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From: "Jerry Bryan" <>
Subject: Brick Wall, Rebecca Frances George, Stokes, NC, maybe d/o Presley George
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 20:07:34 -0500


>Has everyone posted their brick walls ?

I've made a bit of progress on my brick wall (maybe!).

My ggg grandparents Thomas Fielden Slaton and Rebecca Frances George were
married on 14 Feb 1840 in Stokes County, North Carolina. They moved to
Jefferson County, Tennessee about 1848. Subsequently, Thomas's parents and
several of his brothers and sisters moved to Jefferson County. Thomas and
Rebecca were the only family members in Tennessee in the 1850 census, but by
the time of the 1860 census a bunch of Thomas's family was in Tennessee. I
have not found any of Rebecca Frances George's family in Tennessee.

Rebecca Frances George is my brick wall. My best clue to Rebecca's parents
has been that Thomas and Rebecca had grandsons (two brothers) named Thomas
Slaton Harrison and Presley George Harrison. Thomas Slaton Harrison was
clearly named for his grandfather Thomas Slaton. By analogy, perhaps
Presley George Harrison was named for Presley George.

The Presley George who might have been Rebecca's father was Presley George
Sr. 1778-1866 who married Mary Cook. I have Presley's will. He names nine
children, but Rebecca Slaton nee Rebecca Frances George was not among them.
Of course, wills did not always name all the daughters especially when that
daughter moved to another state almost twenty years previously.

My bit of progress has to do with the 1840 census. Until recently, I had
not been able to find Presley George in the 1840 census. I have now found
him, and he was living only a few houses away from Thomas Slaton's father
William Slaydon (lots of spelling variations in my Slaton family).


p.198a, line 14, (no district listed), Stokes County, North Carolina, 1840
Presley George 001100001-001000001 male slaves - age 0-9: 1 age
10-23: 2
female slaves - age 0-9: 1 age
10-23: 1
age 36-54: 1 age
55-99: 1
12 people with 5 engaged in agriculture
00-04 1836-1840 0 0
05-09 1831-1835 0 0
10-14 1826-1830 1 1 Reuben George, Sarah M. George
15-19 1821-1825 1 0 Presley George Jr.
20-29 1811-1820 0 0
30-39 1801-1810 0 0
40-49 1791-1800 0 0
50-59 1781-1790 0 0
60-69 1771-1780 1 1 Presley George Sr., Mary Cook


p.198a, line 21, (no district listed), Stokes County, North Carolina, 1840
Wm. Slaten 0130001-2040001 12 people with 5 engaged in agriculture

00-04 1836-1840 0 2 Leah Slaydon, Martha Jane Slaydon
05-09 1831-1835 1 0 Ralph Slaton
10-14 1826-1830 3 4 William J. Slaton, Wilcher C. (Billy or Buck)
Slaton, Joseph F. Slaton, Emily/Elenor F. Slayden, Sarah (Sally) Slaydon)
15-19 1821-1825 0 0
20-29 1811-1820 0 0
30-39 1801-1810 0 0
40-49 1791-1800 1 1 William Slaydon, Susannah Flippin

It doesn't mean anything to George researchers per se, but there is
additional evidence that these census entries are the correct ones for my
family. As you can see in my annotations for the above census entry, Thomas
Fielden Slaton's mother was Susannah Flippin. Susannah was the daughter of
Joseph Flippin and unknown. Joseph Flippin was living between Presley
George Sr. and William Slaydon in 1840.

p.198a, line 16, (no district listed), Stokes County, North Carolina, 1840
Josiah Flipping 01110001-1011101 male slaves age 0-9: 1 age 24-35: 1
female slaves age 0-9: 2 age 24-35: 1
14 people with 7 engaged in agriculture
00-04 1836-1840 0 1
05-09 1831-1835 1 0
10-14 1826-1830 1 1
15-19 1821-1825 1 1
20-29 1811-1820 0 1
30-39 1801-1810 0 0
40-49 1791-1800 0 1
50-59 1781-1790 1 Joseph Flippin


Finally, Thomas Fielden Slaton and Rebecca Frances George themselves were
married prior to the 1840 census:

p.181a, line 28, (no district listed), Stokes County, North Carolina, 1840
Thos. Slayton 00001-00001 2 people with 1 engaged in agriculture

00-04 1836-1840 0 0
05-09 1831-1835 0 0
10-14 1826-1830 0 0
15-19 1821-1825 0 0
20-29 1811-1820 1 1 Thomas Fielden Slaton, Rebecca Frances George


Jerry Bryan


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