Person:Moses Workman (3)

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Moses Workman, the main subject of this sketch was born circa 1781, probably in Pennsylvania. He came to Virginia when he was a young boy. My grandmother told me that her grandfather came “across the waters” when he was about twelve years old. She may have been mis informed about the “across the waters” because it was more than likely that he traveled to Virginia from Pennsylvania when he was about twelve years old. Again, it is possible that it was James Maxwell who came to America when he was about age twelve. There are no extant records, so we may never have complete details. Moses Workman had two marriages. He married first to Elizabeth Muncy in Tazewell County, Virginia on 17 June, 1802. It took about three years to search all of the records at the Tazewell County Court house and the Logan County Court house to document all of his children, and to sort out which children were from each marriage. There may have been older children who died young, because there is approximately a four year gap before Elizabeth’s children were born. It could be that some of them just simply did not know for certain when they were born. The children that I have been able to document for Moses and Elizabeth are:

1. Obediah R., born circa 1806, married Rebecca Lambert, d/o Steph

     Lambert Sr. in Tazewell County, Va. on 5  August,1828

2. Nancy, b. circa 1808, married James Tomblin 3. Mary "Polly", b. 1810-1811, married Alex (ander) Tombl

     Tazewell County on 16 November, 1829

4. John, b. ca. 1814, married Sally Dalton, d/o James and Pol

     (Adams) Dalton

5. Elizabeth, b. ca, 1816-1818, married Isaac Adkins 6. Elenor "Nelly" b. ca. 1819, married Stephen Lambert Jr.,

     s/o Stephen Lambert Sr. of Tazewell County.

Moses and Elizabeth bought 100 acres in Burkes Garden in Tazewell County, Virginia on Muncy’s Creek in 1802. There were several lawsuits regarding this land and they finally sold it in 1816 and bought a different piece of land, containing fifty acres in 1817. This is where they were living when Elizabeth died, quite possibly in child birth with "Nelly," leaving Mose with six children, most quite young. On 11 July, 1820, Moses remarried to Sarah "Sally" Marrs. Sarah was born circa 1797 in what is present day Tazewell County. They lived on the farm in Burkes Garden for over three years and three of their children were born there. They sold the land in Burkes Garden on 6 September, 1823 and moved for awhile to the Sand Lick Fork of Coal River, where Moses recieved a land grant. They stayed there for about four years. They moved to Lawrence County Kentucky about 1828 or 1829, and can be found on the 1830 Census of that county. They moved back to Logan County, bought land on the Bulwark Fork of Harts Creek and lived out their lives there. Moses died sometime in 1846 at age sixty five. Sarah lived with her children until she died, sometime in the 1860s. An exact death date was not recorded, but they rest high on a hill over looking the valley where most of their children lived and to where thousands of descendants can trace their Logan County Roots. The children of Moses Workman and his second wife, Sarah Marrs:

1. Abijah "Bige" born circa 1820-1821 at Burkes Garden, marri

     1st Nancy Perry,  2nd to Frances "Fanny" Nelson.  Their 
     marriage record in Wayne County shows that his father’s na
     was William. ( Moses).                              

2. Phoebe/Phebe, born circa 1822 at Burkes Garden, married

     Meekin Vance

3. Henry, born 11 March, 1823 at Burkes Garden, married Nancy

     Dalton

4. Jane, born circa 1824, was born when they lived on Coal

     River;  married James Dalton s/o James and Polly (Adams) 
     Dalton on 8 November, 1845 in Logan County.

5. Malinda, born ca. 1826, probably on Coal River, married

     Josiah Perry

6. Barbara, b. circa 1829, probably in Kentucky, married

     William Dempsey

7. Moses, born Lawrence County, Kentucky in 1832, married

     Mary ‘Polly' Mullins.