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Facts and Events
William McElhaney was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA
Acquisition of Land from Chalkley's:
- Page 158.--8th December, 1761. William Patrick and Mary ( ), late Mary Chittam, to William McElhenney, farmer, £53, 214 acres, line of Robert Renick's land, conveyed by Wm. Cleghorn to Mary Patrick, then Mary Chittam, March, 1754. Delivered: Wm. McElhenney, 14th August, 1788.
- Page 326.--2d October, 1765. Henry Bowin and Anne to William McAlhany, £50, 107 acres by deed from Lilley Brown, p. 330, supra.
Disposition of Land from Chalkley's:
- Page 364.--14th February, 1769. William McIlhenny to Alexander Stuart, £155, 197 acres purchased by Henry Bowen from Lilly Bowen, his mother, 6th September, 1765, and conveyed by Henry Bowen and Ann to William McIlhenny, 2d October, 1765. on James River; corner tract belonging to John Bowen, deceased, of which this 197 acres is a part. Teste: Samuel Walker, James McGavock, James McElhiney. Samuel McDowell
Related record:
- Page 363.--21st December, 1768. Commission for privy examination of Mary, wife of William McIlhenny, deed dated 14th February, 1769, to Alexander Stewart. Executed, 14th February, 1769. Delivered: Wm. Moore, January, 1780.
Processioning List of 1767/68
- "Processioning" was the periodic review and agreement of property lines between settler's lands. Processioning Lists are useful in determining the general area of a settlers lands and their neighbors at specific time periods:
- Vol. 2 - Page 450.--1767-68: Processioned by Wm. McElhenny and Paul Whitley: For Samuel Walker, John Maxfield, Wm. McClenachan, David Cloid, Edley Paul, James Cloid, William Hall, Christian Vingard, John Bouers, John Logan, Benj. Estill, Wm. McElhenny, Henry Bouns (Bonns), Henry Cartmel, Samuel Gibson, James Bates, Paul Whitley, Jonathan Whitley, Wm. Logan. Processioned by John Pall, John Lyle: For John Keys, John Parks, Robert Caruthers, Roger Keys, Jno. Paul, John Hays, Thomas Willson, David Williamson, Jno. Boid, Thomas Boid, Walter Smiley, Jno. Clemans, James McClung, Wm. Alexander, John Lusk, James Ritchey, Jno. Sloan, Joseph Alexander. Processioned by James Hugart: For Charles Donelly, Jno. Cartmill, Robert Stewart, Thomas Galespie, Jno. McCashling, Mary Moore, James McCay, Wm. McCay, Ralph Laferty, John Galespie, James Hugart.
Records in Augusta County, VA
From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:
- Page 770.--21st July, 1764. Joshua Hedley, executor of Joshua Hedley, deceased, to Malcome Allen, of Prince Edward County, Virginia, £16, 50 acres by patent, 3d November, 1750, called the Pound Bottoms, beginning south side James River, at the lower end of the Bottom, a hill opposite an island. Teste: Hugh Martin, Martha Allen, Hugh Allen, Robert ( ) Martin. Mary ( ) McElheny. Delivered: Francis Smith, 1st October, 1767.
- Vol. 1 - OCTOBER 17, 1765. - (16) William McCamey and one other and 190 acres added to tithables. Thomas Kilpatrick and one other and 300 acres added to tithables. John Maxwell and one other and 200 acres added to tithables. James Campbell added to tithables. Wm. McElhenny and 400 acres added to tithables. Henry Bowen and 323 acres added to tithilbles. Audley Paul and one other and 350 acres added to tithables. Benj. Watson and 170 acres added to tithables.
- Vol. 2 - Page 432.--18th March, 1768: Vestry met. William McElheny and Paul Whitley appointed processioners vice John Maxwell and Jonathan Whitley. Robert Moor appointed processioner vice William Hall; Andw. Buchanan appointed processioner vice Wm. Reach; Peter Evans appointed processioner vice Nathl. Evans; John Anderson, Jr., appointed processioner vice John Young, Jr.; James Belshey appointed processioner vice John Frazier; Jno. Harrison Jr., appointed processioner vice John McDonnald; Alex. Hamilton appointed processioner vice William Elliott, who is unfit through age and infirmity. The processioners exempted above are such as have served before or such as the Vestry judges unqualified.
- Page 363.--21st December, 1768. Commission for privy examination of Mary, wife of William McIlhenny, deed dated 14th February, 1769, to Alexander Stewart. Executed, 14th February, 1769. Delivered: Wm. Moore, January, 1780.
- Vol. 1 - MARCH 18, 1773. - (25) William McElhenny--witness from Botetourt.
- Vol. 1 - MAY 23, 1773. - (122) William McElhenny--witness from Botetourt.
Information on William McElhaney
http://facstaff.pepperdine.edu/swarford/docs/familybk.doc
The McELHANEY Family Line
William McELHANEY (b: abt 1740 d: 1801 TN), m: Mary CUNNINGHAM (b: abt 1748)
William McELHANEY married in 1761 Mary CUNNINGHAM (b: abt 1748). From this union came four sons (Robert, John, James, and Moses) and seven daughters (Martha, Rebekah, Rachel, Nancy, Ann, Janet, and Peggy).
William McELHANEY died in 1801 in Grainger County, Tennessee, leaving his will.
- John McELHANEY (b: abt 1771 VA d: aft 1825), m: Margaret Hannah BOWEN (b: 1748 VA (??, other sources have Margaret Hannah Bowen as being born abt. 1773, which fits.)))
John McELHANEY married Margaret Hannah BOWEN143 (b: 1748 (s/b abt. 1773), Augusta, VA) about 1790 in Augusta County, VA. Margaret was the daughter of Henry BOWEN and Ann CUNNINGHAM, covered elsewhere. John and Margaret had three sons (William, Henry, and James) and four daughters (Polley, Jenny, Levica, and Patty, also known as Martha).
John and Margaret lived in Grainger, TN at lease during 1798 - 1802, according to Grainger County Court Records. By 1819, John had moved to White County (or perhaps the Grainger County lines shifted), TN. It was there in 1819 that John and two of his sons were ejected from their rental property. In 1825 John was declared the equivalent of our current form of bankruptcy.
John McELHANEY died 1840 in Madison, Arkansas
William McELHANEY (b: 1791 TN d: 1869 AR)
m: Elizabeth LEDBETTER (b: 1795 TN d: 1869 AR)
William McELHANEY was born 3-Jun-1791 in Overton, White County, TN.
In 1812 William married Elizabeth LEDBETTER (b: 27-Nov-1795, Blount, TN d: 1869, Madison, AR), the daughter of Buckner LEDBETTER and Tabitha JONES. The LEDBETTER family line is covered elsewhere. From this marriage came eleven children, including seven sons (James, John, Arthur, Charles, Wiley, Henry and William) and four daughters (Sarah, Lydia, Amanda and Polly).
William died in 1869 in Madison County, Arkansas.
Arthur McELHANEY (b: 1817 TN)
m: Emiline COX (b: 1830 TN)
Arthur McELHANEY was born 14-Dec-1817 in White County, TN.
About 1844 Arthur married Emiline COX ( b: 1830,, TN). They had eight children, including four sons (Nathan, Henry, Charles, and Lucas) and four daughters (Jane, Pasolie, Elizabeth, and Nora). Nora McELHANEY would marry James Leonidas LANGSTON. The LANGSTON family line is documented elsewhere. Henry would become a senator from Oklahoma. Lucas was said to be the black sheep of the family. Charles was killed over a disputed land claim. It could be that Charles participated in the Oklahoma "Sooner" land rush.144
We have no death records for Arthur or Emiline.
- | | William McElhaney
- | | bd. 1736, Buffalo Creek, Botetourt, Virginia
- | | dd. 1801, Grainger, Tennessee
- | | & Mary Cunningham
- | | bd. abt 1743, Buffalo Creek, Botetourt, Virginia
- | | dd. aft 1801
- | | m. 1759
Will of William McElhaney
- Will of William McElhinay
- In the name of God Amen.
- I William McElhinay, of the County of Grainger and State of Tennessee, being low in body but of perfect mind and memory, and calling to mind the mortallity of my body and knowing that it is apointed for all men once to die.
- First of all, I recommend my soul to God who gave it and my body to be buried in the earth at the descretion of my executor hereafter mentioned and as what worly estate it has pleased God to bless me with I shall dispose of in maner and for as followeth (viz)
- First of all I order all my lafull and just debts to be paid and all my funeral charges to be paid.
- Next I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife, Mary, all the whole of my estate both reil and personal during her natural life. Shold any of daughters marry during my wifes lifetime I alow her to give them what she may find convenient to spare them.
- I further alow my Negro boy named Ned to my two sons, Robert and John McElhiny, or their sons Harrow at a reasonalble rate during his natural lifetime. Further I alow at my wifes decease for my Negro woman Henny to be sold and equally divided between my three daughter, Rebekah, Rachel and Jennet.
- If any of these three girls should die without ishu for them to leave their part to some one they think fit into the family.
- My wife to have the boy Ned duren her life time and the off spring of the old Wench she may dispose of as she thinks fit.
- Further, I will give and bequeath unto my son, John Moses, the side of Christys Creek the land that he now lives on the creek to be the line.
- Further more I will and bequeath unto my son, Robert, the land that I live on myself and the land that sid Robert lives on himself.
- Item- I give and bequeath unto my Nan McGinnis six shillings sterling.
- Item- I gave and bequeath unto my daughter, Ann McElhiney, six shillings sterling.
- Item- I give and bequeath unto my son, James McElhiney, six shillings sterling and to my children thereafter mentione, Moses McElhiney, Peggy Shields, John McElhiney and Martha Blackburn each six shillings sterling and lastly I constitute nominate and order and apoint my son, Robert McElhiney and James Bowen to be exevutors of this my estate will and test and so by these present I disalow and disaprove of all other wills and tests and do rectify and aprove of this to be my last will and test given unto my hand this 127th day of June one thousand eight hundred and one.
- (signed) William McElhiney (X his mark)
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