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     James Locke witnessed Not sure about Henry born in 1781 - need to confirm. Don Williams listed the following children:
i)Josias or Joe b.1756 d. Nov 1826 m. Susannah Hall
ii) James Locke Jr. b.4jul1760 d. 1842
iii) Elizabeth Locke b.1762
iv0 Thomas Locke b.1764
v) William Locke b.1765. He was born in 1718 at St Mary's Co. Md; Some records had this date at 1733, but new research points to 1718. He married Susanna Green, daughter of Henry Green and Judith Guile, in 1740 at Maryland. James Locke died in 1782 at North Carolina.

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This John may be the first Locke to move to Halifax County prior to 1767. John Locke DEATH: J.R. Peacock says: The title of Junior and Senior appear each time one by the name of John bought or sold land thru the 1777 date. After that deed, these titles were not used. This suggests there was only one named John after 1777. Thus it is assumed that John and Sarah, in anticipation of death, took action to assure a home for Betty and her son, Walter. [Walter was born in 1775] He was born in 1730; Born 1718 or 1730 TBD. He began military service in 1778 John Lock, a grandson to Philip, was a corporal in the Continental Army, who served in the 4th and 8th Virginia Regiments of foot soldiers. He was at Valley Forge with General Washington during that terrible winter of 1778. He had grown up in Fairfax County, Virginia. He died in 1778 at Halifax County NC. He left a will on 19 May 1823; MOVE THIS to the other John Locke?¹

     Philip Locke was born in 1719 at Maryland.

     Susanna Green was (an unknown value.)¹ She was born in 1714 at Maryland. She married James Locke, son of James Hulse Locke and Susanna Stephens, in 1740 at Maryland. As of 1740,her married name was Locke. Susanna Green died in February 1822 at North Carolina.

     Thomas Jefferson Locke Census 1850, Halifax Co., NC pg. 63B; 'Alabama Genealogical Register, 'Vol IV, No. 2. He married Nancy Ann Nichols. Thomas Jefferson Locke was born in 1764 at Halifax County NC; Other records indicate a birth of 1755? He died in 1855 at North Carolina.

     William Locke Moved to Chester, SC. Prior to moving, William purchased the land Walter Lock inherited from John and Sarah on Jan. 21 1800, Bk. 18, p 551. Census records 1800 and 1810 indicate William was near 45 years when he left Chester. He was born in 1749 at Maryland.

     Elizabeth Locke From Lori Landis: I have an Elizabeth Locke in my family who married a Thomas Tansom on the Isle of Wight in 1770. I have seen a couple of Locke family trees on ancestry.com that have an Elizabeth Locke marrying Thomas Tansom and her parents as James Locke of Maryland and Susanna Green of North Carolina, tracing her line all the way back to Philip Lock. My Elizabeth Locke was supposed to have been born in 1751 at St. Mary, Co. MD and moved to England and married. She died on 12-13-1828 in Newchurch, Isle of Wight. Her married name was Carlisle ? She married Carlisle ?? Carlisle ? Elizabeth Locke was born in 1750 at Maryland. She died in 1823.

     James Locke was born on 5 July 1760 at Maryland. He married Susanna Herbert, daughter of (?) Herbert and Elizabeth (?), on 17 March 1791 at Halifax County NC. James Locke died in 1842.

     Sarah? Locke was born in 1762.

     Thomas J. Locke was born in 1755 at Maryland.

     Josias Locke was born in 1765 at North Carolina; earlier records showed 1756 and could have been a typo. He witnessed (an unknown value) on 4 April 1776 at Halifax, North Carolina. He married Susanna Hall, daughter of (unknown) Hall and (unknown) McCullough, in 1780 at Halifax County NC; One other reference showed marriage in 1784. It was definitely after 1776. Josias Locke was Josias and Susanna Locke had five sons and two daughters when they moved to Chester County from Halifax County, North Carolina in 1804. Originally we think they came from St. Mary's County Maryland.

When Josias and his brother William moved to Chester County, South Carolina, from Halifax, North Carolina both of their parents were still alive. Josias returned to Halifax to sell his land on Jackett Swamp. He used those proceeds to purchase 200 acres in Chester County on Smith’s Branch, commonly called Still House Branch, on the northeast waters of Fishing Creek. Josias and William’s father, James Lock, died in 1817, and Josias returned to Halifax to help settle his father’s estate. in 1804 at South Carolina.^2,3 He died in 1826; When Josias died in 1826, Benjamin was the administrator of the estate. Benjamin, Joseph, and Stephen signed the documents and a representative of the court. Jesse, who would shortly move to Tennessee, and Asa, didn’t sign. Benjamin “Lock” appears in the 1830 Chester census as being between 30 and 40 years old, with a 20 year old wife, and a daughter under 5 years of age. By the 1840 census, he is between 40 and 50 years old, with a 30 year old wife, a daughter between 10 and 15, another daughter between 5 and 10, two sons between 5 and 10, two daughters under 5, and one son under 5 years of age. That same census also shows him living next door to Thomas White, between 30 and 40 years old, and William White, between 20 and 30 years old, possible sons to Hugh White, who appeared in the Josias Lock estate papers. Also appearing in those papers was another neighbor, Robert White, who was given a bay mare. In the 1850 Chester census, Benjamin does not appear, but Mary Locke, aged 40, is shown living next door to Thomas White, aged 40, and Robert White, aged 58. She is shown living with five children. They are Martha J., aged 23, Margaret, aged 19, Josiah, aged 17, Andrew, aged 15, and Elizabeth, aged 12. By comparing the Benjamin Locke children from the 1830 and 1840 censuses, we find that all of the ages match! One child is missing, a boy, who was listed as “under 5” in the 1840 census. He must have died. Also shown in the 1850 census, living next door to Mary Locke, in the household of Robert White, was Dorothy White, aged 21.We know that Josiah H. Locke married Dorothy White before 1860. From this evidence, it is logical to assume that Benjamin Locke, son of Josias Locke, and brother to Stephen, Joseph, Jesse, Sarah, Priscilla, and Asa Locke, was also the father to Josiah H. Locke, who would marry Dorothy White, and father Henry Jefferson Locke. Census records from 1860 show that the first born child of Josiah and Dorothy was a daughter named Frances C.. According to the 1870 census, two other children had been born to Josiah and Dorothy before he went away to war and was killed. The first was Mary J., born in 1861, and the last was Henry J., born in 1862. Frances, the child listed in the 1860 census, is not shown. She must have died. Also shown as living next door to Dorothy Locke in the 1870 census is her father, Robert White, aged 78.

     Her married name was Locke. Susanna Hall was born in 1763 at North Carolina. She married Josias Locke, son of James Locke and Susanna Green, in 1780 at Halifax County NC; One other reference showed marriage in 1784. It was definitely after 1776. Susanna Hall died in 1864. She Two newsletters ago, I reported that new documents were found showing that Thomas Hines, the father of Nancy Hines Locke, most likely had lived in Halifax County, North Carolina, before moving to Chester County in 1800. Anyone who descends from William Locke, the older brother of Josias, through his son, Stephen, will be glad to learn that new names have surfaced that will carry our family back one more generation than previously known. We already knew from real estate records that the wife of Thomas Hines was named Rebecca, but we had no information about her family in Halifax. The discovery of the will of Ignatius Hall of Halifax has changed all of that. That document willed one of Ignatius’ slaves to his daughter, Rebecca Hines, also of Halifax. We also learned the names of Rebecca’s mother, Mary, and all of her brothers and sisters. They were Ignatius, Mary, Eleanor, who married a Rawlings, Thomas Lane, Elizabeth, who married a Cox, and Robert, who inherited all of his father’s land at the death of his mother. Chances are strong that Susanna Hall Locke, Josias’ wife, was a granddaughter of Ignatius Hall. Ignatius Hall, Jr. served in the Revolutionary War and received a government pension.

Ignatius Hall, Sr. was born in Charles County, Maryland in 1717, and appeared on tax rolls in that county until 1772, which is about the time he moved down to Halifax County. His son, Robert, was born in Maryland in 1761. Charles County is next door to St. Mary’s County, where the Lockes lived.
His will, dated 1779 and proved in 1783, specified that the Hall land joined the land of Nathaniel Green on Rockey Swamp. Referring to the maps on page 5 of this newsletter, we see that Rockey Swamp was next door to Jackett Swamp where the Lockes lived, and also adjacent to the area where Thomas Hines lived. The name, Nathaniel Green, also has significance for the Lockes in Halifax. Josias and William’s mother was Susanna Green, and her father was Henry Green, who was living on Jackett Swamp before the first Lockes moved there from St. Mary’s County, Maryland, in 1767. The Greens had a big presence in the land between Rockey and Jackett Swamps.
On the left is the U.S. Census for Halifax County in 1790. All of these people were neighbors. At the top is Mary Hall. Three names down is her son, Robert Hall, and at the bottom is Josias Lock, who was married to Susanna Hall. When Mary Hall died in 1799, her will designated Benjamin Hines as executor. Benjamin died in 1819, and left a will of his own. Stay tuned… in February 2014.

     Stephen Locke This Stephen is listed here since we are not sure who the father is, but research has shown that he very possibly a nephew to Josias - but unknown at this time. He According to the 1820 census, Nancy had 4 children and no husband, so Stephen had to die after 1816 and before 1820. One of the children listed here could belong to the other Stephen Locke. Reference: (an unknown value.)¹ He He fought in the war of 1812 for two years, fighting the British.² He was born before 1784 at Chester county. He married Nancy Hines, daughter of Thomas Hines and Rebecca (?), in 1801 at Chester, SC. Stephen Locke died before 1820 at Chester, South Carolina; Could have been 1828?

     Joseph L Locke witnessed Joseph Lock was born around 1796 in Chester Co, South Carolina to Josias John Lock and Susannah Hall. Little is known about his childhood or early life, but it is safe to assume he lived the rigorous hard-working life necessary of the son of a farmer who later was a farmer himself.

Around 1822, Joseph married Mary Culp Reeves (1795-1860/70), the widow of William Cook Reeves, and daughter of John Culp and Elizabeth Hyatt. Four years earlier in 1818, her husband William C. Reeves had died, leaving her with four small daughters all under five years of age. Her daughters were: Rhoda (b. 1814), Mary Y. (b. 1815), Ruth (b. 1816), and Linsey (b. ~1818). After their marriage, Joseph could have very likely moved onto the property that William had left Mary & their daughters in his will. It is interesting to note that Mary’s father, John Culp, and Joseph’s father, Josias Lock, were listed next to each other on the 1810 census. This suggests that Mary & Joseph likely grew up as close neighbors

Over the next 14 years, Joseph & Mary had five children together: Sarah Ann in 1823, Nancy Malinda in 1829, Josiah in 1830, Martha in 1835, and Jonathan in 1836.

In 1839, Indian lands went up for sale in the neighboring York County and sometime before the census was taken in 1840, Joseph moved his family to property in York County. Two of his step-daughter’s also moved with their families—Ruth & Levi Lock and Mary Y. & Henry Horne are listed in the 1840 census living next to Joseph & Mary’s family. They may have even been living on the same land, as the census does not indicate ownership, only households.

Then around 1845-1849, Joseph & Mary moved their family to Meigs County, TN. Joseph’s brother Jesse had moved to the Meigs area around 1830 to Cherokee land that had opened up for sale, so it is likely that information from this brother on land or opportunities in Tennessee led them there. Again, two of Mary’s daughters from her first marriage also followed-- Rhoda & Mary Y. both moved their families to Meigs during this time period. Mary Culp Reeves Lock’s only other surviving child from her first marriage, Ruth, does not make this move — most likely because she died during or following childbirth around 1848. Ruth’s widower, Levi Lock, remarries shortly thereafter and so logically did not follow. Rhoda’s husband Stephen died around 1847, so it is unknown whether Rhoda moves her family before or after the death of her husband.

Regardless, by 1850 Joseph & Mary Locke, their oldest son Josiah, and the family of Mary Y. are listed as living next to each other on the 1850 census. Rhoda & her family are listed only a few households later. No real estate is listed for the family on the 1850 census so it is most likely that they were renting land to farm from Mason McClanahan Sr., a neighbor listed directly above on the census with a sizeable amount of real estate. Either way, they were close neighbors with the McClanahans, evidenced by the marriages of daughters Nancy Malinda to one of the sons, John McClanahan in 1851, and Martha to Mason Sr. in 1860. ( There is no designation whether Martha married Mason Sr. or Mason Jr. at that time. However, it is more probable that 26y Martha would have married the 50y widower rather than his 16y son.)

Little is known about Joseph Lock after this point other than he died between 1850-1860. Mary is listed in the 1860 census as a widow with the 2 youngest children at home. There is no evidence of her following this so she likely died between 1860-1870.¹
He was Need to verify with Vann's newsletter 2012_02 with the other Josias Locke. He was born in 1796 at York, SC, Chester county. He married Mary Culp circa 1822. Joseph L Locke died in 1850.

     Asa Locke was born in 1785 at Halifax, NC; Earlier source listed this as 1790.

     Jesse McCulloch Locke Moved to Alabama around 1820 Moved to Snow Hill, which is 12 miles from Chattanooga, Tenn Jesse enlisted into the American army at Mount Dearbourne, SC and served gallantly in the War of 1812. He was discharged at Platzburg in 1814. Jesse returned to Chester to marry Mary Agnes Hunter around 1815(?). Also served in the Tecumse Indian War. Jesse Locke either already was, or would soon become, a Baptist preacher himself. He had already served his country during The War of 1812 against England, and his sons were destined to fight on opposite sides during The Civil War. Both the name Adoniram and the name Judson would become widely used in
the Locke family from that time on. The Union Army looted and burned Jesse and Mary's House, Mary was killed. Jesse was not at home. All sons served in the war.¹ He was born in 1793 at Chester, SC; born in Halifax County, NC according to the Magoffin/Locke Family.

Don Williams had him born 10 May 1869 in Choctaw, AL. He began military service in 1812. He ended military service in 1813.² He married Mary Agnes Hunter, daughter of George Hunter, in 1815 at NC. Jesse McCulloch Locke married Catherine Reeves, daughter of William Cook Reeves and Mary Culp, circa 1818. Jesse McCulloch Locke was According to Sami Magoffin, he was a Baptist preacher. May of 1832 he joined Concord Baptist Church, by experience, and met at Caney Creek.

He helped to build the church meeting house at Caney Creek. There was a neighbor named Henry Locke with a young family in the 1820 federal census. There was an older neighbor named Josias Locke with slightly older children and several slaves in Chester County, SC. in 1832.² He was One of the more colorful ancestors of our modern Locke family was also its most mobile. When Josias and Susanna Hall Locke moved their family from Halifax County, North Carolina, to Chester County,
South Carolina, around 1800, they made certain that their son, Jesse McCullough, who had been born in 1793, was securely in the wagon, along with his brothers Stephen, Benjamin, Joseph, and Asa, and his two sisters, Sarah and Priscilla. The family settled on a large tract of land near the Catawba River in eastern Chester District, near the town of Chesterville, today known as Chester. There were seven McCullough families, and five Culp families living in that area when Josias and his brother, William, arrived. Because Josias and Susanna gave Jesse the middle name McCullough when they lived on the North Carolina-Virginia border, these families were obviously related to them, probably through Susanna’s mother’s family in North Carolina. Jesse enlisted into the American army at Mount Dearbourne, South Carolina, and served gallantly in The War of 1812. He was discharged at Platzburg in 1814. Jesse returned to Chester to wed Mary Agnes Hunter around 1815, and settle down to raise his family. Oral history says that Mary’s mother was a McCullough, and possibly Jesse’s cousin. Mary’s father, George, was believed to have been a full Creek Indian. While living in Chester County, Jesse and Mary Agnes had at least five children. Census records from 1820 show Jesse living with two sons under age five. Josiah Hall was born in 1817, James Henry was born on March 18, 1818, Jesse Culp was born on June 18, 1822, Mary Elvinah, on February 23, 1827, and Jonathan Newell in November, 1829. Some researchers believe that Mary Hunter died just after the birth of Jonathan, and Jesse married an Agnes in early 1830. Other researchers believe that Mary’s full name was Mary Agnes Hunter, and that her middle name was used in later census reports. Jesse and “Agnes” moved their family to Snow Hill, Tennessee, twelve miles from Chattanooga, where the fifth son, Adoniram Judson, was born in 1831, and the last son, Benjamin Franklin McCullough Locke was born in 1836. James Henry Locke married Matilda Rogers in Meigs County, Tennessee, in 1846. They moved to Macon County, Alabama, shortly afterward. Elizabeth was born in 1848, Mary Agnes in 1849, Jesse R. Locke, in 1853, Judson Lafayette in 1855, Alice in 1858, Benjamin F. in 1861, and Eutoka in 1865. By the census of 1860, the family was living in Choctaw County, Alabama. During the Civil War, James Henry served the Confederacy in the Third Alabama Infantry, Company G. James Henry, his wife, Matilda, and many family members are buried at Old Bethel Cemetery near Gilbertown, Alabama. Oral history says that Jesse’s sons served in the War, but his youngest son, Benjamin Franklin, served on the side of the Union. He was disowned by the family, and supposedly left a wife and daughter in Missouri. Jesse’s wife, Mary Agnes, was at home with their daughter, Mary Elvinah., near Chattanooga, in the winter of 1864. The house was robbed and burned by Union troops as they swept through Chattanooga, and Mary Agnes was killed in the fire! Jesse McCullough was away at the time. After the fire, Jesse McCullough lived only five more years, dying in Tennessee or Alabama in 1869 at the age of 76. In 1938, his grandsons recalled their memories of their grandfather in letters written to Rev. W.C. Cooper. Grandson Leopold Locke recalled that his grandfather had been a Baptist preacher, the last in the family, and grandson, Jesse R., recalled that Jesse McCullough’s brother, Stephen, had been killed in a duel. Jesse R. also recalled that his father, James Henry, had a favorite cousin in Chester County named William. His uncle, Stephen, in addition to his son, Levi Locke, had a son named Willis, called “Will”, who was probably the cousin of whom Jesse R. referred. Jesse R. Locke married Alice Jane Johnson, at the home of her father, Augustus, in Choctaw County, Alabama, in 1882. Their first son, Edgar, was born there in 1884. Shortly afterward, the family moved to Hopkins County, Texas, where their second son, Lester, was born in 1886. Over the next twenty years, they would have eleven more children. They were Victor, Ruby Lee, Sam Houston, Walter, Pearle Mae, William Earl, Arthur Hayden, Erdice Matilda, Jewel Camly, Floyd Henry, and Mildred Asaline, who was the only child born after the family moved to eastern Oklahoma in 1906. Jessie R. Locke, died at age 90 in 1943, and, along with his wife Alice, five of their sons, and three of their daughters, is buried in Buffalo Cemetery, northwest of Sayre, Oklahoma in 1836 in 1836.³ He died in 1869 at Alabama.

     Her married name was Nichols. Sarah Locke married John Thomas Nichols. Sarah Locke was born circa 1784 at Halifax; An earlier source listed her birth as 1791.

     Priscilla Locke was born in 1787 at Halifax, NC.

     Jesse Locke was born i.

     George Locke was born ii.

     Mary Locke was born iv.

     Elizabeth Locke was born v.

     Nancy Ann Nichols married Thomas Jefferson Locke, son of Meverall Locke and Elizabeth Edwards. Her married name was Locke. Nancy Ann Nichols was born in 1774 at Halifax County NC. She died in 1860 at Halifax County NC.

     Henry Locke Halifax County Marriage Bonds, FHC Salt Lake City. He was born in 1795 at Halifax County NC.

     James Locke was born on 25 August 1797 at Halifax County NC. He married Elizabeth Herbert on 17 June 1828 at Halifax County Va. James Locke married Harriet Butts on 8 January 1849 at Halifax County Va. James Locke died between 1863 and 1868 at Halifax County NC.

     Temparness Locke was born on 6 February 1801.

     Josannah Locke was born on 31 December 1802.

     Joel Reeves Locke married Caroline 'Locke'. Joel Reeves Locke was born on 2 February 1805 at NC.

     Lida Locke was born on 10 February 1807.

     Franky Locke was born on 22 September 1809.