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Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 |
previous chapter top next chapter CHAPTER FIFTEENEven More Untrivia"...the end is not yet."The following item is excerpted from "Annals of the S.W.R. Jones Family." Cornelius (Neilly) Bybee, ((Son of John Bybee, Sr.)) also a revolutionary soldier and grandfather of S.W.R. Jones, was born in Fluvanna County, Virginia, 1763. Indications are that the family worked up the James River from Jamestown. However, since the Bybee name is recorded Bybe, Bibe, Byby, Biby, Bibby, and Bibbey, the State Historian of the D.A.R. in Virginia is of the opinion that its original form was Barbee. The Barbees were early residents of Christ's Church Parish, Middlesex County, VA. The first Bybee of which I have a record died in 1730. Thomas Bybee lived in St. James Parish, Goochland County. In his will, made November 15, 1729, he mentions his wife, Elizabeth, and children, John, Elizabeth (married John Webb), Thomas and Judith. Thomas was a member of the House of Delegates, October, 1778. John married Sarah ((Giles)), who was living in 1737 and appears to have been the mother of John, Jr. Before 1744, John, Sr., was married again to Jane or Jean Giles, who was the mother of Thomas, born March 24, 1760, and apparently of Cornelius, born 1763. In the Eighth Annual Report of the Virginia State Library Board, seven Bybee men, namely, John, Joseph, Pleasant, Edward, Samuel, Thomas and Cornelius are credited with Revolutionary War service. Cornelius (Neilly) Bybee answered the call when a mere stripling of seventeen. He served continuously from April 1780 until the end of the war, eighteen months in all, under Colonels Posey and Gaskins. The lad was awarded a medal for bravery. ((In other writings it is mentioned that he was present at Cornwallis' surrender to George Washington.)) Just how he was connected with Washington I have been unable to determine, but it is certain that he was close to the Father of his Country. Since he was a private in the train of Wagon Master John B. Carter he must have been an orderly and, literally, a camp assistant (aide-de-campe). About 1784, Cornelius Bybee and Mary Lee Norman were married in Culpepper County, Virginia. Soon after their marriage, they went to Kentucky where they lived in Clark County until the death of Mary, between 1818 and 1833. Neilly received his pension in 1832 and in 1833 sold his farm and joined his sons in Missouri. He married Mildred Wright in 1837. In 1841, years after the wife of his youth was laid to rest in Clark County, he died and was buried in the South Fork Cemetery near Santa Fe, Missouri. ((End of excerpts from Jones Family annals)) Following item was taken from LDS film No.897-247: Histories of Churches in Barren County, Kentucky On a recent Sunday afternoon I answered the door at home to find a pleasant appearing, but rather agitated woman there. It took me a little time to get it all sorted out, but it turned out I was talking with Dora Mae (Bybee) Bure, a resident of Moulton many years ago. She was looking for some verification that she had been born where her mother said she was born. Yep, that's what she said. Anyone who is of an age to be dealing with the Social Security Administration could probably make a good guess at what is coming next--you're right! It was time for Social Security payments to start and instead she was being told that "the time was not yet." Actually, Dora has two sets of documents--one from the Appanoose County Courthouse says her birth date is March 22, 1923. She remembers her mother telling her she was born March 22, 1922 and that the family left Moulton in 1923--and Social security was accepting the 1923 date. For your information, Dora's parents were Doc B. and Elizabeth (or Lizzie) Evans Bybee. Now the purpose of all this is to ask your help for Dora. Tribunes for 1923 were available and appropriate issues have been searched. There was no mention of a baby girl being born to the Bybees. That is negative confirmation, but what the Social Security people want is the printed word. It has long been my understanding that there are folks in these parts who have Tribunes going back to the early 1920's, and that is who I am looking for. If you have Tribunes for March and the early part of April 1922, how about looking through them for a mention of Dora's birth. If you can find it, you have two choices--you can let me know or you can contact Dora direct. Her address is Dora Mae Bure, 915 Maplehill Drive, Apt. 202, Albert Lea, Minnesota, 56007. You will really make a bright spot in the day for a very pleasant lady. ((Incidentally, her father, Doc, was the son of John and Laura Button Bybee, and brother of Frank Bybee, a prominent figure on Moulton's Main Street for years. Frank was nearly blind and walked with a crooked cane. He had a perpetual gurgle in his throat. which I couldn't stand!)) William Bibby of Bishops Hatfield, England, a tripeman, is listed as having emigrated to the American Colonies in 1768 in "Transportation from Hertfordshire, England to America, 1646-1775," by Anthony J. Camp of Walkern, Herts, England. Under "Heads of Families of Fluvanna County, Va. 1782":
From the first census of Kentucky, 1790:
From the second census of Kentucky, 1800:
From a Roll of Pensioners of the Revolutionary War:
Barren County, KY:
From Revolutionary Pensioners Living in the County in 1840:
From a list of officers of The Virginia Line of the Revolutionary Army:
From a Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution:
BYBEE REUNIONS There are at least two possibilities of getting together with other Bybee/Bibee kinfolk, all of whom are related, to a degree. One group has met at least twice in recent years, once in Knoxville, TN and once in Salt Lake City, UT. I understand that Bybees from "all over" have gathered at these reunions. To get in touch, contact:
1174 Glorieta Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84106 (801) 485-0584 The second group has met at least three times in recent years in the area in and around Kirksville and Novinger, MO, not far from this writer's old hometown. Contact with this group may be made by writing or calling:
Box 1439 Berthoud, CO 80513 (970) 532-4697
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