Joseph Berry Wade

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Joseph Berry Wade

Birth
Pickens, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
Death
17 Jul 1877 (aged 62)
Rosewood, Upshur County, Texas, USA
Burial
Grice, Upshur County, Texas, USA
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Joseph Berry Wade was born in Pendleton District, South Carolina, the son of Telitha Wade. He traveled with his mother and two brothers, David Alexander Wade and John Lawrence M. Wade from SC to Auraria, Lumpkin County, Georgia to seek gold during the Gold Rush about 1838. He married Sarah Medely Odell on 6 Feb 1839 in Auraria and they had nine children. A daughter Emily was born in Alabama in 1842 so one can only surmise that they had relatives there and went for a visit or lived there a short time between census periods. An 1846 deed shows Joseph as one of 3 trustees of the Auraria Episcopal Methodist Church. An 1855 tax document shows he owned 2 acres of land in Lumpkin County and taxes were paid for by an A. J. Taylor, whom I haven't been able to connect to Joseph. Joseph had asthma but served in the 821 Georgia Militia & Confederate Army "Home Guard" for Lumpkin Co., Ga during the Civil War. By 1864 a tax document shows he suffered also from deafness. In 1869 he sold his land for $1,000 and moved his family by ox-driven wagon train from Georgia through Mobile, Alabama and across by flat-bottomed boat and up the Mississippi River and eventually landed in Jefferson, Texas and on to Kaufman County, Texas and finally Upshur County, Texas. His first home in Upshur County was directly across from where there is now the Little Mound Baptist Church location and just east of the community center. His children were Telitha Jane Wade (1839–1850), Emily Adaline Wade (1841–1895), William Asbery Wade (1842–1864 who died in the Civil War in the Battle of the Defense of Atlanta), Elizabeth Agnew Wade (1845–1854), Whitfield Anthony Wade (1847–1928), John Wesley Moody Wade (1849–1882), Laurence Q. P. Wade (1851–1922) Susan Ann Amancy Wade (1854–1950) and Adelia Josephene Wade (1857–1936).
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Joseph Berry Wade was born in Pendleton District, South Carolina, the son of Telitha Wade. He traveled with his mother and two brothers, David Alexander Wade and John Lawrence M. Wade from SC to Auraria, Lumpkin County, Georgia to seek gold during the Gold Rush about 1838. He married Sarah Medely Odell on 6 Feb 1839 in Auraria and they had nine children. A daughter Emily was born in Alabama in 1842 so one can only surmise that they had relatives there and went for a visit or lived there a short time between census periods. An 1846 deed shows Joseph as one of 3 trustees of the Auraria Episcopal Methodist Church. An 1855 tax document shows he owned 2 acres of land in Lumpkin County and taxes were paid for by an A. J. Taylor, whom I haven't been able to connect to Joseph. Joseph had asthma but served in the 821 Georgia Militia & Confederate Army "Home Guard" for Lumpkin Co., Ga during the Civil War. By 1864 a tax document shows he suffered also from deafness. In 1869 he sold his land for $1,000 and moved his family by ox-driven wagon train from Georgia through Mobile, Alabama and across by flat-bottomed boat and up the Mississippi River and eventually landed in Jefferson, Texas and on to Kaufman County, Texas and finally Upshur County, Texas. His first home in Upshur County was directly across from where there is now the Little Mound Baptist Church location and just east of the community center. His children were Telitha Jane Wade (1839–1850), Emily Adaline Wade (1841–1895), William Asbery Wade (1842–1864 who died in the Civil War in the Battle of the Defense of Atlanta), Elizabeth Agnew Wade (1845–1854), Whitfield Anthony Wade (1847–1928), John Wesley Moody Wade (1849–1882), Laurence Q. P. Wade (1851–1922) Susan Ann Amancy Wade (1854–1950) and Adelia Josephene Wade (1857–1936).
Biography by Ron Wade

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