GEORGE W AUTRY
Here is a white family that I have been looking at for the longest.
George W. Autry and his family were neighbors to Owen Johnson and
most of Ned Edmund's sisters and brother's. I first found George living
in that neighborhood in 1880. I have not had a chance to research
this yet but I think George or his wife Mary was related to Owen Johnson.
I also found another George W. Autry that was born in 1820 and lived
in the McDaniels township of Sampson county. To my surprise he and
his family were found living in the next household to Ned Edward Autry
and his family. Ned Edward is mentioned on the bottom of the home
page.
George W. of Bladen must have passed away by 1900. His wife Mary and
two of his daughters continued to live in the same neighborhood untill
sometime after 1920. Just to give you and Idea of what families made
their community up, I have listed the families and their household
numbers below.
Household 62 George W. Johnson and family (Ned married his sister
Mary)
Household 63 Owen Johnson and family (Owen was the son of the slave
owner Joel Jr. Johnson. Owen also freely gave Ned and his siblings
quite a bit of land)
Household 64 Thomas Johnson and family (Owen's son)
Household 65 Dora Lucas-Herring (Ned's uncle Archie's wife)
Household 66 Julian Johnson and family (Owen's son)
Household 67 Alexander Bordeux and his Wife Lucinda (Alexander
Garfield Bordeux and Amelia Bordeux-Johnson's parents)
Household 68 William Henry Johnson and wife amelia (Ned's brother
and Alexander Garfield Bordeux's brother-in-law)
Household 69 Richard Johnson and family (Ned's brother)
Household 70 Alexander Garfield Bordeux and family (Alex married
Ned's sister Rose's daughter, Stella)
Household 71 Mary Autry and family. (George W. Autry's wife)
Household 72 Phillip Melvin and family (Phillip married Ned's sister
Lydia)
Household 73 Abel Carroll and family (Abe married Ned's sister
Rose)
All of these people lived somewhere on or about the Susie Sandhill.
I think most of the household's were just south of the Susie Sandhill
somewhere between the present day locations of the Susie SandHill
and the Barnes and Carter families bluberry farms.
I am still trying to piece together Ned Edward Autry's early life.
I am very sure that the slave owner George W. Autry was his last slave
master. George was the only slave owner living in the Southern Division
of Sampson County with the surname of Autry in 1850 and then Little
Coharie in 1860.
I found George in 1850 at the age of 30 living with Mary Autry who
was 32 at the time in the Southern Division of Sampson County NC.
By 1860 he was found living with and married to a 17 year old female
named Sarah Ann Herring-Autry in the township of Little Coharie. Their
home at this time could have been located in the same place. From
my research I am beginning to see that parts of the Southern Division
of Sampson County later became known as the Little Coharie township.
Click here to view some of Sarah's Herring heritage.
In 1850 George was listed with six slaves.
60 Male Black
54 Female Black
24 Female Black
22 Male Black
14 Male Black
3 Male Black
By 1860 his slave total had increased to 13 and they were living in
4 slave homes.
73 Male Black
67 Female Black
48 Male Black
30 Male Black
26 Female Black
22 Male Black
19 Female Black
18 Female Black
13 Male Black
12 Female Black
8 Male Black
3 Female Black
1 Male Black
Note: I am willing to bet that the two older slaves in 1850 and 1860
are the same man and woman but notice how their ages advances 13 years
in almost 10 years. This tells me that George guessed their ages in
both listings of this information. I am also willing to bet that since
George W. Autry was the only slave owner with the surname of Autry
that was living in the Little Coharie township in 1860, Julia Autry
and her son Frank who also lived in the Little Coharie township in
1870 are some of those slaves listed above. Julia and Frank had moved
to the Dismal township of Sampson County by 1880.
Note: It is very possible that Julia is also Ned's mother and that
none of the slaves listed above are Ned's wife or children. In my
slave research I have found that many men that were slaves cohabited
(a state of marriage for slaves) with women that were slaves of another
slave owner and any children that resulted from these unions belonged
to the woman's slave owner. Here is a page that gives some insight
on the state of marriage for slaves in the ante-bellum south and here
is a list of other slave owners that lived in the southern district
of Sampson County in 1860.
By 1870 George and his family had moved from the Little Coharie township
to the McDaniels township of Sampson County. This move could have
been within a very short distance since Little Coharie bordered McDaniels.
His family during this time was listed as
George W. Autry 50
Sarah A. Autry 27
Missouria Jackson Autry 6
Emma Lee Autry 5 (died of chicken pox in 1880)
Laura Hill Autry 3
Owen Herring Autry 9 months
Surprisingly his next door neighbor was found to be Ned Edward Autry
and his family. I am assuming that Ned Edward came to the McDaniels
area with George sometime between 1860 and 1870.
George died sometime around 1873. In 1880 Sarah was found listed as
a widow with all of the children that her and George were listed with
in 1870 with an addition of one daughter Ada Jane Autry who was born
in 1872. They were still found living in the McDaniels township with
Ned's sons Richard and Isaac as some of their closest neighbors.
In 1890 Sarah testified at Ned Edward's pension hearing. She testified
that she had known Ned during slavery when he was her slave and before
then when he was a slave owned by her family. I found Sarah again
in 1920 living in the Little Coharie township with her daughter Ada
Jane and her husband who's name was J A Martins?. I was very surprised
not to find George, Sarah or any of their children listed in the Autry
Culbreth book. I have viewed that information about four times but
I guess it is possible that I could have overlooked George and his
family.
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