Person:Sarah Kimbrough (17)

About Sarah Kimbrough

Sarah "Sally" Kimbrough was the base-born daughter of Charity Kimbrough. Her father is unknown. Sally had an illegitimate child (Elijah W Kimbrough) by Edward Moore in 1793. John Davis and Sally Kimbrough had a written ante-nuptual agreement signed on 15 Aug 1812, in which John Sr. and Sally promised to give to Elijah W Kimbrough at the time Elijah "arrived at the age of twenty-one years," … "a certain negro woman slave, named Lucy, at that time the property of Kimbrough's mother, and certain other articles." [Source: Peak v. Ligon, Administrator, Nashville, December 1837.]

Notes on Elijah W Kimbrough : Edward Moore posted bond for support of illegitimate child, Elijah.

Elijah Kimbrough came of age 8 May 1814 ; but Davis neglected to convey the negro and in September, 1819, Kimbrough filed his bill in the court of equity for Wake county, North Carolina, against Davis and his mother, to compel them to execute this agreement specifically. In September, 1826, the cause was removed to the Supreme Court, where it was heard at December term, 1827. The court decreed that Davis should “deliver the negroes to Kimbrough, and that he should convey them by a deed sufficient to the pass the absolute property." Davis turned over the slaves, "Lucy, [and her issue] Diley, Arthur, Samson, and Staford ... to Simmons, Kimbrough's agent, and they were taken to Tennessee" where they were given to Peak, his creditor. Thereupon Kimbrough, who was living in Tennessee at that time, "journeyed to North Carolina, where in August, 1829, he killed Davis, and was hung for the murder on the 5th of November, 1830. Never had been married, he died without issue." [ source: Peak v. Ligon, Administrator, Nashville, December 1837 .]