Sophia Ezzel

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Notes for JAMES BATTLE EZZELL:
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--Feb 28, 1890 Dresden Enterprise: Ad for The Dresden Bank - Capital $100,000 Now ready for Business Stockholders: JB Ezell, CS Fowler (others listed under CS Fowler)
--Mar 6 1903 Dresden Enter: Palmersville Column: Mrs J.B. Ezell who has been sick for some time is improving.

James + Fannie Moran. Fannie was born in Dresden, Weakley County, Tennessee; died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes for MASON "MACE" EZZELL:
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--See picture of him and his wife.
Loose newspaper clipping found in Civil War diary of Lt. James C. Harrell:
--Oldest Mason in Tennessee Passes to the Great Beyond at the age of 93 years.
Sixty-six years a Mason. Lived ninety years of his life in Weakley Co. Came of French stock. A Confederate Soldier.
--Special dispatch to the Democrat Greenfield, Tenn, Nov 21, 1912
Mason Ezzell, one of the oldest citizens of Weakley Co, died at his residence here this morning at 4 o'clock, in the ninety-fourth year of his age. He had been a resident of this county for ninety years and for nearly fourty years had resided in Greenfield. He enjoyed the distinction of being the oldest Mason in Tennessee.
--Mason Ezzell's grandfather was a Frenchman, and came to this country from France with Lafayette during the Revolutionary War, his name being also Mason Ezzell. He settled in South Carolina, where four sons were born. Mason Ezzell and his son Harrison, (father of the subject of this sketch), moved to Livingston Co Ky, where Mason Ezzell was born, on April 22,1819. In 1822, the father,Harrison and Mason removed to Weakley Co and settled in the 12th Civil District, near McKenzie. Since 1854, he had lived in the 9th Civil District, and in 1873, moved to Greenfield. He had lived in Weakley Co ninety years. At the breaking out of the war, he inlisted in Capt. Joe Thompson's Company of the Fifty-second Tenn Infantry, Col. Ben Lee, and was mustered out as Second Lieutenant.
Mr. Ezzell had been married twice. July 27,1854, he was married to Miss Sophia Mosley. Harry Ezzell of Jackson, TN., now fifty-four years of age, being the result of that union. He was again married, on Dec. 27,1863, to Miss Mary J. Dolahite, four children being born to them, Mrs Mattie Shannon of Lebanon, James B. Ezzell of Newsom, Robert A. Ezzell of Greenfield and Clyde Ezzell of Newsom.
Mr. Ezzell during his life was a farmer and a real estate dealer and had always enjoyed good health. He had in the past to some extent dabbled in politics, and had always been a staunch Democrat. He voted for James K. Polk for President the first time he voted for president, and on Nov. 5 voted for Woodrow Wilson. Mason Ezzell's Masonic record is doubtless without a parallel in Tenn, if not in the US. The fact that he had been a member of the fraternity for over 66, and in all that time belonged to only two lodges, and they in the same county, seems almost incredible, yet such is the case.
Mr. Ezzell was initiated in the Caledonia Lodge, No. 96, at McKenzie, March 13,1844, passed Aug. 7,1844, and raised Nov. 6,1844. Allen Bowden being Worshipful Master of the the Lodge. He later demitted from Caledonia Lodge and affliated with Washington Lodge. During all these years he had been a Mason, he was a regular attendant of the lodge meetings until about three years ago, when his advanced age and failing eyesight prevented him from visiting with his brethren. For about twenty years he was treasurer of Washington Lodge, and only gave it up about 5 years ago.

More About MASON "MACE" EZZELL:
Burial: Weakley County, TN Highland Cemetery

Notes for SOPHIA L. MOSELEY:
Sophia (family tale) died in childbirth in 1863.
My files are a collection from many sources and many are not documented by me. Most relate to Weakley Co., TN in some way. Included are many Confederate and Union Veterans of the Civil War. Everything I have on each entry is included in these files except those shown as living.

More About SOPHIA L. MOSELEY:
Burial: Highland Cemetery Greenfield, Weakley County, TN
Notes for MARY JANE DOLLAHITE:
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Letter: Greenfield, Tenn, December 18, 1899
I am very glad you are writing up the Fowler family, for I know very little about my mother's relatives. I have heard her say with evident pride that she never knew one of the Fowler names to be dissipated, or to do anything to bring reproach on the name. My mother had five brothers and they were all moral in every respect. This pride of hers in her own family is quite pardonable, I think, when we see dissipation running mad riot in so many good families. Honesty and morality are homely virtues, therefore wear well. A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.
I have been trying to gain some information of Uncle Bullard Fowler's descendants for the record, but so far I have failed. There are two grandsons of Bullard and Bathsheba Crudup Fowler in business here in Greenfield, but they are unable to tell me much. They request me to wait until they can write to Dr. Joseph Fowler's son for full data. They remember that their grandmother was left a widow with eight children (note - there were 9), six girls and two (3) boys.
Godfrey Fowler, a son a Bullard, married in Alabama and reared a family in that state. Josiah Fowler, the other son, lived and died in Carroll Co, Tn, leaving a son and a daughter. The son, Joseph Godfrey, is living at the old Fowler homestead; is married and has several children. There is not a surviving child of Bullard Fowler and there are a few grandchildren in this state. I do not know where the other descendants are, if living.
I have my grandfather's (William Fowler) old family bible, with all the births, marriages, and deaths of himself, wife and all of his twelve children, if you should wish any of these dates, please let me know.
Wishing you success in your labor of love, sincerely, your relative, Mary J. Ezzell

Mason married Mary Jane Dollahite on 27 Dec 1863 in Weakley County, Tennessee. Mary (daughter of Nathaniel Dollahites and Martha Fowler) was born on 24 Jun 1838 in Tennessee; died on 12 May 1918. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes for HARRISON EZZELL:
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1830 Census Weakley Co, pg 336, line 16 Ezell, Harrison
2 free white males under 5 (born 1825-1830)
1 free white male 5-10 (born 1820-1825)
1 free white male 10-15 (born 1815-1820)
1 free white male 40-50 (born 1780-1790)
2 free white females under 5 (born 1825-1830)
1 free white female 5-10 (born 1820-1825)
2 free white female 15-20 (born 1810-1815)
1 free white female 30-40 (born 1790-1800

1840 Census Weakley Co, page 269, line 13 Ezell, Harison
2 white males 10-15 (born 1825-1830)
1 white male 15-20 (born 1820-1825)
1 white male 20-30 (born 1810-1820)
1 white male 50-60 (born 1780-1790)
1 white female under 5 (born 1835-1840)
1 white female 5-10 (born 1830-1835)
2 white females 15-20 (born 1820-1825)
1 white female 40-50 (born 1790-1800)

1. Jackson Co. GA Marriages 1806-1860 P71
2. Livingston Co., KY tax Roll 1815-1826
1820 Harrison had one son and three daughters under 10
1822 Harrison had 320 ac on Crooked Creek, 3 children in school dist #5 and 1 horse
3. Neighbors in Weakley Co. TN 1327-1833 NSDAC
4. Census:
Kentucky 1810,20,30
Tennessee 1830 Weakley Co., TN
1850 p233 (Vol 2)
1850 Weakley Co., TN p 24, #76

5. 27 May 1942 - Letter from Malissa (Lissa)Azzallee Ezzell Williams b 1872 to M.K. Gilbert Jr., Louisville, KY. Has chart of family of Harrison and Nancy Gilbert Ezzell. She states that Harrison died during 1866 and Nancy about 1856 or 57 an that they are buried at Blooming Grove Church Cemetery in Weakley County TN

6. Family of Harrison and Nancy Gilbert Ezzell by Grace Elizabeth Ezzell b June 6, 1876

Harrison married Nancy McKenzie GilbertJackson County, Georgia. Nancy (daughter of Benjamin Franklin Jr. Gilbert and Emilly (Milly) McKenzie) was born about 1801; died in 1857 in Weakley County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel + Martha Fowler. Martha died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]