"SIZE OF A TEACUP"
CHARITY SEROONE
alt. sp. (Charroon)(Stone)
1761-1844
alt. sp. (Charroon)(Stone)
1761-1844
Charity Seroone 4th Great Grandmother
daughter of Charity Seroone
daughter of Susannah Childress
daughter of Elizabeth Robinson
son of Louisiana Ann Gracie
son of William Luther Allison
Charity was born 1761 in Buckingham County, Virginia.
She died 1845 - DeKalb County (Smithville), Tennessee
Originally buried at Robinson Cemetery, the cemetery was relocated to the Mount Holly Cemetery when Center Hill Dam on the Caney Fork river was built. Most were removed during 1948. Not all burials were moved to Mount Holly. In Cemetery No. 60 in Cemeteries of DeKalb County, Tennessee - there were 11 graves listed as unknown in the original Robinson Cemetery.
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LITTLE INFORMATION FOR the Seroone/Charoon FOUND
Charity was part Cherokee.
She married William Childress Jul 28, 1784 in Buckingham County, Virginia. Family historians have stated that
"Charity was so small, she could fit in a teacup!"
She applied for widows benefits in 1844 and was declined because proof of marriage was never proven.
Charity lived about five years after the death of her husband.
She died 1845 - DeKalb County (Smithville), Tennessee
Originally buried at Robinson Cemetery, the cemetery was relocated to the Mount Holly Cemetery when Center Hill Dam on the Caney Fork river was built. Most were removed during 1948. Not all burials were moved to Mount Holly. In Cemetery No. 60 in Cemeteries of DeKalb County, Tennessee - there were 11 graves listed as unknown in the original Robinson Cemetery.
Mount Holly Cemetery
Smithville, TN (DeKalb County)
Charity is buried in an unmarked grave near her husband Pvt William Childress.
(Revolutionary War Patriot)
DAR Marker/ Old Walton Road Chapter
Transcription of Headstones
from Robinson Cemetery, Dekalb Co. TN
1 - Robinson, Sarah Elizabeth, 27 Aug 1872-29 Aug 1888, present at disinterment ... brother, E. H. Robinson
2 - Robinson, Sarah Elizabeth, 2 Aug 1812-29 Aug 1888, present at disinterment ... niece, Mrs. Nancy Robinson,
3 - Childress, H. C., -1916, (Hiram C.) present at disinterment ... daughter, Mrs. Nancy Robinson,
4 - Childress, Mary, 30 Mar 1851-30 Oct 1925, present at disinterment ... daughter, Mrs. Nancy Robinson,
5 - Childress, J. C., 2 Feb 1872-20 Aug 1896, present at disinterment ... sister, Mrs. Nancy Robinson,
6 - Childress, Wm., -14 Jan 1839, age or birth not listed VA PVT WHITE CO N. C. TROOPS REV. WAR present at disinterment ... niece, Mrs. Nancy Robinson,
7 - Robinson, Charity, 1851-1882, no one listed present at disinterment,
8 - Goff, Nancy, 12 Apr 1829-10 Jun 1904, present at disinterment ... granddaughter, Mrs. Nancy Robinson,
9 - Green, H. A., 1865-1912, present at disinterment ... wife, Mrs. Nancy Robinson
LITTLE INFORMATION FOR the Seroone/Charoon FOUND
Charity was part Cherokee.
She married William Childress Jul 28, 1784 in Buckingham County, Virginia. Family historians have stated that
"Charity was so small, she could fit in a teacup!"
She applied for widows benefits in 1844 and was declined because proof of marriage was never proven.
Charity lived about five years after the death of her husband.
Genealogical Records
of Buckingham County, Virginia
By Edythe Johns Rucker Whitley
Owing to the total destruction of the county courthouse in 1869, few records of Buckingham County, Virginia survive. From documents in the Virginia State Library and the University of Virginia's Alderman Library, and from materials still in private hands, the compiler of this book has amassed a genealogical record of the county--not continuous and complete, since that would be impossible, but a rich selection of the kind of materials that would have been in the old courthouse. Highlighting the work is a collection of family sketches.
Buckingham County was formed in 1762, and very few records exist. The record below was found in an adjoining county - Prince Edward County.
The 1764 tax list found was titled "A List Of All The Tithes, Land, and Wheel-Carriages in Buckingham County for the year Anno 1764."
In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Virginia, the term “tithable” referred to a person who paid (or for whom someone else paid) one of the taxes imposed by the General Assembly for the support of civil government in the colony.
It went on to give the following information about the entries: "The names in parentheses following some of the names are probably those of slaves. Following each name are three numbers: the first is the number of tithes in the household; second is number of aces; and the third stands for the number of wheel carriages.
An Anthony Charoon is on the list on page 4.
Could this be Charity's Father / Family Member?
This is the entry - Anthony Charoon (Charles, Hana); 3; 679; 0
On December 11, 2013, the Library of Virginia featured a rare Buckingham County document on their blog, Out of the Box: NEW IMAGES ADDED TO LOST RECORDS DIGITAL COLLECTION
Now, in addition to finding various Buckingham County wills digitalized at the Library of Virginia’s “Lost Records Localities Digital Collection,” anyone can access images of the original Buckingham County Tithable List, A-G, 1764.
How did the fragment of Buckingham’s 1764 tithable list happen to survive?
In 1869, these two precious pages were not in the Buckingham Courthouse when it burned to the ground and were discovered in the Prince Edward County Courthouse. From 1789 to 1809, Prince Edward County served as the district court for several counties including Buckingham. There both civil and criminal suits originating in Buckingham County were appealed. The tithable may have been an exhibit in a Buckingham County suit, though according to Library of Virginia archivists, “no style of suit or exhibit number is found on the document.”
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