1Barbara McGee, editor, Petty Papers, Vol 9 #1 pg 37.
2Ron Fowler.
3Debbie Rowinsky.
listed as William Clark, Jr., no other info.4Jewel Wilson Powers.
complete information.5Rollie Taylor.
says he was born in Cumberland Co., KY.
1Neva Richards.
three children died in infancy, including the twins (sex and dates unknown).2Barbara McGee, editor, Petty Papers, Vol 8 #2 pg 35; Vol 9 #1 pg 43.
1Debbie Rowinsky.
2Barbara McGee, editor, Petty Papers, Vol 9 #1 pg 43.
dau of William Clark and Elizabeth.
1Barbara McGee, editor, Petty Papers, Vol 9 #1 pg 43.
sex, name unknown.
1Barbara McGee, editor, Petty Papers, Vol 9 #1 pg 43.
1Barbara McGee, editor, Petty Papers, Vol 9 #1 pg 43.
2Barbara McGee, editor, Petty Papers, Vol 9 #1 pg 43.
died as an infant sex unknown.
1Barbara McGee, editor, Petty Papers, Vol 8 #2 pg 35.
age 39 in 1879 census of Douglas Co., IL (Tuscola Twp).2Linda Bradley.
3Jackie Cobb.
1Barbara McGee, editor, Petty Papers, Vol 8 #2 pg 35.
1Census Record, Civil Dist. 5, Dickson Co., TN, Abt 1900.
Head od house William Petty age 30; Leona.
Others on Page:
William Petty 30
Leona Petty 24
Mary A. Petty 7
Annie Petty 5.2Marriage Record, GS 497,401 vol 1838-1872 Dickson Co. Tenn Marriages.
1Marriage Record, GS 497,401 vol 1838-1872 Dickson Co. Tenn Marriages.
1Cemetery Record, Dickson Union Obituaries.
"Oscar R., 83, died 3 Nov 1966, native of Dickson County, son of Miles and Mary Suggs Petty.".2Obituary, Dickson County, TN Obituaries, 3 Nov 1966.
" Oscar R. Petty , 83 died 3 Nov. 1966, native fo dickson County, son of Miles and Mary Suggs Petty.".
1Barbara McGee, editor, Petty Papers, Vol 8 #1 pg 12, 18, 41.
2Katherine Reynolds.
1850 census of DeKalb Co, AL.3Zora Billingsley.
giving sources: Family Bible, family records,Census records, Cemetery visit; 2nd child of nine -- 5 of which are boys.4Barbara McGee.
January 1, 2004: There has been much discussion in the year 2003 as to the parentage of this Thomas Petty. 1. Some are contending that his name did not contain the middle name of Jefferson, being only Thomas Petty. 2. Others as in the reasoning below did not feel tht Moses was the father of Thomas (Jefferson) Petty. I corresponded with Zora P. Billingsley, and she presented me with copies of her book. I however did not do research on her family. Out of respect for Zora, I do not sever the link between Thomas (Jefferson) Petty and Moses at this date Jan 1, 2004 for this reason. No other father has been found for Thomas Jefferson Petty. When the proper father is found, (and Walter and others have presented valid resons to doubt the connection) then the corrected parentage of Thomas Jefferson Petty should be made. I personally knew Walter Petty. He was honest in his work. I also had conversation, via letters with Zora Billingsley who was convinced that the rock bearing the letter M. was her "hopes" that it stood for Moses. I do believe that Zora herself would prefer to bear the burden of that stone "M" being her decison, right or wrong.
member of Baptist church
Farmer
no recorded military service
Reference on Thomas Petty's birthdate is taken from his headstone5Walter L. Petty.
In the Fourth Supplement to “The Petty and Francis Families and Allied Lines”, by Zora Petty Billingsley, she presents some work done by a researcher,that she had hired , who with Zora, concluded that the father of Thomas Jefferson Petty, an ancestor of both Billingsley and this author, was Moses, son of James Petty, Jr., of Union County, South Carolina. In addition, Lindsey proposed the names of four other of Moses’ male children, namely, Stephen, James, Abram, and Jackson. I believe that their speculation, though based on very meager evidence, was not unreasonable with regard to the names of the last-four-named sons, so long as it was made clear that it was speculation. (There was no evidence cited which associated those names with Moses other than Stephen being a neighbor and the other three names found in court records.) However, there are verifiable facts with regard to Moses’ suggested parentage of Thomas which do not support that part of Lindsey’s speculations. The family proposed by Lindsey is: Moses Petty, b. ca. 1775
"WHY I BELIEVE MOSES WAS NOT THE FATHER OF THOMAS JEFFERSON PETTY
By Walter L. Petty
Stephen, b. ca. 1800
Thomas, b. 16 DEC 1800
James, b. ca. 1803
Abram, b. ca. 1805
Jackson, b. ca. 1807
And other unnamed children The kinship of Moses, Stephen and Thomas is based primarily on the fact that all three were found living in DeKalb Co., Ga.(1830 U.S. Census). Subsequently, Stephen disappeared, and only Moses and Thomas were listed in the 1840 Census. Sometime between 1840 and 1842 Thomas, his wife, Jenny (Jincy) (nee PATTERSON, not Horton as published in Billingsley’s book), and their only child Wiley D. Petty, emigrated to DeKalb Co., Alabama, where they permanently settled. No further record of Moses was cited (however, see below). Now to the crux of the matter: neither census records nor family records support the idea that Moses was the father of Thomas. In the census table, shown below, the record shows that Moses had one son (not two, and certainly not five!) in 1810, and Moses and his wife were both 16-26 years of age. In the 1820 census that first son was 10-16 years of age, and no son was listed in the new category of 16-18 years of age. Clearly, that first son was born during the last half of the first decade of the 1800s, probably in 1808 or 1809, based on the ages of the subsequent children. That individual may have been Stephen but was clearly not Thomas. And, Moses was born nearer to 1790 than to 1775. PERTINENT CENSUS RECORDS
___FREE WHITE MALES___ FREE WHITE FEM.
YEAR STATE INDIVIDUAL <10 10-16 16-26 26-45 45+ <10 10-16 16-26 26-45
1810 S.C. Moses Pettey 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
16-18
1820 S.C. Moses Petty 2 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 1 Lindsey and Billingsley also indicate that Moses emigrated with Thomas and his family to Alabama, where he died, and was buried in the Rocky Mount Cemetery outside of Collinsville. This idea was based solely on finding a crude rock with the inscription, M. Petty, crudely chiseled into the rock. More likely, Moses died in Georgia, and the crude stone marked the grave of a young child. This child may have resulted from a difficult birth involving Thomas’ first wife, Jincy, because she died in 1845 at the age of 35 years of age. She clearly had pregnancy difficulties, because she bore only one living child. Or, the marker could have been for one of two children of Thomas’ second wife, Isabella, who bore at least two daughters, Martha and Mary, who “died young and were buried in Rocky Mount Cemetery.” Family records about Moses Petty (within the Thomas Jefferson Petty descendants) are nonexistent. In fact, that is one of the things that convinces me that Moses was not the patriarch of the family. In 1895 Thomas Nicholas Petty, the grandson of Thomas Jefferson Petty, set about to record all known relatives, including many of the Reeds, Turners, Hollingsworths and Phillips. At that time he was a member of the Rocky Mount Baptist Church. Many of the ancestors of the family are buried in that Church cemetery, and that is where the crude rock with the M. Petty inscription was found. Surely, he would have known the significance of that rock if it represented the grave of the patriarch of the family. And, indeed, why would the patriarch of the family simply be marked by a crude stone when all of the later members had quality headstones? This contention is further supported by the fact that Wiley D. Petty, who was probably consulted in the enumeration of the kin, did not indicate the identity of the father of Thomas Jefferson Petty. When they came to Alabama from Georgia, Wiley was a boy of twelve or thirteen years of age, and he would surely have known his grandfather, if it had been Moses, and he would surely have been aware of his death had it occurred there in Collinsville. Thus, the search must go on to identify the father of Thomas Jefferson Petty. Walter L. Petty
6330 Pleasant Vista Place
Santa Rosa, California 95409
May 2, 2000."