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(James H., Philander & Hugh W.) |
From Augusta Co., VA to Saline County, MO
No one will ever know why Francis Ervin decided to leave Augusta County, VA to make the long journey to Saline County, MO. But, sometime in 1837, probably after he had harvested his crops in Virginia, he left for the state of Missouri, where land was just being settled in the then sixteen year old state.
He purchased two 160 acres sections of land in Saline County, only a few miles south of the county seat of Marshall, MO on December 8, 1837. Land could be purchased for as little as $l.25 per acre. As he was the first owner of record for this land one must wonder where the family lived when the first arrived in the new country, in mid winter. His land joined Henry Miller, also from Augusta Co., VA, who had been in Saline County since 1829.
Francis Ervin was enumerated in Saline
County’s 1840 Census, as follows:
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The other occupants
of the home in 1840 are “imagined”, as only Francis was listed
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| Males | Age 60-70 | Francis Ervin (born ca 1770-1780) |
| Age 30-40
Age 20-30 Age U-5 Age U-5 |
Elisha Ervin, his 37 year old son
William Ervin, his 28 year old son Grandson, William R., 3 yr old son of Elisha Grandson, John C., 1 yr old son of Elisha/bride of age, sister of Matthew |
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| Females | Age 60-70
Age 30-40 Age 20-30 |
Margaret Blair, wife of Francis (married
Augusta Co. 9 Mar 1801, dau. of John Blair)
Elizabeth, wife of Elisha (did he first marry Amanda Hunter in VA?) Margaret, 23 year old daughter of Francis ??? |
Robert Curry was enumerated next to
Francis Ervin in that same census:
| Males
Females |
Age 40-50
Age 20-30 Age 10-15 Age 40-50 Age 20-30 Age 15-20 |
Robert Curry
? ? Wife of Robert? ? ? |
A Curry is listed on the 1876 Saline County Atlas as the owner of land in Township 48, Range 21, Section 9. His first name was not included in the record. I did not find James or Robert in the 1850 Census of Saline Co., or in any of the other hastily checked records. |
James Curry was also found in that
same census:
| Males
Females |
Age 40-50
Age 5-10 Age 5-10 Age 30-40 Age 10-15 Age 5-10 Age U-5 Age U-5 |
James Curry
? ? Wife of James? ? ? ? ? |
The Ervin
and Curry families married, and intermarried, back in VA, in every generation,
making identification if not impossible, extremely difficult.
Many of the “immigrants” from Augusta Co. settled in the counties joining Saline, while some may have returned to Virginia, or moved further West. |
Francis Ervin lived in his “new home” for less than five years. He died in Saline Co., MO in 1842, without a WILL (In testate). He had a sizeable estate, with personal property in the amount of $7,696.60, which was settled in the Probate Court of Saline County. Unfortunately his heirs were not named, and there is no record of the first settlement of his estate. His probate file (in the name of Francis Irvine) indicates that he did not own land, which is obviously in error, unless he had given his land to his children prior to his death. John B. Irvine and Elisha Ervine were appointed administrators of his estate on 15 August 1842.
Besides copies of the original land entries, placing Francis Irvine on the two plats of land there were only two other documents found regarding the settlement of his estate. Both were in the Book J of the Saline County Land Records, yet neither mentions the land.
In Book J, page 257-8, John A Trigg, Clerk of the Circuit Count and Recorder for Saline County “certified” that the foregoing “deed” was deposited in his office on the 17th day of November 1842, being:
“Know all men by these presents that I John Bell of the County of Augusta and state of Virginia, one of the heirs at Law of Francis Ervine late of the county of Saline and state of Missouri deceased, who died intestate do hereby and acknowledge that I this day have had and received of and from Elisha Ervine and John Ervine administrator of the Estate of the said Francis Ervine deceased one Negro woman valued at five hundred dollars together with the sum of five hundred and eighty one dollars in full satisfaction and payment of all such sum or sums of money share or shares purports and dividends which were due owing payable and belonging to me by any means whatsoever for or on account of any full share portion or dividend of the real and personal estate of the said Francis Ervine deceased and therefore I, the said John Bell do by these presents release acquit and forever discharge the said Elisha Ervine and Jno. Ervine their heirs Executors and administrators of and from the said share or dividend of the Estate aforesaid and of any from all actions concerning the same here by granting conveying and confirming all my right title and interest in the real and personal Estate of the said Francis Ervine deceased being one sixth part of the same unto the said Elisha Ervine and John Ervine their heirs, and assigns forever. In witness whereof I have hereunto set hand and seal the fifteenth day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred & forty two.”
There was a second document, signed by John Lockridge, also of the county of Augusta and state of Virginia, another of the heirs at law of Francis Ervine, late of the County of Saline. In that document John Lockridge names his children; being Elisha Francis, Elizabeth Ann, Sarah Margaret, Sophia Jane, John Ewing William & James Lockridge, and identifies himself as the guardian of the then minor children. He received the sum of one thousand and seventy five dollars “belonging to me or my said minor children by any means possible” (see actual document). He too refers to the settlement as being one sixth part of the personal estate of Francis Ervine, deceased.
Since no provision was made for the wife of Francis Ervine is must be presumed that she preceded him in death. The 1840 census (unfortunately only the head of household is named) suggests that Francis, his oldest son Elisha, with his family, and sons William and a daughter (believed to be Margaret) traveled to Missouri together. John B. Ervin was also in Missouri in 1840, then between the age of 30-40 (actually 32). He had a wife, aged 20-30, and a son and daughter, both under the age of 5 years. He did not live near his father. Instead his neighbor was one Joseph Huston, also from Augusta Co.,VA, who was to become a very prominent citizen of Saline County. Huston lived then near Arrow Rock.
The following attempts to extend the family of Francis Ervin and his wife, Margaret Blair:
Elisha Ervin ?? Elijah Erwin m. Amanda
Hunter, ll Nov 1830, Augusta Co., VA
b. ca 1803
d.
1885
m. Elizabeth ? b. 1811 Allegheny Co., VA ??
| Elisha
Ervine bought land in Twp 49, Rng 21, Sec 6 in 1850 and 1853, near the
land of his father.
Later his brother William also
purchased nearby land.
Time and weather did not permit
locating the Mt. Olive Cemetery, but there is a cemetery Sec 3 of TWP 49,
that is likely the Mt. Olive Cemetery. A Presbyterian Church is nearby,
originally organized as “Old School” in 1853.
Note name is spelled differently from record to record.
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William R. Ervin
b. ca 1837, VA d. ? John C. Ervin b. ca 1839, VA d. 30 Nov 1863, MO Margaret J. Ervin b. ca 1842, MO d. m. J. D. Calmes Sarah Ellen Ervin b. 12 Dec 1844 d. 2 Aug 1906 m. Wm. B. Kincaid, on 22 Mar 1877 Anne Elizabeth Ervin b. 12 Dec 1844 d. 17 Apr 1925 m. Isaac C Sydenstricker, on 4 Sep 1872 Mary Martha Ervin b. 5 Aug 1847 d. 21 Dec 1863 James Robertson Ervin b. 11 Aug 1853 d. 14 Oct 1847 Charles A, Ervin b. 23 Jul 1850 d. 25 Nov 1963 Elizabeth Hannah Ervin b. 1857 d. 1942 |
Anne Eliabeth Ervin
b.
d.
m. John Lockridge, on 29 May 1821, Augusta Co., VA
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Elisha Francis Lockridge
Elizabeth Ann Lockridge Sarah Margaret Lockridge Sophia Jane Lockridge John Ewing William Lockridge ? |
Lockridge
children names are from the probate file of their grandfather,
Francis Irvine .. did not have proper punctuation |
Sophia Ervin
b.
(b. ca 1806, VA)
d. by 1850 ??
m. John Bell, on 19 Apr 1927, in Augusta Co., VA
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David F. Bell, b. ca 1832
Elisha J. Bell, b. ca 1834 John B. Bell, b. ca 1836 William E. Bell, b. 1838 Alexander B. Bell, b. 1840 Margaret A. Bell, b. 1842 Hendren V. L. Bell, b. 1844 Samuel H. L. Bell, b. 1847 |
Children from 1850 Census of Augusta Co., VA .. was the mother already deceased? |
John B. Ervin ??
John Ervin m. Elisabeth Estill, 9 Jul 1835, Rev. John Hendren
b. ca 1808, VA
d.
m. Eliza ?
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Patsey M. Ervin, b. ca _____, VA
Robert F. Ervin, b. ca 1839, VA Margaret D. Ervin, b. ca l840, MO Catherine Ervin, b. ca 1843, MO Chalmers Ervin, b. ca____, MO |
William Ervin
b. ca 1811, VA
d. 22 Sep 1873
m. Elizabeth
?? (b. 1819, d. l Feb 1871, age 51y, 7m. 4d)
| Jesse F.
Ervin, b. 1842. 30 Dec 1864
Margaret A. Ervin, b. 1846 Elisha Ervin, b. 1849, d. 7 Aug 1854 William L. Ervin, b. 1853 (buried Mt. Olive – date of death unknown ?) |
Margaret N. Ervin(e) ?????
b. ca. 1817
d.
m. Merrit C. Scott, on 6 Aug 1845, in Saline Co., MO (his second wife)
| She fits as the unidentified female with the family in l840 Census | Mary E. Scott,
b. ca 1842 (of his first marriage)
Cornelia Scott, b. ca 1845 (of his first marriage) Winfield Scott, b. ca 1847, MO |
This extends (using misc. census, marriage and land records from Saline County, along with family group sheets prepared by the Saline County Historical Society) the family of Francis Ervin, who died in 1842.
Francis Ervin was the son of Francis Ervin (1722-1791) and Jean Curry (17__-1804), and the grandson of Edward Erwin “the immigrant” (1689-1772) and his wife, Frances Francis, early immigrants from Ireland, who settled in Augusta Co., VA by 1740. Francis followed others from his native Augusta Co., VA to the then remote Saline Co., MO, including a nephew, Andrew Baker Davidson Ervin, son his brother William, and cousins, Philander Young , James H. and Hugh W. Irvine, whose families will be detailed elsewhere. Additionally there seems to have been at least two other Erwin families in Saline Co., MO, who do not appear to be of the Augusta County families. Note: Augusta was the parent county, with Rockingham Co. formed ca 1778 …
Descendants of Francis and Margaret
Blair Ervin are probably still living in Saline Co., MO …
Grandsons of Edward Ervin I, “the immigrant” and his wife, Frances Francis, through Andrew (712_-1765), Francis (1743-1802), and Andrew Irvine (1778-____) and his wife, Mary “Polly” Houston.
The three brothers, James H., Philander and Hugh were all enumerated in the Saline County, MO census of 1840, where all three were still living in 1850, along with their families. They had traveled west, probably in the company of other of their Shenandoah Valley neighbors in pursuit of cheap, fertile land in the new state of Missouri.
1850 Census, Saline
Co., MO
| Irvine, James H.
43 VA
Elizabeth 33 VA Mary 11 MO Charles 8 MO Henry 6 MO Robert 2 MO |
Irvine, Philander
41 VA
Sarah 29 VA James 14 MO Nancy J. 12 MO William J. 10 MO Melville A. 8 MO Alfred F. 6 MO |
Irvine, Hugh W.
38 VA
Catherine 32 VA John 13 MO George 11 MO Fanny 10 MO Samuel 8 MO Milton 1 MO |
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Another Ervin family, who was also in the1850 Census of Saline Co., MO soon moved on to the new frontier; Ervin, Andrew B. D
39 VA
Andrew B. D. Ervin died on
his way to California. He too descends from Edward Erwin I, “the
Immigrant”, and his wife, Frances Francis, through son Francis Ervin
(1722-1791) and his wife, Jane Curry, and their son, William Ervin
(1760-1817) and his wife, Margaret “Peggy”
Andrew B. D. Ervin was a first cousin to three other Ervins, John B., Elisha and William, all three undoubtedly sons of Francis Ervin (1775?-1842) and Margaret Blair (his family is detailed separately). The earlier generations of
the Ervin-Erwin-Irvine (all three spellings are used from record to record
for this complex family). The family first settled on Long Glade
in the Shenandoah Valley of Augusta, Co., VA, in early 1740s. Attempts
are on-going to separate the families of the sons
The families mentioned here
were not the only ones of this name to settle in Saline County, MO .. whether
the others were “kin” or not remains to be seen. Nearly all the early “Long
Glade” families had moved away from the Shenandoah Valley by the
1900s, settling all over the United States.
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Miami
Index, Friday, Feb. 7, 1879
ANOTHER OLD CITIZEN GONE During the latter part of last
summer Mr. P. Y. Irvine left this country, with his wife, to visit his
old home in Virginia. On Tuesday morning last his family received
a Dispatch announcing his death on Sunday, February 2nd, in Rockingham
county of that state. On Tuesday evening another dispatch was received
dated that morning, stating that his wife was dangerously ill. Her
sons, J. H. and A. T Irvine, in response to the message took the night
train going east, and will make all possible haste to reach the bedside
of their mother. The cause of Mr. Irvine’s death has not yet been
heard. He must have died suddenly as his family had no intimation
of his sickness, and supposed him to be in the enjoyment of good health.
Mr. Irvine will be remembered as one of the early settlers of this country.
He was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, August 13, 1809, where he lived
until the spring of 1833 when he came to Missouri, first settling about
three miles east of Miami. He afterwards purchased a farm near Fairville
on which he resided until his death. In 1835 he was married to Miss
Sarah P. Brown, daughter of Mr. William Brown who came to this country
in 1832. Mr. Irvine raised a family of ten children all of whom are
now living and grown, this being the first time that death has ever broken
the family circle. He had for many years been a member of the Cumberland
Presbyterian church. His distressed family have the sympathies of
a multitude of friends throughout the county to whom the many good qualities
of his character are so well known.
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The families of John H. and
Philander follow, separately. The whereabouts of the brother, Hugh Irvine,
is not now known.
JAMES HUSTON IRVINE,
son of Andrew Irvine and Mary “Polly” Houston, born Augusta Co., VA ca
1807,
died Saline Co., MO, 20 Nov 1857, at age 50
married, in VA:
Mary Elizabeth A. Clark, born Feb 1818, died 30 Mar 1884
Their family;
Mary E. Irvine
b. ca 1838
d. 14 May 1866
m. Edward S. Carpenter, on 6 Nov 1857
Lillie A. Carpenter
Mittie M. Carpenter
Charles Irvine
b.
ca 1842
d.__________?
Henry B. Irvine
b.
ca 1846
d.__________?
Robert Ruxton Irvine
b. 28 Jul 1848
d. 16 Nov 1935
m. Nancy Jane Shaw, b. 26 Oct 1850, d. 4 Jan 1924, dau. of Fielding
Shaw
Charles Jefferson Irvine
b. 14 Feb 1871
d. 28 Feb 1947 m. Nellie Van Lear Davis
/24 Jul 1919
Margaret Harte Irvine m. Raymond T. King
Mary Jane Irvine m.
? Markey
Alice Irvine
m. ?
Nicholas
Nellie Irvine
m. ? Laidlaw
{Isabelle)
Belle Palmore Irvine
b.
ca11850
d.
m. Isreal Grant Dwyer, in 1870
William McKendra Irvine
b. 23 Mar 1853
/on 2 Jun 1881
d. 9 Jan
1890 m. Anne Withers, b. 10 Dec 1858, d. 10 Jul 1937
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May be in error .. or these Withers or Irvines ?? |
John Withers Irvine
b. 8 Mar 1882 d. 22 Nov 1974 m. Nadine Young, on 2 Nov 1911 Samuel C. Irvine b. 8 Oct 1883 d. 19 Oct 1979 m. Winifred S. Glenn, on 29 Feb 1912 Ruth Irvine b. l May 1889 d. 26 Apr 1978 Margaret Irvine b. 4 Mar 1892 d. 14 May 1977 m. Herman Leimkueller, in 1945 |
Information shown here found
on family group sheets on file at the Public Library in Marshall, MO ..
PHILANDER YOUNG IRVINE,
son of Andrew Irvine and Mary “Polly” Houston,
born 13 Aug 1807, Rockingham Co, VA, died 2 Feb 1879, Rockingham
Co., VA
married, in Saline Co., MO, in 1735;
Sarah P. Brown, b. 7 May 1818, d. 4 Feb 1889, Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Saline Co., MO., dau. of William Brown
Their children;
James H. Irvine
b.
ca 1837
d. 14 Jun 1910
m. Margaret Emma Hudson. on 9 May 1857
| 13 children, see his obit | The Weekly Saline Citizen
Saturday, July 2, 1910, p. 5, col. 5 JAMES H. IRVINE, Son of the late P. Y. Irvine of Saline County, died at the home of his son-in-law, Rev. E. B. Chenoweth, at Barlett, Texas, on June 14th. His remains were taken to his home in Springfield, MO. for burial. Deceased was born and reared near Fairville, this county. In 1857 he was married to Miss Emma Hudson, of Fairville, who with thirteen children survive the deceased. In 1889 he moved to Kansas, but later moved to Springfield, which has since been his home. |
William Andrew Irvine
b.
ca 1840
d. 14 Feb 1904
m. Helen Spencer Brown, on 22 Nov 1866
b. 7 Sep 1843
d. 19 Dec 1939
Nancy Blackburn Irvine
b. 13 Jun 1868
d. 26 Oct 1939. buried Ridge Park Cemetery
Ollie M. Irvine
b. 5 Jul 1870
d.. 29 Sep 1950 m. Hallie M. Rose
George A. Irvine
b. Mar 1878
d._____________?
Melville B. Irvine
b.
ca 1842
d. m.
Mary Elisabeth 0Woodward
Alfred T. Irvine
b.
ca 1844
Sarah M. Irvine
b.
ca 1847 m. William E. Rock
Hugh P. Irvine
b.
ca 1850
Edward P. Irvine
b.
ca 1853
d.
Mar 1811 m. Kate ?
(died Memphis, TN)
Arthur M. Irvine
b.
ca 1855 m. Nora ?
Alma Palmore Irvine
b.
ca 1847 m.
?
Information from family group sheets on file Public Library, Marshall, Saline Co., MO
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