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Home of Ann Hawes Quarles, Lt. William Pennington Quarles, and Family

A LOOK AT WHITE PLAINS IN 1820
Submitted by Paula (Mrs. Roy H.) Phillips  April 12, 2008

    Fortunately for us, the 1820 census taker in Overton County,
Tennessee, did not alphabetize the citizens.  It shows us clearly that several
of the Quarles children lived with their mother, Ann Hawes Quarles, widow
of William Pennington Quarles, at the White Plains Main (Manor) House,
and that the oldest Quarles son, William Hawes Quarles, (26), and his young
bride, Ruth Hyder, (17), were living near his mother.
    Family tradition, backed by documents, indicates that about this time
William was keeping his father’s inn at White Plains.

    Unfortunately for us, the 1820 census taker in Jackson County,
Tennessee, did not follow suit; it is an alpha listing.  Whether the two
Quarles daughters who lived there with their families were at, or near,
White Plains, we cannot tell.

We do find Tabitha Quarles (40) and her husband, William Hawes (40),
in Jackson County.  Their oldest daughter (16-18) whose given name is
unknown and her younger sisters, Lucinda (3) and Mary Jane (2) are with
them, as are their four sons, an unknown given name son (12-15),
Daniel W. (10), George A. (7), and baby, John Thomas (1).  Their fifth
son, James O. was yet to be born.

William (40) and Nancy Ann Quarles (40) Burton and their family of three
sons and three daughters were also in Jackson County in 1820.
The children were: a son, unknown given name, (13-16), Charles F. (9),
Robert G. (6) and daughters, Letitia Ann (11), Elizabeth Jane (2), and baby
Cynthia (not yet one year).  Another son, Clinton W. Burton, was yet to
be born.

    The only Quarles child not living at, or fairly close to, White Plains
in 1820 was Mary Goodloe Quarles Hughes.  The household of
Harrison Irby (26-45), Mary Goodloe (38) Hughes, and their family, was still
located in the Northern District of Bedford County, Virginia.  Their first
four sons, John (11), William Q. (8), James T. (6) and Robert G. (3), were
with them.  A daughter (0-10), whose given name is unknown, was also
listed.  Children yet to be born were daughter Catherine A. (1825),
who was also born in Virginia, and sons, George R. (1826),
Harvey Y. (1827) and Philander David (1831).  These last three sons were
born in Tennessee.  The births of the children suggest that this line of the
Quarles family came from Virginia to Tennessee about 1825-1826.

We can be fairly certain that Quarles daughter, Sarah Wesley, had yet to
marry Adam Huntsman since there are no females listed in his household in
Overton County, Tennessee in 1820.

Based on their ages from tombstones and other records it appears that the
1820 White Plains Main (Manor) House Quarles family consisted of
Ann Hawes Quarles (56), head of household; sons, James Tompkins (22)
and John Adams (18); daughters, Frances Dorothy (30), Sarah Wesley (27),
Catherine Baxter (17); and two children of William Pennington and
Ann Quarles’ deceased daughter, Elizabeth Jane Quarles Burton (1790-
1814).  They were Ann’s granddaughter, Frances Ann Louisa Penn Burton
(9), and grandson, Stephen Decatur Burton (7).  There is also an
unidentified male (45+) who could perhaps be a member of Ann’s family
(the Hawes family) or quite possibly her son-in-law, Charles Burton (38),
father of the children, though his age is not quite old enough.

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