 1787 - 1844 (57 years)
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| Name |
Nathanial Wickham [1] |
| Title |
Captain |
| Born |
16 Sep 1787 |
Henrico County, Virginia  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
1 Oct 1844 |
Stoddard County, New Madrid, Missouri |
| Buried |
Wickham Cemetery had grave marker that says he is buried in Missouri |
| Notes |
- The following is referenced from Frankie Daniel Sellas' The Home Folk which was in 1985. I am always reluctant not to give credit for information that I have acquired though I used so many sources, Mrs. Sellas' book has been instrumental in my research. Many passages have been paraphrased through out the book and I have attempted to make note at each. But this section which involves my great great great grandmother and grandfather, Mary (Polly) Thompson and Nathaniel Wickham I have taken the liberty to quote verbatim from her book. I hope that she would approve and understand what a precious gift she left for her cousins.
From The Home Folk, by Frankie Daniel Sellas, as seen on page five of her book written in 1985.
A dark haired Nathaniel (Nat) Wickham of Yellow Creek, Montgomery County married delicately fair, red-haired Mary Thompson also of Yellow Creek. Their children were John Thompson, James, Julian Jane, Elizabeth, James Nathaniel, Samuel Goodson, Mary Louise and Robert Lewis. James and Mary Louise died as infants, and most likely Nathaniel did too.
We find Captain Wickham's Company in Montgomery County Court records 1816-18. Captains were appointed for districts of the county. They reported taxable property, compiled census reports, and other designated duties. Tax reports listed white and black polls, town lots, stud horses, and acres of land.
Stewart County Court Minutes
TSLA Archives, Stewart Co. Roll 38, Minutes Vol. 1, Nov. 1819 - May 1821
Note: page numbers included by transcriber - original pages not numbered
161 - Monday, 1 May 1820 Court: justices Nathan Ross, John Davidson, William Curl, David Hogan, Robert Walker, Benjamin Kelly, Robert Lowry, John Turner
- Court appoints Thomas W. Lewis overseer of the road from Bowling Green to Palmyra, up to the county line, with James Milam, Nathaniel Wickham & David Irwin’s hands to work under him
The 1820 Census - Stewart County, Tennessee - He is found with Wife and children. 1 male under 10 ( John Thompson Wickham) 1 male 26 to 45 (Nathaniel Wickham), 2 females under 10 (Juian Jane Wickham and Elizabeth E. Wickham) 1 female 26 to 45 ( Mary Polly Thompson Wickham)
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The 1830 Census - Montgomery County, Tennessee - Not stated page 56. He is found with Wife and Children - l male under 5, 1 male 5- 10 years old, 1 male 16-20, and 1 male 40 to 50. Also, 1 female 5 to 10 years old, 1 female 10 to 15 years old, and 1 female 30 to 40 years old. 7 persons in the household
In 1840 Census - Stoddard County Missouri, page 25, Nathaniel next door to son in law Thomas Nesbitt who marries Julian Jane Wickham. B. 1817. In Nathaniel's household there is 1 male 10 to 15 years old (Robert Lewis Wickham B. 1828) 1 male 15 to 20 years old (Samuel Goodson Wickham B. 1823) 1 male 50 to 60 years old (Nathaniel Wickham B. 1787) 1 female 40 to 50 years old (Mary Polly Thompson Wickham B. 1790-1800)
In 1834 he purchase a tract of land, with log house that contained 100 acres. This was to be our home place, a mile and a half from Palmyra, in Montgomery County. He was granted 4,780 acres of land that includes the home place. Uncle Tanner described the grant as "He entered from the mouth of Goldenhorn Creek to East Fork Creek".
We find him owning land in Stewart, Dickson and Montgomery Counties, frequently buying and selling. We believe he was a land speculator. This may account for his being in Missouri where he contracted malaria and died in 1844. (He did not move his family from Tennessee). Missouri and Arkansas lands were set apart for military warrants to Tennessee veterans of the War of 1812. He had likely bought warrants for grants of land in Missouri, where the town of New Madrid now stands. At Grandma Elizabeth's death (widow of Nat's son, Robert L.) in 1920 she owned 385 acres of home place land.
From "The history of the Catholic Church in Montgomery County" we see that Nathaniel and John Wickham were members. In the 1830's, Polly Wickham is attending Palmyra Methodist.
Polly Thompson Wickham was a woman of staunch character. After her husband's death she managed her household of five children with solid sense. She and her sons planted the apple orchard from "slips", - seeds sprouted and transplanted, since there were no nurseries to buy from at that time.
Once a young John Thompson brought a keg of whiskey and put it in the cellar. His mother took an axe and knocked out the bung. She ruled with a firm hand. She sold land to educate her children. Grandfather Robert had great respect for his mother.
She took orphaned and half-orphaned children as her own. Once there was an Indian girl among her fair brood, when the area was sparsely settled and both Indians and homesteaders were on the scene.
Across the road from the Wickham Cemetery there lies a two-story log cabin that was constructed in the 1790's by Abner Swift. In 1834 Nathaniel Wickham purchased from Abraham Baggett 100 acres and this house. The cabin remains intact,, incorporated into the house built around it. The large portion of the two-story house is made from yellow poplar trees that grew on the place and were cut and sawed at the spot.
On July 24, 1835 Nathaniel Wickham filed Entry No. 398 fro 4,780 acres of land, adjoining the home place. Grant no. 18399 was recorded December 23, 1846 in Grant Book No. 21, Page 431. Later, parcels of this land would be sold and/or inherited by his heirs.
In the Wickham Cemetery there are five generations as well as hired hands that lived, worked and died amongst us. Currently in 2002, Rita Wickham Johnson lives in the home place, daughter of E.T. Wickham. E. T. Wickham being the brother to Robert Lewis Wickham, my great grandfather.
In the Wickham Cemetary a Homemade Monument made by E. T. Wickham in memory of the R.L. Wickham Family
In Memory of the Ancestors
of the R.L. Wickham Family
Buried in Unknown Graves
and outside this Cemetery
Harvie Wickham came from
England to America Oct. 1787
Buried John Nolen Cemetery
East Fork of Yellow Creek
Nathanial Wickham buried in
Missouri Wife Mary Thompson
Bill Marsh buried New Madrid
Missouri Wife Sally Spicer
1840 Census
Stoddard Co., Mo
Heads of Household
Wicham, Nathaniel
Neasbitt, Thomas
Probate Records
Stoddard County, Missouri
Vol. A 1847-1852
Page 16, July 6, 1847
Estate of Nathaniel Wickham, deceased --- Final Settlement
Elijah Hill administrator of said Estate comes and presents his Final Settlement of his administration of said Estate and is charged with the sum of Sixty Three
pg. 17
dollars Ninety Two cents and is credited by the ... Fifty dollars Seventy cents per voucher ... 11 inclusive which leaves a balance in the ... Twenty Two cents, ordered that said administrator discharged from further Annual Settlements
Probate Records
Stoddard County, Missouri
Vol. A 1847-1852
Page 98 July 5, 1848
Estate of Nathaniel Wickham, deceased
Elijah Hill administrator of s... Estate comes and it appearing that on his Fin... Settlement there was a balance remaining in his... hands of the sum of Thirteen dollars Twenty T... cents whereupon said administrator presents and... several vouchers amounting in all to the sum of ... Twenty dollars and Three for which amount he is now here credited, which leaves a balance due ... said administrator of the sum of Six dollars Eighty One cents.
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| Person ID |
I34 |
Archangel |
| Last Modified |
3 Sep 2021 |
| Father |
Harvie Wickham, b. England , bur. Unmarked grave in James Nolan Cementary???? not sure of location may be on Russell Road! |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Family ID |
F42 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Mary Thompson, b. Between 1790 and 1795, d. Aft 1860, Montgomery Co. Tennessee (Age ~ 71 years) |
| Married |
31 Mar 1814 |
On a Monday |
| Notes |
- Information provided by Family bible
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| Children |
| | 1. Dr. John Thompson Wickham, b. 6 Jan 1815, Yellow Creek Area, Montgomery County, Tennessee , d. 6 May 1898, Clay County, Arkansas (Age 83 years) [natural] |
| | 2. James Wickham, b. 23 Sep 1816, Yellow Creek Area, Montgomery Co. Tn. , d. 12 Oct 1816, Yellow Creek Area, Montgomery Co. Tn. (Age 0 years) [natural] |
| | 3. Julian Jane Wickham, b. 2 Oct 1817, Montgomery Co. Tennessee , d. Dec 1879, Calloway, Kentucky, USA (Age 62 years) [natural] |
| | 4. Elizabeth E. Wickham, b. 28 Jan 1820, Montgomery Co. Tennessee , d. 14 Dec 1862, Montgomery Co. Tennessee (Age 42 years) [natural] |
| | 5. James Nathaniel Wickham, b. 6 Jun 1821, Montgomery Co. Tennessee , d. Montgomery Co. Tennessee [natural] |
| | 6. Samuel Goodson Wickham, b. 2 Mar 1823, Kentucky as shown in 1870 Census , d. 9 Feb 1904, Palmyra, Montgomery County, Tennessee (Age 80 years) [natural] |
| | 7. Mary Louisa Wickham, b. 8 Feb 1825, Yellow Creek Area, Montgomery County, Tennessee , d. 16 Jul 1827, Yellow Creek Area, Montgomery County, Tennessee (Age 2 years) [natural] |
| | 8. Robert Lewis Wickham, b. 26 Jun 1828, North Carolina, as shown in 1860 Census , d. 19 Jun 1892, Palmyra, Montgomery County, Tennessee (Age 63 years) [natural] |
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| Last Modified |
3 Sep 2021 |
| Family ID |
F39 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Sources |
- [S140] 1830 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Year: 1830; Census Place: Montgomery, Tennessee; Series: M19; Roll: 179; Page: 56; Family History Library Film: 0024537.
Record for Nathl Wickham
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