What we know for certain is that Hannah and ten of her children appear on the 1850 & 1860
Taney County, Missouri Census Lists.
We say ten of her children as there was,
according to a family story, another son by the name of Will or William.
Curiously enough, this son and Hannah's husband, do not appear on any census list to date.
Studying the 1850 Taney County Misssouri Census Listing we are able to follow Hannah and
her family from Tennessee to Missouri.
Hannah Lewallen Tennessee
36 -
1814
Married in Tennessee in 1830 to a Lewallen.
C. Lewallen Tennessee 17 -
1833
M.J. (Mary Jane) Lewallen Tennessee 15 - 1835
E. A. (Keziah) Lewallen North Carolina 13 - 1837
M. J.
(Matthew John) Lewallen Tennessee 11 - 1839
J. V. (Jesse) Lewallen Tennessee 9 - 1841
S.E. (Sarah Emmaline) Lewallen Arkansas 8 - 1842
G. W. (George Washington)
Lewallen Missouri 7 - 1843
J.R. (James Ross) Lewallen
Missouri 4 - 1846
R. B. (Robrert B.) Missouri 3 - 1847
E. (Elizabeth D.) Missouri 2 -
1848
Findings on Death Certificates of her children:
E. A. (Keziah) Lewallen Oliver born somewhere in North Carolina in 1837 died
22 March 1920 and is buried in the Lewallen Cemetery in Branson, Missouri.
On
Keziah's death certificate, it states her mother was UNKNOWN, and that the name of her
father was BABIL.
Thoughts
to consider:
-Keziah was 83 yrs old at her death
-This was 58 years after her mother died
Now look at the other children:
C. b. 1833 - nothing further found
Mary Jane b. 1835 - no death cert. located
E.
A. (Keaiah) b. 1837 - 'Babil'
Mathew
John b. 1839 - 'Mathew John'
Jesse V.
b. 1841 - this child is mentioned in a will-no father's name forthcoming; unable to locate said Will
George
Washington b. 1843 - 'Robert" (George spelled his surname Lieuallen)
James
Ross b. 1846 - nothing further found
Robert B.
b. 1847 - this child known as Rob, - 'John'
Sarah Emmaline
b. 1842 - 'Lewelan' (mother as Hanah Ford)
Elizabeth
b. 1848 - no death cert. located
Studying the above info., we can say with all honesty,
that this man was most likely one Mathew John Robert Lewallen or John Robert Lewallen!
It is possible that his father was a Mathew John Lewallen. And that our Mathew or John had
the nickname of Babil!
ALSO: Mary Jane
Lewallen Bilyeu had a daughter named Elizabeth (Mary Ann) 'Polly' Bilyeu Green Williams who
died in 1958; Polly's death certificate and obituary show her mother as Mary Jane Sinclair!
As there is always a tiny bit of truth
to all family stories, there is the possibility that Mary Jane Lewallen was adopted by Hannah and
her husband.
In a story from the Hogan family,
Hannah had a brother known to the children as Uncle John and that he was John Motley.
In Uncle Bill
Hilton's letter to Carol, he believed Hannah's husband to have been Mathew
John Lewallen. He does not state what led him to this decision. The census list we found for Mathew
John Lewallen in Wayne Co., MO., does not coincide with the children for our Hannah and her husband on the 1840 census
list.
All family stories
say that Hannah was a full blood Cherokee.
Many of the TN & KY census lists have been destroyed either by fire or war! We
have found that in 1830 there were three Lewallen families listed on the Wayne County, KY 1830 Census - Jesse,
Matthew & Henry; along with ONE Ford family! The Jesse and Matthew
families are not on the 1840 Wayne Co KY appear on the census, BUT they do appear on the 1840 Izard
Co Ark Census!
Hannah's daughter, Sarah Emmaline Lewallen Hogan, is shown
as born in Yellville, Arkansas in 1842.
The child prior to that is shown as born in TN. in
1841.
Thus we can say that the family moved from TN to Arkansas between the yeas of 1841 & 1842.
According
to the birth dates of children, the family then moved from Arkansas to Taney Co. MO. some time between 1842 & 1843.
Curiously enough, if we look at the first child listed on the census, we see a C. Lewallen, and remembering that there
was suppose to be an older son named William, then if we look for a girl's name that begins with
'C', we looked at that and came up with the following finds:
1810 Warren Co., Ky Census
Lewallin, William 8 in family
Lewallen, Clabowin 9 in family
Searching for parents of Charity Lewallen c 1817 in TN or AL.
Married Hyram Evans of
Jackson Co, AL. They moved to Searcy Co, AR in 1850 Census and in 1860 census
she is married to George W. Hock of Madison Co, AR. May have had
a brother named Willie Lewallen.
McMinn County 1830
Lewallen, Willie:
2 boys ages 0-5, 1 boy age 5-10,
1 male age 20-30; 1 girl age 10-15, 1 female age 20-30,1 female age 50-60.
Ann GIFFORD was born between
1810 and 1813 in Silver Creek, Maury (now Marshall) Co, TN.12 She married William LEWALLEN
on 7 May 1832 in Maury Co, TN,
(bond, looks like 7 but could be 9).
LEWALLEN,
William L., Born Aug 31 1809 in Wake,NC., Died Nov 16 1897 in Knox, TN.
From:
< FFHILBERT@aol.com>
Subject: Re: EVANS - NC>Jackson Co, AL>MO>Searcy Co,
AR>Madison Co, AR
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 09:13:47 -0400 (EDT)
Searching for additional info on John & Nancy EVANS and their
son Hyram who
married Charity Lewallen
(Cherokee Indian) Their son, Alfred, (per family
tradition) was a Cherokee Chief.
John EVANS b 1771TN d Aft. 1850 married Nancy (Poss VEATCH or
JONES?) b 1780
in NC d Aft. 1850
son -Hyram EVANSb: Abt.
1819 in TN married Charity LEWELLEN b:
Abt. 1817 in
TN/AL m: Abt. 1838 in AL d: 1883 in Madison, AR Charity married
second
George Wasington HOCK
Children
of Hyram & Charity: Alfred W
EVANS b 1839 AL, Louisa Jane EVANS b 1841 AL, Nancy C EVANS b
1843 MO, James W EVANS b 1845
AR/MO, John Allen EVANS b Dec 1848 AR d 1919, Drakes Creek, Madison, AR,
Sarah E EVANS b 1851 AR ,Mary Arkansas EVANS b 05 Apr 1853 in
Huntsville,
Madison, AR d 16 Nov 1911 in Hood, Sequoyah, OK
Loretta ffhilbert@aol.com
From: Cathleen Larson < symonslarson@bigplanet.com>
Subject: Charity Lewellen
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 18:29:07 -0500
Loretta,
Hmm, I have a Charity Luellen, born March 29, 1818. She was the
daughter
of Thomas Lewellen and Mary Polly Gough,-
Thomas, the son of Samuel Llewellyn and the Widow Hannah Jones.
This
Charity married Phillip Minear on July 13, 1843,
This Charity did have a brother William Lewellen, born in 1808, he
married Ruth McVey abt 1858.
Hope this helps rather than confuses,
Cathy
We need to find some way of accessing TN records online as they require you to
live in TN and have a TN telephone number!
