Person:James Waldrop (5)

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

David Waldrop

From U.V. Waldrop
To: Patrick Hogue (Samples), Weed, California
Date: 30 May 2001
Subject: James Lewis Waldrop Sr.

James Lewis Waldrop Sr. is the son of David & Henrietta Waldrop. They lived in Jasper County, Georgia, until the late 1830's. The family is on the Fayette County, Georgia, 1840 Census records.
David Waldrop bought the land where they lived in Alabama in 1840 according to Grandpa Simeon N. Waldrop. He didn't know when they moved on the land. It must have been in late 1840's.
James Lewis Waldrop married Drucilla Posey March 23, 1848 in Coosa County, Alabama. James Lewis, his wife and his parents are listed as charter members of the Union Springs Baptist Church near Rockford, Alabama in 1848. The families are listed on the Coosa County, Alabama 1850 Census records.
David Waldrop was supposed to have given permission to bury a man found murdered on Six Mile Creek in 1840, which was the first person buried in the Waldrop Cemetery. Grandpa stated David built his home North East of the Cemetery. James Lewis Waldrop Sr. built his house behind where the old John Waldrop's Store was located. James Lewis Waldrop Sr. and Drucilla Posey had five children. She died in child birth May 07, 1856. The baby lived and was named James Lewis Waldrop Jr. She was the daughter of Squire Posey and Jane Pate.
James Lewis Waldrop Sr. married Susan Parolee Campbell December 07, 1856, Columbiana, Shelby County, Alabama. She was half Creek Indian, the daughter of Robert David Campbell & Charity Yoholo, a Creek Indian. James Lewis Waldrop Sr. & Susan Parolee Campbell had five children, plus she raised his children by his first wife.
James Lewis Waldrop Sr. was the first person in the community to own a Grist Mill, Syrup Mill, Black Smith Shop and Horse Shodding Shop. The family was the first in the community to have a wood burning stove to cook with in their kitchen, a sewing machine and a battery Radio.
James Lewis Waldrop fought in the Civil War. He was a Private in Company C, 31sr Alabama Regiment.
James Lewis Waldrop Sr. built a log home in 1850. This was the house Uncle John Waldrop lived in when we were children.
Susan Parolee Campbell Waldrop died February 27, 1894. She was buried in the Waldrop Cemetery. James Lewis Waldrop Sr. died August 21, 1906. He was buried by his second wife. He gave the family farm to his son John S. Waldrop for taking care of him. He had given all his other children 40 acres of land when they married.
The first area they lived in is hard to pin point. Baker County was formed in 1868. The name was changed to Chilton County in 1870. James Lewis Waldrop Sr. and his parents are listed on the 1850 Census record in Coosa County, Alabama, in the Hatchet District. They are on the 1860 Bibb County, Census records. They are on the 1870 Baker County, Alabama, Census records. Baker County was formed from Coosa County & Bibb County, Alabama. They are on the 1880 Chilton County, Alabama, Census records, and were listed there then until their deaths. I don't think they moved this much. It was the State changing the Counties.
By U.V. Waldrop

James Lewis Waldrop Sr.