Alabama Genealogical Society, Inc. Magazine, published by the Alabama Genealogical Society, Inc., Vol. 4 No 2, April, 1970, p.102-104
At the Alabama State Archives Site, page 43-45.
[Note: there are some errors here, see Cawthon / Cothern Family Research.]
THE CAWTHON FAMILY
Written by W.T Cawthon (1810-1895)
Contributed by: Mrs. Chas. E Norton
In writing this sketch it will be remembered it is what my father and mother told me when a boy. I have no dates to make a correct history of my foreparents, and it will be remembered that my father and my mother were first cousins My Great Grand-father's name was Charles Cawthon, one of the first settlers in the state of Virginia, before the War of 1776. He married a Miss Womack and moved to North Carolina and died. They had several children, two boys and five daughters. I will give the names of some: John and Claiborne, Fanny and Judy. John Cawthon was my Grand-father on my father's side and Fanny was my Grand-mother on my mother's side. John Cawthon married a Miss Rebecca Mount; they had five children as follows: David, Charles and William, Rebecca and Sarah Fanny Cawthon. Sarah Fanny Cawthon married Thomas Tate in Carolina and had three children. Tate died and also two children, raising one, which became my mother. Her name was Elizabeth. She was married a second time to William Wilkinson. They had four children James, William, Fanny and Orphy.
David Cawthon married a Miss Gates in Elbert County Georgia, moved to Tennessee and had a family. But I know nothing of them.
William Cawthon also raised a family. He moved to Mississippi at an early date.
Claiborne Cawthon, the only brother of my Grand-father had married a Miss Walters, moved to Ohio and died there leaving a large family.
Charles Cawthon, my father, married Elizabeth Tate, and had eight children as follows: Tilethy, John, Claiborne, Charles Mount, Fanny Wilkinson Titsworth, James Tate and Elizabeth Ann, Tilethy married Johnathan Nelums in Georgia. They had eight children: William, Claiborne, Mickey, Willy, John Wesley, Sarah Melviney and Jessie,
John C Cawthon married a Miss Frances Pullum and had four children, then he and one child died in Madison County, Mississippi.
Claiborne Cawthon married a Miss Jerushy Pullum and had seven children: John, Tom, Ludlow, Sarah, Asbery, and two others, names forgotten. His wife died and he married a second time and moved to Louisiana in 1873.
Charles M. Cawthon married Sarah Cox in South Carolina, and had a large family and moved to Arkansas in 1846.
Fanny Cawthon married John Camp, had a large family, moved from Carrol County, Miss. to Louisiana, and never heard any more of them.
James C Cawthon married a Miss Brewer, in Carrol County, Miss, and had three children and moved to Boliver County, Miss where his wife and children died.
All my sisters and brothers were married in Georgia, F County, except James T. and Elizabeth. Elizabeth was married at my house in Noxubee County, Miss. She married John Bartlett and had several children.
My Grand-father had five sisters and they married as follows: Fanny to Thos. Tate; Judy to Elijah Walters; Elizabeth to Peter Walters; another to John Walters; and another to John Warren. All lived in Georgia, F (Franklin) County John Warren moved to Mississippi. All had large respectable families and lived to be old Whom my father s sisters married: Sarah to Thomas Carter; Rebecca to Thomas Paine; both of them had families and we left them in Georgia in 1828. Whom my mother s half-brothers and sisters married: James Wilkinson to Miss Albriton, had four children named William, Isaac, Polly and James. William Wilkinson to Miss Pullum and Fanny to William Nelums and Orphy to Thomas Tate, a nephew of Thomas Tate, my mother s father. They all had large families and we left them in Georgia in 1828.
My father moved to Madison County, Miss in Dec 1828 Charles M. Campa and Jas. T., Elizabeth and myself were not grown. Brother Claiborne moved there in 1829. Brother John C moved there in March 1829 and died Jan 2nd, 1830. My father left Madison County and moved to Carroll County, Miss, My mother died there Sept 5th 1836 and my father died May 20th,1845 at the age of seventy-two. Claiborne moved to Louisiana and died there near the year 1840. Brother Charles was living in Arkansas in 1865 and James in Boliver County, Miss, in 1865.
My first wife was the youngest daughter of Claiborne and Mary Camp. Claiborne Camp's father was Joseph Camp, all of North Carolina, Reatherford [sic, Rutherford] County. Claiborne and Mary Camp had six children, as follows: Jushua, Robert, John, William, Laviney and Sarah. John married Fanny Cawthon, my sister having married Bates Eaves (sic). I do not know how the others married. Eaves had four children as follows: Taylor and Claiborne, Sally and Laviney. Eaves died and his wife and family last heard from at Tallapoosa County, Ga. in 1830. Claiborne Camp married Mary Taylor daughter of Joshua Taylor, who married a Miss Holland, all of Rutherford County, North Carolina. I know but little of the family. They were farmers and well off, and belonged to the Baptist church.
Old Joshua Taylor had a large family, as follows: Mary, the oldest, Jessie, Robert, Joshua and Olive, the youngest, who never married The others married and had large families in North Carolina, Names, as follows: Frances to a Mr Steele; Hanna to a Mr. Dickey; Nancy to a Mr. Christopher; Sarah to a Mr. Greswould; Rodey to a Mr. Gadd. I know nothing of them or where they went.
(Signed) W T. Cawthon
W.T. Cawthon was born May 30th, 1810 in Franklin County, Ga.
[Birth, death, marriage records of W T Cawthon's family not included.]
NOTE: A zerox copy of the printed pamphlet originally in possession of Mrs. Stuart W, Patton (Kate Cawthon) of Montgomery, Alabama granddaughter of W.T Cawthon, and Aunt of Charles E. Norton, Birmingham, Alabama, is in Charles E Norton's possession. All indications show the additions to this family history were added by Alexander Washington Cawthon (1841-1915) and it is presumed he had this family history printed.