For persons lacking access to the hard-to-find Marsh volumes, this compiler included, descendency listings by others citing her work have been crucial. Especially valuable has been the work of June Bowman, posted online through the webpages of a group of her family members under the heading "Dellinger, Mallory & Others" at Ancestry.com. Mrs. Bowman and her nephew Marvin Dellinger constitute the persons to contact for anyone wishing to pursue this line further.

      Drawing from "Dellinger, Mallory & Others," with reference to Marsh's book on the Riddles, the fundamental source of information concerning Anthony Minter and his family is his will, which was "presented in court 14 Nov 1751 by Elizabeth Minter." [Marsh, 1981, B2, p.259].  Except for daughter Nancy Elizabeth, the dates of birth for Anthony and his children, where known, are also from the will [June Bowman, email, Jan-29-2007].  Presumably this is also the source of the name Elizabeth as his wife. Anthony's date of birth is said to have been "about 1685." The Dellinger-Mallory listings also say that Anthony is thought to have moved to Caroline County "about 1730." If true, this casts doubt on Caroline County as the birthplace of his children, as has been stated in a number of places.

      Listings posted by Minter researchers have identified as many as eight children of Anthony and Elizabeth. Presumably, most of their names appeared in their father's will, and perhaps in other records as well. Eight are included here, but substantiation is incomplete, and most of what is known apparently derives from the research by Marsh.

      The single greatest deficiency in the available information on the family, at least as is known to this researcher, is that his wife we know only as Elizabeth. Not even her maiden name is known, much less anything of her origins.

      This family network is connected through "The Minters of Pine Forest Family Association" and its extraordinary newsletter, "News of the Minters of Pine Forest," and through a family website which includes photographs, family news and history, anecdotes, remembrances, and the like, as well as an outline of a book in progress on the history of the family. The prime mover behind all this is a descendant of one of two brothers, Thomas J. Minter [9], of Ohio. A good place to start to learn more about this line is   www.pineforestminters.homestead.com.

      A son of Scruggs and Catherine was Willis Scruggs Minter [4], born 1819-20. The 1850 census listed him as age 30, a cooper by occupation, "Willis S." Minter by name. Later censuses gave his occupation as farmer. Willis married twice and had two families of considerable size. His first wife, Lucy Ann Anderson, born 1818-19, bore six children. After her death about 1874, Willis married Mariah Louisa Baltimore, of Fluvanna County, who was born in 1852, and was thus considerably younger than her husband.  There were seven children born of this marriage. The second oldest of them was Katie B. Minter [5], born in 1879, who was the grandmother of Jim Taylor of Virginia, the person to contact for further discussion and exchange of information on this line.  Jim is nearing completion of a book on his family and its ancestry (as of January, 2007).

      Regarding Anthony's real property, the will called for the executors to "rent out to the best advantage my tract of land and Plantation where on I now live together with my Distilary for the benefit and Support of my son Jeremiah Minter during his natural life...."

      Anthony's only other living son, John, was bequeathed "...my Bay horse Saddle and bridle," and of him there is no further mention.  Anthony appointed as executors of his will "... my son Jeremiah Minter my two sons in law William Leake and Tarleton Layne and my grandson Gabriel Minter...."   Thus, John was not named as an executor while Jeremiah was, despite the matter of his "insanity," as well as the question of whether he would appear to claim his legacy.

      According to Storm, another son of Anthony and Elizabeth, named Gabriel, married Nancy Thrailkill, and they had a son, Gabriel, Jr., who married Nancy Cosby and was the grandson Gabriel named as one of the executors of Anthony's will. A son of Gabriel, Jr. was the great-grandson, Josiah Minter, mentioned in Anthony's will. The first Gabriel was not identified in the will, presumably because he was deceased.

      Anthony's support for the revolutionary cause, as documented in the Order Books of Henry County, has been recognized by the D.A.R.   According to D.A.R. registrar and person to contact Merry Anne Pierson, Anthony Minter, Jr. has been assigned Ancestor Number A080364 with the rank of "patriotic service," for signing the oath of allegiance and for furnishing beef, wheat, and flour to troops. According to the Dellinger-Mallory group [Marsh], from whom this information had previously been described, the oath he signed was in Powhatan County in 1788, well after the revolution, and was in support of the Constitution of the United States (a vote to ratify).

      The major question remaining in regard to Anthony Minter, Jr. pertains to his wife, Elizabeth Jane, whose maiden surname is unknown. It can only be hoped that any reader knowing anything about her will get in touch and help us out. Perhaps further research in Caroline County, if not already exhausted, might tell us something about her, but it is possible that any historical record of her is among the lost documents of the time.

      Some of the descendants of William and Sally, through their son Richard, are actively involved in research on the family. A newsletter entitled "Minter News - the Minter Family Newsletter" (issue 5 dated November 2006), is published by Clifton F. Minter, Jr. [9]  (contacts).  He also is collecting issues, or pages, from the Minter-Mintor Genealogical Bulletin of the 1950s and 1960s, planning to preserve this valuable resource for the benefit of future researchers, and hopes to hear from anyone having additional pages to offer.

      Susannah was a daughter of John Williams and Elizabeth Ledbetter of Brunswick County, Virginia. In the census of 1850, she was listed as age 95, living in the household of her son, the Rev. Silas Minter, so it is presumed she was born in 1754 or 1755.

      New information concerning Susannah has become available through the courtesy of a descendant, Mr. Kim Allen Morton, of Missouri, a person to contact regarding Susannah and John, as well as his line, as described elsewhere (Note 4D).  Kim provided reference to a case in chancery, 1810, in which reference was made to the will of John Williams, dated 1772  [Library of Virginia Digital Collections, Chancery Index No. 1810-004, at  www.lva.lib.va.us/index.htm" (text not available online)].  The will stated, according to Kim, "I give to my daughter Susanna.... when she reaches 21 or marries...." Thus it is established that he had a daughter by that name, and that she had not yet married by 1772. (This casts doubt on the date usually given for the birth of her first child, Elizabeth, "Betsy," that same year of 1772.)

      The editor (or contributor), clearly not quoting the letter directly in this instance, added an interesting statement which casts some doubt on the presumption that the land settled by John and Susannah remained continuously in the family until 1995 (as was presumed in Minters of Henry County):   "Capt. A. S. Minter's grandfather, John, was a poor business man and lost all his property."

      Betsy Minter married Luther Obediah Dupuy, who was born about 1775, almost surely a member of some branch of the extensive Dupuy family descended from Huguenot immigrant Bartholomew Dupuy, outlined in Brock's survey of the Huguenot settlement at Manakin-Town.   This was the second marriage of a Minter woman to a Dupuy. As per Note 3B, Betsy's aunt of the same name, John Minter's sister, Elizabeth "Betsy" Minter [3], married the Reverend John Dupuy and moved to Kentucky.  It must be noted, however, that Brock's genealogy of the Dupuys lists children of John and Elizabeth (Minter) Dupuy and the name Luther Obediah is not among them.

      Jane Duffy, a descendant of Obediah, is the person to contact regarding this line, and, as in the case of many other such contacts, other facets of the larger Minter tree as well.  According to her and others, Obediah married Frances "Fannie" Walker Covington and they had seven children (known). From them has followed a substantial descendancy, of which Storm provides a good overview.

      Ironically, the Minter surname traces to Obediah's mother's side of the family and not the male side; he was, in terms of male bloodlines, a Dupuy, not a Minter. Thus, if his surname had not been legally changed by his grandparents, the name Dupuy would replace Minter throughout his descendancy.

      One of the children of Odediah and Fannie was Daniel Leftwich Minter [6], born in 1834 (age 16 in the 1850 census), who died in 1862 of wounds sustained at the battle of Cedar Run, according to a note found in the family Bible of his granddaughter (who was also Jane Duffy's grandmother) [Duffy, email of Oct-15-2006].  Some listings show Daniel's middle name as Leftridge, rather than Leftwich.  Daniel married Hester Ann Jefferson, and in 1857 they had a son, John James Minter [7], who would marry Maralda Jane Davis in the mid-1870s.  A daughter of this couple, Nannie Jane Minter [8], married Hamilton Roundtree Adkins around the turn of the century and they had four children, of whom one was John Nathaniel Adkins, Jane Duffy's father.  A photograph of the family, taken about 1910, according to Jane, who made it available to us, shows her father John Nathaniel and his sister, Faturia Mae, as children, their brother Cecil not having been born yet.

      Another child of Obediah (Dupuy) and Fannie (Covington) Minter was James Fontaine Minter [6], born in 1829, who married America Delaware Jefferson, of Pittsylvania County, born in 1834.  Their son Isaiah Thompson Minter [7], born in 1854, married, first, Alice Wingfield, and after her death, Josephine Umberger, about the mid-1890s. Isaiah was listed in the census of 1920 as age 65, a grocer with his own business in Roanoke. He and Josephine had three children, the youngest of whom was a daughter born in 1901/02, named Josephine Katherine Minter [8].  In 1925, Josephine married James Lindsay Almond, Jr., who served as Attorney General of Virginia, 1948-57, as Governor of Virginia, 1958-62, and later as Judge of the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, appointed by President John F. Kennedy in 1962, until his death in 1986.

      When efforts to find any original source other than the marriage record proved unsuccessful, DNA analysis emerged as a possible means of determining whether Hezekiah was a Minter. In the Fall of 2006, Carl McArn and a Minter male, a known direct descendant of John Minter of Henry County, compared DNA results and found no kinship pattern. Thus, Hezekiah is now assumed to have been a Miner, not a Minter. (Unfortunately, I am unable to provide more specific information concerning the DNA analysis.) Carl McArn is the person to contact regarding the Miners, and perhaps for additional information regarding the DNA analysis.

      Othniel was a Baptist minister and his name (with that spelling) is on record in the performance of numerous marriages in Henry County (ref. Virginia Anderton Dodd). As for the spelling, aside from the use of Orthniel in the court record above, Othniel has in its favor two factors: one, that it was spelled that way in numerous county marriages on record with him as the presiding minister, and two, that Othniel is an Old Testment name and it was an era of popularity of biblical names. (According to The Free Dictionary and Easton's Bible Dictionary, Othniel was the first judge of Israel after the death of Joshua.)   Also, his record of service with the 4th Regiment of Virginia Militia in the War of 1812 [War service records online, Ancestry.com], shows the spelling as Othniel.

      Between 1801 and 1827 Joyce Minter bore thirteen children, four sons and nine daughters. Storm shows marriages of all thirteen, most yielding descendencies of varying extent. That Joyce was deceased by 1837 is indicated by the fact that Othniel remarried on June 12 of that year. His second wife was Mary 'Polly' Burgess [Dodd, p.36, p.113].  Previously in these notes, there was acknowledged uncertainty and confusion regarding the origins of this Mary 'Polly' Burgess. The matter has been clarified through the efforts of a descendant of the Burgess line, Mary Lund of Ohio, who is a person to contact regarding the Burgess family. She has presented a well-documented and persuasive case which appears to establish the identity of Othniel Minter's second wife.

      According to Mary Lund, Mary 'Polly' Weaver, daughter of John Weaver, married John Burgess (Jr.), born in 1771, a son of John Burgess, Sr. who brought his family to Henry County from Gloucester County in the early 1780s. John, Jr. died in 1836, age 65, leaving his widow 'Polly' (Weaver) Burgess, and two children, Mary D. Burgess, born 1828 or 1829, and John Henry Burgess, born in 1831. As is discussed below, the daughter, Mary D. Burgess, married a son of Othniel and Joyce Minter, William Leftwich Minter. John Henry Burgess (1831-1914) and his wife, Mary Dalton Foster, had ten children, of whom one was Mary Lund's grandfather, Robert Lee Burgess (1871-1962).

      Mary Lund has substantial documentation to support her interpretation of the Burgess line, which differs in one key respect from that which others in her family had believed, the difference pertaining to which of several John Burgesses married Polly Weaver. The reader interested in the Burgess line is encouraged to contact Mary.

  Othniel's son, William Leftwich Minter
      William Leftwich [5], son of the Rev. Othniel and Joyce Minter, was born about 1819, per the 1850 census. In 1843 he married Mary D. Burgess, the daughter of his father's second wife, thus his step-sister and of no blood relationship to him. Mary D., born 1828 or 1829, per the 1850 census which listed her as age 21, presumably resided in the Minter home from about the age of eight.

      A partial descendancy from William Leftwich and Mary D. (Burgess) Minter, drawing on the listing of Ken Storm and confirmed by descendants of each of the lines shown who preferred to remain anonymous, is as follows:

        [4] Othniel Minter, b. 1778
             mar. Joyce Stultz in 1795
            [5] William Leftwich Minter, b. abt 1819
                 mar. (1843) Mary D. Burgess
                [6] John L. Minter, b. abt 1843
                     mar. Fannie Ruth Davis
                    [7] William Walter Minter, b. abt 1872
                         mar. Fannie Thornton
                        [8] William Othniel Minter, b. 1908
                             mar. Fern Hughes
                [6] Martha Burgess Minter, b. abt 1861
                   mar. M. T. Smith
   
  

  Othniel's daughter, Tabitha (Minter) Harville
      The seventh child, sixth daughter, of Othniel and Joyce Minter was Tabitha [5], born about 1812. She married Merit Harville and they settled in Cedar County, Missouri. His name was given as Merritt Harvell in the marriage record (Dodd), and it was written Horvell in the 1850 census, but it eventually became settled on Harville. They named a son William Leftridge Harville, about 1836, thus using again the middle name that had occurred earlier in the lines tracing to Othniel's older sister Betsy.

      A descendant of Merit and Tabitha (Minter) Harville [5] is Mr. Kim Allen Morton [10], of Missouri, who is the person to contact regarding this line, as well as John and Susannah Minter, as was noted earlier (3C). The line from Merit and Tabitha to Kim Morton, per Kim Morton and Ken Storm:

          [5] Merit Harville, b. abt 1812
               mar. Tabitha Minter, b. abt 1812 
              [6] William Leftridge Harville, b. 1836
                   mar. Chancy Elizabeth Bugg
                  [7] William Leftridge Harville, Jr., b. 1863
                       mar. Annie Elizabeth Hunt
                      [8] Era Jewell Harville, b. 1895
                           mar. Raymond Clark Morton
                          [9] William R. Morton, b. 1923
                               mar. Violet Marguerite Gamble
                              [10] Kim Allen Morton
  

Othniel's son, Johnson William Minter
      After Tabitha, the next child of Othniel and Joyce Minter was Johnson William Minter [5]. He was born October 11, 1814, married Susan Previna Clark, was a physician, and died in Virginia in 1891.  The presiding minister at the wedding in 1835 was Silas Minter, Johnson's uncle.  This information is from a letter written in 1958 by his granddaughter, Ella Lou (Minter) Aegerter, daughter of Dr. William Leftridge Minter, transcribed in the Minter Genealogical Bulletin (pp.163-64). In the letter she described a book in her possession entitled Travel Letters from Palestine and the East, by the Rev. W. R. Minter, pastor of the Presbyterian church in Lincolnton, North Carolina (published in 1910). She wrote: "It is autographed to my father: For Dr. W. L. Minter from W. R. Minter." She also pointed out that the book was dedicated by its author to the author's father, John R. Minter.

      Ella Lou (Minter) Aegerter may not have realized that in the presentation of the book to her father by its author, and presumably in the friendship between the two men, two lines of Minters had crossed paths, the ancestral link between them apparently tracing back at least one generation prior to Anthony of Caroline County.

      From Samuel A. Minter, a descendant of John R. and W. R. Minter, it is learned that the author, William Ramseur Minter (1873-1943), was born in South Carolina, graduated from Davidson College in 1892, and after serving as pastor of the Presbyterian church in Lincolnton, and perhaps others as well, relocated to Austin, Texas, where he was the pastor of a large church there for 25 years before his semi-retirement to a smaller church elsewhere in Texas. The book was the product of a series of letters to the Presbyterian Standard, written at the request of its editor, consisting of observations on his travels to Egypt, Palestine, and other places in the region in 1910.  The Rev. Minter's father, John Russell Minter (1833-1913), was a successful farmer and merchant in Sedalia, South Carolina.

      This line of Minters is believed to trace back to the migration first to North Carolina and later South Carolina of the third in a succession of John Minters in Virginia, the first of whom was a son of Richard Mintrene (Minter) who came to the colony in 1620 from Wales. This third John in the line, born in 1690, of Gloucester County, Virginia, was a contemporary, and presumably a cousin, of Anthony Minter, born about 1685, who settled in Caroline County. The line, according to Sam, consists of Richard [1] the adult immigrant to Virginia, John [2], 1619-1655, born in Wales and came to Virginia as a young child; John [3], 1650-?; John [4], 1690-1743, of Gloucester, who moved to North Carolina; William [5], 1736-1809; John [6], 1769-1846; William [7], 1797-1871; John Russell [8], 1833-1913; William Ramseur [9], 1873-1943; David Ramseur [10], 1912-1991; William Maynard [11], 1942- ; and Samuel Antonio [12], 1971- .

      The primary source on the earliest Minters in Virginia, carefully cited by Samuel, is a John B. Minter, whose work appears (to this novice on the subject) to stand as the essential reference. As is Samuel, John B. Minter is careful to note that substantial proof regarding the lineage of the earliest Minters is lacking, probably due to various fires which destroyed so many old documents in Virginia, but he offers convincing evidence of the likelihood of the connections. His work can be seen at Ancestry.com website of J. B. Minter: "The Oldest Minter Immigrants?".

      Sam has prepared interesting descriptions of the four generations of males in the line preceding himself, as well as himself, and posted them on his website. The entry one for his great-great-grandfather, John Russell Minter, which provides links to the others, can be found at: http://wiki.abulsme.com/John Russell Minter. Sam's father, William Maynard Minter, has an original copy of Travel Letters from Palestine and the East, and Sam has made a copy, in .pdf format, available at the entry for his great-grandfather at his website: http://wiki.abulsme.com/William Ramseur Minter.  Sam is a person to contact regarding his line of Minters.

 
Leftwich, Leftridge, and Leftrich:  variations on the same name?
      The names Leftwich and Leftridge have appeared frequently in the family lines from both siblings Elizabeth (Betsy) and Othniel Minter, in every case as a middle name. The first known use of any of the variants was the son of Othniel, William Leftwich, born in 1819. Another was Leftwich Watson, son of Othniel's sister Tabitha, in 1823. Daniel L., son of Obediah (Dupuy) Minter, born in 1834, has been listed both ways. Over the years, Leftridge seems to have been used more often than Leftwich, especially in the lines descending from Merit and Tabitha (Minter) Harville and Johnson and Susan (Clark) Minter.

      The origin of the name - or names - is unknown. A possible clue, however, can be seen in the census records for the area in the early 1800s. They show a number of persons of the surname Leftwich, probably all of a family, in Bedford County, which is near, but not contiguous to, Henry County, but show no one with the surname Leftridge. In the 1850 census there were some 209 Leftwiches in Bedford, and still no Leftridges.  Also, Butler's records of men serving with the Virginia militia in the War of 1812 include several Leftwiches in the 10th and 91st Regiments of Bedford County.

      The name Leftwich may have been used by Othniel and Joyce Minter to honor someone of that surname, whether or not related to either of them, and others in the family, or possibly census-takers or courthouse clerks, might have written what they thought they heard, resulting in Leftridge. But that, of course, is just a guess. As for the name Leftrich, which was used by the wife of James Leffie Minter in reference to her husband's grandfather and great-grandfather (4A), there is the added possibility that she was simply misspelling "Leftridge."

      Aside from the census and Ken Storm's listing, most of what we know about Anthony and Jane and their lines comes from a descendant, Becky Whittemore [10] of Utah, who is the person to contact regarding further information on this branch of the Minters.

Photograph of Silas Anthony Minter, courtesy of Mike, Leann, & Laura Flanagan. Their website includes family history and genealogy and more:  www.FlanaganFamily.net.

      In 1871, at age 22, Silas married Susan Covington, a native of England. Susan died the following year, as did their infant son. In 1874, Silas married again, this time Sarah A. McGregor, a native of Scotland who had come to Utah with her parents in 1864. Silas and Sarah had six children, of whom one was Sarah Estelle Minter [7], who, in 1901, married Nathan Masden Slater, formerly of Fall River, Massachusetts. They were the great-grandparents of Becky Whittemore. [Wedding day photograph]

      Evidence establishing that Silas Frederick was linked to John, almost surely as son to father, is the same as that regarding his older brother Othniel, described in note 4D above. The Henry County court record provided by Merry Anne Pierson, D.A.R. registrar and person to contact, can be seen here, from the Henry County Minute Book, 1820-1849 in three volumes, vol. 2, p.217, Family History Library micropublication no. 31981.

      Nancy and Silas had eleven children, all of whom married. She died before 1845, and Silas married again, on Apr-24-1845, Betsey Philpott. From the 1850 census, where she was listed as "Elizabeth," age 52, her date of birth is taken to be about 1798. The 1860 census showed the wife of Silas to be "Betsy," age 68, so it is unclear whether this was the same person as Elizabeth of 1850. "Betsy" could be the familiar form of Elizabeth, but the ages miss by about six years. Some researchers have given the name Betsy Walker, suggesting the possibility that Silas married a third time.

      Silas was a preacher of the primitive Baptist faith, and performed numerous marriages recorded in Dodd's transcription, the earliest being in 1831.  In the Minter Genealogical Bulletin (p.164), the description of the letter written by Capt. A. S. Minter in 1898, discussed above, offers an interesting perspective on the Rev. Silas Minter. It should be kept in mind that it is difficult to determine when or whether it is A. S. Minter or the editor of the Bulletin who is rendering the commentary. Also, if it was the perspective of the Captain, then it was what a young nephew was recalling many years later. The Rev. Minter was described as "a hardshell Baptist preacher of decided ability and violent prejudices."   Judith P. A. Hill provided this account: "It is related of him that he preached so long to a Baltimore audience that they began to leave; whereupon he said: 'I perceive you all can't stand strong doctrine.'" [Hill, p.270]  

      A portrait of Silas Minter is said to have hung on the wall of the Leatherwood Baptist Church for many years, along with those of other pastors, and a photograph of the portrait was provided by two different contributors, Seth Compton and Bob White, each of whose Minter lines tie into these notes at a later point (generations 5 and 6). A third offer to provide the same photograph was received from the originator of the image, Desmond Kendrick, the Henry County archivist, and the author of the inscription below the portrait. The portrait of Silas now hangs in the Bassett Historical Center in Henry County, according to Twyla Edwards.

      Joseph Minter, the third child and first son of Silas and Nancy (Stultz) Minter, was born in 1820 or 1821, married Matilda Jane Bocock of Henry County in 1850, and died in 1874. Regarding the dates of his birth, and to a lesser extent, his death, there are some inconsistencies, particularly in the census, but also in Matilda's 1902 pension application. The best and most reliable source, however, is the Death Records Indexing project noted above, which offers the following key information regarding Joseph Minter: that he died March 12, 1874 at the age of 53 (hence born in 1820 or 1821), that his death came as a result of pneumonia, that his father's name was Silas, that his wife's name was Matilda, and that he had a son, James, born about 1853-54, the "informant" regarding his death.[Death Records Index, 1874, line 34]   Although there is no proof that he is the Joseph Minter in question, the 1850 census of Henry County listed a man by that name, age 25, as overseer on the tobacco farm of George Napier (occupation "tobacconist"). It was shortly after that census taking, in September, 1850, near Martinsville, that Joseph married Matilda Jane Bocock [her pension application of 1902].

      Joseph's war record is clear in one regard and unclear in another. It is well established that he served with the 24th Virginia Cavalry. His name is among those listed in a roster of Company H of the 24th Cavalry, and his widow claimed in her 1902 pension application that he served in the 24th Cavalry, and provided the names of two of his commanding officers. In addition, Henry County archivist Desmond Kendrick labeled his photograph of Joseph with his name and Company.  There is also the possibility that he served an earlier stint with the 57th Virginia Infantry (1861-62). The name Joseph Minter appears on the roster of the 57th, but it is unclear whether this is the same Joseph Minter. Keith Turner is trying to determine whether the Joseph Minter who served with the 57th and was discharged after a year because he was over 40 (as noted in the war record), later re-enlisted, either with the 24th or with one of its predecessor companies which were consolidated into the 24th in June, 1864. Since "our" Joseph Minter would have been 40 at the outset of the war, the case for his service with the 57th is strengthened, but it should be noted that Dodd's list of Henry County marriages before 1850 includes two other Joseph Minters, neither of whom is known to us, both of whom, based on their dates of marriage, probably were old enough to qualify as 40 or more during wartime service.

      As for Joseph's middle name, the photograph shown here, provided by Mr. Kendrick with his own documentation, shows the name Joseph Jackson Minter, and Ken Storm gives the middle name Warren. No other source mentioned here, however, offers any middle name or even a middle initial for Joseph. A son of Joseph and Matilda, also named Joseph, born about 1865 to 1870 (per inconsistent census data, 1867 per Ken Storm) was shown in some later censuses with the middle initial "W," but the source of the name "Warren" is unknown.

      Regardless of the middle name, the younger Joseph (born 1865-70) married Lucy D. Franklin and, according to Storm, they had ten children, one of whom was Thomas Joseph, born about 1897-98 (per census listings), who married Myrtle Dora Bray. A granddaughter of Thomas and Myrtle is Julia Minter Kendrick, a current resident of Henry County and a person to contact for exchange of information concerning this line. Another is her brother-in-law Desmond Kendrick, who is well known among Henry County history and family researchers as the archivist of the county library, and a very knowledgeable source on the county and many of its families.

      The 1870 census showed Joseph and Matilda Minter residing in or near Martinsville with eight children, ages one through 15. Joseph and his two oldest sons, ages 15 and 13, were shown as "farm laborers." Joseph's real estate and personal property were valued at $200 each, meaning they resided either in a house on a lot or on a small homestead, but not a working farm of their own, in or near Martinsville.   In the 1880 census, Matilda Minter was listed as age 50, the mother of the head of the household who was her son James, 26, identified as "farmer," owning his own land. Also present were James' wife Sarah, 28, and their daughter Mary, 2, as well as four brothers and three sisters of James, ages five through 19. One daughter of Matilda, Sarah, had married and moved elsewhere by 1880.   Two of the children were born in the early 1870s, thus were not listed earlier, and one child listed as age one in 1870 was not present in 1880, presumably having died.

      Another possible source of useful information regarding Joseph Minter (possibly including his middle name) would be any obituary notice that might have appeared upon the death of his son, Joseph W. Minter, said by Ken Storm to have occurred in 1952.

      The person to contact for additional information on descendants of Richard and Mary Ann is Barbara Brazington, a great-great-granddaughter, descendant of a line which traces geographically from Missouri to Ontario (Canada), back to Missouri, then to Idaho. She is also very knowledgeable concerning other family lines tracing back to Silas F. and Nancy (Stultz) Minter. She contributed the line of her own descendancy, with a full listing of generation 6, the children of Richard and Mary Ann Minter, and descendants thereafter confined to the line of which she is a member:

 
       [5] Richard W. Minter, 1822-1866, b. Henry Co., VA; d. Kent, Ontario, Canada 
              mar. Mary Ann Doyle (1820-1873) of Henry Co. 
            [6] John Thomas Minter, b. app. Nov-15-1841 in b. in VA, d. Mar-16-1884, probably in 
                 Lewis Co., MO [per location in 1880 census]. He was listed as "Thomas" in the 1860
                 census and as "John T." in the 1880 census.
                 mar. Olivia Jones in 1861, in Knox Co., MO.  They had at least seven children, per
                 listing in the 1880 census (ages 17 through one).       
            [6] William L. Minter, b. 1842 in VA, residing in Canada in 1872
            [6] Martha Jane Minter, b. Feb-08-1847 in Brown Co., IL; d. Jun-06-1926 in Kamiah, 
                 Lewis Co., ID.
                 mar. William Lee in 1880 in Macon Co., MO 
            [6] Richard Joseph Minter, b. Sep-22-1849 in Brown Co., IL; d. Apr-21-1916 in 
                 Kirksville, Adair Co., MO
                 mar. Dosha Bradshaw in Newark, Knox Co., MO; two children
            [6] Mary Louisa Minter, b. Dec-03-1851 in Brown Co., IL, d. Apr-13-1817 in Nez Perce Co., ID
                 mar. John Stuart, b. Mar-16-1841 in Kent, Ontario, Canada, d. Jan-11-1926 in 
                 Orofino, Clearwater, ID
                [7] Elmer Otis Stuart, b. Jul-13-1894 in Pomeroy, Garfield, WA; d. May-01-1968 in
                     Lewiston, Nez Perce Co., ID
                     mar. Ellenora Smith, b. Nov-18-1896 in Linden, Nez Perce, ID; d. Feb-03-1965 in
                     Lewiston, Nez Perce Co., ID
                    [8] Leonard Hezekiah Stuart, b. May-06-1923 in Juliaetta, Nez Perce Co., ID 
                         d. Jul-19-1995 in Lewiston, Nez Perce, ID
                         mar. Margaret Eileen Aamoth, b. Dec-29-1920 in Minot, Ward Co, ND,
                         d. Sep-15-1961 in Lewiston, Nez Perce Co., ID
                        [9] Barbara Carol Stuart, b. Jan-28-1948 in Lewiston, Nez Perce Co., ID
                         mar. (unk) Brazington
   
  

      Another line descending from Jim and Matilda Caroline Minter is that of Linda Compton Hodges, of Arkansas, a person to contact for information exchange on this branch of the family. The following listing is from information provided by Linda and from the extensive Minter listings of Ken Storm and Walter Madison Minter.

 
        [5] James E. Minter (Jim)  b. Apr-01-1831 in Henry Co., VA; d. Aug-30-1862 at 
            Second Manassas, Civil War
            mar. (May-24-1848) Matilda Caroline Eggleston  b. 1829, d. unk
           [6] Silas Othniel Minter (spelling of middle name varies) b. abt 1852
               mar. (Jan-29-1874) Theresa Eggleston (Reecy)  b. abt 1852, d. unk
              [7] Sallie Mae Minter  b. Feb-1880, d. 1964
                  mar. James Logan Compton  b. 1873, d. 1924
                 [8] James Sanford Compton  b. Feb-12-1907, d. Mar-23-1957
                     mar. Mary Elizabeth Smith  (dates unknown)
                    [9] Linda Compton
                        mar. (unknown) Hodges
       

      According to Stone, John and Eliza Minter went out to Colorado for a time in the late 1850s, probably having left Dale County, Alabama where it is believed they moved soon after they were married. John's sister Martha ("Mattie") and her husband Charles J. Ziglar also had moved there from Henry County, probably at the same time. [Note 5K]

      John served with the army of the Confederacy throughout the duration of the war, He was captured and exchanged, fought in several very deadly battles yet managed to survive "without a scratch," according to his biographer. Stone claims that, for reasons unknown or unstated, John was in a room in Montgomery, Ala. with Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, when the telegram arrived announcing the outbreak of hostilities at Fort Sumter, and that he was appointed then and there with the rank of Colonel. [p. 233]   "He was at once commissioned as colonel and bears the distinction of being one of only two men who received colonel's commission from the hand of Jefferson Davis."   Regimental histories show him as a Lieut. Colonel with the 54th, promoted to full Colonel with the 37th Regiment, into which the 54th was consolidated at the end of the war. [See also alternate source on Alabama regiments and another]. Early in the war, his company was captured at Island No. 10 near Memphis, and held for a time in Illinois before being returned in a prisoner swap in 1862. He was listed as one of the field officers present at the surrender of the 37th Regiment at Durham station, NC, April 26, 1865.

      After the war, according to Stone, John and Eliza resided in Memphis, Tennessee, where John was a merchant, but in 1866 relocated to Lewis County, Missouri, where the 1870 census found them in what was called "Township 61, Range 8," which became Lewistown. Stone says John was in business there but the 1870 census called him a farmer. After experiencing a religious conversion, John was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1871, and served in that capacity in some 25 churches in northeastern Missouri and nearby Illinois for 37 years, until his death in 1909. Except for a brief period, the Minters resided in the town of Canton, Missouri, on the Mississippi River. Their only child was an adopted daughter, Julia Shumaker Minter, born in Tennessee in 1872, and adopted at the age of seven. Julia later married the Rev. Aytchmonde P. Stone, who authored the biography of her father. Eliza (Ziglar) Minter died in September, 1892 at the age of 52. A year later, at age 58, John Abner married again, his second wife being Mildred ("Minnie") Buford, 26, of LaBelle, Missouri.

  (Photo courtesy of Seth Compton)

      By 1880 the Ziglars had relocated to Dickerson, Lewis County, Missouri. The census of that year showed James, 45, and Susan, 44, with four children, ages 16 through 21. A fifth child, their oldest, had died in 1874. The second oldest child was Martha E. Ziglar, born in Missouri, born in 1859, married a John Morton and they relocated to Idaho about 1889, according to a granddaughter, Alice Morton, noted above.

      Martha Ann Minter, the last child of Silas F. and Nancy (Stultz) Minter, known as "Mattie," was born Apr-20-1838 in Henry County, Va. She married Charles Jones Ziglar (1830-1916) Sep-02-1856, and they relocated to Rocky Head, Dale Co., Alabama, where they lived the remainder of their lives. She died Oct-05-1906 and was buried in Mt. Zion Cemetery in Rocky Head.   The line from Charles and Martha Ziglar [5] to E. Terry Brown [9], based on information provided by him, for which documentation, as well as additional information, is included in his own account:

 
       [5] Charles Jones Ziglar, 1830-1916 
            mar. (1856) Martha Ann Minter, 1838-1906, 11 children born 1857-1878 
           [6] James William Ziglar, 1866-1946
                mar. (1897) Lillie Belle Fain, 1877-1966, 8 children born 1899-1915
               [7] Horace Bryan Brown, 1895-19?? 
                     mar. (1917) Carrie Lou Ziglar, 1899-1998, 4 children born 1920-1926
                   [8] Earl Tony Brown, 1926-2003
                        mar. (1951) Betty Ann Shaffield
                       [9] Earl Terry Brown, b. 1953 
                            mar. (1977) Debra Jean Williams, 2 children

   
  

 
       [6] John Francis Adkins, 1848-1938
            mar. Eliza Jane Minter, 1849-1914 
           [7] William Henry Adkins, 1869-1946
                mar. Lillie Bell Nunn, 1872-1946
               [8] Herman Adkins, 1869-1964 
                     mar. California Gold Light, 1895-1963
                   [9] David Kent (name changed from Herman Adkins, Jr.), 1923-1992
                        mar. (living Jordan)
                       [10] Joey Kent, b. 1960
        
  

      A grandson of Homer and "Sis" is Bob White of New Mexico, whose contributions to the present effort have included a number of photographs and a great deal of valuable information regarding "early Minters" of the Jamestown era, who may have been predecessors of Anthony of Caroline. Bob is the person to contact regarding the descendancy from George "Foxhunter" Minter, as well as the early Minters (a topic not yet addressed here).

      Mark E. Webster, of North Carolina, a descendant of the Winns through Martha Jane's brother William Henry Winn (b. 1855), has done some research on the Winns and is a person to contact for more on this line. According to Mark, William Henry Winn married Parmelia Ellen Gravely, and the two are buried at Gilliam Church, Alamance County, North Carolina. Their daughter, Ruby Louise Winn, married Faggart Daniel ("F.D.") Murr, and Mark is their grandson. Mark's primary sources on the family were his grandmother and her old family bible containing notations regarding the family's ancestry. Mark was told by "Nannie Murr" that the Winns "were well off even after the civil war..." and that "... they had slaves, and paid help." [email, Apr-29-2006]. He also noted that "the old Winn homeplace is still standing..." in the Horse Pasture section of Henry County, though not still in family ownership.

      Mark's genealogical findings extend the Winn line back at least three and possibly four more generations, as shown below. To remain in sync with the generational numbering scheme in use here, it is necessary to begin the line with [-2], followed by [-1], etc., preceding the Generation [1] contemporary of Anthony Minter of Caroline County. At [3] is a question mark indicating what appears likely to be a missing link. From Sophia Martin's line described above, it would seem likely that Robert (born about 1770) would fit into this slot. But this is, of course, conjectural. The Winn line seems well-suited to another round of research and documentation.

 
   [-2] Sir Owen Winn, b. 1601
       [-1] Capt. John Winn     b. 1627 
           [0] Minor Winn, b. 1668  
                mar. Ann Byrd 
               [1] Minor Winn II (or "Jr."), b. 1701 
                   [2] John Winn, b. 1732
                       [3] ? (Robert, born about 1770, per S. Martin)
                           [4] James Winn, b. 1795
                               [5] Henry Jordan Winn, b. 1827
                                    mar. Matilda Catherine Clark 
                                   [6] Martha Jane Winn, b.1853
                                        mar. Michael Eggleston Minter 
                                   [6] William Henry Winn, b. 1855
                                        mar. Parmelia Ellen Gravely 
     
 

      Their daughter Marilyn Lea and her husband, William Prillaman, reside nearby, and the Prillamans have two sons and four grandchildren.  Photograph:  The Staffords and the Prillamans at the Stafford Family reunion in 2006, courtesy of Marilyn Prillaman.

Photographs of family and descendants of George and Cora Minter

Annie Gertrude (Creasy) Minter died in 1974, forty-nine years after her husband.

Rodney Minter, a grandson of Clay and Annie Minter, is a person to contact regarding this branch of the larger Minter family. His father is Jack Carson Minter, the youngest son of Clay and Annie.

See photographs of Rodney's grandparents, his father, his sister, and himself, available here courtesy of Rodney.

For the present, this is the stopping point of Minter Notes.   Hopefully it is not "The End."  Your comments, suggestions, and additions will be appreciated.  You are invited to join or to continue in the discussion of the Minters.