Carvell Family History, Book II

Families of

Ammett & Cora

Carvell

Carvell Family History, Book II, was researched and compiled by its publisher, Daphene Carvell Cope, who also wrote much of the manuscript. Daphene is the daughter of RA Carvell and granddaughter of Cora and Ammett Carvell. Photos, additional written contributions and oral materials were contributed by numerous Carvell family members, both credited and uncredited herein. The book was edited and designed by Claudia Kay Johnson. This book may be downloaded and printed for educational, genealogical or family history use only. Permission is expressly denied by the publisher as to reproduction for sale. For questions, additions, corrections or dialogue, please contact dejavu159@gmail.com.

Copyright 2014 by Daphene Carvell Cope for the Carvell Family, all rights reserved.

Family of Cora Lee Ball Carvell, 1881-1956Researched and Compiled by Claudia Johnson, great granddaughter

Cora’s Mother: Sarah Indiana Hayes Ball, called “Sallie”, 1854-1918Mother’s Mother: Rebecca Puryear Hayes, ca.1820-bef.1880Daughter of Rebecca (Unknown), 1782-1864, and Robert Harmon Puryear, ca. 1755-1821Robert H Puryear son of William Puryear, 1725-1808, and Rebecca (Unknown)William son of Samuel Puryear and (Unknown)

Mother’s Father: Stephen Hayes, 1816-1884Son of Mary Hester, ca.1785-ca.1840, and Simeon Hayes, ca. 1783-ca.1730Simeon Hayes son of Sarah (Unknown) and Joseph Hayes, ca. 1745-1792Joseph Hayes (probably) son of Selvah (Unknown) and Joshua Hayes, ca.1720-1797Mary Hester (probably) daughter of Mildred Frazier and Francis Hester, 1758-1812Francis Hester (possibly) son of Mary Whicker and William Hester, 1716-?William Hester (possibly) son of Rachel McAllister and Robert Hester

Cora’s Father: Broomfield Leander Ball, usually used “BL” instead of name, 1851-1928Father’s Mother: Rhoda Dauson Carpenter Ball, 1824-1883Rhoda Ball daughter of Rhoda Mays, ca. 1774-bef.1846, and Hensley Carpenter, ca. 1774-aft. 1846Rhoda Mayes daughter of Elizabeth (possibly Bolling, not proven) and Robert Mays, ca. 1750-1808, who was a Minute Man in American RevolutionHensley Carpenter, ca. 1774-1846, son of Mary (Unknown) and Benjamin Carpenter, ca. 1750-aft.1825

Father’s Father: John D. Ball, ca. 1830-ca.1897John D. Ball son of John Ball, 1787-ca.1880, and (possibly Deborah, who died before 1840), stepson of Anna, 1803-aft.1880

Family of Robert Ammett Carvell, 1876-1960Researched and Compiled by Claudia Johnson, great granddaughter

Robert Ammett Carvell’s Mother: Julia Ann Joines Carvell, 1845-1924Mother’s Mother: Elizabeth Keltner Joines, 1826-1886Elizabeth Keltner daughter of Nellie Musgraves, ca. 1795-ca.1865, and Emmanuel Keltner, ca. 1795-1865Emmanuel Keltner son of Henry Keltner Jr, 1767-1829, and (probably Catherine Peters, not proven)Henry Keltner Jr, 1767-1829, son of Henry Keltner Sr, 1737-1816, and Barbara (unknown), ca. 1740-1812Henry Keltner Sr, 1737-1816, son of Elizabeth Stapleton, 1719-1771, and Michael Keltner, 1717-1757, who arrived in Pennsylvania from Germany, 1733Michael Keltner son of Veronica Burkhart and Johannis Keltner, 1683-1767

Mother’s Father: George Washington (G.W.) Joines, 1822-1908, who fought in Civil WarG.W. Joines’ parents were Julie Ann (unknown), 1800-1871, and Thomas Joines, 1785- 1865, who fought in War of 1812

Robert Ammett Carvell’s Father: Robert James Carvell, 1846-1924Father’s Mother: Lydia Wilson, 1822-1887, (parents unproven, speculation not included)Father’s Father: James Carvell, 1815-1892 (parents possibly William and unknown)

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In 1870 Robert James and Julie Ann Joines Carvell were living on 33 acres of improved land valued at $53. They owned two horses, two milk cows, five other cattle, three sheep and nine pigs for a total livestock value of $395. For the year ending June 1, 1870, they produced 18 bushels of wheat, four bushels of rye, 250 bushels of corn, 29 bushels of oats, six bushels of Irish potatoes, five bushels of sweet potatoes, 12 pounds of wool, 100 pounds of butter and 72 pounds of honey. The animals slaughtered were valued at $106. They had one daughter, Mary Jane – “Mollie” – at that time.

– Selected U.S. Federal Census Non-Population Schedules, 1870

Robert James & Julia Ann Joines Carvell

Robert James Carvell and Julie Ann Joines applied for a marriage license on Sept. 18, 1865. They were married by S.F. Walker, Minister of the Gospel, on Sept. 20, 1865. They lived all their married lives on Minnow Branch in Giles County, Tenn.

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United States Federal Census, Giles County, Tenn., 1910

United States Federal Census, Giles County, Tenn., 1900

United States Federal Census, Giles County, Tenn., 1920

United States Federal Census, Giles County, Tenn., 1880

United States Federal Census, Giles County, Tenn., 1870

James Robert “Bob” Carvell & Julia Ann Joines Carvell

The 1890 Census was destroyed by fire & does not exist

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The 1910 Census lists a member of Bob and Julie Ann’s household as 20-year-old James F. Carvell, identifying him as “son.” This is a mistake. In 1900 and 1910 Julia answered that she had given birth to seven children and six were living. Her six children living were Mary, Lizzie, Hettie, Rosie, Ammett and Alex. This designation as “son” was obviously a misunderstanding by the census taker.

Mollie died of rheumatism and cancer of the uterus and is buried along with her husband in the Petty Graveyard, Petty Hollow, Giles County, Tenn.

Called “Lizzie,” she and her husband are buried at Lynnwood Cemetery, Lynnville, Giles County, Tenn.

Alex and Della are buried in Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn.

Ammett and Cora are buried at Maplewood Cemetery, Pulaski, Giles County, Tenn.

Rosie and John are buried at Mimosa Cemetery, Lawrence County, Tenn.

Hettie is buried at Maplewood in Pulaski and Manuel at Campbellsville in Giles County, Tenn.

Bob Carvell was a farmer and also operated a blacksmith shop. Julie Ann was a homemaker. In their final years, they took in a boarder, a Syrian-born salesman named Elias, who settled in the area.

“Bob” and Julia Carvell’s Family

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Bright’s Disease is now known as acute, chronic

kidney disease. Bob would have had a very difficult life in the time between

Feb. 1923 and July 1924, which is the

time period his physician, A.M.

Allen, indicated he had treated Bob for the condition. He

died only four months after his

wife of nearly 60 years.

Julie Ann died of mitral

insufficiency, a disorder of the

heart in which the mitral valve does not close properly when the heart

pumps out blood. Dr. Copeland also cited “insanity”

among the causes of death. Her grandchildren

recalled that she was insane during their childhood.

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Robert James & Julie Ann Joines Carvell are buried in the Carvell Cemetery at Minnow Branch, Giles County, Tenn. Unfortunately, someone erected a beautiful marker with incorrect and misleading dates that make it appear that

Julie Ann was more than 100 years old at her death, obviously confusing her with her grandmother and

namesake, Julie Ann Joines, who died in 1871.

This portrait of Robert James “Bob” Carvell and Julie Ann Joines Carvell hung

in the Carvell homeplace in the home of Robert

Ammett and Cora Carvell until their

deaths.

When Julie Ann was sick, Dana and Cora Lee Carvell were caring for her and took a break on the front porch. In the front yard there was an entrance gate with a hedge and a vine that made an archway. Both women saw two angels enter the gate and linger for a few seconds. Shortly thereafter, Julie Ann Carvell died. They took that as a sign from heaven.

– told to Frankie Hargrove Russell by Dana Carvell Hargrove

Robert James Carvell

June 9, 1846-July 9, 1924

Julie Ann Joines

Jan. 2, 1845 - Feb. 22, 1924

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Ammett Carvell’s Parents

Julia Ann Joines Carvell’s FamilyJulia Ann Joines Carvell’s father, George W. Joines, was born March 18, 1822, and died Feb. 21, 1908, in Giles County, Tenn. George W. was the son of Thomas Joines, who was born ca. 1785 and married Julia Ann (last name unknown).Julia Ann’s mother was Elizabeth Keltner, left, (March 4, 1826 – Nov. 11, 1886) daughter of Emmanuel Keltner and Nelly Pernina Musgraves Keltner. Both her parents were born ca. 1785. The great-grandson of German immigrant Michael Keltner, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1733, Emmanuel and his father, Henry Keltner Jr., moved from Virginia, where the Keltners had been since the mid-1700s, to Giles County around 1810. In the 1860 census George W. Joines is listed as a farmer with personal property valued at $250. The census states that all members of his household were born in Tennessee. It lists

his age as 35 and his wife’s as 30, which does not correspond with other information the family has. However, census-takers were known to make mistakes.In the 1870 Giles County, Tenn., census George W. is listed as a farmer and stonemason with $1,540 in real estate and $1,370 of personal property. He and Elizabeth still resided in Giles during the 1880 Census. In 1900, the widowed George W. lives in the home of his granddaughter, Nellie, and her husband Joshua Buchanan “Buck” Carvell along with their children Reedie and Robert. George fought with the 53rd Tennessee Infantry, Confederate States of America, and spent much of the Civil War in Federal Prison Camps. His father, Thomas Joines, served as a drummer in the War of 1812 from Tennessee.In addition to Julia Ann Joines Carvell, George and Elizabeth had 10 other children.

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William Lee Joines, b. 3/8/1859, Giles Co., TN – d. 7/2/1934,

Hungerford, Wharton Co., TX; buried – Wharton Cemetery,

Wharton Co., TX.#1 married 7/14/1881 Nancy

Malinda Ada, 11/10/1862-12/27/1896, Giles

Co., TN. #2 married 7/28/1906 Ma!ie

Alice Goates, 2/28/1891-2/7/28/1919, Giles

Co., TN) Emmanuel !omas Joines, b. 8/19/1848 Giles Co., TN -

9/13/1925, Jackson Co., TX, married on 7/27/1870, Giles Co.,

TN, to Henrie"a !urman, b. 4/1/1851, Giles Co., TN -

8/27/34, d. Harris Co., TX; buried – Palacios Cemetery, Matagorda

Co., TX.

General Andrew Joines, b. 1/11/1850, died before 1860, Giles Co., TN.; buried –Joines Cemetery, Giles Co., TN.

Rufus Joines, 10/15/1857- 1859 Giles Co., TN; buried – Joines Cemetery, Giles Co., TN.

Infant of George and Elizabeth, born and died 1875; buried – Joines Cemetery, Giles Co., TN.

Nancy A. Joines, b. 12/5/1855, Giles Co., TN – d. 8/27/1912, Grimes Co., TX; buried – Lake Grove Cemetery, Grimes Co., TX.#1 Married on 10/17/1870 to Rueben C. Duncan, b. 3/27/1851, Giles Co., TN – 4/5/1878 Giles Co., TN. #2 Married on 4/24/1881 to John Daniel Henson, b. 4/1861 in AL – d. a#er 1930 in TX.

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Georgia Ella Forrest Joines, 3/23/1865 - 9/4/1928, married on 7/4/1880, Robert H. Shrader, 2/26/1859 – 7/25/1942; both were born, married and died in Giles Co., TN. Buried – Lynnwood Cemetery, Giles Co., TN.

Mary Catherine Joines, b. 9/7/1846 Giles Co, TN; d.

12/28/1919, Travis Co., TX; married William Porter

!urman, b. 7/19/1846, Giles Co., TN – d.

2/19/1931 Travis Co., TX, on 10/1/1868, Giles Co.,

TN; buried – Manor Cemetery, Travis Co., TX.

Nelly Pernina Joines, b. 5/5/1851, Giles Co., TN – supposedly 7/11/1902 Giles Co., TN, married 1/27/1869, Giles Co., TN, to James K. Polk Hewi", b. ca. 1845, TN –????. (I cannot $nd anything about these people that I can PROVE a#er 1880 Census)Cynthia Joines, 5/11/1853, - 4/17/1927,

married William Lafaye!e Owen, 7/16/1845 – 5/22/1921, on Dec. 26, 1871; both were born, married and died in Giles Co., TN. Buried – Lynnwood Cemetery, Giles Co., TN. "eir children were Milton Aaron, Pizzaro Washington, Cove Lafaye!e, "omas Edition, He!ie Ann and Solon Ozro. "eir granddaughter, Eula Mae Owen, married Dewey Carvell.

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George W. Joines and Elizabeth Keltner

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Rosetta “Rosie” Carvell Morgan children were:

TurnerLeona

Hettie Ann Carvell White’s children were:

Floyd

Carl Flournoy

George

Janie Mae

Jack

Rosie and Lizzie were known to wear their corsets, stockings and pearls and to keep their hair immaculate.

David Alexander CarvellDavid Alex Carvell was a master carpenter. He moved to Nashville but

continued to take jobs throughout the region, including Giles County.

He was known to wear a suit and bow tie to work, donning coveralls

for the workday and removing them before returning home. He

worked on many church alters around Giles County as well as the

barns around Milky Way farms. When working in Giles County, he

stayed with Ammett’s family on Minnow Branch. When he was older

he was distinguished and lean with white hair. The photo at right is

believed to be Alex working on construction of the Campbellsville

(Tenn.) Methodist Church around 1915. Alex Carvell

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Ammett’s Sisters

Ammett’s Brother

Mary Jane “Mollie” Carvell Petty

Children wereAustinSallieOwenLeilaVelma

Children of Lydia Elizabeth “Lizzie”

Copeland wereLaura

GeorgiaAnnWilda Mae

Bessie ArosaJennie

John RobertRobert TaylorMattie Lee

Rosetta “Rosie” Carvell MorganServices for Mrs. Rosetta Carvell Morgan, 91, were Monday, Feb. 2, 1970, at North Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg, with burial in Mimosa Cemetery. Mrs. Morgan died Sunday, Feb. 1, in the Hewitt Home in Pulaski following a long illness. A native of Giles County, she was the daughter of the late Robert and Julia Ann Joines Carvell. She was married to John W. Morgan, a Lawrenceburg barber, who died in 1933. She had resided in Lawrenceburg for 40 years and had operated a boarding house there. She was a Methodist. Survivors include eight grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and eight great-great grandchildren.

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Authorʼs Note: In the 1900 and 1910 Census records Rosie answered that she had given birth to three children, two of whom were living at the time.

Ammett’s Sisters

Cora Lee Ball Carvell’s Parents

& Siblings

This portrait of Sallie Indiana Hayes Ball and Leander Broomfield Ball hung in the home of Robert Ammett and Cora Carvell.

These are the nine children of BL and Sallie Ball

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Sallie Indiana Hayes Ball and Broomfield Leander Ball

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Cora Lee Ball’s mother was Sallie Indiana Hayes Ball, daughter of Stephen Hayes and Rebecca Puryear Hayes. Stephen’s father was Simeon Hayes, son of Joseph Hayes, born ca. 1765 in North Carolina. Joseph appears in Granville County, N.C., in the 1786 state census and in the 1790 tax list. Joseph died before his father, leaving a will dated June 10, 1792, and proved in November 1792. The home plantation was left to the widow, Sarah, with reversion to son Simeon Hayes (Stephen’s father). Joseph’s father, Joshua Hayes, born ca. 1720, first appears in public records on June 8, 1746, when he purchased land in Northampton County, N.C. He appears numerous other times with his wife, Selvah, buying or selling sizable tracts of land, finally purchasing the 500 acres in 1765 in Granville, where he lived until his death April 9, 1797.

Cora Ball Carvell’s Maternal Great Grandparents – Hayes

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Broomfield Ball married Sallie, the daughter of Stephen Hayes and Rebecca Puryear.

Cora Ball Carvell’s Maternal Great Grandparents – PuryearRebecca Puryear Hayes’ father, Robert Harmon Puryear, died

ca. 1821 when Rebecca was a baby. An extensive file exists in the court records of Granville County, N.C., about the guardianship of Rebecca and her siblings. Her mother, also named Rebecca, was still alive, but early 19th century laws did not often give women the legal right of decision making about their own children. Rebecca’s maiden name is unknown, though some researchers say it was Sneed with no proof offered and none found by this author. She was Robert’s second wife, the first being Mary Ellen Stovall, with whom he had several children.

Robert Puryear was born ca. 1755 in Lunenburg County, Va., to William Puryear Sr., born 1725 in Warwick County, Va., who died in 1808 in Granville County, N.C., where he had moved with wife Rebecca and become a planter and slaveholder. William was the son of Samuel Puryear, born in 1694 in Virginia, and died in 1748, and his wife, Elizabeth.

Stephen Hayes, who would become Rebecca Puryear’s husband, lost his father, Simeon, in 1830 when he was a boy in Granville, N.C.. His mother, Mary Hester Hayes, died before 1844. Several thick court f i les contain documents about the settlement of these estates in Granville County, N.C.

On May 2, 1842, Stephen Hayes received $592.92 from the Granville County Probate Court to which he became “entitled” upon his marriage to Rebecca, presumably from her father’s estate. This had the buying power of $16,779 in current dollars. In the 1850 Census, Stephen and Rebecca and their young family, including Sallie Indiana Hayes (later Ball), are listed as living in Macon County, N.C., a county in Western N.C., quite far from their native Granville County. Other relatives live nearby, including Rebecca’s mother, Rebecca Puryear.

The Puryear and Hayes families moved to Giles County from North Carolina between 1850 and 1860. The Hayes family lived in northern Giles County north of Minnow Branch between Campbellsville and Lynnville. Their residence is identified on the 1878 D.G. Beers Map of Giles County (see page 9).

Rebecca’s mother moved to Giles, where she died around age 82. She left a will in which she names her daughter, Rebecca Hayes, and other children (listed to the left). Her marked grave is located at a spring near the intersection of Hwy. 31 and Industrial Loop Road, north of Pulaski, Tenn.

Stephen and Rebecca Hayes’ graves have not been located.

The will of Rebecca Puryear,

1782-1864, is filed in

Giles County, Tenn., where she is buried in a marked

grave.

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Rebecca Puryear Hayes, 1820-ca.1875, was an infant when her father

died in 1821. His estate paid the

expenses for her and her siblings.

Cora Carvell’s Paternal Grandparents’ FamilyCora Lee Ball Carvell’s father, Broomfield Leander Ball, was the son of Rhoda Dauson Carpenter, born

Giles County, Tenn., Aug. 4, 1824, and John D. Ball, who was born in North Carolina around 1830. Broomfield’s parents had one other (unnamed) boy and four girls, Delia, Sarah, Arabella and Mary. Only Delia lived to adulthood. She married Thomas Haden Cross. Rhoda died Aug. 8, 1883, and is buried in the Cook Cemetery in Petty Hollow, Giles County, Tenn., with her infant children buried around her. Following their mother’s death, Delia and Leander were on opposing sides in a lawsuit disputing their mother’s will. Cora was 16 at the time of the suit’s filing.

Ball FamilyJohn D. Ball was the son of John Ball, born 1787 in Pennsylvania. It is certain that three of his children

were born in North Carolina and came with him to Giles County, Tenn. Those were William C. Ball, born 1820, John D. Ball, born 1830, and Mary Ball Terrell, born 1817. Their mother, John’s first wife, may have been named Deborah. This is accepted as fact in association with this family by some researchers based on a marriage record between a John Ball and wife Deborah dated Feb. 28, 1815, in Rowan County, N.C. A trip to the North Carolina State Archives offered no further proof that this is our John Ball, grandfather of Cora Ball Carvell. One piece of circumstantial evidence that supports this possibility is that the 1850 Census shows him living in the Campbellsville community near the Lawrence and Giles County lines – an area to which many other Rowan County families migrated. He is married to a second wife, Anna, born 1803, by the 1850 Census and has two daughters, Paulina, born 1844, and Cynthia, born 1842. Subsequent Census records show him in Giles County in the area known as Ball Hollow. He died before the 1880 Census, but his wife survived. Her property is noted on the 1878 D.G. Beers Map of Giles County as belonging to Mrs. Ball, leading one to deduce that John was already deceased by 1878.

Carpenter FamilyRhoda Carpenter Ball was the daughter of Hensley Carpenter and Rhoda Mays, both born around 1774 in

Amherst County, Va. They were married Nov. 3, 1797, in Amherst County. They were counted in the 1810 census for Amherst County, Va., and were in Giles County, Tenn., by the 1820 census. Hensley’s parents were Mary and Benjamin Carpenter, who lived in Amherst County, Va. Benjamin died in Amherst County around 1832. In his will he names his wife as Mary, his sons as Hensley, Eaton, James and Austin Carpenter and his daughter as Mary Carpenter Rogers, wife of William Rogers. Our Benjamin Carpenter did not serve in the American Revolution. He has been confused with another Benjamin Carpenter from the same region of Virginia who did serve. Many people have mistakenly entered the DAR and SAR a combination of the two Benjamins’ genealogies. Hensley’s father, Benjamin, lived out his life in Amherst County, while the other Benjamin migrated to Illinois where he applied for and received his Revolutionary War service pension, died and is buried. Mays Family Rhoda Mays’ father, Robert Mays, was not rich but was prominent and financially comfortable. He appears on the list of Minute Men from Amherst County during the American Revolution. The Mays and Carpenter families appear numerous times in land records of Amherst

County. For example, an Amherst County, Va., Land Record dated Feb. 18, 1804, transfers 12 acres of land on the waters of Stonehouse Creek from Robert and Susanna Mays to Hensley and Rhoda Carpenter for $1

and “especially for the love and good will we bear towards [them].” Rhoda’s mother, Elizabeth, died before 1774 when Rhoda was around age 6, leaving her, a sister and five

brothers. Her father remarried Susannah, with whom he had four additional children. His will was dated June 3, 1806, and proved July 18, 1808.

1825 will of Benjamin Carpenter, proved in 1832 in Amherst Co., Va., where he died.

John D. Ball filed a claim against the U.S.

government for property losses/damages during the Civil War. He was awarded $110 in February 1882. His brother, William, also filed.

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Following Robert Mays’ death in 1808, his estate was the subject of an 1809 lawsuit between the children of his first marriage to whom he left nothing, and the children of his second marriage to whom he left everything, along with their mother, Susanna. Rhoda and Hensley were parties in the suit asking that the will be set aside.

The inventory of Robert Mays’ estate provides a glimpse into the household of a middle class family of the early 19th Century.

Slaves1 boy John, £651 man Warwick, £125 1 girl Mary, £851 woman, £110 & child, £175

Monetary value expressed in pounds. £1 pound (1808) = $110 (2014)

Animals8 head of cattle £15.15. 41 yoke oxen £9.1229 head hogs £17.81 grey horse £181 sorrel mare £121 black horse £121 small grey horse £1214 geese £1.15.68 sheep £4

Household

Two beds & furniture £181 smooth ? £3 1 pair of hand irons £15/0 3.151 loom £.184 weaving heads £.92 old Books & candlestick £.3a parcel of pewter £2.8.6a parcel of earthen ware £.62 jugs & 2 crocks £.8a parcel of tin ware £.62 pairs of shears £.31 pair of sad irons £.7.62 linen wheels £.122 Cotton Wheels £1/14 - 1 ?2 sickles £4/1 cupboard £12/ .161 Table £12/ 1 Trunk and Chest £1.4 1.145 Chairs £7/6

4 pair of Cords £12/ .14.61 large pot, hooks, ladle & skimmer £1.41 large pot, hooks, ladle & skimmer £.181 small pot, hooks, ladle & skimmer £.61 large oven £.181 small oven with hooks £.71 skillet £.4

FarmSaw £1.10 2.161 pair of steelgards ç1.21 auger 1 chisel £.31 pair of wedges 1 Bell £.131 Drawing Knife and fro £.81 parcel of old iron £.181 piece of new iron £.9.62 pair of iron traces £.183 pole axes £.121 hemp hackle £.7.67 hoes £1.11 log chain .6

Inventory and appraisement of the Estate of Robert Mays deceased, was this day returned and ordered to be recorded. 19th day of September 1808.

Value of slaves had

buying power of $61,600 in 2014 dollars.

Puryear and HayesMid-1700s-mid-1800sGranville County

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North Carolina

Puryear and Hayes Families, 1850 CensusMacon County

Possibly Ball and Carvell,Rowan County

Virginia

Puryear, early to mid-1700sLunenburg County

Carpenter, 1700s-ca.1815Amherst County

Keltner, mid-1700s-1810Shenandoah County

Cora Ball Carvell’s Family – Carpenter, Ball & Mays

Tombstone of Rhoda Carpenter Ball

Tombstones of Broomfield and Sallie Ball

Mays

Carpenter Ball

Ball

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Ball Family Gathering, Shane CemeteryCampbell’s Station, Tenn.

By Claudia Johnson, great granddaughter of Cora Lee Ball CarvellThis photo was taken at the Shane Cemetery at Campbell’s Station, Maury County, where many of the Balls

were (later) buried. On the far right, Broomfield Leander (B.L.) Ball rests his hand on the tombstone of his wife, Sallie Indiana Hayes Ball, who died on Jan. 17, 1918. B.L. and Sallie were married March 2, 1873, in Giles County, Tenn. He was 66 when Sallie died. B.L. married a second wife, Samuel Ella Evans, on Sept. 27, 1922. B.L. died Nov. 8, 1928, and is buried beside Sallie Hayes Ball. His widow from his second marriage, called “Sam Ella,” died March 8, 1935, and is buried nearby.

It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when this photo was taken. The day seems to be summer or at least warm enough in spring to have on white clothes, straw hats and no coats. The smaller children have on no shoes. The trees in the background are full and plush. The bush or flower planted beside the tombstone has grown taller than the stone itself, indicating that the stone has been in place a while. On the ground is a discarded, rotting post that was possibly replaced when the shiny new fence was erected. The fence is positioned atop a wide, poured concrete form, possibly to prevent future rotting and leading one to believe that a new fence was the reason for the photo. In 2014 neither the fence nor the concrete enclosure exist.

The photo certainly had to have been taken prior to May 29, 1923, when Cora Ball Carvell’s sister, Joseph Ethel Ball (Binkley), died, since she is the tall woman pictured at the far left. Beside Ethel is another sister, Anna Rebecca Ball (Green), holding her daughter Mary Rebecca Green (Morgan), who was born in 1918. This child appears to be around age two. Next to Anna is Cora Ball (Carvell), holding a child. If it is one of her children, it is difficult to determine which one. If this photo was taken in the time necessary for a bush to grow taller than a tombstone, the date could be around 1920-22, possibly before B.L. remarried. The child Cora is holding is rather large, perhaps age 3-4. If this was 1921, Grady would have been 21; Dana, 18; Tonnie, 16; Dewey, 12; Vera, 9; Sadie, 7; RA, 4; Annie Cora, 1, and CL (b. 1922) was not yet born.

For further perspective, Cora’s brother Larimore is standing behind Cora. Beside him is her brother Bascum Texas Ball. Next is her husband Robert Ammett Carvell. The little boy inside the fence is Leonard Stansil Ball (b. 1913), son of Larimore Ball. Beside Ammett is John Lawson Green, Anna’s husband. The woman inside the fence is Mandy Alsup Ball, wife of Bascum. The little girl with the blurred face could be Sallie Lee Binkley (b. 1914). Behind Mandy is Grady Carvell, who is standing beside Cora’s brother, William Mack Ball, holding Edna Ball. His wife Dora Ball is in front inside the fence. Maude Porter Ball, wife of another brother, Claude Ball, is inside the fence holding their son, James Ervin Ball (b.1917).

The community of Campbell’s Station is visible in the background.Note: Identification for some of the people in this photo was provided by Mary Hobbs, the daughter of Claude Ball, but

she had mistakenly identified the child Cora is holding as “Tommy Carvell.” As there is no such person, she must have meant Tonnie, but Tonnie was 13 when his grandmother died, and by the time this photo was made he was 16 or older. Mary Hobbs most likely did not know Cora’s children well enough to understand their birth order, and she may be mistaken about other children in the photo as well, though the size and gender of those children support a photo date of circa 1921. The Carvell family is fortunate that a grandson of Thomas Larimore Ball, Paul Sullivan, shared this information.

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Cora Lee Ball Carvell was the daughter of Boomfield Leander Ball and Sallie Hayes Ball. Cora and Ammett and their young family posed along with her parents, seated center at their home, and her siblings and their families around 1913.

Back Row, l-r: Bascum (Bass) Texas Ball; Elmer Ball (son of J. Hugh Ball); Mandy Alsup Ball (wife of Bass Ball); J. Hugh Ball holding Cletus Ball; Maggie Ball (wife of J. Hugh Ball); Robert Lee Ball (son of J. Hugh); William; Mac Ball; Joseph Ethyl Ball; Ammett Carvell holding Vera; Cora Lee Ball; Annie Porter Ball (wife of Thomas Larimore Ball). Second Row, l-r: Rufus Tolbert Ball; Nettie Ball (wife of Rufus Tolbert Ball); Claude Ball; Maude Porter Ball (wife of Claude Ball); B.L. Ball and Sallie Indiana Hayes Ball; Thomas Larimore Ball holding daughter Nellie Will Ball Jackson. Front Row, l-r: Artist Ball (son of Rufus Tolbert Ball); Guy Ball (son of Bascum and Mandy Ball); Brown Ball (son of Claude and Maude Ball); Mary Ball Hobbs

(daughter of Claude/Maude Ball); Maude Ball (identified also in second row); William Mac Ball; Anna Rebecca Ball; Dewey Carvell; Tonnie Carvell; Dana Carvell; Grady Carvell.

Left: Cora and Ammett, holding Vera. Right, Dewey, Tonnie, Dana and Grady, from left to right.

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Indicated on map showing portions of Giles County Districts 13, 14 and 19 for orientation are the residences of Robert James Carvell, James Carvell, John D. Ball (father of Broomfield Leander Ball and grandfather of Cora Ball Carvell), Stephen Hayes (father of Sallie Indiana Hayes Ball and grandfather of Cora Ball Carvell), Mrs. Ball, (paternal step great grandmother of Cora Carvell), George W. Joines (father of Julie Ann Joines Carvell) and Thomas Joines (paternal grandfather of Julie Ann Carvell). The Keltner families indicated would have been cousins of Julie Ann Carvell on her mother’s side (Elizabeth Keltner Joines), and the Carpenter families indicated would have been cousins of Leander Ball on his mother’s side (Rhoda Carpenter Ball). Saw mills, grist mills, cotton gins, depots, post offices and churches illustrate proximity to vital commercial and community enterprises.

Clip from 1878 D.G. Beers Map of Giles

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About the Author of Carvell Family History, Book IDesigner and Coeditor, Carvell Family History, Book II & III

Claudia Kay Johnson, Daughter of Okaleen Carvell Johnson, Granddaughter of Dewey Carvell

Claudia’s extensive research of the documented facts about the Carvell and related families – Ball, Carpenter, Hayes, Puryear, Wilson, Joines, Keltner and others – pieced together the family’s 19th century and early 20th century existence and placed these families in their historical and cultural framework. As a professional writer, Claudia has woven the material into a readable, beautifully designed, informational volume, Early Giles County Carvells, Book I of this publication, after a decade of research.

Book II, Ammett and Cora Carvell’s family stories and photographs collected from extended family members by Daphene Carvell Cope, with much of the material written by Daphene herself, were organized, edited and designed for print by Claudia as was Book III, Tall Tales and Treasured Memories.

The daughter of Edward Franklin Johnson and the late Okaleen Carvell Johnson, Claudia is the mother of two children, Sasha Kay Dunavant and Benjamin Edward Johnson. She is married to Danny Michael Nichols, a genealogical researcher and published family historian who shares Claudia’s passion for history and genealogy.

An avid genealogist, Claudia is an outspoken advocate of preservation of historical resources, especially architecture and paper ephemera. She was the 2012 recipient of a Tennessee Historical Commission’s Special Commendation for her lifelong work in historic preservation. She is the former president of the Giles County Historical Society and is a member of the William Branch Giles Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

A 1976 graduate of Giles County High, she earned her bachelor’s degree in English-journalism from Union University in 1980 and has spent her career in community development, public relations, marketing and news reporting. In 1984 Claudia was appointed one of nine coordinators statewide for Tennessee Homecoming ’86. She is the former editor-in-chief of the Cumberland Business Journal, which covers a 15-county region in Tennessee’s Upper Cumberland.

She served for two years as Executive Director of the Sgt. York Patriotic Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to carrying forth the educational legacy of World War I hero Alvin C. York. For eight years she was a news reporter and photographer for The Pulaski Citizen-Giles Free Press in Pulaski, Tenn., during which time she was honored by the Tennessee Press Association.

Claudia is the author of the book, A Page From The Past, published in 2005, which looks at how one community newspaper, the Pulaski Citizen, reported on events and issues during its first 150 years. Her efforts in researching and writing A Page From The Past garnered congratulatory resolutions from city, county and state legislators, as well as recognition in the Federal Register.

In 1989 she co-authored Giles Heirlooms: Historic Recipes and Places and has since co-authored or edited numerous other historic publications. Claudia has published family histories on Revolutionary solider James Gattis, her fourth great grandfather; War of 1812 soldier James Carrell, another fourth great grandfather; and Civil War soldiers Edward C. Johnson and George W. Joines, both third great grandfathers. These publications are available at www.issuu.com/claudiajohnsonhistory.

Other h is tor ica l wr i t ings are ava i lab le a t www.pastpage .b logspot . com and www.claudiajohnson.blogspot.com and www.pastpage.blogspot.com.

Claudia and Okaleen, 1980

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