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Generations of Poe the Family

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Title: Generations of Poe the Family
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1782 1908

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<metadataxml><content><line>&lt;p style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman" size="3"&gt;The Poes were a pioneer family that was instrumental in the formation of &lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Ashe County, North Carolina.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;William and&amp;nbsp;Elizabeth Bray&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;began raising a family around the time of the American Revolution.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Mathias was born in 1782, William in 1784 and Hannah (Susannah) about 1787.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Ashe County, North Carolina was not created until 1799.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The first court records began in 1806.William&amp;rsquo;s children were now young adults who were starting families. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;America was just beginning to form a political framework.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The idea of one vote for one man was in it&amp;rsquo;s infancy.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The county court organized, then called prominent citizens to serve in planning roadways, surveying property lines, and witnessing land transactions.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman" size="3"&gt;The name of Poe appears over and over again in court records.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;In 1800 there was a witnessed land transaction for William Poe Sr.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;In 1803 he purchased 120 acres in big Elkin Creek.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;In 1810 he added another 100 acres that joined his old property line.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman" size="3"&gt;In a county court held on the 11&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; day of August A.D. 1806, a deed was transferred in open court from Robert Nall to Mathias Poe for 150 acres.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Several times in those early years, Mathias Poe was summoned to sit on juries and superior Court.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Sheriffs were voted in, boundaries were changed and legal matters decided.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mathias Poe and Sora Sally Grimsley&lt;/strong&gt; gave life to five children between the years of 1810 and 1824.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Ransom Poe (1810) married Rachel Walters, Esther Isobel Poe (1813) married Isaac Ingram, Sarah Salley Poe (1816) married John Bower, &lt;strong&gt;John William Poe (1817) married Elizabeth Walters&lt;/strong&gt;, and Elizabeth Poe (1824) married Isaac Little.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman" size="3"&gt;The Poe family was successful and prominent for their day.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;They accumulated hundreds of acres and were recorded as slave holders in the 1830-1860 slave censuses.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;John William Poe and Elizabeth Walters moved to McDowell County, West Virginia following the births of their nine children. Sarah was the fifth child in the family.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The family&amp;rsquo;s move occurred between the 1860 and 1880 censuses.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sarah Louise Poe met Andrew Myers Rose&lt;/strong&gt; in McDowell and they married on May 14, 1877.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Sarah gave birth to 5 children between the years of&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;1878 and 1886.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman" size="3"&gt;Martha Elizabeth was their fourth child.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;She was a beautiful girl who lit the room&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;with her smile.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;She married a handsome young man and the two started a family.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Martha Elizabeth Rose and David Jackson Thompson&lt;/strong&gt; had three children.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Ora Belle Thompson (1903), William Albert Thompson (1905) who lived two years, and Madeline Thompson.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Martha Elizabeth Rose Thompson and Madeline, her newborn daughter died during the childbirth process.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ora Belle Thompson&lt;/strong&gt; was the only surviving posterity of this family. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</line></content></metadataxml>

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2020-03-10 20:58:19.000

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Given names Surname Sosa Birth Place Death Age Place Last change
Mathias Poe
Mathias Poe Sr
1782
1782
242 North Carolina, United States
Surry Co., NC, USA
2 1851
1851
173 69 Ashe, North Carolina, United States
Ashe Co., NC, USA
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