polly Murdock,   b. Abt 1767, of Bush River or Newberry, Newberry, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 23 Aug 1803, of Bush River or Newberry, Newberry, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 36 years) 
    Married Bef 1791  of, Newberry, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F462  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Austin Hudgins or Hudgens,   b. 2 Dec 1793, of, Newberry, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Feb 1861, Pickens, Alabama, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years) 
    Married Bef 1819  of Newberry, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F933  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Biographical info per the book "John Mangum, American Revolutionary War Soldier and Descendants," 1986, p. 7-16, by Delta Ivie Mangum Hale: "Shortly after the Rev. War, John married Mary Murdock. Mary was known by the nickname of Polly to the family. Her father was Hamilton Murdock. The date of their marriage is not known. Three children were born to John and Mary. The oldest, James Mangum, was born Dec. 6, 1791 at Newberry, So. Carolina. The next Child, Nancy, was born Nov. 11, 1794, and the third Child, Elizabeth, was born on Christmas Eve in 1798. Both Nancy and Elizabeth were born in South Carolina, but the town is not known. John's first wife, Mary, died, and after a time he remarried, this time to Gemima Goggins. John's brother William, was married to Gemima's sister, Anna. These two couples were apparently quite close, as John was the administrator of William's estate following William's death. Copies of the wills of both William and Anna are in the possession of the author. Two children were born to John and Gemima. The oldest, Cyrus, was born Jan. 5, 1805 [probably typo for 1803] at Newberry. He went by the nickname of Russ. After he grew up he married and moved to Texas where he left a large posterity. The other child was born June 17, 1804. John's second wife died, and he was again left a widower."

      2. Betty Peerman believes Nancy may have married Austin Hudgins, b. 1794, Newberry, South Carolina. She is not sure. She believes Nancy was born to John Mangum and Mary Murdock. She indicates they lived in Carrollton, Pickens, Alabama for most of their lives. Two of their sons, Lemuel T. Hudgins (her gr. grandfather who married Isabelle Latham) and Bela Austin Hudgins, where both in the Confederate Army out of Tuscaloosa.

      3. Censuses:
      1800 US: Newberry District, South Carolina, 71 pages, census appears to be grouped by letters of the alphabet with all the Ms together but not necessarily alphabetically within the Ms; columns are 5 for males and 5 for females each subdivided as under 10, 10-15, 16-25, 26-44, 45 and over:
      P. 42: John Mangum, 1-0-0-1-0-2-0-0-1-0.
      P. 44: William Mangrum, 2-2-0-1-0-2-1-0-1-0.

      1840 US: Pickens County, AL, p. 350a, all three families are within 8 households apart. Other relatives have moved on to Itawamba Co., Mississippi by 1840.
      Cyrus Mangrum: males 0-5:1; 5-10:1; 30-40:1; females 0-5:2; 5-10:1; 15-20:1; 20-30:1; female slaves 10-24:3; 24-36:1
      Austin Huggins: males 0-5:1; 10-15:1; 15-20:1; 30-40:1; females 50-60:1; no slaves.
      Thos Peaks: 0-5:1; 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 15-20:1; 20-30:1; 40-50:1; females 0-5:1; 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 15-20:1; 20-30:1; 40-50:1; no slaves.

      1850 US: Southern District, Pickens, Alabama, household 21, 19 Sep 1850, p. 10, next door to John Peeks (age 34) and family, two doors from Thomas and Elizabeth Peeks:
      Austin Hudgings, 55, farmer, $3000, SC.
      Nancy, 48, SC.
      Franklin, 21, farmer, AL.
      Bela, 15, farmer, AL.

      1860 US: Carrollton P.O., Pickens, Alabama, household 229, 10 Jul 1860, Nancy and Elizabeth are sisters:
      Austin Hudgins, 66, farmer, $6000 real estate, $26,000 personal prop., SC.
      Nancy Hudgens, 65, SC.
      Belah Hudgens, 23, m, farmer, $3000 personal prop., AL.
      Lauria Hudgens, 20, f, MS.
      N. E. Hudgens, 7/12, [male overwritten by female?], AL
      Elizabeth Peakes, 61, $5500 personal prop., SC.

      1860 Alabama Slave Schedules for Carrollton, Pickens, Alabama from online AncestryPlus shows Austin Hudgins with the following slaves by age, gender, and race: 60 m black(b.), 50 f b, 40 m b, 35 f b, 32 f b, 32 f b, 22 f b, 15 m Mulatto(M.), 12 m M, 12 m b, 11 f b, 10 f b, 9 f b, 7 m b, 7 m b, 5 f b, 5 m b, 4 f M, 3 m b.

      1870: Colleen Gwynn in her email of 1 Jan 2005 states: "9 Aug 1870, Carrollton Prec and P.O., Pickens, Alabama, Nancy age 75, b. S.C. is residing with a son and his family. The surname spelling this time being Hudgins. No Elizabeth, but she still needs to be checked under various spelling variations of Peek. She also has the 1850 censuses for each of these two families with Nancy's last name being Hudgings in that census.

      4. FHL Film 1697868 and book "The Mangums of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Utah, and Adjoining States," by John T. Palmer, Ph.D. Santa Rosa, CA 95409, 1993, 3rd ed., p. 14: "Nancy Mangum, b. 11 Nov 1794, Newberry, SC, date and place of death not known, m. Austin Hudgins at Carrollton, Pickens, Alabama. (Footnote: Unfortunately most Pickens County, AL, records were destroyed at the time of the Court House fire in 1876.) Known issue:
      a. Lemuel Tillman Hudgins, b. 20 Jul 1825, near Carrollton, Pickens Co., Alabama, m. Lucretia Isabella latham. Lemuel, a captain in the 41st Ala Regt. was killed at the siege of Petersburg. [Descendants follow.]
      b. Franklin Hudgins b. 1829, AL.
      c. Bela Hudgins (male) b 1835, AL.

      5. FHL book 976.185 H2p "Pickens County Alabama, History and Families," by Rose Publishing Co., P.O. Box 806, Humboldt, TN 38343, 1998, p. 102, has references to some of our family as indicated by an asterisk [*} that I have added with comments that follow. The church is between Carrolton and Pickensville:
      "Big Creek Church.
      A group of early settlers came together and requested a church be organized in this area between Carrollton and Pickensville in order to have a place to worship. Rev. Silas Dobbs and Rev. Charles Stewart met with the group to establish rules and regulations to constitute a Baptist church. They agreed to meet once per month, on Saturday, to transact all church business and on Sunday for a day of worship.
      The founding members were Notley Gilmore, John Mangum*, Charles W. Nalls, Samual Adair*, Robert McVey, Mathew Gilmore, Mary Jane Jones, Anna Hiespeth, Rebecca Mangum*, Jermiah Mangum*, Nancy Huggins*, Alcey Johnson, Rebecca Adair* and Pheobe Clark*. They were declared a regular number of members of the church and entitled to all privileges of the gospel church and its to be known as Big Creek Church on January 10, 1829.
      The building was a wood frame with wood shutters. There was no way to heat the church during cold weather. Many times services were not held because of the cold weather and heavy rains.
      Membership grew rapidly for many years until the Baptist church was organized in Carrollton, and other churches in the areas close by. Both black and white members worshiped together through the late 1860s. The church was divided by a partition in half for the black members to worship with their own pastor until they were able to build their own place of worship.
      As time passed, the church membership grew...
      The membership became smaller and smaller. The members were moving away and going to other churches. The final church record was on December 1891...
      The church was located on Highway 86 West about six miles from Carrollton, Alabama. There is not a building there, but the church cemetery is on the right of the highway, very overgrown and unkept, tombstones falling down and scattered. Many of Pickens County early pioneers are buried there."
      *My comments as to relatives:
      John Mangum - the Patriot, 1763-1843.
      Samual Adair - Samuel Jefferson Adair, 1806-1889. Samuel marries John Mangum's daughter Jemima.
      Rebecca Mangum - most likely John Mangum's wife Rebecca Canida, 1785-1847.
      Jermiah Mangum - no idea who this may be; there is no known Jeremiah Mangum to date in the family. May be a bad transcription for Jemima Mangum, but there are none known with this surname at the time since John Mangum's dau. Jemima had married Samuel Jefferson Adair many years before.
      Nancy Huggins - John Mangum's daughter Nancy, 1794-1877, who married Austin Hudgens.
      Rebecca Adair - most likely Rebecca Brown, 1784-1846, who married Thomas Adair and was mother to Samuel and Phoebe on this list.
      Phoebe Clark - Samuel Jefferson Adair's sister, Fairby, 1809-1836, who married Daniel Clark.
      Photos of the Big Creek Missionary Baptist Church are found in another book, FHL 976.185 H2h "The Heritage of Pickens County, Alabama," by Heritage Publishing Consultants, Inc., PO Box 67, Clanton, AL 35046, 1999, pp. 58-59. The church existed until 1931 and some time after 1942 the old church either fell down or was torn down. Burial date from the early 1830s to 1934.
      FHL book 976.185 V3p "Pickens County, Alabama Cemetery Records 1983," by the Pickens County Genealogical Society, 1984, lists the burials in "Big Creek Cemetery". None with the surnames of the above are shown here except for "Frank F. Hudgins, Co. D. 41st Al. Inf, CSA (no dates)." Frank was most likely Austin and Nancy Hudgen's son.

      6. LDS Family History Library book 976.185H2j "Early Settlers of Pickens County, Alabama," by James Dolphus Johnson, Jr, 1992, is a very helpful analysis of land holdings in the said county. It locates the associated families of Adair, Mangum, and Richey in close proximity to each other. The book provides an alphabetical listing of each land holder and the grant date, location, and size of their land holding, its location. This township is typical at 6 miles by 6 miles with each section being 640 acres or one square mile. There are a total of 36 sections arranged in a grid of 6 x 6 with number 1 being the top right with the count going right to left than dropping down one row and going left to right and so forth with no. 36 being the bottom right corner. I rearrange the following listing by survey township so that the associations can be seen in the various families:
      A. Township 20, Range 15. The bottom center of this township incorporates the north part of the settlement of Carrollton. We also find "Hebron Church" in the township's center (sect. 16). On modern maps, Highway 35 travelling north of Carrollton rough splits this township east and west.
      a. Samuel Adair has two properties. This is Samuel Jefferson Adair who goes to Utah:
      i. S9 (Section 9), 9/30/1836, 40 acres (SE corner of SW 1/4 section).
      ii. S15, 1/31/1836, 40 acres (SW corner of SW 1/4 section).
      b. Joseph Adair has two properties adjoining each other. He is just north of Samuel Adair's first listed property and just west of James Adair's property. Joseph is Samuel Adair's cousin who also goes to Utah. James is most likely Joseph's father who does not go to Utah. Note also he also owns two other properties outside of this Township -- one with his father James and one individually (see B(a) and D(a):
      i. S4, 11/21/1836, 40 acres (SE corner of SW section 1/4).
      ii. S9, 9/26/1836, 40 acres (NW corner of NW section 1/4).
      c. James Adair has two properties adjoining each other. He is just just east of Joseph Adair's property. James is most likely Joseph's father and he does not go to Utah with Joseph. Note also he also owns two other properties outside of this Township -- one with his son Joseph and one individually (see B(a) and C(a):
      i. S3 and S4, 11/1/1837, 40 acres each adjoining each other (S3: SW corner of SW section 1/4; S4: SE corner of SE section 1/4).
      d. Thomas Adair has one property which adjoins the separate property of Furley Clark and R.(Rebecca?) Adair who are his daughter and wife. Thomas and Furley do not go to Utah, but Rebecca does:
      i. S20, 11/10/1835, 40 acres (SW corner of NE 1/4 section).
      e. Furley Clark and R. Adair. This would be daughter and mother: Fairby or Pherrely Adair who married Daniel Clark and Rebecca (Brown) Adair, wife of Thomas Adair. The land adjoins Thomas Adair. Rebecca goes to Utah but "Furley" does not:
      i S20, 11/28/1834, 160 acres (SW 1/4).
      f. John Mangum. His family goes to Utah but he does not. This would be John Mangum "the Patriot." He is just south of Samuel Adair's land in S15. His land directly adjoins that of son William Mangum, son Cyrus Mangum, and son-in-law Austin Hudgins (marries Nancy Mangum). He is just northwest of land of another son-in-law Thomas Peeks (marries Elizabeth Mangum):
      i. S22, 9/23/1834, 80 acres (N half of SW 1/4 section).
      g. William Mangum, the oldest son John Mangum (the "Patriot") from his third marriage. William marries Sally/Sarah Adair and moves to Utah. His land adjoins the land of his father, his brother Cyrus, and of his bro.-in-law Austin Hudgins. Both pieces of his land adjoin each other. Note also he also owns another property outside of this Township (see E(a)):
      i. S21, 7/1/1835, 40 acres (both this and the next piece form the S half of SW 1/4 section).
      ii. S21, 2/20/1836, 40 acres.
      iii. S22, 10/23/1834, 80 acres (W half of NW 1/4 section).
      iv. Note that no date is given but he also is granted 80 in S14 of a separate township (T24, R3).
      h. Cyrus Mangum, son of John Mangum (the "Patriot") from his second marriage. Cyrus does not go to Utah and he and his family are found in the 1850 US Census remaining in this same area; however, he eventually moves to Moulton, Lavaca, Texas where he dies. His land adjoins land of his father, his brother William, and of his bro.-in-law Thomas Peeks:
      i. S22, 1/25/1836, 80 acres (W half of SE 1/4 section).
      ii. S27, 2/27/1830, 80 acres (E half of NE 1/4 section).
      i. Thomas Peeks, son-in-law of John Mangum (the "Patriot") and husband of Elizabeth Mangum, John's dau. from his first marriage. Thomas does not come to Utah and he remains in this area for the rest of his life. He is found here in the 1850 census and his wife alone in the 1860 census. His land adjoins bros.-in-law Austin Hudgins and Cyrus Mangum:
      i. S27, 11/19/1835, 80 acres (I am unsure in which order the three parcels fit into the map; however, all the land is found in two spots on the map: 40 acres SW corner of SE 1/4 section and a L-shaped piece of 120 acres including W half of NE 1/4 and SE corner of NW 1/4).
      ii. S27, 6/17/1836, 40 acres.
      iii. S27, 9/4/1832, 40 acres.
      iv. S21, 9/25/1844, 40 acres. (This is not land he owned but he acts as Trustee for Nancy E. Bryant, who does not appear related to him.)
      j. Austin Hudgins, son-in-law to John Mangum (the "Patriot" and husband to Nancy Mangum, John's dau. from his first marriage). Austin and Nancy remain in the area for the rest of their lives and are found in the local censuses. He had several parcels of land all in close proximity to bros.-in-law Thomas Peeks, Cyrus Mangum, and William Mangum. Rather than trying to sort each parcel out on the map and aligning them to the following acquisitions (many of which added to existing land), I summarize his total holdings as follows: 160 acres NE 1/4 S28, 80 acres W half NW 1/4 S27, 80 acres W half SW 1/4 S27, 120 acres SE 1/4 S27 (SW corner of 40 acres in this 1/4 section owned by Thomas Peeks), 80 acres E half SW 1/4 S26, and 40 acres NE corner NE 1/4 S35:
      i. S22 & 35, 2/20/1855, 120 acres. (Note author erroneously identifies this as Range 16, but maps show it correctly as Range 15.)
      ii. S28, 2/20/1855, 80 acres.
      iii. S26, 6/4/1832, 40 acres.
      iv. S26, 2/25/1835, 40 acres.
      v. S27, 2/27/1830, 80 acres.
      vi. S27, 11/19/1835, 80 acres.
      vii. S27, 8/3/1836, 40 acres.
      viii. S27 & S28, 10/29/1836, 160 acres.
      B. Township 19, Range 16. This township has the small town of Ethelsville at its center. Ethelsville is about 15 miles NW of Carrollton and closer to the Mississippi State line. We only find one family of interest as follows and this land is in addition to other land owned elsewhere:
      a. Joseph and James Adair (joint owners). This is most likely Joseph and his father James. They both separately own land near Carrollton in Township 20, Range 15 (see A(b) and A(c) above). James also owns individually land in Township 21, Range 17 (see C(a) below) for which the date of grant is the same:
      i. S34, 10/18/1834, 160 acres (NE 1/4).
      C. Township 21, Range 17. This township has the small town of Pickensville on its Eastern boundary and the Mississippi State Line for its western boundary. Pickensville is about 11 miles W of Carrollton. The land borders the western shore of the modern lake Aliceville Lake. We only find one family of interest as follows and this land is in addition to other land owned elsewhere:
      a. James Adair. This is most likely James, the father of Joseph. James also owns land near Carrollton in Township 20, Range 15 (see A(c) above) and Ethelsville in Township 19, Range 16 (see B(a) above):
      i. S22, 10/18/1834, 80 acres (E half of NE 1/4). (Note this date is the same as the grant on the Ethelsville parcel.)
      D. Township 22, Range 17. (The author identifies this Township erroneously as 20, but the land map confirms it as Township 22.) This township has the small town of Memphis, AL, on its center and the Mississippi State Line for its western boundary. Memphis is about 13 miles SW of Carrollton. The land borders the western shore of the modern lake Aliceville Lake. It is only about 5 miles south of Pickensville. We only find one family of interest as follows and this land is in addition to other land owned elsewhere:
      a. Joseph Adair. This is most likely the son of James. Joseph also owns land near Carrollton in Township 20, Range 15 (see A(b) above) and Ethelsville in Township 19, Range 16 (see B(a) above):
      i. S3, 10/18/1834, 80 acres (E half of SE 1/4). (Note this date is the same as the grant on the Ethelsville parcel.)
      E. Township 24S, Range 3W. This township has the small village of Cochrane near its eastern boundary and the Mississippi State Line for its western boundary. It is about 18 miles southwest of Carrollton:
      a. William Mangum. William is the son of John Mangum (the "Patriot"). This parcel is in addition to land William Mangum owned near Carrollton in Township 20, Range 15 (see A(g) above):
      i. S14, no date, 80 acres (W half of NE 1/4).
      F. Township 21 & 22, Range 16. Township 21 includes the eastern half of Pickensville on is western side. Township 22 would be the next township south of township 21. William Richey's property would be currently in Pickensville. Even though in the same county, the Richeys at this point of time were not in a township with any of the other associated families since they were about 8 miles away slightly southwest from the main grouping just north of Carrollton. William was of course married in 1820 to Margaret Adair, the daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (Brown) Adair. I do not include the physical locations of these parcels within the section in which they occur. The brother-in-law of William, Neal Tilletson who married Martha Richey, is also found in this county:
      a. Robert Richey. Father of William, James, and David. Only William went to Utah along with Robert's wife Rebecca (Belton) who died on the trail to Utah:
      i. S32 (TWP 21), 1/31/1825, 160 acres.
      ii. S5 (TWP 22), 1/12/1825, 160 acres.
      b. William Richey. He came to Utah:
      i. S7 (TWP 21), 9/17/1833, 40 acres.
      c. James Richey. He is found here in the 1850 Census with wife and two children:
      i. S8 & S9 (TWP 21), 8/13/1833, 80 acres.
      c. David Richey. He is found here in the 1850 Census with extensive family (Census entry may be misspelled as Didama Adair):
      i. S7 (TWP 22), 12/31/1833, 40 acres.
      G. Miscellaneous notes:
      a. I looked for both Moses Pearson and any Carsons associated with the family and found no listings in this book.
      b. There are other Adairs in Pickens County and they are listed in the book. They include Wyman (or Weyman) Adair with five parcels with date range of 1832-1834 in Township 20, Range 16, and in Township 21, Range 16. Also included is William Adair with one parcel dated in 1836 for Township 22, Range 14. These may be distant cousins of our Adairs, but not ones with which there is a documentary association at this time.
      c. This study was undertaken with the goal of confirming the relationship of Joseph Adair with a father named James Adair as is established by Joseph Adair's LDS Patriarchal Blessing in which Joseph names his parents as James and Rebecca Adair. The close relationship found in these particular land records confirm this relationship especially since they also owned land together. There is one caveat, however, and that is that Joseph had a younger brother named Joseph Newton Adair who was born 11 Mar 1812 (Joseph was born 11 Apr 1806). There is the possibility that the James in the land deeds could be the brother and not the father, however, I don't believe this is the case. The 1830 US Census places James Adair and his family in Pickens County with him and his wife being aged 60-70. To be listed in the census he would have had to have had property. There is only one James Adair listed in the census and the younger James Newton Adair may be the male listed in the census that is age 15-20.

      BIRTH:
      1. Online Ordinance Index listing as noted below done in 1877 by Rebecca Mangum Adair. Record notes birth as 11 Nov 1794 in South Carolina. Assumption of Newberry County is from father's statement above.

      DEATH:
      1. Unverified. Data from Family Tree accessed 25 Aug 2013.

      BURIAL:
      1. Not found in the FHL book 976.185 V3p "Pickens County, Alabama Cemetery Records 1983," by the Pickens County Genealogical Society, 1984.

      SOURCES_MISC:
      1. Info on family with Gemima and Mary per family group sheets submitted by Delta I.M. Hale, Rt. 1 Blackfoot, Idaho. She states source of Family records gathered from grand son Arnold Mangum, Gen. Soc. archives, index bureau, and Grace Knowles and J.P. Davidson of Richmond, Va., Genealogists. For Mary's family, letters and books are mentioned belonging to him (John Magnum?) at McGill, Nevada.