This tree, created in 2002, and revised 2004-2006, is based on information parents and grandmother obtained from letters and research, and on some on-line research I did. I have been to date unsuccessful in tracing this ancestry back to anyone but persons who appear to be--or even are of--European ancestry. But there is a paucity of records of non-Europeans in the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Sarah Who? (Last Name Unknown), Married Name Whitehead is Richard Malone Whitehead's presumed mother. A Sarah Whitehead of approximately the right age is listed as living with Richard Malone Whitehead on the 1870 Clarke County census. In 1823, A Sarah Whitehead enrolled a Richard Whitehead in the "Poor School" (created for the community's poor) while an Elizabeth Whitehead enrolled a Sandford Whitehead there--according to records located at Bob Whitehead's Winterhawke Genealogy site. A Sarah Whitehead is listed as living alone on the 1850 census for Jackson County, Georgia (adjacent to Clark County), but she claims to have been born in North Carolina in 1785. Still she is a possibility. I do not know where she is prior to 1850.
One possible identity for "Sarah," is Sarah Bodie or Boddie, born 23 January, 1783, North Carolina, son of William Boddie and a Martha or Mary Jones! Sarah married Nathan Whitehead, Jr. (the son of Rachel Rahab Culpepper Whitehead and Nathan Whitehead, Sr.--a descendant of Arthur Whitehead who landed in Virginia in the 17th Century), and was believed to have later married a "Lottie" or perhaps "Elijuh Lott." There are some problems with postulating this Sarah as the mother--most people believe Sarah Boddie married Elisha (Elijuh) Lott after Nathan Whitehead Jr's death and moved to Mississippi, and is listed with Lott on the 1820 census (whether she was there cannot be verified as the 1820 census only lists the name of the head of household)--thus how would she have lived in Clarke County at the same time. Another problem is that Richard M. Whitehead was supposedly born in 1813 while Nathan Whitehead Jr., husband of Sarah Boddie, supposedly died in 1811.
I am not sure whether Richard Malone was the son of Nathan definitely or of someone else--Nathan would have been about fifty when Richard was born. Another Sarah Whitehead lived in Hyde County, North Carolina--with another Nathan Whitehead, but the latter couple was both already over forty-five years old in 1790 apparently and so are unlikely to have had another son in 1813. Other options are a Richard Whitehead one generation back who had an unknown son, and who moved to the Georgia area. He is the descendant of Sarah Tomlinson and Charles Whitehead whose lineage listed on-line only goes back a few generations, though it may go back to seventeenth-century Maryland ultimately. I also note that some of the Whiteheads descended from Arthur Whitehead, including Stephen Tipton Whitehead, apparently took--though the original Whiteheads in Virginia at least grew affluent--common law wives in some cases, and there is little information about the wives' lineage available. Slaves of the Whiteheads may have also taken the name Whitehead. Some of the Whitehead's may have been Quakers according to one on-line source.
Several Whitehead-headed household are located in the Clarke County, Georgia census in 1820--including those of George Whitehead, Charles Whitehead, James Whitehead, Richard Whitehead (older than our Richard Malone of course who was only seven then), Reason Whitehead, and Rachel Whitehead. Of these Whiteheads, Richard, Reason, and Rachel are listed with children that include boys under 10. Reason appears to be living with his wife, Celia Ball. Rachel is living in a household with another woman. One of the two women in Rachel's household is an adult over 25, and one is older. The Richard Whitehead household is the remaining possible household; its patriarch died around 1825. He and Reason were neighbors. Reason Whitehead may be a descendant of Sarah Tomlinson and Charles Whitehead.
On the 1824 tax list for Clark County we see a number of Whiteheads, including Samuel, James, Elizabeth, Reason, Rachel, and J. T.
Interestingly, a new name appears on the 1830 census who is not listed on the 1820--Peggy Whitehead. Since both Rachel Whitehead and the elder Richard Whitehead are no longer listed on this census, perhaps Peggy Whitehead is a heir to one of these. Two Elizabeth Whiteheads are the remaining new names on this census--and probably one of these is a heir to the Richard Whitehead household; however one of these Elizabeth Whiteheads appeared in 1824 as well.
Samuel Whitehead may be of interest--he is perhaps the son of the Samuel Whitehead of Oglethorpe County (I think there are also later Samuel Whiteheads in Jackson County--Clarke's parent county!), who was originally from Caswell (maybe also Person--have to find a link to it though--Person County was formed later) County, North Carolina; to view my cropped pirated* 1820 Oglethorpe County, GA census image, in two lovely sections, see DocumentsImages/OglethorpeSamuelWhitehead__side1_ancestry_crop.gif and DocumentsImages/OglethorpeSamuelWhitehead_otherhalf_ancestry_crop.gif); this Samuel Whitehead may have had a daughter or relative who married into a Malone family and this may be the source of Richard Malone Whitehead's middle name.
In 1837, our Richard Malone Whitehead married Anne Glasson (also spelled "Glason" or "Glosson") in Clarke Country, Georgia. He's listed on the 1840 census as living with two women and another man, all about the same age.
In 1850, our Richard M. Whitehead and his wife Anne are listed on page 56b of the 1850 Clarke County Georgia Census posted in Roots Web's U.S. Gen Web archives (lines 13-19; #675; or for the entry transcribed by me, see http://reflectionsonlandusetranslationsmorebycew.com/Hidden/Mytree/DocumentsImages/RichardWhitehead_1850ClarkeCoGA_census_ancestry.txt ). Listed with Richard and Ann are all children born before 1850, including our ancestor, Jesse Francis Whitehead. Several Glossons (elsewhere listed as "Glason," but they signed documents with an "X" according to another source)--including Clarke, a likely relative of Anne, are listed on the 1850 census as well. Richard and his older sons give "farming" as their occupations.
Our Richard M. Whitehead appears again on the 1860 census. This time he is listed as a "teacher," and there has been a substantial increase in the personal property and land values listed. His older sons are still listed as farmers. By the 1870 census (on which the elder Sarah Whitehead now also appears listed in Clarke County--remember names of household members did not start appearing on the census until 1850 so Sarah might have been included as a household member on some earlier Clarke County censuses but we cannot yet ascertain where), Richard's occupation is again "farmer" and a number of his older children have left.
Back to the lines we are investigating for Richard Whitehead's ancestors. First, the Nathan Whitehead family: Nathan Whitehead, Jr. died around 1811 or 1812 perhaps. It is not known when Rachel Rahab Culpepper Whitehead--the daughter of Elizabeth (last name not known) and Benjamen Ferryman Culpepper--died--possibly around 1825.
Nathan Whitehead, Jr. is known to have only had one or two sons--Nathan Boddie Whitehead and possibly a William Boddie Whitehead. He last appears on th 1810 Nash County, North Carolina census with more children than that. Since there was considerable migration from North Carolina to the frontier areas of Georgia when Carolina's land was destroyed by the over-farming of rice and tobacco, and the new counties opened up, it is possible that Nathan Whitehead, Jr.'s family--wife, mother, and children--migrated after Nathan's death to Clarke County, then at the edge of Georgia's territory. I have no evidence of that however.
Samuel Whitehead was born in 1760 to a Samuel and Ursula Whitehead. The will of the elder Samuel Whitehead (husband of Ursula) was filed in Person County, North Carolina. The younger Samuel (born 1760) married a Susannah Sims, the daughter of Joel and Christian Sims, and the couple lived in Oglethorpe and Jackson counties, Georgia. Jackson County is one of the parent counties of Clarke County! The younger Samuel also had a son, Samuel, and it may be he who is indexed on Clarke County's 1824 tax roster.
For information on the Whiteheads during the last one-hundred years, check out WhiteheadMuseFamilyHistory.
More Whiteheads--Today (at mlwsw.com).
1987 Photo of Two Whiteheads.
1967 Photo of the four Whitehead siblings

According to some sources (unoconfirmed by me) Joseph Glawson is the son of possibly a James Glawson of Orange County, North Carolina. This name may or may not be related to the name Glisson, which is found in the Rootsweb and Ancestry data base. The earliest record I can locate of the latter surname, Glisson, "Glisson," is "Obediah Glisson," born around 1700--or just before--in the U.S., parentage unknown. The name itself may be French originally, though the Glisson tree creator traces it to England in the 1500's--the time of the Hundred Years' War. Obediah's descendant Abraham is recorded in a number of land sales according to a listing by a descendant at Roots Web. By 1800, many of the members of Abraham's family are listed as living in Burke County, Georgia. A John Glasson, another possible descendant of Obediah Glisson and also a possible relative of Anne Glasson, is living for a while in Clarke County, Georgia in the 1800's, where Anne was married. However his Will indicates that she is not his offspring; her brother may have been Clarke as Clarke Glasson signed many documents for Anne's husband; other records say Anne's father was "Hugh Glasson."

William Hardy Bedingfield or "Hardy," apparently with his wife Nancy and four children, are listed on the 1830 Walton County census, in section 170 (my transcription of the Bedingfield entry from the ancestry census image at: http://reflectionsonlandusetranslationsmorebycew.com/Hidden/Mytree/DocumentsImages/HardyBedingfield_1830WaltonCoGA_census_ancestry.txt . The couple was probably married in Walton (or Gwinnett) County by or before January, 1822 when Hardy received land from Nancy's father Joseph Rodgers or Rogers. (One online source says they were married in 1812; there is a marriage certificate online as well with no marriage date). Nancy Rodger's was possibly Hardy's second wife, but I have nothing definite on this. In any case, Hardy Bedingfield's last wife was Ferribe McCullough whom he married in 1858 according to Wayfarers in Walton. (Nancy may have died around 1850.) Hardy may have also been Nancy's second husband, according to descendants who state that she was first married to a "Faulkner" perhaps. (Alternately, I suggest that the name Falkner or Faulkner could have been her mother's maiden name.) Her father Joseph, may or may not have been born in the Gwinnett County area; he had property there, including some property on the Walton County line which he had won in a lottery and which he gave to Hardy and Nancy in 1820 as noted above. Gwinnett and Walton Counties were at that time counties newly formed out of Cherokee and Creek lands. The counties were both formed in 1818 although Georgia had sufficient land cesssions from the Cherokee and Creek (many still living in Georgia although some relocated in Oklahoma immediately) to establish its western boundary in 1802. (See the maps for those years at mygeorgiagenealogy.)
Several Rogers and Rodgers are listed also in the Walton and nearby Gwinnett County censuses for 1820 and 1830, including an older James, a younger James, a Charles, a Robert, an Ephraim, and a John. The younger James, Robert, and Ephraim are indexed in the Walton County 1830 census. Some of these may be relatives of Nancy. For more information on our search for the Rogers/Rodgers line, check out Some Notes on Joseph Rogers/Rodgers.
A Hardy Bedingfield is also listed on the 1830 Twiggs County census (right age, no family is listed; this may be another property or another family) and on the 1820 Greene County census (Greene County is located between Walton and Clarke Counties) with a family (again the age of Hardy checks out as does that of his apparent wife).
William Needham Bedingfield, Hardy Bedingfield's father, is indexed in the 1790 and 1800 Wake County, North Carolina census.

Solomon Bedingfield married Susanna Housch on January 6, 1846 (information on Housch genealogy is based on information on grave markers and on the information provided by Phyllis Davis in Barrow County, Georgia Cemetaries which indexes grave markers in Barrow County, GA; see BedingfieldPhotos; there are two markers each for Susan Housch Bedingfield [buried in the Concord Methodist cemetary in downtown Winder] and Solomon Lorenzo Bedingfield [buried in the Corinth Methodist cemetary next to the Church]; I only photographed one of the two markers for Susan as the other was not really legible). Solomon later married Frances Ridgeway--shortly after daughter Frances Camma Bedingfield was born, we think but the dates are uncertain. My Aunt Edith believes that Frances Camma was Susanna's and not Frances' daughter but we need to verify this. Frances Ridgeway was the daughter of Christina Ridgeway. I simply wonder because of the name "Frances," and the dates we have for the birth of Frances.

Housch's ancestors included John Hill, a revolutionary war soldier and early settler to the Winder, Georgia area, who was involved in the building of Fort Yargo.

Samuel Elbert. According to the New Georgia Encyclopedia (http://www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-672), Samuel Elbert was the son of William Elbert, a Baptist minister, and his wife Sarah. Though born in Georgia, Elbert spent his early years in South Carolina. Elbert's father died when he was a boy, and Elbert went to work with John Rae, an Irish-born merchant, in the Indian trade in Georgia, ultimately becoming, according to New Georgia Encyclopedia a prosperous Savannah merchant. Under Rae, Elbert traded among the Cherokee and Creek. He became an Anglican, perhaps when he married Rae's daughter Elizabeth.
Elbert's early boss and later father-in-law, John Rae, and two brothers, immigrated from Ireland. John Rae, his wife Catherine, and a second daughter, Jean Sommerville, are named in the 1767 Proof Will of Scottish trader, Lachlan McGillivray--you will note that Elbert's soon-to-be wife Elizabeth is omitted from the Will, I think because the McGillivray's, including McGillivray's son the mixed blood Creek Chief Alexander, were Tories. (The McGillivray's estate was ultimately confiscated by Georgia, and Elbert, when he became governor, had it and other confiscated estates sold to pay Georgia debts; see The Order Book of Samuel Elbert [text version].)
Elbert who had learned to some degree some of the Indian languages, had a prominent role in the American Revolution. At one point, he was rescued by Indians from a British trap.
Based on the documents in The Order Book of Samuel Elbert, Elbert seems to have a well-disciplined soldier who followed rules, whether that meant respecting the hierarchy or seeing that someone got a proper trial.
Elbert helped to negotiate a May 31, 1783 Indian Land Cession in which the Cherokee ceded a tract between the Tugaloo and Oconee Rivers in Georgia; he may have been involved as well in a second November 1783 cession in which two Creek village headmen ceded a tract just downstream of the first, including a joint Cherokee-Creek hunting ground (for which the Creek headmen were later harassed by another Creek headman, Alexander McGillivray, mentioned above). See U.S. Gen Net's Indian Land Cessions in the Southeast: Cherokee. See also Our Georgia History: 1783.
Elbert had traded among the Creeks as well as among the Cherokee, and as governor of Georgia, tried to arrange a meeting between Georgia and the Creek right after the Revolution, apparently partly in an attempt to regain Creek trade and perhaps also in an attempt to seal an alliance and circumvent alliances with the British (again see The Order Book of Samuel Elbert. This seems to have been a major preoccupation of his during his governorship. The University of Georgia was chartered at almost the outset of his term, largely perhaps the result of lobbying on the part of Abraham Baldwin, who later became its first president. The University of Georgia was the first state land-grant university established in the United States (see http://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/archives/exhibit/charter/index.html).
I am still trying to learn more about a Creek named Michael Elhert or Elbert or Elliot (I would need to see the original document to decide; I have only seen a transcribed version), who fought for the U.S. in the First Creek War, to determine whether or not Elbert had any connection with him. (To see the transcribed document, check out Depositions for Michael Ehlert, part of Middleton's "Among the Creeks" at rootsweb; one note on the depositions; Ehlert [?] claims that after his wife died, he never returned to his land to improve it further; I note that the Creek women traditionally did the farming, not the men; however, according to Angie Debo, 1941, The Road to Disappearance [a bit of which is available online as a Google Book at http://books.google.com/books?id=FP-9B2XLawgC&dq=Debo+The+Road+to+Disappearance&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=gMHuXzkiV9&sig=Q_weoF86bCWnlfJAACresw1-k-M&hl=en&ei=29k7S5DxJoeXtgfN0-mOCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false], since the Creek men were not considered to be so militarily skilled as the Chickasaw, the men sometimes were called on to help with this banal but absolutely necessary work; however the main work for Native American men in the East by this date was soldiering and slave catching as the East was quite depleted of game; likewise it was almost depleted of runaway slaves, and many of the subtribes were no longer even cooperating in the latter matter.)
Slavery had been legalized in Georgia in 1751 (and no doubt traders had always had a few 'servants' when they travelled I think) and so Elbert had slaves.

Elbert is buried in Savannah.
For more on Samuel Elbert's role in the Revolutionary War, see R. E. Whitehead's article, Florida's Narrow Escape; alternately, much of this story is told at the "Life" of Samuel Elbert--largely by R. E. Whitehead as well--at Wikipedia.

Catherine Elbert married John Burke, and had a daughter, Eliza, who married a Lewis Smith Muse and lived in Virginia according to a Revolutionary War land claim archived at the U.S. Gen Web (http://files.usgwarchives.org/ga/richmond/deeds/elbert.txt) ("Revolutionary War Bounty Land Scrip Application of the Heirs of Samuel Elbert," Scrip Application # 1436, Lewis Muse and Eliza Muse claim of October 1835; also according to a war of 1812 bounty land claim, also archived at Roots Web).
Eliza Muse is listed in the May, 1836 and the July 6, 1867 entries! (These entries are were archived at rootsweb and some should be archived shortly at the U.S. Genweb project; this is (1), http://files.usgwarchives.org/ga/richmond/military/revwar/pensions/mt95ucontinen.txt [4.4476] Richmond County GaArchives Military Records.....Samuel Elbert February 1827 Revwar - Pension Continental Army - Georgia Line; (2), http://files.usgwarchives.org/ga/richmond/deeds/elbert.txt RICHMOND COUNTY, GA - DEEDS Bounty Land Samuel Elbert Copyright. All rights reserved. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Candace Gravelle Georgia; http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/richmond/deeds/elbert.txt ; (3), http://files.usgwarchives.org/ga/richmond/military/revwar/pensions/elbert-sam.txt [4.44152 REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION SAMUEL ELBERT Contributed by: Candace Gravelle [tealtree@comcast.net .]) Eliza Malvina Burke Muse was the wife of a Mr. Lewis S. Muse married in 1810 in Camden County, Georgia, and the daughter of Catherine Elbert Burke, the wife of John Burke.
Lewis Smith Muse's father was apparently Samuel Muse, according to the Westmoreland County, Virginia 1794 will.
S. Elbert Muse was the son of Lewis Smith Muse and Eliza Burke Muse according to Elbert biographer Gordon Burns Smith (S. E. Muse died before his father so is not mentioned in the will). S. E. Muse is listed on page 231b, entry 745, of the 1850 Chatham County, Georgia census as a clerk, and seems as a widower living with his son, A. E. Muse. He had eight slaves, indexed on the 1850 Chatham County slave schedule. Jane Stiles Muse was his second wife; she married S. E. Muse after 1850!
For more sources on S. E. Muse, see Notes on Samuel Elbert Muse

Elizabeth Rae. Elizabeth Rae was the daughter of John and Catherine Rae. Nothing is known about Catherine. According to R. E. Whitehead, a letter from a Mrs. Osborne, a descendant of Elizabeth's paternal grandfather David Rae of Ireland, John Rae was born in Magheraknack, New Ballynahinch, Co. Down, Northern Ireland to David Rae, who was himself born in Ireland in the 1600's. John Rae's elder brother Mathew Rae preceded him to Georgia acting as a land agent for John, who arrived in 1730, followed by half-brother, Robert. The name was spelled Rea however. Gary Rea (garyrea@cox.net) provides similar information at WorldConnect at rootsweb.

Jane Julia Stiles. Much of the information about Jane Julia Stiles, who first married Samuel Elbert Muse and then remarried a sea captain named Hernandez (according to descendant REW) comes from the 1880 Chatham County Census. That census lists in a Savannah household:
Thomas Hernandez, wife Jane Hernandez, age 46, birthplace, Georgia, and Mr. Hernandez's stepson Edward Muse, age 28 (an age of 46 gives Jane a different birth date than a previous census.) Jane Hernandez's parents' are listed as born in Georgia as well. (The census also lists servants--Victoria Stafford age 21 and a 9-year-old boy. Jane's son Edward Stiles Muse says he works for the United States government.)
The 1880 entry suggests that Jane Stiles Hernandez's birth date was around 1835-36 then (but her age here may not be correct; it conflicts slightly with the information given in another census) and her son Edward Stiles Muse's birth date was in 1851-52.
On the 1850 Chatham County census, S. E. Muse appears to be a widower living with just his son and no wife, and thus Jane Stiles and S. E. Muse must have married between the 1850 census date and the 1851-52 birth of son Edward Stiles Muse. According to descendant REW, "[c]ounty records show that Miss Jane Julia Stiles married Mr. S.E. Muse, Jan. 8, 1852 in Chatham County (Savannah) Georgia," in the Presbyterian Church. REW says further that prior to marrying Jane, "Dec. 30, 1841, 1st. Lt. Samuel Elbert Muse, U.S.A., married a Margaret Clark."
Because Jane's son was named Edward, and because of the funeral announcement for her first husband, Samuel Elbert Muse, her father's name likely had "Edward" in it.
In 1850, Jane Stiles, age 19 (thus born around 1830-31) is listed on page 106 of the Chatham County census as living with a Sarah A. Pierce, age 61 (born 1788-89? see below for more on Mrs. Pierce!). If the Edward Stiles who is listed on the 1850 Chatham County census (see below) is Jane's father, for some reason Jane has opted to live with--or been placed with--Mrs. Sarah Pierce instead on the 1850 census.
A Benjamin E. Stiles is listed in the 1840 Chatham County census but the census lists no one as living there, just the land. Slightly up the Savannah River, in Screven County, Georgia, a Benjamin E. Stiles is listed as living with his family. There is one girl who could be about Jane's age--she is aged under five. This Benjamin E. Stiles was also known as Benjamin Edward Stiles according to online family tree information. (He's listed in the 1830 census for Chatham County as just B. E. Stiles. He married a Mary Ann Mackay.)
The nearest Edward Stiles listed in 1840 is in Laurens, Georgia (between Macon and Savannah), and he has a girl aged ten-to-fifteen (probably about ten based on 1830 census information for another Edward Stiles, aged under 30, who then lived in Bryan County, just outside of Savannah, with his wife and a teenaged/young adult male, and with no children born yet; age ten matches the age Jane Stiles gives in the 1860 census, discussed below!) living with him. This Edward Stiles may be the same Edward Stiles who eventually appears on the 1850 Chatham County (Savannah) census, as his age matches. This Edward Stiles's wife is not living with him in 1840, and may be dead.
In 1850, an Edward Stiles born in 1801-1802 is listed living with two older slave women on the Chatham County census. (There's also a younger Edward Stiles, age two, free, mulatto, listed as living with his free mulatto mother of a different last name, Young, elsewhere in Chatham County--note that this same mulatto mother Sarah Ann Young appears again on page 190 of the Savannah, Chatham County 1870 census, living with Edward Stiles, now 21, who works as a laborer; and a younger girl!; Edward may again appear in 1900.) The elder Edward Stiles does not appear on earlier Chatham County censuses so may well be the Laurens and Bryan County, Georgia Edward Stiles's listed above!

Since, The Savannah Newspaper Digest says that "The friends and acquaintances of Mr. Sam'l Elbert Muse and Mr. Edward Stiles are respectfully invited to attend the funeral of the former," it's likely that Edward Stiles is Jane's father and not Benjamin Edward Stiles, unless the latter went by the name of Edward. It's worth noting here that, when Jane Stiles's first husband, S. E. Muse, was buried, the funeral reception was held at the house of "Mrs. Pierce;" and, according to descendant REW, the following item was listed in the "marriages" book of the Georgia Historical Society: [#1302 Stiles, Edward married Miss Maria Peirce 3 Jun 1829].
It's possible that Jane Stiles's ancestors lived in Savannah and the surrounding area for several generations. Stiles listed in earlier Chatham County censuses (1830-40) include a William, a Joseph, and of course B. E. or Benjamin Edward. (According to descendants, a Joseph Stiles had sons Benjamin, William, and Joseph, and this may be these three brothers who are listed here! The elder Joseph Stiles--along with his own various brothers, including a Samuel, a Benjamin, and an Edward--may have been the descendant of a Benjamin Stiles and his cousin Jane Stiles; I have not verified this.)
An apparently older Joseph (perhaps the Joseph who is the father of the three brothers and who is brother himself to a Samuel, a Benjamin, and an Edward, is listed on the 1820 Chatham County census; a Samuel Stiles is listed in a nearby county.
A probably still older Benjamin Est.? Stiles is listed on the 1793 Georgia tax rolls for Chatham County; a Benjamin is also listed on the 1796 Georgia tax rolls for Hancock County, Georgia (way up the river from Savannah), while Samuel Stiles is listed on the 1793 and 1798 Chatham County tax rolls and Joseph Stiles is listed on the 1793 Chatham County tax roll. On other years, a Joseph Stiles is listed up the river in Richmond County (near present-day Augusta).
A Richard H. Stiles is one of the Stiles to receive land in an early land lottery (according to roots web files; the remaining information is from ancestry.com).
An Edward B. Stiles of Habersham County, GA served the confederacy as a captain and was killed in the Civil War. I understand from Benjamin E. Stiles's descendants that this is not Benjamin E. Stiles though it may be his son B. Edward. (There is some possible connection between the Habersham's and the Stiles's, again according to online family trees.)
My parents located the marriage information for Benjamin Stiles and Mary McKay and suspected B. E. Stiles and McKay were possible ancestors. However it seems more worthwhile at this point to investigate the Edward Stiles who was in Laurens County in 1840 as a possible parent--because the age of his daughter given in the 1840 census actually matches the age Jane gives on the 1860 census when she is living with Barber/Barbee in Jacksonville (see below), and because she named her son Edward, and finally because Jane Julia Stiles maternal grandmother was Mrs. Pierce--not Mrs. McKay.
But there's a bit more census data on Jane! It seems that Jane Stiles married twice after the death of first husband S. E. Muse. According to descendant REW who cites records in Saint Augustine, Jane married John Barbee in 1857 and moved to the Jacksonville area where in 1858 at Fernandina Beach she converted to Catholicism. Jane appears with Mr. Barbee, who says he was born in Florida, on the 1860 Duval County census. This same Barbee had apparently been living in Chatham County (with a relative according to the census) on the 1850 census, so the couple must have moved to Duval County just before 1858. In 1860, on the Duval County census, Jane and Barbee are listed with Jane's son, "Edw. Stiles Muse," in Jacksonville, Florida. They are living with several other families on a single piece of property with its value listed as between $0 and $800. This is just before the Civil War! Jane is listed as born in 1831-2 on this census, just a few years older than she appears to be on the 1880 census! Barbee's occupation is listed as "B Housekeeper" (may be a mistake on that census? or is he both a bookkeeper and a housekeeper for some sort of inn?); but as a bookkeeper when he is listed again as living in Chatham County alone in 1870. Jane and Thomas Hernandez are listed as living elsewhere in Chatham County, in a single unit, on the 1870, together again with Jane's son Edward Stiles Muse. Other 1860 Barber/Barbee household members list themselves variously as "gunsmith," "laborer," and "engineer."
I never located on the 1860 census A. E. Muse (who would have been fourteen then), the first son of S. E. Muse by his first wife (and also the half-brother to my own ancestor, Edward Stiles Muse), nor on any other census (I suspect thus that he, like Jane's second son by Mr. Muse, S. E. Muse, jr, may have died of illness), but I do locate an E. A. Muse living with his wife, Annie, as a border, in Durham, NC, a few decades later; E. A.'s age on the Durham census is just a tad young for A. E. who was born around 1846, but the age in the later census may be in error. However it is my understanding that both A. E. and his father and his half-brother S.E. died of a fever.
Other census entries for Thomas Hernandez suggest that Hernandez, like John Barbee, lived in Chatham County previously--in 1850 and 1860. Jane Stiles herself lived with her grandmother in 1850. Thus the three may have all known each other prior even to Jane Stiles's first marriage to family friend (and prominent citizen!) S. E. Muse. Interestingly, according to Ms. Kathy Marsh, a descendant of Hernandez, Hernandez, a Catholic, was born Thomas Louis del Socorro Hernandez in 1822 in Fernandina, FL, where Jane and Barbee seemed to have managed a lodging house in 1860. According to Ms. Marsh, Hernandez was still locked into a marriage with his second wife Isabella in 1860 (with whom is he listed on the 1860 census) and 1870 (when he finally moved in with Jane anyway).
Mr. Barbee does not appear listed on any census after 1870.
For more on Jane Stiles, see Jane Stiles Muse Hernandez.

James Farquhar, born in Scotland, his wife Jane, and his two brothers, also born in Scotland, are listed on the 1880 census. All three came together--possibly with their father--according to my mother. James and Jane are living in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. James list his occupation as "Gardener For Forest Hills Cemetery ." (I assume this is our James; however our James may have been a clerk instead; I am still unsure which James because James his son lists his own birthplace as New York, not Suffolk County; James the son was a piano tuner.) According to my mother, Mary Locke, whom James' son James married, supported her husband, daughter, and grandchild by working as a maid.

Alfred M. Parker, was born in Ohio in around 1866 according to the 1920 Worcester County, MA census for the township of Fitchburg. His mother was born in Ireland, and his father in England according to the census. (Earlier censuses list his father as born in Pennsylvania.) His wife was Mary C. Parker, age 49, born in around 1871 in Massachusetts. Daughter Anna M. Parker, born in Illinois, is still living with household in 1920.
The Parker family is also listed on the 1910 Worcester County, MA census (Mr. Parker works in a saw factory) and on the 1900 Cooke County census for Chicago's 12th Ward, with the birth date for Anna listed as 7 September, 1899. On this census, Alfred's father is listed as born in Pennsylvania, and not in England.
Mary C. Bagley (wife of Alfred Parker) is listed as the daughter age 9 on page 19 of the Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts census, with her mother born in Ireland and her father born in Maine. Mary C's sisters are Celia and Annie. Mary's mother, also Mary, age 41, is at this date a widow and working as a laundress. She may have had one previous marriage to a man who was born in Ireland before marrying Charles Bagley because one child's father's birth place is given as Ireland (though this may be an error!)
I'm not sure I've found the family on the 1870 census. The most likely listing for Mary and a Charles Bagley in 1870 is in Connecticut--there is a Charles and Mary of the right age listed in Connecticut, with a daughter born the same year as one of the children listed with widow Mary on the 1880 census, but this family's birthplaces are all listed as Connecticut--this birthplace listing of could be an enumeration error. Charles here is a machinist (which railroad workers could become); Mary is keeping house; the one child's name is either Minnie or Annie (Mary's daughter was Annie). Since this couple is not listed in Connecticut in 1880 it's reasonable to assume they could have moved between Connecticut and Massachusetts. The problem is there are several "Charles and Mary Bagley"s in New England at this time. It is of course possible that the Bagley's listing is split up between work and home addresses; there are Charles Bagley's living with children and older men, and there are several Mary Bagley's, all born in Ireland, all about the right age, listed as working as servants in New York and Pennsylvania; it is possible that Mary was listed at her place of work; Charles at his residence.
Charles H. Bagley's Civil War record lists his occupation as a laborer, his birth date as around 1839, and his home as Fitchburg, Ma.
Charles is listed also--with other railroad workers--on page 86 of the Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts 1860 census as "C. Bagley," born around 1831, possibly in Massachusetts (but the last is probably a census taker error; the census taker probably listed everyone automatically as born in "Mass."). Other workers include an engineer (driver), a fireman (?), and a brakeman and his family. I cannot decipher C. Bagley's occupation (R. R. something, probably "hostler"). The workers live (perhaps) with either the Boulette's or the Wright's. For more about the Boston and Albany Railroad, with its Boston-Worcester railroad line, its Norwich-Worcester railroad line, its Boston--Clinton-Fitchburg railroad line, and its Western (Worcester-Springfield) line, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_and_Albany_Railroad; and Caleb A. Wall's (1877) Reminiscences of Worcester from the Earliest Period, historical and genealogical (Tyler and Skagrave) http://books.google.com/books?id=9BsC4Asqv1IC&pg=RA34-PA294&lpg
=RA34-PA294&dq=boston+and+worcester+railroad&source=web&ots
=MYjeBdA6y5&sig=gqHrMYVyeYPEiUOYSKgDTi-YmMc#PRA34-PA294,M1 . (Also, check out Mom's favorite railroad song: "I've Been Working on the Railroad" at Popular Songs in American History!)
There are several Charles Bagley's listed on the 1850 census for Massachusetts and Maine, all born in Maine though of Irish ancestry, all generally working as laborers--and I am not sure which is ours.
A likely listing for Mary Leahy (married name Bagley, she is Charles Bagley's wife, and the mother of little Mary) , is on page 250 (or p. 544 revised numbering) of the 1860 Cook County, Illinois census as living in Chicago's 2nd ward, where she lived at the Tremont House hotel and worked as a laundress (The Tremont House hotel occupies several pages of the census [pp. 249-254; pp. 543-548 new numbering]; Mary is listed with all other laundry workers and it is not clear whether she works in the hotel laundry or not (for a transcription of this census, see reflectionsonlandusetranslationsmorebycew.com/
TremontHouseHotel1860/TremontHotel_1860ClarkCoChicagoWard2IL_census_ancestry.txt). There's also a Mary Leahy working as a servant in the 4th ward of about the same age, a bit younger, perhaps too young, but probably not a relation--unless Mary held two jobs, worked one place and lived and worked the other.) This Mary appears to be a recent immigrant because 1860 is the first time she appears on the census.
Mary apparently arrived in the U.S. on one of the ships that brought potato famine immigrants here in the 1840's and 1850's (1851 is the date she gives the census). These ships picked up passengers in Ireland, and then made a stop in Liverpool. There are several Mary Leahys of about the right age on these ships--the majority list their occupation as 'spinster' (the most common occupation for Irish girls on these ships) though others list their occupations as workmen/workwomen, servants, or even dressmakers. Most persons travelling are teenagers or young adults, and most travelled in the steerage, a not very comfortable third-class sort of compartment, lacking good food and adequate bathroom facilities (see "Steerage" at Wikipedia).
Mary A. Bagley, mother-in-law of Celia O'Brien (sister of Mary C Bagley Parker), is listed on page 1 of the Fitchburg, Worcester County, MA 1900 census with her daughter and son-in-law; she says here birth date is November, 1834 (this would appear as 1835 on earlier censuses), and that she immigrated in around 1851!
I've located on lists of nineteenth century immigrants to the U.S. four Mary Leahys born in around 1836 in Ireland who came to the U.S. in the 1850's; all arriving first in New York; one departing from Tralee, Ireland, anotehr departing from Tralee, Ireland but also stopping in Liverpool, England before making its way to the U.S., and two departing from Liverpool England; two are spinsters (or spinners of cloth), one is a laborer, and the fourth is either a dressmaker or a servant--it's not entirely clear from the entry because of confusion with the adjacent entry; two of the women travelled alone; two with other young Leahys. Names of ships on which the women travelled are: Irvine, William Stetson, Bridgewater, and Constitution.
A Mary Leahy, born in 1835, who listed her occupation as "spinster," travelled with her brothers and sisters on the Fidelia and arrived in New York in August, 1851. I believe this is our Mary Leahy!

Check Out The Sky Above When You or Your Ancestors Were Born . . .

John Walker's "Fourmilab: Your Horizon"

(Select the radio button, "Universal Time" under Date and Time and convert the birth date and time to Greenwich time, on a 24-hour clock, to get a view of the sky that was above when you or an ancestor was born. Make sure to adjust for Daylight Savings Time if it was in use when/where the person in question was born. Then compute the longitude and latitude: Greenwich is at 0 degrees West Longitude; the U.S. is West of Greenwich!)