Ninian Edmonston, second oldest son of Bazil Brooke Edmonston and Hannah Rose, was born in Burke Co, NC on 29 Oct 1789. His family moved (or the county boundaries were changed) to Buncombe Co, NC. As the 1790 census locates the family of Bazil and Hannah in Rutherford Co, NC it is also given by some as Ninian's birth county. After 1790 Buncombe was developed from parts of Burke and Rutherford. Ninian served briefly in the War of 1812 under a man named Ewing. Though he went from Buncombe Co with his parents to Indiana in 1818, he returned to NC and made his home in Haywood Co where he had already been somewhat settled, though unmarried, in 1818.
Two county histories, one by Medford and the other by Allen, give sketches of Ninian. He took up surveying at a young age and was one of those who surveyed boundaries between Haywood and Buncombe counties, and later between Jackson and Haywood counties. He served in the North Carolina legislature, as a Justice of the Peace from time to time, in the Haywood County Militia, two terms as sheriff in the county, and as a commissioner in the sale of Haywood County Cherokee Lands. Records show that he failed in an attempt before the Civil War to obtain a contract to carry the mail from Haywood Co into Georgia. Ninian also compiled the census reports in 1830 and 1860, an effort that gave him the political advantage of meeting the people. After he retired from public affairs he seemed to devote most of his time to farming.
Letters to his wife from Raleigh, North Carolina where legislative sessions were held show he was fairly well educated, just as letters written by his older brother James gave the same indication. A collection of Ninian's books passed down in his family indicate his interest in subjects ranging from text books, to classics, to technical publications. Included was a Family Bible with helpful dates though some were at variance with tombstone inscriptions in the Bethel Community cemetery near Waynesville, North Carolina as well as in other source material.
Ninian Edmonston married Mary Ann Strother, often called Polly Ann, on 14 Jan 1823. She was born 16 Oct 1803 in North Carolina, and Charles N Edmonston says she was probably the daughter of John Strother, a man very active in land speculation in western NC as well as in Tennessee. If he is the right man, he was dead before 1816. Ninian and Mary Ann named their first son, born 5 Jan 1824, John Strother Edmonston, which makes a good case for her parentage. Sadly, their son John died 8 Sept 1824. Their next son was named for Ninian's father, Bazil Brooke Edmonston. Another son, William Tresillian, died at age 2 mo.
Sadly, of the six sons of Ninian Edmonston none of them had any children. Ninian made his will on 19 Oct 1867 and died 18 Mar 1868(?). He appointed his only two living sons, Bazil Brooke Edmonston and Thomas Benton Edmonston as his executors. Mary Ann died 27 Nov 1882.
Comments by Blanche Aubin Clarkson Hutchison, drawn from "My Own Edmonstons and a Few Others", by Charles Ninian Edmonston, 1971.
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Two county histories, one by Medford and the other by Allen, give sketches of Ninian. He took up surveying at a young age and was one of those who surveyed boundaries between Haywood and Buncombe counties, and later between Jackson and Haywood counties. He served in the North Carolina legislature, as a Justice of the Peace from time to time, in the Haywood County Militia, two terms as sheriff in the county, and as a commissioner in the sale of Haywood County Cherokee Lands. Records show that he failed in an attempt before the Civil War to obtain a contract to carry the mail from Haywood Co into Georgia. Ninian also compiled the census reports in 1830 and 1860, an effort that gave him the political advantage of meeting the people. After he retired from public affairs he seemed to devote most of his time to farming.
Letters to his wife from Raleigh, North Carolina where legislative sessions were held show he was fairly well educated, just as letters written by his older brother James gave the same indication. A collection of Ninian's books passed down in his family indicate his interest in subjects ranging from text books, to classics, to technical publications. Included was a Family Bible with helpful dates though some were at variance with tombstone inscriptions in the Bethel Community cemetery near Waynesville, North Carolina as well as in other source material.
Ninian Edmonston married Mary Ann Strother, often called Polly Ann, on 14 Jan 1823. She was born 16 Oct 1803 in North Carolina, and Charles N Edmonston says she was probably the daughter of John Strother, a man very active in land speculation in western NC as well as in Tennessee. If he is the right man, he was dead before 1816. Ninian and Mary Ann named their first son, born 5 Jan 1824, John Strother Edmonston, which makes a good case for her parentage. Sadly, their son John died 8 Sept 1824. Their next son was named for Ninian's father, Bazil Brooke Edmonston. Another son, William Tresillian, died at age 2 mo.
Sadly, of the six sons of Ninian Edmonston none of them had any children. Ninian made his will on 19 Oct 1867 and died 18 Mar 1868(?). He appointed his only two living sons, Bazil Brooke Edmonston and Thomas Benton Edmonston as his executors. Mary Ann died 27 Nov 1882.
Comments by Blanche Aubin Clarkson Hutchison, drawn from "My Own Edmonstons and a Few Others", by Charles Ninian Edmonston, 1971.
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Ninian Edmonston, second oldest son of Bazil Brooke Edmonston and Hannah Rose, was born in Burke Co, NC on 29 Oct 1789. His family moved (or the county boundaries were changed) to Buncombe Co, NC. As the 1790 census locates the family of Bazil and Hannah in Rutherford Co, NC it is also given by some as Ninian's birth county. After 1790 Buncombe was developed from parts of Burke and Rutherford. Ninian served briefly in the War of 1812 under a man named Ewing. Though he went from Buncombe Co with his parents to Indiana in 1818, he returned to NC and made his home in Haywood Co where he had already been somewhat settled, though unmarried, in 1818.
Two county histories, one by Medford and the other by Allen, give sketches of Ninian. He took up surveying at a young age and was one of those who surveyed boundaries between Haywood and Buncombe counties, and later between Jackson and Haywood counties. He served in the North Carolina legislature, as a Justice of the Peace from time to time, in the Haywood County Militia, two terms as sheriff in the county, and as a commissioner in the sale of Haywood County Cherokee Lands. Records show that he failed in an attempt before the Civil War to obtain a contract to carry the mail from Haywood Co into Georgia. Ninian also compiled the census reports in 1830 and 1860, an effort that gave him the political advantage of meeting the people. After he retired from public affairs he seemed to devote most of his time to farming.
Letters to his wife from Raleigh, North Carolina where legislative sessions were held show he was fairly well educated, just as letters written by his older brother James gave the same indication. A collection of Ninian's books passed down in his family indicate his interest in subjects ranging from text books, to classics, to technical publications. Included was a Family Bible with helpful dates though some were at variance with tombstone inscriptions in the Bethel Community cemetery near Waynesville, North Carolina as well as in other source material.
Ninian Edmonston married Mary Ann Strother, often called Polly Ann, on 14 Jan 1823. She was born 16 Oct 1803 in North Carolina, and Charles N Edmonston says she was probably the daughter of John Strother, a man very active in land speculation in western NC as well as in Tennessee. If he is the right man, he was dead before 1816. Ninian and Mary Ann named their first son, born 5 Jan 1824, John Strother Edmonston, which makes a good case for her parentage. Sadly, their son John died 8 Sept 1824. Their next son was named for Ninian's father, Bazil Brooke Edmonston. Another son, William Tresillian, died at age 2 mo.
Sadly, of the six sons of Ninian Edmonston none of them had any children. Ninian made his will on 19 Oct 1867 and died 18 Mar 1868(?). He appointed his only two living sons, Bazil Brooke Edmonston and Thomas Benton Edmonston as his executors. Mary Ann died 27 Nov 1882.
Comments by Blanche Aubin Clarkson Hutchison, drawn from "My Own Edmonstons and a Few Others", by Charles Ninian Edmonston, 1971.
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Two county histories, one by Medford and the other by Allen, give sketches of Ninian. He took up surveying at a young age and was one of those who surveyed boundaries between Haywood and Buncombe counties, and later between Jackson and Haywood counties. He served in the North Carolina legislature, as a Justice of the Peace from time to time, in the Haywood County Militia, two terms as sheriff in the county, and as a commissioner in the sale of Haywood County Cherokee Lands. Records show that he failed in an attempt before the Civil War to obtain a contract to carry the mail from Haywood Co into Georgia. Ninian also compiled the census reports in 1830 and 1860, an effort that gave him the political advantage of meeting the people. After he retired from public affairs he seemed to devote most of his time to farming.
Letters to his wife from Raleigh, North Carolina where legislative sessions were held show he was fairly well educated, just as letters written by his older brother James gave the same indication. A collection of Ninian's books passed down in his family indicate his interest in subjects ranging from text books, to classics, to technical publications. Included was a Family Bible with helpful dates though some were at variance with tombstone inscriptions in the Bethel Community cemetery near Waynesville, North Carolina as well as in other source material.
Ninian Edmonston married Mary Ann Strother, often called Polly Ann, on 14 Jan 1823. She was born 16 Oct 1803 in North Carolina, and Charles N Edmonston says she was probably the daughter of John Strother, a man very active in land speculation in western NC as well as in Tennessee. If he is the right man, he was dead before 1816. Ninian and Mary Ann named their first son, born 5 Jan 1824, John Strother Edmonston, which makes a good case for her parentage. Sadly, their son John died 8 Sept 1824. Their next son was named for Ninian's father, Bazil Brooke Edmonston. Another son, William Tresillian, died at age 2 mo.
Sadly, of the six sons of Ninian Edmonston none of them had any children. Ninian made his will on 19 Oct 1867 and died 18 Mar 1868(?). He appointed his only two living sons, Bazil Brooke Edmonston and Thomas Benton Edmonston as his executors. Mary Ann died 27 Nov 1882.
Comments by Blanche Aubin Clarkson Hutchison, drawn from "My Own Edmonstons and a Few Others", by Charles Ninian Edmonston, 1971.
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