William Moncure Ashby Bloxton and Stamper Dandridge Bloxton were the sons of William Ashby (aka Arthur) "Uncle Billy" Bloxton, born Oct 16, 1844 in Stafford County, VA, (one account says "Hanover, VA") and died at age 48 on April 27, 1892 in Burton, York, Virginia (another record shows he died at Maplewood, Amelia County, VA, but that doesn't agree with his widow's account) [NOTE: His widow states on his Pension Application of August 1900 that he died at Maple Grove Farm near Williamsburg, York County, VA of apoplexy (a stroke) brought on by wounds sustained in the War Between The States.] with interment in New Kent County, VA. (Two Civil War records have him dying in 1862 instead of 1892, but he was alive in 1880 on the census.)
Uncle Billy was the son of William Ashby Bloxton I & Lucy Clift Bloxton of Stafford County, VA.
After his mother died in 1846,
William (age 6) was on the 1850 Census staying in the home of Fielding Clift, age 76 (his mother's father).
William A. (age 16) was on the 1860 Census living with his mother's brother, Arthur F. (Marion) Clift, age 44, and working as a laborer.
During the U.S. Civil War, Confederate Private William A. Bloxton, age 17 (Laborer), enlisted in Company C, Virginia 30th Infantry Regiment, Corser Brigade, Pickett's Division, Army of Northern Virginia, WIA, on 06 Jul 1861. At Sharpsburg 9/17/1862. Present in 1864, then no further record. He was also listed as serving on the Stafford Light Artillery.
Mary Ware Greene said his middle name was Ashby, not Arthur.
He lived on Maple Grove Farm just outside of Williamsburg – in fact, one mile from the college gate to the west. (This is exactly what Betty Dandridge Bloxton Orrick told me about her father, William Moncure "Ashby" Bloxton – that he lived very close to the college and walked there.)
Uncle Billy made many trips to Williamsburg after he moved back to Stafford County to visit friends and family there, and he spent time working on his older brother, Thomas Laurence Bloxton's, farm/plantation there.
He was married on 1 DEC 1868, York Co., VA, to widow with two children, ELIZABETH OCTAVIA "BETTY" or "BETTIE" STAMPER (widow of Michael "Mike" Sherman (1830-1867)) (b. 2 NOV 1835, Scottsville, New Kent County, VA – d. 24 JAN 1909, Williamsburg, VA) – ELIZABETH was the daughter of JAMES STAMPER (b. 5 DEC 1800, St. Peter's, New Kent Co., VA) (m. abt. 1835, Middlesex, VA) (buried St. Peter's Churchyard, New Kent Co., VA) & ELIZABETH SCIANNA DANDRIDGE (d. 18 FEB 1845), daughter of BARTHOLOMEW & ELIZABETH CLAYTON DANDRIDGE. ELIZABETH's two younger brothers were: ROBERT & JOHN B. STAMPER. ELIZABETH was 1st or 2nd cousin to MARTHA DANDRIDGE CUSTIS (Mrs. GEORGE WASHINGTON.) Both William and Betty are buried in what was Olivet Presbyterian Churchyard, now at St. Peter's (Episcopal) Parish Churchyard, New Kent County, VA. (There was some merging of the two church families that is causing confusion now about where they are physically buried.)
1870 Census, $3,500 Farm ($476 Personal Property), Williamsburg, Bruton Twp., York Co, VA:
William Bloxton 25, Farmer
Bettie Octavia Bloxton 32
Lucy Clift Bloxton 7/12
Bettie's children by 1st husband, Michael Sherman:
Pristine S. Sherman 11 (1859-Mar 1872)
(She died age 14, Mar 1872, Scottsville, New Kent, VA)
Elizabeth Sherman 5 (1865-Jul 1872)
(She died age 7, July 1872, Scottsville, New Kent, VA)
Hannah Chapman 60, Servant
Thomas Carter 12, Farm Labor
William & Bettie's daughter and oldest child had her grandmother's name on the 1870 Census, but was changed to:
a. CLIFT ELKINS BLOXTON VAUGHAN (b. 10 DEC 1873, Scimino, York County, VA – d. 11 JAN 1929, Ashtabula, OH) (Buried 12 JUN 1929, The Church of Our Savior Cemetery, middle section, burial info: "Clift E his wife 1869-1929," Little Georgetown, Fauquier Co., VA) (m. 1 (2?) DEC 1903, Williamsburg, James City Co., VA) to Episcopal Rev. LORENZO "DAVENPORT" VAUGHAN (He was rector of Westover Parish not far from Richmond, VA) (b. 13 NOV 1872, Marshall, Fauquier Co., VA – d. of injuries in a car accident on 12 JUN 1930, Ashtabula, OH), son of Franklin Daniel Vaughan & Elizabeth Eloise (Ella) Walker. [NOTE: Clift was baptized and raised in the Scotch Presbyterian Church, or as near as it is in this country. After her marriage, she began a study of the Episcopal Church, which resulted in her being confirmed in the Spring of 1907 in the Chapel of VA Theological Seminary (date recorded there) by Rev. Robert A. Gibson.] Clift was listed as "LOVEY C. BLOXTON" on the 1880 census. Clift and Lorenzo had:
i. LORENZO DAVENPORT VAUGHAN, Jr. (b. 1905, VA)
ii. DANIEL ARTHUR LANDON VAUGHAN (b. 28 MAR 1908, Westover, Charles City Co., VA) (d. 1967, Cleveland, OH) [NOTE: SSN: b. 26 MAR 1907] (m. HELEN VAUGHAN)
b. STAMPER DANDRIDGE BLOXTON
Principal, Keezletown School (1894-1897 & 1899-1900) (see: http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/rcps_history/keezletown.html)(b. 09 JAN 1875, Scottsville, New Kent County, VA) (d. JUN/JUL 1931, Broad Run, Fauquier Co., VA, buried Little Georgetown Episcopal Church Cemetery, Broad Run, Fauquier, VA.) (m. 1st AMANDA MILLER, from Keezletown, VA, one of his students at Keezletown School. She died before 1910. She is buried at Broad Run, Fauquier, VA, not far from Warrenton, VA.)
Their only child was:
i. MARY VIDEL (D.?) BLOXTON (b. 25 JAN 1898, Verona, Augusta Co., VA) She lived in Casper, WY for many years. She died there about 1981, but is buried in the Lutheran Cemetery not far from Keezletown School, Keezletown, VA.
MARY's TWO HUSBANDS:
(m. #1 Mr. BAUGHMAN from Casper, WY. They were living in Mills, Natrona County, WY (near Casper) in 1969, but he died not long after they were married.)
STAMPER (m. #2 on 4 OCT 1910, Broad Run, Fauquier Co., VA) to ELIZABETH GRACE "BESSIE" VAUGHAN (b. 21 JAN 1888, Broad Run, Fauquier, VA – d. 9 FEB 1976, buried Little Georgetown Episcopal Church Cemetery, Broad Run, Fauquier, VA.)
February 19, 1920 census, living at Broad Run & Plains Road, Scott, Fauquier County, VA
STAMPER DANDRIDGE BLOXTON (45), Retail Merchant, General Store; Elizabeth V. BLOXTON (31), Agent, Sou RR; VAUGHAN, Elizabeth E. (67) Widow, his wife's mother, Farmer, General Farm
c. WILLIAM MONCURE "ASHBY" BLOXTON (b. 12 MAR 1879, Scottsville, New Kent Co., VA) (d. 26 JAN 1917, Williamsburg, James City County, VA, of brain cancer after brain surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD. There is a nice obituary about him and his years of teaching there at The College of William & Mary.) Ashby, "of Williamsburg, VA," Instructor/Professor of English Language and Literature at College of William and Mary 1909-1911, while still a student there 1893-1898 & 1909-1911 (this was not unusual.) There is no evidence that he graduated;
(m. 1913, ADELAIDE LEE EVERETT in Driver, Nansemond Co., VA,
where he was Principal of Driver School) (b. 14 DEC 1886,
Cartwright's Wharf, Nansemond Co., VA – d. of a heart attack, 19 MAR 1950, in Home Ec. Dept. on campus of ECU, where she
worked and lived -- see BLOXTON HOUSE; aka: "Adelaide E.
Bloxton Home" [Photo of Home & Adelaide @ website:
http://www.lib.ecu.edu/SpclColl/Archives/bbloxton.html] -- East Carolina University, East Fifth St, Greenville, NC 27858-4353, 252-328-6131. Funeral Services at Christian Church (where they were married), Driver, VA. Both William and Adelaide are buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk, VA, (Block F, Lot 107, owned by Elisha Everett), where most of her family is also buried (27 Everett's/47 Vaughans) (see cemetery website @ http://southampton1.homestead.com/files/ch-abc.txt.) Adelaide's parents: Elisha Lee Everett (1861-1929), son of Elisha Everett (13 DEC 1813 – 02 JUN 1890) and Eliza A. Everett (4 SEP 1820 – 24 JUN 1901), and Mary Elizabeth Sipe Everett (5 OCT 1860-17 MAR 1901), "daughter of E. Sipe." Adelaide oldest of 8 children.
The following is an obituary for Nell Bloxton and Betty Dandridge Bloxton Orrick's father, William Moncure Ashby Bloxton, which appeared in the February 6, 1917, Issue No. 14, of THE FLAT HAT, student newspaper of the College of William and Mary at Williamsburg in Virginia:
PROF. W. M. A. BLOXTON SUCCUMBS AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Professor William Moncure Ashby Bloxton, formerly professor of English and German at the William and Mary Academy, died at his home on the night of Jan. 22 (1917) after suffering from paralysis lasting a year.
In 1911, after receiving his B. A. degree at William and Mary College, he became professor of English and German in the Academy, which position he resigned about a year ago on account of failing health. Being affected with paralysis due to a tumor on the brain, Prof. Bloxton was taken to the most eminent specialists in the country for treatment. Receiving temporary benefit, he returned home and then spent some time in the John Hopkins Hospital. Finding it impossible to get relief, he came home to spend the remaining months with his family.
For a time his condition remained unchanged while a few days prior to his death when his condition became alarming, and the physician and relations were summoned to his bedside to await the end.
The funeral services were conducted by Rev. F. D. Thomas at the Presbyterian church. The remains were taken to Suffolk, where the burial service took place.
Prof. Bloxton was born in York County, March 12, 1879, and was in the prime of life when stricken with paralysis. He was the son of the late William Bloxton. He was a man of large usefulness to the college, the community, and the state. Born and bred on the farm, in his early days he earned his bread by the sweat of the brow. He also worked on the railroad, and it is said that when a small boy he pulled the throttle on the first engine to run over the peninsula division of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. While at college he was not only a good student but was busy in college activities. He was editor-in-chief of the College Annual in 1911, which was one of the most ably edited annuals ever turned out by the college.
On October 4, 1913, Prof. Bloxton was happily married to Miss Adelaide Everett, of Driver, Va., and to the union was born two children, Elizabeth and Nellie Stuart. In addition to his wife and children, he is survived by one brother, Stamper Bloxton, of Harrisonburg, Va.
Uncle Billy was the son of William Ashby Bloxton I & Lucy Clift Bloxton of Stafford County, VA.
After his mother died in 1846,
William (age 6) was on the 1850 Census staying in the home of Fielding Clift, age 76 (his mother's father).
William A. (age 16) was on the 1860 Census living with his mother's brother, Arthur F. (Marion) Clift, age 44, and working as a laborer.
During the U.S. Civil War, Confederate Private William A. Bloxton, age 17 (Laborer), enlisted in Company C, Virginia 30th Infantry Regiment, Corser Brigade, Pickett's Division, Army of Northern Virginia, WIA, on 06 Jul 1861. At Sharpsburg 9/17/1862. Present in 1864, then no further record. He was also listed as serving on the Stafford Light Artillery.
Mary Ware Greene said his middle name was Ashby, not Arthur.
He lived on Maple Grove Farm just outside of Williamsburg – in fact, one mile from the college gate to the west. (This is exactly what Betty Dandridge Bloxton Orrick told me about her father, William Moncure "Ashby" Bloxton – that he lived very close to the college and walked there.)
Uncle Billy made many trips to Williamsburg after he moved back to Stafford County to visit friends and family there, and he spent time working on his older brother, Thomas Laurence Bloxton's, farm/plantation there.
He was married on 1 DEC 1868, York Co., VA, to widow with two children, ELIZABETH OCTAVIA "BETTY" or "BETTIE" STAMPER (widow of Michael "Mike" Sherman (1830-1867)) (b. 2 NOV 1835, Scottsville, New Kent County, VA – d. 24 JAN 1909, Williamsburg, VA) – ELIZABETH was the daughter of JAMES STAMPER (b. 5 DEC 1800, St. Peter's, New Kent Co., VA) (m. abt. 1835, Middlesex, VA) (buried St. Peter's Churchyard, New Kent Co., VA) & ELIZABETH SCIANNA DANDRIDGE (d. 18 FEB 1845), daughter of BARTHOLOMEW & ELIZABETH CLAYTON DANDRIDGE. ELIZABETH's two younger brothers were: ROBERT & JOHN B. STAMPER. ELIZABETH was 1st or 2nd cousin to MARTHA DANDRIDGE CUSTIS (Mrs. GEORGE WASHINGTON.) Both William and Betty are buried in what was Olivet Presbyterian Churchyard, now at St. Peter's (Episcopal) Parish Churchyard, New Kent County, VA. (There was some merging of the two church families that is causing confusion now about where they are physically buried.)
1870 Census, $3,500 Farm ($476 Personal Property), Williamsburg, Bruton Twp., York Co, VA:
William Bloxton 25, Farmer
Bettie Octavia Bloxton 32
Lucy Clift Bloxton 7/12
Bettie's children by 1st husband, Michael Sherman:
Pristine S. Sherman 11 (1859-Mar 1872)
(She died age 14, Mar 1872, Scottsville, New Kent, VA)
Elizabeth Sherman 5 (1865-Jul 1872)
(She died age 7, July 1872, Scottsville, New Kent, VA)
Hannah Chapman 60, Servant
Thomas Carter 12, Farm Labor
William & Bettie's daughter and oldest child had her grandmother's name on the 1870 Census, but was changed to:
a. CLIFT ELKINS BLOXTON VAUGHAN (b. 10 DEC 1873, Scimino, York County, VA – d. 11 JAN 1929, Ashtabula, OH) (Buried 12 JUN 1929, The Church of Our Savior Cemetery, middle section, burial info: "Clift E his wife 1869-1929," Little Georgetown, Fauquier Co., VA) (m. 1 (2?) DEC 1903, Williamsburg, James City Co., VA) to Episcopal Rev. LORENZO "DAVENPORT" VAUGHAN (He was rector of Westover Parish not far from Richmond, VA) (b. 13 NOV 1872, Marshall, Fauquier Co., VA – d. of injuries in a car accident on 12 JUN 1930, Ashtabula, OH), son of Franklin Daniel Vaughan & Elizabeth Eloise (Ella) Walker. [NOTE: Clift was baptized and raised in the Scotch Presbyterian Church, or as near as it is in this country. After her marriage, she began a study of the Episcopal Church, which resulted in her being confirmed in the Spring of 1907 in the Chapel of VA Theological Seminary (date recorded there) by Rev. Robert A. Gibson.] Clift was listed as "LOVEY C. BLOXTON" on the 1880 census. Clift and Lorenzo had:
i. LORENZO DAVENPORT VAUGHAN, Jr. (b. 1905, VA)
ii. DANIEL ARTHUR LANDON VAUGHAN (b. 28 MAR 1908, Westover, Charles City Co., VA) (d. 1967, Cleveland, OH) [NOTE: SSN: b. 26 MAR 1907] (m. HELEN VAUGHAN)
b. STAMPER DANDRIDGE BLOXTON
Principal, Keezletown School (1894-1897 & 1899-1900) (see: http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/rcps_history/keezletown.html)(b. 09 JAN 1875, Scottsville, New Kent County, VA) (d. JUN/JUL 1931, Broad Run, Fauquier Co., VA, buried Little Georgetown Episcopal Church Cemetery, Broad Run, Fauquier, VA.) (m. 1st AMANDA MILLER, from Keezletown, VA, one of his students at Keezletown School. She died before 1910. She is buried at Broad Run, Fauquier, VA, not far from Warrenton, VA.)
Their only child was:
i. MARY VIDEL (D.?) BLOXTON (b. 25 JAN 1898, Verona, Augusta Co., VA) She lived in Casper, WY for many years. She died there about 1981, but is buried in the Lutheran Cemetery not far from Keezletown School, Keezletown, VA.
MARY's TWO HUSBANDS:
(m. #1 Mr. BAUGHMAN from Casper, WY. They were living in Mills, Natrona County, WY (near Casper) in 1969, but he died not long after they were married.)
STAMPER (m. #2 on 4 OCT 1910, Broad Run, Fauquier Co., VA) to ELIZABETH GRACE "BESSIE" VAUGHAN (b. 21 JAN 1888, Broad Run, Fauquier, VA – d. 9 FEB 1976, buried Little Georgetown Episcopal Church Cemetery, Broad Run, Fauquier, VA.)
February 19, 1920 census, living at Broad Run & Plains Road, Scott, Fauquier County, VA
STAMPER DANDRIDGE BLOXTON (45), Retail Merchant, General Store; Elizabeth V. BLOXTON (31), Agent, Sou RR; VAUGHAN, Elizabeth E. (67) Widow, his wife's mother, Farmer, General Farm
c. WILLIAM MONCURE "ASHBY" BLOXTON (b. 12 MAR 1879, Scottsville, New Kent Co., VA) (d. 26 JAN 1917, Williamsburg, James City County, VA, of brain cancer after brain surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD. There is a nice obituary about him and his years of teaching there at The College of William & Mary.) Ashby, "of Williamsburg, VA," Instructor/Professor of English Language and Literature at College of William and Mary 1909-1911, while still a student there 1893-1898 & 1909-1911 (this was not unusual.) There is no evidence that he graduated;
(m. 1913, ADELAIDE LEE EVERETT in Driver, Nansemond Co., VA,
where he was Principal of Driver School) (b. 14 DEC 1886,
Cartwright's Wharf, Nansemond Co., VA – d. of a heart attack, 19 MAR 1950, in Home Ec. Dept. on campus of ECU, where she
worked and lived -- see BLOXTON HOUSE; aka: "Adelaide E.
Bloxton Home" [Photo of Home & Adelaide @ website:
http://www.lib.ecu.edu/SpclColl/Archives/bbloxton.html] -- East Carolina University, East Fifth St, Greenville, NC 27858-4353, 252-328-6131. Funeral Services at Christian Church (where they were married), Driver, VA. Both William and Adelaide are buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk, VA, (Block F, Lot 107, owned by Elisha Everett), where most of her family is also buried (27 Everett's/47 Vaughans) (see cemetery website @ http://southampton1.homestead.com/files/ch-abc.txt.) Adelaide's parents: Elisha Lee Everett (1861-1929), son of Elisha Everett (13 DEC 1813 – 02 JUN 1890) and Eliza A. Everett (4 SEP 1820 – 24 JUN 1901), and Mary Elizabeth Sipe Everett (5 OCT 1860-17 MAR 1901), "daughter of E. Sipe." Adelaide oldest of 8 children.
The following is an obituary for Nell Bloxton and Betty Dandridge Bloxton Orrick's father, William Moncure Ashby Bloxton, which appeared in the February 6, 1917, Issue No. 14, of THE FLAT HAT, student newspaper of the College of William and Mary at Williamsburg in Virginia:
PROF. W. M. A. BLOXTON SUCCUMBS AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Professor William Moncure Ashby Bloxton, formerly professor of English and German at the William and Mary Academy, died at his home on the night of Jan. 22 (1917) after suffering from paralysis lasting a year.
In 1911, after receiving his B. A. degree at William and Mary College, he became professor of English and German in the Academy, which position he resigned about a year ago on account of failing health. Being affected with paralysis due to a tumor on the brain, Prof. Bloxton was taken to the most eminent specialists in the country for treatment. Receiving temporary benefit, he returned home and then spent some time in the John Hopkins Hospital. Finding it impossible to get relief, he came home to spend the remaining months with his family.
For a time his condition remained unchanged while a few days prior to his death when his condition became alarming, and the physician and relations were summoned to his bedside to await the end.
The funeral services were conducted by Rev. F. D. Thomas at the Presbyterian church. The remains were taken to Suffolk, where the burial service took place.
Prof. Bloxton was born in York County, March 12, 1879, and was in the prime of life when stricken with paralysis. He was the son of the late William Bloxton. He was a man of large usefulness to the college, the community, and the state. Born and bred on the farm, in his early days he earned his bread by the sweat of the brow. He also worked on the railroad, and it is said that when a small boy he pulled the throttle on the first engine to run over the peninsula division of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. While at college he was not only a good student but was busy in college activities. He was editor-in-chief of the College Annual in 1911, which was one of the most ably edited annuals ever turned out by the college.
On October 4, 1913, Prof. Bloxton was happily married to Miss Adelaide Everett, of Driver, Va., and to the union was born two children, Elizabeth and Nellie Stuart. In addition to his wife and children, he is survived by one brother, Stamper Bloxton, of Harrisonburg, Va.
William Moncure Ashby Bloxton and Stamper Dandridge Bloxton were the sons of William Ashby (aka Arthur) "Uncle Billy" Bloxton, born Oct 16, 1844 in Stafford County, VA, (one account says "Hanover, VA") and died at age 48 on April 27, 1892 in Burton, York, Virginia (another record shows he died at Maplewood, Amelia County, VA, but that doesn't agree with his widow's account) [NOTE: His widow states on his Pension Application of August 1900 that he died at Maple Grove Farm near Williamsburg, York County, VA of apoplexy (a stroke) brought on by wounds sustained in the War Between The States.] with interment in New Kent County, VA. (Two Civil War records have him dying in 1862 instead of 1892, but he was alive in 1880 on the census.)
Uncle Billy was the son of William Ashby Bloxton I & Lucy Clift Bloxton of Stafford County, VA.
After his mother died in 1846,
William (age 6) was on the 1850 Census staying in the home of Fielding Clift, age 76 (his mother's father).
William A. (age 16) was on the 1860 Census living with his mother's brother, Arthur F. (Marion) Clift, age 44, and working as a laborer.
During the U.S. Civil War, Confederate Private William A. Bloxton, age 17 (Laborer), enlisted in Company C, Virginia 30th Infantry Regiment, Corser Brigade, Pickett's Division, Army of Northern Virginia, WIA, on 06 Jul 1861. At Sharpsburg 9/17/1862. Present in 1864, then no further record. He was also listed as serving on the Stafford Light Artillery.
Mary Ware Greene said his middle name was Ashby, not Arthur.
He lived on Maple Grove Farm just outside of Williamsburg – in fact, one mile from the college gate to the west. (This is exactly what Betty Dandridge Bloxton Orrick told me about her father, William Moncure "Ashby" Bloxton – that he lived very close to the college and walked there.)
Uncle Billy made many trips to Williamsburg after he moved back to Stafford County to visit friends and family there, and he spent time working on his older brother, Thomas Laurence Bloxton's, farm/plantation there.
He was married on 1 DEC 1868, York Co., VA, to widow with two children, ELIZABETH OCTAVIA "BETTY" or "BETTIE" STAMPER (widow of Michael "Mike" Sherman (1830-1867)) (b. 2 NOV 1835, Scottsville, New Kent County, VA – d. 24 JAN 1909, Williamsburg, VA) – ELIZABETH was the daughter of JAMES STAMPER (b. 5 DEC 1800, St. Peter's, New Kent Co., VA) (m. abt. 1835, Middlesex, VA) (buried St. Peter's Churchyard, New Kent Co., VA) & ELIZABETH SCIANNA DANDRIDGE (d. 18 FEB 1845), daughter of BARTHOLOMEW & ELIZABETH CLAYTON DANDRIDGE. ELIZABETH's two younger brothers were: ROBERT & JOHN B. STAMPER. ELIZABETH was 1st or 2nd cousin to MARTHA DANDRIDGE CUSTIS (Mrs. GEORGE WASHINGTON.) Both William and Betty are buried in what was Olivet Presbyterian Churchyard, now at St. Peter's (Episcopal) Parish Churchyard, New Kent County, VA. (There was some merging of the two church families that is causing confusion now about where they are physically buried.)
1870 Census, $3,500 Farm ($476 Personal Property), Williamsburg, Bruton Twp., York Co, VA:
William Bloxton 25, Farmer
Bettie Octavia Bloxton 32
Lucy Clift Bloxton 7/12
Bettie's children by 1st husband, Michael Sherman:
Pristine S. Sherman 11 (1859-Mar 1872)
(She died age 14, Mar 1872, Scottsville, New Kent, VA)
Elizabeth Sherman 5 (1865-Jul 1872)
(She died age 7, July 1872, Scottsville, New Kent, VA)
Hannah Chapman 60, Servant
Thomas Carter 12, Farm Labor
William & Bettie's daughter and oldest child had her grandmother's name on the 1870 Census, but was changed to:
a. CLIFT ELKINS BLOXTON VAUGHAN (b. 10 DEC 1873, Scimino, York County, VA – d. 11 JAN 1929, Ashtabula, OH) (Buried 12 JUN 1929, The Church of Our Savior Cemetery, middle section, burial info: "Clift E his wife 1869-1929," Little Georgetown, Fauquier Co., VA) (m. 1 (2?) DEC 1903, Williamsburg, James City Co., VA) to Episcopal Rev. LORENZO "DAVENPORT" VAUGHAN (He was rector of Westover Parish not far from Richmond, VA) (b. 13 NOV 1872, Marshall, Fauquier Co., VA – d. of injuries in a car accident on 12 JUN 1930, Ashtabula, OH), son of Franklin Daniel Vaughan & Elizabeth Eloise (Ella) Walker. [NOTE: Clift was baptized and raised in the Scotch Presbyterian Church, or as near as it is in this country. After her marriage, she began a study of the Episcopal Church, which resulted in her being confirmed in the Spring of 1907 in the Chapel of VA Theological Seminary (date recorded there) by Rev. Robert A. Gibson.] Clift was listed as "LOVEY C. BLOXTON" on the 1880 census. Clift and Lorenzo had:
i. LORENZO DAVENPORT VAUGHAN, Jr. (b. 1905, VA)
ii. DANIEL ARTHUR LANDON VAUGHAN (b. 28 MAR 1908, Westover, Charles City Co., VA) (d. 1967, Cleveland, OH) [NOTE: SSN: b. 26 MAR 1907] (m. HELEN VAUGHAN)
b. STAMPER DANDRIDGE BLOXTON
Principal, Keezletown School (1894-1897 & 1899-1900) (see: http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/rcps_history/keezletown.html)(b. 09 JAN 1875, Scottsville, New Kent County, VA) (d. JUN/JUL 1931, Broad Run, Fauquier Co., VA, buried Little Georgetown Episcopal Church Cemetery, Broad Run, Fauquier, VA.) (m. 1st AMANDA MILLER, from Keezletown, VA, one of his students at Keezletown School. She died before 1910. She is buried at Broad Run, Fauquier, VA, not far from Warrenton, VA.)
Their only child was:
i. MARY VIDEL (D.?) BLOXTON (b. 25 JAN 1898, Verona, Augusta Co., VA) She lived in Casper, WY for many years. She died there about 1981, but is buried in the Lutheran Cemetery not far from Keezletown School, Keezletown, VA.
MARY's TWO HUSBANDS:
(m. #1 Mr. BAUGHMAN from Casper, WY. They were living in Mills, Natrona County, WY (near Casper) in 1969, but he died not long after they were married.)
STAMPER (m. #2 on 4 OCT 1910, Broad Run, Fauquier Co., VA) to ELIZABETH GRACE "BESSIE" VAUGHAN (b. 21 JAN 1888, Broad Run, Fauquier, VA – d. 9 FEB 1976, buried Little Georgetown Episcopal Church Cemetery, Broad Run, Fauquier, VA.)
February 19, 1920 census, living at Broad Run & Plains Road, Scott, Fauquier County, VA
STAMPER DANDRIDGE BLOXTON (45), Retail Merchant, General Store; Elizabeth V. BLOXTON (31), Agent, Sou RR; VAUGHAN, Elizabeth E. (67) Widow, his wife's mother, Farmer, General Farm
c. WILLIAM MONCURE "ASHBY" BLOXTON (b. 12 MAR 1879, Scottsville, New Kent Co., VA) (d. 26 JAN 1917, Williamsburg, James City County, VA, of brain cancer after brain surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD. There is a nice obituary about him and his years of teaching there at The College of William & Mary.) Ashby, "of Williamsburg, VA," Instructor/Professor of English Language and Literature at College of William and Mary 1909-1911, while still a student there 1893-1898 & 1909-1911 (this was not unusual.) There is no evidence that he graduated;
(m. 1913, ADELAIDE LEE EVERETT in Driver, Nansemond Co., VA,
where he was Principal of Driver School) (b. 14 DEC 1886,
Cartwright's Wharf, Nansemond Co., VA – d. of a heart attack, 19 MAR 1950, in Home Ec. Dept. on campus of ECU, where she
worked and lived -- see BLOXTON HOUSE; aka: "Adelaide E.
Bloxton Home" [Photo of Home & Adelaide @ website:
http://www.lib.ecu.edu/SpclColl/Archives/bbloxton.html] -- East Carolina University, East Fifth St, Greenville, NC 27858-4353, 252-328-6131. Funeral Services at Christian Church (where they were married), Driver, VA. Both William and Adelaide are buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk, VA, (Block F, Lot 107, owned by Elisha Everett), where most of her family is also buried (27 Everett's/47 Vaughans) (see cemetery website @ http://southampton1.homestead.com/files/ch-abc.txt.) Adelaide's parents: Elisha Lee Everett (1861-1929), son of Elisha Everett (13 DEC 1813 – 02 JUN 1890) and Eliza A. Everett (4 SEP 1820 – 24 JUN 1901), and Mary Elizabeth Sipe Everett (5 OCT 1860-17 MAR 1901), "daughter of E. Sipe." Adelaide oldest of 8 children.
The following is an obituary for Nell Bloxton and Betty Dandridge Bloxton Orrick's father, William Moncure Ashby Bloxton, which appeared in the February 6, 1917, Issue No. 14, of THE FLAT HAT, student newspaper of the College of William and Mary at Williamsburg in Virginia:
PROF. W. M. A. BLOXTON SUCCUMBS AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Professor William Moncure Ashby Bloxton, formerly professor of English and German at the William and Mary Academy, died at his home on the night of Jan. 22 (1917) after suffering from paralysis lasting a year.
In 1911, after receiving his B. A. degree at William and Mary College, he became professor of English and German in the Academy, which position he resigned about a year ago on account of failing health. Being affected with paralysis due to a tumor on the brain, Prof. Bloxton was taken to the most eminent specialists in the country for treatment. Receiving temporary benefit, he returned home and then spent some time in the John Hopkins Hospital. Finding it impossible to get relief, he came home to spend the remaining months with his family.
For a time his condition remained unchanged while a few days prior to his death when his condition became alarming, and the physician and relations were summoned to his bedside to await the end.
The funeral services were conducted by Rev. F. D. Thomas at the Presbyterian church. The remains were taken to Suffolk, where the burial service took place.
Prof. Bloxton was born in York County, March 12, 1879, and was in the prime of life when stricken with paralysis. He was the son of the late William Bloxton. He was a man of large usefulness to the college, the community, and the state. Born and bred on the farm, in his early days he earned his bread by the sweat of the brow. He also worked on the railroad, and it is said that when a small boy he pulled the throttle on the first engine to run over the peninsula division of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. While at college he was not only a good student but was busy in college activities. He was editor-in-chief of the College Annual in 1911, which was one of the most ably edited annuals ever turned out by the college.
On October 4, 1913, Prof. Bloxton was happily married to Miss Adelaide Everett, of Driver, Va., and to the union was born two children, Elizabeth and Nellie Stuart. In addition to his wife and children, he is survived by one brother, Stamper Bloxton, of Harrisonburg, Va.
Uncle Billy was the son of William Ashby Bloxton I & Lucy Clift Bloxton of Stafford County, VA.
After his mother died in 1846,
William (age 6) was on the 1850 Census staying in the home of Fielding Clift, age 76 (his mother's father).
William A. (age 16) was on the 1860 Census living with his mother's brother, Arthur F. (Marion) Clift, age 44, and working as a laborer.
During the U.S. Civil War, Confederate Private William A. Bloxton, age 17 (Laborer), enlisted in Company C, Virginia 30th Infantry Regiment, Corser Brigade, Pickett's Division, Army of Northern Virginia, WIA, on 06 Jul 1861. At Sharpsburg 9/17/1862. Present in 1864, then no further record. He was also listed as serving on the Stafford Light Artillery.
Mary Ware Greene said his middle name was Ashby, not Arthur.
He lived on Maple Grove Farm just outside of Williamsburg – in fact, one mile from the college gate to the west. (This is exactly what Betty Dandridge Bloxton Orrick told me about her father, William Moncure "Ashby" Bloxton – that he lived very close to the college and walked there.)
Uncle Billy made many trips to Williamsburg after he moved back to Stafford County to visit friends and family there, and he spent time working on his older brother, Thomas Laurence Bloxton's, farm/plantation there.
He was married on 1 DEC 1868, York Co., VA, to widow with two children, ELIZABETH OCTAVIA "BETTY" or "BETTIE" STAMPER (widow of Michael "Mike" Sherman (1830-1867)) (b. 2 NOV 1835, Scottsville, New Kent County, VA – d. 24 JAN 1909, Williamsburg, VA) – ELIZABETH was the daughter of JAMES STAMPER (b. 5 DEC 1800, St. Peter's, New Kent Co., VA) (m. abt. 1835, Middlesex, VA) (buried St. Peter's Churchyard, New Kent Co., VA) & ELIZABETH SCIANNA DANDRIDGE (d. 18 FEB 1845), daughter of BARTHOLOMEW & ELIZABETH CLAYTON DANDRIDGE. ELIZABETH's two younger brothers were: ROBERT & JOHN B. STAMPER. ELIZABETH was 1st or 2nd cousin to MARTHA DANDRIDGE CUSTIS (Mrs. GEORGE WASHINGTON.) Both William and Betty are buried in what was Olivet Presbyterian Churchyard, now at St. Peter's (Episcopal) Parish Churchyard, New Kent County, VA. (There was some merging of the two church families that is causing confusion now about where they are physically buried.)
1870 Census, $3,500 Farm ($476 Personal Property), Williamsburg, Bruton Twp., York Co, VA:
William Bloxton 25, Farmer
Bettie Octavia Bloxton 32
Lucy Clift Bloxton 7/12
Bettie's children by 1st husband, Michael Sherman:
Pristine S. Sherman 11 (1859-Mar 1872)
(She died age 14, Mar 1872, Scottsville, New Kent, VA)
Elizabeth Sherman 5 (1865-Jul 1872)
(She died age 7, July 1872, Scottsville, New Kent, VA)
Hannah Chapman 60, Servant
Thomas Carter 12, Farm Labor
William & Bettie's daughter and oldest child had her grandmother's name on the 1870 Census, but was changed to:
a. CLIFT ELKINS BLOXTON VAUGHAN (b. 10 DEC 1873, Scimino, York County, VA – d. 11 JAN 1929, Ashtabula, OH) (Buried 12 JUN 1929, The Church of Our Savior Cemetery, middle section, burial info: "Clift E his wife 1869-1929," Little Georgetown, Fauquier Co., VA) (m. 1 (2?) DEC 1903, Williamsburg, James City Co., VA) to Episcopal Rev. LORENZO "DAVENPORT" VAUGHAN (He was rector of Westover Parish not far from Richmond, VA) (b. 13 NOV 1872, Marshall, Fauquier Co., VA – d. of injuries in a car accident on 12 JUN 1930, Ashtabula, OH), son of Franklin Daniel Vaughan & Elizabeth Eloise (Ella) Walker. [NOTE: Clift was baptized and raised in the Scotch Presbyterian Church, or as near as it is in this country. After her marriage, she began a study of the Episcopal Church, which resulted in her being confirmed in the Spring of 1907 in the Chapel of VA Theological Seminary (date recorded there) by Rev. Robert A. Gibson.] Clift was listed as "LOVEY C. BLOXTON" on the 1880 census. Clift and Lorenzo had:
i. LORENZO DAVENPORT VAUGHAN, Jr. (b. 1905, VA)
ii. DANIEL ARTHUR LANDON VAUGHAN (b. 28 MAR 1908, Westover, Charles City Co., VA) (d. 1967, Cleveland, OH) [NOTE: SSN: b. 26 MAR 1907] (m. HELEN VAUGHAN)
b. STAMPER DANDRIDGE BLOXTON
Principal, Keezletown School (1894-1897 & 1899-1900) (see: http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/rcps_history/keezletown.html)(b. 09 JAN 1875, Scottsville, New Kent County, VA) (d. JUN/JUL 1931, Broad Run, Fauquier Co., VA, buried Little Georgetown Episcopal Church Cemetery, Broad Run, Fauquier, VA.) (m. 1st AMANDA MILLER, from Keezletown, VA, one of his students at Keezletown School. She died before 1910. She is buried at Broad Run, Fauquier, VA, not far from Warrenton, VA.)
Their only child was:
i. MARY VIDEL (D.?) BLOXTON (b. 25 JAN 1898, Verona, Augusta Co., VA) She lived in Casper, WY for many years. She died there about 1981, but is buried in the Lutheran Cemetery not far from Keezletown School, Keezletown, VA.
MARY's TWO HUSBANDS:
(m. #1 Mr. BAUGHMAN from Casper, WY. They were living in Mills, Natrona County, WY (near Casper) in 1969, but he died not long after they were married.)
STAMPER (m. #2 on 4 OCT 1910, Broad Run, Fauquier Co., VA) to ELIZABETH GRACE "BESSIE" VAUGHAN (b. 21 JAN 1888, Broad Run, Fauquier, VA – d. 9 FEB 1976, buried Little Georgetown Episcopal Church Cemetery, Broad Run, Fauquier, VA.)
February 19, 1920 census, living at Broad Run & Plains Road, Scott, Fauquier County, VA
STAMPER DANDRIDGE BLOXTON (45), Retail Merchant, General Store; Elizabeth V. BLOXTON (31), Agent, Sou RR; VAUGHAN, Elizabeth E. (67) Widow, his wife's mother, Farmer, General Farm
c. WILLIAM MONCURE "ASHBY" BLOXTON (b. 12 MAR 1879, Scottsville, New Kent Co., VA) (d. 26 JAN 1917, Williamsburg, James City County, VA, of brain cancer after brain surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD. There is a nice obituary about him and his years of teaching there at The College of William & Mary.) Ashby, "of Williamsburg, VA," Instructor/Professor of English Language and Literature at College of William and Mary 1909-1911, while still a student there 1893-1898 & 1909-1911 (this was not unusual.) There is no evidence that he graduated;
(m. 1913, ADELAIDE LEE EVERETT in Driver, Nansemond Co., VA,
where he was Principal of Driver School) (b. 14 DEC 1886,
Cartwright's Wharf, Nansemond Co., VA – d. of a heart attack, 19 MAR 1950, in Home Ec. Dept. on campus of ECU, where she
worked and lived -- see BLOXTON HOUSE; aka: "Adelaide E.
Bloxton Home" [Photo of Home & Adelaide @ website:
http://www.lib.ecu.edu/SpclColl/Archives/bbloxton.html] -- East Carolina University, East Fifth St, Greenville, NC 27858-4353, 252-328-6131. Funeral Services at Christian Church (where they were married), Driver, VA. Both William and Adelaide are buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk, VA, (Block F, Lot 107, owned by Elisha Everett), where most of her family is also buried (27 Everett's/47 Vaughans) (see cemetery website @ http://southampton1.homestead.com/files/ch-abc.txt.) Adelaide's parents: Elisha Lee Everett (1861-1929), son of Elisha Everett (13 DEC 1813 – 02 JUN 1890) and Eliza A. Everett (4 SEP 1820 – 24 JUN 1901), and Mary Elizabeth Sipe Everett (5 OCT 1860-17 MAR 1901), "daughter of E. Sipe." Adelaide oldest of 8 children.
The following is an obituary for Nell Bloxton and Betty Dandridge Bloxton Orrick's father, William Moncure Ashby Bloxton, which appeared in the February 6, 1917, Issue No. 14, of THE FLAT HAT, student newspaper of the College of William and Mary at Williamsburg in Virginia:
PROF. W. M. A. BLOXTON SUCCUMBS AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Professor William Moncure Ashby Bloxton, formerly professor of English and German at the William and Mary Academy, died at his home on the night of Jan. 22 (1917) after suffering from paralysis lasting a year.
In 1911, after receiving his B. A. degree at William and Mary College, he became professor of English and German in the Academy, which position he resigned about a year ago on account of failing health. Being affected with paralysis due to a tumor on the brain, Prof. Bloxton was taken to the most eminent specialists in the country for treatment. Receiving temporary benefit, he returned home and then spent some time in the John Hopkins Hospital. Finding it impossible to get relief, he came home to spend the remaining months with his family.
For a time his condition remained unchanged while a few days prior to his death when his condition became alarming, and the physician and relations were summoned to his bedside to await the end.
The funeral services were conducted by Rev. F. D. Thomas at the Presbyterian church. The remains were taken to Suffolk, where the burial service took place.
Prof. Bloxton was born in York County, March 12, 1879, and was in the prime of life when stricken with paralysis. He was the son of the late William Bloxton. He was a man of large usefulness to the college, the community, and the state. Born and bred on the farm, in his early days he earned his bread by the sweat of the brow. He also worked on the railroad, and it is said that when a small boy he pulled the throttle on the first engine to run over the peninsula division of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. While at college he was not only a good student but was busy in college activities. He was editor-in-chief of the College Annual in 1911, which was one of the most ably edited annuals ever turned out by the college.
On October 4, 1913, Prof. Bloxton was happily married to Miss Adelaide Everett, of Driver, Va., and to the union was born two children, Elizabeth and Nellie Stuart. In addition to his wife and children, he is survived by one brother, Stamper Bloxton, of Harrisonburg, Va.
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