Newman Wilks, 18001859 (aged 59 years)

Name
Newman /Wilks/
Given names
Newman
Surname
Wilks
Birth
Note: according to 1850 census
3rd President of the United States
Thomas Jefferson
March 4, 1801
Death of a paternal grandmother
Birth of a brother
Note: or 1800-1810 in 1830 census, place according to son Benjamin C's later TX census
Death of a maternal grandfather
Death of a paternal grandfather
Marriage of a sister
Birth of a brother
4th President of the United States
James Madison
March 4, 1809
Birth of a sister
Note: age 40 in 1850 census
Birth of a sister
between 1810 and 1820
Death of a maternal grandmother
British King
George III
from October 25, 1760 to January 29, 1820
5th President of the United States
James Monroe
March 4, 1817
Marriage of a brother
Text:

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~allauder/marriages-1820-57-whi.htm, submitted by Pat M. Mahan

Citation details: Book 1, page 122
Note: Wilkes, Phillip to Morris, Alsey on 13 May 1824 by McKnight, Wm., JP
British King
George IV
from January 29, 1820 to June 26, 1830
6th President of the United States
John Quincy Adams
March 4, 1825
7th President of the United States
Andrew Jackson
March 4, 1829
Marriage of a sister
Text:

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~allauder/marriages-1820-57-whi.htm, submitted by Pat M. Mahan

Citation details: Book 2, Page 154
Note: Wilkes, Ann to Mattocks, Charles on 2 Sep 1830 by Womack, J. B., JP
Civil marriage
Text:

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~allauder/marriages-1820-57-bo.htm; submitted by Pat M. Mahan

Citation details: Book 2, Page 149
Note: Carr, Elizabeth to Wilkes, Newman on 21 Oct 1830 by Womack, J. B., JP
Census
1830 (aged 30 years)
Citation details: Pages 218a and 218b
Quality of data: Census images
Note: in the first census taken there, John was 50-60, had one male [General Jackson Wilks] 15-20, one male [Newman Wilks] 20-30 and two females 15-20 [Mary & Anna Wilks], and wife [Barbary Newman Wilks] 50-60 and one female slave 55-100.
Birth of a daughter
Marriage of a brother
Note: if the same persons
Death of a brother
Marriage of a sister
Citation details: Book 3 Page 11
Note: Brown, William to Wilks, Mary on 25 Jul 1833 by Carr, John, JP
Marriage of a brother
Text:

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~allauder/marriages-1820-57-bo.htm, submitted by Pat M. Mahan.

Citation details: Book 3, Page 31
Note: Brown, Nancy to Wilks, Jackson on __ Sep 1833 by Carr, John
Birth of a son
Note: parents unproven but believed to be a foster child of Newman
Death of a father
Cause: tuberculosis
Citation details: Page 295
Note: presumably in Mississippi. Samuel Newman Wilks wrote his father Samuel in Bedford County, Virginia, a letter dated 20 Jan 1836, "Dir father . . . Uncle JOHN and Aunt BARBY is both dead. Aunt died three days first. Neither one would take anything while they were sick."¶ Ben Wilks's daughter Betsy Ann Creasey died in 1835 of consumption, and family tradition is that John's family in Yalobusha County, Mississippi, with the exception of some orphan children, died of the same disease (tuberculosis).
Death of a mother
Note: three days before her husband, John, died of sickness, TB
Death of a brother
Citation details: Book 1, p. 56
Note: when his estate was administered, mentioned a crop planted, which could not have been his father John's, who died Jan 1836; children were made wards of Newman Wilks
British King
William IV
from June 26, 1830 to June 20, 1837
8th President of the United States
Martin Van Buren
March 4, 1837
9th President of the United States
William Henry Harrison
March 4, 1841
10th President of the United States
John Tyler
April 4, 1841
Birth of a son
Note: parents unproven but believed to be a foster child of Newman
11th President of the United States
James K Polk
March 4, 1845
Marriage of a brother
Citation details: Book A1, page 148
Text:

no date but Book B begins 1846

Birth of a daughter
Note: parents unproven but she was orphaned by 1850
12th President of the United States
Zachary Taylor
March 4, 1849
Birth of a son
Citation details: Wilks and Young Families: Texas Pioneers, pp 434-435
13th President of the United States
Millard Fillmore
July 9, 1850
Family census
Address: North of the 'Yallobusha' River
Yalobusha County, Mississippi, USA
Citation details: Page 246
Text:

Enumerator: B. B. Pace

Quality of data: Census image
Note: in hh 694 694 as Newman Wilks, Age: 50, Male, Planter, $1000, SC; Elizabeth, Age: 35, Female, SC; Martha, Age: 20, Female, SC; John, Age: 15, Male, SC, Attended school; Charles, Age: 8, Male, SC; Lucinda, Age: 5, Female, MS; Samuel, Age: 2, Male, MS; William M. Wilks, Age: 15, Male, MS; Caroline M. Wilks, Age: 10, Female, MS, Attended school. [Newman's brother Jackson Wilks' son and daughter]
Marriage of a daughter
British Queen
Victoria
from June 20, 1837 to January 22, 1901
14th President of the United States
Franklin Pierce
March 4, 1853
15th President of the United States
James Buchanan
March 4, 1857
Death
Citation details: Book B, p. 154
Note: after her father wrote his will but before his death
Family with parents
father
17751836
Birth: 1775 40 35 Bedford, Virginia, USA
Death: January 1836Yalobusha, Mississippi, USA
mother
17791836
Birth: September 1, 1779 35 35 Bedford, Virginia, USA
Death: January 1836Yalobusha, Mississippi, USA
Marriage MarriageSeptember 3, 1795Bedford, Virginia, USA
16 months
elder sister
1796
Birth: about 1796 21 16 Virginia, USA
Death:
3 years
elder brother
17981836
Birth: about 1798 23 18 Virginia, USA
Death: before December 1836Yalobusha, Mississippi, USA
3 years
himself
18001859
Birth: about 1800 25 20 South Carolina, USA
Death: before March 8, 1859Yalobusha, Mississippi, USA
6 years
younger brother
18051831
Birth: about 1805 30 25 South Carolina, USA
Death: before August 1831Florence, Lauderdale, Alabama, USA
4 years
younger brother
1808
Birth: about 1808 33 28
Death:
3 years
younger sister
1810
Birth: 1810 35 30 Alabama, USA
Death:
11 years
younger sister
1810
Birth: between 1810 and 1820 45 40
Death:
Family with Elizabeth Carr
himself
18001859
Birth: about 1800 25 20 South Carolina, USA
Death: before March 8, 1859Yalobusha, Mississippi, USA
wife
18151865
Birth: 1815 30 22 South Carolina, USA
Death: between 1861 and 1865Lauderdale, Alabama, USA
Civil marriage Civil marriageOctober 21, 1830Lauderdale, Alabama, USA
2 months
daughter
1830
Birth: 1830 30 15 South Carolina, USA
Death:
6 years
son
18351866
Birth: 1835 35 20 South Carolina, USA
Death: before April 2, 1866Yalobusha, Mississippi, USA
8 years
son
18421861
Birth: 1842 42 27 South Carolina, USA
Death: before December 3, 1861Yalobusha, Mississippi, USA
5 years
daughter
1846
Birth: September 1846 46 31 Yalobusha, Mississippi, USA
Death:
3 years
son
18491915
Birth: July 6, 1849 49 34 Oakland, Yalobusha, Mississippi, USA
Death: November 12, 1915Formosa, Van Buren, Arkansas, USA
Civil marriage
Text:

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~allauder/marriages-1820-57-bo.htm; submitted by Pat M. Mahan

Citation details: Book 2, Page 149
Census
Citation details: Pages 218a and 218b
Quality of data: Census images
Family census
Citation details: Page 246
Text:

Enumerator: B. B. Pace

Quality of data: Census image
Death
Citation details: Book B, p. 154
Note
Citation details: Book B, pp. 154, 170, 172-173
Note
Birth

according to 1850 census

Civil marriage

Carr, Elizabeth to Wilkes, Newman on 21 Oct 1830 by Womack, J. B., JP

Census

in the first census taken there, John was 50-60, had one male [General Jackson Wilks] 15-20, one male [Newman Wilks] 20-30 and two females 15-20 [Mary & Anna Wilks], and wife [Barbary Newman Wilks] 50-60 and one female slave 55-100.

Family census

in hh 694 694 as Newman Wilks, Age: 50, Male, Planter, $1000, SC; Elizabeth, Age: 35, Female, SC; Martha, Age: 20, Female, SC; John, Age: 15, Male, SC, Attended school; Charles, Age: 8, Male, SC; Lucinda, Age: 5, Female, MS; Samuel, Age: 2, Male, MS; William M. Wilks, Age: 15, Male, MS; Caroline M. Wilks, Age: 10, Female, MS, Attended school. [Newman's brother Jackson Wilks' son and daughter]

Death

after her father wrote his will but before his death

Note

William M. Weatherly, J. R. Wilks, Dempsey Diltz, and Johnson Buntin made bond of $15,000 as collectors, etc., of estate of Newman Wilks, late of said county of Yalobusha

Citation details: Book B, pp. 154, 170, 172-173
Note

A. S. Brown [Newman's brother-in-law] made $5000 bond as guardian of Samuel Wilks, a minor of Yalobusha County
On the same day, Samuel Brown [probably A.S.] made bond of $5000 as guardian to Charley Wilks.
On the same day William M. Weatherly made bond of $5000 as guardian to Lucinda Wilks, a minor of said county. He was in Tallahatchie County by 1860.

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