--3rd of 11 children born to William Sudderth II and Margaret (unknown maiden name).
--Raised in Albemarle County, VA, until about 1778, when he was brought to Burke (now Caldwell County) by his parents. He grew up at their place on Blair Forks at Lower Creek.
--Married to Martha Sumpter on February 16, 1786, in Burke County, NC.
--On November 7, 1800, Abraham purchased from John Hinds 450 acres of land on Abingdon Creek and Lower Creek, and on September 16, 1802, 280 acres from Robert Ford joined the above tract. On these tracts of land, his fist and second houses were built.
--Description of these houses: the first residence house that he built was a one-room log cabin, high enough to have a loft overhead, which was reached by a ladder. In this house it is probable that most of his children were born. It was located near a spring and a beautiful flowing brook. The spring was out of use long before the day of Alfred
A. Kent, Jr., and there is nothing there now to mark the sport where the house stood. This house was on land now owned by the family of the later Cal Anderson.
--The second house was built of two parts, the front or main part of the house and an ell or T. Both were built of pine logs smoothly hewn to an even thickness, with great broad axes, and smooothed with planes. These logs were carefully notched in at the corners and made a very workman like job. It was weather boardfed without and ceiling within the dressed pine boards. I do not know where and how these boards were made; bot mostl ikely they were sawed with a pit saw, one man being down in the pit and another on a bench above, each drawing one end of what was called a pit saw. The floors were also made of sawed boards. The sleepers for the first floor were of great logs flattened to a line on the top side. The joists or sleeper for the second floor and garret were of hewn logs. The roof was of what was called drawn shingles made of selected heart pine. All the nails used in the building of this house were made in a blacksmith shop. Imagine, if you can a blacksmith making shingle nails enought to cover a big house, and as many more for the other purposes of the building. The front part of the house was a full two stories with a garrel above. The back part of the house was one story and a half. The front part had five rooms, a great living room and two bedrooms below and two bedrooms above. The back part of the house was about 24 x 48 feet divided into two frooms, the front 24 x 34, the dining froom, and back of the kitchen about 24 x 28 feet; a stack chimney, with fireplaces in both. That in the kitchen was large, with a great stone hearth in front of it. The front part had a massive outside stone chimney at one end of the house. It had an enormous fireplace in the living room below, and a smaller fireplace in one bedroom above. It must have taken several hundred wagon loads of stone to build that chimney. It was a good job of masonry and so massive, broad and tall, that it looked like the house had been built to the chimney, in place of the chimney to the house. There was a long porch running entirely around the front, latticed at the ends, open at the front. It had great climbing rose vines at the ends; and Maderia vines covering up in front to furnish shade in the summer.
--There were a dozen or more windows, with hoisting lower sash of Queen Ann Style, to furnish light and air to this great house. Glass windows were much out of the ordinary at the time of the building of this house.
--Abraham Sudderth acquired other large tracts of land in Caldwell County, Cherokee County, and Ashe County. In 1840, he owned 44 slaves. In the latter years of his life after the death of his wife Martha (in 1846, after nearly 60 years of marriage), he became senile and died enstate. His estate was divided by a commission after a lengthy litigation. A son-in-law, Archelous Kent, husband of Sarah Sudderth, obtained 3 shares of the estate, including the home place by purchase of John and William Suddreth's shares.
--12 children, ten of whom lived to be adults, married, and raised families. William (1787-1881), John R (1789-1865), James (1790-1870), Emanuel (1791-?), Sarah (1793-1841), Margaret (1795-?), Catherine (1797-1886), Nancy (1799-1889), Abraham, Jr.(1800-1868), Emanuel (1802-?), Thomas (1805-1847), and Leemiary Emmely Sudderth (1809-1859).
Age 85 years 1 month and 4 days.
Above information from Alfred A. Kent Jr.'s "The Abraham Sudderth Family History, " Lenoir, NC, August, 1966, p.3
--Raised in Albemarle County, VA, until about 1778, when he was brought to Burke (now Caldwell County) by his parents. He grew up at their place on Blair Forks at Lower Creek.
--Married to Martha Sumpter on February 16, 1786, in Burke County, NC.
--On November 7, 1800, Abraham purchased from John Hinds 450 acres of land on Abingdon Creek and Lower Creek, and on September 16, 1802, 280 acres from Robert Ford joined the above tract. On these tracts of land, his fist and second houses were built.
--Description of these houses: the first residence house that he built was a one-room log cabin, high enough to have a loft overhead, which was reached by a ladder. In this house it is probable that most of his children were born. It was located near a spring and a beautiful flowing brook. The spring was out of use long before the day of Alfred
A. Kent, Jr., and there is nothing there now to mark the sport where the house stood. This house was on land now owned by the family of the later Cal Anderson.
--The second house was built of two parts, the front or main part of the house and an ell or T. Both were built of pine logs smoothly hewn to an even thickness, with great broad axes, and smooothed with planes. These logs were carefully notched in at the corners and made a very workman like job. It was weather boardfed without and ceiling within the dressed pine boards. I do not know where and how these boards were made; bot mostl ikely they were sawed with a pit saw, one man being down in the pit and another on a bench above, each drawing one end of what was called a pit saw. The floors were also made of sawed boards. The sleepers for the first floor were of great logs flattened to a line on the top side. The joists or sleeper for the second floor and garret were of hewn logs. The roof was of what was called drawn shingles made of selected heart pine. All the nails used in the building of this house were made in a blacksmith shop. Imagine, if you can a blacksmith making shingle nails enought to cover a big house, and as many more for the other purposes of the building. The front part of the house was a full two stories with a garrel above. The back part of the house was one story and a half. The front part had five rooms, a great living room and two bedrooms below and two bedrooms above. The back part of the house was about 24 x 48 feet divided into two frooms, the front 24 x 34, the dining froom, and back of the kitchen about 24 x 28 feet; a stack chimney, with fireplaces in both. That in the kitchen was large, with a great stone hearth in front of it. The front part had a massive outside stone chimney at one end of the house. It had an enormous fireplace in the living room below, and a smaller fireplace in one bedroom above. It must have taken several hundred wagon loads of stone to build that chimney. It was a good job of masonry and so massive, broad and tall, that it looked like the house had been built to the chimney, in place of the chimney to the house. There was a long porch running entirely around the front, latticed at the ends, open at the front. It had great climbing rose vines at the ends; and Maderia vines covering up in front to furnish shade in the summer.
--There were a dozen or more windows, with hoisting lower sash of Queen Ann Style, to furnish light and air to this great house. Glass windows were much out of the ordinary at the time of the building of this house.
--Abraham Sudderth acquired other large tracts of land in Caldwell County, Cherokee County, and Ashe County. In 1840, he owned 44 slaves. In the latter years of his life after the death of his wife Martha (in 1846, after nearly 60 years of marriage), he became senile and died enstate. His estate was divided by a commission after a lengthy litigation. A son-in-law, Archelous Kent, husband of Sarah Sudderth, obtained 3 shares of the estate, including the home place by purchase of John and William Suddreth's shares.
--12 children, ten of whom lived to be adults, married, and raised families. William (1787-1881), John R (1789-1865), James (1790-1870), Emanuel (1791-?), Sarah (1793-1841), Margaret (1795-?), Catherine (1797-1886), Nancy (1799-1889), Abraham, Jr.(1800-1868), Emanuel (1802-?), Thomas (1805-1847), and Leemiary Emmely Sudderth (1809-1859).
Age 85 years 1 month and 4 days.
Above information from Alfred A. Kent Jr.'s "The Abraham Sudderth Family History, " Lenoir, NC, August, 1966, p.3
--3rd of 11 children born to William Sudderth II and Margaret (unknown maiden name).
--Raised in Albemarle County, VA, until about 1778, when he was brought to Burke (now Caldwell County) by his parents. He grew up at their place on Blair Forks at Lower Creek.
--Married to Martha Sumpter on February 16, 1786, in Burke County, NC.
--On November 7, 1800, Abraham purchased from John Hinds 450 acres of land on Abingdon Creek and Lower Creek, and on September 16, 1802, 280 acres from Robert Ford joined the above tract. On these tracts of land, his fist and second houses were built.
--Description of these houses: the first residence house that he built was a one-room log cabin, high enough to have a loft overhead, which was reached by a ladder. In this house it is probable that most of his children were born. It was located near a spring and a beautiful flowing brook. The spring was out of use long before the day of Alfred
A. Kent, Jr., and there is nothing there now to mark the sport where the house stood. This house was on land now owned by the family of the later Cal Anderson.
--The second house was built of two parts, the front or main part of the house and an ell or T. Both were built of pine logs smoothly hewn to an even thickness, with great broad axes, and smooothed with planes. These logs were carefully notched in at the corners and made a very workman like job. It was weather boardfed without and ceiling within the dressed pine boards. I do not know where and how these boards were made; bot mostl ikely they were sawed with a pit saw, one man being down in the pit and another on a bench above, each drawing one end of what was called a pit saw. The floors were also made of sawed boards. The sleepers for the first floor were of great logs flattened to a line on the top side. The joists or sleeper for the second floor and garret were of hewn logs. The roof was of what was called drawn shingles made of selected heart pine. All the nails used in the building of this house were made in a blacksmith shop. Imagine, if you can a blacksmith making shingle nails enought to cover a big house, and as many more for the other purposes of the building. The front part of the house was a full two stories with a garrel above. The back part of the house was one story and a half. The front part had five rooms, a great living room and two bedrooms below and two bedrooms above. The back part of the house was about 24 x 48 feet divided into two frooms, the front 24 x 34, the dining froom, and back of the kitchen about 24 x 28 feet; a stack chimney, with fireplaces in both. That in the kitchen was large, with a great stone hearth in front of it. The front part had a massive outside stone chimney at one end of the house. It had an enormous fireplace in the living room below, and a smaller fireplace in one bedroom above. It must have taken several hundred wagon loads of stone to build that chimney. It was a good job of masonry and so massive, broad and tall, that it looked like the house had been built to the chimney, in place of the chimney to the house. There was a long porch running entirely around the front, latticed at the ends, open at the front. It had great climbing rose vines at the ends; and Maderia vines covering up in front to furnish shade in the summer.
--There were a dozen or more windows, with hoisting lower sash of Queen Ann Style, to furnish light and air to this great house. Glass windows were much out of the ordinary at the time of the building of this house.
--Abraham Sudderth acquired other large tracts of land in Caldwell County, Cherokee County, and Ashe County. In 1840, he owned 44 slaves. In the latter years of his life after the death of his wife Martha (in 1846, after nearly 60 years of marriage), he became senile and died enstate. His estate was divided by a commission after a lengthy litigation. A son-in-law, Archelous Kent, husband of Sarah Sudderth, obtained 3 shares of the estate, including the home place by purchase of John and William Suddreth's shares.
--12 children, ten of whom lived to be adults, married, and raised families. William (1787-1881), John R (1789-1865), James (1790-1870), Emanuel (1791-?), Sarah (1793-1841), Margaret (1795-?), Catherine (1797-1886), Nancy (1799-1889), Abraham, Jr.(1800-1868), Emanuel (1802-?), Thomas (1805-1847), and Leemiary Emmely Sudderth (1809-1859).
Age 85 years 1 month and 4 days.
Above information from Alfred A. Kent Jr.'s "The Abraham Sudderth Family History, " Lenoir, NC, August, 1966, p.3
--Raised in Albemarle County, VA, until about 1778, when he was brought to Burke (now Caldwell County) by his parents. He grew up at their place on Blair Forks at Lower Creek.
--Married to Martha Sumpter on February 16, 1786, in Burke County, NC.
--On November 7, 1800, Abraham purchased from John Hinds 450 acres of land on Abingdon Creek and Lower Creek, and on September 16, 1802, 280 acres from Robert Ford joined the above tract. On these tracts of land, his fist and second houses were built.
--Description of these houses: the first residence house that he built was a one-room log cabin, high enough to have a loft overhead, which was reached by a ladder. In this house it is probable that most of his children were born. It was located near a spring and a beautiful flowing brook. The spring was out of use long before the day of Alfred
A. Kent, Jr., and there is nothing there now to mark the sport where the house stood. This house was on land now owned by the family of the later Cal Anderson.
--The second house was built of two parts, the front or main part of the house and an ell or T. Both were built of pine logs smoothly hewn to an even thickness, with great broad axes, and smooothed with planes. These logs were carefully notched in at the corners and made a very workman like job. It was weather boardfed without and ceiling within the dressed pine boards. I do not know where and how these boards were made; bot mostl ikely they were sawed with a pit saw, one man being down in the pit and another on a bench above, each drawing one end of what was called a pit saw. The floors were also made of sawed boards. The sleepers for the first floor were of great logs flattened to a line on the top side. The joists or sleeper for the second floor and garret were of hewn logs. The roof was of what was called drawn shingles made of selected heart pine. All the nails used in the building of this house were made in a blacksmith shop. Imagine, if you can a blacksmith making shingle nails enought to cover a big house, and as many more for the other purposes of the building. The front part of the house was a full two stories with a garrel above. The back part of the house was one story and a half. The front part had five rooms, a great living room and two bedrooms below and two bedrooms above. The back part of the house was about 24 x 48 feet divided into two frooms, the front 24 x 34, the dining froom, and back of the kitchen about 24 x 28 feet; a stack chimney, with fireplaces in both. That in the kitchen was large, with a great stone hearth in front of it. The front part had a massive outside stone chimney at one end of the house. It had an enormous fireplace in the living room below, and a smaller fireplace in one bedroom above. It must have taken several hundred wagon loads of stone to build that chimney. It was a good job of masonry and so massive, broad and tall, that it looked like the house had been built to the chimney, in place of the chimney to the house. There was a long porch running entirely around the front, latticed at the ends, open at the front. It had great climbing rose vines at the ends; and Maderia vines covering up in front to furnish shade in the summer.
--There were a dozen or more windows, with hoisting lower sash of Queen Ann Style, to furnish light and air to this great house. Glass windows were much out of the ordinary at the time of the building of this house.
--Abraham Sudderth acquired other large tracts of land in Caldwell County, Cherokee County, and Ashe County. In 1840, he owned 44 slaves. In the latter years of his life after the death of his wife Martha (in 1846, after nearly 60 years of marriage), he became senile and died enstate. His estate was divided by a commission after a lengthy litigation. A son-in-law, Archelous Kent, husband of Sarah Sudderth, obtained 3 shares of the estate, including the home place by purchase of John and William Suddreth's shares.
--12 children, ten of whom lived to be adults, married, and raised families. William (1787-1881), John R (1789-1865), James (1790-1870), Emanuel (1791-?), Sarah (1793-1841), Margaret (1795-?), Catherine (1797-1886), Nancy (1799-1889), Abraham, Jr.(1800-1868), Emanuel (1802-?), Thomas (1805-1847), and Leemiary Emmely Sudderth (1809-1859).
Age 85 years 1 month and 4 days.
Above information from Alfred A. Kent Jr.'s "The Abraham Sudderth Family History, " Lenoir, NC, August, 1966, p.3
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