David Elias "Jess" Waldron, Sr: acw

1827 - 1908 (81 years)

Generation: 1

David Elias "Jess" Waldron, Sr was born on 24 Mar 1827 in Georgia, USA (son of Oliver Waldron and Ann Sylvester); died on 8 Nov 1908 in Bassinger, DeSoto, Florida, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1850, Calhoun, Florida, USA
Residence: 1870, Township 40, Manatee, Florida, USA

Notes:

[waldron3.ftw]

David E. Waldron Sr., first set up a camp site in a hammock on Fisheating Creek, in the area then known as Indian Prairie, now Palmdale. His first home was a palmetto thatched shelter. Eventually, a double-pen log house with detached kitchen was constructed.

Buried at Bassinger, Florida. About a quarter to a half a mile past the old school house. Two Hundred yards off of Hwy 98 North, walking along the fence line of Lykes Brothers property about 100 yards from fence line is a square fenced in area where you will find 4 graves. David grave is marked with a slab and head stone.

Newton Waldron child of David E. Waldron Sr. had a mistress named Becky last name unknown, Newton was David & Becky's child. Mary Ann took Newton in her home and raised him as her own.

Facts about this person:

Census June 01, 1900
Fisheating Creek, Desoto Co. FL
See Note Page

Generation: 2

Oliver Waldron was born in 1787 in Georgia, USA (son of Living); died on 6 Nov 1867 in Suwanee Shoals, Columbia, Florida, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 7 Aug 1820, Bryan, Georgia, USA
Residence: 1830, Ware, Georgia, USA
Residence: 1840, District 451, Ware, Georgia, USA
Residence: 1850, Columbia, Florida, USA
Residence: 1860, Sub Division, Manatee, Florida, USA

Notes:

The earliest known residence of Oliver Waldron was Bryan County where he was married and living in the 1820 census. He and his brother, David Waldron, moved to Ware County (now Pierce) soon after Ware was formed out of Appling County. Oliver Waldron's home was located about two miles northeastward from where Blackshear now is. About 1845 he moved to Columbia County, Florida, and afterwards about 1853 to Marion County, Florida. He died November 6, 1867, at his home at Suwannee Shoals, Florida. His wife survived and made her home with her son, Jesse, spending her last years in Manatee County, Florida.

Oliver Waldron served as Justice of Peace, 584th district of Ware County, 1831-33, and as Justice of Ware Inferior Court, 1837-1841. He served in the War of 1812 and the Indian War. He enlisted January 18, 1815 in Bryan County, as private under Captain James Bird in Col. Mann's regiment, Georgia militia, and served until March 2, 1815 when he was honorably discharged. He served as private in Captain James A. Sweat's company of the Ware County militia, June 9th to August 19, 1838 in the Indian War. His widow was granted a pension for this service, in 1870.

Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia, Vol 4, page 320

Oliver married Ann Sylvester in 1806 in Bryan, Georgia, USA. Ann (daughter of Asbury or Augustine Sylvester) was born in 1787 in South Carolina, USA; died in 1872 in Manatee, Florida, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ann Sylvester was born in 1787 in South Carolina, USA (daughter of Asbury or Augustine Sylvester); died in 1872 in Manatee, Florida, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Name: Ann Waldron
Residence: 1850, Calhoun, Florida, USA
Residence: 1860, Sub Division, Manatee, Florida, USA
Residence: 1870, Township 40, Manatee, Florida, USA

Children:

Rebecca Jane Waldron was born on 28 Aug 1810 in Bryan, Georgia, USA; died on 9 Dec 1878 in Bunker, DeSoto, Florida, USA; was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, DeSoto, Florida, USA.
Elias David Waldron was born on 7 Jun 1811 in Bryan, Georgia, USA; died on 20 Oct 1894 in Clinch, Georgia, USA; was buried in Ramah Primitive Baptist Church, Clinch, Georgia, USA.
George Washington Sylvester Waldron was born on 13 Jan 1813 in Bryan, Georgia, USA; died on 24 May 1895 in Suwanee Shoals, Columbia, Florida, USA; was buried in Corinth Methodist Church Cemetery, Columbia, Florida, USA.
Lydia Waldron was born on 15 Jan 1815 in Pembroke, Bryan, Georgia, USA; died on 9 Nov 1875 in Georgia, USA; was buried in Raulerson Cemetery, Pierce, Georgia, USA.
Oliver Asbury Waldron was born on 17 Aug 1816 in Bryan, Georgia, USA; died on 7 Dec 1885 in Fairfax, Ware, Georgia; was buried in Hephzibah Church Cemetery, Waycross, Ware, Georgia, USA.
Georgia Ann Waldron was born on 9 Oct 1817 in Bryan, Georgia, USA; died on 10 Sep 1899 in Pierce, Georgia, USA; was buried in Rehobeth Cemetery, Pierce, Georgia, USA.
Frances Waldron was born on 25 Mar 1821 in Bryan, Georgia, USA; died on 15 Sep 1879 in Lily, DeSoto, Florida, USA.
Rhoda Waldron was born in 1822; died in 1885.
1. David Elias "Jess" Waldron, Sr was born on 24 Mar 1827 in Georgia, USA; died on 8 Nov 1908 in Bassinger, DeSoto, Florida, USA.

Generation: 3

4.
Living
Children:

2. Oliver Waldron was born in 1787 in Georgia, USA; died on 6 Nov 1867 in Suwanee Shoals, Columbia, Florida, USA.

Living

Asbury or Augustine Sylvester was born between 1736 and 1765; died between 1790 and 1850.

Notes:

[waldron3.ftw]

A Revolutionary Soldier, who furnished supplies to the Continental Army in 1781 and was paid for same by the State of South Carolina, December 20, 1783
(see book C-F, page 183 Stub Indents, edited and published by A.S. Salley, State Historian of South Carolina). In the 1790 census, Asbury Sylvester was living in Claremont County, Camdent District, South Carolina, the head of a family consisting of one boy under 16 and four females, and was shown as owning 27 slaves which show he was a man of some means for his day to own that many slaves.

Children:

3. Ann Sylvester was born in 1787 in South Carolina, USA; died in 1872 in Manatee, Florida, USA.