>Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 22:29:00
>To: jharris@jnpcs.com
>From: Hillra Qualls <qualls@blomand.net>
>Subject: Isham Qualls part 1
>Cc: Qualls@blomand.net
>
>Hi John,
>You had asked me about Isham Qualls who married Elizabeth Baucom
>around 1816 in McMinnville, Warren Co., Tn. I had received some
>information from a John L. Qualls, 101 Knox Court, Columbia, Tn
>38401 concerning this family. There about 15 pages. I will put
>part of them on email, but if you will send you smail address I
>will send you the entire 15 pages.
>
>EARLY QUARLLSES OF PERRY COUNTY, TN
>
>It is generally believed that Isham Qualls was the first Qualls to settle
>in Perry County, Tn. Family history contends that he emigrated from
Ireland in the early 1800's. It is thought that his closest relatives in
Ireland
>were two half sisters whom he left to come to America. It is not known as
to the reason he left his homeland and relatives in order to come here.
>History does record that the economy of Ireland was in decline in the early
1800's and tht poverty was wide-spread there. Maybe Isham had heard of the
opportunities America had to offer and decided to come to seek his
>fortune. Or maybe he had distant relatives here and wanted to join them.
Records indicate tht many Quallses already lived in american in the late
>1700's andearly 1800's. Some even fought in the Revolutionary War. During
the taking of the very first census in American in 1790, the year that
>Isham was born, the Qualls name appears on census records in at least
three different states, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. His
elderly widow, Elizabeth, is filing a claim for a pension in 1882 for his
service in the War of 1812, stated that Isham was a native of South
Carolina, while Isham Jr., in filing a pension claim for his own military
service in the Civil War, stated that his father had been from North
Carolina as well. THE QUALLS FAMILY HISTORY by Ottis Qualls states that
Isham first settled in North Carolina when he came to America, and even
returned there with his family years later to visit. Whatevery the case may
be, it is widely accepted tht the Qualls family name is rooted in Ireland,
possibly County Kerry, in the distant past and that isham Qualls was here in
America by around 1810. At this point, it is not known as to who his
parents were.
>
>Apparently Isham left North Carolina some time before 1814 because that in
the year that he joined the Kentucky Militia near Hopkinsville, Kentucky for
a period of three years and served under a Captain Scott. Again, we know
this from the information given by Elizabeth on her pension claim
application. She also stated that at the time of his enlistment, Isham was
a farmer, a native of South Carolina, was about 24 years old, stood six
>feet tall, had black hair and blue eyes, and a fair complexion. The
Tennessee census of 1850 listed Isham as being 60 years old at that time,
which means tht he was forn around 1790. If he enlisted at the age of 24,
which Elizabeth said he was, this puts his enlistment date in 1814. If he
served his full three year term and was honorably discharged from service,
which she said he did, this puts his discharge in 1817.
>family history states tht Isham served under General Andres Jackson at the
Battlle of New Orleans as well.
>
>After the was was over, Isham still had 2 years togo on his tour of duty
and may have served under Jackson during the campaigns waged against the
Creek Indiams in Mississippi, Alabama, and florida. At the time tht his
tour of duty ended, Isham no doubt began the journey back to Kentucky,
since that is where he signed up for service and probably lived there at the
time.
>He headed northward across Middle Tennessee and somewhere in either
>Bedford or Warren County met Eliabeth Baucom, his future wife.
>
>Elizabeth Baucom, Betsy to family and friends, was born on April 5, 1794,
somewhere in North Carolina or the territory prevously claimed by North
Carolina, the soon to be state of Tennessee. Since the Tennessee territory
had been claimed by North Carolina since the signing of the Treaty of Paris
of 1763, which ended the French and Indian war, settlers in
>Tennessee offically lived in North Carolina. In 1789, North Carolina ceded
the territory tothe federal government and in 1796 it became the state of
Tennessee. Isham Jr. said in his pension application that his mother's
parents were Moses and Dollie Baucom, who first settled in Bedford
County,Tn. Bedford officially became a county in 1807 along with its
neighboring county to the east, Warren County. Bedford County was formed
from lands previously designated as part of Rutherford County and part of
the Indian Lands of south-central Tennessee. Therefore, the Baucoms, no
doubt, lived in Bedford County at some point in time following the creation
of the county in 1807, else Isham Jr. would have said that they first
settled in Rutherford County or on the Indian Lands.

>There are no records as to how Isham Qualls and Eliabeth Baucom first met.
Any seculation would be purely guesswork. Records do indicate however that
the Baucom name is very prevalent the history of Johnston
>County, North Carolina, the area visited by Isham and Elizabeth in the
>1830's. It is possible thouh improbable, tht they were acquainted before
the War of 1812. Whatever the circumstance of their meeting, it is known
that they were married near McMinnville, Tn Warren County. Elizabeth
stated this on her pension application. However, no date nor year of the
marriage was given even though spaces were provided. Considering that isham
was released from military service in 1817, and the fact that their first
child, Moses, was born in 1820 according to the 1850 Tennessee census, the
marriage probably occurred inthe year of 1818. If that is the case, Isham
would have been 28 years old and Elizabeth 24 years old, advanced ages for
first marriages in those days.
>It is also not certain as to the exact date they settled in Perry County, Tn.
>Again referring to the widow's claim for pension filed by Elizabeth on
>November 11, 1882, she said tht they had lived near Shelbyville, Tennessee
in Bedford County for 7 or 8 years after their marrige. This is probably a
total of two or three different instanceswhen they actually lived there.
They may have lived there for a while before the moved westward
>to Perry County where most of their children were born. They certainly
spent some time both before going to North Carolina to visit and upon their
return according to family records. They were back in Perry County 1833
according to Cooper B. Land of Berdstown, Tn. On the 25th of October, 1888,
Mr. Land requested that C.L. Pearson, County Court Clerk fo Perry County,
write to the Pension Office in Wahsington, D.C. on behalf
>of Elizabeth Baucom. In this letter Mr. Land stated tht he was 82 years of
age, a resident of the Beardstown community, and had known Isham and
Elizabeth personally since they settled in the county some 55 years earlier.
This places their settlement in Perry County, Tn in 1833. Mr. Land swore to
this statement fefore two witnesses who signed the document as W.A. King and
Solomon Anderson. The 1840 Tenn. census lists the Qualls family as living
in Hickman County, Tn. Also this is the first time tht Moses is listed as
having a separte family. He is shown living in the household with his parent
and brothers and sisters along with his wife, Mary. By 1850 the Quallses
again are listed as living in Perry County and by this time several of their
children are shown as having their own families.
>
>the 1850 census also gives this information: living with Isham and
Elizabeth are Isham Jr., age 12; Martha, age 10; Sarah, their oldest
daughter, age 29; and Sarah's daughter,Mary Jane. It is unclear if this
Martha was Isham and Elizabeth's youngest child born in 1840 or if she was a
grandchild. The 1860 census lists her as 21 and living next to them, while
the 1870 census again shows Martha living with Elizabeth. By this time
Martha is 30 years of age and has a 5 year old son named William.
>Only one other written record is available concerning Isham Qualls Sr.
>A short note written by one Elijah Warren, Justice of the Peace for Perry
County on behalf of Joh Kilpatrick. The note was an issue of summons to
Isham qualls to appear to answer a complaint that he owed $50.00 to John
Kilpatrick. It is dated December 21, 1850. Elizabeth stated in the 1882
that her husband, Isham Qualls, Sr., had died in august about 1852.

>He was 62 Years old and they had been married about 34 years. Isham was
buried in a small cemetery in the Poplin Hollow on Coon Creek in
>Perry County, Tn. Over the years this land has passed from one owner to
another and has long since been reclaimed by nature. Today, there is no
>trace of the final resting place of Isham qualls, the first Qualls to
settle in Perry County, Tn.
>As of the 1860 Tennessee census, all of the children fo Isham and Elizabeth
had married except isham Jr. and Sarah. Living with Elizabeth at this time
were Isham Jr., Martha, and a 17 year old female named Patsy. By this time
apparently Sarah had move out. (She married George Bryson on December 25,
1866). Mary Ann had married a man named Murray and
>moved, it is thought, back to Coffee County, Tn where they had lived
earlier. (Coffee County had been created in 1836 out of parts of Bedforn
and Warren counties.) Lucinda had married Aaron Baucom around 1845
>and they had moved to Missouri some time after 1850. Patsy had married a
man named Ethridge and move to Dickson County, Tn. Moses, Thomas Matthew,
riley and Hubbard all had families on their own by this time and lived in
the immediate area.
>In 1861 the Civil War broke out and the following years were difficult ones
for the Quallses. At least 3 and possibly 4 of the Qualls brothers took
part in the war. Riley, Hubbard, and IshamJr., and perhaps Tom Matt as
well, joined the Army of the Confederacy. Information from the National
Archives in Wahsington, Dc. shows that Riley, Hubbard, and Isham Jr. joined
DeMoss's co. H, 10th Tennessee Cavarly on December 11, 1862 at Linden,
Tennessee. In his application for a pension at the age of 83 Isham Jr. said
tht they were first sent to columbia, Tennessee and then on
>to bowling Green, Kentucky where they saw their first action of the war.
He further stated that during the first part of 1864 he came home on a ten
day furlough and was captured by the enemy. There are no other records for
the brothers during the war except for two pages each of reference material
on file in the National Archives relating to Riley and Isham Jr.
>These two records are alsmost identical. The first page of each shown
their date of enlistment, their rank of private and the place of enlistment.
The second page of each which was peened at the time designated as a pay
period, has a singleentry for each, "May 15, 1863, No Pay, Deserted."
>Nothing else is known.
>
>Larking Qualls, the oldest son of Moses, enlisted in theUnion Army at
Lexington, Tennessee on December 1, 1862 at the age of 18. He furnished his
own horse and equipment. He served as a private, Co. C 2nd regiment of the
West Tennessee Cavalry. He was present on every
>muster roll until June 19, 1963 where he was reproted as deserted. He had
been reproted as absent without leave on June 13, near Grand Junction, Tn.
As a matter of fact, according to the National Archives, he had been
captured by the confederates on June 19, 1863 while on scout under orders of
the company commander. He was transported by train to City Point, Virginia
where he was released on July 14, 1863. He reported to Camp Parole, the
Federal facility in Maryland on July 15, 1863. The next day he was sent to
Camp Chase, Ohio and arrived there on July 22, 1863. From Camp Chase Larkin
was returned to his own company in Tennessee in October of 1863. On March
24, 1864, he was again captured by the Rebels at Union City, TN. this
statement appears on official casualty sheet. "While under rebel guard near
Oakalona, Tennessee County, Tn where a lot of Qualls-Quarles was by
>accidental discharged of the gun of one of the rebel guards, mortally
wounded in the abdomen, on or about April 1, 1864, and left at that place."
>The War Department on August 1, 1871, issued aremovalof the desertion charge.
>
>Aaron baucom, the husband ofLucind Qualls Baucom, then living in Missouri,
joined the Union army at Greeneville, Missouri on March 8, 1862 for the term
of the war. He was 38 years old at the time. He served as a private in
Captain Dill's Co. G. 12th Regiment, Missouri State Militia, Cavalry
Division. A statement on his June, 1862 muster roll indicated that he was
sick with smallpox. THE QUALLS FAMILY HISTORY states that this disease was
also suffered by several member of Aaron's family
>and that 2 or 3 of the children even died of smallpox. No doubt on e of
them was ancil, twin brother of Levi who had been born on September 25, 1850
in TN since there is no record of his living to manhood. No other
>records are available on the military service of Aaron Baucom, even though
he must have completed his tour of duty honorably. This is proved out due
to the fact that his widow, Lucinda, was granted a pension on the 28th of
Septemtn, 1891, in the amount of $8.00 per month which was to continue
during her widowhood. It is believed tht William the oldest son of
>Aaron and Lucinda, also served in the Union Army during the last year of
the war.
>These documented statemetns concerning members of the Qualls family and
their Civil War service and differing loyalties only serve to confirm what
the war did tofamilies everywhere. After the was was over, for many years,
>feelings of ddisloyalty and resentmentwere prevalent even in the closest of
>families.

>After the war, the whole country and especially members of the Qualls
family wanted to get a new start in life. For this reason it was decided by
several members of the family to pack up and leave Tn and migrate to Texas.
riley's wife, Smitha, had a brother, Dick Hilburn, who owned a large ranch
in Texas. They decided to journey westward and try that life-stype. It s
not clear as to who all decided to go to Texas, although it is known that
Tom Matt was one of those who most supported the move. as a matter of fact,
he may have gone on ahead of the others, due to the fact tht his wife
>Hettawas listedasthe head of his houdehold in the 1870 Tn census. Around
1875 the contingent of Quallses set out for Texas. Elizabeth, Tom Matt,
riley, Hubbrd, and Isham Jr. all moved their families to Texas and settled
in and around LaVaca County, Texas. Moses probably did not take his family,
however his second oldest son, Isham Johnson Qualls, born in 1848, may have
accompained them. Moses may have died at some time between 1870 and 1880
because he does not appear on the 1880 census.
>The Qualls fa,o;u pf Tennessee had obviously been in touch with Lucinda
>and her family in Missouri because they too decided to move to Texas and
rejoin the family there. Their move was cut short however. According to the
>QUALLS FAMILY HISTORY account by Ottis Qualls and based upon first hand
information of his mother, Mary, daughter of Aaron and lucinda, the Baucoms
got as far as Texarkana, Texas, just across the Arkansas state line where
they stopped towork to restock their provisions. Aaron took sick and died.
Lucinda andthe children decided to return to the familiar rea of Missouri
rather than journey into the unknown of Texas.
>
>After about a yer in Texas, Riley decided to move his family back to Perry
County, TN. His brothers and their families and his mother, Elizabeth
decided to stay in Texas. Tom Matt never returned to Tennessee , neither is
he on the 1880 Texas census, although his son William appears living in
LaVaca County. Elizabeth staryed with Isham Jr, in Texas until arount 1882
when they returned to Tennessee. This is confirmed by her applicaton for
the widow's pension dated November 11, 1882 when she stated tht she had
lived in LaVaca County, Texas for 7 years. Hubbard and his family returned
to Perry County and Coon Creek some timeafter 1880, where he lived out the
remainder of his life. Many of theQualls children and their offsprings
remained in Texas.
>riley and his family resumed their lives on thefamily farm on Brush Creek,
Perry County, TN after their return from Texas in late 1876. riley's oldest
son richard, born in 1848, had married Margaret Kilpatrick on January 2,
1866. They had 2 children, A.B. "Berry"Qualls, born September 1, 1866, and
Mary Elizabeth "Poppoe" Qualls born in 1868. Richard's family is listed as
living next door to his father, Riley in the 1870 census. He was 22 at the
time, Margaret was 25, A.B. was 3 and Mary was one. I 1871 Margaret died
and left Richard with the two small children. He then married Sally Baucom
and they had on child, serena, born in 1873. but Richard would not live to
see them grown. On the return trip from Texas with his father and the rest
of his immediate family he became ill due to exposure and never recovered.
He died on July 29, 1877 and was buried on a hill on the family farm. His
grave was the first in what is now the Qualls Cemetery on Brush Creek.
Since then many other family members and community members have been buried
there. 

>After Elizabeth returned from Texas with Isham Jr. and his family in 1882,
she moved in with her son Riley on the family farm. Even though she could
not read or write,as was the case with most of her immediate
>family, she lerned that she might be qualified for a ension for Isham's
Sr's service in the War of 1812. according to the Act of March 8, 1878,
pensions were available to thos with proof of their claim. On November 11,
1882 Elizabeth jouyneyed to Linden, TN and asked the Clerk of the County
Court, C.L. Pearson to file an application on her behalf, which he
>did. The document was witnessed by Alvin Warren and Enoch Barber. Over
the next several years, friends and family members wrote letters on her
behalf to the U.S. Government. The Pension Department in washington kept
replying tht further proof was needed that Isham had indeed served in the
War of 1812. They even wrote to Hopkinsville, Kentucky to seek any who
might still be alive who served with Isham. All their efforts ere to no
avail as Elizabeth never received the pension. However, the
correspondencefrom both sides has provided a treasure of information which
has made this written effort possible.
>After living many years on the St. Francis River, in Wayne county, Missouri,
>Lucinda Qualls Baucom decided in 1885, at the age of 59 to return with her
younger children to Perry County, Tn and to rejoin the Qualls family members
there. She moved eventually to the farm of her brother, Riley to be near
her mother, Elizabeth. Moving from Missouri with her mother, alongs with
several other of the children, was 14 year old Mary Adeline
>Baucom, who two yers later on November 20, 1887 married the son of Richard
Qualls, A.B. "Berry" Qualls, who was 21 at the time. They were my
Grandmother and Grandfather.
>Elizabeth Baucom Qualls died in the home of her son, Riley on Bruch Creek
on October 19, 1890. She was 96 years old. Eighteen days later Riley
followed his mother in death on November 6, 1890. His wife, Smitha
>liven until 1919. Lucinda Qualls Baucom died in 1901. They are all buried
in the Qualls Cemetery on Brush Creek. Hubbard lived until 1922 and is
buried in the family cemetery on Coon Creek. Isham Jr. died in 1925 and is
buried in the Cemetery on Church House Hill on lower Brush Creek.
>Sarah(Sally) Qualls Bryson was buried beside her mother, Elizabeth in the
Qualls Cemetery on Brush Creek. It is unknown as to the restin place of
>Mary ann, Moses, tom Matt, Patsy, and Martha.
>
>A listing of the children of Isham and Elizabeth Qualls is as follows along
with the probable years of their births:
>1. Moses Qualls born ca 1820
>2. Sarah (Sally) Qualls Bryson 1821
>3. Thomas Matthew (Tom Matt) Qualls 1822
>4. Mary Ann Qualls (Murray) 1824
>5. Lucinda Qualls (Baucom) 1826
>6. Riley Qualls born February 13, 1828
>7. Hubbard Qualls 1830
>8. Patsy Qualls (Etheridge) 1833
>9. Isham Qualls, Jr. 1839
>
>A listing of the grandchildren of Isham and Elizabeth Qualls is as follows
along with the probably years of their births:
>CHILDRENOF MOSES AND MARY QUALLS
>1. Larkin 1844
>2. Catherine (Cassandra) 1847
>3. Isham Johnson 1848
>4. Emiline 1850
>5. Rebecca 1851
>6. Susan 1853
>7. Mary 1856
>
>CHILDREN OF SARAH QUALLS BRYSON
>1. Mary Jane Qualls 1850
>CHILDREN OF MARY ANN QUALLS MURRAY
>unknown
>CHILDREN OF THOMAS MATTHEW AND HETTA QUALLS
>1. Matilda 1850
>2. Rebecca 1852
>3. Wiliam R. 1854
>4. Sarah E. 1856
>5. Thomas 1858
>CHILDREN OF LUCINDA QUALLS AND AARON BAUCOM
>1. William Riley Baucom 1847
>2. Eli 1848
>3. Levi 1850
>4. Ancil 1850
>5. Isaac 1857
>6. Sarah 1859
>7. Moses 1862
>8. Martha 1864
>9. Lewis 1866
>10. Mary Adeline 1871
>11. Susanne ?
>
>CHILDREN OF RILEY AND SMITHA HILBURN QUALLS
>1. Richard 1848-1877
>2. William T. 1850-1923
>3. Henry 1853-1927
>4. Doctor W. 1856-1925
>5. John O. 1859-1924
>6. Z.R. "Buddy" 1856-1930
>7. Joe B. 1868-1957
>
>CHILDREN OF HUBBARD AND POPPIE DOWDY QUALLS
>1. Jordan 1853
>2. Nancy 1856
>3. Joe 1860
>4. W.T. (Teedy) 1865
>5. Smithy 1867
>6. Sarah 1872
>7. Parolee 1873
>8. Riley 1875
>9. Richard 1879
>CHILDREN OF PATSY QUALLS ETHERIDGE
>unknown
>
>CHILDREN OF ISHAM JR. AND MRY LAND QUALLS
>1. W.R. 1866
>2. M.F. 1868
>3. Joe B. 1870
>4. Elizabeth (Lizzie) 1872
>
>CHILDREN OF MARTHA QUALLS (Question remains as to her parentage)
>1. william 1865
>
>CHILDREN OF A.B. "BERRY" QUALLS AND MARY ADELINE BAUCOM QUALLS
>1. Cora (Rodgers) 1888-1924
>2. Leona 4-29-1891 - 10-27-1891
>3. Henry 1892 - 1976
>4. Jess 1895-1975
>5. Dixie (Laxton) 1898- 1944
>6. Robert 1901-1920
>8. richard 1906
>9. Ottis Aaron 11-25-1913 died 2-24-1993
>
>There is a copy of the pension claim for the War of 1812 and a couple of
>sheet left if you want I will send to you. Please let me know.
>
>I hope you enjoy this as it was completed as the copy John L. Qualls sent me.
>Thanks
>Hillra
>