From: U.V. Waldrop
To: Patrick Hogue (Samples), Weed, California
Date: 30 May 2001
Subject: David Waldrop
David Waldrop was born 1798 in South Carolina, the son of Revolutionary Soldier James Waldrop Jr. & Mary Morrison. David married Henrietta "Retty" Waldrop in Jasper County, Georgia, September 27, 1821. She is the daughter of Solomon Waldrop & Sarah Aultom. David Waldrop was on the 1820 Putnam County, Georgia Census records. He and Henrietta are on the 1830, Jasper County, Georgia Census records. They are on the 1840 Fayette County, Georgia Census records with his father Rev. Soldier James Waldrop in the house with David Waldrop. David & Henrietta had four daughters and two sons. Sarah Ann Wilmet Waldrop born 1823 married Francis Marion Posey January 15, 1842, Coosa County, Alabama; James Lewis Waldrop Sr. born April 26, 1826, Jasper County, Georgia. He died August 21, 1906, at his home in Chilton County, Alabama. He married Drucilla Posey March 23, 1848, Coosa County, Alabama. They had five children with her dying in child birth with the fifth child, James Lewis Waldrop Jr. He survived. James Lewis Waldrop Sr. married Susan Paralee Campbell December 7, 1856, in Shelby County, Alabama. She was the daughter of David Campbell & Charity Yaholo. She was a Creek Indian Princess. James Lewis Waldrop Sr. & Susan Paralee Campbell had five children. She also raised the children he had with Drucilla Posey. Their children were William Thomas Waldrop born June 09, 1858, Married Laura C. Ann Armstrong; Simeon Newton Waldrop born June 13, 1860, Married Sarah Jane Houlditch December 18, 1879, Chilton County Alabama. They had five children. She died in child birth with the fifth child. Simeon Newton Married Pedelia Ann Smith August 16, 1888, Bibb County, Alabama. They had nine children. Pedelia Ann died in child birth with the 9th child. Simeon Newton Married Susie Nines and they divorced over her being pregnant. She told him there was no way she would have a child with all the children he had for her to take care for. He married Hattie Bell when he was 75 years old. She was living when he died in 1949.
The third child of David & Henrietta Waldrop was Mary Ann Waldrop born 1828, Jasper County, Georgia. She married Thomas A. Morris January 18, 1846, Coosa County, Alabama.
The fourth child was Nancy Ann Waldrop born 1831 Jasper County, Georgia Married Jonathan Fleming February 08, 1849, Coosa County, Alabama.
The fifth child was David Thomas Waldrop born 1834, Jasper County, Georgia Married Samantha E. Smith May 19, 1856, Bibb County, Alabama. David Thomas was killed in the Civil War at Falls Creek, Virginia August 29, 1862 the body wasn't recovered.
The sixth child was Belany Ann Waldrop born March 24, 1835, Jasper County, Georgia Married James Henderson Atchison November 21, 1868, Bibb County, Alabama.
My grandfather Simeon Newton Waldrop told me David bought the land in Alabama in 1839. David didn't move there until 1841 or 1842. They are members of the Union Spring Baptist Church in Marble Valley, Alabama, Coosa County in September, 1848. This is a good distance from the farm. I haven't been able to figure this out.
David Waldrop started his family Cemetery in 1839 by letting a murdered man be buried there due to the body being in bad shape and no one to notify. He was a Mr. McDonald. David built his home one block North East of the Cemetery.
David bought several hundred acres when he came to Alabama.
James Lewis Waldrop Sr. built his home 1 block South of the Cemetery. It was a log house. I have spent many nights in this log home when I was a child.
By U.V. Waldrop
