Betsy Olive

see http://www.rcasey.net/olliff/ollive.htm accessed 11/05/08 bcs

On July 31, 1823, Asa Olive married Betsy Gray.  Asa Olive died around 1855 in Wake County, North Carolina.   References:  1)  "James Olive Family of Wake County, North Carolina," by Olive (Hotchkiss) Cartwright, Pages 2 - 37, 1965;  2)  "The Heritage of Wake County, North Carolina," by Lynne Belvin and Harriette Riggs, 1983;  3)  "Sketch of James Olive of Wake County, North Carolina,by Mildred Olive, 1992

Wake County Marriages 1770-1868 - book - at Santa Clara Lib - 4/25/09 OLIVE Asa m Betsey Gray 31 Jul 1823 Merrill Olive bm (bondsman) Asa m Polly Barker bond 23 Nov 1858 m 24 Nov 1858

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1850 US census Western Div., Wake, NC

acc 9/16/11 via familysearch

she is wife of Asa Olive (age 60, b. NC), and is age 50, b. VA

in house: Meril, 24, brickmason; Mary, 24; Rebecca, 17; Tabitha, 13; Martha, 12 (all b NC)

see (she had a child named Asa? he was not seen in 1850 census w family - he woulda been 19 and unmd. [and Meril, age 24 is still at home] - he md. in 1858)

James Olive Family, Wake County, NC (by Olive Cartwright and a committee, 1965) (in my possession, a gift from my father in 1968)

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Asa Olive listed as surviving child by his mother, Elizabeth Grey Olive, Aug. 1855. Wake Marriage Bond 23 Nov. 1858, Asa Olive and Polly Barker, bondsman W.H. High, witness Thomas T. Hill, married 24 Nov. 1858, by R. M. Brown, JP. 1860 Census, Asa Olive 29 and Mary Olive 35. In Moore's Roster, Asa Olive enlisted as a private from Wake Co., 5-29-1861, in N.C. Regt. 26, Co. D; died in N.C. Oct. 1862.

( bcs - 2/8/12)

http://genforum.genealogy.com/olive/messages/213.html

acc 2/6/12

your Lydia Ann Olive married Thomas Upchurch October 16, 1837, with Bondsmen John Crocker and witness Thomas J. Utley. I also have she was probably the twin of Tabitha Olive who married Paschal R. Upchurch. They were the daughters of Asa Olive and Elizabeth (Betsy) Gray. They had 8 children in all. Asa Olive was the son of Southwood and Nancy Ann Hendon Olive.

see on ancestry.com 1910 US census - widow in house of her widowed dau

see (image seen via ancestry.com, 2/3/12)

1910 US Census for Johnson, Lee, NC Head of household, widowed, Sarah E. Mann, age 52 b NC w parents born NC, mother of 5, 3 of whom are living (also in home are the twin daus of Sarah Mann, Grace Mann and Greta Mann, both age 16; and the mother of Sarah Mann, retired widow, Mrs. T. H. Upchurch [born as Tabitha/Talitha Olive], age 76, b NC, w father b NC [Asa Olive] and mother b VA [wife of Asa Olive . . . Betsy Gray?], mother of 4, 4 of whom are living

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7/2/14 Ancestry trees show parents William Gray b NC 1767 and Polly Bliathe (born Holland) - also show a Betsy Lee over and over in DAR documents - i dunno why it would b the same person - the name would be common . . . . did she die in Bertie County? or is that another Betsy?

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DNA circle on AncestryDNA . .