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Subject: [VAMONTGO] Greenville SC, Montgomery Co VA, Migration Information and Asa Hall
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 07:46:45 EDT

Rena, I noticed that you are searching Asa Hall and thought that this might
assists someone who works the Floyd Co and Montgomery Co VA.

In the Walker County Alabama Census for 1850:
Asa Hall was age 59 (date of birth would be 1791) born in VA
farmer and $100.00 (Family # 66)
He did land in Walker County Alabama on 12/1/59
which was 79.92 acres Document # 28412.
This land was in Range 9W, Township 14S Section 4 E1/2SW1/4
Accession Number was AL3870___.481
Some neighbors were Charles Lockhart, John M. Cunningham, & Robert Henden.

Sarah Jane Hall Howtz Johnson is a relative of mine and connects with the Hal
ls, Hartleys, McHaffie and Ballengers from Montgomery County area. Based
upon my current research, these families also lived in Greenville, SC area.
I had made a determination that my Ballengers were very much in the Montgomey
County and Floyd County areas during and after the Revolutionary War and also
in the Greenville SC Area. Relatives were also involved with George Rogers
Clark in taking the western lands during this time frame.

My John Ballenger and Jane McHaffie married in Montgomery Co VA in 1803.
He was called Ned Ballenger. His father is believed to be John Ballenger
borned 1759 in Culpepper Co Virginia who was a Revolutionary Soldier. He
came to St Clair County Alabama from Greenville SC. Additional information
may be supplied to anyone interested.

Here is the article which is in the "Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama about
1910 by Ethel Armes:" "According to Powell's "History of Blount County," a
couple of frontiersmen, one John Jones and his brother-in-law Caleb Friley,
rode down out of Madison County about 1813 and took up home sites in the
valley at the base of the long hill of red dye rock so treasured by the
Indians" then the footnote contains the following: Miss Duffee writes in
"Pioneer Days, " Birmingham Age-Herald, August 15, 1909:
"From all I can learn it is my belief that John Jones came from
Greenville district, South Carolina. In a letter received from Dr. Andrew
Jones of Amity, Clark County Arkansas, and dated December 18, 1886, in
reference to my sketches of the valley, then being published in the
Birmingham Age, he says: "As my ancestors were the settlers of that valley,
and gave it its name, of course it would be interesting to me. The stories
of my father and grandfather are yet fresh in my memory about the stirring
times in the settlement there. John Jones and Mr. Roupe settle there in
1816. This John Jones was a cousin to my grandfather and wore the unenviable
name of "Devil John" to distinguish him from the many others of the same
name, and because of his wild habits. My grandfather went there in 1817 and
lived there six years, some Indians being there at the time. Somme years
after his settlement he was followed by his brother, Jolly Jones, who settled
near Tuskaloosa and lived and died there. Soon after others came in and
settled, Mr. Friley, General Woodward, the Hanbys, Mark Goodin, the
Mitchells, McDuffs, McElroys, and Mr. Durrah,__all the above having come and
settled there prior to the year 1825, at which time he left Alabama and went
to West Tennessee, and to his old occupation of cane-breaking for others. I
remember to have heard him say that he left Greenville district, South
Carolina, in the year 1799, and headed a caravan of movers to the southern
district of Kentucky and stayed there until 1815, then went to Hickman
County, Tennessee, thence in 1817 to Jefferson County. About the time he
went to the valley John Jones had a fight with Mr. Roupe which resulted in
the favor of Jones, and Mr. Roupe sold out and went in the next valley below
and settled, and that took the name of Roupe's Valley. I am glad to hear of
"that garden spot of creation," as my grandfather was wont to call it. I may
add that I was born in Hardiman County Tennessee, in 1827, and in 1835 went
with the old pioneer to Pontotoc County, Mississippi, where he died at the
age of 64."

Prior to locating this article, I had already made connection with Culpepper
Co Virginia, Greenville South Carolina, Montgomery & Floyd County VA, Several
Counties in Kentucky, Hickman Co Tennessee, Madison County Alabama, St Clair
County Ala, then to Hardiman County Tennessee, and Pontotoc County
Mississippi for the same time frame. Births for children of John P.
Ballinger and Hulda Whitton were in Alabama, then Hardiman County and then
Pontotoc County Mississippi before coming back to Walker County Alabama about
1838.

If Asa Hall connects please let me know, I do have additional information.

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