Pedigree Chart for Mary Ann Waggoner

In case you're having trouble keeping relationships straight in all that I've written so far, a visual may help you keep relationships clear. So I thought I'd add this pedigree chart for my grandmother, Mary Ann Waggoner, wife of Clint Troutman, mother of Neville, James, Carl, Verne, and Virginia, grandmother of . . . . well, there were nineteen of us.

Four Generation Pedigree Chart for Mary Ann Waggoner

As a side note, I've been to Charlotte, North Carolina, this past week with Myron. He was attending a conference for church administrators, and I explored the area while he was busy. I've never done much Troutman research because of the big book Descending Jacob's Ladder. I figured it had all been done. But lately, I've felt the need to see what I could learn on my own, so I went to the Record of Deeds building in Statesville. I was amazed at all the deeds I found regarding Jacob Troutman, our earliest Troutman ancestor born in America, and his land purchases from individuals and grants from the state of North Carolina. In addition, I found a document regarding the distribution of his property after he died. He left nearly 500 acres to each of seven children. That man owned a lot of land!

By the way, I also learned that all those records are online, so I can access them from home. If you're interested, go to http://www.co.iredell.nc.us/Departments/RegDeeds/. Click on Online Records Search, create an account, and have at it.

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James Havens' Civil War Record

I don't know why I didn't think to add to yesterday's story these images of my great-great-grandfather, James Haven's Confederate records.

James Havens, muster roll.

This oath of allegiance to the United States government taken in June 1865 is especially interesting to me because it shows his signature, not once, but twice. And it describes his physical appearance at the end: 5'11", dark complexion, dark eyes, dark skin. Note no whiskers, so he must have been clean shaven. It says he was 48 years old, but if he was born in 1821, that's not quite correct. Oh, if only records agreed on these little details!

James Havens' oath of allegiance to the United States government, 24 June 1865.

Well, there you have it. Yes, any and all of our Troutman/Waggoner ancestors who fought in the Civil War were in rebellion against the Union. I've yet to find a Yankee soldier among them. In their minds, they were Virginians or North Carolinians defending their home states against an invading army.

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Rachel Havens' Childhood: Not an Easy Life

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What was childhood like for my grandmother Mary Waggoner’s mother, Rachel Havens? Born in 1862 when her mother was 38 years old, during the second year of the Civil War, Rachel was the sixth of seven children. Her siblings were Bryant, born 1843; Andrew Jackson, born 1845; Cosby Victoria, born 1846; John James, born 1850; Barbara Elizabeth, born 1852; then a younger brother James Winton “Wint,” born 1865. Due to that ten year time gap between the birth of Elizabeth and Rachel, it’s possible there were other children who died. Many families lost children in those days.

War or no war, the family seems to have had little in terms of financial resources. Census records show that her father, James Havens, owned no land. In the 1860 Wythe County Virginia census, his personal estate was valued at $500.00.[1] In today’s dollars, this amounts to about $11,295.00, according to “historic value of the dollar” on Google.com/answers.

In 1860, the James Havens family lived in Wythe County. To see an interesting historical map of Wythe County click on this link: http://www.jdhartsell.com/hartsell/SettlementMapWythe2.html  Note surrounding counties.

Considering the time she was born and her father’s finances, it’s safe to say that she must have faced hardships. Early in the war, Rachel’s brothers Bryant and Andrew had enlisted with Company F, 45^th Virginia Infantry.[2] What anxiety must have permeated the home to have these older brothers gone off to war! By 1864, at age 43, her father James had also enlisted, but with Co. A, 11 Battalion, Virginia Reserves, Wallace’s Battalion, CSA, serving under his older brother, Captain John Havens.[3] At the end of the war, James signed an oath of allegiance to the United States Government on 13 June 1865, in Charleston, West Virginia.[4]
 

All of them returned from the war, but James survived only a short time. Sometime between signing the oath and the 1870 census, he died leaving his wife, Mary Jane to fend for herself with two small children still at home. By 1870, she had moved to Maiden Spring, Tazewell County. Besides Rachel and Wint, sister Cosby and brother John were still at home with their mother. John, who was working as a farm laborer, appears to have been the only source of income for the household.[5]

To see the only map I could find that shows Maiden Spring, click on this link. You can see the name M. Springs, just below Tazewell C. H. http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/files/images/HD_TazewellCoVA1857.jpg

The war was disastrous for the South, and this was only five short years later. The war had ripped apart families and country and killed thousands of the nation’s young men. In the years following the war, Virginia’s economy was in ruins, many banks had closed, Confederate money was worthless, many families had lost husbands and sons. Soldiers in the South had returned to ruined homes and farms and plantations. Mary Jane Havens and her family surely were struggling to survive. Many children worked odd jobs for people to earn a little extra money for the family. By 1880, Rachel was working as a cook in the home of a young attorney, S. W. Williams and his family, on Jackson Street in Sedden, now Bland, Virginia.[6] Mary Jane had also moved to Sedden and lived with her daughter Elizabeth and husband, John Pauley; she earned her living knitting stockings.[7]

This link will take you to a great map of Bland County, so you can get an idea of where they lived, and you can see the relationship to surrounding counties, especially Tazewell. Smyth County is straight south, but the name is not on the map.
 

This was life for Rachel at age 18 when she met and married young Mark Rhea Deavor, age 19 in January 1881. We just do not know what hardships they faced that caused their divorce. Apparently, no children were born to them. Considering the cultural mores of the 1880s, especially in rural areas such as Rich Valley, Smyth County Virginia, when divorce was not the norm, they may have been scorned. Some people may have gossiped about them or looked down on them. I can only speculate. What might have been a scandal then is ho hum today. But we do know that a year after her divorce, Rachel married our great-grandfather, Eli Pierce Waggoner, and the two of them raised eight children, including our grandmother Mary, and had a long life together.

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[1] 1860 U.S. census, Wythe County, Virginia, population schedule, sixty-eighth district, p. 165 (penned), dwelling 1234, family 1100, James Harins [Havens], database Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 08 July 2013).

[2] U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, Bryant Havens, Private, Company F, Virginia 45th Infantry Regiment; database Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com, accessed 10 July 2013). Kentucky, Confederate Pension Records, 1912-1930, Andrew J. Havens, 45^th Virginia Infantry; database Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 July 2013).

[3] Military, compiled service records, Civil War, Confederate, images Fold3 (http://www.fold3.com : accessed 8 July 2013), card for James Havens, Pvt., Co. A, 11 Battalion Virginia Reserves, 1864-1865.

[4] Ibid.

[5] 1870 U. S. census, Maiden Spring, Tazewell County, Virginia, population schedule, Knob Post Office, p. 88 (penned), dwelling 501, family 511, Mary Havens family; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 8 July 2013); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm publication T9, roll 1356.

[6] 1880 U.S. census, Sedden, Bland County, Virginia, population schedule, enumeration district (ED) 6, p. 19 (penned), dwelling 2, family 2, Rachael Havens; digital image, Ancesrty.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 July 2013); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm publication T9, roll 1390.

[7] 1880 U.S. census, Sedden, Bland County, Virginia, population schedule, enumeration district (ED) 6, p. 1 (penned), dwelling 2, family 2, John G Pauley household; digital image, Ancesrty.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 July 2013); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm publication T9, roll 1356.

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Eli's First Wife: What happened to her?

The romantic story of the courtship of my grandparents, Clint Troutman and Mary Waggoner, has always sent my imagination soaring. I wish I could have heard my grandfather telling the story, but he died when I was only three years old. I don’t remember him. I’m glad my cousin Connee remembers the twinkle in his eye when he told the story. She relates it beautifully in her poem, “Mountain Girl Grandma,” posted on April 24.

My dad talked a lot about his father and mother, but not so much about his grandparents, Daniel and America (Pratt) Troutman and Eli and Rachel (Havens) Waggoner. Oh, I’d heard stories about his Troutman grandparents, but not about the Waggoners. The Troutmans had reunions, but not the Waggoners. The Troutmans tended to laud their heritage, but not the Waggoners. The Waggoners were a mystery, so I set out to learn more about them.

After I learned the story of Rachel's first marriage to Mark Rhea Devor, I started searching for answers to the identity of the first wife of my great-grandfather, Eli Pierce Waggoner. Learning her name was easier than finding out what happened to that marriage. At the Smyth County Court House in Marion, Virginia, I was hoping to find a marriage record for Eli and Rachel, but instead I uncovered a record for Eli and Betty O. Colly:

            “Eli P. Wagoner (25) to Betty O. Colly (22), 21 July 1881.  Parents: Jacob and Ann             Wagoner and S.P. and Sarah Colly.”[1]

So who was Betty O. Colly? According to the 1870 census, Betty was born in North Carolina about 1859, the eldest child of Luther and Sarah Colly.[2] The family lived in Center Grove Township, Guilford County North Carolina, and Luther was a shoemaker.[3] Betty had five younger brothers: Charlie (10), Luther (8), William (6), and Seymour (2).[4] Ten years later when the 1880 census was taken, the family had moved to Rich Valley, Smyth County Virginia.[5] Luther R. is still a shoemaker, and there are two additional children: Clayton Decatur (9) and Bessie L. (7). At last, Betty has a younger sister. This time the census says Betty was born in Virginia. Census record do not always agree on every point. (Not all records are transcribed correctly, either. Case in point is Betty's father's name in the marriage record. Was it S. P. or Luther R? All records, agree on Luther R., so the marriage record is most likely a transcription error.)

Now how did the boy from Bland County meet the girl from Smyth County? The answer is in the 1880 census. Living on the next farm to the Colley family is the Jerome Harman family.[6] Jerome Harman’s sister is Anna F. Harman Waggoner,[7] Eli’s mother. And where is Eli? At age 23, he’s living with his uncle Jerome’s family working as a hired hand on his farm.[8]

1880 Census Rich Valley, Virginia, Luther Colley family and Jerome Harman family. Betty's name is at row 15 and Eli's name is at row 31.

 

The big question though, is how did the marriage of Eli and Betty Waggoner end? I have not been able to find a death record for Betty nor a divorce decree for Eli and Betty. I'll keep searching for and answer, but for now, it’s still a mystery.

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[1] Smyth County, Virginia, Register of Marriage Book 1: 59, Eli P. Waggoner and Betty O. Colly, 1881; Clerk’s Office, Marion.

[2] 1870 U. S. census, Center Grove, Guilford County, North Carolina, population schedule, Hillsdale Post Office, p. 26 (penned), dwelling 183, family 181, Luther Colly family; digital image, Ancesrty.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 July 2013); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm publication M593, roll 1140.

[3] Ibid.

[4] Ibid.

[5] 1880 U.S. census, Rich Valley, Smyth County, Virginia, population schedule, enumeration district (ED) 83, p. 12 (penned), dwelling 94, family 93, Luther R. Colley family; digital image, Ancesrty.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 July 2013); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm publication T9, roll 1390.

[6] 1880 U.S. census, Rich Valley, Smyth County, Virginia, population schedule, enumeration district (ED) 83, p. 12 (penned), dwelling 94, family 93, Jerome Harman family; digital image, Ancesrty.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 July 2013); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm publication T9, roll 1390.

[7] John Newton Harman, Sr., Harman Genealogy (Southern Branch) with Biographical Sketches and Historical Notes, 1700-1924 (Radford, Virginia: Commwealth Press, Inc., 1925).

[8] 1880 U.S. census, Rich Valley, Smyth County, Virginia, Jerome Harman family.

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Rachel's First Marriage: Intriguing Finds.

Who were the first spouses of Eli Pierce Waggoner and Rachel S. Havens, my dad’s maternal grandparents? That was the big question on my mind after noticing that the 1910 Census reported they had each been married two times.

Finding the answer took a trip to two court houses, but it turned out to be fairly easy. At the Bland County Court House, I found Rachel’s first marriage recorded in one of those hefty books that take muscles to lift, Bland County Marriages Book 1:  "Deaver, Mark R. (19, blacksmith) to Rachel S. Havens (18), Jan. 13, 1881. Parents: Henry and Louisa Deaver and James and Jane Havens."[1]

What a boon! Not only did I now know the name of Rachel’s first spouse, his occupation, his parent’s names, and the marriage date, but also the names of Rachel’s parents. Up to this point, I had not known that important fact, which helped to open up more information on her and her family, later.

And who was Mark R. Deaver? Searching 1870[2] and 1880[3] Bland County Virginia census records, I found confirmation that Mark’s parents were Henry H. and Louisa Devor. Also I found a birth record that shows his birth as 24 August 1861[4].

Next, I looked in chancery records for the divorce, and once again, I hit paydirt. In Bland County Chancery Order, Book 2, p. 440, dated 13 August 1884, I found that “Rachael Deavors” had brought suit in court for divorce proceedings against “Rhea Deavor,” who did not appear because he was “a non resident of this state.” Had he had deserted Rachel? I wondered.  The court decided that the charges (which are not named) against the defendant had been proven, that the complainant was entitled to be divorced from her husband, and that the defendant should pay court costs.[5] (Notice that already we have four spellings for Mark’s surname: Deaver, Deavors, Deavor, and Devor.)

Rachael Deavors against Rhea Deavor, In Chancery, August 1884

So where was Mark Rhea Deaver/Deavors/Deavor/Devor in 1884?

On Ancestry.com, I found a U. S. Army Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914, dated 26 May 1885 that shows Mark R. Devor enlisted at Cincinnati, Ohio, at age 24 years, 10 months. He is from Sedenville, Virginia, which is in Bland County. His occupation is “Horseshoer”; he has grey eyes, brown hair, fair skin, and is 5’ 7”. He’s enlisted in 1^st Cavalry, Company F, and he was discharged 20 July 1886; it doesn’t say where.[6]

U. S. Army Register of Enlistments, 1798-19144, dated 24 May 1885, Mark R. Devor.

 

Next, I found a Washington State and Territorial Census, 1857-1892, that shows M. R. Deavor residing in Thurston, Washington in 1885, age 25, single, a trader, born in Virginia.[7] Was this our man? Did the military send him to Washington? Whatever the case, these records give evidence that he was gone from Virginia in 1885, which is as close as I’ve been able to get to the divorce date of August 1884. He was certainly nowhere to be found when Rachel was granted her divorce.

Washington State and Territorial Census, 1857-1982, dated 1885, M. R. Deavor,

With intriguing evidence about Rachel and her first marriage, I went looking for Eli Waggoner’s first wife. What was their story?

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[1] Bland County, Virginia, Marriage Record Book 1: no page. Mark R. Deaver and Rachel S. Havens, 1881; Clerk’s Office, Bland.

[2] 1870 U. S. census, Bland County, Virginia, population schedule, Bland C.H. Post Office, p. 17 (penned), dwelling 110, family 110, Henry H. Devor; digital image, Ancesrty.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 25 June 2013); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm publication M593, roll 1636.

[3] 1880 U.S. census, Rocky Gap, Bland County, Virginia, population schedule, enumeration district (ED) 5, p. 17 (penned), p. 372A (stamped), dwelling 148, family 151, H. H. Devor; digital image, Ancesrty.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 25 June 2013); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm publication T9, roll 1356.

[4] Bland County, Virginia, Record of Births, 1861-96: 3, database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 25 June 2013), entry for Mark Devor, 24 August 1861.

[5] Bland County, Virginia, Chancery Order, Book 2: 440, Rachel Deavors v. Rhea Deavor, divorce ; County Clerk’s Office, Bland.

[6] U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914, database Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 25 June 2013), entry for Mark R. Devor, “1^st Cavy, Co. F,” Cincinnati, Ohio, 26 May 1885.

[7] Washington State and Territorial Censuses, 1857-1892, Thurston, Washington, 1885, line 21, M. R. Deavors, database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 25 June 2013), Olympia, Washington: Washington State Archives, M1, microfilm number V228, roll 17.

Eli and Rachel: A Marriage Mystery

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I’ve found my grandmother Mary Ann Waggoner’s parents to be an interesting pair with a bit of mystery surrounding their marriage. Her father, Eli Pierce Waggoner, was born on 25 October 1854,[i] the second of nine children born to his parents, Jacob and Ann (Harman) Waggoner. Eli’s birth record is the only one I’ve found of all their children, for apparently he was the only one born in Smyth County where records were still held in the court house when I was searching a few years ago. The others were born in Bland County where records had already been sent to Richmond at the time of my first court house visit in that county.

Eli was a tall, angular, thin man with straight posture. In a small tintype, which must have been his wedding picture taken around the time they married on 2 September 1885,[ii] he sits in a chair with his legs crossed, hands resting in his lap, top button of his coat fastened, and wearing a wide-brimmed, dark hat. His dark mustache is trimmed neatly; light eyes peer at the camera; shadows on his cheeks reveal his angular face and high cheekbones. His bride, Rachel S. Havens, daughter of James and Jane (Thompson) Havens, born 17 November 1862,[iii] stands next to him, her right hand resting lightly on his left shoulder. Her round face is framed by bangs, her dark hair pulled back into a topknot.  Her light eyes look solemnly at the camera with a penetrating gaze; she has a small mouth and nose, a pleasant face. She wears a dark dress, long-sleeved with ruffles at the cuffs, that fits snugly to her thick waist. The skirt drapes apart in front to reveal tiered pleats from just below the knee to the hem; the outstanding feature is a white, lace-trimmed jabot cascading from her neck, nearly to her knees. She reminds me of photos I've seen of Laura Ingalls Wilder at about that time period.

Eli Pierce Waggoner and Rachel S. Havens, wedding portrait, Sept. 1885.

Years ago, my mother showed me this picture and said, “Here’s a picture for you. I’m not sure who they are, though.”

“I know exactly who they are!” I was thrilled to see the picture, for I recognized them as Eli and Rachel from having studied their faces in a family portrait I’d had for several years, which you can see in my April 7, 2013 blog. They were younger in the tintype, but their faces were unmistakable.

           

In the family portrait, perhaps taken when Rachel was in her early forties, she is much rounder, an ample woman. Eli was fifty-ish, yet he sports the same slim figure, deep-set, light eyes, a graying walrus mustache that hides his mouth—much bushier than in the younger portrait. They remind me of the nursery rhyme, “Jack Spratt could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean.” Eli has the gaunt cheeks and prominent cheekbones of his mother, Anna F. Harman Waggoner, a trait evident in photos of several of Anna’s children.

I first discovered a mystery surrounding the marriage of Eli and Rachel while looking at the 1910 US Census of Bland County Virginia. This census holds a treasure trove of information for family history researchers. In the column labeled "Whether, single, married, widowed or divorced" was M2 for each of them. In this census, the enumerators included number of times married. Two?  I looked again. Wow! Who were their first spouses and what happened to their first marriages? Solving that puzzle was my next quest.

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[i] Smyth County Virginia, Register of Births Book 1, p. 71, Eli P. Wagner, Oct. 25, 1854 to Jacob Wagner (farmer) and Ann; Clerk’s Office, Marion. In records, I’ve found their name is spelled various ways: Waggoner, Wagoner, and Wagner. The former is the earliest spelling. In citing records, I’ll use whatever spelling occurs in the record, but otherwise, I’ll spell the name the early way because that’s the way it’s spelled on Eli’s grave. Perhaps that’s what he preferred.

[ii] “Waggoner Rites Held,” obituary for Rachel Waggoner, unknown newspaper transcription, no date available, date of marriage is stated as September 2, 1885.

[iii] “Waggoner Rites Held,” obituary for Rachel Waggoner, unknown newspaper transcription, no date available, date of birth is stated as November 17, 1862.

(c) 2013 Z. T. Noble

Clint and Mary's Romance

In my first blog post, I promised to tell the story of my grandparents' Clint Troutman and Mary Waggoner’s romance, but I have yet to do that. My cousin Connee’s poem, quoted in my last blog, tells some of that story. But there’s more.

I don’t know when Mary and Clint met and fell in love, but I suspect it might have been some time after October 1898 when the Waggoner family sold their farm[1] on the White Oak Branch in northeastern Smyth County and bought land in Rich Valley not far from where the Troutman family lived.[2] Clint’s family had been living on a farm in Rich Valley on the north side of Walker mountain since 1887. That’s the year when Clint’s maternal grandparents, Nicholas H. and Sarah “Sally” Pratt, deeded acreage to their daughter, America Troutman, for the grand price of $1.00.[3] Why they did this? I can only guess.

A family story may give a clue as to the reason: Clint’s parent’s home burned to the ground at some point in their marriage. Maybe America’s parents were trying to help them get back on their feet after the fire. A map of Smyth County dated 1899 shows the location of the Troutman land, but the name on the map is D. A. Troutman, not A. Troutman.[4] Whether Clint’s father Daniel Absolum Troutman owned land himself seems to be in doubt. I’ve found no records to offer evidence that he did.

For reasons unknown, Clint’s family did not approve of the romance, nor did Mary’s family. Maybe Clint’s mother, who seemed to take pride in her family heritage, thought Mary’s family was too poor, perhaps not good enough for her son. She had a sharp tongue and a hot temper, her children have said. America came from a family of landowners in the valley.

As for Mary’s parents’ objections to Clint, I don’t even have a guess on this one. According to Clint’s children, he had dropped out of school in fifth grade after an altercation with his teacher, who happened to have been a Pratt cousin of his. For whatever mischief he had done, she had slapped him across the face and left a red welt on his cheek. Some stories say, he was bleeding. He turned and fled out the door of the school and ran home. There, his mother sided with him and told him he didn’t have to go back, so he didn’t. He started working the farm with his father, instead.

According to my aunt’s memories of the letters she read (see my blog of April 3), Mary’s and Clint’s courtship involved meeting on the sly at parties of mutual friends in the valley. According to Mary’s teaching certificate dated 1907, we can reasonably say that Mary was teaching in the valley that year. One of her students was a boy named Reese DeBord, who later married Clint’s niece, Eula Troutman. For years, Reese called his aunt-in-law, Miss Mary, as that was the name the children called her at school.

In about 1909, Mary’s family decided to move to Missouri where several of Mary’s paternal uncles had moved. I’ve wondered why she left Clint and went away with her family. After all, at age 22, she was an adult. Maybe she and Clint decided it would be better for her to go, and for him to follow, than to face the rants of his mother if they stayed and married in Virginia. Whatever the case, Mary left and Clint later followed. Connee’s poem tells of Clint’s romantic exit from Virginia.

My dad added another dimension to that story: It seems that Clint’s older brother Jim dubbed Clint with the nickname Shoat as they were growing up. For those who are unfamiliar with that farm term, a shoat is a baby pig. A few days before Clint left Virginia to join Mary, he and Jim were arguing. In the heat of the moment, Clint said to Jim, “One of these days, and it won’t be long, you'll look for Shoat, and Shoat will be gone!”

A few days later, he slipped off in the night, hiked up Walker Mountain, took his last look across the valley of his home, gulped down the lump in his throat, and trudged on to Marion to catch a train to join the love of his life, his sweet Mary, in far away Missouri. He and Mary were married in Mexico, Missouri, on October 27, 1909.[5]

Walter Clinton Troutman and Mary Ann Waggoner--Wedding portrait, Oct. 1909

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[1] Smyth County, Virginia, Deed Book 26, p. 182-183; Rachel Wagner and E. P. Wagner to R. M. Gaddy, 19 October 1898; County Clerk’s Office, Marion.

[2] Smyth County, Virginia, Deed Book 25, p. 492; A. J. Harris and C. C. Harris to Rachel Wagner and her children, 31 October 1898; County Clerk’s Office, Marion.

[3] Smyth County, Virginia, Deed Book 17, p. 202, Nicholas H. and Sarah Pratt to America A. Troutman, 20 November 1897; County Clerk’s Office, Marion.

[4] Chas. R. Boyd and John D. Barns, Smyth County Virginia, 1899 (Washington, D. C.: A. B. Graham Lithograph, 1899.) This is a geological and topographical map commissioned by the Smyth County Board of Supervisors; a copy is held by Zola Troutman Noble, Anderson, Indiana; an original is held at The Museum of the Middle Appalachians, Saltville, Virginia.

[5] Troutman Bible Records, 1909-1979, family pages only, photocopy held by Zola Troutman Noble [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE] Anderson, Indiana. Entries suggest that the earliest owners were Walter C. Troutman and Mary Ann Waggoner, whose marriage on Oct. 27, 1909, is the earliest record. Photocopies were sent to the author by Jill Lamson Gran who holds the original Bible.

(c) 2013 Z.T. Noble