Frances Lavinia Rudisill

Frances Lavinia Rudisill

Female 1822 - 1872  (49 years)

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  • Name Frances Lavinia Rudisill 
    Nickname Fanny 
    Born 2 Dec 1822  Lincoln County, North Carolina, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 18 Apr 1872  Prairie, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried New Hope Cemetery, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I16038  Complete
    Last Modified 21 May 2013 

    Father Phillip Rudisill, (slaveowner),   b. 04 Mar 1787, Lincoln County, North Carolina, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 04 Jan 1859, Catawba County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Cansler,   b. 6 May 1791, Lincoln County, North Carolina, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 03 Nov 1853, Catawba County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years) 
    Married 29 Apr 1810  Lincoln County, North Carolina, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Find-A-Grave:

      "She married Philip Rudisill III on 29 April 1810 in Lincoln County, North Carolina. Her maiden surname is variously spelled 'Cansellor.'"
    Notes 
    • Eaker, pp. 133-134:

      "28 May 1838 Lincoln, NC Deed Book 37:497 & 508. William Deal heirs: William Deal; John Stine & wife Caty [Catherine]; George Deal of Buncumbe County, NC; Eli Deal; Jacob Setzer & wife Delia; Martin Arney & wife Lydia; Noah Deal; widow Mary Deal. . . . [134]

      29 Dec 1858 Phillip Rudisill willed to son-in-law Eli E. Deal and wife Eliza; son-in-law Jacob Deal & wife Fanny, with son-in-law Eli E. Deal as Exr."

      [Eliza Rudisill & Frances Lavinia Rudisill were daughters of Phillip Rudisill.]


      Laban Miles Hoffman, "Our Kin: Being a History of the Hoffman, Rhyme, Costner, Rudisill, Best . . . and Lineberger Families" (Charlotte NC: Queen City Printing, 1915), pp. 291-292:

      "Phillip Rudisill was a prominent citizen of Lincoln County NC and son-in-law of Philip Cansler, Jr. His children were: Marcus m. Fanny Killian; Philip, deceased; Eliza m. Eli Deal (Diehl); William m. Fanny Hallman and [female] Carpenter; Mary (Polly) m. General Joseph Beringer; Anne m. Robert Powell; Fanny m. Jacob Deal. . . . [292]"

      [Author Hoffman's "General" Joseph Beringer (Barringer) was not found on any list of Confederate Generals. Perhaps he was a Brevet General, a promotion without an increase in pay.]

      "Eliza Deal lived at Newton NC. She had two children: Fanny m. [male unknown] and went to Mississippi or Texas; Sylvanus m. [female unknown] and lived in Catawba County NC. I have failed to get the children of Fanny Deal. It is said that Sylvanus Deal, who was a prominent citizen and a Colonel in the Confederate Army, had sons at Newton in the mercantile business, but I have inadvertently overlooked my inquiry on this branch of the family. . . .

      Fanny Deal's husband was a cousin to the husband of her sister, Eliza. She with her husband and family moved to Marshal County MS in 1846, and thence to Prairie County AR in 1852. She died in Arkansas in 1874 [18 Apr 1872]. Her husband lived there until death in 1897 [19 Mar 1895]. She had twelve children . . ."

      Edited by Roy Richard Thomas January 2008
    Family ID F6737  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Jacob Thomas Deal, (slaveowner),   b. 14 Nov 1816, Buncombe County, North Carolina, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Mar 1895, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years) 
    Married 2 Nov 1840  Lincoln County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • North Carolina Marriages, 1741-2004: "Jacob Deal & Francis [sic] Rudisel [sic], m. 2 Nov 1840 Lincoln County."
    Notes 
    • "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner . . . Counties, Arkansas: A condensed History of the State . . . Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens" (Chicago IL: Goodspeed, 1889), p. 655.

      "John W. Thompson, the youngest of a family of seven children, lived at home until twenty-two years of age, when he commenced farming for himself on the place which he now occupies. He enlisted in the First Trans-Mississippi Regiment of Arkansas during the war, and on July 4, 1862 was captured at the battle of Helena and taken to Alton IL, where he was kept until February 17, 1865, then being sent to Point Lookout for exchange. He was exchanged at Richmond VA, shortly before Lee's surrender in April 1865, after which he returned home and resumed farming on his present place.

      Mr. Thompson was married in 1866 to Fannie Deal, who was born in 1847, a native of North Carolina and daughter of Jacob and Fannie Deal, who came to Arkansas in 1854. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are the parents of three children: Anna, Oren, and Beulah. They are members of the Baptist Church and Mr. Thompson is Deacon. He is a prominent Democrat and a highly respected citizen."

    • Eaker, pp. 133-134:

      "28 May 1838 Lincoln, NC Deed Book 37:497 & 508. William Deal heirs: William Deal; John Stine & wife Caty [Catherine]; George Deal of Buncumbe County, NC; Eli Deal; Jacob Setzer & wife Delia; Martin Arney & wife Lydia; Noah Deal; widow Mary Deal. . . . [134]

      29 Dec 1858 Phillip Rudisill willed to son-in-law Eli E. Deal and wife Eliza; son-in-law Jacob Deal & wife Fanny, with son-in-law Eli E. Deal as Exr."

      Eliza Rudisill & Frances Lavinia Rudisill were daughters of Phillip Rudisill.

      Laban Miles Hoffman, "Our Kin: Being a History of the Hoffman, Rhyme, Costner, Rudisill, Best . . . and Lineberger Families" (Charlotte NC: Queen City Printing, 1915), pp. 291-292:

      "Phillip Rudisill was a prominent citizen of Lincoln County NC and son-in-law of Philip Cansler, Jr. His children were: Marcus m. Fanny Killian; Philip, deceased; Eliza m. Eli Deal (Diehl); William m. Fanny Hallman and [female] Carpenter; Mary (Polly) m. General Joseph Beringer; Anne m. Robert Powell; Fanny m. Jacob Deal. . . . [292]

      Eliza Deal lived at Newton NC. She had two children: Fanny m. [male unknown] and went to Mississippi or Texas; Sylvanus m. [female unknown] and lived in Catawba County NC. I have failed to get the children of Fanny Deal. It is said that Sylvanus Deal, who was a prominent citizen and a Colonel in the Confederate Army, had sons at Newton in the mercantile business, but I have inadvertently overlooked my inquiry on this branch of the family. . . .

      Fanny Deal's husband was a cousin to the husband of her sister, Eliza. She with her husband and family moved to Marshal County MS in 1846, and thence to Prairie County AR in 1852. She died in Arkansas in 1874 [18 Apr 1872]. Her husband lived there until death in 1897 [19 Mar 1895]. She had twelve children . . ."

      Edited by Roy Richard Thomas January 2008
    Children 
    +1. Elizabeth Anna Deal,   b. 21 Feb 1842, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Oct 1862, Prairie, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 20 years)
    +2. Philip Socrates Deal,   b. 1 Nov 1843, North Carolina, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Dec 1929, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years)
    +3. Sarah Elmina Deal,   b. 30 Sep 1845, North Carolina, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Dec 1884, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 39 years)
    +4. Frances Amelia Deal,   b. 30 Oct 1847, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Apr 1904, Lonoke, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years)
    +5. Emily Nancy Lavina Deal,   b. 04 Oct 1850, Mississippi, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Apr 1922, Lonoke, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years)
    +6. Martha Jane Catherine Deal,   b. 04 Oct 1850, Mississippi, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 May 1926, Lonoke, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years)
     7. Jacob Sylvanus Deal,   b. 19 Feb 1853, Marshall, Mississippi, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Aug 1873, Lonoke, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 20 years)
    +8. Lafayette Deal,   b. 14 Mar 1855, Prairie, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Jun 1924, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years)
     9. Mary Etta Deal,   b. 24 May 1857, Prairie, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Apr 1860, Prairie, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 2 years)
     10. Vardry Deal,   b. 08 Jun 1859, Prairie, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Jul 1859, Prairie, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
    +11. Berry Thompson Deal,   b. 23 May 1862, Prairie County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Feb 1922, Faulkner, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 59 years)
    +12. Wade Emmett Deal,   b. 12 Sep 1865, Prairie, Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Dec 1905, Malvern, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 40 years)
    Last Modified 5 Sep 2013 
    Family ID F6719  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    Link to Google MapsBorn - 2 Dec 1822 - Lincoln County, North Carolina, U.S.A. Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 2 Nov 1840 - Lincoln County, North Carolina, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Documents
    Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1985) family during the Civil War p. 2
    Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1985) family during the Civil War p. 2

    More information about the incident with "Doc Raeburn" was provided on page eleven of Nora Deal Foster, "The Origin of the Name (1949)":

    "By Emmadell High William (This account was told to Emmadell by her grandfather, James High, who married Emma Deal, a daughter of Jacob [Thomas] and Frances [Lavina] Deal)

    Doc Raeburn was a Southern spy during the Civil War in this section of the country. He was a terror to the Yankees because at night when they would have meetings, he and his little band of followers would break into them. It is said that he was a small man and would often dress like a woman and go to the Yankee's dances and in that way would often find out some of their plans and then he and his followers would break into them.

    One night he broke into them and did considerable damages. The next morning he was sitting on his horse in front of Grandfather's house, about ten miles north of Brownsville, where the Yankees were stationed. He was talking to a member of the family, when all of a sudden a band of Yankees, who were hunting him, appeared in sight, and began shooting at him. He fell over on the side of his horse, dodging the bullets and started running. They followed him into the woods, but he escaped. They thought he had been hiding at Grandfather Deal's and after they failed to capture him they came back, freed [Grandfather's] slaves, burned his cotton gin, destroyed his brick kilns, took his horses and mules, and drove off his cattle to help feed the Union soldiers. All that was left was one mule. Jacob Deal never recovered financially.

    Doc Raeburn died, still a young man, shortly after the close of the war."

    [This twelve-page document was contributed by Rebekah Canada and edited by Roy Richard Thomas, July 2008]

    Rebekah also supplied this link to the biography of Howel A. "Doc" Rayburn, the Confederate hero who was chased off Jacob Thomas Deal's place by Union troops:

    http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com:80/~arprairi/DocRay.htm

    The incident may have occurred after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect:

    ". . . the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free . . .to wit:
    Arkansas . . ."

    http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/transcript.html

    If so, slaves in Arkansas were legally free, but still in bondage unless Union troops acted to secure their freedom.




    Headstones
    Frances Lavina Rudisill (1822-1872)
    Frances Lavina Rudisill (1822-1872)

    Ancestry.com

    New Hope Cemetery, Lonoke County, AR

    Histories
    Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1985)
    Jacob Thomas Deal (1816-1985)

    Nora Deal Foster, "Origin of the Name, 1949" (typescript), Page One:

    ". . . The Deal family, a part of it, migrated to Holland during the Puritan uprising and remained there until after the American Revolution, when three brothers came to North Carolina (1805). Our great-grandfather [Jacob Thomas Deal] remained there.

    One brother went to Ohio. Great Uncle Noah, the batchelor, started to California during the gold rush of 1844 [actually, the gold rush began in January 1848] and was never heard of again. Uncle [Philip] Socrates Deal [b. 1841] used to correspond with some of the Ohio Deals. Strange isn't it that I never heard the names of the two who married and reared families. Grandfather used to talk about his father coming to America and how he could talk Dutch [Deutsch, German], but never told me his given name. Anyhow, he became an American, married a North Carolina girl and they reared a big family. Cousin Fanny (Jacob Deal's oldest grandaughter) used to tell me that grandfather had eleven brothers.

    Our grandfather, your father's and mine, Jacob [Thomas] Deal, was born 14 Nov 1816 on a farm in North Carolina. . . . He married Frances Rudisill 24 Dec 1840. They moved to the present site of Asheville NC, then but little more than a mountain farm. In fact, when Asheville became the county site [seat of government], grandfather gave the land on which the first courthouse was built.

    In 1848 grandfather and his older brother, John took their household goods, their families, their slaves and moved to Mississippi. Think of that trio in Conestoga wagons, no bridges, and very little roads. Women and babies must have been tougher in those days than they are now. There [were] four children [Elizabeth A.E. age 8, Philip S. age 6, Sarah M. age 4, Frances A. age 3 in 1850 Census, Northern Division, Marshall, MS].

    Uncle John remained in Mississippi, [but] after six years grandfather moved to Arkansas. In the autumn of 1854, when Arkansas had been a state just eighteen years, his post office was Old Austin, AR. He lived seventeen miles from the post office. There were no postage stamps at that time. When they called at the office, if there was a letter, they paid the postmaster twenty-five cents and were given the letter.

    My father, Lafayette Deal, [was] born 14 Mar 1855. Five years later the Civil War began. That was five years of devastation for grandfather as well as every other Southerner. His slaves were freed, an invading army burned his cotton gin, destroyed his brick kilns, took his horses and mules, drove his cattle away to feed the northern soldiers. He never fully recovered financially from the misfortunes of this time."

    On page eleven, there is a longer account of this incident during the Civil War.


    [This twelve-page document was contributed by Rebekah Canada and edited by Roy Richard Thomas, July 2008]