John Wilkes, Jr b. 1775 , Bedford, Virginia, USA d. 1836 , Yallabusha, Mississippi, USA: Albemarle to Callaway, a Herring Family Journey

1775 - 1836

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Suffix	Jr
Birth	1775	, Bedford, Virginia, USA
Gender	Male
Died	1836	, Yallabusha, Mississippi, USA
Person ID	I3299	Herring Family of Callaway County, Missouri
Last Modified	21 Aug 2005

Father	John Wilkes, Sr, b. Abt 1736, , , Pennsylvania, USA , d. Aft 1795
Mother	Elizabeth Mead, b. Abt 1740, , , Pennsylvania Or Virginia, USA , d. Yes, date unknown
Married	Apr 1758	, Loudoun, Virginia, USA
Family ID	F1319	Group Sheet

Family	Barberry Newman, d. Yes, date unknown
Married	31 Aug 1795	, Bedford, Virginia, USA
	Bedford County Marriages - Aug. 31, 1795; John Wilks & Barberry Numan; Edmund Franklin. Surety; Consent of Conrad Newman; Married by Alderson Weeks, Sept. 3, 1795
Last Modified	21 Aug 2005
Family ID	F1332	Group Sheet

Notes	Both John and Barberry died within the same week On Janurary 20, 1836 Samuel Newman Wilkes wrote to his father, Samuel Wilks of Bedford, to inform him that "Uncle John and Aunt Barby is both dead. Aunt died three days first nary one would take anything while they were sick." John Wilkes, Jr and his wife, Barberry, had been in the Chicksaw Perches lsess than three months when they died. The Wilkes and the Newmans owned a considerable amount of land in the southern Virginia, especially in Grayson County. Following the death of Conrad Newman in 1806 there were various legal actions. Other wilkes-Newman marriages took place over the years, in cluding that of Sally Wilkes, sister to John Wilkes, Jr. who married James Newman. [GCV 1] John and Barberry Wilkes bought 400 acres of land from Joseph Powell in March of 1799 on Wolf Glade Creek in Grayson County, Virginia, and in 1801 and 1806 they sold a total of over 400 acres of land to Anderson Melton. A deed signed in January 1807 with John X [his mark] Wilkes was witnessed by Edmond Franklin, Samuel Williams, Absolom Burnet, and Anne Williams. [GCV 1] John Wilkes was on the Grayson County, Virginia 1800 Tax List, however, it is believed that his family moved away, enroute to Georgia with a stop in South Carolina as his son, Newman Wilkes, was born there in 1800. John had joined others of his family in Oglethorpe County, Georgia and drew land in the Land Lottery of 1803/1806, however, John and Barberry did not remain in Georgia. [WFR 26] They spent three or four years in Maury County, Tennessee before the Alabama Chicksaw Indian lands were put up for sale by the Federal government. John Wilkes, Jr was the first patentee on his land at Florence, Alabama in 1818. [APB 1] It is likely that John returned to Virginia to dispose of lands, but he is listed in land transactions in Lauderdale county in 1823 and 1827. In 1831 this family suffered the tragedy of having their son murderd in Alabama. John Wilkes administered the estate of his dead son, Phillip Wilks, in June 1832. [WFR 27]