| Notes |
- In the Bible records of the John Culpepper family which were preserved
by Mrs. J. W. (Ira Gay) Deam of Gay, GA, and copied by Mrs. D. W.
(Lyvyn Wright) Sisco, John Culpepper's wife was recorded as "Nancy
Gillespie" born "about 1778." Joseph Richard Culpepper, in a letter to
Rev. George Bright Culpepper circa 1910-1915, wrote that Nancy
Gillespie's "mother was a Peek."
Mrs. John (Dorothy Culpepper) Wingfield preserved a 25 page typed
manuscript "ONE FAMILY - CULPEPPER" written by her grandfather, Rev.
George Bright Culpepper, who noted: According to the same [John
Culpepper Bible] record, John William Culpepper married Nancy
Gillespie on May 18, 1794, the ceremony being performed by Reverend
Reese, at his house on the Congaree. It was on Sunday, cloudy in the
morning and fair in the evening. As best it can be figured, Nancy
Gillespie was six years younger than John William, the man she
married, and was born on the Peedee River, in South Carolina, near
Cheraw. The record recites that to this couple were born eight sons
and two daughters.
Nancy Gillespie is presumed to have been the daughter of Francis
Gillespie of South Carolina since one of her sons was named Francis
Gillespie Culpepper. Francis Gillespie owned land in Cheraws District,
SC and family tradition is that this was where Nancy Gillespie was
born. Francis Gillespie's wife was named Elizabeth based on South
Carolina deeds (Book O-3, pp. 436-450) as was Nancy's sister Elizabeth
"Betsy" Gillespie who married John Slappey (John Culpepper letter
1853).
Nancy and Betsy Gillespie's presumed mother, Elizabeth, was perhaps a
daughter or sister of Daniel Peek. In 1807, John Culpepper and John
Slappey were listed as administrators of Daniel Peek's Richland
District estate. The bond was also signed by Joseph Culpepper and
George Slappey. Buyers at the estate sale included John Culpepper and
John Slappey, Elizabeth Gillespie, and others. Prior to his death,
Daniel Peek may have given land to John and Nancy Gillespie Culpepper
which would account for their move back to Richland District, SC.
Daniel Peek's surviving estate records do not mention land but include
sixteen slaves, several horses, hogs, and farm produce, indicating
that he had been a planter and landowner.
In Feburary 1823 when John Culpepper sold (Deed Book 43, pp. 322-323,
Edgefield Co., SC) 144 acres "where I now live" on Cuffeetown Creek in
Edgefield District, SC, this was not the land that he had been granted
in 1814. Nancy Gillespy had to relinquish her dower rights to the
land: John Culpepper____Deed._____South Carolina______
_____To_____________________Edgefield District____Know all Josiah
Langley____men by these presents that I John Culpepper of Edgefield
district in the State aforesaid for and In consideration of the Sum of
Eight hundred dollars paid to me paid by Josiah Langley Senr of the
State and district aforesaid have granted bargained sold and released
and by these presents do grant bargain sell and release unto the Said
Josiah Langley all that plantation or tract of land where I now live
originally granted to George Shelnut Containing one hundred and forty
four acres be the Same more or less. Lying and being in Edgefield
district on Cuffeetown Creek waters of Stephen's Creek and Savannah
River and adjoining Land held by the Said Josiah Langley and the heirs
of Rovert Bell beginning at a White oak corner on the Creek thence
South 60 E to 50 chain to Stake, thence N 30 E 27 ch 50 Links to white
oak corner, thence Nor 60 W. 50 chains to white oak on Cuffeetown
Creek, thence down the Said Creek following the windings and bendings
of the Said Creek to the beginning corner, containing one hundred and
forty acres; Together with all & Singular the rights members
hereditaments and appurtenances the said premises belonging or in any
wise ________[?] or appertaining; To Have and to hold all and Singular
the premises before mentioned unto the Said Josiah Langley Senr. his
heirs and assigns for Ever; and I do hereby bind myself, my heirs Exrs
and admns to warrant and for Ever defend all and Singular the Said
premises unto the Said Josiah Langley Senr. his heirs and assigns
against myself, my heirs and assigns, and against any other person or
persons whomsoever Lawfully Claiming or to claim the Same or any part
thereof. Witness my hand and Seal this third day of February eighteen
hundred and twenty three, and in the forty Seventh year of American
Independence Test James Harrison_____________/s/ John Culpepper [Seal]
Mathew (his X mark) Rodes__ South Carolina________Personally appeared
before me Edgefield District____James Harrison Sn. and made oath that
he was present and see John Culpepper Sign Seal and as his Act to
deed, Sign Seal and deliver the within instrument of Writing to and
for the uses and purposes therein mention, and did also See Mathew
Roads with himself Sign his name as a Witness to the due Execution
thereof - Sworn to before me this 29th March 1823. __________William
Thurmond J.Q_____James Harrison The State of South Carolina____I
William Thurmond Edgefield District_____________one of the Justices of
the quorum for Said District do hereby Certify unto all whom it may
concern that Nancy Culpepper the wife of the within named John
Culpepper did this day appear before me and upon being privately and
Separately Examined by me did declare that She does freely Voluntarily
and without any Compulsion dread or fear of any person or persons
whomsoever renounce release and forever relinquish unto the within
Josiah Langley his heirs and assigns all her Interest and estate and
also all her right and claim of Dower, of, in or to all and Singular
the premises within mentioned and released. Given under my hand and
Seal this the 29th March 1823___________________________Nancy
Culpepper [Seal] William Thurmond J. Q.____Recorded 4th Oct 1828.
There is a question about whether Mrs. John (Nancy Gillespie)
Culpepper died in Meriwether Co., GA or in Randolph Co., AL. Mrs. J.
(Clara Haralson) Moorcroft wrote in "THE WILLIAM CULPEPPER AND SALLY
LESLIE FAMILY," that the widowed John Culpepper accompanied the
William Henry Culpepper family from Meriwether Co., GA to Randolph
Co., AL when Clara's mother's was six years old. This would seem to
indicate that Nancy Gillespie Culpepper died in Meriwether Co., GA.
However there were Elliott descendants living near the Wadley City
Cemetery, Randolph Co., AL in the mid 1970's who believed that both
John and Nancy Culpepper were buried on their land in Randolph Co.,
AL. Unfortunately, no records of the location of that land have been
found. Lavyn (Wright) Sisco wrote 15 Apr 1994 that she had visited the
Wadley City Cemetery with a Dean descendant in 1985 and was told that
the two graves to the left of William Henry Culpepper were the graves
of John and Nancy (Gillsepie) Culpepper. However Lavyn was also told
in a 1973 letter from James Harris that William Henry Culpepper's
first wife, Sarah Leslie, was the first person buried in the cemetery.
If that is correct then Nancy died a year before Sarah and is not
buried in the cemetery. It is possible that the two graves to the left
of William Henry are those of Sarah O. (Culpepper) Elliott and her
daughter Cynthia, both of whom are supposed to be buried in the
cemetery but whose graves have not been identified. The cemetery was
known as the Elliott family cemetery before it became the Wadley City
Cemetery.
Ruth Vincent Carlisle Brice, born in July 1906, is a triple Culpepper
descendant. Her paternal grandmother was Emily Miriam Culpepper, who
was the daughter of William Henry and Sarah Leslie Culpepper. Ruth's
paternal grandfather was Broxon Yarbrough Carlisle, whose maternal
grandmother was Sarah Oglethorpe Culpepper, a daughter of JOHN and
NANCY GILLESPIE CULPEPPER. Ruth's mother's paternal grandmother was
Mary Elizabeth Culpeper, sister of the above Sarah Oglethorpe
Culpepper. Ruth now lives in Georgia near her son, Forrest Brice
(Source: Granddaughter, Kathryn Ruth Brice.) (Ruth died 1 May 2004.)
No records have been found in Georgia for John Culpepper or any of his
children until John appears in land lottery and deed records in Monroe
Co., GA in 1827. According to p. 42 of Monroe County, Georgia A
History compiled and published in 1979 by the Monroe County Historical
Society, Inc. in Forsythe, GA: The territory which comprises Monroe
County is part of the land ceded by the Creek Nation in a number of
treaties with the United States. The principal treaty was entered into
at Indian Springs in the Creek Nation on January 8, 1821, between the
United States, represented by Daniel M. Farney of the State of North
Carolina, and David Meriwether of the State of Georgia, and chiefs,
headman, warriors of the Creek Nation, in Council assembled. The land
in question was all land lying east of the Flint River and running up
the eastern bank of the same, along the water's edge to the head of
the principal western branch, which was later named Line Creek. From
the head of Line Creek the direction took the nearest and most direct
line to the Chattahoochee River. It then followed the eastern bank of
the Chattahoochee to the "Shallow Ford," where the boundary between
the Creek Nation and the State of Georgia at the time touched the
river. The Creek Nation had made many improvements in several sections
of this land, and these were one thousand acres to be laid off in a
square so as to include the Indian Springs in the center; six hundred
forty acres on the western bank of the Ocmulgee River to include the
improvements in the possession of the Indian Chief, General William
McIntosh.... Within this treaty there was agreed to be paid to the
Creek Nation for the cession of this land a total amount of two
hundred thousand dollars in fourteen consecutive payments.... This
treaty at Indian Springs was not generally accepted by Creek people
since they were being gradually crowded out of the land of their
forefathers. For this reason it was decreed by the Creek Nation that
no further treaty would be signed with the whites unless the entire
Creek Nation was in full agreement and then it was only to be signed
by those appointed by the nation for that purpose. In spite of this,
however, on February 12, 1825, another treaty was entered into with
the Creek Nation at Indian Springs. This treaty was signed by all the
chiefs and headmen of all Creek towns except those of Tohauhatchee.
The land ceded in this treaty included all the land lying within the
boundaries of the State of Georgia as defined by the compact.... The
land was divided into five counties: Dooly, Houston, Monroe, Fayette
and Henry....
3 Jan 1827, "John Culpepper Sr. of Monroe" bought 202 1/2 acres (Lot
223 Book E p. 179 witnessed by James Wilson and E. Dodson, recorded 20
Nov 1827) in the Twelfth District of Monroe County, GA for $800 from
Warren T. Castleberry and sold it the next year for the same price.
This would seem to show that John was already in Monroe before he
bought the land. G. W. Elliott, witnessed the 1828 deed. It is not
known if he was related to William Elliott, the husband of John
Culpepper's daughter, Sarah. By 1830, John and Nancy had only one son,
Lewis, still living at home with them in Monroe County, GA. Living
nearby was Mary (Corley) Culpepper, widow of John's son, Daniel.
Sometime between 1830 and 1832, John and Nancy apparently moved on to
Crawford Co., GA where there sons Joel and James had been recorded in
the 1830 census. "John Culpepper, Sen[ior]" of "Marshall's, Crawford"
drew lot 174 in the 22nd district of section 3 of the 1832 Cherokee
Land Lottery of Georgia. As a married man who was a U. S. citizen with
a son under 18 years of age who was a U. S. citizen and who had lived
in Georgia for three years, he would have been entitled to two draws.
The land was a 160 acre lot located in the southeast corner of what
was Floyd Co., GA and is now on the southern border of Bartow Co., GA
near where Paulding and Cobb Co. meet the Bartow Co., line. No record
has been found of John and Nancy moving to the land, nor has any
record been found of the sale of the land. The family is next noted
moving on to Meriwether Co., GA.
In the mid-1830's, John and Nancy Culpepper moved to Meriwether
County, GA along with son, William Henry Culpepper, and his family.
Another son, George W. Culpepper, was already living in Meriwether
Co., GA. John and Nancy bought land there in 1838. A descendant, John
William Culpepper, obtained a copy of deed F-396 in which, on 24 May
1838, Eli Peavy sold 50 acres on the north side of land lot #255 in
the 8th District of Meriwether County, Georgia, containing 50 acres to
John Culpepper for $35.35. John and Nancy were noted in the 1840
census of Meriwether Co., GA (p. 123, John Culpepper 1 male 60-70 with
1 female 50-60 living next to son, William H. Culpepper). The
following is an account of John Culpepper as a settler in Greenville,
Meriwether Co., GA which appeared in the Greenville, GA Vindicator on
April 21, 1905: Nearly eighty years ago a group of hardy yeomanry
settled on adjacent farms a few miles northwest of Greenville near the
old Ector mill (now Maffett's). They were John, George and William
Culpepper, Allen, Eli and David Peavy, Freeman Blount, Daniel Keith,
Joel Sears, William Sutherland, Robert Kendrick, James Martin and the
Carlisles. At that time these denizens were neither rich or very poor,
but self-reliant, self-sustaining and mutually helpful in many ways.
Then and in many sequent years it was customary in the country to have
log-rollings, house-raisings and wheat-reapings in which the neighbors
joined forces either personally or by colored proxy. In the dark hours
of sickness, death, or misfortune of any kind the sympathetic hearts
and hands of the neighborhood were promptly united to assist and
relieve the distressed. This was especially the era of the best men
and women of Georgia and from such have sprung those who have done
most in the private and public walks of life to conserve true nobility
of character, moral and christian civilization. John Culpepper removed
in early life from Virginia [according to the 1850 census record, he
was born in South Carolina and all indications are that his extended
family had recently moved to South Carolina when John Culpepper was
born] to South Carolina thence emigrating to Monroe county, Georgia
from where he came to Meriwether locating on what is now known as the
Willis Jarrell place near town. After residing here some years he
disposed of his farm reinvesting in a choice plantation in Randolph
county, Ala. Then he spent the remainder of his long life contentedly
as he harvested luxuriant crops from the alluvial lands bordering on
the Chattahoochee [read Tallapoosa River?]. He belonged to the honest
primitive class of citizenry who scorned deceit, lying and trickery,
esteeming true character and a good name above filthy lucre and
corrupted honors. Though not a churchman, the old patriot was a firm
believer in the christian religion as was attested by his conduct in
the practice of its precepts. He was the father of eight sons and two
daughters, all of whom located in various parts of this state and
Alabama. All were substantial highly respected citizens, reflecting
honor on their special callings and the name of their revered
ancestor. This is a remarkable family for longevity. All attained very
old age some of them having lived more than a century.
John William Culpepper also obtained a copy of deed G-458-459 dated 28
Jan 1842 in which George Washington and William Henry Culpepper sold
the west half of land lot "#226" [should be 256] which they had
purchased in 1838 in the 8th District containing 100 acres, to John
Culpepper for $400.00. In a 25 Apr 1995 letter, John William Culpepper
wrote:
The Mead Board Company currently owns [lot] 226 [256?] and part of
[lot] 225 [255?]. We talked to Bill Gibbs at the Meriwether office and
he could not provide any information regarding burial sites on the
property, but suggested contacting Tom Brannon at their Yatesville
Office in Upson County, which we did. Mr. Brannon pulled out the plat
maps and we looked at them without noting any burial sites on the
property....
Land Lots 225 & 226 [255? & 256?], 8th District are located
approximately 2 to 3 miles northwest of Greenville, about one mile
east off of Georgia Route 100 on the Jarrell road. 255 cuts across
Jarrell Road.
Eleanor [Willingham] and I located a cemetery nearby lot 255 and just
off of the Jarrell Road and it had a number of Peavy graves but no
Nancy Culpepper.
It is not clear at what point, John Culpepper moved on to Randolph
Co., AL. According to Meriwether Co., GA Deed I-392 obtained by John
William Culpepper, John Culpepper and William H. Culpepper sold for
$1,000 to Jacob Moon the Meriwether Co., GA District 8 lot 256
containing 202 1/2 acres which George Washington and William H.
Culpepper purchased in 1838 half of which John Culpepper purchased
from George Washington and William H. Culpepper in 1842. John and
William H. Culpepper also sold as part of the package the 50 acres off
of the north side of lot 255 which John Culpepper had bought in 1838.
The question that this raises is whether or not John Culpepper moved
to Randolph Co., AL before or after Nancy's death. According to Mrs.
J. (Clara Haralson) Moorcroft, writing about her grandparents in "THE
WILLIAM CULPEPPER AND SALLY LESLIE FAMILY," Clara's mother, Sarah Jane
Culpepper, was six years old when the William Henry Culpepper family
moved with the widowed John Culpepper from Meriwether Co., GA to
Randolph Co., GA. Sarah Jane Culpepper would have been six years old
in 1850 and in fact both William Henry and the widowed, John Culpepper
were listed in the 1850 Randolph Co., AL census. However, "William H.
Culpepper" is noted in Randolph Co., AL land records in 1848. He
bought or was granted 39 acres and 24 rods of land (Certificate or
Warrant 10628) in the southwest part of the northeast division of
Section 10 in Township 22 South, Range 10 East of Randolph Co., AL.
The land appears to be to the west of Wadley about half way between
the town and Pleasant Hill Church. All records on William Henry's
youngest daughter, Caroline F., show that she was born in January 1849
in Alabama. This would seem to verify that the family was already in
Alabama by 1849. If John Culpepper was a widower, then it appears that
the William Henry Culpepper family moved to Randolph Co., AL with
William Henry's father around the time that William Henry Culpepper
purchased land there in Aug 1848 and after the July 1848 death of
Nancy (Gillespie) Culpepper. A 78 year old John Culpepper was listed
(p. 386, family 189) on the 1850 census in Randolph County, AL living
nearby his son, William Henry (p. 386, family 183). John listed his
birthplace as South Carolina and he owned $5,500 worth of real estate.
An 8 year old grandson, Lewis W. Culpepper, a son of William Henry
Culpepper, was also listed as living with his grandfather.
Unfortunately no record has been found of the land that John Culpepper
bought in Randolph Co., AL but based on census records it must have
been very close to William Henry's land and probably at least four
times as large based on the amount of real estate he was supposed to
have owned. Section 11 which covers the western portion of Wadley was
already accounted for by early settlers (1835 - 1837) with the
exception of one 40 acre portion that William Henry Culpepper
purchased in 1855 (poor ink makes the entry almost impossible to
read). Section 10 where William Henry had his land seems to be
similarly accounted for by people who settled in the late 1830's and
1840's with the exception of another piece of land that William Henry
purchased in 1855 which was a parcel immediately north of his own
land. The records of Section 3 which was immediately north of Section
11 are in many cases impossible to read because of the poor ink. The
entry for John J. Culpepper's land is still legible. It is about the
right size to account for the amount of property that John Culpepper
owned in 1850 and it is near enough to William Henry to account for
the proximity of the census records. Is it possible that John
Culpepper actually owned the land that John J. Culpepper was noted
with in the 1850 land record?
But according to the letter which follows, John Culpepper had broken
up housekeeping by 1853. The question is then where was he living when
he died. One possibility is with William Henry. The other possibility
is with his daughter, Sarah (Culpepper) Elliott. The Wadley City
Cemetery, which is in this grid area, was originally named the Elliott
Cemetery and was presumably on land owned by Sarah (Culpepper)
Elliott, John Culpepper's daughter. She is believed to have been in
the area before 1855 since one of her sons married in Randolph Co., AL
in 1855. Sarah was also recorded in the Almond P. O. district in the
1870 census but was not living close to her brothers. In the 1880
census, she was recorded in the Louina P. O. district whereas William
Henry was in the Flatrock district. This suggests that she was
probably living in the Wadley area. In the 1853 letter which follows,
John Culpepper writes of trying to get some of his children to come to
Randolph Co., AL. It is possible that Sarah came shortly after this
and settled on land that John Culpepper had purchased and that the
Wadley City Cemetery land and the land to the south of Wadley where
John Jefferson Culpepper descendants were found was at one time owned
by John Culpepper.
In 1853, John Culpepper wrote a letter to his son Francis G. in Lavaca
County, Texas, which has been preserved all of these years by that
branch of the family. He mentions various relatives but unfortunately
does not tell us anything of his own ancestry. John died in Randolph
County, AL, May 13, 1855.
The following is the letter that John Culpepper, living near Louina,
Randolph County, AL wrote to Francis G. Culpepper who had been in
Sweet Home, TX for about two years:
______________Randolphs County Ala'a, 26th June 1853
Dear Children,
I rec'd your letter, dated 7th May, on 13th June And was very happy to
hear you was all well and hope these lines May still find you
Likewise. I have to inform you we are (mostly) Complaining, but all
up, its common in our country for complaints And many Deaths, this is
3rd Letter I have wrote, I have just return'd from An uncommon Broad
(of two months) and found many of our kin poorly. I shou'd have wrote
Sooner but waiting to hear from them, thinking I cou'd Give you their
Situation, I find all I have heard from better, but Washingtons oldest
Daughter, left this world on Wednesday night 15th last. Sick two
months. While gone, I saw mostly our kind, they are something like Old
times, not as much alteration as I expected, but great alteration in
The Country, Crops thare is Sorry, so it is here, but Wheat is good
all over. Very dry now, I have nothing more worth Notice, to inform
you. I am glad to hear you are Still pleas'd with your Country,
likewise Hear your Children settled near, I thought Daniel was gone. I
am glad to hear of Mr. Humphries, I can't git the Boys to write no how
nor no whare, Lewis is in Pike Zebulon, by promise him & wife will be
Here July, Some others of our relations have promis'd to Come but
uncertain. I am trying to git more of them here but don't know how it
may turn. I am trading my blacks for Land and quit Houskeeping, but am
Lonesom and Dissatisfi'd, Stile, but am Old and cant hear makes more
difficulties. But thank God I wore out Shoes fast, and travil all the
way alone. I wish to hear from you often, but I don't know how to fix
it, I think the falt is In the Post Masters, your letter Lay there 11
days, you never Said anything of a change in your Post Office, this
Letter comes from a new name, I understand it Sweet Home whare I have
Directed this Letter. Perhaps it wou'd be something more Satisfactory
to know whare your Relations Are Settled.
Joels Widow & family (John in Morgan) are at Haralson Viledge Coweta
County. Daniels d[itt]o Dead, James & Caroline Talbot yet, John gone
West. John Slappey is Living with your Aunt Betsy, he is mar'd got One
Child.
The rest is whare you left them. I Dont know of anything more worth
your Notice. Write Soon Long Coming, ____________________So Ends
_________________________From your Father _____________________/s/
John Culpepper
"Washington's oldest daughter" mentioned in the letter was Nancy
Louisan, daughter of George Washington Culpepper, of Meriwether Co.
GA, who died June 16, 1853, at 11:25 A.M., according to the G.W.C.
Bible record.
"I thought Daniel gone" refers to Daniel Fey Culpepper, the son of
Francis Gillespie Culpepper. He did not leave Lavaca Co. TX until
around 1900, and died shortly thereafter in Devine, TX.
"Lewis is in Pike Zebulon, by promise him & wife will be Here July"
refers to Lewis Peek Culpepper, the youngest son of John W., who lived
in Zebulon, GA until 1859, when he moved to Randolph Co. AL. In a
letter written in the early 1900's to Rev. George B. Culpepper, a son
of Lewis, Joseph Richard Culpepper, mentions going with his father to
visit John Culpepper when Joseph was 12 years old, i. e., in 1853.
John Culpepper was not listed as a slave-owner in the 1850 slave
schedule of Randolph County, Alabama so it is not clear when or where
he got the slaves that he intended to trade "for land."
"This letter comes from Sweet Home" refers to the name that Francis
Gillespie Culpepper gave to the land when he arrived in Lavaca County,
TX, in the spring of 1851. According to his granddaughter, Jessie
Burke Heard, "he stopped the wagons and told the people that this was
the place he wanted to make his home, so he then and there named the
place Sweet Home."
"Joel's widow and family (John in Morgan) are at Harelson Viledge"
refers to Nancy (Corley) Culepper, widow of John's oldest son, Joel,
who was in Coweta County, GA in 1850, as were her children, Charles
W., Sara A. B., James Benjamin, and Elijah Milton. "John in Morgan"
refers to Nancy's oldest son, John L., who was in Morgan Co. GA, and
was later killed in the Civil War, at Winchester, VA, on Feb 24, 1862.
"Daniels d[itt]o Dead" is a problem. If it was a reference to his son,
Daniel P. Culpepper, as a mental note before going to talk about
Daniel's children, James and Caroline, then it is odd since Daniel
would have been dead for over 25 years and Francis Culpepper would
have known that. If it referred to the fourth son of Joel and Nancy,
then it is odd that the death was not noted in the Family Bible of his
sister, Mrs. I. W. (Sarah A. B. Culpepper) Sims who did note the death
of her brother John in 1862. The abbreviated ditto symbol "do" is
under the word Widow of the line above. Possibly the line should be
read "Daniels [Widow] Dead" since Daniel's widow, Mary (Corley)
Culpepper had died in 1851 the year when Francis G. Culpepper left for
Texas and he might not have heard the news.
"James and Caroline Talbot yet, John gone West" refers to James Marion
Culpepper and Nancy Caroline Culpepper Cooper who were children of
John's son, Daniel Peek Culpepper, who had died in 1825. James and
Nancy Caroline were in Talbot Co., GA in 1850. Daniel Peek Culpepper's
youngest son was John Francis Culpepper who died in Johnson Co. TX in
1916.
"John Slappey is living with your Aunt Betsey." This reference is to
Betsey (Gillespie) Slappey who was the sister of Nancy Gillespie
Culpepper, the wife of John Culpepper. John Slappey was apparently her
son. The Slappeys have not been located in 1850 census records.
The graves of John and Nancy (Gillespie) Culpepper have not been found
although there are memorial stones for them in the cemetery of the
Allen-Lee Memorial United Methodist Church in Lone Oak, GA. If, as
appears to be the case, Nancy died before John Culpepper moved on to
Alabama, then she probably is buried somewhere near Greenville, GA.
Mrs. Eleanor (Culpepper) Willingham, in a 28 Sep 1987 letter, wrote of
trying to locate the graves of John and Nancy Gillespie Culpepper. In
Wadley, AL she located a "Mr. Smith" who was "over 80" and who had
married a Culpepper descendant who thought that John Culpepper had
lived in the neighborhood. He also spoke of a cemetery "down on the
[Tallapoosa] river-which would be almost inaccessible." Mr. Smith had
not heard that John and Nancy were buried there but said "it could be
a possibility." Mr. Charles Lee Culpepper, Sr. wrote 4 Jul 1978: My
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