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     William Earl Locke was born on 29 November 1897 at TX. He died on 4 February 1971 at age 73.

     Arthur Hayden Locke was born on 21 October 1899 at TX. He died on 30 April 1967 at age 67.

     Mildred Asaline Locke was born in 1906 at Oklahoma.

     Thomas Hines witnessed Rebecca Hall married Thomas Hines in Halifax and moved family to Chester, SC in 1799 or 1800. He married Rebecca Hall, daughter of Ignatius Hall, at Halifax, NC. Thomas Hines died in 1826 at Chester, North Carolina.

     Henry Willis Locke married Jane McCain Walker. Henry Willis Locke was born on 3 March 1808 at Halifax County NC. He died on 25 May 1865 at Tallapoosa, Al, at age 57; May have been 26 May 1866 - TBD. He Tallapoosa County AL, Archives Military Records.....Enumeration of Confederate Soldiers in June 1865 at AL.¹

     Her married name was Ellison. Thena Locke was born on 30 July 1806 at South Carolina, Chester county; another record had her birth data as 1810. She married B.B. Allison in 1838. Thena Locke died on 18 June 1887 at Buried Friendship Methodist in York at age 80.

     Martha Locke married Geroge W Jones. Martha Locke was born circa 1804 at Chester, South Carolina; May have been 1811? TBD.

     Rebecca Locke was (an unknown value.) She was born in 1814 at Chester, SC. She married Andrew Harper McCorkle on 1 December 1832. As of 29 December 1859,her married name was McCorkle. Rebecca Locke married John L. McCorkle on 29 December 1859. Rebecca Locke died on 28 February 1899 at York, South Carolina, Buried Friendship Methodist in York.

     Nancy Locke Her marker reads, 'She Hath Done What She Could' This Friendship Methodist Cemetary is actually in Lesslie, SC. The church has moved but the cemetary is at the end of Friendship Road. She was born in September 1817 at Chester, South Carolina; Could be born in 1814. She witnessed Don Williams had her marriage to N H Thomas on 4 Jul 1840 in Halifax, NC. He was born abt 1810
TBD? In 1840. She died on 4 July 1901 at Friendship Methodist in York at age 83.

     Levi Locke witnessed Kate Locke shows different children for Levi and Ruth: William m. Jane; Josiah; Mary K; Nancy K; Sarah E; Eliza J. and RUth A. TBD? He In 1819, the will of William Cook Rieves was proven in Chester County, South Carolina. Jesse Lock, son of Josias, was one of the appraisers listed in the will, and land mentioned in the will was located between Fishing Creek and the mill road, adjacent to land owned by Josias Lock. The will identifies four Rieves children; Rhody, Mary, Ruthy, and Jinsey. Instructions were given that these heirs, or their surviving heirs, would inherit the land of William Rieves at the death of their mother. It is now believed that more than one Lock man married into the Rieves family, and then inherited this land with his wife.

In a publication known as "Tap Roots", which was written by the Genealogical Society of East Alabama, Vol. 28, No. 2 from October, 1990, pp. 55-67, we find this passage. One of the sons of Josias Lock appears to have married the daughier of William Co Rieves. In Book BB, pp. 287-288, is named Lock descendants of William Rieves. They are Joseph and Mary Lock, Stephen alld Rhode Lock, Hellry and Mm:y Horne, and Levi and Ruth Lock. These heirs are mentioned because they are selling land they inherited from the estate of William C. Rieves, deceased. From these notes, it appears that they were selling land that had been passed to them at death, as previously instructed. When did the mother die, and who were these Lock descendants? To sort that out, we go to census records of Chester County, and of Meigs County, Tennesee. In the census of 1830, we find a Joseph Lock between ages 30 and 40, living with his wife of the same age group, and one female child under ten but above five years of age. Jumping twenty years 10 the County census of 1850, family # 113, we find a Joseph Lock, age 54, born in North Carolina, his wife, Mary, age 55, born in South Carolina, a daughter, Sarah Ann, age 27, also born in South Carolina two more daughters born in South Carolina, Nancy, age 20, and Martha, age 15, and a son, Jonathan age 14, who was born in Tennessee. I believe that the Mary listed in this census was Mary Rieves, daughter of William, which will confirm that one of Josias' sons actually did marry a daughter of William Rieves as reported in "Tap Roots". Also in the Meigs County 1850 census was Jesse Lock, age 57, his wife (Mary) Agnes, age 55, and two of their sons, Jonathan N., and Benjamin F., age 14. We know that Jesse McCullough Lock, another son of Josias, relocated to Meigs County from Chester County in 1830, so it is obvious that his brother Joseph followed him there shortly after the birth of his third child , Martha, in 1835.

What about Levi and Ruth? It's very plausible that Joseph's nephew, and Joslas' grandson, Levi, born along Fishing Creek in 1813, could have married William's younger daughter, Ruthy, also born along Fishing Creek between 1800 and 1813. Their youngest child was born in 1837 in Chester County, and he was named, William, after Ruth's father. Levi and Ruth moved with their two children into York County in 1840, settling on Indian lands near the Catawba River, where they had five more children, including Ruth in 1848. After Ruth's mother's sudden death, Levi married Malinda Shurley in 1849, and they had five more children.

So far, there is no explanation why Stephen Lock's name was associated with William's oldest daughter, Rhody (Rhode). Josias' oldest son, Stephen, bad married Nancy Hines in 1805. Until we find more estate records or census records, that will remain a mystery. He was born on 22 July 1816 at Chester, SC. He witnessed Don Williams notes have his first marriage to Mary or Polly Hefley - evidence so far points more towards Ruthy Reives/Reves in 1829. He married Ruth (Ruthy) Amanda Rieves, daughter of William Cook Reeves and Mary Culp, circa 1830. Levi Locke witnessed In 1763, the British governors in the colony of South Carolina, signed a treaty with the Catawba Indian tribal leaders, setting boundaries on a fifteen square mile area that covered portions of southeastern York District, and southwestern Lancaster District. It was known as The Treaty of Augusta. The aim was to move the Indians into a tract of land in the North Carolina mountains, in exchange for the surveyed area. The newly arriving white settlers were not comfortable living near the Catawba tribes, and wanted them out. Under the threat of force, the tribe reluctantly consented to relocate to a tract of land in Haywood District, North Carolina, valued at $5,000. They were also promised $2,500 once the move was completed, plus $1,500 per year for nine years. At the time the treaty was signed, 508 white landowners already had lease agreements with the Catawba, and surveys had to be done before those leaseholders could be given state grants of the Indian land. By 1780, the $2,500, plus interest, was raised by taxes on the leaseholders, and was set aside for the Catawba, to be paid once their move was completed. However, North Carolina refused to honor their end of the bargain, and the move was never made, and the South Carolina legislature refused to ratify a renegotiated treaty.

By 1840, the leaseholders were clamoring for state recognition of their property rights so that they could be represented in the South Carolina legislature. A new treaty was drawn up. It would set aside the Treaty of Augusta, and would guarantee the remaining Catawba nation, then numbering about 88, full privileges and immunities as citizens of South Carolina, and The United States. The tribal lands would be taxed, and the existing leaseholders would receive full title to their leaseholds.

The location of the signing of the treaty was near the Nation Ford on the Catawba River, at a place called the Cross Roads, located about one mile above the ford. In the early days before the railroad was built, an inn and a few houses were built in that location so that travelers could wait for flood waters to subside, and the wide river could be crossed. A large farm near the Cross Roads was leased to Thaddeus Shurley, and his son Philemon, the father of Malinda Shurley, who would marry Levi Locke in 1848.

On March 13, 1840, the chief of the Catawba, General James Kegg, full blooded nephew of famed Catawba Queen, Sally New River, placed his mark on the paper, alongside five leaseholders appointed by the Governor. The state legislature approved the treaty in December, 1840, and it was known as the Nation Ford Treaty of 1840.

For over 150 years, the treaty was in force, but the South Carolina legislature voted to revoke the terms of the treaty in 1993. It was widely accepted that the Catawba had been coerced into signing the treaty, thereby relinquishing rights to their family lands with no real compensation. Largely a symbolic act, it returned taxes paid by the tribe for all those years, with interest, and set aside remaining tribal lands as a reservation.

It was no coincidence that a twenty-three old Levi Locke would move with his wife and two sons from their home in northern Chester County to the former Indian lands after the Nation Ford Treaty was signed in the Spring of 1840. Cheap farmland was suddenly available, and former leaseholders were looking to profit from their newly legalized status as landowners. He may have purchased his land from his future inlaws, the Shurleys. Mary Rosaline Locke was the first of his children born in York County on December 13, 1840. Levi would father five more daughters in York County before his first wife died in childbirth in 1848 in 1840 at South Carolina. He married Malinda (Linda) Shurley, daughter of Philemon Shurley and Lucreton Walston, in 1849. Levi Locke died on 12 August 1886 at Buried Catawba Bapt. Cemetery, in Lesslie, at age 70.

     B.B. Allison (an unknown value.) He was born circa 1793 at Maryland. He married Thena Locke, daughter of Stephen Locke and Nancy Hines, in 1838. B.B. Allison died after 1850 at South Carolina.

     Her married name was Melton. Mary Jane Locke was born on 13 December 1860 at Chester, SC. She married Thomas Henry Melton Sr, son of Mike Melton, after 1880. Mary Jane Locke died on 14 April 1915 at Chester, SC, Union ARP Cemetery, at age 54.

     Her married name was Locke. Susanna Stephens was born in 1697 at Maryland; Born between 1695-1710? She married James Hulse Locke, son of Philip Lock and Mary Hulse, circa 1717 at Maryland. Susanna Stephens died in 1788 at North Carolina; Early note had death in 1782.

     Steve L. Jackson married Carole Geraldine Locke, daughter of Gerald (Jerry) Thomas Locke and Margaret Carolyn Knox, on 8 November 1997 at Neelys Creek ARP Church, York County.

     Marsha Crawford married Thomas Wesley Locke, son of Gerald (Jerry) Thomas Locke and Margaret Carolyn Knox, on 24 June 1990 at Antioch Baptist Church in Chapel Hill, NC.

     Her married name was Locke. Margaret Fletcher Davis was born on 27 April 1841 at Macon, Georgia. She married Jesse Culp Locke, son of Jesse McCulloch Locke and Catherine Reeves, on 21 January 1857. Margaret Fletcher Davis died on 4 January 1920 at age 78.

     Benjamin McCullough Locke married Martha Rogers. Benjamin McCullough Locke was born on 28 July 1861 at Cullomberg, Alabama; Kristen listed his birth as Pearce Springs, Mississippi. He witnessed From family notes of Robert's kin: Ben and Martha had 6 children: Evert? E Locke b.mar 1894; Jessie Locke(F) Nov 1898 in NC; Gloria Locke(F) b. 1901; Nelly Bell Locke (F) b. 1905; Fillie? Locke (F) b.1907 and Zackie Lucile Locke (F) b. 10 Mar 1910 in Cullomberg, Choctaw County AL in 1882. He died on 22 May 1934 at Cullomberg, Alabama, at age 72. He witnessed Rumored that Martha seperated from Ben in 1882 in 1992.

     Philip Lock Our ancestors who came from England, were forced to leave because of religious persecution. Along with others they went first to northern Ireland near the county of Antrim. The ship that carried our ancestors from Ireland to America possibly landed on the coast of Maryland sometime between 1680 an 1687. The first two generations proberly in St. Mary's County. From the will of Philip Lock, St. Mary's Co. 23rd March 1717-1718;16th Aug. 1722. To eldest son William and son James Hulse Lock and their hrs. 'Good Pennyworth' equally To daus. Mary (ata marriage) and Priscilla (at 16 yrs or marriage) and sons Wm. and Philip personaly. To wife Mary , Extx. residur of personal estate. Dwell plan 'Hulston' during life. At her decease to 2 sons Philip and Meverall, (Mevewell) and their hrs. equally.

The Lock family in colonial Maryland belonged to All Faith Parish of St. Mary’s County, where Philip was a vestryman in 1718 and 1719. He was pledged for tobacco for support of the Parish. He died in 1722 at about 52 years old.^1,2 He was born circa 1663; Born in London / Sumerset?, England.² He married Mary Hulse, daughter of Meverell Hulse and Martha Greenfield, in 1694 at Ressurection Manor, Maryland. Philip Lock died in 1722 at St. Mary's Md. This is where the will was probated. He Philip’s estate papers, he and Mary had six children. William was the eldest, followed by James Hulse, Philip, Meverell, Mary Ann, and Priscilla. We know that both William and brother Meverell left detailed estate records when they died, but we have no such evidence about James Hulse, Philip, and their sisters after father Philip died in 1722. We know from Philip Lock’s will of 1722 that James Hulse Lock and his older brother William were granted equal parts of a tract of land known as Good Pennyworth in St. Mary’s County. When Philip’s eldest son, William Lock, passed away in 1761, that land was given to his son, also named Philip. In 1765, Philip had that land resurveyed so he could add more acreage to it. (See below) Those documents showed that Good Pennyworth was situated on the northern boundary of a plantation known at Hulston that had been given to Philip and Mary Hulse Lock in 1707 from Mary’s father, Meverell Hulse. None of those 1763 documents mentioned James Hulse Locke in relation to Good Pennyworth. The mystery remains about the whereabouts of James Hulse Locke, and whether or not he was the father of James and John who went to Halifax County. in 1722. He died on 17 August 1722 at Maryland.

     William Locke married Susannah Stephens. William Locke was born in 1696 at St Mary's County, Maryland; born somewhere between 1690 and 1699 - now we think it was 1696. He died in 1786 at Greenville, SC.

     Philip Locke Jr. Philip belonged to All Faith Parish of St. Mary's County, where he was a vestryman in 1718 and 1719. He was pledged for tobacco for support of the Parish.

Recent findings may shed new light on the life of Philip Lock, son of Philip and Mary Hulse Locke, our original ancestors in Maryland. Until now, there was no information about Philip after his father willed him property in 1722. It seems that an Elizabeth Lock was listed as owning 65 ½ acres of land known as Cold Wells in St. Mary's County for a number of successive years, ending with the record of 1761. In the 1762 record, that same piece of property was listed in the name of Philip Lock. This Elizabeth Lock's maiden name was Elizabeth Bright, and she came from a prominent Maryland family. It's a good possibility that this Philip Lock who inherited the property was the son of Philip Lock and Elizabeth Bright, and that Philip's father would have been the brother of William, James Hulse, Meverell, Priscilla, and Mary Ann Lock. He married Elizabeth Bright. Philip Locke Jr. was born in 1697 at Maryland.

     Meverall Locke witnessed An earlier history from Don Williams had 6 children:
Jesse
Geioge
Anne
Mary
Elizabeth
Thomas. He According to one section of the book, DuBuffett Genealogy entitled, "Some Prominent Virginia Families", there was a direct connection to the famous John Locke, the English Philosopher. Meverall was a "lineal" descendant, and "was in possession of many old family peices of silver, etc., etc., which proved his connection unmistakably".¹ He Meverell Locke, SMC, 4/20/1764 - 5/5/1764 Son: Meverell, two tracts I bought of Stourton Edwards Called 'St Tomas with Addition', 455 ac. and 'Doe Park', 69 ac; a sow and shoats. Wife Elizabeth,m 'hulston' 100 ac, 'Truman's Lodge' 150 ac. 'Part of Keech' and 'Price Rest' 58 ac; 'Part of John Edwards Discovery' 165 ac; 'Truman and Truman Humting Quarter' 200 ac. during her life3 and at her decease to his sons Jesse Locke, George Locke and Thomas Locke. Remainder of estate to my six children: Jesse, George, Anne, Mary, Elizabeth, and Thomas. He married Elizabeth Edwards. Meverall Locke was born circa 1710 at Maryland; Originally thought this was 1710. Vann uncovered information showing this as 1728. He died in May 1764; One source said 1762...so, not quiet sure yet because:
Probated in 1764. Currently, the only physical record of a John Locke in St. Mary’s County is when a John Lock witnessed the will of Meverell Lock in 1764. This John Locke was most likely Meverell’s nephew through either of his brothers, James Hulse or Philip Lock. Other than that, we need to use circumstantial evidence to link the lock brothers of Halifax with the Locke family of Maryland. Reference: (an unknown value) in February 2013.²

     Mary Ann Locke was born in 1701 at Maryland.