-------------------- Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 16:53:23 -0500 From: John Spraberry To: ladkins@star-telegram Subject: Spraberry/Carr/Spraberry SPRABERRY/CARR/SPRAYBERRY The following information has been put into two charts so that it would be easier to follow the intermarriages between families in the SPRAYBERRY Family Lines. Uriah C Sprayberry was born in the Mecklenburg, North Carolina and Lancaster, South Carolina area in the early 1800s. Uriah C and his wife, Elleneder, were in De Kalb County, Georgia in 1830 and 1840. Uriah C was a farmer and a Methodist Minister. His father was Archibald Sprayberry, and his father was a John Sprayberry. Probably, Johns father was also a John Sprayberry. Alfred Joseph (A J) Carr was the son of John and Ann B Carr. A J Carr was orphaned early in life. He married Narcissus Emeline Howell, daughter of Eli and Nancy Love Howell (who are buried in the Bethel Cemetery in Delta, Alabama), on 15 October 1835 in De Kalb County, Georgia. A J and Emeline Carr had fourteen children. In the late 1840s and early 1850s, three of Uriah C Sprayberrys six sons married three daughters of A J Carr. Jepthy L married Lucy Ann Jane, and they had seven children. Marion Manson married Georgia Ann Savannah, and they had two sons. Wiley Jackson married Mary Ann Melissa, and they had five children. Manson and Jackson died in the Civil War, and Jepthy may have died of wounds in 1869. Uriahs other three sons were John W, and twins Jeremiah and Newton. Some of Jeremiahs descendants are in the Atlanta, Georgia area, and some of Newtons descendants have Sprayberry Bar B Q in Newnan, Georgia. Three of John W Sprayberrys nine children married Sprayberry children from other Sprayberry family lines. Emely Jane married James Harris Sprayberry, a son of Francis Marion Sprayberry; Thomas married Margrette Elizabeth Sprayberry, a daughter of Everette W Sprayberry; and George Washington married Nancy Lou Raney Sprayberry, also a daughter of Everette W Sprayberry. Everette W Sprayberry and Francis Marion Sprayberry were half brothers, sons of James Sprayberry. James Sprayberry and Uriah C Sprayberry were brothers, sons of Archibald Sprayberry. James Sprayberry is probably the father of James Allen Spra(y)berry. In 1870, one of A J Carrs grandsons shot a man he recognized as a thug who was slipping up to his still he figured to rob and kill him. A J Carr then moved his family of then eleven children, including his three widowed Spraberry daughters and their fourteen children, to Pontotoc County, Mississippi for a few months, then on to Texas. They got to Texarkana the same day as the railroad, moved through Tarrant and Coryell Counties, and were living in Hamilton County in 1877 were we found: a personal note Lucy made for $250; on 3 May, Georgia Ann Savannah remarried a widower, Phylander Slay Tipton, who had two daughters, Elizabeth and Mary Francis; and Lucy Ann Jane Sprayberrys two daughters, Nancy Love and Emeline Melissie, married brothers, Pleasant Henry and Charles Hamilton Partin, in a double wedding on 19 Sep 1877. In 1879, the CARR, SPRABERRY, and PARTIN families were some of the first to move twenty miles north of Abilene, Texas to what would become Jones County, Texas. There in the 1880s, Elizabeth Tipton married her stepbrother, Georgia Ann Savannahs son, William Alfred Spraberry. Mary Francis Tipton married a son of A J Carr, Marcellus Plumer (Claudie) Carr, a twin and a brother to the three Carr sisters who had married the three Spraberry brothers. A fourth sister, Elender Ann Victoria Carr, first married Joseph W Smith. Their son, William Alfred Smith, married Birdie Reed, a daughter of Mary Ann Spra(y)berry and Steve Tom Reed. Mary Ann Spra(y)berry was a daughter of James Allen Spra(y)berry and his first wife, Nancy. James Allen Spra(y)berry was born in Georgia in 1814, was in Floyd Co, Georgia in 1850, was in Cass County, Texas in 1860, Bell County, Texas in 1870 and 1880, and come to Jones County, Texas in 1887. James Allen Spra(y)berrys two oldest son William Jackson and oldest daughter, Francis Jane, married W H Fikes daughter, Mary Elizabeth, and son Martin Luther Fikes. After Joseph W Smith was killed by his in-laws, Elender Ann Victoria married Samual McGehee. Samual and Victorias daughter, Melissa Narcissus Emeline McGehee, married Marion Jasper Spraberry, a son of James Allen Spra(y)berry and his second wife, Sarah (Sallie) Bean. Marion Jasper Spraberrys sister, Martha Ellen, married Jackson and Mary Ann Melissa Spraberrys son, William (Bill) Lafayette Spraberry. Bill and Martha Spraberrys daughter, Alma Malissa, married Arlon McIlwain. Four of their children married brothers and sisters. Goldie married Orville Finley, and Goldies brother, Norval, married Rae Evely Finley. Norvals second wife, June Gibbs, is a sister to Billy Joe McIlwains wife. Stephen A (Shinnery) and Martha Ann Davis Scott were also 1879 arrivals to what was to become Jones County. Two of their daughters married SPRABERRY double first cousins. Edith Elizabeth married Washington Carr (W C) Spraberry and Martha Adline (Addie) married William Alfred Spraberry after his first wife, Elizabeth Tipton, died having their second child. A third SCOTT daughter, Laura Scott, married John Henry George. John and Lauras son, Henry Edward George, married Charles and Emeline Partins daughter, Maude Laura Partin. Two Turbyfill brothers, Elmer Orin and Martin, married daughters of William D Spraberry, Allie and Myrtle Lee. The Turbyfill mens sister, Alma Melissa, married William Ds brother, Varademan Conner Spraberry, great granddaughters and grandson of Manson and Georgia Ann Savannah Spraberry. Three granddaughters of Thomas William Barrett married three sons of Eli Spraberry. Mary Ettas daughter, Viola, married Albert Manson Spraberry; Thomas Rubins daughter, Ruth Mae, married Charles Hardin Spurgen Spraberry; and her sister, Maudine, was William D (Bill) Spraberrys second wife. Abner John Spraberry of Uriah Cs line, married Maggie Allen Dennis. Maggies sister, Virgie Mae Dennis, married Richman S (Rip) Spraberry of James Allen Spra(y)berrys line. By the 1920s, Abner, Rip, and two CARR families moved from Jones County to Dawson County Texas to farm. Marion Jasper Spraberry, a son of James Allen and his second wife, Sarah Bean, also had two sons who married sisters. Raymond Spraberry married Maude Marie Moore, and Buford (Boots) McGehee Spraberry married Lena Loesta Moore. Edith, Emma Mae [Madie], and Hazel, the three youngest daughters of Elzie George Washington Sprayberry married Cortez, Roy, and Elvis, three Austin brothers. When the three Austin brothers, younger brother came over to vist the Sprayberrys girls younger brother, D M, after Elvis married the youngest and last Sprayberry daughter, the girls father, Elzie, met him on the porch, picked up a stick, and without cracking a grin, told him, You darn Austin boys have already got all my girls except Mattie {his wife}, and you sure cant have her. James Franklin Newell and Lovie Jane Palmers three children married SPRAYBERRYs. Ora Lee Newell married William Larcus Sprayberry after his first wife died. Bowman Newell married Eunice Pearl Sprayberry, a daughter of William Larcus Sprayberry and his first wife. Annie Newell married William Larcus Sprayberrys nephew, William J W (Will) Sprayberry, a son of James Dolphus and Jeannie Lou Pettus. Three children of George and Betty Elizabeth McGar married into the SPRABARY family of Denton County Texas. Phoebie McGar married Oscar Sprabary, her sister, Sybill McGar, married Oscars brother, Marvin Sprabary, and Frank McGar married the Sprabarys cousin, Ollie Sprabary. Francis Marion Sprayberrys son, Henry Allen Sprayberry married Sophonia Reed. Sophonias half brothers, Miles and Sims Reed, married Israel Henry Sprayberrys son, George Sylvester Sprayberry, daughters, Daisy Canthia and Avie Mae (Effie). Elijah Smith who was born in Mar 1839, died in 1916, and is buried in Macedonia Baptist Cem in Goodwater, AL, first son, John Alexander Smith married Mary Evie Sprayberry, a granddaughter of Israel Henry Sprayberry; second son, Simeon N Smith, married Liddie Grace Sprayberry, a daughter of Israel Henry Sprayberry and his second wife, Mary Ann; and third child, Susan Emma Smith, married James Hurbert Spraberry, son Jeremiah G Sprayberry and a grandson of Israel Henry Sprayberry. Twice, a woman has married a man, they divorced, and she married his younger brother. In Manson and Georgia Anns family, Eli and Mary Sprayberrys, daughter, Mattie, married a man named POUNDS, they divorced, and she married his younger brother, A B Pounds. William Alfred and Addie Sprayberrys son, Oliver (Ollie) Alfred Spraberry, married Arlene Owens. They divorced, and Arlene married Ollies younger brother, Hubert (Hub) Scott Spraberry. All but one James Allen Spra(y)berrys children from his first marriage who do not live around Jones County spell their name Sprayberry. All those children from the second marriage live around Jones County and spell their name Spraberry. Uriah C spelled his name Sprayberry. We do not have a recorded signature of any of his three sons who married the three CARR sisters. We do have a promissory note Lucy Carr Spraberry signed in 1877 with her (x), and her father, A J Carr, signed as a witness. All of Uriah Cs sons that married the CARR sisters descendants, spell their name SPRABERRY. All of Uriahs other descendants spell their name SPRAYBERRY. In Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, there are families where three brothers and sisters use a different spelling than their father. In each case, they use the spelling from their birth certificate. Therefore, now a doctor, nurse, or county official spelled the name, is the spelling that person chose to use. Some people have gotten mad at the family and/or just added the middle (y) or removed it on their own. Around Dallas, Texas, we have variations of SPRABERY, SPRABURY, SPRABEARY, and SPRABARY from the same family line. The SPRAYBERRY Family name is not recorded in the New Dictionary of American Family Names. It is a local Yorkshire, England dialectal transposition of SPROTOROUGH - a Parish near the town of Doncaster, and found in ENGLAND usually under the spelling of SPRADBERY or SPRADBROW. This type of dialectal corruption is quite common in Yorkshire, where Thish was known as Tresk and Slaithwaite was Slouwet. A Henry Sprattberry was baptized at St Michaels, Cornhill, London in 1656. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Thomas de Sprotburghe which was dated 1292, The Pipe Rolls of Yorkshire, during the reign of King Edward I, The Hammer of the Scotts 1272-1308. Scotland, Ireland, and Wales obtained formal records later than ENGLAND, and this is reflected in their later recordings. Surnames of every Country have been subjected to change owing to dialect, Civil War, and plain poor spelling. or The English surname SPRAYBERRY is toponymic in origin, belonging to that group of surnames derived from the place where the original bearer once dwelt or where he once held land. In the case of the surname, also found as SPRADBERY and SPRADBROW, is a curious variant of the toponym SPROTBROUGH, the original bearer this being once from Sprotbrogh. The village of Sprotbrouth is located in South Yorkshire, some three miles from Doncaster, and was a thriving settlement long before the Norman Conquest of 1066. The village is first recorded by the Norman clerks in the Domesday book of 1086; land was held in the village of Sproterburg by one Svartkollr, one Sveinn, and one Count Aubrey. The village name itself derives from the forename of its original settler Sprot and means literally Sprots manor or Sprouts place; the forename came from the Old English sprott meaning Sprout or shoot. The surname has been documented in Yorkshire since the late Thirteenth Century when one Thomas Sprotburghe is recorded in the Placita de Quo Warranto of the county of York in the year 1292. In the Poll Tax Returns of the county in 1379 appears the name of one Johannas de Sprotburghe of Sprotburghe. By the Seventeenth Century, the name had spread to London, and it 1632 one Robert Spradbrowe son of Edward Spradbrowe was baptized at the Church of St Michael in Cornhill. In 1656, one Henry Sprattberry, son of William Sprattberry was baptized in St Jamess Church, Clerkenwell, and in the same church in 1670, one Bridget Cutberd married one Robert Spredborough. The SPRAYBERRY Family Coat of Arms is a black German Eagle with Gold Beak and Claws, and a white upper left corner bearing a red St Georges Cross, symbolic of England or two battle axes in saltier proper. A John Spraborrow was put on the ship Miller in Kent, England on 17 May 1741 for transportation to America. A John Spradborough got off that ship. He married in 1748, died in Virginia in 1781 where his will was probated. His children may have spelled their name SPRAYBERRY. We have good information that leads us to believe our family originally may have been arms makers around Cologne, Germany. An English King on the way home from the Crusades may have seen their work and imported several families into England where they were custom arms makers [blacksmiths] for the Kings of England for about two hundred fifty years. Oral family history states, Two brothers came to Virginia or the Carolinas area in America in the early 1740s. Their descendants moved through the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama. The records we have found indicates most of the men fought for the South in the Civil War and several were killed. After the Civil War, some of the families stayed in these areas while other families moved west. We have a famous artist English cousin, Walter E Spradbery, whose works are displayed in Englands museums. Here in America, James Michael Sprayberry of Sylacauga, Alabama won the Congressional Medal of Honor the day after his twenty first birthday, 25 May 1968, in Vietnam. Steve Sprayberry, also of Sylacauga, Alabama, was an All American football player at the University of Alabama. One of Americas largest oil field is named Spraberry and its oil bearing formation, is know as the Spraberry Trend. The CARR family name is carried through Jepthy and Lucys family line. Their son, was Washington Carr Spraberry. Washington Carrs only male Spraberry grandson was named, Carr Dennis Spraberry. Carr Denniss first two grandsons were named Edward Carr Spraberry and Kenneth Carr Spraberry. There was a James Sprayberry in the 1820 South Carolina Census. Court records indicate he died without leaving a will. There was a family court battle over the estate. It is likely, after the court battle over the estate, most of the family went by the name or a variation of SPRAY, many moving to Tennessee. James Uriah Sprayberry, born in Lancaster County, South Carolina in 1823 and came to Texas around 1860, probably is the only descendant from this line that used the name SPRAYBERRY. Since most of the Court Houses were burned during the Civil War, and most have burned again, there are very few records that go back before 1900. Henry County, Georgia is an exception. There, we find land records in the 1830s through the 1850s of SPRAYBERRY land transactions. So far, these are the most important records we have been able to found. We have not been able to find Archibalds wifes maiden name, or where either of them are buried. We have not been to positively identify Uriah Cs wifes maiden name or where either of them are buried. We have not been able to find where Jepthy L Sprayberry is buried, [A note found in Jepthys grandsons safety deposit box states, Jepthy died in Walker County, Alabama in 1869 and Uriah C died there in 1864 or 1865.] or where Lucy Ann Jane and two of her daughters were buried when they died in 1881 by a creek of fever on a wagon train bringing her sister Elender Ann Victoria Carr Smith back from Mississippi. [Last edited 29 Mar 1997]
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